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News in Brief SUMMERTIME SCARE So, been to Port Arthur lately? Me either, not in yonks, actually. But this Summer there are no excuses for not getting down there. Even if you’ve got youngens, you can now bring them along and freak them out on the famous Ghost Tours! Ok, so it’ll be a PG-rated, family-friendly ghost tour, and it’ll be over before nightfall, but it’s still a good way to get the kids away from their Ninendo Gameboys and Sega Game Gears and see one of our greatest tourist icons/ historical venues. Tours will be run twice monthly throughout January, February and March. For more information, check out their website at: www.portarthur.org.au/summer A NEW START FOR TEN DAYS
Ten Days on the Island have a new logo. They also have a new office and gallery space in Murray St down from the State Library. Probably, most importantly they have a new Artistic Director with the appointment of David Malacari. David comes from previous roles as AD for the Parramasala Festival and Auckland Arts Festival amongst other arts roles in Australia and abroad. Ten Days will also have a new approach to the way they approach the festival with a smaller event running during March on the off year of the biennial festival. Wait for more signs of the logo. JUNCTION KEEPS SCORING Looks like the Junction Arts Festival are continuing to kick goals, even in Cricket season. Along with their partner, Launceston Airport, they’ve just won the Regional Award at the Creative Partnerships Australia National Awards, recently presented in Canberra. This follows on from successfully winning the state award in Hobart in September. What
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do all these awards mean for you and me, the average festival-going punter? SFA really, but it’s nice to see the hard work of all involved at Junction Arts Festival being recognised on a national scale. So congrats, Jaffers! STREAMS OF MUSIC MERGE
Islands in the Stream is a Tiger Choir curated mini-festival ignoring the divide of electronica and pop, mainland and island, and will take place on Saturday December 7 at The Grand Poobah. The Tasmanian contingent features the drum machine pop of John Bradley, the droney rock of The Phosphenes, & the eclectic pop of Tiger Choir, while from the mainland still with Tasmanian members there is Trjaeu bringing their textured electronica, and Yolke bring some faintly disco live beatscapes. Finally to bring it at all back together Electric Sea Spider, a collage-like beats/hip hop producer from Melbourne who combines youthful nostalgia and disjointed sampling, and who brings his jam to clubs with the fresh This Thing collective. EVERYBODY LOVES PIKELETS
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Party favourites, Tijuana Cartel are bringing their blend of indy/electronica back to Hobart and for the first time, Launceston this month. Playing The Republic Bar on Friday December 13, they move to Hotel New York on the Saturday with support from The Younger Dryers and The Thieves for the northern show only.
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The loveable Wolfe Brothers are doing four dates through December in support of their new single titled Lovin’ In The Summertime, and it’s available in all the usual ways, so have a squiz for it if that’s your thing. They are starting regional with a show in Queenstown on Friday December 13, followed up with a Saturday show in Bagdad at the local community centre. Us cityslickers can see them in Launceston on Friday 20 at the Commerical Hotel and in Hobart at Soho Hotel on the Saturday, which will be guaranteed to sellout quick. HO HO HO!
BALCOMBE’S BACK If you’re wondering why Nick Balcombe has been quiet on the local scene of late, it’s because he hasn’t been here. He’s been off touring the world and playing some amazing events in Europe. Enjoying a beautiful Euro-Summer too, I bet, and now he’s come back to Australia just in time for our summer. Sweet gig! He’s heading off on his first national headline tour, and he’s taking Charlie Keller along for the ride. There are 2 Tasmanian stops (or are there?) on their journey, one at Fresh on Charles in Launceston on Friday December 13, and one at The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday December 14. Check out www. nickbalcombe.com for news on super secret squirrel shows.
Tis the weekend before Christmas and Tasmanian bands The Embers, Younger Dryas, Guthrie, Thieves & DJ Nufe have all kindly volunteered to hold a rollicking gig to help raise money and awareness for Launceston City Mission Christmas appeal.This will take place in Launceston on Saturday December 21 at The Pav in York town Square.Not only do you get to see some awesome bands and help your community, you also get the chance to win door prizes worth over $1000 which have been donated by local businesses. $15 entry including door prize. For more info visit www.facebook.com/ ltonmusiconamission.
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For somebody that is Victorian, Evelyn Morris sure does love Tasmania. This time she is leaving the band at home and travelling down to perform two solo shows, starting in Hobart on Friday December 6 at The Homestead with support from Tilley and Peter Escott. Saturday night she travels to Launceston to play at Fresh On Charles along with Falls Foster band winner, The Habits. Entry for both shows is $7 on the door.
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Boxing day at the Metz is quickly turning into an institution, and they’re looking to continue on their run of awesomeness this year. Thursday December 26 (duh) is the day, and 1pm is the start time. Live acoustic acts in the car park (in a big ass cage, no less), and local DJ’s tearing it up inside. Drink specials all day, BBQ in the afternoon, and best of all, free entry. What a great place to go and show off all the new toys you got for Christmas. Alternatively, what a great place to go and drink away all memory of spending an entire day with your family. OR, what a great place to go to recover from a massive Christmas and indulge in a little hair of the dog. Whatever works for you, really.
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The Fractangular fam-a-lam would like to let you all know that they are postponing the festival until February 2015. As we’re sure you’re aware, The Fractangular peoples have opened up their own venue in Hobart, taking over the old Don Hotel to create The Homestead. They aren’t miracle workers, god dammit, give ‘em some time to get that established before diving back in to Fractangular mayhem. The silver lining for all you festival nuts, is that this gives them a long run up in to Fractangular 2015, so you can expect even bigger and better things from the madly successful outdoor par-tay.
OMG Have you guys heard about this thing called the Falls Festival? You probably haven’t. It’s pretty underground. I don’t think they advertise much. They’ve been going for a year or two now in Marion Bay and Lorne and it seems like this year they’re putting on some sort of hippy recovery session at Byron Bay when the first two festivals finish. The good thing is, if you’ve purchased a ticket for the shindig at Marion Bay, or you purchase one before December 13. You’ll go into the draw to win 2 VIP tickets to Byron Bay, flights and transfers covered, you’ll get to see your favourite band from side of stage, and they’ll even give you a tent. Sounds lavish.
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Everybody likes free and on Saturday January 4 you can watch for free some loveable free range deer perform onstage at The Waratah Hotel. We actually they aren’t deer, they are elk or more precisely a two-piece girl band called Beloved Elk. They play folk, they play indie, they play post-rock. You will love it. MOFO FULLY LAUNCHED
Pixar, for those of you unabomber-antitechnology-cabin-in-the-bush types that happen to be reading this, are a company that make pretend things look half-realistic on magic moving glasspaper. They’re pretty good at it too, a lot of people around the world are fans of their stuff. They’re good story tellers too, and these stories are often accompanied by people hitting strings on a stick or dead animal skin on a barrel in a rhythmically and melodically pleasant way. Some local people that are good at doing that last part are the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. You’ll be able to see them do that bit while you look at magic moving glasspaper images by Pixar at the Derwent Entertainment Centre (the big UFO lookin’ building beside the water near the showgrounds) as part of MONAFOMA on Sunday January 19. You could try bartering for a ticket, but the rest of us will pay using our magic plastic cards of debt, via www. ticketmaster.com.au.
Old mate Josh Pyke is back again. This time he is heading off around the country to promote his newest single The Beginning and the End of Everything. He’s calling the tour, the “Lone Wolf Tour”, because he’s a loner that likes to chase and kill Rabbits and other small animals… I guess. Anyway (SHOT), he’s playing at The Waratah Hotel on Friday February 14, and tickets are available from the venue or via www.joshpyke.com. February 14 is also Valentine’s Day, so you should probably take your partner to this, make it a romantic one. Or just go along and try to pick up someone else’s partner. VOICE OF AN ANGEL
AN EMPIRE FORGED Those busy Mofos out at MONA have been busy working on the full 2014 program and it’s out now. You can download the iphone app. You can download the android app. You can download the pdf and print it out. Or you can wait till they fill all your favourite hangouts with the official hard copy. For the tech savvy, head over now to www.mofo.net. au and start your downloads.
January is shaping up to be a busy month for the metal enthusiast in Hobart. One such show will be the first visit of Melbourne’s metal act Be’lakor, to our shores. Escorting them on their ‘Forging an Empire’ tour, will be Perth folk metal act Claim The Throne. See these fine two examples of Australian metal at The Brisbane Hotel on Friday January 31.
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Kate Miller-Heidke recently announced that she would be heading off on a nation-wide tour to promote her 4th album and first independent release, O Vertigo! (which will be hitting shelves in March next year). The lovely folks at “Heavenly Sounds” invited Kate to add a Hobart cathedral show to her tour, and she said yes. Lucky for us eh! The gig isn’t until Friday March 28 (at St. David’s Cathedral in Hobart), but if you preorder her new album via her pledgemusic campaign, you get to download an 11 track live album recorded as part of her Heavenly Sounds tour earlier this year. Worth it. PANAMA GETS FUNKY Well A Festival Called Panama just keeps getting funkier and funkier. My word, this one is gonna be a gooden! Adding to the already soulful headline act (Charles Bradley), they’ve just announced that Australian soul outfit Saskwatch are on the bill! Saskwatch recently played at the Republic Bar and put on one hell of a show, they’re not to be missed. Also new to the bill, are Super Wild Horses, The Babe Rainbow, Holy Holy, McKisko, and Taswegia’s own Tiger Choir. A limited amount of tickets are already on sale, head along to www.panamafestival.com.au for more details on ticketing, the lineup and everything else you‘ll need to know. I’m excited. I’ll see you there, I’ll be the guy not being a cynical jerk at a live show for once. HUNGRY NO MORE The Hungry Kids of Hungary are done. Dead. Kaput. Dusted. Gonski. They are no longer hungry, they are no longer kids, and they are no longer from Hungary… yep. The 4-piece from Brisbania decided to end their association and let their fans know about it in the same way that all great modern romances are started and ended, via facebook. The band were intending to make the end of year shows at Southbound and the Falls Festival their last hurrah, but alas, this was not meant to be, and they’ve pulled the plug on those gigs also. Hungry Hungry Kids of Hungary fans now only have the 2 albums and the 3 - 4 year wait until the inevitable comeback tour cash in, to get them through.
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ALL EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! SAGE-LIKE ADVICE FROM !!! (CHK CHK CHK) FRONTMAN NIC OFFER. OFFER AND BANDMATES ARE IN TOKYO ON THE BACK OF THEIR LATEST RECORD, THR!!!ER (GEDDIT?), AND HAVING A WHALE OF A TIME. DON’T WORRY, IT’S ALL PROFESSIONAL.
“We’ll go anyplace that invites us” Offers states excitedly on the life of the travelling muso. “We like to travel, we just like to play. We go as many places as we can. A lot of times people go, “why don’t you come to Panama?” but you only go where you’re invited. A friend of mine is there, she’s posting pics on Instagram and I’m like, it’s bullshit, I wanna go there!”
And, just to clear it up at this point for those that don’t know, the band’s odd name comes from the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, wherein the clicking sounds of the Bushmens’ ‘Khoisan’ language were represented as “!” although the band themselves admit that !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound, “Chk Chk Chk” being the most common pronunciation. So there you go. The album is an electric sliver of the energetic and affirmative dance/pop/rock/ mish-mash you have come to know and love from the boys with the punctuated name, the singles “One Girl/One Boy” and “Slyd” already evidence of their new, but familiar, sound. It was produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno, as well as input from Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco and the partnership turned out to be quite fortuitous. “It was one of those situations where you can pick someone you’re a fan of and go
“DON’T MARRY ANYONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE THE BEATLES. THERE’S A PART OF THEMSELVES THAT THEY’RE DENYING, YOU DON’T WANNA GET MIXED UP IN THAT.”
into the studio with them, and they may be past their prime or whatever, but with Jim it absolutely worked. We had such a great time, he’s such a great producer. It was a great relationship, it really pushed us.” “We felt like we were pushing towards something new, we never wanted to make the same record twice. We’re always pushing forward. We wanted to discover something. Jim was the perfect compliment. Sometimes it can feel like a substitute teacher situation but this was awesome.” The band are scattered around America, making creative input and jamming more difficult than popping onto a suburban bus. “I can’t imagine what it was like to live in the same town as everybody” Offer laughs. “Going to practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That would be awesome but we’re so used to it now.” “Everyone is gonna think it’s too egotistical, we thought” Offer says on the decision to name their new album, in a manner of speaking, after one of the most famous and arguably grooviest records of all time. “We said, it’s funny, let’s just do it. People seem to go, ‘so this is gonna be the last good record you’re gonna make?’ There are several bands who have made several Thrillers; Prince, Blur. INXS only made one Thriller, I think. I loved INXS when I was a teenager, most of the bands I liked when I was younger I still like now.” So what is Offer spinning nowadays? “This week it’s Logo’s Cold Mission and the new Death Grips album [Government Plates]. I am getting pretty excited, there’s all those end-of-year lists I go through. I like to see what other people are listening to. If an album shows up on five or six lists, I will give it a listen.” Although a powerhouse on stage, Offer never bites the hand that feeds, as he has seen others do. “Eddie Vedder talks shit about Sacramento, where I’m from!” Offer tells. “But the funny thing, is no-one gives a shit about Eddie Vedder anymore (laughs). It’s a bunch of sports and politics stuff, he said something like “have you been to Sacramento, those people are fucked up”, but I get it. I’ve said some stupid shit on stage…” Returning to Australia to hit up the Falls Festivals in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales, Chk Chk Chk will no doubt become the Band of Summer that all the dance-punk festival kids boogie to (people still say boogie, right?) in the ungodly Australian heat. Offer allows these wise parting words. “Tell Eddie Vedder that Nic from Sacramento said to go to an Australian 7/11 and have a Golden Gaytime. They’re amazing, I have at least two of those every time I go to Australia.” Rock and ice-cream. You heard the man. LISA DIB
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GUIDE TO NEW YEARS EVE IN TASMANIA ON THE NIGHT The Taste of Tasmania - Hobart As always, the Taste of Tasmania hosts a massive celebration at New Year’s Eve, but this year is particularly special with the event celebrating its 25th birthday. The Taste of Tasmania has an endless selection of local produce and food from around the globe, craft beers and ciders, and quality wine. You can grab a meal or purchase smaller servings from various stalls for a delicious platter. There will be two stages for various bands this year, plus DJs in the forecourt, tight wire and fire acts, and of course surprise performances popping up throughout the night. Ticket Prices: General Admission - $55.00, Table Seating - $80.00, Waterfront Table Seating - $90.00 Taste Food Tours, Tasting Table and Reserved Seating will also be available for purchase for the following prices: Food Tours - $25.00, Tasting Table - $15.00 - $35.00, Reserved Seating - $20.00 per session (includes five hour sessions). For tickets go to: http://www. tasteoftasmania.com.au/ New Year on Royal: Festivale - Launceston Taking place at Royal Park in Launceston’s city, this is an event for the whole family, with a great line-up of music starting from 5:30pm, tonnes of food, beer and wine, and activities in Kids Kingdom to keep the little ones happy. Music includes The Fabulous Picasso Bros Tribute with Nelson Tabe, Leigh Ratcliffe, Jack Mcniff and Matt Neil, Kristy Tucker, McBennett and S&M, and the headline act is soul singer Juliane Di Sisto. The outstanding fireworks displays will be at 9:30 and of course at midnight to bring in the New Year. While there are plenty of food and drinks stalls, patrons are welcome to bring their own food and non-alcoholic drinks. Grab a picnic blanket, an emergency jacket and fold-up chairs. Tickets cost $15 for an adult or $7.50 for an under-18, while children under 12 are free. Family tickets are available for $39, all from the Launceston Travel and Information Centre or at the gate. Eve in the City: Lantern Dreams Festival Devonport On the Mersey River Foreshore in Roundhouse Park Devonport will host its third Lantern Dreams Festival. 1000
lanterns will adorn the beautiful park, a symbolic display of well wishes and resolutions. The fireworks spectacular includes two pyrotechnics displays at 9:45pm and midnight, and there will be music on the main stage all night. Two great local acts are included in the support bands Sheyana’s Mach 4 and The Habits. Later Will Perrett, a gold coast teen who appeared on X-Factor this year, will take the stage with his brother Lionel. The headlining act will be the Baker Boys Band with their range of great party covers from 10pm – 12:30pm. Gates open to this event at 6, with $5 entry and under 18s free. The Falls Music and Arts Festival – Marion Bay Gather all your tent pegs and take the 20-minute drive out of Hobart for this year’s Falls Festival, a massive music and arts event right by the incomparable beauty of Marion Bay. Some of the highlights of this year’s festival include The Roots, Vampire Weekend, The Wombats, The Violent Femmes, Grizzly Bear, Solange, London Grammar, and The War on Drugs. The themed Boogie Nights will also take place on the night of the 29th for those who turn up early, and will feature some amazing funk, soul, and dance acts. The Valley Stage will see most of the headline acts play and can be enjoyed by the partyers and the sunbakers alike in the natural amphitheater of the property, while the nearby Field Stage will host some of the more chilled out acts and comedians. While you’ll want to pack some muesli bars and tinned fruit, there will be a huge range of food stalls. If you forget your sunnies or don’t feel like you’ve dressed frivolously enough, there are plenty of clothes and cool accessories for sale. This is an all ages event with designated camping areas available for families. Tickets are $247.90, but Tasmanians must remember to cash in their Tassie discount at selected ticket sellers. For more info and tickets head here: http://fallsfestival.com. au RACT Night On The Terrace - Burnie Burnie’s NYE event starts with a bike race through town with a hoard of professional riders and three Australian champions; Glenn O’Shea, Luke Davison, and Alex Edmonson. Then from 5:30pm – 1:30am you can head to the Night On The Terrace, with heaps of kids entertainment on the kids’ stage until 9pm. The 9:30 fireworks will be accompanied by some great music. There is a bar run by the Lions Club, the Somerset Surf Club, and the Burnie City
Brass Band, and all proceeds will go back into these community projects. There is a fantastic line-up of music from 7pm until 1:30am, with the Bass Highway Men playing their party-appropriate covers, the brilliant blues master Pete Cornelius, and guitar rock legend of the 70s and 80s, Kevin Borich. Also from 9:30pm there will be drummers and fire-twirlers providing entertainment on the beach, where a roaring bonfire will set the scene. It’s going to be a massive night at the Burnie waterfront, at a massive $2 a pop. Seriously. Cargo - Hobart On Tuesday December 31 you can head down to Cargo in Salamanca for a massive street party. DJ Johnny G, Cargo’s regular deck master, will be providing the best party music in town. Head down as early as 3pm and stay past the countdown. Cargo is a very trendy bar in this popular strip, get as dressy as you like and line your stomach with some hot food from the bar’s awesome kitchen. Boil Up at The Republic Bar - Hobart Hobart’s best reggae, funk, and soul outfit Boil Up will be bringing in 2014 at The Republic Bar, with their unbeatable live set. This is a big band with a brass section, brilliant guitarists, and stunning soul vocals.
THE NIGHT After The Taste of Tasmania It’s absolutely worth climbing out of bed and heading back down to the waterfront to replenish your partied-out body. Whether fresh seafood, slow cooked meat, curry, hair of the dog or ice-cream sundaes are your usual cure, they will have it at The Taste. Sit outside by the water and watch the boats in the famous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race roll in. If you can’t stand the crowd, take your tasty food to the parliament lawns and have a picnic, then fall asleep under a tree. KFC T20 Big Bash League Whether you’re a die-hard cricket fan or just want to chill in the sun with some friends and a beer, the Twenty20 cricket match between The Hobart Hurricanes and The Melbourne Renegades will make for a perfect recovery day. Get yourself down to Blundstone Arena in Bellerive to support the Purple Army by 1:45pm. There are general admission and reserved seating tickets available between $8.00 and $72.00 from Ticketek. ERIN LAWLER
Entry is a mere $10 from 10pm, but you can pay $40 for entry and a three-course meal plus drink on arrival. Regines – Wrest Point Some of you will remember Regines, said to have been the best nightclub back in ‘the day’, and some of us have only heard of this mysterious haven. Well, Regines is back for every Friday and Saturday night in December, finishing off with a big party on New Years Eve. The year will be brought in with the Ultimate disco Night with the Disco Regime featuring; DJ Svengali, Billy Bob, Amanda Neal, LaLa and Boo plus guest from 10pm. Door entry is $20. The first day of the year can be the worst day of the year. Weighed down by the anticlimax after your amazing night, with a pounding head, a mouth like an ashtray, a hazy memory, a feeling of shame you can’t quite put your finger on, and a serious case of indecisiveness, it’s best you slide on your darkest sunnies and venture out with some friends to cheer you up. Here are some options for your recovery day.
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NOT SO HORRIBLE MIAMI HORROR – THAT LATENT JUXTAPOSITION OF A MONIKER; THE ARTIST AND BAND THAT IS MY IMMEDIATE COGNITIVE LINK TO AUSTRALIAN ‘AFTERNOON BUZZ’ TRIPLE J RADIO; THOSE MANIC TEENAGE ROMANCE VIDEO CLIPS THAT CONSOLIDATE THE MUTUAL RETROSPECT WE ALL HAVE OF OUR SCHOOLYARD PIPEDREAMS.
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Yes, these are the people, who, like many other home-alone dance party bands, make up the current, stylistically identifiable face of Australian indie-electro culture. I specify Australian, because we seem to have this music culture that isn’t firmly grounded in any particular genre – we have our fingers in many metaphorical (and literal) pies, the contents of these mystery bags which, are smeared messily on the proverbial canvas of popular music; the in-built style that Miami describes as a “mixture of upbeat melancholy [with] retrospective 70s/80s musical references”. Through this clinging to retro eclecticism, a lot of acts in electronica have reached this particular sound that one associates with some key culture indicators; the neutral coloured chinos and Hawaiian shirts, the large grassy knolls swarming with frivolity and the image of youth, crushed beer cans and wet, clumpy hair from sweating under the burning 30 degree sun. To me, these wild, reckless images combined with the backing track of indietronica like Miami Horror encompasses Australian festival culture.
An important part of this new wave of retro electronic music has been the post production, getting an ethereal “manic pixie dream girl” sort of vibe, that has a bounce, a stone and a white wave all at once. “Synths I’m open to anything, mostly vintage or vintage styled plug-ins. The process for one song can be up to 6 months or more, [but] you can have a great song that is also quite lo-fi or not over produced.” Miami Horror is one of the many acts that make Australian festival and electro culture so defining. Australians have a standard for our live music, and acts that know how to fabricate the best material under the pressures of sun, dirt, beer and expectation constitute a large portion of our musical experiences. Hands dirty with sweat-stained brow, we dance disjointedly to the seemingly timeless noise of our youthful passion and disillusion. MORGAN DUHIG
“Australian’s are reasonably patriotic and supportive of their bands. Most countries have scenes that are very genre specific but Australians are more open, currently we’re losing that a little bit in the electronic world, but it is something I hope continues.” Increasingly though, videography of the band’s music has become as much a part of their image as the crowd that follows them. The youthful, western-stylised “Under the Tuscan Sun” scenery in these videos compliment the fool hardy spontaneity of Miami Horror’s sound. “It has never really worked out how we imagined! I like very visually stylised clips like our one for Real Slow...our music is usually made in a sunny frame of mind, but it is to take the listener wherever they want to be.” 14
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BRING ON THE MASSACRE WHEN THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE ROLLS INTO HOBART FOR THEIR DECEMBER 14 GIG AT THE BRISBANE, THERE’S EVERY CHANCE FRONT-MAN ANTON NEWCOMBE MIGHT BE A LITTLE SURPRISED.
Newcombe freely admits he doesn’t know a great deal about our island state, but even what he does know seems somewhat dubious. “I just know it’s got almost like a…. my friend Ricky tells me it’s almost Alpine,” Newcombe told Warp. “H says it reminds him of Sweden, you know, the lower parts of Sweden.” But any Scandinavian comparison aside, the prolific songwriter is also aware of MONA – and has it high on his list of priorities to visit during the hit-and-run, overnight trip south. “We have so many people it is so hard to break away and just burn money. That’s what it equals, basically, if you stay another day you’re just burning money,” he said. “I want to go to this museum. Some nutter has this crazy museum…”
Brian Jonestown Massacre play the Brisbane Hotel, Saturday December 14. Tickets are sold out.
Again, maybe a little off track in terms of his assessment… but in what could rank as the understatement of the century he promised not to judge Tasmania on the strength of its ‘crazy museum’. “I’ve got an open mind,” he laughs.
And indeed he does. With a dozen albums and handful of EPs in the BJM back-catalogue, Newcombe has forged a reputation as one of the most prolific musicians in the business – as well as being a hard man to handle on and off stage. The 2004 documentary Dig! revealed his past battles with substance abuse and mental illness, but regardless of how his lifestyle appeared from the outside, it was far from being any rock ‘n’ roll cliché. “I always hated rock and roll… ‘I’m Led Zeppelin, here’s a backstage pass, I’m fucking your sister in the hotel room with a roadie,” he said. “I always hated those guys. I hated those guys standing up there. I always liked the folk guys standing in a kitchen, playing with grandma, punk rockers playing together, getting chased down a street by builders. I always liked that kind of thing. The Mods all standing together. “I hate the other thing. It was never really what I wanted to be part of at all.”
headlining Meredith Music Festival as part of the trip. And because Newcombe is now balancing the band alongside fatherhood the visits may become less frequent – but given his passion for performance it seems unlikely this will be his last chance to visit Tasmania. “I look at myself like one of those guys like Neil Young or whatever. I play music and it’s what I like to do. It’s something I enjoy,” he said. “I already lived the teenage thing, so I’m not trying to recreate that teenage feeling. “I am getting older, but, it’s not based specifically around teenagerism for me. I can’t say that for everyone in my band. For Matt, you’d have to ask him, because he does like girls and I don’t know what his motivations are. He likes watching them as they’re watching him while he’s playing and I’m just, like, out in space. “I’m just playing music.” STU WARREN
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ANOTHER SINGLE ON THE FIRE THE BOYS WHO BROUGHT US EPIC DANCE HITS ‘DON’T HOLD BACK’ AND ‘ARE YOU WITH ME’ WILL BRING THEIR TROUBLE, TROUBLE TO TASSIE AS THEY HEAD TO THE ISLAND TO PROMOTE NEWEST SINGLE ‘MAGIC NUMBER’. POTBELLEEZ FRONTMAN ILAN KIDRON TELLS US WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A TRUE HIT.
Although the band has produced Australia’s biggest dance hits since breaking onto the scene in 2003, Ilan says he doesn’t plan or anticipate the success of his songs. For him, song writing means simply getting down to business. “I don’t just write when I feel like writing. I go to work and I write,” Ilan says. “It’s born out of reaching within. Sometimes, when I’m feeling lazy is when some of the greatest stuff happens because I take myself into an area where I probably wouldn’t have otherwise gone.” Ilan also knows the importance of collaborating with other great artists and attributes the popularity of his songs to the band members’ abilities to bounce ideas off each other. Occasionally, the more outrageous the idea, the better. “I think the important part of song writing is to not be a slave to your learning. To be able to always let go and feel free, especially when you’re in a room with other people and you have to be daring.” “You have to suggest really stupid stuff to get to good stuff.” While it’d be reasonable to assume a lot of time is taken to craft the perfect hit, Ilan admits the songs that have made it big time are the ones done in just a day. “They’re not slaved over for months and rewritten and rewritten. Usually the ones that really connect are the ones that just come out of pure energy, and essentially out of a jam.” “For the most part, I’ll write the songs and the guys will produce it. Songs like ‘Saved in a Bottle’ I wrote with a friend and then I took it to the guys and we produced it
up. The guys in the band are very good at putting my songs on steroids.” For newest hit ‘Magic Number’, which was performed live at the 2013 ARIA Awards (where they were also nominated for Best Dance Release with ‘Saved in a Bottle’), The Potbelleez looked outside their own group to bring on board one of the hottest rappers in America. Six times Grammy nominated rapper B.o.B has sold 28 million records and was keen to put his words to the Aussie DJs’ song. The result is mind blowing to a level that even Ilan did not expect, as the rapper twisted the song’s meaning to meet his own vibe. “With ‘Magic Number’, I was sitting out in the surf and bobbing up and down and it just came to me, this whole idea of two people becoming one,” Ilan explains.
DIGGING THE PAYNE MELBOURNE MUSICIAN AMIN PAYNE IS MAKING A SOLID FOOTING FOR HIMSELF AS BOTH A SHARP, PROLIFIC PRODUCER AND AN IMPRESSIVE LIVE PERFORMER. WITH ORIGINS IN AUCKLAND, HE’S MADE THE VOYAGE ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN TO FURTHER HIS CAREER – AND SUCCESSFULLY SO, BEING REFERRED TO AS ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST TALENTED UP-AND-COMING PRODUCERS AT THE MOMENT.
“The most amazing part of that song process for us was having B.o.B come along. What began as a beautiful love song, he transformed into this incredible metaphor of chaos and darkness and light and tension and release.” “That’s what I call a real true collaborative effort, where someone takes an idea and flips it, puts it on its head.” The Potbelleez are no stranger to innovation and are pioneers of electronic dance music in Australia. Ilan says the country still lags behind Europe on the dance scene, but his band helps to bring us into the present. “We’ve been part of the dance music landscape for eight years, and I guess you could say we gave birth to a sort of style in Australia with big male vocals, high energy and big beats.” “I think the Europeans tend to take more risks. Dance music started there and dance music is constantly evolving there. Unfortunately what you get in Australia is people following a lot of trends that come out of Europe.” “It’s exciting where dance music is heading. To bring hip hop into the dance music is a natural progression, it’s something we’re really passionate about. It’s a way to create more tension in the music.” The Potbelleez are continuing to experiment as they are working on some new EPs for the New Year. Admitting the band has always been known for its singles rather than albums, Ilan says the choice to release an EP over an LP was a tactical one. “I think it’s just a bite sized way of getting songs on there where there are no fillers, it’s just all exciting, big songs.” EPs, LPs or singles, Ilan has no intention of leaving the dance music landscape. “People often ask me, ‘what are you going to do later on in life?’ and I say, ‘I’m going to write music’.” “The further down the tunnel you go, the more you realise the longer and wider and more exciting it is. With music, it’s just a never ending book of love.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE
Amin’s musical interests are wide and varied. He describes his addiction to musical formats of all varieties in his formative years: from sampling experiments with cassette tapes and DVDs, to the considerable influence of his ever-expanding vinyl collection. This open experimentation has led to Amin’s development of a unique and distinctive sound: sultry soul put against signature Melbourne-derived beats. Amin calls himself a “constant cratedigger” and names J Dilla, Pete Rock, Earth, Wind and Fire and Michael Jackson among his influences. “My current sound is very hip-hop, future funk and future beat, but I’ve even made a deep house track and used World Music samples for my new album. I mean, why not? I’m trying everything I can to challenge myself and keep things fresh but consistent at the same time,” he says. His latest release is a tribute to souljazz sensation and legend, George Benson. It’s a full-length record which Amin describes as his “journey through George Benson over the past month, using vinyl only samples, live instruments and percussion.” It’s smooth summer listening, and you can access it online for whichever price you desire. Past tribute records have included those to Gil Scott Heron and Curtis Mayfield – iconic musicians reinterpreted with fresh hands, ears and decks. Not only is Amin spearheading his own sounds, but he’s also at the forefront of an innovative artistic collective named Condensed Milk. The collective draws together everybody from beatmakers and producers to graphic designers and is renowned for its array of parties, talent showcases and DJ sets in both Melbourne and other cities, including Hobart. CHLOE MAYNE
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THE BAG RAIDERS The combined talents of JACK GLASS AND CHRIS STRACEY, THE BAG RAIDERS HAVE BECOME INTERNATIONAL HITS WITH A STRING OF ELECTRONIC POP RELEASES AND REMIXES SINCE 2007. ‘SHOOTING STARS’ ‘WAY BACK HOME’ AND ‘SUNLIGHT’ HAVE ALL BECOME ESTABLISHED DANCE ANTHEMS.
The Bag Raiders (DJ set) play Alchemy on Friday Dec 13, with local support from Akouo and Chris neoBi. Preale tickets $10 plus booking fee or $20 on the door
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Signed to Modular Records and regularly rubbing shoulders with the likes of The Presets, Cut Copy, Tama Impala, the Australian duo released their debut selftitled album Bagraiders in late 2010 and debuted locally at #7 on the ARIA charts. Since then the Australian duo have been on constant tour bringing their DJ sets to clubs and festivals in the four corners of the globe. Favourites in Europe, particularly Germany, the lads are back in their homeland for some of The Summer to spread their festive cheer.
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Moving his studio operation from Birmingham to Melbourne, Lotek recorded and mixed the 2009 Mercury Prize winning album, Speech Therapy by Speech Debelle from his newly setup HQ. Counter Clockwise Studio has since become a regula stopr for local and international artists for the provision of recording, mastering, mixing and also the production of backing tracks. Lotek’s debut album was released in late 2010, International Rudeboy features many local and international guests including Roots Manuva, Jimmy Screech, Ricky Ranking, RuC.L, Ozi Batla, Dialectrix and Ciecmate. He also features on a number of Australian releases including the Hilltop Hood’s album Drinking from the Sun. High production values and keen interest in dub, reggae and dancehall, makes Lotek’s solo material are interesting mash of bass driven hiphop. Lotek will be playing two shows in Tasmania this month. A special free entry performance in Launceston at Alchemy on Wednesday December 18, with supports from Stray, Statik, Tyrant, 42 South and Carlos. He returns to the state on Friday December 27 to play at The Homestead in North Hobart. Support on the night will include a special AV/ DJ set from Dameza with entry $10 on the door.
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TIME TO MOFO THE HOTTESTS ACTS IN THE WORLD, ALL PERFORMING IN HOBART, ALL AT THE SAME FESTIVAL... SOUND TO GOOD TO BE TRUE? THEN CHECK OUT THE LINEUP FOR MONA FOMA 2014 AND TELL ME WHO’S DREAMING. THE WORLD CLASS MUSIC FESTIVAL CURATED BY BRIAN RITCHIE WILL RAISE THE ROOF OF OUR SLEEPY CITY WITH A PLETHORA OF AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ACTS. TOO MANY TO TALK ABOUT IN JUST TWO PAGES, WE AT WARP HAVE PUT TOGETHER OUR ESSENTIAL MUST-SEES LIST FOR MONA FOMA 2014. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
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Hoppin’ down from the U.S of A. is Astronautalis – the alternative artist responsible for a mad mix of hip hop, Indie rock, blues and electro across four albums and eight EPs. Known in another life as Charles Andrew Bothwell, the hip hop mastermind has spent seven years gettin’ down with it, free styling on stages in Australia and 13 European countries. He even scored a gangster tatt in Germany – now tell me that’s not hardcore. The dude has rapped about everything from himself to the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War, and will be hitting MAC2 on January 16 at 10pm.
With three Grammy awards and another six nominations under his belt, Chris knows a little about music. The official genius (no joke – he won the 2012 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the ‘Genius Grant’ for his unparalleled creativity) started out when he was just eight. A member of Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers, Chris has also worked with Mike Marshall, Mutual Admiration Society, Edgar Meyer, and the Goat Rodeo Sessions. His acoustic-folk-progressive-bluegrass mandolin skills will be available for all to witness when he plucks away at Bach and Mahler like a regular hipster. Check him out at MAC2, January 17 at 7.30pm.
Colin Stetson competes with his instrument in size alone. The bass saxophone he rocks out is nearly as big as he is, and with it he produces sounds you’ve never heard any living creature or musical instrument make. Inspired by avant-gard jazz musicians who developed unconventional playing techniques, Colin is a must see for anyone interested in aural innovation. Colin makes noise. He makes dark, electronic, post-rock, minimalist noise and leaves you wondering what just happened (and curious for more). He’s also played with Arcade Fire, Bon Iver and and Tom Waits. Meditate, dance, do whatever you need to do at Colin’s gig this January 19. MAC2, 6pm.
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Harvey Miller and Monte Morgan are Client Liaison. Morgan sings – often in falsetto, and often undressed. Miller produces and cranks up the keys. Together, the duo are famous for sounds that are danceable and more Aussie than you can poke a stick at. The film clip to their song End of the Earth has got it all – Shane Warne, Bindi Erwin, Ansett, the Cronulla Riots, a boxing kangaroo, John Howard walking, and Bob Hawke slamming a beer. It’s the clip that made them famous, and this ode to our nation is a gorgeously dated ‘80s electronic haven. The mission of Client Liaison is to bring Australian culture back – drop the fancy pants, tip out your French champagne, and enjoy a true blue Aussie identity. Client Liaison will be at MAC2 on January 19 at 10pm.
Hinterlant is a German-Australian master of woodwinds, strings, electronics, percussion, and effects – all at the same time. The Sydney based one-man-band has released 11 studio albums and toured to Berlin, Helsinki, Bangkok, London, Rome, Cologne, Hamburg, Lisbon, and Amsterdam – and will come to Tassie for the first time for MOFO. His compositions jump between styles, embracing elements like bass lines inspired by dub step, guitar feedbacks, ambience, rock, electronica, and the odd vocal or trumpet line, here or there. His solo ensemble will be heard in MAC2 Backspace at 6.30pm, January 17.
The Bombay Royale The Bombay Royale are like nothing you’ve seen. The band started out with the goal of introducing ‘60s and ‘70s Bollywood hits to Melbourne audiences, but through their 2012 debut You Me Bullets Love they used multiple languages to reach ears around the globe with original hits. You could describe their sound as a mash-up of Tarantino, Bollywood, and psychedelic funk – but even this would be underdoing it. With nicknames such as The Kung-Fu Dentist, Dr Electrico, The Bandit Priest and The Mysterious Lady, these band members use theatrical costumes and lyrical seduction to take you to a place unreachable even with intoxication. See them at MAC2 on January 18, 5pm sharp.
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This American singer-songwriter has lived enough to put his soul into his music, and you can hear it all at his MOFO gig. John joined alt-rock band The Czars in the ‘90s and in 2010 broke onto the scene solo. His debut solo album Queen of Denmark was named Best Album of 2010 by Mojo and delves into his journeys of substance and alcohol addiction. The album also shares his feelings toward his homosexuality – a subject he explores in more emotional depth through his 2013 release Pale Green Ghosts. In the track ‘Ernest Borgnine’, John sings openly about his suffering from HIV, providing a uniquely personal musical experience. You can listen to his stories at 8pm on Jan 19 – MAC2.
Matmos, who called themselves after the slimy lake in the 1968 French-Italian sci-fi Barbarella, are perhaps as bizarre as their name suggests. The electronic dance duo have a wealth of experience guaranteed to inspire shock and awe. They’ve written soundtracks to five porn films. They’ve made music out of semen and burning flesh. They’ve been up close and personal with numerous surgical procedures to record the perfectly squishy sound. They’ve even teamed up with Icelandic vocal wonder Bjork (ok, maybe that last one isn’t as disturbing). The duo is made up of M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel – who are also ‘together’ together – and the two make sweet love through their electronic experiments. Get it on at MAC2, January 18 at 8pm.
Ngaiire burst onto the scene with her recent debut Lamentations. Moving to Australia from Papa New Guinea at sweet 16, the singer/ songwriter has spent years discovering her musical identity. Ngaiire has ventured into the territories of folk, pop, Indie, and blues, crossing cultural boundaries in the process. Her Lamentations crosses the bridge between her home in Sydney and her love for a tiny bar on the outskirts of Tokyo, where she indulged in potato wine and found inspiration for her music. After rocking a gig at Tropfest this December, Ngaiire will collaborate with the Australian Art Orchestra to resurrect the magic of Louis Armstrong. The Australian Art Orchestra has won many awards for its avant-gard, experimental and jazz influenced music, and you can hear the acts together at MAC2 Backspace on January 19, 5.30pm.
Sun Ra’s members started out in jazz when it was first in fashion, and are still on the scene now that the genre has become a retro revival. If you want to hear how swing was really done back in the day, listen to Arkestra bring it back in its original form. Members Julian Priester, John Gilmore, and Marshall Allen (who’s about to be 90, but he’s still got it) first joined in the ‘50s. The self-declared extra-terrestrial band member Sun Ra was the first man to play jazz with an electronic keyboard, is famous for collective improvisation, and is convinced he’s not from around here. San Ra has claimed that the only reason he is on this planet is because we, the people of Earth, need him here. With no legal birth certificate, he may be right. Sun Ra was in Chicago in the ‘40s and ‘50s, New York in the ‘60s, and will now come with Arkestra for this century’s gig at MOFO. January 16, 8pm MAC2.
The Julie Ruin Not too many people can say they used to drink with Kurt Cobain – but Kathleen Hanna certainly can. The lead singer of The Julie Ruin also brought us ‘90s punk band Bikini Kill and, more recently, Le Tigre. After grappling with years of illness, the feminist has regained her strength to bring us more of her energetic and danceable hits straight from New York. The band’s debut album Run Fast was released just this September, and is both raw and electronic, both serious and light, and an overall fun experience. Dig it at MAC2, January 18 at 6.30.
Mick Harvey does Serge Gainsbourg One of the biggest contributors to French music will be brought to you by a figure equally important to the music of Australia, when Mick Harvey does Gainsbourg this MOFO. Mick Harvey played with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey before branching off on his solo career. While he’s brought out six studio albums by himself, he’ll be joined on the Tassie stage by guest artists from The Blackeyed Susans, The Cruel Sea, The Cambodian Space Project, and more. Though Gainsbourg was famous for his laughably grotesque but awesome 1969 hit ‘Je T’aime…Moi Non Plus’ (which was understandably banned for its explicitly sexual lyrics and noises), he actually moved across a range of styles throughout his lifetime. He started out with jazz, and progressed to pop, funk, reggae, rock and electronic music during his internationally tracked career. Check out Mick Harvey’s take on Gainsbourg at 6.20pm, January 16 on MAC2.
The Orb England is pretty famous for pioneering electronic music, and The Orb have been on the forefront of the scene for 25 years. In fact, they’ll be celebrating this anniversary with a massive gig at MOFO. Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann are responsible for ambient, acid house, and electronic dub creations that have included sounds from NASA space broadcasts to BBC nature recordings, all in the name of good music. In respect for the ambience born of Brian Eno and Kraftwerk – two of The Orb’s influences – go and see this gig at MAC2, January 19 at 11pm.
Tyondai Braxton: HIVE MOFO is renowned for its ability to create a music festival that is as much visual as it is aural – and this year we can feast our eyes and ears on Tyondai Braxton. Alongside four other musicians, Tyondai will create his noise from his own ‘hive’ – an oval shaped platform. Famous for his orchestrated loops, the layering of instruments in real time, Tyondai will compile electronic music, explosive percussion, and furious lighting in Hive. Tyondai has had a close connection to music for his entire life. He was born to Anthony Braxton, a philosopher who can improvise on almost every woodwind instrument you can name. Tyondai went on to study music himself, at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, and is famous for his avant-rock group Battles. Tyondai will sit atop his hive at MAC2 Backspace on January 17. Be there at 8.30pm or 10.45pm. www.facebook.com/warp.mag 19
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PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC Let’s go back in time. A long way back. What were you doing in 2004? Still crushing out over that boy in your English class (what ever happened to him)? Perhaps lurching drunkenly down some street somewhere singing ‘What About Me?’ like Shannon Noll? 2004 was also the year Wrest Point Casino’s nightclub Regines closed its door forever. At least, that’s what we thought. To celebrate the Casino’s 40 birthday, Regines rose again last year like a fist bumping, pelvis thrusting Jesus Christ. th
For four debauched weeks, it was a temple to music of the ‘70s and ‘80s with various DJs busting out the tunes to which you may have been conceived. That experiment was so successful that Wrest Point is going to do the whole thing again. For the month of December, Regines will dust off its bell bottoms and curl its dark and alluring moustache to bring the fine people of Hobart more funk, more groove, and more of everything. Think glitter, platform shoes, leotards, handlebar moustaches. Think big, big hair. There are a heap of DJs lined up, specializing in everything from funk to pop to reggae and back again. The lineup includes DJ Svengali, who is back with a weekly residency culminating in the Ultimate Disco Party on New Year’s Eve. The idea, DJ Svengali explains, is to “try and have some fun with it. We’re going for that trashy aesthetic, not taking it too
seriously. There will be disco, Indie, ‘80s, but dance is the main theme.”
emphasizes the roots of disco music have something for everyone.
To the world of music, DJ Svengali says that disco is “the high water mark of the decadent culture of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Free love, drugs. It peaked there in the in a snowstorm of cocaine and disco music.”
“It’s soul music and black music because it came from ‘60s soul and James Brown. People were funking it up in the ‘70s and then it got whited up with strings, but it’s got strong roots.”
The past will be blasted every Friday and Saturday night in December with parties running from 10pm to 3am and feature three DJs at each. If that’s not enough to get you going, the nights will be hosted by the glammed up Debbie Deloware and Riki Lipstixx on Fridays and PomPom Dames Lala and Boo on Saturdays, smoothing your socially awkward moments with more glitter than you can shake a stick at. They’ll also give out prizes for best dressed and best dancer. As if you needed an incentive.
There will be disco, funk, soul, and pop. If it’s got a kick in it, they will probably play it, and for the dancers amongst us, that’s incentive enough.
DJ Svengali expects that the lure of the ‘70s and ‘80s may draw an older crowd, but he
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NOT QUITE THE KGB A CHANCE MEETING AT A GIG IN LEEDS IN 2010 SPARKED THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL JOURNEY FOR KLAUS VON BARREL AND KAT DAY, AND THIS DECEMBER THEY WILL JOIN FORCES WITH THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE TO BRING THE AUDIO/VISUAL EXTRAVAGANZA THAT IS THE KVB TO AUSTRALIA FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Originally from Southampton and Colchester (but now based in London) The KVB started life as a solo project of Klaus’ in 2010, but with Kat joining in late 2011, it became a live touring band. The decision to join forces was never a conscious one, but after frequent collaborations the band admits that “it was just something that came together naturally.” When forced to put their sound into words, Kat and Klaus confide, “it’s difficult to describe it ourselves, as there are so many diverse influences on what we do.” “If we were pressed to describe it, we’d say it’s a fusion of shoegaze guitars, minimal synth melodies, hypnotic drum machine beats and reverb drenched vocals.”
The KVB came to the attention of Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre through their manager Dr Kiko. One listen to them and Anton was hooked. It just snowballed from there. They met, Anton signed them to his label A Records, and then came the offer to tour with the BJM and bring their stuff to Australia. But that was all after a trip to Germany to do a dab of recording with Anton at his studio in Berlin for a new EP. “It was a different experience to what we were used to,” Klaus and Kat say. “Previously, all our music was recorded at home but for this new EP we got to experiment with live drums and other
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instruments in addition to working with a sound engineer. These songs should come out as an EP early next year on ‘A’ recordings.” It’s capping off a very big year for The KVB. “We’ve been very busy with touring, recording and releasing. We’ve put out one LP and one EP so far this year and have another different LP set for release in November.” We can expect a visual feast of the grandest KVB scale from their first trip to Australia. “We’ll be playing a variety of songs from all our releases, old and new, accompanied by hypnotic and haptic visuals,” Klaus and Kat share.
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“The projector, screen etc. is usually part of our tech rider as it can be difficult to install in different venues, and obviously it works better in some venues than others. Hopefully the kind of places we are playing in Australia allow the visuals to be more as we prefer them to be - large and immersive.” KYLIE COX So, get excited. The KVB will be hypnotically lighting up the The Brisbane Hotel stage as they open up for the BJTM in what is shaping up to be an unbelievable night of music on their first (but definitely not last) Australian journey. If you haven’t purchased a ticket as yet, unfortunately for you the show has already sold out.
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SENSIENT RETURNS TO HOBART THE MAN BEHIND SENSIENT AND AUSTRALIA’S LEADING PROGRESSIVE PSYTRANCE LABEL ‘ZENON RECORDS’, TIM LARNER HAS MANAGED TO SPEARHEAD A MOVEMENT WITHIN THE GLOBAL PSYTRANCE COMMUNITY, WITH AN UNIQUE STYLE OF DEEP, INTELLIGENT AND FUNKY PROGRESSIVE TRANCE. A regular on the outdoor party circuit, Tim has played all corners of the globe and at most of the big international festivals including; Boom, Ozora, Voov, Universo Parallelo, Glade, Rainbow Serpent, Sonica, Fusion. In between shows, Tim gave us a little insight into his musical world.
What inspired you to make electronic music and how long have you been making it? I’ve been making electronic music for around 13 years now. My first real exposure to it was in the late 1990’s when I was living in Byron Bay. There was a thriving scene in the area at that time, legendary forest parties with Olli Wisdom, Luna Orbit, Luke Psywalker etc. My brother had already been to a few parties and he invited me to one called “The Dawning”. It must have been 1998 or 1999. I went and had my mind blown by what I heard and decided I wanted to try and recreate it. So I bought a pc, got a copy of Fruity Loops and started messing with beats and sounds. I had my first release a couple of years later. I was also heavily inspired around that time by the early seeds of the “Zenon Crew”… SunControlSpecies, Tetrameth and Shadow Fx were also living up there, and we were attending the same parties and playing our early creations out at them, and inspiring each other in the process!
on planes. Driving to parties in countries with dodgy roads (ie. Mexico) with psycho drivers. Seeing people who have obviously ingested way too many substances - I find that pretty disturbing. What do you like about your work? Lots!!! Getting paid to travel the world and experience different cultures. Meeting awesome people everywhere I go. Having the freedom to spend my time being creative and making music rather than having a normal “day job” and then seeing people react to my creativity on the dance floor. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given? “Polish your name every time you perform” - Atmos gave me that piece of advice back in 2005 and I’ve always kept it in mind. ALISON McCRINDLE
Do you know how many sets you have played as Sensient and which was your most memorable? Hmmm not sure how many sets I would have played, if I had to guess I would say around 300. It’s hard to pick the most memorable out of so many gigs, I could take the easy way out and say it was the one last weekend (obviously). But I’d say both times I have played on the main floor at Rainbow Serpent would be right up there. Where else do I get to play in that environment and to so many of my friends and people I know through the Aussie outdoor scene…it is rather special! What do you dislike about your work? Going to sleep at 11pm and having to wake up already at 1am to go play a set. Waiting in the line at airports. Killing time
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INTIMATE WITH FRANCESCA IF YOU PUT THE MUSIC OF BEN FOLDS, THE BEADLES AND CAROL KING IN A BLENDER, WHAT WOULD YOU GET? PROBABLY A BIG MESS AND A BROKEN BLENDER. BUT ADD SOMETHING ELSE, SOMETHING UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN AND DISARMINGLY HONEST, AND YOU’VE GOT THE GORGEOUSLY PURE SOUND OF FRANCESCA DE VALANCE.
Brisbane based singer-songwriter Francesca De Valance is doing what all responsible Queensland based musos do at this time of year – head to Tasmania for a well earned tour. This songstress’ music is easy on the ears in the best kind of way. There are some gorgeous echoes of the lady at a piano, pop/folk goddesses of the ‘70s, but there’s nothing recycled in her lyrics or in her approach to songwriting. Francesca’s lyrics are hugely personal, but she connects them with human experience. “They’re definitely all drawn from my life,” she says. “While they can seem quite abstract to some people, they are quite specific, but allow – I hope – for people to relate to them in some way.” In the same way that Ben Folds connects with suburban young’uns, there is something delightfully small town about Francesca De Valance’s voice and songwriting. In reality though, Francesca is anything but a small town girl. She won Best International Songwriter Award at the Los Angeles Music Awards, supported the likes of Belinda Carlise and played to sold out shows overseas and festivals around the country. She’s definitely popular, but how does she feel about being called pop? “I would challenge anyone to give me a genre, because it is pop but it’s pop for grownups – pop for people with taste in music,” Francesca says. The ability to move between genres may have something to do with her previous training in jazz and classical music. She says that while she moved away from these influences in her “rebellious teens,” she’s been reminiscing.
STILL ROCKING KEVIN BORICH KNOWS A LITTLE ABOUT AUSSIE ROCK. AFTER ALL, THE GUITARIST HAS BEEN ON THE SCENE FOR OVER FOUR DECADES AND HAS SUPPORTED AND PERFORMED WITH THE LIKES OF ACDC, RON WOOD, RICHIE BLACKMORE, STATUS QUO, ELTON JOHN, JOHN MAYALL, AND SANTANA. KEVIN WILL HIT TASSIE THIS DECEMBER WITH HIS VERY OWN KEVIN BORICH EXPRESS, AND THE LEGEND GIVES US A RARE INSIGHT INTO THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
Kevin’s rock based funk and blues has twice awarded him Best Guitarist by the Australian Rock Music Awards, and with three EMI Gold Records under his belt, it’s no wonder he was also voted one of the all time greatest Australian guitarists in 2011 by Australian Guitarist Magazine. He started out with the La De Das in New Zealand (who were famous for their classic hit ‘Gonna See My Baby Tonight’) and has been part of The Party Boys and Kevin Borich Express. While he’s still thriving on the scene, Kevin says it’s not what it used to be – and that’s ok, too. “You just have to roll with the punches. Times change,” Kevin shares. “There used to be a lot of live venues. There was a great pub scene five days a week, and then all the poker machines came in – the poker machines don’t play too loud, they don’t write graffiti on the wall, they don’t get too drunk and they take people’s money – it’s perfect!”
“I suppose classical training not only gave me technique but it also gave me a really deep appreciation for all types of music. I’ve started incorporating it again, so I’ve got a couple [of songs] that draw on jazz, and a couple that draw on classical.” Francesca worked with Hobart born Paul McKercher (who’s also worked with Sarah Blasko, You Am I and Augie March), for EP Things That We Had Said. When quizzed about working with McKercher and the style of the EP, Francesca says it was a meeting of minds. “We didn’t do fancy for the sake of fancy. Paul and I pretty much have the same music influences. We both love the Beatles and we’re both really into Neil Finn’s writing, and because of that it just sprouted from the same idea.” Wise Tassie folk will definitely make some time to see one of her free shows. You won’t be disappointed. If the gorgeous vocals and flawless technique don’t have you at hello, the very real candor of her songwriting and lyrics will. “Honesty is beautiful,” Francesa sings – and in her case, it certainly is. LUCINDA SHANNON
Francesca will hold free gigs at Launceston’s Star Bar on December 5, The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on December 6, and Mona on December 7.
pretty tough. If you’re really passionate about it and you really work at it hard, you might get somewhere.” “The technology that we have these days is great for musicians, because you can get a really great result of the music that you write in your own home – you don’t have to go to a big studio and do all that. I have my own studio at home and that’s how I do all my stuff.” Having performed in front of 60,000 people and having The Eagles’ Joe Walsh sleep on his couch, Kevin has some incredible memories to look back on – and when he does reminisce, he says “I just go boy, you’re a lucky boy to have to be in the right place at the right time.” “Being good enough to be with those people is a wonderful gift that I’ve been given. I’m grateful for what I have.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE
“You can’t be stuck in the past. It’s very hard out there for live musicians, but thankfully I’m still doing ok.” Kevin says that while the music industry has always been highly competitive, there are more people coming out today to compete. “People get famous very quickly, but then they’re gone –it’s like Kleenex mops. People like us that have been around for quite a while, we’ve just kept in it by playing.” Although the music has been Kevin’s life and joy, he would be hesitant to take the same path if he was starting out today. “I’ve been warning my children. It’s really sad that I have to do that, but in reality, it’s
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SEBADOH IT’S BEEN OVER A DECADE SINCE LO-FI PIONEERS SEBADOH RELEASED THEIR EIGHTH ALBUM, THE SEBADOH. AFTER COMMITTING THEMSELVES TO A RANGE OF SIDE-PROJECTS, TOURS AND COLLABORATIONS THROUGHOUT THOSE YEARS OF HIATUS THE BAND ARE WELL AND TRULY BACK, RELEASING BOTH THE SECRET EP AND DEFEND YOURSELF LP WITHIN MONTHS OF ONE ANOTHER THIS YEAR. DEFEND YOURSELF IS A STRIPPED-BACK, BARE-BONES RECORD WITH A VULNERABILITY ATTACHED TO IT, FORESHADOWED BY THE TITLE.
Like the previous Sebadoh recordings, the new album was triggered by an upheaval in frontman and co-songwriter Lou Barlow’s personal life: this time, it was his separation from his partner of twenty-five years. Chloe Mayne spoke to Lou from his home in Los Angeles about the motivations behind the latest recording, the comeback of vinyl, Ryan Adams and, of course, his ongoing role as bass player for the enigmatic Dinosaur Jr. Sebadoh recordings have been known to coincide with momentous times in your life: Defend Yourself is no exception – it’s been referred to as a “break-up” album. To what extent would you say this is true? At least for my songs it is, yeah. The album has thirteen songs on it: six are mine, six are Jason’s. Jason is still holding on in his relationship. We were both in long term relationships, and I just happened to be the one that... broke it off. Is playing and recording simply a means of expressing your experiences, or is it a means of dealing with them, too? Do you find the process therapeutic? Both! Yeah, it’s a real big coping thing for me. I’ve always used my music as a way to survive emotionally. It’s a way of understanding what’s happened. Especially with Sebadoh – the songs that I write for Sebadoh are extremely connected 24
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to recording my life. It’s good to have a Sebadoh record to represent what’s happening right now. So I would say it’s therapeutic, yes. You’ve been involved in numerous projects and collaborations during the time since the last Sebadoh record. Could you tell us about a few of those? I formed a band called Tres Padres, which means Three Fathers in Spanish, with my friends Imaad Wasif and Dale Crover (from the Melvins). We recorded two songs for a 7” which is coming out in the States in a couple of months, and that’s pretty good. I was actually really excited about that. We recorded a couple of songs in the Foo Fighters studio. And Dinosaur Jr of course, which is ongoing, and something that I love doing.
Well, vinyl actually seems to have a life of its own. I mean, it really came back because I think it does sound better. Cassettes don’t sound better. That was just cute, just something to do. Some people still have cassette players in their lives, and cassettes do have a charm, obviously. I mean, I loved cassettes when I was younger, and I do still really love the way they sound. But, in general, vinyl is something that does sound better. It really, truly does. So then it’s almost a practical thing, releasing things on vinyl, because it’s preserving the music in more of its natural state. But I also believe in digital
technology. I believe that it’ll only get better and better and better. And at some point people might not want to listen to vinyl anymore, because digital technology may get really good, but I don’t know. Right now, vinyl is superior. CHLOE MAYNE
Defend Yourself is in stores now. It’s also available to order from Joyful Noise (www. joyfulnoiserecordings.com) and Domino. See Australian tour details soon.
How’s the Dinosaur Jr reformation been for you? It’s amazing! We’ve done three records now, and in a lot of ways Dinosaur Jr, and what happened with Dinosaur Jr, has inspired me to really pursue a Sebadoh record. In some ways it made it possible, because I was actually able to make money touring with Dinosaur Jr. It made me more flexible, so that I could have the resources to make a Sebadoh record happen. Sebadoh are renowned as the cornerstone of “lo-fi” recording techniques. What is your fascination with this DIY recording style? I think it makes it more personal. If you do something yourself, it’s truly from you: this is something that you’ve made. So I understand that bands go into a studio and work with producers, I do understand that, but I don’t think it’s realistic for most people. I think studios are extraordinarily expensive. I think to really make music you need the time to do it. If you do something yourself, you can spend as much time as you want to spend. You can make it as personal as you need to make it and it can become a truer, purer expression of what you’re doing. It’s who you are. We’ve seen a huge revival in terms of bands releasing their music in older formats like vinyl. You’re even releasing Defend Yourself on cassette tape! Why are you doing this? Do you think the digitisation of music is helping revive these alternative formats?
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MONDAY 30 DEC VALLEY STAGE
TUESDAY 31 DEC
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THE ROOTS
THE WOMBATS
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FIELD STAGE
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12mid
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MGMT
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THE CAT EMPIRE 9.20-10.20
NEIL FINN 9.00-10.00
9pm
FLIGHT FACILITIES 8.20-9.20
HOT DUB TIME MACHINE 8.00-10.00
VIOLENT FEMMES
RUFUS
8.00-9.00
7.40-8.40
8pm
GRIZZLY BEAR MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO 7.00-8.00
7pm
HERMITUDE SOLANGE
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7.10-8.00
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LEGS AKIMBO 6.30-7.00 CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN RACKETTES
6pm
7.30-8.30
5.40-6.30
7.10-7.20
LONDON GRAMMAR BONOBO
6.00-6.50
THUNDAMENTALS 6.30-7.20
CYRSTAL FIGHTERS 6.10-7.00
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THE WAR ON DRUGS 5.20-6.10
LEGS AKIMBO 5pm
HORRORSHOW
5.00-5.40
4.50-5.40
POND
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THE RUBENS 4.20-5.10
EMMA LOUISE
THE CORRESPONDENTS 4pm
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WHITE DENIM
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JOHNNY MARR
COMDEY
3.00-4.00
TOM THUM 3.00-3.30 LEGS AKIMBO 2.00-3.00
2pm
4.10-5.00
3.50-4.30
3.40-4.30
LEGS AKIMBO 3.30-4.10 3pm
TOM ODELL
CHET FAKER
COMDEY
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW 2.00-2.40
dave callan + david quirk + michael hing 2.30-3.20
2.40-3.30
BOMBINO 2.10-2.50
THE PAPER KITES 1.20-2.10
THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS 1.40-2.20
BIG SCARY 1pm
GOSSLING
12.50-1.30
1.10-1.50
HANNI EL KHATIB 12.40-1.20
THE PREATURES 12pm
11.50-12.30
VIOLENT SOHO 12.10-12.50
ASTA
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LULU AND THE PAIGE TURNERS 12.00 - 12.50
11.00-11.30
THE HABITS 11.30-12.00
11.50-12.20
THE MIDDLE NAMES OLIVER TANK (jb seed)
11.20-11.50
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TAIT OF ALL TRADES SKILLED CRAFTSMEN HAVE LONG BEEN PRAISED FOR THEIR ABILITIES TO CREATE HIGH QUALITY OBJECTS WITH THEIR BARE HANDS. ALTHOUGH COMMERCIAL MASS PRODUCTION HAS PLAYED A CONVENIENT ROLE IN PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH EASILY ACCESSIBLE ITEMS AT A LOW COST, THERE STILL REMAINS A VERY WELL RESPECTED PLACE FOR THOSE WITH THE ABILITY TO MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FROM SCRATCH. ANDREW TAIT IS ONE SUCH CRAFTSMAN, AND HIS TALENT ALLOWS HIM TO PRODUCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS THAT CAN SING UNIQUE AND PERSONAL TONES. Andrew, who recently crafted a double bass for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, says the process provides him with a gratifying experience that can be shared with those who play his magnificent constructions. “An enjoyable part of the process for me is getting to know the player and custom designing the instrument to suit their needs,” Andrew says. “A commercially made instrument comes off a production line where each person knows only their small task and very little about the process as a whole, whereas a handmade instrument is generally made completely by one person who has complete control over the entire process.” Andrew has produced guitars, violins, viola da gambas, cellos, and double basses – all with his bare hands. His skill of crafting instruments was long in the making. “I consider myself to be a handy man, having grown up on a farm in the central western districts of New South Wales, where a farmer has to be a Jack-of-alltrades. I built the workshop in which I make and repair musical instruments – locally known as ‘the church’, as it has a 6.5 metre high cathedral ceiling.” While Andrew was a student at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, he borrowed his teacher’s old English double bass – marking the turning point for the young musician. “I played this instrument for six months and fell in love with it,” Andrew reminisces. “Of course it was worth a lot of money and as a student, I could not afford an instrument of that quality, so from that
VIENNA VIENNA! WHETHER YOU’VE BEEN TO EUROPE OR NOT, IT’S NO SECRET THAT THE CAPITAL OF AUSTRIA HAS GOT SOMETHING GOING FOR IT. VIENNA IS HOME TO ALMOST TWO MILLION PEOPLE, AND ANOTHER 12 MILLION MORE VISIT EVERY YEAR. RENOWNED FOR ITS ART AND ARCHITECTURE, TRENDY BARS AND RESTAURANT STRIPS, AND SCHNITZELS THE SIZE OF A PLATE, THE CITY’S PAST IS ABOUT AS VIBRANT AS ITS PRESENT. SOME OF THIS HISTORY IS GOING TO MAKE ITS WAY RIGHT HERE TO HOBART NEXT YEAR – SO GET READY FOR THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S 2014 VIENNA THEMED CONCERT SERIES. Tickets for the Vienna series are available from the TSO box office or online at www. tso.com.au. 26
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The first out of the five concerts will introduce us to Mahler’s Vienna. During the period of the 19th Century when Sigmund Freud marked the pinnacle of psychological theory, and Gustav Klimt painted the still famous artwork Der Kuss, Gustav Mahler thrived on the musical front. Slap on some wire framed glasses, gather an orchestra and some singers and Mahler’s your man. The dude was famous as a conductor and wrote nine symphonies – the fifth of which you’ll hear alongside exhilarating works by Richard Strauss. The TSO’s next trip takes us to Mozart’s Vienna. Even if you’re not a total classical music buff, you’ll have heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Who else but Mozart can say that he jumped into the lap of the Queen of Bohemia and covered her with smooches when he was only six? Along with Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, the works of his contemporaries Haydn and J Strauss II will also feature in this concert. Beethoven’s Vienna was about as dramatic as his famous four note theme (dun dun dun DUN…). While the composer was writing music he could hardly hear, his ears on the way to deafness, Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the city. Although Beethoven was originally inspired by
Napoleon’s revolutionary spirit, so much so that he dedicated his Third Symphony (Eroica) to the man, he lost faith when Napoleon declared himself emperor. This symphony was originally conducted by Beethoven himself in 1805 and will now be conducted by Marko Letonja for the TSO. The fourth stop is Haydn’s Vienna. Haydn was big. Real big. Think Timberlake big. Or Gotye big. After writing music exclusively for the Esterhazys – a family of extreme wealth and high status who lived on a massive rural estate (who’d complain?) – Haydn’s works became known
moment, I was inspired to make and own an instrument of the highest calibre.” Andrew went on to learn the techniques of some of the finest instrument makers in the world, including Australia’s Alan Riley, Harry Vatiliotis, and London’s Roger Dawson – the latter possessing a family bloodline of makers that can be traced as far back as 1715. Receiving grants from the Department of Culture and the Arts, the Simon Lee Foundation, and a Churchill Fellowship, Andrew gave up his summer barbeques to brave many a British winter to study under Roger’s wings. Andrew couldn’t have picked a better place in the world to study his passion, as his love for the traditionally crafted instruments stems right from the UK itself. “My favourite instruments come from the English school of making from 1750 til 1850. These instruments combine the depth of sound with a clear attack and power that is essential for a modern orchestra,” Andrew enthuses. With Tait-made instruments around Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and Western Australia, Andrew enjoys to follow the stories of his creations as they take his uniquely designed sound to performances far away from his workshop. Andrew performed his home made double bass with the TSO for their October Schumann and Mendelssohn concert conducted by Otto Tausk. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
See the TSO’s Pixar in Concert at the Derwent Entertainment Centre as part of MONA FOMA on January 19. Tickets are available from www.tso.com.au.
internationally through Paris and London and he continues to be celebrated as one of the greatest composers of all time. The finale of the TSO’s Vienna series will be in the Gala concert, A Night in Vienna. It would be harder to get closer to the city than to book a flight and land right in the centre. Marches, operettas and waltzes will take you far and away from the streets of Hobart – and why come back? Oh, that’s right – to see what the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has in store next! STEPHANIE ESLAKE
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STEPH’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE So you’ve never seen the orchestra – except for that one time when you watched your little brother play the violin like a dying cat at his school recital – and you’re feeling totally out of place. Classical music is for oldies, and there’s no way it can pump through your body like your favourite rock band can, right? Wrong. Seeing the orchestra live is an experience you won’t regret. In fact, it will only do you good to boast in casual conversation about having stylishly seen Beethoven and Tchaikovsky performed right in front of you. It means one thing: you’ve got class. If you’ve so far been hesitant to pop your orchestral cherry, here’s a beginners’ guide to the experience and how to sit through a concert without feeling like you’re lost in a foreign country.
1. BEFORE THE CONCERT
2. THE DUDE WITH THE STICK
So, you’ve been ushered to your seat and on the stage before you sit a mass of men and women holding instruments and wearing their concert blacks. It doesn’t look like the concert has begun and the people next to you are still flicking through their programs. But suddenly you hear a single tone, which emerges from the woodwind section and pierces through the air. One by one, other instruments start to join in with long notes that don’t sound anything like the Mozart piece you checked out on YouTube before you came. You start to think maybe this was a bad idea, and perhaps you should ask for your money back. But thanks to these instructions (from yours truly), you know that the musicians are tuning – or, playing the same notes, at the same time, with concerned looks on their faces. You can now sit back and continue to anticipate the massive work that is to come, knowing that when it does begin, all the instruments will be in tune and sound warmed up and ready to go.
As the lights dim and chatter descends, the conductor (the dude with the coattails) stands confidently in front of the orchestra and raises his baton – a thin white stick, which he may or may not have hurled into the trumpet player’s eye during the rehearsal. At this point, you’ll need to brace yourself for either a monstrous burst of audible beauty, or the softest of tones which will make you hang onto every note. When he looks like he’s about to have a seizure, and the musicians glare at him with energized eyes, it’s time for you to put your lolly wrappers back into your pocket and hold your breath. The concert begins. 3. THE PERFORMANCE Sometimes you’ll be gripping your seat (or heart), and other times you’ll notice a tear slide down your cheek. It’s just the way it goes. But there are a few things you need to remember. Firstly, if you’re an easy flincher, always watch the percussion
section up the back. Specifically, keep your eye on whoever is holding the crash symbols – the percussionist might take a while to make his move, but if he does so when you’re not ready then you’ll jump out of your skin. Secondly, I know you’re a master of live gigs so this one shouldn’t be too hard to get the hang of, but you will need to remember not to wolf whistle when the first violin or other mind-blowingly talented muso finishes their solo line. If you can, keep coughs and shrieks to a minimum and enjoy the experience. 4. THE FINAL NOTE The last note has sounded, but the energy hasn’t left the room – you know this because everyone is still holding up their instruments, and whether you’re aware of it or not you’re still propped up in your chair. Eventually, the conductor will break the silence by turning around to face you (hey – isn’t that the guy from in the program?), and taking a stereotypical bow. He will then kindly invite the orchestra to stand up and bow with him, during which time you can thank the group for their hours of preparation, decades of training, and masterful skills that just provided you with an evening of bliss. 5. POST-GIG The conductor has walked off the stage – but now he’s back! Will there be another piece? Maybe. There’ll definitely be another bow, and by this time your hands will hurt from clapping the loudest out of everyone in the concert hall. But it was worth it, and now it’s time for the post-gig drinks! Lights are back up, get out, and go discuss how classy and sophisticated you just became in one hour. Your gloating and boasting will last you for life – or, at least, until you stock up on more classical music at the next gig. You’ve done well.
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INHABITING THE HABITS TASSIE’S OWN THE HABITS (LASCA DRY AND DANIEL BICANSKI) ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY FEW TO HAVE WON THE STATE-WIDE FOSTER-ABAND COMPETITION, SUPPORTED AND FOSTERED BY THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER.
The competition involves local media selecting one Tasmanian artist to support, and promoting their music for the month of October. The winning band then earns itself a slot at the esteemed Falls Festival at Marion Bay. Having just recorded their EP, Little Darling, the North-West Coast duo are the third band The Advocate has successfully fostered into the Falls Festival lineup. “We felt very lucky that they would even nominate us in the first place,”
Lasca (vocalist, pianist and guitarist) says, “So to come through as a winner was very flattering”. The Middle Names, who were fostered by the University of Tasmania’s Togatus, and Lulu and the Paige-Turners, fostered by Tasmania’s Mercury newspaper, also won spots in the Foster-a-Band competition, and will join The Habits on the Falls Festival stage. Lyke Giants were winners in the competition last year, while The Dirty Love were nominated and won in 2011.
Lasca says she is most looking forward to the opportunity to perform at one of the country’s most prestigious music events, and the chance to belt out some classic Habits tunes (as well as have some “good times”) on a professional stage with professional musicians. However, the large-scale event of the Falls Festival (which Lasca says has been the highlight of the band’s career so far) is bound to bring out some nerves. “It’s the biggest gig that we have got so far, so of course there are nerves – nerves for me – that something could go wrong, but I’m sure everything will be fine”. The band has also just wrapped up supporting Grinspoon’s Phil Jamieson on his solo tour. “This has been one of my favourite gigs so far. Dan was a little sick so we got to play some new material – also the crowd was great, Phil was really nice, and it just turned out to be a really great night!” Lasca says. The Habits, The Middle Names and Lulu and the Paige-Turners will all proudly represent Tassie and grace the Falls stage as thousands bring in the New Year, so don’t miss the chance to see some of our finest talent in action. ENRICA RIGOLI
The Habits will play in Launceston on Saturday December 7 at Fresh On Charles supporting Evelyn Morris (Pikelet), before making their way to The Falls Festival at Marion Bay.
THEY GIVE US FEVER THE SEABELLIES WASHED UP ON THE AUSSIE MUSIC SCENE IN 2006. THE INDIE QUINTET FROM NEWCASTLE HAVE BEEN RIDING THE WAVE EVER SINCE WITH APPEARANCES AT SOME OF THE NATION’S LARGEST MUSIC FESTIVALS AND COUNTLESS HEADLINE GIGS. THEIR NEWEST ALBUM FEVER BELLE IS SET TO REACH THE SHORES OF TASSIE THIS MONTH, AND FRONTMAN TRENT GRENELL SPEAKS OPENLY ABOUT THE INTENSE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES WHICH INSPIRED THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RELEASE.
“‘I wanted to make a real 50/50 album about being in love and then the feeling of when that’s gone. It seems to be a pretty popular theme that people like writing about and listening to.” While Trent acknowledges the prevalence of love in contemporary songs, his own relationship with the emotion has grown new attachments as he lived through his first serious heartbreak. As with many bad breakups, the timing couldn’t have been worse. “In the middle of week two in the studio, I got a call from overseas from my old girlfriend and she actually broke up with me in the middle of tracking the album.” “Then I had to run away for a while, I had to leave the album and go travelling by myself for a little while and rewrite a better album – lyrically anyway, so I could re-imagine that horror.” While it’s not uncommon to shy away from thinking about our toughest times,
Trent braved his heartache and decided to share it with the world. Embracing a newly discovered tenderness that commenced with the ending of his six year love affair, the singer expresses himself through the band’s new release. “In a way, it’s a good thing that it really did happen to me because I think that the lyrics have become a little more honest and a little more heartfelt, and I think the performance was as well.” “I always wanted to explore that heartbreak side because I love that sort of music. I’d never had that experience, so I just kind of imagined it as best I could.” Along with title track ‘Fever Belle’, the songs ‘Isabelle’, ‘Bodies’ and ‘Atlantis’ each explicitly refer to love and loss. Fever Belle has been an emotional rollercoaster for Trent – but doesn’t necessarily drag you along for the ride. Although Trent does consider it important for his songs to clearly express the ideas he intends, the
music leaves you the freedom to engage with it in as much depth as you like. “I like to anchor every chorus or verse in some sort of reality. I think it becomes a little more meaningful if you’ve got a message.” Understandably, Trent hasn’t had the easiest time singing those lines, but despite their content he is now getting back on his feet ahead of the band’s Tassie gigs. “It was a bit too hard to sing for a while. Tracking the music was done in January 2012 and I didn’t do the vocals til July or August, so it was a big gap there. But I’m fine to listen to it now. I’m friends with that person again and it’s all ok.” The Fever Belle tour marks a new success for The Seabellies. Trent thinks the band’s longevity may be attributed to the fact that they’re the “the stubbornest Indie band around,” although they have considered changing their name. The band name may sound light and fun – and certainly is reflective of their music – but the story behind it is much darker. “It’s a really morbid story. When I was in university, I wrote a short story about this experience I had where I saw a man washed ashore on a beach in New South Wales, and he unfortunately had drowned. I was only a child at the time and I remember finding it really fascinating in a horrible way. It always stuck with me.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE
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THE GYPSY QUEENS YOU MAY BE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT THE HOTTEST TRIO TO COME OUT OF EUROPE IS NOT EUROPEAN AT ALL. MELBOURNE BASED BAND VARDOS IS MADE UP OF THREE WILD WOMEN WHO HAVE TRAVELLED THE WORLD TO LEARN THE SECRETS BEHIND TRADITIONAL GYPSY MUSIC, AND WILL SHARE THE ENERGY OF THEIR ADVENTURES THIS JANUARY IN THEIR TASSIE GIGS. tThe band have toured all over europe and have featured in a plethora of recordings, events, and television shows. Classical pianist-turned-piano accordionist/ playwright sofia chapman gives us a unique insight into what life is really like as a travelling gypsy. What qualifies as a fully-fledged gypsy? Gypsies are believed to be descended from people who came west from India in the 14th Century and settled in Europe in the 14th Century. There are still large populations in Eastern Europe but also in Britain where they are known as travellers and don’t necessarily resemble their Indian ancestors yet still keep certain traditions and practices alive. Tell me a bit about your experiences learning with gypsy musicians in Europe. Sometimes we stayed with our teachers in their houses in villages with chickens running around the yard, and after the lesson their other family members would come and join in and play for hours. Overall, our main problem when visiting and staying with the Roma people was being overfed. Sometimes we were in pain from trying to be polite and eating all we were given. Why did you decide to set aside your classical piano roots and roam free with piano accordion? I was always inspired by composers such as Liszt and Chopin who made me curious about travelling to Eastern Europe. Once I started performing with the piano, I was at the mercy of whatever piano was at the venue unless I started lugging a keyboard around. The accordion seemed the perfect solution, and with my bits and pieces packed into my accordion case I set off knowing I could make my living wherever I went – as long as I could outrun the police. How do you feel traditional gypsy folk music fits into the modern musical world? Elements of Romany music creep into so many genres now – you can hear Balkan brass riffs in hip hop, for example. Similarly, Eastern European and Romany musicians are playing in many genres themselves and achieving much success. In Europe, the ‘turbofolk’ style has taken off and our teachers would sometimes take us to nonstop Romanian bars where music was played on keyboard and saxophone with tacky but infectious beats. Do you feel that gypsy spirit in other aspects of your life? One thing we’ve learnt without exactly being taught it is that bravado of convincing the audience you’re the best and even convincing yourself that you can achieve whatever you want. Gypsies have had to be very resourceful and that’s an important trait for musicians with fluctuating incomes. I guess the Gypsies’ rebel attitude and optimism have rubbed off on us, too. We also appreciate the value of having chickens – although we only eat the eggs. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
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JACKEYS MARSH FOREST FESTIVAL:
MORE THAN JUST THE TREES FOR SOME, THE 2014 FOREST FESTIVAL WILL BE A CELEBRATION OF THE RECENT WORLD HERITAGE LISTING OF PARTS OF THE WESTERN TIERS, AND WHILE THAT IS A GREAT REASON TO BE THERE, IT IS CERTAINLY A LONG WAY FROM BEING THE ONLY REASON TO SAVE THE DATE. The 2014 Festival has perhaps its best line-up yet of performers. Festival Producer Bridget Nicklason-King has focused on supporting the local music industry as well as co-opting a few from areas north of the Bass Strait to come and play. “Tasmania’s music industry is alive and kicking” said Ms Nicklason-King, “the range of quality acts is incredible and the biggest problem in developing the program, has been how to squeeze everyone in”. Headlining Saturday night is Melbourne’s legendary Nicky Bomba. Many may have seen him performing with the John Butler Trio, or with the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, but his Forest Festival appearance will be a solo performance – yes the stage will be all Nicky Bomba – and it promises to be outstanding, this is not to be missed! And that’s not the only treat in store – also on the bill (in no particular order) are; The Go Set (VIC), Siskin River (NSW), Pete Cornelius and the DeVilles, Zucchini Clan (VIC), The Lawless Quartet, Dublo, Guthrie, The Embers, The Dead Maggies, Lawrence + Clare (USA + AUS), Jude Kohn (ACT), Tilley, Faldum, The Staynes, Wizard, Thieves, Heloise, Susannah Coleman-Brown, Grim Fawkner (VIC) and Guerilla Zingari. Just to name a few!
BARBER SHOP ADVENTURES RASPUTIN HAD A VERY BIG DICK. I’VE SEEN A PICTURE. WHEN HE WAS MURDERED, NOT LONG BEFORE THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA, SOMEONE SEVERED THE MEMBER. IT WAS PRESERVED BY ONE OF HIS FANS – RASPUTIN, LIKE ANY GOOD CULT LEADER TYPE, HAD A BUNCH OF LADY PALS – AND IT’S STILL AROUND. IT LOOKS LIKE A BLACK
Of particular interest to this writer are the fabulous Urshula and the clan that make up Faldum. They’ll be bringing their “neo soul, hip-hop and electronic beats, laced with elements of jazz and classical music” to the party. Siskin River are an almighty sisterly duo from New South Wales who recently featured at the Bellingen River Festival, and if that gig was anything to go by, they are worth the ticket price themselves. To quote their blurb, they are an “original style of folksy blues, with a stomping groove factor, delectable riffs, fast fingers and evocative lyrics”. They are certainly all that, and so much more. And just to put it out there – Siskin River’s new album comes out in February, so will they be showcasing some of their new releases? No promises, you have to be there to find out. And if that isn’t enough to get you packing up your car and planning to head out, there will be market stalls (and just a word to the wise, the food for 2014 will be outstanding), workshops on all sorts of topics both fun and educational, the famous Art Trail, bushwalks and Tai Chi. PEARL MAYA
Of course, this may have been why Rasputin was very attractive to women, and according to Boney M, and they should know, was even screwing the Queen of Russia. The pictures that exist show a hairy freak with massive eyes but at least one picture has him sitting with a group of adoring lady fans, so there was something going on despite, or perhaps because of, the mad monk’s wild appearance. I’d say this conversation that I had with a local barber dude was the highlight of a recent beard and head trimming experience, but it was hard to really pick something as said dude was playing some very heavy Doom Metal which cranked right out. We gossiped about beards because he was very precisely trimming mine, and that led to Rasputin, and his ways with the ladies. Rasputin’s, not the barber’s. It was a great way to get a haircut and the barber dude not only has great taste in music, but has a broad knowledge of beards and important popular culture. If you take a seat (you can’t book. It’s a barber) you need to hang out and chat to the other people there, and that’s a good thing in a very overstimulated, hurried world. You instruct the guy with the scissors to make you look like The Kaiser and he can perform this task, and you can have excellent banter about Rasputin’s penis and Serge Gainsbrough’s incessant smoking. Go to Three Thirds over on Hampden Road, Battery Point, get a good haircut for 30 bucks and check out the décor. It’s worth it for conversation alone, but it’s pretty much the best haircut I’ve had in Hobart. ANDREW HARPER
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The volunteer callout is still open and tickets are on sale. Head over to www. forestfestival.org for all the info.
KARMA WILL GET YOU KARMA KEGS. KARMA AND KEGS. TWO AWESOME THINGS THAT USUALLY DON’T FIT WELL TOGETHER, AT ALL. SO, IF I TOLD YOU THAT YOU COULD DRINK AND BUILD UP A GOOD KARMA RATING AT THE SAME TIME, THAT’D BE SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, RIGHT? Not for Hobart’s Waratah Hotel, who will be doing Karma Kegs every Monday for the foreseeable future. The idea is this: on Monday nights, you go to the Waratah with some mates. You buy a drink from a specified keg. You specify how much you want to pay for said drink from specified keg. All proceeds from drinks purchased from specified keg, go to specified charity. It’s as simple as that. Now that we’ve made our way through Ocsober and Movember and scaled the mountains of Beer Lovers’ Week and Tasmanian International Beerfest, it’s time to settle back in to our regular December routines. This may involve drinking on a weekday – and if it does, it’ll be for a good cause. In December, the tipple of choice is Pipsqueak Cider and the chosen charity is the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Anyone that saw the recent Batkid video will know of the happiness that Make-A-Wish provides for children with life-threatening medical conditions. Sample a cider and you can be a part of it. Pretty easy, really. Instant gratification, and you choose what you pay. Throughout November, the Waratah matched Little Creatures Bright Ale with Beyondblue with great success. If you think there’s a charity that needs equal support, or are a local brewer or organisation that would like to get involved, email the Waratah Hotel at karmakegs@ thewaratahhotel.com.au.
Also in interesting-stuff-happening-atThe-Waratah news, Sunday is now Cook your own BBQ day! Every Sunday at midday you can head along to the Waratah, chill in the laneway, cook a BBQ of steaks, snags, beef or veggie burgers on the cheap, and indulge in a few $6 pints. Also do the signature ‘slaw or garden salad if you like your sides. Mates, BBQ, booze, tunes, and shady laneways. What more could you ask for on a Sunday arvo? Seems like a pretty smooth way to spend a day! SHANE CRIXUS
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APPLES ARE APPLES CIDER HAS BECOME A HUGELY POPULAR BEVERAGE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS AND THE TREND HAS SEEN A LARGE RANGE OF CRAFT CIDERIES OPEN UP IN TASMANIA. WHILE NOT QUITE THE APPLE ISLE IT USED TO BE, TASSIE HAS STILL PROVEN TO BE A FANTASTIC PLACE FOR MAKING BEAUTIFUL CIDER WITH FRESH LOCAL PRODUCE AND PASSION.
I spoke to some of the state’s cider enthusiasts to gain an understanding of the art and complexities of making this beverage, the range of apples used and the effect they have on flavour, and everything from the traditional to the modern methods used today. TwoMetreTall Farmhouse Ale and Cider Makes: Huon Farmhouse Dry Apple Cider Poire Farmhouse Dry Pear Cider Ashley Huntington, with his Diploma in Winemaking and a degree in Organic Chemistry, established the TwoMetreTall Farmhouse after moving with his family to the property in Tasmania’s south, on the Lyell Highway just out of New Norfolk. Process: “We do everything differently, from late picking, to complex fruit preparation and juicing techniques. We use no sulphur dioxide, no antioxidants, no enzymes or processing aids, no added water, no added sugar, no filtration and we are often using both wild and mixed fermentation techniques – harnessing the Indigenous micro flora from the fruit to create beverages which demonstrate a genuine provenance and ‘spirit-of-place’.” Why Try TwoMetreTall? “Not only do we use 100 per cent fruit, be it apples or pears (from trees!), we make very real and complex beverages made to be as dry as possible and which demonstrate the extraordinary food matching capabilities of these magnificent drinks.” Spreyton Fresh Makes: Classic Cider, Bright Cider, Perry Cider, Dark Cider, Vintage Cider. Spreyton Fresh has been making popular apple juice on the orchard in Devonport since 1998, and decided to experiment with making cider in late 2011. “We may only now be moving into the cider business, but the directors’ families have
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been living at Spreyton since the 1800s and have been growing apples in the valley since 1908. Making cider was that natural next step to value add to our business.” Process: “We ferment our individual apple varieties first and, after blending, run a secondary ferment in bottle. It takes more time to do a bottle (secondary) ferment, but is worth the wait in the cider we produce.” Apples: “Overall we use 11 different apple and pear varieties across the five ciders we produce. The vintage, for example, contains Sturmer Pippin, Cox’ Orange Pippin and Gravenstein apples that create a dryer, more traditional flavoured cider. This blend will continue to change as we introduce more heritage cider varieties such as Kingston Black, Somerset Red Streak and Bulmer’s Norman from our newly planted cider orchard block. Alternatively, our Bright Cider is made from predominantly golden delicious, Jonagold and Jonathon apples and has a lighter, slightly sweeter apple flavour.” Why Try Spreyton? “We can claim to have total providence of the product without relying on anyone else for any step of the process. We grow the apples, and have for over 100 years, we juice the apples in a state-of-the-art commercial juice factory (home of Spreyton Fresh juice) and make the cider in our new cidery set in a working orchard.” Lost Pippin Makes: Still - Apple Cider Perry - Pear Cider Sparkling - Apple Cider Lost Pippin was originally set up in the Huon Valley at the Grove Research and Demonstration Station, where Mark Robertson was an employee. He purchased the business earlier this year and relocated to the Puddleduck Vineyard in the Coal River Valley as Lost Pippin.
“For two years, I watched tonnes of apples from the orchards on that site rot on the ground and when I asked why we couldn’t sell them, I was told that there was no market for them and they would cost more to pick than we would make from them. With a background in wine, a brief to develop to develop the site for tourism and an explosion in the cider market, Lost Pippin was born.” Process: “At Lost Pippin we take the best tree ripe apples, mill them, press them and ferment them to handcraft our ciders. We use a range of traditional and modern methods to create our diverse styles, which range from still (uncarbonated), to bottle fermented, to quite modern styles containing residual sugar.” Apples: “We are now planting our own cider specific orchards. The apples used for our ciders vary. Our heritage uses a mix of heritage and cider apples including Cox’ Orange Pippin, Frequin Rouge, Gravenstien and Somerset Redstreak. Our still uses lots of Pink Lady and Gala, our Sparkling Gala and Fuji, while our Cranston Perry (a new release) uses a special parcel of pears from our other partner’s property that were planted in the 1800s. These blended up with some Winter Cole and Buerre Bosc create a very individual and complex product.” Why Try Lost Pippin? “Our cider is made from 100 per cent Tasmanian fruit without the addition of flavours, concentrates or water. We like to use tree-ripened fruit where we can, to pack flavour and character into our cider.” “It is handcrafted, not made on contract and not made by a massive company. We choose to deliver real flavour to our customers from only apple and pears, avoiding the addition of other fruits or cordials. We don’t do too sweet, we don’t do too fizzy.”
Willie Smith’s Organic Cider Makes: Organic Apple Cider ‘Bone Dry’ Organic Apple Cider Willie Smith’s was Australia’s first organic cidery, born from the orchard of William Smith who planted his first trees in 1888. Run now by Andrew and Ian Smith, it is still in the family. “Andrew Smith turned the farm organic in 1999 after becoming disenchanted with commercial apple farming and researching alternative production methods overseas. We first started making cider last year, although the project was two years in the making.” Process: “First of all, you do a primary ferment. We use two strains of white wine yeast to kick this off. Many of the more commercial ciders stop here and then filter it and carbonate it. We then do a secondary ferment which we use to round out the flavor profile of the cider and after that we condition it in oak for up to 3 months. The whole process takes up to around 3 months.” Apples: “We use a blend of Royal Gala, Fuji and Pink Lady.” Why Try Willie Smith’s? “We pride ourselves on using all organic apples and having the certification, but more importantly, we’re proud of the fact we grow our own apples and make our cider on the farm like they have traditionally done in France. We also like to think that with four generations of apple growing experience behind us, we know a thing or two about growing apples. Finally, another key point of difference for our cider is that it is aged in oak, like they do in the northern hemisphere.” Taste Test: Willie Smith’s Organic Apple Cider A delightful fresh cider with warm, rounded flavours from their popular eating apples and refreshing dry, tannin elements. This
is a remarkable beverage for lovers of both dry and sweet ciders.
‘Rose’ Apple Cherry Cider ‘Cerise’ Apple Cherry Cider
Tasmanian Inn Cider
A group of four friends started Pagan Cider after meeting in Hobart a few years ago. “Getting into the swing of things, we started home-brewing our own cider, using apple juice freshly crushed for us by Andrew Griggs (at Lucaston Park Orchards).”
Makes: Perry Cider Tasmanian Inn Cider (dry) Tasmanian Inn Light Cider (medium-sweet) Apples: “There are a few different families of them – bitter sweet, bitter sour, but the apple I use is an old canning variety, Sturmer Pippin. That’s the only one I use for cider, and there’s not many of them growing now most of the orchards have been pushed out. The Perry is pear with a bit of apple in it. According to the English, you’re allowed a certain percentage of apple in pear to call it Perry.“ Process: The apples are fully ripened in the orchard before being washed, sorted, pulped and pressed. Yeast and nutrient are then added to the cider and fermented, then re-fermented after about a month in the bottle like traditional ginger beer and home brew. “There’s no water added to any of the products, that’s why it’s 7.5 per cent.” Why Try Tasmanian Inn? “The flavor of the apples is retained as much as possible so that the individual character of the fruit and skins are still discernable. Inn Cider is based upon a style of cider popular in the Normandy area of France. The primary aim is to maintain quality, producing a totally natural product without artificial preservatives or flavourings.” Taste Test: Tasmanian Inn Cider A wonderful dry cider that harnesses and respects the complex tart flavour of Sturmer Pippin apples. It’s not overbearingly sweet or fizzy, making it very easy to enjoy with meals. Pagan Cider Makes: Pagan Apple Cider Pagan Pear Cider
Teaming up with Winemaking Tasmania, Pagan developed a more commercially viable product. “The cider was exactly the easy drinking style we were after, and so much finer than the simple rustic, funky cider we’d been making at home.” Process: “In its barest essence, you simply add some yeast to apple juice, let it ferment for a few weeks or months, then drink and be merry! With the modern equipment we use, we’re able to control the fermentation of our juice far more than is possible in traditional cider making. We stop the fermentation process before all the natural fruit sugars in the juice are devoured by the yeast. Fermentation is much harder to stop with craft ciders — the yeast just keeps eating up all the sugar. That’s why farmhouse ciders are often very dry, with little residual sweetness, and why they’re often higher in alcohol (the yeast has converted all the sugar into alcohol).” Apples: “We use four varieties of dessert apples in our apple cider: Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, Jonathon and Gala. The Granny Smith adds a bit of tartness, the Golden Delicious a sunny kind of lushness, and the other two varieties seem to round the whole juice out.” Why Try Pagan Cider? “With such an abundance of beautiful fruit here in Tas, and not feeling bound by ‘traditional’ ideas about what cider is and how it should be made, we thought it
would be fun to experiment with the juice of different fruits to see what would happen.“ Pagan uses 40 per cent cherry in its ‘Cerise’ Cider, and they have also started using quince for a beautiful tangy flavour. In terms of modern ciders, what also makes us pretty rare is that we don’t add any sugar during fermentation. We’re not quite sure how or why, but adding sugar somehow dulls the bright fruit flavour of the juice. Some modern ciders are also made using fruit concentrates or fruit syrups. Not Pagan Cider. Our ciders are made using only the juice of seasonal, freshly squeezed, whole Tasmanian fruit!” Taste Test: ‘Cerise’ Apple Cherry Cider Pagan should be applauded for its modern use of ingredients. The cherry cider is medium-sweet and full-bodied, and the two fruits set each other off beautifully. Did you know? Adding ice to cider is considered sacrilege: it waters it down, and mutes the flavours and complexities of the drink. According the English definition of Perry cider, only a certain percentage of pear is allowed. The sugar content of apples can vary from 5 per cent to 25 per cent. Cider has been the most successful beverage in the Australian marketplace for the past three to four years. In the 19th Century, cider was thought to be a cure for gout and other illnesses. ERIN LAWLER
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IT’S THE END OF 2013 AND I’M THINKING ABOUT GHOSTS
I I WENT TO SEE THE EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE WORK THE GREEN ROOM, A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE MUCH IN DEMAND COMPOSER DYLAN SHERIDAN AND THE VERY COMPETENT PERFORMER JANE LONGHURST. IT WAS A VERY RICH WORK THAT TOOK PLACE IN ONE OF THE MANY SECRET SPACES OF HOBART. CITIES HAVE A GREAT MANY LOCKED DOORS AND FENCES, AND BEING ALLOWED TO VENTURE INTO THEM IS A GREAT PLEASURE; I THINK WE ALL LOVE A GOOD STICKY BEAK. THE GUNPOWDER MAGAZINE UP ON THE QUEEN’S DOMAIN IS A SILENT AND RICH SPACE, AND WAS A TREAT TO ENTER.
The Green Room was about a lot of things, but as with so much work that is live, there was a central question about the experience of time. The performance seemed to describe a sequence of moments that were frozen and repeating, as there was a problem to be solved that ha no answer. It made me think of ghosts, and it was very easy to do in such a space. Time inscribed events into the walls and while we do not really have the capacity to see such things, we can imagine something and deal with the weight of history. Hobart is filled with secret places where something happened. Tasmania is a place where something happened. Lot of somethings, actually. Tasmania is haunted. I do not really believe in ghosts, but it seems the best way to describe with emotional clarity the sometimes-terrible things that happened here. I don’t see or feel spirits or anything like that, but history is palpable. Time ravages and things decay, but something happened behind the rusty doors you are not allowed to go through.
spaces was a fantastic idea as well, there’s a lot to see and it gives a new view of what’s in Hobart. There’s much talk about making the city come alive and making things happen in Hobart in the creative and cultural spheres. Lots of people are trying lots of different things, and I can’t wait to see what happens when the new Detached opens in the old Mercury building (what’s going to become of that great old space, where Detached currently is I wonder?), but seeing The Green Room really made think that using Heritage buildings and council spaces for performance events is a no-brainer. There have been a few to date – I recall an excellent inhabitation of the battery under Princes Park in Battery Point by great local Hobart artists Matt Warren, that also spoke to the idea of resonant hauntings – but this is something that a dedicated program could be built around. Small, dedicated works that open spaces seems like a free kick. Anyone want to organise some more? I’d get along. ANDREW HARPER
Taking tours and making art works that explore and investigate these spaces is something that is just not done enough. The recent Open House Hobart event that took tours into private and inaccessible
HUBERT DUPRAT:
TRICHOPTERA TRICKERY MONA is known for the spectacular: poo machines, tattooed pigs, nudity, sex, death, parties and a light that could be seen from space. Hubert Duprat’s work could be seen as the antithesis of the spectacle. His is beautiful, but it’s beautiful in a quiet, crafty way, beautiful in its delicacy and intricacy. Such is the lure of Hubert Duprat’s work.
Duprat’s interest in the natural world has continued since his boy-hood, he would collect and observe aquatic creatures, the Caddisfly among them, in a tank. His interest in these creatures, a passion for geology and a chance meeting with some gold-panners on a river in south-western France lead him to his ongoing use of the Caddisfly’s inherent behaviour. MONA founder David Walsh says: ‘Hubert Duprat co-opts nature in his art. He uses caddisflies to make his art. But they don’t make his art, they make their art.’ Since 1983, he has continued his work with caddisfly larvae – a freshwater aquatic insect known to anglers. Duprat intervenes with the natural process of the caddis, who, in nature, use silk thread, twigs and gravel to form their protective metamorphic sheaths. He replaces these common materials with grains of gold dust, pearls and precious stones including rubies and diamonds.
The aquatic larvae’s gold-lined chrysalis becomes an elaborate and precious ornament, as Duprat subverts the work of nature by creating the conditions necessary to display its talents. By altering its common conditions, the caddis becomes a goldsmith, unwittingly spinning glorious and intricate works of art to encase its own body. Aesthetic, form and function become one. “Duprat considers his work a collaboration between himself and the caddis larvae; he is the architect of their environment, providing them with the gold and precious gems with which to build their protective cases. Hubert’s practice often involves inviting skilled craftsmen with special expertise to work on the realisation of his sculptural creations. Materials not usually found in ‘fine art’ – ranging from modelling clay to crystals – are employed to create improbable forms. His great interest in natural phenomena and his vast knowledge are combined to create art that is truly unique.” says MONA Senior Curator Olivier Varenne Duprat’s caddisfly works are however just one part of his self-taught practice. Duprat also uses coral, magnetite, pyrite, magnets and bread to create organic networks that mimic and investigate the supernatural appeal of the natural world. It is the caddisfly that we keep returning to though, because it is such simple trickery, the artist is letting someone else, someone far better suited and more experienced at their craft than he, do his work. Duprat’s collaboration with arts and science is one that has spanned decades and this will be his first solo exhibition in Australia. PIP STAFFORD
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IN THE STUDIO WITH … RAHNI ALLAN ECONOMY STUDIO BANK ARCADE, HOBART
Recent MONA Scholarship recipient Rahni Allan tells us a bit about her working space. Tell us about your studio... I not so recently moved downstairs to Economy studios, overlooking Liverpool Street. It is a bright, light filled space I share with several other local artists. What do you do there? At the moment I usually use the studio for research purposes but that will change when a deadline crops up. Why is it important for you to have somewhere to work? Artists are supposed to treat making art like a job, but it’s a lifestyle and it can easily encroach on your home and personal space until it swallows and drowns you. You have to give it plenty of space or it becomes like the “Don’t look just push” kitchen cupboard - full of Tupperware with no matching lids and unidentifiable, potentially useful objects that you are constantly sorting out but the door still won’t close unless you quickly push everything back and slam it. What is your favorite or most used tool? That is a difficult question. I have several favorites. If I have to scale it down I would be nothing without two inventions, the lens and the electric light. The first has the ability to transcend space and time, and the latter produces cheap, bright, portable light. Light!; the stuff that makes vision and existence and life possible. They are tools of science and fiction and I could not live without them. When I get stuck in a rut I make a lot of still and moving images of material explorations and experiments, and so the first two things I reach for are cheap LED lights and a camera… Then anything shiny and or reflective.
I also love my cordless drill, soldering iron and little grippy, snippy bits in my jewelry pliers set. What music do you listen to while you work? Um I often don’t. What a weirdo! I have the attention span of a small child blitzed red cordial. I am distracting and easily distracted. If I put music on I’m not really listening, I guess if I had to choose I would probably listen to ABC classical radio or anything soothing and wordless. I have some songs on my Mac book that I ripped from an old housemate; if I feel like music I just hit the shuffle button. Last week I listened to Missy Elliot because I was watching video clips of space launches that had no sound and Missy Elliot was the first thing that the shuffle pulled up from the play list. Killin’ it.
What is in your dream studio/work space? Giant arch windows, like the ones in play school but wider and shorter, in a giant factory space with plenty of natural light and dark corners in some grotesquely cliché corner of the globe, like Paris or New York. It would be open planned with cement floors that I can blast with explosives and flammable materials, glitter and all kinds of irrevocable changes and stainy substances. And I can make as much noise as I want. Tell us a bit about your practice... It’s a love story… I am engaged to the universe. I began communicating with the universe a couple of years ago using a powerful (illegal) laser beam in which I sent out the repeated message “Universe you are my universe, you mean the universe to me”. Whenever I did this I would see shooting stars so
I started to harvest stardust that falls from outer space, like a meteorologist would, and studied the particles under microscopes in search of a response. I got nothing. Until one day somebody left an article about the discovery of the diamond planet on my studio desk with the words “Rahni, your engagement ring!!” scribbled on it. So I guess I am interested in the way science and fiction intersect and influence each other. I think my practice uses the traditional narratives of culture and history to help contribute to the infusion of new technologies and scientific understanding into the human story because it inspires and fascinates me. I am also inspired by the notion that sometimes our story makes giant leaps ahead due to trailblazers and risk takers whose dedication and daring make real impossible dreams. I guess that is why I want to marry the universe. PIP STAFFORD www.facebook.com/warp.mag 35
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THE VILLAGE AT THE CENTRE OF THE FESTIVAL WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THERE’S A WAY TO SPEND NEW YEAR’S UNDER THE STARS, SURROUNDED BY YOUR BEST FRIENDS, AND LISTENING TO YOUR FAVOURITE BANDS SING INTO THE OPEN AIR? YOU’D PROBABLY BE A LITTLE TEMPTED. THE FALLS FESTIVAL WILL ATTRACT THOUSANDS OF MUSIC LOVERS TO MARION BAY BETWEEN DECEMBER 29 AND JANUARY 1, AND A LOT OF THE FUN WILL BE FOUND AT THE VILLAGE.
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When you’re having a break from moshing to your favourite bands, The Village in Marion Bay will keep the party pumping with all sorts of festival delights. There’ll be weird, there’ll be wonderful, and there’ll be dozens more acts and events to keep you going nonstop. Work out with samba classes, get hot and bothered with burlesque, and maintain your health routine with early morning yoga sessions (if you’re not too hung over). Visit a hair salon station, get grossed out at contortionists, kick up your heels with line dancing, and check out a circus workshop. The Village is a mind blowing concoction of party, festival, arts and music. Here’s some of the calamity on offer.
so when you enter the Village craft tent, be sure to bring a spare pair of black framed specs just in case. You can knit your own tea cosy and make a lantern for New Year’s Eve. Come and meet the six visual artists that’ll open your eyes to the cool of craft.
AFTER DARK
MISS FRIBY’S DEN OF INIQUITY
What’s a festival without a circus? The Right Mix is a Melbourne based circus company of seven performers who will confront you with an exploration into what your toys get up to in the night time. You’ll never sleep in the dark again.
Miss Friby’s act is all legs and laughter with her Melbourne burlesque dance group. Miss Friby, aka Elizabeth Dawsome-Smith has danced in the streets and stages of Asia, America, Africa and Europe. Expect comedy, colour and cabaret.
CLUBHOUSE COMEDY
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN INTERPRETIVE DANCE
MIEKE LIZOTTE From the Beijing International Circus School to the Marion Bay Village comes Mieke Lizotte – a hula hoop contortionist. Mieke joined Tassie circus Slipstream at 11, and spent six months training in the capital of the biggest country in the world. She’ll turn you upside down with her handstands, stilts and fire at the Village.
D&M are Mark Cutler (Edge Radio 99.3 station manager, stage actor and music trivia mastermind), and Dean Stevenson (who spent his childhood miming to Abba songs and has gone on to achieve local fame with his pop/rock/funk creations). Quiz Qs will take the form of live music and yes – prizes will be won. TRANSYLVANIAN GYPSY KINGS A festival is not a festival without a gypsy fix. TGK have studied folk music with real gypsies in Europe, and have taught Vardos – the all-girl plus piano accordion act that’ll also come to the Village. Using vocals, keys, electric bass and violin, these musos will get you moving with exotic passion. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
In case your mates aren’t the funniest bunch (gotta love ‘em), Clubhouse Comedy has got you set. Comedians Luke McGregor (ABC – It’s a Date), Anne Edmonds (of Wednesday Night Fever fame), and John ‘Cambo’ Campbell will join many other stand up acts from the state and the mainland to make you laugh your life away. Bring spare undies.
Who said interpretive dance wasn’t cool? Get your creative on and compete with other festival goers to become God of interpretive dance. ‘Kiss from a Rose’ and ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ are some of the hits you can prepare your wildest moves for while you’re practicing at home in your underwear.
CRAFTERNOONS WITH CATHERINE
THE D&M MUSIC EXPERIENCE
A tea cosy and a cuppa may be one of those things that have gone from daggy to hipster,
RocKwiz eat your heart out as the Village houses the greatest music quiz of all time.
The Village will operate from December 29 through to New Years Eve and beyond into the early hours of the new year. Tickets for The Falls Festival are available from the website, www.fallsfestival.com.au.
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THE CLUBHOUSE CHANGES CAPTAINS The Clubhouse has become one of the most important and consistent nights of laughs in the state of Tasmania. Every month great nights happen at the Waratah Hotel in Hobart and at Fresh On Charles in Launceston, and it’s now at the point where the comedy fans of Tasmania know the Clubhouse is quality. It’s come to pass that you can just rely on The Clubhouse to bring the best variety of local and interstate comedians. Just go along, you will not be let down and you will laugh until you hurt. Having established The Clubhouse, the dude who did all the hard yakka, the very amusing David Bakker, is relocating to the far and exotic shores of Preston in Melbourne and has passed the compass and torch to not one but two members of the local comedy scene. The Hobart leg at the Waratah will be over seen by Tracey Cosgrove - funny human extraordinaire who is very excited to be running the show. “I’m one lucky lady. At The Clubhouse, there’s nothing to fix. David has created a well-oiled comedy room with a great reputation nationally and there are plenty of comedians eager to get down here. Stewart and I will be keeping up
the high standard, bringing down the people you see being funny on the telly as well as Australia’s brightest up and comers. I’ll be teetering around the stage on ridiculous shoes, so expect physical comedy and the occasional fracture.” Launceston homeboy and self-confessed metro tosser Stewart Bell will keep the laughs pumping at Fresh on Charles. “There’ll be no big changes, other than putting our own spin on the rooms and continuing to bring some of the biggest names in Australian comedy to Tasmania. We are looking forward to working together to grow the local scene, giving Tasmanian comics the opportunity to support well-established acts and develop their skills further. 2014 will be the first year there has been a RAW comedy heat in the North of the state, testament to existing rooms and the emergence of several new comedians in Launceston. I can guarantee that Fresh Comedy shows will be slightly more effeminate and involve more inflatable dinosaurs with me in the hosting role.” All is well, and to really kick the new management over, The Clubhouse is presenting Hannah Gadsby
this December. Hannah Gadsby is an award-winning comedian that has delighted audiences all over the world. She began her stand-up career in 2006 at the Hobart Comedy Festival and then went on to win the national final of Raw Comedy. This was followed up with a very impressive second place in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s So You Think You’re Funny? Hannah has taken up a regular spot on ABC TV’s Adam Hills Tonight. She has also made appearances on Channel 10’s Good News Week, ABC TV’s Spicks and Specks, Agony Aunts and New Zealand TV 3’s 7 Days. 2013 has seen her tour a brand new stand up show, Happiness Is A Bedside Table, which was nominated for Best Show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, as well as a new art lecture, Nakedy Nudes. She has also shot her own three part art series for ABC TV that will be broadcast in 2014. Hannah Gadsby sold out The Clubhouse last December so don’t hesitate to prebook a ticket to this one, it will sell out.
HOBART The Clubhouse presents Hannah Gadsby supported by Tim Logan plus others. Hosted by Tracey Cosgrove The Waratah Hotel, 272 Murray St, HobartDoors at 8:00pm, show starts 8.30pm, Thursday December19. $15 on the door, or presales available from The Waratah Hotel LAUNCESTON Fresh Comedy presents Hannah Gadsby Hannah Gadsby, supported by Tracey Cosgrove plus others. Hosted by Stewart Bell Fresh, 178 Charles St, Launceston Doors at 7:45pm, show starts 8:30pm, Friday, December 20. Tickets available from Fresh - $15 for General Admission or $20 for Reserved Seating. Door entry on the night.
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HOPPERS 1: The ‘MANIAS
THE MAGIC OF COMICS IS A SINGULAR ONE. GOOD COMICS ARE A DIRECT COMMUNICATION FROM A CREATOR TO A READER, INTIMATE AND PERSONAL. YOU PICK A COMIC UP AND YOU STARE AT IT. YOU READ IT ONCE, THEN GO BACK OVER IT. YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURES AND THE PACING. PACING IS THE GREAT SECRET OF THE COMIC BOOK FORM – THE PLACING OF EACH PANEL BREAKS THE NARRATIVE INTO PARTS. THE SPACE BETWEEN EACH IMAGE IS A BREATH IN AND OUT, A BEAT. TIMING IS EVERYTHING, AND COMICS, WHILST STATIC, ENGAGE WITH YOUR TIME AS A NOVEL DOES. Comics are obsessive. Why an artist who can sell a painting would sit down and draw 36 pages of individual drawings, pacing and plot is a mystery, beyond the desire to invest in the particular potency a comic might give you. Because only a comic is like a comic. The mistake of thinking a comic is a cinematic storyboard just waiting is one often made by it’s a rookie mistake by people who don’t understand either format well enough. You do not turn the pages of a film. You pick comics up and if they are any good, you get lost in each page as the get seduced by the integration of writing and art. Tricky Walsh has made a comic. In fact, she’s made more than a comic – she’s made a commitment to an epic narrative with over tones of politics and subtle discussion about humanity’s destiny. Heavy gear, basically. Of course, it will be laced with her trademark blackened wit and humour, so it’s be a complex ride, but Tricky is one of the best artists in the state, know more these days for her increasingly large and frightening sculptures than her drawings, but drawing is at the core of what she does – complex, engaging, and very beautiful. Given the work put into each drawing (look at all that cross hatching and shading. Just look at it.), the arrival of 36 page issue of Hoppers is a reason to pop the cork and pour many a flute. Hoppers is a post apocalyptic tale set in an indeterminate future that has had to deal with environmental and political change. The story focuses on the occupants of a once luxury train that circumnavigates the globe, who were left country-less after a series of events closed down border after border to them. The train occupants include one of the main protagonists Sofie and her friend Ginger, a decommissioned assassin
LEE HARPER … AND THE SORROW @SAWTOOTH POP-UP #EXHIBITION ON OCTOBER 18 2012 THE TASMANIAN PREMIER, LARA GIDDINGS, OFFERED AN APOLOGY TO PEOPLE HURT BY PAST ADOPTION PRACTICES.
On 28 August 2012, Premier Lara Giddings released a statement in which she said; This is a symbolic but important step to acknowledge the hurt caused by the past practice of forced adoptions. ... I cannot begin to imagine the trauma and sense of loss those women and their children feel after having the parental bond torn apart. ...While nothing can make up for the pain of a mother losing a child or a child losing their mother.... Lee Harper is an early career arts practitioner based in Tasmania. Her work explores notions of memory and emotion through sculpture and installation. Harper’s new body of work, …and the sorrow reflects upon both the travesty of the act of forced adoption and the beginning of the healing process for those who were affected. Through embroidering uniforms, veils and baby blankets with images and words, Harper transforms them into statements reflecting the mood and emotions of the current community and our acknowledgement of the unacceptable practices of the past. Of the work Harper says: I felt a need to make these works and I can’t give you a reason why. Maybe, it is the thought of our housekeeper holding us as children as she prepared for the birth and adoption of her own child; maybe it is
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sexbot. We are introduced to them through Kate who is hijacked by Ginger during a brief stopover on dry land. Kate has no choice but to remain with them aboard the train until they return to her country. Along the way she manages to catch glimpses of other places around the world - first stop; The Manias: An archipelago of islands run by feuding cannibal tribes, with whom the train negotiates trade. Hoppers 1: The ‘manias might be about something close to home, and it might just be fascinating fiction. It could have something to say about our world now whilst also being a pleasant distraction. It’s a lot of things but they are all contained in one comic volume, 36 pages of glorious crisp black and white. Hundreds of hours of work in a handy size. Hoppers will be launched at The Hobart Bookshop on Thursday 12th December at 5:15. The comic will only be ten dollars, and for art made by someone who has sculptures in the TMAG that is the bargain of the decade. There will be speeches and the artist herself will be on hand to sign copies if you so wish, thus creating a priceless family heirloom you will treasure for years to come. If you can’t make it, don’t stress; you can score an issue using the magic of the internet from www.sankessto.com. Also check out lots of totally amazing art by the totally amazing Tricky Walsh at www. trickywalsh.com. PIP STAFFORD Launch: Hoppers 1 At The Hobart Bookshop December 12, 5:15pm.
witnessing a friends grief - her baby taken from her at age 15, or maybe it is a response to another friends passing, never reconciling with her unknown mother, but dearly loving the mother she knew. Harper’s practice, through her undergraduate degree to this new body of work, often tackles themes that are typically intimate or uncomfortable. …and the sorrow can be viewed at Sawtooth’s @ Sawtooth Pop-Up #Exhibition until the 21st December. The @Sawtooth program is a new initiative by Sawtooth ARI that aims to establish a stronger platform for critical engagement and writing to come from and to the state’s regions. @Sawtooth is supported by project-based assistance from Tasmanian Regional Arts and banking on Sawtooth’s already established exhibition program. PIP STAFFORD
Sawtooth ARI Level 2, 160 Cimitiere St, Launceston 7250 Gallery Hours 12am-5pm Wednesday - Friday 10am-2pm Saturday
Arts DARK AND LIGHT:
INSIDE THE MIND OF ROGER BALLEN YOU KNOW ROGER BALLEN’S WORK; THE INTERNET HAS SPREAD HIS SHIFTING, VISCERAL IMAGES WIDE. IT’S GOOD, SO IT TRAVELS, HIS WORK IS REPRESENTED IN MAJOR GALLERIES ACROSS THE WORLD SUCH AS THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK AND THE CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS. HIS BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS TRANSCEND TIME AND PLACE, YOU’VE SEEN THEM ON BLOGS, SHARED THEM ON FACEBOOK, YOU’VE SEEN HIS ALMOST ABSTRACT AND SOMEWHAT HOSTILE IMAGES OF SOUTH AFRICA’S DIE ANTWOOD.
Once known for his raw documentary photography of apartheid South Africa, these days his trademarks are theatrical sets, insensible, abstract hieroglyphs and vaguely menacing animals: are they alive or dead? Ballen has been shooting black and white film for half a century. His command of his medium is obvious; he is a master of light and dark, and uses techniques drawing on film and an almost collaging or pastiche of images to achieve a deeply theatrical end product. For his first Australian exhibition Ballen brings his work to the Museum of Old and New Art this month. MONA’s Library Gallery and Round House will house works from his Asylum of the Birds and Apparitions series, ahead of the release of his new book Asylum of the Birds, which will be released in 2014 by Thames & Hudson. For MONA, Ballen will also create a sitespecific installation environment, similar to that seen in the images of Asylum of the Birds. Ballen says “It has been one of my goals as an artist to show at MONA. The overall aesthetic of the Museum overlaps mine. I am thrilled that I will be able to show my latest series of photographs in this space, as well as create an installation mirroring the physical spaces I have worked in”
ROGER BALLEN ASYLUM December 7 2013 – April 21 2014 MONA Round House and Library Gallery Museum of Old and New Art 655 Main Rd, Berriedale, Hobart, Tasmania
The Asylum series has been evolving since 2008, inspired by a house that Ballen visited in Johannesburg, which was filled with creatures: humans, birds, cats, rabbits and mice. The word asylum bears connotations of both imprisonment and shelter and in this work we are invited in to Ballen’s psycho-theatrical landscape, which is at once terrifying and engaging. Ballen describes his work as an exercise in defining himself. It is a descent into the mind of someone truly engaged with the dichotomies of existence: dark and light. PIP STAFFORD
comedy:
NEIL HAMBURGER with DOCTOR EL SAUVO AMERICA’S FUNNYMAN, NEIL HAMBURGER, IS THE PERFECT PARODY OF AN INCREDIBLY AVERAGE C-LIST COMEDIAN WORKING A SLEAZY CABARET CIRCUIT AROUND THE MOST DESOLATE PARTS OF MIDDLE AMERICA TO A DISINTERESTED AUDIENCE. THE ACT IS KIND OF TERRIFYING AS IT PLUMBS THE DEPTHS OF HUMAN MISERY IN A TOTALLY PRECISE WAY THAT WILL AT ONCE REDUCE YOU TEARS OF LAUGHTER, WHILST EXPOSING A WORLD OF DEAD AND DECAYING HOPE. IT’S INCREDIBLY, EVEN DANGEROUSLY FUNNY; BLACK COMEDY OF THE VERY DARK VARIETY, AND IT’S ONLY FOR THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, BUT IF YOU LIKE YOUR COMEDY SURREAL, POINTED AND BRILLIANT, NEIL HAMBURGER IS UNMISSABLE. He’s toured as the handpicked opener for Tenacious D, Tim & Eric, and Faith No More, and his TV credits include Fox News’ Red Eye, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Tom Green Live, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. His most recent album, Live At Third Man, was produced by The White Stripes’ Jack White in Nashville. an early Hamburger effort was included in SPIN’s “40 Greatest Comedy Albums Of All Time.” Neil has been described by The Scotsman as “the greatest comedian I’ve seen the greater majority of an audience walk out on” – yes, he’s that good that he scares people out of the room. If you’re into comedy, this guy’s shtick is to skewer with merciless precision comedy itself, turning the idea of what a joke is back onto the audience in a brave, antagonistic fashion. You will laugh and you will cry. There’s nothing like Neil Hamburger, he must be seen to be understood. Accompanying Neil Hamburger at the Brisbane Hotel will be the astounding Dr El
Sauvo, Australia’s premier parlor magician and exotica DJ. He’s a social commentator in a mask, known and loved in Hobart for his methods with hecklers and his gentle way with animals. El Sauvo will play a fabulous selection of lounge, exotica, and trash rock and roll and accompany with Theremin and live parlor magic. With the bill filled out with some sacrificial local comedians and a whole bunch of great bands in the front bar, the Brisbane Hotel will be a hotbed of fantastic culture and black comedy. Which is appropriate, because it all happens Friday the 13th of December – get along and get giggling. ANDREW HARPER
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SCREEN NEWS WITH BRIONY KIDD IT’S BEEN AN EVENTFUL FEW WEEKS FOR TASMANIAN FILMMAKERS TO SAY THE LEAST. LAUNCESTON HOSTED THE VERY SUCCESSFUL FOURTH EDITION OF THE TASMANIAN BREATH OF FRESH AIR FILM FESTIVAL, CARMEN FALK WON THE NATIONAL PITCHING COMPETITION AT THE SCREEN PRODUCERS AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE IN MELBOURNE, THE SKY MACHINE WEB SERIES NOIRHOUSE WON A WHOLE SWAG OF AWARDS AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIAN WEBSTREAM AWARDS AND ADAM WALKER STUDIO REACHED THEIR KICKSTARTER FUNDING TARGET IN ABOUT THREE DAYS FOR THEIR LATEST PROJECT, THE PAPER-CRAFT GAME VIKING HORDE (THEY’RE CONTINUING THE CAMPAIGN THROUGH TO DECEMBER 13).
There was progress on a couple of productions, including the shoot of the short film Stewart and pre-production on the new lifestyle series Produce Isle. Plus Stolp and Allen did their first “variety” show at the Grand Poobah, which was absolutely hilarious. Okay, that’s not a film project but a little birdy tells me they have their sights on television, which is fabulous news for the comedy fans of the nation. Oh, and another festival (yes, the Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival that I run with Rebecca Thomson) was named one of the Top 5 Coolest Women’s Festivals in the world by Movie Maker Magazine. I mention that not merely to self-promote (although who would blame me? Self-promote or die, is the way these things work) but to say thanks to all the people who’ve contributed to making the festival what it is over the last couple of years. You know who you are. What have I forgotten? Plenty, probably. It’s a sign of how far the local industry has come that it’s becoming difficult to keep track of everything. Back in the olden days (I’m talking pre-2000) you’d be lucky if there was anything at all happening from month to month. Once, everyone was “writing a novel” but now, in Tasmania anyway, they’re “making a film”. But then they actually do! It’s not all rainbows and sunshine, don’t get me wrong. It’s still incredibly difficult to get anywhere in the industry in general… and 40
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even more so in Tasmania because we have less of everything that’s necessary, whether it be crew, actors or money. So if you get the chance to help out a fillmmaker—by sharing a link about their project, letting them use a location for free, or giving them something handy they can use for their shoot (a slab of beer? a cherry picker? a cute shopping trolley?)—make sure you do so. It’s good karma and you’ll be helping a key local industry get a little bit stronger. To expand a little on some of the aforementioned miraculous events. The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air saw filmmakers from around the state get dolled up in their fanciest duds to walk the red carpet of Village Launceston… a worthwhile enterprise alone really. Special guests from out of town included the very charming Aaron Pederson, Pozible cofounder Rick Chen, John L.Simpson of Titan View, director of the BitTorrent released horror film The Tunnel, Enzo Tedeschi and the accomplished Trish Lake (producer and artistic director of the festival). Was there networking? Was there ever. It was a gruelling few days of watching lots of films, drinking and eating lots, and then getting up early the next day to do it all again. Three awards were given out to recognise achievement in the local industry. The first, the short film prize, went to Ninna Milliken for her haunting, thought-provoking short
doco on the subject of abortion, Piercing Silence.
directed by Jared Abdul-Rahman and Alessandro Frosali.
The next prize was for “entrepreneurial spirit” and the three finalists there were producer Carolyn Frichot, director of Cooper Screen Academy Sara Cooper and Blue Rocket’s Alicia Rackett. This would have been a pretty hard call because all three are really trailblazers—and personally I’d particularly like to single out Sara for all the work she’s doing to up skill screen actors in the state—but there could only be one winner.
(I sadly haven’t had a chance to catch this one yet, but look forward to the next opportunity to do so. It sounds pretty intense, and maybe in the same realm as Adam Ransley’s Eastside? Tasmanian art house crime drama? Mumblecore noir? I’m not sure yet, but it’s an interesting trend.)
Alicia Rackett gave a very gracious speech, thanking the many people who’ve contributed to her success with the animation company she runs with David Gurney. Blue Rocket has certainly gone from strength to strength, with new projects and innovations coming in a steady flow, and it’s an achievement worth acknowledging indeed. The third award was for an unproduced screenplay, a prize jointly given by BOFA and the Australian Writers Guild. This went to Hobart-based Adam Ransley for his TV pilot script Eastside. It’s colourful and gritty stuff, and the reading of this winning script organised by Mudlark Theatre went down a treat. Adam certainly has the knack of writing characters that jump off the page. And swear a lot! The festival also included the world premiere of micro-budget Tasmanian feature film, A Step in the Right Direction,
Congratulations is due to Owen and Helen Tilbury for their huge effort in pulling this enormous event together. It’s nice for us southerners to have a reason to go up and hang about in Launceston and long may it continue. Oh and just one more word about Carmen Falk’s SPA win. It’s a national pitching comp for a new screen project and there’s only one winner every year. It’s quite a big deal, is my point, and Carmen is the fourth Tasmanian to win in it about the last five years! (Other winners: Daniel Weavell, Elise Taylor, Rebecca Thomson). I wouldn’t be at all surprised if a few mainlanders are starting to wonder about what we’ve got going on down here. BRIONY KIDD
Arts
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performing arts
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146 ARTSPACE Until Dec 12 Toby Muir-Wilson – Landscape Boxes
BRAVE ART GALLERY (Longford) Dec 7 – Jan 20 All I Want for Christmas
COMEDY
COMEDY
BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY Dec 14 – Jan 27 David Edgar – Geo-encounters High Art Summer Show
ART MOB Dec 6 – 22 Kudditji Kngwarreye Tjungurrayi - Decade of Colour BETT GALLERY Nov 6 – 26 Patrick Grieve Nicola Smith
DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY Dec 13 – 26 Jan Coastal: Photographs from the Robinson Collection Liam James – Kids These Days
THE BRISBANE HOTEL Dec 10 Detournment CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA Dec 7- Dec 22 2013 Members Exhibition and Party
GALLERY PEJEAN Opens Dec 6 Showcase 2013 HANDMARK (Evandale) Dec Tom Samek
COLVILLE GALLERY Until Dec 18 Chen Ping Dec 20 8th Annual Artists Show
OUTWARD Until Dec 7 Sarah Edwards – Terra et Fluvius
CONSTANCE Dec 6 – Jan 4 MAIN SPACE Lucy Bleach and John Vella – Big Dirty Whole FOYER SPACE Gillian Marden – Grave PADDY LYN SPACE Louise Vodik – Rabbit Hole
QVMAG Now – Feb 16 2014 Into the Wild: Wilderness Photography in Tasmania Nov 2 – May 18 2014 David Keeling - A Dreamer’s Keepsake Now – 19 Jan 2014 A Passion for Nature: The art of William Charles Piguenit SAWTOOTH Nov 1 – 23 FRONT GALLERY Henry Jock Walker – Oil on Hiace (Henry’s Mobile Studio) MIDDLE GALLERY Angela Casey – The Passage PROJECT GALLERY Ross Byers and Angela Casey – A Collaborative Sculpture Project NEW MEDIA GALLERY Kat Clarke – What I Would Like People to Think @SAWTOOTH POP-UP #EXHIBITION Lee Harper - …and the sorrow…
DESPARD Dec 4 – Dec 24 Todd Jenkins - Rome HANDMARK Dec 6 Prints by Melissa Smith ROSNY BARN - SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY Dec 6 – Dec 22 Maker’s Mark – Hunter Island Press Printmakers Group Show SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE LONG GALLERY Dec 3 Insight Radical: Conversations on Art and Science Dec 12 – Jan 1 Images of Tasmania 16 SIDESPACE: Dec 12 – Jan 1Images of Tasmania 16 TOP GALLERY: Dec 1 – Jan 6 Erin Amor – Chime Hours
THE BRISBANE HOTEL Dec 13 Neil Hamburger and Dr El Suavo
DICKENS CIDERHOUSE Dec 11 Uber Comedy
THE WARATAH Dec 19 The Clubhouse – Hannah Gadsby, Tim Logan, Tracey Cosgrove
FRESH ON CHARLES Dec 20 Fresh Comedy presents Hannah Gadsby
SOHO Dec 4 Cloud Comedy
THEATRE
Dance THEATRE ROYAL Dec 7 Body Language Rhythm Dec 14 Hobart Dance Academy 35th Concert: Merci Beaucoup
PRINCESS THEATRE Dec 20 – Dec 22 Cinderella – A Christmas Panto
FILM CINEMONA Starts Nov 30 Hamlet (National Theatre Live) Starts Dec 1 Spartacus (Bolshoi Ballet) Starts Dec 7 National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage Starts Dec 7 Tosca (MET Opera Live in HD) THEATRE PEACOCK THEATRE Dec 12 – 20 The Call of the Aurora PLAYHOUSE Dec 7 Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Children’s Pantomime) THEATRE ROYAL Dec 11 – 21 Simon’s Final Sound
TMAG Now – Dec 31 Critical Operations Dec 14 – Feb 23 Acts of Exposure: Leigh Hobba, Michael Schlitz and Mark Shorter
WARP RECOMMENDS… CONSTANCE ARI 100 GOULBURN ST, WEST HOBART Lucy Bleach and John Vella – Big Dirty Whole Opens 6pm Thursday 5th December Dirty Big Whole presents a series of responses to Constance ARI as a site of formal, spatial and institutional dialogue. Dirty Big Whole reveals processes in parallel: an abstraction of funding, access, permission and action; and the siphoning of a ‘permanent’ local, public artwork into the tenuous space of an artist run initiative. Dirty Big Whole examines public and private experience, endorsement, expectation and potential. * If you are an exhibiting gallery or space in Tasmania and want to be included in the Warp
Gallery Guide email: nic@warpmagazine.com.au
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CD Reviews
With new album Reflektor, Arcade Fire have expanded their musical palette into the realms of new wave and contemporary electronica. Despite this, they held on to the melancholic heartache that made their first three albums so universally loved. This change in direction is largely due to LCD Soundsystem mastermind and DFA head honcho James Murphy, who took the reins as producer for the album. Murphy evidently has his fingerprints all over this one, with the technical proficiency and subtle manipulation that is trademark clearly apparent.
ARCADE FIRE REFLEKTOR
Reflektor is a huge undertaking. Clocking in at over an hour, the album is largely structured with songs over five or six minutes long. In the title track and ‘Here Comes The Night Time’, melody and rhythm are perfectly dragged out into breakdowns reminiscent of Murphy’s classics (think ‘All My Friends’). Above all else, Reflektor is a road album. Win Butler and company traverse the landscape they created in 2010’s The Suburbs. He sings directly to a directionless generation, placing the weight of their world
on his own shoulders. At times this comes across as slightly self-righteous, but for the most part, he succeeds. Reflektor is an achievement and a testament to what this band can do. Arcade Fire have set the bar high once more, and if it inspires even one band or musician to put as much thought and effort into their music, the world will be a better place. TOM GRANT
EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDS
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BLOOD ORANGE
LULU AND THE PAIGE TURNERS
DEVIL’S ROAD
THE YARD APES
THE VILLENETTES
CUPID DELUXE
BOOKENDS AND BEGIN-AGAINS Devonte Hynes’ 2011 Blood Orange debut Coastal Grooves, is more guitar-driven and a little less sure about the audacious pop that Hynes fleshes out in new release Cupid Deluxe. The airy synth, funky bass and drop-in saxophone create a relaxed atmosphere where the vocals are given full attention, the jazzy soft-rock being reminiscent of the smooth, easy-listening pop of the 80s and 90s. Cupid Deluxe hosts an array of guest vocalists that producer/ musician Devonte Hynes seamlessly weaves into an album trading in longing and loneliness while never feeling overcrowded. This includes Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek, Samantha Urbani, David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors , producer Clams Casino and rapper Skepta. For all the Michael Jackson and Prince references on Cupid Deluxe, the thematic preoccupation with love and the equal measure of sultry excess and moody introspection seem very Sade inspired. Her seminal 1992 album is titled similarly as Love Deluxe, making the connection harder to ignore. Cupid Deluxe finds Hynes at a high point both critically and commercially. No doubt he’ll continue to evolve at a rapid speed. ALEX LAIRD EDGE RADIO 99.3FM
There is something magical about Lulu and the Paige Turners’ music. Rehearsing in secret for months, the band suddenly appeared amid secrecy and masks to launch their first single ‘The Music Box’. A short while later, the band’s debut EP Bookends and Begin-Agains launched to a full Peacock Theatre in September, with a stage show that turned theatre performance and beautiful set design into a feast of tea lights and quivering hearts. It takes something special to stand apart from other female Australian singersongwriters, and Lulu’s got it. The EP is full of gentle melodies, gasps for air, stringed accompaniments, dramatic keyboard, the odd ably strummed banjo and harmonies provided by boys in crisp white shirts and suspenders. Each of the six songs provide a tinkling soundtrack to enchant. If you can imagine peacocks, cups of tea and balloons, then you’ll be lured by the imagery and fantasy that each track sweeps you up into. Lulu and the Paige-Turners are for those who like a little bit of fairy dust and adventure with their pretty gypsy folk-pop.
V FOR VILLENDETTA
Ballarat boys The Yard Apes bring us a plethora of boot stomping, swamp hopping, garage rock that doesn’t skimp on the surf sensibilities or vintage vibes, and leaves the listener dancing like they are part of a backyard exorcism. Their album Devil’s Road provides the listener with a diverse range of insanity from Mexican surf style (‘Chain Gang Blues’) to hillbilly swamp (‘Goin’ South’) without missing much in between. Lyrics like “I’ll cut off all your fingers and toes” teamed with frontman Brett Dunbar’s manic cackling (heard in ‘Down By The Lake’) thrusts this album into the realms of real devil’s music. I’m not sure which member sold their soul, but my ears are sure glad they did. HONNI COX EDGE RADIO 99.3FM
While there are often strong females in the Australian music scene, it’s rare to see four in one band. The Villenettes are Adelaide’s girl gang responsible for debut EP V for Villendetta. These girls bring the best of 50s-60s rock pop bands back to the forefront with their surf songs like ‘Ghost Train’ and pop punk with ‘I Met a Boy’. These retro notions are served up in abundance in V for Villendetta, but these girls are not all sugar and spice. Described as “a Tarantino fan’s wet dream,” there is no shortage of psychedelic horror undertones and you can get an earful of this in ‘Gravedigger’ and ‘Set You On Fire’. These moments are the highlights of this release. Despite being an EP, V for Villendetta brings a full soundscape of The Villenettes’ varied musical styles, leaving the impression of girls who would bake you a cupcake with razorblades in it. HONNI COX EDGE RADIO 99.3FM
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CD Reviews
FUTURE OF THE LEFT How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident
Future of the Left have always been caustic and cynical, if nothing else. Their newest release How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident doesn’t have as much of the snarl as something like ‘Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues’, but it does feature an older, angrier Andy Falkous doing what he does best. It starts by hitting the listener over the head with Queens of the Stone Age styled overdriven guitars and pummelling rhythms, as if demonstrating that the band members are still punks, before devolving into some genuinely hilarious songs about modern life. Calling out soap operas, Kardashians, and the lack of action in There Will Be Blood in
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THREACE
‘Singing Of The Bonesaws’ with an affected “posh” accent – not to mention the furious ‘How To Spot A Record Company’ – are absolute highlights. ‘Donny Of The Decks’ is stupidly catchy, but ‘She Gets Passed Around At Parties’ is a much darker, bleakly funnier track about teenage pregnancies and getting hit by ambulances.
How To Stop Your Brain in an Accident isn’t quite as strong as Travels With Myself Or Another or Curses, nor is it anywhere near Mclusky’s best work. However, it stands as an excellent, brutally cutting rock record. Check ‘em out if you’re into Mclusky, Fugazi, or The Nation Blue. ALEX FORD
Towards the end, things get even more interesting with kazoos thrown into the mix during ‘Things To Say To Friendly Policemen’ (another brilliant title), and an alarming gear shift to a bluesy shuffle in the final track with a Tom Waits growl – a very uncharacteristic finish for the band. In all,
THE HEAD AND THE HEART
POLICA
SHULAMITH
LET’S BE STILL
Cave have hit back with third album Threace, which has been described as a mix of riff-heavy space-rock with tripped out erotica, funk, soul and jazz – and lives up to it all.
While The Head And The Heart’s debut was an enchanting and inviting record in its own right, it feels like the band have carved out a distinct sound of their own on second album Let’s Be Still.
The ever-changing troupe have dampened their usually tumultuous blend of sounds heard on previous LPs, instead opting for earthier grooves. With the repeated pattern of guitar riff, nonchalant percussion and savoury keyboard counter melodies, every track has a diverse flavour and spirit.
‘Homecoming Heroes’ opens strongly with playful piano parts and violin work dovetailing each other spiritedly while joint lead singers Josiah Johnson and Jonathon Russell sing with an optimism that stays with you long after the 13 tracks have ceased playing.
Opening track ‘Sweaty Fingers’ commences as an effortlessly streaming funk piece including wah-wah guitar and congas to support the solid rhythm. However, the song has a bi-polar fit as heavily distorted guitar jumps in and erases every trace of the base funk.
In ‘Summertime’, singer Charity Roe Thielen shoulders the entire vocal responsibility of the song, and does so impeccably by showing off her range and allowing endearing quirks in her voice to shine through. ‘Shake’ brings the pace and full instrumentation back to the record, making for one of the fuller feeling songs on the disc.
This quirkiness is also heard in tracks ‘Arrows Myth’ with drastic mood changes and in ‘Shikaakwa’ due to the introduction of flowing jazz beats. In true Cave fashion, they have once again produced something out of this world. Their application of musical techniques and catchy rhythms have made Threace an incredible listen.
The Head And The Heart have improved with this second release and done their reputation a favour. This record is lovingly crafted and full of subtle delights and harmonies.
The confrontational album cover for Polica’s Shulamith and the assault to the senses of the opening track do bear something in common. Both music and cover are more than capable of grabbing your intention – and perhaps that’s all that is intended. The bouncy pop of the first track unleashes a wakeup call to fill any dance floor. The atmosphere is often toxic – it recalls seedy clubs, meeting new people and the sexual vibrations between perspiring bodies. It’s a sound that both accompanies and creates that experience. The vibes of the songs are what make it special; each song has its own forceful and magical sonic offering. It’s a hard album to turn off, as you never know what is coming next. By the time you realise that it is Justin Vernon on the eighth track, it has already long won you over. Though, that is a bonus as almost everything he touches turns to gold. He knew before most that this was a band to follow. He wasn’t wrong!
TUMBLEWEED
SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER SIDE
I’m just a couple of listens into new Tumbleweed album Sounds From the Other Side, and in some kind of tripped out, fuzzed-up, stoner-metal way, I’m 16 years old all over again. Much as the opening tracks set the tone for the whole record, lead single ‘Mountain’ looms large over the others. It’s a seven minute epic packed full of chunky guitar goodness and a howlin’ chorus. ‘Bird of Prey’ is a sonic ‘doff of the cap’ to vintage psychedelic rock and the closing track ‘ESP’ gives the listener an opportunity to float away on a cloud of distorted guitar and Lewis’s wistful vocal. While the whole album smacks of nostalgia, billing it as anything but an exciting new twist in the decades old tale of Tumbleweed would be selling it short. Sometimes, I guess, they do make ‘em like they used to. STU WARREN
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Event Guide
Hobart Date
Venue
Date
Acts / Start Time
Wednesday
11
DecEMBER Friday
6
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
DAMAGE CLUB w/ Ending Atrophy (CD Launch) + Interview with an Escape Artist + Skun Knees + The Truth About You + DJ Dollar Binnie + DJ Asha Traya + DJ Rat Shadows
C Bar
Pete Thomas 8:30pm
Cargo
Tim Davies, followed by Ado & Devo
Grand Poobah
Spiral Kites, New Saxons, Vertocoli and My Favourite Illusion
8
Tuesday
10
Merry Brizmas w/ The Sketches + Fatty Esther + Shamen Fox-Henry + Sebastion Bastion
Cargo
Cam Stuart
Grand Poobah
Bridget Pross
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Kick Ass Original Songwriters
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Magneetis
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Dave Wilson Band 9pm
Telegraph Hotel
Smashers
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Cargo
Micheal Clennett
Grand Poobah
The Stolp and Allen Variety Night
Everburn
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Tim Rozemulder
DJ Kenny Beeper
Republic Bar & Café
Daniel Champagne 9pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
PlanB
Tech Jam 10:30pm
Tattersalls Hotel: Beer and Folk Club - A showcase of local musicians 8pm Food Hall
Regines
Open from 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
We The People + Bad Pony 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Mick Clennet/Dr Fink
The Winston
The Breed
Waratah Hotel
Francesca de Valence 8pm
Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel
Telegraph Hotel
Joel Everard
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Neil Hamburger (usa) + Dr El Suavo + Peter Escott + Andrew Harper
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar - The Curse (vic) + Howling Gruel + Molle St Therapist + Kovacs + DJ’s
Glen Challice 9pm
C Bar
Clay Soldier 8:30pm
Crooked Fiddle Band (Album Launch) + The Dead Maggies
Cargo
Micheal Clennett, followed by Phrayta
Grand Poobah
A Christmas Cabaret with Miss Kelly Ann Doll, Sir Phillip Du Fry, Le Fay, Binny Boo, Captain Jacob, Idina Starlyte, Risqu’ee Jane, Velvet Sway, Chicky Pea and EddieO
Grand Poobah (Kissing Room)
The Cards EP Launch
Homestead
Stomp Rock with Radar Riley, Brad Gillies + guests
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Serotonin
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Millhouse
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Brisbane Hotel
Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC Gibbo’s Back on the Krack in the Sack plus DJ’s
C Bar
Jerome Hillier 8pm
Cargo
Millhouse
Federation Concert Hall
The Magic Island 7:30pm
Grand Poobah
Mighty Duke and the Lords, the Mangus Duo
Grand Poobah (Swamp)
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM: Festival of Electronica John Bradley, The Phosphenes, TRJAEU (Vic), Tiger Choir, Yolke (vic) & Electric Sea Spider (vic)
Friday
13
Homestead
Homemade @ The Homestead
Regines
Open from 10pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Serotonin
Republic Bar & Café
Tijauna Cartel 10pm
MONA (Void)
MOFolk Series - Francesca de Valence 1pm
Telegraph Hotel
Joel Everard/Big Swifty
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
The Winston
The Bobcats
PlanB
Deephouse Revolution Upinarms DJs, Amrdi + friends 10pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Tattersalls Hotel: Beer and Typhoon Haiyan Relief Fundraiser Concert - rockin’ Food Hall for a noble cause! 8pm
Brian Jonestown Massacre (usa) + The KVB (uk) + Small Black Lambs + Greta Mob (nsw) + DJ BTC + Sister Olivia
C Bar
Clay Soldier 8pm
Telegraph Hotel
Ado & Devo/Smashers
Cargo
DJ Johnny G
The Winston
Billy Whitton and the Hepcats
Grand Poobah
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 8pm
Tarkine Fundraiser: ELFA, Rosie Pidd, Shattertones, Wolves of Rain
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Rambling Ryan
C Bar
Manhattan / Tony Voglino 12:30pm
Grand Poobah (Kissing Room)
Cabaret with Bridget Bridge and Mark Downie in the Kissing Room
Cargo
Micheal Clennett, followed by Millhouse
Homestead
Rastadub with Reggaeink + guests
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Irish Jam Session
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
DJ Paddy Duke
Republic Bar & Café
The Ray Martians ‘Nature Study Project’ Album Launch 2pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Regines
Open from 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
Wahbash Avenue 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Bridget Pross 10pm
Tattersalls Rooftop Series 4pm
Telegraph Hotel
Mick Clennet/Dr Fink
Blues Express
The Winston
Smokestack, The Pearly Whites
Waratah Hotel
Dub Bredda (Reggae) 12pm
Waratah Hotel
Republic Bar & Café
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Nick Balcombe & Charlie Keller - Triumph & Disaster Tour 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8pm
Wunderland
Who da Fuck is Alice?! w/ KOWL, Amin Payne (vic), JNGL (Qld)
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 8pm
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Rambling Ryan
C Bar
Double Down 2pm
The Winston 9
Glen Challice 8pm
Brisbane Hotel
Eveyln Morris (Pikelet) + Peter Esot + Tilley
Tattersalls (Rooftop)
Monday
Billy Whitton 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Homestead
Regines
Sunday
Republic Bar & Café
A Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival and Horrormatheque screening CELLULOID HORROR
Observatory Lounge Room
7
12
Acts / Start Time Open Mic Night
Grand Poobah (Kissing Room) Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Saturday
Thursday
Venue Irish Murphy’s Hobart
14
Open from 10pm
Cargo
Tony Mak
Birdcage Bar
Sambo 8pm
Brisbane Hotel
Art at the Brisbane - Detournement 2wo
Cargo
Cam Stuart
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Sunday
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Event Guide
Date
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
16
17
18
19
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Cargo
Tim Davies, followed by DJ Jim King
Date
Telegraph Hotel
Ado & Devo/Smashers
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Acoustic Session
The Winston
Darktown Strutters
Republic Bar & Café
Goldilocks Area 9pm
Waratah Hotel
Charmaine Bingwa (Vic) 8pm
Tattersalls (Rooftop)
Tattersalls Rooftop Series 4pm
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 8pm
The Winston
The Original Cutouts
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Rambling Ryan
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8pm
C Bar
Billy Whitton/Tony Voglino 12:30pm
Cargo
Tony Mak
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Twice Bitten, Dezzy
Republic Bar & Café
Carl Rush 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
JaJa 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo 8pm
Tattersalls (Rooftop)
Brisbane Hotel
Quiz-A-Saurus
Cargo
Cam Stuart
Tattersalls Rooftop Series - The Keno Session - DJ Keno, DFEKT, Wax Dr West, Drew James + More TBA 4pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Open Mic Night
Telegraph Hotel
Smashers
Republic Bar & Café
Anita & Lockie 8:30pm
The Metz
Miami Horror DJs + guests
Birdcage Bar
Pete Thomas 8pm
The Winston
Stolen Moments
Brisbane Hotel
Melvins (usa) + The Wizar’d + Smutty Sam + M.O.1.O + Ruiner & The Threshold Forms + DJ DIElaudid
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8pm
Cargo
Tony Mak
Cargo
Tim Hibberd
Republic Bar & Café
G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin’ Blues) 8:30pm
Grand Poobah
Edge Radio Fundraiser
Telegraph Hotel
Everburn
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Kick Ass Original Songwriters
Birdcage Bar
Sambo 8pm
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Paddy Duke
Brisbane Hotel
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Sticks n Stones featuring Ben Lawless + Shamen Fox-Henry + Smutty Sam + Jacob Thomas
Republic Bar & Café
Trumps 9pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Open Mic Spectacular
Telegraph Hotel
Dr Fink
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
Joe Pirere & The Blackberries 8:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Parma Banquet
Telegraph Hotel
Dr Fink
Cargo
Micheal Clennett
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Ben Castles
Republic Bar & Café
Seabellies + Todd Cash 9pm
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
22
23
24
Wednesday
25
Birdcage Bar
Pete Thomas 8pm
Thursday
26
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Small Black Lambs + Pines + Phat Meegz + Treehouse + Bad Cabins + DJ Mu Tree
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Johnson & Friends
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
PlanB
Boxing Day at PlanB ft. Kid Kenobi 10pm
Tattersalls Hotel: Beer and Folk Club - A showcase of local musicians 8pm Food Hall Friday
Saturday
20
21
Telegraph Hotel
Everburn
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
HEXMASS w/ Remains + Ironhawk + Mephistopheles + Trespasser + GAPE +
C Bar
Sambo 8:30pm
Cargo
Tim Hibberd, followed by Tony Mak, followed by DJ Johnny G
Friday
Grand Poobah
Christmas Coco Loco Karaoko
Homestead
Homestead Christmas Party
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Ethel the Frog
Observatory Lounge Room
TBC
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
PlanB
PlanB Presents Will Sparks 10pm
Regines
Open from 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
Chase City 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Mick Clennet/Dr Fink
The Winston
The Roobs
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brof XXXmas Show - FRONT BAR - Bek Binnie + Flea Circus + Gareth Davies + Bridget Bridge + Dead Maggies + Skun Knees
Brisbane Hotel
Saturday
BACK BAR - Four String Phil + Hannah Morrell + Georgia Lucy + Hairyman & The Snug Guns + Adventurers + DJ Biz n Pizzas + Lawless DJ + DJ Nervous Breakdown
C Bar
Ebeneza Good 8pm
Grand Poobah
All Fire the Fire, The Native Cats & Louise Love
Grand Poobah (Kissing Room)
Gape
Homestead
Sensient
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Tattersalls Hotel: Beer and Folk Club - A showcase of local musicians 8pm Food Hall
Sunday
27
28
29
Telegraph Hotel
Dr Fink
The Metz
Boxing Day Street Party
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Lawless Quartet (Album Launch) + Dark Matter of Story Telling + The Phosphenes + Magnus
C Bar
DJ Gezza 8:30pm
Homestead
Lotek + guests
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Jim King
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Regines
Open from 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
The Mornings + The Truth About You 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Entropy
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Fucked If I Know
C Bar
Cam Stuart 8pm
Homestead
Homestead night in
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Regines
Open from 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
Kevin Borich Express and Pete Cornelius 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Mick Clennet/Dr Fink
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 8pm
C Bar
The Doctor Rocksters 2pm
Republic Bar & Café
Slyde Duo 9pm
Monday
30
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8pm
Tuesday
31
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 8pm
Pirates of the Cover Scene
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Zac Slater Band, DJ Paddy Duke
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Onyx Bar
The Tin Men
Regines
Open from 10pm
Regines
Open from 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
Sugartrain 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
NYE with Boil Up 10pm
Tattersalls (Rooftop)
End of World NYE Party
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Event Guide
Launceston Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
DECEMBER Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
NORTHWEST Date
CITY
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Wednesday 4
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Tapas Trivia
Thursday
Devonport
Molly Malones
Ringmasters 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Josh Tome
Devonport
Molly Malones
Proud Phoney 9:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Unbalanced
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Sambo 9pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
No Soda For Yoda 9:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Brofriendman
decEMBER 4
5
6
7
The Royal Oak
Elliot
Watergarden Bar
Trevor Weaver 6:30pm
Star Bar
Francesca de Valence 9pm
The Royal Oak
Captcha
Watergarden Bar
The Consultants 7pm
Fresh on Charles
Fundraiser for Sea Shepherd Australia - Shanti Dreads, 7th Street Entry, James Brook, Younger Dryas + more!
The Royal Oak
Rory Ellis
Tonic Bar
Ball & Chain 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Matthew Merry Garwood 7pm
Fresh on Charles
Evelyn Morris (Pikelet) and The Habits
The Royal Oak
Wizard
Tonic Bar
Gypsy Rose 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Andy & The Woodman 7pm
Friday
Saturday
5
6
7
Wednesday 11
Ulverstone Gnomon Pavilion
Elly Hoyt with Viktor Zappner, Michael Anderson, Bruce Innocent 7pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Open Mic
Devonport
Molly Malones
Proud Phoney 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Masters Acoustic
Devonport
Bellas Restaurant
Daniel Champagne 7pm
Sunday
8
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session
Wednesday
11
The Royal Oak
Andy Collins
Watergarden Bar
Trevor Weaver 6:30pm
The Royal Oak
Live Music
Watergarden Bar
The Consultants 7pm
Alchemy Bar
Bag Raiders (DJ Set)
Fresh on Charles
Nick Balcombe and Charlie Keller (Triumph and Disaster Tour)
Wynyard
Hotel Federal
Ringmasters 9pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
Proud Phoney 9:30pm
The Royal Oak
Mic Attard
Devonport
Tonic Bar
The Usual Suspects 9pm
Tapas Lounge Bar
Vandemonic Tales w/ The Dead Maggies
Watergarden Bar
Brett Boxhall 7pm
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
DJ Nufe 9pm
The Royal Oak
Ursine
Devonport
Well Strung 9pm
Molly Malones
Motor Road 9:30pm
Tonic Bar Watergarden Bar
Nic & Carmel 7pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Unit
Burnie
The Butter Factory
The Potbelleez
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
12
13
14
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
12
13
14
Sunday
15
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session
Wednesday
18
The Royal Oak
Open Mic Night - Call and Book
Watergarden Bar
Trevor Weaver 6:30pm
Wednesday 18
Devonport
Fresh on Charles
Matthew Dawes - Cold Stars Album Launch
Tapas Lounge Bar
Punk Night w/ Stay Down and Fatty Esther
Thursday
Devonport
Jerome Hillier 8:30pm
The Royal Oak
Live Music
Molly Malones
Devonport
Town’s End Christmas Special
Tapas Lounge Bar
Brett & Josh
The Royal Oak Tonic Bar
Luke Parry 9pm
Devonport
Ball & Chain 9:30pm
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier 7pm
Molly Malones
Fresh on Charles
Recreational Thugs Present - ECHO
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Rock Pigs (Launceston)
The Royal Oak
Lawnton Bowls Club
Devonport
Molly Malones
Unbalance 9:30pm
Tonic Bar
Ball & Chain 9pm
Devonport
Watergarden Bar
Andy & The Woodman 7pm
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Vanns/Chase City/ The Habits
Fresh on Charles
OUR HOUSE
Burnie
The Butter Factory
The Twins
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
19
20
21
Sunday
22
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session
Tuesday
24
The Royal Oak
Live Music - Christmas Eve
Thursday
26
The Royal Oak
Live Music
Friday
27
The Royal Oak
Eloise
Tonic Bar
Ball & Chain 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Clay Soldier 7pm
The Royal Oak
Live Music
Tonic Bar
Clay Soldier 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Nic & Carmel 7pm
Saturday
28
Sunday
29
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session
Tuesday
31
Tonic Bar
Ball & Chain 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Jon & Col
Royal Park
Festivale
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Saturday
Tuesday
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Wynyard
Hotel Federal
The Doctor Rocksters 9pm
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Wednesday 25
Devonport
Molly Malones
Slats & Josh 8:30pm
Thursday
26
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Tim Roberts
Friday
27
Devonport
Molly Malones
Motor Road 9:30pm
Saturday, 28 Dec Live Music
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Kevin Borich w/ Pete Cornelius
Sunday, 29 Dec Open Folk Session
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Brett Boxhall 9pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters w/ Slats & Jethro Pickett
Burnie
Burnie Waterfront and North Terrace
RACT Night on the Terrace
Devonport
Molly Malones
The Great Australian Rock Show 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
NYE Party Double with The Ringmasters and The Rock Pigs
Saturday
Tuesday
24
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28
31
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