Warp Magazine August 2013

Choose your own adventure 4—8 SEPTEMBER 2013 LAUNCESTON CIVIC SQUARE & CBD

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David Bridie Saturday August 17

The Trouble with Templeton Saturday August 24

Barbarion Friday August 30

Cloud Control Saturday September 7

August Carl Rush Monday 5th G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) Tuesday 6th Bobcats Wednesday 7th Sam Brittain + Guests Thursday 8th Hayley Couper Band + Ali E + Pines $10 Friday 9th Boil Up (Reggae) $5 Saturday 10th Lou Bradley Sunday 11th Quiz Night Monday 12th Alicia Adkins (Texas, USA) Tuesday 13th Jaja Wednesday 14th Son Del Sur (Cuban Salsa) $5 Thursday 15th Chase City + The Zanes ( VIC ) $10 Friday 16th David Bridie $22pre/$25door Saturday17th Wahbash Ave Sunday 18th Ross Sermons Solo (USA) Monday 19th Tony Brennan Tuesday 20th

Mike Elrington Wednesday 21st Dave Wilson Band Thursday 22nd Sugartrain $4 Friday 23rd The Trouble With Templeton + The Beautiful Chains + Jed Appleton $10pre/$15door Saturday 24th Hot August Jazz Festival (Free Event) Sunday 25th Quiz Night Monday 26th Billy Longo Tuesday 27th Billy Whitton Wednesday 28th Road to Discovery w/ Guest Host Ella Hooper (Killing Heidi) & Emma Louise Thursday 29th Barbarion $12pre/$15door Friday 30th British India + Lyke Giants $25pre/$30door Sat 31st Cloud Control Saturday September 7th The Basics Fri Sept 20th & Sat Sept 21st Regurgitator Wednesday September 25th

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Lunch - Tues till Fri 12:30 till 2:30 Dinner - Tues till Sun - 5:30 till 8:30 *** New Mexican Night!!! Mexi-Cantina Wednesday's with Sir Mex-a-Lot*** Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are counter meals as usual. Awesome and cheap

SETH IS BACK...AND THIS TIME, IT’S SEASONAL

The Vacation Tour WITH MANTRA AND GREY

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THU 12 SEP SPURS SALOON DEVONPORT *GG NOT APPEARING. TICKETS FROM WWW.SETHSENTRY.COM & RED HOT CD’S FRI 13 SEP ALCHEMY LAUNCESTON TICKETS FROM WWW.SETHSENTRY.COM & MOJO MUSIC STORE SAT 14 SEP HOTEL SOHO HOBART TICKETS FROM WWW.SETHSENTRY.COM & CENTERTAINMENT MORE SHOW INFO AT WWW.SETHSENTRY.COM THIS WAS TOMORROW FEATURING DEAR SCIENCE, FLOAT AWAY, ROOM FOR RENT, MY SCENE AND VACATION OUT NOW!

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ROAD TO DISCOVERY Hosted by

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Featuring

Emma Louise

Plus 6 of our best local emerging acts!

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News in Brief HAPPY DAYS PART TWO Fundraisers are good, especially when they are for a good cause. This one is about supporting a community school in Cambodia. Last year $6000 was raised for the school and it is hoped that this amount will be exceeded this year. The show will be held at The Brisbane Hotel on Friday August 9 and feature The Sin & Tonics, The Roobs and Truck Show plus more to be announced.

Please come and support.

GELATINOUS FUN Warp Tasmania August 2013

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ART Andrew Harper andrew@warpmagazine.com.au

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MOFO festival) where their onstage theatrics involved pyrotechnics, gigantic axes and ritual guitar burning, are currently preparing their longboats for a return voyage to Hobart for more plundering, pillaging and burnings. This time the battleground will be be on Friday August 30 at the Republic Bar & Cafe, maybe this time without the pyrotechnics. Tickets will $12 plus b/f from the venue adn Moshtix.

available from www.trybooking.com. Get along for some of that sweet melody-meetscabaret action.

ALTA ARE AT IT

BRITISH INDIA ARE BACK ON

Apart from the fact that it’s cold as hell right now, there are really no down sides to the idea of a Jelly Wrestling Tournament. So why isn’t anyone putting one on? Oh wait, they are. Sweet! Literally! Friday August 9 at the Grand Poobah, in Liverpool St Hobart, you will see a bunch of people jump into a pool of Jelly, and wrestle. I mean, there really isn’t anything else you need to know.

Everything else is inconsequential, surely.

Just go along, watch, laugh, have fun, maybe eat some jelly.

Unfortunately having to cancel their June shows in Hobart, British India are returning this month playing three shows instead.

Thursday August 29 they’ll be at Alchemy in Launceston, and Friday August 30 they’ll be playing at Spurs Nightclub in Devonport.

Tickets for both these gigs are available at the venues or via Oztix. On Saturday August 31 they’ll be heading south to play at The Republic Bar & Café, tickets available for that one at the venue or via Moshtix. All three gigs are around $25ish, and all three are 18+. Supports TBA. Those TBA guys sure do get booked to play a lot of gigs.

METZ SPECIAL SUNDAY SESSION

THE HOLY GRAIL

Sunday sessions are back with a bang in August with a special 'house party' hosted by local favourites Will Darling and Joe Ferguson on Sunday August 11. Entry is free. The Beer is cheap.

What more do you need? 6pm kickoff.

Ex-Tasmanian duo ALTA have been kicking the hell out of some goals over in Melbourne, but us poor ol’ Taswegians haven’t had a chance to see it for ourselves since their EP launch all the way back in January. Geez guys, that was like, almost last year. Anyway (SHOT!), they’ll be back in town on Saturday September 7, and they’re bringing some friends from Melbourne’s Condensed Milk collective. Amin Payne, Jackson Miles and Francoise d’Argent will be joining ALTA at the Grand Poobah for a night of live vocalists, DJing, and live production. Expect a night of seksi hiphop, trip hop, down tempo and soul.

Boom. Incidentally, ALTA just released an ace new single, titled To The Water, check it out at www.soundcloud.com/wearealta.

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SOUNDS BIG

DUB FOR THE MASSES After starting out way back in ye olden times (2009), local band Dublo have grown to be something of a favourite amongst not just the dub/reggae crowd, but anyone who enjoys good music in good places. That should be all of you. On Friday August 16 you’ll have a good chance to catch some of their good goodness at the good ol’ Brisbane Hotel. Joined by Reggaeink and Boil Up, Dublo will be taking over the Brissy for a night of some of that sweet dubby goodness. Good. Doors open at 9pm. Get along and chillout.

Mark Seymour of Hunters & Collectors fame is making his way to Devonport for two special performances at Red Hot Music. This will be September 6 and 7, with doors at 7.30pm for an 8pm start. Tickets are $40 for adults, with $20 for children under 16 and available from the venue.

SWEET SOUNDS

DROPPING LIKE IT’S HOT

Ok, so Bigsound is this huge industry showcase up in the Fortitude Valley in QLD. It’s on 12 stages on September 11 - 12.

There’s like a zillion artists performing, here’s as many as I can fit in this article: Xavier Rudd, Megan Washington, The John Steel Singers, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Darren Middleton, Natalie Pa’apa’a, Gossling, The Trouble with Templeton, Yukon Blonde, The Jungle Giants, Calling All Cars, Stonefield, Chance Waters, Bleeding Knees Club, Regular John, Clubfeet, Jonti, Thelma Plum, Kingswood, Dune Rats, Eagle and the Worm, Hey Geronimo, Tigertown, The Toot Toot Toots, The Griswolds, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Grey Ghost, Diviney, Halfway. That’s about a quarter of them, so check www.bigsound.org.au for the full list.

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THE BASICS COUNT TO THREE Apparently one of the hardest working bands in Australia, with over 1000 performances clocked up during their career. They have just decided to work even harder, announcing a second show at The Republic Bar & Café on Friday September 20 and a limited capacity Launceston show on Thursday September 19. Tickets are going quick so either get them from the venues or online at Moshtix. The advantage of having Goyte as your drummer!

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Dunn D just dropped a new album, and it’s a monster. Heavy, hard hitting, funny and aggressive in all the best ways. By the time you read this, you would have already missed his album launch at The Republic Bar & Café. But don’t cry little rap tears, you get a second chance. But if you’re a minor, you can cry even littler rap tears (of happiness) because his second album launch is an all age’s affair. This will be on Saturday August 17 at the Brisbane Hotel.

From 3pm to 7pm, Dunn D and a host of cohorts will be tearing up the Brissy stage.

Get in touch with the Brisbane Hotel for ticket details.

BARBARIANS AT THE GATES Barbarion fresh from a fiery performance at SATANALIA (part of this year’s DARK

THE ART OF PAPER FOLDING

Lulu and the Paige-Turners will be playing two shows at The Peacock Theatre in Hobart over the weekend of September 7 – 8.

Saturday’s will be a 7pm start, while the Sunday will be a pleasurable 3pm in the afternoon start. They’ll be launching their debut EP Bookends & Begin-Agains. Tickets are $18 each (although there are some good family package deals and whatnot), and are

The Paper Kites are playing The Waratah Hotel on Friday September 27. So put that in your calendar and smoke it, or something.

Tickets are $18+BF (Incidentally, that means $18 + booking fee. It doesn’t mean you pay $18 and you get to bring your best friend) 1and are available from the venue, or online via Oztix. Or if your middle name is ‘Danger’ and you’re a thrill seeker that likes to life live on the edge, you could try to get a ticket on the door, but that’ll cost you $23. So it’s

probably best to just get in early, save a couple bucks and play it safe.

sell out pretty early in the piece, everyone loves the Gurge.

HOWLIN’ WOLF

TELEVISION HITS AUSTRALIA

Showroom. Tickets are available via www. tixtas.com.au, and will run you around $40.

Or around $45 on the door (if there are any tickets left for that, which is doubtful, so get in early, ok?). Supports will be Battleships and Dustin Tebbutt.

COLOUR TO THE CITY

New York proto-punk legendary act Television inspired the world of punk rock in the early Seventies with their album Marquee Moon, and they’re finally coming to Australia, on a tour 40 years in the making.

These contemporaries of Blondie, The Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads and Ramones, are playing one night only - at MONA in The Void, on Friday 1 November. Tickets are $60 / $50 on sale now from www.mona.net.au .

MAMBO MEETS ABSTRACT BLUES

Wolf Mail is something of a unique entity in the blues-rock world. His 27 year, five album career has taken him around the globe, and his instantly recognisable vocal style and guitar tones have pushed him to the top of the blues-rock guy ladder, if one of those exists, and I hope it does. Anyway, he’s been living right here in Australia since 2006, but still spends most of his time touring overseas. Now in 2013, he’s just about ready to release his sixth album, titled Above the Influence. To back that up, he’ll be hitting the road for a huge national tour, including four stops on the island. Starting with the Republic Bar on Thursday September 19, he travels north to perform at Tapas Lounge Bar on Friday September 20, then onto The Royal Oak on Saturday September 21, and back south to finish up at The Longley International Hotel on Sunday September 22.

JUST ANOTHER DIRTY POP FANTASY

Dog Trumpet is a family affair – brothers Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa are former members of legendary Aria award winning Australian band Mental As Anything.

Over the last twenty years as Dog Trumpet they have released five albums: Two Heads One Brain, Suitcase, Dog Trumpet, Antisocial Tendencies and River of Flowers. In 2013 they continue their sonic alchemy of psychedelic folk, country and semi-abstract blues with their sixth and best release, a double album, Medicated Spirits. The guys plus the rest of the band will be bringing the new album to Tasmania for two shows in early November, Friday November 8 at Fresh Cafe in Launceston followed by a Hobart show at The Republic Bar & Cafe on the Saturday.

Tickets are available from the venues or online via Moshtix.

OUT OF THE CAVE

OK, dot points. City and Colour. Returning to Australia. Playing in Hobart. Kick ass. Ok, more details. City and Colour’s latest album The Hurry and the Harm debuted at #4 on the ARIA charts, his previous album Little Hell’s went gold, so the dude is big. Big and good to boot. You’ll be able to catch some of that big goodness at the Theatre Royal in Hobart on Wednesday December 4. Support will be Husky. That works on a few levels. Anyway (Shot! Go!), tickets are available via the Theatre Royal website, at www.theatreroyal. com.au or you can call them on 1800 650 277. This one’s an all ages gig, so you can take your parents.

OILS AINT OILS Here at Warp News HQ we recently received a press release stating that Midnight Oil still has no plans to reform. Peter Garrett may be quitting politics this year, but not so he can get his old job back with the band.

I have no idea how or why they thought that tidbit would be press release worthy (maybe if they WERE reforming), but in keeping with their general vibe, here’s some more not-press-release-or-news-column-worthynews: Elvis, Kurt Cobain and Mozart all have no plans to release anything! Skrillex still has no plans to release anything good!

Everyone still thinks they can DJ! Toto still bless the rains down in Africa! Video definitely killed the radio star!

F E AT U R E S

MUSIC NEWS PHOTOS

GETTING IT CORRECT

So Regurgitator are back. Again. The gurge.

On the road again. Again. Another album out in September too. Another one. Death, taxes, Regurgitator. That’s not the name of the album, it probably could be, though. Anyway (drank!), the new album is called Dirty Pop Fantasy, and it’ll be out on September 11.

To celebrate that, they’ll be heading out on an epic tour, including one stop in Tassie, at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Wednesday September 25, so lock it in your smart phone calendar. Tickets are available now via the Republic or Moshtix. They’ll run you about $40ish each. Expect this one to

Like most publications we tend to get things incorrect from time to time. We wish to apologize to Jed Red for wrongly crediting his story on Californian hardcore band Bleeding Through – So Hard It Hurts.

After eight months in the studio, 7000 bowls of pasta and four moderate cases of tennis elbow (ewww guys, we don’t wanna know!), Boy& Bear are hitting the road once again for the ‘16 Days Under a Southern Sun’ Tour. Bloody long title that, bloody misleading too, they’re playing 12 gigs over 31 days. Geez. On Saturday November 16 they’ll be spending at least one day under the Tasmanian southern sun (if we have any on that day) when they play the Wrest Point

LIVE REVIEWS ALBUM REVIEWS

T H E D W A R F. C O M . A U

COMING BACK HOME FOR BERNARD FANNING, IT’S ALL ABOUT CHANGE AND NEW BEGINNINGS. MOVING BACK TO BRISBANE, HIS CHANGING PERSONAL LIFE, NEW ALBUM, NEW TOUR – BUT AT THE CORE OF IT ALL IS HIS LOVE FOR MUSIC. IN THE WORDS OF MR. FANNING, “I’M IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL NOW.”

Bernard joined Warp Magazine for a chat from St. Kilda down in Melbourne, where he’s been doing the media rounda-bout with the release of his new album, Departures and his rather extensive upcoming tour.

“I’m on the media carousel, doing a lot of TV stuff like Adam Hill and The Project. I’ve also been part of a new show hosted by Tim Rogers. We just finished filming it. It was the last show of the series; I think it will be on Studio, on Foxtel. It has a bit of everything in it, there is nothing else like it on TV. “It’s very different, and Tim is the ultimate showman. It’s an art show, there’s burlesque thrown in, some dance and soul music. I even got to read out some lyrics, but I don’t want to give too much away.” (Tim Roger’s new show is called ‘STUDIO at the MEMO’) Life has definitely changed for Bernard.

Gone also are the huge touring days of Powderfinger.

“We played everywhere with Powderfinger.

Those smaller, country venues were awesome, but they usually ended up being the biggest nights on the tours. A lot of the places we played, like Lismore and The Great Northern in Byron, the accommodation was usually at the pub, upstairs. They always ended up being huge shows, even huger nights and there were always huge hangovers. But now I’m a bit of a Granddad.’

That would partly be because now he is a husband, and the father of two small children, aged one and three. After Powderfinger, Bernard and his wife Andrea moved to Madrid for eighteen months and he took a break from music, but only for a few months.

“We moved to Spain, and I got to know my wife’s family. She’s from there. We left with one child, we came back with two.

“I took a few months off when we got there, but then it all started again. I thought about

doing something else, maybe study, but of course I came back to music. I started to teach myself new things. I wanted to take a different approach this time. I wanted to see if a different approach would give a different result.”

So, while living in Madrid, over the course of about twelve months, Departures was written.

“It took about a year, on and off, to put it together. I wrote it in decent batches - three batches of probably about three months.

I was doing it most days, trying to keep it sort of like a real job, hours wise, and then before and after ‘work’, just being a Dad and husband.

“When I made Tea and Sympathy, I was dying to make a record like that, but this time I wanted to do something else, something different. Part of the idea was to learn to write differently than before. And a different type of music, not to be known just for rock - I don’t want to just tread water. With music, I want to try and get as good at it as possible. It’s like a bottomless pit, there’s always something new to do and learn. But it’s a joyful pit to be in. It’s all I want to do, write the best I can, write what is interesting to me.”

So, in October last year, Bernard packed his bags and headed over to LA, to join up with producer Joe Chiccarelli at Sunset Studios in Los Angeles to begin the next step in the journey.

“I recorded Departures in LA, with Joe. I’d never worked with any of the band we used before, but that was part of the fun, part of the adventure. Plus I was there by myself.

Everything about this album has been done in the spirit of change.”

“With music, I want to try and get as good at it as possible. It’s like a bottomless pit, there’s always something new to do and learn.”

The local tour will see him hit the road with a few old faces from the Tea and Sympathy days, plus a few fresh, new faces, including Shannon and Mark from Band of Frequencies, Matt Engelbrecht, Andrew Morris and keyboard player Lachlan Doley.

A new album presents itself with the opportunity for a new tour, and Bernard has pieced together a rather extensive, diverse collection of dates across the country – with a few festivals thrown in along the way (including Splendour In The Grass and the recently announced Day On The Green). A lot of these shows now have big ‘sold out’ signs written across them, including both shows in his home town of Brisbane.

And of course, no tour is complete without a stop in Tasmania.

“The gig in Tassie is just before my birthday, so gifts are more than welcome,” Bernard joked.

Gifts may be optional, but let’s help Bernard celebrate his birthday in true style and give this talented musician the turnout he deserves.

KYLIE COX

Bernard Fanning performs at Wrest Point on Tuesday August 13. Special guests include Vance Joy and Big Scary.

Tickets available from www.tixtas.com.au.

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VS METAL ON METAL TWO OF THE MOST HEAVY AND INFAMOUS ACTS IN AUSTRALIA, PSYCROPTIC AND KING PARROT, TEAM UP FOR THE FIRST TIME, ON THEIR NATIONAL ‘INHERITING THE SICKNESS’ TOUR, THIS AUGUST.

Psycroptic have carved themselves an international reputation from their home state of Tasmania with five album releases over a fourteen year career. King Parrot are slightly newer to the game, into their third year their debut album Bite Your Head Off has been accompanied by almost nonstop touring.

We thought it was just easier to let the two bands talk it out themselves - Psycroptic represented by drummer Dave Haley and vocalist of King Parrot, Matt Young (Youngy).

Dave: Hey Youngy, King Parrot seems to be the hardest working band in the country at the moment...how’s things in Camp Parrot?

Youngy: Pretty chirpy, thanks for asking.

Just had a couple of weeks off after the Cattle Decapitation/Thy Art is Murder tour which was killer. Now we are gearing up to head out with you guys (Psycroptic) and we couldn’t be more stoked. Getting the chance to head out on tour with some of the best bands in the world is something we don’t take lightly. We’re very grateful and we’re constantly working on improving every aspect of the band so that we may also get the opportunities that our favourite bands get. Our record has just been released worldwide on Candlelight Records too, so that is pretty exciting for us.

How has your latest release “The Inherited Repression” been received around the world and in Australia in comparison to your previous releases?

Dave: It got a great response, and continues to go down pretty well. We’re a band that pretty much changes our sound each release - not intentionally, that’s just the way things develop - so we always get somewhat of mixed reactions I guess...but this time it was overwhelmingly positive. It’s cool...we keep adding more and more ‘groove’ into our music which is both a lot of fun to do playing wise, and it seems to be picking us up new fans. We’ll be releasing some new tracks soon for an online release which I can’t wait for - I think it’s our best stuff yet!

So tell me, does the Parrot have any long term plans of attack for global domination, or are you just taking things as they come at the moment? Great news on the Candlelight signing as well! Congrats!

Youngy: Yes for sure! The thing with King Parrot is we are always trying to push the boundaries, and that includes touring.

We’re lucky enough to say we have toured Indonesia, we’ve played in Alice Springs and we are always on the lookout do things in

our own way. We are about to align ourselves with who we consider to be one of the best booking agents in the world. 2014 looks like it will be a big year for us in terms of touring overseas, it’s been a goal of the band to do Europe and the US from the beginning, and it’s looking like more of a certainty each day.

With all the international touring Psycroptic has done in recent times, where is your favourite destination to tour and who are some of your favourite acts you’ve shared the stage with?

Dave: Good question! I love the travel side of playing in a band, and going places I never thought I would have is awesome so it’s hard to pick a favourite. Playing with bands like Cannibal Corpse, Black Dahlia Murder, Obituary, Keep of Kelason, Dismember, Carcass and other legendary acts has fulfilled every ‘dream’ I had when starting out playing music...but I’d rather look forward than reminisce to be honest haha!

Let’s make this tour we have a new favourite!

We’re off to Europe in September and then we have some shows in Japan for the first time in November. We have to carefully plan tours these days to fit in with everyone’s work and family life...but we still do as much as we can.

Having been in the Melbourne scene for many years (both in various bands and as a booker at venues), how do you maintain the fire and passion for music?

Youngy: I just love the whole thing of being in a band and around the music scene. I remember being about 15 years old and saying to myself, ‘this is what I am going to do for the rest of my life’. I haven’t really looked back from there, and I’ve played in a bunch of bands where things haven’t worked out, people have grown apart, and you just live and learn and try and make the next experience better than the last. It’s like being in a complicated relationship with your best friends. You spend heaps of time together and get to know each other well, so you have to respect each other’s boundaries.

Having the opportunity to play awesome shows on a regular basis really helps with motivation and the morale of the band.

That’s why King Parrot plays a lot, haha!

How do the guys from Psycroptic prepare and fire up for a show? Are you guys necking a bottle of Jack Daniels before you hit the stage or something more peaceful like meditating? Or both?

Dave: It’s different for all of us really. Haha, I’m probably the one most likely to be

meditating, warming up and getting into the zone – I’m a hippy disguised as a metal dude. Cam and Peppo are a little shall we say ‘looser’ in their preparations and usually get amongst it a little and have a few cans.

Joe is probably to be found on his iPhone playing a game and destroying everyone’s high scores. Somehow it all comes together when we hit the stage though!

Well, I think one more question shall do it, just as I was getting into the idea of being a journalist. Tell me: why the hell should people come out to the shows on this tour?

Youngy: That’s cool mate! I’m a hippy in disguise too, I’ll lend you my meditation cassettes on tour. I think the tour itself is an awesome opportunity to catch two bands who are really dedicated to their respective crafts, and the line-ups for the tour are really strong. There is something for every extreme music fan and we are stoked that we get to play with Psycroptic every night.

We need to learn some of the tricks of the trade to mix it with the best, so if you see me in the corner taking notes, don’t be surprised!

What can the fans expect from the Psycroptic live show on this tour? Any new tricks? Some new material? A Tommy Lee style drumkit that travels around the venue?

Dave: Well, after seeing you guys live quite a number of times, Psycro need to make sure we’re on top of our game, so I know I’ll be rehearsing hard to make sure we put on a great show! I’m very excited about the whole tour, and it will be a lot of fun hanging out, and playing shows!! I’m hoping we get a new song ready to go in the set as it’s always fun playing new material! I’m working on my stick tricks; but it won’t be Tommy Lee style...Tommy Lee Jones style maybe. And yeah, I’ll lend those cassettes off you for sure. Only if they are 8 track tapes though – I’m old school.

Psycroptic play Launceston at Hotel New York on Friday August 9 before heading to Hobart to team up with King Parrot on the Saturday for two shows at The Brisbane Hotel. This will includes an afternoon all ages show which commences at 3pm.

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GOING SOLO AS A KEY MEMBER OF TWO ICONIC AUSTRALIAN BANDS, NOT DROWNING, WAVING AND MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE, DAVID BRIDIE HAS HAD PLENTY OF EXPERIENCE WITH THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY.

ARIA winning songwriter, singer, film composer, and producer David Bridie doesn’t simply ‘release’ an album. He writes and performs 11 original hits with guest musicians from all styles and places – including members of Powderfinger and the Paul Kelly Band. He records them in New Zealand, Victoria, and New South Wales, mixes them in Melbourne and San Francisco, and finally, makes available an album that provides an experience of world music, chill, pop, and poetic lyrics. Here’s a bit of what David has to say about his new album, Wake.

What did Wake achieve through its wide inclusion of guest artists?

One of the good things about doing a solo record instead of a band is that you can choose different musicians according to song. I found that, not having a producer, a lot of the musicians, who were also friends, gave really good feedback – honest feedback. One of the dangers of having so many musicians is the uniformity of sound across the record, but there’s a true line through the record, even though there’s so many different people playing on it.

Tell us about some of the political undercurrents in your new album.

Both ‘Treason’ and ‘Delicate’ have a take on the asylum seekers policy in Australia.

Australia should be better, and I think we can be. Unlike England, we don’t have a class system, and we’re supposed to be fair minded but we have very unfair minded policies I think, with both parties. So there’s a bit of bluster in ‘Delicate’, and ‘Treason’ is quite layered and has the idea that these people are committing treason against the state, so it’s probably the biggest statement that the record makes. Those two songs are kind of the bookends to each other.

What are some of the major differences between writing for film and songwriting?

Writing a song, you’re doing it for yourself, whereas writing for a film you’re doing it for the director’s mission. Hopefully the director’s mission is something that you agree with or that you’re on board with. One of the important things to me with Wake was to get back to doing what’s the most important thing to me, which is writing songs, singing them, performing them live and making records.

You’ve confessed that the album was created during an “odd” time in your life.

I lost a bit of confidence in what I was doing and why I was doing it, and whether in Australia it’s worthwhile doing it – that is, trying to make a career out of releasing records. I’m not someone to enter into making a record in a half-hearted way. I’d also gone through a relationship breakup, and that kind of stuff was around in my head. These things made it a strange time.

What can we expect from your Tassie gig?

I love playing in Tassie. There was a song that didn’t make it onto the record about Maria Island. I’ve spent a bit of time recently near Swansea and also down at Cygnet.

I’m a fan of Hobart; I’ve got a lot of friends here and I like the feel of the city. And I don’t mind touring in the winter. It’s a good time to listen to music when it’s cold outside – I’m really looking forward to it.

STEPH ESLAKE

Catch David Bridie at the Republic Bar on August 17 and Brookfield, Margate on August 18.

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ALL IN THE NAME OF A GOOD MIX THE MIDDLE NAMES DON’T JUST RELEASE ALBUMS. THEY WRITE, RECORD, MIX AND MASTER – AND DO SO THROUGH SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES.

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info@basvanuyen.com.au After experiencing a house fire, a burglary, and being stranded on the highway, the Tassie Indie-pop band has lived to tell the tale through their debut album, I Need Space.

While the Middle Names have previously recorded songs in frontman Ben Wells’ home studio, their new album was created in Queensland’s Applewood Studios with Producer Magoo, who is responsible for recording big name bands, including Regurgitator, the Jungle Giants, and Midnight Oil. “It was just the most amazing creative space,” muses Ben, who was actively involved in the mixing process with Magoo.

“We wrote so many new parts in the studio that I don’t think would have happened anywhere else.

“I’d wake up every morning and run or swim then head upstairs to the studio, which was a massive old church, and we’d start recording.

1. Take your time. “Don’t feel like you have to rush to get your music out. Make sure you’re as happy as possible with the mix of your recording. If you’re not, then change it.”

2. Don’t be afraid to let someone else take on your work. “To be honest, you should send your recordings away to get mastered.

I know it sounds better when it comes back.

Plus, it looks good having the same bloke that mastered a Living End record mastering yours.”

3. Feedback. “Get feedback on all the music you record – and not just from your mates and parents. But, in the end, if you disagree with what everyone else thinks, who cares?

It’s your music!”

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

“Magoo also shone a different light on things; working with someone new, we ended up with a whole new perspective on the songs.”

Ben can easily attribute his success to his knowledge that being in a band means more than just writing and performing songs.

His contribution to the production of his recordings allows fans to hear the band’s true and unfiltered intentions.

“I always like to have a say in the mixes.

The songs can change so much from when you recorded them to actually having them finished and nearly all of that is in the mix.

“It’s certainly helped me grow a musician; you notice different things each time round.”

While every band has secrets of their success, Ben shares with us three hot tips for the recording process.

The Middle Names will be playing a number of shows in support of their debut album I Need Space through August.

Tasmanian dates include The Butter Factory in Burnie on Friday August 23, The Ironhorse Bar in Launceston on Friday August 30 and finally The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday August 31.

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NO ROOKIE ERRORS MADE

THOMAS CALDER GETS DEEP INTO ROOKIE, THE TROUBLE WITH TEMPLETON’S NEW ALBUM, TURNING GEMS INTO LIVE PERFORMANCE GOLD AND MORE.

There’s something brilliant happening in Brisbane at the moment – the rate at which the city is churning out musical talent is quite amazing to watch; one such band to belong in this young, fun and talented bunch is The Trouble With Templeton. Set to release their album Rookie in August, the five-piece indie band have demonstrated they’re more than just what the catchy “Six Months in a Cast” vibe suggested.

“I think we’re just interested in writing songs that are very eclectic in genre and style – we definitely don’t limit ourselves to any one sound.” Thomas Calder, songwriter explains. “We’re always exploring and always looking for new ways to find new little elements to add to the music. We’re all very open to things and so I don’t think anything was particularly surprising or unexpected, only because we expect the unexpected I guess!”

Cutting their teeth on the international touring circuit as well as that of the Australian scene, The Trouble With Templeton have fast become one of the

country's favourite live acts, with a loyal and steadily growing fan base only reinforcing the acclaim and praise that different tiers of the industry have been throwing their way over the past 18 months. Calder describes the band’s current situation of working Rookie material in to their live show as being an exciting, yet contemplative phase in the TTWT camp.

“It’s exciting, because there is a lot of stuff that we have to explore that we haven’t really done in our live show yet, because of how things turned out on the record. There are a few songs on there that are tricky and it seems we have to be a lot more hands on and tediously paying attention to things, as far as sound goes as well. I think we’re ready to just take it to the next level, in terms of taking it to the next level in paying attention to that kind of stuff. Luckily, we’re at the point where we can have our own sound guy and that sort of stuff and really do it as good as we possibly can.”

The songs which have made their way on to Rookie are relatable, as many tend to be,

though if you’re going to be looking for direct links between artist and lyric on this album, Calder muses that such links aren’t as clear cut as they may appear.

the same morals when it comes to music and what makes a good song. We learned a lot and just became a much better band as a result of the recording process.”

“I try not to isolate myself from them,” Calder says. “For this album more in particular, more so than my first record, it was like, I don’t think there is nothing directly or literally about me, in terms of an experience or a representation of an experience. It’s always about something I’m feeling or a feeling I’m trying to get across and that always comes through. There’s always a lot of me in the song; I don’t think I would do it if there wasn’t, even if it is sometimes wanting to experience that feeling or trying to experience a feeling that I haven’t experienced before, from the safety of my guitar.”

Considering that The Trouble With Templeton began as a moniker under which Calder released his first record Bleeders, it makes sense that Rookie reflects his development as an artist as well as the progression of the band under the gaze of a flourishing local industry. Overseas influences play their part and, for Calder, travel and exposure helped shape the way Rookie would ultimately be formed.

Having worked with Matt Redlich on Rookie, Calder has nothing but love for the producer who had a hand in bringing the works of other Brisbane wunderkinds in Emma Louise and the Hungry Kids of Hungary to life.

“Matt’s a good friend of ours and a good friend of mine now; I think he’s incredibly amazing and I think we’re very lucky to have found each other. We’re kindred spirits in a way. Matt often said that I remind him of him when he was younger, and I think we both are on the same wavelength about the music and the band and relating to that.

When working with him, it’s like having another member, you know? He’s totally just an extension of what we want to do and the studio is an instrument; we’re always on the same page about things and we just have

“I didn’t write anything while we were overseas the last time, because we were halfway through the recording process, but the last time I was over there on a solo tour, I wrote a bunch of the songs that are on the record. It was the first time I’d been overseas to play and obviously, I wasn’t really with anyone; I knew the band wasn’t there and I was meeting a whole lot of new people and it gives you the opportunity to be someone different in a different place.

I think that totally influenced it and the record is a lot about perspectives and you know, seeing things from different people’s points of views and how perspective shapes the way you see things. I think it influenced it in a really big way.”

SOSE FUAMOLI

The Trouble With Templeton play The Republic Bar & Cafe on Saturday August 24. Tickets are available from the venue or Moshtix.

“There’s always a lot of me in the song; I don’t think I would do it if there wasn’t, even if it sometimes is wanting to experience that feeling or trying to experience a feeling that I haven’t experienced before, from the safety of my guitar.”

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CLEAR SKIES SO WHERE HAVE CLOUD CONTROL BEEN OF LATE? WHY LIVING IN ENGLAND OF COURSE. THE SYDNEY FOUR PIECE HAVE MADE THE UK THEIR HOME FOR THE FORSEEABLE TIME AS THEY CONCENTRATE ON THEIR INTERNATIONAL CAREER. HOWEVER THEY ARE CURRENTLY BACK IN AUSTRALIA FOR A LIMITED RUN OF SHOWS IN AID OF THEIR NEW ALBUM, DREAM CAVE.

Jeremy Kelshaw, bass player for Cloud Control is sitting in a van at Splendour In The Grass, Byron Bay. So far his highlight has been TV On The Radio’s set the night before. Cloud Control play the following day, so the band so far have had a pretty cruisey affair at the festival. “You got to make yourself feel good before you play”. Kicking back but making sure not to get wasted.

This could be considered the calm before the storm though. Cloud Control are just about to embark on a 65 date tour covering several continents till midway through November, with more shows likely for December, making these guys very busy indeed. All this touring must be in support of something?

Right? Indeed. Cloud Control’s sophmore album Dream Cave.

Dream Cave was written and produced during Cloud Control’s time in England, with the help of veteran producer Barney Barnicott (think The Arctic Monkeys, Temper Trap, The Editors, etc) . According to singer Alister Wright, the title track would be “the song Roy Orbison would have written if he was trapped in a cave”. Jeremy explained that the band ended up travelling around the countryside “cave hunting” for a cave that they could record in. They finally settled on a 2000 year old hand cut quarry that had 75km of underground tunnels that had been used to supply many of England’s cathedrals.

“The cave, being manmade, didn’t have much water going through it so it was fairly silent with only the occasional drops of water in the background. We recorded the vocals for the song here, plus taking edits of keyboard and drums sections in and rerecording them with the cave background.

Recording of just the sounds of the cave also feature through the album” This gave the song some genuine “cave reverb” and furthered the band’s exploration

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of new and novel ways of recording techniques. Not into the idea of concept albums, Cloud Control are more focussed on developing “sound pallets” to go with the individual songs. Back in the studio, the guys setup their very own “faux cave” where they recorded parts of the album in.

Not all the songs recorded made the final album cut. However for those keen on hearing the B-sides, you can wait to secure a copy of the upcoming Japanese version of the album.

So back to the touring, is playing abroad the same as playing in Australia?

“It’s more about capacity. We are more than happy to play a club show to fifty people, if the club hold on fifty people. In England we have now built up a following to similar to what we were getting when we left Australia.

“Playing Europe has been most enjoyable.

This tour we get to go Lisbon and Stockholm which we have yet to have made it to. In Europe they treat you like family. After soundcheck it’s like we ‘must all go to eat together’ which we have never experienced elsewhere. Normally it’s been ‘here is some drink card and ten pounds to go and buy yourself dinner’”.

So maybe make the effort to give Cloud Control some genuine Tasmanian hospitality when they play here in early September. You never know, they may come back to record the song that John Lennon would have made if he spent a Summer on an apple orchard, drinking cider.

NIC ORME

Cloud Control play The Republic Bar & Cafe on Saturday September 7. Tickets available from the venue and www. moshtix.com.au.

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THE REAL DEAL CROSS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER WITH THE CANADIAN MOUNTIES, AND WHAT DO YOU GET? THE REAL MCKENZIES OF COURSE. THE KILT FLAUNTING CANADIAN BASED OUTFIT IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TEN YEARS. THE CELTIC PUNK BAND IS SET TO DELIVER A SET OF BLISTERING PERFORMANCES WITH BROTHERS IN ARMS, THE GO SET.

Having just released their latest album Westwinds on Fat Wreck Chords, the McKenzies have been touring heavily over the last year. After 20 years and with an ever revolving all-star lineup that features Karl Alvarez from The Descendents and Sean Sellers from Good Riddance, the McKenzies show no signs of slowing. Bagpipes, kilts, rock n roll and revelry. Folk Punk at its wildest. Going off the band’s biography, Australian fans are in for a real treat.

“Let’s also not forget the concept of show business. People annually spend a shitload of money for the sole purpose of being

entertained. So why not go out of your way to be entertainment? That was all a moot point with the McKenzies anyway. Because they just wanted to have fun, and you are more than welcome to have fun with them, as hundreds of thousands have. Sure some will read too much meaning into the whole idea, and take it out of its realm of fun, and those people should just shut the fuck up and drink their beer.”

The band are no strangers to the 'show business’, having shared the stage with many other bands including Rancid, DragStrip Riot, NOFX, Flogging Molly, Crosscheck, The Misfits, Metallica, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Shane MacGowan. Heck, the band was even contracted by InBev to promote the Kokanee beer brand in a 1990s television marketing campaign. Whatever the case, Hobart patrons are in for a real treat.

Known for his unrefined stage antics, front-man Paul Mckenzie will explore every crevasse of the Australian pub culture.

McKenzie states his life was defined by an Andy Stewart record which was playing in one room, and intertwining with the vulgarity of a Sex Pistols album emerging from another. The year was somewhere around 1992 and ever since McKenzie has immersed himself in such electric atmospheres. We can only hope he shares his passion for live performances like he has with so many others around the world. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, The Real Mckenzies are coming to town.

MARK ACHESON

The Real McKenzies play alongside The Go Set at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday August 30. Tickets are available from the venue and Oztix.

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THIS TIME IT’S REGIONAL

WITH THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW SINGLE, ‘VACATION’, TAKEN FROM HIS ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM THIS WAS TOMORROW, SETH SENTRY HAS DECIDED TO HIT THE ROAD (AGAIN) AND GO ON A VACATION. AND IF YOU ARE SETH SENTRY, THEN APPARENTLY YOUR VERSION OF A HOLIDAY INVOLVES TWO MONTHS IN A TOUR BUS, HITTING A MULTITUDE OF REGIONAL AREAS, PLAYING A MULTITUDE OF GIGS AND FESTIVALS, SHARING THE ROAD WITH SOME GOOD MATES AND GETTING TO EXPERIENCE SOME AMAZING PLACES AND MEET SOME AMAZING PEOPLE. “This tour involves about 27 shows, it’s pretty intense. We’re going old school, and touring in a van. It’s the only way to do it, we are living this shit. Logistically it’s so much easier with all the regional shows,” Seth said.

Seth has been keeping himself pretty busy since the release of his debut album in September last year. In May this year, he hit the road for his first headline solo tour –‘Dear Science’. Then there was a very random visit to America, where nothing was booked, nothing was exactly planned, but everything just fell into place and the trip ended up being nothing short of incredible.

“America was great, way better than we anticipated. We were originally thinking of a bit of a holiday and maybe play some shows in New York to possibly all of 20 people. Then I entered this rap competition in Austin, Texas, which obviously no-one was expecting an Aussie to win. I did ‘Dear Science’ and won it! We could have gone on tour with LL Cool J because of it, but the logistics were it would have cost a fortune we didn’t have. So it sort of got put on the back burner. But I can still say we played on the same bill, as that night, Public Enemy opened up the show, plus Ice Cube and LL Cool J performed,” Seth said. “We went to enter a competition and ended up doing a tour.”

That led to the opportunity to play on the Jimmy Kimmel show on TV, with a prospective audience of 2 million, then shows in New York, Toronto and Austin. Not bad for Seth’s first ever trip overseas.

Seth calls Melbourne home, not a bad choice for a burgeoning hip hop artist.

“It’s pretty advanced. I moved to the city for the music scene. The guys I grew up around are all doing well – 360, Pez... Hiphop is massive in Melbourne.”

Seth is also well known and loved for being so interactive and open to his fans.

“I don’t try to. It’s just how I am. I don’t understand how some people totally separate themselves from their fans. It weirds me out. I just treat it (social media) like one big happy forum, where people can always reach me. Even when I was supposed to be on holiday in Hawaii, I was still checking emails and stuff.”

Now, there’s been enough lying around, working through his back catalogue of video games and it’s time for him to hit the road again on his regional tour, covering everywhere from Northern Queensland, down the east coast all the way to Geelong, a couple of Tassie gigs, a few festivals, and a

small drive to WA. Hopefully, he packs well.

The weather will include everything from the tropics to the snow.

“It’s okay. I’m prepared for Jindabyne at least. In Canada it got down to -14 degrees, the sort of cold that gets inside your whole body. But I did stock up on some cheap Northface gear while I was there, so I’m all good for the snow.”

As a change from the usual big city gigs, Seth is trying to keep it basically all regional, steering clear of the usual Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne east coast run, hitting the bigger cities solely for the Sprung Festival.

“Except for Canberra, which sort of blurs the lines between a big city and regional, it’s all smaller places. And new places. It’s always a risk trying anything different. I’ve been to Tassie heaps of times. Hobart a bunch of times, I was just in Launceston in March for the Breath of Life Music Festival.

We are doing a few more out of the way things on this tour. Hitting places we haven’t been before. In Tassie we are heading to Devonport, as well as Launceston and Hobart.”

Seth will be joined on this tour by his good friends, Mantra and Grey Ghost, and of course DJ Sizzle on the turntables. With three gigs to choose from, you have no excuse for missing Seth on his Vacation tour.

Let’s show him what an awesome place Tasmania really is for a holiday.

KYLIE COX

See Seth Sentry along with Grey Ghost and Mantra perform at Spurs in Devonport Thursday September 12, before travelling to Launceston for a Friday night show at Alchemy and finally Saturday night at Soho Hotel, Hobart.

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SMOKIN’ JAZZ THIS YEAR’S HOT AUGUST JAZZ FESTIVAL MARKS THE 9TH OF THE ANNUAL EVENT, WITH A MASSIVE 45 ACTS PLAYING FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 25.

The event is produced by The Hobart Jazz Club, an inclusive and supportive organisation that promotes quality live jazz in Tasmania’s capital. While the local Jazz scene can be overshadowed by more mainstream events, once you start looking you see that this network of talented musicians has its place in every venue, and has a strong place in the hearts of its appreciators. All of your favourite North Hobart venues will be hosting this year’s Jazz acts: The Queen’s Head, Uniting Church, The Republic Bar, Raincheck Lounge, Fish 349, The Crescent Hotel and The Winston.

One of the features of this festival is the diversity that comes with the genre of jazz.

The 45 acts in this year’s line-up range from solo, to three-piece, to 20-piece big bands.

Here’s a few of them that will be on offer.

DIXIELAND EXPRESS

AARON and BILLY Aaron Entresz and Billy Whitton combine in a guitar duo celebrating all styles of jazz.

Billy Whitton is a very well-known Hobart musician with decades of professional playing behind him. Aaron Entresz is one of Tasmania’s great young award-winning guitarists who is forging a fine career for himself. This combination will be an easylistening simpatico sound.

ANITA van RIET and FRIENDS Anita leads a great line-up of musicians in her inimitable style. This seven-piece band will bring you Traditional Jazz and Blues with a special focus on the work of 1920s female jazz and blues vocalists.

BURGLARS DOG JUGBAND This six-piece combination of guitar, teachest bass, washboard, harmonica, reeds and banjo makes for a distinctive act of early jugband and washboard jazz.

THE big band

DAVE SIKK QUARTET A laid-back sound encompassing modern and continental jazz, Bradshaw, Entresz, Parkinson and Sikk bring a wealth of skill and experience to the festival.

NELLE and DAN One of the many duos registered for the festival, Janelle Stowe brings and easy relaxed style across Swing, Blues, Ballads and Latin along with keyboardist Dan Sulzberger.

THE BOLLING QUARTET This is a Chamber Jazz quartet, with gentle interpretations in a soft modern style from the front-line flute of Abby Fraser, Lestyn Parry on piano, Hamish Houston on bass and drummer Matthew Ives. A rock-solid combination.

THE EVAN CARYDAKIS QUARTET Visiting from Launceston, this Modern Jazz quartet has become a regular at the Hot August Jazz Festival and they never fail to please. With sax, guitar, bass and drums, they create their own accomplished style.

VIRTUOSI TASMANIA - “Tribute to the Modern Jazz Quartet” Another great line-up, Kelly Ottaway on vibes, Dan Sulzberger on piano, Stephen Martin on bass and Matthew Ives on drums.

This group will offer some cool, West Coaststyle jazz and the virtuosity of these four individuals will combine to “blow you away”.

WIRECHOIR Five guitars, bass and drums deliver Swing and Bop. Lead by Allan Brown, enjoy some of Tasmania’s leading guitarists in this unique combination.

THE BIG BANDS Lining-up this year are: Hobart City Swing Band, Matthew Ives and his Big Band and, down from Launceston, St Joe’s Big Band.

The fabulous big band sound is alive and well, catch them in their dedicated venue for an afternoon of hot swing.

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DIXIELAND EXPRESS As their name suggests, they bring some Dixieland style to this festival along with traditional and mainstream jazz. When totalled up, these five musicians have well over 200 years of playing experience. They are in their comfort zone, so relax and enjoy.

Randal & Dean

FAIR WEATHER A tight combo with a swinging, relaxed style. Lead by Charles Stenger on sax, with vocalist Rachel Taylor, Nick Parish on guitar, Tim Hoban on bass and Fred Bradshaw on drums. Fair Weather specialize in jazz and Latin standards with some solid rhythms.

LACHLAN COURT SOLO Lachie has been the go-to piano man for many bands around Hobart for a few years now. Lachlan Court Solo is a new tangent for this musician: expect some strong work across the Jazz Standards, Swing, Blues and Bossanova styles.

Wirechoir

L’ESPRIT de DJANGO This four-piece has talent to spare. In the spirit of Django Reinhardt, soak up some of that great sound with guitarists Alan Welsh and Julius Schwing, Hamish Houston on bass and vocalist Coral Hannaby-Welsh.

For more information about the festival, go to www.hobartjazzclub.com.

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SET...GO! COMING STRAIGHT OFF THE BACK FROM A STRING OF EUROPEAN DATES, MELBOURNE’S THE GO SET COULDN’T BE MORE EAGER TO TRANSFER WEEKS OF PENT UP TRAVELLED ENERGY TO AUSTRALIAN FANS AND STAGES. THEIR FOLK SOUNDS AND 70’S PUNK ROCK WILL ENSURE PUBS AND CLUBS NATIONWIDE GO FROM HECTIC TO VOLATILE.

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It has been a decade in the making, and now the band is ready for their most memorable tour yet, the Ten Year Anniversary Tour, with punk legends the Real Mckenzies. The Go Set will celebrate such a milestone with a retrospective album and DVD due out in coming months. We talked to the band’s frontman Justin Keenan about what was happening in The Go Set camp.

Your 2006 released song ‘Davey’ seems to evoke a `live life one day at a time’ approach, where as your most recent song `The New Age’ revels in the political discontent of our world. Do you believe both your sound and lyrical content has matured over the years?

I’d like to think so. I guess that the longer a band keeps making records, they better they get at crafting songs. Lyrically, I think we’ve also all got a bit older too, because parents, and grown up a little over the last 6 or 7 years, so it’s no surprise that the songs would change. I think we’ve always had a strong sense of social conscience and political awareness as a band. We’ve never been one of those bands to write songs about generic rubbish. I think we see the music as vehicle to express a voice for social change. Hippie parents or something I suppose.

What do you think of Australia’s political debacle between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard? Obviously your music resents this?

I dont even know where to begin on that topic. I think that any country that operates under a two party system is inherently flawed. The first competitor just needs to maintain the staus quo, and the challenger’s goal is to oppose and slander. It’s not conducive to innovation and divergent thinking. I am often embarrassed when I compare Australia with other countries when considering environmental innovation,

and it’s not hard to see why we are so behind everyone else when you look at how parliament operates.

How was the experience of recording your latest self titled album with Paul Mckercher? Was he able to deliver a sound you were looking for? Why a self titled album?

It was self titled because it didn’t really have a theme as such. We’d recorded the songs in our lounge rooms, and for the first time there were numerous song writers, so it just seemed appropriate. Paul McKercher is quite the genius in my opinion. He has an amazing ear for subtlety and he think he really taught us a lot about harnessing and simplifying our sound as a rock band.

Do bagpipes give your band a unique edge in sound? Do you believe it’s essential for bands to differ themselves in sound to stand out from the crowd?

Personally I think two things are important.

The first is to be what you are - if you’re from Irish and Scottish backgrounds and you listened to this music as a child, then play what comes naturally. Same goes if you grew up on 70 funk and souls. I can’t sing rap tunes from South Central - I have no idea of what that life is like, and I don’t understand the roots. And I think the other point is to stick to your guns with regards to some acknowledgement of your own identity. Fashions in music come and go, and I think that bands that stay true to themselves make much better, more authentic music, for much longer.

August marks the start of your ten year anniversary tour. Looking back a decade ago, did you ever think you’d be in a position to tour Europe, support prominent mainland/international bands and release not one but six albums?

Not in my wildest dreams. We just played at Mighty Sounds in Czech, a huge, amazing punk rock festival. If you’d told me that we’d be playing something like that, and had a fanbase that knew our music, I would never have believed it.

Talk us through the documentary you’re releasing to coincide with the ten year anniversary. What will be featured?

Basically we’ve just been recording everything, footage from recording, on the road in Australia and Europe, and done a bunch of short interviews. The idea is to represent the journey and the barriers that are faced by independent bands, particularly in Australia.

Hobart’s The Brisbane Hotel is renowned for its rowdy atmosphere. What can you promise crowds through your live performance to keep this vibrant nature of the place going?

A lot more rowdiness. The Go Set and the Real McKenzies touring together is going to be no health retreat. Giddy up!

MARK ACHESON

The Go Set will play one show in Tasmania on Friday August 30 at The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart. Tickets available via the venue or Oztix.

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HACKING BENDING BREAKING AND BLEEPING: CIRCUIT BENDING AND 8-BIT MUSIC MUSIC IS DRIVEN BY TECHNOLOGY. THE ELECTRIC GUITAR CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER, AND A CASCADE OF NEW INVENTIONS HAS DRIVEN THE ORGANIZATION OF SOUND AND RHYTHM DIRECTLY TO THE FUTURE, WHICH IS WHERE WE ALL LIVE ANYWAY.

A hallmark of musical innovation is to use something in a way it was never intended to be used. No one knew that the turntable would become an instrument but there’s no denying that now; an entire culture arose and drove it into the space of virtuosity, where there are scratching and mixing contests and there’s a definable skill called turntablism, and everyone is a damn DJ. Add to that the concept of the hack – that is to change something so that it acts in a different way – and you have a world of possibility for sound.

There are more than few ways to make this happen; anything that can be used to make sound is fodder for the creative mind, and the creative soldering iron.

Hailing from Sydney, Toydeath is a guy who cracks open children’s toys that have some kind of sound chip in them and takes to them with a soldering iron. It sounds conceptually simple and it is, but great ideas are simple and Toydeath are a great idea well executed. The mutant toys have been modified in shrieking electronic dance demons played by a trio of insane characters and the music is actual music.

You can dance to it. In fact you can get totally hyperactive and run around the room like a damn loon. That’s the clever part: take the modified object and do something with it. If you’re Toydeath you do something frenetic, energetic and unhinged in a delightful way.

So that’s what we may call circuit bending, as demonstrated in the live arena.

The simple act of warping the way a noisemaking toy works opens possibility for new music Chip Music or 8-Bit or computer music is nothing new and you know it well: the familiar sounds of the computer games you grew up with (Alex Kidd anyone?) have been appropriated, chopped and used to make something new – there’s a pretty rabid scene that revolves around the use of old computers and the tech that resides with in them. The sounds of game consoles and the first generation of home computers get salvaged and re-used in mad ways.

A fine example is cTrix, a charming lad from the shores of Melbourne. He made an instrument he calls a GATARI which incorporates one of those beautiful ancient games machines that have a wooden veneer finish and a bunch of distortion pedals for extra insanity. It’s a labour of love but it also sounds unique, being a mad-professor marriage of art and technology. cTrix plays around with tracker software, programs Amiga 2600 and screws around with Gameboys. It’s the glorious ethic of DIY as done by nerds – you don’t need the latest PC and Cubase, find something second hand and see where you can push it to.

Toydeath and cTrix will be performing and running workshops as a part of ST.ART 2013 on Saturday August 24.

Circuit Bending for Artists and Musicians. (Toydeath)

Game Boy Music Workshop (cTrix)

This workshop is for artists, musicians or anyone who would like to get into electronics. It will suit musicians who are interested in making unique and cheap electronic instruments and microphones.

In this workshop participants will learn the basics of Nintendo Game Boy music program Little Sound DJ. Covering the different sounds available and creating a short loop that can be then shared with the class. There is a number of gameboy units available but you may bring your own, please bring your own headphones.

For ages 10-19

•Soldering, construction of audio cables.

August 24, 2 sessions at Rosny Farm:

•Assembling electronic circuits.

9:30am-11:30am

•Circuit bending and toy modification.

11:30am-1:30pm

For ages 14-19 August 24, 9:30am12:30pm at Rosny Farm

Cost: $10

Modify an electronic toy to create your own instrument.

Cost: $15 Registrations: artsandevents@ccc.tas. gov.au

Registrations for both workshop are via email at artsandevents@ccc.tas.gov.au or telephoning (03) 6245 8740.

ANDREW HARPER

Toydeath and cTrix will also perform at ‘8-bit n’ Chips’ at The Brisbane Hotel, on Friday August 23. Show starts 10pm and entry is $10 on the door.

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WASH THEIR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP PUNK ROCK ISN’T MEANT TO BE THE MOST POLITICALLY CORRECT OF MUSIC GENRES. IN FACT IT CAN BE DOWNRIGHT RUDE, HIGHLY OBNOXIOUS AND OVERLY EXPLICIT, WITH LITTLE THOUGHT OF MINDING ONES P’S AND Q’S. IF YOU HAVE BEEN GOING AT IT SINCE 1988, SUCH AS IN THE CASE OF CALIFORNIAN PUNK BAND GUTTERMOUTH, YOU WOULD HAVE HAD PLENTY OF PRACTISE AT BEING OFFENSIVE TO JUST ABOU ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY.

Banned from Canada for a year and half and being apparently kicked of the 2004 Vans Warped Tour are some of the achievements listed by the band in its illustrious 26 year career. But like all good things that must come to an end, Guttermouth have decided to also call it a day. Singer Mark Adkins told us why.

What sort of anarchy and energy can we expect from your Aussie farewell tour?

Wow, Anarchy is a pretty strong word, but chaos will ensue and plenty of it. I am looking forward to making this my best tour to date!

Why have you decided to pull the plug and make this your final tour?

There are so many reasons. 26 years of touring sours the liver and kidneys as well as countless other organs. If I were to guess…I displace 100,000 brain cells during every show, so one must stop at some point.

I also want to explore other avenues. I have pasted up many different opportunities due to touring and would like top explore a few of them. I will always play music and there will always be a place in my heart for Australia, Oh and I have so many friends in AU how could I never return in one form or another?

Be not paying attention to newer music.

I am and always will listen to what I want not what some label, radio station or Ipod commercial turns me onto. I hate to claim being true to oneself is the answer, but it kinda is. We also never got into the idea of only liking bands on a certain label.

What do you see happening to the future of punk music after your departure from the scene? How would you ideally like to see it continue on?

I am not departing entirely, just scaling back. On that note, things will just organically continue. How do I want it to go?

That would take too much thought.

When can we expect a Guttermouth revival?

Maybe never. Maybe next Tuesday. I have no idea what the future holds. I do know there will be a 26th Kiss revival coming soon.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

What has been the biggest highlight of Guttermouth’s history in touring?

Only one near death accident. No plane crashes, STD’s, athlete’s foot or need for antacids.

You have said, “Don’t lump us in with all those watered down ‘90s bands. We’re a product of the ‘80s. That’s where we get our inspiration.” How do you think Guttermouth has managed to maintain its ‘80s spirit over the decades, without being washed away by ‘90s and naughties trends?

Guttermouth play The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, on Wednesday August 14. Supports will be Your Demise, The Furthest Gone, Skun Knees and Fatty Esther. Presale tickets available from the venue, Jimmy’s Skate and www.oztix. com.au.

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A PLAN FOR EVERY occasion THE SPLIT FROM A NINE YEAR RECORD DEAL AND THE DEPARTURE OF A LONG SERVING BASS PLAYER IS ENOUGH TO LEAVE ANY MUSICIAN COWERING IN THE FOETAL POSITION. IT’S LUCKY MELBOURNE’S THE GETAWAY PLAN ARE NO STRANGERS TO RIDING THE WAVES OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.

Rewind five years ago and the alternative/ rock outfit had it all. In February 2008 the band released its debut album Other Voices, Other Rooms and changed the face the commercial music scene. Their single “Where the City Meets the Sea” was announced the Best Independent Single/ EP at the annual AIR Awards and their dark illuminated pop tunes were delivered to an entire nation on Rove Live and Nova radio.

No sooner as they were basking in the commercial glory, The Getaway Plan came to a grinding halt. In early 2009 the band announced its retirement. Since rekindling their friendships in 2010 the four piece today faces a daunting future. Armed with little other than their self funded, double A side release, Lovesick/Mirrors, is there hope for the Getaway Plan once more? Frontman and guitarist Matt Wright thinks so. The band has recently been exonerated from the shackles of former label, We Are Unified, and the future has never been so promising according to the Victorian lad.

“Man it’s amazing. It’s one of the greatest things we’ve ever done. The split was kind of mutual. We all just got to the same point where we weren’t on the same page anymore. It was kind of like having your parent’s babysit you for nine years and then realising you’re old enough to do things on your own now. We learnt everything we need to take this on by ourselves.”

If you thought The Getaway Plan were money hungry, then guess again. Matt reaffirms this notion. ``It can kind of be stressful worrying about money but at the same time we make enough money from touring to be able to fund records. If we don’t make that certain amount of money we need then we will put in from our own pockets. We are happy to put that into the band because it is so

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important to us. We never ever have wanted it to be about money. If anything it’s the polar opposite, we hate money. It’s there to do its job and that’s it.’’

Unfortunately, for all those ‘I knew The Getaway Plan before they were popular’ fans, Matt has all but lost touch with his vocal growls and screams.

The departure of bass guitarist Dave Anderson hasn’t left any negativity between members according to Matt. He paused mid conversation, and with a moments thought, described the current mood of the band as “fresh”.

“I always try and do what is appropriate.

I never want to do anything that is crazy and out there. I feel our old music calls for screaming because of the style it was but I think with our new music it would just kind of be belittling great songs with unnecessary angst. I don’t hate our songs with screaming but definitely with my older age it’s getting harder to do so.’’

“We’ve got a friend Jason Clark who we’ve known for many, many years. He has already been incredible and has brought so much life to the band. It’s an amazing feeling. A good friend is more important to us than skill to be honest. Anyone can pick up an instrument and learn to be good at it but not everyone can be an enjoyable human to be around. We’ve always based ourselves on that. First we need to get along and then the music comes second.’’

The Getaway Plan’s release of Lovesick/ Mirrors will coincide with a national tour, and Tasmanian fans won’t be left disheartened.

While skipping the Bass Strait can be logistically daunting for any mainland band, Matt said he liked to visit Tasmania as much as possible. He said would deliver a variety of new and old songs when they perform in Hobart as part of their Lovesick Tour.

However Matt gave little away to what can be expected from the band’s two new tracks.

“It’s kind of hard for someone to describe who plays his own music. Both songs are quite different I think. One song could be a B side from Requiem (previous album) but the other song is in a completely new direction. I guess we intended for one song to be similar to our last record, again for a way to bridge that gap between music and the second track is a hint of what is to come in the future.’’

Japan, America and UK all mark the next chapter in The Getaway Plan’s Book, and Matt can’t wait to start turning through those pages. The band noticed a “300 percent improvement” in their UK fan base according to the lead singer. The most arduous task comes with breaking the USA; one state at a time. ``It’s kind of scary because it’s such a huge place and it’s a foreign tour because we’ve never dealt with it before. We are kind of waiting for an offer. I guess we’ve had a few perspective things come up so definitely we will be touring with someone else later on.’’

MARK ACHESON

The Getaway Plan play two shows in Hobart at The Waratah Hotel this month.

The over age show will be on Friday August 10, with the underage show on the Saturday afternoon from 2pm. Tickets available from the venue or www.oztix. com.au.

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TOP FIVE FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF JACKIE ONASSIS SYDNEY’S HIPHOP DUO, JACKIE ONASSIS, HAVE BEEN BUSY MAKING WAVES SINCE BEING UNEARTHED BY TRIPLE J LAST SUMMER. A NATIONAL TOUR SUPPORTING SPIT SYNDICATE AND A STINT IN THE UK HAS PREPARED THE LADS FOR THEIR OWN HEADLINING 11 DATE TOUR ON THE BACK OF THEIR LATEST SINGLES ‘CRYSTAL BALLING’ AND ‘SMOKE TRAILS’.

We thought it would be best to find out what inspired Raph and Kai to make music. Strangely it wasn’t all hiphop...

Jay Z - The Black Album This is possibly our favourite rap record of all time. It’s varied but consistent, the production line up is immense, and it’s Hov at his best. An absolute classic.

Dr Dre - 2001 An absolute classic. This is what we listened to growing up through high school - the sound of this record has basically set the standard for hiphop production since. There are very few records where the drums knock as hard as they do on 2001.

Various Artists - Culture of Kings When we were in high school, Australian Hiphop wasn’t played on the radio and the Internet was still dial up. We were also 13 years old so no one ever had much money so we used to share CDs a lot. This CD basically opened us all up to a really varied bunch of artists we never knew existed across the country and triggered that desire to really hunt out music.

EL-P - Fantastic Damage Raph: This is probably more important from a production sense.

Listening to this album I realised that you could really get interesting with hiphop beats, and that there really aren’t any rules. He uses samples in a really different way, his drums are often jarring, and his tempos varied. It was listening to EL-P as well as artists like Tobacco that first got me interested in synths too.

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not Kai: When this record came out I listened to it nonstop for a week.

The really sick thing about this album for me was that the way Alex writes is almost like he’s a rapper. He’s got some pretty cool technical rhymes in this one and the images and slang in the lyrics give it all a mad vibe. This record made me realise how well you can tell a good story just about the day to day experiences we all have.

Jackie Onassis play two Tasmanian shows on their upcoming Smoke Trails tour, beginning in Devonport on Thursday August 29 at Spurs, followed by a Hobart show at The Waratah Hotel on Friday August 30.

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Music SHOP TO YOU DROP:

R & R’S RETRO MUSIC AND CLOTHES SHOPPE

Places you can really get stuck into this game in Hobart are few, but the options got a bit better recently with the opening of R & R Retro. The selection of vinyl is so random, it’s bizarre and it makes the act of flicking through it, a bit of a voyage of discovery for the music geeks and for those looking to dig up a little bit of their own past, or intent on finding a bargain. Rare old metal, obscure film soundtracks, hilarious 80’s chart hits and whole bunches more, are to be found.

WINTER IS ONE THE BEST TIMES THERE IS FOR THE FINE AND NOBLE SPORT OF GEM SEEKING, THAT WONDROUS PASTIME WHERE YOU HEAD INTO A STORE AND ATTEMPT TO FIND THE MOST AWESOME RECORD OR CD IN THE WORLD.

Vinyl takes up a fair bit of space – but you’ll also find a great selection of fascinating and sometimes rare or out of print music books, great CD albums – including an excellent smattering of harder to find old Tasmanian Music, and lots of other fascinating bits and pieces of music related memorabilia and ephemera. There’s a genuine “Cabinet of Curiosities” as well, with the more spectacular or rarer items on display. If you’re after something really amazing in the music stakes and more, there is now a growing selection of very nice vintage threads. If you want an item to wear that’s not off the rack, this is where you’ll find that special thing that’s yours alone. Get yourself a great new shirt or jacket and wear it, while listening to whatever musical gem you found, whilst exploring this shoppe.

ANDREW HARPER

R&R Retro is in the Imperial Arcade, off Collins Street. Look for the orange sign and find something that’s just for you.

OVERLOOKED AND UNDERRATED LOCAL HERO - Directed by Bill Forsyth (1983) The classic ‘fish out of water’ story arc has presumably been around as long the art of storytelling itself. As has the not-entirelyunrelated ‘stranger in a strange land’ story. Examples of these stories in film are immeasurable, from the outsiders of classic Westerns, to Sidney Poitier’s Mr Thackeray in To Sir With Love. But in the early-to-mid nineties, it seemed like every television producer in the world was determined to create their own version of a particular brand of the ‘fish out of water’ story, usually involving a big-city fish moving to a small country or seaside town, often for work, or lifestyle. America had Northern Exposure.

The UK had Hamish Macbeth. Australia even got on board eventually with Seachange.

Hell, even reality TV finally jumped on the bandwagon with the Paris Hilton vehicle The Simple Life.

But a decade earlier, writer/director Bill Forsyth created the template for these shows with his quaint comedy Local Hero, which in itself manipulates and warps

this classic story arc. In it, Peter Riegert plays MacIntyre (Mac), a Texan hot-shot dealmaker working for Knox Oil and Gas, a multi-national conglomerate owned by the eccentric Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster).

Mac is sent by the company on a mission to buy the whole Scottish sea-side fishing village of Ferness, “everything from the cliffs to the north, through to the bay on the far side, and about a mile inland too”.

Before he leaves Texas, he is pulled aside by Happer, who also asks him to keep an eye on the northern sky, particularly Virgo, for comets. Mac, bemused, obliges.

Joined by awkward Scottish counterpart Danny Oldsen (The Thick Of It’s Peter Capaldi in one of his earliest roles), and an injured rabbit named Trudy, Mac settles himself in the local hotel, run by randy couple Gordon and Stella Urquhart. Negotiations begin with Gordon – also the local accountant (“we tend to double up on jobs around here, I’m a taxi driver sometimes too”) – and seem to proceed slowly at first. But sentiments in the town are not as Mac (nor the viewer, presumably) would have assumed. Before you can say sláinte, locals are heatedly discussing which luxury car make is of superior quality, and re-naming their boats things like “The Silver Dollar”. The whole deal seems to be sealed over copious amounts of whisky and traditional music at the town’s céilidh (dance), until it is discovered that the beach is actually owned

by eccentric beachcomber Ben Knox (Fulton Mackay), and the negotiations start over, with unexpected results.

As much a snapshot of excessive 80’s corporate culture as it is of a way of lazy small town life long forgotten, Local Hero dials up the quaintness and quirkiness to within an inch of too far, before pulling it back with subtly delivered home truths and an honest sense of reality (as all good comedy does). There are countless blink-and-you’ll-miss-them one-liners, a constant stream of visually stunning scenery, and quirky characters that range from dreamy marine biologist Marina (“five degrees in oceanography and a magnificent pair of lungs”), to expat African Reverend Macpherson (“I’m on a mission, too”).

The film’s soundtrack, by Dire Straights frontman Mark Knopfler (don’t let that put you off), apparently out-sold the movie, in spite of Forsyth winning that year’s BAFTA for best direction, an example of just how little-known this understated gem of cinema is.

DAMON VAN ROOYEN If you have a suggestion for subject matter for Overlooked and Underrated, by all means email it to overlookedandunderrated@gmail.com, and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

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THEY JUST KEEP COMING BACK EITHER THEY REALLY LIKE HOBART, WE REALLY LIKE THE SMITH STREET BAND, OR IT’S A MUTUAL WARM FLUFFY FEELING. THE OTHER POSSIBLE REASON IS THAT THEY ARE TOURING THE COUNTRY (HOBART INCLUDED) IN SUPPORT OF A BRAND NEW FIVE TRACK EP/10” VINYL RELEASE VIA POISON CITY RECORDS. GUITARIST WIL WAGNER WAS KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE UP FIVE MINUTES OF HIS LIFE… Did any of you guys actually live on a ‘Smith St’, to give you the rep to be allowed to call yourselves ‘The Smith Street Band’?

I used to live above the Birmingham hotel on Smith Street, but none of us can afford to live in Fitzroy anymore!

Have you ever sat down on Google maps and worked out how many Smith Streets there are in Australia?

No? Do you often write songs about girls?

Some of my songs are about girls; I’ve started seeing someone recently and a fair few of the new songs are about her!

Are there better things to write about?

I just write about whatever is happening in my life and head at the time! I think if whatever you are writing about means something to you then the songs will turn out ok!

If the lot of you weren’t in a band, what would you all be doing instead?

Chris would be a professional Ryan Gosling impersonator, Lee would continue booking a pub and being the ‘King of Hesh’, Fitzy would be in a cool band that sounds like Dinosaur Jr. and I’d be unemployed in Hobart!

Describe your musical aesthetic: Sweaty and ugly!

When are you guys actually moving to Hobart? There is a Smith Street here. I know you have hung out on it too.

I was so close to moving there at the start of the year, but then aforementioned girl happened! I will move there the first chance I get; it’s my favourite place!

Whats your next step for total world domination?

Moving to Tassie!

NIC ORME

The Smith Street Band play with Joyce Manor (USA), Cheap Girls (USA) and Lincoln le Fevre at The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, on Wednesday August 28. Tickets on sale now via: thesmithstreetband. bigcartel.com.

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COOKING UP A DANCEFLOOR CLUB YEARS ARE MUCH LIKE DOG YEARS, IN THE FACT THAT ONE ‘DOG YEAR (IN THIS CASE INSERT ‘CLUB YEAR’), EQUALS SEVEN HUMAN YEARS. THIS MEANS THAT LOCAL CLUB NIGHT HAPPY NOODLE IS IN FACT HAVING ITS 35TH BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH, IMPRESSIVE TO SAY THE LEAST AND ALMOST MAKES IT OK FOR YOU TO BE MIDDLE AGED AND BE SEEN OUT AT 3AM ON A SUNDAY MORNING. Psytrance is one of those musical genres that conjures up all sorts of interesting and possibly negative connotations within the wider community. The first of course is the apparent prevalent use of not so legal ‘mind altering’ substances otherwise referred to as ‘drugs’. The second, being that people that listen to psytrance are all just a bunch of ‘drug taking hippies’.

The third and possibly most abhorrent, is the often abundance of fluro at these psytrance parties or ‘doofs’ as they are often referred to. This ‘fluro’ generally can be seen covering the dance floor in terms of glowing often pulsating (depending on your current mindstate) decor, as well as creeping out like a cancer onto the clothing attire worn by the common garden variety psytrance attendee or ‘doofer’.

We asked Psywise, head honcho at Happy Noodle, a few things about the upcoming birthday celebrations.

The party will have a mix of psytrance (of course), broken beat plus a good dose of video art thrown in.

Besides a combi-van full of local DJs and producers, flying down to perform will be special guests Tantrum (Digital Psionics) and Lysdexic (Hopskotch).

So is psytrance actually meant to be heard indoors?

While traditionally enjoyed under the stars during the summer months we tend to find it a bit cold and unpredictable down here in Tassie at this time of year.

Happy Noodle first came about to get people out of the traditional hibernation period and back onto the dancefloor and has been successful in helping the scene grow by doing this and the scene is certainly thriving at the moment.

Do travelling international psytrance DJs get a thrill playing in Tasmania?

Every act that has toured here for Happy Noodle has commented on the friendliness of the crowds. We really appreciate that they’ve made it all the way down here and show the love on the dancefloor. Israeli act Sattel Battle was so impressed he even recorded and released a live track he performed for us.

Are visuals now an important aspect of the music?

We are blessed with some amazing visual artists here and they’ve certainly made a big impact on the party scene. We currently have two video and one lighting artist working with us for the August gig. These types of gigs certainly open the way for a lot of creativity.

Sex, drugs and dance music?

So 90’s.

Lastly, will there be fluro?

Of course. We (Happy Noodle Team) were just discussing that.

NIC ORME Happy Noodle 5th Birthday Celebrations will be on Saturday August 24 at The Grand Poobah, 142 Liverpool St, Hobart. Doors open 10am and entry will be $15.

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SPOT THE ZOMBIE ZOMBIES HAVE ALMOST BECOME A DIME A DOZEN. SO IMMERSED IN CURRENT DAY POPULAR CULTURE, ONE WOULD HARDLY RAISE AN EYEBROW SEEING ONE OF THESE UNDEAD ROTTING CREATURES SHAMBLING PAST YOU IN THE STREET. ALTHOUGH ONE SHOULD KNOW THEIR ZOMBIE, AS NOT ALL ARE THE COMMON GARDEN VARIETY….

TRADITIONAL ZOMBIE Right, so if you know your horror history, you know that Romero never called his hordes of shuffling shamblers anything. They are simply ‘The Dead’. It was fans that started calling them zombies, borrowing from older films such as “White Zombie” or “I walked with a zombie” – these flicks had a dodgy take on the mythology from traditional cultures that some nasty magician types would cast a spell on the dead to re-animate them to use as slaves. There’s some historical basis to this, and more than one culture has mythology around the idea.

These magically-revived undead don’t eat anything, are enslaved by a living master of some kind and basically are not even remotely like the Walking Dead as we know them in contemporary culture.

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dead, and get slower as they decay. They have the quality of being relentless – they do not sleep, stop coming or give up. They are found wherever people they are trying to eat are found and they will not stop following you until you ruin their brain somehow.

Avoid close contact, but you can generally push them over with a chair. It’s when there’s 17 of them between you and the exit that it becomes an issue.

RESIDENT EVIL ZOMBIE Let’s face it – despite a rich history on the silver screen, it was gaming that really made the zombie a superstar. Resident Evil Zombies are pretty traditional, but the distinctive logo of the Umbrella Corporation on any clothing will let you know these guys are biohazards and may mutate into something far more vicious at any moment.

Avoid close contact.

28 DAYS LATER ZOMBIE Not a zombie in the traditional sense, these are people who have been infected with a disease and turned into insane rabid beasts who run at you shrieking. They really suck as just one is going to be a problem and worse is they tend to get around in packs.

They are noisy and impatient with pretty good coordination, so climbing a tree is not the thing to do with these.

TRADITIONAL “ROMERO” ZOMBIE

LIVING DEAD ZOMBIE

The classic swarming variety was first described in the Romero ‘dead’ trilogy in which the dead return and eat the living. The dead are never referred in any of these films as ‘zombies’, they are simply the dead. They move relative to how long they have been

From the films “Return Of The Living Dead” you get zombies who can talk a bit and specifically want to eat brains. These creatures are kind of aware they are dead, and are in pain from this condition, but get some temporary relief from the

consumption of human brains. They are tricky, hungry and tend to set ambushes and use phones to attract victims. Sort of like debt collectors.

THE WALKING DEAD ZOMBIE A slightly more feisty variety that are noted lots for hissing, growling and generally being noisy. They don’t sneak up and take out a chunk, they shuffle growling, have good hearing (they get attracted to noise) and are more likely to be people you know for added emotional impacts and plot twists… Avoid close contact.

HUNGOVER WALK OF SHAME ZOMBIE You see these creatures shuffling home at about 8:30am on a Sunday and they are easy to spot as someone who, ahem, did not return to their own bed last night, and may be missing an arm which they have been forced to chew off, be sporting weatherinappropriate clothes, or possibly missing a shoe. They are not dead, but may wish they were.

ANDREW HARPER

The 2013 Hobart Zombie March will gather at Princes Park Battery Point on Saturday August 24 at 1pm for a 2pm shamble. The undead horde will then lurch through the unsuspecting crowd at Salamanca Market, across the Hobart CBD and collapse outside the Brisbane Hotel for one unholy afterparty. Allow one hour of your death to complete this journey.

More information on the march can be obtained from the Hobart Zombie March Facebook Group Page.

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Junction Arts Festival Program Guide

JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL 4-8 SEPTEMBER 2013 LAUNCESTON CIVIC SQUARE and CBD

Junction 2013 will open Wednesday 4 September and run to Sunday 8 September 2013. The multi-arts Festival is back again to welcome Spring and bring the city alive with five days and nights of contemporary art, music and performance from local, national and international artists.

Outdoor performances and installations provide unique experiences and transform public and private spaces, providing new opportunities to observe, engage, be surprised, amazed and experience Launceston in completely new ways.

Watch Me Fall, Action Hero (Bristol, UK)

The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge, Dan Koop & Co. (Melbourne)

The Australian premiere of a thrilling, thought-provoking miniaturisation of macho American daredevilry. Action Hero’s performance draws on footage of Evel Knievel jumps, interviews with Niagara Falls daredevils, the speeches of American presidents and transcripts from Chuck Yeager’s supersonic flights.

They go over in a barrel and hit the ramp at 144 km/h. They clear 10 doubledecker buses, and they are not stopping until every last sonofabitch in the place is cheering hem on. “If at any point you see me on fire, don’t try and help, just stand well back and wait for my own people to be there”, Action Hero.

Dan Koop returns to Launceston to ask a raft of hard questions while journeying overland and voyaging in a rowboat.

Inspired by “what if?” scenarios and lateral thinking puzzles, participants make their own journey around and over the North Esk River.

A Western, Action Hero (Bristol, UK)

en route, one step at a time like this (Melbourne)

With events and activities at each site, you contribute your thoughts, choices and actions to decide how best to cross the river and reach the city. See the site through new eyes from unexpected vantage points, to create an imaginative overlay upon a city space. You are invited to converse and reflect about how to use and share limited resources whilst enjoying a new perspective of the city from the water, an experience that will change the way you see Launceston.

Choose your own adventure in what promises to be a one-ofa-kind experience. Here is a little guide of what Junction has in store for you this year.

Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Children’s Choir, Bill Burns and Big Pond Small Fish (Toronto, Canada)

Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Children’s Choir is the World Premiere of a collaborative artwork performed by a children’s choir of 100 voices. This choir simulates non-verbal sounds of animals and the industrialised world, composed entirely of vocalisations of the sounds of dogs and boats and airplanes, playing with the traditional verbal narrative of a choral work, as well as 20th century sound art, and challenging what the subject of art can be, and what art can be.

This participatory project engages 100 local children, aged 8-12, in the creation of the story, or libretto, of the choral work. Another 50 children create the background art set: visual props, floats, dramatic set and lighting design presented on-stage and culminating in a live public performance entirely devised and created by them, in Launceston’s premier performing arts venue, The Princess Theatre.

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One Day Twice, Mudlark Theatre (Launceston)

For One Day Twice, Mudlark Theatre presents four new and distinct performances over two unstoppable and break-neck 24-hour events at two very out-of-the-ordinary venues.

Mudlark challenges its artists to highoctane performances Junction-style: secret performance venues, unusual spaces, unorthodox stage design, electric performers, gob-smacked audiences, live music, and more.

Playwrights write all night and hand over new scripts to the directors and actors who start rehearsal at 7am, and the production crew steps in mid afternoon. The lights go up and the scripts go down when the audience arrives at 8pm.

The Hero walks into the bar and everyone stops talking. The whore begs to be loved. The Hero dies a long and drawn out death. Together with their audience, in their Australian premiere, Action Hero reclaim the chaotic halfarsed Western as our own and celebrate the failure of generic heroes, cheap whores and the all-American idol.

Action Hero is looking for an audience to make A Western together. In this performance created FOR a bar Action Hero locates the valley, the saloon and the empty street within the space. Join them and cheat at cards, beg the hero to love you, and shoot them down.

There is ketchup blood. They wear cowboy hats.

en route is a pedestrian-based live art experience, meticulously designed to unfold a love letter to Launceston, it reveals a space where the public and the private, the imaginative and the concrete intersect.

Guided by directions and instructions made up of snippets of narrative, musings, music, dialogue and philosophy using audio, mobile phone communication, urban streetscapes, walking, passers-by and cafés, en route is a seductive solo journey through the city and often, the hearts, minds and perceptions of the participants.

Program Details

The Junc Room

For more information about the Festival and ticketing, visit www.Junctionartsfestival.com.au

The Junc Room, the Festival Club is located again this year in the heart of the city, at Civic Square. Open daily until late, the fully licensed venue offers live music, performances, food, wine and much more. Come along to some of Australia’s hottest acts. All ages welcome, including families and children. Check out 2013 Junc Room schedule and Junction Arts Festival website for more details.

Choose your own adventure.

schedule Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

10:00 Multi-lingual Rock & Rhyme and Storytime 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00

Lunchtime talks

12:30 13:00

1:00pm3:00pm Migrant Resource Centre Northern Tasmania performances

13:30 14:00 14:30 2:30pm-3:20pm UTAS Wind Ensemble

15:00 Closed 15:30

Other shows include a journey through the CBD on a poetry hunt with CrazySpokenWeird, or following a wedge of swans on their migration around town for Swan Flight. Sit and watch or participate in Junction’s winner So You Think You Can Interpretive Dance, cheer up Jorge Luis Borges’ imaginary beings contesting to a sports classic as part of the Beep Test of Imaginary Beings, or wonder about what you know and what you do not know with Ignoramus Anonymous. This year you can also bring your dog or sit and watch the very first Junction Dog Show, follow the Photo Mobsters around the Festival –smile and say cheese to them- and delight your family to the wonderful Multi-lingual Rock & Rhyme and Storytime.

The ABC Open tent will be located again this year in Civic Square. Get involved in the Snapped Photography project and come and watch their video screenings in The Junc Room and you will be able to witness the Like HyPe 2013 Audience Choice Award, that channels the zeitgeist of reality TV shows like “Australia’s Got Talent” and other competitive arenas where performing artists battle on stage for fame and fortune.

Choose your own adventure. The 2013 Junction Arts Festival 2013 offers a wide range of events to cater for all tastes.

Open Mic, Ryan, Lauren, Tom&Dana

16:30

Like Hype pitch

17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30

19:30

6:30pm-7:30pm, Public Opening (Ashley Bird DJ)

21:00

Enjoy live music, performances, installations, children’s activities, artist talks, a full licensed bar, gourmet food and more at this year’s Junction Arts Festival. It all starts at Civic Square.

21:30

Visit The Junc Room, a fully licenced Big Top bar, hang out at the Arrivals Lounge for gourmet lunches and snacks, follow our roaming performances to catch pop-up food vans and take advantage of exclusive experimental dinner experiences.

23:00

Relax and enjoy great coffee and fresh gourmet meals at The Arrivals Lounge & Café. Soak up the sun on lounge chairs, beanbags, or grab a café table and relax the afternoon and evening away with a coffee or glass of wine. It’s the perfect place to meet and mingle with friends and family, or stop by before or after a performance.

01:30

9pm-9:45pm, Tiger Choir

Mudlark Launch

CLOSE Like Hype winner annoucnement

7:30pm-8:15pm, Lulu & The PaigeTurners

9pm-9:45pm, The 88’s 10pm-11pm, Mojo Juju

10:15pm11:15pm, Biscotti

10:15pm11:15pm, Captives

23:30

11pm-1am, DJ Max Power

00:00 00:30 01:00

02:00

Closed

7:45pm-8:30pm, 7th Street Entry

8:45pm-9:30pm, The Embers

9pm-9:45pm, Guthrie

22:00 22:30

5pm-6pm, Funktional

6:00pm-7:30pm, SYTYCID

8pm-8:45pm, John Johnson & The Johnsons

20:30

5pm-6pm, DJ Max Power

6pm-7:30pm, DJ Chris NeoBi

7:30pm-8:15pm, Elliot Courtnage

20:00

The Festival officially kicks off at 6:30pm with the first of a series of competitions of The Beep Test of Imaginary Beings. If you feel up for the challenge, get ready to run. Treat your senses to a night of spectacular live music and a few surprise performances. Get ready to party into the wee hours.

Closed

16:00

19:00

Festival Hub: Civic Square

Closed

3:00pm-3:40pm, Yyan & McDougall

Closed

10:15pm11:15pm, Richie 1250 & The Brides of Christ

11:30pm-1am, DJ Chris NeoBi

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ANDREW LOVES THE CITY OF HOBART ART PRIZE I AM JUST RESOUNDINGLY HAPPY WITH THIS. I LOVE THAT ANTONY JOHNSON WON THIS YEAR AND THAT PEOPLE JUST HATE HIS WORK. I THINK THIS IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO ART IN HOBART IN SOME TIME.

It’s not because I like the work. It’s not because I dislike the work. It’s because of the awesome comments being left in The Mercury: “A cheap, mass produced shelving unit has been bent and twisted to produce art? Maybe the judges just felt sorry for this guy?

Surely this is not art as we know it, what a load of rubbish!”

“I`m positive I saw this in it`s current form at the south Hobart tip shop just a month back.

Quick thinking of him to snaffle it for the $5 asking price, and enter it into the Hobart “art” comp.”

“Looks very much like what I threw out when I accidentally reversed into some cheap shelving. Oh well someones rubbish could be someone else art ??? I will be more carefull of what I throw out.”

“He’s taking the piss and all the arty farty brigade fell for it as per usual.”

This is just so wonderful. Someone managed to make something that was offensive without resorting to whacking Martin Bryant in the foreground. I’m utterly stoked that the judges of this years’ CHAP wanted to give something like this a prize and stir the possum – they must have known what they were doing and how people might react, as the artist very likely did when he entered the work.

You see, you may not accept a piece but there is pretty much always intent and process in there with something like this. Anthony knows why he made the work. You don’t have to like it but it does make you wonder about artistic process and about the making of an art work. Works don’t have to take a set amount of time, they don’t have to be made out of certified art material and they do not have to be liked by everyone. They can be about ideas or pure concepts, there’s a long stream of artistic production that does just that. There’s no rule that says you have to enjoy that stuff, but if it gets a reaction, and pisses people off so much they write a grumpy note in the comments section, and are actually controversial because of their very nature – that’s a good thing for an art prize to recognise. I may not dig the concept here, but Anthony Johnson is no more or less deserving of a prize than any other entrants where, and I like it far more than some other works in the short list .

Is this a good art work? I don’t know. What do you think? Why do you think that?

It was a great field this year, make sure you get along.

ANDREW HARPER

Do I like it?

You know what, man I’m sick of that banal question.

MUSIC AND ARTS COLLIDE IN LAUNCESTON AS WINTER SLOWLY COMES TO AN END, WE BEGIN TO SHED OUR THERMAL LEGGINGS, FORGET ABOUT NIGHTLY WARM MILOS AND BEGIN TO REMOVE OURSELVES FROM THE COUCH WE’VE SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS ON, WATCHING TELEVISION,WHEN WE MAYBE SHOULD HAVE BEEN STUDYING FOR EXAMS. ASIDE FROM THE MUCH NEEDED SUN (AND VITAMIN D) THAT COMES WITH SPRING, LAUNCESTON WILL ALSO BE GREETED WITH THE EQUALLY AS WARMING AND EXCITING, JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL (JUNCTION) FROM SEPTEMBER 4-8TH.

‘Like’ is something you do on Facebook.

Meh.

The City Of Hobart Art Prize is on until September 1st at TMAG.

The Festival, which is in its third running year this year, offers a plethora of options for all age groups (including families) and caters to the differing interests within the community, bringing an exciting, engaging platform and alternative to what is usually made available. With a central focus on Launceston’s environment (and reinventing our perception of it) and participatory acts, the festival this year features six ‘hero’ performances, including “A Western” by UK company Action Hero, an audience engaged and motivated improvisation western inspired performance. The superhero themes don’t end there as, “Watch Me Fall’ allows the audience to immerse themselves in risk and explore their own fears as well as those shared with the performer and other audience members.

Social media and smart phones will play a focal part in this years’ festival. Junction is set to release their first mobile app (available on iTunes) and has transformed their social media platforms - twitter, facebook and instagram - in much interactive spaces that allow the audience to stay up to date with the latest on the programme and festival news, to share their experiences and immerse themselves in the festival in every way possible. Social media will also play a key role in revealing surprises and secrets which have been very well kept by volunteers and staff, providing the audience with up-to-date, exciting information to aid their experience at Junction. A live social media feed featuring audience interactions with the Festival through Social Media will be displayed at The Junc Room, the Festival hot club, a big top tent and fully licensed bar featuring great music bands every night.

So, say goodbye to the icy cold that was the winter of 2013, and leave your house, your heater, your thermals and attend Junction, re-immerse yourself in your community and become a part of unique experiences and world-class art performances.

Moving from super heroes to great untraditional performances, there is also the World Premiere of ‘Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Children’s Choir’, by renown Canadian artist Bill Burns, a choir featuring the voices of 100 Launceston local area primary school children, composed entirely of vocalisations of the sounds of dogs and boats and airplanes, playing with the traditional verbal narrative of a choral work, as well as 20th century sound art.

‘En Route’ will return again this year for the 2013 Festival. This exciting platform provides the audience the opportunity to engage in an awakening experience of rediscovery of Launceston, through an iPod and text messaged directions, to explore things that would typically go missed in your daily city strolls. Another performance which is driven and takes direction from mobile phones is ‘Blindscape’, an interactive performance by Skye Gellman which involves navigating through a pitch black room to find the performers, via an iPhone app developed for the performance.

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BRIGITTE TROBBIANI

The official artist’s lineup is now up and made available here in this edition of Warp plus through the Junction Arts Festival website, iPhone app, Social Media and will be downloadable in a digital format. For more information visit www. junctionartsfestival.com.au.

Arts THEATRE:

BELL SHAKESPEARE’S THE COMEDY OF ERRORS BELL IS ABOUT THE MOST RELIABLE NAME YOU CAN GET FOR THEATRE IN AUSTRALIA. KNOWN FOR LAVISH AND OFTEN INNOVATIVE PRESENTATION OF THESE CLASSIC WORKS, BELL IS ALWAYS THE GOOD GEAR. THEIR LATEST SHOW IS THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, ONE OF THE EARLIEST PLAYS.

It’s a simple farce based around mistaken identity, featuring two sets of twins and lots of rude jokes (really – Shakespeare loved a bit of double entendre). WARP had a quick exchange with Bell to tell us a few things about this new show.

Most comedy plays require extreme levels of physical and vocal muscularity. This play certainly does, but all the cast have been incredible in mastering the movements, which makes for an interesting and very funny show. I really enjoyed the challenge.

This version of the Comedy Of Errors is set in modern Australia, sort of. Why do this and what does making this decision allow to happen on stage? Are you sneaking a bit of contemporary satire in?

The attraction of The Comedy Of Errors is it’s lightness - it’s one of Shakespeare’s shortest works and one least concerned with history. Does this make it attractive to directors and actors and designers as a play to really explore and rip open for a contemporary audience?

Yes this production is a modern adaptation, set in a red-light district, not dissimilar to Kings Cross. There are lots of contemporary references, which have allowed us to develop our own style and flavor with the play and while we have taken some liberties with the themes, the text hasn’t been touched. Shakespeare should be accessible to all audiences, and we achieve that here with this production.

This production reaches for energy and perhaps even farce. Given the gulf of time and the sometimes difficult language of Shakespeare was this hard to achieve, or was it the way to make the play work?

No. It makes it even more difficult, because the work isn’t as detailed and fleshed out as some of his other works, so we have to work harder to uncover the truth and comedy.

I’m hoping this is actually laugh out loud funny - is it? Does someone unfamiliar with Shakespeare come to this one for a really good time at the theatre?

Yes! Audiences have been very vocal; sometimes I want to laugh on stage during a scene, because it’s so funny. We had such a great time during the rehearsal period.

Image: Matt Nettheim

We [the cast] all get along really well and we’ve had such fun on and off the stage, the laughs haven’t stopped. This play is the type of play that anybody can watch, understand, and crack up watching. We really make Shakespeare very clear, but detailed enough to please those real Shakespearean enthusiasts.

What performances stand out? How did you deal with all the twins?

Every audience member will love a different character, but the Nun can definitely be a showstopper. Each character has their own charm and they fit perfectly into this new world we have created. It’s actually an amazing ensemble performance, perfectly balanced and performed.

Reading about the staging makes this interpretation look like quite a feat of design. How much of this will we see in Hobart?

Hobart will get everything that the rest of Australia gets. The design was created to support the world of the play, as well as being easily transported in and out of 32 venues. The designer Pip Runciman has done an amazing job with working those two elements together.

ANDREW HARPER

Bell Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors Wednesday September 18 – Friday 20 September 8:00 pm Special Matinee: Saturday 21st September 2:00 pm For bookings and more information Theatreroyal.com.au

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Arj Barker HE MAY BE AN AMERICAN, BUT AUSTRALIANS DO LOVE HIM, CLEARLY FIND HIM FUNNY AND CONSEQUENTLY HE FEELS COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO CALL THE PLACE HOME. ARJ BARKER IS STILL THOUGH VERY MUCH AN INTERNATIONALIST, CONSTANLTY GLOBE TROTTING. WE CAUGHT HIM BREIFLY FOR A CHAT INBETWEEN SHOWS IN MONTREAL, QUEBEC.

You’ve had an interesting career, being an American and becoming one of the most loved and respected comics working frequently in Australia. It’s rare for US comics to branch out so internationally, let alone to win the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s ‘Best Newcomer’ award in 1997. How did that come about?

Well, I was just gigging and working in the Bay Area (California) and I was desperate for work y’know; I was young and eager.

I had a friend come back from London and he told me about all the gigs there were over there and it kind of blew my mind.

I had never thought about the fact that you can do stand up in other countries, so I just started getting in touch with as many people as I could all over the place. I finally got a reply and booked some gigs, then went to Edinburgh on the back of all that, and I think it was my second year that I won that award.

Tell us about the current state of the Marijuana-logues? You don’t identify yourself as that much of a stoner anymore, do you still partake?

It’s true, I don’t use pot very much at all these days. I actually want to. And believe me, I’ve tried to get back into it, but I can’t seem to stay on board… I guess I’ve lost my touch! I do however practice meditation frequently – it doesn’t make me nearly as paranoid or forgetful.

The Marijuana-logues still exists, and is performed here and there, but with only one original member. But the new guys are funny, and the dream lives on through their fresh lungs.

Following on from Flight of The Concords, are there any other big projects you’re interested in?

I’d like to be involved with the first manned mission to Mars but, we’ll have to see how it goes. I’d like to do another project with FOTC and I’m very interested in making my own musical comedy, most likely hiphop genre stuff. I did one rap called ‘The Sickest Buddhist’ and I’d like to make more stuff along those lines!

Right now I’m reading two books, both nonfiction. One is a poker book, on the subject of bluffing and the other is called, ‘Triangular UFO’s: An Estimate of the Situation.’ Did you know that triangular UFO’s are seen as often as saucer shaped ones? Guess what book I learnt that from!!

What actually pisses you off?

Adults who are bullies and mean people in general. I want to say to these people, that I know you are like that because someone wasn’t nice to you and you’re just perpetuating a pattern, but you can let it go. You can let the love flow. Are you the guy from two questions ago who wants to kick my ass? Look around you, man. We all hurt, but we can get through it. This is why we need unconditional love, and forgiveness.

Y’know what? C’mere dawg. You and me. 30 second hug. Let’s do this.

Why do you love Australia so much?

I love it because it’s relaxed and open. I love that I can crack a gag to a complete stranger and they’ll say, ‘You’re that comedian!’

There aren’t many nations like that – trust me. I also love the wildlife, the wine and the coffee.

What’s your biggest fear?

What’s the darkest joke you’ve ever done?

I’m not sure. I have a bunch of material about death and also ghosts, but I don’t think it’s necessarily dark. Some might think it’s a bit blunt to talk about death, but I think we (as a society) tend to pussy-foot around the subject as if not talking about it will make it go away. But, it’s not going to. We’re all going to die.

I’m also afraid of answering this final question too sincerely and having people think, ‘Well shit mate, he’s supposed to be a bloody comedian, so why’s he all weird and serious? He should say something funny like, “Lots of people are afraid of heights but I’m actually terrified of widths. That’s why I spend most of my time in the hallway”?’

You seem like a guy who would never get violent, but comedians do have a tendency to draw attention from guys who want to warpmagazine.com.au

Are you a big reader? What takes your interest when you want to learn something?

My biggest fear is not living life how I really want and then looking back and thinking ‘Shit! I kinda fucked that up.’ But having said that, I think it’s natural to have some regrets and then you can use those regrets as leverage against yourself to make better choices next time….

We’re all going to DIE. You, me, everyone, you know and look at or push out of the way in peak hour. So let’s talk about it. Let’s not just joke about it either, let’s make friends with the idea! That will strip it of some of its scariness, I think. I’m doing the public a service by putting it out there.

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fight, so have you been in a fight, and how bad is the worst one?

Thankfully I’ve not met many people who want to fight me. I hope that if they’re out there, and read this, they will take a deep breath and think of nicer way to work it out.

Plus, if you’re soooo angry at me, why are you reading my interview? You can’t hide the truth. Part of you really just wants to be bros.

JARRED KEANE

Arj Barker will perform in Tasmania in early September. Beginning with a Launceston show at the Country Club on Friday September 6 in Launceston, he travels to Hobart to appear at Wrest Point on the Saturday and concludes with a Sunday show in Devonport at the Devonport Entertainment Centre.

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Photo credit: Matt Newton. Image Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

FILM:

CINEMONA IN 2013 Cinema might seem to be drowning IN A WRETCHED SEA OF DIGITAL EFFECTS, WHERE SPECTACLE, AS AN OVERPOWERING, MESMERIZING BUT VACUOUS UNREALITY IS OVER RIDING CONTENT.

I can tell you the plot of a great many contemporary film works in twenty five words or less – because sometimes, a truncated description is all they really consist of. There’s nothing wrong with that of course, it’s great to be thrilled by a spectacular chase scene involving a gigantic lizard-like monstrosity crashing through a jungle, and it’s fun to watch impossible car chases. Once the thrill is gone, a digital spectacle that serves no purpose beyond the immediate thrill of consumption might just leave one a little empty inside, possibly.

Innovation in cinema, is not just about technological shifts; it’s about what the people who choose to point cameras at things choose to point them at.

If perhaps you want something else from your cinema experience, something with perhaps a bit more meat, then Cinemona has a little something for you. What the new program of screenings is bringing to Hobart is a strong dose of something new disguised as something very traditional.

What is to be served up in the very comfortable surroundings of Cinemona is live performance caught on camera, but also tailored for the camera. It’s a hybrid of documentary and performance that is emerging as a new form of art. The act of capturing the live experience of ballet or

opera is a challenge for the camera and sound crew – the idea is to use the quality of High Definition to make the live experience transportable and even immediate; if there’s a cinema screening this material around, you will be able to see something like The Bolshoi Ballet or New York’s Met Opera as their season unfolds. The live experience becomes more accessible, and just like CGI effects, this is all about clever use of technological innovation, but rather than the sophisticated tech being the focus, it’s pushed to the limit so you can forget it’s being used and live stage performance as it intended. You need a pretty amazing setup for this, with the best in screening equipment and a sound system from the far future, which is of course available at Cinemona.

So you can turn up, sit comfortably and go to the opera. In New York, by bus to Berriedale.

ANDREW HARPER

Cinemona (MONA Cinema) films and session times: www.mona.net.au/cinemona.

WHAT’S AT CINEMONA FOR AUGUST

MUNCH 150

THE AUDIENCE By Peter Morgan / NT Live

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

LA TRAVIATA By Giuseppe Verdi

Now screening. Season extended throughout August.

Now screening

Now screening

Opens Saturday August 24, 2013

Helen Mirren returns to her acclaimed role as Queen Elizabeth II in a riveting new National Theatre play by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Skyfall, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy). For 60 years, Elizabeth II has held a private weekly audience with her Prime Ministers at Buckingham Palace.

Eavesdrop here.

Joss Whedon’s fresh take on William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, a robust comedy with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics, has received wide critical acclaim, praised for its humour and “inspired” interpretation of the Bard’s comedic play (Variety). Empire magazine described Whedon and Shakespeare as “a perfect match”.

Met Opera Winter Encores: Natalie Dessay as Violetta and Mathew Polenzani as Alfredo in Willy Decker’s brilliant 2011 modernist vision of Verdi’s timeless tragedy; a love story between a French courtesan suffering from tuberculosis and a young provincial bourgeois. Yes, Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge rehashed it too.

Exhibition: Great Art on Screen series: Look beyond The Scream (1893), and take a close-up view of the greatest number of works by Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch yet assembled, in an exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of artist’s birth. Co-hosted by the National Museum and the Munch Museum in Oslo.

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NONSTOP ACTION MEET GEMMA PAINTIN, ONE HALF OF UK-BASED PERFORMANCE DUO ACTION HERO. HER PARTNER IN CRIME IS JAMES STENHOUSE. ACTION HERO WILL BE IN TASMANIA FOR JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL, WHERE THEY’LL PERFORM TWO SHOWS THAT TACKLE ICONS OF WESTERN CULTURE—THE DAREDEVIL AND THE WESTERN. A WORD OF WARNING: ACTION HERO WANTS YOU TO BE A HERO, TOO. GET THE LOW-DOWN FROM GEMMA BELOW.

Action Hero is a two person theatre company. How did you start working together and what do each of you bring to the project?

We met at drama school, we were the two worst people in the same dance class. We work really collaboratively, but I’d say our areas of special expertise are that James is the boss of packing props into the car (there’s a system, I daren’t interfere) and I’m the boss of booking travel. I can always get a bargain.

Action Hero positions the audience as coconspirators rather than as observers.

How did you get interested in that sort of approach? Have there been any grand successes or horrible failures of the audience / performer collaboration?

We are interested in how a performance can change so much if you give the audience that role. So much is up for grabs. I don’t know if we’ve had any horrible failures....in a way it’s our job to make it work whatever the audience gives back to us. We make the offer to them to collaborate with us, and then we see what comes back. There was one night in a club at 2am in Glasgow that ended badly; ask me about it in person and I’ll tell you what happened! Suffice to say there’s not much of an audience for contemporary performance amongst boozed up kids who’re out on the lash on a Saturday night...

The two shows you’re bringing to Junction Arts Festival are both about heroes of different stripes, and it’s a word that shows up in the name of your company too. What

do you find interesting about notions of the heroic?

I suppose it’s something about icons and iconography. Why we as a culture hold certain ideals up and celebrate them, why they are so popular. I think it says a lot about us.

From the sounds of it you tackle huge ideas and fantastical scenarios using a lo-fi, DIY aesthetic. How does that contradiction play out in your work?

I think we’re always aiming for the moment when the show becomes far greater than the sum of its parts. So maybe we just have a bottle of ketchup in A Western, but then suddenly the whole things stops being a game and something really awesome happens. That’s what we’re always trying for.

What’s the best theatre you’ve ever seen?

Probably something that wasn’t meant to be theatre, but had all the hallmarks of it. I saw an ice hockey game in Vancouver a few months ago, it was unreal. Just the whole experience, the aesthetic of the entire space, the physicality of it, the choreography of the game but also the stuff around the game itself. It was incredible. Otherwise, I saw Life & Time part 1-5 by Nature Theater of Oklahoma recently, it was 12 hours long and I travelled a long way to see it but it was worth it.

GABRIELLE LIS See Action Hero as part of the Junction Festival line-up in Launceston, September 4 – 8. Further details at www. junctionartsfestival.com.au.

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LINDA DEMENT LINDA’S ART WORK KILL FIX IS PROBABLY NOT THE FIRST INSTANCE OF AN APP BEING AN ART WORK, BUT IT’S A PRETTY FANTASTIC THING WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE DOING THIS. IF YOU WANT TO SEE IT – AND LET ME TELL YOU, YOU DO, BECAUSE IT’S RATHER AFFECTING AND CREEPY – FIRST, GET YOUR IOS OR YOUR ANDROID AND SEARCH OUT AN APP CALLED LAYAR. DON’T WORRY, IT’S FREE.

Install the thing on your phone and look for the drops of blood on the map of Hobart.

What you do is go to those spaces, activate the app and look through your phone.

We went to the Farm Gate, one of the marked secret locations, and followed the instructions. What you see is writing, a mess of gorgeous electric veins and arteries, and blood, floating above you. It’s seriously amazing art, and it’s also refreshingly contemporary. You can do this right now.

You don’t have to wait until a space opens, in fact you could go to one of the mapped locations in the dead of night and really give yourself the creeps as you reveal something that is not there.

What’s it about? Secrets. Poison. Diseased bodies. Panicked messages that hang in the air. There’s a narrative and sense to it all but what you really need to do is get the app and

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experience it. The app only works in Hobart, using location finding in a unique way.

Linda’s work was created as part of Networked Art Forms and Tactical Magik Faerie Circuits, the amazing show that was produced by Miss Despoinas at CAST gallery.

Linda’s art is based around computing and is intensely varied. Really, you need to check it out.

After all, it could be floating above you right now.

ANDREW HARPER

Further information: www.tacticalmagick.net www.lindadement.com www.castgallery.org

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Theatre:

The Phantom Of The Opera EPIC THINGS WILL BE SEEN THIS MONTH AT HOBART’S THEATRE ROYAL, WITH THE STAGING OF THE FIRST EVER TASMANIAN PRODUCTION OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S MUSICAL VERSION OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. THE COMPANY BEHIND THIS AMBITIOUS PRODUCTION IS, OF COURSE, CRAIG WELLINGTON PRODUCTIONS AND THE TASMANIAN THEATRE UNIT TRUST IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE OLD NICK COMPANY INC. The Phantom Of The Opera is MASSIVE in every way conceivable for a stage musical.

Since opening at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London’s West End on September 27, 1986, The Phantom Of The Opera has been seen by more than 130 million people and has won over 70 major theatre awards globally.

WARP had a quick chat with the frighteningly busy produce Craig Wellington. Craig is no stranger to making massive and spectacular theatre in Hobart and The Phantom Of The Opera is his biggest challenge to date. What goes into a local production of The Phantom Of The Opera?

The answer?

Lots.

130 cast, crew and orchestra members are directly involved in staging the show. The budget for The Phantom of the Opera will be the largest investment to date for any Tasmanian production staged at a theatre.

The orchestra for The Phantom of the Opera will be larger than for either Miss Saigon or Les Miserables and will require the extension of the orchestra pit into the area under the stage of the Theatre Royal. The cast will number almost 40 talented Tasmanian singers, dancers and actors.

Producer of the Tasmanian premiere of the production, Craig Wellington told us a little that was going into the show.

What are the limitations of the chosen venue for such a grand production?

The production is being staged at Hobart’s Theatre Royal, the oldest operational theatre in the country, and globally admired for its beauty. As it is a heritage building as well as a working theatre grandiose ideas of knocking out walls or similar modifications are of course strictly forbidden. Thus we have to work within its limitations, one of which is wing space. The wings of the theatre are very slim so using vast trucks is not always simple. There is some depth however, so within sightline restrictions, another issue with a 1830s theatre, we can truck using that depth. There is an excellent flying rig so a lot can work as flown elements combined with trucks to magically transition between locations and scenes.

How are you planning on dealing with some of the larger technical elements of the show within the amateur theatre sphere?

How are you going to drop a chandelier, basically?

As with all of our previous productions, including Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and Monty Python’s Spamalot, we have designed the show based on the text from the ground up to work within our budget and venue. This means that while at the end of the day each show is still “the show” we are tackling the technical requirements uniquely rather than basing them on what has gone before. In the case of The Phantom of the Opera the license to perform prohibits imitating the designs of the past, which we always view as a very good thing, allowing creative solutions to be found for

all the technical elements which will make this production its own production. The chandelier will drop. There will be a lair.

The Paris Opera boxes will exist... but it will all be staged uniquely to Hobart’s Theatre Royal, the oldest operational theatre in the country, and globally admired for its beauty. There is an excellent flying rig so a lot can work as flown elements to magically transition between locations and scenes.

What has been the largest hurdle in staging this production?

Time in the venue to get the staging right is always the greatest consideration. The performance side of the production - not just the cast and orchestra, but the crew operating the staging - has to be audience ready off-site about 3 weeks before Opening Night. While time is of the essence, it means we can methodically work from pre-rig, through the tech period for the show to full dress runs as show across this period on a very tight but very well managed schedule.

NIC ORME

THE MONA SCHOLARSHIP It’s still open and you should really, really apply. Do you make art of any kind?

Give it a whirl. It’s a bit of a challenge spending 12 grand on art materials and attendant stuff, but I’m sure you’re up to it. The application is delightfully simple; you have 300 words to describe the work or works you want to make. You need an up-date CV and six examples of your actual work – photos are fine and don’t send original material as you will not get it back. The most challenging aspect is that it’s got to be hard copy – yes, really actual paper, such as you are currently holding, and sent via the snail mail. No email entries people. 300 words is not much but that’s the point – MONA would like you to be succinct please.

The winner last year was Pip Stafford, and the winner of the scholarship for 2014 will be announced at the opening of her show on the September 26.

If you have any questions, check out the MONA scholarship website: http://www.mona.net.au/scholarship

Phantom Of The Opera’s Tasmanian premiere will be on Friday August 9 at Hobart’s Theatre Royal. The season continues on through to Saturday August 24. Tickets available from www. theatreroyal.com.au.

And remember, your chances of receiving any scholarship, or indeed any job, prize or grant are increased exponentially if you fill out the application form and send it in on the due date: 5:00 pm August 23 in this case. Go on. You have nothing whatsoever to lose. www.facebook.com/warp.mag 39

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ST.ART FESTIVAL (REMIXED 2013) ST.ART IS ON AGAIN, AND THAT’S A GOOD ENOUGH REASON TO CELEBRATE. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST ART FESTIVALS WE SEE IN THE SOUTH – ANYTHING THAT GIVES STREET ART THE TREATMENT AND RESPECT IT DESERVES HAS GOT TO BE A GOOD THING. STREET ART HAS LONG BEEN CONTROVERSIAL, SO AN EVENT LIKE ST.ART THAT TREATS IT WITH A MORE POSITIVE LIGHT IS THE WAY FORWARD. Image: David Bellamy

ST.ART is a wee bit different this year.

There’s always going to be the wonderful world of aerosol art, - that’s pretty fundamental, and the stencil is here to stay, but there’s also going to be knitted wearable art, dirty car reverse graffiti (that’s where you make a clean spot) and the big exciting bit for 2013 – the circuit bending workshops.

For people who want to get crazy with noise-making and soldering irons, these workshops will be taken by the mastermind behind awesome circuit bent band Toydeath.

Also for people eager to make some sounds, Chip Tune wizards Ctrix and dot.ay will be giving a crash course in programming Gameboys for sound. It’s about taking the Do It Yourself spirit of street art and broadening it out – what else can people do with minimal resources to be creative and have a bit of fun ? Toydeath dot.ay and Ctrix will perform as part of the festivities on the day as well, demonstrating the sonic hilarity of Gameboy Sound, circuit bent toys and hacked Ataris.

The Rosny Barn will be transformed for ST.ART this year – there’s a massive exhibition by students from the Clarence area which will use the traditional Street Art forms, but with glow-in-the-dark paint – and the barn interior will be lit by UV in a blacked out environment. Expect something truly unique here as the forms of street art are remixed into something new and possibly even a tiny bit psychedelic.

So there’s a huge amount to do, see and listen to at this years ST.ART, so head over to the Rosny Barn in Clarence on Saturday August 24 from 1 pm. The fun will be massive, but it always is for ST.ART. Don’t miss it!

ANDREW HARPER

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CELEBRATE 25 YEARS The City of Hobart Art Prize celebrates 25 years in 2013 with an exhibition of contemporary visual art by artists and designers from across Australia.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 20 July to 1 September, 2013 Visit tmag.tas.gov.au for opening hours hobartcity.com.au/artprize

A cultural initiative of Hobart City Council.

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ART MOB On The Wild Side August 30 September 15

BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY HA High Art (art from regional high schools) June 21 – December 8 Djakiri: we are standing on their names – Blue mud Boy, July 13 – August 25.

Bendigo Bank Material Girl 2013 – Dance Of Life, July 13 –August 25.

Joanne Wild – Fortune and Fable, July 13 –August 25.

Primary Kaleidoscope (art from primary students) August 31 September 15

COMEDY

BETT GALLERY Poets and Painters: A Tribute to Dick Bett AM Opening August 2 – August 23 CAST Hollow In The Paper, Group Exhibition curated by Bec Stevens featuring; Joyce Hinterding, Fiona Lee, Amanda Davies, Pat Brassington, David Haines, Maria Kunda, Teaching and Learning Cinema, July 12 – August 18.

In Search Of The Marvellous Pat Brassington 30 August – 6 Ocotber COLVILLE ST GALLERY Paul Snell, July 26 – August 14.

Zsuzsa Kollo August 16 – 5 September CONSTANCE ARI Forecast: The Anatomy of Change – Selena De Carvalho Flounce – Meg Wilson August 9 - 31 DESPARD GALLERY Guan Wei, July 19 – August 12.

Jacob Leary / Jamin August 16 – September 9 HANDMARK GALLERY August 23 - Nick Glade Wright & Sally Curry PENNY CONTEMPORARY Nicole O’Loughlin, July 19 –August 9.

SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE Sidespace Gallery: Anna Williams On the Brink July 31 – August 7 CJ Laibon DEJA 3_Cheescake August 9 - 21 Top Gallery: Rahni Allan The Icarus Project August 1 - 31 Long Gallery: Wendy Sharpe’s Antarctica August 1 – 18 In Paint & In Ink – UTAS painters and printmakers August 21 – September 1 Studio Gallery: Those Animal August 6 – 31 Elosie Lark

GALLERY PEJEAN Here, there, and everywhere Keith Climpson July 24 – August 17 OUTWARD PROJECT Material Matters: You, me, and every space we know ARTISTS: Lucy Bleach, Kate Stewart, Colin Harman, Emma Hamilton, Bronwen Davies and creative collective Shift.

CURATORS: Ariele Hoffman and Matthew Perkins DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY Main Gallery: Transit Ross Byers Solo commission August 24 – September 22 The Little Gallery: Dissolve 11, Melissa Smith, July 19 – August 18.

QVMAG Unique States Serialarity and the Panoramic, Raymond Arnold, till August 25.

Into The Wild: Wilderness Photography In Tasmania, till February 16.

The Nude In 20th Century Australian Art, till October 20.

BRISBANE HOTEL Comedy Forge, August 29.

OneFest: Hobart One Act Play festival, August 23 – 24 Hairspray, August 30 – September 14

THE NORTH COMEDY

WARATAH HOTEL Clubhouse Comedy, featuring Josh Earl, August 15

FRESH CAFE Fresh Comedy, featuring Josh Earl , August 16

FILM

TONIC BAR Corona Comedy Night, August 1

CINEMONA Munch 150, screening throughout August La Traviata, opens Saturday August 24 Much Ado About Nothing, now screening Pompeii, opens August 29 The Audience, Now screening

OPERA THEATRE ROYAL Craig Productions with The Tasmanian Theatre Unit Trust in assoca=iation with The Old Nick Company The Phantom Of The Opera August 10 -24

THEATRE THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE Tasmanian Theatre Company, And No More Shall We Part , July 25– August 4 PEACOCK THEATRE The Call Of Aurora, a Chamber Opera by Joe Bugden, August 7 – 10 SAC and Mobile States, I’m Your Man, August 15 -17 THE PLAYHOUSE Hobart Repertory Society, The Taming of The Shrew, July 26 – August 10 Femme Fatale: A deadly Burlesque, August 16 -17

DANCE BURNIE ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE Celtic Force, August 24

POETRY FRESH CAFE Fresh Comedy, August 16

MUSICAL DEVONPORT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE St Brendan Shaw College presents Beauty and the Beast Jr. August 15 - 17

THEATRE BURNIE ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged), August 10 THE PRINCESS THEATRE Launceston Players, Emerald City, August 9 -17 Centre Stage, A Man With Five Children, August 14 - 17 Newstead College, Xanadu, August 22 – 24 Three River Theatre, Calendar Girl, August 28 – September 7

SAWTOOTH ARI Front Gallery: Newstart Payments Liam James Middle Gallery: I+E = Reality Mat Carey Project Gallery: IT was NOW Chris Flood New Media Gallery Selected Video Works 2012 Nic Hamilton August 9 - 31

TMAG City of Hobart Art Prize, July 20 – September 1.

Drawn with Distinction: Australian Artists, August 1 – December 1.

Critical Operations, till December 31.

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ROPES

THE MIDDLE NAMES

Formed: 2011

Formed: 2013

EP: Ropes

Album: I Need Space

Number of tracks: 6

Number of tracks: 12

Available on: CD/digital

Available on: CD/digital

Sounds like: Parkway Drive, The Getaway Plan

Sounds like: Weezer, The Kooks

Sounds like The Melvins, Isis, Godflesh

GUERILLA ZINGARI

CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN COLLECTIVE

DUNN D

CONCRETE LINES

Formed: 2012

Formed: 2012

Formed: 2006

Formed: 2010

Album: Odes for the Reckless

EP: Burnt Black Wood

Album: The Pelican LP

Number of tracks: 10

Number of tracks: 10

Number of tracks: 14

Album: From the Rebuilt Foundations of Broken Dreams

Available on: CD

Available on: CD

Available on: CD/digital

Sounds like: Caravan Palace, Nick Cave, Rapskallion, Indigo Girls

Sounds like: Jeff Buckley, Paul Kelly, Bon Iver, Sigur Ros, Crowded House

Sounds like: Aussie hiphop

Formed: 2013 Single: ‘West Road’ (dance remix) Number of tracks: 1 (single) Available on: Digital Sounds like: Deadmou5, Moby

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Number of tracks: 11 (plus bonus) Available on: CD/digital Sounds like: System of a Down, Incubus

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Formed: 2012

Formed: 2012

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Album: Fly Agaric, Apple Guava

EP: Birds in My Mouth

EP: The Battle With Self

Number of tracks: 14

Number of tracks: 7

Number of tracks: 6

Available on: CD/digital

Available on: CD/digital

Available on: CD/digital

Sounds like: The BeeGees, Roger Voudouris, Pines

Sounds like: Kate Bush, Tori Amos

Sounds like: “Christian Bale’s Batman meets Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine”

DOMINIC FRANCIS

TABERAH

THE MORNINGS (Sam Cole and The Mornings)

TERESE MILLHOUSE

Formed: 2008

Formed: 2004

Available on: CD Sounds like: Aussie hiphop

Album: Afterthoughts of a Grief Ensemble Number of tracks: 14 Available on: CD/digital Sounds like: Darren Hanlon, Bob Dylan, Frank Turner

Formed: 2010

Album: Necromancer Number of tracks: 10 Available on: CD (Digipak) Sounds like: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath

Formed: 2011

EP: Five Shades of Me

EP: Ribbons

Number of tracks: 5

Number of tracks: 3

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Date

Acts / Start Time

AUGUST Thursday

1

Friday

2

Saturday

3

Monday

5

Tuesday

6

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

7

8

9

Republic Bar & Café

Hayley Couper Band + Ali E + Pines 10pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brisbane Songwriters w/ Seth Henderson + Becca Stevens + Beth Brownrigg 8pm

The Waratah Hotel

The Getaway Plan (18+) 9pm

Federation Concert Hall

Letonja & Shaham 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Joel Everard

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - Psycroptic + King Parrot (vic) + Redemption Denied 3pm

Brisbane Hotel

18+ - Psycroptic + King Parrot (vic) + Intense Hammer Rage

Saturday

10

Republic Bar & Café

Slyde 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

C Bar

DJ Gezza

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC Unholy Beak

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Pete Cornelius, Everburn

Brookfield Vineyard

Ross Sermons and Ross Smithard 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Australia Made 9pm

C Bar

Manhatten

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Troy Cassar-Daley & Adam Harvey 8pm

Grand Poobah

Lucas Abela Justice Yeldham Project

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Crikey

ALL AGES - DAMAGE NIGHTCLUB 3RD B’DAY w/ One Vital Word (nsw) + Interview With An Escape Artist + Party Vibez (vic) + Speech Patterns + Dawn Of Your Discontent + Lives Lost 3pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up (Reggae) 10pm

Sunday

11

18+ - Brody Cashion Fundraiser w/ Helen Crowther + Cassie O’Keeffe + Luke Bennett + Josh Durno + more tba 9pm

Waratah Hotel

The Getaway Plan (ALL AGES) 2pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Sloppy Sock Bingo 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Alicia Adkins (usa) + Black Mourning Band 8pm

C Bar

Tony Voglino

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Arvo Soloist Session

Metz Sandy Bay

House Party Hosted by Joe Ferguson & Will Darling 6pm

New Sydney Hotel

Billy Whitton & the Hepcats 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Lou Bradley 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Birdcage Bar

Pete Thomas

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Open Mic Night

Republic Bar & Café

Alicia Adkins (Texas, USA) 8:30pm

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Bernard Fanning Departure Tour 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Pete Thomas

Brisbane Hotel

Guttermouth + Your Demise + Skun Knees + Fatty Esther + The Furthest Gone 8pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Winter Blues

Brookfield Vineyard

Christmas in Australia (Barry Pilkington) 7:30pm

C Bar

Goodfellas

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

7th Lane Entry

Republic Bar & Café

Ego Audio Visual Mash Up 10pm

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Brisbane Hotel

Floppy Cock Bingo 6pm

Brookfield Vineyard

David Carr 12pm

C Bar

Pete Thomas

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Arvo Soloist Session

New Sydney Hotel

Billy Whitton & the Hepcats 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

120y’s 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Republic Bar & Café

Carl Rush 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Open Mic Night

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Republic Bar & Café

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

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Ben Castles

Birdcage Bar

Pete Thomas

Republic Bar & Café

Son Del Sur (Cuban Salsa) 9pm

Federation Concert Hall

Nikolai Demidenko in Recital 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Winter Blues

Brisbane Hotel

Dublo + Reggaeink + Boil Up 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Bobcats 9pm

Brookfield Vineyard

Folk Night 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

C Bar

DJ Gezza

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Tim Rozemulder

Federation Concert Hall

Letonja & Skride 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sam Brittain & Guests 9pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Ethel the Frog

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Republic Bar & Café

Brisbane Hotel

Happy Days Fundraiser w/ The Roobs + The Sin & Tonics + Truckshow 9pm

Chase City + The Zanes (vic) + The Beautiful Chains + Jacqui & Millie 10pm

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Don Mclean in Concert 8pm

C Bar

DJ Gezza

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Grand Poobah

Jelly Wrestling Tournament

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - Dunn D Album Launch 3pm

Tuesday

Wednesday

12

13

14

Republic Bar & Café

Friday

Saturday

Sat Aug 3 / Ostmas with Barry Pilkington / 7pm Sun Aug 4 / David Carr / 12pm Sun Aug 10 / Ross Sermons and Ross Smithard / 7:30pm

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Sat Aug 24 / Ethereal Students Concert / 2pm Sun Aug 25 / Woohoo Revue / 7pm Sat Aug 31 / Chris Cruise and Frank Povah / 7pm

SEPTEMBER & BEYOND

Fri Aug 16 / Folk Night / 7:30pm

Sun Sept 1 / Phil Manning / 5pm

Sun Aug 18 / David Bridie / 4pm

Fri Sept 13 / Neil Gardner / 7pm

Thur Aug 22 / Hobart College goes Acoustic / 7pm

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Thursday

AUGUST

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Glen Challice

Brisbane Hotel

4

Acts / Start Time

Irish Murphy’s Hobart Birdcage Bar

Brisbane Hotel

Sunday

Venue

Sun Oct 13 / Barons of Tang / 5pm

Date

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Brisbane Hotel

East Brunswick All Girls Choir (vic) + Mersy (vic) + Heart Beach 9pm

C Bar

Tony Voglino

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Ethel the Frog

Republic Bar & Café

David Birdie (Not Drowning, Waving) & The Pills 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Ploppy Polyps Bingo 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Sticks n Stones w/ All The Best 8pm

Brookfield Vineyard

David Birdie (Not Drowning, Waving) 4pm

C Bar

Double Down

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Arvo Soloist Session

New Sydney Hotel

Billy Whitton & the Hepcats 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Republic Music Quiz (Concert Tickets, Cash & Other Give Aways) 2:30pm

Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

New Sydney Hotel

Billy Whitton & the Hepcats 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hot August Jazz Festival (Free Event, Finishes at Midnight) 2pm

Monday

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Birdcage Bar

Sambo

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Tuesday

27

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Open Mic Night

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Pete Thomas

Brisbane Hotel

The Smith Street Band (vic) + Cheap Girls (usa) + Lincoln Le Fevre & The Insiders + Speakeasies 8pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Winter Blues

Wednesday

Thursday

28

29

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Republic Bar & Café

Wahbash Avenue 9pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Soloist

Birdcage Bar

Sambo

Republic Bar & Café

Republic Bar & Café

Ross Sermons Solo (USA) 8:30pm

Road to Discovery with guest host Ella Hooper (Killing Heidi/The Versus) + Emma Louise 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Quiz-A-Saurus 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Real McKenzies (can) + The Go Set (vic) + The Furthest Gone + The Dead Maggies 9pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Open Mic Night

C Bar

DJ Gezza

Republic Bar & Café

Tony Brennan 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Live Band

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

George Benson & The TSO 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Barbarion 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Pete Thomas

The Waratah Hotel

Jackie Onassis w/ Mdusu + TBC

Brisbane Hotel

Bad Vibrations w/ Interview With An Escape Artist + S Is For Spaceship (sa) + Rhino + Emecia (sa) + Southpaw 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Convict City Rollers Fundraiser 9pm

Friday

Saturday

30

31

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Winter Blues

C Bar

Ebeneza Good

Republic Bar & Café

Mike Elrington 9pm

Grand Poobah

The Levitation Hex

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Live Band

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Soloist

Republic Bar & Café

British India + Lyke Giants 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dave Wilson Band 9pm

The Waratah Hotel

The Middle Names w/ Bec & Ben + Younger Dryas

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Elvis to the Max “The Orchestral Sessions” 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

8-bits n’ Chips w/ cTrix + Toydeath + dot.ay + Bankai 9pm

SEPTEMBER

C Bar

DJ Gezza

Sunday

Brisbane Hotel

Binghole 6pm

New Sydney Hotel

Billy Whitton & the Hepcats 6pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Live Band

Republic Bar & Café

Sugartrain 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Zombie March Afterparty 3pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Woohoo Revue (vic) + The Lawless Quartet + Guerilla Zingari 9pm

C Bar

Sambo

Grand Poobah

Doof, Doof, Doof

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Live Band

Republic Bar & Café

The Trouble with Templeton + The Beautiful Chains + Jed Appleton 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Poppies Rock Bingo 6pm

C Bar

Manhatten

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Arvo Soloist Session

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Event Guide

Launceston Date

Acts / Start Time

Date

AUGUST

AUGUST

Thursday

Country Club Showroom

Troy Cassar-Daley & Adam Harvey 8pm

Thursday

1

The Royal Oak

The Stiffys (Public Bar)

Friday

2

The Royal Oak

Mic Attard

Tonic Bar

Friday

Saturday

Venue

NORTHWEST

1

2

3

CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Devonport

Molly Malones

Ball & Chain

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Jerome Hillier

Sheffield

Skwiz Café Gallery

Friday Nite Music 8pm

The Usual Suspects

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Unbalanced

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman

Burnie

The Butter Factory

The Royal Oak

Luke Bennett

The Stiffys and Hat Fitz Cara

Tonic Bar

Ball & Chain

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Jerome Hillier

Watergarden Bar

Nic & Carmel

Devonport

Molly Malones

Sun Kings

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Pearl Jam Oz Tribute

Burnie

The Butter Factory

Hat Fitz and Cara

Saturday

3

Tuesday

6

Lloyds Hotel

Classic covers/Originals

Wednesday

7

Lloyds Hotel

Uni Night

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver

Wednesday

7

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Tapas Trivia

The Royal Oak

Town’s End

Thursday

8

Devonport

Molly Malones

Sambo

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

Sheffield

Skwiz Café Gallery

Friday Nite Music 8pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Midnight

Burnie

The Butter Factory

Darren Jack Band

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Sambo

Thursday Friday

Saturday

8 9

10

The Royal Oak

Something Different Variety Show

Tonic Bar

Sambo

Watergarden Bar

Ball & Chain

Fresh on Charles

Seventh Street Entry

The Royal Oak

y(yan)2n

Tonic Bar

Picasso Brothers

Friday

Saturday

9

10

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

Devonport

Molly Malones

No Soda for Yoda

Tuesday

13

Lloyds Hotel

Classic covers/Originals

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Wednesday

14

Lloyds Hotel

Uni Night

Ringmasters/Jeff Woodward

The Royal Oak

Mic Attard

Burnie

The Butter Factory

Darren Jack Band

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Open Mic

Ulverstone

Ulverstone Wharf

Live Jazz @ The Wharf - Gianni Marinucci 7:30pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Proud Phoney

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Cockynora

Sheffield

Skwiz Café Gallery

Friday Nite Music 8pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

Burnie

Burnie Town Hall

Letonja & Skride 7:30pm

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Brett & Josh

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver

Thursday

15

The Royal Oak

Becca Stevens

Friday

16

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Tonic Bar

Ball & Chain

Saturday

17

Watergarden Bar

Brett & Josh

The Royal Oak

S&M

Tonic Bar

Picasso Brothers

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman

Tuesday

20

Lloyds Hotel

Classic covers/Originals

Wednesday

21

Lloyds Hotel

Uni Night

The Royal Oak

Andy Collins

Wednesday

Thursday

14

15

Friday

16

Saturday

17

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver

Devonport

Molly Malones

Ball & Chain

Thursday

22

The Royal Oak

Brad Gillies

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Happy Days/Richo

Friday

23

The Royal Oak

Embers + Hamburgers

Burnie

The Butter Factory

The Ringmasters

Tonic Bar

The Usual Suspects

Wednesday

21

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Pool Calcutta

Watergarden Bar

Ball & Chain

Thursday

22

Devonport

Molly Malones

Jerome Hillier

The Royal Oak

Launceston Blues Club Presents: Mike Elrington

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Mike Elrington

Sheffield

Skwiz Café Gallery

Tonic Bar

Well Strung

Friday Nite Music 8pm

Watergarden Bar

Nic & Carmel

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Unbalanced

Burnie

The Butter Factory

The Middle Names

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Brett Boxhall

Devonport

Molly Malones

Luke Parry

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Rock Pigs/ Shyla Adams

Burnie

The Butter Factory

The Tems and Jesse Teinaki

Devonport

Molly Malones

Brett & Josh

Devonport

Spurs Nightclub

Jackie Onassis

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Scott Haigh

Wynyard

Hotel Federal

Brett & Josh

Sheffield

Skwiz Café Gallery

Friday Nite Music 8pm

Devonport

Spurs Nightclub

British India

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Ball & Chain

Devonport

Molly Malones

The Unit

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Masters

Burnie

The Butter Factory

The Red Kellys

Saturday

24

Tuesday

27

Lloyds Hotel

Classic covers/Originals

Wednesday

28

Lloyds Hotel

Uni Night

The Royal Oak

Open Mic Night

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

46

29

30

31

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver

Alchemy

British India

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Country Club Showroom

Celtic Force 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Tonic Bar

Ball & Chain

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman

Country Club Showroom

Celtic Force 2pm & 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Tonic Bar

Gypsy Rose

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

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See you at The Junc Room, Launceston’s pop-up hotspot, a live music venue in a Big Top circus tent featuring an impressive roster of Australia’s hottest and most interesting live musical acts. The Junc Room takes over the city’s Civic Square with a fully licensed bar and catered café open until late.

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tasmanian premiere

MUSICAL

ANCE

POKEN WORD

HEATRE

Music by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

Lyrics by CHARLES HART

Additional Lyrics by RICHARD STILGOE

Book by RICHARD STILGOE and ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

Based on the novel ‘Le Fantôme de ‘l’Opéra’ by Gaston Leroux

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9-24 August 2013 t h e at r e royal hob art

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