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The Night Noodle Markets are back, having kicked off on 14 Nov as part of Good Food Month. The lines for the food stalls may be long, but that’s just a sign of how good the food is. This year, there’ll be stalls from newcomers Kong, Red Spice Road, Charlie Dumpling and Mr Miyagi, plus returning faves Chin Chin, Mamak, Izakaya Den and Longrain and more. It runs until 30 Nov.
Redstich Actor’s Theatre brings us their Australian Premiere of Jumpers For Goalposts, a modern take on the romantic comedy written by young UK playwright Tom Wells. Hoping to invoke a truer portrait of the LGBTQ experience, Wells uses the stories of gay, lesbian and trans football players to present a more accurate picture of contemporary relationships. Premiering 21 Nov at Red Stitch Actors Theatre, St Kilda.
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Feisty MC Tkay Maidza captured our attention with her track Brontosaurus (ft Badcop) waaaaay back, and industry peeps stomped up and down at her BIGSOUND showcases in both 2013 and 2014, so it’s about time you joined the party! Don’t miss your chance to catch the Zimbabwean-born rapper at Can’t Say, 21 Nov. Dinosaur onesie optional.
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TROPFEST NOMINEES, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
AND THE NOMINEES ARE… KING OF MC
MC Kerser has come a long way in recent years. An unlikely hero if ever there was one, the persistent hip-hopper has worked his way up from throwing up demos on YouTube in a marginalised environment to releasing record after record, and as such, has become an icon for resilience and resourcefulness. He’s recently released his fourth full-length effort King, and he’ll be taking it across the country early next year, playing 24 Jan, The Hi-Fi, Melbourne; 25 Jan, The Hi-Fi, Sydney; 31 Jan, The Hi-Fi, Brisbane; and 6 Feb, Metropolis, Fremantle.
The 16 films to make the finals for Tropfest 2014 have been announced, and they’re as eclectic a bunch as ever, featuring everything from runaway brides to chocoholic dentists, disillusioned lottery winners to long-kept family secrets. Covering all genres from thrillers to comedies to documentaries, the world’s largest short film festival will be held in Sydney, with the films premiering live 7 Dec at an event in Centennial Park, and will also be relaying to live sites around Australia as well as being broadcast on SBS 2.
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ANGUS & JULIA STONE
COMING HOME ON A BIG JET PLANE
Aussie darlings Angus & Julia Stone have announced a national tour for Feb 2015 in support of their self-titled third album. The tour sees the duo heading to capital cities and regional areas, performing in Kings Park, Perth, 4 Feb; Riverstage, Brisbane, 13 Feb; Sydney Opera House as part of On the Steps, 20 Feb; and Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne, 27 Feb. Supports in each city will be a combination of London-based Cloud Control, Sydney trio Little May and singer-songwriter Jarryd James. To see the full list of dates head to theMusic.com.au.
ANASTACIA
READY AND REARING
With 30 million albums sold and a string of massive worldwide hits including I’m Outta Love, Paid My Dues, Left Outside Alone and Pieces of A Dream, Anastacia has become a global icon in the world of pop music. Having faced the massive challenge of breast cancer twice in ten years, the resilient singer has bravely come back with recently released new album Resurrection, and she’s finally decided to make her way Down Under for her first ever Australian tour. She’ll be performing 29 Apr, The Star Event Theatre, Sydney; 2 May, Jupiters Theatre, Gold Coast; 7 May, Palais Theatre, Gold Coast; and 10 May, Perth Concert Hall, Perth. More dates from theMusic.com.au.
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Following on from his recent capital city tour January sees the ARIA Award-winning rapper 360 taking his latest album, Utopia, out into Australia’s regional areas for a massive 16-date tour. It all starts 8 Jan at The Factory, Sunshine Coast, followed by dates including 15 Jan at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle; 17 Jan at Waves, Wollongong; 24 Jan at Westernport Hotel, San Remo; and Saturday 24th January – Westernport Hotel, San Remo; and 29 Jan, Prince of Wales, Bunbury. For more dates see theMusic.com.au.
UBER EXCITING
Showcasing the best up-and-coming independent acts from across Australia, UBERfest is on again this summer, bigger than ever. With over 30 bands performing at each show, UBERfest 2015 will arrive at The Flying Cock, Brisbane, 8 Feb; The Bridge Hotel, Sydney, 21 Feb; Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne, 1 Mar; and The Railway Hotel, Fremantle, 29 Mar. The first line-up announcement will be made in December. If you want to apply to be part of UBERfest, hit up facebook.com/uberfestival for more info. Proudly presented by The Music.
METAL INVASION
Their namesake swept all before him, left mountains of dead and laid waste to half the then civilised world. US metalcore merchants Attila hopefully won’t be spilling blood but the venues hosting their forthcoming return Australian tour had better have their foundations reinforced. Attila’s bringing their latest album, Guilty Pleasure, and more to a stage near you, Attila play 8 Apr at The Brightside, Brisbane; 9 Apr at The Lab; 10 Apr at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle; 11 & 12 Apr at Bald Faced Stag; 12 Apr at Belconnen Magpies; 15 Apr at Arrow On Swanston, Melbourne; 16 Apr at Corner Hotel; 18 Apr at Amplifier Bar, Perth; and 19 Apr at YMCA HQ, Perth.
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FRONTLASH COOL YULE
DZ Deathrays record a Christmas carol (Lonely This Christmas). Suddenly we’re a little less Ebenezer Scrooge.
WHITE CHRISTMAS Whether you’ve been good or downright nasty, Third Man Records have a whole swag of merch just BEGGING to wind up under your Christmas tree: thirdmanrecords.com/news/forall-the-good-girls-and-boys.
HITTING THE MARK New Mark Ronson! So Uptown Funk with Bruno Mars is a banger, but also Daffodils, Ronson’s collab with ‘our’ Kevin (Parker, Tame Impala), is incandescent!
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Mascara is supposed to make you look as if you were born with long, luscious lashes, right? Well what’s this clumpy, falsie fashion about, then? Try getting THAT off your pillow after an ill-informed hook-up.
DEEP THROAT Singers, please look after your voices/throats. First Mick Jagger and now Boy George! Culture Club have been forced to cancel 21 dates in the UK and US (their first tour cancellation in 12 years) due to a vocal polyp that may require surgery!
WORD THEFT Is it just us or does one of the geeks on Beauty & The Geek keep quoting Vance Joy lyrics – “[I’m] scared of pretty girls and starting conversations” – without crediting the source?
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THE BUDOS BAND
Written and performed by Tim Crouch, I, Malvolio re-imagines Twelfth Night from Malvolio’s point of view. It comes to Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Theatre from 6 to 11 Jan.
THE OL’ SWITCHEROO
We heard the sad news that Robyn and Royksopp had withdrawn from Falls Festival, but we’ve been given some more than worthy replacements. Australian electronic pop pioneers Empire Of The Sun and synth queen La Roux will be joining the line-up.
IN YOUR LANE
Rustie joins the Laneway Festival sideshow crew as he heads down to Howler, 29 Jan. Also, FKA twigs is performing a sideshow 28 Jan at 170 Russell.
YOOUUU, BABY
The McClymonts are releasing a standalone single featuring a cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You. To celebrate, they play 16 Apr, Hallam Hotel; 17 Apr, Ballarat Regent Multiplex; 18 Apr, Gateway Hotel, Corio.
HEY JOHN
Exciting new talent John Smith has an extremely common name, but an extremely unique voice. Now he’s coming down in support of his Great Lakes record: 7 Jan, Melbourne Folk Club at Bella Union.
BUDDING STARS
Daptone soul group The Budos Band have announced a national tour for February 2015. Channelling the best bits of Afro-beat, soul, funk and rock into huge, hypnotic and cinematic soundscapes, the Brooklyn-based act will play Corner Hotel on 19 Feb and Zoo Twilights on 20 Feb.
SECOND SHOT
Sarah McLachlan’s announced a second and final show 4 Feb, Hamer Hall. Mac Demarco’s announced a second show too, at The Hi-Fi on 3 Feb.
UNBEATABLE BOX
Coming to Australia for WOMADelaide 2015, the world music trio dubbed the Godfathers of Global Bass, Balkan Beat Box have announced they’ll be putting in a couple of sideshows including 12 Mar at Prince Bandroom. Brisbane nine-piece Dubmarine support.
1200 RETURN
It’s been a decade between releases but 1200 Techniques are back and they have a new EP, Time Has Come, due for release January, to prove it. Performing as part of the 25th anniversary of Rubber Records, 17 Dec sees 1200 Techniques and special guests Condensed Milk play Howler.
KENNY BOWS OUT
Having become a man of a certain age, Grammy Award-winning country artist Kenny Rogers has decided he’s winding down the international touring, but not before he bids a fond live in concert farewell to Australia. Rogers performs 30 Jan, Palais Theatre.
YOGA A GOGO
Michael Franti from Spearhead has announced his very own yoga and music festival, Soulshine. It’ll be cropping up at Bluesfest on 6 Apr, as well as headline dates. Spearhead will headline. Joining them at the event will be Soja and Trevor Hall. 2 Apr, Festival Hall.
TRIBED AND TRUE
Drum’n’bass smash hit Tribe is back for a fifth year, bringing a three-level interactive jungle setting to your ears 28 Dec, Brown Alley. Featuring Adapted Records, All City Bass, LMS, and many more.
FIXED IN
Nickelback have announced an Australian for 2015, to showcase their recently released eighth album No Fixed Address. See the Chad and co, Rod Laver Arena, 15 May.
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A new arts hub, Alex Theatre, has launched in St Kilda, on the former site of the George Cinemas. The hub includes two theatres – a 500-seater and a 330-seater – both still able to function as cinemas, plus a ‘black box’ studio/rehearsal space that can also be reconfigured into a 250-seat performance space. Alex Theatre is set to open 1 Feb.
ANTLERS RECITAL
Brooklyn indie rock three-piece Antlers are bringing their affecting tunes to the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall at the Melbourne Recital Centre 14 Feb, supported by Melbourne’s LANKS. The concert will see the trio showcasing their latest and fifth album, Familiars.
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DEL-IGHTFUL
Bianca Del Rio, the winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race Season 6, is bringing her fiercely fabulous show Comedy Special down under from late Feb next year. The show will hit Arts Centre Playhouse, 2 Mar.
SINGLE FURRY ANIMAL
Welshman Gruff Rhys is returning to Australia to play WOMADelaide and introduce his latest solo album, American Interior. He’s playing a couple of headline sideshows including 5 Mar at Northcote Social Club.
TOP OF THE PILE
#1 Dads (Tom Iansek of Big Scary) will be playing the Northcote Social Club on 31 Jan, joined by Tom Snowdon, Ainslie Wills and a full band to bring to life his sophomore album About Face.
BUILT ON SUCCESS
Chet Faker has announced his biggest Australian tour to date, spanning five capital cities this February. Ably supported by local wonder-producer Roland Tings and rising cosmic-funk revivalists GL, see Faker at Palais Theatre, 27 Feb.
TRAINING HARD
Country artist Wayne ‘The Train’ Hancock will be returning here in March for a string of highly anticipated shows. See him when he checks into Ding Dong Lounge, 6 Mar or Caravan Music Club, 7 Mar.
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WHY YOU SHOULDN’T VOTE FOR THE BASICS’ ROCK’N’ROLL PARTY
form a party. We covered it extensively. How embarrassed we all look now after the disgraceful performance of Schroeder. Thrown the first proper question of the panel, Schroeder admitted that having spent “the last three years in Africa” he wasn’t up to date with the current climate. He wasn’t across the historic amendment in the agent of change laws. He hadn’t seen the immense effort that had gone into the return of all ages shows. He admitted he’d never heard of the Live Music Roundtable, set up by the Liberal government as a way for industry stakeholders to speak with the various departments of government to raise and work through the issues. He seemed not to know about any of the hard work Music Victoria and bodies like the National Live Music Office had done to get to this point. Despite receiving grants with The Basics, he didn’t see the need to build up that sector either. (I wonder what his drummer Wally De Backer thinks about that, given that a $10,000 Australia Council grant helped break him, as Gotye, in America.)
People Magazine’s 2011 sexiest man in his 50s, Michael Bolton, is coming Down Under to play all the hits. Palais Theatre, 16 May.
History was made at Face The Music in Melbourne over the weekend – politicians were falling over themselves to throw money at our industry during the annual conference. After decades in the wilderness, popular contemporary music is being recognised for its cultural, economic and social benefits. Both the Victorian Liberal government and opposition Labor party are using it as a key topic in the run up to the forthcoming state election. Labor have pledged $22 million to various music-based initiatives, the Liberals announced a $2 million kitty to implement Music Victoria’s regional touring initiative. The music industry’s move out of the wilderness was most evident at Face The Music, where the Liberal Party’s Minister For Liquor & Gaming Regulation Edward O’Donohue, Labor’s Shadow Arts Minister Martin Foley, Greens party spokesperson Sue Pennicuik and Australian Sex Party leader Fiona Patten took time out of their electioneering cycles to speak on a panel. They were joined by Kris Schroeder, band member of The Basics and leader of the newly-founded The Basics Rock’N’Roll Party. We were excited that The Basics helped push music further onto the political map when they announced their intentions to 14 • THE MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014
New York City experimental rockers Swans, heading our way to play MOFO in Hobart and Sugar Mountain in Melbourne, have announced they’re putting a couple of headline sideshows, including 20 Jan at Corner Hotel.
Schroeder said we needed to stop worrying about the industry and just concern ourselves with the musicians – a point on which he later contradicted himself when he agreed that we should be empowering regional promoters to take chances on Victorian artists. He rubbished Labor’s $10 million plan to create a music hub, calling it a “waste of money” without offering a viable alternative. But it wasn’t just the dangerous nature of his poorly
thought-out statements that should have had the room squirming; it was the manner in which he delivered them. Appearing utterly uninterested in having a mature conversation, he disrespected his fellow panelists by delivering answers irrelevant to the questions posed to him. He came across as more of a question-evading politician than the other four put together. He was our representative up there – and he made us look like children. It’s heartbreaking to see so much good work, a lot of it behind the scenes and vastly underappreciated, being hung out to dry with such nonchalance. Whatever the chip on the shoulder was that day, it’s simply not needed in discussions that will shape the future of our industry and pave the way for generations of upcoming musicians and those around them. Scott Fitzsimons To read the full article head to theMusic.com.au
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ARIA FORM GUIDE This year’s ARIA Awards is a sweet run for breakout artists. Chet Faker’s got the most noms in his maiden ARIA run; Sheppard have been up for a single before but this is their first album run on the board; while Sia is old hat, having been nominated previously in 2009 and 2010. At least she’s not up for the Breakthrough Artist category (no, Chandelier is not the be-all and end-all of Sia, do your research). Meanwhile 5 Seconds Of Summer are young guns making waves, but they might be a little too ‘teen’ for your ARIA voter, and Dan Sultan, well, he’s been around a while so is not new to the joys of ARIA glory. Who’s going to dominate? Chet Faker. Who are we barracking for? Anybody but Chet Faker, because we don’t want anybody to get an easy run – not like Flume last year, and Gotye in 2012. Hannah Story and The Music editorial team took a look at the categories for the 28th annual ARIA awards. Cover pic by Cole Bennetts.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR Chet Faker – Built On Glass, Dan Sultan – Blackbird, Jessica Mauboy – Beautiful, Sheppard – Bombs Away, Sia – 1000 Forms Of Fear
SHEPPARD. NOMINATED FOR SEVEN AWARDS
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Adalita – All Day Venus, Iggy Azalea – The New Classic, Jessica Mauboy – Beautiful, Kasey Chambers – Bittersweet, Sia – 1000 Forms Of Fear Who will win? Sia Who should win? Sia Why? Chambers is a critic’s darling and she’s already won this award three times (if she took it out this year, she’d have won the most Female Artist ARIAs ever). But it’s Sia who’s really been pushing boundaries this year, and who hasn’t won in this category before, probably because she was busy writing pop hits for everyone else. Let her have this one.
Who will win? Chet Faker – Built On Glass Who should win? Chet Faker – Built On Glass Why? We do love seeing debut albums take out Album Of The Year. And let’s be honest about it: Faker’s is the best album-album in this lot. It’s cohesive, emotional, it gets the kids dancing – it’s practically flawless.
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR 5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer, Andy Bull – Sea Of Approval, Chet Faker – Built On Glass, Iggy Azalea – The New Classic, The Kite String Tangle – Vessel EP Who will win? Chet Faker – Built On Glass Who should win? Iggy Azalea – The New Classic Why? It’s sad that Andy Bull is only just “breaking through”; 5 Seconds Of Summer have the best record sales, but not the best sound; The Kite String Tangle is the underdog; and Faker is Faker. Why should Iggy win? Because that girl from Mullumbimby took on the US market and won. 16 • THE MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
100 and the coveted Taylor Swift US tour support slot. And admittedly Riptide was a pretty much perfect song. Meanwhile we think Dan Sultan doesn’t get the credit he deserves after all his years in the biz (although he did take out this category in 2010). Give it to him!
BEST GROUP 5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer, Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars, RÜFÜS – Sundream, Sheppard – Bombs Away, Violent Soho – Saramona Said Who will win? Violent Soho – Saramona Said Who should win? Violent Soho – Saramona Said Why? Sheppard are commercial darlings – even our mums know all the words to Geronimo – but that doesn’t mean they’ve had the year Violent Soho has. Even though Saramona Said is only a single, Violent Soho have cropped up on almost every festival bill and sold out national tours. They deserve it. On the other side of the fence Hilltop Hoods have lost this category twice before and it might just be their year.
BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE OF THE YEAR Chet Faker – Built On Glass, Dan Sultan – Blackbird, Sheppard – Bombs Away, Vance Joy – Mess Is Mine, Violent Soho – Saramona Said Who will win? Chet Faker – Built On Glass Who should win? Chet Faker – Built On Glass
Chet Faker – Built On Glass, Dan Sultan – Blackbird, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul & The Sydney Symphony Orchestra: His Life And Music, Guy Sebastian – Come Home With Me, Vance Joy – Mess Is Mine
Why? Fact: it is the Best Independent Release. Don’t fight facts.
Who will win? Chet Faker – Built On Glass
Who will win? Neil Finn & Paul Kelly
Who should win? Vance Joy – Mess Is Mine or Dan Sultan – Blackbird Why? Vance Joy is our new golden boy, taking out the triple j Hottest
BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM Gossling – Harvest Of Gold, Kate MillerHeidke – O Vertigo!, Neil Finn & Paul Kelly – Goin’ Your Way, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Live From KCRW, Tina Arena – Reset Who should win? Neil Finn & Paul Kelly Why? We did love O Vertigo!; you can’t go past Nick Cave whose live albums are still better than most releases in Adult Contemporary at the moment; Gossling is probably just too young to really fit here; but let’s be honest, if anybody owns Adult Contemporary, it’s Paul Kelly. And it helps to have Neil Finn on board.
BEST POP RELEASE 5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer, Andy Bull – Sea Of Approval, Justice Crew – Que Sera, Sheppard – Bombs Away, Sia – 1000 Forms Of Fear
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Who will win? 5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer Who should win? 5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer Why? Sure Sia crafted a great album and there’s a lot of love in the industry for the powerhouse, Geronimo is catchy, but can we keep it real please? 5 Seconds Of Summer are the Australian pop band right now and there’s no denying it. Pre-teens know what’s up.
CHET FAKER. NOMINATED FOR NINE AWARDS
BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM Harry Hookey – Misdiagnosed, John Butler Trio – Flesh & Blood, Russell Morris – Van Diemen’s Land, The Audreys – ‘Til My Tears Roll Away, The Bamboos – Fever In The Road Who will win? Russell Morris – Van Diemen’s Land Who should win? Russell Morris – Van Diemen’s Land Why? Obviously the sentimental favourite, as he was last year, after almost 60 years on the scene, being largely ignored until last year, it’s finally Morris’ time to shine. That said, both The Audreys and John Butler Trio have made solid records that might just come in from behind to take the prize.
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM Adam Brand – My Side Of The Street, Emma Swift – Emma Swift, Kasey Chambers – Bittersweet, Keith Urban – Fuse, The McClymonts – Here’s To You & I Who will win? Kasey Chambers – Bittersweet Who should win? The McClymonts – Here’s To You & I Why? It’s hard to go past the emotional pull of Chambers’ latest record, and let’s be frank, Chambers releases an album and is pretty much guaranteed a win in this category. But for the diversity of songwriting, the melting pot of sibling experience and mastery of the pop-country goldmine credit has to go to The McClymonts. They’ve one Best Country twice before; if there’s going to be an upset, it’ll be them.
BEST DANCE RELEASE Flume & Chet Faker – Drop The Game, Nicky Night Time – Everybody Together, Peking Duk ft Nicole Millar – High, RÜFÜS – Sundream, The Presets – No Fun Who will win? Flume & Chet Faker – Drop The Game Who should win? Flume & Chet Faker – Drop The Game Why? This EP was one of the best collabs we’ve heard in a long time; they’re miles ahead of the competition, this year made up of has-beens, might-bes and meh.
WHEN & WHERE: 26 Nov, The Star. Broadcast on TEN
BEST ROCK ALBUM Angus & Julia Stone – Angus & Julia Stone, Ball Park Music – Puddinghead, Dan Sultan – Blackbird, Jimmy Barnes – 30:30 Hindsight, Kingswood – Microscopic Wars Who will win? Jimmy Barnes – 30:30 Hindsight Who should win? Dan Sultan – Blackbird Why? We can’t help ourselves when it comes to ol’ man Barnes, especially when he’s been feeling under the weather. Angus & Julia Stone’s comeback record was close to pop perfection, but rock? We’re fans of Ball Park Music’s tight indie-pop (pop being the important word here) and Kingswood’s guitar tones, but Blackbird takes the cake this year.
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Not flitting around with the music world’s stars on a Wednesday night? That doesn’t mean you can’t get classy drunk playing our drinking game to celebrate the occasion. Grab a bottle of bubbles (the rich and famous only drink bubbles – although is there even such a thing as a rich musician anymore?) and settle into your couch.
POLITICAL SPEECHES Will 360 win Best Urban Album and then use his speaking time to talk about the Australian flag? After the Q&A backlash, probably not, but here’s hopin’.
CROP TOPS Crop tops are in, guys. There’ll be a long skirt-crop top combo, don’t you worry. All musicians are hip dressers. (To prove my point, just type ‘ARIAs ‘90s fashion’ into Google).
DZ Deathrays – Black Rat, High Tension – Death Beat, Shihad – FVEY, sleepmakeswaves – Love Of Cartography, The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me
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Who will win? The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me
What!? Is that the winner of Masterchef Season #167? I’m so fucking excited I could cry. And look, she’s wearing a crop top.
Who should win? The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me Why? Amity have been a juggernaut this year and have proven unstoppable with their album. Bridesmaids twice already, this should be their year. High Tension and DZ Deathrays have made outstanding albums and deserve one, mind you. Shihad, despite a solid rock album, will probably fall victims to “Hey, but aren’t they Kiwis?”. And if this was the best Post-Rock album, sleepmakeswaves would romp it in, but alas...
BEST URBAN ALBUM 360 – Utopia, Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars, Iggy Azalea – The New Classic, Illy – Cinematic, Thundamentals – So We Can Remember Who will win? Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars Who should win? Thundamentals – So We Can Remember Why? Thundamentals released one of the more clever and refreshing Oz hip hop albums of the year. But their mountain of an effort won’t be enough to pip the more popular Hilltop Hoods and their solid seventh LP. If we don’t give ‘em Best Group, we can at least fling ‘em this.
THE PROJECT AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PROJECT Have you seen this person on The Project? Or on their promos? Is it Carrie Bickmore or Rove (take two shots for each). Rest assured, where cameras are rolling, the cast and guest list of The Project will be.
SOMEONE GETTING SMASHED Please God let it be Mark Holden in a clown costume. Someone get that man on stage to present an award.
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“WE MET IAN IN 1977 WHEN WE WERE SUPPORTING IGGY POP IN THE STATES. HE ASKED US IF WE HAD ANY VIDEOS. WE GAVE HIM VIDEOS FOR X OFFENDER AND IN THE FLESH. ON COUNTDOWN THEY WERE MEANT TO PLAY X OFFENDER, BUT THEY PLAYED IN THE FLESH INSTEAD. SO OUR SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIA WAS ONE BIG MISTAKE! BY THE END OF 1977, IN THE FLESH HAD HIT NUMBER TWO IN AUSTRALIA. IT WAS BLONDIE’S FIRST HIT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THANKS, MOLLY.” DEBBIE HARRY ARIA Awards
THE MAGIC OF MOLLY With the news that Molly Meldrum is to be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, Jeff Jenkins gives a personal reflection on the life of Molly.
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sked to write a foreword for Molly’s autobiography, Kylie Minogue said simply: “There is another word for ‘music’ in Australia. Molly.” The foreword was the easy part of the book. My book journey with Molly started at Easter 1998. “Come over about two o’clock on Sunday,” he suggested. “We’ll watch some of the footy and then do some work on the book.” I turned up and… no one was home. I later found out that Molly was still out clubbing. At seven o’clock, he rang his partner to remind him that I was coming over. Molly thought it was 7am, but it was actually 7pm – he had somehow lost 12 hours. Writing a book is never easy. But as Prince Charles said, “Nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.” This year, as we completed the book, an annoyed Molly complained: “How dare you give me a lecture that I don’t respect deadlines!”
CLASSIC COUNTDOWN MOMENTS The Prince Charles interview (1977) “I saw your mum.” Iggy Pop’s appearance (1979) “Hiya, Dogface!” th
The 100 show (1977) “Where are we?” Molly passes out. The Final Countdown (1987) “Peter [Garrett], I hope you don’t mind me doing an impersonation of you.” Molly reveals what’s under his hat.
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“Well,” I pointed out, “this book was meant to come out for Christmas 1999.” Of course, I should have been better prepared – Molly was credited as “Willie Everfinish” when he produced The Ferrets’ debut album. Molly is impossible to explain. As Mark Holden remarked to me, “In your search to find out ‘why’ with Molly, you probably won’t find it. There is no why. There’s just an ‘is’.” And amidst all the drama, it’s impossible not to love him. Everyone has a Molly story. My favourite depends on which day it is. Today, it’s a tale that comes via music manager and Molly’s good friend Ralph Carr: “I was walking out of the Sebel Townhouse in Sydney when I spotted Molly having an argument with the woman at the reception desk. ‘I can’t get into my fucking room,’ Molly was yelling. ‘There’s something wrong with my key!’ The woman was trying to be helpful: ‘Mr Meldrum …’ But Molly was going on and on. ‘You’ll have to get me another key, I can’t get into my room.’ The woman finally got a chance to speak. ‘Mr Meldrum, you’re actually staying at the Ritz-Carlton.’” He might not always know exactly where he is, or how he got there, but Molly deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. He’s done so much for Australian music. And it’s appropriate that ARIA has bent the rules to induct Molly – the first non-recording artist – because he has never been one to follow rules. Molly is pleased that Countdown is also being inducted, recognising the crew and the show’s co-creators Michael Shrimpton and Robbie Weekes. “Countdown was my life for 13 years,” Molly says. “And it’s still a big part of my life.”
HIGHLIGHTS OF A HUMDRUM LIFE 1943: Ian Alexander Meldrum is born in Orbost on Jan 29. He grows up in Quambatook and Kyabram. 1960s: Moves to Melbourne. 1964: Sees The Beatles, but is ejected from Festival Hall for being too hysterical. 1966: Starts writing for Go-Set. First TV job is as a mimer on Kommotion. Is at the MCG for St Kilda’s one and only Grand Final win, but doesn’t actually “see” them win – he faints before the final siren. 1967: Stan Rofe calls him “Molly” in Go-Set. Produces Somebody’s Image’s first two singles, Heat Wave and Hush. 1969: Produces Russell Morris’ The Real Thing. Works at Apple Records, interviews John & Yoko. 1974: Hosts a children’s show on Channel Seven, Anything Can Happen. Becomes Countdown’s talent coordinator. 1976: Produces Supernaut’s I Like It Both Ways. Starts producing The Ferrets’ debut album. 1977: Interviews Prince Charles. 1978: Has a punch-up with Boz Scaggs. 1979: Starts writing his autobiography. 1982: Starts doing breakfast radio on EON-FM. 1984: While in the UK to interview Culture Club about their new album, Waking Up With The House On Fire, his house burns down. 1985: King of Moomba. Hosts the Australian leg of Live Aid. Organises a concert for Prince Charles and Princess Diana called Rocking The Royals. 1986: Stars in three episodes of Neighbours. Receives the Order of Australia for his services to youth. 1987: The final Countdown. Starts Melodian Records with Michael Gudinski. 1988: Joins the cast of Hey Hey It’s Saturday. 1989: Becomes the producer of a new ABC music show, Countdown Revolution. 1990: Discovers and signs Peter Andre on an episode of New Faces. 2000: After Hey Hey finishes, signs to the Ten Network and co-hosts the music show The House of Hits. 2003: Wins $500,000 for charity on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
Shrimpton had a lovely description of Molly: “A collection of nouns searching for a verb.”
2006: A contestant on Dancing With The Stars. Eliminated after the first round.
So how does one explain Molly’s remarkable career? Perhaps Spinal Tap summed it up best: “It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” Thank God he’s still with us.
2012: Inducted into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
Jeff Jenkins is the co-author of Ian “Molly” Meldrum’s life story, The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story (Allen & Unwin).
2011: Rushed to hospital after falling from a ladder at home.
2014: Inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Finally releases his autobiography, The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story.
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Liz Galinovic talks to star Jennifer Lawrence, producer Nina Jacobson and director Francis Lawrence about sticking and not sticking to the script for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.
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hings are kicking off in Panem: District 12 has been destroyed, District 13, thought to have been destroyed, has actually been busy preparing itself for war. They now have a powerful revolutionary symbol, Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence), the reluctant hero who only wanted to save her sister. Mockingjay – Part 1 is the third film in The Hunger Games franchise, based on the series of books by Suzanne Collins. As this final instalment begins, for the cast who brought the popular books to life, the story has ended. “I cried on the first day of our ten-month movie,”
Jennifer Lawrence says. “And [director Francis Lawrence, no relation] was like, ‘What’s wrong?’ I just started thinking about it being over,” she says, in mock sobs. It’s not the bravest response, but it is a human one. And according to Jennifer, being human is probably the only thing her and her fictional counterpart have in common. Where one is bright and happy, able to laugh at herself and joke with her co-stars, the other is invariably dour. “She’s much braver than I am,” Jennifer ventures. But could some parallels be drawn between the two worlds they inhabit? “Well it’s interesting
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that you bring that up,” states the film’s director, Francis Lawrence. “I think that the stories definitely mirror things that are happening in the world now. I think that, unfortunately, it mirrors things that have been happening in the world for thousands of years.” Regarding the Thai protesters who, earlier in the year were arrested for using the movie’s three-finger salute, the director muses, “Part of it was sort of thrilling, that something that happens in a movie can become a symbol for freedom or protest. The thing that’s disturbing is it’s this weird reflection. We’re mirroring what’s happening in the world and suddenly it’s mirroring back. And kids are getting arrested. And when kids start getting arrested, it takes the thrill out of it.” Fans of the books will find quite a few differences, but none that Collins didn’t approve herself. “In the books there’s this character, Fulvia, who performs a lot of the functions that Effie does,” says producer Nina Jacobson. “And I think we realised that we would rather see Effie doing those things because we know her and we care about her. And also to see a side of the capital that isn’t so easily polarised, isn’t so easily painted in villainous terms… When we first presented the idea to Suzanne she took a little bit of time to think on it, and then after she saw Catching Fire, she called and said ‘Fulvia who?’” Katniss, Gale, Peeta and their comrades may not be in the Arena, but the entire country is turning into one. As they struggle with everything from PTSD, battles, bombardments, a good dose of youthful anguish, and that enduring love triangle, Mockingjay – Part 1 promises to be a good deal more intense than its predecessors. WHAT: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 In cinemas 20 Nov
THE SECRET WEAPONS Dedicating an entire album to remixes of your previous album might seem a little bizarre, but as Kane Sutton learns from Echo Drama drummer Jeremy Schiftan, it’s been a blessing in disguise.
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cho Drama is a nine-piece dub, reggae and hip hop group who released their debut EP, Bury The Weapons, towards the end of last year. The group discovered during the process that they were leaving close to an entire album’s worth of samples out of the final edits of the tracks. While Schiftan could recognise these samples had potential, knowing what to do with them was another matter. “When we were tracking the EP, we started doing a lot of the overdubs and layers, ‘cause we did kind of get pretty serious with the production of that first record, and in putting in all these layers, we got to the editing stage and we had to axe all these things. I was always kind of going, ‘Oh, that doesn’t really sound right for the track, but keep the take because the percussion sounds could work in a remix,’ and the others were like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I can imagine that,’ or ‘Keep that synth sound, that’ll go well with this,’ or whatever, and we just had this wealth of things we didn’t want for the record. We figured, well, you could almost build another record off that. I guess getting dubs done as reggae tracks is a tradition in the genre – initially we were just going to make a straight dub thing with mainly instrumentals, kill the vocals and just make it something that’s purely dub. But then I kind of got thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be
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good to branch out to other genres?’ “We discussed the remix thing, and before we’d really done anything to make it happen, our keyboardist Steve [Phillips], who works under the alias Composite, he sent me a mix of a track without telling me he’d been working on it, just really hush hush. I got it late one night and I put it on and I fucking loved it. I drafted a plan [the next day].” And so, their next record, Remix The Weapons was born. Of course, the birth wouldn’t be complete
without a bunch of live shows. “We’ve been enjoying them so much – a couple of the guys have said, ‘Man, I actually think this new version is better than the original, we should use it all the time!’ I think we’re just getting into it because it’s a change and it’s exciting, but I’m definitely going to see how it goes down at these shows and if we get a lot of good feedback on it, it’ll be something we can keep up our sleeves and pull it out at shows. It would be a shame to let them go completely because we’ve worked on them for a few weeks, so they’ll probably pop up again. This was a bridging thing for us – it was good because we were producing something new, but making product whilst on a budget. It was a way to keep making new music and raising towards next year and wanting to record a new album.” WHAT: Remix The Weapons (Independent) WHEN & WHERE: 20 & 27 Nov, Evelyn Hotel
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unexpectedly delivers a live action take on Kiki’s Delivery Service, a concept verily born into failure. No man should try and compete with Miyazaki, but this crappylooking, charisma-less Kiki is even worse than expected.
Incest, creepy kids, Studio Ghibli-turned-live action, food porn, a hip hop musical... Anthony Carew takes us through this year’s Japanese Film Festival program. n David Cronenberg’s Hollywood satire Map To The Stars, there’s a droll riff on the en-vogue status of incest movies. Striking while the last taboo iron’s (like, totally) hot, Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s My Man is a throttling piece of cinema, a Shakespearean drama delivered with eerie restraint and smothering claustrophobia; Japanese-cult-movie hero Tadanobu Asano and rising starlet Fumi Nikaido each give sterling, searing performances as the pseudo-father/daughter who verily leap across that line that should never be crossed.
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Rashomon-ish riff on the trial-by-social-media, with Twitter’d #hottakes, gossiped hearsay, and to-camera testimony taken as evidence in the court of public opinion. Far less impressive is the latest entry in the undead Grudge empire: Ju-on: The Beginning Of The End reducing time-honoured cinematic elements like plot, pacing, characterisation, and empathy to mere placeholders for scenes in which little kids in white face-aint pull screaming starlets into cupboards. Seven films into the series, Ju-on is now operating with brisk, brutal efficiency. Franchise creator Takashi Shimizu also
Animé fans can welcome Patema Inverted, an ambitious, quasi-ridiculous, highly symbolist tale of two worlds of oppositional gravity – each one upside-down to the other – colliding. Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha 2 finds the grandmaster’s famous manga adapted to screen; these the Siddhartha years of ascetic extremism and countryside adventures, for some reason told with zany clichés and an adolescent aesthetic. Speaking of adolescents: Japan’s reigning king of bugfuck-bonkers midnight movie merde, Sion Sono (sorry Takashi Miike, you’re second place), has two films in the fest: Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, a yakuza-themed meta-movie that throws genre clichés about like an ape hurls dung; and Tokyo Tribe, a hip hop musical about warring neighbourhood gangs that almost plays like a parody of rap video idiocy. In the face of the utter ridiculousness, drunken stylisation, and screechy scenery-chewing of each, the phrase ‘over the top’ seems woefully inadequate. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Little Forest: Summer/Autumn, a pleasing piece of rural idyll/food porn realism that is literally nothing but Ai Hashimoto picking things from her garden and using them for recipes. The Light Shines Only There’s ruralism is more of the ‘decaying shithole’ variety, its aspirational arthouse auteurism done in by paper-thin characterisation.
WHEN & WHERE: 27 Nov – 7 Dec, Hoyts Melbourne Central & ACMI
IT’S A CULT THING Fresh from Germany’s Wacken Open Air festival New York heavy-hitters Prong mainstay Tommy Victor chats with Brendan Crabb about stealing stuff from Bad Brains.
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t’s always been something to fight for, to reach new goals,” Prong vocalist/guitarist Tommy Victor admits regarding their career. “Every day is like a challenge, but it’s cool at the same time. I’m not that goal-oriented, so that was a bad response. I go where I’m taken, so I trust in that.” Having survived two decades, brief hiatus aside, Prong remain a more than viable entity, recently issuing their Ruining Lives LP. As for where their groove-thrash/ hardcore/industrial hybrid sits within the current metal landscape, the New York outfit’s sole remaining original member believes they’ve carved a niche. “It’s a cult following, it’s very different than everybody else. I think there’s a focus on, like, rock songs, like anthems, and songs, more than just riffs. So that’s an essential difference, and where we come from it’s a lot of post-punk, a lot of New York, East Coast sound to it. It’s difficult (to market), because you have AC/ DC, where it’s a consistent sound. Prong evolves and we do a lot of different things, it’s always changing.” Who does he consider to be their contemporaries? “It’s hard to say. I’d say Helmet would be the closest. That’s what’s good about it – we’re the only ones doing it.” Prong heavily inspired others who have subsequently reached sizeable commercial heights though, nu-metallers Static-X for instance. Not that the
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frontman appears bitter about their pile-driving riffs being pillaged. “I don’t pay attention to that too much. Everything’s out there in the universe today, I don’t care. I like those guys. I stole from Bad Brains and stuff like that, I don’t care.” The Music meets with Victor following a wellreceived Wacken set. His laid-back conversational demeanour belies the trio’s high-energy performances, which Australian audiences will finally experience in November. Grinspoon’s 1998 cover of Prong’s Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck introduced them to many new sets of ears Down Under. “I heard it –
they did a really good job with it. It came out great, I really liked it.” Discussing the Australian tour, the main-man promises a “legacy band (with) a lot of different songs”. “We’ve put a great set together and it’s really been working. We’ve been hitting it pretty hard this year, all the shows have been great. I got blessed, I’ve got really good players with me. These guys kick ass; really good guys, really good players, so we have a lot of fun. That’s the main thing; having a good time and enjoying going on stage. There’s a lot like a punk rock attitude about that, which is cool.” Certain musicians would resent the legacy or heritage act tag, but it doesn’t faze Victor. “I accept it for what it is. But we have new records that are doing well, that people like, so that helps. The new records, they’re pretty good. People like the new songs (live) better I think, believe it or not. Carved Into Stone and Ruining Lives, those two records really had a good impact on people.” WHEN & WHERE: 21 Nov, The Hi-Fi
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MAKING FRIENDS Whether enlisting star producers, eschewing harsh vocals or simply getting a haircut, Trivium has an innate ability to infuriate metal purists. Frontman Matt Heafy and Brendan Crabb brave this storm.
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ince signing to heavyweight label Roadrunner for 2005’s Ascendancy, criticism and even resentment have largely been par for the course for Trivium. Vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy emphasises that the Floridian metallers continually shrug off nay-saying, especially when the vitriol is the result of something as trivial as losing his locks. “With every single record we’ve ever done, we’ve always gotten something for something; except for [2003 debut] Ember To Inferno, because no one knew who we were. Even when Ascendancy came out, with as many good things as people say now, when it first
came out people were not saying good things about it. When [2006’s] The Crusade came out people were mad that I wasn’t screaming anymore, when [2008’s] Shogun came out, I don’t remember what they were mad about. [On 2011’s] In Waves, it’s because I cut my hair. [Latest release] Vengeance Falls it was (Disturbed vocalist) David Draiman [producing]. “So there’s always something. There’s a quote that I love that my grandfather would tell to my dad, which got told to me: ‘A third of the world’s going to love you, a third of the world’s going to hate you and a third of the world’s not
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going to give a shit.’ I think in our microcosm world of what Trivium is, that’s always the way it’s been. Whether we’re talking reviewers or fans or other bands, people would love it, hate it, people who don’t really care for it either way. As long as we’re making what we want to make, the way we want to make it, that’s all that matters.” A visit to the barber has long seemed a pedantic reason for riling fans up; Heafy chuckles as the obvious example of Load-era Metallica is raised. “I’ve done it like two or three times in our career now. When I cut mine after Shogun, I actually did it for a good cause. I donated it to Locks Of Love; they make human hair wigs for kids with cancer. I did mine for something charitable, something important. It’s a childish thing to attack a band needing to look a certain way to appease you. I think there’s way too much time wasted with people worrying about what guys’ haircuts look like who are in bands.” Trivium’s momentum shows little sign of abating. Their upcoming Australian shows will wrap up Vengeance Falls’ successful touring cycle, and new material is already in the pipeline. “We didn’t really intend on starting it; it just sort of happened. When Vengeance Falls came out we said, ‘Alright, we’ll start writing as soon as we feel like we’re ready but no sooner than that.’ Next thing I know we all started coming up with great tracks.” Beforehand there are those aforementioned Australian gigs, whereby the Soundwave mainstays will headline over Swedish veterans In Flames. “We’ve toured with them maybe ten times now; they’re some of our closest friends in any band in the world. I’ve gone on record many times to say I would not exist without In Flames as an influence on me.” WHEN & WHERE: 23 & 24 Nov, 170 Russell
WORLD DOMINATION A record-breaking crowdfunding campaign has led to Ne Obliviscaris embarking on their first world tour. Frontman Tim Charles chats to Scott Aitken about what went into it as well as their brand new album Citadel.
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elbourne prog metal six-piece Ne Obliviscaris are currently gearing up for a huge world tour to promote their second album Citadel, the highly-anticipated follow-up to their 2012 debut Portal Of I. But before that can happen, lead singer and violinist Tim Charles has a bit of work to do to pay back some of the contributors of their crowdfunding campaign that made it happen. “I have a couple of violin solos I’ve got to record. I’ve got to do one next week actually cause there’s an Italian band that’s paid us the $500 reward to get one of us to do a solo on their album and so we had a couple of people choose those things.” In what’s now the most successful crowdfunding campaign in Australian history, the band managed to raise over $80,000 in a 60-day Pozible campaign, making over double their targeted amount and breaking the Australian record for music-related crowdfunding by more than $25,000. Charles says the idea for the campaign came about right before the band entered the studio to record Citadel at the end of 2013. “Doing a world tour crowdfunding campaign was a little bit risky and ambitious just because there weren’t a lot of similar campaigns to study. I only found a couple other bands with campaigns that were in any way similar and I guess that’s because crowdfunding is fairly new and 26 • THE MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014
most people are doing it for their records so to do something like this where we were guaranteeing people tours hadn’t really been done before this way.” In addition to Europe, UK, North America and Asia, the band has used the additional pledge money to add more dates to the tour. “We’ve been trying to see where else we could go and how far we could stretch the money to get to as many countries as possible. One of the additions we managed to add in is Israel, which is really exciting for us to be able to play to fans because it’s somewhere I’d never thought we’d get to go to.”
The band will kick off a run of shows in Australia starting in Launceston on 8 Nov and continuing all the way until Soundwave next year in March before tackling the rest of the world. According to Charles, the new material should gel well with the rest of their material in their live shows. “I think all the songs are going to work really well live. We always jam the songs a lot as a band and that gives a good vibe of how things will come across in the live atmosphere. We’re getting all the new stuff up to scratch so we can do a completely new set for this tour and we’re really excited to have the amazing Beyond Creation from Canada to support us as well as playing some of the biggest venues we’ve played and it’s looking like it’s going to be the biggest headline tour we’ve ever done in Australia so we’re definitely very excited.” WHEN & WHERE: 21 Nov, 170 Russell; 22 Feb, Soundwave, Flemington Racecourse
HANGING SHIT Preparing to unleash his “cyber/punk-hop/cabaret”, activist Ezekiel Ox tells Brendan Crabb how fans helped further enable his railing against the federal budget. t seems appropriate that The Music converses with Ezekiel Ox during a news day headlined by Gough Whitlam’s death and 360’s appearance on Q&A the previous evening. “To say that flag in fact is racist is not controversial,” the vocalist begins. “The Union Jack means nothing but attempted genocide, land theft, Stolen Generation to Aboriginal people… I think it’s interesting just how far right we’ve gone when 360 cops flak for those comments, when it’s just an accurate comment. If you want to be racist and say that it’s not okay to slag off the flag, well then you can go and join the fucking Nazi socialist party and we can all have fascism. But in the meantime, if I want to burn that fucking flag, I’ll burn it.”
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Ox’s conviction has certainly polarised audiences. However, those who have been enamoured by his social justice-fuelled excursions into heavy rock, funk, hip hop and more are rabid in their dedication. Said devotees pledged to the Melburnian’s anti-budget Pozible campaign, funding advertisements which simultaneously propagate his message in typically antagonistic fashion and emphasise his ensuing national headlining tour. “We reached our Pozible target at the halfway mark, and the point of the Pozible target was to raise money to hang shit on the government. So clearly there’s plenty of support from my fans for hanging shit on the
government. Look at how unpopular this fucking budget is; what I’m saying’s not controversial… I don’t expect that everybody would agree with me on everything, but you’ve gotta keep that radical perspective out there. What I wanted to do is give people an opportunity to join in on letting people know just how negative a force the Union Jack has been on this country. Then looking how far backwards we’re going with the current attacks from this government. So the Pozible campaign was popular, not because I wanted to tour, but because people wanted to see me tour and hang shit on the government,” he laughs.
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“There’s obviously poetry, there’s dance; it’s really a cabaret thing. It’s not like cabaret you’ve seen before. It’s a storyteller, a singer, an activist; it’s a guaranteed hour of shit-hot entertainment, I would argue. Depending on curfew and audience participation, really anything can happen and probably will.” If you oppose his views, you’re welcome to attend too. “Some people may find it confronting – racists, homophobes, misogynists, people that don’t like refugees – I think they would probably find it most confronting. There’s a few of them littered around this genocidal shithole we call Australia… Some people come because they want to have the arguments, and I fully respect that. I’d encourage anyone who wants to find out more about what the ideology that I’m spruiking is to just come down, and if you don’t like it, argue with me. Don’t punch people in the face; argue with them.” WHAT: Raw Styles (Bird’s Robe) WHEN & WHERE: 20 Nov, Beav’s Bar, Geelong; 21 Nov, Major Tom’s, Kyneton; 22 Nov, Baby Black Cafe, Bacchus Marsh
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SOWING THE SEEDS
it. I’ve got a lot of freedom to do what I envisage is the best idea for the album. We’ve got a lot of tracks coming out of it and all our summer gigs will start ramping up now so it’s heading into a busier time.”
Looking for new ways to breathe life into the recording process and album format was at the forefront of singer Barnaby Weir’s thinking when he took over the production reins for The Black Seeds’ next album, as he tells Chris Familton.
With more of an autonomous role Weir has taken the opportunity to think outside the standard parameters of writing and recording the new album and his excitement quickly becomes apparent.
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wenty-fourteen has been a relatively quiet year for New Zealand funk/dub/soul band The Black Seeds. Now five albums deep into their career with a sixth on the way, there are the inevitable life changes that start impacting on the way a band operates, which have given them an opportunity to take stock and plan their next route forward.
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“It’s been a weird but good one. There have been three babies produced by The Black Seeds family this year so touring Europe wasn’t on the cards in 2014 without a new release. That’s what we’ve been working on this year, a new album which should be released in the first half of next year. It’s getting exciting because we’ve done some work on it and now we can start putting it together and sitting back and listening to it and choosing the best bits to work more on. We’ve been jamming for three years on this album so I just decided to take the reins and do all the production this time and I’m enjoying
“I’m approaching it in a different way; we’re not going into a single studio and recording songs in a group like most of our albums. It will involve quite a variety of work and different studios and sounds that we’ve been working on. This next one will be more of a Black Seeds fully original mixtape. We haven’t changed our taste for grooves or anything but it is a cool way to do it. I’ve been discovering everything from full 24-track recordings to eight-track sessions and even mono recordings. I’m feeling excited about the way we’re doing it. “A band has to produce and record music and that’s still a big part of it. Some people have given up on the album as a format but I haven’t, I still believe in it. It shows your direction and how you’re feeling and sounding. In terms of the live aspect it’s even more important to have a great live show so it’s a bit of both – releasing albums and touring. It comes down to the ideas you make and what they’re worth to people. There are more opportunities now to find your audience and if you keep staying true to your music and doing it for the right reasons there’ll always be an audience and the value of your ideas won’t decrease. We’ve still got the opportunity to get more fans, make a better album and play bigger shows so we’re in a pretty good spot for next year.” WHEN & WHERE: 27 Nov, Prince Bandroom
PICKING FAVOURITES
Little May vocalist Hannah Field admits they’re too “picky” to release just any old debut. She spills her guts to Hannah Story.
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he self-titled debut EP from Little May has been a long time coming. The group started recording a couple of years ago, but were “too picky”, replacing older songs with newer ones, and reworking what they already had. “They’re still Little May at the heart of it, obviously, but the EP was just more of a progression for us,” says Hannah Field. At the time the songs were first written, Field says that herself and rhythm guitarist Liz Drummond were going through changes in their personal relationships. “I think you just always pull from some grief and from change and maybe from not wanting to change and having to let go. I always have to pull from that
because it’s something that deeply affected me when I was a little bit younger and I think it’s something that everyone can relate to: you get that shock to the system when you lose someone – maybe emotionally or physically – that you kind of thought was going to be there for a pretty long time.” As their sound has developed, and their music has covered love, loss, heartbreak and everything in-between, they’ve been plagued by the descriptor “all-girl band”. “I don’t really have that much of an issue with [being called an allgirl band]. I just think that we want to be respected for the music
that we write. If people like the music that’s the main thing. It doesn’t matter if we’re guys or girls. I think it should just come from the music and it shouldn’t be impressive that we’re a female band, I guess. In saying that if other young females who are wanting to start a career in the music industry find that inspirational or get some inspiration from that or the music that we’re writing, that’s fantastic.”
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Little May first met during high school, at Sydney’s Barker College and Pymble Ladies College. It was there that the core unit of the band became friends; Drummond and lead guitarist Annie Hamilton at PLC, and then when Drummond moved for senior school to Barker, Drummond and Field. After they graduated, they started writing together and playing open mic nights. “We were like, ‘We might as well just give it a go, who knows what will happen?’ Then it took off from there really quite quickly and surprisingly to be honest.” Field is super excited to be heading on their first headline tour. After support slots including Mikhael Paskalev and the one-and-only Rodriguez, you can expect a polished live show. “I think audiences can expect a bit of a darker side to Little May and we’ve definitely been working on our live show since before we played Splendour just to really get it up to standard. There’s a couple of dance moves thrown in there. I think the energy’s kind of, we’ve just stepped up the energy a fair bit, so that’s pretty cool.” WHAT: Little May (Dew Process/Universal) WHEN & WHERE: 20 & 21 Nov, Northcote Social Club
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album/ep reviews
SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE
BRYAN FERRY Avonmore
Cooking Vinyl
Wonderer
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Dot Dash/Remote Control It’s on a brilliant ray of sunshine that Melbourne’s Nick Sowersby delivers his debut Sunbeam Sound Machine album. Wonderer features a lo-fi psychedelic pop sound that’s spaced out and lost in a blurry haze of wobbling jelly tones that blows out of the speakers like a surreal daydream. As you ease yourself into these gentle, immersive soundscapes, intricate layers of melodies, vocals and simply strange sounds vie for your attention but it’s kind of impossible to focus on anything for too long. As you drift across these sounds they conjure images in the mind’s eye of magical places filled with rainbows and unicorns. The light, fluffy tone of this album creates ambiances that will leave listeners feeling as though they’re floating through a kaleidoscopic explosion of time and space. While Daibutsu and Infinity +1 deliver upbeat feel-good moments, the
darkly glittering Fever Dream and Somehow slide into more hallucinatory textures. Real Life celebrates a world of infinite possibilities while A Brief Attempt At Explaining The Sky looks at the word with wide-eyed wonderment and innocence. Autumnal dispenses sage advice by asking us to wind down the existential angst and simply experience the delight of everything around us. The charm of this record lies in the fact that it’s like a soft doona stuffed with feathers that you can just pull over your head, cocoon yourself from mundane realities and for a little while lose yourself in daydream; an utterly charming record that demands repeat listening.
Guido Farnell
★★★½
DEUS
Peaceville/Rocket
[PIAS] Australia
Reinvigorated by the arrival of metal legend Nick Holmes on vocals, Bloodbath have delved even further into their depraved, infanticide-worshipping brand of doom-laden death metal. Grand Morbid Funeral features sludgy, slamming guitars and tremolo picked riffs. Holmes’ vicious growls remain articulate throughout, never leaving the listener questioning what deranged acts he’s grunting about. While there isn’t too much special going on in the rhythm section, it’s for the best. With ghastly dive-bombs and vomit-strewn vocals, a steady helping of double kicks and death metal D-beats is exactly what the album needs.
Belgian stalwarts dEUS have been churning out increasingly sophisticated indie rock for two decades. Vocalist Tom Barman and multi-instrumentalist Klaas Janzoons are the only constant members, and their jazz-flecked rock has always been accessible, the strong songwriting abetted by smooth instrumentation and Barman’s cruisy vocals. The two discs aren’t chronological but flow perfectly; their early work gets heavy attention (Suds & Soda; Via; Little Arithmetics; Fell Off The Floor, Man) although highlights abound from the second half of their storied career (Instant Street, Bad Timing, Smokers Reflect, Twice (We Survive)).
Cameron Cooper
Steve Bell
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Loop De Li pretty much sets the tone. Tasteful guitar, even some ‘80s-style sax, off in the distance while Bryan muses on love glimpsed through gauzy curtains. Ferry and longtime producer/ collaborator Rhett Davies know their template and do get a quality cast aboard to add the niceties. There are no less than nine guitarists variously involved, notably Nile Rodgers, whose trademark rhythms centre the disco shuffle of Driving Me Wild, while Johnny Marr carefully picks through the more wistful Soldier Of Fortune, which he also
★★★★½
BLOODBATH
Grand Morbid Funeral
Just to update: Roxy Music are officially no more. Mr Ferry, lead singer thereof for 40-odd years, had a slight sidetrack into jazzy stylings centred around contributions to our Baz’s Great Gatsby movie, where the old lounge lizard’s lugubrious tones fitted well. So, for his first full album under his own name for going on five years, what’s on offer? Well, pretty much same as ever.
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★★★ co-wrote. Mark Knopfler’s tone is similarly immediately identifiable. Album closes with a couple of idiosyncratic covers: the previously sighted Todd Terje collaboration of a considered reading of Robert Palmer’s Johnny & Mary – a song once so full of such nervous energy – as well as Sondheim’s much loved/much loathed Send In The Clowns, where Ferry’s increasingly sand-blasted tones underscore the observed melancholy of it. Basically, Avonmore boils down to dinnerparty music polished to a lovely sheen, from an artist in a comfort zone that’s served him well. It’s probably down to your personal preference if that’s enough.
Ross Clelland
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ELLA HOOPER
THE VERONICAS
Independent
Sony
Solo record number one from ex-Killing Heidi frontwoman and Spicks And Specks host Ella Hooper is full of dark and moody pop, with lashings of alt-country guitars and dreamy synths. Her smoky voice sits centre stage throughout, with her songs ranging from the sultry (Häxan) to the haunting (Everything Was A Sign, Last Rites). She’s at her strongest when she’s having fun, like the laid-back cool of the title track, and insistently poppy Dead Stars. The stand out number though is Low High, with its hypnotic found-sound beat, chain gang chorales and lilting melodic runs.
If wildly successful Australian pop act The Veronicas had a signature sound, it would be other people’s signature sounds. Originality is not their strong suit. But – crucially – being derivative doesn’t prevent them from being fun! This, their first album in seven years (!), is true to form. Sure, You Ruin Me is a clumsy, melodramatic Enrique Iglesias tribute. And, yes, If You Love Someone is watery, Pinkderived noughties power pop. But then there’s the buzzy selfrighteousness of I’m A Veronica and the undeniably fun nod to La Roux, Line Of Fire. It’s an album by The Veronicas.
Amorina Fitzgerald-Hood
James d’Apice
In Tongues
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TY SEGALL
WE WERE EVERGREEN
YUNG WARRIORS
Drag City/Spunk
Shock
Obese Distribution
Chameleon-like Californian garage tycoon Ty Segall is a restless creature, wont to drop a seven-inch on some obscure label at the drop of a hat, and this second collection of standalone tracks collates non-album singles and B-sides from the era encompassing albums Goodbye Bread (2011), Twins (2012) and Sleeper (2013). It’s slightly haphazard but a goldmine for fans of skuzz, with cool originals (Spiders, Fucked Up Motherfucker) augmented by choice covers (Velvet Underground’s Femme Fatale, The Groundhogs’ Cherry Red). A cool collection by a man with a clear affinity for the Rock.
The phrase ‘French indie-pop trio’ either strikes fear into a listener’s heart or evokes a smile. We Were Evergreen won’t change that; you get what’s on the label. Early tracks have more bite, like False Start’s grounded melodies and the divine Daughters, with the right amount of darkness in amongst its squiggly synth ostinatos. There are moments of the twee and breezy that both hit (Tambourine Like A Crown) and miss (Best Thing), and some dreamy contrast on duet Dormant. Not gamechanging, but a lot of fun and deepened by the bonus tracks on the deluxe edition.
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So much Australian rap culture remains white, male and middleclass. Hearing young, fierce, Indigenous voices throwing a fist up and being warriors is a genuinely thrilling idea. Sadly, Turnt Up falls short of these (probably unfair) expectations. When you expect a crew to overthrow a culture and are instead confronted with reasonable party jams like Smoke It Down and diverting daydream Money, it’s tough not to feel disappointed. Still, undeniably skilled and obviously passionate, it may be that the Warriors’ next album outshines this solid effort. Worth tuning in for; hopefully there’s more to come.
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Turnt Up
The Bennies – Heavy Disco Captain Beefheart – Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 – 1972 David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed The Basics – The Lucky Country Dan Sultan – Dirty Ground Aversions Crown – Tyrant Ne Obliviscaris – Citadel The Ghost Inside – Dear Youth Jerry Lee Lewis – Rock & Roll Time
James d’Apice
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KATY PERRY, BETTY WHO
Rod Laver Arena 14 Nov Prismatic 3D glasses are handed out as we enter through the turnstiles, which adds excitement. Especially when the warning on the back instructs: “Not for extended wear, performing physical activity, outside play, driving or operating machinery.” Support act Betty Who is aptly named for this stage in her career. Dear Ms Who: If you’re gonna wear a flirty mini, please dance like a lady. Actually, she’s kind of borrowed Pink’s look from the waist up. The front line – Who, her keys player and bassist – do some
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basic unison chorey during closer Somebody Loves You, but we wouldn’t rave about the New York City-based Aussie. When the majority of your fans haven’t yet hit puberty, commencing half an hour after the advertised start time is unacceptable. And there’s not even an acknowledgement/ apology once Katy Perry arrives on stage to Roar. Her hologram scaled, two-piece Lycra outfit is lined with LEDs that change colour, which is fun, but when the stage lights snap to blackout and flashing skipping ropes are utilised, we really deserve to see movement in unison. Cirque Du Soleil have raised our expectations when it comes to working with apparatus so if you can’t nail it, cut it out. Sections of the circular catwalk, which extends way out almost to the sound desk, are 32 • THE MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014
travelators and these are utilised to great effect. Pre-programmed vocals: “I’m wide awake.” Perry screeches, “ARE YOU!?” And it’s like an accusation, but we’re only just warming up after the lengthy waiting period between sets. The band doesn’t rise up from the bowels of the stage until after the photographers have been escorted out of the venue (song three). Prettycoloured lasers abound. Suddenly we’re transported to Egypt and Perry rises up through a trapdoor on the main stage riding a puppet horse – it’s so realistic! Dark Horse should be the opening of Perry’s show. Now we’re starting to invest. Like David Copperfield, Perry disappears and then reappears at the end of the catwalk; is it possible to move that quickly underneath the venue’s floor?
ludicrously oversized padded butts and boobs. Two guitarists are strapped in and fly through the air while demonstrating their Nikki Sixx-style flame thrower axes (although theirs emit sparks rather than catapult flames). Random cat visuals take over the giant screens accompanied by Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Gin And Juice. Tap dancing cats precede Hot And Cold then there’s a portion of Vogue by Madonna, during which the cats strut around the catwalk. Geddit? “Listen, I’ve changed since the movie,” Perry claims after another of a gazillion costume changes. “I don’t even have blue hair anymore, is that okay?” Drops hood. “I HAVE RAINBOW HAIR!” One selfie is granted to a chick holding up some kind of unicorn prop and continuing the theme
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More travelators? An aerial prism contraption operated by three acrobats swoops down to collect Perry and carries her up in the air. She doesn’t look fearless, or very graceful, and could work on her flexibility to create better lines when of course these sections will be compared to Pink. “Yeah, and her feet weren’t pointed,” says my niece/plus one. Perry is certainly not a natural dancer. It’s almost as if she’s marking the routines and is often used as a human prop when lifted and manoeuvred around by her backing dancers. Remember Megan Washington’s ARIA performance in 2010? Kinda like that. During I Kissed A Girl, which is given a much rockier treatment these days, her female backup dancers come out dressed as bizarre, bandaged mummies with
Walking On Air is spectacular: Perry flies over the crowd while dancers cover the Reflection Section in billowing blue fabric to act out the song’s title. Then Perry’s raised up inside a ginormous yin and yang hoop skirt, which makes her look like a Barbie toilet roll cover. A selection of inflatables are navigated through the stadium: bottle of bubbly, handbag, Covergirl lippie (aka blatant product endorsement) and, hang on, is that the pile of poop emoji? Camera phones are put to work as heads shake in amused disbelief. Teenage Dream (as delivered by a 30-yearold), California Gurls – Perry finally delivers the smash hits. Encore? (Hello, we’re yet to hear Firework.) But first we endure Birthday and it’s Laura’s turn to sit in the birthday seat
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through her headwear. Said fan is located in Perry’s version of The Stones’ Tongue Pit (the Reflection Section). Perry’s a smart businesswoman; she points out a t-shirt in the stands that’s exclusive to her pop-up store, which has been set up at 1000 Pound Bend in Melbourne’s CBD. She then invites nine-year-old Dylan to the stage and instructs he must answer a few questions in order to score a pizza (including, “Who’s your favourite singer?”) What now? The One That Got Away. Through Prism Vision, the Unconditionally scene when punters wave their phones about and the butterfly puppets come out is impressive to behold, but the way Perry breaks down all the syllables – “Un-con-di-ti-on-al-ly” – in the chorus irritates. And my 14-year-old niece yawns.
(which rises up and becomes a multi-tiered cake). And as Perry flies right by us sitting in a swing, as if lifted by the bunch of balloons she clutches, confetti canons explode and it rains multi-coloured hearts and stars. “Time for Prism Vision, Time for Prism Vision...” Which prison? Oh! And, yes, putting the special glasses on makes the ‘Firework’s look awesome. Even better when you dance and move your head around (hang on, does that count as “physical activity”?) The prism prop closes with Perry inside. Houselights up. Perry could not rely on more gimmicks and her Prismatic show could use a good edit. It switches and changes as maniacally as a sugar-fuelled toddler hogging the remote. Bryget Chrisfield
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NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, DECLAN KELLY PRES DIESEL N’ DUB, THE BURUNDIAN DRUMMER GROUP OF VICTORIA, BATUCADA SOUND MACHINE, BULLHORN The Hi-Fi 14 Nov Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) brings a funkedup blast to a city palpably seething with music tonight. Bullhorn blow the crowd off their feet with sax/trumpet/ trombone dance beats so funky they hurt. A huge snail-like sousaphone coils around Stevie B and sprouts outwards from his head like a big brass fascinator.
Lead rapper Roman MC joyfully dances about, grins, freestyles and clutches his heart while letting his insanely fast rap lyrics flow. New single So You Think is slow-jam beauty while Roll Off The Top floods The Hi-Fi with crackling energy that juices up the crowd. Batucada Sound Machine bring the Brazilian-Polynesian beats with a wild jam of funk, reggae and hip hop. Singer/ guitarist Richie Setford adds a little extra rock with his quiffedup hair and sizzling guitar riffs. Percussionist Riduan Zalani does crazy shit to a tambourine on Do You Know What I Know?, which makes punters screech with delight. The Burundian Drummer Group Of Victoria melt hearts with an outrageously joyful display of traditional percussion and dance. The crowd whoops and eggs on the drummers who bounce and jump high in the air. Smiles of pride cover each Burundian face as they share their traditional beats with the fully receptive crowd. Didgeridoo welcomes in Declan Kelly Presents Diesel
N’ Dub. With a revolving line-up of singers, this act pays dub-reggae homage to the venerable Midnight Oil. Pat Powell’s vocals on Short Memory are grave and powerful, while Tony Hughes adds reggae-pop bounciness to King Of The Mountain. Amazing harmonies begin Beds Are Burning, with Kelly taking the lead vocal from behind the drumkit. Nahko & Medicine For The People enter to insane applause. Are punters cheering for the band or lead singer Nahko Bear’s proudly worn “Fuck Tony Abbott” t-shirt? A reggae intro to Aloha Ke Akua gets the crow bouncing until Bear and band switch into full-on acoustic rock-out mode for the majority of the rest of their set. Bear jumps and kicks while punters raise and wave their hands, creating a semi-religious aura. The crowd goes spiritually wild on Black As Night. A handmade sign decorated with the following lyric, “I believe in the good things coming,” sums it up.
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Guy Pearce @ The Toff In Town Flight Facilities @ Forum Theatre Tori Amos @ Palais Theatre Cut Copy DJs @ Queen Victoria Market A Winged Victory For The Sullen @ Melbourne Recital Centre Hiatus Kaiyote @ The Hi-Fi
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arts reviews
CALPURNIA DESCENDING Theatre
Malthouse Theatre to 30 Nov
★★★★ ½ Sisters Grimm’s Calpurnia Descending explores society’s consumption of and fixation with celebrity culture, the feud between diva Beverley Dumont (Paul Capsis) and diva-inwaiting Violet St Clair (Ash Flanders) offering an allegory on how celebrities are created, destroyed and forgotten. Combining onstage action with live filming the work is a technical behemoth, albeit a very well executed one. The structure sees creators Ash Flanders and Declan Greene pay homage to the divas of yesteryear and offer their interpretation and critique on what the archetype has morphed into in its present form. The progression from a film noir parody to an epic explosion of neon drag is especially enjoyable. Matt
should be congratulated on bringing theatre kicking and screaming into the present. Benjamin Meyer
THE ERADICATION OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN WESTERN LAPLAND Theatre
Arts House, Meat Market
★★★ ½ The Eradication Of Schizophrenia In Western Lapland is an investigation of auditory hallucination that aims to de-stigmatise and normalise psychosis by providing an insight into the experience of a psychotic episode. The action follows one family’s experience of psychoses, using an intriguing form that simultaneously presents two plays separated by a freestanding wall. The audience is
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Greenwood’s animations paying homage to dial-up internet, 8-bit theme songs and everything between make the show. Capsis is excellent, delivering a performance that allows the audience to empathise and connect with the vulture-like but ultimately vulnerable Dumont. Furthermore, Sandy Gore delivers a stand-out performance as the sleazy mob boss producer. Ultimately, the work is jampacked with truly bizarre and subversive moments, the highlight being a large rat appearing on stage to awkwardly dance to Baby Elephant Walk. Outstanding and as obnoxious as it is clever, Sisters Grimm 34 • THE MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014
of psychosis” an easy-to-follow experience for the large part and greatly diminishes the result that two simultaneous plays might have delivered.
comfortably in Texas, is unsure if he can see himself raising a family in the same world where he sees children injured by bombs in hospital every day.
Performances are mixed, with touring artists David Woods and Jon Haynes clearly more familiar with the material than local performers Ben Grant and Nicola Gunn. As a result one of the two plays feels underdeveloped and is in definite need of firmer direction. Despite this it is a unique experiential performance well worth being a part of.
This is a fantastically told story of two worlds colliding. Choosing to stay would mean leaving his family and career behind, while leaving would mean not only losing Jomana but also ignoring the plight of the Palestinians. An elegantly simple set designed by Lara Week is perfect for actors Nicole Chamoun and Osamah Sami to excel in their lead roles.
James Daniel
Theatre
DAVID SHRIGLEY: LIFE AND LIFE DRAWING
La Mama Courthouse to 23 Nov
NGV to 1 Mar
TALES OF A CITY BY THE SEA
The writing and direction are incredibly safe in making sure the audience follows the dialogue properly instead of trusting us to appreciate the effect that a true polyphony of voices might bring. After an initial period of disorientation it becomes easy to follow both stories: simple dialogue, long pauses and minimal narrative depth work alongside a surprisingly ordered blending of voices. This careful orchestration makes the “chaos
Visual Art
★★★ ½
★★★ ½
At the centre of this devastating love story is the Israel-Palestine
Shrigley’s style is vastly different. Known for his use
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split in two (watching one story, then swapping places to see the other side) and the sounds from the other play create a sense of hearing things that aren’t there.
Harry Hughes
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conflict and the affect it has on daily life. Palestinian-CanadianAustralian playwright Samah Sabawi has set the work in an inhospitable land where bombs are ceaselessly dropped on the houses of innocent people, making it a nearly-impossible place for young love to flourish. Rami, a brave but foolish American-born Palestinian doctor arrives illegally in a refugee camp on a Free Gaza boat and falls in love with Jomana, a Palestinian woman. She sees through his cocky façade to his kind heart, but will only commit to spending her life with him if he agrees to stay in Palestine. Though obviously tempted, Rami, raised
of dry humour in much of his work, this Glasgow-born, Turner Prize nominee is here to shake things up a bit. Shrigley is presenting work through a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture and paintings. Undoubtedly the centrepiece of this exhibition is Life Model, where viewers are encouraged to participate in a life-drawing class of a large cartoon-like male sculpture that occasionally blinks and urinates in a bucket. Yes, it sounds odd, but you have to see it. Hannah Valmadre
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the guide Answered by: Gab Strum How did you get your start? I got my start learning classical piano as a kid. I have since learnt a bunch of other instruments through school, which blossomed into a love of playing and then writing my own music. Sum up your musical sound in four words? I guess something like ‘ambient, punchy dream-pop’, but I don’t know really. I’m not very good at talking about my music.
JAPANESE WALLPAPER
If you could support any band in the world – past or present – who would it be? At the moment it would probably be Owen Pallett, who’s this amazing composer and violinist from the States. If there’s an orchestral part on the record you’re listening to right now, chances are he did it. I feel there would be a lot to learn from watching his show every night. You’re being sent into space, no iPod, you can bring one album – what would it be? Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. Perfect. If it was something new, I’m really enjoying Syro by Aphex Twin. Greatest rock’n’roll moment of your career to date? Uh, I wish I had an answer to this! I’m not very rock’n’roll. My mum still takes me to all my shows. Why should people come and see your band? For the same reason they should go and see any other band, I guess – hearing live music is a really special experience. When and where for your next gig? 20 Nov, Kelvin Club for Melbourne Music Week! It’s free! Website link for more info? Japanesewallpaper.info
Pic: Bec Capp
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THE SOCIAL KITCHEN From Fisher & Paykel and Peter Rowland Catering comes this new pop-up kitchen at the Queen Victoria Market. Stephanie Liew attends a preview of their cooking class.
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ooking much more like a professional kitchen space than a temporary marquee, decked out with shiny, top-off-the-line Fisher & Paykel appliances and cooking stations, The Social Kitchen will host a series of cooking classes for the next six months, as well as a Master Class series featuring Melbourne’s top chefs. At the preview class I attended, we were taught how to cook a mean paella (the secret’s in the spices, seasoning and “burning the crust”) on induction stove tops – which seem like magical appliances of the future that allow you to set precise temperatures and take barely any time to warm up and cool down. The class was hands-on, but our instructor and his assistants kept a keen eye on all of us, helping out to make sure no one did anything that’d sabotage their dish. Then, the best part: we all sat down at dining tables to sample (or, you know, stuff ourselves with) our creations. As a bonus, we were treated to Eton Mess for dessert. Classes will cover a range of dishes, from American, Vietnamese and Indonesian food, as well as cooking with seasonal berries, seafood, and hand-made pasta. During the day classes, participants will have the opportunity to source local ingredients for themselves at the Vic Market before the lesson begins. For more information, schedules and bookings, head to at thesocialkitchen.com.au.
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businesses that have also joined the Pop Up Market.
POP UP STREET FOOD MARKET
Complete with a brand new communal outdoor seating area (with heating for those lingering chilly mornings) and a cool retro-kitsch indoor fit out, the Pop Up Street Food Market is set to be the new hot spot for grabbing a bite to eat on weekends! Plus, there’ll be live music from noon on the weekend – so basically here’s where to go to get your shop/ food/entertainment hit all in one go.
Step inside Prahran Market’s new ‘Prahran Does Pop Up Street Food’ Market and you’ll be in foodie heaven. With six brand new pop up stores all making their debut into the Prahran Market street food mix, shoppers can enjoy delicious cuisines from all over the globe, conveniently in the one location. Early risers can get their organic porridge fix at Melbourne’s first Porridge Bar, while those with a hankering for Asian food will be able to satisfy their craving with a fragrant Malaysian curry from Taste of Malaysia. There’s everything from authentic Spanish paella and tapas at Andaluse Paella to the ultimate El Alamo indulgence: Nutella empandas with ice cream. (Excuse us for a sec while we collapse at the thought.) Regular Prahran Market-goers will also remember Hungarian Street Food and Lusty Fine Pulled Pork, two 38 • THE MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014
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LIVE THIS WEEK
CHART WRAP
BOYS IN VANNS
NEW MOON
FEELING FRIENDLY
Head to Shebeen Bandroom, 20 Nov for the Operator single launch by the boys from The Vanns. It promises to throw shade, energy and good vibes. Halcyon Drive and Tyne-James Organ support on the night.
On 20 Nov, Edinburgh Castle Hotel hosts Sarah Humphreys as part of her New Moon album launch tour. Joining her on the night are Kris Morris and Harry Hookey. After that, Humphreys and Morris will also perform at Wesley Anne.
Melbourne psych rockers Fifth Friend hit The Catfish for two shows in November, starting with 20 Nov before another gig the week after. Psycho Alice, Danika Smith & The Darling Hearts and The Ten Cent Pistols support.
MUSCLE BEACH
HAVIN’ A BALLY
COMFY SHORT SHORTS
Muscle Beach reunites after drummer Snake returns from India. Initially in search of enlightenment, he searched and gloriously found tapeworm instead. They’ll bring their unique brand of muscle punk 21 Nov at The Public Bar.
The Bally On High Festival is coming to the front of the Northcote Town Hall between 21 Nov and 7 Dec. A bright circus tent will be host to a variety of events including Dave Callan, Andrew McClelland, NICA circus and more.
Loop presents their monthly film night of local and international shorts. Sit back in your comfy shorts with free snacks, have a Q&A session with writers and directors, and exploit the extensive choice at the bar. Only $9 entry 22 Nov, 7-10pm.
THRILL OF THE CHASE
LOOKIN’ AT YOU, KID
BLUEGRASS BROTHERS
Award-winning cabaret artist Tomas Ford brings his show The Final Chase to The Butterfly Club, 19 – 23 Nov. The “noir-ashell” comedy sees Ford playing a suave spy who’s chasing down his arch-nemesis and a femme fatale through South East Asia.
Melbourne group Kid Radio have released their new single, Young Heart, which is all dance rhythms and soulful vocals. Move your body to it when the band play The Workers Club, 22 Nov, with support from Wzrdkd, Fortunes and Louie Knuxx.
Chris Henry & The Hardcore Bluegrass will take over Spotted Mallard on 20 Nov in a must-see for all lovers of bluegrass, folk and roots. Doors/dinner at 6pm before the show kicks off at 8.30pm.
DRUNKEN POET
HARDCORE ARMADA
CRATE DIGGERS
Brooke Russell plays with Pat Tierney at The Drunken Poet. For songs of love, redemption and boozy nights, drawing from swing, jazz and country, head to the Poet on 23 Nov from 4pm.
Off the back of the release of singles Ghosts In Glass Houses and We Are The Night, post-hardcore band Renegade Armada launch their debut EP Violent Carousel at Evelyn Hotel 22 Nov. Take Us To Vegas, Emberville, Fail The Abstract and Hideaway also play.
On 21 Nov Rubix The Venue hosts Mixed Crate Volume 2. Across two rooms, SK & Dub Princess, Cfour & Clemens and more bust out live dub, jungle and drum & bass; and Z Dott, Blank Screens and Nicolai Berghan pump deep tech house.
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The Smith Street Band have taken out the highest-placing debut on this week’s Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, earning the #3 spot on the Albums Chart for third studio full-length Throw Me In The River. The lads were far and away the strongest new entrants of the week, with Hand Of Mercy’s Resolve stepping out at #6 and veteran country man Lee Kernaghan taking out #7 with newest LP Driving Home For Christmas. Stalwart rock troupe King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard also make a top 20 debut this week, with I’m In Your Mind Fuzz claiming #19 on entry. The strong performance from The Smith Street Band isn’t enough to upset the top two albums, which jostle among themselves to see Hilltop Hoods’ Walking Under Stars reclaim pole position and Flight Facilities’ Down To Earth drop to #2. Similarly, Missy Higgins (Oz) and Jimmy Barnes (30:30 Hindsight) hang tough to occupy #4 and #5 respectively. We also see a re-entry from the workhorse-like Dan Sultan, whose acclaimed fulllength Blackbird is back on the ladder at #11, as well as from the ubiquitous Hilltops; their Drinking From The Sun LP has reappeared at #17. It was a far more sedate week in the singles stakes; the sole debutant is Bombs Away and their fresh cut Bassline Maniacs, featuring Peep This and Bounce Inc. Otherwise, the rankings remain par for the recent course, with Timmy Trumpet’s Freaks atop the pile of familiar faces for yet another week; Trumpet, Hilltop Hoods, Sheppard, Vance Joy, Flight Facilities, and Peking Duk all boast multiple entries on the ladder. THE MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014 • 39
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SINGLE FOCUS
SINGLE FOCUS
debut EP which is out now, called Love Gracefully.
AIRLING Answered by: Hannah Shepherd Single title? Wasted Pilots What’s the song about? Someone who’s lost everything, keeps taking blows beyond their control; their life journey’s like a plane flown by “wasted pilots”. How long did it take to write/ record? We recorded Wasted Pilots and another four tracks in a week down in Melbourne and I think I wrote the song, coming back to it every now and again, over about a month. Is this track from a forthcoming release/existing release? It is the third single off my
What was inspiring you during the song’s writing and recording? Life and the people I was working with (Tom Iansek and Graham Ritchie) were inspiring me during the writing and recording process. Also, other music that I’ve been vibing helped fuel the creative fire inside. We’ll like this song if we like... Music with soul and dream beats, or things like Little Dragon, Destiny’s Child, Chet Faker, Braids, James Vincent McMorrow... Do you play it differently live? Not particularly as we play all the parts we recorded. So it’s the same, but we just add dance moves :) When and where is your launch/next gig? My next gig is at Falls Festival in Byron Bay! 30 Dec – 3 Jan. Website link for more info? airling.net
GUARDS OF MAY
What was inspiring you during the song’s writing and recording? Randy Crawford – One Day I’ll Fly Away.
Answered by: Keita Neralic Single title? Annotata
We’ll like this song if we like... Oceansize, Deftones, Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Butterfly Effect, Sunk Loto, Karnivool, Whitesnake, Twelve Foot Ninja, The Getaway Plan.
What’s the song about? Living in a free world under constant surveillance. How long did it take to write/ record? The earliest demos appeared in May 2013, since then it stayed in a constant state of change until a mere two days before we released it.
Do you play it differently live? We play it much louder and with more heavy breathing.
Is this track from a forthcoming release/existing release? Oh yes, this song is indeed a part of a larger project that we have yet to name, but so far we’ll call it “Debut Album”.
BIRTHDAY BASH
When and where is your launch/next gig? Ding Dong Lounge, 22 Nov. Website link for more info? guardsofmay.com
JUST VISITING
What’s the thing you’re most proud of that your club’s contributed to the music scene in the last year? A good small room, with great sound and friendly atmosphere... and really good booze.
THE CATFISH What’s happened with the venue since your last birthday? This is our first! So nearly 365 days of quality craft beer, free live music and great cheesesteaks. What do you put the success of your venue down to? We’re just a small local. We try and serve good booze, with a smile and no pretension, until late, daily. Has anyone ever worn their birthday suit in your club? No, or they’ll get the hose! What’s the weirdest thing in the last year you’ve found when the lights have come on? No comment... 40 • THE HHEE M MUSIC • 19TH NOVEMBER 2014
What sort of celebration is in order? Elvis spinning disks, Holy Moses Heartache, Jules Boult, The Taranatinos and The Eighty 88s AND we’re launching our own beer! The record I’m loving right now is… There’s a few, but we’re really been playing a heap of New Orleans Funk & Soul & some classic rock tunes, to help mourn missing the Rolling Stones tour. When’s the party? Friday 21 to Sunday 23 Nov. Our 1st Birthday Fitzroy Craft Bar Poker Crawl on Saturday will be amazing. Check Facebook for details, as it’s free and there’ll be heaps of giveaways. Website link for more info? facebook.com/thecatfishfitzroy S U P P O R T I N G
BROKEN DOLL Answered by: Kensuke Why are you coming to visit our fair country? Invited from Japan by Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane for Future Beauty Up Late. So we do tour. We have a lot of fans in Australia. It’s amazing! Is this your f irst visit? I’m so excited! I can’t wait! Finally my dream came true that we perform concert in Australia. How long are you here for? Three shows. One week. The sound is Japanese Kawaii Rock! There are no bands playing Kawaii Rock in JAPAN. I started Broken Doll when I began listening to Sex Pistols. Their fashion was so cool! I N D E P E N D E N T
What do you know about Australia, in ten words or less? AC/DC. Men At Work. Great nature of Australia. Sea. Sky. Park. Any extra-curricular activities you hope to participate in? I love making music, lyrics, recording band’s song myself, mastering myself, design clothes for our concert. I love DIY everything. What will you be taking home as a souvenir? Shopping. Kangaroo. Great memory. Many friends. Where can we come say hi, and buy you an Aussie beer? Ding Dong Lounge, 23 Nov. Website link for more info? brokendoll.jp
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EP FOCUS
GETTIN’ COMFY
What’s your favourite song on it? Both Alone is my favourite track on the EP. I love how it builds from a simple progression of notes.
FIFTH FRIEND
How many releases do you have now? Technically we have two releases. The previous EP was a solo effort, recorded in Brisbane, with Lauren playing all instruments.
We’ll like this EP if we like... Road trips, folk songs, summer time, leaving home, mandolin, violin, Bright Eyes, the Australian accent, honesty, Noah & The Whale, female harmonies and driving bass lines.
Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making? Our sound engineer, Damien, was such a driving force of inspiration during the recording and mixing process. We’re a better band because of him. I also was inspired by Bright Eyes’s Road To Joy.
Website link for more info? facebook.com/pepperjackmusic
What is it about the venue that makes you want to a run of shows there? It’s a nice open space, with the stage the same level as the crowd, so it’ll be a joy to be close and personal with the audience foe a change. Like a garage or shed!
PEPPERJACK Answered by: Lauren Moore EP title? Buckles & Bruises
your tenure? Quite possibly, but it’ll be a secret surprise!
Answered by: Leonardo Caltabiano
Favourite position at the venue when you’re not on stage? Right up the front. It’s the only way. When are you in residence? Two weeks: a mini residency, both Thursdays 20 and 27 Nov. Website link for more info? fifthfriend.com
Same set every week or mixing it up? We’ll be mixing it up over the two weeks. Different jams, different sets; we’ll be approaching it with a heap of freedom. Any special guests going to make an appearance during
ALBUM FOCUS
HAT FITZ & CARA ROBINSON Answered by: Cara Robinson Album title? Do Tell Where did the title of your new album come from? It was named after one of the songs on the album about a fridge of Fitzy’s. It had been in the family for some time and so became almost a signature piece on every gig. How many releases do you have now? Between the two of us we have three releases. How long did it take to write/ record? It was a process of a several months writing and believe it or not just three days in the recording
studio studio with Jeff Lang. Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making? As we had to have a year off because of a car crash it was totally inspiring just to be playing again with mostly freedom from pain. What’s your favourite song on it? Mine is Fitzy’s selfpenned Long Dark Cloud. It’s deep and yet wistful. When and where is your launch/ next gig? 8 – 9 Nov, Bendigo Blues & Roots Festival; 22 Nov, Caravan Music Club; 23 Nov, Thornbury Theatre. Website link for more info? hatfitzandcara.com/live S U P P O R T I N G
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VICTORIA VOTES 2014
BUSINESS MUSIC
URBAN AND R&B NEWS WITH CYCLONE
BY ASHLEY ADMIRAAL CHAIR, MUSIC VICTORIA
WHEN YOUR CLUB NEEDS A BOSS WITH PAZ
TI’s ninth album, Paperwork, has been afforded a huge push in Australia. The Atlantan rapper, producer, mogul, novelist, actor and reality TV star (born Clifford Harris Jr) even visited on a promo tour – and he’s back performing next month. Possibly it’s all down to Tip’s patronage of Iggy Azalea (is he her ghostwriter?) and his cameo on Robin Thicke’s mega Blurred Lines. But, then again, Sony won a fierce bidding war for the King of the South and his Grand Hustle concern after he quit Atlantic. Harris debuted in 2001 with I’m Serious, The Neptunes among its producers. He followed with the prescient Trap Muzik. Yet his big break only arrived with 2008’s Paper Trail – album six. If Harris isn’t a household name like Jay Z here, it’s because jail time has restricted his global career ambitions. The first in a trilogy, Paperwork, with Pharrell Williams as executive producer, has the same hustler soul and funk orientation as Hova’s The Blueprint. Williams’ G’ Shit (with Young Jeezy) is derivative of Nelly’s Hot In Herre. Way better is Oh Yeah – Prince-meets-OutKast gospeldelica. No Mediocre, with Iggy and DJ Mustard’s xylophoney beats, is okay. Harris’ old homie DJ Toomp concocts some cred cloud rap (On Doe, On Phil). And Usher rocks up for the nasty-yet-nice trap banger At Ya’ Own Risk. Despite his own weapons convictions, Harris is on point lyrically in the frenetic New National Anthem, an impassioned critique of America’s gun culture with its minority victims. This song, helmed by Tommy Brown, features Skylar Grey stepping in for... Lady Gaga. @therealcyclone
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A SLICE OF BOSS ZONKE
Buried on page 78 of Victorian Labor’s election manifesto Platform 2014, are words of considerable importance to the music industry: “Labor will: Replace Arts Victoria with a new State agency to lead whole-ofGovernment investment activity in the creative sectors to drive innovation and investment.” The working title of this new agency is ‘Creative Victoria’, and it will probably be housed in a new government department. This will mean the current Arts Victoria Act 1972 will need to be amended, or repealed and consolidated into a super-arts act along with the other statutes for the Arts Centre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, State Library and museums. Should Labor get in on November 29, this will result in serious implications for the $.5 billion a year Victorian government arts budget. Labor proposes to back the sector to the tune of $22.2 million in its Music Works policy. The 2014-15 $488 million arts budget provided scraps for contemporary music. For decades, successive governments have preferenced against contemporary music, in favour of ‘heritage’ music. Another problem with the current Arts Victoria model is that it doesn’t actually represent or champion contemporary music. Over the last four years, it’s not the arts portfolio which has championed contemporary music, it’s been the Minister for Liquor and Gaming regulation and the Department of Justice. It started with Michael O’Brien before he became Treasurer, and finished off with Edward O’Donohue, who delivered a series of welcomed reforms to: the liquor regulation regime; introduced agent of change
planning reform; de-regulated allages and mixed age gigs; kicked off reform to the environmental noise regulations; and provided a $500,000 fund for acoustic attenuation of live music venues. Enter Labor’s new agency Creative Victoria: “The role of this agency is to facilitate artistic and cultural benefits as well as generate new jobs and industries of the creative economy.” The model draws from international trends, with a nod to other Australian states including New South Wales which have pursued more assertive arts policies geared around the creative or knowledge economy, and emphasising economic development. These notions will be threatening to many in the arts community – but not to the contemporary music sector. The biggest client of the arts sector is government. Most arts organisations derive their income from a combination of Commonwealth government, state government, private sector benefactors, or their own commercially derived cash. From a creative economy perspective, the music sector ticks the boxes of artistic and cultural benefits, as well as being a net generator of economic activity. That’s essentially why Labor is putting up $22 million. For the longer term, in order to deliver on that investment and strategically plan, we need to think about where we want the Victorian music industry to be in ten years’ time. It’s about how we partner with government to provide structure and planning. It’s about a thriving music sector which delivers an economic and social dividend. The Creative Victoria model, if done properly, will set us in the right direction.
The Boyz N Bucks crew from Johannesburg have plenty of swagger. Most recently, Riky Rik released the infectious and bouncy call to order Boss Zonke. The translation isn’t clear but you could guess it asserts “pay attention, the boss is talking, pick up your game”. The Boyz N Bucks crew are inventing their own South African home brand of RnB and hip hop with a unique fusion of Afro production and MCing, working with the digital US version of minimal beats, then adding some indigenous flair with percussion and kwaito synths. The crew’s biggest export is Okmalumkoolkat, part of the crew Dirty Paraffin, and his recent signing to Austrian label Affine Records will see him release new material with Riky Rik and O.G S.A’s super export Spoek Mathambo. There’s plenty of back catalogue that won’t date for at least five years. Brussels meets Ghana on the recent A Slice Of Bass EP, out on Lowup Records. Based in Brussels, DJ Mellow has heated up dancefloors with plenty of trop-bass, and now he’s teamed up with Ghanaian MC Steloo for two impressive club ready tracks. The EP can nice up the dance in two different tempos, with Séké being the late night UK Funky-influenced burner, with A Slice Of Bread taking a page out of zouk bass and cumbia with stuttered cut-ups of MC Steloo alongside hoover bass and digital percussion.
RIKY RIK
opinion HOWZAT! LOCAL MUSIC BY JEFF JENKINS MILLER TIME Billy Miller is an Australian music legend. He starred in Jesus Christ Superstar, fronted The Ferrets and The Spaniards, and played with Stephen Cummings, Dave Graney, Rebecca Barnard and many others. Billy is still a prominent part of Melbourne’s music scene, and his son, Eddie, has a cool new band. The Big Order’s debut single, The Cheffington Post, whips up a mighty swamp-rock groove. Billy helped arrange and mix the song, “giving it the swank and glitter it required.” Models would have been proud of this track, and the band has also dug comparisons to Queens Of The Stone Age, The Kinks and Pixies, while citing Nick Cave, Beasts Of Bourbon and Silverchair as local influences. The Big Order have come a long way in a short time – their first gig was at Tago Mago on 10 Oct. “It was a vision splendour,” Eddie says,
“and then a bender.” Eddie met fellow singer and guitarist Callum Ramage when Cal was living at The George Public Bar. Eddie and Billy were doing The Beatles in The George Basement; Cal got up and brilliantly sang This Boy, and a new band was born, with Eddie and Cal hooking up with bass player Jack Supriyono and drummer Joe Cunliffe. Naming a new band is always a tricky proposition. The guys came up with ten ideas, put them in a hat and pulled out “The Big Order”, which was better than some of the other options, including The Michael Douglas Express and The Environ Mentals. As for the single title, Eddie explains: “We call our party times our ‘Cheffing times’. The Cheffington Post is our transcript for telegraphing our madness.” Has Eddie had a favourite description of the single? “Sarcasmic.” The Big Order are launching it at the Lyrebird Lounge in Ripponlea on 21 Nov. The band is also
THE BIG ORDER
busy making an album at Dave Graney’s house in the hills, for which Billy Miller is a spiritual advisor. “Dad will always be a great influence on all of us,” Eddie says. “The Yoda of our sacred Jedi Order.” BACK TO EARTH Melbourne’s finest purveyors of Britpop, The Earthmen, are planning to record some new songs for an anthology to be released by Popboomerang Records next year. Some reunion gigs are also on the radar. OILS STILL BURN So will we get to see more Midnight Oil? On RRR, Rob Hirst didn’t rule out a
reunion, revealing that the Oils exhibition will be at the Arts Centre in Melbourne in November next year. And Jim Moginie recently told Sydney’s WSFM: “Why wouldn’t you play the songs that are so much a part of who you are, to people who want to hear them?” STAY YOUNG We remember the great Michael Hutchence, who died 17 years ago on 22 Nov, aged 37. HOT LINE “Everyone’s in love with someone else today,” Andy White, Everyone’s In Love.
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the guide vic.gigguide@themusic.com.au Brooke Russell & The Mean Reds + James Kenyon: Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford
THE MUSIC PRESENTS Zoo MMW Live Music Safari: 20 Nov Tattersalls Lane Daily Meds: 20 Nov Howler Dallas Frasca: 21 Nov Baha Tacos Rye; 5 Dec The Golden Vine Bendigo; 12 Dec Yah Yah’s The Smith Street Band: 26–28 Nov Corner Hotel; 6 Dec Reverence Hotel Pierce Brothers: 28 Nov Spirit Bar & Lounge Traralgon; 4 Dec Torquay Hotel Violent Soho: 28 Nov 170 Russell Portugal. The Man: 28 Nov Torquay Hotel; 29 Nov The Westernport Hotel San Remo; 30 Nov The Deck The Delta Riggs: 29 Nov Ding Dong Lounge San Cisco: 29 & 30 Nov Corner Hotel
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The Return of Daddy Cool feat. Daddy Cool + Russell Morris + Stonefield + Jess Cornelius + more: 170 Russell, Melbourne The Vacant Smiles + Michael Planter & The Exit Keys + more: Bar Open, Fitzroy The Melbourne Folk Club feat. Del Barber + CR Avery: Bella Union, Carlton South MMW feat. Sweet Jean: Blueprint Furniture, North Melbourne Superstar Wednesday + Bandcamp Hunter: Catfish, Fitzroy Klub MUK: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (6pm), Brunswick JMC Showcase + Various Artists: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy The Dilettante Hater’s Eclecticism + The Firebird Trio: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank
Sage Francis: 4 Dec Corner Hotel
Chronixx: 11 Dec The Espy Gyroscope: 13 Dec Corner Hotel Thy Art Is Murder: 13 Dec The Hi-Fi; 14 Central Ringwood Community Centre Dead Letter Circus: 20 Dec The Hi-Fi Jungle: 4 Feb 170 Russell UBERfest: 1 Mar Elephant & Wheelbarrow 65daysofstatic: 8 & 9 Mar Northcote Social Club Band Of Skulls: 7 Apr Corner Hotel
Murdena + Cabbages & Kings + The Willie Wagtails: The Old Bar, Fitzroy MMW feat. Marcus Whale + Banoffee + Brendan Welch + Two Bright Lakes DJs: The Toff In Town, Melbourne DD & the Damaged Goods + Lieutenant Jam + Slow Galo: The Tote, Collingwood Tulalah + Lazercatz 2000 + Rita Satch: The Workers Club, Fitzroy Antechamber + Smeathers/ Charles/Barnes + Lewis Warren Burt + Prime: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote
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Lucky Thursdays + Various DJs: 170 Russell, Melbourne MMW present: Sorcerer played by + Tangerine Dream: ACMI (Australian Centre For The Moving Image), Melbourne
Temple Agents: Prince Bandroom, St Kilda MMW feat. Pachanga Boys + Optimo: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
The Preatures + Holy Holy: Barwon Club, South Geelong
Kris Schroeder + David Bramble: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Katy Perry + Betty Who: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Laborastory + Various Artists: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Elisha Maiyah + Luis Poblete + Shanti Amelia: The B.East, Brunswick East Pensive Penguin + Andrew Swift + Nathan Brailey + Jay Wars: The Bendigo, Collingwood Wine, Whiskey, Women feat. Janine Marshall + Peny Bohan: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne Inventions: The Espy, St Kilda Alanna Eileen: The Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North
Ne Obliviscaris + Beyond Creation + Hadal Maw: 170 Russell, Melbourne
The War On Drugs: 8 & 16 Dec 170 Russell; 11 Dec The Hi-Fi
Prince Purple Rain Tribute Night with Various Artists: Bar Open, Fitzroy
MMW feat. Gold Class: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
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Jack Carty: 4 Dec Howler; 5 Dec Kay St Traralgon; 6 Dec Montrose Town Centre; 7 Dec Bended Elbow Geelong
Ezekiel Ox: Beav’s Bar, Geelong MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. The Furbelows + Joseph O’Connor + Tom Noonan: Bennetts Lane, Melbourne MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. Kirkis + Silentjay + Wax’o Paradiso + Versaj: Boney, Melbourne Fifth Friend + Psycho Alice + Danika Smith + Ten Cent Pistols: Catfish, Fitzroy MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. The Harlots + Stella Angelico + Kingston Crown: Cherry Bar, Melbourne Bang feat. Trophy Eyes + Endless Heights + Landscapes + Columbus: Colonial Hotel, Melbourne
GIG OF THE WEEK LOVE LIKE HATE: 20 NOV THE B.EAST; 24 NOV THE PUBLIC BAR Paul Dempsey: Corner Hotel, Richmond
The Anecdote + Damen Samuel: Sooki Lounge, Belgrave
MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. Jakubi + Ngaiire: Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
Chris Henry & The Hardcore Grass: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick
EC Cocktail Hour with + MRSPKR + King Lucho: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (6.30pm), Brunswick
Love Like Hate + Hayley Couper: The B.East, Brunswick East
Sarah Humphreys + Kris Morris: Edinburgh Castle Hotel (8pm), Brunswick Echo Drama + Madre Monte + Deep Fried Dub: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy MMW feat. Soul Safari + The Perfections + Mayfield: Federation Square, Melbourne Zoo - MMW Live Music Safari + Brawther + City Calm Down + Paces + Chiefs + Milwaukee Banks + Scatter Scatter Tropical Discotheque + more: Ferdydurke (FerdyDurke, Section 8, Tattersalls & Stevenson Lanes), Melbourne NOFX: Forum Theatre, Melbourne The Juke Joint feat. Daily Meds + Safire + Cheshire + Able8 + Deefin: Howler, Brunswick MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. + Japanese Wallpaper + Lucianblomkamp + KLO: Kelvin Club, Melbourne MMW feat. Sleep D + Harvey Sutherland + Tom Day + Kangaroo Skull: Lounge, Melbourne The New Palm Court Orchestra + Gemma Turvey: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank Little May: Northcote Social Club, Northcote The Rebirth Of Cool + Mr Lob + Guests: Penny Black, Brunswick MMW feat. Kingswood: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne MMW feat. Holy Lotus: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne Duncan Graham & His Co-Accused + Johnny Gibson & The Hangovers + The Ol Faithfuls: Railway Hotel, Brunswick Steel Birds + Ross Evans + Mike Waters: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Zoo - MMW Live Music Safari + Brawther + City Calm Down + Paces + Chiefs + Milwaukee Banks + Scatter Scatter Tropical Discotheque + more: Section 8 (FerdyDurke, Section 8, Tattersalls & Stevenson Lanes), Melbourne The Vanns: Shebeen Bandroom, Melbourne
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Shadowqueen + Amaronix + Tragic Earth + more: The Bendigo, Collingwood Busby Marou (Acoustic Duo) + Fiona Bevan + Zeek Power: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. + Vaudeville Smash + Sex On Toast + Sugar Fed Leopards: The Curtin, Carlton Glen Misto + Robert Muinos: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne Tam Vantage + Kinder + Cool Sounds: The Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North Earth Caller + Griever + Disaster Path + Shallow Grave + Autumn In Alaska: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood Where’s Joss + Bad Family + The Good Morrows + Magic America: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. + Rule of Thirds + Repairs + Lakes + Habits: The Liberty Social, Melbourne MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. + Rat & Co + Tornado Wallace + Otologic + Andee Frost: The Mercat, Melbourne
MMW present: The Blood of a Poet played by + The Church: ACMI (Australian Centre For The Moving Image), Melbourne Dallas Frasca + Police & Thieves + Eddie Wearne: Baha Tacos, Rye The Floating Bridges + Centre & The South + Jaju Choir: Bar Open, Fitzroy Yacht Club DJs + Hunting Grounds: Barwon Club, South Geelong Tkay Maidza: Can’t Say, Melbourne Busby Marou (Acoustic Duo) + Fiona Bevan + Zeek Power: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh 1st Birthday Party with Holy Moses Heartache: Catfish, Fitzroy Paul Dempsey: Corner Hotel, Richmond Sincerely Grizzly + Bad// Dreems + Dumb Punts: Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne DJ Lonewulf + Green’s Dairy Angel Ensemble: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick Into The Woods + Big Tobacco + Running Away With The Circus + Anti-Fall Movement: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy Groove Control + Various Artists: Ferdydurke, Melbourne The Russell Morris Band: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick NOFX: Forum Theatre, Melbourne Warmth Crashes In + Hollow Everdaze: Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood Nightmares On Wax (DJ Set) + Lower Spectrum + A13: Howler, Brunswick Josh Pyke + Jackson McLaren: Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Wasp Summer + The Cockles + Denim Owl + Gabriel Piras: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Twerkshop x Brooklyn Queenz: Lounge, Melbourne
Van Walker + Shane Reilly: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg
Michael Johnson & Time Traveller: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank
MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. + White Hex + Pearls + Little Desert: The Public Bar, North Melbourne MMW present: Live Music Safari feat. + The Harpoons + Parking Lot Experiments + Darcy Baylis + Downtime DJs: The Toff In Town, Melbourne Master Beta + Cosa Nostra + El Colosso + System of Venus: The Tote (Band Room), Collingwood The Loop Orchestra: The Tote (Upstairs), Collingwood Urban Problems: The Workers Club, Fitzroy Josh Pyke + Jackson McLaren: Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
Ezekiel Ox: Major Tom’s, Kyneton
Jericco + Circles + Guards Of May + Ergasia + Eater of the Sky: Music Man Megastore, Bendigo Friday Nights at Jean Paul Gaultier with Cumbia Cosmonauts: National Gallery of Victoria, Southbank Little May + Winterbourne: Northcote Social Club, Northcote MMW feat. Empat Lima: Phillips Shirts, Melbourne Forever Sons: Prince Bandroom (Public Bar), St Kilda MMW feat. Oneohtrix Point Never + Robin Fox + SIMULAE: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Sarah Humphreys + Kris Morris: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote
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the guide vic.gigguide@themusic.com.au Lupine + Oscar Buble & The Butterboys + DJ Shaky Memorial: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Chronicles 001 feat. Hiatus Kaiyote + Taylor McFerrin + Silent Jay + Jace XL + Clever Austin: Secret Location, Melbourne Melbourne Music Week: Yama feat. Cassius Select + Air Max ‘97 + Chiara Kickdrum + Jnett: Shebeen Bandroom, Melbourne Shanty Town + Yellingbo: Sooki Lounge, Belgrave Spoonful: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Strawberry Fields feat. AME + Antix + Anti-Kirkis + Baro + Brawther + Clever Austin + Gavin Herlihy + Gabriel Ananda + Giraffage + Grouch + Hiatus Kaiyote + more: Strawberry Fields, TBA De La Calle: The B.East, Brunswick East Broozer + Red Sky Burial + The Firing Line + Spidergoat Canyon: The Bendigo, Collingwood Gloss + Fabulous Diamonds + Miss Destiny + Jonny Telafone + DJ Ben Hepworth: The Curtin, Carlton
SAT 22
Busby Marou (Acoustic Duo) + Fiona Bevan + Zeek Power: Beav’s Bar, Geelong
Capital Club + Various DJs: 170 Russell, Melbourne
Bop Art with Hawaii + Lewis CanCut + Matt Radovich + Tigerfunk + Who: Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy
Ezekiel Ox: Baby Black Cafe, Bacchus Marsh The Floating Bridges: Baha Tacos, Rye
Easy Sundays feat. The Sons of May + Woodlock + Tom Richardson + Greta Stanley: Boney, Melbourne
Aurora Tide + Sway + Plymouth: Bar of Bengal (Kindred Studios), Yarraville The Dub Captains: Bar Open, Fitzroy
CHIEFS @ ZOO MMW LIVE MUSIC SAFARI: 20 NOV TATTERSALLS LANE
Josh Pyke + Jackson McLaren: Barwon Club, South Geelong Hideous Towns + Contrast + Zig Zag + Bad Family: Boney, Melbourne Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson + Alison Ferrier: Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh The Cavalier Catfish feat. Jules Boult + The Tarantinos: Catfish, Fitzroy Damn That River + Prymal + Vision Street: Cherry Bar, Melbourne Yacht Club DJs + Twinsy + Bel AIr: Corner Hotel, Richmond Doug Stanhope: Dallas Brooks Centre, East Melbourne
Goatpiss Gasoline: The Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North
Millions + High-Tails: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Dream On Dreamer + Glorified + Belle Haven + Spectral Fires: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
Betty Oswald + No Name Nath + Mr Lob + D’fro: Penny Black, Brunswick MMW feat. Kira Puru: Phillips Shirts, Melbourne Trophy Eyes + Endless Heights + Landscapes + Columbus: Portland Yacht Club (All Ages), Portland MMW feat. Beaches + Little Ugly Girls + Laura Jean: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Jericco + Circles + Guards Of May: Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
Nebraska + Ladie Dee: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
DJ Tech-No Shit: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick
Prong + Special Guests: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne
Wodonga Blues Fest 2014 feat. + Geoff Achison & The Soul Diggers + more: Edwards Tavern, Wodonga
Benjalu (Acoustic): Railway Hotel, Brunswick
Down On The Farm Music Festival feat. Cosmic Psychos + Warped + Drunk Mums + Bad//Dreems + more: Emu Plans Racecourse, Balnarring
Ghost Towns of The Midwest + Red Light Riot + Michael Meeking & The Lost Souls: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Wilding + Grand Prismatic + Slow Fires + Sean Molloy + Heels On Decks DJs: The Old Bar, Fitzroy Muscle Beach + Cosmic Kahuna + Squeen + OJ Simpson: The Public Bar, North Melbourne DJ Wet Wax: The Sporting Club, Brunswick The Ocean Party + Terrible Truths + Day Ravies + Milk Teddy + Gold Class: The Tote, Collingwood Grandstands + The Galaxy Folk + The Darjeelings + The Great Outdoors: The Workers Club, Fitzroy The Dead Pharoahs + Jacinta Le: Victoria Hotel, Brunswick Voix De Ville: Wesley Anne, Northcote Trophy Eyes + Endless Heights + Landscapes + Columbus: Wrangler Studios (All Ages), West Footscray
Renegade Armada + Take Us To Vegas + Emberville + Fail The Abstract + Hideaway: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy Giants of 60s British Rock Show feat. Paul Wookey + The Substitutes: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick The Preatures + Holy Holy: Forum Theatre, Melbourne Speed Orange + Middle Age Weirdo: Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood Centre of Attention - The Ultimate Variety Night Fundraiser! + Various Artists: Howler, Brunswick
The Eighty 88s: Catfish, Fitzroy
Murphy’s Law: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank
Harry Jakamarra: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne
Garage AGoGo with Barbara Blaze + Mesa Cosa + Toga Rock: The Luwow, Fitzroy
The Russell Morris Band + Gallie: Caravan Music Club (3pm), Oakleigh
MMW feat. Midnight Juggernauts + DJ Kirin J Callinan + Pelvis DJs: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Fats Wah Wah: Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy
Black Jesus + Caged Grave + Counter Attack + Cordell: Reverence Hotel (Band Room), Footscray Bang: Prom ‘14 feat. The Happy Endings + Spook The Banshee + Turn South: Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Young Magic + Rat & Co + Queen Magic: Shebeen Bandroom, Melbourne The Bakersfield Glee Club: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Doug De Vries Gafieira Hot Five: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Strawberry Fields: Strawberry Fields, TBA
Nick Murphy + Band: Labour In Vain, Fitzroy
Wasp Summer + Emma Russack: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine
Mania feat. Misty Nights + Otologic + Ben Fester + Sleep D: Lounge, Melbourne
Saskwatch + GL + Robert Muinos + DJ Rusty + more: The Curtin, Carlton
Ray Chen + Timothy Young: Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall), Southbank
Lazy Eye Band: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne
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Kimbra + Banoffee: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Busby Marou (Acoustic Duo) + Fiona Bevan + Zeek Power: The Loft, Warrnambool Tiki Mai-Tai Crawl with Intoxica + Nuholani Wahines + The Gogo Goddesses: The Luwow, Fitzroy Hoodlum Shouts + Infinite Void + Regrets + Kissing Booth: The Old Bar, Fitzroy Maids + Chores + Since We Kissed: The Public Bar, North Melbourne
Yacht Club DJs + Bel AIr + Hunting Grounds: Corner Hotel, Richmond Broken Doll + Empat Lima: Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Ellie B: Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick Wodonga Blues Fest 2014 feat. Jeff Lang + Geoff Achison + Phil Manning + more: Edwards Tavern, Wodonga Stephen Cummings + Socks & Sandals: Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick The Good Deed - Launch Party Benefit + Various Artists: Howler, Brunswick The JVG Guitar Method: Labour In Vain, Fitzroy Inessa Galante: Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall), Southbank
Safia + Moon Holiday + Alaska: The Residence, Melbourne
Tim Pledger’s Sandwich Jesus + Bat Country + Kewti: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Kisstroyer: The Sphinx Hotel, Geelong
Julian Simonsz: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Tinker Moustacha + more: The Thornbury Local, Thornbury
Forever Sons: Odyssey Tavern & Brewery, Mt Duneed
Johnny Rollins + Ceeko + Chachi: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
Afternoons On The Green + Heloise: Penny Black (Beer Garden), Brunswick
Chugga & The Fuckheads + Orb: The Tote (Front Bar), Collingwood
Francisco’s Fortune + Davy Simony: Penny Black (Main Bar), Brunswick
Kid Radio: The Workers Club, Fitzroy
Easy Now feat. Agent 86 + Tom Showtime + DJ Maars: Penny Black, Brunswick
Patrick Roberts: Thornbury Theatre (Ballroom), Thornbury Jed Appleton: Wesley Anne, Northcote The End of an Era + Pounce: Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East
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MMW feat. DJ Spinn + Remi + Joe Kay: Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne Justin Bernasconi & The Dukes of Thornbury + Flash Company + Mitch Ward + Emma Gerard: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick Jerome Knappett + Mick Porter + Steve Farmer: Reverence Hotel (Front Bar), Footscray
Trivium + In Flames: 170 Russell, Melbourne
Backwood Creatures: Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North
Mal Webb + Kylie Morrigan: 303 (4pm), Northcote
Tristian v The Spider: Skyways Hotel, Airport West
Anne Of The Wolves + Lanks + Michael Crowe: Bar Open, Fitzroy
Betty & Oswald: Sooki Lounge, Belgrave
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the guide vic.gigguide@themusic.com.au Shaking the Tree Concert Party + The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Music Group: Spotted Mallard, Brunswick Folklore + Melbourne Musicians Society: St Johns Southgate, Southbank Strawberry Fields feat. Various Artists: Strawberry Fields, TBA Davidson Brothers: The B.East, Brunswick East Slow Galo: The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Pat Tierney + Brooke Russell: The Drunken Poet, Melbourne Dale Ryder Band + Stand And Deliver: The Espy (Front Bar), St Kilda Cultivation Fest feat. Once Were Wild + The Essentials + Biddlewood + Pinball Machine + The Marlenes + Seb Szabo + more: The Espy (Basement), St Kilda The Four Scoops: The Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North Millions + High-Tails: The Gasometer Hotel (Under 18’s / 1.30pm), Collingwood
TUE 25
Dan Lethbridge & The Campaigners: The Post Office Hotel, Coburg
Animal Hands + Two Headed Dog + Long Holiday: Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Sunday School with Catsuit + Gurner: The Public Bar, North Melbourne Awomadah fig: The Thornbury Local, Thornbury
Blind Love & Other Stories with Ratcat + Special Guests: Corner Hotel, Richmond
Green Lane Festival feat. Dreadnaught + Motherslug + more: The Tote, Collingwood
Forever Sons: Ferdydurke, Melbourne Morning Melodies + Hans De Bakker: Manningham Hotel & Club, Bulleen
Mel Calia and The Yeah Nahs Used You + After The Curfew + Like Fools: The Workers Club, Fitzroy Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson: Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet: Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall), Southbank
Slide Night: Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote
ACME: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank
Renegade Armada + Take Us To Vegas + Emberville: Wrangler Studios (All Ages), West Footscray
MON 24
BUSBY MAROU: 20 NOV THE BRIDGE HOTEL CASTLEMAINE
Les Thomas: The Gasometer Hotel (Front Bar), Collingwood
Trivium + In Flames: 170 Russell, Melbourne
Monday Night Mass feat. The Infants + The Spinning Rooms + Rogue Wavs: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
HTML Flowers: Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
Paul WIlliamson’s Hammond Combo: Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy
Josh Pyke + Jackson McLaren: The Loft, Warrnambool
Plexus: Melbourne Recital Centre (Salon), Southbank
Clive J Mann + Julitha Ryan Band + Vista Point: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Vivaldi Recomposed + Max Richter: Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall), Southbank
Emilee South + Jane McArthur: Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Love Like Hate + The Divine Fluxus: The Public Bar, North Melbourne
Pat Tierney + Timothy Neilson + The Glorious North Duo: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Call It In with James Tom + Dylan Michel: The Toff In Town, Melbourne
Gods + Plebs: The Public Bar, North Melbourne Sinful Pleasures (Burlesque): Wesley Anne (Band Room), Northcote
The Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra + Gary Pinto: The Apartment, Melbourne
Violent Soho + Special Guests: Yahoo Bar, Shepparton
Mundane Mondays with KELL//UA + Tim Coster + Bad Bones: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
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