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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

DANIEL LEE KENDALL I remember hearing ‘Mango Tree’ by Angus & Julia Stone for the first time. It kept drawing me back time and time again for more listens – and now I love anything they do. My mate played me ‘Black Swan’ from Thom Yorke’s Eraser album while we were waiting in the car. I loved the song, and then really enjoyed the album. I get inspired by a lot of things. Something happening or something someone says will trigger a bunch of thoughts and feelings which swirl around my head and my heart, and there comes the inspiration for a new song!

I

don’t remember much music as a child.

My mum tells me I used to bop up and down randomly as a baby; they didn’t understand why for a while, before they realised that whenever there was music I would bop, and when the music stopped so would I. There was

often music on in my household, but mostly the same five albums would just circulate round and round. Dad would often bust out a couple of Bob Dylan tunes, but nothing overtly musical.

Although he is quite the poet, so I may have inherited a bit of that from him.

At the moment I’m doing a lot on my own. I write, record and play live by myself.

A positive is that I have the freedom to write solo at my pace without having to consider or wait for others (which is often the case in a band situation). I guess a negative is that the element of fun can be lost when you’re flying solo. The drive to finish a song or project can also be somewhat diminished by working alone, meaning that I might not push myself as far as I should because there is no one to keep me in line…

I’ll often hear a song I really like, and that inspires me to make a start. I don’t

consciously think about style or the form it will take; whatever swirls around in my head when I’m recording is generally the vibe the song will take on. If it feels like some electro will work, then that’s what will happen. For my current EP, I brought in producer Woody Annison to offer his expertise and add some final touches to the project. Essentially the songs remained the same in style and structure, but he just made them sparkle a little more.

There’s some really amazing music coming out of Australia at the moment, and a whole lot of opportunities for artists. I was lucky enough to be Unearthed by triple j, and it really is such a great initiative - it gives pretty much anyone a chance of getting their music out there. Of course with that comes a whole lot more competition, which means it can be really hard to get noticed.

Who: Daniel Lee Kendall What: Lost In The Moment EP is out now Where: Lizottes, Kincumber / Raval, Sydney When: October 3 / October 6

GUINEAWOW

Oxford Art Factory clearly have no idea what they’re doing. Firstly, they cram Guineafowl, Pluto Jonze, Betty Airs and Brown Bear Black Bear onto the one bill on October 7, instead of spreading it over four different nights with shitty supports for each. Then they only charge $5 for it. This is like when Cityrail didn’t realise you could buy a weekly with $2 by mashing the buttons as you drop the coin. Then they found out, and stopped it from working. So sshhhhhhh, everyone.

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Ratatat

Turns out José Gonzalez, the guy who soundtracks some of my favourite ads of all time, doesn’t just cover Knife songs - he is also one third of Junip, a band who’ve been knocking about for more than a decade. They tour Australia for the first time in the history of the earth this January 8. Tickets on sale October 7, 2010AD. (If you’d like to email steph@thebrag. com to tell her that José Gonzalez also has quite an illustrious solo career completely independent of Knife covers and ad soundtracks, and the rock news writer doesn’t know shit, go right ahead.

She loves getting those emails.)

BIG YAY OUT

By now, most of you will have seen, cheered, whinged about and salivated at this year’s Big Day Out lineup – but for those of you who believe the Internet is evil (Mormons, Prince, MIA etc…) here it is, abridged and in glorious, glorious Helvetica LT: Tool, Rammstein, Iggy And The Stooges, Bloody Beetroots, Death Crew 77, Lupe Fiasco, Grinderman, Primal Scream performing Screamadelica live, Deftones, Die Antwoord, The Black Keys, Ratatat, Andrew WK, The Jim Jones Revue, LCD “we didn’t really mean it” Soundsystem, Crystal Castles (east coast only - like Puffy), MIA and loads, loads more. BAM.

LITTLE RED AFTER PARTY

After their gig at The Metro on Friday October 8, Little Red are heading down to The Gladstone for the Purple Sneakers Official Little Red After Party Party [clumsy title courtesy of The Brag] to tear up the decks… or, you know, program an iPod. Give them a break, they just launched a whole album. Only $10 with your Metro stamp – and $12 without it…

LEMONHEADS TOUR

Wow. Evan Dando is bringing some variation of The Lemonheads to The Metro on December 1, to play their entire It’s A Shame About Ray album in full. This is important for the following reasons. a) This album was written (mostly) in Sydney, b) Many of the songs were co-written by Smudge’s Tom Morgan c) ‘My Drug Buddy’ might just be the

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greatest song of all time, and is certainly the best song about wandering down King Street in a drug-fuelled haze d) Evan’s hair, e) Evan’s voice and f) Evan.

ERNEST ELLIS HURTS HIS EARS, CANCELS TOUR. :(

Ernest Ellis and Parades co-headline tour.

Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, sadly, it is. Ellis has had to pull out of the tour due to hearing damage, which his killjoy doctor informed him could cause permanent damage if he continues to expose himself to loud noises. In keeping with alphabetised listing, there are two ups to this tale. a) The same thing happened to Neil Young, so he wrote an acoustic album (only Harvest, no big deal) and b) everyone knows they will sort some kinda amazing bionic ear out in the next ten years that will fix any permanent damage. So keep blasting Loveless, lovers.

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five things

The Holidays

WITH THE OWLS

URIAH HEAPS GOOD

I’ve been assured by old rockers everywhere (I don’t seek them out, they just come and talk about stuff) that when it comes to hard heavy rock, Uriah Heep are on top of the …mound.

(Bam!) They haven’t been to Australia for 25 years, and they won’t be here until April, but tickets are on sale from October 15. It’ll be a huge show. Go get!

PASSENGER BUSKING OUT

While you sit around whinging that no label ‘gets’ your band and that albums cost too much money, Mike Rosenberg was out there on the streets busking and earning money to record Passenger’s Flight Of The Crow. And along the way he roped in Lior, Josh Pyke,

Growing Up I had quite a diverse range of 1. stuff that I listened to as a kid - it

but share a common ideal: creating a unique sound with a solid live performance.

really varied from Elton John to The Blues Brothers to the sounds of my father drunkenly singing old Christmas Carols on the ‘mixed tape’ that he’d manage to bring out every year. I remember as a kid I would try and avoid this stuff by hiding in my uncle’s room listening to his 90s collection bands like Radiohead, Oasis, Talking Heads, Blur, Screaming Trees, etc…

The Music You Make I guess if you had to pigeonhole us we 4. sound kinda bluesy, with a bit of psychedelic

Inspirations A lot of stuff from the 90s, 2. as well as some of your cliché

Music, Right Here, Right Now I think the local music scene is strong 5. and full of a diverse range but it’s getting

superbands like The Beatles, Kinks & Stones. But it was the 90s bands that really struck me at a young age. The two albums that still really bring back memories and send goosebumps are The Bends by Radiohead and What’s The Story by Oasis.

The Bends was an album before its time, and What’s The Story was unadulterated pop that paved the way for the second British invasion.

harder for all involved - bands, bookers and venues. I really do think it comes down to money - basically no cash flow means fewer events, which means fewer opportunities for an industry that is growing in numbers, making the whole process of getting a decent ‘gig’ more and more competitive… But there will always be that dedicated group of people crazy enough to try and pursue some sort of career in being in a band.

and darkness mixed in. We’re trying to base our sound around Radiohead, Queens Of The Stone Age, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and a few others. Our debut self-titled EP (which is available now for purchase and download) was recorded at a modest studio owned by John Paul Young, and then mixed and mastered by Tony Buchen and Leon Zervos at 301 Studios.

Who: The Owls What: The Owls EP is out now

Your Crew The Owls are basically 3. a band of four hard working,

With: The Cadres, Doc Holiday Takes The Shotgun, The Vignettes, Forests and loads of DJs

unpretentious guys. We come from different backgrounds,

When: Saturday October 9

Katie Noonan, Boy & Bear, Kate Miller Heidke, Brian Campeau and Matt Corby to collaborate on the album. He’s playing October 29 and 31 at OAF with Boy and Bear - but don’t worry, the fact you built your own MySpace page still makes you a go-getter... Really...

Where: SOSUEME @ The Gaelic Theatre

THE HOLIDAYS

Mentally preparing yourself for the lazy summer days ahead? Organising crazy Christmas road trips of which you plan to remember very little? Lacking that summer album to accompany the times? Tough gig, we know, but Sydney’s The Holidays’ debut release, Post Paradise, is just the ticket. It’s as hot as a Summer festival and as refreshing as jumping into the surf the morning after, and we’ve got three double passes to giveaway to their launch. It goes down at The Gaelic Theatre on Thursday October 21; to win, tell us your favourite holiday destination.

BOREDOMS

There are no weirder dudes than Japan’s Boredoms. The idiosyncratic noise-rock band has been beguiling the minds of us plain Muggles with eclectic experimentation like none other. Their songs range from 26-second tribal blurts to 23-minute underwater-recorded psych journeys; dabbling in pyschedelia, electronica, dub, krautrock, ambient rock and minimalism. You just could say that Boredoms are experts in sonic mindfuckery. They’re bringing their seven drumkits and quadruple-neck guitars and everything else under the sun to The Metro on October 11, supported by Holy Balm. We have one double pass to give away for this cathartic, manic performance – to win, write us an excellent haiku. Boredoms – confusing your brainholes since ’86.

The Morning Benders

WORMWOOD

Despite having a worrying listing for ‘poetry’ at 8pm, WORMWOOD :: absinthe and psychedelia is an amazing night of woozy, trippy awesomeness. Entry is free, it’s at the UTS Loft Bar October 7 and The Walk On By, Crash Smasher and Jusgo Mosh are playing. Oh, and they serve the most earslicingly amazing absinthe cocktails.

THE MORNING BENDERS TOUR

Proper drinkers know that morning benders are the best type of benders. David & Kim is amazing after a few, and the morning sun is so glary that you feel like you are applying the hipstamatic app to your life… In unrelated news, Berkley’s favourite Cali-pop group The Morning Benders have announced a December 4 show at Oxford Art Factory that the Brag is awfully proud to be presenting. Tickets on sale from Moshtix.

Hungry Kids Of Hungary

PEATS RIDGE FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: TOILETS!

Peats Ridge is back for their most hygienic year yet, and among the artists enjoying the sustainable state-of-the-art flushing toilets which led the second announce are the following troupe of musicians: Itch-E and Scratch-E, Hungry Kids of Hungary, Ernest Ellis, Bomba, Ganga Girl, Jason Collett, Evil Eddie, OKA, Jinja Safari, Deep Sea Arcade, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, Zeus, Ngairre, Papa vs Pretty, Guineafowl, The Medics, Stiff Gins, Dead Letter Chorus and loads more. These guys will be joining an already packed list of names that includes Angus & Julia Stone, Trentemøller [Denmark], Built to Spill [USA], Freestylers [UK] (DJ set), Shout Out Louds [Sweden], Born Ruffians (CAN), Freq Nasty (UK). Lightspeed Champion (UK), PVT, Decoder Ring, Washington and Cloud Control. The Dubshack is back too, hosted by Foreigndub, Western Synthetics & VOID with Big Bud [UK], The Versionaries, Dizz1 and a bunch more.

DANIEL LEE KENDALL

Just a reminder that this Wednesday October 6, the Central Coast’s Daniel Lee Kendall is planning to set up his gear, walk down the road to get a kebab, wander back to the Raval and launch his sweetly infectious EP, Lost In The Moment. Vanessa Jade will be supporting – get ye to Moshtix.

THE HOLY SEA

Here at Brag HQ, we’ve been spending all of our free time (of which we have HEAPS) working on a series of comics entitled Ghosts Of The Horizon, in which

various dead celebrities’ ghosts team up to fight crime – with the final frame of each showing said ghost fade into the horizon.

The first installment has Sylvia Plath and Bobby Kennedy teaming up to foil diamond thieves! ...Okay, so we made that whole thing up, but this part is true - The Holy Sea (of being-asked-by-Nick-Cave-to-play-at-AllTomorrows-Parties fame) are launching their album Ghosts Of The Horizon at The Bald Faced Stag October 16, with support from The Broadside Push, Catherine Traicos and Psychonanny and the Baby Shakers. We were just looking for an angle, to be fair...

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LEVINS FROM WAMP WAMP I listened to a lot of stuff growing up; bebop and rocksteady, mostly. My girl April O’Neil used to hook me up with new albums from up and coming bands she met from work, and my best bro Casey Jones used to rap back in the day. That shit was cowabunga.

We’re the worlds most fearsome fighting team. (We’re really hip!) First of all there’s our leader, Leonardo. Next up is Donatello, he does machines and Michaelangelo is a party dude.

Some say I’m cool but crude, gimme a break!

KYÜ

The sound that our last coverstars kyü creates feels like it came from a secluded Scandinavian-cum-African tribe in a hidden rainforest surrounded with gushing waterfalls, fluorescent birds, sweeping landscapes and moody shadows. With palpitating drumbeats and beautiful, delicate yet powerful voices, kyü’s self-titled debut is a layered masterpiece - and you know what? Even that doesn’t do it justice. After selling out their first launch at Paddington Town Hall, they’ve added a second date at GoodGod Small Club on October 28. We have five albums to give away - just tell us the names of the lovely ladies below.

We make all kinds of music. Fighting music, music to eat pizza to, music to avenge the night as a vigilante to. Don is a classical music fiend and Mike loves to breakdance, so the music we make is somewhere in between.

The city is a dark place right now. We need to band together as one before we get our asses handed to us by Krang and Shredder again, you know what I mean dude? Come catch us Turtles keeping the city safe in a gnarly way at the return of Wamp Wamp, with our pals Deadboy from the UK and Myd from France plus those party dudes Kato, Generic DJs and Wedding Ring Fingers, this Friday at Goodgod!

Turtle Power!

Who: Deadboy, Myd, Kato and more What: The return of WAMP WAMP

I

grew up in the sewers of New York City with my three bros and our rat fatherfigure. We got covered in ooze at an early

age and we mutated into the pizza chompin’ heroes that our crime-filled city needed desperately.

Kool & The Gang

Where: Goodgod Small Club

DAFT PUNK TRON SOUNDTRACK

Daft Punk‘s much-hyped soundtrack for Tron: Legacy will be officially released on November 22 via Walt Disney Records, with the film itself to follow in December. The largely electronic score – some of which appeared to leak onto the web earlier this year – was composed, performed and produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, with contributions from a hundred-strong orchestra recorded at Air Studios in London. “It’s a new direction for them that they’re really excited about,” said Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, who’s apparently also an architect.

“And it’s so tied into the film, because we developed them both together.” Disney have just launched an interactive website for the soundtrack at tronsoundtrack.com.

MOUSE ON MARS

One for the heads: German electronic duo Mouse On Mars are touring Australia for the first time, playing Oxford Art Factory on Saturday October 30. With a sound conflating ambient, experimental, rock and techno influences, Mouse On Mars are hugely respected by the electronic cognoscenti – The Wire-magazine-reading, grapefruit-juice-sipping crowd – and have chalked up a discography comprising eleven commended LPs, beginning with their debut album Vulvaland, a collection of “ambient-house ectoplasms” in the mid-90s.

While recent releases seemed to be building towards a more live and pop-infused sound, Mouse On Mars’ latest album Varcharz halted the pattern with its firmly experimental electronic foundation. Support on the night will come courtesy of Seekae and QUA.

D25

KOOL & THE GANG / PLAYGROUND WEEKENDER

Soul legends Kool & The Gang will bring their electric 12-piece stage show to Australia for the first time in February. Emerging in the mid ’60s on the periphery of the developing instrumental-funk and psychedelic-jazz scenes, Kool & The Gang’s self-titled debut made little impact when it was first released. But today it’s regarded as a funk classic, and has gone on to be sampled countless times by hip hop and pop producers – in fact, our Brag statisticians inform me that Kool & The Gang are officially the most sampled band of all time. They play The Enmore Theatre on Friday February 18 with support from Roy Ayers and his 6-piece band - and it’s also been confirmed that Kool & The Gang are part of the lineup for next year’s annual Playground Weekender festival, slotted for the weekend of February 17-20 at Wiseman’s Ferry.

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When: Friday October 8, 10pm

D25 celebrates 25 years of Detroit techno with one of the best lineups our city has seen in some time – indeed, it’s been billed as “techno’s cultural event of the year”. Three of the very best auteurs (if you will) have been announced so far, with Carl Craig, Theo Parrish and Kenny Dixon Jr – aka the great Moodymann – all set to play at the event that’s slotted for The Forum on Saturday December 11. There really isn’t much that can be said about the triumvirate that hasn’t been said already; if any one of them were playing a solo show it would be significant cause for excitement, but put them all together on the same bill and you have… well, you have what we have on December 11. As local veteran Mark Murphy said, “I will be there, as will every DJ who has ever played in the world.” D25 will run from 4pm – 2am, and tickets will be available online from Wednesday October 6.

BOUNDARY BONDS WITH...

ALEX CLEA0RY DIRECTOR, ALPHA6

How did Alpha60 start?

As a hobby. We made one shirt (with my sister, the other half of Alpha60) and friends wanted one; so we made 10; and then 20; and so on. Originally it was just for fun and just grew from there.

What exactly does your role involve?

It’s incredible how many hats you have to wear. Everything from designing, PR, bookwork, building shops, fixing computers, to creating installations. It’s great, but it’s pretty hard to summarise a normal day.

What has been a highlight of your career?

Opening our first shop. It was dream.

Now we are lucky enough to have six stores.

What advice would you recommend to up and coming fashion designers?

Live by our motto: Keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground.

Alpha60 has been worn by bands like Bloc Party & Klaxons – how do you approach bands to wear your label?!

All of these guys just came into the shop. Some surprised us by wearing Alpha at their concerts eg. Jamie (Klaxons), Kele (Bloc Party), and Lily Allen. Also there’s TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire and James Murphy (LCD).

When Patti Smith came into the store she was disappointed that we didn’t have a T-shirt that featured her - of course we obliged and sent one off to her. She bought a Jean-Luc Godard Tee to wear as she was meeting him in Paris a few weeks later. Probably another career highlight.

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CISSY STRUT gave praise to good grades and sporting ability. My father can’t clap in time, let alone hold a tune - but my mother has a pretty voice, and I’d often hear her sing along to the radio in the car when I was younger.

Cyn (percussion): Disco and heavy metal pumping out of our most valuable house-hold possession - Dad’s Akai reel-toreel made me who I am today.”

Soph (drums): My sister and our neighbours used to spend all day making up fairly dramatic and probably ridiculous musicals. We’d insist the rest of the neighbourhood come and watch us perform them in really obscure locations like caves, under bridges and on rooftops.

Growing Up MeOmy (vocalist): My earliest memory 1. of music is my dad recording us on a reel-toreel (I was two, and demanded my brothers clap when I had finished singing). I grew up in a very musical household - my whole family are musos. It’s hard not to be influenced by something that you’re fed from birth. I think that’s why I like porridge.

Nat (vocalist): I grew up in the most nonmusical and academic-based household, which

Little Red

Inspirations Blondie, The Kinks, Lykke 2.

Li, MIA, Missy Elliot, Robyn, Phoenix, David Bowie, Basement Jaxx, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, Jamiroquai, Crazy P, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Stevie Wonder, Tweet, Parliament, Massive Attack, Beastie Boys, The Strokes, Transplants, Bjork... The list goes on and on.

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Your Crew You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms and the most convenient

definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is: A brain. An athlete. A basket case. A princess. And a criminal. Does that answer your question? ...Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.

The Music You Make Collectively, Strut have been touched by 4. an amazing network of stellar influences. Cyn has collaborated with Grammy award-winning producer A.T.N. Stedjwick (Maxwell, Robbie Williams) and Freedom Lyles (Angie Stone, Erykah Badu). We’re currently collaborating with Alan Goodman (Trakky Dax). What people can expect from our live show is sassy, chic and energetic BIG ROOM HOUSE that’s booty shaking fun.

Music, Right Here, Right Now The house music scene in particular is 5. slowly catching up with Europe, but not fast enough. Most Aussie bands that seem to really hit the ground running are from Perth or Brisbane – the Sydney scene is so very different though. I think there’s a real desire to push the boundaries a bit and break away from the masses; the result is some really interesting and inspiring music.

Who: Cissy Strut

LITTLE RED

Melbourne kids Little Red are well on their way to indie-pop-beach-boy-‘80s-throwbackdo-whoop-summer-festival-circuit world domination. After successfully telling kids to Listen To Little Red and now ‘Rock It’, it seems the only thing left to do is follow, whilst clapping en masse to their tunes. You can see the guys live on Friday October 8 at the Metro Theatre where they’ll be showcasing new hits from their latest album Midnight Remember. If you’re keen to take a friend along for free, and nab a copy of their slick new LP too, send us a picture of something small and red. SFW please, people.

Where: Pure Ivy @ Ivy Main Room When: Saturday October 9, 10pm

WAMP WAMP BIG VILLAGE DUST TONES

Two months on from the hip hop label’s launch in August, the Big Village crew bring their fresh sounds to Dust Tones at the Beach Road Hotel in Bondi for a free event this Friday. Three acts from the label - Daily Meds, Loose Change and True Vibenation - will be performing along with DJ Max Gosford. Since their launch in August, Big Village have secured a distribution deal and released their first official EP from Daily Meds, which should now be available at your local CD store (if not, then try Red Eye.) Big Village’s next release will be the debut album from Tuka of Thundamentals, which is due out early November.

The Daily Meds

RIP AARON CARL

At the time of writing, respected Detroit house producer and Wallshaker boss Aaron Carl, full name Aaron-Carl Ragland, had passed away following a battle with cancer. Over the course of his nearly two-decade career, Ragland was responsible for cuts like ‘My House’ and the sultry ‘Homoerotic,’ while releasing on some of house and techno’s most respected labels including Ovum and the Underground Resistance sub-label Soul City.

Affable producer/DJ Ewan Pearson posted on Facebook that Aaron “was a massive talent and a great producer. I had the honour of remixing ‘Crucified’ for Rob Fleming’s Sirkus label nearly 10 years ago, and it’s one of the best tracks I ever got to remix.”

DJ VADIM

Touted as the ‘John Coltrane of hiphop’, Russian born UK-based DJ Vadim will play Tone on Saturday November 6. Releasing his most recent album U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun in ’09, Vadim has churned out an abundance of releases over the past 14 years, including four solo albums, two group albums, one remix album, countless mix tapes, EPs and remixes.

He’s also collaborated with names like Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Public Enemy, Dilated Peoples and Fat Freddy’s Drop. Vadim formed his own Jazz Fudge label in 1994, way back when the Canberra Raiders last took out the comp, and signed to UK institution Ninja Tune the following year. For more info on Ninja Tune, turn to Tony E’s column deeper in the mag –

SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY

Count Doyle and Captain Franco

Count Doyle and Captain Franco, the Dynamite Sounds duo renowned for Sydney’s Dynamite parties, re-launch ‘Saturday Night Fish Fry’ this Saturday at GoodGod Small Club. Their mission statement espouses, “Get ready for a serious serving, as we throw down fillets of Southern Deep Fried Soul, Catfish Blues, Crispy Crumbed Creole Country, Mud Soaked Hoochie Coochie Voodoo, Greasy White Boy Rn’B, Rumblin Rocksteady, Pogo Mojo Ska, a Bucket Full of Bass, Brass, Boiled Guitar and Drums that will kick you to a corner several suburbs from your house.” Entry $10 on the door.

Wamp Wamp, Sydney’s infrequent Rap/Baile Funk/B’more/Grime/Garage/Dubstep etc party returns with a double international headline bill this Friday. First up is UK post-dubstep producer Deadboy, who’s followed the success of his single ‘If U Want Me’ on Glaswegian label Numbers with a string of remixes for distinguished artists like Delphic, Foals, Delorean and Appleblim. Deadboy will be joined

by Frenchman MYD, who has released some “dope tropical house jams” on labels like Sound Pellegrino, Kitsune and Top Billin’. Kato, Levins, Generic DJs and Wedding Ring Fingers are also set to represent. From 10pm at the revamped GoodGod Small Club, entry $20 on the door.

Catcall

Brag statisticians inform me that on average 38.7% of his weekly Soul Sedation article is connected to the Ninja Tune label in some way.

RADIOCLIT COMPILATION

Radioclit have compiled a collection of dance music from all over Africa entitled Radioclit Present: The Sound Of Club Secousse, which will be available worldwide on October 19.

Radioclit (also two-thirds of Afro-electro outfit The Very Best) began their Club Secousse night as a way to energise what they felt was a stagnant and divided music culture by bringing music from the local ghetto scenes around the world to the clubs of London and France.

Now, two years after its inception, they have chosen 14 tracks they feel “represent everything we love about ghetto culture: the ability to create something with nothing, the energy, the positivity.”

KARTON @ LAUNDRY

A.C.T production duo Karton headline Chinese Laundry this Friday October 8. With a penchant for breakbeat sounds, Karton are gearing up to release their debut LP For All Seasons before the year is out. “It was envisaged as an album that you can come back to regardless of what’s going on, and be able to find something in it that speaks to you,” the pair said of For All Seasons. “We hoped to create something that wouldn’t be defined by the time it was created or the genre it was in, but rather something that had a timeless feel to it.” Karton will be joined on Friday by Q45, Naany and Shamozzle, with entry $15 before 11pm. And listen out for Karton’s lead-off single ‘We Bleed’, which should be hitting the airwaves any day now.

CATCALL

Sydney’s Catherine Kelleher, aka Catcall, has just released Swimming Pool, her follow up to the Anniversary EP. The 23-year-old popstress first cut her musical teeth in DIY punk outfit Kiosk before morphing into Catcall, where she gained the attention of the Aussie public with performances at festivals like Big Day Out, Homebake and Parklife. Her latest release purportedly has her delving into disco influences with the aid of production guru Julian Mendelsohn, the man responsible for such classics as INXS’ ‘Need You Tonight’ and ‘Relax’, and ‘Two Tribes’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. (“I invented the piano key necktie!”)

Catcall plays The Civic Underground this Saturday with support from Alpine, Worlds End Press, Golden Ron, Bad Ezzy and the Future Classic DJs.

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Industry Music News with Christie Eliezer

ARIA NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

Universal Music Australia leads the nominations for the ARIA awards with 22 mentions for their artists. That figure would be 28 if Modular Recordings, which is half-owned

by Universal, wasn’t listed officially as a standalone label. UMA is followed by EMI (19), ABC (17) and MGM and Inertia tying at 11. Sia, Angus And Julia Stone, Birds of Tokyo, Guy Sebastian and Megan Washington were up for six nominations each - and up for five possible gongs were the John Butler Trio, Tame Impala and The Temper Trap. In a first for the ARIAs, the public can vote via the ARIA site to determine the Most Popular Australian Single and Album, and the most popular Australian and International Artists. This year sees the introduction of best hard rock/heavy metal album and best adult alternative album - while the dance media grumbled that their sector wasn’t getting maximum look-in. The show is being trimmed down: only 11 of the 26 categories will be handed out on the big night at the Opera House; 16 of the “genre” categories will be drip-fed announced before.

ARTISAN WINS

The announcement of the ARIA finalists at a function at the Conservatorium of Music also unveiled winners of the artisan awards. Angus And Julia Stone took out best producer and cover art for ‘Down the Way’. Kris Moyes won best video for Sia’s ‘Clap Your Hands’, while sound engineer Wayne Connolly was named engineer of the year for his work on Paul Dempsey’s ‘Fast Friends’. He took the chance to apologise to Dempsey for giving him food poisoning during one of the sessions.

DEADLY AWARDS

The 16th Deadlys had their share of moments at the Opera House. One was Archie Roach continuing to grieve in public for the late Ruby Hunter with a performance of ‘Kutjeri Lady (Beautiful Lady)’, which Hunter had written for a friend. He also took out Best Album Release with ‘1988’. Dan Sultan and Last Kinection’s Naomi Wenitong had two wins each. Sultan got male artist and Single Release (‘Letter’); Wenitong took Female Artist and Last

Life lines Hospitalised: Mat McHugh of The Beautiful Girls, with a burst appendix, forcing them to cancel a run of US shows.

Hospitalised: Wyclef Jean, from stress and fatigue after a hectic eight months after an unsuccessful bid to run for president of Haiti, and working for victims of the country’s earthquake.

Ill: Singer songwriter Ernest Ellis has been told by doctors that his hearing problems could cause permanent damage, so he shouldn’t perform for two months.

In Court: Jermaine Jackson says he can’t keep paying child support to three women on his monthly salary of $1,100.

Charged: Pete Doherty for cocaine possession, following an inquiry into the death of film maker Robin Whitehead 27.

Whitehead was making a doco on Doherty’s previous band The Libertines and was found dead in a flat in London in January, of a suspected overdose. Two friends were also charged.

Charged: Sugababes’ Amelle Berrabah, with drink-driving, after being pulled over a 5:30am. She was, umm, on her way to the gym to meet her trainer.

Died: US label executive Dick Griffey, 72, complications arising from a prior quadruple bypass surgery. His urban label Solar, founded in 1977, discovered Shalamar, The Whispers, Klymaxx, Midnight Star and The Deele, whose members included future stars “Babyface” Edmonds and “L.A.” Reid.

Kinection won Outstanding Achievement In RnB And Hip Hop. Wenitong co-hosted the night with actor Luke Carroll.

Darwin musician Ali Mills missed out on winning any of the three categories she was nominated for, but she was a star of the night, gleefully abandoning the autocue for her stage patter, coaxing footballer Jamal Idris to take his shirt off and bringing the house down at the end of the night with her ‘Waltjim Bat Matilda’ - for which all the winners joined in.

Other music winners were The Medics for Band Of The Year, and Busby Marou for Most Promising New Talent In Music. Bran Nue Dae, which starred Sultan, Jessica Mauboy and Missy Higgins, took Film Of The Year. Its lead Rocky McKenzie won Male Actor and Deborah Mailman beat Mauboy for the Female Actor trophy. Executive producer Gavin Jones said that 29,000 votes were cast.

BON JOV & BEASTIES FOR HALL OF FAME

Bon Jovi, Beastie Boys and LL Cool J are among the possibles to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame next March. Others included Donna Summer, Chic, Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Donovan, Dr. John, Neil Diamond, Chuck Wills, J Geils Band, Joe Tex and Darlene Love. To be eligible, the act has to have released its first recording 25 years ago.

GOLD STAR FOR WASHINGTON

Melbourne singer/songwriter Washington’s debut album I Believe You Liar, which helped her land six nominations for the ARIAs, has been certified gold for sales of 35,000 units.

It entered the ARIA chart at #3 and stayed in the Top 10 for six weeks. It’s also the highest selling Australian album by a debut artist this year, says Universal Music.

EIGHT COUNTRIES, 24 HOURS

German guitar musician Vicente Patiz is waiting to see if Guinness World Records will make official his recent feat: to promote his new CD he gave concerts in eight countries in 24 hours. He started off in the German city of Oberhausen and drove over 1,000 km (600 miles) to play two-hour shows in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria. The current world record was set in March 2009 when Jeff Aug played six countries in 24 hours.

KISS MAKE $500 000 A SHOW

Based on artists’ tour contracts, TheSmokingGun.com reports that Kiss get US$500000 per show. But country music star Rascal Flatts pockets the most, $702 500.

Third on the list is Keith Urban ($487 500), Brooks & Dunn ($460 000), Sugarland ($325 00), Justin Bieber ($300 000), comedian Jeff Dunham ($200 000), Drake ($155 000), Weezer ($150 000) and Steve Miller Band ($150 000). In addition, these acts get a cut of the box office.

THINGS WE HEAR * A Hard Rock Café will be trading in Darling Harbour by next April, say Lennie Huntly and David Rich who own the rights to the brand in this country. A Melbourne venue is also to be announced shortly. * Philadelphia Grand Jury have a new drummer - Berlin-based, Brisbanite Susanna Patten, aka Susie Dreamboat of I Heart Hiroshima. * An online poll by PlanetRock.com saw Free’s 1970 hit ‘All Right Now’ voted greatest rock song of all time. It passed the one million airplay mark in the US in 1990, and the two million airplay mark in the UK in 2000. * German rockabilly pop outfit The Baseballs are here for a promotional visit for Warner Music from 13th to 20th will later tour the major cities as well as Wuxi, Shenyang, Nanjing and Changsha.

At the same time, we will see visits here

by Chinese veterans P.K.14 and Carsick Cars. The Sino-Australia Music Exchange is the work of Imagine Australia: The Year of Australian Culture in China, Sydney’s Chalk Horse gallery and Tenzenmen. “Culture needs dialogue and dialogue needs culture,” explains Chalk Horse director and curator Dougal Phillips.

JACKSON’S BUSINESS ADVISER SUES

Heading to court this week is Dr Tohme Tohme, who was Michael Jackson’s final business manager and “sole spokesperson” in his last 12 months. He is suing his estate for US$2.3 million. Tohme, a stranger to the music biz who calls himself a financer and “ambassador at large for Senegal”, claims he coordinated MJ’s comeback and brokered his run of London dates last year. Therefore,

November behind their Strike album. * Inertia has taken over the local distribution of SubPop, from Stomp. * INXS’s ‘By My Side’, which was played at Michael Hutchence’s funeral, was also played at his mum Patricia Glassop’s funeral in Nerang, Queensland. Glassop spent the last ten years fighting to see more of her grandchild Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, but failed to have the girl at her farewell. Her adoptive father Bob Geldof thought her presence would create a media circus. * Viral buzz of the week - ten years ago, David Jonathan Winkelman, 48, got Iowa hard rock station KORB’s logo tattooed on his forehead for a “six-figure payout”, only to find it was a joke. His photo with logo was posted online after he was charged last week with driving a car without telling its owner.

he says, he’s entitled to 15% of all royalties from the This Is It movie, soundtrack, and the millions made from posthumous records and merchandising. It was generally believed that This Is It was a three-way deal with promoters AEG, Colombia Pictures and Jackson’s estate.

URTHBOY REACHES OUT

Hip hopster Urthboy has teamed up with ReachOut.com to record a single ‘Your Thing’, which celebrates what inspires you or gives you a purpose. He wrote it in Istanbul addressing suicide, “through the eyes of someone who decided not to seek a permanent solution for a temporary problem.” It can be downloaded for free from soundcloud. com/elefanttraks/your-thing. The project is looking for young people to send videos or photos of them doing “their thing”, the best of which will be used in the official video clip. Deadline is Monday October 18 - go to youtube.com/group/whatsyourthing.

›› TMN TOP 40

The top 40 most ‘heard’ songs on Australian radio.

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TRACK

LABEL

1

2 10 1 14 26 53 TAIO CRUZ

DYNAMITE

ISL/UMA

2

4

RADIOACTIVE

SME

3

1 10 1 14 32 59 KATY PERRY

TEENAGE DREAM

CAP/EMI

3

2 15 37 69 KINGS OF LEON

4

7

5

4 14 25 58 BRUNO MARS

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

ATL/WMA

5

5

5

5 14 27 51 CEE-LO GREEN

FU

WMUK/WMA

6

3 11 2 14 27 58 USHER FT. PITBULL

DJ GOT US FALLIN’ IN LOVE

SME

7 10 9

7 13 27 51 MIKE POSNER

COOLER THAN ME

SME

8

8

3

8 11 26 53 RIHANNA

ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD)

DEF/UMA

9

6

9

6 12 35 61 THE SCRIPT

FOR THE FIRST TIME

SME

10 9 12 7 13 26 58 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS

CLOSER TO THE EDGE

VIR/EMI

11 21 10 11 11 27 50 B.O.B FT. RIVERS CUOMO

MAGIC

ATL/WMA

12 11 8 11 13 29 55 GOOD CHARLOTTE

LIKE IT’S HER BIRTHDAY

CAP/EMI

13 13 10 4 13 26 54 LADY GAGA

DANCE IN THE DARK

INT/UMA

One-armed South African DJ Black Coffee (Nkosinathi Maphumulo) spun records for 60 hours in a bid to make the Guinness World Record.

14 16 9 11 13 24 51 KE$HA

TAKE IT OFF

SME

15 12 13 8 17 32 54 BIRDS OF TOKYO

PLANS

CAP/EMI

16 17 15 5 13 25 46 FLO RIDA FT. DAVID GUETTA

CLUB CAN’T HANDLE ME

ATL/WMA

17 32 7 17 12 25 46 ZOE BADWI

FREE FALLIN’

NEON/WMA

“BRW” YOUNG RICH

18 35 3 18 11 26 53 ADAM LAMBERT

FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

SME

19 19 18 5 15 44 67 TRAIN

IF IT’S LOVE

SME

BLACK COFFEE SPINS ‘EM

Not too many music execs, managers, journos or roadies made it onto the BRW list of 100 richest Australians aged under 40...

At #13 is Perth’s Eugeni Tsvetnenko who set up a record label from the $113 million he made from his online mobile phone services company, which recently signed Brisbane band Streamer Bendy. Ash Hunter (#42) (who made his $47 million from publishing motorcar magazines and investing in property) also dabbled with a record label for a time. Savage Garden split in 2001, but royalties see guitarist Daniel Jones at #73 with $28 million and singer Darren Hayes at #81 with $26 million.

Tim Anderson who co-founded DVD distributor Madman Entertainment is at #97, with $20 million. Top of the list was Queensland mining magnate Nathan Tinkler, with $610 million.

SINO-AUSTRALIAN MUSIC EXCHANGE

The Sino-Australia Music Exchange will see four Aussie indie acts touring around China.

The Vasco Era are off this month for the Midi Festival in Zhejiang before heading to Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai for club shows. Dead Farmers, East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Digger and the Pussycats

20 14 13 1 11 25 51 EMINEM FT. RIHANNA 21 15 7

10 12 36 88

TAYLOR SWIFT

LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE

INT/UMA

MINE

BIG/UMA

18 1

14 42 82

UNCLE KRACKER

SMILE

ATL/WMA

23 25 14 7

13 32 61

MICHAEL PAYNTER

LOVE THE FALL

SME

24 18 17 1

14 30 56

ADAM LAMBERT

IF I HAD YOU

SME

JESSICA MAUBOY FT. SNOOP DOGG

GET ‘EM GIRLS

SME

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT. PITBULL

I LIKE IT

INT/UMA

27 20 12 16 11 33 57

ED KOWALCZYK

GRACE

SME

28 29 13 15 12 39 53

NICKELBACK

THIS AFTERNOON

RR/WMA

29 27 14 12 13 37 58

MAROON 5

MISERY

A&M/UMA

30 23 16 18 12 38 64

JOHN BUTLER TRIO

REVOLUTION

JAR/MGM

31 45 6

31 12 24 38

LITTLE RED

ROCK IT

LIB/UMA

32 43 3

32 11 23 43

NELLY

JUST A DREAM

UNI/UMA

33 26 6

23 12 36 68

POWDERFINGER

IBERIAN DREAM

UMA

34 28 9

21 13 26 61

22

22

25 47 2

25 11 25 49

26 24 19 1

13 28 52

35 33 19 12 15 30 56

STAN WALKER

CHOOSE YOU

SME

GYROSCOPE

BABY, I’M GETTING BETTER

UMA

36 37 21 1

15 29 53

KATY PERRY FT. SNOOP DOGG

CALIFORNIA GURLS

CAP/EMI

37 38 30 6

15 45 59

JET

SEVENTEEN

VIR/EMI

BRIAN MCFADDEN FT. DELTA GOODREM

MISTAKES

ISL/UMA

38 30 5

30 10 26 60

39 36 22 2

19 40 64

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS

THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG

SME

40 31 33 1

15 49 67

TRAIN

HEY, SOUL SISTER

SME

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hen I was fourteen, my brother handed down to me a shoebox of CDs. Among all the Black Flag and Dead Kennedys that served me so well in subsequent years, there was his exâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s copy of You Am Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1992 EP Goddamn, inscribed in Sharpie on the front as follows: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Sammy: May your buns always be BUTT-ered, Love Timmy.â&#x20AC;? Much tickled, I decided to investigate this droll character and his works.

One very educational decade later, Tim Rogers calls me to chat about the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-titled ninth studio album, and laughs ruefully as I read his own words back to him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh God. I really am quite the idiot.â&#x20AC;? No, I insist, I liked it, and still do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it made me want to know who the hilarious Timmy was. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If ever you find out you can let me know,â&#x20AC;? says hilarious Timmy with a groan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mystery to me.â&#x20AC;?

Timmy sounds very, very tired. Two nights ago he, the YAI boys â&#x20AC;&#x201C; guitarist Davey Lane, drummer Russell Hopkinson and bassist Andy Kent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and half a dozen more illustrious names performed the Rolling Stonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; classic album Exile On Main Street in its entirety at the Oxford Art Factory. As it was a Jack Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; event, one can imagine the libations flowed freely. Guest vocalist and sometime YAI collaborator Nick Barker put it plainly on the night: â&#x20AC;&#x153;How good is this, eh? Free booze and playing Rolling fucking Stones songs with your mates.â&#x20AC;? When your mates include Magic Dirtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adalita Srsen, Tex Perkins, The Mess Hall boys and all of You Am I, carnage inevitably ensues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strangely exhausting night,â&#x20AC;? Rogers says now, his battered voice only slightly above a whisper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We decided to keep the socialising going, and just stopped a couple of hours ago.â&#x20AC;? It has just passed 11am.

Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fabulously louche stage persona often channels the combined spirit, if not the antics, of the Glimmer Twins. Earlier in the year he

was performing the famous Get Yer Ya-Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Out concert in small venues around the country.

Some people were beginning to wonder if YAI were in danger of becoming a really fun Stones tribute band â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tim himself included. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, at times we were taking on the visage of a covers band, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care,â&#x20AC;? he says, with an audible smile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just love playing guitarâ&#x20AC;Ś It was one of those times when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey man, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a working musician.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever wanted to be, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good.â&#x20AC;?

Rogers is a very busy working musician, involved in not only his various musical projects but also dipping his toes in waters cinematic and theatrical â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he made his stage debut at Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Malthouse Theatre last year. He considers his and his bandmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; packed schedules both a compliment and a privilege. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the band has approached things in a way that makes us quite fun to work with,â&#x20AC;? he tells me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People know that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to be an awful experience - I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pretty nice people. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in things, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m attracted to people who are interesting and interested, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear something or read something and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to participate in it rather than just appreciate. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just a person like that, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s football or free jazz. I want to get involved, and test myself, put myself in uncomfortable situations, see if I can do something good with it.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deeply reassuring that a band who are such an institution rest so uneasily on their laurels.

Famously having albums #2, #3 and #4 debut at the top of the ARIA charts, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tweaked and pushed their laconic, heartfelt rock sound at each turn. This decade, highlights have included the unadulterated thrashing glee of 2006â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Convicts and Davey Laneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio debut on 2001â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dress Me Slowly. But while the glory days of chart domination seem to be largely in the

past, there is no energy wasted trying to perfectly recreate â&#x20AC;&#x153;those nice records that people seemed to likeâ&#x20AC;?, as Rogers refers to Hi Fi Way, Hourly Daily and #4 Record. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I definitely donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be the same person I was when I was 24,â&#x20AC;? he says, adding haltingly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m enjoying getting older and still having no clue how to get through it without some damage. I hope that we continue to do that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sort of uncharted territory, as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going on.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exploratoryâ&#x20AC;? is the word Rogers uses repeatedly to describe the recording process and sound on the latest You Am I. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reflective, subdued tone to much of it, especially the wistful closer â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Not Get Famousâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely not advice to other acts or young bands,â&#x20AC;? Tim says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got nothing to say to them other than, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Would you like a drink?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?) Longtime producer Greg Wales, who Rogers says â&#x20AC;&#x153;knows us better than ourselves,â&#x20AC;? found himself drawn to the quieter tracks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It can often happen that the most aggressive tunes arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the most powerful. We were trying to find some tunes that wereâ&#x20AC;Ś. A little more delicate, a little more exploratory,â&#x20AC;? explains Rogers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[W] e know that we can be a scrappy little rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll band, or an early-90s soft-verse heavy-chorus band, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kinda done that, and we can do that any night of the week - to do something a little more exploratory was far more intriguing to us. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t what we were listening to, it was more about a relationship with each other, and the way that we want to be as musicians, and how we want to challenge ourselvesâ&#x20AC;Ś We kind of just wanted to fuck ourselves up a bit.â&#x20AC;?

Around the time the eighth LP Dilettantes dropped, Rogers told one journalist that if Convicts was a slab of meat, the airier newie was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a bowl of fruit with a cherry on topâ&#x20AC;?. I invite him to torture the analogy further: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This [latest album] is an afternoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tapas,â&#x20AC;? he deadpans,

without missing a beat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are many bowls, with many piquante little treats.â&#x20AC;? But he also assures me we ought not read anything into the decision to self-title a record for the first time in their career, and release an album independently for the first time in ten years, making an amiable break from EMI. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m surprised how much energy there is still between us, and I think we might be getting an idea of the band that we wanna be...

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no big thumping of the chest, and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;WE ARE WHO WE AREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Something about it just felt right.â&#x20AC;?

Rogers is nothing if not deferential to inspiration â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not something he can always control. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[T]here are times I think, I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I can write anymore, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but compare myself to peers of mine, writers and singers, and I think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so good that I just get intimidated out of wanting to write.â&#x20AC;? He compares inspiration to a romantic swell or rush. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only thing I can compare it to - the giddiness of falling in love with somebody. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always come like that, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mystery, I almost donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wanna know. When I see therapists and psychiatrists, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that always comes up, those bursts of the act of creation and what it does to you. I know what it does to me - it gives me a lust for life and it makes me very, very happy and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a good person to be around - a better dad, a better friend. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite pleased to be bewildered by it, to just not get too down that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen every day or every hour. The next is just around the corner.â&#x20AC;?

Who: You Am I What: You Am I is out October 8, through Other Tongues With: Richard In Your Mind, Cabins and Guineafowl Where: The Metro Theatre When: Saturday October 16

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Jonneine Zapata The Feminine Mystique

By Caitlin Welsh

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onneine Zapata’s live shows have reviewers in the States scrambling for their thesauri.

There are only so many synonyms for sultry, smouldering and smoky, and it often sounds like she literally burns venues to the ground. Zapata stole shows opening for The Raconteurs a few years ago; she then toured the US with Mark Lanegan’s Soulsavers last year, and is now headed to Australia this week. Of Mexican and Italian extraction, renowned for the “mesmerising” gaze to which her live audiences are subjected, and likened to Jim Morrison and Nick Cave as often as PJ Harvey, she sounds an altogether terrifying person. On the phone from LA, however, her tone is light and friendly, with a girlish laugh that bubbles up out of nowhere. Early on, I blurt the inelegant observation that she doesn’t seem that scary at all, really.

To her credit she answers me seriously, replying that she doesn’t intend to be intimidating. “When I think of someone who’s really gonna do harm, in the context of a band, I don’t think of myself. I think of like a hard, hard band, with a deafening sound,” she says. “It’s very bizarre, because I’m tall, and thin, I don’t look menacing whatsoever, I have very soft features. It’s not me physically…

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I think it’s just a little feeling they get from the actual tones that are coming out that make them feel maybe unsafe, or ungrounded. I’m talking about these insane, unsettled things that are hardly really spoken about between people.”

Zapata’s debut album Cast The Demons Out does exactly what it says on the tin – it feels like an exorcism, confession and catharsis, and Zapata confirms that it did work on her to a degree. “They’re not all out, but mostly.” The sound that she and guitarist Jeff Mendel create is sparse and shadowy, soaked in the Americana essentials – sex, death, sin, God, and love – with a languid, claustrophobic menace. Unless you’re listening carefully, it’s hard to tell sometimes whether Zapata wants to fuck you or fuck you up.

If the scary vibe isn’t deliberate, from where does the darkness come?

“There’s always been a sort of darkness about me, ever since I was a little child,” she says, as matterof-factly as if she were discussing having a talent for whistling. “I think everybody was well aware of it; I think my parents were, the schools were, the other children and their parents… And the more I try to hide it, the worse it becomes. And honestly, it doesn’t have to do with anything about me. I have a Scorpio rising, and I really think that that’s it, that I just appear dark to the world.”

As a rising star herself, Zapata seems mildly baffled by much of the growing media coverage.

Especially if you Google her, and get a barrage of quotes comparing her to Jim Morrison. She thinks it came from one particular interviewer that made the comparison – “The rest of the blogs just took it and ran with it, without doing their own investigation… Of course it’s a compliment, but he’s just so magnificent!” There’s an incredulous giggle, but not a hint of false modesty. “Naturally, if many people are saying it and you see it all over the place on Google, you get inquisitive - partly because I’m a female and he’s male,” Zapata continues. “I think what I have in common with him is sort of an overt sensuality; and I don’t think it’s sexuality, it’s sensuality. Danzig [for example] was more sexual, Jim Morrison was more sensual... People just [need to] pin you up against someone.”

“I’m definitely not the girl who’s going to put a lollipop in her mouth and wear a Catholic schoolgirl uniform.

Nobody’s going to mix me up there.”

My first reference point for the album, I tell her, was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘State Trooper’ – the tension and metronomic sparseness of her guitar, sounding as if she’s primed to pack up and go on the lam at a moment’s notice. Zapata recorded a cover of the song for her self-titled EP, and says that the sense of danger that seeps between the thick, deep notes of her version is both performative and in the nature of the song. “If I’m in a place, and I want a man or something, if I address myself that way, I’m forward, or confident... I think that maybe it feels menacing. ’State Trooper’ is a very, very menacing song - I really didn’t change it, the chords were very much the same as what Springsteen played - and you know what it’s equivalent to is a woman being on top… It has a very sexual feel, I felt like I was riding an animal. And it’s not a pony.”

Zapata is confident enough in her art not to shy away from sexual or submissive themes or songs of longing, even if there’s a threat she could be thought of as weak in such a fiercely masculine scene. “I’m definitely not the girl who’s going to, like, put a lollipop in her mouth and wear a Catholic schoolgirl uniform...

Nobody’s going to mix me up there,” she says. But ultimately, she tells me, she doesn’t care how the media responds to her. “It’s their prerogative, and they’re putting pieces together in the beginning of the game here for me, and that’s OK,” she says. “The pieces will all be out there, and people will fit them together and form their own opinion of me. And at the same time I’ll still be growing, and inspired, and pulled in different directions. So none of it bothers me, because it’s not me forever. You’re not who people say you are.”

Who: Jonneine Zapata What: Cast The Demons Out is out now through Laughing Outlaw Where: The Annandale Hotel When: Friday October 8

The Fall Coming Full Circle By Mikey Carr

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ark E. Smith, the frontman and sole constant member of seminal post-punk group The Fall, is a venerable figure in today’s music industry. Having put out 28 studio albums over more than three decades, triple that if you include live recordings and other releases, Smith is a tireless talent. Enduring every facile wave the fickle and trend-obsessed music industry have thrown at them, The Fall have consistently delivered album after album of shambolic, humourous and telling commentary on life and living.

Smith’s lyrics - remarkably incise, bitingly witty and often cryptic - doll out swathes of social observation and general misanthropy amongst repetitious, sparse and often brash music; despite their cult following, the band never achieved the same level of acclaim and fame as contemporaries like Joy Division or The Sex Pistols. In recent years though, the world has seen The Fall held up by the hordes of the fashionable as yet another talisman of hipdom, the band’s journey coming full circle as popculture eats itself once more.

“It’s a bit weird for me really,” Smith explains over the phone in his thick Manchester accent.

“The last four months we’ve been doing a lot of festivals, which is strange for The Fall - we’re usually banned from them. There’s one up side; our audience is a lot bleeding younger than it was five years ago. But there are just so many more ass-lickers now; all these new bands are ass-lickers, and you see that playing festivals.”

another statement of blind acceptance – worn on a Dangerfield T-shirt with blissful ignorance of the irony. Nothing has changed, only the times, and The Fall are now a fashion item for hip teens to pin on their chest; a symbol of their homogenous rejection of conformity. The band’s message is still valid and the music is still good, but the ethics and philosophy seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

Smith continues to spit at consumer culture, and shows no signs of stopping. “I shouldn’t be telling you but I left Domino [Records] last week, so I’m just going to record - then we’re touring in November and December, and then we’ll see what the New Year brings. That’s the way I do it though, I don’t plan ahead.” Part of that tour will see The Fall in Australia for the first time in 20 years, playing Meredith Festival and a sideshow in Sydney. Until then, let’s just leave him alone to do his job, and try to avoid mythologising him into anything other than he is; a cantankerous poet, with a lot on his mind.

Who: The Fall Where: The Metro Theatre When: Tuesday December 7

“There was this other group warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible... so I threw a bottle at them. The band said, ‘That’s Sons Of Mumford’ or something - ‘They’re number five in the charts!’ I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.”

Never one to lean away from candour toward tact, Smith is unafraid of voicing his opinions on “these new bands”... “We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week,” he starts, with an undeniably mischievous tone. “There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said ‘shut them c***s up,’ and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The band said ‘that’s Sons Of Mumford,’ or something, ‘they’re number 5 in charts!’ I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.”

Part of why The Fall have grown so popular in recent years is the remarkable influence the band have had on those who followed. Artists like The Birthday Party, Pavement, The Happy Mondays and Nirvana all doffed their hats to Smith, with every third band on MySpace listing The Fall or Mark E. Smith in their influences box.

Even Britain’s bad boy Pete Doherty is blatantly plagiarising Smith’s image as a frenetic drug addled misanthrope. “I’m glad you said that, but you must have an antipodean view point there because a lot of people here in the UK don’t see that,” he says, when I mention Doherty. “I don’t really know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing...” he trails off, in contemplation.

It seems that while Smith is happy to have the spotlight on him, there is a degree of uncertainty about the circumstances around his illumination.

With The Fall’s music intended to fly in the face of what was accepted and celebrated by mainstream culture, the message has been somewhat undercut by the wave of trendfollowers that have sprung up around the band.

“I think that means something’s gone wrong,” he confides. “I mean we actually got a good review in NME, you know? Like fuck me, it’s time to fucking pack it in,” he laughs maniacally.

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Evidence Going Solo By Tyson Wray

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ne third of the influential L.A. hip hop group Dilated Peoples, Evidence is renowned for dark-laden hooks and menacing lyricism. After years in the spotlight with the trio, he unleashed his solo career in 2007 with his debut LP The Weatherman, which received critical acclaim.

Evidence is returning to Australia to show off his second EP, Cats & Dogs - a dynamic insight into his trials and tribulations, success and failures. “I view it as my third solo body of work, being that The Layover EP was only a song short of an LP,” he explains. “I’m still just doing ‘me’ on this one, the same way I did the last two joints.

I recorded a lot over the last year in various places and situations - what songs make the final cut will be determined pretty darn soon”.

As Evidence progressed into solo territory, his influences, production methods and repertoire flourished significantly, thriving on his unfaltering love for pure hip hop. “At first it was [trying to] say all the stuff I never said or tried to say in my group, but [now] it’s just been about being into crafting songs, the love for the production aspect of the game and having an outlet to speak honestly if so desired,” he explains. “I listen to a lot of people as a fan, but try to separate myself as an artist when I’m creating. Some people have the flows real tight, some people have

an undeniable presence, some people have a voice, but few have it all.”

With a thorough knowledge of and background in unpolluted hip hop, Evidence recognises the imperative of creating a unique and distinctive sound: “I’m a graffiti artist,” he tells me, “and cloning someone else’s style doesn’t earn you much respect.

I always keep that in mind in anything I do, and try as much as I can to be me. My sound is dark and slow, with moments of light and speed…”

When we talk about the current hip hop scene, he tells me that these days, it’s bigger than ever. “With that comes so many discussions and opinions. The sales aspect seems like it’s either going away or is in a serious transitional stage, while touring for the acts that earned a real fan base seems like it’s steady. You get out what you put in, and these next years will mirror those groups that are the real deal.”

Evidence’s own live show is renowned for carrying over all of the raw and energetic elements found within his productions. “It’s a really basic approach. No smoke, no pyro, no porno,” he laughs, “All jokes aside, connecting with the crowd is always most important, and that’s what I intend to do….

When I started doing solo shows I didn’t know what to expect; I still keep that same attitude for any show anywhere. When I show up and see people waiting, it’s similar to a scientist seeing an invention they have been working on forever finally work. The day I expect it or don’t get nervous is the day it all falls down.”

Visiting Australian shores for his first ever solo headline tour, with Total Eclipse of The Xecutioners on the decks, Evidence expresses his excitement and expectations, “I was just there with my group and it was very, very dope. I said to them I can’t wait to return and ‘Poof!’ the offer presented itself!” he laughs. “It’s going to be good energy.

When I perform I don’t feel like I’m the guy on stage and they are the audience, I’m up there trying to channel Jim Morrison-meetsAd Rock’s great grandmother’s lost cousin’s soul”, he pauses and laughs. “While others call it underground hip hop, I call it a great time waiting to happen. Can’t wait to see you”.

Who: Evidence (Dilated Peoples) With: Total Eclipse (The Xecutioners) Where: Tone, Surry Hills When: Friday October 15

Howl Learning To Survive By Alex Young

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very year, triple j run their Unearthed High competition, seeking out Australia’s very best high school band. In 2009, that best band was Howl. The Ballarat based six-piece seriously damaged their school’s gymnasium floor after their nationally broadcasted winner’s performance alongside Art vs Science, and from that moment on, as frontman Michael Belsar tells us, shit got real.

“Winning was the best thing for this band, not even just for the triple j airplay. It also motivated us to take ourselves so much more seriously,” he says. “As soon as we won, we realised we had this huge opportunity and we needed to kind of grasp it.” And while recording, exposure, and touring opportunities have been free-flowing since winning Unearthed High, Belsar admits that the competition has clung to Howl’s public identity; even one-year on the tag is proving hard to break.

“People kind of know us as a high school band, and we’re trying to prove that we are not just that.

So that’s kind of the major challenge right now.”

The six-piece have evidently taken this challenge head on, with the release of their second EP for 2010 just this week. After the success of their self-titled debut in February, the group return with another assaulting, sex-fuelled punk player Brothers in Violence, that traces the everridiculous experiences of the group.

Belsar explains the ideas behind Brothers. “It is not like we are writing really meaningful songs. I mean this whole EP is about the last six months of touring, and just basically every good story from the last six months is lyrically crammed in.” These sentiments are also echoed sonically, with the five tracks of the EP packed with creeping bass lines and raucous solos that create a carnival of disobeying, screaming, partying attitudes: a factor that the group are perfectly comfortable with.

“We’re not out to send a message or anything”,

Belsar says. “We’re more just trying to do good live shows”.

With supporting slots alongside Yacht Club DJs and Cassette Kids, as well as a co-headline tour with DZ, Howl have established themselves as one of the most exciting live acts on the circuit.

And with audience mayhem and on-stage ferocity now signatures of a Howl gig, Belsar recalls it took some time for the group to learn how to survive touring.

“The first few tours, we really didn’t know how to tour well. We ate so much junk food, and discovering how much you can drink when you are playing shows really does not work out well for you,” he admits. “On the first tour, we had Maccas every day I reckon.” Stories of sleeping in strip clubs and lost band members emerge, proving that coordinating six outgoing teenagers can be difficult at times… But hey, at least they’re having fun, right?

Belsar laughs. “No-one is perfect. I mean I have also fucked up a few times - in Brisbane after we played with Cassette Kids, we all went out and I lost the other guys, my phone battery ran out, and I just got absolutely wasted… when I finally went to a computer store to charge my phone I had a thousand missed calls and everyone was like ‘dude, we’re in Byron Bay now.’”

Howl are about to embark on a national EP tour, followed by a 26-date run with Philadelphia Grand Jury... Lets just hope they survive.

Who: Howl What: Brothers In Violence EP is out now through I Oh You/Shock Where: Spectrum When: Friday October 22

Scott Spark Noble Failure By Alasdair Duncan

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cott Spark has been Brisbane’s worstkept musical secret for some years now, playing sweet, sad, piano-led songs of love and loss to ever-growing crowds. The release last month of his debut album Fail Like You Mean It earned Spark a spot on triple j’s playlist, and introduced his music to a national audience. As he prepares to finally take the album on the road, he reflects on his first awkward musical fumblings with no small amount of whimsy.

“Playing gigs in Brisbane has been like when you’re a kid,” Spark says, “when you can rearrange the living room and make a cubby hut, and you destroy the sofa and pull all the sheets out of the cupboard - you can basically do whatever the fuck you like and find your feet.

You can create an imaginary world. At some point, though, you have to put the sofa back together, put the sheets back in the cupboard and step outside to do it for real.”

Spark has already road-tested his new songs on a national tour supporting Megan Washington, and while he was a little nervous about venturing into regional Australia, he found the experience immensely rewarding. “You look at the crowd in some places and think, ‘Fuck, nobody’s going to be into this, I’m just some poncy guy playing my songs. Are they going to just maul me?’” he laughs. “Surprisingly, I’ve had

a lot of great moments - I’ve felt like the songs have really spoken to a lot of people.

“In Ballarat, I had this one guy come up to me,” Spark continues, “just a straight-up dude in his late twenties who said, ‘Hey man, I heard your song on triple j last night and I really liked it - I was running late for my girlfriend but I sat in the driveway and listened to the end.’ I would never have assumed, from looking at this guy, that he’d do that - and the great lesson for me was that if they’re going to give you a chance, you’ve got to give them a chance.”

One of the highlights of Spark’s debut is the title track, which rides along on a bouncy, Supertramp-like keyboard riff but, beneath its bright pop surface, is actually a poignant meditation on the nature of failure. “No-one ever talks about failure,” Spark says. “It’s one of the dirtiest words. I think so much of the music industry is based solely on the idea of cool, and it gets very boring very quickly. In that period when you’re moving from your teens to adulthood, there are so many opportunities to fail – in your relationships, with your parents, when you end up getting your stomach pumped at two in the morning...

“When my dad died, I started asking myself whether death is the ultimate failure when you love somebody,” he continues. “This song is the

first good one I wrote after that – for months after it happened, I sat down and tried to write and ended up with a pile of shit, just banging my head against the wall. When people are dying, you see them try to hide it from others – it’s like they feel like they’re committing the ultimate betrayal of all their relationships. Is that our greatest failure? The point of our lives, I think, is to engage with people and connect as genuinely and as often as possible. If you

do that, it’s almost as though you can outsmart death – your energy lives on, and you live on.”

Who: Scott Spark What: Fail Like You Mean It is out now With: Fergus Brown, The Rescue Ships Where: The Vanguard When: Thursday October 7

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Boredoms The Mind’s Eye By Patrick Emery

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n July 7 in 2007, Japanese punk noise band The Boredoms convened in Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC. In addition to the band’s multipercussive attack, they invited 75 guest drummers to join them in a celebration of percussive power – the now legendary 77BOADRUM. “I could never imagine 77 drums coming together. It was Earthrumbling, as if like a massive Godzilla was walking towards us,” says Boredoms leader Yamantaka Eye. On August 8 the next year, Boredoms did it again this time with 88 drummers. “It was more than what I expected. But I thought the sound impact when we had rehearsal with 13 drummers in this narrow room blasted my ears more than 77/88 drummers outside. In the outside, 77 drummers playing on field, near the water, with all those elements through the air... it was an impressive crazy happening. 77 drummers coming together is more than a big sound.” The following year it was stripped back with nine drummers to BOADRUM9, at Terminal 5 in New York. The next installment is a world exclusive that Sydney will miss out on this weekend, BOADRUM10 at Melbourne Festival. But they’re stopping here the following Monday for a show.

Boredoms grew from the ashes of Japan’s Hanatarash, an early 80s extreme performance band. Hanatarash was notorious for its on-stage behaviour – including driving a bulldozer into the side of a club, and throwing Molotov cocktails.

With Boredoms (which Eye started “just because I wanted to have my own band”), Eye wanted to move away from overtly violent confrontation while still retaining the intensity of his previous outfit. It’s an intensity that has built a mystical aura around the band, lending itself to the odd urban myth – like the story that Eye refused to eat for three days before the first ever Boredoms gig. (“That is not true,” Eye counters.)

With that description on record, I ask Eye what sort of person he thinks is likely to be attracted to the music of Boredoms? “That is also my question,” Eye says. “I’m interested in what kind of people come up to see us, but it’s hard to comprehend. I guess not many young people, like junior high or high school kids, are there.” So given the intensity of a Boredoms show, in what state of mind should an audience member leave a Boredoms show?

“Please – we just ask that for Boredoms, it is a fun state of mind,” Eye says. “I just want to share a great time with everybody.”

With Boredoms set to play in Sydney next week, I’m curious about the live show they have planned.

“We’re always concerned about the visual image, but the main thing is always the music,” Eye says. 90% of a Boredoms show is pre-arranged, he says, with the rest improvised around it. “It’s all affected by circumstances, like musical instruments and what the crowd is like… So it will never be the same thing [twice].”

Who: Boredoms Where: The Metro Theatre When: Monday October 11

The band started performing in 1986, releasing various albums, singles and cassettes now highly prized by Boredoms fanatics. In the late 80s, they made the acquaintance of Sonic Youth and the influential avant-garde composer, producer and performer John Zorn. These associations helped Boredoms develop a following in the United States.

“If I didn’t meet John Zorn, then I probably would not have met Sonic Youth,” Eye says. “If I didn’t tour with Sonic Youth, then Boredoms would not have played music overseas this much.”

Boredoms’ music is perplexing to categorise.

To label it ‘punk’ is to ignore the complexity of orchestration, both in the band’s recorded performances and its live shows. The nebulous term ‘noise’ risks damning it with faint praise; ‘psychedelic’ can get you everywhere and nowhere, still scratching your head. Boredoms have even attempted to record the sound of drums being played under the ocean. “We recorded in the ocean in Japan. We recorded the sound, but that sound is so hard to use, so it’s not ready to release yet.”

“I could never imagine 77 drums coming together. It was Earthrumbling, as if a massive Godzilla was walking towards us.”

The absence of a tightly defined genre is part of the band’s aesthetic. “Uncategorisable music ... that is Boredoms, isn’t it?” While early releases were characterised by a chaotic aesthetic, they’ve embraced a more ethereal tone over time. “It’s not really intended to do that,” Eye says. “I think it’s all the same for me.” Curiously, Boredoms found themselves on a major label in the 1990s, a juxtaposition that proved remarkably productive.

Eye is typically enigmatic in his description of the level of creative freedom offered by Warner Music.

“I can’t really remember exactly what it was [like],” Eye says. “We didn’t change anything because of being signed to a major record company.”

In 2003, Boredoms began to use the term V∞redoms as an alterative band name. It was the source of some confusion for fans, though Eye says it’s nothing to dwell on. In explaining the distinction, he offers a pretty functional description of the band – albeit an esoteric one: “There is no difference any more [between Boredoms and V∞redoms],” Eye says. “The beginning of V was the circulation inter-system unit to the study of rhythm, and a principle of resonance of the prokaryote of Boredoms. The members are drummers and myself on turntable, open-reel, transmitter etc… The members face each other to make a circle, to create a circulation play. The centre point of the circle, the meeting point of the diagonal line of the members, is the centre of the record,” he explains. It probably made more sense before translation... “It used to be that the names were important - but not any more. Now whatever the name is, what ever our sounds ... whatever we do – it’s BOREDOMS.” BRAG :: 382 :: 04:10:10 :: 25

Tiësto Still Number One By RK

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t’s been a few years since Tijs Michiel Verwest enjoyed that three-year winning streak of DJ Magazine’s ‘World’s No. 1 DJ’ - but even without it, Tiësto remains one of the finest exponents of the Dutch trance scene that the world has ever known. Turning forty last year, he somehow still possesses the same energy and vigor as always, which he’ll be proving in Australia when he flies here for this year’s Stereosonic Festival. Ours is a crowd who’ll welcome him, too – a couple of weeks back, Tiësto was awarded INTHEMIX50’s ‘Best International DJ’ title... for the fourth time.

“I never actually planned it like this,” chimes Verwest, straight from the get-go. “Music is my life and my hobby and always has been; so one day, I just started collecting it, and making tracks for my friends. We would record them or mix them on very basic tape mechanisms – this is how it was back in the day!” He tells me that it was harder to do things back then, but the basic idea has stayed the same. “Whatever you do musically, you’re just trying to please people,” he says.

Verwest started out working in a record store, and from that got a job at a label – who let him mix his first compilation, of which he sold around a

thousand copies. “I made a couple of big remixes like ‘Silence’ in that year; I felt like that was when I was really getting known – that was probably around 2001 I think.” By 2010, Tiësto has become to electronic music what Madonna is to pop; and yet he’s a smooth talking, polite bloke who years and years on remains humbled and touched by his success.

Never scared to push boundaries, Tiësto was one of the first electronic artists who would work with proponents of other genres, to introduce his music to a new audience. That aforementioned remix of Delirium’s ‘Silence’, for instance, featured Sarah McLachlan - furthering his exposure. By the time the new millennium rolled around, Tiësto had released his solo album In My Memory, and was already on the way to being named the ‘World’s No.1 DJ’ by the influential DJ Magazine a title he won for three years in a row, from 2002 through 2004. So what does he put that success down to? Well, the answer isn’t simple. “I’m very spontaneous with stuff; I take it as it comes,” he says. “I never really think about the future or the past; I’m very lucky and very happy with the way my life is going. As I say, none of these things were necessarily planned - they just happened, [they just] turned out that way.”

“To be able to travel the world, perform in front of so many people, and see the reaction from a stage every night - it’s a great buzz! For me, it’s never been about winning awards or contests. It’s been about doing what I love.”

2009’s Kaleidoscope is Tiësto’s fourth studio album, and contains collaborations with Nelly Furtado and Calvin Harris amongst others. The album also holds the smash hit ‘I Will Be Here’, co-produced with our own super-group Sneaky Sound System – the track achieved critical success in almost every market worldwide. “With Kaleidoscope, I wanted to make an album that brought together all the different musical influences that I was listening to at that moment in time. This included a lot of indie rock, electro, techno and house - and I drew from all of these to create the album. I’m continuing to bring in new genres and influences into my work; it still has the essence of what makes up the Tiësto signature sound, but it takes it in a whole new direction.”

Tiësto remains busy not only with his grueling touring schedule, but also with his other projects - an important one of which is his label Musical Freedom. “The goal there is to find artists and release music that I would listen to,” he tells me.

“The label allows me to do this, and hopefully helps some new and exciting artists. Dada Life is a great example – look out for them in 2011.”

The question begged by all of this is obvious: for a DJ, producer, entrepreneur slash musician, what else is actually left to achieve? Playing the 2004 Olympics Opening Ceremony (Tiësto was the first DJ to play live at the Olympics) was surely one of many highlights, but even after reaching that peak he’s still determined to stay on top of his game.

It’s his will to keep striving for the best that many find astounding, I suggest - and his response is humble: “I just love what I do. To be able to travel the world, perform in front of so many people, and see the reaction from a stage every night – it’s a great buzz! And after all of these years, I never take it for granted. For me, it’s never been about winning awards or contests. It’s been about doing what I love.”

In terms of studio work, Tiësto has a track coming out with Mark Knight on Toolroom (which he says will surprise a lot of people), as well as a bunch of other collaborations in the works. “I’ve also been working on the Kaleidoscope World Tour DVD,” he says. “It’s going to look and sound amazing! I’ve already started to think about A New Dawn, my new mix album that will be released in early 2011. Other than that, I’m really excited to get back to Australia for this festival tour - it’ll be a little different to my Kaleidoscope tour.

Expect it to be large!”

Who: Tiësto With: Calvin Harris, Carl Cox, Robyn, Major Lazer, Sebastian Ingrosso, Wiley, Ricardo Villalobos and more Where: Stereosonic @ Sydney Showgrounds When: Saturday November 27 26 :: BRAG :: 382 :: 04:10:10

Boys Noize Turn It Up By Hugh Robertson

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eading up on him for this interview, it quickly becomes apparent that Alexander Ridha might well be the busiest person on earth. Since busting out six or so years ago, Ridha (better known by his stage name Boys Noize) has worked his way toward the top, not only of the DJ game but also as a producer, collaborator and businessman. And with two albums of his own, a much-vaunted collaboration with Erol Alkan, a bunch of remixes under his belt (for N*E*R*D, The Chemical Brothers, Snoop Dogg, Feist, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party and Depeche Mode among others) and of course that little label he runs (Boys Noize Records), it’s clear I’ll be running out of parentheses before he runs out of side-projects.

Ridha has only just woken up when I get him on the phone, and for the briefest of moments his immediate plans seem only to include breakfast.

But, once he has gathered his thoughts, he is full of enthusiasm for his current project – producing the new Spank Rock album. “He’s been taking a long time to write some new songs,” he says of Spank, “but they finally got together and we finished the album in the last week or so.” Oh, and he also has a new single being released that very day – ‘1010/Yeah’.

So what’s the difference, I ask, between producing, creating and remixing? “For me those are three totally different categories,”’ Ridha explains. “[As a producer] you’re responsible to other people, and I think the producer has a really strong role because he’s the one who’s got to make decisions and be sensitive to the artist.

It’s not only a technical thing, it’s also a very personal, understanding sort of thing. And it’s always individual, and always different. I mean, Spank Rock doesn’t like it when you call him a rapper. So that’s one thing.”

To Ridha, remixing is a lot easier. “You already got a little frame of the music, a basement of what is going on, so you can start from that. I find that mostly easy.” And working on your own tracks? “You have to come up with the base [yourself], and really start from zero. And that sometimes takes more time - but it’s also a different process.”

And then of course there’s the live show to consider, which will be making its merry way

to us for SummaDayze – with a massive sideshow with N*E*R*D* and Chromeo. What can we expect from the Boys Noize live show?

“Well, it will be based on a DJ show,” he tells me. “I’ll play the newest stuff around, and a lot of stuff that people haven’t heard. And I’ll probably play some of my new stuff that people haven’t heard. Like I said, I always like mashups – well, not mash-ups, but live edits - to bring more excitement to the thing.

“But I like that, though,” he continues. “I do so much when I DJ – I remix, and edit, and do all the stuff with the music I’m playing – and it’s so much fun. But then I imagine myself with a computer and a controller, and I wouldn’t have that much fun. I think that’s important for people, and for me on stage as well, just to see that there’s fun going on.”

Despite having been born in the same year as the compact disc (1982, if you’re curious), Ridha is a traditionalist in many ways. He refuses to use a laptop in his live show, preferring instead to use a combination of CDJs and “three or four” turntables; and in his capacity as the head of a label he still releases tracks on wax. And like so many of us who have fallen for the charms of vinyl, Ridha has trouble restraining himself – when he was younger he worked two jobs just to finance his addiction. “I still have to produce vinyl as a label as well, even though no-one is interested in it,” He laughs. “It’s hard for dance music especially, because it’s such a digital thing right now... but I think I’ll never give up on vinyl, really.”

A vinyl tragic myself, I’m always interested in what attracts people to this ridiculous technology. For me it’s the ultimate deluxe edition, and a much nicer medium to engage with. Is that what does it for Ridha as well? “I think it’s not even a nicer thing, but it’s part of a culture,” he replies. “For me, I started to buy vinyl heavily when I was 13 or 14 years old...

And so nowadays I can pull out any vinyl and I have memories of it, or I have certain feelings towards the cover or whatever.”

Our scheduled time is about to run out, so before I go I ask Alex if there is anything I’ve missed that he would like to mention. And,

“I still have to produce vinyl as a label, even though no-one is interested in it... I think I’ll never give up on vinyl, really.” surprise surprise, there is: he’s about to launch a sub-label of Boys Noize Records, BNR Trax, with an aim to releasing some of the many tracks that Boys Noize Records just can’t deal with. “At Boys Noize we don’t really have the capacity to really release everything. And also, on Boys Noize it’s more about artists’ development - whereas on BNR it’s easier to shoot off one-offs and good tunes for the clubs.” he explains. “So BNR Trax is a platform for

more straight techno, or real house music, and weird stuff.” Just another day in the life of the hardest working man in showbiz…

Who: Boys Noize With: N*E*R*D, Chromeo, Tinie Tempah When: Friday January 7, 2011 Where: The Hordern Pavilion

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arlier this year The World Bar in Kings Cross teamed up with St Vincent’s Hospital to develop an exhibition of photographs depicting street life in Australia. They called on Sydney photographers to donate one of their works for sale, to raise funds for Gorman House, the drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility attached to St Vincent’s. Among those who contributed is awardwinning photographer Kelly-Ann Denton – whose work you can also see hanging in Hyde Park with the other finalists of Art & About’s prestigious Sydney Life photography competition.

What is your background/training in photography?

I hold Bachelor’s, Honours and Masters degrees in Art, majoring in PhotoMedia, from Sydney College of the Arts (Sydney University). I picked up a camera in 1994 and started critically observing my own environment, unsure that people could see or understand what I was perceiving unless I photographed that moment, that fraction of a second visually. I am a photographer but I’m not sure if I am just making photographs; I make pictures, hence the camera.

Describe your work: I make portraits that are bound within the context of the ‘Other', though I like to depict ‘Otherness’ and boundaries as blurred. The photograph has become an acceptable substitute for direct experience on many

This photograph, titled Loulea, is from a series I completed on Darlinghurst. I was moved to capture the characters who lived on the street - and in doing so to make their life ‘other’: ‘other’ than the proverbial tragedy associated with street life. I attempted to bridge the impossible gap of different experience via an image - not a tragic but a beautiful image. Loulea’s life is harsh, but her portrait is beautiful.

What is your personal connection with Gorman House?

As a Sydney girl born and bred, the plight of many of our Darlinghurst characters have been well understood, at least by myself. As a city and Loulea by Kelly-Ann Denton a community we need to be conscious of, and compliant levels. My work sits within the real, but from an with the efforts of St Vincent’s individual’s choice of reality. This identification and the other forces seeking to somehow is ambiguous and the resultant imagery cope with the complexities of inner Sydney influences each of us: the photographer, life. We do what we can, when we can, the character within the image, and the because this is what we’ve got. spectator who judges both the look and the context. There is a cathartic aspect to such What: STREETLIFE Exhibition at The Wall self-revelation, and a confessional element.

There is also a streak of exhibitionism in many When: Wednesday October 13, 8pm people that is specifically activated by the Where: The World Bar / 24 Bayswater Rd presence of a camera.

Kings Cross What work are you showing at the Street More: kellyann.com.au Life show?

GLOW Sydney Life finalist Tamara Dean: The Pack (image courtesy City of Sydney)

After its much-hyped season at Melbourne International Arts Festival last year, GLOW is coming to Sydney’s Seymour Centre next week, for a limited run. GLOW was born out of a collaboration between Chunky Move’s artistic director Gideon Obarzanek and German video/ installation artist Frieder Weiss; the result is a fusion of cutting edge choreography and realtime interactive computer systems. Sounds dry?

Try dazzling. This fusion of art and technology not only marries the movements of the dancers to the graphics being projected, but it seems to evolve further, with the ghost taking over the machine. GLOW is set to exhilarate between October 13 -16, with early and late shows each

HARRY BROWN ON DVD What seems to be the problem, officer?

The UK version of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino? You decide. Harry Brown caused a stir in its native country when it released earlier this year, for its portrait of youth out of control, and the military veteran who’s not afraid to mete out his own brand of vigilante justice. Not since Get Carter has Michael Caine been quite so cool.

Thanks to Icon Home Entertainment, we have three special packs up for grabs, to celebrate the DVD release of Harry Brown this week; each one contains: 1 x Harry Brown DVD 1 x Skins season 4 DVD 1 x Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks To get your hands on one of these, tell us who wrote the music for Harry Brown…

day. Tickets are only $25/20 (cheaper than a trip to Melbourne, right?) Check it out at sydney.edu. au/Seymour

LIVE LIVE AT P-SPACE

OH P-SPACE! We missed you. Thank goodness you’re back. Performance Space’s next season of performances, events and installations is all about how we live our lives and the nature of liveness. It’s called Live Live (Live!) and features an all-new ‘festival of new (live?) ideas’ called LiveWorks, from 11–14 November. OH. LIVE! It kicks off on October 21 with Sweat, a darkly humorous fusion of “dance, parkour, Bboying, acrobatics, martial arts and football” by Branch Nebula. Sweat explores the service industry and the intimate role its workers play in our lives whilst remaining totally anonymous. Nebula’s last work, the Helpmann-nominated Paradise City, toured nationally and internationally after its premiere at Sydney Opera House – so this is your chance to see their next success before the hype kicks in. performancespace.com.au

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ART & ABOUT TALKS

Every Wednesday night for the next month, you can meet the artists and curators behind Art & About Sydney 2010 and discuss their projects - at free artist talks. The first two events are must-sees: this Wednesday October 6, Sydney Life judge Sandy Edwards and finalists past and present will discuss photographing Sydney’s environment and characters. On Wednesday October 13, you can catch Sydney Statues: Project! artists including Michelle McCosker and Liane Rossler as they discuss using art and fashion to re-imagine Sydney’s history through this fascinating public art project. All the talks run from 6.30-7.30pm at the Burdekin Hotel, on Oxford Street, presenting the chance to fortify yourself with a beer. Art & About Sydney runs until 24 October 2010. For a full program or to download the Art & About iPhone app visit artandabout.com.au Untitled, by Deanne Cheuk

LIGHT THE NIGHT

Everyone’s talkin’ bout super cute comedian Josh Thomas. He must have a good heart too, coz he’s hosting the Light the Night concert on October 11 at City Recital Hall, to help raise funds for leukaemia research.

Enjoying its sixth year, Light the Night is an annual concert inspired by Matthew Rennie, who was diagnosed with leukaemia just before his 21st birthday and unfortunately passed away in 2007. The night was started by his brothers, musical theatre performers Shaun and Adam, and his friends Monica and Greg Smith. This year’s incredible lineup includes Katie Noonan, Brian Campeau, Old Man River and iota (Smoke and Mirrors).

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SCREEN LIVE

We’re a bit fond of Sydney Opera House’s Screen Live program; they pair classic films – like Metropolis and the Wizard of Oz – with all-new musical scores created by local indie musicians, and performed live. Their next instalment, Brilliant Journeys, is curated by avant-garde Brisbane collective Otherfilm, and hosted by Mumeson smooth-talker Jay Katz. Otherfilm is dedicated to avant-garde and experimental films, which they worship through screenings, performances, exhibitions, workshops, articles, research and even ‘discussions’! Films by Paul Winkler, George Gittoes and Andrew Pike (among others) will screen, and musicians include Holy Balm and experimental Melbourne music producer Robin Fox. It’s Sunday October 17, and all the details are sydneyoperahouse.com/screenlive

Elsewhere in this issue, we looked at Metro Screen/SPAA Fringe Pitching Competition, which was chock-full of transmedia projects and web series. It’s all connected to this thing called the ‘interweb’ that you’ve been hearing about – things happen there, and Movie Extra wants to be part of it. MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST (which, due to caps, must be shouted) is a competition that gives filmmakers the opportunity to win a $50,000 production budget to produce a seven-part web series for MOVIE EXTRA. Like many things in life, you have to give a little to get a little, so start thinking about your entry – they’re already piling up online. You need to imagine an original web series, write a synopsis for each episode, and create a 60 second trailer – and deadline is November 15! All the deets at facebook.com/ movieextrawebfest

PEATS RIDGE ARTS MANGO CHERRY COCO RAINBOW

Pity we print in black and white, really… Next up at Monster Children Gallery is Mango Cherry Coco Rainbow, an exhibition of charcoal drawings and screenprints on paper

by New York designer and artist Deanne Cheuk, whose artwork “touches on nature, utopia, space and being, often distorting realistic representation into fantasy.” Mango!

Opens Thursday October 7 from 6pm at Monster Children, 20 Burton St, Darlinghurst. Check out her diverse styles at deannecheuk.com

There’s exciting stuff on the cards for Peats Ridge Festival this year – and it’s not just the stateof-the-art toilet and shower systems. Now, we know they always have a rock’n music line-up, but this being the ‘arts’ section of the magazine, we’re going to pretend we hadn’t noticed… Artswise, on the other hand, it’s a wonderland of gypsies, bohemian cabaret, paper puppets, and performance. There’s also a 13.5 metre geodesic dome, with internal projections by Rejenr8, and Live Liquid Light shows devised by Punk Monk Propaganda…. Oh my! Plus some of our favourites from around the Sydney traps – Umbrella Theatre, Ali-Sebastian Wolf, Jasper Knight and Sîan McIntyre – are putting their magical touches on the event. Oh, and there’s a killer music line-up. December 29 – January 1 at Glenworth Valley. peatsridgefestival.com.au

Co-Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton unveil the 2011 Main Stage line-up. By Dee Jefferson

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t their media briefing on September 20, Cate Blanchett chett and her husband Andrew U Upton pton seemed nervous. Sitting onstage e amidst the August: Osage County nty y set, amongst about twenty memberss of the press (all looking fairly dour), ),, they fluttered their way through the line-up ne-up of twelve plays that will comprise e the Sydney Theatre Company’s 2011 1 Main Stage season. They seemed excited, xccited, anxious, and perhaps hopeful: hopeful ho opeful that this, their third annual program ra am as Artistic Directors, would hit the spot sp pot with the people on the stage – their th heir first audience, as it were.

Cate and Andrew were appointed ed d in 2006, took the reigns at the end d of 2007, had a year of ‘hand-over’ with with outgoing Artistic Director Robyn Nevin, and reached the starting gate off their contracted three annual seasons nss in January 2009. With the GFC in the the recent past, the prospect of posting stting a fourth consecutive loss loomed ed d in the imminent future. It's no small mall achievement, therefore, that after err a little over 18 months in the hot seat, se eat, and almost two seasons executed, te ed, the two have managed to hoist the the company back into profit.

More importantly, from an audience en nce point of view, we've had 18 good d months at the theatre: Australian n plays like David Williamson’s The e Removalists sat alongside Yasmina miina Reza’s God of Carnage and Tom m Stoppard’s Travesties; developing ng g works like Tommy Murphy’s Saturn’s tu urn’s Return sat alongside classics such uch as Long Day’s Journey Into Night; ht; formally staid productions like Honour Ho onour coexisted with avant-garde works kss such as The City; Academy Award-winners nners Philip Seymour Hoffman and Steven te even Soderbergh collaborated with the he e company to direct productions like ik ke Tot Mom and True West (upcoming). ).. Even their most risky venture - an Australian stralian production of Tennessee Williams’ ms’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed ed by a Swedish actress - not only sold-out ld d-out its Sydney season, but received d rave reviews during its US tour.

Despite this success, Cate and Andrew are nervous enough about bo out unveiling their 2011 program to suggest that they don’t take anything ytthing for granted. Nevertheless, they were were more relaxed after running the gauntlet ga auntlet of the media briefing, and sat down own with me to discuss the last 18 months, mo onths, and the year ahead.

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Sydney Theatre Company: 2011 ON N NEW AUDIENCES When they first came into theirr and Andrew emphasised role, Cate C sised to get younger and more their drive d more diverse audiences through the door. divers They've backed up their wordss They'v through initiatives like $30/35 tickets throug under 30, and program for people pe ra am strands like Rough Draft and Next strand Stage, which bring rising and fr fringe Stage ringe theatre collectives like 'post' and theatr nd 'The Suitcase Royale' into the company.

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we feel fee e like that’s a strong pathway ath hway for young artists, and they in turn yo turn bring people their age – which ch h is sort of o how bands work.”

Cate and a Andrew are also very ry aware of the reputation that past pa ast incarnations of the Sydney Theatre incarn heatre Company may have developed Comp ed d for being elitist, conservative or ‘stuffy’ ‘s stuffy’.

Their opening night addresses es s are informal and ebullient; they in ey open the Wharf for regular Friday riday night gigs, where punters can n see bands like Cuthbert and the b the Nightwalkers or Bertie Blackman Nightw man for free; fre they have worked hard arrd to improve impro transport services, so o that you can c easily catch a bus to o and from the t Wharf. “It’s about creating eating the sense that the place has a se vibe,” Cate enthuses. “I think it’s [achieved] also through strategies [achie egies like Open Day, [where] people O e can come down here and see what’s at’s going on, without having to spend pend a penny.” pen n

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This is where magic and experiments happen! Top of our exper list is Ross Mueller’s ZEBRA! - an examination of masculinity postexami GFC, starring Colin Friels and Bryan Brown. Two men walk into a bar in New York: one’s a father, the other’s a suitor. And father then tthere's the barmaid... We're to be enchanted by also expecting e Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats Edwa written by Anthony of Loneliness, Lon Neilson (The Wonderful World of Neilso Dissocia - one of our favourite Disso STC 09 0 plays), directed by Sarah Goodes, and with design by Good Romance Was Born.

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Another key principle around which Anoth hich Directors develop the Co-Artistic Co p their programs is 'theme'. For their 2010 progra 010 mainstage program they were inspired mains nspired decided by the election of Obama, and de ecided the history of the 'great to explore exp at experiment' that is America, through experi ough series of that country's best-known a serie nown dramas. The most recent of these drama se is Tracy Letts' modern American classic la assic August: Osage County. In itself,, it's Augus fantastic play; but taken within a fanta n the context of Long Day’s Journey In Into contex nto Night, Our Town, Streetcar, or the he upcoming True West – it is irresistibly upcom stibly fascinating. fascina

ON T THE ROLE OF THE S STC TC “STC is not an auteurs company,” y,” Cate - “it’s not like Belvoir says forcefully fo vo oir Street or even Malthouse, where e homebase is really clear, the your h he were house style is really clear. If we w ere be just in n the Sydney Theatre, we’d db ea

very particular kind of company. But p something I think we uniquely offer is somet a breadth of work. And so you have brea a director direc like Ian Sinclair, who is incredible at dissecting and examining incred a text, and eliciting things in a really sure way w – but is an entirely different director directo (although similar age) to Benno.”

Benno (She is referring to Shaubühne associate Benedict Andrews, who assoc directed directe The War of the Roses and The City C for STC in 2009). “I think if we were we to only go down the Benedict path, or o Simon Stone path – or only present presen Ian’s work or Richard Cottrell’s work – then we’d become really thin.”

ON T TAKING RISKS Of their the roughly $30 million annual turn-over, STC receive a 10% subsidy turn-ov government. This compels them from g to find a balance between presenting big-budget productions, or risky the big work tthat may not have mainstream appeal, with plays that are really appea made and a great night out. well m “Sometimes one type of work can “Some ensure the existence of another kind of work,” wor Cate explains.

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If 2010 was programmed around the theme ‘America’, then next year has European flavour, with a tour of the a Euro ideas that shaped the 20th century. felt that there’s a timeliness to “We fe assessing where we’ve come from, asses we are - as humanity,” says who w Andrew. “Partly that was fed by the fact Andre adapted Mikhail Bulgakov’s The that I a White Guard, and that got me thinking about that force of history.” a lot a What STC Main Stage 2011 What: More: for under-30 subscriptions More head to sydneytheatre.com.au

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aniel Lee Kendall, (or DLK as he likes us to call him) is a breath of fresh singer-songwriter air from the Central Coast of New South Wales. Having recently wooed crowds at Big Sound Festival in Brisbane, DLK is heading to Sydney this week as part of a string of intimate performance dates (not that – don’t be dirty) marking the release of his debut EP Lost in the Moment (out on Redcat Sounds via MGM on October 1).

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GIVE AWAY We have a special specia iall DLK DLK k up for f grabs, b prize pack to soothe your soul: • 1 x Lost in the Moment EP • 1 x douple pass to see Daniel at Raval on Wednesday October 6

To get your hands on this, visit his MySpace and send us a brief description of his sound – freestuff@thebrag.com PLUS your mailing address.

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Paste-Modernism #2 [STREET ART] Stick em’ up By Bridie Connell

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n late August 2008 over 20 of Australia’s top street artists took to Hibernian House armed with photocopies, prints, paint, paper, stencils and wheat paste, transforming the already heavily-graffitied walls and stairwells of the Surry Hills’ most infamous creative residence into the largest local exhibition of paste up art to date.

Curated by renowned artists, friends and Hibernian neighbours, Ben Frost and Bridge Stehli, the wittily-titled Paste-Modernism, generated such a buzz that it’s still a topic of conversation - and this month marks the launch of a follow-up exhibition, PasteModernism 2.

Jamie Kilstein [COMEDY] Is Actually a Rockstar By Holly Orkin

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amie Kilstein has had people walk out of his shows, threaten him, abuse him, break bottles, try to convince him to love Jesus and been told his jokes have to be less intelligent to get laughs, though this is mainly just in Texas (because as the state motto says, “don’t mess with Texas”).

In the rest of the thinking world, however, Kilstein’s comedy has been hailed as truly exciting by some of the biggest names in the industry. Robin Williams (yes, the Robin Williams) is quoted as saying, “Jamie Kilstien is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night.” Australia’s own Tim Minchin describes Kilstein as “irresistibly endearing and wonderfully audacious. Watching his work is like going to cuddle a puppy and having it hump your leg. But funnier.”

Kilstein was in Australia earlier this year for the Atheist Convention and the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and by all accounts he rocked the house at both. This week he hits Sydney University’s Manning Bar for one night only with his latest show - No War, No God, No Nickelback (although you can also find him at The Comedy Store most nights this week, trying out new material).

If you saw Jamie last year in Sydney, expect this show to be all new material, albeit covering the same themes - “since the world has not fixed itself yet!” the comedian laughs. Kilstein is known for shows infused with political and social commentary, but his style has evolved in the past few years - from more traditional stand up to something approaching a rock-show, full of passionate, breathtaking rants on global issues

that leave the audience (and probably Kilstein himself) dizzy with excitement.

“I wasn’t sure about it at first because I always felt that, with the topics I talk about, I needed to trick people into listening to me. Stand up is so great because it’s like a fake conversation, you know? ...Whereas with these rants it’s just like 'This is the way it is, shut the fuck up I’m going to yell in these 5 minute bursts!' I really thought people wouldn’t like it, I really thought it would seem like I was talking at them... but now it’s sort of taken on this mind of its own, where it has more of a vibe of a punk show or a music show!

I see people mouthing along to the rants almost like it’s a song! And I love that.”

These rants tackle the themes of homophobia, racism, war, politics and religion (just to name the big ones) and manage to be both funny and inspiring at the same time. “It really riles people the-fuck up, which is so much more exciting to me than just 'Hey, a funny thing happened to me on the way to the blah blah.'

Although he’s passionate and political, Kilstein isn’t interested in forcing his audience to agree with him. “I don’t think anyone is obligated to be political, I don’t even think comedy has to be political; but comedy comes from struggle, comedy is designed for the little guy to take down the big guy... like Jujitsu!”

What: Jamie Kilstein - No War, No God, No Nickelback When: Friday October 8, from 8pm Where: Manning Bar, Sydney University More: October 5, 6, 7 & 9 at Comedy Store

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Once again curated by Frost and Stehli, the exhibition premise remains the same – to encourage innovation, collaboration and appreciation for the street art form of paste ups - however the venue has changed, with Paste-Modernism 2 set to storm LO-FI Collective in Darlinghurst. “After the popularity of the first we decided to do a second one and see how it goes in a focused gallery context,” explains Frost, “rather than try and find an abandoned building somewhere.”

Recently placing an open call for artists, the duo have assembled a list of over 30 local and international names ready to roll, including SMC[3], Copyright, Drypnz, Olive47, Bunkwaa, Rico, Konsumterror, Felix, Apeseven and Numskull. With the only restrictions being that the work must be on paper and wheat-pasted to the gallery walls, expect to see a full range of paste up techniques, from black and white photocopies, screen prints and hand-painted designs to drawings of varying scales, highlighting the diversity of talent represented - from the colourful comic book styling of Zap and Jumbo, to the whimsical, surreal characters of local legend Max Berry and the cute-but-sinister vampire-fanged bunnies of UK icon Pure Evil.

Commencing four days before the launch, Frost anticipates the installation of PasteModernism 2 will be a rather fluid happening: “We’ll start with some of the larger pieces, then work with whoever is there,” he explains, with participating artists encouraged to add to and modify their work over the course of the exhibition, opening the avenues for spontaneous collaboration. “I also think because of the fact it’s a call out to everybody, some people are going to miss the boat and come along and say, ‘hey I do paste ups do you mind if I put some stuff up?’

They’ll be able to do that too.”

Whilst such organized chaos would send most curators into a spin, Frost points out

that it's simply the nature of taking an art form practised on the streets into a gallery environment. “It will be a little different in a gallery,” he admits, “slightly out of context but interesting so what we’ve been keeping in the front of our minds is the free form nature of street art anyway.”

“After we did Paste-Modernism,” he continues, “we realised how easy it was to put together and curate because it wasn’t about saying ‘you have to be here’ or about following a theme or having to sell. It’s more a case of ‘Here is the space, you know what to do’ and if something gets covered over that’s the nature of how it works on the street anyway.”

“I’d like to see some live paste ups happen at the launch but I’d also really like to encourage a three-dimensional element with PasteModernism 2 - get some furniture, paste onto that and create a complete pasted up environment within the gallery which hopefully over the four days will continue to evolve.”

What: Paste-Modernism 2 When: Opening October 7 from 6pm Where: LO-FI Collective Lvl 3/383 Bourke St, Darlinghurst More: wearelofi.com.au/collective

Big Top Burlesque Follies [BURLESQUE] 'King of Burlesque’ Chaz Royal brings his bonanza down-under. By Lin Tan

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s burlesque continues to ride the wave of its resurgence in Australia, we are also starting to see performers stretch the genre in a variety of directions, from gorelesque to explorations of politics to integrating elements of vaudeville in their acts.

“The Burlesque revival has been booming for over a decade all over the world and continues to go through cycles,” says ‘King of Burlesque’ Chaz Royal. “It shows no signs of slowing down.”

Chaz Royal a.k.a. Mark Henderson is the brains and producer behind Big Top Burlesque Follies, which will be making its way to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from October 15 to 17. The show is a mash up of circus sideshow stunts, sexy carnival showgirls as well as honours the true tradition of vaudeville by incorporating a good dose of old-time dry and witty comedy and thoughtprovoking entertainment.

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18 years ago, Royal was better known as Henderson, a promoter and booker for music and live events. “To be honest, [there’s] not much difference at all [between Royal and Henderson] as even before Chaz Royal was formed I was very much into retro pin ups, burlesque, vintage music and niche underground forms of entertainment.”

However, it wasn’t until less than a decade ago that he created the name ‘Chaz Royal’ and started focusing solely on producing burlesque shows.

“I stumbled upon some old stag reels at my local late night video store when living in Toronto in the late ‘90s,” explains Royal. “By 2001, I had started to develop a plan to start Chaz Royal and book a North American tour for Canada’s first and foremost burlesque show, The Fluffgirl Burlesque Society from Vancouver.”

Since then, Royal has produced over 500 burlesque and variety shows, and is also responsible for creating the London Burlesque Festival, Amsterdam Burlesque Festival, and numerous other sell out road shows around the world.

Big Top Burlesque Follies will feature a range of ‘Big Top Talents’, emerging Australian burlesque dancers, and the mysterious, “twisted” ringmaster, Armitage Shanks.

“Armitage Shanks is an entertainer to be reckoned with!” says Royal. “He has the dark, satirical humour of a traditional, twisted ringmaster; the bold energy, charm and wit that could give any contemporary comedian a run for his money, and the true showmanship that will guarantee to keep the show flowing, commanding the attention of the crowd and running with it!”

Also joining the line up is Europe’s leading ‘Exotique’, Beeby Rose, whose repertoire includes oriental dance and classic burlesque.

There there’s New Zealander Magenta Diamond, who will provide “an element of circus sideshow with her block-head

housewife routine”, and Lilikoi Kaos who will perform an extraordinary hula hoop act.

Finally, from Australia, showgirls Sarina del Fuego, Dolores Daiquiri, Kelly Ann Doll, Lauren LaRouge and more, make up the Big Top Burlesque Follies cast.

The show will include acrobatic acts, an old school carnival feel, sideshows, classic showgirls, and just the touch of carnival-goth from Armitage Shanks. “I have been producing similar events like the Sexy Circus Sideshow and Cirque du Exotique,” says Royal. “Where those events focused more on actual sideshow and circus, the Big Top Burlesque Follies is more of a circus inspired burlesque revue.”

It is these innovative and unique ideas that have kept the King of Burlesque in the game, and sealed him as one of today’s top burlesque show producers. “Burlesque allows me to be a creative producer, director, bringing together elements of dance, art and multimedia under one banner. It’s what you make it - DIY!” exclaims Royal.

What: Big Top Burlesque Follies When: October 16, 6pm or 9.30pm Where: Red Room, 99 York Street More: burlesqueking.com / 99onyork.com.au

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Arts Snap

Film & Theatre Reviews

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

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

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RIP WHITENING’S SYNCHRODESTINY EXPERIENCE™ September 21-26 / The Other Room (Factory Theatre)

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Motivational speakers are hilarious: their excessive use of ridiculous terminology like “synergy”, their boastful book titles, their seemingly endless supply of enthusiasm…

This intrinsic ludicrousness can make them very hard to satirise, as they are almost parodies of themselves, however Andrew Johnston (part of The Nice Guys comedy collective) has taken on the task with fervour; his character Rip Whitening finds the right balance between hilarity and sincerity.

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In tiny space of The Other Room we listen to ‘Born In The USA’ by the Boss, whilst watching a running slide show telling us to turn off our phones. Once the doors are shut, the lights go down, and with a flurry of music and voiceover, Rip bursts onto the stage. His energy is boundless, and you can’t help but get caught up in it. As he begins his “workshop” the laughter begins and pretty much doesn’t stop – with the exception of a few touching (or perhaps scary) moments – for an hour.

All the elements of a horrible motivational presentation are there: the PowerPoint slides, the energetic music, the obvious sales pitch. But as well as playing to the obvious gags, Johnston has also done a great job of weaving his character’s absurd teachings into a narrative that builds on itself, resulting in a brilliant climax which involves, among other things, Rip screaming at a couple of audience volunteers that he hopes they both get AIDS. Rip’s intensity never lessens throughout the hour, and Johnston finds a perfect clarity in the character, never wavering for a moment from his manic motivations. It’s hilarious, it’s surprising, and I hope we see it again.

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BURIED Released October 7 This indie thriller from Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés is one of the most suspenseful and efficient films of this genre in years, and is surprisingly action packed considering the story’s limitations.

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Ryan Reynolds stars as Paul Conroy, a civilian truck driver in Iraq who wakes up to find himself buried alive with nothing but a poorly-charged cellphone and a zippo lighter. After a desperate and futile attempt at escape, Paul begins making calls, realising it is his only chance of getting out alive.

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Reynolds, an actor mainly known for his comedic flair, gives not only the performance of his career but one of the finest dramatic performances in recent memory. While much credit goes to the clever premise and focused script, which plays on the audience’s fears of confined spaces and imminent death, it is Reynolds who has to carry the enormous weight of Buried’s impact. Conveying the confusion, panic and desperation of Paul’s situation would be a tough gig for any actor but Reynolds really makes us care about Paul, despite his limited backstory. Without his captivating

performance, Buried would cave in on itself, as he is the only actor to appear on screen.

On a technical level Buried is quite an achievement with Cortés showing the inside of Paul’s soon-to-be grave from seemingly impossible angles and makes exceptional use of unconventional lighting sources.

Compared to Joel Schumacher’s Phone Booth, this is a more disciplined execution of its premise, as it manages to keep the protagonist confined to one location, and doesn’t allow itself the luxury of leaving, even for a moment.

Too terrifyingly real to be considered a good time at the movies, Buried is one of the few great films that you’ll never want to see again.

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DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS Released September 30 This American remake of Francis Veber’s popular French comedy Le dîner de cons (aka The Dinner Game) is directed by Jay Roach of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises, and stars comedy stalwarts Paul Rudd and Steve Carrell, doing what they do best: in Rudd’s case, it’s playing nice guys and being the straight guy; in Carrell’s it’s playing social inept but loveable losers. In this film, they play two unlikely friends who are thrown together when corporate climber Tim (Rudd) is pressured by his boss into finding an ‘schmuck’ to bring to his semi-regular ‘Dinner for Idiots’. When Tim runs into (literally) Barry (Carrell), an extraordinarily obtuse taxidermist with a passion for mice, he thinks it’s a good omen for his career – only to find that Barry is a one-man tornado of social and physical disaster.

Full disclosure: I found the original 1998 comedy thoroughly annoying, so I’m not necessarily in the market for a remake.

On the other hand, Veber has a good track record of crowd-pleasing comedies with remake potential, including La cage aux folles (remade as The Birdcage). My objections to The Dinner Game were twofold: firstly, the ‘idiot’ was the most frustrating character I’ve ever seen on screen, and totally unbearable (as was every other character); secondly, the whole ‘implausible people doing implausible things’ chestnut that stretched credibility too far.

Remarkably, Roach has solved both dilemmas: Carrell plays Barry as a happy and loveable idiot, who you are rooting for all along; and while we don’t really approve of Tim’s behaviour, Rudd adds redemptive layers of shame and regret. And although there are plenty of surreal characters and episodes – Zach Galifianakis as a tax agent with delusions of grandeur; Jemaine Clement as a contemporary artist with delusions of depth – the central premise of the film hangs together, and we can see how Barry and Tim get to that climactic dinner scene.

At the end of the day, you’re laughing (along with Tim’s arsehole work colleagues) at idiots; but this film is far gentler than Veber’s. And with comedic talent like this, it’s also a lot funnier.

Dee Jefferson

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FBi Art Auction Fundraiser: Still Life From 6.30pm / Art Gallery of NSW

After a successful inaugural run, FBi’s fundraising art auction Still Life is back this year, with an incredible lineup of artists – and an incredible venue: The Art Gallery of NSW. The diverse mix, covering visual arts, photography and design, includes: Beastman, Deborah Kelly (whose work Beastess Pretty Predation is pictured right), Del Kathryn Barton, Greedy Hen, Jasper Knight, Joseph Allen Shea, Kill Pixie, Samuel Hodge, Trent Whitehead, Tom Polo, W$YK, and heaps more!

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

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Universal PIctures Home Entertainment Released September 29 Mediocre rock band The Winners have little going for them, other than the obligatory hot-chick bassist Jennifer (Jessica Paré).

Their idealistic frontman Joey Winner (Rob Stefaniuk, who also wrote and directed) is at a loss after another dismal gig on a going-nowhere tour. But then Jennifer turns up the next day with a Gothic makeover and plays like a demon, and her mesmerising stagepresence soon makes them the hottest band around. Sure, it’s odd that she and their longsuffering roadie Hugo seem to be constantly soaked in blood – but what happens on the road stays on the road, right?

Billed as “Shaun of the Dead meets Anvil: The Story of Anvil”, this silly Canadian horror-comedy looks promising on paper. Cameos include a hangdog Iggy Pop, as a sort of hard-rock Yoda, and Henry Rollins’ fabulously obnoxious radio host. There are fun sight gags playing on classic album covers, and a scenery-munching Malcolm McDowell plays a vengeful vampire-hunter named – wait for it – Eddie Van Helsing.

For all its gory visual flourishes (observe the lush scarlet hue of the raspberry slushie machine, undulating gently as Jennifer feasts noisily on the convenience store attendant nearby) and affectionate references, the execution falls a bit flat overall. The performances are patchy, and what could have been a subtle play on the standard rock narrative – the conflict between the hedonistic allure of vampirism and its damaging effects neatly parallels the relationship between rock and drug use – is flogged to death.

It’s hard not to wonder what a more seasoned director like Shaun’s Edgar Wright could have done with it. For rock nerds, though, it’s entertaining enough.

Madman Entertainment Released August 11 It all starts when a series of strange green meteors hurtle to earth in the small fishing town of Berkeley.

Every live thing they hit turns into a flesh-eating undead monster (leading to a hilarious scene in which our hero, a mysterious fisher-warrior, punches his way out of an attack by re-animated fish). In their quest to escape, a rag-tag bunch of survivors – including a pregnant ex-beauty queen, the town cop and his brand-new partner, and a young woman who is desperate to leave town – get stuck in the bunker beneath ‘Marion’s Weapons Emporium’, where internal tensions divert the group from the encroaching army of undead.

Add aliens and flying saucers, and this is an incredibly ambitious debut from the Spierig Brothers, who went on to make the infinitely more polished vampire film Daybreakers.

Funded by credit card, it’s reasonably lo-fi and unashamedly silly, embracing the clichés of the genre. As such, it’s really only for horror hounds, b-grade buffs, Spierig fans, and filmmakers.

Otherwise, the b-grade performances are a bit tiresome.

On the other hand, the editing is good enough to provide some genuine frights, there’s Castlestyle humour at the expense of bogans, and lines like “I’ll finish you off quicker than a cake at a fat chick’s birthday party.” The special effects and make-up are ingenious: exposed spinal chords attached to tottering legs, faces peeling off to reveal bloody pulp, and a variety of zombies punching holes through heads, eating brains, and getting sliced in two.

Madman’s special re-release is jam-packed with amazing extras (as all genre-film dvds should be), including a ‘Making Of’ that shows you how the make-up and special effects were done on a budget.

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Street Level With filmmaker Roy Weiland

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his year Metro Screen and the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) teamed up this year to run the SPAA Fringe Pitching Competition for budding young producers, with a grand prize that includes a trip to the Cannes film festival.

The NSW finals were last Thursday at Metro Screen, and the winning pitch came from Roy Weiland, for his childrens’ transmedia project Barton the Ghost Catcher. In this web series, a little boy does weekly battle with ghosts who are trying to take over the world. Roy will represent Metro Screen and pitch with six fellow finalists at the SPAA Fringe Pitching Comp on Saturday October 23 – and hopefully win his way to Cannes!

What’s your day job? Where did your interest in film/TV come from?

I’m mainly a video editor. I was into reading and writing since I was a kid. So I guess it’s my fascination with the art of storytelling that draws me to film and TV. So what exactly is a pitching comp? What do you have to do?

A pitch is someone presenting their idea to someone else, in this case film, television, or multi-platform projects. So it’s about condensing all you have into a few minutes; articulating your concept clear, concise, and in a way that will excite the judges and have them believe that you can pull it off.

How do you prepare?

I write my pitch, rehearse in front of friends, edit it based on what I think needs fixing and feed back from others and repeat the process again and again. For the “Barton” pitch I did have a great team of specialists involved - from multiplatform consultants, concept artists, to a 3D animator and sizzle-reel editor.

Give us your pitch!

Barton the Ghost Catcher is a live action children’s tv series, with 3D animated components. Integrated into the series is an online community with multi-platform elements.

Every week and against all odds, Barton must deal with the fact that he is the class weirdo, picked on by school bullies and the school nerds alike, also tormented by his pesky older sister and if that’s not enough; stopping a ghost invasion that threatens to destroy the world. To

do all this he must utilise his vivid imagination and uncanny intelligence to create state of the art ghost catching equipment, ingenious traps, and unite the neighbourhood kids.

Where did the idea come from?

Barton was inspired by the drawings of one of our concept artists, Julia Wei. The story was based on experiences through my childhood.

I had two older brothers, and at night I would sneak down to the lounge and watch horror movies with them. They then told me how one of these ghosts lived in the attic just above my room. From then on every creak and groan was the sound of him coming to drag me into the attic. Sick of being terrified me and a friend summoned up the courage to venture upstairs.

We discovered melted candles, a mattress, beer cans, and pornos. A lot of what Barton is about is confronting fears.

Where do you hope to see it?

Everywhere, the next Harry Potter. Huge call, I know, but here’s hoping.

What will you do if you win the national comp and are unleashed on Cannes?

I would have to get my network on, hustle my way into a few parties, watch a ton of fantastic films. I’ve got few projects in development so would be constantly pitching to anyone who would listen to me.

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK DEERHUNTER Halcyon Digest 4AD/Remote Control

Since the release of Microcastles back in 2008, Georgia’s Deerhunter have rapidly ascended to the top of the indie pantheon, regularly mentioned in the same breath as such mammoth mammalian music makers as Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective. And rightly so. The work ethic of their inimitable front-man Bradford Cox has propelled a formidable string of releases, both with the band and solo as Atlas Sound - admirable as much for the questing impulse that underlies the music as the unbroken quality of the sound itself.

Who cares if the ragged shrouds of distortion have blown away? Halcyon Digest is lean, bright, hard-eyed and willfully, wildly joyful.

With Halcyon Digest, Cox’s trajectory towards expansive sixties-pop-meets-noughties-electronica (which first manifested on last year’s Atlas Sound record Logos) has collided with the band’s rock trimmings. Aside from guitarist

Lockett Pundt’s excellent pair of contributions (one of which, ‘Desire Lines’, being arguably the album highlight), the extended guitar jams of Microcastle are gone. In their stead, Cox builds unassuming elements into crystalline electronic textures (‘Earthquakes’, or the Jay Reatard homage ‘He Would Have Laughed’), only bringing in the rest of the band for the kaleidoscopic flower-pop of ‘Coronado’ or ‘Memory Boy’.

Cox’ lyrics have similarly developed - intimate confessionals and inward-focussed lacerations are seemingly a thing of the past. Instead he assumes various personas to offer cutting portraits of contemporary travesty in a compellingly dispassionate voice – the confused euphoria of the born-again on ‘Revival’, another highlight, or the (Dennis Cooper inspired) gut-turning final thoughts of a teenage male prostitute as he’s dispensed with from the title aircraft on ‘Helicopter’.

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Business Casual Modular

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With any other band, the idea of repeating a formula record after record would be cause for concern. I say this because, short of a guest spot from Beyonce’s sister, some better production and (if it’s even possible) more confidence, Business Casual is almost an exact replica of Fancy Footwork. Yet Chromeo, compared to other outfits who mine the annals of cheesy synth-pop, do it so damn well and so professionally that you honestly believe that they invented the sound.

The Canadian's calling cards are all there: P-Thugg’s talkbox call and response; Dave-1’s lyrics about tetchy women; agogo bells and rack tom drops from the MSTRKRFT arsenal; and of course, vintage keyboards. We might have heard all this before, but it’s frightfully difficult to dislike them for it. The Arab-Jewish partnership’s limitless appeal may be better understood in relation to bands like Scissor Sisters; it’s not that the kids haven’t figured out where the tunes are rorted from, but they relish the chance to dance to a modern, sexier version that they can see on a stage. Chromeo make awkward, collar-tugging odes to love entirely acceptable nightclub fodder, and there isn’t a man in Australia who’s gonna want to hate on that. Especially when you have legs that good on the cover… again.

The real issue is that the best songs on this record are front-loaded into the opening, and leave the others struggling to catch up. ‘Hot Mess’, ‘I’m Not Contagious’ and ‘Night By Night’ may be some of the best tunes these boys have ever written, but they should have distributed them more evenly because until you get to the rollicking ‘Grow Up’, nothing is as convincing.

The Chromeo production line rolls on. If it ain’t broke, don’t update it.

Jonno Seidler

Since the release of his jubilant second album Alegranza! back in 2008, Barcelona-based synth'n'sample artist El Guincho (AKA Pablo DíazReixa) has developed a reputation for producing breezy, sun drenched pop mélanges. He blends dozens of influences from the spectrum of Latin American music, fused with psychedelic indie. Atlas Sound (the solo project of Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox) or even Ariel Pink are relevant touchstones, in that all mine the back catalogue of their choice, reconstructing cherry-picked vintage sounds in utterly original ways.

Often citing the folk songs taught to him by his Canary Islander grandmother as a formative inspiration, El Guincho laid some of these influences bare on his recent Piratas de Sudamerica EP - a collection of early 20th century Latin American pop and folk covers rendered in an effects-laden creole.

But Pop Negro is a different animal altogether. Tropicalia, afrobeat and dub are blended with production techniques directly borrowed from 80s and 90s dance – specifically, the work of chaps like Rhett Davies (Bryan Ferry, Luther Vandross) and Babyface (Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey).

To a certain extent, Díaz-Reixa is doing for ‘the golden era of recordings’ what Ariel Pink has done with 80s radio schlock, utilising the expansive sound and gleaming finish of the pop of the last few decades in the pursuit of some heretofore un-thought-of hybrid which critiques as it celebrates. That said, it doesn’t pay to intellectualise this album too much.

Above all, Pop Negro provides a half hour of effortlessly expansive pop ecstasy, guaranteed to get any party started.

Oliver Downes

Not even Lisa Mitchell can steal Andy Bull’s thunder on opener ‘Dog’. What begins as a rolling waltz splashes with touches of joyful Billy Joel, as Bull trips fantastic along the keys. The adorable pomp expresses Bull’s frustration that “Wherever I am/That fuckin’ dog goes” - and swearing is the most fun when embedded in a deliciously fragile square dance.

Bull uses his sweet and compelling voice to great affect as he draws us in with his determination not to be messed about, making accusations that reveal a bitterness towards his own past-styling while resolving to punch on with greater awareness. The man offers the most when he’s uttering reflexive lyrics that seamlessly break the frame of the story.

The second half of this EP suffers from frequently trite and unimaginative rhymes, a fault which glares all the more brightly in collaborations with Hungry Kids Of Hungary and Little Red that consist of token vocal swells and unnecessary clap-outs. 'Nothing To Lose', for insteance, ends with a minute of white soul squeak, cheapening the credibility gained by the punch of the previous three minutes.

In spite of the strength and range of his voice, Bull’s aural cuteness will begin to drag on some. By the time the closer ‘Work Is A Slow Way To Die’ rolls around, the upwardinflection-supported-by-multi-vocalharmony-and-cute-punchy-keywork formula is wearing a little thin. Bull works much better as a raconteur and story teller rather than an abstract ponderer; this EP indicates the beginnings of an appealingly honest and aware performer.

THE CHARLATANS

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD The Sound Of Sunshine Liberator Michael Franti & Spearhead continue to tread their ground thin for their latest release, offering that same, winning blend of roots, reggae and rock packed with life-affirming lyrics. No surprises there. While their appeals to ‘believe in yourself’ and ‘love each day’ often border on the nauseating - a quality found in spam emails filled with trite inspirational quotes and pictures of kittens on rainbows - the sincerity behind the sentiment can’t really be questioned here. Because dammit, Franti actually does seems like a genuine guy who’d never peddle platitudes just for the sake of it.

It’s the simplistic call-and-response appeal of so many of the songs which make them all to easy to shout along to when performed in concert, and most suggest they are best experienced live - preferably at an outdoor festival, at the end of a summer afternoon. To this end, it’s the infectious dance tracks like ‘Shake It’ and ‘Love Don’t Wait’ that win out on their seventh studio album.

The liner notes proudly assert that the majority of this was recorded in hotels and dressing rooms while on tour, as well as studios in places like Jamaica and Bali. One could as a result assume The Sound of Sunshine to be brimming with rawness and spontaneity, but these elements actually seem held back a little - and are occasionally compromised by unnecessary studio tinkering. ‘Hey Hey Hey’ doesn’t need those gushing strings, and the title track doesn’t need those ‘uh huh, yeah’ overdubs in the background.

Despite some contrivances, this is a nudge forward from a frequently clever and inexorable storyteller.

My main gripe with the album is its lack of originality. Still, you’d have to be as cold as that woman in the news who threw a cat in a bin not to find something heart-warming here.

Benjamin Cooper

Kilian David

Who We Touch Shock Records This is not the finest album that The Charlatans have produced in their 21 year career; it’s not even in the top five. But it does tick many of the same boxes as their best work. The Madchester survivors still use a hammond organ better than anyone (just as they did in 1990 on Some Friendly). They’ve still got that languid stoner groove (as they did on 1994’s Up To Our Hips). And they’re still one of the few white boy indie groups who ooze funk out of every pore (as on 2001’s Wonderland).

Two things let them down on Who We Touch. The first is the finely polished production from Youth AKA Martin Glover. The band asked him to make the record sound like a European winter - what they had in mind was “fresh and crisp” but, on many tracks, what they got was “cold and wet”. The worst example of this is ‘My Foolish Pride’ - the most sterile track the band has ever committed to tape.

The second thing that lets the record down is the lyrics from Tim Burgess. At times you wonder if he’s just swallowed a rhyming dictionary.

‘Sincerity’ is a prime example: “I find atrocity in your monotony” (Really Tim? Seriously?), and in the tautological chorus, “The honesty of your sincerity”.

This patchy album does include some cracking tunes - the chestthumping anthem ‘Trust in Desire’, the six minute psychedelic opus ‘Oh’ and the tender, dreamlike ‘You Can Swim’ - but still, we’ve come to expect more from The Charlatans over the years.

Andy McLean

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Black Brown Green Grey White Mistletone Karl E. Scullin, aka Kes, is one of those errant, uber-creative musicians somehow at the core of an unsettling number of brilliant indie acts; the kind of muso whose very existence is almost a scene unto itself. Besides having been a member of crucial Melbourne groups like Bird Blobs and the recently (sadly) defunct Mum Smokes, he has still found time to operate under his own nickname.

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His work as a solo performer is a bit all over the shop. His first album, as 'Kes', was a reserved singer-songwriter affair. His second as 'Kes Band' shifted gears, finding him amidst a five-piece playing near-classical instrumental music. Now, as the new name might suggest, it’s a stripped-back power trio. And it’s utterly wonderful.

The album emanates warmth, like the elderly oil heater you drag out from under the stairs each Autumn. It’s also refreshingly varied, which can be a tall order for a trio.

None of the songs feel as though they repeat even as much as tone, structure or character. They range from swooning, mellotron-smattered neo-sock-pop (‘Wise

Eyes’) to uncompromisingly antisocial noisenik fuzz (‘Black Brown Green Grey White’), ambling through a playfully unforgiving clarinet-feedback wail to arrive at the screeching soft-funk of ‘Won Seventeen’.

The Syd Barrett-styled mooching of ‘Living Underground’ throws another spanner into the works. Bizarre Mothers-of-Inventionesque whinnies play call-and-response with squalling guitar on ‘I Don’t Get It’.

It does feel schizophrenic – almost like a scrapbook of song – but the charm and conviction with which it's delivered makes it all feel strangely cohesive and inviting.

Addictive, even.

More please, Kes. Luke Telford

TOM WAITS - Alice WHISKEYTOWN - Faithless Street SPOD - Superfrenz

KOOL KEITH - Black Elvis/Lost In Space LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Sound Of Silver

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POWDERFINGER, JET

SAMIYAM

Sydney Entertainment Centre Saturday September 18

Tone (Surry Hills) Thursday September 16

Powderfinger recently announced that they’re kaput, and in their honour, every Sydneysider who has ever listened to FM radio or watched the ARIAs in the 90s converged at the Entertainment Terrordome in passionate mourning for their Favourite Band. That’s the subtle thing about the Brisvegas Famous Five: they’re the favourites of many Australians who wouldn’t typically admit it, but who were all out in force tonight.

There was a lot of talk about the Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer gigs at this party, both artists in the same vein as SAMIYAM. Both emerged from the LA future beat explosion, and set off a wave of copycat producers. Both came out here and blew our collective minds in not so subtle and very different ways. Perhaps it would be fair to say that SAMIYAM didn’t have as explosive an effect on the packed venue, but indeed those luminaries are hard acts to follow. And at any rate, LA’s SAMIYAM had his own style - the bombs he dropped were more subtle, and we heard his own individual definition of extreme beat fatness.

Jet opened proceedings with a less-thansubtle reminder that before someone else was the saviour of Aussie rock’n’roll, that’s what they were employed for.

Despite the kids only getting their bop on for ‘Seventeen’, and the rest of us only bothering to pay attention for ‘Cold Hard Bitch’ and That Ipod Ad Song, they put on a stellar performance. Nic Cester has a truly amazing scream which he clearly borrowed from Dave Grohl and needs to return before he gets overdue notices.

Despite the fact that they are, by now, a Pretty Huge Band, Powderfinger wrapped up their career with the typical understatement that has defined it for over two decades. Short of a few OTT video projections, which they were totally entitled to, the only vicarious superstar thing they did was actually for the fans; relocating to a custom-built stage at the back of the moshpit to play a few numbers for fans who’d been standing there since 7pm. Far more excitingly, they played lots of songs off Internationalist and Odyssey No. 5 (in this reviewer’s opinion, their two best albums), including ‘Passenger’, ‘Already Gone’ and a thrilling ‘Thrilliology’. The obligatory additions from the new album were offset by kick-ass cuts from Vulture St, while the biggest treat came in the way of Darren Middleton’s overlooked closer to Double Allergic, an album older than most people in the GA area. Unsurprisingly, they were in top form - particularly Cogsy, the drummer who never seems to age and is as solid as the band’s album sales, and Fanning, who has bizarrely transformed into the very personable and amiable frontman that many thought he’d never become.

For many, Powderfinger is the sound of a first kiss, a first date, a road trip, or school.

So enduring and so consistently on form, the age-span of the audience speaks louder than any of their other accolades; they’re a cross-generational act who bowed out before becoming wankers. For that alone they should be applauded; for their dedication to performing and recording where other bands of their ouvre have failed they should be commended; and for this show they got the standing ovation that has been so long coming it’s ridiculous.

Assuming Powderfinger don’t throw a John Farnham (or LCD Soundsystem) and actually wrap things up for good, this was a great way to go out because it’s pretty much they way they came in: unpretentious, turned up loud and ready to entertain. We’ll miss you, ‘Finger.

Jonno Seidler

What was exceptional was his timing behind the decks - moving from his heavily relied upon Roland SP-404 to the mic for brief rap interjections, and then back to the 1210s to drop in another beat. A seamless style, and it looked like fun to boot. What we heard was a largely electronic and contemporary set, and I’m informed by a reliable source that we heard the following tunes: SAMIYAM's 'Moonshoes' and 'Trick Platform', 'Brainwaves (Samiyam x Lorn)' and tracks from artists like Gucci Mane, Dibiase, Ras G and Necro.

The soundsystem at Tone has finally been “flown”, after running for a couple of nights in “work in progress” mode, and it’s sounding really damn good. If you’re standing in a sweet spot (most of the dancefloor) you’re going to be enjoying the music. Space Is The Place and SAMIYAM completely packed the place out - and that’s one relationship you can expect to continue in the near future at least.

Tony Two-Tone

THE LOVETONES Oxford Art Factory Thursday September 23 “Oh damn you Rock N Roll Stardom - you are a fickle mistress! Again and again you dash the careers of talented bands onto the rocks of anonymity – merely because the members were born in the wrong decade? Curse you Rock N Roll Stardom!

You are a heartless beast!” Tonight was a night of marvellous music played by magical musicians who, I fear, have arrived in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Instead of Australia in 2010, The Prayer Circle should be in London in 1990. Back then, bands concocting ethereal drone rock were packing out places far bigger than the Oxford Art Factory. Groups like Slowdive, Lush and Chapterhouse used exactly the same formula as The Prayer Circle: delicate vocal harmonies drowning in a miasma of guitar feedback and buzzsaw guitars. It sounded glorious back then, and Sydney’s The Prayer Circle prove that it still does today.

As for The Laurels, their natural place in time is really New York in 1993. This was when Bob Mould and his band Sugar were unleashing a fierce album called Beaster;

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Cypress Hill while Sonic Youth had just released Dirty into the wild. These albums tore a punkshaped hole through the shoegaze sound, adding fiery aggression and attitude to the art-rock aesthetic. The Laurels have gone out and bought the same guitar pedals as Sugar and Sonic Youth, and tonight they engulf the OAF in a blizzard of white noise.

It doesn’t take a mad scientist to work out when and where The Lovetones would have prospered most. Kids in late-1960s California pretty much lived on a diet of psychedelic pop, and The Lovetones would have had San Franciscan hippy chicks eating out of their hands. Still, even in 2010, the music they serve up live tonight is delicious. ‘Navigator’ is the perfect appetiser and ‘Journeyman’ is equally mouth-watering. ‘This Great Romance’ and ‘A New Low in Getting High’ are sweet and bittersweet respectively. Meanwhile, during ‘Stars’ and ‘Chinatime Busride’, you can practically taste the hash cakes.

Sadly, Rock N Roll Stardom will probably never wine and dine any of the bands on this bill. But each and every musician played a part in seducing the Oxford Art Factory crowd tonight.

Andy McLean

PIKELET, RICHARD IN YOUR MIND, GHOUL, COLLARBONES The Gaelic Club Saturday September 25

There’s a considerable degree of anticipation for Collarbones’ live set, given their impressive singles and recent signing to Two Bright Lakes. The small, appreciative crowd is met with the cerebral electro-pop they’ve come to expect, but it’s a bit quiet. Marcus Whale and Travis Cook bop unselfconsciously and trade personal jokes on stage as though no one else is there, addressing the audience only sporadically. Over the coda of a particularly beautiful piece, Whale assaults the audience with an impassioned rant about the decline of J-Lo’s output. Later, he is embarrassed as he introduces a Justin Bieber cover, explaining it’s a joke that he’s anxious no-one will get - it turns about to be disarmingly lovely. The audience applauds, bemused.

Ghoul is impressive. Their drummer merges his stickwork seamlessly with electronic percussion without headphones, like a fledgling Phil Selway. The band is utterly cohesive like a well-oiled machine, assembling articulate, modern guitar pop with alacrity. Thankfully, their use of samples isn’t intrusive, instead lending wry ornament to subtly eastern-tinged tunes.

It’s been said that Pikelet’s ‘full band’ show lacks the glow of the sheer invention she can swindle on her own. For those that haven’t seen her solo before, this is very hard to believe. There seems to be many more layers in this playful and consummate art-pop than the four people on stage could possibly be capable of creating even with guitar, bass, woodwind, keys and loop pedals.

If it weren’t for the sheer conviction with which Richard In Your Mind take the stage, Pikelet might’ve stolen the show tonight. RIYM started as a psychnovelty, but now they seem to have

morphed into a swaggering rock-band.

The trippy sensibility pervades – thanks in no small part to synth squiggles and samples courtesy of Spod – but it’s more pragmatic, less indulgent. It’s all about the songs now, and they’re not afraid to meddle a little with the originals. ‘Make It Chill’ trades breezy glow-fi for ominous menace; acoustic sparkler ‘New Sun’ is hammered out so emphatically it almost threatens to trip over itself. They close the incandescent set with a brilliant percussion and harmonica blues rant, reminiscent of Captain Beefheart at his most primal.

Luke Telford

CYPRESS HILL, SPIT SYNDICATE The Enmore Theatre Friday September 24

Every sniffer dog in Sydney is at The Enmore tonight. When I head up to my balcony seat, eager drooling doggies lunge for my pockets, socks and crotch. The police let me pass but red-eyed Cypress devotees take evasive action - it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, and plenty of punters get carted away.

With the police intimidating and arresting fans, it’s a bit hard to focus on local lads Spit Syndicate. Their shout out to Petersham’s charcoal chicken is the highlight - although I’m a bit disconcerted by how similar their voices are.

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The lights dim, the police vanish and Cypress Hill hits the stage to the smell of Nimbin. I’ve seen dozens of hip hop shows and tonight I experience something rare - a perfect live hip hop mix. I can decipher every word of B-Real’s stoned nasal flow and Sen Dog’s sidekick barking, while all the spooky horns, bleeps, whirls and samples that are unique to Cypress Hill ring loud and clear. Immediately from barrier to back row the theatre is a mess of shaking asses and waving hands. As plumes of smoke rise from the pit they bounce through ‘Hand on the Pump’, ‘Pigs’, ‘A to the K’, ‘Insane In The Brain’, ‘How I Could Just Kill a Man’, ‘Real Estate’ and ‘Hole in the Head’. Unlike recent international hip hop shows – yeah I’m talking about A Tribe Called Quest – there’s a live and organic feel to tonight’s show, aided by the sweaty blur that is Eric Bobo (Beastie Boys) playing Latin percussion and DJ Hit Man Julio adding cuts. Like DJ battles of old, Eric and Julio duel mid-set, except this time it’s congos and bongos versus vinyl. The crowd love it.

Then, that moment. A roadie passes B-Real a spliff, the lights go green, he takes a drag and announces lazily and nasally, “This is pure Australian” as ‘Hits from the Bong’ begins. It’s a real ‘smoke ‘em if you got ‘em’ moment, and the audience complies.

B-Real is re-introduced as the “the highest man in the world” for the encore, and the place jumps as one through ‘Ain’t Going out Like That’ and ‘Superstar’. The lights come up on a hazy room of grinning fans and I make a move to beat the queue at the kebab joint.

Tyler Broyles

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The Minor Chord

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

Little Red

t seems that Little Red are not so little anymore. Since their â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;triple j Unearthedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Garage to V Competitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; days, Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite old-fashioned rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll band have played at Big Day Out, Falls and Laneway, and have supported bands such as Kasabian and Vampire Weekend on national tours. Their first album, Listen to Little Red, debuted at number 29 on the ARIA Charts when it was released in 2008. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve recently popped out another genius record, Midnight Remember, for your listening pleasure And we all know what that means right? A National tour! The boys of Little Red are kindly putting on an all-ages show at the Metro Theatre this Friday October 8. In support are Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Sparkadia and Kimbra, making for a fairly fantastic bill. You can purchase your ticket directly through the venue. Too easy!

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From one Australian rock band to another: pop rock band Amy Meredith is the handiwork of Christian Lo Russo, Joel Chapman, Cameron Laing, Wade Osbourne and Kosta Theodosis, who came together in 2006 over common musical ground. Since then they have toured with Snob Scrilla, Cobra Starship, Evermore, Good Charlotte and Stereophonics as well as headlining their own national tour in April and May this year on the back of their single â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lyingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. To mark the release of their debut album, Restless (which debuted at No. 8 on the ARIA Album Chart), Amy Meredith have announced the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Restless Tourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, taking place this month. To kick things off, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve set up a gig at our favourite allages-friendly venue, The Factory Theatre, on Saturday October 9. To score a ticket, head to Moshtix.

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Legendary rockers The Smashing Pumpkins are heading down to our shores soon for what will surely be a spectacular show at Luna Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Top stage on Saturday October 16, with Adelaide band City Riots supporting. The Pumpkins have been killing it since 1988, and despite a few stops and starts, and band-member changes, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re arguably still killing it now. Their sound can only be described as diverse, jumping from heavy often gothic rock, to punk, to pop, to psychedelic rock, with later recordings even showing elements of electronic music. Their latest 44-track concept album, Teargarden

by Kaleidyscope, will be released one at a time as free MP3 downloads. The Pumpkins will be joined on stage by City Riots, who you may remember from their self-released Socialize EP (2008), which earned the band a nomination for triple jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Unearthed Artist of the Year award. This is all too much to miss, so go and grab yourself a ticket.

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As always tune in to FBi 94.5 every Wednesday from 5pm to hear more from The Minor Chord.

ALL AGES GIG PICKS FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 Little Red, Sparkadia, Kimbra Metro Theatre

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 Amy Meredith The Factory Theatre

FRIDAY OCTOBER 15 Paramore Sydney Entertainment Centre

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For something a little bit different, head to Jets Sports Club the following day at 11am to catch Hollywood Hombres, Jack Shit, and DJ Brian who will be spinning tunes into the night. The day will include a wonderfully bizarre mix of country, jazz, indie/alternative, metal, pop, punk, soul, ska and roots music and since this oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a free gig, you have

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Remedy

More than The Cure since 1989 with Murray Engleheart

Rammstein

Just when we were thinking that the Big Day Out had stopped catering for senior blokes comes the announcement of the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first round of acts, including Tool, Iggy and The Stooges (this time with Raw Power-era guitarist, James Williamson), the literally incendiary Germans Rammstein, The Deftones, Grinderman (which we only recently discovered is also the name of a song by John Lee Hooker from, we think, 1959) and Primal Scream, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be doing their classic Screamadelica LP in full.

ELECTRIC WIZARD ON VINYL

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very few recordings in the modern world that can test out the structural soundness of buildings in your neighbourhood quite like Electric Wizardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dopethrone. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out now on twin vinyl for added bass rumbleness, with an extended bonus track â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mind Transferralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; - which was included on the CD reissue that appeared a few years back.

THROBBING GRISTLE

The majorly confronting techno animals Throbbing Gristle are playing at The Village Underground in London on October 23, interestingly â&#x20AC;&#x153;using new experimental electronic equipmentâ&#x20AC;? as part of a short tour that includes a date in the Czech Republic, two shows in Italy and ATPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nightmare Before Christmas in the UK... BDO anyone?

EARTH

Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut studio recordings are being packaged up for the first time in a single set called A Beaurocratic (sic?) Desire For Extra Capsular Extraction. The sessions are from 1990 and have been spread across releases like Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars. Black drone from the dawn of a new age...

TOUCH AND GO BOOK

John Brannon - who here at Remedy we know best and worship most as the lead howler monkey from the Laughing Hyenas and the earlier Negative Approach, summed up Touch and Go fanzine this way: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creem [magazine] may have taught me how to piss, but Touch and Go taught me how to shit.â&#x20AC;? Now the complete issues of the famed US punk publication have been enshrined in a single near 600-page volume: Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;79-â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;83, with articles on and interviews with The Misfits, Black Flag, Poison Idea and Die Kreuzen, to name a few.

SPIRIT CARAVAN REUNION?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk of a possible Spirit Caravan reunion next year with the chance of a new slab to boot. The trio was, of course, one of the many names that Scott â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winoâ&#x20AC;?

Weinrich has on his CV.

ON THE TURNTABLE On the Remedy turntable is Soft Machineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Six which, despite the legendary UK outfitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tag of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cardie-progâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, is for us much closer to 'space-truckinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and galaxy-trippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; free-jazzed outer-limits weirdness' than anything else. Also spinning is the self-titled debut effort from Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zond, which sounds much like being caught in a wind tunnel, or maybe being under a corrugated-iron roof in a hailstorm. Riffs? Nah. Solos?

Nope. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this loud murmur of a sound thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not particularly abrasive, but has an almost Loveless-era My Bloody Valentine or even Mono tidal flow to itâ&#x20AC;Ś Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also been wading through an excellent four-slab box called the Life & Times of Jeffery Lee Pierce, which brings together not just a studio comp of both The Gun Club and Pierceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo stuff, but three records of live material largely from the GCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early eighties peak, including stuff recorded during the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oz tour (which saw two members of The Johnnys join the band).

SATURDAY OCTOBER

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TOUR AND INDUSTRY NEWS No Life 'Til Leather returneth on October 22, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Warrantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cherry Pie slab. DJs The Sultan Of Sin and Colonel Knowledge deliver hour after hour of pumping, grinding, sleazy â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s rock from Warrant to Motley Crue, and Ratt to Iron Maiden, with gift vouchers from Utopia Records for the wearer and bearer of the best â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s hair metal wig. As always, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be huge video screens playing the best rock clips of the era all night long. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all happening once again at Hermannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar, corner of City Road and Butlin Avenue (opposite Sydney University gates).

That show by truly legendary early eightiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; UK hard nut punks GBH is just a few weeks away. On October 14 theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be at the Gaelic Club with special guests The Rumjacks.

Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock kings Bunt are about to return to Japan, to support their My Maryanne release. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing with Japanese punk legends Jet Boys who are featured in Pamela Valenteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tokyo, which will be out on DVD soon. As part of the Buntstersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; run is a show on October 16 at Tokyoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club Heavy Sick which is just too great a name not to

mention. On their return the band will be doing a series of NSW shows kicking off on October 30 at the The Great Northern in Newcastle. www.myspace.com/buntrock Low are soon to return for the first time since they performed their acclaimed 2001 release Things We Lost In The Fire, as part of the Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Look Back series. On October 22 theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be at The Factory at Enmore with The Laurels, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been getting some serious raves for their new LP Turn On Your Mind.

The late Ian Rilen once told us that X means never having to stop. But it seems they are - for a while at least.

The institution are bowing out â&#x20AC;&#x153;for an indeterminate periodâ&#x20AC;? due to a chronic back problem suffered by its sole original member, singer and guitarist Steve Lucas, which was a speed hump they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve during their recent first-ever US tour. Accordingly, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a â&#x20AC;&#x153;farewell for nowâ&#x20AC;? gig at the Sandringham at Newtown on October 15 with Kim Volkman on bass and veteran former Cosmic Psycho Bad Billy Walsh on drums. Also on the bill are the all leather, all female rockers, DollSquad, who just wowed audiences in Europe, as well as 25th Floor and Platinum Brunette.

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Melt Fridays It sounds like: Live music, celebrity deejays, and good times every Friday night and into the wee hours of Saturday morning.

DJs/live acts playing: Tom Crawford, Annabelle Kay, Atlas B Salbesen, The Beating Hearts.

Sell it to us: The newest & best live music venue in the Cross with cheap delicious cocktails, private booths, and friendly bar staff. No karaoke, no cover bands. Just live, original music.

The bit we’ll remember in the AM: You won’t need to… 5AM lockout!

Crowd specs: People looking for a decent place to party in the Cross. No hostility, arrogance, or any top 40 charts bullshit.

Wallet damage: $10 Where: Melt Bar 12 Kellet St, Kings Cross.

When: This Friday… cya then.

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THU TRANZPHAT Album Launch 7th October 7.30pm

FRI 8th October 8pm

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JONNEINE ZAPATA w. The Holy Soul + Loene Carmen ĘťShe is the closest thing to Jim Morrison and her live show is mesmerizingĘź - LA Record $25 + bf

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It’s called: SOSUEME @ The Gaelic

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It sounds like: Bands are back at SOSUEME – damn straight they are!

DJs/Live acts: Live sets from The Owls (EP Launch), The Cadres, Doc Holiday Takes the Shotgun, The Vignettes, Forests, plus DJ sets from Joyride, Alison Wonderland, F.R.I.E.N.D/s DJs, Coitus Interruptus, Mush & Seabass, Cries Wolf DJs, The AU DJs, Jessus, Dtrain and Hack.

Sell it to us: SOSUEME on a Saturday? Yes you heard right. We’ve hit the road and are smashing it at a bunch of Sydney’s top venues leading up to Xmas - this week it’s the Gaelic, where we can present the full SOSUEME experience: killer live bands, incredible party DJs, a vibrant eclectic crowd smothered in fairy floss and punctuated with rocket fuel buckets. Oh and did we mention we have the new upstairs party room just for lovers?

Wallet damage: 10 bones early/ 15 late Where: The Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills When: Saturday October 9, 8pm

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Underground Prohibition Members Bar, Cnr of Curlewis and Campbell Parade, Bondi

packed up for the day, Bondi’s backstreets return to their hip and relaxed ways with a cool breeze to boot. Local hang-outs have a great casual sophistication in Bondi, and the area has a small but very exciting ‘small bar’ scene.

THE HOSTS

White Revolver describes the secret entrance, a white revolving wall. Originally the door was hidden in a gallery that has since been replaced with Thru The Grapevine, a locals wine bar (so now you enter Revolver through the wine bar). There’s always an element of Beatles nostalgia associated with re:love projects, and this is no exception.

James Hudson, Mark Tarrant and Liam Constantine had backgrounds in industrial design, hotel management, hospitality and event management. It was only a matter of time before the three came together and created something that is an extension of themselves: charismatic, lively, sociable, and offering exceptional service over the bar... On top of gathering awards for best bars and clubs over the years in London, the Mediterranean and in Sydney, Mark was also a competitive flairer - and a lot of the bar staff share the same passion for flairing and service.

THE PITCH Make the trip to Bondi for a night out, and be pleasantly surprised how the crowds change when the sun goes down. After all the riff-raff has

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

LOCATION LOCATION This unique gem is buried deep inside Bondi’s iconic Swiss Grand Hotel, which has been the heart of Bondi since the early 1900s - back when trams were still rocking the shores.

DESIGN INSPIRATIONS Having just come back from a trip to New York, the owners felt that Sydney was really lacking something a bit more exclusive, somewhere keyholders and guests can

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The Old Fashioneds are of particular note, but we also do Dirty Martinis, Brandy Alexanders, Manhattans and Tom Collins as part of our Mad Men inspired after-work drinks initiative. We also have ‘knockoff’ drinks from 5pm Fridays with complimentary cheese platters and champagne for the dolls…

HINDSIGHT The real plunge is to strive for something that’s different from the ‘Sydney formula’. The ongoing challenge is making sure patrons and their guests are still excited by what’s on offer.

Lychee Martini @ Stanley Street Station

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tuck themselves in for the night, to party away from bleary eyes and drunken stupor. Revolver is not a place to be seen - it’s a place not to be seen, a place where our celebrity friends can relax without the prying eyes of the paparazzi… The bar itself is really unique - kitted out in early craft and art deco pieces; when you enter the covert club through a secret key-operated revolving door you are transported from Bondi’s beat to an authentic underground, 1920s prohibition-style bar.

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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

INNER WEST

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 Rosebud Restaurant & Bar 654 Darling St. Rozelle Soni’s 169 King St, Newtown

INNER EAST

Absinthe 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 fireplace 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 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 & Kings Cross Rd, Kings 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: Early-bird 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 Tonic Lounge 62-64 Kellett St, Kings Cross Velluto 7/50 Macleay Street, Potts Point Saturday & Sunday, 2-5pm: High Tea The Winery 285a Crown St, Surry Hills Yullis 417 Crown St, Surry Hills

EAST

Bondi Social 262 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction Cream Tangerine Swiss Grand, Campbell Pde, 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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Luna Park Sydney’s 75 Birthday Party: John Farnham The Big Top at Luna Park, Milsons Point $155 (B Res)–$250 (gold) 7.30pm Makin’ Whoopee Castle Hill Tavern free 1pm Mandy Shamin Gladstone Hotel, Dulwich Hill free 2pm Songwriter Sessions @ Excelsior Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 7.30pm This is Not Art: Electrofringe: UTS Sound Collective, The Splinter Orchestra, Andras Fox, Rebecca Anne, Sui Zhen, Freeman, The Human Theremin Various Venues, Newcastle free–$20 6pm Unherd Open Mic: Derkajam Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm

JAZZ

FRIDAY OCTOBER 8

Metro Theatre, Sydney

Little Red, Sparkadia, Kimbra $35.10 7pm Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale

After Party @ Purple Sneakers Little Red DJs, Ben Lucid, M.I.T, Fantomatique, Nick Findlay & Monkey Genius

Jim Gannon Dee Why RSL Club free 6.30pm Open Mic & Jazz/Latin Jam Session: Daniel Falero, Pierre Della Putta, Phil Taig, Rinske Geerlings, Ed Rapo Bar Me, Potts Point free 7pm The Mute Canery Project 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

DinkiDiAcoustic: Dave Tice, Julie Nelson, Rathir Harun, Graham Healy The Hive Bar, Erskineville free 8pm Songsalive!: Jeremy Clarke, Under the Purple Tree and guests Springwood Sports Club free 7.30pm

COUNTRY

Maitland Country Music Muster Heritage Mall, Maitland 12pm

Mandarin Band Rainforest Lounge, Bankstown Sports Club free 7.30pm Open Mic Night Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 7pm Rob Henry The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm The Next Step Castle Hill RSL Club $20 (+ bf) 8pm The Verses The Vanguard, Newtown $20 (+ bf) 6.30pm They Call Me Bruce Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm Tuesday Unplugged Uni Bar, Wollongong University, Gwynneville free 4pm Unherd Open Mic: Klondike’s North Forty, Chris Masuak Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm

JAZZ

James Valentine’s Supper Club: James Valentine Quartet Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 7pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm SNAP, Remco Keijzer Quartet 505 Club, Surry Hills $8–$10 8.30pm Soup Jam Session Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 6pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Residents: Bonney Read, Barrel House, Line Drawings, Scotty Mcclintock Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm Songsalive!: Ben Osmo, Elle Kennard, Beaufields, Lauren Augarten, Russell Neal The Basement, Circular Quay $15 8.30pm

TUESDAY OCTOBER 5

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6

ROCK & POP

ROCK & POP

Beau Smith Duo Stamford Grand North Ryde, Macquarie Park free 6pm Cambo O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Danielle Spencer Raval, Surry Hills $15 7.30pm DJ Frankie, Mindy Sotiri, Luke Russell Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 8pm Elle Kennard, Beaufields, Laren Hartegn, Ben Osmo The Basement, Circular Quay $15 (+ bf) 8pm

Acid King, Baby Machine, The Handlebars Harp Hotel, Wollongong $20 8pm Andy Mammers The Ranch Hotel, Eastwood free 10.30pm Ben Finn Duo Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill free 6pm Bio Weapon, Timmy Trumpet, Cheap Lettus, Zannon, Mozzie, MC Losty Newcastle Panthers, Newcastle West $25 (u18 yrs) 7.30pm Bowman Sisters Ettamogah Pub, Rouse Hill free 5.30pm

Daniel Lee Kendall, Vanessa Jade Raval, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm Genevieve Chadwick, Matt Southern, Di Drew The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Happy Wednesdays: Step Panther, Sealion, Bright Quito Spring Spectrum, Darlinghurst $8 8pm Jager Uprising: The Glass Ceiling, Robosexual, Lime Cordiale Annandale Hotel $8 7pm Jesse Morris & The Three Beans The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 6.30pm Jon Cleary (USA) Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $40 (show only)–$80 (dinner & show) 7pm JP O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Kirsty Larkin Shoal Bay Resort free 1pm Lil Band O’ Gold (USA) The Basement, Circular Quay $38.50 (+ bf) 9.30pm Little Red, Sparkadia, Kimbra Uni Bar, Wollongong University, Gwynneville $18.50 (student)–$22.80 8pm Mandy Shamin Charing Cross Hotel, Waverley free 6pm Merewether Fats’ Blues Jam The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 7pm Michael Jackson’s Slide Didge Extravaganza Sandringham Hotel – street level bar, Newtown free 8pm Mike Bennett The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Now Now Series: Superflux, Filmbase, Lafoxe, Metalking, The Mute Canary Project The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville $10–$15 7.30pm Open Mic Night Excelsior Hotel, Glebe free 7.30pm Open Mic Fubah on Copa, Copacabana free 7pm Paul Winn Duo Dee Why Hotel free 8pm Sideshow: Jinja Safari, The Money Smokers Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Spectacles, Dirty Nice, Spangled Mistress, Ben Marshall Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 7.45pm The Next Step South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford $20 (+ bf) 8pm The Script (Ireland), Michael Paynter The Big Top at Luna Park, Milsons Point $60.60 8pm The Tom & Dave Show Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm Daniel Lee Kendal

$12/$10 MONDAY OCTOBER 4 ROCK & POP

A Taste of Lilith: Sarah McLachlan (Canada), Kate Miller-Heidke, The Verses Enmore Theatre $149–$249 (premium) 8pm Blue Shaddy Towradgi Beach Hotel free 2pm Cash & Co Catherine Hill Bay Hotel free 2.30pm Darling Harbour Fiesta: Cecilia Noel, Patrulla 81, JJ Son Con Idabelis, Armandito & Trovson,

Diego Guerrero Flamenco Latin Quintet Darling Harbour Precinct free 12pm Devil Rock: The Delltones, Jonah’s Road, Jon English, Jon Stevens York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $69 1pm End Of August Crowne Plaza Terrigal free 1pm Happy Hippies Ettamogah Pub, Rouse Hill free 1pm Kickstone, My Giant Set, Dusky Moorhen, Rabble Rabble Newtown RSL Club free 7pm Lil Band O’ Gold (USA) Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $38.50 (+ bf)–$86 (dinner & show) 8pm

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JAZZ

Dave Smiedt, Amelia Jane Hunter, Cecil Oatley Hotel $6 8.30pm John Redmond Trio The Manhattan Lounge, Sydney free 6pm Paul Sun Jazushi, Surry Hills free 7pm UNSW Recitals 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Songsalive!: Charli, Andrew Denniston and guests Harbourview Hotel, the Rocks free 7pm Songsalive!: Ross Bruzzese, Rebecca Fielding, Eve Goonan, Russell Neal Coach & Horses Hotel, Randwick free 7pm

THURSDAY OCTOBER 7 ROCK & POP

Beth Robertson Shoal Bay Resort free 5pm Bianca Meier, Sara Potter Raval, Surry Hills $14 7pm Bob Madden’s Alpine Wanderers Uni Bar, Wollongong University, Gwynneville free 8pm Border Thieves, Made In Japan, Carnation, Domeyko/Gonzalez Melt Bar, Kings Cross $10 9pm Crushed Ice

Camden Valley Golf Resort, Catherine Field free 6.30pm Die! Die! Die! (NZ), Chicks Who Love Guns The Grand Hotel, Wollongong $15 (+ bf) 8pm Guineafowl, Pluto Jonze, Betty Airs, Brown Bear Black Bear Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $5 8pm Hot Damn!: Mourning Tide, Wish For Wings, Grace is Gone, Mark Mywords, Hot Damn DJs Spectrum, Darlinghurst $10–$12 8pm Ian Blakeney Piano Bar, Bankstown Sports Club free 8pm James English & The Doc, Craig Woodward Brass Monkey, Cronulla 8pm Johnathan Sugarfoot Moffett Allans Music, Alexandria 7pm Jon Cleary (USA) Lizotte’s Restaurant, Kincumber 8pm Lil Band O’ Gold (USA) The Factory Theatre, Enmore $38.50 (+ bf) 8pm Meter: Perry Keyes Notes Live, Enmore $28.60 7pm Pledge This!, Chemical Transport, Vanstorm Bull & Bush Hotel, Baulkham Hills free 8pm Rhys Zacher The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 7.30pm Roots ‘n’ Blues Open Mic: Merewether Fats Shenanigans, Maitland free 7pm Scott Spark, Fergus Brown, The Rescue Ships The Vanguard, Newtown $11 (+ bf)–$16 6.30pm Shannon Noll, Mark Wilkinson Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $45 (show only)–$113.50 (dinner & show) 7pm Simmo Windang Bowling Club free 8pm

Structures Fall, Running Guns, Louis London Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Sun Araw (USA) Goodgod Small Club, Sydney 9pm Super Massive Dapto Hotel free 8pm The Capitols White Cockatoo Hotel, Petersham free 6pm The Next Step Mounties, Mount Pritchard $20 (+ bf) 8pm The Novocaines, The Foreign Objects, Fangs Harp Hotel, Wollongong $8 8pm The Suspects Marble Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Thursday Live: Samantha Brave, Kate Gogarty Newport Arms Hotel free 7pm Tin Sparrow, Vacations Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Tranzphat, Walking With Mirrors, Citizen Dog, Atomik Circus Annandale Hotel $10 (at door) 7.30pm Wollongong Wail Band Comp City Diggers, Wollongong free 8pm Wormwood :: Absinthe & Psychedelia: Bands: The Walk on By, Crab Smasher, Jusgo Mosh, DJs Lucas George, Simo Soo, Art from Punk Monk Propaganda, Mersey Sound Collective, Creon Loft Bar, UTS, Ultimo free 6pm Zoltan Brighton RSL Club, Brighton-LeSands free 7.30pm

JAZZ

505 Latin Night 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Jazz Factory The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Peter Head

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Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm Steve Edmonds Empire Hotel, Annandale free 8pm Stevie Ray Vaughan & Aretha Franklin Music Celebration: Mal Eastick, Shauna Jensen, Matt Roberts, Michael Gubb, Julian Gough, Tony Boyd, Craig Bodinnar The Basement, Circular Quay $22 (conc)–$28 9.30pm Tina Harrod Quartet, Robynne Dunn Presbyterian Church, Springwood $20 (conc)–$30 7pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Oktoberfest: The Alpine Wanderers, Spook Uni Bar, Wollongong University, Gwynneville free 5pm Rock Out With Your Wok Out: Daniel Hopkins and guests Narrabeen Sands free 7.30pm Ross Ward GJ’s Coffee Lounge, Cronulla Mall free 7.30pm Songsalive: Helmut Uhlmann and guests Newtown RSL free 7.30pm Songsalive!: Andrew Denniston and guests Pittwater RSL, Mona Vale free 7.30pm Songsalive!: Ben Osmo, Nick Coady, Mark Wilkes, Gerard Cafe, Nick Alexander, Robyn B, Carolyn Crysdale Penshurst RSL free 7pm Songsalive!: Kristian Jackson, Under the Purple Tree and guests Henry Lawson Club, Werrington County free 7.30pm

HIP HOP

Dru Hill Metro Theatre, Sydney $52 (+ bf)–$75 (premium) 6.30pm

FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 ROCK & POP

After Party Band Moorebank Sports Club, Hammondville free 9pm Agent 69 Cronulla RSL free 8.30pm Alexisonfire (Canada), Break Even Roundhouse, Kensington $59.05 (+ bf) 8pm All In Good Fun Nelson Bay Bowling Club free 7.30pm Annabelle Kay, Atlas B Salbesen, The Beating Hearts Melt Bar, Kings Cross 9pm Beth Robertson The Beachcomber Hotel, Toukley free 8pm Brett O’Malley Peden’s Tavern Hotel, Cessnock free 8.30pm Bridgemary Kiss, Archerbolds Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Broken Toys Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor free 8pm Brown Sugar Marble Bar, Sydney free 9.30pm Casho The Hunter Valley Brewery, Maitland free 9pm Chartbusters Towradgi Beach Hotel free 8.30pm Chris Duke & The Royals, Nudist Colonies Of The World, Running Bear With Eagle Eye, Batfoot, Sparrow Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 8pm Club Blink St James Hotel, Sydney $10–$12 9.30pm Creedence Clearwater Recycled

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THE THYLACINE + SARAH JANE OHARA + DEAR JUNE + LUCASE HENDRIXS

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FREE ENTRY

THE UPSKIRTS + THE RUMINATERS

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+ ROCKETS + FAKEWARS TRASHED MILF PARTY LIVE - THE ART + SLOW DOWN HONEY + THE SALVAGERS DJ - JAKE + SHAWN + SLVG DSCTHQ + JES-US + VINYL RITCHIE

SOSUEME LIVE - THE CADRES + THE OWLS + DOC HOLLIDAY TAKES THE SHOTGUN DJ - ALISON WONDERLAND + JOYRIDE + 2nd ROOM

(8:30PM - 12:00AM)

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GBH + THE RUMJACKS

FRI 15 OCT

LANEOUS & THE FAMLY YAH

SAT 16 OCT

THE HOLIDAYS

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Gig Guide

send your listings to: gigguide@thebrag.com The Showroom, Bankstown Sports Club $7 (member)–$10 7.45pm Cyber Crystals Cardiff Panthers free 8.15pm Dan Kelly & His Dream Band Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton $19.95 8pm David Agius Trio Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel free 7pm Die! Die! Die! (NZ), Myth & Tropics, Chicks Who Love Guns Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $15 (+ bf) 8pm Double Whammy Engadine RSL & Citizens Club free 8pm E-Lixa Mattara Hotel, Newcastle free 8pm Full Circle MJ Finnegan’s Irish Pub, Newcastle free 10.30pm Galleri, Corey Price The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Gay Paris, The Bears, Brothers Grim, Contraban The Polo Lounge and Supper Club, Darlinghurst 8pm Granite Revolution Khartoum Hotel, Cessnock free 8.30pm Groovin Hard Rainforest Lounge, Bankstown Sports Club free 9pm Heart Attack & Vine Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 8.30pm Hog & The Hootowls Edgeworth Tavern free 8.30pm Hooray For Everything Celebrity Room, Blacktown RSL Club free 8pm HR King Brass Monkey, Cronulla $12.25 (presale) 7pm Hue Williams Tall Timbers Hotel, Ourimbah free 6pm Indigo Rising, Underlights, Super Florence Jam, Slave Kills Owner Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm Jaywalker Scenic Lounge, Central Coast Leagues Club, Gosford free 8.30pm Jessica Cain Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour free 7.30pm Jonneine Zapata (USA), The Holy Soul, Loene Carmen Annandale Hotel $25 (+ bf) 8pm Karton Chinese Laundry, Sydney 10pm Kiwi Soundz: Ardijah, 1814, Ruia Aperahama, Maisey Rika (New Zealand), V Tribe, This Version Selina’s, Coogee Bay Hotel $68 (+

bf) 7.30pm Let the Mango The Seabreeze Hotel, Nelson Bay free 8pm Little Red, Sparkadia, Kimbra Metro Theatre, Sydney $35.10 7pm Loose Change, True Vibe Nation, Daily Meds, Morgs, Bentley Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Misbehave Shoal Bay Country Club Hotel free 8.45pm MUM: World’s End Press The World Bar, Kings Cross $10 (guestlist)–$15 9pm Only The Sea Slugs, Heartattack and Vine, Centresection The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 8.30pm Phonic Warners Bay Hotel free 9pm Purple Sneakers: Little Red DJs, Ben Lucid, M.I.T, Fantomatique, Nick Findlay, Monkey Genius Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale free 7pm Real Deal Tilligerry RSL, Tanilba Bay free 8pm Rear View Mirror Penrith Hotel free 10pm Rob Devlin Piano Bar, Bankstown Sports Club free 8pm Rob Henry Duo Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm Service 30 Avoca Beach Hotel free 8.30pm Skullsquadron, Small Town Incident, The Tombstone Ramblers, Uncanny Valley Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Smudge, The Little Lovers Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm Solid Inc Blackbutt Hotel, New Lambton free 8.45pm Spectacular Feets Iron Horse Inn, Cardiff free 6.30pm Steinway Spectacular City Recital Hall, Sydney $65 8pm The Angels, Black Label Waves Nightclub, Towradgi $40 (+ bf) 8pm The Bad & The Ugly Doyalson-Wyee RSL Club free 8.30pm The Last Ghost Train Home: Perry Keyes Notes Live, Enmore $28.60 7pm The Lucky Wonders, Melanie Horsnell Petersham Bowling Club $12 8pm The Next Step Workers Blacktown $20 (+ bf) 8pm Die! Die! Die!

The Novocaines, The Foreign Objects, Fangs, The Owls Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West $12 8.30pm Velvet Hotel Mascot RSL free 8pm Via Tania (USA), A Casual End Mile Raval, Surry Hills $15 (+ bf) 7.30pm Viagra Falls Fire Station Hotel, Wallsend free 8.30pm Wots Wot The Showroom, Bankstown Sports Club $5 (member)–$7 1.30pm Zoltan Town Hall Hotel, Balmain free 9pm

JAZZ

Backsliders The Vanguard, Newtown $20 (+ bf)–$25 (at door) 6.30pm Bridge City Jazz Band Club Ashfield free 7.30pm Fernando Aragones 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Jenny Marie Lang Empire Hotel, Annandale free 8pm Jon Cleary: Piano Bass Drums (USA) The Basement, Circular Quay $30 (+ bf)–$35 (at door) 9.30pm Kinetic Jazz Festival: Jeremy Rose Quartet, Kinetic Energy Theatre Co, Kevin Hunt Trio, Daryl Pratt St Luke’s Hall, Enmore $15 (conc)– $20 7.30pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm SIMA: Jane Irving Quartet The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $12 (member)–$18 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Songsalive!: Andrew Denniston and guests Casa di Musica, Enmore free 7.30pm Songsalive!: Kyle Horsley, Brett Gedge, Kay Proudlove, Bevan Wiles, Ethan Blencowe, Alex Johnson, Braydon Denmeade, Joseph Mungovan, Russell Neal Ryans Hotel, Thirroul free 8.30pm Songsalive!: Under the Purple Tree and guests Picton Bowling Club free 8pm The Furry Animals, Mental Elf The Hero of Waterloo Hotel, Millers Point free 8pm

HIP HOP

Dustones: Loose Change, True Vibe Nation, Daily Meds, DJ Morgs, Bentley Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm

COUNTRY

Corb Lund (Canada) Rooty Hill RSL Club 8pm

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 ROCK & POP

2 Of Hearts Padstow RSL Club free 6.30pm Allstar Warners Bay Hotel free 9pm Amy Meredith The Factory Theatre, Enmore $17 (+ bf) 7pm Andrew Williams Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel free Brett O’Malley Crowne Plaza Terrigal free 5pm Catcall, World’s End Press, Golden Ron, Bad Ezzy, Alpine, Future Classic DJs Civic Hotel, Sydney $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 8pm Chontia Bushrangers Bar & Brasserie, Largs free 7.30pm Chris Byrne

Bateau Bay Hotel free 8.30pm Dan Kelly & His Dream Band, Big Scary, Love Connection Annandale Hotel $17 (+ bf) 8pm Dan Spillane Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm Down Under Oatley Hotel free 8pm Fabba Nelson Bay Bowling Club free 9pm Formula Mayfield Ex Services Club Ltd free 8.30pm Fullhouse Salamander Hotel, Soldiers Point free 8.30pm Funkstar Marble Bar, Sydney free 10.30pm Hell Bent Catherine Hill Bay Hotel free 2.30pm Jessica Cain Breakers Country Club, Wamberal free 7.30pm Jim Conway’s Big Wheel Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain free 8pm Jimmy Bazil, Ben Murphy, Emmy Van Der Linden The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Johnny Ray’s Downtown: Perry Keyes Notes Live, Enmore $28.60 7pm Karaoke Lake Macquarie Tavern, Mount Hutton free 7.30pm Key String Cardiff Panthers free 8.30pm Kim Shoal Bay Resort free 2pm Kissteria Celebrity Room, Blacktown RSL Club free 10pm Kotodama MJ Finnegan’s Irish Pub, Newcastle free 10.30pm Le Cover Bande Bank Hotel, East Maitland 8pm Lee Rolfe The Beachcomber Hotel, Toukley free 7pm Little Red, Sparkadia, Kimbra Newcastle Leagues Club, Newcastle West $22.80 8pm Lovers Jump Creek, The Dunhill Blues, Sense of Betrayal, The Cartel, The Project, Unforseen Occurrence Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $15 3pm Mr James Band Rainforest Lounge, Bankstown Sports Club free 9pm Oktoberfest: Toni Stevens, Angela Hayden, Nick Bavarell, Rick Allison The Showroom, Bankstown Sports Club $7 (member)–$10 7.15pm On The Prowl Entrance Bowling Club, The Entrance free 7pm Pacha Mamma The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 8.30pm Party Central Cronulla RSL free 8.30pm Peta Evans Taylor Duo MJ Finnegan’s Irish Pub, Newcastle free 8pm Pop Fiction Penrith Panthers free 9.30pm Red Fire Red Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor free 8pm Rob Devlin, Ron Ashton Piano Bar, Bankstown Sports Club free 5.30pm Ron Henderson & The Crying Shame Excelsior Hotel, Glebe free 7.30pm Sarki Shoal Bay Country Club Hotel free 8.45pm Scott Donaldson The Bay Sports Club, Bateau Bay free 7pm Seabellies, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!

Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West $10–$20 (incl CD) 8pm Secret Society Anna Bay Tavern free 8.30pm Service 30 Weston Workers Club free 8pm SFX: Buried In Verona, Vanstorm, My City Screams, Thoughts Under Fire St James Hotel, City $15 Simply Delicious The Seabreeze Hotel, Nelson Bay

free 8pm Sound Stream Brighton RSL Club, Brighton-LeSands free 8pm Spectacular Feets Bradford Hotel, Rutherford free 8pm Stormy Monday, Ray Beadle Marrickville Bowling and Recreation Club $10–$15 7.30pm Sue & Mikey Show Peden’s Tavern Hotel, Cessnock free 8.30pm The Angels, Black Label Revesby Workers Club - Whitlam Theatre $40 (+ bf) 8pm The Beatels Coogee Diggers 8pm The Covers Brothers Eastern Suburbs Legion Club, Waverley free 8pm The Next Step Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra $20 (+ bf) 8pm The Robertson Brothers Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $28 (show only)–$70 (dinner & show) 7pm The Vaudeville Smash, Brendan McLean Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Undercover Cronulla Sharks free 8.30pm Velvet Hotel Padstow RSL Club free 8pm Weathered Avoca Beach Hotel free 8.30pm Weddings Parties Anything Enmore Theatre $85 7pm

JAZZ

Al Hicks, Rai Thistlethwayte 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Kinetic Jazz Festival: Alex Silver, Kinetic Energy Theatre Co, Mark Isaacs Trio St Luke’s Hall, Enmore $15 (conc)– $20 7.30pm Motown The Show Workers Blacktown $5.50 (member)–$7.70 8pm Mr Percival The Vanguard, Newtown $25 (+ bf)–$54 (dinner & show) 6.30pm Old Time Band The Hero of Waterloo Hotel, Millers Point free 2pm Organic Food Markets: Paul Sun, Alex Compton, John Blenkhorn Riverside Girls High School, Gladesville free 9.30am SIMA: Mike Nock Trio The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $15 (member)–$20 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Mark Wilkinson The Basement, Circular Quay $15.20 (+ bf)–$20 (at door) 9.30pm Songsalive!: James De Vitt and guests Belrose Bowling Club free 7pm Songsalive!: Jasmine Crittenden, Josh Singer, David Sattout, Daniel Hopkins, Chris Neto, Sam Newton, Tom Price, Zoë Vaughan, Russell Neal Grumpy’s Inn, Hurlstone Park free 8pm

COUNTRY

Feral Swing Katz Brass Monkey, Cronulla $19.40 (presale) 7pm

SUNDAY OCTOBER 10 ROCK & POP

Andy Mammers Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel free 7.15pm Chontia Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour free 5pm Dan Granero Catherine Hill Bay Hotel free 2.30pm Dave Feint

“The best laid plans of mice and men, were noble before the crowd walked in” - YOU AM I 48 :: BRAG :: 382 : 04:10:10

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THE SIDESHOW WEDNESDAYS East Maitland Bowling Club 5pm DJ Fresh, Adrian Allen, Jorgie Jay Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 6pm Don Hopkins Dee Why RSL Club free 8pm Dynamic DJs Nelson Bay Bowling Club free 7.30pm E-Lixa Shoal Bay Resort free 1pm Glen Bain Hurstville RSL Memorial Club free 2pm Glenn Whitehall Oatley Hotel free 1pm In Pieces Peachtree Hotel, Penrith free 6pm Kirsty Larkin Belmont Hotel free 2pm Little Red, Sparkadia, Kimbra Penrith RSL 7pm Love That Hat Bradford Hotel, Rutherford free 2pm Mick Jones Peden’s Tavern Hotel, Cessnock free 1pm Murray Hillbillies Marrickville Bowling and Recreation Club free 8pm Ngaiire, Foreday Riders, Ray Beadle Band, Grant Walmsley’s Agents of Peace Church Street, Parramatta

free 10am Paul Dempsey, Mike Noga Annandale Hotel $30 6pm Rockin the Kasbah The Gaff, Darlinghurst free 5pm Songwriters @ The Factory The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Sunday Chill: The Sunroom Newport Arms Hotel free 3pm The David Hayes Band, Kel-Anne Brandt Rainforest Lounge, Bankstown Sports Club free 2pm The Diversity Bateau Bay Hotel free 2pm The Next Step Campbelltown RSL $20 (+ bf) 8pm Young Docteurs, Molten Universe, New Vintage, The Pastics Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 5pm Zoltan Harbord Beach Hotel free 7.30pm

JAZZ

Feral Swing Katz Rocksalt, Menai free 12pm Jazz on East The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 4pm Jive Bombers Cronulla RSL free 12pm

Kinetic Jazz Festival: Evan Mannell, Kinetic Energy Theatre Co, Charmaine Ford Trio St Luke’s Hall, Enmore $15 (conc)–$20 7.30pm Mr Percival The Vanguard, Newtown $25 (+ bf)–$54 (dinner & show) 8pm Old Time Band The Hero of Waterloo Hotel, Millers Point free 2pm Robbers Dogs Fortune of War Hotel, The Rocks free 3pm The Subterraneans Town Hall Hotel, Newtown free 6pm Wildrice Scenic Lounge, Central Coast Leagues Club, Gosford free 2pm

Greater Southern Country Music Association Bomaderry RSL free (member) 1pm Lee Kernaghan The Apple Store, Castle Hill free 2pm Niksta Fubah on Copa, Copacabana free 2pm Northern Beaches Country Music Club Balgowlah RSL Club, Seaforth free (member) 1pm Shaggin' Wagon

The Verses The Vanguard, Newtown $20 (+ bf) 6.30pm

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6

Daniel Lee Kendall, Vanessa Jade Raval, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm Now Now Series: Superflux, Filmbase, Lafoxe, Metalking, The Mute Canary Project The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville $10–$15 7.30pm

Alexisonfire

Guineafowl, Pluto Jonze, Betty Airs, Brown Bear Black Bear Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $5 8pm Scott Spark, Fergus Brown, The Rescue Ships The Vanguard, Newtown $11 (+ bf)–$16 6.30pm

FRIDAY OCTOBER 8

Alexisonfire (Canada), Break Even Roundhouse, Kensington $59.05 (+ bf) 8pm

FREE

+ THE MONEY SMOKERS PRESENTS

BIG VILLAGE LABEL NIGHT

LOOSE CHANGE

up all night out all week...

THURSDAY OCTOBER 7

6TH OCTOBER - 8PM

COUNTRY

gig picks TUESDAY OCTOBER 5

Sandringham Hotel – street level bar, Newtown free 4pm

Die! Die! Die! (NZ), Myth & Tropics, Chicks Who Love Guns Oxford Art Factory, $15 (+ bf) 8pm Jonneine Zapata (USA), The Holy Soul, Loene Carmen Annandale Hotel $25 (+ bf) 8pm Via Tania (USA), A Casual End Mile Raval, Surry Hills $15 (+ bf) 7.30pm

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9

Dan Kelly & His Dream Band, Big Scary, Love Connection Annandale Hotel $17 8pm

TRUEVIBE NATION

DJ MORGS DAILY MEDS

BENTLEY

8PM FRIDAY 8TH OCTOBER COMING SOON

BONNEY READ + BARREL HOUSE + LINE DRAWINGS + SCOTTY MCCLINTOCK 5TH OCT. SWAT (LIVE) + SWAT DJS 10TH OCT KRISHNA JONES + FELICITY GROOM 13TH OCT

BRAG :: 382 :: 04:10:10 :: 49

club guide send your listings to : clubguide@thebrag.com

club pick of the week

Bank Hotel, Newtown Girls’ Night DJ Emme Jay 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 Sly Fox, Enmore Queer Central Sveta, DJ Beth, DJ Bel free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Ben Peterson, Casa free The Eastern, Bondi Junction John Glover, Tenzin, Here’s Trouble, Cassian, U-Go-B, Steve Frank, Mistah Cee, Kavi-R free The Gaff, Darlinghurst New Generation Franny, Alex, Triky, Electroholics, Con-x-ion, Psygnosis, Calico, Kermy, Deceptikon free The Lincoln, Kings Cross Kareem the DJ free (guestlist) The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Battery Operated DJ Matt Hoare free World Bar, Kings Cross The Wall/SUGD free

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9

Catcall

Civic Hotel, Sydney

Catcall, World’s End Press, Golden Ron, Bad Ezzy, Alpine, Future Classic DJs $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 8pm MONDAY OCTOBER 4 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

Cissy Strut

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6

TUESDAY OCTOBER 5 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 Johnny B, Kid Finley free–$5 World Bar, Kings Cross Pop Panic Karaoke, DJs Shipwreck, Daigo and Cosmic Explorer free

THURSDAY OCTOBER 7 02 Broadway, Chippendale Basic Foreign Dub, Headroom, Space is the Place, Void free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Camera Club DJ Enari free Ching-a-lings, Darlinghurst A Vinyl Only Affair free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool After School Detention DJ Rangi, Mac, K-Note MC Buddy Love free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar free Downstairs at 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 Tokio Hotel, Darling Harbour Caramel free Tone, Surry Hills Loop Thursdays Rotating guests; Simon Caldwell, Lorna Clarkson, Jimi Polar, Magda, Mark Murphy, Kali, Trinity, Dave Stuart, Raffi Darkchild, Jordan Deck & B.C. $15 World Bar, Kings Cross Teenage Kicks Johnny Segment, Banshee, Monkey Genius and Urby free

FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 Bank Hotel, Newtown Absolut Fridays Rephrase, Paul Master, Craig Obey free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Dustones Loose Change, True Vibe Nation, Daily Meds, DJ Morgs, Bentley free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Liquid Sky Jackpop, Kyro & Bomber, Whitecat, Pretty Young things, Sweet Distortion + more! $10/$15 Chinese Laundry, Sydney Karton, Q45, Naany, Shamozzle, Zooshu $15 before 11pm & $20 after Civic Undergound, Sydney Reckless Republic Plus +1 Ant J Steep (Melb), Jeremy Joshua, Yokoo, Matt Weir 15-$20 Collector Hotel, Parramatta Corner Shop Tikelz, DJ Browski, J Lyrikz, Naughty, Gunz free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Johnny Vinyl, Strike free Establishment Hotel Carnival La Fiesta Sound System and Special Guest DJs all night free Favela, Potts Point Favela Fridays Ben Morris, Simon Caldwell, Matttt & Tomas, Rodskeez, CO-OP DJs $10 Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale Purple Sneakers Little Red DJs, Ben Lucid, M.I.T, Fantomatique, Nick Findlay, Monkey Genius $12.00 Goldfish, Kings Cross Sugar & Soul Phil Hudson, Paul Hatz, Agey, Danny De Sousa, Matt Cahill, Tom Kelly free GoodGod Small Club, Sydney Wamp Wamp Deadboy (UK), Myd (FRA), Kato, Levins, Generic DJs, Wedding Ring Fingers 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 One7One, Potts Point Playtime Andy Murphy, Samrai, Ember, Kristiano, DJ Pia, Joel Van Dee, Mistah Cee, Elmo Is Dead free, $10 after 11pm Opera Bar, Circular Quay Gian Arpino free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Sosueme $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 Sly Fox, Enmore Sly Fridays free Spectrum, Darlinghurst Silent Alarm Silent DJs $5 St James Hotel, Sydney One Night in Cuba Mani, Yemaya, Nandez, Av El Cubano $15 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

“Oh, I got so lost in the moment, and nearly told you all about how I: I think I’m falling for you” – DANIEL LEE KENDALL 50 :: BRAG :: 382 :: 04:10:10

club guide send your listings to : clubguide@thebrag.com The Roxy Hotel, Parramatta Roxy Fridays $10, free for members The Sugarmill, Kings Cross The Gameboys, Calling In Sick, Joyride $10 after 10pm Tone, Surry Hills Soul Power Thomas Crown, Stephen Ferris, Sani, Yin Yang, JC $10 World Bar, Kings Cross MUM Live: Worlds End Press Saloons, Convaire, Carnation, God Rest The Good Doctor, The Summervilles, Fake Wars, DJs: Nude DJs, Gatsby, Animal Chin, Sammy K, 10th Avenue, Generic DJs, 16 Tacos, Wet Lungs, FiFiDoesDiDi, Cries Wolf DJs $10 Nino Brown

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 202 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 Mike McGrath, Ash Turner free BB’s, Bondi Beach Wildlife DJs Mesan, James Roberts, Adriano Giorgi, Dinseh Sundar, Matt Singmin, Chris Kyle free

Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Rex Bar DJ MICHA $35 Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Shake! Shake! Shake! The Hump Day Project, Vengeance, Itchy & Scratchy $15 – $25 Chinese Laundry, Sydney Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Reekay Garcia, Simon Caldwell, Chris Fraser, Club Junque, Matttt, Jonny Pow!, Spenda C, Marky Mark, Bounce Crew DJs, Sheeb, MC Adam Zae $15-$25 Civic Hotel, Sydney Catcall, World’s End Press, Golden Ron, Bad Ezzy, Alpine, Future Classic DJs $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door)

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 Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta DJs Matt Hoare and Andy Marc $10 Goldfish, Kings Cross Abel, Tom Kelly, Phil Hudson, Ross Middleton on Sax free 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 Hotel Hollywood, Surry Hills MOTION Dean Dixon, Northern Soul Poster Boy, DJ Burn-Hard, Dave Fernandes $5 Ivy, Sydney Pure Ivy Cissy Strut, Liam Sampras, Tass and Cadell, Adam Jacob Den Kocho, Alley Oop and John Devecchis $20 Jacksons On George, Sydney Leno, Aladdin Royaal free King Street Hotel, Newcastle West The Aston Shuffle, Boogie, Matt Saxon, Menna, Yogi, Jace Cordell, Fuel, Matt Meler $10 Kinselas, Taylor Square 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 Sackville Hotel, Rozelle Maike free Shelbourne Hotel, Sydney Shipwreck, Daniel Nall, Leon Pirello $10 after 10pm Spectrum, Darlinghurst P*A*S*H Goldfoot, DJ Knife $7 St James Hotel, Sydney SFX DJs Bzurk, Snowflake Stonewall Hotel, Darlinghurst Greg Boladian, Nick J free 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 Forum Theatre, Moore Park Musica Satoshi Tomiie, Audiofly, Marc Marzenit (Spain), Robbie Lowe, Alex Taylor $45–$55 The Gaff, Darlinghurst Johnny B free The Manhattan Lounge, Martin Place Hushhh... DJs Stunna, Sonny, Special K $10 after 9pm The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville Sydney Femme Conference Checkerball DJ Pony, Sveta $20 The Rouge, Kings Cross Le Rouge Guy Tarento, Coops, Lazy Rich, Mick P, Jono Fernandez, Keli Hart, Coops $10 before 11pm

OFFICIAL LITTLE RED AFTER PARTY

OCTOBER

8

FRIDAY

LITTLE RED DJ SET M.I.T vs BENLUCID

FANTOMATIQUE . NICK FINDLAY MONKEY GENIUS

DIE DIE DIE FORM

GIVEAWAYS COURTESY OF REMOTE CONTROL

BRAG :: 382 :: 04:10:10 :: 51

club guide

Deep Impressions

clubguide@thebrag.com The Sly Fox, Enmore Shake That Monkey!

Typhonic, DJ G-Mo, Raine Supreme, Alistair Erskine 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 Tone, Surry Hills Electric Avenue Gian Arpino, Cameron Browne $10 Tonic Lounge, Kings Cross Tonic Saturdays Gian Arpino $15 Verandah Bar, Sydney The Booty Bar George B, Nasser T, Lenno, K Sera Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour Paul Moussa free World Bar, Kings Cross Wham! Raye Antonelli, Trent Rackus, James Taylor, Brenden Fing, Illya, Adam Bozzetto, Mark Walton, Telefunken, Matttt, Miss Gabby, Cassette, Frenzie, Say Whut, Temnein $15 before 10pm, $20 after

SUNDAY OCTOBER 10 Bank Hotel, Newtown DJ Kitty Glitter, James Tobin Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Sunday sCool SWAT + SWAT DJs free

Underground Dance and Electronica with Chris Honnery

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, Michael Wheatley, Mark Matthews, Vincent Sebastian 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 Tom Kelly, Johnny Gleeson free Home Terrace, Sydney Spice After Hour Matt Aubusson, Carlos Zarate, 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 Oatley Hotel Sunday Sessions DJ Tone & Friends free Phoenix Bar, Darlinghurst Loose Ends DJ Matt Vaughan, Vinyl Richie & Craig Wilson $10

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 The Bank Nightclub, Kings Cross Soul On Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan free The Beresford Hotel, Surry Hills B Side free The Bunker BarMarco Resmann free The Forbes Hotel, Sydney Church Of Techno Mitch Crosher, Kerry Wallace, Joey Kaz, Jey Tuppaea, Jaded, Shepz $5 The Hive Bar, Erskineville Revolve Records DJs free The Rouge, Kings Cross Cheap Thrill$ John Glover, Matt Nukewood, Will Bailey (UK), J Smoove free The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Neighbourhood Kate Munroe free The Village, Sydney Sunday Surgery DJ Russ Dewbury and friends free Trademark Hotel, Darlinghurst Soul on Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour Miss Gabby free World Bar, Kings Cross Fortune! DiscoPunx $15

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 7

202 Broadway, Chippendale Basic Foreign Dub, Headroom, Space is the Place, Void free Ching-A-Lings, Darlinghurst A Vinyl Only Affair free Tone, Surry Hills Loop Thursdays Rotating guests; Simon Caldwell, Lorna Clarkson, Jimi Polar, Magda, Mark Murphy, Kali, Trinity, Dave Stuart, Raffi Darkchild, Jordan Deck, B.C. free

FRIDAY OCTOBER 8

Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Dustones Loose Change, True Vibenation, Daily Meds, DJ Morgs, DJ Ability free Chinese Laundry, Sydney Karton, Q45, Naany, Shamozzle, Zooshu $15 before 11pm & $20 after

Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale Purple Sneakers Little Red DJs, Ben Lucid, M.I.T, Fantomatique, Nick Findlay, Monkey Genius $12 Goodgod Small Club, Sydney Wamp Wamp Deadboy (UK), Myd (FRA), Kato, Levins, Generic DJs, Wedding Ring Fingers

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Elaine Benes, Gabby, Cassette, Alison Wonderland free before 10pm, $10 after, members free all night The Forum Theatre, Moore Park Musica Satoshi Tomiie, Audiofly, Marc Marzenit (Spain), Robbie Lowe, Alex Taylor $45–$55 World Bar, Kings Cross Wham! Raye Antonelli, Trent Rackus, James Taylor, Brenden Fing, Illya, Adam Bozzetto, Mark Walton, Telefunken, Matttt, Miss Gabby, Cassette, Frenzie, Say Whut, Temnein $15 before 10pm, $20 after

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t’s been revealed that enigmatic experimental dubstep-cum-techno producer Shackleton, who toured Australia earlier in the year, will mix Fabric 55. Shackleton first caught my attention as the co-founder of seminal dubstep label Skull Disco with Appleblim, and was one of the key figures that led techno producers to embrace dubstep. He attracted the attention of the technophilic public when Ricardo Villalobos remixed his brooding, 9/11-referencing cut ‘Blood On My Hands’ in one of the more unlikely underground anthems of ’07. Though Skull Disco is now obsolete, Shackleton remains rampant on the production front, having released a cracking triple-pack on techno pen Perlon last year. Word has it that Fabric 55 will comprise a studio-recorded live set by Shack featuring – presumably – plenty of new material. It is set for release in early December, and I’ll keep you updated with more info as it emerges. On the Villalobos front, dear Ricardo is setting a new benchmark on the epic remix front even by his marathon/self-indulgent standards.

His latest creation is a 33-minute remix of Krautrock pioneers Dieter Moebius and Manfred Neumeier’s ‘Mango Solo’, which will be released on Japan’s Endless Flight label in November. Norway’s Prins Thomas has also crafted a remix of a different track by the pair, which will be worth a listen as well come next month.

Detroit’s Daniel Bell will play Mad Racket’s 12th Birthday on Saturday October 23 at Marrickville Bowling Club. A techno producer who paved the way for later minimal producers with cuts like ‘Losing Control’ (released under his alias DBX), Bell is a fitting figure to headline the anniversary of one of Sydney’s most beloved clubbing institutions. You only need to know that Bell has collaborated with figures like Moritz von Oswald and Richie Hawtin and set up labels with the likes of Theo Parrish, Rick Wade and Dopplereffekt to have an idea of his dance music pedigree. For those still unsure, Bell’s mix CD from the year 2000, The Button Down Mind Of Daniel Bell, was voted in at number two of the decade’s best mixes by leading electronic music authority Resident Advisor. Enough said really – the man is well and truly on the level.

For the past few years, NY indie/dance crossover outift LCD Soundsystem have been working a cover of Paperclip People’s ‘Throw’ into their live sets.

Discerning, temperamental older folk will inform you that the disco-fired techno original was produced by the Australiabound Carl Craig and first released on his Planet E label way back in 1994, though you’d never be able to guess it by how fresh it still sounds today. It has been confirmed that Planet E is set to re-issue the track on vinyl, with the A-side given over to a studio rendition by LCD, which until now has only been available as an iTunes extra bundled with This Is Happening; and the American iTunes at that. I certainly didn’t receive no cover of ‘Throw’ when I grabbed This Is Happening through the impoverished Aussie iTunes… Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

LOOKING DEEPER SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 Gregor Tresher Redfern Warehouse

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 30 Superpitcher Boat Party

tapes created! Both artists debuted on Tapeworm earlier this year with equally esoteric releases: Goldmann with Haven’t I Seen You Before and Fennesz with Szampler. Apparently Goldmann has meticulously reconstructed Fennez’s original on his latest project; liner notes written by the man himself reveal the process involved “erasing Christian Fennesz’s original samples one by one and replacing them with corresponding samples of his own, made between 1999-2010 for his Akai S5000 sampler, in the same sequence.” The cassette will be released next month, so jump online if you’re mad enough to want one.

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 this Saturday. 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 ably supported across two rooms of techno by an elaborate cast of DJs including Portuguese playboy Tiago Oudman – a regular at fabled Berlin clubspot Bar 25 – Melbourne’s Muska (Mixed Messages), Marcotix, Le Brond and yours truly. Join the Subsonic Music Facebook Group for all the details – namely, the location!

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This one’s for real collectors and obsessive freaks: Tapeworm, a cassette-only label based in the UK, is set to release a new full-length featuring Deep Impressions favourite Stefan Goldmann reinterpreting music by ambient composer Christian Fennesz - appropriately titled Remiksz.

And now for the rub: there will only be 250

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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.

ON THE ROAD OCTOBER 15 & 16 Mulatu Astatke The Basement

OCTOBER 16 Before we begin, you might want to make sure that you’re sitting down. Let me start with some news of the highest prestige: Of all the acts I thought I’d never see, Kool & The Gang will tour Australia in February of next year – with a stop to headline Playground Weekender February 17-20. No, stop blinking at the page, you read it right.

In a career that kicked off in 1964, releasing hit singles far too numerous to name, and selling over 90 million records worldwide, they’ll be joining us in a 12-piece ensemble.

This jaded columnist is more than a little blown away - but very, very happy. Oh yeah I nearly forgot - as a small aside, Roy Ayers and his six-piece band are on support duty.

It’ll go down at The Enmore Theatre on Friday February 18 - brought to you by the good people at Peace Music and Niche Productions.

Joining us much sooner will be jazz, hip hop and downtempo pioneer DJ Krush. With no less than eight solo albums to his name, it’s fair to say that Krush, along with his era’s contemporaries DJ Shadow and associated Ninja Tune artists, inspired a whole swathe of this decade’s finest beat makers. The Japanese turntable don will play the Basement on Friday November 26 - the day after Fat Freddy's Drop play the Enmore.

That’s going to be a big week!

Now let me add a DJ Vadim tour to the mix. The Russian born but internationally recognised beatsmith is one of this column’s all time favourite artists. Vadim is one of the only producers I can think of who’s maintained a high consistency of production over a long career. Soul Sedation still plays his 2007 album Spirit Catcher on a regular basis. He’ll be in full flight on the wheels of steel, Saturday November 6 at Tone.

NZ’s new soul superstars Electric Wire Hustle will also launch their album in an intimate show at Tone. If you haven’t got your hands on their self-titled debut, you’ll want to sort that out as soon as humanly possible.

To local artists making waves: A contingent from the newly born Big Village label will be making the trek all the way from the Inner West to that that eastern stronghold the Beach Road Hotel. A truly arduous journey, especially on a sunny weekend! The Big Village recording artist trifecta of Daily Meds, Loose Change and True Vibenation will take to the stage, with DJ support from Max Gosford. It all goes down this Friday October 8. Tuka’s solo album (see below) will be coming out on the very same imprint.

Thundamentals, Rumpunch & Sketch The Rhyme frontman MC Tuka is repping his solo stripes. The respected underground lyricist will launch his debut album, Will Rap For Tuka, on Friday November 5 at Raval, the live room above the Macquarie Hotel.

Flatwound (album launch) Sandringham Hotel

OCTOBER 22 Ice Cube Luna Park

NOVEMBER 17 Electric Wire Hustle Tone

NOVEMBER 20

Femi Kuti & The Positive Force The Metro

NOVEMBER 25 Fat Freddy’s Drop Enmore Theatre

NOVEMBER 26 DJ Krush The Basement

NOVEMBER 27 DNBBQ Manning Bar

DECEMBER 3

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings Enmore Theatre

DECEMBER 3 - 5 Subsonic Music Festival Barrington Tops

FEBRUARY 18

Kool & The Gang, Roy Ayers The Enmore Theatre On the back of the news that John Legend and The Roots have released the vintage soul cover album Wake Up!, comes the news that Roots’ drummer/producer ?uestlove is trading in his studio gear for a version of Microsoft Word, and is to release a memoir, being produced under the working title Mommy, What’s A ?uestlove?. It might not be out for a long while yet, but will reportedly contain first-hand accounts of the personal, musical, and celebrity life and times of the celebrated US music figure.

The insanely good Israeli funk outfit The Apples have enticed the eminent trombonist Fred Wesley out of his comfy chair to record a track with them. The single ‘In The Air’, will be followed up by a full album on Freestyle Records. This column is hoping for an Australian tour to follow. These guys are a stellar funk act.

Everyone’s favourite reggae version LP Dub Side Of The Moon will undergo even further transformation as Dubber Side Of The Moon.

The sub bass gets even deeper with remixes from Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Dreadzone and Groove Corporation. It’s got a US release date of October 18, out on Easy Star Records.

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It’s called: Wormwood - absinthe & psychedelia.

It sounds like: Taking a bath in absinthe while sucking on a suga r cube with your head on fire...

DJs/live acts: Live sets from The Walk On By, Crab Smasher, and Jusgo Mosh; DJ sets from Lucas George (Wh ipped Cream Chargers) and Simo Soo; visuals

by Punk Monk Propaganda; poet ry by Mersey Sound Collective; hair Creon. art by Sell it to us: Wormwood runs the first Thursday of each month at UTS Loft (tree, cour tyard & cottage all ’ magical in the centre) and serves up expe rimental bands, garage and psych DJs, psyc hedelic liquid-light projections, poet and performance art and random ry, live antics. And absinthe.

The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Flashes of colour, strange concepts conversations, great tunes, happ , trippy y feelings...

Crowd specs: Bring an open mind and come as you are.

Wallet damage: Free entry and $8 for a proper absinthe – sugar, water and fire!

Where: The Loft at UTS (down the lane beside 13 Broadway, Ultimo).

When: Thursday October 7

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It’s called: Electric Avenue It sounds like: The last 40 years

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DJs: Meem, Koolade, Gian Arpin o, Cam Brown A record you’ll hear on the nigh t: ' Body Music' by The Strikers And one you definitely won’t: Anything starting with ‘L’ and endi ng with ‘ady Gaga’.

Sell it to us: The deepest and fines t dance, house, deep disco, boog ie and hip hop from the last 40 years, pres ented on Sydney’s finest new soun d system.

The bit we’ll remember in the AM: 1920s warehouse styles in Sydn ey’s best new venue, Tone.

Crowd specs: Mixed bag: straight, gay, young, old, party people here to get DOWN. Wallet damage: Free before 9pm , $10 after .

Where: Tone – 16 Wentworth Ave Surry Hills When: Saturday October 9

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