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LOCAL LEGEND DRAPHT HAS BEEN FLYING UNDER THE RADAR AS OF LATE, BUT OLIVIA GARDNER FIND OUT HE’S THE BUSIEST HE’S EVER BEEN [P15]

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“AS THE SONG WRAPPED UP, SANS VOCALS, SEVERAL OF HILL’S CHILDREN CAME ON STAGE WITH A BIRTHDAY CAKE.” LAURYN HILL CELEBRATES HER BIRTHDAY AT FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE. READ THE FULL REVIEW OF THE SHOW AT THEMUSIC.COM.AU.

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With a wall as their canvas and impulsive creativity as their tool, ﬁve artists will go head to head on 31 May at the Wall To Wall Live Painting Exhibition at Corner Gallery in Subiaco. Artists RLSM, Girl Toy, Kiara Thomas, Fieldy and Breeze E will have two hours to create artwork on the walls of the gallery. Attendees will vote for the winner by dropping bottle caps into the best artist’s jar, with winners announced at 8.30pm.

Over the past two years, Gomez has been testing traditional family recipes utilising prime Australian produce, time-honoured techniques and authentic spices to bring Australians the best cured meats possible. To try La Boqueria’s latest range of Spanish cuisine, head to The Boatshed Cottesloe on 30 May or Fresh Provisions Mount Lawley on 31 May at 3.30pm for free taste testings.

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State Of The Art returns to Perth this WA long weekend to showcase the diverse range of arts on oﬀer within our ﬁne state. Spanning eras and ranging genres, the line-up includes the likes of Drapht, Eskimo Joe and San Cisco, a DJ set from Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, live visual art, acoustic performances, a food truck market and more. Celebrate the arts of our state with over 70 artists across multiple stages at the Perth Cultural Centre on 31 May.

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national news news@themusic.com.au KATE MILLER-HEIDKE

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Neil Gaiman compared her voice to “being fucked by butterflies” – what more do you need to know about Kate Miller-Heidke? Clearly though, Gaiman isn’t the only one enamoured with the Brisbane songstress, who managed to crowdfund her latest album O Vertigo! in a remarkable three days. KMH hits the road to showcase this latest offering, performing 1 Aug, Astor Theatre, Perth; 7 Aug, Empire Church Theatre, Toowoomba; 8 Aug, QPAC, Brisbane; 16 Aug, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Penrith; 22 Aug, Newcastle City Hall; 23 Aug, Canberra Theatre; 26 Aug, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong; and 29 Aug, Melbourne Recital Centre. Word has it she’s disappearing overseas for a substantial amount of time after these shows, so make sure you send her off the right way!

GIVE US SOMETHING TO BREAK

Picking up where they left off following their Faceless launch dates, Buried In Verona are back at it again, heading up the Midyear Mayhem tour, which also features Antagonist AD and Stories. Catch the bands 17 Jul, The Brightside, Brisbane; 18 Jul, The Lab, Brisbane*; 19 Jul, Masonic Hall, Blacktown*; 20 Jul, Bald Faced Stag, Sydney*; 23 Jul, Small Ballroom, Newcastle; 24 Jul, Magpies, Canberra*; 25 Jul, Phoenix Youth Centre, Melbourne*; and 26 Jul, Evelyn Hotel, Melbourne. BIV, meanwhile, will be going it alone out west, playing with local supports 1 Aug, Prince Of Wales Hotel, Bunbury; 2 Aug, Amplifier Bar, Perth; and 3 Aug, YMCA HQ, Perth* (*all ages).

ONLY WAY IS UP

The screams are no doubt going to be window-shattering when pop superstars One Direction return Down Under for a massive stadium tour of the country. Catch up with Harry, Zayn, Niall, Louis and Liam when they run through their platinum selling catalogue 7 Feb, Allianz Stadium, Sydney; 11 Feb, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane; 14 Feb, Etihad Stadium, Melbourne; and 20 Feb, Patersons Stadium, Perth.

PAINT THE TOWN RED

Death metal doesn’t get any more punishing than Cannibal Corpse; they practically designed the brutal genre, and with every new record they continue to redesign it. Gear up for some blunt force trauma when the US maniacs team up with fiery Italians Hour Of Penance to spread the hate round the country. The two bands play 9 Sep, Capitol, Perth; 11 Sep, Metro Theatre, Sydney; 12 Sep, 170 Russell, Melbourne; and 13 Sep, The Hi-Fi, Brisbane.

“AREN’T WE WELL PAST THE POINT OF HAVING TO CLARIFY ‘NO SMOKING’ ON THE FLIGHT? LIKE ANNOUNCING ‘NO BEING A VIKING’” BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE POOR VIKINGS @JOHNSAFRAN?

You’ve listened to them, your parents have listened to them, your grandparents have listened to them. There’s no arguing Eagles are a rock’n’roll institution and now you can experience the full extent of their musical worth when the band settle in for some massive dates as part of the History Of The Eagles world tour. The band play all ages shows at Perth Arena, 18 Feb; Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, 22 Feb; Hanging Rock Reserve, Macedon Ranges, 28 Feb; Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney, 2 Mar; Allphones Arena, Sydney, 4 Mar; Hope Estate, Hunter Valley, 7 Mar and Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 10 Mar. Tickets on sale 10 Jun.

AUSTRALIA FAREWELL

After more than a decade together Kids In Glass Houses have announced they’ll be calling it a day on a chequered career that’s brought with it four albums, numerous headline tours and loads of festival performances around the globe. They will tour the country a final time with Confidence, playing 21 Aug, Villa Nightclub, Perth; 23 Aug, Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne; 24 Aug, Wrangler Studios, Melbourne (all ages); 27 Aug, Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle; 28 Aug, Factory Theatre, Sydney (all ages); 30 Aug, The Brightside, Brisbane and 31 Aug, The Lab, Brisbane (all ages).

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Shooting has started on location in Boston for the new Whitey Bulger movie, based on the book Black Mass: The True Story Of An Unholy Alliance Between The FBI And The Irish Mob. The tentatively titled film Black Mass features the formidable talents of Johnny Depp, who’ll be starring as Bulger himself, while Aussie Joel Edgerton will act opposite Depp in the role of FBI Agent John Connolly. Directed by Scott Cooper, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros Pictures. THE MUSIC • 28TH MAY 2014 • 7

local news wa.news@themusic.com.au PHIL JAMIESON

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There’s exciting things happening within electro and house music at the moment, and Henry Fong only adds to it. Now calling LA home, the young producer has been on a production rampage, resulting in a Beatport Top 10 and tracks on Hysteria, Revealed and more. Fong’s music has seen support from Hardwell, Avicii, Armin Van Buuren, Calvin Harris, Knife Party, Bingo Players, Tommy Trash, and the list continues to grow. Fong is blowing the roof oﬀ Parker Nightclub with his big-room progressive/ electro sound on Friday 18 Jul and you can see it happen for $15 at the door.

ONE-MAN SHOW

Grinspoon’s frontman Phil Jamieson will play a series of solo acoustic shows in Perth and regional Western Australia next month. Jamieson’s live solo performance will feature reworked classics from the ‘Spooners, as well as some solo works. These shows oﬀer a rare opportunity to hear songs that have kept him in the spotlight for 15 years in a fresh format while he tests the water with some new tracks for an upcoming solo recording. Catch him at Northshore Tavern, Hillarys, 26 Jun; Leisure Inn, Rockingham, 27 Jun; Dunsborough Hotel, 28 Jun; Prince of Wales, Bunbury, 29 Jun; and The Saint, Innaloo, 2 Jul.

HOUSE RULES Habitat are proud to announce the return of Spanish DJ/Producer Henry Saiz. His music, as well as his work as a sound designer for ﬁlm and TV has always been marked as forward-thinking in approach and ground-breaking in delivery. Saiz’ sound refuses to fall into a singular category and incorporates this into his live and DJ sets by forging a perfect balance of electronica, disco, house and techno. Catch him at Geisha Bar on Friday 6 Jun – tickets from eventbrite.com.au

NEXT CHAPTER Perth’s Leure is bringing us one final performance at Mojos on Saturday 7 Jun before heading off to Amsterdam for an artist residency to write an album. This show commemorates her new EP, titled Lightfields, which she worked on throughout and after her adventures through Europe in 2013. Joining Leure for the evening will be the ever-talented Leon Osborn, Catlips and Jack Doepel on the decks.

EP EXCLUSIVE Recorded over the course of 2013 in a bike factory somewhere in Bayswater, Mt Mountain’s debut EP is ready for release. Over ﬁve tracks, including their latest single She Runs, the band manages to take you on a journey through soft, orchestral sounds mixed with summery surf soundtracks. The locals will be playing at the Rosemount Hotel on Friday 20 Jun and will have support from friends in PUCK, Lanark and Dream Rimmy.

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FOR THE LIVING

Perth-based indie-rock trio The Insatiables have been hard at work putting together new jams, but this celebration comes in the form of a new music clip for their track, For The Living. The tune is a gentle whirlpool of wonderful soft-rock instrumental work with eﬀortlessly clever pop hooks and stylistic turns, all of which orbit around vocalist Cathii Hoare’s powerful voice. The group will be supported by The Wirebyrds and Such A Wreck at the Rosemount Hotel on Thursday 5 Jun.

DROP THE BASS

Major Bass is back at Villa ON 5 Jul for another huge evening of silent disco, featuring an all-star cast. Voted Best DJ at Breakspoll 2013, A Skillz is currently on a roll, and will be showcasing his eclectically funk-fused deck talents. UK-based DJ and producer Featurecast also appears on the bill, and will be providing some insane party beats on the back of an impressive Breakfest performance. Tee EL, Bezwun, and Beatslappaz also feature in what will be an amazing evening. Tickets from Moshtix.

HIGH AND MIGHTY

Renowned Irish multi-Platinum folk band The High Kings will hit Australia in September/October for a national tour in support of their latest album Friends For Life. Showcasing their incredible versatility both vocally and instrumentally (playing 13 instruments between them), The High Kings will bring infectious harmonies and a great acoustic ﬂavour to original songs (as well as some old favourites). The group plays at the Crown Perth on Saturday 5 Oct. Tickets available now from Ticketek.

OUT OF THE BLOCKS

Thursday 5 Jun at The Bird will see the launch of the long-awaited debut EP from Indigo. After being selected as one of the top ﬁve ﬁnalists in the First Break 2013 competition which saw the band compete in Sydney last December, the four Mandurah boys went on to open the main stage at Southbound 2014 and more recently were announced as winners of this year’s Ampfest band competition. The launch features support from Kat Wilson, Little Skye and Curtis McIntee. $15 at the door.

BOUND FOR GLORY

Brisbane hardcore group Bound for Ruin are taking one last run around the country with their brand new single, From Victim to Villain. The single release will be the last from their latest album Oblivion before they move into new album recording phase. The boys are taking the opportunity to toast the album a ﬁnal time for themselves and the fans before returning home and putting all of their eﬀort into a new slab of their melodic hardcore bound for release next year. They play at the Civic Hotel with Anavar, Sanzu, Dawn of Leviathan and Fortsor on Friday 1 Aug. Facebook. com/boundforruin for ticket details.

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WE ARE FAMILY For the last decade, Ash Hosken (aka Diger Rokwell) and Tom Mathieson (Mathas) have represented about 30 artists of unique and interesting talents through The Community, an event which has evolved from a small group of likeminded beat obsessives into WA’s largest family of diverse, award-winning music and multimedia. To celebrate its tenth birthday and welcome a new era, The Community is putting on a huge tworoom party at The Bakery on 21 Jun, and features a slew of artists to help celebrate, including NAIK, DJ Silence and heaps more. Tickets from nowbaking.com.au.

round of exciting music artists to the bill for their boutique festival event Circo, taking place 28 Jun at Claremont Showgrounds. Hip hop producer Ryan Hemsworth, has been added and he will be joined by tropical trap producer L D R U from Sydney’s Future Classic. The addition of Yahtzel also continues the focus on the fresh wave of the Australian electronic scene. Tix from Ticketbooth.

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MAKING US PROUD

On the back of their highly acclaimed 2012 debut album The Time Traveller, Sydney progressive/alternative rockers Breaking Orbit are ready to release the first track from their forthcoming sophomore album, Become The Light, and hit the road with post-rockers sleepmakeswaves this July/August. Breaking Orbit’s hallmark manipulation of melody guides you through a sonic journey that seamlessly flows from quiet and contemplative to a controlled and intricate brutality. They play at Amplifier Bar on 8 Aug.

THAT’S A SNAP Announced via Snapchat, Perth-based creative collectives Metric and I.C.S.S.C. have added another

Perth supports for Earth’s national tour have been announced. Rachael Dease, who plays in Schvendes and was part of the award-winning production City Of Shadows, returns to the stage to debut her new band. She’ll be joined on the night by sound manipulators and guitar experimentalists Craig McElhinney and The Tigers’ Chris Cobilis, performing as a duo. The event takes place at the Rosemount Hotel on Wednesday 18 Jun, with tickets still available from Oztix.

FOAM PARTY Perth’s favourite grunge-rockers FOAM have just been announced as the main support act for the WA leg of Saskwatch’s national tour. The local three-piece released a split with local garage-rockers PUCK earlier this year and are fresh from supporting DZ Deathrays across the country, and will be sure to bring the momentum right across to these shows. The band plays Ampliﬁer Bar, 28 Jun; and Mojos, 29 Jun. Grab your tickets from Oztix.

SEIZE THE DAY

One of Australia’s finest and most respected heavy acts, Voyager, are touring the country this winter, supporting their latest release V – a powerful but melodic feast for the senses. Before jetting off for a run of concerts in Europe, the Perthbased band play Amplifier Bar, Perth, 26 Jul. Tickets available now from Oztix.

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EVERYDAY HEROES As well as making an impact, In Hearts Wake want to make a difference. Frontman Jake Taylor talks to Benny Doyle about the environmental ideals behind the band’s new record and how they’re hoping to soundtrack a movement.

t a time when the most celebrated word on the planet relates to taking a photo of one’s own face, it’s nice to see a band looking outwards rather than focusing inwards, especially a group so young. Almost two years on from their debut record Divination, a surprise success that found its way into the ARIA top 30, Byron Bay metalcore gang In Hearts Wake have returned to the soil with a far more organic hit of heavy – Earthwalker.

after,” Taylor reasons, “but you always have to go back and forth. The band then decamped to Michigan once more to work with ‘Metal Josh’ Schroeder, who also produced Divination. Here the unique messages of each song were woven seamlessly into one standout body of work. “It was just all about nailing the performances and bringing that epicness to life,” Taylor recalls. “And it has a lot more feel, this CD; there was a lot of extra emotion and energy [when recording], attitude when it was needed, but then [also] held off. It was such a big concept we were writing for – diversity is a big one – and it’s not always easy.”

are we sacrificing relationships, our financial situation, not doing all these things that our friends are doing like travelling the world? And I really realised [that] nothing’s changed – I’ve always been doing this for the message, and being a part of what I think is the bigger picture. And this was really, not taking a side, but really speaking out about it rather than being a person on the sideline. “After travelling and seeing a lot of the world with my family and band, I’ve grown to appreciate how lucky we are as Australians,” Taylor continues. “With that being said, I don’t want to see it turned to crap, and I feel that in the state of politics and just the way our economic structure is really heading, it’s worse than it’s ever been. That’s not saying that our dollar is bad, but if the government feels that we need to get our dollar stronger, boost our economy, they’re willing to turn back on every word; we’re talking hundreds of hectares here that they just want to give away because there’s ‘too much forest that’s been locked up’. “I feel that this is the turning point [to make a difference]. Just outside where we live in Byron Bay there’s a huge blockade in Bentley; people, protestors have been camping out there every night, and every morning the police show up trying to get through with all the bulldozers and fracking trucks, and the people are making a stand. It’s on

“WITH A LOT MORE PEOPLE REALLY RESPONDING TO THE MESSAGE AND BEING A PART OF THE EARTHWALKER MOVEMENT, IT DOES REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.”

“It’s evolving,” vocalist Jake Taylor says of the band’s music. “I’m not sure if these songs feel faster or [more] energetic, but there’s a lot more going on. The light and dark has even more of its ups and downs it feels like, but it’s gelling really well. Getting our head around all new material though is challenging, it’s good, and it’s fun to be getting to play the new stuff.” Going against the grain of an apathetic era where too many people simply don’t give a shit, In Hearts Wake are using their position to creatively raise awareness on environmental issues that we face in our backyard, and all around the globe. But while Taylor is singing about logging, mining and our own modern behavioural patterns reacting to such industry – or “being hippies” as one intellectual giant on Facebook put it – the music surrounding his words remains punishing and crisp. As much as the lyrics and sounds are individually powerful though, the two elements of the band are only able to hit so hard because of their co-dependence and ability to feed off each other. The five friends live close to one another in Byron so communication throughout the creation of Earthwalker was constant. But rather than hand his lyric sheet to guitarist Ben Nairne – who took the lead writing the music – Taylor instead would share the vibe he envisaged for a song. This left interpretation open for Nairne and the rest of the band – Eaven Dall (guitar), Kyle Erich (bass) and Caleb Burton (drums). “It’s like a writing a script to a movie, and then the soundtrack comes 10 • THE MUSIC • 28TH MAY 2014

Earthwalker makes the band’s message crystalclear – if we carry on remaining passive and keep allowing terrible decisions to be made by governments, things are quickly going to head south. We need unity between ourselves, and the land we walk on. However, Taylor says when the band started working on this second full-length there was no modus operandi, no ‘what we need to do’ or ‘what we should do’. This album was simply a natural extension of the band members as people – in musical and thematic form. “I definitely felt a responsibility,” the frontman admits. “At the end of the day, why am I doing this? Why are we doing all of this? Why

our doorstep, all of this, and I don’t want to be 50 and say I didn’t try. I definitely want our kids to inherit this beautiful country that we so love now.” Growing up in Byron Bay and being immersed in the Northern Rivers area – easily one of the most stunning regions of our country – In Hearts Wake didn’t find it hard to get inspired about their mission of change, one which has seen them partner up with carbon solutions provider Carbon Neutral and plant biodiverse native trees tying in with ticket and album presales. “Loving these beaches, loving these waterfalls, loving everything this place has to offer – that’s where that importance comes from,” Taylor says. “What makes me happy is going to those places – it really changes my whole day. Even when I think it might not, and I’m just in a mood or whatever, it will seriously just transform everything. If people don’t have that catalyst to do that in their lives, then that’s an unfortunate thing.” Baring their beliefs so honestly and passionately has unsurprisingly led to keyboard warriors having a dig at In Hearts Wake online. But Earthwalker succeeds in informing without preaching, a fine line that the band walk with ease. “It’s more just an appreciation for what we don’t want to lose – that’s the biggest message,” Taylor explains. “I think for the most part people are on board with it because at the end of the day it is a part

of the bigger picture, and any neglect to see that to me is ignorance, not about our music, but to see it’s for the good. There are people that will be confronted by it because they like that Hollywood buffer where everything is good. People like to feel good, they like to be happy, and they don’t want to understand and be shown what’s really happening because it makes them feel uncomfortable. But it’s necessary, it really is.” Did In Hearts Wake question what they were about, not only as musicians but as people? Of course they did, we all do. And there have been plenty of times in the past few years where the band asked if what they were doing was worth it – the financial pressures and social anxiety related to FOMO, an all too real occurrence in a digital age when everyone is putting their best foot forward on the internet. But now, with music as their bonding solution, they are helping to inspire a new generation of socially conscious individuals. “There’s definitely that doubt, as there is with any creative outlet, it comes into your mind – ‘Am I doing what I need to be doing?’” concedes

Taylor. “And I guess now with a lot more people really responding to the message and being a part of the Earthwalker movement, it does really feel like we’re doing the right thing. Y’know, planting trees, it may be a corny thing to some, but what a tree represents to me is life, it changes the weather, it can provide food for families; like, the ‘tree of life’ in many religions is such a symbolic thing, and the earth, I think it’s powerful.”

WHAT: Earthwalker (UNFD) WHEN & WHERE: 4 Jun, YMCA HQ; 5 Jun, Amplifier Bar

ACORNY WAY TO INTERACT In amongst all this musical progression and conservation, In Hearts Wake also managed to concoct a pretty novel way to connect with their fanbase and concurrently promote their new record. Head to the UNFD webpage and you’ll find the Earth Invaders online video game, a cute little procrastination assister, devised by the band and their label, which sees the boys redesigned in squirrel form throwing acorns at Tony Abbott’s nasty bulldozer brigade. High scores bring with them unreleased tracks and prizes, but everyone gets some lolz. “We’re always trying to offer different ways to release things and get really creative with it, because that’s the best way to engage fans other than have good songs, to do things differently,” explains Taylor. “One thing we do want to implement, amongst all this seriousness and these bold statements, [is a sense of ] fun, because that’s what we are, we’re just fun dudes that do fun stuff. And in terms of the Earth Invaders game, [hilariously catchy faux hip pop jam] Brown Rice, Tuna And Salad, or dressing as hippies [on the cover of Blunt Magazine], we just want to keep it light and remember to be joyous in all of it. The frontman adds, “We’ll have a few fun surprises on the tour too. But the message needs to [remain] undiluted, it’s got to be strong.”

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THERE WAS A TIME Australian underground legends Hard-Ons are celebrating their birthday but keeping one eye firmly on the future. Founding member Peter “Blackie” Black explains to Steve Bell why this great band just keeps on keeping on.

t’s a strange time for Sydney punk legends Hard-Ons. On one hand they’re in the studio working feverishly to finish their new album – their 11th studio effort – but at the same time they’re about to undertake a massive tour in celebration of the 30-year anniversary of their first official show, looking back to a time when they were brash young punks from Punchbowl with a ton of attitude and the musical chops to match.

death. For me music is everything – I just fucking love music, it’s too good. After all this time the sheer joy and majestic-ness of music has never left us. We’re still here feeding off it!”

To make things even more random they’re meshing two line-ups for the milestone: founding drummer/ vocalist Keish de Silva – who left the ranks in 2001 – is returning to the fold, joining his old sparring partners Peter ‘Blackie’ Black (guitar/vocals) and Ray Ahn (bass), as well as current skinsman Murray Ruse. Together the four will be revisiting the band’s first tenure between 1984-1993 (they took a six-year break at that juncture), although there were apparently some initial reservations about the reunion.

The Hard-Ons sound changed substantially over the years – does this reflect the fact that they love heaps of different music?

“For the 30 years celebration I got talked into doing the tour with Keish,” Blackie explains, “and now that I’m talked into it I think that it’s a really nice idea, but my thing was, like, ‘Oh let’s do fucking shitloads of recording!’ so we’re not just doing the new album we’re also releasing four split seven-inches with friends of ours from across the world. I just thought, ‘Look, we’ve finally got another drummer and it’s working really well, the new stuff ’s really pumping, I just want to go out and play this shit!’ And Ray was like, “I know, I do too – and we will – but it’s been 30 years and we’ve got the best fans, you know they’d love it if we do a ‘pick the setlist’ tour and just did stuff from the Keish era’. “At first I thought that it wasn’t going to be very musically exciting, but for the Record Store Day gig that we did [at Tym Guitars in Brisbane] a couple of weeks ago we not only did [re-released first single] Girl In The Sweater but we also did the B-side I Heard Her Call My Name, which we haven’t played in literally over 20 years, and fuck it was a blast! Suddenly I thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to have fun on this tour!’ All we’ve got to do is dig back in and play stuff we haven’t played in eons, so it’s going to be shitloads of fun. Like Ray says, ‘C’mon, from time to time we deserve to pat ourselves on the back!’ “If you’re a band that does it for this long then you’re a band who does it because you fucking love it to

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“Yeah, fully,” Blackie emphasises. “Totally. The first reason we broke up was because we felt restricted. The last record we did [before the split – 1993’s Too Far Gone] the feedback from it was so strange, and we were like, ‘Far out, really? It’s probably best that we break up then.’ Then when we got back together similar stuff was being fed to us, people suggesting that, ‘This is your sound.’ I went through a bit of a crisis about the band, so I had a pretty good hard look at it and thought, ‘Look, there is a certain perimeter within Hard-Ons and it’s silly to leave that zone,’ and I had to make sure that I could be happy with that musically. In all honesty I thought, ‘Yeah, I can,’ and it almost

became like a musical challenge for me to be happy with myself within that perimeter. “I think I’m pretty lucky that we’ve got pretty broad scope anyway, even from the first record we’ve basically done pop, punk and metal – the three genres that we all grew up with and love a lot. Even on the new record we still really do push it within those boundaries. I would hope that we’d change [over time], because I think that whether an audience wants you to or not if you just stay the same then it’s crap, and I don’t want to be boring.” Blackie is proud about what Hard-Ons have achieved over the journey – chiefly respect, influence and reverence from all over the globe – and that they’ve done so without compromising their distinctive vision. “Totally,” he offers. “Someone asked me the other day, ‘Don’t you wish that you guys were successful?’ and I thought, ‘Well, I could always use more money because I hate the fact that I’ve got to drive a fucking

“IF YOU’RE A BAND THAT DOES IT FOR THIS LONG THEN YOU’RE A BAND WHO DOES IT BECAUSE YOU FUCKING LOVE IT TO DEATH.” taxi,’ and I’d kill to be able to do music full-time – it’s unfortunate that in this country you just can’t – but in terms of success I think the example I used was, ‘Well The Strokes were successful, and they were fucking shit!’ So no, success isn’t something that we strive for, we just strive to be good. We just want to be a great band and whatever happens after that happens – you either get lucky sometimes and you’re in the limelight, and at other times no one knows who you are or even remembers that you’re still together and all that sort of shit, but the most important aspect for us is just to be a really good band.” WHEN & WHERE: 30 May, Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; 31 May, Augusta Margaret River FC, Margaret River; 1 Jun, Railway Hotel; 2 Jun, Astor Theatre

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last year in every way. The aforementioned 70-plus bands, the push to give each of those acts as much exposure as possible – it’s all designed to grant these locally known acts a chance to be heard. And that’s an important thing in a city where the growth of the amount, experience and talent of musicians far outpaces the growth of infrastructure to support them. “I mean, more than anything, it’s a chance to see all these bands at once,” Mariani says. “You know, all these bands on one place on one ticket. That’s what’s needed, because without being negative, there’s just too many bands in Perth. Too many quality, top bands for Perth to support every night, and this gives them a chance to play in front of a guaranteed crowd. That’s great, and that’s what I think every young band needs.

DOM MARIANI AND SCARLETT STEVENS. PIC: COURT MCALLISTER

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STATE OF EMERGENCE State Of The Art festival is upon us once again, and Cam Findlay sits down with Dom Mariani and Scarlett Stevens to talk WA music before it all goes down.

f you were here ten, even five years ago, you would probably have no way of knowing just how much of a festival hotspot Perth would become. It’s almost at the point where there’s more of the year filled with festival craziness than not, and it leaves promoters, punters and yes, journalists, exhausted but happy that we’ve got an argument against being called the most boring bloody city in the world. State Of The Art, the yearly showcase dedicated to WA music, is merely one of those festivals, and admittedly one with a similar modus operandi to others. But that’s not the whole story, as you’re sure to experience this year. Seventyplus bands, multiple venues and a metric crapload of food trucks – i.e. the mobile food-delivery system quickly becoming synonymous with Perth – mean there’s a whole lot more to discover this time around. To celebrate State Of The Art festival 2014 and the ever-growing love for WA music, The Music got together two artisans of the trade: lead man of The Stems, DM3 and Daytura and all-round great guy and local legend Dom Mariani; and fondly remembered as the young’un behind the drum kit in The Flairs before taking on the world in San Cisco, the effervescent Scarlett Stevens. Both come from markedly different ends of the musical environment, but both are friends, which is a positive statement on the topic if there ever was one. First up, they’re quizzed on what they think sets State Of The Art apart from the gamut of festivals we now have going on in WA. “That’s a bit of a tricky one,” Mariani says. “It’s one of those festivals where everything, I guess, is designed as a showcase, both music and other arts.” “I guess what sets State Of The Art apart is that festivals like In The Pines are put on to show the current state of music,” Stevens explains. “It’s there to provide a platform for current bands that are just breaking. State Of The Art is just a big celebration of everything – new bands and old bands, bands of all different ages and different genres. It’s just a big mixed bag. And it’s right in the

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heart of the city, so that really ties it all together. You know, there’s just so much art and culture focused in that place, you can do anything there. You have Fringe Festival, Perth Festival and everything there. It’s like it was designed for it,” Stevens laughs. “I think the most important factor is the showcasing of West Australian talent,” Mariani adds. “Especially now, I think that’s something that needs to be done, as WA continues to find its cultural identity. State Of The Art has a big profile, and a big profile is what we need. It seems well organised in the same spirit of ITP, which is always well supported. I guess this is something that grants a bit more coverage on a national level. I think everyone will get to hear about it one way or another, so everyone will get an opportunity to be involved with it somehow. That’s nothing but a good thing.” In true fashion, this year is designed to top

“The festival started at the Concert Hall and has gotten bigger with every year,” Mariani adds. “It seems to embrace a lot more than just one facet of the whole thing. There’s a bunch of good music coming from all angles; there’s the electronic bands, there’s the older bands and older styles. I think they’ve had that going every year. At the front, there’s the current crop of bands that are doing well, the bands that everyone looks at when they think ‘Perth’ or ‘WA’. So it seems to run the whole gamut.” “There was lots of bands that I haven’t heard of,” Stevens says, “Which is a really cool part of it. It’s a good chance to see what’s happening, and I think that’s either if you’re a part of it or you only go to one or two gigs a year. For those people this is perfect, because you can get a snapshot of everything that’s going on in one day.”

“I MEAN, MORE THAN ANYTHING, IT’S A CHANCE TO SEE ALL THESE BANDS AT ONCE.”

Fronted with the question of what acts they’re most excited about seeing at State Of The Art, Mariani supplies the obvious and charming answer with a sly smile. “San Cisco, of course. I haven’t seen them for a while, and it will be great to see what you’re up to.” “Yeah, I haven’t seen you guys for a while!” Stevens smiles. In fact, Mariani will be bringing out his much-lauded Stems for the State Of The Art show, a prospect that’s very exciting for those that know of the progeny of WA music. “I’m excited, definitely. I mean it’s the band I’ve started with, and I’ve gone off and done other things, but it’s always been there. Well, it was 30 years or something between the first and second albums, but that’s life. The difficult second album phase, ey?” He says, leaning towards Stevens. There’s reason enough to get along to SOTA, but as our two luminaries have explained, you shouldn’t need any more. WHEN & WHERE: 31 May, State Of The Art, Perth Cultural Centre

KEEPING IT ORGANIC

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Ahead of his headlining performance at WA’s State Of The Art festival, Perth rapper Drapht chats to Olivia Gardner about success, music and keeping things organic.

side from a few festival performances it’s been a good two years since Paul Ridge aka Drapht last toured nationally and longer still since his last release. Even so, the local rapper has been doing anything but laying low. While you may not have caught Ridge on stage, over the past year you’d have found him hard at work in the unlikely yet profoundly fitting restaurant Solomon’s, which Ridge conceptualised and created. The venue is indicative of the rapper’s philosophy in life and music, from its raw, unrendered brick walls to the intimate setting and carefully selected organic produce. Ridge likes to keep it raw on stage and in life, but what supporters may not know is he’s always had to battle with his own dietary sensitivities. “When I was touring and when I was travelling abroad, whether it was for music or just for holidaying,” Ridge explains, “I always found it super difficult to find somewhere that catered for my needs, somewhere that let you choose what you could eat and allow me to have that intuition body-wise that I feel is so important in terms of the healing process of food and people overcoming illness and whatnot.” Ridge described his decision to create an organic restaurant as a bit of a light-bulb moment: “I was like, shit, it’s been in my face for the last ten years. I’ve always found it hard to find somewhere that catered for me, there’s nothing like this around – so I came home and started working on this restaurant that would cater not only for myself but that forgotten demographic in a similar position to me. It’s been insane, to be totally honest.” Ridge confesses, however, it hasn’t kept him from his music – it’s more a therapeutic hiatus. “I never expected to live off my music when I was younger; it was basically just an outlet that I loved to death and a hobby that I couldn’t see myself living without, but then when it turned into my job it was like – I have to deal with all these industry folk and labels and just the ins and outs of the industry in general and all the pressure of releasing a single and backing up another single – it was just like, ‘Fuck, what am I doing this for?’

“It wasn’t feeding the same sort of creative edge that I started it for. So now I’m in this situation where I’ve got the best of both worlds – a successful restaurant and an album that I’m just about to release – I think if I do release it and when it comes time

released, but he did confirm it’s on its way. “I’ve basically got the whole album mapped out with all my structure and concepts and music but then it’s just filling in pieces.” For Ridge, it was never about success; it was about creating music for the sake and passion of it. “I think the personal journey for me, like where I saw my music start to be successful, was writing to relate to people but also writing out of pure honesty. I think especially with my genre, it’s all good to get influenced by the motherland of hip hop being America but at the

“AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU LIVE IN A CULTURE THAT YOU SHOULD REFLECT ON.” to release, it’s going to be on my own terms.” Ridge candidly admits that through building and working at his restaurant he’s back to creating music the way he did in his early 20s working as a courier – there’s a lot of driving involved in finding the best organic local produce for Solomon’s. “I’m constantly having to think on my feet and race around the city so the only time I get to write my music these days is when I’m behind the wheel of a car.” Ridge isn’t entirely sure when the album will be

end of the day you live in a culture that you should reflect on and not use other people’s experiences to guide your music and I think that honesty is the biggest thing. “That’s why WA stands out in so many regards, because we are so removed from the east coast that we don’t feel the pressure that the rest of the country feels. We’re in that isolation space that allows us to have a little more freedom without the judgement tacked onto it. “I’m super excited,” Ridge admits of his upcoming performance at this year’s State of the Art Music Festival showcasing WA talent. “The one thing I miss since opening the restaurant is that performance time, you know, I don’t really miss the touring but I really miss that hour-long stage performance where I can just forget about everything and do something that I really love doing and that’s my performing.”

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THE FAILING ORDER

Propagandhi frontman Chris Hannah runs Daniel Cribb through the morbid reality of the current prevailing order. Warning: It seems we’re all screwed.

or most bands, it’s a solid week or so of jamming to prepare for a tour. For Canadian band Propagandhi’s frontman Chris Hannah, the approach is a little different. “Before we head out to a place I really start poking around and getting a sense of the temperature; the political, social temperature of where we’re going,” Hannah tells. It’s no surprise the left-wing political figure hasn’t been too inspired by Australian headlines as of late. “I feel like

you’re going on the same path [Canada] is and it’s not necessarily the way that is going to benefit future generations… I think often about the connect between our countries in terms of the colonial history. “We’re so similar, it’s almost like our countries are leading the way in a race to the bottom in terms of appealing to base human overreactions and prejudice, and it’s going to fuck up our countries. I mean, our countries are fucked up to start with; we colonised these places and displaced people who lived on the land and destroyed their way of life… Now we’re just doubling down on the stupidity.”

It’s not by chance the band’s sixth and most recent album, Failed States, approaches political issues in a broader manner, placing the focus on long-term issues involving future generations. Hannah had his first child around the time of its release, and welcomed another son at the start of the year. “I talk about it with him in the gentlest way and the least nightmarish way possible because I want him to have a childhood too, and not just have this cloud hanging over him, even though the other side of me thinks I should just tell him the truth right now. “For now it’s just trying to put it into kindergarten terms for him, and relate it to his world and try not to extinguish his hope and his idea that there is goodness in the world.” Last year the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of their first record, How To Clean Everything, and in a couple of years they’ll be celebrating 30 years together, yet Hannah believes they haven’t done nearly enough. “If this band hadn’t happened, I would have just been another fucking guy sitting in front of the TV, getting drunk, watching hockey and just deferring to the prevailing order and doing nothing, so I think we’ve had more of an impact this way than I would have otherwise. But what we’ve done isn’t really sufficient. “I try not to think of it like that because otherwise you just feel like a piece of garbage, so I try to concentrate on whatever stuff I think has been good, like connecting people who are doing that sort of direct action, connecting those marginalised political activist groups with a more sort of a more mainstream grouping of people who don’t necessarily have that connection.” WHEN & WHERE: 3 Jun, Amplifier Bar

TAKING A LEAP A play written by a prisoner in Parramatta Correctional Centre, and performed by ex-inmates inside its decommissioned walls – actor Paul ‘Macca’ McKenzie and coach Grant Thompson are unusually loose-lipped with Dave Drayton.

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f you need someone to play a golfer in a movie then you get a guy who can play golf; if you need someone to play an armed robber in a movie, you probably get someone who’s done a few hold-ups.” It seems simple enough, but actor and casting agent Grant Thompson realised not everyone had yet seen his logic, and in doing so found a way to help ex-criminals get in touch with their artistic side. “I was working on the Underbelly series, so I was doing all the extras, all the background casting for those shows, and I hired a couple of blokes to play a couple of armed robbers, and they’d actually been armed robbers before,” Thompson explains. It was then that Thompson started training up former incarcerates in the art of acting, and the cohort soon grew as Knockabouts. For many former inmates being part of something isn’t as simple as it sounds – the openness and trust required in Thompson’s classes run counter to the protective self-sufficiency many practice while serving time. “There is a lot of gangs inside, but I didn’t affiliate and never have. I just stayed on my own,” Macca explains. “As we assess human beings, and read them from our experience and find where blokes are at, when you’ve come from the same place and you recognise that, that’s when it feels comfortable and feels good – then you can guide each other, trust each other.”

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Teamwork became even more crucial when, late last year, a team of Thompson’s actors turned their hand to theatre. While many that had participated in his courses had gone on to get extra work or bit parts in television, none had taken on a project of this scale. The work, fittingly, is Jim McNeil’s The Chocolate Frog, written during McNeil’s time in Parramatta Gaol; in it two seasoned cellmates subject a new inmate to a revealing mock trial. At the same facility, McKenzie and company had a one-off performance to a crowd of actors, media and family after an intensive ten-week training and

AMY SQUIRE AND MICHAEL LAHOUD IN TAKING ON THE CHOCOLATE FROG

rehearsal period. “Mate, it was nerve-racking, tense, wonderful…” Thompson recalls in a blur. “It’s a task that was, looking back on it, you’d think that’s impossible. Like Macca – he’d never done ten lines of dialogue, live on stage, in front of a hundred people before, ever.” The entire process from rehearsal to show night was filmed and the resulting documentary, Taking On The Chocolate Frog, will air in June. While the performance proved successful, and provided a powerful closing chapter to the documentary following the progression of the group of actors, Thompson doesn’t want to stop there. “I want to have the blokes to feel what it’s like to do a six-week run of a play, to learn form that, to experience what it’s like to be a working theatre actor; that’s the next journey I want to take them on.” WHAT: Taking On The Chocolate Frog Starts screening 2 Jun, Studio, Foxtel

TEENAGE PUNK FANTASIES

[of recording]. I’m proud of every record but I knew if I really tried I could do more and I could do different things with my voice and so this time around I said, ‘We’re going to take a long fucking time with vocals.’”

Canada’s Fucked Up are back with a fresh record all about the band grappling with the realities of punk versus success. Annabel Maclean chats with frontman Damian Abraham.

amian Abraham is pretty normal. “I’m at home in my house, I’ve put the kids to bed,” he says down the line from Toronto. “Actually my wife put the kids to bed but I was home for dinner; it is a very pleasant time before the tour starts.” Indeed, the punk-hardcore six-piece are about to hit the road to celebrate the release of their fourth record, Glass Boys. Given Abraham’s struggles with anxiety and medical marijuana requirements, touring is something he’s openly talked about cutting back on. But not before another visit Downunder. “Well thank God for Nimbin!,” he laughs.

“I think at the end of the day it’s still such an incredible opportunity – we get to play music. It’s such a powerful feeling to actually be on stage and have people come watch what you’re doing. We were normally forcing it upon people in the beginning.” Glass Boys is shorter than the band’s last three records – 2006’s Hidden World, 2008’s The Chemistry Of Common Life and 2011’s David Comes To Life – and Abraham has found more depth and range in his bark. “I think for me the vocals were always pushed to the very end

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Abraham lined up a number of guests for the record including Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis, The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie and Alexisonfire’s George Pettit. “When I write a song, I tend to write it in someone else’s voice. When it came time to record to the record, I got really insecure about how that would look. Every song had a guest. I really tried to strip it back to just friends, people who I felt were coming from our world, people we’ve had relationships with or done stuff with.” The lyrics, written by Abraham and guitarist Mike Haliechuk, address the realities and compromises the band has dealt with. “I think it [lyrics] originally came about when we first started to write the record. We’d gone to this awards show here and I’d looked around at the people at the awards show and realised that everyone at this awards show were the very same people that when we started this band I despised and made up this Canadian industry which had no relationship to what I did or what I liked. It was a weird, eye-opening experience. “I hope that we never accept it because that’s not normal. Having people think about what they want to talk to you about in advance and then call you and talk to you and then write about what you say afterwards, that’s not normal. These are awesome things and I think as soon as you start accepting these things as normal, it’s going to start getting weird. The only reason I am able to make my living doing this is because people have granted me the opportunity.” WHAT: Glass Boys (Matador/Remote Control)

BALANCING ACT

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Gum (Jay Watson) is one hell of a busy dude. He discusses his new solo album with Kane Sutton, explaining how he manages to keep it all together.

or a guy who, you would think, is constantly pulling his hair out on account of being involved in a world-renowned band, and a respected ‘side project’ constantly gathering momentum, Jay Watson is one of the most down-to-earth people you will ever talk to. “I’m just packing up my house to move out because I’m heading on tour again, so I don’t have to pay rent again while I’m away,” he laughs. “I’m always running late so I have a whole heap of emails crashing down on me, boring administrative stuff, but yeah, exciting times ahead.” Watson, who plays in Tame Impala, Pond, and lends a helping hand with various other local projects, is releasing his debut solo record under the moniker Gum. The album, titled Delorean Highway, features ten tracks that reflect on negative aspects of Watson’s personal life, although he doesn’t seem to think many listeners will realise it. “I had really bad anxiety at the time and I was really depressed, which is quite funny because none of it really sounds depressing. If you read all the lyrics on a sheet of paper it would seem pretty dark, but it’s all pretty sunshiney. I feel really good at the moment, but listening back to it, it seems pretty emo-ey lyrically. I just felt like I was a crappy alcoholic who didn’t care about anyone else.” According to Watson, working on Delorean Highway has certainly been different to what he’s used to. “With

Pond, all the ideas we have just happen. We don’t veto too many ideas. It’s hard, like with most of the lyrics and song titles, the other guys would chip in like, ‘That’s a bit cheesy’ or ‘don’t do that’ and vice versa, so it’s definitely a bit weird doing everything yourself. There’s stuff on [the album] that I know is cool, but there’s a lot of it that I don’t really have a perspective on. It’s a bit ballsier in that respect – I never considered myself confident or arrogant enough to release a solo album before. “It’s not hard balancing everything. We have a great manager and

she has people who help her, so that helps. But I don’t even notice until I check my emails and there’s like ten people’s emails in capital letters going, ‘Where are you, we’ve been asking about this for months!’ and that’s the only time it feels a bit, y’know... Really, I just feel like a big kid who gets to make noise. I don’t have to have a job now which makes it a lot easier for me compared to most people, but I don’t take it for granted at all. I’ve had to get a hobby for myself – it’s football now – I go to games basically every weekend now because I need a hobby. I think we just do so much because we’re never satisfied with what we’ve done. We don’t hate it, but we move on very quickly because we always think we can do better. It’s just an endless pursuit to make things perfect.” WHAT: Delorean Highway (Spinning Top) THE MUSIC • 28TH MAY 2014 • 17

ALBUM OF THE WEEK

★★★★ ½

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Surprise! In this, their debut album, Brisbane’s Dune Rats sing a lot about smoking weed, who woulda thunk it? It’s altogether 35 minutes of surfpop, made up of mostly twominute songs that lack the pace and energy of their epic live sets, but remain fun and warm. Indebted to Best Coast, with whom they toured last year, the album is at times frantic and at others moody, flitting between balls-out garage riffs and more laidback surf licks.

The imagery invoked by the title, Sunbathing Animal, perfectly captures the calm insouciance of the Brooklyn-based quartet’s third album, laidback and relaxed but naturally capable of springing into action at the slightest provocation. Indeed this ability to move from languidly stretching out to terse bursts of noise at will provides a sonic dichotomy integral to their substantial charm. Lysergic opener, Bodies ends on a teasing vibe akin to Pavement at their most playful, before the urgent Black And White ups the ante with its incessant beat, handclaps and chaotic breakdowns while the languid, bendy Dear Ramona introduces its strange but captivating calland-response arrangement. Elsewhere the mild druggy hypnotism of She’s Rolling segues into the staccato machine gun delivery of the title track. Their

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Velvets-esque use of repetition is also notable – the nagging chords and chugging beats of tracks like Vienna II and the frenetic Duckin’ And Dodgin’ gradually worming their way into your brain – yet despite their casual vibe these econojams are deceptively intricate. Lyrically, where 2012 long-player Light Up Gold found the band coming to terms with their adopted hometown New York City, Sunbathing Animal deals with issues like confinement and the tyranny of distance with compelling results – an already alluring aesthetic morphing in new and fascinating directions. Steve Bell

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Their trademark innovative arrangements and ambitious structures remain intact and the triple-axe attack gives plenty of musical grunt, but Glass Boys is dominated by the growling, scabrous worldview of frontman Damien Abraham. The band’s hard-earned success of late, while seemingly earned without compromise, has nonetheless brought on the hardcore 18 • THE MUSIC • 28TH MAY 2014

melodic songs on the album. Them, along with midpoint slowjam Lola, are obvious highlights, before the middling fast-loud last stretch of the album. The problem with the album isn’t that it’s bad per se, but that it’s not a WOW first effort either. It lacks the originality and boldness of some of their peers’ blistering debuts, often coming off as derivative. Although some songs are catchy and fun, most don’t have enough going for them to drive them anywhere beyond the parking lot – the parking lot in which you can probably find the three boys from Dune Rats smoking a few cones. Hannah Story

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Toronto sextet Fucked Up’s long-awaited fourth long-player, Glass Boys, begins with a delicate prelude at the start of Echo Boomer and concludes with the beautifully lulling piano that trails from the closing title track, but the journey between those quiet extremities is anything but sedate. Whereas their last effort – the sprawling double album David Comes To Life (2011) – allowed them to stretch far beyond their hardcore roots, this ten-track follow-up is far more succinct and condensed and as a result delivers a hefty punch.

Opener Dalai Lama is the most fun, but also the most lyrically sparse. Fuelled by power chords and an unbridled enthusiasm for marijuana, the track will get the mosh started at live shows, especially if followed by Superman which takes its slacker-rock cues from Wavves’ debut album. Lead single Funny Guy and then Homesick could’ve been written by Sydney’s Palms, but they’re some of the more earnest and

★★

The Feast Of The Broken Heart Moshi Moshi/[PIAS] Australia

★★★★ equivalent of an existential crisis, whereby Abraham struggles to reconcile his relative success against that of the underground bands that he grew up revering (“We traded our moral high ground so they’d sing along/But is it so bad? Is it as dark as it seems?/To trade a little purity to prolong the dream?” – The Art Of The Patrons). Tellingly, tracks like Sun Glass, the punchy Paper The House and the epic Led By Hand (featuring J Mascis) showcase just why Fucked Up have so effortlessly crossed over, marrying uncontrived aggression with innate melody and thoughtprovoking narratives. Long may the dilemma continue. Steve Bell

Hercules’ latest deals in rainbowcoloured house that seamlessly brings together disco, Hi-NRG and the straight-up jack of early Chicago. There is a familiar well worn feel to these grooves but the application of a flamboyant energy allows Hercules to produce a coherent album that offers pure nightclubbed bliss. Despite the tyranny of effervescent beats Hercules inserts more darkly hewn pop songs that deal in themes of redemption and salvation. This is a natural fit for dark horse John Grant who could just as well be singing on remixes of songs that didn’t quite make Pale Green Ghosts. The aching I Try To Talk To You finds Grant’s sad introspection surrounded by cascading piano chords eloquently drifting around a ballroom house groove. The

★★★★ androgynous Rouge Mary and Krystle Warren have previously dabbled in gospel and folk but under the sparkle of Hercules’ mirrorball they are transformed into sassy disco divas. Rouge Mary maintains a fierce but fun presence whether he’s flipping the funk on Think or glamorously dishing advice on love and life on The Key. The feelgood electrohouse machinations of My Offence provide the perfect context for the sexy, smoky huskiness of Warren’s voice. Similarly she shines when ruminating on break-ups on The Light. Moving beyond the glitter and glamour there’s plenty of depth and meaning to Hercules’ disco. Guido Farnell

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singles/ep reviews

★½

★★★★½

★★★½

BLONDIE

EBOLAGOLDFISH

PLAID

Talk Too Much

Noble ID/Caroline

Independent

Warp/Inertia

Island

The taxman must be back in town. On Blondie’s tenth album, Ghosts Of Download – one half of a double-album package that is 4(0) Ever – thick layers of slick production lacquer over the band’s once irrepressible character, as a sleepy, borderline comatose Debbie Harry autotunes her way over ill-judged, teeny ravepop. On the plus side, A Rose By Any Name suggests that core writing skills still endure and there’s a complimentary album, Deluxe Redux, featuring their greatest hits, albeit re-recorded and remixed. Don’t mess with perfection.

A strong punk rock record, laced with enjoyable riffs, catchy harmonies and memorable choruses. The vocals are at the forefront – appropriate considering the lyrical essence. Tracks like History seem to constantly ask questions of the vocalist’s self and those close to him (‘Are we doomed or are we saved?/Are we just victims of bad choices made?’) while others, like Kill and El Diablo En Ti, bring higher beings into the picture (“Do you believe we’re guided by the same?/If it’s not God, it must be the devil”). Lacking neither energy nor hooks it may sound a little same-same.

Christopher H James

Kane Sutton

Plaid are techno’s Rolling Stones. Artists who manage to reach album number ten without “evolving” or jumping on a few bandwagons would usually be suffocating for lack of new ideas. But like their crinkly rock counterparts, Plaid keep crafting inspirational music that’s essentially similar to that of 23 years ago: complex, yet immediately accessible electronica that’s lush and cerebral in equal measures, such as alluring opener OH. With the deftest of production upgrades and attention to almost imperceptibly fine details, Reachy Prints punches its weight along with the rest of Plaid’s swelling catalogue.

ANDY BULL

Not a lot of miserable-ism in this week’s singles as the debonair Sydneysider drops a fabulously hair-sprayed synth-pop stomper that sounds like Chrissie Hynde guesting on a Sparks hit. New album Sea Of Approval has been five years in the making and could well be worth the wait.

VACATIONER In The Grass Independent As punchy as a teddy bear tumbling down a rainbow into a pool of marshmallows, the first cut from Philly trio Vacationer’s second album pushes tribal bouncing through a Vampire Weekend filter. My mate’s threeyear-old daughter loved it.

Blondie 4(0) Ever

Prophet & Loss

Reachy Prints

Christopher H James

BERTIE BLACKMAN

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Run For Your Life Universal

And yet more ಫ80s-informed synth-poppery, this time courtesy the return of our own pop-rock chameleon now heading in a more day-glo direction for her forthcoming fifth long player. Run For Your Life doesnಬt contain the fear its title might suggest, unless your fear involves being trapped in a John Hughes movie.

★★★★

★★★

PROBLEMS

THE DISAPPOINTED

Mirador

Firestarter

Melbourne tyke Yeoಬs newest slice of cutesy bedroom electropop has that optimistic feel of a skinny dweeb rollerblading past the buxom beauties and muscle hunks at Bondi hoping three visits to Jetts per week will one day allow him to join their ranks. Itಬs simply constructed and far from perfectly rounded, but triple jಬs attentions this week should coax him out of his shell with bolder, prouder numbers.

Perfectly timed for the meteoric rise in popularity of chillwave is the debut EP from Adelaidebased duo, Problems. For The Ages is laden with eclectic synthetic stringed and bowed instruments, layered pads and ambient vocals. Opener Bruised and Capture Me are dreamy and peaceful with the reverb-drenched staccato riffage giving off a slight The xx vibe. Some Carribean influences a la St Lucia can be noted in Alighted while some flamenco and Middle Eastern elements can be heard throughout. A solid diversely influenced debut release that does well to maintain an offbeat, distinguishable pulse of its own.

The follow-up to their 2013 debut, Stranger, Weird Peace sees the Perth five-piece expand their sound with tighter arrangements, broader instrumentation and lush four-part harmonies without losing their darker, edgier side. The result is an EP offering something different on each track, from the upbeat pop of I Disagree With Myself to the sinister rock of Uppers And Downers and the frenetic Don’t Look At Me, each filled with moments of finely crafted pop melodies and crunchy rock riffs. A big step in the right direction and hopefully the next full-length will be packed with songs as good.

Mac McNaughton

Taelor Pelusey

Scott Aitken

YEO

Kobe Independent

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For The Ages

Weird Peace

Neil Young – A Letter Home Mink Mussel Creek – Mink Mussel Manticore (reissue) R.E.M. – Unplugged: The Complete 1991 And 2001 Sessions Frankie Ballard – Sunshine And Whiskey Trash Talk – No Peace Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott – What Have We Become Protomartyr – Under Color Of Official Right

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live reviews

DZ DEATHRAYS, PALMS, FOAM Amplif ier Bar 25 May The grunge three-piece Foam always impress with their Nirvanaesque style: screaming raspy vocals led by a distorted guitar tone. The Rickenbacker guitar grabbed attention as Palms took to the stage with a fill-in bassist. Their comical speeches and punk rock style made everyone feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. The entire venue welcomed thrash-pop duo, DZ Deathrays. The sound of intensified riffbased repertoire combined with the totally danceable beats by drummer Simon Ridley had the crowd absolutely wild, jumping, bopping and singing along to hits from the band’s new album

Their vocals were loud and retained clarity throughout. Liam B

ANDY STOTT, CRAIG MCELHINNEY, LOWER SPECTRUM, THGIEWDAED The Bakery 24 May The Deadweight boys roguishly reversed their name for the occasion, playing under the THGIEWDAED moniker, the duo toyed with some milder and oftentimes darker sounds than we’re typically used to: a suitable shift in flavour for the night’s proceedings. Lower Spectrum’s

ANDY STOTT @ THE BAKERY. PIC: JONNY WARRINGTON

Black Rat. Shane Parsons seemed to be content with the idea of fans taking to the stage in order to have their selfie moment with the vocalist/guitarist only to be ripped off stage by the frustrated sound engineer. Parsons and Ridley didn’t hesitate to whip out hits Black Rat, The Mess Up and Gebbie Street throughout their set, which had people crowdsurfing like mad animals; there wasn’t a moment when the some fan wasn’t in the air. The duo played Northern Lights, with Parson’s melodic chords over the less rough drumming style a breath of fresh air. Dollar Chills started to play toward the end of their set. This along with other songs such as Night Slave and Reflective Skull comprised many effects pedals to create thrashy dance tones. Ridley didn’t seem to take a break from his frantic drumming style and credible backing vocals with his superhuman stamina. 22 • THE MUSIC • 28TH MAY 2014

undeniably unique. This definitely rang true for his performance, drastically changing tempos and even entire genres with seamless continuity and prowess. Minimal house glided masterfully into the squelchy sounds of acid techno and dispersed breakbeat patterns, which evolved into Stott’s own take on garage and even Chicago footwork. James Hunt

BOYS BOYS BOYS!, AXE GIRL, THE SURF RABBITS The Bakery 23 May The Surf Rabbits opened the night with a pleasing mix of alt-rock and punk. Axe Girl

AXE GIRL @ THE BAKERY. PIC: JACINTA MATHEWS

performance began with a prolonged and almost inaudible wavering drone, finally broken by the scattering of the sporadic and rapid hi-hats of breakcore. The highly palatable glitchy and wonky frequencies of Craig McElhinney reverberated around the dim surroundings of the Bakery before styles were flipped on their head to create some slightly more straightforward house rhythms. Agonising and sincerely terrifying death metal vocals infused with a drawn-out and brooding synth line signalled the start of Andy Stott’s performance. Similarly disturbing vibrations resounded temporarily, before the cataclysmic kick drum and haunting vocals of Numb washed intensely over the audience, taking things into a more dance-oriented direction. Having an incredible knack for eclecticism, Stott somehow manages to maintain the lucid and unsettling soundscapes that are

demonstrated by the crowd, who were more than engaged in the performers’ music. Much of their material came from the 2013 album, We Are Excited About Everything. Casio Joy, one of the band’s earliest singles, was played that night. Led by the lilting vocals of Bridget Turner and backed by Alwyn Nixon-Lloyd and Koko Wallace on synth, the single demonstrated the laidback, pop-infused synth rhythms the group embodies. Holiday also provided a pop-infused quirkiness, with upbeat synth rhythms and lyrics that celebrated spending another person’s money. Boys Boys Boys! finished their set by responding to Axe Girl’s challenge, covering the intro to No Doubt’s Don’t Speak and I’m Just A Girl. Joseph Wilson

BOYS BOYS BOYS! @ THE BAKERY. PIC: JACINTA MATHEWS

followed and commenced with a selection of some of their notable singles, including Give Me Your Tee Shirt and California. Another single, Silence, was a highlight of their performance as its rapidly alternating punk rhythms on the lead guitar and addictive bass line allowed the band to demonstrate the suitability of lead singer’s Addison Axe’s vocals for the genre in which they play. Axe Girl’s performance was brought to a close by issuing the dance challenge to Boys Boys Boys! with a rock rendition of a popular song. When Boys Boys Boys! emerged, the instrumentation on the stage had changed from regular guitars and bass to three individually standing synth keyboards. With a sound at first like a combination between synth-pop and The B-52s, Boys Boys Boys!’s quirky, almost hyper and energetic stage presence reflected in the fervour

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Gary Numan @ Astor Theatre Lauryn Hill @ Fremantle Arts Centre James Vincent McMorrow @ Astor Theatre Wagons @ Fly By Night Tracksuit @ Ya Ya’s

the guide Answered by: Haydn Mansell EP title? Is It Right? How many releases do you have now? Two. This EP and the Temaze/The Run Around split single from early 2013. Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making? Yep, lots of things inspired me: my bandmates, my friends, my family, Radiohead, Massive Attack, The Wire, The Stone Roses, Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke, and heaps more. What’s your favourite song on it? Im really digging Spilt Milk at the moment. But my favourites change all the time. We’ll like this EP if we like... Not sure. I guess you’ll like it if you like it. I like Bob Dylan and we sound nothing like that. When and where is your launch/next gig? 30 May, Amplifier Bar Website link for more info? facebook. com/ourmaninberlin

Pic: Court McAllister

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OUR MAN IN BERLIN

eat/drink PITA BREAD PIZZAS – AKA OPEN, CRUNCHY WRAP 1: Spread tomato paste on pita bread. 2: Put toppings of your choice on. TIP: Do not overcrowd because pita bread can only handle so much weight. 3: Bake in oven for 15 minutes. 4: P-I-Z-Z-A.

FLAVOURED POPCORN – AKA AIR ENCASED IN THIN GRAIN MATTER 1: Make popcorn (pop your own kernels or get the microwave packet stuff, just make sure it’s plain. Buying pre-flavoured popcorn is CHEATING). 2: Flavour with your choice of melted butter, sea salt, melted chocolate, caramel sauce, icing sugar, cinnamon sugar, garlic powder, paprika, parmesan cheese, sesame seeds and nori, wasabi powder (not all at the same time though).

CHOC TOPS – MORE FUN TO HOLD THAN JUST STUFF IN A BOWL 1. Scoop ice-cream of your desired flavour into cones. 2. Freeze for a bit to make sure ice-cream won’t melt at the dipping stage. 3. Melt one part copha with two parts chocolate. 4. Coat ice-creams in chocolate mixture, then top with optional nuts, candy etc. 5. Wait a minute or two for it to set, then mangia!

TV SNACKS Easy to make, easy to eat, relatively mess- and fuss-free snacks that will enhance your TV show-viewing/home cinema experience. Illustration Sophie Blackhall-Cain.

CHECK OUT DOG CUSHIONS So now that you’ve got your homemade snacks – that’s important – but you’ll also need something to snuggle up to or lean against while you’re TV-watching. If you don’t have a fellow human to use for that purpose, try one of these dog cushions (that’s cushions in the shape of dogs, not cushions for dogs... unless you really like to pamper your dog). Made from organic cotton with a polyester filling, the range includes a pretty Pink Chihuahua, a mighty Maroon French Bulldog and a boisterous Blue King Cavalier to name a few. Available at Urban Attitude. urbanattitude.com.au

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CHIPS – THE HOT KIND AND THE CRISPS KIND 1: Chop desired vegetable (potato, sweet potato, eggplant, zucchini) into thin slices (crisps) or chip-shaped bits (chips). No need to chop if it’s, like, kale. 2: If it’s eggplant or zucchini, coat in flour or breadcrumbs or whatever. Otherwise, coat lightly in oil, salt, pepper, spices and well wishes. 3: Pop in the oven until crispy.

NACHOS – ACTUAL CINEMA FOOD IN AMERICA 1. Assemble layers of corn chips, grated cheese, salsa, beans in a tray. If you’re feeling particularly hungry chuck some chilli con carne on top. 2. Bake in oven until everything kinda just melts together. 3. Top with guacamole and sour cream to serve.

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PERSONAL BEST RECORDS

DARREN MIDDLETON Best record you stole from your folks’ collection? Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock or perhaps a Shirley Bassey album. First record you bought? 1982 With A Bullet.

not sure why I have it, though Livin’ La Vida Loca was all right.

NERDLINGER

Last thing you bought/ downloaded? Sia – Chandelier. I always rated her work highly. She lends a lot of substance to the pop world of female singers.

How did you get together? Tinder and Josh found the drummer on Grindr.

When and where are your next gigs? 31 May, Ellington Jazz Club and 1 Jun, Mojo’s Bar.

Record you put on when you’re really miserable? Anything by Ryan Adams. Record you put on when you bring someone home? Well... that hasn’t happened for some time... but it would be Jeff Buckley or The Beatles, depending on the lucky lass.

HAVE YOU HEARD

Website link for more info? darrenmiddleton.com

Greatest rock’n’roll moment of your career to date? We opened for Guttermouth at Manning Bar. I was sidestage when Adkins encouraged 30-plus punters on stage. I went superhuman and became the only line of defense for the drum kit. Every mosh I’ve ever moshed was training for that.

Answered by: Scott McNairn

Why should people come and see your band? Because TV is rotting their brains and no one can afford Foxtel these days. It’s full of ads anyway. When and where for your next gig? 4 Jul, Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; 5 Jul, Ya Ya’s; 6 Jul, Osborne Bowls Club

Sum up your musical sound in four words? Dodgy ‘90s skate-punk If you could support any band in the world – past or present – who would it be? It was Me First & The Gimme Gimmes but then we did that in Newcastle. So Lagwagon.

Website link for more info? facebook.com/ nerdlinger.punkrock

You’re being sent into space, no iPod, you can bring one album what would it be? Pennybridge Pioneers – Millencolin

Most surprising record in your collection? Ricky Martin. I’m still

DJ BOOTH

EP FOCUS

Who’s the act everyone will be talking about in 12 months? Valleys – check him out.

SEÑOR ROAR Answered by: Paul Mike When did you know DJing was the gig for you? When we got to the stage that listening to music wasn’t enough we moved onto DJing in clubs. The same process took us to producing. What’s your most memorable musical moment? So far... probably getting to the number one spot with our Hey Ho! remix on the Beatport hip hop charts. What release should everyone have in their collection? Anything by Daft Punk. Their stuff is timeless. We still play at least one Daft Punk track most weekends.

What can punters expect to hear when you’re in control of the dancefloor? We like to think we’re not limited to anything in particular. When it comes to DJing in clubs we take a lot of influence from figures like Ajax (RIP) who would spin just about anything. Website link for more info? soundcloud.com/senorroar When and where are your next gigs? 30 May, Ambar

FAIT Answered by: Elise Higgins EP title? Atmosphere How many releases do you have now? This is my debut! Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making? Well, I recorded it in London, so the city itself is incredibly inspiring. As was working with Darren Lawson who produced the EP. He’s worked with some of my favourite bands such as MBV.

guitars, strings, piano, atmospherics and noise. If you like The Cure and MBV, then it might be up your alley. When and where is your launch/ next gig? We are launching Atmosphere at The Bird on Saturday 31 May, with Methyl Ethel and Hyla! Website link for more info? thisisfait.com

What’s your favourite song on it? Probably Lucid Dreaming… I do have a soft spot for Koto though. We’ll like this EP if we like... Layers of reverb-drenched THE MUSIC • 28TH MAY 2014 • 25

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FRONTLASH

LIVE THIS WEEK

SUPA SURPRISE

Game Of Thrones player Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, more widely known as Jaime Lannister, will touch down in Perth next month to act like he’s keen to be in your #kingslayer #selfie at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo.

YOUR HIGHNESS Speaking of Game Of Thrones, if you’ve missed the past couple of episodes, there’s a video floating around of Snoop Dogg and Seth Rogen getting high and recapping the show.

ONE FACE, ONE CHAMP It finally happened. Doppelgangers Will Ferrell and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith went stick to stick to settle who is the better drummer. As it stands, Ferrell had the last word and won.

BEHOLD THE BEARD

PEACE OUT

HARD TIMES

After an impressive three fulllength albums about beards, the world’s premier beard-related rock act The Beards are ready and rearing to play their brand new album this Friday at Settlers Tavern.

Local indie-rockers The Disappointed are all set to party at their album launch at the Rosemount Hotel this Friday. Support from Red Jezabel, Tired Lion, Dexter Jones, Shimmergloom and Dux & Downtown.

One of Australia’s most venerable hard rock institutions, HardOns, will oﬃcially turn 30 this year, and are celebrating with a national tour. They stop by Perth this Sunday at the Railway Hotel.

DO THE FANDANGO

ALL FOR ONE

YMCA HQ is putting on a show this Saturday, featuring the likes of Grim Fandango, Lincoln Le Fevre & The Insiders, Flowermouth, Idle Eyes and Kites. Tickets on the door for $5.

Going Solo at the Moon Cafe brings you Pinky McBlue and Rabbit Island on Wednesday from 8:30pm. Entry to restaurants is always free, with awesome food and drinks available til late.

THE BABES YOU’RE LOOKING FOR

WE COME RUNNING

THE STATE ENLIGHTENMENT

A show designed to indulge you in a sci-ﬁ fantasy of intergalactic proportions, The Empire Strips Back: A Star Wars Burlesque Parody is coming to Perth. Regal Theatre this Friday and Saturday.

NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU

BACKLASH EBUSTED

Millions of eBay Australia users will be freaking out after hackers stole passwords and personal information. Change your password!

PYNE AND PYNE AGAIN A Liberal politician entering a University at the moment would be a daunting task. As such, it comes as no surprise that Christopher Pyne was smuggled into Sydney University last week.

TONY TROUBLE Tony Abbott’s wink while talking to a sex-line pensioner has seen condemnation come down on him quick and sharp and it’s not surprising. He is, after all, Australia’s Minister for Women and a father of three.

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Two years in the making, Runner are ﬁnally ready to release their debut album, Cloud Kingdom. The album features 11 tracks, old and new, that encapsulate four years of musical discovery. They get to launch it at The Bakery this Saturday.

THURSDAYS IN MAY

This year’s State Of The Art Festival is set to take place this Saturday in the Perth Cultural Centre with more than 70 acts on the bill, including Drapht, San Cisco, Eskimo Joe and heaps more.

Abbe May has been smashing it at the Oddfellow in Fremantle, playing shows every Thursday this month. Catch her last gig this Thursday as she tests new material from her forthcoming album Romanticide.

UP-AND-COMERS

LEARNING CURVE

SOLID PROSPECTS

Floor Fillaz – an event held by Music Business Diploma students known as Perth United – are putting on a gig at Flyrite Nightclub tonight from 8pm to raise for up and coming local talent including bands and DJs.

After trying his hand at recording his own music in a self-made studio, local folk-blues artist Matt Angell is launching his second album at the Indi Bar this Sunday. Tickets at the door.

Artsy alt-rock locals Nevsky Prospekt are returning to the Rosemount stage this Thursday, with support from Custom Royal, Triangle Fight and The Georgians. Tickets are $8 at the door from 8pm.

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LIVE THIS WEEK

ROCK THE ASTOR

CHOW DOWN

ALL IN THE RV

After 20 years away from our shores the Meat Puppets are ﬁnally heading back to headline the Inaugural Astor Rocks this Monday at the Astor Theatre. Joining will be Brant Bjork, The Hard-Ons and heaps more.

If you’re reading this, you probably know about Pat Chow. The slightly mysterious act has been pounding out abrasive garage-pop anthems for a while, and their debut Good Deed is being launched live this Friday at Mojos.

Speaking of sweet garage sounds, Pat Chow’s mates Royston Vasie have a few more stops over here. The band head to Mustang Bar on Thursday and Ya Ya’s on Saturday, as well as at Pat Chow’s launch.

PARADISE BLUES

IT’S A BLOWOUT

DEFECTED IN THE HOUSE

Kerry B Ryan plays the Fremantle Blues & Roots Club tonight. Joined by Limpin Dave Foley & His Straight Legged Freaks and The Bonekickers on the night, be sure to get down for some authentic blues-rock.

Join the club when Parker once again blasts oﬀ on Friday with a night full of banging electronic goodness. Blending nu-electro, mainroom, house and progressive, Parker is built around Perth’s freshest and most exciting DJs.

It’s been 15 years since dance label Defected started: its music has travelled the world, its parties have changed fashion and its DJs have driven the sound of today. Parker is celebrating this Sunday, with Kenny Dope headlining.

YOU LIKE?

SUCK IT UP

GOTTA HAVE FAIT

Playful, passionate and enchanting, As You Like It is a topsy-turvy tale chock-full of outlandish characters and some of Shakespeare’s greatest lines. See the Black Swan Theatre Company this Sunday at the State Theatre Centre of WA.

Thrash-punkers Leeches! are touring WA’s southwest, beginning as ‘special guests’, supporting The Hard-Ons at The Prince of Wales on Friday, Margaret River Footy Club on Saturday and The Railway Hotel on Sunday.

Elise Higgins, aka Fait, has been winning over hearts and minds with her reverb-drenched guitar and sparse drum beats. Higgins and her band launch their debut EP, Atmosphere, at The Bird on Saturday.

WILD MUSTANG

ALWAYS THERE

SENT SPRAWLING

Mustang Bar celebrates the Foundation Day long weekend on Sunday. with DJ Holly Doll spinning tracks, while Johnny Law & the Pistol Packin’ Daddies, Peta Lee & The Deacons and The Continentals perform live.

MANTL have been working hard on their debut album, focusing on catchy rock riﬀs and pop melodies. To coincide with the release of their ﬁrst single, the band is having a launch party on Friday at the Civic Hotel.

The Russell Holmes Trio explores the art and essence of the piano trio with their own well deﬁned personality and ﬂavour. The group possess a deep groove: catch them at Clancy’s, City Beach this Friday from 6pm.

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THIS WEEK’S RELEASES… PARQUET COURTS Sunbathing Animal Rough Trade/Create Control HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR The Feast Of The Broken Heart Moshi Moshi/[PIAS] Australia FUCKED UP Glass Boys Matador/Remote Control DUNE RATS Dune Rats Ratbag/Warner THE MUSIC • 28TH MAY 2014 • 27

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THE MUSIC PRESENTS HARD-ONS, LEEHES!: 30 MAY, Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; 31 MAY, Margaret River Football Club; 1 JUN, Railway Hotel NORTHLANE: 28 MAY, Fly By Night; 29 MAY, Capitol THE BEARDS: 28 MAY, The Pier Hotel, Esperance; 29 MAY, The White Star, Albany; 30 MAY, Settler’s Tavern, Margaret River; 31 MAY, The Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; 1 JUN, Astor Theatre OUR MAN IN BERLIN: 30 MAY, Amplifier IN HEARTS WAKE: 4 JUN, YMCA HQ; 5 JUN, Amplifier FRENTE, MAPLES: 7 JUN, Astor Theatre

VIOLENT SOHO, THE SMITH STREET BAND: 3 JUL, The Bakery THE AUDREYS: 4 JUL, Fly By Night REMI: 4 JUL, The Bakery SOMETHING FOR KATE: 4 JUL, Astor Theatre NEW EMPIRE: 5 JUL, HQ USURPER OF MODERN MEDICINE: 5 JUL, The Bakery THE WHITE ALBUM TOUR: 26 JUL, Riverside Theatre SLEEPMAKESWAVES: 8 AUG, Amplifer

JEFF LANG: 7 JUN, Fly By Night; 8 JUN, Ravenswood Hotel

BONJAH: 14 AUG, Northshore Tavern; 15 AUG, Indi Bar; 16 AUG, Amplifier; 17 AUG, Dunsborough Tavern

DUNE RATS: 13 JUN, Mojo’s; 13 JUN, Amplifier

ONGOING:

YEO: 14 JUN, Causeway Bar; 15 JUN, Indi Bar

GIGNITION: Upcoming band showcases 4-8pm last Sunday of each month at The Railway Hotel

LITTLE BASTARD: 19 JUN, Prince Of Wales Hotel, Bunbury; 20 JUN, Settlers Tavern, Margaret River; 21 JUN, Mojo’s

BEX ‘N’ TURIN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT: 8pm-late every Tuesday at Rosemount Hotel

SAT 31

Harlem Wednesdays + Genga + Peter Payne + Pussymittens + Various DJs: Capitol (10pm), Perth Floor Fillaz + Various DJs: Flyrite, Northbridge

DJ Peta + DJ Grizzly: Brass Monkey Hotel, Northbridge

Next Gen + Various DJs: Metropolis, Fremantle

Father + HIPHOPTRAPJERSEY + PurpleNote4APurpleDrank + Free Throws: Flyrite, Northbridge

Vibe Vibe Vibe - The Final Vibe + Jack Doepel + Sleepyhead + Raagh + James Ireland: The Bird, Northbridge

THU 29

Squinty: Brighton Hotel, Mandura Fiveo: The Craftsman, Cannington

FRI 30

Force Majeure feat. Senor Roar + Philly Blunt + Genga + Mo’Fly + Black Laces + Butcherskank + Invoker: Ambar, Perth Vicktor + James Ess: Brass Monkey Hotel, Northbridge Lancelot: Geisha Bar, Northbridge Blowout + Klean Kicks + Not So Hot + Lukas Wimmler + Jordan Scott: Parker Nightclub, Perth DJ Jon Ee + DJ Reuben: Queens Tavern, Highgate Paradise Paul + NDorse: The Aviary, Perth Rhythmatism #38 + Pete + Chris Reid + Ben Taaffe + Various DJs: The Bird, Northbridge Jawsh: The Craftsman, Cannington

Common Bond + Elegist + Hollow Ground + Protagonist: Amplifier Bar, Perth Larry Carlton: Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley Sugar Blue Burlesque + James Ess: Brass Monkey Hotel, Northbridge Ellie Goulding + Broods: Challenge Stadium, Mt Claremont Matt Cal + Leah Miche: Clancys Canning Bridge, Applecross

Night Cap Session + The Grid: Ellington Jazz Club, Perth

Japan 4 feat. Parakord + Standards Down + Marko Paulo + Tee EL + Mo’Fly: Ambar (10pm), Perth

Newport Wednesdays Student Night + Various DJs: Newport Hotel, Fremantle

WED 28

5 Shots: Crown Perth (Groove Bar & Lounge), Burswood

CLUB GUIDE

WED 28

GIG OF THE WEEK THE BEARDS: 1 JUN, ASTOR THEATRE

Maiko + Rob Sharp + Luke P + Shaddow Brothers + Various DJs: Geisha Bar, Northbridge Parker Saturdays feat. Drifter + Simon Paiker + Chiari + Acebasik + Axen: Parker Nightclub, Perth RnB Superclub + Various DJs: Players Bar, Mandurah Zel + Paradise Paul: The Aviary, Perth Chur feat. Trei + Tali + Dose + Truth: Villa Nightclub (10pm), Perth

SUN 01

Foundations + Standards Down + Blend + DNGRFLD + Philly Blunt + Tee EL: Ambar, Perth

Free Your Mind 2014 + Northlane + Thy Art Is Murder + Make Them Suffer + Volumes + Veil Of Maya + Iconoclast + Free Your Mind: Fly By Night (Under 18’s), Fremantle Boy & Bear + Holy Holy: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Bernardine: Greenwood Hotel, Greenwood Howie Morgan : Lucky Shag, Perth Fremantle Blues & Roots Club feat Kerry B Ryan + Limpin’ Dave Foley & The Straight Legged Freaks: Mojo’s Bar, North Fremantle Going Solo feat. Pinky Blue + Rabbit Island: Moon Cafe, Northbridge The Cover Up + DJ Giles: Mustang Bar, Northbridge Brazil Night with Xoxote: Ocean One Bar, Scarborough The Beards: Pier Hotel, Esperance Carthasy + Welcome The Wildfire + Havoc + Arkiro: Rosemount Hotel, North Perth Adam Hall & the Velvet Playboys: The Laneway Lounge, Perth DJ Beryl Streep: The Odd Fellow, Fremantle

Defected In The House + Kenny Dope + Sam Divine: Parker Nightclub, Perth

Singer Songwriters Night feat. Michael Lane + Blake Lockett: X-Wray Cafe, Fremantle

The Stafford Brothers + Mind Electric + Various DJs: Players Bar, Mandurah

Shoegazers + Like Junk + Cyclone Tess + Escelade: Ya Ya’s, Northbridge

Fiveo + Sam Spencer: Queens Tavern, Highgate

MON 02

Fiveo + Philly Blunt: Queens Tavern, Highgate

THU 29

Allday + Mikey Hundred: Breakers Bar & Cafe, Geraldton Karaoke: Brooklands Tavern, Southern River

Free Your Mind 2014 + Northlane + Thy Art Is Murder + Make Them Suffer + Volumes + Veil Of Maya + Xenobiotic + Free Your Mind: Capitol, Perth Dr Bogus: Crown Perth (Groove Bar & Lounge), Burswood Jack & Jill: Crown Perth (Lobby Lounge), Burswood Night Cap Session + Cathrine Summers + Masina Miller: Ellington Jazz Club, Perth The Heartstring Quartet + Them Little Secrets: Fly By Night, Fremantle

The Mojos: Balmoral, East Victoria Park Courtney Murphy: Beau Rivage Restaurant, East Perth Mike Nayar: Belgian Beer Cafe, Perth Siren & Assassin: Belmont Tavern, Cloverdale Pretty Fly: Best Drop Tavern, Kalamunda Jamie Powers: Brass Monkey Hotel (5pm), Northbridge

Greg Carter: Gate Bar & Bistro, Success

DJ Peta: Brighton Hotel, Mandurah

Justin Cortorillo: Grand Central, Perth

Ross Lowe: Brighton Hotel (5pm), Mandurah

James Wilson: Lucky Shag, Perth

Light Street: Brooklands Tavern, Southern River

Apache + Hideous Sun Demon + Moana + Dream Rimmy + King Cactus: Mojo’s Bar, North Fremantle The Dice Band: Moondyne Joe’s, Fremantle Royston Vasie + Mezzanine + DJ James MacArthur: Mustang Bar, Northbridge Jetpack: Prince of Wales, Bunbury Burning Fiction + White Oak & Stuyvesant + Piano Donkey + The Monicans: Rosemount Hotel (459 Bar), North Perth The Georgians + Custom Royal + Nevsky Prospekt + Triangle Fight: Rosemount Hotel, North Perth Various Artists + Bogan Bingo: Rosie O’Gradys, Northbridge Shot Down From Sugartown: Swallow Bar, Maylands Oh Velveteen + Anna O + Childsaint: The Bird, Northbridge Howie Morgan Project: The Deen, Northbridge Jessie Gordon Duo: The Laneway Lounge, Perth Abbe May + Mei Saraswati + Odette Mercy + Jon Fernandes: The Odd Fellow, Fremantle Midnight Rambler: The Shed, Northbridge The Beards: The White Star Hotel, Albany The Jack Doepel Quartet: X-Wray Cafe, Fremantle Mind Canary + Pony + James Atles + Sinead O’Hara: Ya Ya’s, Northbridge

FRI 30

Jazz + Jen de Ness: Albion Hotel, Cottesloe Our Man In Berlin: Amplifier Bar, Perth

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Dennis Loccorriere: Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley

James Wilson : Chase Bar & Bistro, Baldivis Jeanie Proude: Citro Bar, Perth Mantle + Serial Killer Smile + Dry Dry River + September Sun: Civic Backroom, Inglewood DJ Boogie: Clancys Canning Bridge, Applecross Old Blood: Clancys Fish Pub, Fremantle The Russell Holmes Trio: Clancys Fish Pub, City Beach Jazz By The Bay Festival feat. Libby Hammer Quartet: Clancys Fish Pub, Dunsborough Fiona Lawe Davies 3: Como Hotel, Como Decoy + DJ Crazy Craig: Crown Perth (Groove Bar & Lounge), Burswood Mother Africa: Crown Perth, Burswood Cuddles: Dunsborough Tavern, Dunsborough Adam James: East 150 Bar, Ascot One Trick Phonies: Edz Sportz Bar, North Coogee Suite 191 + Stickrad Trio + Lucky Oceans: Ellington Jazz Club, Perth Howie Morgan: Empire Bar, Rivervale Blow The House Down: Fly By Night, Fremantle Allday + Mikey Hundred: Flyrite, Northbridge Choppa: Gate Bar & Bistro, Success Vanerty Brothers: Gosnells Hotel, Gosnells Ryan Webb: Greenwood Hotel, Greenwood Justin Cortorillo: Hyde Park Hotel (Courtyard), North Perth

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DJ Jon Ee: Wolf Lane Carpark, Perth

Vendetta: Kalamunda Hotel, Kalamunda

DJ Jiminy Kickit: X-Wray Cafe, Fremantle

Retriofit: M On The Point, Mandurah

Royston Vasie + Trigger Jackets + Flowermouth + Race To Your Face: Ya Ya’s, Northbridge

Pat Chow + Royston Vasie + The Community Chest + Black Stone from the Sun + Aborted Tortoise: Mojo’s Bar, North Fremantle Adam Hall & the Velvet Playboys + Flash Nat & The Action Men + DJ James MacArthur + Swing DJ: Mustang Bar, Northbridge

SUN 01

The Beards: Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley

FREE YOUR MIND 2014: 29 MAY, CAPITOL

Mad Agents: Ocean One Bar, Scarborough Siren Song Enterprises: Peel Ale House, Halls Head

Blackbirds: The Principle Micro Brewery, Midland

Passionworks: Greenwood Hotel, Greenwood

Rufus + Hayden James + Crooked Colours: Players Bar, Mandurah

Crush + DJ Glen: The Shed, Northbridge

Murphy’s Lore: High Road Hotel, Riverton

Tandem: Port Kennedy Tavern, Rockingham

Jonny Dempsey: Vic, Subiaco

Afterglow: Hyde Park Hotel, North Perth

Hard-Ons + Leeches! + The Bloody Hollys + Kettle Fingers: Prince of Wales, Bunbury Amidst The Broken + Got Sharks? + Gates Of Perdition + All This Filth + more: Railway Hotel (Main Room), North Fremantle Empire Strips Back: A Star Wars Burlesque Parody: Regal Theatre, Subiaco Chainsaw Hookers: Rocket Room, Northbridge The Disappointed + Red Jezebel + Tired Lion + Dexter Jones + Shimmergloom + Dux n Downtown: Rosemount Hotel, North Perth Rust Proof + Worst Possible Outcome + The Lungs + The New Husseins + The Reptilians: Rosemount Hotel (459 Bar), North Perth Wesley Goodlet Jamboree Scouts: Rosie O’Gradys, Northbridge Acoustic Royale: Sail & Anchor, Fremantle The Beards: Settlers Tavern, Margaret River Greg Carter: Swinging Pig, Rockingham

Leon Tioke: Wintersun Hotel, Geraldton DJ Willy Suede: X-Wray Cafe, Fremantle Sprawl + Dust + Ducks On A String + Lila Chainsar: Ya Ya’s, Northbridge

SAT 31

We Are Scientists + Guests: Amplifier Bar, Perth Hard-Ons + Beer Fridge + Leeches! + Rust Proof + Worst Possible Outcome + Sludge Bucket + Scyatic: Augusta Margaret River Football Club, Margaret River Chris Gibbs Duo : Balmoral, East Victoria Park Adrian Wilson: Belmont Tavern, Cloverdale Chill Divine: Boab Tavern, High Wycombe Squinty: Brighton Hotel, Mandurah Adam James: Brook Bar & Bistro, Ellenbrook Frank G: Carine Glades Tavern, Duncraig

Ben Merito: The Boat, Mindarie

Stackjammer: Chase Bar & Bistro, Baldivis

Matty T Wall: The Flying Scotsman, Mount Lawley

80s Women of Rock: Civic Backroom, Inglewood

Amanda Dee & Soothe + Trevor Jalla : The Laneway Lounge, Perth

Rae & Natalie May: Clancys Canning Bridge, Applecross

Sugar Shack + Various DJs: The Odd Fellow, Fremantle

King of the Travellers + The Aunts: Clancys Fish Pub, Fremantle Antics feat. Oakland + Mitchell Friend + Antics DJs: Claremont Hotel, Claremont Jay Lee Lloyd: Como Hotel, Como Proof + Hero DJs: Crown Perth (Groove Bar & Lounge), Burswood Why Georgia: Crown Perth (Lobby Lounge), Burswood Jonny Taylor + Steve Spouse: Dunsborough Tavern, Dunsborough Ruby & The Remedy + Darren Middleton: Ellington Jazz Club, Perth Theona Councillor: Fly By Night, Fremantle Rufus + Hayden James + Crooked Colours: Fremantle Arts Centre (South Lawn), Fremantle Greg Carter: Gate Bar & Bistro, Success P!nked: Gosnells Hotel, Gosnells

Rhythm 22: M On The Point, Mandurah Tracey Barnett + Susan Clarke: Moby’s Waterfront Lounge, Denmark

Superseeds: Balmoral, East Victoria Park Jonny Dempsey: Belmont Tavern, Cloverdale John Read Band + Choppa: Brighton Hotel, Mandurah Justin Burford: Broken Hill Hotel, Victoria Park Chris Gibbs: Brook Bar & Bistro, Ellenbrook Steve Hepple: Brooklands Tavern, Southern River Justin Cortorillo: Carine Glades Tavern, Duncraig

Runner + Dianas + Lanark + Childsaint: Mojo’s Bar, North Fremantle

Light Street: Chase Bar & Bistro, Baldivis

Shot Down From Sugartown + Milhouse + DJ Holly Doll + DJ James MacArthur: Mustang Bar, Northbridge

Champion Tribute Show: Civic Backroom, Inglewood

Desert Bells: Ocean One Bar, Scarborough State Of The Art Music Festival feat. Drapht + Eskimo Joe + San Cisco + The Stems + Julian Matthews + Dave Shaw & Ashley Naylor + Optamus + The Blackeyed Susans + The Kill Devil Hills + Kim Salmon + Split Seconds + Bitter Belief + Felicity Groom + The Brow + Dallas Royal + Tired Lion + The Amani Consort + Warangka Band + The High Learys + Silver Hills + Moondog J + Jake & The Cowboys + Kat Wilson + Crisis Mr. Swagger + MC Battle: Perth Cultural Centre (12pm), Perth

Bernardine: Citro Bar, Perth

The Limelights Jazz Trio: Clancys Fish Pub (Morning), City Beach DJ Boogie + The Salt Shaker Selectors: Clancys Fish Pub (Afternoon), City Beach Jazz By The Bay Festival feat. Junkadelic: Clancys Fish Pub, Dunsborough Kris Buckle: Dunsborough Tavern, Dunsborough Danny Martin + Ali Bodycoat Quintet: Ellington Jazz Club, Perth Mike Nayar: Gate Bar & Bistro, Success Phil Kieran + James A + JDubs: Geisha Bar, Northbridge

Stu McKay: Port Kennedy Tavern, Rockingham

Johnny Cash Tribute Show: Greenwood Hotel, Greenwood

The Beards + Special Guests: Prince of Wales, Bunbury

Retriofit: Indian Ocean Brewing Company, Mindarie

Grim Fandango + Lincoln Le Fevre & The Insiders + Dead Glorious + Loners + Ratking: Rosemount Hotel, North Perth

B.o.B: Kalamunda Hotel, Kalamunda

Shit Narnia + King Crime + Emu Xperts + Laurel Fixation: Rosemount Hotel (459 Bar), North Perth Big Steve Spouse Band: Royal Palms Resort, Busselton, Busselton The Gypsy Minions: Sail & Anchor, Fremantle Pimps of Sound + Millie James: Settlers Tavern, Margaret River Luke O’Connell: Springs Tavern, Beechboro DJ Charlie Bucket: Swallow Bar, Maylands Frenzy: Swinging Pig, Rockingham Fait + Methyl Ethel + HYLA: The Bird, Northbridge Astrid Ripepi + Dean Anderson: The Laneway Lounge, Perth Howie Morgan Project: The Northshore Tavern, Hillarys The JAC + The Chevelles + Custom Royal + more: The Odd Fellow, Fremantle Huge + DJ Andyy: The Shed, Northbridge

Wesley Goodlet Jamboree Scouts: Lakers Tavern, Thornlie Hans Fiance: Lucky Shag, Perth Great Gable: M On The Point, Mandurah Darren Middleton + The Morning Night: Mojo’s Bar, North Fremantle Foundation Tailgate Long Weekend + Johnny Law & the Pistol Packin’ Daddies + Peta Lee & The Deacons + The Continentals + Blue Gene + DJ Holly Doll + DJ James MacArthur: Mustang Bar, Northbridge Sunday Sessions + Timothy Nelson: Newport Hotel, Fremantle Thierynno: Peel Ale House, Halls Head Greg Carter: Port Kennedy Tavern, Rockingham The Gypsy Minions: Quarie Bar & Bistro, Hammond Park Hard-Ons + Leeches! + The Reptilians + Agitated: Railway Hotel, North Fremantle

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The Get Down with Charlie Bucket + Klean Kicks + Nick Sheppard: Rosemount Hotel (Beer Garden / 3pm), North Perth Ebolagoldfish + Chilling Winston + Blindspot + Silver Foxes + At The Space Jam: Rosemount Hotel (459 Bar), North Perth Childs Play: Sail & Anchor, Fremantle Acoustic Session with Michelle Spriggs Trio: Settlers Tavern (Verandah / 3pm), Margaret River Sunday Sessions with Jessie Gordon Duo: Swallow Bar (5pm), Maylands Matt Waring + Timothy Nelson: Swanbrook Winery, Henley Brook Siren & Assassin: Swinging Pig, Rockingham Rooftop Sessions feat. Eagle & The Worm + The Brow + Miss Demeanour + NDorse: The Aviary (4pm), Perth Blackbirds: The Rose & Crown, Guildford Howie Morgan Project: The Saint (3pm), Innaloo The Healy’s + Renogade: The Shed, Northbridge Tracey Barnett: The White Star Hotel, Albany Matt Williams: Wanneroo Tavern, Wanneroo James Wilson: Whistling Kite, Secret Harbour John Bannister + The Charisma Brothers: X-Wray Cafe (4pm), Fremantle Click Brown Fox: X-Wray Cafe (7pm), Fremantle Kirstie Witt + Elli Schoen + Market Street + Lindsay Wells: Ya Ya’s (4pm), Northbridge

MON 02

Astor Rocks + Meat Puppets + Hard-Ons + Brant Bjork + The Love Junkies + The Shakeys + Axe Girl + more: Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley Wire Birds: Brass Monkey Hotel, Northbridge The Swintones: X-Wray Cafe, Fremantle Big Tommo’s Open Mic Variety Night: Ya Ya’s, Northbridge

TUE 03

Propagandhi + The Decline + Leeches!: Amplifier Bar, Perth Harry Winton: Ellington Jazz Club, Perth Ben Merito: Lucky Shag, Perth The Big Splash Band Comp + Various Artists: Mojo’s Bar, North Fremantle Danza Loca Salsa Night: Mustang Bar, Northbridge Bex & Turin’s Wide Open Mic: Rosemount Hotel, North Perth Siren Song Enterprises: Swinging Pig, Rockingham O’Hanlon Launch+Move DJs: The Bird, Northbridge The Cairos: The Odd Fellow, Fremantle The Tom Tale Jazz Quartet: X-Wray Cafe, Fremantle In Hearts Wake + Dream On Dreamer + Being As An Ocean + Endless Heights + Sierra: YMCA HQ (All Ages), Leederville

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