Warp Magazine April 2016

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ASTA Friday 8 April

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April 2016 Friday 1st 5pm Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Tim & Scott + Free BBQ 10pm Rewind Saturday 2nd 10pm Saskwatch + CUB Sport + Violet Swells $17pre/$20door Sunday 3rd 8.30pm Wahbash Avenue Monday 4th 8.30pm Montz Matsumoto Tuesday 5th 8.30pm Jed Appleton + Sophia Simes da Silva Wednesday 6th 8.30pm The fabulous bluecats Thursday 7th 8.30pm Finn & Helen Friday 8th 5pm Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Bianca & Hutch + Free BBQ Friday 8th 10pm Asta + Supports $20pre/$25door Saturday 9th 10pm Rock For Elvie - Joshua Santospirito, Betsy blue, Niandra Lades, The Pits, Phat Meegz and Lizard Johnny $5 Donation Sunday 10th 2pm Jane Austin fundraiser with Pete Cornelius + Zuma $10 8.30pm Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks Monday 11th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 12th 8.30pm Tarik Stoneman & Sam Forsyth Wednesday 13th 8.30pm Royal Gala Thursday 14th 8.30pm Jimmy Watts Friday 15th 5pm Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Tony Mak + Free BBQ 10pm Sugartrain $5

Saturday 16th 10pm Standing Room Only with Colours + Lingo + Stynes Legends + Modern daze + Forecast + Steve Miller Project $25GA/$50VIP/$35door Sunday17th 2.30pm Beer Garden Party American BBQ Feast with Smoked 8 hour brisket, Whiskey Glazed Chicken Wings, Corn on the Cobb, Salad and Tim & Scott Playing live - FREE EVENT 8.30pm The Rays Monday 18th 8.30pm G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) Tuesday 19th 8.30pm The Sign Wednesday 20th 8.30pm Heloise + Violet Swells + Pat Broxton and the Sleepyheads Thursday 21st 8pm The Comedy Clubhouse with Tommy Little (Upstairs) $20pre/$25door 8pm The Catch Club Friday 22nd 5pm Acoustic Sessions with Jed Appleton + BBQ 10pm Boil up $5 Saturday 23rd 10pm Darren Middleton (Powderfinger) + Mia Wray $20pre/$25door Sunday 24th 8.30pm Blue Flies Monday 25th Closed - Anzac Day Tuesday 26th 8.30pm Billy Whitton Wednesday 27th 8.30pm Hui And The Muse Thursday 28th 8.30pm Tim & Scott Friday 29th 5pm Acoustic Sessions with Dan Vandermeer + Free BBQ 10pm Chase City Free Show Saturday 30th 10pm King Cake Feat Pete Cornelius $5

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News in Brief LOCKED AND LOADED Established in March 2014, “Unlocked” is a platform for Hobart’s live performing artists to showcase their talents in a professional setting. It’s now back, in a new venue, on a new night - The Waratah Hotel, Thursdays from 6pm! It’s an opportunity that can be hard to come by, but by offering a nurturing space Unlocked set the stage for new performers to break the ice, reputable artists to try something new, and everyone to see what’s happening in Hobart’s music world. With the new and re-vamped event comes a fantastic new atmosphere, new audiences, and new opportunities. Rock along and see what local talented performers have to offer, or jump on stage yourself!

DRINK YOUR SMILK

If you’re in to techno and progressive bits and bobs from all over the country, you’ll be wanting to head along to The Homestead in Hobart on Friday April 1 at about 8.30pm. And take $10 with you. Otherwise they won’t let you in and you would have gotten off the couch for nothing. The legend that is SMILK will be playing a live set, joining him will Kase Kochen (alter ego of Fatty Boomstix), Vis Vires, Lumen, and Grommet. It’ll be a veritable smorgasbord of progressive trance, techno, house, soundscapes, basslines, kicks, synthesis, darkness and drinks. So head along, have a bop to some tunes from all around the country.

toured to over fifteen countries, and from the Australian National Circus Festival to the Glastonbury Music Festival, to being nominated Most Original Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe and even being a special guest at the Sydney Opera House. This very special event will be released as a downloadable film and DVD created by highly talented Tasmanian filmmakers, supported by Wide Angle Tasmania through the Audacity Fund and through a crowd funding campaign with cool rewards. Don’t miss it! 8pm on Saturday April 2, at the Peacock Theatre in Salamanca.

SOMETHING OF NOTE

and putting on a benefit gig and raising funds to support education in a Maasai community in northern Tanzania. It’s a Zebra Safari night! Wear your finest black and whites and get amongst it. It’ll be an epic journey through electro swing, breaks, ghetto funk, ragga, jungle, techno and psy. Featuring the likes of Fatty Boomsticks, Max Power, Kireesh, Vibrant Matters, Grommet and many more TBA. Head along, donate some of your hard earned, and help some peeps in far off lands. $10 entry is all you need ($15 if you’re feeling extra awesome).

FTW LIFE FTW!

Noteworthy is the next stage in professional performance opportunities.

Bringing together three fantastic acts from around Hobart every Sunday for an introductory set in a new waterfront environment (Customs House Hotel from 2:30pm), it’s all about celebrating talent, providing a nurturing and educational performance experience, and indulging in the audience’s desire for a relaxed and enjoyable Sunday session, and really, who wouldn’t love a lazy Sunday sesh on the waterfront? Sounds ace to me. First show is on Sunday April 3, so head along then. Or any Sunday after that. Or EVERY Sunday after that. Hell yeah.

On Wednesday April 30, Twisted Lime on Liverpool St in Hobart will play host to a very special array of music talent in an attempt to raise funds for a suicide prevention app being developed by FTW Revolution called “FTW Life”. Supported by Stone & Wood Brewery, Patagonia Byron Bay, and FTW Revolution, punters will get to see Betsy Blue, Babylon Howl, Valkyries and DJ Crème Broulee for the bargain basement price of just $10. All proceeds will be going towards the development of the app, so not only will you be seeing a bunch of rad acts for cheap, but you’ll be supporting a great cause. What else do you need to know? Doors open at 8pm.

See you there.

STARS AND STRIPES

DAMIEN LEITH’S BIG O

a very close affiliation and connection with the Big O, having recorded and worked with the late Barbara Orbison and continues to write with legends that worked with Roy Orbison, regularly in Nashville. Leith last toured this show in 2011 to sold out theatres nationally and will pay tribute to ‘The Big O’ like only Damien can. To catch a bit of Damien Leith’s Big O action, you should head along to Wrest Point Entertainment Centre on Saturday April 30. Tickets are $65.60 and are available online via www.tixtas.com.au.

THE DROOOOOOOONNEEEES

With their national tour set to kick off at the end of April, The Drones are excited to welcome a bunch of the country’s finest along for the ride. Melbourne’s Harmony will be joining them for the majority of the shows. Harmony features members from bands such as Nation Blue, Mclusky Paleheads, Time For Dreams, Palm Springs, Remake Remodel, Ukeladies, Steve Miller Band, Jackie Winter and Led Zeppelin amongst others. You’ll be able to catch The Drones and Harmony when they play at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Saturday May 21. Tickets are available now and will only set you back $35 + bf.

Grab them from www.oztix.com.au. Doors open at 8pm.

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For one night only, the internationally infamous Birdmann will perform his greatest comedy variety acts and make a film of it! The man like no man has

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April 2016 marks the 80th birthday of the legendary Roy Orbison, and to celebrate, Damien Leith will perform a strictly limited run of dates of his stage show, ‘Roy - A Tribute to Roy Orbison’. Leith has

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Urthboy’s new release is garnering bucket loads of praise around the traps, and for good reason. The consistently solid MC has been a pillar of the Australian music community for many a year now, with a long list of A+ releases, but his newest album (titled The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat) could just be his greatest yet. To celebrate its awesomeness, he’s setting off on a nationwide tour to launch it in to the stratosphere. The good news for us, is that he’ll be dropping in to the Republic Bar & Café on Saturday May 28 as part of that tour. Even better news, is that he’ll be joined by the equally awesome L-Fresh the Lion, and Okenyo. Get amongst it!

past few years, releasing their self-titled debut album on limited edition yellow vinyl in February 2015, and supporting the likes of Charles Bradley, The Budos Band, Babylon Circus and The Bamboos. They’re favourites of the folks at The Homestead in Hobart, so they’ve gone and booked The Seven Ups to play there on Saturday June 4. It’ll only be $15 on the door, and it’ll kick off around 9pm. Don’t miss that one!

WILD MARMALADE CRAZY JAM

EEAAURRRGHH (THAT’S WHAT THE ACTUAL WILHELM SCREAM SOUNDS LIKE)

Recognised internationally for their relentless, energetic and downright exhausting live shows, A Wilhelm Scream is a riff-heavy, overwhelming assault on the senses. They never fail to disappoint.

AWS, as they are affectionately known to their multitude of fans worldwide have been tagged “…one of the most creatively engaging and thoroughly fun and exciting bands in punk” and you’ll get absolutely no arguments from us. They’re setting off on an eight stop Australian tour throughout May, and they’re wrapping up the whole thing down here in Tasmania. What a way to go out with a bang! You’ll be able to catch A Wilhelm Scream at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Saturday May 28.

Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au.

Wild Marmalade are the world’s original high-energy Didgeridoo dance band.

Heralding from Byron Bay, and fusing the ancient sounds of the Didgeridoo with contemporary dance beats, their sound is a meeting of synth stylee Didgeridoo drones with the explosive beats of a live drum kit. Wild Marmalade are a formidable force in world dance music, having worked with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas and Montreal, and toured Japan and Europe twelve times (throwing in some USA tours for good measure not to mention their Australian action).

You can catch a bit of their infectious awesomeness at The Homestead in Hobart on Friday June 10. $10 on the door.

Blending influences from 70s Nigerian Afrobeat with the deepest of street funk, The Seven Ups are the original 7-piece party band out of Melbourne. Expect unrestrained solos by unkempt horns over an unpretentious rhythm section whose only interest is laying it down! They’ve gone from strength to strength over the

Josh Pyke is back again. One of Australia’s most respected and successful musicians, whose extensive career has taken him around the World, Josh Pyke will be sharing his solo tour across the country and with the heart of Australia, taking to the stage for his most regional supporters.

Tasmania is pretty damn regional, apparently, because he’s playing three shows around the state. On Thursday July 28 you’ll be able to see him at Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport. On Friday July 29 he’ll be appearing at the Country Club Showroom in Launceston, and on Saturday July 30 he’ll be playing the Waratah Hotel in Hobart. Tickets are available now from www.oztix.com.au or www.tixtas.com.au .

“Henry Rollins returns to Australia this September, in what will be his first all talking affair since 2012. He mammoth month long national tour takes in all corners (and comers) from Newcastle to Hobart, Lismore to Margaret River, Milton to Alice Springs as well as the usual expected city hot spots.” That’s from the press release, but really, the only words we give a crap about are “Henry Rollins”, “September” and “Hobart”. Mr Rollins will be hitting the stage at the Theatre Royal in Hobart on Saturday September 17. Tickets are available now from Theatre Royal, and will cost you $59.50. Just a heads up that the show goes for 2 hours and 30 minutes.

And it’s Henry talking, non-stop, there’s no interval here. It’s epic.

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Following the recent release of his new EP Way Down South, Joe Mungovan is set to head off on a huge national tour.

Debuting at #2 on the iTunes singer/ songwriter charts, Way Down South showcases Mungovan’s brand of indie folk with rhythmic detail, catchy melodies, and thoughtful lyrics. Lead Single “My Jumper” was released in September and immediately scored airplay on triple J, having since been added to rotation on triple J Unearthed. Mungovan will be making one stop in Tasmania, playing a super exclusive house show on Saturday June 18. It’s so super exclusive that we actually have no other information on it.

Maybe get in touch with Joe yourself via his website (www.joemungovan.com) and hassle him for some more deets!

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EARLY BLOOMERS IT’S BEEN A STRING OF SUCCESSES FOR SYDNEY DANCE TRIO RUFUS; THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ATLAS TOPPED THE AUSSIE CHARTS IN 2013, A FLURRY OF ACCOLADES FOLLOWING THE YEAR AFTER. THEIR SINGLE YOU WERE RIGHT WON BEST DANCE RELEASE LAST YEAR WHILST 2016 HAS ALREADY SEEN THE BAND ATOP THE CHARTS ONCE MORE WITH THEIR SECOND ALBUM BLOOM. NOW MAKING WAVES WITH A WORLDWIDE TOUR, RUFUS TOOK TIME OUT OF THEIR CURRENT EUROPEAN ESCAPADES TO CHAT WITH WARP BEFORE THEY CROSS THE SHORES ONCE AGAIN FOR A HOMELAND TOUR COME MAY. You recently spent some time living in Berlin sourcing inspiration for the new album; in what ways did your time there help to shape Bloom?

It was pretty perfect for us really, a lot of the music that we had been exposing ourselves to and that we were inspired by was coming from Berlin, so we were basically surrounded by it. We had no distractions either since we didn’t really know anyone over there, so we were able to totally focus on writing tunes. We would stay up until 3am most nights writing music and getting totally lost in our own little world.

You guys recently signed to Foreign Family Collective following your tour with Odesza, who released Bloom in the US. How do you hope this newly forged relationship will benefit the band/what should fans expect?

It’s really cool to have been given the opportunity to release with the Foreign Family Collective team, we love their output and feel like we’re on a similar page with their team and their audience. That kind of harmony is pretty amazing to work with. I guess we’re really stoked that people with similar taste will have a chance to discover our music. Very exciting.

Your music is a mix of electronia and live instruments and vocals. Does this present any more challenges when recording or performing live? How important is this mesh-up approach to what you’re trying to achieve with your music?

There aren’t really inherent challenges, it’s actually really cool that we have the ability to operate in the two worlds.

When we write and record our music we’re purely focused on songwriting, production, mixing, space, and the song itself. From there we have the chance to reinterpret it in a live sense and take a totally different approach, which is a really cool process for us.

Last track on the album, Innerbloom, is almost ten minutes long and has been described as the high watermark of the album, and that the album seems to lead or revolve around this song. Was this the intention?

Does this song point to where Rufus is headed?

It wasn’t the intention. We had already written most of the album by the time we wrote Innerbloom. I think that’s why we never worried about the length or type of song that it was... We just wrote till we felt like stopping. To be honest, the day we wrote the premise of that song was a day we all decided to just have fun and mess around in the studio as opposed to finishing ideas off that were almost done. We were just writing for ourselves and never even considered it to be a track that would make the album. I think that’s what makes the song so true to us and that’s why it felt like the heart of the record in a way.

The band has also said Innerbloom is the most personal song you’ve ever written, how so?

As I said above, we didn’t think about anything when we wrote that song. We just lost ourselves in the studio for a few days. I think a nakedness comes out in the songwriting when you write from that space and that’s exactly how the song feels to us. Like we were letting go. The final lyrics in that song “if you want me, if you need me, I’m yours” were improvised and the final vocal on the album is the first demo vocal we laid down. We tried to re record it but for some reason nothing could compare to the naked rawness of that first demo. It just felt like the song to us.

the kinds of sounds we were going for through the whole recording process. When we discovered that there was this dual meaning to the word Bloom it seemed to tie perfectly with the rest of the themes of the record, with that sense of growth and discovery.

For us Tassie fans who got to see you recently at Falls Festival Marion Bay (some of us lucky enough to see you both times you played), can you tell us a little bit about that gig and what it was like to play leading up to NYE to your home crowd?

The Falls Festival shows have been incredible for us. Still to this day that sunset slot two years ago on the smaller stage as the sun was dipping behind the hills in Marion Bay is one of our favorite shows we’ve ever played. For some reason that falls run of shows felt like a tipping point for us as a band. So to come back two years later (NYE 20152016) to play on the main stage at the same festival was the nicest feeling we could have wished for. Tassie has always felt good to us so it was the perfect way to walk into the new year sharing a night with Marion Bay like that. Plus it’s not often you get to share a stage with Paul Kelly.

You guys have just kicked off the World Tour and are currently in Europe, what’s the experience been like so far? Highlights?

We’ve been having a pretty special time over here; it’s the first time we’ve played shows in a lot of these places and to be selling them out and playing packed rooms is pretty surreal… On top of that, we are loving breezing in and out of different towns and cultures and taking in as much as possible… The highlight would have to be strolling though Barcelona on our day off and witnessing all these mind blowing buskers whipping out musical treats echoing through the old town’s walls.

Supporting you on your national tour is duo Bob Moses and homegrown Tora; are you looking forward to touring and playing with these bands?

Yeah, something that we were very excited about, going in to this tour, was to curate a night that we personally would be excited to go to… We are huge fans of Bob Moses and have been rinsing their last album ever since it came out and it’s still as good as that first listen. We also got to catch their show in London last year and catch up with them and they were just as excited to come to Australia and play on our tour. Tora are also an amazing talent from the hills of Byron Bay with a vibe that we totally identify with; swooning vocals and intricate electronic percussion and grooves that we think is going to be setting the mood perfectly on our tour.

Both your last albums have reached no.1 on the aria charts, Atlas went Gold and You Were Right off the new album received best dance release at the ARIAS..you guys are on a roll! How are you planning on keeping up the momentum in the future and what’s in store?

Yeah we’ve been really lucky with how everything’s come together over the last few years and we are very grateful.

We love our jobs, and so for us the answer is simple; we just get to continue doing what we’ve been doing. Sure we have goals and plans, but the best thing we can do is to keep playing to as many people around the world as possible, and continue to make music in between tours so that’s it’s not too long between drinks/releases, and that’s what we intend to do…

The album has an underwater current to it (excuse the pun), what was the idea behind the theme and the title Bloom (the collective noun for jellyfish)?

We were finding ourselves really inspired by underwater landscapes early on in the writing process. That sense of sea creatures being weightless and almost suspended in the sea. That underwater vibe definitely carried through to

Rufus play at The Odeon Theatre on Saturday May 7. Tickets are sold out, but there is a rumoured after party where the guys may be appearing! Keep your eyes peeled.

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IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS WHEN DARREN MIDDLETON ANSWERS THE PHONE FOR OUR CHAT, HE ADMITS HE’S “A BIT SHAGGED”. THE FORMER POWDERFINGER LEAD GUITARIST HAD BEEN RIDING HIS BIKE AROUND MELBOURNE ALL MORNING TO GET THE BLOOD FLOWING. BUT STILL IN THE HIGHEST OF SPIRITS, THE NOWSOLO ARTIST CHATS ABOUT HIS NEW SINGLE FAVOURS WITH MISSY HIGGINS, WHAT IT’S LIKE TO START FROM SCRATCH, AND THE MEANING OF SUCCESS. CATCH HIM AT THE REPUBLIC ON APRIL 23.

Darren, it’s safe to say you’ve been a member of one of the most famous bands to come from Brisbane. And now you’ve released your second album Splinters all on your own, almost three decades after you broke onto the scene with Powderfinger. What’s your idea of success?

but that’s been overshadowed by the personal satisfaction of trying to do what I do well and having people dig it. I’m not unaware of the fact that I'm in a pretty good position to be doing this –doors are a little more open for me than bands starting out.

Success for me these days is kind of how it’s received on a personal level. When I do gigs, I get a real indication that way– it’s not so much as per radio play or sales, because I’m not that sort of artist anymore these days. People genuinely seem to dig it and respond and take the time to share how they feel. I love it when people come up and just talk to me.

You talk like it’s an easy ride– but it’s not like you haven’t worked for it.

So you didn’t measure success in this way during your Powderfinger days?

I like the song– it’s probably one of my favourite ones to play and sing. It’s saying: ‘I just accept you for who you are’. I love that Missy Higgins came on board with it and what she leant to it, I love listening back. The flavour is a little bit different to the other songs– it’s a little less rock-based and more country-infused. It's not really a country song, but I thought it was something a little different.

No- just the sales during the ‘fingers time was always surprising to us and not something we ever took for granted. We were so popular and there were heaps of people, so in that environment you tend to be disconnected because you can’t give them your attention. These days it’s a lot smaller, and I love it.

You started from scratch with your band back in the ‘90s– isn’t breaking onto the scene once challenging enough? What’s it like starting all over again?

It’s been daunting at times– I don’t have anyone to carry my gear around for me, and the hotel level is a bit lower than the previous hotel levels.

But that’s all good. It’s been a little challenging

I have put a lot of work and time into everything– but everyone works hard.

So, Favours. Why did you choose to release this one as a single?

That’s surprising you don’t consider it a country song– on listening to Favours, it’s so unexpected to hear you in such a strong country style.

Rock music and country music is fairly designed around the same chordal elements– it’s just a different bounce for country. When you’re a songwriter with an acoustic guitar, it’s either a ballad you come out with or something that’s a bit bouncier on the acoustic. You never know how things are going to end up when you start recording, but that’s where it ended up for me.

And Missy seems the perfect fit.

I’ve always been a huge admirer of Missy– what she does, when she does it, and the reason she does it. She’s a pure artist and songwriter. She needs to have things to say and all her songs are personal stories or observations. I had her in mind from the get go. We met through Powderfinger days and we’ve since done gigs together. And she’s lived around the corner here from me in Melbourne for the last few years, so she’s kind of a neighbour for me as well.

Even though you’ve gone solo, you’re still so inspired when working with others. Clare Bowditch, Paul Dempsey and Pete Murray also come to mind. What does collaboration mean to you?

Music is people. And I’m a big believer that there’s no such thing as a solo project. There’s always other people involved. It was because I always felt like: ‘Guys, I’m not that good– can you help me sound better?’. With the second album Splinters, I was much more comfortable with what I can and can’t do. So it was more a case of asking these people to be involved to help the story and become a character in the songs. There’s a couple of young singers in there that I know are really good singers. If I can shine a light on them at any point, then I’m more than happy to do that.

Before we say ‘ta-ta’, we’re all curious: any more releases with Powderfinger?

There’s nothing planned or no one hinting at it. It’s been five years since we decided to call it a day.

Everyone’s pretty happy just doing what they’re doing. But you never know what the future will bring.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Darren Middleton will perform at Red Hot Music in Devonport on Friday April 22 and at The Republic Bar on Saturday April 23. Tickets available from the venues.

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ROCK FOR ELVIE A SPECIAL FUNDRAISER WILL BE HELD THIS MONTH IN HOBART FOR ELVIE, A BEAUTIFUL 3 YEAR OLD GIRL FROM THE NORTH WEST COAST. RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH A RARE FORM OF CANCER, KNOWN AS WILMS TUMOUR, ELVIE IS CURRENTLY RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY BUT WILL ALSO HAVE TO HAVE A 10 X 6CM TUMOUR REMOVED ALONG WITH HER RIGHT KIDNEY. HER ONGOING TREATMENT IS BEING CARRIED OUT IN MELBOURNE AT SIGNIFICANT COSTS TO THE YOUNG FAMILY. The Hobart fundraiser night will feature local performers including the dreamy, Lynchian, improvised guitar sounds of Joshua Santospirito, the sorrowful, alt-country heartbreakers of Betsy Blue, the jinglyjangly folksy goodness of Niandra Lades, the pop rock in a soda can hits of The Pits, the steazy ska punk grooves of Phat Meegz and last but certainly not least the mind blowing psychedelic rock n roll of Lizard Johnny.

Elvie will begin radiation on April 4, so this event will also coincide with her first weekend of radiotherapy. Elvie will also require ongoing tests for the unforeseeable future so any money raised will greatly benefit this wonderful family. Come along and enjoy a night of great Hobart music to support a great cause.

AMY KERR

Rock for Elvie will be held at The Republic Bar on Saturday April 9, with entry by a $5 donation. To support Elvie’s direct head to www.gofundme.com/ hdq7y63w.

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DE-CONSTRUCT SINCE 1998, NEW YORK PUNKS LEFTÖVER CRACK HAVE BEEN GIVING THE STATUS QUO A RIGHT RUN FOR ITS MONEY. THE BAND, SIGNED TO FAT MIKE’S (NOFX) LABEL FAT WRECK CHORDS, HAVE BATTLED CENSORSHIP, LABEL LEGAL DISPUTES AND OUTRIGHT BANS FROM VARIOUS CITIES AND, FRONTED BY VOCALIST SCOTT STURGEON, HAVE LONG BEEN AN OUTLET FOR COLLECTIVE SENTIMENTS OF ANARCHY, POLITICAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND SOCIAL RAGE. STURGEON EXPLAINS THAT, EVEN IN THE TWENTY-ODD YEARS THEY’VE BEEN ROCKING, HIS POLITICS HAVE REMAINED STEADFAST.

“I suppose that I pay more attention and find myself more informed about the intricacies of current events and politics, but that has not affected the politics that I’ve held since I was a teenager...” he explains, which you can tell quite easily by comparing the band’s first album Mediocre Generica (2001) to their most recent release Constructs of the State (2015); in between those two differing but complementary records, was the album Fuck World Trade that, as you can imagine, earned the band the most amount of ire and shock. The album cover alone features the famous image of the two burning, attacked Twin Towers with George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Rudy Giuliani (Tony Blair on the UK release) causing the bombings.

“It’s pretty much the same as when it was released” Sturgeon says, on how the reaction to the album would be nowadays, “except that people are less critical and more accepting of my lyrics concerning the police above all.”

Constructs of the State features guests like Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy), Penny Rimbaud, members of Bouncing Souls, Mischief Brew, Riverboat Gamblers, Conquest for Death and Intro5pect, to name a few. The album came about naturally (“We just didn’t rush the recording process which gave a lot of time to track down friends of ours to record on the album. There was no deadline to finish the record until it was almost done early spring of 2015.”) after several years of side projects and much-needed time offthe band also took a hiatus in 2004 after the death of their drummer Brandon Possible- with Sturgeon dedicating time to his hardcore punk ‘supergroup’ Star Fucking Hipsters.

“We’re all helpless to some extent” he explains, as we discuss activism and the feeling of helplessness one can feel in an ever-ridiculous and bigoted world. “But we’re all also the only chance to affect change at the same time.

I’m seeing more possibilities for unheard voices than ever.

I am watching policies changing in the U.S. that are huge landmarks in ending the war on drugs and a sharp turn in public attitude towards the police and how authority is delegated mostly thanks to social media.”

LISA DIB Leftöver Crack play Saturday April 2 at The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart with Phat Meegz, Skun Knees and This is a Robbery

DOG DAYS EMILY LUBITZ, SINGER/GUITARIST FOR AUSSIE FOLK/INDIE BAND TINPAN ORANGE, DOESN’T CARE MUCH ABOUT THE SOCIETAL PRESSURES OR ‘EXPECTATIONS’ OF MOTHERHOOD. SHE’S BACK OUT ON THE ROAD AND ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WITH THE BAND’S NEW ALBUM LOVE IS A DOG- OUT APRIL 8- AND HASN’T FELT THE NEED TO PUT IT ALL AWAY SINCE HAVING WEE ONES.

“I think since having kids I’ve become more grateful,” Lubitz explains. “I had my first kid five years ago and getting back on stage, I was so afraid, it made me scared again. It made me grateful again to get out of the house, I could have this other life. To be a mum, it’s kind of scary when your life is taken away from you. I started touring when both my kids were three months old. Breastfeeding backstage. I was lucky that I had this momentum behind an album or a project, on the boil. I had this outlet, it was scary but it injected me with a new appreciation.”

Love Is A Dog is the band’s fifth album, coming four years after their last record, Over The Sun. In the interim, the band took on some new projects, as well as some personal creative time.

“Life happened! We went off the road, didn’t do any shows, got creative again and that’s what this album is. In the meantime, I was starting another band [We Two Thieves with Mama Kin] and having another kid! We were very determined, we love this band a lot. We weren’t gonna let it fizzle out.”

“We did a Pozible campaign called “Does The World Need Another Folk Album?” (laughs), we were having those doubts ourselves! But we raised $17,000. We just had this outpouring of “Yes, we want one!” which was very encouraging. We’ve been around 10 years, we’re not like the fresh new kids on the block, but maybe there’s a certain trust in an artist who has been able to sustain themselves for all these years. We have been so blessed to have that loyalty in our fans. We’re not a big radio band, we don’t write “hits”- we write albums, and we have a live show that has helped us to sustain ourselves.”

If not from the band, you may recognise Lubitz’s vocals from Metro Trains’ adorable and catchy “Dumb Ways to Die” safety campaign that became a massive hit online, even now notching up over 124 million views. The idea of “selling out” occurred to the singer, but it’s not a major concern in these new days of the music industry.

“Ah, my pride and my shame! You just don’t sell records like you used to. The Metro ad was just this random session I did...Ollie McGill from Cat Empire wrote and produced it and called me one day and asked me to do this session.

I didn’t think much of it and then a few weeks later, it’s going viral, two million views a day! It was a funny time.

Technically it wasn’t even for Metro, it was for safety, that’s righteous.”

LISA DIB

Love Is A Dog is out April 8. Tinpan Orange play Hobart on Friday April 29 at the Grand Poobah and Launceston on Sunday May 1 at Fresh on Charles.

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UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL TASSIE MATES ALLAN MCCONNELL AND FINN REES OF ELECTRONIC/TRIP-HOP ACT CLOSE COUNTERS ARE DEFFO MAKING WAVES: MCCONNELL AND REES- AGED 20 AND 18 RESPECTIVELY- ARE THE YOUNG, ENERGETIC UP-AND-COMERS YOU’RE NO DOUBT GOING TO BE HEAR A LOT ABOUT, AND FROM.

creation and release. “We’re keen to extend ourselves by creating a richer and tighter sound with some new collaborations. Picture Me, featuring Hobart musicians BINI and DJ Grotesque, is now available on iTunes and Spotify.

There are also two tracks featuring international vocalists which we are really excited to share. A handful of remixes will be available for free download on SoundCloud up until the record is released.”

Their new single Picture Me comes as a taste of their upcoming EP, a follow-up their wicked self-titled debut in 2014. Since their inception relatively recently- 2013- they’ve already supported the likes of Aston Shuffle and Shaggy (!) and have already started work on the festival circuit, including the illustrious Falls and MONA FOMA. I chatted to both the lads as they ride the wave of blooming success.

“We’ve both been playing keyboard since the age of 9 and haven’t stopped since.” Rees says. “We began performing in school ensembles at assemblies and eisteddfods, and then started jamming in separate high school rock bands – that’s when we really started toying with electric guitar, bass and drums. We started producing electronic tracks when we formed Close Counters in 2013, when I was 16 and Allan was 18. We’d dabbled with the production program ‘Logic Pro’ a little before then, but it wasn’t until we put our heads together that we started creating more polished tracks.”

“We want our audience to feel the groove, but we also hope to take them somewhere outside the traditional electronic music experience.” McConnell explains, thoughtfully. “We make this possible by the various influences we take from jazz, soul and hip-hop music.”

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“On one hand, [our age] is a good selling point because people are impressed that we started so young.” McConnell

SNEAKY MELBOURNE-VIA-NEW ZEALAND ELECTRONIC ARTIST OPIUO IS PRETTY PUMPED. HAVING JUST RELEASE HIS NEW SINGLE SNEAKERS, HE IS HEADING OUT ON TOUR TO PROMOTE HIS UPCOMING ALBUM OMNIVERSAL. HE CHATS ABOUT THE RECORD EXCITEDLY AND WITH GREAT HOPE THAT HIS FANS GET AS MUCH OF A KICK OUT OF IT AS HE DOES.

Close Counters play The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday April 23.

“It’s been two years in the making and is easily my most diverse and experimental yet” Opiuo explains. “I feel like I found the confidence to do exactly what I wanted to again.

This album is definitely a journey, featuring a tonne of session musicians and friends. I’m so excited for the world to wrap their ears around it.”

Opiuo is always working towards creating a wholly unique, recognizable sound. His desire not to be pigeonholed informs many of his creative decisions. His 2014 LP Meraki was awarded Best Electronic Album at the New Zealand Music Awards.

“I don’t actively work against it [being pigeonholed], I just find being allowed to be put into a box can be restrictive on your own creativity, and also the reach and lifespan your art will ultimately have. We think we know what we like until something comes along and opens our minds to something new. We should always keep our minds open. The unknown is infinitely exciting.”

Do you find people will categorize you anyway?

“Absolutely. It’s good to be able to tell people what something you like, or dislike for that matter, is all about.

To give each other a reference point. But in saying that, I think people should always listen and make judgment on everything themselves, not write anything off just because it falls under an umbrella that someone else has categorized.”

Opiuo has lived in Melbourne for some time now and, though he misses his home of New Zealand, admits that Melbs is a pretty sweet place to get creative.

“NZ has some incredible cities, beautiful, thriving and inspiring ones at that, but I found I needed more.” he explains. “At the time, I needed the diversity that only a city of Melbourne’s size could offer, and I’d heard that the music scene was one to witness. Without that move, and the people who’ve helped along the way in this fine city, I don’t believe I’d be where I am today.”

Opiuo also works heavily creating some of the finest remixes you’ve heard. But how does it feel to work so closely with another person’s work of art?

“I like to make something completely new and fresh, using minimal elements from the original, but still maintaining something that’s core to what I like about the track in the first place. I often sit back and let the vibe flow, without trying to make what I think the original artist would want me to do. It’s about challenging yourself, in the hope you find satisfaction, and at the same time push the boundaries towards something we can appreciate for its vibe and originality.”

Lisa Dib

Opiuo plays Saturday April 16 at Uni Bar in Hobart. Tickets available from Oztix.

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RE-INVENTING BACH PRESTIGIOUS AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER ELENA KATS-CHERNIN DOESN’T TAKE ANY PIECE OF MUSIC AS THE “HOLY GRAIL”. NOT EVEN BACH. THAT’S WHY SHE IMPROVISED OVER HIS TWO-PART INVENTIONS WITH RECORDER PLAYER GENEVIEVE LACEY, AND TOGETHER THEY CREATED A NEW WORK TASTEFULLY TITLED RE-INVENTIONS. THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY IT FOR YOU THIS MONTH, AND KATS-CHERNIN TELLS US How the piece came about.

NATIONAL YOUTH WEEK ROUND UP NATIONAL YOUTH WEEK IS A PRETTY DAMN AWESOME THING. EVERY YEAR, TOWNS ALL AROUND THE STATE PUT ON A SELECTION OF ART AND MUSIC BASED EVENTS TO GIVE 12-25 YEAR OLDS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THEIR IDEAS, RAISE AND ACT ON ISSUES OF CONCERN, AND CREATE AND ENJOY ENTERTAINMENT.

When did you first encounter the magic of Bach?

Probably when I was about seven.

My mum was a musician as well as a doctor so we had a lot of piano music at home. I was hooked on Bach from the word go.

I really liked the symmetry and the calmness of it. It always calms me down. Whenever I had trouble at school or with friends, I used to open a book of Bach and just play it, however badly. I had very small hands when I was growing up so I was always improvising around everything I saw. I found the clear lines of Bach very appealing.

National Youth Week 2016 will be held from Friday April 8 to Sunday April 17, and the theme for National Youth Week 2016 will be, “Following the Future”. The theme recognizes that as a young person, it’s important to follow your own dreams and your own path to success. National Youth Week provides the wider community the opportunity to listen to young people and acknowledge and celebrate their positive contributions and achievements. It’s an Australian, Tasmanian, and local government initiative, and whether you’re in to music, art or culture, there’s an event happening near you!

Did it ever feel unnatural to re-invent a work by one of the masters?

I have no shame. I just go for it.

I never took any piece of music as holy grail. I always thought it was only what composer wrote at that moment. Composer could have improvised on it and made many different choices. So I expect other people to improvise on my music too, it’s fine. It’s not exact science.

Do you ever feel that your own works are never really finished?

Do you improvise over them, too?

Always. The process never finishes and often I revise pieces. I go back to them and think maybe it’s too long and I need to cut. Or I wish there’s a different chord, the balance of the instrument is better, then I change things.

People should say ‘hands off’ a piece that’s already on a CD, but I will think this piece survives, goes on and has another life. I actually like revising pieces because it’s like visiting old friends.

Did you enjoy Bach while you were studying?

When I was in music college in Moscow, I was living with three other girls in a room. We had a piano and were all playing the same course. One of the tasks was to take a Bach fugue and play two voices and sing the third. So that trained us to hear and play at the same time. Sometimes we would just sing all three parts. That way you also grew to integrate the music into your body. First it was a task but then sometimes we did it just for fun.

It was our little party entertainment!

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and she was improvising on one of her many recorders. At one point, she played an F major arpeggio, which suddenly reminded me of the F major in the Two-Part Invention of Bach. There was a split moment which I’ll never forget where I said: ‘Genevieve, what do you think if we would somehow base the piece in the Two-Part Inventions?’. It just happened because it was so beautiful the way she played it – it was like uplifting bells. I wanted more of that so we just kept playing it and said: ‘Yes, it’s a very good idea’. We had a long day together and at the end of that day I had a concept. That’s always the main thing for a piece – once you have a concept that’s half the piece.

Why do you feel Bach has been such an influence on the compositional world?

He wrote a massive amount of music and he was incredibly hardworking. He was a genius. His music taps into incredible keys. I find the way the melodic lines go, the way they’re constructed, his counterpoint is the most intricate and sophisticated and difficult device. Fugues are one of the most difficult things in music and he wrote so many. However many parts there were, they were perfect, always inventive. I think a lot of music sprang from Bach later. A lot of composers went back to Bachian chord progressions, Bachian bass lines, Bachian turns of motives. But motives aren’t the most important things with Bach. His music is like architecture. They have perfect lines. He’s pure genius. I can imagine a lot of music would have been very different without Bach.

So are you looking forward to having your Re-inventions performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra?

I just love the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. We have a special bond, because we did my Wild Swans suite together and it was very important for me. And Genevieve Lacey is extraordinary, she’s a champion of this piece. I wish I was there in the concert!

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So how did your Re-inventions first come about in 2004?

Genevieve Lacey asked me to write a piece for her and the Flinders String Quartet. She came over and we decided to do a jam session, just brain-storming.

I was improvising on the piano

See the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Genevieve Lacey perform at 2.30pm, Saturday April 9 in the Federation Concert Hall. Tickets are available from www.tso.com.au.

In Hobart, Light Up The Lane will project artworks created by young people on to the buildings in and around Mather’s Place and Criterion Lane, transforming the urban landscape into a temporary digital art gallery. The event provides an opportunity for young people to take creative ownership over a major public space at a time when it is not normally activated, allowing them to explore and express creative responses to whatever is important to them.

Light Up The Lane also aims to change the negative perceptions of the CBD after dark and activate the city as a safe place for young people and the broader community. The event will also include live performances by young musicians and a range of mobile food and drink vendors.

DODGES FERRY Oakines Community House is host to the Southern Beaches Youth Market and Expo ‘16 - a vibrant youth market with live music, an open mic session, delicious food and beverages, and plenty of free activities. This is a whole community event acknowledging and celebrating the positive contribution of local young people.

The event is a chance for young people aged 12-25 from the local community to showcase their talents and ideas with market stalls, workshops, performances and demonstrations.

ULVERSTONE Central Coast Council have planned a free outdoor cinema event which will showcase up to five 60-second short films created by young people around the theme ‘DigiTELL’, life as we know it in Central Coast, before a feature film.

DEVONPORT For its fifth consecutive year, Reclaim the Lane returns to Rooke Lane kicking off National Youth Week in Devonport on Friday April 8 from 3-5pm. The free event transforms Rooke Lane in to a vibrant celebration of youth arts and music for all ages to enjoy.

Launceston-based artist, Josh Foley is this years resident artist and he will be creating a new work located on the wall between the Payne Avenue carpark and Rooke Lane. There will also be various art-making activities, live music from young local performers, a photo booth, performances by Slipstream Circus, The Sketchbook Project exhibition and interactive stalls by youth service providers.

There will also be free food, so everyone’s a winner!

There are heaps of other things being held in conjunction with these events, the majority of which are being held at schools around the state, to find out more, check out the National Youth Week Tasmania website (www.dpac.tas.gov.au/nyw) or the National Youth Week in Tasmania facebook page (www.facebook.com/ nywtas). www.facebook.com/warp.mag 17

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MATTHEW NEWTON TASMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER, MATTHEW NEWTON, HAS WON THE ART HANDLERS’ AWARD IN THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT PRIZE WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, ON ALBATROSS ISLAND (2015) – AN ISLAND OFF THE NORTH WESTERN TIP OF TASMANIA.

Lucy Hawthorne, Lime Bay Lagoon

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, 1842. Collection of the Tate Museum. © Tate, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0

Screenshot, #Instatassie hashtag search

INSTASATURATED EARLIER THIS YEAR, INSTAGRAM WAS LITTERED WITH ‘BEST OF 2015’ POSTS. THE SITE WWW.2015BESTNINE. COM CATERED TO US NARCISSISTIC ‘GRAMMERS, TRAWLING OUR ACCOUNTS FOR THE MOST POPULAR POSTS. I WRITE ‘US’ BECAUSE I TOO INDULGED. I DID NOT, HOWEVER, POST THE GRID. I WAS SURPRISED BY THE UTTER BANALITY OF MY MOST ‘LIKED’ IMAGES. I EXPECTED THEY’D BE HAPPY SNAPS OF PARIS, A PHOTOGENIC ARTWORK AT THE VENICE BIENNALE, OR PERHAPS EVEN ONE OF THE DOG, BUT THEY WERE ALMOST ALL LANDSCAPES– SLIGHTLY OVERSATURATED AND UTTERLY PLEASANT LANDSCAPES. MY GRID WAS NO DIFFERENT TO THAT OF ANY OTHER AVID #INSTATASSIE USER. While Instagram was once criticised for its ‘ye olde’ filters, which conjured up a false nostalgia through washed out colours and mottled frames, it’s now dominated by over-saturated hyper-photographs.

Landscapes are sharpened, brightened, saturated. Up the contrast and you’ll up the likes. Sunsets in particular get the special treatment. Pinks become scarlets, greys get bluer, and mountains become midnight silhouettes. Everything is dramatized.

I’m guilty of these very sins. On a recent camping trip, I experienced an incredible sunset over Lime Bay lagoon. I immediately got out my phone of course, eager to share my experience with the world (or at least my 490 ‘followers’). But the photograph could not capture that sublime moment– how could it? I was standing ankle deep in water with a stubbie of beer. The warm breeze that was exceptionally unusual for a Tasmanian evening carried a slight tang of fish and burning eucalypt. Seagulls, and even a bird of prey, circled our heads, and aside from their shrieks, there was just a soft lapping of waves. The pink of the sunset was subtle, but it bathed us in mood-altering light, and while it sounds like a cliché, the shallow lagoon really did sparkle. When I uploaded the photograph later, I wanted to share this experience, and faced with a square image of moderately-coloured seascape, I set to work ‘enhancing’ this projected experience.

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coloured filters. The birds, which were clearly visible to our eyes, were reduced to silhouettes against the purple sky, and the sky was clearly reflected in the water. I was rewarded with many ‘likes’, and a request from one of the many saturated-landscapeloving Tasmanian Instagram accounts to re-post the image under their account. I would not have received these likes without upping the saturation.

Of course, cameras lie. They cannot represent what our human eyes actually see, let alone the sensory experience of being in a landscape. Naturally, we want to share our incredible experiences with others, and in lieu of other forms of easy representation, the oversaturated ‘Instagram aesthetic’ replaces genuine expression. A two-dimensional mimetic photograph or painting will never come close to conveying sublime landscapes, and that’s why paintings like Turner’s seascapes and Monet’s gardens, which convey emotion and hint at the multisensory experience of being within the natural environment, are so compelling.

The Instagram aesthetic, by contrast, is retrograde, and risks making the actual live experience somewhat underwhelming.

Over-saturated hues have become the norm– the equivalent of a sugary treat.

It’s immediately gratifying, but has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. In our image-dominated world, how do artists compete with this raised bar? That’s the challenge for artists: how to convey the subtleties of experiencing a sunset without

resorting to the junk food of over-saturated representation.

My Facebook feed recently featured a sponsored post from the University of Tasmania for a free unit called ‘Photography and Social Media’. “Create beautiful images, and share moments to engage and inspire”, it advertises. It’s being offered through the Tasmanian College of the Art – an art school that would tear you to bits if you uncritically presented a body of ‘inspiring’ landscape photographs with the intention of gathering more likes on social media. It’s an oddly popularist offering from an art school that prides itself on its artistic research. There’s nothing wrong with being popular on Instagram, but art should be more than just a likable photograph.

The black and white portrait of Dr Rachael Alderman captures the physical toll of her work as a marine biologist. Her arms are raw and bleeding after a day of banding and fitting miniature satellite tracking devices to her research subjects, the Shy Albatross. While it sounds grim, the artist notes ‘these are wounds of love; they mark an engaged scientist’s deep affection for an extraordinary bird.’

The Art Handlers’ Award is decided each year by the gallery’s installation team, Tara James and Amelia Mollett, who said of the portrait: “We were drawn to the mimicry of the human/bird body shapes & the repeated patterns of limbs echoing wings & the crouched protectiveness of both bodies… We loved the subtle reference to our changing awareness of environmental issues & interconnectedness of humans, animal & nature.”

You can see more of Newton’s photography at Moonah Arts Centre next month.

The National Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, runs from March 19 – June 26.

Richard Wastell and Matthew Newton, On Albatross Island, Moonah Arts Centre, April 29 – May 21.

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If you decide you want to enrol in Photography and Social Media despite this rant, visit: http://www. utas.edu.au/arts/photography-and-social-media

Image: Matthew Newton, On Albatross Island (2015). Courtesy of the artist.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS NICK SKUBIJ IS AN ACTOR. HE’S AN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. AND HE’S THE BRAINS BEHIND THE NEW THEATRE ADAPTATION OF EMILY BRONTE’S CLASSIC TALE WUTHERING HEIGHTS. IT’S CERTAINLY BEEN DONE BEFORE– JUST THINK OF THE WILD KATE BUSH SINGING TO HEATHCLIFF IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, OR THE HANDSOME TIMOTHY DALTON IN THAT ‘70S FILM. BUT NICK IS BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO THE WORK AS HE BRINGS THE WINDSWEPT MOORS AND TORTURED ROMANCE TO TASSIE AUDIENCES NEXT MONTH. THE STAGE PLAY WITH SHAKE & STIR THEATRE CO WILL HIT THE THEATRE ROYAL AND NICK TELLS US WHY THE STORY IS STILL AMAZING.

Your first encounter with Wuthering Heights. And go: My first encounter was when I was in grade 11 or 12 and it was one of our prescribed texts.

I didn’t choose it– I started reading it and it was too heavy for me so I changed my mind. So my first experience was not a particularly fantastic one. Something about the story repelled me in a way, then coming back to it later in life I read it and realised that was the point: it was interesting and ground-breaking at the time for a female author, but also this representation of passionate love and two kindred spirits who are destined to be together but how they’re torn apart. I thought coming into it as an adult with a new perspectivenot just as an inexperienced school boy– I realised how incredible that was and what real love is. It’s not stroll-along-the-beach-at-sunset kind of love.

It’s about the power that it does have to destroy as well as make your life. It can absolutely break you.

That’s not what I got from the first read.

So it repelled you, but you decided to go back and work it into a theatre production. As you do.

I love the moodiness and atmosphere that these darker stories create. Wuthering Heights was originally produced in 2014 so it’s a return season for us. We thought: ‘What’s a story that’s famous, epic, still relevant, and is universally loved but also lends itself to a really interesting stage treatment?’ and wuthering heights came up.

We immediately dismissed it and thought about the swooping moors and the atmosphere and environment- how could we do that justice? That was a really exciting challenge. How do we realise this story and give the people who are diehard fans what they expect and love, but surprise new audience members, like me when I first read it, on an enjoyable and engaging level?

How’d you go about it, especially considering the landscape itself plays such a powerful role in the story?

The challenge was to present the whole novel on stage. You can’t help but feel, as the reader of the novel, wet and cold as the description of the moors comes across. That really sucks you in so I wanted a way to find a way to literally achieve some of the environmental elements of the story– to place the audience in that world as well as sitting back as passive members observing it. I wanted to feel like they’re there, to feel uncomfortable, to feel as wrapped up as the characters are.

We wanted the first performance to remain true to the original. We’re not into setting it in the future or Australia and trying to be clever with remarketing it. I think that’s the trend with new adaptations, they try to reinvent the wheel with how clever they are. I wanted to go the opposite way.

Image credit: Dylan Evans

Do you feel that with a story like this, which relies so heavily on its natural elements, audiences might respond differently when in locations as remote and wild as Tasmania?

I’m hoping that’s what happens with these geographical responses to the shows. We try to choose stories that are going to have a universality in their appeal so we can take them anywhere else. If you’re going to compare the wild, windswept moors, the Tasmanian winter will be quite close to it when it is chilly. So it’s a nice thought to think that audiences may resonate with the landscape. And what’s interesting about Wuthering Heights with a dramatic point of view is how the characters are subject to their environmental conditions– it’s a metaphor for the windswept, cold relationships on stage. It’s so good for putting us into the mental and physical state of these characters: you can’t help but to feel affected by it.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

See Wuthering Heights in the Theatre Royal from May 4-7, 7.30pm each performance. Tickets are from $25 and available at www.theatreroyal.com.au.

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MISTERMAN THIS JUNE, THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED IRISH MONODRAMA, MISTERMAN WILL ARRIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN MAY. HOWEVER, THE PRODUCTION HAS AN ADDED ATTRACTIONBESIDES THE AWARDS IT RECEIVED AT THE SYDNEY THEATRE CRITICS AWARDS THIS JANUARY- AS BOTH THE ACTOR, THOMAS CAMPBELL, AND THE DIRECTOR, KATE GAUL, ARE TASMANIANS. The play immerses its audience in the world of the solitary evangelist Thomas Magill, as he interacts with the inhabitants of Inishfree (all of whom he plays himself). I had the pleasure of having a chat with Kate and Thomas leading up to their season in Hobart.

“I didn’t have a TV growing up, so I was always pretty imaginative- making up plays and doing all that sort of stuff”, Thomas said when asked how his interest in acting began. “I moved to Tasmania when I was about 7. I went to Mummers Theatre Company in the 90’s, then went to Taroona High where I was really encouraged by a couple of the teachers. I remember seeing a poster for the gifted and talented program at Rosny College in ’98. So I left all my friends to do this acting program. It was really fostered over there. I auditioned for NIDA at the end of year 12 and got in. It’s just a path that went well I suppose. It could have gone another way- but I was lucky- I suppose you have to be in the right place at the right time.”

Kate and Thomas had collaborated on several projects in the past, so when Kate approached Thomas about the new project, he didn’t think twice, “I think she [Kate] is a phenomenal director.

I’d pretty much do anything she asks me to do.

We were looking for something to do, and this [Misterman] had just been done at the National Theatre in London. Kate got the rights and we were just trying to find a venue. We came up at the Old Fitzroy which is a great little pub theatre in Sydney. It went extremely well, got great reviews and won some awards for the year. We thought 20

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it would be a great idea to bring it home as Kate is also Tasmanian and I haven’t been back to perform anything since I left in 2000.”

Thomas Campbell won Best Actor at the Sydney Theatre Critics’ Awards this January for his role in Misterman, “they always say it’s an honour to be nominated, it kind of is. It doesn’t really matter if you win, but I knew I had a chance. It’s a very showy role, it’s just me on a stage for 70 minutes.

I get to play a lot of different characters; women, drunks, old people, plus the main guy who I play most of the time is on the edge- he goes through a whole range of emotions. That was also what attracted me to it. It’s a challenge, but also something that I could be great in, or hope to be great in.”

When asked what he looks forward to about returning to Tasmania, Thomas laughed, “My sister still lives in Tassie, and I haven’t seen her new house. It’s more so just catching up with people. I performed on the Theatre Royal stage a couple of times, and I also did a couple of cabarets and small things in their back space, so it will be nice to go there and do the show, catch up with old teachers and friends. Hopefully everyone can come and see it.”

Kate, a freelance producer and director, who also dabbles in design, was an integral part of the theatre and arts scene in Tasmania before undertaking the director course at NIDA; immersing herself in a larger field of play.

Magill who is isolated, but we don’t know why.

It might be a consequence of some actions, or he may have been shunned by his society- all of these things come out during the play, but it is never really explicit. If Misterman were making a comment about the human condition, it would have something to do with our isolation. The individual vs. society. Our need to make human connections and societal connections. I think Enda Walsh’s [the playwright] real exploration is about the possibility of love, and what people will do to achieve that. Whether they can achieve that or not is something the play explores through action. The playwright embedded his quest into every line of the play. When you interpret a play you’re finding out what connects with us- what we relate to in the play. But I do think Misterman is about identity and love. About a man who because of his moral view of the world, tries to force the world into a mould- a way he wants to see it. As a consequence of doing this, everyone falls short, so he takes it upon himself to fix the village- with diabolical consequences.”

Speaking about the influence Tasmania has had upon her, Kate says, “I would definitely say that there is a sort of Gothic quality to Tasmania - it's cliché to say that- but it's true. Clichés are true.

And there’s certainly a gothic quality to a lot of Irish writing. I do connect to a lot of very wild, imaginative atmospheres of these kinds of plays, and that’s what attracts me to them.”

BETHANY GREEN

“Misterman is technically very demanding- it’s written for the theatre of the 21st century where we have a lot of technical control over what can go on in space; It asks the sound designer to interact with the actor, and the actor to interact with digital recordings. It’s a technical challenge, but not impossible to achieve. The play is exciting in the way it challenges what’s possible, even with a small amount of space.”

When asked what the play explores, Kate explained, “the performance is a one-man show.

Thomas Campbell plays the character of Thomas

Misterman runs at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday May 31 through to Saturday June 4. Tickets available from www.theatreroyal.com.au.

PAIGE TURNER

THE TAMAR VALLEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL IN BEACONSFIELD LAST MONTH WAS SPECTACULAR. HELD IN BEACONSFIELD WITH ITS HISTORY-LADEN STREETS PUMPING WITH ALL MANNER OF WRITERS, READERS AND THE REST OF US. THE THREE PACKED MARQUEES HOUSED AVID READERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. MARK YOUR 2018 DIARIES, ANOTHER ONE IS IN THE PIPELINE.

I’m sad to see that Volume 2, one of Launceston’s last remaining bookshops has gone into voluntary administration, another nail in the proverbial for writers and readers – and indeed for local publishers and local stories, though Petrarchs is a stalwart and operating full steam ahead. Birchalls in Launceston, Tasmania’s oldest bookshop, is currently up for sale. Anyone?

So events, April! What have you got?

The State Cinema Bookshop in North Hobart is hosting lovely and knowledgeable Matthew Evans in a Q&A style event about his delicious new specimen Not Just Jam. I’m MC’ing this event and I'm hoping there will at least be some jam. April 1, get your tickets now!

Hobart Bookshop, the beautiful book nook down at Salamanca is hosting the launch of Karen Armstrong’s new book of poetry. It will be launched by Andrew Wilkie, on Thursday, April 14.

Fullers, the other Southern stalwart is hosting the Queen of Preserves, Sally Wise. Her new book, A Kitchen in the Valley is being launched on Thursday, April 7 at 5.30pm. If she is the Queen, Matthew Evans may well be the King. I digress.

There are a lot more events at Fullers in April too, check out their website for more details – www. fullersbookshop.com.au/events.

Crowdfunding is an amazing resource, not only does it generate dosh for projects, but it builds communities too. Captain Blueberry, who is responsible for the excellent book Monsters of Tasmania is back with a sequel with equal aplomb - The Journey of Admiral Bolognaise. You can preorder your copy (pictured) here, worth it! - www. pozible.com/project/203650.

The Pen Factor is an excellent international initiative that is now operating out of Tasmania.

It offers both feedback and discovery engine for writers. Every short story submitted to The Pen Factor receives three detailed and structured reviews written by your writing peers. The top 25% in each genre are showcased on our Leaderboard and overall winners receive a professional manuscript review valued at around US$500. Find out more at www.penfactor.com.

Rosemary Peterswald has written a number of autobiographical books and her latest, Can My Pony Come Too tells the story of her Irish family leaving Tipperary to run a country telephone exchange and post office in a dilapidated shack.

This is being launched in Hobart soon, stay tuned for details.

Dewhurst Jennings is an elusive Tasmanian literary salon and they have recently been awarded the FA Impact Digital Community Writers Award. Ben Walter, writer and coordinator of the elusive group plans to publish a book including some of the state’s best writers with the winnings.

The Tasmanian Writers Centre have some interesting sessions and opportunities coming up, look out for the Wildcard Nature Writing Prize, you have until May 2 to submit. And we’re holding our collective breaths to see who is awarded the Prince Edward Island Writer’s Residency.

They’re also running a loooong crowdfunding campaign to get some books they published with the Sudanese community sent over to South Sudan. While I don’t think it is the purview of a writers’ centre to publish books, this is a worthwhile project. - www.pozible.com/ project/202090.

Forty South Publishing has an exciting new release due out in mid-April, Hop Kilns of Tasmania by Pen Tayler. The book will be launched

by Richard Warner in the presence of his wife, the Governor on 22 April at Hop Products Australia 446 Elizabeth St, North Hobart at 5.30pm. With the current popularity of Tasmania’s wine, whisky, gin and boutique beer industries, a new book on the hop kilns of Tasmania is a timely reminder of the origins of the state’s alcohol industry. In this new publication Pen Tayler’s haunting photographs show that, although many of the kilns are now in poor condition, they retain a sense of the life they once contained.

And a massive Happy Birthday to Tasmania’s 40°South crew. They are celebrating 20 years of age this month with the current Issue 80 (MarchMay 2016). Congratulations to all involved in the birth of the magazine and its ongoing high production standards. Particular congratulations to Warren Boyles (one of the founders and longtime editor), Chris Champion (current owner and editor) and Kent Whitmore (designer). The magazine continues to prosper and I know for a fact it brings a lot of joy to Tasmanian expats abroad, as well as those of us lucky enough to still be resident.

I wish you all glorious reading months, and if you have any news of book or word related events or goss let me know – Racheledwards488@gmail. com.

RACHEL EDWARDS

THE ARI AS A PHOENIX Last month, The Arts Factory closed its doors for the final time. The artist-run studio complex in South Hobart has hosted regular experimental art, music and food events over its two-year existence. While it’s easy to mourn the death of these vibrant art spaces, Artist Run Initiatives usually only have short lives, and new ones always rise from the ashes. Freshly hatched, they’re energetic, risky, and often wonderfully disorganised. We saw a new ARI, Visual Bulk, open on Argyle Street in December last year.

Their next event, Sleuth: The Pulse, promises to be ‘a live musical investigation into percussive sound and its hypnotic and ritualistic evocation of new religion.’ If you’re brave enough you can join

in. Further north, a new studio complex called MGA ARI Moonah has just hosted its first two artist residents, as well as a gig by Hobart band, Omahara. MGA’s gallery space will open later this year, joining the Moonah Arts Centre and the tiny Stable Gallery in this previously undervalued suburb. Constance ARI (once Inflight ARI) is the notable exception to Hobart’s phoenix ARIs. The organisation is still kicking around after thirteen years, although they’ve replaced the expensive gallery model with a site-less model in which they organise one-off projects in different locations.

Joshua Santospirito, Sleuth: The Pulse, Visual Bulk, 153a Argyle Street, Hobart. 3-6pm Saturday April 16.

Links to Hobart’s ARI’s: Arts Factory: www.theartsfactory.com.au Visual Bulk: www.visualbulk.com MGA ARI Moonah: www.facebook.com/ mgaarimoonah Constance ARI: www.constanceari.org

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Arts EXHIBITION PREVIEW: 40 YEARS 40 DESIGNERS

LITERARY

TWITCH TWITCH IS A DEDICATED YOUNG WRITERS’ PROGRAM PROVIDED BY THE TASMANIAN WRITERS CENTRE AND THIS YEAR IT IS UNDER THE STEWARDSHIP OF CLAIRE JANSEN, AN EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG WRITER HERSELF. THE PROJECT HAS BEEN UP AND RUNNING FOR A FEW YEARS BUT THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT AN ANNUAL PROGRAM HAS BEEN RELEASED. THIS ACCORDS WITH A BIT OF A TREND AROUND THE NATION, AND ALSO HELPS TWITCH ALIGN WITH NATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT YOUNG WRITERS. IT ALSO ALLOWS TWITCH TO PARTNER WITH LIKEMINDED GROUPS SUCH AS THE EMERGING WRITERS’ FESTIVAL, THE NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS FESTIVAL AND EXPRESS MEDIA AND THEIR PUBLICATION, VOICEWORKS.

The Design Tasmanian Centre in Launceston celebrates its fortieth birthday this year with an exhibition called 40 Years 40 Designers. As the title suggests, the exhibition includes the work of forty designers, many of which were instrumental in the centre’s establishment.

Participating designers are asked to reflect on their relationship to Tasmania and its environment through material and form.

Design Tasmania was established in 1976 with the rather ambitious vision, “to establish in the minds of a large proportion of the world’s population that the word ‘Tasmania’ is synonymous with good design and reliable craftsmanship.” The state’s famous variety of timbers, and the dominance of the forestry industry in our history, is unsurprisingly reflected in the centre’s emphasis on wood design.

40 Years 40 Designers, Design Tasmanian Centre, Brisbane Street, Launceston, 18 Mar 21 Jun 2016

NEWS: PAT BRASSINGTON / EXHIBITION PREVIEW: REDLANDS KONICA MINOLTA ART PRIZE

It’s free to join Twitch and if you join up it also offers a discounted Writers Centre membership of $30. Claire Jansen and I sat down to have a yarn about what 2016 holds for young writers in Tasmania.

“We think they can really get value from the information that the Centre provides and also get access to courses and masterclasses at a special rate,” she said, with a special mention of the subsidized spaces in the Novel Writing classes.

Twitch will also offer a series of monthly workshops, at a low cost (or even no cost) that are designed especially for younger writers. Topics will include playwriting, applying for grants, how and where to get published, DIY magazines, comics, Young Adult fiction and short story writing.

“We have a lot of ‘older younger’ writers in to host these sessions including Ben Walter, Kate Gordon, Adam Ouston, Laura Kay who ran Betty Magazine and comic artist Joshua Santospirito.” These chaps are some of the most exciting writers and creatives in the whole country and it is a fabulous opportunity for young Tasmanians to learn from them. These will be held once a month on Tuesdays, between 6.30- 8pm at the Salamanca Arts Centre.

Claire is “interested to hear what it means to them to be a writer in Tasmania. I think there is an established Tasmanian literary genre and not everyone writes in that style.” She is about

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creating opportunities. “These writers don’t only write about Tasmania but they are here,” she said.

Twitch offers a free monthly newsletter sharing information about opportunities. Subscribe – or get in touch with Claire directly, via the Writers Centre, regardless of where you are in the state.

“We can do a lot of remote support and that is why having links with Express Media and Voiceworks can be useful. They are saying ‘send your writers our way, we want them to publish with us. They want more regional diversity.”

Twitch is also collaborating with Hobart City Council and Youth Arc and in August and October will be running weekly creative writing workshops after school hours. These sessions are primarily for school age writers.

Twitch offers a great combination of activities that will “support young writers’ professional development, their creative skills and build their networks. It aims to demystify the whole process, not just how to be a writer, but how to get published and get your work out there.”

Writing is such a solitary, sometimes dispiriting activity and Twitch are actively building up their online networks – get on board, like their Facebook page, sign up to the newsletter and tell them that Burnie, Strahan or the East Coast demands a workshop, a residency and attention.

Demand, supply, all that.

RACHEL EDWARDS

Hobart-based artist Pat Brassington has won the 20th Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize with her photograph, Pair Bonding. A curated, invite-only affair, Redlands is arguably one of the most interesting art prize exhibitions in Australia. A guest curator (this year, Sydneybased artist Mikala Dwyer) selects a number of established artists, who in turn each select an emerging artist - Brassington, for instance, selected a fellow Tasmanian artist, Jacob Leary.

As a result, the artworks are diverse in style, subject and medium. Brassington’s teasingly ambiguous black and white photograph sits adjacent to former Hobart resident Nicola Smith’s dreamy paintings of the late Chantal Ackerman’s Je tu il Elle. Rosie Deacon’s glittery textile installation sits next to a relatively staid sculpture by Anna John, while Mitchell Cumming’s Direct to the Public acts as a rug inside the gallery’s elevator.

2016 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School Gallery, Forbes Street, Sydney, March 14 – May 14.

Image: Pat Brassington, Pair Bonding, 2015, pigment print on archival paper, 78 x 59 cm. Courtesy the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne and Bett Gallery, Hobart.

Arts

Gallery

performing arts

Guide

Guide

South 146 Artspace Mar 17 - April 21 A Shared Exhibition with Promised Denial by Shireen Taweel and Anteroom by Sam Johnstone April 28 - June 2 10 Objects - 10 Stories: Celebrating Community Collections Bett Gallery Mar 18 - April 4 Amber Koroluk-Stephenson April 8 - April 25 Stephanie Tabram April 29 - May 16 Brigita Ozolins

TMAG Until May 22 Pattern Play Until May 1 Where Science Meets Art: The Botanical Illustrations of Rod Seppelt Mar 18 - May 22 Snapshot Photography and Migrant Women: A Tasmanian Experience Penny Contemporary April 8 – April 25 Rachel Kendrigan and Rohan Morris

Contemporary Art Tasmania March 25 - May 2016 Eloise Kirk April 5 - May 15 People Like Us

Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Until May 14 Guiding Light: Maatsuyker Island

Colville Gallery April 8 Josh Simpson April 29 Douglas McManus

Plimsoll Gallery April 2 – May 1 People Like Us

Handmark Gallery Mar 18 - April 11 Furniture Exhibition Various Artists April 15 - May 9 Junko Go & Nanna Bayer New Paintings and Ceramics MONA Until May 16 Mathieu Briand - Et In Libertalia Ego, Vol. II Rosny Barn Schoolhouse Gallery Mar 18 - April 17 Hunt Nature Birth: Tara Badcock April 8 - May 1 Drawn Into The Unknown April 29 - May 22 Produce:Produce Rosny Cottage April 8 - May 1 High Heels, Plastic Tiaras and Muddy Puddles Despard Gallery Until April 10 Sentiment & Sedimentation Caroline Rannersberger Salamanca Arts Centre Studio Gallery April 1 - April 30 The Inside Out Studio Sidespace Gallery April 7 - April 12 Aspects of Trees April 14 - April 18 Henrietta Manning Nesting Series Lightbox April 1 - April 30 Night Light Long Gallery Until April 3 SOUTH of TOWN: Expressions from the Huon April 20 - April 26 GAZE

Moonah Arts Centre April 1 – 23 Catherine Stringer April 29 – May 21 Richard Wastell & Matthew Newton: On Albatross Island

NORTH Handmark Evandale Mar 13 - April 6 Landscape Exhibition Handmark Artists April 10 - May 11 Jeff GATT - New Paintings Burnie Regional Gallery Mar 12 - May 22 Michelangelo: The Exhibition

SOUTH

NORTH

COMEDY

COMEDY

Peacock Theatre April 2 The Birdmann LIVE

Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre April 15 Stephen K Amos April 19 Marty’s Party with Marty Putz

The Polish Corner April 6 Jokers Comedy April 13 Jokers Comedy April 20 Jokers Comedy April 27 Jokers Comedy

Fresh On Charles April 22 Fresh Comedy with Tommy Little

Soldiers Memorial Walk, Queens Domain April 6 - April 17 The Tree Widows Derwent Entertainment Centre April 1 Em Rusciano April 20 Jim Jefferies Republic Bar April 21 The Clubhouse with Tommy Little THEATRE

THEATRE Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre April 1 The Man in Black April 16 Over There - Great Songs & Stories of the Wars Princess Theatre April 4 They Saw a Thylacine April 15 - April 22 A Chorus Line Earl Arts Centre April 29 - May 7 Dad’s Army

Theatre Royal April 1 They Saw a Thylacine April 2 The Man in Black April 8 - April 23 Rock of Ages Theatre Royal Backspace April 21 - April 30 The Surgeon’s Hands

Design Tasmania Mar 18 –June 19 40 Years: 40 Designers Devonport Regional Gallery Mar 19 - May 8 Katherine Hattam: Desire First Mar 19 - April 16 TRANSform April 17 - May 8 Karin Chan: Airmali Gallery Pejean Mar 3 - April 2 Still Life Revisited April 6 - May 7 MORE Paintings Made in Tasmania - David Lake QVMAG Nov 20 - April 3 Richard Wastell and Matthew Newton on Albatross Island Until April 24 ArtRage 2015 Collection Until May 1 The Valley Collection Halfway Hang Design Tasmania Mar 18 –June 19 40 Years: 40 Designers

Top Gallery Until May 3 INK Inaugural Emerging Printmakers Prize

A SHAKE & STIR THEATRE CO AND QPAC PRODUCTION

Wuthering Heights 4 to 7 May

WARP RECOMMENDS

JOSEPH GRACIA

JOSEPH GRACIA LIKES TO COLLECT THINGS. HIS UPCOMING INSTALLATION IN SALAMANCA ART CENTRE’S LIGHTBOX (VIEWED FROM THE STREET) FEATURES THE MANY COLOURED PLASTIC OBJECTS HE’S FOUND ON THE STREETS OF HOBART.

Image credits: Joseph Gracia T:Nightlight, (detail) 2016 B:Capture the Flag, Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2015

The transparent combs, swizzle sticks, straws, spoons and cigarette lighters are arranged according to colour and shape.

The city’s detritus- much of it drug paraphernalia– seems paradoxically celebratory in his brightly lit and colourful arrangement. In past exhibitions, the artist has ‘collected’ graffiti, logos or objects in the form of photographs, arranging them in a grid. There’s something rather pleasing about seeing graffitied anarchy symbols in such a conformist arrangement.

At Contemporary Art Tasmania last year, his photographs of Australian flags were displayed alongside a map pinpointing the corresponding location of each patriot. Gracia’s work draws attention to the signs and objects in our environment usually rendered invisible due to their frequency or sheer banality, representing them in a way that is incredibly pleasing thanks to the repetitive patterning and bright colours. We highly recommend viewing Night Light (as the title suggests) at night.

Joseph Gracia, Night Light, Lightbox, Salamanca Arts Centre, 1 Friday – 30 Saturday April 2016.

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Saturday

Claremont Hotel Grand Poobah Grand Poobah

Venue

APRIL Friday

Saturday

Sunday

1

2

3

Acts / Start Time

Waterfront Hotel

The National Average

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Karaoke - DJ Dazz

Brisbane Hotel

Hailmary (WA) + Taurus + Starmaker

Shani Mohini-Holmes and Matt Horsley, Andie Laureson, Evil Goat, HIC Women (Redux) & Tinybones 8pm

Federation Concert Hall

Bach to the Future 2:30pm

A1 Club: a night of game music, pop culture themed drinks and multiplayer gaming plus Super Smash Bros Melee tournament with DJ

Grand Poobah

Sal Kimber and John Flanagan in the Main Room

Grand Poobah

Surreal Estate Agents, White Rose Project, Spiral Kites, Art School Bullies & Staircase in the Kissing Room 9pm

Onyx

Sambo & Patto 10pm

Pier One

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Rock For Elvie - Joshua Santospirito, Betsy Blue, Niandra Lades, The Pits, Phat Meegz and Lizard Johnny 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Onyx

Girl Friday 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Tim & Scott + Free BBQ 5pm

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Republic Bar & Café

Rewind 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Apple Shed

The Willie Wagtails 6pm

The Homestead

Banja (Vic) + Supports 9pm

The Homestead

SMILK (Vic), Kase Kochen, Lumen vs Vis Vires (NSW) + Grommet 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

Ebeneza Good

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo & Patto

Wrest Point Showroom

John Williamson in Concert 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Dan Vandermeer 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Leftover Crack (USA) + Phat Meegz + Skun Knees + This Is A Robbery

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ol’ Mate Tornado Balls

Despard Gallery

Julius Schwing Trio 8pm

Claremont Hotel

Aaron Courtney

Republic Bar & Café

Jane Austin Fundraiser with Pete Cornelius + Zuma 2pm

Sunday

10

Federation Concert Hall

The Beauty of Brahms 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Ryan Downey & James Parry 9pm

The Homestead

Figure it in Life Drawing 4:30pm / Matt Bayes Blues 7pm

Grand Poobah

The Mash Up in the Kissing Room 8pm

The Waratah Hotel

Onyx

Matt & Abby 10pm

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 6pm

Waterfront Hotel

Pete Thomas

Republic Bar & Café

Saskwatch + CUB Sport + Violet Swells 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Seretonin

The Homestead

The Willy Wagtails 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Raunchy Rocketeer

Claremont Hotel

Tony Voglino

Grand Poobah

Bird Canyon, Oil, Rainbow Trout & Raymond Scottwalker

Republic Bar & Café

Wahbash Avenue 8:30pm

The Apple Shed

The Ross Sermons Band 1pm

The Homestead

Jason O’Garey 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

11

12

13

14

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Cult Comedy

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tarik Stoneman & Sam Forsyth 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sabine Bester 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Royal Gala 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Homestead

Vibrant Matters Social Club 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Jed Appleton + Sarah Lacey Ann

Waterfront Hotel

Tim & Scott

Republic Bar & Café

Jimmy Watts 8:30pm

Monday

4

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

The Homestead

Australian Songwriters Association WAX Lyrical 6:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 9pm

Tuesday

5

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Republic Bar & Café

Jed Appleton + Sophia Simes da Silva 8:30pm

ALL AGES 3pm - 6pm - The Midways + Pine + Art School Bullies + Squid Fishing

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Peak Body

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Aaron 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Black Bunny + The Infected

Grand Poobah

The Coven

Onyx

Tim & Scott 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Tony Mak + Free BBQ 5pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sugartrain 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Apple Shed

Jimmy Watts (Bris) 6pm

The Homestead

The Lawless Quartet + BuckOFive + Squish 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

Jerome Hillier

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Knife Hands (Album Launch) + Speech Patterns + Dog Dreams + Break Through

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Ocean Bones (Vic) + The Treehouse Children (NSW) + Adventurers + Mawhera

Wednesday

6

Republic Bar & Café

The Fabulous Bluecats 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tony Mak

The Homestead

Thursday

Friday

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8

Friday

15

Vinyl Club 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Finn & Helen 8:30pm

The Homestead

Nadira and Friends 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front - The Great Awake (NSW) + Between the Lions + Bennylava + Youth Faction

Saturday

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Brisbane Hotel

Scorpia

Grand Poobah

Men Xclusive in the Main Room

Grand Poobah

Burlesque After Dark in the Kissing Room

Onyx

The Darlings 10pm

Grand Poobah

Chupacabra

Republic Bar & Café

Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Bianca & Hutch + Free BBQ 5pm

Onyx

Ebeneza Good 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Republic Bar & Café

ASTA + Supports 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Big Swifty

Standing Room Only with Colours + Lingo + Stynes Legends + Modern daze + Forecast + Steve Miller Project 10pm

The Apple Shed

Emily Wolfe & Billy Whitton 6pm

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

The Homestead

The Raccoons 9pm

The Homestead

Spiral Kites & Babylon Howl 9pm

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Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

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18

19

20

21

22

23

24

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Waterfront Hotel

Dirturtles

Wrest Point Showroom

The Australian Bee Gees Show 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Gumby & Pokey

Claremont Hotel

The Good Fellas

Federation Concert Hall

Babe In Concert 11am and 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Beer Garden Party American BBQ Feast with Smoked 8 Hour Brisket, Whiskey Glazed Chicken Wings, Corn on the Cobb, Salad and Tim & Scott Playing live - FREE EVENT 2:30pm

Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

The Homestead

Sunday Soul Session with KTK, Zena Mohamad & Cassie O’Keefe

The Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Karly Fisher

Monday

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Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Tuesday

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Birdcage Bar

Lisa Pilkington 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Wednesday

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Birdcage Bar

Dance in a Shoebox 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hui and the Muse 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Rays 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Homestead

Rowena Wise (Vic) 7pm

The Homestead

Vibrant Matters Social Club 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Manhattan

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin’ Blues) 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Quiz-A-Saurus

Republic Bar & Café

The Sign 8:30pm

The Homestead

Naked Girls Reading Sci-fi 8pm

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

The Proclaimers 7:15pm

Birdcage Bar

Black Coffee 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Thursday

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The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

The Homestead

Sea Shanti’s with Dave Elliston 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Australian Kingswood Factory (Vic) + Fox n Firkin (Qld) + The Dead Maggies + Straddlepuss + Youth Faction

Federation Concert Hall

Bohemian Rhapsody 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

Tinpan Orange

Onyx

Clinton Hutton 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Heloise + Violet Swells + Pat Broxton and the Sleepyheads 8:30pm

Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Dan Vandermeer + Free BBQ 5pm

Republic Bar & Café

Chase City Free Show 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

Vinyl Club 8:30pm

The Apple Shed

Tom Caulson Band 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

The Homestead

Lagoon Hill Zydeco 9pm

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

Legendary Voices of Rock - Steve Augeri + Robby Steinhardt 7:15pm

Waterfront Hotel

Matt Edmunds

Wrest Point Showroom

A Tribute to Benny Goodman - Matthew Ives & His Big Band 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Birdcage Bar

Les Coqs 9pm

Front - Cape Grim + Tiger Can Smile (S.A.) + The Sleepyheads + Squid Fishing

Federation Concert Hall

Baroque Pops Hobart 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Huanchaco (Vic)

Onyx

Duncan “Sticks” Warburton 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Catch Club

Republic Bar & Café

King Cake Feat Pete Cornelius 10pm

The Homestead

Billy Whitton and Emily Wolfe 8pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Seretonin

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

The Homestead

Yesterdays Gentlemen and Mangus Duo 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Wizard + The Vedders + Audemia (Vic)

Twisted Lime

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Zoe Zac + Filthy Little Star + Ysla + Oceans

Betsy Blue, Babylon Howl, Valkyries, DJ Crème Broulee FTW Life Fundraiser 8pm

Onyx

Lisa Pilkington 10pm

Waterfront Hotel

Australian Made

Republic Bar & Café

Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Jed Appleton + BBQ 5pm

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

Damien Leith: Roy - A Tribute to Roy Orbison 7:15pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tim Davies / Entropy

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Rumblin Bumblin Fumblin Jumblin Cumbersome Ryanson

The Apple Shed

MT Blues Music 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

The Homestead

Kashkin 9pm

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Ebeneza Good

Waterfront Hotel

Doctors Rocksters

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Gape + Intercranial Tremors (Vic) + Annihilist (Vic) + Mountains of Madness

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Cardboard Crown King Records First Birthday Bash w/ SkurgeOne + Stray + Draz + Burd Brain + Reflekt + AO

Grand Poobah

Soda Eaves, Mess o’ Reds & Walt

Onyx

Jerome Hillier 10pm

Pier One

Les Coqs 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Darren Middleton (Powderfinger) + Mia Wray 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

Sub Mara - Benefit Gig

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Freddy Kruegers Dream Catcher

Claremont Hotel

Aaron Courtney

Republic Bar & Café

Blue Flies 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Phrayta

Friday

Saturday

29

30

MAY Sunday

1

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Event Guide

Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

APRIL Friday

Saturday

1

2

Club 54

Saskwatch + Cub Sport + Violet Swells

Princess Theatre

The Beauty of Brahms 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

When She Believes - Female Showcase - Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Watergarden

Trevor Weaver 7pm

Club 54

The Alice in Wonderland Party

The Royal Oak

Farnz Cordeaux + The Silver Beets Public Bar 9pm

Tonic CCT

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Watergarden

Tassie Tenor 7pm

Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Monday

25

Country Club Showroom

Here’s to the Heroes 1:30pm

Tuesday

26

The Royal Oak

Launceston Jazz Club - Tamar Boat Shed 6pm

Wednesday

27

Club 54

The Local @ Club 54: Jack McLaine + Charlie Pyecroft + Slamduggery Invitational

The Royal Oak

Open Mic Night - Public Bar 9pm

Watergarden

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Lilyana Sanoe + Phoebe Divona + Eve Gowen

The Royal Oak

Live Music - Public Bar 9pm

Club 54

That 70s Party

The Royal Oak

Liquid Nails (L’ton Blues Club) Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Watergarden

Rino Morea 7pm

Thursday

28

Friday

29

Sunday

3

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Sesion - Public Bar 5pm

Wednesday

6

Club 54

HM Themed Party

The Royal Oak

Matthew Dames - Public Bar 9pm

Albert Hall

Bohemian Rhapsody 7:30pm

Watergarden

Rino Morea 6:30pm

Club 54

Lip Sync Battle #5

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Nick Bennett + Chris Jackson + Trent Buchanan

The Royal Oak

The Royal Oak

Isla Ka - Public Bar 9pm

Night on the Greenwood - Karlin Love + Colin Offord - Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Club 54

Mixtape: American Anthems

Tonic CCT

Tori & Andy 8pm

The Royal Oak

Max Hillman Showband - Public Bar 9pm

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Watergarden

Café Noir 7pm

Club 54

Private Party + DJs

The Royal Oak

Toni Swain Band (L’ton Blues Club) Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Tonic CCT

Nat & Andy 8pm

Watergarden

The Speakeasys 7pm

Date

Thursday

7

Friday

8

Saturday

9

Saturday

30

NORTHWEST CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

10

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Sesion - Public Bar 5pm

April

Wednesday

13

Club 54

The Local @ Club 54: Cuban Heel + Bullet House + Trent Buchanan + Eve Gowen

Friday

1

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Fairy Tales and Pirate Sails

Saturday

2

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Trevor Weaver

The Royal Oak

Ratfunk - Public Bar 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

The Unit

Watergarden

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Thursday

7

Devonport

Molly Malones

Tim Roberts

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Ocean Bones (Acoustic) + The Treehouse Children (Acoustic) + Nick Bennett

Friday

8

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Mandi’s Glitter Tatoo’s

Saturday

9

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Songbirds

Devonport

Molly Malones

Bongiggle

Friday

Saturday

14

15

16

The Royal Oak

Cirque Navashi - Public Bar 9pm

Club 54

The Sleepyheads + Ocean Bones + Turbulence + The Treehouse Children

Thursday

14

Devonport

Molly Malones

Jerome Hillier

Friday

15

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Mandi’s Face Painting

Saturday

16

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Jerome Hillier

Devonport

Molly Malones

Cool Train

Country Club Showroom

The Australian Bee Gees Show 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Brad Gillies - Public Bar 9pm

Thursday

21

Devonport

Molly Malones

Clinton Hutton

Watergarden

Rino Morea 7pm

Friday

22

Burnie

Burnie Town Hall

Club 54

Mixtape: Australian Anthems

Baroque Pops Burnie 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Lennin Mkarthey + No Nothings + Cape Grim - Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Mandi’s Face Painting

Saturday

23

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Stonie Jim

Tonic CCT

John & Jai 8pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Agent 99

Watergarden

Clinton Hutton 7pm

Thursday

28

Devonport

Molly Malones

Firebirds

Sunday

17

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Sesion - Public Bar 5pm

Friday

29

Latrobe

Mackey’s Hotel

Mandi’s Glitter Tatoo’s

Wednesday

20

Club 54

The Local @ Club 54: Jack McLaine + Charlie Pyecroft + Lachlan Hicks + Phoebe Divona

Saturday

30

Devonport

Molly Malones

The Collection

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

26

21

22

23

24

The Royal Oak

Andy Collins - Public Bar 9pm

Watergarden

Hank Koopman 6:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Heloise + Lachlan Hicks + Pat Broxton

The Royal Oak

Tim Gambles + Alice Headlam Public Bar 9pm

Club 54

Heloise + The Sleepyheads + Isla Ka

The Royal Oak

The Embers - 4th Birthday & EP Launch - Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Watergarden

Adam Page 7pm

Club 54

Rockaoke! Volume #2

The Royal Oak

Wizard EP Launch + The Vedders + The Quilts - Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Tonic CCT

Clinton Hutton 8pm

Watergarden

Trevor Weaver 7pm

The Royal Oak

Open Blues Jam - Tamar Boat Shed 1pm + Open Folk Sesion - Public Bar 5pm

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Fri 1st When She Believes ~ Female Showcase ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sat 2nd Farnz Cordeaux + The Silver Beets ~ Public Bar 9pm Sun 3rd Open Folk Session ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 6th Matthew Dames ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 7th Isla Ka ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 8th Max Hillman Showband ~ Public Bar 9pm Sat 9th Toni Swain Band (L’ton Blues Club) ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm

Sunday

Thursday

April

Sun 10th Open Folk Session ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 13th Ratfunk ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 14th Cirque Nivashi ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 15th Brad Gillies ~ Public Bar 9pm Sat 16th Lennin Mkarthey + No Nothings + Cape Grim ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sun 17th Open Folk Session ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 20th Andy Collins ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 21st Tim Gambles + Alice Headlam ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 22nd The Embers ~ 4th Birthday & EP Launch ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sat 23rd Wizard EP Launch + The Vedders + The Quilts ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sun 24th Open Blues Jam / Open Folk Session ~ TBS 1pm / ~ PB 5pm Tue 26th Launceston Jazz Club ~ Tamar Boat Shed 6pm Wed 27th Open Mic Night ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 28th Live Music ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 29th Liquid Nails (L’ton Blues Club) ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sat 30th Night on the Greenwood ~ Karlin Love + Colin Offord ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm ~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~

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