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rock music news welcome to the frontline: what’s goin’ on around town...with Blake Gallagher and Therese Watson

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BEN SALTER What Do You Look For in a Band?

1.

I don’t date guys in bands.

‘Sweet Virginia’ and ‘Shine A Light’.

He also sent a hand written reply to the only fan mail I’ve ever sent, in response to the ‘Cathy’s Clown’ single being released. What a legend.

Keeping Busy I’ve just finished ten days in 2.

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Best Gig Ever The one that springs to mind was 3. when The Gin Club played with Tim Rogers at The Troubadour in Brisbane.

It was the first time we had played with Tim and I cheekily asked him if he’d get up and sing some Rolling Stones tunes with us. I was pretty surprised when he said yes, but even more surprised when he bounded on stage at the end of our set and belted out

Current Playlist I had sort of been putting off 4. listening to the new Drones record for a few months, even though I’m a massive fan, ‘cause I think I wanted to see them play the songs live.

Anyway, I just saw them at Dark Mofo and they just smashed it completely.

Amazing. Also saw Boris, couldn’t decide if it was amazing or terrible but I’m told that’s de rigueur so I’m going with amazing. Plus, saw You Am I do all of Hourly Daily and Hi Fi Way, which was absolutely incredible also. I have been spoiled of late.

Ultimate Rider A bit of peace and quiet.

5. Your Where Petersham Bowls Club When: Friday July 26 And: European Vacation EP out now through ABC Music

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Las Vegas indie rock powerhouse Imagine Dragons have announced they’ll be heading to Australia this October in support of debut album Night Visions. A masterclass in versatility, the album combines guitars, violins and cellos, drawing influence from pop, hip hop, folk and dubstep, while their polished live show has been described as “notably epic.” Their jaunt down under will see the band play an allages headline date on Friday October 18 at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre.

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BLOODS

Local garage-punk trio Bloods have unveiled ‘Into My Arms’, another brand-spankin’ new single taken from upcoming debut EP Golden Fang – scheduled to hit shelves August 9.

A catchy, energetic slathering of bratty punk pop, ‘Into My Arms’ follows acclaimed single ‘Back to You’. The band will celebrate Golden Fang’s release come August with their firstever east coast headline tour. The tour kicks off Friday August 16 at Sydney’s Brighton Up Bar with special guests Major Leagues and The Fabergettes.

SPLENDOUR SIDESHOWS

More news from the Splendour in the Grass camp! Sydney sideshows for Daughter and Little Green Cars, MS MR, James Blake, Jake Bugg and Haim have all hung up the ‘Sold Out’ sign, while Babyshambles’ sideshows have sadly been cancelled. Meanwhile, Melbourne surf rockers Drunk Mums have been announced as support for Jake Bugg, and Dune Rats and APES will warm up crowds for US punks FIDLAR. Tickets to Palma Violets, Surfer Blood, FIDLAR, Everything Everything and more are on sale now.

FALLS FESTIVAL IN BYRON

The Falls Music and Arts Festival have announced they’ll extend to Byron Bay this year!

The iconic camping festival will take over its third location, with three days of live music from New Year’s Eve until January 3 (which means you won’t have to travel to either Marion Bay, TAS, or Lorne, VIC, if you like the look of the 2013 lineup.

Full details of this year’s edition of the festival will be released over the coming weeks.

THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS RESCHEDULE

Jared Leto’s stadium rock act have postponed their August tour of Australia until March 2014,

issuing a statement saying, “A member of the band will be undergoing a medical procedure and the time will be used to address this.

Please know we are absolutely devastated and hope for your understanding and patience.

Our sincerest and deepest apologies.” If you’ve already got tickets they’ll carry over to new date of Saturday March 29 at the Entertainment Centre, while those unable to attend the rescheduled dates should contact the ticket issuer by Friday August 3 to obtain a refund.

REGGAE GOT SOUL

Novocastrian vintage soul enthusiasts – you’re in luck! Spread across three days and three venues, the Reggae Got Soul Newcastle Weekender will see the city become a 72-hour celebration of all things 50s/60s soul, reggae, ska, Motown, mod and Jamaican oldies. The festivities begin on Friday at The Terrace Bar with DJs downstairs and The Buzzard Mix performing upstairs. Saturday at the Croatian Wickham Sports Club there’ll be a huge record fair, followed by DJs and a live performance by The Auskas. To wrap things up, a recovery breakfast and scooter gathering will take place Sunday morning at the Wickham Motorcycle Co.

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CHIC FEAT. NILE RODGERS

Veteran disco and funk hit-makers CHIC are coming our way in December to showcase their “time-travelling discotheque” of a genre-blurring career spanning over 30 years. Lead by iconic producer Nile Rodgers, the outfit were responsible for a host of classic ‘70s dancefloor anthems, including ‘Le Freak’, ‘Good Times’, ‘Everybody Dance’ and more, which they’ll be playing when they hit the Opera House, alongside Rodgers-produced gems like David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’, INXS’s ‘Original Sin’ and Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’.

Tickets start at a reasonable $69 for their gig at Sydney Opera House on December 7, and go on sale Friday August 2.

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Mofo winter festival, performing both solo as well as alongside Mick Thomas, Andy Reid, Michael Barclay, Craig Pilkington, Tim Rogers, Jen Anderson, Jeff Lang, Darren Hanlon, Liz Stringer, Van Walker and Sal Kimber in the Vandemonian Lags show. Got a week off, then I am starting my European Vacation tour, in support of my new EP that’s out now. Then I’m off to Europe to play some shows for three months or so.

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speed date JOHNNY HOPWOOD OF PSYCHLOPS EYEPATCH band or album I’ve come across that perhaps I wouldn’t have been interested in at another stage in my life. I would say one amazing album that has a uniquely different sound, which has always been something that I have been in awe of, is At The Drive-In’s Relationship of Command. I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking ‘what the fuck is this?!’ I’ve felt that way many times about Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd…the list is long…

Your Band We’re a group of long time 3. mates. We all kinda went to

Growing Up I was always drawn to 1. music as a creative outlet. I can remember my mum buying me a copy of The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers and Billy Ocean’s single ‘Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car’ on cassette tape when I was really young. When I was eleven I had a job cleaning bins after school. I saved up all my money to buy a CD player and a copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind and Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock.

I was obsessed with Nirvana. My dad is a part-time musician still, and as a kid I always wanted to learn to play an instrument and be in a band or play music somehow.

I can remember getting up early on weekends to watch Rage and then Recovery or Video Hits.

Inspirations It’s hard to pin down one facet 2. of music or the other, because I’m constantly inspired by new stuff, whether it be a song or a new

school together at some point or have known each other for over ten years. I think it really helps being able to play with close friends as it’s easier for us to get on the same page musically.

4.

The Music You Make I think the psych bands of the 60s are a musical touchstone for all the members of the band, with regards to Psychlops Eyepatch. Our inspirations that are specific to the band extend further than that to incorporate elements of punk, garage and surf-psych, with a contemporary

aesthetic. I don’t think we sound like a sixties spin-off or revival band nor do we want to. We aspire to be a band that uses inspiration from the past to try and make something new.

Music, Right Here, Right Now 5.

We were recently lucky enough to be invited on air by 2SER’s Thee Sonic Assassin for his Sideways Through Sound program to promote our debut release Paranoise. On that show he quizzed us about a scene that we’re considered a part of.

We’ve played with some great local bands under the psych umbrella. I think what’s happening with Aussie psych in its current incarnation is a real positive for all the bands considered a part of this scene. We have a group of bands that we can play with readily, where maybe ten years ago there wasn’t that support.

Where: Goodgod Small Club with Scattered Order and Greta Mob When: Thursday August 15 And: Paranoise EP available now via Bandcamp and on vinyl

REGURGITATOR

The mighty Gurge are back! They’ve got album number eight all new, shiny and ready to go. Except it’s not that shiny. It’s dirty. A Dirty Pop Fantasy, to be precise. The last two years have seen Regurgitator hitting the stages of Meredith Music Festival and Groovin’ the Moo, and playing albums Tu Plang and Unit back to back on their Retrotech tour in 2012. The new album will be released on Wednesday September 11 and comes with a Dirty Pop Fantasy tour of Australia. They’ll be stopping in at the Hi-Fi in Sydney on Friday October 4 with tickets on sale now.

Lucky Luke & the Shooting Stars

SPLENDOUR WARM-UPS

Madly highlighting your timetable and frantically searching for your gumboots in preparation for Splendour in the Grass?

Ease into your three-days of festival goodness (or write yourself off early) with a pre-party at The Northern in Byron Bay on Thursday July 25. One Night With… will get you into party mode with live performances by Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Rose and Fishing and DJ sets from Jinja Safari and Nook Nook DJs (tickets from The Northern website).

THE BUZZ CLUB

Barfly Promotions – the folk behind Sydney’s Rock & Roll and Alternative Markets – have delivered a killer lineup for the second edition of ‘The Buzz Club’, their new live music night. Lucky Luke & the Shooting Stars headline the night, bringing with them their unique blend of rockabilly, western swing and jump blues. They’ll be supported on the night by bluesy Southern rocker Big Blind Ray Toro, along with alt-country acts Chickenstones and Handasyd Williams & the Brothers Primitive. Sure to be a ridiculously fun evening, it all goes down this Saturday July 27 at Hermann’s Bar.

FBI SOCIAL

A slew of unmissable events take over the Kings Cross Hotel this week courtesy of FBi Social. Hip hop duo Horrorshow will perform lunchtime Wednesday as part of FBi’s Lunch Break sessions. The Laugh Stand, FBi’s monthly display of the country’s rising comedic talent, will take place later that night, with MC Cameron James joined by Nick Sun, Michele Lim, Cyrus Bezyan and more. Spirit Faces launches new single ‘Jupiter’ on Thursday, while rapper, producer and overall wordsmith Mr. Ruckman hits the stage Saturday night, with support from Five Coffees, Vanessa Raspa & the Zombie Cats and Enkae.

MORE THAN JUST FRIENDS

Indie four-piece The Griswolds and rapper Chance Waters will team up for a brief string of east coast dates this September under the banner of the ‘More Than Just Friends’ tour. Recent signees of US label Wind-Up Records, The Griswolds have spent the year showcasing their summery pop tunes around the globe, while Unearthed ‘Artist of the Year’ nominee Waters recently inked a deal with Island Records. The acts – both from Sydney – 6 :: BRAG :: 521 :: 15:07:13

KARNIVOOL

Karnivool fans rejoice! After four long years the wait is over. The highly anticipated third album Asymmetry from the Aussie progrockers is out as of last Friday. First single ‘We

LAST DAYS HERE

Underground metal lovers read on. We have five copies of the doco Last Days Here to give away. When pioneering 70s doom metal band Pentagram experienced a resurgence in cult popularity, wildman vocalist Bobby Leibling was nowhere to be found. Directors Don Argott and Demian Fenton tracked him down, living in his parents’ basement and addicted to drugs, and chronicled his struggle back onto the stage. For the chance to win a copy, just email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us how many sides a pentagram has.

JANE’S ADDICTION

Eagerly awaiting the next tour announcement from rockers Jane’s Addiction? Bide your time with the DVD version of their recently released album Live in NYC. Watch the spectacle unfold with carnival theatrics and trapeze artists while the ringleaders smash out music both old and new. Be in the running to win one of two copies by emailing us at freestuff@ thebrag.com and telling us what kind of carny you’d most like to be and why.

Are’ dropped to high acclaim, and the band is now ready to party hard on home turf in celebration of its release. They’ll be tearing down the Big Top at Luna Park for an all-ages gig on Sunday August 4. For info and tickets hit Oztix.

ALPINE + HAIM

With Splendour song and spirit in the air, the Beach Road in Bondi has a week full of festive fun. Before venturing north to Bryon, Alpine will cheer up your mid-week blues with a live set while the Haim hotties spin tunes. This rather spectacular free lineup happens this Wednesday July 24, with Gang Of Youths and Benjula. On Sunday July 28 the Beach Road backyard will transport you straight to the North Byron Parklands with a Best of the Fest live stream party. Face painting, hula hooping, BBQ and even tarot card readings will top off the festivities.

BARN OWL SUPPORTS

San Franciscan guitar-drone maestros Barn Owl have pulled in psych-soundscape sixpiece Dead China Doll and improvisational group Broadcasting Transmitter (who specialise in “hypnotic synthesised drones and apocalyptic feedback-induced freak-outs”) as their supports when they play Goodgod on Wednesday August 7. FBi’s Ears Have Ears presenter Brooke Olsen will also be on hand to DJ – tickets are on sale now through Oztix.

have been holed up together of late, recording a collaboration for Waters’ forthcoming album.

Hear it first come Friday September 21 at Oxford Art Factory.

TWELVE FOOT NINJA

Melbourne rockers Twelve Foot Ninja have revealed they’ll bring their powerful live show to an extensive list of venues across the country between August and September, before they head to Europe, USA and Canada. The dynamic quintet is touring off the back of latest single ‘Shuriken’. September 14 the band play Manning Bar – their last headline tour saw all capital city shows sell out, so hop to it if you’re keen!

Fanny Lumsden & The Thrillseekers

FEATHERFEST

A celebration of all music experimental and innovative, Featherfest returns in 2013. Now in its fifth year, the one-day event brings with it US operatic-rock ensemble The Protomen, along with the homegrown talents of Shanghai, Godswounds and Toehider. American comedy/hip hop act MC Frontalot rounds out the billing, which will take place this Sunday July 28 at Annandale Hotel.

FANNY LUMSDEN & THE THRILLSEEKERS

Folksy Sydney songwriter Fanny Lumsden and her band The Thrillseekers (née Glorious Whores) release new single ‘Sea Elephant School’ this Friday July 26, and are celebrating with an east coast and regional tour across August and September. Lumsden and the gang showcase their infectious brand of toe-tapping, joyous alt-country with a hometown show Wednesday July 31 at The Soda Factory in Surry Hills. Support comes from British Blue and The Burley Griffin.

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Industrial Strength Music Industry News with Christie Eliezer

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover, but the Oz version will still run the story, though not on the cover. * Damien Leith has left Sony after six albums and will release his next album, due November 1, independently through Social Family Records. * What’s the star-studded project that Elefant Traks label head MC Urthboy is working on but refusing to talk about until it’s completed? * Petersham Inn and the Belvedere Hotel in the Sydney CBD are the latest venues featuring live bands that are up for sale. * Amanda Palmer wrote a new song about England’s Daily Mail, calling the newspaper a “misogynist pile of twats” after it published a picture of her breast falling out of her bra onstage at Glastonbury. * A Newcastle mother, who ordered two lots of imitation guns online so her sons could use them as props for music videos and short films they were making, was told by Customs the guns had been seized as illegal firearms and she’d be charged if she tried it

THINGS WE HEAR * While Big Day Out won’t announce its lineup until the end of this month, its NZ promoter Campbell Smith told radio station The Rock it’d be, “the best and biggest lineup we’ve ever had. It crosses all the musical genres that you’d expect at the Big Day Out. When you look at the headliners, the second slot, third slot and fourth slot are probably all festival headliners.” Pearl Jam, The Cure and Blur are among those rumoured. * The “British rock star” whom the mainstream media reported was scared his wife would find out about his love child is apparently an ex-member of Oasis. * Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail album had the second biggest debut week sales this year, selling 527,000 copies in the US. It’s behind Justin Timberlake’s 968,000 for The 20/20 Experience and ahead of Daft Punk’s 339,000 for Random Access Memories. * Rolling Stone US felt the wrath when it put suspected Boston marathon bomber

SHOCK RECORDS’ NEW TEAM Shock Records announced its all new staff lineup. Its General Manager is Craig May, a label veteran of 15 years who worked at Dew Process, Sony Music Australia, EMI Australia, Stomp and Festival Mushroom. Label Managers are Maya Janeska (Roadrunner, JB Hi Fi, Remote Control) and Jacqui Wilson (Michael Parisi’s artist management and Wunderkind label). Promotions Manager Helise Andreoli was Promotions Assistant. New Digital Marketing Manager Robyn Fawcett previously worked at Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Motion Pictures and Universal Music Australia. Karen Edwards, who’s worked at Shock for eleven years, has been named Digital & Licensing Manager.

Marketing Coordinator Mick Tarbuk was Music Director for SYN Radio/TV and a music consultant for publisher Fable Music.

finally went live in Australia last Thursday.

Subscribers can upload 20,000 tracks to a digital locker, stream songs from curated radio stations or just buy them. It costs $11.99 but the intro offer is for $9.99. Ruuben van den Heuvel, Head of Music Partnerships, said that the Australian version was programmed for Australian ears with Australian content.

promising new talent, band, male artist, female artist and hip hop artist. The album category is between Archie Roach, Benny Walker, Kutcha Edwards, Steven Pigram and Shellie Morris & The Borroloola Songwomen. Up for band of the year are the Bartlett Bros, East Journey, Dubmarine, The Medics and Street Warriors.

ART MUSIC AWARDS BACK FOR THIRD TIME

BEHIND FALLS FESTIVAL’S EXPANSION TO BYRON BAY

The Art Music Awards – which cover contemporary classical, jazz and experimental music – are back for a third year. Presented

by APRA and the Australian Music Centre, they’ll be held on Monday August 26 at Parade Theatre, NIDA in Sydney. There are 12 categories, see www.apra-amcos.com.au or www.australianmusiccentre.com.au.

Falls Festival, which stages in Lorne, Victoria, and Marion Bay, Tasmania, will expand to Byron Bay. It will stage December 31 – January 3 at Splendour’s Yelgun site.

Last September, Splendour’s Jessica Ducrou and Paul Piticco bought into Falls.

Asking Falls to come to Byron is a way for Byron Council to combat the alcoholfuelled violence that plagued the town last New Year’s Eve. Byron Mayor Simon Richardson, who’s pushing for a lock-out for Byron on NYE excluding locals and out of towners with accommodation, told ABC Radio how Falls’ chilled-out atmosphere curbed NYE violence in Lorne. Falls Festival Byron, headed by Brandon Saul, will contribute funds and expertise to help Council run events over the period. The locals get the benefit of employment and a youth skills program that provides handson experience and mentoring in carpentry, construction, bush regeneration and event management. Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear are rumoured to play.

VOTING FOR DEADLYS BEGINS

GOOGLE STREAMING DEBUTS IN AUSTRALIA

Voting for the Deadlys have begun at deadlys. com.au until August 18. The indigenous awards are held at the Opera House on September 10. The music categories cover album, single,

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a third time. * A survey of 3000 marketing and advertising types in Sydney by Adshel found that 43% listen to Mumford & Sons, 18% to Kendrick Lamar and 11% to Michael Bublé. 41% drink beer at work, 25% play table tennis, 12% play football and most of them have never been to the western suburbs. * Pink filmed her next DVD during a Melbourne show while Baby Animals will film their October tour for their first live DVD. Feed The Birds (Live) is due out before Christmas.

Fans who pre-order the DVD with a ticket to the show will also have their name included in the closing credits and receive a signed copy one week before the official release date. * Midnight Oil’s manager Gary Morris told the Daily Telegraph that their US agent, having heard that Peter Garrett was quitting politics, had told him there were 50 American festivals the band could play at, earning US$75,000 to $200,000 a show. But Morris says the Oils are not in reunion mode at present.

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MusicNSW and The University of Newcastle’s Conservatorium of Music hold the Newcastle Music Industry Forum on Thursday August 15 from 6.30pm at the Conservatorium. A free live music and touring discussion, it covers topics such as what a booking agent looks at, how to fill a venue, the importance of a front-of-house engineer, booking agreements, gig etiquette and problems faced by tour managers. Speakers are James Boserio AKA Jimmy Nice (Spit Syndicate), tour and production manager Andrew Kelly (Big Apachee), Meg Williams (Association Of Artist Managers, management company Spark and Opus), sound, production and tour manager Jay van Lieshout and agent Katie Rynne (Select Music). RSVP to creativearts@newcastle.edu.au.

THE MARLBOROUGH LAUNCHING SHOWCASE NIGHT Nejo Y Dalmata (PUR) Fri 26 Jul

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The newly-renovated Marlborough Hotel in Newtown is launching a Thursday night showcase for local emerging independent acts. Called The Young Henry’s Live Project it is a collaboration between Marlborough licensee Richie Haines, who took over the venue late last year, Dan Rule, previously of the Annandale Hotel, and Richard Adamson who founded the Young Henrys brewery, which recently teamed up with You Am I to launch the Brew Am I line.

“Grassroots venues are so important in the nurturing of young bands,” Adamson said.

“Take a venue like the Hopetoun as an example and look at some of the names that played there – bands like Augie March, Dappled Cities and Bluejuice. It’s critical that young bands have supportive venues to play in when they’re starting out.” Haines added that the Marlborough’s renovation is about giving back to the Newtown community. “I’m thrilled to be involved in a project so quintessentially Newtown.” The Project launches from 9pm August 1 with Greta Mob and Los Poppies.

RDIO EXPANDING AUSSIE PRESENCE Music streaming service Rdio is beefing up its presence in the Australian market, and brought in former MTV executive Paola Cracknell as its Head of Music and Media Partnerships. It will work closely with Aussie acts to provide “exclusive content” for its global subscribers and, she says, “supporting (them) with strong marketing campaigns and real marketing dollars.” Rdio plans to also become more involved in festivals, music events and tours.

RECKONING BECOMES SHAKE APPEAL Nik Tropiano and Alissa Cronau have changed the name of their management and PR firm Reckoning Entertainment to Shake Appeal. It’s because they have expanded their services to include multimedia, creative writing and social networking, and they’ve brought in Tim Sneddon, Melissa Majdandzic and Catherine Tanswell to handle these.

Lifelines Hospitalised: country star Randy Travis suffered a stroke and had surgery.

Engaged: Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and fashion model Jessica Miller. Ulrich has been married twice with two sons, Myles (14) and Layne (12) with Skylar Satenstein, and a third boy, Bryce (6) with Danish actress Connie Nielsen. Miller was previously involved with Incubus singer Brandon Boyd and System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian.

Engaged: live-in couple Dead Daisies and Noiseworks frontman Jon Stevens and swimwear model Jodhi Meares (Sydney Sun-Herald).

Engaged: Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and model Behati Prinsloo after a year together, although they did have a break.

Married: Tina Turner, 73, and German record exec Erwin Bach, 57, in a Buddhist ceremony in Switzerland with 120 guests reportedly including David Bowie, Oprah Winfrey, Italian musician Eros Ramazzotti and Sade.

In Court: Benjamin Richard Hudd of Toowoomba, fined $400 for continually playing his music loud late at night despite repeated police warnings.

In Court: drug counsellor Nathan Douglas Marriage, 37, of Maroochydore, busted with seven E tabs at Big Pineapple Music Festival, told Maroochydore Magistrates Court he had confiscated the drugs from a friend and planned to flush them down the toilet. He was fined $800 and a conviction recorded.

Arrested: Varg Vikernes, singer with black metal group Burzum, suspected of “plotting a massacre.”

Police were alerted to Vikernes and his wife, a member of a shooting club, when he revealed that Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik sent a copy of his ideology to Vikernes.

Died: Sydney publicist Ronda Toner, 66. Following a period at the BBC and Chrysalis Records in London, she returned to Australia in the mid-70s and became a publicist at Festival Records for 25 years. She then specialised in country music at ABC Music before setting up her own business representing Adam Harvey, Sara Storer, Beccy Cole, the Slim Dusty family and Jon English.

Died: Sydney professional audio executive Ian ‘Woody’ Woodhouse, 68, of prostrate cancer. He worked at Technical Audio Group for seven years.

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people in the music industry, but we tend to avoid some of the people from the majors.

“When we were first approached, we weren’t really ready,” he continues, changing tack slightly.

“We only had four or five songs, and then we had the industry people come knocking on our door.

I didn’t really think we were ready, so we got ourselves a manager, and he kind of helped us out. We continued to not put ourselves online, which frustrated a lot of music people. They had to come down to ours and watch us play.”

Last year Palma Violets signed to influential imprint Rough Trade (The Libertines, The Hold Steady). The label arranged for the band to meet a range of possible producers, before they settled on Pulp’s Steve Mackey. “He’s great, he’s such a sweet and genuine guy,” Fryer says. “It was funny because he was really excited about recording, and the potential for the album. On the other side, we were quite excited about being in a studio because we’d never been in one before. This is the first band that any of us have been in, and Steve knew that and made us feel really comfortable.

He put us in a room with our instruments, and told us to play a live show for him. It probably took about three takes for us get into it. Three weeks later, we had an album.”

The album is called 180 and has two big singles in ‘Best of Friends’ and ‘Step Up For the Cool Cats’. “All the songs we used to play at our house, during parties, are on the album,” Fryer says. “They’ve changed massively. Lyrically and structurally they haven’t changed at all, but they’ve changed in the way we play them. Steve helped us find that edge that they needed, without changing the stronger parts.

“We’re not really a band who like to plan things out very much. None of us have good organisational skills.

We just like to go into a room, and scream and shout into a corner and make loud noises until we’ve got a song. That’s the way we do it.”

The way they do it live is starting to become legendary. And they do gig, a lot. “We’ve just got back from America, and it was a pretty big tour,” Fryer says. “We played in places I’d never even heard of. You can never tell when you go in what it’s going to be like. You’re flying blind, in a way. Some of the places there weren’t very many people, but then we’d get to the next show and there’s this massive turnout and people are dancing like crazy and it’s deafening. We didn’t think that kind of thing would ever happen.”

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alma Violets founder Samuel Fryer still can’t quite believe the level of success the English band are experiencing. After all, they didn’t go looking for it. “Everything that got us to this point is down to word of mouth,” the vocalist and guitarist says. “We didn’t really know how to put ourselves online; we didn’t know how to put songs up on YouTube or anything like that.

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We didn’t have anything to video ourselves, all we had was a small recorder to play our songs back.”

Despite an inability to launch themselves digitally, Fryer and Chilli Jesson (vocals, bass) were keeping busy. Along with drummer William Doyle and keyboardist Pete Mayhew the band was playing to up to 70 people in the South London house they share – house parties

that have become the stuff of infamy. “It was only our friends we told about us playing, and that kept it small,” Fryer says.

Word got around, and before long the band was hosting label types in their living room. “We kind of played the industry a bit,” Fryer says. “We never set out to do it like that, but it looks like we were out to fool them.

We do appreciate some of the

The American tour was their second tour of the country. In March last year, shortly after signing to Rough Trade, the fourpiece went to Austin for South by Southwest. “Those shows were surprisingly good,” Fryer says. “The audience there has a reputation of being aloof, because it’s mainly industry people. There were a few shows where people stood there, but mainly people were pretty

happy to get drunk and throw themselves around. We also had one really good daytime show that blew us away, but it was still strange because you’re playing so early.”

The band left Texas and travelled west to California. “We drove all around California, checked out the wine country,” Fryer says. “Then we headed north to Canada, drove along the top and ended up in New York. We stopped off in about 20 different places and played shows.

It was quite the experience for four young guys.”

North American tours have bookended their European travels.

“We’ve played most of the major cities in Europe, we’ve done them all basically,” Fryer says. “Now we’re making an effort to visit places we haven’t been before.

We’re trying to visit all the ones we’ve missed, and we’re doing them one at a time. At the moment we’re in Holland, and we’re playing a bunch of dates just in Holland.

Once it’s finished we get a break for a bit.”

That break will be the first in quite some time, and is much deserved.

However, there won’t be much relaxing. “We’ve got nine days off, which has been a long time coming,” Fryer says. “We’re going to head to a mate’s place and make the most of it by recording some new stuff. We’re still trying to get Steve to come and work with us, but he’s a busy man so he may not have time. In any case, we’ll definitely be making a lot of noise.”

The degree of attention that has been foisted on the band, including lavish praise from none other than NME, does not worry Fryer. “It’s strange at first,” he says, “but you get quite used to it. I don’t read too much into what’s happening, I just enjoy being with friends. I don’t go online and I think it’s better that way, otherwise you end up getting yourself worked up over nothing.

“It’s definitely exciting that it’s happening,” he continues, “but we just do our thing. We’re pretty close as a band, and we spend every day together, pretty much. I think I’ve hung out with Pete every day for the last seven or eight years. I’m not sick of him yet, and I can’t see it happening.”

This winter is the first time Palma Violets have toured Australia, but it’s not Fryer’s first visit. “I came out there in 2006. My dad took me over to watch the Ashes, and we went to Melbourne. That seemed like a really lovely city. It’ll be good come back as adult. I’ve told the guys good things about Australia.

They’re all pretty excited to get there. And Australia seems like the natural next thing to do after Holland,” he laughs. “I don’t think we’ll be going to the beach, but we’ll wait and see. You never know how things will turn out.”

Where: Oxford Art Factory / Splendour in the Grass When: Tuesday July 30 / Saturday July 27

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att Maust is on the road, but he certainly is not slumming it. The bass player of Cold War Kids is in the middle of his band’s North American tour, and is combining his love of art with his love of beer.

He’s also not afraid to wax lyrical on the twin subjects.

The beer in question is brewed by a friend of the band, Vern Moen. Their fellow Californian is a filmmaker who directed the video for ‘Miracle Mile’, the lead single from this year’s fourth album Dear Miss Lonelyhearts. “We’ve known Vern for a while now,” Maust says, “but he’s getting really good at brewing. He’ll probably end up just doing that for a living. Did I mention how good this IPA is?”

Maust’s enjoyment of his day off is understandable. The band has been on tour for two and a half months with folk rockers The Lumineers. The time in transit has been utilised by Maust to good effect.

“I do all the artwork for the band,” he says.

“It’s nice when I’m on tour, because it gives me plenty of time to come up with little ideas for sketches. I can normally only work at it sporadically. You know, I’ll do a little bit here, and little bit there until I’ve got a piece close to being complete.”

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Cold War Kids photo by Cara Robbins

“I’m in Ann Arbor, Michigan,” Maust says.

“I’ve got some time to myself, so I’m holed up in my hotel room sketching and drinking India Pale Ale.” Isn’t that a strange combination for a bassist? “Ha!” Maust laughs. “Well, it’s been a while since I’ve had a day off, and I like to draw whenever I can fi nd the time. Plus, this particular IPA is excellent – there are some very nice hops happening here.”

Dear Miss Lonelyhearts is the band’s first album in two years, following on from 2011’s Mine Is Yours. It’s their first outing with former Modest Mouse guitarist Dann Gallucci, after founding guitarist Jonnie Russell left the group in 2012. Gallucci also produced the record, along with Lars Stalfors (Matt & Kim, Funeral Party), and was critically praised by the music media as a return to form.

“I don’t think our sound has changed all that much,” Maust says. “I think it’s grown. There are drum machines on this album, which is a first. But we still made it in the traditional Cold War Kids way. Three quarters of it are

recorded as a live band. I think this time it was a matter of layering and layering some songs. That was something we worked hard on getting right. We really slaved over that.”

“I think there are two sides to Cold War Kids. It’s much easier for us to do a live show than sweat it out in the studio. But I think we’re becoming more accomplished as a studio band.”

The band’s members are not sitting around soaking up the critical praise. “We’re on tour, but we’re also working on making music videos for every single song on the record,” Maust says. Most of those videos are being made on the road, purely because there is no other option. “We’ll be on tour for a long time,” Maust says. “It’s not a problem for us, we’re known as a live band so that’s how we do things. We treat live shows as something special, because they are.

Maust insists there is little chance of the band’s enviable live reputation changing. “Our live shows are as maniacal as ever,” he says. “And we definitely realise how spoiled we are to be able to do this night after night. It’s never not fun.”

Where: Splendour in the Grass / Metro Theatre When: Saturday July 27 / Monday July 29

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ohn Gourley, frontman for US psych/prog rock band Portugal. The Man doesn’t know where he is when we chat – it’s an occupational hazard. He’s in a hotel room, he’s in America, but it takes a second for the rest of the details to come forward. Who can blame him when his band are touring album number eight, Evil Friends, across the globe in a career that has seemed like one perpetual touring cycle. He’s enjoying dinner and time with his daughter, Frances, while adoring fans wait for the next gig celebrating their latest album, the Danger Mouseproduced Evil Friends.

“I’ve always been an early riser,” Gourley says, talking about how life has changed for him now he’s a dad. “I swear to God because of my parents I really didn’t know people slept past 6am until after I was 18. I know a lot of my friends in bands, they freak out at the thought of having a kid and they’re like, ‘What the fuck would I do?’

I’m like, ‘Fuck man, you buy some diapers and you just do the same shit that you’re doing.’”

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Having grown up in Wasilla, Alaska – an immeasurably beautiful and intensely isolated part of the world – Portugal. The Man came about as a way of getting to the next part of the US and having a blast while doing it. There was no grand business strategy, but things just took off. Perhaps it was their inability to ever say no to a gig, even though Gourley contests that that could’ve been their downfall.

“It’s amazing we ever did well because over here, it was hard to miss us, we were playing all the time.

We opened for every fucking band that ever asked us,” he laughs. “We had no expectations at all [for the band] and sometimes it’s crazy to me that we’ve made it this far. We’re Beatles fans and all we cared about was playing five dollar shows to pay our way to the next part of the country. We put out as many albums as we could and not for the sake of just putting out records, but to learn how to make records.”

Things changed along the way and for Gourley, In the Mountain In the Cloud was a career turning point. “The last album and this album are actually us trying to reach our best. I finally feel confident that we can go out and play TV and festivals and just understand it all better,” he says.

Seminal producer and musician extraordinaire Danger Mouse produced the band’s latest album, but Gourley admits he wasn’t too thrilled when the plans for self-production were changed on him.

“When I showed up to meet Danger Mouse I was in the middle of making the album with the band and we had decided we were gonna self-produce; that was our whole thing,” he explains. “I got a call from Craig Kallman [Atlantic Group Records CEO] just as we started recording and I was kinda pissed off when he made that call. But really, how can you be pissed off at that offer? I mean, Danger Mouse?

If there’s an opportunity there you take it and I appreciate that Craig went out there and asked.”

Even Danger Mouse wasn’t sold on the idea of producing Portugal. The Man, which somehow turned the tables for Gourley – he suddenly wanted him on board. “When we met, the thing is it didn’t mean that we were gonna make an album together.

When we first started talking…” he trails off. “Oh God, these arranged meetings. I assume that for Brian [Danger Mouse], I’ll call him Brian from now on, I assume Brian dreads those moments. I mean he can call up anyone he wants. So I flew out there – well this is the way I recall it happening – and he was like ‘I just did an album with my boys’, who are The Black Keys, ‘and I don’t think I wanna make another rock record.’ Blind confidence is what has driven this band from the beginning so I said, ‘You know what? We’re not a fuckin’ rock band’.

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“He asked what kinda album we were making and I said, ‘We wanna make the best.’ We both laughed at that because it’s just the stupidest shit you can possibly say – ‘the best album’. We talked about Dark Side of the Moon and Thriller together. I guess if you’re not aiming for Dark Side of the Moon, then what’s the fucking point? I feel you still have to aim for that shit even if you think you probably won’t reach it. I love to learn, I fucking hated school but I love to learn. Once you land on the Moon you shoot for Mars – Bowie’s next you know?”

For Gourley, the presence of a producer like Danger Mouse brought both a calm and stoic drive to the recording process. “I appreciated Brian and his approach, it made it so easy,” he says. “The thing is Brian knows how to say no and you can’t say no to artists. Craig Kallman knows that, you know?

You can walk into a studio and tell a band that the chorus isn’t their best and they’ll fucking make it worse, they’ll make it noisier. They think, ‘Who the fuck are you to say that shit?’ That’s not my style, I want an album to reach its potential and Brian did that with us. He said no when he needed to and we listened.”

Where: Splendour in the Grass When: Friday July 26 And: Evil Friends is out now through Warner Music

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hen Villagers came from Ireland to Australia to tour their debut album Becoming a Jackal they did so as a duo, saving on airfares. But for this year’s Splendour appearance and sideshows, playing songs from second album {Awayland}, we’ll get the full five-piece treatment, and frontman Conor O’Brien says it’ll be pretty different. “The albums are written with full band arrangements so for me I prefer getting to bring the band. It’s just more colourful versions of the songs. It’s more energetic as well, for obvious reasons.

Just generally sweatier, really.”

That tour was O’Brien’s first time in Australia and he worried that this far from home nobody would know who they were. He needn’t have. “The show in Sydney, I think that was a guaranteed audience because it was one of those daytime festivals,” he says, “and I think people came to see a lot of stuff.

But the show in Melbourne was our own, my own headline show, and it was completely packed. Which is cool, you know? It’s nice to travel to the other side of the world and people come to see you. Good for the ego.”

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For someone who panics in social situations you’d think performing in front of a crowd would be hard, but according to O’Brien it’s quite the opposite. “When I’m on stage anything that’s happening, like if I’m feeling sick or something, if I have the flu or any sort of sickness or illness, the hour before you go on stage it starts to go away, and I feel really good. I feel really energised. I do the show and I’m totally on a high for an hour after, I still feel great, but then the sickness just comes back, whatever you’re

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suffering from. It’s something quite deep-rooted, performance, for me. I feel like it’s in my blood, which is completely bizarre because I’m not the most gregarious person in real life. I have my moments, but when I get on stage and I have my songs that I’ve worked very hard on to sing, I think I have a reason to live.”

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One of the few times that O’Brien breaks character and sounds his age is in the final song ‘Rhythm Composer’, in which he gives advice on ignoring the bottomless pits that can consume your life and sings, “When you’re making up for what you lack / That old black dog is on your back”. The ‘black dog’ is what sufferers call clinical depression, but although he uses the term O’Brien isn’t one of them.

main driving forces behind writing, because I think if I didn’t write I’d probably go crazy.”

“I’ve never been diagnosed with depression, but I’ve never gone and seen anyone about depression. I’ve had pretty dark moments, probably like most people, and I’ve had moments where I didn’t feel the need to do anything, or found it hard to get out of bed or leave my room or see anybody. I’ve also had quite panic-attacky moments in terms of social relationships with other people and just general fucked-up moods, but I think most people have gone through that. It’s just something you don’t really talk about.

I think that infl uenced my words quite a lot and in fact I think it’s probably one of the

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On {Awayland} he writes from an innocent viewpoint, as if he’s seeing the world for the first time. “I think there was an effort to see it from a newborn perspective,” he says.

“Maintain that sense of curiosity and wonder that kids have; you start to lose [that] when you get to my age because I’m so old.” By “so old” he means he’s all of 30. “It’s like an early middle-age crisis album, that’s what it is,” he jokes.

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ndie kids and the wider industry went janglyguitar mad for Darwin Deez’s self-titled debut album, particularly the single ‘Radar Detector’. There was dancing and terrible singing in falsetto and all-around-love for the North Carolina/New York band fronted (and personified) by Darwin Deez the man (Darwin Smith). As everybody rubbed their hands together like a greedy super villain awaiting the follow-up album, it appeared that no one considered Smith and co. might actually change their sound. They’ve evolved if you will (yep, there it is) and while Songs For Imaginative People is a thoroughly enjoyable and much less saccharine album than the first, it seems to be copping a bit of a battering in reviews.

Smith is finding the experience of being reviewed and deconstructed in the media a humourous one. He’s out on the town when we chat (and sounds rather, um, festive) and he admits that the very notion of a review of his band’s music and him as a person confuses and frustrates him. “I always feel a sense of non-belief whenever I see people dissecting us and I try to never expose myself to it whenever possible,” Smith begins.

“I was really excited and felt satisfied about having a teenage milestone fulfilled with Pitchfork acknowledging our existence as a band, but I didn’t read the review and will never read it because I heard it was snarky.

I can’t stand being in that situation where someone is talking shit about you and you have no appropriate way to respond. There’s never really an appropriate way to respond but especially not through the internet. Then you just look petty.”

The latest album was recorded in North Carolina as Smith says he needed a break from the city, and he’s brutally frank when asked about the influence the recording space

had on the album. “None really,” he says.

“Music is about the unconscious, you know? I don’t think being there influenced the sound of the album at all. I guess I don’t know though, I’m no expert on my own subconscious. I’m just standing near the gate of Darwin Deez, I see some stuff but I don’t know what the fuck is going on in there.”

So why the choice? “North Carolina seemed like the most relaxing and cheap option.

I’d been on the road for a year and a half, I wanted to go home and breathe the air in North Carolina.”

It seems that it was his approach to writing, and not recording, that was the catalyst for the band’s new sound. He agrees that you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t with album number two. Repeat your pattern and you’re accused of being formulaic, change the sound (and identity) of your band too much and you’re accused of some sort of creative betrayal. What can you do but write for yourself in a world where people seem to be more focused on what music they hate than what they like?

“The writing was different because I wrote the lyrics first,” Smith says. “I’ve never done that in all of my years of writing. They ended up shaping the songs in a way that changed the whole sound. It’s one thing to compose a melody and then find the lyrics – you repeat that melody three or four times and then you go to the chorus and that’s that – but it’s another thing to write a melody dictated by the lyrics. I know these songs are harder for people to respond to but I’m stubborn on that because that’s what I wanted.”

Where: The Standard / Splendour in the Grass When: Tuesday July 30 / Friday July 26

Soundlabs, the Silver Lake recording studio that has hosted such bands as The Jesus And Mary Chain and Rilo Kiley. “Zac was interning there at the same time,” he says, “and we got to talking about music. He played me some of the songs he was working on, and we would jam in one of the studios when there wasn’t a session going on.” The two hit it off, and decided that the time was right to start a band. “We started recording demos on nights when there wasn’t anything happening in the studios.

We’d get drunk and jam. Zac’s roommate Brandon would come in to play bass with us, and he ended up in the band too. I’ve always played with Max, so he was a pretty obvious option for drums...”

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IDLAR’s songs are all about the fecklessness of youth – cutting school and staying home, drinking cheap beer, snorting up whatever substances are available, and just hanging out. The four Los Angeles youngsters find their subject matter pretty close to home, so their success has been something of a shock to the system.

Over the past year, FIDLAR have become a band in demand, and all

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the touring has uprooted them somewhat from their laid-back LA lifestyle. “It’s a big change of lifestyle, definitely,” singer Elvis Kuehn tells me. “When you’re going on the road for a whole month, you just want to relax on your day off, you don’t want to write. LA’s a great place, so when it’s your home, it’s hard to be away. We like it more every time we come back. It’s definitely hard.”

FIDLAR’s drummer, Max Kuehn, is also Elvis’s younger brother.

He has quite a devoted internet following, and is something of a ginger sex symbol. I ask Elvis if his brother’s raw redhead sex appeal drives a wedge between him and the rest of the band, but he assures me they’ve all learned to live with it. “I’ve been playing music with Max since we were 12 and 13,” he says. “We’d sometimes get in crazy

screaming arguments, and we still fight, because we’re brothers, but there’s more respect now, it’s more professional.” Over the years, the two have learned to give each other space. “If he fucks something up in the show,” Elvis laughs, “I’m not going to give him shit now, whereas I would when we were younger.”

Elvis met the rest of the band when he was interning at Kingsize

The video for FIDLAR’s song ‘Max Can’t Surf’ features Max playing all of the other band members, and thrashing away at their various instruments. In one scene, the name FIDLAR is clearly visible, tattooed above both his knees.

Having your band’s name inked on your body is pretty serious business…however, Elvis tells me that the video isn’t all it appears.

“Those tattoos aren’t actually real,” he says. “Zac has the band’s name tattooed on him, and because Max was playing him in the video, we fi gured we had to draw the same tattoos on Max for the sake of accuracy.” Since the video, though, Brandon and Max have both gotten FIDLAR tattoos – Elvis remains the one hold-out. I ask if there’s a lot of pressure for him to get one, and he laughs. “No, there’s not really,” he says. “A lot of people ask about it, but it doesn’t bother me. I mean, first of all, I wouldn’t get a band tattoo… it’s lame when people get their favourite bands’ names tattooed on them, so I wouldn’t want to do it with my own band!”

What: Splendour in the Grass / Oxford Art Factory When: Sunday July 28 / Wednesday July 31

Tent of Miracles

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Julia Drouhin Disco Ghost

Livid, Walsh was approached by the then-burgeoning Splendour in the Grass festival, and hasn’t looked back since.

As Arts Programmer for Splendour in the Grass, Walsh has the job of overseeing the weird and wonderful works that appear on site, alongside the music. “One of the reasons I really like Splendour is its willingness to work with new and emerging artists,” he explains. “Sometimes artists will approach us with their proposals, and sometimes, I’ll pursue artists who I think have the potential to create great works for that environment.”

Walsh also likes the site-specific

nature of Splendour’s arts program.

“We try to integrate the artworks all throughout the festival – you don’t need to travel to a specific site to see them, because they’ll be around wherever you go. You’re surrounded by the art.”

This year, the Splendour festival moves to its new, permanent site

Sam Songailo Create a Plan B

12:00

1:00

MIX UP

8.00-9.30

CIRCUS SPACE

10.00-2.00

BUSKER STAGE

9:00

10:00

11:00

12:00

HAIM

BOY & BEAR

BABYSHAMBLES

TV ON THE RADIO

MUMFORD & SONS

12.30-1.00

1.20-2.00

2.15-2.55

3.10-4.00

4.30-4.45

4.45-5.45

6.15-7.15

7.45-8.45

9.15-10.15

10.45-12.00

THE HATED

XAPHOON JONES

MITZI

XAPHOON JONES

ROBERT DELONG

D CUP

12.30 -1.15

1.15 -2.00

2.00-2.45

2.45-3.30

3.30-4.15

4.15-5.15

6.15-7.00

7.00-8.00

8.30-9.30

8.00-8.30

9.30-10.00

PORTUGAL. THE MAN

(SOUND AS EVER)

MATT CORBY

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI

12.45 -1.30

2.00-2.45

3.15-4.00

4.30-5.30

6.00-7.00

7.30-8.30

9.00 - 10.00 9.00-10.00

10.30 10.30-11.30 - 11.30

MODULE EIGHT

SCHWARR

SHORT CIRCUIT

ZIV

2.00-3.00

3.00-4.00

4.00-5.30

5.30-7.00

BEAT POETRY WITH

BURLESQUE WITH

MISS FRIBY

GREG SHEEHAN

1.00-2.00

2.30-3.30

4.00-5.00

LUKA LESSON

BEE AMPERSAND vs MADDIE J

BODY PERCUSSION

I OH YOU DZ DEATHRAYS STREETPARTY VS BLEEDING KNEES VS NORTHEAST VS JEM DE LA PARTY HOUSE DJS CREME CLUB DJS

1.00-2.30

2.30-3.30

3.30-4.30

4.30-5.00

5.00-6.00

EMMY LOU

BLOKE-O ONO

DISCROW

STRANGE PLANET

7.05-8.30

8.30-9.30

9.30-11.00

11.00-12.30

12.30-2.00

6.30-7.30

5.30-6.00 6.00

JUST LIKEE HONEY

JOHNY LOVE

APPLEONIA

RA FEAT. THE FADERS GOLD ON GOLD 6.00-7.00

7.00-8.00

KUNDALINI DANCE JOURNEY WITH

FIERCE LIGHT DOCUMENTARY

7.45-9.00

9.15-11.00

LEYOLAH ANTARA

INDIAN SUMMER

XAPHOON JONES

FLIGHT FACILITIES DECADE DJ SET

EMOH INSTEAD

8.00-9.00

9.00-10.00

10.00-11.00

11.00-12.00

12.00-1.00

1.00-2.00

TROPICANTE ANTE

FIESTA VIVA MARIACHI

TROPICANTE

12.00-4.00

4.00-4.45

4.45-6.45 .45

6.45-7.30

7.30-9.30

BEN FESTER

ANDY WEBB

12.00-1.30

1.30-3.00

3.00-4.00

APRA PRESENTS: SONGWRITERS SPEAK

DEBATE: CAN WE TRUST THE MEDIA?

1.00-2.00

2.30-4.00

ES CHARLES HAYDEN JAMES MURDOCH 4.00-5.15

TOM DODD

WALRUS & CARPENTER

KIT BRAY

GARRETT KATO

12.00-1.00

1.15-2.15

2.30-3.30

3.45-5.00

5.15-6.00

12.15-2.00

12.00 -12.15

BENSON VS MIKE METRO

FIESTA VIVA MARIACHI

MODERN FAIRYTALE

ELECTRIC GARDEN DJ’S

BAD NEWS TOILET

DJ SPEX

2:00

KLAXONS

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

YOU AM I

1:00

10.00-11.00

DAUGHTER

12.00-1.00

11.00-12.00

FLIGHT YOLANDA YOLANDA DARWIN DEEZ BE COOL FACILITIES BE COOL

D CUP

CUB SCOUTS

11.30 - 12.30

INTERVIEW AND Q&A WITH SENATOR CHRISTINE MILNE

CLAIRY BROWNE ROWNE ANGIN’ & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES TTES 5.15-6.15 6.15

SONGS

MEXICAN CANTINA

FORUM

8:00

WELCOME TO COUNTRY

NEW YORK HÜSLA VS CATS JAMES DE BONO RATS

7:00

What: Splendour in the Grass arts program Where: North Byron Parklands When: July 26-28 More: splendourinthegrass.com

WAVVES

MINJUNGBAL

11.00-12.00

6:00

Another exciting work is Disco Ghost, in which artist Julia Drouhin will play records made of chocolate.

“That’s a much more intimate type of performance,” Walsh explains. “I don’t quite know how she makes them, but I know that she needs two full days of preparation. We’re providing her with a deep freezer and she’ll be pulling the records out to play them just before the performance, and then offering them to people to eat.”

DEAP VALLY

BOLLYWOOD DANCE CULTURE & DANCE

10.00-11.00

5:00

“The tunnel is quite large,” Walsh explains. “Its purpose is to get people in and out of the site, and it’s for all the trucks to come through carrying equipment to set up, but we’ve asked Sam to do a work in there for this year.

He’s filled it with some bright, psychedelic colours.” Next year, the festival will commission a new artist who will hopefully be able to do a new work that responds to Songailo’s. “You’ll see remnants of last year’s work, as well as a new one,” Walsh says. “We’re hoping to keep doing that over the years, to keep documenting the festival as the artwork evolves. That’s the kind of thing that’s only possible with a permanent site.”

DUNE RATS

TIPI FOREST GLOBAL VILLAGE

4:00

As for other highlights of the festival program, Walsh points to the Tent of Miracles, a perennial feature of Splendour. “The tent takes a different theme every year,” he says. “This year, it’s ‘The People Vs The Tent of Miracles’. It’s become a court, so there’s going to be interaction between the performers and the audience. People will be summoned to court and have to go through the procedures. It’s a very gifted group of performance artists, who can create a work specific to a rock audience. That’s an important work for the festival, for its identity.”

BAPTISM OF UZI

GW McLENNAN TENT

ZENTHAI YOGA

3:00

PERFORMANCE

SUPERTOP

2:00

GYUTO MONKS CHANTING & MEDITATION

11:00

north of Byron Bay, and Walsh is excited by the possibilities this opens up for permanent works, that evolve and change over time.

“We have an opportunity to think about artworks that are not just about the three day experience – we’re thinking about how artworks can transcend many festivals, that can change over the years, for repeat festival-goers to see their evolution,” he says. One such work comes from artist Sam Songailo, who’s been commissioned to create a work inside the new site’s main entrance tunnel.

FIRE FX - FIRE SHOW

rtist Craig Walsh has been working with music festivals for nearly two decades, beginning with a commission to produce works for Brisbane’s muchmissed musical gathering Livid. One of his most memorable works was a series of interactive sculptures, positioned around a stage, that would interact with concertgoers between bands. “I’ve always been interested in that idea of interactivity,” he says, “and when you do works like that, you learn a lot about producing and presenting in an outdoor festival environment, and about the audience’s expectations from a work.” After

FIESTA VIVA MARIACHI 9.30 -10.00

DWIGHT CHOCOLATE ESCOBAR 10.00-2.00

MITZI DJS

OTOLOGIC DJS

FUTURE CLASSIC DJS

ONRA

RICK WILHITE

6.00-7.30

7.30-9.00

9.00-11.00

11.00-12.00

12.00-2.00

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Hands Like Houses Warped Vision By Rick Wickman

Camera Obscura Seeing Things Differently By Blake Gallagher

I

t’s been a little while between drinks for Camera Obscura. In early 2011, following extensive touring in support of acclaimed fourth album My Maudlin Career, keyboardist Carey Lander was diagnosed with cancer, and the Scottish quintet were forced to put immediate plans – including the writing of record number five – on hold. In February this year, with Lander recovering, the band played their first show in roughly two years, returning successfully with a sold-out performance at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in their hometown of Glasgow. The next day, the band announced new album Desire Lines would be out by June.

“It was definitely a bit strange,” says Lander of reconnecting musically with her bandmates after the two-year hiatus. “We were quite conscious of the time away. Saying that, once we’d done a few rehearsals and played a few shows back, it all sort of fell into place, it felt normal and good again”. Lander and co. have been on tour in Europe and the US for about six weeks now, having just wrapped up a string of dates with folkpop duo She & Him.

Torrential acts of nature aside, Lander speaks with fondness about the past month and a half spent on the road, noting the positive reception given the generous portion of the setlist taken

And proud they should be. The album’s been garnering rave reviews from all corners, with the band continuing to demonstrate their knack for writing soulful – often morose – pop gems.

Eschewing the Swedish studio where the band’s prior two full-lengths were captured, Desire Lines was recorded in Portland with producer Tucker Martine – best known for working with the likes of The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens and My Morning Jacket. Lander points out that Desire Lines was a considered effort. “We had a lot of time to think about how we wanted it to be before we started. We wanted to record in a slightly less ‘live’ way so that there was time for everyone to really get their parts down and for the band to just sound good.”

Despite the praise Desire Lines has already received, Lander admits it’s a challenge to have confidence as the songs are coming together. “I guess I’m a bit of a pessimist,” she says with a wry laugh. “It’s hard to believe things are going to turn out well when you’re in the studio – I worry a lot that things don’t sound good enough or no one will like it. The response has been good so I guess we must have done something right.”

With their relatively brief jaunts across Europe and the States almost complete, Camera Obscura are about to put touring plans on hold yet again, as guitarist/vocalist Tracyanne Campbell, now six months pregnant, prepares to give birth to her first child. While touring is back off the cards for now, Lander hopes 2014 will see the band head out more expansively. “Australia and New Zealand are places we’ve played a couple times. They’ve been great tours and it certainly seems like there’s an audience there, so we’re definitely keen to come back.”

What: Desire Lines is out now through 4AD.

T

he Brag speaks to Hands Like Houses vocalist Trenton Woodley as he’s enjoying a chilled out day at the beach, taking respite from a mammoth leg of dates with the US Warped Tour. After breaking through internationally with last year’s debut Ground Dweller, the Canberran outfit are ready to unleash their follow-up, Unimagine.

“It’s definitely snuck up on us, but at the same time we’re glad to have it out,” Woodley says of the album’s impending release. “We finished it about two months ago, and now it’s coming out in about two weeks – a couple of days earlier in Australia, which is sweet. I guess we haven’t thought about it too much. We’re as nervous as anyone with a sophomore album, it’s a scary thing. But we’re feeling good about it.”

Considering Hands Like Houses’ hefty touring schedule in the year following Ground Dweller, the release of Unimagine feels swift but, as Woodley says, they’d already been working on new material before their debut was even released.

“Truthfully, Ground Dweller isn’t that new for us. We recorded it a year before it was released, but due to finding a label and a few other bits and pieces, it dragged out a bit longer than we intended. A lot of those songs we even started a year before that, because we did Ground Dweller in two halves over 13 months. For us, it felt like a pretty natural time to put out new music. Plus it’s good to capitalise on all the momentum happening in the past 12 months. It didn’t feel overly pushed, it was just a matter of finding time to write in between touring. It turned out really well, we’re really happy with it.”

The success of Ground Dweller booked the band onto tours in the US with the likes of Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens, Attack!Attack! and We Came As Romans.

As you’d expect, there’s some pressure to continue their momentum with Unimagine.

“It was very nerve-wracking. Obviously we had a short amount of time to write it, and things were in a bit of an unfinished state when we hit the studio. But we had a fantastic producer, James Wisner. He’s very direct and confident in the way he wants to get a take out of you. There were times when he was constructively critical, and it made for a much better album in the end.”

With Unimagine’s release being sandwiched in between the run of Warped Tour dates, many of the album’s tracks are yet to be eased into the current setlist.

“Obviously it’s a tough thing to figure out the balance,” Woodley says. “But we’re playing two new songs on the Warped Tour, one of which has been released – ‘Introduced Species’ – and another one called ‘Shapeshifters’, which I think is coming out in the US before the album is released. For us, depending on when we do our next tour in the US, we’ll try and stuff it with as many new songs as possible. It’s probably going to be a delicate balance for a little while, as much as we’d like to dive head-first into the new stuff.”

While Hands Like Houses have spent a fair chunk of time stateside in the past year or so, Woodley’s proud of their ACT origins. “We are an Australian band, we’re very proud of where we’re from, and we love living in Australia. We love touring there, but we haven’t had a ton of opportunities to do so. Once we got the [first] record out, things started lining up over in the States. But as we see it, we’re an Australian band touring the world.”

What: Unimagine out Tuesday July 23 through Rise/Warner

Camera Obscura photo by Anna Isola Crolla

“We’ve done a lot of touring so it makes it a bit easier, but we were still concerned about whether we’d remember our parts, or if anyone would still be interested in us, and all those sort of worries,” Lander explains from the New York hotel room where the band are currently lodged.

As far as the latter’s concerned, it’s a concern resoundingly quelled. Eager fans turned out en masse to see the group at their recent Bluesfest appearance in Ottawa – despite the Glaswegians inadvertently bringing the weather with them.

“It was so sunny and humid all day and then just before we came on, the heavens opened and it began totally lashing with rain. Everyone got soaked. We weren’t really sure we should even have played, it felt quite dangerous using electricity in the middle of a rainstorm.”

from new album Desire Lines. “We’ve been blasting them pretty hard with new songs. We could almost go out and do ‘best of’ sets at this point, but it’s a new album, and we’re proud of it.

It’s important to play those songs and showcase them, I think.”

Karnivool Building a Juggernaut By Bob Gordon

K

arnivool guitarist Drew Goddard sips on an early afternoon beer at Perth’s Rosemount Hotel looking relaxed and perhaps even mildly excited.

He’s a pretty cool customer, but the fact remains, it’s the eve of the release of a new Karnivool album and these events don’t occur like everyday sunsets. Asymmetry’s arrival marks four years since the band’s last album, Sound Awake, which came four years after their 2005 debut, Themata. Welcome to the Olympic Games that is Karnivool.

“Yeah, we’re consistent,” Goddard laughs.

“We do it in Karnivool time. We were looking at doing it in two years, we thought we’d do this one quicker, but it didn’t happen. It seems to be the case every time.”

“It’s comforting and gratifying for sure,” Goddard reflects. “We’ve got such a loyal fanbase, we know that a couple of people might drop off waiting for it and we know that there were a few people getting frustrated waiting for it this time around, especially in like the last six months, it’s like, ‘come on guys. What’s happening?’ But it’s also 18 :: BRAG :: 522 :: 22:07:13

“It really is quite heartening,” vocalist Ian Kenny echoes via an email from Los Angeles, where he’s working with Birds Of Tokyo.

“Karnivool are lucky enough to have some of the most loyal and sometimes fanatic fans out there. Karnivool fans are quite amazing.”

Karnivool have always made epic music, so it only makes sense that as the years pass and the band gets bigger, the musical dynamics grow ever deeper and wider. “It’s always a lengthy process. This time getting everyone in the same place was a big factor as well, because the long-distance thing was quite challenging when trying to build the juggernaut. It’s built and it’s ready to sail now, so we’ll see.”

The shipbuilding started shortly after the 2009 release of Sound Awake. A year had passed between Themata finishing and the commencement of Sound Awake, so the band made a point of sowing some early seeds.

“The first seed was in Paris,” Goddard recalls. “I remember we came up with a drum beat idea which turned into the first song (‘Nachash’). That was early 2010.” It’s a

revealing statement. The first album was made in the suburbs of Perth, now they have Paris.

“Mate, most of the seeds were formed in the luxurious surroundings of Perth’s Bayswater industrial area [laughs]. There’s a good balance.”

Goddard says he misses the days when they could simply drive to each other’s houses to try out a song idea. A richness, however, comes to the music from the band’s global existence.

“The geographical impairment is definitely a factor,” he says. “It can be frustrating, at times, to try and get everyone on the same page when everyone’s off doing different things, which can feed into the record. But like you mentioned, I dunno, I guess it’s more worldly.

We’ve travelled a lot more since we were just driving over to each other’s houses and saying, ‘I’ve got a riff’. We don’t have the luxury of

doing that anymore, calling up Ian and saying, ‘come around, I’ve got an idea’, there’s a lot of time we’ve got to use and it requires some work ethic. But the other thing is that Ian is a big motivating factor, he’s got such a great work ethic.”

As the member most often geographically distant, the Melbourne-based Kenny maintains that distance is there to be conquered. “I don’t think it’s changed us,” he notes. “It can sometimes be a challenge not having everyone on ground when writing, but we always find a way around it. There are many ways to communicate or get ideas across without actually being on ground.”

Where: The Big Top, Luna Park (all ages) When: Sunday August 4 And: Asymmetry out now independently

Karnivool photo by kane Hibberd

It would appear to say something, though, of the band’s following – happy to be loyal and willing to wait that long between offerings.

motivating, in a way, to get it done. But not as motivating as management kicking us in the arse. With a cattle prod. ‘Hurry up!’”

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© Gregory Hodge Emblem Echo 2013 acrylic on canvas 183cm x 152cm

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Emblem Echo, 2013

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he work of contemporary artist Gregory Hodge is currently on display at Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art. His debut Sydney exhibition Slide presents new paintings that explore the tension between representation and abstraction. In an effort to combine bold abstract motifs and layered atmospheric space, Hodge offers up spatially complex work to challenge viewers’ perception of paint and different approaches to painting. We caught five with the artist to talk about his technique and current show.

107 PROJECTS

From August 1-25, Redfern-based multiarts hybrid space 107 Projects will host two exhibitions exploring the polarities of the urban and the outback. From August 1-11, the work of local artist Pauly Gilsenan and photographer Matthew Venables will be on display in Urban / Schmurbanal – a collection of works born from

GREGORY HODGE

Tell us about your background in painting.

I went to art school at Australian National University in Canberra. Initially the Romantics such as Caspar David Friedrich and the atmospheric paintings of Turner and Constable influenced my work. While my recent work retains these earlier interests in landscape they also deal with conversations about abstraction and the processes of painting.

to fix themselves on top of the picture plane creating an illusion of a shallow pictorial field.

Slide is your debut Sydney exhibition.

What themes are you exploring? These new paintings incorporate coloured abstract motifs and layered atmospheric space with optical and illusionistic techniques to playfully explore the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

I like painting that maintains some level of mystery. Hopefully engaging with the paint and scrutinising the surface, some of these questions a viewer might bring to the work answer themselves over time.

The show has also been an opportunity to focus on working on a large scale and a chance to refine recently developed processes while also allowing for experimentation.

What kind of creative processes did you engage when producing the works in Slide? My initial studio process begins by making collages out of abstract painted gestures on drafting film and coloured paper that are rudimentarily stuck together with masking tape. I then transcribe these compositions into large paintings on canvas, copying and enlarging the cut out edges, slight rises, compression and relief. Using various trompe-l’œil effects of cast shadows and rigid acrylic gel films, the gestural motifs appear the artists’ visual accounts of life within the urban mundane. Thereafter, from August 15-25, Embark will offer viewers the chance to catch a collection of work from sculptor/songwriter Nic Cassey and Carmel Spark. The collaboration was born out of Cassey and Spark’s shared affinity for tree bark and how natural objects can be used to feed emotional impulses to explore the landscape.

107projects.com for further details.

How will viewers react to your work?

Viewers who see the work for the first time often have a lot of questions about how the works are made. Sometimes people are surprised at the works being all painting on canvas rather then collage.

The works are also very painterly. While there are passages that resemble slick printing techniques, the surface is densely layered, maintaining a hand-made quality.

Exciting upcoming projects we should know about?

It’s been a busy 2013 already and there are things developing down the track. I’m most excited about an upcoming trip to Europe, which will be a chance to see some important painting shows, eat well and recharge.

What: Slide by Gregory Hodge Where: Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art When: Until August 10 More: sullivanstrumpf.com

GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY! TIX! WIN!

Fans of musicians with the last name Buckley and/or free movie tickets, lend us your eyes: Dendy Newtown is holding a special showing of Greetings From Tim Buckley. Written and directed by Daniel Algrant (Naked In New York) and featuring Gossip Girl’s resident broody alt-dude (but don’t hold it against him!) Penn Badgley as a young Jeff Buckley, the film follows Jeff as he prepares for his first public performance – a tribute to his father that would introduce the world to the then-unknown future prodigy. For your chance to score one of 50 double passes to the screening on Wednesday July 24, email your full name to freestuff@thebrag.com with “Greetings” in the subject line. Go! Now!

Acknowledge: Sydney's Homeless

FRIDAY AT THE FITZ

As Federal Election buzz mounts, Sydney Independent Theatre Company is gearing up to present political satire, FRIDAY by Daniela Giorgi. Exploring power and engagement, the play offers up a tale of fictitious democracy where the tension between public responsibility and private desires is centrestage. “Given the series of tumultuous political events in Australia in recent times, Giorgi’s funny and at times heartbreaking examination of the challenges and necessity of political engagement is both timely and very relevant,” said director Julie Baz. FRIDAY opens at the Old Fitzroy Theatre on Tuesday August 6 and runs until Saturday August 31. For more information and bookings head to sitco.net.au

Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Ross Rudesh Harley, Naked Flora 2013, image courtesy and © the artist

OLAFUR ELIASSON AT SCAF

Maria Fernanda, Naked Flora, 2013

MCA ARTBAR

Leading Latin American and Australian artist Maria Fernanda has been announced as the 14th curator of MCA ARTBAR. On Friday July 26, Fernanda will encourage gallery-goers to spend the night as Mother Nature intended – not in the nut, but all-embracing of the artist’s nominated theme ‘Sex Everywhere’.

The MCA will be transformed into Fernanda’s Museum of Copulatory Organs – an installation celebrating the diversity and complexity in genitalic structures across the animal kingdom. Punters should expect to be taken on an arousing journey into the urban ecosystem of animal and plant reproduction carried throughout the Museum. Y’all will be able to undress a flower, view Jurgen Otto’s footage of the mating dances of male Peacock Spiders or respond to the calls of the wild with Gary Warner’s soundscape of mating calls. Time to get jiggy with it, folks. Head to mca.com.au for all the info.

Danish artist Olafur Eliasson takes as his central artistic agenda the investigation of immaterial objects like temperature and light, which he then turns into sculptural elements to be experienced by viewers. From August 23 through September 21, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation will host an exhibition of Eliasson’s The Cubic Structural Evolution Project wherein gallery-goers will participate in the construction of a cityscape using white lego blocks. Yeah, that’s right – thousands and thousands of lego locks. The best part? You create whatever you want so prepare to go block crazy. For more information visit sherman-scaf.org.au

FIREFACE

Fireface, directed by Luke Rogers, is a darkly comic and unnerving look into the cracks and seams that knit a family together and tear them apart. The play centres on two young siblings Kurt and Olga who never want to grow old and end up like mum and dad. When Olga hooks

ACKNOWLEDGED: SYDNEY’S HOMELESS

From Monday July 29, the State Library of NSW will host a new photographic exhibition dedicated to Sydney’s homeless. Created by Sydney Homeless Connect, Acknowledged: Sydney’s Homeless offers up 60 portraits of men, women and children to paint a vivid picture of what life’s like for those who sleep rough, couch surf or stay in temporary accommodation. The exhibition has been four years in the making and largely the product of volunteer photographers Angela Pelizzari and Jennifer Blau who have been capturing the real face of homelessness in Sydney. “The idea behind the photographic project was to give Sydney’s homeless a chance to direct the way others see them, and for them to see themselves outside of the stereotypical image,” said Sydney Homeless Connect curator Felicity Coonan via release. Head to sl.nsw.gov.au

up with her first ever boyfriend, however, Kurt’s obsession with his sister turns into anger and life as they know it becomes a question of overcoming adolescent turmoil. Touching on themes of the transition from adolescence to adulthood, finding meaning connetions with others in a complex modern day world and conquering the lust to break free, the play is relatable on all counts. Fireface opens at the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP Studio 1, The Wharf, Pier 4/5 Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay) on Thursday August 1 and runs until August 17. For further details head to storieslikethese.com

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Ave Loretta is a eulogy to the deceased, performed by comedian Michael Workman. The set deals with a young suicide, suburban life and conformity. Winner of Director’s Choice at this year’s Sydney Comedy Festival, Workman’s saturnine wit has many a time led his audience into wrenching laughs, whether appropriate or not.

Waging a war against banality, this comedian’s got a lively fight on his hands. Workman will perform Ave Loretta in a special encore performance at the Comedy Store on Saturday July 27. For more information and tickets visit comedystore.com.au

PERSIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The Persian International Film Festival will showcase stories from around the world from Thursday August 22 through September 1. The lineup includes films from Iran, Afghanistan and their diasporic communities globe-wide including seven recent features, 10 shorts, a full retrospective program and even a football-themed session. The festival will open with A Respectable Family – Iranian film noir directed by Massoud Bakhshi – and close with the luminescent Chicken With Plums by Vincent Paronnaud. “We set out to bring together stories that share that human essence and we hope to break stereotypes and forge new connections though film,” said Festival Co-diretor Sanaz Fotouhl via release. For more information and the full program head to persianfilmfestival.com

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52 Suburbs Around The World [PHOTOGRAPHY] Filling The Gaps In Travel Photography By Amelia Saw ice cream truck time again – the end of Ramadan

missed the Eiffel Tower. She went to Rome but didn’t photograph The Colosseum and, unbelievably, she made it through New York without a photo of the Empire State Building.

But Hawson had a different itinerary to most.

“We’re so used to seeing photographs of the famous bits of the famous cities,” she says. “My project was all about ignoring the famous bits, ignoring the icons and going into regular, ordinary neighbourhoods.” There she’d photograph anything she found beautiful or interesting, be it a wall, person or unusual tile design.

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t’s January 2012. With a digital camera and her eight-year-old daughter Coco in tow, Louise Hawson turns her back on Sydney life and boards a flight to Hong Kong. This is the first of 14 cities the pair will touch down in over the next year.

Documenting their journey on her blog 52suburbs.com, Hawson photographs 10 countries, 14 cities and 52 suburbs. At the end of this journey she returns home with 30,000 images and some curious gaps in her travel photography. She visited Paris but somehow

These photographs are then presented in diptychs to give audiences powerful insights into the people and their culture. Hawson illustrates how this works with ice cream truck time again – the end of Ramadan, which pairs a picture of an orange-bearded Muslim man in Queens taken at an end of the traditional holy month of fasting, with a photograph of an ice cream truck. Besides the complementary colour scheme, the two subjects have no relationship. Yet by displaying them side-by-side with a caption, Hawson communicates a neighbourhood truth. “The kids told me that the ice cream trucks suspend their service during Ramadan because everyone is fasting and it’s only when it’s over that their ice cream trucks come back again,” she says.

Hawson grants her viewers touching insights into the lives of people all over the world. “I’m kind of saying to people, ‘look at what you can see when you really have the opportunity to

open your eyes. Look at the beauty that’s in these regular neighbourhoods’.” It’s this beauty in the ordinary that we often miss out on when we do a whirlwind race around a city’s main attractions.

Hawson’s obsession with unveiling a city’s lessseen sights began in 2009 in her own backyard.

Realising she’d lived in Sydney for 30 years without ever exploring it, her first photographic project 52 Suburbs (which has since been made into a book) focused on revealing the real Sydney by photographing one suburb a week for 52 weeks. The result was an understanding of Sydney far different and more diverse than the postcards of Bondi blondes consumed by tourists. Hawson’s international tour was then a natural progression when she started to wonder how many other cities had been misrepresented by tourist iconography.

Three years later, Hawson has emerged from her life-consuming obsession a little weary and with a bigger mortgage. However it’s the personal value of her trip that she holds most valuable. “At the end of the day, I walked away with more hope than I’d begun with. When you constantly find beauty in places you wouldn’t expect to find it, you realise that the world’s a pretty good place, despite the 7 o’clock news.”

What: 52 Suburbs Around The World Where: Museum of Sydney When: Until November 24 More: 52suburbs.com

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[VISUAL ART] Touching The Intangible By Alasdair Duncan

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elbourne-based artist Agatha GotheSnape is fascinated by the intersection of dance and visual art – specifically, by the notion that something as intangible and ephemeral as a movement or a moment can be captured, and live on. Her newest work, Inexhaustible present, is an exploration of this notion. A collaboration with her long-time friend and sounding board Brooke Stamp, the work will spend six weeks in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Contemporary Project Space, as one of two new works in an exhibition called Taking form. Inexhaustible present is built around a haunting projection of Gothe-Snape’s dancing shadow.

The World's End

The World’s End [FILM] Beware The Zombie Apocalypse By Joseph Rana

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n short, the ‘wtf’ colloquialism sums up Edgar Wright’s latest directorial triumph, The World’s End. In a good way, that is – the film is original, bold and genuinely funny. And interestingly enough, the ‘wtf’ gag seems to be at the core of what Wright was going for. “You know what’s funny about that? I thought of that as a joke and I was about to write that on Twitter... I stopped myself and thought it would be a funny line in the movie.”

The film sees five childhood friends – or the ‘five musketeers’ – reunite to follow their leader Gary King (Simon Pegg) into mayhem.

Mentally stuck in his teens, Gary cunningly convinces his four mates – Andy (Nick Frost), Steven (Paddy Considine), Oliver (Martin Freeman), and Peter (Eddie Marsan) – to join him and re-create an epic pub crawl they failed to complete twenty years ago. This Golden Mile drinking marathon leads them to their childhood suburban town of Newton Haven, where Gary is hell-bent on reaching the last pub on his map, The World’s End, at any and all costs. But there is something wrong – Gary and his middle-aged cohort realise that town locals are not what they seem to be. It’s all parodied alien invasion, zombie apocalypse, cop action, ’70s paranoia thriller from here on in with a solid gag hit-rate. Finishing the pub crawl is now not as half important as staying alive.

The World’s End, like Wright’s previous works, is also intentionally very British. “Oh I think it’s really important because I think in the same way that if I watch an Australian film I want to see like a little window into your world. It’s important to have cultural identity, because otherwise everything becomes a sort of a trans-Atlantic mush,” says Wright. And rightly

Stylistically, The World’s End might comes across as propagating Around The Block meets The Day The Earth Stood Still meets The Breakfast Club wherein protagonist Gary shares a similar disposition to a gothic John Bender. But Wright doesn’t entirely agree. “Not specifically, no. You said Bender, but my first thought was Futurama… Simon used to be a Goth when he was a teenager. The sister of mercy look is just like wearing all black with black jeans. I’m wearing black jeans today,” laughs Wright.

But what we can say for certain is that The World’s End draws inspiration from Big Chill and It’s Always Fair Weather. “Big Chill is a film about some friends reuniting [while the] Gene Kelly musical [is] sort of friends after World War II… [they] meet ten years later and realise they have nothing in common.”

Contextually, the film also completes the Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy comprising Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and now The World’s End. When watched in a series, as intended, the trilogy successfully subverts then deconstructs stereotypes of the zombie thriller genre by satiric hyperbole and mockery. There’s also an overdose of nostalgia.

“The nostalgia thing is like the villain in the piece... a sting in the tale in The World’s End is that the idea that nostalgia is probably very bad for you. The moral of the film is like don’t try to recreate former glories,” says Wright.

What: The World’s End opens in cinemas on Thursday August 1

Gothe-Snape has spent the past several months working on the dance at the centre of Inexhaustible present. “The work consists of three things,” she explains. “It’s the dance, but it’s also the record of that dance, and it’s the installation that temporarily holds that dance while it’s in the gallery. For the last few months, I’ve been thinking over this question of how to take something like dance – something that, by its very nature is ethereal and temporal like a dance, something that exists within the body – and put it within a gallery, whose inherent nature is to memorialise something? This work operates around that problem. How do you freeze the present, and let it live on in a gallery?”

Gothe-Snape turned to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ collection for inspiration, and found it in an unlikely place – an early 20th century bust of the New Zealand filmmaker Len Lye, created by Sydney sculptor Rayner Hoff. “I like the idea of a sculpture, because it’s there to capture a moment in time, something immaterial that, by its nature, you can’t really capture at all,” she says. “As a filmmaker, Len Lye was known for his ability to capture immaterial things like colour and movement. This beautiful, art deco bust of Lye, by Rayner Hoff, is an incredible paradox.

The life and energy of both artists comes

together in it, in the same way I hope all of my and Brooke’s energy comes together in our dance.”

For the six weeks of the show, Gothe-Snape’s dancing shadow will be projected onto a pair of hanging curtains, until the very last day, when she will dance the work herself. “I wanted to document the dance and also its absence,” she says, “and I realised that the shadow was the perfect way to do that was to make my absence into the presence. At the very conclusion of the show, I’ll be doing the dance. I’ll remove the shadow, this temporary monument to the dance, and return it to my body, where the dance ultimately resides, and then when I’m done, I’ll leave the gallery with it.”

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so. With the number of Hollywood movies that seem to be infectious clones of each other, The World’s End comes as a welcome change.

“Brooke Stamp and I met about ten years ago, working in what you’d call experimental theatre in Melbourne,” Gothe-Snape explains.

“I’d come out of acting school at VCA, and she’d come out of dance school there. We were involved in similar projects, and we really hit it off.” Over the last few years, working on various projects, the pair have explored the crossover of dance and visual art. “My work is really embedded in notions of performativity and movement and how we occupy spaces, as audiences and artists, and it seemed really appropriate for me to work with Brooke, whose interests lie in choreography and dance, understanding the human body in relation to interior and exterior spaces. Our conversations grew and grew.”

Film Reviews Hits and misses on the silver screen and the bareboards around town

The winning drawcard of Pacific Rim is, predictably, the genuinely kick-ass special effects, from the ornate details of the Jaeger machines to the seemingly-unbeatable Kaiju.

The action sequences spin with the bewildering incredulity of video game or WWE fighting, but due to scale and 3D complexity, the action sequences are often hard to keep track of.

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Unfortunately, del Toro’s dazzling effects are explosive bookends to some seriously painful stretches of mundane storyline and abominable acting. Relatively muddled accents deliver a predictable script, Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam is ludicrously banal as jock pilot Raleigh Becket and Rinko Kikuchi (Norwegian Wood) as would-be Jaeger pilot ■ Film

PACIFIC RIM In cinemas now Breathing new, expensive life into nowretro Japanese mecha films, Guillermo del Toro’s eighth directorial venture Pacific Rim squeezes every last drop of new CGI technology into a sci-fi doomsday spectacle – an overwhelming visual escapade unfortunately prioritising everything else to the bottom of the pile. With better acting seen in Mass Effect 3, Pacific Rim would be better off as a full-screen video game.

Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy director del Toro is significantly invested in Pacific Rim, having ■ Film

directed and produced the film, but also penning the screenplay from a childhood love of old Japanese kaiju and mecha films.

Pacific Rim picks up in the middle of a global war, with the constant battle between humanoperated colossal machines (Jaegers) and a race of gargantuan sea monsters (the Kaiju) gunning for certain doom to Planet Earth. The impressive Jaegers protect humanity as Power Rangers’ Zords meets Transformers’ Autobots, sporting names befitting a Melbourne Cup winner: Gipsy Danger, Crimson Typhoon, Striker Eureka (the Australian ‘bot, cringingly). It’s in the otherworldly creations of the not-so-retro Kaiju monsters that Guillermo’s true magic lies: multiple mouths, indeterminate size, suddenly revealed batwings. and brother-in-law’s Pierre (Charles Berling) place.

WHAT’S IN A NAME

The conversation is pleasant at the beginning as Vincent and party wait for his spouse Anna (Judith El Zein) to grace the occasion. In Anna’s absence – she’s always late, you see – Élisabeth and Pierre together with Vincent’s childhood buddy Claude (Guillaume de Tonquédec) start to question Vincent about what he and Anna are going to name their newborn.

Thereafter, What’s In A Name spirals into a chaotic comedic melodrama that takes things to new levels of fun.

In cinemas July 25 There is something innately charming and pleasing about directors Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere’s new movie, What’s In A Name. Just like fine French cuisine, it tickles your taste buds leaving you craving for more.

It’s funny to the core, and delivers on all counts: fine storytelling, believable characters and their journeys, commendable performances and most importantly, an emotional drama that mixes humour with human nature’s imperfections.

What’s In A Name tells the story of Vincent (Patrick Bruel), a successful businessman who is about to make his fore into fatherhood. Just like any average run-of-the-mill guy who is about to welcome his firstborn, he is confident yet jumpy and timid yet excited all rolled into one. As his countdown to fatherhood closes in, Vincent is invited to attend a dinner at his sister Élisabeth (Valérie Benguigui)

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Mako Mori is painfully childish, playing Little Girl Lost with minimal charm. Idris Elba (The Wire) as leader Marshall Stacker Pentecost (actually his name) finds a momentary foothold with the best line of the film, the trailer-bait declaration “Today, we are cancelling the apocalypse.” Yippee. Kai. Yay. An eye-shatteringly superb CGI-fest with halfbaked trimmings, Pacific Rim would make a magnificent video game. All this reviewer wanted was to jump into a Jaeger and kick some Kaiju tail, but instead endured lengthy cut scenes, with no skip button in sight.

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night. There’s strange creaks and bangs, unexplainable bruises, and birds keep flying into the windows and snapping their necks.

Hmmm…this is not looking good, Perron family.

Why don’t you just leave?

THE CONJURING In cinemas now You saw Wolf Creek and barely batted an eyelid. You thought Silence Of The Lambs was a quaint tale about an adventurous couturier that wanted to try working with skin. So, when you heard about The Conjuring – the R-rated ‘scariest film of 2013’ – the idea that it could raise even one hair on your body was, well, laughable. But it’s time you dropped the bravado, because I’m telling you this shit’s scary. I mean really, really, seriously scary.

Based on the real case files of demonologists Edward and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), The Conjuring tells the tale of the Perron family and their battle with a pretty foul-tempered demon.

We’re first introduced to the smiling, allAmerican Perron family when they move into an isolated farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island.

And, as is the case with all good horror films, pretty soon things start to go wrong.

They find their pet dog dead after the first

But guess what? The Perrons decide to stay!

The upshot of which is 112-minutes of spineshivering, hair-raising, peeping-through-yourfingers cinematic-induced terror.

Australian director James Wan (Saw, Insidious) has outdone himself with this one. We’re talking multiple possessions, cute kids being dragged by the hair by invisible demons, a mother that turns on her family and tries to murder her young, and some ace projectile blood vomiting.

You might think the ‘true story’ claim is a load of codswallop and that demonic possession is about as likely as Kim Kardashian winning a Nobel Peace Prize, but whether fact or fiction, this is a successfully terrifying film. Think Poltergeist meets The Exorcist with a dash of The Blair Witch Project and you’ve got The Conjuring. Sweaty palms guaranteed.

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Vincent reveals the name he has chosen for his child and it is so wild, scandalous and unacceptable, that it leads to a family upheaval and triggers revelation of the group’s dark secrets that every family has, but denies.

What’s In A Name is cleverly written to negotiate complex themes of friendship, love and the importance of a name. The film will leave you thinking, but only if you can untangle yourself from knots of laughter first.

Joseph Rana

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Arts Exposed What's in our diary...

Waldemar Kolbusz

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Richard Martin Art 98 Holdsworth Street, Woollahra Perth-based painter Waldemar Kolbusz takes as his central artistic agenda the language of colour and form. His deeply expressionistic paintings emphasise dynamic, energetic gesture in contrast to a reflective cerebral focus on more open fields of biomorphic colour. Inspired by the New York School greats Rothko and Motherwell, Kolbusz’s work resists formal categorisation by eluding a static sense time and place.

The simplified, astute geometry and large-format of Kolbusz’s work aligns with an exodus of pictorial means to foreground the elemental impact of colour-dominated fields. You can view Kolbusz’s latest work at Richard Martin Art until Wednesday July 31.

Waldemar Kolbusz, Picolo I, 2013

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bread&thread Food & Fashion News... With Natalie Amat

BOMBSHELL BAY

Vintage-inspired swimwear brand with a focus on ethical manufacturing Bombshell Bay have launched its exotic new summer swimwear collection Flora Botanica featuring bikinis, rash vests and one pieces inspired by lush jungle paradises made from Oz-designed prints. Designer Emily Doig describes the collection as “a little piece of paradise that will ensure you make a statement and feel great at the beach”. There’s also a companion resort collection of rainbow bright rompers, jumpsuits and nd pants to take you from beach ach to bar come sunny days. The collection is available for pre-order now and will be shipping in September. Get clicking at bombshellbay.com.au bay.com.au to see more..

GREEK IS GOOD

A new development encompassing an artisan food emporium, cantina, meze bar, café and restaurant has opened its doors and its kitchens to the public under the moniker Alpha. With heartily delicious offerings like spit-roasted pork, wagyu beef soutzoukakia meatballs and moussaka maestro Peter Conistis’ famous scallop and taramasalata dish, the joint venture between the chef who “feeds you like he’s a Greek mother” and The Hellenic Club is a one-stop-shop for all your Mediterranean dining needs. It’s all Greek everything at

FRY TIME ARRIVES

Attention all fans of the humble potato, we have some seriously day-brightening news for you. Melbourne institution Lord Of The Fries is fi nally jumping the border, landing on George Street in September. As well as their heavenly fries, there’s a range of vegetarian-friendly burgers and snacks like soy chicken nuggets, onion rings and potato cakes. There’s something for everyone – it’s kosher enough to rock the Casbah, Halal and has vegan and gluten-free options. Creators Mandy and Mark also offer a smorgasbord of sauces beyond the basic tomato – think Belgian mayo, spicy mango yoghurt and golden satay. If you need us we’ll just be on the internetz at lordofthefl ies.com.au, drooling over the menu until September arrives.

DUDLEY’S DECADENCE A new upstairs space at Woollahra’s ye olde English pub The Lord Dudley y (probably not named after Harry Potter’s

of lamps

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It might still be double jumper weather, but that doesn’t mean summer isn’t on the horizon. Luxe accessories brand After The Apple has launched its summer collection and it’s all warm neutrals and cool reptile prints.

There’s a defi nite retro-cool ’70s vibe to the bronze snakeskin, woven handles and zipper details. The lookbook also features a cameo from the coolest cockatoo since Al Pacino’s pet in Serpico. Head to aftertheapple.com for the lookbook and stocklist info.

238 Castlereagh Street. Try not to smash any plates. Opa!

RAW LAUNCH

Western Sydney’s latest lifestyle extravaganza RAW will launch this Saturday July 27 with an art, fashion, music, photography, film, performing art, hair and makeup-glorious event. The night of creative explosion will take place at the Roxy Theatre (69 George St, Parramatta) from 7.30pm ‘til late. RAW is an indie artist run initiative spanning 80 cities across Australia, Canada, UK and the US. For more info and a preview of what’s going to be on offer head to RAW’s Facebook page at facebook.com/RAWSydney

and books and rich mahogany.

Patrons can cavort like the Greeks of old while lounging on velvet sofas in front of an open fire while partaking of the new shareboard menu, which features dishes like lamb shoulder croquette. How fabulously decadent. Gather your nearest and dearest and head to the new level Thursday through Sunday nights. lorddudley.com. au has opening hours and the like.

EARL’S JUKE JOINT OPENS Another Shady Pines alum, Pasan Wijesena has struck out on his own and is bringing what’s sure to be a new hotspot to the masses.

Named for the drummer who invented the backbeat that inspired rock’n’roll, new ‘Nawlins-style watering hole Earl’s Juke Joint has finally rolled into Newtown, transforming the old Betta Meats butchery into a slick Deep South-

inspired tavern. Swing by 407 King Street to sample a boutique selection of beer and cider, French wine and signature cocktails like the Hobo Julep, Ramos Gin Fizz and A Tribe Called Questinfluenced Phife Dawg. Earl’s is open for business daily from 5pm until late – the only time they aren’t pouring is when Wu-Tang’s ‘Triumph’ comes on the stereo.

Surry Hills’ Spanglish club The Carrington has a new breakfast menu featuring the likes of griddle cakes with coffee prunes and maple ice cream, Friday chicken and waffles with maple butter and ‘shrooms, kale, poached egg and sobrassada on toast. Plus they’re “going the whole hog” with a special fi ve course dinner on Wednesday July 31 called Running with the Pigs. It’s $50 a head and diners can enjoy scallop ceviche with crisp pig’s cheek, avocado, sea salt and lime, slow roasted pork belly with potato churros, caulifl ower puree and chorizo gravy and more. Booking info at thecarrington.com.au

LONELY HUNTER MARKETS

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Step into Newtown Social Club on King Street on Saturday July 27 and you’ll fi nd more beers, music and pizza when local design market Lonely Hunter takes over. Fitting somewhere in between the usual trash ‘n’ treasure schoolyard markets and high end industry events, crafters Claire Ward and Courtney Johnson aim to showcase a slew of independent and handmade wares from Sydney’s best emerging designers. So if you fancy knitted jewellery, fi mo brooches that look good enough to eat and oneof-a-kind illustrations, Lonely Hunter is the place for you. Things run from noon until 5pm and applications for stallholders are open now. Head to lonelyhunter.com.au for more info.

THE SODA FACTORY 16 WENTWORTH AVENUE, SURRY HILLS MON – FRI 5PM – LATE; SATURDAY 7PM – LATE got a live music license so the tunage is well and truly sorted.

Expect a regular offering of live acts, international DJs and local vibe controllers to engineer your nights from chill in the early evening to some sweet, sweet d-floor action later on. Lest we forget to tell you about The Soda Factory’s Movie Mondays, Dollar Dog Tuesday and Mad Menu Thursdays – there’s plenty of reasons to check out the digs.

The basics: A phoney ’50s coke machine hides a secret entrance to a space you’d never expect. The Soda Factory’s not exactly the newest kid on the Surry Hills small bar block, but its late-trading license (open until 5am on Friday and Saturday!) makes it a place we’re hella keen on. The joint’s also

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bar profile The team: Bar owner and Experience Entertainment Director, Graham Cordery is the head honcho behind The Soda Factory.

He’s an accomplished DJ with more than 15 years of experience as a music producer and event manager. Business partner Michael Chase also brings a wealth of experience in live music acts not to mention his background in MGM Distribution.

Who’s pouring? That’s a certain Mr. Mitchell Warters who mastered the art of beverage invention at Richard Branson’s exclusive members-only Roof Gardens cocktail bar in London. Woah!

Flavours: The Soda Factory’s all about a quality cheap eat. And we repeat: Dollar Dog Tuesdays. Yeah, that’s right – $1 = 1 x hotdog!

But if a snag ain’t your thang, pop into the Factory on a Thursday for the Mad Menu and experience a mid-century New York-inspired night. Grab some ‘Naked Balls’, the ‘Manhattan Meatball Sub’, or ‘Madmac and Cheese’. What better way to line the stomach ahead of a big weekend?

Care for a drink? Mixologist Mitchell Warters, concentrates on promoting the old school atmosphere of the bar rather than the traditional

concoctions cocktail lovers have become accustomed to. Think big, adventurous flavours like the Chocolate Passion Martini, which is a lush blend of Mozart dark chocolate liqueur, passion fruit, Tuaca liqueur and Ketel One vodka. And for every cocktail bought, 50 cents goes towards the bar’s charity of the month.

Then there are ‘floats’. Flavour selections include raspberry, bourbon and coke, and pina colada – all topped with a generous dollop of ice cream. Bring back the alcoholic spider we say!

Make us drool: With a cool retro American theme, live music, addictive eats and cocktail list, The Soda Factory has fast become Sydney’s hippest hotspot for those in the know. With some serious music creds, the venue has become the hangout of choice for visiting musicians like Jason Mraz, Bloc Party and A-Trak.

And when the weekend rolls around, be prepared for a late one. Being one of the only venues in Surry Hills with a 5am license, expect to leave early… if you know what we mean. sodafactory.com.au

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

CD OF THE ALBUM OF THE WEEK WEEK JAY-Z

Magna Carta Holy Grail ROC-A-FELLA/Universal Hov’s in a new place – he’s got a president representing, he’s “a business, man” and he’s arguably still Brooklyn’s finest. Magna Carta Holy Grail explores the tribulations of getting all the success you imagined and more. How can you complain when, “Camera snapping, my eyes hurt / N****s dying back where I was birthed”? It’s classic Jay-Z – he can make you scoff and then stop and think with a simple turn of phrase.

Xxxx MCHG may be divisive, ambitious and far from perfect, but Jay-Z is re-writing the rules, whether you like it or not.

Over the scattered, skittery Timbaland beat of ‘Picasso Baby’ Jay opines, “No sympathy for the king huh / N****s even talk about your baby crazy / Eventually the pendulum swings / Don’t forget

MAVIS STAPLES

EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS

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For the second time in succession Mavis Staples has teamed up with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, following their 2010 Grammy-winning You Are Not Alone. And for the second time they’ve made a marvellous modern gospel – by way of alt-country – album.

It kicks off with ‘Holy Ghost’, a song that showed up for the first time on Low’s The Invisible Way, another Tweedy production. As he does with Mimi Parker’s voice on that version, Tweedy shows his knack for stripping everything back when a song calls for it.

Staples, whose voice has taken on a gravelly quality as she’s aged, gets right under your skin. A bright treatment of Funkadelic’s ‘Can You Get To That’ reminds us of The Staples Singers’ gospel/funk heyday, and later, Pops Staples’ ‘I Like The Things About Me’ is given a Black Keys-style lo-fi rock makeover.

The highlight may be ‘Jesus Wept’, which very nearly made me shed a tear too. Staples sings, “My throat quits when I try to say / How I long for the day / How I wish there was a way / I could see you again”, proving that loss doesn’t get any easier to deal with as you get older.

Thank goodness for the Nick Lowe penned pick-me-up ‘Far Celestial Shore’ immediately after: “There’s a place I know for certain, I will someday see / When I lay down my burden and look on Galilee”.

One True Vine doesn’t quite surpass the high benchmark set by their previous partnership, but you can’t go wrong with Jeff Tweedy’s delicate touch and Mavis Staples’ exquisite voice.

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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Vagrant Records / Rough Trade Records

Three years after the release of their first record Up From Below, and having escaped the ‘second album syndrome’ with ease, this 11-piece folk outfit is back with its self-titled third effort.

Rustic authenticity and Edward Sharpe go together like bread and butter, whether they’re jamming together on their tour bus or conjuring up a storm on stage. You could deprive them of their instruments and they would still make music.

Edward Sharpe’s frontman Alex Ebert described the tracks on the new record as some of the, “rawest, most liberated, most rambunctious stuff” they have yet done, and he’s not wrong.

Opener ‘Better Days’ is an optimistic, feel-good track full of vocal harmonising and pounding percussion, while ‘Let’s Get High’, ‘Two’ and ‘Please!’ revisit the themes of life and love explored on their previous albums. ‘Country Calling’ is a boisterous number, with a soundscape consisting of horns, trumpets and thumping percussion.

Every Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros album has one track that churns up your emotions; on this album it’s ‘This Life’. It’s raw and powerful, showcasing Ebert’s vocals – the ragged pain in his voice works in harmony with the band’s gospel backing, giving it a stirring emotional potency.

Melodic folk arrangements, distinctive vocals and a strong communal sensibility make this record a cathartic experience.

Kiera Thanos

America/ This is how you made me,” and it’s one lens through which to view the album. “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” Mark Anthony Neal wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “like Life+Times, finds Mr. Carter still trying to find his grounding in a world that expects little from him, yet demands much of him.” And that’s just it, really.

It’s impossible to capture Hov’s flow in words but on the whole it is staggering and unmatchable. A couple of the tracks do fall flat (‘Crown’ is a rare misstep), but the rest more than make up for it.

‘Oceans’ has Pharrell’s effortlessly cool fingerprints all over it, and if ‘BBC’ sounds like a bunch of friends having a great time, that’s because it was; just a late night studio session with an all-star cast, and the result is laidback fun. ‘Jay-Z Blue’ is straight up astounding, and on ‘Part II (On The Run)’ Beyoncé’s voice soars like an angelic

In the title-track, Anna Calvi lends her impeccably controlled vocals to the muted guitar riff, which pulses infectiously as she and Fink muse, “There’s just two kinds of people / The god-fearing or the godless.” ‘All Through the Night’ edges towards 80s pop-rock panache, with hefty reverb and pitter-patter drums that pay homage to Fleetwood Mac. ‘Silver and Gold’ is heavy with solid vocal hooks, dainty keyboards, lithe hi-hat hits and blues-inflected guitar solos, as Fink croons didactically, “Don’t look for perfection / Love pushes all that away,” in his gentle baritone.

‘Now is Exactly the Time’ is an ode to forgiveness, and the triumphant album closer ‘Not Too Late’ is another middle finger to creative song titles.

And of course, in true indie style, the band has coupled the release of their fourth album with a short dystopian film where teenagers ruin the world and are banished to Teenageland (so don’t expect any all ages shows any time soon).

Sure, it’s as lyrically blatant as Britney’s ‘Oops I Did It Again’, but the band’s sonic revelations will have you salivating over the cheesiest of lines.

SMITH WESTERNS

Rambutan Bella Union/CoOp/ PIAS

Heart of Nowhere Universal

Album opener ‘Introduction’ pits a sharp marimba melody against soaring strings, tapping into the band’s folk origins and crafting a raw soundscape that lacks the to-the-millisecond production of previous efforts.

Marissa Demetriou

LANDSHAPES

NOAH & THE WHALE

Noah & the Whale have shifted between optimistic windows-down singalongs to morose breakup sea shanties and the apathetic sangfroid of their previous album Last Night on Earth, but the Londoners’ latest release, Heart of Nowhere, sees Charlie Fink and co. playing the pedagogic card – they want to teach you something.

apparition. ‘Heaven’ and ‘Nickels And Dimes’ are the most traditional hip hop tracks, with their spoton samples stitching together Jay’s verses.

Soft Will POD/Inertia

London’s Landshapes recently compressed their name down from Lulu and the Lampshades, which was a bit of a mouthful and made them sound like a go-go girl band.

This Chicago trio evolved from garage to glam on their last two albums and now push forward to a more poppy and relaxed sound with a high-quality finish.

The one-time-Lampshades were best known for ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me (Cups)’, a take on a Carter Family classic from the 30s that was in turn covered by numerous YouTubers and, most famously, by Anna Kendrick in Pitch Perfect.

Their third album encapsulates the best of Britpop, but also what came well before it (namely, The Beatles).

And yet, despite its obvious influences, Smith Westerns once again come off sounding vital and refreshing.

The consolidation of the band name is matched with a focused sound that’s very much their own. Their love of traditional folk is evident, but it’s given a modern twist and darker edge for this full-length album for the reliably great Bella Union label.

The four-piece playfully skirt around various genres, but unite them with purpose and form a distinctive, cohesive album that’s easy to warm to.

Opener ‘3AM Spiritual’ is an obvious highlight, assuring us that while they may be older and wiser, they still have an earnest, youthful spring their step.

The deceptively titled opener, ‘Racehorse’, is a gradually unfolding ballad that creeps in to the eerie sound of creaking gates. Its lethargic pace is atypical of the album and we’re soon pulled into the restless energy of the assertive ‘In Limbo’, a riveting highlight that rides along with propulsive bursts of post-punk guitar wig-outs.

The tracks switch tempos at unexpected points without becoming chaotic, while lyrics are approached from different angles according to the ebb and flow of the music.

For all the shape-shifting, Rambutan is a debut that confidently makes its mark.

Chris Girdler

“It’s easier to think you’re dumb / Like you were before,” reflects Smith Westerns vocalist Cullen Omori, before the band erupt into anthemic crooning of “Woah / Yeah” over chiming guitars – but it’s trumped by the shimmering closing track, ‘Varsity’.

‘Idol’ snatches the prize for the most show-stopping chorus, while the Airlike ‘XXIII’ rolls on from the fleeting ‘Glossed’ to great effect.

After the radiant ‘Fool Proof’, there’s a slump into lesser work until ‘Varsity’, but this observation is more about the strength of the bulk of the material than anything else.

Soft Will ticks all the boxes for an exhilarating summer album (that we can make do with for winter) and it also shows a subtler, sadder side to the band. Going soft suits them.

Chris Girdler

Mina Kitsos

INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK KARNIVOOL Asymmetry Independent

They say good things come to those who wait. It’s been four years since Perth pioneers Karnivool released Sound Awake, the follow-up to their debut Themata that was released another four years prior. Sure, fans would love an album from them every other year but we all know that’s not how Karnivool operate. Their records aren’t just records, they’re journeys, and journeys don’t happen overnight.

There’s one thing you can bank on, and that’s that Karnivool do not release

a record unless they’re happy with every single second of it. Asymmetry is meticulously constructed. It is everything you expect a Karnivool record to be except it is in no way predictable. You can expect rumbling bass lines, chaotic, driving drums, epically huge guitars and vocals that ebb and flow from delicate to soaring.

It is professionally polished as a whole but each song individually is dirty and will shake you to your very core. This is not a collection of tracks; this is most definitely an album.

There’s no point breaking this album down track by track because each song relies on the others to give you a true perspective of the album. If you were

to remove one song, even one of the interludes, you’d need to re-evaluate the album again from start to finish.

Imagine removing a pivotal scene from a movie. Things just wouldn’t make sense, and this is exactly how Asymmetry sounds. You need to immerse yourself in it from start to finish to truly ‘get it’, and even then you’re going to need to do it all over again to pick up little nuances that you missed first time around.

Music is subjective, and thus it’s near impossible to say that an album is ‘perfect’, but Asymmetry gets damn close.

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13:07:13 :: The Beachroad Hotel :: 71 Beach Rd Bondi Beach 91307247 :: MARK BOADO :: KATRINA S : TIM LEVY (HEAD HONCHO) OUR LOVELY PHOTOGRAPHER :: ASHLEY MAR :: EZ LOP IA SILV :: NING AR HEN CLARKE :: AVERIE HARVEY :: OSC

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a day to remember

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the jungle giants

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12:07:13 :: Manning Bar :: Manning Rd Camperdown 9563 6000 :: MARK BOADO :: KATRINA S : TIM LEVY (HEAD HONCHO) OUR LOVELY PHOTOGRAPHER :: ASHLEY MAR :: EZ LOP IA SILV :: NING AR HEN CLARKE :: AVERIE HARVEY :: OSC

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Laura Marling

Chris Brookes + Massimo Presti Kelly’s On King, Newtown. 7pm. free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Frankie’s World Famous House Band Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney. 9pm. free.

Laura Marling St Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney. 8pm. sold out.

TUESDAY JULY 23 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Old School Funk And Groove Night Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Ziggy Pop Tuesdays - feat: The Lockhearts + Vanadium + Tiger & The Rogues Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $5.

Laura Marling St Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney. 8pm. sold out.

WEDNESDAY JULY 24

ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

St Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney

Laura Marling 8pm. $72.50 MONDAY JULY 22 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Latin & Jazz Open Mic World Bar, Kings Cross. 7pm. free.

ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

Haim

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Jenna Murphy + Declan Kelly Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $10.

Songs On Stage Concert - feat: Helmut Uhlmann +

Champagne Jam - Open Mic Night Dundas Sports Club, Dundas.

7:30pm. free.

WEDNESDAY JULY 24 ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

Pulp Kitchen And Folk Club - feat: Live Rotating Folk Bands Soda Factory, Surry Hills.

5pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Paul Mcnamara Trio Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $15.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS Alpine + Haim (DJ Set) + Gang Of Youths Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free.

Coopers Live & Local - feat: Tom Stephens + Jack Derwin + Expand & Surrender Lizotte’s Dee Why, Dee Why.

7pm. $10.

Daughter + Little Green Cars Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. sold out Haim + The Preatures The Hi-fi, Moore Park, Sydney.

8pm. sold out.

Laura Marling St Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney. 8pm. $72.50

THURSDAY JULY 25 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Java Quartet + Morganics + Bobby Singh Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $15.

Lady Cool + Jackie Loeb + Jackie Loeb Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

11pm. $22.70.

The Bearded Gyspy Band + The Tiger & Me The Basement, Circular Quay.

7:30pm. $19.80.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

A Gentleman’s Agreement + Psyrens + Blacksmith + Chrome Pigs + Darkness Reigns Valve Bar, Tempe. 7pm. free.

Bondi Feast Festival - feat: Lacey Cole & The Lazy Colts Bondi Pavilion Theatre, Bondi Beach. 9:45pm. free.

Deap Valley + The Delta Riggs Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $33.60.

Jake Bugg Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. sold out.

Miss Elm + Bears With Guns + Huckleberry Hastings Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $10.

Monica Trapagas Bite Of The Big Apple - Tunes & Tastes Of New York Lizotte’s Dee Why, Dee Why. 7pm. $29.

Spirit Faces + Karl S Williams + James Blackwood + Qwarms FBi Social, Sydney. 8pm. $10.

Tracer Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney. 12am. free.

Wavves + Unknown Mortal Orchestra The Standard, Surry Hills.

8pm. $50.

FRIDAY JULY 26 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

David Bridie Album Launch The Basement, Circular Quay.

7:30pm. $29.80.

Feel Good Friday Jazz

Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. free.

King Tide Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free.

Marsala Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

7:30pm. $27.70.

Sean Coffin Sextet Sima, Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 8:30pm. $20.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Billy ‘Downtime’ Hughes Memorial Gig - feat: Baddies + Stand Alone + The Turps Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichardt. 8pm. $15.

Bondi Feast Festival - feat: Donny Benet Bondi Pavilion Theatre, Bondi Beach. 9:45pm. free.

Bonez + Casino Rumblers + The Pieter Van Den Hoogen Band Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. free.

Diesel + Bec Sandridge The Brass Monkey, Cronulla.

7pm. $46.

Hornsby Hotshots - feat: Ryan Thomas + Chris Gresch + Imposition + Jack Man Friday + The Usual Suspects + Ar12 + Josh Toyer + Lovechild Ku-ring-gai PCYC Performing Art Centre, Hornsby. 9pm. $15.

Mike McClellan Lizotte’s Dee Why, Dee Why. 7pm. $39.

MS MR Metro Theatre, Sydney. 9pm. sold out.

Sleepmakeswaves The Annandale Hotel, Annandale. 8pm. $18.

Surfer Blood + Jeremy Neale + Palms Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $40.90.

Tales In Space + The Sun And The Sky + The Kin + Liz Bird Upstairs Beresford, Surry Hills. 6pm. free.

The Archaic Rival + The Dirty Earth + 400kw + Howl The Square, Haymarket.

8pm. $10.

Thrashmass In July - feat: Metreya + Atomesquad + Cerebral Contortion + Abacination + A.M.O.R.A Valve Bar, Tempe. 7pm. free.

SATURDAY JULY 27 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Bird Yard Big Band Penrith RSL Club. 2pm. free.

Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes The Basement, Circular Quay. 9pm. $25.

High Rollers Big Band (6 Piece) Penrith RSL Club. 9pm. free.

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pick of the week

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g g guide g send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Jo Fabro Quintet Sima, Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 8:30pm. $20.

Margaret Roadknight Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $25.

Yaron Hallis Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7:30pm. $27.70.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS A Loss For Words + Monuments + Sidelines + Highways + Trophy Eyes + Thesis Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichardt. 6pm. $25.50.

Airbourne

The Hi-Fi, Moore Park, Sydney. 8pm. $35.50.

Diesel + Bec Sandridge The Brass Monkey, Cronulla.

7pm. $46.

Everything Everything + Vydamo + Club Feet Metro Theatre, Sydney. 8pm. $50.

INXS Show Oatley Hotel. 8:30pm. free.

Leisure Bandits + Gang Of Youths + Klp + Kristy Lee Upstairs Beresford, Surry Hills. 6pm. free.

Mental As Anything Lizotte’s Dee Why. 7pm. $49.

Mindsnare + Vigilante + Boneless + Hostile Objects The Annandale Hotel, Annandale. 8pm. $20.

Nerdlinger + Handball Deathmatch + Nudist Colonies Of The World + Speedball + 51 Percent + Averice The Square, Haymarket.

7:30pm. $12.

Passion Pit + PVT Enmore Theatre, Newtown, Sydney. 7pm. $78.60.

Reno Nevada + Boris Sudjovic + Paul E. Hayward + Ripley Hood The Bat And Ball Hotel, Redfern. 7:30pm. free.

The Buzz Club #2 - feat: Lucky Luke & His Shooting Stars + Big Blind Ray Trio + Chickenstones + Handasyd Williams & The Brothers Primitive + DJ

Rod Almighty Hermann’s Bar, Darlington.

8pm. $15.

The Protomen + MC Frontalot The Standard, Surry Hills.

8pm. $15.

Trainwreck + Hearts Like Wolves + Clipped Wings + Final Frontier + Corrupt Minds Chatswood Youth Centre, 1pm. $10.

Clubfeet

SUNDAY JULY 28 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Patrizia Biondi & The Cats Of Mystery Lane Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7:30pm. $20 .

ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK John Vella Oatley Hotel, Oatley. 2pm. free.

Stormcellar Royal Hotel, Bondi. 7pm. free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

PVT

Brewn Penrith RSL Club. 2pm. free.

Clairy Browne & The Bangin Rackettes + Elana Stone The Brass Monkey, Cronulla.

7pm. $25.

Featherfest 2013 - feat: The

Protomen + Shanghai + Toehider + Godswounds + MC Frontalot The Annandale Hotel. 5pm. $20.

Femme Fatale - feat: Cameria + City In Motion + Enter Reality + In Three 2 One Valve Bar, Tempe. 2pm. free.

July Helpful Kitchen Gods + Jd Burgess + Snow

Leopards + Ben Aylward Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale. 5pm. free.

Party Vibez + Deathcage + Exekute + Head In A Jar + Disintegrator The Square, Haymarket.

3pm. $10.

The Regulators Three Wise Monkeys, Sydney. 9pm. free.

gig picks up all night out all week...

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THURSDAY JULY 25

Lockhearts + Vanadium + Tiger & The Rogues Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $5.

Deap Valley + The Delta Riggs Oxford Art Factory. 8pm. $33.60.

Alpine + Haim (DJ Set) + Gang Of Youths Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach.

8pm. Free.

Deap Vally

Java Quartet + Morganics + Bobby Singh Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $15.

Spirit Faces + Karl S. Williams + James Blackwood + Qwarms FBi Social, Sydney. 8pm. $10.

Wavves + Unknown Mortal Orchestra The Standard, Surry Hills. 8pm. $50.

FRIDAY JULY 26 Bondi Feast Festival - Feat: Donny Benet Bondi Pavilion Theatre. 9:45pm.

Free.

King Tide Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach.

8pm. Free.

Sleepmakeswaves The Annandale Hotel, Annandale.

8pm. $18.

Surfer Blood + Jeremy Neale + Palms Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $40.90.

SATURDAY JULY 27 Alpine

Airbourne The Hi-Fi, Moore Park, Sydney.

8pm. $35.50.

Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes The Basement, Circular Quay.

9pm. $25.

Brothers Primitive + DJ Rod Almighty Hermann’s Bar, Darlington. 8pm. $15.

Everything Everything + Vydamo + Club Feet Metro Theatre, Sydney. 8pm. $50.

The Protomen + MC Frontalot The Standard, Surry Hills. 8pm. $15.

Passion Pit + PVT Enmore Theatre, Newtown, Sydney. 7pm. $78.60.

SUNDAY JULY 28

The Buzz Club #2 - feat: Lucky Luke & His Shooting Stars + Big Blind Ray Trio + Chickenstones + Handasyd Williams & The

Featherfest 2013 feat: The Protomen + Shanghai + Toehider + Godswounds + MC Frontalot The Annandale Hotel. 5pm. $20.

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Omar Souleyman

OMAR SOULEYMAN

Syrian techno megastar Omar Souleyman, who toured Australia at the end of last year, has recorded his first ever studio album, Wenu Wenu, which was produced by none other than Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet. A truly unique performer, Souleyman hails from Jazeera, a region of small towns and villages that stand closer to Iraq and Turkey than the country’s capital, and established himself as a wedding singer who soon rose to prominence because of his modern techno take on traditional Arabic dabke music. Souleyman’s international breakout arrived when the head of the Sublime Frequencies label, Mark Gergis, discovered him on a trip to Syria and subsequently released a compilation of Souleyman’s studio work, Highway to Hassake, in ‘07. Souleyman’s reputation continued to grow courtesy of Youtube, before Björk commissioned him to remix ‘The Crystalline Series’. After three compilations and a live release, Wenu Wenu is his first album to be recorded in a studio, and apparently combines aspects of dabke dance music and traditional songs with his own contemporary style. It will be released in October on Domino.

NIGHTMARES ON WAX

The First Record I Bought: 1.

The first music I can recall purchasing with my own money was Minor Threat’s First Demo Tape on CD when it came out in 2003. I was 13 and devouring punk records given to me on burned CDs by my uncle Bill... Minor Threat smacked me in the face, the music was powerful and immediate, and made everything, especially my peers’ obsessions with Eminem, seem hollow and unimportant.

The Last Record I Bought: 2.

I use iTunes to buy individual tracks here and there, but the last physical recording I bought was probably Watch The Throne. I was walking by the pop-up shop in NYC where they were selling physical copies, and I always try to buy every Kanye record

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and financially support him as much as possible. He is the only rap artist I will do this for. The album had dope moments, secretly I wanted them to get weirder with it.

The First Thing I Recorded: 3.

A tape called ‘Noah sings and plays drums, 9/93’. I guess I was three-years-old.

It was a duet with my dad. In high school I was assistant engineering on a lot of jazz records (the best one being Sunny Murray & Odean Pope’s Plant Life). Then I recorded my friends’ rock bands. Then I got into rap, started producing Theodore Grams, which lead to Chiddy Bang, Big Sean and all the rap stuff.

4.

The Last Thing I Recorded: The last thing I recorded was Ellie Goulding’s cover of the

Techno pioneer Dave Sumner, the New Yorkborn, Berlin-based artist who produces under the moniker of Function, will headline Chinese Laundry on Saturday August 10. After nearly two decades making electronic music, it was only this year that Sumner released his debut solo album as Function, Incubation, on the Ostgut Ton label. A home-listening techno record mixed by Tobias Freund, Incubation was an example of a genuine techno album, 28 :: BRAG :: 522 :: 22:07:13

alt-J song ‘Tessellate’. She was playing a show in Philly and I showed up to where they were staying and recorded all the vocals in like an hour. Then we emailed it back and forth for a couple of months till it was done. I also did an EP for this really wonderful Brooklyn band called Wet.

Warp Records is having a big year releasing albums by highly regarded veterans. First came Boards of Canada’s album – recent recipient of Brag’s ‘Album of the Week’ – and now news has surfaced that the pioneering British proponent of downbeat grooves, George Evelyn, best know as Nightmares on Wax, will release his first album in five years on Warp. Evelyn has been part of the Warp roster since day dot, chalking up classic releases such as Smokers Delight and remixing the likes of Faithless. The forthcoming album is replete with rich orchestration and strings, drawing on the influence of Jazzanova arranger Sebastian Studnitzky and the inspiration of Ibiza, where Evelyn now lives. ”It was always a natural dream to make music in the sun like I do now,” Evelyn said. “Not to take away from any of my previous music but Feelin’ Good is what I’ve always been trying to do.” The 10-track LP is described as a blend of funk, soul and house, and will drop in mid-September.

PICNIC FT. TORNADO WALLACE

Melbourne’s Tornado Wallace, AKA Lewie Day, will headline a Picnic warehouse party on Saturday August 31. Wallace is a promising DJ and producer who has a strong reputation among deep house and disco aficionados worldwide. Day’s releases on distinguished labels like Delusions of Grandeur and Instruments of Rapture tread the line between house, Detroit techno and disco. Day has also remixed heavy hitters such as Matthew Dear, Recloose and Session Victim’s Matthias Reiling, and recently dropped a 12” on Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space imprint. Day’s increasing profile on the world stage has led to gigs at some of Europe’s most prestigious venues, including Plastic People in London, Berlin’s Watergate and Space Ibiza. Presale tickets are available for $25, and remember that this is a BYO party, so there will be no overpriced drinks to eat into your party budget.

The Record(s) That Changed My Life: 5.

In the span of one week when I was about 15, hip hop just descended upon me. I think someone gave me Midnight Marauders, along with Beanie Siegel’s The B. Coming and Clipse’s Lord Willin’ – all in the same three day period. I listened to those records every day – to and from school – for about a year.

Where: Chinese Laundry With: The Only When: Saturday July 27

showcasing an array of immersive and propulsive tracks that reveal more of themselves with every listen. Sumner is also renowned for his role as one third of Sandwell District, the esteemed collective responsible for albums like 2011’s Feed-Forward, and he returns to Australia after recently touring with his Sandwell cohorts. Sumner revealed that during that tour they crossed paths with Skrillex, who told them they got him back into “acid breaks” – an indication of Sumner’s influence and standing in the club pantheon.

Salva

SALVA

Astral People are hosting LA beatmaker Salva and locals Wave Racer and Meare at Club 77 on Friday August 9. Salva oversees the Frite Nite label, which has released works from Sepalcure, and has remixed Kanye West over the course of his short career.

Salva draws inspiration from Miami Bass, Chicago House and LA’s modern beat culture, making his mark with his debut LP Complex Housing a few years back. However it was on the more recent Yellobone EP where he truly came of age, offering a couple of dance numbers alongside a future G-Funk track with the world’s go-to vocoder man, B.Bravo.

While Salva trades in heavy but playful bass music, he’s known for covering broad sonic terrain with cross-genre splicing cuts made with frantic percussion and quirky vocal samples. Meanwhile support act Wave Racer is fresh off the release of his double single ‘Stoopid/Rock U Tonite’, which has received airplay on triple j and even BBC Radio 1. Early bird tickets are available online for $20

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on the record WITH TENZIN The First Record I Bought: The first record I bought 1. would have been Rage Against

and recording live music in real analogue studios.

the Machine’s self-titled album – this was back when everyone was listening to metal and Rage had come out with a hybrid of rock and rap. To this day it’s still my favourite album of that genre.

The Last Thing I Recorded: 4.

I recorded recently with MC

The Last Record I Bought: 2.

The last record I bought was by a new band called Vydamo, their single ‘Hurricane’. It’s kind of mellow pop/summer beach vibes. But I have also heard the rest of the album and I have no doubt about these guys becoming huge.

3.

The First Thing I Recorded: The first thing I ever recorded was at Rockinghorse Studios just outside of Byron Bay. I played bass guitar in a rock/metal band called Defect. I had a couple of mates and the drummer from Grinspoon playing drums because we couldn’t find anyone good enough at the time. I look back now and love that I got to experience playing

RETURN TO RIO

Sydney promoters Disktrict have announced a new weekend festival, Return to Rio, which will run from November 15 to 17 at Del Rio Riverside Resort, a location well known to revelers as the site of the sadly defunct Playground Weekender.

The Mad Racket, Spice and S.A.S.H crews will all be representing and supplying DJs, with the likes of Simon Caldwell, Murat Kilic and Le Brond all throwing down. Tickets to the event are capped at 1,000, with ‘Golden Tickets’ going on sale Sunday 1 September for $120. Drive-up camping spots and a range of luxurious accommodation options for all the high roller types are also available. Head to facebook.com/ReturnToRio for more details.

Kitch. The song is called ‘Gift Of Life’ and it features some house anthem style sing-alongs mixed with silky smooth melodies.

The Record That Changed My Life: 5.

The most definitive record for me has to be Daft Punk’s Homework.

Without it I’d probably still be playing in live bands and wouldn’t have ventured into the dance music scene. My favourite track on the album would be ‘Da Funk’. Its rolling acid style synth is relentless. It made me realise that there was so much more to music than the traditional band type scenario. To this day I still keep that one at the front of my crate (as in USB /folder).

Whre: Mashup Fridays at Marquee When: Friday July 26

Salva

SALVA

Astral People are bringing out LA trap and bass beatmaker Salva for a night of ‘basement mayhem’ at Club 77 with emerging Sydney producers Wave Racer and Meare in support. Check out Salva’s mini mix for Annie Mac on his Soundcloud page for a taste of what you can expect on Friday August 9, and for a chance to win one of two double passes, just tell us which hip hop luminary Salva recently interviewed (hint – check his Soundcloud!).

INPUT

Liveschool Sydney, the world’s first Abletondedicated training centre, is hosting its INPUT music production seminar at FBi Social on Saturday August 10, with sessions from Gotye’s right-hand man Tim Shiel, Sydney techno duo Gardiland talking hardware synths and drum machines, Future Classic boss Nathan McLay revealing how up and coming producers can get released, sound design techniques with certified trainer Adam Maggs, and much more. We have two passes to INPUT to give away, for a chance to win just tell us your favourite Ableton-using producer or DJ.

DANNY KRIVIT

House veteran Danny Krivit will play at the Civic Underground on Saturday August 24 as part of his first tour of Australia, which was a long time coming. Growing up in NYC, Krivit started DJing at his father’s club, the Ninth Circle, back in – wait for it – 1971, and over the years played at many NYC clubs including the legendary Paradise Garage. In the ‘80s Krivit began his career as a remixer and producer, working on music for James Brown and MFSB. He’s continued to perform relentlessly ever since, and will arrive in Sydney after over forty years in the game, with his enthusiasm for his craft undiminished.

Pangaea

Frank Ocean

PANGAEA

Hessle Audio co-head Kevin McAuley, AKA Pangaea, will headline Goodgod on Saturday August 17. Pangaea has been instrumental in the continual evolution of dubstep, having gradually worked deeper into a densely percussive hybrid sound of techno steeped in jungle and dubstep. This may be because, by his own admission, “my interest in dubstep began to waver when subtlety started to become lost and tracks seemed to dictate how you should be dancing or feeling instead of leaving it to the imagination.” Pangaea has released on labels such as Hemlock and Hotflush Recordings and completed high profile mixes for Radio 1 and Resident Advisor. In addition to his accomplishments as a producer and a DJ, McAuley is also a venerated curator and tastemaker, with Hessle behind the breakthrough releases from James Blake, Blawan and Martyn.

PET SHOP BOYS FRANK OCEAN SECOND SHOW

One of the breakthrough artists of last year, R&B artist Frank Ocean, has announced a second Splendour In The Grass sideshow show at the Hordern Pavilion on Tuesday 30 July after tickets for the previous night’s show sold out. For all those slow on the draw first time around, you now have a final chance to see Ocean in the flesh. Ocean co-wrote ‘I Miss You’ for Beyoncé’s album 4 back in 2011, but really established himself with his 2012 debut studio album Channel Orange. Time Magazine recently named Ocean in its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People – no small achievement for a man who only arrived on the scene in the past few years.

Perennial pop mainstays Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, collectively the Pet Shop Boys, have just released their new album, Electric. Produced

by Stuart Price, who has previously applied his Midas touch to Madonna and worked under the guises of Les Rythmes Digitales and Thin White Duke, the album marks a return to form after the disappointing Elysium. Electric features nine tracks in total, including a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Last To Die’ from his 2007 album, Magic, which was written in the aftermath of the last Iraq War, and a guest

spot from rapper Example on ‘Thursday’. Price described the project as, “a chance to work with two people who shaped so much of my musical taste, yet who keep on pushing farther in both a natural and unexpected fashion.” Price pinpointed the Pet Shop Boys’ 1986 album Disco as an influence on the recording process, “because it blended song arrangements with dance floor mixes, and that is what Electric felt like to make. Allowing songs to be full length without considering the pop rules, disregarding classic structures and instead just working instinctively on what was fun and danceable.”

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Fred Everything Kicking It Old School By Alasdair Duncan When you’re making tracks, do you get a lot of inspiration from the gear – will you be playing around and sometimes hit on a surprising sound?

Yes, I need to experiment a lot before I get to something I like. I’ve always used old equipment paired with new computer technology, and I’m even more drawn to those old instruments and some of the re-issues.

Maybe it’s just getting old and feeling nostalgic about those sounds.

As someone who came up in the vinyl era, where do you stand on the various digital advances of the last decade? Have they made things any easier for you?

I still buy vinyl and play it, usually more at local gigs than international ones. I think that whatever media you use, it’s fine, just as long as you do it well and keep it interesting.

I’ve heard you say that when you’re not in the studio or DJing you don’t really listen to house – what have you had on rotation recently?

That’s not actually completely true. I listen to some DJ mixes while I travel and I also enjoyed Jimpster’s album lately. On the electronic side of things, I listen to stuff like Atoms For Peace, Caribou (Daphni), Four Tet and DJ Koze, as well as some rock like Primal Scream’s and David Bowie’s newer albums.

I’m into jazz, soul, funk, 80s new wave…the list really goes on.

Are you still San Francisco-based? What’s life like there these days – is it an exciting place to be?

Yes and yes. I really love the city. It’s very different to the rest of the US and has a unique scene also, very cutting edge and inspiring for me.

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anada’s Fred Everything has been in the electronic music game for a long time.

Now a resident of San Francisco, he’s a regular world traveler, and will be coming to Sydney soon to spin some sweet deep house tunes.

You’ve been a DJ for many years now – what is it that keeps you vital and inspired?

It’s gonna sound clichéd, but loving what I do is what keeps me going, along with the constant drive to get better at what I do. I also

love traveling and meeting new people. I’ve met most of the people I know through music.

You travel the world a lot to play in clubs – I’m wondering, do you go out dancing yourself a lot these days, or do you stick to behind the decks?

I’m not much of a dancer unfortunately but I do love to go out and hear other DJs and get inspired. It’s important to support the scene you’re a part of.

Waajeed Follow the Pied Piper By Augustus Welby

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ver the last couple of decades the wide-spanning musical exploits of Detroit’s Robert O’Bryant (known professionally as Waajeed and casually referred to as Jeedo) have never been motivated by a quest for personal glory.

Waajeed’s name shot into the public consciousness in the early 2000s thanks to the innovative R&B production work with his group Platinum Pied Pipers. He has since moved on from Platinum Pied Pipers and also stepped away from his Bling47 label.

With a new musical direction, he needed a new brand and new label – Dirt Tech Reck.

“It’s not that I’m not interested in hip hop or R&B anymore, I’m interested in hip hop and R&B combined with many other things.

That’s probably the reason for forming the label, Dirt Tech Reck. It’s to ultimately just get to a point where I’m making genre-less music, stuff that’s maybe so far ahead or so current that there is no name for it.

“A lot of labels just look at music as product; we choose to look at it as art. This music won’t be for everybody; the people that will get it, they’ll really get it and they’ll really cherish it and they’ll have something that will speak volumes next to the cookie-cutter shit.”

Record label’s don’t get much more independent or DIY than Dirt Tech Reck – Waajeed runs everything himself, which can be tiring, between juggling production and DJing duties, and his role as a lecturer at Red Bull Music Academy.

“When I’m in the middle of some of those jobs I’m thinking ‘what the fuck am I doing?’

At the end of the day I’m defi nitely glad and excited to have my hands on every job and everything that it involves, from making the

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record, to mixing it, to shooting a video for it, to editing it, to silk-screening the covers, to picking up the records, to taking it to our distributor to get it to the people.”

Waajeed recently returned to his home city of Detroit after living in New York for ten years, and he speaks fondly of Detroit’s unique underground music culture.

“Part of the reason that I feel like we’ve got such a rich musical history is because we’re not so aware of what our neighbours are doing. That allows us to focus on what’s going on in our creative space. I think that’s a benefi t that this city allows. It allows the space and it allows the historical references to continue to progress and make original music and not necessarily keep up with the Joneses.

“When I was coming up in Detroit there was a radio DJ called Electrifying Mojo.

He would play techno, he’d play Peter Frampton, he’d play Funkadelic, he’d play Prince, and that was the environment I was coached in.”

That kind of genre fl exibility is exactly what you can expect from Waajeed on his upcoming Australian club tour.

“I hope people would expect great music, not necessarily a particular genre or a particular name brand or any particular person. I just hope that folks come and bring their dancing shoes and be ready for a great time.”

Where: The Soda Factory / Red Bull Music Academy stage at Splendour in the Grass When: Friday July 26 / Saturday July 27

You have the kind of job that allows you to tour the world playing in various clubs – is that as glamorous as it seems? Does life on the road ever tire you out?

Of course it’s nice but not as glamorous as one could imagine. Air travel can be full of surprises, usually the bad kind! But whatever happens, I always remind myself that I’m lucky to do what I do and try to keep my mouth shut.

I don’t want to end up on @djscomplaining Twitter feed!

You’ll be playing at Goldfish in Sydney at the end of July – what can we expect from that show?

I hope that it will be as good as last year’s, which was a lot of fun. I’ve been asked to play at least three hours, which is great. The usual mixed bag of house, deep house, disco and techno, and maybe a classic or two!

Where: The Goldfish, Kings Cross When: Saturday July 27

Jagwar Ma

Deep Impressions Underground Dance And Electronica with Chris Honnery

Modern Madchester By Lachlan Kanoniuk

R

ising from Sydney to the world stage with a fresh take on elements of the Madchester sound, Jagwar Ma have reached critical mass with their debut full-length Howlin. The record consolidates the rapid rise of the outfit, led by vocalist Gabriel Winterfield (formerly of Ghostwood) and multiinstrumentalist Jono Ma (formerly of Lost Valentinos). Speaking from just west of London, nursing a busted knee, Winterfield contends that the recent explosion of Jagwar Ma’s profile is just a continuation of his broader musical narrative.

“It sort of feels like it’s been a long time coming.

I played in a band beforehand that didn’t reach the level of success I wanted it to,” he says. “It’s funny, even though it’s a completely different band in every single way, for me personally, it’s the same journey. All I wanted to do is become successful in music. Obviously I do have loyalty to my friends and my old band, and we’re still close friends, but I knew and they knew that all I wanted to do was become successful in music.

So I’m glad to be getting that much closer.”

With Winterfield coming from Ghostwood’s psych sounds and Ma from indie-dance outfit Lost Valentinos, their approach to writing songs for Jagwar Ma is not defined by clear-cut roles.

“It all varies man, people try to work out how we write songs and it changes every time I try to explain it, but it never does it justice,” Gabriel explains. “Basically we walk into a studio and come out with a song, and that’s it. Obviously I sing and Jono is on the production side of it, but the intricacies are too complex to sum up.”

Together the 11 tracks on Howlin offer an eclectic journey through a range of genres and tones, but maintaining an air of consistency was not too great a challenge. “As long as there’s a continuous voice in the record,” Gabriel reasons.

“Say if there’s a great novel, every chapter is different and different things happen in every chapter. But the overall tone of the book carries through from chapter one to chapter 50, it’s all going to feel like the same book, even if the main character goes through these changes. I feel like that’s the same as the album.”

While it sounds very ‘of the now’, Jagwar Ma don’t align Howlin with any current musical fads. “I’m not averse to trends,” Winterfield says.

“I see something that somebody’s wearing on the street, if I think it looks good I will look up where they got it and try to imitate it, or try my own ideas,” he says. “I’m the same with music.

If someone is doing something cool now then I’ll definitely want to imitate it, then after a while I will deviate to my own task. Having said that, when we were in France making the record I don’t think we were thinking of anyone else apart from ourselves when it came to what album we wanted.

It was our own way of being self-assured.

“I definitely see people dancing, sometimes people do rave out and it ends up feeling a bit ravey – which we’re totally for.”

Lawrence

There was also a lot of music happening last year that was really cool, but was difficult to imitate. Artists like Grimes, Azealia Banks and Tyler, The Creator. They were the three I was most excited about. But I’m not really a rapper, and I’m not a girl, so even if I wanted to imitate that it wasn’t going to happen.”

As for the live formation of Jagwar Ma, Winterfield is still looking to evolve and expand their ranks. “We definitely want to get more people on board live. We want to do less and less digitally and more with live hands, especially with beats and percussion. I’d love to have a keyboard onstage, like a Rhodes. Maybe standing at a piano Little Richard style. As it stands now, there’s live bass and I play guitar and sing. Then Jono will run the 808 live and some synths, he also jumps on guitar for one song. It’s kind of funny.” he explains.

You can also expect things to get a bit ravedup. “I definitely see people dancing, sometimes people do rave out and it ends up feeling a bit ravey – which we’re totally for. I love dance music and I always have since forever, same with Jono, but a lot of the time when I see a DJ or whatever I’ll be the guy standing at the bar just listening. I love listening to the soundsystem, the nice engineering. I don’t usually dance. So I feel that if people are like that at our shows it would be hypocritical to be upset that they’re not really getting into it, because I know that they are in their heads, they just don’t feel the need to express it physically.”

With the NME, the Guardian and more singing their praises in the UK after their massive success at Glastonbury, the immediate future looks very rosy for Jagwar Ma – but Winterfield’s not looking that far ahead just yet.

“I was supposed to have a meeting with my manager today, but I dislocated my knee three days ago. I’m sure they would think a lot more in ‘strategies’,” he states wryly. “Because we don’t really think in ‘strategies’.”

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erman producer Peter Kersten, AKA Lawrence, will release his sixth album Films & Windows in September on Dial Records, the Hamburg label he runs with Carsten Jost. Beyond releasing material from artists like Efdemin, John Roberts, Pigon and Pantha Du Prince, Kersten has established himself as a producer to rival anyone who releases on Dial, making melancholic minimal house and techno as Lawrence and more dance floor oriented material under his Sten moniker. “Writing music for me is a very spontaneous issue,” Kersten reflected recently. “For over a decade I have been digging a lot of styles — house music, techno, ambient, hip hop — from my very first album to my last CD, Until Then, Goodbye on Mule Electronic.” Films & Windows was apparently “inspired by an endless number of screened movies and real-life films,” and features 11 new tracks. I have it on good authority that Sydneysiders can expect a visit from Lawrence before the year is out – but I will show rare restraint and wait until I have the go-ahead from the promoter before I spill the beans.

The great Dane, Anders Trentemøller, will release a new album, Lost, in late September, his third LP and first since Into The Great Wide Yonder in 2010.

While Trentemøller originally made his mark in techno circles via cuts such as ‘Physical Fraction’, ‘Polar Shift’ and the club remixes of ‘Moan’, he has increasingly moved towards acoustic indie and krautrock influenced soundscapes, touring with a band and supporting the mighty Depeche Mode. Remixes of David Lynch, M83, the Pet Shop Boys and Kasper Bjørke, along with the excellent Harbour Boat Trips compilation, showcase Trentemøller’s inclination to explore disparate sonic territory and venture away from the club realm. “In the past I felt like I’ve been trapped in this whole techno thing,” Trentemøller stated in a recent interview, inferring his days of making music for clubs may be behind him. Vowing not to merely echo his previous work, Lost is apparently a more “song structured” affair than previous Trentemøller albums, and features appearances from DJ Sprinkles

members of Blonde Redhead, The Raveonettes and The Drums, as well as collaborations with regular partner Marie Fisker and slowcore band Low. It seems a logical next step for the Dane after his previous album evinced an increased focus on live recording and instrumentation. While technophiles may yearn for a return to the darker club anthems, Trentemøller has proven himself equally adept across different soundscapes, so let’s defer to him and listen with open ears when Lost drops in seven week’s time.

Chilean producer Ricardo Tobar will release his debut album entitled Treillis in October. Tobar has been lurking about the club frame for some time, having emerged through his two memorable EPs on James Holden’s Border Community label a little over five years ago. The first, ‘El Sunset’, was a driving counterpoint to Nathan Fake’s memorable ‘The Sky Was Pink’, while ‘Boy Love Girl Song’ was a more restrained but no less accomplished number. In the time since, Tobar has chalked up a number of EPs on the German label Traum before moving to the Parisian label In Paradisum for his most recent outing last year, entitled Esoteric Carnaval. Leadoff track ‘Garden’ has been described as “Caribou dragged sideways through a field of acid tinged feedback,” and suggests that the Chilean has recaptured the form of his Border Community output. The challenge is whether he can sustain it over a full album, but even if he can’t, Treillis will be well worth a listen, as Tobar is one of the more interesting club producers with a penchant for all things analogue.

While many producers in the club realm are indistinguishable, Tobar is cut from his own cloth, and stands apart from most of his contemporaries. “People like Villalobos and Luciano are kind of like gods here [in my country]. So you have loads of people imitating them and no one doing anything interesting,” he explained.

“Everybody wants to belong and they follow that style for gigs or maybe for a record deal”. There is no doubt Tobar has followed his own path so far in his career – I expect that to continue through Treillis and beyond.

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Strange Fruit ft &ME + Deepchild The Abercrombie

SATURDAY AUGUST 10 Function Chinese Laundry

DJ Sprinkles The Abercrombie

SATURDAY AUGUST 31 Where: Splendour in the Grass / The Standard (sold-out) When: Saturday July 27 / Friday August 2 And: Howlin out now through Future Classic

Pepperpot The Spice Cellar

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

club pick of the week

MONDAY JULY 22 CLUB NIGHTS

Mother Of A Monday - feat: DJ Smokin’ Joe Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 7:30pm. free.

TUESDAY JULY 23 CLUB NIGHTS

Chu - feat: various DJs World Bar, Kings Cross.

7:30pm. $5.

Coyote Tuesday - feat: Resident DJs Trademark Hotel, Potts Point.

9pm. free.

I Love Goon - feat: Resident DJs Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 7pm. free.

Rumba Motel Salsa - feat: DJ Willie Sabor The Establishment, Sydney.

8pm. free.

Ziggy Pop Tuesdays - feat: Guest DJs Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $5.

SATURDAY JULY 27

WEDNESDAY JULY 24

Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst

What We Do Is Secret:

A Modular Party (Main Room)

Klaxons (DJ Set) + Movement + Softwar + Wordlife + Otologic + Club Mod DJs. (Gallery Bar) Kilter + Moonbase Commander + Meare + DJs Kato + Mike Who + Kali (Picnic) + Max Gosford 8pm. $20.

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HIP HOP & R&B

Lunchbreak feat.

Horrorshow FBi Social, Sydney. 1pm. free.

The Wall - feat: Resident DJs World Bar, Kings Cross. 8pm. $5.

CLUB NIGHTS

Garbage 90s Night - feat: Garbage DJs Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham.

7pm. free.

Haim (DJ Set) Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 10pm. free.

Kit Wednesdays - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

Robert Delong The Standard, Surry Hills.

8pm. $44.

Salsa - feat: Resident DJs Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney.

8pm. free.

The Supper Club - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

Whip It Wednesdays - feat: DJs Camo + Snillum + Jaimie Lyn Whaat Club, Kings Cross.

9pm. free.

THURSDAY JULY 25 CLUB NIGHTS

Balmain Blitz - feat: Various Bridge Hotel, Rozelle. 7pm. free.

Chakra Thursdays - feat: Robust + Brizz Whaat Club, Kings Cross.

9:30pm. free.

Dip Hop - feat: Levins And Guests Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 8pm. free.

Hot Damn - feat: Hot Damn DJs The Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $15.

Kit & Kaboodle - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

Miami Nights - feat: Jay-J

+ Husky + Liam Sampras + Tom Kelly Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. free.

Pool Club Thursdays - feat: Resident DJs Ivy Bar/lounge, Sydney. 5pm. free.

Propaganda - feat: Gillex + DJ Moody World Bar, Kings Cross. 9pm. $10.

Rewind - feat: Resident DJs Sapphire Lounge, Potts Point.

9pm. free.

Take Over Thursday - feat: Resident DJs Trademark Hotel, Potts Point.

9pm. $10.

FRIDAY JULY 27 HIP HOP & R&B Ladi6 Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 8pm. $25.

Nejo Y Dalmata The Hi-Fi, Moore Park, Sydney. 8pm. $65.

CLUB NIGHTS

$5 @ 5 On Fridays - feat: Resident DJs Jacksons On George, Sydney. 5pm. free.

DJ Butcher + Doctor Werewolf + Spenda C + Glen Darby + Axel P + Sampy + Ramske + White Noise Chinese Laundry, Sydney.

9pm. free.

Fridays - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

Mashed Fridays - feat: DJ Ric C Oatley Hotel, Oatley. 8pm. free.

Mashup Fridays feat. Tenzin Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $20.

Maurice Fulton + Noise In My Head + DJ Dreamcatcher Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 11pm. $20.

MUM - feat: MUM DJs World Bar, Kings Cross. 8pm. $10.

Soho Fridays - feat: Kronic + Skinny + Zannon Rocco + Fingers + Pat Ward Soho Bar & Lounge, Potts Point. 9pm. free.

Something Wicked - feat: DJs Robust + Prolifix + Harper + Audio Trash Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 8pm. $10.

TGIF - feat: Resident DJs Trademark Hotel, Potts Point.

10pm. free.

The Guestlist - feat: Various Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour. 9pm. $15.

Unwind Fridays - feat: DJ Greg Summerfield Omega Lounge, Sydney.

5:30pm. free.

Waajeed + The Syphons (Live) Soda Factory, Surry Hills.

5pm. free.

SATURDAY JULY 27 HIP HOP & R&B

Jehst feat. M-Phazes + Loose Change + NSTC + Mike Who + DJ Frenzie Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 9pm. $25.

Mr Ruckman + Five Coffees + Vanessa Raspa & The Zombie Cats + Enkae + FBi Social, Sydney. 8pm. $10.

CLUB NIGHTS

After Dark - feat: Resident DJs

Whaat Club, Kings Cross.

8pm. $15.

Argyle Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs The Argyle, The Rocks, Sydney. 5pm. free.

FBi Hands Up! - feat: DJ Clockwerk + Special Friends With Benefits FBi Social, Sydney. 11:10pm. free.

Fred Everything + Jay-J Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. free.

Homemade Saturdays feat: Resident DJs Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour. 9pm. $25.

Jacksons Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs Jacksons On George, Sydne y. 9pm. free.

Motion - feat: Dean Dixon + Dave Fernandes + Discoball & Chain + Agent 00 Soul Hollywood Hotel, Sydney.

8pm. $5.

Skybar Saturdays - feat: Resident DJ The Watershed Hotel, Sydney. 9:30pm. $20.

Soda Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs Playing Disco And Funk Soda Factory, Surry Hills.

5pm. free.

Summit DJs Present House On The Harbour Boat Party - feat: DJ Ron Maran + Emmet Greene + Scotland Lamont + Mog Vilderplume + Chris Wilson Sydney Harbour, Sydney.

4pm. $40.

The Suite - feat: Resident DJs Sapphire Lounge, Potts Point. 8pm. free.

The Usual Suspects Trap Takeover - feat: Sweater Beats + Deckhead + Eratik + Genie Lights + Out Soho Bar & Lounge, Potts Point. 8pm. $20.

What We Do Is Secret – A Modular Party - feat: Klaxons (DJ Set) + (Main Room) Movement + Softwar + Wordlife + Otologic + Club Mod DJs + (Gallery Bar) Kilter + Moonbase Commander + Meare + DJs Kato + Mike Who + Kali (Picnic) + Max Gosford Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, Sydney. 8pm. $20.

Xaphoon Jones, The Only + A-Tonez + Ocean + Fingers + Reno + Goodfella + Foundation + U-Khan + E-Cats + Ra Bazaar Chinese Laundry, Sydney.

9pm. $20.

SUNDAY JULY 28 CLUB NIGHTS

Beresford Sundays - feat: Resident DJs Upstairs Beresford, Surry Hills. 3pm. free.

Easy Sundays - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross. 10pm. free.

S.A.S.H. Sundays The Abercrombie, Sydney.

2pm. $10.

Soup Kitchen - feat: The Soup Kitchen DJs World Bar, Kings Cross.

7pm. free.

Spice After Hours - feat: Steven Sullivan + Murat Kilic And Guests The Spice Cellar, Sydney.

4am. $20.

Sunday @ Gay Bar - feat: Resident DJ The Gay Bar, Darlinghurst.

3pm. free.

Sunday Sessions - feat: DJ Tone Oatley Hotel, Oatley. 7pm. free.

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WEDNESDAY JULY 24 Dip Hop Feat: Levins And Guests Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 8pm. Free.

Haim (DJ Set) Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 10pm.

Free.

Mashup Fridays Feat: Tenzin Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $20.

Maurice Fulton + Noise In My Head + DJ Dreamcatcher Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 11pm. $20.

Miami Nights feat: Jay-J + Husky + Liam Sampras + Tom Kelly Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. Free.

SATURDAY JULY 27

Robert Delong The Standard, Surry Hills. 8pm. $44.

FBi Hands Up! Feat: DJ Clockwerk + Special Friends With Benefits Fbi Social, Sydney. 11:10pm. Free.

THURSDAY JULY 25 Hot Damn feat: Hot Damn DJs The Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $15.

Propaganda feat: Gillex + DJ Moody World Bar, Kings Cross. 9pm. $10.

FRIDAY JULY 26 Ladi6 Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 8pm. $25.

Fred Everything + Jay-J Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. Free.

Jehst Feat. M-Phazes + Loose Change + NSTC + Mike Who + DJ Frenzie Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 9pm. $25.

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Waajeed + The Syphons (Live) Soda Factory, Surry Hills. 5pm. Free.

Lunchbreak feat. Horrorshow FBi Social, Sydney. 1pm. Free.

13:07:13 :: The Goldfish :: 111 Darlinghurst Rd Potts Point 8354 6630

Motion feat: Dean Dixon + Dave Fernandes + Discoball & Chain + Agent 00 Soul Hollywood Hotel, Sydney. 8pm. $5.

Xaphoon Jones + The Only + A-Tonez + Ocean + Fingers + Reno + Goodfella + Foundation + U-Khan + E-Cats + Ra Bazaar Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 9pm. $20.

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SUNDAY JULY 28 S.A.S.H. Sundays The Abercrombie, Sydney. 2pm. $10.

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Spice After Hours feat: Steven Sullivan + Murat Kilic And Guests The Spice Cellar, Sydney. 4am. $20.

11:07:13 :: Oxford Art Factory :: 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9332 3711

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

THE DELTA RIGGS

TICKETS ON SALE NOW Presented by Secret Sounds by arrangement with WME

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THU 25 JUL OXFORD ART FACTORY 09:07:13 :: Metro Theatre :: 624 George St Sydney 9550 3666 deapvally.com | secret-sounds.com.au

:: MARK BOADO :: KATRINA S : TIM LEVY (HEAD HONCHO) OUR LOVELY PHOTOGRAPHER :: ASHLEY MAR :: EZ LOP IA SILV :: NING AR HEN CLARKE :: AVERIE HARVEY :: OSK

BRAG :: 522 :: 22:07:13 :: 33

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party profile

4th wall city

12:07:13 :: The Clare Hotel :: 20 Broadway Ultimo 9211 2839

It’s called: The launch of 4th Wall City’s EP Scatter the Rats.

Acts: 4th Wall City; Deadbeat & Hazy; Wolve s of Mibu; King Brown and Killmonkey.

It sounds like: Alternative hip hop in the truest sense. Each act has their own distinctive energetic underground sound that’ll blow people’s minds!

Three songs you’ll hear on the night: 1. ‘Parkour Cat’: For all the Parkour fans.

2. ‘Pemulwuy’: About the famous Australian Aboriginal warrior defending his people and land.

3. ‘Trippin’ in Time’: what would you go back and change about yourself if you had the chance?

Sell it to us: 4th Wall City bring a combinatio n of heavy beats, bass and electronic sounds coupled with crazy narrat ives that will leave you wanting more. Their vocal delivery, stage presence and raw power are things you won’t forget.

The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Bangin’ beats, catchy choruses and crazy onstage antics.

Crowd specs: People looking for something different to the usual ‘commercial’ style of hip hop played on mains tream radio.

Wallet damage: $12

peter mayes (pnau) 13:07:13 :: Chinese Laundry :: 111 Sussex St Sydney 8295 9999 34 :: BRAG :: 522 :: 22:07:13

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Where: Brighton Up Bar, Level 1, 77 Oxford St, Darlinghurst When: Friday July 26 from 8pm

12:07:13 :: Chinese Laundry :: 111 Sussex St Sydney 8295 9999 :: MARK BOADO :: KATRINA S : TIM LEVY (HEAD HONCHO) OUR LOVELY PHOTOGRAPHER :: ASHLEY MAR :: EZ LOP IA SILV :: NING AR HEN CLARKE :: AVERIE HARVEY :: OSK

12:00

1:00

THE NATIONAL

1.20 - 2.00

2.20 - 3.00

3.20 - 4.10

4.30- 5.30

6.00 6.00-- 7.00 7.700

7.30-8.30

9.00 - 10.00 9.00-

10.30-12.00

BAD EZZY JAGWAR MA BAD EZZY CHET FAKER OTOLOGIC

MS MR

OTOLOGIC

DRAPHT

4.30-5.15

5.15-6.15 6.15

6.15-7.00

7.00-8.00

2.00-2.45

VANCE JOY

VILLAGERS

WHITLEY

CLOUD CONTROL ONTROLL

SARAH BLASKO

12.30-1.00

1.30-2.15

2.45-3.30

4.00-4.45

5.15-6.15 -6.15

6.45-7.45

LEXO PERPLEXO

STOMPBOX

TAYA

UNSEEN DIMENSIONS

2.00-3.00

3.00-4.00

4.00-5.30

5.30-7.00

11.30 - 12.30

1.00-2.00

2.30-3.30

4.00-5.00

LUKA LESSON

12.00-1.00

1.00-2.00

FIESTA VIVA MARIACHI 12.00 -12.30

FORUM BUSKER STAGE

8.00-8.30

8.45-10.30

10.45-11.45

YMDFM 7.00-8.00

YUNG FRANCO NO HOPE DJS 8.00-9.00

9.00-10.00

RAPSKALLION 12.15-2.00

12.00 -12.15

PONY CLUB

TEEN GIRLS

BENRAMA

10.00-11.00

11.00-12.30

12.30-2.00

DJ SPEX

FIESTAA VIVA MARIACHI HI

DWIGHT CHOCOLATE ESCOBAR

TROPICANTE

12.30-2.30

2.30-3.15

3.15-5.15

5.15-6.00 00

6.00-10.00

10.00-2.00

JPS

PERPLEX

OISIMA

GALAPAGOOSE

SILENT JAY

CANYONS

JULIEN LOVE

KANO

LADI6

WAAJEED

12.00-2.00

2.00-3.00

3.00-4.00

4.00-5.00

5.00-6.00

6.00-7.00

7.00-8.30

8.30-10.00

10.00-11.00

11.00-12.00

12.00-2.00

COMEDY: A RATIONAL FEAR

3.00-4.00

1:00

2:00

3:00

4:00

5:00

6:00

7:00

8:00

9:00

10:00

11:00

THE GROWL

THE JUNGLE GIANTS

SURFER BLOOD

FIDLAR

AIRBOURNE

THE RUBENSS

MYSTERY BAND

PASSION PIT

OF MONSTERS AND MEN

FRANK OCEAN

12.30-1.00

1.15-1.55

2.15-3.00

3.20-4.05

4.25-5.10

5.30-6.15 0-6.15

6.40-7.30

8.00-9.00

9.30-10.30

11.00-12.00

PEKING TYLER THE TOUCHE BAMBOOS DUK

TYLER TOUCHE

ALPINE

12.30-1.15

1.15-2.00

2.00-2.45 2.45-.3.30

POTATO POTATO

THE CHEMIST

12.30-1.00

1.30-2.15

LITTLE GREEN CARS 2.45-3.30

12.15-1.15

4.15-5.00

PEKING DUK

HERMITUDE

5.00-6.00

6.00-6.45

6.45-7.45

YOU AM I

LAURA MARLING

5.30-6.30

7.00-8.00

8.30-9.30

10.00-11.00

2.00-3.00

3.00-4.00

4.00-5.30

5.30-7.00

MANCHOIR

OKA

1.30-2.30

2.45-3.15

3.30-4.30

4.30-5.00

THE GYUTO MONKS KS DERS & MINJUNGBAL ELDERS CLOSING CEREMONY ONY

5.00-6.00

CHRIS BRADLEY

WEBBER

EASY P

AND OH!

AUDUN

11.00-1.00

1.00-3.00

3.00-4.00

4.00-5.00

5.00-6.00

RUFFY

REFORM

BEATDUSTA

LUKE PSYWALKER

DAKINI

7.05-8.30

8.30-9.30

9.30-11.00

11.00-12.30

12.30-2.00

WELCOME TO THE WORK

FIERCE LIGHT DOCUMENTARY

DJ GROOVYLAND

6.30-7.45

8.00-9.30

9.45-10.45

BEN LEE

6.00 -6.15

JAMES FAVA ANDY MURPHY LIGHT YEAR 6.00-7.00

FIESTA

VIVA DWIGHT CHOCOLATE ESCOBAR VIVA DWIGHT CHOCOLATE ESCOBAR MARIACHI MARIACHI 4.30-5.00

1:00

10.15-11.15

4.00-5.00

TRANCEDUCER

12:00

THE PRESETS

9.30-10.15

(HI FI WAY)

MISS MOON

2.30-4.30

8.30-9.30

THE DRONES

SLINKY

2.00-2.30

7.45-8.30

URRUMUL GURRUMUL

LUKA LESSON

12.00-2.00

WHAT SO WHAT SO NOT JAMES BLAKE NOT

SNAKADAKTAL

MIDIUM

BEAT POETRY WITH

BODY PERCUSSION

GREG SHEEHAN

3.30-4.15

EVERYTHING NG EVERYTHING NG

7.00-8.00

8.00-9.00

SACRED CIRCUS PERFORMANCE

PVT

FIESTA

MEXICAN CANTINA

6.30-7.45

5.30-6.00 6.00

FIESTA VIVA MARIACHI

YOGA SYNERGY

LA LA LAND

DJ CHRIS DECKKER ELECTRO GYPSY SWING

JAMIE BENNETT

12:00

10.00-2.00

FIERCE LIGHT DOCUMENTARY

6.00-7.00

3.45-5.00

CIRCUS SPACE

MANCHOIR

FALCONA

MOJO BLUESMEN

11.00-11.45

WELCOME TO THE WORK

5.00-6.00

2.30-3.30

KIRTAN WITH MEL DOBRA

12.30-2.00

DJ SPEX

8.00-9.30

GLOBAL VILLAGE

11.00-12.30

4.00-5.00

TIM STOKES

10.00-11.00

9.30-11.00

3.00-4.00

1.15-2.15

ZENTHAI YOGA

8.30-9.30

2.00-3.00

BEN WILSON

GW McLENNAN TENT

PAUL ABAD

7.05-8.30

LAST DINOSAURS RS DJ SET VS AMPLIFIREE

12.00-1.00

MIX UP

BLUNT INSTRUMENT

JAMES WRIGHT

DESA MANI CLIQUE

SUPERTOP

SOUNDWAVE

THE JUNGLE GIANTS DJ SET VS AMPLIFIRE

12.00-2.30

11:00

10.00-11.00

LYDIA

GIBBS

DOCUMENTARY AND Q&A THE SUNNYBOY

10.00 -11.30

FLUME

BERNARD FANNING

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE ROCKY HORROR 8.15-9.30

BEN LEE

2:00

10.30-11.30

SAMMY K

PERFORMANCE

WOMEN OF LETTERS

ZENTHAI YOGA WITH

PERFORMANCE

ART OF SLEEPING

GWYN WILLIAMS

BUSKER STAGE

TIPI FOREST

3.30-4.30

MISS FRIBY

MEXICAN CANTINA

FORUM

2.45-3.30

ALISON FAT FREDDY’S ALISON WONDERLAND WONDERLAND DROP DJ SET DJ SET 8.00-8.45 9.45-10.30 8.45-9.45

1:00

FIRE FX - FIRE SHOW

1.15-2.00

THE GATLING RONESWORTHY MILLIONS DJS GUNS FRIENDS

12:00

12.30 - 1.00

BURLESQUE WITH

11.00-12.00

11:00

EMPIRE OF THE SUN

BEAT POETRY WITH

10.00-2.00

10:00

BIRDS OF TOKYO

MINJUNGBAL

10.00-11.00

9:00

COLD WAR KIDS

BOLLYWOOD DANCE CULTURE & DANCE

CIRCUS SPACE

8:00

SOMETHING FOR KATE

SACRED CIRCUS PERFORMANCE

8.00-9.30

7:00

JAKE BUGG

SPLENDOUR PEACE PARADE WITH TOMMY FRANKLIN

GLOBAL VILLAGE

6:00

VIOLENT SOHO

TIPI FOREST YOGA SYNERGY

5:00

PALMA VIOLETS

12.30-1.15

GW McLENNAN TENT

4:00

POSTBLUE

TWINSY

MIX UP

3:00

10.45 -11.00

DJ LEYOLAH ANTARA

ECSTATIC DANCE SET

11.00-12.00

FIRE FX - FIRE SHOW

SUPERTOP

2:00

GYUTO MONKS CHANTING & MEDITATION

11:00

12.00 -12.15

ELECTRIC GARDEN DJ’S 12.15-2.00

ROB PIX

LA LA ALL STARS

BYRON HOUSE MAFIA

9.00-10.00

10.00-12.00

12.00-2.00

TROPICANTE

FIESTA VIVA MARIACHI

DJ SPEX

5.30-8.30

8.30-9.00

9.00-12.00

GOODGOD SOUND UNLIMITED

TONI TONI LEE

SHANTAN WANTAN ICHIBAN

HOLY BALM

PELVIS

MICHAEL OZONE

ZANZIBAR CHANEL

ARIANE

CASSIUS SELECT

CLIQUES

LEVINS

JAMES PANTS

MAURICE FULTON

12.00-1.00

1.00-2.00

2.00-3.00

3.00-3.40

3.40-5.00

5.00-6.00

6.00-6.30

6.30-7.30

7.30-8.30

8.30-9.30

9.30-11.00

11.00-12.00

12.00-2.00

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PANEL: AYAHUASCA & ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

COMEDY: STORY CLUB

10.00-11.00

12.00-1.30

2.30-4.00

MILAN

PAUL ADAMS

AYSHA KILLED A SAILOR

GARRETT KATO

12.00-1.00

1.15-2.15

2.30-3.30

3.45-5.00

2:00

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