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News in Brief JIVE CATS You can never have enough amazing and brilliant cocktails in your life. And you can never have enough amazing and brilliant Jazz in your life. The amazing and brilliant bar-folk at the new Ash & Besters make some of the most amazing and brilliant cocktails going around, and now you’ll be able to hear some amazing and brilliant Jazz by amazing and brilliant musicians while sipping your amazing and brilliant cocktail. This is all pretty damn amazing… and brilliant. Kicking off on Friday December 5 will be Hobart stalwart, Billy Whitton. The Julius Schwing Duo will take the helm on Friday December 12, and The Black Cat Trio will be running the show on Friday December 19. Jazz starts around 7pm.

GO AND FIGURE IT OUT FIGURE IT IN is a monthly sketch club featuring nude and clothed models. Their next event is on Sunday December 14 at 4pm. FIGURE IT IN welcomes professional artists, art students, fashion students, and all interested in drawing the nude and clothed figure. The elegant afternoons are presented by Velvet Sway and feature professional models who will pose for both short and long poses over the course of the afternoon. Anyone keen to have a go at life drawing is welcome. Models will create dynamic and thought-out poses that inspire and challenge. A single visit is $15, no need to book, just turn up. Bar and food are available. The Homestead is the place.

Best Dance Release for “High” (which reached #5 on the ARIA Singles Chart), the duo are heading to Hobart to play at the Observatory Bar on waterfront. Peking Duk will be appearing on Friday December 19, tickets are $25 + bf, and are available via the venue, Ruffcut and Moshtix.

MONA BRINGS THE JAM Now that it’s Summer, it’s a good time to be outside (so long as you slip, slop, slap).

It’s even better when you can listen to live music while being outside. Our lovely friends at MONA are just about to release their outdoor music series, Summer Jam. Daily music will play on the outside stage from 1pm to 4pm from Boxing Day through to February 1. Entry to the lawns is free.

up over the last 12 months. Meet them in the Village at 00:30 on the 31st December (let’s be honest, it’s the night of the 30th) and folk ‘til you punk! And if you’re not heading to Falls this year, never fear! The Maggies have a busy summer planned with the Taste, Fractangular, and many more exciting things just waiting to be announced!

Not to be confused with the duo “Tex and Tim”, Tex Perkins and fellow Beasts of Bourbon, Charlies Owens will be travelling around Tasmania for the Australia Day weekend. First stop will be Tonic Bar in Launceston on Wednesday Jan 21, followed

by Tapas Bar in Devonport on Friday Jan 23 and Hobart at the Republic Bar on the Saturday. Don’t call them “Tex and Tim”.

KRAFTY BRINGS THE DYNAMITE

HUNGRY FOR MORE

NU WAVE BAND NAMES Tonstartssbandht is (apparently) pronounced “tahn-starts-bandit“. Just, why? Cool music and all, but what’s with this ongoing trend of bizzarro band names?

I’m gonna start a band called jSdH%h3f() W8wuFw (pronounced “Cat“). nyway, they’re a massively talented duo from Florida. They have a brand new album out (called Overseas, pronounced “Overseas”, I think), and they’re touring Australia, playing the Brisbane Hotel on Saturday December 27. Incidentally, the press release we received had two different spellings for the band name. Not even your own PR guys know wtf is going on with your name.

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Krafty Kuts loves Australia and he also appears to love Tasmania He loves us Australian folks so much, that he is dragged his mate Dynamite MC down for a working holiday, including a stopover in Hobart on Friday January 9 at The Republic Bar. Find him hanging at a juice bar near you. No kidding!

TEX AND CHARLIE

Spark up an electro fuse, add a twist of house, blend with a galvanising slowed down beat, and Peking Duk is served.

Catapulting onto the Australian music scene, these Canberra brew commanders have brought to the table a little more than a knife and fork. The pair first garnered attention in 2012 with the release of their Passion Pit bootleg remix. Now fresh off winning the 2014 ARIA Music Award for

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Freshly returned from their European touring adventure, The Dead Maggies are starting the summer season with a clarinet in one hand and a ganjo in the other. Their first of a series of gigs this summer will be the Falls Music and Arts Festival. While they crank out their upbeat folk-punk tunes, alongside their tales of murder, suicide and heart disease, you (yes, you!) have the wild and wondrous opportunity to dance out those feelings of confusion and frustration that have inevitably built

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Emma & The Hungry Truth are an audible cocktail of primal rhythms, tribal war cries, break-your-heart lyrics, catchy melodies and epic harmonies echoing the likes of Queen and Kate Bush. With their recently released single “Always the Last to Know” doing the rounds and an EP set to drop early in 2015, Emma & the Hungry Truth are gearing up for a big one. “Singer, songwriter and self-proclaimed ringmaster Emma Dean is a hobo bag full of crazy pills.

Like the really awesome hallucinogenic kind.” - The New York Post (apparently writing for the NYP lets you call people “hobo bag”’s). January 7 - 9 you’ll be able to catch Emma & The Hungry Truth at the Cygnet Folk Festival. Saturday January 17 you’ll be able to catch them at Rosny Barn, as part of MONAFOMA.

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CHASING THE SUN

Australian AV/DJ Ego is packing his one’s and two’s plus his projector screen and going on tour this Summer, including a Hobart stop off at The Homestead on January 30. Expect “a multi-sensory odyssey - parading herds of pop-culture samples through psychedelic cinemascapes on-screen, all the while serving up genre-melding, club DJ sets to the dancefloor.” Neat.

ONE LONE DINOSAUR ROAMS TASMANIA’S WILD

LEGEND OF REGGAE GOES SOUTH

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Caravana Sun toured the hell out of their second independent album release, both at home and throughout Europe, had one band member retire, and then gained a new one. 2014 was the third time Caravana Sun returned to Europe, and their first tour not reliant on the continents train system. The shows and their audiences showed solid strength and growth, a testament to the persistent touring reputation that the boys are earning for themselves. Now back down under to kick off an epic national tour, Tasmania will play host to three Caravana Sun gigs. Thursday January 29 at Fresh on Charles in Launceston, Friday January 30 at The Cinema in Burnie, and Saturday January 31 at the Festival of King Island.

As a continuation of our “I can’t believe it’s Summer” theme. Some whacky folk (that’s fact) have decided to put a 325m waterslide down one of the main streets of Launceston. This takes you over 3 blocks at breakneck speed during one of the 90 minute sessions on offer on Saturday February 21. Complete with DJs, water games, icecreams and other Summery delights, you would think you were on the Gold Coast. Check www.thecityslider.com. au for more details.

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Last here in early 2012 for The Falls Festival and multiple sold-out Sydney Festival performances, Dinosaur Jr front man/guitar-guru J Mascis returns to Australian and New Zealand in February 2015 for Adelaide’s Garden of Unearthly Delights Aurora Spiegeltent program. As special guest to premier ambient/noise outfit Mogwai for two shows at Perth International Arts Festival, for headline performances along the Australian east coast (including first time solo appearances in Hobart (that’s us!) and Canberra, and for three shows on the north island of New Zealand. The 2015 tour follows the release of Tied to a Star, the second solo album from Mascis that picks up exactly where 2011’s debut Several Shades of Why left off.

Sunday February 15 at the Republic Bar in Hobart is where you’ll catch him.

Reggae legend, the honourable Jimmy Cliff (who Rolling Stone penned as “Reggae’s first global superstar”) is a 2-time Grammy winner, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. With hits under his belt like “Many Rivers to Cross”, “Wonderful World, Beautiful People”, “Vietnam”, “Sitting in Limbo”, “You Can Get It If You Really Want”, and “The Harder They Come” that have led to his songs being performed and recorded by Willie Nelson, New Order, Bruce Springsteen and Cher (among many others). Jimmy Cliff will be performing in Tasmania for the first time ever on Friday April 10, 2015. Playing at Wrest Point Entertainment Centre, tickets will be on sale by the time you read this!

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Ok, after you’ve had a slip’n’slide down Elizabeth St in Launceston, a quick combi ride will get you out to Burns creek to see day two of Party In the Paddock. This now northern institution has a bumper lineup this year, including The Beautiful Girls, Tommy Franklin, Allday, Jinja Safari, Dune Rats, The Smith Street Band, Willow Beats, The Delta Riggs and Dappled Cities, just to get started. Tickets are available from Ruffcut, Mojo Music, Red Hot Music and online at www.partyinthepaddockfestival. com.au.

The folks at Panama Festival have let a few more acts out of the bag. The Line up as it stands now is: Courtney Barnett, Bombino, #1 Dads, Sharon Van Etten. The John Steel Singers, Darren Hanlon, Ben Salter, The Cactus Channel, Harmony, The Furrs, Scotdrakula, Violet Swells, Grand Salvo, Oscar Lush. Jed Appelton. The Melotonins and The Panama Jazz Band. So all up it’s making a pretty sweet weekend to go to a camping festival.

Festival of Voices may not be for another seven months but that won’t stop them promoting the bejeezus out of their fine selves. This time they’ve announced one of the acts playing at the July 2015 festival. It’s quite a doozy too, the original mixture of metal and a cappella vocals, Van Canto. Direct from Germany, they’ll be making their Australian debut at the Festival of Voices. Singers of all ages and abilities will have the opportunity to work, learn and perform with Van Canto over six days. Workshop registrations now open at festivalofvoices.com. So get on that.

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ALT J BRITISH INDIE-POP BAND ALT-J WON OVER FANS ACROSS THE GLOBE WITH THEIR MERCURY AWARD WINNING DEBUT LP AN AWESOME WAVE. FOLLOWING THIS SUCCESS THEY WERE NOT ONLY FACED WITH THE TYPICAL DILEMMA OF THE LOOMING SOPHOMORE ALBUM BUT WITH THE SUDDEN DEPARTURE OF FOUNDING BAND MEMBER GWIL SAINSBURY, AND WERE FORCED TO ADJUST TO A NEW DYNAMIC WITHIN THE GROUP.

The band seem to have flourished with their successful second record This Is All Yours cementing their reputation as great songwriters, and while they are dubbed ‘boring’ and ‘too normal’ by the press, alt-J have settled into their self-contradictory identity of massive, talented stars with humble personalities and quiet onstage presence. Drummer Thom Green spoke to Warp about recording, re-adjusting and living in the public eye.

While existing under the umbrella term that is indie-pop, with This Is All Yours alt-J have incorporated a tasteful mix of moods and genres. ‘Arrival in Nara’ is a gentle and largely instrumental track that showcases the band’s ability for a mixture masterfully arranged melodies, and then ‘Hunger of the Pine’ incorporates an unexpectedly great vocal sample from Miley Cyrus.

But while some tracks like ‘Every Other Freckle’ stay in line with the rhythmic indie sound the band became famous for, ‘Left Hand Free’ brings a whole new level of catchy appeal. “It doesn’t necessarily sound like us but then we don’t actually know what we sound like anyway.

If anything it broadens the spectrum of what we actually are, it gives us even more room to do other things.”

The track was written in about 20 minutes. Thom says, “We were just in a really weird mood. Now and again we’d go into the studio and just not be in the mood to do anything and I think that was one of those moments - we were just messing around.

Joe started playing that riff, he’s actually had that riff for quite a while and it’s always been quite funny… it’s just so not how he usually plays!”

A play-a-long country-blues riff turned out to be one of the defining tracks on their new record.

Thom says that in the end, “We put as much effort into it as any other track, and ended up liking it I think, and we got a good response from people we played it to.” alt-J’s members were aware that guitarist and bassist Gwil was unhappy in the band, but were still caught off-guard when he finally left. “When he left we were a bit worried because it threw us a bit, even though we semi expected it. We didn’t think he’d actually leave,” Thom says.

“We quite quickly realised that we were very capable of doing what we wanted to do,” Thom says. “We get on musically, the dynamic is great. I think we realise now it’s good for us and for him, he wasn’t happy and had to leave, and it almost had to happen. It’s a good thing.”

Success for a British band is not complete, though, without some scathing personality judgments from the music press. Thom explains, “In the UK we get a lot of stick for being boring or too normal, which doesn’t really effect me because I don’t really see that as a bad thing. We never set out to be famous or to be rock and roll stars or whatever.”

On top of this, in the light of the band’s sudden and large-scale success, high expectations were placed on their live show, which has also been criticized for being too dull. “With live shows we put in a lot of effort, and we do try and give a good show, and that to us means we play very well,” Thom says. “So we often come across like we’re bored on stage or not bothered, but it’s actually that we’re concentrating.

We’re actually really enjoying it, but we’re not the kind of band that jumps around.”

Since recording their debut record in 2012, alt-J have experienced a rapid rise to fame on a global scale. But while the faces behind the music are still relatively unknown, it seems that they have the best of both worlds “I don’t really crave to be famous or recognized,” Thom says, “So it’s good that I get to be as normal as possible and still get to do what we do.” alt-J played Laneway in 2013 and have just completed headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney, but are already planning their return to the country with headline sets at The Falls Festival to bring in the New Year. Thom says he can’t wait.

“We’d never thought about coming to Australia when we started, and personally I never thought I’d get the chance to come, and being here and seeing the music received so well… it’s brilliant.”

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alt-J will play at Marion Bay’s Falls Festival between December 29 and January 1.

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The timing seemed terrible at the time, with the band due to start writing the second album just a couple of days after he left. Any self-doubt,

though, was extinguished with the realization that their songwriting skills strong enough to withstand some change. Thom, lead singer/guitarist Joe Newman and keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton seemed surprised to find that the departure of their good friend was for the best.

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VAN ETTEN IN VAN DIEMEN’S LAND FROM CHOIR GIRL TO INDIE-ROCK SONGSTRESS, SHARON VAN ETTEN HAS MADE HER WAY AROUND THE WORLD. THE BROOKLYN SINGERSONGWRITER HAS JUST RELEASED HER FOURTH ALBUM ARE WE THERE YET, AND TALKS ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY SHE’LL TAKE WHEN SHE DELIVERS HER MELODIES TO TASSIE FANS AT THE PANAMA FESTIVAL, MARCH 7-8 .

You’ve sung ever since you were a child.

Were you born to be a muso?

My family is just full of music lovers. I grew up around music being played all the time, at home, in the car, sing-a-longs, and I was always encouraged to do things that I was happy doing. It all happened by accident.

Harmonies are a big thing for you. Why do you make these a big compositional feature? Is it from your choir days?

Everything is an instrument and a melody to me. Even if it supports it is still just as important. I love the slow builds and the vocals are what the song is shaped around.

You grew up listening to vinyl in your childhood. How do you think this influenced your expectations of sound and feelings towards music, compared to those growing up in a generation of nearly-exclusively digital listening?

I grew up loving the album; listening to a record in its entirety. My dad had LPs and I moved to the walkman. I had the first model that the side automatically flipped, which was huge. You pay more attention to sequencing and spacing.

years and before that I overcame a lot of obstacles. I feel very lucky and fortunate to be in the position I am in, but it’s been an intense ride. A lot of responsibility comes with the territory. There are a lot of people counting me to have it together all the time and look to me for counsel.

Tell us about the emotional journey of your latest release Are We There.

I wrote the songs over the course of two years, while touring the album Tramp and the time home in between. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it documented the trials and tribulations of trying to maintain a relationship while on the road. Home versus the road, and how hard it is to find the balance.

How are you feeling about reliving the stories of your music for Tasmanians to experience?

It is a very intense thing to do. I am still learning its power over me. It’s so hard. Sometimes it’s great and sometimes it overtakes me and I am overly emotional.

I have been doing it all year so I think I just need time to recuperate.

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It seems that your whole life has been setting up the incredible achievements you’ve had in the past few years alone.

What’s the ride been like for you?

I have had personal achievements in my life, especially in how far I’ve come emotionally to set me up to actually receive the love that I’ve been given the past few years. I have been performing for about ten

NEW GROOVE MELBOURNE GROOVERS HIATUS KAIYOTE HAVE ONLY BEEN AROUND FOR A FEW YEARS, BUT THEY’VE CERTAINLY LEFT THEIR MARK. LAST YEAR, THEY WERE NOMINATED FOR BEST R&B PERFORMANCE GRAMMY WITH THEIR HIT ‘NAKAMARRA’ – THIS YEAR, THEY’VE HAD SELL-OUT SHOWS ACROSS THE GLOBE. PAUL BENDER – A TASSIE BOY, NO LESS – CHATS ABOUT THE QUARTET BEFORE HE JOINS THEM FOR A GIG AT THE BRISBANE HOTEL, DECEMBER 13.

You were the first Australian act to be nominated for an R&B Grammy award tell me how as Australians, you’ve been able to delve into a style with such foreign roots?

Listening, learning, absorbing. Music is an international language, or rather, a large collection of inter-related languages.

I think every musician should learn about as many kinds of music as possible. If you’ve decided it’s what you want to do for the rest of your life, why wouldn’t you?

I would not call us R&B, anyway. I mean, what does R&B even mean? Rhythm and blues. All that describes is two elements that thread together through the majority of popular (and unpopular) music since African people first changed the musical landscape of America more than a century ago. At some point, The Beatles were described as being R&B. Labels shmabels.

Is the morphing of styles the future of Australian music? What do you think?

I think it’s the future of music in general. It’s pretty rare to find anyone who only likes one kind of music. Even if someone doesn’t listen to classical music at home, they might be incredibly moved by a certain piece in a certain context, like

Sharon Van Etten will perform at Panama Festival, March 7-8. For full details and line-up go to www.panamafestival.com.au.

in a particular scene in film. I guess we think about music in that way: everything has its place, every sound is a certain key to unlock a certain door in a certain listener. Everything is valid musically in context. Except for Redfoo. Redfoo sucks in all possible plains of reality.

Tell me a bit about the first moment of spark for the band when you realised as musicians, you were all on the same wavelength.

When we all got into a room together to learn how to play some songs. I guess we all just felt like, ‘yep, this a thing’.

How did you feel about releasing your debut? Did it force any changes in the way you roll?

We’ve all always rolled the same way: downhill. Gravity it is one of our main influences in that sense. But seriously, it was a great feeling when we released something. And it’s been amazing to see our dodgy bedroom efforts have been received.

How is it that you can make a sound so refined, when there are so many of you contributing your musical personalities?

It’s like bashing a rock repeatedly with a hammer until it’s some sort of crystal. It’s like some sort of repetitive Neanderthal science. Occasionally someone’s fingers get accidentally bashed, but that’s life, innit?

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Hiatus Kaiyote will perform at The Brisbane Hotel, 8pm December 13. Tickets from www. oztix.com.au.

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PSYCHEDELIC INSTINCT WRITTEN AND RECORDED OVER 10 DAYS LAST SUMMER, THE DATSUNS LATEST LP DEEP SLEEP SHOWS GOOD THINGS DON’T TAKE THAT MUCH TIME AT ALL.

Although the band formed in small rural town of Cambridge, in New Zealand, nowadays it isn’t common to find all four members in the same country let alone city. De Borst calls Sweden home, while guitarist Christian Livingstone lives in London. Drummer Ben Cole and guitarist Phil Somervell are based in New Zealand. Hence the 34-minute long Deep Sleep was written and recorded over 10 days at Roundhead Studios in Auckland, at a time when the whole band could get together.

Since their formation back in 2002, The Datsuns have released an album every two years. “I’m not sure we ever thought we would still be going by this point.” Admits vocalist and bassist Dolf de Borst. “Music isn’t exactly the best career choice one can make but we obviously still draw a lot of satisfaction and pleasure from writing and performing. There is always the drive to make a different and better recording.”

Different and better it certainly is. The 10-track album is, for the most part, packed with energy in true Datsuns style. The final and title track,

however, is a surprisingly sombre ballad.

“Christian had an idea that he and Ben were messing around with in the studio on the final day of recording and we developed it from there quite quickly.” De Borst explains. “The vocals were all finished in Stockholm at maybe 3am in the morning so hopefully we captured some of the half awake feeling.”

Deep Sleep feels both psychedelic and futuristic.

The 1970s vibe of the album was an extension of sounds the band naturally leant toward: “Simpler drum miking, minimal overdubs, that kinda thing.” Electronics wizard Livingstone has created a limited edition handmade, powder-coated effects pedal, ‘The Datsuns Bad Taste Fuzz’, an extension to the album’s soundscape.

From a visual perspective, the band was heavily inspired by the bright pop-art of Kris Kool comics by 72-year old French illustrator Philippe Cazaumayou, who licensed two images for the album. “Our French is pretty terrible so I think we miss a few of the ideas, however the visuals are mind blowing!” says de Borst. The Australian tour poster features a wide-open pink mouth, with a water-droplet shaped green eye dripping down the page. Deep Sleep has been released on goo-green and neon yellow vinyl, while 70s inspired t-shirts in metallic and vivid reds abound.

‘Bad Taste’. “We’ve worked with Greg Page from Fish and Clips a few times before in the past and he’s made many claymation videos over the years,” says de Borst. In the video, the band is caracturised as clay puppets with sinewy flailing arms and leering grins in what is undoubtedly a nod to the aliens from Peter Jackson’s 1987 film Bad Taste. “When we have music videos made it’s nice to let the filmmaker have a pretty free reign over the project. It’s kinda hard for us to ‘star’ in the clips since we all live so far apart.”

Yet, distance apart seems to work very much in their favour. “The internet has been super helpful in staying in regular contact,” de Borst says. But utilising technology only goes so far: “Although creatively mostly everything still occurs when we get together in the same country: Skype is handy for swapping ideas, but the main work is done together like always.”

“We’ve made records lots of different ways and this one was born out of necessity in some ways and also the result of having been playing together for many years now. It’s easier to translate what we want from each other and how collectively we want to express ourselves. Also it’s nice to let the artistic decisions be quite instinctive and not spend months on irrelevant details.”

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“We really dig a lot of music and production from that era so that obviously influences us. We also really like how bands back then made shorter records, and more often.” The band also count 70s proto-metal acts Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult and Bloodrock as influential to their sound.

On a different tip, Greg Page of Fish & Clips Studios created the stop-motion video for track

The Datsuns will play Republic Bar on Thursday 4th December with support from locals Mess O’Reds.

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ON FIRE “IT’S AWSOME TO BE PART OF THE EMBERS.” YOU’VE GOTTA LOVE THAT BAND PRIDE FROM VOCALIST-GUITARIST-SONGWRITER MICHAEL ATTARD OF THE EMBERS. AS JOYOUS AS THE SOUNDS OF HIS SONGS, MICHAEL TALKS ABOUT THE TASSIE BAND’S DEBUT ALBUM, BIG NAME PRODUCERS, AND GENRE-INVENTION AHEAD OF THEIR HOBART LAUNCH.

Michael Attard was a late starter, getting into music at 29 years old. After he taught himself how to play guitar (with his friends showing him a few tricks), he was straight into songwriting.

“At first I was into blues, but by the end things got more contemporary. People often said, ‘you don’t want to have too many genres because then people don’t know what you’re like’. We kind of do it because people like all different styles of music – and not a lot of bands do all different styles.”

Sticking with what he loves – especially blues and rock – Michael finds that even hints of reggae, dance, and folk find their ways into his tunes. Consequently, he’s come up with his own name for a genre: “contemporary roots.”

“It’s cool to come up with another name for a genre these days. Music is so accessible

the

now and all the genres have had time to cross.”

With original songs in the making for the past three years, Michael and his bandmates in The Embers have finally recorded their full length debut album Bright, set for a March 2015 release. As you’d expect from its name, the album is filled with “positive messages.”

“It’s really quite a positive album with high energy. As a songwriter, I’m always challenging myself with music itself – the process of being a musician and getting it out there, and the creative process. A lot of it comes from the pure joy of music and the wonder of creation. I also explore a few darker themes but the music is joyous and uplifting.”

But the creative side of the album wasn’t restricted to the music, and The Embers went about alternative roots in producing

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the album. After successfully applying for an Arts Tasmania grant, the band used the money to record their work with big name producers.

“We were thinking, ‘who would we like to work with?’. Because we crossed a number of genres, we looked at getting Nicky Bomba in on the action to help us produce it.”

Bomba has worked with the John Butler Trio and the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, while Robin Mai who jumped on board as principle engineer has worked with the Trio as well as Augie March and Cruel Sea. “It was fantastic – it was all the things you would hope it to be. It was very inspiring and nurturing, and the other ideas that came into it were really fresh as well. It was great to be working with people who were a little bit away from the project and not so closely involved, so they could have their perspective. Nick is an amazing guy – he

has the music in him, he has the vibes.”

Releasing their single ‘Mission’ this November, The Embers plan to use the tour as a way to launch their crowd funding campaign – and it’s their first time doing so.

“We’re looking to give rewards to people in exchange for funding towards printing the CD and doing artwork for the album launch next year.”

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Support The Embers when they play at the Republic Bar on December 6 with support from Ben Lawless and Guthrie.

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ESTABLISHED AUSSIE ROCK BAND THE BASICS HAVE ENGROSSED THEMSELVES IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS THIS YEAR, RECENTLY ANNOUNCING THE FORMATION OF THEIR VERY OWN POLITICAL PARTY, AS WELL AS RELEASING AN EP DEFINED BY ITS STRONG PRINCIPLES AND OPINIONS. SINGER AND BASSIST KRIS SCHROEDER SPOKE TO ME ABOUT THE IDEAS BEHIND THE EP, THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE THAT THE BAND MEMBERS SHARE, AND HOW THE BASICS ROCK AND ROLL PARTY CAME ABOUT.

‘The Lucky Country’ is the title track of this political EP, damning the widespread use of the term in a country that does not seem to recognize how lucky it really is. It’s a powerful rock song, in which Kris sings angrily, “Someone called this the lucky country, our leadership is second rate, the world outside’s got bigger problems, we expect it all on a silver spoon, on a nickel plate, in an iron cup, in a tax-free bed of gold.”

It also calls out the hypocrisy of the term ‘The Lucky Country’, in an isolated nation that resists opening its doors to others - “What are you so afraid of? The world outside’s already here.”

Kris and his band mates took the term from a quote that they appreciated in Donald Horne’s book, The Lucky Country. “’Australia is a lucky country run by second rate people who share its luck.’ So he was obviously having a go at the leadership at the time,” Kris says, “and I think that’s still pretty relevant, really. We’re resource rich, and there are a few bumpkins that are kind of

running the place off the back of that. There’s no real leadership… The only reason we do well is we have the resources to pay for our mistakes.”

The popularity of the song, Kris says, was largely the reason for putting out this record. “The whole recording thing only came about early this year, insofar as we didn’t commit to doing another record, but people were really responding to the song in a live sense, more so than a lot of other stuff we’ve done. So it became a catalyst for saying we would do another record.”

And then of course, the band have made headlines recently for successfully forming a political party.

The Basics Rock and Roll Party came about because the three band members, working together for over 10 years, share the passions and work ethic necessary for such a move. Particularly frustrated with the current political climate, it seemed a logical step to take.

“We’ve been working in our personal lives to better humanity I suppose, working in remote and rural Australia with high school kids and indigenous communities and I’ve been working overseas with the Red Cross. So I guess we were kind of already in that realm of the social issues that are then reflected into politics,“ Kris says.

“We keep seeing the same issues perpetuated year after year so maybe there’s something that can be done within to change things up a bit.”

While the title of the party makes it all sound like a bit of fun, Kris, Tim Heath, and Wally De Backer are very serious about their policies. The pillars of their party are Innovation, Education, and Rock ’N’ Roll, while also focusing on health and renewable energies.

One of their policies aims to diminish the alcohol culture that currently defines the live music scene, through taking away advertising at live venues.

Kris explains, “I enjoy a good drink, but I don’t like the way it seems to go too easily hand in hand with it (…) Fuck, the music’s there anyway. I think it’s just the industry that likes the consistency of what we’re doing. The musicians don’t need it all that much, it’s more the managers and venue owners that like to have the backbone of selling booze.

That seems to be their main business.”

The Basics are certainly not abandoning their identity as one of Australia’s best live rock bands.

In fact, to celebrate this they released their first live DVD at the end of last year. It was recorded at Kris’ local, The Northcote Hotel, and was released at ACMI. The group are also well on the way to releasing their full-length next album around March/April 2015, which was recorded in London earlier this year. By the sounds of things, the record will also be socially aware.

“Everything’s recorded,” Kris says, “It’s just a matter of putting it out. This EP’s the first to test the waters a bit especially with the more political and socially aware material, we’ll see how things go. We did about 16 songs so we’ve got more than enough for an album which we’ll probably put out next year.”

ERIN LAWLER

The Basics play at The Taste of Tasmania, Hobart, on Wednesday December 31, followed by New Year’s Day in Launceston at The Basin Concert.

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LIFE AT THE TOP AUSSIE MUSO JOE CAMILLERI HAS BEEN ON THE SCENE SINCE BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. FACING 50 YEARS OF MUSIC MAKING, HE’S BEST KNOWN AS THE BRAINS BEHIND ARIA WINNING BAND THE BLACK SORROWS. OVER TWO MILLION ALBUM SALES LATER, HE’S RELEASED THE BAND’S 17TH RECORD CERTIFIED BLUE. JOE CAMILLERI TALKS ABOUT HIS FIVE SUCCESSFUL DECADES IN THE INDUSTRY AHEAD OF HIS DECEMBER TASSIE GIGS.

After 50 years in the industry, how is it you’re still able to churn out inspired original material?

I don’t know. I think it’s just a will to do stuff. I don’t see it as anything special. If it’s what you love to do, you just do it, without prejudice. As you get older, you know you’re doing better things. It’s about enjoying your station in life So it’s never felt like an obligation?

It’s an obligation to the people who work for you and with you. You know that you can’t stay in the same place.

Have you ever felt any doubts over the years?

Not really. You’ve got to be as grounded as you can be. I signed up for rock and roll – I didn’t sign up for the other bits. I was just a music fan and became addicted. You’re as good as what you are and what’s really nice is that nothing is seamless. I love this new record but it drives me insane. I lived every note on that record in some way, whether it’s a phrase or the musicianship or being able to express it the way I liked to. I’ve hardly changed – it’s all about finding new ways of doing things and it’s time that helps that.

GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME KIM SALMON AND LEANNE COWIE HAVE A LONG HISTORY. WHEN THEY FIRST MET IN THE MID EIGHTIES NEITHER OF THEM WOULD OF DREAMT THEY’D PUT AN ALBUM OUT TOGETHER BECAUSE LEANNE COULDN’T PLAY A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. BUT WHAT SHE LACKED IN SKILL, SHE MADE UP FOR IN ENTHUSIASM.

Though both Australian, they first met in the UK just after Salmon arrived there with the Scientists, the infamous punk rock band from Perth. She became there tour manager throughout Europe and the UK, but when drummer, Brett Rixton announced he was leaving Leanne bought his kit and began to teach herself, mimicking his style.

After a few drummers that didn’t quite fit the band, Kim recalls “We gave Leanne an audition, she had the baptism of fire playing in front of all these angry Glaswegians… it was in front of a whole lot of people who really didn’t want to see anything other than Siouxsie and the Banshees, not a rough round the edges Australian punk rock band.”

Laughing to himself he admits she wasn’t that good, “but by the end of the tour she had chopped up, it was good, it was happening, and then we actually did an album called Weird Love that had her in it… and it’s totally cool.”

When the final lineup of the Scientists returned to Australia, which included Nick Combe on drums, shortly after the band went their separate ways. Kim moved on to play with The Surrealists and The Beasts of Bourbon, but in the early 2000’s when there were some Scientists reformations, and Leanne had returned to Oz, their musical paths crossed again.

Your music has remained popular despite the many changes of era, style, and technology. What’s your secret?

I don’t really know how popular I am, to be honest. I have something and it’s very special to me. People want to see me playing in some setting but it’s a struggle – it’s not like people just turn up. It’s a commitment on their side, too – it’s how live music has affected them in some way.

Fifty years is a long time doing the same thing and I’ve never stopped or retired and there are people who appreciate that.

Do you ever see yourself stopping?

I don’t know if you can ever say that. It’s just something I really like to do. It’s a comfort for me. There’s nothing nicer than starting with nothing and ending up with something. We all have our place in the world. But I hate the celebrity concept in music – I didn’t sign up for that. I want to be successful, don’t get me wrong. I want people to feel they’re connected to the record and find value in it. I’ve sold a couple of million records in this country alone, so people do like me and place me in a time when they appreciated the things I did then.

But it’s something that I fight because I believe I’m a more rounded person today than I ever was before and make better music than I ever did.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

See Joe Camilleri in The Black Sorrows as part of their Certified Blue tour on Thursday December 11 at Launceston’s Tonic Bar, Friday December 12 at Burnie’s The Butter Factory, and Saturday December 12 at The Republic Bar.

To start with they used session drummers but it seemed that they just didn’t fit one way or another. “Leanne came and joined us for a couple of songs up in Sydney…. And suddenly we sounded like the Scientists again. So ever since then we just had her in the band.”

The most notable reformation was at the New York All Tomorrows Parties festival curated by Jim Jarmusch in 2010, when the Scientists performed Blood Red River alongside acts like Mudhoney and Sleep.

“Iggy and Stooges were directly after us. It was very exciting”.

In terms of working as a duo though Kim says “Tim Jones asked if I could support them up in Sydney at the Metro, and I said ‘yes, can I bring a drummer?’, and we got together and did a bunch of Scientists songs. We did this duo thing a few times, went around the place and thought lets do an album of our own stuff, instead of all Scientists tunes. And so that’s what True West is”.

The album has been well received, many comparing it in strength to The Surrealists ‘92 album, The Sin Factory. It’s wrapped up in guitar fuzz, one chord punk drones and brooding lyrics that stay true to Salmon’s roots. Singles include the industrial opener, The Science Test, Freudian Slippers and So Naïve. There’s also a wicked reverb soaked cover of the Rolling Stones, Dead Flowers.

LIZ DOUGAN

Kim and Leanne will be the playing at the Republic Saturday from 2.30pm in the afternoon on December 20. Tickets available from the venue and www.moshtix.com.au.

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DO THE BOB BOB LOG III JUST WANTS YOU TO DANCE. DANCE LIKE YOU DON’T CARE WHO IS WATCHING. DANCE CRAZY. LET LOOSE. THROW YOUR INHIBITIONS OUT THE WINDOW. DANCE TIL YOU MAKE A MESS ON THE FLOOR. “I play weird music to weird people.

Wherever I show up there’s a party. I just try to get people to dance, dance to the point that they don’t care what they look like. It’s noisy, sweaty and messy. I want people to have fun and dance crazy and not care and just lose their shit.” Bob explained.

Bob views the floor of the venue after his gig as a masterpiece created by the fans.

A flotsam of lost shoes, spilled drinks and random items. He tries to take a photo of the floor at each venue after he plays - a crazy artwork created because of his music.

Hailing from Tucson, Arizona, Bob has now called Australia home for the last 9 years.

He lives in Melbourne, but spends as much time as possible in Tassy.

“I go down to Tassy any chance I get. I love it.

The only thing stopping me from living there is the cold.”

“The last time I played there it was like a small local ‘festival’ where the local milkman was also the opening act. I’ve played at a lot of weird and wonderful festivals over the years. I’ve played at the Republic too. I love it in Hobart, I really do.”

This time Bob is back as part of Fractangular - ‘a fusion of alternative electronic and acoustic music genres with visual and performing arts and electronic media’ - an exciting 3-day open air collaborative arts spectacular in South East Tasmania.

Bob is simply a one man party. He can be found at shows playing an old Silvertone archtop guitar, wearing a full body cannonball suit and a motorcycle helmet wired to a telephone receiver and playing percussion with his feet. Occasionally he can be seen riding a large inflatable boat across the top of the crowd. And a lot of time he can be found bouncing women on his knees as he belts out a number. Whichever way you view it, a show with Bob Logg III is never dull.

And to think it all started because he grew up in a boring town.

“Living in a boring town was the best thing to ever happen to me. It was because I was bored that I learned to play guitar. I used my boredom the right way. Being bored was fantastic for me. Now I’ve been doing this for over 17 years, I can’t even remember the last ‘real’ job I had.”

“Being a one man band means I can play anywhere. I get to go to some strange places that others don’t get to go. I seek out and enjoy the unusual. I seem to find that niche market in almost every place I go of people who just want to have fun and dance crazy.”

Just after his chat with Warp Magazine, Bob was off on a huge tour over to Europe and the Middle East, involving diverse locations from France to Israel.

“I spend about 5 or 6 months of the year touring. I set it all up, then just go. I’m off to some new and exciting places on this tour.

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I’m not exactly sure of where I’m playing on some of the stops, or what to expect, so I’ll just do what I do every night and try and get people to dance crazy.”

“I just try and get them dancing to the point they stop caring what they look like and just let go. People just go nuts at my gigs. They jump on stage. They pour beer on me. I can’t stop it, it’s the monster I’ve created and I just have to live with it. I’ve learned to just roll with whatever happens, to roll with whatever goes wrong. Most venues know who I am, and what I do and what they are getting themselves into.”

“I just adjust to each situation as it comes along. Parts of last tour, I had up to 50 people jumping around on stage. Sometimes I use my boat.”

“I once went to this Belgium Festival in an obscure place that it took forever to drive to. I got there at 9am when they were still setting up so I blew up the boat and took a nap in it. I ended up being on at 2 in the afternoon, so when I played the show I didn’t even use the boat. I’m sure they all thought I just bought it along to festivals to sleep in.”

“I’ve ended up having piles of instruments in homes all over the world. I keep finding homes for things when I’m on tour, and they find their way back to me when I play there again. There’s a load of stuff all over Europe, and all over the US”

“I can’t wait for Fractangular, but first I’ve got to live through Brazil and Israel. I’m hoping to stay a few days in Tassy, I might even take the ferry across. I can’t wait to stir up the people there and watch them make a mess on the dance floor.”

KYLIE COX Bob Log plays Fractangular Festival in Buckland over the February 6 – 8 weekend.

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DAN LIZOTTE LAUGHS WHEN HE CONFESSES THAT HE RARELY READS STREET PRESS. “I’ll read them if I’m at a pub waiting for someone, or if there’s one lying around near my feet in a car,” he says. “There’s no substance a lot of the time. The local stuff is usually really quick articles and overly positive because someone knew someone at the magazine.”

Lizotte is speaking candidly because he has known the writer of this article since 2008. At this point in the conversation, he is unaware he is even being interviewed.

“Actually this could be a big part of it,” he continues, thinking aloud. “The person doing the interview very rarely has a good knowledge of that artist or their work.

A good interviewer can probably get a good article that evolves with a line of questioning, but most interviewers have five questions and the fifth one answers the third one again.”

He’s right. A competent interviewer should produce an interesting which evolves like a good conversation but, as everyone knows, the standard music interview questions tend to address what the artist is doing right now, their latest release, studio stories and how the tour is going.

It’s not this writer’s style, but the articles to which Lizotte is referring usually end up looking like this:

When I speak on the phone to Halfway to Forth’s Dan Lizotte, he is enjoying an online list of jokes written by kids.

“Oh, man, I could spend all day on click bait,” he guffaws. “I have a bunch of friends who basically curate the internet for me and send me the best stuff. I’m pretty sure that’s what Facebook is for.”

His enthusiasm for funny videos is topped only by his enthusiasm for his band’s latest release, Run For The Hills, which was recorded in a tiny, old church in the dead of night, with Dan as both musician and recording engineer.

“If you listen closely, you can hear the pews creaking,” he says proudly.

Even though Run For The Hills was released “to no acclaim whatsoever” because they are “terrible at self-promotion,” it has led to support slots with stacks of big name artists,

DON’T THROW ROCKS IN GLASSHOUSES "OH YEAH, HE PLAYED THE DRUMS, HE WAS WICKED RAPPING OVER SOME BEATS” SO SAYS DAVE BAYLEY, OF UK INDIE-ROCKERS GLASS ANIMALS. CHARLES DARWIN WAS LISTED ALONGSIDE VARIOUS ROCK AND POP INFLUENCES TO THE BAND- AND HE I WAS THINKING DARWIN WAS SOME FUDDY-DUDDY SCIENTIST AND NOT THE BLOCK-ROCKING MC THE GLASS ANIMALS BOYS KNEW HIM AS.

including Ian Moss, The Black Sorrows and bluesman Shaun Kirk, who collaborated with them for his song Two Hands on The Wheel…

Pretty familiar stuff, huh? Perhaps music interviews would be more entertaining if they were conducted like sports interviews?

“Yeah!” Lizotte laughs. “One hundred and ten per cent! Full credit to the sound engineer…”

Halfway to Forth’s summer tour will take in Victoria, New South Wales and ACT with Tasmanian shows in Devonport, Launceston and at Cygnet Folk Festival.

“You know what it is?” Lizotte exclaims.

“It’s a bit promotey!”

Like everyone’s trying to sell something?

“Yeah, but I guess that’s the nature of the beast, isn’t it? You need a broad appeal and

“He was always looking for new directions and patterns” Bayley explains more seriously. “Always creating big concepts, in a weird way I was trying to make things quite conceptual and find areas within those areas.

Glass Animals are on the warpath, with their debut full-length release Zaba in hand. After two EP releases in 2012 and 2013, September of this year saw the band kick out their debut studio record. Hooking up with producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Primal Scream, countless others, go look them up) and inspired by, amongst other things William Steig’s children’s book The Zabajaba Jungle, the band released what proved to be an Australian favourite.

Glass Animals are currently mid-tour mode and Bayley sure is feeling it.

“I do keep a bit more focused when I’m touring, it depends how extrenuous the touring. The last four days have been pretty intense...it was Ed’s birthday [Edmund Irwin-Singer, bass/keyboards] and Drew’s birthday [Drew McFarlane, guitar] back to back so it was an intense week of drinking in Germany. I try to get things done on the road; writing, working on new sounds, interviews. It’s important to stay focused on the road”

enough ads to make it viable,” he muses.

“Oh, and you want people to come to the shows, too.”

At this point the writer signals it’s time to finish up, but Lizotte is surprised.

“Was that the interview? But... What did I say?”

Perhaps he’ll read this article.

DANIEL TOWNSEND

Halfway to Forth play with Daniel Townsed (I.e. me) at the following shows: Wed Jan 7 - House Concert (Devonport) Thu Jan 8 - The Royal Oak (Launceston) Fri Jan 9-11- Cygnet Folk Festival (Cygnet)

video. We like to keep our hands on that. It’s important to be creating interesting things all the time, you have to constantly have your brain in that creative space, otherwise it goes away. Most musicians fear someday sitting down to write something and not being able to do it” Bayley won’t have that problem for some time, considering the intriguing and unique lyrics he conjures up: “Right my little pooh bear/ Wanna take a chance?/ Wanna sip the smooth air/ Kick it in the sand?/ I’ll say I told you so but/ You just gonna cry/ You just wanna know those/ Peanut butter vibes” - ‘Gooey’ “I was a bit shy when I started writing” Bayley explains. “I never made any art before, never been on stage, and that made it very easy to write quite cryptically.

People wouldn’t immediately understand what you’re talking about if you use strange words or replace people with characters; make it abstract, and eventually that turned into liking the way that people responded to that” LISA DIB

I am surprised to find just how much work the band themselves have to put into the whole touring routine.

“There is a lot of work to do, especially planning for future shows. You desgin your own backdrop and staging...some bands might not, but we do. Planning your next

Glass Animals play the Falls Festival (Monday 29th December- Wednesday 31st December, 2014) in Marion Bay.

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NEVER AT REST BEN SALTER IS ONE HARDWORKING MUSICIAN. DESCRIBED AS ‘RESTLESS’ BY THE MUSIC PRESS, IT IS A PORTRAYAL WITH WHICH THE FOLK-ROCK MUSICIAN ABSOLUTELY AGREES. HE IS A CENTRAL MEMBER OF GREAT ESTABLISHED AUSTRALIAN BANDS THE GIN CLUB, GIANTS OF SCIENCE, THE WILSON PICKERS AND THE YOUNG LIBERALS, ALTHOUGH HIS FOCUS HAS TURNED MORE RECENTLY TO HIS SOLO WORK. HIS SECOND SOLO LP WILL BE RELEASED IN FEBRUARY, AND THE GIN CLUB’S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM IS DUE TO COINCIDE WITH THEIR UPCOMING NATIONAL TOUR.

Ben briefly runs through his schedule for the rest of the year, which is overwhelmingly full, although that’s not unusual for this unstoppable musician.

He is touring with New Zealand country musician Marlon Williams, and has a massive combined show with Giants of Science and The Gin Club, who will launch their new single ‘Dancing With The Ghost’.

“Then we’ve got The Gin Club tour,” Ben adds, “and I’ve got about 50 million gigs in between those. I’m always trying to stay three or four months ahead of myself, which is not always easy.”

because everyone’s so busy,” Ben says, “We haven’t gotten around to doing the mixing and getting consensus on a lot of things, but we’ve got the ball rolling now and three or four of the songs are mixed, so it’s looking good.”

The Gin Club’s new album, for which a name has not yet been decided, was due for release mid-2014, but the inevitable negotiations within such a large band meant delays. “It just takes a long time

While this year drummer Angus Agars is busy collaborating with Mick Thomas and Tex Perkins, and keyboardist Dan Mansfield is having a baby, Ben predicts six for the adaptable band’s upcoming Hobart shows, leaving Ben, Bridget Lewis, Brad Pickersgill, Conor Macdonald, Scott Regan and Adrian Stoyles.

With nine members living in different places and doing different things, the lineup of The Gin Club tends to vary for each tour. “We’ve done everything from a twopiece show, would you believe, all the way through to all nine of us having strings and horns,” Ben says.

While remaining a crucial member of his four bands during the last decade, Ben took some time to put out a solo record.

The Cat, recorded and produced with Gareth Liddiard and Robert F. Cranny, was released mid-2011, a brilliant representation of Ben’s songwriting skills.

Some of the record’s songs were written 14 years ago and have not evolved significantly in this time, remaining a fair insight into Ben’s enduring style. “The production when we came to do it was a bit different but the words and the music were pretty much the same as when I wrote them,” Ben says, adding, “Which is a bit weird, to sing lyrics you wrote when you were 18 or something but that’s just the way it goes sometimes.”

“Now the solo stuff is really the focus just because I really just want to focus on music as far as what I want to do with my life. In order to do that I’ve got to play all the time and the solo stuff gives me an outlet to do that.”

Ben explains that he can’t expect band members to devote as much time to making music as he does, it’s his driving force, whereas his band mates have other lives. “It’s just incredibly hard to make money being a musician these days, much harder than it was 20 years ago. So in order to do that I can’t expect The Gin Club to be coming on tour all the time, they’ve all got jobs and families and stuff. So the solo thing’s something I started doing so I could have my own project.”

Ben is set to release his second full-length solo album in February 2015, a record he has been working on since the release of The Cat, and sure to be another Australian folk gem.

The Gin Club will be visiting the state as part of their Dancing With The Ghost Tour where fans will be treated to songs from their entire catalogue as well as new material. Ben will return on January 1 for an exciting solo show at MONA with Violent Femmes and Augie March, a sideshow and teaser for Hobart’s upcoming music festival MOFO. Also in addition there will be an appearance at The Taste.

“I’m absolutely over the moon about that I’ve been a Violent Femmes fan since I was about 12 years old so it’s pretty amazing, and Augie March are incredible… to be sharing a stage with those guys is like, I keep having to pinch myself a little bit!”

ERIN LAWLER The Gin Club play at The Homestead, Hobart on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 December. Ben Salter will perform at the MONA lawns on Thursday January 1 and at the The Taste Festival on Friday January 2. Ben will be also back in March to play A Festival Called Panama.

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ANDREW VS 2014 IT WAS A WEIRD YEAR. I DIDN’T SEE ENOUGH ART, AND FOR THAT I APOLOGISE. I THINK IT’S A MATTER OF DUTY TO BE IN THIS POSITION AND SEE AS MUCH AS I CAN, BUT THIS YEAR SWAMPED ME WITH THE STUFF OF LIFE. I DID SEE SOME STUFF THOUGH.

The best art gallery show I saw in 2014 was by far and away the work of Pat Brassington at TMAG. I loved it, to be frank. I go to art not to be soothed but to be beguiled, confronted or stimulated, but more than anything else, to experience that sublime state where I am being shown rather than told. Pat’s wonderful show, which gave me the creeps and fascinated me, was striking as a personal vision and as something that genuinely worked in the tradition of surrealism. I cannot wait to see her work again. Pat is a treasure and her work is of a global standard.

I came to dislike artist’s statements very much this year. I recognized the artist’s statement as evidence of the intrusion of the academy but also of the market.

I thought about the market a lot this year.

It may have something to do with Tony Abbott’s government driving us toward a free market economy, where there will be precious little arts funding, and what funding there is will be for the staid and conservative versions of ballet and opera (I don’t want to bag out opera or ballet as forms, but if you’re going to give them the amount of money they get already get, then they should do more than give the wealthy of Australia a chance to rattle their

PAIGE TURNER IT’S DECEMBER, #PRECHRISTMASRETAIL/HELL AND THERE’S BURGEONING OF BOOK AND WORD RELATED ACTIVITIES HAPPENING ALL OVER OUR FINE ISLAND.

Kudelka and First Dog’s Spiritual Journey, in which two intrepid cartoonists bravely tour the dangerous * Tasmanian Whisky Trail is launching at the Founders Room in Salamanca on Thursday 18th, Adrian Franklin will be in conversation with Professor Peter Beilharz to celebrate the publication of The Making of Mona on December 11 at the State Cinema. It’s free but you will need to grab a ticket.

Julia Gillard will be signing copies of her book My Story at the Hobart Bookshop on December 19 between 2.30pm-3.30pm and they are also hosting the launch of Patrick Bender’s Million Miles Beyond a Campfire on December 4 at 5.30pm.

Kate Gordon’s YA book Writing Clementine is being translated into German. Featuring the Burnie Steampunk Society, this translation takes the NW Coast to an entirely new audience.

Beaconsfield: despite various rumours, I can reveal that the next Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words will be held in March 2016.

Wolfgang Glowacki, one of the inheritors of the strong tradition of wilderness photography in Tasmania has a new book Wild Island, launched in time for Christmas.

Wild Island is also the name of a gorgeous new initiative, a gallery/shop/information

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jewellery). I’m angry about this, I suppose: arts funding builds careers and broadens culture. It can’t all be about spoon-feeding and bite size chunks ready to digest. I still think art is supposed to make us think, and feel, and artists statements seem to work against that. Next show I do, I’m going to ask the audience to tell me what they thought it was all about. I want an actual dialogue, please.

I haven’t seen enough angry art either, which I was hoping would happen, but perhaps an already competitive environment has become more cut throat.

If it has, that’s not good. If we are all to survive this assault I hope everyone interested in the arts can work together.

Perhaps that could be asking a lot, but divided we will fall and there really is power in a union. It might be all we have; it’s a long way to both the next federal and state elections.

In stark contrast, I saw organizations with poor or no funding stretch out and give us some of the most interesting work that happened in Tasmania this year. Constance ARI has innovated with events, exhibition series and creative fund raising efforts. The Tasmanian Theatre Company have bought pop-up theatre to town and finished the

centre, brainchild of significant wilderness photographers including Rob Blakers and Loic le Gully. It is rumoured the remaining copies of the last Peter Dombrovskis book, Simply, can be found here too. This is a beautiful book and I regret giving my copy to my sister.

The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre will be having their Christmas shindig at The Lark on Wednesday, December 10.

Twitch, the occasionally visible Tas Writers’ Centre initiative for young writers is revealing its erstwhile head on December 4, 6.00-7.30pm at the Salamanca Arts Centre Meeting Room. Dr Adam Ouston will explore the importance of voice in writing.

Dr Ouston also has a story, Sodom Syndrome in Transportation, a collection of new stories from London and Tasmania, released in December, launch party in January (watch this space). Transportation is also running a crowdfunding campaign for incidentals. Search Transportation, hard day’s night, Pozible – and sort your Christmas presents in pledges.

Taking it seriously regional, Stanley is hosting a weekend workshop on selfpublishing, on December 12-14. Bookings may have closed, but more information can be found here - http://tasres.com/category/ residencies-2/writing/

year with a sensational production of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf. Creative lateral thinking is a great thing. If there are local organizations that deserve your support in the New Year, it’s those two. Just go along and buy a beer at performance or an opening and attend any fund raising stuff you can. Both organizations in particular, it must be noted, did well because they had a community, like Constance ARI does, or set about building one, as TTC did. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

Finally, it was a bit of a sad year. I saw two great characters of the broad Hobart Arts scene lose their lives in tragic circumstances. Accidents happen, as we know, but it’s hard when it’s people you know and appreciate. So, for what it’s worth, I raise a glass to the memory of Brock Vince, a terrific musician and artist, and to Benjamin Paulsen, artist, poet and raconteur. Both men produced singular and honest art in their chosen fields, and both men leave precious fragments behind them. They were not best friends of mine but they were good people. I’ll miss them.

Vale, as they say.

ANDREW HARPER

I’m launching Nick Glade- Wright’s second book The Paradise Stain on December 11, 6pm at Hallmark Gallery at Salamanca.

Lian Tanner is hosting a pre-festival launch of Book an Adventure; Bruny Island Festival of Children’s Literature on December 2 at 11am at the Kingborough Digital Hub. This festival will run on January 15–18 on Bruny.

Poetry! The Republic Readings, Sunday December 7, 3-5pm. Lorraine Haig and Jan Colville are reading - and there is time for you to get up and share too. Do it. A pre New Year’s resolution.

Speaking of #prechristmasretail, Fullers are having their shopper night (and the $5 specials, I hope) on Thursday 4th of December, with giveaways, a big voucher prize and tastings of the magnificent Pagan Cider.

My wishes for you? A summer of transformative reading.

RACHEL EDWARDS

Arts INSTALLATION:

ARCHITECTS OF AIR: Exxopolis

Exxopolis is constructed by Architects of Air. They make luminaria.

What on earth is a luminaria?

The short answer is that they are massive blow-up structures that glow. That doesn’t really convey the majesty of the inflatable buildings that Architects of Air produce though.

A luminarium is a dazzling maze of winding paths and soaring domes where Islamic architecture, Archimedean solids and Gothic cathedrals meld into an inspiring mix of design and engineering. Architects of Air build ‘luminaria’ – monumental inflatable structures designed to generate a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. The luminaria are designed by Alan Parkinson, who started experimenting with pneumatic sculptures in the I980s. They are made at the company base in Nottingham (UK) using a plastic produced solely for Architects of Air. Only four colours of plastic are used to generate a great diversity of subtle hues.

Since 1992 Architects of Air’s luminaria have made over 600 exhibitions in 40 countries. From Berlin to Brooklyn, Hong Kong to Hawaii, Taipei to Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo to the Sydney Opera House, the monumental walk-in sculptures of Architects of Air have enchanted audiences around the world.

Every luminarium is an original design.

All the luminaria are modular and can be configured according to different site

requirements. Each luminarium is made up of around 20 elements that are zipped together on site to typically occupy an area of 1000 square metres. Easy to erect, laying out the structure and anchoring can take as little as 4 hours then, in just 20 minutes, the luminarium is inflated to its monumental size.

The domes rise up to 10 metres high and provide the main focal points. The convoluted tunnels determine the journey the visitor will take. The luminaria also feature at least 30 ‘pods’ that are alcoves where people can sit and relax out of the way of the other visitors, so if you want to chill away from the usual MOFO madness, this will be the perfect spot to do so.

Visitors remove their shoes before entering an airlock. Once inside they can wander freely or just lay back and enjoy the ambience of the structure. The first reaction is often one of delight at the unexpected beauty of the light. The radiance of the daylight transmitted by the coloured pvc of the luminarium is surprising in its luminosity and makes a direct impact on the senses. Through labyrinthine tunnels and cavernous domes, visitors move in a medium of saturated and subtle hues. Vivid reflections of liquid colour spill across the curved walls creating a world apart from the normal and everyday.

Visitors are thrilled to discover how all the different colours blend or resonate; how they transform faces and clothing. Some explore, following their maps through the

Image: Lamar Francois

Image: John Owens

Image: Alan Parkinson

AT MOFO 2015, YOU WILL NOTICE, AS YOU APPROACH THE FESTIVAL SITE, A LARGE TEMPORARY STRUCTURE. YOU WILL WONDER EXACTLY WHAT IT IS, AS IT WILL NOT RESEMBLE ANY TEMPORARY STRUCTURE YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH. THIS PARTICULAR THING HAS A NAME, AND THAT NAME IS EXXOPOLIS.

maze, immersing themselves in radiant colour. No two visits to a structure are alike as the atmosphere inside alters according to changing weather and changing light outside. The experience is also affected by how the public inhabits the luminarium.

It is a paradox that such a stimulating environment can simultaneously be so calming. Many people find the luminaria a place for rest or meditation. Visitors try to put their experience into words – comparing the experience to like walking through a stained glass window, like a futuristic space station, or like inside a gigantic strange breathing organic but comforting creature.

Sometimes the structure may be animated by a musician or a storyteller but, more often, the space is enjoyed in its simplicity.

As such, it is appreciated by people of all ages from all backgrounds. In the course of the exhibition as many as 2000 visitors per day may have passed through the luminarium to have been touched by a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour.

ANDREW HARPER

If all this sounds tempting and gorgeous, you may enter the luminaria at MOFO 2015. It’ll be at the PW1 Forecourt, Wednesday Jan 14, 11am8pm and Thursday Jan 15 - Sunday Jan 18 11am10.30pm. Entry is $12, with children under 2 free. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets are available online at www. mofo.net.au or onsite.

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TALKING SMACK BORN BAD TALKING SMACK, HONEST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DRUGS IS A COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS WITH PROMINENT AUSTRALIAN MUSICIANS ABOUT DRUGS AND DRUG TAKING. COVERING A WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIENCES AND A DIVERSE SELECTION OF DRUGS, THIS IS A NON-JUDGEMENTAL, INFORMATIVE AND ENTERTAINING BOOK. Steve Kilbey of the Church is first up, with his eleven year heroin habit and his lifelong use of hallucinogens and marijuana. He is brash and seemingly invincible. His stories include being arrested in New York and missing a show. Kilbey contrasts sharply with Wally de Backer, better known as Gotye, who has barely touched drugs in his life, he feels little interest or desire – and nor is he judgemental of those who dabble or consume drugs more regularly.

Tina Arena is a bizarre inclusion, her interview features an unrelated rant, with bemused comments from the author throughout. She has little apparent experience with drugs – and some contradictory opinions on them and their use.

While Macmillan the journalist puts himself into the text, he is careful to provide honest and true portraits of drug use. The use of heroin, ectasty, DMT, LSD, marijuana, ice and cocaine is described in many aspects of use of these wildly varying drugs. The call for decriminalisation comes through as a theme from many of these high profile drug users.

Another interesting consideration from many of these musicians is their different responses to different drugs and how they affect the creative process. It seems agreed that a small amount of marijuana is conducive to listening to music, while heroin provides a sensation of invincibility, ice with its heady, empty power surge of a rush makes an interesting cameo as Grinspoon singer Ian Haug recounts his difficult rehab in the public eye.

Haug also says of drugs “(b)ut creatively, when it comes to music, you can enhance things, and hear things differently, when you watch a movie, you see it differently.”

Paul Kelly’s honest and unromanticised take on heroin, a drug he danced with for a long time, is lucid and fascinating. Kelly was one of very few of his peers to have avoided a full blown habit.

The book ends with an excellent graphic essay drawn and written by the author’s brother, that recounts the history of the war on drugs in the twentieth century in the United States, which has more or less informed Australian drug policy. This is a well-researched book that provides a fascinating and balanced report of drug use in the music industry.

RACHEL EDWARDS

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HOW ONE EARTH DO YOU BEGIN EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF ORIGINAL SIN, HOW TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE BELIEF IN THE INTRINSIC EVIL IN HUMANS, THE NEED FOR GOD’S SALVATION FROM IT HAS BECOME A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE WESTERN PSYCHE? HOW TO EVEN COME CLOSE TO A COMPREHENSION AS TO WHAT THIS MEANS AND TO ENJOY THE PROCESS?! READING JAMES BOYCE’S BORN BAD; ORIGINAL SIN AND THE MAKING OF THE WESTERN WORLD IS A VERY GOOD PLACE TO START! Original sin and the fall are a concept unique to Western Christianity, the doctrine was incorporated into the teachings of St Augustine as a result of a mistranslation of the bible. St Augustine, who had limited Greek and is generally considered to be the father of Western Christianity relied on the fourth century Vulgate bible, which is in Latin and stated “all men had sinned in Adam” – and thus began more than 1000 years of teaching The Fall.

James Boyce has twice won Tasmanian Literary Prizes for his books Van Diemen’s Land and 1835, the founding of Melbourne and the Making of Australia. Both of these books are written in generous, informative and clear language.

Born Bad is no exception. For a subject as unwieldy as original sin, Boyce’s extremely well researched and clearly written book make a seemingly impenetrable subject inviting.

Boyce writes with obvious relish of the many characters who appear in the book, which relates the introduction and interment of the concept of original sin into our psyche, starting with the guilt ridden and deep thinking St Augustine, passing by Julian of Norwich, a nun, heretic and a believer of God as love who is and the first woman to write a book in English. The reader then is taking on a potted history of the West, moving through the Reformation and Luther and his “dating agency” to Adam Smith, Freud and Dawkins and beyond.

If you feel like challenging yourself by reading this, you will. It is a big history, the history of an idea, a doctrine and exactly how it prevailed. Intricately researched and finely considered, this is a book that will also delight you. It will make you read slower and you will be a better person for it.

RACHEL EDWARDS

TO NAME THOSE LOST THE CHARACTER MR WU IN THE HBO SERIES DEADWOOD HAD VERY LITTLE ENGLISH ALTHOUGH THE WORDS HE HAD WERE VIRULENTLY RUDE AND DELIVERED WITH CONVICTION. A DRAWLED “COCKSUCKKKKKERRRR,’ IS POSSIBLY THE MOST MEMORABLE QUOTE FROM THE SERIES. MR CHUNG, A CHARACTER IN ROHAN WILSON’S LATEST NOVEL TO NAME THOSE LOST IS A HOTELIER IN LAUNCESTON AND WHILE FLUENT IN ENGLISH IS SIMILARLY ENDOWED WITH AN EXTREMELY ROBUST USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SWEARING AT THOMAS TOOSEY, MR CHUNG ASKS “YOU WANT I SHOOT BALLS? HOW YOU FUCK DOG THEN HUH? HOW YOU FUCK PIG?” Toosey is in Launceston to find his twelve year old son and whose mother has recently died. He is also carrying with him 200 quid stolen from the Irish, Fitheal Flynn. Flynn is Toosey’s former mate at Port Arthur and he is pursuing Toosey in the company of his daughter, Caislynn, who remains hooded when in public, hiding a deformed face, the cause of which is slowly revealed to the reader as the book progresses. She is a strangely malevolent gimp-like character, acting up the hangman role she is accorded.

Set amongst the real life Launceston riots in 1874, this novel treads ground familiar to Wilson, who set his first novel, The Roving Party which won the esteemed Vogel prize for its manuscript) in Northern Tasmania in the late 1800s.

The Roving Party was based on the true story of Batman, who went on to become one of the founders of the city of Melbourne, and the eponymous roving parties he sent out to hunt and massacre the Tasmanian Aborigines.

The riots ensued when the railway went broke and the government called for citizens to pay a rail tax. Launceston was reduced to a state of lawlessness, violence and incendiary speeches – and this has provided a perfect backdrop for the rollicking and dark story of To Name Those Lost.

Don’t be fooled though, as well paced and enjoyable this book may be it is also full of violence, torture, abuse and betrayal. Few characters are ultimately redeemable, many die, though the father-child relationships are tenderly drawn and introduce some warmth to this tale.

Wilson has been compared to Cormac McCarthy for the austere prose and sharp portrayal of violence in The Roving Party. To Name Those Lost, while still dark and beautiful is more akin to Patrick De Witt’s delightful and disturbing The Sisters Brothers and Lenny Bartulin’s rambunctious Western style Tasmanian history, Infamy. Seriously recommended!

RACHEL EDWARDS

Arts COMEDY:

ALASDAIR TREMBLAY-BIRCHALL YES TIGERS OF LAUGHTER, EMPIRE COMEDY, THE SNEAKY NIGHT FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW IS BACK AGAIN. EMPIRE’S THE DIFFERENT COMEDY NIGHT IN THE RICH AND HORNY TAPESTRY (THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND – HORNY TAPESTRY) OF HOBART COMEDY.

It’s not regular, it appears and disappears and it’s in a really tiny room. That means strictly limited tickets. You need to get onto it or you miss out, and the next Empire is unmissable. The headline act is the arousing Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall. Not heard of him? That’s fine, he’s not heard of you either, but what you do need to know is that he’s done a bunch of Melbourne Comedy Festivals, is one of the members of Stupid Old Studios, has a web series on ABC iview called Australia Think Tank, is a writer at CH10’s The Project and series 3 of Mad as Hell on ABC. That’s right, Mad As Hell. You’ve heard of that. You likely know what iView is as well so you can check this stuff out and you’ll see Alasdair is effing hilarious and kind of strange. Not too strange. Strange enough to get away with being called “quirky” in press releases.

Although no one knows what “quirky” really means.

Joining this hot-breathed comic will be a gaggle of local charmers: Jono Mastrippolito, Hobart’s Prince of swaggering darkness, thrilling animal saint Stewart Bell, hot from his first solo show, mimetastic comedy legend Mick Lowenstein, Chris Menezies and his comedy chin, parking meter anarchist Anna Kidd and jocular horse thief Matt Young will all touch the mic. The evening will be hosted by James Barwick, fresh from being regularly spanked in the hotbeds of the Melbourne stand up scene.

Its upstairs at Frankie’s Empire, a really cool and intimate venue, Tim Rogers from YOU AM I has done some acoustic stuff there. Tickets are $10 from the venue or http://www.trybooking.com/109943.

Look at that value! Get along and get hells intimate at Empire Comedy.

ANDREW HARPER EMPIRE COMEDY presents ALASDAIR TREMBLAY-BIRCHALL on December 12 at 8.30pm at upstairs Frankie’s Empire.

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KIDS KARNIVAL XMAS SPECIAL Come one come all to the Homestead’s Xmas Special Kids Karnival on Sunday December 21. Featuring a stellar line up of some great Aussie and Tassie talent including the one and only man like no man Birdman accompanied by the wandering and somewhat lost Egg. These two are hot off the mainland and fresh into Tassie climate ready to create action for your entertainment.

Sequin Man and buddy Mark Sands will be showcasing their huge stunts on our tiny stage. Balloon Lady will be twisting up a storm and you can expect our local resident’s Penelope Popcorn, Flying Fox Circus and Face Painting activities. Gold coin entry. Adults must be accompanied by kids.

CONSTANCE GOES POSTAL CONSTANCE ARI IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF THE ARTS COMMUNITY OF HOBART AND INDEED TASMANIA. IT’S A SPACE FOR EMERGING AND MID-CAREER ARTISTS TO CONDUCT EXPERIMENTAL WORK THAT MAY NOT BE COMMERCIAL, AND A SPACE LIKE THIS IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT FOR DEVELOPING CAREERS IN THE VISUAL ARTS. People don’t tumble out of art school or wherever they’ve come from fully formed as artists, so spaces that give people a different kind of opportunity is vital for growth. We need Artist Run Initiatives a lot in this town, and right now, we need to support them. This can be as simple

as heading along to an opening event and checking out the work on display, but Constance ARI has had a very clever fund raising idea: they’re going postal.

Well, not in the traditional sense.

There’s a fund raising event this December at Constance and it’s a great example of how this organization thinks laterally and invites participation. Artists are making works on postcards. Any artists. Everything is anonymous, it’s just about the image.

Each work is for sale, for a flat rate of a mere $25. All proceeds go to the continued running of the gallery space, and your Christmas Present Dilemma is solved.

Go support a vital local initiative and get something unique (all the artworks are one-offs). The opening will be a gas, but the material is on display all through December ANDREW HARPER

Constance ARI is on the Corner of Goulburn and Molle St. Going Postal runs from December 6 to January 3. The exhibition launch will be at 1pm Saturday December 6, with bar and fundraiser opening at 3.30pm.

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COMEDY NEWS BITES OKAY, HERE’S ALL THE COMEDY BITS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW LAUGHTER BASED PUNTERS. GET SOME LAUGHS IN DECEMBER AND GET READY FOR STAND-UP TO GET EVEN MORE OUT OF CONTROL IN 2015.

THE CLUBHOUSE is moving locations!

The good ship Clubhouse has a set of new Captains (or a Captain and a First mate ), the mighty Mick Davies, his chin sharpened after a stint in Melbourne and the other finest chin in Hobart Comedy by his side, comedy growth expert Chris Menzies.

These fine joke technicians are sailing the Clubhouse right around to The RACV/ RACT Hobart Apartment Hotel on Collins St. There’s a Facebook and a website but you can’t really link to them from a printed publication so just google it on your smart phone. Launching the new location will be a Headline from the highly talented ex-

Tasmanian Luke McGregor, who’s been seen in Utopia on ABC1 most recently.

Luke is joined by brilliant comic Celia Pacquola, who slayed last time she did The Clubhouse.

Get to the new location on December 18 for a massive laughter injection. Legal highs people, legal highs.

RAW COMEDY 2015 is open for entries.

Yup, the best new talent making comedy contest in the country is on again. In 2015 Tasmania will have two RAW Comedy heats – a Southern Heat on Friday March6 (Rosny Barn) and a Northern Heat on Friday

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March 13 (Fresh on Charles, Launceston).

Top-ranked performers from all heats will then compete in the Tasmanian state final at Hobart’s Playhouse Theatre on Friday March 20, where the state winner will be selected. The competition is free to enter, although places are limited, and no experience is required for comedy hopefuls to lodge an entry and give it a shot at one of the heats.

Detailed competition rules and an online registration form are at the official RAW Comedy website, www.rawcomedy.com. au. Give it a shot all you new and aspiring comics!

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Guide

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South

NORTH

SOUTH

146 ARTSPACE 13 Nov – 11 Dec Dean Chatwin, Suze Van Der Beek

BRAVE ART GALLERY (Longford) 6 Dec – 1 Feb Angus Donald, Anna Van Stralen

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ART MOB 5 – 21 Dec Recent paintings & sculptures from Jilamara Arts & Crafts 9 – 25 Jan Body Paint Designs by Charmaine Pwerle BETT GALLERY 28 Nov – 24 Dec Stephanie Tabram CONSTANCE ARI 6 Dec – 3 Jan Main space: Grace Herbert Foyer space: Constance goes postal ! Paddy Lyn space: Georgia Harvey CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 6 – 21 Dec CAT Members exhibition COLVILLE GALLERY 5 – 17 Dec Stephen Lees 19 Dec 9th Annual Artists Show DESPARD 17 Dec – 12 Jan Summer group show HANDMARK From 5 Dec Frances Watkins Annual Summer Show INKA 25 Nov – 16 Dec Margaret Macateer & Lana Nelson MONA From 22 Nov Matthew Barney PENNY CONTEMPORARY 11 Dec – 7 Jan Bill Hart ROUND ROOM GALLERY @ THE HOMESTEAD From 24 Nov Island Artists

DANGER ACADEMY is back for one show only. This cult hit live improv show is renowned for huge laughs and utter chaos.

It’s been around for years but there’s been no sign of life for a while – but that’s DANGER ACADEMY – just when you don’t expect it, it’s back to bite your behind.

The ONLY show for 2014 is on Monday December 15 at the GRAND POOBAH on Liverpool St, Hobart, at 8pm. $10 on the door, no presales, just get there. It will be DANGEROUS.

BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 13 Dec – 18 Jan High Art Summer Show RACT Tasmanian Portraiture Prize 2104 Paper garments for the grave

SOHO 7 Jan Cloud Comedy

SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE PEACOCK THEATRE 8 – 13 Dec Plot presents Hamlet

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DICKENS CIDER HOUSE 11 Dec Uber Comedy Hobart

DICKENS CIDERHOUSE 10 Dec Uber Comedy

DOCTOR SYNTAX 19 Dec The Doctor’s Best Medicine Xmas show!

FRESH ON CHARLES 19 - 20 Dec Fresh Comedy presents: Luke McGregor & Celia Pacquola

DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 13 Dec – 1 Feb TIDAL: City Of Devonport Art Award 2014

FRANKIE’S EMPIRE 12 Dec Empire Comedy feat. Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall

TONIC at LAUNCESTON COUNTRY CLUB 4 Dec Joel Ozborn & Dave Williams

GALLERY PEJEAN 1 Dec – 3 Jan Diane Watson

IRISH MURPHYS 16 Dec Craic Up Comedy

DESIGN TASMANIA 28 Nov – 22 Feb Nick Randall Design Tasmania Award 2015 Tri – UTAS Furniture and Design Graduate Exihibtion

HANDMARK EVANDALE From 30 Nov Annual SUMMER Exhibition QVMAG 26 Sept – 15 Dec Artstart – Dreamscapes of Tasmania 20 Dec – 15 April ArtRage 2014 SAWTOOTH 28 Nov – 20 Dec FRONT GALLERY: AAANZ GEOcritical Exhibition Curated by Natalie Holtsbaum Geocritical: don’t just agitat - decorate. Sue Henderson Unstable Objects Antonia Sellbach NEW MEDIA GALLERY: New Game Nancy Mauro-Flude MIDDLE GALLERY: Sentimental Blokes Shannon Field PROJECT GALLERY: Birds of a Feather Ashley Bird

THE RACV/RACT HOBART APARMEMT HOTAL 18 Dec The Clubhouse presents Luke McGregor & Celia Pacquola

THEATRE PRINCESS THEATRE 9 Dec Hooked on Dance (Launceston Dance Centre)

FILM CINEMONA Ends 14 Dec David Bowie IS (ctc) Ends 11 Dec Drawing Restraint 9 Ends 13 Dec The Cremaster Cycle THEATRE THEATRE ROYAL 6 Dec Black and Gold 13 Dec Hobart Dance Academy 20 Dec Centra Stage Dance Academy 23 Dec Xmas with The Stars feat John X

TMAG 9 Oct – 18 Jan Transplantation – narrative jewellery

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Brisbane Hotel

Little Miss Music Tasmania presents “The Last One” with James Robert Leon Basser, Half An Earth, Mouldy Porpoise

Acts / Start Time

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Observatory

(Lounge Room) DJ Zankbank

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart

Republic Bar

Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

Republic Bar

The Datsuns 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Phrayta

The Homestead

Nadira and Dave

Ben Folds Live with the TSO 8pm

Ash & Besters

Billy Whitton 7pm

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Birdcage Bar

Everburn

Wrest Point Show Room

Christmas at the Casino with Croon 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

DAMAGE - Ganbaru (Declaration) + Uncle Geezer + Dog Dreams + Between the Lions + DJs Doomblade + Challis + Rat Shadows

Venue

Date

december Thursday

Friday

Saturday

4

5

6

C Bar

Shaun & Joel

Dickens Ciderhouse

Dave Sikk Quartet 8pm

Ivory Lounge Bar

DJs Jim + Zac 11pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory

(Lounge Room) DJ Magneetis

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

Tin Men

Republic Bar

Australian Made 10pm

Syrup

Flash Fridays with Nick C & Damien 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Rum Jungle followed by Big Swifty

The Homestead

Blues Rock Night

Waratah Hotel

After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Lyn Thomas

Brisbane Hotel

(front) - EVIL w/ Convent (nsw) + Innsmouth (nsw) + Dracula + The Wizar’d

Brisbane Hotel

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

7

8

9

Thursday

Friday

GOOD w/ Work Ethic + Xero + Red Mum + Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC THUNDERBIRD Saturday

11 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Republic Bar

Rach and Damo 8:30pm

12 Ash & Besters

Julius Schwing Duo 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

C Bar

Shaun & Joel

Dickens Ciderhouse

The Sign 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

The Middle Names, Younger Dryas, Harrison Manton 9pm

Ivory Lounge Bar

DJs Jim + Zac 11pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory

(Lounge Room) DJ B-Rex

Observatory

(Main Room)DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

That 80’s Band

Republic Bar

Half An Earth, The Lawless Quartet, Lazer Baby, Simon Astley, Cape Hoy 10pm

Syrup

Flash Fridays with Nick C & JD (Cage Night) 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink

The Homestead

The Gin Club (QLD)

Waratah Hotel

After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm

13 Birdcage Bar

Lyn Thomas

C Bar

Sambo & Patto

Dickens Ciderhouse

Jacob Boote & Laura Mead 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Hiatus Kaiyote + Remi + Kirkis + Silent Jay + Jace XL

Federation Concert Hall

Symphonie Fantastique 7:30pm

C Bar

The Robinsons

Dickens Ciderhouse

Alan Gogoll 8pm

Ivory Lounge Bar

DJs Jim + Zac 11pm

Grand Poobah

Luluc 9pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Grand Poobah

Burlesque After Dark in the Kissing Room 9pm

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Ivory Lounge Bar

DJs Jim + Zac 11pm

Onyx Bar

The Robinsons

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Pier One

Billy & Tilly

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar

The Embers (Album Launch) + Guthrie + Ben Lawless 10pm

Onyx Bar

Everburn

Syrup

Tackyland with Muzz & Marls 9pm

Pier One

Acoustic Roosters/Billy & Tilly

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink

Republic Bar

The Black Sorrows 9:30pm

The Homestead

Houseguests from Hell

Syrup

Tackyland with Muzz & Marls 9pm

Waratah Hotel

ALTA w/ Kowl, Close Counters + Lazer Baby 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tim Davies followed by Ebenezer Good

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Marina Prior - Song Bird 7:15pm

The Homestead

The Gin Club (QLD)

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

C Bar

Billy Whitton

Doctor Syntax

B-Rex

Grand Poobah

Stu Larsen

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd followed by Cam Stuart

Republic Bar

Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm

The Homestead

Jenny Biddle (vic)

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays! w/ Reggae Ink 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Jerome Hillier

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Hotel Soho

B-Rex

Republic Bar

Quiz Night (Newcomers Welcome) 8:15pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo

Republic Bar

Baker Boys Band 8:30pm

10 Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

14 Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

C Bar

Shaun & Joel

Doctor Syntax

B-Rex

Grand Poobah

Palmed Out: With Christmas Market, Food & DJs from 5pm

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart followed by Tony Mak

Republic Bar

Sunday Afternoon Soul Session (Beergarden) 2pm

Republic Bar

The Blue Flies 8:30pm

The Homestead

Figure It In - Life Drawing

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays! w/ Reggae Ink 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo

15 Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Hotel Soho

B-Rex

Republic Bar

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

16 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel

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Event Guide

Date Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

Republic Bar

Ghostface Killah + Dameza 9pm

Wednesday

17 Birdcage Bar

Venue 24 Birdcage Bar

Acts / Start Time Jason Patmore

Jerome Hillier

Brisbane Hotel

Grand Poobah

A Very Short Christmas: Free screening of terrific Tasmanian short films

Endshow + Unfolding Vostocks + XMAS Krackieoke Special w/ MC Coal Biter

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Observatory

(Lounge Room) DJ Zankbank

Republic Bar

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Telegraph Hotel

Dr Fink

Republic Bar

Son Del Sur (Cuban Salsa) 9pm

Thursday

25 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Telegraph Hotel

DJ Millhouse

Friday

26 Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Patto

The Homestead

Funknukl

18 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Brisbane Hotel

Boxing Day Shenanigans w/ Ironhawk + Pinchgut + Skun Knees

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart

C Bar

Shaun & Joel

Republic Bar

Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon) + Scott Russo (Unwritten Law) 9pm

Dickens Ciderhouse

The Sketches 8pm

Grand Poobah

Party in the Paddock play offs

The Homestead

The Aly Patmore Trio

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Black Cat Trio 7pm

Republic Bar

The Bobcats 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Syrup

Flash Fridays with Nick C & JD (Boxing Day) 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

(front) - Apart From This (vic) + Ride the Tiger + The White Rose Project + Adventurers + Dog Dreams

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink

Brisbane Hotel

HEXMAS METAL SHOW

The Homestead

Microtec

C Bar

Lyn Thomas

Waratah Hotel

After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm

Dickens Ciderhouse

Dave Sikk Quartet 8pm

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex/Peking Duk

Onyx Bar

That 80’s Band

Republic Bar

Sugartrain 10pm

Syrup

Flash Fridays with Nick C & Damien 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink

The Homestead

Grouch (NZ)

Waratah Hotel

After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm

19 Ash & Besters

Saturday

27 Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Patto

Brisbane Hotel

Tonstartssbandht (usa)

Brisbane Hotel

(back) - Tonstartssbandht (usa) + Small Black Lambs + Mandek Penha (vic) + Georgia Lucy + Karl (space)

Brisbane Hotel

(front) - Violet Swells + Anthony Rochesters + Clive Manne (vic)

C Bar

Jerome Hillier

Dickens Ciderhouse

Alan Gogoll 8pm

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Sambo & Patto

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Brisbane Hotel

(front) - The Lazys (nsw) + Mountains of Madness + Bad Dreams

Pier One

Billy & Tilly

Republic Bar

Brisbane Hotel

(back) - Violet Swells (single launch) + The Phosphenes

Beergarden Party presented by Little Creatures Saison on tap 3pm

C Bar

Aaron Courtney

Republic Bar

Dickens Ciderhouse

Julianne Bushby 8pm

SW Marine Debris Clean Up Fundraiser: Lively Up + More 10pm

Grand Poobah

Edge Radio Xmas party with Edge DJ’s playing Soul, Funk & House

Syrup

Tackyland with Damien & Marls 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo followed by Seretonin

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

Manhatten

Pier One

James Maddock Swing 3

Republic Bar

The Delta Riggs + The Mornings 10pm

Syrup

Tackyland with Muzz & Marls 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink

The Homestead

Yash + Lizard Johnny + More

20 Birdcage Bar

21 Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

C Bar

Billy Whitton

Doctor Syntax

B-Rex

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd followed by Cam Stuart

Republic Bar

Kim Salmon & Leanne Chock (The Scientists) 3pm

Republic Bar

Tarik Stoneman 8:30pm

The Homestead

Kids Karnival Xmas Spesh / Ross Sermons

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays! w/ Reggae Ink 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo & Patto

22 Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Hotel Soho

B-Rex

Republic Bar

Helen Crowther 8:30pm

23 Birdcage Bar

Sunday

Sambo

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart

Republic Bar

Ross Sermons 8:30pm

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

28 Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

C Bar

The Sign

Doctor Syntax

B-Rex

Grand Poobah

Palmed Out: DJ’s from 5pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Republic Bar

Joe Pirere & The Blackberries 2:30pm

Republic Bar

Rod Fritz + Zach Spinks 8:30pm

The Homestead

Citizens of Shrapnel

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays! W/ Reggae Ink 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino

29 Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal

Hotel Soho

B-Rex

Republic Bar

Pat Berechree 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

30 Birdcage Bar

Lyn Thomas

Republic Bar

Emma Russack 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Phrayta

31 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Observatory

(Main Room) DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

Ebeneza Good

Pier One

Acoustic Roosters

Republic Bar

NYE Eve with Boil Up 9:30pm

Syrup

New Years Eve ‘Let’s Party’ with Nick C & Damien

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink

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Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Club 54

Trivial Pursuits

Royal Oak

Julio Matthew in the Public Bar

Watergarden Bar

Elvis We Remember

Club 54

Turbulence + Bullet House + Grace Gardiner + Jack McLaine (DJ Set)

Country Club Show Room

Marina Prior - Song Bird 7:30pm

Royal Oak Tonic Bar Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

Club 54

Save the Clocktower + Ganbaru + Run to Versii + The Saxons (Licensed AA)

Club 54

Ganbaru + Uncle Geezer + Shark Puncher + Bennylava

CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Friday

Saturday

4

5

6

Sunday

7

Wednesday

10

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Devonport

Molly Malones

Proud Phoneys

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Jaks

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Unit

Ulverstone

The Gnomon Pavillion

Live @ The Wharf Jesse McCormack and Friends 5:30pm

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

O RLY

Dan Malone

Devonport

Molly Malones

Blue Monday

Midnight Flyers

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Retrograde

Ulverstone

The Gnomon Pavillion

Live Jazz @ The Wharf - Geoff Power 7:30pm

11

12

13

Royal Oak

Andrew Farrell the Wizard in the Boatshed

Tonic Bar

Take 2

Watergarden Bar

Rino

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the Public Bar

Tapas Lounge Bar

Open Mic

Devonport

Molly Malones

Sambo

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Brad Gillies

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Brofriendman

Ulverstone

The Gnomon Pavillion

Live @ The Wharf Shades of Shadows 5:30pm

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Brett Boxhall

Friday

Saturday

12

13

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver

Ulverstone

Club 54

Bangin’ Bingo

The Gnomon Pavillion

Live @ The Wharf Flamenco Australia 6pm

Royal Oak

Chris Jackson in the Public Bar

Devonport

Molly Malones

Clay Soldier

Tonic Bar

Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows 7:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

DJ McLovin & DJ R3ade

Club 54

Jimi Steele + Pat Broxton + Hello Sailor + Lizzy Alexander

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Unit

Royal Oak

Younger Dryas Unplugged in the Public Bar

Ulverstone

The Gnomon Pavillion

Live @ The Wharf Phyrgian 5:30pm

Tonic Bar

Sambo & Patto

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Brett Boxhall

Watergarden Bar

Retrograde

Devonport

Molly Malones

The Collection

Club 54

Jack McNiff + Tiarni Cane + You Me Vs. The World + Jack McLaine (DJ Set)

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Retrograde

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Sheyanna Band

Ulverstone

The Gnomon Pavillion

Live @ The Wharf Boxing Day! 5:30pm

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Clay Soldier

Devonport

Molly Malones

Slats Soul

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Devonport

Molly Malones

Bass Highwaymen

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

NYE Party with The Ringmasters

Ulverstone

The Gnomon Pavillion

Live @ The Wharf - New Years Eve! 8:30pm

Royal Oak

Guthrie in the Boatshed

Tonic Bar

Sambo & Patto

Watergarden Bar

Andy & Woodmen

Delroy in the Public Bar Tony Voglino

Club 54

Holy S**t-Bowls!

Royal Oak

Neil Gibson in the Public Bar

Club 54

Music on a Mission

Royal Oak

S & M in the Public Bar

Tonic Bar

Ratfunk

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

Royal Oak

Linc Le Fevre in the Public Bar

Tonic Bar

Take 2

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea

Sunday

21

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the Public Bar

Wednesday

24

Club 54

Save the Clocktower + Zeolite + Actuality + Run to Versii + A Day From Tonight + The Saxons

Friday

26

Club 54

Rock Show: The Songs of Blink 182

Tonic Bar

Retrograde

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

Club 54

PITP Legend Hunt

Tonic Bar

The Doctor Rocksters

Watergarden Bar

Midnight Flyers

30

Devonport

11

The Ringmasters

Watergarden Bar

31

10

Thursday

Midnight Flyers

Royal Oak

Wednesday

Wednesday

Tapas Lounge Bar

Thump!

27

9

Molly Malones

Club 54

Saturday

Tuesday

6

Devonport

17

20

Saturday

Devonport

Wednesday

Saturday

5

Julio Matthew in the Public Bar

Open Folk Session in the Public Bar

19

Friday

Thump!

Royal Oak

Friday

4

Club 54

14

18

Thursday

Royal Oak

Sunday

Thursday

Date

DECember

DECEMBER Thursday

NORTHWEST

Club 54

Thump!

Tonic Bar

Take 2

Watergarden Bar

Ball and Chain

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DECEMBER Tuesday 2nd Jimmy Steele in the public bar Wednesday 3rd Julio Matthew in the public bar Thursday 4th Scott Haigh in the public bar Friday 5th Dan Malone Saturday 6th Andrew Farrell the Wizard in the Boatshed $10 cover Sunday 7th Open Folk Session in the public bar Wednesday 10th Julio Matthew in the public bar Thursday 11th Chris Jackson in the public bar Friday 12nd Younger Dryas Unplugged in the public bar Satday 13rd Guthrie in the boat shed Sunday 14th Open Folk Session in the public bar Wednesday 17th Delroy in the public bar Thursday 18th Neil Gibson in the public bar Friday 19th S&M in the public bar Saturday 20th Linc Le Fevre in the public bar Sunday 21 Open Folk Session in the public bar

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