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Ausmuteants are set to mutate all over the States! Catch them before they head off on their first American tour at The Curtin on 5 Sep, ‘cause you never know when they’ll be back in our ‘hood. Supports on the night are Exhaustion and Young Liberals.
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After the shock news that The Astor Theatre may not be around for much longer, you really need to get in there and soak up the ambience while you can. The Big Blue movie event (which will be screened alongside the film Atlantis) on 8 Sep sounds like the ticket. Sirenna The Mermaid will be present, and top-ranking international freediver Ant Williams and local marine ambassador Sheree Marris will present their personal insights. You could also win a place on an Apnea Australia Stage-A Freediving course in Victoria!
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national news news@themusic.com.au THE MEANIES
PIERCE BROTHERS
PIERCING LIGHTS
Indie-folk favourites Pierce Brothers don’t look like resting on their laurels anytime soon; welcome news for fans, no doubt, particularly the ones who’ve followed their progress from Melbourne buskers to international stars. The schedule will take the brothers to Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane, 16 Oct; Newtown Social Club, Sydney, 6 Nov; Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 7 Nov; and Indi Bar, Perth, 6 Dec with full dates on theMusic.com. au, proud presenting partners of the tour.
YOUNG & RELEVANT
Something like that at least... Aussie punk rock institution The Meanies are celebrating their silver jubilee, playing shows 3 Oct, Rosemount Hotel, Perth; 10 Oct, The Roller Den, Sydney; 18 Oct, Prince Of Wales Hotel, Brisbane; and 24 Oct, The Hi-Fi, Melbourne, all proudly presented by The Music. Relive the late nights and fist fights when the frantic Melburnians spit venom across our great land once again!
SWEATER OUT
Adelaide royalty Hilltop Hoods continue to walk tall across this great land of ours, with another ARIA chart-topper in latest LP Walking Under Stars and a big Cosby Sweater Tour to spread the hip hop love. Get to theMusic.com.au for the closest gig to you, with the Hoods’ dates including 24 Oct, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney; 30 Oct, AIS Arena, Canberra; 31 Oct, Newcastle Entertainment Centre; 14 Nov, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne; 22 Nov, The Marquee, Brisbane; and 6 Dec, Red Hill Auditorium, Perth.
THE RIVER RUNS FAR
Share The Smith Street Band’s musical stories when they launch Throw Me In The River at The Hi-Fi, Brisbane, 21 Nov; Manning Bar, Sydney, 22 Nov; Zierholz, Canberra, 23 Nov; Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 28 Nov; and Rosemount Hotel, Perth, 29 Nov.
READY FOR TAKE OFF
Dance duo Flight Facilities are finally bringing their debut album, Down To Earth, in to land. Launch onto the D-floor at Capitol, Perth, 8 Nov; Forum Theatre, Melbourne, 13 Nov; The Tivoli, Brisbane, 15 Nov; and Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 20 Nov.
GOSSLING
HARVEST CONTINUES
After a busy string of events overseas, Gossling is coming back home just in time for a spring tour, which will be proudly presented by The Music. To celebrate, the singer-songwriter is releasing a digital-only edition of her debut Harvest Of Gold, which also features a bonus EP of unreleased tracks. Hear her lush arrangements at Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 6 Nov; The Bakery, Perth, 9 Nov; Newtown Social Club, Sydney, 11 & 12 Nov; and Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane, 19 & 20 Nov.
CELIA PACQUOLA
JACK CARTY
WAGONS
AUSSIES OWNING EDINBURGH
Celia Pacquola has been named the winner of the Amused Moose Laughter Award 2014 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which aims to discover the best shows by performers who do not have a current DVD deal or option. Melbourne’s Sam Simmons was also nominated for Best Comedy Show for Death Of A Sails-Man and Sydney’s Steen Raskopoulos was up for Best Newcomer. 10 • THE MUSIC • 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014
KEEP ON TURNING
The wheels are back in motion for Wagons, with an intimate national tour providing a perfect platform to showcase their new album Acid Rain And Sugar Cane. Find shows at Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, 25 Sep; Under The Clothesline, Perth, 26 Sep; Wave Rock Festival, Hyden, 27 Sep; Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, 3 Nov; Old Museum, Brisbane, 6 Nov; and Newtown Social Club, Sydney, 7 Nov. Proudly presented by The Music.
FEELS LIKE HOME
Sydney-by-way-of-Bellingen singersongwriter Jack Carty has dropped the news of a forthcoming third fulllength album, Esk, and a national tour as well. The stalwart troubadour plays at New Globe Theatre, Brisbane, 17 Oct; Rosemount Hotel, Perth, 9 Nov; Howler, Melbourne, 4 Dec; and 505, Sydney, 13 Dec. Proudly presented by The Music.
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local news vic.news@themusic.com.au THE BLACK KEYS
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Byron Bay Bluesfest returns for its 26th incarnation over the Easter long weekend, 2 – 6 Apr, at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, and the initial line-up announcement brings some big names. First cabs off the rank are a combination of new faces and returning favourites, including The Black Keys, Zac Brown Band, Alabama Shakes, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Paul Kelly presenting the Merri Soul Sessions ft Dan Sultan, Kira Piru and Vika & Linda Bull, Xavier Rudd, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Beth Hart, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Mariachi El Bronx and more in the first of what will likely be many more announcements to come.
The 2015 Malthouse Season includes new works from Chunky Move, Ash Flanders, Nicola Gunn and David Woods, Matthew Lutton, Declan Greene (I Am Miracle) and Lally Katz (TimeShare). Under the artistic direction of Marion Potts the 2015 season is ambitious and exciting, and kicks off with Blak Cabaret in the Forecourt on 10 Feb. Look out for: Depth Of Field, Love And Information, A Social Service, Meme Girls and Antigone with Emily Milledge. The season’s broken into three parts: body//language, post// love and ritual//extinction. For more info head to the Malthouse Theatre website.
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AIMING FOR THE CLOUDS
HUSKY COMING BACK
The group formerly known as The Family, fDeluxe head on an Australian tour in October. Having formed in the ‘80s as a Prince side project, the band reunited minus The Man Formerly Known As in 2011. Now in their new form they bring the funk vibes to The Toff In Town, 2 Oct. Hannah Shepherd, aka Airling, will dot the east coast with some special showcases next month after generating a whole bunch of buzz lately. Get captured by Airling on 17 Oct at Shebeen Bandroom and be treated to tracks from her debut EP, Love Gracefully.
ON HOLD
UK electronic don James Holden has announced headline shows between Subsonic and Meredith Music Festival. He kicks it off at The Hi-Fi, 10 Dec, before Meredith, 12 Dec.
DO IT IN STYLE
Festival camping doesn’t have to be a nasty experience, which is why Beyond The Valley have just announced Glamping packages. Check out the deets on the website. BTV happens at Phillip Island, 30 Dec – 1 Jan.
ROCK ON
Ne Obliviscaris are coming this November in support of their forthcoming record Citadel. They’ll be joined by Canadian death-metallers Beyond Creation at 170 Russell, Melbourne, 21 Nov.
ONE FOR THE ROAD
The incomparable Mr Mark Lanegan will bring that chiselled voice of his to Ding Dong Lounge, 11 Dec, announcing a oneoff headline show to go along with his performance at this year’s Meredith Music Festival. Hear tunes from his new record, Phantom Radio, and all the old favourites.
ADDED SHOWS
Husky are back on the road with a huge list of dates. They bring new album Ruckers Hill (released 17 Oct) to The Bridge Hotel, 7 Nov; Karova Lounge, Ballarat, 8 Nov; The Hi-Fi, 29 Nov; and Queenscliff Music Festival, 30 Nov.
LITTLE WONDER
Soundwave Festival have confirmed Pennsylvanian pop-punk stalwarts The Wonder Years as the latest addition to the 2015 event’s already high quality lineup. Soundwave is due to take place on 21 & 22 Feb, Flemington Racecourse.
Rodriguez has added more Palais Theatre shows, on 26 Oct & 2 Nov. The War On Drugs have added a show at 170 Russell on 8 Dec. Jimmy Eat World also add a second show on 18 Nov at Forum Theatre. Mia Dyson extends her Idyllwild Tour with new dates including Beav’s Bar, Geelong, 19 Oct. Bad//Dreems play a second show at Shebeen Bandroom, 2 Oct.
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It’s fantastic: Aqua are coming back to Australia. The bubblegum-pop superstars return, after selling out 11 shows in 2012, to Palais Theatre, 3 Nov.
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BLAME IT ON THE BOOGALOO
C.W. Stoneking’s new album Gon’ Boogaloo apparently took him years to come by but was recorded live in Castlemaine, Victoria in the space of two days. The first taste of the album is in the form of single Get On The Floor; a dancehall, rock’n’roll, blues and swing affair. The lauded musician performs at Forum Theatre, 15 Nov. Proudly presented by The Music.
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local news vic.news@themusic.com.au BRYAN SMITH
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SPEAKING OF SHOTS
You’ve seen the footage taken by awardwinning National Geographic filmmaker Bryan Smith; now you can hear the equally incredible stories behind some of the world’s most intense environments firsthand when he presents Extreme Adventure On The Edge: Vertical Feats & The Man Who Can Fly on 4 Oct, Hamer Hall.
A GOLDEN DATE
Kimbra is set to bring her signature electric and powerful performances to The Hi-Fi, 22 Nov when she returns to Australia in support of her new album, The Golden Echo.
ALL AGES WELCOME
Young’uns rejoice. American Authors’ upcoming show at The Prince on 20 Sep will now be an all-ages event. For those of you who already have tickets, they are still valid for entry with the new all ages age restriction in place.
FARINA IN THE HOUSE
AMAZING GRACE
Grace Barbé’s new album, Welele!, is full of sounds of Afrobeat, rock, Congolese rumba, reggae and Indian Ocean rhythms. See the world music star at The Substation, Newport, 27 Sep. Full list of dates at theMusic.com.au.
GOOD SPORT
Olympic Ayres’ latest single, Say My Name, showcases the kind of indie/disco/funk sonic hybrid they’re best at. It’s just a preview of the dreamy escapism that you’ll be able to hear once their forthcoming Leisureplex EP drops on 18 Sep, or live when they play Boney, 9 Oct.
FRESH AIR
Performing at the AIR Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards on 8 Oct at Arts House, Meat Market will be pop siblings Sheppard, and Remi will apply some pressure to the mic. DMA’s, Safia and Meg Mac round out a varied bill, with further nomination announcements still to come.
Legendary San Francisco producer and creator of the highly acclaimed, cult status jazz/hiphop anthology Mushroom Jazz, Mark Farina will be hitting the decks at New Guernica on 8 Nov for a special one-off four hour show.
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QUEEN LINE-UP
The fourth wave of acts have been added to the Queenscliff Music Festival. Joining previous acts as part of the line-up are Skunkhour, The Little Stevies, Lucluc, Stella Angelico, Skyscraper Stan & The Commission Flats, Davidson Brothers, Archer, Jordan Rakei, Karl S Williams and Jesse Valach & Blues Mountain.
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YOU & I WILL HAVE TO WAIT
The Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival is inviting designers/stylists, creatives, writers and filmmakers to take part in their month-long 2015 Cultural Program. Applications are now open; design/style and project entries close on 3 Oct, writing on 10 Oct and film on 17 Oct. Visit the VAMFF website for info. Steve Albini will be the first international keynote speaker for this year’s Face The Music summit, held over two days at Arts Centre on 14 & 15 Nov. Face The Music is proudly presented by The Music. 14 • THE MUSIC • 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014
To coincide with the release of their fourth long-player, Ponderosa, Sydney psych masters Richard In Your Mind are hitting the east coast. The album’s first single, Hammered, also has a new clip: a hilarious take on the ‘80s sitcom. They come to Shebeen Bandroom, 6 Nov.
Ingrid Michaelson has postponed her September Lights Out tour down under, due to a personal family emergency. The Melbourne date’s been rescheduled for 12 Mar at Corner Hotel.
STILL GOT IT
With Shihad’s newly released album FVEY landing in the Top 10 ARIA Chart as well as debuting at #1 in New Zealand (for the fifth time, mind you), the four-piece are burning up. They’ll bring their incendiary live show, along with special guests High Tension and Cairo Knife Fight, to 170 Russell, 7 Nov.
SPACE REGGAE
The Skatalites are making their return to Australia, on their 50th Anniversary Australian Tour. A collective of some of Jamaica’s finest musicians, The Skatalites defined the sound of ska in the ‘50s and ‘60s, influencing musos the world over for decades. Skank along at Caravan Music Club, 17 Dec and Corner Hotel, 18 Dec.
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THE TIDE IS HIGH Vance Joy has traded a footy for a hacky sack to singlehandedly focus on his musical career. Bryget Chrisfield also discovers the humble singersongwriter’s English teacher mum has influenced his songwriting and he rates Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman. Cover and feature pics by Kane Hibberd.
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ance Joy ( James Keogh on his footy records) possesses such a welcoming smile and warm presence that he’d be capable of making a jonesing crackhead feel at ease. He’s casually dressed, seated at a table in a boardroom at Mushroom Group’s
kinda running it – and it was a very low-key gallery for just, like, local artists and stuff. And I said, ‘Can I have a small – you know, family, friends and a few media people and record people to come and celebrate the EP release, and I’ll just set up?’ Yeah, those things are really cool, really special, ‘cause you’re just in the room with people – very intimate.” Since then, Keogh has graduated to not-so-intimate performance spaces such as Glastonbury, Lollapalooza and Splendour In The
as no surprise that his mum is an English teacher. “She gave me a lotta tips,” Keogh admits. “I think around Year 9 I started getting better [at English] – when I was about 14 – because I’d have an essay and I’d need a conclusion, and mum would just reel off a conclusion. Off the bat!… So I think having someone that can give you an example of good work helped me get better at English and I eventually got decent and, you know, loved English. And I never was a massive reader, but I’d really hone my essays with her help and I think that’s definitely influenced my songwriting.” It’s easy to assume that masterfully written lyrics take their sweet time and torture lyricists, but Keogh agrees the phrases that connect with listeners are impossible to predict: “You might not even be aware when you’ve written a line that will react with people.” There’s a line in Keogh’s smash hit single Riptide (also known to many as the Medibank song) that suggests Keogh has a massive crush on Michelle Pfeiffer: “Closest thing to Michelle Pfeiffer that you’ve ever seen.” He confesses: “Ah, I do! I do for those films, like, Fabulous Baker Boys and Batman Returns.” Catwoman,
“I DON’T REALLY MISS PLAYING, BUT I LOVE WATCHING GOOD GAMES AND KICKING THE FOOTY WITH MATES. I’VE GOT A HACKY SACK AT THE MOMENT, WHICH IS KIND OF TIDING ME OVER FOR JUST, AH, ENTERTAINMENT.”
HQ in Albert Park and those trademark unruly curls frame a genetically blessed face that’s too kind to be intimidating. He thoughtfully sips on black tea, teabag left in the cup, throughout our chat. Having attended a Lorde concert the previous evening, during which the Kiwi songstress thanked her fanbase for every letter and handcrafted offering, this scribe wonders what kind of gifts Keogh receives. “I’ve only received a couple of small things, you know,” he shares. “I got one when I was signing at Groovin The Moo and this girl, actually she was a jeweller, she had written some lyrics on this little necklace thing. [She] gave it to me and it was so good! Then I got a teddy bear with a little card. And I got this beautiful, handwritten note saying, ‘I love your songs’… It’s so nice to have someone saying that to you.” Keogh speaks at a million miles an hour, which necessitates the activation of slow playback on this dictaphone for transcribing purposes (for the first time ever). We go on to discuss an early Vance Joy performance at House Of Bricks – a small, boutique studio space in Collingwood. “Oh, god,” he whispers. “I think that might have been my little EP thing.” The EP of which Keogh speaks, God Loves You When You’re Dancing, was released back in March 2013. “That was a special night,” he remembers. “Yeah, House Of Bricks, that was just through a friend that I know – he was 16 • THE MUSIC • 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014
Grass (twice) well before his debut album was scheduled to drop. Keogh’s diction is outstanding throughout the Ryan Hadlock-produced Dream Your Life Away, which highlights the artist’s endearing turn of phrase. “Oh, thank you,” he says sincerely, before handballing credit to Hadlock: “I think you’re not always the best judge of [what] your best vocal take [is] and I feel like Ryan was good at coaching a great vocal take.” When you delve into Vance Joy lyric sheets, his words are carefully considered, drenched in charm and also surprisingly unique for such a young songwriter. So it comes
huh? He laughs self-consciously, “She looked so good in that! Like, amazing… Yeah, I’ve got a crush on her, but I think at the time I was just writing the song and I guess – what comes to mind when you think of a larger-than-life actress, you know? Big star power. I feel like her impression on the movie industry is – I dunno, I feel like it’s a lasting reference in that sense ‘cause, yeah! I mean, a lot of those things, like, you look at Family Guy – it’s all these references and you can totally date a movie by referencing popular culture.” And also Michelle Pfeiffer is one helluva pretty name that just rolls off the tongue. “Yeah, maybe that’s what it is as well that makes it work,” Keogh allows. Riptide is right up there (to this pair of ears anyway) with Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know and Pharrell’s Happy in terms of it being a song that, despite extreme over-exposure, still stands up due to undeniably stellar songwriting. The song transports the listener back to family seaside holidays, teen crushes, first pashes at surf lifesaving club discos (or in the sand dunes if you were a bit slutty) and endless beach time discussing the previous night’s activities. “Riptide Motel is this motel in Queenscliff,” Keogh says. “I dunno if that actually was the reason why I said ‘Riptide’ but there was some kinda connection in some way to that beach ‘cause it’s so beautiful. We used to go holidaying in Queenscliff my whole life and it’s my favourite beach place. For me, [the song] brings back those
SAY MY NAME If you plan on getting Vance Joy’s attention, you’re probably better off shouting out his real name, “Jaaaames!” and pretending y’all go way back. See below reference for other artists who adopted (almost) believable pseudonyms: Frank Black Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV Alice Cooper Vincent Damon Furnier Patsy Cline Virginia Patterson Hensley Elvis Costello Declan McManus Lana Del Ray Elizabeth Grant Billie Holiday Eleanora Gough Fagan Etta James Jamesetta Hawkins Elton John Reginald Kenneth Dwight Bruno Mars Peter Gene Hernandez Freddie Mercury Farrokh Bulsara memories of going there for holidays.” Although he’s yet to feature on a Queenscliff Music Festival line-up, Keogh offers, “Actually, that was my first live music experience: going there when I was a little kid.” The song came in at number one in our most recent Hottest 100, ahead of Lorde’s Royals, and Keogh is the first to point out the result was an upset of sorts: “She was hot favourite, you know? Yeah, it’s crazy.” So where was Keogh as the results unfolded? “I was in New Zealand,” he recalls. “We were playing Laneway Festival, and we were in Auckland, and got off the plane and, um, we heard that Play With Fire was number 95. So it was just, like, we were in the 80s or something, and we had the afternoon to chill out. And then we kinda knew that – the station tell you that you might be in the top ten. They don’t know [the results], but they’re going, ‘On all our intuition, we think this is probably going to be in the top ten so we’re going to get you on the phone at this time.’ “So you’re with, like, ten other artists on the phone and counting down. You’re sitting in a studio and my managers were there, my band was there… There was a few Mushroom people and label people from New Zealand, and then there’s the radio people, ‘cause they brought us into some New Zealand studio. And so we were just sitting there and, yeah! It was unexpected, but that was a cool moment. It was nice to be around
people ‘cause you could just get told one-on-one and be like, ‘Sweet!’” There was no chance Keogh could wake up the next morning and wonder whether his win was a dream. “I got a bunch of text messages and I saw some good videos,” Keogh tells. “My mates were at a party, at a barbecue, and it was so good! They were losing their shit, so I’m so glad that that happened – to be able to see that, like, them at that party just dancing around and screaming.
It was epic. So much elation, you know?” If this music thing doesn’t work out for him (unlikely), Keogh played VFL footy for two years with Coburg Football Club. Does he miss kicking a ball around? “Ahhhh, a little bit,” he ponders. “Not in the sense that – I don’t really miss playing, but I love watching good games and kicking the footy with mates. I’ve got a hacky sack at the moment, which is kind of tiding me over for just, ah, entertainment.”
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THE 5 BIGSOUND PANELS YOU MUST SEE Every year the scope of topics covered during the panels and keynote speeches at the BIGSOUND conference seems to broaden and diversify, and the 2014 instalment is no exception – for instance, this year you can experience experts in the fields of metal, hip hop and country music delving into their respective genres, on top of the myriad other industry-related themes that are tackled each year. What you will want to see at BIGSOUND will depend on what you do and what you’re hoping to take away from the experience – it will ultimately be completely different for everyone, much like how a festival experience is different for each punter depending upon their individual tastes and proclivities – and with that in mind here’s our list of must-see panels and keynotes over the three days of BIGSOUND 2014. By Steve Bell.
broadcaster Paul Barclay (ABC RN) will facilitate a massive panel comprising Claire Collins (Bossy Music), Jessica Ducrou (Village Sounds, Splendour In The Grass), Mardi Caught (Warner Music), Nathan McLay (Future Classic) and Andrew Stone (Chugg Music). Together this brains trust will look at the recent successes (and otherwise) of Aussie acts in overseas markets, and what can be gleaned from these wins and applied to other projects moving forward.
THURSDAY 11.05am Mini-keynote – Anthony Fantano Internet geek/music nerd Anthony Fantano – aka Needle Drop – has become one of the most respected music bloggers on the web, at the vanguard of the new breed of music. Love him or loathe him, he’s making a massive difference to the way that today’s tech-savvy punter discovers and appreciates new music, so on his first visit to Australia it should be fascinating to get his perspective on the past, present and future of music criticism. 3.45pm Amazing Labels In this day and age of constant flux in the music industry the independent label is arguably more important than ever before, giving a home and passionate support to those bands whose artistic endeavours exist outside of the mainstream’s embrace. Indie labels are the true pioneers of the music world, and this panel will look at the current indie landscape, recent trends and developments and how an indie can make and break an act both here and overseas. The panel will be led by the ever-astute Tim Janes (Caroline Label Services) who will have at his disposal the combined acumen of Justin Cosby (Inertia), Derek Davies (Neon Gold Records), Tor Hansen (Redeye/Yep Roc), Pip Newby (Play It Again Sam), Darius Van Arman (Secretly Group) and Julia Willinger (Mom And Pop Music/Q Prime) to dissect this intriguing topic from every angle imaginable.
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10am Opening Keynote – Neil Finn
2.45pm Funemployment
Despite our unique tastes, everyone loves Neil Finn, right? The man’s damn close to a national treasure (despite coming from across the ditch) and has touched the hearts of generations with his work for Split Enz, Crowded House and countless other musical outlets. He’s spawned some of the biggest hits ever to come from Australasia and worked with artists like of Radiohead, Wilco and Pearl Jam – plus he loves a yarn – so it will be music geek heaven when he sits down with respected Melbourne broadcaster Fee B-Squared (RRR) to delve into the nooks and crannies of his venerated career.
By Friday everyone is thinking more about survival than networking opportunities and knowledge acquisition, so let’s finish BIGSOUND 2014 on a fun note (albeit one with practical ramifications for burgeoning musicians and industry hopefuls). Justin Heazlewood – aka The Bedroom Philosopher – tries to explain what it’s actually like to be an independent musician in Australia, from the excitement of starting out wide-eyed and full of dreams to the realities and toil involved with actually being an independent muso. Joining him for this fun finale will be current and former musicians Megan Washington, Russell Morris, Evelyn Morris (Pikelet) and Tim Shiel (Faux Pas), in what should hopefully be a heady mixture of hilarious anecdotes and harsh realities.
11.35am Hell F*ck Yeah – The Future Of Australian Music It’s become something of a BIGSOUND tradition to open the panels with a look at the present and future of the Australian music scene, but never before has that panel been named after the chorus of a Violent Soho song. Walkley Award-winning journalist and
WHEN & WHERE: 10 – 12 Sep, BIGSOUND, Brisbane
With around 140 acts all performing at BIGSOUND Live, we’ll help point you in the right direction with some of our fave acts performing over the course of the conference. Here’s The Music Melbourne editor Bryget Chrisfield’s picks of who to check out at BIGSOUND. Nicholas Allbrook This elfin creature is as mercurial as Bowie. Some people are so freakishly talented that you just know they were put on this earth to expand our minds and souls. Listen to his 100k’s ‘Round Carmel single and let Allbrook be your fave new guru. REMI If you love N’fa (which we do, BIG time), REMI’s bound to turn you on also. Effortless flow, innovative instrumentation – REMI’s take on hip hop is what Airwick wishes it does. Marlon Williams A Kiwi legend who is totally unaware of how genetically blessed he is, dresses sharp and sings like a ye olde troubadour (think Glenn Campbell) with mad eye contact and performance ability. Lunatics On Pogosticks These guys are bound to bring the fun. And when you’re Less Than Sober, which I’m told most BIGSOUND attendees are, a good mosh’n’pogo is just what the doctor ordered. 2015’s DMA’s. Banoffee Her voice sounds almost as great as the pie tastes. Minimal beats and dreamy instrumentation. Katy Perry made candycoloured locks naff, but Banoffee owns any hue. RUNNER-UP Milwaukee Banks
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JULIA WILLINGER
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When this EP landed on our desk, it was immediately put on high rotation. You better believe Milwaukee Banks will shock your ears like the first time you heard Original Pirate Material by The Streets.
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time we’ve come to Australia [for our own tour] there’s only been like three week’s notice. On this trip we’re going to Perth, we’re getting to meet people properly, it’s really exciting. We’ve always had so many sides to our band, and I feel like each side is as important as the next, [so] it’s such a thrill to be able to show people the development of our [music].
It was all sweat and sexual innuendo for Biffy Clyro during Soundwave 2014. On this visit, Simon Neil wants the full experience, and tells Benny Doyle fans should expect the same.
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ouring Israel was “educational”, playing shows in Russia was “eye-opening”, but the best time Simon Neil has had on the road this year was when Biffy Clyro visited us for Soundwave 2014. The Scottish alt-rock trio have done the US Warped Tour before, but Neil jokes it was “almost like a prisoners version” of Soundwave for “people that have been bad in another life”. Australia’s favourite travelling circus of heavy was another level for the group. The frontman admits he pinched himself when he saw the line-up Biffy Clyro were a part of; astounding when you consider this is a band that have headlined Reading/Leeds Festival, one of the most important music events in the world. “It’s the only festival I’ve ever been at that I’ve not been able to see all the bands I wanted to,” Neil remarks. He found new mates in Troy Sanders of Mastodon and Lee Spielman from Trash Talk – “bands that we wouldn’t necessarily tour with” – and calls the entire experience “life affirming”; an event designed for “lifers” where music is everything. “It’s such a special festival – you can feel it from the people,” he smiles. “I was fortunate, [I met] Dave [Brockie] from Gwar before he passed away, and I got a picture of me pretending to suck his warty cock, and it’s things like that, God rest his soul, that make it such a great thing – like, when would I ever get to hang out with the guy from Gwar? Why would he ever want to get his picture taken with me? And just weird things like that, that’s what makes it special.” The 12pm starts saw Neil and his bandmates shed a few kilos, though. “I’m a sweating maniac anyway, but to put three Scottish boys and a pair of Englishmen in that heat – it took us a couple of gigs to get acclimatised,” he chuckles, referencing the five-piece form Biffy tour as these days. “But that’s what makes it feel like a bit more
of a holiday for us – we’re getting a suntan as well as playing a rock’n’roll show.” The downside of the Soundwave beast, however, is time constraints for bands on early in the day. Thirty minutes to work through six records was
“Those [old] songs are still such a [big] part of who we are, even though when we play them, like we play There’s No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake and I can see some people in the crowd having a right fright, like, ‘What the fuck are they doing? I want to hear Many Of Horror!’ “But I think a song like ...Jaggy Snake is the best example of a weird prog metal song that we could ever write, and I’m so proud of it, and that’s why we will play it in September. But it’s nice to play that and then a song like Opposite, which is placid and really soothing almost. And I love that. I’m sure some old-school Biffy fans will think, ‘Oh, they don’t scream anymore,’ but we’ve done that, [and] to me that’s what’s most exciting about our band; that we can do something different and aggressive and then something that’s uber-pop.”
“[I MET] DAVE [BROCKIE] FROM GWAR BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY, AND I GOT A PICTURE OF ME PRETENDING TO SUCK HIS WARTY COCK.” as difficult to navigate for Biffy Clyro as it was for us to accept; that’s why Neil is adamant that on these headline dates they’ll be putting everything they have into their shows, with plans to push the twohour mark and explore as much of their varied catalogue as possible. “It’s a real big deal for us this time, because every other
And even though they mightn’t be as shouty as they once were, Biffy Clyro can’t deny the energy still coursing through their veins, with Neil providing first impressions on a follow-up to last year’s double-album opus, Opposites. “Our next record is going to be back to a heavy rock record; it’s still going to have big tunes but it won’t be as lush,” he reveals. “And it will almost bring us back around – not quite full circle, but back to that intense sound of a guitar, bass and drums. And playing songs like ...Jaggy Snake and Joy.Discovery. Invention and Glitter And Trauma; that’s still in our blood, and that does feed back into the new songs.” WHEN & WHERE: 7 Sep, Palais Theatre
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have hit the high notes but really it wouldn’t have suited the music – so what’s the point?”
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has come out of the shadows with his debut solo album. Mark Hebblewhite cornered him (and bassist Allan Badger) to find out why rock’n’roll refuses to die.
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hil Rudd may be lounging back in one of Sydney’s most exclusive hotels but it’s clear the bloke hasn’t let fame go to his head. Laconic and quietly spoken, Rudd is supremely proud of his latest endeavour – a fully fledged solo album. “Some of the ideas for these songs have been around for 25 years,” he reveals. “Me and the boys even jammed some of the tracks many years ago, so to finally get in the studio and lay them down was a real pleasure.”
The tracks that Rudd is talking about are the 11 slabs of unashamedly classic Aussie pubrock contained on the charmingly monikered Head Job LP. “It’s a no-bullshit rock’n’roll record – that’s all we set out to make and I think we did it well,” offers Rudd. “The vocals, the riffs – everything’s real and comes from things I’ve experienced.” “That’s definitely the approach I took with the vocals,” chimes in Allan ‘Badge’ Badger, who played bass on the album as well as providing the bulk of the vocals. “I could
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As the drummer for AC/DC, Rudd is part of veritable empire of minders, assistants and business managers – not to mention being the focus of high expectations on the part of the band’s fans. Was it hard to come from this background to one where you were out on your own producing and your name was on the cover? “Well I’m only about four foot one so my feet are always firmly on the ground! As for being worried about how people would react – I wasn’t worried at all. There’s no pressure with this project – there’s actually far more pressure being a part of AC/DC. I’m my own worst critic, but this was just a matter of getting into the studio with the boys and going for it. We had a great time in the studio making Head Job and I think that’s reflected in the songs.” While The Music was ostensibly sitting down with Rudd to talk about his new solo album we couldn’t just ignore his other role – you know, being the drummer for arguably the biggest rock’n’roll band on the planet. Rudd wouldn’t let much out of the bag, but here’s what we managed to extract. “There’s definitely going to be another AC/DC tour, which is part of the reason we can’t do any shows right now to back up Head Job,” he reveals. “As for the new album, I’ve put down my rhythm tracks and I can tell you from what I heard when I was in the studio it was sounding great. I know how many tracks the band had when I was there but that could change with the final album. I keep in touch with Angus [Young] and I know everyone’s pretty happy with how the record is coming along and is looking forward to getting back on the road.” WHAT: Head Job (Universal)
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A UK trio who carry the moniker Conan might not dig tattered animal carcasses slung about their netherparts, but Jon Davis tells Tom Hersey doom fans can definitely expect some brutality.
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criticism levelled at heavy metal is that it’s none too subtle. Everything’s loud and in your face and what even are they singing about? Metal fans know that’s bullshit, and that there are a slew of bands out their pushing boundaries, utilising awe-inspiring dynamics and writing the type of music that might change those stigmas. Conan ain’t one of those bands though.
That’s what Davis promises Aussie fans ahead of Conan’s firstever run of dates Down Under. Straight-up doom fury, no frills. Just three dudes on a stage with bullshit loud amplifiers.
“It’s quite crude I suppose in the way that we deliver it,” Conan’s guitarist/vocalist Jon Davis reckons. “We’re not particularly sophisticated in the way we write or perform.”
“Live, we sound more urgent and in-your-face, there’s more feedback and we’re playing everything louder. And everything becomes bigger than what it is on the record, we like it slow so we play as slow as we can, and as loud as we can, and then we like the mid-paced riffs so we try and do them as best we can. It’s probably not the professional way of doing it, but we just go for it.”
Case in point, the band’s third album Blood Eagle. The meaty six-track offering sounds like a horde of marauders drunk on bloodlust pillaging a village. And according to Davis, the intensity of the album has only been amplified as the band have turned their attention towards touring the material around the world. “The songs always do evolve a little. The most notable changes have been to the paces of some of the songs; some come across a lot slower now that we’re playing live, and the ones that have a bit more urgency on the record – that tends to be magnified live. So stuff gets heavier and faster to emphasise the point that the slow bits are supposed to be slow and the faster bits are supposed to be speed up.” 24 • THE MUSIC • 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014
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Davis is unapologetic about Conan’s approach. In fact, he thinks Blood Eagle is the perfect template for what the band are hoping to do when they sit down and start work on album number four. “If you look at Blood Eagle, although it doesn’t seem sophisticated in any way, you compare that to the album before that, or the shorter releases we’ve done, or even our first album, and I think you can hear our technical ability improve a bit with each release. We’re playing more technical riffs and the arrangements are a little more interesting. We’re not Mastodon or anything like that, but we don’t want to be. Because I’m not into that sort of music to be honest, so it wouldn’t feel right to do something like that.” WHAT: Blood Eagle (Napalm/Rocket) WHEN & WHERE: 12 Sep, The Old Bar; 13 Sep, The Tote
SWEDISH PUNKS
Director Lukas Moodysson talks to Hannah Story about We Are The Best! and bringing Swedish punk into the 21st century.
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unk is dead,” they said. Not so. Bobo and Klara in Lukas Moodysson’s latest feature, We Are The Best! ignore that admonition, enlisting Hedvig to play in their newly formed punk band, naysayers be damned. The film, based on graphic novel, Never Goodnight, written by Moodysson’s wife Coco, is also set in Stockholm in the early 1980s, but strays from the original text in other ways. Nonetheless, Moodysson says, it stays close to the tone. “[It’s] not completely true to the story, but true to the tone and the atmosphere, and I think, with a graphic novel, they’re black and white, they can be really detailed,
you can’t really be as detailed when you film something with a camera. I think [Coco] was really touched by seeing her childhood portrayed in colour and on the big screen and everything. I think she relates very much to the tone and atmosphere. But for example she never knew someone called Hedvig who was Christian, so that’s an invention of my own, there are a lot of storylines that I invented.” For Moodysson, it was a chance to interrogate his own relationship to the Swedish punk scene of the 1980s. “[Coco and I] grew up in different places so we didn’t know each other when we were teenagers, but we had a lot of the
same experiences, both in things like we listened to the same music and we wanted to look the same and we had, for example, fathers who disappeared… I would probably have been scared of her if I had met her in 1982 as she was just a little bit tougher than I was.”
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Moodysson describes his decision to write about women’s experiences as punks as being a little bit of a challenge to the traditional punk set; in reflecting the experiences of women who were often excluded from the scene, he, also unable to fit into the rigid masculinity of the group, could be a part of the movement too. “I think punk where I grew up was very very masculine. I love punk especially, but I also see some very negative things about punk and one of them is that even though the punk subversive movement tried to be very antiestablishment it still kept a lot of those established gender stereotypes, for example, so it wasn’t really as revolutionary as it pretended to be. It was still all about boys standing on the stage screaming and jumping up and down and girls sitting in the crowd looking at boys. From a feminist perspective it wasn’t very subversive at all, it was a very traditional movement. Even though I couldn’t put that into words when I was 12 years old I still felt without putting it into words that there was something wrong with punk and that it was too macho and too masculine and too tough for me, sort of. There were some older people where I grew up who were punks and they were really tough and they were destroying things and eating glass and things like that and I just felt that I was a weak little boy and I would never be like that.” WHAT: We Are The Best! In cinemas 18 Sep
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RELIGHTING THE FIRE Embracing motherhood, accepting online dickheads and turning their back on NME – Howling Bells frontwoman Juanita Stein tells Benny Doyle how the Aussie expats got their band back on track.
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fter an intense stretch that saw a name change, an overseas relocation and three records, Howling Bells were about due to grab some air. It was 2012, eight years since the Sydneysiders put their Waikiki moniker to bed and decamped to London to chase their rock’n’roll dreams, and Juanita Stein had just given birth to her first child. “I’ve taken to it like a fish to water,” she says of parenthood. “At times it’s shitty, but for the most part it’s the most exceptionally glorious thing you could ever experience. If anything it’s been, I believe,
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c’mon, how can you not [care]?” Stein levels. “A lot of you is, ‘Go fuck yourselves,’ but a lot of you takes it in, because the nature of an artist is the sensitive person. The bits and pieces I do read [though], I take it way, way better these days than I [did] when we first started.” Written and recorded last autumn in Stein’s basement, Heartstrings was born from an explosion of ideas, a moment of time, the ten songs captured at London’s Assault & Battery Studios almost immediately after they were penned. The result is the most instinctive album Howling Bells have made, one that’s stripped of all the fat.
Working off their impulses perhaps more than ever before, the quartet have steadied the ship with Heartstrings, following the hot and cold response given to their third record, 2011’s The Loudest Engine. Notorious bandwagon drivers NME hammered that album in a 2/10 review that insinuated Stein’s vocal was no longer “as hot as her”. With a 7/10 handed out for their latest long-player, there is some validation in the turnaround.
“I didn’t realise how short the record was until somebody... some dickhead from I don’t know where wrote this spiel on the internet about how he wasn’t going to buy the record because it was only 30 minutes [long], and it was like, ‘Dude, isn’t the quality more important?’” Stein questions. “But people obviously have a lot of time on their hands.”
“I want to say to you I couldn’t give a shit, but
WHEN & WHERE: 11 Sep, Howler
But no matter if some faceless haters hate or not, Stein stands proudly behind Heartstrings, Howling Bells’ musical kiss for fans and the industry. “I want everything to be really succinct [but] hopefully leave quite a profound effect on you; I don’t like things to flounder,” she says. “The most immediate reaction I can think of in my head is in a relationship – it’s a lot harder to tell someone ‘I love you’ for the first time than have a four-hour conversation about how you feel about them. It’s the same thing for us with the record; this is our ‘I love you’ to the music world.” WHAT: Heartstrings (Birthday/Caroline)
GET YOUR GROOVE ON
Although The Kooks worked with a hip hop producer on their new record, Luke Pritchard admits to Benny Doyle that Listen is more hip shaking than anything else.
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t all feels quite new, really – the [songs are] so funky, it changes the way you are with the music, you just want to dance.”
That’s Luke Pritchard’s vibe on The Kooks’ new record Listen, a welcome detour from the British band’s established twee indie sound. For proof of this, you need look no further than the group’s latest clip for single Forgive & Forget. The new music is in the frontman’s bones, and it’s obvious the quartet as a whole are finding a great deal of joy in these songs. Aussie fans will instantly sight a similarity in presence and delivery to Michael Hutchence, with the track’s main riff holding more than a little INXS vibe to it. Pritchard acknowledges that inspiration, but says it would be “a bit on the nose” if they were aping a specific band completely. There were, however, a few influences that informed the new songs. “Serge Gainsbourg’s record where he used a lot of African percussion [1964’s Percussions], and then we had some Prince references and stuff like that, but we really started from the rhythm. Personally, I had a big desire to make something danceable.” That’s why Pritchard got in touch with relatively unknown London hip hop producer Inflo, “a tricky dude” according to the frontman, and one who’d never
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heard of The Kooks before. Inflo has since told Pritchard that he was originally unsure about the project, but once they got chatting they found they had very similar creative outlooks, even though they were from completely different musical backgrounds. “We were both searching for something to inspire us – we just clicked instantly,” he smiles. “We talked about music for a couple of hours [when we first met], and then we went into the studio like next week. I didn’t want to make a hip hop record, I just liked his beats and his sound. I really wanted to have a fresh start; I was pretty keen to change and forget the past.
“And what was [even] more attractive [than the fact he didn’t know us] was that he had no idea about any bands or artists around us, which was quite cool,” adds Pritchard, who also produced alongside Inflo. “And our musical heritage – The Kinks, The Stones, Blur – he wouldn’t know those guys. He might know a few songs, but he’s not coming from that world at all.” Listen arrives roughly three years after The Kooks’ third record Junk Of The Heart; it was a period that saw Pritchard question his ability as a songwriter for the very first time. In hindsight though, he thinks that dark period may have been more positive than anything else. “I was writing, but I knew deep down and sort of confronted the fact that I was just writing the same shit again and again,” he concedes, “so I needed to do something different and [push] myself.” WHAT: Listen (EMI)
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MORE THAN BANGIN’
Success has followed You Me At Six for their entire career, but that doesn’t mean Josh Franceschi is going to start wearing sunnies indoors anytime soon. He chats with Benny Doyle.
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osh Franceschi didn’t experience the ‘80s. Maybe that’s why a hedonistic rock’n’roll lifestyle has never been on the radar for the 24-year-old? The Music is tempted to get all Dr Phil on the young bloke but really, Dr Phil seems like a bit of an arse; instead, we talk about some highlights of this year, namely You Me At Six’s first UK number one (2014’s Cavalier Youth) and the Kerrang! Awards, where the quintet won Best Single (Fresh Start Fever) and Best British Band.
Sharing red carpet screams with fan favourites Fall Out Boy, Franceschi questioned whether the rock band he fronts were just FOB’s “weird, ugly younger brothers” or if they were genuinely holding their own, though he acknowledges that validation from listeners and peers felt very cool. “You’re doing something right if you’re turning heads,” he sums up. Talking to Franceschi, you quickly pick up the vibe – You Me At Six are a band of friends that hold no tickets on themselves whatsoever. It’s a surprise given their large-scale success
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and increasingly stylish press shots (see: mature), but it’s something the frontman takes great pride in. “I’ve never met a more non-rock star band,” he agrees. “Some of our mates in other bands are quite similar to us, and then there are some that love [the bullshit] – they love wearing sunglasses inside. And that’s not to say they lose their passion for the music, but they get caught up in that stuff basically. They’ve gotten carried away and forgot about what they’re actually meant to do, [which is] building a fanbase and writing good songs. “We’ve always kept each other in check [and] we have a lot of fun with our music, but we also have a very focused game plan – we’re passionate about not being a flash in the pan. If you want to go out to five or six in the morning and bang models and do all that sort of stuff then great, good for you, you’ll have a really cool time doing that, but at some point a line is going to be drawn and you’re going to look around and go, ‘Oh shit, no one cares about our band anymore.’ And you’re so wrapped up in that other shit that you didn’t recognise it. “At the end of the day man, I’m no better than you and you’re no better than me,” Franceschi finishes. “And everybody gets the same – whether you’re Dave Grohl or the intern at a radio station I’m going to give you the same amount of time and the same level of attention when I’m having a conversation with you, and I think that’s what it’s about – you’ve got to separate the guy on stage to the guy walking the street, and I think we’ve been pretty good at doing that.”
WHEN & WHERE: 8 – 10 Sep, The Hi-Fi
FAST FOOD VOICES
In order to create her ‘third place’ contribution, Brienna Macnish first tried to think of the places she’d feel uncomfortable in, she tells Hannah Valmadre.
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s part of this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, ten artists will create ten sitespecific pieces across the city for Uncommon Places. The collection of works explores the concept of the ‘third place’; social locations where people gather, converse or hang out, excluding the home or the workplace. Brienna Macnish is one of the artists contributing, with her audio documentary piece set outside a Swanston Street McDonald’s. “When I looked at the list for suggested third places, it was all things like cafes and bars and libraries, places [that] are not always welcoming and accessible to all demographics,” explains Macnish, “I started thinking, what does a third place look like that I might feel uncomfortable in or unwelcome? I found that idea and that concept really fascinating.” Macnish studied some criminology during her time at university, and was particularly interested in police move-on powers in the CBD “because young people use public spaces as their third places.” For her piece, Macnish has recorded a 12-minute audio documentary featuring conversations she had with people aged 16 to 23 at the McDonald’s on Swanston Street. You download the audio file from the Fringe website and play it through headphones while being at the place 28 • THE MUSIC • 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014
of recording. “The idea of site-specific audio theatre is that the real world becomes the miseen-scène, the frame of which you are viewing the work. My hope is that everyone’s experiences of the piece will be different depending on what’s happening in that space.” Macnish’s last work of site-specific audio theatre, called Home, explored the ‘first place’ and she spoke to elderly people living alone. Interestingly, she’s found similarities with the two works. “The one thing that has connected them is that a lot of people want to talk and maybe a lot of people don’t have the opportunity to have discussions
about ideas and opinions. It’s really rewarding to ask people those questions, listening closely to someone you didn’t know before that moment.” Other intriguing artworks that are part of Uncommon Places include a large-scale abstract mural on the brick wall outside of Readings Bookshop by Rafaella McDonald, a striking series of banners to be displayed on flagpoles around the City of Melbourne Lawn Bowls Club by Jake Preval, and an interactive light and projection installation in the front window of Pellegrini’s by Danny Pettingill. Macnish recommends experiencing Uncommon Places at your own pace, but also suggests one excursion. “A great way to do it is to see it all in one go, do a bit of a tour around the city.” WHAT: Uncommon Places WHEN & WHERE: 17 Sep – 5 Oct, Melbourne Fringe Festival, various locations
SYNTH FICTION
Intergalactic artist Com Truise explains to Brendan Telford the allure of science fiction and synthesisers.
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s Com Truise, Seth Haley has made a conscious effort to blur the lines between hip hop synthesis and science fiction scores. The tropes inherent in the film genre soundtracks are an aesthetic that has been attractive to Haley since he was young, and his reinterpretations are both attempts at creating art and opening listeners to other worlds. “We all have certain predispositions to be attracted to certain genres of art,” Haley states. “I can’t pinpoint how or when I truly fell in love with science fiction. I’m truly attracted to the technology side of things, the idea that someone had to envision how future technology would look and function. It really blows my
mind. I try to translate my love for certain aesthetics into something sonically driven. I think people gravitate to my music for the floating through space ‘sci-fi’ feelings. I love that.” The visual aesthetics of 1970s science fiction films are just as important as the sonic components for the creation of Com Truise. “[Films] are equally important in my mind,” Haley asserts. “Sometimes the music comes from the visuals and vice versa. I’m a trained designer so I have always tended to fall heavily on the visual side, but I try to maintain both elements at equal level.” Com Truise’s latest opus, Wave 1, is a concept EP that is narrative driven,
another idea that Haley holds dear. “It’s a continuation of a story. At the Wave 1 point of the story, based on the first android astronaut sent from earth to make contact with a distant civilisation, he has just finally reached the planet ‘Wave 1’. It is the soundtrack about his first reactions, thoughts, feelings towards this new civilisation. He can’t put his finger on it but this world isn’t much different than the earth he knows, yet, something isn’t right; it’s all a bit slanted and off-kilter.”
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That said, songs like Mind on Wave 1 hold stronger, funk-based beats that show an evolution in the Com Truise sound. “That’s the Prince influence – he really made that LinnDrum flex,” Haley smiles. “I wanted to switch up the patterns, tempos, and just break up the syncopation a bit. I was becoming a little monotonous to myself. It felt logical to perpetuate the storyline for my music in that way.” The live shows of Com Truise have become more structured as more intricate layers come into place. Haley’s love of analogue synthesisers makes playing live a complex experience, yet he pulls all the strings to make sure it’s a wholly immersive one. “I’m a gear junkie; it’ll never subside. As far as incorporating these strange devices in the live set-up, it’s only going to get more complex for me up there. For the audience, it will become more of a conceptual journey performance. I have live-sequenced visuals by Transient throughout. I love being busy up on stage, I love the ability to manipulate everything on my own. The show will only continue to evolve.”
WHAT: Wave 1 (Ghostly International) WHEN & WHERE: 10 Sep, Corner Hotel
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★★★★½
album reviews
DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
BANKS
The Physical World
EMI
Last Gang/Warner
There’s some pretty beautiful post-R&B getting made right now, and Banks is at the forefront of this push. A lot of this album feels familiar, with singles Waiting Game, Brain and the title track having been doing the rounds for a while now, but that doesn’t take away from the undeniable quality, nor the emotional impact, that the music holds.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
A pre-warning coming at ya – you’re going to need to stretch up good and proper before listening to The Physical World. These are some damn fine arse-shaking, baby-making rock’n’roll jams; so fine in fact that this reviewer would almost go as far as to say it trumps magnificent 2004 debut I’m A Woman, You’re A Machine. For all the fans that were pissing and moaning when first single Trainwreck 1979 dropped – don’t stress, the LP gets plenty heavier. But after multiple listens you realise that’s a freakin’ awesome single anyway. When that riff bursts into life at the 52-second mark – hot diggity damn! Meanwhile, with Always On, Crystal Ball, Government Trash, the duo have once again turned punk rock into a dancefloor commodity, with sexier rhythms across the board. The slower numbers like White Is Red carry that panache
Goddess
too, and it’s all thanks to the consuming bottom-end offered up by moustachioed bass wielder Jesse F. Keeler. His riffs on this record are bulletproof, and gives Seb Grainger the strongest of platforms on which to finesse his lyrics out, making for a combo as deadeye as Jordan and Pippen in their prime. DFA1979 are older, smarter, more accomplished, yet they still manage to hold onto that youthful rebellion that rocketed them into our psyche in the first place. In a year of fantastic comebacks, this potentially stands as the pick of the bunch. Throw on your leathers and get dancing. Benny Doyle
INTERPOL
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Sad thing is though, this album couldn’t have landed at a worse time, what with the universal acclaim being showered upon contemporary FKA Twigs’ LP1. Still, Goddess holds more than enough merit to stand alone under the flickering light, and will unquestionably age as well as that Bordeaux in the cellar. Benny Doyle
Dream Your Life Away
[PIAS] Australia
And the album simply continues on in that vein. Their alt-rock pop with grit might not appeal to all – people might still find Banks’ voice wearying, a drain on their will to keep listening to music, but that miserableness (take My Blue Supreme or Everything Is Wrong) is part and parcel of what Interpol are. They don’t shy away from it. But at the end of it all nothing really sticks. Repeated listens
Even at an hour long, the album doesn’t seem to hang
around too long, a credit to the quality of songs on offer, and track placement. Cover to cover it flows gorgeously, moving from ambient trip hop to naked ballads and downtempo pop seamlessly. There’s not a passage that punishes you in any way.
VANCE JOY
El Pintor
First single All The Rage Back Home brings the new Interpol clearly into focus. A combination of the best bits of Antics (the pop riff, Paul Banks’ brooding vocals) with the new lush sound of 2010’s self-titled record, the track kicks off slow and rich, before breaking into the jangly upbeat chorus. The pace is set; the band, as it stands without founding bassist Carlos Dengler, is here. Banks has taken over bass duties and he struts his stuff with aplomb. But it’s not much different to the Interpol of old.
When Jillian Banks is on, she quickly makes your world stand still. Her range is ridiculous, and the 26-year-old LA native can deliver her lyrics stretched out or spitfire rapid, depending on the situation. The mix on the record is a dark one, more urban gloom than earthy lush. At times it sounds like Banks is presenting her heart to you in the leaky basement of a highrise building, but the power and warmth of her voice means that the listening experience never comes off as isolated or cold.
★★★★
Liberation
★★★ don’t give up a standout track. In fact, all the songs tend to blend and warp into an amorphous mass of slow builds, anguished catch cries and layered vocals. All the songs are equally emotional, some are fun, some brood, jittering along with complex melodic guitar work from Daniel Kessler, but none come up to the high points of their earlier work. It just feels a little dry, a little done, a little too easy. This is far from the reinvigoration some Interpol fans were looking for. Hannah Story
Vance who? Even if you’ve been living in a Siberian train tunnel you’d probably have heard the familiar strains of the allconquering Riptide. Despite that song’s success it has taken Vance Joy, ie James Keogh, until now to finally release his debut record. It’s the kind of folk-pop that you may have predicted, delivered honestly and without fear. Each of the 13 tracks across Dream Your Life Away are well balanced, Keogh backed by a more than capable band, and his arrangements, while not original, are effectively delivered. In fact, without taking anything away from its brilliance as a pop song, when compared with songs like Wasted Time and the tremolo-filled From Afar, Riptide is actually very poor in terms of arrangement and production. Sometimes Dream Your Life Away can feel over-produced, with Keogh and producer Ryan
★★★ Hadlock (The Lumineers) following the same pattern of opening softly with acoustic guitar and vocal reverb before adding instruments and the occasional string section (We All Die Trying To Get It Right, Red Eye). By doing this on the majority of the record though, other songs like Georgia stand out for their lyrics and emotion. The clear strength of Dream Your Life Away is its consistency. Each of the tracks has the potential to be an individual listener’s favourite. Each will inspire fans to learn the lyrics by heart, and to belt them out when Vance Joy next performs in their town. Dylan Stewart
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RYAN ADAMS
STEVE SMYTH
THE TEA PARTY
Ryan Adams
Exits
The Ocean At The End
War Of One
Columbia/Sony
Ivy League
Anthem/Sony
Parlophone/Warner
The mercurial Adams is always chasing his muse in whatever direction it takes him and this time it is back to the electric guitar with strong rock trappings compared to the acoustic Americana of Ashes And Fire. Heavily reverbed chords ring out somewhere between Johnny Marr and Tom Petty, making this sound like a more upbeat, brighter cousin to his Love Is Hell album. If performed on acoustic guitar these would sound like pure Adams songs, so it is testament to his playing and self-production that he has shaped them into ‘70s- and often ‘80s-tinged west coast rock, bristling with an emotive moodiness.
There’s much going on behind that impressive facial hair. From the Tom Waits chain-gang stomp of Get On, Smyth takes a range of sidetracks. Melodic delicacy gets juxtaposed with his emotional delivery – Digital Heart could almost have him as the missing link between Augie March and The Drones. Then to the inveterate traveller’s distant melancholy of South Land, even while being a busking boulevardier in Paris. Then there’s the towering, heart-bruised balladry of Written Or Spoken – which still gets in your guts even after repeated listenings. It’s an intimate – but often glorious – little scuffed gem of an album.
If 2004’s Seven Circles seemed like a band lost at sea, The Ocean At The End is evidence of ten years’ shore leave well used. Frontman Jeff Martin has never sounded so untroubled or civilised, more inclined to “have another glass of wine” (Black Roses) than to indulge the exotic teas of, say, Shadows On The Mountainside. The title track goes knowingly Dave Gilmour and a new anthem is forged in Water’s On Fire. Trademark overwrought-ing and mysticism is decidedly downplayed, making a smooth sail into port for The Tea Party’s eighth studio record.
BERTIE BLACKMAN Blackman’s headstrong and sultry, with a bone to pick. This track charges like a bull but dances like a ballerina, a mix of delicate, vaguely oriental-influenced riffs, ‘80s power synth-pop vigour and a woman’s internal rage.
CEE Brewheads The Movement Fam “Are you a brewhead?/I’m a brewhead!” – stop. “World’s First 100% Craft Beer Rap Song” isn’t a boasting point. Will appeal only to people who like being educated about beer through mediocre Aussie rap.
THE PREATURES
Mac McNaughton
Ross Clelland
Chris Familton
Somebody’s Talking
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EMI/Universal Happy-go-lucky guitar and Izzi Manfredi’s pop-soul vocals make for gleeful, kicking-puddles, shimmy-in-the-sunshine stuff. Cheeky, full of vitality yet somehow grown up.
★★★★
★★★½
THE LOVE JUNKIES
NICHOLAS ALLBROOK
Memories
Blowing On The Devil’s Strumpet
Ganough, Wallis And Fatuna
The Kooks – Listen
Independent
Bütsikatsic/MGM
Spinning Top
Jimmy Barnes – 30:30 Hindsight
A little less paint-by-numbers, a little more heart, please. Promising, but you can hear the band concentrating through the speakers – Memories is stiff.
While their shows are compulsive punk’n’roll demolitions, there have always been other sides to The Love Junkies. Here their destructive bouts of neurosis are tempered by lovely ennuisodden passages. Although the airplay-gobbling title track is oddly not present, there’s ample compensation in the form of ghostly drifters Goodnight Ellen and In The Belly Of My Beast, which ramble between pleasant street and lachrymose lane, conjecturing as to how many layers of the onion The Love Junkies can peel with passive-aggressive rock.
Nicholas Allbrook’s debut solo effort starts off with guitar noodling. Surprise! Allbrook throws all your conventional psych bits and pieces into the pot and stirs to create an album that ripples and blurs, that’s at once enigmatic and defined. At times the album is almost too chill, too quiet and understated from the beloved Pond frontman – we expect wailing energy, pomp and bombast from Allbrook, but then it kicks into gear and he delivers with the extended bassheavy outro on ITTTME, and the lush synth closer QF325.
Kim & Leanne – True West
PULSE MAVENS
TINASHE FT A$AP ROCKY Pretend RCA Don’t let the perceived fluff-R&B and saccharine, polished vocals fool you; Pretend is a dynamic, restrained tragedy detailing the regrets in a relationship. Padded percussion and softly skipping synth are all tightly wound around balled fists.
Christopher H James
Darren Cross – No Damage Setec – Brittle As Bones Jess McAvoy – The Women The Bloodpoets – The Grand Machine Ariana Grande – My Everything Accept – Blind Rage
Hannah Story
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live reviews
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT There’s separate Adam Lambert merch available tonight and, by show’s end, all in attendance can appreciate why. Inside the arena, überfans squeal as they arrive at their designated seats and proximity to the action is fully realised. We’re left to admire the protruding curved catwalk section of Queen’s custombuilt stage as their advertised starting time comes and goes.
on the planet right now that could fill Freddie Mercury’s shoes so spectacularly. Lambert prowls up there and you never feel nervous he’ll miss a note. When Fat Bottomed Girls kicks in there are smiles on dials throughout the stadium. May races down the catwalk for a guitar solo and live footage from his ‘guitar cam’ is broadcast on the screens. Everything Lambert wears, we want, particularly the black leather jacket sleeves with shoulders covered in perilously spiky gold studs that are fastened behind his back with a buckle – a rock’n’roll shrug of sorts.
Close to half an hour later, the gigantic Queen logo curtain drops and Adam Lambert announces, Now I’m Here. It’s immediately apparent
A burgundy chaise longue is placed on the head of the ‘catwalk penis’ for Lambert to recline on. He performs Killer Queen while fanning
Rod Laver Arena 29 Aug
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT @ ROD LAVER ARENA. PIC: KANE HIBBERD
Adam Lambert is up to the task – his larynx and presence will both do nicely, thank you. Brian May is so distinctive a guitarist you’d be able to identify him with your eyes shut, even if he wasn’t playing a Queen song. His choice of footwear, white trainers, is baffling though; they do come in black now, you know! The clarity and scale of visuals on the giant disc behind the performers is next level. A couple of ladies in the stands have made a sign that reads (in small letters) “We Love Queen + (in massive, fairylit letters) ADAM!” Did the band not want to find someone a little less young and hot as replacement singer? It’s all a bit JD Fortune fronting INXS post-Michael Hutchence, but, in the case of Lambert, you can’t imagine anyone else 32 • THE MUSIC • 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014
himself with a folding, gold hand-held fan. “We all miss Freddie Mercury!” Lambert acknowledges. During Somebody To Love, the crowd roars when Lambert effortlessly leaps up into his head voice and then shimmies his shoulders – shameless peacocking. May brings his axe to orgasm (I Want It All) and then commences Love Of My Life solo, perched on a stool. He encourages us to take over the singing (this evening’s audience is a bit timid), but when (archival footage of ) Freddie Mercury appears onscreen to close out the song we collectively swallow lumps down throats. This is also a reminder that Lambert doesn’t come close to Mercury’s majesty. May introduces us to his “selfie stick” and then makes
a short video of the crowd. When he announces a folk song is to come, it’s time for a toilet break. Drummer Roger Taylor’s son Rufus takes over on the kit, freeing up his dad to sing A Kind Of Magic (which he wrote). Mercury’s voice is still fresh in our memories, making comparisons unfavourable. Another toilet/smoke break opportunity arises during the bass solo. Roger Taylor’s drum solo on a mini-kit placed on the stage at the end of the catwalk is not to be missed. In yet another fabulous get-up, Lambert returns to the stage to duet with Taylor on Under Pressure (during which Taylor sings Bowie’s parts). It’s difficult to hear this track without harking back to the Vanilla
a yellow suit with impressive Mercury-inspired mo’ holds a rose out for Lambert. During Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Lambert actually throws in a “cray cray”! And now for Bohemian Rhapsody. Lambert nails the opening. Mercury takes over from beyond the grave onscreen, which further raises the bar. Then May is illuminated onstage at the end of the catwalk sporting a metallic gold cloak, with Beyoncé fan on high violently blowing back his long grey locks for guitar solo number one. A segment of the song’s video clip takes over (the bit where silhouettes of the four band members’ heads circle around each other: “I see a little sillhouetto of a man...”) Then back to the outstanding Lambert. During the rockin’ instrumental breakdown, we
THE DANDY WARHOLS @ CORNER HOTEL. PIC: JAY HYNES
Ice copyright infringement. Who Wants To Live Forever takes on added gravitas since Mercury’s passing. Taylor in his casual, all-white ensemble resembles Anthony Hopkins wearing his PJs. What follows is a section that should be labelled ‘Brian’s Jizzfest’. Taylor Jnr actually spends a little too much time behind the kit; surely one song is adequate. And then there’s Lambert’s endless call-and-response section – even he admits to “vocally masturbating”. All three aforementioned sections could be replaced by an intermission since momentum is officially lost. Among those seated sidestage (apparently these “Look Now I’m On Here On Stage” VIP upgrade tickets went for over $1,000!) a fan wearing
may just have rocked out as much as Wayne and Garth! Although the crowd insists on an encore, we simultaneously wonder how Queen + Adam Lambert could possibly top their main set closer. They do their darnedest with We Will Rock You, Lambert resplendent in leopard skin suit with added rhinestones, gold platforms and a bejewelled crown. We Are The Champions plays out, gold confetti explodes from cannons and now they’re just showing off. As they take their final bows, God Save The Queen is an appropriate choice of outro tape. And it’s ridiculous to think Lambert is an American Idol runner-up: America’s equivalent of Shannon Noll. Bryget Chrisfield
live reviews
THE DANDY WARHOLS, SUN GOD REPLICA Corner Hotel 26 Aug Corner Hotel’s smaller, side stage is populated by Sun God Replica as we enter and the instrumental side of what they offer is awesome. It’s just when the lyrics come in that The Goodies spring to mind. The Dandy Warhols take over the main stage and we’re immediately captivated by frontman Courtney TaylorTaylor’s current look, which sees his long locks separated into two braids à la Willie Nelson, tanned, athletic arms shown off thanks to a white t-shirt with sleeves rolled up. They’re not here to fuck spiders and We Used To Be Friends bops along as the band’s second song. Nick Rhodes’ love child, guitarist Peter Holmström, leads us through the essential, double-overhead clap during the song’s verses and a lot of
bingo arms get spontaneous workouts. Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth demonstrates the quartet, and their matchless back catalogue of memorable-yet-diverse hits, are anything but passé – a snapper in the photography pit is even witnessed singing along: “Heroine is so passéé-é…” Multi-instrumentalist Zia McCabe expertly plays double maraca (braless?) as cute dimples dance on her cheeks. McCabe’s keys consoles look like they’ve been borrowed from The Doctor’s Tardis and she certainly gets impressive volume out of that tambourine. Memories flood through our brain boxes with each passing song as The Dandy Warhols perform their outstanding tracks, many of which saw us through trying times: As Taylor-Taylor sings You Were The Last High, plus-one shares, “I used to cry myself to sleep to this when I was pregnant”; another mate reveals We Used To Be Friends transports her back to the confusion of love lost and dealing with divorce.
Taylor-Taylor tells us Australia and England are the only two countries where Dandys Rule OK is written on the cover art of their debut album without a concluding question mark – on our soil it’s a statement, not something that’s open for discussion. The rambunctious Bohemian Like You proves irresistible and our “Whoo-OOOO-whoo”s fill the room as dancing with abandon replaces the subtle head nod. Get Off reads many minds – “But all I wanna do is get ooooff” – as the track’s swaggering pace is perfectly replicated.
The Dandy Warhols don’t ever need to try: they are the definition of cool.
Godless undoubtedly features one of the most heartbreaking trumpet riffs of all time, which is also pretty fun to “bah-bahbah” along to. It’s right up there with the forlorn trumpet throughout Groove Armada’s At The River and tonight there’s even a live trumpeter onstage to ensure maximum tear-jerking impact. Drummer (and adopted Australian) Brent DeBoer smiles knowingly from behind his kit. Coolness can’t be taught or faked and
Kingswood @ Howler
Bryget Chrisfield
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KINGSWOOD @ HOWLER. PIC: ANNA MADDEN
Client Liaison @ 170 Russell Run Rabbit Run @ Northcote Social Club Twerps @ The Shadow Electric
arts reviews Their friendship, which Dawes documented in detail in his diary, is one of the very first recorded examples of “contact”.
PATYEGARANG
PATYEGARANG Dance
Arts Centre to 6 Sep
★★★★½ Bangarra have made it obvious once again why they are a national treasure. Although there is always a certain necessary didacticism about their work, they make it work for them, and Patyegarang is a case in point. Salvaged from history but told with an intimacy and, dare I say, a romance that resonates clearly in 2014, Patyegarang is the remarkable tale of a young Eora woman and the nascent Sydney colony’s astronomer Lieutenant William Dawes.
Stephen Page has based his latest work around Dawes’ diary and the result is a mesmerising, utterly beautiful and hypnotic journey. Powered by David Page’s emotive score and starring Jasmin Sheppard and Thomas Greenfield as the chief protagonists, Patyegarang marries Indigenous and Western contemporary dance seamlessly. The work shifts from the narrative to the expressive with nimble grace. However, Page’s real genius here is to maintain the power of his historical and cultural touchstones without sacrificing the innate tenderness of what must have been an extraordinary meeting of man and woman. Indeed, it is this connection that really lets us connect with the soul of the work; for here is Indigenous history with a universal colour. In short, Patyegarang sees Bangarra at their 25-year pinnacle. Paul Ransom
THE SUBLIME Theatre
Arts Centre, Fairfax to 4 Oct
★★★½ Brendan Cowell has penned a relevant and controversial play for the Melbourne Theatre Company, his script a fusion of familiar football scandals ripped from the headlines and scattered into a story for the stage. The Sublime is a boisterous and surprisingly absorbing work for its simplicity; comprising three monologues that run rapidly over one another and tell the tale of an off-season trip to Thailand that takes a sinister turn. Brothers Dean and Liam are passionate football stars on the rise, bonded by blood but claimed by separate sports, AFL and NRL respectively. Both, however, are obsessed with athletic glory, superstardom and the sheer holiness of their game. This holiness is put into question when the violence and casual misogyny that has been building through the play leads
to a rape. The script collides with the rage-inducing yet inevitable cover-up and sickening ‘boys will be boys’ mythology to put the spotlight on the pervasive sexist and violent culture in football that is left uncritically examined in society. At this point, Cowell takes the plot on various tangents, trying to incorporate too many stories into his narrative, which obscures the critical argument in the work. The magnitude of what happens in Thailand is impetus enough to construct the argument against this culture. This, however, mirrors a point made well in the work – the problematic ease to which we are seduced by a story rather than the truth and its consequences. Suzanne Truman
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★★★★ Vampires are played-out. Mockumentaries are definitely played-out. So why does What We Do In The Shadows, a mockumentary about a quartet of bloodsucking housemates in 21st century New Zealand, work so well? Well, it’s brisk, imaginative and, best of all, funny in a goofy, amiable kind of way. Talented Kiwis Taika Waititi (the maker of the wellloved Boy and Eagle Vs Shark) and Jemaine Clement (one-half of the mighty Flight Of The Conchords duo) are co-writer/directors here, also taking major roles as dandy vamp Viago – who fussily spreads newspapers on the floor to catch errant plasma – and the more bloodthirsty Vlad, respectively. The two share their Wellington home with 183-year-old “bad boy” Deacon ( Jonathan Brugh) and 8000-year-old Petyr (Ben Fransham), bickering about household chores (who going to do the bloody dishes... the literally bloody dishes?) and bemoaning their inability to fit in with modern society. Maybe a new housemate in the form of recently-turned vampire Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) will help matters. Or maybe not, given Nick’s penchant for telling all and sundry he’s the new Nosferatu in town. Quirky without being overbearing, sweet without being saccharine, clever without being show-offish, What We Do In The Shadows walks the fine line between horror and comedy without making a misstep. What’s more, it even throws werewolves and zombies into the mix. Who could ask for anything more?
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HANDMADE IN AUSTRALIA Locally designed and handmade crockery and ceramics – art you can use!
SHIKO POTTERY Sophie Harle of Shiko Pottery is inspired by the Japanese folk art movement Mingei (handmade crafts to be used in everyday life), and makes items such as plates, jars and cups with a minimal aesthetic focusing on form and soft surfaces. The warm and subtle flecks of colour on Harle’s pieces make them look different depending on how the light hits them. They’re the kind of things that feel purposely shaped to fit to the curve of your hand, no matter how big or small it is. shiko.com.au // Instagram: @shikopottery
YIYING LEE If anything’s going to make you happier than well made ceramics, it could be well made ceramics that smile at you. Yiying Lee, a Melbourne-via-Malaysia artist, is influenced by nature, travel, stories, outer space and dreams. Just try to look at her small plates, vases, cups and spoons with little faces and not feel
SHIKO. PIC: LILLIE THOMPSON
YIYING LEE
immediately more jolly. The cups even have tiny noses! yiyinglee.com // etsy.com/shop/ byYiyingLee // Instagram: @ byyiyinglee
TAKEAWEI Chela Edmunds of Takeawei draws inspiration from nature, beach culture and fashion. Her work combines organic, odd shapes and textures with bright colours and includes pieces like the Wombat Planter (it’s spotty!), Ice-Cream Wall Vases (shaped like a cone), origami-patterned crockery, hanging wall planters, candle holders, mugs with triple-hole handles, and more. Edmunds has also created an exclusive textile
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and ceramics pattern for Melbourne fashion label Dress Up’s Namaste collection. takeawei.com // Instagram: @tkawei
TARA SHACKELL Functional tableware is Tara Shackell’s specialty. She’s especially interested in the method of making things, and the relationship between form, line and surface. This all comes out in her pieces – plates, beakers and bowls that are white with gold edges, or speckled, or two-toned. She also makes delightfully pinched small dishes, plant-holders and vases of various shapes, sometimes dipped in or splashed with bright colours or decorated with line drawings, other times looking like they were plucked out from the ground. tarashackell.com // Instagram: @tarashackell
MINNA GRAHAM Minna Graham has lived in many a harsh environment – deserts and salt lakes, mining areas, snow country and dense forests – so it’s no wonder that her work is an expression of her emotional relationship with her surroundings. You can see all the extreme aspects of nature, the elements of fire and water and wind, in Graham’s textured and sculptured pots, tea/sake cups, bowls, sauce dishes, plates and other pieces; they look like they’ll last through anything Mother Nature throws at them. minnagrahamceramics.com // Instagram: @minnagraham
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CLAY 101
lot of skin products because it’s so mild.
If you’re keen to make your own mug/bowl/planter/ dish, the first thing you’re going to need is some clay. Here are a couple of tips for creating your own pieces.
Adding ingredients like nylon or sand can aid plasticity and affect the clay body’s firing temperature, which also affects its colour.
Earthenware clay is the most common summer-camp/ craft class clay; it requires the lowest temperatures for firing and is porous, so it needs a sealing glaze to make it watertight. Think terracotta pots as an example. Stoneware clay is more heavy-duty and requires heavy firing temperatures, but it comes out waterproof. The result is a glass-like substance, which is often used for bowls and vases. Kaolin clay, otherwise known as white clay, is used to make porcelain. If you’re a pottery novice you should probably stay away from this stuff, as it can be tricky to work with. This clay is also found in a
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TAKEAWEI
Materials like sawdust or coffee grounds help reduce the weight of a finished clay piece, so it’s best to explore their uses if you don’t want a two-ton salad bowl. Pic: Takeawei ‘The Boss’ mug
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EP FOCUS
ALBUM FOCUS at least that’s what it felt like. Realistically about three years. Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making? Lots of experiments! We made the album WE wanted to make, and we’re not confined by any genre or rules.
TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD Answered by: Estelle Artois EP title? T-Byrds Are Go! How many releases do you have now? Two. We’ve had more time to creatively flesh this one out. We’re very excited. It’s been a long time coming. Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making? Three byrds having the time of their lives. We feel we’ve come a long way since our debut and we really wanted to lift the bar and share our step-change with the world.
Tree: signature Mockingbyrd; Everyone Down: a sing-along with a twist; Catalyst: relatable; Shut Me Down: from the heart!
THE WEDNESDAY EXPERIMENT
We’ll like this EP if we like... Catchy, feel-good rock’n’roll; partying naked in your office at the end of a hard week; bad-arse break-up songs; getting down!
Album title? The Verse of You and I
When and where is your launch/ next gig? 6 Sep at Yah Yah’s in Fitzroy! Excited to be sharing the stage with Ugly Kings, Club Crain and Rosie & The Mighty Kings. Tickets only $13. Website link for more info? pozi.be/tequilamockingbyrd
What’s your favourite song on it? Changes daily! Money
Name: Peter O’Leary
Where did the title of your new album come from? Our singer Emily found those unique words lying in a magical forest, hidden somewhere deep in the universe, which described perfectly the album we have worked on together to create. How many releases do you have now? This is our debut album! How long did it take to write/ record? Well there’s 16 songs, and it took approximately 10 million billion trillion gazillion years, or
PERSONAL BEST RECORDS
Answered by: Matt Black Best record you stole from your folks’ collection? Glenn Miller – In The Mood. This swing stuff fascinated me because it was extreme music, fast, complicated and melodic.
Last thing you bought/ downloaded?: The Slade Collection. Slade, Suzi Quatro and T-Rex really influenced our new album. We wanted big ‘70s drums.
First record you bought? Status Quo – Whatever You Want. I’ve always loved rhythmic riff heavy bands, and Status Quo are hypnotic and rockin’! Still. Despite the supermarket ads...
Website link for more info? facebook.com/ DOUBLEBLACKBAND
Record you put on when you’re really miserable?: I am rarely miserable, but a good downvibe stuff for me is Nick Cave and Lee Hazlewood. Although
When and where are your next gigs? The Bendigo, 6 Sep.
When and where is your launch/ next gig? Our album launch is 13 Sep at Horse Bazaar, and we are doing our set in surround sound and surround visuals. Website link for more info? thewednesdayexperiment. bandcamp.com
great space for us to run riot and have a lot of fun with it.
Record you put on when you bring someone home?: Wagons’ The Rise And Fall Of Goodtown. My wife loves it. So do I. Most surprising record in your collection?: Sitar Safari by Balsara & His Singing Sitars. It totally kicks arse.
Will you do anything differently next time? Everything and nothing! We started by mucking around in the studio making music for fun with no intentions, then we started getting asked to play shows. It’s rolled from there!
VIDEO CLIP FOCUS
Nick Cave can be quite uplifting at the same time which is a good thing! Coldplay make me want to die though.
DOUBLEBLACK
What’s your favourite song on it? Personally I like Blubirds, it’s a crazy mash-up of strange things and the funnest song to make and play live!
THE TIMBERS Answered by: Simon Basey Song title? Mean Streak Director: Benjamin Roberts What’s the concept behind the clip? The song is a lighthearted look at the darker side of someone’s personality. The clip mirrors this as the main character is initially portrayed as innocent, but the dark side soon appears.
What’s your favourite part of the clip? There are many highlights for me – Kyle gets saturated, Ben has his head smashed onto a table, Joe and Ben kiss, and Simon is bound and gagged, and on top of that there is mass destruction of garden gnomes. Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making? We imagined the image if Graveyard Train adapted a Goosebumps novel for theatre in the style of Moulin Rouge. Will you be launching it? 5 Sep, Nelson Hotel; 6 Sep, Boney; and 7 Sep, Newport Bowls Club. Website link for more info? thetimbersband.com
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FRONTLASH
LIVE THIS WEEK
REMEMBERING JAMES
James Freud’s debut album Breaking Silence has been reissued, is available on CD for the first time and bonus tracks include previously unreleased demos produced by Gary Numan! The deluxe packaging also includes a 28-page booklet containing many rare images.
HEADING NORTH
GET PSYCHED
COSMA RISING
Electronica duo Klo, aka Simon Lam and Chloe Kaul play their first live show at Boney on 5 Sep with Silent Jay, Electric Sea Spider and Rat & Co DJs, having just revealed the video clip for their single False Call, before heading to BIGSOUND.
Melbourne singer-songwriter and guitarist Ali E will be playing her unique blend of psych-rock at The Drunken Poet on 3 Sep. She’ll be supported by Ladie Dee, with the event kicking off at 8pm.
David Cosma is back from touring the country with his other band Sun Rising, and will be playing two free sets of original material at Edinburgh Castle, 5 Sep. Be in the front bar from 6pm to catch his distinct style of full-bodied rock’n’roll.
LESSON IN RAP
NEW IN TOWN
TREASURE HUNT
Poetry, hip hop and rap all come together when accomplished rap artist Luka Lesson (as well as his band) launches his new album Exit on 7 Sep at the Howler. Fans of L-FRESH the LION will also be pleased to know he’ll make an appearance as host.
Every Wednesday in September at Penny Black, Brad Martin Project are teaming up with Indigenous writer and poet Shaun Meehan. Meehan’s from WA, so head down and show him a warm welcome.
Kindred Studios are having an open day on 6 Sep, and as part of the festivities they will be hosting a pop-up suitcase rummage sale. You’ll need to register if you’d like to reserve a spot to sell your wares, otherwise it’s free to rummage.
DOGG ACT
LOTS TO SEE
CAT’S MEOW
MAD COMBINATION
What’s with Snoop Dogg’s whiteface character, Todd?
On 5 Sep at Victoria Hotel, Wilding is set to launch his new single, Missing Her, with See in support. The solo project of Melbourne songwriter Justin Wilding Stokes, Wilding’s sound has a distinctly British flavour.
With her debut solo album When We Were Young out Friday, The Stillsons’ drummer Cat Canteri heads out on tour. Hear her alt-country pop nuggets live at her show on 5 Sep at Basement Discs. Keep an eye out for upcoming gigs.
Groovy Melburnian funk artists The PutBacks are teaming up with local Sudanese singer Madup Chol at The Toff In Town, 4 Sep, fusing funk and Sudanese tunes in a blend that you’ll want to experience for yourself.
T-BYRDS ARE GO!
A HELPING HAND
HARLEQUINTET
Get a shot of pedal-to-the-floor rock when leather-clad ladies Tequila Mockingbyrd blaze into town with their new EP. The trio plug in at 6 Sep, Yah Yah’s, with further shows to be announced.
A special night for a special cause – Grace Knight will be performing a special one-off show at Healesville High School, 5 Sep, as part of the Chepkinoiyo Charity Show. Get along and help raise much-needed funds for the Kenyan school.
Ambient/experimental rock quintent from Brisbane, Harlequin. will be embarking on their first interstate tour in support of the release of their debut EP, Univers Parallèle. They’ll be stopping by Reverence Hotel, 6 Sep.
FAR FROM SEDATE Billy Idol, Steve Jones and Duff McKagan’s version of I Wanna Be Sedated at the 10th Anniversary Johnny Ramone Tribute in Los Angeles absolutely ruled! Check it out for yourselves on YouTube.
CROWN JEWELS Just Google: “Disney Dudes’ Dicks: What Your Favourite Princes Look Like Naked” – you know you wanna.
NOT ALL WHITE
BACKLASH ETERNALLY GRATEFUL Begone, 30 Days Of Gratitude Facebook posts. Please be grateful internally.
LET THEM EAT CAKE Deep fried tequila shots are a real thing and apparently you can interchange with any type of alcohol. What’s wrong with just drinking it? It’s already fattening in shot form.
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TO THE HEART
BURNING LOVE
THIRD TIME LUCKY
Up-and-coming indie-folkers Zoe Ryan & The Dandy Lion are set to embark on their firstever national tour, in celebration of their crowdfunded debut EP Our Patchwork Hearts, stopping by Bar 303, 4 Oct.
Drawing inspiration from the ‘60s, classic rock’n’roll from the ‘70s and elements of country, Sydney’s Burn Antares are an endearing advocate of pop and melody. The five-piece play The Old Bar, 4 Sep and Alia Art House, 6 Sep.
Brisbane-born rockers Diva Demolition must be really into The Espy, as they are gracing the Front Bar stage with their presence for the third time in less than a year on 5 Sep. Go give it up for the ladies.
HOP TO IT
SELL YOUR SOUL
SPRING CLEANING
On 5 Sep, Laundry Bar is bringing back Next Crop: a splendid showcase of offbeat indie-hip hop from local Victorian artists. A few of the talented performers include Kn!ght, Minicoop, Von Voddy and Justified.
Shebeen is bringing back SoulA-Go-Go, a funk and soul event, on 6 Sep, presented by the good folk at PBS 106.7FM. The compilation of groovy tunes on offer will feature the likes of DJ Manchild, Miss Goldie and Vince Peach.
Wesley Anne and Taste Of Indie Collective will host an intimate night of acoustic tunes served up by Bad Hobbits, JMS Harrison and Kat O (Kill TV) on 3 Sep. With free entry and music beginning from 8pm, it’ll help ease you into spring.
SWEET ON YOU
HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS
WASTED YOUTH
“Harmonious and honest” is an apt description for duo Sweet Jean, who earlier this year toured nationally with Kate Miller-Heidke. The pair are set to release their mini-album Greetings From Goodbye on 7 Sep at The Workers Club.
Have/Hold will be playing The Old Bar on 5 Sep as part of a national tour promoting their debut EP, Calm Your Blood. Get there at 8pm and also catch support from Sleep Decade, Kissing Booth and Employment.
Recorded in their basement, the second EP from The Infants, Low Rumble, is an immersive psych/garage/punk record. It’ll be launched 6 Sep at The Gasometer Hotel, with help from Contrast and Gold Class.
MORE THAN JUST A STUDY
EVERYBODY DANCE
KEEP SWIMMING
If you like to get down and boogie, Karate Boogaloo’s 5 Sep show at Catfish is most definitely for you. The quartet will be tearing up the D-floor with a special Wimbledon-themed set.
Kiwi-bred noise-punk icons Die! Die! Die! have announced their impending return to Australia in support of SWIM. Their tour will stop by on 4 Sep at Karova Lounge and 5 Sep at Ding Dong Lounge.
Fledgling management and promotion group Bluesology Promotions will be taking over Newport Bowls Club on 6 Sep for their launch party. Ross Hannaford headlines.
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opinion HOWZAT! LOCAL MUSIC BY JEFF JENKINS FACING NORTH The last time Howzat! saw Sydney’s Caitlin Harnett, she was doing a gig at the City Library. “I like playing at libraries,” she said, “because it’s quiet, everyone is listening.” Of course, a library is an unusual setting for a show. “I feel there should be hecklers,” Caitlin smiles, “people saying, ‘Shhh, be quiet!’” Caitlin also enjoys doing house concerts. “It’s like therapy – I talk about my problems and play sad songs.” Caitlin returns to Melbourne this week, to do a “conventional” gig, at Retreat Hotel in Brunswick on Wednesday (3 Sep). She is preparing to release her debut album, The River Runs North, which she recorded in Canada with Dave Draves, who produced Kathleen Edwards’ debut album, Failer. Kathleen hasn’t been making much music in the past couple of years, but she guests on the album, appearing on the song
Bad Man. “Kathleen was initially just going to play fiddle, but then she asked, ‘Can I sing on this?’ I was like, ‘Oh my god, of course you can!’” Caitlin is at the forefront of a new folk movement, with her best friend, Melody Pool, and Mia Wray. She sounds like a beautiful mix of Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne (“my most favourite musician in the whole world”). Caitlin sings sad songs and tells funny stories. “I have a phobia,” she revealed at her library show. “I break a string and it pokes my eye out. I dream about it.” Caitlin is still in her early 20s, but she grew up with the classics. “I take after my father,” she sings in Wandering Man, “with his musical soul.” Caitlin’s dad, Greg, is a massive music fan, while her mum, Kim, was the first person to dance with Bruce Springsteen in Australia – Bruce picked her out of the crowd when he did Dancing In The Dark at his first Australian show at Sydney Entertainment Centre in
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1985. Caitlin had her own Bruce moment this year, grabbing The Boss’ bum when he ran through the crowd in Sydney. “It is very firm,” she reports. Caitlin loved Canada so much, she is hoping to move there. But first she has been invited to showcase at CMJ in New York, before coming home to release The River Runs North in November. FRIGHT NIGHT Great review for Stephen Cummings’ new album, Nothing To Be Frightened Of, in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail. Noel Mengel calls the record “as spare and crisp as a Hemingway paragraph… the title tune is a meditation on the artist’s life,
where he wonders ‘How many times has the light gone out?’ Not dark yet at the Cummings house, I am pleased to report.” Stephen launches the album at Caravan Music Club on 5 Sep. HIP HIP Happy Birthday to Bob Spencer, who’s 57 on 5 Sep. Bob was the guitarist in not one but two great bands – Skyhooks and The Angels. HOT LINE “Oh, honey, your love’s like a freeway/You’re keeping me up all night” – Caitlin Harnett, Big Old Love.
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opinion OG FLAVAS
ADAMANTIUM WOLF
WAKE THE DEAD
URBAN AND R&B NEWS WITH CYCLONE
METAL, HARDCORE AND PUNK WITH LOCHLAN WATT
PUNK AND HARDCORE WITH SARAH PETCHELL
The urban music scene is high turnover – and reinventions are precarious. That OG Ice Cube recently aired a tragic EDM banger, Drop Girl, with Redfoo. But Brit trip hop pioneer Tricky (aka Adrian Thaws) has had it made easier for him, his 1995’s debut Maxinquaye the urtext for today’s experimental hip hop and R&B. Indeed, his influence pervades Drake’s emo hop – trip hop being more about the psyche than the street – and subliminal alt-soul (The Weeknd, FKA Twigs, Banks). And, going by Tricky’s new album Adrian Thaws, he’s aware. Thaws has cut his premiere (electro-)house track, the spellbinding Nicotine Love, co-featuring current musecum-companion Francesca Belmonte. The Bristolian is touting Adrian Thaws as his “club/hip hop album” – and it’s a producer’s LP – but that doesn’t mean obviousness. He’s too transgressive for such crass manoeuvres as ‘bangers’. Thaws’ lurking presence, and that trademark murkiness, remains. Thaws had Martina TopleyBird cover Public Enemy’s Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos for Maxinquaye – very post-feminist. However, his first major hip hop foray was 1999’s Juxtapose – actually a critique of gangsta rap posturing. Here, UK grime femcee Bella Gotti (FKA No Lay) emblazons two hardcore hip hop joints – notably the excellent Gangster Chronicles. She upstages rad drag rapper Mykki Blanco, appearing elsewhere. By contrast, Belmonte’s Something In The Way is illwave soul – spacey, ambient and minimal. Thaws really is like Doctor Who with his many regenerations. @therealcyclone
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Don’t miss Protest The Hero when they bring their delicious shredfest to Australia this week. A Canadian band who effortlessly combine a classic melodic sensibility with more dissonant and technical modern ideas, their fourth album Volition was released in 2013 following a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign that saw them raise over $125,000. They play this Saturday (6 Sep) at The Hi-Fi with local supports Empire and Sentinel. Conan will tour Australia for the first time this month. The English sludge metal trio released their crushing Blood Eagle album earlier this year and have Sydney-based supporting act Yanomamo to thank for the honour of bringing them Down Under. You can catch them on 11 Sep at a secret gig with Caged Grave, Cement Pig and Horsehunter, 12 Sep at The Old Bar with Broozer and Bodies, and again on 13 Sep at The Tote with Clagg, Agonhymn, Horsehunter and Watchtower. Maybeshewill is a British post-rock band that is touring Australia for the first time with Sydney’s Solkyri in support. Watch the walls of Northcote Social Club shake on 30 Sep. UK deathcore group Martyr Defiled will make their Australian debut in support of their No Hope No Morality album alongside Melbourne’s Boris The Blade in October, the pair having previously toured Europe together earlier in the year. Sydney’s Elegist and Adelaide’s I Exalt will also be along for the ride. This brutal juggernaut of a line-up hits Melbourne on 4 Oct at Reverence Hotel, and again on 5 Oct at Wrangler Studios. Windhand from the USA and Beastwars from New Zealand
will headline this year’s touring Doomsday Festival. Full line-ups for 4 Oct at Yah Yah’s and 5 Oct at The Tote are expected shortly. Californian punks Dwarves will be gracing Australian shores again thanks to The Drunk Promoter. The prolific group, known for engaging in sex and drugs onstage, released their latest in a long string of albums earlier this year, entitled The Dwarves Invented Rock ‘n Roll. You can see them alongside Blood Duster, Wolfpack and K-Mart Warriors on 17 Oct at Evelyn Hotel. Legendary prog masterminds Dream Theater will hit Australia for two shows only, one of which will take place at Palais Theatre on 29 Oct. NZ band Meth Drinker are coming over to do a tour with like-minded local sludge lords Whitehorse in November. See them in town on 7 & 8 Nov (venues TBC at the time of writing). Ne Obliviscaris’ crowdfunding campaign has come to a close, the Melbourne band pulling in over $80,000 for their world tour project. The band’s second album Citadel is scheduled for release on 7 Nov through Season Of Mist Records and the group will headline a tour – also featuring Canadian progressive death metal group Beyond Creation – in support. Catch them at 170 Russell on 21 Nov before Soundwave in 2015. Sleep have announced shows surrounding their set at Meredith Music Festival in December, and you can now also catch the US sludge/doom metal band on 6 Dec at Corner Hotel. And no promises, but here’s two tours I’ve heard may be happening before the year’s end: Swedish metal legends In Flames and American grindcore upstarts Full Of Hell.
There are two things I love in this world – music and baseball. And when the two join forces, the result is often magical. As such, I bring to your attention Puig Destroyer – a baseballthemed grindcore band. A group of LA Dodgers fans decided to create music in dedication of their favourite team, using the name of Cuban outfielder Yasiel Puig, to create a puntastic band name (Puig Destroyer, Pig Destroyer… get it?). Having been active for about a year, the band dropped two EPs last year. The first was a self-titled offering released almost entirely dedicated to the player the band is named after and his various idiosyncrasies. The second is the aptly titled Wait For Spring, which was released in November, after the 2013 season finished up. Incidentally, my beloved Red Sox took out that year’s World Series. The thing I like the most about Puig Destroyer is that they prove that hardcore and punk, in whatever form, doesn’t have to be serious. According to interviews, the band is basically based around a joke taken too far, in the best way possible. I’m all for bands having a political agenda, but that agenda can be something as frivolous as getting an outfielder with a ridiculous batting average (and a just as ridiculous strike-out rate) to stop bunting, as on the track Stop Fucking Bunting, then I’m all for that as well. Lastly, did I mention that the drummer is Riley Breckenridge, formerly of Thrice? Keep an eye out for the band’s self-titled, debut album which drops 30 Sep, the same day the MLB playoffs start. wakethedead@themusic.com.au
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opinion THE GET DOWN
TRAILER TRASH
BUSINESS MUSIC
FUNKY SHIT WITH OBLIVEUS
DIVES INTO YOUR SCREENS AND IDIOT BOXES WITH GUY DAVIS
WHEN YOUR CLUB NEEDS A BOSS WITH PAZ
JIMMY CASTOR
Roll up the tight pants because we’re going deep nu-disco this month. “Funkier than milk left out for a week,” is the best way to describe anything Purple Disco Machine touches, but add in a drop of Teenage Mutants on their Jimmy Castorsampled The Path and you got yourself one helluva funky, deep party jam. I found this on Beatport a while back and it’s become a staple for all the mini-skirts; a no-brainer for the sex-inclined, really. As well, anyone that’s anyone knows just how much the Bunny Tiger label owns nu-disco house. Two recent remixes from the label will slay the enhanced and/ or inebriated equally. Get on the Tapesh Remix of Hum Hum from LouLou Players & Sharem Jey simply for the fact that it builds, keeps building and when it finally gets to the climax you’ll have made a mess of the joint and yourself. Equally impressive is the Kolombo Remix of the latest offering from Booka Shade, Crossing Borders. If hand claps, bad hair, synths and sick beats are your cup of tea, and you lost your copy of A Flock Of Seagulls’ Greatest Hits, then I suggest you buy this. Also needing a mention is the latest funk monster from The Beatangers and their electronic nugget of minimal stomp, Nigga Who. I won’t even go into the sexism on offer with this one, so just respect the boogie emanating from every orifice that this jam brings and I’m outta here.
One of my favourite online pastimes would have to be ‘celebrity career rehab’, a little discussion that will see wholly unqualified but thoroughly caring individuals offering unsolicited advice to movie stars, filmmakers and other showbiz types who may have made a few false moves in the professional sense. It takes an absurd amount of presumption on the part of nerds such as myself that we think our words of wisdom might actually steer, say, Ben Affleck back towards the A-list (yep, I was doing this shit when Affleck was out in the wilderness... We’re talking the bad old days, the Bennifer days) or convince David Fincher that an adaptation of this novel or that comic book was truly the wisest course of action. And, yes, it’s silly and it’s pointless but it’s also good fun. But even if one doesn’t partake in such hobbies, watching a celeb going about the tricky task of career maintenance can be fascinating, almost as fascinating as the work they put into their actual artistic endeavours. Take one of the most high profile showbiz comebacks of recent times, that of Matthew McConaughey. It was interesting watching the trajectory of the actor’s career since he was anointed the ‘next big thing’ back in the late ‘90s. Seriously, walk past a newsstand and the dude was on half the magazine covers you’d see. And for a while there, he played the game wisely, working with the likes of Spielberg on prestige productions while trying to ensure he was enough of an attraction to audiences to stay viable. It’s a tightrope every halfway-successful celebrity has to walk at some stage or another.
What’s interesting about the McConaissance, as the actor’s second act has been dubbed, is that it has sprung from the actor pretty much doing whatever he wanted. (Of course, having a few fat stacks of fuck you cash from appearing in the soul-tarnishing likes of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days probably gave him a little latitude; he could afford to take a punt on cooler indie projects that didn’t offer big paydays.) Joining Jeff Nichols’ Mud or taking a lead in HBO’s True Detective look like good calls in hindsight, but they could have vanished into obscurity or crashed and burned spectacularly. Of course, McConaughey can now write his own ticket – he’s got the lead in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Interstellar, a role you just know every eligible man in Hollywood was pursuing, and he’s apparently being courted for a number of high profile pictures, including the long-incubating big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s apocalyptic The Stand. (He’d make a mighty Randall Flagg, if you’re asking me.) So what can we learn from people like McConaughey or Clooney or Bullock? It’s all well and good to back yourself and do as you please, but you have to have a little bit of luck as well. Taylor Kitsch is a guy who springs to mind – hot off Friday Night Lights, his first three big-screen starring roles seemed like wise choices on paper. Looking at them now, John Carter, Battleship and Savages come across as the worst decisions in the history of bad decisions. And now the rebuilding process begins, but it’s usually when someone is feeling a bit humbled that they are able to find a bit of wisdom.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY IN TRUE DETECTIVE
P-MONEY
TECHNO MONEY New Zealand is increasing their hold on the DJ technology market with leading DJ and producer P-Money and the expansion pack he has been working on with the Serato team and their software department. This week he uploaded a fivesecond video to his Instagram and instigated the tag #seratoflip. Of course the brief tutorial by P-Money makes it all look simple, but for most DJs using the Serato DJ platform you can pick up the cue style format with a few brief tutorials. The biggest case for the use of flip is its ability to record the cue point “actions” in offline mode, so you can assign new intros, breakdowns, extensions and edits and the information is stored within the file format. It’s versatile with midi mapping and gives DJs the chance to add an individual touch to the new banger. It will give your midi controller a workout, but you will use your Ableton a little less. P-Money is using it for his tour performances as well as beat mapping pre-production. Released in September via the Serato Online store. FATDROPLETS Just when you thought it might be dead, the famous FATdrop promo tool has had a huge revamp and its platform seems to be closer to a Beatport/ Bandcamp/SoundCloud format. For its age, FATdrop is still the foremost online distribution source for labels to pre-release new packages. I am subscribed to a few labels, but now as an “artist” I can promo my own material without a label. This will pique a lot of interest from people. THE MUSIC • 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014 • 43
the guide vic.gigguide@themusic.com.au The Boys: Wesley Anne (Front Bar), Northcote
THE MUSIC PRESENTS Woodlock: 27 Sep Northcote Social Club
Radio Birdman: 2, 3 Nov Corner Hotel
Courtney Barnett: 4 Oct Corner Hotel
Gossling: 6 Nov Corner Hotel
Caravãna Sun: 4 Oct Sooki Lounge Ball Park Music: 4 Oct, Forum Theatre; 8 Karova Lounge Ballarat; 11 Wool Exchange Geelong
Dead City Ruins + Electrik Dynamite + Peeling Sun: Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy
Gorguts: 14 Nov Northcote Social Club
Clive J Mann: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
CW Stoneking: 15 Nov Forum Theatre Face The Music: 14 & 15 Nov Arts Centre
DMA’s: 11 Oct Northcote Social Club
Jack Carty: 4 Dec Howler
The Meanies: 24 Oct The Hi-Fi Missy Higgins: 29 Oct Regent Theatre
Adam Brand + Guests: West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul
Pierce Brothers: 7 Nov Corner Hotel
Bluejuice: 10, 11 Oct The Hi-Fi
Kingswood: 17 Oct Karova Lounge Ballarat
One Week In Paradise feat. Geraldine Hickey: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote
The War On Drugs: 11 Dec The Hi-Fi Chronixx: 11 Dec The Espy Thy Art Is Murder: 13 Dec The Hi-Fi; 14 Community Centre Ringwood
GIG OF THE WEEK THE ASTON SHUFFLE: 4, 5 SEP CORNER HOTEL Trivia: Victoria Hotel, Brunswick Simply Acoustic feat. JMS Harrison + Kat Orgovany + Bad Hobbits: Wesley Anne, Northcote
THU 04
Lucky Thursdays + Various DJs: 170 Russell, Melbourne Kickin The B at 303 feat. Moody & Sons: 303, Northcote Pierce Brothers: Baha Tacos, Rye
WED 03
The Gooses + more: Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood
Julien Wilson ‘B For Chicken’ Quartet: 303, Northcote
Kingswood + My Echo: Kooroora Hotel, Mt Buller
Trivia: Baha Tacos, Rye
Jaspora + Travis Addison + Everseer + more: Laundry Bar, Fitzroy
The Hussy + Ross De Chene Hurricane + School Damage: Bar Open, Fitzroy Trivia: Bayswater Hotel, Bayswater Melbourne Folk Club feat. Abby Dobson + Brendan Welch + The Furbelows: Bella Union, Carlton South
Trivia: Cornish Arms, Brunswick
Rebecca & Billy’s Singalong Society: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh
The Acoustic Sessions feat. Nussy + more: Revolver Upstairs, Prahran
Smoke Stack Rhino + Jesse Valach & Blues Mountain Trio + Dirt River Radio: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Wait Long by the River + Al Parkinson: Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill
Melbourne Ukulele Kollective: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (6pm), Brunswick Mrs Smith’s Trivia: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (8pm), Brunswick Adam Brand + Guests: Esso BHP Billiton Wellington Entertainment Centre, Sale Shady Lane feat. Sleepy Dreamers + Seven Year Itch + Young Vincent: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy Mellow-Dias-Thump with Cazeaux Oslo + Geezy: Ferdydurke, Melbourne ABC Exhumed Showcase + Various Artists: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick
The Sweethearts: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Kasey Chambers + Guests: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Brad Martin Project + Guests: Penny Black, Brunswick
Dizzy’s Big Band + Peter Hearne + Celeste Coulson: Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond
The Burning Roaches + Claws & Organs + Kill Dirty Youth + A Basket Of Mammoths: Boney, Melbourne
The Aston Shuffle + Just A Gent + Dom Dolla + Strangeways: Corner Hotel, Richmond
MVP - Hip Hop Party with Rob Steezy + DJ Thaddeus Doe + Stephelles + LowKey: Boney, Melbourne
The Dandy Warhols + The Upsidedown + The New Pollution: Corner Hotel, Richmond
Steel Birds + The Black Harrys + Mark With The Sea: Bar Open, Fitzroy
The Hammond Organ Nights + Various Artists: Musicland, Fawkner
The Coogans: P.J. O’Brien’s, Southbank
Caitlin Harnett + Ben Whiting: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Alex Pertout + Nilusha Dassenaike: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Open Decks Vinyl Party + Various DJs: Tago Mago, Thornbury Open Mic Night + Various Artists: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick Wine, Whiskey, Women feat. Ali E + Ladie Dee: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne Collage + Various Artists: The Espy, St Kilda The Basics + Sugar Fed Leopards: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood Poison Fish + Master Beta + Plastic Spaceman: The Old Bar, Fitzroy Public Bar Comedy + Various Artists: The Public Bar, North Melbourne Trivia: The Sporting Club, Brunswick Spiral Arm + Dear Plastic + Reika: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
FRI 05
One Day: 170 Russell, Melbourne
ISM Trio: Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond EC Cocktail Hour with + DJ Ferg: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick Amber Isles + Scotty Candlish + Monique Shelford: Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood Harmony James + Luke O’Shea + Pete Denahy: Hallam Hotel, Hallam Die! Die! Die!: Karova Lounge, Ballarat Lot 56: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East A Somewhat French Fantasy + Trio Anima Mundi: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank The Diary of Anne Frank + Ensemble Liaison: Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank Department + Motel Love + Loobs: Northcote Social Club, Northcote Finder Keeper: P.J. O’Brien’s, Southbank Morning Melodies + Alex Mathews: Pascoe Vale Hotel, Pascoe Vale The Rebirth Of Cool + Mr Lob + Guests: Penny Black, Brunswick Rave of Thrones with Kristian Nairn (Hodor): Prince Bandroom, St Kilda Thursday Night Live + Various Artists: Prince Bandroom (Public Bar), St Kilda Vowel Movement + Dream In Colour Kids + Peter Bibby: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Tommy Dassalo + Rose Callaghan + Matt Stewart + Kate Dehnert + Adam Knox + more: Reverence Hotel (Front Bar), Footscray
Kings Cup + Break The Wall + A Commoner Revolts + Parma Sutra + Byrdcliffe: 303, Northcote
Plugged In Thursdays with Sunborne + Special Guests: Revolver Upstairs, Prahran
Phil Para Band: Baha Tacos, Rye
Clap Clap Riot + Five Mile Town: Shebeen Bandroom, Melbourne Ideal World: Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill The Kite String Tangle + Flamingo + Lucian Blomkamp: Star Bar, Bendigo Kingswood + My Echo: Swindlers Valley Ski Lodge, Mt Hotham Right!: Tago Mago, Thornbury Midnight Shifter + Dojo Collectors + Offspring of Convicts + Click: The Bendigo, Collingwood The Astros: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Strings For Belts + Blood Orange + Tex Natives + Cosmos: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
Vance Joy + Fractures: Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne Icehouse + Special Guests: Ballarat Regent Multiplex, North Ballarat Funk Buddies + The Fabric: Bar Open, Fitzroy Cat Canteri: Basement Discs (In-Store / 12.45pm), Melbourne Damien Leith: Bennetts Lane, Melbourne KLO + Silent Jay + Electric Sea Spider + Rat & Co DJs: Boney, Melbourne Strawberry Fields Launch Party feat. Robert Babicz + Tommy Four Seven + Child + Muska + Kris Baha + Jacob Malmo + Brad Daniels + Audixx + Andy Ouch: Brown Alley, Melbourne Stephen Cummings: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh Spencer P Jones: Cherry Bar (5pm), Melbourne
John Montesante Quintet + Sarah Maclaine: The Commune, East Melbourne
King Evil + John McKenzie + Gang Darts + Blackwood Jack: Cherry Bar (8pm), Melbourne
Open Mic Night + Various Artists: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne
Next feat. Jack The Stripper + Your World In Ruins + Drive Time Commute: Colonial Hotel, Melbourne
Little Desert + Stella Angelico: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood Morning Melodies + Rocking Rick Charles: The Middle Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully Burn Antares + The Strange + Rolloways: The Old Bar, Fitzroy Damon Smith: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg Jackson Briggs: The Public Bar, North Melbourne Dan Parsons: The Sporting Club, Brunswick Madup Chol + The Putbacks + Karate Boogaloo: The Toff In Town, Melbourne Sunxiety + Medicine Money + Egypt Lies: The Tote (Upstairs), Collingwood Servo: The Tote (Band Room), Collingwood Once Were Wild + Huntly + Jester + Balter Vada: The Workers Club, Fitzroy Anna’s Go-Go Academy: Victoria Hotel, Brunswick
Sammy J & Randy: Comic’s Lounge, North Melbourne The Aston Shuffle + Just A Gent + Dom Dolla + Strangeways: Corner Hotel, Richmond Die! Die! Die!: Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne The Cairo Club Orchestra: Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond Ben Salter: Eastern Station Hotel, Ballarat Barney + David Cosma: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick Madre Monte + Oz Locos: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy Calypso of House + Johan Elgstrom + Nick Rogers + Paul Jager: Ferdydurke, Melbourne Soul Sacrifice - A Tribute To Santana: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick Snake Eyed Rollers: Forester’s Hall, Collingwood Jimmy The Saint & The Sinners: Grace Darling Hotel (Basement), Collingwood
Absolutely 80s feat. Brian Mannix + Dale Ryder + Scott Carne: Wellers, Kangaroo Ground
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the guide vic.gigguide@themusic.com.au Raising funds for the Chepinoiyo Building Project + Grace Knight: Healesville High School, Healesville
Agent 37 + All We Need + Joe Guiton & The Suicide Tuesdays + Hopes Abandoned: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
King of the North + Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene + The Cherry Dolls + AC/DShe + Phil Para: The Espy, St Kilda
Pacific Blues Union: Hotel Shamrock (Gold Dust Lounge), Bendigo
Ausmuteants + Exhaustion + Young Liberals: The Curtin, Carlton
The Kite String Tangle + Flamingo + Lucian Blomkamp: Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Traditional Irish Music Session with Dan Bourke & Friends: The Drunken Poet (6pm), Melbourne
Kings & Queens feat. Syre & Fresko + Sweet As Taylor + Tabula Rasa + Red Door + Lung + more: The Espy (Gershwin Room), St Kilda
Next Crop - Indie Hip Hop Showcase feat. Kn!ght + Mini Coop + Von Voddy + Justified + more: Laundry Bar, Fitzroy
Julian Bryne + Greg Dodd: The Drunken Poet (8.30pm), Melbourne
Paulie Bignell & The Thornbury Two: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East Hotel Wrecking City Traders + River of Snakes + The Underhanded: Lord Newry Hotel, Fitzroy North The Melting Pot Part II: The Occident + Adam Simmons + Alessandra Garosi: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank Various Artists: Morwell Hotel (Sports Bar), Morwell 4Tress + Sarah Eida: Mt Dandenong Hotel, Olinda Einsteins Toyboys + All About Steve: Musicland (Main Stage), Fawkner The Timbers: Nelson Hotel, Nelson Movement + Guests: Northcote Social Club, Northcote Hey Charger + The Bad Penguins: P.J. O’Brien’s, Southbank Boy & Bear + Holy Holy: Palais Theatre, St Kilda Brooklyn’s Finest + Featherstone: Penny Black (Main Bar), Brunswick Dangerous Dan: Prince Bandroom (Public Bar), St Kilda Boyce Avenue: Princess Theatre, Melbourne La Danse Macabre with Brunswick Massive: Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy The Magic Bones + Littlefoot: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Unsoundbuoy + Skaaki + Yaw Mulatto + Zare Damus + more: Reverence Hotel (Band Room), Footscray The Sugarcanes: Reverence Hotel (Front Bar), Footscray Bear The Mammoth + Magenta Voyeur + Kettlespider: Revolver Upstairs, Prahran Coach Bombay + The Twoks + Halcyon Drive: Shebeen Bandroom, Melbourne Legends Showcase: Skyways Hotel, Airport West Jjoobbee: Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill The Submarines + The Braves + The Night Party: Tago Mago, Thornbury SiB: The B.East, Brunswick East Terror At The Bendigo + The Tearaways + The Workinghorse Irons + Dirty Harriet & the Hangmen + The Koffin Rockers: The Bendigo, Collingwood Wil Wagner + Georgia Maq + Morning After Morning: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine
Diva Demolition: The Espy (Front Bar), St Kilda Alarum + Vanishing Point + Aeon Of Horus + Orchestrating The Damned: The Espy (Gershwin Room), St Kilda Golden Greats + Johnny Cash - The Concert: The Forge Theatre, Bairnsdale Ainslie Wills + Private Life + Human Face: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood Cheap Sober + Alex Jones + Gutz + DJ Nath + Aerows: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Various Artists: The Irish Times, Melbourne Noce Latina feat. Dany Maia + Rosa Bela Band + DJ David Brazuka: The Luwow, Fitzroy Have/Hold + Sleep Decade + Kissing Booth + Employment: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Wakefield Acoustic Festival feat. Journey Man + Andy Ronquillo + Road Train + 2 Birds + more: The Espy (Basement), St Kilda
POP WILL EAT ITSELF: 7 SEP THE HI-FI Various: YoYo, Melbourne
SAT 06
Capital Club + Various DJs: 170 Russell, Melbourne Vicious Cycle + Southpaw + Aggressor + Overpower + Lion Fight + Crooked Path: 303, Northcote Burn Antares + Pretty City + Rolloways: Alia Art House, Collingwood Cisco Ceasar: Baha Tacos, Rye Lady Oscar + Karate Boogaloo + Arlo Sikora: Bar Open, Fitzroy Club Twok with The Twoks: Bella Union, Carlton South
Duke Batavia: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg
Damien Leith: Bennetts Lane, Melbourne
Iron Tys + West Gate Keepers + JP + Mic Addicts + Wouldz + Dizturb + Pulse One + Various DJs: The Public Bar, North Melbourne
Better Than The Wizards + The Timbers + Jehan: Boney, Melbourne The Slaughtermen: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh
DJ Mister Coole: The Sporting Club, Brunswick
The Mercy Kills + Palace Of The King + The Love Bombs: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
The Pink Tiles + Sugar Fed Leopards + Plague Doctor + The SMB: The Tote (Band Room), Collingwood The Reprobettes + Beware! Black Holes + DJ Man Trout: The Tote (Upstairs), Collingwood Cam Avery + Shiny Joe Ryan: The Workers Club, Fitzroy Big 60s-70s Soul Dance Show + Grand Wazoo: Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury Wilding + SEE + DJ Wilfred Danger: Victoria Hotel, Brunswick Rubber Soul: Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave Broni: Wesley Anne, Northcote Songwriters In The Round + Lisa Crawley + Luke Watt + Tracey Hogue + John Flanagan + Mary Webb + Robot Child: Wesley Anne, Northcote Taste Of Indie Collective feat. Man City Sirens + Acoustic Foxx + Ashbury Medicine Show: Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East Chris Wilson: Yah Yah’s (5.30pm), Fitzroy Freedom + Buddha In A Chocolate Box + Flour: Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy Summon The Birds: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford Adam Brand + Guests: York on Lilydale, Mt Evelyn
David Jones + The Light Trio: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank Rock In Fusion: Musicland, Fawkner Wil Wagner + Georgia Maq + Jim Lawrie + Jerome Knappett: Northcote Social Club, Northcote Sexual Chocolate: P.J. O’Brien’s, Southbank The Inferno’s: Penny Black (Main Room), Brunswick Red Ink: Pier Live (Flanagans), Frankston The Funk is Downstairs + DJ Manchild: Prince Bandroom (Public Bar), St Kilda The Publican Band: Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood + Cold Heart: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Harlequin + The Princetons + Cat Or Pillar + Slowjaxx & the Kozmic Love Orkestra: Reverence Hotel (Front Bar ), Footscray
The Infants + Contrast + Gold Class: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood Protest The Hero + Special Guests: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Various Artists: The Irish Times, Melbourne The Ace of Clubs feat. The Breadmakers + Barbara Blaze + DJ Jumpin’ Josh + The Gogo Goddesses: The Luwow, Fitzroy Sounds Like Sunset + The Electric Guitars + Tender Bones + Leo Mullins: The Old Bar, Fitzroy Afternoon Delights feat. Sean Kirkwood + Zoe Fox: The Old Bar (2pm), Fitzroy Mortification + Kilamaine + Little House Godz: The Public Bar, North Melbourne DJ Chips: The Sporting Club, Brunswick Acoustic & Reimagined with Dead Letter Circus + Jordan Leser: The Toff In Town, Melbourne Dick Diver + Moon Ritual + Guy & Marcus Blackman Experimentation Project: The Tote (Band Room), Collingwood
Kaylens Rain + Victoria Avenue + Tasha Amoroso: Revolver Upstairs, Prahran
Breve + Magenta Voyeur + The Backs: The Tote (Upstairs), Collingwood
Rubber Soul: Sandbelt Hotel, Moorabbin
Hoy + The Dames + Emily Jarrett: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Soul A-Go-Go feat. Vince Peach + Miss Goldie + DJ Manchild + Richie 1250 + Chelsea Wilson + more: Shebeen Bandroom, Melbourne
Maheeda: Thornbury Theatre (Ballroom), Thornbury
Burnt Letters + Kate Bart: Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill
Bass Straits - Dire Straits Show: Upwey-Belgrave RSL, Upwey
Helmet + Helmet Residents: Ferdydurke, Melbourne
Into The Mystic - The Songs of Van Morrison with Joe Creighton: Southern Peninsula Arts Centre, Rosebud
The Moonee Valley Drifters: Victoria Hotel, Brunswick
Paul Wookey & The Zimmermen + The Substitutes: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick
Pheasant Pluckers + Jules Boult & The Redeemers: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick
The Volcaniks: Forester’s Hall, Collingwood
Brockway Lights + Paperclip + Frenzy + Logic Defies Logic: Tago Mago, Thornbury
Sammy J & Randy: Comic’s Lounge, North Melbourne The Kite String Tangle + Flamingo + Lucian Blomkamp: Corner Hotel, Richmond Joe Chindamo Trio: Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond DJ Dozen Matter: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick Neck Deep + State Champs + Sidelines: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
Adam Brand + Guests: Gateway Hotel, Corio The Workshop + Fatti Frances + Superstar + Cold Life + Complimentary Death Glare: Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood Best of the West feat. DJ Simon Sez + DJ Def + DJ Kay-Z: Laundry Bar, Fitzroy Rory Ellis & The Devil’s Right Hand: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East Silhouette + Kaysh + Lexis Laqua + Smack Bass + Andre Le Vogue + DJ Masahito: Loop, Melbourne
Cat Canteri: Tanswells Commercial Hotel, Beechworth Doubleblack + The Murder Rats + The Sleepless: The Bendigo, Collingwood The Darling Downs: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Oscar Buble & The Butterboys + Sheek Stain & The Creep + The Burning Roaches: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick Soul Mate + Billy & The Tbags + Chanel Coquet: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick The Hornets: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne
Songs of Love and War + The Consort of Melbourne: Trinity College Chapel, Parkville
Old Timey Jam Session + Various Artists: Victoria Hotel (5pm), Brunswick A Grain Of Truth: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote Green’s Dairy Angel Ensemble: Wesley Anne (Front Bar), Northcote Tequila Mockingbyrd + The Ugly Kings + The Mighty Kings + Club Crain: Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy Thomas Hugh: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
SUN 07
DevilDriver + Whitechapel: 170 Russell, Melbourne Pregdalia + The Hot 3 + Marcos Villalta + Leo Kavanagh: 303 (3.30pm), Northcote Kate Anastasiou: 303 (7.30pm), Northcote
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the guide vic.gigguide@themusic.com.au Music in the Round - Classical Music Event + Various Artists: Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford
Habits + The Primary + Shit Sex + Special Guests: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
Forte Jam: Open Mic Night with Nicolette Forte & Friends: Prince Bandroom (Public Bar), St Kilda
Kate Lewis + Rochelle & Nathan Fernandez: Bar of Bengal (Kindred Studios) (3pm), Yarraville
Geoffrey Saba: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank
Benny Walker + Ben Whiting: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Monday Night Mass feat. Gentleman + Drug Sweat + Chugga & The Fuckheads + Special Guests: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Never Cheer Before You Know Who’s Winning: Revolver Upstairs, Prahran
The Black Molls: Prince Bandroom (Public Bar), St Kilda
Piano Karaoke: Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill
Farewell Melbourne Party with Nobunny: Bar Open, Fitzroy Fathers Day Show + Various Artists: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh The Kite String Tangle + Flamingo + Lucian Blomkamp: Corner Hotel, Richmond
The Mutual Appreciation Society with Kris Schroeder + Lachlan Bryan: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Trivia: Cornish Arms, Brunswick
Passionate Tongues Poetry hosted by Michael Reynolds: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick
Various Artists: Cornish Arms, Brunswick DJ House & Garden: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick
Monday’s Covered + Various Artists: The Espy, St Kilda
Jungle Bird Music with Dear Ale + Fleur Wilber + Ghost Songs: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
Rock & Pop Culture Trivia with Jess McGuire & George H: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
Luka Lesson + L-FRESH The LION + Amal Kassir + Jahra Rager + Exofrenikos: Howler, Brunswick
You Me At Six + Tonight Alive: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne I Do Like Mondays feat. The Dead Heir + Manta Five + Chores: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
One Day + Joyride + Adit + Raph + Dexter + DJ Sizzle: Howler (Afternoon), Brunswick Wil Wagner: Karova Lounge, Ballarat O’Shea, Denahy & Howard: Lomond Hotel (5.30pm), Brunswick East Ken Maher, Al Wright & Tony Hargreaves: Lomond Hotel (9pm), Brunswick East Elegies and Dances + Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall), Southbank Band Wars - Heat 6 + Various Artists: Musicland, Fawkner EEO: Northcote Social Club, Northcote Pat McKernan: P.J. O’Brien’s (4.30pm), Southbank The Hijacked Penguins: P.J. O’Brien’s (9pm), Southbank Biffy Clyro + Calling All Cars: Palais Theatre, St Kilda The Dukes of Despair: Penny Black (Main Bar / 5pm), Brunswick
KASEY CHAMBERS: 3 SEP NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB
Chris Wilson: Rainbow Hotel (4.m), Fitzroy Tracy McNeil & The Good Life + Lisa Crawley: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Fear Like Us + Josh & Tyler + Maricopa Wells: Reverence Hotel (Front Bar / 3pm), Footscray Bang feat. Secret Headliner + Satellites + Braves + Shallow Grave: Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne
Pushsongs presents: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
TUE 09
The Crazy Mamas: Royal Oak Hotel (4pm), Fitzroy North
JP Shilo + Rosie Westbrook: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg
Alex & The Shy Lashlies: Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill
Miles & Simone + The Grand Magoozi + John Singer: The Public Bar, North Melbourne
Kathleen Mary Lee + Anna Smyrk+ Annan Blix: 303, Northcote
Bluegrass Open Session + Various Artists: The Sporting Club, Brunswick
The Dinner Club feat. The Lagerphones: Boney, Melbourne
The Tiger & Me: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Spencer P Jones + Whitt (Spiderbait) (DJ Set): Tago Mago, Thornbury Kit Convict & Thee Terrible Two + Secret Crackpipe Handshake + Cosmic Kahuna: The Bendigo, Collingwood Ben Salter: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Hartley feat. Trent K + Bad Uncle + Zutroy + Scotty Candlish: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick Alex Burns: The Drunken Poet (6.30pm), Melbourne
Easy Now feat. Agent 86 + Tom Showtime + DJ Maars: Penny Black (Beer Garden), Brunswick
The Tiny Giants + Dayzed + The Dalai Samas: The Public Bar, North Melbourne
Gunn Music Artist Showdown feat. Above Kings + Young Vincent + Roundhouse + India + Genghis Can’t Swim + more: The Espy (Gershwin Room), St Kilda Stand & Deliver + Dale Ryder Band: The Espy (Front Bar), St Kilda Brazilian Jazz with Tamil Rogeon + Doug De Vries + Al Kerr: The Everleigh, Fitzroy Pop Will Eat Itself: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Sunday School feat. Rara + The Shifters + McBain + The Workshop: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Acoustic & Reimagined with Dead Letter Circus + Jordan Leser: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
Greenthief: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Anberlin + The Getaway Plan: Forum Theatre, Melbourne
Sweet Jean + Tobias Hengeveld: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Celtic/Folk Session + Various Artists: Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East
Caveman Production + Various Artists: Wesley Anne, Northcote Letter B: Wesley Anne, Northcote Blind Thrills + Road Train + Barely Supervised: Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy Hogbelly Moreton’s: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
MON 08
Call It In with DJ James Tom + Dylan Michel + Various DJs: Boney (Downstairs), Melbourne Cherry Jam: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Trivia: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Trivia: The B.East, Brunswick East Discovery Night feat. The Gooses + Sunny Side: The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick Trivia: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne Brightside Live Music Showcase + Various Artists: The Espy, St Kilda Mallee Songs: The Gasometer Hotel (Front Bar), Collingwood You Me At Six + Tonight Alive: The Hi-Fi (Under 18’s), Melbourne Miniatures + Leisure Suite + Crepes: The Old Bar, Fitzroy Ella Ruby: The Public Bar, North Melbourne Rita Satch + Maxi + Edd Fisher: The Toff In Town, Melbourne Barb Wire’s Bingo: Victoria Hotel, Brunswick Melbourne Magic Nights + Various Artists: Wesley Anne, Northcote Caroline No: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
Voices In The Attic (Spoken Word / Open Mic) + Various Artists: Ferdydurke, Melbourne
Enviktas: The Tote (Band Room), Collingwood
Ali E: Victoria Hotel, Brunswick
Kanye West + Pusha T: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Genevieve Lacey + James Crabb: Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall), Southbank Telemann in the Limelight + Latitude 37: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank Ears Wide Open 3 - Introducing Mozart’s Gran Partita + Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank Morning Melodies + Brendan Scott: Moreland Hotel, Brunswick Wil Wagner + Georgia Maq + Ali: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Open Mic Night + Various Artists: Cornish Arms, Brunswick
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