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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
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RYAN FROM ALPINE
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y parents always thought my obsession with music was hilarious. I’m pretty sure they still think it’s something I’ll grow out of, but they’ve always been really supportive. They used to drive me to punk shows in the middle of nowhere without arguing, which is pretty insane now that I think about it... It wasn’t exactly a musical house, although my dad and I do still really like Phil Collins and my mum recently surprised me with a pretty amazing Motown collection that she’s been keeping a secret... My first big musical love was probably Pulp. I think that’s when I figured out that pop isn’t a dirty word; when Different Class came out and it was okay to be smart and sarcastic, while still being entertaining and popular. Before that I thought that integrity meant making purposefully hard-to-get music. There was a weird thing in my school where everyone liked either Blur or Oasis, but I think I was the only kid who wanted to get thick glasses to be like Jarvis Cocker. Alpine is six people. Lou and Phoebe sing, Tim plays keyboards and guitar, Christian plays guitar, Phil plays drums and I play bass and guitar. Half the band are real hip hop heads,
BLACK CHERRY DOES CHRISTMAS
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LANIE LANE NATIONAL TOUR
Lanie Lane has signed off on a new single ‘What Do I Do’ - and to celebrate, she’s scooting around the country for her first ever national tour. You can catch the Sydney songstress playing her throwback country-jazz-blues combo at The View Factory in Newcastle on Wednesday Nov 24, The Front Gallery & Café in Canberra on Thursday Nov 25, The Heritage Hotel in Wollongong on Friday Nov 26 or The Raval in Sydney on Saturday Nov 27.
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Just a quick reminder that MUM is presenting GO HERE - GO THERE on Friday, December 3. Twenty bands! Twenty DJs! Three venues! Lots of places to go for pizza/kebabs before/ during/after! It’s taking over The World Bar, Melt Bar and Iguana Bar; pay entry once and you’re allowed to wander between the three, to catch an absolutely huge line-up that includes The Checks (NZ), The Dirty Secrets, Felicity Groom, Bleeding Knees Club, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Chicks Who Love Guns, The Shakin’ Howls and a whole heap more - plus of course pretty much all the DJs in the world (basically). Diary that date!
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I think the biggest obstacle to musicians at the minute is the sheer amount of music around. I think it makes you work harder. We’ve been pretty lucky in that we’ve played with some bands that are just insanely good. Like Fishing, who do really intricate, fun electronica and are totally unreal, and Jinja Safari who have this mindblowing live show. Theyre just totally real, and I think that’s something that music needs more of. More hearts on sleeves.
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Our first record is an EP called Zurich. Its sort of indie-rockish, sort of electronic and really, really poppy. It was a team effort between us and Steve Alexander at Industry Sound, who just totally got what we wanted to do. It was really awesome to be able to just say how you wanted something to feel and have it right there to listen to straight away.
Who doesn’t love a bit of burlesque laced with rock’n’roll? If the answer is you, you really need to see someone. That someone will be waiting for you at The Factory Theatre in Marrickville from 8pm on Saturday December 4, probably wearing some kind of nipple tassels and smokey eye make up... You guys can talk between sets from The Meanies (Melb), Torch Le Monde, Graveyard Train (Melb) and Gay Paris - and if you’re still not convinced after all of that, you will be by burlesque performances from Suzie Q (Penthouse Pet!) who’ll be rocking the trapeze with Toby J, Anna ‘Pocket Rocket’ Lumb (crankin’ dat hula hoop) and La Viola Vixen. It’s all going down for Black Cherry’s Christmas Party, and you can buy tickets from The Factory Theatre’s website.
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Christian is a really accomplished composer, and me and Phil come from this punk background. Phoebe seems to only ever play Todd Rundgren and obscure psych, and Lou usually plays stuff like Washed Out, Teen Daze, Starslinger... It’s a pretty cool mix.
MY DISCO LAUNCH LITTLE JOY
WOMADELAIDE LINE-UP ANNOUNCED
If you don’t mind heading inter-state, you should do so for WOMADelaide. Seriously. 50 groups (550 artists) from 30 countries? Heaps. Angus & Julia Stone, Joanna Newsom, The Necks Afro Celt Sound System, Amadou and Mariam, Don Letts, Norman Jay, Asa, Imelda May, Juan De Marcos Afro-Cuban All Stars and many more have been announced for March 11-14.
We’ve told you already, and we’ll tell you again. My Disco’s national album launch tour for Little Joy has started. You can catch them at The Cambridge in Newcastle on Thursday November 25 with Alps and Bare Grillz, or at Manning Bar on Friday November 26 with Dead Farmers and Laurenz (PVT). ALSO - BUY THEIR ALBUM, IT IS GOOD.
ATTN: VIOLENT CHILDREN
Children Collide and Violent Soho are flying the grungy Nirvana flag shamelessly, and that’s why we love them so. They’re hitting NSW again this month as part of their unofficially titled ‘We Kick Serious Arse Live’ tour, which stops into Blush nightclub in Gosford on November
25 (which we hope is named after The Hummingbirds song, but secretly know it isn’t), and Manly Fishos the following night.
ANNANDALE CHRISTMAS
If there’s one thing Old Man River is known for, it’s his legendary Xmas party blowouts. After last year’s debacle, which saw him smash through a neighbour’s fence after the excitement of the Queen’s speech (mixed with a heady eggnog-and-brand-custard blend) proved too much, Old Man River is relocating the event to the Annandale and getting back to the spirit of Xmas, which is Giving. (And advent calendars.) (And making up stories about lovely musicians.) He’s playing a free show on November 25 with Claude Hay, Ranger Spacey, Big Smokey and Underlights at The Annandale, and requesting you all bring a small wrapped gift to place under the tree for the Smith Family – it’s the launch of the ‘Dale’s second annual Christmas drive!
SCRIPT REVISION
When an email leapt into my inbox this morning titled ‘The Script’, I assumed it was a reply (finally!) to my pilot script ‘Fruit and Veg’ - where a fruiterer is sentenced to 150 hours community service looking after an Alzheimer’s patient. It turns out that it was just alerting me to the fact that Ireland’s The Script have added an extra Sydney show to their April 2011 tour. April 9 at the Hordern Pavilion. Go!
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GLEN PHIMISTER FOR THE AIM OPEN NIGHT What’s your history with AIM? I’m a senior lecturer, and have been at AIM for two and a half years. I’ve been an audio educator for eight years now, after previous activity at other campuses. My teaching focus is on the practical studio activities, which is such a major element to the audio division at AIM. I basically help the students with the progressive and varied recordings structure in place at AIM studios. Why do you think a school like AIM is so important to Sydney? Because it is unique. The general environment is just so full-on music and I have so much respect for my colleagues, who are genuine and talented music education people
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ow did you get started in the music industry? When I was at secondary school in the UK a friend of mine left and got a job at a music publishers’, which soon afterwards led him to a job at a recording studio. When I heard about that, I was pretty blown away; the concept of being employed in a studio in the early 70s was not really generally on the horizon. The whole recording thing was like some kind of black art, with no audio courses, no studio magazines - it was really a bit like NASA, or something like that. So I wrote to a whole bunch of studios that I sourced through the phonebook, and landed a teaboy job at Trident Studios in London. The teaboy became a tape op and assistant engineer, and then eventually an engineer. I worked at
COLLETT GETS ZEUS’D
Jason Collett, the veritable pillar of calm in the otherwise frantic and thoroughly misbehaved Broken Social Scene, has a simple way to keep his sanity - his side-project, with backing band (and band in their own right) Zeus. Now Collett and Zeus are heading to Australia, where the two of them will play separate sets at Peats Ridge Festival, and sideshows at the Brass Monkey on January 6, and then Oxford Art Factory on January 7. And hey, then they may as well stick around for Australia Day, by which time it’s so close to Valentine Day that they may
George Martin’s (Beatles producer) studio in London, and then I travelled to Australia. After arriving in Aus I worked for EMI for 15 years, at Studios 301. What are some of the best projects you’ve been involved in? Trident Studios was probably the leading independent studio in London. Queen had just been signed to Trident when I started, so I was involved with their initial demos and first album stuff. But there was just so much incredible stuff going on - other artists were Elton John, David Bowie, Harry Nillson… Much of my recording activity has been in Australia as it’s been my home for 30 years now, and I’ve enjoyed working with INXS, Split Enz, Slim Dusty, David Campbell, and Olivia Newton-John.
Who should come along to the AIM Open Night? Career-minded people who are interested or fascinated in the whole world of sound engineering - especially linked to music recording/production. We’ll be demonstrating what is entailed in music recording/mixing/ post-production in the real world, and at AIM. We can have a chat, and hopefully have a darn good time! What: Australian Institute Of Music Open Night Where: AIM Studios, 1-51 Foveaux St, Surry Hills When: Tuesday November 23 @ 6:30pm Register: events@aim.edu.au
as well stay for that, and ANZAC day - which leads nicely into the Australian Winter, and there’s heaps of great stuff on in Winter! (Don’t ever leave us, please.)
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Girls are coming to Australia. Well so are boys, and Swedish furniture and French wine. Oh, the band? Wicked. The carefree San Fran hedonists are bringing their sunkissed garage psych-pop to our shores just in time for Summer, playing at The Manning Bar on December 8. The band has an inimitable background, including a childhood completely shielded within the hippie Children of God cult, adolescence in the drug-fuelled San Francisco punk scene, and sharing the stage with Ariel Pink in his early days. This will be their only Sydney appearance; to grab one of two double passes to see this eccentric duo on their fleeting tour, tell us the name of the lead singer.
BROADCAST
Birmingham band Broadcast bring their brand of blissful and brooding electronic beats to Bydney on Becember 8 at the Borum (Sydney, December 8, Forum). These Poms have been a band since 1995 and only NOW decide to grace us with their presence (grr) - but you know, better late then never. Their unpretentious approach to otherworldly electronic music is fun and intelligent, earning them stripes with the likes of Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and Danger Mouse. They’ll be playing with Seekae and Pikelet – how ‘bout that for a triple treat? To win one of two double passes to their Forum show, tell us in which Mike Myers film a Broadcast song has been featured in. Clue: It’s not Shrek.
The Vines
FEELIN’ GROOVY
The festival that took Vampire Weekend, Silverchair, the ‘Spoon’s (both with and without ‘Grin’ affixed to the front of their title), Tegan and Sara and Empire Of The Sun and flung them into a field in Maitland like it ain’t no thang? Yeah, it’s back! Groovin’ The Moo is
WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE?
There are some things in life that are just inherently wrong, and violence against women and children is pretty much at the top of that list. It’s baffling that in 2010 this needs to happen, but: The Line is a great new Government campaign, which has teamed up with Maya Jupiter, Pez, Lisa Mitchell and Tenielle to promote respectful relationships, and to reduce violence. Each artist has given two free songs and a video interview away via theline.gov.au, and Pez has got a brand new track called ‘Shine’ which he’ll be releasing in February next year as part of the campaign - but he needs your help to make the video. Head to their website to get involved; we did it last week, and it was actually pretty fun! It’s all happening at www.theline.gov.au Lisa Mitchell
GOOD MUSIC, GOOD CAUSE
Here’s the deal. You catch a manic and amazing set by The Vines (request ‘Mary Jane’; it’s their best tune), Operator Please and Flight Facilities on November 24 at Oxford Art Factory for the insanely super-low price of $25 (plus a pesky booking fee) - and then, if you like, you smugly pretend the reason you’re there is to raise money for UNICEF’s Pakistan Flood Children’s Appeal, which all proceeds go towards. There’s nothing wrong with that.
happening in 2011 on May 7 in Maitland (and the following day in Canberra), and we cannot wait to see who plays. Maybe they’ll make good on the Bowie-is-coming rumour that permeates every festival! We wouldn’t be surprised... (Well, maybe we would a bit.) Dance, magic, dance!
MORE AUSSIE CONTENT
Local content regulations help support the very musical industry that you’re supporting by reading BRAG right now. But lets face it, they probably should be higher - if only to stop Pearl Jam from ever being played on radio again… ASONG, the peak body for Australian songwriters, have organised a concert to help their cause - and have snared both GANGgajang and a real life Tin Lid, Mahalia Barnes (who sings like a mofo and stings like a bee), to play live. It all happens at Shush in Newtown on December 2, and you should come.
LOCAL NATIVES TOUR
Local Natives seem to be everyone in the world ever’s favourite band. Such is the excitement surrounding the upcoming Australian tour of the Silver Lake, L.A band. They’ll be drinking three dollar spirits at the Century Bar before sloshing onto stage at The Metro on Feburary 10. Tickets on sale Tuesday November 23.
NORTHERN BELLES
Tripping down from The Blue Mountains in order to launch their latest brilliantly-titled single ‘Come North With Me Baby, Wow’ are Belles Will Ring. They’ll be spending Friday November 26 at the Gaelic Club, with the mighty Guineafowl and Magnetic Heads in support - and they’ve kindly invited you to go along and watch them do just that. Bring your tambourine. (Don’t).
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LUKE FROM KING CANNONS and Lanae Eruera. We all love all kinds of music from world music to hip hop, punk rock to rocksteady, blues to country. We all still work fulltime shitty day jobs at warehouses, factories, call centres and tattoo shops – but we’re working fucking hard at changing that predicament! We sound like King Cannons first and foremost, with a sound similar to the works of Strummer or Springsteen. We’ve just released our debut single ‘Take The Rock’ – it’ll be followed by an EP in early 2011. It was recorded in 2010 at Atlantis Sound, and Sing Sing in Melbourne. Steven Schram was a big help to us on this record.
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have a pretty strong memory of a lot of things. I left Melbourne when I was seven years old, to move to a small town in New Zealand called Rotorua, where I grew up and went to school. My dad worked in timber mills, my mum did all kinds of jobs... My family also used to make candles out of our garage in the evenings, to sell at arts and crafts markets. I remember Rotorua being a very working class town, and sometimes quite harsh. I was a busker from the age 10, and that’s how I started performing music - on the street. I think growing up in Rotorua gave me a hardened exterior, and the inspiration to strive for more then what little towns had to offer.
DAFT PUNK/TRON: LEGACY UPDATE Daft Punk have spoken in depth for the first time about their soundtrack for Tron: Legacy. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s score is one of the most hyped projects of 2010, and will finally see
My favourite musicians are across many genres; basically anyone who tells it like it is, and delivers it with soul and conviction. Joe Strummer, Bruce Springsteen, Otis Redding, Woody Guthrie, Toots Hibbert, Billy Bragg, Solomon Burke etc… This world inspires me, peoples actions and thoughts. Musicians inspire me to look at the world in a different and interesting light, and to write about it creatively. Simply put, King Cannons are a bunch of good friends, making some tunes. We got together in Auckland in late 2007. It’s myself - Luke Yeoward - along with Rob Ting, Mikey Ting, Jonno Smith, Josh Matthews release on December 6, 11 days prior to the movie hitting cinemas. “This project is by far the most challenging and complex thing we have ever been involved with,” Bangalter told Dazed & Confused magazine. “Coming from our background of making electronic music in a small bedroom, and ending up having our music performed by a 90-piece orchestra, with some of the best musicians in the world… recording with this orchestra was a very intense experience.” Guy-Manuel suggested that there is a ‘baroque’ quality to much of Daft Punk’s music, and he hopes that the arrangements on Tron: Legacy will encourage their fans to explore classical music. “The soul and emotion of [classical music] is so powerful that to like it is so easy – it’s just people think you need to be educated. I thought that myself for a long time, until I had listened to so many kinds of music that one day I just tried it.” The squabbling has already began around BRAG HQ as to who will get to review the promo copy, with everyone but the nonplussed Tony E [“it’s not on Ninja Tune”]
I find it hard to find new bands that I like! It really pisses me off! All I want is for some new band to come along and just blow me away but it hasn’t happened for a while… I tend to dig deeper into the history vaults and find old music that I haven’t discovered yet - because to me most new music sounds watered down, and full of bullshit. That said, I think Melbourne as a whole is a great creative hub of musicians; Australia is very lucky in general. What: King Cannons With: Kira Puru and The Bruise, Shakin’ Howls, Crash The Curb Where: The Sandringham Hotel When: Friday November 26
SMIRNOFF NIGHTLIFE
Sydney’s normal old self will be transformed into a vibrant Brazilian carnivale on November 27, when the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project’s finale takes place in a flurry of bossa nova beats, Caipirinha cocktails, scant clothing, and Brazilian party music. The night will climax with a performance by Brazilian baile funk and electro exports Bondo do Rolê, sure to set our city’s sky alight. We have swapped nightlife experiences with Sao Paulo in Brazil, and will be treated to a unique cultural extravaganza which money literally can’t buy. We have three doubles to this once in a blue mooner, to win, tell us in five words what Brazil means to you.
SUBSONIC
From December 3 to 5, Barrington Tops’ River Downs Mountain Valley Resort will be transformed into a haven (or heaven?) for music connoisseurs – Subsonic Festival 2010. Presenting the crème de la crème of techno, house, dub, funk and soul artists from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, USA and Spain, your ears are set for a pampering over a wonderful 3 days. Not only will your ears receive the treatment they deserve, but your body too; the site’s luxurious camping grounds will ensure that your stay is pleasant, and not just tolerable. To win a double pass (we only have two to give away!), tell us your favourite artist on the Subsonic Festival lineup.
resorting to petty one-upmanship, and Seidler playing the ‘Herald card’.
SKERRIT BWOY
The yellow-mohawked man for Diplo and Switch’s dancehall project Major Lazer, Skerrit Bwoy, returns to GOODGOD Small Club this Saturday November 27. The Antiguan native solidified his role as Major Lazer’s live-show frontman after a memorable turn in the video for the single ‘Pon De Floor’, directed by Eric Wareheim. In developments that would have solicited accolades from the disgraced ex-BRAG journo Coffee Boy, Skerrit Bwoy has been a driving force behind the recent popularisation of “daggering” - a coed dance craze that is akin to a highly animated and greatly exaggerated simulation of sexual intercourse. (The dagger in question is the male participant’s package.) But as the press release for the party affirms, “NB. Daggering is consensual - it’s dancing and it’s performance. You’re not gonna get daggered by just being in attendance!”
The Surecut Kids
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E, ADAM YE STARS, ASIAN TO THE MOBILE INDUSTRIES
Who are Mobile Industries and what does your role include? I run it solo. Job description: “everything involved in touring and booking bands”. Sarah Blasko, Otouto, Kid Sam, Ghoul, Seja, Holly Throsby, Songs, Jack Ladder, Bearhug, Laura Jean, Seekae, Little Scout, Love Connection, Dead Letter Chorus, Smudge, Front End Loader, Snowman, Aerial Maps, Seagull, Emma Russack, Sherlock’s Daughter, Fergus Brown, Firekites, The Paradise Motel... Plus I’ve toured internationals like Howe Gelb, Mark Kozelek, Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses, The Unthanks, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. What drove you to start the business? I have been in music for a long time worked at a label, record store, managed a band, artist, tour managed, journalist... I started working with an agent friend of mine a few years back and when that ended I picked up most of the roster and built it from there.
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DJ KRUSH
Hideaki Ishi, aka Japanese hiphop king pin DJ Krush, plays The Basement this Friday November 26. Since dropping his debut album in 1994, Krush has released eight solo albums, with his experimental beats and instrumental sounds garnering respect from all over the globe. Niche Productions have wheeled out a solid support cast to support Krush; Sydney based turntablist and producer Dizz1, who’s received airplay from the likes of Giles Peterson and Benji B on BBC Radio in the lead-up to releasing his debut album early next year will be representing, as will Tigermoth and MC Tuka. Tigermoth has had experience playing alongside De La Soul and Gaslamp Killer while Tuka had the honour of supporting the legendary A Tribe Called Quest earlier in the year. Presale tickets are available through www.thebasement. com.au.
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DUST TONES MOVE HOME
Let the record show that Dust Tones is not winding down. Yes, the local hip-hop bash that is held at The Beach Road Hotel in Bondi on Fridays is taking a bit of a sojourn and moving venue, but this is not the end! A press release explains: “We are expanding up and out with some big plans and some big parties in the pipeline. But in the meantime, come on down to the Beach Road for our last month at this beautiful venue.” This Friday is the last, with a line-up that consists of The Surecut Kids, The Psyde Projects, Mike Who and DJ Ability, with free entry from 8pm. Stay up to date with Dust Tones’ ‘up and out’ expansion via www.dusttones.com.
Biggest challenge working in the music industry? Working in a small and crowded market with so many great artists trying to squeeze into fewer and fewer live spaces… We have such a huge talent pool in Australia. I’ve seen it for a long time and am approached for help and advice by young artists frequently, so I’m aware that the ‘underground’ is still there and healthy. Unfortunately we have a largely unsympathetic government that sees music as the unworthy cousin of the ‘fine’ arts. Best piece of advice someone gave you? “The most important reason why we are all working in the music industry is THE ARTIST.” Well... that’s my advice to everyone. Best given to me? “We’re all on the same side.”
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WITH TUKA FROM THUNDAMENTALS has anything to do with it we’ll start writing more upbeat tracks. Our live sets are mad fun and we plan to keep it that way, easy. If you come to a set, ask our DJ to sing ‘Double Up’ by R Kelly, he’ll probably do it. Music, Right Here, Right Now It would be nice if more people bought 5. music instead of stealing it, but that’s not
Growing Up Your Crew My mother’s partner use to tape Rage - he We got Jeswon, DJ Morgs, Tommy 1. 3. literary had hundreds of tapes that went back Fiasko and myself Tuka. We formed in the years and years. I remember seeing Run DMC and Aerosmith’s ‘Rock This Way’ once, and about a week or so later I systematically went through most of those tapes ‘til I found that song. I watched it on repeat and learnt all the words. Looking back, that’s the main instigator for me wanting to make hip hop music. Catchy and fun stuff, they trash the whole set with mic stands – old-school rockstar shit.
Blue Mountains back in 2004. I’m pretty sure it was a case of hip hop getting into us, rather than us getting into hip hop. I remember heaps of shows happening up in Katoomba and we were always on the bill, either supporting people like The Herd or Bliss & Eso, or putting on the gigs ourselves. Six years later, and we’re still moving forward.
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The Music You Make We make sample-based hip hop, mostly from vinyl. Anything from soul and funk to surf and dub - no rules, just music. At the moment it’s kind of down tempo moody/ glitch/hip hop stuff, but I’m sure if summer
Inspirations The good, the bad; the love, the hate; the abundance, the waste; the courage, the rage; the jealousy, the greed; the heroes and the free; everything we say, feel, see and be. Oh, and good music, art and Slick Rick.
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gonna happen so let’s not dwell on it. It would be nice if getting played on radio wasn’t quite so important for a band’s success, but that’s got gonna change in the near future. It would be nice if sound check wasn’t so necessary, but it just is… The scene is what it is: from my perspective it’s either get lucky off a one hit wonder, or a case of what you put in to it is what you get out of it. Everyone’s motives are different when it comes to their creativity and the value they place on it: expression, fame, money(?),getting laid, whatever... We get to play in front people that wanna see us, we perform songs that we wrote and believe in, and we have heaps of fun doing it. How you like dem apples? What: Sleeping On Your Style is out now on Obese Records With: Faithless, Ludacris, Cee Lo Green, Janelle Monáe, Bag Raiders, Yolanda Be Cool, Tim & Jean, Koolism and more Where: Good Vibrations Festival 2011 @ Centennial Park When: Saturday February 12
Hoodoo Gurus
HOODOO GURUS
Age will not weary them…Aussie rock stalwarts The Hoodoo Gurus gave us their ninth studio release Purity of Essence in April of this year, and have just returned from a casual world tour, blitzing shows in Spain, Paris, London, New York, California and LA to name a few. Now back in home sweet home, the Gurus have a string of dates in Sydney including at Revesby Workers on November 26 and Sharkies Cronulla on November 28. They will be ably supported by supergroup The Break, which consists of non-political members of Midnight Oil as well as The Violent Femmes’ bassist. We have five double passes to give away to either gig, if you wanna go then tell us the name of a single off the new Gurus album…XXX
JACK
Local club icon and veteran DJ Mark Murphy has announced he is leaving Spank Records after… well, many years. To commemorate these years of loyal service, we suggest you head to JACK at the Polo Lounge this Friday (also Murphy’s last day at Spank), where Murphy and Magda (HAHA) will dig through an assortment of house music and deep disco plucked from Chicago and Berlin. There will be free entry all night and drink specials flowing from 9pm– all the incentive you need to stop in and pay respect to one of Sydney’s finest.
Caribou
Pharoahe Monch
ISHU
Melbourne based producer Ishu has just unleashed his debut album, A World In Progress. The LP is a collation of world music influences, downtempo electronic beats and heavy hip hop blends that was inspired by Ishu’s travels throughout Europe and Asia over the past two years. It features a range of guests, including Mantra, Hau (Koolism), Lotek, Class-A, Elf Tranzporter, Rachael Berry and Pataphysics. The first single from the album ‘Progress’ has been getting radio support on FBi and has now been added to triple j; indeed it’s onward and upward for Ishu, who will be launching A World In Progress at Newtown RSL on Friday December 17, with presales $15 online.
FOUR TET & CARIBOU
Tickets are now on sale for the Four Tet and Caribou double bill at The Metro on Thursday February 17. Both artists are in town for Playground Weekender, and are fresh off releasing landmark – dare we say career best? – albums earlier in the year. Canada’s Caribou (formerly ‘Manitoba’), the brainchild of Dan Smith, purportedly set out to create “dance music that sounds like it’s made out of water rather than made out of metallic stuff like most dance music does” with his recent LP, Swim. Having spawned a fresh remix LP that features reworks from James Holden, Junior Boys and Gavin Russom, Swim followed the almost Brian Wilson-esque influences that were apparent on the preceding Caribou album, Andorra - while the latest single ‘Odessa’ garnered crossover success via airplay on radio. Not to be outdone, Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet has followed up his There Is Love In You album with a serene remix of The xx, and returns to Australia following a performance at The Sydney Festival a few years back.
PANTHA DU PRINCE
Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha Du Prince, will play The Civic Underground for Future Classic on Saturday December 18. First emerging on the Dial imprint, which recently put out the purportedly-excellent debut LP from John Roberts, Weber shifted stables to release his third LP, Black Noise, on Rough Trade earlier this year. The album spawned the single ‘Stick To My Side’, which featured the vocals of Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear, among a collection of sleek, textured cuts. Though Pitchfork
said this single was the one blemish on an accomplished album, opining, “oddly it doesn’t come together like one would hope - Lennox’s traditionally warm vocals sound detached from Weber’s chilly arrangement,” I’d dismiss such waffle as tall poppy syndrome. But I suggest you grab the album and judge for yourself. (For the record, the overall tone of the review was overwhelmingly positive.) There’s plenty to delve into on Black Noise beyond the single, and trend-spotters will be drawn to the fact that Tyler Pope of LCD Soundsystem and !!! plays bass on track ‘The Splendour’.
CLIPSE
Virginian rap duo Clipse tour Australia for the first time next month and play The Metro Theatre on Saturday December 12. Onehalf of Clipse, Pusha T, has been especially prolific in recent months after signing to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label and appearing on Kanye’s ‘Runaway’ single - but more discerning rap buffs will tell you that Clipse have been part of the rap milieu for the better part of a decade, and have released three LPs over this time. Support duties go to Hoops member and triple j Mix Up presenter Nina Las Vegas, Ro Sham Bo’s Levins and Wax Motif.
HERMITUDE
Hermitude have a new single, ‘Get In My Life’, a dubstep, electro hybrid that’s been described as a conflation of “John Carpenter and Dr. Dre” and is available now as a free download through www.elefanttraks.com/ hermitude. The Sydney troupe are gearing up to release a yet-to-be-titled album next year, and will perform an intimate show at the new(ish) venue Tone on Wentworth Avenue, on Friday December 11 as a harbinger for the mysterious forthcoming LP…
PHAROAHE MONCH
Hip hop veteran Pharoahe Monch will preview his new album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) at The Metro Theatre this Friday November 26, alongside Jean Grae, who is herself gearing up to release her new album Cake Or Death. W.A.R includes the lead-off single ‘Shine’ and has been described as a “throwback to 1993 1994 hip-hop”. It features production by Black Milk, Mr Porter, Lee Stone and M-Phazes. Monch has humbly described the LP as “my best album … It’s a call to writers, artists, poets, even 9-5 people who think off the beating path. It’s a call and a warning to them to how the mindset is targeted and obviously the powers that be don’t want thinking individuals with opinions and ideas to be the big percentage of our population.” Tickets are $44 through the Metro’s website.
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THE AXE TO SWING AT UNIVERSAL
Philippe Capron, chief financial officer at Universal Music Group’s parent company Vivendi, is promising “very, very significant” cost cuts. In the third quarter, Universal’s revenues were down 1.7% to Euro 2.9 billion; in fact going into Christmas, Vivendi’s computer games will do better than music. In Q3, Activision Blizzard, in which Vivendi holds a 59.6% stake, made euro 2.3 billion with sales of such games as Call of Duty and Starcraft 2 up 14.8%.
WILLISCRAFT, KIDD, QUIT DMG SYDNEY
DMG Radio’s Sydney Program Directors. Adam Williscroft (Nova 96.9) and David Kidd (Classic Rock 95.3, also DMG’s Group Research Director) left last week. Group Program Director Paul Jackson, who recently arrived from the UK, will oversee Nova 969 programming, with help from Assistant Program Director Brendan Taylor. Assistant Group Program Director Dan Bradley now has more say in programming Classic Rock 95.3 and 91.5.
INERTIA CELEBRATES TEN YEAR MILESTONE
This week, Inertia throws itself a tenth anniversary celebration party at a club in the Sydney CBD for clients and partners. But celebrations actually began in January, when Bon Iver, Sia, Interpol (with Remote Control) and the first Pendulum album went gold. CEO Ashley Sellers started Inertia in March 2000, after arriving from the UK where he’d worked in music retail. Aware of how much great music
Life lines Born: daughter Madilyn Grace Smith, for US R&B singer Ne-Yo and girlfriend Monyetta Shaw. Engaged: Jessica Simpson to former NFL player Eric Johnson — just a week after her ex-husband Nick Lachey got engaged to girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo. Dating: James Blunt and former Pussycat Dolls member Jessica Sutta. Marrying: Mark Feehily of Westlife will tie the knot with his boyfriend Kevin McDaid next year. Feehily came out in 2005. Reunited: Britney Spears’ parents, who divorced eight years ago, are reportedly back together. In Court: Take That’s Howard Donald lost a High Court bid to stop a former girlfriend, soul singer Adakini Ntuli, from talking about their affair. Died: Deep Purple’s first manager Tony Edwards, 78. Died: Reg King, singer with influential ‘60s Brit band The Action, 65, cancer. They were signed by Beatles’ producer George Martin to Parlaphone.
was missing out, he set up a company without knowing exactly how he did it. He roped in his best friend Justin Cosby as head of A&R (and later Colin Daniels to be MD) and they worked for six months in his lounge room. “We couldn’t watch TV because there were so many boxes in the room,” Sellers chuckles. Retailers would ring to check on a release, and the pair would thump on the table to denote they were “running” to their non-existent “warehouse”. They mailed out 40 copies of a Chicks On Speed record, one of their first records released, leaving 15 copies in the “warehouse”. Then triple j made it its Album of the Week, and Sellers had to get a bank loan to get more copies. The first Katalyst CD sold 15 000 units, and Inertia was away. Inertia developed from a distribution company to setting up its own labels (POD, Rogue, Inertia Recordings) and tour company Civil Society (now merged with Handsome Tours), and increased its services to its acts and their management to include product management, digital services, marketing and publicity services, and rights management.
HARD DRIVE’S NIGHT: BEATLES STORM ITUNES
Within 24 hours of finally going online in a rumoured £500 million deal, The Beatles were occupying 15% of iTunes UK’s top 200 with 31 songs. The highest was ‘Hey Jude’ at #40. For Apple boss Steve Jobs, a huge Beatles fan, it was a triumph - the negotiations kept breaking down, especially as Apple and Apple Corp were in court over the use of the name. Negotiations began in earnest in September after Roger Faxon took over as head of EMI’s recording music division mid-year. It is believed that Apple paid a “substantial” advance to ensure that iTunes got the Beatles exclusively until end of next year. Many of their live albums were not included in the deal. But not everyone was happy. Australian fans say they have to pay almost double what their US counterparts have to, despite the parity of the dollar. It costs $20.99 for each of the 13 albums, and $259 for the boxed set which includes the Live at the Washington Coliseum, 1964 concert film. Bloggers were upset that the big announcement Apple said it was making last week was not the hugely expected cloudbased iTunes streaming service. Apple is building a large data center in North Carolina that is due to be finished by the end of the year, expected to be the host of the streaming service.
APRA’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
THINGS WE HEAR * On the internet is a scene from Metallica’s November 11 show at Acer Arena during ‘Seek And Destroy’. The stage is full of black balloons and guitarist Kirk Hammett wanders around kicking the balloons and unwittingly kicking over a small child who’s on the stage, said to be James Hetfield’s son. * Word is that the very expensive X-Factor may not be back next year. * Warner Music is planning a £470 million bid for EMI’s recorded music division. * Add Helmet to the list of tours coming next year: guitarist Page Hamilton expects them to be here May/April. * Birds of Tokyo’s debut album has been certified platinum.
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3 10 1 13 31 62 RIHANNA
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FIREWORK
CAP/EMI
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4 10 4 11 27 46 NELLY
JUST A DREAM
UNI/UMA
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2 12 1 15 28 60 BRUNO MARS
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
ATL/WMA
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7 14 6 14 29 58 ZOE BADWI
FREE FALLIN’
NEON/WMA
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3 13 29 53 KATY PERRY
7 11 5
7 11 28 58 KE$HA
RAISE YOUR GLASS
SME
ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD)
DEF/UMA
WE R WHO WE R
SME
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5 16 2 14 29 52 MIKE POSNER
COOLER THAN ME
SME
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9 12 5 14 30 51 CEE-LO GREEN
FU
WMUK/WMA
HEARTBEAT
INT/UMA CAP/EMI
10 17 6 10 13 27 59 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT. NICOLE SCHERZINGER 11 13 3 11 12 25 46 GOOD CHARLOTTE
SEX ON THE RADIO
12 8 10 2 17 44 63 KINGS OF LEON
RADIOACTIVE
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13 10 20 8 16 39 64 BIRDS OF TOKYO
PLANS
CAP/EMI
14 14 10 14 9 31 54 ADAM LAMBERT
FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT
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15 12 21 12 15 32 49 THE TEMPER TRAP
FADER
LIB/UMA
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FOR THE FIRST TIME
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17 21 4 17 11 24 44 FAR EAST MOVEMENT
LIKE A G6
INT/UMA
18 18 17 1 14 27 56 TAIO CRUZ
DYNAMITE
ISL/UMA
19 16
9 14 12 44 67 TRAIN
20 32 3 20 11 24 45 JESSICA MAUBOY FT. LUDACRIS
SAVE ME, SAN FRANCISCO
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SATURDAY NIGHT
SME
21 19 18 2
13 28 57
USHER FT. PITBULL
DJ GOT US FALLIN’ IN LOVE
SME
17 1
14 32 58
KATY PERRY
TEENAGE DREAM
CAP/EMI
LIFEHOUSE
ALL IN
GEF/UMA
GOOD CHARLOTTE
LIKE IT’S HER BIRTHDAY
CAP/EMI
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23 26 8
23 9
37 66
24 24 15 10 14 30 54
Applications for APRA Professional Development Awards close on Monday 29 November. They’re given to eight emerging songwriters and composers across six categories. These include popular contemporary, country, jazz, classical, film and television, and indigenous. Each prize is worth $25 000 including $12 000 cash, home studio, studio time, attendance at workshops, digital distribution, music gear and music study. See www.apra-amcos.com.au/pda for full details.
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25 11 24 44
PITBULL FT. T-PAIN
HEY BABY (DROP IT TO THE FLOOR) SME
26 68 2
26 11 18 33
PINK
F**KIN’ PERFECT
SME
THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS
CLOSER TO THE EDGE
VIR/EMI
CHRISTIANS YANK BLACK MASS
A Facebook campaign by a Sydney-based Christian group against black metal festival ‘Black Mass’ led to the Newtown RSL pulling out of the event two weeks before. Promoter Séance Records, who tried to negotiate with the venue, have postponed the event until a new venue is found.
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14 26 57
28 31 2
28 14 27 53
KINGS OF LEON
PYRO
SME
29 36 3
29 11 28 47
THE BLACK EYED PEAS
THE TIME (THE DIRTY BIT)
INT/UMA
30 20 17 11 10 28 51
B.O.B FT. RIVERS CUOMO
MAGIC
ATL/WMA
31 58 2
31 11 24 48
BRUNO MARS
GRENADE
ATL/WMA
32 56 3
32 11 24 48
DEF/UMA
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE
WHAT’S MY NAME?
TRAIN
IF IT’S LOVE
SME
34 25 14 21 12 24 45
DUCK SAUCE
BARBARA STREISAND
ETC/UMA
35 28 3
28 12 29 47
TAIO CRUZ FT. KYLIE MINOGUE
HIGHER
ISL/UMA
36 61 6
36 9
JAMES BLUNT
STAY THE NIGHT
ATUK/WMA
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NICKELBACK
THIS AFTERNOON
RR/WMA
38 41 21 7
MICHAEL PAYNTER
LOVE THE FALL
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39 30 23 18 14 37 64
JOHN BUTLER TRIO
REVOLUTION
JAR/MGM
40 37 21 12 12 35 59
MAROON 5
MISERY
A&M/UMA
33 27 25 5
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Lucille Spielfuchs (left) and Baby Blue Bergman.
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tarting in New York and Europe, and intersecting with retro, queer and cabaret culture along the way, the new wave of burlesque hit Sydney around ten years ago. Collectives like Gurlesque, Hi Ball Burlesque and Belladonnas de Lux sprang up on the fringes, followed by Voodoo Trash Dolls, Sugartime, Jac Bowie’s Burlesque Ball – and 34B Burlesque: a monthly series of neoburlesque soirees. To celebrate five fabulous years at 34B, we gave our cover over to three burlesque beauties who are performing at 34B Burlesque’s 5th Birthday Party, themed ‘The Golden Age’: modern-day Betty Page ‘Tasia’, blonde bombshell ‘Baby Blue Bergman’, and leggy young mischief-maker ‘Lucille Spielfuchs’. Besides being a classic mix of blonde, brunette and redhead, this delicious trio represent the old and new schools of Sydney’s burlesque scene, and 34B’s special blend of sex and comedy. As they pout and pose, it’s the sparkle of mischief in their eyes and the whipped cream on their fingers that tells you that these gals know how to put on a helluva show. “The comedy is really important,” says founder and director Pip Branson. “The idea of burlesque is sauciness, sure – but sexiness has a lot to do with comedy as well. [We aim] to get the right mix of humour, sex appeal - and maybe a little bit of social commentary here and there!” A classically-trained violinist who went on to play guitar in Sidewinder and Something For Kate, Branson first caught the
Signature routines: My fan-based routines include classic tease, electro rock, a tribal duet, an ethereal traditional... I’ve also choreographed a number of chair dance routines over the years, from classic to dirty/ bluesy rock. Besides this, I tend to do a lot This redhead started Belladonnas of character-based acts – Cat, Mermaid de Lux way back when, and has since (with Fisherman), Egyptian Queen branched off into a (with rare snake solo career - and a serious fan-dancing included)… fetish.
of Rita Hayworth with the poise of Margot Fonteyn. Having recently won Miss Burlesque Australia, she’s popping her 34B cherry with a satire of the golden age of pin up and fashion photography, titled ‘Ye Olde Photoshoppe.’ Signature routines: My routines are As the name very feisty, that’s my suggests, this signature, if anything. firecracker combines I’m a wild one, and a the hot-blooded Spanish temperament risk-taker.
Highlights: In New York three years ago I performed one of my chair routines at the Burlesque Festival’s Golden Pastie Awards night. I had people coming up to me afterwards saying how great it was, and how they couldn’t take their eyes off me. Do you remember your 5th birthday? Maybe that was the time we ate doughnuts without our hands, hanging from the clothes line!
Special skills: I sing - and I bump and grind with a vengeance. Interesting fetishes: I go nuts for red crystals - like droplets of blood. I like to put them on my red shoes... I like shoes. Do you remember your 5th birthday? I wanted to be a boy and I wanted a Tonka truck!
burlesque bug in 2003, when he was touring as part of Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen, within the Spiegeltent’s resident show - La Clique. The circus/cabaret/burlesque fusion of La Clique was part of the inspiration for 34B Burlesque, which he started with Mark Gerber (who was then at Exchange, and now at Oxford Art Factory).
Over the years, Branson has consistently supported new talent, whether hand-picking it from the local scene or diligently fielding auditions. In the case of Baby Blue Bergman, it took a little nagging – but it was well worth the fuss. “She is just sensational – she has incredible, classic film star poise. For one show she said, ‘I’ve had a vision: all I want to do is wear a Mia Wallace (from Pulp Fiction) wig, and stand on a table, with a spotlight on me, and twist.’ And she did – for about 15 minutes!” Branson laughs. Bergman, who is bringing an “all singing, all stripping, all sprinkling affair” to 34B’s 5th Birthday, has more than a touch of the drama queen, and a sense of the kooky that belies her sex-kitten, Brigitte Bardot looks. She says her “funnest” 34B performance so far was “an abominable snowman act to Thunderbirds music; I thundered around the stage like a crazed monster. Then I ate a cardboard cut up of myself, puked it up, and became possessed...by me. That was so fun.”
Another sizzling new act on the scene, Bella Pistol and Kitty Danger trade in a special mix of vaudeville, jazz and punk rock attitude.
Where: 34B / 44 Oxford St Darlinghurst (The Exchange Hotel - entry Q Bar) When: Saturday November 27 /doors open 8.30pm, show starts 9pm sharp! Tickets: $25 G.A. / $35pp reserved table (min. 3 people) tenderloins.com.au
Costume inspirations: Crossdressers, gangsta
Costume Inspirations: We are inspired by everything from the old Hollywood extravagance of Bob
Lola the Vamp has been around since the very beginning of 34B, after meeting Mark Gerber on the tour bus for the Big Day Out in ’05: he
Fetishes: Expensive restaurants and good manners. Do you remember your 5th birthday? Yes! I had a clown called Bubbles, who wore a bad wig and scared the shit out of my little sister. There’s a photo of me wearing a suitably 80s multi-tiered black-and-white houndstooth skirt with braces, neon pink and yellow spotted bows, and frilly socks with white sandals.
Mackie, to the down and dirty genderbending electro singer Peaches, and famed photographers Helmut Newton and David LaChapelle. Fetishes: PROPS. All props, any props. We can’t seem to get enough! Fake blood, large puppet heads, hairspray, walking canes and even live human beings! We’ll stop at nothing to bring you a rollicking good time at our shows!
monthly performance salon ‘The Peel’ (with Holly J’aDoll). For 34B’s birthday she says she’s busting out her ‘Show Pony’ routine, which involves her “dressing up as a carousel horse (pink hand-painted latex horse-head and all), some traditional carousel music, a little genuine ‘Pony’ - then a striptease to ‘Get Behind The Mule’ by Tom Waits…
the electric ukulele.
wanted to start a cabaret club, so she gave him her show reel. The rest, as they say, is history. You might want to get front-row seats for Saturday, because she’s performing a classic act inspired by Lily St Cyr’s bathtub routine…
around the pony en pointe making pretty and suggestive shapes, and take off my bra while riding her.
Signature routine: ‘The Unicorn’ - this was my first big big prop act, and I named the unicorn after a pony I had, called Queenie. I dance
Do you remember your 5th birthday? My mum made me a chocolate cake in the shape of a pussycat, which impressed me very much.
Making her ‘Scarlet Debut’ at 34B in 2007, this sultry redhead is one of Sydney’s best-known burlesque talents, and Special Skills: Singing and playing the co-presenter of
As with all 34B parties the proof will be in the purrrfectly-mixed pudding: colour and costume, comedy and strip-tease, décor and dance, music and more! A party with high production values, and low inhibition levels. If you’ve never been to 34B Burlesque, then what the hell are you waiting for, baby? With: Tasia, Rita Fontaine, Baby Blue Bergman, Holly J’aDoll, Lola the Vamp, Lucille Spielfuchs, Lulu, Lauren La Rouge, Ladykillers Inc and MORE!
Signature routine: My ‘Attack! of the 50ft Woman’ routine incorporates some very fast choreography and general sauciness, a decapitated King Kong head, soundbites from Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo, and a finale in which I smash up a mini city, while bootyshaking to Pharaoh Monche’s ‘Simon Says’.
Special Skills? We major in rocking out, with a masters in high heels. We’re also quite adept at throwing glitter.
The baby of the bunch is Lucille Spielfuchs, who popped her 34B cherry for their October show. “The theme was sci fi, so I went all out and had my whole body painted by a friend,” she tells me. With German parents, a background in performance, and a double-major in philosophy and theatre, she’s never short of ideas, and says her Golden Age routine will be tribal-inspired, and may even bring back some of that classic Josephine Baker magic from the 1920s.
What: 34B Burlesque’s 5th Birthday - The Golden Age
rap, 1930s, Ellen von Unwerth, Two Tone ska and Irving Klaw.
For their second-ever 34B show they’ll be paying homage with a glamorous, theatrical, unforgettable classic... with a killer twist!
Kicking off in October 2005 as a weekly party at The Exchange Hotel, 34B quickly became home for a special mix of Sydney’s underground performance, burlesque and cabaret scenes; collaborators included the queer cabaret troupe Man Jamm, Gurlesque, Pete Manwaring’s Pork Productions, and the Sugartime promoters. Regular performers included Christa Hughes (formerly KK Juggy of Machine Gun Fellatio fame), Imogen Kelly, Lorelei Lee, Sarina Del Fuego, and the Belladonnas de Lux - hosted by Branson’s cheeky alter ego, Francois Bublé (whom he describes as a concoction of Serge Gainsbourg, Robert Wagner, Charles Aznavour and Plastic Bertrand.) “When we started 34B, there wasn’t really a lot of pre-existing burlesque of the type that I wanted to present – but there was the Belladonnas de Lux; they were this amazing troupe that started around six months earlier. We got them along [to 34B], and often they’d present a whole night.” Two of the three Belladonnas still perform regularly at 34B – including cover girl Tasia, who branched out into a solo career. “She’s got this amazing presence on stage,” says Branson, “this piercing look she gives you – it’s sexy, it’s smouldering, it’s really engaging. And her shows are really inventive, and lots of fun.” For 34B’s 5th Birthday, Tasia is performing a variation the classic burlesque ‘shadow and strip-tease’ routine, involving a shadow dance performed in a life-sized Art Deco lamp – straight from the ‘Golden Age’ of burlesque.
Queen Elizabeth and Vivienne Westwood’s wayward lovechild at high volume.
Do you remember your 5th birthday? Mum hired Milly Signature routine: the clown who we ‘Black Ballet’: performed en pointe, LOVED, and we did the old-fashioned with all costumes created by yours truly, donut-eating competition, pass the and a bit of teasing with my tutu and toes. parcel etc. This act is always an I remember I had a crush on one of the audience favourite! boys I went to preFetishes: My heated school with!
Fetishes: Just the standard: rhinestones, glitter, fake eyelashes and more glitter! (I can’t live without my hot glue gun though!) Do you remember your 5th birthday? I do remember having a dress up party around that time, and have some pictures of me posing and hamming it up dressed as a fairy princess - so I guess I was a born show off!
Interesting fetishes: I like ballet shoes; I have a fetish for them, and I like to use fetish items in my shows.
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Holly J’aDoll: photo by Brent Leideritz
By Dee Jefferson / Photo by Isabella Moore
This 6-ft glamazon made her 34B debut at their ANZAC day tribute, where she was a nurse in a vintage WWII cape, rocking out to the ER theme song and ‘Poison’ by The Prodigy. Attitude much? We like. This Saturday she’ll be channelling
rollers! I cannot live without them - I couldn’t get those gorgeous vintage curls, because my hair is DEAD straight!
Lulu: photo by Onur Karaozbek (dsvision.net)
Making her 34B debut earlier this year as part of their Long Hot Summer, Ms Bluebell is a classically-trained ballet dancer who
can move en pointe, and makes her own costumes. For 34B’s birthday she’s bringing an Elvis Presley-inspired ‘Steamroller Blues’ routine.
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Passenger Honesty Is Everything By Caitlin Welsh journey. Rosenberg, now 26, has been playing in the UK for nearly ten years, touring there and in the US and Europe off the back of earlier albums. After striking up friendships with Australian musicians like Alex Lloyd in London, he eventually made the move out here in the spring of last year. “It got colder, and I had the thought – why not go to Australia, chase the sun, and do some busking over there?” It turned out to be a smart move indeed. The new record heaves under the weight of its guest stars, a roll-call of some of the best voices and young talents in Australian music, from leading lights like Josh Pyke, Lior, Kate Miller-Heidke and Katie Noonan to up-and-comers like Boy & Bear, Elana Stone & Brian Campeau and Matt Corby. “I already knew people like Josh Pyke and Lior, and I thought it’d be a lot of fun to just get together, play a song together, and whack it up on YouTube or whatever,” explains Rosenberg, when I ask how it all came about. The songs turned out good, he stayed a little longer, met some more artists, and the project grew... “By the end of it, I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, this could be a really great record!’”
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few years ago, there was a feature in The Washington Post about busking; specifically, about acclaimed virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell busking through rush hour, at a busy DC train station. Only six out of the thousand people who passed him in that time even stopped to listen, and he made just over thirty dollars. Two nights later, he played to a packed concert hall, where tickets started at a hundred bucks. There’s a tendency to assume buskers are by their very nature mediocre musicians – surely if they were any good they’d be doing it professionally, right? Brighton-born Mike Rosenberg, aka Passenger, is no stranger to such sentiments. “I was busking in Dublin, and got told by a homeless guy to go and get a proper job,” he says cheerfully, in his neat homecounties accent. “Which was quite hilarious, I thought. Got punched in the face in Glasgow.” That’s pretty much a Glasgow rights-of-passage though, isn’t it? “Yeah, you have to get punched in the face at least once.”
Luckily for Rosenberg, the reaction was an anomaly. “I think people really relate to the honest nature of busking. You’re just there on a street corner singing songs - there’s no bullshit to it, really. There’s no smoke machines and rubbish, it’s what you see is what you get. Especially in this genre of music, where I think honesty is everything. I think people really get that.” As a result, Passenger has been able to self-fund his latest album almost entirely out of the shrapnel clinking into his guitar case. The record in question is Flight Of The Crow, and even aside from the suitcase-and-bird motifs all over the artwork, it’s riddled with evocations of movement and disjointed routines. “I’ve been living in this month of Sundays / for so long I don’t remember Saturday night”, Rosenberg sings in the opening track ‘Month of Sundays’; later, the triptych of ‘Rivers’, ‘Travelling Song’ and ‘The Girl Running’ sit together like a movie montage, different legs of the same
But it’s a hard thing for a nice dude with a guitar to get noticed above all the others - and it’s easy to read Crow’s string of collabs as a calculated gimmick, with a side-dish of crosspromotion for all these artists. “That’s probably true in any genre of music - you need a reason to say, ‘oh well, I’ll give it a listen’, or ‘that’s an interesting story, I’ll give it a try’,” Rosenberg admits. He adds that although he hopes people don’t see the album as gimmicky, no musician resents a little extra attention... “I mean obviously your music needs to stand out, that’s a given; but you definitely need something, whether it be the story about the busking, or the collaborations, or whatever it is for people.” Rosenberg thinks that the real reason he finds a receptive audience here is because we’ve supported our troubadour tradition over the years. “In the UK it’s a lot more trend-driven, and my music is not trendy - it’s not skinny jeans and cool haircuts, you know?” he says. Any band trying to break into the utterlybatshit hype-culture that is the UK scene will sympathise with Passenger’s slow burn in his
“In the UK it’s a lot more trend-driven, and my music is not trendy - it’s not skinny jeans and cool haircuts, you know? Over here there’s definitely more respect for songs.” home country, and although it’s finally going in the right direction for him in the UK, Rosenberg feels there’s more opportunity in Australia. “Over here there’s definitely more respect for songs, and for real listening to stories and songs. [That] people like Josh Pyke and Lior and all of those guys have done so well in recent years – it’s really good news for little minnows like me.” 2010 has been a banner year for Rosenberg’s jaunt down under, with one national tour in support of Boy & Bear already under his belt, and another (as the headliner) about to begin. When I ask if he might think of making the move permanent, he tempers the inevitable answer with heaps of affection... “It’s very tempting,” he admits. “I do really like Australia, I’ve met a whole lot of really amazing people here, and the gigs seem to be going down really well. Yeah, I’m very happy here,” he says, sighing so ruefully I actually echo it in sympathy. “It’s just bloody miles away from home, you know?” Rosenberg assures me that he’ll be returning again and again regardless – most likely on a street corner near you, his guitar case waiting for your shiny coinage. What: Flight Of The Crow is out now through Inertia Where: The Brass Monkey, Cronulla / The Vanguard, Newtown When: November 24 / November 26
Jonathan Boulet Animals, Parades And The Family Garage By Jonno Seidler only his debut but also Parades’ phenomenal Foreign Tapes, released earlier this year. I tell him that this garage is fast becoming part of contemporary Australian rock history, and he pisses himself laughing. “There’s a remote door on it but we disabled that a long time ago, because the door is covered in mattresses and foam [to keep the sound in],” Jono says. “Man, if someone opens that, the whole place is just going to fall apart.” Though he’s known to have chucked entire bands in there at a time, for own his follow-up album Jono’s riding solo until all the songs are ready. “It’s more work, but it’s also sort of easier to get it done, because decisions are made there and then,” he says. “So I’m still doing it all myself - selfishly!”
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t’s not very often you get to chill out with a guy who not only spells his first name exactly the same way as you do (two ‘a’s and one ‘o’, for everyone playing at home), but has been playing the drums as long as you have and also really digs that ‘Community Service Announcement’ song. If he wasn’t also a multi-talented producer, frontman, guitarist and remixer, and didn’t spell ‘Jono’ with only one ‘n’, I’d say Boulet and I were twins split at birth, reconnected only by our mutual love of music... But that would just be creepy, right?
So Jono has a new single out - variously called ‘You’re A Animal’ or ‘You’re An Animal,’ depending on how semantically picky the person writing about it is. As he confesses very early on (we have that sort of intrinsic connection...), the track is actually one he’s been opening his live set with for months; he’s added some sections and 26 :: BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10
lyrics to it, and turned it into “a fully legitimate song.” Bearing in mind that what Boulet recycles is what most other artists try to write the first time around, all is forgiven; especially when he lets slip that there’s a new album of stuff already ready to record. The writing’s been done, but it’s hard for him to find studio time in between all the other “fun stuff that keeps me busy” - including two other bands (Parades and, surprisingly, a thrash metal band called Snakeface), producing for himself and his friends, and dropping killer remixes of local acts in between. If all that sounds exhausting, you’d be wrong; “Downtime for me is probably not touching an instrument or a computer,” says Boulet, of his hectic lifestyle, “but then I’ll get really restless, and be like ‘I gotta be doin’ something!’” Most of that doin’ is done in the Boulet family garage, where Jono famously recorded not
Effortless frontman that he may have transformed into since his early days supporting Tame Impala (before less-than-receptive crowds), Jono’s heart still lies with his first instrument, which also happens to be the best instrument - the drums. As such, he’s thankful for Parades’ success, “because it allows me to switch between being up the front and being a drummer - it’s a good change every now and then.” Jono cites the last year and a half (since he was signed to Modular) as a very steep learning curve for him as a performer. “That [first] tour was the first time I’d ever stood up the front, leading the band,” he muses. “It was really good and really bad at the same time. I mean; we sucked, but after that we got better.” Jono is quick to assure me that while he often looks nervous on stage, that’s actually just the weird face guitarists make when they’re concentrating really hard (see: John Mayer). Making the transition from drummer to frontman is perhaps one of the hardest, given that suddenly Boulet not only had to talk to his audience, but also had to do something with his legs. Although he’s become increasingly comfortable with it, he still occasionally worries “about getting in over my head and doing, y’know, rock star moves. Every time I try to do something like that I kinda just go, ‘Oh come on, that was stupid. Why don’t you just be real, and play like you’re enjoying the music?’”
“That was the first time I’d ever stood up the front... It was really good and really bad at the same time. I mean, we sucked. But we got better.” As his own writer, producer and publicist, Boulet is undeniably a harsh taskmaster on himself. But it’s that same austerity which allows the guy so much freedom to tour with his friends, record at his own pace and take interviews without having to be connected by some weird conferencing service... He also gets to do completely unviable yet totally awesome things, like “playing three New Years in one”, with stints at Falls Festival, Peats Ridge and No Years in Brisbane - where he’s made lots of friends, including John Steel Singers and Oh Ye Denver Birds. “That’s just going to be insane,” he says, of the Brisbane gig. “Both my bands are playing, and we know pretty much every person on the bill... It’s going to be like a house party.” Everything’s coming up Jono, and Boulet is truly grateful that he gets to turn his passion into a career. “I’m so amazed that we’re on [these bills],” he says, enthused. “I’m excited for each of them!” It’s certainly a far cry from your folks’ garage. With: ‘You’re A Animal’ (sic) is out now With: Grace Woodroofe, Megastick Fanfare Where: Beach Road Hotel, Bondi When: Saturday December 4 More: Also appearing at Peats Ridge Festival, Dec 29 - Jan 1 @ Glenworth Valley
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Pez On The Line By Chad Parkhill
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he Line is a new government campaign which has buddied up with great Aussie artists like Pez, Maya Jupiter, Lisa Mitchell and Tenielle, to promote respectful relationships - and reduce violence amongst young Australians. Each artist has offered two free songs with an exclusive video interview on the website - and Melbourne MC Pez is taking it even further. He’s releasing his new track ‘Shine’ in February 2011 as part of the campaign, and is asking everyone out there to help him make the video. Check out theline.gov.au to be a part of it! How did you get involved with The Line? Were you approached by the government? Pez: I wasn’t approached by the federal government per se - I was approached by the consultants that had heard my music, and they gave me a pretty alarming statistic: nearly half a million women get physically or sexually abused each year. So in response to that, they’re doing a campaign promoting respectful relationships, and they wanted to launch it in Sydney. [They asked] would I be interested in lending support, and coming down to perform a song to launch it? Which was a bit of a no-brainer: I was like, ‘definitely.’ I can’t imagine anyone wouldn’t want to support a cause like that. How do you think the song ‘Shine’ and The Line campaign fit together? It’s definitely a pretty perfect fit. It was a bit of an idealistic track when we made it; you’re trying to do something positive – that’s what came out in the music. When we performed it [at the launch] a lot of people came up and said, “it’s a perfect fit, it feels like you’ve written a song for the campaign.” That’s probably a pretty good sign that the message fits the campaign. It was easy to say yes. A lot of people who’ve signed up to support The Line are Aussie hip hop artists, like Maya Jupiter. Do you think there’s something about hip hop in particular that can help get the message out in this campaign? One of the big things about hip hop, especially the kind of hip hop I listen to - which is
driven by the lyrics - is that it’s a bit more stripped back… you can say a lot more in a verse, because it’s spoken directly to you. And it seems like, here in Australia anyway, the intention of a lot of the music is a lot more positive; the people who have been successful so far, they’re people trying to do something good. One of the really interesting things about The Line is that it’s not so much about saying, ‘This is wrong, and this is right,’ - but about saying, “You need to find out where you draw the line, and you need to find out where others draw the line.” That’s one of the things that really excited me about the campaign. There’s so much that goes on about the way people treat each other day-to-day, the way people behave with their family... When people start to address that, to look at themselves a bit, change that perspective - that’s where a lot of good things can start to happen, rather than just saying, ‘We need to stop the violence!’, [which is] always just another band-aid thing that never quite works. The Line is actually getting people to really have a look at what upsets them and what makes them uncomfortable… Very simple morals that not that long ago were taught to everyone: treat people how you want to be treated.
Flight Facilities Ready For Take-off By Oliver Downes
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he sky in Sydney might be a drizzling grey sheet, but Hugo Gruzman is in a peppy mood - not that you can blame him. The local disco-house duo Flight Facilities, of which he forms one bubbly half, only recently touched down from a sweat-sodden tour of Europe and the UK. “It was just unreal being over there,” he says. “We couldn’t believe how far we’ve managed to get across the world based on what we’ve done.” Flight Facilities have bounced and bopped their way onto the scene at a breakneck pace, their single ‘Crave You’ quickly becoming an immediately recognisable dance floor fixture, with generous rotations on triple j. Gruzman is surprised and flattered by the pair’s rapid success. “We didn’t think that one little song would carry us this far. It’s been exciting to get to do what we’ve done on such a small amount of work; it’s just four minutes long or something, and took us the better part of six months to get it all done and out there.” Striving for sonic perfection is the name of the game, with Gruzman describing the FF modus operandi as “ridiculously anal”. “It’d be painful to sit in a studio with us,” he says. “I think every producer would realise there’s always things you’d want to change, [but] no one would ever realise the difference except for you. There can be little things that you accidentally leave in there, and you’ll be listening to the radio be like ‘AW!!! I wish we could change that little bit!’”
More: To learn more about THE LINE, and to submit a line drawing for the Shine video clip, visit www.theline.gov.au.
With their self-imposed bar having been rapidly raised, the duo are feeling the pressure to reproduce their success. For their second single, the honey-tones of Giselle Rosselli on ‘Crave You’ have been traded for the smooth voice of Byron Bay-based songwriter Kurtis. The song is waiting in the wings for a January release. “It’s like we came out at full steam, and now we really have to back it up more than ever,” says Gruzman.
“It’s a big thing. Whether or not people are going to … support, whether we change direction for something slightly different. We’ll just have to wait and see. [The song’s] come a long way and I hope it’s worth it in the end, because we’re almost tearing our hair out again - it’s driving me crazy.” While things in the studio may be causing some anxiety, club-side things are looking bright. Flight Facilities are set to descend upon Shore Thing on New Year’s Eve, as well as Summadayze and Harbourlife as summer stretches out. Before that though, there’s the small matter of ‘Designs For Humanity’ at Oxford Art Factory this Wednesday; a celebration of fashion, art and music put on by Billabong for the second year in a row. The pair will be appearing alongside the likes of Operator Please and The Vines in aid of UNICEF’s appeal for the flood-stricken children of Pakistan. “We’re pretty excited to be a part of it”, says Gruzman. “It’s so nice to be useful to promote an event like that… We’re really, really humbled.” Not too humbled though; remixes of the Chemical Brothers or Flight Facility-idols Daft Punk are among the many lofty goals Gruzman has in his sights down the track. “I like to think that we’re fighter pilots in a Cessna,” he says. “We haven’t quite upgraded, we’re still in a blocky little studio, we’re still humming a lot of the stuff we do ourselves, we’re on an indie label and it’s all low key at the moment… The upgrade’ll happen.” What: Billabong’s ‘Designs For Humanity’ – Raising Money for UNICEF’s Pakistan Flood Children’s Appeal With: The Vines and Operator Please, with Purple Sneakers, Sosueme & MUM DJS Where: Oxford Art Factory When: Wednesday November 24 How much: $25 + BF – all proceeds to UNICEF
Bonde do Rolê Sydney Gets A Brazilian By Jonno Seidler
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n case you haven’t been watching the epic battle waging between Clover Moore and hoteliers like Kyle Sandilands lately, here’s an update on Sydney’s nightlife situation; it kind of blows. Unlike many other cosmopolitan cities across the world, we’re herded out of our favourite venues here ludicrously early, wandering the streets with nothing to drink and nothing to do. Luckily, Smirnoff have been listening. The supermassive vodka brand, no strangers to pulling crazy events out of a hat (see: sending Tiësto to South Africa for a one-off gig) have decided to give us a bit of foreign culture by way of their latest project: The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange. The campaign saw Australia’s best after-dark happenings curated by Ksubi’s Dan Single, packed up and shipped off to another country, in return for our own crate full of fun which will land in Sydney next week. And you know what the best part is? We got to swap with Brazil. Flying to Australia to give our late-night scene a much-needed fun injection are none other than Brazilian baile funk heroes, Bonde do Rolê. MC Pedro D’Eyrot, one of the surviving members from the original line-up of the group, says he’s looking forward to showing Sydney what a real party is all about. “The last time we were here [for the We Love Sounds tour in 2008], we bought these inflatable penguins from The National Geographic store, and they
went crowd-surfing and everything,” he laughs. “This time the only animals on stage will be us.” The band are psyched to test out their unique sound and new stage show on Sydney partygoers, incorporating traditional Brazilian musical styles including Santería, which D’Eyrot says is “a very big beat thing. It’s very beautiful to watch and hear - and it kind of speaks for itself.” Bonde do Rolê recruited two new female singers (including a former Kiwi) via a hit MTV reality show contest in Brazil. Lyrically, they now sound a bit like “an old-school Beastie Boys sort of party rap thing,” according to D’Eyrot. “We’re not a very orthodox band to begin with,” he jokes, “so every time we hit the stage it’s going to be a huge surprise.” Bonde do Rolê are but a small part of Sydney’s huge Nightlife Exchange street party, which will also involve traditional Brazilian food, BBQs, street performers and some killer cocktails; our prize for having voted in huge numbers for what Dan Single should package up and send over. Meanwhile, D’Eyrot can’t believe his luck; right before they go into the studio with Diplo to record the much-awaited follow-up to With Lazers, he gets to come down under and get loose. “Our band is pretty much fuelled on great drinks,” he reveals, “so really this gig is a blessing in disguise!” In line with their previous record, Pedro says the new tracks
he’s been working on “have this really tropical feel to [them], but also sound kind of Western, too.” He promises that some of the newies will be debuted for local audiences at the party... Signed to Diplo’s Mad Decent stable, D’Eyrot really just wants to live the lifestyle of his label boss. “He recorded the whole [Major Lazer] album in Jamaica, man. No wonder it sounds so good!” Right now, though, he’ll settle for exporting his wares to a city so desperately needing a proper street party... From the streets of Rio to the city of Sydney,
Bonde do Rolê have our Exchange covered. Let’s just hope their countrymen like what Sydney’s got to offer... What: Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Street Party With: Samba Groove, DJ Anna Lunnoe and Hoops vs United Colours Where: Central Street (between Pitt & George St) When: Saturday November 27 More: To be there, you gotto be a Facebook fan! facebook.com/smirnoffaustralia
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Reverend Horton Heat ...And The Sacramental Wine By Caitlin Welsh
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ou can keep your sadcore, chillwave and witch-house; all the sub-generic fun is to be had in the nether regions of the rockabilly family. Thrashabilly, trashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly and gothabilly are all listed by Wikipedia as legitimate sub-genres, but it’s psychobilly which has some of the most famous proponents. The Cramps for one and, depending on who you talk to, twenty-five-year veteran outfit Reverend Horton Heat. The Reverend himself, whose driver’s license says Jim Heath, is quick to point out how nebulous their sound has always been. “I don’t necessarily know how on-the-map psychobilly really is,” he muses, in a Texanflavoured baritone with just a hint of drawl. “We definitely fit in with that crowd, but we kind of do some things that psychobilly bands don’t do. Country, bluesy elements, sometimes a bit of a jazzier thing, sometimes just straight psychobilly, we do that too – we’ll get out there in Psycholand.” As a guitarist and singer, Heath certainly takes a lot of his cues from what he says is his favourite music to listen to – mid-century country and rock’n’roll. You can hear Cash’s wry wit in his turn of phrase, and rockabilly godfather Carl Perkins’ thick twang in his guitar playing; but his songwriting, even when it’s dealing with sad themes, tends to borrow from the self-pitying wit of the late-night-radio country crooner. It helps to have a sense of humour when you’re a countryrock singer whose wife really did leave with the baby, the dog and (allegedly) your toothbrush... It’s that classic sound, the mix of pathos and black humour, that informs the newest album, Laughing and Crying With The Reverend Horton Heat. Heath says that he’s always enjoyed messing with the classic country formula, whether that means adding in elements of other genres for laughs (‘Death Metal Guys’), or singing about how electric cars aren’t an appropriate choice of transport for rural wheat farmers (‘Rural Point of View’). “Reverend Horton Heat, we have our own formula that’s kinda worth sticking to, because it’s worked for a very long time,” he tells me. “But that being said, we’ve had country songs on every album we’ve ever done.” Get Heath talking about where and why his favourite genre has lost its way in recent years (“Country music started losing me in about 1980!”), and that unflustered tone will slip into entertainingrant mode. “We don’t go to New-Country Land,
“[The music business] props up these horrible people... What we need instead is people who stay home and learn to play the fuckin’ guitar.”
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that new sound. Honestly, it’s been getting on my nerves for about three decades now,” he laughs. One pet peeve is that grating, affected redneck accent. “I have an accent too, not as thick as other people of course, but to hear these guys when they go to sing, thay siyng lyke thiys, it’s this overexaggerated… I just wanna hit the guy!” Heath stays away from the Nashville scene, preferring to live “outside of Dallas, in a place where no-one gives a crap about Reverend Horton Heat. That’s fine with me.” Heath is in his early fifties now, but shows no signs of slowing down. Rather than scheduling their shows around release schedules, RHH tour constantly, playing “Podunk college towns” and big cities alike, in the States and overseas. And of course, they’re set to venture out here next month. “In Australia everybody has really good taste in music,” says Heath. “Everybody, they know how to cut loose down there.” The band are giving Australians a helping hand, releasing a pair of Reverend Horton Heat-branded red & white wines, which are available through their website. “Though I might have to wait until after the show to drink it,” he adds. While they may have a long history together, Heath acknowledges that country music isn’t really the best advertisement for drinking… “I gotta admit, I had a lot of fun - hangin’ out in bars and drinkin’ and chasin’ girls and all that stuff, and playing pool, going to wild parties… I had a lot of fun. But I look back now, and just think a lot of it’s just bullshit. I don’t think a lot about it; but what I do think a lot about is the way the music business is now, how they prop up these horrible people. Like that’s what’s good; like people are going, ‘We don’t have any more real rockstars anymore, who do a big line of coke and crash their car into the courthouse.’ In my opinion, what we need instead is people who don’t do that, but stay home and learn to play the fuckin’ guitar.” With Heath calling for authenticity in music, and bemoaning the fakeness of the Nashville scene, I have to ask… How deeply drenched in liquor is the music of the Reverend? He hums thoughtfully... “Well, Dwight Yoakam’s never had a drink of alcohol in his life. It’s pretty odd, huh? His drummer’s a friend of mine and I say, man, how can he sing all these sittin’-on-the-barstool songs without ever having drank alcohol in his life?” he muses. “I mean let’s face it, it is an art form... You could write a great song about what it feels like to jump off a building. But if you actually jumped off the building you would never live to write the song,” he continues. “I’ve lived the life. And you know what, I’m not really that proud of it. Being an alcoholic – that’s not that great a thing to aspire to be.” Does it help with the songwriting, though? “No. Not at all. You can write a great song about jumping off a building,” he tells me, repeating it for emphasis. “You can write a great song about jumping off a building.” Where: The Metro Theatre When: Saturday December 11 More: Also appearing at Meredith Music Festival, December 10-12 at Meredith, Victoria
Telefon Tel Aviv Transcendence By Tyson Wray
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ith the sudden death of Telefon Tel Aviv’s Charles Cooper in 2009, Joshua Eustis lost not only a musical partner but a best friend. In a year that saw the foundations of his musical history and future shattered, Eustis went on to gradually but admirably return to the seminal Chicago-based ambient techno act, sharing the stage occasionally with Fredo Nogueira, a long-time friend of the group.
This year has seen his creative talents exerted extensively, with a return cherished by electronic music lovers worldwide. “I don’t want to say it’s been the most mind-blowing year that I’ve ever had, but It’s definitely been a really great year,” he tells me. “It started out with me being in Mexico for the entirety of January and February, working with Apparat. He wanted to start working on his record, so he got Fredo and I to go down there for two months and just work on music. We skipped the Chicago and Berlin winter and found ourselves in this beautiful place alongside the beach with our gear, doing nothing but making music the entire two months, and it was absolutely fantastic,” he says. “We did a lot of hanging out just together and bouncing back ideas, and by the end of it all we realised we had actually written so much music. That’s pretty much how the year has been; it feels like I’ve been goofing off and not doing shit all year, but when I look back at it I realise I’ve pretty much got a whole new record, Apparat has his record and Fredo’s record is almost finished. We did so much work, and accomplished so much, but I don’t really remember doing any of it.”
Eustis is debuting his solo take on Telefon Tel Aviv in Australia next week, for Subsonic Festival. “I’ve never played shows by myself before - this will be the first time - and I’m still really on the fence about how I’m going to do it. If I can just get through these shows without getting boo-ed off stage I’m going to be pleased as punch,” he laughs. As for the future of Telefon Tel Aviv? “To be honest, I really can’t imagine ever making another record as Telefon Tel Aviv, or continuing to pursue the project without Charlie. I don’t know if I can do the project justice on my own; I don’t know if I can make a record like that,” he says. “I needed him, we needed each other to work out our ideas, and I don’t know if the project would ever be the same… I really don’t think the project will continue further.” He pauses here, before letting out a sigh. “Me? I’m always going to continue to make music, because I don’t know how to do anything else.” With: Michael Mayer, KORA, Extrawelt, Tobias Thomas, Hermitude and more When: Subsonic Music Festival @ Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort When: December 3 - 5
Revered for his complex and meticulous productions, Eustis says Telefon Tel Aviv records are meant to resonate with different listeners in as many different ways as they need to. “If some people want to get stoned or trip out to it, that’s great. If someone wants to put it on when they’re going to bed or meditating, that’s great. If somebody wants to put it on when they go on a road trip, get sad, get nostalgic or anything, that’s great,” he says. “Ultimately we wanted to make records that people would have heavy associations with, which would latch onto them and make them want to listen again and again. For example, you get one of our records and you meet a girl in Autumn and you fall in love; hopefully that amazing time period in the Fall would be associated with our music... Fear, terror, joy, wonder, love or whatever.” Eustis’ biggest musical influence has been Steve Reich. “I freaked out over his music when I first heard it, and still to this day, anything that he creates (but especially his productions from the 70’s) just kills me - it’s so amazing.” He’s recently gotten into the work of American composer William Basinski, too. “[He] totally changed everything I perceived about music. With all of my own productions, even though they are nothing alike, I find they always go back to his idea of long-formed textures. It was a massive influence, and probably the most direct influence on our last record. It’s totally transcendent.” Undoubtedly one of the most renowned and prolific producers within the global electronic dance music scene, Eustis is in favour of the technological advancements that have helped him progress his intricate style. But still, he sees it as a double-edged sword. “Almost anyone can buy a laptop, get Ableton Live and make records,” he says. “There’s beauty and terror in that, because it forms a deluge of really pedestrian, uninspired bullshit - I hate to say that, but let’s just call it what it is… Technology is allowing everyone to make their bullshit minimal techno, or their post-Justice over-compressed heavy mid-range throwaway club music, but that’s fine, the world has a place for that. It’s not part of my world, but whatever,” he smiles. “The beauty is that there’s going to be one kid who’s a SouthLondoner who doesn’t have any money, and works a shitty job. He’ll save up some money, buy a laptop, get’s a crack of Logic Audio. He makes a record called Untrue, calls himself Burial and creates a musical project that turns electronic upside down. That’s the beauty of it. Because for all the bullshit that comes out, it’s worth it for just one Burial.”
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Born Ruffians That Canadian Thing By Bridie Connellan
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uffian — “n a violent or lawless person; hoodlum or villain.” Naww, really? These Canadians couldn’t bother a badger. Nice as punch, Born Ruffians would be more appropriately described as endearing scallywags. Scamps, if you will. In the follow-up to their 2008 Warp full-length debut, Red, Yellow & Blue, Luke LaLonde, Mitch DeRosier and Steve Hamelin have expressed respect for the momentum which pumped up their second LP Say It, with its kaleidoscopic cover and killer production from Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Owen Pallet). While their first was a clash-up of ecstatically fun throwabout joy-pop, the sophomore release took critics by surprise, with a distinctly more pensive and strippedback sound. But although Say It came out only months ago, the band followed up quickly with a digital release, the Plinky Plonk EP. “We put the record out in June and toured the States that month, so with a Fall tour we wanted to have something quite new,” explains frontman LaLonde. “We had all these b-sides and remixes that we wanted to give another shot. Even my favourite bands don’t really tend to expose all their b-sides, and [that back catalogue] just goes over your head.”
Much like the northern US lights of Portland, the hubs of Canada happily claim a regular mooseful of musos; bands likes Young Rival, First Rate People and Meligrove Band joining an established repertoire of Canadian music royalty. “Every time I travel, there’s always fans who claim to like ‘Canadian Music’,” LaLonde says. “There must be something about it that people hear, or something associated with Canada that they like when they hear music that’s Canadian.”
Ridge, Pyramid Rock, Soundscape), the heat is quite literally on. “It’s important to shake things up in a live context because otherwise you’re dealing with this really… monotonous… thing,” he says. “The crowd will be going crazy but your mind is just so calm, which is a seriously confusing moment.” So it helps that they’ve added ex-Caribou bassist Andy Lloyd to the band. “When you put even the slightest bit of original thought into your line-up, it just brings you back into the show.”
LaLonde is hard pressed to deny the similarity between the Ruffians and fellow Ontario locals Tokyo Police Club, who offer a comparable jaunt of twangy pop that brought about a rather nice collaboration on recent track ‘First Date Kid’. “Me and Dave [Monks, lead] are good pals,” he says, explaining their ‘I’ll show you mine if you show me yours’ mantra. “About a year and a half ago in the summertime, we were running close to each other, both recording. We had this Sunday afternoon at Chemical Sound in Toronto, and he had this song going which he asked me to come in and jam on. We sat on it for a year before [Tokyo Police Club] put it out as a b-side - and we put it out as a track on this EP.”
LaLonde’s over-critical mind has lead him to embark on a series of solo ventures since his band formed, happily playing his own gigs from time to time. And coming from a family with Von Trapp-esque musical talent, the 24-year-old is never pressed to find stage support. “My sister is an opera singer actually, and I played this one show in Toronto with Jessica fronting the band. We sang harmonies and I worked on this Animal Collective cover for her, ‘Skeleton Me, Fireworks’. I just thought it would be nice to hear a woman’s voice singing that song.” Still, joining Born Ruffians won’t be the next move for his sister... “Unfortunately opera and contemporary music don’t really mix - and if you’re pursuing opera, you can’t really pursue pop music,” he explains. “It’s kind of a stain on your opera career.” Clearly, this is only a business for Ruffians.
With their revamped live set scooting southwards for the Australian summer festival season (Peats
Hoodoo Gurus Thirty Years Young By Birdie
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“Actually this is the third album in a row that had to be stopped and completely mixed again!” Faulkner chuckles. “We were going really well until we hit that final hurdle, which is the most important one – the mixing process. Once that is done, it’s done forever. I think it was just more about the environment that we were in; we didn’t like the room and it all just sounded completely different to how we originally wanted it to. After a few days we ended up giving up, because Christmas was coming up and usually there’s too much competition for shelf-space – it’s a nightmare just getting stores to put up your poster! It’s not a great idea to release a new album for most bands around Christmas time, unless you’re an absolute superstar.” Deciding to avoid the Christmas crush, and determined to release the best possible Hoodoo Gurus album to date, meant that in 2010 Faulkner and co once again regrouped, and gave it all they had during round two. In April of this year, Purity Of Essence reminded rock fans just why the ‘Gurus still hold the title of Oz rock royalty, three decades after their formation. “I think our last album [Mach Schau, 2004] was more loud and obnoxious,” says Faulkner. “This one has a lot more balance between our personality sides in the band. We’ve added some completely new flavours. There’s a bit of R&B/soul, some ‘60s influences,
Not that the band’s fanbase is complaining. Having recently returned from their world tour in Europe and the United States, Faulkner says he’s now looking forward to giving audiences a special treat as part of Hoodoo Gurus’ 30th birthday celebration this New Year’s Eve. “We had our first gig in September 1981 so we’re getting some ideas together for what to do. We’re thinking about doing a gig in Perth. Perth is my second home - but I have to say New York is my second home too; we’ve toured there pretty much for every album.” he says. “I’ve always said that personally I’ve felt the most comfortable in New York than anywhere else; I have a special kinship with the place. I’ve spent lots of time there, especially when I was 21 and traveling around. I made lots of friends and met lots of great bands who ended up inspiring a lot of what we did with the Hoodoo Gurus,” Faulkner tells me. It’s surprising to hear the frontman of such an ‘Australian’ band claim a foreign allegiance; but he thinks the Australiana aspect to their music comes mainly from his accent. “I don’t think there is a naturally Australian band with Australian elements, because all rock bands come from the stuff that came before them, from all over the world. We were influenced by lots of American music but we re-filtered it and made it our own - so that it speaks the universal language of rock.”
Where: Peats Ridge Festival @ Glenworth Valley When: December 29 – January 1, 2011 More: Oxford Art Factory on Monday January 3, 2011
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there are some styles we’d never gone with before so to me, this album sound a lot more free. It’s the reason that we’ve got 16 songs on it; we had so many different things, and we didn’t want to leave off any of them. We couldn’t decide what to keep and what not to keep!”
With: Built To Spill, Trentemøller, Angus & Julia Stone, Freestylers and heaps, heaps more
This Is Hell n the surface, Travis Reilly kept calm and collected as he mingled with ‘peers’ at this year’s Soundwave Festival… Underneath though, the lead singer of This Is Hell felt like a humble fanboy in the midst of rock and metal’s heavyweights. Less than a year later, he’s ready to do it all over again down under – this time as part of a killer bill, including hardcore UK giants Architects, Canada’s Comeback Kid and Rolo Tomassi.
or Hoodoo Gurus mainman Dave Faulkner, making an album is not unlike cooking. Chopping up the ingredients and focusing on presentation can be a smooth process until that one fatal moment when you’ve gotta put your creation in the oven to cook; sometimes you burn it, sometimes the cake just doesn’t rise. According to the singer, that was initially the case with the ‘Gurus’ latest album Purity Of Essence – the band’s ninth record which was meant to be released last year, but instead got scrapped due to problems with the mixing.
What: Plinky Plonk EP is out now
“Soundwave was great, because there were tons of friends and bands that we’d previously toured with,” says Reilly. “But at the same time it got a little intimidating - though you never show it. We all flew on the same plane together and stayed in the same motels, with other big bands that we’ve been fans of for years. Unless they really insisted on hiding and not mingling, it was pretty much mostly cool because we felt like we were all peers, even though it was certainly not the case in our minds! Like, Jane’s Addiction and Faith No More – they’re legendary bands, so it’s weird to call them your peers. The feeling among everyone was generally that we were on the same level though.” It’s not really surprising; This Is Hell are no spring chickens themselves. Relentlessly touring around the world since 2005, the Long Island hardcore lads have so far managed to pump out three full-length records, and expand and extend their fanbase - including to Australia. Their latest offering Weight Of The World, sees a band truly coming into their own – and as Reilly explains, a lot of credit for that goes to their new signing with Rise Records. “If we’d done another record on our old label [Trustkill], that would have been the death of us. When our Misfortunes album came out in 2008 we knew what we had to do - because the label didn’t do a good job at all promoting it. We’d be out
touring our asses off, and we’d get kids come up to us looking at the CD going, ‘What’s this?’ We’d be like, ‘It’s our new album that came out three months ago’, and people would stare at us blankly… It was so frustrating, because we spent so much time making that record, like two years! “Maybe it was because the label thought our first album [Sundowning, 2006] did pretty well, and that things would just take care of themselves, and they wouldn’t have to push it or anything,” he suggests. The band had signed to Trustkill in 2005, when the majority of the roster – bands like 18 Visions, Throwdown and Bleeding Through – were already established. “Maybe they thought we’d be like them,” Reilly continues, “or maybe they just assumed we’d never be financially successful, and so they never even bothered. Who knows?” This Is Hell stuck to their guns, continued with their brand of hardcore/metal and decided not to change for anybody – label or no label. Rise Records were quick to realise that this was a band ideal for its own roster and by early 2010, This Is Hell were snatched up by the Oregonbased imprint. “It’s been so cool to get a fresh start in life; that’s really what it feels like for us,” insists Reilly. “The coolest thing is probably that on the label we’re on now, there’s really not bands like us at all! We’re very different to the rest of their artists, which means that we stick out and don’t just blend into the background. They actually notice we’re there.” What: Weight Of The World is out now With: Architects, Comeback Kid, Rolo Tomassi Where: The Metro Theatre (all ages) When: Saturday December 4
What: Purity Of Essence is out now Where: Manly Fishos / Revesby Workers Club / Sharkies, Cronulla When: Nov 24, 25 / Nov 26 / Nov 28
“I bought her a dozen snow white doves. I did her dishes in rubber gloves” - GRINDERMAN 32 :: BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10
Plump DJs Straight From Laboratoire Plump By Jordan Smith
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ndy Gardner and Lee Rous handed the music media a gem when they settled on the name ‘Plump DJs.’ Twelve years of fatrelated headlines and lard-based descriptions later, and this writer will die before she puts yet another plump-pun into circulation... But pet peeves aside, the press attention is well founded. Plump DJs belong to a prestigious group of dance music heavyweights who can say they joined the scene before there was one. In 1999 their first release, Plump Chunks/ Electric Disco, shook awake a breakbeat genre that had been hitting snooze for the last decade. In the following years they rolled out four original albums, a hoard of remixes, successful compilation albums (including Elastic Breaks - a 2004 cover CD for Mixmag which sold a record number of copies), and still found time to be a regular fixture of the Australian summer.
Chatting to Lee Rous, it becomes clear he won’t soon join the clique of EDM stalwarts with 90s roots bemoaning the death of vinyl culture and reminiscing on the days of yore. For Rous, the changes in the music scene since he began have been positive ones, and he heralds the internet as the driving force. “The amazing thing about the Internet is the ability for people to make music at home and then share that with everyone; music is in abundance! The freedom of expression and the environment we’re in at the moment is so fertile - it’s incredible.” I ask Rous if he’s sure he sees no negatives in the rise of the net... But he doesn’t bite: “Not at all. There was so much process before in making music, that many people who had a voice were never heard; there was a lot of wasted talent. Now everyone’s got a voice.” Given these sentiments, it seems only natural that as 2009 became 2010, Plump amicably parted ways with their long-standing label Fingerlickin Records to pursue a more hands-on approach to the industry, and create their own label. Grand Hotel Records (currently plugging a monster of a Plumps original called ‘Water Born Computer Virus/Boomer’) is a digital only affair - and Rous does admit that it can be quite bewildering trying to keep up with the rate of change and scale of the internet. “The new environment is a very unruly beast, but a very exciting one at that. The amount of music we’re getting sent now is incredible. There’s still good and bad out there, but ultimately we’re getting much better music than we ever have.” Still, home remains incredibly important to the duo. “It’s getting more so as we get older,” Rous confesses. “Both of us are now married, and you really miss your partners and family on tour. It’s easy for us when we’re away to immerse ourselves in what we’re doing, but I think it gets emotional when we’re back on the plane, or
touching down in our country.” Their families aren’t the only reason for getting home, though. Rous tells me that all the creative work is done in their Soho-based studio, Laboratoire Plump (and I don’t know about you, but anyone who officially names their place of work ‘Laboratoire Plump’ is a friend of mine). “We’ll come up with some ideas on tour, but we don’t do any physical work until we get back into the studio in London. We try and keep focused on the events at hand whilst away.” Staying focused has given structure to the lives of Gardner and Rous, in a profession that can easily spin out of control. When I ask who is the more responsible one, Rous sheepishly ums and ahs before deciding; “No, no, we’ve both been mums over the years! Sometimes one of you is weak and the other is strong, and that changes over time. You’ve just got to make sure you’re there for each other if one of you is going through a bad period.” Gardner and Rous’ lives have transformed since their partnership began, but their relationship has always stayed steady. “We still go out for beers together, and hang out as well as work with each other. We’re very lucky that we’ve managed to maintain it this long without too many hiccups.” Content with each other’s creative input, the pair aren’t usually on the prowl for collaborations. “We like working with other people but we get really good results between the two of us, so we don’t want to dilute that too much.” After a pause, Rous adds that Stevie Wonder has been on their wish list for a while though… Rous seems genuinely stoked to be returning to Australia. The last few years have seen changes and growth in Plumps’ live set that Rous says are now fine-tuned. It’s much more complex than their early DJ sets together, where one would man the decks while the other “stood in the background with a pint.” This summer Plump are playing Perth, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, the Gold Coast, then Sydney again - but if for some reason you’re not getting to any of these gigs (I can only assume you’re in jail), then you can still get your fix: “We’ve done a couple of secret remixes which are likely to appear on our triple j mix coming out to go with the tour, so there’ll be a load of fresh new music on there from Grand Hotel - including a couple of new artists we’ve signed to our label...” With: Klaxons, Sleigh Bells, Justice, The Rapture, Duck Sauce, Public Enemy, Art vs Science and more Where: Field Day @ The Domain When: Saturday January 1, 2011 More: Saturday January 8 @ Chinese Laundry
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brushstrokes WITH JUMBO
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ydney artists JUMBO and ZAP have been collaborating on the streets of Sydney for some years now, bringing us cheeky paste-ups and thought-provoking art. How long have you two been collaborating, and how did it start? We have been working together for over six years, on and off. We started out doing posters together in 2004 on a whim, with no real plans for the future. At the time there was a fair bit of noise coming from the US about Twist, Obey and Futura 2000, and that was all a different style of graffiti, using varied techniques, and abstract messages. What's your upcoming show all about? PLANETARIUM is the theme of the show, it’s a continuation of the last series of work we have been doing by mixing up the visual plane with all sorts of ‘megamix’, any number of subjects thrown into the mix in an experimental way. It's a reaction to the concept of overkill, the way that society has dredged everything from culture and rinsed everything out of it... that is a starting point. Why does space fascinate you? Space is infinity, there’s the unknown factor with space – you don’t know what’s out there. It goes on and on like a pattern into the darkness, and there’s undiscovered planets and treasures beyond the darkness. If you imagine being in space, it’s like being surrounded by a
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mysteriousness; that sort of idea excites me. -ZAP What are your backgrounds/trainings as artists? We both went to art school but then realised that this doesn’t matter; it’s a path to higher learning if you want to do aesthetics and/or be a teacher, but the works that you see around the streets are done by regular people with normal jobs and that separates street art from gallery art: it’s liberated from the systematic and it’s free to the public. What people/artists/ideas are inspiring you most at the moment? I have a great list of artists that I think of as pretty top notch creative types: Jean Dubuffet, Keith Haring, Patrick Caulfield, Gillian Wearing, Shigeo Fukuda, Barbara Kruger... In graffiti: EINE, Dave the Chimp, Honet, Poch, Zbiok, the What Collective... What other projects are happening this year? We are doing a laneway in December for City of Sydney, Jumbo has a show in December at aMBUSH Gallery... and ZAP is out hitting the street. What: Jumbo & Zap present Planetarium When: opens November 26, from 6pm Where: LO-FI Collective / Lvl 3, 383 Bourke St More: wearelofi.com.au / jumboism.com
MONSTERS TIX
On the heels (well, almost) of low-budget sci-fi sensation District 9 comes Monsters, a post-apocalyptic trawl through a Central American borderland populated by giant alien creatures. The story begins when a US photojournalist agrees to escort his boss’s daughter through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border… Written, shot and directed by BAFTAwinning CGI animator Gareth Edwards, this critically-acclaimed feature is a solidgold victory for independent filmmaking – and, you know, AUDIENCES! Huzzah. Monsters releases on November 25. Thanks to Madman Entertainment we have ten in-season double passes up for grabs; to get your hands on one, read our feature story on p.37 and email freestuff@ thebrag.com with your postal address, and the name of one of the actors.
and Bell Shakespeare are also taking part, in what will be a potentially overwhelming array of FREE workshops, talks and performances. Participants include Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett (STC), Stephen Page (Bangarra), Rafael Bonachela (SDC), Fraser Corfield (atyp), Chip Rolley (Sydney Writers’ Festival), Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster (Biennale) and John Bell (Bell Shakespeare), to name a few… So, like, we’ll see you there.
OPTUS ONE80PROJECT
If you’d like to see your brilliant idea on television next year, and $250,000 to make it happen, then you might want to look into the OPTUS ONE80PROJECT. Now in its fifth year, this joint initiative between Optus, MTV and Event Cinemas is calling for entries from aspiring TV-makers with bright ideas for television series. All you need to do is upload a 180 second pilot and treatment, and you could see your idea for a TV show brought to life with you at the helm. Last year Maia Horniak won with her pilot The Sellers, scoring the chance to work with the MTV production department and a budget of $250,000 to make her pilot into a one hour TV drama. Entries close January 15. one80project.com.au
BLACK CHERRY CHRISTMAS FIX
Black Cherry is back next weekend, with their last show of the year: a Christmas gift box of bands, beats and burlesque, featuring Melbourne punk-rockers The Meanies, Torch Le Monde, and Gay Paris; rockabilly DJ duo Limpin’ Jimmy & The Swingin’ Kitten; and performances by aerialists Suzie Q and Toby J, Brisbane bombshell La Viola Vixen, and Melbourne pocket rocket Anna Lumb – and that’s just the top-line of the bill, there’s heaps more. Taking MC duties for the night is Sydney sasspot Lauren La Rouge. It all goes down Saturday December 4 at The Factory, Enmore. blackcherrypresents.com.au
DEAR PLUTO,
Why do you keep announcing your Monday night film so late in the week? Sigh. If you’re an early bird, then your special prize is a screening of Ghost World (2001), the cult classic that brought Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch into fleshy, grunge-clad proximity, for our viewing pleasure. Monday November 22; doors open at 7pm, film starts at 8pm. Entry by gold coin donation, BYO drinks and cushion(s). Dear Pluto also hosts damn fine vintage sales every weekend. THIS weekend sees the second edition of their monthly Outdoor Flea Market, with all their vintage goodies plus a whole lot more thrown into sharp relief by the light of day… www.dearpluto.com
MICF CALL FOR ENTRIES
Melbourne International Comedy Festival is calling for entries, so maybe you want to get serious about that skit show you’ve been toying with while you pretended to work… Anyone can be part of the festival; all you need is an idea, a script, a producer, and the Festival will provide info packs and workshops to help you tackle things like venue hire, marketing and publicity, travel 36 :: BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10
METRO SCREEN OPEN DAY
and accommodation, sourcing props and equipment, budgeting, ticketing, obtaining insurance and licences… Um, we never said it was going to be easy. What price glory? Entries close this Friday November 26, and the festival runs from March 30 – April 24, 2011. All the deets are lurking over at comedyfestival.com.au
Which seems like a good time to talk about Metro Screen’s annual open day? Yes. This Saturday November 27 aspiring filmmakers should head along to Metro Screen under Paddington Town Hall to check out their filmmaking facilities, staff and courses – including their Certificate IV in Screen and Media, the Multiplatform Screen Producer Scholarship and the VFX scholarship. It makes sense, doesn’t it – before you spend all that money on a course, find out whether it’s right for you? If only everything in life worked this way. For filmmakers who already back themselves in the skills stakes, you should head along to the info sessions on grants and funding, including Metro Screen’s BREAKS Film Funding and support grants. More info at metroscreen.org.au
OPEN DAY AT THE WHARF
JEWELLERY + OBJECTS
It’s that time of year again, when all the arts institutions start throwing open their doors to the unwashed masses (us) to rummage through their stuff, see how they live, how they sleep… If you’re feeling lazy, and want to plunder a bunch of Sydney’s best arts companies in one fell swoop, then put Sunday December 5 in your diary, and head along to Pier 4/5 (‘The Wharf’) between 10am-4pm. Not only is it home to Sydney Theatre Company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Theatre for Young People, but it’s got dazzling harbour views, and nummy num-nums from Fratelli Fresh just across the road (btw, notice how theatre people always gravitate towards the booze and nibblies in the room?)… This year Sydney Writers Festival, the Biennale
The only thing we like more than art is art you can wear – oh hang on, we mean affordable art you can wear! Which is why we’ll be sashaying over to the end-of-year exhibition for the Design Centre Enmore’s Jewellery + Object Design students. Titled Inseparable Companion, this year’s show will feature over 500 handmade pieces by more than 60 students, for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. This covetable collection includes wearable jewellery as well as larger-scale sculptural objects - and since they're all fresh and inspired, you can expect some seriously off-the-hook investment opportunities. Inseparable Companion runs from December 1-5 at Danks St Galleries, Depots I & II. More deets at www.jewelleryandobjects.org
Polaroid by Simon Bernhardt
POLAROID HOLIDAY
Consider investing in a Polaroid 20x24 (if you can find one); sure, it’s bulky – at 5 ft high and 100kg, you will definitely need a bigger satchel; but if it’s good enough for Annie Leibovitz and Robert Mapplethorpe, then it’s good enough for you. Stop complaining. The best part is, it produces stunning, high quality 20x24-inch prints in just 70 seconds. They're not so mail-able, but look great on the wall. If you’re after something more portable, however, then head along to Simon Bernhardt’s Polaroid Holiday exhibition and book launch at Blender Gallery, this Tuesday November 23, to see his beautiful blackand-white and colour-saturated Polaroid prints. Retro-tastic. blender.com.au
WITHOUT WALLS = TEES
Speaking of wearable art… aMBUSH Gallery and Without Walls are collaborating to bring you another volume of art for your chest area. Volume 2 features the frantic and hypermasculine images of James Jirat Patradoon; the drawings of Ben Toupein; the geometric artistry of Brett Chan; Jin Hien Lau, an artist/animator with a goofing grand narrative; the angry, naked and headless scribbles of Aisling King-Macklin; and the streetexhibiting, outdoor-postering long-time Sydney street art luminary JUMBO (look up!) Together they will drape the walls of aMBUSH, as well as creating some new, unique and absolutely original without walls drapes, so you can take their exhibition with you, wherever you are, all over your beautiful chest parts. Ewww. Opens November 25 from 6pm at aMBUSH Gallery, 4a James Street, Waterloo. More at ambushgallery.com
Monsters
Sci-fi on a shoestring with Gareth Edwards By Joshua Blackman
Whitney Able does her best to adapt, in Monsters.
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areth Edwards looks weary. He’s deep into a worldwide promotional tour for his low-budget sci-fi film Monsters, and it’s not something that comes naturally. “I feel like I’m nearly at the cusp of having spent too long doing it,� he tells me, “and if, for some reason, you had to do another three months of this, I think you’d go insane. I used to think it was like being a surrogate mother, and you give birth and then hand it over to other people. But more recently I think it’s more like kidnapping, where they steal the child off you and keep calling up to ask what food it likes.� Edwards reportedly shot Monsters for a mere $15,000 on location in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, working from an improvised script. His pitch to Vertigo Films was to create the “most realistic monster movie ever,� and their execs were swayed by his minimalist approach, and his win in a short film competition run by the Sci-Fi channel. Incredibly, Edwards produced the special effects for Monsters himself, using off-the-shelf software and a consumer-grade PC. Looking at the film, you could easily assume its budget stretched into the millions (and more realistic estimates put the total cost in the still-impressive hundreds of thousands). It raises the question of how a seven-man crew
with scant resources and a lot of ingenuity can produce a cinema-worthy sci-fi film that features helicopters, tanks and giant, octopusesque aliens. The big studios would be looking at a budget in the tens of millions. “I would love to know the answer to that,� says Edwards. “I think [the studios] just live in a world where they can’t function without spending millions and millions. It frustrates me because if you sit in a room and say, 'I want to make a film about this,' everyone gets worried it might not take $100m at the box office. And you say, what does it matter if it only costs $1m to make? “In terms of this kind of film, which is really low budget, [the studios'] perfect business model, I’m guessing, would be that they let everyone else go make those films. They don’t make them. And then when they’re finished they get shown at festivals and they get snapped up [by distributors].� That, more or less, is what happened to Monsters, which screened at the South by Southwest, Edinburgh and Los Angeles film festivals before being picked up by US distributor Magnet Releasing. Trained in visual effects, Edwards, 35, cut his teeth on BBC and Discovery Channel documentaries before making the leap to the big screen. Monsters is his first feature,
a relationship story with a science fiction backdrop that has drawn comparisons to Cloverfield and District 9. It tells the story of a journalist who agrees to escort a tourist across the Mexican 'Infected Zone' to the supposed safety of the US border. He (Andrew) and she (Samantha) are played by real-life couple Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able, the only two trained actors in a film populated by locals recruited on location in Central America. Compelled by both practical restrictions and Edwards’ desire for a human story (rather than Independence Day-style government shenanigans), Monsters centres on the growing relationship between the two leads as they make their way across the treacherous countryside. “At one point it was going to be three different stories, all interconnected in that world, and it just became too ambitious,� says the director. “As a result, I think the world was built in a way that you could have many stories told, and we just happened to tell this one about these two people. But you could have easily told the stories of the soldiers, or the ferry ticket seller, and how their paths crossed.� The political aspects of the story – such as the conspicuous concrete wall running the entire length of the Mexico/US border – brings up real-life parallels, both intended (the West’s
indifference to the problems of the developing world) and unintended (the plight of Mexican immigrants). It’s a rich world that may yet yield further exploration, and though Edwards has right of first-refusal for any sequels or a (rumoured) television project, he’s keen to move on, and is currently developing a new film with producer/director, Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted; Night Watch). As the PR rep nudges me to wrap up, I ask him about the appeal of his inspiration: 1950s science-fiction movies. His eyes sparkle, and the mellow chap who lounged onto the sofa twenty minutes earlier is suddenly buzzing: “My favourite TV show ever is The Twilight Zone ... That footage looks like it came from another world. It looks like it’s been beamed here.� He explains with gusto how some of the suburban Twilight Zone sets still stand on the Universal back lot, and that the numerous episodes featuring abandoned towns were a big influence for Monsters. “I just want to go walk around the back lot and live in The Twilight Zone for a bit,� he says, smiling. What: Monsters, Dir. Gareth Edwards When: Opens November 25
– James Mottram (The Observer, The Times, Rotten Tomatoes)
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House of Dogs
Bondi Short Film Festival
[THEATRE] Ian Sinclair tears the lid off a house of dogs and filth. By Simon Binns - Anna Robi is forced to share a bed with her immobile but demanding mother; she dreams of escape, and the perfect life that awaits her, with her perfect boyfriend Roger…
[SHORT FILM] Ten years young and lots to say. By Kate Hennessy
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nlike most festival directors, Francis Coady doesn’t particularly want to discuss what sets his festival apart. He knows journalists ask, however, so he’s got the answer ready. “We’re very filmmaker focused. We’re the only festival in Australia that’s free to enter and there’s no theme or restrictions. We take the best quality 3-to-15minute Australian short films and that’s what we present. That’s what sets us apart.”
“I saw [Maxine] at World Interplay up in Queensland a few years ago, where they gather under-26 playwrights from all over the world, and was really struck by her courage and freshness of voice,” Sinclair recalls. One example of Mellor’s courage in this show is the incorporation of puppetry. The dogs of the play’s title are to be performed by puppets, each operated by one of the actors. Made by Meg Ashforth, the dogs have been constructed out of junk, but are incredibly lifelike. “The way they look and the way they move is really quite amazing, but if you look closely they’re made out of dog food tins and bits of wettex.”
Jeanette Cronin & Stefanie Smith in Anna Robi and the House of Dogs
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nna Robi and the House of Dogs is a bit of a shift for Iain Sinclair. His last production, the highly acclaimed Our Town for STC, was a play about big ideas, with a large cast on possibly the widest and deepest stage Sydney has to offer, the Opera House’s Drama Theatre. This new work is about a house full of dog faeces, with a cast of three, in one of Sydney’s smallest, most intimate venues, the Old Fitzroy Theatre.
“I knew that I was just coming off the back of Our Town,” Sinclair explains. “It’s big theatre, with a capital T, and arguably the most wholesome play on earth, so I thought it might be nice to end the year by tearing the lid off with a house full of dogs and screaming filth.” Adam Bull Amber Scott and Noah Gumbert Playwright Maxine Mellor has created a darkly Molto Vivace comic setting. In a house overrun by dogs – its floors a swamp of dogshit and damp newspaper
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Promotion done and dusted, Coady continues. “I don’t like talking about what sets us apart. I think there should be as many focused outlets for young creative minds as possible. I don’t care if there’s 30 film festivals operating in the same building, I just want the films to be seen!” Coady’s relaxed approach stays true to the genesis of BSFF ten years ago. Chatting with some filmmaker buddies, Coady was shocked to hear that their work was ineligible for most Sydney-based festivals if it had screened in another state. Coady pulled ten short Australian films together – regardless of whether it was their Sydney premiere– and put on a “film party” at North Bondi RSL. Film critic Margaret Pomeranz and former AFTRS chief Anne Deveson helped select a winner, lots of whooping, laughing and booing ensued, and a film festival was born.
The play represents two great passions of Sinclair’s practice as a director keeping in touch with the independent circuit and giving opportunities to new writers. “I came up through the independent scene so it’s more like coming home to me… it’s really important to keep that side of the industry alive,” he says. The Old Fitzroy in particular is a venue very dear to him: “Those guys gave me a break seven years ago and I’ll never forget it.”
Ten years on, BSFF has moved to Bondi Pavilion and sells out to about 1,000 people in advance of opening night each year. “There’s two key moments that really make it worthwhile. The first is the 14 calls to directors to tell them their film is accepted. They are genuinely excited and I don’t ever take that for granted. The second is when the doors close on the first film and everyone’s quiet and it’s about to start. I think ‘They can’t get away now, I’ve got ‘em!’”
As for new writing, he just can’t get enough of the danger involved: “The thing with new work is, you just don’t know until you get your first audience, so there’s a really big risk involved; but it’s a risk worth taking. It’s kind of like giving birth,” he laughs.
This being the festival’s 10th anniversary, Coady says he paid keen attention to see if any cultural or political themes emerged from the entrants. “Film festivals are often at the forefront of cultural voice because there’s lots of young directors pushing boundaries. A lot of films this year are about mental illness. One of the finalists, Mad, is a stunning
What: Anna Robi and the House of Dogs When: Runs until December 12 Where: Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo More: www.rocksurfers.org
look at a woman explaining how she feels when she goes into a psychotic state. It’s an absolutely riveting film, it’s so raw and truthful, and beautifully shot, too.” After a decade sifting through over 200 short films a year, Coady has some firm opinions on what makes a good short – and a bad one. “Don’t waste time explicating and repeating a theme. If a short film maker can be succinct with their idea and reduce explication, it’ll be a really solid film. The quality of the acting is another common problem. Often people use their friends and they’re just not solid actors. If you’ve got a character-driven short film you need seriously good actors, otherwise don’t bother. Also, a lot of short films lack great plot lines with decent turns and twists and resolution. Workshop the hell out of your script! Do multiple drafts, absolutely hammer it. If you have an amazing script, you’ll attract great actors.” Coady’s background in band management and TV music supervision mean he’s pretty passionate about good music too. “A good original score pays dividends; a lot of people use library music to the most horrible effect. The best music is an incredibly fine balance between being poignant but not overpowering the film - it’s a masterful juggling act.” What: Bondi Short Film Festival 2010 When: Saturday November 27 at 3pm, 7.30pm (sold out!) & 8.15pm Where: Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach More: line-up of finalists at bondishortfilmfestival.com
My Stories, Your Emails [PERFORMANCE] Ursula Martinez shares her misadventures on the interwebs. By Simon Binns
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control of my work and lost control of my body,” she recalls. However, as time as passed, the negativity has faded. “I’ve turned it into a positive experience and into this show, bringing it back onto my own terms.”
rsula Martinez burst onto the contemporary theatre scene in 1998 with her show Family Outing. Essentially an onstage argument between her and her parents, the show was a hit at Edinburgh Festival, and bagged itself (and Ursula, and her parents) a world tour – including Sydney. She’s been creating innovative and exciting theatre ever since – including touring with the famous Spiegeltent show, La Clique. This month she’s back in Sydney and bringing her latest show, My Stories, Your Emails, off the back of sold-out seasons at the Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre and London’s Barbican. My Stories, Your Emails has its genesis in Martinez’s cabaret work, and a particular act she performs called ‘Hanky Panky’. “It’s been a crazy journey with this little act, which has become an internet sensation, a viral phenomenon,” she says. A combination of magic and striptease, the act is a short piece with a simple structure that Martinez has been performing for a decade: Martinez walks on in a suit and displays a red hanky. She then makes this hanky disappear, but finds it again in a jacket pocket, so she takes the jacket off. Then the hanky disappears and reappears in her skirt, and so she takes the skirt off - and so on with the rest of the clothes, until there is seemingly nowhere left for the hanky to hide. The act garnered a lot of attention when it was illegally placed on the internet a few years ago. 38 :: BRAG :: 389:: 22:11:10
The title is quite literal, with the show being split into two halves. The first section is made up of true stories and anecdotes from Martinez’s life, while the second half is exclusively filled with e-mails from her fans. “The idea is to bridge the gulf between the real me as a real person and the iconised me as perceived through fan e-mails. It’s about redressing that balance and presenting myself as a human being who shits and farts, warts and all.” This may partly explain the show’s warning: May contain really boring nudity.
Conscious of the possible repercussions, this was something Martinez had always tried to avoid. “I suspected that if the act was on the internet it would change it in someway, it would change how people perceive it - because on the internet you can’t control the context in which it is placed.” Her fears proved correct, with the video going viral, and quickly finding its way onto porn sites. “It’s a very different beast when
you’re not in control. Particularly an act like that, a woman getting naked, if she’s in control, can be a powerful and political performance. If she’s not in control, it’s lost its essence.” The inspiration for My Stories, Your Emails came when Martinez started getting fan emails, from all walks of life and all corners of the globe. “I felt very vulnerable. I’d lost
Directed by her long-time collaborator Mark Whitelaw, the process of making the work was really about curation rather than creation. “I wrote lots of stories and had lots of emails and we just had to put them in an interesting order, it was a very straightforward show to make.” What: My Stories, Your Emails by Ursula Martinez When: November 24 – December 4 Where: Sydney Opera House, The Studio
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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.
■ Film
Uncle Vanya
AGORA Released November 18
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Disguised as an old-fashioned epic of the ancient world, Agora’s success lies in being far more subtle than any Hollywood studio would allow. Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar (The Others; The Sea Inside) has used all the dressings of large-scale epics like Spartacus – the music, the aweinspiring spectacle of Ancient Egyptian setpieces and wide-lens cinematography – and wrapped them around messages that are both timeless and timely.
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Until about halfway through this film, I thought I might be watching another Gladiator; instead of one man torn between two women, it’s one woman torn between two men, of very different classes and political beliefs. The woman is Hypatia (Academy Award-winner Rachel Weisz), a spinster-philosopher whose father (Michael Lonsdale) is the custodian of the legendary library of Alexandria, in Egypt. The time is 4th Century A.D., at the dawn of a new age for civilisation: the fall of the Roman Empire, and the rise of Christianity.
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Arts Exposed What's on our calendar...
SUMPTUARY Australian Centre for Photography / November 26 – January 29 / FREE We’re salivating in anticipation of Sumptuary: a collection of photomedia works by five very different artists, exploring the trappings of luxury, including: Garth Knight’s spectacular large-scale close-ups of the intricatelyjewelled insects created by Parisian jeweller Lorenz Baumer; a selection from Deborah Paauwe’s vivid series of fabric-shrouded girlish intimacies, The Crying Room (pictured left); Robyn Stacey’s magnificent ‘banquet still-lifes’, which look like cities, or landscapes. Elsewhere, long-term creative partners Rose Farrell and George Parker insert themselves into painted Baroque tableaux in their Restoration series, and Alexia Sinclair wields her photoshop wand in her highly anticipated Royal Dozen portrait series. You can also join Sinclair, Stacey and Knight on an illuminating conversational journey on December 4, from1-2pm. www.acp.org.au 40 :: BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10
Over its 127 minutes, Agora takes us from the sacking of the library in Alexandria, through a Christian uprising, and the subsequent purging of the pagan and Jewish faiths. A Hollywood film would have put romance at the centre of this drama, but Amenábar instead makes his story a nexus for clashes of religion, class, politics and philosophy. He constantly pans outwards to give us a birds-eye view of the planet, reminding us that at the centre of Hypatia’s dilemma is a choice between different astronomical models of the universe: the prevalent, heliocentric view, and the barely-nascent geocentric view. If there is one message in this film, it is this: blind faith (in anything) is antithetical to kind of questioning minds that are the basis for the sum of human knowledge. Dee Jefferson
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Even as Hypatia tries to teach philosophy and science, she finds that the divisions between Christians and pagans are making their way into her classroom – as evidenced by three of her best pupils: Orestes (Oscar Isaac), Hypatia’s devoted young slave (The Social Network’s Max Minghella); and Synesius (Rupert Evans), an earnest young Christian. The religious and socioeconomic divisions within the city soon tear the three men in different directions – leaving Hypatia to her scholarly pursuits.
■ Theatre
UNCLE VANYA Until January 1 / Sydney Theatre If you haven’t seen Uncle Vanya on stage, there’s really no excuse to miss Sydney Theatre Company’s current production. Helmed by Tamás Ascher (Ivanov – Sydney Festival '09), one of the world’s best modern interpreters of Chekhov, and based on a highly accessible and humorous new translation by Andrew Upton, this has all the right ingredients to re-animate one of theatre’s classics. The final piece is an Australian cast who – besides being among our best stage thesps – seem to have been selected for their ability to channel comedy. Written and set around the turn of the century, Vanya takes place on the rural estate of a family of Russian gentry, who are struggling to eke out a living from the land: Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya, her father (and Vanya’s brother in law) ‘the Professor’, the Professor’s younger second wife, and his mother-in-law (the mother of his deceased first wife, who was Vanya’s sister). Drawn into the family’s problems, like moths to flames, are the local doctor, Astrov, the family’s old Nanny, and an unfortunate neighbour called Telegin. Plain, simple Sonya (Tanya McElhinney) is in love with the Doctor (Hugo Weaving); the Doctor is in love with the Professor’s beautiful but self-involved young wife (Cate Blanchett); and the Professor (Bell Shakespeare’s John Bell) is in love with
the sound of his own voice. Amongst the chaos wanders Vanya (Richard Roxburgh), laughing hysterically, tearing his hair out in despair, and making ineffectual romantic advances on his brother-in-law’s wife. Nanny (an almost-unrecognisable Jacki Weaver) provides commonsense comfort and comic relief, and Telgin (the wonderfully craggy Anthony Phelan, whose face is an edifice of resignation) proves mostly inept. Vodka is consumed, meals fail to happen in a timely fashion, and tears and laughter ensue. Chekov was in the creative prime of his 40s when he wrote Vanya, but its recurring themes of wasted youth and unrealised potential suggest someone in the throes of a midlife crisis. What is often a sobering play about talk at the expense of action is instead played here for all its absurdism and comedy. As in his production of Ivanov, Ascher creates a fascinating playground of human behaviour, where the eye and ear are spoilt for choice. Combined with Upton’s script, which is just modern enough to iron out any anachronisms, and this supremely talented and well-seasoned cast, it’s enough to make one of theatre's most aweinspiring works seem completely effortless. Dee Jefferson ■ Theatre
ANNA ROBI AND THE HOUSE OF DOGS Until December 12 / Old Fitzroy Theatre Wearing a shirt that says ‘Something Awesome is about to Happen’ Anna Robi (Stefanie Smith) stands in the middle of the shit-and-newspaper-strewn bedroom she shares with her mother (Jeanette Cronin); she sports an idiotic grin while clutching a phone and whispering to her secret admirer, Roger (Dean Mason). It’s not phone sex per se (only one of the two parties would regard it as that). Anna, beaming from ear to ear in her Doogie Howser-style glasses, nods and naively confirms that she is touching herself - her neck to be precise. Oh, if only Anna could fall in love - or at least loose her virginity. The author of this extraordinary new work is Maxine Mellor, and she’s proving to be an unstoppable young force in Australia’s literary scene. At 25, she’s written over 20 plays and won the Queensland Theatre Company’s Young Playwrights’ Award three times. With a penchant for the obscure and often downright crude, Anna Robi and The House of Dogs fits neatly into Mellor’s repertoire of kooky plays. Anna Robi cohabitates in a cesspit of urine and animals with her mother, an incapacitated dog breeder who is the victim of a botched boob job (or so she says) and spends all day in bed, ordering her daughter around like a servant. For Cronin, this role must be a godsend; famous for playing toxic mothers to innocent children, she gets to pull out all the stops in this work. Alone and friendless, Anna confides in Kioko, a dog that lives under the bed. Meg Ashforth and Jemima Snars deserve a mention for the unique canine puppets, that are works of art in themselves. There’s a touch of Welcome to the Dollhouse in this play, as we hope above hope that Anna Robi’s life might get better - but suspect that it won’t. Black comedy at it’s finest. Nick Hose
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Album Reviews
What's been crossing our ears this week...
ALBUM OF THE WEEK GYPSY & THE CAT Gilgamesh Sony Music
All that hype surrounding Gypsy & The Cat’s debut Gilgamesh has been justified in a swirling wash of wistful heartache and soaring celebration. The duo have taken the youthful energy of their ‘Jona Vark’ and ‘Time To Wander’ demos, and fused it majestically with adventurous, mature production, effortlessly blending vintage spiritual atmospherics with spacey futurisms. Gilgamesh cements Melbourne’s Gypsy & The Cat as our country’s next sonic ambassadors. A compelling and blissful debut.
Title track ‘Gilgamesh’ takes you into a cosmic universe seeped in nostalgia, where the rich instrumentation glides against Xavier Bacash and Lionel Towers’ harmonising falsettos: “Lady / take me to the magic wall / and maybe / we’ll drift on through the world”. Bacash has an instantly distinctive voice
THE JEWEL & THE FALCON
N*E*R*D
When you consider what’s been birthed within the walls of Newtown’s Town Hall hotel - hangovers, jukebox headaches, illegitimate children the last thing on your list would be a musical collaboration between theredsunband’s Sarah Kelly and Youth Group’s Patrick Matthews... But it was a drunken night at the Townie which proved the catalyst for the merging of these two minds and voices into The Jewel And The Falcon - a collective smattering of blissful indie-pop well entrenched in the sound of its creators. While their birthing ground may have been a little unexpected, the results of their collaboration are anything but; their debut EP mingles the understated shoegazing air of theredsunband with the mid-00s pop-rock flair of Youth Group, to sit somewhere right between them. Matthews’ assured vocals are almost awkwardly defined above Kelly’s husky moan and the smootheddown collective consciousness of reverberated guitars; sometimes clashing (‘Lucky’), sometimes entirely appropriate (‘Stairs of Darlington’), but rarely unwelcome. It’s undeniable that The Jewel And The Falcon are tacking themselves onto the coat-tails of the recent indie craze spewing forth names like Beach House, Best Coast and Washed Out (a feat of tailoring that is more than enough to roll the eyes of a cynic), but they’re certainly not out of place within that company.
No one could ever accuse N*E*R*D of being unable to write a party song. On album number four, however, Pharrell, Shae Haley and Chad Hugo have put aside the brash rock sounds of their earlier efforts and have instead attempted soulful, sexy, 70s-style grooves that almost seem fit for a Vegas casino lobby. Much of it exists in the same sonic universe as 'Signs' - that nigh-perfect Snoop Dogg/Justin Timberlake throwback which was written and produced by Pharrell and Chad as The Neptunes. Sadly, it’s not nearly as good as ‘Signs’, and the band’s drop in intensity is mirrored by a noticeable drop in quality. A couple of these songs are really, really bad – particularly the singles. 'Hot-n-Fun' is N*E*R*D-by-numbers, but gets bogged down by Pharrell and Shae’s monotonous ‘rapping'. 'Party People' wastes a terrific brass salvo on a terrible song, while T.I.’s verse is enough to send him back to prison. And the less said about Hypnotize U', the better. But if you can get past these flops and have a really good listen, Nothing features some of the most intricately constructed music this band has ever produced. There are good ideas, and good songs on this album - the horns sound amazing whenever they're used, and ‘Victory’ and ‘God Bless Us All’ are damn near worth the price of admission alone. The problem is that these good tracks and moments are few and far between.
In the context of 2010, The Jewel And The Falcon is everything you would expect the spawn of theredsunband and Youth Group to be; pretty, shoegazer stuff to nod to underneath your Ray Bans.
This album has been blasted by the critics, and there’s no doubting it is the weakest of their four efforts to date. But it does bear repeated listens, even if it sometimes feels like digging the gold out of a turdmine...
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The synthetic drums and reverberating electronica somehow absorb themselves into the more organic instrumentation on the record, in a way that is beautiful, seamless and unobtrusive. Not once do you question this sumptuous mixture of young and old music; ‘Parallel Universe’ is the quintessence of this, a mélange of slow, palpitating drums and synthesiser with perpetual piano and yearning vocals – the perfect soundtrack to a slow-motion montage of the Moon landing. Rach Seneviratne
BRIAN ENO
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which evokes shades of Paul Simon, Phil Collins, and even The Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb (especially in the chorus of the dense, intense ‘Human Desire’). This style permeates through all the songs, while he still manages to smoothly shake up the mood between the optimistic (‘The Piper’s Song’), the longing (‘Jona Vark’) and the peaceful (‘A Perfect 2’).
Small Craft On A Milk Sea is Brian Eno’s first record on cult UK label Warp, and a collaboration with electronic composers Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams. One assumes Eno - lauded by Pitchfork sycophants as “ambient godfather/ mega producer/art-rock legend” - had complete artistic license given his legendary status, yet Small Craft nestles with sinister perfection into Warp’s catalogue alongside acts like Battles, PVT and Aphex Twin in ways his previous records would not. From a tranquil Eno-esque start, Small Craft swiftly ups the BPMs, cresting early with the abrasive techno of ‘Horse’. From there it meanders, gradually scaling down into the serene, minimalist soundscapes Eno pioneered. Thrillingly, Small Craft has moments that hark back to Eno circa ’74 and ’75 – fresh out of Roxy Music and incandescent with inspiration. With its haunting guitar loop nuzzled by piano droplets, and synth fizzing out like dying stars, ‘Complex Heaven’ summons the moody disquiet of 1975’s Another Green World. 'Paleosonic'’s deconstructed guitar solos resurrect the demented spirit of ‘74’s Here Come the Warm Jets while the jangly electrorock outro of ‘2 Forms of Anger’ recalls the brilliant ‘Third Uncle’ from Taking Tiger Mountain – if not in spirit, then in sound. Several songs are offcuts from Eno’s The Lovely Bones soundtrack, which may explain the titles (‘Flint March’, ‘Bone Jump’, ‘Paleosonic’, ‘Late Anthropocene’...). Either that or there’s a subtext about humankind’s evolution. This is Brian Eno. It can’t be ruled out. Even now, with electronic musicmaking in the podgy-thumbed paws of just about everyone, Eno’s new offering still sounds utterly and distinctly like him. Love Eno and you’ll love this too. Kate Hennessy
Bushtricks EP Independent
A prehistoric dreamworld of decoupage wonder adorns the cover of Bushtricks, the debut EP from Blue Mountains/Sydney boys We Say Bamboulee. Sabre-toothed tigers, herons and even a bison are overlaid on a background of ocean, sweeping plains and volcanic mountains. It would almost seem too neat to suggest that the cutand-paste structure of Bushtricks’ cover art is mirrored in the sounds that emanate from its underlying pastiche of musical influence - but then, this is a pretty neat record from a pretty neat outfit.
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Combine the carefree electropop of Architecture in Helsinki, Muscles and Hot Chip with the Australian quirk of Spiderbait and Gerling. Add beats reminiscent of bands like Peter, Bjorn and John and The Shins. Throw in some Grizzly Bear-style harmonies, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah grassroots endearment and lead vocals that oscillate between the edge of Suede’s Brett Anderson and the sweetness of Chairlift. Add novel sampling and instrumentation, lyrical witticisms and a whole bucketload of joy and nostalgia, and you have yourself the Bamboulee mix’n’match musical aesthetic. The unbridled happiness permeating Bushtricks just screams Summertime. Each track is a bite-sized piece of shameless, relentlessly synthy delight
Hailer are one of the better bands recently unearthed by triple j; just about everything on their debut long-player reeks of the maturity and dexterity that comes with playing for five years. Opener ‘Forever’ belies a more joyful Spiritualized in terms of contemporary psychedelia, minus the occasional daft noodling; and ‘Je M’en Fous’ sees Hailer attempting to locate their inner Ryan Adams - and they actually manage to hit what's usually an elusive target. The sense of craft and discipline pervade their mood of mellow vibes, like good company for a long walk home; but how true it sounds when they sing “You won’t hear this on your radio.” ‘Let It Ride’ has a welcome sense of urgency and is a lovely slice of nostalgia, with a nagging melody and jingle. ‘Distant Land’ then finds the band stumbling around the outerreaches of the stoner solar system that could be fitting of Galaxie 500. “So when you’re dressed up / But you have bottomed out / Just don’t leave without a thought of me” leaves the listener claustrophobic and gasping for air. Elsewhere, ‘The Redundancy Song’ is the two-fingered salute of the drudgery of working for the man; like a Billy Bragg protest song that you can hum blissfully in an office. The type of song that will leave many desk-bound misfits hopelessly smitten, ‘Clouds’ kicks into gear with some crunchy guitar before an extended outro. Superficially less abrasive than it may have been, ‘Dead Bodies’ then presents a nice segue - a mournful reflection from grim badlands. A rollicking knees-up effort, sprinkling acute lyrical observations amid raucous tunes. Good Canyon stands up to repeated exposure. Bronius Zumeris
that makes feet move of their own accord, bringing to mind Super 8 film footage of beach-to-beach roadtrips, running under sprinklers and eating Callipos. As jubilant as the EP is, there's enough substance and balance in the music to ensure that Bamboulee avoids stooping to transient, saccharine cheesiness. They’re not afraid of call and response, steel drums or the recounting of past romance via whimsical lyrics on ‘Swingsets’ - but they’re equally unafraid of minor keys or telling it like it is on ‘Going Up': "You fucked me over / maybe I just fell in love too soon" Synth pop with longevity, that's well crafted, catchy and makes you want to dance... What is this, Summer? Andrew Geeves
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The problem with getting high is that, by and large, most people have an unfortunate tendency to come crashing down again. Having heaved themselves up to the top of the indie heap with last year’s soaringly optimistic Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective’s various members seem to be working through the issues brought to the surface by rapid success in their own idiosyncratic ways. While Panda Bear continues to produce stellar solo work, enjoying the odd dalliance with the likes of Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox along the way, Avey Tare (Dave Portner, to his mum) has exorcised any iniquitous spirits that may’ve been bothering him by bottling them in his own solo release, the appropriately named Down There. "Down there", announces a cybernetic voice at the start of opener ‘Laughing Hieroglyphic,’ before breaking into maniacal laughter. “One of these might jump out and do you in,” observes a demonic one through the murk at its close, a track that otherwise might be the downbeat country cousin of ‘Summertime Clothes’. It signals the gloom-laden quicksand to follow. Third track ‘Oliver Twist’ makes good on this promise, sinking down with the gators and squelching methane, as does ‘Cemeteries’, as Tare stares back at the world from the cocoon of a waterlogged grave.While there are more than a few moments of the macabre here, the itchy helplessness of ‘Heather In The Hospital’ is easily the blackest spot as well as the most poignant, leading into the sunny-side up ending of ‘Lucky 1’. Tare has bared his wriggling neuroses to the light, with results that are oppressive, introverted and weird. Highly recommended. Oliver Downes
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Miami Horror
Beach Road Hotel Thursday November 11 Having visited their namesake (Miami) and blasted through the rest of America earlier this year, Melbourne quartet Miami Horror returned to Sydney to reap the benefits of their radio-slaying Illumination. Given that the Beach Road Hotel in Bondi typically hosts top notch bands (case in point: Hungry Kids of Hungary and friends the night before) for nix, the fact that Ben Plant and his merry men were able to sell the place out should give fair indication of their popularity – and the crowd is dappled with industry tonight, too. Having accompanied the Miami Horror boys on the Bacardi Express earlier this year, I’m no stranger to either their performance style or their set list. The latter, however, has changed dramatically with the release of the album, which means they can finally drop songs like ‘I Look To You’ without fear of them being filmed and uploaded to YouTube ahead of time. Make no mistake, these guys are smart operators. They’ve been progressively releasing songs for over a year now, giving the largely under-30 audience plenty of time to absorb and recognise each of their hits in turn – furthered by triple j, when they made Illumination Album of the Week in Winter, and pimped out the remaining tracks. All of this means that by the time Josh Heppinstall takes to the stage in his white suit, he can be confident that he’s not going to be singing any of his songs alone. Having brought their own lighting and sound rigs, the boys power through their set with a professional edge that really only comes from having been on tour for almost twelve months. The bass is sorely lacking in the first half, but by the time Josh does his best impression of his ex/current/who knows girlfriend Kimbra for ‘I Look To You’, everything’s in order. Flanked by percussion enthusiast Dan Whitechurch, Hepinstall is a dream frontman, channelling his inner Prince with blistering guitar solos and unstoppable body moves. He carries off being Kimbra and Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo (the voice behind ‘Holidays’) without most people noticing. Then again, there’s a lot to look at tonight - including Ke$ha, who randomly pops into the pub to check out the band, provoking a ripple reaction that is utterly hilarious. Nobody realises that she’s flanked by a huge fuck-off bodyguard until he knocks Sosueme’s main man Muz’s cameraphone out of his hand - but not before he sneaks through a shot of the bodypainted popstar telling Plant how much she dug the gig. By the time the band hits ‘Holidays’, which leads into a Classixxx remix that marries the hook with Modjo’s ‘Lady’, there’s no denying that these guys have got their shit down. There’s not a dry shirt in the house (incidentally, there also isn’t any air-conditioning), and fans stumble out into the warm night eager to tell their friends what they missed out on. Ke$ha, it appears, has snuck out while nobody was watching; and Aaron Shanahan, Miami’s drummer, has gone straight to the bar. That’s entertainment.
Jonno Seidler
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PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY, HOWL, BEARHUG The Metro Theatre Saturday November 13
Every time bearhug play, I always wonder why they aren’t more popular. It may be because their style doesn’t necessarily employ the up-front obvious hook stylings of the other bands on this line-up... But then wait, what I am talking about? Life is just unfair sometimes. Just go to their MySpace and listen to ‘Fiery Stars’, alright? They’re really good. Unearthed High winners Howl take to the stage and deliver a tight set consisting of screamy yodel dance-beat-driven vocals - sounding like At The Drive-In covering the entire BrokeNCYDE back catalogue. This sound has been part of the local Sydney music scene for as long as I can remember, with anything resembling a disco beat inciting local music regulars everywhere to maim and decapitate whilst being possessed by the undead spirit of the Hopetoun Hotel. But hey, they’re from Ballarat, and they’re giving it their all. The crowd laps it up and greets them as though they were playing to a room of friends, making me feel like the crotchety old man I always knew I was. Philadelphia Grand Jury enter to a frenzied reception and bust into their cover of ‘99 Problems’. I find myself looking for a blood trail, smelling the air for the scent of ritual animal sacrifice to the Babylonian god of chaos, Tiamat; the crowd is completely possessed. Every song is greeted with a rabid enthusiasm not seen since the Justin Bieber bottle incident. The crowd gives new single ‘Save Our Town’ as much of a reception as their setlist staples. The straightforward drumming style of Susie Patten of I Heart Hiroshima really lifts the set into animalistic simplicity. Punk rock! Having not seen the Philly Jays for quite some time, I was as surprised by the early onset of ‘I Don’t Want To Party (Party)’ as I was by their aura of professionalism. While the tightness did kill off a bit of the excitement for me, the band really does put their all into their shows, and you have to admire them for it. The audience vibe eventually lifted me from my depressive existence, to deliver one of the most genuinely entertaining evenings I have been privy to for quite some time. Huzzah!
Patrick Delohery
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GLENN RICHARDS The Metro Theatre Friday November 12 No one knew quite what to expect of Glenn Richards’ move into solo territory. After fronting Melbourne’s acclaimed Augie March for almost fifteen years prior to their abrupt hiatus in late 2009, he stepped out this month to release Glimjack: a dark solo outing channelling the sounds of Augie March, with a band of new faces that he temporarily calls his own. In just his second live show since the release, Richards brought it all to the Metro Theatre for a night of gloriously strange Australian music – in front of a surprisingly understated crowd. By 8.30pm, the Metro was looking unexpectedly sparse. A black curtain draped across the bleachers in an attempt to draw attention away from the size of the venue seemed to do just the opposite; announcing to those present that they were to be one of few, not many. Remaining unfazed in their support slots were Brisbane indie-pop multi-instrumentalists The Honey Month, and Sydney's Bridezilla, producing impressive sets of rollicking folk and sensual violin- and saxophone-driven rock respectively. Glenn Richards arrived slightly more stoney-faced than his supports, to a noticeably only-half-full Metro Theatre. But the lead guitar of The Drones’ Dan Luscombe, matched with the unmistakable wavering Richards croon, left those in attendence transfixed; there was no doubt amongst the audience that the solo material is just as impressive anything that’s been delivered under the Augie March moniker. Highlights, like the suitably unusual ‘Unflappable Man’ and ‘Glimjack Muttering’, proved that Glenn Richards is at his absolute best when languishing in the dark musical territory that mirrors the themes of his songs. Meanwhile, the haunting depths of tracks like ‘Harsh Critic’ and ‘Long Pigs’ managed to undo some of the less congruous moments of the night, which Richards acknowledged stemmed from scant rehearsals of rushed songs. Unfortunately, these admissions and his own despondency seemed to influence the night’s atmosphere as much as his own brand of moody folk-rock. While the live versions of Glimjack seemed to be hit and miss affairs in this early show, his impressive track record and the night itself prove that Glenn Richards is unequivocally one of our most interesting song-writing talents. He holds poetic brilliance and a knack for a curious sound - but it seems that, without Augie March, he’s still searching for who or what he wants to be.
Max Easton
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, LITTLE SCOUT The Manning Bar, Sydney University Wednesday November 10 Let me note at the outset that there is nothing that strengthens and satisfies like a Manning burger before a gig: long may its mouth-stretching, saucy glory reign. Thus
it was, full of beefy goodness, we settled in for the delicate stylings of Little Scout. At least, I assumed they would be delicate given the level of cuteness on stage, right down to the merch du jour - hand-printed tea towels. Melissa Tickle is as adorable as her name suggests, and her voice leads the band inexorably down the path of gentle, Blasko-y Scando-pop. But there’s a gutsy, homemade Brisvegas grunt in the guitars that anchors the wispiness really well. After an interminable break, during which the room was slowly filling with cardiganand bowtie-wearing cutesters from Central Casting (and a surprising number of over-35s), Neko Case emerged! ...To sound-check her own mic. Bless. A few minutes later they all filed on – the gang was all there, with the exception of Dan Bejar. (In a few songs’ time someone would yell out for a Bejar-led number, and frontman Carl “AC” Newman would shake his head sorrowfully and declare that Dan doesn’t love us. “We love you. Why do you want things you can’t have? Dan’s never coming to Australia! He’s like a cat - he’ll only love you if you’re indifferent to him.”) They kicked off with my personal favourite, ‘Sing Me Spanish Techno’, the most flawless, joyous, honest New Pornographers song there is. (Send all dissenting rants to thatsjustlike@ youropinion.man.) It was all gravy from there on in for this reviewer; nearly two hours of really good gravy. The setlist spanned five albums and was heavy on material from newie Together and 2005’s brilliant Twin Cinema (‘Bleeding Heart Show’ is a highlight; everyone is yelling for ‘Use It’ from the first lull in the set, and Newman chuckles, “That’s the kind of request I appreciate, because we’re going to play it anyway!”). While it dragged very occasionally, everything oozed energy, commitment and straight-up excellent musicianship. Their patter is second to none, as well – whether they’re taunting each other for having The Black Crowes on their iPods, enthusing about how awesome our marine life is (“This goes out to those crazy fish in the aquarium!” is Newman’s metal-god intro to ‘Twin Cinema’) or laughing and faltering their way through a so-called “deep cut” (we got a precious two verses of ‘Miss Teen Wordpower’ before Newman forgot the chords and Case forgot the words), they create a companionable atmosphere between the adoring crowd and the crowded stage. And the songs are amazing. While the power-pop harmonies and call-andresponse structures and relentless fucking energy can occasionally verge on exhausting and saccharine on record, live there’s a rollicking roadhouse groove to songs like ‘Mass Romantic’ and ‘Use It’, where Kathryn Calder’s keys add flashes of E Street. Newman, Todd Fancey and bassist John Collins (looking more than ever like The Dude) did some serious guitar damage, and while Kurt Dahle’s drums started a bit sluggish, by the encore he was Rush-duelling Fancey without breaking a sweat. They make power pop but they’re a fucking rock’n’roll band - and don’t you forget it.
Caitlin Welsh
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Taylor King
TAYLOR KING
Taylor King ain’t your average teenager: he’s about to release his second EP Running Circles, already had airplay on FBi Radio at sixteen, oh and yeah - just finished the HSC. Feeling lazy? I know I am. With the new EP being released this Friday November 26, I caught up with the oh-so-inspiring youngun’ to gain some insight about his obvious passion of quality music and views on all things music. To get hold of Taylor’s Running Circles check out taylorkingmusic.com. So how old were you when you first went down the music path? I started writing at about the age of 13, just writing lyrics and simple songs, and finally got the guts to get up and perform at the age of 15/16. What was your first gig? I was about 16 and it was an all-ages band competition in Revesby. I made it all the way to the finals, I couldn’t believe it! [laughter] What a great first experience! It must be hard being under 18 though? Yeah it is a bit of a struggle. One problem being the fact that it’s hard to get decent gigs, and the other being the stigma that underage musicians carry with them. I think we can all thank Short Stack and Justin Beiber for that. What venue have you always wanted to play? I have always wanted to play the Oxford Arts Factory, so hopefully this will become a realistic goal now that I’m about to turn 18. Tell us a bit about your latest EP? Well, it’s always hard to say anything about your own music, but if anything I think I have come a long way since the last EP
ALL AGES GIG PICKS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26
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in a lot of aspects. As one of my fans put it “It’s great to see fresh music without all the wank and bullshit� haha. I like to think that quote is an accurate representation of what I’m all about and in particular this new EP. But yeah, I’m just hoping people love it as much as they did the last. What bands are you loving at the moment? I’ve been listening to a lot of Queens of the Stone Age and Karnivool; into the heavier stuff recently.
CUTE
Pop-punk masters Cute Is What We Aim For owe much thanks to the internet. Starting back in 2005, the band gained early success online, followed quickly by national exposure. But rapid success can be short lived, and for a moment there we thought Cute Is What We Aim For would be no longer. Fear not though! They have aged a little, learnt a lot and are back on tour. They are gracing Sydney at the Factory Theatre this Friday. Plus Stealing Oneal, Ladies & Gentlemen and Sunnyside Up will be supporting, making this gig just irresistible.
LAUNCH 2010
So you decide you want to become a musician. Nice and simple yeah, put a video up on YouTube and get your fifteen seconds. But maybe you want something more, like a career in music? Entertainment and Music TAFE students from the Western Sydney Institute have collaborated with Blacktown City Council for Launch 2010: a completely free music industry seminar, with a bunch of industry heavyweights as panelists, including Rai Thistlethwayte doing a Q&A session. This seminar covers everything imaginable, from writing a hit to releasing a CD and putting on your own all-ages gig. So make sure you RSVP and head down to Blacktown Arts Centre this Saturday to get an edge over your competition!
TONIGHT ALIVE
Tonight Alive already have a strong local following, not too shabby for a young punk band from Sydney. With such a strong fanbase, Tonight Alive have announced a headline tour to coincide with the latest 3-track Consider This. And what’s more is that just for the tour you can grab a copy of Consider This on vinyl in red, blue or green, sure to stand out in any collection big or small! For those of you who can’t stay away from some fantastic local punk, there is no way you can miss this one. Joining them this Friday at Manly Youth Centre, are some more local punk extraordinaires Sienna Skies, Heartless and Seek The Silence.
GRAFFITI AT THE WALL
Graffiti at the Wall is on this Saturday as well. This independently run festival also offers some intense freestyle battles, and street art to dazzle your eyes. Mind Over Matter, Daily Meds, and Billy B are just a few of the artists playing at The Wall in Leichhardt, so head along and get amongst it. Oh and shoot an email through to sean@musicnsw.com if you want to win a double pass to this hip hop feast. Get in early, double pass goes to whoever reaches us first! As always, don’t forget to tune into FBi Radio 94.5FM around 5pm for The Minor Chord, featuring Eva and Kate’s picks of the week.
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Metallica
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Metallica once again blew the roof off of the Acer last week, but what had us sitting back in amazement was how broad their audience is these days. Sure, the metal faithful were all out in force; but we were kind of reminded of an AC/DC crowd in some respects - an indication that Metallica (like wee Angus’ combo) have almost become a boundary-free brand, not just a band. Quite an accomplishment for an outfit that was once underground metal personified. One music store told us that the demand for Death Magnetic t-shirts from suit-and-tie-type punters during the Sydney leg of the tour was huge. Anyways - enough of the socio-cultural reflectings. Their set on the Saturday night - which was delivered from that square yet “in the round” stage in the centre of the Acer, giving the event an almost boxing match vibe - was wildly differently to the show a few days before, complete with the odd on-stage hiccup. And at the centre of it all was James Hetfield – who, it should be restated, is now more than ever before the Keef Richards of metal: cool and authoritative. And he did it without jumping down from the drum riser every five seconds. Lamb of God? They looked really cool with the whole (well, four-fifths) yeti-bearded thing happening; but for all their roar, they really need a Master of Puppets to hang it all on and from, don’t they? Baroness naturally bore the brunt of being the openers in a very big room, and were doubly-cursed with appalling sound; but they were driven and powerful, with their signature twin-guitar thing happening. We’d like big things for these guys, please.
BARONESS
Speaking of Baroness, it was full VIP alert when they played at the Annandale. Not only did touring mates Lars and Kirk from Metallica show up but so did bad-temper
godhead figure (oh, and tennis legend) John McEnroe.
JOAN JETT
It took just two minutes for Joan Jett and The Blackhearts to sell out their one-and-only Australian headline show at the Annandale. It’s a new record for the Annandale - which really is saying something - and also eclipses The Blackhearts’ previous high-tide mark of selling out similarly-sized historic punk hole, the 100 Club in London, earlier this year. That took a whole 15 minutes.
PRIMAVERA SOUND
May’s Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona is shaping up to be the Eurovision version of California’s Coachella event, and again has some big names attached to it - including the reformed Pulp, The Swans, The Flaming Lips, Mogwai and Suicide, with John Cale tackling all of his nicely blubbery Paris 1919 album with a full string section and Mercury Rev taking a run at their haunting masterpiece Deserter’s Songs, from start to finish.
MOTÖRHEAD
Motörhead are ending the year in a big way on two fronts. Firstly, with the release of the new album, The World Is Yours, on December 10; secondly, with the unveiling of the Motörhead Music label. First track on the impending album is called ‘Born To Lose’, which we hope isn’t a remake of ‘Iron Horse/Born to Lose’ from their debut effort.
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We saw a very confusing item of clothing last week: a tie-dyed (as in Grateful Dead)-type t-shirt, but with The Stones’ lips logo across it. What does that mean? And what does it say about us as a society?
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JON SPENCER BLUES
The latest in the line of reissues by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is a deluxe twin-disc version of Orange, coupled with the Experimental Remixes EP. Both discs come with a host of unreleased goodies.
DUNHILL BLUES
The Dunhill Blues, the band with the greatest Oz rock name in the history of the universe, are soon to release their second album: The Hard Truth. Like the man said, “If nothing else, The Dunnies can now lay claim to being the greatest blues-punkcountry-garage-rock-psychedelic-soulrevival band going around.”
ON THE TURNTABLE On the Remedy turntable is Jethro Tull’s classic album Aqualung, on which they found grit and rock guts amongst their usual flute twitterings. ‘Locomotive Breath’ indeed - we’d forgotten how good it was. Also spinning is Kyuss’ …And the Circus Leaves Town - and we’d kinda forgotten how strong that is too, which is pretty poor form we must admit. Earth rewrote the Earth book with Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version, with its sheets of metal ambience sound, which was bigger, yet at the same time more minimal. But this is where it all began - arse about face, but still fascinating. Also spinning is the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s killer 1966 effort East West, with guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop firing away from separate corners in a manner than would influence many in the years to come, over and above just playing a straight bat of homage to Chicago blues.
TOUR AND INDUSTRY NEWS Grinderman will be at the Enmore on 28 January.
the Metro on May 7, 2011. Tickets on sale at 9am on November 25.
That Kyuss Lives! tour is coming to town in May, with John Garcia, Brant Bjork and Nick Oliveri. Last year Garcia toured Europe under the name Garcia Plays Kyuss (which must have confused the pants off of Grateful Dead fans.) During the Hellfest Festival in France, Oliveri and Bjork joined Garcia on stage and well, the rest is…you know. Kyuss Lives! will be at
For those who may be in the area: following on from X’s “farewell” date at the Sando recently, comes Lucas Aid (geddit?), a benefit in Melbourne to help X’s Steve Lucas get a much-needed operation on his back. It’s on December 2 at the Esplanade, with X, Chris Wilson, the Brian Hooper Band, DollSquad and more.
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It sounds like: The offspring of Ke$ha, Beyonce, Gwen Stefani and David Bowie if they were all to get down and dirty for a night and somehow fuse their collective DNA into one fucked up paparazzi-loving mutant diva! DJs/live acts playing: Girlthing DJs, Beni Di-cul, Lonewolf and the everamazing Q Bar DJs! Sell it to us: We are shamelessly celebrating the media whore we all love/hate, Lady GaGa - so for one night you can quit chin-stroking, and just dance around in your favourite leotard! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: You’ll wake to 10 missed sms and a phone full of pictures of your friends hugging numerous random girls/guys dressed as GaGa wannabes. Crowd specs: Divas, Pop Princesses, and Party Peeps... Wallet damage: $10, or free with an email to marketing@exchangehotel.biz Where: Q Bar (the pop loft for this one night only) / 44 Oxford St Darlinghurst When: Friday November 26, 9pm
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It’s called: The Chemist (MELB) EP Launch
It sounds like: A little Kings of Leon, a little Little Red, a little Kooks, a lot of fun. Bands: The Chemist, Slow Down Honey, The Deer Republic. Sell it to us: That lineup needs selling?? Melt in Kings Cross is fast emerging as Sydney’s newest playground for the best this country’s indie generation can muster. Originating in Perth, youngsters The Chemist have set the triple j airwaves alight over the past year with their fresh take on the indie scene. The bit we’ll remember in the AM: The Tigers on the walls! Crowd specs: Your mum; she told me she’d meet us there. Wallet damage: What damage? It’s $10! Where: Melt Bar / 12 Kellet St, Kings Cross. When: Friday November 26
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THE HOLD STEADY “...The Hold Steady don’t just show us how much they love classic rock — they make some of their own� – Rolling Stone
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New album HEAVEN IS WHENEVER available now
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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
35 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst THE HOSTS
Gotham doesn’t have hosts, but the management of the venue all have different histories in hospitality. The general manager, Kate MacDonald, helped open Cabana Bar and Lounge in St. Leonards in 2005, and was managing bars around Sydney prior to that. Venue manager Sam Stanzione has a restaurateur background, and used to run the food operation at the Monkey Bar in Balmain. Bar manager Andreas Walters comes direct to Gotham from Loft on King Street Wharf, and has extensive beverage knowledge… Come and test him!
THE PITCH
Gotham brings a completely different style of venue to Oxford Street. We’re not a small bar down a dark alley with a secret password; we are
open and beautiful! We serve incredible share plate food with a fusion of Japanese, Italian and Spanish dishes. We have a sensational wine list, cocktail menu and selection of bottled and draught beers. Friday and Saturday nights are the most popular with the local corporate market.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
We wanted the venue to be very New York in feel. An American author in the early 19th Century named Washington Irving often used the name “Gotham” in his writings as a pseudonym for New York City; the name therefore has nothing to do with Batman.
LOCATION LOCATION
What better strip than Oxford Street? We felt that there was room in this entertainment sector to provide the local residents and corporates with a venue that could offer them a safe and fun environment to eat and drink.
DESIGN INSPIRATIONS?
Our architects are the fabulous guys and gals over at Squillace Nicholas. We provided them with a brief and they delivered the beautiful design that’s there today. The clock behind the bar, which is the main feature, is designed to make you feel like you are atop a tall bell-tower in old New York.
SIGNATURE DRINK?
Currently our most popular cocktail is the Caremalised Nashi Pear Margarita, and the biggest selling wine is the fresh and crisp Baby Doll Sauvignon Blanc.
HINDSIGHT
The biggest challenges are always staying within your original budget, which is never easy. We also wanted to ensure we had the right staff for the venue; pretentiousness is not welcome at Gotham – our staff are warm, friendly and attentive, and always make you smile!
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Berkelouw Wine Bar 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt Friday 3pm – 8pm: 2-for-1 sparkling wine Bloodwood 416 King St, Newtown Corridor 153a King Street, Newtown Monday – Friday, 5-7pm: $9 mojitos Wednesday Mexican Night - $12 for a bowl of soup, crispy turkish bread and a glass of red wine. Different Drummer 185 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Daily, 6 – 7:30pm: Cocktail Happy ‘Hour and a Half’ The Hive Bar 93 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville Monday - Thursday: any pizza with a free glass of wine or E’ville Pilsner, $12 Kuleto’s 157 King Street, Newtown Saturday 6-7pm: Happy Hour (2 for 1 cocktails) Madame Fling Flong Level 1, 169 King St, Newtown Tuesday: Movie Deal - $20 for mezze plate for one and a glass of wine or beer Rosebud Restaurant & Bar 654 Darling St. Rozelle Soni’s 169 King St, Newtown Well-Connected 35 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
INNER EAST
Crusta Reserva @ Eau de Vie
229 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst best drunk with: friends during: summer while wearing: a party frock and listening to: chilled jazz. Ingredients: 50ml Pampero Aniversario, 25ml lemon juice, 7.5ml Maraschino Liqueur, 7.5ml Gomme, small fresh pineapple cubes. Method: Muddle pineapple to release juice. Add other ingredients, shake and double strain. Glass: Sugar-rimmed goblet. Garnish: Extravagantly, with a pink grapefruit twist. 52 :: BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10
INNER WEST
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 Gotham 35 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 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 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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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25
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Old Man River
Annandale Christmas Party Supporting The Smith Family:
Old Man River, Underlights, Claude Hay, Ranger Spacey, Big Smoky Annandale Hotel free 7.30pm RSVP: kristie@annandalehotel.com, and bring a gift for the Smith Family!
MONDAY NOVEMBER 22
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Bernie The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Carribean Soul Paddy Maguires, Haymarket free 8.30pm Open Mic Macquarie Arms Hotel, Windsor free 7pm Steve Tonge Coogee Bay Hotel, Beach Bar free 9pm Unherd Open Mic: Derkajam Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm
JAZZ
Dilworth Organ Trio 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Pieta Brown (USA), Lucie Thorne, Hamish Stewart The Basement, Circular Quay $28 (+ bf)–$32 (at door) 9.30pm Songsalive: Natasha-Eloise Andrade, Manger, Rani’s Fire, Sam Newton, Sam Jones The Basement, Circular Quay $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 8.30pm Songsalive!: Russell Neal and guests Kellys On King, Newtown free 7pm Songsalive!: Under the Purple Tree and guests Springwood Sports Club free 7.30pm Songwriter Sessions Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 7.30pm
COUNTRY
Camden Valley Country Music Club Hope Christian School, Narellan free 7pm 54 :: BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10
Embrace Tokio Hotel, Darling Harbour free 7pm Food That Rocks: George Kamikawa The Vanguard, Newtown $85 (dinner & show) 7pm Gemma Ray Raval, Surry Hills $15 (+ bf) 7.30pm Hoodoo Gurus, The Break Manly Fisho’s $35 (at door) 8pm James Galway (Ireland) Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House $95–$155 8.30pm Jeff Martin (Canada), Terepai Richmond, Gabrielle & Cameron Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $40– $45 8pm Metronomy (UK), World’s End Press, Olugbenga Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $35 (+ bf) 8pm Nicolas George Iron Duke Hotel, Alexandria free 8pm Open Mic Night Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle free 7pm Oxfam Fundraiser: Bon Chat Bon Rat, Bricks Of Berlin Civic Underground, Sydney $10 7pm Rob Henry The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Rockshow Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney free 11pm Steve Tonge O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm They Call Me Bruce Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm Trial Kennedy Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor free 8pm
JAZZ
Emma Pask, James Muller, Dale Barlow The Basement, Circular Quay $20 (+ bf) 8.45pm James Valentine’s Supper Club: James Valentine Quartet Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 7pm Mike Nock Quartet, Amphibious 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm
Brittle, Ikarii, Click on Colour The Great Northern Hotel Newcastle free 9pm Caterina Ligato Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba 8pm Clayton Dooleys Organ Donors Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm Daniel March Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $14.50 7pm Dave White Duo Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm Dylan Drew Hawkesbury Hotel, Windsor free 7pm Embrace Tokio Hotel, Darling Harbour free 7pm Eora TAFE Advanced Diploma Showcase: Eora College Student Band Notes Live, Enmore $8.20 (presale) 7pm Highly Strung Ettamogah Pub, Kellyville free Hoodoo Gurus, The Break Manly Fisho’s $35 (at door) 8pm Jack Jones Lizotte’s Restaurant, Kincumber 8pm Jager Uprising: Robosexual, Teknofear, Macchiato, Thylacine Annandale Hotel $8 7pm Jeff Martin (Canada), Terepai Richmond, Gabrielle & Cameron Vault 146, Windsor $44.90 (presale)–$70.40 (dinner & show) 7pm Lydia (USA), Elliot the Bull Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington $23.50 (presale) 8pm Mike Bennett The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Open Mic Night Excelsior Hotel, Glebe free 7.30pm Open Mic Fubah on Copa, Copacabana free Passenger (UK), Gemma Ray Brass Monkey, Cronulla $14.30 (presale) 8pm Sam & Jamie Show Dee Why Hotel free 7pm Sideshow: Chaingang, The Dirty Secrets, Myth & Tropics Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Static Silhouettes, Spangled Mistress, Bears With Guns, Tara Lawrence, Jackie and the Rippers Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm The Study: Edward Deer, Cadeaux, Dyan Tai Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills free 8pm Third Watch Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney free 11pm Tom Trelawny O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm
Uni Night Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 9pm YourSpace Muso Showcase Town Hall Hotel, Newtown free 7pm
JAZZ
Jacques Renay, Vicki Forrest, Robert Smith Trio City Diggers, Wollongong free (member)–$5 2pm Jamie Oehlers Quartet 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm Killarney Heights Big Band, The Dilworths Lizotte’s Restaurant, Dee Why $8 (child)–$15 8pm Machiniso, The Three Canoes, Vashti Hughes The Vanguard, Newtown $14 (+ bf) 6.30pm Richard Bona (Cameroon) The Basement, Circular Quay $66 (+ bf) 9.30pm Tim Rollinson Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Jack Carty Raval, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm Jez Mead, Lanie Lane The View Factory, Newcastle free 8pm Songsalive!: Pauly Vella, Chris Hardwick, Russell Neal and guests Mars Hill Café, Parramatta free 7pm Songsalive!: Ross Bruzzese, Gavin Fitzgerald, Roy Harrington, TAOS Coach & Horses Hotel, Randwick free 7pm Songsalive!: Tyra Ryninks, Andrew Denniston and guests Earlwood Hotel free 7pm
COUNTRY
South Coast Country Music Club Mount Kembla Heights Hall free 6pm
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25 ROCK & POP
Afro Moses, Moses O’Jah Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $22 (show only)–$60 (dinner & show) 7pm Anne McCue Vault 146, Windsor $20.40 8pm Belles Will Ring, Guineafowl, Magnetic Heads The Grand Hotel, Wollongong $12 (+ bf) 8pm
ACOUSTIC & FOLK
Songsalive!: Henry Fraser & the Echo, Russell Neal and guests El Rocco, Kings Cross free 7pm Songsalive!: Pal Sheldon, Adam Kiss, Simon Larry, Henderson Road Society Club, Tony Ousback, His And Her Majesty, April Sky, Helmut Uhlmann Off Broadway, Ultimo free 7pm Tuesday Night Live: Leroy, Roger Lock, Ashlee Carroll Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm
COUNTRY
Blacktown Country Music Club The Lucky Australian, North St Marys free 7pm
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24 ROCK & POP
Ben Finn Duo Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill free 6pm Billabong Design For Humanity: The Vines, Operator Please, Flight Facilities, Purple Sneakers DJs, PhDJ, Sosueme DJs, Mum DJs Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $25 (+ bf) 7.30pm
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Natural Selection #1: Knievel, World Champion, Community Radio Melt Bar, Kings Cross $10 8pm Nikki Thornburn, Ollie McGill The Vanguard, Newtown $10 (+ bf)–$12 (at door) 6.30pm Philadelphia Grand Jury, Howl, Bearhug The Beachcomber Hotel, Toukley $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 8pm Pianoman The Loft, Darling Harbour free 6pm Reyes De La Onda Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 12am Rod McCormack, Stuie French Berowra Village Tavern, Berowra Heights free 7.30pm Simon Chainsaw, Decline of the Reptiles, Lollipop Sugar Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $12 8pm Steve Edmonds Band Empire Hotel, Annandale free 7pm The Lucky Wonders, Halfway to Forth Lizotte’s Restaurant, Kincumber $13 8pm Thursday Live: Samantha Brave, Kate Gogarty Newport Arms Hotel free 7pm Tonight Alive, Sienna Skies Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $12 (+ bf) 7.30pm You Am I, Cabins Castle Hill RSL Club $25 (presale)–$30 (at door) 8pm
JAZZ
Dereb the Ambasaador 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Pete Lanzon Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm Soul Nights, Roxanne Lebrasse Tokio Hotel, Darling Harbour free 7pm
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
James Southwell Lizotte’s Restaurant, Dee Why $23 8pm Rhys Zacher The Great Northern Hotel Newcastle free 7.30pm Songsalive!: Dennis Aubrey @Newtown RSL free 7pm Songsalive!: Russell Neal and guests Raby Tavern free 7pm Songsalive!: The Mad Pride, Noel Davies, Shunky Zen, Lissa, Daniel Hopkins Narrabeen Sands free 7pm Songsalive!: Under the Purple Tree and guests Henry Lawson Club, Werrington County free 7.30pm Fat Freddy's Drop
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 ROCK & POP
2 Of Hearts Woy Woy & District Rugby League Football Club free 7pm Age of Menace, Pecking Order, Thin Air Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $15 8pm Belles Will Ring, Guineafowl, Magnetic Heads Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $12 (+ bf) 8pm Brad Johns Harbord Diggers Club free 8pm Brown Sugar Marble Bar, Sydney free 9.30pm Chartbusters Campbelltown Catholic Club free 9pm Children Collide, Violent Soho, The Golderhearted Manly Fisho’s $18.40 (presale)–$25 (at door) 8pm
Counterfeit Tribute Night: Chick Bands: The Glimmerettes, Nothing Rhymes With David, Sodomiser, Ben Briedis, Yu Si Liu, Broomstick, Foxtrot, The Urban Orphans, The Exes, The Diamond Sinatras, Deyveson, Bullbull Can Hackett Town Hall Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Creedence & Beyond Mosman RSL Club free 9pm Cute Is What We Aim For (USA), Stealing O’Neal, Ladies & Gentlemen, Sunny Side Up The Factory Theatre, Enmore $39 (+ bf) 7.30pm Deni Hines Lizotte’s Restaurant, Dee Why 8pm DJ Krush (Japan) The Basement, Circular Quay 9.30pm Doug Williams, Paul Joseph Trio Park Hyatt Hotel Sydney, The Rocks free 7pm Douglas Clarke, Coogee’s Big Thong Band Coogee Diggers $17 (+ bf)–$20 (at door) 8pm
Dragon Notes Live, Enmore $28.60 (presale) 7pm Highway To Hell Engadine Tavern free 9.30pm Hoodoo Gurus, The Break Revesby Workers Club $35 8pm Jericco Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington Just 2 Customs House Bar, Sydney free 7pm Kids of 88 (NZ) Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $12 (+ bf) 8pm Killers Show Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney free 11pm Kindread Engadine Bowling Club free 8pm Mad Season MB20 Kareela Golf & Social Club free 8pm Made In Japan Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Mario Bros Hawkesbury Hotel, Windsor free 7.45pm
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gig guide send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Mozaik AB Hotel, Glebe 7pm MUM: The Cairos, The Young Heretics The World Bar, Kings Cross $10– $15 8pm My Disco, Dead Farmers, Laurenz (PVT) Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $18 (+ bf) 8pm New Millenium Auburn Hotel free 7pm Party Central Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 7.30pm Passenger (UK) The Vanguard, Newtown $12–$15 8pm Pecking Order Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm Penny Ikinger The Cabbage Tree Hotel, Fairy Meadow $7 8pm Plastercine Machine Pyrmont Bridge Hotel free 9pm Purple Sneakers: Surecut Kids, Guineafowl DJ Set, M.I.T, Fantomatique, T-Rompf Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale free 7pm Reno Nevada, Chris Flynn, Adam Pringle, Johnny Gretch Rose of Australia Hotel, Erskineville free 9pm Rodric White Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club, West Ryde free 8.30pm Steve Edmonds Band Mona Vale Hotel free 10pm Stone Cold Sober Warilla Bowling Club, Barrack Heights free 8pm The Chemist Melt Bar, Kings Cross $15.30 (presale) 8pm The Last Waltz Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $35 (show only)–$90 (dinner & show) 7pm The Licks, L.U.S.T Annandale Hotel $10 8pm The Maristians Rag and Famish Hotel, North Sydney free 8pm The Mick Hart Experience Raval, Surry Hills $12 (+ bf) 7.30pm The Paper Scissors, The Former Love Pirates, Spooky Land, The Black Paintings Brass Monkey, Cronulla $12.25 7pm The Rocks Markets by Moonlight: Parades, Guineafowl The Rocks Market free 5.30pm Tonight Alive, Sienna Skies, Wings
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Of Icarus, Heartless, Seek The Silence, Standing Silence (AA) Manly Youth Centre $15 6pm Wendy Matthews, Glenn Shorrock, Sean Kelly, James Valentine State Theatre, Sydney $85 (+ bf) 8pm Yolanda & the Stolen Boys The Attic, Mona Vale Hotel 8pm Zoltan Revesby Workers Club free 9.30pm Zoltan Penrith Panthers free 4am Zu2 Beresfield Bowling Club free 9pm
JAZZ
Bridge City Jazz Band Club Ashfield free 7.30pm Chris Arnott Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Edoardo Santoni 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Full Swing Lane Cove Golf & Country Club, Northwood free 7.30pm Motown The Show Western Suburbs Leagues Club Campbelltown, Leumeah 8.30pm Pianoman Cruise Bar, The Rocks free 10pm Prom Night Live at the Wall, Leichhardt $10 7pm SIMA: James Muller Band The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $15 (member)–$20 8.30pm Sirens Big Band The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville $15–$20 8pm Soul Nights Tokio Hotel, Darling Harbour free 9pm
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Acoustic Music Evenings: Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music Band Thirning Villa, Ashfield free 6.30pm Cafe Carnivale: Karifi Eastside Arts, Paddington $28 (+ bf) 8.15pm Jez Mead, Lanie Lane Heritage Hotel, Bulli 8pm
HIP HOP
Dust Tones: Surecut Kids, The Psyche Projects, Ability, Mike Who Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm
Fish Kicker, The Hatty Fatners, Phatchance The Great Northern Hotel free 9pm Pharoahe Monch (USA), Jean Grae (USA), Boogie Blind (USA) Metro Theatre, Sydney $44 (+ bf) 8pm
COUNTRY
Macarthur Country Music Club Wests Campbelltown Tennis Club, Leumeah free 7.30pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 ROCK & POP
2 Of Hearts Miranda RSL Club free 9pm 2days Hits Bull & Bush Hotel, Baulkham Hills free 9.30pm Alex Anonymous, The Tells, The Initiation Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor free 8.30pm Barnstorming Diggers @ The Entrance free 8.30pm Belles Will Ring, Guineafowl, Magnetic Heads Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West $12 (+ bf) 8pm Chartbusters Penrith RSL free 9pm Crooked Fiddle Band Camelot, Marrickville $25 / $20 8.30pm Cutaway Gladesville RSL and Community Club free 8pm Engage the Fall, Celebrity Morgue Spectrum, Darlinghurst $10 (at door) 8.30pm Girls of Rock Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney free 11pm Hoodoo Gurus, The Break The Forum Theatre, Moore Park $35 (presale) CANCELLED 8pm House of Beggars, Walk On By, Tombstone Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Ian Moss Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club, West Ryde $28 (member)–$32 8pm Jack Jones Lizotte’s Restaurant, Dee Why 8pm Jericco, Marlow, Viagro Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $18 8pm Jimmy Barnes Enmore Theatre $80 8pm Los Capitanes The Valve, Tempe 8pm Mal Eastick Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $20 8pm Matt Ross Macquarie Arms Hotel, Windsor free 1pm Millennium Bug Campbelltown Catholic Club free 8.30pm Next Best Thing Dooleys Lidcombe Catholic Club free 8.30pm Nowhere Boy Lennon Tribute The Basement, Circular Quay $10 8pm Party Central Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free Peter Northcote Brass Monkey, Cronulla $23.50 (presale) 7pm Pop Fiction Castle Hill RSL Club free 10pm Radio City Cats Marble Bar, Sydney free 10.30pm Rai Thistlewaite Freeway Hotel, Artarmon free 7pm Rob Henry Duo Harbord Diggers Club free 8pm Rockshow Crows Nest Hotel free 11.15pm Rose of York Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8.30pm Ruby Tigers, Dali’s Angels The Great Northern Hotel free 9pm Steve Edmonds Band Dicey Riley’s Wollongong free 8.30pm Stick to Your Guns, Draw First Blood, Wish For Wings Masonic Hall, Blacktown $22 (+ bf) 2pm
Belles Will Ring Stormcellar Bald Rock Hotel, Rozelle free 7.30pm Summerfest Thong Party Newport Arms Hotel free 7pm Teen Wolves: Stick to Your Guns, Draw First Blood, Wish For Wings Glasshouse Bar, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo 8pm The 3 B’s Show Pitt Town District Sports Club Ltd 8pm The Chemist Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington 8pm The Dark Shadows, 13 Bats Hermann’s, Darlington 8pm The Last Waltz Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $35 (show only)–$90 (dinner & show) 7pm The Paris Crash, The Sculptures, The Capitols Annandale Hotel 7.30pm The Stiff Gins, LJ Hill, Ngaratya The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville $15 8pm The Vampires Cockatoo Island, Sydney free 5pm Thundamentals Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba 2pm Ugly Bitch, The Dead Love, Kahn Of K, Jack Nash Caringbah Bizzo’s 8pm
JAZZ
Eclipse Alley Five Strawberry Hills Hotel, Surry Hills free 4pm Golden Age: Goldfoot, Renny Kodgers 34B Burlesque, Darlinghurst $25 8pm James Morrison, Emma Pask, Ed Wilson, John Morrison, Don Burrows State Theatre, Sydney $65 (silver)–$115 7.30pm Luke Escombe Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Sally Street Trio Sean’s Kitchen, Sydney free 6pm SIMA: Roger Mannis, Bernie McGann The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $15 (conc)–$20 8.30pm The Arrebato Ensemble 505 Club, Surry Hills 8.30pm
ACOUSTIC & FOLK
David Hibbert Oatley Hotel free 8.30pm Jack Carty Macquarie Hotel, Sydney $10 (+ bf) 8pm Jez Mead, Lanie Lane Raval, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm
Siobhan O’Donnell, Cornerbrook, Aoife Kelly & Elaine Clarke, Pat Hunt Irish Gaelic Club, Surry Hills $10– $15 7.30pm Tash Parker The Gate, Ryde 8pm The Troubadour Folk & Acoustic Music Club CWA Hall, Woy Woy $7 (member)–$10 7pm
HIP HOP
Phatchance, Coptic Soldier, Johnny Utah Live at the Wall, Leichhardt 8pm Spit Syndicate, The Tongue, Class A Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $15 (+ bf)–$20 (at door) 8pm
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 28 ROCK & POP
Alloway, Sierra Montana Brass Monkey, Cronulla $14.30 (presale) 7pm Brian Cadd, Russell Morris Lizotte’s Restaurant, Dee Why 8pm Chuck’s Wagon, Chickenstones, The Brothers Primitive, Suburban Undertakers Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 5pm Drive: Peter Northcote Bridge Hotel, Rozelle $10 3pm Fiona Leigh Jones Duo Harbord Diggers Club free 8pm Gary Pinto Notes Live, Enmore $20 (presale) 6pm Geoff Achison The Basement, Circular Quay 8pm Helpful Kitchen Gods, Troglodyte Hillbilly Cannibals, Emergency Squirrel, Rhino, Dr Delites Gladstone Hotel Chippendale Free 5pm Hoodoo Gurus, The Break Cronulla Sharks $35 8pm Kieran Glasgow The Entrance Sails Stage free 11am Kindread The Caringbah Hotel free 5pm Nick Andrews Charing Cross Hotel, Waverley free 5.30pm Penny Ikinger, Deniz Tek, John Fenton, Jim Dickson Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 4pm Philadelphia Grand Jury, Howl, Bearhug Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor $12 (+ bf)– $15 (at door) 8pm Rockin the Kasbah The Gaff, Darlinghurst free 5pm
gig guide
SIDESHOW WEDNESDAYS
send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Smokie (UK) Enmore Theatre $90 8pm Songwriters @ the Factory The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Steve Edmonds Band Kent Hotel Hamilton free 8.30pm Stick To Your Guns, Draw First Blood, Wish For Wings Oasis Youth Centre, Wyong $22.50 (+ bf) 8pm Sunday Chill: The Sunroom Newport Arms Hotel free 3pm Sunday Drive Annandale Hotel $10 5pm The Bonettes, The Holy Soul, The Handlebars, Harry Milas The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville $15 6.30pm The John Steel Singers, Deep Sea Arcade, Fishing Baroque Bar, Katoomba $15 (+ bf)–$18 (at door) 8pm Ziggy - The Songs of David Bowie: iOTA, Jeff Duff, Steve Balbi, Brydon Stace State Theatre, Sydney $89.90 (+ bf)–$119.90 8pm
JAZZ
Blues Sunday: Mark Hopper Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Club Jazz Velluto Champagne and Wine Lounge, Potts Point free 6.30pm Don Hopkins Kiama Golf Club, Minnamurra free 3pm Jazzgroove Summer Festival: Jeremy Rose Trio, Chiba Band 505 Club, Surry Hills $15 10pm Jive Bombers Cronulla RSL free 12pm Louise Marie Trio Rocksalt, Menai free 12pm Peoriat Central Coast Leagues Club, Gosford free 2pm Sydney Blues Society Blues Jam: Ross Ward’s Express, Sydney Blues Society Botany View Hotel, Newtown free 6pm The Midnight Ramblers Macquarie Arms Hotel, Windsor free 1pm Unity Hall Jazz Band Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 2pm
Zoe K The Great Northern Hotel free 4pm
ACOUSTIC & FOLK
Cafe Carnivale: Afro Peruvian Project Barrenjoey Music Room, Avalon Beach 6pm David Hibbert Marrickville Bowling and Recreation Club free 4.30pm Tash Parker, Cogel, Jess Chalker, Edward Deer The Vanguard, Newtown $10 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 8pm
CHAINGANG + THE DIRTY SECRETS + MYTH & TROPICS
COUNTRY
Belrose Country Music Club Belrose Bowling Club free 2pm Bryen Willems, Bayou Boogie Boys Penrith RSL free 2pm Peter Healy Fubah on Copa, Copacabana free 2pm
24TH NOVEMBER - 8PM
gig picks
up all night out all week...
MONDAY NOVEMBER 22
Pieta Brown (USA), Lucie Thorne, Hamish Stewart The Basement, Circular Quay $28 (+ bf)–$32 (at door) 9.30pm
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23
Oxfam Fundraiser: Bon Chat Bon Rat, Bricks Of Berlin Civic Underground, Sydney $10 7pm
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24
Billabong Design For Humanity: The Vines, Operator Please, Flight Facilities, Purple Sneakers DJs, PhDJ, Sosueme DJs, Mum DJs Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $25 (+ bf) 7.30pm Jack Carty Raval, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm Sideshow: Chaingang, The Dirty Secrets, Myth & Tropics Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25
Fat Freddy’s Drop (NZ) Enmore Theatre $64.60 8pm (SOLD OUT)
Pieta Brown
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26
Belles Will Ring, Guineafowl, Magnetic Heads Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $12 (+ bf) 8pm Children Collide, Violent Soho, The Golderhearted Manly Fisho’s $18.40 (presale)–$25 (at door) 8pm
Hoodoo Gurus, The Break Revesby Workers Club $35 8pm My Disco, Dead Farmers, Laurenz PVT Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $18 (+ bf) 8pm Passenger (UK) The Vanguard, Newtown $12–$15 8pm The Chemist Melt Bar, Kings Cross $15.30 (presale) 8pm The Rocks Markets by Moonlight: Parades, Guineafowl The Rocks Market free 5.30pm
COMING SOON JOHN STEEL SINGERS + DEEP SEA ARCADE 1ST DEC SOFTWAR 3RD DEC CLOUD CONTROL + GUINEAFOWL 8TH DEC
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 Children Collide
Jez Mead, Lanie Lane Raval, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm
BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10 :: 57
club guide send your listings to : clubguide@thebrag.com
club pick of the week
MONDAY NOVEMBER 22 Empire Hotel, Potts Point Bazaar HBK, I Low free Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills I Love 90s DJ Alloy, Grumpy Gramps free before 10pm / $5 after One World Sport, Parramatta Ricky Ro free Soho, Kings Cross Comedown free World Bar, Kings Cross Mondays at World Bar Ooh Face, Hot Carl and friends
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23 Xxx
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27
Tiësto
Sydney S yd dney Showground, Homebush Bay
Stereosonic
Tiësto (Netherlands), Calvin Harris (Scotland), Carl Cox (UK), Major Lazer, Sebastian Ingrosso, Benny Benassi (Italy), Wiley (England), Ricardo Villalobos, Infected Mushroom (Israel), Jeff Mills (USA), Afrojack, DJ Luciano (Chile), Sneak, Annie Mac, Caspa & MC Rod Azlan, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Reboot (Germany), DJ T, Bart B More (The Netherlands), Optimo (Scotland), DJ Dan (USA), Congorock, Sied Van Riel, Technasia, Russ Chimes, Redshape (Germany), L-VIS 1990, Aly & Fila, TV Rock, Rudy, Zoe Badwi, Yolanda Be Cool, Tommy Trash, Bass Kleph, John Course, Andy Murphy, Eric Powell, Matt Nugent, Chris Fraser, Techasia, Simon Caldwell, Gary Todd, Nick Scali, Switch, Acid Jacks, Ajax, The Immigrants, Tom Piper, Generik, Phonat, D-Cup, Cassain, The Swiss, Canyons, DJ Graz, Peewee, Suae, Pulsar, Scotty G, Nick Arbor, Nathan Cryptic, MC Lostie, Kobra Kai, Minx, Reekay Garcia, Hump Day Project, Bella Saris, John Glover, Frew $135 (+ bf) 58 :: BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10
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 Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Metronomy (UK), World’s End Press, Olugbenga, $35+bf The Gaff, Darlinghurst Coyote Tuesday Johnny B, Kid Finley free–$5 The Valve, Tempe Underground Tables Loko, Disco Rossco World Bar, Kings Cross Pop Panic Karaoke, DJs The Cosmic Explorer, Madhonour (Neon Hearts), Gatsby free
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24 Bank Hotel, Newtown Girls’ Night DJ Sandi Hotrod free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Rockstar free Establishment, Sydney Mid Week Hurdle Nic Phillips, Craig Patterson free Fringe Bar, Paddington F.R.I.E.N.D/s $5 drinks & pizzas, free entry Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta DJ Fresh free Goldfish, Kings Cross The Salsa Lounge Latin Mafia Sound System free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Paradise City Ronnie Rocker, El Mariachi Sly Fox, Enmore Queer Central Sveta, DJ Beth, DJ Bel free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Ben Peterson, Casa free The Eastern, Bondi Junction John Glover, Tenzin, Here’s Trouble, Cassian, U-Go-B, Steve Frank, Mistah Cee, Kavi-R free World Bar, Kings Cross The Wall/SUGD free
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25 202 Broadway, Chippendale Basic Foreign Dub, Headroom, Space is the Place, Void free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool After School Detention DJ Rangi, Mac, K-Note MC Buddy Love free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar free
Downstairs, 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 Enmore Theatre, Enmore Fat Freddy’s Drop (NZ), Sold Out Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills V.I.P Thursdays Tikelz, Moto, J Lyrikz, Naiki, Rkayz, Mistah Cee $10 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 LO-FI, Darlinghurst Hamish Rosser, Bad Wives Mansions, Kings Cross Van Sereno and Cavan Te live on rotation free Martin Place Bar, Martin Place Thursdays at MPB Louis M free Notes Live, Enmore Cositas Flamencas Rafael Alcolea, Pablo Fernandez Portillo, Claudia Chambers, Marco van Doornum, Karl Krebs $47.95 (presale) 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 Shelbourne Hotel, Sydney The Social Club Beth Yen free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Husky & Yogi free World Bar, Kings Cross Teenage Kicks free
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 Bank Hotel, Newtown Absolut Fridays DJ Eddie Coulter, Soul Patrol (live) free The Basement, Circular Quay DJ Krush, $43+bf/$50 Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Dustones Surecut Kids, The Psyche Projects, Ability, Mike Who free Bungalow 8, Darling Harbour Bungalow Nights free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Liquid Sky Teez, Moohoo, Sohda, Wizzfizzkidz, Detektives $10/$15
Cargo Bar, King St Wharf On The Harbour free Chinese Laundry, Sydney Doctor Werewolf, Klaus Hill, Royalston (Hospital Records), Slice, Carly Sarris, Blog Wars $15 before 11pm & $20 after Civic Underground, Sydney Reckless Republic Plus One Jay Shepheard, Sam Roberts, YokoO, Matttt & Tomass 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 Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale Purple Sneakers Surecut Kids, Guineafowl DJ Set, M.I.T, Fantomatique, T-Rompf $12 Goldfish, Kings Cross Sugar & Soul Phil Hudson, Paul Hatz, Agey, Danny De Sousa, Matt Cahill, Tom Kelly free GOODGOD Small Club, Sydney Index Untold, Mark Pritchard, Zerodub, Preacha, Paul Fraser $20–$20 Hotel Gearin, Katoomba Dialectrix Kinselas, Taylor Square Toby Wilson free Kit & Kaboodle, Darlinghurst Falcona Fridays Falcona DJs, The Gameboys $10 LO-FI, Darlinghurst Dave 54, Captain Franco, Shamozzle, D-funk, Mr Glass Mansions, Kings Cross Nick Polly, Little Rich, Nick T, Stevie S, Adrian Allen free Martin Place Bar, Martin Place Jimmy Mac, Sammy free Metro Theatre, Sydney Pharoahe Monch, Jean Grae, Boogie Blind, $44+bf 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 Reg Tee, Slip N Slide, Tony Shock Free Omega Lounge, Sydney Unwind Greg Summerfield, Matt Brunton free onefiveone, Wollongong Dig Your Own Rave Filth Collins, Lachlan Holland, Jeremy Quinn, AKA, Scuba Stew Struz, P.Danger, Dan Le Beat, Ludlow, Eurobob, Riggers, Mark Longhurst, Sam Whitty, Autoclaws, Dizz, $5-$10 Opera Bar, Circular Quay Gian Arpino free Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Teaser Distemper, Gabriel Clouston, Gilsun, Rubio, Pop The Hatch, Saiko-Pod $15 Plantation Bar, Kings Cross Blunt GABE, Ezy Boy, Tezzel, Caba, Felipe Cintra, Pharoah Monche
club guide send your listings to : clubguide@thebrag.com Dylan Griffin, Fabeta, Ridge Back Queens Wharf Brewery, Newcastle Unite free Raval, Surry Hills Tuka $10-$15 Sapphire Lounge, Kings Cross Sapphire Fridays Miss Match, Rob Morrish, Dave 54, Kate Monroe, Chiller $10 guestlist Soda Bar, Golden Sheaf, Double Bay Mike Who, Mr Glass, Brynstar free Spectrum, Darlinghurst Silent Alarm Silent DJs $5 St James Hotel, Sydney Club Blink DJs Bzurk, Luke, Nick, Naked Dave, Firefly, Absynth Tank Nightclub, Sydney RnB Superclub G Wizard, Def Rok, Troy T, Eko, Lilo, Jayson, Losty, Ben Morris, Matt Nukewood, Charlie Brown, Oakes & Lennox, Venuto, Adrian M The Argyle Hotel, Rocks John Devechis, Heidi, DJ BBG free The Lincoln, Kings Cross The Scene Charlie Brown, Samari The Loft, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo Indiot Simon Caldwell, Somatik and Mailer Daemon free The Polo Lounge and Supper Club, Darlinghurst Jack Mark Murphy, Magda The Rouge, Kings Cross Shock Horror Masaki, Sexwax, Trentertainment, The Gameboys, Slappin’ Plastic $10 The Roxy Hotel, Parramatta Roxy Fridays $10, free for members
The Sugarmill, Kings Cross The Gameboys, Calling In Sick, Joyride $10 after 10pm World Bar, Kings Cross MUM $10
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 202 Broadway, Chippendale Headroom Monk Fly, Jonny Faith, Know-U, Suburban Dark, Elliot $15 Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo Trash DJ M!Veg, DJ Absynth $12 Arthouse Hotel, Sydney Marcos Moran, Dante Rivera, Fdel, DJ Jacky, Cocama, DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar, Victor Lopez, Fabi & Andy, Fabilicious, Levi 5 Star, Nick Godoy, Jack Posada, Rhythm Brazil $20 Bank Hotel, Newtown D*Funk & DJ Delacroix free BB’s, Bondi Beach Wildlife DJs Mesan, James Roberts, Adriano Giorgi, Dinesh Sundar, Matt Singmin, Chris Kyle free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Ritual SMS, Lights Out!, Teez, Zomg! Kittenz, Disco Valante, Stik $15 – $25 Chinese Laundry, Sydney DJ T, Congorock, Anna Lunoe, Robbie Lowe, Wax Motif, Cassette, Marky Mark, Mike Hyper, Harry Cotton, Chris Ana $15-$25 Civic Underground Adult Deathstrobe Deathstrobe DJs $5 before 11pm / $10 after Clarence Hotel, Petersham Caesars Sandy Bottom, Justin
Scott, DJ Chip free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Slinky Saturdays DJ Steve, DJ Trisha free Coogee Bay Hotel Grafton Primary $13 Cricketer’s Arms, Surry Hills Pod War free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Ben Vickers, Danni Presti free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Kaki $20 Eastern Hotel, Bondi Junction I Love Saturdays Zannon, Tony Shock, Matt Ferreira, Tass, Akay, Don Juan, Dante Rivera, Dennis Agee, Willie Sabor, Oscar Cadena free Empire Hotel/Plantations, Potts Point The Temple Alex K, Sunset Bros, Outsource, Rata, Steve Play, Andre Jay, Dk1, Wilz Frantic, Benino G, Blinky, ScottyO, Nick Nova, Danny P, Rath $15-20 Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills Spit Syndicate, The Tongue, Class A $15+bf/$20 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 GOODGOD Small Club, Haymarket Mad Decent x Everrrybody Out! Skerrit Bwoy (Major Lazer), Jimmy Sing, Judgement $15 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 ..That Keen! BJ, Radar, Deescho, Faye’s Husband Ivy, Sydney Pure Ivy Tom Murgatroyd, Ivy Courtyard Beth Yen, Cadell & Tass Supported by Adam Jacob (Percussion) & Mark Matthews (Sax) The Den Kocho, Robbie Santiago & Tikyo $20 Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Elaine Benes, Gabby, Cassette (NZ), Alison Wonderland free before 10pm, $10 after, members free all night LO-FI, Darlinghurst Vivienne Kingswood, M.I.T., Walkie Talkie, Felix Lloyd Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown DnBBQ Makoto, Lynx & Kemo, Dub Terminator, Foreignclub Airways, The Low Society Crew, Red Bantoo $35 (+ bf) Mansions, Kings Cross Reckless, Little Rich, Shaun Keeble, Nick Polly free Marrickville Bowling and Recreation Club Verses Juan Atkins, Vince Watson, Alex Smoke Dean Dixon, Dave Fernandes $35 Martin Place Bar, Sydney Bamboo Eko, Nude-E, Mirage, Shorty, Ace, Moto, Qrius, IllDJ $5 Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill Fiddler Bar free Melt Bar, Kings Cross Kontrast The Gameboys, The swede, Isbjorn, Liz Bird, Mr Belvedere $15 Sackville Hotel, Rozelle Maike free Shelbourne Hotel, Sydney Shipwreck, Daniel Nall, Leon Pirello $10 after 10pm
Makoto
Soho, Potts Point Static Revenger free entry before 11pm 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 Sydney Showground, Homebush Bay Stereosonic Tiesto
(Netherlands), Calvin Harris (Scotland), Carl Cox (UK), Major Lazer, Sebastian Ingrosso, Benny Benassi (Italy), Wiley (England), Ricardo Villalobos, Infected Mushroom (Israel), Jeff Mills (USA), Afrojack, DJ Luciano (Chile), Sneak, Annie Mac, Caspa & MC Rod Azlan, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Reboot (Germany), DJ T, Bart B More (The Netherlands), Optimo
NOVEMBER
26 FRIDAY
SURECUT KIDS
KITSUNE MAISON
M.I.T . FANTOMATIQUE . T-ROMPF
GIVEAWAYS COURTESY OF MINESTRY OF SOUND
GUINEAFOWL DJ SET
COMPILATION 10
BRAG :: 389 :: 22:11:10 :: 59
club guide
Deep Impressions
clubguide@thebrag.com (Scotland), DJ Dan (USA), Congorock, Sied Van Riel, Technasia, Russ Chimes, Redshape (Germany), L-VIS 1990, Aly & Fila, TV Rock, Rudy, Zoe Badwi, Yolanda Be Cool, Tommy Trash, Bass Kleph, John Course, Andy Murphy, Eric Powell, Matt Nugent, Chris Fraser, Techasia, Simon Caldwell, Gary Todd, Nick Scali, Switch, Acid Jacks, Ajax, The Immigrants, Tom Piper, Generik, Phonat, D-Cup, Cassain, The Swiss, Canyons, DJ Graz, Peewee, Suae, Pulsar, Scotty G, Nick Arbor, Nathan Cryptic, MC Lostie, Kobra Kai, Minx, Reekay Garcia, Hump Day Project, Bella Saris, John Glover, Frew $135 (+ bf) The Forbes Hotel, CBD We Love Indie We Love Indie DJs $10 The Gaff, Darlinghurst Johnny B free The Loft, King St Wharf Late at theloft Somatik, Noel Boogie, Noodles, DJ Huwston, Meem, The Swat DJs, Lippo free The Manhattan Lounge, Martin Place Hushhh... DJs Stunna, Sonny, Special K $10 after 9pm The Mansion, Darlinghurst Wonderland Johnny B free before 10pm The Rouge, Kings Cross Le Rouge Guy Tarento, Franseco Daroit, Keli Hart, Micky P $10 before 11pm 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
Underground Dance and Electronica with Chris Honnery
Tone, Surry Hills Mark Walton, DJ Burn-Hard $10 Tonic Lounge, Kings Cross Tonic Saturdays Gian Arpino $15 The Wall, Leichardt Graffiti at the Wall Phatchance, Coptic Soldier, Johnny Utah, $20/$25 World Bar, Kings Cross Goldmine ICON Series $15 before 10pm, $20 after
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 28 Bank Hotel, Newtown DJ James Tobin Beach Palace Hotel, Coogee Adam Katz, Benny Vibes, Soul Patrol free 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 Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour Salsa Caliente Sabroson, DJ Vico free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown DJ Metal Matt, Louis Tillett free Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills Mukti N Revival $30 (+ bf) Home Terrace, Sydney Spice After Hour Telefunken, YokoO, Schwa, Altay Altin $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 & guests 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 free The Bank Nightclub, Kings Cross Soul On Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan free The Deck, Luna Park, Milsons Point The Balcony Robbie Lowe, Carlos Zarate, Simon Bell, Mitch Crosher, Sam Roberts, Robbie Cordukes, James Fazzolari, Jake Hough $10 The Forbes Hotel, Sydney Church Of Techno Defined by Rhythm, Rob Zobec, Altay Altin, Vinae, Shepz $10 The Rouge, Kings Cross Cheap Thrill$ John Glover, Matt Nukewood, Will Bailey (UK), J Smoove free The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Neighbourhood Kate Monroe free Trademark Hotel, Darlinghurst Soul on Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan World Bar, Kings Cross Fortune! Disco Punx $15
club picks up all night out all week...
DJ Krush
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23 Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Metronomy (UK), World’s End Press, Olugbenga, $35+bf 8pm
F
ollowing last year’s memorable bash with Matias Aguayo, the annual Pirates Of The Underground boat cruise returns on Saturday December 11. Ardent clubbers will lament the date clash with the D25 party at The Forum, as it’s a tough decision to choose between the two. (Though looking at it another way, you can’t go wrong with either…) The pirate party will feature a number of the headliners from the previous weekend’s Subsonic Music Festival, with German duo Extrawelt from the Cocoon label the headline attraction. Extrawelt will be flanked by another pair from Deutschland, Heinrichs & Hirtnefellner, while Berlin Tonkind’s Turmspringer continue the Germanic motif. The lineup also includes Bar 25 regulars The Bastards and Andre Wakko from the Tonkind imprint, with the local brigade including the likes of RifRaf and Matt ‘Davey Jones’ Aubusson. First release tickets are available for $50, and the organisers have stressed that the pirate dress code will, as ever, be stringently enforced! DJ und producer Ellen Allien’s influential BPitch Control label, which has released illustrious artists like Ben Klock, Apparat, Modeselektor and Sascha Funke, turns twelve years old next year, and has a special release planned to commemorate the occasion. On January 31, BPitch will release Werkschau (that’s German for ‘showcase’, ja), a 17-song compilation album that spans the label’s entire release history. The compilation’s tracklist includes old and new gems from production outfits like Jahcoozi, Telefon Tel Aviv (playing at the imminent Subsonic Music Festival), Mr. Statik, and Allien herself among others. Continuing their intimate ‘One Night Only’ series on the back of shows featuring Danny Tenaglia and John Digweed, Future Music have announced that Claude Von Stroke will play an extended set at Nevermind nightclub on Sunday January 2, which is of course the thinking man’s New Year’s Eve/Day. Doors open 10pm and I’m told that the Dirty Bird main man, who is responsible for delectable cuts like ‘Who’s Afraid Of Detroit?’, and ‘Vocal Chords’ (as well as a rippin’ remix of Kevin Saunderson) will play allll night. $20 will get you a lengthy Von Stroke-ing to celebrate the New Year: a veritable bargain, I suggest. And as for a NY resolution, I pronounce that together we say ‘no more’ to Sydney’s exasperating proclivity to give big gun DJs a one-hour afternoon slot on a festival bill; we need more of these extended sets in 2011.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 The Basement, Circular Quay DJ Krush, $43 (+ bf) / $50 9:30pm Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Dustones Surecut Kids, The Psyde Projects, Ability, Mike Who free Metro Theatre, Sydney Pharoahe Monch, Jean Grae, Boogie Blind $44 (+ bf) 8pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 Civic Underground Adult Deathstrobe Deathstrobe DJs $5 before 11pm / $10 after 10pm
LO-FI, Darlinghurst Vivienne Kingswood, M.I.T., Walkie Talkie, Felix Lloyd
Fi, The Versionaries Soundsystem, James DeLa Cruz & more, $35 (+ bf) 7pm
GOODGOD Small Club, Haymarket Mad Decent x Everrrybody Out! Skerrit Bwoy (Major Lazer), Jimmy Sing, Judgement $15 10pm
Manning Bar, Sydney University DnBBQ Makoto (Japan), Lynx & Kemo(UK), Dub Terminator (NZ), Red Bantoo, Vice Versa, Rollers Music, Semper
The Wall, Leichardt Graffiti at the Wall Phatchance, Coptic Soldier, Johnny Utah, $20/$25 7:30pm
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Extrawelt
Enigmatic experimental dubstep-cumtechno producer Shackleton, who toured Australia earlier in the year, has mixed Fabric 55, due for release next month. 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
LOOKING DEEPER SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27
Juan Atkins, Vince Watson, Alex Smoke Marrickville Bowling Club
FRIDAY DECEMBER 4 Ricardo Villalobos The Metro Theatre
DECEMBER 4 – 6
Subsonic ft Michael Mayer Barrington Tops
SATURDAY DECEMBER 18 Pantha Du Prince The Civic Underground
Pantha Du Prince
last year. Fabric 55 will comprise a studiorecorded live set by Shack featuring – presumably – plenty of new material. And 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 the next few weeks. Turning the focus back to NYE, as it is creeping up on us, let’s finish with a brief recap of Spice Afloat, which has established itself as a popular New Year’s Day choice with clubbers over the past five years, holding down a niche as the only NY sunrise cruise our fair city has to offer. Returning for its sixth installment, this/ next year’s lineup boasts the international triumvirate of Glaswegian techno dons Slam, Freerange’s Milton Jackson and Björn Wilke ahead of Mr Reckless Republic himself, Murat Kilic and other locals. Slam, who are also the duo behind the Soma label, were out here last year; I had the privilege of playing before them at Earthdance, so can attest to their considerable prowess. I haven’t seen Mr Jackson play, but given the current spike in the popularity of deep house I have no doubt he’ll go over nicely, particular with the sun rising and the “gorgeous scenery” [sigh]. Anyhow, this really doesn’t need any selling and tickets are moving fast, so you’d best finalise your New Year’s plans post haste lest you miss the boat, literally.
Deep Impressions: electronica manifesto and occasional club brand. Contact through deep.impressions@yahoo.com.
Soul Sedation
Soul, Dub, Hip Hop & Bottom-heavy Beats with Tony Edwards
Four Tet 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. he rise and rise of Four Tet and Caribou is something this column has charted with approval. Artists in a similar vein creatively (if not always musically), their recent acceptance, nay embrace, by the new generation seems to me a pleasant side effect of indie’s current dominance. The pair, two of the most innovative artists of the last fifteen years, are headed our way. Dan Snaith, AKA Caribou (AKA Manitoba before that), will play a double bill alongside the very clever Kieran Hebden AKA Fourtet at the Metro on Thursday February 17. You’ll also be able to catch them at Playground Weekender later that week/weekend. Tickets to the Metro show are on sale now. Soul Sedation would recommend all of their albums, especially Fourtet’s 2005 opus, Everything Ecstatic.
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Sydney and its dance music culture never ceases to surprise me. German club jazz supremo Jazzanova appeared at the Alexandria Hotel this Sunday just gone and The Future Classic family have taken over Sundays in the hotel’s beer garden for the near future: Sunhaze rolls 3-8pm every Sunday. If graf and indie hip hop piques your interest, put Saturday November 27 in the diary, or tag it on your bedroom wall maybe. Graffiti At The Wall is a live graffiti and independent hip hop showcase also featuring freestyle MC battles. You’ll be able to catch Mind Over Matter, DJ Skae and Daily Meds and more at The Wall, 343 Parramatta Rd Leichhardt. Hermitude launch their new single ‘Get In My Life’ at Tone on Saturday December 11. I’d recommend you jump on those tickets quickly, it’s going to be an intimate show. The Hermit’s new album is due out early 2011. Anyone who remembers Marky and Stamina’s set in the Forum at Days Like This a couple of years back will be keen to hear that the pair will be back in the country this January. Once again it should be a rinsing affair of high quality drum n bass action, with Spikey Tee and Foreigndub on support - Friday January 21 at the Manning Bar. Afrobeat heads should get tuned to the sounds of Ghanaian musician Ebo Taylor. His new album Love & Death, garnering release through Strut Records, contains some extremely well-crafted afrobeat, with tropical and African funk influences creeping in as well. The result is a firing new set backed by the Berlin based Afrobeat Academy, and involves members of German analog funk combo Poets Of Rhythm. The album is Taylor’s first internationally released studio album in over 20 years.
First Word records are also getting into the modern afrobeat affray with their release from the Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra. The Leeds based eight-piece “arkestra” have been busy fusing afrobeat, jazz and funk in a late night café session. Look out for their first single, a cover of Hendrix’s ‘Crosstown Traffic’. Keep your ears peeled for new music from local beatsmith DJ Soup on the funk, hip hop and electronic tip. ‘So Much Power’ is the first single from his forthcoming EP Ubersoup. You can catch the man on the decks at Tone this Saturday November 27. San Francisco’s legendary groove shop Groove Merchant turns 20 years young this year. To celebrate they’ve released a compilation of some of their favourite rare soul and funk gems. There are fourteen selections on the disc, all hand-picked by Groove Merchant’s Chris Veltri.
Hermitude
ON THE ROAD THU NOV 25 Fat Freddy’s Drop Enmore Theatre
FRI NOV 26 DJ Krush The Basement
FRI NOV 26 Pharoahe Monch Metro Theatre
SAT NOV 27
DNBBQ ft. Lynx & Kemo, Makoto, Dub Terminator Manning Bar
DECEMBER 3-5
Subsonic Music Festival Barrington Tops
FRI DEC 10 Hermitude Tone
SUN JAN 9 Mos Def Enmore Theatre
FRI 18 FEB
Kool & The Gang, Roy Ayers Enmore Theatre
SAT 19 FEB
Mayer Hawthorne & The County Manning Bar
FEB 17-20
Playground Weekender Wiseman’s Ferry
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soul power
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up all night out all week . . .
05:11:10 :: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700
ghetto blaster
PICS :: LJ
mum
PICS ::SB
12:11:10 :: Tone Venue :: 116 Wentworth Ave Surry Hills
ghetto disco
PICS :: RR
12:11:10 :: Q-Bar :: 34-44 Oxford st, Darlinghurst 93601375
13:11:10 :: Q-Bar :: 34-44 Oxford st, Darlinghurst 93601375
It’s called: Wham! presents the Goldmine Icon Series It sounds like: An A380 engine exploding. DJs: This month’s Icon is Simon Caldwell! Acros s the other three rooms we’ve got James Taylor, Rob Kay, Mo’ Funk, Garry Todd, Adam Bozzetto, Foundation, Beetz, Moneyshot, Shamozzle and Gabriel Clouston. Sell it to us: The Goldmine Icon Series is about giving four Sydney icons the chance to program an entire night’s music from Simon Caldwell will be digging deep in his record start to finish. This week, collection to showcase his entire career over an epic all-night set! If you love Simon as much as us, you’ll know this is a once in a lifetime oppor tunity. Don’t miss a second of it! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Your legs collapsing after dancing on a table for five straight hours. Crowd specs: Flight attendants and aircraft engineers, secretaries and window cleaners. Wallet damage: $15 measly bucks. Where: The World Bar / Kings Cross When: Saturday November 27.
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Wham!
:: The Gaelic Theatre :: 64 Devonshire St Surry Hills 92111687
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11:11:10 :: Tone Venue :: 116 Wentworth Ave Surry Hills
miami horror
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loop
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teenage kicks
PICS :: TT
11:11:10 :: Beach Road Hotel :: 71 Beach Road Bondi 91307247
falcona fridays
12:11:10 :: Kit & Kaboodle :: 33-35 Darlinghurst Rd Kings Cross 9368 0300 PICS :: PS
wham
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11:11:10 :: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700
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purple sneakers
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13:11:10 :: Club 77 :: 77 William St Kings Cross 93613387
newtown festival
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starfuckers
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chinese laundry
PICS :: AM
12:11:10 :: The Gladstone Hotel :: 115 Regent St Chippendale 96993522
13:11:10 :: Chinese Laundry :: 111 Sussex Street Sydney 82959958
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Adult Disco presents Death Strobe
It’s called: Adult Disco presents Death Strobe It sounds like: Death Strobe Records meets Adult Disco. Peanut Butter meets Jelly. Tom Cruise meets Xenu.
DJs: Death Strobe DJs all night long baybz! Three records you’ll hear on the night: Midnight Savari – 'Pinisi' (it’s the launch party!), Mr. Fingers – 'Can You Feel It', Nick Cave – 'Red Right Hand (Rio Lobotomy Op)' And one you definitely won’t: David Guetta feat. Justin Beiber – 'Sexi Consumer Sluts (Crookers’ WARP 7.5 Remix)'. Sell it to us: 7 hours of nothing but vinyl – disco, techno, house, funk, acid – Sydney’s best club soundsystem – it’s ridiculously cheap – we really really love you! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Hopefully most of it. Crowd specs: Bros sporting mo’s and ladies with little-to-no facial hair. Wallet damage: Five big ones before 11, a tenner after. Where: The Civic Underground / 388 Pitt St. When: Saturday November 27 from 10pm
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