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

he said she said WITH TOBY

MARTIN

When I first started writing songs and playing in a band I was firmly under the sway of British bands like The Cure, The Stone Roses and Ride. Since then I have copied, ripped off and mimicked a range of bands. Hello Pavement! More recently I keep thinking about The Fall and Randy Newman. They are inspiring not only for how their music sounds and the way it makes me feel – which is important too – but also for the possibilities they suggest. Thinking about Newman and Mark E Smith writing a song just gets me hot under the collar. (Not to be confused with Alfred E. Neuman writing a song – although he is also an inspiration) Work on your art and you can write a song about anything, in your style. Of course, it’s not that easy, but they make it seem so. And they have kept writing and changing and now they are old buggers and still live wires and still doing it. record called Will The Circle Be Unbroken was played a lot in my house when I was a kid. It’s all these classic country and hillbilly singers – Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Mother Maybelle Carter. The sound and subject matter is overwhelmingly mournful – there’s

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a song about a drink-driving accident; one about working in a coal mine; and others about death, death, death. When I listen to it now, I can’t believe that as a kid I used to find it soothing. Can sad music make you feel good? Is depressing normal? Is happiness sick and wrong?

My band is Youth Group. But these gigs are me, solo. I have only played a handful of solo gigs over the years, so this a new thing for me. I don’t quite know where it’s going to go yet – which is exciting, most of the time.

This ‘Toby Martin solo’ stuff is pretty stripped back. I have recorded two lots of demos out at our old studio, which was an old mess hall down by the docks in Waverton. The demos are pretty much just me live to tape – sketches of something bigger. I wanted to leave the arrangements kind of open until I record them properly. Elliott Smith and Neil Young are two benchmarks for how ‘solo’ music can sound, I think. So the shows will be mostly just me on guitar or piano – with the occasional special guest. The sound of now is rock-choral. Everyone in the band singing, sometimes at the same time. I think it’s a positive direction. Sydney’s all right. Sometimes it feels vibrant, sometimes it feels difficult and money-obsessed. I’m looking for the new Hopetoun. Maybe it’s the Petersham Bowling Club? Maybe it’s the Low Bar? Who: Toby Martin Where: The Low Bar, 302 Crown St, Surry Hills When: Every Sunday in September, 8pm.

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JACK JO, YO.

If there is one thing Jack Johnson loves, it is going to punk clubs and watching the up and coming bands, supporting the scene and what have you. One night, while piercing his nose with a safety-pin, he was distracted by the beautiful twin-harmonies of Tegan and Sara. He slugged down his drink, picked a fight on the way to the stage, then told the girls they should tour Australia with him. And now they are! December 11 they play The Domain, before getting drunk and tearing up some natural flora next door at the gardens. You have been warned. Tickets on sale now.

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God Said It’s Legal. Exactly what this interesting EP title is referring to the legalities of, I’m not sure. Perhaps God is referring to a loophole, which allows commuters to legally park in certain areas of the city, despite parking inspectors issuing tickets for said infringements. It is certainly the type of matter God concerns himself with, alongside inspiring rap artists and smiting people. Regardless, psych-band The Demon Parade are determined to launch this EP, and are doing so at World Bar Friday September 17, and Oxford Art Factory the following evening.

SPRING BREAK!!

In Australia, the land of summer, sun, surf and endless beach parties, Spring Break only means one thing…fuck-all! So stick that up your Thanksgiving turkey and trick-or-treat off, yeah? Hoping to rebrand this ‘spring break’ thing into something with less cock and more rock [also in contention: fewer tits, more hits], wonderful indie label Ivy League are hosting their Spring Break Party this Friday 17 at Goodgod Small Club. Gearing up to drink beer out of a hilarious foam beer hat are Alpines, Cabins, Catcall, Cloud Control and Wons Phreely, presented here in pristine alphabetical order.

LANEWAY AWAY

The worst thing about the Laneway Festival is that there are so many great acts playing that often you have to make a tough decision between two great experiences. Take for example this heartbreaking tale: I was standing in a food queue for what seemed like three hours, but may have been three minutes, when I heard the familiar driving-at-night-in-a-DavidLynch-film-while-having-sex strains of The xx. I had a tough choice to make; do I miss part of the set, and enjoy a delicious gozleme, or do I go without and watch The xx. I won’t bore you with my tough choice, but I will let you know that you can make similar decisions February 6 at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), Rozelle, when it all happens again (Mumford and Sons also clashed with The xx).

KID CRASH

Listen, I know as soon as an artist either charts in the ARIA charts, releases something that isn’t on 7” vinyl or references an act Steve Albini didn’t engineer, you guys lose interest and start mumbling about Sartre or some shit, but Children Collide have not only smashed into the top five with their delightful Theory of Everything album (cracking the same field of research that Hawking chap dabbles in),

but they are playing three NSW shows this week. Thursday September 16 they play (or rock) The Fitzroy in Windsor, the next night they’re drinking at Century Bar then playing at the Metro, before hitting up the Uni bar at Wollongong Uni on Saturday September 18. Enjoy!

SPREADING SEEDS.

When UK magazine Clash described New Zealand band The Black Seeds as “one of the best live reggae acts on the planet”, I directed all my misplaced anger out of the reasonable use of the adjective ‘live’, perceiving it to be a direct slight on very-dead reggae star Bob Marley. So, armed with a clan of rudeboys, we stormed their offices and asked them why in Jah’s name they dared to unleash such disrespectful vibes. I only tell you this excruciatingly accurate tale because The Black Seeds are returning to Australia to play Coogee Bay Hotel on October 16. Tickets $35 + bf + lol + omg

DIE DIE DIE

No, this isn’t an extract from a fifteen-year-old emo’s diary (nobody understands him, you know), but the name of a very good Kiwi band who are launching their third album Form at Oxford Art Factory on Friday October 8.

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Having received Tim Rogers’ phone number a few years ago through dubious means, we would occasionally drunkenly text him questions of dubious importance like “Best Big Star album” or “Teenage Fanclub vs The Replacements?” Rather than message back ‘what about this do you think is appropriate’ he would fire back a well considered reply that made us love him even more. This is why you need to see them October 14 at Waves in Wollongong, October 15 at Newcastle Leagues Club and/or October 16 at the Metro. He likes Radio City.

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welcome to the frontline: what’s goin’ on, down and around town. With Nathan Jolly and Cool Thomas

five things WITH

ANDY BULL

DOMEYKO/GONZALEZ Growing Up [Jaie] James and I grew up 1. together and actually played in our first band together: the Woollahra Public School Concert Band. We both played saxophone, though I gave up when I started playing the bass in high school and James still rocks his like a madman. Both my parents are musical; my dad is a guitarist and brought me up on lots of funk and soul. My mum is a great pianist - she played organ for her church choir as a kid. Inspirations [James] There is a lot of synthesis 2. in the music. Very prominent are Fuck Buttons and we get Primal Scream a lot. We both discover music through each other; Jaie showed me [Fuck Buttons’ second album] Tarot Sport (holy shit...), to which I replied with spectralism, he showed me cLOUDDEAD, I came back with Giancinto Scelsi. Then we have a mutual love of Bowie, Radiohead, Mogwai, Coltrane (both John and Alice), Neil Young, CAN and Dirty Three - to name a few.

cohesive. We all play in a bunch of other bands so it’s a great opportunity for us to be able to set up our gear and basically do whatever we want. The Music You Make [James] It used to be totally improvised, 4. but now with the EP and a year of playing there are ideas that we revisit in shows. Because there is a lot getting stitched together you might find yourself between ambient soundscapes, minimalism, krautrock, hip-hop, beats, glitchy electronica and usually some noise and abrasive textures. Expect sweat, swells and a chance for your fingertips to get acquainted with your ears. Music, Right Here, Right Now [Jaie] There is an amazing world of 5. beatmaking and electronic music happening in Sydney right now, some of the dudes James and I even went to primary school with. They don’t really like the music we make but that’s OK because they still inspire us. The world of music that we fit into here lies more in the realm of noise, minimalism and DIY, bands with a little more taste for danger in their shows. Those are the bands making our favourite music here and now.

Your Band [Jaie] James and I only really 3. started playing music together about

Who: Domeyko/Gonzalez EP launch

a year ago. I never really thought of what we do as a ‘band’ until we started getting this psychotic beast known as Jasper Fenton to play drums with us, which has made it a little more

Where: Spectrum

With: Aleesha Dibbs, Silver Moon, None Music, DJs Death Strobe and Kirin J Callinan When: Friday September 17

very often these days. Psychonanny and the Babyshakers will be playing at The Excelsior of September 18 with the quite excellent Melbourne band The Once Overs.

Gypsy & The Cat

SULTAN OF SCHWING

If you enjoy squinting at an ant-sized Dan Sultan from afar while dancing to his wild electric guitar sounds then you will want to avoid his latest shows on the Dan Sultan, Up Close and Acoustic tour. It happens on November 11 at Notes in Newtown (near that Oporto you like) and guess who is coming along to support? It’s only Archie Roach, that’s all! Tickets are 27 dollars presale, from Oztix, Ticketek, or duck into the venue while waiting for your Bondi Burger to cook.

A VERY GEORGE AFFAIR

WANDERING LIKE A GYPSY

Your mates Gypsy & The Cat are about to embark on their Time To Wander tour. You’ve heard them on triple j, you’ve seen them at shows and you know they go all right. The latest news reports tell us that the group were recently signed to Sony/RCA in the UK and that is definitely worth a celebration. If you want to catch them in Sydney, head on down to Oxford Arts on September 29 for a fun-filled night. Tickets on sale through Moshtix.

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Remember back in the sixties when artists used to crank out a full album in the time it takes bands nowadays to get a good drum sound? Well, Sydney band Georgia Fair aren’t quite that haphazard in their approach to recording, but nevertheless they have been prolific of late, with a fresh EP out now and an album on the way. In the meantime they have been touring with the cutefaced Lisa Mitchell, and are now playing the first Natural Selection show at Melt (Kellett St, Kings Cross – don’t BYO) on September 16. Joining them is Sui Zhen and Patrick James, all for only ten dollars plus cab fare.

Andy Bull lists Sesame Street as one of his all-time favourite shows. This naturally leads to the question how come the rest of us who watched it religiously didn’t end up critically acclaimed singer-songwriters? Alas, at least we can be thankful it worked out for Andy Bull. Bull describes his latest release, Phantom Pains EP, as a catharsis of sorts, and with help from Lisa Mitchell, Little Red and those crazy cats from Hungry Kids of Hungary it’s the kind of catharsis we’d all like to go through. We’re giving away EPs to five lucky readers just tell us your fave Sesame Street character and why (extra points for illustrations…).

LITTLE RED

What’s not to love about Little Red? Australian? Tick. Retro harmonies? Tick. Freakin’ awesome? Many, many ticks. The Melbourne doo-woppers and all-round champs are ready to rock it (sorry) on their national tour. Want to score a prize pack that includes a double pass to the album launch October 8 at the Metro Theatre and a copy of their album Midnight Remember? Um, yes! All you need to do is email us and tell us your favourite Little Red tune.

BELLINGEN GLOBAL CARNIVAL

What are you up to from October 1-3? We reckon there’s a good chance that whatever it is, you’d rather see Ash Grunwald, Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and Baaba Maal live at the Bellingen Global Carnival. Besides being in one of the earth’s most blissful places, you can kick back to global tunes on one of the five stages, stroll the markets, attend craft workshops, the children’s festival or enjoy the food stalls. Sounds stressful, doesn’t it...? Want to score a double pass? Tell us who you want to see and why.

BRING YOUR GAME, BOY!

In rock news over the past few months we have seen a pretty serious increase in the amount of 8-bit music (music made on Game Boys, basically) cropping up in Sydney. If you are at all interested in exposing yourself, there is a massive showcase to celebrate this emerging form of ridiculously nerdy music at Newcastle’s Electrofringe festival as part of the This Is Not Art festival weekend. There will also be workshops, panel discussions and a host of other 8-bit surprises! The showcase itself is on Thursday, September 30 and will feature a few international chipmusic titans - Nullsleep (US), Bit Shifter (US), Henry Homesweet (UK) - along with a few internationally renowned Australian names - cTrix (VIC), Dot.AY (QLD), Derris-Kharlan (VIC) and Sydney’s own Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased through the Electrofringe website.

Billy Corgan

BANDING TOGETHER

ALL FAREWELLS SHOULD BE SUDDEN

The end credits of The Porky Pig Show used to have this maudlin string section and a bleak lyric about farewells and everything ending, and then just as six year olds were looking for home suicide remedies, an upbeat happy tune would kick in, reminding you that the whole gang will be back next week. That is the exact same rush of emotion I felt upon learning SoSueMe are leaving Q Bar, only to learn that they have planned two great farewell events, a tribute to the bands at Q Bar on September 17 (featuring DJ sets by Lost Valentinos, Bridezilla, The Vines, the Holidays, etc. etc.) and their final farewell with sadness and tears and hugs and motherfucking Cypress Hill DJing on the 24th!! Tickets available at Moshtix now!

PARATOUR

Now listen. I know you are way too cynical to hear this, but hot teenage girls with Fifth Element hair who play punk rock will never fail to find an

audience and that is because this template is generally A Good Idea. Paramore have one of these girls, have catchy pop songs and now they also have punk band Relient K supporting them when they play Sydney Entertainment Centre October 15. Tick. Tick. Tick.

JONNEINE ZAPATA

Well, every bit of press I read about this sexy songstress compares her with Jim Morrison; I tend to think she is less beardy, drunk or pretentious than Morrison, and I’m sure the spirit of a dead Indian hasn’t risen and engulfed her soul, like that very real and documented case with Morrison. Regardless, she is playing The Annandale October 8, so turn up and compare her to someone; musicians love that.

SHAKE IT UP BABY NOW.

Remember when you couldn’t switch on the evening news without another report of a baby dying due to some waste-of-DNA shaking them to death? I’m glad that doesn’t seem to occur

The Vines, Silverchair, Eskimo Joe. All these bands found success through band competitions, so if you enjoying winning things, then you should enter the Marly Battle of the Bands, a four-week band competition featuring 18 bands who will battle it out (perhaps with crudely-formed weapons) for some great prizes and also to raise much-needed and super important funds for the Prostate Cancer Institute (PCI). The competition runs every Thursday night throughout September at the Marlborough Hotel in Newtown. Visit jjo.com. au for more information.

KYÜ HAVE A DEBUT ALBUM

…And it they are launching it, you know, as you do. The album, which is self-titled, will be released September 17 through popfrenzy. If you’re thinking about catching the duo at either Sound Summit in Newcastle, Sunday October 9; or at the Paddington Uniting Church (yup!) on Friday October 22 but still feel unsure, the following should solidify your choice! The group has shared the stage with Yeasayer, Patrick Wolf, Why?, High Places and Xiu Xiu. You down now? Carpool?

OUT ON TOUR WITH THE SMASHING PUMPKINS…

I love how ambitious and arrogant Billy Corgan is; historically it has resulted in some great music, so the news that they are touring in October is amazing news. However, I love the wording of this statement more: “currently touted by the media as the best Smashing Pumpkins reincarnation yet.” I feel like I need to sit you down and have the talk: “Now these new Pumpkins members will never replace daddy, but they love you and want to perform classic Pumpkins tunes for you…maybe even ‘Mayonnaise’ if you’re good and go to bed on time...”

“Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage” - SMASHING PUMPKINS - 16 October, Big Top 12 :: BRAG :: 379 : 12:09:10

Professor Nigel Harrison. Senior Engineer in charge of the Making the Wagon Wheel Incredibly Handsome Department. Wagon Wheels Product Innovation Team.

A healthy tan on the outside is always desirable. On incredibly handsome men, and incredibly handsome snacks. “Brown. The colour of success. It says you’re rich. It says you’re desirable. It says, potentially, that underneath your sexy exterior that you’re all squishy and mushy like marshmallow and jam. But you have a hard edge made of biscuit that the women of the world will just love to sink their teeth into. Engineering something as incredibly handsome as the choc-coated, biscuit, jam and marshmallow wonder that is Wagon Wheels takes many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many years of something or other. And it took someone as incredibly handsome as Professor

Nigel Harrison to help develop its incredibly handsome visage. Because the Wagon Wheel is no ordinary snack. No. It’s an extraordinary snack. We add the extra just before it goes into its outstanding packaging. Wagon Wheels are available where all good 48 gram choc-coated biscuit, jam and marshmallow snacks are stocked. On the whole, this means convenience stores, not inconvenience stores. Try one for yourself. One bite and you’ll say, ‘Mmmm delicious.’ Just like Professor Nigel Harrison.”

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RED REMEDY EP LAUNCH

WITH WILL STYLES spectacularly badly) to play rave in FunkTrust sets, but now… it’s taken a while, but I’m finally playing rave music every week; like a shitty Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-movie, I’ve been re-united with my first love. The best gigs I have had in 2010 have been playing dubstep and bass music with MC Hayley Boa [pictured with Styles, left]. She used to sing in one of The Wiggles shows and was reprimanded for incorrectly miming the actions during the “Eat a Banana” song. Instead of peeling it, she was (quite innocently) fellating the banana in front of tens of thousands of small children. I haven’t been able to convince her to re-enact her banana antics on stage yet, but there is still time.

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first discovered “The Rave” when I was 16. At the end of the night I was moshing on the dancefloor with my Skid Row t-shirt and torn jeans, whirling my two flannos above my head yelling along to Speed Racer. I was hooked. I’ve always tried (often

The DubRave parties have been a revelation; the music we’re playing sounds fresher than my sweet pick-up moves and leaves less mess. We play a monster-mash of dubstep, rave, house, jungle, reggae, drumstep, speed garage... We’ve built a solid crew of punters and DJs this year who are well into our sound, and we’re happy to have some basement masters, South Rakkas Crew and MC Serocee, darkening our beer jugs (yes, jugs) this weekend! There has been another, just as important revelation... Lasers! That’s how you know you’re at a certified rave. That combination of bass + lasers + rave is as perfect as the combination of a muzzle + the Cone of Silence + Justin Bieber.

DubRave Records is also looking at its first releases coming out soon. The music represents the sounds from the party; more bass than a pimp’s car, more fun than the same pimp’s annual Pimps and Hos fancy dress party (if you are dressed up as a pimp). October 1 sees DubRave resident MC Shureshock’s first solo single ‘You’re The One’, which I have remixed along with The Humpday Project, Greg Packer, Mark Walton’s at Fretless, and a few more, and November 1 will be the debut of The Gazillionaires (MC Hayley Boa on vox, me on production.) DubRave’s December release will arrive just in time for Santa; Dubstep Christmas Carols 3. (MC Hayley Boa was also the afternoonshift Prancer in Santa’s Kingdom. Mmm, sweaty suit.) So, look out for the new sound of the underground; artists like Chase & Status, Doctor P, Sub Focus, Nero and Pendulum. Check the air-horns, check the lasers, check the tunes, check the mixes and check out South Rakkas Crew. Their last Sydney show sold out, so we’d recommend picking up a ticket before the night. Who: Will Styles + MC Hayley Boa What: DubRave presents South Rakkas Crew Where: Oxford Art Factory When: Friday September 17, 9pm. Tix from moshtix.com.au

Progressive Sydney rockers Red Remedy describe their sound as “Alice In Chains having a few beers with Karnivool whilst sharing a smoke with Neil Young and debating the finer points of life with Porcupine Tree”. Sounds pretty epic to us - oh, to be a fly on that wall... You can witness this special blend for yourself at the launch for their debut EP this Friday September 17, with support slots from City Lights Fade, Limousine and Crash Through. It promises to be one t-shirt soaking, sweaty, ear-splitting, head-bangin’, helluva-good -time kind of night. Just how we like it. Because you’re pretty cool we have five double passes to give away to the gig. To get your hands on one, tell us the name of their debut EP.

CLUB BLINK REDUX

Club Blink has cleaned out the cobwebs of its new three-storey venue at The St James Hotel and to celebrate, they’re having an “Official Grand Opening Party” – which we gather is essentially a housewarming party but of proportions uncommon grand. Assisting in the warming of their new house are a bunch of br00tal bands in the form of Daysend, Shinto Katana, Thrashed, Damage Inc (a Metallica tribute band – hells yeah), with Club Blink’s trusty resident DJs keeping the high-octane energy flowing between the bands. To score one of five double passes we have to give away to the September 17 grand opening, tell us what the name of your metal band would be if you had one, and which sub-genre of metal you would play.

South Rakkas Crew

BOUNDARY BONDS WITH...

JEREMY WORTSMAN, DIRECTOR, THE JACKY WINTER GROUP

SOUTH RAKKAS CREW

Canadian party boys South Rakkas Crew are back in town to headline Oxford Art Factory this Friday September 17 with a re-jigged live show that now also includes MC Serocee. Backed by Diplo and remixing Tricky’s entire Knowle West Boy album, transforming it into what The Independent called a “space-disco monster”, South Rakkas Crew have certainly come a long way since Tha Fizz first brought them down under for a series of shows in ’08 that included a memorable performance at Playground Weekender. Support comes from MC Shureshock, Will Styles (see profile above), Gabriel Clouston, Temnein and Rubio. $25 presale tickets are available online.

Janelle Monae

GOOD VIBRATIONS

Jam Music has unveiled the lineup for next year’s Good Vibrations festival, slotted for Saturday February 12 at Centennial Park. Celebrated UK dance troupe Faithless, who were of course responsible for the anthemic club smash ‘Insomnia’ top the bill, flanked by French band Phoenix and progressive luminary Sasha. Nas, Kelis, Damian Marley, Ludacris, Erykah Badu, Cee Lo Green, Friendly Fires, Miike Snow, Rusko, Sidney Samson, Janelle Monae, Mike Posner, Fenech-Soler and Koolism will also perform. Tickets to Good Vibrations go on sale at 9:00am this Thursday September 16 through www.gvf.com.au

CIRCO LOCO

A reminder that tickets to the eagerly anticipated Circo Loco party at the Greenwood Hotel next month are selling fast. And straight from the horse’s mouth, I can confirm there are only onehundred-odd second release tickets left, and “due to the expensive nature of putting on this event there will be no exceptions on cheaper tickets after”. The lineup comprises the international triumvirate of UK tech house producer Jamie Jones, who thoroughly impressed when he was in Australia last summer, Italy’s Davide Squillace and Frankfurt’s Robert Dietz. While Jones is well known to Aussie crowds thanks to his recent tour, when he played a great closing set at the inaugural Subsonic Festival, the lesser-known pair of Squillace and Dietz are ‘DJ’s DJs’ (that’s some deft apostrophe use there) of a very high calibre indeed. In fact, all are regulars at the notorious Ibiza dayclub DC10 (originally an old airport hanger), which the Circo Loco brand has grown out of. With additional rooms by Wham! and Red Light, this is going to be one heck of a party – you can grab your tickets online.

A MASSIVE ATTACK

Massive Attack will a release a new EP in November, Atlas Air, which originally appeared on their Heligoland album from earlier in the year. The EP marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Help album, to which Massive Attack – along with the likes of Oasis, Radiohead and The Stone Roses – all contributed material to improve the lives of young people in the world’s harshest war zones. As with that release, all proceeds from Atlas Air will go towards War Child and their efforts to change the lives of children living in war zones around the world. Aside from the noble cause, the EP is worth purchasing in its own right. Following his mighty fine remix of Massive Attack’s previous single ‘Prayer For Rain’, DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy returns to rework ‘Atlas Air’, while Clark from the Warp label also delivers a remix. In addition to these reworks the EP includes a new track called ‘Redlight’ that features vocals from Elbow’s Guy Garvey. It will be released as a limited edition 12” of 1000 numbered copies, but those without turntables need not despair – it will be available digitally.

Can you tell us about The Jacky Winter Group? At our core, we are an agency who represent Australian illustrators and connect them with a diverse client base, from advertising agencies to magazines. Then there are a bunch of things that branch off from that, like our gallery in Melbourne, Lamington Drive. Why is it advantageous for artists to use a creative agency? We like to think that if an artist has to ask that question, then they haven’t been working long enough! At the end of the day though, we are like a combined agent, manager, publicist, bookkeeper, and therapist. Who are some of your favourite Australian artists at the moment? Yikes, that’s a tough one. I quite like Matthew Shannon’s work, but I also sit next to him all day… Do you work with many bands on album artwork, posters etc? It’s definitely part of the work we do. One of our very first artists, WEBUYYOURKIDS, I found by cracking open a framed gig poster I had in my bedroom. You used to live in NYC – how does Melbourne (or Australia in general) compare in terms of the art scene? The relatively low population sometimes makes it tricky, but I think there’s definitely heaps more sheer opportunity here for someone with an idea to get it off the ground, and it’s much more feasible from a financial perspective.

“I took a Virgin Mary axe to his sweet baby Jane” - SMASHING PUMPKINS - 16 October, Big Top 14 :: BRAG :: 379 : 12:09:10

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

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Growing Up Probably the first music I grew up 1. listening to was kundu and garamuts (Papua New Guinean drums) and Peroveta singing (PNG gospel music). My folks were pretty staunch about our PNG roots music, although they themselves are not musos. I got that stuff drilled into me pretty much from birth, pop music was all but banned. My earliest memories of recorded music would have been the Black Brothers from West Papua, Telek, Paramana Strangers, DJs. Then the late 80s & 90s for me was all about reggae! Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Third World, etc.

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Inspirations Some musicians who have inspired me include Paluai Suk Suk (log drummers from

Ice Cube

BRANDON FLOWERS

AIRI INGRAM FROM GRRILLA STEP PNG), Tony Subam and the Sanguma band - they were doing for PNG and the Pacific what Fela Kuti did for Africa, at the same time. Subam pretty much taught me not just how to play music but how to think.... about music, culture, roots, future, energy. Recording Tony Allen in my studio last year was inspirational. I think I learnt more in that session about drum kit then I did studying at uni for three years. Dexter gave me some of J Dilla’s sketches a few years ago, unreleased rough beats... that stuff just blew my mind. The way Dilla flipped beats, grooves and samples was so fresh and poetic. It turned so much chaos into a whole lot of sense.

3.

Your Crew Grrilla Step was basically an idea of me and Dexter working together. He came up to Darwin and saw my old band Drum Drum play some log drumming and I saw him DJ for the first time. I think we bent each other’s mind that day, so after that it was like, let’s do something. Next minute I moved to Melbourne with my family of drummers. At about the second rehearsal Dexter brought the Royal Fam Krumpers along and we started listening to and playing Krump. So it was kind of like Dexter brought the Krump, I brought the roots, but somewhere along the way the lines all blurred, it’s all mashed into

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one thing now. If you know how DJ Dexter does it you’ll know what I mean. It’s like a remix in the flesh. The Music You Make Log drumming from PNG, Cook Islands, 4. traditional Torres Strait songs, Krump…

For a dude who once described himself a “golf-addicted chubby kid from Utah who had never been kissed until [he] moved to Las Vegas”, Brandon Flowers sure has come a long way. The heartthrob Mormon rocker is riding the waves of success from The Killers’ amazing success and is set to release his solo album, Flamingo, this week. And with a swag of big-time Killers hits in his back pocket it’s hard to imagine Brandon will get it wrong. We have three copies of Flamingo to give away - if you’re keen to hear what’s on offer, email us and tell us Brandon’s hometown.

Grrilla Step takes it right to the edge where we nearly lose it – that’s where the fun’s at! It gets pretty loose sometimes.... like at the last gig we had some broken bones. Music, Right Here, Right Now I love the music scene (most of the 5. time). I don’t really pay much attention to what I don’t like, and there is so much to like and get into, you just gotta know where to look. The mainstream and commercial media will always do their thing, but that’s kind of a bubble world all of its own. It becomes easier to ignore that stuff when there is so much out there that’s more interesting. Who: Grrilla Step With: Mulatu Astatke, Ash Grunwald, The Bamboos, Ego Lemos & many more What: Bellingen Global Carnival When: October 1-3 Where: Bellingen Showground, North Bellingen

Brandon Flowers

The Tongue

THE TONGUE

The Tongue is a man of many talents (that sentence could have been weird). The MC has worked with the likes of Urthboy, Bag Raiders and Bertie Blackman, has supported Dizzie Racal, earned his stripes as one of the best Battle MCs in Australia AND performed at the Melbourne Poetry Festival. Not bad considering he has also managed to find the time to record his next album, Alternative Energy. To check out the talent shoot us an email with the name of his first album – and you may just get your hot lil hands on Alternative Energy and tickets to the single launch at the Sandringham Hotel Friday September 17.

GREGOR TRESHER

German techno pioneer Gregor Tresher, the man behind club staples like ‘Black Rain’, will play an exclusive Sydney show for Subsonic Music in a secret inner-city warehouse location on Saturday October 9. Tresher has ticked all the boxes to impress club neophytes over the course of his career, remixing Sven Vath, producing Monika Kruse’s acclaimed LP Changes Of Perception, collaborating with Johannes Heil and releasing on labels like Cocoon and Ovum. The stalwart will be supported by Melbourne’s Muska (Mixed Messages) along with locals Kate Doherty, Trinity, Scott Commens, Jordan Deck and Marcotix. Join the Subsonic Music Facebook Group for all the details.

Bag Raiders

AN EVENING WITH TONI TONI LEE

Toni Toni Lee, the later ego of one Spruce Lee, kicks off the first of his hosted nights at the reopened and refreshed GoodGod Small Club this Saturday September 17. Toni recently dropped his debut single ‘Feelin’ Real Good’ on Yes Yes Records, a track which has been remixed by Perth wizkid Shazam and Pete Herbert. Toni will be performing a 5-hour set with special live tracks, vocalists and so-called “phreeeky dancers” moving in sync with upcoming and unreleased TTL joints. His live appearances are uncommon and never more intimate than on his home turf at Goodgod, and you can bear witness to this rare phenomenon for $10 from 10pm.

ICE CUBE

Iconic rapper/producer/actor/ screenwriter/film director Ice Cube will perform at The Big Top, Luna Park on Friday October 22. Born O’Shea Jackson, ‘Ice’ was responsible for landmark, and a number of highly controversial hip-hop LPs in the early ‘90s including Death Certificate and The Predator. These releases followed his work with Dr. Dre and MC Ren as N.W.A and coincided with his acting debut in Boyz n the Hood, the acclaimed class flick that also starred Laurence Fishburne. Despite a recent focus on his work in the film industry, Ice Cube is gearing up to release a new album, I Am The West, which will be available through Inertia from September 24. A celebration of summertime on the West Coast, Ice was kind enough to describe the album for us. “This shit is cocky, no apologies, West Coast gangsta shit. I can’t help it. That’s what I do,” he said in no uncertain terms.

RIHANNA

BAG RAIDERS

Sydney duo Bag Raiders will finally release their self-titled debut album on October 1. After dropping singles ‘Fun Punch’ and ‘Turbo Love’ on Bang Gang 12s and remixing the likes Cut Copy, Midnight Juggernauts and Kid Sister, the Bag Raiders became a regular presence in clubs and on festival lineups – indeed their singles copped a thorough ‘rinsing’ from local jocks. If the press release is to be believed, their debut album “ticks the right boxes, coming correct with sing-a-long choruses, deep-breath anthems, blissful chill and pure dancefloor energy.” Bag Raiders are hitting the road in support of the release and play a live show at The Forum on Saturday December 4.

Rihanna’s next album, Loud, will be released in November. If my sources are anything to go by, the follow-up to last year’s Rated R will be full of “sassy, fun, flirty, energetic sounds”. As is the way these days, Rihanna revealed the information during a live chat session on her website, claiming that she “wanted the next step in the evolution of Rihanna … I’m gonna miss the Rated R era too, but nothing compares to the album I just made.” The first single is called ‘Only Girl (In the World)’ and is produced by Stargate. More info as it emerges…

discooutfit the Idjut Boys that very same night. But this ain’t no stroll down memory lane, as Holy Ghost! have continued to maintain a strong presence in the club scene over the past year and a half, releasing a new EP, Static On The Wire, on DFA [there it is again!] earlier this year.

HOLY GHOST!

RICARDO VILLALOBOS

NYC duo Holy Ghost! will play a DJ set at Adult Disco on Sunday October 3 in addition to their performance at this year’s Parklife Festival. Signed to the DFA label [which is something of a common thread running through this week’s Dance News] Holy Ghost! shot to prominence with their cut ‘Hold On’ a few years back, which they followed with remixes of MGMT, Cut Copy, Phoenix and Moby. Their debut Australian tour took place in 2009 with a much-lauded slot on the Big Day Out bill before backing up at the Sydney Festival’s Beck’s Bar alongside UK

Chilean club monolith Ricardo Villalobos, whose epic productions continue to challenge the hackneyed templates of the minimal techno genre, is finally coming to Australia as part of the Stereosonic Festival. In more good news, he has been announced to play a sideshow at Oxford Art Factory on Saturday December 4. Though Villalobos is renowned for doing marathon ten-hour sets at overseas clubbing institutions like Fabric and DC10, Sydney enthusiasts will have to settle for a four-hour performance… While we’re at it, I

advise you to direct your attention towards Villalobos’ latest production, a remix of Ndf (the duo of Sergio Giorgini and Seattlehailing techno minimalist Steven Ford, aka Bruno Pronsato) that has just been released on DFA records. Presale tickets to Ricardo’s sideshow will set you back $45.

DANIMALS

Having recently become the first Australian artist to sign with renowned US label Stones Throw Records, Danimals brings his live show to Sydney for a one-off headline show at The Oxford Art Factory this Thursday September 16. Playing with a 5-piece band – that’s a quintet, I believe – featuring members of Mercy Arms, Phrase and Domeyko/ Gonzalez, this will be something of a farewell for Danimals before he jets off to LA to record his debut album.

“You touched me and then you ran and left a sad Peter Pan: all alone and awkward” - SMASHING PUMPKINS 16 October, Big Top 16 :: BRAG :: 379 : 12:09:10

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Industry Music News with Christie Eliezer

THINGS WE HEAR * Live Nation Australia should this week be announcing Sting’s tour in January. * Whispers for Big Day Out: Eminem, Tool and Soundgarden. * Ex-Gunnner Duff McKagan’s bass slot in Jane’s Addiction only lasted five months. * Former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans has reportedly finished his memoirs. *Sydney’s hip hop/dance/rock festival Days Like This won’t be back this January.

* The Ting Tings say that after locking themselves away in a disused basement jazz club in Berlin while making their second album — no TV, no visitors, barely any Internet — they’ve ended up playing AC/DC riffs! * Sony delayed the release of Scarlett Belle’s debut album after its first single peaked in the low 30s. * Serial racist Morrissey is at it again — this time calling the Chinese a “sub species” because of their treatment of animals in circuses and zoos.

AMP TURNS UP FOR SIXTH YEAR…

…WHILE XX WIN MERCURY PRIZE

The Australian Music Prize (The Amp) returns for the sixth year, with principal sponsors PPCA offering the $30,000 cash prize, and Channel [V] providing the winner with a $30,000 advertising package, as well as creating programming to promote and support the Award, including a 30 minute show on the Shortlist. New sponsors include beer brand Coopers (“The whole notion of craftsmanship and excellence is something Coopers has based its reputation on for many years,” says Glenn Cooper). To enter, artists need to submit their album via www. australianmusicprize.com until October 29th. The fee is $95 per album, with a discount for those who enter by October 1st.

London electronic/alt-rock trio The XX’s victory at the £20,000 Barclaycard Mercury Prize had an immediate impact on their selftitled album. It jumped up from #16 to #8 (expected to go into the Top 3), and is #1 on the UK iTunes chart.

Life lines Injured: Lukas Bellesni of Justice Crew dislocated his knee during a dance routine. Injured: Two security guards working at Perth’s Library nightclub after a brawl, after they refused entry to members of the Rebels biker gang, police said Injured: Former Gunners drummer Steve Adler threw his back out after a fan jumped on him after a show in Iowa by his band Adler’s Appetite. In Court: Classical violinist Ewan Foster pleaded guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court to glassing a man in the face at the Holy Grail bar in Kingston on July 20, 2008. He was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond. In Court: A judge threw out a case brought by Mocienne Petit Jackson, who claimed she was Michael Jackson’s love child, that her mother was Diana Ross’ sister, that she was abducted on the orders of Jackson’s mother to hush up her birth, and sent to Belgium, and that the seven abductors were all murdered. Jailed: The son of dance music star Goldie was jailed for life after stabbing a disabled man to death

LIVE SECTOR GENERATES $1 BILLION IN SALES Australia’s live sector generated $1.083 billion in sales last year — a 3.3% rise from the year before, reveals Live Performance Australia’s Ticket Attendance & Revenue Survey 2009. But ticket sales were down by 3.96% to 15.1 million, due to the uncertain economic times. The largest growth was by contemporary music, which generated a 18.3% rise in revenue to $460.44 million. In terms of revenue, it has 42.5% of the market, compared to 36.7% in 2008. This year’s survey divided figures by states for the first time. NSW had 35.4% share of the industry based on $383.7 million revenue, Victoria had 32.1% share ($347.3 million) with QLD (13.6%), WA (9.7%), SA (7.6%), ACT (1.3%), Tas (0.3%) and NT (0.0%).

U2 MANAGER HITS AT ISPS U2 manager Paul McGuiness is urging the UK Government to bring in legislation to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to stop illegal downloading by their customers. “I am convinced that ISPs are not going to help the music and film industry voluntarily,” he wrote in an editorial piece in GQ magazine. It was, he said, a better alternative to the music biz suing thousands of customers. McGuiness added that the passing of new anti-piracy laws in April meant “the country was now well placed to rebuild “our battered music business”.

join venue management company AEG Ogden. She will work with Acer Arena Sydney, Brisbane Entertainment Centre and Newcastle Entertainment Centre to expand their entertainment. Next year she will relocate to Perth to work on the 2012 launch of the Perth Arena.

POSSE.COM RELAUNCHES Posse.com, the site which allows fans to make money by promoting their favourite acts online and selling concert tickets for a commission, relaunched after a major capital injection. Posse.com kicked off last May as a trial. It was the idea of Evermore manager Rebekah Campbell who found it more effective to get their fans to sell tickets than advertise. She and co-partner Brett Murrihy just signed a commercial partnership with EMI International (from UK head office), who will use Posse to encourage fans to promote their acts. They’re setting up offices in London and LA.

EMINEM WINS OVER DIGITAL PAYMENT In a landmark decision for the recording industry, the US 9th circuit court of appeals ordered Eminem’s label Universal to pay digital royalties to his former production company FBT Productions. It found that FBT Productions was entitled to 50% of Universal’s revenue from the rapper’s digital sales — a few million dollars worth. FBT signed Eminem in 1995 before he became famous. When Em signed to Universal, FBT was to get a 12% royalty on “records sold”. This was before the days of iTunes. FBT argued that digital sales were not “record sales” but constitute a licensing of master recordings – and hence they were entitled to 50% of net receipts. Universal is appealing.

BIG TREE MOVES Big Tree Artists has moved to 1/343 Parramatta Rd. Leichardt 2040, and its new phone number is (02) 9572 6322.

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

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1

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1 14 30 59 KATY PERRY

TEENAGE DREAM

CAP/EMI

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3

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2 13 25 53 TAIO CRUZ

DYNAMITE

ISL/UMA

3

2

8

2 13 26 57 USHER FT. PITBULL

DJ GOT US FALLIN’ IN LOVE

SME

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7

7

4 14 27 54 LADY GAGA

DANCE IN THE DARK

INT/UMA

5

4 10 1 11 25 52 EMINEM FT. RIHANNA

LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE

INT/UMA

6

6 12 5 13 25 46 FLO RIDA FT. DAVID GUETTA

CLUB CAN’T HANDLE ME

ATL/WMA

7

8

CLOSER TO THE EDGE

VIR/EMI

8

5 14 1 14 30 57 ADAM LAMBERT

9

7 12 24 48 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS

IF I HAD YOU

SME

FOR THE FIRST TIME

SME

10 16 10 10 16 28 52 BIRDS OF TOKYO

PLANS

CAP/EMI

11 19 6 11 12 24 51 KE$HA

TAKE IT OFF

SME

12 12 5 12 12 28 54 GOOD CHARLOTTE

LIKE IT’S HER BIRTHDAY

CAP/EMI

9 13 6

9 11 31 60 THE SCRIPT

13 11 15 1 15 43 82 UNCLE KRACKER

SMILE

ATL/WMA

14 9 15 5 15 44 67 TRAIN

IF IT’S LOVE

SME

15 10 4 10 16 34 87 TAYLOR SWIFT

MINE

BIG/UMA

16 14 16 1 13 28 52 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT. PITBULL

I LIKE IT

INT/UMA

17 56 2 17 12 21 48 CEE-LO GREEN

FU

WMUK/WMA

18 18 11 7 13 30 62 MICHAEL PAYNTER

LOVE THE FALL

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19 15 10 15 10 39 54 NICKELBACK

THIS AFTERNOON

RR/WMA

20 21 9 16 10 32 56 ED KOWALCZYK

GRACE

SME

21 22 6

21 13 26 62

STAN WALKER

CHOOSE YOU

SME

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22 11 26 50

B.O.B FT. RIVERS CUOMO

MAGIC

ATL/WMA

23 24 3

23 13 35 68

POWDERFINGER

IBERIAN DREAM

UMA

24 35 2

24 13 23 46

BRUNO MARS

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

ATL/WMA JAR/MGM

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28

ED ST JOHN EXITS WARNER, ARIA

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JOHN BUTLER TRIO

REVOLUTION

Ed St John’s five and a half year reign as President and CEO of Warner Music Australia has ended abruptly. Their were reports of discontent among staff that St John passed on acts that found success at other labels, and run-ins with international acts. Warner have set up an interim management team, with Finance Manager Mark Narborough, Marketing Manager Mark Ashbridge and Promotions Manager Billy MacLeod. Industry speculation was that a new CEO will be sourced from the UK. St John also quit as Chairman of ARIA and the ARIA Awards Committee.

26 26 18 1

15 29 53

KATY PERRY FT. SNOOP DOGG

CALIFORNIA GURLS

CAP/EMI

27 17 19 2

18 43 71

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS

THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG

SME

28 25 16 12 15 31 56

GYROSCOPE

BABY, I’M GETTING BETTER

UMA

29 20 11 12 14 37 58

MAROON 5

MISERY

A&M/UMA

30 27 6

27 11 21 41

PARAMORE

CAREFUL

ATL/WMA

31 44 6

31 11 24 43

MIKE POSNER

COOLER THAN ME

SME

JET

SEVENTEEN

VIR/EMI GEF/UMA

MUSHAM JOINS AEG OGDEN Katie Musham, Senior Sales Manager at London’s O2 Arena, moved to Sydney to

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33 29 31 7

17 42 54

LIFEHOUSE

HALFWAY GONE

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17 50 67

TRAIN

HEY, SOUL SISTER

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BRIAN MCFADDEN FT. DELTA GOODREM

MISTAKES

ISL/UMA VICIOUS/UMA

35 31 2

31 9

24 58

36 36 7

30 11 27 51

THE POTBELLEEZ

HELLO

37 34 17 6

11 28 42

TRAVIE MCCOY FT. BRUNO MARS

BILLIONAIRE

ATL/WMA

38 38 28 6

17 42 68

JOHN BUTLER TRIO

CLOSE TO YOU

JAR/MGM

39 37 27 2

16 42 58

ADAM LAMBERT

WHATAYA WANT FROM ME

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12 27 46

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

Haven’t you heard? Unsigned artists can now get their music to radio for free, via Amrap’s AirIt! AirIt is community radio’s exclusive Australian music catalogue. So if you’re serious about getting your music heard sign up now to AirIt www.amrap.org/airit Since Oct 09 AirIt has delivered 8000 tracks | to 150 community stations | 700 broadcasters & music directors | from 70 Australian labels | & 1000 Unsigned artists 18 :: BRAG :: 379 :: 12:09:10

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Repeating History By Jake Stone or many Australians in their midtwenties and early thirties, Brisbane’s genre-mashing pop group Regurgitator represent the nadir of the local pop and rock scene in the mid-nineties. The most recognisable faces of the group remain guitarist Quan Yeomans and his towering, tattooed partner-in-crime, bassist Ben Ely. The pair were the home-grown stars of the emerging indie/slacker culture, and their music embodied and pioneered the adolescent energy, wry humour, enquiring intellect and artless style of your average nineties kids. “We have a party element to our live shows, and also have a little cynicism or political element in there too,” says Ely. “It’s a good way of confronting reality. It’s like having a fight with your girlfriend – you should do it in a funny way. You can resolve the situation, but not let things get too heavy...” Ely is less flip when explaining why the group’s anarchic attitude resonated with young fans. “It was easy to stand out in an Australian music scene dominated by bands like Rocksus, Chocolate Starfish and The Sharp. It was a funny time for music in Australia, the early nineties,” says Ely. “Other bands were either fullon hardcore bands, or punk, or tech-metal. “Quan and I were listening to hip hop, and bands like Helmet. Our favourites were Cypress Hill and albums like Meantime. We wanted to do something different - a bit simpler, as well as being a bit more groove based. We wanted to do something a bit fun, too.” Tu-Plang was recorded in Thailand with a minimal spend (due to drummer Martin Lee’s shrewd decision to avoid large studios) and won Best Alternative Release and Best Debut at the 1996 ARIAs. Their follow-up LP Unit trumped Tu-Plang, moving the band away from their focus on heavy guitars and rock/hip hop combinations, and airing an 80s pop sensibility with a healthy dose of humour. Produced by Brisbane local Magoo, Unit went triple platinum in Australia and won five ARIAs in 1998, an enormous success

“Unit was recorded in an abandoned warehouse, a squat really,” Ely recalls. “It was due to be demolished because Porsche had bought this block of land. We asked them if we could move all this gear in and record before they knocked it down, and they said sure.

The creative combination of punk, hip hop, and funk on their seminal albums made them that rare combination of things in the domestic market: both an immediate hit and a critical success. They were well-loved, and resonated with kids because they were fun – and that enduring attitude to energy, volume and tight, accessible pop has kept the band more-or-less in favour with Australian fans ever since. For anyone who went to gigs in the mid-nineties, their live show was a rite of passage.

“It wasn’t a studio,” he says of their makeshift recording environment, christened ‘The Dirty Room’. “We finished the last song, and they literally bulldozed the site the next day... We drove past it and there was just the concrete foundation slab, and a solitary Coke machine sitting on top.”

Over a three-year period I watched the band play ecstatic, heaving sets at Australia’s biggest music festivals, and it’s almost impossible to imagine the period of Australian radio spanning 1994 to 2000 without songs like ‘Kong Foo Sing’, ‘Blubber Boy’, ‘Polyester Girl’, or ‘The Song Formerly Known As’.

The popularity of Unit was also indicative of the shift in the stylistic attributes of the Australian alternative scene. The cod-funk and electropop of ‘The Song Formerly Known As’ and ‘Black Bugs’ represented a mature take on pop songwriting for Quan and Ely, who candidly explains what drove him to make Unit sound so different. “Grinspoon had just come out, Spiderbait were kicking on. It was the Nirvana years,” he says. “A lot of guitar bands were coming out, and we had just been doing that for a while. We felt like everyone was doing that now, and when we’d done Tu-Plang it had seemed different. I wrote ‘Black Bugs’ and took it to Quan. I’d been listening to a lot of Prince and Cyndi Lauper, and thought the 80s [sound] was great fun.

Sequestered in a televised bubble for a reality TV show, Regurgitator recorded Mish Mash in 2004. They were criticised for it at the time, but Ely was unfazed. “There’s so many ways you could represent yourself as a band,” he says. “We like that about being in this band. It feels like anything is possible, whether it’s embarrassing, or whatever...”

for the group by anyone’s standards, and Ely remembers the period as a career high. “It was a happy and positive time in our lives, because we felt like we could make music and anything was possible.”

“It was also a reaction to our crowds, which were mostly dudes. There was a lot of testosterone when we toured Tu-Plang. Bouncers got glassed, and we weren’t into it. We wanted [a few] more women at the shows, so that it didn’t turn into a football match.” It’s somehow comforting to think that their brave decision to be cheeky and non-violent turned out to be so artistically credible, but Ely shrugs it off. “Nobody wants fights at their gigs... unless you are Agnostic Front.”

Since the band’s most productive period, Ely has had two children with his ex-wife, Channel V presenter Yumi Stynes, and occasionally released Regurgitator records. But post-Unit, many fans of the band would be hard-pressed to name stand-out songs from their recent incarnations. Tunes like ‘Fat Cop’ and ‘The Drop’ did OK, but it seemed the vibe for making hit albums had faded. “I guess when I got to my thirties, I had kids. That’s what I was doing. I like to do a lot of stuff - painting, drawing and creative stuff. That’s time-consuming, and keeps me pretty busy,” Ely says of the last decade. “The band has been around for nearly 15 years. When you are with a band for that long, despite the fact that we enjoy playing simply as a band, we look at doing different things, like Akira.” As a feature of the massive Graphic event

last month – Sydney’s leading graphic art and comic expo – Regurgitator re-scored the classic manga film Akira live on stage at the Opera House. Ely enjoyed the experience because there was “less focus on the individual and more on the creation of music. I thought that was a pretty good thing to do as you get older - and uglier,” he adds, laughing. “Last year we created a show with a contemporary dance company in Brisbane. It was called Rock Show, a bizarre performance-art take on the rock industry. It was really fun to do something completely different, and there were a lot more foot pedals and synthesisers onstage.” Ely and Yeomans plan to record and release without the aid of expensive studios and engineers, debuting singles periodically to fans via the Internet. “The quality of the recording doesn’t matter as long as the intent is there,” Ben says. “We are releasing as we go, instead of waiting until we have an album’s worth of songs, we are doing a quick mix ourselves, and putting them online.” “Then when we go to tour we’ll get all the songs we’ve recorded over the last month and put them on record. When you create something, you want to just put it out there and move on. That’s the beauty of the Internet.” Who: Regurgitator Where: Festival Of The Sun, Port Macquarie With: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Xavier Rudd, British India & more When: December 10-11 Plus: Touring nationally w/ Rat vs Possum + Laneous & the Family Yah Where: Manning Bar When: September 25

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Interpol Better In The Dark By Alasdair Duncan arlier this year, New York rockers Interpol lost founding member Carlos Dengler – the bass player, who had been with the band since the beginning, stayed with them through the recording of their fourth, self-titled album, but left a short time later to pursue other musical interests. Though all involved insist that his split with the band was amicable, I’m still curious to know how Interpol are adjusting to life as a trio – especially since they are known for telling interviewers that the relationships between members are the most important element of the band.

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Interpol’s new album is as dark and noisy as anything they’ve done since Turn On The Bright Lights came out all those years ago. It’s so dense that, even after a number of listens, you find yourself picking up on little details – guitar noises and spooky background vocals – that didn’t seem to be there before. As Kessler tells it, the band planned it this way from the start. “We wanted to use different colours from those we’d used in the past, new instrumentation,� he says. “I had a desire to make something much more detailed than we had in the past, with a very strong story, and it was the same for the rest of the band.

“It’s definitely been a change,� guitarist Daniel Kessler tells me, “although the presence of Dave Pajo and Brandon Curtis, who have been playing on stage with us, made it easier. We’ve just done about four weeks of shows around the States and Canada, and the crowds have been very enthusiastic and welcoming. There have been some great reactions to the new material, and I feel like we’re doing well as a band. I think you adjust [to] what is real and what’s in front of you, which is playing shows and playing music, and that’s how you acclimatise to the whole situation.�

“On your first listen to the record, you might have one impression, but by your fifth, you’ll hopefully have a completely different impression, informed by all the little details that you missed the first time around,� he goes on, clearly animated by the subject. “It’s not necessarily an obvious record to make in this day and age, when everyone has a short attention span and the safest thing to do is to load up the front of the record with the catchiest songs. We’ve never been that kind of band though, we’ve always been an albums band from day one, and I think if anyone has any kind of interest in us as a band, they’ll know that we’ve always been that way.� A lifelong guitar player, Kessler started piano lessons a year or two ago, and has found his musical world opening up as a result. “I’m very much a bastard guitar player,� he says, “I don’t think too much about it, I just do it by feel. When I started taking piano lessons, I was determined to have respect for the instrument, and learn it in, quote-unquote, ‘the right way.’ I figured it was time to extend my palette, and learning the piano was a great way to do it. The piano is a great tool – it offers a new, wider way to write songs.�

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Album centrepiece ‘Try It On’ is the first Interpol track to be built around piano instead of guitar, and the change of instrumentation suits them. Kessler recorded the piano at his house before bringing it in to present to the rest of the band, who jumped on it instantly. “We didn’t have to labour too hard or [for] too long over that song,� Kessler says. “Everyone found their parts very quickly, and Paul felt very natural just walking up to the microphone and singing. Sometimes you get a song that fits like a glove for the whole band, and that was one of them.� Has this given Kessler a taste for writing piano-based songs, I wonder? “I’m definitely very curious about it,� he laughs. Talking about the music is all very well, but while I have Kessler on the line, there are other burning questions I have to ask – specifically concerning matters of sartorial elegance. It seems to be that, whenever Interpol are photographed, they are always impeccably dressed – are band members required to stick by some kind of dress code? “Hmm,� he muses, taking the question a little more seriously than I’d intended. “I think it’s just an individual thing, truthfully. We’ve never had a band meeting about how we should dress or what standard of elegance we should set, but nobody’s going to say anything if someone comes one day not dressed to the nines or looking photogenic.� The band’s style of dress may not be deliberate, but with the slicked-back hair and aviators that drummer Sam Fogarino has been rocking lately, I wonder if he’s actively trying to turn himself into Mad Men’s Don Draper. Is that, in fact, the case? Kessler says Fogarino’s actually quite set in his ways: “Sam’s always been quite a chameleon,� he says, “but his default hairstyle is probably the one you’re speaking of – the pomaded, slicked-back style, which is how he had it when I met him twelve years ago. I think that’s just Sam really ... everything else is going and forth, experimenting.� Who: Interpol What: Interpol is out now through Shock Where: Falls Festivals 2010/11 When: December 29-January 1

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Little Red The End Of An Era By Bridie Connellan

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ercussionist Taka Honda is showing few signs of the chipper, buoyant presence he exhibits on stage; he’s a little under the weather, and a little more inclined to be watching Humphrey Bogart films than chatting to journos. The life of Melbourne five-piece Little Red must rock a little too hard.

Instructed by their debut album to Listen to Little Red, Australia did just that, and liked what they heard. Tearing up the ARIA charts and gracing the almost every summer festival (as well as increasingly larger venues), the quintet originally won hearts with a refreshingly classic take on 60s garage pop, with woo-oohs and handclaps to spare. New single ’Rock It‘ and sophomore LP Midnight Remember boast a sultry, 80s-throwback, bassheavy slickness, suggesting that the band have perhaps moved on from the be-bopping party pop of vintage crowd favourites such as ‘Coca Cola’ and ‘Little Annie’. But despite the new spin on their infectious sound, Honda points out the obvious: change is growth. “It feels pretty natural to reach that sound,” says Honda. “It’s not like the record came out and BANG, we’re completely different- there was a three-year gap between the first record and this one so it’s certainly a progression.” Bunkering down in the bushlands of NSW with

producer Scott Horscroft (Temper Trap, Silverchair), the recording of Midnight Remember not only proved a satisfying artistic experience, but a bonding one, and an assurance that the band is nursing no Lennon/McCartney rifts. “If we didn’t get along we would quit,” Honda says bluntly. “We couldn’t tour together if we hated each other. But then again I don’t know, the Beatles were at each other’s throats all the time but they kept making great records so… maybe we should hate each other to make a better album…” He reconsiders quickly. “No, no, no, that doesn’t work for us.” The infamous difficulty of the Second Album doesn’t seem to bother Honda either. “I think second album syndrome only comes when you’ve sold six million copies of your first record,” he says. “We didn’t sell that much; it wasn’t like [Jet’s debut] Get Born which sold six million copies around the world. We didn’t have that pressure.” Suggesting that Listen to Little Red was more a friendly introduction than a declaration of artistic purpose, Honda firmly believes this newbie may be a means to undo the 60s typecasting that followed the debut. “People change and we’re a bit older,” he says. “We always wanted to sound unique, so a new record is a good chance to stop being pigeonholed as a sixties retro band. I don’t think we liked that.” In any event, like Starr, Moon and Bonham before him, Honda’s role as the drummer is a key ingredient in the sound that launched Little Red into the spotlight. However, for the Japanese-born percussionist the role of band backbone is purely musical. “Do I keep everyone on track? Perhaps not on a personal level. In daily life, and on tour I’m the baby, I’m pretty disorganised. But musically I do try.” For someone who claims to simply keep things rolling onstage, Honda is a savvy muso who knows when he’s being taken for a ride. With a glowing appraisal of their current label Liberation, this percussionist certainly recognises when an independent label is going the distance for Little Red. “Liberation signed us because they like us,” he explains. “If you’re dealing with a major you’re up against ten bands, and all they have to do is find one band amongst them. As for the other nine bands, they really don’t care. Independent labels can’t really afford to lose money on bands so they really work for you, and they’re going to push you.” After selling over 25,000 copies of their debut

“The Beatles were at each other’s throats all the time but they kept making great records so… maybe we should hate each other to make a better album… No, no, no, that doesn’t work for us.” in Australia, the fivesome flew the coop with a mission to the UK. There Honda and his comrades scored an exclusive signing to British label Lucky Numbers, and enjoyed a run of sold-out London performances. But despite such a positive reception on their inaugural jaunt abroad, Honda concedes that it’s tough to crack the UK market, particularly as irregular visitors. “It was fun, but it’s really hard to make an impact there,” he says. “Our songs get played on the radio there but still there are so many bands and so many things going on, and it becomes difficult to stay afloat. When we first went [to the UK] we sold out our album launch and enjoyed the radio play, but the second time people had forgotten us. You really need a constant presence to make them remember.”

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Thus with a renewed dedication to their doting Australian audiences, Little Red are on the cusp of a national tour that will take the sharp-dressed five to such exotic locales of Eumundi, Launceston and the Barossa Valley – a regional mission these cats are only too keen to tackle. “We actually called our booking agent and made sure we could play everywhere,” says Honda. “I think Australia is much easier to please, all you need is to get played on triple j and that’s it. But I would say I’m very grateful for Australian fans.” Honda is in a refreshingly honest mood – my admiring comment on their perennially rad threads is met with the bubble-bursting admission that their clothes are free. “Really I don’t fucking care what I wear, I guess we’re trapped in a trend half the time,” says Honda. Nevertheless, it’s worth mentioning that the man does work a sparkly sweater like it ain’t no thang. Who: Little Red What: Midnight Remember is out September 10 on Liberation Where: The Metro When: Friday October 8

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not, everybody wants to be like perfect Barbie dolls – and I am the opposite of that. I like cool make-up and awesome hair, but I also think the freaky is just as beautiful.”

“I just saw Lindsay Lohan’s new movie tonight,” gushes Star. “It was really violent and really crazy and really weird, I loved it!”

And quite a large amount of MySpace users seem to agree there’s something fascinating about Jeffree Star. Having been acknowledged as the most connected profile personality on the social networking site in 2006, as of July 2009 Star’s friend base had reached over a million friends. Legions of followers worldwide eagerly await daily updates, photos and beauty advice from their gender-bending idol.

ock up your daughters and your sons – the self-proclaimed “Queen Bitch Supreme Of Internet Royalty” is caking on his make-up and packing up his Louis Vuitton suitcases with Australia firmly in his sights. Sure, Jeffree Star has been called many things since kicking off his international career thanks to the wonders of MySpace, but these days he’s squarely and obsessively focused on his musical pursuits – when he’s not taking in some fine cinema.

Funnily enough, this description just about sums up the glam-freak-pop sound of his own full-length musical effort released back in 2009. Parties, sex, plastic surgery and serial killers – welcome to the warped world of debut album Beauty Killer. As the longawaited follow-up to Star’s hit EPs Plastic Surgery Slumber Party (2007) and Cupcakes Taste Like Violence (2008), Beauty Killer is a flamboyantly edgy effort blending hip-hop and electro with pop and plenty of spiky guitars. Think a little sugar and a little spice…then add a whole lot of poison to the mix. “I think so much of Beauty Killer was inspired directly by living in LA,” reflects Star. “I live in a place that reeks of desperation. Everybody is trying so hard to be something that they’re

“I live in a place that reeks of desperation. Everybody is trying so hard to be something that they’re not, everybody wants to be like perfect Barbie dolls – and I am the opposite of that.”

The fame-savvy Star shows no sign of false modesty or disingenuousness about his success. “I think what people like about me is that I have an honest opinion on everything,” he says simply. “Most people don’t act very honest, and musically, it’s easy to have a catchy single but not have very much behind it.” Star’s career actually kicked into overdrive when he became the in-demand make-up artist to the stars. Everyone from AFI’s Davey Havok to Kelly Osbourne wanted a piece of the man with the day-glo tresses, and Star appeared on episodes of America’s Next Top Model. Peaches’ drummer Samantha Maloney co-wrote early singles such as ‘We Want Cunt’; he appeared in the clip for Metro Station’s massive hit single ‘Shake It’, and played some shows with the Eagles of Death Metal. And as though he didn’t have pals in enough genres, even 2010’s most ubiquitous pop star is hooked. “I met Ke$ha a while ago and we became good friends. I might work with her on my next album… We’ve just done a video together, I’m the villain in this crazy club scene with a bunch of freaks, and me and Ke$ha have a dance-off!” As the album title might suggest, Star is deeply aware of the roles that body image and ideals of beauty play in constructing an identity – whether you’re a pop singer or a suburban teenager. “Most of my fans are actually young girls who seem to relate to me through fashion and makeup,” he says, adding that many in the industry miscalculated his

appeal at first. “It’s always been 90 percent girls coming to the shows. Because I like men, most people would just assume it’s a gay thing or whatever, and that’s what record companies were scared of at first. But now everyone is coming around…” And that includes those very record companies that were so wary at the beginning, adds Star. In fact, as the singer reveals, this year’s MTV Video Music Awards may see a very special announcement in regards to Star’s sophomore album that is currently underway. “I’ve got a whole new management team, I’m hoping to be signed to a major label [and] I’m almost done with the legal work – but that’s all I can say for now,” he says coyly. In the meantime, he’s on his way out here for the inaugural Sydney Fringe. “It’s weird how far it’s all come since I just put up some songs on MySpace three years ago and became a huge deal. I had no idea people would be all over it and would want me to do shows and appear in clubs. All this stuff just happened and I guess I just adapted to it. Before Beauty Killer, I only had some releases online and EPs, and I didn’t really know what I wanted to sound like musically. I actually just made music as a joke to keep the people happy, I never took it seriously – until I fell in love with making music and decided to make the album more creative. Now I can’t wait to release my next one.” Who: Jeffree Star What: Sydney Fringe Festival Where: Metro Theatre (all ages) When: Saturday September 18

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Buck 65 Challenging The Calendars By Steph Harmon

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t was a real sort of dementia. I felt like I was completely out of my mind. I remember feeling very dizzy and disconnected from reality, I was making a big mess of my songs and I didn’t know the lyrics – a very strange sensation, especially for someone like me who’s never been high in my life. To be out of control of my own mind was fairly – well, frankly, a very terrifying experience.” Richard Terfry’s gentle, gravelly voice is travelling down the line from Toronto, describing the last time he was in Australia - getting heatstroke during his set at Luna Park’s Feelgood Festival in 2007. “It was a real disaster,” he says. “There were newspapers that wrote about it the next day, all saying the show was terrible.” He played his own headline show two weeks later at the Basement – and it was that gig which was my own introduction to Buck 65. “Well, I’m glad you saw that one. I had a really good night that night.” I’d never heard of Buck 65 before heading to that gig, and was surprised to find it was just one dapper dude with a neck-brace and a laptop. But somewhere between the charismatic nerd-boy beats, the cool lyrical genius, the oddly Tom Waitsian take on hip hop and the inventive, immaculate sampling that trickled calmly underneath it all – my little mind was blown. I went online as soon as I got home and bought three of his albums.

seven years old, with an abusive father drinking himself slowly to death in a poor home: “a white picket fence was built around a pit of snakes… My outside ached and my inside stung / and the long leather belt had replaced his tongue.” If the characters help Buck 65 keep his personal and public life separate, they also keep his work fresh and interesting. Maybe that’s what’s kept him going so long? “Yeah. But you know, that can be a bit of a double-edged sword in itself,” he sighs. “People start to make all sorts of assumptions about me, and maybe they don’t always have the exact right idea. But I suppose that’s just the risk that you take… beyond that I just try to keep the rest of my life as simple as I possibly can. I know my wife understands where I’m coming from, and I guess at the end of the day, that’s all that really matters.” Who: Buck 65 What: The 20 Odd Years EPs are out now through Warner Music Where: The Basement When: Friday September 17

2010 is the 20th year of Buck 65, and he’s celebrating the milestone by releasing four EPs and a DVD this year, and undertaking a ‘Twenty Odd Years’ international tour – he’ll land at Sydney’s Factory Theatre this week. Twenty years is a lot of years, huh? “Yeah,” Terfry replies, “it’s a lot of music, too. It’s crazy for me, because so many people have come and gone in that time… I’ve had some very real thrills.” There’s a long pause. “If [I’d] been able to tell myself way back when that some day I would do shows with, play with, and become friends with people like, you know, Vincent Gallo, I would have said, ‘No. No way. That’s crazy talk.’”

“I still actually daydream of running into that journalist one day,” he tells me.“I’m not a violent person, but I imagine I’d be really tempted to like, you know, push that guy down if ever I saw him.” Some impressive friends to be sure, but he’s made some enemies too. Buck 65’s Wikipedia entry actually features a whole section entitled ‘Kerrang! controversy’ – referring to a 2004 interview with said magazine that turned into a regrettably public debacle. (“I would be surprised if anyone could show me someone who’s made a hip hop record who could actually read music,” Terfry said in the interview – and when Kerrang! asked why musicians should have to be able to read music, he replied, “I’m as elitist a bastard as you could possibly find.”) Buck’s been chewing on it for six years. “I was interviewed by this guy who I guess just hated me, and hated my music… He started to paint a picture of me as some sort of hip hop blasphemer, and so he put me on the defensive. So I ended up just getting really sarcastic with him, and I was saying all these crazy things about my hip hop motivations, forgetting where I was and what I was doing - and of course taken out of context, it came across sounding really terrible.” The affair has haunted Terfry, who feels as though he’s been trying to regain that lost ground ever since. “I still actually daydream of running into that journalist one day,” he tells me later. “I’m not a violent person, but I imagine I’d be really tempted to like, you know, push that guy down if ever I saw him.” After describing that episode as the “lowest point of my whole career”, I start to understand why the sensitive Terfry would want to hide behind so many characters and pseudonyms in his work. Stage names like Johnny Rockwell and Stinkin’ Rich, and characters like the dirty photographer in ‘Shutter Buggin’’, the cop in ‘Spread ‘Em’ and most famously the, erm, wellendowed mythical beast in ‘The Centaur’: “The easiest way would be for you to lie face down / I’m a man but I’m built like a horse from the waist down.” While a lot of it is couched in humour, there are moments in his back catalogue so touching and personal it’s hard to believe that they’re not based in fact. Take ‘The Floor’, in which the narrator remembers being BRAG :: 379 :: 12:09:10 :: 27

Todd Terje All-Night Freshness By Andrew Boon

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ounding as though he’s also sporting a massive grin, Todd Terje says that talking about his newly grown beard is “a goldmine of conversation”. Hidden behind his new facial hair is the boyish visage of one of disco’s most exciting artists, who at only 28 has already put his stamp on some incredible tunes and calls fellow Norwegian disco stalwarts Prins Thomas and Lindstrom amongst his friends and colleagues. Terje is returning to Australia this week on the back of his newest release, Remaster of the Universe. The album, which is on shelves now, is his first full-length release on the impeccable Permanent Vacation label. Constituting two discs brimming with his best remixes, a handful of re-remixes and a swathe of his trademark edits, the release has both garnered critical acclaim and won the maestro newfound fans around the globe – despite not containing much original material from the man himself. “I have three singles lined up for release at the moment,” he says. “I just have to find the time to finish them!” Though he may be slower on the original material, Todd is by no means a slacker. Renowned for his dancefloorfriendly edits of everyone from Curtis

Mayfield to Paul Simon, Michael Jackson to KC & The Sunshine Band, Terje originally honed his editing skills for the very simple reason of “making them easier to play out”. Since then, he’s virtually recreated the very concept of what it means to re-edit a track, injecting fluid musicality and playfulness into his work while infusing it with his own personal touch. “But it’s important to respect the original song,” he adds, the main focus of his edits always being to enhance the energy already there. He’s proud of his work, too. Asked whether there’s a chance he may slip into the all-toofamiliar situation of a well-known DJ barely playing any of their own stuff, he’s quick to insist, “I’m only going to play my own stuff!” Terje promises that during this tour you will definitely be hearing original material, both new and old, familiar and unknown. It’s a different playing field to the days when Todd began to embark on his musical pursuits, with the advent of the digital revolution making waves across the musical landscape. When I ask his thoughts on tools such as Ableton Live and the master tempo button, he’s quick to dismiss them altogether. “You can hear it a mile away,” he scoffs. “If you play a 120bpm track at 115bpm, how can you not hear the song distort to keep pace?” And with regard to editing using this kind of technology? “It sucks,” he replies simply. “Then it’s even more audible.” Todd Terje is not a man who minces words. In DJ mode for his Australian tour, Terje still has a way to go to fulfill his musical aspirations. A new (though as yet unnamed) record label is in the works, as are the beginnings of what will grow into a full-blown live show. Having road-tested some ideas at the recent Oya festival alongside his Oslo partner in crime Dolle Jolle, Terje says the live set is still a way off being anywhere near ready. The concept, however, comes as no surprise, “I get bored of my own songs,” muses Terje, when asked why his recent album has fresh interpretations of his previously remixed, re-edited or original tunes. The live show will surely help bring a new element of excitement to the ever-restless artist. Who: Todd Terje Where: Adult Disco @ Civic Underground When: Saturday, September 18

Andy Bull

Perfection Can Be Hazardous To Your Health By Jonno Seidler

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utilated hands. It’s not the nicest way to begin a conversation with a very nice songwriter, but Andy Bull knows he has it coming. It helps that we’re sitting in Kawa Café in Crown St and all around us are implements for various kinds of digit-destruction; coffee grinders, sharp knives, blenders and slamming cash registers. And Bull’s new EP, Phantom Pains features a drawing of his hand on the cover – with his thumb blown off in a crimson spatter. “When I started drawing, I was very young and I just used to draw in biro all the time, really aggressively,” he says. “My mum used to buy rolls of butcher’s paper and I would just draw metres and metres of shit from movies that I was probably way too young to have seen.” The sketch, which is actually a likeness of Bull’s own (intact) hand, is an homage to illustrator Ralph Steadman, most famous for the manic images in Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas. “I swear to God, if you’d seen my sketchbook in the first grade... My teacher saw it once and looked at me like, ‘There is something wrong with this child.’” For Mr Bull, macabre drawings aside, things have never been more right. After the success of his debut album, We’re Too Young, Andy decided to take more control over the production and writing of his music - which essentially meant less label involvement. Phantom Pains, which references an itch that you can’t scratch and a feeling you can’t explain, is also Andy’s most personal work to date. “I just thought ‘Fuck it, why not?’” he explains of his decision to explore a darker side of himself, “I think I had this misguided sense of perfection when I started writing songs. But now I’ve realised that perfection isn’t always the ultimate goal.” To put that into perspective, the integral parts of Andy’s new collection of songs were recorded in his house. Lisa Mitchell was staying in a hotel

nearby and ended up recording her vocals for ‘Dog’, while Little Red, who were finishing their new record over at Big Jesus Burger Studios, popped by with some beers before adding their inspired backing vox to ‘Nothing To Lose’. It’s this kind of spontaneity that has freed Bull up on the EP: “I feel like having something that’s more emotional [means it] can be great, rather than just really good.” Extensive touring with both Mitchell and Little Red proved to be a major learning curve for Andy, who watched his peers perform and realised something was missing in his live act. “Little Red was my first national tour,” he muses, “They got on stage, they played loose and were kind of shambolic but they had this electric energy. All I was getting from it was ‘Wow, that looks fun!’” And so Bull has set about doing things that let him cut loose, too: forming a new backing band with the rhythm section from Deep Sea Arcade, advertising his 26th birthday party on Facebook, illustrating his own albums and metaphorically making himself a bit less perfect. “I always wanted to be world class,” Bull admits. “I think I’m realising that ‘world class’ can mean being very good technically, but it’s just not the whole story. That makes me so much more confident to be myself.” And even though Phantom Pains was produced on a DIY budget, Andy didn’t find that problematic. “I felt more constrained by the big budget I had for the first record!” he laughs. “Having nothing sometimes makes it much easier.” Who: Andy Bull What: The Phantom Pains EP is out now Where: Spectrum (EP launch) When: November 19

Changing Lanes Festival Taking It To The Streets By Oliver Downes

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oaning about the scarcity of awesome things happening in Sydney is beginning to get a bit old. If the scene is as full of holes as many would have you believe, why not get off the couch and actually do something about it? Such was the thinking of the indomitable Ruby Marshall. Along with logistical juggler extraordinaire Danae Goiser, Ruby has masterminded the Changing Lanes festival, which is set to light up Newtown with some cruisin’ tunes, phat beats and live art this Sunday. The idea behind Changing Lanes is simple: to shift public perceptions of what kinds of events are possible in Sydney. Not that this was at all the initial plan. “I was volunteering at FBi when the Save FBi gigs came up,” explains Ruby. “I was thinking of doing something like having a few market stalls [to raise funds] on a Saturday outside the Hub.” Realising that her ideas were quickly snowballing, she hit upon Eliza St – bookended by two well-known watering holes, the Courthouse Hotel and Zanzibar – as a more appropriate site. She floated the idea to Danae and from there things exploded: “Before we knew it, we were working on a full blown festival!” laughs Ruby. Inspired by various events in Melbourne, the duo set out to create a festival that drew upon pre-existing venues, unique infrastructure and

the local creative talent in a celebration of all of the above. So, why hasn’t someone tried to put on a festival of this kind before? “Because it’s so hard!” says Ruby. “It’s taken almost two years to get off the ground and we’ve worked seven days a week for the last four months. You’ve got to really want it and believe in it and have a lot of incredible people behind you to make it happen, or it just won’t. With [local] council there’s no infrastructure to help get events off the ground. The paper work you have to go through is so ongoing – it’s not tailored to setting up events.” For Ruby and Danae, diversity has been the name of the game when selecting the performers most likely to set the streets ablaze (figuratively speaking). With sounds as eclectic as smouldering songstresses Bridezilla, hiphop crew Thundamentals, pensive tunesmith Ernest Ellis, and veteran beat-benders Itch-E & Scratch-E, they seem to have succeeded, though the late addition of Tame Impala to the line-up was a particular triumph. “It was very last-minute,” says Ruby; Danae adds, “They’re such good-hearted guys.”

While punters won’t be watching the unfolding creation of a permanent Newtown icon (the space is heritage listed), pieces done on the day will be displayed at aMBUSH Gallery after the event. “We kind of wanted to give back a bit to the artists that are involved,” explains Ruby, “and give them the opportunity to get a bit more exposure and sell some pieces.”

The attractions won’t just be musical however, with artists including SMC3, Vars, Gem Lark, Ears and Max Berry set to transform the wall of the Courthouse Hotel with a back-to-back collection of works in a diverse array of styles.

Considering the amount of red tape that’s been tangled with, it’s heartening for all involved that community response has been so overwhelmingly positive, with tickets rapidly selling out. And with the first Changing Lanes

set to be a roaring success, the organisers are already looking towards next year – though ideally, the idea will spread beyond that. “I hope we do it again or that it inspires people to go away and do something themselves,” says Ruby. “I hope that when people leave this event they’ll go, ‘Yeah, that was really great’ and are inspired to make art themselves. What: Changing Lanes Festival [sold out] Where: Eliza St & surrounds, Newtown When: Sunday September 19

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Mix Master Mike Plazma, Picklz & A Pot-Bellied Pig By RK

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remember the first time I saw Mix Master Mike spin – it so happened I was in Los Angeles, and he was at the same club. And by accident, a love affair was born. You have never seen hands move on a turntable as fast as Michael Schwartz’s do. You begin to wonder how it’s humanly possible.

“I was actually around a whole bunch of different music growing up,” Schwartz tells me. “I listened to everything – Parliament, Jimi Hendrix and Isaac Hayes – it was a great vibe.” His focus shifted ,though, when Mike saw Grandmaster DST and Herbie Hancock on stage. “Watching DST was like the first time I had experienced anyone scratching, and that’s when I decided I wanted to play this kind of futuristic instrument.” Since then, his career has ridden an exponential curve of success. By 1992, Mike had won the World Championship at the New Music Seminar DJ Battle in New York. Later, he would win the Technics DMC Championship World Title along with Q-Bert and Apollo. In 1993, Mike and Q decided to team up as The Dream Team and won the title again. “What we did back then was so crazy; it was a one-of-a-kind thing,” Schwartz recalls. After winning for three consecutive years, the duo was asked to perform a grand finale show because the judges realised they hampered anyone else’s chances of winning! “It was a bummer, I mean we had a few more

“ I’ll give you a day at home in Hollywood: I wake up, I feed our pot-bellied pig; I have a business meeting with my wife; do a little laundry action, go out for a Thai massage; then eat some sushi …”

good years left in us, but things happen for a reason. So we decided, ‘We won’t battle anymore, we’ll start to make records out of this’.” Though not before Apollo, D-Styles and Shortkut joined Mike and Q-Bert to form the Invisible Skratch Picklz. Today, years after they disbanded, they continue to stand as one of the most influential turntable crews in history. If that wasn’t enough, equally infamous are those crazy scratch messages Mike left on Adam Yauch’s answering machine. “I was, like, this huge fan of Adam and Beastie Boys growing up and I got all different sounds and scratches - that was kind of like my signal!” he laughs. “In the end we worked on Hello Nasty and they asked me to become their official DJ. We got on great and things are still great, working with them is an honour. I have learnt a lot and my career became an assault of sounds, cuts, scratches, classics and a buffet of beats.” Years on, there isn’t such a thing as a typical day for Schwartz – even though he tries for one: “OK, I’ll give you a day at home in Hollywood: I wake up, I feed our pot-bellied pig; I have a business meeting with my wife; do a little laundry action; water the garden; go out for a Thai massage; then eat some sushi; come back home into the studio; have a work out; read a book; rest up - pretty basic! Or it can be like this: wake up early in the morning; catch a flight out to New York; then hop on a connecting flight out of the country; check into a hotel. Do the show and then fly back home the next morning. That is the not-so-basic version.” Other things have changed a little since the early days. “My musical direction is blown wide open these days,” says Mike. “My thing [now] is merging dubstep, electro and rock with hip hop. I’m exploring new ways of blending and manipulating the genres together, creating a whole new sound. I got dope new projects coming up as well.” These include branded headphones, which will be packaged with the upcoming Plazma Ryfle EP, an iPhone/iPad app called MMM DJ2GO, and an album with DJ Muggs, Rahzel & JS-1, available on thepublicrecord.com. “At that

website, we give the fans access to all stem tracks of all songs,” says Mike proudly. “[It] gives them the opportunity to actually make music with us.” Clearly, Mike is in a reflective mood. “In 2010, I remain inspired by my grandmother, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Bomb Squad, my wife, plus some of my own thoughts and ideas… I’m always a student of my own work! That said, I never forget what it took to get me where I’m at today,” he says earnestly “Touring and performing all over the world keeps me sharp. My blessings keep me grounded. I feel I’m just God’s instrument and he’s the musician! And I wouldn’t even say it’s hard when you have so much love and passion for what you love to do. Performing in front of thousands of people every night is still - to me - a very humbling experience. Just being alive is humbling!”

As for the Australian tour, Mike says he can’t wait. He still maintains a rigorous training regime and claims he is never satisfied. “As you get older you feel you need to get yourself ready for a tour; when you’re young you kind of feel indestructible; but I always say expect the unexpected!” And in closing, can we have a message for the children, from one of the world’s great turntablists? “Practice selflessness!” Who: Mix Master Mike What: Parklife Festival 2010 With: Soulwax, Missy Elliot, Busy P, Groove Armada, Kele, The Dandy Warhols & many more Where: Kippax Lake, Moore Park When: Sunday October 3

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SAM SIMMONS

the pinnacle of Edinburgh’s comedy circuit is the elusive ‘5 Star Review,’ preferably from the city’s leading masthead, The Scotsman. Melbourne comedian Sam Simmons got this and much more, for his show Fail. After just four years working professionally. Doesn’t seem fair really, does it? How was Edinburgh (as if we had to ask)? It was brilliant, at times really hard, at one point I had a 2 star review and a 3 star review, so I started sweating, then they all rolled in - 5x five star reviews and 4x four stars, which really helps with the ticket sales and the mind. I received a couple of standing ovations and a lot of peer admiration, which is really important to me. When you have your comic heroes sitting in the available seats to watch you, you know something is going on. The UK tend to respect and admire difference, whereas we Australians have to wait for someone else to validate before we jump on, especially in the commercial world.

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ote for the uninitiated: the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a mecca for comedians worldwide, and the birthing pen for some of the best emerging talent; and

Which comedians are taking your fancy at the moment? I admire Greg Fleet and Shaun Micallef and the brilliant self-saboteur Nick Sun. You may have never heard of him as he keeps fucking his career up. He’s like a shambolic car crash with a microphone - you can’t help but watch... so please watch if you get the chance, he deserves massive respect. We tend to place great admiration and respect in the arms of international comics like Daniel Kitson, who is amazing, BUT we all have tales to tell that are just as sad, brilliant funny and real, and told with our own voice. Try Celia Pacquola on for size - she’s also a terrific person without the luggage of artist ego.

So, how can you get away with calling your show Fail when you have about seven awesome jobs and your publicist sent me eighteen pages of people raving about you? I guess cause it was the first time I combined my being stupid, with something honest. Can something be absurdly depressing?? Well that’s what I think I did. I’m proud of this one, but also happy to put it to bed. Is the popularity of the FAIL meme on the web pure schadenfreude or something more meaningful, do you think? Exactly both... mind you I’m currently writing my next show Broken, it’s happy.

FREE LAFFS After the election debacle of the last three weeks, we all probably need something to laugh about; with that in mind, we’re throwing comedy at you this week, with a choice of tickets to two different shows. If you’re keen to see what all the all the fuss is about Sam Simmons’s Edinburgh Fringe show Fail, then email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us just one of the awards this Australian comedian has won. Get that right, and you may get your hands on one of two double passes to see Fail on September 17 at CarriageWorks, as part of Sydney Fringe. www.samsimmons.com.au Alternatively (or as well, if you want to really try your luck) we have tickets up for grabs to see two of the UK’s best comedians on the one bill, when Punchline Comedy Club presents Sean Meo and Curtis Walker at The Laugh Garage Comedy Club on September 23. To get your hands on a double pass, tell us which UK music legend thinks Curtis Walker is the funniest man in England… www.punch linecomedy. com/sydney

Would it be inviting spoilers to ask what your biggest fail ever has been? It involved over-the-counter sleeping tablets in Scotland and walking down the corridor at a 45-degree angle to get to the toilet, I think I got it all in the bowl. Or when I saw one of the those spraypainted street ‘artists’ in Edinburgh who pretend they are statues stop to eat a sandwich. I said I could see him moving and he told me to fuck off. Or during a rage one breakfast when a housemate used the last of my butter without replacing it. I punched a loaf of bread. What: Sam Simmons: Fail When: September 17-25 (no shows Sunday or Monday) @ 8.30pm Where: CarriageWorks, Eveleigh More: www.sydneyfringe.com.au

THE WHARF REVUE

Amidst the tumultuous ride of the 2010 Federal Election, your Facebook newsfeed would no doubt have been clogged with your friends’ valiant attempts at witty quips about political stuffs. You were probably thinking, ‘leave it to the professionals, guys’. Well your prayers have been answered, with Not Quite Out of the Woods – featuring the heroic ‘Abbottar’ becoming one with the Mar’gi, Sarah Palin’s mad tea party and Mark Latham hosting “Hey, Hey, It’s Yesterday!” The everpopular Wharf Revue has indeed returned in 2010 with an indulgent line-up of irreverent humour, starting from October 8. Tickets are from $30 on sydneytheatre.com.au or 9250 1777.

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LEVIATHAN

Based on a True Story by Ernest Fratczak, showing in Sydney Life

ART & ABOUT LAUNCH PARTAY

From September 23, our city will be transformed into a ‘living gallery’ when Art & About is launched (by none other than Lord Mayor Clover Moore!). Now in its ninth year, this monthlong public art festival will kick off in Hyde Park on Thursday September 23 from 6pm with a free launch featuring Dappled Cities and DJ Kate Monroe. Throughout the festival a throng of quirky installations will materialise at assorted locations – notably a giant-sized 12-metre penny farthing made out of a cluster of human-sized bicycles, and of course the Sydney Life photography exhibition. Art & About runs until October 24. www.artandabout.com.au

DEAR PLUTO POP-UP

From the same people that brought you the beloved Hibernian House retro sales, comes Dear Pluto, a petite Surry Hills hideaway that’s bound to be your new favourite vintage clothing store. To celebrate their new name and new location they’re putting on an grand opening shindig on September 17 at 5pm, with the promise of complimentary drinks, delicious conversation, and the first perusal of Dear Pluto’s latest assortment of second hand goodies. And even though the Six-Oh-One kids have upgraded to a bigger and better store, the prices still remain ludicrously low. Shhhhh, don’t tell your friends!

WOMEN OF LETTERS

It’s Sydney’s turn to experience the diversity of female talent in this unique concept for a show, which took Melbourne audiences by storm earlier this year. The Sydney show features Tara Moss, Jennifer Byrne, Sally Seltmann, Claudia Karvan, Sacha Horler, and Virginia Gay, and will raise funds for the 30 :: BRAG :: 379 :: 12:09:10

Victorian animal rescue shelter Edgar’s Mission. The afternoon will bring the private endeavour of letter writing into the limelight, with each woman giving her own personal musings on the clandestine art of writing letters. The show is at The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville on September 26, beginning at 1pm.

ROCK 'N' ROLL MARKETS

There is just so much happening at the Sydney Rock ’n Roll & Alternative Market that the only way to accurately do justice to it would be through keywords: Vintage. Rock ’n Roll. Burlesque. Ska. Clothing. Jewellery. Vinyls. CDs. Collectibles. Art. Books. Food. Comics. Candle makers. A psychic. Jumping Castle. Face Painting. In more eloquent terms, there will be not just markets, but a line up of Ska-versusRockabilly live bands including Backy Skank, Danny and the Cosmic Tremors, Trench Town, Mother Truckers, plus DJs Limpin’ Jimmy and the Swingin’ Kitten and Wally Wally. It takes place at Jet Sports Club in Tempe on September 19, and admission is FREE!

Stefo Nantsou has adapted John Birmingham’s book Leviathan – The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney, bringing the colourful – and brutally honest – history of our ocean-side city to the stage. Leviathan is a sprawling non-fictional examination of early penal settlement, chronicling the beautiful and brutal aspects of Sydney’s migrant history. From racism to comedy, accounts of abuse to theatrical drama, Nantsou’s adaption is an honest stage piece that highlights Sydney Theatre Company’s collaboration with many local multicultural performance communities. Catch Leviathan first up at Hurstville Entertainment Centre on September 18 at 7pm and Sunday at 3pm – OR Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre on Friday September 24 at 7pm. www.casulapowerhouse.com

34B UNDERWATER

The only logical thing to do after having a ‘Vamps, Vixens and Dolls’themed burlesque evening would be to have an marine, underwater adventure-themed burlesque evening, right?? That’s right, 34B’s notorious burlesque evening is back, nautical-style – and all your mermaid fantasies will be realised in this treasure trove display of deep sea burlesque. The burlesque ‘Sirens of the Sea’ that will feature on September 25 include Lauren La Rouge, Briana Bluebell, HMAS Heidi Hoops, and more underwater undulaters. Tickets are from $20, at tenderloins.com.au. All aboard!

CHANGING LANES

Aside from its insane-in-themembrane line-up (Tame Impala, Ernest Ellis, Bridezilla, Spit Syndicate, Cabins, Bag Raiders, Jinja Safari, etc etc etc), Newtown’s Changing Lanes festival will be a fusion of food, market stalls, street performers and art; a culturejamming party for anyone and everyone. There will be vintage clothing, vinyl, books, gourmet food, and the highlight – a live street mural that will be painted throughout the day by five local and international street artists. This feel-good day was created by FBi Radio and MAPS Entertainment, and is on September 19 on Eliza St in Newtown. Tickets are available from moshtix.com.au

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Re-Animated

The Second Coming of the Sydney International Animation Festival. By Alice Hart

Alma, Dir. Rodrigo Blaas [DIGITAL PANORAMA] n its second year, Sydney International Animation Festival is every bit as diverse as its first, spanning the analogue and digital divide, styles as incongruous as Pixar and the popular ‘hand-made’ aesthetic, and the spectrum of genres - from music clips and commercials to documentaries, experimental films, and bite-sized narratives.

dropping Barthes and Baudrillardbombs like nothing else, Cholodenko posits the centrality of animation – literally bringing to life something that isn’t – to film generally. The impressive line-up of speakers also includes professors from the major animation studies programs in France, Canada, the United States, the U.K. and Singapore.

More than ever, however, this year’s festival strives to provide context for the bewildering array of content on offer. In the first instance, last year’s talks and forums have been expanded to a day-long ‘symposium’, traversing the cutting edge of animation, from technique and aesthetics to narrative trends, and even some hard core theory, courtesy of a key note address by Sydney University’s Dr Alan Cholodenko, an internationally respected theorist on film and animation theory. Besides

While the Symposium is certainly skewed for practitioners and theorists, even a superficial browse of the program offers interesting entry points for thinking about animation generally, from the CGI in Avatar to the craft-heavy animations of Greedy Hen’s film clips for Cloud Control and The Middle East, or the handsewn animations created by Maricor/ Maricar for Architecture in Helsinki. For example, in the ‘Aesthetics and Timing in Animation’ strand, you can listen to presentations on The

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Bubblicious, Dir. Geoffroy de Crecy [CRAFTWORK] Aesthetic Of ‘The Handmade’ In The Realm Of Digital Animation – or Professor Pierre Floquet’s keynote address: Would Computer Generated Images Conceal Genuine Emotions? For a gentler investigation into the roots of animation and the hearts of its creators, curious minds should head along to A Thorn in the Mind, an ambitious documentary by Mathieu Bergeron and Yves Martel that attempts to map the creative process by interviewing and examining the work of six award-winning independent animators: Canada’s Jacques Drouin and Tali, Barry Purves from the UK, Russia’s Pjotr Sapegin, the Swiss animator Georges Scwizgebel and Belgian pioneer Raoul Servais. Running at just 50 minutes, A Thorn in the Mind will be followed by a special screening of films by the six filmmakers (no doubt including Drouin’s melancholic

Mindscape, created with his signature ‘pinscreen’ technique - it’s Festival Co-Director Malcolm Turner’s favourite animated short of all time). A Thorn in the Mind gets to the heart of animation’s enduring appeal. Drouin describes his pinscreen as the machinery of dreams - far more than even Barry Purves’ stop-motion puppet animations, for example, which he would argue have a tradition in realism - “Puppets have their roots in theatre, where they can represent much more real things. Inevitably, it is less ethereal.” Similarly unshackled, Georges Schwizgebel’s ‘animated paintings’ revel in long takes, uninterrupted sequences in which things evolve, mutating into another, new thing – without ever having to ‘cut’. Meanwhile, Pjotr Sapegin highlights the peculiarly auteurist scope of animation, by saying, “We all want to be Gods, in a way; to create a little universe where you are in charge, of good and bad; a little world that is just like our big world.” In distinguishing animation from illustration and painting, Drouin points out that it feeds our natural curiosity and hunger for ‘dramatic purpose’. “I think that we wouldn’t put up with an inanimate drawing in film for very long. Because we want to know right away: will it get bigger? Will it get smaller? Will it disappear?” Tali agrees and goes further, suggesting that unlike visual arts, the perfection of one’s drawings or design is less essential to animation than the ‘life’ or ‘purpose’ with which one animates the objects. Her own drawings, rough and even grotesque, are transformed through animation into magical evocations of human experience.

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Interestingly, Bergeron and Martel steer well clear of digital animators in their documentary, despite the fact that, after the use of celluloid digital technology, digital technology is the second great revolutionary

How To Lose Weight in 60 Seconds Dir. Dave Carter [ANIMAAATE!] force in animation. Drouin opines at one point, “the new tech discourages people from starting simply; there is temptation to be ‘dazzling.’” For a counter argument, one needs look no further than SIAF’s Digital Panorama program, which presents the most dazzling fusions of creativity and technology from around the world. Topping the bill are 3D animations like Alma and Pigeon Impossible, which represent the next generation of potential Pixar (or Dreamworks) creatives. Using far more rudimentary technology – but with a swag of awards under its belt – is David O’Reilly’s Please Say Something, the story of a fractured relationship between a cat and a mouse, which proves that story still trumps style. At the other end of the spectrum, and acknowledging the prevalence of the hand-made aesthetic, SIAF are presenting Craftwork, a mix of music videos, experimental and narrative animations, mostly made in-camera. Highlights include Max Hattler’s experimental, ‘Futurist Analogue’ short Aanaatt, Geoffroy de Crecy’s film clip for Rex the Dog’s ‘Bubbalicious’, and Chris Gavin’s TXT ISLAND - a 'typographic tale of epic misadventure.' Of course, for those who just want to be entertained, regardless of genre or creed, then SIAF presents the cream of shorts from the world’s top animation festivals in its International Showcase; and from Australia in it's Animaaate: Australian Showcase - which, gratifyingly for our local industry, was last year's most popular session... What: SIAF + Symposium When: Symposium - September 24 / Festival - September 25-26 Where: UTS Campus More: www.siaf.uts.edu.au

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ur friends at SIAF came up with ten reasons you should head along to the fest this year – but we think they sold themselves short; with around-about 100 films showing from September 24-26 at the UTS Campus, including work from Shaun Tan, Academy Award-winning animation studio Autour de Minuit, animation godfathers Barry Purves, Georges Scwizgebel and Raoul Servais, Sydney creative collective The Glue Society and the everinnovative pranksters at Pixar, the highlights from the Japan Media Arts Festival, and a showcase curated by UK’s onedotzero, it’s like SIAF have skimmed the cream from the top of the animation scene, put it in a weekend-shaped saucer, and handed you a silver spoon. So open your mouth, here comes the plane... www.siaf.uts.edu.au

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Thanks to SIAF we have two double passes to ALL the Saturday and Sunday sessions up for grabs. To get your hands on one, email freestuff@ thebrag.com with the name of just one film from the program.

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The Trial

[THEATRE] Kafka’s surreal parable unfolds at the Wharf.

By Jack Franklin

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here is a word for feeling the world is out to get you, that nothing makes sense and you are a victim; and that word might well be ‘Kafka’. From his best known short story Metamorphosis, to lesser known ones such as A Report to An Academy (both of which, incidentally, have been adapted for the stage at Sydney Theatre Company within the last 12 months), Franz Kafka carved out a niche in the literary market for existential angst, using the über-bureaucratic Austro-Hungarian state as his absurdist backdrop.

Ewen Leslie in The Trial

“The set design is very specifically conceived for this production,’ says Lutton. “The entire piece is sort of set in Josef K’s bedroom, so it emerges [as though] out of a dream, from his room; and the room, for two hours, is manipulated and changed into each location in the play.

through a kaleidoscope of other characters. So they create an entire universe that is endlessly shape-shifting around him.” Playing Josef K is Perth-born actor Ewen Leslie, who was a member of the STC Actors Company from 2007-2008. Lutton cast Leslie partly on account of his on-stage charm and charisma. “Importantly, he can also maintain a sense of anxiety and a deep sense of endless pursuit,” the director adds. “Ewen had the

entire spectrum that we needed for the role.” Lutton says the task has also been one of endurance. “The rehearsal room is constantly throwing up questions to us. I think that the hardest thing is about trying to keep the elusiveness; each piece makes sense, each scene makes sense but when they are assembled together as a whole show, which runs at about two hours, it becomes illogical and feels like it has rules and laws of its own.”

“So the idea is that it’s all born of Josef K,” the director explains – “blurring the line, hopefully, of 'Is he creating this himself or is someone else imposing it on him?’ This production is certainly not about bureaucracy; it’s not about politics; it’s more of a parable. It’s about someone’s own questioning of themselves our production is a story of a man rather than a story of a law system.” What: The Trial, adapted by Louise Fox; Dir. Matthew Lutton Where: STC Wharf 1, Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay When: September 14 – October 16 More: sydneytheatre.com.au

A Czar Is Born [THEATRE] Madcap, genre-mashing comedy at the Fringe. By Hugh Robertson

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aurence Rosier-Staines is a busy, busy man. He is a member of super FLORENCE jam, a Sydney band who have been playing shows up and down the east coast for most of this year and are poised to release their second EP; he’s also still at university, and this is the time of year when essays are due, and exams begin to loom. And his debut production as writer and director, A Czar Is Born, is about to begin a run of shows at the Seymour Centre as a part of the inaugural Sydney Fringe Festival. The show itself - an anarchic musical comedy about reclusive authors and warring publishers, complete with femmes fatale, stuffy ambassadors and litigation - began in a twoweek run within the Sydney University Drama Society (SUDS), almost a year ago. “It’s basically an homage to Marx Brothers films, and commedia dell’arte,” Laurence explains. “But it’s also a combination of a bunch of things that I like – cartoons, different genres that we cram together and then send them up. Film noir, courtroom procedurals, and a variety of ridiculous comedy.” He laughs when I ask tentatively if there are hidden subtexts buried in the riotous meta-

farce. “No! No broader socio-political comment. It just sends up whatever it comes across.” Directing his first show, and a show that he wrote, turned out to be much easier than first expected, largely due to the strength of his cast. “[They would take] what I’d written and say, ‘So it’s like this then?’ And I’d be sitting there, never having thought of it like that, and realising they made it even better. And this time it’s sort of the same as that – a few of our actors are really talented improvisers, but it’s not really re-writing dialogue so much as coming up with a new dynamic for a scene that I hadn’t thought of. So it’s quite organic in that respect.” For Rosier-Staines, integrating into the vast program of the innaugural Sydney Fringe Festival has not been without its challenges. With his background in student theatre and indie bands, he knows just how many balls everyone is keeping in the air behind the scenes. “It’s been somewhat stressful, mostly as a result of little things - lots of new deadlines, which puts you a bit out of your comfort zone… Also, having said all that, the first [year of a new] festival is always going to be the hardest to get noticed, and to get the organisational aspects happening, and to get the whole feeling and the vibe of the festival to where they want it to be.” Early on, the Fringe production of Czar had already made itself a famous friend. Through a lucky confluence of events, Rosier-Staines found himself with the chance to speak to Leo Schofield, patron saint of Australian performing arts, who apparently liked what he heard. “He said ‘sounds promising’,” Laurence laughs sheepishly. “So if I wanted a quote [for our poster] I could say ‘Sounds promising – Leo Schofield’.” Despite the success enjoyed in the past by SUDS- and USyd-backed shows (notables include The Delusionists, Princess Cabaret and Strangelove: The Musical) at major events like Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, Rosier-Staines says he has no specific plans for the show beyond this Fringe in particular. “I guess it’s open to seeing what people think of it, and what the possibilities are in the future. Maybe another Fringe Festival in some other city… I’m thinking about any number of things.” What: A Czar Is Born Where: Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre When: September 11, 15, 16, 18, & 23 More: sydneyfringe.com.au

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Surprise! [COMEDY] Don’t hate him because he’s Josh Thomas. By Stephanie Yip

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omedian Josh Thomas doesn’t ask his audience for much. He’s not hoping to impart a profound message to them or to change their lives with his sweet stand-up skillz. He’s not even asking them to like him (as was the case with his first solo show, Please Like Me). All he wants is for his audience to have a nice hour, and not harbour any particular animosity towards him when it’s over. “I just want to finish my show with the audience not hating me,” he affirms. It might sound simple, but not everyone is on board with Josh’s mission. Despite his approachable comic style and air of baby-faced innocence, the 23-year-old still garners his share of upfront dislike from the public (“It’s weird, lesbians used to send me hate mail…”). Thomas’ response to this negativity is (perhaps surprisingly) quite mature. “It’s fine,” he demurs, “people are allowed to hate me. If you go on television in front of one and a half million people every week then someone’s gonna hate you.” He is of course referring to his role as the Gen Y ‘team leader’ on Channel Ten’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation. “I had an interview this afternoon where this journalist was convinced that I hate Charlie Pickering,” says Thomas, sounding genuinely concerned. “Everyone just wants to think we all hate each other. We’re friends and we get along and are quite nice. The problem is people don’t realise that it’s a joke, you know? We’re playing around.” Thomas is also quick to dispel any notion that he takes the relentless heckling about his age and youthful appearance personally. “That’s what I do,” he says. “It’s my schtick, I suppose.”

His latest show, Surprise, is essentially about his recent and “first serious relationship” – the double surprise being that it was with a man, and that only Josh himself was actually surprised. Unlike his work on TBYG, Surprise is as honest as it comes. Not that Thomas planned it that way, exactly. “I was going to gloss over some things that were more private,” he admits. Lucky for Thomas and for audiences, his boyfriend at the time – fellow comic and triple j breakfast host Tom Ballard – wouldn’t have a bar of it. “Tom was happy for me to talk about whatever, as long as I kept it accurate,” Thomas notes. And it’s a good thing Thomas is talking, because no one else seems to be interested in doing it for him. “I don’t think anyone cares anymore, you know?” he says. Cares about what, exactly? “No one really cares about [me] being gay.” It’s a valid point – for a young, high profile comedian, with a gig on national television, to have come out of the closet with a minimum of fanfare and fuss is progress indeed. So while the lesbians have stopped sending him hate mail, nothing much has changed for Thomas since discovering his sexual identity. “People still tease me on panel shows,” he laughs. But you know what? That’s okay. As long as they don’t hate him. What: Josh Thomas: Surprise Where: Sydney Opera House, Playhouse When: September 13-19 / September 27-October 2 More: sydneyoperahouse.com

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Written in much the same vein (although never finished), Kafka’s The Trial tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority - the nature of the crime is never revealed either to him or the reader. “This is one of the greatest stories of the twentieth century,” says young Perth-born director Matthew Lutton, who is directing the upcoming co-production between Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, and his own production company ThinIce. Like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa, who awakes as an insect, The Trial’s Josef wakes up with two police officers in his room, and finds himself under arrest for a mysterious crime, which he can’t seem to identify. “It is one man versus an incomprehensible system, Lutton explains, “so that works very well on stage because you can play one actor up against an entire ensemble of actors; one actor plays Josef K, and every other actor works

Lutton’s production comes direct from its world premiere at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre. Malthouse productions have developed a reputation for inventive and unexpected touches - from the outstandingly camp soundtrack of Optimism or innovative shadow plays in One Night the Moon. For The Trial, one of the most dazzling features is the set.

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

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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED Opens September 9

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The Disappearance of Alice Creed is tense and enthralling viewing. Set almost entirely in a flat with three rooms, writer/director J Blakeson plays a clever psychological game with his audience, utilising a basic crime premise. Rich girl Alice is kidnapped and held for a two million pound ransom by two ex-cons, who have meticulously planned the crime. But as with all of the best laid plans, in practice everything starts to slowly unravel, as the characters’ motivations become increasingly convoluted and entangled. The fact that as a viewer you are unable to leave the flat, much like Alice, lends suspense to the film as you ponder what is happening outside. This heightened level of claustrophobia is intensified by the menace exuded by Vic and the jittery energy of Danny. Each actor gives as good as they get in this brutal, shocking and at times darkly funny film. Beth Wilson ■ Theatre

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ANDREW KIDMAN: ETHER Saturday September 18 from 6pm LO-FI Collective / 383 Bourke St, Darlinghurst (3rd floor Kinselas) Next up at LO-FI Collective is a selection of work by Sydney photographer/filmmaker/ painter/musician Andrew Kidman. Growing up on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Kidman revolutionised surf films in the 90s with Litmus and Glass Love, which rejected the quick-cut punked-up style of the time, to instead create beautiful, cinematic documents of surf culture. Having released the stunning large-format tome Ether last year – a retrospective of his 20-year career – Kidman will present a selection of his photographs, screen-prints, film projections and paintings at LO-FI Collective – for just one night. So get along. wearelofi.com.au 36 :: BRAG :: 379 :: 12:09:10

Quack is rude, lewd and full of goo, a spectacularly-crafted mess that oozes theatrical brilliance. Billed as a mash-up between Shaun of the Dead, Deadwood and A Country Practice, this new work by award-winning Australian playwright Ian Wilding (October) is set in a small outback mining town, in the late 1800s. It’s the story of Fanny, her guardian Nancy and two local doctors - Waterman, who is young, Rudd-like and idealistic, and older Littlewood, who likes to transplant kangaroo testicles into his fellow citizens. As the townsfolk start to fall mysteriously ill, with symptoms such as a craving for flesh, a shuffling walk and persistent moaning, the four performers have to navigate a story that simultaneously reflects modern political sensationalism, class doctrine and the human condition. It sounds nuts, but they carry it off it superbly. Under the direction of theatre-whiz Chris Mead (The Modern International Dead) the whole production just works. The overall visual aesthetic is rich, juicy and delightfully risky, and the soundtrack by designer and composer David Heinrich

Quack is a colourful romp in the bowels of existence, a poke around in the brain of panic and an evisceration of the spleen of courage. It is funny, squishy and delicious. With zombies. Holly Orkin ■ Dance

IN GLASS September 7-12 / Sydney Opera House The inspiration behind choreographer Narelle Benjamin’s In Glass was the stunning partnership of her two dancers, Paul White and Kristina Chan: “It’s as if they are one person: the male/female version of each other. They are so intuitive and connected.” The resulting work draws on potent and enchanting themes of the self and ‘other’, exploring opposites and how we can blend them; how we can become both male and female, conscious and unconscious, light and dark. In fact, Benjamin’s work has all the right ingredients for an engaging piece of dance: White and Chan are exquisite contemporary dancers who perform their movements in perfect sync, turning into mirror images of each other; Huey Benjamin’s haunting, dark score; and Benjamin’s precise, focused and beautiful choreography. But there was something missing. The themes of narcissism, reflection and the transcendence of opposites were explored thoroughly but without variety, eventually becoming slightly monotonous. Similarly, the use of mirrors was at first engaging, splitting the dancers’ images and re-arranging them like a kaleidoscope, but overuse of this mechanism ultimately dulled its effect. Samuel James’ projections were hitand-miss; intended to evoke a brightly coloured dream world, they actually distracted from the dancers - who could have carried this idea of unconscious/ conscious worlds on their own. In fact, the strength and grace of the dancers was worth the ticket price alone. A standout moment was the flickering flashlight dance, as Chan spun and twirled with a torch in one hand, illuminating both White and the audience in a strange blaze. Another highlight was when Chan and White locked their wonderfully prehensile swan’s necks together, connected in a kiss. Overall, In Glass is a very solid piece of contemporary dance where less would have been more. Lucy Fokkema Charlie Garber in Quack

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It is quite frankly nice to see Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia) not in a mythical-themed film. This stunning British actress has for the past few parts played little more than a prop for her leading men, with her obvious talent going to waste. In this British thriller Arterton, as the title character, is one of only three actors on screen, with castmates Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky) as Vic and Martin Compston (Red Road) as Danny, as her two kidnappers. This film shows not only how good Arterton truly is, but also how much can be done with a small budget, committed actors and an excellent script.

supports and enhances the mood, without ever overwhelming the performances. The performers strike a balance between the personal and the political, and seem comfortable and in control enough to make us feel as uncomfortable - and somewhat sticky - as possible. Charlie Garber is effortlessly charismatic in the skin of Waterman, and Jeanette Cronin’s portrayal of both Nancy, the neurotic custodian of Fanny, and Gunner, a newspaper owner (and almost certainly one of the first Australian “bogans” on record) is near flawless.

DVD Reviews What's been on our TV screens this week The Good, the Bad and the Horribly Ugly.

SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE Paramount Home Entertainment Released September 9

This is a slight, occasionally charming broad comedy that would feel more at home on the mouldy video store shelf than at the multiplex. There, it feels like a cheap copy of Judd Apatow’s films (Knocked Up, The 40-Year Old Virgin); another valiant attempt to give hope to losers everywhere. Stuck in dead end jobs, the 20-something male leads pass the time making crass jokes and rating people on a one to ten scale of sexual desirability. Kirk (Jay Baruchel), is a self-professed six, and works as a security guard at an airport. He and his three buddies, who are like the understudies of Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd, agree he has no chance with the gorgeous 'Hard Ten', Molly (Alice Eve). In a refreshing twist, it’s she, blonde locks blowing in the breeze, who makes the first move. Family embarrassments, selfinflicted angst and sexual hijinks ensue. League’s concept is tired, but the jokes, when they’re not an American Pie level of crass, sometimes amuse, and nice-guy Kirk’s trepidation about his budding romance will be familiar to many. But his paltry self-esteem is more frustrating than endearing, especially since the traditional boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl structure hinges entirely on this character flaw. Like Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover, it’s Nate Torrence’s chubby and lovable sidekick who is the funniest creation. Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad) also steals her scenes as Molly’s snappy best friend. They enliven but don’t ignite this routine rom-com which, despite its disposable charm, fails to achieve Apatow's sweet-and-sour magic. Extras include a commentary by director Jim Field Smith, deleted scenes and a blooper reel. Joshua Blackman

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE

Sony Pictures Home Ent. Released August 24 This movie is dumb. The bad guys are bad because they sell drugs or are from the Middle East. The good guys, if they are good, amount a body count to rival Roland Emmerich’s in 2012. If only Pierre Morel’s film was as entertaining or as sophisticated as that disaster epic. At least, one might say, it has John Travolta. Here he’s in screen chewing mode, swearing, flattening gangs with his fists and hookers with his...well, never mind. Essentially playing the same character as his baddie in The Taking of Pelham 123, Travolta is Charlie Wax, an American secret service agent roaming Paris with his new straight-laced partner, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Myers). What they are doing, who they are killing and why is as murky as the ugly, glum photography. Plot is instead replaced by incomprehensible action. I can appreciate a brainless action thriller as much as the next person, but the sequences in From Paris with Love have no sense of space or tension. We see Travolta fire his gun. Cut. A baddie falls. Cut. Repeat. There’s not even a Die Hard level of coherence let alone balletic Yuen Wo Ping choreography. The pretty Kasia Smutniak plays Reece’s Parisian wife who, thanks to the law of economy of characters and a lack of imagination by the screenwriters (Adi Hasak and the sometimes talented Luc Besson), quickly becomes more important that she appears. It all leads to attempted suicide bombings and Travolta hanging out of a speeding car with a rocket launcher - and even that is, somehow, boring. The only conceivable reason to watch this film is for Travolta’s lip-smacking murderous rogue. If you’ve seen Pelham 123, there is precisely none. Joshua Blackman

Street Level With comedian Sean Meo (UK)

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fter their premiere season at The Laugh Garage, Punchline Comedy Club are back with a UK double-bill: Sean Meo and Curtis Walker, both old hands on the international comedy circuit, but relatively fresh to Australia. Sean segued from snooker championships to stand-up in 1989, and never looked back; these days he’s one of the most in-demand writers and performers in the U.K. What is your background in comedy/ performance? I was playing snooker full time for six years until 1988, and having reached the dizzying heights of 124th in the world I found that I had peaked and needed to find something else to do in between robbing banks. I’m now going on 22 years in the biz. Biggest break for me was joining The Cutting Edge - a topical show at the comedy store in London in 1993; made me a better comic and continues to do so. What do you think about the Australian versus British sense of humour? The world can be an awkward place and you guys appreciate people who tell it like it is - so my humour works well, as I am just honest and upfront about life really. I honestly think Aussies are pretty straightforward people - like some of us in the UK - and this should serve me well on stage, I hope! Can you tell us about your Punchline shows? Most of my material has not been aired in Australia at all. The general theme is there is a way things are supposed to be and the way things are. Lets face it, life’s a lot easier to handle when you realise it's not fair. What’s your strategy for dealing with hecklers? Turn your back on them and draw fire! After they have finished, a quick hand signal will then let them know the sniper has a clear shot. Any opinion/experience on the stand-up scene in Sydney? I understand t’s a much smaller scene in Australia as a whole and some of the best of your comics are in the U.K. and doing well!

It's a shame that so many Aussie comics have to leave their own country to make ends meet doing what they love. I hope our shows get stand-up more on the map. I played Sydney once before a few years ago, with the one-and-only Trevor Cook [The Castle] and the shows went really well, so i am hoping for the same this time! What else are you up to for the rest of 2010? Going to India for a tour and in Cyprus for the UK troops and some telly stuff, but it's all top secret!! I will of course be working almost every night gigging, which is what I love best. What: Sean Meo + Curtis Walker (U.K.) Where: September 22 and 23 @ 8.30pm When: The Laugh Garage Comedy Club More: www.thelaughgarage.com www.punchlinecomedy.com/sydney BRAG :: 379 :: 12:09:10 :: 37

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK GONJASUFI/VARIOUS ARTISTS The Caliph’s Tea Party Warp/Inertia

This remix album augments its original almost faultlessly, displaying a subtle genius that unfolds more and more with each listen.

CHILDREN COLLIDE Theory Of Everything Universal Children Collide’s EP Glass Mountain Liars was dragged from mate’s house to mate’s house back in 2006. I was willing to risk the ire of the elderly of Stanmore, such was my need for others to witness the thick, pounding rhythms cagefighting those psychotic melodies. Like their Melbourne (via Canberra) buddies Young and Restless, these three dudes offered sonic aggression that was snarling in its delivery and piercing in its effect. Debut album The Long Now reignedin the competitive jostling of the bass and drums, in favour of a steadier mix that allowed frontman Johnny Mackay to belt out big refrains and develop a pop sound appropriate to the festival circuit. Gratifyingly, the buzz-saw guitar sound is still there on Theory Of Everything’s opener ‘Future Monks’ and current single ‘Jellylegs’ – as are the silly lyrics of previous outings (‘We Are Amphibious’, anyone?). However, ‘Asleep On My Feet’ sounds like latterday Grinspoon picking fights with British India at Bar Broadway; its dirgelike opening and shouted vocals have lost the listener by the pointless bridge. The middle of the album sees the welcome return of Heath Crawley’s bass, but this is rarely allowed to feature, in favour of more digestible pop. The production is slick, revealing how the band’s sound has become thicker, but not more dense. By the time Mackay proffers the disinterested rhymes of ‘Seven Forks’, bookended by fairy fuzz distortion, the competency of this album is clear. While it lacks the purposeful punch of previous releases, this is a solid album that’ll successfully cruise the festivals and radios of summer. Benjamin Cooper

Harken ye all to the call of Gonjasufi, for he has nobly returned in the form of the remix album – and sweet Lord, is it triumphant. Featuring the likes of local electronica master Mark Pritchard, twisted New Yorkers Broadcast, avant-indie popsters Bear In Heaven and the folktronic Bibio, this remix album offers a rich a palette of sounds, each weirder than the last. (Just a note, though: if you haven’t heard the original - the Gaslamp Killer-produced masterpiece A Sufi & A Killer, Gonjasufi ’s debut record - put this rag down and go buy it first.) Opening with Pritchard’s epic and brooding rendition of ‘Ancestors’ (originally produced by Flying Lotus),

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Not that Pierce & co. are by any means slouches in the performance department; when it works, it’s pretty good. ‘In Between Times’ providing a wall-of-sound guitar layer-cake that moves through a mandolin-powered flamenco interlude, before fading out with some electronically tousled loops lifted straight from Sigur Ros’ ‘Ágætis Byrjun’ – the whole thing tied together by Caroline Lufkin’s waifish vocals. Meanwhile, over on the acoustic end of the spectrum, ‘Couches & Carpets’ toys with a compellingly complex threelegged-race of a beat, before letting rip with a textbook Explosions in the Sky climax. As one would expect from Pierce, things are never dull rhythmically: a track like ‘Old Hat’ seems to be built from half a dozen accumulated cross-rhythms, with stick-your-head-ina-dryer results. By and large though, it’s difficult to escape a sense that the band aren’t quite sure where to go next; WIMTBLH is littered with collaborations (‘Kupanda’), half-finished sketches (‘Even’), ambient filler (‘Pond’) and covers (The Lemonheads’ ‘Mallo Cup’ and a grungy version of Tom Brosseau’s ‘Mary Anne’). There’s some good moments here, but nothing urgent enough to shatter the general malaise. Oliver Downes

Bibio’s take on ‘Candylane’ boasts the most traditional electronica sound on the album, with bouncy beats and airy samples eventually giving way to massive bass and catchy guitar licks, and some mind-bending sound manipulation. On the other hand, tracks like ‘My Only Friend’ and ‘Change’ are more lo-fi, with a sort of Warpmeets-Madlib vibe. ‘SuzieQ’ and the title track (taken on by Broadcast and The Focus Group) even showcase disparate styles next to each other, like mini mixtapes. Make sure you have good speakers, as it’s easy to miss some of the softer samples and melodies. Mikey Carr

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What It Means To Be Left Handed Fat Cat/Inertia New York percussionist Adam Pierce’s flagship project Mice Parade celebrated its tenth birthday a year or two ago. In that time it has grown from a oneman band to a nine-piece collective, and moved away from the post-rock experimentation of its early years into more easily accessible indie-rock territory. Their seventh studio effort falls squarely into the second camp, to its detriment; the songs often seem like carefully assembled glosses on the style of half a dozen other groups.

the spaghetti-Western soundtrack vibe of the original album is taken to its fuzzed-out electronic conclusion. As for the rest of The Caliph’s Tea Party, it twists and turns like a Dan Brown plot; it’s an oddball mixture of danceable electronica, world music influences and hip hop, wrapped in beautifully hazy and stoned production.

Mega Mega Mega Domino First appearing as a London club night in 2008 and quickly expanding to raging warehouse parties, now Mega Mega Mega is here in its third incarnation as a debut album, and none of the party spirit has been lost in translation. It’s genre-hopping club music, providing an authentic cross-section of the London underground scene with all its local attitude and international influences. The Count & Sinden really champion the collaborative spirit, embracing the personal styles of a host of guest vocalists including Trackademicks, Mystery Jets, Katy B and Coolio Iglesias. The eclectic collabs seem perfectly natural, as the album is held together by consistent themes like a strong percussive emphasis that had me shoulder-shrugging and neckpopping almost against my will from start to finish. There are cheeky summer classics to be found in ‘After Dark’ and ‘Hold Me’, a dirty grime anthem in ‘Do You Really Want It’, and a chill-out song, ‘You Make Me Feel So Good’, to finish it all off – like a perfect sunrise and a hug on the way home from a killer night out. This is not a flawless album. There are tracks that fall conspicuously flat: ‘Hardcore Girls’ is a total yawn, and ‘Panther’ sounds like something I made in Garageband. The structure of most songs is achingly basic, there are texturally hollow spots throughout, and some really inauthentic, straightout-of-a-computer-program-sounding synths that keep buzzing in and out like a mosquito when you’re in bed. Patchy execution doesn’t spoil the fun vibe of this album, and it delivers some absolute clubbing gems. Good for dancing, not analysing.

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When The Devil Goes Blind Nero’s Neptune

The Trouble With Angels Rocket Science

There’s something rather lovable about Minnesota bluesman Charlie Parr. His attitude to technology lies towards the ‘Luddite’ end of the spectrum and he’s crafted six albums, so far in relative obscurity. Parr enjoyed a mini-explosion of publicity in this country in the wake of his 2002 song ‘1922’ being used in a TV commercial for mobile phones. This brought him to the attention of Paul Kelly; the resultant tour around Oz acquainted Parr with that other infamous Kelly, Ned. And so it is that our beloved bushranger is invoked alongside an iconic American outlaw on this album's opening track, ‘I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night’.

Filter lost me in the first song, when the inescapable autotune trend reared its ugly head in the verses of ‘The Inevitable Relapse’. This set the tone for an album that all in all doesn’t sound too bad, but which stubbornly plods along roads far too well-travelled.

As with Paul, Parr is firmly on the side of the underdog, the outlaw and the ruined, spinning his yarns of big skies and long memories with wry economy. Take the hapless farmer on ‘South of Austin, North of Lyle’ for instance, who happily grows corn, ‘sips his whisky and smokes his pipe’, before hanging himself when the bank forecloses. The songs are filled with a keen awareness of the weight of history – Parr tells of the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee in ‘1890’ with almost documentary horror, and a voice hoarse from grief and disgust.

Chugging guitar riffs keep a painfully steady pace, unbroken by the unadventurous vocals in the title track. Lead singer and songwriter Richard Patrick long ago cornered the market in melodic rock, producing rich, atmospheric rock ballads centred on expressive vocal melodies. However, he seems to have lost his knack for finding those subtler intervals that really resonate with the listener – such moments of poignancy are rare on this album, with the welcome exception of ‘Absentee Father’.

With his own songs appropriately complemented here by traditionals ‘Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down)’ and ‘Turpentine Farm’, Parr’s blues feel lived-in, his delivery unaffected, the traditional forms worn lightly by a bloke who’s made them his own.

The lyrics can be brutally honest at times: “Tonight these chemicals are God”, sings Patrick in ‘Drug Boy’, a not-so-subtle reference to his darker days. Patrick delivers his lines in that raspy, cactus-in-your-throat scream which can work so well in classic rock, but someone needs to remind him that less is more. Only halfway through the album and his screech begins to sound a bit desperate – and not in the arty sense.

When The Devil Goes Blind is an album of unpretentious grace and a generous, expansive sincerity – it just makes you wanna give the great shaggy fella a hug. Oliver Downes

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Most of us discovered Filter in the middle of their career, as a reasonably soft-edged, radio-friendly rock band who made it big with ‘Take A Picture’. Their latest album The Trouble With Angels is a departure from this style and a throwback to the grunt of Filter’s first album Short Bus. But while the sound is heavier, it’s no edgier.

The trouble with Filter seems to be that, sadly, they’ve run out of ideas. Jordan Smith

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

Lost Undercover Music

It’s impossible to write about The Lovetones without mentioning the 1960s or the Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM), so let’s get that bit over with. Yes, they are heavily influenced by 60s psychedelia, and yes, their main songwriter Matthew J. Tow is a former bandmate of Anton J Newcombe. But there’s so much more to The Lovetones than that. On Lost, the Sydney four-piece have gently steered themselves in some new directions. ‘This Great

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Romance’ is a wide-eyed love song, gilded with pretty little melodica and xylophone flourishes. The folky ‘Coming Home’ is sweeter still, infused with harpsichord and featuring a mesmerising duet between Tow and guest vocalist Miranda Lee Richards (herself also a veteran of the BJM circus). You could almost be forgiven for thinking that, five albums into their career, The Lovetones have suddenly discovered a fresh innocence. But that would be to ignore the heroic hedonism elsewhere on the record. ‘Come Dance With Me’ is a woozy waltz,

describing a near-hallucinogenic encounter with a mysterious woman. ‘City Meets The Stars’ is mind-bendingly awesome, boasting a Rickenbacker guitar soaked in luscious organ; and final track ‘Earth’s Great Sleep’ is a kaleidoscopic voyage of discovery, swept along by a slow, hypnotic rhythm section. So, if anyone ever tells you that The Lovetones are just 1960s enthusiasts, stuck in thrall to the BJM, give them a copy of Lost. They’ll soon change their mind. Forget their influences. Forget their infamous friends. The Lovetones have just delivered their fourth consecutive album of consistently outstanding music. And that’s all that matters. Andy McLean

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MANNING TURNS TEN (WITH CLOUD CONTROL, JEZABELS, RICHARD IN YOUR MIND, GUINEAFOWL) Manning Bar, Sydney University Friday September 3

Balloons, cake, music, excitable youngsters... it’s the very stuff tenth birthday parties are made of. It was no exception for Sydney Uni’s Manning Bar when it hit double digits, except in place of Peter Combe CDs was a line-up of Sydney’s finest bands and instead of some guy in a Batman suit doing balloon tricks there was Jake Stone, demanding that if the cake knife came out dirty his dick should be sucked. Yes, Bluejuice’s Jake and Stav played MCs for the evening, exchanging bawdy banter before each act, the first of which was Guineafowl. The crushworthy six-piece got proceedings underway in joyous fashion, warming up the audience as they filtered in, with their anthemic clap-along pop. The room hadn’t reached its (sold-out) capacity when Richard In Your Mind took to the stage – a shame, as theirs was the most entertaining performance of the night. Many of their My Volcano songs were beefed up live with a thick coating of jungle percussion, enticing you to no longer just bop your head along to a tune like ‘Birds’, but bound around like a fevered madman. Anyone in need of instruction had only to observe newest member Spod, whacking the bejesus out of his electronic drum kit and leaping about like the kid at the party on too much red cordial. It all culminated in their closer, a stomping meltdown with the ponderous title ‘The Devil Is As Real As A Rainbow’. Soon enough, Manning was packed to the gills and ready for The Jezabels. It’s been a while since I’ve seen them and their confidence and command of the entire room was remarkable. Every song was heightened with drama and Hayley Mary’s astonishing voice floored the crowd, especially on the big numbers like ‘Easy To Love’ and ‘Hurt Me’. The audience rapture only built for headliners Cloud Control. They cranked the party-o-meter up a few notches two songs in - ‘This Is What I Said’, heralded a barrage of giant balls filled with confetti besieging the crowd. If Wayne Coyne were present he’d surely be shaking his fist at those pesky kids for raiding his garage, but with such heart-warming pop filling the air he wouldn’t stay mad for long. Each track was a polished gem; a more cynical side wonders if it was all a little too polished, but how can you fault them with numbers like ‘Meditation Song’, ‘Gold Canary’ and the spine tingling harmonies leading into ‘Death Cloud’? You can’t, is my point. The dancing lasted long into the night thanks to the solid taste in tunes, not to mention button-pressing abilities, of G-Wiz; a fine way to end a great celebration.

Kilian David

DISCO NAP, CAMERAS, THE VILLAINAIRES Excelsior Hotel, September 1

The Excelsior is a strange beast. When the tiny backroom is packed, it takes on a wonderfully sweaty CBGBs sort of atmosphere. (An oldish poster boasts Eddy Current Suppression Ring as somebody’s support act there – if you caught that show, I want to hear everything.) But when it’s empty, it’s kind of like a cross between a cramped RSL and a poorly-lit rumpus room. It makes for an awkward evening when there are only a few of you there. Sadly, this was for the most part that kind of evening. The Villainaires are a mishmash of the usual influences – the singer apes Lou Reed’s nonchalant drone, and the overall sound is cobbled from swampy ostinatos and surfie snares. It’s good fun, if loosely hung together. (Although if you must rhyme ‘seventeen’ with ‘blue jeans’ you’d better have something new to say in between, that’s my motto.) Cameras, under little pressure given it isn’t their album launch, take the stage a little while later and proceed to steal the show.

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They’re a motley but crazy-handsome bunch, from dapper Fraser Harvey’s skinny suit and bed-hair to Eleanor Dunlop’s mini-dress and grown-out fringe, and touring bassist Kid (sleepmakeswaves) in his quiff and plain tee. Dunlop and Harvey split the vocal and songwriting duties; her songs suggest early Muse, with low, damp keys taking a beating and her husky voice ribboning around Harvey’s largely backgrounded riffs. His material is a little more conventional guitar-indie, but he knows how to work with interesting effects and plays off Ben Mason’s superb drumming with panache. They manage to maintain a consistent sound through the dreamier slow numbers and the thick, stomping “rock portion”. Sounding more like yourself than your influences can be a challenge for young bands, and they’ve nailed it. After the monochrome theatrics of Cameras, Disco Nap’s Ross Hope appeared before all of about twenty-five people, sporting giant shiny sneakers and his mint-green guitar, and looking about seventeen. I love his band, and they played well, but I have to concede they seemed a little flat. Easy enough to blame the disappointing turnout and resultant lack of sunny, poppy atmosphere (not helped by the unceasing stream of AFL stats glowing out of a huge flatscreen next to the stage). Towards the end of the set things pick up a bit – most of the audience seem to know all the words to ‘The Soft Sell’, drinkers are peering in from the bar, and it’s hard not to get a little lost in ‘Can’t Concentrate’: the band have their best moment as they turn to each other for the twinkly, thumping final jam and lose their collective shit a wee bit. Get the ‘Nap to a summer festival or five, build up a following, and then I can say I saw them way back when.

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XIU XIU, HIGH PLACES, KYÜ Oxford Art Factory Thursday September 2

Kyü are a force to be reckoned with. That much is clear from the single of their new album, ‘Pixiphony’: apparently not even a nasty cold can keep their savage harmonies from shining out. And that’s what makes the biggest impression tonight. They’ve gotten the synth/tribal-tom/guitar multi-tasking down to a fine art. Now their live shows are all about hitting that point where your splitting eardrums just surrender to the duelling vocal intervals in arrested awe. If the Dirty Projectors’ harmonies can fairly be called ‘lemony’, Kyü’s might be ‘lasery’. Who needs a light show? “Kyü are great. Actually, they’re really great,” says Rob Barber of High Places. “You guys are really lucky to have them here.” The same should be said of High Places, though the audience clearly thinks otherwise, yammering and hawing through a varied set of delightfully understated ‘new tribal’ pop. Vintage aerial travelling scenes are projected behind the band. It’s a simple joke that lends itself well to the wandering hypnagogia of the music. It’s largely samplebased, fleshed out with guitars and drum pads, but everything’s triggered by the duo in real time, and bookended by gloriously spacey ad hoc improv, all shaking beads and eerie synths. Even the chilly perfection of Mary Pearson’s fringe doesn’t detract from the obvious warmth emanating from this duo. High Places indeed. Xiu Xiu are incredibly dense on record. For those in the crowd that haven’t seen them live, there’s a degree of apprehension as to how they’re going to come across on stage. Basically, they don’t fuck about. Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart walk on stage, amid towers of tiny cymbals, modest synth racks and enormous bass amps. Both seem utterly determined in their musicmaking, switching instruments with grave faces, Stewart passionately channeling confessions into the microphone, calculatedly wrangling his bass-heavy SG, and concluding tangles of electronics with brutally piercing, syncopated cymbal patterns. It’s not all high-energy chaos, though. What’s perhaps most exciting about the set is when it winds down, and the songs twist themselves into excruciatingly beautiful knots of discordant agony. It’s pop, but it’s playful, frustrated and petulant. And very loud. Enormous fun. Luke Telford

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The Minor Chord

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

Yung Nooky through The Metro’s website – they have a limited allocation of under-18s tickets so run, don’t walk.

YUNG NOOKY

It may not be a name that you’re familiar with, but it’s one you'll soon start to hear about in the context of Aussie hip hop. Hailing from Nowra on the south coast and a proud member of the Yuin Nation, Yung Nooky gives us a fresh blend of club sounds and socially-conscious lyrics that’s already led him to collabs with Emma Donovan, Chasm, Selway, Ozi Batla, and even Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas.

In support are Seekae and Deep Sea Arcade, plus live visuals from Greedy Hen – the creative force that produced the video for 'There’s Nothing in the Water That We Can’t Fight' and all the Cloudies’ artwork. While you have the calendar out, Hungry Kids of Hungary have also announced their Escapades tour, with a local all-ages show on November 12 at The Factory Theatre. Supports include Big Scary and Ball Park Music. It pays to be prepared.

Yeah, you read that right. Nooky recently took the opportunity to impress Taboo at the Block in Redfern; the Pea then flew our man to LA to record a song with Grammy Award-winning producer Keith Harris. The track is called ‘2 Worlds’ and will be released as a single from Taboo’s solo album, which will drop January 2011.

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You can catch Nooky opening Indent’s tenth birthday celebration at the Factory Theatre on Sunday September 26. He will also be launching his debut EP Resistance - produced by Ozi Batla (who also features on the track ‘Salute’) and developed through Whichway: NSW Indigenous Music And Artist Development, a project of MusicNSW.

Also, a second (friendly) reminder that this Friday September 17 is Twisted Sounds Music Industry Boot camp, on the eve of the festival with the same name. Indent are hanging out with Greg Carey (artist manager extraordinaire), Graeme Nixon (Resist Records) & Eliza Sarlos (MusicNSW), looking at band dynamics with Andy Bull and finding out how to make money from your tunes with PPCA and APRA. It’s free, but RSVP is essential.

Tickets are still available for the Factory gig, through indent.oztix.com.au, and the afternoon hip hop extravaganza will also feature the fresh sounds of True Vibenation and Daily Meds of the newly launched Big Village Records. Throw in Urthboy and his massive live show with Jane and El Gusto, and it sounds like we’ve got ourselves one mega birthday party! Yung Nooky may also be a potential candidate for triple j’s 25 under 25 – the search for Australia’s most prolific and extraordinary young people under 25. Twenty-five of them, in fact. triple j has now opened nominations for this year’s list. Do you know someone who’s working on something great? Get your nominations in through www.triplej.abc.net.au.

CLOUD CONTROL ALLAGES SHOW

It’s no secret now that the UK has fallen in love with our very own Cloud Control. The culmination of this love is their freshly-inked signing to Infectious Records (also the UK home of fellow Aussies The Temper Trap), and it’s a love that will tear us apart, for now. The Blue Mountains sweethearts are moving to Blighty on the back of the Infectious deal, but not before playing a string of shows around the country and a very special all-ages show at the Metro on October 15. But get onto it – they’ve just announced tickets are sold out through Oztix. Your last chance to see the band before they kick it OS (that’s overseas, not old skool) is to get online and get tickets

Just a reminder: this Wednesday September 15, the Take Action tour is hitting The Factory theatre with American metalcore onslaught Attack, Attack! The tour is in support of Reach Out – a service that seeks to improve the mental health and wellbeing of Australian young people.

The following day the Twisted Sounds festival is on for $10 and Queensland’s Finabah are headlining.

ALL AGES GIG PICKS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15

Take Action Tour with Attack, Attack! The Factory Theatre, Marrickville

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17

Twisted Sounds Bootcamp Free workshops Liverpool PCYC

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Twisted Sounds Festival W/ Finabah + more Liverpool PCYC

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Indent Ten-Year Tour: Urthboy, Yung Nooky W/ Daily Meds and True Vibenation The Factory Theatre, Marrickville

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Cloud Control W/ Seekae and Deep Sea Arcade The Metro Theatre, George Street

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MICK HADLEY

Age sure doesn’t seem to be wearying Mick Hadley. The electrifying frontman for sixties punks The Purple Hearts has been distinguishing himself yet again these past few years and now also has an outfit up in Brisbane called The Atomic Boogie Band. They’ve got a self-titled record out.

DOWN DVD

We seem to recall that we mentioned this quite a while back now but in October, Down will unleash a DVD called, kinda cringingly, Diary Of A Mad Band. It’s drawn from a European tour both on stage and off and seems from the track listing that it’s two shows and that means two versions of ‘Stone The Crows’ and ‘Bury Me In Smoke’! Most pleasing.

THE SONGS OF GREG ATKINSON

As a precursor to Feel Presents’ forthcoming archival release, Sleepless, Singles & other Stories from eighties outfit Ups & Downs late this year, a celebration of the songs of U&D main man Greg Atkinson organised by his brother and U&D drummer Darren Atkinson was held on September 9 at the Sandringham Hotel. Entitled “G50: the Songs of Greg Atkinson”, the show featured performances from Big Heavy Stuff, the Worker Bees (Greg & Darren’s new combo) plus a variety of locals including Peter Fenton (Crow), Simon Holmes (Hummingbirds), Melanie Oxley (Sparklers), Peter Walsh (The Apartments), Eliot Fish (BHS), Gynia Favot (Disneyfist), Josh Morris (Atticus), Carolyn Polley (BHS), Allanah Russack (Hummingbirds) and Adam Young (Daisygrinders) who sang a song each from Greg’s extensive repertoire. There was also a very special one off appearance from Ups & Downs. http://www.facebook. com/FeelPresents

THE SWANS

Was it something we said? Two weeks back we mentioned that Sunn O))) were to curate the 2011 Roadburn festival and how cool it would be if they did something like have The Swans on the bill. Well, they have. Michael Gira’s earthmoving mob – Gira and Norman Westberg are the only original members - will headline the event. Their upcoming comeback album, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, features Gira’s three-year-old daughter.

WE ARE THE PLASTIC ONO BAND

There’s a second night of strangeness on a number of levels happening in LA in October when We Are The Plastic Ono Band take to the stage, after the first showing of the concept in New York back in February. This time the all-star cast (led, we guess, by Ms Yoko Ono) includes two Stooges – Iggy and Mike Watt – along with folks like Perry Farrell. Just thought we’d mention it. (By the way, John Lennon would have just turned 71. What a trip.) Nikki Sixx

NIKKI SIXX BOOK

Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx is doing a second book called This Is Gonna Hurt. It’s the follow-up to The Heroin Diaries and will be out in March. We kinda wonder though, just how much more there is for the guy to say. Not that that’ll stop him.

Yay! The glorious Built To Spill, who are riding the biggest critical-rave wave of their career with this year’s There Is No Enemy LP, return not only as special guests of both the Peats Ridge and Pyramid Rock Festivals but for a side show on December 29 at the Metro. On December 30 they’ll be doing Peats, and on December 31 it’s Pyramid Rock. Tickets for the Metro show are on sale on September 24. In the meantime, check out http://pitchfork.com/tv/ to see the brand new video for ‘Hindsight’, a cut from There Is No Enemy. The inspiration for it seemingly comes from BTS’s last Australian tour and their surprise show at Petersham Bowling Club in Sydney. The Cool Charmers, Carrie Phillis and the Downtown Three along with Eager 13 and the Escapes are at the Excelsior on September 24. The Lime Spiders, Happy Hate Me Nots and Infamous Grouse are at the Sando on November 12, which is a ways off yet. The Doomsday Festival, a showcase of Australia’s finest sludge, doom metal, psychedelic, heavy stoner, post-rock and experimental bands is back again this

year this time with a special international headline act joining the usually locals only lineup. The OS big hitters are San Francisco’s Acid King and on October 2 they join Pod People, Looking Glass, Summonus, Clagg, Sons of the Ionian Sea, Fattura Della Morte, Mother Mars, VAN and Adrift for Days at Newtown RSL. www.myspace.com/ doomsdayfestaustralia Wow! Truly legendary early-eighties UK hard-nut punks and one of Josh Homme’s great early inspirations, GBH, are coming. On October 14 they’ll be at the Gaelic with special guests The Rumjacks. Start brushing up those mohawks and the studs on those old leather jackets. Black Majesty play their first show back after their recent European tour, on September 17 at the Bald Faced Stag in Leichhardt. It’s the launch of their new album, In Your Honour. Darker Half and Hellbringer are doing the support slots. Finally, here’s an early Big Day Out rumbling that we’re mighty excited about and straight from the band themselves; the Jim Jones Revue. Too damn great.

Send stuff for this column to remedy@ozemail.com.au by 6pm Wednesdays. All pics to art@thebrag please. www.myspace.com/remedy4rock

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SOSUEME It’s called: SOSUEME: Tribute To Our Bands It sounds like: The popularity of Beiber, with the voice of Florence, and the moves of Jagger in the body of Iggy Pop, playing Boney M covers. DJs/Live acts playing: DJ sets from The Vines, The Lost Valentinos, Joyride, Flying Foxes, Alison Wonderland, Bridezilla, The Protectors, Chaingang, The Holidays, Paper Moon, Bon Chat Bon Rat, The Up-skirts, Sideways Hitchhiker, Fishing, Aplonea, Step-Panther, Frangipani, Ace Squad… Sell it to us: With our Q Bar farewell going down next week with Cypress Hill, we thought we’d take the opportunity this week to thank all the wonderful bands that have graced the rad-packed shores of SOSUEME. Ergo we are throwing the most epic of tribute flings, with some seriously killer sets from SOSUEME’s favourites. Crowd specs: A collection of some of the coolest bands in Sydney and their collective harems. Wallet damage: Free til 10.30pm /$10 after. Where: Q Bar + 34B Stereo / 44 Oxford St / Darlinghurst

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It’s called: Club Blink Grand Opening It sounds like: Club Blink got its shit together and found a decent venue at long last! DJs/live acts playing: DJs Bzurk (SFX), Nick, Luke, Naked Dave, Karma, Markm, Norman, Chris and Absynth; plus live bands Daysend, Shinto Katana, Thrashed and Damage Inc (Metallica tribute band). Sell it to us: Club Blink is back in a big way! After two hugely successful events at the St James Hotel, it is doing its Official Grand Opening Party (operating over three levels and four rooms), at its new venue. The bit we’ll remember in the AM: This will be one of the biggest alternative events you have ever experienced as Blink becomes a super-club. You’ll be blown away by the venue, the bands, and the Tarantula DJs (Blink, Sfx, Trash and Basement all in one)! Crowd specs: Kids, adults, girls, boys, girl-boys, burlesque, suicide girls – fuck, everyone will be there! Wallet damage: $12 Where: St James Hotel, 114 Castlereagh St, City When: Friday September 17, doors at 9.30pm

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1a Burton St, Darlinghurst THE HOSTS You’re likely to meet; Lachie, Sydney’s friendliest & loudest bartender with cocktail-mixing skills to match; James and Tim – if they weren’t behind the bar, they’d be trannies with altitude, not attitude. If it’s flair you’re after, you’d be lucky to catch Tomek, Bretta or Mars who juggle like clowns on speed; or resident DJ Scotty, another talented mixer. Nick, jack-of-all-trades, turns up when he feels like it and keeps the kids in check. Kat, Jess and Lotte will serve your grub with a pleasant smile; there’s also Liam, our sweet Myth & Tropics muso boy. Pulling this all together is Tiffiny Hemeon, owner of Doctor Pong (who doesn’t mind the odd tipple with her customers). THE PITCH First, there’s the ping-pong table in the centre of the main bar area. Spectators can sink into the comfy chesterfields facing the ping-pong action. Secondly, you can pull up a seat (inside or out) if you’re feeling peckish and enjoy top quality food paired with an excellent wine and cocktail list. Last but not least, Doctor Pong’s round-up of live musicians adds an extra layer of cool to the proceedings, and you can expect an eclectic soundtrack with live local DJs or musicians on most evenings. And on Thursdays we will be introducing the original iPod party from the UK where it’s not about the battle, but about the music you want to hear! Doctor Pong is known for its art exhibition parties featuring

some of Sydney’s coolest urban artists and photographers with art continually changing there’s always something new to celebrate and discuss over a few drinks. WHAT’S IN A NAME? Doctor Pong features a magical ping-pong table in the centre of the bar. It provides the theme and name of the only Sydney bar that offers Beer, Beats, Ping Pong & Eats. LOCATION LOCATION Burton Street, Darlo – nuff said. DESIGN INSPIRATIONS Tiffiny is the main culprit for what you see and how you feel – her eccentricity manifests everywhere you look. But it would be nothing except a pile of mismatched junk if it weren’t for the people who make the vibe - the staff and punters. The ugly, the beautiful, the gay, the straight, the trendsetters, the dorks, the wise and the not so wise - lining the walls, decorating the couches and all mixing

SIGNATURE DRINKS Beers in big red party cups (the international sign to party!), the Pong Lemonade, and generally whatever our resident mixologists create on the spot on the night, and who can forget the Mojitos? Like no other, like a brother from another mother… HINDSIGHT As the first girl bar-owner in the area, and from a background of publishing children’s books with no hospitality experience, owner Tiffiny started up on good vibes, pure gut feel and drive. She had to make a few friends and work out what goes in a gin and tonic. But the biggest challenge was waking up and opening the doors the next morning after the ensuing big nights and empty fridges. Smiling at flashbacks of last night’s party, and that feeling that it will be another good one tonight. It always is at Doctor Pong.

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Alira Shop 120, 26 -32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont Wednesdays: $25 paella & glass of wine Ash St Cellar 1 Ash St, Sydney CBD Balcony Bar 46 Erskine St, Sydney CBD Firefly 17 Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay GoodGod Small Club / Jimmy Sing’s 53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney The Grasshopper Bar & Café Temperance Lane, Sydney CBD Number One Wine Bar 1 Alfred St, Circular Quay, Sydney Small Bar 48 Erskine Street, Sydney CBD Monday – Thursday 12pm – 3pm: Any main meal, with glass of wine or beer for $20 Tone Venue 16 Wentworth Ave, Sydney CBD Verandah Bar 55 – 65 Elizabeth St, Sydney CBD Tuesdays 12pm – 9pm: $9 Schnitzel

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Berkelouw Wine Bar 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt Friday 3pm – 8pm: 2-for-1 sparkling wine Bloodwood 416 King St, Newtown Corridor 153a King Street, Newtown Monday – Friday, 5-7pm: $9 Mojitos Wednesday Mexican Night - $12 for a bowl of soup, crispy turkish bread and a glass of red wine. Different Drummer 185 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Daily, 6 – 7:30pm: Cocktail Happy ‘Hour and a Half’ The Hive Bar 93 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville Monday - Thursday: any pizza with a free glass of wine or E’ville Pilsner, $12 Kuleto’s 157 King Street, Newtown Saturday 6-7pm: Happy Hour (2 for 1 Cocktails) Madame Fling Flong Level 1, 169 King St, Newtown Tuesday: Movie Deal - $20 for mezze plate for one and a glass of wine or beer Soni’s 169 King St, Newtown

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Absinth Salon 87 Albion St, Surry Hills Boteco 421 Cleveland St, Surry Hills Café Lounge 277 Goulburn Street, Darlinghurst Tuesdays, 6:30pm: Sin-e with live music, $5.50 champagne cocktails, free entry Ching-A-Lings 133 Oxford St, Surry Hills The Commons 32 Burton St, Darlinghurst Jazz Thursdays, from 8pm Doctor Pong 1a Burton Street, Darlinghurst Sundays: Doctor Pong’s Grand Royal Roast, $19 with DJs, mulled wine and fire place Eau de Vie 229 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst Thursdays, 8pm: jazz, free entry El Rocco @ Bar Me 154 Brougham St, King’s Cross The Falconer 31 Oxford St, Surry Hills Fringe Bar 106 Oxford St, Paddington Tuesdays, 7:15pm: Trivia Thursdays 6-9pm: all you can eat pizza Thursdays 9-11pm: $8 cocktails Sundays, from 4pm: Lounge Olympics - exhibit your athletic prowess with favourites such as table tennis, foosball, giant Jenga, UNO & Connect Four. The Gazebo 2 Elizabeth Bay Rd, Potts Point Iguana Bar

Lo-Fi

13-15 Kellett St, King’s Cross The Local Taphouse 122 Flinders St, Darlinghurst Lo-Fi L2, 383 Bourke St Darlinghurst Low 302 302 Crown St, Surry Hills Name This Bar 197 Oxford St, Paddington Happy Hour every day 4pm – 7pm: $4 tap beers, $5 dumpling boxes, $6 mojitos The Passage 231a Victoria St, Darlinghurst Piano Room Cnr Darlinghurst & King’s Cross Rd, King’s Cross Pocket Bar 13 Burton St, Darlinghurst Mondays: ‘Pocket Change’ - $10 Crepes Shady Pines 256 Crown St, Darlinghurst Solas Bar 557 Crown St, Surry Hills Stanley Street Station 85a Stanley St, Darlinghurst Sunday – Thursday 5pm-7pm: Earlybird dinner, two courses for $26 (excluding pork belly & New Yorker) Supper Club @ Will & Toby’s 134 Oxford St, Taylor Square, Darlinghurst Tea Parlour 569 Elizabeth St, Redfern Toko 490 Crown St, Surry Hills Velluto 7 / 50 Macleay Street, Potts Point Saturday & Sunday, 2-5pm: High Tea The Winery 285a Crown St, Surry Hills Yulli’s 417 Crown St, Surry Hills

EAST

Bondi Social 262 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction Cream Tangerine Swiss Grand, Campbell Parade, Bondi Mocean 34A Campbell Pde, Bondi Beach Ravesi’s Corner of Campbell Pde & Hall St, Bondi Beach Thursday - Friday : 6pm - late Saturday: 3pm - late Sunday: 2pm - late Until August 31st: Winter Magic Specials, 2-course menu - $26 The Rum Diaries 288 Bondi Road, Bondi Mondays: Live acoustic sets, $5 house wine, $5 Coopers, $5 wedges Speakeasy Bar 83 Curlewis Street, Bondi Beach Until October 20: ‘The Speaker’s Table’ is a desk harbouring the works of writers. Anyone can leave their short written work in the desk for others to discover. White Revolver Cnr Curlewis & Campbell Pde, Bondi Beach

NORTH

Firefly Lodge Lane Cove 24 Burns Bay Rd, Lane Cove Firefly Neutral 24 Young St, Neutral Bay Miss Marley’s Tequila Bar 32 Belgrave St, Manly Small Bar 85 Willoughby Rd, North Sydney The Winery 8-13 South Steyne, Manly

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Alice Terry & the Skinny White Boys, Frank Sultana, Mindy & the Serpents The Basement, Circular Quay $15 8.30pm Andy Mammers Coogee Bay Hotel free 9pm Bernie Segedin The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Kym Campbell Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Songwriter Sessions @ Excelsior Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 7.30pm Unherd Open Mic: Derkajam, Video8, Hard as Nails, Propaganda Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm

JAZZ Bridezilla

Bruce Reid’s ‘The Field’ 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm Jim Gannon Dee Why RSL, Scores Bar free 6.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Songsalive!: Roxanne Kiely, Stephen Kiely, Pave Leclair, Russell Neal, Helmut Uhlmann and guests Kelly’s On King, Newtown free 7pm Songsalive!: Under the Purple Tree, Tahnee Devine, Lisalive, Lucia Neville and guests Springwood Sports Club free 7pm

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 ROCK & POP

Changing Lanes Festival: Tame Impala, Bridezilla, Spit Syndicate, Cabins, Bag Raiders, Jinja Safari, Purple Sneakers DJs, Red Riders DJs, Mark Murphy, Ernest Ellis, Itch-E & Scratch-E, Thundamentals, Richard In Your Mind Solo, Hoops, Daily Meds, Step Panther, True Vibe Nation, Captain Franco, Count Doyle, Jingle Jangle, Alex Pye, Dell, Milly Von III, Mrs Bishop, Sveta, Joyride, Spruce Lee, Levins, Girlthing DJs, Gay Bash DJs Eliza St, Newtown, Sunday September 19, 12pm

Aston Raval, Surry Hills $11.20 8pm Beau Smith Stamford Grand North Ryde, Macquarie Park free 6pm Klondike’s North Forty Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Local Legends Jam Sessions The Valve, Tempe free 8pm Mandi Jarry Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Matt Jones The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Open Mic Night: Tom Lawson Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 7pm Steve Tonge O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm They Call Me Bruce Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm

JAZZ

20th Century Dog, Don Rader Sextet 505 Club, Surry Hills $8–$10 8.30pm Alison Penney Dee Why RSL, Scores Bar free 6.30pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 5pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: Rhythm & Blues Burlesque: Little Egypt, Elana Stone, Brian Campeau, Damien Slingsby The Vanguard, Newtown $20 (+ bf)–$25 (at door) 6.30pm

Andy Mammers Duo Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm Bernie Hayes Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Cancer Bats (Canada) Annandale Hotel $39.60 (+ bf) 8pm Crystal Cove Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle 8.30pm Edward Deer, Ole Sport, Cogel Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 7.45pm Eirwen Skye, Kid of Harith, Aidan Roberts, Dave Coleman Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Emma Hamilton Stamford Grand North Ryde, Macquarie Park free 6pm Evan & the Brave, Ben Fletcher The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Gemma The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Glenn Cunningham Duo Dee Why Hotel free 8pm Goodnight Dynamite O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Happy Hippies Ettamogah Pub, Rouse Hill free 5.30pm Herman’s Hermits (UK) Western Suburbs Leagues Club, New Lambton $33 (member)–$38 7.45pm Jesse Morris & the Three Beans Lizotte’s Restaurant, Kincumber 8pm Nativosoul Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Only the Sea Slugs Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm Open Mic Night Excelsior Hotel, Glebe free 7.30pm Open Mic Fubah on Copa, Copacabana free 7pm Ray Mann, Leroy Lee, The Hazelman Brothers Raval, Surry Hills 8pm Rick Robertson Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Sam Newton, Mario Millo, Nick Latta, The Scarletts The Basement, Circular Quay $15 (+ bf) 9.30pm Sideshow: Cabins, Alter Ego Mania, Step Panther Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm The Initiation, The Bastilles, The Transients Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West free 8pm The JD Birthday Set - Songs From Exile on Main Street: You Am I, Washington, Nic Cester, Jae Laffer, Tex Perkins, Adalita, Venetta Fields Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $38.40 (+bf) 8pm The Study: Huntings, Steel River Singers, The Bird Cage Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills free 7pm

The Sub City Take Action Tour: Attack Attack! (USA), Pierce The Veil, Dream On Dreamer, Sienna Skies The Factory Theatre, Enmore $47.90 (+ bf) 7pm YourSpace Muso Showcase Town Hall Hotel, Newtown free 7pm

JAZZ

Emma Dean, The Imaginary Friends The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo $13–$17 9.30pm John Hill Dee Why RSL, Scores Bar free 6.30pm John Redmond Trio The Manhattan Lounge, Sydney free 6.45pm Magnetic Heads, The Falls Hotel Hollywood, Surry Hills free 8pm Phil Slater Quartet 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Ali Mills Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $20 7pm Songsalive!: Eve Goonan, Gavin Fitzgerald, Daniel Coates, Pave Leclair, TAOS Coach & Horses Hotel, Randwick free 7pm Songsalive!: Pat O’Grady, Elliott Winter, Andrew Denniston Harbourview Hotel, the Rocks free 7pm

COUNTRY

Hayward Williams (USA), The Lurkers The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf)–$16 (at door) 6.30pm

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 ROCK & POP

Ali Mills The Factory Theatre, Enmore $20 (+ bf) 8pm Bernie Segedin Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm Blackchords, If WeFirst Had Aid A Boat, Kit The Black Paintings Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $12 (at door) 8pm Children Collide, Howl, Teen Archer Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor $15 (+ bf) 8pm Danimals, megastick fanfare, Mission Control, Bon Chat Bon Rat, Kirin J. Callinan Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $12 (+ bf) 8pm Declan Kelly & The Rising Sun Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8.30pm Den Hanrahan & The Roadsiders Wickham Park Hotel, Islington free 8pm G3 Marble Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Jonah & the Wailers, The Elementals The Basement, Circular Quay $25 (+ bf) 8.30pm Tuesday Night Live: The My Ty’s, Sam Smith, Dyan Tai Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm

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Holy Soul, Metropolitan Quartet, Disco Club Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 11pm Vacations, Tin Sparrow Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin Celebration: Dave Gleeson, Steve Balbi, Simon Meli, Zyke, John Swan, Ngaiire Enmore Theatre $79.90 (A Res) 8pm Wollongong Wail! Band Comp City Diggers, Wollongong free 8pm Zoltan Ingleburn RSL Club free 6.30pm

JAZZ

Colbourne Ave: Amphibious Cafe Church, Glebe $10–$20 7pm Emma Dean, The Imaginary Friends The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo $13–$17 9.30pm Genevieve Chadwick & Rein Room The Basement, Circular Quay $25 GA , $63.80 Dinner and Show free Jazz Factory The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Lionel Robinson Dee Why RSL, Scores Bar free 7pm MdeCL 505 Club, Surry Hills $15–$20 8.30pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm Sydney Sound Big Band Rockdale RSL Club free 7.30pm Yuki Kumagai, John Mackie Lane Cove Club free 7.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Angel Town Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm

Bacon & Cabbage, TeeJay Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 9pm Harry Manx (Canada) Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $48 (show only)–$102.50 (dinner & show) 7pm Songsalive!: Andrew Denniston and guests Pittwater RSL, Mona Vale free 7.30pm Songsalive!: Dennis Aubrey’s Songwriters Night @Newtown RSL free 7pm Songsalive!: Thomas Cafe, Carolyn Crysdale and guests Penshurst RSL free 12am Songsalive!: Under the Purple Tree and guests Henry Lawson Club, Werrington County free 7.30pm

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17 ROCK & POP

2 Of Hearts Kurnell Recreation Club free 8pm After Party Band Campbelltown Catholic Club free 9.30pm Awaken I Am, Hands Like Houses Melt Bar, Kings Cross $10 8pm Black Majesty, The Darker Half, Hellbringer Live at the Wall, Leichhardt $15 8pm Brown Sugar Marble Bar, Sydney free 9.30pm Children Collide, Howl, Teen Archer Metro Theatre, Sydney $25 (+ bf) 8pm Club Blink: Daysend, Shinto Katana, Thrashed, Damage Inc Agincourt Hotel. Ultimo $12

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Lulo Reinhardt Riverside Theatres, Parramatta $44 7.30pm Manpower Campbelltown RSL $29 7.30pm MM9, The Dead Love, Chemical Transport Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $17.90 (presale) 8pm MUM: Live: Alter Ego Mania, Dan Parsons, The Deer Republic , Arc Archer & The Carnival of Souls, Baby X, Giraffe Season, RapRager, DJs:, Wallkie Talkie, Hayley (Chain Gang), Cries Wolf DJs, A, Bomb & Hollatron, Generic DJs, 16 Tacos, 10th Avenue, Jack Shit, Nude DJs, My Melody, Gatsby, Sammy K The World Bar, Kings Cross 8pm $10 (guestlist)–$15 Nobby Grooves, DJ Karey Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta $10 9pm Oh Sleeper (USA), Nazarite Vow, Sienna Skies Campbelltown PCYC, Minto 6.30pm Pat Capocci Band Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle 8.30pm Purple Sneakers: Howl DJs, M.I.T, Kill The Landlord, Ben Lucid, Seabass, Architect DJs, Yogo Gorilla Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale 7pm free–$12 Red Remedy, City Lights Fade, Limousine, Crash Through Annandale Hotel $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm Renny M Roxbury Room, The Roxbury Hotel, Glebe $10 7.30pm RoadHouse Rockers Belmont 16 Foot Sailing Club free 8.30pm Rolling Stoned Heathcote Hotel free 8.30pm Slug Guts Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Songs, Rand & Holland, Southern Comfort

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Crow, Princess 1.5, Jason Walker Notes Live, Enmore 8pm Doug Williams, Paul Joseph Trio Park Hyatt Hotel Sydney, The Rocks free 7pm Forever Diamond: Peter Byrne Penrith RSL $15 (member)–$20 8pm Funkwit, Joram, Rhys Zacher The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Fuzzbox: Dead China Doll, Alps, Zeal (Melb), Throwshapes DJs The Loft, UTS free 8.30pm Heart Attack & Vine, Alex Bowen & the Lucky Dutchmen Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland free 8.30pm Ian Moss Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba 7pm Idol Karaoke Carousel Inn Hotel, Rooty Hill free 8pm Ivy League Spring Break: Cloud Control, Cabins, Catcall, Alpine, Wons Phreely Goodgod Small Club, Sydney $20 (at door) 8pm Jed Zarb Town Hall, Balmain free 9pm Jon English Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra $37–$47 8pm Katchafire (New Zealand), V Tribe Selina’s, Coogee Bay Hotel $35 (+ bf) 8pm Lawrence Baker Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm Leadfinger The Cabbage Tree Hotel, Fairy Meadow free 8.30pm Liquid Sky: Steve Paoli, Sunset Riot, Devine Electric Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross $10 8pm Lolo Lovina Eastside Arts, Paddington $28 8.15pm Lowrider, Empire Rising, Fisher King Caringbah Bizzo’s 8pm

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Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $15 / $12 presale through Oztix 8.30pm Sounds Like Two Celebrity Room, Blacktown RSL Club free 8pm Superheavyweights Brass Monkey, Cronulla $14.30 7pm The Bodacious Cowboys Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $34 (show only)–$76 (dinner & show) 7pm The Bohemian Masquerade Ball: The Barons of Tang, Kira Puru & The Bruise, Ghostboy with Golden Virtues, Mojo Juju, The Caravan of Doom Hotel Gearin, Katoomba $26 (+ bf) 7.30pm The Demon Parade Ivanhoe of Manly free 8pm The Fitz Band Comp Fitz Cafe, St Ives free 7pm The Kamis St Marys Leagues Club free 9pm The Rabid Terror, Celebrity Morgue, Gutterstomp, Illcontent Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 9pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: Buck 65 (Canada), Pluto Jonze, Valery Gore The Factory Theatre, Enmore $35 (+ bf) 8pm Thousand Needles in Red Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West $12 (+ bf) 8pm Three Stripe Avenue Central Coast Leagues Club, Gosford free 8.30pm Zoltan Taren Point Bowling Club free 7.30pm Zu2 Hawkesbury Hotel, Windsor free 7.45pm

Pianoman Cruise Restaurant, The Rocks free 10pm Sinatra Rocks the Basement: Jeff Duff, Frank Bennett, Grant Galea, Jeff Duff The Basement, Circular Quay $22 (+ bf)–$25 (at door) 8pm The Rescue Ships 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Yuki Kumagai, John Mackie Lane Cove Club free 7.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Chad Croker The Nag’s Head Hotel, Glebe free 8pm Illawarra Folk Club: Francesca Sidoti, Adjusted John, Margaret Bradford City Diggers, Wollongong 7.30pm Songsalive!: Alan Watters, Andrew Denniston Casa di Musica, Enmore free 7.30pm Songsalive!: Braydon Denmeade, freefall, Brett Gedge, Joseph Mungovan, Simon Marrable, Genevieve Davis, Andrew Denniston Ryans Hotel, Thirroul free 8.30pm

HIP-HOP

Dust Tones: The Crate Creeps With Eloquence And Truths, Crate Cartel Records With Raven, Geko, Fluent & Maundz, B Wiv Deece, Bad Ezzy, Dj Ability Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm The Tongue, Dizzi, Tuka Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $12– $15 8pm

JAZZ

Arbori Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Bridge City Jazz Band Club Ashfield free 7.30pm Conception Day: Tame Impala, The Butterfly Effect, Gyroscope, South Rakkas Crew (USA), Passenger (UK), Snob Scrilla, The Aston Shuffle Macquarie University, North Ryde $10 (student)–$65 10am Emma Dean, The Imaginary Friends The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo $13–$17 9.30pm Fuji Collective, The Liberators The Vanguard, Newtown $8 (+ bf) 6.30pm Full Swing Quartet Lane Cove Golf & Country Club, Northwood free 7.30pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm Children Collide

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 ROCK & POP

2days Hits Penrith Panthers free 9.30pm After Party Band Epping Hotel free 10.30pm Allanah Cherote, Wil Maisey, The Stoics, Phobiac Live at the Wall, Leichhardt $8 (presale)–$10 (at door) 8pm British Invasion Pittwater RSL Club, Mona Vale $20 8pm Chartbusters RG McGees Hotel, Richmond free 9.30pm Children Collide, Howl, Teen Archer Uni Bar, Wollongong University, Gwynneville $25 (+ bf) 8pm

Cover Cats Padstow RSL Club free 6.30pm Dead Letter Chorus Coogee Diggers 8pm Dean Bourne & Marty Rhone North Sydney Leagues Club, Cammeray $25 7.30pm Envy Parade, Me Vs You, Awaken I Am, Worst Case Scenario, We Are Liars Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $12 (+ bf) 8pm Flattrackers, Grizzly Adams Ashfield RSL Club free 8.30pm Funkstar Marble Bar, Sydney free 10.30pm Geoff Davies Heathcote Hotel free 8pm Hit Machine Penrith RSL free 9pm Ian Moss Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL 8pm Insurge, Dead Inside the Chrysalis, Crane No.6 Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $12–$15 8pm Katchafire (New Zealand), Benjalu, Matt Saxon, Suri K Newcastle Panthers, Newcastle West $35 8.30pm Keith Armitage Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm Kyle Taylor, Laura Knight Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Lowrider, Stickyfingers, Flight Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach $15 8pm Metallica (USA), Fear Factory (USA), The Sword (USA) Sydney Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park $130 (silver)–$150 (premium) 7pm New Life Duo Kareela Golf & Social Club 7.30pm Niksta The Entrance Sails Stage free 9am Nova & the Experience, Pat Eyre The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Original Sin INXS Show Blacktown RSL Club free 8pm Oz Rock Show St Marys Leagues Club free 9pm Pensive Penguin, Obscura Hail Tea Club, Nowra 8pm Powderfinger, Jet, Big Heavy Stuff Sydney Entertainment Centre, Darling Harbour $110.40 7pm Psychonanny & the Babyshakers, The Jacknives, The Once Overs, Mother & Son Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $12 8pm RoadHouse Rockers, Karen East Cessnock Bowling Club free 8pm Rock’n’Roll Social Dance City Diggers, Wollongong $10 (at door) 7pm Rumours - The Australian Fleetwood Mac Experience Wentworthville Leagues Club,

The Tounge Starlight Room $8–$10 7pm Satyricon (Norway) Gosford Showground $2 10.30am SFX: As Silence Breaks, For All Eternity, 10 Paces St James Hotel, Sydney $12 Steve Edmonds, Tahir, Kevin Borich, Max Smidt, Skewiff Pyrmont Bridge Hotel free 1pm The Big Exo Day: Evermore (NZ), Stan Walker, Mike Pilavachi (UK), Justice Crew, Aimee Elizabeth, Hillsong United Band, Jonnday, Everyday Process (USA), Oh Sleeper (USA), Chasing Bailey, Playjerise, Tribal, Ekklesia, Chasing Light, Seasons, Sienna Skies, The City He Loved, For All Eternity, The Dream The Chase, Revival Ashore, The Destined, City in Crisis, The Former Love Pirates, Dan Sweeto, Full Hearts, Ari, Southdown, Emma Linnegar, Melissa Bester, The Transients Sydney Showground, Homebush Bay $37.50 (1st release)–$45 (at door) 12.30pm The Demon Parade, The Salvagers Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 9pm The Moderns Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle $15 8.30pm The Pink Tribute Show, Robbie Williams Tribute Show Central Coast Leagues Club, Gosford $12–$15 7.30pm The Rebel Rousers Ettalong Bowling Club, Ettalong Beach free 7.30pm The Robbie Williams Show, Get The Party Started - The Pink Show Celebrity Room, Blacktown RSL Club free 10pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: Jeffree Star Metro Theatre, Sydney $49 (+ bf) 8pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: The Clock Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Splinter Orchestra PACT Theatre, (Sydney Street Theatre Space), Erskineville $18 (conc)–$22 5pm The Zips Workers Blacktown $5.50 (member)–$7.70 8pm Thousand Needles in Red, The Truth Is, Feeding Edgar, Geminine Annandale Hotel $15 (+ bf) 8pm Twisted Sounds 2010 - Youth Music Festival: Finabah, To The Sky, Luner, Paradox Park, Engage the Fall, Urban Stone, 2010, Red Bee Liverpool PCYC, Miller $10 3.45pm Velvet Hotel Miranda RSL Club free 9pm Zoltan Club Menai free 8.30pm

JAZZ

Confection Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Didi Mudigdo South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford free 6pm Le KAB Trio Opera Bar, Sydney free 2pm Lulo Reinhardt Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $50

(show only)–$90 (dinner & show) 7pm Pianoman Cruise Restaurant, The Rocks free 10pm The Sun Chasers 505 Club, Surry Hills $15–$20 8.30pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: Bienvenue to the Cabaret!: Sydney French Choir, The French Revue The Vanguard, Newtown $20 (+ bf)–$24 (at door) 6.30pm Timba Oz All Stars The Basement, Circular Quay $23 (+ bf)–$28 (at door) 9.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Alice Terry The Nag’s Head Hotel, Glebe free 8pm Café of the Gate of Salvation Paddington Uniting Church $12 (child)–$22 8pm Harry Manx (Canada) Notes Live, Enmore $47.95 (presale) 7pm Songsalive!: Brian Campeau, Zoë Vaughan, Elliott Winter, Jasmine Crittenden, Daniel Hopkins, Matt Gerber, Zebity Fogatty, Josh Singer, Carolyn Crysdale Grumpy’s Inn, Hurlstone Park free 8pm Songsalive!: Karma Fire, Sammy H, Laurie McKern, Andrew Denniston and guests Narrabeen RSL free 7pm

COUNTRY

Cash Only, Chrissy & The Nifties Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 4pm

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18 ROCK & POP

Andy Mammers Harbord Beach Hotel free 6pm Atlas B Salvesen, Honeytree, Anabelle Kay Sly Fox, Enmore free 5pm Blues Sunday Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 7.30pm Brazil Nut Sundae, SambaFrog The View Factory, Newcastle free 3pm Changing Lanes Festival: Tame Impala, Bridezilla, Spit Syndicate, Cabins, Bag Raiders, Jinja Safari, Purple Sneakers DJs, Red Riders DJs, Mark Murphy, Ernest Ellis, Itch-E & Scratch-E, Thundamentals, Richard In Your Mind Solo, Hoops, Daily Meds, Step Panther, True Vibe Nation, Captain Franco, Count Doyle, Jingle Jangle, Alex Pye, Dell, Milly Von III, Mrs Bishop, Sveta, Joyride, Spruce Lee, Levins, Girlthing DJs, Gay Bash DJs Eliza St, Newtown 12pm Coffins, Pod People, Rookwood, Summonus Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $20 (+ bf) 8pm

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Colleen Crawford Fubah on Copa, Copacabana free 2pm DJ Fresh, Adrian Allen, Jorgie Jay Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 6pm Finabah, The Never Ever, Chasing Amy Live at the Wall, Leichhardt $10 (presale)–$12 (at door) 8pm Floyd Vincent & the Childbrides Wickham Park Hotel, Islington free 8pm Forever Rod Campbelltown RSL $22 6.30pm Ghostboy With Golden Virtues, Jack Colwell & The Owls The Supper Club, Darlinghurst $20 from www. polosupper.com.au 8pm Glenn Shorrock, Doug Parkinson, Wendy Matthews Hornsby RSL $70 6.30pm Hunter & Suzy Owens Band Marrickville Bowling and Recreation Club free 4.30pm Irish Sundaze: The Bad Penguins P.J. O’Brien’s, Sydney free 5pm Leonard Cohen: Cohen Koans: Ali & The Thieves Notes Live, Enmore 5pm Lowrider Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $15 7pm Monsieur Moon, Peter Sot, Roming Netherland Brass Monkey, Cronulla $12.25 7pm Oh Sleeper (USA), Buried in Verona, In the Wake, Cannon’s Mouth, Hold Your Own Oasis Youth Centre, Wyong $17 (+ bf)–$22 (at door) 6pm Paul Fisher

Hurstville RSL Memorial Club free 2pm Powderfinger, Jet, Ernest Ellis Sydney Entertainment Centre, Darling Harbour $110.40 6pm SBS Youth Orchestra Riverside Theatres, Parramatta $30 3pm Songwriters at The Factory The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Steve Edmonds Band Bull and Bush Hotel Baulkham Hills free 9pm Sydney Rock ‘n Roll & Alternative Market: Backy Skank, Danny & the Cosmic Tremors, Trenchtown, Mother Truckers Jets Sports Club, Tempe free 11am The Australian Red Hot Chili Peppers Show Bateau Bay Hotel free 2pm The Duchesses, New Strange Horizon Annandale Hotel $8 4pm The Paul Furniss San Francisco Jazz Band Central Coast Leagues Club, Gosford free 2pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: Ghostboy with Golden Virtues The Polo Lounge and Supper Club, Darlinghurst $20 8pm The Yearlings, Heath Cullen Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba $20 7.30pm Tia Juana & Her Depths of Despair Notes Live, Enmore $16 (conc)–$20 (adult) 7.30pm Toby Martin, The Marlon Winterbourne Movement Low 302, Darlinghurst free 8pm Wards Xpress Tudor Hall Hotel, Redfern free 4pm

JAZZ

Blue Mountains Orchestra Springwood Civic Centre $5 (child)–$15 2pm Cafe Carnivale: Stole, Black Train Band Barrenjoey Music Room, Avalon Beach $10 (child)– $20 (adult) 6pm Didi Mudigdo Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club free 12pm DJ Daddy Jazz Opera Bar, Sydney free 1.30pm Feral Swing Katz Rocksalt, Menai free 12pm Jive Bombers Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club, Bondi Junction free 7pm Lane Cove ALIVE Art & Design Makers Market: Girl on a Swing Lane Cove Plaza free 9am Mal Gatt Latin Jazz Trio The Entrance Sails Stage free 11am Yuki Kumangai, John Mackie Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle 4pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Bacon & Cabbage, Mark Oats, Dan Lissing Cock‘n’Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 5pm Irish Music Session Bennett Hotel, Hamilton free 4pm The Blue River Choir The Factory Theatre, Enmore $25 (+ bf) 6.30pm

gig picks WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15

The Tongue, Dizzi, Tuka Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $12–$15 8pm

Cancer Bats (Canada) Annandale Hotel $39.60 (+ bf) 8pm

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18

The JD Birthday Set - Songs From Exile on Main Street: You Am I, Washington, Nic Cester, Jae Laffer, Tex Perkins, Adalita, Venetta Fields Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $38.40 (+ bf) 8pm

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 Georgia Fair, Sui Zhen, Patrick James Melt Bar, Kings Cross $10 8pm

Metallica (USA), Fear Factory (USA), The Sword (USA) Sydney Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park $130 (silver)–$150 (premium) 7pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: Jeffree Star Metro Theatre, Sydney $49 (+ bf) 8pm

Cloud Control

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17 Domeyko/Gonzalez [EP launch], Aleesha Dibbs, Silver Moon, None Music, DJs Death Strobe, Kirin J Callinan Spectrum, Darlinghurst, $10, 8pm Ivy League Spring Break: Cloud Control, Cabins, Catcall, Alpine, Wons Phreely Goodgod Small Club, Sydney, $20, 8pm The Sydney Fringe Festival: Buck 65 (Canada), Pluto Jonze, Valery Gore The Factory Theatre, Enmore $35 (+ bf) 8pm

COUNTRY

Central Coast Country Music Association Wyong RSL Club free (member) 1pm

Powderfinger

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12 Empire Hotel, Potts Point Bazaar HBK, I Low free One World Sport, Parramatta Ricky Ro free Soho, Kings Cross Comedown free The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Mondays James Rawson (live), Kavi-R free V Bar, Sydney Monday Mambo Mambo G $5–$10 World Bar, Kings Cross Mondays at World Bar Ooh Face, Hot Carl and friends free

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 13 Xxx Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DCE Salsa Lessons $20 Establishment, Sydney Rumba Motel DJs Willie Sabor and Guests free Martin Place Bar, Sydney Louis M, Sammy free Oatley Hotel Suburban Alternative DJ Mini Mullet Free Opera Bar, Circular Quay DJ Jack Shit free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Coyote Tuesday Kid Finley, Pee Wee Pete free–$5 World Bar, Kings Cross Pop Panic Karaoke, DJs Cosmic Explorer, Daigo, Shipwreck and Bongo Ben free

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17

Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst

Dubrave

feat. South Rakkas Crew (USA), MC Shureshock, Will Styles, Gabriel Clouston, Temnein, Hayley Boa, Rubio $25 (+ bf)

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 Bank Hotel, Newtown Girls’ Night DJ Miss B free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Rockstar free Establishment, Sydney Mid Week Hurdle Nic Phillips, Craig Patterson free Fringe Bar, Paddington F.R.I.E.N.D/s $5 drinks & pizzas, free entry Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta DJ Fresh free Goldfish, Kings Cross The Salsa Lounge Latin Mafia Sound System free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Paradise City Ronnie Rocker, El Mariachi Sly Fox, Enmore Queer Central Sveta, DJ Beth, DJ Bel free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Ben Peterson, Casa free

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15 202 Broadway, Chippendale Basic Foreign Dub, Headroom, Space is the Place, Void free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool After School Detention DJ Rangi, Mac, K-Note MC Buddy Love free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar free Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Brett Hunt free Dug Out Bar, Burdekin Hotel Speakeasy Magda, Dave Fernandes Empire Hotel, Potts Point Episodes DJ Schoder, Wanted, Zahra, Jason K, Johar free Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta Da Bomb with DJ Fresh free Goldfish, Kings Cross The Funk Quarter Phil Hudson, Phil Toke, Dave 54, Michael Wheatley free Home Terrace, Darling Harbour Unipackers Rnb, Top 40, Electro $5 Judgement Bar, Taylor Square Judgement Night. Sex Worker & Ymerej, weekly guests free Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst Simon Alexander free Mansions, Kings Cross Van Sereno and Cavan Te (live) on rotation free Martin Place Bar, Martin Place Thursdays at MPB Louis M free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Hot Damn! DJ Sarah Spandex, Mark C, Heart Attack $10–$12 Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Flaunt Nacho Pop, Diaz, Eko, Tom Piper, R-Son, Zero Cool free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Husky & Yogi free Tokio Hotel, Darling Harbour Caramel free World Bar, Kings Cross Teenage Kicks S.Kobar, Johnny Segment, Tom Libertine, Urby free Tone, Surry Hills Space Is The Place Samiyam, Brut 33, edseven, Monkfly, Prize $15

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 ARQ Nightclub, Darlinghurst United Colors of Trance Scott Anderson, Raptor, Duress, Zac Slade, Man $15–$20 Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Dustones Crate Creeps, B-WIV Deece, Bad Ezzy, Ability free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Liquid Sky Cunningpants, Kyro & Bomber, Pretty Young Things, Show Us It and more! $10/$15 Cargo Bar, King St Wharf On The Harbour free Chinese Laundry, Sydney Dexter, Doctor Werewolf, King Lee, Slice, Shades of Gray, Yokoo, JML, Schwa $15 before 11pm & $20 after Civic Undergound, Sydney Deep House Project Plus One Simon Caldwell, Mike Acetate, Telefunken, Mitch Crosher $15 Club 77, Kings Cross WAY-2-FONKY Generic DJs, The Wedding Ring Fingers, Mike Who? $5 Collector Hotel, Parramatta Corner Shop Tikelz, DJ Browski, J Lyrikz, Naughty, Gunz free Establishment Hotel Carnival La Fiesta Sound System and special guest DJs all night free Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale Purple Sneakers Howl DJs, M.I.T, Kill The Landlord, Ben Lucid, Seabass, Architect DJs, Yogo Gorilla $12 Goldfish, Kings Cross Sugar & Soul Phil Hudson, Paul Hatz, Agey, Danny De Sousa, Matt Cahill, Tom Kelly free Hermann’s, Darlington Radio Clash 2SER DJs battle $10 Home The Venue, Darling Harbour Sublime Peewee, John Ferris, Nasty, Hardforze, Aurora Astralis, Nick Farrell, D83Suae, Pulsar, Kinekt 4, Makio, Monk3y, RaversMVP, Jin Kang, Concept, Chubby, Juzzy Raver and Losty $17 pre, $25 door Kinselas, Taylor Square Toby Wilson free Kit & Kaboodle, Darlinghurst Falcona Fridays Falcona DJs, The Gameboys $10 Mansions, Kings Cross Nick Polly, Little Rich, Nick T, Stevie S, Adrian Allen free Martin Place Bar, Martin Place Jimmy Mac, Sammy free Middle Bar, Kinselas, Darlinghurst Flavours on Friday MC Q-Bizzi, C-Bu, Trey, Mike Champion, Naiki, Tekkaman $20 Oatley Hotel We Love Oatley Hotel Fridays DJ Tone Free Omega Lounge, Sydney Unwind Greg Summerfield, Matt Brunton free Opera Bar, Circular Quay Gian Arpino free Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Dubrave South Rakkas Crew (USA), MC Shureshock, Will Styles, Gabriel

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THE SIDESHOW WEDNESDAYS Todd Terje Clouston, Temnein, Hayley Boa, Rubio $18 (+ bf) Plantation Bar, Kings Cross CPU, Raptor, Galaktik, Chmcl Mssngr $25–$30 Q Bar, Darlinghurst Sosueme The Vines DJs, Lost Valentinos DJs, Joyride, Flying Foxes DJs, Alison Wonderland, Bridezilla DJs, The Protectors DJs, The Holidays DJs, Upskirts, Sideways Hitchhiker DJs, Chaingang DJs, Fishing DJs, Aplonea DJs, Step Panther DJs, Frangipani $10 on the door Raval, Surry Hills Listen Hear Huwston, Micah, James De La Cruz, Chris Coucouvinis free Sapphire Lounge, Kings Cross Sapphire Fridays Miss Match, Rob Morrish, Dave 54, Kate Monroe, Chiller $10 guestlist Soda Bar, Golden Sheaf, Double Bay Mike Who, Mr Glass, Brynstar free St James Hotel, Sydney Club Blink DJs Bzurk, Luke, Nick, Naked Dave, Firefly, Absynth Tank Nightclub, Sydney RnB Superclub G Wizard, Def Rok, Troy T, Eko, Lilo, Jayson, Losty, Ben Morris, Matt Nukewood, Charlie Brown, Oakes & Lennox, Venuto, Adrian M The Argyle Hotel, Rocks John Devechis, Heidi, DJ BBG free The Sugarmill, Kings Cross The Gameboys, Calling In Sick, Joyride $10 after 10pm

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 202 Broadway, Chippendale Headroom Monk Fly, Jonny Faith, Know-U, Suburban Dark, Elliot $15 Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo Trash DJ M!Veg, DJ Absynth $12 Bank Hotel, Newtown DJs Damien Goundrie, Slynk free BB’s, Bondi Beach Wildlife DJs Mesan, James Roberts, Adriano Giorgi, Dinseh Sundar, Matt Singmin, Chris Kyle free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Big Guns Keli Hart, Dorkatronique, Knocked Up Noise, Itchy & Scratchy, Slappin Plastic and more! $15 – $25 Chinese Laundry, Sydney MOS Clubber’s Guide John Course, Anna Lunoe, Matt Nugent, Archie, Robbie Lowe, Club Junque, Rodskeez, Foundation, Spenda C, Mike Hyper, Benson, MC Adam Zae $15$25 Civic Underground, Sydney

Todd Terje (Norway), Future Classic DJs $15–$20 Clarence Hotel, Petersham Caesars Sandy Bottom, Justin Scott, DJ Chip free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Slinky Saturdays DJ Steve, DJ Trisha free Cricketer’s Arms, Surry Hills Pod War free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DJ Simon Neal, Ben Vickers free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Kaki $20 Eastern Hotel, Bondi Junction I Love Saturdays Zannon, Tony Shock, Matt Ferreira, Tass, Akay, Don Juan, Dante Rivera, Dennis Agee, Willie Sabor, Oscar Cadena free Empire Hotel/Plantations, Potts Point Marcel Dettmann, Ben Dunlop, Dopamine, Defined By Rhythm Goldfish, Kings Cross Abel, Tom Kelly, Phil Hudson, Ross Middleton on Sax free Goodgod Small Club, CBD An Evening with Toni Toni Lee, 10pm $10 Home, Sydney Homemade Saturdays The 808s, Aladdin Royaal, James “Saxman” Spy, Matt Ferreira, Hannah Gibbs, Tony Venuto, Dave Austin, Flite, LKO, Seiz, Uncle Abe $20 VIP/$25 door Ivy, Sydney Pure Ivy Cissy Strut, Tass, Jack McCord, Kocho, Liam Sampras, Dave 54, Alley Oop $20 Jacksons On George, Sydney Leno, Aladdin Royaal free Kinselas, Taylor S quare Anna Lunoe

Brynstar, Shaun Keble, Yin Yang, Beth Yen and Matt Hoare free Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Elaine Benes, Gabby, Cassette, Alison Wonderland free before 10pm, $10 after, members free all night Mansions, Kings Cross Reckless, Little Rich, Shaun Keeble, Nick Polly free Martin Place Bar, Sydney Bamboo Eko, Nude-E, Mirage, Shorty, Ace, Moto, Qrius, IllDJ $5 Melt Bar, King Cross Pants Kato + Frames, Mo Hat Mo Play, Free Swedes, Max Smart 9pm $15 Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Red B ull Thre3Style Katalyst, Frew, Wax Motif, Perplex, Kato, Eko, Moriarty, Shipwreck, Typhonic, G Mo, DJ Dan De Caires free Shelbourne Hotel, Sydney Shipwreck, Daniel Nall, Leon Pirello $10 after 10pm Shush, Enmore Beats and Pieces Franchi Brothers $10 Spectrum, Darlinghurst P*A*S*H Goldfoot, DJ Knife $7 St James Hotel, Sydney SFX DJs Bzurk, Snowflake The Argyle Hotel, Rocks MarcUs, Levi 5 Star, Phil Hudson free The Bank Nightclub, Kings Cross Sin City Don Juan, DJ Willie, Mista Kay, MC Q-Bizzi The Dolphin Hotel, Surry Hills DJ Chris Skinner, DJ Carl O’Brien free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Perfect Day Resident house

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clubguide@thebrag.com DJs Mark Alsop, DJ Chip, DJ Murray Hood, DJ Miss Match, DJ Brett Austin, DJ Scotty Tanner, DJ James Tobin, DJ Man and DJ Dirty Dan free The Manhattan Lounge, Martin Place Hushhh... DJs Stunna, Sonny, Special K $10 after 9pm The Shannon Hotel, Chippendale Progression64 DJ Key-Star free The Venue, Double Bay Pure House Ben Morris, Illya, Robbie Lowe, Matt Mandell, Ollie Brooke, Matt Roberts, Simon Caldwell, Kato, James Taylor, Lummy, Mitch Crosher, Phil Smart Verandah Bar, Sydney The Booty Bar George B, Nasser T, Lenno, K Sera Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour Paul Moussa free World Bar, Kings Cross Wham! Act Yo Age, James Taylor, Levins, Rob Marshall, Telefunken, Foundation, Boonie, Venuto, Harry Cotton, Yogi, The Jackal, Saez, Temnein, Shamozzle $15 before 10pm, $20 after Sydney International Regatta Centre, Castlereagh Defqon.1 DJ Promo (Netherlands), Evil Activities, Outblast, Korsakoff, Mad Dog, Unexist, Spellbound, Vanth, DJ Scot Project (Germany), Kan Cold, A*S*Y*S*, Kutski, Amber Savage, Steve Hill, Peewee Ferris, John Ferris, Hard Forze, Micky D, Matrix,

Underground Dance and Electronica with Chris Honnery

Shadower, BRK3, Arbor, and more $135 (+ bf)–$200 (premium)

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18 Bank Hotel, Newtown DJ Troy Cox Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Michael Peter Colombian Hotel (Downstairs), Darlinghurst Hotrod Sunday Sandi Hotrod and guests free Colombian Hotel (Upstairs), Darlinghurst The Deep Disko Phil Hudson, Mark Matthews, Vincent Sebastian, Michael Wheatley free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Sassy Sundays free Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour Salsa Caliente Sabroson, DJ Vico free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown DJ Metal Matt, Louis Tillett free Goldfish, Kings Cross Martini Club Live DJs Illya, Johnny Gleeson, Miss Match, Jack McCord and Tom Kelly free Home Terrace, Sydney Spice After Hour Int’l Guest (DE), Simon Caldwell, Robbie Lowe, YokoO $20/$10 Ice Bar, Sydney The Kitsch Sound System, Phil Hudson, Chloe West, Mark Matthews free

Kings Cross Hotel Jammin Sundays free Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst The Fifth Dimension free Kudu Bar & Lounge, Darlinghurst The Funky Church 7pmmidnight free Oatley Hotel Sunday Sessions DJ Tone & Friends Free Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Random Sundays Mike Rukus, Tom Piper, James Taylor, Matt Nukewood, Goodfella, Adam Lance, RobKAY free (guestlist)–$15 The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Charley Bo Funk, DJ BBG free The Bank Nightclub, Kings Cross Soul On Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan free The Forbes Hotel, Sydney Church Of Techno Mitch Crosher, Kerry Wallace, Joey Kaz, Jey Tuppaea, Jaded, Shepz $5 The Rouge, Kings Cross Cheap Thrill$ Matt Nukewood, J Smoove, Josh Flanagan free The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Neighbourhood Kate Monroe free Trademark Hotel, Darlinghurst Soul on Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour Miss Gabby free World Bar, Kings Cross Fortune! Disco Punx + dumplings on the terrace... free

club picks up all night out all week...

THURSDAY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 SEPTEMBER 17 Tone, Surry Hills Space Is The Place Samiyam, Brut 33, edseven, Monkfly, Prize $15

Chinese Laundry, CBD Dexter, Doctor Werewolf, King Lee, Slice, Shades of Gray, Yokoo, JML, Schwa $15 before 11pm & $20 after

Telefunken

Civic Undergound, CBD Deep House Project Plus One Simon Caldwell, Mike Acetate, Telefunken, Mitch Crosher $15

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18

Tobias Becker

LOOKING DEEPER SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Kaito and Tobias Becker Earthdance

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30 Circo Loco Greenwood Hotel

W

ith the influx of Kompakt producers touring over the next few months – Kaito and Tobias Becker in but a matter of weeks, Superpitcher on Halloween and Michael Mayer and Matias Aguayo for the Subsonic Festival in December – it is pertinent to begin this week’s column with a mention of the Kompakt label’s annual compilation which has just been released. Total 11 is two CDs of unmixed Kompakt goodness that combines material from some of the label’s ‘big guns’, such as Mayer, Wolfgang Voigt, Koze, ex-Wighnomy Brother Robag Wruhme and Aguayo, with cuts by producers you won’t have heard of. (I’m not belittling you, but I think I’m correct in assuming you don’t know much about an artist like ‘Sog’; if you do then the pupil has very much become the master, and I look forward to reading your column in a rival streetpress sometime soon!) Total 11 also includes a collaboration between Superpitcher, Rebolledo and Jorg Burger under the moniker ‘Three Lions’ which features Mayer on saxophone – and if that doesn’t register high in the curiosity stakes then I’m not sure what will. With the majority of material on both discs largely unreleased, the compilation is an essential purchase to get you in the mood for a debaucherous summer. After a hiatus of a couple of years Timo Maas has been indulging in some techno sounds of late, collaborating with Italy’s Santos under the Mutant Clan banner and releasing on Sven Vath’s Cocoon label. Though Maas is best known for his big ‘above ground’ remix of Azzido Da Bass many years ago, he shouldn’t be typecast based on that track, and Mass’ latest project is testament to this. Old Timo has been busy in the studio putting together the latest in the acclaimed Balance series, Balance 17, a mix that functions as a sampler of his broad sonic sensibility. “I was able to also include deeper, downbeat, ‘earlier set’ material that I personally like to listen to but am not essentially playing out on a normal club night,” a thoughtful Mass reflected. “To spread myself out over two CDs without essentially having to ‘rock’ a crowd from the beginning is a very good thing.” Nicolas Jaar, The Mole and Carl Craig all feature on the mix along with a few previously unreleased tracks such as Maas’s own remix of ‘Ashtray Heart’, Placebo’s single from last year. Maas will be touring Australia next month in support of Balance 17 and headlines a Garden Party at Chinese Laundry on Saturday October 16 a few weeks after the compilation hits shelves.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30 Superpitcher Boat Party

SATURDAY DECEMBER 11 The Field The Gaelic Club

Mr Matt Edwards, renowned for his work as Radioslave and Quiet Village, will release the debut album of his latest project The Machine in November on his Rekids label. Entitled RedHead, The Machine is the conflation of Edwards and Misha Holenbac of Australian fashion label Perks & Mini, who is designing a unique image for each song on the album. (Yes, I guess you could describe it as a ‘concept project’.) Speaking about the project, Edwards elucidated that “the idea of recycling and creating collages has been something that I’ve been doing since art school from working with a photocopy machine and a scalpel blade. With The Machine I wanted to explore this through the medium of music and create sound collages from found sources and music from around the globe. I also wanted to pull together visual artists whose work capture the spirit of recycling and so played the first demos to Misha when The Machine was in its infancy. Misha’s work with his P.A.M label has always been an inspiration to me and I’m really happy that he understood the nature of this project and produced an image for each track.” The first single of The Machine, ‘Fuse’, was released on Dixon’s Innervisions label last year, so you can grab it online for a sample of what to expect from the album. You’ll have to improvise when it comes to accompanying artwork though; I recommend surveying a Hieronymus Bosch painting while listening under your pair of Bose™ noise-canceling headphones. Earlier this year Theo Parrish released an ultra esoteric triple vinyl LP, Sketches, which was limited to an edition of a mere 150 copies worldwide. Despite retailing for the exorbitant price of 80 Euros, copies of Sketches were snapped up in no time, leaving a handful of yuppie collectors with a sense of smug elitism. Well the joke is now on those same ivory tower jerks as a CD version of Sketches has been released that even includes a previously unreleased bonus track. You can grab it online for a great deal cheaper than 80 Euros too – guess it’s all working out for you at the moment, isn’t it?

Civic Underground, CBD Todd Terje (Norway), Future Classic DJs $15–$20 Goodgod Small Club, CBD An Evening with Toni Toni Lee, 10pm $10 Melt Bar, King Cross Pants Kato + Frames, Mo Hat Mo Play, Free Swedes, Max Smart 9pm $15 Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Red Bull Thre3Style Katalyst, Frew, Wax Motif, Perplex, Kato, Eko, Moriarty, Shipwreck, Typhonic, G Mo, DJ Dan De Caires free Katalyst

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Soul Sedation

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

Soul Sedation goes live every Wednesday night on Bondi FM (88.0 or bondifm.com.au). Tune in 10pm 'til midnight to hear a deep and soulful selection of the tunes covered here, and plenty more that I don't have room for. I headed last week’s column with two dope announcements from the Niche Productions camp: the upcoming Femi Kuti and Fat Freddy’s Drop tours. But unfortunately this week’s announcement swings the dopeness pendulum to the other extreme. Soul Sedation regrets to inform you that Days Like This! 2011 is cancelled. If you’d thought at times that this column seems a bit like a free ad for Days Like This! you wouldn’t be too far off. But all that trumpeting is only due to my genuine love for the festival, and I’m truly gutted at the news. From Niche’s desk: “After much deliberation, soul searching and many sleepless nights, we have decided to postpone the 2011 festival and look at a new date option for the festival’s return. In what has been a busy year for Niche Productions, including shows from hip hop legends A Tribe Called Quest, the decision to postpone was made with a heavy heart.” As you can see, Niche don’t delve into much detail about their reasons for not running it. Which gives me an opportunity to delve into the dire situation facing our promoters, our venue owners and our scene and industry at large. Sacha Molitorisz wrote a fantastic piece, ‘Disturb the sound of silence in the city’, which the Sydney Morning Herald ran on Sept 2 (put it in your Googles). Molitorisz, discussing the unworkable noise restrictions placed on venues, wrote: “The City of Sydney has a well-defined procedure for noise complaints, spelt out on its website: "Before midnight, noise from entertainment venues is limited by the City of Sydney to five decibels above background noise levels . . . Noise must be inaudible between the hours midnight and 7am within habitable room of any residential premises.’’ A newcomer to a neighbourhood can scupper a venue that’s been open for decades. But these standards need to be relaxed in our entertainment hubs, where audiences might like to hear something louder than a bloke with a guitar humming to ‘The Girl from Ipanema’.” This is without doubt a huge problem, and just one part of a long, steady assault on Sydney’s music and entertainment culture. Another side of that coin is the pressure being applied to festival promoters. Take into account the post-6pm noise restrictions, an adversarial police presence, and now the mounting pressure to serve only mid-strength alcohol. The promoters of all our large events are facing an uphill battle. You can do a lot of hard work on a concept, only for the high points of your event to be steadily worn away by a headliner your crowd can hardly hear past the tenth row, police confrontations, and paying $9 for mid-strength Carlton. Now at that point I’m going to be so pissed off that I don’t care if Roots Manuva’s rocking the show of his life, because my enthusiasm has been well and truly crushed. The City

ON THE ROAD THURSDAY SEPT 16 Samiyam Tone

THURSDAY SEPT 23 Chico Mann Melt Bar

SATURDAY SEPT 25

Martyn, Tokimonsta & Illum Sphere The Forum

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OCTOBER 15 & 16 Malatu Astatke The Basement

SATURDAY NOV 20

Femi Kuti & The Positive Force The Metro

SATURDAY NOV 20 Ice Cube Luna Park

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of Sydney and the NSW Police don’t want these events, partly because of the bad press some of the related negative incidents can bring, and probably also because they seem beyond their control. They can’t shut the events down legally, so their strategyis apparently to apply financial pressure until someone’s business can’t absorb it anymore and buckles. Take for example the scene at We Love Sounds recently, when the police decided to close the entry to the Hordern. If you need to make that call for safety that’s not an issue, but verbally abusing those wanting to know when they might be allowed in is out of line. (We were told to “fuck off out of here”.) If you’ve been to a Sydney one-day festival, you’re perfectly aware of the effects these draconian regulations can have on your day. Often people just stop going – a sad, and wholly avoidable, result for all involved. Bad behaviour occurs when large crowds gather, that is and has always been a given. It’s the way it’s handled that’s crucial. Telling adults what they can and can’t do because a couple of idiots had their stomachs pumped is a lazy response, and it’s not one becoming of a forward-thinking city. It’s exactly this form of collective punishment that’s really crushing the spirit out of those trying to lead Sydney’s alternative entertainment economy.

THURSDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER MONK FLY EDSEVEN BRUT33 PRIZE Tickets $15 on the door, 8pm - late 16 Wentworth Av, Surry Hills

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03:09:10 :: Kit & Kaboodle :: L2, 383 Bourke St Darlinghurst

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