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New York’s street dancing underground comes alive in eye-popping Digital 3D in Step Up 3D. A tight-knit group of street dancers, including Luke (Rick Malambri) and Natalie (Sharni Vinson), team up with NYU freshman Moose (Adam Sevani), and find themselves pitted against the world’s best breakdancers in a highstakes showdown that will change their lives forever. Step Up 3D is in Cinemas August 5. www. facebook/stepup3DAustralia. Thanks to Universal Pictures we have 50 double passes up for grabs to an exclusive 3D preview of Step Up 3D, on Monday Aug 2, 6.30pm, at Birch Carroll and Coyle Myer Centre, Queen St Mall. Drop into our office at Suite 11, Level 2, 354 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley this Thursday and Friday after 9am to score a double pass!

College Fall tell their stories within a cocoon of acoustic folk, indie pop and rollicking alternative rock. With the release of their album The Curse of Us, College Fall are embarking on a national tour, which brings them to the X&Y Bar on Jul 24.

Thanks to Annie Johnsson Publicity we have five copies of the album up for grabs! Subject Line: COLLEGE FALL Trying to recover from a sudden break-up, Jen Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl) believes she’ll never fall

in love again. But when she reluctantly joins her parents on a trip to the French Riviera, Jen happens to meet the man of her dreams, the dashing, handsome Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kutcher). Three years later, her seemingly impossible wish has come true: she and Spencer are newlyweds living the ideal suburban life – that is, until the morning after Spencer’s 30th birthday when bullets start flying. Literally. It turns out Spencer never bothered to tell Jen he’s also an international super-spy, and now Jen’s perfect world has been turned upside down. Faced with the fact that her husband is a hit man, Jen is determined to discover what other secrets Spencer might be keeping – all the while trying to dodge bullets, keep up neighborly appearances, manage the in-laws‌and work out some major trust issues. Thanks to Roadshow Films we have ten double in-season passes to Killers to give away! Only at the Movies July 29. www.killersmovie.com. Subject Line: KILLERS Ed Kowalczyk, legendary lead singer and songwriter of the multi-Platinum rock band, Live, has released his first solo album, Alive. The 12-song album features Ed Kowalczyk at his best – ferocious yet passionate, while retaining the anthemic and spiritual songwriting he’s always been known for.

Thanks to Sony Music we have five copies of the album up for grabs! Subject Line: ED KOWALCZYK

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Lowdown – news, opinions, tours, Backlash, Frontlash Band Of Horses are finally a cohesive whole The Butterfly Effect reflect on the possibility of continued success Black Rebel Motorcycle Club can’t believe they’ve made a new record Despite what some may say, The Nation Blue have not called it quits Local pop-fiends The Boat People were a little less meticulous on album number three The Whigs went back to bass-ics for their latest release Psych is in the eye of the beholder according to Richard In Your Mind Tin Can Radio don’t even bother trying to describe their sound Lisa Miller has all your favourites covered on Car Tape 2 Local duo Bonfire Nights have come a long way in not a long time Thy Art Is Murder may have made some changes, but they’re still brutal as hell On The Record has the latest, greatest and the not so greatest new musical releases Chris Yates spotlights the best (and worst) tracks for the week in Singled Out

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NEWS FROM THE FRONT

WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE?

British pop group Smokie are heading to Australia this November for their first major tour in over ten years! The band, who are best known for their hit ‘Living Next Door To Alice’, are still a hugely popular group all around the world and there are bound to be plenty of people pumped for their return. You can see them for yourself when they play the QPAC Concert Hall Sunday Nov 21 and Toowoomba’s Empire Theatre Monday Nov 22; contact the venues for ticketing information. Tickets are around the $99 mark.

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They have dead set taken the indie rock world by storm with their debut album Innerspeaker, picking up glowing reviews from tastemakers everywhere from Time Off to Pitchfork and selling out venues all over the place, and now Perth psychwunderkinds Tame Impala are making their way back to Australia for another monstrous tour of the homeland. This time they’ll be heading around in support of the second single from the aforementioned album ‘Lucidity’, another cracking tune that shows the wide musical scope these dudes have. They’ll be heading back to the States at the end of the year and we can’t tell you exactly when you’ll have another chance to see these dudes doing what they do best, so be sure to see them when they hit The Tivoli on Saturday Oct 16. Tickets are available from Ticketek as of Thursday.

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You could call The Chemical Brothers a lot of things – innovative, iconic, legendary, pioneering... – you simply cannot deny the enormous influence they have had on electronic music over the past two decades. They have just released their seventh studio album Further and it has proved unequivocally that these guys have lost none of their vitality and are still capable of making some of the most appealing and enormous sounding electronic music in history. The duo are coming back to Australia next year and they are bringing the full custom designed Further experience with them, including video from long time collaborators Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall. These shows are going to be enormous and if you haven’t seen The Chems in action before you best not miss your chance to do so. They play the Brisbane Riverstage on Friday Mar 4; tickets are on sale from Ticketmaster as of Thursday Aug 5 – put it in your diary!

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN REYNE?

You think you rock? Well then you’ve clearly never seen James Reyne perform live. He rocks. The former Aussie Crawl frontman is responsible for tunes such as ‘Hammerhead’, ‘Slave’, ‘Fall Of Rome’ as well as ‘Reckless’, ‘Beautiful People’ and ‘Boys Light Up’ – you’ve probably never written anything remotely as good. Reyne and his band are on the road at the moment and will be heading up to say g’day to us soon – he has locked in dates at the Hamilton Hotel Saturday Aug 28 and Nerang’s Hinterland Hotel Sunday Aug 29. Both shows are $25 + bf to get in, doors open at 7pm and Reyne will be on stage at 9:30pm.

A TOUCH OF PARADISE

There has been very little noise coming out of The Paradise Motel’s camp for around ten years now, but earlier this year they broke their silence by issuing a brand new record in Australian Ghost Story, an album that reflects on the events and lives orbiting the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain. They have been playing a few shows in and around their hometown of Melbourne and thankfully they will be heading up north for the first time in goodness knows how long to treat us to one of their stunning live performances in support of the album’s release. The seven-piece band will play the record in its entirety, exploring a dark and hidden side of Australian life, before launching into a selection of classic Paradise Motel material. It all happens at The Troubadour on Friday Oct 1 and Sydney songstress Sianna Lee supports. You can grab yourself a ticket from OzTix from Monday onwards.

GURGE KEEP MOVING

It has been a good few years since Regurgitator embarked on any form of intensive headlining tour of the country so news that they are getting out on the road for a fairly large tour later this year is very welcome indeed. The band are back in classic three-piece mode, with Seja busy pursuing her own solo endeavours, and have relocated to Melbourne and found a new spark for writing, with some new recordings being mixed as we speak. We will no doubt hear some of this new material when the band flex their live muscle again at The Tivoli on Saturday Sep 18 which will also feature a performance from Japan’s DJ Krush, Melbourne’s Rat Vs Possum and locals Laneous and the Family Yah and the Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay Sunday Sep 19, which will also feature Rat Vs Possum and Laneous and the Family Yah. OzTix and Ticketek are the places you need to be to get a hold of tickets.

JAZZ BY THE SEA

The idyllic seaside tourist hotspot of Noosa will bop harder than ever before come September time as the Noosa Jazz Festival takes over the town once again, this time with its best line-up yet. From the USA comes the ever-versatile Warren Vaché and the incredible New York-based trio The Bad Plus, best known for their covers of classic rock tunes and just about the most rock’n’roll jazz combo on the planet. British vocalist Barbara Jungr brings her unique interpretation of classic arrangements to the festival and Australian acts like Sydney’s Ralph Pyl Big Band featuring Doug Parkinson, Monica Trapaga and Frank Bennett, the Diana Clark Trio with Doug De Vries, Idea Of North and industry greats, the Paul Grabowsky Trio. The 20th instalment of the festival happens at Noosa Woods from Thursday Sep 2 until Sunday Sep 5, all ticketing and schedule details are available from noosajazz.com.au.

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GOT THE FEVER?

Things have been going mighty swimmingly for Sydney’s Cabins of late, with the release of their debut mini-album Bright Victory, a whole bunch of support slots that have helped them take their sound all across the nation to fresh new audiences and a live show that keeps evolving each and every time we see them. They are now taking it upon themselves to head out on a headline tour of the east coast of the country, their first since forming, and we will have the opportunity to catch them playing the Never Land Bar Thursday Aug 26 and The Troubadour Friday Aug 27. They have special guests Step-Panther coming along for the ride and local supports still to be announced.

KIDS AND FRIENDS

Early August sees Brisbane lads Hungry Kids Of Hungary head out to do what they do best, gallivant around from town to town and play a whole bunch of shows as they look to make everyone familiar with the tunes that will be featured on their debut album, which is due in September.

This time around they are in particularly esteemed company with Sydney’s The Holidays and New Zealand’s Artisan Guns joining them in what will be a night chock full of some supreme sounding indie-pop music. All three bands have a whole bunch of new material that has piqued the interest of radio and its listeners around the nation so you can be sure these are going to be popular shows. Grab yourself a ticket from OzTix now so you don’t miss them when they hit The Zoo Friday Aug 6 and the Coolangatta Hotel Saturday Aug 7. They cost $15 + bf.

FREE DOWNLOADS It’s that time again, time for free music. We’re pretty damn proud of the tunes we have for you this fortnight and we’re sure they will get you well and truly pumped up for Splendour, as both acts featured will be hitting the Woodfordia stage next weekend. If you wanna get heavy, local legends Violent Soho have got you covered.

If you’re into something a little trendier then Kate Nash won’t disappoint. Just head to universalmusic.net.au/ freedownloads/streetpressaustralia and get into it!

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The Bellingen Global Carnival has become one of the most renowned festival events for a diverse brand of music taken from all over the globe and we’re pleased to announce that it’s on again and early bird tickets are available now! Organisers have assured us that they have a great bill full of international, interstate and local talent on board for the festival again this year, including Mulatu Astatke with The Black Jesus Experience, Lulo Reinhardt, Gyuto Monks, Diego Guerrero Flamenco Latin Quintet, Ego Lemos, Ash Grunwald, The Bamboos, pictured, Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, Vulgargrad, The Bombay Royale and Grrilla Step featuring DJ Dexter. Head to globalcarnival. com for all the other info you may wish to find out. The festival happens in the beautiful Bellingen from Friday Oct 1 through to Sunday Oct 3.

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SAGE LI(F)E ADVICE

The latest record from Sage Francis is called Li(f)e and if you’ve read any reviews of it then you probably know by now that it totally rules. It’s another vital release, Francis’ fourth, and once again it is a confronting release that stirs up strong opinions across the board, be they positive or otherwise. Excitingly Francis is heading back to Australia in support of the record this October, bringing his diverse brand of indie-hip hop to our eyes and ears once more. This time around he will be bringing Strange Famous Records label mate B. Dolan along for the ride on his first ever trip Down Under, not only will he be main support but he’ll also collaborate with Francis on a number of tracks throughout the night. All the action hits the Step Inn on Saturday Oct 16, you can grab yourself a ticket from OzTix from Friday morning.

BUNCH OF BASTARDS

If you like your music loud and brutal then do we have a show for you! Bastardfest is heading up to Brisbane for the first time ever this year and bringing with it a diverse line-up of ultimately incredibly punishing heavy metal.

Melbourne troublemakers Blood Duster are taking up the headlining spot and will be joined by Canberra doom/ stoner merchants Pod People as well as local heavy hitters Astriaal, Defamer and High Plains Drifter. It’s not often that we get to see a bill of heavy metal that is of this supreme quality so here’s hoping it’s an enormous success so it can continue to prosper. It hits The Globe Theatre Saturday Aug 28, tickets are available from OzTix now for $20 + bf and doors will open at 8pm.

It must be a strange feeling to have a voice that has set alight a million romances and probably well over a million dancefloors, but that’s just the way life goes for Robin Gibb. Of course, as a member of The Bee Gees, Gibb has been one of the most successful recording artists in the history of the world with tunes like ‘How Deep Is Your Love’, ‘Stayin’ Alive’, ‘Night Fever’, ‘Jive Talking’, ‘I Started A Joke’ and so many more keeping him and his brothers well up the pointy end of the charts for over five decades.

Eight Grammys, 60 hit singles, 200 million album sales – safe to say it has been a pretty good innings for these Brisbane lads. Robin Gibb will be returning to Brisbane in October with the legendary Bonnie Tyler coming along for the ride, you can catch them at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday Oct 29, and we’d suggest getting in touch with Ticketek as soon as tickets go on sale on Thursday Jul 29 as this show is bound to be incredibly popular.

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WASHINGTON ‘SUNDAY BEST’ FILM CLIP

There’s a strong sense of the allegorical surrounding the frenzied shoot of Megan Washington’s ‘Sunday Best’. As one wanders into Fortitude Valley’s Belle Époque and into the heart of festivities, one is overwhelmed by a seemingly unceasing whirlwind of sensation and activity. Aside from the opulent setting of the restaurant itself, one is enveloped by an ocean of cameras, cables, choreographers and crowds of actors swathed in period costume. It is, at first glance, chaos.

It isn’t until one espies the figure at the eye of the storm that one starts to perceive any form of order – the physically diminutive but titanically charismatic figure around which every anarchic fragment is orbiting. Megan Washington herself; rehearsing choreography, strutting between and atop tables and idly joking with every figure that floats nearby – and desperately trying to stave off the exhaustion of multiple tours and three hours of what will become a 12-hour video shoot “I don’t know how I went, actually,” the singer-songwriter admits from a tour bus after the shoot. “I was so tired that day. I was almost crying with tiredness and I was giddy and excited and I’m still not entirely sure what happened. It was such a big production and it was relatively last minute

It’s an allegory that operates on multiple levels. It strongly recalls, for instance, Washington’s own idiosyncratic approach to songcraft. The young musician’s work since the 2008 release of her debut Clementine EP has been characterised by a densely inventive and richly textured approach to arrangement and production and yet, beneath the layers of instrumentation and ornamentation, Megan Washington’s songwriting springs from a deeply personal and intimate perspective.

“It’s actually quite odd to think about it all,” the one-time jazz singer considers of her work. “When I started writing, I’d write a lot of ballad-ish songs – slow and quite sentimental – but what I learnt is that I can translate the sentimentality of whatever the creative seed or emotion of a song is – whether it’s a lyric, a conversation or whatever – and make it work in a context other than a piano powerballad and that was a great revelation to me. “‘Rich Kids’, for example, actually started out as a ballad.

There was a lot of desperation and sadness and the chorus, ‘I don’t want to dance with you’, was meant to be quite ironic, because no-one wanted to dance with me,” the songstress explains of her most recent single. “But then, in the studio, it turned into what it is now...which is this kind of weird, gothic, circus, dancehall, I don’t know thing...but I feel the original sentiment is still in there.”

The allegory contained within the gently governed entropy of Washington’s ‘Sunday Best’ shoot, however, is perhaps most effectively employed in the illustration of Megan Washington’s relationship to her developing public profile.

The hyperbole and mythology surrounding Washington’s name has been escalating consistently over the past two years but, beneath it all, Megan Washington is still very much an ordinary person.

“I certainly don’t hide myself away. I obviously have my privacy and certain parts of my life are kept away from the public eye but there aren’t multiple versions of myself lurking throughout the media,” the songstress explains. “I think anyone who has seen me or followed me on Twitter or even heard my music would be able to tell that I’m quite upfront about who I am and what I do. I don’t consider myself to be any kind of pop star, anyway.

“Songwriting comes very naturally to me but it is something I think very deeply about,” Washington continues – explaining carefully. “I wrote ‘Underground’ – which is essentially my will in song form – as a joke. I started writing it because the idea was funny but, as I wrote it, it got more serious and I had to think very seriously about whether I would ever play it to an audience. I wasn’t sure if it was right to invite audiences to contemplate their mortality in such a way.

“I feel it sounds like a total cop-out whenever I say it but, really, I just want to make music. I want to make cool, fun music,” the songstress laughs. “I mean, popularity would obviously be great and I would love for lots of people to like my music. There is this dangerous notion that popularity and credibility to be mutually exclusive and I’ve never felt that to be the case – but I don’t feel it’s something I’ve run into too often because I don’t think of myself as being that popular.”

WHO: Washington WHAT: ‘Sunday Best’ (Universal)

FRONTLASH

BACKLASH

LAST SPARKLE

HEY BABY…

It’s awesome that the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse collaboration Dark Night Of The Soul has finally seen a release, but it’s bullshit that the same labels who blocked its release last year couldn’t get it out quickly enough once Mark Linkous passed away…

Those socially-inept 90s rock freaks Beavis and Butthead are returning after more than a decade off the air! Like all good animated characters their age will remain frozen in time, only their twisted views on music videos and the fairer sex will remain the same.

SO SOON?

SLAUGHTER HOUSE

Great, another Federal election. Now we have weeks of idiots dominating the media trying to differentiate themselves and their policies for the other tards who are only different in name and long-forgotten ideology.

If there’s one thing the Rudd debacle should have taught is that both parties are as bad as each other…

We don’t condone the trolling that put young Internet sensation Jessi Slaughter into a nervous breakdown, you have to give it to the 11-year-old for having a fairly advanced vocabulary… Suck my non-existent penis?

Brain slushie? Don’t kids grow up quick these days…

DROP THE PILOT

RICH BITCH

It’s twice this month that celebrity serial douche Paris Hilton has been busted with weed and she’s avoided grief both times. One set of rules for normal people and one set for rich, good-for-nothing, socialite parasites apparently…

This is perhaps what underpins the entire appeal of Washington’s music. The former Brisbane resident may have written songs with Paul Kelly and Tim Finn, appeared on Spicks And Specks and be releasing an album on Universal within weeks but her work has never lost the joy and intimacy associated with a deeply personal response to an artwork. Megan Washington is actually a vibrant and engaging individual as opposed to a product or a persona.

BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD

We’re not sure whether it’s good or bad news that Rove’s attempts to crack the US TV market were foiled when CBS knocked back his pilot. Obviously it’s funny, but scarily it opens the door to him returning to our screens sooner rather than later. Can’t he take a hint?

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BAND OF BROTHERS

BASSPLAYER BILL REYNOLDS FROM BAND OF HORSES CHATS WITH NICK ARGYRIOU ABOUT THEIR MOST DEMOCRATIC RECORD TO DATE AND THE START OF A FRUITFUL ERA FOR THE BAND.

South Carolina-based indie country musical collective Band Of Horses are only three records into their career, yet all of its individual members have been around for years in solo guise. All making a name for themselves before joining frontman Ben Bridwell (the sole remaining foundation BoH member), Ryan Monroe (keyboards) and drummer Creighton Barrett who both recorded with Bridwell on 2007’s Cease To Begin were soon joined by songwriter and guitarist Tyler Ramsey along with buddy bassplayer and studio engineer Bill Reynolds (The Avett Brothers) during the tour of that record. These five men have remained together ever since.

While you wouldn’t automatically refer to Band Of Horses as being a supergroup akin to the likes of Monsters Of Folk or Them Crooked Vultures, Bridwell and co – much like the post A Ghost Is Born Wilco line-up – have finally assembled their most complete band of players that should see them stick together over the next decade plus.

“Since I’ve been in the group we’ve had a few people come in and out and they were nice people but just weren’t the right fit. And now, with the five of us, we really know how to communicate and not turn into this messy shaped soup, if you know what I mean,” attests bass player and the band’s least hairiest member, Bill Reynolds. He’s also acutely aware that, although the band has locked into a fine musical groove, it’s Bridwell’s distinct, high-pitched vocals, crunchy guitars and ambiguous songwriting that Band Of Horses have as its nucleus. “None of us ever came into the band and said, ‘Oh, let me take over this damn thing’. We just don’t work like that. With Band Of Horses, it’s all about working for what’s best for the band,” he says.

There’s no question that Band Of Horses’ third record, Infinite Arms, is a definitive band record. It’s a collaboration between its five members, all working strenuously to produce, arguably, the outfit’s finest record thus far. It’s no doubt the band’s most mature sound, testament to the growth of the unit since 2008. Reynolds agrees.

“Well yeah, we’ve been on the road touring since the beginning of Cease To Begin, which is almost three years, so as a band we’ve been bouncing ideas off each other for a while,” he reflects. “And when we went in to make this new record we started in the studio in Muscle Shoals

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[Sound Studios]) because we wanted to make a record that really sounds like guys playing together. The whole point was to capture us live; to make it sound more like the band records we listen to.”

With the variation emanating from Infinite Arms being the record’s strength, it’s the layered West Coast style harmonies that shine as they bubble to the surface and add to Bridwell’s trademark falsetto holler. With Tyler Ramsey – who released his solo debut A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea just prior to joining Band Of Horses, becoming the key go-to-man for Bridwell by ways of backing vocal and songwriting support – the two men now share a John Stirratt and Jeff Tweedy type musical relationship that catapults Band Of Horses from good to great band.

But again, we must be reminded that Infinite Arms is a total group effort. It’s an atmospheric record that’s also punchy and littered with degrees of rhythmic sizzle – the recording process oscillating between takes at Asheville, North Carolina studio, Echo Mountain and the infamous Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama. “We went a little crazy with our demos prior to heading into the studio and even when we got to Muscle Shoals when we started sorting these, at times, eccentric songs, once we found our rhythm, things starting taking shape,” says Reynolds.

The trials and tribulations that Bridwell endured in the lead up to Band Of Horses’ third release have been well documented. Leaving Sub Pop in 2008 after the band’s initial contract had expired, Bridwell re-ignited his own independent label Brown Records before hooking up with Fat Possum, then later Columbia to release Infinite Arms.

Brown Records was Bridwell’s self-funded label he set up pre-Band Of Horses from the money earned working a shitty hospitality job at the famed Seattle club The Crocodile.

Arguably one of the most talented dishpigs on the planet, Bridwell bided his time, struggling for air in one sweat-box kitchen after the other – but the struggle has been worth it.

Three evolving Band Of Horses records in the can, avoiding total bankruptcy and touring alongside the likes of Neil Young, Willie Nelson and Roger McGuinn have all helped shape the band into the powerful force it now is.

“It was fun for the five of us to go into Muscle Shoals and Echo and work with Ben’s lyrics and just go crazy with the music... We had a blast with horn and string sections and making it fun for us – that was key,” Reynolds explains.

Admitting that Infinite Arms is the sound of Band Of Horses really “getting their groove on”, Reynolds also states that this feels like the beginning for the band, irrespective of the two previous – and albeit very good – Band Of Horses records, 2006’s Everything All The Time and 2007’s Cease To Begin. “This will be the first of many fine records with this line-up,” beams Reynolds.

One of the more impressive aspects of the Infinite Arms’ sound is the fresh and intuitive playing heard throughout. At times it can be a little rough around the edges – all loose and ragged with diverse tempo shifts – and in other instances, clean-as-a-whistle, with big and bold instrumentation utilised. It’s the sound of a band figuring it out in the studio, playing off-the-cuff, all working for the song and trying to capture the moment. ‘Compliments’ is a good case in point with the opening to that song very un-Band Of Horses-like, instead having an extreme Clash-esque anthemic feel at its core. It’s a strange but wonderful tune.

“We loved the little accidents that made the songs better.

Like instead of saying, ‘No, this can’t happen, let’s do the take again’, we just went for it and kept going,” admits Reynolds. With the enigmatic bass player adding to the band collaboration and writing ‘Blue Beard’ for the record (alongside Ramsey’s ‘Evening Kitchen’ and Monroe’s ‘Older’), he explains that the song was inspired by a range of classical music and big symphonies he was listening to in 2009 and recalls the process of a simple idea making it all the way through from his Atlanta, Georgia home to the confines of the Muscle Shoals recording studio and onto the album.

“I remember sending Ben the music and him being like, ‘Oh shit, this is awesome’ and putting words to it. Then we both just really laughed at what it had become because it was just so out of control,” he recalls. “But when we went in to record, it just found this sort of 70s supergroup sound so we went that route with it. So, really, it went from this big ‘Live And Let Die’ feel to this supergroup thing out of nowhere and that typifies much of the album (laughs).”

BEARD ROCK Beards in music used to be considered incredibly passé, with the notable exception being ZZ Top (who you always felt were taking the piss in this regard anyway). While beards have been all the rage in heavy circles for a while (think Mastodon, Lamb Of God, Clutch et al) they are now so common in the indie realm that there’s a new sub-genre known as ‘beard rock’. Band Of Horses are of course at the vanguard of this burgeoning movement, but others flying the fluff include:

IRON & WINE The quietly-spoken singer is more beard than man. His beard is so conspicuous that it probably has a name.

Constantly asked about it in interviews, Beam claims that it’s “a product of laziness” and hints at it being a beard of necessity in the bedroom as well, claiming that his wife hates how he looks without it.

FLEET FOXES Usually run at a beard ratio of about 80 percent hirsute.

Not bad at all. Frontman Robin Pecknold was just out of his teens when they broke and must have been grooming his whiskers for the big time since puberty, because his chin action would have made Ned Kelly blush.

BLITZEN TRAPPER There’s some sweet facial hair amongst this north-west group, but mountain man drummer Brian Adrian Koch has one of the greatest beards ever, so wild-looking that it probably houses its own unique ecosystem.

WHO: Band Of Horses WHAT: Infinite Arms (Columbia/Sony Music) WHEN & WHERE: Splendour In The Grass Saturday Jul 31

METAMORPHOSIS

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT HAVE LONG ENJOYED BEING RISING STARS IN AUSTRALIAN MUSIC. MATT O’NEILL SPEAKS TO DRUMMER BEN HALL ABOUT THE BAND’S GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT INTO BRISBANE VETERANS. seems particularly wary of delivering a record of anything less than stellar quality – the drummer apparently less than satisfied with the band’s most recent release.

“We really want to put out a great record,” Hall explains.

“I think certain exterior factors impacted on our writing processes last time and we sort of hit the panic button and started recording when we didn’t have a truly strong record. We lost our manager midway through the process and we found ourselves thinking we had to prove we could still do it and still put a record out and we just didn’t quite have the record. This time around we will.”

One can still sense a certain spectre of fear lurking behind each of the band’s actions. The sound that The Butterfly Effect helped pioneer early last decade has developed and spread into new generations and, while The Butterfly Effect has grown with it, one suspects they aren’t entirely sure who they are at this point in time. The Butterfly Effect have to revisit their old touring tactics and release the best record possible so as to maintain their own identity.

“It’s hard to comment on that, really,” Hall confesses.

“We’re so entrenched in the scene and the sound and the music industry that it’s hard to tell where we stand with our sound, so to speak. I legitimately wonder sometimes if, when a general radio listener hears a Butterfly Effect song and a Karnivool song, are they able to tell the difference? Or do they just go, ‘That’s just that Aussie hard rock shit’? It was never a deliberate thing for us to sound the way we do but you can’t help but try to weigh up where your band fits in your own community and what that means to you.”

WHO: The Butterfly Effect WHERE & WHEN: Villa Noosa Hotel Thursday Jul 22, Surfers Paradise Beergarden Friday Jul 23, Alexandra Hills Hotel Saturday Jul 24, Kallangur Tavern Sunday Jul 25

If Powderfinger’s recent demise illustrated anything about Brisbane musical culture, it emphasised that Brisbane bands do not age. This is not a metaphorical truth about the romantic timelessness of local music.

It’s a commentary on what appears to be a characteristically Brisbane approach to musical success. Brisbane bands, it often seems, would rather dissolve their ranks than endure fame and success for longer than is necessary. There are exceptions – outfits that have stalked the city’s popular development for decades on end – but, more often than not, Brisbane musicians are content to simply establish a name, release some music and promptly dissolve and reconfigure into new formations.

Savage Garden, arguably our most commercially successful export, didn’t manage to deliver more than two albums before disbanding while The Saints’ original incarnation only lasted for three.

This places Brisbane quartet The Butterfly Effect in an increasingly intriguing position within the city’s musical landscape. The group initially formed in 2009 and, since the release of their eponymous EP in 2001, have been among some of Brisbane’s most popular and celebrated acts but, after 11 years and three albums of original material, The Butterfly Effect are no longer the promising young outfit many critics positioned them as for the earlier half of their career.

“Yeah, we’re not getting any younger,” drummer Ben Hall laughs. “It does change your perspective on matters, I guess – particularly in regards to how long you can maintain this kind of lifestyle. I think, once upon a time, I would have considered The Butterfly Effect to be a very successful band. We were moving forward and things were really happening for us. I think, in general, that success has continued but you do have to weigh up – what happens in ten years time when I’m 40?

“I am surprised that we have lasted this long. I sometimes forget the utterly monumental number of bands out there who are trying to make it. We rehearse in the day so we don’t interact with other bands much but, if I go in after 7pm, every room is full; there’s garage bands, metal bands, funk bands,” the drummer continues. “There’s just such a volume of music out there and that’s really what makes me realise how lucky we’ve been to get to this level.”

The real indicators lie not so much in The Butterfly Effect themselves but in the development of their peers and contemporaries. Bondi trio Cog are rumoured to be disbanding in the near future, Brisbane cult favourites Melodyssey have slipped under the radar, Karnivool’s success has been supplanted by vocalist Ian Kenny’s pop-rock side-project Birds Of Tokyo and Dead Letter Circus – arguably currently the genre’s most successful exponents – are ultimately of the next generation.

“You can’t help but consider things from a different perspective when you look at some of the bands who were around when we were younger,” Hall considers. “You see a lot of people come to those critical decisions where they have to decide between doing this and finding another way to make a living. I think there’s that real fear of ending up washed-up when you’re 40 without a career. I’m just hoping I can tackle those things when the time comes.”

Fortunately, the band aren’t so much contemplating retirement as striving desperately to avoid it. Whereas the majority of bands in The Butterfly Effect’s position – especially Brisbane bands – would consider moving on, The Butterfly Effect themselves seem more devoted to maintaining the standard of success and accomplishment they have managed to make synonymous with their name and output.

The band’s current tour would be a prime example. An established act within the mainstream with major label support, The Butterfly Effect nevertheless decided earlier this year to plot a regional tour across Australia. It’s the kind of manoeuvre that established the quartet as one of Brisbane’s hardest working bands in their earlier years but, given their level of success, one would have hardly expected the group to engage with such gruelling tactics in 2010.

“It’s actually been going great. These tours always seem to come at just the right time for us – after we’ve spent six months locked away working on material and we all hate each other,” Hall laughs. “Someone came into rehearsal quite a few months ago and pointed out that we haven’t done a regional tour for quite a while. We’d just been sticking to the Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne circuit for a while and so we decided we’d expand a bit to places like Bathurst.

“We’re trying to really cover the entire spectrum, too, as well as regional areas,” the drummer elaborates. “As much as we can, we’ve tried to take it more to the people and, specifically, people who haven’t seen us in a couple of years.”

The writing sessions for the band’s fourth album, meanwhile – due for release either late this year or early 2011 – have found the band working to higher standards than employed on successful releases like 2006’s Imago and, especially, 2008’s Final Conversation Of Kings. Hall

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REBELS, CAUSES AND EFFECTS

IT HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY YEAR FOR THE BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB. BUT THEN, AS MITCH KNOX FINDS OUT FROM ROBERT LEVON BEEN, THINGS HAVEN’T BEEN EASY FOR THE LOS ANGELES-BASED GARAGE BLUES-ROCKERS FOR A WHILE NOW. It was almost not a happy New Year for the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. It had every reason to be – work was finishing up on their recently released sixth full-length album Beat The Devil’s Tattoo and new drummer Leah Shapiro had well and truly settled into her role since joining them in 2008, having reinvigorated the band with a life and energy not seen since well before previous skinsman’s departure. But for those close to them, things weren’t going so well, and although the situation has since turned around, seeing their loved ones hit lousy times had an effect on the band, says vocalist/bassist Robert Levon Been.

“It was a bit of an ass-kicker when the clock turned over,” he says. “Something spooky was going on in the cosmos.

Everybody was losing their minds. Not even our band or our record, just friends and things. It’s been a weird year, but for us it’s starting to go well.

“I dodged it. I dodged it pretty good. I can’t say all my mates did. Yeah, 2010 – I don’t know. The jury’s still out

for most of our friends. It’s turning out to be a rougher year than people expected I think.”

Been has had his fair share of rough years, most notably in 2008 when drummer and founding member Nick Jago left the band. The inner conflict had been stewing for years, since at least 2003, and Jago had previously quit the band once before, in 2004, following an altercation with guitarist Peter Hayes. Although Jago returned to the band following a stint in rehab, the turmoil never really subsided, and things finally came to an apex two years ago.

“We had a falling out with our old drummer Nick, who was with us from the beginning,” he recounts. ”A couple of years ago we were finishing out our last album while we were on the road and it just wasn’t, you know… he’d been in and out for a bit – it’s a bit sketchy – but we finally parted ways. We went for a while; we had some tour dates still to go for the last record, and we weren’t really sure what we were going to do, like if we were going to call it quits or change the band name or do something. “[Leah] was a friend of ours that came at the right time and place, and we finished out about another five months of touring on that record. She learned all our old songs. It was kind of amazing. So we just invited her to record on the record.”

Shapiro’s arrival turned out to be kick-start the ailing band needed, allowing Been and Hayes to take a step back and appreciate the ease with which the new blood was flowing.

“It’s spooky good,” Been says. “She kind of brought us back to life when we least expected someone to, and it’s kind of the reason we’re still standing and still making music, so I couldn’t be more grateful.

“We don’t want to kill each other all the time anymore (laughs). It helps.

We’re more focused on music, all of us. She brings that to the table and we follow her more than trying to convince someone that this is worth the time and energy, which it felt like we were doing more often than not.”

The addition of a new percussionist has allowed the band members to explore different musical channels than they previously would have thought to or been comfortable with for fear of putting noses out of joint.

Been is hesitant to say they’ve “evolved”, but there is something more natural about the way B.R.M.C are writing their songs these days.

“I don’t know, me and Peter had to become very loose and roll with whatever this new band sound was going to be,” he explains. “We’re playing with a new person, and we involved her in the writing just because we wrote so much as a band just jamming things out and letting things be. So whatever it was going to sound like was what it was going to sound like. I feel like we stayed out of the way as much as you can, and the more we did, the better the results we got. I guess that’s an evolution in its own way, is just getting out of the way of your own music sometimes. It’s probably the best thing you can do to go forward.”

There is a sense of relief, too, in having been able to make this album at all: following the fall-out with Jago, Been wasn’t sure there would ever be another B.R.M.C record, much less one of which he is so proud.

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“I’m very paranoid of using the word ‘satisfied’, but I’m proud of the record, and I still can’t believe we made it,” he says. “It was a bit touch and go for a while, but I couldn’t be more thankful to be on the road.

I didn’t really expect that this day would come. It’s so wild. It’s been a year of making it and a year of picking our songs out, so it feels good.”

The payoff for the band is even sweeter as, remarkably, Beat The Devil’s Tattoo stayed out of the prying hands of Internet seeders until roughly a week before its release, which Been attributes to basic respect paid to the album by those who received it early.

“We thought it would be out months before release,” he laughs.

“Somehow, we dodged a bullet there. The people that we gave it to early on gave it some good respect and held onto it tight, so it didn’t leak until maybe a week before it came out, which kind of blew our minds.”

Having toured the album in the United States, Canada and Europe, Been is flattered by the band’s warm welcomes regardless of where they’re frequenting.

“It used to be like, we were bigger in the UK, but now we’ve done the legwork around the world so everything’s starting to feel like we’re able to tour almost wherever we want, and really feel welcome, and we feel we’re playing similar sized rooms everywhere, so it’s a really great feeling,” he says. “So just to get to go over there and have it translate the same is kind of wonderful.”

The band are likely to experience a similar welcome when they grace our shores for Splendour In The Grass and a series of sideshows later this month. As much as the band are looking forward to the tour, Been says that ultimately, “we’ll be more than happy just to make good on the promise we made a couple years back that we’d come back.”

Don’t expect the touring schedule to be too hectic this time around though: after so much chaos, the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are looking forward to having a little more time to themselves.

“This record our hope is that we won’t have to kill ourselves like the other one,” Been says. “That we can kind of come on and off and play more selectively when we want to, so I hope to include some breaths of air and some downtime. That should make the shows a bit more special, you know, if we do get that chance to breathe.”

WHO: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club WHAT: Beat The Devil’s Tattoo (Abstract Dragon/ Vagrant/Shock) WHERE & WHEN: Splendour in the Grass Friday Jul 30

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STILL RISING

SOUTHERN HELLRAISERS THE NATION BLUE ARE POWERING BACK INTO TOWN THIS WEEK, AND GUITARIST TOM LYNGCOLN GIVES BEN SALTER A RUNDOWN ON WHY THEY’RE STILL PUSHING THEIR INIMITABLE BLUEPRINT FOR MODERN NOISE. money anyway, and at least there it was refreshing that everyone that was playing in bands, and they were really enthusiastic about playing. Whereas you get over here and there’s just so many ...” – Lyngcoln pauses in exasperation – “...just these kind of heads who are just opportunists. They’re not lifers, whereas we’ll be doing it ‘til we drop in some capacity.”

With no further shows booked, this tour could be the last time Brisbane punters have to catch The Nation Blue live for some time, and it sounds as though the band are preparing to unleash a veritable greatest hits set.

“With this one we’re looking to mine pretty heavily from the back catalogue. Keep it interesting and stay away from our fruity, limited, genre-pushing material, which can be a bit divisive”, he chuckles. “I think we’re just gonna try to blast out as much energy as we can, for dudes with a collective age of about 90.”

both audiences and bands in Brisbane over the years, including aforementioned cane punks SixFtHick. The Hick’s combative Corbett Brothers even lent their vocals to the track ‘I’m Inbred’ from Rising Waters. An incestuous bond then?

“We played with those dudes a few years ago and we really liked them”, says Lyngcoln. “I mean you can throw a rock at most Brisbane bands and probably hit a decent one. We have to push our net out in to other states to find soul brothers and sisters, and so when we find them we always tend to gravitate pretty strongly towards them and kind of keep them in the loop”, he laughs. “And exploit their wares whenever we can!”

WHO: The Nation Blue WHERE & WHEN: Rosies Saturday Jul 24

The Nation Blue have developed quite a bond with The bio part: since setting up their stall in Hobart in the late-90s, the now Melbourne-based Nation Blue have released an EP and four fulllength albums; toured across Australia as well as to the United States, Brazil and Japan; and supported bands ranging from Helmet to the Foo Fighters. In the process they have cemented their reputation as one of the finest, fiercest and most progressive rock bands in Australia. They play a visceral blend of post-punk and hardcore that is politicised, intelligent and utterly compelling, as anyone who has seen their live show will attest. They are brutally honest in intent and delivery, music and lyrics; and they are distinctively and uniquely Australian. The combination of a post-punk musical sensibility with this almost feral Australianicity make them the sibling of groups such as Perth’s The Drones and Brisbane’s SixFtHick, without sounding a lot like either of them.

After the tour for last year’s AIR Award winning Rising Waters, the band went to ground, and there were sotto murmurs that The Nation Blue might have hung up their boots permanently. It turns out rumours of their demise were greatly exaggerated, as guitar mangler, chief lyricist and compulsive self-deprecator Tom Lyngcoln tells Time Off. “Well we weren’t gonna do anything this year, that’s for sure”, he says.

“And then this mate’s band [A Death In The Family] asked us to tour with them, so we threw it around and it came up trumps. I dunno how. But apparently the other two were keen so it was like, ‘Alright, sweet’. It’s a pretty weird organism at the moment. I think this’ll be all we do for the rest of the year and after that we’ll just see where it goes from there.”

Like so many independent musicians, Lyngcoln and co. all have a number of other projects on the boil, as well as families to feed and normal lives to attempt to lead; it was these factors, as well as a desire for a well-earned break, that led to the band’s extended hiatus.

“We all kind of had a fair bit on this year: Matt [Weston – bass]’s kind of working away on a film and I’ve got two other bands on the go – Lee Memorial, and this new thing with the wife called Harmony which we’re still kind of working on that’ll be ready towards the end of the year”, he says. “That’s me and her and Jon Chappelle from McLusky, and Amanda Roth from The Ukeladies. Just a bunch of heads kind of playing old Link Wray-type stuff so that’s gonna be real good fun. So I’ve been writing and thinking about that, and Nation Blue hasn’t really popped into my head a lot.”

Four albums, countless shitty riders and bad kebabs, 12 or so years, and now a few side projects. Could it be the case that the band are sick of each other? Or that Lyngcoln is sick of doing The Nation Blue?

“Nah, I still love it”, he states. “We had an [Melbourne rock venue] Arthouse birthday show ‘bout a month ago and that was a bit of a tester to see whether we were into it or not. But it went really well and we had a great time. We had a lot of fun. So yeah, I’m looking forward to the tour. I’m keen to get out of Melbourne. I think after a while you figure out you sort of miss it.”

In spite of their share of plaudits, including the AIR ‘Best Indepedent Hard Rock/Punk Album’ Award for last year’s Rising Waters, it would be fair to say that The Nation Blue are one of Australia’s most underrated and under-appreciated outfits. For a band with so many exciting things to say, lyrically and musically, it seems grossly unfair that they’re still ploughing roughly the same dusty furrow that they were ten years ago or so. But Lyngcoln is philosophical about the situation, citing the bands ill-starred arena support slots for the Foo Fighters a few years ago as a case in point.

“That fuckin’ terrified us, that was the most horrific experience we could have had!”, he laughs. “It kind of played out the only way it possibly could, with Matt doing his knee in the third song of the first show. I think that’s Jeebers telling us to stay away from that domain.

I mean we never had any big aspirations – we’re from Hobart, we played to the same 50 people there for four years before we moved to Melbourne, and then we played to the same 180 after that... which is great. I mean, I’m happy with that, we’re really happy to just fuck around and kind of trundle along. We don’t have the mugs for that fame caper”, he says wryly. “We look like sex offenders. People won’t have us in their homes!”

The band’s Hobart blooding, as well as ten-plus years spent in various capacities within the music industry, have given Lyngcoln a fairly relaxed and realistic outlook on the music game that could not be more at odds with the “Haircuts and Attitude” approach of some of his Melbourne contemporaries; where the big break and fat pay cheque is seen as some sort of inevitable outcome, rather than the domain of the lucky few.

“There are plenty of halfwits out there who think that that’s the way it’s gonna be. And I guess you could say that I know enough people who should be making the money, and they aren’t, and that’s kind of a horrible truth”, he reflects. “In Hobart there was never any

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SINK OR SWIM

LOCAL INDIE-POPPERS THE BOAT PEOPLE THIS WEEKEND KICK OFF THEIR EAST COAST TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THEIR THIRD STUDIO FULL-LENGTH DEAR DARKLY. SONGWRITER ROBIN WATERS SPEAKS WITH MITCH KNOX. Walker from Machine Translations – he kind of produced the whole thing – but I think because we’d gone into it in this real ‘making a band record’ mindset, we didn’t really get to benefit a lot from his ideas on that recording. It was this process where we actually learned a lot from him, but we probably didn’t get to apply until Dear Darkly. It was great, it was kind of like we had two producers; we had John Castle doing his thing, which is – I don’t know, he’s like the same age as us and has grown up with the same music, and was listening to a lot of the same things in terms of production sounds, like Spoon and Phoenix; those really kind of pumped-up, inorganic drum sounds.

But at the same time we had everything we learned from Jay, which was really trying to stay true to the emotion of the song and let that get through to the other end of the process unscathed.

In a manner probably more voluntary than their real-life namesakes, Brisbane indie pop outfit The Boat People are going with the flow and wherever the wind takes them. It’s a little under three weeks since the release of third fulllength effort Dear Darkly – and less than a week until they set off in support of the record – and there’s a sense of recklessness and a hesitance to be too specific in their plans or lay anything down in concrete. But then, says vocalist/keyboardist Robin Waters, the decision to throw three sheets to the wind was brought about as a direct result of doing just the opposite throughout the creation of their sophomore effort, 2008’s Chandeliers.

“We felt like Chandeliers took too long to record,” Waters – one half of the band’s songwriting core alongside guitarist James O’Brien – laments. “It turned out well, but we liked it less, I guess, because we worked on it for longer. We took a year less to record this album than we took to record Chandeliers.

All the songs are from a shorter period of time.”

Not that being conceived and realised in a shorter timeframe is necessarily indicative that the songs were constructed using only half of the band’s collective arse; the band simply adopted a ‘work smarter, not harder’ mind frame which, coupled with their existing personal and musical cohesion, allowed them to approach things in a way that they found more suitable.

“I think we trusted that we’d been playing together long enough that who we were would just come out, you know?”

Waters explains. “And it would be more like it would just come out by just doing things without planning ahead really. So we recorded the album in little bursts, and just recorded whatever we had half-written at the time. We kind of purposely didn’t finish anything off until we were in the studio; it was a lot more fun for us that way. We always try and head in a direction where making the music is going to be as fun as possible, and as interesting and as engaging for us as possible, and usually that leads to more interesting music.”

And it is interesting. There are levels, emotions, textural shifts, dynamic changes, and other elements which highlight the living and malleable dimensions of music.

But perhaps interesting music isn’t what the people want.

After all, Waters admits that early reception to the album has been a little mixed from some corners – “I think the main response has been kind of that people are interested

in the songs, but they’re also confused because they’re all so different from each other,” he says – and that he has also previously dealt with criticism for using language in his lyrics that some might consider too ‘artsy’.

“It’s interesting because there’s a lot in our songs I suppose, in terms of subject matter. It’s not often the case that this song is a sad song or a happy song; it’ll usually have layers and different emotions,” he says. “There’s two songwriters in the band, so I can only speak for myself, but I guess I try to create some kind of emotional landscape, but one that’s accurate; derived from reality but not hung up on realism, which I think is a problem with a lot of expression in Australian music. And film as well, actually. There’s a fear of the extraordinary. It’s something that goes along with that idea of... I guess the kind of ‘she’ll be right’ thinking also manifests itself as ‘don’t put yourself out’. I know there were a few reviews of [lead single] ‘Soporific’ where people were like, ‘Oh, you know, they’re using words that you wouldn’t use in everyday conversation, and that makes it less genuine,’ sort of thing, and I thought, ‘Well, it’s not just me having a conversation with someone; it’s a song, and it’s an opportunity to take something in reality and put it into an internal place in your mind and your spirit’.

“It certainly is limiting to not give yourself the opportunity to do that, and while you might not use those words while ordering Chinese food or whatever, they’re words I come across when I’m reading all the time. It’s not like I’ve just kind of found them in a dictionary somewhere. It’s kind of like saying, ‘Oh, whatever books I might be interacting with creatively with on that level shouldn’t have that language in them’. I guess I’ve just become a lot more interested in lyrics in the last couple of years and it would be frustrating to feel like I had to make it sound like… I don’t know. I don’t know what sort of songs would have that vibe of realistic conversation.”

Nonetheless, Waters is nonplussed by such frivolous grievances, his lackadaisical demeanour conveying his indifference toward such non-critical criticism. He remains quite pleased with his and his bandmates’ efforts on the record, aided not least by the fact that they actually enjoyed themselves in the studio this time around.

“I’m very happy with it,” Waters enthuses. “I think I’ve got a much more positive memory of the process as well. It was a much more fun process, and I think a really good thing that came out of it too was, Chandeliers we did with Jay

“I guess we’ve kind of been doing things long enough now that we just do what we do – I’ve never really learned a better way to gauge how successful something is other than whether it’s making me feel something. We make music we want to make and try to make it interesting for ourselves.”

Beyond the Dear Darkly tour, the lads are not without places to be and people to charm; they’ll be setting off with comedian-cum-musician The Bedroom Philosopher, which promises to be an enigmatic pairing at the very least.

“It’ll be really interesting actually because I don’t really know anyone who’s done anything like that,” Waters says.

“He’s in that weird position where he’s kind of a comedian but he’s just rejected the whole comedy circuit, he just goes out into venues and stuff. It’s probably another situation where people leave the shows not quite sure what they were supposed to take away from it, but I kind of like that idea as well, and I think he does too.”

WHO: The Boat People WHAT: Dear Darkly (Independent/MGM) WHERE & WHEN: Bon Amici Cafe, Toowoomba Thursday Jul 22, The SoundLounge, Currumbin Friday Jul 23, The Troubadour Saturday Jul 24, Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay Sunday Jul 25

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A NEW METHOD OF SONGWRITING HAS OPENED THINGS UP FOR THE WHIGS, FRONTMAN PARKER GISPERT TELLS SAM FISHER.

SYDNEY ENSEMBLE RICHARD IN YOUR MIND HAVE RECENTLY DROPPED THEIR LYSERGIC SECOND ALBUM MY VOLCANO, AND FRONTMAN RICHARD CARTWRIGHT GIVES BEN SALTER THE RUNDOWN ON THEIR LOVE OF SPACE ECHO.

Parker Gispert, frontman for The Whigs, is buying coffee and donuts when he answers Time Off’s call. “I’ve got my donut and this fancy coffee drink which isn’t really my style,” he drawls. “It’s some sort of chocolate, iced mocha thing... chocolate and coffee, seems like a good combination.”

Gispert knows all about good combinations, the band he fronts being one of them. Formed in 2002 out of Athens, Georgia, The Whigs have gone from strength to strength, whipping up a garage rock frenzy wherever they roam, laying down a couple of solid records in the process – 2005’s Give ‘Em All A Big Fat Lip and Mission Control in 2008.

As it stands right now, the band have just released their third record, In The Dark. For a start, it’s been in the can for almost a year, but is only seeing the light of day now, a business decision the band have nothing to do with, Gispert assures. With this record we see quite a move away from the more confined sounds of Mission Control. In The Dark is a big record, lush and spacious, really painting these wide open soundscapes, a change indeed.

“That has a lot to do with how we wrote the songs,” Gispert explains. “We wrote these songs differently for a specific reason, because when we were doing Mission Control we didn’t have a permanent bass player in the band, it was just Julian [Dorio – drums] and I, so all the songs came in on guitar. That creates a lot of stuff fighting for the same sonic space... so with this record, we started with bass.

A lot of the songs began as drum and bass demos. Then I sang over the bass and wrote my guitar parts around the vocal melodies.”

If you listen to the two records one after the other, you can see how this would have changed things. There’s this space to In The Dark, and it seems having the bass there and using it as a writing instrument has given the band more room to move, a fine thing indeed.

“Yeah, we were able to fill out a bigger sonic landscape,” concurs Gispert. “And I guess things were technically a bit more properly arranged.” It’s an interesting change for the band to make, this new way of writing, but it’s obviously opened up a lot of sonic space, left them room to move.

Was this planned beforehand, or just how it ended up happening?

“From the beginning we wanted to spread things out,” Gispert tells. “We also wanted to be challenging ourselves and this allowed me to focus more on writing guitar parts... I was really able to look at the song and see what it needed as far as guitar goes.”

On the other side of the desk for this record was an old friend of the band, Ben Allen, who’s produced the likes of Gnarls Barkley and Animal Collective. It seems the combination of his knowledge of the band plus his experience were just what The Whigs needed.

“We’ve known him for about eight years and have been wanting to work with him for ages,” says Gispert. “He brought a real central quality to the record... we wanted to make a record that wasn’t your standard rock album sonically, and he was able to help with that, totally.”

So In The Dark was recorded, sat on a shelf for a while, but will now see the light of day, and it sees the band in a positive place indeed.

“I feel good about thing,” smiles Gispert. “I always want the records to be going somewhere; I never want to fall into a comfort zone. I’m proud of us for always doing what we’ve wanted to do. I’m happy about it.”

WHO: The Whigs WHAT: In The Dark (ATO/Inertia)

MERRY PRANKSTERS

THROUGH CHATTERING TEETH, JACK POTTER OF BRISSIE GENREMASHING OUTFIT TIN CAN RADIO COULDN’T HAVE PICKED A BETTER DAY TO SPEAK TO TYLER McLOUGHLAN FROM THE NATION’S CAPITAL ABOUT A TOUR, A NEW SINGLE, AND A MAGICAL MYSTERY BUS.

It’s only 1pm, but Richard Cartwright, eminently affable lead vocalist, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist in Sydney psychpopsters Richard In Your Mind has already something of a hectic day, as he attempts to explain in his roundabout way.

“Everything’s been kind of good in itself”, he says thoughtfully. “It’s just trying to put all the things next to each other in an order that doesn’t overlap too much. But it’s all good now; I’ve had a sandwich, which always takes the edge off.”

One sandwich chalked up, we get down to the business of discussing Richard In Your Mind’s new album, their second, My Volcano. Recorded last year with the help of Sydney-based musical terrorist and provocateur Spod, aka Brent Griffin, My Volcano is a fantastic psychedelic pop/rock album, where all the usual tricks of the trade (double tracked vocals, handclaps, harmonies, liberal use of space echo, vintage synthesisers, loops, sound collages) and some less common ones (steel drums and monkey noises) are employed to dazzling and frequently mindbending effect. The 13 tracks range from strident psychrock anthems (‘Tiny Colossus Head’) to eastern sounding trip hop (‘This Face’), whimsical acoustic anti-folk (‘Edge Off Dreaming’) and fully fledged tribal freak-outs (‘Flower Of The Heart’). The use of the Roland Space Echo Delay Unit is particularly noticeable, with giddy swoops of pitch, clattering echo, and delay trailing off into infinity at every turn. Cartwright is clearly quite besotted with this famous piece of kit, beloved of artists ranging from Lee “Scratch” Perry to Suicide to Radiohead.

“We got the Space Echo only a couple of months before we signed off, but we spent every day that we had after that running everything through it”, he enthuses. “If I had a God it would be a Space Echo! I just love them.”

“We bought a bus,” exclaims Potter proudly. “The sound system that we’ve got has a couple of extra inputs and we’ve got 240 volt mains power that runs off the battery, so we set up our instruments. That’s kind of the game we play – makin’ music on the bus!”

“We thought it had a decent shot so we recorded it and put it out and triple j picked it up pretty well instantly,” Potter continues. “Through that and through the tour that we did... we got picked up by Major Label – a new record company in Australia. They’re kind of copying the Moshi Moshi thing in the UK where they just release singles. They do some advertising and pitch the single to all the radio stations and record execs, and then they find a new bunch of artists. So we’re the first Brisbane band signed to Major.”

Though such a label model doesn’t accommodate anything more than singles, Tin Can Radio definitely have their sights on an album.

“We’ll look at releasing an album late this year or early next year. It depends on how prolific we get over the next couple of months,” he concedes. “We want to have an album, not just a collection of tracks. We really want to write the sort of

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Not to mention the logistics of carting all that equipment around on tour, for which the band have taken a novel approach.

“We’ve got an amazing line-up,” Potter admits with delight, as he goes on to offer a touching show of local band camaraderie. “The Belligerents are launching their single ‘These Hands’. Those guys are killing it – they’re my favourite Brisbane band by a hell of a long way.”

WHO: Tin Can Radio WHAT: ‘From Moments To Memories’ (Major Label) WHERE & WHEN: The Hi-Fi Friday Jul 23

WHO: Richard In Your Mind WHAT: My Volcano (Rice Is Nice) WHERE & WHEN: Alhambra Lounge Friday Jul 23

“I did put it off for quite a while and I did a couple of albums and the last album, [2007’s] Morning In The Bowl Of Night, was pretty intense and emotional and cathartic. So after I’d done that, thinking about what I was going to do next, I found that I had this song lying around that we’d recorded for this online music site in America called Novatunes; sort of like a music club that they had going. I had my album on there and I got this email asking if I wanted to submit a track for this compilation of David Crosby songs, so I looked around and found ‘Traction In The Rain’, from If Only I Could Remember My Name, recorded that and sent that in. They said, ‘Great, great,’ but then the whole thing fell apart and it never happened and the album never got recorded, but I had this track I’d recorded at home.

“It’s just great,” explains Potter, who himself plays bass, Chinese harp, drums, keys and guitar. “It makes for a hard stage show – there’s a lot of changing and trying to remember when you’re on which instrument.”

The Tin Can Radio Toyota Coaster will eventually putt its way to The Hi-Fi for an ambitious hometown show as part of the current tour.

“For me the just the word ‘psychedelic’ is just a really big word”, he says. “And lots of stuff that is considered psychedelic isn’t really. It can be a rock band from the 60s but it can also be something like The Orb, ‘cause I mean I fucking love The Orb, and that to me is the most psych music there is. But... maybe it’s a reaction. I mean, pop got pretty clean and produced there for a while. It kind of hit a crisis point of being over-produced, so things will always swing another way.”

sort of like iPod shuffles, only instead of having the original artists, Miller reinterpreted her favourite songs herself, in new and unique arrangements. She’s employed the same sort of selection process for Car Tape 2.

“This is a question we get asked so much,” he comments.

“It’s kind of like being punched in the face with a physical question mark! I really have no idea how to describe it in a genre bracket. To put it in the electro scene is kind of unfair on the progressive stuff that we do, and the drum and bass elements and the soundscape-y stuff that we do as well. We kind of think of it as just listening to the radio!”

Having already tackled the east coast tour circuit a couple of times, their growth spurt as a band has kicked in through the strength of recent single ‘Hot Trash’ and the attention from triple j via Unearthed.

Cartwright is clearly wary. Whilst loosely describing the music that Richard In Your Mind make, a catch-all phrase like ‘psychedelic’ can very easily be employed to dumb down or simplify what is actually an incredibly diverse range of influences and styles.

THOUGH LISA MILLER IS A SUBLIMELY EVOCATIVE SINGER AND SONGWRITER, IT’S HER 2002 COVERS ALBUM THAT’S PROVEN HER MOST POPULAR RELEASE. SHE TALKS TO MICHAEL SMITH ABOUT HER SECOND CAR TAPE.

Whilst very certain about the type of record they intend to make, it’s with an exasperated sigh that Potter attempts to explain the sound of Tin Can Radio.

Their free-spirited approach is a likely by-product of having five highly-skilled multi-instrumentalists as members.

“Maybe there is”, he considers, “Especially with Tame Impala, ‘cause they’ve risen to some success at the moment, and their album is real good. There was talk when we put out our first album, like, was there this psych thing going on in Sydney with bands like us and [fellow Sydney psych outfit] Astral Kaleidoscope? But that was more of a shoegaze thing, and we’ve never felt like we fitted into that. So maybe this album is kind of a reflection that even though we’re sort of this psych band we didn’t want to be stuck there.”

ROAD SONGS

album that you can curl up in bed with the one you love and listen to from start to finish.”

“It’s pretty chilly down here,” Jack Potter says dryly of Tin Can Radio’s visit to Canberra, the first stop of their east coast From Moments To Memories tour which spruiks a new single of the same name. “It’s been nice though, being in the nation’s capital on this auspicious date. We decided that we must be the official mascot band for Labor government change. Kevin Rudd got voted in on the night of one of our shows here, and we have another show tonight and it happens to be the night that Julia Gillard becomes our first female Prime Minister.”

Like much contemporary, adventurous pop music, My Volcano takes as its loose template from the later works of 60s groups such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

But Richard In Your Mind’s peculiar blend of trippiness, with both modern and vintage face-melting techniques freely employed, make them more akin to more contemporary acts such as The Beta Band, Apples In Stereo and Beck. And with a current crop of Australian bands such as Brisbane’s The John Steel Singers, Melbourne’s Eagle & The Worm and Perth’s Tame Impala all mining a similar vein of woozy psych and lysergic pop, does Cartwright feel that something might be in the water at the moment?

A familiar face and voice in Melbourne’s alternate country and rockabilly circuit through the late 80s and early 90s, Lisa Miller released her first solo album, Quiet Girl With A Credit Card, in 1996. Her eclectic collection of covers, Car Tape, released in 2002 and recorded independently as something of an interim exercise while she was sorting out contractual problems with her previous now defunct labels, became one of the best-selling indie albums of that year, garnering several ARIA nominations in the process. So the possibility of a follow-up was always on the cards, though the decision to record Car Tape 2 wasn’t exactly easy.

“I wanted Car Tape to live as itself,” Miller explains, “and I didn’t want to be a hack and just churn them out. I know that people can be pretty protective of something that they really like and if people did like the first one and another one came along, chances of them embracing the next one as wholeheartedly I thought were a long shot, but people have been pretty good about it.”

The premise of the first Car Tape album was to replicate, in a way, those collections of songs people used to piece together on cassette tapes as company for long car trips,

“Thinking about it, it had that sort of Car Tape-esque sound.

Then I was at a dinner party and I heard the Ryan Adams song from [unreleased 2001 album] The Suicide Handbook, ‘She Wants To Play Hearts’, and I thought, ‘God, I really want to do that song’ – it was just begging to be done – and then I just started collecting songs for a couple of years. I also started to think about songs from my past and when I heard them again they were usually the ones that went way back with me; they were the ones that stuck out as songs to be tried out because they were like sleepers, songs that opened out over a long period of your life. They weren’t songs you felt an instant attraction for, but songs that you realised how much you loved them when you heard them again. So it’s probably an album full of those songs that don’t go away, that reveal more with more playings.

“Hopefully there are surprises for people. The Car Tape should have little surprises for you and hopefully they’ll lead you in new directions.”

WHO: Lisa Miller WHAT: Car Tape 2 (Raoul/Other Tongues) WHERE & WHEN: The Spiegeltent Wednesday Sep 22

FOE CRUSHERS

AFTER EXPLODING OUT OF ANONYMITY FOLLOWING THEIR EP RELEASE TWO YEARS AGO, SYDNEY DEATHCORE GROUP THY ART IS MURDER HAVE JUST UNLEASHED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM. GUITARIST SEAN DELANDER HAS A QUICK CHAT TO LOCHLAN WATT.

LIBERATION TRANSMISSION

IT’S BEEN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS SINCE BONFIRE NIGHTS’ DEBUT LIVE PERFORMANCE. MATT O’NEILL SPEAKS TO GUITARIST AND VOCALIST STEPHEN FOSTER ABOUT THE BAND’S RAPID DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR FORTHCOMING EP.

the new material he definitely suits it a lot better. He’s a great singer and a great frontman.”

personally just wanted to get back to the creative basics. I don’t think we’re really interested in making it as a band. I think we just wanted to do this because it’s what we enjoy doing as people.

With Delander and his fellow original members Lee Stanton (drums) and Gary Markowski (guitars) taking things into their own hands, a good portion of the album tracking was completed without the need for external direction.

“We’re still trying not to put any restrictions on the sounds we’re making,” the guitarist continues. “I mean, in a live show, we’ll be playing almost tribal-sounding, Death From Above 1979-style songs one minute and really fragile gentle material the next – but I think, in a weird way, we’ve maintained a continuity throughout those songs. I think our main goal is to just keep things natural and flowing and avoid chasing any specific sound.”

“We did all the tracking at our new bass player’s house,” he says of the process, referring to current string-hitter Mick Low, who replaced former bassist Josh King in November last year “because it wasn’t really working.”

Forming in 2005 and releasing the This Hole Isn’t Deep Enough demo later that year, Sydney’s Thy Art Is Murder may now be one of the country’s most talked about up-andcoming metal acts – though it didn’t all happen overnight.

After refining their sound down to a super aggressive and unbelievably tight combination of death metal riffage, fleet-fingered blast beats, hideously chunky new-age breakdowns and inhuman screams, the band was picked up by Brisbane label Skull & Bones Records for the release of their Infinite Death EP in August of 2008. With completely gore-riddled lyrics gracing songs with such titles as ‘Whore To A Chainsaw’ and ‘I’ll Show You God’, the five tracks quickly garnered the group underground attention on a worldwide scale.

Several large and highly successful Australian tours later, the most recent being on the Mistake Clothing Tour alongside Confession and Wish For Wings, Thy Art Is Murder has finally delivered the next chapter in their discography.

Entitled The Adversary, the lean juggernaut of an album contains 11 tracks of completely frantic and head-crushing sounds that show the band taking huge leaps in ability and style. The album also marks the first release on which current vocalist CJ McMahon, who replaced original singer Brendan Van Ryn in early 2009, appears.

“We knew he was capable of doing real well,” guitarist Sean Delander says of McMahon’s induction into the band.

“It’s a big change up from his old band, he had to step it up a lot, but we got him into gear and we’re very happy with how he’s going, and for the direction we want to go in for

“There was just a Pro Tools set up there, we just tracked all guitars there and did the drums there. Then once that was all done we took it to into the big studio,” the big studio being Sydney’s prestigious Electric Sun, the same place they recorded Infinite Death, “and re-amped all the guitars, mixed it all there, and touched it up a bit and got it mastered. The whole process took about seven months.”

Although earlier talks for The Adversary hinted that the album would embody a concept or storyline involving a fantastical religious war, Thy Art instead decided to tackle things from an angle that should surely find more listeners able to relate to the lyrics than ever before – that is if they open the booklet, given CJ’s indecipherable heaviness. Previously surrounded by controversy regarding some of their extreme and offensive lyrics, Delander confirms that while this element is certainly still a part of the band, they have indeed become a bit more mature in their approach.

“All the songs are kind of based around the title The Adversary which pretty much just means the opposition or whatever,” Delander says of the lyrics penned mostly by Markowski and himself. “It’s not all on the one topic – religion or whatever – it’s basically just about crushing the opposition. There’s not any story, but there’s definitely a theme.”

WHO: Thy Art Is Murder WHAT: The Adversary (Skull & Bones/Stomp) WHERE & WHEN: Shed 5, Gold Coast Thursday Jul 22 (all ages), Club 299 Friday Jul 23 (18+), The Fort Saturday Jul 24 (all ages), Black Box Theatre, Nambour Sunday Jul 25

There’s something noisily joyous about Brisbane’s Bonfire Nights. A two-piece rock ensemble consisting almost solely of drums and guitar, theirs is a sound that is, at once, archetypically primal and compellingly ambiguous. The band’s blend of garage-rock, punk, pop, post-punk and indie-rock immediately positions them alongside a surfeit of superficial soundalikes – from The White Stripes to Suicide – while never strongly recalling any of them.

“We never wanted to have any restrictions on the sound when we started out. We just wanted to do it differently,” guitarist and vocalist Stephen Foster says of the band’s work. “Whether that’s in the instrumentation or how we write the songs or the recording process. We just wanted to do things differently. I think, in the way we’re set up, we’re almost forced to approach our songwriting and performances in a different way.”

The spirit of the band’s output is perhaps most effectively described as the sound of rock musicians experimenting bereft of expectations. The outfit is comprised of two experienced Brisbane musicians (Foster having originally performed with garage-rockers Black Mustang and drummer/vocalist Ruth Nitkiewicz with pop-rock trio Hot Liquid Sex) and one suspects Bonfire Nights is the sound of two musicians simply enjoying making music together.

“It initially just started out as a creative project. We never even intended to gig it at the start. It just grew and grew until, finally, we decided we’d really want people to hear these songs,” Foster laughs. “I think, with this band, I

This sense of freedom could, in part, explain the band’s relatively immediate successes. Bonfire Nights only played their first gig a matter of months ago but, already, the group are releasing their debut EP, Bonfire Nights, and have managed to secure radio play both within Australia and abroad. There is even talk of Bonfire Nights releasing a second EP before the year is out if time and circumstances allow for such an endeavour.

“I think any artist would naturally feel good that people would want to listen to what they’re making so we’re obviously very happy that people in places like New York would want to listen to us,” Foster considers. “It’s all a bit surprising to be honest – sometimes when you play a show, you think you did a crap job and you get all this praise and you can’t help but wonder if people are really just being nice to you for some reason. It’s all very weird.

“It’s actually quite a relief to finally have the EP coming out,” the guitarist continues. “We’ve had it recorded for a fair while but it’s only just coming out now. We thought we’d release it instantly after we recorded it but, as tends to be the way, other people started to get involved and gigs started to crop up and so we had to keep putting it off.

We’re still pretty happy with what we hear when we listen back to it, though.”

WHO: Bonfire Nights WHAT: Bonfire Nights EP (Independent) WHERE & WHEN: The Troubadour Friday Jul 23

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SINGLES

WITH CHRIS YATES

ON THE RECORD

CROOKED FINGERS Reservoir Songs II

(Foreign Leisure Recordings) Crooked Fingers’ sequel to the indispensable Reservoir Songs EP once again shows off former Archers Of Loaf main man Eric Bachman’s impeccable taste and judgement – not only his ability to pick a great song to cover, but also how to do it justice. Self-financed by the fans themselves who desperately wanted to see this release happen, Reservoir Songs II is another testament to the viability of thinking outside traditional means to get a record to see the light of day. The selection shows off Bachman’s eclectic musical interests, and also his band’s ability to make them sound like they belong to the group.

‘Wild One’ by Thin Lizzy is sublime with an untypical laid back, relaxed vibe. Merle Haggard’s ‘Shelly’s Winter Love’ is sparse and given extra gravitas due to the stark honest performance. Bachman’s voice is the thread holding it all together as usual – gravelly, deep, weathered and as compelling as any of the artists he obviously admires and is indebted to.

EMINEM

Love The Way You Lie (Featuring Rihanna) (Universal)

Kinda hate to give Eminem column space at all considering how much he sucks, how one dimensional his whole approach to rapping is and how outdated and uncool and unnecessary his whole album Recovery is shaping up to be, but some things are worthy of mention.

Rihanna has been quoted as saying she loves Eminem so really wanted to do a duet with him and was honoured to be asked. The fact that she has said yes to a track which (surprise surprise) deals with Marshall Mathers talking about how sometimes you love someone so much that you have to hit them and then you feel really shit about it, is probably something that the pop world’s most famous victim of domestic abuse since Tina Turner should have thought about. On a purely musical level, this track is a rehash of the song that sampled Dido and rocketed him to undeserved superstardom many years earlier, with a week beat, and Rihanna’s vocals as the only distinguishing feature.

THE ROOTS

THE CAT EMPIRE

HALFWAY

(Def Jam/Universal)

(EMI)

(Plus One/Shock)

How I Got Over In the time of soul there was once a promised land called Motown where the best music came from. Today’s flock are quick to reference such hallowed ground, but not many link what soul gave birth to with the sounds and inhabitants that make up hip hop today. In fact, there’s plenty of bluster but very, very little soul. The Roots though are the bridge linking parted oceans, the group with the ability to give hip hop its soul back. There’s a palpable vulnerability, steadfast organics and versatility of delivery that both defines the seven musicians of The Roots and sets them very much apart.

Building upon the eight albums before, How I Got Over is a masterwork. Built around ?uestLove, now legendary drummer and bandleader of The Roots, who with bassist Owen Biddle bring all the funky subtlety you’d expect from a James Brown rhythm section but with a 21st Century twist of technology and a vast breadth of sampling that includes Joanna Newsom (‘Right On’) and Monsters Of Folk (‘Dear God 2.0’).

More than ever, The Roots sound paradoxically out of step with popular hip hop on this album, while sounding more hip hop than any of the young bucks weighing themselves down with diamonds. The album’s title track, with its solid gold Al Green heartbeat, is absolutely inspiring and delivered with an impressive vocal dexterity from Dice Raw, who features heavily over these 13 tunes.

Cinema

A guitar string snaps, a tambourine rattles and Felix Riebl sings, “This is the last time I will follow”, and so begins the fifth album of jazz-infused, Melbourne-based The Cat Empire. The statement of intent that is the opening duo of tracks, ‘Waiting’ and ‘Falling’, sets the touch tape alight right from the off and just like that, boom, they’re back.

After ten years on the scene the band need no introduction and all key players return along with the usual plethora of guest appearances. By this stage, each member knows his intended role and whether it be Ollie McGill’s frantic and infinitely catchy piano hooks on ‘All Hell’ and ‘Call Me Home’ or DJ Jumps’ freestyling on ‘Falling’ the band transition their focus seamlessly. The choruses are still triumphant, the singing still pitch perfect, the genres mashed and the brass ensemble still the cherry on the cake.

What differentiates this Cat Empire album from previous offerings then? Well, it’s the level of maturity, both of composition and lyrics. Tracks are sculpted wonderfully and seemingly effortlessly whilst the lyrics have a melancholic tinge lacking from previous albums. The new despondency (‘Reasonably Fine’ being the best example) helps add depth and longevity to what otherwise would be a frivolous sound and an album of repeated highs.

An Outpost Of Promise The third album from renowned local eight-piece Halfway has had some esteemed help during its four year gestation.

Recorded by Wayne Connolly, with local legend/bridge christener Robert Forster sitting in the producer’s chair, this release encapsulates what makes Halfway such an intriguing proposition. The Conrad-ian title hints at the isolationist ideals that still lie within main protagonists John Busby and Chris Dale, however this time they feel closer to home than ever.

There’s gems littered all through this tight, lean set, ten songs trimmed of their fat and laid beautifully bare. The classic chorus of first track ‘Oscar’, a gorgeously melodic paean to late night ramblings, sets the bar high. The colonial intro of ‘110’ gives way to drifting harmonica as the late refrain “just don’t feel that way anymore” gathers poignant intensity.

The mandolin guitar line within ‘Bluebird Tattoo’ highlights a new-found ease with poppier leanings, and while the slower numbers benefit from these subtle touches, the Being There-era Wilco feel to faster numbers ‘Tell Them I Called’ and ‘Stevie’ shows the lads can still throw a quality barnyard rocker your way any time they feel like it.

Music can often remind you of a certain memory or movie scene that captures the feel of a piece. This album conjures thoughts of the encounter with Levon Helm’s blind housebound character in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada when he requests of his guests, “You’re good people, you need to go ahead and shoot me”. An Outpost Of Promise is a similarly quixotic journey into the heart of Halfway country, holding onto hope despite isolation, in whatever twisted form that hope may take. It’s a world-class album from one of Brisbane’s most endearing talents, one that should see them propelled further into the deserved limelight.

Whether it’s reworking (and bettering) John Legend’s ‘The Fire’ or letting an angelic choir of voices fill the album’s opening strains, The Roots seem devoid of any limitations.

In the end, it’s not the sounds that make this album great, it’s the temperament of the music here – sentiment’s got to count for something and it’s what makes great music sound so, not just today but decades from now.

It would be too easy to go into detail on each track and highlight how they weave and change, peak and trough, like ‘Shoulders’ quite unexpected two minute outro, but this is an album best experienced by yourself. And preferably on the weekend. And loud. Words simply can’t capture the overall effect, as it is again, uniquely Cat Empire. And with a dedicated following of eager kittens to impress and the weight of expectation on their bearded indie shoulders, with Cinema, they have not let us down.

★★★★ ½ Alex Gillies

★★★★ Barrie Morgan

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

CEO

WILD NOTHING

(Modular/Universal)

(Captured Tracks/Spunk/EMI)

(Reprise Records/Warner) Not many can boast the discography of Tom Petty and his band of cohorts. Not many are as imitated, downright cool and relevant in 2010 in not only their musical output but also with their videos, perception and swagger, a fact that is especially impressive considering the band are over 30 years old and this is their 12th studio album together.

CEO is the side project of part Sincerely Yours label owner Eric Berglund and the emotive Swede has made no secret of where he is from, transferring the surroundings of his native Sweden on to disc in the way of White Magic.

But where artists like Bjork and The Knife make their respective homelands seem stark, engulfing, beautiful, Berglund makes his northern home seem weird, sombre and avoidable.

While Mojo won’t set the musical world alight with its innovation and there is no ‘American Girl’, ‘Refugee, ‘I Won’t Back Down’ or even a ‘Free Fallin’ – an outright classic to add to the greatest hits – it’s quite simply a downright delight to hear the band making new material with a 60-year-old Petty out front still in fine voice, delivering with the gusto of a man more than half his age.

The album is a confusing cacophony of sounds, ranging from the refrained strings, fragile vocals and soothing watery sounds of opener ‘All Around’ where singer Eric Berglund states bluntly and without apprehension, “I’m coming home to face the demons on my own”, to the bombastic, Caribbean beat driven ‘Illuminata’ and flamenco guitar lead title track ‘White Magic’.

Heading into the studio without any demos, the Heartbreakers first contribution to Petty in eight years certainly shows and the man’s recent immersion in blues is reflected throughout, right down to the album title. The opening and upbeat ‘Jefferson Jericho Blues’ is Heartbreakers of old and features an impressive repetitive harmonica refrain that sets the tone for the song. ‘First Flash Of Freedom’ takes it back into familiar Petty territory with understated guitars and floating basslines, while ‘I Should Have Known It’ drags it south to jagged Zeppelin-esque blues territory.

Even more head scratching are the additions of native language song ‘den blomstertid nu kommer’, a track which is sung when Swedish schools close for the summer, and ‘No Mercy’, which combines samples of slicing swords looped over medieval plucking and rapid percussion and wouldn’t sound out of place on a Lord Of The Rings soundtrack. The album is eight songs that are too weird to party to, too bass heavy to get lost within and too disparate to really get cosy with and allow to be the soundtrack for moments in your life.

While their previous mission statement “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” often cut the legs off the exceptional work of Mike Campbell, Mojo finally gives the guitarist his time to shine, showing off extended solos and incredible riffs throughout. Thankfully, Mojo hasn’t turned the Heartbreakers into a pointless Dave Matthews-esque jam band, however the rapport of the band is on display and, combined with Petty’s relentlessly faultless songwriting, you have yourself a damn fine listen.

Apart from the glimpses of sunshine in some of the production and the up-tempo melodies aside, each listen shows this to be far from a positive record. It is Berglund allowing the world to see just how scared and lonely a troubled Scandinavian can be. And although this has probably been therapeutic and beneficial for his soul, it doesn’t translate into good listening for those of us on the other side of the speakers.

★★★★ Ed Matthews

B.O.B

Magic (Featuring Rivers Cuomo) (Atlantic)

Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo continues his life long dream to be a hip hop superstar by teaming up with B.o.B on the young rapper’s breakthrough record, which is loaded to the brim with guest spots from ‘indie’ type people and other non-typical rap collaborators. Rivers has always hinted at his urban leanings but he’s really ramped things up with the last two Weezer records. The red selftitled album featured him doing some actual raps with various degrees of success, and Raditude had a guest spot from Lil Wayne. ‘Magic’ is unfortunately one of the weaker tracks from B.o.B’s record – it’s a direct rip off of Outkast’s massive smash ‘Hey Ya!’ with River’s singing a hook that sounds like it’s from a bad children’s song.

Still, it will probably earn him an invite to the BET Awards, which will be fun for him.

TOMMY TRASH & TOM PIPER The Bum Song (Hussle)

Every now and then I’ll read some graffiti on a toilet wall and it will totally renew my faith in people. Something very simple or poetic summed up in a couple of lines of distilled wit in its purest form, being communicated to a small audience one person at a time. Sometimes it makes you think or laugh, but it’s often these scrawls that are the highlight of my day. On other occasions it’s just a picture of a cock and balls, and inspires the exactly opposite reaction, making me wonder how people could be so stupid. This brainless house track is the musical equivalent of that. Helped along by a flash animation video of pictures of arses, this is sure to be a massive hit with the proper idiots of the world, of which there are many.

Mojo

★★★ ½ Ben Preece

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White Magic

★★ Benny Doyle

Gemini

Trapped in the hazy jangle of British pop of the 80s, Virginia’s Wild Nothing are the twinkling brilliance of chiming guitars and the dreamy vocals of Jack Tatum trapped in a beautiful bubble of unaffected emotions.

From the opening keyboard drones to the handclaps, the three-chord countermelodies and the rainy day warmth that radiates from these 12 songs feel as familiar as all those wonderful Smiths and Kate Bush songs from decades ago. There’s a real buoyancy and vibrant delivery in songs like ‘Summer Holiday’ and ‘The Witching Hour’ that recall the dreamy delicacies of the many of the Flying Nun bands of the past, but despite all the bits of this and whispers of that, this band’s debut album seems to still exist in a world of its own creation.

Never once do any of these songs sound gaudy or coarse, the languid and hazy sounds that swallow ‘Drifter’ are all glistening keyboards and swimmingly calming bass runs.

This mixture of starry-eyed beauty and shuffling ambience that takes the whispered ‘Pessimist’ and lifts to sunny brilliance with ‘O, Lilac’ is something that seems to happen hundreds of times throughout this 43-minute jaunt yet never once does it sound samey or lazy.

There’s a playful innocence at work here – the laser-like keyboards of ‘Bored Games’ going further to show that Wild Nothing are not a group looking to experiment with trends or search for a sound. No, this quartet know exactly what they want. And unlike populist groups that swoon in the vapid overtones of 80s pop, Gemini delivers music that shows how beautiful and surreal music born from that era was, can still be and looks to continue with this blossoming creation. ★★★ ½ Jo Hill

ON THE RECORD

MYSTERY JETS

THE TIGER & ME

(Rough Trade/Remote Control)

(Vitamin)

Serotonin

It must have been a strange feeling when an 8-year-old Blaine Harrison (vocals) told his school chums that he was in a band with his father. Perhaps even more strange was the music that they played; immortalising the likes of Yes and King Crimson in the prog-rock three-piece that would eventually become Mystery Jets.

Serotonin is the latest instalment from the London group, who have teamed up with legendary UK producer Chris Thomas in bid to make another classic British pop album.

The record is certainly more ambitious on all fronts, featuring lusher instrumentation than its predecessor, with a glossy finish that is trademark to Thomas’ later works. Synths feature more prominently on this recording, adding a complementary layer to the core of the group’s previously guitar-based sound. ‘Flash A Hungry Smile’ is a primary example of this, filling up the chorus with rich keyboard tones before falling in behind a set of bare guitar chords to emphasise the hook of the verses. This proves to be a successful formula for the band, with a number of tracks following suite, including the irresistible ‘Dreaming Of Another World’, which features a tight grooving verse commonly heard on the group’s previous releases, before exploding into a blissful synth-driven chorus that is likely to put your serotonin levels through the roof. ‘The Girl Is Gone’, on the other hand, is a more subdued number, having the feel of a Fleetwood Mac ballad, while not sounding out of place within what is ultimately a pop-dominated record.

There is no denying the intentions of this album; it’s clearly a more ambitious sounding band. Fortunately the song quality doesn’t appear to have been compromised in production, proving that the father/son dynamic is still on par with this strangely unique indie pop group. ★★★★ Tyler Jones

From A Liar To A Thief Beginning with a rather beguiling flash of style and hot, exposed flesh, Melbourne’s The Tiger & Me’s debut is a complex gem of an album which, soon after that first glimpse of cabaret so saucily splayed across its packaging, simmers down into something totally different entirely.

For all of their European folk influences, late-night speakeasy stylings, and the odd flares of Spanish dance, From A Liar To A Thief is really quite an emotionally affronting listen.

What the band have so deliciously managed to do – think, at first, an album that sounds like something The Cat Empire would make; that really feverish, richly multicultural live-act sound, and then imagine that irrevocably pared down to something that sounds like Damien Rice meets the sweet, harmonised indie folk-ballads of Headlights – is perhaps used the pomp and ostentatiousness of the exotic genres they take their influences from – deep red lipsticks, the heat of clunking passodoble heels, and the swathe of unabashedly bourgeois-bohemian attire – to play out a more heightened breadth of emotions. It all results in a really affecting honesty, this melding of superficiality – in the least pejorative of senses – and raw heartbreak.

The track ‘Til Sunrise’ is where this all begins to make sense, informing the root sensibility of all the tracks on the album that surrounds it. Each singer’s voice aches with hurt and sadness, and the instruments which began the album with such cheek and frivolity – accordion, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, and keys – suddenly become instruments of an almost overwhelming pathos. Lyrically, the track steals the show with an emotional erudition similar again to the likes of Damien Rice, and fellow late-night tall-taler Tom Waits, and the melodic invention on display amidst all this prettiness is a whole ‘nother kind of heel-stomping good. ★★★★ ½

Sam Hobson

DRAWN FROM BEES Fear Not The Footsteps Of The Departed (Bonefinger Records/MGM)

Harmonies; from the instant the layered vocals of the Drawn From Bees company kick off their debut full-length Fear Not The Footsteps Of The Departed on the southern tinged, rolling opener ‘Run Away’, it’s obvious that this band is big on harmonies. This is not to be construed as a bad thing, mind you; thoughtful vocal work has long been the cornerstone of many a great band, and the local art rockers deliver it in spades on this album. The layers during ‘The East Wood Fox’’s outro are sublime, and the morose crawl of ‘This Body’ is lifted by Americana-style sustained harmonies that could give you goose bumps, if you’re a really active listener.

Unfortunately, kind of like how the Justice League relies on J’onn J’onnz to telepathically link them all together but he is kind of useless on his own, strong vocals will not save a record by themselves. But thank God for lyrics, right? Because if you like narrative, characters, and literarily-influenced imagery, then you are in so much luck since that’s what Drawn From Bees excel at. Both ‘Undertakers’ and ‘Stand Against the Storm’ highlight the band’s strength here.

Still, the kicker is the fact that instrumentally the whole thing is really kind of bland, and where it’s not bland it’s something you’ve heard before which partially makes it bland by default.

‘All The World’s A Stage’ plods along at the same pace from go to whoa, and ‘My Sweet Devil’ feels like ELO having a slumber party at The Album Leaf’s house. When the tunes go nowhere, that deep narrative and sense of story turn the record into little more than a musical book-on-tape. Seriously, do you know anyone who listens to books-on-tape anymore?

That’s rhetorical, because if you do, you shouldn’t admit it. ★★ ½

Mitch Knox

THE PARADISE MOTEL Australian Ghost Story (Left Over Life To Kill/Inertia)

Melbourne’s The Paradise Motel were always a band of semi-nocturnal moods, a band with plaintive songs that sat at the edge of twilight… until in 2000 when they slipped silently into the night – somewhat unnoticed.

Waking from their long slumber, everything musically within this band sounds untouched from the doleful beauty of Merrida Sussex’s voice, the strings of Campell Shaw and the languid guitar lines of Matthew Aulich that filled their albums of the 90s, Still Life and Flight Paths. In fact, the re-blossoming of this band has brought with it a greater sense of the grandiose with these nine songs stretching out like a modern-day operatic stage show.

The Paradise Motel, having rekindled their flame, stoke the melodrama that is here held the under star-filled, cold night sky of the red centre. Australian Ghost Story is built upon what is still to this day the mysterious disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain and the madness which followed.

Basing their narrative within the ghastly and confusing story of what happened all those years ago at Uluru gives the weight of the music here something more than just artifice. The songs are infused with a real sense of sadness that holds down every note – the flourishing choruses, such as in ‘Goodwin And The Jumpsuit’, are a deceptive turn as the music heralds good news and respite while really it’s a mirage leading into the next morose chapter.

The consistency and familiarity of The Paradise Motel in 2010 is in itself a remarkable feat. Still they are a band saturated in elegance to the point of pomposity but, in a way, that’s always been their drawcard – perfecting the affirmation of their muse. They have done this on Australian Ghost Story better than ever, their return easily eclipsing what was until recently their legacy. ★★★ ½

Richard Alverez

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TOURING DATES

IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, EMR, POETIC MURRIZ – Jul 23, The Globe WINTERBEATZ: FATMAN SCOOP, NE-YO, T-PAIN – Jul 24, Brisbane Entertainment Centre ALEX TAYLOR, MATT NUGENT – Jul 24, Family AUDITREE: JAMES HOLDEN DJ-KICKS TOUR – Jul 24, Barsoma RUKUS/WHITE RHINO: SCUBA – Jul 24, alloneword TRIP KICKS: ANNA LUNOE, SI CLONE & MORE – Jul 24, The Backroom ZENNITH – Jul 29, The Globe SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, GOLDFRAPP, MIAMI HORROR, HOT CHIP, DELPHIC, YOLANDA BE COOL, BAG RAIDERS & MORE – Jul 30-Aug 1, Woodfordia NAPT – Jul 31, Empire ANDY MURPHY – Jul 31, Electric Playground AUGUST

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FAT FREDDY’S DROP – Aug 1, Coolangatta Hotel ZENNITH – Aug 5, Lismore Uni Bar MATT NUKEWOOD – Aug 6, Electric Playground CHEAP FAKES ALBUM LAUNCH – Aug 6, The JOYnt ZENNITH – Aug 6, Currumbin Soundlounge AJAX, DEEKLINE – Aug 7, Electric Playground OZI BATLA – Aug 7, Step Inn LARRY TEE – Aug 7, Platinum

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NAPT – Aug 7, The Ruby Tramp ZENNITH – Aug 7, The Rails LIBERATE: JOHN 00 FLEMING, MIKE, TRITONAL – Aug 10, Electric Playground & Surrounds DJ MASEO – Aug 10, Family

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VICIOUS CUTS 2010: JOHN COURSE, LORNE PADMAN – Aug 10, The Met KOOL KEITH – Aug 10, Step Inn (downstairs) DOSE – Aug 10, Step Inn (upstairs) BEATAUCUE – Aug 12, Monastery KIDDA – Aug 13, Empire

possible between the audio and visual aspects of their show.

Tickets available through Ticketmaster from Thursday Aug 5.

BLACKOUT: BREEZE & STYLES – Aug 13, Electric Playground BEATAUCUE – Aug 13, The Ruby Tramp GROOVE TERMINATOR – Aug 14, Electric Playground

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BLISS N ESO – Aug 20, The Tivoli LEE COOMBS – Aug 21, Barsoma LOWRIDER – Aug 21, The Zoo THE 808S – Aug 21, Electric Playground DROP: PEZZNER – Aug 27, Family MOMMA’S BOY – Aug 27, Monastery HORRORSHOW, SETH SENTRY – Aug 28, The Zoo SEPTEMBER

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UP LATE: TOWA TEI – Sep 3, Gallery Of Modern Art PROK & FITCH – Sep 9, Platinum PROK & FITCH – Sep 10, Electric Playground TIKI TAANE – Sep 12, Fitzy’s UP LATE: DJ KRUSH – Sep 17, Gallery Of Modern Art SUBTRAKT: LEE BURRIDGE – Sep 18, Barsoma DUB DAY AFTERNOON – Sep 18, Jubilee Hotel BUCK 65 – Sep 18, The Spiegeltent BUCK 65 – Sep 19, The Spiegeltent

DESYN MASIELLO

UP LATE: DOOM & HOODRAT – Sep 24, Gallery Of Modern Art MANIFEST: HERMITUDE, BENZA, DUBMARINE, EDITOR, PHETSTA, ELECTRIC MIRROR & MORE – Sep 24-26, 9790 Cunningham Hwy, Tregony PARKLIFE: MISSY ELLIOTT, SOULWAX, GROOVE ARMADA, GRUM, MIX MASTER MIKE, UFFIE & MANY MORE – Sep 25, Gold Coast Parklands

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CYPRESS HILL – Oct 1, The Tivoli DROP: DEETRON – Oct 1, Family UP LATE: NICK GALEA – Oct 1, Gallery Of Modern Art GODSKITCHEN: ANDY MOOR, JOHN O’CALLAGHAN, MARCEL WOODS, WIPPENBERG – Oct 2, Electric Playground DIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKE – Oct 2, Platinum UP LATE: KID KENOBI – Oct 8, Gallery Of Modern Art UP LATE: DIGITAL PRIMATE – Oct 15, Gallery Of Modern Art SAGE FRANCIS, B DOLAN – Oct 16, Step Inn WHITE RHINO: SURGEON – Oct 21, Venue TBC UP LATE: B6 – Oct 22, Gallery Of Modern Art

UP LATE: DEXTER – Oct 29, Gallery Of Modern Art ISLAND VIBE FESTIVAL – Oct 29-31, North Stradbroke Island PENDULUM – Nov 3, The Tivoli PENDULUM – Nov 4, The Tivoli UP LATE: RIO LOBOTOMY – Nov 5, Gallery Of Modern Art SCOTT LANGLEY – Nov 6, Electric Playground JASON DERÜLO – Nov 11, Brisbane Convention Centre UP LATE: VAN SHE TECH – Nov 12, Gallery Of Modern Art JASON DERÜLO – Nov 13, Brisbane Convention Centre DELICIOUS DJS – Nov 13, Platinum DESYN MASIELLO – Nov 20, Platinum

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A popular haunt for Gold Coast club fiends, Platinum is upping the ante throughout the remainder of the year with some heavyweight bookings which are likely to get anyone with a pulse salivating. New York electro-trash exponent Larry Tee will get the trendoid kids grooving on Saturday Aug 7, as will Prok & Fitch on Saturday Sep 11, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike on Saturday Oct 2 and the mighty D.Ramirez on Saturday Oct 30. Without a doubt, Platinum’s biggest pull has to be progressive house legend Desyn Masiello, who’ll be bringing many an older clubber out of the woodwork for his Saturday Nov 20 performance. There are so many more national and international artists on the Platinum calendar that we’d swiftly exhaust page space mentioning the lot, so head along to their MySpace for more info.

MIX GRADIENT

600 SOUNDS: THE POTBELLEEZ, SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM, IAN CAREY, KID KENOBI & MC SHURESHOCK, STATIC REVENGER & LUCIANA & MANY MORE – Oct 22-24, Broadwater Parklands

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Based in the US, Lee Coombs has attained notoriety for his eclectic approach to DJing which commonly results in sets that range through the full house music spectrum and up into breaks territory before crashing into funk-driven acid. Few better examples can be found than his 2009 album Light & Dark which is getting a new lease on life in 2010 as Light & Dark Remixed. Meat Katie, Dopamine, Zodiac Cartel, Maelstrom, Atomic Drop, Neurodriver, Trent Cantrelle and Coombs all contribute retouches to the album, which features more wobbly basslines and floor destroying drum patterns than you could hope for. Coinciding with the release, Coombs will be wowing the locals at Barsoma on Saturday Aug 21.

GROOVE IS GOOD Though a relatively new presence on the Brisbane live music circuit, Cheap Fakes have packed in venues across town with an inimitable sound which traverses funk, dub, reggae, country, rock and dance in an engaging, uplifting and grooving fashion. Firm favourites at The Joynt, the band will be launching their debut, selftitled album at the popular South Brisbane haunt on Friday Aug 6 with support from fellow local funksters Chocolate Strings. Cover will set you back a mere $5 and copies of Cheap Fakes’ 14 track album will be going for $15 on the night.

TIGERBLOG Besides earning himself support slots for such hip hop luminaries as De La Soul, El-P and TZU, Brisbane producer Tigermoth has put out his fair share of hi-cred releases, not least important of which was his recent album Underwater Beats.

A keen traveller, he’s currently spending some time in Brooklyn from where he’ll be blogging plenty of new material inspired by the trip.

‘Brooklyn Academy’ is the first track to come from his experiences and you can check it out at sinisterjazz. com.

SNOW IN FAMILY Brand Spank’d and Hey! Hey! moved to the top floor of Family only recently and in a short while, have managed to make the space their own with some slick bookings. We’re not writing about the sort of stuff you’d get when demolishing the old Ice Bar; instead we’re referring to the popular Miike Snow – a trio rather than a lone synth-slinger with one too many vowels. Chris Karlsson, Pontius Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt are responsible for some of the most palatable mainstream friendly pop-dance music heard for quite some time from the cold climes of Sweden and luckily for you, they’ll be playing at Family on Sunday Aug 1 for a teaming of the aforementioned parties. Tickets are available now for $13.30 through Oztix.

UP LATE: CANYONS – Sep 3, Gallery Of Modern Art

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It’s been a little while since we’ve heard anything from Sunshine Coast based DJ/producer j-Frantik (Jared Asher), too long in fact, but with releases either available or soon to be released through labels such as Outbreak Digital, eXtra Records, Ignite Digital and Kung Fu Wax, his studio talents are also increasingly in demand. You can keep abreast of what he’s up to by checking out soundcloud.com/jared-asher, where you’ll find the cracking Universal Trance Mix 001.

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TECHNO SURGERY Odds were on that Anthony Child – aka Surgeon – wouldn’t be making a Brisbane visit on his Antipodean tour later in the year, but thanks to White Rhino, local techno heads can rest assured the Birmingham based pioneer is indeed headed our way.

While details regarding venue and a full line-up of local supports for his Thursday Oct 21 performance are yet to be confirmed, Nam Shub Of Enki is locked in for a closing set at the gig and tickets are looking to set you back approximately $20. If you’ve not yet listened to Fabric 53 do so sooner rather than later, as it showcases Surgeon in especially fine form.

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North Queensland roots reggae band Zennith are gearing up for their first official east coast tour, starting with an album pre-launch party at The Globe on Thursday Jul 29. While Nothin’ To Lose won’t hit shelves until September, Zennith will be making damn sure everyone knows it’s coming with performances that encompass everything from laidback reggae to up-tempo raw roots and even a bit of solid driving rock.

Supporting them at The Globe are Darky Roots, Chocolate Strings and DJ Sarah Howells. Tickets $18.40 from globetheatre.oztix. com.au.

Get those tour/club/event listings, local release updates and any beats-related press releases in to zebra@timeoff.com.au by Midday every Friday.

You wanted a high quality, broad focus, standalone dance music and hip hop publication in Brisbane? You got it – Sydney’s clubbing bible 3D World launches a Brisbane edition Wednesday Aug 11. Six weeks ago Street Press Australia gave 3D World as Sydney had known it for over two decades a massive overhaul – an enhancement (in width), a handy new size adjustment and glossy facelift all in one, with its trademark focus on club culture remaining intact but an added emphasis on fashion (through the weekly Lure section), travel, film & TV, technology and lifestyle. What does this mean for Zebra and Time Off? Zebra will be put out to the spelling paddock, with our Brisbane writers joining Team 3D to ensure the quality of local coverage remains the same as always, while the Zebra pages will be handed back to Time Off and dedicated to expanding its already stellar local, national and international rock coverage. Everybody wins. Get excited.

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WEDNESDAY RESIDENTS @ THE BEAT While the rest of Brisbane is sleeping you can guarantee The Beat will be doing its best to wake them up with two rooms of music to keep them dancing every Wednesday. DJ Rudemood, J-San and Mr. Mac keep things rolling in the main bar whilst DJ Will and DJ Jason take care of the Cockatoo Club where jelly wrestling and the odd drag shows from Shaneel Downtahue will keep you entertained.

ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHI @ ZURI What can be better than appreciating some tight house music from Matt Kitshon? Eating as much sushi as you can handle for a mere $15 from 6pm onward, that’s what!

FRAT CLUB @ THE REGATTA Sharif D brings his sax to join residents Pete Smith and Marky Mark Z in performing for what could potentially be the biggest Semester Two ‘O Week’ party around.

THURSDAY TRI LAMBDA @ ALHAMBRA The Revenge Of The Nerds referencing student party offers another manic Thursday night program, leaning on the live talents of Baby Seal Club and Dead Shades to bring the appropriate fun factor.

BIRDS & BEES @ BIRDEE NUM NUM Mastar K provides his usual blend of house, hip hop and party tunes for Birdee’s regular student night.

GLAMOUROU$ @ ZURI A-list table service and all the usual bar tricks combine with sleek R&B from Bossy and Mr. Sparkles for a truly decadent night out featuring guest appearances from some of Brisbane’s best MCs and dancers. Free entry.

RESIDENTS @ THE BEAT It’s almost as if The Beat never closes and on Thursday nights the main bar bumps to the sounds of DJ Rudemood, J-San and Mr. Mac whilst DJ Will and Jason keep you on the floor between drag shows from Penny Clifford, Diva and special guests up in the Cockatoo Club.

I LOVE RNB LADIES EDITION FEAT SIR-VERE & J WILLIAMS @ SIN CITY I Love RNB gives the ladies pride of place at Sin City with line-ups which will always keep them grooving. Sir-vere and J Williams feature for the launch of the Major Flavours 5 compilation. Hosted by MC Mzre. Be there for a chance to win a VIP package to Jason Derulo’s Brisbane gigs that includes concert tickets and limo transfers.

DR SKETCHY’S @ SWINGIN’ SAFARI Turn up early with charcoal and sketchpads in hand to join in the art class mania before catching Lola The Vamp perform live. Doors open at 4pm.

BUZZ & AND OH! @ LALALAND Resident jock Buzz can always be relied on to provide a sterling selection of upfront tunes and you’ll be getting just that all evening as he keeps LaLaLand bumping alongside And Oh!.

FRIDAY BABY GEE @ FAMILY BASEMENT Local electronic dance music scene veteran Baby Gee headlines the Family basement line-up with his characteristic blend of tech trance and big room house sounds. Support from Karma and Ian McKie vs.

DJ Jer. Free entry before 10pm, $10 after. Doors open at 9pm.

MINISTRY OF SOUND SESSIONS SEVEN TOUR @ THE MET Sydney big room house lord Tommy Trash joins local favourites the Stafford Brothers for this epic hammering of The Met; main room supports from Andee and Pete Smith.

Murray Brown, Nick Galea, Niko and Malcolm keep the groove in Coco with instrumental assistance from Sharif D, while Bossy and Mr Sparkle do their thing in Bamboo, where you can catch all the action up front.

DISCO DISCO FEAT NINA LAS VEGAS @ MONASTERY Triple J House Party host Nina Las Vegas joins an all star line-up of locals including Danny T, Bipolar Whores, Killafornia, Dominic James, K-Time, Ricky C, Messie and Sketti for another electro house thrashing at the Mono. Entry $10 before 12pm, doors open at 9pm.

AGWA JUNGLE FRIDAYS @ KALIBER Mash-up lord Chris Kelly kicks AGWA Jungle Fridays into high gear from 6pm, while Kaliber Klassiks kicks off at 8pm with five decades worth of classic tracks from DJ Cloudy.

PROVOCATEUR @ ZURI DJ Benn Hopkins teams up with Sharif D on sax to serve up rare groove and disco treats in the early hours while Gemstar joins forces with Luke on sax. As always, local veteran Matt Kitshon takes you through to the wee hours with accompaniment from Austin King on percussion and Youka on electric violin. Free entry.

FANS FEAT RICHARD IN YOUR MIND @ ALHAMBRA Richard In Your Mind helm this massive party for the launch of their new album, and the supports are no less impressive. Spod, Jeffrey Silver and the Fans DJs support.

NUBREED @ GPO The GPO supports young up and comers with its latest venture, Nubreed. A rotating roster of green horns will keep the floor filled. Doors open at 9pm, entry free before 10pm or $5 after.

THE MODERNS & THE RIDE @ X&Y BAR X&Y keeps its intrepid music policy alive with this Friday night program which features psychrock locals The Moderns and live soul experimentalists The Ride.

Charlie Hustle and Danny Cool take their regular post in the DJ booth. Doors open at 6pm.

RESIDENTS @ THE BEAT According to The Beat, you’d best start your weekend right by popping on down for a visit as they “know exactly what you want”, and it’s safe to agree they have a pretty damn good idea. Not only is there a 106cm Plasma TV up for grabs and a free sausage sizzle upstairs, you’ve also got drag performances from Shaneel Downtahue, Diva, Yana Michelle and Penny Clifford plus tunes from Angie, J-San, Mr. Mac, Loose Bruce, Guru Dave, Marcus, Dan, Will, Jason and Ben Easy pumping out over five rooms of mayhem.

fair city. Support from Samedi Sound System, Swob, Walrii and Danck. Doors open at 9pm, tickets $20 + bf through OzTix outlets.

GUNS & LOVERS @ THE STEP INN (UPSTAIRS) A house party with a difference featuring Villains Of Wilhelm, Re:enactment, Martin Party, Moon Jog, Rio Lobotomy, Wolfgang DJs, Charlie Why, Hotsnakes and Aisitlt.

MYSTIQUE @ ARENA A move upstairs into the Pressure Lounge doesn’t change your fix of R&B and hip hop one bit as DJs Tuini, Masta D and Mista are on deck duties with MC Shorti The Kid hosting.

KONTROLHERIZM LABEL LAUNCH PARTY @ UBER Brisbane’s newest record label takes its first breath at Uber thanks to the Pistol Whipped crew. Label artists Distorted Digital, Goodbye Gravity, Phantasm and James Miller join DJs Monique Unique, Aukistra, Slim and Meetle & Knux for an almighty electro house hoedown. Entry $10.

OARSOME FRIDAY @ THE REGATTA DJs Paul Bell and Marky Mark Z join the after work crowd at The Regatta this Friday, providing all the easy classics and up to date commercial hits necessary to get the weekend rolling.

RESIDENTS @ PRESSURE LOUNGE DJ Blaze joins residents Ricky D and Bounce at Pressure Lounge this evening to belt out all your favourite R&B, hip hop and Top 40 jams.

THE ELECTRONIC BOOGIE SHOW @ ELSEWHERE Tropics make yet another visit to the Elsewhere booth, joining evergreen resident Audun. Doors open at 10pm.

Alex Taylor and Matt Nugent bring the Pacha juggernaut to Brisbane for the release of the clubbing mega brand’s latest local compilation outing. Support from Chris Wilson and Habebe. Live performances from the Velvet Motion Dancers.

Free entry before 10pm, $10 after. Doors open at 9pm.

RESIDENTS @ THE MET Main room residents Disko Diva, Andee, Pete Smith, Murray Brown and Nick Galea get down to business without a guest appearance this week and chances are the punters won’t care a jot. Niko, Malcolm, Jason Rouse and Aydos dish out more chunk than a rocky road factory downstairs in Coco while Mr Sparkle and Graham Fisher provide a cruisy alternative out in Bamboo.

AUDITREE FEAT JAMES HOLDEN @ BARSOMA Border Community boss and all-round electronica all-star James Holden features at Barsoma this Saturday for one of his first appearances in Australia for many years. Better yet, he’ll be playing a three hour afternoon set with support from Jad & The Ladyboy, Cosmo Cater and Scott Walker. $15 on the door, which opens at 1pm.

T-REK @ MONASTERY Ministry Of Sound electro fiend T-Rek joins Dominic James, Noy and Luki for another fun filled Saturday on the Monastery dancefloor.

Doors open at 9pm, $10 entry.

KLASSIKS @ KALIBER Kaliber keeps the anthems rolling with DJ Cloudy seamlessly covering five decades worth of popular music from 8pm onward.

Internet simulcast on the Klassix Channel courtesy of hrmny.tv.

SATURDAYS @ ZURI

Brent Dee and Malx resume their Friday night post after handing the reins to Nick Skitz last week.

Expect top 40, R&B, hip hop, electro and house goodness.

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SATURDAY @ THE REGATTA

The Swingin’ house band Get Funked join the ruckus with upfront funk, soul and acid jazz grooves from 7:30pm.

RESIDENTS @ PLATINUM

Nova 106.9 host Bossy gears up to drop commercial R&B, retro and dance bombs with support from Marky Mark Z providing the sountrack to some heavy duty Saturday night partying.

The locals will be none the wiser to the absence of a big guest DJ this Friday at Platinum as the quality residents knock out some solid beats. Gerry Morales, Craig Roberts and Joey Mojo take charge.

JMAC @ ALHAMBRA

VISION @ CLUB SHOOTERS

REEKAY GARCIA @ GPO

Craig Obey makes a Gold Coast visit to give the Club Shooters dancefloor a proper main room house thrashing. Support from Brett Allen and Tredman. Oscar, Denaro, Masta K, MC Premix keep the R&B hits rolling in Republic.

JAK & JIL @ RUBY TRAMP The gorgeous Anna Lunoe joins the Jak & Jil circus for her highly anticipated Gold Coast performance. Doors open at 10pm.

RYAN RUSHTON & DANIEL WEBBER @ LALALAND

Sydney’s Brenden Fing brings his Ping Pong brand to the brand spanking Electric Playground booth where he’ll be ably supported by Systamatix, Dylan Braun, Wahoo and Elrv8. Sneaky Pete and Nado will keep the outdoor crowd busy.

Residents Ryan Rushton & Daniel Webber prove their mettle this Friday in the LaLa booth with a fair selection of big room house hits and enough enthusiasm to get even the most world wearied soul interested.

Broken beat experimentalist Ras_G & The Afrikan Space Program hits The Step Inn for the third Brainfeeder Collective visit to our

PACHA @ FAMILY BASEMENT

While the bar opens early so you can get your fill of luscious cocktails, you’ll not be getting your dose of beats until 9pm, when Benn Hopkins and Matt Kitshon get busy in the booth with accompaniment from Austin King on percussion and Youka on electric violin. Free entry.

F*** ME IT’S FRIDAY @ THE BEDROOM

BRENDEN FING @ ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND

DANK MORASS PRES RAS_G & THE AFRIKAN SPACE PROGRAM @ THE STEP INN (DOWNSTAIRS)

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FRIDAY NIGHT LOVE @ LIQUID Great sound enthusiastic punters and great décor are what you can expect at Liquid, thankfully that extends to some great tunes from rotating residents Dee Dee, Elixza, Deegs, Captain Kaine, Dave C and J.D.

A regular in the Alhambra booth, Jmac takes the hot seat this evening with support from Zach Salar, Aydos, Brett J and Darren Skaar. Doors open at 8pm, entry free before 10pm.

Local house heavy weight Reekay Garcia joins GPO residents Jimmy Vegas, Trav White, Brett J and Dodzy for what promises to be an uncharacteristically funky Saturday night dancefloor experience at the club.

COLLEGE FALL @ X&Y BAR Can’t decide whether you feel like a dose of rock or some dancefloor action? Why not have both? X&Y caters to taste with indie popsters College Fall covering the live angle in support of their recent album release The Curse Of Us, while Sangers and Charlie Hustle unleash in the booth. Doors open at 6pm.

RESIDENTS @ THE BEAT Twenty six years in the game hasn’t given The Beat cause to slow down and every Saturday night is a testament to fact. Five rooms, six bars and three courtyards guarantee a good night out as DJs Angie, J-San, Mr. Mac, Loose Bruce, Ben Easy, Marcus, Dan, Will, Jason and Guru Dave keep the tunes going until 5am.

RESIDENTS @ ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND Wahoo, Private Property, Systamatix, Elrv8, Karma

and Kaardon earn their keep at Electric Playground for this big room house heavy residents only program. Dylan Braun, Nado and Kandimann do likewise outdoors.

anthems you’ve come to know and love. $10 before 10pm or $15 after – hospitality workers receive $10 entry all night on presentation of payslip.

MYSTIQUE @ ARENA

The classic Kaliber kick on greets the intrepid Sunday afternoon/ night clubber keen to wrap up their weekend in proper fashion.

Expect party anthems and dance floor classics from DJ Cloudy.

Queensland’s biggest hip hop and R&B night enlists New Zealand DMC champ DJ Manchoo to keep the beats rolling out in the main room while Blaze and Masta D string some classics together in the Boogie Lounge with host MC Mareko.

RUKUS & WHITE RHINO FEAT SCUBA @ ALLONEWORD (DAY EVENT) Hot Flush boss and all round producer extroadinaire Scuba joins Samedi Sound System, D.Appleseed, Lone Pariah and Arku in support of recent album release, Triangulation. Expect the hottest dubstep and techno around to grace the speakers at this strictly limited capacity event.

THE BUTCHER @ ALLONEWORD (NIGHT EVENT) Taking over from the dubsteppers are Jad & The Ladyboy, Midnite Vulture and Tall Timber; all of whom will sport more than their fair share of nu-disco treats to help shoes shuffle.

HOT GOSSIP @ CLUB 299 Hot Gossip brings a new clubbing option to Brisbane punters with DJs Juicy, Vita, Enzzo, Bure, Dluxx, Ricky D and Khesrow covering sexy electro, upbeat urban, pop and everything in between.

TOOSHOES @ HALO Caxton St’s newest hotspot gets the mashup treatment with Tooshoes joining Van Miert and Bacon for an afternoon of dance floor delight.

SECRET LOVE HEROES @ ELSEWHERE OshiOne and Thomas J join forces for another instalment of Secret Love Heroes, firing up the Saturday crowd with plenty of electrified house music in the process! Doors open at 10pm.

BABY GEE @ THE BEDROOM Brisbane big room house exponent Baby Gee makes a Gold Coast visit to rock the Bedroom this Saturday with support from unconfirmed resident DJs.

THE GROOVE LOUNGE @ MYBAR Denaro, Dezastar, EA Kut and MC M Star keep your Saturday night fresh with a slick R&B and old school soundtrack.

HOOK N SLING @ PLATINUM Sydney based electro house royalty joins Platinum residents Gerry Morales, Craig Roberts and Jolyon Petch for a full throttle thrashing of the mainroom in the form of Anthony Maniscalco – aka Hook N Sling. Pure Lounge fans can instead opt for a dose of Roawn Panozzo’s bouncy tech house sounds.

TRIP KICKS INDOOR FESTIVAL @ THE BACKROOM Trip Kicks sets off on another wonderful adventure with the mainstream house sounds of Anna Lunoe, Si Clone, Stretch Paper Cranes, Ando, Rubix, LT80, Brett Sellwood, Daniel Webber and Deegs.

Installations and décor by Tuxtla, live art performances from Shida and Gusone. Tickets $28.60 from Oztix.

MILES JUNIOR & EASY P @ LALALAND Residents Myles Junior and Easy P step up to the wheels of steel for an evening of fine selections at LaLaLand.

H2O @ LIQUID Get your fill of big electro tunes every Saturday at Liquid with Captain Kaine, Deegs, Adam James Taylor and guests.

SUNDAY FLUFFY @ FAMILY Fluffy kicks on for another party Sunday with Harry K and Karma taking to the decks with all the party

KICK ON @ KALIBER

QUIET RIOT! @ X&Y BAR Indie electro and new disco treats from rotating residents Bipolar Whores, Pipes, Noy, Aniki, Van Miert, Morgan Baker, Benibee, John St John, K’oH, Defkids, Charlie Hustle and Butters.

SUNDAY FUNDAY @ THE BEAT Celebrating the end of the weekend over 12 hours of power, The Beat has many goodies in store for punters willing to chance Sunday Funday; the $10 cover charge gets you drink vouchers, a welcome glass of champagne and finger food from 5pm to 7pm, barbeque food from 7pm to 8pm and the opportunity to win up to $700 cash in Fun & Games. DJs Angie, Will, Jason, Chris M, J-San and Mr. Mac keep the tunes going whilst shows from Miss Penny Clifford, Shaneel Downtahue, Diva and special guests keep the entertainment meter running high into the early hours.

KERBSIDE COLLECTION @ THE JOYNT Live jazz, funk and rare groove served with dusty instrumental flair by DJ Ravi. Doors open at 4pm.

SUNDAY NIGHT ROYALE @ ELSEWHERE Ending your weekend with a flurry of beats and an injection of style, Elsewhere covers all the bases with Giv and Adam Hunter, who’ll each be doing their best to caress your ear drums with some finely designed sounds. Doors open at 10pm.

GLOW ROOM 11 @ CLUB SHOOTERS Dirty house and sleazy electro reigns supreme at Shooters this evening as Archie, Luki, Rave Radio and Dane D Funk dominate the booth. Take the name literally – there’ll be glow sticks, bracelets and face-paint on the cards.

CAPTAIN KAINE & STU LISTER @ LALALAND Wipe those tears away rainy face, the weekend may be over but LaLaLand will help soften the blow as star resident Captain Kaine is teaming up with Stu Lister to thrash the floor. Things are going to be just fine so go grab a drink and have a boogie! Doors open at 8pm.

MONDAY RESIDENTS @ THE BEAT Keeping the party going when most have retreated to the workday groove, Chris M, Guru Dave and veteran Drag master Miss Trixie Laumonte will have The Beat faithful in their pockets from 9pm to 5am.

It’s like déjà vu all over again!

LOCALS NIGHT @ SIN CITY Not ones to be left out of the party, the folks at Sin City are up for keeping Monday nights interesting with the help of resident DJs Jon and Petey Pete. Unpretentious beats for unpretentious peeps.

TUESDAY DISCO BINGO @ THE BEAT For an opportunity to win a little and feel like a Nanna at the same time, head to The Beat for a round of their legendary Disco Bingo presented by Drag veteran Miss Trixie Laumonte. DJ Chris M and Guru Dave will keep the floor active with dance music for everyone.

ENVYUS R&B @ REPUBLIC Broski, Bluffsta, EA Kut, MC Premix blend all your favourite urban, hip hop and R&B hits for an uncharacteristically massive Tuesday night club experience.

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MOVING FORWARD JAMES HOLDEN HAS BEEN UNFAIRLY PROCLAIMED AS THE JD SALINGER OF THE DANCE MUSIC WORLD – BEGINNING WITH A BLISTERING OPENING SALVO THAT ANNOUNCED HIS AMAZING TALENT, YET THEN FALLING SOMEWHAT INTO OBSCURITY. THE BORDER COMMUNITY FIGUREHEAD TALKS ABOUT HIS LEGENDARY BALANCE 005 MIX, THE GRADUAL EVOLUTION OF HIS SOUND, AND HIS RETURN VIA THE DJ-KICKS SERIES. The immensely intelligent and original James Holden has enjoyed a unique place in dance music, his productions and remixes being constantly hailed as some of the most innovative around. Perhaps this constant speed of innovation has left some fans wanting to linger rather than keep pace. In 1999 Holden found himself studying mathematics at Oxford University and making some incredible music on his PC. Signed to Silver Planet Records and having the ear of Nick Warren, Holden proceeded to dazzle all with innovative trance records.

Launching the Border Community imprint and then continuing to takie things leftfield, he departed into glorious dreamy melodic techno, with a stable of artists that kept upping the ante in terms of experimentalism.

His tune ‘Nothing’ remains an anthem of the early 00s. He also managed to remix Depeche Mode, New Order, Madonna and Britney Spears along the way. However it was a double disc DJ mix for the Balance compilation series in 2003 that saw him gain the most plaudits. Balance 005 has been hailed as a masterpiece, one of the most breathtaking DJ mixes ever done, and is regularly spoken of as amongst the best dance CDs ever, period. Mixing trance, techno, electro and more with an experimental nature not seen before in most of its predecessors, Holden captured so many different feelings in one mix, yet the flow was cohesive and flawless.

Because the Balance series was at the time associated closely with the progressive house world, Holden became championed by that scene. It was to later work against him when he began playing a making a more minimal, glitchy techno sound. “Well some of them held me up as a champion and some of them hated me,” Holden says. Surprisingly, he still holds the Balance mix in high regard. “I can still listen to that and am still quite pleased with it. It comes up on random play in the house sometimes and I’m quite happy to hear those songs again. I feel like this one’s (DJ-Kicks) a lot better, maybe in ways that to me are important. For some people, it (Balance) will be the moment in time that they want to stop with, but I have to be something else, don’t I? I can’t be doing the same thing forever.”

Holden is touring Australia to promote his DJ-Kicks mix, the latest in what is probably dance music’s longest and most unassuming mix series. The mix is a fusion of the Holden’s ever-burgeoning eclecticism, mixing genres and tunes

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I FEEL LIKE THIS ONE’S (DJ-KICKS) A LOT BETTER, MAYBE IN WAYS THAT TO ME ARE IMPORTANT. FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT (BALANCE) WILL BE THE MOMENT IN TIME THAT THEY WANT TO STOP WITH, BUT I HAVE TO BE SOMETHING ELSE, DON’T I? I CAN’T BE DOING THE SAME THING FOREVER.”

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with decades of difference. “They approached me,” explains Holden of the company, K7’s, decision to pick him. “It was kinda funny because we were talking about it two months before, saying, ‘that’s the only compilation series still worth doing’, that’s the only one with a point, and a history, then the e-mail came straight after that!”

It’s interesting to note Holden’s take on what has become of dance music compilations. “I mean the Balance series is still going really strong,” Holden observes. “They’ve had some really impressive things, and they have an identity and a point. And the ones that are interesting are the ones that aren’t a club mix, because now everybody can download millions of club-style mixes recorded straight from the mixer in the club. Personally I don’t really understand why somebody would want to listen to

something recorded directly from the mixer of a club unless they’re in the club at the particular moment as it was happening. It’s a performance for one moment; taken away from the big sound system, taken away from the atmosphere, and [listened to] on your iPod. Why are you wasting your time? Listen to a proper album!”

Fan sentimentality aside, Holden seems ready to re-introduce himself to the dance music world.

There’s a cracking remix for Caribou that he’s just finished, and he’s working on a new artist album. As well, his label Border Community label is ready for to fire off EPs from Avus and Margot, plus an album from new sensation Luke Abbot. It appears we may yet be dazzled by more Holden brilliance once the dust has settled around DJ-Kicks.

As for the process of putting the DJ-Kicks mix itself together,

(EQ/Stomp), 2003.

It’s regarded as one of the premier mixes of the past decade.

There is fierce argument amongst purists over whether they prefer disc one and two, for both are equally spellbinding. It’s James Holden’s Balance 005.

Put together when Holden was hotter than hot in 2003, the fifth instalment in the Balance series utilised a UK DJ and producer for the first time since the series’ inception. Holden decided to bring his typically broad musical tastes to bear on the mix, painting with an amazing palette of sounds that ran the gamut from proper electro through trance, techno, breaks, progressive house and ambient weirdness.

At that stage of the game Holden was able to unleash a gaggle of unreleased productions from his producer mates, some of whom were destined for bigger things – Luke Chable and Kosmas Epsilon amongst them. Of course, the way Holden stitches the tracks together is mesmerising; some tracks simply melt into each other, whilst other transitions provide an incredible energy lift or sharp contrast. His overwhelming eye as a producer sees placement of segments of tracks with a method most DJs wouldn’t have employed. This made both mixes utterly fresh.

There remains an incredible sense of occasion on listening to Balance 005. ‘Epic’ is an overused term of reference these days – but it is utterly appropriate.

The moment The MFA’s ‘The Difference It Makes’ kicks in on disc one, listeners should strap themselves in tight. Avus ‘Your Body’ melts into Kosmas Epsilon’s unreleased remix of FC Kahuna’s ‘Hayling’ on disc two and by the time Epsilon 9’s ‘Lifeformation’ is dropped near the end of the mix, you can imagine utter dancefloor devastation being caused.

A landmark mix that can be repeatedly listened to and still stands up today, Balance 005 deserves its place amongst the upper echelons of dance music releases of the past decade – and indeed all time.

it was relatively simple. “I just collected stuff that I thought went together,” Holden states. “At home we listen to everything on a server on random play. Whenever something comes up that I like I pull it aside and put it in my folder for DJing. I just went through that and everything I thought was amazing for the last little while and it all sort of goes together. To me it all sounds the same, it’s the same sort of feeling or rhythmic identity or the same sort of spirit to it. It doesn’t really matter that it’s different genres. It’s quite inspirational at the moment in England. The Caribou album, and the Four Tet album, it’s such a positive thing, these people from completely outside dance music have made records you can dance to, but they’re not made out of the clichés that dance music is made out of. Then you have people on the edge of dubstep, people like Zomby... they are loosely dubstep, but really they’re breaking out of that. Dance music is a bit ‘trad’ now. It’s been around 30 years now at least. I think the people who are pushing against that, who are working on the edges, are making really interesting stuff now.”

Holden’s musical education and un-ending thirst for fresh music has continued, unabated. “As I keep getting older I realise there’s more and more and I’m never going to catch up with it!” he laughs.

“This week I’ve just realised I don’t have anything by The Cure and Weather Report. Last week I discovered Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, who I wrote off as a teenager as being old people’s music. Actually it’s really perfect and there’s stuff I can play out off the album.”

Always putting a unique twist on whatever he touches, stylistically Holden has often struggled: he wanted to move forward, but his fans wanted him to remain standing still. “The very first things people knew me for weren’t really a very accurate reflection of me,” Holden ventures. “My first record got signed, and then I got stuck on that record label. At the time I was into everything. Gradually I reasserted what I was actually into. Some people have said it’s wrong that my sound has changed a lot. I’m surprised that they think it changed at all. I played one of my first remixes recently, Joshua Ryan’s ‘Pistolwhip’. It’s not as well produced, but it fits in. I’ve been playing ‘Innerspace’ which is one of the first singles that came out, I’ve just been playing that continuously in my sets since I did it. It’s always fitted into the sets.

The perception that I’ve changed a lot surprises me sometimes.”

WHO: James Holden WHAT: DJ-Kicks (!K7/Inertia) WHERE & WHEN: Auditree at Barsoma Saturday Jul 24 (1pm)

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SCOTLAND THE RAVE ZEBRA’S CHAT WITH SCOTTISH ELECTRONIC IMPORT GRAEME SHEPHERD REVEALS HIS INSIGHTS ON THE INFLUENCE OF AND INSPIRATIONS FOR THE ALBUM DEBUT AND ORIGIN OF HIS PSEUDONYM, GRUM. he past two years have been kind to Graeme Shepherd.

The UK musician better known as Grum has enjoyed a lengthy period sharing his name at the top of the blogosphere on the back his remixes and a few single flourishes. Come 2010 and the release of Shepherd’s debut album Heartbeats, the artist is now the sound du jour for the international press machine’s perpetual chase in search of the next big act. Asking Shepherd, however, the biggest sounds arrived long ago and stick with us to the present.

“Daft Punk,” he answers, the musician’s top rated albums including the French duo’s Discovery (2001). “My personal influences come from a mixture of places. A lot from that French 90s house sound and a lot of the 80s Italo disco and silly, fluffy soft rock stuff. I like upbeat.”

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succinctly than perhaps anyone else to date, ‘upbeat’ is an undeniably constant thread within Grum’s basket of goodies. “’Heartbeats’ was the first thing that really kicked me off. I wanted to keep that feeling running through the album,” Shepherd says on his record’s title tune.

“The Don Johnson sample was me getting more and more into that silly 80s stuff – messing around with things, chopping and cutting… everything just came together and ended up working well. All my tracks come to me from different places. ‘Power’ developed from my love of proper club and electroclash sounds. The desire there was to make things that really bang on the dancefloor.

“When I was writing ‘Want U’, my imagination was getting into a lot of disco stuff; that cool, slower, low disco. The creation process is totally organic. When everything comes together on its own like

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THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS RAS_G HAS BEEN SECURING A CONSIDERABLE REPUTATION IN RECENT YEARS AS PART OF FLYING LOTUS’ BRAINFEEDER ENSEMBLE – BUT IT SHOULD PROBABLY BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND. t’s impossible to overstate the momentum gathered by Los Angeles’ Brainfeeder crew in recent years. A loose collective of DJs and producers centred around Flying Lotus’ record label of the same name, FlyLo’s position at the heart of proceedings has ensured that the developing crew’s blend of avant-jazz, contemporary turntablism, leftfield hip hop and psychedelia has, within less than a handful of years, become one of the most respected sounds in contemporary electronic music.

Unbeknownst to most, however, the stylistic innovations of the community (and those of its most significant patron) were actually developing in the Los Angeles underground decades prior to the ensemble’s official formation in the late noughties – specifically, in the work of community godfather and outsider turntablist Gregory Shorter Jr. Otherwise known as Ras_G, Shorter has been fusing experimental jazz and leftfield hip hop since as far back as the early 90s.

“When I first started, I was dissatisfied with friends and

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friends of friends who had gear which I thought was capable of making them some crazy beats,” Shorter explains. “I’ve since learned that it ain’t the machine; it’s the cat banging shit out who puts the soul in those machines and CPUs… But that expectation I had in my mind about what the next man should’ve been making is what brought me out of nothingness and made me the musician that I am.

“I’ve always drawn from the Everything and Nothing approach when making music,” Shorter explains. “Like, I don’t listen to beats all day. I like jazz, experimental music, world music and just the sound of life, and all of that has an impact on what I’m feeling when I create certain things. It just so happens that I come from a hip hop background, so that’s my approach I take to everything when dealing with my music.”

Fortunately, Shorter hasn’t been left behind by the ensemble.

Granted, FlyLo’s universally acclaimed Los Angeles and Cosmogramma albums owe a

that, you develop your own sound – something that’s in you and something that’s in all your music.

It defines you.”

Well aware of his audience’s expectation for disco and nostalgia-infused electro house hits, Shepherd requests only the most basic of dancefloor replies from a crowd.

“I don’t really look for a specific response from people – just something that I’m happy with.

I like a healthy, vibrant club atmosphere… moving and dancing. Depending on who you’re playing to, you do get a few gigs where you find things not going your way. I just throw in a pop hit or big song to bring it back and by the end I find I’ve got people back where I want them.

I’m not a massive party person myself. I’m not a big mover on the dancefloor. I’m quite happy to be at home in my time off, not necessarily doing music, just relaxing.”

The Scot even has a plan should he grow weary of his disco-hustle focus, hinting at a possible blood bond with the likes of fellow countrymen Boards Of Canada and Mogwai.

“Maybe I’ll move into ambient, something darker,” he prods.

“I don’t know. Maybe you can draw some connection there somewhere. Maybe it’s something about the rain. It’s probably to do with being stuck inside… confined in the studio, not wanting to drag yourself outside.

That’s where my name comes from – in the UK. It started out as a bit of a nickname… for Graeme.

Now I guess it’s stuck with me.”

WHO: Grum WHAT: Heartbeats (etcetc/Universal) WHERE & WHEN: Parklife Saturday Sep 25

considerable debt of gratitude to Shorter’s own genre-bending works, but it doesn’t seem to be one the legendary beat-maker has any intention of leaving unsettled.

FlyLo already voluntarily released Shorter’s last album, 2009’s Brotha From Anotha Planet, on Brainfeeder and invited him to contribute to his series of 10” Los Angeles EPs. “I actually love what’s been happening with Brainfeeder,” Shorter enthuses of the ensemble.

“The name says it all. Brainfeeder.

All the artists involved have that goal in mind, I think; to feed minds through creative means.

It can only help with shifting things on this planet towards something greater. This music is opening minds and awakening creativity in various forms I accept it with my hand on my heart.

“I didn’t actually make Brotha From Anotha Planet with the intention of releasing it,” the producer explains. “I made that record during the summer just to vibe out to. It was actually the first time I ever recorded a record on a CPU. It was supposed to be the album for when I eat my shrooms before I would write the album out and arrange it in iTunes and shit. I just shared it with Flying Lotus and he told me he wanted to release it.

“I never really had ambitions of being some producer or whatever. I do it for me. I like the creative process behind it all…

Just zoning out and stepping back and feeling your higher creative self come in from the nothingness... Creators just create with no ambitions of ever being ‘heard’… You’re just creating; just being.”

WHO: Ras_G WHERE & WHEN: The Step Inn Friday Jul 23

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BEHIND THE MASK INFLUENTIAL BASS MUSIC LABEL HEAD, MULTI-ALIAS PRODUCER, PROMOTER OF BERLIN’S BIGGEST BASS NIGHT, AND A RELENTLESS GLOBAL TOURER – ALL IN A LONG DAY’S WORK FOR PAUL ROSE, AKA SCUBA. hen Zebra finally catches up with globetrotting Paul Rose, he’s just touched down in Auckland ahead of his second Antipodean tour. Rose has spent quite a few years now residing in Berlin and last weekend his club night Sub:stance celebrated its second anniversary across two venues with a line-up featuring Mala, Appleblim, Monolake, Mount Kimbie and MJ Cole. “It was a great night,” Rose says.

“I really enjoyed it. I played two hours upstairs in Panorama Bar, which was the first time I’d played up there, and the last three hours in Berghain which was up ‘til 9.30am! The music has progressed in the two years since we started doing it, but the vibe has been pretty much the same all the way through. It’s the gig I always look forward to; it’s completely different to anything else.”

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when listening to Rose’s work, both as Scuba and as his more techno-orientated alias SCB. As he explains, “I’ve always been influenced by what people see as ‘Berlin music’ so although obviously you can’t help but be influenced by your surroundings, I don’t think it’s been as much of a big thing as some people seem to think. Since we’ve been doing the night there have been a lot more bass music nights happening and other big clubs trying to do a similar kind of thing. But as a city it’s still very much focused on house, and I mean proper house music – the minimal thing is completely dead in Berlin. There’s a lot of techno as well but the big thing is definitely house.

“The SCB thing is probably the one aspect of my music that is a direct result of living in Berlin,” he continues. “I pretty much started it as a result of spending a lot of Sunday mornings in Panorama Bar

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WHERE YOU BIN? A REFRESHINGLY HONEST THOMAS OLSEN ADMITS THAT JUST BECAUSE TOMMY TRASH HAS PUT A TRACK ON A MINISTRY OF SOUND COMPILATION, YOU WON’T NECESSARILY HEAR IT IN ONE OF HIS CLUB SETS. he essential characteristics of a successful, commercial, Australian DJ are usually the following: a) decent sense of humour/ability to laugh at oneself, b) keenness for loudness, and c) appreciation of a good party.

As his name could imply, Tommy Trash (Thomas Olsen) certainly possesses the latter. He’s one of Ministry Of Sound Australia’s most consistently talked about artists thanks not only to a slew of contributions for the label’s many compilation releases, but also for his broadly appealing production style. Often rightly identified as an indie-electro house DJ/producer, in 2010 Olsen is gradually weaning himself off the genre and making a push toward more universally appealing big room house sounds.

“It’s probably almost, I would say, a bit of a redefining at the moment,” he states. “From doing Electro House Sessions – that was a quite indie sounding disc – and that’s what people started to expect so now it’s all about big room house for me and trying to crack Europe. Now I’m trying to go, in my new productions,

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for more of an international kind of thing. The stuff I was doing was very electro, very Australian orientated sound wise; that stuff is still overseas of course, there’s still a big electro scene, but not for the clubs I want to be playing at and people I’m working with.

It’s almost a bit of a no-no. It’s like, ‘ooh, electro’, but you know I hear people talking about that and then I’ll see a track on Beatport that they’ve done and think, ‘that sounds pretty fuckin’ electro to me’. So you know, all these labels and shit, I’m just doing what I’m feeling and hopefully some other people like it as well, hopefully one or two!”

While Olsen reflects upon his development as an artist with a fairly self-deprecating sense of humour, he is certainly serious about achieving the utmost level of perfection in whatever it is he sets out to do. A forthcoming collaborative track with Moguai attests to this, if only for the amount of time Olsen has spent shunting it back and forth over the internet to Germany, trying to get it right. “We’re still fine tweaking

and trying to recreate that vibe in the studio, just messing around really. There have been some Scuba tracks which could have been under the SCB thing, but the majority is really quite different.”

Touring Australia on the back of his recent Scuba album Triangulation, Rose seems happy with how the album has been received especially considering how long it took to put together.

“You can’t get too preoccupied with reviews and press and everything else but it’s always good when people are saying positive things,” he says. “In terms of writing it, I sat down to write an album last January but I didn’t finish until the end of December so it was quite a long process.

There’s quite a lot of material that fell by the wayside, but also stuff like the Aesaunic EP that came out along the way as well.”

In between all these commitments, Rose still finds time to helm one of the most respected bass music labels on the international stage – Hotflush Recordings. Now in its seventh year, the label’s earliest releases pre-dated what we now know as ‘dubstep’ and always flirted with the more leftfield take on the sound. “It’s not so much a question of staying relevant to me,” he explains. “It’s more just releasing good music. Hotflush was never supposed to be a dubstep label really, it just happened by accident, so it’s no problem for us to be away from the genre if that’s where the good music takes us. The majority of dubstep now isn’t in any way interesting but there is a side of it that is still creative and forward thinking, so there is still a reason to be a part of it.”

WHO: Scuba WHERE & WHEN: alloneword Saturday Jul 24

and hopefully we’ll put it away on Mau5trap,” he reveals. “It’s taking a while to get right [but] good things come to those who wait!”

By contrast, his mix for Ministry Of Sound’s Sessions Seven compilation – which also features the Stafford Brothers and Steve Aoki – was a far less taxing project. Like his effort for the platinum-selling Sessions Six, the latest disc bridges the divide between his mental sound-scape and the commercial realm.

“It’s always good fun doing the CDs, this is my fourth now, and I’m pretty seasoned with the process,” Olsen enthuses. “Doing the first CD for them was the hardest, I’m going ’what do you mean I can’t put all these songs on here?’ Doing your first CD you’re thinking, ‘shit I’ve gotta make this as perfect as I can’ where now I don’t care ... nah I do care, I do care, I’m joking! “[Basically] I put a list of tunes together that I want on the CD and Ministry puts together a list of tunes together that they want me to put on the CD, then we go into the ring and fight it out ... when you’re doing something like Sessions or The Annual, it’s more of a commercial dance music CD so you can’t really indulge yourself too much. It’s just about getting enough of the tunes you like on it. There’s definitely a few that I’d never play in my sets as well – I’m not going to tell you which ones! Maybe we can run a competition – guess which ones Tommy would never play in his set and I can... give them a kiss or something [laughs].”

WHO: Tommy Trash WHAT: Sessions Seven (Ministry Of Sound/ Universal) WHERE & WHEN: The Met Friday Jul 23

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THE IDEA OF FUSING PSYCH RO ROCK TO ELECTRONICA IS A FAIR FAIRLY AMBITIOUS ONE – IS TTHIS A DIFFICULT VISION TO REALISE IN PRACTISE OR DO YOU JUST ROL ROLL GOODBYE GRAVITY WITH THE PUNCHES? Dane Alexander: ”I started sketching ideas late last year in my sstudio, tudio, drawing influence from bands like Led Zeppelin, Prodigy, Zeppel Zepp eliin, The Beatles el elin Beatles, Jimi H Hendrix, The Chemical Brothers and The Prod pe amongst others. I wanted the sketches to resemble psychedelic rock, performed electronically. At that stage I wasn’t quite sure what the band dynamic w would be, but I knew that it had to have the live energy and presence of a rock rock’n’roll show. I approached guitarist and producer Rueben Staines, who I know from way back at uni, with the concept and we started jamming. We plugged his guitar into my computer and my keyboard into a bunch of guitar pedals aand experimented with different amps and speakers. After a couple of month months of jamming on and off, we brought Brenton Fitzgerald in on electronic drum drums. The h i t as a th i was iimmediate. di t IIn merging i th chemistry three-piece these genres we wanted to retain recognisable elements but not rip anybody off; we wanted to create ‘our sound’. Once we were all on the same wavelength and had our live setup under control, we just continued to experiment and jam till we felt we had a tight set. Much like a rock band, only more cables…”

DO YOU OFTEN COME UP WITH MUSICAL IDEAS THAT ARE A LITTLE TOUGH TO FIT INTO A WORKABLE ARRANGEMENT? “Yeah we do. Transitions between new sections can prove a little difficult at times due to the change over of sounds and FX, both outboard and software. It’s awesome to problem solve and make these ideas work though. The transitions have to be smooth and fast, so we often have to program a multitude of actions to one MIDI pedal and still have the pedal assignment work in the context of the entire set. MIDI IS A WONDERFUL THING!” THE ELECTRONIC DRUM KIT GIVES YOU SOME SCOPE TO GO NUTS IN THE SAMPLING DEPARTMENT – DO YOU BUILD YOUR OWN KITS FROM SCRATCH OR HUNT FOR SAMPLES FROM ELSEWHERE? “We do a bit of both. We programmed a really punchy dance kick and snare that stay consistent throughout the set, and vary the cymbals and toms a little between tracks. We want people to hear it and say ‘hey, that’s a Goodbye Gravity kit’. We have to be wary of any additional processing on the drums too as the latency will increase and it can lose its live feel and response time.”

HAS A BACKGROUND IN DESIGNING SURROUND SOUND INSTALLATIONS GIVEN YOU A MUCH SHARPER APPRECIATION OF SPACE AND THE SOUND STAGE? “It definitely has helped my appreciation and understanding of space. I think a lot about the depth of a mix and how it will react in certain environments. We are focusing on the club scene at the moment and keep our ouu live live sound simple and punchy.

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intricacies can be lost in a lot of these types of venues. We have a few tricks up our sleeve to fifillll out the space in stereo but it would be really nice to have the full immersion of surround. I can confidently say that there will be surround shows in our future.”

GROOVE IS OBVIOUSLY PARAMOUNT WHERE DANCE MUSIC IS CONCERNED, WHERE DO YOU DRAW INSPIRATION FROM WHEN WRITING BEATS? “We love the simple grooves and beat production of Daft Punk and Justice. The beat sits back and the groove is passed back and forth between the riffs and the beats. We also love the crazy raw energy of the hard-hitting rock drummers of the late 60s and early 70s. The combination of these influences and knowing when to sit back and when to go nuts is pretty integral to our sound. Brenton’s background as a funk and rock drummer fits this mould pretty well.”

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HO HOW OW DID YOU CHOOSE SE YO OUR MC NAME? YOUR “E Everyone knew me as KMT because that’s “Everyone m myy initials and I was forever writing it ev verywhere I went. When I began MCing I everywhere tried tri ied other names but KMT stuck and has be ecome one word over time.” become HOW HO OW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN RAPPING? “Does “D Does pretending to be Salt-N-Pepa in front off the mirror count? Ha ha, nah I started doing do oing my thing in 2006, so about four years.”

ARE AR RE YOU AFFILIATED WITH ANY CREW? “Poetic Murriz is my crew and we’re part of “P the Impossible Odds family.”

WHAT CAN YOU REMEMBER ABOUT YOUR FIRST GIG? “I’d come up with the verse in the shower about a week before and showed Buda K just mucking around and then he decided that I would be performing with him in the upcoming show. Once I started spitting I remember thinking, ‘Why didn’t I do this earlier?’“ YOUR BEST SHOW AND WHY? “I’ve enjoyed all of my shows but one that I will never forget is when we’d been flown to Weipa and performed out at Napranum, which is the local community. When we were on little kids were dancing and I could see the teenagers bobbing their heads. I thought that was pretty cool. But when we finished, a community Elder came up to me and said thank you for telling her story through our rhymes. That meant more ttha than han any paycheck ever would.“ WHAT’S THAT ON YOUR SHIRT THERE? RE? E? “Ha ha it’s an AFL Indigenous Academyy

shirt. We were at the Garma Festival in F Northern Territory last year and there was a fella that was in a tent near us wearing this shirt. My friend asked him if he had any more and he just gave us his. I like free shirts ha ha!“ FAVOURITE COMEBACK LINE? “I am surrounded by smart arses and yet I’m still not good with comeback lines.

It’s usually along the lines of ‘Well, whatever then!’ and then I go sook for a while and realise what I should have said ha ha.“ ha “ WHAT’S THE BEST THING ABOUT THE LOCAL HIP HOP SCENE? “From what I’ve seen, there’s respect and appreciation for real MCs.“ Poetic Murriz play The Globe Friday Jul 23.

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RAS_G @ THE STEP INN TICKETS The third member of the mighty Brainfeeder collective is about to grace our shores. Ras_G

GLOW ROOM 11, SHOOTERS SH H NIGHTCLUB WHERE IS IT? Shooters Complex, 3 Orchid Ave, Surfers Paradise.

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& The Afrikan Space Program will play at the Step Inn on Friday Jul 23. Thanks to Dank Morass we have one double pass to give away. Entrants must be 18+.

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SESSIONS SEVEN @ THE MET TICKETS Thanks to The Met we have two double passes to give away to the Sessions Seven Tour featuring Stafford Brothers and Tommy Trash on Friday Jul 23. Entrants must be 18+. Please email give@timeoff.com.au with Subject Line: SESSIONS SEVEN, and include name, address and daytime telephone number in the body of your email.

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Since 2008’s Rising Down, the multi-faceted ?uestlove & Co have become the house band on Jimmy Fallon’s talk show – brilliant exposure.

But, if any fool was expecting a fresh sheen on How I Got Over, The Roots’ third Def Jam joint, they’ll be dismayed – it’s The Roots we know and love. After all, you can take The Roots out of the avant-garde, but you can’t take the avantgarde out of The Roots.

This time The Roots, who pride themselves on confounding even fans, have ‘collaborated’ with some of neo-folk’s finest – or, rather, reconfi rec onfigured gurr their songs. The Roots transform gu Monsters M Mon onste stt rs Of Folk’s ‘Dear God’ (‘Sincerely MOF’), supergroup’s singer Jim Jones sounding thee ssu the uper p per supremely sup u rem remely el soulful. (Remember what The Roots ely Cody did ttoo Co di did C oodd ChesnuTT’s alt-R&B ‘The Seed’?)

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How I Got Over is ultimately, not indie-rock, but strippedback, textured hip hop. The stand-out, ‘Walk Alone’, actually has the production ethos of an early RZA (or Wu-Tang) beat with its dramatic piano. There are also several star turns by ‘urban’ identities – among them John Legend, Phonte (from Little Brother) and the ace Blu. Still, seriousness aside, The Roots betray sly humour in the intentionally incongruous ‘Hustla’, which gurgles like Ginuwine’s ‘Pony’. A missive at hip hop’s bankrupt bling MCs, it features what sounds like auto-tuned baby’s cries.

Very ill – and very Illadelphian.

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Will Rusko upstage Chase & Status as dubstep’s fifirs rst rst pop pop op hit machine? Not only has the Brit produced M MIA, IA, A,, but but nnow, ow ow, w, ng m ateria ate riall ffor orr having relocated to Los Angeles, he’s prepping material TI. Rusko is likewise producing sometime Chase se & St SStatus tat tatu atu tus client Rihanna.

Infamous for the jump-up dubstep of ‘Cockney Thu TThug’, Th hu hugg’ g’,, Rusko’s own debut, OMG!, released through Diplo’s Mad Decent, has a Gucci Mane cameo. Rusko has even ingratiated himself with LA radio by ‘remixing’ 2Pac’s ‘California Love’. And, just to prove that hip hop is all about six degree connections, he’s cut a track with Amber Coffman, who, together with other members of the indierock Dirty Projectors, sings the Manhattan Transfer-ish opener of The Roots’ How I Got Over.

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Thank god the World Cup is now over. The world can revel in the sporting glory of Spain, the Socceroos can suck in silence, and Sidney Samson will be thankful to have all the vuvuzelas back in his studio, where he can continue his epically shit run of productions. Poor Sidney – every time he sat down to watch a World Cup match, he kept having to get up to check whether he’d left his new tune on loop in the studio.

Anna Bligh’s popularity is not quite on a par with Sidney Samson, but hers almost approaches his. Bligh is often, quite unfairly, burdened with the public’s hatred of her government. The fact that not many Queenslanders can name anyone else in her cabinet says a lot about the poor state of her party and a lot about the political attitudes of most Queenslanders. In an era in which governments regulate more and rarely roll back that regulation (thanks to the misguided efforts of economic rationalism in the 80s), the Bligh government is facing a significant problem that concerns clubbing – what to do about The Valley?

It appears Fortitude Valley, or “The Valley” as it is more commonly known, has been receiving a fair bit of media and government attention. Well, like a moth to a flame and a cliché to a feature writer stuck for words, Kumar is adding a view. Have the police lost control? Are partygoers looking elsewhere? Are there illegal parties happening within the Valley, and why am I not being invited to them? Sensationalists and sycophants alike are joining in a cacophony of opinions, as if waking from some kind of cultural slumber. It’s pretty simple. Gentrification and commercialism are the two forces at work here. The Valley was once a place for the counterculture, and is now no longer a place for that. We’ve processed the edge out of it. In fact watching The Valley is like watching a horror movie where the blood slowly drains from the victim. In this case culture is flowing

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down those drains in Brunswick Street, swept away by a mix of commercialism, gentrification and apathy.

Having a healthy serve of blandness on the side doesn’t hurt. Businesses don’t care – the blander the culture, the better for them in most cases. And nightclubs? Well, they’re fickle.

Yet, paradoxically, The Valley feels more dangerous than a decade ago. Sure, there are greater numbers, but the violence and bad attitudes were never part of the culture. Our problem of course is that there has been a cultural shift. Retaining the area’s sense of cultural identity should have been a main aim of designating the Valley as a special Entertainment Precinct. If it ever really was, there has been a systemic failure. There is no option for another precinct to flourish, nor for any great expansion.

Those reasons should have activated everybody’s bullshit detectors some time ago. West End, long touted as “the new Valley”, just can’t sustain something of the same nature. There are clubs and bars for sure (such as the revered Sling Bar), however the strong residential presence quells any idea of an entertainment precinct.

To those gentle readers who expected a healthy dose of ‘sarcasm and samosas’ (the title of my first book), please do not use the blanket “politics doesn’t concern or interest me” to dismiss this missive.

Step out from behind your catchphrases and status updates. Look out and survey the Valley and then tell me it isn’t starting to stink. Then be part of the solution.

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THE QANTAS SPIRIT OF YOUTH AWARDS ARE ON FOR 2010, OFFERING YOUNG CREATIVE AUSTRALIANS THE CHANCE TO BE MENTORED BY AN INDUSTRY LEADER ACROSS MANY FIELDS. ALICE TYNAN TALKS TO FILM PRODUCER JAN CHAPMAN, WHO WILL BE MENTORING ONE WINNER. resh from her reign over the Sydney Film Festival official competition, veteran Australian producer Jan Chapman has signed up to be a mentor for the seventh annual Qantas Spirit Of Youth Awards. With films like The Piano, Bright Star, Lantana, and Somersault to her name, any aspiring filmmaker would jump at the chance to work with Chapman.

“The way I work as a producer is that I work with the scriptwriters a lot in the development of the script and supervise the production on a day-to-day basis and report back to investors,” she says of her often misunderstood or publicly overlooked profession. “Then [there’s] the editing and the marketing of the film into the world. You’re responsible for the film right from the very first commitment to do it to the getting of it into the cinemas.”

So given this incredibly involved undertaking, how does Chapman go about choosing a project?

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THIS WEEK IN WEDNESDAY 21 Machinima – exhibition and gaming lounge devoted to the fusion of filmmaking, animation, and game development in virtual 3D environments. The Block, QUT until Saturday Aug 7.

THURSDAY 22 Carnage – an interactive performance piece at JWCOCA Shopfront with artist-in-residence Emma Lindsay, a ballerina and a lot of white plasticine, this piece lcreates a scultpure and ooks at the impact of human behaviour on the environment.

Judth Wright Centre, 6pm.

Writing Architecture Symposium – hosted by UQ, this two-day event looks at how we see and write about buildings. GoMA.

FRIDAY 23 The Ultimate Orchestral Showpiece – Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and Schumann’s Konzertstück are performed by participants in the International Horn Symposium at the Concert Hall, QPAC. Writing Architecture Symposium – day two is held at the State Library of Queensland. See uq.edu.au/atch/ writinghistory for programme and registration details.

SATURDAY 24 Advanced Screening – cinematic theatre production created especially for teenagers that deals with the problems that arise with friends and family when young people are in serious relationships. Closing night.

Visy Theatre.

The Brink Party – celebration of contemporary circus and cabaret turn the Judith Wright Centre into a hotbed of drinking and physical theatre from 8pm.

Drum Tao: Samurai Of The Drum – Taiko drumming, Japanese flute, and

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seeing people’s short films makes a big difference… that’s what’s very important for me in terms of trying to find people to mentor; I need to see something that gives me a sense of who they are, what their voice is like, what their interest in subject matter is.”

Qantas is asking young talent to ‘step up’ and apply for the chance to win a 12-month paid mentorship across seven creative arenas: music, fashion, film, visual arts, photography, visual communications, and industrial and object design. And for her part, mentoring is something Chapman has found herself increasingly undertaking.

“In the last few years I’ve been doing more executive producing and mentoring than my own projects, really. I just finished a third film as an executive producer called Griff The Invisible with a young producer called Nicole O’Donohue and a director-writer Leon Ford, and once again I found that it was very rewarding to actually work with someone who didn’t know what

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horizontal harp shape this fusion of ancient and modern performance that has had sellout tours worldwide.

Prognosis Death: Yule Die Laughing – special one-off performance of the ImproMafia’s Christmas in July show set in St Love Hospital at the Brisbane Arts Theatre, 8pm.

ONGOING The Clean House – a comedic triumph from Sarah Ruhl, her multiaward winning play explores some of the situations in life we would rather not be participants of and feel we can only laugh at, featuring a bunch of much loved Australian TV actors taking to the stage. Cremorne Theatre until Saturday Jul 31.

Islands In The Stream / East Side Story – having become known for showcasing in warehouses and other such venues Islands In The Stream marks the debut institutional exhibition from six queer and transgender artists from Brisbane.

Croatian artist Igor Grubic’s East Side Story also screens. Opening night.

Turbine Rehearsal Hall, Brisbane Powerhouse until Saturday Jul 31.

I Love You, Bro – play based on the story of a chatroom junkie teenager that spins a web of lies, taking down his friend in the process, based on the true life story involving two friends, a chatroom, and a stabbing.

Opening night. Roundhouse Theatre until Sunday Aug 8.

WindWells: channelling + divining – who doesn’t love an exhibition at the State Library? Just knowing you’re surrounded by so many books heightens your intelligence, if only for the amount of time they surround you. This fascinating exhibition looks at the cross over between science and magic via an exploration of the history of the windmill in Australia. State Library of Queensland until Sunday Oct 17.

IN A VAN: VIOLENT SOHO

JAN CHAPMAN AT 2010 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL they were doing really, [but did have] determination, energy, and the project was something I responded to,” she says. “So it’s not that I think, ‘Oh I must give back,’ it’s just that I’ve found that I like doing it.”

Chapman also received a ‘special thanks’ credit for her involvement in Animal Kingdom, an acknowledgment that came as quite a surprise.

“Did I? That’s nice. Well I did look at the cut. That’s thrilling to me, because I saw David’s short films and to see his work develop so carefully; he’s just worked so well to get that film right… I was incredibly excited by it.”

In sharing a little of the advice she gives, one can see Chapman’s thoughts are equally applicable across any creative endeavour.

“You have to believe in yourself, you have to be clear about what you’re trying to say, you have to not give up; I’ve had knockbacks and gone back again, she says. “Also listen to people’s reactions; sometimes you don’t want to hear a reaction that might be a little negative, but it’s wise to at least try and understand where it came from and what you could do to improve your work.”

To succeed in the industry, Chapman makes it clear you need to have commitment, tenacity and passion for your films. “They’re all like little lifetimes.”

WHAT: 2010 Qantas Spirit Of Youth Awards WHERE & WHEN: register through soya.com.au by Monday Aug 9

SITG: TENT OF MIRACLES This year the Tent Of Miracles presents Fraudeville, a vaudeville send-up “containing bitter jokes about unpleasant aspects of life” alongside “song-anddance oddities and sue-able acts of bad taste.” There’s also The Church Of Two Hands And A Chicken, a “spoof religion” which the festival audience will be able to join and experience “white-knuckle weddings and budget miracles.” The 14 original acts performing include Akmal Saleh, Annie Lee of The Kransky Sisters, and James Dabrowski. Entry to the tent is free as a Splendour In The Grass sideshow, and a performance schedule is available at splendourinthegrass.com.

Photographic Exhibition by Brad Marsellos Bleeding Heart Gallery Back in 2008, before they’d spent a year touring the US, Violent Soho set out on the East Coast tour that’s become a veritable rite-of-passage for Australian bands. Along with the usual music-related paraphernalia Soho packed Brisbane-based photojournalist Brad Marsellos in the eponymous vehicle. In A Van: Violent Soho, which showed at Bleeding Heart Gallery over the weekend, is the resulting photographic exhibition.

Marsellos has captured the band on the road in various states of boredom, exhaustion, and mischief in black and white prints, visually juxtaposing the monotony of life on tour with full-colour live shots.

It’s a relief to see a band photographed without twee-sepiatoned-iPhone-app inspired lighting.

It’s a huge relief to see photographs of a band that don’t look as though they’ve been styled by a Vogue staffer with the intent of accumulating hipster credibility and selling shoes.

It’s a downright – and possibly masochistic – pleasure to see a young band grappling with the tedium of touring but still managing to put on a balls-out rock show.

Frankly, I stopped looking at photos of bands the day Jared Leto decided to start one but Brad Marsellos and Violent Soho may very well have managed to wash that particularly bitter taste from my mouth and remind me that rock’n’roll is not in fact, dead.

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JOE ROOTSEY RETROSPECTIVE Joe Rootsey was ‘discovered’ as an artist by a medical social worker who saw his sketches while he was in hospital in the mid-1950s, and he came to be recognised as an important contemporary artist and was the first Aboriginal person to be trained at a recognised art school. His works, on display in this significant retrospective at the Queensland Art Gallery until Sunday Oct 3, demonstrate his ability to convey the textures and tonalities of the Far North Queensland landscape.

ATCH MASTERCLASS, TALKS The ATCH (Architecture|Theory|Crit icism|History) Research Centre, UQ is putting on a two-day “symposium and masterclass on innovations in the textual critique of buildings,” with lots of talks and fancy international guests. If you don’t like symposia, or don’t have two days’ worth of opinions on these things, there’s also public talks at the State Library. Katja Grillner (Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH Stockholm) will talk about performative and self-reflexive ways of understanding and occupying space on Thursday Jul 22, and John Birmingham (Brisbane author and essayist) discusses ‘Narrative and personal space.

Turning history into architecture’ on Friday Jul 23. Both sessions start at 6pm. Tickets through qtix.com.au.

WEIRD WEDNESDAYS FILM NIGHTS A new night monthly night of off-beat cinema hosted by Kristian Fletcher is starting up on Wednesday Jul 21 at Tribal Theatre. The first session is a double bill of ’70s cult starting with the 1975 Death Race 2000, a schlocky thriller about a road race where drivers get points by killing spectators and pedestrians, which is followed by Eraserhead. David Lynch was possibly even more disturbing in ’77, and this on the big screen is a surrealist masterpiece. Films start at 6:30pm.

GRAND DESIGNS THE CULMINATION OF TEN YEARS’S WORK, FAÇADE SHOWCASES THE RICH ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF TOM EVANGELIDIS. HE SPEAKS TO HELEN STRINGER.

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ost people hope their intended holiday destination will fulfil certain criteria – sandy beaches, proximity to alcoholfilled coconuts – but not architectural photographer Tom Evangelidis, who says that his various overseas jaunts have been spent avoiding sunlight and waiting for the worst days of the year. His aversion to UV light is not – as initially, and logically, assumed – the result of vampirism, but rather his desire to capture the reality of the world’s most interesting buildings honestly, forcing audiences to focus on the architecture without being distracted by stylising.

The result is his exhibition Façade, showing at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

A selection of architectural stills showcasing some of the world’s most beautiful buildings, it’s the culmination of four trips over the past ten years to destinations chosen, as he says, for their “architectural mystique”. While parts of the exhibition have been shown before in Sydney exhibitions, Façade is the first comprehensive documentation of Evangelidis’ work.

Evangelidis has been taking architectural shots since 1998 when

he found himself in Prague with his then-girlfriend: “My original idea was to take these beautiful photos of beautiful Prague buildings. But when I got there I was faced with the reality that there was rubbish out the front; the weather was crappy.”

Rather than be disillusioned by the grimy reality of these cities and their buildings he embraced a “kind of anti-travel photography”, eschewing the traditional brightly-lit, prettied-up travel shots in favour of taking pictures that depict these buildings in context: aged, decayed, and surrounded by the detritus of their human inhabitants.

This honest and unapologetic approach to travel photography has produced an exhibition of evocative large-scale photographs that capture the romanticism of the buildings without obscuring the complex histories of their locations.

A good thing too, considering that Evangelidis is drawn to Communistera architecture; the vast majority of his destinations – Cuba, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, and Russia – have at some point been on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.

“There’s an historical aspect [to

the pictures]. You can see the way that buildings last and change, and you can see the history there, the country’s failings: you can read that from the buildings.”

But his dedication to accurately and realistically representing these buildings has some with a price; the various overseas sojourns he’s embarked upon can’t accurately be described as holidays.

“It’s a bit of a ball-breaker. I’ll rock up to a building and there’ll be six cars parked in front of it: I’ll have to come back at 6am on a Sunday morning.

In Cuba the only time I could take

photos, because of the lighting, was between 6 and 6:30am. All those kinds of concerns and people trying to mug me…It really doesn’t add up to a lot of fun. The part of the process I can honestly say that I enjoy is when I exhibit. When the photos are big and they’re up on the wall, I feel that I’ve brought another place to here…you almost get the feeling that you’re standing there.”

WHAT: Façade WHERE & WHEN: Brisbane Powerhouse until Sunday Aug 8

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WHAT SIMON SAYS,

GOES FOLLOWING UP A TV SERIES WIDELY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FINEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE MEDIUM WOULD PROBABLY DAUNT MOST PEOPLE. LUCKILY, DAVID SIMON ISN’T LIKE MOST PEOPLE. THE HBO GOD SPEAKS TO GUY DAVIS.

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ver since he helped turn his book about the work of a Baltimore Police Department homicide squad into the groundbreaking TV drama Homicide: Life On The Street, the former journalist has been one of the writers and producers redefining the calibre of work the small screen is capable of delivering.

And for many viewers, Simon reached his apex (so far, at least) with The Wire, a challenging and compelling crime saga that began as a cops-versus-drug-dealers series and gradually broadened its point of view to take in politics, education, and the media and create a stunning big-picture of a system too mired in corruption and neglect to ever operate effectively.

His new ensemble drama Treme (pronounced truh-may), which follows a loosely connected group of New Orleans residents struggling to rebuild their personal and professional lives in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, has a different tone to The Wire but it shares that show’s rigourous intelligence and keen insight into human nature. (It also has a superbly

jazzy and bluesy soundtrack, just so you know.)

With Treme, Simon and his collaborators (including co-creator Eric Overmyer) have created a vivid social document that doesn’t necessarily adhere to the conventions of series television. “We decided not to explain everything and instead just be,” he says of the immersive approach taken by his shows. “Some people will come on the journey and some people won’t. But I think this way is a lot more fun than being didactic about it.”

From the very first episode, which drops the audience into the thick of an all-singing, all-dancing New Orleans second line, Simon doesn’t offer much explanation or exposition about the city, its traditions and Treme’s cast of characters. It’s a bold move, but Simon has always been the kind of guy who trusts his audience to meet him halfway.

“I’ve found that the less we explained and the more we were just in the world, the more vibrant the piece seemed to be, the more it felt like a slice of life,” he says. “When you go somewhere and meet people, 6N GH9 =J I

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not everything is explained to you right away. You start getting context by degrees. No one tells you a story from the beginning and goes all the way to the end. In a way, this kind of television is the best kind of tourism, for lack of a better word. You got someplace that’s not familiar to you and you exist and meet people on their own terms rather than see it all from some tour bus.”

A long-time admirer of New Orleans, especially its rich musical history, Simon actually conceived the notion of a show focusing on the city and its culture prior to Hurricane Katrina.

“When you say ‘conceived’,” he chuckles, “the best way to say it is that we wanted to do a show about New Orleans and its culture but had absolutely no idea how to pitch that.

Or what the core of the show might be, because a show about culture is such a delicate thing and most television is about life-and-death stuff – cops, doctors in an ER, lawyers fighting over whether someone is guilty or not guilty. That kind of stuff is the grist of most television drama.

“So when you have a piece where the issue is what they’re going to play for

an encore or whether the entree is overcooked, you’re taking the stakes down to a human scale. There was no way we could go into a room in Los Angeles and pitch that. They’d laugh us right out of the building.

So it was tricky, and we just put it in our back pocket and went, ‘Well, it’d be great to do that but we don’t have a clue how.’ Then Katrina put New Orleans front and centre in a dramatic and political sense, and all of a sudden you could go into a room and the words New Orleans would have this resonance. If we were ever going to get this thing going, this would be the time. We would love to have done the show without the storm but I don’t know if anyone would have let us do it.”

For all the sorrow, anger and frustration the characters of Treme feel in the wake of Katrina and the ineffectual response of the US government to provide aid, the show has an underlying optimism and positivity that separates it from other Simon productions, such as The Wire or the recent Iraq War series Generation Kill. According to Simon, that’s simply a reflection of the New Orleans vibe.

“A lot of New Orleans is living in the moment,” he says. “It’s not a town that has done a lot of planning ahead. You’re talking about a city that is very different to the rest of America, for better or worse. It’s not a city with a profound notion of itself, nor does it have a remarkable work ethic. In a way, it’s third world in its attitudes, again for better or worse.

It is a city that is deeply traditional in how it approaches life. It has French, Spanish, Cuban, Caribbean, and African influences. It is part of the United States but it also feels apart from the United States.

“It’s hard to describe it. In fact, if I could describe it I wouldn’t have to do the show,” he adds with a laugh. “The thing about it is, nowhere else can you live in the moment quite the way they do in New Orleans. Ultimately that’s one of the major, fundamental themes of the show. When the storm happened, there was no governmental leadership, no economic fiat to bring the city back, no imperative by business leaders or civic leaders.

Nobody had a plan. The government was remarkably ineffective. What brought the city back to the extent was people’s unwillingness to let go of the culture. Culture is what saved the city, and in that way culture is kind of a political act.”

WHAT: Treme WHERE & WHEN: Showcase (Foxtel/Austar), 8:30pm Wednesdays

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ADVANCED SCREENING Visy Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse A cinematic theatre piece intent on exploring high school relationships, Markwell Presents’ Advanced Screening should be applauded for daring to approach such a painfully clichéd subject with fresh perspectives. Unfortunately, one can only really celebrate the production’s ambition. The innate promise of the company’s good intentions otherwise goes almost entirely unfulfilled.

The main issue is that writer-directors Brad Jennings and Stephen Maxwell wouldn’t appear to have any interest in realistically exploring their own subject matter. Advanced Screening purports to be a serious investigation into high school romance but it deals with the subject in such broad clichés and with such toothless commentary as to invite fairer comparison to limpwristed satire.

The characters themselves are, without fail, clichés – from the charmingly eccentric nice guy to the overly sensitive musician to the

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conniving school captain – and the dialogue is so blandly proper that each curse word elicits an excited giggle from an audience consisting mostly of adults. The details that convey a realistic understanding or sympathy are almost entirely whitewashed.

Granted, it is refreshing that a performance piece about high school doesn’t deteriorate into po-faced melodrama and suicide but, by the same token, Advanced Screening never engages with anything even remotely complicated or controversial. The majority of issues facing the supposed graduating class would, one suspects, have been easily handled by most 15-year-olds.

The production doesn’t even effectively deliver on its promise of cinematic theatre – presenting only a computer-generated school and vague images on a slide screen backdrop that, if anything, detract from the energy of the performers on stage. It sounds mean-spirited but the only saving grace for the work is the uniformly excellent performances of its surprisingly young cast.

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JOSH WHEATLEY SPEAKS TO REECE SHEARSMITH, BEST KNOWN AS CO-CREATOR AND STAR OF THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, ABOUT HIS MACABRE AND INGENIOUS NEW TV SERIES PSYCHOVILLE.

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o much of television is dumb and it’s made to just be there in the background like wallpaper,” says Reece Shearsmith, co-writer and star of the BBC series Psychoville.

Together with his former League Of Gentlemen player Steve Pemberton, Shearsmith continues to push the limits of television comedy. “We wanted to try to write one of those sprawling American dramas that just has a great big hook where you just can’t not watch the next one.”

With characters such as vengeful hook-handed children’s entertainer Mr. Jelly, a grotesque duo of serial killers, and a ‘little person’ with telekenetic powers, Psychoville gleefully dives into the depths of insanity and murder. “You get a thrill from being immersed in that world, and it’s quite an unsettling place to be,” says Smearsmith, “but morbidly it’s like a car crash, you want to turn your head and have a peek.”

The series features multiple narrative threads and a riveting story arc, distinctly unlike the situational stories that dominated League Of Gentlemen. Dawn French joins Shearsmith and Pemberton in

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the cast of Psychoville, playing a deranged nurse that believes her baby doll is alive. “We’d seen her do a thing called Tender Loving Care [officially called TLC], where she played a nurse in an old people’s home, where she was killing the old people. She hasn’t done chilling like this for quite some time.” When Psychoville was pitched to the BBC, ‘dark’ comedy wasn’t in vogue. “We thought if we’ve got Vicar of Dibley in it, it could be the Trojan Horse to get us through the door.”

Along with Trilogy Of Terror and The Shining, Shearsmith cites the films of Alfred Hitchcock as a major influence on the series’ tone, with the fourth episode an extended homage to Rope. “We did it all in one take, of course... [In] the whole half hour there isn’t a cut,” he says. “The camera starts and doesn’t stop for 22 minutes.”

Its housing-flat characters lack the gentlemanly finesse of Jimmy Stewart, instead celebrating their murder with a plate of biscuits and a dance to Black Lace’s ‘Superman’.

The episode was written to deal with an unexpected BBC funding cut, but Shearsmith is proud of the

‘triumph’. “There’s something quite mesmerising about it,” he says.

“It’s like not blinking. I think you are completely drawn into it, because it just glides through itself.”

The writer/performer insists on never repeating himself, which has upset some of the cultish League fan-base.

The team’s feature film, The League Of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, was maligned for departing from the television series’ stalwart characters.

Psychoville has been criticised for its difficult ending. “I kind of love it that people got so enraged because it meant people were completely hooked and demanded answers,” Shearsmith says. “It didn’t matter that some things are not answered.

You’re never going to get a satisfying

ending to a thriller thing anyway, it’s just like ending a Twin Peaks or a Lost.”

With only two of the four League members extensively involved in Psychoville, did the group call it quits?

“We haven’t disbanded, we’re all really close and we still feel for each other, so if we get the right project again we’d do it… It was ten years ago the first one was on the BBC... We’re old men now, it’s harder to get together to do things. We’re like the Pythons.”

A one-hour Halloween special is scheduled for October, with series two airing next year.

WHAT: Psychoville (BBC/Roadshow)

Good screen writers are a manipulative bunch. They can take your moral fibre and weave it into an invisibility cloak to smooth over the flaws of villains and make them lovable. From the Ocean’s 11 gang to Dexter, a likeable crim wins over hearts and minds while long suffering law enforcers look like nothing more than buzz kills. But it’s not always the stuff tapped out in the final draft that captures the public imagination. The legends of Billy the Kid and Bonnie and Clyde passed from newspaper inches to folklore years before being immortalised on celluloid. But the industry moves quick these days and even before the capture of the Barefoot Bandit, Colton Harris-Moore, last week a biopic on the 19-yearold was in the works. Rough House Pictures, a production company founded by Pineapple Express director David Gorden Green, Jody Hill, and Danny McBride, has obtained the rights to a book about HarrisMoore’s life. Over the two years spent running from authorities, HarrisMoore garnered a hefty following and a reputation as a rebel-genius.

Even Bahamian Police Commisioner Ellison Greenslade said, “He’s very eloquent, obviously a very intelligent young man.”

He may be popular and clever but how does the Barefoot Bandit compare to other celebrity crims?

The deadly molls of Chicago are a fine example of a couple of ordinary

women whose crimes echo in popular culture to the tune of bums hitting London theatre seats. Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart are based on jazz era murderesses Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan. Writer Maureen Dallas Watkins, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, wrote a play based on articles she’d written about the pair who were each acquitted despite evidence such as confessions made and later retracted, and blood soaked clothing. Perhaps Gaertner’s sterling logic convinced jury; she was quoted by the Tribune as saying, “No woman can love a man enough to kill him.

They aren’t worth it, because there are always plenty more. Walter was just a kid – 29 and I’m 38. Why should I have worried whether he loved me or whether he left me? Gin and guns - either one is bad enough, but together they get you in a dickens of a mess, don’t they?”

Then there was English trickster Alan Conway whose fad of impersonating Stanley Kubrick in the early 90s, despite looking nothing like him, was the inspiration for 2007 film Color Me Kubrick. Conway’s act was so convincing that he socialised with magazine editors, actors, and politicians, many of whom gave the fraud money or favours in exchange for a part in his next film. .

Compared to these brazen personalities the Barefoot Bandit seems like an infamy infant. I guess we’ll have to wait to see what the court decides to see how this movie ends.

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COLLEGE FALL MELBOURNE VIA THE OUTBACK DUO COLLEGE FALL HAVE PERFORMED IN FRONT OF KINGS AND QUEENS. NOW, WITH THE RELEASE OF THEIR NEW ALBUM, THE CURSE OF US, IT’S QUEENSLAND’S TURN. GLENN MUSTO TALKS TO TONY MCMAHON ABOUT LANDSCAPE, INTROSPECTION AND THAT GIRL FROM TASMANIA. “We’ve both spent large portions of our life in isolated pockets of Western Australia,” says Musto, talking about how he and fellow band member Jodie Lee Bartlett have drawn on their surroundings for their art. “Our songs are inspired from what we were exposed to, the stories we have heard and been a part of living in that environment.

When you live in a solitary place, you tend to be slightly removed from fashion, find your own passions and see the world around you as a bit of an outsider.”

And The Curse Of Us is both an extraordinarily enjoyable listening experience and an unflinching look into the human condition.

“Our previous writing has been quite personal and introspective. But over the last few years I found myself looking outwards to understand my place in this world, instead of inwards. At times the process was exasperating but I also found it very inspiring. I gravitated

toward songwriting about the harmful things people do to themselves and each other and the emotional consequences of these decisions.”

Time Off can’t let Musto go without asking what it was like performing for the Danish royal family. He gives us a useful tip: don’t say ‘fuck’ in front of royalty.

“It was pretty surreal. Mary was there, along with a sea of Danes cheering and waving, admittedly more at her than us. But it was an incredible experience and we made a lot of fans. But Jodie Lee still feels bad about saying ‘fuck’ on stage when we played a tongue-in-cheek acoustic cover of ‘Killing In The Name Of’. The royals got the joke, but a few disgruntled locals walked off.”

WHO: College Fall WHAT: The Curse Of Us (Varsity Records) WHERE & WHEN: X & Y Bar Saturday Jul 24, The Greenroom, Toowoomba Sunday Jul 25

FRESH NEW LOCALS MOSMAN ALDER ARE ALL SET TO MAKE THEIR FIRST SPASH ON THE LOCAL SCENE. GUITARIST AND VOCALIST JACKSON MUIR TELLS DAN CONDON WHAT BRISBANE’S INDIE AFFICIONADOS CAN EXPECT FROM THE BAND.

The group came together, as so many do, after the dissolution of a couple of other local acts.

“Valdis Valdoze [vocals, guitar] and I had been working together for years but we were always too focused on our bands at the time to really make anything of it,” Muir says. “Around late last year for one reason or another both of our bands were pretty much finished. I remember telling Valdis that I was going to make another band with our friend Katarzyna Wiktorski [piano, vocals] and he was like, ‘Count me in!’. After a little while Damian Wood and Liam Haug who were the rhythm section in my previous band joined. Lastly was Robyn Dawson on violin, she will be a permanent fixture unless she gets deported back to Scotland.”

As far as the inspiration for their music goes, Muir says much of it comes from one another.

“Musically it’s a collaborative process, so the biggest inspiration is probably each other and our ability to bounce off one another,” he says. “It is out of this chemistry we are able to find some understanding of what the song should become. Valdis has a passion for fictional storytelling so lyrically he will usually develop a narrative and theme depending on the overall mood of the song. From what I can gather they are usually stories based on relationships and the human condition.”

WHO: Mosman Alder WHERE & WHEN: Alhambra Lounge Friday Jul 23

ZAPPA BIG BAND

Thankfully the band has chosen a larger venue for their next show, which is for the best as they have swelled to a 19-piece for their upcoming performance.

“Quite simply, a bigger sound in a bigger venue to a bigger audience!” Allen says of the upcoming Globe Theatre performance. “The band has also been working on a heap of new charts like ‘Village of the Sun’ and ‘Evelyn A Modified Dog’. As well, we’ll be featuring an old friend of mine this time, DJ Katch (Hydrofunk/2 Dogs). We played in the Resin Dogs together for many years, so it’ll be great to have him perform on the night as well!”

“Well the Tupperware party was off the hook, I guess it’s what you get when you mix quality product with quality music. The slot of prime time TV in Japan is where the real gold is at though. I know people are going to be reading this thinking, ‘Man these guys make up some rubbish,’ but I kid you not we did have a ten-minute cameo in World’s Most Amazing News Stories. We played the role of a band with a singer who has had the hiccups for three years. It was a good laugh actually, the studio had hired extras to play the crowd, and we got to get swamped by groups of (paid to swamp us) girls. A bit like the Dead Riot shows really but without all the hairy men.”

Somehow, we move from this to the upcoming Sea Shepherd benefit gig, and Sparks proves he has a serious, socially concerned side as well, something that can also be said for Dead Riot’s music.

“These guys [Sea Shepherd] are really the leaders in trying to make some changes with what’s going on with the whaling, which is a obviously a massive issue right now that has long ago gotten way out of hand. I would really encourage people to check out what they are all about, they are a pretty special crew and they cover so much more than I have the space to mention. You would be silly not to support them, plus this is an honestly great line-up of some seriously talented local artists.”

WHO: Dead Riot WHERE & WHEN: The Zoo (Sea Shepherd Fundraiser) Friday Jul 23

POP-PUNKERS STONEMASON HAVE RELEASED SINGLE NUMBER TWO FROM THEIR STUNNING DEBUT EP. BASSIST THOMAS STEVENS FILLS TONY MCMAHON IN ON THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND HORSE-LIKE ATTRIBUTES OF MEMBERS FROM VARIOUS QUEENSLAND BANDS.

it should be to go and check them out. Their music is awesome, and their drummer is incredibly well hung.”

Even though StoneMason’s EP, Noise + Haste, has been doing so well, Stevens says we aren’t likely to see an album anytime soon unless a record label comes on board.

For punters thinking of coming along to one of StoneMason’s upcoming shows, Stevens says the band will basically be your slaves.

“I think our next record will be another EP. Albums tend to be quite strenuous on the hip pocket, and as we’re an unsigned band, it goes without saying that we aren’t the most cashed up individuals. If there was a record label out there that would be willing to throw some shekels behind us then an album is something we would definitely consider.”

“If people are willing to pay actual money to see us play then we’ll pretty much do anything they want – see quote above regarding our finances. A StoneMason show will provide you with an opportunity to flail your limbs wildly to our up-tempo numbers, as well as moments where holding your lovers close and swaying gently is also appropriate.”

StoneMason have supported some amazing acts. While digging for dirt, Time Off gets more that we bargained for.

WHO: StoneMason

“Although tragically we haven’t played many shows with them in recent times as their popularity is beginning to outshine our own, the boys in Trigger Theory are excellent musicians and God’s gift to the female gender. Except for their guitarist Raefe, who is gay. Our good friends in a band called Yorke are also a pleasure to play shows with, and if you choose to take but one piece of advice from this article

WHERE & WHEN: Gold Coast Arts Centre Thursday Jul 29, Rosie’s Saturday Jul 31, Hard Rock Café, Surfers Paradise Friday Aug 6, The Hive Sunday Aug 8

WHAT: ‘Stand Straight, Straight Face’ (Independent)

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AFTER A HUGELY SUCCESFUL SOLD OUT DEBUT PERFORMANCE, THE ZAPPA BIG BAND ARE READY TO GIVE BRISBANE AUDIENCES ANOTHER TASTE OF UNIQUE TAKE ON THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA. BANDLEADER CLINT ALLEN TELLS DAN CONDON MORE. “There really has been an overwhelming response,” Allen says of the early reaction to the band. “The Zappa Big Band debuted in late January at a sold-out Brisbane Jazz Club where we were forced to turn around 70 patrons at the door, who were unable to squeeze into the packed venue. It was a really interesting audience: a mixture of people who were there for the jazz, but also a heap of Zappa fanatics – many with Zappa t-shirts on – which was really fantastic to see!”

Not too many bands can lay claim to having played both a Tupperware party and a Japanese TV show, but Dead Riot can. Sparks does his best to explain.

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MOSMAN ALDER

“We are all feeling pretty pumped and are pretty confident with where we are at,” Muir says of the feeling within the band in the lead up to their live debut this weekend. “I feel that this is the best group of musicians I have ever worked with and I can’t wait to play our songs live.”

LOCAL ROCK/REGGAE/ROCKABILLY OUTFIT DEAD RIOT ARE PLAYING A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST GROUP SEA SHEPHERD. FRONTMAN AND GUITARIST JAI SPARKS TELLS TONY MCMAHON ALL ABOUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TUPPERWARE, JAPANESE TV, HAIRY MEN AND WHALING.

DAVID TAYLOR HAS CAPTURED THE ESSENCE OF HIS ONCE-NOMADIC LIFESTYLE ON THE DEBUT TAYLOR ALBUM WARMER. HE TELLS DAN CONDON ALL ABOUT IT. “I feel like the record opens with someone packing their bags and heading off, and closes with them returning home; that was the intention and I feel we nailed that,” Taylor says of the album.

With a couple more shows planned for 2010, Allen is confident that the band can continue to grow and evolve and attract new followers.

“My plan is to keep increasing the repertoire of the band, and to inform as many people as I can in Brisbane about this extraordinary group,” he says. “It’s not often you can walk into a club in the Valley and see a 19-piece band grooving on stage. I think those days are possibly over, so I’m hoping people come out to check this one out!”

WHO: Zappa Big Band WHERE & WHEN: The Globe Theatre Saturday Jul 24, The Spiegeltent Sunday Sep 5

It was upon returning from life as a travelling troubadour that Taylor formed the group, with a little help from a good friend.

“I’d returned back to Australia after years of travelling abroad with a swag of tunes,” he tells. “My old mate Nick Stewart – who’d been playing with the band George – and I started an acoustic duo. As the tunes developed we found the right players to suit and over about a year or so Taylor was formed.”

It’s not surprising that the much of the material on the debut album was inspired by Taylor’s travelling experiences.

“I found inspiration for the record in such a wonderful range of places,” he begins. “I lived for a while in a farmhouse in southern England in a sort of self-imposed exile. The concrete jungle of Osaka where I lived for a few years also had a large impact on my writing. I don’t usually

write unless I feel I have to and hence, consciously or not, I find myself in situations of chaos or the complete lack of. The in between area is something I’m working on.”

The band launch the record in Brisbane this week, but have been on the road in support of it leading up to this show. Taylor says the performances thus far have been very pleasing.

“The tour shows thus far have been an absolute ball,” he says. “We’re blending heart-wrenching ballads, comedy, bar brawling rock and a string quartet. I know that sounds confusing, but it works! We sold out our Gold Coast show and brought the house down. Having Dave McCormack doing support is also an absolute dream.”

WHO: Taylor WHAT: Warmer (Independent) WHERE & WHEN: The Zoo Thursday Jul 22

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SHORTFASTREPORT HARDCORE AND PUNK WITH STU HARVEY SHORTFAST@TIMEOFF.COM.AU

Conversations With Punx has been a project that Brisbane’s Bianca Valentino has spent the last six years focusing her attentions towards. Sixty conversations with folks from the worldwide punk and hardcore community talking about their experiences with/and thoughts and feelings on ‘spirituality’. The conversations with members of Black Flag, Minor Threat/Fugazi, Bad Religion, At The Drive-In/Mars Volta, X-Ray Spex, Sick Of It All, Bad Brains, The Death Set, The Bouncing Souls, Onelinedrawing, +44, Screeching Weasel, US Bombs, 108, The Unseen, Cro-Mags, Shelter, Strung Out, MxPx, Agnostic Front, X, The Bronx, Avail, Tiger Army, Mr T Experience, Integrity, Most Precious Blood, Operation Ivy, The BellRays, Vegan Reich, Youth Of Today, Death

By Stereo, Boysetsfire, Goldfinger, Coalesce and more to be announced! It will be released as a limited edition 12-issue zine series hand-bound with hand screen-printed covers. The first issue includes: Don Letts (Grammy award-winning film maker/musician), Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi/The Evens), Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (At The Drive-In/Mars Volta), Johnny Siera (The Death Set), Greg Attonito (The Bouncing Souls) and Shanti Wintergate. At the series conclusion a collected work in book form will be released. conversationswithpunx.tumblr.com/ Poison The Well were here in October of last year and that could have been your last chance to see the long running Florida post hardcore band as they have announced a hiatus. “So, after 12 years of being a band, countless tours around the world and records being released, we have made the decision to take some time to explore other interests in our lives. We’ve all reached a point where we feel like we need to take a step back from the band and pursue other things. PTW has been an all encompassing, full time thing for such a long period that this isn’t an easy thing to do. We want to thank everyone who has supported us in anyway, whether it be buying a record or a shirt, to the occasional robbery from time to time. Once again, thanks for everything and we couldn’t have done any of this without you.”

San Diego hardcore act Lewd Acts has called it a day. The band was around for over five years and released a bunch of EPs, but only one album 2009’s Black Eye Blues.

A more local break up, A Secret Death has ended their eight-year life as a band. They played their last shows ever in Melbourne and Adelaide last weekend.

It’s a big week for break ups with Envy On The Coast being another band announcing they’re done. Explains frontman Ryan Hunter: “The day has come to pull down that curtain down. Sal and Jer sat down with Brian and I

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BLUES ‘N’ ROOTS WITH DAN CONDON ROOTSDOWN@TIMEOFF.COM.AU deliver it with the same vital passion and aggression that the Oils possessed back in the day. Their debut record is a little psychedelic, but still very accessible.

about a week ago and informed us that they are leaving Envy On The Coast. They explained that they are no longer happy being a part of this, and there was nothing Brian and I could do or say to change that.”

Hot Water Music’s Chuck Ragan has been working on a split album with The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon. Chuck told cdsampler.com: “We’ve been trading songs since last October. We’re moving on it slowly, but it’s kind of at a stand-still right now with, ya know, Gaslight’s in full swing after releasing their new record. So we’re excited about it, but we’re both moving strong and fast in our own directions. It’s something that we want to do, and will do, it’s just a matter of time and when and where.

We talked about it early next year, of getting together and laying stuff down and seeing where it goes. But there’s no expectations and we’re just kinda having fun with it right now.”

SHORT FAST REPORT TOP 5

Jonesez. New project for Mark Stewart who used to front Horsell Common. The debut Jonesez album is out now – you can find out more info at jonesez.com.au New Jimmy Eat World. The band announced via twitter that their new album Invented will hit stores on Sep 28.

After self-producing the last album Chase The Light, this time around the band reunited with Mark Trombino who produced all their classic albums Static Prevails, Clarity and Bleed American. The first single from the album will be ‘My Best Theory’ Night Hag. Adelaide melodic hardcore band worth you checking out. Featuring members of Prison Bitch, they have a self-titled EP out now. myspace.com/nighthagband Soundwave 2011. Every week on my radio show Short Fast Loud we are announcing another band playing Soundwave 2011. Last week we announced that There For Tomorrow will be joining the line-up. That same day a couple of bands decided to announce themselves! So you can add Veara and A Skylit Drive to the growing list of bands for next year’s fest. Join me this Wednesday night at 10pm on triple j as we announce another band.

Amity Affliction. Just finished a national capital cities tour to launch their second album Youngbloods and now they’ve announced a regional tour. Keep an eye on gig guides from late August to early September because they are playing 15 shows all down the east coast.

Don’t forget to catch Stu presenting Short.Fast.Loud. every Wednesday night on triple j from 10pm.

THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW – INVISIBLE GIRL SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS

It’s important to stop and take stock sometime in the middle of each year to remind yourself of all of the wonderful music that has been released this year. Too often I have found myself bitching about the lack of quality releases come the end of the year, only to realise early in the new year that there were a slew of top notch releases I either missed out on hearing or just plain forgot about. So here are five great records released in 2010 thus far:

JANELLE MONAE – THE ARCHANDROID (SUITES II AND III) Okay, a controversial start. While on the surface this appears to be a modern R&B record and perhaps not fitting for this column, I must assure you that it is so much more than that.

This is possibly the most ambitious modern release I have ever heard – almost 70 minutes of music that takes us from hip hop jams to wistful 60s British influenced folk to P-Funk jams to dramatic orchestral moments and a whole lot more to boot. Open your mind and let this incredible young artist blow you away with this epic release.

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS – I LEARNED THE HARD WAY While Ms Jones and her stunning band have proved themselves to be the saviours of classic funk in the modern era, their albums have never blown me away. They’ve always captured elements of what can make them so appealing, but never made a truly brilliant record. Until this year. I Learned The Hard Way just has that X-factor that makes a record truly captivating. The songs pop, the production marries the classic old warmth of tape with the clarity of more modern techniques and the musicianship is amazing as always.

THE BREAK – CHURCH OF THE OPEN SKY It’s probably not surprising that the new project featuring three members of Midnight Oil (Jim Moginie, Rob Hirst and Martin Rotsey) and one Violent Femme (Brian Ritchie) is completely awesome, but it’s definitely pleasing. The Break are an exciting surf rock band who take the sounds of artists like Link Wray, Dick Dale and The Atlantics and

Certainly not a record for the faint-hearted, this is revved up soul music injected with bucket loads of garage punk snarl.

King Khan should already be known to many of you for his work with his band The Shrines, but this duo is just as good.

BBQ is Mark Sultan, a veritable one-man-band with a voice that sounds eerily like Sam Cooke. These songs are trashy, loud, shambolic but actually kind of beautiful. Sadly the duo began falling out when they were in Sydney last month and have since gone their separate ways.

PATTY GRIFFIN – DOWNTOWN CHURCH I spoke a bit about this record when it was first released as I was just blown away by how good it was. Griffin has always written pretty incredible music and performed it beautifully, as her visits to Australia over the past couple of years have shown. But this record, which is packed full of covers, just shines like nothing else she has ever done. Much of the credit must go to the masterful Buddy Miller who has delivered one of his finest efforts from the producer’s chair – much like the aforementioned Dap-Kings record, there is not a single note here that seems out of place. It’s unobtrusive and utterly breathtaking.

ROOTS MANOEUVRES FRIDAY Mick Diggles – 320 On Leichhardt Natural Ball – Kawana Surf Club Blind Lemon – Ric’s Bar Jimi Beavis – Lock n Load SATURDAY Panga & the True Blues – Royal Mail Hotel Natural Ball – The Boundary Hotel SUNDAY BASEQ Jam featuring Connor Cleary Band – Jubilee Hotel The Big Easy – Sunshine Beach SLSC The Andrew Baxter Band – Swell Tavern, Burleigh Heads The Chardonnay Sippers – King of the Mountain, Pomona Mick Hadley & Atomic Boogie Band – Tempo Hotel

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METAL WITH ANDREW HAUG THERACKET@TIMEOFF.COM.AU

After much secrecy it’s now revealed that Norwegian symphonic black metallers Dimmu Borgir have set Abrahadabra as the title of their ninth studio album, which will be released on Sep 24 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band’s singer/songwriter Shagrath shares the following about the new album: “After 11 months of total focus, dedication and professional team work, Darkness has been reborn. Some people have expressed their concern about the future of the band since the departure of some members of the clan. Let me assure you that things happen for a reason. The black flame burns brighter than ever before. With the mixture of our different musical preferences and the personalities involved, I will dare to say we have created a BEAST, the most detailed work to date out of our 17 years of existence. I know it’s too much of a cliché to brag when you have a done a new album, but to put it short and simple, it’s a fist in the face to all the doubters out there. Forward – Onward – March… ENTER THE SUPREME UNKNOWN.” Continuing the grimness Immortal will release a concert DVD The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh on Aug 6 via Nuclear Blast. The disc will include professionally filmed video footage of the band’s headlining performance at the 2007 edition of the Wacken Open Air festival. In a recent interview with About.com Demonaz stated about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the follow-up to last year’s All Shall Fall: “We already have three songs for the next album. We’ll be working on the album this year. And we have material for a lot of other songs, so maybe in August we’ll be finished with half the album. But we haven’t come so far that I can see the end of the album.” He continued, “I think we’ll try to work with the songs and make them classic Immortal songs. The next album will be different than All Shall Fall. I think the songs will come off as one package. Every album is different for us, but we won’t try too many new things. We’ll stick to the plan and make the music we like. Don’t expect something revolutionary (laughs)” According to The Daily Telegraph, Guns N’ Roses or (Axl and co. at any rate) will make a trip to Australia to appear at this year’s Sydney 500 V8 Supercars street race. Frontman Axl Rose confirmed the band will perform a one-off gig on Saturday, Dec 4 at ANZ Stadium following the weekend’s first event around the Olympic Park circuit. “To mix Guns with this massive Sydney event will be a blast,” Rose said. “We will be in Europe just before we head to Sydney so it will be great to come out and chill around Australia for a while, spend a bit of time getting around and soaking up the relaxed Aussie vibe.

Bring on Sydney and the V8 Supercars. Hopefully I can get a ride in one of those big beasts while I’m there.”

The MusicNerd Chronicles recently conducted an interview with drummer Michel “Away” Langevin of Canadian metal

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THEBREAKDOWN

POP CULTURE THERAPY WITH ADAM CURLEY ADAMSBREAKDOWN@GMAIL.COM

innovators Voivod about the possibility of a new record. “I don’t think we’ve actually said this in public before, but we are writing new material as of last month. We want to give it a try and to see what we can do with this line-up and take it from there. We actually went into the studio, improvised what we were playing and recorded everything. We’re picking bits and pieces that we like and will try to build a record from it.

While it’s going very well, I think it is too early to say whether it will turn into a full album for release.” The band have yet to confirm whether this new record will feature Jasonic (ex-Metallica Jason Newstead) who played bass on the band’s last studio album Infini released in 2009.

Reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers Atheist have set Jupiter as the title of their long-awaited fourth album, tentatively due in November. The CD is being recorded at LedBelly studios in Atlanta, Georgia with engineer Matt Washburn and will be mixed by Jason Suecof (DevilDriver).

Regarding the direction of the new material, frontman Kelly Shaefer wrote in a recent online posting, “We have taken great strides to make this the record we, as fans, would want to hear from Atheist. It’s ferocious, intelligent and dead-balls heavy as shit! When people hear this, they’re going to say, ‘It’s Atheist!’”

German extreme metal outfit Neaera have finished recording their fifth album Forging The Eclipse for an Oct 22 release via Metal Blade Records.

LOCAL GIG GUIDE

Testament – The Hi-Fi Sunday Aug 9 Slash – The Tivoli Thursday Aug 12 Napalm Death – The Hi-Fi Friday Sep 3 Soulfly, City Of Fire, Incite – The Hi-Fi Tuesday Sep 7 Overkill – The Hi-Fi Thursday Sep 23 Mayhem – The Hi-Fi Saturday Sep 25 Exodus – The Hi-Fi Monday Oct 4 Soilwork – The Hi-Fi Thursday Oct 21 Metallica – BEC Saturday Oct 16, Monday Oct 18, Tuesday Oct 19 Andrew Haug hosts Triple J’s Full Metal Racket every Tuesday from 10:00pm – http://triplej.abc.net.au/racket.

You can also stream the program until the following Tuesday, plus download and listen to recent interviews.

For all your metal needs, wants and asks simply e-mail theracket@timeoff.com.au. (Please submit info no later than Friday 6pm).

pockets”. That sentiment hits home when considering recent polls indicating that one-third of Australians are looking to change jobs. It becomes even more powerful when considering the personal conversations between those of us under boomer age about qualifications, thoughts of further study, universities that are ‘academic’ or ‘prestigious’ as opposed to ‘jobs-based’ and what the difference is between the two when it comes time to apply for work. Learning is, by and large, no longer seen as valuable in itself.

PERFUME GENIUS

Is the ‘boomer backlash’ coming? Three or four generations of people would probably like to think so, but in reality there are still about two billion Nissan Pathfinders worth of folks over the age of 55 owning the shit out of everything.

Still, there are definite signs that the ‘boomer’ stronghold on everything from property to jobs is being evaluated in a way it wasn’t when the boomers were seen in a good light; as ‘free-spirited’ or ‘entrepreneurial’ (because that’s a good thing).

An opinion piece by Francis Beckett (himself of boomer age) in The Guardian this month takes a pretty scathing view of the boomers in power in the UK; one that relates almost directly to our own situation. Beckett views boomers as a generation who were given more freedom than any predecessor yet have decided to restrict the freedoms of younger generations. One of the major points Beckett makes is that, in the boomers’ younger days, tertiary education was free to even the “penniless”, ensuring a sector of younger people without previous access to university places were able to further their learning. Of course, in Australia, when Whitlam abolished university fees in 1974, a giant percentage of those attending university were already on Commonwealth scholarships.

The point Beckett makes is that, for boomers, education didn’t come with an appendix indicating its value with relation to market forces and job suitability. Now, with an overlording focus on economics and the ‘harsh realities’ of unemployment, Beckett writes, education is seen as the “acquisition of skills required to swell someone else’s

It might sound like grappling for a link, but Beckett’s piece had me thinking about the way views on education relate to music: marketability vs the generation of ideas; the ‘friendliness’ of bands or songs to radio programmers’ ears as opposed to innovation regardless of exposure.

All pretty well covered topics, and pretty boring, really, until you consider how often bands are talked about as needing to go ‘back to the practise room’ or ‘work on their songwriting’ – if not explicitly, then in the back of our minds when watching or listening to an act who is new to us. We shrug bands off easily because there’s always another band who’ll have their shit together more; because we’ve learned that, when evaluating music, form and ability and execution (regardless of your angle on any of those) are the things to look for. The learning isn’t celebrated in itself.

Cue Seattle 21-year-old Mike Hadreas, who performs as Perfume Genius and has just released his debut album, Learning (Matador/Remote Control). The title might relate to the lessons Hadreas has been through to get to the point of each song’s output (if the lyrical content is taken as true: the affair with and death of a teacher, dealing with an alcoholic parent of a friend, general disappointment and hope), but it also relates to the form the album comes in. Much of it sounds like a spilling of ideas Hadreas has had about genres and song forms and melodies. Barely any of it sounds complete when held against the criteria often given to ‘successful’ songs or albums. Hadreas is learning to use his voice, his words and his instruments; learning, like any student, to untangle the thoughts of how he wants to use his piano, his graceful warble, how to turn a piece of repeated orchestration into a ‘song’.

Such an observation might often follow with a statement of how stunning the album is regardless. In truth, some of it is (and when it is, it really is) and some ideas don’t really hold up. But it is a celebration of learning in a way learning is very rarely celebrated, without attempting to veil the process or playing it down for looking to what comes next. It’s a simple idea but one worth noting.

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FEEDBACK is particularly ordinary, struggling with pitch throughout a set which features a surprising number of falsetto parts considering his very limited range, while guitarist Garry Taulu proves to be more style than substance, using superfluous lead techniques to create the same generic sound that every amateur guitarist in this genre seams to emulate. The band seems genuinely grateful for the support slot, perhaps realising it could be their last.

Local party starters Comic Sans take the stage with the level of intensity you would expect from any one of their notorious headline shows, tearing through their set with ferocity despite a still relatively inattentive audience. With percussionist BC Michaels frantically jumping around stage to collect his continually faulty symbol, the band looks chaotic from a visual front, however a clear level of cohesion exists between Michaels and drummer Ted Tilbrook which creates a strong rhythmic backing for the rest of the group to work around. New single ‘Vixen’ is extremely tight, featuring some smart synth work from Campbell Smith as frontman Thomas Stevenson appears like some sort of maniac through his delivery. Equally as impressive is the cover of Benny Benassi’s dance hit ‘Satisfaction’, taking what is usually quite an annoying original and turning it into something darker and more sinister than ever heard before.

With the Troubadour usually being a fairly low key venue, it’s quite unusual for a band playing to be described as ‘epic’.

In the case of Melbourne’s Young Heretics there is simply no other word that encapsulates the intensity of their set.

Filling out the duo with an additional drummer and bass player, the band’s sound is massive, using backing tracks to fill up any empty spaces in the music, contributing to the big guitar sounds of Matt Wright and the booming quality of the band’s rhythm section. However it is Kitty Hart that brings the most intensity to the set, with an enchanting stage persona and vocal performance that is almost beyond comparison.

‘Risk/Loss’ is a tremendous number, becoming even more thrilling when heard live, feeling as if a shot of adrenalin has just been pumped through the veins of everyone in the room.

‘Bones Of A Rabbit’ on the other hand has a more haunting quality, perfectly ending one of most phenomenal sets at The Troubadour for some time.

PHOTO BY ALEX GILLIES

TYLER JONES

OM @ THE HI-FI

OM, LICHENS, BLARKE BAYER/BLACK WIDOW, NO ANCHOR THE HI-FI: 18.07.10

Brisbane noisemongers No Anchor have been building a solid fanbase with constant gigging over the last year or so, and the newly-configured trio (they started their life as a mere duo) do themselves no disservice tonight with a typically fervent racket that is well-received by the eager punters who have arrived early enough to catch them.

Melbourne’s instrumentalists Blark Bayer/Black Widow (Ben Andrews and Robert MacManus) stand testament to the potential power of a two-piece when things get a little daring. Andrews’ mess of psyche-guitars are an exceptional counterpart to MacManus’ wild drumming style, which includes a bit of throw-and-attack method on a loose cymbal. They weave a dense auditory fabric and seem right in their element on a showcase such as this.

Robert Lowe’s Lichens performance is one of great exploration and mastery. Lowe loops layers of organic

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melodies, primarily comprised of his enchanting vocals, to form a vast sea of richly textured soundscapes. At times performer and artist seem as if to merge consciousness as the hypnotic waves of sound take hold. All those willing to openly submit themselves to the transcended forces of the music are plentifully rewarded. And if the buzz of the crowd afterward is anything to go by then Lowe’s meditative efforts were by no means in vain. It is rare to see a performance of such sincerity and even rarer still to witness a solo artist who is so captivating in the live arena.

Minor technical difficulties aside, Om slide into their stride with a natural sense of purpose. Al Cisneros’ chant like vocal-melodies and lurching riffs marry with Emil Amos’ percussive precision in a way that seems to subconsciously command the body into acting out a slow swaying movement. ‘To The Shrinebuilder’ comes as a pleasant surprise, however the fact that the set focuses primarily on current album God Is Good is no real surprise at all. It is apparent from early on that Robert Lowe’s additional talents affect a minor transformation within the beast that is Om, but it is an evolutionary transformation that is positive in every sense of the word. Lowe’s guitars, keys and vocals work as a wonderful complement by adding layers of subtle melodies to the weighty foundations of the songs, while

acting as a point of contrast by filling in areas of the sound spectrum that were previously void. The primary theme of vibration is reiterated throughout, but becomes most clear when the band back off and Cisneros’ bass is left to gently reverberate through the room. The show is a success from beginning to end and one that is made more enjoyable due to the respectfully quiet crowd. A rare treat indeed.

JAKE SUN

YOUNG HERETICS, COMIC SANS, SIREN LINES

THE TROUBADOUR: 17.07.10 Still clearing riding off the MySpace heyday in which Americanised rock bands put their slick self-deprecating demos online in a bid to meet girls, Siren Lines are quite simply woeful. Stumbling through their set in painfully sloppy fashion, the band is met with the general apathy they deserve, with the majority of the audience choosing to stay at the back of the room towards the bar. Vocalist Jake Smithers

THE BEARDS, BANG BANG BOSS KELLY X&Y BAR: 18.07.10

As the united brotherhood of facial fuzz faithful begin packing the corners of the room, it has to be said that there is some mighty impressive chin talent that has arrived early and ready to check out locals Bang Bang Boss Kelly. The five-piece have the floor shoulder-toshoulder and the dancefloor is heating the room as the firing slaps of ‘Boneyards’ rattle the speakers. The boys have hit their stride early as their infectious energy spills out of tales of woe and sin with a punch-in-the-face attitude. Alex Henriksson takes the reins for the night and leads the group into four-part harmonies with country-touched soul and the playful charm of the guitar raising salute of ‘Lone Rider’, while wildman Chris Drage drags his gear onto the floor to fill out the final belting of ‘Shiny Girl’.

As the room continues to swell, the sea of hair is obvious when Adelaide folk-rock superstars, The Beards, emerge on stage and bond the room with ‘Beards Across Australia Unite’. As the mouth mullets sway back and forth in unison, frontman Johann Beardraven drops in ‘No Beard, No Good’ and proceeds to furiously blast through his stubbling growth with a suitably impressive saxophone solo, while guitarist Facey McStubblington shreds a quick Fender solo that makes more than a few people stand up and take notice that these four are actually good musicians.

As Beardraven grabs you with his striking lyricism, the other members ensure every punter is part of the set

FEEDBACK MARK BERESFORD

THISTY MERC, PORCELAIN, MY ESCAPADE

THE HI-FI: 16.07.10 Although the venue is barely breathing when the four Taswegians that make up My Escapade take to the stage, they are quick to garner the attention of everybody in the room with a captivating opening stanza, their comfortable, self-assured presence justified with a strong and emotive set from start to finish. Recalling the more interesting moments of early Coldplay with the soaring vocals and bass noodling of circa Make Yourself Incubus, My Escapade have an obvious sense of song structure and know when a hook or crescendo is going to be at its most effective, lead singer Jason Lucas leading from the front with impeccable vocals throughout.

Wollongong-cum-LA rockers Porcelain hit the stage running on the middle billing of the evening and confuse from the outset with what they are trying to achieve, their mesh of pub rock, pop punk, alt-country and orchestral metal taking the crowd to both the high and low points of what those genres can achieve. An obviously talented individual, Lo Roberts has the vocals to fill a room, while electric violinist Asha Mevlana is continually manic and drummer Michael Avenaim dynamic on the kit when given room to create. Unfortunately it’s the guitarist and bass player that let the experience down, the pair playing the role of stoned high school music students far more convincingly rather than the brash outlandish rockstars a band like this need. Calling your most radio worthy song ‘Fuck The Radio’ probably isn’t the smartest play either but, hey, the irony might just work in their favour.

And then it’s time for commercial darlings Thirsty Merc to swing no surprise punches with their parent-pleasing brand of non-offensive melodies. Although a four-piece, it’s clear from the outset that it’s the Rai Thistlethwayte show, the enigmatic frontman unashamedly getting straight to the hits with ‘Summertime’ and bringing every posturing rock move and cliché with it. With his leather jacket snug and his front foot firmly planted, he soulfully scats away on new song ‘Kiss Me Away’, brings his jazzier side out with current single ‘Mousetrap Heart’ and relates to the everymen and women that are singing word for word with his ode to “ham and cheese sando’s” and “the Pacific Highway” on ‘…Build Me A Bridge’. It’s dumb, it’s lovable and although they receive their fair share of (justified) criticism, you can’t deny the zest and showmanship of the band, or most notably the man with that Mo.

PHOTO BY DANE BEESLEY

with cross stage mandible grooming, and a proud parade of man growth is displayed for ‘It Only Takes A Fortnight To Grow A Decent Beard’. With the crowd favourite ‘If Your Dad Hasn’t Got A Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums’, drummer John Beardman displays a skilful art of drinking a beer whilst drumming to further push the now well-inebriated room into a further frenzy. As the set draws to a close and the stage empties, the patriotic chant of ‘One More Beard’ is heard and welcomes The Beards back on stage – after thanking their comrades for the evening, they storm through with an electric execution of ‘A Wizard Needs A Beard’ to finish the night, and the puns.

Closing with the one-two doosies of ‘Emancipate Myself’ and ‘Someday, Someday’, Thirsty Merc give their fans just what they want and leave plenty of smiles in The Hi-Fi tonight. And for that, they can be applauded.

BENNY DOYLE

DRAWN FROM BEES, ALBA VARDEN, DELAMARE, OCEANICS

DRAWN FROM BEES @ THE TROUBADOUR

tremendously textured tunes bob in an exquisite sea of liquid electrics, and curt, seaside acoustic-work. Finishing then with the beautiful ‘Romancer’ – one to definitely check out on their MySpace – the duo leave the room with love.

Strewn happily across the saggy couches that run the ruddy, telescope floor of The Troubadour, the slowly gathering crowd motion chattily at the room’s mingling band members – picking names and associations before flitting their eyes back to the act assembling itself upon the small stage at the evening’s focal point.

Taking the stage next, threatening in their warm-up alone of a much larger approach, Adelaide’s frantic five-piece Delamare unleash a sound that seems to bend the very walls of the venue. The band crashes strongly through some incredibly polished alt-rock and mellow mild-punk, breaking out in riffs so infectious, the crowd’s theirs with all the discrimination of an epidemic. ‘Lost Boys’, in particular, holds everyone in disbelief; its Incubus-ian approach to melody in the song’s key breakdown’s something that’ll be hummed in giddy recollection for weeks to come.

Announcing they’re here only in part, and, in the temporary absence of the complete band, are rather sensibly reconciling with an acoustic set, the Sunny Coast’s erstwhile pop-punk four-piece Oceanics settle into the evening with some lush, crooning duet-work. The yin-yang sounds of acoustic guitarist Elliot Western and lead guitarist Jackson Haswell swim around the plush bourgeois loft, as they ease through a short set of quiet re-workings. Sounding, as the tracks softly bleed into one-another, as one astute listener notes, “…just like Jeff Buckley meets The Kooks…”, the boys’

With the arrival to the stage next of Melbourne’s retro psychedelics Alba Varden, the room suddenly seems to fill. Silencing the bustling chatter with a crazed-heartbeat that seems to sear into existence an entirely new measure of time, lead singer Dan erupts with a voice like it was beamed in from the big-bang. The crowd’s floored, as Alba’s ethereal Brit-punk wailings writhe around the room with all the earthly tethers of a space echo. Like some celestial Wolfmotherian At The Drive-In, the band smashes song into song, as their spectrum of sound stretches ever

THE TROUBADOUR: 16.07.10

further. From shamanic ambience, to Fratellis-esque jockpunk, it’s truly a set like no-other before it.

Then, finally, to the fore jostles headliners Drawn From Bees, and the outpour of adoration from the crowd is truly palpable. Frontman Dan James, from beneath a shock of anime-influenced blonde hair, brings all the poise and passion of a truly consummate lead. The band entire commands a special attention from the room’s eyes, and the air seems momentarily hung for the release of that all-important downbeat. Tearing through the anticipation then, shrills the three-part harmony opening to Fear Not The Footsteps Of The Departed’s ‘Run Away’, and the room takes flight. Soaring next into the trickly jangle-croons and deep, resonant synths of ‘Waiting For The End’, the room’s thick in the throng of their trademark sweet-melancholia.

Continuing on this course, the guys jet the entranced crowd through the Ian Anderson-like vibrato of ‘Bus Now’ and the transcendentally cacophonous ‘Always The Last’.

Their long set concludes as they’re joined by three stringplayers, whose twinklings dance perfectly atop three stellar tracks from ...Footsteps. The anthemic hollerings of ‘Long Tooth Setting Sun’ collapse next into an affrontingly defiant ‘Amelia’; the band finishing on an indelible note as the room erupts into applause.

SAM HOBSON

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DOWNLOW

INDEPENDENT MUSIC NEWS

THREE OF THE FINEST

It has been a long time coming, but finally local reggae/ world funksters Anarchist Duck and folk/roots phenomenon Hussy Hicks team up with folk rocker Isacc Paddon for a huge show at the Currumbin RSL this Friday night. The Hussy Hicks, who are seemingly perpetually on the road, returned from touring the USA and South America a little while ago and then proceeded to win the Byron Bay Bluesfest Busking Competition in April. Anarchist Duck have been mighty busy on the local front so far this year with plenty of big shows ensuring their audience has expanded rapidly. Add Paddon into the mix and you have yourself one heck of a bill of roots goodness. Do not miss out! Doors open at 7:30pm.

GET THERE EARLY

PEARS: NO MORE TEARS

It’s time to test out the community spirit that Brisbane indie music scene is renowned for as local folk-popsters Pear And The Awkward Orchestra host an explosive fundraising spectacular in order to earn enough pennies to cut their impending debut album. The band and four of their best musical friends – Laneous and the Family Yah, The Rude, Kindling (members of Kooii) and Hannah Macklin – are all getting together and have a couple of frothies in what we are sure will be a fun-filled evening at The Joynt, South Brisbane Saturday Jul 31. Entry is by donation, it kicks off from 3pm and will be running through until late, so you have plenty of time to make it along and drop some coins in the bucket. If helping out isn’t enough inspiration then perhaps the appearance of a giant pear piñata, a raffle of pear delights as well as tofu and pear burgers will? Or maybe you want to show your peary prowess by bringing your home-baked pear treats in for a pear bake-off competition? Whatever your reason, just go!

TURN THE PAGE

When you take a bona fide Australian cabaret star and put her together with some rowdy raucous rock musicians then there aren’t too many guarantees about what you can expect – except of course for a very good time. Indeed the Bertie Page Clinic have told us that they combine the finest elements of yacht rock, punk rock and poodle rock (we don’t even know what that last one is), so it is a veritable smorgasbord of musical delights. This weekend the band hooks up with raucous blues duo Transvaal Diamond Syndicate and local acts One Dirty Bird and Nic Tango to give the people of Toowoomba and Brisbane a dazzling array of frivolity and fine tunes. On Friday night, you can head up the range and see them at The Spotted Cow and then on Saturday you can catch them back in the Valley at Barsoma. Both shows are absolutely free of charge and kick off at 8pm.

FINAL FRIENDS

CRANK UP THE GENERATOR

The Brisbane Powerhouse will play host to a cavalcade of musical talent for six hours, across three stages this Saturday and everyone is invited to join in the fun. The Generate festival sees local acts Ball Park Music, pictured, Ivy May Dillon, Cascadeer-meets-Old Man, Great Chief, Bec Plath, Karla Harrison, Neon Crow, Dana Gehrman, Vlada Ederidge, Motive, BriannaKate, Tom Eggert, Noosphere and The Sound Art Ensemble all come together to treat their audiences to a diverse array of alluring sounds. Each of the artists on show study music at the Queensland Institute Of Technology, so you can be sure they know precisely what they are doing when it comes to live performance.

Entry is totally free and the fun begins from 11am!

THE TIME IT IS A CHANGIN’

They’ve just become the first act to sign to the roster of Press Record Presents and now local punks One Year Later are getting down to business and building up their fanbase with a series of dynamite live shows in and around our fair city. Their Lost At Sea EP has been considered to be a successful first taste of the band for many people in and around the local scene and there’s no doubt that as they mature, their sound will do precisely the same. You can catch the fellas as they play one last show before this month is out, it happens at Rosie’s Saturday Jul 31 with Stonemason and Trigger Theory. The lads also take part in the Katapolt Festival Saturday Oct 2, but we’ll tell you more about that when it gets a little closer.

LONG ROAD AHEAD

Local artists, you have until next Sunday to get your entries in for this year’s Telstra Road to Tamworth competition.

If you know anything about country music then you’re probably well aware that this competition is a very well respected event in the Australian country music calendar, there are some amazing prizes up for grabs this year, including some amazing recording opportunities and a return trip to Nashville, the home of country music. The finalists in the Brisbane area will battle it out at the Ekka on Saturday Aug 7 with a little help from The McClymonts and former Road to Tamworth finalists Luke Webb and Katrina Burgoyne.Head to telstra.com/trtt for all the competition details.

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Local roots maestro Asa Broomhall has been showing the diversity of his musical tastes and abilities over the past couple of weeks with some sensational gigs at the Tempo Hotel as a part of his weekly Asa and Friends residency each Saturday night. This weekend you can catch the artist as he embarks on a global journey with a little help from his friends The View From Madeleine’s Couch, who will be opening proceedings for this week’s edition of the series. Of course if you can’t make it along this week then you have one more chance to see Broomhall stretch his musical muscle with Wilson Picker Danny Widdicombe his final guest in this series of shows on Saturday Jul 31. Entry is $10 and the musical magic begins from 8pm.

WHICH DIRECTION?

They have spent the first few months of 2010 holed up in the recording studio, but now the Gold Coast’s Misdirection are all ready to cast off the shackles of Pro Tools and click tracks and hit the open road for their I’ve Got It Bad tour. The band have been kicking around for about five years now and their high energy live shows have earned them a strong following on the Gold Coast, which has led to support slots with bands like Shihad, Helmet and The Screaming Jets. On this tour Misdirection will be doing what they do best: hard driving no bullshit rock’n’roll. You’ve got three chances to witness this gold for yourself, so catch them at the Miami Tavern Friday Jul 30, Globe Theatre Saturday Jul 31 and Fitzy’s at Waterford Friday Aug 6.

Young local lass Ash Kerley is looking to bring a fresh take on the singer-songwriter format in our fair city. She has stepped outside of the more commonplace acoustic style that such an act might usually adopt and her performances unearth a great deal of grit, hiss and distortion that you would more likely expect from a woman fronting a fully electrified rock outfit. But she insists that there is a delicate balance at play, with her softer vocal style sitting comfortably atop a mountain of heavy feedback drenched guitar, all in all, culminating in a sound that is as unique as it is captivating.

You can catch her opening up for Ben Salter at Ric’s Bar tonight (Wednesday) from 8:30pm. Entry is free.

SUPPORT THE ART

We told you a couple of weeks ago that The Art were back in Brisbane for a show at the Tempo Hotel this Friday night and now we have the rest of the information on the line-up for the show. Joining the band in support will be local indie kids Nikko, who are fresh from releasing their debut longplayer The Warm Side and opening things up will be cheeky local troublemakers The Mercy Dolls. The first band will hit the stage at 9:30pm and entry will set you back ten bucks.

RHYMES IN BLOOD

We have to wait until later in the year until we hear the new record from local rockers The Bloodpoets, but thankfully ‘Dance’, the first single to be lifted from it, is all ready to go and to celebrate the band are hitting the road and taking their tunes to audiences all over the country. They’re hardly neglecting the home fans though, with a veritable shitload of shows in and around old Brisbane town over the coming months.

You can see them at The Troubadour on Wednesday Jul 28, Never Land Bar, Gold Coast Friday Aug 6, King George Square Thursday Aug 12 (all ages), Suncorp Stadium Friday Aug 27(opening for the Brisbane Roar), X&Y Bar later that night and finally Kings Beach Tavern Friday Sep 17. Plenty of chances to catch them, so no excuses! Stay tuned for more details on the record release date etcetera.

JEFREY’S BILLY

If you’re heading along to see Richard In Your Mind and Spod at Alhambra Lounge on Friday night (which you really should be) then you might want to think about heading along early so you can catch a very interesting art*a*billy performance from Jefrey Silar. Siler is originally from the USA but has recently relocated to Australia to spread the word about his art*a*billy sound, his last visit to Brisbane was supporting David Bazan of Pedro The Lion fame in solo mode but this time around he promises he is bringing the whole box and dice. Doors for this show open at 8pm and the first band (which we believe will be Mosman Alder) kicks off at 9pm.

PARADISE BY THE STROBELIGHT

WALL OF FOURS

“Just me and these four walls again...”, so sang Miley Cyrus on her shithouse song ‘These Four Walls’ and we can only imagine that the organisers of the upcoming Four Walls Festival garnered absolutely no inspiration from said tune because they’ve put together a bill that is positively awesome. An all ages event to be held at Kelvin Grove’s Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, this festival has been set up in collaboration with Youth Music Industries, a group who endeavour to provide a framework for young people in the music industry to perform, record, publish and broadcast their music.

Most importantly, there is a huge line-up of awesome bands playing, including The Boat People, pictured, The Cairos, Little Scout, Mihirangi, Misinterprotato, Wiley Reed, Vasy Mollo, Reflectiv, Willow Road, Peter Walters Ensemble, Stephen Smith & the Rhythmics, James Ball Trio, Amela’d & Arion Fickel, Speck2c, Amorina Fitzgerald-Hood, Magic Room, West Central Poland, Elly Dear, Ensemble Satsang, Gonzalo Rodino, Vice Versus Versa, Lauren Crick, Weekend Hiatus, Shaun & Laura, Dana Gehrman, The Scrapes and Townmouse. It’s on Saturday Aug 7 and you can grab tickets from Moshtix right now for just $15. Go on!

Brisbane party-punks A Strobelight Summer are making their big return to the scene this coming weekend as they head up the coast to play support to their Sunny Coast super-friends The Marsden Lees. This good old fashioned rock’n’roll show is happening this very Friday night at the Kings Beach Tavern in Caloundra, so if you’re in the area we strongly suggest you drop by for a cold brew and some hot tunes. Rounding out the bill is Oceanics, who we imagine will feel right at home at the beachside venue. Doors will be open at 8pm and entry is just $10.

THE RIGHT DIRECTION

The concept for the Broken Compass tour is pretty simple.

Grab three of Brisbane’s most exciting emerging acts, stick them in a couple of Hi Aces, give them some warm clothes and musical instruments and see what good times ensue.

The three acts in question are Montpelier, Blame Ringo and Claire Whiting, all of whom have been much loved by local audiences for a couple of years now, so it makes sense that the acts would kick their tour off in good ol’ Brisbane town. They’ll play The Troubadour on Thursday Jul 29 before heading down to Toowoomba’s Irish Club on Friday Jul 30. Their compasses may be broken but they have Google maps so they’ll be fine.

CHANGE OF SPEED

To anyone who was planning on heading out to catch the inimitable JJ Speedball tear apart the Springwood Tavern this Saturday night, you’re gonna have to hold your horses for a bit. JJ has informed us that the show has been postponed and will now take place at the same venue on Saturday Aug 21.

SHOW US WHAT YA GOT

CLEAR AS

Those of you who got a kick out of the first EP from local rockers Crystal Radios will be excited to hear that their follow up release isn’t too far away. The lads are getting out of the studio and back onto the live stage this week and they promise that they will be bringing plenty of new material with them for our aural pleasure. You can catch them blasting through the speakers of the Step Inn on Thursday night with support from fellow locals Cuttooth, Herrabella and Trisnet. Doors swing open at 8pm and entry is an absolute steal at just $5.

One thing that sets the music industry apart from the rest of regular society is that there aren’t too many instances in normal life where you feel you really want to be exposed.

In the music game though, that’s all anyone wants. Thus it is exciting news to hear that the people at Ric’s Bar are helping to expose exciting new talent with their Exposed competition. Fifty bands will be playing over ten nights in the heat stages and the winner of each heat will face off over two nights for the semi-finals before the grand final takes place and the winner is crowned! There are some great prizes up for grabs, including an ad campaign with us (!!), an Ellaways Music voucher and sweet support slot at The Zoo, a weekend at Ian Haug’s Air Lock Studios, a gig at the Judith Wright Centre and $1000 in cold, hard cash. For all the details you need, just send your MySpace and band bio to exposed@ricsbar.com.au by Sunday Aug 1.

BORN TO BE WILDE

They have a new single by the name of ‘Sue Ellen’ out now, so to celebrate its release, Melburnian alt-country quartet The Wildes are embarking on a national tour.

They’re doing it properly too, this is no pissweak, slap dash, three city affair. They’re hitting regional areas as well as the cities to ensure that as many people as possible get a taste of their sound. They start the Queensland leg in Bundaberg over the weekend, but closer to home you will be able to catch the stunning ensemble at the Verve Cafe on Thursday Jul 29, Joe’s Waterhole, Eumundi Friday Jul 30, the House With No Steps in Doonan on Saturday Jul 31 and then finishing up with a set at Peregian Originals Sunday Aug 1.

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GIG GUIDE GIGS GIG OF THE WEEK

VIOLENT SOHO They’re back! They missed us and boy did we miss them! After nine months in America flying the freak flag for Mansfield (and greater Brisbane) homegrown rock legends Violent Soho are finally back in town and playing a show – let me hear you say ‘Fuck yeah!’ They’ve toured the lengths and breadths of the States with some of the biggest names in contemporary rock’n’roll, and now they’re back on home turf to remind us of why they became one of our most beloved exports. They play Splendour In The Grass next weekend, but first they’re going to blow the roof off The Zoo with support from fellow Brissie rockers Butcher Birds, former locals Scul Hazzards and incendiary garage punks The Seizures. Catch this incredible line-up of locally-grown talent this Saturday night – they all so do belong here....

WED 21 Ben Salter, Ash Kerley Ric’s Dorm Fever, Randombrand, Here After Club 299 Freddie & Friends The Tempo Hotel International Horn Symposium QLD Conservatorium of Music Live Jazz at Limes Limes Hotel Lucky Starr Twin Towns Ohai, Hugh Middleton, The Mouldy Lovers The Zoo Open Mic Night, Surprise Guest Band The Music Kafe Peter Hunt Trio, Jeunae The Troubadour Soula’ Flare Glass Bar & Restaurant Taorn, Youngsmith Surfers Paradise Beer Garden The Bowery Hot Five With Mal Wood The Bowery The Scrapes, Community, Maggie Collins X & Y Bar Treva Scobie Fibber Magee’s, Toowoomba Tyson Faulkner Fiddlers Green Weapon Head, Flicks, Project 62, Greenthief Globe Theatre

THU 22 Adam Ryan, Katrina Lewry, Nick Weinert, Rough Red The Bug

Ballad Boy Loving Hut Big Linc, Anthony J Cox, Legless, The Royal Artillery The Music Kafe Capitol Groove The Tempo Hotel Craftwife, David Shea Institute Of Modern Art Crystal Radios, Cuttooth, Herrabella, Trisnet Step Inn Dave Flower Band, Bang Bang Boss Kelly, Oceanics The Troubadour Dave Ritter Logan Diggers Club Django’s 320 On Leichhardt

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1927 Lone Star Tavern, Gold Coast 2nd Solution Shamrock Hotel A Strobe Light Summer, The Marsden Lee’s, Oceanics Kings Beach Tavern Acca Dacca-AC/DC Show Springwood Hotel

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1927, Wa Wa Nee The Tivoli Acca Dacca Albany Creek Tavern Adrian Keys Aspley Hotel After Glow Burleigh Heads Hotel Afternoon Acoustics, The Brunswicks, Bic Benedict, Lissy Stanton The Music Kafe Akasa Sherwood Services Club Alexis Caloundra SLSC Anchorman Mooloolaba SLSC Asa & Friends: Asa Broomhall, The View From Madeleine’s Couch The Tempo Hotel Stage Door Ball Park Music, Jackalpac, Cascadeer Meets Old Man, Great Chief, Ivy May Dillon, Bec Plath, Karla Harrison, Lizard Queen, Dana Gehrman Brisbane Powerhouse Berst Surfers Paradise Beer Garden Blindchase Shamrock Hotel bud.com.au Spring Lake Hotel Candice Long Shafston Hotel College Fall X & Y Bar Darren J Ray Murwillumbah RSL David Aurora, Isaac Paddon Piggabeen Hall Dean Watkin Hamilton Hotel

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SUN 25 After Glow Redland Bay Hotel Afternoon Acoustics, Cooks and Crooks, Brendal Leggatt, Hobo Instinct The Music Kafe

Amazon Blue Wharf Tavern Andrew Baxter Band Swell Tavern Anthony Dettori, Kooii Queen Street Mall BASEQ Jam, Connor Cleary Jubilee Hotel Bitter Sweet Beerwah Hotel Blind Lemon Advancetown Pub Blues Jam, The Blue Monks Palmwoods Hotel Bob Mouat, Owie Fibber Magee’s, Toowoomba Brett Hitchcock Brook Hotel Buffalo Brown, Pang!, Ben Corbett, Dylan McCormack The Troubadour Chris Terry Waterfront Hotel Darren J Ray Brothers Ipswich Dean Watkin Camp Hill Hotel Downlode Surfers Paradise Beer Garden Einbumkin Festival, New Groove Jazz Ensemble Sandgate Funk’n Soul’d Out: Quorum Consensus, Scripted Dialects, Bessy Lou Globe Theatre Geoff Rayner Narangba Valley Tavern Hodads Broadbeach Tavern Hot Dog Premier’s Bar, Treasury Casino Innes Campbell Locknload West End Karma Duo Victory Hotel Leon Ferny Grove Tavern Live Spark, Dagwood Stevens, Black Bear Woods Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Melissa Baker Caxton Hotel Michelle Brown Duo Noosa Yacht Club Mick Hadley & The Atomic Boogie Band The Tempo Hotel Monkey Business Miami Tavern Native Aliens, Minor Elite Pomona Hotel

Neravine Dublin Rocks Tavern Nick Muir Burleigh Heads Hotel Ricky The Rockstar Forty Five 51 Sister C Red Lion Hotel Spider8, Leo Hede, Will Timmons, Yum Cha, The Lingerers Barsoma The Big Easy Sunshine Beach SLSC The Boat People Great Northern Hotel Byron Bay The Butterfly Effect, Calling All Cars Kallangur Tavern The Chardonnay Sippers King Of The Mountain Thy Art Is Murder Black Box Theatre Toe To Toe, Jobson’s Dreamkillers, Mouthguard Coolangatta Hotel Treva Scobie Southern Hotel Toowoomba Vaughan Ney, Berst, Locky Elephant & Wheelbarrow Zoe & Gabor Mooloolaba SLSC

MON 26

Band Auditions The Music Kafe Nik Phillips Caloundra RSL Three Flights Up Locknload West End

TUE 27

Chloe Tully, Emma Louise Ric’s Escalate: Sarah Archer, Mescalito Blues, The Horse Darkly, Mofo Is Dead The Tempo Hotel Griffwood Horsefin, Juhl Atkinson and The Rhythm Express, Rhythm Express The Music Kafe Lauren Lucille Locknload West End Platform Elephant & Wheelbarrow

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The Belligerents play The Hi-Fi on Friday What do you think is your band’s greatest strength?

Konstantin Kersting (bass): “Our live energy.”

If you could time travel back to any gig in history which would it be and why?

“Backstreet Boys in Berlin in 1998.”

What movie do you think your music would best accompany and why?

“Pirates Of The Caribbean because we are pirates.

Arrrrr.”

What are your plans for the immediate future?

And the rest of the year?

“We release our single ‘These Hands’ on Jul 23 at The Hi-Fi and then release our debut EP later on in the year. Maybe a sneaky east coast tour.”

What is your favourite song lyric and why? ““I’ve got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one” – Jay-Z is always right.”

Favourite hangover cure?

“Teepee love.”

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The Runaways OST VARIOUS King Of The Beach WAVVES Vee Vee ARCHERS OF LOAF What Rhymes With Cars and Girls TIM ROGERS How I Got Over THE ROOTS Collected Works A MOUNTAIN OF ONE Live In America THE KAISERS A Patch of Blue Sky KEVIN WELCH

4ZZZFM NOW PLAYING 1. Fifteen SUPER WILD HORSES 2. In Transit AT SEA 3. American Slang GASLIGHT ANTHEM 4. Ghost Notes GHOST NOTES 5. Violent Soho VIOLENT SOHO 6. /\/\/\Y/\ M.I.A 7. Winter BIG SCARY 8. Fireromancefire MY FICTION 9. Deathwish THE GIN CLUB 10. At The End Of The Night BEC PLATH

ROCKINGHORSE RECORDS TOP 10 1. Deep Blue PARKWAY DRIVE 2. Cinema THE CAT EMPIRE 3. We Are Born SIA 4. Innerspeaker TAME IMPALA 5. Youngbloods THE AMITY AFFLICTION 6. Deathwish THE GIN CLUB 7. Boxer KELE 8. Intriguer CROWDED HOUSE 9. To The Sea JACK JOHNSON 10. Further THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS

ARIA TOP 10 ALBUMS

1. Recovery EMINEM 2. Aphrodite KYLIE MINOGUE 3. Glee: The Music, Journey To Regionals GLEE CAST 4. Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers GLEE CAST 5. A Beautiful Exchange HILLSONG LIVE 6. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse SOUNDTRACK 7. Euphoria ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 8. Korn III: Remember Who You Are KORN 9. My Worlds JUSTIN BIEBER 10. Down The Way ANGUS & JULIA STONE

Friday PJ Weston Saturday Ball Park Music, Jackalpac Sunday Dagwood Stevens

GLOBE THEATRE Wednesday Weapon Head, Flicks, Project 62, Greenthief Thursday The Bombshell Ball, The Vampers, Los Huevos Friday Impossible Odds, EMR, Poetic Murriz, Wipedoubt Saturday Frank Zappa Big Band Sunday Quorum Consensus, Scripted Dialects, Bessy Lou

HARD ROCK CAFÉ Friday Black Mustang, Smoking Martha, Nameless City

RIC’S Wednesday Ben Salter, Ash Kerley Thursday Rob Robot, Metric System Friday Blind Lemon Saturday Frail Marys, The Thin Kids

ROSIE’S Saturday The Nation Blue, A Death In The Family, We Set Sail

STEP INN Friday Villains Of Wilhelm, Re:Enactment, Moon Jog

THE HI-FI

Friday Tin Can Radio, The Belligerents, The Medics Saturday The Sunday Guests, Big Dead, Jackalpac

THE TEMPO HOTEL Saturday Asa Broomhall, The View From Madeleine’s Couch Sunday Mick Hadley Tuesday Sarah Archer, Mescalito Blues, The Horse Darkly

THE TROUBADOUR Wednesday Peter Hunt Trio, Jeunae Thursday Dave Flower Band, Bang Bang Boss Kelly, Oceanics Friday Bonfire Nights, Blonde On Blonde, Teenage Wolves Saturday The Boat People, Skinny Jean, The Medics Sunday Buffalo Brown, Pang!, Ben Corbett, Dylan Mccormack

THE ZOO Wednesday Ohai, Hugh Middleton Thursday Taylor, Dave McCormack Friday Dead Riot, J-Pan Fan, Letter To Spain, Kristy Apps Saturday Violent Soho, Scul Hazzards, Butcher Birds, The Seizures

X & Y BAR Wednesday The Scrapes, Community Thursday Echo Thieves, Sky Pilot Friday The Moderns, The Ride Saturday College Fall

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BBC TOP 10 INDIE SINGLES 1. Kickstarts EXAMPLE 2. XXXO M.I.A 3. Sweet Disposition THE TEMPER TRAP 4. Free To Love Again KATIE PRICE 5. Dirtee Disco DIZZEE RASCAL 6. Won’t Go Quietly EXAMPLE 7. Bonkers DIZZEE RASCAL 8. Weightless ALL TIME LOW 9. Paper Planes M.I.A 10. Watch The Sun Come Up EXAMPLE

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Bang Bang Boss Kelly play The Troubadour on Thursday night, Alhambra Thursday Aug 12, The Globe Theatre Friday Aug 13 What do you think is your band’s greatest strength?

Alex Henriksson (vocals/guitar): “Christopher Drage.”

If you could time travel back to any gig in history which would it be and why?

“Back to X&Y bar (our first gig) and play better than we did.”

What movie do you think your music would best accompany and why?

“Any Will Ferrell films... because he would love us.”

What are your plans for the immediate future?

And the rest of the year?

“Now: To get through four gigs in one week. Year: to play guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughn.”

Favourite hangover cure?

“Lemon Lime Powerade and Maccas.”

INTERNATIONAL

CRAFTWIFE, DAVID SHEA: IMA Galleries Jul 22 STRIKE ANYWHERE: Snitch Jul 22 GOLDFRAPP: The Tivoli Jul 30 HELLYEAH: The Tivoli Jul 31 TESTAMENT: The Hi-Fi Aug 8 3OH!3: Old QLD Museum Aug 12 SENSES FAIL: The Hi-Fi Aug 12, The Fort Aug 13 EELS: The Tivoli Aug 13 CKY: The Hi-Fi Aug 15 RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI: Judith Wright Ctr Aug 19 SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS: The Hi-Fi Aug 27, Coolangatta Hotel Aug 28 DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR: Club 299 Aug 31, The Fort Sep 1 L.A. GUNS: Step Inn Sep 2 NAPALM DEATH: The Hi-Fi Sep 3 SOULFLY, CITY OF FIRE: The Hi-Fi Sep 7 FIRST AID KIT: Brisbane Festival Sep 10 & 11 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: Riverstage Sep 11 TIM MCGRAW: BEC Sep 16 & 17 MARK SHOLTEZ: Brisbane Festival Sep 18 & 19 ATTACK ATTACK!: The Hi-Fi Sep 19 ENTER SHIKARI: The Hi-Fi Sep 21 & 22 OVERKILL: The Hi-Fi Sep 23 YOU ME AT SIX, THE AUDITION: The Hi-Fi Sep 24 MAYHEM: The Hi-Fi Sep 25 PETER HOOK AND FRIENDS: The Tivoli Sep 27 SIMPLY RED: BEC Oct 1 ASLAN: The Hi-Fi Oct 2 EXODUS: The Hi-Fi Oct 4 AGAINST ME!: The Hi-Fi Oct 7 ALEXISONFIRE: The Tivoli Oct 7 GBH: The Zoo Oct 13 BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH: The Zoo Oct 15 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: QPAC Oct 15 SAGE FRANCIS: Step Inn Oct 16 PARAMORE: Riverstage Oct 17 METALLICA: BEC Oct 16, 18 & 19 PAUL WELLER: The Tivoli Oct 19 & 20 PAT BENATAR, THE BANGLES: Brisbane Convention Ctr Oct 20 SOILWORK: The Hi-Fi Oct 21 ROBIN GIBB, BONNIE TYLER: BEC Oct 29 AMERICA, CHICAGO, PETER FRAMPTON: Riverstage Oct 30 CELTIC WOMAN: BEC Nov 3 LEONARD COHEN: BEC Nov 6 OWL CITY: The Tivoli Nov 11 SMOKIE: QPAC Concert Hall Nov 21 MUSE: BEC Dec 5 & 6 HOT WATER MUSIC, BOUNCING SOULS: The Zoo Dec 11 BLONDIE, THE PRETENDERS: Sirromet Wines Dec 12 EAGLES: BEC Dec 13 & 14 JACK JOHNSON: Riverstage Dec 13 BON JOVI: Suncorp Stadium Dec 14 THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS: Riverstage Mar 4

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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: Villa Noosa Jul 22, Surfers Paradise Beergarden Jul 23, Alex Hills Hotel Jul 24, Kallangur Tavern Jul 25 THY ART IS MURDER: Shed 5 Jul 22, The Fort Jul 23, Club 299 Jul 24, Blackbox Theatre Jul 25 RICHARD IN YOUR MIND, SPOD: Fans Jul 23 1927: The Tivoli Jul 24 THE NATION BLUE, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY: Rosie’s Jul 24 VIOLENT SOHO: The Zoo Jul 24 HARD-ONS: Great Northern Jul 29, Coolangatta Hotel Jul 30, The Troubadour Jul 31 SAMSARA: Step Inn Jul 30, Shed 5 Jul 31, YAC Aug 1 FAT FREDDYS DROP: Coolangatta Hotel Aug 1 DARREN HANLON: Globe Theatre Aug 7, A & I Hall Aug 8 KHANCOBAN: Brisbane Powerhouse Aug 8 ART VS SCIENCE: The Northern Aug 11, Coolangatta Hotel Aug 12, The Hi-Fi Aug 13 HOUSE VS HURRICANE: Snitch Aug 12 LITTLE RED: Little Stanley St Lawn Aug 13 DEAD LETTER CIRCUS: Great Northern Aug 16, The Zoo Aug 18 EXTORTION: YAC Aug 18, Snitch Aug 19, Black Box Aug 20, Shed 5 Aug 21 BASEMENT BIRDS: The Tivoli Aug 21 MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS: The Hi-Fi Aug 21 OLD MAN RIVER: The Tivoli Aug 21 GRINSPOON: Great Northern Aug 22 THE CAT EMPIRE: The Tivoli Aug 25, Beach Hotel Aug 26, Coolangatta Hotel Aug 27, The Tivoli Aug 28 CABINS: Neverland Aug 26, The Troubadour Aug 27 BLOOD DUSTER: Globe Theatre Aug 28 JAMES REYNE: Hamilton Hotel Aug 28, Hinterland Hotel

Aug 29 THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER: The Tivoli Aug 28, Old Museum Aug 29, Great Northern Aug 29 WASHINGTON: The Zoo Sep 2, Joe’s Waterhole Sep 3 FABULOUS DIAMONDS: Burst City Sep 3 POWDERFINGER: Gold Coast Convention Ctr Sep 3, Riverstage Sep 4 & 5, University of Southern QLD Oct 9, Riverstage Nov 10, 12 & 13 CORDRAZINE: The Zoo Sep 4 CHILDREN COLLIDE: The Zoo Sep 10, Great Northern Sep 11 THOUSAND NEEDLES IN RED: Step Inn Sep 10, Swell Tavern Sep 11 PRINCESS ONE POINT FIVE: The Troubadour Sep 11 MARK SHOLTEZ: Judith Wright Ctr Sep 17 REGURGITATOR: The Tivoli Sep 18, Great Northern Sep 19 PARKWAY DRIVE: Riverstage Sep 22, Byron Bay High School Sep 23 JOHN BUTLER TRIO, BLUE KING BROWN: Riverstage Sep 23. Empire Theatre Sep 24 ANGUS AND JULIA STONE: The Tivoli Sep 24 – 26 BIRDS OF TOKYO: Brisbane Convention Ctr Sep 24 CALLING ALL CARS: Neverland Sep 24, X & Y Sep 25, Great Northern Sep 26 MILES AWAY: The Fort Oct 1, Rosie’s Oct 2, YAC Oct 3 THE PARADISE MOTEL: The Troubadour Oct 1 CLARE BOWDITCH: Surfers Paradise Beer Garden Oct 7, The Hi-Fi Oct 8, Irish Club Toowoomba Oct 10 DIESEL: Kedron Wavell Services Club Oct 8, Logan Diggers Oct 9, The Zoo Nov 6 TAME IMPALA: The Tivoli Oct 16 SARAH BLASKO: Nambour Civic Ctr Oct 19, QPAC Oct 21, Stereo Oct 22, Byron Ctr Oct 23 & 24 IAN MOSS: Caboolture RSL, The Tempo Hotel Oct 22, The Brewery Oct 23 AIRBOURNE: The Hi-Fi Oct 23 PENDULUM: The Tivoli Nov 3 & 4

FESTIVALS

RODEO ROCKFEST: Ipswich Turf Club Jul 30 – Aug 1 with Bluejuice, Spiderbait, Salmonella Dub, Mojo Webb, Ernest Ellis GREAZEFEST KUSTOM KULTURE FESTIVAL: Rocklea Showground Jul 31 - Aug 1 with Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-Fonics, The Detonators, Benny & The Fly By Niters, The Retro Rockets, The Flattrakkers, The ReChords, Pat Capocci Combo, Doug Wilshire & The Tailspinners, The Go Go Haunters, Danny & The Cosmic Tremors, Big Kitty & The Scaredy Cats, The Ten Fours, Miss Teresa & Her Rhythmaires, West Texas Crude, Paulie & His Crazy Rhythm Boys, The Sugar Shakers, Jon Flynn’s Knights of Sin, The Jim Rockfords, Captain Twilight & The Six Shooters, The Mayhem County Boys, DJ JimmyD, DJ Leapin’ Lawrie, DJ Swingabilly Ray SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS: Woodfordia Jul 30 – Aug 1 with The Strokes, Pixies, Ben Harper and Relentless7, The Temper Trap, Mumford & Sons, Florence and the Machine, Scissor Sisters, Empire of the Sun, Band of Horses, Goldfrapp, Richard Ashcroft & the United Nations of Sound, Grizzly Bear, LCD Soundsystem, Angus & Julia Stone, Hot Chip, Wolfmother, Passion Pit, Midnight Juggernauts, Jonsi, Paul Kelly, Kate Nash, Laura Marling, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Lisa Mitchell, Midlake, The Vines, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Broken Social Scene, Tame Impala, The Magic Numbers, K-OS, Operator Please, Bluejuice, Little Red, Ash, Whitley, Yeasayer, Miami Horror, Delphic, We Are Scientists, Foals, Alberta Cross, Surfer Blood, Space Invadas, British India, Mike Snow, Washington, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Clare Bowditch, Band of Skulls, Two Door Cinema Club, The Drums, The Mess Hall, Violent Soho, School of Seven Bells, Last Dinosaurs, John Steel Singers, Yacht Club DJs, Jonathan Boulet, Dan Sultan, Oh Mercy, Cloud Control, Fanfarlo, Frightened Rabbit, Sally Seltmann BRISBANE GYPSY JAZZ FESTIVAL: Brisbane Powerhouse Aug 26 – 28 NOOSA JAZZ FESTIVAL: Various Noosa venues Sep 2-5 FRANKLY!: Brisbane Powerhouse Sep 4 BIGSOUND: Fortitude Valley Sep 8 – 10 CALOUNDRA MUSIC FESTIVAL: Kings Beach Park Oct 8 – 10 BAM! FESTIVAL: Ivory Rocks Conference Ctr Oct 10 – 12 600 SOUNDS MUSIC FESTIVAL: Broadwater Parklands Oct 22 – 24

WEDNESDAY JULY 21

PETER W/HUNT TRIO JEUNAE DOOR $6 / 8PM

THURSDAY JULY 22

DAVE FLOWERS BAND W/ BANG BANG BOSS KELLY + OCEANICS PRE $8 / 8PM

FRIDAY JULY 23

BONFIRE NIGHTS W/ BLONDE ON BLONDE + TEENAGE WOLVES PRE $10 / DOOR $12 / 8PM

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THE W/BOAT PEOPLE SKINNY JEAN + THE MEDICS PRE $10 / DOOR $15 / 8PM THE LATE SHOW TRANSVAAL DIAMOND SYNDICATE $5 AFTER MIDNIGHT / 1AM

SUNDAY JULY 25

BUFFALO BROWN W/ ‘PANG!’, BEN CORBETT + DYLAN MCCORMACK DOOR $5 / 7.30PM

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PINK’S BITS HURT Pink was rushed to hospital during a concert in Nuremberg, Germany last week when a high-wire segment of her show resulted in the singer being launched off the stage and into a barrier. Although Pink warned, “No, no, no,” from the stage, signifying she wasn’t ready for takeoff, her warning came too late. The accident occurred going into the concert’s final song, ‘So What’, and Pink told fans from the stage, “I possibly broke something. Very sorry, I’m not going to be able to do the last song. But thank you for coming to the show and thank you for always being supportive.” An hour later, she took to Twitter to reassure fans: “Okay all my lovers out there – nothing’s broken, no fluid in the lungs, just seriously sore. I made that barricade my bitch!!!!”

There will be no cancellations as a result of Pink’s scare, with the artist promising, “I will be on that stage, even if I have to crawl.”

3D WORLD MAG FOR BRISBANE Street Press Australia (SPA, publishers of Time Off) will launch Victorian and Queensland editions of Sydney clubbing weekly 3D World on Wednesday Aug 11. 3D World has been on Sydney streets for two decades and was recently revamped as a glossy quarto-sized magazine. SPA Managing Director Craig Treweek says, “The expansion of 3D World into new states illustrates the current strength of free magazine titles in Australia, which buck the current trend of general magazine/newspaper circulation.

The recent broadening in content to lifestyle/fashion/ travel and current affairs makes 3D World the east coast’s premier music/youth lifestyle title.”

ONE MOVEMENT: THIRD ROUND One Movement for Music Perth (OMFM) has confirmed the next round of speakers who join an already impressive international line-up for the Oct 6 to 10, 2010 event. Latest additions include Troy Carter (Coalition Media Group, USA), Dave Curtin (DeepMix, USA), James Foley (Record Of The Day, UK), Tak Furuichi (JVC Victor Entertainment Inc, Japan) and Taichi Inoue (Surfrock International, Japan). A slew of local speakers have also been added: Lars Brandle (Billboard), Brett Cottle (APRA), Shaun James (XYZ Networks), Dylan Liddy (Blue Max Music), Mark Pope (Mark Pope Music), Mark Poston (EMI Australasia), Phil Stevens (Jarrah Music), Kathy McCabe (News Limited/The Daily Telegraph), Carney Nir (Secret Service Digital) and Leigh Treweek (Street Press Australia). OMFM includes a music industry conference, an industry showcase series and a threeday multi-stage outdoor music festival showcasing around 60 acts from around the globe. Keep an eye on onemovementmusic.com for updates.

ROB BACK FOR GOOD? It has been confirmed that Robbie Williams has rejoined Take That and an album by the band’s original five-piece line-up is scheduled to drop in November. This is the first time Robbie Williams has set foot in a studio with former bandmates Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen since Take That recorded Nobody Else back in 1995. Disgruntled by the fact that Gary Barlow received the majority of lead singing responsibilities, Williams left the group to pursue a solo career that same year and made the following statement to the press: “It’s like you go with something for so long and certain things are taken away from ya and you’re made to believe that you can’t succeed without a certain formula and certain people and a certain manager. And I shit myself for so long, to tell you the truth, but the thing is, you know, I’m here now and that’s what we’re here for.” Robbie Williams gained weight, bleached his hair platinum blonde and invaded the stage during Oasis’ set at Glastonbury that same year. Take That disbanded in February 1996 and a special helpline was set up by the Samaritans to counsel distraught fans. Williams eventually got his shit together and released his debut solo album, Life Thru A Lens, in 1997. A further seven studio albums have followed but lately Robbie’s solo career has floundered. Take That reunited minus Williams for a tour in 2006 before returning to the studio and have since released two albums as a foursome. Take That mark two provides all band members with the opportunity to sing lead vocals and all band members are now credited as co-writers, whether they contribute to the writing process or not. Williams caught up with his former bandmates following Take That’s The Circus Live tour in New York last September and all five of them secretly wrote and recorded the six songs that would form the basis of their forthcoming album.

News appeared on Robbie Williams’ website that a new single he wrote with Barlow, which features both artists on vocals and is titled ‘Shame’, would appear on his upcoming greatest hits album – In And Out of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990-2010 – scheduled for October release. Take That’s new, as-yet-untitled album was produced by Stuart Price and comes 20 years after the band first sang live as a group in 1990 on British dance music TV show, The Hitman And Her.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND COVER STAR SUES

The cover star of Vampire Weekend’s latest Contra album is suing the band for £1.3 million, alleging that the signature on the release form was forged. The image used to spearhead Contra’s marketing campaign is a photo of Kirsten Kennis taken by photographer Tod Brody in 1983. TMZ reported on Jul 14 that Kennis filed a lawsuit against the band, their record label XL Recordings and photographer Tod Brody explaining she had no idea her image would be used on the album cover. “The album design, in which the photograph is featured prominently, was a substantial factor in generating recognition and buzz for the Contra album, thus increasing sales and profits,” reads the lawsuit.

Kennis added that she blames the band for failing to verify the legitimacy of her signature on the release.

AWESOME FOURSOME

PHOENIX FILM STUMPS VIEWERS

Gang Of Four’s forthcoming album of new material, titled Content, is scheduled to drop on Oct 4. Content will be made available in vinyl or CD format and there will also be an Ultimate Concert Can premium package for mad fans, which contains the album, ceramic tiles, photographs plus vials of the band members’ blood (they may want to limit these editions). The upcoming 11-track album is the first since the post-punkers put out Shrinkwrapped in 1995 and a new single ‘Who Am I?’ will come out on Sep 13.

Fingers crossed one of the tracklisted song’s titles – ‘It Was Never Going To Turn Out Too Good’ – isn’t prophetic.

Gang Of Four chose to finance the recording of this set via a Pledge Music page they set up in April, which enabled fans to make a donation in exchange for content. In a video clip on pledgemusic.com/projects/gangoffour, the band’s guitarist Andy Gill explains, “We just don’t want to go to EMI or something. It’s too impersonal and doesn’t work.”

For £8, the pledger receives an album download plus access to pledger-only updates. Other options included catching a helicopter to or from Glastonbury with Gang Of Four (£950) or The Lost Cassette, a recording of Gang Of Four’s first gig in 1977 that is provided for you inside a Walkman that has been individually decorated by Gill and Jon King (£175). The maximum spend is £1,500 for Gill to mix your track (three left). A share of any profits from Gang Of Four’s pledges will go to Amnesty International.

It’s been over a year since clips of a bearded Joaquin Phoenix allegedly pursuing a rap career surfaced on YouTube. The actor announced he intended to trade Hollywood in for a hip hop career in October 2008 and was trailed by his actor-turned-director brother-inlaw, Casey Affleck, who documented the journey. As footage of Phoenix’s disastrous attempts at spitting rhymes and beating up a few punters along the way surfaced all over the Internet, so did rumours that the Oscar-winning actor was starring in a mockumentary.

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GET IN THE KNOW!

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Heavy rock band Drop Tank are making a film clip. We need your home videos of burnouts, skilled driving, awesome machines in action, to use for our song about a car. We will be pixellating numberplates (and faces if needed), so send all killer, no filler to: Droptank or droptankband@gmail.com via sendspace (Any format will do but AVI or MPEG-2 is preffered) or to: DROP TANK PO Box 443 Brookvale NSW 2100 www.myspace. com/droptankband *Drop Tank does not promote dangerous driving iFlogID: 6076

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PRO MUSIC PRODUCTION PERTH

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Caulfield Music Centre MUSIC SCHOOL * where students become musicians * www.caulfieldmusic.com.au QUALIFIED TEACHERS AVAILABLE Monday - Friday: 4pm-9pm * Saturday: 10am-4pm * Sunday: 11am-4pm * *Please call for lesson availability times. PRIVATE LESSONS - $28 PER HALF HOUR GUITAR BASS PIANO SINGING & VOICE PRODUCTION DRUMS PERCUSSION SAXOPHONE FLUTE RECORDER HARMONICA VIOLIN At Caulfield Music Centre - Music School, we offer private, one-on-one lessons. We believe this is the best way for students to learn their chosen instrument. All students receive special student DISCOUNTS on musical instruments and equipment.

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HIRE SERVICES For as low as $100, you get a PA system with a sound mixer, complete with a human operator as well to set it up for you for the evening. You can play your own music through it, sing, talk, do a disco, small function, etc, etc, etc. Contact Chris 0419 272 196. iFlogID: 3721

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STILL PLAYING IN THE GARAGE?!!

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VIDEO / PRODUCTION

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HAVE YOU SEEN MIKE HUNT

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GET SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL!

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PRO BASSIST NEEDED.ROCK COVERS

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BASS PLAYER ELECTRIC/UPRIGHT BASSIST AVAIL

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JASON AYRES

FULLTIME BASS PLAYER WANTED

Looking for great Bass player to complete lineup for International touring covers band playing rock, pop, top 40 with a group of easy going, young Sydney musicians. Playing 6 nights a week around the world, expenses paid, good salary and great money saving opportunity. Age 18 - 30 MUST have passport, MUST be available to head overseas with 3 months notice and be able to learn 50 songs in that time. If you have a career job, a wife and kid, an original band you can’t leave then this position isn’t for you. You could potentially be employed as a fulltime musician Internationally anywhere from 3 months to years to come. If you want to play live music for a job and want to forget about ever paying rent or food whilst traveling the world for free, saving money and you can play bass really well please call me. 0424 943 905 thanks! iFlogID: 6530

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TOP PRO DRUMMER AVAILABLE

DRUMMER AVAILABLE!

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GUITARIST GUITARIST TO FORM/JOIN BAND

i am looking to form a serious band, influences include Stone Roses, The Smiths, Beatles, Kinks, Suede. Preferably looking

Yo, consider yourself to be a bit of a Duff McKagan? Got posters of Nikki Sixx on your walls? I’ve been offered a regular gig down in Hawthorn and have begun the process of forming a new band with a friend of mine on drums and myself on guitar, and we can’t wait to blast good old dirty rock and roll to a bunch of unsuspecting teenagers who are missing out on music that will give them eargasms long into the night. We’re sick of the current music scene and need a bassist to come join our line up, ready to fuck on the world. Were no cover band, and i’ve got a plethora of songs waiting to go. Influences include Ratt, W.A.S.P, G’N’R, Motley Crue, Pantera, Aerosmith and ya mum. iFlogID: 6019

**** BASS PLAYER WANTED ****

funky rythym section wanted for dynamic sexy funk/rock/blues hip hop band.influences-the meters,early rhcp,sly stone,james brown,jimi hendrix,parliament/funkadelic.phone 0421727864. iFlogID: 4238

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hey. were looking for a new drummer.. must have great gear and great feel.. must also be able to rehearse 2+ times per week in st peters and must have the taste of wanting to make music a career!! must be between 18-30... check out the sample page: http://www.myspace.com/ matineeidyll129 and if you like what were about email: playitstrange@live.com iFlogID: 6393

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Bassist wanted to join melodic metal band with death/black/thrash influence.

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INSIDEOUT are looking for a reliable and versatile bass player to join us. You need to have transport and good working gear. You will have complete freedom to enhance our song writing with your ideas and skills. We rehearse in Bardwell Valley (near Rockdale) and there are no studio rehearsal costs. Check out our MySpace page and if you like what you see and hear...get in touch! www.myspace. com/insideoutoz (0408) 232110 Veneita vendel@bigpond.net.au iFlogID: 6139

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CHRISTIAN BASS PLAYER WANTED

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Female singer/acoustic guitarist between 25 and 35 years of age wanted to start an acoustic pop/alt/rock/hip-hop/RnB covers duo with a 31yo male singer/guitarist.

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Hi guys and girls! We are a late 70’s style ska and punk outfit who have been together about 6 months. Unfortunately, our good solid rhythm player has had to leave due to commitments. We are looking for someone to step in and hopefully provide some backing and maybe even a tiny bit of lead vocals occasionally. We aim to play much more slowed down ska and are just beginning to experiment with some writing after playing lots of covers. Things that stood out so far we really enjoy jamming are: The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet UB40 - Food For Thought Roxy Music - Love is the Drug The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go The Saints - Know Your Product The Specials - Monkey Man / A Message to you Rudy So far we have 2 singers, a trombone, keyboard, bass, drummer, lead guitar and may possibly look at getting a trumpet in the near future. We rehearse in Marrickville rehearsal rooms every Saturday for 4 hours. If you’re interested in seeing if you would like to join us please contact me on imafunkybloke@hotmail. com. MSN or email are fine. Also you can add me to facebook jonathan krasnowski and I will show you the band group there so you can see our discussions and videos so far etc once we have a mutual interest. iFlogID: 6311

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