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NEWS IN BRIEF XEN AND THE ART OF KFC Love, death and rhythm will be the themes when the Kunanyi Folk Club hosts the wild Balkan sounds of Xenos at the Fern Tree Tavern on Saturday August 3. The long-time folk-festival dance-favourites will reform as a fourpiece for a special show at Hobart’s newest folk club. Xenos is the sound of contemporary Balkan music, particularly the wild wedding music of Macedonia and Bulgaria. The band combines ancient traditional instruments with Gypsy, Turkish and electric Western influences.

Entry is $12 (adults), $10 (concession and Folk Federation members), $5 (youth 1217) and kids free. For dinner bookings, call 6239 1171.

CONVICTION Something new and original is coming to haunt us. Virtuosi Tasmania will present a piece written by Chris Williams adapted from his orchestral score, Convict Monologues. The original piece resulted from a ten month collaboration between the Risdon Prison Creative Learning Program and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Outreach Program. The concerts will be played 11am on Tuesday July 30 at Riversdale Estate, Cambridge, 2pm on Saturday August 3 at Burnie Arts and Function Centre, Burnie, 2pm on Sunday August 4 at St Andrews Anglican Church, Evandale, and at 11am on Monday August 5 at MONA’s Organ Room in Berriedale. Tickets $30/$25, available at the door or from the website – www. virtuositas.org.au.

throughout September. This upcoming album is the band’s first since 2014 and the unquestionably catchy first cut, “Keep on Coming Back” incorporates all the elements of the classic Wagons’ sound. According to the band, “’Songs From The Aftermath’ cascades through random visions and emotions, like a long road trip through the night.” Jump on the bandwagon and catch them at the Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday September 7.

Hotel in Hobart on Saturday September 21. Tickets available via the venues.

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SLUMMING IT Melbourne’s much loved Slum Sociable have confirmed a national tour in support of their forthcoming EP L.I.F., which should be available right about now. The 11-date tour will see the band making it to all Australian states and a host of regional shows across August and September.

Fresh from huge summer performances including St. Kilda Festival, Australian Open Sessions and their memorable Melbourne X-Mas show, the band are locked and loaded to perform their most exciting shows yet in support of the EP. You can catch them at the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart on Saturday September 14.

Tickets available via Oztix.

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You Am I and Jebediah are two legendary bands that have resonated with Australian music fans for over two decades. As close friends and mutually agreeing that two is always better than one, the bands will tour together through late 2019 bringing all their hook laden punk rock to life for audiences around the country from Purple Sneakers and Berlin Chair to Leaving Home and Harpoon. The tour sees them make one stop in Tasmania, playing at the Uni Bar in Hobart on Thursday October 10.

Tickets from Oztix.

TROPICAL WEATHER

Fresh from a stand-out performance at Glastonbury (where she appeared with Billy Bragg), Stella Donnelly is delighted to announce a series of national headline dates in support of her debut album Beware of the Dogs, released in March this year. The tour will take in venues across Melbourne, Fremantle, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane, Canberra, and Sydney, along with a number of regional towns including Castlemaine, Ballarat, Wollongong and others this September and October. On Saturday October 5, Stella will appear at the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart with special guest Jade Imagine.

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After spending the past year pulverizing the world with their stupefying live performances, Tropical Fu*k Storm return home to tour their new album Braindrops and put the Antipodean public to the sword! Braindrops, the follow up to 2018’s epic odyssey, A Laughing Death in Meatspace, will be released on Flightless Records on Friday August 23. Joining them on their national release tour, will be local legends, All The Weathers. You can catch Tropical Fu*k Storm and All The Weathers on stage at Altar in Hobart on Thursday October 17. To pre order your very own personal limited edition copy of Braindrops, head over to www. flightlessrecords.com for details!

BLACK AND BLUE The man behind “The Real Thing”, Russell Morris is crossing the breadth of Tasmania at the end of this month with three shows. He begins on the North West Coast at Rocky Cape Tavern on Friday August 30, before heading to Pub Rock Diner on the Saturday and finishes up at the Longley International Hotel on Sunday September 1. Get your fill of an Australian living legend.

ON YOUR WAGON Wagons are making their triumphant return to 2019 releasing their first new music in five years, with their new album Songs From The Aftermath, out August 9, along with an Australian tour

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LION-O Pseudo Echo pioneered in the 80’s with their stylized electro sound and look establishing themselves as one of the most iconic, multi award-winning and influential bands in the country, producing several Top 10 hits including “Listening, “A Beat For You”, and many more. But “Funky Town” is where it’s at. After the release of “Funky Town”, the band dropped several studio albums including “Teleporter”, “Ultra-Violet” and more recently “Live at the Viper Room” recorded at the legendary Viper Room in LA. Now they’re back bigger than ever with an edgy look and sound and you can see it for yourself at Pub Rock Diner in Devonport on Friday September 20 and The Waratah

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Byron Bay artist Kyle Lionhart will release his highly anticipated debut album Too Young on Friday September 20! To celebrate the news, Kyle has released the album’s anthemic new single ‘Holding On’, accompanied by the stunning video, directed by Nick Maguire and shot in the height of Japan’s charming cherry blossom season. To celebrate the new album, single and video, Kyle will be setting off on a national tour throughout October and November. He’ll be kicking off the tour at The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Friday October 18, and it’s gonna be a gooden. For more info, head to www.kylelionhartmusic.com.

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The band on everyone’s ‘must see’ list this year is Sydney based outfit Lime Cordiale.

Brothers Oli and Louis Leimbach who are responsible for delivering hook-laden jams such as ‘Dirt Cheap’ (which landed in triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2018) have been touring non-stop and selling out headline shows throughout Australia, New Zealand, and most recently, on a six week tour across Europe and the UK. The band are heading home to Australia for one final round of touring to thank fans for making 2019 the year of Lime Cordiale.

Lime’s mini-festival, The Squeeze staged earlier this year proved that Oli, Louis and their band can turn any venue into a massive party. You can catch them at Hobart Uni Bar on Thursday November 28 and The Saloon, Launceston on Friday November 29.

Mike Noga recently announced details of his follow up to 2016’s critically acclaimed rock and roll concept album, KING. OPEN FIRE will be recorded in August at Sacred Heart Studios in Duluth, Minnesota with Alan Sparhawk from indie legends LOW in the producer’s seat. Noga and Low toured Europe, Australia and New Zealand together in 2016 and became friends, with Sparhawk offering to produce Noga’s next album at their studio in their hometown of Duluth, MN. OPEN FIRE was written in Noga’s hometown of Hobart, where he’s now based, and will be released in early 2020.

for the trio. Their Hobart Regatta Grounds performance is a very special all ages gig.

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Sampa The Great creates a sense of home on her debut album – The Return. A characterful record, its reference points range from classic hiphop to ancient Southern African sounds. Built on four years of personal and musical soulsearching, it’s an assured statement, the product of meaningful musical connections and of Sampa having to redefine her self-identity away from the comforts of family and old friends. After recently playing Dark MOFO, Sampa The Great returns to Tasmania to play at The Republic Bar & Cafe on Thursday October 24. Tickets are available now via Oztix, and will set you back $32.65.

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Australian Punk legends The HardOns recently released their 12th studio album So I Could Have Them Destroyed.

Clocking in at a concise 30 minutes through 12 tracks, it is a wild but focused memorandum of the current incarnation of The Hard-Ones. Original founding member Keish is welcomed back into the fold, joining drummer Murray and co-founders Ray and Blackie. Rampaging guitars, throbbing rhythms and beautiful harmonised vocals, it is proof that some artists just get better with age. You can catch The Hard-Ons (joined by Without Fail, and local supports) at Altar in Hobart on Friday November 29, and at the Pub Rock Diner in Devonport on Saturday November 30. Tickets available via Oztix.

Cancel everything, RUFUS DU SOL is coming to Hobart on Saturday January 4 and will be performing at the Hobart Regatta Grounds with special guests in their one and only headline show in Australia! RUFUS DU SOL has emerged as one of the world’s most preeminent live electronic acts. The three-piece band comprising of Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George and James Hunt, have released two platinum-certified albums, ATLAS and Bloom, with their newly unveiled third album Solace ushering in a new chapter

Red Hot Summer is only getting hotter for your fix of classic Australian rock.

This Summer’s lineup has been freshly announced and it’s positively sizzling; Hunters & Collectors, James Reye, The Living End, The Angels, Baby Animals, Killing Heidi and Boom Crash Opera. You have two chances to see this lineup in Tasmania, The Royal Botanical Gardens in Hobart on Saturday January 25 and the lawns of Country Club Tasmania in Launceston on Sunday January 26.

Tickets for both shows are available via Ticketmaster.

BEER O’CLOCK

Eternal favourites, The Black Sorrows have announced a sideshow off their appearance at One Electric Day at the Country Club Tasmania. With their 18th studio album released this year Citizen John, Joe Camilleri and the Sorrows outfit are showing no signs of slowing down even after close to 40 years in the business. Check them at the Longley Hotel on Sunday November 3. Tickets from the venue.

It’s the biggest and most anticipated BeerFest yet. Australia’s longest running, original beer festival returns this summer with seven festivals taking place across Australia. For the first time, BeerFest will expand it’s national program to Canberra and Brisbane, while returning to Fremantle, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Launceston. Now in it’s 11th year, BeerFest offers a huge line-up of live entertainment with Australian electronic dance group Art vs Science headlining at all seven festivals in 2019/2020. The Launceston BeerFest takes place at Royal Park, on Tuesday December 31. Tickets go on sale from Tuesday August 6 via www.beerfestivals.com.au.

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BRISBANE FOUR-PIECE THE JUNGLE GIANTS MAY BE TAKING THINGS SLOWER ON THE RECORDING SIDE OF THINGS AT THE MOMENT, BUT IT HASN’T STOPPED THEM ANNOUNCING A BIG OL’ HEADLINING TOUR IN THE MEANTIME. THEY’LL SET OUT THIS SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER ON THE HEAVY HEARTED TOUR, NAMED FOR THEIR MOST RECENT SINGLE, PLAYING TRACKS OLD AND NEW.

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‘Heavy Hearted’, you’ll notice, signifies a bit of a sound change for the band; where previous singles have been heavier on jangly guitars and a boppier indie-pop vibe, ‘Heavy Hearted’ has a decidedly more dance-y, electro-pop sound.

Of course, the catchy pop sensibilities they’ve always had are still there, but the single is a little peek behind the curtain into what to expect from the band in the near future.

Lead guitarist Cesira Aitken is currently in pretour chillax mode, fixing guitars (“It’s actually quite relaxing”) and surrounding herself with records. She grew up listening to her Dad’s vinyl collection and has been playing guitar since grade six, so she’s in her element.

“I recently got my housemate’s vinyl decks set up, so I’ve been spending a lot of time mucking around with my vinyl collection, being a DJ at home, which is fun.” she explains. “It’s a lot of my Dad’s old stuff, mine, my boyfriend’s...a lot of soul and funk stuff, little bit of house stuff, lots of Prince. Absolute lord status, Prince is always number one. I got to the age where I was like, ‘I just like it all’.”

The Jungle Giants came together as a band while most of the members were in Uni, though they’d all known each other from the same Brisbane high school. After a couple of EPs in 2011 and 2012 (self-titled and She’s A Riot, respectively), the band supported acts like Last Dinosaurs, The Vaccines and Two Door Cinema Club; they came to the attention of triple j and the She’s A Riot single ended up at #83 in the 2012 Hottest 100.

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Learn to Exist, which topped the ARIA Charts at #12- with festival appearances and radio rotation coming in hot and regular touring helping to secure them a happy fanbase. Two more studio albums followed: Speakerzoid in 2015 and Quiet Ferocity in 2017; the latter won them a ‘Best Independent Album’ AIR award in 2018, Album of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards, and got to #11 on the ARIA charts. The bandespecially Sam Hales who, as well as doing vocals and guitars, is also the band’s in-house producer- aren’t rushing themselves on new releases though, which relieves some pressure.

“Sam’s always cooking away at demos, there’ll be some kind of album at some point.” Aitkens says on the status of another upcoming record.

“It may just pop up, maybe next year. We’re gonna give it heaps of air, give Sam all the time that he needs. It can feel not so rigid in how everything is formatted these days, you can pop a single out and then an album if you want; even just the slow burning content keeps the machine kind of moving.”

but, my God, the difference in who we are and what the music was, it’s so different! It’s really strange going back and listening to that music, remembering those times: recording together at eighteen and touring at that age. It is fun to jog the memory and bring some songs back.”

Of course, it’s a lot easier to be on tour heaps with your band, travelling the country and playing shows, when you’re all great mates.

“Just having known each other since we were fourteen, fifteen, we’ve grown up together and now it’s like...when we’re apart, it’s odd. We definitely need to be together. We essentially just wanna have shit loads of fun.”

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“We work with Sam as he needs it, everything happens as it’s needed. Sam is an absolute machine, doing everything as it goes. It’s fun to watch and it definitely is a system that totally works for the band.”

“Half the band is in Melbourne and half is based in Brissie. Now it’s about putting a show together, compiling all the songs we’re gonna play. It’ll be our first headline tour in a while, so we’re gonna do a big ol’ set; it’s funny going through early stuff and listening to stuff we might play. We were so young, between seventeen and twenty-five...it isn’t that long ago,

The Jungle Giants play The Goods Shed in Hobart on Saturday September 14. Tickets availble from Oztix.

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JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL CREATIVE DIRECTOR GREG CLARKE CLEARLY KNOWS THAT THE TRUE VALUE OF A FESTIVAL IS ITS ABILITY TO WOW AND AMAZE ITS PUNTERS. IT’S THIS DRIVE THAT MAKES JUNCTION- AND OTHER SUCH UNIQUELY TASMANIAN FESTIVALS- SO UNPARALLELLED AND ENJOYABLE. THE FIVE-DAY EVENT, FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T HAD THE PLEASURE, TAKES PLACE IN VARIOUS POCKETS ACROSS LAUNCESTON, SHOWING OFF THE CITY’S UNIQUE SPACES, NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE WITH LIVE MUSIC, THEATRE, DANCE, PERFORMANCE ART, INSTALLATIONS, GOOD FOOD, AND WHATEVER ELSE THE JUNCTION TEAM THINK YOU MIGHT ENJOY.

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“THE WORD ‘FESTIVAL’ COMES FROM THE WORD ‘FESTIVUS’; WHEN THE CROPS WERE READY, EVERYONE WOULD COME TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE THE FOOD THAT THEY’D GROWNI LOOK AT IT LIKE NOTHINGS CHANGED! THERE’S BARS AND FIRES AND LOCAL PRODUCE, IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT BUYING A TICKET AND GOING, IT’S ABOUT SEEING ART AND SOCIALISING AND DRINKING AND EATING…”

“That’s what Tassie is becoming known for, having these original festivals, it’s nothing like what you’d find on the mainland. They led the way with Dark Mofo, no-one was doing a festival like that. Junction is like that aswell, it’s always been this unique festival.”

“For the last two years I’ve kind of shifted the focus of the festival. We wanna be known as the first to go to to see work by Tassie artists. That’s the path we’re on.” Clarke explains, on what to expect in 2019. “That’s the big framing thing; we’re working with indie Tasmanian artists to make new commissions around the city, working with Tassie arts companies to create new work to present in the festival. There’s over twenty Tassie bands on the music lineup; Tasdance and Stompin’ are creating new work that’ll be having their world premieres at the festival; we’ve gotten about ten artists to create new installations for the festival. There’s so many great artists in Tasmania.”

This year, you can expect to see, to name but a few things: a Paul Capsis cabaret, a theatrical ghost tour, site-specific dance performances from the TasDance crew, nightly open fire cookups from local culinary legends, Ange Boxall’s Guts, Grit & Lipstick: Queens of Country show, storytelling nights hosted by Rachel Berger, gorgeous immersive art installations from Nightlight, a peek at Launceston architectural beauties with Open House Launceston and more.

Junction is one of the many (and it’s a growing number) festivals and events to wholly embrace Tasmania for what it is: beautiful, fiercely unique, and, let’s agree, cold. But why not lean into it! Junction, and events like Dark Mofo, are fully embracing Tasmania’s reputation for inclement weather, and is leaning into it- after all, what good is a gorgeous, sometimes snowy, winter if you’re cooped up inside?

so I go back and forth. We have an amazing team based in Launceston, they deliver the festival and they have a great relationship with the local community.”

“There’s definitely a concerted effort by the state and local governments, and the University of Tasmania, everyone is working together to go, ‘what can we do in the north of Tassie to support the fabulous things happening in Launceston’.

It’s also got that thing of stepping back in time, most of the architecture wasn’t destroyed in the 1960s, and there’s nature right on the doorstep, with the gorge. It’s pretty unique, and the size means you can walk everywhere. The arts community is really supportive of each other.”

Clarke was hard-pressed to choose only a couple of things he’s most excited about for the 2019 festival, clearly looking forward to the full fiveday extravaganza, but noted a few cool events that attendees should check out.

“I’m really excited about Night Light, a program where artists have created projections, performances and installations in all kinds of weird spaces, buildings in and around Princes Square. That’s every night. We’re gonna do a thing called Junction Campfire Sessions, with First Nations storytellers and artists; it’ll be really casual, you can walk up, sit down by the fire and hear some stories from Tassie First Nations artists. None of our performances are in theatres and none of our art is in galleries.

Christopher Coleman & the Great Escape, which features members of Augie March and The Drones, they’ll be featuring their new album on the Saturday night. Even though it’s the first week of spring, it’s still cold so we’ll have fires everywhere. We’re also doing a thing called Crossfire Kitchen, which’ll be food cooked on open fires, different things each night.”

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“There’s something special about Tasmania, that’s what drew me to the festival.” Clarke says.

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Junction Arts Festival takes place September 4 - 8 across Launceston. Hit up the festival website for program, tickets and locations – www. junctionartsfestival.com.au.

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“I don’t get caught up in modern trends. Raquel and I are a bit disconnected from society, we live in a cabin in the forest. We don’t have a TV, don’t read the paper, we just live our lives and we’re happy. That’s how we like it.”

But music, of course, is always there. Although Canham is still rocking the new-wave rock sound, he’s got a diverse range of musical favourites.

“We do stream music; we experiment and take suggestions, you hear music in a cafe and Google it. My taste is very eclectic and very broad. I like current and not-so current music:

WHAT YOU DON’T TYPICALLY EXPECT IS THAT A ROCK STAR WOULD LIVE IN AN ISOLATED CABIN IN THE YARRA RANGES. BUT THAT’S HOW PSEUDO ECHO FRONTMAN BRIAN CANHAM ROLLS; FOR THE LAST SEVEN OR SO YEARS, CANHAM HAS LIVED WITH HIS WIFE RAQUEL (ALSO THE BAND’S MANAGER) IN REGIONAL VICTORIA, AWAY FROM THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF INNER-CITY LIFE. AND HE’S BLOODY LOVING IT. Rammstein, I love Tame Impala, First Aid Kit...I recently went to see I Know Leopard, a great 70s/80s throwback. Music has changed anyway: there was once all quite distinctly different decades, then in the 90s and 2000s, you can see it’s less of a defined sound to a decade. The last twenty years it’s blurred the lines. Bands aren’t so strapped down into what they’re thinking is in and out anymore.”

Canham is soon heading out to tour the country, with old and new Pseudo Echo tracks in tow.

Pseudo Echo formed in Melbourne in 1982, disbanded in 1990 and then reformed in 1998; in the interim, Canham got into songwriting and

production, meaning he was well-equipped to produce the band’s tunes from thereon in. The band’s last album- not including 2015’s Live at the Viper Room- was 2014’s Ultraviolet, their first record together in fourteen years. The idea for that album was birthed when they got together for some shows to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their debut single, Listening; they ended up utilising a crowdfunding platform to raise cash for the record, getting heaps more than they’d asked for.

“I’ve been working on some new material we can hopefully release for the new tour, a couple of covers that we love and have wanted to do, getting back in the swing of being in the studio when you’ve been on the road for a while.”

Canham explains, on getting back into the ebb and flow of the touring/recording cycle. “It’s a different mindset, when you’re doing shows, you’re in ‘rock star mode’ (laughs), which is all ‘go go go’. It’s all about the performance and energy, then you come off the road and get back into studio mindset, which is very calculated. You have to think things through: software updates, running the machine. When you’re touring, you can be creative and cut loose, but in the studio you’ve gotta get your head together a bit more, listen to a song a thousand times when you’re working on it.”

Canham is nowadays the only remaining original member of the band. As he explains, he intends to take the Pseudo Echo name forwards with a sound that’s modern and befitting the members, but maintains the spirit of those 80s tracks.

“Look at cars on the market today, like a Mini.

They are now recalling the essence of the Mini; repackaging it as a modern car, but it harks back to the image of the car, like a heritage model, throwing back cues from the past. That’s what I do with the music. I think about what is the essence of the early material, what made it sound the way it did, and then I apply it to the mind and knowledge that I have now, which is far advanced from when I was twenty. It’s a fine line of what fans want and what you wanna give them, you have to consider all angles. Pseudo Echo is a household name, I have to consider that.”

Thankfully, Canham bloody loves his bandmates, which makes the journey all the more easy and enjoyable.

“The people that I work with in the band, they’re all beautiful people with hearts of gold, and things like that make such a difference when you’re touring. It’s not much fun watching a band when you know they don’t like each other! I did see a classic duo from the 1960s, I’d been a big fan and when I saw them on stage, they didn’t connect, it was fake for the sake of the role. It must be very frustrating, it can’t be a good life, basically living a lie.”

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Pseudo Echo play the Pub Rock Diner in Devonport on Friday September 20 and The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday September 21. Tickets from the venues.

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QUEEN & COUNTRY OUNTRY SINGER-SONGWRITER KASEY CHAMBERS HAS MANAGED TO REMAIN WELL-GROUNDED AND LEVEL-HEADED DESPITE AROUND THREE DECADES IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. SHE’LL BE ON TOUR THIS YEAR WITH HER ORIGINAL BAND TO CELEBRATE, IN FACT, THE TWENTY-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF HER DEBUT SMASH, THE CAPTAIN; THE ALBUM WENT 2X PLATINUM AND NABBED THE BEST COUNTRY ALBUM ARIA IN 1999. IT INTRODUCED CHAMBERS TO A HUGE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOVED HER NO-NONSENSE ATTITUDE AND CHARISMATIC COUNTRY MUSIC. WHEN I CHAT WITH HER, CHAMBERS IS RECENTLY BACK FROM AFRICA, A PLACE SHE HAS ALWAYS ADORED.

“I work in a school in Zambia, I teach music and do a bit of everything.” she explains. “This trip, we were there for about a month with my family.

[My kids] helped volunteer in the school, my eldest son taught the kids AFL. I got to play gigs along the way. My first trip was twenty-two years ago; funnily enough, that first trip inspired a lot of the songs on The Captain! It’s kind of come full circle.”

“Sometimes I think about it and my life has changed so much that it feels like fifty years ago, in other ways it feels like just yesterday. I still play The Captain, every gig, I am never sick of it.

I’m still really connected to that song, still feels current to me.”

Chambers has released eleven more albums since The Captain, becoming one of Australia’s country queens, and racking up stacks of awards, including an induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2018, the youngest female recipient.

Though Chambers’ music has evolved since her early records, there’s been a throughline of earnest, often deeply poignant, lyricism, an unpretentious country feeling and that signature voice.

“MY LIFE HAS GOTTEN VERY CRAZY OVER THE YEARS, BUT I HAVE TO GO OUT OF MY WAY TO GO, ‘DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN THIS’. LIKE ONE MINUTE I’M FLYING TO NASHVILLE TO RECORD AND DOING RED CARPETS AND THE NEXT MINUTE I’M MAKING SCHOOL LUNCHES. I’M REMINDING MYSELF WHAT MUSIC MEANS TO ME AND WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO ME OUTSIDE OF MUSIC.” “I’m pretty old school, but I think we have to embrace change. I think there’s room for everybody to do things in their own way. You just go with what you think is right at the time, make mistakes and learn from them, there’s not just one way or doing things, I’m living proof of that, I didn’t follow the rules and do things people told me to do.”

“I think, in a lot of ways, even though I’ve learnt a lot about music and songwriting and recording, I still think I have a lot of the same approach that I had twenty years ago.” Chambers explains. “I still try to not overthink it too much. Even though I’d like to think I have a lot more of a handle on it, I still go with what feels right- it’s not always what is gonna sell the most records or do well on the radio, I just do what feels right to me. I think I’ve always been that way.”

LISA DIB

Kasey Chambers plays the Town Hall Theatre in Devonport on Friday October 11th, Theatre North in Launceston on Saturday October 12 and Wrest Point in Hobart on Sunday October 13. Tickets from the venues.

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RECOGNISING WOMEN IN MUSIC THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN MUSIC AWARDS RETURNS FOR ITS SECOND YEAR IN 2019 AND IT PLANS TO DO, AS IT PROMISES: TO CELEBRATE WOMEN ACROSS THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY MARGINALISED BY THE MAINSTREAM, LIKE FIRST NATIONS WOMEN. FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VICKI GORDON IS HUGELY AND WONDERFULLY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE INITIATIVE. “The first year was phenomenal.” she says on last year’s groundbreaking event.

“As a result of the awards last year, four women were added to the ARIA board. I left the board in 2002 and there hadn’t been another woman since then, until last year.”

As a First Nations woman herself, Gordon is resolute about empowering and advocating for First Nations women in an arena that so often doesn’t allow space for diverse folks. She hopes the AWMA will help change the landscape.

“My background is New Zealand Maori; I came here with $300 and my guitar, worked as a musician. There’s a saying in life that if you know what your volition is, that’s a gift and I’ve known that since I was a young girl. You know when you’re in the right place, because things work.

I ran record labels for years, I’ve always worked in music, music for me has always been the thing that’s empowered me and made me feel comfortable in the world.

I don’t play a lot of music at all now, my work is about empowering others.”

The awards features a good spread of diverse categories across performance, production, management, songwriting, photography, filmmaking and more- with the addition in 2019 of the recognition of Excellence in Classical Music and the Music Journalist Award.

“Women have always been very, very present, in terms of the culture of the industry, but the only way to address gender issues is to empower women into decision-making roles.” Gordon explains. “We still know women creative artists earn far less than men, they receive less airplay on Austalian radio, we also know that festival lineups are dominated sometimes entirely by male artists. Women hold only 28% of key strategic roles in organisations. There’s a lack of women in tech and production is still low; there’s more women in music photography than ever before that’s good, and more women in artist management.”

“With AWMA, we’re saying, ‘we’ve all had enough of an industry that has excluded us’. We’ve created a celebration: every year we’re giving around eighteen awards to women in different award categories, which has enabled the industry to have a greater conversation about different skill sets, like women in technical areas. It’s not a big moan fest, it enables a much broader group of people to see what we’re doing and embrace our mission. We have started a movement and the response to what we’re doing, there’s so much positivity. It’s something that’s so badly needed.”

LISA DIB

The Australian Women in Music Awards take place on October 8 & 9 at the Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland. See the website for further details – www.womeninmusicawards. com.au.

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BETTER THAN AIR GUITAR

Such an instrument is a fitting addition to the BeakerStreet@TMAG family; the event, running Friday August 16th and Saturday August 17th, is a big and diverse “parlour of curiosities”. It’ll feature all manner of events on science-y stuff: evolution, what species we should be eating, genetics, technology, astronomy, video games and the future of the human race. There’ll be other fun festival stuff, like food, live music, booze and DIY and interactive activities. Science is so wildly wide-ranging that there’s sure to be something for all you folks! But back to Ilsar and his fabulous invention.

“They allow me to play electronic instruments in space without hitting anything” Ilsar explains. “I can trigger sounds and visuals and manipulate them through twisting and turning. With a theremin you can control pitch and volume; with airsticks you can control hundreds of parameters.”

Ilsar’s background as a drummer/percussionist and other such musical roles informed his eventual work with the airsticks; having worn various hats (composer, musical director, sound designer, composer) with works and acts like Keating! The Musical, Meow Meow with the London Philharmonic, Tim Minchin, Eddie Perfect, Alan Cumming, Glitch Jukebox, Kirin J Callinan, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and heaps more, Ilsar also completed a PhD in instrument design.

Co-designed and invented with computer programmer/composer Dr Mark Havryliv, the airsticks were eventually born from their combined ingenuity and the desire to boldly reimagine the percussive form and limitations.

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ALON ILSAR’S WEBSITE HAS THE FITTING TITLE: “MAN, BODY, MUSIC AND LIGHT AS ONE”. IT’S AN APT DESCRIPTION FOR SOMETHING FRANKLY HARD TO DESCRIBE; THE DRUMMER, COMPOSER AND INVENTOR WILL PERFORM AS PART OF BEAKERSTREET@TMAG (THE POP-UP SCIENCE BAR AT THE TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY DURING SCIENCE WEEK) WITH HIS MUSICAL DISCOVERY: THE AIRSTICKS.

“I met a wonderful composer/computer programmer [Havryliv] about fifteen years ago and we started inventing little gadgets.”

Ilsar explains. “It took us a long time to find controllers that did what we wanted them to do, but in 2012 we found a VR controller that did. I guess what I like about the project is [that] we had the idea before the tech was even there, we just waited until it was on the market. I have a background as a drummer so I use them in a very percussive way. I’ve always been a drummer professionally, I got into producing electronic music and wanted to play that music live and expand my palate.”

Ilsar has also incorporated the airsticks into some of his many musical projects. “[One] band is called The Sticks, it’s based around improvising with the airsticks and being able to play with other musicians who can improvise and see what the airsticks can do with the other instruments. It’s a very collaborative band. Part of my PhD was writing about that experience and reflecting how bringing that kind of instrument changes the approach.”

The Airsticks have been used by or with the likes of Alan Cumming, Thundamentals and Thelma Plum, as well as Ilsar himself in his show, Trigger Happy ‘Visualised’, which you’ll be able to experience for yourself as part of his BeakerStreet@TMAG performance. But they’ve also got other uses.

“We’ve been doing workshops with a lot of different music therapists and community leaders; for example, we went into aged care facilities and gave controllers to with people

living with dementia, with different sound worlds they could explore. They could point in front of them and hear different sounds, get them moving and identifying sounds. What was even more inspiring was allowing them to play virtual music; one woman started singing over this virtual harp, it was incredible to allow her to be creative and present. I think everyone should have music and creativity in their life.”

Trigger Happy ‘Visualised’ will be a audio-visual exploration of space; Ilsar will utilise the airsticks to command the music of his own project - Comatone and Foley, his two-hander with Greg Seiler - with accompanying visuals by Matt Hughes.

“We’re kind of trying to figure out what performances of the future will look like.” Ilsar says, on the show. “How audience members relate to tech that they don’t quite understand that’s in front of them. People have their own belief of what is real and what isn’t. There was one friend who came up to me after a gig and saw me sitting still while music still played and he was convinced I was controlling it through eye movement (laughs)” LISA DIB

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WATCH THIS FACE JUDE PERL’S AWARD-WINNING CABARET I HAVE A FACE IS A HUMOROUS AND EMOTIONAL INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD THROUGH THE LENS OF ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S GREATEST RISING COMEDIANS. I CHAT WITH HER ABOUT FITTING IN, STANDING OUT AND NEVER AGAIN PERFORMING AT THE SAME TIME AS WALEED ALLY.

the lyrics as much. That’s what drew me to it, to use comedy to talk about serious things and to do it in a hopefully funny way.”

The latest EP I Have A Face, is the soundtrack to the show she’s bringing to Launceston, which is a rollercoaster of emotions that will have you in absolute awe. It has Perl being ecstatic that she finally has the freedom to use words like ‘pimple’ and ‘genital warts’. It certainly highlights the remarkable talent that had unjustifiably been dismissed years prior.

“I know that parts of it are funny, parts of it are the complete opposite of funny. I like the way that is theatrical, like a musical, songs can go between funny and feeling sad. And hopefully people are open to all of those motions, which can sometimes be hard in a comedy context.’

According to Perl, the show – which won Best Cabaret award at Melbourne Fringe last year - is very much for people that enjoy feelings and thoughts. It’s for the overthinkers and the anxiety-ridden hearts. It’s a brutally honest portray of what she’s thinking, feeling and seeing. An honest observation of both herself and others.

“I Have A Face was written so that people who feel alone can feel less alone. That’s sort of the whole point of the show. Anyone that ever has any angst about stuff like that, I feel this is a great show to come to. And I’m very funny, and good at music.” Laughs Perl.

If you listen to the record, you’ll get a glimmer of what you’re in for regarding the live show. You’ll be overjoyed one minute and heartbroken the next and that’s exactly the sort of reaction Perl hopes for. Expect to be laughing, and crying, sometimes simultaneously.

“I think both of those things are so important, to laugh at the ridiculousness of the world is so cathartic and important. And being really honest and having a cry about how things can be hard sometimes is also really important. The best feedback I get after shows is not when people say anything per say, but I can see it on their faces. They connected to it, and that’s the best response I can get after a show.”

And the worst? Jude chuckles with cringe as she mentions a time, she wishes she could forget when clashing with one of Australia’s most familiar television faces at a high-school open day.

“There are so many gigs I’ve played and have thought ‘oh my god I really was the wrong person for this gig’ but I played at a school open day at 9’oclock in the morning,” she explains.

‘Your songs Can’t be too weird!’ ‘You can be quirky, but not TOO quirky.’ ‘You can’t use weird words in a song!’ ‘Can you just me more…’ These are the words that Jude Perl heard repeatedly as she began to launch her music career, recording her debut record in LA. “The thing I got the most is ‘Can you just be more [blank]’ and ‘you could be really pretty and sexy if you just did [blank]. It was strange. At the time, it didn’t bother me but looking back I’m realising it wasn’t nice hearing that again and again. It’s not my personality,” explains Perl.

“I don’t mean it in a self-deprecating way, but I feel like I’m quite an androgynous person. I don’t like dressing up in revealing clothes, it doesn’t feel good to me. I was just dressing and acting in a certain way that felt correct for me and being told that was a bad business choice over and over again.”

Perl admits that comedy was absolutely a coping mechanism throughout her life, so the fact she has blended it into her career feels both uplifting

and poignant. Case in point, when you listen to tracks like The Label Song which as well as being political, witty and hilarious, points out her struggles. ‘I was a music artist in my early 20s / but people wouldn’t buy it cause I wasn’t cool or sexy. / Being sexy and writing songs apparently can’t occur independently.’ She sings.

“I feel like I got into comedy for a few reasons. In a way it was due to feeling so disappointed with, - and I want to say disillusioned with - the music industry, and where its going. There are so many people trying, and I’m just one of so many. trying to do stuff in the music world.”

After a while, it felt clear for Perl that she wasn’t going to be the musical export she’d initially hoped to be. She then wrote two comedy shows.

One was entirely about her experience in the music industry and the anger she felt for not fitting in. Then something else clicked.

“All of a sudden I could write all the weird songs that I wanted to write, and people were actually on board. In music, people don’t tend to listen to

“I was performing for all the teachers; it was a non-student day. They made it some event with activities that teachers could go to. Waleed Aly was on at the same time as me! They didn’t know who I was, but they’d chosen to see me over him! They were so disappointed that they did that,” “Waleed Aly was probably full. A lot of them were like ‘why did we see her over him?’ I don’t think they’d had their coffee yet. Just not into it.’ She laughs.

On the outset, a quick scroll of her social media bios or latest album cover/title, Perl appears to not take things too seriously, but in actuality, that’s far from the fact. In a world consumed by nonsense, she should be held as a national treasure. We have a feeling she is on the way there.

KEIRA LEONARD

Jude Perl performs as part of Launceston’s Junction Arts Festival this September 4- 8. Further information from the festival website – www.junctionartsfestival. com.au.

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LOTTE BETTS-DEAN

CURATED BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE

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This superb group – Alex Redington, Ying Xue (violins), Hélène Clément (viola), John Myerscough (cello) – opened the program with just about the freshest, most imaginative performance of a Haydn quartet that I can recall. The String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 No. 2: The Joke (1781) exuded wit and flexibility of phrasing without a trace of fake manipulation. This was achieved with a total commitment and tightness of ensemble that was breathtaking.

A cappella group The Australian Voices, founded in 1993, has won plaudits around the world for its high standards of musicianship and the commissioning and performance of new Australian choral music. Conducted by Gordon Hamilton, their artistic director since 2009, they made a great impression with their freshness and tonal blend, together with some standout solo work in Victoria’s Jesu dulcis memoria. The remaining seven pieces, including two by Hamilton himself, were contemporary works providing contrasting and vividly projected performances. Perhaps the highlight was Hamilton’s Antarctica with its atmospheric accompanying soundtrack of water, ice, and whale sounds actually recorded on site. The final electronic experiment utilising former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations was clever and involving.

Brett Dean’s new String Quartet No. 3: Hidden Agendas (2019) presented the fullest stylistic contrast to the Haydn that one could imagine. Inspired by unsettling present-day political and communication trends, particularly the climate of public outrage, the work was a virtuoso exercise in taut construction and balance of form and content with not a note too many. The Doric players conveyed the composer’s wide range of moods – from violence to introspection – with consummate mastery.

Schubert’s String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D 887 (1826) is one of those musically rich, wonderfully expansive products of the composer’s final years.

These musicians managed to integrate the dramatic and lyrical aspects with amazing coherence and empathy.

The concert took place during Dark Mofo, with thousands of mainland visitors in town celebrating new, cutting-edge art.

While not part of the festival program, it was nonetheless disappointing to see quite a number of empty seats when the quality of the brilliant brand-new Brett Dean work, in particular, would seem to fit the bill as a ‘not to be missed’ experience.

PETER DONNELLY For information on upcoming Musica Viva Tasmania concerts head to the website – www. mvt.org.au.

The second half of the program comprised the Requiem in C minor

by Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842). One of this composer’s most impressive achievements, it requires a very high standard of choral singing to make its full impact and is, unusually, without vocal soloists. Graham Abbott conducted the Hobart Chamber Orchestra and the Festival of Voices Workshop Choir of around 130 singers. The HCO excelled throughout with some superb brass outbursts and fine string playing. The large choral contingent worked hard and produced commendable results in terms of cohesion and balance. However, the drama felt somewhat subdued with moments like the famous tam-tam crash and subsequent Dies irae really needing more fire and energy. The choir produced its best results in terms of expression and confidence towards the end of the work in the Pie Jesu and Agnus Dei. PETER DONNELLY

BLUE SKY THROUGH STILL TREES - A TRIBUTE TO DON KAY VANESSA SHARMAN, PIANO - CONSERVATORIUM RECITAL HALL - JULY 1 This tribute concert for Tasmania’s elder musical statesman Don Kay comprised his recent piano music and followed on from a Town Hall event two days prior that featured a Kay world premiere.

The Hobart City Band Inc. gave its 2019 Annual Gala Concert on June 29, including music by various composers from the group’s three ensembles.

Performed by the Hobart Wind Symphony – conducted by Simon Reade with soloists Michael Lampard (baritone) and Michael Kieran-Harvey (piano) – Don Kay’s The Muse – A Fairy Tale, to a text by John Honey, has an unusual structure. A half hour in duration, it might be considered as an extended song or a mini-opera.

It tells of the boyhood of an aspiring musician from a remote seaside town and his imaginary girlfriend who is also his muse. The work made a powerful and at times poignant impression with strong, confident singing from Lampard and amazingly well coordinated playing from the wind band superbly led by Reade.

Kieran-Harvey’s contribution provided a linchpin in binding the whole performance into one entity.

The tribute piano concert featured the Piano Sonatas numbers 7 and 9 along with six shorter works. The Sonata No. 7 is subtitled of the night; the essentially lyrical first movement structurally anchored by repeated rhythmic figures.

An affectingly elegiac, ruminative quality distinguished its final movement. Dance Rituals included motor rhythms, while Bird Chants III, composed for pianist Jack Barnes, was mosaic-like and tranquil. Three brief pieces – Wedding Day (1989), Intermezzo for Frances (2015), and Memento Mori Frances (2018) – were written for Kay’s late wife. The Intermezzo, in particular, exhibited a dreamy, fey quality with an underlay of strength of purpose and direction. Kay’s poetic and evocative side was to the fore in Blue Sky through Still Trees.

The concert concluded with the impressive Piano Sonata No. 9.

Throughout, Vanessa Sharman exhibited total empathy and understanding of Kay’s style. Indeed, the composer spoke of Sharman’s care and dedication toward the works at the conclusion of the performance.

PETER DONNELLY

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DARK MOFO - MY HEART SWIMS IN BLOOD - VAN DIEMEN’S BAND - LOTTE BETTS-DEAN, MEZZO SOPRANO - HOBART TOWN HALL - JUNE 22 This event comprised four Baroque works leavened with two modern pieces

by Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (born 1980), of the Icelandic band Amiina, whose style includes minimalist and ambient elements. The theme throughout was one of sin, guilt, and remorse for human offences against the Almighty.

If the content appears gloomy and unsympathetic, the impact was actually totally engaging and ultimately uplifting, both musically and emotionally. It was a case where the total effect was greater than the sum of its parts.

The contemporary scores were titled Clockworking, and Sleeping Pendulum.

The first, composed for three Baroque string players with backing track, was mesmerisingly insistent and minimalist, while the second for solo violin, with accompanying recording, was beautifully played by Julia Fredersdorff. The rest of the program featured Baroque composers Dietrich Becker (1623-1679), Franz Tunder (1614-1667), Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703), and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

Becker’s Paduana opened proceedings.

VDB played with clear commitment and stylishness, while taking notable care over ensemble matters. In Tunder’s Motet Ach Herr, lass deine lieben Engelein, marvellous mezzo soprano Lotte BettsDean strongly conveyed passion behind the words in her voice, face and gestures.

For J. C. Bach’s Lamento Ach dass ich wassers gnug hätte, there was an added sense of pain and desperation that was operatic, but still within Baroque period stylistic bounds.

Finally, the major work was J. S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 199 Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, first performed in 1714. Scored for vocal soloist with oboe, strings, and continuo it has eight movements and traces a journey from self-loathing to God’s forgiveness. Betts-Dean’s superb tone and control of dynamic here came into its own, the band at once focused and wonderfully coordinated with excellent solos from oboist Kirsten Barry.

PETER DONNELLY

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WINTER WARMERS MOONAH ARTS CENTRE IS CONTINUING THEIR CURATED PROGRAM OF LIVE MUSIC BY TASMANIAN BANDS AND MUSICIANS EVERY FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH TO THE END OF AUGUST..

The still almost new building has a purpose built acoustic performance space suitable for intimate crowds there to truly hear the music. Situated in the heart of Moonah the program provides a space for friends, family and workmates to catch up under the auspice of live music at a pleasantly early time of 6pm. See details of the full August program below.

Kirby and Mat Ward are an improvised post classical duet featuring piano, bass guitar and vocals from Dani.

FRIDAY AUGUST 23 The MOB ( McEntieOttaway Band) are Kelly Ottaway (The Modern Operatives) and Stephen McEntie (BabaBruja) together for the first time in what will be the new Tasmanian Bigband. The Crystelles are a female trip that perforam a mix of grooveable jazz and rnb.

FRIDAY AUGUST 2 Origami Island fold out into a four piece folk/funk band with a uniquely chill and groovy vibe. They have a seriously skilled guitarist and a vocalist who’s sound is in-between Vera Blue and Ariana Grande. Adrian Hayes is a talented multiinstrumentalist with a funky rocking vibe.

FRIDAY AUGUST 30 Mama Smooth is Tasmanian funk & dub Diva, Nelle Degrassi in her newest musical incarnation. Complemented by the talents of Mr Tim Duffy on double bass and Mr Mitch Partridge on Rhythms.

Described as an exotic mix of fusion roots and soulful groove, they play funk, jazz and gypsy, laced with otherworldly sounds, delivered smooth and passionately. Zac Henderson and Katie Wilson bring sensitive and delicate Folk/ Blues songwriting, laced in clever lyricism and stories from a relatable upbringing, ripe with humour, wit and emotion.

FRIDAY AUGUST 9 Blue Chilli s music spins a beguiling web around its audiences. Move to a mix of gypsy bossas, Paris jazz, blues and some quirky originals. Marcia Flude’s soulful voice is spiced with jazzy guitars, bouzouki, clarinet, keys and tasty percussion. Tuli Morris is still at school but packs a mean voice into a mature song.

All Friday Nights Live shows start at 6pm. Tickets are $10 on the door, and children under 12 are free. Moonah Arts Centre is located at 23-27 Albert Road Moonah.

Further information on upcoming exhibitions and events head to the website – www. moonahartscentre.org.au.

PHILOMATH

FRIDAY AUGUST 16 Improvisational glory. The surging vocals and tribal rhythms of Philomath in a uniquely dark and playful set of improvised and experimental music. Dani

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GHOSTS OF THE OLYMPIC THEATRE GHOSTS OF THE OLYMPIC THEATRE ISN’T REALLY A ‘GHOST’ STORY. IT’S A TALE OF GHOSTS IN THE SENSE OF THE MEMORIES OF PEOPLE THAT ONCE LIVED AND PLAYED AND WORKED WHERE WE DO, RATHER THAN SPECTRAL BEINGS MATERIALISING AND, LIKE, SLAMMING DOORS SHUT LOUDLY. JANE WOOLLARD, HEAD OF THEATRE AT UTAS, HAS CREATED THE SHOW AS A TESTAMENT TO CREATIVE FOLKS OF BYGONE ERAS. “My doctoral research is of theatre in the 1830s and 40s.” she explains. “[The show is] a contemporary theatre work on the past of the Olympic. I’ve always been fascinated by history and the experiences of those that we don’t really hear about in published history, especially women.

Throughout my career, I’ve spent time looking at voices of women in the past and finding ways to bring that to the stage.”

would commence with a major play, like a four or five act comedy, or usually a tragedy, and then an interlude with a comic song and dance and circus tricks, and the evening would conclude with a farce. Actors had to perform across all of it. Also, they didn’t earn very much- that’s one of the similarities between now and then, the struggle to make a living in the performing arts.”

“They had a very varied repertoire” Woollard says, on the average working night of actors of the time. “The evenings

Far from being part of the artistic elite, actors were looked down on by the aristocracy of the time.

“Often in court records, there are descriptions of them being shabby, holes in their shoes; even though they were well-known celebrities, they were not wealthy. There’d be costs to cover for the theatre, front of house, pay printers for bills and notices. They had to maintain a veneer of respectability; the theatre was considered immoral, there was anxiety about the community being mixed‘respectable’ people mixing with rowdy drunks. They needed the respectable class of people to come and prop up the theatre.”

“I’d like people to know a little more about the Launceston’s past and these performers who worked so hard to entertain the community” Woollard says, on what she wants people to get out of the show. “To have a sense of that kind of long legacy of performance in Tasmania.

In this period, Van Diemen’s Land was the cultural capital, as well as Sydney.

Theatre happened over a decade earlier than in Melbourne.”

As a history buff myself, we start chatting about the role of nostalgia in examining historical record: do we inherently think of the past as quaint or obsolete, despite the very modern- or even everyday- lives that people in these times lived?

“Nostalgia can get in the way of having a clearer picture of what was going on.” she says. “Myself and the cast, we remind ourselves that, even though they lived a long time ago, we think of them as oldfashioned, but when they were starting out, they weren’t much older than my students. They were just making a go of it in the theatre, young and passionate, they still had that energy and passion and dreams.”

LISA DIB

Ghosts of the Olympic Theatre is part of Junction Arts Festival, Wednesday September 4 Sunday September 8 at the Launceston Post Office. Check Junction website for times – www.junctionartsfestival.com.au.

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FLEETING BEAUTY MELBOURNE BASED RONE TRANSFORMS ABANDONED BUILDINGS INTO PROLIFIC WORKS OF ART. SHOWCASING HIS LATEST WORKS THROUGH VR NEXT MONTH AT JUNCTION FESTIVAL, WILL HAVE YOU SEEING SOME OF AUSTRALIA’S GREATEST STREET ART IN THE MOST MODERN OF WAYS.

We recently had SMUG travel down here for a commission piece and there was a bit of uproar when it was quickly drawn on. What’re your thoughts on tagging over art?

Its fine [laughs], it’s going to happen, you know? Same when you drive on the road, there is always some idiot that crosses the lane, you’ve just got to be prepared for it. If someone commissioned a mural like that, they really should have clear coated it because there is always some dickhead out there.

What artists inspired you growing up?

So many! One that’s still going, James Dodd, he went under the moniker of DLUX. He has a show on now, his work is completely different from what it was back then, but he was one of those people, I saw his work and was like wow, that’s cool. There were so many, and some I now share a studio with, Tom Civil and Sync. Very early 2000s Melbourne City.

And now people are so inspired by you, if someone would have told teenager you that one day you’d be an internationally renowned street artist, how do you think you would have responded back then?

I would have gone ‘what is street art?’ Street art didn’t exist when I was a teenager [laughs].

One of your key messages is that ‘beauty can be fleeting’ can you elaborate on what that means to you and how it inspires your art?

I think it’s sort of circular, but the idea that something is at its most beautiful when it’s at its most fragile. When something is just about to fall apart, it almost highlights the beauty and it forces you to acknowledge it in its beauty. What it once was. Whether its your favourite plate that has just broken. It can be something simple and you’re like ah I really love that – and now losing it, trying to glue it together but that’s a part of the character as well. To extend on that, there is some sort of Japanese tradition of fixing plates with gold, they put gold in the cracks, to not hide it but highlight the imperfections.

If you could paint anything, anywhere in the world tomorrow what would it be and why?

I would paint something in Venice, possibly for the Biennale. Its such a beautiful city that we are tragically losing and the whole art world is also looking at it at the same time. For me that is definitely the goal!

Have you had a significant highlight in your long career?

Last exhibition EMPIRE, was a highlight, for sure.

And you’re showcasing that at Junction through VR? Yeah, a mini VR documentary! It’s great, it was documented in that 3D space, shared beyond the space and time that it really existed. This is possibly the third project that’s been captured in VR, each time the way the VR works just adds another level, or gallery within the application that’s been built. Its almost like a 3D gallery that you can walk around and go see the different exhibitions. You can see my walls in full scale, and some canvas works.

Once you’ve left Launceston, could we expect to find any of your art out and about?

Nah, I will have like 48 hours there and I’m with the family, but I will definitely be looking around at locations.

I won’t have time to paint anything unfortunately.

KEIRA LEONARD Rone performs as part of Junction Arts festival in September.

For more details head to the festival website – www. junctionartsfestival.com.au.

COMEDY

NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK COMEDY JOKERS COMEDY CLUB AND FUNNIES AT FRANK’S HAVE ONCE AGAIN COMBINED FORCES TO CELEBRATE THE FUNNY SIDE OF NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK.

Comedians Ben McKenzie and Alanta Colley are two performers who inhabit that rare and beautiful space where science and comedy intersect. With successful separate careers the two joined forces to perform at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival with their show, You Chose Poorly.

Described as ‘geek comedy’s patron saint’, Ben McKenzie has created a series of shows combining science with comedy under the title of Man in the Lab Coat, which has toured the country for previous years of National Science Week.

Alanta Colley is a comedian, science communicator and storyteller. Her debut solo show Parasites Lost sold out the entire run at Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2017, was performed for the Gates Foundation in Seattle and had an acclaimed run at the Sydney Science Festival in 2018. Her follow up for the 2018 Melbourne Comedy Festival, Days of our Hives has continued her hit run.

See the two perform this month as part of National Science Week, with two performances; Jokers Comedy, Polish Club, North Hobart on Wednesday August 14. Show starts 8.00pm, with bookings from www. tadaa.com.au/bookings.

Funnies at Frank’s, Frank’s Cider Bar & Café, Franklin on Thursday August 15. Show starts 8.00pm, with bookings from www.frankcider.com.au/funnies-at-franks.

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PERFORMING ARTS GUIDE

GALLERY GUIDE SOUTH Colville Gallery August 16 Kylie Elkington Handmark Gallery Until August 12 Landscape Exhibition – Handmark Artists August 16 – September 2 new works – Katy Woodroffe Despard Gallery Until August 25 Overview - Geoff Dyer August 28 – September 22 Bay of Fires – Ken Johnson Bett Gallery Until August 17 Tom O’Hern Until August 17 Tim Burns August 23 – September 14 Alex Davern August 23 – September 14 Helen Wright Salamanca Arts Centre Lightbox August 1 – August 31 Miss Garton’s Home for Whimsical Dolls Top Gallery August 2 – August 30 In The Shadow Of The Earth - Rahni Allan Sidespace Gallery August 1 – August 11 Lutruwita Inspirations August 14 – August 25 Beautiful Fruit – Linda Spowart, Tilley Wood August 31 – September 8 Bound – Nadia Refaei, Felicity Lovett, Gabrielle Gollogly, Pirrin Francis, Andrea Green, Abigail Giblin Long Gallery August 1 – August 11 ‘Forty Years of Good Colouring In’: A Survey (1980 - 2019) – Wayne Brookes August 23 – August 25 The Maatsuyker Collection Studio Gallery August 1 – August 31 adrift, this is not a dream – Jacqui Ward Contemporary Art Tasmania August 10 – September 8 NP423 – Dylan Sheridan

TMAG Until December 30 Fifty Shades of Blue Until November 3 Tense Past – Julie Gough Until October 6 Portraits: Geoff Dyer Moonah Arts Centre August 16 Prickly Woman – Laura Purcell August 16 Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project – Friends in Stitches August 16 Bunkerville – Christine Scott Vincent August 16 matter – Sean O’Connell

NORTH Handmark Evandale August 4 – August 28 new works on paper – Jonathan Partridge Burnie Arts & Function Centre Until August 4 Farm Life – Meg Collidge Until August 4 Australia Wide Six – Ozquilt Network August 11 – September 19 ArtRage 2018 August 19 – September 19 Primary Kaleidoscope: Machine!

Gallery Pejean Until August 3 Breathe ... let go – Michael Weitnauer August 7 – August 31 DECO etc. - David Lake Devonport Regional Gallery Main Gallery August 3 – September 22 On Belonging(s) – Alex Davern, Liam James, Amber Koroluk- Stephenson, Jessie Pangas Little Gallery Until September 1 Threads of Childhoods Past: Jennifer Frost & Jan Larcombe Upper Gallery Until August 25 Uncanny – Erin Wilson Sawtooth ARI Gate August 2 – August 24 Interweave Arts Front August 2 – August 24 Chanel Tobler Middle Gallery August 2 – August 24 Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts Project Gallery August 2 – August 24 Adriana Luca Dark Space August 2 – August 24 Zac Bruce QVMAG Until August 25 Men with Heart Until September 1 Undercurrents Barbie Kjar, Jennifer Marshall, Milan Milojevic Until September 22 The Enquiring Light - Angela Casey Until October 27 Patches of Light Until October 30 Dinosaur rEvolution: Secrets of Survival Until March 29 Marjorie Bligh: Domestic Goddess

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The Polish Corner August 7 Danielle Walker August 14 NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK SHOW with Ben McKenzie & Alanta Colley August 21 Bec Melrose August 28 Anthony Morgan

The Tramsheds Function Centre August 2 Isaac Butterfield – Why So Serious?

August 3 Aunty Donna

Theatre Royal August 3 Superwog Live August 9 – August 24 The Club

East Launceston Bowls Club August 17 Hypnosis Comedy Show

Hobart Brewing Co. August 2 The Clubhouse presents: Aunty Donna August 15 The Clubhouse with Harley Breen Frank’s Cider Bar and Cafe August 15 FunnieS at Frank’s National Science Week Special Show Brisbane Hotel August 29 CULT Comedy

THEATRE Peacock Theatre Until August 3 101 – Cameron Hindrum Theatre Royal August 15 – August 17 Sydney Dance Company 50th Anniversary Triple Bill August 29 – August 31 Much Ado About Nothing

Boag’s Brewery Bar August 16 Fresh Comedy with Harley Breen

Iron Horse Bar & Grill August 2 The Aussie Pub Comedy Tour Burnie Arts & Function Centre August 2 Comedy Night – Hosted by Ned Townsend

THEATRE Princess Theatre August 1 – August 10 We Will Rock You August 12 – August 14 Tarzan: The Stage Musical August 21 – August 24 Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical August 27 Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts August 31 Party at the Princess Earl Arts Centre August 8 – August 10 Absence of Light – Makeshift Dance Collective

Paranaple Arts Centre

August 15 – August 17Chicago: High School Edition August 29 Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts

Hotel Grand Chancellor

August 9 Grand Evenings: Cocktail Hour Poetry Series

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CREATIVE EXCHANGE WORKSHOPS IN EVERYTHING AT THE KICKSTART ARTS CENTRE UKULELE, DRAMA AND JEWELLERY-MAKING COURSES. WORKSHOPS IN INTERACTIVE ART, CALLIGRAPHY, BASKET WEAVING, YOGA, PILATES, ART PLAY, COOKING CLASSES, VICTORIAN PATCHWORK AND MORE!

TO BOOK WWW.KICKSTARTARTS.ORG/CX This project was assisted through the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.

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HOBART DATE

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

DATE

AUGUST Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

24

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

MONA Organ Room

Convict Monologues Virtuosi Tasmania 11am

Republic Bar & Cafe

Montz Matsumoto 7pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Noteworthy with Bryce Tilyard + Zoe Merrington + Marcus Keetch 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM 8pm

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Cafe

Noteworthy with My Girlfriends Sister 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ Nik Berechree

The Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart 6pm

The Homestead

Mid-Week Gypsy Jazz Sessions: Django’s Tiger

Birdcage Bar

Presidential Suite 8:30pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Unlocked – Open Mic Night 6pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy featuring Black Swans of Trespass 8:30pm

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

Republic Bar & Cafe

Bill Moran + Arielle Cottingham + Christopher Coleman 7pm

Monday

12

Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 7pm

Tuesday

13

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Noteworthy with Majella Eales + Rosie Cann + Baltimore Charlot 8:30pm

The Duke

Dukebox Audition Jam

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM 8pm

Observatory

DJ Nik Berechree

Republic Bar & Cafe

Noteworthy with Valium 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ Liam Vaughan

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Brett Collidge 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy featuring The Seratones 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Daniel Townsend 8pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Harry & Jane 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

The 50/50 9pm

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

14

15

16

Republic Bar & Cafe

Brett Collidge 8:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Isaac Westwood 6:30pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Coyote Serenade 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bright Eyes Cafe

Dave Squires and 2 Friends 6pm

Back Bar: Dissolver (Single Launch), It Thing (Single Launch), Teens, The Boners 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: Verticoli “Homecoming Show”, The Saxons, Dissolver 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: Larry Leadfoot (Vic), Lacerta, Lucid Bull 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: Lunar Rampage, She Walks Through Dusk, Napoleon Dodo, Late Night Krackieoke 8pm

Captain Blighs

Captain Blighs Serenades: Tasha Zappala

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Central Hotel

Hannah May 5pm

Central Hotel

Jess Clennett 5pm

Grand Poobah

No Scrubs: 90’s + Early 00’s Party

Grand Poobah

Thloop presents: Volkiene + Soul Serpent

Irish Murphy’s

The Bunker feat. Emanuel Satie

Grand Poobah

Sleaze, Neika Avenue, Teens in the Kissing Room

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Hotel SOHO

Isaac Westwood

Moonah Arts Centre

Philomath, Dani Kirby, Mat Ward

Jack Greene

Terry Nomikos

Observatory

DJ Rikin

Moonah Arts Centre

Tuli Morris, Blue Chilli

Post Street Social

Tony Mak

Observatory

DJ Rikin

Regines

SupaNova 10pm

Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams

Pablo’s Serenades: Tasha Zappala

Republic Bar & Cafe

Sugartrain 10pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Random Act 7:30pm

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Telegraph Hotel

Entropy

Republic Bar & Cafe

Nothin’ But A Glam Time 10pm

The Brunswick Hotel

The Duvets 5pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Searching Eyes 7:30pm

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe, Dean Stevenson 7:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan & Alan 5pm Dean Stevenson, The Darlings 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Miss Jones

The Whaler Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Hannah May Trio

Wrest Point Showroom

Never Ending 80’s

Birdcage Bar

Sambo and Jimi 9pm

Wrest Point Showroom

The Killer Queen Experience

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: Hobart Zombie March Afterparty 2pm

Birdcage Bar

Isaac Westwood 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bright Eyes Cafe

Hot String Band 6pm

Back Bar: “Post Grad Brews” w/ IMMT, Andel, Robbie Meesri 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Yvng Jalapeno (Oz), Vizer, James Pritchard, Brandon Michalkowski 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: Adapt, Big Al’s, Dissolver, 5 or 7, Late Night Krackieoke 8pm

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Customs House

Everburn

Grand Poobah

Clypso

Grand Poobah

Limbo 7

Grand Poobah

Art School Bullies & Friends in the Kissing Room

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Post Street Social

Joel Hopson

Post Street Social

Terry Nomikos

Republic Bar & Cafe

Jesterpose + Break Through + Dissolver + Dire 10pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

TBA 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

The Live Wires

Telegraph Hotel

Serotonin

The Brunswick Hotel

Tim Davies 7:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan & Alan 7:30pm

The Whaler

Billy Whitton & The Swingcats 9pm

The Whaler

The Foley Artists 9pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Daniel Thompson’s Johnny Cash Live

Birdcage Bar

River Road 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Les Femmes 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Eleanor Tucker 4pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Peter Hicks 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Jack Greene

Isaac Westwood

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Post Street Social

Tim & Scott

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

Republic Bar & Cafe

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Great Anticipators 2:30pm

BEERGARDEN – Reclink Community Cup After Party w/ Live Music, Cheap Booze & Snacks

Republic Bar & Cafe

Mumbo Gumbo 8:30pm

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DATE

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

Monday

19

Republic Bar & Cafe

Billy Whitton 7pm

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Tuesday

20

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Republic Bar & Cafe

Noteworthy with Jaywell + Crystal Sky + Noah Casey 8pm

Hot August Jazz Festival (Free Event, Finishes at Midnight) 12pm

Monday

26

Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 7pm

The Duke

Jazz Jam

Tuesday

27

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Noteworthy with Camilla Jones + Martin James + Adrian Hayes 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Noteworthy with Adapt 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Telegraph Hotel

DJ Nik Berechree

Observatory

DJ Rikin

The Brunswick Hotel

Sam Forsyth 6pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Noteworthy with Tim Blizzard Explosion 8:30pm

The Homestead

M.T. Blues Music 8pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ Nik Berechree

Birdcage Bar

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Isaac Westwood 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Unlocked – Open Mic Night 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Rod Murray 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke

Grand Poobah

Karaoke

Hobart Town Hall

Daniel De Borah

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy featuring Harry Edwards Quartet 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy featuring The Darlings 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Crystal Set 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Rosie & Ben 8pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton 6:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Dave West 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Black Snake Road 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Tom and Scott 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Barefoot Nellie 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Fred & Ross & Craig 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: Northern Suburbs, Scoparia, Daisy Cutters 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: Sleaze, Dog Dreams, Woe, Gru 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: The Protagonists, Radio Silence, Seth Henderson

Front Bar: The New Town Hounds, The Developers, Yoni & The Steamers 8pm

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Central Hotel

Joel Everard 5pm

Central Hotel

Joel Everard 5pm

Grand Poobah

On Repeat: Arctic Monkeys Night

Grand Poobah

No Future: Hiphop, Trap, R&B Night Jesterpose & Friends in the Kissing Room

Hobart Twilight Market (Brooke Street Pier)

TBC 4:30pm

Grand Poobah Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Maypole Hotel

Blizzo, M.T. Blues Music 6pm

Moonah Arts Centre

Mama Smooth, Zac Henderson, Katie Wilson

Moonah Arts Centre

McEntie Ottaway Bigband, The Crystelles

Observatory

DJ Nik Berechree

Observatory

DJ Rikin

Spirograph Studies

Onyx Bar

Matt and Abby 10:30pm

Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

Post Street Social

Terry Nomikos

Republic Bar & Cafe

Jeff Buckley Tribute – 25 Year Anniversary of “Grace” 9:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Baby Dave EP Launch + Supports 10pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Dave West 7:30pm Got Your Six

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

21

22

23

24

25

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

28

29

30

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Jonathan & Alan 7:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Telegraph Hotel

Pocket Rockett

The Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer 5pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Tim Davies 5pm

The Salty Dog

M.T. Blues Music 5:30pm

The Whaler

Dylan Eynon, The Darlings 7:30pm

The Whaler

Searching Eyes, Finn Seccombe Band 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

CC Thornley

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Salty Bones (Melb)

Altar

Roadkill, Suns of Solemn, Well Hung Monkey

Wrest Point Showroom

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Like a Rhinestone Cowboy – The Best of Glen Campbell

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES: CC Rocks 3pm

All Saints Market

TBC 10:30am

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: Relyk One (Vic), Bridget Ripper, Hermit, Brando, Chillz, Fusion, Stray, Young Tom, Reid 4Daize, DJ Boondog 8pm

Altar

CELESTE (EP Launch), Jay Jarome Band, Zac Henderson, Katie Wilson

Birdcage Bar

Scarlett Creek Duo 9pm

Front Bar: Back Alleyway Mash 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: Amyl & The Sniffers (Vic) 9pm

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Brisbane Hotel

Grand Poobah

Love Deluxe

Front Bar: Milquebarth and enemies and friends 11pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Jack Greene

Westwood & Doyle

Post Street Social

Terry Nomikos

MONA

Spirograph Studies

Republic Bar & Cafe

Cool August Blues (Free Event, Finishes 1am) 4pm

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Cafe

Hot August Blues: M.T. Blues Music 7pm

Post Street Social

Tony Mak

Telegraph Hotel

Pocket Rockett

Republic Bar & Cafe

Boil Up 10pm

The Brick Factory

Montage

Telegraph Hotel

Detour

The Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart 6pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Jay Jarome Trio 7:30pm

The Whaler

Billy Whitton & The Swingcats 9pm

The Whaler

The Foley Artists 9pm

Theatre Royal

Bruce Hearn and the Machinists – Woody Guthrie Songs of Freedom

Republic Bar & Cafe

Birdcage Bar

Von Diamond Band 6pm

“When She Believes” event with Erin Will Be Mad (Vic) + Yoni and The Steamers + Babylon Howl 8pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Matt Ralph 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Brisbane Hotel

Sunday

DATE

Saturday

31

SEPTEMBER Sunday

1

LAUNCESTON / NORTH WEST DATE

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

DATE

AUGUST Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

Thursday Friday

Saturday

Sunday

1

2

3

4

7

8 9

10

11

Wednesday

14

Thursday

15

Friday

26

16

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

The Royal Oak

David Adams Band (Public Bar) 8pm

The Royal Oak

Songwriter Sessions: Cody Gunton, Medhanit Barratt (Public Bar) 8pm

The Royal Oak

Easy Browns, The Saxons, Meres (Oak Shed) 8pm

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Tonic Bar

K&J 9pm

Bayviews Restarant & Lounge Bar

Cameron Windram 6pm

Watergarden

The Rockwells 7pm Never Ending 80’s

Burnie Surf Life Saving Club

Maeve Grieve 6pm

Country Club Showroom Molly Malones

Not a Bumblebee 9:30pm

Kingsway Bar

Ruben Reeves

Olde Tudor Hotel

Scott Lewis 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Mick Attard (Public Bar) 8pm

Plough Inn

DiscOh! 2.Oh!

Tonic Bar

Tori & Andy 9pm

St John’s Church

Luminaria

Watergarden

The 50/50 7pm

The Royal Oak

Albert Hall

Mozart Clarinet Concerto 7:30pm

Where the Table Was (Oak Shed) 8pm

Tonic Bar

Gypsy Rose 9pm

Burnie Arts & Function Centre

Convict Monologues Virtuosi Tasmania 2pm

Watergarden

The Fireflies 7pm

House Niteclub – Spurs Saloon

Urban Assault ft. Indiana and Insain

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

The Royal Oak

The Brown Cords (Oak Shed) 8pm

Watergarden

Danny Kealley 1:30pm

Bakers Lane

Tonic Bar

The 50/50 9pm

Laneway Sessions: Cody Cooper, Fiontan Cassidy 8pm

Watergarden

The Roller Rockers 7pm

Stillwater Restaurant

Stillwater x Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

St Andrews Anglican Church Evandale

Convict Monologues Virtuosi Tasmania 2pm

The Royal Oak

Yyan & Emily (Public Bar) 8pm

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

Molly Malones

Scott Lewis 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

John Collighan (Public Bar) 8pm

Town House Hotel

Viktor Zappner Swingtet featuring Denise Sam and Steve Hill 7:30pm

Watergarden

Tony Voglino 7pm Friday Night Jazz 6pm

Saturday

17

Sunday

18

Wednesday

21

Thursday

22

Watergarden

Addison Marshall 1:30pm

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: Medhanit Barratt, Evelyn Glover 8pm

The Irish

Scott Lewis 9:30pm

The Royal Oak

Scott Haigh (Public Bar) 8pm

The Royal Oak

Amy Pegg (Public Bar) 8pm

Josef Chromy Wines

Watergarden

Adam Page 7pm

The Otis Room

Not a Bumblebee 9pm

Bayviews Restarant & Lounge Bar

Dylan Boys 6pm

The Royal Oak

Bogan Bingo (Oak Shed) 7pm

The Royal Oak

Country Club Showroom

Daniel Thompson’s Johnny Cash Live

Leigh Ratcliffe (Public Bar) 8pm

Tonic Bar

Well Strung 9pm

Pub Rock Diner

The BIG One w/ Silver Lining 8pm

Watergarden

The 50/50 7pm

Plough Inn

The Protagonists, Neika Avenue, Evelyn Glover

The Royal Oak

Chiseld (Oak Shed) 8pm

Tonic Bar

DJ Randall Foxx 9pm

Watergarden

Addison Marshall 7pm Jamey Fitzgerald 2pm

Friday

Saturday

23

24

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

An Evening with Sara Macliver 6:30pm

The Royal Oak

The Smokin Elmores (Oak Shed) 8pm

Tonic Bar

SupaNova DJ 9pm

Watergarden

Raj Sinha 7pm

The Menai Hotel Motel & Loi’z Bar

Country Club Showroom

The Killer Queen Experience

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

Devonport RSL Sub Branch

The Sun Kings Live Show 3pm

Watergarden

Kerranna, Elvis we remember tribute show

Plough Inn

Verticoli, Neika Avenue, Cody Cooper

Tuesday

27

The Royal Oak

Lea Mason Quartet (Oak Shed) 8pm

The Greenwood Bar

Adapt + 5 OR 7 9pm

Wednesday

28

Bakers Lane

The Irish

Agent 86 11pm

Laneway Sessions: Pat Broxton, Chris Jackson 8pm

The Royal Oak

Katy Hanson (Public Bar) 8pm

The Royal Oak

Open Mic Night (Public Bar) 8pm

Tonic Bar

Clinton Hutton 9pm

The Royal Oak

Jade & Dane (Public Bar) 8pm

Watergarden

Danny Kealley 7pm

Watergarden

Hat and Horn 7pm

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

Watergarden

Adam Page 7pm

Watergarden

Tori and Andy 1:30pm

Burnie RSL

Clinton Hutton 7pm

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: Alex Tyson, Maddy Jane 8pm

Tonic Bar

K&J 9pm

The Royal Oak

The Royal Oak

Matt Gibson (Public Bar) 8pm

The Namesakes (Oak Shed) 8pm

Devonport Recreation Centre

Silent Disco 6pm

Country Club Showroom

Like a Rhinestone Cowboy – The Best of Glen Campbell

The Royal Oak

Lucid Bull (Oak Shed) 8pm

Iron Horse Bar & Grill

Heavy Rollers

Watergarden

Leigh Ratcliffe 7pm

Mowbray Golf Club

Gypsy Rose

Bayviews Restarant & Lounge Bar

Amy Pegg 6pm

The Royal Oak

When She Believes (Oak Shed) 8pm

Kings Bridge Bar & Restaurant

Scott Lewis 6pm

Tonic Bar

Just Dance 9pm

Pub Rock Diner

Not a Bumblebee 10pm

Watergarden

The Roller Rockers 7pm

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Friday

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August Thursday 1st Songwriter Sessions: Cody Gunton, Medhanit Barratt (Public Bar, 8pm) Friday 2nd Mick Attard (Public Bar, 8pm) Saturday 3rd The Brown Cords (Oak Shed, 8pm) Sunday 4th Open Folk Seisiún (Public Bar, 5pm) Wednesday 7th Scott Haigh (Public Bar, 8pm) Thursday 8th Amy Pegg (Public Bar, 8pm) Friday 9th The Smokin Elmores (Oak Shed, 8pm) Saturday 10th Katy Hanson (Public Bar, 8pm) Sunday 11th Open Folk Seisiún (Public Bar, 5pm) Wednesday 14th Matt Gibson (Public Bar, 8pm) Thursday 15th Lucid Bull (Oak Shed, 8pm) Friday 16th David Adams Band (Public Bar, 8pm) Easy Browns, The Saxons, Meres (Oak Shed, 8pm) Saturday 17th Where the Table Was (Oak Shed, 8pm) Sunday 18th Open Folk Seisiún (Public Bar, 5pm) Wednesday 21st Yyan & Emily (Public Bar, 8pm) Thursday 22nd John Collighan (Public Bar, 8pm) Friday 23rd Bogan Bingo (Oak Shed, 7pm) Leigh Ratcliffe (Public Bar, 8pm) Saturday 24th Chiseld (Oak Shed, 8pm) Sunday 25th Open Folk Seisiún (Public Bar, 5pm) Tuesday 27th Lea Mason Quartet (Oak Shed, 8pm) Wednesday 28th Open Mic Night (Public Bar, 8pm) Thursday 29th Jade & Dane (Public Bar, 8pm) Friday 30th The Namesakes (Oak Shed, 8pm) Saturday 31st When She Believes (Oak Shed, 8pm) ~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~

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