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Backsliders Sun 17 March
Mick Thomas' Roving Commission Fri 29 March
FEBRUARY 2019 Friday 8th 9.30pm Tim Partridge, Jez Fogaty & Friends Saturday 9th 9.30pm Jed Appleton Band + Zac Henderson Band + Sam Schofield Sunday 10th 1.30pm Sunday Fun Day's (Beergarden) - Milquebarth + Max Best + DJ Poncho NP + Max Power + Kowl + Funknukl Vs. Doolittle + Funknukl Vs. Doolittle + Ivan 8.30pm WoodKingWood Monday 11th 8pm Billy Whitton Tuesday 12th 8pm Dan Vandermeer Wednesday 13th 8.30pm Gnarlhünd Thursday 14th 9pm Thursday Thrash Night: Stiff Mental Uppercut + Baby Dave + Dirty Daniel Friday 15th 10pm The Silverbeets + Spiral Kites + Valkyries Saturday16th 10pm The Midways + Mountains Of Madness + Ultra Martian + Sleaze $5 Sunday 17th 1-6pm Summer Record Fair and BYO Vinyl Session 2.30pm Blues Jam: Hosted By Pat Curley 8.30pm Michelle Chandler & Friends
Monday 18th 8pm Ross Sermons Tuesday 19th 8pm Sam Forsyth Wednesday 20th 8.30pm The Robinsons Thursday 21st 9pm Brett Collidge Friday 22nd 10pm Metal/Rock Night - Acts TBA Saturday 23rd 10pm Just One Night Sunday 24th 2.30pm Beer Garden Party: Pulled Pork Tacos & Music by The Racoons 8.30pm Tim & Scott Monday 25th 8.15pm Quiz Night - Welcome Back Tuesday 26th 8pm Pat Bereche Wednesday 27th 8.30pm Rhyley McGrath Thursday 28th 8.30pm Billy Whitton & Hadyn Murtagh
MARCH Friday 1st 9.30pm AlfanAnt + Cotton Pony Saturday 2nd 10pm Nothin' But a Glam Time - Glam Rock Tribute $10
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News in Brief TO BE FAIR It’s record fair season! I wouldn’t mind if it was always record fair season tbh. The first is on Saturday February 16 at Saint John Craft Beer in Launceston, and the following day on Sunday February 17, the fair will be hitting The Republic Bar & Cafe down in Hobart. Both events are free entry, with 1000’s of new and used vinyl up for grabs. There’ll be rare and collectable 45’s, and much, much more. Plus, BYO Vinyl DJ Sessions, so you can show off your new purchases. Awesome! The Launceston fair takes place from 12pm to 5pm on the Saturday, while the Sunday fair in Hobart takes place from 1pm to 6pm. EAST-SIDE JAZZ
on the ancient tradition of singing up country, the people, the places, spaces and everything else in-between - www. chrismatthewsmusic.com. Joining him will be 9 times Golden Guitar winner, Luke O'Shea - www.lukeoshea.com. Check out the two country minstrels as they perform around Tasmania: Friday Feb 15 - Mountain Mumma, Sheffield Saturday Feb 16 - Country Music Jamboree, Marakoopa Cafe Amphitheatre w/ Tristan Bird and The Kroovs Sunday Feb 17 - Riversdale, Swansea w/ Tristan Bird Friday Feb 22 - Marrawah Tavern, Marrawah Saturday Feb 23 - Railway Hotel, Queenstown Sunday Feb 24 - Longley Internation, Longley
GOON SAX ROULETTE Brisbane “pop titans” The Goon Sax head south in March for Geelong’s Jerkfest, and have also announced their first headline shows for the year. Before visiting Jerkfest, they’ll be dropping in to The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart, to play their first ever Tasmanian show, on Friday March 1. 2018 took The Goon Sax all around the world, inclusing European shows with Frankie Cosmos, Australian shows with Perfume Genius and Angel Olsen, and headline tours in the UK, US and Canada. Heartwrenchingly honest second album We’re Not Talking was a BBC 6 Music Album Of The Day and graced end of year lists for Noisey, Mojo, Junkee and others. Supported by Drunk Elk, tickets are available now via eventbrite, and will set you back $16.91. LUEN VS SPENDA C
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If you like to jazz it up a little, the east side of the Derwent river will be the place to beginning from Sunday February 17 through to Sunday February 24, with performances every night centred around Rosny Farm and the Bellerive Boardwalk plus satellite locations on the eastern shore. This year’s festival ambassador will be Sydney multi-instrumentalist, now New York city resident, Adrian Cunningham. Download the full program for www.clarenceartsandevents.net. GOLDEN GUITARS If you are feeling like a high energy romp through country, folk , bluegrass and everything else, your best bet is to get to a Chris Matthews and Luke O'Shea gig this month. Hailing from Kununurra in North West WA, one of the most isolated, hottest and sparsely populated places in the world, Chris Matthews carries
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Academics, entrepreneurs, and activists are meeting for the third annual Newkind Conference in Tasmania from Tuesday February 19 to Sunday February 24, to discuss socio-economic justice and citizen agency. Newkind 2019 brings presenters from around the country together in a zero-waste, solar-powered, conference format designed to empower young changemakers and social entrepreneurs. Held this year at the Falls Festival site, in Marion Bay, the lineup includes representatives from the Bob Brown Foundation, Amnesty International, Local Futures, Sustainability Australia and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. For more information, head to www. newkindfestival.com. FUNK IT UP Australian soulster Kylie Auldist is making her solo debut in Hobart. She will be bringing her big live dose of boogie power to the city for the very first time outside of her shows with The Bamboos. Kylie’s discography includes critically acclaimed albums Made of Stone and Still Life. Her fourth record Family Tree took out the 2016 award for Best Album in the funk/ soul category at The Age Music Victoria Awards. You can catch Kylie at The Grand Poobah in Hobart on Saturday February 23. Tickets are available via trybooking. com, and will cost $25, or $30 on the door (if it doesn’t sell out, which it probably will, so don’t be a slacker).
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The Hot Dub curated spectacle “Wine Machine” returned to i’s South Australian birthplace in December last year, hosting their third annual wine-cheesesunshine-fuelled day of live music and celebrations. Recently, the massive and proudly all-Australian wineup for the 2019 national tour has been announced and showcases come of the biggest names in electronic music, along with the next crop of incredible Australian talent on offer. On the bill, are Hayden James, Confidence Man, GRAACE, Kinder, Happiness is Wealth, and host, Alex “Rat-Dog” Dyson. Tickets are available now, via www.winemachine.com. AFTER PARTIES ARE THE BEST! With all well behaved people in bed by 10pm, only the worst of the worst and the baddest of the bad are out wandering the streets of Hobart looking to be entertained. Who best to do the entertaining? Well Alex “Rat-Dog” Dyson of course! The triple J presenter is down on Saturday March 9 to play the Wine Machine event in the Huon Valley, but not one for a warm cup of milk and a cookie before bedtime, “Rat-Dog” will be raging on at the official Wine Machine after party at the Odeon Mez Bar from 10pm to late. Supporting will be Randall and Sumner (DJ set), with presales available from Moshtix. CHURCH TIME
The Odeon Mez Bar floor will be shaking on Saturday March 3 to the heavyweight sounds of Luen and Spenda C. This will be Luen’s first time back to Hobart after playing the 2018 Wine Machine event in the Huon Valley, while this will be Spenda C’s first time to Tasmania. Doors open from 10pm with earlybird presales available from Moshtix. RUB A DUB DUB
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No need to run when the sun is coming.” A traveller as much as an artist, Kim Churchill has lived on the road for years, but it was no longer enough just to pass through; for Kim it was time to show that world in his songs. ‘After The Sun’, the warm, loping first single from a new project where each song taps into the people and environments of some of his favourite parts of the world, is Kim showing the value of a new way of thinking, of writing ... of living. “I now understand the effect that the whole process of travelling has on the way I write songs and the way I create,” says
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Kim. And you are lucky enough to have Kim travelling to you this March! You can see him on Friday March 15 as part of the Forth Valley Blues Festival at the Bridge Hotel and on Saturday March 16 at The Tah. Tickets from Moshtix and Oztix respectively. DADDY ROCK
From Daddy Cool to Mondo Rock and as a solo artist with no less than 26 ARIA Top 40 hits to his credit as a singer, songwriter and producer, Ross Wilson is one of Australia’s most awarded, respected and well-known artists. From the legendary band Daddy Cool whose number one anthem Eagle Rock smashed all previous sales records in Australia, to the 1977 formation of Mondo Rock, delivering 80’s hits ‘Cool World’, ‘State of The Heart’, ‘Chemistry’, ‘No Time’, and ‘Come Said The Boy’ and into the21st century as a solo performer, Wilson has never been out of the limelight. Twice inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, Wilson has written hits for Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham and Joe Cocker, and produced smash hit albums for Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, Skyhooks and Screaming Jets. Ross is returning to Tasmania in March his full band ‘The Peaceniks’ perform all his hits for two nights, Saturday March 30 at the Hobart Uni Bar and Sunday March 31 at The Bridge Hotel, Forth. Tickets available from Oztix and Moshtix respectively. LIME IN YOUR CORDIALE Sydney brothers Oliver and Louis Leimbach are touring Australia again this Autumn following the runaway success of their ‘Dirt Cheap’ tour late last year. Aptly named the ‘Money Tour’, Lime Cordiale will push past the 27 dates of ‘Dirt Cheap’ to take them as far as they can go over the breadth and width of Australia. Check them out if you missed out on tickets last time, at The Republic Bar on Friday April 5. IN THE BAG
hitting Australia’s best dance-floors for a range of piping hot DJ sets. See them at The Tah on Friday April 5. Tickets from Oztix. TO THE WOLFES The Wolfe Brothers kicked off 2019 in fine style, with shows packed to the rafters. Now, the Tasmanian country rockers have announced the next string of dates on their Country Heart National Tour as they continue to take their special style of country rock out on the road. With the Tamworth Country Music Festival just around the corner, and five Golden Guitar nominations up their sleeves, The Wolfe Brothers could be forgiven for taking a bit of a break. But that’s not how this band works. The tour includes three stops around Tasmania. Saturday April 6 they’ll be at The Huntington Tavern in Kempton, Friday April 12 they’ll be at The Saloon in Launceston, and Sunday April 14 they’ll be at the Longley International Hotel in Longley. They’ll be supported by Andrew Swift at all three gigs.
After wowing audiences with two new tracks from the highly anticipated sophomore album Langata at the tailend of 2018, Crooked Colours have announced that they will be bringing their unique brand of electronic dance music to audiences all around the country throughout April and May 2019, before heading overseas for a run of exclusive dates in June. Fresh from closing out stages across the country for St. Jeromes Laneway Festival, the group will be joining the party at renowned Aussie festival Groovin’ The Moo, before embarking on their biggest headline shows to date, including the Hobart Uni Bar on Friday May 3. Tickets available via Oztix. PLAY BALL
Ball Park Music have announced their GOOD GOOD MOOD TOUR, taking their latest album GOOD MOOD and favourite hits to regional towns and cities all around Australia. Joining them on the road will be indie singer-songwriters Tia Gostelow and Butternut Sweetheart.2018 was a tremendous year for Ball Park Music. Their fifth record GOOD MOOD debuted at #6 on the ARIA chart and received ARIA Award nominations for Best Cover Art, Best Producer and Best Engineer. triple j listeners voted it their #1 album of 2018 in triple j’s Album Poll. The euphoric single ‘Exactly How You Are’ landed at #18 on triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2017 and ’The Perfect Life Does Not Exist’ came in at #39 on Hottest 100 of 2018. The band is crossing Tasmania over three nights, performing in Burnie, Launceston and Hobart from May 29 – 31.
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The tour announcement comes off the back of an epic 2018 for DZ Deathrays, who released their third LP Bloody Lovely, got their third ARIA Award nomination, brought Murray ‘OG Red Wiggle’ Cook to the stage at Splendour In The Grass, toured Europe and South Africa, and completed two massive tours at home seeing them step into their biggest headline rooms to date (Enmore, Forum, Tivoli etc). Most recently, you may have seen them shred at Party In The Paddock. In true DZ-style, they’re bringing some mates along for the ride, with the buzzed-about grunge outfit Moaning Lisa, plus Launceston’s own, The Sleepyheads. Catch them at the Hobart Uni Bar on Friday April 12 and in Launceston on Saturday April 13. Tickets from Oztix.
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The story of Bag Raiders is already the stuff of legend but in 2019, the Sydney duo will prove that their best has only just begun. After years at work on their most exciting music yet, production dream team Jack Glass and Chris Stracey are now ready to share their highlyanticipated second album Horizons, arriving this year on Universal Music Australia. To celebrate their fresh release of the first single 'Lightning', Bag Raiders are going on tour around the country
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COMING HOME WITH MISSY HIGGINS It can’t be ignored that when Missy Higgins performs at Tolosa Park this month, she’ll be surrounded by a damaged natural environment. Not too far into the distance can be found a landscape devastated by bushfires, with tens of thousands of hectares burnt under the impact of dry lightening and extreme heat. And it’s a sobering reflection of the very themes Missy Higgins will sing about when she visits. Missy’s latest album Solastalgia is a direct response, she tells us, to “having a kid in the world of climate change”. “It was really hard when I would turn on the news or read the paper and see another environmental disaster and think: ‘Oh my god, what are we doing to this planet?’,” Missy explains. Having recently given birth to her daughter Luna, Missy’s songs touch on a concern about the future world in which her children will live. “My response to all of that was to get really deep into it – apocalyptic story lines – and write songs about the end of the world. That was my really macabre way of processing those emotions.” The multiple ARIA-winning singer-songwriter predicts that our island state will welcome her
MISSY HIGGINS WILL THIS MONTH TEAM UP WITH THE JOHN BUTLER TRIO TO PERFORM IN TASSIE AS PART OF THEIR COMING HOME TOUR. AHEAD OF THE TOLOSA PARK SHOW, WE CHAT WITH MISSY ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO PERFORM AN OUTDOOR GIG ON A WILD ISLAND – AND WHY SHE’S CHOOSING TO BRING HER KIDS ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
powerful message with compassion: “Tasmania has always felt to me as though it’s much more in touch with the environment than most places in Australia.” “You guys have got a very strong history of fighting for environmental causes, so I’m hoping a lot of the songs in the new album will resonate with you.” Missy will visit Tasmania with long-time collaboration partner John Butler Trio for their Coming Home Tour. But it’s not all about the end of the world – it’s a celebration of new life, too, as she brings her home along with her. “I love having my family on the road, because it keeps me down to earth and makes me feel as though home is where your family is,” Missy says. She’ll be joined by her daughter Luna – about 6 months old – and her toddler Samuel. It’s a time in Missy’s life she describes as “pretty hectic” – but she has it covered. “[The tour] was already organised before we got pregnant, so it was a slightly unexpected baby! But that’s okay,” Missy shares. “One thing we’re good at is making it work, me and my partner. We travel a lot with my son. He’s really used to getting on the road. So I figure, how hard can it be?”
Missy says her friends and a nanny will help share the load while she powers through her performances. “I’m just hoping I’ll get my opportunities to hand my children to other people during the days so I can get back to sleep!” she laughs. The performer says it’s important for her kids to share the tour experience, so they can witness her as a role model – not only as their mother, but as a careerwoman breaking ground in a highly competitive industry. “I want them to see me on the road, and I like the idea of them seeing what their mum does,” Missy explains. For Missy, motherhood has made a positive change to her relationship with music. “It’s become more of this fun, indulgent thing that I do to escape the mundane types of family life, to be honest. Obviously, I totally adore being a parent – but it can get really exhausting and quite draining, sometimes. So I think it’s really important to have these things for yourself.” Through albums like Solastalgia, we can start to hear these ideas evolving her musical style. “My style is always changing a little bit. Having kids definitely changed my outlook. I’m less of a navel-gazer, and more interested in the world around me and the future that my kids are going to inherit.” While Missy acknowledges that “everyone has their own narrative and reason for doing things”, she does have some advice for others who are conscious of the world around them, too. “I think it’s important for everybody to think about their place in the environment and the impact of their lives and their career will have on it. I know that, in order to feel good about my small little life on this planet, I might need to try to reduce my impact as much as possible.” If you’re rocking up to the Coming Home Tour in Tolosa Park, the musician says you can make your own little difference as a member of her audience. “It would be really great if our footprint on this venue is as small as possible,” Missy says. “It’d be great for people to take anything they brought in with them, out with them again. “It’s a really beautiful outdoor venue. It feels as though you’re at one with nature, and the music is merging into the landscape. It would be great if everybody felt the same.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE
See the John Butler Trio & Missy Higgins Coming Home Tour at Tolosa Park, Saturday February 23. Book at www.ticketmaster.com.au.
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open about my mental battles which a lot of my songs touch on.”
TASH SULTANA HAS BECOME A HOUSEHOLD NAME SINCE THE RELEASE OF “JUNGLE” IN 2016. FROM BUSKING AND BEDROOM RECORDINGS TO PERFORMING ON THE WORLD STAGE, TASH HAS SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS CAPTIVATING AUDIENCES GLOBALLY. WE SPOKE TO TASH ABOUT DEBUT ALBUM FLOW STATE, LIFE ON THE ROAD AND A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SHOW AT HOBART’S BOTANICAL GARDENS.
Selling out major venues internationally and playing some of the world’s biggest music festivals, touring and travelling has proved an important learning experience for Tash.
Tash Sultana has experienced monumental success both nationally and internationally since being discovered busking on the streets of Melbourne. Viral online videos caught the attention of music lovers everywhere, sparking the tremendous rise of one of Australia’s finest artists. When “Jungle” reached number 3 in Triple J’s Hottest 100, anticipation for a debut album grew higher and higher. With the release of Flow State in August 2018, Tash could finally breathe a sigh of relief. “Thank fuck it’s done cause it was an ordeal. Like making an album is hard work, I thought I’d just get in there and record songs I wanted to and it’d be done, but it’s hard work. I can’t believe I can actually hold it in my hands now. The love is a bit surreal.” With a unique musical style and the ability to transcend genre, the self-taught artist certainly stands out from the crowd. “The music that I play usually has nothing to do with the music that I listen to, I just like all genres. I pride myself on being a non-genre artist.” Winning the ARIA award for Blues and Roots Album of the Year, Flow State is a creative, soulful and emotion filled display of Tash as an individual. photo credit: dara munnis
KNOW YOURSELF IRISH SINGER SONGWRITER SUSAN O’NEILL IS MAKING HER SPIEGELTENT DEBUT, BRINGING HER POWERHOUSE VOCALS TO TASMANIA FOR THE FIRST TIME. I SPOKE TO SUSAN ABOUT HER DIVERSE INFLUENCES, MEANINGFUL ADVICE AND NEW MUSIC.
“All my songs come from personal experiences and struggles. I’ve been very
After her appearance at last year’s National Folk Festival, Susan O’Neill will be embarking on her second trip down under, and first to Hobart, for her performance at this year’s Spiegeltent. “I’m most looking forward to getting to see some of the land, meet some of the people from the area and get a taste of what Tasmania’s about. I met a few musicians from Tasmania at the National Folk Festival last year and just heard some really cool things, so I’m really looking forward to getting to check out the place.” Often compared to the likes of Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin thanks to her soulful, husky vocals, Susan’s musical influences are as impressive as they are varied. “I have a very eclectic mix of musicians that I look to throughout the day. I listen to a lot of classical music, I love Janis Joplin as well, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, I love a lot of Irish music, I listen to a lot of rock and roll, so there’s quite a big mix when it comes to the inspirations that I pull from. I think everything impacts the music you make, down to what you eat for breakfast. I can often be listening to a completely different genre and then when I sit down to actually create something, I find when I write I try to tap into something maybe a little bit deeper than myself. When that happens it’s kind of involuntary you know, the sound you make is kind of just coming out from somewhere else. When you sit down with a guitar, you’re just trying to express yourself in everything that you’re feeling at the moment, sometimes I feel
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“Being on tour honestly makes or breaks you, I can play a show easy, the stage is where I’m most comfortable and can completely be who I am and what I’m born to be. But it’s the shit in between that you’ve got to work hard at.” Although touring the world might sound like a dream, such a turbulent lifestyle surely has its downsides, with Tash noting “being away from my friends and family and my dog” as the hardest part of being on the road. Renowned for an unbelievable live show, Tash will be bringing those soulful sounds to Tassie in March, playing the Botanical Gardens with Sydney boys, Ocean Alley. “I’m looking forward to bringing my show down there. The last show was very special and I can’t wait to come back. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to bring the new show to life with an experience through visuals.” HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI
Tash Sultana is playing the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens on Saturday March 2, supported by Ocean Alley and Big Words. Tickets are limited.
the sound just comes from a place that I’m not even sure of.” In terms of advice, Susan recalls a moment that has stuck with her throughout the years. “It might sound simple but there was a man years ago after a show who kept repeating these same words to me and he kept saying ‘know yourself, love yourself, be yourself’. It sounds like it’s an easy thing to do but it’s something that often resonates with me if I’m in a situation and I’m unsure of what the right kind of step is to make. And I think if you can always try and draw back to those words, I don’t think you’re gonna go too far wrong, you don’t deviate too far from where you’re supposed to be.” After releasing her debut album Found Myself Lost in 2016, Susan is excited to be working on new music. “I’m working on some new songs at the moment, I’m actually going over to England to record them in the next couple of days so yeah I’m working on a new kind of, new sound, new album and new singles will be coming out pretty soon, so I’m very excited for that.” HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI
Making her Spiegeltent debut on Saturday March 30, Susan O’Neill’s performance is set to be full of emotion.
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Thursday 14 February, 7:30pm - The Barn at Rosny Farm
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Friday 15 February, 7:30pm - The Barn at Rosny Farm
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DR MARTIN LUTHER KING, LOVE, AND BASS TODAY (JANUARY 21) WE CELEBRATE THE LEGACY OF DR. KING (MLK), A TOWERING FIGURE IN WORLD HISTORY WHO CHANGED THE VERY NATURE OF HOW WE THINK ABOUT OUR SHARED HUMANITY.
As music fans, we understand the deep connection that all human beings share regardless of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. We can feel that connection on the dancefloor and in the music we listen to that is created by music producers of many and varied racial backgrounds. But it was only a few short decades ago when the reality of our human equality was not deemed self-evident by the prevailing culture. Millions of African American people (alongside many other non-white people) in the US and around the world suffered at the hands of a virulent culture of racism, it’s iniquities openly and legally enforced. As one of the foremost leaders of the Civil rights movement in the US in the 1950s and 60s Dr Martin Luther King lead an ethical and often times literal battle that upended centuries of systemic racism with a deeply spiritual approach to political protest known as ‘non-violent resistance’. Whilst the fight for lived day-to-day equality for people of color continues, it was at this time that MLK made previously unthinkable gains both legally and in the minds and hearts of the people of the US and around the world. So far this is all well known and accepted history. But what is less well known is that MLK’s inspiration for this movement came not just from another country but another faith and another social movement. It was Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent resistance that contributed to the British colonialists being ousted from India in the middle of the last century that inspired MLK to lead the civil rights movement with the integrity, radical compassion and moral power that he did. In fact, he went as far as to embrace the philosophical underpinnings of Gandhi’s spiritually based social movement, studying Ghandi’s philosophical writings which deeply informed his worldview and approach to social justice. MLK referred to Mahatma Gandhi as “the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change” and described India as “the land where the techniques of
nonviolent social change were developed that my people have used in Montgomery, Alabama and elsewhere throughout the American South”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
By rejecting violence as a method of overcoming violent and racially motivated laws and politicians, MLK and those that protested with him fundamentally transformed the repressive regime that fought their march to freedom for the equality of African American people. By peacefully protesting in vast numbers, boldly standing for love, respect, and unity whilst honoring the fundamental connection between us all (including those that would violently oppose them!) these champions of freedom made huge gains in their (and our) fight for freedom and equality. It’s a fight that is ongoing and requires of all of us an internal and external vigilance that commits to keeping our culture and our leaders accountable, in check and on course toward the goal of equal rights for ALL people of all races ( as well as religions, genders, and sexual orientations).
“Love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems.” - MLK
Music is something that brings us together and allows us to appreciate each other in a profound way. It gives us a direct understanding of the equality and commonality of human experience and the connection we share. It was MLK and his fellow leaders in the Civil Rights movement that set the country, and arguably the modern world, on a new political course to legally enshrine and culturally accept the reality of that equality and connection. Dr. Martin Luther King was tragically assassinated in 1968 at the height of his powers, but the social reform he inspired continued to sweep across the nation and creating waves of inspiration and change around the world. While there is still much work to be done to bring about true racial equality in the US and around the world, the memory of MLK’s powerful conviction and belief in the equality of all people, his love for all people no matter how hateful and wrongheaded their views and his demonstration that only love and peace can overcome hate and violence makes him an extraordinary voice in the modern world. He is a powerful example of ethical social change at this crucial juncture in human existence as we attempt to bring our world to a more profound and positive understanding and experience of ourselves and each other. Across the history of modern music, musicians have used their art to catalyze social change and elevate consciousness. Bob Marley, John Lennon, Kendrick Lamar, The Watts Prophets, Rage against the machine, Public Enemy, The Sex Pistols, J Cole and many more. I’m deeply inspired by these incredible artists. And in parallel, it is from giants like Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. Who fundamentally changed the way we think about what it is to be a human being in connection to others, all in the most challenging and volatile of environments, that I find a spiritual inspiration and energy. My new single #loveistheonlyanswer celebrates the great man’s legacy by sampling one of his inspired speeches, giving voice on the dance floor to what we all know to be true in our heart of hearts. May his light and our fight continue in the name of love and equality until everyone one of us is truly free! FREQ NASTY
The new FreQ Nasty single celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. is out now on Muti Music. Listen and download here: https://soundcloud.com/ freqnasty/loveistheonlyanswer.
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SUMNER IN THE SUN TASSIE TWO-PIECE SUMNERAKA CHLOE WILSON AND JACK MCLAINE- ARE ON THE RISE, WITH A SOUND THAT’S BOUND TO MAKE THEM THE NEXT BIG THING. THEY WERE SELECTED BY TRIPLE J UNEARTHED TO PLAY THE 2018/19 FALLS FESTIVAL, AND HAVE SUPPORTED THE LIKES OF VERA BLUE, SMITH STREET BAND AND WIL WAGNER. WITH AN EP ALREADY UNDER THEIR BELT (2018’S ALL THAT I AM), MCLAINE PROMISES THAT MORE MUSIC IS VERY MUCH ON ITS WAY.
“Chloe and I, we’re just in a bit of a writing phase, coming up with lots of new content to hopefully release this year.” he explains. “It’s a lot of teamwork. We don’t necessarily have a specific way we write, which helps keep things interesting; traditionally, Chloe writes the lyrics and I write the music, but that’s a fluid role, and often it ends up that we both are involved in both processes. Most of the time we’re working on stuff together. I think we both enjoy making it as collaborative as possible, two heads are better than one.” The duo’s musical style might best be described as a batter of varied, but complimentary, elements: a very contemporary indie-pop electronica
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feel, with a dash of old-school hip-hop. The origin story of Sumner starts as many modern day tales often do: on the internet. “It would’ve been four or five years ago now…” McLaine explains, on how the two first met. “We both made music that we recorded in our bedrooms and uploaded to Soundcloud. I came across her Soundcloud one day, hit her up on social media and she came back to me saying ‘I’ve got this gig next week, do you wanna come and play some music with me?’. Within a week’s time, we were playing a gig. It all came together really quickly, and we haven’t stopped since. It was like a bit of an experiment that got
out of hand (laughs). By the time we met up, everything came really naturally, we didn’t really need to talk about what kind of music we wanted to make, because we were already on the same page.” Their unique vibe was enough to secure them the Josh Pyke Partnership Grant last year, awarded to emerging musos to help ‘kick-start their career’. “It’s super important for young emerging artists to have that kind of support.” McLaine says. “Not just through mentorships, but also financially; all too often emerging artists just don’t have the opportunity to make money out of their music and run their band like a business,
as well as a creative endeavour. Josh Pyke’s grant helped us immensely, we put the money towards re-rigging our whole live show- a lot of the equipment we use to perform electronic music live involves lots of specific equipment that isn’t affordable. We don’t how we could’ve done it without that financial assistance. We’re so grateful for people like Josh Pyke using their platform to help grow younger emerging artists, hopefully we can do the same someday.” LISA DIB
Sumner play M8fest on Friday April 5 at The Saloon Bar, Launceston. Tickets from Oztix.
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NOT LIKE YOU WOLLONGONG’S ROCK N ROLL ACT THE PINHEADS ARE A CHAOTIC DELIGHT TO YOUR EARBUDS. THEY’RE EVEN MORE OF A TREAT LIVE THANKS TO THEIR RUCKUS AND HIGH ENERGY PERFORMANCES. BASS PLAYER TANYA AVANUS GIVES US A LITTLE MORE INSIGHT ON WHAT TO EXPECT.
Firstly, what can punters expect at your show? I reckon you can expect a very physically entertaining show its going to be very high energy! We’re really bad at on stage banter, it’s one of our biggest downfalls. We kind of just play songs and in between we crack really bad jokes cause none of us really know what to say. But its super high energy, we love to get the crowd involved. It going to be ruckus I reckon, pretty crazy! You’re going to absolutely love The Brisbane Hotel! We’ve never come as band before so it’s pretty exciting, I know the Brisbane hotel has heaps of gigs down there and that’s kind of the place to play if you go to Hobart! What’s it like being in a band with five preassembly ruckus guys?
You know what, its pretty good I have to say! All the guys have known each other longer than I’ve known them all, but they’re all like my brothers! We’re all kind of family, we’re so comfortable with each other! It’s weird, on stage we’re kind of crazy but off stage we’re not. Its funny, people always ask us like, “what drugs are you on when you play!?” No drugs, just kind of love playing rock on roll, we’re high on life, we’re all really lame! What made you pick Not Like You for your lead single? We were kind of thinking about what kind of image, sound or vibe to project for this album that’s coming out, and initially we had a different thought about what the single should be. We we’re gunna release a slower single, like the title track and we were gearing up for that. It was gunna be a bit of a curveball move but I think in the end we decided that a high energy song was a really bold statement.
We realised Not Like You was the way to go. As a band, we’ve always felt a bit outside of the circle. We always felt like we didn’t really fit in with a lot of the stuff that’s going on in the mainstream, or even disillusionment with what people are kind of getting into this day. Being disconnected with the illusion of being connected via social media and that kind of thing. So, it was a bold thing to just say, here is a new single, we’re not like you, we’re not like everyone else and we like to fly the flag for a lot of the weirdos I have to say. We’re all kind of a little bit weird! Can we expect that message to be projected throughout the record? Yeah! The whole album is kind of littered with that viewpoint of not really fitting in and being a bit different and disillusioned to the current state of things where its political or social, and questioning a lot of the values people have now.
How would you describe The Pinheads sound to people who haven’t heard? I would describe our sound probably quite influenced by rock and roll, sixties right up to power pop in the eighties. Its heavy and its rock n roll, but also quite melodic! It’s funny, we listen to a lot of old music and I think a lot of our influences come from there. The way we write and structure our songs is really drawn from that era. It has still got this contemporary, sometimes pop feel, but it’s got that dangerous edge to it! KEIRA LEONARD
The Pinheads play The Brisbane Hotel on Saturday February 16.
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CLEANING OUT THE DEBRIS
KATE CEBERANO IS A NATIONAL TREASURE WHOM AFTER 35+ YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY, REMAINS ONE OF THE FINEST IN THE GAME. HER UPCOMING SPIEGELTENT PERFORMANCE CEBERANO & CO IS ONE SHE DESCRIBES AS BOTH PERSONAL AND MAGICAL.
You’ve described Ceberano + Co as a bootleg session. Can you elaborate on that?
the most magical show! So that’s the basis of the bootleg session.
Yeah, I started working recently with a young guitarist I’d worked with in a concert called Stand By Your Woman - it was an all-female ensemble. First all of all she’s beyond her years, 23 I think, and she’s the most incredible acoustic and electric guitarist! Long story short, she gifted me a whole range of charts of songs I’ve written over thirty years and she put it in this beautiful book! It suddenly occurred to me that as a songwriter, I wasn’t being entirely responsible for my own work. Obviously you want to entertain a crowd and there are the hits, and then there are the album tracks that have significance to you for reasons that probably a lot of audiences don’t know. So, we put up one of the shows here just recently. I called it Ceberano & Co because all of the songwriters came to bear this, my brother, the various producers. All of these relationships I’ve had really. It was just
Will you be performing any new songs alongside of that? No, I won’t be doing too much new stuff. At the moment I’m enjoying getting a piano and redelivering my authorship over songs. Not that I’ll be on the piano the whole time! There will be a couple of things I’ve recorded over the years that went on to become charted as covers. There was a Joan Armatrading song, and a couple of covers off Nine Lime Avenue that were quite successful. It’s kind of me doing bootleg versions of myself! (laughs) Could we expect a record of that in the future? That could be a lot o fun! I’m perched on a really great age now! I’m sort of the Marie Kondo of Kate Ceberano right now (laughs). You know,
the Netflix phenomenon who goes into people’s houses and cleans the shit out of them! I think at this age, I have sort of a creative debris. You sort of compile a list of things you want to keep and as she puts it ‘the things that you enjoy’, and get rid of all the other stuff! We’ve got artists like John Farnham and Daryl Braithwaite still performing in their 70s, do you shudder at the thought of being on stage then, or is It retiring that makes you squirm? I relish the idea of being an example for women! If you’ve got a strong interest in something, age should be irrelevant and even sex, ultimately. There’s too few of us out there who are culturally iconic. I say this not to blow wind up my arse, but from the view point of someone that’s been in a long and enduring profession and contained to have a strong interest in it. I think we have a lot of examples in business and entrepreneurs and powerful women in finance, but in the arts… They’re sort of spare on the ground. So, I look forward to it! If I’m able, I’ll do it till I’m dead! I did find it mind blowing that in 2014 you were the first women to be indicted into the Australian Songwriters Association Hall Of Fame. That’s right and wrong on so many levels! It’s a mystery to me and clearly an honour. It’s one of my favourite awards to have received. Over and above music sales and awards and all that bloody fricka fracka. When someone nominates you as a musician in and amongst your peers, well that’s priceless. You can’t buy that acknowledgement and I love that; but it’s not cool that there are so few women. Obviously, you can only change the things from within. You have to go out and continue. You have to be prolific, you have to work doubly hard and then eventually the tides turn and the people that get the guernsey will get the get the guernsey. If you could give advice to your teenage self what would it be? Don’t’ be so hungry to be liked, in order to do what you need to do as an artist. Always inviting other people’s opinions only served to make your vision less clear. How would you describe your music evolution over the last few decades? Fascinating!! A psychology student could do a thesis on it! I feel like I’ve been a thousand people and that’s probably a good thing! I’m not short of inspiration. What is your favourite thing about coming back to Tassie? It’s my ancestral home actually! - OH HELLO, sorry. My bunny, I’ve just looked at her and she’s on her hind legs. She does thing while she’s cleaning her face and it looks like she’s praying, her little hands sort of together! I It’s the cutest thing! ANYWAY – It’s my ancestral home, I looove Tasmania, it’s loaded with significance for me! I think the location is completely epic and gothic, and unfinished business and I quite love it. KEIRA LEONARD
Kate Ceberano + co perform on Sunday March 10 at the Hobart Spiegeltent.
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WIRED KIND OF
DIFFERENTLY IT’S SET TO BE ANOTHER HUGE YEAR FOR LAUNCESTON’S THE SLEEPYHEADS AS THEY RELEASE THEIR BRAND-NEW SINGLE WIRED, WHICH WAS MIXED BY AN ARIA AWARD WINNER WHO HAS WORKED WITH SOME OF AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST NAMES. I CHAT TO SINGER PAT BROXTON ABOUT HIS INTROSPECTIVE WRITING THAT’S HELPED GAIN WIDESPREAD ADORATION FOR THE BAND.
The Sleepyheads’ inbox has been nothing short of exhilarating this past year, from being Triple J’s Unearthed featured artist, to being announced as opener for St Helen’s huge One Night Stand festival. In what might be their most exciting email yet, the band recently received an email from music producer/engineer, Anton Hagop. “He said he heard us on Unearthed and liked what we were doing. It was really weird timing because it was a week before we were going into the studio to record the new single.” Says Broxton. Hagpop - who has a massive client list that includes Powderfinger, Missy Higgins and Silverchair wanted to work with the Launceston act. “He won an Aria for his work with Silverchair! How could we pass up that opportunity!?” he glees. Hagop then jumped on board to mix their new single Wired, which is released on the fifteenth of February. The song is yet another catchy intimate and anecdotal anthem by the band, which Broxton says has been in the pipeline for a while. In the song, we hear lines such as ‘Breathe in, settle down, just forget about it / Cause you know I can’t sleep when I’m overwhelmed / Maybe I’m just Wired differently.’ “I’m someone that can’t get to sleep if there’s something I need to do, or say to someone, or something I need to finish,” he explains, “I’ve had many sleepless nights just doing artwork for gigs or singles, writing up worksheets, tour itineraries, or just writings songs because I get way too wired to get to sleep. So that’s where that line comes from.” It’s what The Sleepyheads to best, writing a song so personal it sometimes feels like you’re listening to a letter that you were never supposed to read. Alongside that, are universal declarations that will resonate to the listener through their own personal struggles and stories. “I’ve always written about personal experiences. I’ve tried to write from other perspectives a few times, but once I write something that way, I always feel a bit detached from what I’m singing about. I’ve been inspired by Paul Kelly to listen and take in what a happening around me; but I’ve still got some work to do on that front,” he tells us. “Song writing has always helped me to get thoughts out of my head and actually work through things. I know from a 18
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listener perspective it’s always nice to hear people singing about the same sort of problems I’m having. It lets you feel a little less alone!” The restorative tunes from The Sleepyheads are resonating so much so, that late last year somebody got a permanent piece of memorabilia inked on their leg! “It’s a pretty crazy feeling! It’s one thing having someone say ‘Hey, I like your band!’ But it’s another thing to have them permanently get you’re EP cover tattooed on them! It means a lot to us that those songs mean so much to them.” The Sleepyheads evidently have another massive year ahead. They’ve just announced their second ever M8 fest, which will be a two night festival showcasing local and interstate bands. Broxton says they’re also working towards finishing their anticipated debut album and have locked in some new interstate gigs. Remember when you were telling your friends about Luca Brasi before they were a household name? When they we’re playing $10 shows, not sold out gigs around the country? We predict The Sleepyheads will be on that train before you know it. KEIRA LEONARD
See The Sleepyheads perform as part of M8fest at the Saloon Bar on Saturday April 6 and then again supporting DZ Deathrays the following week at the Hobart Uni Bar on Friday April 12 and the Saloon Bar on Saturday April 13. Tickets for both events are available from Oztix.
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QUEEN OF THE CROSS CARLOTTA, ARGUABLY AN AUSTRALIAN ICON, DETESTS SUCH A LABEL.
“I appreciate being called an icon, but there are lots of ones out there that don’t get any credit, it’s only because I’m out in the limelight.” she explains. “I’ve had lots of responses to things I’ve done for charity, but I’m not into the accolades. I appreciate people liking me, but I’m not the beall. It’s an embarrassing thing for me, I just do my job and that’s how I like it. I’m not into being on a pedestal. Keeps you grounded.” Carlotta (aka Carol Spencer) is a part of LGBTQIA+ history, finding her entertainment beginnings in the hugely popular drag revue Les Girls in Sydney (Les Girls was even the inspiration for Priscilla Queen of the Desert). There’s even a lovely photo of her from the time in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. She became a
popular facet of the revue, eventually becoming the show’s MC and headliner, and performing on and off until finishing up with the act for good in 1992. Younger audiences might also know her as a brash and outspoken regular panellist on daytime talk show Beauty and the Beast, from 2013 to 2018 (“Up there in the studio all day, for half an hour of glamour on TV.”) She also stamped her name into the annals of trans history in Australia by becoming one of country’s first (known, public) recipients of gender-reassignment surgery in 1972, performed by a visiting English surgeon, who wanted to perform the process to show local doctors. In present day, Carlotta is bringing back the showgirl and touring the country with her new variety show, Queen of the Cross, a mixture of comedy, storytelling and song, featuring classics by Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim and Peter Allen, to name a few. “I’m doing the circuit, doing all around Australia in spiegeltents, which suits me fabulously.” she says. “It’s a fun show, lots of laughter. I’m working with Adelaide’s very own Michael Griffith, which is a great honour- he’s a very talented guy. He works beautifully in my show. I pick songs that suit what I’m talking about.” “I’m not a standup comic, although I’m a comic. I’m politically incorrect. It’s personal in that everything I talk about is true. I take people down memory lane, and relate to the young ones as well. It’s a fun evening.” The LGBTQIA+ scene, in terms of both social politics and entertainment, has changed markedly since the Les Girls days (indeed, it’s changing all the time). Although it is by no means perfect, Carlotta is happy with the progress that’s been made. “Some people are still afraid to tell their parents. It’s a learning experience. Some might not even have gay friends to rely on. It’s a lot freer now, there’s so many avenues. My life’s been more documented than a Prime Minister (laughs)- it was a battle in the beginning, but I’ve always been a fighter.” These days, in her 70s, Carlotta is a bit more of a homebody, skipping heady nightclubs for a more private and quiet life. “I avoid that like the plague, nightclubs are not my scene. I did all for that years. We have a lot of dinner parties.” She says that people often expect her to be the same brassy showgirl offstage as she is on; of course, there’s a world of difference between Carlotta and Carol Spencer. “I think they’re a bit thrown back that I’m not as much of a show-off when I’m off stage (laughs). I leave that for Carlotta on stage. I love reading, I read a lot of books, I love housework, I love pottering around at home. I don’t get bored. The two things I can’t stand are: I hate people who whinge and people who get bored.” In the end, Carlotta is a satisfied and confident person who has been through the ups and downs enough to know what she wants, how to get it and how to keep it. She’s no time for haters, either. “Darling, I’ve had people that don’t like me, if I went though life worrying about the people that don’t like me, I’d be a very depressed person, but I don’t allow it. I don’t let those sorts of people worry me. I’m very fortunate, you just have to cherish your friends you’ve got in life.” LISA DIB
Carlotta will perform Queen of the Cross for one night only, Tuesday March 26, at the The Spiegeltent Hobart. For more information head to the Spiegeltent website – www.spiegeltenthobart.com.
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THE ABSTRACT WORLD OF PAUL FOOT IT’S HARD TO CATEGORISE UK COMEDIAN PAUL FOOT. SOME COMICS ARE A ‘ONELINER’ TYPE, SOME DO BIG RAMBLY STORIES, SOME ARE SHOCK TROLLS. FOOT FITS SNUGLY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A PURVEYOR OF QUAINT MUSINGS AND UNIQUE ABSURDISM. CERTAINLY AUSTRALIA THINKS SO- FOOT HAS TWICE BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE BARRY AWARD, THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE, AND HE TOOK OUT THE ‘BEST SHOW’ AWARD AT THE 2013 SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL FOR HIS SHOW, KENNY LARCH IS DEAD. THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS CAREER WERE ALREADY STRONG- HE WAS NOMINATED FOR THE PERRIER BEST NEWCOMER AWARD AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE IN 1998. HE’S BACK IN OZ IN 2019 WITH HIS NEW SHOW, IMAGE CONSCIOUS.
“I discuss the plight of the soft-shell crab and also the administrative aspects of organising a suburban orgy.” Foot explains, on the new show. “Ultimately, everything I say is pointless. In fact, I offer a guarantee: a completely pointless evening, or your money back.” “I started my comedy while in maths classes at school.” Foot says, going back to the seeds of his future foray into comedy. “I would say a funny poem in front of the class to break up the boredom between algebraic polynomial equations. In earlier years, as a little child, I would enjoy putting on mini-plays for my family, in which I would always dress up as a little Dutch girl. Despite these promising beginnings, I unfortunately did not grow up to be a transvestite.” Foot has written a new show- a full hour of original comedy, remember- almost every year since 2003 (as well as producing a sporadic but ongoing podcast since 2009). The prolific entertainer, surely, must have some sort of methodology? “It’s always a flurry. I love writing lots of different ideas first, and then, later, taking a step back and working out how/if they fit together to make a new show. Some ideas never make it to the final show; some are so mad they have to be vacuum-sealed and locked in a lead box inside a panic room in my semi-detached house in Buckinghamshire. I haven’t been in there in years. I locked a fully functioning beef cloud in there in 2011 and I worry if it’s hungry for revenge.” “I think comedy audiences differ a lot around the world in a general sense, but I find that my audiences don’t really differ very much at all.” Foot says. “Connoisseurs of my humour all know what they like, and what they like is strange and unusual humour!” “One slight difference I have noticed, though, between Australian and British audiences, is that Australian audiences are much more enthusiastic. When I’m waiting in the wings, before the show has started, I can often hear the audience coming in and taking their seats, and in Britain I can hear them all saying, ‘Ooh no, better not sit in the front row, he might talk to me or make fun of me’, but in Australia I can always hear them saying, ‘yeah, get roight darn the front row mate, I hope he picks on me and lampoons me mercilessly mate’. Needless to say, I always provide what the audience desires.” Foot is indeed more rewarding to his fans than other entertainers: Foot fans, known as The Guild of Connoisseurs, are treated to various in-the-know treats, like secret gigs, comedic guided tours and lectures, and oddball antics like portrait painting competitions and that time in 2011 when he gathered his followers to a London working farm and attempted to complete a 32,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. A consummate professional always has their pre-show rituals, too. “I like to eat a pie before every show. I don’t mind what the filling is. Chicken, steak and kidney, pigeons, anything. Then I iron my shirt and comb my hair and brush my teeth to get the pastry crumbs out. I suppose it’s not a ritual so much as it is simply getting ready for work. Still, you do anything wearing a severed goat’s head these days and people say it’s a ritual.” Of course, the most important question of all comes lastly: when the human race dies out, which animal should or will rule the planet? “I imagine the sea slug will reign supreme. Gradually, over millions of years, it will evolve into more and more sophisticated forms of life, growing limbs and moving to the land and increasing its brain size. Then it will form civilisations that will spread throughout the globe, with increasingly developed language and compassion and art, but still with a propensity for war and conflict. Eventually this will lead to problems, such as sea slug Trump and sea slug Brexit.” LISA DIB
Paul Foot performs Image Conscious at the Hobart Spiegeltent on Saturday March 9. Tickets available via www. spiegeltenthobart.com.
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NO OFFENSE, BUT… STEVE HUGHES HAS BEEN MAKING US LAUGH FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS NOW WITH HIS POLITICAL AND CONSPIRACY THEORY THEMED HUMOUR. WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE WHEN IT COMES TO A JOKE? HUGHES DOESN’T CARE, AND HE’S GOING TO MAKE DAMN SURE YOU KNOW THAT.
What is something about Australia that’s really grinding your gears right now, that we can expect to hear about in your show? I started doing anti PC comedy about ten years ago, with one called new conspiracy theorists. in 2014, everybody started going “what is this guy going on about?” And now I say, “I told ya!” People like to run around being offended. I don’t know what they do with their days to be so offended. When I do a show now, I think ‘I got to go out and face the Nazis.’ Everyone is a Nazi now! What’s the most memorable critique you’ve gotten after a show? For some strange reason, when I went overseas, I never really got any bad reviews or people freaking out so much then. My first DVD is called While It’s Still Legal. It’s getting to a point where comedy might become illegal. Think about it, you want to create laws that is basically – they have it in England, I research this stuff 24/7 - if you want to make a law saying that someone is allowed to make a legislation and prosecute you because they were offended. I’m so sick of this word ‘offended’. Like, it’s no one’s business if you’re offended! I don’t care if you’re offended, why are you offended? It’s got nothing to do with me. I can’t offend you. You can choose to be offended. As soon as you say ‘you offended me’ what you’re doing is handing over all your power to an outside source. You’re admitting that you have no control over your interior emotional world space by going “yeah I saw this thing that I don’t agree with, now I’m offended!” It’s like you have to bring it under a hate speech law or something. This is tyranny. So, I don’t know what these Western people don’t understand about the West. The West have fought for hundreds and hundreds of years to have freedom of speech. They don’t understand that hate speech laws are the laws that protect you being able to say things which are offensive. If no one is saying anything provocative you don’t need a law that protects free speech. As soon as you do say something provocative that’s when the law kicks in and goes, guess what you’re offended. That doesn’t mean you can go and attack this person. Or burn them to death or fucking call the cops. That’s what a free speech law is about. It protects the unpalatable speech! You’re worried about where comedy is going due to this? It’s not just comedy, it’s society! Who are these people that think they can run around and tell everybody that they’re offended? I don’t care. I’m not abusing you, I’m just saying something that you’re offended by. As soon as these people started saying these things ten years ago… PC has been around a lot longer than that, but it really started kicking in around ten-twelve years ago. I just don’t get it. Don’t these people understand that you’re looking at the world through the prism of your reality, which is based upon your childhood, your morality, your religion, your social conditioning, your culture norm! It’s all an in interior world space that is the lens you see the world through! I don’t see the world through the same lens as a North African guy that lives in a village in Northern Africa. I don’t! People go “aww, were all the same people!” Well yeah, metaphysically, but do I see the world the same way as this guy? No! I might see it the same way when I need to take a piss or have something to eat, we all understand that but like, when you start running around saying “yeah, but you offended me!” Well, here’s another thing… I haven’t even offended you, I have offended your ideology. So, if you’re a feminist and I say something, and you say 22
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“you can’t say that about women, I’m offended…” No, you’re not offended, you’re reacting to the ideology you’ve decided to champion. From what I’m hearing, it sounds like you’re really not going to give a fuck if people are offended at your show? No, I can’t give a fuck. I can’t let these people dominate what I can say, this is what East Germany escaped from when they broke down that wall. Am I saying that we currently live in such a radical situation, well no, but this is the thing that helps manifest it! You cut your iconic hair a few years back, alongside quitting drugs and alcohol, do you think your comedy has progressed alongside those changes? My hair came on and off over the years, in hindsight ‘I think what the fuck was I doing?’ I was sick of using two towels in the shower (laughs). I was just so burnt out. I had a complete meltdown from utter exhaustion. Complete adrenal fatigue total fucking psychological and physical burn out from constant work. Being in my forties and thinking I was in my twenties, you know? Working nights for thirty years, doing 200 shows a year, eating out of service stations. I was exercising a lot then realising I shouldn’t be, as I was burning all my energy. I was so fucked. I wasn’t even addicted to drugs and alcohol, I
just did them sometimes. I should have stopped years ago. At least if I was addicted, I would have known I had a problem (laughs). I used to have a beer on stage or when I’d socialise, I never had a drink at home. I never understand that “oh do you want a beer?” No not really, it tastes like shit. It tastes much better with company and music. Sitting at home by yourself drinking alcohol, I never understand that! Mind you I did smoke a bit of weed (laughs). So I’m not boasting any kind of moral superior here! With a passion for of music, film and comedy, where do you see yourself in five years? With the way of the world, I don’t even know what’s going to go on in this planet in five years, this is an intense time on the planet. That’s why I laugh so much at the easily offended. It’s like, is that the thing that’s freaking you out on the planet, really? Your food is full of shit and poison, the air is crap, they’ve convinced you to get upset over jokes! We’re all so brainwashed it’s beyond comprehension. KEIRA LEONARD
Steve Hughes performs at the Waratah Hotel on Saturday February 16. Tickets from Oztix.
Arts
Gallery Guide
performing arts Guide
South
SOUTH
NORTH
COMEDY
COMEDY
Colville Gallery February 8 Ian Parry Handmark Gallery Until February 4 Deep State: Dive into the Unconscious + The River Lies Within – Mona Choo + Melanie McCollin-Walker February 8 – February 25 New Paintings – Robyn McKinnon
Contemporary Art Tasmania Until February 24 Unspoken Rule TMAG Until March 3 The Mission – Michael Cook Until May 5 Dinosaur rEvolution: Secrets of Survival
NORTH
Despard Gallery Until February 3 Summer Show 18/19 February 6 – March 3 The Wanderer, The Fool, and The Refuge – Jo Chew
Handmark Evandale Until February 6 ‘Summer’ Exhibition – Handmark Artists February 10 – March 6 New Paintings – Mairi Ward
Bett Gallery Until February 9 Pendulous – Robert O’Connor, Rosie Hastie February 15 – March 9 The Unfinished Print – Raymond Arnold February 15 – March 9 The Infrastructure of Life – Locust Jones
Burnie Arts & Function Centre Until February 3 Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels Until February 3 Alison Thomas: A Francophile in Burnie
Salamanca Arts Centre Lightbox February 1 – February 28 Aquatic Life – Reflections from Italy – Sue Leitch Top Gallery February 2 – February 27 Borrowed Times – Brenda Blackman Studio Gallery February 8 – February 27 In The Wake of Hokusai – Tina Curtis Long Gallery Until February 3 Irene Briant: A Survey Sidespace Gallery Until February 12 DISSOLVE – Julie Stoneman February 13 – February 25 East Coast – West Coast – Judy Antill February 28 – March 12 Abstracting Time III – Abstracting Time
Gallery Pejean Until February 2 2019 Summer Show – Group Exhibition February 4 – March 30 Landscapes 2019 – Group Exhibition Devonport Regional Gallery Main Gallery February 2 – March 3 North West Art Circle Annual Community Art Exhibition & Awards Little Gallery February 9 – March 10 The Robinson Youth Takeover Until February 24 In Your Words – The Robinson Project
The Polish Corner February 13 SECRET HEADLINER! February 20 Chris Wainhouse February 27 Tanya Losanno Brisbane Hotel February 28 Raw Comedy Southern Heat
Paranaple Arts Centre February 22 Charmaine Wilson – The Australian Medium
THEATRE Burnie Arts & Function Centre February 23 Practically Perfect – The Music of Julie Andrews
Hobart Brewing Co February 21 The Clubhouse with Rhys Nicholson Yambu February 23 RIOT Comedy Vol. 6 Grand Poobah February 15 Emesha’s Comedy Night The Tah February 16 Steve Hughes
THEATRE Peacock Theatre February 7 – February 16 CARRIE: The Musical February 21 – March 2 Spring Awakening
A TRIASSIC NIGHT OUT BEAKER STREET AND THE TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY BRING YOU TRIASSIC NIGHT, AN EVENING OF DINOSAURS AND COCKTAILS FOR ADULTS! THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO CHECK OUT THE DINOSAUR REVOLUTION: SECRETS OF SURVIVAL EXHIBITION AFTERDARK WITH A PACKED PROGRAM OF PREHISTORIC DELIGHTS.
Enjoy the exhibition along with fascinating talks on dinosaur sex, augmented reality, impact strikes and extinction events, and life in Tasmania’s Triassic. Plus flaming meteor cocktails, a classic silent dino film with live piano accompaniment, delicious food, lively tunes, a dinosaur dance-off, ancient life drawing, microscopes and more! Be there or be extinct. See Dinosaur Revolution on Friday March 15, 6:00pm-11:00pm at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. Tickets available now at www. beakerstreet.com.au/triassic
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Event Guide
Hobart Date
Venue
Venue
Acts / Start Time
February
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Saturday
Tony Mak
2
Monday Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
24
3
4 5
6
7
8
Date
Birdcage Bar
Dan Vandermeer 9pm
Post Street Social
Brisbane Hotel
Ewah & The Vision of Paradise (Single Launch) w/ Hayley Couper, Tripmonks, Bert Shirt, Philomath, Oceans
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Finn Seccombe 7:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Cover Scene
The Brunswick Hotel
Jonathan & Alan 6pm
The Duke
The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm
The WaratahHotel
Street Vibes #6
The Whaler
Dylan Eynon, Saucy Jack & His Ripper Band 7:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
The Kroovs (QLD) 6:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Neon Acoustic 9pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
RivaShed 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar: Little Ugly Girls (Album Launch), The Native Cats, Slag Queens
Cargo
Sunday
Acts / Start Time
DJ Millhouse
Grand Poobah
Hood Rich
Grand Poobah
Sideways in The City
Hobart Brewing Co.
David Nance Group (USA)
Jack Greene
Matt & Abby
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Post Street Social
Isaac Westwood
Republic Bar & Cafe
Sugartrain 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
33 Seconds
The Brunswick Hotel
Dave West 7:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Late Night Krackieoke
The Founders Room
The Gus Leighton Quartet Live Album Recording
Cargo
DJ Rikin
Birdcage Bar
Robotikus 10pm
Grand Poobah
I Love Dancehall
Bright Eyes Cafe
Ross Smithard 4pm
Grand Poobah
New Horizons in The Kissing Room
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Hobart Brewing Co.
The 5000 Miles Tour
Brisbane Hotel
Space Carbonara (NSW), Carl Renshaw, Teens
Jack Greene
Isaac Westwood
Home Hill Winery
M.T. Blues Music 12pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Jack Greene
Isaac Westwood
Post Street Social
Gabriele Dagrezio
Longley International Hotel
TSO Live Sessions 4pm
Spring Bay Mill
TSO Live Sessions 5pm
Telegraph Hotel
Serotonin
Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams
Pablo’s Sunday Sessions
The Brunswick Hotel
Tim Davies 7:30pm
The Waggon and Horses Sports Bar
Jase Lansky Live
The Whaler
Zac Henderson Duo 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Pepper Jane 6pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Layts 4pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Cargo
DJ Rikin
Grand Poobah
Limbo 5: Regatta Weekend Edition
Jack Greene
Isaac Westwood
Post Street Social
DJ Millhouse
Republic Bar & Cafe
Sunday Fun Days (Beergarden): Milquebarth + Max Best + DJ Poncho NP + Max Power + Kowl + Funknukl Vs. Doolittle + Ivan 1:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
WoodKingWood 8:30pm
Post Street Social
Tony Mak
Republic Bar & Cafe
Evan Carydakis Trio 8:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Billy Warner Trio + 1 1pm
Wrest Point Lawns
Fatboy Slim
Republic Bar & Cafe
Montz Matsumoto 8pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Keith Harkin (Celtic Thunder) 9pm
The Duke
Hobart Blues Club: Greasy Spoon 7:30pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Cafe Choir with Anne Woolley 7pm
Brisbane Hotel
PRISM
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Kashkin 9pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams
Jazz Jam
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tony Mak 8:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
B-Rex/Nik B
The Brunswick Hotel
Sam Forsyth 7pm
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Kaye & Randal 9pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Unlocked – Open Mic Night 6pm
Grand Poobah
Karaoke 9pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Noteworthy featuring Layton Otene, Jared Van Andel, The Kroovs (QLD) 8pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
The 5000 Miles Tour
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Republic Bar & Cafe
Django’s Tiger 8:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Nick Machin 6:30pm
The Duke
Jay Jarome 7:30pm
The Odeon Theatre
Damien Rice
Birdcage Bar
Tim & Scott 9pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Moonshine Whiskers and the Ragged Pony 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Mountains of Madness, Taberah, Woe
Cargo
DJ Sexy Lucy
Saturday
Sunday
9
10
Monday
11
Republic Bar & Cafe
Billy Whitton 8pm
Tuesday
12
Bright Eyes Cafe
Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Dan Vandermeer 8pm
The Duke
Dukebox Audition Jam
Brisbane Hotel
PRISM
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Michelle Chandler Band (VIC) 9pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Cafe
Gnarlhund
Telegraph Hotel
B-Rex/Nik B
The Brunswick Hotel
Isaac Westwood 7pm
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Finn Seccombe Duo 9pm
Grand Poobah
Karaoke 9pm
Hobart Town Hall
Van Diemen’s Band with Thomas Flint 8pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Noteworthy featuring Miss Jones Plays, Scott Haigh (LAUN), Oliver Miller 8pm
Jack Greene
Isaac Westwood
Republic Bar & Cafe
Thursday Thrash Night: Still Mental Uppercut + Baby Dave + Dirty Daniel
The Brunswick Hotel
Karly Fisher 6:30pm
The Duke
Crystal Sky Soul-O 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo & Jimi 9pm
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
13
14
15
Central Hotel
Aaron Courtney 4pm
Grand Poobah
Kinder
Bright Eyes Cafe
Coyote Serenade 6pm
Grand Poobah
We Love Bass presents: Whitebear + Pspiralife
Brisbane Hotel
Grinners Dive Bar
Zac Henderson + Katie Wilson
Back Bar: Bu$ Money, Ironhawk, Lake Myer, Partial Control
Jack Greene
Matt & Abby
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar: Crypt Vapor, Carved Cross, Tarraleah Power Station, Ultra Martian
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Date
Saturday
Sunday
16
17
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Cargo
DJ Rikin
Central Hotel
Bridget Pross 4pm
Grand Poobah
Sideways in The City
Hobart Twilight Market (Long Beach)
The Sign, Laura Hill (SA), Lizzie Donovan 4:30pm
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Post Street Social
Tim & Scott
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Silverbeets + Spiral Kites + Valkyries 10pm
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
DJ Mad, Mwase Mambo Duo 5pm
Telegraph Hotel
33 Seconds
The Brunswick Hotel
Dan Vandermeer 6pm
The Duke
The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm
The Whaler
Joe Richards, Dean Stevenson 7:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Tristen Bird (Single Launch) (SA) 6:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Pinheads (NSW), Wash, Blistar
Cargo
DJ Millhouse
Grand Poobah
Denis Horvat & Tom Trago
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar: Yoni & The Steamers (Album Launch), The Stragglers, New Town Hounds, Tarraleah Power Station
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar: Ladyslug (NSW), Celeste
Cargo
DJ Sexy Lucy
Central Hotel
Joel Everard 4pm
Grand Poobah
Greens Fundraiser
Hobart Twilight Market (Brooke Street Pier)
Rosie Canndee, Olivia Wilson, & Guests 4:30pm
Jack Greene
Matt & Abby
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Post Street Social
Terry Nomikos
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Dylan Eynon 7:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Entropy
The Brunswick Hotel
Dave West 6pm
The Duke
The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm
The Whaler
Hugh Foley, Saucy Jack & His Ripper Band 7:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Lady Valiant (Georgia, USA) 6:30pm
All Saints Market
Bryce Tilyard, Zara Graham, Jackson Simpson 10:30am
Layts & JD, Ruben Reeves Band 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Dan Vandermeer 9pm
Jack Greene
Matt & Abby
Brisbane Hotel
Late Night Krackieoke
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Cargo
DJ Rikin
Post Street Social
Isaac Westwood
Grand Poobah
Kylie Auldist (The Bamboos), Followed by CC:DISCO!
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
RACT Symphony Under the Stars 7pm
Grand Poobah
Sound Klub in The Kissing Room
Hobart Brewing Co.
M.T. Blues Music 3:15pm
Telegraph Hotel
33 Seconds
Jack Greene
Westwood & Doyle
The Brunswick Hotel
Jonathan & Alan 7:30pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Birdcage Bar
Aly Rae Patmore Trio 6pm
Post Street Social
Gabriele Dagrezio
Bright Eyes Cafe
Montz Matsumoto 4pm
Telegraph Hotel
33 Seconds
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
The Brunswick Hotel
The Darlings 7:30pm
Derwent Entertainment Centre
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Whaler
Dean Stevenson 9pm
Jack Greene
Isaac Westwood
Birdcage Bar
Ani & Harry 6pm
Post Street Social
Gabriele Dagrezio
Bright Eyes Cafe
Peter Hicks 4pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Summer Record Fair and BYO Vinyl Session 1pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Republic Bar & Cafe
Blues Jam 2:30pm
Jack Greene
Gabriele Dagrezio
Republic Bar & Cafe
Michelle Chandler & Friends 8:30pm
Post Street Social
Tony Mak
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Red Hot Summer Tour with Suzi Quatro + More
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tim & Scott 8:30pm
Saturday
Sunday
23
24
Room for a Pony
Hugo Bladel – Floppy Disco EP Tour
Monday
18
Republic Bar & Cafe
Ross Sermons 8pm
Monday
25
Republic Bar & Cafe
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Tuesday
19
Bright Eyes Cafe
Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm
Tuesday
26
Bright Eyes Cafe
Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Sam Forsyth 8pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Pat Bereche 8pm
The Duke
Jazz Jam 7:30pm
The Duke
Dave Elliston 7:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
PRISM
Brisbane Hotel
PRISM
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
The Sign 9pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Harry Edwards Quartet 9pm
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Observatory Bar
DJ B-Rex
Telegraph Hotel
B-Rex/Nik B
Republic Bar & Cafe
Rhyley McGrath 8:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Tim Davies 7pm
Telegraph Hotel
B-Rex/Nik B
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Sam Forsyth 7pm
Wrest Point Showroom
Matthew Ives and his Big Band
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Bridget Pross 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Graham Rix 9pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Unlocked – Open Mic Night 6pm
Grand Poobah
Karaoke 9pm
Grand Poobah
Karaoke 9pm
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Irish Murphy’s Hobart
Noteworthy featuring Ruby Austin-Lund, Zara Graham, Samuel Bester 8pm
Noteworthy featuring Olivia Wilson, Tasha Zappala, Cas O’Keefe 8pm
Jack Greene
Isaac Westwood
Jack Greene
Tony Mak
Republic Bar & Cafe
Billy Whitton & Hadyn Murtagh 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Brett Collidge 9pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Lauren O’Keefe 6:30pm
St David’s Cathedral
TSO Brass 7:30pm
The Duke
Jay Jarome 7:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Billy Whitton & Kate Baker 6:30pm
MARCH
The Duke
Crystal Sky Soul-O 7:30pm
Friday
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Jonathan & Alan 7:30pm
Wrest Point Ent. Centre
John Williamson
The Brunswick Hotel
Dan Vandermeer 6pm
Birdcage Bar
Rum Jungle 9pm
The Whaler
Dylan Eynon, Yesterday’s Gentlemen 7:30pm
Bright Eyes Cafe
Jane Morris Quartet 6pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Duncan Warburton 7:30pm
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
20
21
22
Wednesday
Thursday
Saturday
27
28
1
2
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Launceston / NORTH WEST Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Drift
Summer Sun-daze: Henry Rippon + Liam Johnston
The Irish
Live and Acoustic at The Irish!
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm
FEBRUARY Sunday
10
Watergarden Bar
Danny Kealey
Wednesday
13
The Royal Oak
Andy Collins (Public Bar) 9pm
Thursday
14
Townhouse Hotel Burnie
Viktor Zappner Swingtet Featuring: Sophie Leslie & Danny Healy 7:30pm
The Royal Oak
Mick Attard (Public Bar) 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Adam Page
Drift
Friday Vibes: Brad Von Rock
Kings Bridge Bar & Restaurant
Knock-Offs
Kingsway Bar
Filth Wizards
The Royal Oak
Tim Gambles (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Candy Feet
Watergarden Bar
Hat & Horn
Henry’s Launceston
DJs Lucky Day & Jim De La Harpe
Iron Horse Bar & Grill
Chapter V
MODE Bar & Niteclub
Cloud Nine
Olde Tudor Hotel
Scott Lewis Live
Saint John Craft Beer
Launceston Record Fair & BYO Vinyl DJ Session
The Greenwood Bar
Valentines Massacre
The Royal Oak
3 Indecisive Musos (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
The Geale Brothers
Watergarden Bar
Trevor Weaver
Deloraine Street Car Show
The Smokin’ Elmores
Mudbar Restaurant
Scott Lewis Live
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
15
16
17
20
21
22
23
24
Watergarden Bar
Addison Marshall
The Plough Inn
O My!
The Royal Oak
Brian Fraser (Public Bar) 9pm
The Royal Oak
Leigh Ratcliffe (Public Bar) 9pm
Watergarden Bar
DayStar Duo
Burnie Arts & Function Centre
John Williamson: The Butcherbird Tour 8pm
Devonport RSL
Jase Lansky
Drift
Friday Vibes: Dylan Boys
MODE Bar & Niteclub
Psychosis VI
The Greenwood Bar
Bollywood Nights
The Royal Oak
Ben Castles (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Tim & Scott
Watergarden Bar
DayStar Duo
City Park Launceston
RACT Symphony Under the Stars 7pm
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Piano & Cello
Molly Malones
Lady Valiant
Princess Theatre
John Williamson: The Butcherbird Tour 8pm
Saint John Craft Beer
Hayley Marsten – Arna Georgia
The Greenwood Bar
Music Madness
The Royal Oak
Frankie Andrew (Public Bar) 9pm
The Royal Oak
Tassie 69ers (Boatshed)
Tonic Bar
Groove FX
Watergarden Bar
Andy Collins
Country Club
John Coghlan’s Quo
Drift
Summer Sun-daze: The Midnight Messengers
Kings Bridge Bar & Restaurant
Scott Lewis Live
Sharmans Wines
Sunday at Sharmans with the Tassie Tenor
The Royal Oak
Blues Club Jam (Boatshed) 1pm
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Monday
25
Gnomon Pavillion
Adrian Cunningham 7:30pm
Tuesday
26
The Royal Oak
The Fats Hollers (Boatshed) 6:30pm
Wednesday
27
The Royal Oak
Miss Tori (Public Bar) 9pm
Thursday
28
The Royal Oak
Angus Austin (Public Bar) 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Tony Voglino
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