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You can shut down the rumour mill, legendary rockers Guns N’ Roses have confirmed they are headed Down Under for the Not In This Lifetime... tour, with Axl, Slash and Duff all on board.
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Holy Holy have announced 14 dates around the country in celebration of their new single, and video clip, Darwinism. The track comes from their upcoming album and the tour will kick off in November.
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Back In Black The Queensland Theatre Company have announced that the six-time Helpmann Award-nominated musical Ladies In Black, the adaptation of Madeleine St John’s 1993 novel, will tour the east coast from January to March. 6 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
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Northlane
It’s been a whirlwind 12 months for Northlane since the release of Node and the metalcore favourites have locked down a run of intimate east coast headline dates for November to celebrate another massive year.
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Dinosaur Sightings Dinosaur Jr have announced they are returning to Australia in January 2017 to tour Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not, the group’s first LP since 2012 and the fourth since their 2005 reformation.
i’m gonna start wearing fake teeth like i wear fake eyelashes. just another row of teeth over my teeth. to make my teeth look thicker. @anna_train
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Streetwise After the awesome response to The Boys, her latest single and the first taste of upcoming album Warriors, Lisa Mitchell has announced five dates for the Something About These Streets tour in October.
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Glass Animals drew from some autobiographical experiences when creating their new album, but not the male prostitute character - inspired by a fortune teller called Jupiter who wore “little shorts and a tank top” - frontman Dave Bayley and bassist/keyboardist Ed Irwin-Singer promise Bryget Chrisfield. Cover and feature pics by Kane Hibberd.
just spotted that!” Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley points at one of his band’s framed gold records on a wall inside Caroline HQ, South Melbourne. “Madness!” The Oxford quartet’s breakthrough single Gooey achieved gold status in Australia earlier this year and Bayley recalls the day Glass Animals were presented with this certification. “It was so nice! It was a mental day: we had finished our album [How To Be A Human Being], had our first-ever BBC [Radio] 1 interview... and then we walked out and someone was there with our gold discs! It was the most mind-blowing day! And I cried a little bit... And just finishing the record as well was just, like - it was quite an emotional record; it was weird kinda writing about personal things, which we’d never really done properly before.” During a previous interview with this scribe back in 2014, Bayley admitted, “I’m a bit scared about writing very honest things... Maybe for the next record I can be a bit more blunt.” So how did he go? “[I] tried in this one, yeah,” Bayley reveals. “Some of it’s made up, some of it’s autobiographical - I’m not gonna say what’s what - I like that mystery.” Bayley is dressed casually in faded jeans and a bright, coral-coloured windcheater. He’s quietly spoken and his accent is quite posh (so much so that it comes as a shock if he
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drops an F-bomb). Sitting next to him on the couch is bassist/keyboardist Ed Irwin-Singer, who’s sporting a black shirt, tan jacket and jeans combo. Irwin-Singer has really bright blue eyes. So where did they hang their framed gold records? Bayley offers, “I gave mine to my mum.” Irwin-Singer dobs in their drummer, “Joe [Seaward]’s is in his loo... That’s really funny.” “Yeah, my mum put hers in the entrance,” Bayley continues. “As you walk into the house, it’s there! [Laughs] It’s really embarrassing.” She must be really proud. “Yeah, she’s sweet,” he allows. That’s gotta be one of hardest things about touring... “Not seeing mum?” Bayley interjects, chuckling. Glass Animals played the first of two sold-out shows (the second to go on sale) at 170 Russell last night. During the day, they stopped by Kane Hibberd’s studio in Cremorne for our cover shoot. Given that Bayley studied medicine, it can’t have been the first anatomical model he’s come across. “Yeah,” the frontman admits. “We had to pull it apart and put it back together.” IrwinSinger laughs, “It was quite hard!” Bayley agrees, “Yeah, it was tricky! But it all came flooding back; it was really weird. So I’ve decided to quit music and go back to medical school.” IrwinSinger feigns shock, “What!?” and then Bayley consoles, “Never. No.” While Glass Animals were touring off the back of their debut album Zaba, Bayley became fascinated with the strange conversations they were having with randoms
I said, ‘What is that smell?’ And he said, ‘Oh, it’s a candle. It’s, like, my sausage candle.
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and began recording some of these into his phone. So did these ‘subjects’ know they were being recorded? “Not always,” Irwin-Singer confesses before Bayley jumps in, “I think some of them did... There was a guy talking about giving himself a blow job and how he would, like, wake up every day and try and give himself a blow job and he was [laughs] really weird... On tour you meet a lot of people.” “Yeah,” his bandmate concurs, “Either the world is much more weird than I thought it was, or... As a musician and maybe as a foreigner, people feel that they can tell you stuff that they wouldn’t say to their friends and family.” Bayley says the “good stories” they collated ranged from “heartbreaking” to “just plain weird”, “hilarious” to “shocking”. These sound bites inspired Bayley to “start making up [his] own characters... sort of incorporating autobiography into that”. “We ended up having to redo a bit of it. It was a bit incriminating,” Irwin-Singer observes. Although Bayley confirms “some of it is real”, he recognises that they “definitely couldn’t have gotten away with” some of it: “we actually had to remove some for the final cut of the record because it was a bit much, yeah.” “People said stuff that they probably wouldn’t have said if they knew that it was gonna end up on an album,” IrwinSinger opines. What about that a dude banging on about sausages at the beginning of Take A Slice? “The sausage guy, yeah,” Bayley obliges. “That was a fortune teller...
I shouldn’t say, but that’s a real recording. We went up to this guy to get our fortunes read and this guy was called Jupiter - that was his name, yeah. And we went up to him and someone was cooking some food next door, and I said, ‘What is that smell?’ And he said, ‘Oh, it’s a candle. It’s, like, my sausage candle.’ And it was a very weird thing to say - really weird thing to say - so we all started laughing awkwardly. And I had this idea for a character that was, like, a male prostitute... It was the way that this guy Jupiter was dressed: he was wearing, like, little shorts and a tank top.” So you could see the outline of his ‘candle’? “Oh, yeah,” Bayley chuckles. “And he had this little candle next to him and all these tarot cards and, I dunno, male prostitute just popped into my head.” Irwin-Singer teases, “You felt seduced by him.” “Yeah, I did,” Bayley plays along. “He was very handsome, so I wrote a character based on that idea... That idea came later when I was re-listening to the recording and remembering what was happening, yeah; so all of the kind of character sketches and ideas came after the tour had finished in December,” he clarifies. “It was just too busy on the road... Actually writing meaningful stuff can be really tricky on tour.” As soon as Glass Animals returned from their tour, Bayley “locked [himself] away in a
studio”. “I had so many ideas. I really wanted to get started,” he enthuses. “I hadn’t made music probably - well, since that Joey Bada$$ track [Lose Control], but that was [done in] one day.” So at what stage did Bayley involve the other Glass Animals in the songwriting process? “A week and a half and after that... I had most of the songs, like, everything was written pretty much,” he shares. Irwin-Singer jokes, “And we were like, ‘Dave, what are you doing? Send it to us’.” The band “went to a friend’s wedding in January”, Bayley continues, then, upon their return, “Went into the same place together and started kind of breaking [the songs] apart, just developing them further”. Glass Animals “just went with the demo” for a couple of the How To Be A Human Being album tracks, which was a departure from the production on this album’s predecessor. On creating their “really polished” Zaba set, Bayley reflects, “We were really self-conscious - and we’d never done it before - and we wanted everything to be dead perfect. But what we realised this time around is that you can do all of that, but you end up losing a bit of soul and spontaneity... We’re sort of appreciating that rawness and that grittiness in those first takes a lot more.”
What: How To Be A Human Being (Wolf Tone/Caroline)
Creature Feature Animals As Leaders American prog-metal outfit outta Washington, DC.
Animal Collective Experimental popsters from Baltimore.
Animal Liberation Orchestra Californian quartet of rock proportions.
Plants And Animals An indie-rock band from Montreal.
Super Furry Animals Welsh psych-rockers fronted by Gruff Rhys.
The Animals Responsible for The House Of The Rising Sun. ‘Nuff said.
The Sound Of Animals Fighting American rock supergroup founded by Rich Balling of Rx Bandits.
Theatre
Vomit’s Flying Eddie Perfect tells Danielle O’Donohue how much fun he’s having being terrible. The Beast. Pic: Jules Tahan
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aced with a dining room full of dinner guests, a live cow and no butcher, would you be able to do what it takes to make your nose-to-tail dinner experience a success? Many of us will never have to face actually killing our own dinner, but it’s an idea that intrigues Eddie Perfect entertainment’s man of the moment (if by ‘moment’ we’re talking about almost the last ten years). The Beast explores the idea of how middle-class progressives would cope if thrown into a situation well outside their perfectly insulated comfort zones. Perfect says he’s taking his scorching brand of humour and turning it on himself as much as anyone.
The Beast. Pic: Jules Tahan
For satire to work the room has got to be airtight. You can’t leave a hole where any member of the audience can get out.
For fans who know Perfect solely through his acting work on Channel Ten’s Offspring, this could be a rather illuminating theatrical experience. “I see myself in pretty much all the characters. But it’s not just a case of, ‘Aren’t we wankers?’” Perfect explains. “For satire to work the room has got to be airtight. You can’t leave a hole where any member of the audience can get out. The problem with the play, and myself included, is we live in a reality where we have contradictory values. There’s a massive gap between who we are and who we think we are. “Once a cause is seen to be good, sometimes people latch on to that cause not to do good, but to be seen to be doing good. It’s some kind of status credit they can 14 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
use to elevate themselves. With this play we wanted to force a group of characters into a corner where they could not hold the lie any longer.” Pushed into a corner, The Beast’s characters resort to their most despicable selves. A prospect Perfect is relishing in the rehearsal room because, unlike the play’s debut with Melbourne Theatre Company in 2013, this time Perfect gets to play one of the despicable dinner guests. “I’m getting my comedic arse handed to me every day,” Perfect says of the rehearsal process. “Writing and performing is almost impossible when you’re first doing a play. When we did it the first time around you still have to worry about knocking it into shape and you need to be able to see what’s working and what’s not working to be able to leave the rehearsal room and do rewrites and come back. “The first time around the script was never sacrosanct. It was always under, one word would be attack, another would be review,” Perfect says wryly. This time around the script is virtually locked, so Perfect can concentrate on fleshing out his character while enjoying the chance to work in an ensemble cast that includes Alison Bell, Christie Whelan-Browne, Toby Truslove and Peter Houghton. “The fact is, we love it,” Perfect says of the opportunity to put these characters’ worst selves on show. “It’s like a kind of horror/pantomime. Everyone gets one despicable moment at least, if not several. I mean there’s vomit flying everywhere. It’s completely black and disgusting and we enjoy every minute of it.”
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The Missing 2% Justin Theroux and Damon Lindelof — the lead actor and creator of The Leftovers respectively — talk to Guy Davis about the joy of mystery and the draw of Australia.
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et’s say, for argument’s sake, that you were telling a story where 2% of the planet’s population suddenly and mysteriously vanished from the face of the earth. The story would likely revolve around two questions: Why did these people disappear? And where did they go? Damon Lindelof, perhaps best-known as the cocreator of the hit TV series Lost, knew he wasn’t going to ever address those questions when he started developing his television adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel The Leftovers, a story in which, uh, 2% of the world’s population has suddenly and mysteriously vanished from the face of
The Leftovers Executive Producer Mimi Leder, actor Justin Theroux and Co-Creator Damon Lindelof.
I want to live in that space of mystery, which means you don’t answer questions definitively, which feels more like life, doesn’t it?
the earth. Although he acknowledges with a laugh that his show would probably attract a larger audience if it did. Instead, as its title indicates, The Leftovers focuses on the people remaining behind, people grieving the loss of missing loved ones and unable to explain what this miraculous, mysterious event says about — well, everything from the possible existence of a higher power to their own place in the greater scheme of things. “The thing that activates me most in storytelling, and the thing that bites me in the ass the most, is mystery,” says Lindelof. “What makes mysteries so great to me is... well, take someone who has been convicted of murder and claims to be innocent. Are they innocent or not? That to me is much more compelling than, ‘Nope, they’re guilty’. I want to live in that space of mystery, which means you 16 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
don’t answer questions definitively, which feels more like life, doesn’t it?” Leftovers lead actor Justin Theroux, who plays small-town police chief Kevin Garvey, echoes Lindelof’s sentiments. “People say it’s so weird and that they don’t get it,” he says. “What I love about the show is that it mimics your life more than you may think. It’s completely universal to think, ‘What’s the point of life? What’s the purpose of grinding on?’ — Damon has shone a light on that in a way that is at times uncomfortable. Most people are happy to go through life not thinking about too much, not examining what’s underneath the surface. But everyone has an existential moment at some stage in their life.” For the third and final season of The Leftovers, Lindelof has brought the cast and crew of the show to Australia, a development hinted at when it was revealed that Garvey’s father, played by Scott Glenn, had travelled here in search of answers. “He’s been wandering the continent, and his journeys culminate in the Melbourne area at around the same time the rest of the show is basically colliding with him,” says Lindelof. Neither series creator nor lead actor were too forthcoming with details about how the Australian locale would affect this final chapter of the story. However, Lindelof was quick to praise the local crews working on The Leftovers. “Yeah, my experience so far has been that it is awesome,” he says of Australia. “Being a producer of television and film for 15 years now, a big part of it is, ‘What is the culture of the place and the people?’, because that translates to the work ethic of the crew you hire and this delicate balance of having fun while you work but also dealing with people who are very exacting in their craft. We’ve gravitated towards places — Austin, Texas in season two, and now here — where the work ethic is incredible but it’s also a lot of fun working together. There’s something in Australia that’s very organic when it comes to that.” Rather than construct sets, the show primarily takes advantage of actual locations around Australia, ranging from Federation Square in the Melbourne CBD to the You Yangs mountain range just outside Geelong. Shifting from one location to another between the first and second seasons of The Leftovers gave Lindelof the opportunity to broaden the show’s visual palette and open up the story more. And a little research into Australian cinema of the 1970s, especially Peter Weir’s Picnic At Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, help set the tone for the new episodes, which will be filmed over the next couple of months. “There’s something about the way those two movies feel — they’re kind of supernatural movies but nothing overtly supernatural happens in them,” says Lindelof. “Why is that, we wondered, and the answer started leading us towards Australia — there’s something strange and magical and off-kilter without taking itself too seriously here. Then we watched [films set in Australia like] Wake In Fright and Walkabout and we thought, ‘Let’s stop ripping off these movies and just go!’. The gravity of the story was sort of pulling us here.”
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Music
Frontlash Eye Of The Jagwar
Blue Unleashed
New Jagwar Ma has arrived! We can’t wait to dance along to Give Me A Reason in the Sup’ when these legends hit Meredith.
On The Nod The NodPod (aka head hammock). We’re already looking forward to our next longhaul flight so that we can test this baby out!
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Lashes
Head along to The Old Bar on 25 Aug to help celebrate the launch of Melbourne artist Olivia Grbac’s Shit People At Gigs zine. The Pink Tiles, Eat-Man and Piss Factory are playing, and hopefully no shit people will turn up. Olivia Grbac The Drink Spiller
Backlash Survivor Block
Australian Survivor and The Block - there’s so much white you need to watch with sunglasses on.
Fast Food Fail
Why is it that every time we order at a drive-through, we get home and notice our favourite part of the combo meal ain’t in the box!
Lashes To Lashes Kinda sick of seeing people struggle to blink due to wearing excessive false eyelashes. Surely it’s irritating for the wearers as well, right? 18 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
“When I was on stage with Flume at Splendour In The Grass, it was surreal, it was almost completing me,” says folktronic rising star Celia Pavey — the one and only Vera Blue — sharing her dreamy moment with a totally impressed Annelise Ball.
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ith a bunch of shows already sold out on her upcoming national tour, Celia Pavey is clearly still riding high on all the Fingertips EP buzz, despite her understandable Splendour comedown. “There’s lot’s going on, I’m feeling lots of things,” shares Pavey. “I’m excited, because I’m heading into the studio soon to work on an album, but I’ve still got the post-Splendour blues.” Feeling all the feels, however, puts Pavey in the right frame of mind for songwriting. Expressing sincerity and truth is the way she rolls when it comes to making music. “That’s exactly what I’m about,” she says. “I have to be very honest with my music, it’s always real, because that way people can connect to it.” Good game plan girl, it’s definitely working. Veteran producers Andy and Thom Mak, as well as songwriting buddy Gossling, helped Pavey experiment her way out of the pure folk groove and find the sound she’s always wanted. “I really wanted to create a blend of folk and cool, with heavy, thick sounds,” she says. “Going through high school, I listened to a lot of music with
heavier beats and bass, like Beyonce, and I really loved it,” she says, showing evident good taste. “Yet, I also loved folk, so I let all that go to concentrate on a more acoustic sound.” Fortunately, Andy, Thom and Gossling helped her bring the beat back. “They helped me experiment, and I was also listening to artists like alt-J and FKA Twigs at the time,” she says. “That’s where the sound evolved and I fell in love with it. This is the music I’ve been wanting to make and I feel like I’m unleashing.” Pavey’s about to be further unleashed on the gig-goers of Australia, who are clearly lapping up her new vibe. Sold out Melbourne Howler gigs, plus a bunch of other sellouts across the country, demonstrate the growing appetite for Pavey. “It’s really wild,” she says, sounding totally stoked. “I think performing with Illy, Slumberjack and Flume at Splendour made people interested in getting some tickets.” That, plus the intimate and ethereal EP tracks like Hold, Settle and Fingertips may also have a little something to do with it. The big-time love for Pavey is helping her approach this tour with measured selfbelief. “I think I’ll definitely be feeling more confident on stage,” she says. “But I’ll always be pushing for a better performance, and more connection, and to make it the very best it can possibly be.” The performance will most certainly be bringing the magic Vera Blue combination she’s finally nailed. “lt’ll be a very full electronic sound, but it’ll have acoustic vibes as well,” she shares. “I want it to be perfect for the people coming to watch.”
When & Where: 31 Aug, Karova Lounge, Ballarat; 1 Sep, Workers Club, Geelong; 2 — 4 Sep, Howler
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Comedy
The Art Of Making Yap In between fits of laughter, Alan Carr discusses sticking a selfie stick up Justin Timberlake’s trouser leg, whether or not guests have literally pissed themselves on his chat show and why there’s no such thing as “funny heckles” with Bryget Chrisfield.
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n Italy “yesterd’y”, Alan Carr is back in London in time for our chat and gushes of the country shaped like a boot, “Beautiful food, beautiful wine, beautiful people - what’s not to love?” When told we’re pretty sure the beverages Carr downed while abroad would’ve tasted a lot nicer than the refreshments he offers guests on his chat show, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Carr admits, “Oh, yes, you bet”. So whose job is it to keep that infamous “globe”
Pointing at your crotch going, ‘Put this out’? That’s not banter.
stocked? “Well what we say to people is, we say, ‘Is anyone going on a holid’y? Like, a European holid’y? You’ve got to bring something [back] that’s no more than five euros.’ And someone came back from Greece once and I swear that it was like mauve with multi-coloured iron filings in. It was just so, haha, disgusting!” Now we’re wondering how often the gold foil leather sofa needs professional cleaning. “What when someone’s pissed themselves? Or vomited?” Carr jumps in before laughing hysterically. “It’s been close, it’s been close, hahahahaha.” A 16th Series of Alan Carr: Chatty Man aired this year and Carr shares, “As you go through the series you get less and less starstruck ‘cause you sorta realise that everyone’s sort of the same, really”. “When you see the guests arrive - normally I look out the window 20 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
and they’ve got, like, a tracksuit on and they’re smokin’ a fag and there’s stains down their trousers,” Carr explains, before admitting, “I was [starstruck] when Justin Timberlake came on. I was a little bit, ‘Ooh, JT!’” When told this scribe prefers to call said triple threat Justin Trousersnake, Carr doesn’t miss a beat. “Ooh, have you slept with him?” We wish! Doesn’t everybody? “Well,” Carr chuckles. “No. I mean, I need proof, though. I need photographic evidence [laughs].” Photo or it didn’t happen? “Yeah, stick a selfie stick up his trouser leg or something,” Carr cracks up. He’s already penned one autobiography, Look Who It Is!: My Story, and Carr reveals, “I’m writing a new one at the minute that’s coming out this Christmas”. The followup to Look Who It Is!: My Story focuses on his TV career: “The troubles with TV and showbiz and stuff, you realise it is quite a nasty business as it were.” And Carr Googles himself for research purposes: “You put in ‘Chatty Man’ and press search and you’re like, ‘Oh, god, please be kind!’ So it’s a bit like wadin’ into a sewer... I know you’re a journalist, but, you know, sometimes there’s been, ‘I never said THAT!’ And the thing is, I am such a bitch that people can put whatever and go, ‘Ooh, Alan’s on the turn, Alan’s ‘ad a few wines’. I’m like, ‘No, I didn’t say that, I think - I didn’t say it!’ hahahahahahaha.” On the subject of political correctness, Carr ponders, “Personally, I’m not a big fan of those comedians that will joke about rape. And I think [with] some of the male comedians there is a sense of, ‘Oooh, I’m being so edgy!’ And that’s not really me.” Carr then observes, “Everyone is offended now, and everyone wants to be offended, which is the interesting thing. But if a joke’s funny I’m gonna go for it, but I’m not setting out to have people crying or walking out.” Given that audiences these days want to be part of the experience, we wonder whether Carr has noticed an increased number of hecklers over time. “You don’t get funny heckles,” Carr points out. “If anything you just get, [puts on bogan voice] ‘Ugh, you’re shit!’ So, I mean, there is, like, this myth that Oscar Wilde’s in the audience... sadly, it’s more odd bods.” And quite often it can be pretty hard to decipher what punters call out. “You sound like you’ve got your head in a urinal at the best of times... I did this warm-up gig and it didn’t go that well, and the fire alarm went off halfway through. And so the fire brigade had to call, and I was trying to calm ‘em down; everyone was panicked. And this woman was absolutely paralytic; she’d been stopped drinks at the bar and then was like pointing at her crotch shouting at the fire brigade, ‘Put this out!’ And I said, ‘Look madam,’ I said, ‘We’re trying to put it out’. There wasn’t a fire as it happened, but I mean it was all pretty scary and I thought I’d stay on stage, calm everyone down; I didn’t wanna just leg it. And then on Twitter they go, ‘Oh, Alan Carr can’t handle the banter!’ And I’m like, ‘Banter? Pointing at your crotch going, “Put this out”? That’s not banter’.”
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Music
RELEASE WATCH
From Rap To Trumpet
Here’s a wrap of who’s just announced a new release: Beth Hart
Grammy-nominated singer Beth Hart’s latest album Fire On The Floor is out 14 Oct on Provogue/Mascot Label Group. The debut LP from DD Dumbo Utopia Defeated will drop on 7 Oct via Liberation. Look out for B Wise’s debut project for Elefant Traks – the Semi Pro EP – due 23 Sep. Crystal Fighters have dropped a new single All Night ahead of the release of their as-yet-untitled third album, out in October via Play It Again Sam. Industry legend Barry Gibb will release his first solo album of new material In The Now on 7 Oct through Columbia/Sony. Jagwar Ma have dropped a single Give Me A Reason from their forthcoming album Every Now & Then, to be released via Future Classic on 14 Oct. The Weakerthans’ John K Samson is releasing his second solo album Winter Wheat 21 Oct on Epitaph/Warner.
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The collab between RZA and Paul Banks — Banks & Steelz — fuses the boundary between hip hop and rap/rock with a touch of indie on their LP Anything But Words, finds Cyclone.
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any musicians succumb to complacency mid-career. But RZA (aka Robert Diggs) is becoming more adventurous. The Wu-Tang Clan MC, producer and mastermind is now furnishing a long-canvassed album with Interpol frontman Paul Banks as Banks & Steelz. And Anything But Words transcends fusty notions of ‘rap/ rock’ — it’s indie, Shaolin-style. Meeting in 2011, the surprise “buddies” bonded over, not only music, but also chess. So the first question for the New Yorkers, on a patched-in call, is who typically wins? They laugh. The exuberant Diggs quips, “People like to hear that, don’t they?” Banks reveals it’s Diggs. For Banks, Anything But Words isn’t so incongruous. He is an old hip hop head, moonlighting as DJ Fancypants. However, in the ‘90s Diggs was a purist — the Wu infamously the antidote to “R&Bullshit”. He’s often spoken of a youthful, cultural “antagonism” towards rock. “I was just a hip hop junkie. I was totally dedicated to the genre... I didn’t even see it as a ‘genre’ — I saw hip hop as the only form of music.” Diggs considered alternative genres merely as breakbeat-sample sources. Yet Diggs has since “evolved”. He’s picked up instruments —
including guitar. Banks & Steelz enjoy a mutual appreciation of artists like Leonard Cohen, Elton John and John Frusciante. While making Anything But Words, Diggs shared various rock discoveries. Banks “got a real kick” when Diggs stumbled upon Nick Cave through a trailer for 20,000 Days On Earth. The assiduous duo studied each other’s studio techniques, too. Banks, a maximalist, learnt from Diggs that removing something from a song can improve it. Diggs was “inspired” by Banks’ melodic flair. Anything But Words has impressive guests — the Wu’s Ghostface Killah (the first single Love & War), Kool Keith and Florence Welch. Banks & Steelz, currently touring North America, are keen to hit Australia. Beyond that, Banks envisages a follow-up LP. “I’d love there to be a sequel,” he enthuses. “There’s a bunch of material we didn’t get to finish for this album, and there’s a bunch of material that we’ve yet to write that I feel very compelled to do... There’s definitely more to come.” Both have independent projects on the go. Banks has talked of a solo LP. “It could be an Interpol record, I think, next for me — it’s more likely,” he discloses now. “It’s about all I could say.” Meanwhile, Diggs’ latest directorial effort, the hip hop drama Coco, starring Azealia Banks, is slated for release around Valentine’s Day 2017. (“She did a great job as an actress,” he says of the femcee. “I think she has a future.”) Then word is that Diggs is mastering the trumpet. His progress? “Well, the thing about the trumpet is that, even though I practise a lot in my house in the woods, I still have people that live there with me,” he laughs. “Learning the trumpet is a very challenging thing for the rest of the family. I do hear, ‘Oh Dad!’ — I get some of that ‘dad shit’... So I’m working on it.”
What: Anything But Words (Warner)
Music
Chasing A Feeling
The Pink Monkey Birds’ founding frontman Kid Congo Powers tells Steve Bell about his eternal quest for “other-ness”.
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A-bred musician Kid Congo Powers has the most impeccable of rock’n’roll pedigrees — having played guitar over the years for The Cramps, The Gun Club and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds — but for the last decade he’s been applying his vision to his own project, The Pink Monkey Birds. This band’s inaugural tour of Australia last year earned rave reviews, and now they’re returning on the back of fourth album La Arana Es La Vida, a collection of down and dirty rock’n’roll that drags the music of Powers’ past into brave new places. “The good thing this time was that we weren’t afraid to try old things, because a lot of the time you don’t want to repeat yourself,” Powers laughs. “That’s how I am at least — I know I often cut things off before their time because I’m so restless to go onto the next thing. “It was good to go back and say, ‘let’s just make a rock album and try different types of rock that we love’, like put in an Elvis TCB sorta thing, and put in anything from Krautrock to noisy stuff to Chicano rock. I think visiting [Chicano rock] in a bigger way was the most exciting aspect.” This continues a love Powers developed as a youngster in the ‘60s when he became enamoured with East LA Chicano rockers Thee Midniters. “I had older sisters who were
teenagers when I was eight or nine years old, and they’d listen to it,” he tells. “I’d get excited at how excited they were to go out to dances to see them: I didn’t even know what Thee Midniters was and I didn’t know what went on at these dances, but I wanted whatever was making them so excited about going! “It’s more about chasing a feeling — to me it was magical, because you can’t imagine what thrills people that much when you’re eight, but you already know that you want whatever’s the most thrilling thing. I’m still like an eight-year-old — I still want that exciting thing in music. It became a bit of a holy grail to seek that out. “It’s always the idea, and that’s how I learned to do it, from everyone in all of the bands I’ve been in — the people I’ve collaborated with have always done what they’re doing to the extreme, to their ultimate vision. They’re all people who are very sure of what their vision is — I’m not saying they plan everything out, but the general muse is there and it’s seeking a sort of purity or rawness or realness or way-out-ness. An other-ness. “I think with The Pink Monkey Birds we’re a dance band, we’re a rock’n’roll band, we’re about life being funny, sexy, dangerous, smart and stupid all at the same time. They’re all of my favourite things, so all of my favourite music is like that and that’s what rock’n’roll should be like. And there’s definitely a sense of humour, because it’s fun to look at the world in a skewed way — you have to laugh at it, because if you didn’t laugh at it you’d be crying.”
When & Where: 24 Aug, The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine; 25 Aug, Northcote Social Club; 26 Aug, NGV; 27 Aug, Caravan Music Club
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Eat / Drink Eat/Drink
Bluestone Lane, various NYC locations A mate of mine works in one of these cafes and she says its a big celebrity draw. Finding a slice of home when you’re far away can be comforting, but the chilli flakes on top of the avo smash was like nothing I’ve ever had back in Sydney. (CHILLI DOESN’T BELONG ON AVO!) Even still, a mocha made by someone who can pronounce it properly was worth the wait and trek out in the rain.
The Milling Room, Upper West Side High ceilings, black-aproned staff and a rustic decor. It’s one of very few modern American restaurants that offered us (fluffy, warm, perfect) freshly baked bread with olive oil. Americans love to burn the crust of their bread slightly and the smoky taste is so damn great. The wild mushroom risotto with reggiano, black truffles and mascarpone was worth it just for the truffles, but the chilled spinach side with ginger, citrus and sesame seeds which was the real MVP.
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new york city eats
People make the mistake of thinking the Big Apple is about the bars, the fashion, the business and the music scenes... but I have news for you. It’s about the food. From neighbourhood hole-in-thewall eateries to fine-as-hell, $200 per head dining experiences to the kebab/hot dog stands around each corner, New York City has just about everything when it comes to keeping yourself satiated. I tried out a mere handful on my recent summer visit, making sure I had a tonne of stories to bring back and make my friends jealous with. Caveat: I kind of lied up there. New York is also really great for the nightlife, fashion and music scenes. It’s just so much more fun eating, don’t ya think? Words and Pics by Uppy Chatterjee
The Spotted Pig, West Village Another big celebrity hotspot, this cosy pub has literally the greatest shoestring fries I’ve ever had. The whole place is warm, friendly and unassuming and the food matched the atmosphere perfectly — we split the famous chargrilled burger with roquefort cheese and the Cubano sandwich with arugula salad, all the while stuffing handfuls of the unbelievably good fries into our mouths.
The Bagel Store, Williamsburg Because when you’ve got a chance to eat something viral-worthy, you’re gonna do it, right? These rainbow bagels have been all over the internet lately, and with Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer giving it their approval on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, I had to give it red-hot go on my first morning in NYC. The rainbow bagel itself — though stunning to look at — tasted like cardboard, but it was massively redeemed by that Oreo cream cheese. Unnngggghh.
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Craig Dermody’s band Scott & Charlene’s Wedding hit (or return to) Melbourne, playing one last show at The Curtin (26 Aug) before the release of their third album, Mid Thirties Single Scene. If the lead single Don’t Bother Me is anything to go by, the new album has lost none of the lo-fi sound that helped them rise from the underground Melbourne rock scene. A whole heap of fellow Aussie rockers including Summer Flake, RVG and Crop Top are on support duty. Catch Scott & Charlene’s Wedding before they flee overseas again!
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Indie Indie
Neon Queen
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elbournites Neon Queen mesh R&B with hip hop and a good old lashing of rock’n’roll. “We’ve been playing and writing music together for several years now — since we were youngsters,” says Christopher Spall [guitar]. “We always test the waters with our tracks. When we toured with Bootleg Rascal, the track [Real Love] was a definite banger. So we thought damn, lets give the people what they want,” he laughs. Real Love was recorded “entirely on our own in a studio we’ve built in the home of Oceanz [lead vocals] and Dench [drums], located in the mean streets of Lalor. The track really captures our sound perfectly with that mix of genres. It’s also mixed by
The Kill Devil Hills
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he Kill Devil Hills use the dictionary to describe their sound: “Cacophony, noun. A harsh discordant mixture of sounds.” Emerging from the “Fremantle Flower Arrangement scene circa 2003, the KDH have consistently failed to heed the cries of ‘stop!’, ‘retire now!’ and ‘silence!’ and emerged intact to recently release our fourth studio album In On Under Near Water, a sonically redolent bouquet of angsty noise,” laughs singer and guitarist Brendon Humphries. “Making the new record has been my most enjoyed experience. I love the whole writing, recording, mixing process very much. As for shows, touring around Europe a couple of times rates as the most 26 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
Alex Markwell from the Delta Riggs,” he explains. “During the recording sessions we found out that Prince died — ultimate bummer — who we look up to so much. So we started listening to heaps of Prince. He definitely inspired the track in some way with the whole ‘hold nothing back’ attitude, which kinda shines through this ditty. “The track is off a mixtape we plan to release in the near future. We thought we’d change things up a bit and do it real hip hop with a full-length mixtape instead of an EP consisting of only five or so tracks. It pays tribute to Melbourne City.”
When & Where: 26 Aug, Musicman Megastore, Bendigo; 27 Aug, Baha Tacos, Rye; 16 Sep, Yah Yah’s
fun, exhausting, ape-pack experience for me; a Contiki tour devised by Satan.” They take their inspiration from the most unlikely places, Humphries cites “Animal field recordings — they make music too — singing gospel tunes with my girlfriend, she’s got the greatest voice, and film soundtracks — the theme from Contempt by George Delerue is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.” He also provides a very compelling reason to see the band live: “Because we don’t come here very much, and you may get hit by a bus or an amateur skydiver tomorrow, embrace us like an old flame and you may just get lucky.”
Chris Pickering
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n 2008 Chris Pickering moved from his Brisbane home to carve a notch into the Texas music scene. Now, eight years later, he’s returned home with a new album, Canyons. “I lived in Nashville in the USA for a few years, then moved back to Melbourne in 2013 with some recordings I’d made over in the US.” says Pickering, “I’ve finally decided to put these out, after much deliberating and working on other projects.” Bouncing around the back roads of the US, Pickering found his muses in a lot of unlikely places. “The desert environment around Joshua Tree was a big inspiration, but so was a lot of the music I was listening too when I lived in Nashville.” Pickering says it translated naturally onto the album, stating, “There’s definitely a thread that links many of the songs, although this may not be apparent on first listen, and it more comes from where I was at when I was writing them.” Pickering has gone to lengths to make sure he’s staying true to his intincts, saying, “I like things to sound good, but working with good producers helps you recognise when the vibe is the reason that it does sound good. It’s easy to wreck a good vibe in the pursuit of intonational perfection.” Pickering is promising the best of ‘the vibe’ for his Aussie fans when he launches Canyons at The Gasometer later this week: “The band and I always mix it up live, and rarely play the same song the same way twice. We like to keep things open, and it’s the best way to make sure your audience gets an original experience too.”
When & Where: 27 Aug, The Curtin Hotel When & Where: 28 Aug, The Gasomoter
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Comedy
Call Bullshit Ahead of her Just For Laughs appearance and PsyCHO tour, Margaret Cho reveals you always need to call out discrimination, even if it’s coming from your heroes. Cyclone gets the story.
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argaret Cho — comedian, actor, singer, rapper, reality star, author and activist — doesn’t stipulate no-go zones in interviews. But, then again, she’s long been frank about her shocking personal experiences — of childhood bullying, sexual molestation, and rape. Cho has also proudly proclaimed her bisexuality. The Korean-American’s stand-up comedy is fearless, too, exploring race, sexuality and gender. And Cho’s current show could be her most provocative yet. She’ll tackle one of comedy’s taboos — sexual abuse. “I feel like we’ll be talking a lot about Rolf Harris!” Cho laughs darkly. Her
There’s no context in which racism is acceptable.
g for empowerment”. “When approach is “about looking you shine a light on predators, that really makes them powerless, so then they go away — which is a great thing.” Growing up in San Francisco, Cho’s decision to pursue comedy wasn’t so outlandish — her father wrote Korean joke books. Leaving home early, Cho worked in the sex industry. By the mid-’90s, the now buzz comedian had landed her own ABC sitcom, All-American Girl — loosely autobiographical. While expectations were high for this first major network television series centering on an Asian-American family, it all went awry. Cho was denied creative control, meddling executives compromising her vision (random fact: Quentin Tarantino cameoed as her date). More seriously, they berated Cho’s appearance to the extent that she succumbed 28 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
to an eating disorder — and battled substance abuse. Cho ruminated on her ordeal in her show-cum-memoir I’m The One That I Want. Still, All-American Girl paved the way for Fresh Off The Boat. “It influenced a lot of people, so I’m really grateful for that.” Cho secured movie roles, even playing an FBI agent alongside (future comic target) John Travolta in John Woo’s speculative action thriller Face/Off. Cho is developing a new “dramedy”, Highland — (possibly) for Amazon. “Some of the show is about a family experiencing the big medical marijuana boom in California, or in the United States, but also it’s much deeper than that. It has a lot to do with Asian-American history and how a lot of Asian people, when they came to this country, in the ‘70s, ‘80s, realised they didn’t have to behave — so that the culture has all shifted. And so in my generation we’re all a little bit unsure of our parentage — that’s the truth, which is a very strange thing, because [people] were allowed to kind of do whatever they wanted. It’s weird — in America a lot of Korean people buy liquor stores, so it’s very natural to think the next thing would be to get a pot store.” Cho has recorded subversively comic music. She lately dropped a second album, American Myth — presaged by I Wanna Kill My Rapist, its viral video a manifestation of “cathartic rage”. Meanwhile, Cho popped up in Peaches’ hilarious film clip for Dick In The Air, both sporting crocheted male genitalia. “She’s wonderful — I would love to do a song with her.” This year Cho joined E!’s Fashion Police. She was close to the program’s pro original host, the late Joan Rivers and praises, “[S “[She was] very giving and unbelievably supportive of m my work and my life — I mean, my personal life also! There was w just so much that she gave from her heart and really [she] was a totally different person on stage and off. There’s T an assumption that she was very mean and, actua actually, that wasn’t true in any way.” Cho will call cal out BS. When in late 2015 she learnt that Absolutely Fabulous: Fabu The Movie had cast the Caucasian Janette Tough to t portray a (male) Japanese fashion designer, Huki Muki, M Cho hit Twitter, accusing its makers of perpetuating “yellowface”. Opinion pieces ensued. As screenwriter, Jennifer Je Saunders has since refuted Cho’s charge to The Guardian, G dismissing Tough’s depiction lit joke”, her character obviously not as “just a silly little Japanese. Cho hasn’t followed it. “I don’t even know because I don’t really care.” Cho remains unconvinced. cont “There’s no context in which racism is acceptable.” “rea good friends with [Ab Fab co-creator] Oddly, she’s “really “ really do love Dawn — I love the work Dawn French.” “I an Joanna [Lumley] have done. It’s not a that Jennifer and comment on that. Those women have done great work over the years — and certainly French And Saunders are a legendary comedy team, but this really tarnishes their legend for me. Unfortunately it does. I’m very sorry about it, too, ‘cause I really like them.”
What: Margaret Cho: The PsyCHO Tour When & Where: 12 Sep, Athenaeum Theatre
Music
Great Expectations
Tassie punks Luca Brasi have been pondering life’s big questions, but frontman Tyler Richardson tells Steve Bell that there’s always something cool around the corner.
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f This Is All We’re Going To Be — the third album by hard working Tasmanian punk quartet Luca Brasi — is like a distillation of the sound they’ve been working towards for years: angsty yet melodic rock’n’roll with driving guitar lines, pounding drums and anthemic choruses, tied together by an innate camaraderie that can only come from years of shared toil and experience.”We’ve been fucking around with this thing for six years trying to get the formula right and it kinda felt like it clicked with this record,” smiles vocalist/bassist Tyler Richardson. “That’s the go with the title and everything, it was like, ‘This is our time to make it or break it, if no one likes this record then fuck it, we can’t do any better than that.’ But it hasn’t come to that, so we’re pretty stoked. “We just wanted more melody and to focus on the songwriting a lot more, and we took every single song apart a whole bunch of times and put them back together again. [Lead single] Aeroplane was like our yardstick, like, ‘Let’s get a cohesive record that has all of the elements of the last two albums but focus on the melody and make big songs that have big hooks.’ That was our goal, that was what we were hoping for.” The huge singalong nature of these new
songs is undeniable — evidenced on their recent run supporting good mates The Smith Street Band — but there’s also a definite depth to the lyrics being belting back at them in the live sphere. “Listening back it does seem that in the majority of my lyrics, without really meaning to, there’s a really personal feel — I don’t know how to write anything else except out of my experience,” Richardson ponders. “I guess I’m a pretty anxious sort of person and I overanalyse every single thing that happens, and this is a good way for me to get that stuff out. There’s a lot of themes of distance and not knowing exactly what I’m meant to be doing as opposed to what I am doing or want to do. “You expect yourself to be something and somebody else expects you to be something, and that whole weight of expectation — even though it may not even be real — often seems to be looming over you to conform to what you’re meant to be doing, and I don’t even know what that is.” But while Luca Brasi songs pose plenty of life questions, they’re unfailingly uplifting in the end. “I don’t think I’ve ever finished a song which didn’t resolve or didn’t somehow come the other way around — I can’t write a song that doesn’t end up vaguely upbeat,” Richardson laughs. “There’s always some vague glimmer of hope shining through and I think that’s maybe a metaphor for how I think, how life is. If you don’t have that borderline bit of sunshine coming through then it’s going to be hard to get out of bed each morning.”
THE BIGSOUND BUZZ STARTS HERE Moreton
Here’s week three in our roundup of must-see acts playing at this year’s annual BIGSOUND showcase in Brisbane (7-9 Sep).
Moreton Don’t know a lot about this Brisbane three-piece, just know that their track The Water is a fragile piece of moodiness that has us desperate to see what they can do live.
Ryan Downey That voice. THAT VOICE. Ryan Downey’s rich baritone is destined to melt the hearts of all who come into contact with it at BIGSOUND. His Tidings is on repeat in our office.
Rainbow Chan Okay, so the buzz on Chan began years ago... but her new house-anthem-in-themaking Work takes things to a whole new level. See her now before she blows up globally.
What: If This Is All We’re Going To Be (Poison City) When & Where: 27 Aug, Corner Hotel
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Vale
Overly Comfortable
Tom Searle from Architects. Pic via Facebook.
It’s been one of those weeks in the music industry where some notable performers have passed away.
Tom Searle The guitarist for UK metalcore act Architects passed away at the age of 28 following a more than threeyear battle with cancer.
Matt Roberts The original guitarist of US rock band 3 Doors Down was found dead in a Wisconsin Hotel.
Peter Read The co-founder of seminal Sydney underground act Thug (alongside Tex Perkins and Lachlan McLeod) was reported to have passed away in Melbourne.
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Jack Carty is annoying his new wife by recording an album in his PJs. He speaks to Brynn Davies about his new record Home State, which features a song inspired by a busker who performs pop covers in underwear and a horses’ head.
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ack Carty is pushing the patience of his new wife Natasha by recording an album in their tiny apartment. “You wake up in the morning and grab a coffee and then get stuck in. I did do a lot of it in my pyjamas. My wife would call me at 1pm and be like ‘have you done your teeth today?’ because I’d wake up and have a coffee and some breakfast, but while I was having my coffee and my breakfast I’d start working on stuff and then I’d just keep forgetting to stop and do all the other things that I had to do. Even like, basic personal hygiene like forgetting my teeth. I’m just a nightmare basically. She’s very supportive,” he laughs. The aptly named Home State — Carty’s fourth LP — was recorded almost entirely by Carty himself — save for the bass which was laid down by Gus Gardiner [Papa Vs Pretty], a few guitar tinkerings from Jordan Millar and two guest vocalists. It turns out one of these vocalists, Airling, is his cousin. “It was really organic, you know. I used to go see her band play all the time before Airling obviously, so it wasn’t so much a surprise as
we just supported each other through our musical paths so far, and it’s so great to finally have her record on an album with me,” he explains. “I don’t know [if our family] was particularly musical, it’s just very supportive parents that allowed us to chase this, you know? Which is a big thing, being told that it was okay to spend ten hours every day of the weekend practicing in my room... I remember I got into a law degree up in Lismore and my dad was like ‘don’t you want to be a musician? Why would you do that?’ What a legend.” Aside from handling the majority of the album solo, he also released Home State without assistance from his previous indie label Gigpiglet Recordings, choosing to do it under his own The Curly Co Recordings. “It just felt like the right thing [leaving his label]. It just wasn’t moving forward anymore and I think that was a mutual feeling, I’m not sure... As far as the financial aspect, I really didn’t know how that was going to play out,” he muses. “But it was definitely a thing where I was sort of jumping in the dark at first, I didn’t really know how that was going to play out and whether I was going to be able to release another record or not.” Luckily for Carty, inspiration doesn’t seem to be an issue. Berlin grew from meeting an Australian busker named Carlos in Germany who plays pop covers wearing nothing but underwear and a horse’s head. “He calls himself the naked horse, but it’s like ‘ne-e-e-igh-ked horse’,” Carty trumpets. “We went and got burgers and some peppermint schnapps and went rowing down the river Spree with a busking amp on a dingy playing songs as we went!”
What: Home State (The Curly Co Recordings) When & Where: 26 Aug, The Gasometer Hotel
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Art
Explicit Content American artist, journalist and activist Molly Crabapple talks to Cyclone about the need for people to choose their side in the current political stand off.
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ennifer Caban has a quaint handle in Molly Crabapple — but it’s deceptive. The cult American artist, journalist and activist has covered everything from Guantanamo Bay’s military commissions to the Syrian refugee crisis to the US justice system. Now she’s headed to Australia for the first time to speak — and speak out — at the Melbourne Writers Festival and Sydney’s Festival Of Dangerous Ideas (FODI). Whether writing or sketching, Caban is a fearless correspondent. However, as contributing editor to Vice, Caban felt most unnerved when in 2014 she
It’s horrifying — it’s the rise of a genuinely fascist candidate.
“confronted” Donald Trump in the United Arab Emirates — “a police state” with no free press — about conditions for those migrant workers constructing Dubai’s Trump International Golf Course. “I kind of blagged my way into the press conference,” Caban tells, speaking at high speed. “Looking back on it in retrospect, and looking at [the] incredible, obscene violence that journalists and protestors and just people of colour are subjected to at his rallies — it seems slightly trivial in retrospect to talk about this — but I think that I was probably more intimidated to publicly challenge someone at an event in Dubai, particularly a powerful person like him, than anything else I have done.” Caban has since documented the Republican National Convention in Ohio, where Trump was formally endorsed as Presidential contender,
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for The Daily Beast. “It’s horrifying — it’s the rise of a genuinely fascist candidate.” Caban was born in New York to a Jewish illustrator mother and academic Puerto Rican father. After her parents divorced, she initially lived with Mum. Rebelliously imaginative, Caban troubled school teachers. Diagnosed (ludicrously!) with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), she was deemed “at-risk”. At 17, Caban went backpacking abroad. On her return, she attended art school only to drop out. Instead, while pursuing her creative dreams, she worked as a life (and fetish) model and burlesque performer. Caban was then appointed house artist at Manhattan nightclub The Box. In 2005 she launched Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, a cabaret-inspired alternative to staid drawing classes, in a Brooklyn bar. It took off, with the first of many international chapters starting in Melbourne. Though no longer involved, Caban feels “honoured” at its impact. It’s often suggested that, despite her subversive art practice, Caban experienced a political awakening amid the Occupy Wall Street movement. She made now-iconic protest posters — one subsequently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. In fact, Caban was “always” politically engaged, her dad a Marxist. “I was protesting the Iraq War very, very extensively when I was a teenager.” Still, Occupy did give her a focus. “While there was what I saw as political content in my work, I kept it less overt,” Caban says. “I sort of embedded it into the work, as opposed to making it explicit. Then, when Occupy happened, it just seemed incumbent on people to take sides — and I wanted to do that in my artwork.” Last December Caban, 32, published an illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood — a coming-of-age story set against social flux. She recalls the two-year writing process as “brutal”. Caban scrupulously “fact-checked” it — “to make sure that I wasn’t spinning some self-serving narrative.” “I think anyone who writes a memoir who’s honest with themselves will realise that they were an ass and a fool a lot more often than they thought they were.” She is currently preparing another title, Brothers Of The Gun, with her Syrian journalist friend Marwan Hisham. “He’s one of the sharpest and most sarcastic and the greatest people I know.” Inherently subcultural, Caban largely operates outside of the glittery gallery world. But even political artists like Banksy have found their work inevitably coopted, and commodified, by the very privileged people they critique. Caban is resigned. “I think that the more important question is, How can you keep true?” she says. “It’s not just, ‘How can I avoid big money things influencing my thing?’ It’s just also that, as I get more successful, how do I avoid slipping into the sort of soft and comfy biases and hypocrisies that so many people do?”
When & Where: 2 Sep, Deakin Edge, Federation Square
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De La Soul
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ecently Bow Wow announced that, at 29, he is retiring - to much online mirth. After all, the former teenybop rap star hasn’t dropped an album in seven years. Regardless, hip hop was once deemed a young person’s game. There was no The Rolling Stones. But that’s changed. Assisted by Prince Paul, New York’s De La Soul pioneered jazz (or alt-) hip hop
Moderately Highbrow Visual Art Wank And Theatre Foyers With Dave Drayton
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with 1989’s 3 Feet High And Rising acclaimed for its offbeat samples and wryly conscious raps. Alas, by the mid-’90s, they were considered reactionaries, critiquing playa culture on Stakes Is High (notably the title track courtesy of J Dilla). Yet the trio assumed cult longevity. In 2005 they graced Gorillaz’ hit Feel Good Inc. Ironically, today their back catalogue, under Warner’s control, is largely unavailable for streaming reportedly due to sample issues.
n which we look at some theatrical spectacular that is the Olympic games. There’s no longer any point denying. I’m feeling very Olympic at the time of writing. And as much as I love the drama and the triumph of all manner of ridiculous sports that appear to be only rolled out every four years, the highlight of any Olympics, from a theatrical point of view, is always the overblown extravaganzas providing the bread in the athletic sandwich. With that in mind, we’ve assembled a few of the best moments from years gone by. Moscow 1980: Only the Russians could form the Olympic rings out of human towers six stories/people high. Los Angeles 1984: A dude flew into the stadium on a jetpack. Mad. Barcelona 1992: Paralympian archer Antonio Rebollo going full blown Robin Hood with a flaming arrow. London 2012: Her Royal Highness The Queen (cohort of corgis and James Bond in tow) was higher than ever, sky-diving into the Olympic stadium (which, let’s be honest, even with the trickers tops Seoul’s run of the mill skydiver in 1988). And if doubt remains, remember that the Olympics have produced as much pedigree as any televised talent contest: Nikki Webster began dropping hints about a forthcoming album in 2014; and Tiesto, the first DJ to play at the Olympic games (2004, Athens) recently launched a deep house label, AFTR:HRS with goal of - you’ll never guess it - “promoting deep house”. Nikki Webster
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Now De La Soul, returning to Australia in November, are again being hailed as revolutionaries with their eighth album, And The Anonymous Nobody (ATAN). Early last year, determined to complete a comeback free of corporate constraints, De La Soul launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign - and raised a massive $600,000. ATAN sees De La Soul act more as producer/curators than rappers - among its extraordinary guests Jill Scott, Snoop Dogg (the funky single Pain), David Byrne, 2 Chainz and Damon Albarn. They recorded with live musicians, too. ATAN is expansive sonically: Memory Of... (Us) (featuring Estelle and Pete Rock) has jazzy Kendrick Lamar vibes, while Lord Intended, with The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins, is stompin’ glam rock. Most revelatory? The space ‘n’ B Greyhounds with... Usher. ‘Retro’, ATAN ain’t.
The Heavy Shit Metal And Hard Rock With Chris Maric
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ive music is a funny thing. I guess it’s like comfort food. The more familiar you are with it the more likely you’re going to partake. I’m going to try not to use this week’s 600 words to once again attempt to convince whoever reads my shit to go to more shows, BUT lets compare that analogy anyway. A couple of weeks ago there were a bunch of events on in Sydney on a Saturday night to fulfil your metal needs. Over
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at The Factory the Brewtality Festival was playing host to around 20 bands (for only 40 bucks!) and for the few hours I was there you’d be lucky to count 150 people wandering in and out of the two rooms. At the Newtown Social Club the black metal event of winter was meant to take place with Inquisition headlining, but unfortunately they had to cancel. However, not one to let the fans down, the show forged ahead with the mighty King. A super group of sorts with Dave Haley [Psycroptic plus-fifty-other-bands] on drums, Tony Forde [Blood Duster] out front and Dave Hill [The Day Everything Became Nothing] on guitar, they played a mesmerising set of melancholic black metal that should make Scandinavia and eastern Europe fall in love with them. There was maybe 120 people at that show if you’re lucky. Sydonia also played a free show at The Vic in Marrickville but I couldn’t make it.
Sure, all three detracted from any one single event having a huge crowd, but did it? Even 400 people isn’t all that many in a city this size and the Melbourne leg of Brewtality the weekend before pulled more than that. Melbourne crowds are always more than ours, sometimes double for the same bands, local ones anyway. The comfort food angle? Well, last week many people’s prayers were answered when Guns N’ Roses announced they are touring early next year. I was actually very surprised they are playing outdoor stadiums like it was 1992, especially since the last GNR tour here in 2008 didn’t fill the arena at Homebush and Slash is at about Hordern level on his own. Nostalgia is a funny thing though so maybe the chance to see them on stage together with Duff and who the hell knows on drums and rhythm is enough to convince 60,000 Sydneysiders to go and watch. Great! I wish there was more bands capable of the mega stadium show from rock’s glory days and I long for a new wave of bands to rise up and be able to pull those crowds themselves, but how can they when fuck-all people seem interested in checking out new, unsigned and untested bands. One of GNR’s most infamous events of the past is a filmed gig they played at The Ritz, which featured a really awesome version of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. It was played on MTV a lot growing up and was in a club the size of The Stag. Even a band as giant as them started out playing dive bars any chance they could. The buzz grew cause people had a hunger for live music and told their friends too. They moved up the ladder quickly once they broke out of the club Guns n Roses circuit, but hey, we need a club scene to get bands to the next rung up the ladder too or no-one goes anywhere. So there you go, I did it again, sorry! Go see the bands... they are worth it.
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Album OF THE Week
Mike Noga King Cooking Vinyl
★★★★
Even before vacating The Drones’ drum stool, his solo work was proving Mike Noga a songwriter of wit and style and a performer of a certain rakishness. But the quiet, dusty charm of his previous album, 2011’s The Balladeer Hunter, doesn’t prepare you for the sprawl and density of this. King is loosely a concept album, based on Woyzeck — an often bleak late-18th century play that touches on modern issues such as PTSD and medical experimentation, along with more timeless themes like jealousy-provoked murder and descent into madness. With added narration from actor Noah Taylor, Noga’s songs can churn as Jack’s mind and world disintegrates, songs like Greys To Reds and the headlong stumbling of Nobody Leads Me To Flames getting close to a ragged edge. But Noga can leaven that with other moods — as in the wry, resigned shrug of All My Friends Are Alcoholics, a blackly comic pub singalong destined to be a favourite. He even recasts one of his earlier songs, Down Like JFK, to a recognition that things are going to shit, and likely destined to sink further. Noga already has a burgeoning international reputation, opening for diverse peers, from Band Of Horses to Low, providing a talent that can complement a range of music. Here he’s turned the play’s tragedy into a little triumph, making an album that owes the traditions of Australian rock, but approaches it from some fresh angles. Ross Clelland
Glass Animals
Rainbow Chan
How To Be A Human Being
Spacings Silo Arts & Records
★★★½
Wolf Tone/Caroline
★★★½ After a quality debut, Glass Animals have stomped the ground for their latest LP, with first single Life Itself doing the rounds this year. The catchy ditty elevated the hype surrounding the indie kids once again, but does the album live up to the talk? That depends which half you listen to. The aforementioned single kicks things off and immediately there’s an expectation of a solid spin ahead. While they certainly push the indie pop-rock envelope with breathy vocals in Pork Soda and some flute piping and percussive afro in Youth, it’s not until midway that the interesting and the avant garde kick in. Their penchant for the percussive grows in the sinister Mama’s Gun, the whimsical motifs and crunchy buzz augment Take A 36 • THE MUSIC • 24TH AUGUST 2016
Slice, and the random smooth R&B beat and angular tweets and noises make The Other Side Of Paradise the highlight. In important ways, yes, How To Be A Human Being lives up to expectations; musically there are a lot of interesting things going on throughout, more so in the second half. But there’s also something a bit restrained about the whole thing that really does give you the desire to hear more. Whether that’s a ploy or just how these guys roll is an interesting question to ask, but an album should satisfy a listener during the actual act of listening, and perhaps not have them ask, “What else have you got?” Carley Hall
Rainbow Chan has been releasing some really sweet singles, and the drop of her first LP is sure to turn a few heads and mark the emergence of a fresh voice in Australian music. Across the ten songs of this album, Chan works mellow, pastel-coloured vibes with a light whimsical touch that occasionally borders on being a little twee. Looping and layering her vocals, Chan can be bewitchingly elfin in exactly the same way that those words have been used to describe Bjork. Yet she seems keen to avoid abstraction to deal adult pop, in which she coos about love and fading relationships. At times, Chan’s songwriting feels a little nostalgic, as she rather conservatively sticks to lyrics loaded with narrative and memories wrapped around familiar pop hooks.
What sets Chan apart from the rest of the crowd is the cool diva-esque charm she exudes as her vocals glide smoothly across twitchy, glitched up electronic arrangements that provide a contemporary setting for her songs. Thick layers of her vocals singing in unison on songs like The Letter create a dreamy sound that wraps itself around listeners. Lead single Work has the confident house bounce of the Masters At Work. Taking in the vibrant charm of tunes like Last, close listening reveals an intricately crafted mix filled with oddments of sampled sounds that have been cleverly pulled together into coherence. Guido Farnell
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The Wilson Pickers You Can’t Catch Fish From A Train ABC/Universal
Taasha Coates & The Melancholy Sweethearts
Vaudeville Smash
Cass McCombs
The Gift
Anti-/Warner
Taasha Coates & Her Melancholy Sweethearts
Independent
ABC/Universal
★★★½
Mangy Love
★★★½
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The folk, country and bluegrass string quintet return with their third album after a period on the sidelines due to Danny Widdicombe undergoing Leukaemia treatment. You get the strong sense these guys play for the thrill of creating communal music together and the chemistry between their voices is a natural fit while still allowing their individual personalities to shine. First single Pulled Apart By Horses borrows a line from Iggy Pop and references Lethal Weapon, and Fortitude recalls both Grant Lee-Philips and Neil Finn, but the winner is the infectious and lilting Through It All on this fine return.
Taasha Coates & Her Melancholy Sweethearts takes the kind of sobering, dusty walk we’ve come to expect from The Audreys’ vocalist. Her first solo outing since the group’s hiatus, some of the tracks may lack some of the chemistry that the pairing brought, but Coates makes up for it with a sincere intimacy. It’s a blue but hopeful collection of songs, with restrained arrangements and softly reaching vocals that highlight her yearning country quaver. There’s a familiarity at play in Coates’ latest, which she leans into a bit too heavily at times, but it’s safe, warm and utterly reassuring.
The Gift is a gaudy package fit for a laser party at Hasselhoff’s house, so it can be hard to tell if Vaudeville Smash are making fun or just having it. There are only so many songs about sassy ladies and the men who love them to go around, but if you were wondering what Phil Collins founding Kool & The Gang would be like, this is it. Calypso soul studded with sax, sharp crystal synths and a slow, sexy drum beat. It’s as bubbly as a backyard jacuzzi, just as deep, but a lot of saturated fun given the right circumstances.
After a relatively productive number of years, in which he released two full-length features in 2011 and a great follow-up in 2013, artsy-folksy-indie kid Cass McCombs has been in hibernation, excepting last year’s B-sides and rarities collection. It’s a fitting tone then that this album is akin to waking up from a period of rest; drowsy (Bum Bum Bum) and occasionally brutal (Rancid Girl), it features the talented Angel Olsen (Opposite House) and less lap steel than other albums but remains another quality album nonetheless.
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Georgia Fields
The Delta Riggs
The Veils
Astral Debris
Active Galactic
Total Depravity
MGM
Inertia
Nettwerk
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier Volkanik
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★★★★
★★★★
★★★★
For lovers of lush vocals paired with diverse, at times challenging orchestral arrangements, Astral Debris is for you. Melbourne singer-songwriter Georgia Fields channels Florence & The Machineesque tribal beats on Hood & The Hunter (without the vocal acrobatics), and a cover of David Bowie’s Where Are We Now? is as strong as the original. Produced by Fields and Double J host Tim Shiel, it’s Lachlan Carrick’s experienced hand at working with strong singers (Katie Noonan, CW Stoneking) that shines. Astral Debris promises a lot, and although the arrangements can sometimes mask her vocal line, tracks like Moon strike a fine balance.
It’s nigh on impossible to open up Surgery Of Love, the first cut from The Delta Riggs’ second full-length, and not be swept up in a wave of Rolling Stonessounding nostalgia. Elliott Hammond’s voice channels Jagger with all the swagger, and the percussion and rhythms that throb throughout Active Galactic are pure rock’n’roll, pushing you, pulling you and if necessary dragging you through the record’s 13 tracks. There’s cheek — Baddest Motherfucker In The Beehive — and cheer — Stay While You Run Away — and all throughout a confidence that The Delta Riggs know they want to be a big fucking deal.
With frontman Finn Andrews announced as part of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks reboot, The Veils’ profile seems destined to rise. Andrews’ whisper-to-scream emotionalism fits well with Lynch’s waking bad dreams, with their fifth album again showing the range of what this sometimes utterly visceral band can deliver. With perhaps unlikely input from Run The Jewels’ El-P, they go from the discordant grate of Axolotl, via Low Lays The Devil’s rolling organ — somewhere on a line between The Drones and Bad Seeds — to the troubled croon of Iodine & Iron. Add titles like Do Your Bones Glow At Night? and again The Veils bleed, howl, and ache — as few do so well.
Melbourne genre-benders Twelve Foot Ninja finally come good with their second album after 2012’s debut Silent Machine. The wait is no surprise; constant touring aside, the fivepiece have upped the ante on the complexity and diversity of their previous release. There’s a lot that’s familiar in the Mike Patton-esque vocals, the djent style, the crunchy chugs and snappy changes, but Outlier is such a rule-breaker that it’s still unpredictable and rewarding. Bossa nova and piano tinkles in One Hand Killing, commanding directives from lead man Kin Etik in Sick and Indian flavours and a catchy chorus in Monsoon are the offbeat highlights.
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Grouplove @ Corner Hotel. Pic: Lucinda Goodwin
Grouplove, Lisa Mitchell Corner Hotel 18 Aug
Grouplove @ Corner Hotel. Pic: Lucinda Goodwin
Grouplove @ Corner Hotel. Pic: Lucinda Goodwin
Cute Is What We Aim For @ The Evelyn Hotel. Pic: Tori Hyland
Cute Is What We Aim For @ The Evelyn Hotel. Pic: Tori Hyland
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Cute Is What We Aim For @ The Evelyn Hotel. Pic: Tori Hyland
Lisa Mitchell is all about the big white sleeves and fluid dancing tonight. She’s been writing lots of new music and her latest single The Boys is a light and airy, feel-good tune to twirl around to. Some new electronictinged arrangements of old favourites including Neopolitan Dreams and Oh! Hark! are equally mesmerising. “Hey, here’s the deal: we’re back in business!” Grouplove shout in unison. They let out primitive screams and animalistic head-banging matches their striking leopardprint attire. They quickly fill us up with Lovely Cup and dive into the moshpit by song three. Hannah Hooper tells us her band has been waiting for what seems like forever to put their new music out and Big Mess (featuring 11 new songs) is now almost ready to drop. It’s only the second time Grouplove have played new song Do You Love Someone live, but they’re already sounding comfortable. Co-vocalists Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi have recently inducted their newest little member into the Grouplove band family and Welcome To Your Life is a fitting title inspired by their newborn. We put one arm around the person to our left and the other around the person to our right. There’s a whole lot of love in the room. “This is what Grouplove is all about!” Hooper explains. They claim that they’ve played the best shows of their career in Australia and we make sure that this third sold out show on the tour is no exception. Tonight Grouplove mostly play tracks from their first two albums, but promise to come back soon and play more of their new material.
Grouplove have discovered shoeys during their visit Down Under and tonight is guitarist Andrew Wessen’s turn; he consumes plenty of shoe-foot vitamins on stage. The mosh ignites for a cover of Beastie Boys’ Sabotage and our hands
We put one arm around the person to our left and the other around the person to our right. stay high up in the air to salute Ways To Go. Zucconi enthuses, “This tour makes us want to keep doing this for the rest of our lives!” And on the count of three, the crowd makes as much noise as possible to send them off with Colours. Michael Prebeg
Cute Is What We Aim For, Undercast, Between You & Me Evelyn Hotel 20 Aug It’s just after 8pm and people are still piling in the door when Melbourne five-piece Between You start their set. The poppunk quintet are heavy on the punk, with an almost hardcoresounding rhythm section topped off by shouted vocals and catchy hooks. After a quick turnaround the next band storm the stage. Frontman Michael Cross addresses the crowd: “What’s up? Come closer. We are Undercast from Sydney.” The crowd shuffles forward as the five-piece
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launch into Prospect. Their set is a whirlwind of in-your-face pop-punk. This quintet give us a polished performance that would translate well to any festival stage. The energy is high and we dance along. The instrumentation is bright and poppy, but the lyrics are hard-hitting, openly discussing anxiety and social pressure. They throw in a cover of a classic ‘90s song, Everywhere by Michelle Branch, which gets everyone singing along. The crowd gets impatient as the clock ticks past 9pm and Cute Is What We Aim For are yet to arrive on stage. Girls start to scream, hoping this will make the band materialise. The screaming turns deafening when
The screaming turns deafening when the band appear and launch into Newport Living. the band appear and launch into Newport Living. Frontman, Shaant Hacikyan shouts, “Hello, Melbourne! This is so surreal. Thank you for the show and the love.” He pauses, looking over the crowd and then says, very seriously, “I have a public service announcement to make. For the boyfriends who don’t know who we are — thank you for being here.” They play The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch in full- the crowd’s excitement palpable. The band can’t wipe the smiles off their faces as the crowd takes over the vocals — hitting every note, lyric and harmony. When the band hint that this might not be a onetime thing, we hear the loudest scream of the night. Hacikyan
says, “We’re only three songs in and I speak on behalf of the band when I say: I think we can do this again.” The band launch straight into Risque. The crowd and band feed off each other’s energy. The rhythm section is all thundering dance beats, topped off by melodic guitar licks and sweet vocals. Hacikyan bounces around the stage, standing on the foldback speakers and crouching down, making sure he can include everyone. The night ends with Teasing To Please (Left Side, Strong Side), during which the crowd and band sing as one: “You’re giving me a run for my money.” Dearna Mulvaney
The Bombay Royale, The Fifths The Luwow 20 Aug There is sparse chatter among The Luwow crowd, as sombre thoughts of the venue’s upcoming demise creep to the forefront of many minds. Tonight, however, the gears of celebration shift all too easily as The Fifths take to the stage. Down a couple of members and compromising with a pre-recorded backing track, the Melbourne five-piece don’t let technical issues get in the way of a good time. Despite occasionally sounding like someone has hit “demo” on an old keyboard piano, the band hit the audience with plenty of compensatory energy. Jugni and Bhoot prove why they’re a perfect selection to open the night. As the first members of The Bombay Royale mosey onto the stage, it becomes immediately clear that the crowd are in for something very special. Dressed in Lone Ranger eye-masks and fronted by “The Skipper” (saxophonist Andy Williamson), the masterful fills of brass and drums whip the audience into a frenzy. As lead vocalists “The
...the respect for the music against the all ‘round silliness makes it even more enjoyable.
Mysterious Lady” and “The Tiger” (Parvyn Kaur Singh and Shourov Bhattacharya respectively) blast into Henna Henna, the flairs of epic cinema and Bollywood power wash over the dancing crowd. The Bombay Royale are unique not only in their kitschy throwback spirit, but also their ability to balance a sense of professionalism in their performance. It’s clear these guys take their work seriously, and the respect for the music against the all ‘round silliness makes it even more enjoyable. They’re colourful, corny and totally insane, but they’re still one of the hardest working bands around. The 11-piece have crafted and honed their performance so incredibly tightly, and none of the liveliness is lost on The Luwow’s tiny stage. The Mysterious Lady summons forth the audience and gives them a crash course in Bollywood dancing. “The light bulb change” is the move of choice tonight and, when Bombay Twist kicks off, a sea of raised hands twist along. Wild Stallion Mountain explodes to an eruption of audience adulation, and The Skipper gives the love back tenfold. He may not be the frontman, but this is his show. Equal parts Hindi filmi, Parliament-Funkadelic and Adam West-era Batman, The Bombay Royale are true masters of their incredibly unique craft. Their time on stage is owned and paid for, and the funky bandits make no apologies for the fiery, raw talent that they so expertly bring to the stage.
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War
Romeo And Juliet
Dogs Film In Cinemas
★★★
Romeo And Juliet Theatre Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo And Juliet In Cinemas 27 Aug
★★½ Live broadcast theatre has become quite popular, particularly thanks to National Theatre Live’s program, which carefully selects the best plays in London to be broadcast live around the world. However, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Live hasn’t given quite as much thought to the whole theatre-filmed-and-played-live-in-cinema thing. Branagh’s Romeo And Juliet simply doesn’t work on screen. The show is broadcast in black and white, and while there is some shaky justification for this choice the lighting is completely unsuited to it (as it’s clearly designed for the live audience, obviously in colour). From the start it is clear we are getting a second-rate version of this show. But the real issues lie in directing actors for the stage without any thought for how the heightened Shakespearian style will look when zoomed in with cameras. Derek Jacobi comes across as hammy and overacts with close-up, laboured monologues that would be great on stage. Lily James is truly fantastic — and surprisingly convincing as an 11-year-old Juliet — but when the camera zooms in on Richard Madden’s hairy chest and designer stubble you can’t see him as anything other than a rather creepy Romeo, 20 years her elder. All in all, Romeo And Juliet is a slightly-better-than-average West End production with star quality behind it, but has been poorly transformed to screen.
“War is an economy,” the black comedy War Dogs declares early on, vividly making its point by illustrating that it costs nearly $20,000 to equip the average American soldier. Multiply that figure by two million, the approximate number of US military personnel deployed to fight the War On Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it’s clear there’s a lot of money changing hands. But just who has their hands on it? Well, as War Dogs points out, someone willing to hustle can make a very healthy living feeding off “crumbs” - smaller deals on which any ambitious operator can bid. In this particular case, based on actual events, two friends in their 20s were among the most successful in the business, working their way
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up the ladder until they made millions selling weapons and ammunition to the armed forces. And then, of course, everything went pear-shaped. War Dogs may seem an unlikely type of project for Todd Phillips, the director of the Hangover trilogy, but the raucous humour of those movies was tinged with darkness, danger and an interest in how badly men can behave before lines are irrevocably crossed. And that’s the case here as well - young “gunrunners” Efraim (Jonah Hill) and David (Miles Teller) are bold and cocky early on, drawing inspiration from Scarface as their deals and their paycheques become bigger. Efraim was the mover and shaker, a master manipulator with a gift for shaping every situation to his advantage. The latest in a string of films depicting men engaging in morally murky practices for fun and profit (The Wolf Of Wall Street the heavyweight champ at this stage), War Dogs does a solid job of presenting the thrill of flirting with illegality and immorality. Teller’s the straight man here, and he’s got just enough presence to make an underwritten character a suitable audience surrogate. But Hill has the juicier role, and he makes the most of it, playing up the brash, outrageous aspects of Efraim but all the while subtly revealing the ruthless and malicious wheeler-dealer under the surface. Guy Davis
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Howzat!
Local Music By Jeff Jenkins Songs Lost And Found Music nerds love making lists. Greatest pop band to never have a Top 40 hit? Howzat!’s list would include Melbourne’s Icecream Hands and Sydney’s Lazy Susan. The Lazy Susan catalogue is filled with pop pleasures and treasures. Wistful and romantic, these are songs to keep you warm on the coldest winter nights. Lazy Susan broke up in 2012, after 12 years, four albums and six EPs, but this week sees the release of not one but two new Lazy Susan albums: Songs Lost, B-Sides & Unreleased and Songs Lost, Demos & Live. After embarking on a solo adventure with last year’s Family Fold album, singer Paul Andrews has enjoyed revisiting Lazy Susan. “The last few months, as we’ve put this project together, has just been the greatest and purest pleasure, immersing myself in such a wonderful experience with some of my closest, best friends,” Paul says. “The first feeling was relief — that we weren’t shit, that I wasn’t embarrassed by what I was listening to and what we’d done. The second feeling, and following hot on the heels of the first, was happiness. These were actually bloody good songs and we were a
great band.” Memories of past relationships will come flooding back as you listen to the records, and you’ll also wonder: Why didn’t this band conquer the charts? Lazy Susan’s new single, Square One — originally recorded for the band’s swansong, 2010’s Places That Made Us — now sounds like a prophecy, the last words of a band on the verge of breaking up. “We’re at war with ourselves,” Paul sings, “we can’t go on like this.” But Howzat! is reading way too much into it. “It’s another relationship song,” Paul points out. “They pretty much all are.” Lazy Susan burst onto the scene with their classic debut album, Long Lost, in 2001, which showcased two razor-sharp songwriters in Paul and guitarist Pete Wilson, and became a triple j fave. The future seemed bright. “We both said the times would suit us,” Paul reflects in Square One. “Now they’re here,
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they want to shoot us.” Lazy Susan didn’t find the success they deserved, even though their B-sides were better than most bands’ singles. “I don’t miss anything about it,” Paul says, “because I have it with me all the time in the songs and clips, the memories and the laughs. They’re always with me.” And fans will forever treasure these tunes. As Paul sings in Until You Came Along, “I need you like a long weekend.”
Hot Line “I got this perfect girl inside my head. I was kind of thinking that she could be you” — Lazy Susan, Perfect Girl.
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Wed 24
Alex Lahey
Julien Wilson ‘B For Chicken’ Quartet: 303, Northcote Eddie Boyd + The Bleeding Flares: Bar Open, Fitzroy
Arturo O’Farrill: Bird’s Basement, Melbourne Drapht
The Music Presents L-FRESH The LION: 1 Sep Karova Lounge, Ballarat; 2 Sep Northcote Social Club; 3 Sep The Workers Club Geelong Liz Stringer: 17 Sep Howler; 18 Sep Beechworth Town Hall; 21 Sep Ararat Live; 22 Sep Sooki Lounge Belgrave; 25 Sep Caravan Music Club The Sand Dollars: 23 Sep Yah Yah’s Michael Franti & Spearhead: 28 Sep The Croxton Gregory Porter: 30 Sep The Croxton Emma Louise: 7 Oct The Workers Club Geelong; 8 Oct Corner Hotel
Melow-Dias-Thump with Patty Boomba: Boney, Melbourne Muddy’s Blues Roulette with Jules Boult: Catfish, Fitzroy Rat Ta’Mango + The Hidden Venture + The Bakers Digest: Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cal Wilson: Comic’s Lounge, North Melbourne Mrs Smith’s Trivia: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick Ethereal Tapioca with Blue Moon + Lotus Moonchild + Inkswel + Mrs Wallace + more: Ferdydurke, Melbourne Frank Jones + David Hyams + Sheehan Smith & Sheehan: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East
Wahey Melbourne-based Alex Lahey is currently headed ‘round the country as the national support for The John Steel Singers on their album tour for Midnight At The Plutonium. See them both at Northcote Social Club, Saturday.
Rochelle Pitt: Memo Music Hall, St Kilda OXJam: Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbotsford
Rodney Carrington: The Palms at Crown (7pm), Southbank
Nightcap with Jennifer Loveless + Somerled + Life Coach: Ferdydurke, Melbourne
Harry Jakamarra: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Rodney Carrington: The Palms at Crown (10pm), Southbank
Freestyle Fursdays with The Etikats: Gin Lane, Belgrave
A Day On The Green: 12 & 13 Nov, Mt Duneed Estate, Drysdale
Late Nights + Coastline + Postcodes + Rian KF: The Bendigo, Collingwood
Josh Wade: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
Katherine Hymer + QD + Dead End: Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood
Bell X1:2 Dec The Prince
Open Mic Night: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
Drapht: 14 Oct 170 Russell
Maxwell: Palais Theatre, St Kilda
Lisa Mitchell: 14 Oct Howler
Lanewaves: The Tote (Upstairs), Collingwood Parsnip & Phlo: The Tote, Collingwood
Speed Orange
Mark Gardner + Guests: Little Oscar, Brunswick
Golden Girls + Geryon + Sweet Whirl + Nghtwrk: The Workers Club, Fitzroy Trivia: Wesley Anne, Northcote
Thu 25 Paul Williamson’s Hammond Combo: 303, Northcote
What’s Fast & Orange?
The Shitter: A Noise Wake for Elizabeth Caplice feat. Colostomy Baguette + Hextape + Military Position + Bleach Boys + more: Bar Open, Fitzroy Arturo O’Farrill: Bird’s Basement, Melbourne
Speed Orange are previewing their upcoming double A-side 7” vinyl, with tracks Hello Trouble and 33 Revolutions Per Minute, at The Brunswick Hotel on Friday with the help of Middle Age, Weirdo Roostar and Dan Flynn.
Good Lovin’ with Tom Baker: Boney, Melbourne Graeme Connors: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh The Seven Up DJs: Catfish, Fitzroy David Cosma: Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick
Witch Hats
Squeeee! Local alt-rock outfit Witch Hats are launching their independently produced and recorded third album Deliverance at The Tote this Saturday. They’ll be backed up by Lalic, The Shifters and Contrast.
Soul In The Basement with Fulton Street: Cherry Bar, Melbourne Wine, Whiskey, Women feat. Tracey Hogue + Peny Bohan: The Drunken Poet, West Melbourne Apes + The Neighbourhood Youth + The Quivers: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
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Cal Wilson: Comic’s Lounge, North Melbourne Trivia: Compass Pizza Bar, Brunswick East
King Of The North: The General, Mt Hotham
Steph Brett: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (Front Bar), Brunswick
Hownowmer + The Me Graines + Life Strike: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
X-Rated Poetry with Archangel + Gzutek + Zephyr + Wol Krown: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
Cross Eyed Cats: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East Emilia & The Scarletts: Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbotsford Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds + Steve Miller Band: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Gigs / Live The Guide
The Velvet Addiction: The Workers Club Geelong, Geelong Alexis Nicole: Wesley Anne (Front Bar), Northcote
Sixty40: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote
Kallidad
Gypsy King Of The Dead This Sunday night Bar Open is hosting a massive co-headline show. Sharing the top billing are Transylvanian Gypsy Kings and Sydney’s Dia de los Muertos-themed three-piece Kallidad, who recently released The Awakening. Jimmy Barnes: Palais Theatre, St Kilda The Alexander Nettelbeck Trio: Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne The Railway Gang: Railway Hotel, Windsor Fear Of Flying + Swayze: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Ed Kuepper + Mark Dawson: Sooki Lounge, Belgrave The Anti Fall Movement: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick King Of The North: Tanswells Commercial Hotel, Beechworth
Listening Party with Pappy + The Football Club + Pearl Bay + Qwerty: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
Fri 26 Avii + Zhane White: 303, Northcote
The Greats of 70s Country Music with Daniel Thompson: Eastbank Centre, Shepparton
La Danse Macabre with Brunswick Massive: Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy
Cold Irons Bound Duo: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (Front Bar), Brunswick
Matt Joe Gow: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
The Knave: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (Beer Garden), Brunswick
Prophetess + The Balls + Vendetta + Cold Red Mute: Reverence Hotel (Band Room), Footscray
Nicholas Costello + Rowena Wise + Mcrobin + Amber Isles: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
Bad Pony: Sandbar, Mildura
Utopia feat. Josh P + Dan Fabris + more: Ferdydurke, Melbourne Soul Sacrifice - A Tribute To Santana: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick
The Bob Dylan Show with Warren James + The Zimmermen: Baha Tacos, Rye Cold Vulture + Diamonds Of Neptune + Twisted Willows: Bar Open, Fitzroy
Neighbour: Penny Black, Brunswick
Rebellious Bird: Sooki Lounge, Belgrave All The Colours: The B.East, Brunswick East Made In Purple + Montane + Malichor: The Bendigo, Collingwood
Evangeline
Hyjak: Barwon Club, South Geelong Mike Noga: Basement Discs (Instore/12.45pm), Melbourne Arturo O’Farrill: Bird’s Basement, Melbourne Darshan Jesrani + Andee Frost + more: Boney, Melbourne Henning Baer: Brown Alley, Melbourne Into The Mystic - The Music of Van Morrison: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh Juke Box Racket: Catfish, Fitzroy Witchgrinder + Envenomed + Direblaze: Cherry Bar, Melbourne Chris Wilson: Cherry Bar (5pm), Melbourne Cal Wilson: Comic’s Lounge, North Melbourne Quarteto Crio: Compass Pizza Bar, Brunswick East
Mintons Playhouse Sessions - Jazz Jam: The B.East, Brunswick East
Over Dose Melbourne-based singer-songwriter and producer Tali Sing has teamed up with killer vocalist Evangeline to create a new single, Over. The pair are launching the track at The Workers Club, Thursday, with support from Aeora.
Shores + Pool Shop + Crusch + Pansy: The Bendigo, Collingwood Zevon & The Werewolves of Melbourne: Forester’s Hall, Collingwood
Neon Queen + Twisted Willows + Maverick + Mild Manic: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
Jack Carty + Emily Barker + Jordan Millar: Gasolina, South Wharf
Baby Blue + The Luke Brennan Trip + Ali E: The Curtin, Carlton Citrus Jam + Andy Minard: The Drunken Poet, West Melbourne Cold Hands Warm Heart + HTML Flowers + James Tom: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood Jack Carty + Emily Barker + Jordan Millar: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood The Pink Tiles + Eat-Man + Piss Factory: The Old Bar, Fitzroy On Diamond + Rouge Wavs: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg Georgia Fields: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
Max Maguire & Alice Hardie-Grant
Alice & Max Get to Wesley Anne on Friday to hear the incredible result that comes from blending Alice Hardie-Grant’s training in jazz vocals with Max Maguire’s background in soul, blues and French chanson.
Midnight Express with DJ Prequel & Edd Fisher: The Toff In Town, Melbourne Lean Dreams feat. Big Boss + Christian Dean + Mitsunami + Various DJs: The Toff In Town, Melbourne Tali Sing + Evangeline + Aeora: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Twelve Foot Ninja: Corner Hotel, Richmond DJ Dexter: Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
Behind The Red Door feat. Annan Blix + Seasloth + Wilder Genes + Primm: Gin Lane, Belgrave The Weary: Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood Tourist + Swell: Howler, Brunswick Rod Pain & The Fulltime Lovers + Max Teacle: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East No Chill feat. Hydraulix + Oski + Big Boss + more: Max Watt’s, Melbourne Ed Kuepper + Mark Dawson: Memo Music Hall, St Kilda Lastlings: Mynt, Werribee Friday Nights at NGV feat. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds: National Gallery of Victoria, Southbank Cub Sport + Clea: Northcote Social Club, Northcote Ben Folds + yMusic: Palais Theatre, St Kilda
Speed Orange + Middle Age Weirdo + Roostar + Dan Flynn: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick Scott & Charlene’s Wedding + Summer Flake + Tommy T & The Mishaps + RVG: The Curtin, Carlton Joshua Seymour: The Drunken Poet, West Melbourne Jack Carty + Emily Barker + Jordan Millar: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood The Vibrajets + Tijuana Surf: The Luwow, Fitzroy Untitled with Privacy + Lou Karsh + Silhouettes + Bruno Enzo: The Mercat, Melbourne Bears + Tooth & Tusk + Daisy Chain: The Old Bar, Fitzroy The Laibelas: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg Barely Standing: The Prince (Public Bar), St Kilda Sleazy Listening with Arks + Richard Kelly + Hysteric + K. Hoop: The Toff In Town (Carriage Room), Melbourne
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Comedy / G The Guide
Poprocks At The Toff with Dr Phil Smith: The Toff In Town (Toff Ballroom), Melbourne
Dirty Harriet & the Hangmen + Ding Dong Death Hole + The Fckups + Udder Ubductees + Joe Guiton & The Suicide Tuesdays: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
Eddie Boyd
BUDD + Warped + The Dacios + The Sunset Club: The Tote (Band Room), Collingwood
Shane Diiorio Band: The Brunswick Hotel (Afternoon Show), Brunswick
Damn the Torpedoes + S’What + Jerkbeast + Cows Muff: The Tote (Upstairs), Collingwood
The Kill Devil Hills: The Curtin, Carlton
Hills Hoist + Splendidid + Mama Lade: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Freewyo: The Gasometer Hotel (All Ages), Collingwood
Canary + Luke Biscan: The Workers Club Geelong, Geelong
18+ Show with +Freewyo: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
Deborah Conway + Vika & Linda Bull + Willy Zygier: Thirteenth Beach Golf Links, Barwon Heads
Dial-Up #015 - Magic Eye with BBD + Cleverhands + Laika + Senpolo: The Mercat, Melbourne
Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton 50th Anniversary feat. Chris Wilson + Jimi Hocking + Pat Carmody + more: Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury
JRB & The Heaters + Shepparton Airplane + General Men + Prehistoric Douche: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Bossa Brunswick: Wesley Anne (Front Bar), Northcote Max Maguire + Alice Hardie-Grant: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote
Dirty Harriet & The Hangmen
Harry Pothead Eddie Boyd recently released his latest single Stoned. Now he is releasing the video to accompany it, a clip that mixes booze, beatings and Harry Potter. Head to Bar Open on Wednesday for the launch. Blues Cruise with The Jackson Four + Andy Phillips & The Cadillac Walk + Tony J King: Central Pier (Lady Cutler Showboat), Docklands Wes Carr: Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran Greg Steps: Charles Weston Hotel (Front Bar), Brunswick Stonefield: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Dirty & Hung After playing their last-ever gig over a year and a half ago, Dirty Harriet & The Hangmen are back to play a strictly one-off reunion show at The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday with a massive supporting line-up.
The Beegles + James Locke + Jimmy Chang + Doona Waves: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford Michael Winslow: Yarraville Club, Yarraville
Sat 27 Bohjass: 303, Northcote Phantom Panda Power Wizard Master Smasher + Blunt Shovel + Dive Into Ruin: Bar Open, Fitzroy Dan Brodie: Bella Union, Carlton South Arturo O’Farrill: Bird’s Basement, Melbourne Len Leise + Salvador: Boney, Melbourne
Cal Wilson: Comic’s Lounge, North Melbourne
In The Carriage with Jimmy James: The Toff In Town (Carriage Room), Melbourne
Hayden James + Dena Amy: Max Watt’s, Melbourne
The House deFrost with Andee Frost: The Toff In Town (Toff Ballroom), Melbourne
Into The Mystic - The Music Of Van Morrison feat. Joe Creighton: Memo Music Hall, St Kilda
Witch Hats: The Tote, Collingwood
Hot Dogma: Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbotsford
The John Steel Singers + Alex Lahey: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Luca Brasi + Moose Blood + The Hard Aches + Kissing Booth: Corner Hotel, Richmond
John Dowler’s Vanity Project + Charles Jenkins + Davey Lane: Northcote Social Club (Matinee Show), Northcote
Plum Green + EDEN + Shadow Feet: Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, Brunswick
Passerine: Penny Black, Brunswick
Anna Murphy + Stormtide + Horizon Edge: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy Valve Sounds with GXNXVS + Seywood + Mimi + Nasty Mars + more: Ferdydurke, Melbourne
The Flaming Mongrels: Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy
Million Dollar Riff with +Bob Starkie: Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill
Mother’s Ruin feat. Animal Hands + The Crookeds: Gin Lane, Belgrave
Sunshine: Sooki Lounge, Belgrave
Lastlings: Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne
Modern Divide + Echo’s Hill + Formiles: The Workers Club Geelong, Geelong Arrested Development: Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak Alison Ferrier Band + The T-Bones: Union Hotel, Brunswick
Friendships
Earth Caller + Crowned Kings + Death In Bloom + Sick Machine + Crooked Path: Reverence Hotel (Band Room), Footscray
Adam Rudegeair: Forester’s Hall, Collingwood
Collector + Nerve + Nicky Crane + Regional Curse: Catfish, Fitzroy
Qlayeface + Bear The Mammoth + Kodiak Empire + Geo: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Afternoon Show with +Hot Wings: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Breast Fest with +Mini Coop + High Nights + Boy Wonder + Once Were Wild + more: Revolver Upstairs, Prahran
Koi Child + Friendships: Howler, Brunswick
TJ Show: The Westernport Hotel, Phillip Island
Leadfinger + Powerline Sneakers: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
The Chantoozies: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick
Raised By Eagles: Grandview Hotel, Fairfield
Young Vincent + Neighbour + Jack The Fox: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
Moosejaw Rifle Club: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East
Andy Black + Tyne James Organ: Corner Hotel (Matinee Show/Under 18s), Richmond
Baba Noir: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (Beer Garden), Brunswick
Phil Para: The Prince (Public Bar), St Kilda
The House De Frost Drag Ball: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
Art Party with +Ainslie Wills: National Gallery of Victoria, Southbank
Gretta Ziller: Daylsford Cider Co, Musk
Dreaming Wild + Morning Morning: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg
Queensland + Mark Campbell & The Ravens: Labour In Vain, Fitzroy
Amina Hughes: Compass Pizza Bar, Brunswick East
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds + Harry Howard & The NDE: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh
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Cloud + Pink Harvest: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Living Death Festival IV with Earth Rot + Zeolite + The Seaford Monster + Bury The Kings + more: The Bendigo, Collingwood
Childhood Friends Melding visual arts and music, local two-piece Friendships are headed to Howler on Saturday to support Fremantle crew Koi Child, who are on the road again with their latest single Touch ‘Em.
Gigs / Live The Guide
Patrick Wilson & The Bare River Queens: Wesley Anne (Front Bar), Northcote White Bleaches: Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy
An Evening With Jean-Claude Van Damme - Unplugged And Unscripted: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC), South Wharf
Gem Bones + Only Leonie + Grups: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
Flagpole Villains + The Dandy Jonestown Massacre: Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbotsford
Cuddlemania feat. Cuddleman + Baptism Of Uzi + Cool Sounds + Palm Springs + Time For Dreams + more: The Tote (Band Room), Collingwood
Sun 28
Karl S Williams + Cat Canteri: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Matt Joe Gow & The Dead Leaves: The Westernport Hotel, Phillip Island
Cracker La Touf + Leeroy + Jungle Breed: 303, Northcote
Don Hillman’s Secret Beach: Panton Hill Hotel, Panton Hill
The Monotremes + Mingus Thingus + Funk McRump: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Scott Aukerman: Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
Benny Peters: Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy
Brooke Russell + Shane Reilly: Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy
Monique Brumby: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Down The Rabbit Hole with Nigel Last: The Toff In Town (Carriage Room), Melbourne
Miserable Little Bastards: Union Hotel, Brunswick Elliot Weston: Wesley Anne (Front Bar), Northcote
Tyne-James Organ
Afternoon Show with Wild @ Heart: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote Miles & Simone: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
Greg Steps
Steppin’ Brisbane-born singer-songwriter Greg Steps wields folk, country and a distinctive voice to evoke Australia’s vast and barren inner deserts. See him spin his musical stories at Charles Weston this Saturday.
Mon 29 Bird’s Big Band + Pinto + Chantelle Mitvalsky: Bird’s Basement, Melbourne
Funny at The Brunny Comedy Show: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
The Monday Bone Machine feat. T-Rek: Boney, Melbourne
JMC Academy Showcase: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
Cherry Jam: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Dead End + Fuzzsucker + Vintage Crop: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Grim Rhythm + Jumpin’ Jack William + Neil Wilkinson: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy Tyson Wray + DJ Dan Watt: Ferdydurke, Melbourne
Organ’s Got Pipes Wollongong singer-songwriter Tyne-James Organ is supporting Andy Black of The Black Veil Brides on his first solo headline tour. You can see the two solo artists at Corner Hotel on Saturday and Sunday.
Matt Glass & The Loose Cannons + The Winter Gypsy + Yasin Leflef: Bar Open, Fitzroy Arturo O’Farrill: Bird’s Basement, Melbourne Boadz: Catfish (Front Bar), Fitzroy Cherry Blues with Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk + Miss Whiskey: Cherry Bar (2pm), Melbourne
Irish Session: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East Monday Night Mass feat. Dead Boomers + Dark Knife + Nerves + Terminal Infant: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Afterglow with Alex & Nilusha Ensemble: Bird’s Basement, Melbourne
Georgia Fields: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine
White Vans + The Conversationists + Dead End: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy Dena Amy
The Bona Fide Travelers + Chris Wilson: The Drunken Poet, West Melbourne
Hay Dena
Trio Agogo: Compass Pizza Bar, Brunswick East
Chris Pickering + Darling James + On Diamond: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
Andy Black + Tyne James Organ: Corner Hotel, Richmond
Seedy Reed: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Momentum feat. Core-Tet: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
The Slipdixies: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg
Nude feat. Norachi + Ja Moire + Miris: Ferdydurke, Melbourne
Elwood Blues Club All Stars: The Prince (Public Bar), St Kilda
Dena Amy’s Wait For You tour and Hayden James’ Just A Lover tour are coming together in Melbourne. You can see the two Sydney-based powerhouse producers at Max Watt’s this Saturday.
Mental As Anything + The Thin White Ukes: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick
The Ned Kelly Awards with The Hired Guns + Leigh Redhead + Jane Clifton: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
The Moonee Valley Drifters: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East
The Sunday Set with DJ Andyblack + Mr Weir: The Toff In Town (Carriage Room), Melbourne
Tue 30
Milonga: Bella Union, Carlton South
Battle 8 Heat #3 feat. Whomp! + Uncomfortable Beats: Section 8, Melbourne
Slugfest 2016 feat. Barbarion + Los Amigos + Electrik Dynamite + Atomic Riot + more: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Michael Meeking & The Lost Souls: Labour In Vain, Fitzroy
Residual + Soft Corporate + The Run: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Make It Up Club feat. Tim O’Dwyer + Ren Walters + Michael McNab + Jessica Aszodi + Sam Dunscombe + Sooji Kim + Bryan Phillips Galvez: Bar Open, Fitzroy
Monica Weightman + The Mind Readers: Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North
Tang! + Illumni + Three Quarter Beast + Murderballs + more: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
Call It In with Instant Peterson + Dylan Michel: The Toff In Town (Carriage Room), Melbourne
Tom Tom Tuesday feat. Dianas + Biscotti + Xylo Aria + Peter Joseph Head + more: Howler, Brunswick Brunswick Discovery: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick Mihra + Mondegreen + Polykite + Nitida Atkinson: The Gasometer Hotel (Upstairs), Collingwood JMC Academy Showcase: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood The Girl Fridas + Chelsea Bleach + Hi-Tec Emotions: The Workers Club, Fitzroy Wayward Breed + Night Owl Hollow: Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy
Sophie Rose + One Tin Soldier: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Hetty Kate + The Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra: The Apartment, Melbourne
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