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APRIL 2018 Sunday 15th 2pm Hugo Bladel (Single Launch) + Funknukl + Max Bladel + KOWL 9pm 120Ys Monday 16th 8.30pm Finn Seccombe Tuesday 17th 8.30pm Priscilla Walters Wednesday 18th 9pm Maestro Koko Thursday 19th 9pm Tim & Scott Friday 20th 10pm Jeff Martin $40pre/$45door Saturday 21st 10pm Jacuzzi Masterpiece $15 Sunday 22nd 2.30pm Wahbash Avenue Sunday 22nd 8.30pm Blue Flies
Monday 23rd 8.30pm Ross Sermons & Montz Matsumoto Tuesday 24th 9pm Alex The Astronaunt + Stella Donnelly $25pre/$30door Wednesday 25th 8.30pm Julian James Thursday 26th 8.30pm The Bootleg Gin Sluggers Friday 27th 10pm Front End Loader $20pre/$25door Saturday 28th 10pm Hobart Funk Collective $5 Sunday 29th 2.30pm The Great Anticipators + Lonely Bay Sunday 29th 8.30pm Michael Thompson Monday 30th 8.15pm Quiz Night
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hard labour. It tells the story of love, loss, and the mental struggles of grief, acceptance and moving forward. The party starts in their hometown of Devonport on Saturday April 14 when they take the stage at Tapas Lounge Bar, joined by New Wave Saints and more. The following week, on Friday April 20, they’ll be at Club 54 in Launceston, and on Saturday April 21, they’ll be at The Grand Poobah in Hobart. HOP TO IT
Your local urban music event, Street Vibes, is back Friday April 27 and this time organisers have decided to give everyone the chance to relive classless moments of high school by hosting a throw back style high school party. This debauchery is happening at the Grand Poobah where you can enjoy music from Mum & Dad, Lazer Baby, and DJ Puffy Pank&Hip0 MonkE (late night) as well as Hobart’s worst amateur cover band just to name a few. There will also be old school hip hop and RnB playing through out the night and some “cool” activities. They just want to take you right back to the days of your best friends parents rocket fuel and MSN group chats. Doors open at 8:30pm, cover charge will run you a tenner.
If you like beer, Launceston will be the place April 20-22, as the Fresh Hop Beer Festival returns for its third year. Boasting a stellar line up of 26 brewers from around the State and across the water and showcasing up to 27 fresh harvest craft beers on tap, the festival will be held in the Vincent Street laneway behind Saint John Craft Beer. Complementing the beer will be local food stalls, entertainment from local and interstate musicians as well as the People’s Choice Award and Home Brew Competition. Head to www. freshhopfestival.com.au for more information.
Saturday April 28 at Wesley Hall, 58 Melville Street, Hobart. David “Odd Socks” Wanless will be calling high energy traditional and contemporary dances alongside Tasmanian tunes. Come and listen, or come to dance. Newcomers are welcome! All dances taught, so don’t worry if you’re a terrible dancer! Don’t even worry if you don’t have a partner! Just head along, bring a plate of supper, and have a good ol’ dance. Tickets available at the door, and will cost $17 ($15 concession, $14 members, $8 students). Dress is casual, heritage, or rural. Yeehaw. HEY BOBBY
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Local legends and masters of foresthorror-punk-rock, Captives, have been busy. Their debut album Over The Rainbow is out now, since 2016 they have been consistently gigging all around Australia, and they’re pumping out some pretty damn gnarly music videos. What more could ya want? Nothing, really. But in May, they’re gonna give ya more, anyway. Throughout the month, they’ll be playing all around the country yet again. Fortunately, they’re stopping in Hobart for one night to play at The Brisbane Hotel. You can catch them on Friday May 25, tickets available via Oztix for $14.30. SIN CITY SPITTERS
of the museum of sex and death has summoned the dark lord. They’ve focused the dark lord’s attention and managed to do the unspeakable. The taboo of all alchemy. They have raised the dead. It is the beginning of the end, the catalyst for the apocalypse. We are all doomed to eternal damnation. But hey, at least they raised some awesome muso’s. You’ll be able to catch David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen and Lemmy at Dark MOFO this year. Or y’know, maybe someone else. Probably someone else. You should probably head over to www.darkmofo.net. au just to make sure. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE Feel the urge to dress up but have nowhere to go? Lucky June is rolling around again and this means the Queens Ball! This year the ball has rolled on to The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart with a new theme: F*ck The Establishment. This year the is but one rule, be yourself… so dress up and party on Sunday June 10. Presale tickets are available from Oztix. TIDDAS & ROACH
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It’s undeniable. The Teskey Brothers are a soul/blues phenomenon and the world is falling head over heels. Already in 2018 the Melbourne 4-piece have played to packed houses at Melbourne Zoo, SxSW Festival in Texas, Rockwood Music Hall in NYC and Port Fairy Folk Festival, not to mention homecoming sets at Byron Bay’s Bluesfest where the likes of Chris Hemsworth and Matt Damon were among thousands crammed into the overflowing tent. Their incredible live show just keeps getting stronger, and the lines to see them keep getting longer! However, if you buy a ticket to their Thursday June 28 gig at The Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart, you won’t really have to line up at all. So check out www.theteskeybrothers.com. BUGGIN’
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Slow Descent celebrate the release of their brand new EP Snakes and Ladders on April 6 with a run of Tasmanian shows before they turn their attention to the mainland later this year. These are the first shows since a main stage appearance at the latest Falls Festival. Snakes and Ladders is the first release since 2015 and is the fruits of 18 months
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Animals Dancing presents a national travelling caravan, rolling through your town, bringing with it a few friends from overseas to play tricks on your ears. Presented by your Australian tour guides, Otologic & Andee Frost, Animals Dancing have herded together three international DJs for this safari. Get to travel the world from the relative safety of The Grand Poobah to the sounds of Young Marco (Netherlands), Zaltan (France) and Gary Abugan (Canada) on Thursday April 26. FIDDLERS ON THE ROOF The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble present a Heritage Bush Dance on
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You may have seen the awesome Bobby Alu accompanying Rikki-Lee during her performance at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony. He’s in the midst of a huge national 20-date tour. He pulls a wealth of inspiration from his heritage, playing traditional log drums in his music that has been passed down through his family lineage. He’s spent the last 5 years touring as Xavier Rudd’s drummer. So yeah. He’s been busy. Busy af, really. He even has a third album on the way, that should be out later this year. Crikey. If you want to see what he’s all about, you have two opportunities in May, on Thursday May 10 he’ll be performing at Willie Smith’s Apply Shed in Grove, and on Friday May 11 he’ll be at The Homestead in Hobart.
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Spit Syndicate have yet another album out really soon, next month, in fact. Just when you thought it was safe. On Friday May 11, they’ll drop ORBIT. As acts do, they’ll be heading out on a big ol’ national tour to promote the new album. 20-stops all around the country, including one down here in little ol’ Hobart. Gotta love it when the bigwigs don’t forget the little guys. Anyway, you’ll be able to catch them playing at The Republic Bar & Cafe on Friday June 29. Tickets are available via Moshtix, and will cost you $23.31 a piece. Spit Syndicate gigs are always good fun, so make sure you don’t miss out! THE DARKEST MOFO Well, they’ve finally done it. I don’t know how, but they’ve done it. They’ve somehow channelled the evilest energies of hell. One of their intensely gross, ritualistic displays of vulgarity deep in the bowels
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2018 will see award winning Australian trio Tiddas reform to join Archie Roach for a series of one-off shows around the country in May and June. Across the 90s, Tiddas won the hearts of the nation and the world with their beautiful harmonies and songs. Now the trio Amy Saunders, Lou Bennett and Sally Dastey are back on stage to support the unearthing of Roach’s new album Dancing With My Spirit – recorded over two decades ago by producer Jen Anderson. Circumstances at the time saw the demo shelved and virtually forgotten, until now. Hobart will be lucky enough to get a glimpse of Tiddas and Archie Roach when they perform together at the Odeon Theatre on Friday June 15. For tickets and more information, head to www.archieroach. com/tour.
After opening Falls Festival for triple j unearthed and touring the country off the back of their single “Neighbourhood” including Mountain Goat Valley Crawl, and Melbourne Music Week – Brisbane’s trio of boyish blokes BUGS have returned with new single “Glue”, and the announcement of their second EP Social Slump which should be out by the time you read this. To back that up, they’ve announced a national EP tour for May and June that takes BUGS to almost every corner of the country. We’re a corner of the country, so they’re coming here. On Saturday June 30, they’ll be playing at the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart. Tickets available via Moshtix.
studio album, Storm Bay. Set for release this May, Storm Boy is Xavier’s first solo release in six years, following on from the gold selling Spirit Bird. For Xavier Rudd, writing music and living his life are one and the same. “I’m literally just singing about the things that are going on around me,” he says of his sublime and soaring indie-folk. In support of the new album, Rudd has freshly announced a national tour, including Hobart at the Odeon Theatre on August 17.
Tijuana Cartel are nationally loved for their east meets west, fat, bass-fuelled electronica. A truly unique act that have been mesmerising their ever-growing audience for well over a decade, they continue to set an exceptionally high standard in both live performance and sound production. Their newest single “Sophia” from the special vinyl edition EP, Ishtar’s Descent has just been released, and they’re heading off on tour to support it. They’ll be supporting it at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday July 13, and you can grab tickets from Oztix.
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JUNCTIONISMS Northern Tasmania’s Junction Arts Festival (Junction) is set to take over Launceston from 5-9 September, shining the spotlight on the Apple Isle’s outstanding artists, musicians, local food producers, award-winning winemakers and boutique brewers. Heading in to its eighth year, Junction is fresh, intimate and deliciously Tasmanian. Positioned in and around Launceston’s multitude of architectural and natural gems, Junction’s program is both diverse and vibrant; it’s all about extraordinary experiences in unusual spaces. It’s all happening from Wednesday September 5 to Sunday September 9. Head over to junctionartsfestival.com.au for all the details! STORM BOY
DJs, producers, remixers, radio presenters and all round legends, The Aston Shuffle, otherwise known as Vance Musgrove and Mikah Freeman, have today announced their epic national ID Tour. Most artists go on tour to promote music that’s already been released – but The Aston Shuffle who make the rules as they go - are switching things up for this run. As a true exclusive for fans, the ID Tour will be a chance to catch new music from the duo, well before its release. Vance Musgrove gives fans an insight into what to expect from the tour, saying, “We’re psyched to be able to play these new tracks to our Australian fans months before they’re released, and to be seeing the reactions to them first in the clubs, rather than online. We haven’t even settled on the names of some of the tracks yet, which gave us the idea for the name of the tour – when fans are putting together a tracklist of a DJ’s set, unreleased tracks are usually called ‘IDs’.” See the Aston Shuffle play at The Grand Poobah on Friday May 18, tickets are available from www.theastonshuffle.com.
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MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN ALEX THE ASTRONAUT AND STELLA DONNELLY ARE TWO OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST HONEST, TRUE AND BREATHTAKING MUSICIANS. BOTH STELLA AND ALEX CREATED MASSIVE WAVES LAST YEAR, BOTH RELEASING INCREDIBLE, BEAUTIFUL EP’S. THE TWO HAVE PAIRED TOGETHER FOR A NATIONAL TOUR, WHICH IS DESTINED TO BE AN INCREDIBLE TIME. I HAD A CHAT TO THE PAIR ABOUT THE TOUR, THEY’RE BRUTUAL VULNERABLITY AND OYSTERS.
How did you guys actually meet? Stella: We meet at Big Sound! Alex: I went to watch one of Stella’s showcases and I loved and I went up to her after and said hello and yeah, I thought she was great! Stella: We both kind of teamed up for a little bit at the after party, because it was so busy and we were just like ‘let’s just sick together’ Alex: It was fun, it was a really fun, crazy night! I’m going to put you on the spot a bit, and ask can you tell me something you love about each other’s music? Stella: I love Alex’s honesty. I really love how real she is willing to be in her music. I think that really resonates with people and I said to Alex, people and especially girls need that right now. They need someone to just be real in their music. So that’s what I love about Alex’s stuff Alex: Awh thanks Stell! I feel like all our interviews are just us being nice to each other Stella: Yeah, I know haha Alex: But it’s kind of a similar thing which Stella as well, I think that’s why we click. Because honestly is something that is so strong in Stella songs, like in ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ it’s just cutting, that’s the only word I can use to describe it. When I first heard it I was kind of just standing around, with my managers stuff and meeting people and hearing that song it was like ‘hoooly shit, okay it’s time to settle in and listen to this song’. That way she draws people in is through the honesty.
Is it scary being so open with your music and opening yourself up to the public?
have nothing better to do and are going to get a rush out of their ten likes on a comment.
Alex: It’s bloody terrifying. Stella: Yeah it definitely is terrifying Alex: I was scared to release ‘Not Worth Hiding’. I’m quite a confident person, I don’t want to put myself in a box but I’ve always been on sports teams since I was little and I’ve always had that personality about me where I am quite a strong, open person and I like just getting on with what I’m doing. So, I’m open but I’ve never been that open. I’ve always been the person to kind of laugh off this if they’re too serious, so a song like that was really tricky. It took the whole management team. It’s strange doing interviews because it is really a whole team, people don’t understand that when you release a song like that you need a whole group of people behind you to support you and I’m lucky to have that, I was having people saying to me “well this is going to be super helpful to young people, seeing people benefit from the song will help you as well”. So, I had that going into the release, people liked it and I was lucky to not get any negative feedback that I really was scared of.
Stella: And then playing live and playing those songs live, your just putting yourself out there but it is a rush, you do it because you love it. I think I would be more upset and scared trying to be someone else. I’ve played in like corporate cover bands for like four years, I’ve had to sing Love Shack on stage, I’ve been there and I know it’s something that I can’t do anymore. So, as vulnerable as it is, at least were being ourselves.
Stella: With ‘Boys Will be Boys’ I never really expected it to get as big as it did. I initially got a lot of back feedback from a lot of bad people, lot’s of online threats and lot’s of death threats and shit like that. It really upset people and people were really angry that I stood out for what I believed in. The next day I was like, hang on guys, this is what I’ve wanted the whole time, deep down I wanted to break the bubble and get people talking and get people thinking. If I’m pissing those people off, then I’m doing something right. It took me a day to recover from those mean messages, I remembered that they’re messages were just targeted at the idea of me and their projection of me. Alex: I think you almost have to separate yourself from it, like all the comment culture and everything. I think Stella and I are lucky that we’re a little bit older than a lot of people going into music, so we can look at something like a comment and think ‘okay, it’s not really about me’. Stella and I have spoken about comments before and about how you can just kind of laugh at them because a lot of them are so ridiculous. You just have to feel sad because these people
Have you guys ever been to Hobart before?
Shaun Kirk MELBOURNE BLUES ACT SHAUN KIRK IS FRESH FROM A FESTIVAL AND READY TO KEEP KICKING. HAVING JUST PERFORMED AT THE ILLUSTRIOUS BLUESFEST (HIS FOURTH APPEARANCE AT THE SHOW), KIRK ISN’T RESTING ON HIS LAURELS; RATHER, HE’S HEADING OUT ON A MASSIVE AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND TOUR. WHY SLOW DOWN ONCE YOU’VE GOT SOME MOMENTUM?
Stella: Yes Alex: Nope! Stella: We’re so excited, we’re actually coming a day earlier to go to MONA and I love Hobart, I think it is actually my favourite city. It’s just so beautiful and I love it! I’m very excited! Alex: I’m also excited! Stella: Do you like oysters Alex? Alex: Oysters? Sometimes. Like I’ve gotta work myself up to it. I could do it Stella: I think Tasmania’s oysters are like the drawcard, of a lot of people going there. So I think we should do a Oyster challenge or something Alex: Yeah, okay. We will see how that goes
“Bluesfest was amazing! So many amazing artists and good vibes! The Saturday night show that I played was one of the most memorable gigs of my life!” Kirk says, a good-natured bloke with a fierce passion for music. Since his last album, 2014’s Steer The Wheel, it might seem like Kirk was taking a rest. But even in his ‘off-time’, he was working on his craft.
“After a US record deal fell through on Steer the Wheel back in 2014, I decided it was time for me to step back from the heavy touring that I’d been doing. So the last few years have been spent primarily in my little studio at home in Melbourne working on growing as a writer. It’s been really great to getting back to basics and focusing my energy on creating!”
“I enjoy candle lit dinners, long walks along the beach and horseback riding into the sunset…” Kirk laughs, when asked what he does in his leisure time. “I like to try and fit in a morning walk whilst I’m out on the road to keep myself sane.”
A crowdfunding campaign helped make the independent album happen, and Kirk also donated a chunk of the cash to Orphfund, a charity helping abandoned children around the world. The new tour comes off the back of the release of Kirk’s new single, Howlin’ at The Moon, recorded and co-produced with Nick Huggins (Jen Cloher) and cowritten with Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe); Howlin’ has a decidedly more bluegrass/alt-country feel than some previous Kirk material, which is an indication, possibly, of what future sounds Kirk will have to offer. Huggins has been an influence on him, with Kirk saying Huggins is “helping me move towards and find a sound that I’ve been hearing in my head for a while now. It’s a pretty exciting feeling!” Kirk has been creating and touring consistently since his debut EP Seagulls in 2008. His first full-length, Cruisin', followed two years later. Since his inception into the scene, he’s supported the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Ash Grunwald and Mia Dyson. He’s been content with the changes being made around him, in the everexpanding musical universe, and is constantly pursuing avenues of creative change and evolution.
What can people expect from your Hobart show this month? Stella: Probably Alex looking really green after eating like ten oysters. Very ill Alex. I think they can expect us to be very excited and happy. We’ve got a really cool support playing which we haven’t announced yet, I think it’s gonna be a really cool night and I’m super keen to meet a bunch of people over there Alex: I think that too! I think all of those things. It will be really fun. Stella and I are pretty fun people I think. I would say that, I don’t think that’s being too bold. I think that people should definitely expect to have a good time
“I think the music industry in general is ever-changing and there’s no stopping that. You’ve just gotta be adaptable. I’m pretty comfortable with my place, however I always try to make sure I’m never entirely comfortable at any point, as I think, when you’re feeling too comfortable, it’s a sign that you’re not pushing yourself and growing.” LISA DIB
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TAKING CARE OF HERSELF ALEX LAHEY IS BACK IN HOBART THIS MONTH FOR THE HUGE AND TRUE TOUR. I CHAT TO LAHEY ABOUT PERFORMING ON AN INTERNATIONAL TALK SHOW, CRYING TWEENS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF COMFORTABLE UNDERWEAR.
SMALL CRIMES FROM THE ROTTING CORPSES OF ASKING FOR IT AND THE ANOREXIC OLSEN TWIN RISES THIS IS A ROBBERY, CHRIS BURROWS IS BACK FROM THE DEAD WITH A BRAND NEW ASSEMBLAGE OF DELINQUENTS, GUTTER ROCK AND ANARCHO PSYCHOSIS.
So when did this all begin? Asking For It was my first band. I played an out of tune hundred dollar acoustic guitar... terribly, backed by violin, trumpet and a tambourine. We toured extensively throughtout 2007/2008, hitching and shoplifitng across the country, sleeping on floors, rooftops, basically writing the blueprint for my next two projects and I suppose entire life in general. And then? In 2009 I became obssessed with learning the piano, panhandled a Yamaha grand, and in an attempt to crawl out of drugs and the gutter, started a new band. The Anorexic Olsen Twin was me on piano, sometimes guitar, and whoever else I could pull in off the street playing strings. It’d be like “Oi is that a violin, join my
orchestra!”. More or less it was the same shit as Asking For It, a DIY band that got fucked up, toured a lot, and sung about it. And now you’ve formed This Is A Robbery.. I don’t recall when This Is A Robbery started, but it came next and it’s what I spend most of my time on. While we don’t claim to succeed, this band aims to actually play in time, refine the elements created within those previous bands, and to operate as the trash bags we are with a little more professionalism. How do you go about recording? In the past, recording has always been a last minute rush before a tour that snuck up on us and we’ve just crammed the whole band into a bathroom or kitchen
somewhere and done it live one take. Can’t fake that sound and you always end up with something uniquely and unpredictably magical. But that’s kinda the thing, if somebody is out of tune or says something stupid, it’s in there forever. For “DIY Another Day” we took a more calculated approach. Tom laid down the drums in the studio first, playing along to me in the other room, then we took those tracks home, got high on the couch, and overdubbed the guitar, bass, violin, and vocals to that separately. We also dropped some cash to get it mixed and mastered, instead of just dumping the raw live audio directly to mp3, and for the first time ever, I’m proud of this one. So what’s next? We just returned from a tour where we had a show every second night for five weeks, were fucked up constantly, basically no sleep, shit man it is hurting my body just thinking about it. We’re all gonna need to take easy for a bit and recover. After that I guess my plan is to lurk in the basement some more and finish this album, book another tour when it’s done. I’ll be skipping the country in a few months though, my girlfriend lives in Berlin and I miss her and hate winter. But that’s basically how it goes; write, record, tour, repeat. I hear you shit in egg cartons? HA! Where you hear that? But yeh... I live alone in the woods, in a cabin I’ve been building, and setting up a more sophisticated toilet system just hasn’t been a priority. For a while I was shitting in a bucket, putting sawdust on top and compositing it festival style, until I ran out of sawdust. Now I just go in egg cartons or whatever, throw em in a 44 gallon drum, and burn the lot once every few months or whenever. Probably sounds gross and weird but it’s all become pretty normal for me. AMY KERR
You’ve surely provided an anthem for every twenty-something out there, with your vulnerable and oh-so relatable style of song writing. Have you always been an emotionally expressive person or do you think you do it best by song?
so nervous’ or ‘it must be so stressful’ but it was one of the most professional environments I’ve ever been in, it was so easy to slip into it.
I’m all about communication. Like, with my relationships no matter what type they are, I’m a pretty open kind of person. Not in an overshare kind of way but I think that I’m generally pretty open. Although, I sort of don’t like to express my vulnerabilities all that much… I think that that side of things comes out in song a bit more. I allow to be vulnerable a lot more in song, there’s a level of therapy that happens there. Overall, I’m not some sort of closed book when it comes to talking to people, but I think there are definitely things I choose to keep to myself that sometimes come out in song.
Insane! It was our first really long tour, we’d been over before as a support act... Coming back once the album was released, it was really cool too see people that had been to the first gig, come back to see us again. We always come back with stories and good times!
When did you know music was it for you? I’d just stared high school, I started playing saxophone in a jazz band and that’s when I fell in love with playing with other people. Up until then, you don’t really do it! As soon as I started playing in a band and saw music as a collaborative thing, a good way to make friends and develop a bunch of other skills, that is when I realised I was in love with it. Tell me about performing on ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’? It was very cool! I’m a big fan of his and it was all filmed at the Rockefeller centre, which was awesome. It was a long day, we didn’t sleep for forty hours. We had to travel from Massachusetts to New York because we we’re in the middle of tour, but the actual filming was insane. Everyone said ‘oh you must have been 10
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How was the rest of the U.S tour?
It must be pretty special seeing people from the other side of the globe singing along? It’s crazy, really awesome. My band and I were talking about going overseas again in a few weeks and saying how we really never think it’ll get old. I want to do this for the rest of my life, there are some pretty hard yards over the next few years. There is no slowing down, I want to get myself into a place where I can draw my own timelines and that sort of thing. What’s the most memorable thing a fan or audience member has ever said to you? I met this young girl in Sydney just the other day! I had a guy email me beforehand saying he was bringing his kids to the festival, aged eleven and fourteen. Something along the lines of ‘They’re huge fans, do you reckon you could meet them?’ which is a strange request, but I said yes! He hadn’t told them, as he wanted to surprise them. I went out and this girl saw me and immediately burst into tears! I’m talking heaving and sobbing, I didn’t know what to do! She’d drawn me a couple of pictures and written me a note. The note was in coloured gel pens, but with grey led pencil underneath. It was so sweet and lovely!
The single ‘I haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself’ come about due to a conversation from your mum. What’s the best advice your mum has ever given you? She told me if you’re going to spend good money on anything it has to be shoes, socks and underwear! Never be cheap when it comes to underwear, shoes and socks because if any of those are uncomfortable then you’re stuffed. So you’re strictly Bonds and Calvin Klein? Not that I wear luxe underwear or shoes or anything like that, but she was just all about making sure I get items that fit and are practical! It’s rare to get an act of your calibre come back to Tassie just months later, what can we expect this time around? We love coming to Tassie, it’s one of the most beautiful places we get to tour! We had such a blast last time, especially after doing Falls Festival. It feels like we’ve got a lovely connection with the people there, it seemed like a no brainer to come back so soon. I think what we’re gonna do this time that’s a little different from last is see a tighter band, which is really exciting! We’re hoping to play a song that’s not on the album which is really cool, and a new cover! Good times and vibes, we can’t wait to be back! KEIRA LEONARD
*’DIY another day’ is available for download at thisisarobbery.bandcamp.com.
MONSTERS IN THE CLOSET DOUG KERR IS THE CREATIVE GENIUS & SONGWRITER BEHIND MONSTERS OF THE ID. ORIGINATING IN BURNIE IN THE EIGHTIES AND NOW BASED IN HOBART, THE BAND HAS HAD A FEW DIFFERENT LINEUPS OVER THE YEARS WITH THE CURRENT LINEUP BEING DOUG KERR (GUITAR, VOCALS), AMY KERR (GUITAR), DAMON LEARY (DRUMS) AND THE NEW ADDITION OF BEN CROTHERS (BASS).
Doug began writing music in the early eighties and with a few brief name changes eg. Urgent Live Trout and Dead Fish, he soon settled on the name Monsters of the id. With influences such as Marc Bolan, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, New York Dolls and early blues Doug soon found his own original style. With songs ranging from blends of garage rock, surfy fish psychedelia and even the occasional ballad - Doug style. Doug continues to write and record his own music and has recently released an A - Z discography available for free download on Bandcamp, which includes all songs old and new. Monsters of the id will be performing live again soon in the meantime head to monsters of the island camp.com and ask yourself can you Dig it like Dug? AMY KERR
Alex Lahey is currently touring around the country to sold out shows. For more information head to www. alexlahey.com.au.
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Books
Books BOOK REVIEW
PAIGE TURNER IF YOU’RE READING THIS, YOU CAN READ, YEP. IT MAY SEEM LIKE A SILLY STATEMENT, BUT BEING ABLE TO READ MAKES YOU PART OF THE 50% OF TASMANIANS WHO CAN READ AND WRITE. ONLY 50% OF US ARE FUNCTIONALLY LITERATE, WHICH IS OF SIGNIFICANT CONCERN FOR ALL OF US. What to do? There are lots of things, but to begin the drip feed, start reading on the bus, reading in public. Be a public celebration of reading, a very embodiment of reading – and volunteer as an adult literacy tutor through 26Ten. You can also attend other celebrations of reading and writing, such as the launch of Word Fall by Betty McKenzie-Tubb at the Hobart Bookshop on April 12 at 5.30pm. This is her new collection of poetry, following on from a book of memoir of her last 80 or so years. She has a love and mastery of language, and as poet Robyn Mathison notes, she was moved to tears, deep contemplation or laughter as she read these poems. Tasmanian writer Shirley Patton will have her northern launch, following a successful Hobart event in March. Her new novel, The Secrets We Keep is a compelling novel of the transcendental love of children and the truths unwillingness to stay hidden. This is happening on April 12, 6pm at Petrarch’s Bookshop in Launceston www.facebook.com/events/764450100412147. On April 18 I am heading to Launceston to do a lunchtime talk for the National Book Council of Tasmania. This is open to the public and I’d love you to come along and say hello. Who am I when I’m at home? – well, Editor in Chief of Transportation Press, erstwhile non-fiction Editor of Open Road Review, South Asia’s leading mag of literature and culture, reviewer, writer, columnist, and recently I’ve had the great pleasure to be working with lower literacy inmates at Risdon Prison as Writer in Residence, doing slam poetry. April 18, 1pm on the second floor of the Launceston LINC, this is a free event. Reading for the Revolution returns in April, this time with readings and discussion around the oncept ‘democracy’ – which is something which history teaches us, time and time again that we should not take for granted. The next one is taking place at 7.30am (yes, in the morning sleepy heads) on uesday, April 10 upstairs at the Food Store in South Hobart. Readings include ‘How Politics Works in Australia’ a recent essay in The Monthly by Scott Ludlum, and Tim Lo Surdo’s discussion from democracy in Colour. For further information contact the inspirational Millie Rooney – millie.rooney@gmail.com. I’m getting conflicting information about the ‘officialness’ of the announcement – but Ellen Harvey has updated her Twitter profile to note she is the new director of the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre. I imagine this means that contracts are signed and she is on her way to relocate to Tasmania for the role. This is exciting times for a centre which has a grand opportunity to be the go-to space for writers and readers of all ilks, diversities, propensities and desires. I wish her all the best for her new role. It’s excellent to hear that the first two titles from Emily Conolon’s exciting new interactive children’s series, The Freedom Fighters, Break your Chains and Touch the Sun, are being launch at Fullers on April 7 at 2.30pm. Emily is a Tasmanian of the Year, humanitarian as well as being an author, and these books offer the opportunity for young readers (9+) to choose their own destinies, putting themselves in the shoes of migrants and refugee children and experiencing the twists, turns and life or death choices of finding your way to a new home in Australia. This is a free event, but please make sure you RSVP to rsvp@fullersbookshop.com.au. Fullers is also hosting the launch of From Limerick to Campbell Town to Detroit by Meredith Hodgson. This book traces the remarkable life of Eliza Williams who was transported to Van Diemen’s Land for theft in 1851, where she served as indentured labour for John Leake at his magnificent estate Rosedale. Her letters have survived and they tell a fascinating tale of the journey from convict woman, to prosperity. The author will be in conversation with historian Kristyn Harman on Thursday, April 12 at 5.30. (see also the review of Kristyn Harman’s latest book, Cleansing the Colony, in this issue). Private Projects, a distinctive, glorious small gallery in Moonah, has copies of artist Duncan Lanchard’s new book available now. This is the only Tasmanian distribution outlet. A little ahead of myself this month, but a significant event on any reader’s calendar should be the launch of Robbie Arnott’s first novel, Flames. The book will be launched by MAN Booker Prize winner, Richard Flanagan at Fullers on May 3, at 5.30pm. I cannot wait, this book is already being lauded as a surrealist version of the island state, and what some are calling “one of the finest works of Australian literature in recent years”. Woot. The latest in Tansy Rayner Robert’s Creature Court series is available for pre-order here - www.kickstarter.com/projects/1036701568/the-creature-court. RACHEL EDWARDS Do you have any writing or reading news? Drop me a line –racheledwards488@gmail.com.
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CLEANSING THE COLONY: TRANSPORTING CONVICTS FROM NEW ZEALAND TO VAN DIEMEN’S LAND CHINESE, SCOTTISH, KHOISAN, ITALIAN, AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL, CANADIAN, MAORI, AFRICAN AMERICANS AND IRISH WERE SOME OF THE NATIONALITIES SENTENCED TO TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN’S LAND AND TO THE 80 PROBATION STATIONS ACROSS THE ISLAND.
Historian and writer, Kristyn Harman has explored this rarely examined side of transportation, in this case looking specifically at those transported across the Tasman from New Zealand. Her earlier book, Aboriginal Convicts, examined the lives of men (for the most part) sentenced from around the world to be sent to Van Diemen’s Land. It is refreshing to have some of the diversity of convicts recounted so eloquently. We follow Harman’s enquiring mind down a wonderful rabbit hole in history and, for the first time in one volume the reader has the opportunity to explore in depth accounts of those transported from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land. This is a book that is clearly the outcome of academic research and is full of a massive amount of detail. It is also written in a logical and engaging way, attributes which are not always to be found in academic tomes. Harman has chosen to follow a few particular people on their individual journeys from freedom to incarceration, beginning with William Phelps Pickering who arrived in NZ as a free man and found himself subsequently transported to Van Diemen’s Land for the crime of fraud and misrepresentation, returning to the island where he had first resided while in the Antipodes. The Parkhurst Boys, as they became known are a fascinating collection of lads from a prison on the Isle of Wight. They were shipped to various Australian colonies and to New Zealand where they caused great upset in a fledging Auckland and “moral panic ensued, highlighting issues of class, race and respectability.” Some of their individual stories run through the book too.
The conditions of various gaols are quite fascinating, and recounted in visceral detail. The Launceston gaol in 1827 contained as many as 70 people in just two rooms and included adults and children as young as eight. A visit by Governor La Trobe to the Rocky Hills station on the east coast, led him to state ‘(t)he effects of bad management, inattention and inefficiency in the Officers of this Establishment was evident in every detail.” He concluded that he saw “little to recommend’ Rocky Hills other than its inaccessibility.” Interesting factoids are sprinkled throughout the text, often reflective of the various methodologies employed by historians working today. Chapter four sees an analysis of spatial segregation and we learn curious facts such as that imprisonment was rarely used as a form of punishment in Britain until the 18th Century. The executioner of Te Whareaitu, who accepted a bag of gold to kill the man, drowned a year later, in shallow waters. This was a death his comrades attributed to his share “in the killing which had clung to him like a curse”. Harman also gives us almost intimate portraits of the people whose lives she recounts. Accurate to the eyelash colour, as she has relied on the comprehensive government reports that included details such as complexion, obvious scars or tattoos and eye colour. This impeccably researched book is an accessible and interesting read for all of those with a curiosity about the recent history of this island. RACHEL EDWARDS
BOOK REVIEW
SOON SOON IS SET IN THE FICTIONAL TOWN OF NEBULAH SOMEWHERE IN THE DEEP SOUTH OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. IT IS A TOWN POPULATED BY ONLY FIVE PEOPLE, FOLLOWING THE ARRIVAL, AND THEN APPARENT VANISHING OF A TROUPE OF MYSTERIOUS MEN WEARING IDENTICAL GREY SUITS AND DRIVING THE SAME GENERIC GREY CARS. AFTER THEY DISAPPEAR A MALEVOLENT AND GHOSTLY FORCE APPEARS.
This book is a gently horrific thriller. The gentleness comes partly from the contrast of these ghost-like spirits that rap at the town’s windows at night, morphing into the dead people, and the prosaic day to day activities of those remaining in the town. Another element that adds to the creepiness is the familiarity of this kind of town for anyone who has driven through back roads anywhere in Australia. Wide, quiet streets, deep verandas on pubs, the echo of a hooning car in the background. The book opens with the loss of more townsfolk, one to suicide, another fleeing with her children because the visions the ghosts dance in front of her windows every night is of her children eating each other. Other apparitions include a dead husband appearing plaintively to his wife, and a massacred puppy that was mistakenly left out in the evening. The ghosts tempt the living to come outside to their own deaths. The story is narrated by salt of the earth Pete, a former local cop. Milly and Li are Pete’s mates and they are all forced to stay by dint of circumstance and livelihood. Their day times are run of the mill, but come evening, the ghosts appear and they must stay locked in their houses. This has been going on for a while, and they’ve adapted their lives well enough, cooking, drinking and dancing many of the evenings away together.
moment in the book, the strongest force of the ghosts revealed. Soon, or an earlier iteration, won the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prize for an unpublished manuscript in 2015. It is wonderful to see this prize coming to fruition with the publication of the manuscript. Transit Lounge are a consistently quirky and interesting publisher and kudos to them for publishing Soon. Structurally the book is sound, and it had me on the edge of my seat. Aside from a disconcertingly positioned ‘flash back’ at the end of the novel, which was necessary as it explained some fairly crucial plot elements, the book is slow-burn scary, with good solid writing and a literary bent. It has been a while since I finished reading it, but I am still carrying a feeling of unease and feeling unsettled which is a sign of a well written book, one that the reader carries around in their belly after they have set it down. RACHEL EDWARDS
Following Li’s death – she runs out of petrol and is torn to shreds by the ghosts, her niece Alice comes to the town for the funeral. Alice brings her friends back to the town to explore this murderous phenomenon but she has been manipulated into believing it benign, as on her previous stay it sang the songs of her Khmer youth. This is a pivotal
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Arts
performing arts Guide
Gallery Guide South Contemporary Art Tasmania Until April 22 Cooking the Books – George EgertonWarburton April 28 – May 27 The Blackest Spat – Tim Coad, Emma Magnussen-Reid, Natalie Mather, Eva Nilssen, Dexter Rosengrave Bett Gallery April 6 – April 27 Caroline Rannersberger Colville Gallery April 6 Leanne Halls April 27 Jane Giblin
MS. WHITE WILL SEE YOU NOW
Handmark Gallery Until April 11 New Furniture – Design Exhibition April 13 – May 2 New Paintings and Works On Paper Denise Campbell Despard Gallery Until April 1 The Evolving Garden – Penny Burnett April 4 – April 29 Works on Paper – Group Show Salamanca Arts Centre • Top Gallery Until April 15 You, The Meta, The Physic, Me and Charon too. - Edith Perrenot April 20 – May 30 Beastly Careless – Donna Ritchie • Studio Gallery April 1 – April 30 First Impressions – Melanie McCollinWalker
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• Sidespace Gallery Until April 10 The Kingdom Retrospective – Phyllis Fiotakis April 13 – April 17 Song in a Strange Land April 19 – April 23 The Bay of Fires April 25 – May 6 The Space Between – Kim Anderson • Lightbox April 1 – April 30 The Existence of Ghosts – Chi-Ling Tabart
NORTH Campbelltown Art Centre April 13 Sheer Fantasy – David Capra Handmark Evandale Until April 4 New Paintings and Works on Paper “Landscape” Exhibition April 8 – May 4 New Paintings – Katy Woodroffe Burnie Regional Gallery Until April 15 National Geographic 50 Greatest Photographs April 21 – June 3 Push, Pull, Press April 21 – May 27 Burnie Regional Art Gallery 40 Years Devonport Regional Gallery Until April 15 National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 April 20 – June 3 Not Without a Trace – Erin Wilson The Little Gallery Project Space Until April 15 Carbon Capture and Storage / Celebrating 400ppm – Mike Singe April 20 – June 3 Where I Am, Who I Am – Zoe Grey Gallery Pejean Until April 21 Book of Seasons – Leoni Duff Sawtooth ARI April 6 - 28 • Front Gallery Black Matter (stage 2) – Eduardo Cruces Chile), Macarena Perich (Chile), Cristian odriguez (Chile), Julie Gough (Tas), rancisca Moenne (Tas), Robert O’Connor Tas) • Middle Gallery Requiem – Cecilija Rubenis (Tas) • Project Gallery A million lights are dancing – Sue Beyer (Vic) • Dark Gallery Circle No. 1 – Robin Petterd (Tas) • Portal Space Dark Side of the Rainbow – The Huxleys (Vic)
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The Polish Corner April 11 Jacques Barrett April 18 Stephanie Tisdell April 25 Damian Callinan – The Lost WWI Diaries Brisbane Hotel April 19 CULT COMEDY Hobart Brewing Co. April 26 The Clubhouse with David Quirk Wrest Point Showroom April 28 Puppetry of the Penis Theatre Royal April 6 – April 7 Oedipus Schmoedipus April 28 – April 30 Lano & Woodley: FLY THEATRE Backspace Theatre April 13 – April 21 The Riddle Of Washpool Gully Theatre Royal April 13 – April 14 A Tasmanian Requiem April 24 Bosom Buddies April 26 – April 27 Moscow Ballet - The Nutcracker
Royal Oak April 27 Fresh Comedy with David Quirk Red Brick Road Ciderhouse April 11 Incider Comedy: Sally-Rose McShane, Mike Cain, Andy Collings, Russell Redmond Princess Theatre April 4 Oedipus Schmoedipus Burnie Arts & Function Centre April 26 Puppetry of the Penis Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre April 24 Puppetry of the Penis THEATRE Campbelltown Art Centre April 13 Hello Stranger Earl Arts Centre April 20 – April 21 Before The Fetch April 27 The Riddle of Washpool Gully Hotel Grand Chancellor April 13 An Evening With Michael Edgar Princess Theatre April 26 Bosom Buddies April 28 Moscow Ballet - The Nutcracker Princess Theatre (Upstairs Foyer) April 11 Conversations With Friends: Richard Mulvaney Burnie Arts and Function Centre April 20 MacDeth Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre April 29 Moscow Ballet - The Nutcracker
• Long Gallery Until April 26 Skypescape
11 - 26 MAY, THEATRE ROYAL 30 MAY - 2 JUNE, PRINCESS THEATRE
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Moonah Arts Centre April 5 – April 28 A Luta Continua TMAG Until May 6 The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil Until July 1 Horizon
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Event Guide
Event Guide
Hobart Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Wednesday
APRIL
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Date
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15
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Coyote Serenade 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Insomnicide (Adl) + Feed Rick + Soda Creamers + Lake Myer
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Venue
Acts / Start Time
Irish Murphys
Noteworthy: Katie Wilson, Lasca Dry, Jensen 8pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Maestro Koko 9pm
Telegraph Hotel
DJ B-Rex Followed by DJ Nik
Cargo
DJ Sexy Lucy
The Brunswick Hotel
Isaac Westwood 7pm
Central Bar
M.T. Blues Music 4pm
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
Grand Poobah
POOLCLVB, Bear Cub, Zios & Fotti P
Wrest Point Showroom
Matthew Ives & His Big Band
Grand Poobah
This Is A Robbery, Quinton Trembath, GPop & Colin Kucera in The Kissing Room
Birdcage Bar Grand Poobah
Thursday
19
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Post Street Social
Tony Mak
Republic Bar & Cafe
Wahbash Avenue 2:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Blue Flies 8:30pm
Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Brisbane Hotel
Cosmic Psychos (Vic) + The Dreggs + A.Swayze & The Ghosts
Cargo
DJ Millhouse
Casino Bar
DJ SupaNova 10pm
Grand Poobah
The Beat Down present The Freestylers
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
National Park Hotel
Vice Captains 7pm
Monday
23
Republic Bar & Cafe
Ross Sermons & Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm
Tuesday
24
Bright Eyes Cafe
Bluegrass Jam Session 7pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm
Fee Whitla 9pm
Cargo
DJ Dezzy
Post Street Social
Tim Hibberd
Karaoke with Ocean Man & The Great Muldavio 9pm
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Red Velvet Lounge
Slim Dime 7pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Alex The Astronaut + Stella Donnelly 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Boil Up 10pm
The Duke
Local Artist 7:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Jonathan & Alan 7:30pm
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Moonah Arts Centre
A Luta Continua 6pm
Irish Murphys
Black Swans of Trespass 9pm
National Park Hotel
Ian Murtagh 7pm
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tim & Scott 9pm
Post Street Social
You Me & The Sea
The Brunswick Hotel
Billy Whitton & Lauren O’Keefe 6:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Vanguard Jazz Band + Jay Jerome 10pm
The Den
Hugo Bladel 7pm
Salamanca Arts Centre
Rektango 5:30pm
The Duke
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Black Swans of Trespass 7:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Big Swifty
The Brunswick Hotel
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
The Homestead
The Reporters 9pm
Cargo
DJ Rikin
The Whaler
Billy Whitton, Ruben Reeves 7:30pm
Irish Murphys
Noteworthy: Bryce Tilyard, Lauren O’Keefe, Ian Murtagh 8pm
Birdcage Bar
The Suffrajettes 6pm
Jay Jerome 7:30pm
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Bright Eyes Cafe
Slim Dime 4pm
The Homestead
The White Tree 8pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Birdcage Bar
Rum Jungle 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Julian James 8:30pm
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Bright Eyes Cafe
Jenny Biddle CD Launch 6pm
Telegraph Hotel
DJ B-Rex Followed by DJ Nik
Post Street Social
Isaac Westwood
Jensen 7:30pm Jamie Pregnell Quartet 8pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
The Great Anticipators + Lonely Bay 2:30pm
The Homestead
Django’s Tiger 9pm
As A Rival (Vic) + The Hudson Cartel + Cardinels + The Midways + Come Knights
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Duke
Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Michael Thompson 8:30pm
Alex Lahey – Huge and True Tour 8pm
Front Bar – Yesterday’s Gentlemen
Birdcage Bar
The Waratah Hotel
Brisbane Hotel Carlyle Hotel
Dirty Birds
Bright Eyes Cafe
Unlocked 6pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Cargo
DJ Rikin
Grand Poobah
Animals Dancing Present: Young Marco, Zaltan, Invisible City + More
Central Bar
The Sign 4pm
Grand Poobah
Terace, Fotti P, Berks & Bear Cub
Karaoke with Ocean Man & The Great Muldavio in The Kissing Room 9pm
Irish Murphys
The Seratones 9pm
Jack Greene
Terry Nomikos
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Bootleg Gin Sluggers 8:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Nick Machin 6:30pm
The Den
Hugo Bladel 7pm
The Whaler
Zac Henderson, Pete Cornelius 7:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Dominic Francis Grief Ensemble 6:30pm
Friday
20
Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 9pm
Grand Poobah
Bright Eyes Cafe
Black Swans of Trespass 6pm
Jack Greene
Matt & Abby
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar – Jesterpose + Sleaze + Valkyries + Red Voin
Moonah Arts Centre
A Luta Continua 6pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm
Post Street Social
Tony Mak
Republic Bar & Cafe
Jeff Martin 10pm
Salamanca Arts Centre
Rektango 5:30pm
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Finn Seccombe 7:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr. Fink
The Brunswick Hotel
Sticks & Kane 7:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar – Sophies Basher! W/ TerrorBrawl + Ultra Martian
Carlyle Hotel
Ebeneza Good
Cargo
DJ Rikin
Casino Bar
DJ SupaNova 10pm
Grand Poobah
Mandek Penha, The Lawless Quartet & Moonglue in The Kissing Room
Grand Poobah
Hood Rich, Zios, Berks & Fotti P in The Main Room
The Duke
Jamie Pregnell Quartet 8pm
The Founders Room
Django & Grappelli: The Early Years
Jack Greene
Gabriele
The Whaler
Dylan Eynon 7:30pm
Mobius
Slynk – Funky Fresh 2018 Tour
Theatre Royal
Songbird: The Songs of Eva Cassidy 8pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm Girl Friday 10:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Joe Mungovan (EP Launch) 6:30pm
Onyx Republic Bar & Cafe
The Songbooks: Featuring Cristopher Coleman 9:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Isaac Westwood 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Polymantra + The Sign + Late Night Krackieoke
Saturday
21
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr. Fink
The Brunswick Hotel
Tim Davies 7:30pm
Cargo
DJ Millhouse
The Homestead
Uncle Gus & The Rimshots 9pm
Casino Bar
DJ SupaNova 10pm
The Whaler
The Bootleg Gin Sluggers 9pm
Federation Concert Hall
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Anita Cairns Duo 6pm
Grand Poobah
Slow Descent, The Surreal Estate Agents
Bright Eyes Cafe
Gerry Balding 4pm
Jack Greene
Tim Hibberd
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Republic Bar & Cafe
Jacuzzi Masterpiece 10pm
Post Street Social
Tim Hibberd
Telegraph Hotel
Ado & Devo Followed by Serotonin
Republic Bar & Cafe
Hugo Bladel (Single Launch) + Funknukl + Max Bladel + KOWL 2pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm
The Homestead
Broken Things Presents: Free Dope Takeover 9:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
120Ys 9pm
Monday
16
Republic Bar & Cafe
Finn Seccombe 8:30pm
The Waratah Hotel
Set Mo 8pm
Tuesday
17
Bright Eyes Cafe
Bluegrass Jam Session 7pm
Theatre Royal
The Celtic Tenors: The Irish Songbook
Republic Bar & Cafe
Priscilla Walters 8:30pm
Wrest Point Showroom
Michael Jackson The Legacy Tour
The Duke
Jazz Jam 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Jane & Harry 6pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Slim Pickins 4pm
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Sunday
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Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
25
26
27
28
The Duke
Jay Jerome 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Mak Duo 9pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Slim Dime 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
August Wolfbiter (Album Launch)
Carlyle Hotel
James Burke
Cargo
DJ Sexy Lucy
Central Bar
Matt Edmunds 4pm
Federation Concert Hall
Avi Avital 7:30pm
Grand Poobah
Street Vibes: Lazer Baby, Mum & Dad, DJ Puffy Pank & HipO MonkE The Peen Betweens
Jack Greene
Hugo Bladel
Moonah Arts Centre
Judith’s Return 6pm
National Park Hotel
M.T. Blues Music 7pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex 10pm
Post Street Social
Gabriele
Republic Bar & Cafe
Front End Loader 10pm
Salamanca Arts Centre
Rektango 5:30pm
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Zac Henderson 7:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Tim Davies followed by Entropy
The Brunswick Hotel
Random Act 7:30pm
The Duke
Jamie Pregnell Quartet 8pm
The Homestead
The Dominic Francis Grief Ensemble 9pm
The Whaler
Jed Appleton, Bootleg Gin Sluggers 7:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
The Macamore Four 6:30pm
All Saints Market
Dan & Lan, Miah Aplin 10am
Birdcage Bar
Sambo & Jimi 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
I Hold The Lions Paw (Vic)
Sunday
Monday
29
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Event Guide
Launceston / NORTH WEST Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Bakers Lane
Laneway Sessions: Amy Pegg // Ellie Vanderheide
APRIL Wednesday
11
The Royal Oak
Matthew Dames 9pm
Thursday
12
The Royal Oak
TBA
Friday
13
Albert Hall
Gillham plays Grieg 7:30pm
Club 54
Reece Mastic + Guests
Gnomon Pavilion, Ulverstone
Marie Le Brun & Jenny Biddle 5:30pm
The Greenwood Bar
Clinic II
The Royal Oak
Julian Matthew 9pm
The Saloon Bar
Kingswood and Beat Fest 8pm
Burnie Arts & Function Centre
The Ten Sopranos 7:30pm
Club 54
M8fest 2018 w/ The Sleepyheads, The Saxons + Friends
Tapas Bar & Lounge
Snakes and Ladders’ EP Launch W/ New Wave Saints
The Greenwood Bar
The Smokin’ Elmores
The Royal Oak
TBA
Saturday
14
Sunday
15
Bakers Lane
Indecisive Amateurs Present: We’ve Thought of a Name Now
Wednesday
18
Bakers Lane
Laneway Sessions: Nick Bennett // Trent Buchanan
Friday
20
Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre
The Celtic Tenors – The Irish Songbook
Gnomon Pavilion, Ulverstone
Ben Blake; Dana, Twang and Kiamna; Georgina Harvey 5:30pm
The Royal Oak
The Max Hillman Showband 9pm
The Saloon Bar
Set Mo // Kony // Je Bahl
The Greenwood Bar
Hip Hop Night
The Royal Oak
Jeff Martin 9pm
Bakers Lane
Laneway Sessions: Monique How // Taynisha Parry
The Royal Oak
Open Mic Night
Saturday
21
Wednesday
25
Thursday
26
The Royal Oak
Tori Rattray 9pm
Friday
27
Club 54
Cosmic Psychos, A. Swayze And The Ghosts, The Dreggs
Gnomon Pavilion, Ulverstone
Crescendo Choir, plus solo acts from the choir as support 5:30pm
The Greenwood Bar
The Smokin’ Elmores
The Royal Oak
Mick Attard 9pm
Burnie Town Hall
Avi Avital 7:30pm
Club 54
Kerser
The Royal Oak
Rhiannon Simpson 9pm
The Saloon Bar
Front End Loader + Guests
Saturday
28
APRIL Wed 4th Gabriele Dagrezio - Public Bar - 9pm Thu 5th Pennyfeather, Stella Ferreras - 9pm Fri 6th Katy Hanson - 9pm Sat 7th Cakefight (MEL), Salughterhouse Surf Cult, Squashed Lizard - $5 entry Wed 11th Matthew Dames - 9pm Thu 12th TBA Fri 13th Julian Matthew - 9pm Sat 14th TBA Sun 15th Launceston Jazz Club Jam 1-4pm Wed 18th Andy Collins - 9pm Thu 19th TBA Fri 20th The Max Hillman Showband - 9pm Sat 21st Jeff Martin - 9pm (tickets via Oztix) Wed 25th Open Mic Night Thu 26th Tori Rattray - 9pm Fri 27th Mick Attard - 9pm Sat 28th Rhiannon Simpson - 9pm
WREST POINT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE FRIDAY 11 MAY 2018 ~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~
14 Brisbane St Launceston 7250 (03) 6331 5346 18
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Tickets via ticketmaster.com.au phone 136 100 or in person at the venue
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