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April 2015 T.J. Rhythm 8.30pm Wednesday 1 Earthcore - One Night In with Juno Reactor Sound System + Grouch + Justin Time + Loagsta + Grommet 9pm Thursday 2 Bobcats 10pm Friday 3 Dog Dreams + The Saxons + Radio Silence $10 10pm Saturday 4 Blue Flies 8:30pm Sunday 5 Neil Gibson 8:30pm Monday 6 G.B. Balding (Finger Picking Blues) 8:30pm Tuesday 7 Mike McCarthy 9pm Wednesday 8 Hop Thief #7 Beer Launch - Come Try The New Brew 5:30pm Thur 9 Tim + Scott 8:30pm Thur 9 Dean Ray & Band $25 10pm Friday 10 Lost Woods (SA)+ Lewes + Maddy Jane & Band + Shamen Fox-Henry $5 10pm Saturday 11 Sherry Rich & Rick Plant 8:30pm Sunday 12 Quiz Night - New Comers Welcome 8:15pm Monday 13 Gus McKay 8:30pm Tuesday 14 Donavon Frankenreiter + Phil Micale $25pre/$40door 9pm Wed 15
Clint Boge $10pre/$15door 9pm Thursday 16 Jeff Martin + Tim Davies $35pre/$40door 10pm Friday 17 The Audreys $30pre/$35door 10pm Saturday 18 Sunday Afternoon Soul Sessions (Beergarden) 2:30pm Sunday 19 Peter Hicks & The Blue Licks 8:30pm Sunday 19 Dean Stevenson 8:30pm Monday 20 Brian Fraser 8:30pm Tuesday 21 Gillies Blues 8:30pm Wednesday 22 Rai Thistlethwayte (Thirsty Merc) $15 9pm Thursday 23 The Racoons & The Revtones $5 10pm Friday 24 Headless + Lab A + The Absolution Sequence + Scoraria $10 10pm Saturday 25 Swap n Sale: Clothing Market 2pm Sunday 26 Wahbash Ave 8:30pm Sunday 26 Quiz Night - New Comers Welcome 8:15pm Monday 27 Baker Boys Tuesday 28 Mrs Cash $5 9pm Wednesday 29 4 Letter Fish 9pm Thursday 30
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electronic music scene, Tetrameth has been a regular headliner at some of the biggest festivals around the globe. Having released two critically acclaimed albums on Zenon Records, Tetrameth will be returning to Hobart to perform live at The Homestead on Friday April 17. Entry will be $15 on the door, and support on the night will be provided by local legends Kireesh, Mintecelec, and Justin Time. This will be a killer night, you won’t wanna miss it! <START> NATIONAL YOUTH WEEK!
Taswegian Reuben Koops just keeps on going from strength to strength, the 22 year old started playing in high school bands before going the solo route. He played around the traps locally before taking his original material down the reality tv talent show road. That road paved the way for recording and releasing his debut album, titled Where You Water It. Last month, Reuben followed that up by releasing a follow up (genius!) EP, titled The Slate EP. Be sure to grab a copy, and check him out live if you get the chance. But you probably won’t get the chance. Because he’s heading off to LA to be a superstar. Top work, Reuben! FALDUMINIUM
Triple J Unearthed feature artist and all-around good peoples, Heart Beach, will be releasing their first album on Thursday April 2 at Tommy Gun Records in Hobart. The release consolidates Heart Beach’s recent tours of Australia and New Zealand in 2013/14 where they played at music festivals Camp A Low Hum, Festable, and Hobart + Music = Yeah! Consisting of Jonathon McCarthy on guitar/vocals, Claire Jansen on bass/ vocals and Christopher Wessing on drums/guitar/drum machine, Heart Beach have been all over that triple J unearthed action lately, and the tunes are sounding great! They’ll be joined by Tantric Sax. It kicks off at 6:30pm, and it’s free entry. BLUZECRUZE
More news from the Faldum camp. The hardworking electro-coustic-folk-tronic trio recently announced the release of a compilation of remixes of songs from their debut EP, The Dangerfields. The group’s sound is rooted in down tempo electronica but drifts through a range of genres. The remixes on the EP are quite a long way from down tempo, with an 80’s influenced chill-wave take on Hollow Walls by Tasmanian hiphop artist Crixus, a dubbedout glitch-hop spin on The Dangerfields by Melbourne’s griff, a distorted dubstep version of The Summerglen by Decksi and a jungle re-lick of Buttongrass Snapshots by Token. The Dangerfields Remixed EP is available for free download from faldum. bandcamp.com.
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Blues aficionados in all parts of the state will have a chance to catch the lads from St. Helens, Bluzebus, in April. Formed by the Hollywood born, Queensland raised Phil “Harpo” McConnell, Bluzebus is a high octane sound machine that brings together four of Tasmania’s finest musical talents for a rocking ride through the greatest hits of blues, rock and soul. If you’re on their home turf (St. Helens), you can catch them at the St Helens RSL on Saturday April 4. Wynyardians can catch them at The Wharf Hotel on Friday April 17. Southerners will be able to find them at the Longley International Hotel on Sunday April 26.
Sun Rai is Rai Thistlethwayte’s Jazz/Soul/ Pop solo project - as featured on L.A. blog ‘Filter Magazine.’ After sold out shows in ‘14 at Sydney Fringe Festival, Jazz Upstairs in Brisbane, and Perth Int’l Jazz Fest, Rai and drum-gun Ben Vanderwal are hitting the road in April to launch ‘LIMOUSINE’ - the duo’s sophomore EP. Spontaneous and nimble, audiences can expect some serious musical telepathy, within the oh-so-groovy framework of Rai’s jazz infused vocals, Ben’s intricate beats, and how could we forget, the MOOG - for that left hand synth bass action! See Sun Rai at the Republic Bar on Thursday April 23.
Reclaim the Lane is set to transform one of Devonport’s urban laneways into a vibrant celebration of youth arts and music for it’s fourth consecutive year. The event will launch National Youth Week for Tasmania. Located in Rooke Lane (between Steele and Stewart Streets), Reclaim the Lane will present a range of arts and music activities and entertainment for all ages to enjoy. Rooke Lane is also home to a range of funky endeavours including a new artist workspace, public art, a yoga studio, coffee shops and the iconic Devonport Regional Gallery. Artist-in-Residence will be the always amazing, Brain Foetus. It’s all taking place on Friday April 10, between 3 and 5 pm.
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The bastard spawn of several ex-rock bands, and the after-effect of the digital age, “Tetrameth” is the brainchild of musician/producer, Peter Hayes. A mandatory element within the Australian
Sherry Rich’s Dakota Avenue album received rave reviews from pretty much anyone that heard it when it was released back in 2012. The collection of songs recorded way back in 99-2001 in the famous Wilco Loft in Chicago (with help from Jay Bennett himself) was dubbed everything from a “Masterpiece” to the “Best Australian Album of 2012” by community radio stations and press all around the country. A few years have passed but Sherry Rich is finally making her way to Hobart to showcase her unique talents and glorious voice. You can catch her in person at The Lark Distillery Bar on
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Kid Kenobi is returning to Tasmania for the 867th time. He must love it here. I bet it’s the whisky. Anyway, with a string of remixes and “rewerks” (really?) under his belt already this year, Kid Kenobi is back with a brand new EP! Titled the Rudeboy EP, it should be available by the time you read this, so go cop it. Once you’ve copped it, you can cop some Kid Kenobi live! He’ll be playing two shows in Tasmania in April. On Thursday April 2 he’ll be playing at his traditional stomping ground, Plan B in Hobart. On Saturday April 11, Kid Kenobi will be venturing to the northwest of the state to play at House Nightclub in Devonport.
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Courtney Barnett eh! Wow. Hasn’t she been going places lately? She played on Ellen. SHE. PLAYED. ON. ELLEN. Ellen loved it. Your mum would have seen it. Bet she loved it too. You probably would have seen if too if you don’t have a day job. Bet even you loved it too. Oh yeah, she also played at SXSW and her debut album got a 5 star review in The Guardian, and named “Best New Music” on Pitchfork. Epic stuff. Tasmania can claim her as our own because she went to school here or something. We’ll use any excuse to claim a celebrity, we’re just a mini-Australia after all. Anyway, on Friday April 24 you’ll be able to see Courtney Barnett perform at Wrest Point Casino in Sandy Bay, supported by Teeth & Tongue. Tickets available via www.tixtas.com.au. THE BAIN OF SOUL MUSIC
NATIONAL YOUTH WEEK! </END> More on the National Youth Week front, The City of Hobart are on board once again and will be celebrating with Light Up The Lane 2015. The youth really love laneways, apparently. Taking place at Mathers Place off Bathurst Street from 6pm to 9pm on Friday April 17, Light Up The Lane 2015 will include digital artworks from young local artists projected on to the buildings in and around Mathers Place, once again transforming the urban landscape in to a huge temporary digital art gallery. Continuing with the digital vibe, Close Counters and KOWL will perform digital music on digital equipment using their digits. While Mathers House courtyard will play host to the likes of Celeste Miencke, Nick Machin, Hannah May, Leo Creighton, Maddy Jane and Chris Belbin.
in Hobart on Thursday May 7, and at The Royal Oak in Launceston on Friday May 8.
The Funkoars are setting off on yet another headline tour this coming May/ June, taking in eleven spots around the country, including one in Tasmania (woot!). This is from their press release: “Australia’s favourite hanger-oners THE FUNKOARS have announced their ominous return from the smoke and mirrors, bringing hard 80s street justice back into fashion in the form of their forthcoming fifth full length album In Case of Emergency.” The first single “Below Average” is already doing the rounds on your radio dials. The Funkoars will be joined by Eloji, and DJ Total Eclipse of the almighty Xecutioners turntablism squad. They’ll be hitting the stage at The Republic Bar and Café on Saturday May 16. Tickets available from the venue, Ruffcut Records, or online via Moshtix.
the Fresh off the back of a recent (and prestigious) WA Music (WAM) Song of the Year win, esteemed Perth alternative soul tunesmith, Morgan Bain, has announced the release of his new single Why Don’t You Stay alongside a national tour! Organ driven with rich and varied vocals, Bain’s self-described “alternative moody soul” sound is perfectly showcased in the new single recorded and proced with ARIA award winning producer Joel Quatermain (Eskimo Joe, Meg Mac, Little Birdy). Both ends of our state get a chance to catch Morgan Bain in the flesh, he’ll be performing at The Republic Bar & Café
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8Ball Aitken makes kinda funny, kinda quirky, kinda weird but somehow pretty traditional country music. It’s worth checking out his videos on youtube if you need a country-music-induced chuckle. They’re oddball. He should be called Oddball Aitken. But he isn’t, he’s called 8Ball Aitken. We don’t know why he’s called 8Ball and not Oddball, but fortunately, in May we’ll have four opportunities to ask him for ourselves. On Thursday May 14 he’ll be performing at the Lark Distillery in Hobart. On Friday May 15 he’ll be at The Homestead in North Hobart. On Saturday May 16 he’ll be at The Royal Oak in Launceston, and on Sunday May 17 he’ll be at the Bridge Hotel in Forth.
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NO TOUCHING PLEASE EVER SINCE THEY SMASHED INTO OUR CONSCIOUSNESS IN 2007 WITH THEIR DEBUT ALBUM GUILLOTINE - AND HIT SINGLE ‘TIE UP MY HANDS’ - MELBOURNE GARAGE ROCKERS BRITISH INDIA HAVE BEEN CHIPPING AWAY IN EARNEST TO BECOME ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S HARDEST-WORKING ACTS. IT SEEMS THE FOUR-PIECE EAT, SLEEP AND BREATHE ROCK AND ROLL. FRONTMAN AND GUITARIST NIC WILSON TELLS THE TALE OF THE BAND WE CAN’T SEEM TO GET ENOUGH OF.
“We started the band in high school but we weren’t a working band until 2007. I’ve known the drummer since we were in grade four! It literally gets easier and easier because we don’t have days off from each other; all week when we’re in Melbourne, we write songs, so we see each other every day that way and on the road on the weekends. We’re all best friends and we realised pretty early on that if we make it hard on each other, it’ll end very quickly, because you’re in each other’s pockets constantly. You develop a second language with each other. It’s more solidified. You have your little tiffs but it never gets beyond a raised voice.” The band have been plugging away at Nothing Touches Me, their fifth album, due March 13 and have already dropped the epic singles, ‘Wrong Direction’ and ‘Suddenly’. Wilson explains that the album was a slightly more difficult endeavour than they had planned. “We like to think of this album as ‘the one that was so good we made it twice’ [laughs]; we recorded it in Berlin and a lot of great stuff came from that, but when we came back, it felt like it wasn’t totally right, so we spent a lot of time re-recording stuff and in that time we wrote a bunch more songs. We felt that it strengthened the album, but it took a little while. So much time had passed and new songs had eventuated, we thought, “let’s just start again”. We didn’t have a necessary deadline, so we thought “why the hell not?”” Although we know him as a rock and roll man, Wilson has been dabbling for some time (indeed, becoming quite masterful at) the art of filmmaking. He recently did a documentary for ABC Open on the small town Chiltern in regional Victoria and its attempts to stop a mining company gutting and destroying the region. “It’s a bit of a moonlighting thing for me” he explains. “I’ve made a few of the band’s clips, that was fun. It was weird; a friend of mine was driving back from Sydney to Melbourne and saw a big sign on the Hume that said “Save Skeleton Hill” and was intrigued by the name. On the drive back, he looked into it and he drove to my place instead of going home to talk about making something! I was
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taken by his enthusiasm. I got to know the town and how iconic it is to the landscape. A mining company had purchased the land and wanted to make it into a quarry and the doco is about the fight between them. It was interesting to meet the townspeople.” Don’t worry, though. Wilson has no plans as yet to trade his axe for a boom mic. “At this point, it’s a hobby. I am passionate about it- I love movies. It’s hard to divide our time with these things but music will always be number one. Until that’s wrapped up...maybe a career, it’s a daunting thought to wrap up a long career [in music] and getting into something as competitive as the film industry. I’d just have to see where my drive is.” As they have in the past, British India will be making their way all over the country in support of their latest tunes, including places that many acts- even local ones- fail to visit, like Darwin and Ballarat. Getting out and about in their home nation is all part of the job, Wilson explains. “We love it, that’s the bulk of the job to us. The way that the album sales are, there’s not a ton of money from that anymore so we get by from our live shows. If it wasn’t for Triple J, we wouldn’t be able to go to those far-out places. We love touring so it’s no skin off our teeth. It can be tough in terms of having the money to travel to those places; you do need the support to expect to pull people in Wagga or whatever; it is easier in capital cities. I’m not sure why other bands don’t visit these places. They should, it’s such a big country and there’s so many places where you wouldn’t think people would go see a show.” LISA DIB
Nothing Touches Me is out now on Liberation Records. British India will play three shows in Tasmania in early May, beginning on Thursday May 7 at Club 54, Launceston, and then heading to Hobart to play at The Republic Bar on the Friday and Saturday nights.
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DOING THE TIME WARP DJ TOM LOUD IS BRINGING HIS TIME TRAVELLING DANCE PARTY, THE HOT DUB TIME MACHINE, BACK TO HOBART.
Loud takes his audience on a party through pop history, playing some of the biggest hits from 1954 to 2015 in chronological order, while mashing up visuals scratched live from vinyl turntables. Loud debuted the Hot Dub Time Machine in Sydney in 2011, and has since played some of the biggest festivals across the globe. Tom took us on a quick trip into the time machine. You play really long sets, how is it possible to have so much energy? I think it used to be a more common thing with DJs. Some of the great DJs I used to go and watch would play for six hours, that’s the minimum they would do. So I just started doing long sets. What I do is like a history of pop music, with every great song, so it kinda takes a couple of hours to do it right. I just love it, and I watch my caffeine levels, that’s my only secret. I don’t drink any caffeine and then I have a Red Bull when I get on stage, and then I dance like an energizer bunny. Some days I’m tired and some days I’m not up for it, but it’s my job. So you go out and rock it out. Also, I’m very aware that I never want to short change people, I feel very strongly about that. If people have come to see the show they should get 100 per cent, whether it’s a small venue or a big venue or it’s a really small crowd. I just hate it when acts think that they’re too good for the crowd. I think if people have bought a ticket they should get 100 per cent.
When you play internationally, do you feel like you need to tailor your set to the audience? Yeah definitely, it even depends on which city you’re in too. I used to DJ in the comedy scene, and something I learnt from those guys is never be too proud to pander to local favourites. So, when you’re in Perth, play Perth bands for a little while, do references in Adelaide, and, when you’re in the UK, it’s definitely important not to confuse Scotland with England and things like that. What about when you’re in Tasmania then? Tassie! I love Tassie! No one parties like Tasmania! And if you’re in Adelaide, then no one parties like Adelaide! I think that’s the entertainers’ role, I think it’s their job to tell people that they’re beautiful and they’re best crowd ever. What era do you like the most? I always wuss out of this question. I genuinely like all of them, and it changes all the time. I think what comes out of Hot Dub is that all the decades are good. My parents think that there was no good music made after 1969, and I meet some people my age that think there’s no good music after 1994. But it’s just bullshit, there’s so much great music all the time.
But at the moment, I do really like the early 80s. 1983 is just this champagne year of music - Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, umm, Ghostbusters, Eye of the Tiger, it’s just such good party music! I like it. Do you notice what era the crowds like the most? Definitely! Before a show I generally like to go and wander out into the crowd and just see how old or young they are. I get a real mix of people which I really love, but I try and find songs that are relevant for all people. The Beatles are great whether you’re 18 or 80, so is Stevie Wonder, and so are songs like Seven Nation Army, those songs are kickass regardless of what age you are. How long do you plan on doing Hot Dub Time Machine? I think it’s something I’d certainly like to do for a couple more years. I’ll keep doing it until I stop loving it, but I don’t know what else I’d do to be honest. Does everyone go crazy once they’re in the Time Machine? Yeah, it’s a great thing. I think because Hot Dub is a scene thing, you know, you set up the whole concept, by saying it’s their dancing that’s powering the time machine, and I’m up there going crazy having the time of my life. Sometimes I look around the room, looking at all these people dancing, and there’s just one guy not having fun, and I just beat myself up. Then, after a while they go ‘oh this song’s ok, this song’s good… and then they’re dancing. It’s a really positive energy, which is wonderful. No one’s worrying if their dancing is cool, they’re just getting down, it’s great! EMMA LUIMES
Get in the Hot Dub Time Machine on Friday June 26 at the Republic Bar.
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SURF AND TURF DONAVON FRANKENREITER MAY BE A TRAVELLING ROCK STAR AND TOP GUN SURFER DUDE, BUT SPEAKING FROM HIS HOME IN HAWAII, HE’S BACK IN DAD MODE (“GETTING BACK TO YARD WORK AND MAKING LUNCHES FOR THE KIDS”), WHERE IT SOUNDS AS PICTURESQUE AND AS MUCH LIKE PARADISE AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT.
“Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been, even on the drive to take the kids to school, there’s waves and crazy rainbows. It’s slow here too; on the road, it’s fast-paced. We’re always down the beach surfing, fishing, it’s sort of like a water wonderland, a lot of stuff going on. The kids [Frankenreiter’s sons, Hendrix and Ozzy] both surf and play music, my oldest has a gig on Friday! They’ve got a little three-piece.”
like “What is that song?” and he taught me the chords...the next day I had words for it, so the next day I had a song that Hendrix wrote the music to. That is bitchin’.”
With his eldest- at only twelve- already on the road to a rock and roll lifestyle, does Frankenreiter necessarily want them to follow any set path? Perhaps in their father’s footsteps?
“We’re making a new record in May. We’ve got ten songs together, gonna go into this studio is Austin, Texas and we’re gonna do this thing where the link will be available all over, online and you can click and watch us make the album live for ten days via webcast! It’ll be us making the music, and we’ll upload music, whoever gives us the best album cover, they can win stuff, people can do remixes and we’ll release it...it’s gonna be a super interactive, super fun record. We’ll answer any questions that they want...it’s gonna be fun. We thought, why not make this the most interactive record that anyone has ever made? There’s so much different technology you can use.”
“They see the way Dad and Mom are, but I would just want them to find a passion in life, to be happy, whatever that may be. It’s important to find something that you enjoy. I just show them everything that I can and whatever they gravitate towards, that’s it. There’s a piano in the house, a drum kit, they played a lot of instruments early. I’m impressed, I just showed Hendrix a couple of chords, and he was like “I’m starting a band! “ and I went on tour and when I came back, he’s got a gig at the talent show and they’re doing The Black Keys!” “It’s cool, they teach me things too. The other day, I was sitting around, my wife was making dinner, Hendrix is playing the guitar near me and I was
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Frankenreiter’s last album was Start Livin’, in 2012. But in between the surf life and touring, he’s been chipping away at a new record to come in a few months.
time. All those bands, all those musicians, they’d get into a room with drums and two mics and have those amazing moments, the real deal. That’s still going on, but back then they didn’t have ProTools to make everything so perfect.” Although he is suitably nostalgic and respectful of his past heroes, Frankenreiter is happy in the place in time he’s in. “I feel like I would never change anything, I’m happy to be alive in this era, I was happy enough when I made my first record in high school, the studios were like the holy grail. That was a radical thing. There wasn’t too many studios back then. People are making smash hits in their bedroom in their Mom’s house on a computer now. Back then, studios were magic places. That was fun, when the record came out and you had to buy the physical copy. That was something neat. There’s amazing opportunities [now] and really good bands coming together though,” LISA DIB
Speaking of technology, the free-wheeling Frankenreiter is only slightly nostalgic for a time when records weren’t steeped in over-production. “There was a point where they were using Autotune too much, people use those tricks all the
Donavon Frankenreiter plays Wednesday April 15 at the Republic Bar in Hobart.
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NOT SCREAMING FOR ATTENTION THE INTERNET DOESN’T TELL US TOO MUCH ABOUT AMERICAN PUNK VETERANS A WILHELM SCREAM, AND MAYBE THAT’S THE WAY THEY LIKE IT. AFTER ALL, THE BAND HAS A “WHO CARES” ATTITUDE TO BEING IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. DRUMMER NICHOLAS PASQUALE ANGELINI AND HIS CREW WILL TOUR AUSTRALIA THIS MONTH. THEIR LAST STOP IN THE COUNTRY WILL BE AT HOBART’S BRISBANE HOTEL WILL LOCALS KNIFE HANDS AND SPEECH PATTERNS.
You guys have sure seen members come and go. Is that stuff you would rather leave in past or has it helped to define the band today? Have you learnt to talk things through rather than someone say “I quit”. We are still on good terms with the guys that left the band. We slept at our old guitar player Chris’ house last night in New Jersey. It is not easy touring for months at a time, while keeping a home life together. There exits were not that dramatic. We are not living in the Rock Of Love Tour Bus. You say “who cares” to getting little credit in mainstream media. Why? Surely the spotlight grows a band’s profile then you can reach more people. I play in this band because it’s fun, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment. At this point it seems we would have to change our music or the way we look to get the attention of mainstream media. My school of thought is this: Be yourself, if people don’t like it they can go fuck themselves. Is your music an avenue for both your fans and yourselves to vent and simply get lost in the music? Over the years I have let myself become a slave to the song. Whatever I do has to add to the song. If a part requires the most simple beat ever written, or something I can barley play then so be it. I think we (the band) are all on the same page with this. Know your role and do it to the best of your ability. Tell us the advantages/disadvantages to recording at home verse in a studio with a producer, which one do you preview and why?
When I wake up at home I get some coffee going, next I toast some bread. While the bread is toasting I slice up 1/2 a banana. When the toast pops, I put peanut butter on both slices of bread. After that I put the banana slices on the bread. That’s a good breakfast. When I am recording away from, I still have the coffee, but I eat whatever is there. You recorded Partycrasher at a home studio. Was it more of a comfortable writing process than having a stranger/producer leaning over your shoulder? We have always written songs as a band. We have never had a stranger leaning over our shoulder during the writing process. Well, there was this one time this drunk dude was leaning over me when we were going over a new song at sound check. Was that guy a producer? Broad question but tell us about the punk/ hardcore scene in America. Will you find different support levels of punk as you go from state to state, or different scenes/sounds/ genres?
Of course. I think all types of music should get a shot at some radio play. I think there are two types of music. Good and bad. It’s a shame that we get force fed the same crap over and over again. When could we expect the next album? We are still touring on our last release Partycrasher. When that cycle ends we will get to work on the next one. Your Melbourne show of the Australian tour has sold out. That must be refreshing to know you have a fan base here. Is that different to the last time you came out to our country? What did you experience? It is refreshing. We have a great time every time we travel to Australia. The crowds have been great, and the people have been awesome. It was unexpected the first time, but it always is when you are so far from home. Also, it is so incredibly beautiful. MARK ACHESON
Broad answer: You never really know what you are going to get from city to city. There are punk hardcore fans everywhere. I am lucky to get on stage and play in front of people in general. Whether it’s 15 or 5000 I am happy to be there. Hardcore and punk have made names for themselves over the past few years in Australia. We’ve had bands beat pop artists in our national ARIA charts. Is that something you see or would like to see in America?
A Wilhelm Scream will play Saturday May 2 at The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart. Support from Knife Hands and Speech Patterns. Tickets available from Oztix.
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EVERYBODY DESERVES MUSIC MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD WILL PERFORM AN IRRESISTIBLY FUN SET OF HITS AT THE ODEON THEATRE THIS MONTH. AHEAD OF THE GIG, AMERICAN FRONTMAN MICHAEL TALKS OPTIMISM, MUSIC, AND THE MAGIC OF PEOPLE. On April 21, Micheal Franti turns 49. But he’s still as energetic as he was in the ‘80s when he first stepped onto the scene with punk band The Beatnigs. “I feel like my energy is more enthusiasm than it is actually measurable calories or something,” Michael says. “I like playing music, I love meeting people, I love going to new places. I love challenging myself to do something that I’ve never done before. I think that’s where it comes from. It’s just that I found this curiosity for life.” Life isn’t one big party for Michael, though his music may make it appear that way. Feeling the joy when the music stops isn’t without effort. “I feel like optimism is something you have to practice to become good at. It’s just like anything else. It becomes part of you after a while.” “I can’t imagine these days just writing a song that would talk about the negative aspects of life without talking about a way to get through them, a way to fix them. I’m constantly in search of that.” With songs often influenced by politics, Michael has worked to shed light on war and social justice issues. He was awarded the Global Exchange Domestic Human Rights Award in 2001, and his documentary film I Know I’m Not Alone was inspired by a search for peace in the Middle East. “When I watch the news today, it’s easy to get frustrated, to wake up in the morning to feel like the world is this impossible place. But music is one of those things that helps me to find that other side. It’s not that I don’t get sad or disappointed – I do like everybody else on a regular basis. But I try to find a way to get me through it and bounce back.” Michael hopes his music helps people train themselves to be optimistic. It seems he’s certainly met with success. “I do shows all the time where I can see people who are bummed out – they walk in and they’re kind of quiet. They’re carrying whatever’s happening in their life with them into the concert.”
he recalls one particular encounter he expects will stay with him for life. In a recent concert in Wyoming, US, he invited a group of young people onto the stage to dance with him at the end of the show. When the group left, one little girl remained. Her name was Isabelle, and she requested Michael give her the microphone. “I gave her the mic, and she pointed to all the members of the band one by one and said, ‘I want the bass player to be happy. I want the guitar player to be happy. I want the drummer to be happy’.” “Then she went around and pointed to each of the instruments themselves and said, ‘I want the guitar to be happy, I want the drums to be happy, I want the bass to be happy’.” “And then she pointed to the crowd and said, ‘I want everyone in the whole crowd to be happy’, and, ‘I want everyone in the whole world to be happy’.” Michael learnt the girl had Down syndrome and her mother mentioned that it was World Down Syndrome Day. “The whole crowd of 12,000 people started chanting, ‘Isabelle, Isabelle’. It was a really beautiful experience. Music has its way of bringing special things out. That was a moment that none of us in the band will ever forget.” Michael returns to Tasmania for the first time since a New Year’s Eve concert in 2002, which he says “added time to my life”. “I mean that quite literally. After the show, we got on a plane and flew to back across the dateline to Hawaii. Then we played another New Year’s Eve party. I actually had a day added to my life, thanks to Tasmania. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
“But by the second song, they’re jumping up and down, singing along, they’ve got their hands in the air, they’re hugging their best friend. Then they’re walking out of there with a smile on their face. That’s the thing that really gives me satisfaction.” Known for his ability to connect with members of the audience – rather than merely entertain – Michael says the experience of his live shows is just as important to him as to those who come to watch. “I love feeling that I’m not alone in the world. I feel sometimes like I get more out of it than the audience does. Music is this amazing thing: you can’t see it, you can’t hold it in your hand, you can’t taste it or smell it. But thousands of people will go out into a field somewhere just to have their eardrums tickled with tiny movement of air molecules. That is the magic in it.” Michael’s latest studio album with Spearhead All People is about uniting people through that magic, despite differences. The well-travelled singer has met people all over the world, and
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Michael Franti & Spearhead will perform at Odeon Theatre, Friday April 3 at 8pm, tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au.
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THE OCEAN PARTY “MY VOICE IS PRETTY UNIQUE, IT’S BEEN SAID” IT HAS INDEED BEEN SAID, AND WILL BE AGAIN. JEFF MARTIN - OF BOTH SOLO AND TEA PARTY FAME- IS ELABORATING ON THAT QUALITY WHICH HAS MADE HIM A ROCK ICON FOR TWENTY-FIVE-ODD YEARS. “There’s an encyclopedia in my head, as far as music is concerned. I can dip into a lot of different periods: blues, jazz, some of the older rock and blues. I’m a pretty good mimic.”
Just in case you wanna pitch your tunes to Martin, he’s looking for new acts! But they have to have a certain je ne sais quoi…
You no doubt know Martin best from his work with “Moroccan roll” heavyweights The Tea Party, who split in 2005 after fifteen-odd years together. They recently reunited and put out the highly-anticipated The Ocean at the End last year, a decade after their last release.
“What I’m looking for is integrity, of course, in an artist. Whether it be folk or rock or whatever, or even pop, I love hearing the sensual in the music I listen to. It’s an esoteric way to describe it. It’s something that I haven’t really figured out the words yet to describe what I wanna hear, I just know when I hear it.”
“It was seven years of us being apart” Martin explains. “And what seemed like instrumental difference at the beginning became quite petty, because the three of us missed making music. No-one since we left the scene has taken the mantle ‘cause no-one sounds like that band. We had something new to say and something relevant to record and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results.”
“What you have is too many bands doing the early 70s hard rock thing; there’s so many. All these young bands have just discovered Led Zeppelin II for the first time. But that’s only one facet of guitar-based music. What makes the Tea Party music, or my music, not ‘retro’ is that it is exploring music from all over the world and incorporating it. You’re just not rehashing old riffs from the ‘70s.”
With his solo work, Tea Party and Black Diamond Express (a side project with The Superjesus’ Sarah McLeod and Baby Animals’ Mick Skelton which came about after Martin and McLeod toured together), Martin is insanely busy. But he promises he’ll relax soon enough.
You’ll usually notice Martin always plays a bevy on instruments on any given project, usually a smorgasbord of European stringed instruments and interesting sound-makers from somewhere in the world. This ties in nicely to Martin’s desire for esoteric and unique sounds in his music.
“I’m going to become a bit more focused after this solo tour is finished. Officially my record label [93 Records] is going to be up and running, we’ll have a couple of releases at the end of the year on that. I’m going to focus on that, and my production work as well. Producing is a great love of my life, I’ll be actively looking for more singer-songwriters and bands to produce that will reflect esoteric 93 Records sound. It’s a new career but also one I’ve always done; I produced every single Tea Party record.”
“If it has strings I get into it. It seems I have an infinity, a knack for these instruments and the scales and stuff. Once again, there’s no explanation for it, it just happens. Maybe its proof of the existence of past lives…”
Martin’s mention of past lives makes me wonder what his living beliefs are; although Martin does not consider himself a typically religious man, he does conform to a particular set of beliefs called Thelema, developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley. I in no way have the word count to accurately describe the system itself, but its main tenant is, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.” “If people are interested, they can look it up...it works for me and it is my spiritual belief, but it’s not something that I want to preach about. Life is angelic. There’s a balance but I also very much embrace what people would consider the ‘darker’ side of the psyche because I have to respect both in my personal beliefs.” “I have no fear at all; I get an enjoyment out of Luciferian energy, which is nothing to do with the devil. Luciferian energy is what rock and roll was always meant to be about; rock and roll was meant to be dangerous. The power of the music that the Tea Party has created, or that I create, even on acoustic, people go, ‘it’s on the edge here.’” Get on the edge! LISA DIB
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“Who do you think you were?” I ask. “I dunno, but it was someone damn interesting (laughs)”
Jeff Martin plays: Thursday April 16 - Royal Oak, Launceston Friday April 17 - Republic Bar, Hobart
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THE WAYS OF MAY SOULFUL SINGER-SONGWRITER HANNAH MAY IS SET FOR A FULL MONTH OF GIGGING TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF HER POZIBLE CAMPAIGN. AS SHE PREPARES TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HER DEBUT ALBUM THE LITTLE THINGS, THE HOBART ARTIST AND SOUTHERN CROSS YOUNG ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR FINALIST REMINISCES ABOUT HER ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE.
Releasing a debut album isn’t all fun and games. What’s been the biggest challenge so far? The greatest challenge has been knowing when the right time was to do this album and whether or not to do it alongside a Pozible campaign. This album has been at least seven years in the making. That is a lot of life. A lot of emotions, trials, personal growth, relationship changes - especially between the ages of 19 and now 25. Since last year, many changes have occurred in my personal life which reflects into my writing and performing life, and I now feel a new strength to undertake the biggest step in my music career yet.
With songs like ‘Bottle of Tea’ and ‘The Little Things (Chloe’s Song)’, your music is so often about female empowerment. What social influence would you like your music to have on the women in your audience? My aim is to write songs that inspire, build and challenge women to be who they are - and not be afraid of who they are. It is so easy to sit back and say, ‘I can’t do anything’, ‘I am a single mum’, or ‘I don’t think I am confident enough to do that’. But we can all make a difference, and it always begins at home. You’ve had years on the scene but your recent run of achievements has propelled you into big local fame. How do you feel
about becoming famous in the town you grew up in? I have to say straight up, I don’t really see myself as famous. I love music and I love performing, and being a ‘public figure’ has become part of that. It has opened up quite a few doors with performance opportunities, as you are now being seen and heard by a wider audience. People like Clare Bowditch inspire me because they use their music and profile to raise awareness for causes they mean something to them, which in turns creates a huge wave in their fan base. I look forward to having a music profile where I can do the same. As a Southern Cross Young Achiever of the Year finalist, what advice would you give to young Tasmanians who have a dream to follow? Find yourself a mentor, someone you look up to and meet up with them regularly. Never be afraid to ask questions and be humble in what you do. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
Hannah May will perform across various locations throughout April. Follow her at www. facebook.com/hannahmay. She will launch her pozible campaign on April 2 at The Founders Room, Salamanca Arts Centre, 7pm. Free event, more info from www.salarts.org.au/event/ hannah-may-pozible-campaign-launch/.
MUSICAL STICKS EVER HEARD OF A CHAPMAN STICK? NEITHER HAD I. BUT FORMER DRUMMER KONRAD PARK IS MAKING SOME HOT MUSIC ON THIS MODERN INSTRUMENT WITH HIS STICKRAD TRIO AND WILL PERFORM ACROSS HOBART THIS MONTH. DESCRIBING HIS TUNES AS “SOUNDTRACK MUSIC WITH BEATS”, KONRAD TALKS ABOUT THE LIMITLESSNESS (AND FREAKISHNESS) OF HIS…STICK. So, what the devil is a Chapman Stick, anyway? ‘What the hell is that thing, is that a zither?’ You sometimes get that, or: ‘Is that like a sitar?’ I suppose people equate a long stringed instrument with other similarly long necked stringed instruments. The Chapman Stick is the 1974 invention of one Emmett Chapman from Woodlands Hills, LA. It’s basically a fret board with a pick-up, there’s no acoustic sound. Why do you play it? Aren’t normal instruments enough? And you cannot try to convince us this is normal. It’s not normal. It’s not a guitar, it’s not a bass, a keyboard, zither or anything else. It’s a… Stick. I play it because I can be very rhythmic, melodic and harmonic and I’m generally free to decide when to inhabit these roles. In that sense, I feel the Stick is closest to a piano or keyboard than anything else. My first instrument was drums, so I was very taken by the possibilities of interlocking rhythmic parts on the Stick. Playing this instrument is also payback for me against any perceived limitation of being only a rhythm section artist for over three decades. As good as that has been to me, my creative mind has usually been a long way from what you see on stage when I’m backing someone on drums. What are some of the benefits of performing with the Stick?
I’ve been able to use the instrument as a writing tool and to really develop an approach to composition. You can also play whole arrangements on the Stick, melody in the right hand, bass parts in the left and it’s very satisfying when you finally get your first song down. The instrument forces me to play differently and I’ve always loved that hands-wrapped-around-the-instrument approach. Do you find audiences react to it as a novelty instrument? I find it curious - but not surprising - that some folk wish to impose their musical standards or opinions on to the Stick. This is not to say that the Stick shouldn’t stand up to the type of scrutiny and musical rigour that any other musical instrument would normally receive. Each instrument has its technical challenges and for Stick, these are still being defined because the instrument is only 40 years old. What advice would you give to those who may wish to attempt the Stick? Do it now! If you have a genuine freakish interest in the Stick, then get started sooner than later. You can play the Stick in a very primitive rhythmic way, with very little technique or you can drive yourself to sleepless nights, dreaming up endless musical challenges for yourself. Believe me, I’ve done it. You will find a life for yourself as a Stickist, somewhere between those two extremes. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
Konrad Park will perform as part of his Stickrad Trio on April 19 at The Homestead, 7pm and April 25 at MONA, 1pm. Both free events. For more about Konrad and his Stick or if you’re interested in lessons go to www.facebook.com/ stickradmusic.
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MUSIC FOR AN IMAGINARY WORLD CZECH DUO DVA, AKA BÁRA KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ AND JAN KRATOCHVÍL, ARE COMING TO TASMANIA ON THEIR FIRST AUSTRALIAN TOUR. Formed in 2006, the pair describe their music as “pop for non-existing radios”, “folklore of non-existing nations” and a “fantastical collage of pop, tango, cabaret, circus and radio noise”. Their current album ‘Nipomo’, won album of the year at the Vinyl Music Awards. The duo has toured extensively through Europe and the US, to add to that, they’ve also created their own language. Aside from music, what other things inspire your work? We record all our music in a house in the mountains. It’s in the middle of nowhere, so one of our biggest inspirations is nature. We love collecting mushrooms (it’s very common for Czech people), so this means we walk in the forest a lot. Cross-country skiing, travelling and touring are also very inspirational. You say your music is “pop for non-existing radios”, if you had your own radio station, what kind of music would you play? Oh, we love lots of different music. Our radio station would play Arvo Part, Gorecki,
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a lot of hip hop like Young Fathers, Clipping and Shabazz Palaces. We’d also play music by some of our friends like Midi Lidi, Ventolin, Napszyklat, and maybe some old African electro music like Francis Bebey. In the night we would just play some field recordings. You also describe your music as “folklore of non-existing nations”, what’s this nonexisting nation like? It’s called the Nirish nation. The name of the country is Nirska Unija. The population is 101 million and the area is around two million square kilometres. The most interesting tourist spot is a very deep lake in the desert, it’s 1876 metres deep. It’s connected by labyrinth of caves. The water is extremely healthy, but it’s pretty dangerous to swim in. It’s full of prehistoric
monsters, and monsters prefer human meat, of course. Why did you create your own language? For us, music is more important than lyrics. Also, we can’t speak English very well. When we sing in Czech we have an accent, and we can’t write very good lyrics. Using our own language gives us total musical freedom, and of course, it’s not a big problem if we forget the lyrics in the middle of a concert. Have you written it down? Do you have a dictionary of the DVA language? Yes, we’ve written all the lyrics down, and we have translations, but no dictionary. On our first album “Fonok”, we were inspired by some European languages and we
imitated them. They are pseudo- Estonian, Hungarian, French and Latvian. We’ve listened to a lot of radio stations from these countries and we tried to figure out how they work. How do you want people to feel when they listen to your music? Sometimes it’s nice if it’s a dancing rave party, and sometimes it’s nice if people are just sitting and listening. It depends on where we play, we just want to play music we like. EMMA LUIMES
DVA Play At the Homestead April 24, Fresh on Charles April 25 and MONA April 26.
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the DJ steals my girl without breaking a sweat.”
APART FROM HIS ICONIC HEAD OF CURLY LOCKS, MUCH HAS CHANGED ABOUT LEO SAYER. IF SOMEONE MENTIONED THE VETERAN MUSO TO YOU NOW, YOU MIGHT IMAGINE A POP FALSETTO AMID SYNTHS AND DISCO BEATS. WHICH IS FAIR. HIS CURRENT INCARNATION CAN BE BEST FOUND ON HIS NEW ALBUM, RESTLESS YEARS, HIS FIRST RECORD IN SIX YEARS. BUT SAYER MAINTAINS THAT HE’S BEEN IN THE INDUSTRY LONG ENOUGH TO SHAPE-SHIFT MANY TIMES OVER. One of these changes included becoming an Australian citizen five years ago. Sayer lives in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales and bloody loves the place. Doesn’t feel the same about our current government, mind... “It was in the reign of Rudd, when Kevin Rudd was PM. He invited me to Canberra and did the whole ceremony with my partner Donatella. It was a fabulous day. I’ve always loved it here, I’ve always been a proud supporter of Australia...don’t love the present government, but what can you do (laughs). I don’t like any government really, I’m a big greenie.” Sayer has been around longer than some of us have been alive- that’s a pretty epic career. A career that has seen many ebbs and flows since his first singles in the early Seventies. One such notable occurrence was in 2006, when dance musician/ producer MECK remixed Sayer’s 1977 hit, “Thunder in My Heart”, bringing Sayer new attention. “There’s a way to integrate the old into the new; it has to be done very well and artistically. I hope that’s what happened with Thunder. It seemed to only do me good. There’s a song [on Restless Years] called Competing With a DJ, it’s about the DJ who walks in with a box of records and steals my chick and my work (laughs) I’m all sweaty and packing up the band and
BABY ONBOARD THE AUDREYS ARE HEADING THIS WAY TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THEIR 2014 ALBUM, TIL MY TEARS ROLL AWAY ON VINYL. NOT THAT THEY NEED AND EXCUSE TO GO ON TOUR.
“We love touring, I mean, you don’t do it unless you love touring”, says Taasha Coates, the feminine half of the Adelaidian duo. Coates became pregnant with her second baby shortly after their 2014 release. “When I had my first baby, I took a bit of time off, like a year all up”. This time round, she was much keener to get back on the road. “There was a time when I wasn’t sure whether I was going to go back into it, then I just started to really miss it, I really missed the road, and I missed making music”. “And I thought, you know, can I do both? Can I? I don’t even know yet. I’ve done both with one, but can I do both with two? We will soon find out”.
Coates will have her youngest with her when the Audreys plays here in April. “I took my first son with me touring when he was a baby”. “My youngest is only three and a half months old. Babies are actually very portable, they’re quite easy to take on the road, you know, older ones are much harder. Toddlers can run away, babies just sleep, eat and poo”. As much as she likes touring, Coates really, really likes vinyl. “We actually put all our records out on vinyl, we love vinyl, we’re just total vinyl heads” “It’s just a lovely experience grabbing something on vinyl, you feel like you
Despite - or perhaps because of - the aforementioned disco-pop pigeonholing, Sayer is keen to show his versatility. “At the end of the day, the proof is how you are live. You have to understand you’re always gonna be pigeonholed, people want to write short columns about you. I’m not one of the one dimensional artists, a lot of the biggest artists are one dimensional so they’re easier to sum up and describe in the media...I mean, bless his heart, Michael Buble just sounds like Michael Buble, doesn’t he? I’m an artist who is very diversified; I do lots of different styles. People call me an entertainer; I do seek to entertain, I like contrast and light and shade and rock and roll and danceability.” “Pop music is designed to sell records. The essence of pop is singles, always was. It’s an instant medium. The core element is the voice, my voice is still strong after all these years! How do you take that to the live arena? Is an artist gonna show that they can do more than what’s on their singles? Expand their sound? I’ve got a big sound on Restless Years, that’s the sign of an artist, if an audience closes their eyes and they hear a representation of the record they loved. If they can hear that, you’ve become something special.” LISA DIB
Leo Sayer plays: Saturday 11th April- Launceston Country Club Sunday 12th April- Wrest Point, Hobart Restless Years is out now.
actually own something, it feels special, it looks special, you can’t lose it down the back of the couch, It’s not just a digital code, I love it”. The Audreys recorded most of the album in five days. “We didn’t allow ourselves time to get too ponderous and self-involved, we just had to do it, and it was fun! It was the most fun I’ve ever had making a record, I usually find it quite stressful”. “We did 14 hour days. It was just grab some dinner, grab some sleep and back into it for five days, and then you can sit and look back at it and say, well, it’s done now”. “We just didn’t have time to ponder and think ahhh! is it alright?.. Are people going to like it?” Til My Tears Roll Away was ARIA nominated, but they missed out this year. Not that they mind, they already have three, and they don’t feel any pressure to back it up with a fourth. “We stopped worrying about that a few records ago, I reckon, you have to. You have to move past it and just think about making the record you want to make”. “We lost this one to John Butler, we’ll forgive him one day..” EMMA LUIMES
The Audreys play at Fresh on Charles in Launceston April 17 Hobart’s Republic Bar April 18, supported by Brother Buffalo.
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THE REACTOR CORE 25 YEARS ON, JUNO REACTOR IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE GLOBAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE. A FUSION OF TRANCE, INDUSTRIAL AND GLOBAL SOUNDS, THE OUTIFT’S MUSICAL OUTPUT HAS FEATURED AS THE SOUNDTRACK TO FILMS, TELEVISION AND VIDEO GAMES AS WELL AS THE DANCE FLOOR OF FESTIVALS AND PARTIES WORLDWIDE. THE CORE OF JUNO REACTOR IS ENGLISH MAN BEN WATKINS WHO WILL BRING THE SOUND SYSTEM SET TO AUSTRALIA THIS APRIL FOR THE EARTHCORE LAUNCH PARTIES. WE SPOKE TO HIM AHEAD OF THE TOUR.
This is your first visit to Australia in quite a while, what memories do you have?
“Invisible” for the last album, The Golden Sun of the Great East. I like these types of encounters.
Arriving in Oz for our last tour, all our drums were burnt by Customs as they had animal skins, despite the fact they were the same ones we brought the time before... Being given an ancient Boomerang which I still have and sits on top of my mixing desk to bring me the mystical forces needed for my tracks. Watching a big fat hairy spider crawl over Simpiwee’s barbie bloated stomach, waking him up as it got near his face, then enjoyed watching him do gymnastics around the room in a fit of fear...
You seem in image and music to be a juxtaposed between tribal and technological. Thoughts?
Would you define Juno Reactor as a solo artist (i.e. yourself), a band or a ‘project’?
Film makers inspire me a lot,: Luc Besson, Luis Buñuel, Parajanov, Wachowski’s, Tom Tykwer, Mira Nair, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, soo many more.. Artists Cindy Sherman, Pipilotti Rist, James Turrell, Yinka Shonibare, Leigh Bowery, Race Horse company (Circus) Dream Think Speak (Immersive Theatre).
It has always been a collaboration project where I am central to it, the longer it has gone on I am glad I set it up this way, so when a current member starts to get bored or pissed off I open the door to new blood.
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Well I worked with Amampondo (South African percussionists) for a long time, and I would still be today if it was not so difficult to finance, they are wonderful people and musicians, and so easy to tour with, inspiring in rhythm and laughter. Outside of music, what creative artists do you identify with?
You have a history of collaborating with musicians worldwide, both in the studio and live. Are there intentions to connect with Australian musicians while here?
A lot of your creative output has gone into scores for flim, The Matrix series being the most well known. Do you set out with the intention of what a particular piece of music is meant to be used for?
I don’t plan these collaborations, if they happen they happen. I was in a Taxi in Bombay with one of India’s top Bollywood singers, I asked him to sing me a song into my Digital recorder. It was amazing, so i took it back to the Hotel and wrote
With the Matrix films I was scoring to picture for 6 months in LA. I always write with a story in my head, so for me it is a film, and sometimes picked up later, like ‘Pistolero’, ‘Conga Fury’, and a number of other Juno Tunes.
Do you feel that your music is a soundtrack to the current day or future? I write about today, the present, what i feel and see, what surrounds me. I need a track to have it’s own story, or otherwise i can’t finish it. Do you find surroundings to have a profound effect on your creativity? Always, travelling allows me to access a lot of different emotions, good and bad, and goes into the washing machine of my brain. Do you write when you travel or this is reserved for your time in the studio back in England? I write two or three tunes on every flight, I hardly ever use them, I write in my hotel rooms if I get enough time to stay in one place. Usually it is in note form and I take these idea’s back to the studio and see what works best. Your shows in Australia will be the sound system set. Can you please explain what this comprises of? It is a performance based DJ show with myself and Mali Mazal the JR dancer. It is full interaction with myself, Mali and the audience. NIC ORME
Juno Reactor Sound System will perform at The Republic Bar on Thursday April 2. Support from Grouch. Tickets available from the venue and www.earthcore. com.au.
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TIME FOR A ROB BRASLIN LEGAL SPACE OUR NEW MAYOR, THE HONOURABLE SUE HICKEY AND A FEW OTHER COUNCILORS OF THE HCC HAVE RECENTLY BEEN MAKING NOISE ABOUT THE GRAFFITI ISSUE IN HOBART. Well they might – check these figures Sue recently posted online: “The current council graffiti budget is $116k and there is a request to increase this for the remainder of this financial year. We currently receive around 4 (estimated) jobs per day from the general public either by the City’s graffiti hotline or phone ins during the day. This can vary quite a bit and it is not uncommon to receive up to 10 calls a day from the pubic requesting assistance especially after a weekend. On average we would be attending to 20 jobs per day with a number of these having to be programmed between 6.00am & 7.30am due to the traffic & pedestrians. One truck attends to graffiti with up to 2 persons 5 days a week, this is currently being reviewed for the need to increase resources to this area to meet demand. We also have an arrangement with DIER & Aurora whereby they contribute a certain amount each year for The City to remove graffiti from their assets when we are in the area or a request is made.” Sue is right – that’s a lot of resources chewed up. The thing is, this is not going to stop Graffiti. Nothing stops graffiti. You can arrest people, fine them, even jail them and there’ll be 20 others to fill the place of the few that get caught. That would seem to be obvious. I understand entirely that businesses do not like vandalism but the people doing this are ahead of you. They adapt: they make stickers and use techniques to move faster and get away. They tag: tagging is driven by illegality. Tagging is about being seen, leaving a mark and getting away fast. The resources required to catch one tagger would seem ridiculous when you know there are dozens out there. I don’t really dig tagging but I know why it’s there. But what to do? Because Sue Hickey is right, something needs to be done. I just don’t think criminalising young people is a great idea. I think it’s time to go the other way: make some legal spaces. I know this will not solve everything. But reaching out to the community that makes the graffiti and creating a dialogue will go a long way. There have been good developments, such as the Mather’s Lane project. That space has been activated by art and clever development, and it’s pointing the way ahead. We need more spaces for people to gather, relax and to share art. There are a number of potential excellent locations now, that are already used for Graffiti and street art, making them legal would improve the quality of the work. Council might even have some scaffold so people can make bigger, more permanent pieces that beautify and activate disused corners of Hobart. Look, I know this is a lot of work, but so it trying to paint over everything. At the very least, a legal space or two would be less work for council to paint over. Check out the Legalise Bidencope Lane petition on Change.org. ANDREW HARPER
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What do you like to talk about as comedian? Myself, which is kind of easy I know a lot about me. To begin with it was just fat jokes. It was therapeutic I guess. I got it out of the way but lately I have been talking about my crazy family, friends and octopuses. Octopodes. Octopi. But yeah, anything and everything that makes me giggle out loud. GOL
Comedy wise, sometimes I like to do some dirty jokes other times i like to keep it nice. Depends on my mood and the audience.
You seem kind of fearless when you do comedy, is that real or a fantastic illusion? Do you get the fear getting onstage?
Remember in the karate kid when he dresses as a shower to the Halloween dance? The bullies beat him up. All I’m saying is let me wear a shower and i will be happy.
I figured before my first ever stand up set I would do something scarier and harder than stand up comedy. I called up a friend i wasn’t talking to and sorted it out. That was scary and hard. After that telling jokes in front of people was not scary at all. My friend came to the gig. Also practicing and being confident in your material helps. Before the first gig my comedy friend Maedi Prichard (another excellent Hobart stand up comedian) told me ‘Rob, this means nothing, everyone is going to die’. So I remember that also. What’s the best gig you’ve done so far? Best gig was down at Franklin at the theatre there, big night. Fun crowd. Hanging backstage with local comedians and drinking free booze. Could not ask for a better night. Worst gig? Haven’t had a bad gig. There is still time. Weirdest gig? Weirdest gig was in a church community hall for James Warrens (another incredible local stand up comic) 18th. Nice enough night, I dropped the C bomb in front of his Grandmother. James’s father face palmed the whole night away. How important is hygiene to comedy? Hygiene and comedy are important i guess. Lots of handshakes sometimes nice half hugs. Gotta smell good if you want another gig. But hey if you are a genius and smell bad you might be safe. Are you clean? I’m clean, physically. I wash everywhere.
Are you very, very clean? Im not as clean as i would like. If I could live in a shower and get stuff done I would. But we don’t live in society that except people living in showers.
If you had the option would you like ten thousand dollars right now or 10 bucks a day for the rest of your life? 10 bucks a day for the rest of my life. Easy. Its simple financial math, 10 dollars a day buys a lot of money. Is organic food a way for hippies to be snobs? Everything is organic when you think about it. They can be snobby about what they eat and people can hate hippies for it but end of the day we are all being selfish because we aren’t watching The Karate Kid with our families. Parsnips. I love them. My wife hates them. Where do you stand? Parsnips are great, fried up and were there any in The Karate Kid? Have you ever sat up really late watching free to air television until you hallucinated? If so what did you see? I was up late the other night and this movie was on about a kid who just moved to a new town with his mum and learns to Karate from an old Japanese man to become a better person. I thought I was imagining it but turns out it was real. When can we next see you do comedy? My next gig will be at SOHO wed april 1st for cloud comedy 8pm. Funny comedians, Cheap drinks. ANDREW HARPER
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PAIGE TURNER IN BREAKING NEWS, THE RETURN OF THE TASMANIAN LITERARY AWARDS (NOW PREMIER’S LITERARY PRIZES) IS WELCOME. THE INCLUSION OF THE YOUNG WRITERS’ PRIZE IS GREAT, THOUGH THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE IS MISSING; A CATEGORY THAT OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AN INCLUSIVE CELEBRATION OF READING AND WRITING THAT WOULD REACH FURTHER ACROSS OUR ISLAND.
Tasmania seems to be the only place on earth where one regularly finds Tasmaniana sections in bookshops. It would be unusual to see these sections in bookshops around the country, despite the fact we are apparently hotter than we have ever been. Nor is it common to see, for example a South Australiana section in SA bookshops or a Queensland section in bookshops at that end of the Northern Island. We may, of course, just be flush with ourselves, but we also have a wealth of writers and a rich, deep, wildly moving, irksome and fascinating history. Accordingly, we have seen some interesting new books added to the supergenre Tasmaniana over the last month, including a new novel from Amanda Lohrey A Short History of Richard Kline and a new history of the island since colonial times, Van Diemen’s Land; an Aboriginal History by Murray Johnson and Ian MacFarlane. I am delighted to welcome John Retallick’s The ComicSpot onto Edge Radio’s long running Book Show. He’s bringing The ComicSpot back to the
airwaves, on the third Tuesday of every month between 6-7pm. John presented The ComicSpot on Melbourne’s 3CR for years and while I’ve been hosting The Book Show for about seven years now, being a comic illiterate, have shied away from interviewing or presenting around graphic novels and comics (apart from a memorable exception when Tricky Walsh, Josh Santospirito and I got the giggles live on air talking about San Kessto Publications’s Down There series. That show is not available for podcast. Tasmanianbooks.com started off in host, Andrew Wilson’s mind, as a hub for boat books, a genre that would have its own shelves in my dream bookshop. He has branched the site out now and while there is a wealth of maritime joy there are novels, histories, biographies and more available. In terms of bricks and mortar, Launceston’s newest bookshop, Volume 2 (the old Fullers) is hosting David Day discussing his new biography of Paul Keating, Paul Keating on April 17. Watch their space too, for an event with the Queen of Preserves, Sally Wise. Transportation Press, Tasmania’s newest publisher, bumped Flanagan off the number one spot for the first time since his Booker win with their first publication Islands and Cities (pictured). Submissions for their next book, featuring stories from Tasmania, the UK and Iran, will be open in May. For more information see Transportationbook.com (Here I declare a raging conflict of interest, as Tasmanian editor of Transportation). Tansy Rayner Roberts, who also writes delicious crime novels as Livia Day, has a new book, Defying Doomesday coming out from Twelfth Planet on April 1. The Launceston Tasmania Literary Award, which may be hosted on possibly the daggiest web site ever, is on again, for more details visit www. swwtas.org/249437475.
Transportation Islands and Cities A collection of short stories from Tasmania and London featuring Tadhg Muller Adam Ouston Ben Walter Susie Greenhill Erin Hortle Michael Blake Emma L Waters Oliver Mestitz Claire Jansen Darren Lee Martin Cornwell Ian Green Kate Ellis N Quentin Woolf Will Ashon edited by Sean Preston and Rachel Edwards.
Arts Tasmania have added another string to their bow (queue the violins of the terrible pun) and are hosting an online site for arts activities and resources. While they have a reasonable list of Tasmanian writers but it will be good to see it augmented with a lot of the writers recently emerged. For more information see www. tasmanianartsguide.com.au/search-results/?key words=book&date=all&custom-range=&region = The Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Society of Editors is running some interesting courses, if copy editing and discussing freelance editing fees are your thing. They are mine, so I thought I would share their website with you: www.taseditors.org.au/news.html. Posie Graeme-Evans is a vivacious Tasmanian who has contributed vastly to the arts in Australia. Her latest novel, set in the month before Charles and lady Di got married in 1981 is called Wild Wood and will be launched by John Honey on Thursday, April 2 at 5.30 at the fabulous Fullers in Hobart. Launceston’s lovely Petrarchs is hosting Nick Earls on Friday 24th April. Earls is discussing his children’s book New Boy. Nick Earls is the author of twenty books, including the bestselling novels Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses, Perfect Skin and World of Chickens. Devonport Bookshop is hosting Barry Heard on Saturday April 18. Barry will sign copies of his various books and is best known for his gripping history of the Vietnam War, Well Done Those Men. Launceston is still being glorious in the spoken word sense – The Poor Man’s Pot season finale is on Monday, April 20, at Fresh Café in Launceston. Poor Man’s Pot features everything from literary reflections to lowbrow humourea, the finale will feature folk musician Daniel Townsend, storyteller Bert Spinks and comedian Reece Lyne, as well as a cast of local guest yarnspinners. RACHEL EDWARDS www.facebook.com/warp.mag 19
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BRAIN FOETUS DISCOVERING THE WORK OF BRAIN FOETUS, THE RATHER TALENTED LAURA MCMAHON IS ONE OF THOSE EXQUISITE DELIGHTS THAT REMINDS YOU WHY YOU KEEP ON LOOKING AT ALL. LAURA’S WORK IS LIKE PEERING INTO AN EXQUISITE NEW WORLD WHERE THE LINE BETWEEN THE BEAUTIFUL AND GROTESQUE IS SO BLURRED THAT IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE DECIDE WHAT YOU’RE REALLY SEEING.
A young artist, her work has already appeared in serious gallery shows, at big festivals like MONA FOMA, but you can still see – in just a few secluded places – some of the paste-ups that first caught people’s eyes around Hobart town. Laura found some time to answer some questions for us. You have a very beautiful and distinct style, where does it come from ? I know that’s a hard question but something that is striking is how well formed your drawings are. They are very complete and alive. Hey WARP thanks for having me! “Style” the way I see it is just finding a way of making marks that feels the most natural. In that sense, I think my style has developed through working lots and trying things until I settled into a place where drawing the way I do became second nature.. I don’t use a lot of reference photos either which I think is responsible for the large element of naivety. I see almost all your illustrations as part of one long ongoing, complex story. Do your images relate to one another in a narrative? They are all interconnected. There are large parallels between my work and my life... It’s a very personal tale. There’s a lot of symbol and mystery in your work. Is there a meaning to it all or is that for the audience to work out? I am interested in ritual, worship and sense of place. There is a meaning to it all, but everyone 20
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finds their own and I don’t like to impose too much. Do you prefer making images on a wall or on paper?
studio with at Television Haus – Jamin, Jacob Leary and Eva Schultz. They’re all very diligent and inspiring to be around. Where are you from originally?
Walls. It’s a really powerful thing standing in front of works that are taller than me. Having said that, my focus has been on paper for a while now. I think I find it a little more challenging so I’m working on it.
I am from Fremantle in Western Australia. It’s a beautiful little town. Sunflowers grow wild there and it’s so hot in summer that the afternoon breeze has been nicknamed the Fremantle doctor…
Have your drawings and the worlds we see in them changed much?
How long have you been drawing for?
There are shifts all the time. I have been looking at masks a lot lately and they’ve been creeping in big time.
I’ve been drawing since I was a tiny sprout. Growing up I was predominantly a painter though. Drawing has been my main medium since 2012
How long might it take you to realise one of your images? They seem incredibly dense and complex (and thus very time consuming to create). Tricky! It’s that classic case of going into an art coma and becoming unaware of how the time is passing. Sometimes a drawing feels like it happens quickly until I count the number of Simpsons episodes I have absent-mindedly watched. Ballpark figures though.. I would say around a day or two for drawings and a week or so for paste ups.
You’ve been a street artist and now you’re in galleries, how is that change?
What materials do you use? For studio work I use Arches watercolour paper, fine pens and coloured pencils. Sometimes watercolours. For my paste ups I use Indian Ink and paint markers on Butchers paper. This is a bit of a naff question, but what inspires you to keep working? Hard workers. There’s a great art scene in Hobart and Tasmania, are there any Tasmanian artists that catch your eye? Heaps ! There are so many talented artists living and working in Tasmania.. I have always had a lot of time for Tom O’Hern’s work. I also really like Alan Young, Pat Brassington, Anne Morrison, Tricky Walsh, Sue Henderson, Josh Pringle, Molly Turner, Thomas Willis and the guys I share my
Yeah it’s a strange old world. I like hopping back and forth between the two as each allows me a different kind of freedom. Where can we see your art work next? At the moment I am working on a huge mural for ‘reclaim the lane’ which happens in Devonport soon. It’s the launch event for national youth week. You’re doing a workshop soon can you tell us a tiny bit about that? Sure can! The workshop is also in conjunction with national youth week. I’ll just be showing folk how to make paste ups. If you’re up north come hang out. Info is available through the Devonport Regional Gallery. ANDREW HARPER
Laura will be about for an afternoon of designing, drawing and installing a piece of street art. This will be held at the Devonport Regional Gallery on Wednesday April 8, 1-4 pm. Cost is $10 / $8 members. For ages 12+ Bookings essential: P. 6424 8296 or E. artgallery@ devonport.tas.gov.au
Arts THEATRE:
AT LAST: THE ETTA JAMES STORY
ETTA JAMES IS ONE OF MUSIC HISTORY’S FIERCEST AND MOST INTRIGUING PERSONALITIES; A SOUL PIONEER, JAMES IS ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNISABLE VOICES IN POPULAR CULTURE. FROM A DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD, TO A TUMULTUOUS ADULTHOOD (A PAINFUL DRUG ADDICTION A MAJOR FACTOR), JAMES WAS A HALL OF FAMER LONG BEFORE HER OFFICIAL RECOGNITION IN 1993 AND HER DEATH IN 2012. Enter Australian powerhouse vocalist Vika Bull. You may know Vika as one half of Vika and Linda Bull, the voice of 90s Aussie pop, or from her various recent work with Paul Kelly, Bob Dylan (!), Joe Cocker and Hunters and Collectors, to name but a few. Bull will be the face of At Last: The Etta James Story, a narrative concert covering James’ colourful life; Bull acts as narrator for the piece, but also lends her voice to a bevy of James’ greatest tracks. “I love her voice, that’s what I fell in love with” says Bull, discussing what drew her to the At Last show. “It’s because it’s got a lot to do with how she was raised, growing up on the streets, that’s why she’s such a great singer, she’d had a hard life. When you’ve had that bad experience, it’s very honest. She didn’t have a bad life, it was colourful, difficult. She said she had a real rollercoaster of a life, and she said she wouldn’t change a thing. I was like, ‘hell yeah. that’s her journey’. I’m not saying someone who has a cushy life is gonna have a crap voice (laughs) but growing up in the time that she did in America, being black, all that stuff going on, that had a lot to do with it. Plus she was just born with a set of pipes. She was blessed.” The At Last show is not a tribute concert per se; the show will be a story, a narrative telling of James’ life and work, interspersed with key musical numbers. Bull aims to keep the James-lovers happy. “I fell in love with her music and had no idea about her personal life until I bought
her book. She had dark periods of her life. She was one of the great singers in the whole world and she influenced a lot of other singers and people should know that about her. It’s paying her the respect she deserves. She’s just an honest singer. People have really loved the show” Bull and her band for the show, The Essential RnB Band, don’t always see eye to eye on how the songs should unfold, though. In the nicest of ways, of course. Bull and band have been cautious about playing the songs with their own style, but maintaining what people most love about James’ music. “We fight all the time (laughs), it’s how we hear things: ‘oh it doesn’t go like this, it goes like this’. People hear things different ways, you’ve kind of gotta meet in the middle somewhere. There’s people out there that know every little part of every song. I was just really flattered to be able to do this tribute to her. She has got a very thick set of vocal chords, which has been hard to mimic. I try to do all the songs as close to the original. Look at [the song] At Last; I think it’s perfect, why would go and fuck up something that’s perfect?” LISA DIB
At Last: The Etta James Story is on at the Theatre Royal in Hobart on Friday April 17
THEATRE:
SEMINAR “Writers aren’t people. This has never been more clear.” LOUD MOUTH THEATRE COMPANY ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THERESA REBECK’S PROVOCATIVE COMEDY, SEMINAR. SEMINAR IS A BRUTALLY FUNNY DISSECTION OF FOUR TORTURED FICTION WRITERS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE OF THEIR INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED AND ASTRONOMICALLY DRUG-ADDLED MENTOR AND TEACHER, LEONARD.
This biting Broadway comedy about power, sex, and art is a smorgasbord of vicious, hilarious wordplay examining the collision of innocence and experience. Directed by Loud Mouth’s own Maeve Mhairi MacGregor, the stellar cast includes Jeff Keogh, Robert Maxwell, Bryony Geeves, Zachary Lennon and Jessica Davies. What does it take to make it? Sacrifice, sex, self-loathing and cookie dough are all things this “tight, witty, and consistently entertaining” (The Hollywood Reporter) comedy promises to deliver. April 23 - May 2 Moonah Arts Centre (MAC) 23-27 Albert Road Tickets available through Centertainment 6234 5998 Head to www.loud-mouth.co for more information. www.facebook.com/warp.mag 21
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TASMANIAN YOUTH ARTS INITIATIVE 5 SHORT PLAYS AUDITIONS PLAYMAKING & PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR 12-17 YRS.
Transistor Youth Arts Pilot Program is an initiative driven by Lucien Simon, former Artistic Director of Riverland Youth Theatre, and supported by Kingborough Council and Tasmanian Regional Arts. By-Youth Arts provides the opportunity for young people to collaborate with professional artists and develop new work that is driven and created by the young people involved. The Transistor 5 Short Plays project follows the successful filmmaking workshops earlier this year where 8-12 year olds wrote, shot and starred two original short films. With ‘5 Short Plays’ 12-17 year olds will learn devising, improvisation and character development skills and then collaborate with professional writers
Ryk Goddard, Carrie McLean, Marisa Mastrocola and Lucien Simon to develop 5 new works that they will perform at the Kingborough Performing Arts Centre.
research shows that students who engage in performance arts (drama in particular) have higher levels of literacy than those who don’t.
What is by-youth arts?
Transistor Youth Arts Initiative is a positive community action to address the education needs of young people in Tasmania at time, where it could be argued, that the State Government is abandoning them.
The main difference between Drama School and Academies, that provide excellent training for aspiring young actors, is that By-Youth Theatre and Filmmaking provides the platform and support for young people to create new work that comes from their imagination and reflects their issues and concerns. In many ways it is similar to Community Art and hence is a very powerful mechanism for re-engaging marginalized or disengaged young people. For many this is the first time that they are heard and recognized and this has a direct effect upon their self-esteem and self-confidence as well as providing the necessary tools for effective teamwork. Why do we need this initiative? In the last year the education budget in Tasmania has contracted with the result of almost 300 staff, many of them teachers, being cut from public schools. The result of these cuts has been increased class sizes and the cutting of arts and media programs. At the same time Government figures show that almost half of Tasmanians over 15 years of age are illiterate and that test results show that there is a growing gap between Tasmanian teenagers and those on the mainland. Yet research shows, comprehensively through the State of Tennessee’s Student Teacher Achievement Ration Project that small classes lead to statistically significant improvements in reading and mathematics. Further, research shows, conclusively a direct link between engagement in the arts and higher grades at school. In particular
The aim of Transistor Youth Arts is to provide young people, and particularly marginalised young people who’s education outcomes benefit dramatically through engagement in the arts, with quality art programs. The medium term goal is to develop high quality school drama and literacy programs as now more than ever that young people in Tasmania need this opportunity. But right now ‘5 Short Plays’ will create the space for young to show the community their talent, creativity and them a platform to express the stories and issues that they want to share with the greater community. Auditions to be held on Sunday & Monday April 19 & 20 please contact Lucien to arrange your audition time: 0424 783 702 or email luciensimon@gmail.com. Bookings for auditions must be made before Monday April 13. Term II workshops start Monday April 27 4pm-5.30pm Total Cost: $150.00 (Auditions are free) Venue: Kids Allowed Shop, Channel Court Shopping Centre Kingston (between EB Games and RACT) For information about the tutors visit: www.luciensimon.com.au/5-short-plays/
The City of Hobart presents the
2015 City of Hobart Art Prize
CALL FOR ENTRIES Categories:
Drawing and Ceramics
Prizes:
Two acquisitive prizes of $15,000 (one for each media), plus a $1,000 People’s Choice Award
Entry Form:
Entry Form and Terms & Conditions available at hobartcity.com.au/ artprize
Entry Fee:
$40 per entry (inclusive of GST)
Entries Close: Midnight (EST) Monday 1 June 2015 Enquiries:
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South 146 ARTSPACE 16 Apr – 28 May Eloise Kirk THE ARTS FACTORY From 15 Apr Continuation past and present UTAS Fine Art Hons students ART MOB 10-26 Apr Murdie Nampijinpa Morris BETT GALLERY 10 – 26 Apr Matt Coyle Alex Davern CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 18 Mar – 18 Apr Outside Thoughts feat. Emily Floyd, Mitch Cairns, Darren Sylvester, Danie Mellor, Cur: Wes Hill COLVILLE GALLERY 27 Mar – 15 Apr Effie Pryer 17 Apr – 6 May Katy Woodroffe DESPARD 19 Mar – 13 Apr Damon Bird, Eva Schultz 15 Apr – 10 May Peter Hjort, Mike Singe, Andrew McIlory, Dale Richards, Catherine Woo HANDMARK 1 – 30 Apr Julie Payne INKA 30 mar – 25 Apr Mel Andrewartha, Felicity Edwards MAC 10 Apr – 2 May Les Allester 16 Apr – 31 Dec An/Other Time MONA 22 Nov – 13 April Matthew Barney 17 Jan – 6 July Biennale of Moving Images PENNY CONTEMPORARY 27 Mar – 15 April Christina Thwaites ROSNY SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY 13 Mar – 12 Apr India Flint 20 Mar – 12 Apr Robyn McNicol 17 Apr- 3 May Exposure (Artists supported by Life Without Barriers) 24 Apr – 21 May Centenary of ANZAC: Service at home and abroad ROUND ROOM GALLERY @ THE HOMESTEAD From 25 Mar Susan Fricker, Betty Debnam
SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE KELLY’S GARDEN 10 Mar – 20 Apr Lucy Bleach LONG GALLERY 17 Mar – 27 Apr Colonial Afterlives TOP GALLERY 2 – 30 Apr Cristine Palacious TMAG 20 Mar – 30 Aug Patrick Hall 23 Jan – 31 May 21 Up
NORTH BRAVE ART GALLERY (Longford) 4 – 26 April Dan Kershaw, Richard Klekocuik BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 30 Jan 12 Jul High Art 2015 14 Mar – 10 May Burnie Print Prize 2015 2 Apr - 10 May Ed Jones DESIGN TASMANIA 13 Mar – 19 Apr Indeco 13 Mar – 12 Apr Clarence Prize for excellence in design DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 8 Apr Paste Ups with Laura McMahon 13 Mar – 10 May ReViewing Cur: Dr Ellie Ray & Dunja Rmandic, Lisa Garland, Troy Ruffels, Ilona Schneider, Brian Sollors and the Robinson Collection GALLERY PEJEAN 11 Mar – 11 Apr Hugh MacLachlan GALLERY PEJEAN @ WHITE SANDS ESTATE 31 Mar – 31 May Director’s Choice HANDMARK EVANDALE 29 Mar – 24 April Hilton Owen QVMAG 14 Mar – 14 Jun Paper Garments for The Grave Until 17 May Made in China, Australia Until 12 Apr ArtRage 2014 Until 26 Apr Pete Mattila Until 17 May Wiliam Buelow Gould SAWTOOTH 2 – 25 Apr FRONT GALLERY: Darren Cook, Daniel Sowerby NEW MEDIA GALLERY: Grace Ho (Singapore) MIDDLE GALLERY: Hannah Bath (NSW) POP-UP Melanie Sweetman (NSW)
WARP RECOMMENDS…
The group show that’s still running at Contemporary Art Tasmania is pretty fantastic, especially if you’re keen to engage with the idea of curator creating a context to have particular conversation. This intriguing show is Wes Hill’s second go curating for CAT and he’s outdone himself this time: it’s a show about Australian identity (sort of, you’ll see) and given where we are a nation in 2015, this is something we all need to engage with. Outside Thoughts is at CAT GALLERY, 27 Tasma St North Hobart until April 19. Head to www.contemporaryarttasmania.org for all the details. Image credit: Emily Floyd, The Outsider, 2005. Wood, varnish, lacquer and acrylic paint. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
SOUTH
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COMEDY
THE BRISBANE 30 Apr The Comedy Forge
BURNIE ARTS CENTRE 7 -8 Apr The Listies make you LOL (comedy for children)
IRISH MURPHY’S 21 Apr Craic Up Comedy DICKENS CIDER HOUSE 2 Apr Uber Comedy 6 May Uber Comedy DOCTOR SYNTAX 24 Apr The Doctor’s Best Medicine
DICKENS CIDERHOUSE 15 Apr Uber Comedy FRESH ON CHARLES 24 Apr Fresh Comedy presents: Randy SHOTS ON WAX 30 Apr Crash Test Funnies
SOHO 1 Apr Cloud Comedy 5 May Cloud Comedy
THEATRE PRINCESS THEATRE 17 – 18 Apr TasDance 5 May Kelly
FILM CINEMONA Ends 4 Apr Swan Lake Ends 9 Apr Biennale of Moving Images Ends 11 Apr River of Fundament Ends 12 Apr Drawing Restraint Ends 13 Apr The Cremaster Cycle Ends 22 Apr Of Mice and Men Ends 27 Apr The Merry Widow Ends 29 Apr Girl with a pearl earring MAC (MOONAH ARTS CENTRE) 8 – 9 Apr Little Big Shots – film festival for children
THEATRE
SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE PEACOCK THEATRE 1 – 9 May PLOT presents Twelfth Night THEATRE ROYAL 10 – 12 Apr Pants Down Circus ROCK 23 – 25 Apr 100 Reasons for War 30 Apr – 2 May Kelly
QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY
Kelly 30 April to 2 May
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 3 & 4 July theatreroyal.com.au
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Event Guide
Hobart Date
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Date
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April Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 8pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tony Mak
Federation Concert Hall
Pirates in the House 6pm
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
T.J. Rhythm 8:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Dr Fink
The Homestead
Funknukl and Friends in the Blue Bar
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
PlanB Republic Bar & Café
Acts / Start Time
Grand Poobah
Hazey Daze presents Roland Tings
Grand Poobah
Stray & Skurgeone MEGA mini Tour
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Dane
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Onyx Bar
Tin Men 10pm
PlanB
Paces “Nothing is Forever” Tour
Republic Bar & Café
Dean Ray + Band 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Rum Jungle / Entropy
Waterfront Hotel
Aaron Courtney 8:30pm
Wrest Point Show Room
Jimmy Cliff 7:30pm
11 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES - Foolsfest - (back) - Scab Eater (Vic) + Sick People (QLD) + IRONHAWK (Tas) + Fixation (Tas)
Brisbane Hotel
(front) - Nowhere (Ger) + Laura Palmer (Vic) + The White Rose Project (Tas) + Lifes Vice (Tas)
Kid Kenobi Rude Boy EP Tour
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
DJ Millhouse
Earthcore - One Night In with Juno Reactor Sound System + Grouch + Justin Time + Loagsta + Grommet 9pm
Grand Poobah
Emlyn & Friends in the Kissing Room
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Onyx Bar
Boil Up 10pm
Pier One
Alan Gogoll 7pm
Republic Bar & Café
Lost Woods (SA) + Lewes + Maddy Jane & Band + Shamen Fox-Henry 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink
The Homestead
Dali and the Paper Band
Waterfront Hotel
Phil Micale 8:30pm
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Billy Whitton 5:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Smashers
The Homestead
Billy Whitton
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Paul Gerard 11:30am
Birdcage Bar
Shaun & Joel 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Damage Club w/ Knife Hands (Tas) + Skun Knees (Tas) + Dog Dreams (Tas) + DJs
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tim Hibberd / DJ Millhouse
Grand Poobah
Spearhead/Michael Franti Afterparty 11pm
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Onyx Bar
Fuse 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
Bobcats 10pm
The Homestead
JFB + Dameza + Tommy Twotoes + Secret Powers + SoundwaveDJ
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Teens of Thailand (Tas)
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
DJ Johnny G
Grand Poobah
Burlesque Afterdark followed by Sub Theory
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Onyx Bar
Everburn 10pm
Pier One
Billy & Tilly 7pm
Republic Bar & Café
Dog Dreams + The Saxons + Radio Silence 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Pete Thomas / Ebenezer Good
The Homestead
Guerilla Zingari
Waterfront Hotel
Matt & Abby 8:30pm
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Aly Rae Patmore Trio 5:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier 8pm
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Ramblin Rabbit
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett / DJ Dezzy
Claremont Hotel
Tony Voglino 2pm
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Blue Flies 8:30pm
The Homestead
Golden Gate Trio
Waterfront Hotel
Jerome Hillier 2pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett
Jack Greene
Cam Stuart
Republic Bar & Café
Neil Gibson 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
G.B. Balding (Finger Picking Blues) 8:30pm
Wrest Point Coffee Shop Birdcage Bar
Sunday
Monday
12 Birdcage Bar
Bingo w/ Ramblin Volcano
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tim Davies / DJ Dezzy
Claremont Hotel
Sambo & Patto 2pm
Forte Lounge
Cary Lewincamp
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett / Tony Mak
Republic Bar & Café
Sherry Rich & Rick Plant 8:30pm
The Homestead
Figure It In (Life Drawing)
Waterfront Hotel
Tony Voglino 2pm
Wrest Point Entertainment Centre
Leo Sayer - The Restless Years 8pm
13 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café
Tuesday
14 Birdcage Bar
Friday
Billy & Randal 8pm Quiz Night 8:15pm Tony Mak 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
Gus McKay 8:30pm
The Homestead
Naked Girls Reading
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Les Coqs 11:30am
Wednesday 15 Birdcage Bar
Thursday
Jason Patmore 8pm
Brisbane Hotel
Tony Voglino 8pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Jeremy Matcham
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Donavon Frankenreiter + Phil Micale 9pm
Telegraph Hotel
Dr Fink
The Homestead
Funknukl and Friends in the Blue Bar
16 Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Republic Bar & Café
Clint Boge 9pm
The Homestead
Brad Gillies
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Billy Whitton 11:30am
17 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
(back) - Work Ethic (Tas - Last Show!)
Brisbane Hotel
(front) - Heart Beach (Tas) + Peak Body (Tas) + The Out of Towners (Tas)
Les Coqs 11:30am
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tim Hibberd / DJ Curtain
Tony Voglino 8pm
Grand Poobah
The Birdmann, Egg & Friends Cabaret
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tony Mak
Grand Poobah
Eden, Lizard Johnny in the Kissing Room
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
DJ B-Rex
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Observatory Lounge Room
Republic Bar & Café
Mike McCarthy 9pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Telegraph Hotel
Smashers
Onyx Bar
That 80’s Band 10pm
The Homestead
Funknukl and Friends in the Blue Bar
Republic Bar & Café
Jeff Martin + Tim Davies 10pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett
The Homestead
Tetrameth (Melb) + Local Support
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Waterfront Hotel
Ebeneza Good 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Tim + Scott 8:30pm
The Homestead
Dub Bredda
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Alan Gogoll 11:30am
Saturday
18 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES & 18+ - Alpha Wolf (Tas) + I Exalt (SA) + Void of Vision (Vic)
Brisbane Hotel
(back) - Secret Valley (Vic) + Smutty & The Soda Creamers (Tas) + Treehouse (Tas)
(front) - Sail On! Sail On! (WA) + Lizard Johnny (Tas) + Adventurers (Tas) + Skate Wounds (Tas)
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
DJ Johnny G
Brisbane Hotel
(front) - Steel Swarm (NSW) + Taberah (Tas) + Taurus (Tas)
Federation Concert Hall
Remembrance 7:30pm
Grand Poobah
MenXclusive Male Revue Show
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett / DJ Millhouse
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
10 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel
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Venue
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Glen Challice 9pm
Event Guide
Date
Sunday
Monday
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Observatory Main Room Onyx Bar Pier One
Billy & Tilly 7pm
Republic Bar & Café
The Audreys 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Pete Thomas / Ebenezer Good
The Homestead
Ganga Giri (Byron Bay)
Waterfront Hotel
Shaun & Joel 8:30pm
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Aly Rae Patmore Trio 5:30pm
19 Birdcage Bar
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Transit 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
Festable Fundraiser w/ Aquilus (Vic) + Atra Vetosus (Tas) + Sanctify The Serpent (Tas) + Vrag (Tas) + Starmaker (Tas) + Skun Knees (Tas) + Axe Giant (Tas) + Taurus (Tas) + Omnicide (Tas) + Absolute Feces (Tas) + DJs
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Onyx Bar
Tin Men 10pm
Pier One
Les Coqs 7pm
Republic Bar & Café
Headless + Lab A + The Absolution Sequence + Scoraria 10pm
Jason Patmore 8pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink
(back) Trasharama Film Screening
The Homestead
The Seven Ups (Melb)
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett / DJ Johnny G
Waterfront Hotel
Aaron Courtney 8:30pm
Claremont Hotel
Jerome Hillier 2pm
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Django Tigers 5:30pm
Forte Lounge
Paul Gerard
Grand Poobah
Sunday Session with Babylon Howl, Stone Troll & Magic Beans 2pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Know Nothings (Tas) + Dead Farmers (Vic)
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd / Jeremy Matcham
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ The Ramblin Digger
Republic Bar & Café
Sunday Afternoon Soul Sessions (Beergarden) 2:30pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett / DJ Millhouse
Republic Bar & Café
Peter Hicks & The Blue Licks 8:30pm
Claremont Hotel
Shaun & Joel 2pm
The Homestead
Stikrad Trio
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd / Jeremy Matcham
Waterfront Hotel
Sambo & Patto 2pm
Longley International Hotel
BluzeBus
Billy & Randal 8pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Dean Stevenson 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Wahbash Ave 8:30pm
Sambo 8pm
The Homestead
The Dominic Francis Grief Ensemble
Brisbane Hotel
Quiz-A-Saurus
Waterfront Hotel
The Goodfellas 2pm
Republic Bar & Café
Brian Fraser 8:30pm
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Les Coqs 11:30am
Wrest Point Entertainment Centre
Human Nature - “The Jukebox Tour - A 25th Anniversary Celebration” 8pm
20 Birdcage Bar 21 Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 8pm
Sunday
Monday
26 Birdcage Bar
27 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café
Jason Patmore 8pm
Billy & Randal 8pm Quiz Night 8:15pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tim Hibberd
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Baker Boys 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Gillies Blues 8:30pm
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Les Coqs 11:30am
Telegraph Hotel
Luke & John
The Homestead
Funknukl and Friends in the Blue Bar
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tony Mak
Glen Challice 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
Mrs Cash 9pm
Micheal Clennett
Telegraph Hotel
Phrayta
Sound Club 13 in the Kissing Room
The Homestead
Funknukl and Friends in the Blue Bar
23 Birdcage Bar Grand Poobah Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Tuesday
28 Birdcage Bar
Wednesday 29 Birdcage Bar
Thursday
30 Birdcage Bar
Sambo 8pm
Everburn 8pm
Glen Challice 9pm
Rai Thistlewayte (Thirsty Merc) 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Comedy Forge
Smashers
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett / DJ Johnny G
Alan Gogoll 11:30am
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Jason Patmore 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
4 Letter Fish 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
(front) - Oslow (NSW) + Speech Patterns
Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Paul Gerard 11:30am
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett / DJ Millhouse
may
Grand Poobah
Lazer Baby, The Hannah May Mindset & Ali Probin
Friday
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Tim Hibberd / DJ Millhouse
Grand Poobah
Songwriter Sessions with Matt Doyle, Joel Imber, Seth David Henderson, Nick Machin, Leo Creighton, Chris Belbin & Zac Henderson
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Dane
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
Boil Up (Reggae & Funk) 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink
Wrest Point Show Room
Ace Frehley 8pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
DJ Johnny G
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Telegraph Hotel
John Harwood / Smashers
The Homestead
The Hannah May Mindset
Wrest Point Show Room
The Australian Bee Gees Show 8pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Micheal Clennett / DJ Johnny G
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd / Tony Mak
The Homestead
Hannah and Andrea
Republic Bar & Café Telegraph Hotel Wrest Point Coffee Shop
Saturday
DJ B-Rex
Bingo w/ Ramblin Ding Dong!
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
Friday
Acts / Start Time
Brisbane Hotel
Wednesday 22 Birdcage Bar
Thursday
Venue
Brisbane Hotel
Republic Bar & Café Tuesday
Date
24 Birdcage Bar
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Dane
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Onyx Bar
Ebeneza Good 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
The Racoons & The Revtones 10pm
The Homestead
DVA (Czech Republic)
Waterfront Hotel
Fuse 8:30pm
Wrest Point Show Room
Courtney Barnett 8pm
25 Birdcage Bar
Saturday
1
2
Glen Challice 9pm
Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge
DJ Johnny G
Forte Lounge
Alan Gogoll
Grand Poobah
Hazey Daze presents Kangaroo Skull
Sunday
3
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Launceston Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Club 54
Thump! @ 54 Presents: 90’s Night
The Royal Oak
Brad Gillies in the Public Bar 9pm
Date
april
Wed
1
Watergarden Bar Tassie Tenor 6:30pm Thur
Fri
2
3
Sat
4
Club 54
The Good Friday Eve Party: The Saxons + Actuality + Shadows + Brodygreg
The Royal Oak
The Embers (Album Launch) + Nick Hill & Isla Ka in the Boatshed
The Royal Oak
“So Much Sea” Tour - Mick & Soph McCarthy in the Public Bar 9pm
St Helens RSL
BluzeBus
The Royal Oak
S&M in the Public Bar 9pm
Tonic Bar
Midnight Flyers 9pm
Watergarden Bar Trevor Weaver 7pm Sun
5
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session in the Public Bar 5pm
Wed
8
Club 54
Thump! @ Club 54
The Royal Oak
Tim Whybrow in the Public Bar 9pm
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Country Club Show Room
Here’s to the Heroes 2:30pm
The Royal Oak
Delroy in the Public Bar 9pm
Tonic Bar
Well Strung 9pm
Watergarden Bar Andy & The Woodman 7pm 26 The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session in the Public Bar 5pm
Wed
29 Club 54
Thump! @ Club 54 Presents: Vinyl Nights
Thurs 5 James Fitch in the public bar @9pm
Open Mic Night 9pm
Fri 6 The Mojo Corner + Pete Cornelius in the Booatshed $ 5 cover
The Royal Oak
Watergarden Bar Tony Voglino 6:30pm Thur
30 The Royal Oak
Dan Townsend in the Public Bar 9pm
May
Fri
1
Country Club Show Room
The Australian Bee Gees Show 8pm
Fri
9
Country Club Show Room
Dean Ray & Band 7:30pm
The Royal Oak
Cirque Nivashi in the Public Bar 9pm
10 Club 54
Dali & The Paper Band + Pete Cornelius in the Boatshed
Tonic Bar
Ratfunk 9pm
Watergarden Bar Jerome Hillier 7pm Sat
11 Club 54
Stray + Skurgeone + Dead Fermata + Those Guys + 42 South + DJ Secrets & Reflekt + Mr Lucky + Fear The Fall
Country Club Show Room
Leo Sayer - The Wrestless Years 8pm
The Royal Oak
Taberah Album Launch Fundraiser w/ Lady Crimson, Steel Swarm and Taurus in the Boatshed
Tonic Bar
Agent 99 9pm
Watergarden Bar Tassie Tenor 7pm Sun Wed
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Open Folk Session in the Public Bar 5pm Thump! @ Club 54 Yen in the Public Bar 9pm
Thurs 12 Fourstring Phil in the public bar @ 9pm Fri 13 Lennin McKarthy + supports in the Boatshed @9pm
16 The Royal Oak
Jeff Martin (The Tea Party) in the Boatshed 9pm
Watergarden Bar Elvis We Remember Fri
17 Club 54
Date
Gus McKay in the Public Bar 9pm
Tonic Bar
Kaylens Rain 9pm
Watergarden Bar Sambo 7pm Sat
18 Club 54
Wed
Thur
1
2
LBC present Fiona Boyes (vic) in the Boatshed
Tonic Bar
Ratfunk 9pm
19 The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session in the Public Bar 5pm
Wed
22 Club 54
Thump! @ Club 54
The Royal Oak
Bronny & Phoebe in the Public Bar 9pm
23 The Royal Oak
Brian Fraser in the Public Bar 9pm
Fri
24 Club 54
Games Night @ Club 54
The Royal Oak
RatFunk in the Public Bar 9pm
Tonic Bar
Ball and Chain 9pm
Watergarden Bar Proud Phoneys 7pm Sat
26
25 Club 54
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Oslow + Speech Patterns + Violet Swells + Will Gammidge
Burnie
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Adrian Cunningham
Tues 17 Bronne & Phoebe in the public bar @ 9pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Tapas Trivia
Wed 18 Matthew Dames in the public bar @ 9pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
Rino Morea 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
3
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
4
Latrobe
Mackeys Royal Hotel
Clay Soldier 9pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
Retrograde 9:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Wed
8
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Open Mic
Thur
9
Devonport
Molly Malones
Jerome Hillier 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Brad Gillies
Fri
10
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Rock Pigs
Sat
11
Latrobe
Mackeys Royal Hotel
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
Take 2 9:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
Burnie
The Butter Factory
Dean Ray Live
Devonport
Molly Malones
Sambo 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Cam Sherriff
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
Wynyard
The Wharf Hotel
BluzeBus
Latrobe
Mackeys Royal Hotel
Sambo 9pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
Kaylens Rain 9:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Unit
Burnie
The Butter Factory
Clint Boge
Devonport
Molly Malones
Trevor Weaver 8:30pm
Thur
16
Fri
17
Sat
18
Thur
23
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Unit
Fri
24
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
BFM
Sat
25
Latrobe
Mackeys Royal Hotel
Retrograde 9pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
Retweet 9:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
Devonport
Molly Malones
Proud Phoneys 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Watergarden Bar Tassie Tenor 6:30pm Thur
Acts / Start Time
Sat
Watergarden Bar Rino Morea 7pm Sun
Venue
Fri
Mellowfest
The Royal Oak
CITY
Sun 15 Open Folk Session in the public bar from 5pm
April
I Exalt + Void of Vision + Alpha Wolf + Interview With An Escape Artist + Actuality
The Royal Oak
Sat 14 LBC presents Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges + The Kyron Howell Collective in the Boatshed
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Watergarden Bar Rino Morea 6:30pm Thur
Sun 8 Open Folk Session in the public bar from 5pm
Wed 11 RatFunk in the public bar @ 9pm
Laura Palmer + Nowhere + Bennylava
The Royal Oak
Sat 7 Mr Black & Blues in the Public bar @9pm
Tues 10 Howling Ron in the bar @ 9pm
Watergarden Bar Jerome Hillier 6:30pm Thur
MARCH
Sun
Thur
30
may Fri
1
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Sat
2
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Live Music
Thurs 19 Matthew Fagan in the Boatshed @ 9pm Fri 20 The Rumjacks + support in the boatshed @ 9pm Sat 21 Delroy in the Public bar @ 9pm Sun 22 Open Folk Session in the public bar from 5pm Tues 24 Jericho Jack in the public bar @ 9pm Wed 25 Open Mic Night from 9pm Thurs 26 The Beards "Strokin My Beard Tour" with special guests The Stiffy's in the Boatshed from 9pm Fri 27 Luke Parry in the public bar @ 9pm Sat 28 Delroy in the public bar @ 9pm Sun 29 Blues Jam Session in the boatshed from 1pm free entry Open Folk Session in the public bar from 5pm ~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~
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