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Alta, consisting of producer Julius Dowson and vocalist Hannah Lesser are apparently impossible to pigeonhole and draw influences from a wide scope of genres and styles. “Saturating their consciousness with a tapestry of different sonic landscapes before shutting everything else out completely when the (sic) dive in to their own writing.” Their new tune ‘Plans’ debuted on triple j the other week, and they’ve also signed a new deal with Melbourne label Soothsayer.

So it’s all happening for Alta. We assume there’ll be a new album or a tour or something in the works, but their press release didn’t give us any hints.

After landing his debut LP Vacation in the iTunes Top 20 Album Charts, hitting #2 on the iTunes Electronic Charts, and selling out his album tour this May, Australia’s certified party-starter Paces is excited to announce an epic 25-date Australian regional tour. Kicking off this July and spanning across four months, Paces’ ‘All Aussie Vacation’ is one of the most comprehensive regional tours the country has ever seen. The news comes after Paces catapulted to viral status when he performed on triple j’s Like a Version with Guy Sebastian. Paces will be playing at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Saturday August 20, and at Hotel New York in Launceston on Sunday August 21.

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Sunset Blush has been writing,recording and twanging at gigs since the late 90s with plenty of national tours and appearances at the Melbourne and Adelaide Fringes' under his hat.

Continuing gigs for his new EP, Sunset Blush Velvet Highway out now on iTunes, Sunset Blush will be teaming up with local rockers Mayhem and Me to play at The Homestead from 9pm on Friday August 12.

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Remember the late 80’s and early 90’s?

Nope, you probably don’t. No one does.

Well, maybe a few people do. If you’re one of those few people, you may remember a cover rock band selling out venues around the state. They were called Colourful Language. They won the statewide Battle of the Bands way back in 1989 at the Launnie Hotel. They’ve long since disbanded, and all the band members moved on to bigger and better musical things, but now, for the hell of it, they’re reforming, and hitting up Tasmania to relive old times. They’ll be playing two shows in September, one at each end of the state. On Friday September 9, they’ll be at The Royal Oak in Launceston, and on Saturday September 10 they’ll be at the Queen’s Head Hotel in Hobart.

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THEY LIKE TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT. Salamanca Arts Centre is pleased to announce SALAMANCA MOVES, a new contemporary dance festival running from September 20 to October 1. The inaugural bi-annual Festival will take place across the Salamanca Precinct, Moonah Arts Centre and surprise pop ups.

Aimed at all ages and all abilities, this community festival offers opportunities

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BLAST FROM THE PAST

After a long and tantalising hiatus, Hobart singer-songwriter James Parry is releasing his new concept album, In The Lights with a single, a full length LP and an experimental new format for his album artwork. Written in Bali in 2013 and recorded across Bali, Melbourne and Hobart, In The Lights tells a story of small town fears, and their far reaching consequences. James is celebrating the release of the new album with two shows in Tasmania before heading off to launch the LP on the mainland. To catch James in Hobart, head along to the Grand Poobah on Friday August 19. To catch him in Launceston, head to Club 54 on Friday August 26.

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Hobart 4 piece Minds in Motion have spent the winter months drinking home brew (haven‘t we all?), reflecting on their first album Red Sky Warning and the direction of new material with influences from the recent addition of James Lowe behind the drums. To celebrate this new found inspiration, Minds in Motion will be headlining a show at the Republic Bar on Saturday August 27 with new friends Cardinels and Ultra Martian. Tickets are $5 on the door and kick off is at 9pm.

Also, check out their website and grab yourself a copy of Red Sky Warning. Pick up some merch while you’re there, look heaps cooler than the rest of the people you know.

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2016 resident movers include: Cari Ann Shim Sham (USA), Liesel Zink (QLD), Lz Dunn (VIC), Melinda Smith and Dianne Reid (VIC), Neta Pulvermacher (Israel), Philip Channels (NSW), Sannamaria Kuula (Finland), Ana Degues (Portugal), Liz Aggiss (UK), and many, many more.

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RARE SPECIES Sydney’s unimpeachable lords of ‘what the f*ck’ chaotic metal core, the mighty TOTALLY UNICORN will storm back into the nation’s collective riff-loving consciousness soon. New album ‘Dream Life’ lands July 29 via The Farmer & The Owl/Inertia. They’ll be kicking out the jams on tour through September. Totes Uni’ve been busy. Outrageous new single ‘Customer Service Station’ debuted via triple j’s Short Fast Loud back in March.

They’ve been doing a plethora of other things, but most importantly, tour.

September. We’re a part of that tour down in Hobart. They’ll be appearing at The Brisbane Hotel on Saturday September 24.

Get amongst it.

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Skuewolf and Monster Mutt of Dirty Wolves have brought new meaning to the term “hairy metal”. I didn’t even know that was a term to begin with, but there you go. It’s in a press release so it must be true. Right? Anyway, if you’re into the sound of TOOL, Deftones, Dream Theatre, Perfect Circle or Mastodon, you are going to dig the sounds coming from explosive Australian heavy two-piece Dirty Wolves.

A progressive and polyrhythmic metal duo, Dirty Wolves have just launched their first Australian and New Zealand Tour with the epic concept album Creation & Chaos. They’re playing three shows

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around Tasmania, hitting the Royal Oak in Launceston on Thursday September 29, The Republic Bar in Hobart on Friday September 30, and Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport on Saturday October 1.

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a plethora of shows around the world, as well as selling out second and third dates on their national tours time and time again. Now, they’re doing it again.

Basically just because they can. And if you can do it, why wouldn’t ya? Anyway, they’re heading off on the “Westway (The Glitter & The Slums) Album Tour” and Tasmania only gets one opportunity to catch them in action. They’ll be performing at The Odeon in Hobart on Friday November 11. Tickets are available now, via Ticketmaster.

LOVE A BAD TAXI RIDE.

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BEST OF FRENZ

After the hugely successful inaugural KLParty tours in 2015, the KLParty Tour is back for 2016, taking KLP all across the country recruiting some of the best up and coming producers and DJ’s from around Australia. With 17 dates across the country, KLP is taking her infectious DJ set and signature party to the people once more. Joining KLP at the Republic Bar in Hobart on Wednesday October 19. Which is Show Day Eve. So y’know, party it up.

Turning 25 is the best. You’ve finished uni, married the opposite-sex partner of your dreams and now Dad & Mum are gonna help you buy that second investment property in Waterloo once the housing commission flats finally get bulldozed.

It’s a fun age. Of course, if you’re Frenzal Rhomb it also means you’ve spent the last two and a half decades annoying people with music in almost every continent in the world, released eight “chart-appearing” albums and still pay rent. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a party! Party means releasing a “best of” album and hitting the road, apparently. The road they intend to hit leads to Club 54 in Launceston on Friday November 18 and the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Saturday November 19.

Tickets available from Oztix.

FRESH GALA IN THE APPLE ISLE.

SUGARMAAANNNNNN

LTJ Bukem is still doing the rounds! And bloody good on him, I say. He’s been a mainstay for as long as I can remember, and I’m sure he always will be. The innovating DJ and producer has been releasing quality Drum’n’Bass since the early 90’s and 20 years later he’s showing no signs of slowing down. He’s heading back down under this November to hit up eight venues around Australia and New Zealand, and Hobart is lucky enough to play host to one of those venues. On Friday November 25 he’ll be appearing at the Republic Bar & Café. It’ll definitely be a night not to be missed, especially for those of us with fond memories of his previous shows in Hobart.

The original sugar man returns to Australia this November and December with very special guest Archie Roach. The legendary Rodriguez’s love affair with Australia is no secret; he first toured our shores in the late 1970s, long before the rest of the world caught onto his talent thanks to Malik Bendjelloul’s Oscarwinning film Searching for Sugar Man. For the first time, Tasmania will get a chance to find the sugar man, it should be easy, he’ll be standing right there on stage in front of us. He’ll be doing that, on Monday November 21 at the Derwent Entertainment Centre. Tickets start at $88.50, and are available now from Ticketmaster, or www.derwent.com.au.

Fresh Comedy have announced a massive gala event to celebrate their fifth birthday.

They’ll be bringing some of Australia’s finest down to Taswegia on Saturday October 29 to perform at the inaugural Fresh Comedy Gala. It will see headline sets from some of the biggest names in Australian Comedy, including Luke McGregor (Luke Warm Sex, Utopia, The Project), Randy the puppet (Sammy J and Randy in Ricketts Lane, The MICF Gala, Spicks and Specks), and Triple J breakfast co-host and TV regular, Matt Okine (How not to Behave, Dirty Laundry Live). The gala is expected to sell out quickly and comedy fans are encouraged to get in quick to avoid disappointment. It’s all going down at the Princess Theatre in Launceston, so get in touch with them to grab a ticket (ph: 63233666 or head to www.theatrenorth.com.au).

STUCK TO YOU Coming off the success of their critically acclaimed sophomore album Land of Pleasures - Sticky Fingers have had an impressive last few years. The lads spent most of 2015 and early 2016 abroad with

In an exciting double bill, The Badloves and Taxiride are hitting the road together for a string of co-headline dates along the east coast, across to Adelaide, and down to Tassie. (Hey, that’s us! Woohoo!) Both known for their double platinum albums and top 40 singles of the 90s, they’ll be performing all their hits. With their debut album, Get On Board spending a massive 69 weeks in the charts, The Badloves delivered a bevy of popular hits. A few years later, Melbourne four-piece Taxiride dominated Australian radio for a solid five years. The Badloves and Taxiride will be appearing at Launceston Country Club on Friday December 9, before wrapping up the tour at Wrest Point Showroom in Hobart on Saturday December 10.

FRACTANGLED Is just around the bend and promises another earthly galactic three day open air fusion of cutting edge electronic and traditional world music genres alongside visual and performing arts and electronic media. The gathering takes place nearby Buckland, East Coast Tasmania, in February and features artists from across the globe and caters to young and old. To become involved head to the website for full details www.fractangular. com.au. Music, arts and workshop applications close Aug 31. Art Trail, Volunteers & Market Stall applications close September 30.

MONKEY BUSINESS Formed in 1991, The Monkeywrench are a super group of sorts and are set to tour Australian shores for the first time ever. Founded by members of the classic Seattle band Mudhoney, Mark Arm & Steve Turner with guitarist for bands such as the Big Boys and Poison 13, Tim Kerr, The Monkeywrench was intended to be a sort of one time, one LP band.

Along with Tom Price from the U-Men & Gas Huffer plus Martin Bland from Australian noise rockers Lubricated Goat they ended up recording three LPs; “Clean As A Broken Dick Dog” (1992), “Electric Children” (2000) & “Gabriel’s Horn” (2008).

Recently reuniting for a string of shows, the band decided to add Australia to their schedule making this the very first time The Monkeywrench have come to our shores. See them at the Brisbane Hotel on Wednesday November 23. Tickets via Oztix.

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IN THE LOOP

even let my hand form certain chord shapes because I think, “I do that all the time”.”

“WE’RE TOO SCARED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE BREVITY OF OUR EXISTENCE, SO WE DISTRACT OURSELVES WITH SHIT. I’M NOT AFRAID. I DON’T NEED MY FEAR MASSAGED AWAY. LIFE IS SHORTI FEEL WONDERFULLY AND EXCITINGLY AWARE OF THAT. I DON’T WANT TO ‘FOLLOW THE STEPS’ TO BE HAPPY ‘ONE DAY’ WHEN I RETIRE AND SIT ON A BEACH; I WANNA BE HAPPY NOW. MY FATHER WENT TO WORK ONE DAY WHEN I WAS TWO AND NEVER CAME HOME. I’VE GROWN UP WITH A PERSONAL REMINDER THAT DEATH CAN JUST HAPPEN. I EMBRACE THE CHAOS INSIDE MY OWN BRAIN CELLS. I EMBRACE THE FACT THAT I DON’T KNOW WHAT ANY OF THIS MEANS. I DON’T HAVE ANSWERS...I DON’T THINK THERE ARE ANY.”

Paul Dempsey and I are talking about death.

I can’t recall why, but the overall finite nature of existence and the need for some sort of optimism in a dying world just seemed to come up quite naturally. Dempsey is heading out on tour again, as he seems to perpetually be, to promote his latest solo album, Strange Loop. The man admits he’s on the road a crazy amount, but insists it’s good for him.

“I love touring. I don’t tour as much as I would like to. I like playing and singing; that’s why I started a band and I wanna do it as much as possible. I always find it funny when people complain about touring; I’m constantly surprised how often I hear bands complaining about being on the road for too long. Everybody’s different. I like it. I think I have a touch of the nomad about me. I’m happy being on the move, I like being in a different town every night and getting up and playing to people.”

An element of his nomadic tendencies is no doubt rooted in his mental health struggles; these days, he says, his brain is treating him rather well, though he has had depressive issues in the past. Keeping busy helps, he notes.

“I discovered about ten years ago that keeping busy is really my best option. It just works for me. If i’m not busy, I start to wonder why I exist,

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pretty much. I like to have lots on. My mental health is good; in the ten years since I had a bad time with depression, I’ve kept busy and my life has changed in a lot of ways. My wife and I have had two children, and they keep you busy. The less time I have to sit down and disappear into my own brain, the better it is.”

Strange Loop, Dempsey’s second solo album (not including 2013’s Shotgun Karaoke, an album of covers) was recorded with Tom Schick (Wilco, M Ward, Rufus Wainwright) in Chicago. As you can tell from the first single, Morningless, the album shows a similar-but-different Dempsey, with a newish sound in tow. I ask him if that was indeed deliberate.

“It’s not so much a conscious choice….it’s a conscious avoidance of anything that feels familiar. It’s not that I necessarily know what I wanna do- some preconceived concept for a record- it’s more just that I instinctively steer myself away from anything that’s even vaguely like something I’ve done before. Anything with any sort of familiarly about it, I reject and instinctively move far away from. By doing that, I end up with something I haven’t done before.

I’m sure you’re pretty familiar with your own brain; you can recognise a thought pattern before it even forms. Sometimes I’ll be sitting with a guitar and strumming random things, and I won’t

We discuss how he- and all of us- have changed over the years. Remember that Dempsey started his music career back in 1994- and we all can look back on our pasts with a variety of emotions.

“If you didn’t do anything in your twenties that makes you cringe slightly, maybe you didn’t do it properly (laughs)” he says. “I’m now forty and apparently everyone’s supposed to have their shit together when they’re forty, which is a pile of crap. We’re all fallible, awkward, clumsy beings. All this shit about being on a journey to a perfected contented result, all lovely and wonderful and it stays that way until you die- I don’t buy any of that. You never stop growing or feeling like a clumsy kid. There’s always a clumsy awkward kid inside you, a confused adult who is never sure if you’re doing it right. I don’t think we acknowledge that openly enough. We don’t acknowledge that were all works in progress until we die.”

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Strange Loop is out now. Paul Dempsey will play three shows next month in Tasmania: Thursday September 15 - Tapas Lounge Bar, Devonport Friday September 16 - Country Club Showroom, Launceston Saturday September 17 - Republic Bar, Hobart

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INTERNAL-IZED AS VOCALIST FOR CANBERRA ELECTRO-POP OUTFIT SAFIA, I IMAGINE BEN WOOLNER IS SWEPT OFF HIS FEET WITH ADMIN AND PRESS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE RELEASE OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM INTERNAL (PRODUCED BY ERIC J DUBOWSKY, WHO HAS ALSO WORKED WITH FLUME, WEEZER, CHET FAKER, THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS- TO NAME A FEW) ON THE WAY AND TOUR DATES A-PLENTY, BUT HE SOUNDS RELAXED. THE ALBUM IS ONLY A FEW YEARS IN THE MAKING, BUT HOLDS A LOT OF EXPECTATION, AS SAFIA ARE QUICKLY BECOMING ONE OF THE ‘TO WATCH’ HOTYOUNG-THINGS OF THE AUSSIE SCENE.

“It’s been a bit in the making. We were just writing for the fun of writing and never really had an album in mind.

Writing songs here and there, and they all seemed quite different. We had to compile them eventually, and they worked together and complemented each other even though they’re different, they flowed into each other nicely.

And we thought: I guess we do have an album! We are still polishing it and getting it right, getting it up to scratch, which is the hardest bit. The fans have responded so well to the singles, and they come to the shows off the back of those. Hopefully the body of work they’ll respond to well, I think.”

The band (Woolner, drummer Michael Bell and guitarist/ synth player Harry Sayers) all met at Radford College in Canberra and, before they knew it, were winning festival competitions and getting all kinds of radio and live recognition, even supporting Lorde and Disclosure and touring overseas, hitting up OS festival stages like The Great Escape (UK), Primavera Festival (SPAIN), and SXSW. They were even nominated for an AIR Award in 2014 (Best Independent Dance, Electronica or Club Single) for their Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds single.

Woolner says that the Canberra ‘scene’ is really coming on strong, with a comparatively small but supportive and creative artistic industry blooming.

“There is a scene now...maybe ten years ago, it was pretty shitty. It’s a small but strong artistic scene here.

Especially in art as well- not just music, everything. A lot of people who’ve worked for us in the past on animation or video were young people starting up their own things here.

Lately, there’s been a big push forward in that, especially with clothing and a really good bar and cafe scene...those quite creative spaces. It’s small but a good supportive community. It doesn’t feel like competition down here.”

Safia found a lot of their success through Triple J, as many others have. The band got a heap of rotation, eventually finding themselves placed in the Hottest 100 three years

running. As a relatively new band, Woolner states that the importance of radio shouldn’t be ignored, even in these times of digital focus, streaming and piracy. He maintains there’ll always be a place for radio, and radio lovers.

“Triple J might have its biggest listenership it has ever had. Radio is still really important, for me anyway. I listen to it because I can never think of what to put on a playlist and it’s the easiest place to find new music. I don’t have a lot of time to search around. It’s the catalyst to building a big fan-base; obviously there’s internet artists who are big online, in terms of songs resonating/ with a large group of people, but radio is still the catalyst, especially overseas.

It’s hard to break over there, radio is still the main medium for songs at the moment, plus streaming.”

Their upcoming Internal tour will not only be their biggest tour to date (no pressure, guys) but will also feature almost entirely all-ages shows, catering for their younger audience- something that bands can often forget to take into account. Woolner maintains that the under-eighteens in the fanbase need gigs to hit up, too.

“We’ve always played eighteen-plus tours, but I think the vibe will be good. I just think back to when I went to my first show; those first few concerts you go to are really special, it definitely helped motivate me and made me decide that music was what I wanted to do. Whenever we’re doing shows, we think back to big concerts and those shows and if we could have that impact on people, that’d be really special.”

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Safia play Friday October 14 at the Odeon Theatre in Hobart. The show is all-ages licensed with tickets available via Ticketmaster.

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NEW VIBES IF IT WASN’T FOR WRITING BAD VIBRATIONS, A DAY TO REMEMBER MAY HAVE CALLED IT A DAY.

Before creating the new record ADTR had a pulse, but the hardcore/pop-punk beast was barely breathing. Members were stuck in a writing rut, tired of producing material for their last three albums in the back of a tour bus. Something needed to change, and fast. Like a defibrillator to the chest, the American quintet was revived, courtesy of an organic writing and recording process. The band escaped to the Colorado Mountains and churned out more than forty songs. It's the first time all members have been present in one room, outside of a tour, since they wrote For Those Who Have Heart.

“I think if we had of done a record the way we used to do records people would probably still be out of love with what we are doing. I don’t know, I’m not a fortune teller but who knows if we would have been a band still,” says guitarist Kevin Skaff.

That’s a frightening notion, the fact that a band with such extraordinary music stature nearly pulled the pin. A Day To Remember have sold more than a million units, earning them two gold selling albums and singles. Online accolades include over 400 million Spotify streams and 500 million YouTube views. Still, Skaff was fed up.

“Yeah, there are times where you are like ‘Fuck man, this is getting too much’, especially with the business side of things. I just wanted to play music for a living, like that’s just what I wanted to do and then it becomes something else and you get lost for a little bit, then you just have to find your way back to why you started doing it in the first place, and I think making this record brought us all back to why we all do this.”

There was enormous weight on the band’s shoulders, to produce a new record that would exceed expectations from their last, Common

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Courtesy. So away members wrote, too busy to contract cabin fever and turn full Jack Nicholson on one another. Skaff and the lads were focused on channelling their old writing roots.

“We never went in with a concept, we just kind of wanted to be a band again because our last few records, they were written in our spare time on tour in the back of a bus where we only had a couple of people at a time who could be involved, so we just kind of wanted to be the old school band again and get in a room, all of us, and just bang out songs. We thought some people weren’t attached to a lot of the music, like they weren’t involved in the songs as much as they would like to be. So yeah, it was all about everyone being there, everyone loving the songs and just liking what we do again. It was just reconnecting with our love of music.”

All songs on Bad Vibrations were tracked live, a defining feature of the album. That’s risky business, but there’s a reason A Day To Remember have been named best live band.

Producers Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Black Flag) and Jason Livermore (Rise Against, NOFX) were at the ship’s helm for the recording process, while Grammy winner Andy Wallace (Foo Fighters, Slayer) completed the mix. Recording live was part of the band steering away from a digitized sound Skaff hears too often.

“You can look into, like, twenty different band’s new albums these days and literally they all sound the same. The drums are… I just can’t think of how you can make drums sound like that at a show, they don’t exist like that you know? Then we would go back and listen to Rage Against The Machine records, just all of that stuff that we used to love.

There was always a big difference in the sound, like they sound like that, and you guys sound like

this, they sound like that, and there’s a reason for that. It really comes down to how you make your record, it’s not digital anymore. What you hear on that record (Bad Vibrations) are actual takes, and that’s actually the guitar sound we had and that’s actually the drums that Alex plays, nothing is fake on the record… This record is as real as it gets, and I do feel like music is losing that nowadays and hope that people can find their own voice.”

Bad Vibrations breathed new life into the band. The album’s title may evoke negative connotations, but it signifies the even greater ties the group now share. It’s the first time in years that all five members have written an album from start to finish, and it shows.

“We went into this record (thinking) ‘We are a good band right?’, asking ourselves that question.

Definitely making a record like this definitely tried the band. I’m sure there is a lot of bands nowadays that if they tried to make a record like this it would not happen or their record would suck really bad, but we made it out on the other side and we are even better friends and we are a better live band now, it was all for the best.”

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Bad Vibrations is out August 19 via ADTR/Epitaph Records. The band will be touring Australia in December (no Tasmanian dates).

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BACK TO THE DOOF BEFORE THE SUCCESS OF THE FRACTANGULAR OPEN AIR FESTIVAL, THERE WAS AN OUTDOOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC EVENT IN THE BUSHLAND OF BUCKLAND, APTLY NAMED ‘LET THERE BE DOOF’. AFTER A SEVERAL YEAR HIATUS, THE PARTY IS BACK THIS SEPTEMBER TO CELEBRATE THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING, IN UNIQUELY DOOFING STYLE.

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With an all-electronic lineup featuring a number of international, interstate and local artists, Let There Be Doof will run over two nights on the weekend of September 9 – 11, at Buckland in the State’s South East. Headliners for the event include Ace Ventura (Switzerland), Menog/Skyfall (Portugal), plus interstate artists - Fractal Glider, One Tasty Morsel, Farebi Jalebi, Ryanosaaurus, Electrocado, Barry Koota and Ozzy. A further ten Tasmanian DJs fill out the lineup to carry the music (with gaps to rest) from Friday afternoon through to Sunday evening.

Added to the music, the event will feature installation art from Nicholas Iceton, whose works has adorned The Huon Mid Winter Festival for the last two years. Fractangular regulars, Alicranka and Shell-a-vision will be dreaming up more mind bending artwork to interact with in both the day and night. Also featured, will be the Opening Laughing Ceremony on the Saturday which will welcome festival goers with group laughter activities under the guidance of Yoga instructor Lee-Anne.

Let There Be doof is a fully licensed event with a festival bar, food stalls and market. The festival is zero waste with a requirement for patrons to remove any rubbish from the festival site with them.

Tickets for the event can be obtained from www. outix.net/tickets/event/ltbd. Further event information can be found at www.ltbd.com.au or www.facebook.com/ltbd.com.au.

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MY BEST FRIEND IMAGINE BEING THE RIGHT-HAND MAN OF ONE OF HISTORY’S GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL STARS. PETER FREESTONE WAS INDEED THAT RIGHT-HAND MAN. IN 1979, FREESTONE BECAME FREDDIE MERCURY’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT, AND WAS WITH HIM- BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY- UNTIL MERCURY’S DEATH IN 1991.

HE’S PACKING UP HIS UNMATCHED AND WILD TALES TO AUSTRALIA ON A STORYTELLING TOUR, BRINGING WITH HIM THE FRIENDSHIP AND FUN HE SHARED WITH ONE OF MUSIC’S GREATEST LEGENDS.

“I suppose firstly it was work” Freestone says, when I ask about the nature of their relationship. “...but due to being constantly in each other’s company, an extremely close bond developed and our friendship grew stronger. Within a short space of time, the friendship took over and it was only the salary paid into my bank account that made it ‘work’.”

Though he would later come to be (obviously), Freestone wasn’t a die-hard Queen fan before he began working with them.

“When I started work for Queen they had just released Crazy Little Thing Called Love. At that point I knew of Seven Seas of Rhye, Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody…” he explains. “I used to listen to Wagner overtures while I was doing my school homework, so you could say I was not a ‘big fan’. I was working at the Royal Opera House in London for the Royal Ballet, taking care of the costumes. Freddie was invited to perform with the Royal Ballet for a big Charity Gala and performed live vocals to Crazy and Bohemian Rhapsody while dancing with the dancers.”

“I spoke with Freddie after the show and said how I thought the combination of his voice, Queen’s music and the Royal Ballet worked so well. He thanked me and asked what work I did at the Opera House; I explained about looking after the costumes and that was that. Ten days later, someone from Queen management rang my boss and asked if I would be able to do a six-week tour with Queen, looking after their stage costumes.

I accepted, then spent a week trying to find out how many people were in the band and what their names were. Remember, this was before the days of the internet!”

Freestone explains how he managed working with one of the world’s biggest rock bands.

“In many ways, it was easier than what I had been doing with the Royal Ballet as there were only four people to take care of. The costumes were very different, easier to prepare, but before and during the shows, I was kept on my toes, keeping an eye on the stage. They were professionals and expected the best from the crew, but, being the guys they were, everyone found it easy to give their best.”

I can’t help but ask (because I assume he will elucidate further at his live show): what would people be surprised to know about Freddie Mercury?

“I think many people would be surprised at the Freddie at home, the total opposite of the persona on stage.” Freestone says. “He could be quiet, thoughtful, and was extremely shy. He found it very difficult to meet new people on his own. He always needed someone with him in these circumstances. Once introduced, he would then become the showman people expected.”

Nowadays, the disease that took Freddie from us is much easier to diagnose and deal with; it’s no longer the death sentence that it was in the 1980s. But HIV/AIDS at that time was, understandably, utterly terrifying.

“The only fact that everyone could relate to was that it killed.” Freestone laments, having seen the damage first-hand. “When Freddie was diagnosed, there was only one drug available that had any sort of effect on the virus. I had been to some funerals during the 80s of friends who did die from the disease.”

After Freddie’s death in ‘91, Freestone was, of course, shattered. He explains how he tried to cope.

“I basically ran away to Majorca where I had some friends, and it was a place that Freddie had never been, so I wouldn’t be reminded of him on any street corner, and hid inside a vodka bottle. It took a few years for friends to persuade me that life actually looked better without looking at it through the bottom of an empty glass.”

Time heals all wounds, as they say, and now, some twenty-five years later, Freestone looks back on his time with Mercury and Queen in those heady days with fondness, nostalgia and optimism for the future.

“I believe we would be doing much the same as before, without the touring.” he says, on what Mr Mercury might be doing today. “Freddie never envisaged himself on a stage when he couldn’t fill it. He hated the idea of slowing down. Music was his life and he would still be creating it.”

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Peter Freestone performs at The Grand Poobah on Friday September 16. Tickets available from www. trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary. aspx?eid=207974.

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THREE KICK DRUMS AND A MICROPHONE “THE WORLD’S ONLY SURVIVING TRIPLE ONE-MAN-BAND BAND!” ACCORDING TO ANTO MACARONI, WHEN DESCRIBING HIMSELF AND FELLOW MUSICIANS OF PUTA MADRE BROTHERS FAME.

Since small beginnings in Melbourne the three brothers have exploded on stages across Australia and in almost all cities of old Europe with their distinctive blend of drums, guitar and Spanish song. The six armed, six legged and three headed musical beast has been strangely silent for much of the year, but according to Anto there is something simmering under the surface.

So there’s a hiphop album in the wings - are we talking along the lines of a Joaquin Phoenix foray?

The guy who made that film about himself pretending to get lots of problems?

Suppose it could be a comparable project, yes. But we discovered CYpress Hill released all of their albums in spanish and in english and the spanish version of Black Sunday is so much better because unless you speak fluent Spanish, it makes no sense whatsoever. So we are maybe going for that kind of thing a bit more.

One of your defining features, besides your good looks and dress sense are the

three kick drums in your live shows. Will this cross over to the new music direction of Putre Madre?

YES. The three drums remain of course.

Yet we are making extra pieces for our individual setups. Turntables, samplers, theremins, loudhailers, tracksuits.

Can you give us some good Spanish phrases to remember?

No lo hagas (don’t do it!) nada nada lemonada (not much lemonade) These are some of our new rap lyrics.

Have you ever taken styling cues from films such as El Mariachi and Desperado?

Not that we know of. Actually we haven’t seen these films. We take our fashion tips from more traditional superstars like Vincent Fernandez, Porter Wagoner, and Beto Quintanilla. And of course Leningrad Cowboys and Doug Anthony Allstars are sometimes mentioned to us.

Putre Madre is essentially three one man bands come together?

Should what happens in ex-nazi bunker clubs, stay in ex-nazi bunker clubs?

Correct. 10 points. You win our car.

Probably the best yes. They are no longer occupied by any fascists but usually unemployed artists who make incredible inventive things.

Tell us some tales of your tour of Europe last year?

Renzo was living over there for most of last year until the end of our 4 week tour.

It was real hot. He made hundreds of showbags to sell at shows - they were all 2 dimensional minitures of ourselves and our equipment plus some things we enjoy like cigarettes and motor engines. All cut out of coloured paper. They were a real hit and will last the test of time. We went over there to release a third album, which was a mini-album, only on Vinyl called Love And Garbage which was a very colourful record. Our record company guy bought us a terrible German deep frozen icecream.

He is a strange man. I always argue with him about football. We played some great festivals and also a 46 degree bunker in Austria where I felt my heart starting to disengage. But it kicked back in and everything was fine.

What does this Summer coming hold for Putre Madre?

The answer here is either a tightly held secret or in fact we have no idea. In October we are playing the hot rod festival CHopped, in Victoria which will be loco.

But after that, in summer, everything is a big fat secret.

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FIVE FACTS ABOUT VERDI WITH WARWICK FYFE CATCH UP ON YOUR VERDI THIS AUGUST 14 WHEN THE TASMANIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA BRINGS PRESTIGIOUS BARITONE WARWICK FYFE TO THE STATE. TOGETHER THEY’LL PRESENT MUSIC FROM SIX OF VERDI’S MASTERPIECES (YEP, SIX), AND WILL SNEAK IN SOME WORKS FROM MOZART AND WAGNER, TOO. Warwick Fyfe is a Helpmann/Green Room/Leopold Julian Kronenberg Foundation Award-winning singer who has toured pretty much everywhere. The world simply can’t get enough of him, which is why he was also awarded a 2015 Churchill Fellowship to study Wagnerian vocal technique in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

But even though he’s advanced his own career with great success, Warwick is an advocate of music education and keen for any chance to give back to the next generation.

That’s why we’re getting him to teach us five things about Verdi before he sings the masterworks in Hobart – accompanied by the finest young musicians in our state.

Expect: La Traviata, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Otello, Sicilian Vespers, and Falstaff.

Rival…or admirer?

Even though they were the greatest composers of their respective countries in that era, Verdi and Wagner were, in a sense, rivals and certainly separated by an aesthetic ideological divide. Verdi secretly admired Wagner and was spotted at Bologna train station attempting to be inconspicuous, having attended a performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin.

Alpensinfonie. Mind you, when I pointed this out to an expert at the Strauss Institut in the Bavarian Alps, he was reluctant to accept it was a quotation, preferring to see it as a ‘trope’ – in other words, a chance resemblance.

He loved Shakespeare.

One of the most famous passages in Otello, Lago’s Credo, has no correlation with anything in the Shakespearean original, Othello. Verdi adored Shakespeare and kept his works by his bedside. He had plans for an opera based on King Lear but it never happened.

His comedy flopped because of a tragedy.

Another of Verdi’s Shakespearean operas is his final masterpiece Falstaff, the plot for which is drawn from several of the Bard’s plays. It is a glorious comedy and a musical jewel box! His other comedy Un Giorno di Regno comes from the other end of his career, being only his second opera. It was a flop, which is perhaps not surprising when one considers that his wife and children had just died when he produced it!

He gave refunds.

After the premiere of Aida, Verdi received a letter of complaint from a punter who’d travelled a long way at the cost of great effort to see it and then hadn’t enjoyed it at all. The unhappy correspondent demanded reimbursement - and Verdi coughed up! - only deducting one of the items on the ‘invoice’: an execrable meal at a train station, for which he did not feel he could reasonably be held responsible.

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Under the baton of Jamie Allen, the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra will present Viva Verdi! with special guest Warwick Fyfe at 2pm, Sunday August 14 in the Hobart Town Hall. Tickets from www. tyo.org.au.

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POKÉMON GO UNLESS YOU’VE BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK, YOU’LL HAVE HEARD OF POKÉMON GO. YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN PEOPLE PLAYING IT IN THE STREETS TOO – HUNTING AND CAPTURING CUTE BUG-EYED CREATURES, AND COLLECTING POTIONS, EGGS AND BALLS FROM THE POKÉSTOPS THAT DOT OUR PARKS AND STREETS.

15 million people downloaded the augmented reality game in the first week of its release last month. Thanks in part to the media frenzy, the game has achieved almost mythical status. Naysayers like to quote the car crashes by distracted gamers, muggings at Pokéstops, and people falling over objects, walking off cliffs etc. etc. The pro camp cites the number of people getting out into the world, away from the couch and the telly (although from personal experience, if you sit on the couch long enough the Pokémons come to you). Friendships flourish among the hunters, who bond over the shared goal of seeking and collecting digital creatures.

Obviously, I’m not a hater, but I’m not obsessed either. Call me a semienthusiastic dabbler.

I like the thrill of the hunt, and I’m a user of other geo-location activities, like the games Ingress and Munzee, as well as the more grounded Geocaching, orienteering and rogaining. With the exception of Munzee, I’d say that these other platforms are just as, if not more, enjoyable than Pokémon Go. So why has Pokémon Go received so much more attention?

One obvious answer is that Pokémon is a well-known franchise. Pikachu appears on our cereal boxes, on our TV screens, and even on the sides of

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planes. Pokémon cards have been traded in Australian schoolyards since the 1990s, which means gen Y is not only familiar with Pokémon characters, but have a great deal affection for these cute creatures. The original Gameboy game from the mid-90s had a similar basic premise: hunt the Pokémons for points (although in the original there’s an endgame: you train your captured Pokémons for the ultimate battle with the Elite Four - but that’s another article).

The Gameboy Pokémons were pixelated and black and white - far from the brightly-coloured creatures of today’s game - but it appealed to the part of us that likes to collect, explore, collect and collect some more.

However, Pokémon Go’s popularity cannot be explained by brand saturation alone. Nor is it solely due to the novelty of having our surrounding environment turned into magical hubs, or the human urge to collect and classify.

Collecting and problem solving is a key part of Munzee, but its interface is based on scanning boring old QR codes. Similarly, Ingress turns our surrounding environment into a web of portals: sites of battle and exchange. Ingress has a dedicated community, but its mass appeal is limited by the complexity of the game and the rather hostile machine-aesthetic graphics (I always think of the 90s movie Hackers when I open Ingress).

Essentially, I think the popularity of Pokémon Go is largely about aesthetics. Pokémon is cute and humans like cute. This isn’t just a learned-inthe-schoolyard-over-obsessive-card-swapping thing either. Humans are naturally attracted to and want to care for animals with juvenile features - ‘cute’ features - such as large eyes, large foreheads and retreating chins. Within the Pokémon universe, even the most hostile animals are manipulated for appeal. The snake, Ekans, for instance, has an unusually stunted snout, making it appear cuter than a snake ever should.

And don’t get me started on the mouse, Pikachu.

Pokémon Go therefore has hit on a winning combo, appealing to our biological attraction to cute, our urge to collect and classify, the novelty of augmented reality gaming on a widely used platform, existing brand awareness, and, of course, a significant leg up from the media.

We have also convinced ourselves that Pokémon Go is somehow a healthy game, a morally acceptable game. I don’t know how many friendships or social encounters have really been facilitated by the game, but my dog has definitely benefited. The dog park and oval at the end of my street seems to be quite a hub for all things Pokémon. There’s a ‘gym’ at the seniors centre (no joke), and multiple Pokéstops. There are few lights in the park and, at this time of the year when our nights are long and cold, there are also very few people. Since Pokémon was released, however, the park is filled with ‘fairy lights’, as groups of people (and their dogs) chase elusive Pokémon, phone screens glowing. For the first time in memory, I’ve been happy to take the dog there at night, rather than sticking to the safe, brightly lit streets. Whatever the reason for its popularity, I hope it lasts if only for my big-eyed dog’s sake.

LUCY HAWTHORNE

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1. Tania Walker, Catch ‘em all, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

2. “Humans feel affection for animals with juvenile features: large eyes, bulging craniums, retreating chins (left column). Small-eyed, long-snouted animals (right column) do not elicit the same response.” Drawn

by Ephert from a diagram diagram in “Studies in Animal and Human Behavior, vol. II” by Konrad Lorenz.

Downloaded from Wikimedia Commons.

3. Proof that you don’t have to leave the couch.

The Pokémons will come to you. Photo: Lucy Hawthorne

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THE NEW ALCHEMISTS THE WORD ‘ALCHEMIST’ CONJURES UP IMAGES OF MYSTICISM AND ANCIENT EXPERIMENTS, PARTICULARLY THE QUEST FOR THE MYTHICAL PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, WHICH HAS THE ABILITY TO TRANSMUTE BASE METALS INTO GOLD AND PRODUCE THE ELIXIR OF ETERNAL LIFE. IT’S A LOADED TERM, AND ONE NOWADAYS MORE ASSOCIATED WITH FANTASY, SPIRITUALITY AND EVEN CHARLATANISM, THAN HARD SCIENCE.

These connotations make The New Alchemists an odd name for an exhibition promising “investigative” art that “ruptures borders and barriers of art and science.” Curator Alicia King expresses her interest in ‘the social impact of technology’, and the works definitely explore elements of the relationship between humans and science/technology; however, there’s an awkward contradiction between the exhibition title, the supporting catalogue essays and the artworks. The works tend towards a speculative, poetic, and/or aestheticized representation of science and medicine, which is not problematic in itself, but the essays suggest that the exhibition is aiming for something more. Rosemary Miller even goes so far as to speculate, “are artists’ investigations and fictions directing science?”

While the artworks in this exhibition are interesting and entertaining, to suggest that Ian Haig’s large lump of faux flesh and bone, for instance, is influencing science seems ambitious to the extreme.

Half the artworks in New Alchemists seem to be collaborations with nature, using animals, weather or celestial movement to explore the relationship between humans and nature. My favourite work in the exhibition is Thomas Thwaites’ documentation of his attempt to ‘become a goat’, which is represented in the gallery through video, a series of images, and a prototype prosthesis. His well-known and undeniably hilarious project involved the British artist visiting shamans, undergoing brain stimulation in order to interrupt the speech pathways of his brain, and creating ‘goat leg’ prostheses that allowed him to eat grass on all fours alongside a herd of goats in the Swiss Alps. Art Orienté Objet’s video is also a representation of a past project: a performance from 2011 in which horse blood was injected into one of the collaborating artists, Marion Laval-

Jeantet, in what the artists call a ‘ceremony of blood-brotherhood’. Like Thwaites, LavalJeantet dons hoof-like prostheses, raising her height to that of the horse’s head. The premise is equally as absurd as Thwaites’, but it lacks the tongue-in-cheek humour and genuine charm that has made Thwaites’ project so popular in the media and online.

Nadege Philippe-Janon’s Jerry on the Katabatic Wind is mesmerising. The artist is known for her miniature environments made with everyday objects onto which corresponding images are projected. Patterned light bounces off strategically placed mirrors and glass onto the ceiling, walls and visitors, highlighting small objects tucked into the high wooden beams or clustered in the darkened corners. Her New Alchemists installation differs from previous similar works in that the projections are directed by the weather thanks to an external weather monitor. In addition to this active collaboration with nature, the projected images themselves are akin to metrological or biological events and objects. A fast-moving white on blue dot pattern is beamed onto a series of small upright concrete blocks, suggestive of clouds sweeping over a cluster of skyscrapers. It’s a magical environment and one that I almost missed due to its location behind a closed door in an adjoining gallery space.

Michaela Gleave’s dot matrix printer, The World Arrives at Night (Star Printer), could also be considered a collaboration with our environment.

While Philippe-Janon’s work responds to the earth’s climate, Gleave’s responds to objects beyond our planet, recording live data relating to stars as they rise above the earth’s horizon.

Although the dot matrix printer and text looks archaic and utilitarian, the aesthetics are not unlike that of the equipment I observed recently

at Tasmania’s Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory open day. The research conducted at the University of Tasmania-owed institution is cutting edge, but to the casual visitor the equipment looks like it belongs in a museum. Gleave’s work captures this contradiction by using the aesthetic language of utilitarian technology to convey complex live data.

Unlike most of the other works in the exhibition, Oron Catt, Ionat Zurr and Corrie van Sice’s work looks like what I usually associate with bio art. Four bags of liquid hang above a series of petri dishes and (what I later discover is) a 3D printer. Dramatically lit and sitting atop a white plinth, it’s almost a fetishized representation of science and medicine – something I also sensed in Art Orienté Objet’s work. At this point I have to confess that I rarely read artist statements unless I’m reviewing a show. I loathe them. If a work is interesting and I want to know a bit more I’ll sometimes brave the accompanying text, but an artwork should surely be able to be appreciated on some level without the ‘crutch’ of an artist statement. Unfortunately, the statement for The Mechanism of Life-after Stephane Leduc is not only a crutch, but a wordy, jargon-filled and impenetrable one. Even if I wanted to know more, there’s not much I can glean.

It’s evident that the curator, Alicia King, has a broad engagement with and knowledge of socioscientific art, and consequently the majority of the works in New Alchemists are individually engaging and enjoyable. There’s also a strong element of humour and play common to many of the artworks. The works all loosely explore the relationship between humans, technology and nature, but the exhibition seems to want to encompass the entire spectrum of scientific subdisciplines - from neuroscience and behavioural science to astronomy and meteorology - at the expense of a more coherent, probing focus.

LUCY HAWTHORNE Curator: Dr Alicia King. Artists: Art Orienté Objet (France); Michaela Gleave (Australia); Ian Haig (Australia); Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr (Australia) in collaboration with Corrie van Sice (USA); Nadege Philippe-Janon (Australia); Thomas Thwaites (UK) and Lu Yang (China).

Exhibition dates: 23 July – 28 August 2016 Exhibition venue: Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania

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1. Ian Haig, Some Thing, 2011. Animatronic sculpture 2. Art Oriente Objet, May the Horse Live in me, 2011.

Video still 3. Thomas Thwaites, I, Goat, 2015. Sculptural armature, photographic prints

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ARTIST TO ARTIST AT CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA IS EXPERIMENTING WITH A “FAST/SLOW” PROGRAMMING MODEL WITH AN UPCOMING SERIES OF SHORT SOLO EXHIBITIONS OVER FOUR WEEKS.

Amanda Davies, Studio II, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.

Artist to Artist pairs four artists with four curating artists: Paul Zika and Jacob Leary, Peter Waller and Michaela Gleave, Amanda Davies and Pat Brassington, and Megan Walsh and Justene Williams. Project curator, Kylie Johnston, writes: “Artist to Artist has been developed at a time when it sometimes feels like all the ‘air’ is being taken up by the large ‘blockbuster’ exhibition, ubiquitous biennale and the ‘festivalisation’ of art. It may be timely to take a look into the quieter, often overlooked interpersonal relationships that influence what we see.” To illustrate this last point, each show is accompanied by a videoed interview that reveals the ‘complex and often intimate relationships and processes’ involved in developing an exhibition.

Artist to Artist Contemporary Art Tasmania Friday August 12 until Sunday 18 September (with openings each Friday) 2 infinity Paul Zika curated by Jacob Leary OPENING: Friday 12 August 2016. Exhibition continues till August 21.

Tertium Organum Peter Waller curated by Michaela Gleave OPENING: Friday 19 August 2016. Exhibition continues till August 28.

a bruise has no tears Amanda Davies curated by Pat Brassington OPENING: Friday 26 August 2016. Exhibition continues till September 11.

The Spill Megan Walch curated by Justene Williams OPENING: Friday 2 September 2016. Exhibition continues till September 18.

Professor Wong Shiu Hon, formerly Professor of Chinese Studies at the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong, currently President of the Chinese Art Society, Australia, has authored 41 books on various subjects in Chinese arts, literature and history. In addition to being a scholar, Professor Wong is also a well-known artist in Chinese ink-painting. He started his training

in Chinese painting at the age of nine, learning his techniques from various famous masters. He has held exhibitions of his works in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Fiji, Canberra, Sydney, Hobart, and Perth. For more than thirty years, Professor Wong has been active in teaching Chinese ink-painting and calligraphy to students of all levels.

Further information can be found from: www.contemporaryarttasmania. org/program/artist-to-artist.

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TREADING THE BARDS BORN IN TURKEY, YALIN OZUCELIK MOVED AROUND SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE PROCEEDING YEARS. GROWING UP IN HOBART, THEN ONTO QUEENSLAND BEFORE HEADING TO SYDNEY TO GO TO NIDA TO LEARN THE ACTING TRADE. NOW HE’S BASED IN JOLLY SYDNEY, BUT MOVING AROUND NOMADICALLY ONCE AGAIN, THIS TIME AS PART OF A TOURING PRODUCTION OF OTHELLO, WHERE HE PLAYS IAGO, THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE.

“I’m very excited to be performing at the Theatre Royal, it’s one of the best theatres in the country.” he says. “I was in Hobart through my formative years; I moved there when i was about six and left just before I was sixteen. I started acting with a company called Mama’s Theatre Company; they put on plays by young people for young people at the Studio Theatre at Tas Uni. It was a great time; I was dressing up as different animals in different shows, Peter Cottontail and Piglet.”

“In Othello, there’s a number of different issues and themes within the play, all of which are important for society generally.” Ozucelik explains, as we talk about the issues dealt with in one of Shakespeare’s classic tragedies. “The one that’s most talked about is race; here’s this black general Othello, and numerous characters that say some quite racist things about him. Obviously there’s a lot of things in there about race relations, conversations that are still relevant now, especially with things like Black Lives Matter, not just in America but around the world.”

“Another thing about the play that’s important [is] the play highlights a particular strong sense of misogyny; they treat the women very poorly. A lot of them are killed by their partners.

The issues of domestic violence are, again, something that still exists now; these are important conversations to have in a society where we see hundreds of women killed by their partners every year, in Australia alone. The play is also about jealousy, a human emotion we all feel. What these strong emotions can compel people to do. Hopefully our production does something to highlight these things.”

He does continue, though, by explaining that it isn’t really the purpose of art to impose morality onto the individual.

“I don’t think our job is necessarily to teach morality in the theatre; morality can differ from person to person, but it is part of that world, it’s inescapable. We don’t set out to impose a moral viewpoint, other than to bring out what’s in the play. The play is quite dark. In giving the nastiness its full weight- but at the same time not romanticising it- we’re hopefully able to show, with some clarity, the real effect that this can have, and hopefully create conversations around all these things.”

“We are full of contradictions.” he says, noting that Iago is human, just like any of us, and that theatre- like life- isn’t so black and white. “I also would like to think that theatre can challenge us in ways we hadn’t considered. I hope theatre can also expand people’s viewpoints, and the way they feel about something, putting into their minds aspects of life that perhaps they hadn’t considered. In a way, you’re trying to create empathy; Neil Gaiman talks about books being ‘little empathy machines’.”

It is no doubt more difficult to play a purposely awful or immoral character in a play; the one that needs the audience to hate them. But Ozucelik enjoys playing the dastardly, but multifaceted, Iago.

“One of the struggles of Iago is that he’s charming. He charms the audience to a certain extent, he has the ability to speak directly to the audience and he has an advantage over Othello in that way. I think what happens is that that’s subverted wonderfully by the end of the play; he does some truly horrible things, the result of all these machinations ends up in death and destruction and hopefully the audience is left feeling complicit in his actions, feeling a bit icky about it all (laughs) but that’s the beauty of this particular play.”

“At the end, there’s also no real resolution; a lot of the time in tragedies, the villain dies, but Iago doesn’t. There’s a promise that he’ll be taken and tortured, sure, but he stands alive and everyone else is dead. There’s no easy solutions, which I like about it. That’s the challenge: that he’s a nasty piece of work, but the way he’s written early on, he’s more like a ‘naughty schemer’, his schemes are, at the start, ineffectual.”

LISA DIB

Othello is at the Theatre Royal in Hobart from August 25-27. Tickets from www.theatreroyal.com.au.

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PAIGE TURNER THIS HERE WOMAN ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SHE IS ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE. A SLIPPERY SLOPE OF READING GRAPHIC NOVELS. IT STARTED LATE LAST YEAR WITH THE PUBLICATION OF JW CLENNETT’S EXQUISITELY CRAFTED, WRITTEN AND DRAWN FICTIONAL HISTORY OF TASMANIA THE DIEMENOIS (HUNTER PUBLISHING), WHICH HAS BEEN NOMINATED IN THE BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL/ILLUSTRATED WORK SECTION OF THE 2015 AUREALIS AWARDS. IT ALSO GOT THE THUMBS-UP FROM THE AGE: “...A TRIUMPH OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, STRANGE, DARK AND VERY AUSTRALIAN. FANS OF ITS FORM WILL FIND IT; BUT OTHERS WITH AN INTEREST IN THOSE BYWAYS OFF THE BEATEN LITERARY TRACK WILL ALSO HAVE MUCH TO ENJOY.”

From Clennett, I moved to Marjane Satrapi, starting with Persepolis, the first in a series of graphic novels about growing up in Iran and then, a life in exile. Satrapi’s delivery is light and sharp, but her subject matter is often heavy; a woman’s lot under an oppressive regime and how a rich culture that values literature and learning has been degraded.

Tasmania’s connection to Iran and their vibrant and enduring literary culture is about to be deepened with the launch of The Third Script.

This book includes new short stories from Iran, Tasmania and the UK – and it is a diverse range of short stories too. I say that with the conviction that comes from being an editor of the collection, alongside Shirinkdokht Nourmanesh (Iran) and Sean Preston (UK). The stories are introduced by Amanda Lohrey, who quotes Shirindokht in her introduction “Shirin reminds us that Iran has a rich centuries-old culture, now stifled by persecution. With dark irony, she writes: ‘I live in Iran, the land of myths, legends and romance, of words and allegories, of flowers and nightingales, the den of lions, heaven of poets and gazelles, ancient culture and civilization sprinkled in rose water, painted in spattered blood. In this colourful paradise, I am much respected and loved. As the great novelist Esmail Fassih reminds us: “in the splendour land of Iran, a good writer is a dead writer”.’

The book, gorgeously designed by Kelly Eidjenberg of Poco People will be launched by Melanie Tait, reader extraordinaire and host of Statewide Evenings on ABC Radio on March 22, 5.30pm at Fullers in Hobart. See you there.

Tamar Valley Literary Festival runs between March 18-20. For some of my top picks to get you in the (largely free) festival mood, check out the accompanying article and at the festival’s website: www. tamarvalleywritersfestival.com.au.

The 144th edition of Island will be out on 3 March, the first under the new editors. The cover story is by Tasmanian, Father Julian Punch AM and there are also pieces from James Boyce, Delia Nicholls, Greg Barns, Adam Ouston and Bronwyn Lea. There is also artwork from Plimsoll Gallery and photography by Matthew Newton.

The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is offering their exchange with Prince Edward Island in Canada again, more information is available here www.taswriters.org/changing-places-writers-exchange.

Slamduggery, which was started a few years ago by the irrepressible Lucinda Shannon, one of the invited writers for The Third Script, is hosting World Poetry Slam Champion, Harry Baker from the UK. This is happening at Fresh in Launceston on March 15, 7.30pm. Tickets are approximately $10 on the door. I love how Launceston is leading Tasmania’s live poetry charge – and wish I could travel North for more of this art form.

If you have some word related news, I’d love to hear from you.

Racheledwards488@gmail.com.

RACHEL EDWARDS

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT

GRANT & I: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE GO-BETWEENS by ROBERT FORSTER Town Hall, Tuesday September 6, 6pm Join Robert Forster at Town Hall for the launch of his new book Grant & I, a frank and revealing look at his creative life with late Go-Betweens co-founder Grant McLennan.

Robert will be playing songs and in conversation with Tim Cox. Tickets from Fullers Bookshop: 1 x ticket: $20 1 x ticket + 1 x book: $49.95 (Grant & I RRP: $35)

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PREVIEW

IN PURSUIT OF PURITY AND TRANQUILLITY AN EXTENSIVE EXHIBITION OF WATERCOLOUR AND CALLIGRAPHY WORKS BY WONG SHUI HON WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT WREST POINT’S BOARDWALK GALLERY THIS MONTH.

ROSAMOND MCCULLOCH STUDIO, PARIS APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR ROSAMOND MCCULLOCH STUDIO RESIDENCIES AT THE CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS STUDIO COMPLEX IN PARIS.

The opportunity is open to visual arts graduates (including arts writers) of the Tasmanian College of the Arts. The studio is located in the famous Marais district, adjacent to the Seine (perfect for flâneur-like riverside strolls). The studio was purchased in the 1990s thanks to a bequest by former Tasmanian School of Art teacher and artist, Rosamond McCulloch, who wanted to provide Tasmanian artists the opportunity to travel overseas. The studio costs about $450 per month (at current exchange rates), but one applicant will be awarded a $5000 stipend towards their 2017 residency, and current and recent postgraduate students can apply for the $2000 Marie Edwards Travelling Scholarship in Visual Arts, Craft and Design. I stayed at the studio last year and managed to fit in more than twenty museum visits in two months thanks to the free museum entry card provided to all Cité residents.

LUCY HAWTHORNE

The show will include over ninety classical Chinese works, including watercolours of landscapes and animals, as well as his celebrated flower and bird paintings.

Hosted by the Chinese Art Society of Australia, In Pursuit of Purity and Tranquillity is a celebration of the artist and scholar’s 75th birthday.

The exhibition can be viewed in the Boardwalk Gallery at Wrest Point on August 13-14, 10am- 4pm.

NEWS

NEW DIRECTOR FOR GASP JONATHAN KIMBERLEY HAS BEEN APPOINTED THE NEW DIRECTOR OF GASP. THE CURATOR, VISUAL ARTIST AND WRITER AIMS TO EXPAND THE PARK’S PUBLIC ART PROGRAM THOUGH WHAT HE TERMS ‘EXMODERN INTERCULTURE’, WHEREBY LOCAL CULTURAL DIVERSITY DRIVES PROGRAMS OF ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENT ‘RESONANT WITH NEW THINKING AND GLOBAL INTERCULTURAL DISCUSSION’.

His appointment coincides with the installation of a new artwork by Slovenian artist, Matej Andraž Vogrinčič.

Herba Ostrea is built from fifty thousand oyster shells, which form patterned totems or, as the artist describes them, ‘oyster plants’ – imaginary plants made from a ‘local ingredient’.

Images: Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, Herba Ostrea 2016, 50,000 oyster shells, metal armature (detail). View full installation at GASP (Glenorchy Art & Sculpture Park) Tasmania until March 2017.

Photo: Benjamin Hosking.

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Applications are due 15 August 2016. Application forms and information can be found on the UTAS website: www. utas.edu.au/art-viscom/study/financial-aid/rosamondmcculloch-studio-cit-internationale-des-arts-paris.

Image: View from the Rosamond McCulloch Studio, Paris. Photo credit: Lucy Hawthorne

Arts

Gallery

performing arts

Guide

Guide

South 146 Artspace July 28 - September 1 Re-Collection with works by Sue Henderson, Penny Mason, Anne Morrison and Susan Pickering.

Bett Gallery July 22 - August 8 Pat Brassington (Photo Media) August 10 Matt Coyle - Worry Doll launch August 12 - August 29 John Kelly - Moo Brew Colville Gallery August 12 Luke Wagner August 26 - Sept 12 Paul Snell - The Liminal Space Handmark Gallery July 15 - August 8 Jock Young - New Paintings and Works on Paper August 12 - Sept 5 Handmark Artists Annual Works on Paper Exhibition

TMAG June 10 - November 20 Tempest

NORTH Burnie Regional Gallery July 2 - August 21 ArtRage 2015 Collection July 2 - August 21 Bea Maddock & Friends Devonport Regional Gallery Until August 7 Cheryl Rose Until August 7 The Lyons Share: Photographs of the Lyons Family from the Robinson Collection Until August 7 Press: Selected Prints from the DCC Permanent Collection August 13 - Sept. 25 Lisa Garland: Solo Commission Gallery Pejean Until August 6 Connected - Michael Weitnauer August 10 - Sept 10 Landscapes 2016

MONA Until August 29 Cameron Robbins - Field Lines Rosny Barn Schoolhouse Gallery July 23 - August 21 City of Clarence Open Art Exhibition Despard Gallery August 3 - August 28 Jenny Orchard and Mish Meijers - The Uncanny Valley August 31 - Sept 25 Graham Lang - A Fulcrum of Infinities Salamanca Arts Centre Long Gallery July 23 - August 28 New Alchemists

Handmark Evandale July 3 - August 3 Mandy Renard - New Works on Paper August 7 - August 31 Handmark Artists Annual Works on Paper Exhibition QVMAG Until November 24 ArtStart : The Seahorse’s Garden Until August 21 John Brack’s Portrait of Sir Lindesay Clark Until Sept 4 Kevin Lincoln: The eye’s mind August 13 - Oct. 2 The Liminal Space

Moonah Arts Centre August 5 - August 13 Symbiosis

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NORTH

COMEDY

COMEDY

The Polish Corner August 3 Jokers Comedy Club : Xavier Michelides August 10 Jokers Comedy Club : Chris Franklin August 17 Jokers Comedy Club : Greg Fleet August 24 Jokers Comedy Club : Oliver Clark August 31 Jokers Comedy Club : Laura Davis

Burnie Arts Centre August 9 Kevin : Bloody Wilson

Republic Bar August 18 The Clubhouse with Cal Wilson THEATRE Theatre Royal August 4 - August 5 : Cabaret De Paris August 6 - August 7 : The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge August 17 - August 21 : Lucia Di Lammermoor August 25 - August 27 : Othello August 29 - August 30 : Snugglepot & Cuddlepie

HOUND IN THE HUNT HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW PAINTERS ACHIEVED PHOTOGRAPHIC REALISM IN THE DAYS BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY?

THEATRE Princess Theatre August 6 : Cabaret de Paris August 10 : Conversations with friends: Liz Bennett August 18 - August 20 : Disney’s The Little Mermaid August 31 - September 3 : Rock of Ages Burnie Arts Centre August 5 - August 13 : Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Backspace Theatre August 4 - August 6 : Ben Ellis’ Falling Petals August 19 - August 20 : Death in Bowengabbie August 26 - Sep 3 : Freud’s Last Session

FILM

WARP RECOMMENDS

The Royal Oak August 19 : Fresh Comedy with Cal Wilson

BELL SHAKESPEARE

Othello 25 to 27 August

OPERA AUSTRALIA

Hound in the Hunt Photo Credit: MONA/Rosie Hastie

American inventor and entrepreneur Tim Jenison has been trying to answer this question in relation to the work of the 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.

A few years ago, David Walsh saw a documentary of Jenison’s original yearlong attempt to reproduce Vermeer’s The Music Lesson using optical aids (currently screening at the Mona cinema), and subsequently invited Jenison to continue the exploration at Mona. A number of replica sets have been constructed in the museum, including one of The Music Lesson, and a number of local and international painters are attempting to replicate Vermeer’s processes in what Jenison describes as “science being conducted as live art and vice versa.”

You can even have a go yourself.

Jenison is not the first to claim Vermeer used optical aids, but it’s nonetheless a controversial proposition. For many art historians this technological assistance somehow undermines the notion of ‘artistic genius’ that we’ve come to associate with master painters like Vermeer. But as Walsh observes, “a proposition doesn’t accrue merit in proposition to its desirability. That you might not like the idea that Vermeer used optics reduces not one jot the probability that Vermeer used optics.”

The Marriage of Figaro 1 to 3 September

Hound in the Hunt is currently showing at MONA. Images Courtesy of Mona, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Birdcage Bar

Lisa Pilkington Duo 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex / Micheal Clennett

The Homestead

Vibrant Matters Social Club 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Republic Bar & Café

Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Crowther 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

The Homestead

Kelly Ottaway, Al Dobson, Nick Haywood + Alf Jackson Jazz Quartet 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Nick Marshall 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Midways + JAX + The Surreal Estate Agents

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

Yesterday’s Gentlemen 8:30pm

The Homestead

Aus. Songwriters Assoc. WAX Lyrical 6:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Angela Bryan Duo 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

As A Rival (Vic) + Cardinels + Shark Puncher + Laser Brains (Vic) + Mountains of Madness

Unlocked 7pm

Cargo

Millhouse

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Grand Poobah

The Pearly Whites 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Foxtrot (Vic) + Knife Hands + Verticoli + This Is A Robbery

The Live Sessions 7pm

Cargo

Millhouse

Hobart Brewing Company - The Red Shed

Federation Concert Hall

Grieg is Good 7:30pm

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Grand Poobah

Deluge: Fundraiser for the Floods: Lawless Quartet, Mama Smooth, Ukes of Hazzard, Helen Crowthers, Eleanor Tucker & Ian Murtagh 8pm

Observatory Bar

Mashton Kutcher

Onyx

Matt & Abby 10pm

Palais Theatre Franklin

Jeff Lang + Tim Davies 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sugartrain 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tim Davies / Entropy

The Apple Shed

The Backstick Agenda 6pm

The Homestead

Sunset Blush + Mayhem & Me 9pm

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe, Ruben Reeves 6:30pm

Westend Pumphouse

Jed Appleton 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Hobart Zombie March Afterparty! Mid Arvo Krackieoke w/ Al n Jazz

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Friday

Saturday

Sunday

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Monday

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Tuesday

9

Wednesday

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Thursday

Friday

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Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Onyx

Dan Vandermeer 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

William Crighton & Claire Anne Taylor 9:45pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Apple Shed

Liam Gerner 6pm

The Homestead

Cheshire (Adapted Records) + Supports 9:30pm

The Whaler

Michael Priest, Dylan Eynon 6:30pm

Westend Pumphouse

Kat Edwards 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Vacuum (Vic) + Karli White (Vic) + Projekt Camus + Bronze Savage

Brisbane Hotel

Whoretopsy (Vic) + Daemon Pyre (NSW) + Zeolite + The Absolution Sequence

Brisbane Hotel

The Lucky Dips + Mess O’ Reds + Good Gorilla Biscuits

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke (Disney Special)

Cargo

Millhouse

Cargo

Millhouse

Grand Poobah

Youth Faction & Ultra Martian 9pm

Grand Poobah

MADE Presents: The Quirky Cabaret 7:30pm

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Onyx

Catch Club 10pm

Onyx

Ebeneza Good 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Beer Garden Party - Live Music by Tim & Scott, DJ set by Funknukl 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Jeff Lang + Harry Jakamarra 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Republic Bar & Café

24Seven 10pm

The Homestead

Hobart Funk Collective 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

The Whaler

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

The Whaler

Jensen 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Uni Bar

Seth Sentry, Remi, Otis High

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Ogopogo

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Cargo

Dez

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin “Leary”

Customs House

Brisbane Hotel

Zombie Make Up FX Workshop

Noteworthy: Milo Bean, Lauren O’Keefe, Michael Priest 2:30pm

Cargo

DJ B-Rex

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Customs House

Noteworthy: Kat Edwards, Jed Appleton, Tarik Stoneman 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks and The Blue Licks 8:30pm

The Homestead

Figure It In Life Drawing 4pm

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

The Waratah Hotel

Republic Bar & Café

Maestro Koko 8:30pm

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

The Apple Shed

Mirumo 12pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

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

Republic Bar & Café

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

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Black Coffee 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Jed Appleton 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hui & The Muse 8:30pm

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

Soweto Gospel Choir 7:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex / Matt & Abby

The Homestead

Vibrant Matters Social Club 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Sabine 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Federation Concert Hall

Take Me To Rio 6pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Matthew Ives & His Big Band - an evening with Nat King Cole 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Keystone Angel 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex / Tony Mak

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

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Date

Friday

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Venue

Acts / Start Time

Republic Bar & Café

Sarah McLeod + Guests 9pm

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

The Homestead

Matt Gray 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Fabulous Bluecats 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

The Homestead

Brad Gillies 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Back - The Farting Arses (NSW) + Ironhawk + Pinchgut + Ultra Martian

Brisbane Hotel

Back - The Lawless Quartet + Lazer Baby + Lizard Johnny

Brisbane Hotel

Front - The Dreggs + A.T.O. Tax Department + I Shat (Debut) + The Prickly Grapes

Brisbane Hotel

Black Bunny + Mountains of Madness + Babylon Howl + The Write Offs (Debut)

Cargo

Millhouse

Federation Concert Hall

The People’s Playlist 7:30pm

Cargo

Millhouse

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Federation Concert Hall

Violin Got Soul 7:30pm

Onyx

Girl Friday 10pm

Grand Poobah

Automating (Melb), Bird Canyon, James Baker & Blair Rideout and Supper Occult Cosmophon in the Kissing Room 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dreadnaught + Mephistopheles + Taberah 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Big Swifty

The Apple Shed

Marty Nelson Williams 6pm

The Whaler

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor, Dylan Eynon 6:30pm

Westend Pumphouse

Jensen 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Late Night Krackieoke w/ The Psytryptanoid Twins

Brisbane Hotel

Back - TBA

Cargo

Millhouse

Grand Poobah

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

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24

25

Friday

26

James Parry In The Lights album launch w/ Spiral Kites & Hayley Couper 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Onyx

Jerome Hillier 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boo Seeka + Guests 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Apple Shed

Bity Brooker 6pm

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The Homestead

Broken Things Presents ‘20 Five Hz… Free Party’ 9:30pm

Grand Poobah

Chupacabra 9pm

The Whaler

Jensen, Dylan Eynon 6:30pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Westend Pumphouse

Nick Machin 8:30pm

Onyx

Tony Voglino 10pm

Wrest Point Showroom

James Reyne and Mark Seymour 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Blues Fest (Hot August Jazz) Cool August Blues 3pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Minds in Motion + Cardinals + Ultra Martian 10pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - Tas-Battles

St George’s Church

Brisbane Hotel

Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf T-Shirt (NSW) + Safe Hands (NSW) + Ultra Martian

Allegri Ensemble perform Handel’s “Dixit Dominus” 3pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Cargo

Millhouse

The Whaler

Michael Priest 8pm

Federation Concert Hall

Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton 10am

Wrest Point Showroom

The Best of the Eagles 8pm

Grand Poobah

Oxfam Fundraiser: A.Swayze and The Ghosts, Hayley Couper, Heart Beach, Bu$ Money, Drunk Elk, The Pits, The Lucky Dips and The Foxy Morons 8pm

Baha’I Centre

Elanee Masterworks Series Concert 2 2:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Luca Brasi + Moose Blood (UK) + The Hard Aches (SA) + Maddy Jane

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Fudge Knuckle

Cargo

Dez

Customs House

Noteworthy: Celeste & Alex, Jonathan Warwareck, The Hill Before My House 2:30pm

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Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Onyx

Blue Monday 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Paces + Kowl 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Seretonin

The Homestead

Craicpot 9pm

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe 8pm

Jack Greene

Micheal lennett

Wrest Point Showroom

1927 and Pseudo Echo 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hot August Jazz Festival 2pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim Hibberd 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Blarney Stone Cold Steve Austin

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

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm

Monday

29

Cargo

Dez

Onyx

Matt & Abby 10pm

Customs House

Noteworthy: Zach Spinks, Ani Lou, Harrison Manton 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Kill Devil Hills 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

The Homestead

Jesse McCormack 7pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

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

Birdcage Bar

Janelle Stowe 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak Tim And Scott 8:30pm

Tuesday

Wednesday

30

31

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Republic Bar & Café

Finn Seccombe 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex / Micheal Clennett

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dean Stevenson 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sabine Bester 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Republic Bar & Café

The Great Anticipators 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex / Matt & Abby

The Homestead

Mangus Duo 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Les Coqs 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Comedy Forge

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

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TOWN

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Denni Sulzberger, Alice Headlam, Tiarni Cane

AUGUST Thursday

4

Launceston Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: William Crighton & Claire Ann Taylor 8:30pm

Friday

5

Launceston

Club 54

Seth Sentry, Remi, Otis High

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Tim Gambles 9pm

Saturday

6

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Launceston

Bakers Lane

Foxtrot, Foley, The Sleepyheads, Cuban Heel (Day Show)

Launceston

Club 54

Private Party

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Dave Adams & Purple Cane Church 9pm

Launceston

Tonic CCT

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

The Speakeasys 7pm

Sunday

7

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

10

Launceston

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

Launceston

Princess Theatre

Soweto Gospel Choir 7:30pm

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Angus and Julio 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Launceston

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Hurricane Youth (Acoustic), Dani Quilliam, Chris Jackson

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Jeff Lang - Rarities Vinyl Tour 9pm

Launceston

Club 54

Verticoli, Hurricane Youth, Pale Feet

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Whoretopsy + Plague of Sickness + Zeolite + Daemon Pyre 8:30pm

Thursday Friday

Saturday

Sunday Wednesday

Thursday Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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13

14 17

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20

21

24

25

26

27

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Rino Morea 7pm

Launceston

Club 54

As A Rival, Cardinels, Laser Brains, Cape Grim

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Paper Souls Trio 9pm

Launceston

Tonic CCT

Leigh Ratcliffe 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Day Star Duo 7pm

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Ulverstone

Jazz @ The Wharf

Spike Mason and Marshall Nichols 3pm

Launceston

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Julio and Angus 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm

Launceston

Bakers Lane

The Brew: New Wave Saints (Acoustic), Nick Bennett, Angus Austin

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Tim Gambles 9pm

Launceston

Club 54

The Sleepyheads, Squid Fishing, Denni Sulzberger

Launceston

Country Club Showroom

1927 and Pseudo Echo 8pm

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Fresh Comedy - Cal Wilson 7:30pm

Launceston

Tonic CCT

Clinton Hutton 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Sambo & Patto 7pm

Devonport

Devonport Entertainment Centre

Country Gold 2pm

Launceston

Club 54

Pokemon Go Party

Launceston

Country Club Showroom

James Reyne and Mark Seymour 8pm

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Boo Seeka - Oh/My Tour 8:30pm

Launceston

Tonic CCT

The Doctors Rocksters 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Rino Morea 7pm

Launceston

Hotel New York

Paces

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Open Jazz Jam 1pm

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Launceston

Club 54

HM Party: ‘H’ & ‘M’ Theme

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Open Mic Night 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Rino Morea 6:30pm

Devonport

Devonport Entertainment Centre

The Best of the Eagles 8pm

Launceston

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Cuban Heel (Acoustic), Trent Buchanan, Lilyana Sanoe

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Brad Gillies Blues 9pm

Launceston

Club 54

James Parry In The Lights album launch w/ Cubal Heel & Isla Ka 9pm

Launceston

Country Club Showroom

The Best of the Eagles 8pm

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Sarah McLeod - Alone & Unplugged 8:30pm

Launceston

Tonic CCT

Nat & Andy 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Trevor Weaver 7pm

Launceston

Club 54

Dreadnought, Mephistopheles, Actuality, Shark Puncher

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Samuel Bester 9pm

Launceston

Tonic CCT

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Proud Phoneys 7pm

Sunday

28

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Open Blues Jam 1pm

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Tuesday

30

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed: Launceston Jazz Club 6pm

Wednesday

31

Launceston

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

Launceston

The Royal Oak

Public Bar: Brian Fraser 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden CCT

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

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