Warp Magazine January 2016

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Boo Seeka Thursday 26 Jan

Nick Cody Thursday 21 Jan

The Delta Riggs Friday 5 Feb

January 2016 Friday 8th 10pm Yesterdays Gentleman Saturday 9th 2.30pm Soul Sessions: Funky Tunes In The Beer Garden 10pm Jimmy Peters And The Pan-tones $5 Sunday 10th 8.30pm Bianca & Hutch Monday 11th 8.30pm The Tarik Stoneman + Sam Forsyth Sessions Tuesday 12th 8.30pm The Sign Wednesday 13th 8.30pm Dan Vandermeer Thursday 14th 8.30pm The Couch Club Friday 15th 10pm Shaun Kirk + Leo Creighton + Jed Appleton + DJ Cheek e Cherry $17 Saturday 16th 2.30pm Black Cat Garage (Beer Garden) Saturday 16th 10pm 24Seven $5 Sunday 17th 2.30pm Beer Garden Party with Spanish Paella With Live Music By Silk N’ Oak FREE EVENT 8.30pm Clare Quinn Monday 18th 8.30pm G.B. Balding Tuesday 19th 8.30pm Dean Stevenson

Wednesday 20th 8.30pm Tim & Scott Thursday 21st 8pm Clubhouse Comedy With Nick Cody (Upstairs) $20pre/$25door 8.30pm Mumbo Gumbo Friday 22nd 10pm Australia Made $5 Saturday 23rd 2330pm Soul Sessions: Funky Tunes In The Beer Garden Saturday 23rd 10pm Road kill + Suns Of Solemn + Black Bunny Sunday 24th 8.30pm Blue Flies Monday 25th 8.30pm The Darlings Tuesday 26th Closed - Australia Day Wednesday 27th 8.30pm Billy Longo And The Rhythm Tragics Thursday 28th 9pm SHAKE 'N' BAKE: Featuring Boo Seeka + Bootleg Rascal + DJs + Special Guests $15pre/$20door Friday 29th 10pm Boil Up $5 Saturday 30th 10pm Raccoons + The Revtones Sunday 31st 2.30pm Zuma (Arvo Show) Sunday 31st 8.30pm Peter Hicks And The Blue Licks

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News in Brief SUPER SUMMER SUNDAY SESSIONS Everyone loves a Sunday session, it’d be bloody un-Australian not to. Also, everyone loves a burger, it’d be bloody inhuman not to. Everyone loves a free gig, because we’re all broke this time of year, and you know what else everyone loves? $6 pints. For the same reason. It’s also damn hard not to like a laneway party with some awesome DJs playing. All these factors come together like Voltron to make the Sunday Sessions at The Waratah Hotel a pretty much perfect day. Awesome cheap beer, awesome music from the likes of DJ Grotesque, Close Counters, Kowl, Funknukl & Friends, Sexy Lucy, Soupy Mess, Junior Brando, Salami & McConn De Replay, awesome burgers from the Mr Burger van, and free entry? What’s not to like!

KEEP IT ON THE DOWN LOW jp (in lower case) is a Melbourne based, male, independent songwriter/multiinstrumentalist. jp (IN LOWER CASE) recently released his first EP Part 1, it’s available for free streaming and purchase from a large number of online spots, including soundcloud, bandcamp and itunes. jp (LOOK WRITE IT IN LOWER CASE YOU JERKS) cut his teeth as a drummer for a plethora of local bands, playing any kind of music he could poke his sticks at.

After a while he decided to lead his own band, made up of some of his favourite session muso’s from around the traps, which sounds a little bit like a quirky mash of Gotye, The Cat Empire, Jose Gonzalez and John Butler Trio. jp (auto-correct fricken’ hates typing “jp” in lowercase at the start of a sentence) will be playing at The Homestead in Hobart on Saturday January 9.

the shoe gaze of Filthy Little Star, with more to be announced. Keeping the party going on the dance floor will be the best indie, brit-pop, new wave, disco, synth, hiphop and funk tunes provided by Carvis Jocker, the Stan DJ Show, and Popsie Cool, all topped off with the Afro-FunkDisco stylings of Puffypank and Sweatypits to keep you dancing until the wee hours.

For all updates, head do face book.com/ LooseFit7000. Oh, shit, a date would be helpful, hey? It’s Thursday January 14.

PARTY ANIMALS RealAte and The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee presents: A Roots Feral Frenzy! All proceeds go directly towards the IHNS Animal Advocacy Campaign Tas, which provides a voice for those without a choice.

Strut ya mutts to the Republic Bar & Café on Friday January 15 to celebrate this awesome launch event. Kicking off at 9pm and running until late (with “Yappy” Hour from 9-10pm + lucky door prizes), you’ll be able to catch the likes of Shaun Kirk, Jed Appleton, Leo Creighton, DJ Cheek E Cherry plus lots of other “fun-raisin” shenanigans. Limited tickets are on sale now via oztix, $17+ bf. Or $25 on the “lucky” door. Sounds like a right doozy!

BEN, LUCIE, AND VAN… IN A VAN.

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Ben Salter, Lucie Thorne, and Van Walker, three of Australia’s most highly acclaimed songwriters and performers, are joining forces for a tour of Tasmania

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BOATHOUSE BEATS James Zabiela. James. Fricken’. Zabiela.

In Tasmania. That’s quite the gooden.

He’ll be playing one very special night at The Boathouse in Launceston, on the banks of the Tamar River. For those that don’t know, he’s kind of a big deal. He’s completed 12 seasons as the We Love…

Space resident, zigzagging across the globe, whilst continuing to build his own “Born Electric” label, which has signed music from the likes of Hot Chip, Midlang, FaltyDL, DREWXHILL and Pedestrian.

He’ll be playing on Saturday January 16, and he’ll be supported by Sydney producer Microlot playing a live set, Matty C, Synjon Fraser and Roger Davis. It’s a 18+ event, and tickets are $35 + bf. Get in early to secure your ticket and catch a rare glimpse of the guy that TimeOut magazine referred to as “Technically the world’s best DJ”.

A SOUTHERN ASCENSION

GET LOOSE! After a lengthy hiatus, Hobart’s fav indie night, Loose Fit, is back. And boy, are they ready to party. Unashamedly riding the coat-tails of MONA FOMA, Loose Fit #6 will take over both rooms of the Grand Poobah with more of Hobart’s best bands and Djs than you could ever hope to poke a stick at (and let’s face it, that would be irresponsible and dangerous anyway).

Think of it as a pre-Faux-mo Faux-mo.

Featuring the epic acid-hidden-in-thebubblegum-drone pop of Violet Swells, the Brit-pop-via-California swagger of Spiral Kites, the dream pop of Peak Body, and

this coming January. They’ll be traversing Van Diemen’s Land in just about every permutation they can manage, sharing stages large and small. They’ll be all over the place, from Friday January 15 at Willie Smith’s Apple Shed, to Fresh on Charles in Launceston on Thursday January 28, to Mole Creek on Sunday January 31. We couldn’t possibly fit all the gigs and all the altering lineups in the limited space we have here. But we can (and have) fitted them in the gig guide. So flip to the back of the magazine, or scroll to the bottom of the PDF file if you’re one of those technologically literate types (ie.

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Christian James is a QLD based rapper on Ascension Records. He’s got a bunch of youtube views to his name, so the innanets folk seems to dig his vibe. He’s playing a couple shows in Tasmania in late January with a slew of locals. So you’ll be able to see what the innanets folk are in to. On Friday January 22 you’ll be able to catch him at The Grand Poobah in Hobart, supported by Leeze the Kid, SkurgeOne, Stray, Dirturtles, Reflekt, and Jesta MC. Tickets are available via oztix.

The following night on Saturday January 23, you’ll be able to catch him at Club 54 in Launceston. Support will be provided

by Leeze the Kid, Those Guys, Stray, Dirturtles, Remarcable, and Jesta MC. $7 cover charge on the door for this one. Both gigs are 18+. Sorry kids.

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BADASS BRASI’S Tassie punks Luca Brasi have been on a roller coaster ride since their second album hit stores in 2013. Heading out on the road with acts as varied as Violent Soho and Kisschasy along with appearances at Falls, St Kilda Fest, Weekender, The Hills are Alive and Party in the Paddock saw the foursome on a constant mission to bless the mainland crowds. Now Luca Brasi are proud to present the first taste of their forthcoming third album, and they’re doing it in the form of two Tasmanian shows in late January. On Wednesday January 23, you’ll be able to catch them at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart, and on Friday January 25, they’ll be performing at The Royal Oak Hotel in Launceston. Luca Brasi headline gigs are always epic, don’t miss out on this one! Check oztix for details.

BOO WHO? BOO-SEEKA.

Brand spankin’ new act, Boo-Seeka, merge electro and soul shifting sounds in a way that has bought them much attention. In their short lifespan they have toured as main support to Safia, then gone on to sell out their own shows and headline tours around the country.

They’ve also managed to squeeze in two European tours, all in less than a year.

Bootleg Rascal specialise in a unique dubhop sound, making gritty, smoky, Mexixan dub, live styles. They too, have sold out headline tours around the country. Lyall Moloney draws you in and takes control, body and soul, from beginning to end.

Add all three together along with Shaker Djs and some special guests, and you’ve got an epic night! Just such an epic night will be taking place at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Thursday January 28.

Tickets are $18, and are available from the venue or online via moshtix.

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FOKI IT UP King Island is a rad place, everyone loves the cheese. You should visit there and love it in it’s birthplace. You should do that from Friday January 29 to Sunday January 31. Hey, while you’re there, you should get along to the Festival of King Island (FOKI). FOKI it up! There’ll be a whole bunch of artists from around the country performing, artists such as Claire Anne Taylor, Elliot Maginot, Hein Cooper, Johnny Rollins, Leash & The Dusty Boots, Mud Peas, New Black Shades, Nick Saxon, The Spindrift Saga, Zap, Lyall Moloney, Boo Seeka and Bootleg Rascal.

All performing alongside local acts like 40 Degrees South, Clare Woodburn, and The Local Band. For information on artists, tickets, or how to get there, head along to foki.com.au.

DELTA RIGGSMAROLE

YOSSARIAN INVASION

After a breakthrough 2012 that saw them draw comparisons to The National and Pink Floyd, play a bunch of festival slots, raise $10,000 to crowd-fund their debut album, and become one of Gibson’s “Sounds of Summer”, London based anglo-argentine alternative-ambient -rock band (I’m not even sure how that works) Yossarian have gone from strength to strength. Now they’re finally on their way down under to give Australian audiences a taste of their multi-layered guitars, Floydesque minimalism and harrowing cryptic vocals. If that sounds like it’s up your alley, then you should get along to The Homestead in Hobart on Friday February 26. If you’d like to get a taste of them before the gig, you can check them out at yossarian.com.

ALL BEARDED OUT

The Delta Riggs are steadily rockin’ along. After a pretty huge 2015, they’re ready to set off 2016 with the Summer in Space Tour, their final live hooray before zooming off to outer space to start album #3. They’re playing a couple of shows in Tasmania before their touring hiatus, you’ll be able to catch them on Friday February 5 at The Republic Bar and Café in Hobart, and on Saturday February 6 at Club 54 in Launceston. They’ve spent much of the last year on the road, opening for The Foo Fighters at stadiums around the country, and supporting local legends You Am I, so they should know how to put on a pretty damn good live show by now.

Head along to one of their two gigs and find out just how true that is.

Thursday February 25 at The Royal Oak in Launceston, the second at The Waratah in Hobart on Friday February 26, and the third at Red Hot Music in Devonport on Saturday February 27.

kicks off on Thursday March 10 with an evening of free entertainment. Check out www.spiegeltenthobart.com for more information, or to grab yourself some tickets!

A GRAN(A)D(A) START TO THE YEAR

ROSE QUARTZ COLOURED GLASSES

Woo yeah, it’s all happening out at the Granada Tavern in 2016! Kicking off a big few months will be Country songstress Beccy Cole, playing on Friday February 26, this is a licensed all ages event, which there just aren’t enough of these days.

Feel free to bring the tots along to this one!

Just when you thought it was safe. Just when you thought festival season would be drawing to a close. Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be a spot on the calendar that wasn’t already filled with music festival goodness. BOOM! Along comes the Rose Quartz Festival. The inaugural music and arts festival will be taking place from Friday April 1 to Sunday April 3 (2016, obviously) on the shores of the vast Lake Pedder in South-Western Tasmania. With no more than 500 tickets available, split between 300 camping and 200 in the Lake Pedder Wilderness Lodge, they’re keeping it cozy. The first lineup of acts has been announced, and includes the likes of Roland Tings, Wax’o Paradiso, Otologic and Andras Fox. For more information, check out www. rosequartzfestival.com.au.

Following that, Australian icon John Williamson will be at the Granada on Saturday April 9, tots are also most welcome at this one (as long as they’re with a parent or guardian, you can’t just dump your kids there and leave). The Wolfe Brothers will be returning to the Granada on Saturday April 30 (no tots allowed at this one), and finally, Rodney Rude will be performing on Saturday April 30 as part of his “Stiff Pensioner” Tour, if you need me to point out that kids definitely aren’t allowed to the Rodney Rude gig, you obviously don’t know who Rodney Rude is. That show is ‘R’ Rated.

Tickets for all events are available from the venue, or online via Moshtix.

SASKWATCH THIS SPACE

SPIEGELICIOUS

The Beards have announced their farewell tour! OMG! “We feel like we’ve achieved what we set out to achieve through music.” Explains front man Johann Beardraven. “A lot more people have beards now than when we started out, and people now realise that beards are totally boss. We’ll now be moving on to Phase Two of our pro-beard operation, but not before we go around one last time and say a heartfelt thankyou to everyone who’s come out to see us over the years, and especially to everyone who’s grown a beard, or adopted a probeard attitude.” A lot of us Taswegians have beards now, so we’ll all be able to beard-out with The Beards when they play three shows around Tasmania, the first on

The Spiegeltent is a big ol’ bucket load of fun, and it’ll be back for another Hobart waterfront visit from Thursday March 10 to Sunday April 3, 2016. The centrepiece of the 2016 Hobart Spiegeltent season is the award-winning, dirty & dangerous circus cabaret, Limbo. The cast of Limbo have whisked audiences worldwide in to a sinister netherworld of jaw-dropping contortion, gut-churning aerial acrobatics and staggering illusions. Limbo are the headliners, but there is sure to be a jam-packed program of music, comedy, cabaret and circus. Spiegeltent Hobart

Melbourne indie-soul legends Saskwatch head out on a huge national tour to support their acclaimed third album, Sorry I Let It Come Between Us, taking in every major capital city and a plethora of regional towns along the way. Fresh off the main support for The Rubens big national tour earlier this year, and the Groovin’ The Moo festival, Saskwatch smash out their live show, hard, rough, and tight. Their combination of soul music with addictive pop hooks make for a show that is definitely not to be missed. It may be a few months away yet, but we’ll get an opportunity to catch that live show on Saturday April 2 at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart. Put it in your diaries now, and get your tickets early, because this one is sure to sell out!

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THE WHO’S WHO OF WOOHOO LIFE’S A PARTY OR IN THE CASE OF THE WOOHOO REVUE, A CABARET. THE SEXTET OF HORNS, STRING AND BASS HAVE BEEN GLOBETROTTING FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS. HAVING JUST VISITED OUR FAIR STATE FOR THE ANNUAL CYGNET FOLK FESTIVAL, THEY’RE BACK AT THE START OF FEBRUARY FOR FRACTANGULAR GATHERING IN BUCKLAND. WOOHOO’S GUITARIST DANNIE MCKENZIE SHARED HIS KNOWLEDGES OF ALL THINGS CARNIVAL.

Describe the electro swing movement The Electro Swing movement is something that’s been huge in Europe for about a decade now, originally based around remixes of old swing/jazz tunes at clubs and festivals. It has branched off into many genres including glitch, drum and bass and house with vintage and even Balkan styles, often including elements of live instrumentals. It has become synonymous with “Speakeasy” culture, a glamorisation of the prohibition era with punters and performers alike dressing in 20s style “flappers and gangsters” garb.

Chris Tofu, head honcho at Continental Drifts, UK, an event management agency that runs Shangri-La at Glastonbury Festival (among many other things) could be credited as the creator and pioneer of the movement. He gave Maxwell Mortimer, aka DJ Mortisville his blessing to start Electro Swing Club here in Australia. Max had come to Aus from the UK and began putting on Electro Swing events at illegal warehouse spaces which blossomed into Electro Swing Club, Melbourne.

What is the electro swing club?

Electro Swing Club exists in major cities across the globe and they can all be traced back to Chris Tofu.

Electro Swing Club, Melbourne is an event put on by DJ Mortisville and myself at “170 Russell”, the old “Billboards Nightclub”, a 1000 capacity venue that has drawn capacity crowds to each of it’s 4 incarnations over the past 2 years. It has been described by many as “The Greatest Club Night in Australia”; a non-stop sensory overload of entertainment hosting the finest electro swing artists from Europe and Australia; from live acts to DJs to cabaret and carnies. Attendees are impeccably attired, dancing and grinning til the wee hours of the morning. We’re lucky to have such a special crew of producers, managers and artists who go above and beyond to create something truly memorable each and every time.

Did The Woohoo Revue set out to originally be a traditional gypsy band?

No, it was a conscious decision to be honest about what inspired us, and those traditions are out of our reach.

I discovered music from Balkan wedding bands whilst learning traditional Irish tunes from a guy whose favourite band was Tool.

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I played in “Gypsy” bands (when that music was booming) in Melbourne who were criticised for not being authentic, which created a self-consciousness in the music we were trying to play. Nobody in The Woohoo Revue has had any Romani heritage. We have great respect for the music and culture behind it, but could never dream of being as awe-inspiring as them as musicians. We’ve just done our best to stay true to the things that we loved about the music. I decided that it was OK for me to play these tunes I’d transcribed because the sincerity, passion, fun and virtuosity was still in tact, even though I’d learned them from slowing down old recordings and not from having them sung to me as a child.

Then what happened?

The nature of being a band on tour so frequently leads us into many strange places with different festivals, audiences and cultures and the demands of such touring forces members to leave the band and others to join, allowing many different writing styles to come to the forefront. I really struggle with genre words now, as once we wrote tunes of various genres, we now write tunes that employ many genres in one. I don’t know what to call it, but you can hear where it comes from.

Does Gypsy blood through any of the band members?

None of us are of Romani heritage, no. I think the word “Gypsy” means something different in Australia than it does in some places. Here, many people have a fantastic notion of the word representing a travelling, easy-going, hippy type character. In some countries, it’s a blatant insult to a race of people who were exiled from their homeland and have been persecuted for centuries.

Travelling through Europe did the band feel they had found a second home?

Europe certainly feels like less of a “Nanny State” than Australia. That certainly suits us, getting around in a motorhome that wouldn’t pass a road-worthy test in Aus. People are more empowered to wear the consequences of their own decision-making, be it good or bad. We’ve experienced both extremes.

Venue gigs are often much more welcoming, with food, drinks and accom being standard. But festivals have so many people! It’s easy to get overwhelmed and isolated in such an extreme environment and miss the comforts of home.

The music we play lends itself well to such multicultural societies, steeped in history, where people have been mashing genres together for a long time and seem to embrace oddities rather than feeling alienated by them.

We love Europe, but it is a second home, not a first.

Do you all live the carnival lifestyle and how does it integrate with the 21st century?

It can feel like that when we’re hopping from one festival to another, and those are tricky places to keep your phone charged.

Summer is festival season here in Australia, you returned from a tour of Europe during our Winter. Is it an eternal travel following the sun? When was the last winter you saw?

Yeah we’re OK with missing Melbourne Winter.

Apparently this was a nasty one. Though after a 3.5 month tour, not opposed to hiding under the warm bedsheets for a bit either!

Haven’t seen a Winter since 2013 and there’s no plan for that to change any time soon. We managed to catch the hottest days on record in Berlin and Czech Republic, which was hot. Even for an Australian. It was bloody hot.

That said, the Australian Winter and English Summer aren’t too different.

Summer comes alive in Tasmania, what shows will be here for you and what are you expecting?

We’re lucky to have been invited to play two of the best weekends in Tassie this year: Cygnet Folk Festival and Fractangular Gathering. It’s amazing that a place with such a small population can have so many great things happening. Crowds have always been great to us down there, and never scared to get a dance-floor pumping.

Eat.Sleep. Rave. Repeat?

Some eating and sleeping would be nice.

How hard is it to find a good top hat these days?

It’s not that they’re hard to find, it’s keeping them intact.

People do love to snatch it from my head after a gig (bad move, it’s stinky) and my only method of transporting it is to wear it on every flight. If I’m on my own, people think I’m a magician, which is embarrassing cos the only thing I can make disappear is a beer.

NIC ORME

The Woohoo Revue play Fractangular The Gathering at Buckland in the State’s South East. Head to www.fractangular. com.au.

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THE LAND OF “OZ” MISSY HIGGINS’ MOST RECENT PROJECT- HER FOURTH ALBUM, 2014’S OZ, A COVERS ALBUM OF STRICTLY AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS- IS, AS WELL AS BEING A STELLAR ALBUM, A GREAT OVERVIEW OF AUSSIE MUSIC HISTORY. FEATURING ARTISTS FROM ACROSS THE AGES, LIKE SLIM DUSTY, KYLIE MINOGUE, ICEHOUSE, THE DRONES, SOMETHING FOR KATE AND THE ANGELS, IT IS HIGGINS’ LOVE LETTER AND MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC SHE HAS LOVED AND BEEN INFLUENCED BY. THE ALBUM ALSO COMES WITH A BOOK OF ESSAYS, WHEREIN HIGGINS CHRONICLES THE REASONS BEHIND HER LOVE FOR THESE SONGS, WHAT THEY HAVE MEANT TO HER, AND HER INTERPRETATION OF THEIR LYRICS.

“It was just a matter of me going through what songs really influenced me, and what songs I loved growing up, what songs made me the musician I am now” she explains, on how she chose what songs to include on the album. “There’s also a few songs I only recently discovered. I asked all my friends and everyone I knew to send me their favourite Aussie songs of all time and so many just stood out. The songs came from everywhere: my past, my friends, I just chose the ones I could do something interesting with, so it sounded authentic.”

A stand-out track, if you haven’t heard it, is Higgins’ cover of You Only Hide, a Something for Kate ballad from their beautiful 2001 album, Echolalia. Having also grown up with the album as a personal favourite (got me through my troubled adolescence, Paul Dempsey did), I was keen to know how Higgins’ felt about the record, and whether both her own and Dempsey’s similar struggles with depression was a factor.

“I connected so much with Echolalia at the time [high school], that album was perfect. His [Dempsey’s] lyrics are so incredible, they were a bit beyond me at the time but I connected with You Only Hide really strongly lyrically; that sense of being lost and unable to be found and not wanting to be found, a sense of melancholy that I could wrap myself up in, that was my favourite thing to do at that age (laughs)” “It’s important to listen to sad songs” Higgins says, when I ask why we often feel stronger towards ‘sad’ music. “It’s important to be sad.

People run away from those emotions, they’re scared of the pain. I feel like that’s why a lot of people gravitate towards that music, it’s feeling things in a safe environment, letting you know that you’re not alone. It’s like having a big teary hug with a good friend. Every song has to have a possibility of something going really right or really wrong, whoever’s listening has to wonder how it’s gonna turn out.”

Another of Higgins’ most recent projects has also been her young son, Sam. Parenthood has been a learning curve but Higgins is nothing if not up for the challenge.

“He’s good, he’s eleven months old and becoming really active and hilarious. He’s gorgeous. His personality is starting to emerge, he’s got a really good sense of humour and he’s starting to assert his authority and individuality, which is kind of a little bit frustrating but it’s amazing.

It’s been really inspiring. It’s interesting to split your mind between two things, I would take my headphones off for half a second and hear him crying for food, and want to go downstairs but I have to tell myself, “he’s fine”. It’s hard to do it at first; instinctively you feel like you need to be near them at all times but working makes me a better mother, it makes me more present which is better for everyone.”

“I don’t wanna be one of those mothers that gives up on her dreams and then resents the children for taking that away from them. My partner [playwright Dan Lee] is really supportive. After the first six months, I thought, “I can start writing again”, but the only problem is getting the time. I would organise a babysitter and the songs would just pour out of me. It’s cracked me open in a way.”

LISA DIB

Oz is out now on Eleven/Universal. Missy Higgins will perform with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at Skyfields in West Kentish, near Devonport, on Saturday March 19, 2016. Tickets available from www.skyfields. com.au.

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KEEP IT BETWEEN THE SHEETS SLUM SOCIABLE’S EDWARD QUINN AND MILLER UPCHURCH- MORDIALLOC’S FILTHIEST ANIMALS – HAVE JUST RELEASED THEIR LATEST EP TQ. THE LO-FO JAZZ HOPPERS FORMED AT UNIVERSITY, WHEN QUINN PUT AN ALBUM TOGETHER FOR A PROJECT WITH NO INTENTION OF RELEASING ANY OF THE SONGS. ANYWAY, THOSE TRACKS GOT PICKED UP BY A LABEL AND NOW THE MELBOURNE DUO HAVE SOLD OUT THE FIRST TWO SHOWS OF THEIR NATIONAL ALBUM TOUR. THE PAIR WILL HEAD DOWN HERE TO PLAY A FESTIVAL CALLED PANAMA IN MARCH. Hello, How are you? Did you have a nice day? What did you do?

We’re good. We had an excellent day actually. We woke up together, and, like we always do, Googled Slum Sociable for two hours to see what type of negativity was being written about us online. There was heaps. It’s a good day.

You started the band as a school project, so, I guess you weren’t taking it too seriously? But, It did get serious.

Do you guys still do other stuff on the side? Or is all your time dedicated to the band?

A lot of time is dedicated to the band of course, but we do have lives outside of it. We enjoy Kristaps Porzingis, listening to our bass players’ work calls in the car, and Ryan Beasely’s unstoppable Snapchat presence.

You describe yourselves as ‘lo-fo’ – a spelling mistake that you ran with - have you worked out a definition for the term, and how does it encapsulate your music?

FIRE! IN THE DISCO SWEDISH SAXOPHONIST AND FREE JAZZ MAESTRO MATS GUSTAFSSON KEEPS HIMSELF BUSY. HAVING WORKED WITH PEOPLE LIKE SONIC YOUTH, HISTORIC JAZZ DRUMMER STEVE REID, JAPANESE NOISE MUSICIAN MASAMI AKITA, BRITISH COMPOSER BARRY GUY AND SCORES OF OTHERS, HIS CURRENT PROJECT- FIRE! ORCHESTRA- IS A MANYLEGGED (TWENTY-EIGHT!) IMPROVISATIONAL JAZZ BEAST. HE TELLS US HOW TO BECOME AN IMPROV GENIUS.

I guess we work along the ‘anything goes’ type of mind-set.

Whether that be in the studio, who we have playing bass, or via a spelling mistake in a press release. ANYTHING GOES BABY. You have described yourselves as ‘Mordialloc’s filthiest animals,’ But in photos I’ve seen, you both look ok, maybe even pretty. Why are you filthy?

First of all, that’s an incredibly nice thing for you to say. But please don’t ever lie to our faces (via email correspondence) again. Secondly, we have no idea why we used that adjective. However I think if you see us after a show, you’ll agree that there is most definitely some filth present in our physical appearances.

How do you think growing up in a smallish place influences the type of music you make?

JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL!!!

“The challenge is to work with people with very different temperaments. People that have various backgrounds, musically, culturally, ethnically, geographically…. anything! It all has to do with the willingness to interact and communicate. If you can listen, play and act freely - if that is true, it will not matter what gender, what race, what religion. It is all about interaction. You know it. When it does not work, it is very obvious, and the audience can feel that as well. That is real sharing. It should always be a challenge. You can’t lean back and just play. You need to commit. No other way is possible…. If not, you’d rather stay home and water your flowers.”

Their most recent album was 2014’s Enter!, that Gustafsson maintains was challenging but rewarding.

“We very lucky to work with four highly creative engineers in the studio to make it work. It was a mess to get a good

You guys are long-term friends. How has playing together changed your relationship? And, do you worry that it might ruin your friendship?

Aside from sleeping together (strictly business) we don’t usually communicate with each other anymore. It’s usually through our manager. So yeah, the friendship has been completely ruined, but the tunes are better than ever.

Touring and playing together must be pretty intense? Do you have any survival tips for other bands?

Never just assume that your singer will be at lobby call on time; wake him up with a refreshingly obnoxious bass solo.

Thank you that is all for now!

Emma Luimes Slum sociable play A Festival Called Panama March 11, 12 and 13.

Head to www.panamafestival.com.au for further details.

listening situation…but when soundcheck was done, it went surprisingly smooth. All the musicians were extremely focused. It was like magic! To play ‘free’ in such a large setting is just… messy, and quite impossible. We love the research that is about the frictions between the predecided riffs and song-based structures and the openness in the free improvised and noise sections in between. That friction makes the pieces.”

You’ve done so much, with so many people. Do you ever get burnt out? What have you got coming up?

“Burnt out? What is that? (laughs) you need to look into how you work and why….I had it [a break] coming thirteen years ago and I took a 6 month time-out. It worked out fine and I had a better idea afterwards how to work, and with who. I simply stopped some groups and projects and focused on some new stuff. It was a necessary transition. I’m blessed with a very understanding family. I have a lot of shit coming up… too many projects to mention! But with Fire!, we will make a new huge theatre project in Stockholm in 2017, together with an amazing director and a fantastic ensemble of actors. It can be highly inspiring to work on only one project sometimes. To be able to go deep down in the text together and see and hear what comes out. I’ll be doing a large commision for a Frank Zappa deconstruction piece in September 2016 with some amazing musicians involved…. time is not enough, it seems. And I really can’t wait for the next project to happen, I can’t wait to find a new piece of rare vinyl, I can’t wait to meet new musicians I have never played with before, I can’t wait for it all to happen!”

LISA DIB

Fire! play mofo at mona on Friday January 15, with Mats Gustafsson playing a futher solo set on Saturday January 16.

Further information and tickets from www.mofo.net.au.

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“I like to think of experienced artists as high level video game characters. You start off with all these possible paths, but as you gain more experience you start focusing on particular areas and skills that ultimately help you evolve even more. Using money as a motivation is just one of those paths. Making money can be mad fun and powerful incentive to keep the pressure on and ultimately keep you on top of your game. Some people might take this approach on in a way that other people could see as negative or destructive, but hey, if they are happy, then full power to them.”

As a producer- as well as New Zealand’s only Ableton certified trainer- Tom relies heavily on his gadgetry. Which means that, as technology has changed, so does his music.

“As I am mostly computer-based, things have exploded over the last ten years! I remember when I first got my current computer - things had finally reached the stage where I no longer had to cut corners to keep up with the restricted processing power available. Back when I started, I had to bounce/resample a lot of things, as I couldn’t have more than two or three synths a time, or things would start glitching. Now, I can have as many as I want!”

COSM-IC TOM NEW ZEALAND ELECTRONIC MUSIC WIZARD AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPER TOM COSM MAY GIVE AWAY HIS MUSIC FOR FREE THROUGH HIS WEBSITE AND SOUNDCLOUD, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN HE DOESN’T HIGHLY VALUE IT. FOR HIM, IT’S SO MUCH MORE ABOUT REACHING MINDS AND EARS FAR AND WIDE.

“When I was first trying to get my name out there, I randomly met someone who said they first heard my music playing in a cafe in Austria, somewhere I had not been. It gave me this amazing feeling, more so than money could, so I just stuck with it”, he explains. “I like the fact that everything I write is immediately available to anyone the second I finish it, and they can get it directly from the source. There’s no obstacles people need to jump through, pay for, or figure out how to steal from. It’s straight from my brain to yours. I just really like that feeling.”

Money can be a prime motivator for others, he notes, but it doesn’t work for him the same way, hence his desire to leave the ‘commercial grid’.

“I have milestones I’d like to achieve.” he notes, on the future of his career and various projects. “My project takes crazy random turns all the time. I just keep moving forward with new things and if something starts working well, I stick with it. My main passion is helping others harness their own creative flair. Whether that's from teaching, or developing tools that let them teach themselves, I can see myself doing a lot more for that side of things.”

Lisa Dib

Tom Cosm plays Fractangular Gathering in Buckland on February 5 -7, 2016. Further details from www.fractangular.com.au.

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7 February 2016 from 5.30pm

General Admission & VIP tickets via Moshtix/SunsetSessions

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AN APPOINTMENT WITH DR PIFFLE AT MARSHMELODY WITH A BEAUTIFUL SITE, AN INSPIRING LINEUP OF ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS AND A FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY, NEW FESTIVAL MARSHMELODY IS ONE NOT TO MISS. FAMILY-FRIENDLY, COMPLETELY SOLAR-POWERED AND A CELEBRATION OF THE TASMANIAN LANDSCAPE, MARSHMELODY EPITOMES A GOOD TIME.

The festival identifies a niche within the Tasmanian festival landscape, providing a completely solar powered, zero waste, family-friendly alternative to some of the larger festivals. Marshmelody reflects a focus on community, seeing old mates/making new mates and soaking in the beautiful site of Jackeys Marsh while listening to some of the most exciting artists in the country. Picture camping for three days, surrounded by forest with a relaxed atmosphere full of artistic performances, a festival bar showcasing Tasmanian beer, cider and wine with the Tasmanian sun on your shoulders.

How does moving about, hitch hiking and nomadic lifestyle influence your music?

It’s from these experiences that we learn the stories of people and most often meet the people with the most interesting stories. Playing music on the street gives you such an incredible opportunity to share music and to have a tangible experience with the stories of our time. When you’re moving about, you’re usually learning so much about the world and yourself, just by having the chance to run into new people and new experiences. The music come from these moments.

Joining the stellar lineup that includes Clare Bowditch, Jeff Lang and Ben Salter are Dr Piffle and the Burlap Band, a group who combine folk, reggae and a real good time.

They’re loud and fast, have a massive van and an energy to envy. The boys sat down and answered a few questions about their lifestyle, their craft and who influences them.

Who, or what influences your performance style on stage?

We started off being really influenced by old 70s jug bands from Australia, like “Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band”.

I couldn’t believe it when I saw some of these old clips, they were so powerful and energetic, but they were just playing

old 20s jug band songs. That was a huge influence, and then there was the fact that we all grew up listening to and playing in punk and hardcore bands, so we loved to go as crazy as possible on stage and create a really high energy performance.

Can you tell us about the van in the video for “Jimmy”?

That is an old 70s caravan that we fitted out especially for tour. It has a bed in it and a lot of storage for all our equipment. We figured it would be better than a trailer, because we could actually use it to hang out in. We would usually drink tea and talk piffle in it before shows. Its seen some pretty wild parties, broken down on mountain roads, and been full time accommodation for some band members between tours.

What are you listening to at the moment?

Blackbird Raum, The Gembrokers, Profane Sass, Hokum Highrollers.

How are you feeling about playing at Marshmelody in January?

Super great! A solar powered music festival with rad people in the best place in the world... it’s incredible!

We have just had a huge break from music, because one of our singers had an accident and lost his leg... so its actually pretty special to be getting back on the road, and we love Tassie because we can go camping and be in epic nature.

What message would you like Dr Piffle and The Burlap Band’s music to spread?

Community and sustainability. Awareness of our environment, of our future and of our people. The pending ecological disaster of our natural world. Banding together to create change and to share ideas, music and energy.

What can audience members expect from a show?

Chaos, an overload of stimulus, hair, and a really good ol time.

BRIGITTE TROBBIANI

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A RAY OF SUNLIGHT SIMON ASTLEY’S ENTRY INTO THE NEW YEAR IS SURROUNDED BY EXCITEMENT AND HYPE. THE DEVONPORT-RAISED MUSICIAN IS SET TO TOUR AROUND AUSTRALIA, THE UK AND THE US FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF HIS LATEST SINGLE, “SUNLIGHT” ON MELODIC MUSIC.

The catchy pop single sees a transition for the artist, both in his sound and his identity, as he continues to ride the success of his UK receival and his hopes for 2016. And he reckons he’s been spent years building up to 2016. In his own words, “tiny steps have lead up to next year”. Astley’s career has focused on playing a heap of shows, evident if you look up his past and upcoming tours. And the recent success of the Devonport-native, is a testament to his skill playing shows all over. Tassie features heavily in there, with familiar venues such as The Brisbane Hotel and The Oak included, his most exciting and perhaps significant shows are those aboard. Shows from Melbourne to Sydney and all the places in between. With a string of exciting gigs including his tune “London” playing at the Queen’s Jubilee in 2012. “London” received a stellar response online following the Jubilee, and demonstrated the artist’s niche in the UK market. The single sees a change of direction for Astley. Originally written somewhere between 2009 and 2010, ‘Sunlight’ takes on a new sound, intentionally created

PSYCHEDELIC DARK HORSE For the past few years, Andrew Davidson - aka Sun Control Species, a psytrance act from Melbourne- has kept his performances rare and elusive. A former engineer, Davidson has been making psychedelic dance music for over ten years - well before his debut Scienza Nuova was released in 2007 on Iboga Records (Denmark) - and has released over fifty singles in his time. Davidson talks about the different phases of his career.

to fit a commercial market. It’s poppier and has a different kind of melody to his earlier work. Developed somewhere between 09 and 2010, the song began with the melody, then the chorus.

The shift from folk to pop has occurred organically, as Simon found himself influenced by recent tours, and the collaboration with Melodic Music. The song is significant to the musician, as over the five years it has grown, changed and been moulded as Astley has experience changes in his own life. Originally focusing on piano, music naturally engaged with the folk industry and the music it creates, brought upon the production and the intersection of lyrics and melody. ‘Sunlight’ comes about from a ‘marriage of melody and chorus’, initially creating the single, like his others by forming the chorus, then the sound. The melody is important to Astley, noting inspiring from Ben Folds Five, specifically, the song ‘Brick’. Sia, another influence with her melodic and dramatic songs which bridge

“It’s definitely not deliberate in some sort of calculated way, like some superficial reverse attention seeking marketing thing” he says, on his recent quietude in the musical field. “If I think about it though, most if not all of the artists I’ve held in the highest regard across all genres over the years have been the ones I’ve known next to nothing about. Always the dark horses. But sadly I wonder if operating like this is just considered rude these days.

It’s like professional suicide in today’s hyper-connected, 24/7 world. I think I’ve always wanted the music I make to be the strongest voice I have, the clearest, the one that cuts through all the human conditioning, so to speak, and doesn’t get mixed up with anything moronic I might say outside of the music, so I think it comes from giving in to that urge.”

“Over the last few years I deliberately stepped back from being a singular musical identity” Davidson tells me,

between creative yet are still played and received within a commercial environment. To Astley, the single is in his “top five or ten” songs that hes written. With a catchy chorus and the influence of a big city shaping the song, ‘Sunlight’ sees a change of direction for the artist as well as the entry to the new year surrounded by hype and excitement.

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January 15 will see the single launched. Head over to www. simonastley.net for more info and upcoming show.

when asked what he has been working on in the past few years. “I’ve had a great run that I’m super proud to hang my hat on, but there’s so much music to make that reflects the world in different ways and not enough hours in the day. Techno/electronic is just one part of it to me, not the end game. There was a lengthy period right after I stopped touring and producing SCS full-time where I was overwhelmed with the possibilities and set off on a crazy journey to find my voice. It was like jumping off a cliff. A few years on, I’ve been quietly consolidating things and working towards a new project that aims in a completely fresh direction and would probably surprise many people. To be a little more specific, you could think along the lines of freeranging post/prog-rock with electronica; full of guitars, noises, vocals, ethnic instruments, live and sampled drums, and not be too far off the mark.”

Luckily, Davidson isn’t putting too much stress on himself to be hyper-prolific.

“I think the pressure I might put on myself and the pressure I imagined from being a dancefloor DJ guy might be two different things. On the dance floor, people want to groove, be happy, be surprised and inspired. In the studio, I’m thinking, ‘Is this snare sound the best it can be? What about that bass? Would the best mixers in the world be happy with this mix?’ I think pressure is good, if you can manage how you deal with it. At the moment I’m really happy creating stuff because there’s no definite release plans for it around the corner. Right now, I’m allowed to try off the wall, adventurous things and make mistakes.”

Lisa Dib

Sun Control Species plays Fractangular Gathering at Buckland, February 5 - 7. Head to the www.fractangular.com.au for futher information and and tickets.

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FOREVER THE LAND FALLS OF “OZ” NOT ONLY DOESMOST FALLSRECENT FESTIVAL KEEP FLEXING ITS MUSICAL EVERY YEAR,ALBUM IT ALSOOF MISSY HIGGINS’ PROJECTHER FOURTH ALBUM,MUSCLES 2014’S OZ, A COVERS MANAGESAUSTRALIAN TO STAY IN PEAK CONDITION. IT’S SOMETHING FESTIVALS MS OVERVIEW FEST, BREATH STRICTLY ARTISTSIS, AS WELL AS BEING A OTHER STELLAR ALBUM, ALIKE GREAT OF OF LIFEMUSIC AND SOUNDSCAPE ALL OBVIOUSLY DO. WITHOUT FALLS, BANDS AUSSIE HISTORY. FEATURING ARTISTSFAILED FROM TO ACROSS THE AGES, LIKEINTERNATIONAL SLIM DUSTY, KYLIE SIMPLY WOULDN’T GRACE WITH THEIRFOR PRESENCE, LET ALONE KNOW OUR ISLANDLOVE STATE MINOGUE, ICEHOUSE, THE TASMANIA DRONES, SOMETHING KATE AND THE ANGELS, IT IS HIGGINS’ EVEN EXISTED. BESIDES THE FINANCIAL STIMULUS, THELOVED FESTIVAL INJECTS A BIT OF LETTER AND MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC SHE HAS ANDALSO BEEN INFLUENCED BY.MUSIC THE CULTURE INTO TASMANIA. OPENED UP A BUNCH OF PATRON’S EYES TO BANDS OF THE ALBUM ALSO COMES WITH IT’S A BOOK OF ESSAYS, WHEREIN HIGGINS CHRONICLES THEOUTSIDE REASONS BLISS N HER ESO AND REALM. THE EARTHY ARTY FEELTOTHAT CARRIES WITH IT IS A BEHIND LOVESKRILLEX FOR THESE SONGS, WHAT THEYAND HAVE MEANT HER,FALLS AND HER INTERPRETATION REPELLENT AGAINST TOPLESS BUM-BAGGED DOUCHEBAGS. OF THEIR LYRICS. do at that age (laughs)” “It was just a matter of me going through what songs really influenced me, and what songs I loved growing up, what songs made Besides a disappointing cancellation fromon me the musician I am now” she explains, comic genius Yankovic, Falls on Festival how she choseWeird whatAl songs to include the went off without any major hitches.

Yankovic’s album. “There’s also a few songs I only recently replacement, a screening Chrisand Lilley’s discovered.

I asked all my of friends everyone I Summer Heights High (yes really), was a poor of knew to send me their favourite Aussie songs substitute. weather favoured all time andThe so many justgods stood out. TheMarion songs Bay onfrom the first evening of festival, and the came everywhere: mythe past, my friends, I just stint ofthe sunshine woulddo continue rightinteresting through chose ones I could something until the Art vsauthentic.”

Science saw punters out for with, so itend. sounded the first night of Marion Bay tunes, with classics like Flipperstrack, and Parlez Francais A stand-out if youVous haven’t heardgiving it, is those keen to party a much needed electronic Higgins’ cover of You Only Hide, a Something forfix.

However, the realtheir herobeautiful and heroine the night Kate ballad from 2001ofalbum, was local Tassie While Science Echolalia.

Havingduo alsoSumner. grown up withArt thevs album as no dancefavourite force to be reckoned with,my Sumner did aispersonal (got me through troubled exactly that. Their the Homebrew adolescence, Paul performance Dempsey did),on I was keen to Stage how sucked in unsuspecting punters onand their know Higgins’ felt about the record, way between either of the two bigger stages. whether both her own and Dempsey’s similar The electro/hip-hop/indie struggles with depression act wasbrilliantly a factor. mashed together Kendrick Lamar, Gotye and Subtract; no easy task to do.

Jack McLaine worked “I connected so much with Echolalia at furiously the on the decks to match hauntingly time [high school], thatChloe albumWilson’s was perfect.

His beautiful vocals.

[Dempsey’s] lyrics are so incredible, they were a bit beyond me at the time but I connected with You Two bands on either sidelyrically; of the festival’s playing Only Hide really strongly that sense of times lost showed extreme in gratitude being and an unable to becontrast found and not wanting and Gang of Youths truly to bemoods. found, Australia’s a sense of melancholy thatwere I could humbled by the seathat of faces thatfavourite greeted thing them to wrap myself up in, was my for their morning set on the Valley Stage. Lead singer Dave Leaupepe repeatedly praised the crowd for their interest, saying “Thank you for

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“It’s important to listen to sad songs” Higgins says, when I ask why we often feel stronger towards ‘sad’ music. “It’s important to be sad. coming out and giving a shit”. The band put every People run away from those emotions, they’re ounce of passion and energy into their set, making scared of the pain. I feel like that’s why a lot of it something special to see. On the ‘I don’t really people gravitate towards that music, it’s feeling want to be here’ spectrum of the festival was Bloc things in a safe environment, letting you know Party. The outfit played mainstage before the clock that you’re not alone. It’s like having a big teary struck 2016, a slot which most musicians would hug with a good friend. Every song has to have a give an arm or a leg for (and they need those). possibility of something going really right or really Put simply, Bloc Party couldn’t have been less wrong, whoever’s listening has to wonder how it’s interested in the crowd or their environment. Their gonna turn out.” body language showed that, their stage presence showed that, their conversations with the crowd Another of Higgins’ most recent projects has also showed that. Upon realising the clock was about been her young son, Sam. Parenthood has been a to strike midnight, the band’s popular track Flux learning curve but Higgins is nothing if not up for was cut short and frontman Kele Okereke made the challenge. little attempt to amp the crowd up for the New Year. There were no sentimental comments about “He’s good, he’s eleven months old and becoming the past or the future, just a queued 10 second really active and hilarious. He’s gorgeous. His countdown, one more song, and the band’s set personality is starting to emerge, he’s got a was over. The classic songs like Hunting for really good sense of humour and he’s starting Witches and Helicopter were played, but that to assert his authority and individuality, which couldn’t make up for the lack of excitement the is kind of a little bit frustrating but it’s amazing. band emitted. Okereke spoke mostly about the It’s been really inspiring. It’s interesting to split band’s new songs, and in the time that took Bloc your mind between two things, I would take my Party could have played another track. headphones off for half a second and hear him crying for food, and want to go downstairs but I Birds of Tokyo surprised onlookers with a cover have to tell myself, “he’s fine”. It’s hard to do it at of Eye of the Tiger, while it was refreshing to see first; instinctively you feel like you need to be near the outfit featuring some older tracks like Broken Bones and a number from their first album Day One. Wavves were as loose and outlandish as any punk rocker could have hoped for, with the

intimacy oftimes a smaller stage paving way moshthem at all but working makes mefor a better pits and itgeneral Sometimes flip mother, makeslooseness. me more present whichit’s is the better of aeveryone.” coin as to the type of show you’ll get with a for band in Wavves’ genre, but the outfit couldn’t have been tighter. it came time for Thethat Wombats, “I don’t wannaWhen be one of those mothers gives Falls patrons ready tothe jive.children The UK up on Festival her dreams and were then resents lads threwthat as much banter towards the crowd as for taking away from them.

My partner they did themselves, spitting a catalogue of [playwright Dan Lee] is really out supportive.

After popular songs and above all genuinely enjoying the first six months, I thought, “I can start writing themselves.

Foals the second again”, but the onlyhowever problemmade is getting the time. I night of music one to remember.

Visually would organise a babysitter and the songstheir would lightpour show was and together with just out of amazing, me. It’s cracked me open in a Yannis Philippakis’ on stage energy the scene way.” was mesmerisng. Mountain At My Gates and My Number were obvious crowd favourites, but it was What Went Down which stole the show. Drone like guitar sounds coupled with the song’s final build up made LISA DIB for the biggest explosion of noise the festival had heard.

Onto the last day and it was disappointing to see a lack of support behind Tasmanian electro/pop band Tiger Choir, who are receiving some serious air time from Triple J. Perhaps that was because Alpine were due to start on the Valley Stage 20 minutes into their set. If you looked up the word eccentric in the dictionary, it would read Phoebe Baker and Lou James. The frontwomen of the Melbourne band had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands. Their set was as colourful as their tunes, with melodies behind Gasoline and Hands sounding CD quality. Paul Kelly and The Merri Soul Sessions were flawless; the combination of keys, backing vocals and a setting sun making a legend’s set even more legendary.

One after one remaining acts like RUFUS, Disclosure and Bag Raiders were to dish out a long line of bangers to close the festival. It was hard to distinguish those tunes which stood out from others with the three electro heavyweights, but Omen, You Were Right and Shooting Stars all made the New Year feel like it was offHiggins to the best Oz is out now on Eleven/Universal.

Missy will perform with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at possible start.

Skyfields in West Kentish, near Devonport, on Saturday March 19, 2016. Tickets available fromMark www.skyfields.

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irds and Peacedrums perform at Mofo on January 16 and 17.

Arts ANDREW ON ART:

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS I’M NOT SURE QUITE WHAT THE FIGURES ARE FOR TASMANIA ONLY, BUT NATIONALLY, THERE’S AN ISSUE THAT KIND OF NEEDS ACKNOWLEDGMENT, AND THAT’S TO DO WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS IN AUSTRALIA. HERE’S AN INTERESTING TIDBIT OF INFORMATION: TWICE AS MANY FEMALE ARTISTS GRADUATE FROM ALL THE VARIOUS ART SCHOOLS IN AUSTRALIA AS MALE ARTISTS. HOWEVER, WHEN IT COMES TO WHO IS DOING ALL THE EXHIBITING – WELL, THINGS CHANGE A BIT.

COMEDY:

NICK CODY NICK CODY HASN’T BEEN TO TASMANIA SINCE 2013 AND THAT’S BECAUSE HE’S BEEN SO DAMN BUSY. INSANELY BUSY MAKING PEOPLE LOSE THEIR THINGS THEY LOSE WHEN THEY LAUGH WAY TOO MUCH. HE’S BEEN TO THE EDINBRUGH FESTIVAL WHERE HE GOT A RANGE OF FOUR AND FIVE STAR REVIEWS, AND THAT’S HARD TO DO, HE SHOT A DVD, GOT HIS HEAD SEEN ON CHANNEL 7’S KINNE AND ABC2’S PLEASE LIKE ME, DID GIGS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY (EXCEPT HERE), SUPPORTED US COMEDY LEGEND BILL BURR AS PART OF THE VERY PRESTIGIOUS JUST FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, AND EVEN WENT TO AFGHANISTAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST TO ENTERTAIN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS. SO HE’S KIND OF LEGENDARY, AND HE’S ONLY 27.

Things go the other way, in fact.

If you check out all the exhibitions that were at CAOs Galleries (that’s Contemporary Art Organisations – In Tasmania, that’s Contemporary Art Tasmania) in 2011, about two thirds were male artists. So, what’s going on there is that male arts graduates are getting more shows than female arts graduates, despite there being a lot less male arts graduates. Even if half of those female arts graduates had decided not to pursue making and exhibiting work (although that’s a question in itself), or were making work that just didn’t cut the mustard in terms of being interesting enough to get included in an exhibition, there’s still something not quite right – if that were the case, you’d still expect to see about an even split between male and female artists.

Nick turns up in Hobart at The Clubhouse, at North Hobart’s Republic Bar, on January 21, then scoots up north to Launceston to crack up FRESH Comedy the following night Nick is one of the hottest comedians in Australia right now, he’s rude, he’s very funny and he takes years to get here so if you’re even half inclined to check his set out, do not think, BOOK. Each show features not just Nick doing his thing but some awesome local supports: in Hobart catch Tracy Cosgrove and Stewart Bell, and at Fresh Stewart hosts and is joined by Fresh Sydney comic Marty Bright and Matt Young.

Which you don’t.

Now that little tidbit of information was true in 2011. I’m not too sure what the deal is as the end of 2014 looms up, but a quick glance at the Contemporary Art Tasmania website indicates that it wasn’t too bad there in 2014 – about fourteen men to eleven women were involved in projects that were run through this venerable institution, and there was a goodly number of exhibitions that featured entirely women, so that’s a step in the right direction, but the thing is, that it’s 2014 and we’re still having this conversation.

Does it matter?

ANDREW HARPER See Nick Cody at The Clubhouse, Republic Bar, Hobart on Thursday January 21 and Fresh Comedy, Fresh On Charles, Launceston on Friday January 22.

The Hotelier play Wednesday December 2 at Club 54 in Launceston.

Well, of course it does. If it’s still true that there are still a lot more women graduating from our many art schools, it’s not too much to ask that a policy of gender balance gets put on the table for at the very least our government funded Contemporary Art Organisations. With the sheer volume of graduates available, it should be a no-brainer to have such a policy and still include quality work in our contemporary art spaces.

Because, even if half the female graduates are making terrible stuff or have gone somewhere else or whatever, the overrepresentation figure also assumes that ALL of the guys who graduated are making interesting work, and, sorry, but I’m here to tell you: this is just not the case. There’s some bad art out there, and if it’s mostly men showing the work, then it’s mostly men making the stuff that just ain’t cutting it.

All information came from: www.countesses.blogspot.com.au If you’re interested at all in the participation of women in the arts in Australia, this blog is a great source of information.

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STEWART BELL STEWART BELL IS A TASMANIAN COMEDY LEGEND, A SECRET KING OF LAUNCESTON AND A DECENT HUMAN. WARP HAD A TERRIFIC CHAT WITH A COMEDIAN EVERYONE IN HOBART NEEDS TO SEE MORE OF.

How did a nice bloke like you get into stand up?

How long have you been caressing the mic for?

Thank you for the compliment kind sir! It was a bucket list thing that I did before the other things that go with having a mid-life crisis (divorce, a car I can’t afford, a sudden interest in Coldplay). 4 years on and I’m still the same dick head.

How was your first ever gig?

Intoxicating and also intoxicated .

How was your most recent and do you feel you’ve learned anything between these two moments?

The last one was good fun and the thing I’ve learnt is to just have fun with it. The best gigs are the ones where you just go with the flow and enjoy yourself. Also, I have a rule of 2 beers max before a show now, as opposed to the bottle of wine before my first gig.

You talk about animals a lot - indeed, your genteel tones would sooth many a nervous foal.

Have you ever performed for non-humans?

Animals are the best. Better than a lot of humans. I’m particularly enamoured with dinosaurs, whales, and goats. I would love to perform to some goats one day, especially if they were the fainting variety. I’ve been getting into pangolins heaps lately - they have armour like dinosaurs and walk on their hind legs.

They are incredible, yet sadly the world’s most illegally traded animal due to bullshit Chinese beliefs. I’m hoping that some Hollywood animation studio will do a movie about them so that everyone becomes aware of their plight, before it’s too late.

You’re based in Launceston - how’s comedy going up there?

Awesome! There are some really stellar rooms now with Crash Test Funnies (which is exclusively new material), the long-running Uber Comedy at Red Brick Road Cider bar, and my wife and I run Fresh Comedy which brings some of the best acts in the Country to Launceston. 2016 will also be the 3rd consecutive year we’ve had a RAW comedy heat in Launceston, so there is a bit of momentum in the Launceston scene. I’ve always wanted to use the work burgeoning - so let’s describe it as that.

You seem to road trip to Hobart a lot recently it’s been great to see you all over the shop! Are you Tassie’s most travelled comic?

Most travelled comic/most desperate for a gig... my wife is about to give birth to our first child in Feb, so I imagine the gigs will slow down for a little while. I’m hoping to get some material from it because doing material about your kids is something that hasn’t really been done in the scene before. Ever.

You collect records - which is the most precious and do you have any so precious you don’t actually paly them and does this ever make you question the inherent irony implicit in late capitalist society?

I think they should be played in all their glory and I have quite eclectic taste, from Something to Kate to Soilwork, Deftones to Daryl Braithwaite, Mastodon to Michael Bolton. Choosing a favourite baby is difficult, but all parents really do have a favourite. Mine would probably be my Temple of the Dog original pressing signed by Chris Cornell, who I adore and have a huge, non-sexual man crush on.

If you can look at a window right now, can you see any birds? Do you think that maybe birds are far more intelligent than anyone realises and that maybe they can tweet in morse code, or should I just throw this Redbull out?

There are several ornithological beings outside my window at the moment actually. My office overlooks a football oval and trees. I don’t really like birds that much, but we need them and insects for pollination to keep this beautiful mess of a planet going. They are quite intelligent I think. In fact most birds are easily more adept at using tools than I am. I also know parrots with a vocabulary more extensive than some people. I think you should give them a sip of the Red Bull though because I’m intrigued to see what happens with their wings.

What’s the best gig you’ve done?

Some of my favourites have been the Triceratops show which I did with some other local comedy buddies/wankers, The Clubhouse with Sam Simmons and the Christmas shows at Fresh. Super fun comedy times!

What’s the worst one?

Easily the corporate gig I did for my father in law’s employer...ouch.

Did you know Home and Away has a wikpedia page?

Seriously? That is crushing news. We can clearly do better as a human race. Summer Bay is definitely the most dangerous town in Australia and I strongly encourage people not to visit. I also hear Irene is back on the drink. My mate’s band Bennylava have a series of soapie themed songs that are hilarious. They have one about Home and Away, heartbreak high and neighbours - funny lads well worth checking out.

You’re FAMED for keeping the flame of metrosexuality alive in the hipster era. How much work goes into maintaining the shape of your head on a daily basis?

It’s weird, I think people remember my hair more than my jokes, which speaks volumes about my jokes. My hair doesn’t require anything really on my part but my hairdresser is a legend and also one of the most enduring relationships in my life. She may very well go broke around the time I go bald. This will be a revelation to many people in this hipster era, but believe it or not you can actually get your hair cut differently to everyone else. Pop culture is strange, everything comes full circle and is popular again. Just look at Daryl Somer’s career..

ANDREW HARPER

Stew’s next gig in Hobart is at the Republic Bar, January 21 supporting the awesome Nic Cody, then the next day in Launceston at FRESH Comedy! He sure gets around! Check out FRESH and The Clubhouse on Facebook for all the deets.

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PAIGE TURNER HAPPY NEW YEAR DEAR READERS, I HOPE YOU’RE SURROUNDED BY READING RICHES AND DELIGHTED AT THE PROSPECT OF ‘STARTING AGAIN’ THAT THE INVENTION CALLED A CALENDAR AFFORDS US. NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRIORITISE CHANGES WE ASPIRE TO MAKE, OR ACTIVITIES WE SEEK TO PURSUE – AND AT LEAST A GOOD FEW DAYS OF ATTEMPTING TO CRYSTALLISE WHAT WE FEEL TO TRULY BE IMPORTANT. THE WHOLE PROCESS IS A VALUABLE ONE, REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG THOSE RESOLUTIONS STICK.

Resolutions such as to floss more, and to read more are safe bets and ones that I encourage you to adopt as your own. They are achievable and have positive effects on your health. After much consideration, I seem return to these two again and again, often defying the resolution to floss more, but working tirelessly to read more.

January is a quietish month on the Word Related Events Scene, a scene I’m sure you hadn’t realised deserved capitalisation before, but here you have it, Paige Turner smashing new territory, with every press of the shift key.

What The Scene has on offer includes more Launceston poetry and open mike sessions than you can poke a stick at. Two of them actually, I just wanted to use that expression.

Slamduggery, now hosted by Statik (aka Angus King) is happening on Tuesday 19 of January at Fresh. This is Northern style slam, and includes a musical act and a punching feature set from the winner of their last event, the wonderful Grace Chia. It costs a fiver and you need to be over 18 or at least memorised the star sign of the birthdate of the ID you’ve borrowed, because bouncers always ask for your star sign.

The second Launceston event is with the established Poetry Peddlers who are meeting in Launceston from 7pm on Monday 18 January. This is happening at the Pioneer Lounge, Albert Hall and all are welcome.

The Latte Years, by Tasmanian expat, Philippa Moore, is being launched at Fullers Bookshop on January 28 at 5.30pm. Philippa recounts the apparent iniquity of both being fat and being Tasmanian before she took control of her life, left Tasmania and was acclaimed for her award winning blog Skinny Latte. In this book she tells her tale. It is being launched by Danielle Wood.

And don’t forget, you can support international relations, fight against Islamophobia and get your hands on excellent new writing from Tasmania, Iran and the UK by pledging your support in the last few days of the crowdfunding campaign to help The Third Script from Transportation Press into print. Go forth and pledge! www.pozible.com/ project/202123.

In the middle of January (13-18 to be precise), the South of the state is blessed with Mona Foma and while Neil Gaiman didn’t make the cut this year, Joshua Santospirito and Craig Roque are a unique act that operate in a broad literary sense. They will perform spoken word to graphic

novel images. The graphic novel, The Long Weekend in Alice Springs sets Carl Jung’s ideas about group behaviour against the backdrop of a stark and trouble landscape.

Next March the festival formerly known as Beaconsfield returns in the guise of the Tamar Valley Writers Festival and I look forward to revealing more details about the events as they cross my bow. Confirmed so far are writers, poets and performers such as Favel Parrett, Katherine Johnson, Rohan Wilson, Lindsay Tuffin, SJ Brown, Gina Mercer, Karen Knight, Robert Jarman, Tim Thorne, Ben McKinnon, Nick Clements, Patsy Cameron and Jimmy Everett.

The festival is also running a short story competition celebrating creative writing across the ages. The entry form can be downloaded via the Tamar Valley Writers Festival Website. They are also offering a well-stocked children’s and young adult program, more details of which are available online. Watch this space - www. tamarvalleywritersfestival.com.au/ Holiday reading is often an opportunity to settle in with some mindless entertainment, a crime book that may scare you to hell but offer safe resolution, some sharp and chic chick lit or a piece of froth from a nice English writer. An opportunity to defrag your brain. I tend to use the extended reading that holidays offer to gnaw and chew some more challenging books. The busyness and demands on my reading of working months means they don’t get a look in. Stranger Magic, Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner is on my to finish list and I am about to pop my Proustian cherry, Swanns Way already perched jauntily on my bedside table waiting. The third edition of The Australian Editing Handbook is also close to the top of the pile, a book which may not have a broad audience, but definitely a dedicated one.

Drop me a line if you’ve got something curious and related to story, words or books, I’m always up for a yarn, racheledwards488@gmail.com RACHEL EDWARDS

ANOTHER ART:

LOOKING AT THE GRATIS EXHIBITION.

this. I wonder about that a lot. Is there any discernable difference in motivating forces between this work that is made to sell and another work that is not?

THIS IS NOT A REVIEW BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO REALLY REVIEW GRATIS, A SHOW THAT OCCURRED AT THE PLIMSOLL GALLERY IN HOBART, DOWN AT THE SCHOOL OF ART THERE ON THE DOCKS. I SAW MOST OF IT, SOME OF IT WAS STILL HAPPENING WHEN I ARRIVED, JUST DAYS BEFORE IT WAS QUITE READY FOR PUBLIC SCRUTINY. I’D JUST LIKE TO NOTE IT WAS WORTH LOOKING AT.

There’s a conceit about non-commercial work being more pure and I don’t know if I think that’s really the case, but what I loved about Gratis was that it’s curator, Sam Johnstone did not want to pretend that commerce doesn’t exist, but he did want to think about art that was given freely, outside of a money based exchange.

Something about it made me tremendously happy.

For the last year, all the art I have seen and engaged with, through one medium or another, has been very slick, very professional and very commercial. This is an interesting thing, to engage with art that is part of a commercial framework. There’s a reality that artists need to sell things to live and they need a framework to do

I’m unsure if you can really do that when enclosed by a capitalist society, and if it’s anything beyond a symbolic gesture, but what was important to me, right then and there, was that the gesture was being made at all. I found it heartening, simply because there’s been a real lack of open, well-curated shows that have showcased experimental art and ideas.

The most immediately striking has to be Sally Rees’ chaos magic ritual to summon Bjork. Really. That’s what she wants to do.

She’d like to see Bjork come to Tasmania and using a set personally contrived elements, all rich with symbolism, she has

created a magic ritual designed to attract the elusive musician. This work is simply wonderful – partly because it’s funny and fun, but also because Rees is genuinely hoping it will work: she really would like to see Bjork. Making this as an art work is a marvellous gesture and the idea that art can be magic and that magic can be is very alluring and has some precedent at the edges of art history. It was also important to note how much the present elements of this work influenced my viewing of the other works in this show: the idea that everything was existing as part of noncommerce based exchanges made me want to engage in a different way, and that in itself was interesting.

It isn’t the best show Hobart saw this year but it is one Hobart needed, because there were fresh ideas on offer. If we are to foster a community here that is creative, there needs to be more than commercial exchange. Don’t get me wrong, commercial spaces are vital and many do fine jobs around Hobart, but experiments need to happen as well. Gratis reminded me this is important, and it did so for free.

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PREVIEW:

THEATRE ROYAL 2016 THE NEW YEAR BRINGS AN EXCELLENT VARIETY FOR ALL KINDS OF THEATRE GOERS AT HOBART’S OLDEST AND FINEST LIVE PERFORMANCE VENUE, THE THEATRE ROYAL. CONTEMPORARY LIVE PERFORMANCE HAS NEVER HAD SUCH VARIETY AS YOU’LL SEE IN THE CLASSIC THEATRE ITSELF AND IN THE THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE, WHERE INTIMATE AND EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE HAPPENS.

2016 looks to be a fabulous year for Classic theatre. The Beckett Tryptich, part of MONA FOMA in January, kicks things off with a trilogy of shows from the dark master of 20th Century Theatre, Samuel Beckett. Eh Joe, Footfalls and Krapp’s Last Tape are theatre pared back to essentials and are incredibly demanding for performers to realise, making this powerful show is a rare treat for Hobart audiences. Shake & Stir Theatre’s reputation for masterful adaptations of the classics is upheld in May when their new version of Wuthering Heights arrives, featuring stunning audiovisual work alongside powerful acting. Shakespeare gets a run in August when Bell Shakespeare brings a new version of Othello starring Ra Chong Nee as Othello and Yalin Ozucelik as Lago in a devastating exploration of jealousy.

One of the purest forms of theatre you can see is the classic one-person show format. One actor and an audience means hard work with nowhere to hide and this results in actors at their finest and theatre at it’s most intimate. This year sees a range of one-handers in the Theatre Royal Backspace, an ideal venue for up close and intense theatre. In March one of Hobart’s best, Jeff Michaels brings a show he’s created himself and realised with the aid of some of the best local technical crew, Pedalling Back.

Michaels will use every drop of craft and passion he has to tell a personal story that’s bound to be a highlight for 2016. Another solo performance thrill is Misterman, a story that features a whole Irish town bought to life by one actor, directed by former Hobart Resident Kate Gaul. Gaul has been making waves in Sydney Theatre for years now and getting of taste of where she’s at now as a director is a must see, starting 31st of May. The third one-hander, Death In Bowengabbie happens for two nights only in August, when you’ll

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visit a town with an elderly population who are attempting to outdo one another with elaborate funeral services that are over the top fun. There’s mystery afoot, but don’t worry, actor Bryce Youngman is going to solve everything.

A new script written by a Tasmanian is always something to celebrate. Alison Mann has been working hard for the last few years to give us well crafted scripts filled with surreal ideas and her latest work, The Surgeon’s Hands, is a new play about a Surgeon (oddly enough) who makes his own daughter. Weird and wondrous, this fable of unattainable perfection showcases some of Hobart’s best actors – Robert Jarman, Bryony Geeves and Melissa King – under the class A direction of Annette Downs. Downs has done it all and her work directing Grounded last year was a spectacular proof of a fine talent. It’s going to be an unbeatable combination of talent.

Comedy fans are in for a big year at the Theatre Royal. Kitty Flanagan tours in early February, hitting Hobart on the 5th. Kitty is an Australian comedy legend, being seen in everything great since she became a comedian by accident in 1994. Kitty started out in Full Frontal, did heaps of work with the majestic Shaun Micalleff and has most recently been seen as Rhonda in Working Dog’s razor sharp satire Utopia. Her new live one-Kitty show, Seriously, is around for one night only in Hobart, so book! The safest mixed bag of touring comedy, The Melbourne International Comedy Roadshow crashes into Hobart on May 1st bringing a selection of the hottest and freshest laugh makers in Australia straight from the MICF so if you want bang for your laugh buck this is one to not miss. Also compulsory is The Wharf Revue – this massive comedy institution features comedian’s comedians like Phil Scott and Drew Forsythe. This is the big celebration show for fifteens years of hairtrigger musical satire and

no political party, no aspect of Australian culture will be granted mercy. If you want precision satire, this is where you’ll get exactly what you need, for three nights only from 30th June to 2nd July. The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase arrives with a fantastic selection of emerging talents, national acts and international comedians bring a massive night of big laughs for Hobart’s ever growing comedy audience.

Never Did Me Any Harm is special collaborative work from the Sydney Theatre Company and Force Majeur. Drawn from real-life interviews that delve into the complex contemporary minefield of parenting. In an era where unbelievable pressure is being placed on parents to “get it right” do we really know what “good parenting” even is?

This special performance delves into hard and complicated places with emotional power, and is a necessary and important work for our times. Two shows only, September 8 -9.

They Saw A Thylacine is a beautiful and poignant re-imaging of Australian history. A strange tale of two women who saw the last thylacines in the Thirties, this beautiful story telling show has the qualities of a fable and reminds us all of the power of memory and the finality of extinction. A magical experience for local audiences,They Saw A Thylacine runs for two nights only from March 31st.

Wheeler’s Luck is a raucous play about a town called Bell End. Filled with theatrical energy and magic, watch dumbfounded as three actors bring a town of fifty-five characters to life. A celebration of small towns and the people that call them home, this classic of New Zealand theatre is filling theatres all over Australia. Come and revel in some earthy comedy, ingenious theatre and superb characters. Wheeler’s Luck runs from the 4th to the 14th of May. This is just some of what’s on at Hobart’s premiere live performance venue, there’s far more happening than we could possibly fit in here.

Shows sell out so you’re advised to get in touch and book, and there’s heaps more about all the shows online at www.theatreroyal.com.au.

Ring 03 62332299 (freecall 180 650227 outside of Hobart) email: boxoffice@theatreroyal.com.au for all the information and for all bookings.

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Gallery

performing arts

Guide

Guide

South 146 ARTSPACE Dec 17 – Jan 28 Design Tasmania BETT GALLERY Jan 15 – Feb 1 Sue Lovegrove CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA Jan 13 – Feb 7 exhaust group show: Zanny Beggm Ashley Bird + Josh Foley + Gillina Marsden, Dirk Zde Bruyn, Nancy MauroFlude, Sally Golding, Laura Hindmarsh, Alicia King, Ian Millis, James Newitt, Sally Rees + Rowan Reynolds,Ariana Reines, John Vella, Rehana Zamon Cur: Erin Sickler COLVILLE GALLERY From Jan 9 Jerzy MIchalski From Jan 30 Ian Parry HANDMARK Till Jan 6 Annual Artists Show INKA Till Jan 6 Member’s Christmas Show Jan 7 – 27 Sue Parsons MAC Jan 12 – Feb 2 Clyde MacGill MONA Till Mar 28 Gilbert and George Till Jul 11 Mathieu Briand Till Mar 28 Katthy Cavaliere

Jan 20 – 31 Art +Soul 2 TOP GALLERY Jan 8 - 31 Tobias Grice TMAG Till Jan 17 Panoramic Views Till May 22 Pattern Play

NORTH BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY Till Jan 17 Glen Skein Till Jan 17 Donald Richardson retrospective DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY Till Jan 31 40 years of collecting: Devonport City council permanent collection. Curated

by Ellie Ray and Emily Kennel GALLERY PEJEAN Till Mar 7 Tasmania – group show HANDMARK EVANDALE Jan 2 – Jan 13 Summer Exhibtion – group show QVMAG Till Jan 3150th Anniversary of Winston Churchill Fellowships in Tasmania From Nov 21 Artplay Till Apr 17 Artrage 2015 SAWTOOTH ARI Sawtooth is taking a break in February

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THE REPUBLIC BAR Jan 21 The Clubhouse with Nick Cody

THEATRE ROYAL Jan 23 David Sedaris Jan 30 Full Bush Nick Offerman Feb 5 Kitty Flanagan

FRESH ON CHARLES Jan 22 Fresh Comedy with Nick Cody

THE POLISH CLUB Jan 6 JOKERS with Damian Callinan Jan 13 JOKERS with Mel Buttle Jan 20 JOKERS with Jacques Barrett Jan 27 JOKERS with Darren Sanders THE GRAND POOBAH Jan 11 CULT Comedy

RED BRICK ROAD CIDERHOUSE Jan 13 UBER Comedy

BURNIE ARTS CENTRE Feb 6 Kitty Flanagan

DEVONPORT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Feb 7 Kitty Flanagan

FILM CINEMONA Ends Jan 7 The Audience Ends Jan 10 Florence and The Uffizi Gallery Ends Jan 10 With Gilbert and George Ends Jan 11 Coriolanus Ends Jan 24 Tannhauser

THEATRE THEATRE ROYAL Jan 13 – 17 Beckett Triptych

PENNY CONTEMPORARY Till Jan 5 Carolyn Wigston ROSNY BARN SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY Till Jan 9 Snapshot : celebrating our community SALAMANCA ART CENTRE LIGHTBOX Jan 6 – 31Rahni Allen KELLY’S GARDEN Jan 13 – Feb 24 Amy Speirs & Catherine Ryan LONG GALLERY Till Jan 6 Images of Tasmania 18 Jan 9 – 17 Linda Crispin, Mia DonnetJones, Sabrina Evans, Eleanor Morgan, Eva Nilssen, Toby Riseley, Shireen Taweel, and Milly Yencken.

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exhaust Exhaust is a massive collection of really excellent artists doing some very odd stuff. It’s a project curated by Erin Sickler, a writer and curator from upstate New York. It’s a project that investigates well, exhaustion: “it seems that where I go I am inundated these days with tales of people, places, and objects reaching states of exhaustion under constant pressure to produce, extract, expand and consume” is observation Erin Sickler made, and she’s asked a really diverse group of artists to have at it. What they’re going to come up with is bound to be fascinating, so WARP says go check this one out. The show itself is not going to be static, but will bleed out of the gallery into online spaces, small run publications, and all kinds of other stuff. This sounds weird enough to eat, and as it’s a part of MONA FOMA 2016 that seems about right. exhaust is at Contemporary Art Tasmania and is bound to spread like some kind of aware slime mould, so go look at before it crawls up your leg.

CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA January 13 – February 14. Opening shindig January 12 at 6.30pm. Get along.

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

JANUARY Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

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7

8

9

10

11

12

13

The Homestead

Funknukl and Friends

Birdcage Bar

The Timeless Stompers 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Tim Scanlan + Toshi Bodhran (vic)

Brunswick Hotel

Two Peas

Brunswick Hotel

Billy & Jamie

Grand Poobah

Republic Bar & Café

Brad Martin Project + South Pines 8:30pm

The Homestead

Sea Shanti’s with Dave Elliston

Loose Fit: Violet Swells, Spiral Kites, Peak Body, Filthy Little Star PLUS DJs: Carvis Jocker, The Stan DJ Show, Popsie Cool, Puffypank & Sweatypits 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Couch Club 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Lisa Pilkington Duo 9pm

The Homestead

Aus. Songwriters Assoc. Wax Lyrical

Brisbane Hotel

Brett Collidge 6pm

Waterfront Hotel

Billy Whitton 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

(Back) Fatty Esther + JAX + Dan Vandermeer

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Hunted Crow (Vic)

Brunswick Hotel

Tori & Sean

Lauderdale Football Club

Dirtturtles (all ages)

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

Girl Friday 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Shaun Kirk + Leo Creighton + Jed Appleton + DJ Cheek E Cherry 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby / Big Swifty

The Apple Shed

Ben Salter, Lucie Thorne, Van Walker (Free!) 6pm

The Homestead

Acoustic Shmoostic - Fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. The Finale.

The Yard

DJ Mad

(Front) Brad Martin Project (Vic) + South Pines (Vic)

Brunswick Hotel

Sean & Nikayla

Claremont Hotel

Karaoke - DJ Dazz 7pm

Grand Poobah

TasPop Fundraiser: a night of game music and multiplayer videogames 7pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

Carl Wockner 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Yesterday’s Gentlemen 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

The Apple Shed

Candice McLeod 6pm

The Homestead

White Rose Project, Spiral Kites + Radio Silence

The Yard

Dane Connor

Waterfront Hotel

Australian Made 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

(Back) Manchester Mourning + Catsuit + The Sunday League

Brisbane Hotel

(Front) Moon Dogs + Smooth Cunts + Valiums

Friday

Saturday

14

Acts / Start Time

Brisbane Hotel

Brisbane Hotel

Thursday

Venue

15

16

Waterfront Hotel

Ebeneza Good 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

(Back) Horizons Edge (vic) + Taberah + Taurus + Randomorder + Sludko

Brisbane Hotel

(Front) Amaringo (Qld) + Peak Body

Brunswick Hotel

Jensen

Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer

Frankie’s Empire

Van Walker, Lucie Thorne

Grand Poobah

The Mash Up: Chunk E, Menz, Alan Guy & Lachy Goss 9pm

Grand Poobah

Lazertits (melb), A Swayze & The Ghosts & Shards 9pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Joe’s Garage

Dirtturtles

Onyx Bar

Matt & Abby 9pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 7pm

Onyx Bar

Ebeneza Good 9pm

Queen Victoria Powder Magazine

Omahara + support TBC 7pm

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Jimmy Peters and the Pan-Tones 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

24Seven 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Serotonin

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

The Homestead

JP Debut EP Part 1 + Support

The Homestead

The Paybacks + More TBC

The Yard

DJ Mad

The Yard

KOWL

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ 10/4 & The Ramblin Rubber Duck

Claremont Hotel

Waterfront Hotel

Merkin Brothers 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

(Back) Confession (vic) + Graves (NZ) + Alpha Wolf + Depths + Slow Descent

Jerome Hillier 2pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo with The Ramblin Turducken

Republic Bar & Café

Bianca & Hutch 8:30pm

Claremont Hotel

Tony Voglino 2pm

The Homestead

Hannah and Dana

Republic Bar & Café

Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions - Awesome DJs from 3pm

Beergarden Party with Live Music - FREE EVENT 2:30pm

Waterfront Hotel

Glen Challice 12:30pm Carl Wockner 4pm

Republic Bar & Café

Clare Quinn 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Crowther

Republic Bar & Café

The Tarik Stoneman + Sam Forsyth Sessions 8:30pm

Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions - Awesome DJs from 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Jerome Hillier 12:30pm Manhatten 4pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

G.B. Balding 8:30pm

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Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Georgia Spain & Maddy Jane 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Sign 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Quiz-A-Saurus

Brisbane Hotel

Mexi-Cantina

Republic Bar & Café

Dean Stevenson 8:30pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby

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Wednesday

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The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia

Birdcage Bar

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Mexi-Cantina

Event Guide

Date

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

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22

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24

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Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart

Thursday

Grand Poobah

Jackson Dyer & Friends 8:30pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

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Venue

Acts / Start Time

Birdcage Bar

Les Coqs 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - Smith Street Band (Vic) + Fear Like Us (Vic) + Loose Tooth (Vic)

Brunswick Hotel

Two Peas

Grand Poobah

NOFX Afterparty 11pm

Republic Bar & Café

SHAKE ‘N’ BAKE: Featuing Boo Seeka + Bootleg Rascal + DJs + Special Guests 9pm

The Homestead

Billy Whitton

Waterfront Hotel

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

18+ - Smith Street Band (Vic) + Fear Like Us (Vic) + Loose Tooth (Vic)

The Homestead

Funknukl and Friends

Birdcage Bar

James Maddock 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Billy & Jamie

Republic Bar & Café

Mumbo Gumbo 8:30pm

The Homestead

Mama Smooth

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brunswick Hotel

Nick Machin

Brisbane Hotel

The Roobs Dan Vandermeer

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Brunswick Hotel Grand Poobah

Christian James, SkurgeOne, Leeze The Kid (QLD), Stray, Dirturtles, Reflekt, Jesta MC (QLD) & DJ Two Toes 9pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tim Davies / Entropy

The Apple Shed

Montz Matsumoto 6pm

The Yard

DJ Mad

Waterfront Hotel

Girl Friday 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

18+ - Northlane (NSW) + Bare Bones (NSW) + Actuality

Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

Manhatten 9pm

Pier One

Les Coqs 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Raccoons + The Revtones 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

The Yard

Dane Connor

Waterfront Hotel

The National Average 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

The Darlings 9pm

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Republic Bar & Café

Australian Made 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

The Apple Shed

Ryan Garth & Emily Wolfe 6pm

The Homestead

Ben Salter

The Yard

Dane Connor

Waterfront Hotel

Blue Monday 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

(Back) Luca Brasi + Endless Heights (NSW) + Brawlers (UK) + The Saxons

Brisbane Hotel

(Front) Black Vat Trio (Vic) + Craicpot + Lordy Lordy + Danger Trails

Brunswick Hotel

Tori & Sean

Grand Poobah

Bob Log III in the Main Room 9pm

Grand Poobah

Woe, Lucky Dips and Lizard Johnny in the Kissing Room 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - Northlane (NSW) + Bare Bones (NSW) + Knife Hands

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Brisbane Hotel

Onyx Bar

Blue Monday 9pm

Pier One

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 7pm

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan, The Raunchy Ricochet Rambunctious Rang Dang Diddly Fang Bang Wu Tan Clan Mang

Republic Bar & Café

Road Kill 10pm

Claremont Hotel

Tony Voglino 2pm

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

Republic Bar & Café

Zuma 2:30pm

The Yard

DJ Mad

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks and The Blue Licks 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

The Homestead

Nick Ashwood Trio

Brisbane Hotel

The Sabbath w/ Roakill + Maestro Koko

Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions - Awesome DJs from 3pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Dog Box

Waterfront Hotel

Billy Whitton 12:30pm Jerome Hillier 4pm

Claremont Hotel

Jerome Hillier 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Blue Flies 8:30pm

The Homestead

Peter Joseph Head

Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions - Awesome DJs from 3pm

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino 12:30pm Tim & Scott 4pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Darlings 8:30pm

Tuesday

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Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Wednesday

27

Birdcage Bar

Shoe Box 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Mexi-Cantina

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - Surreal Estate Agents + Art School Bullies + Jensen + Staircase

Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo and the Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Homestead

Funknukl and Friends

Saturday

Sunday

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Event Guide

Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date JANUARY

CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Club 54

Turbulence, Between the Lions, The Jugular Band, Brodygreg

Friday

8

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Fairy Tales and Pirate Sails 5:30pm

The Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - Jive Dogs 6pm 9pm Matinee Show

Saturday

9

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Carl Wockner 9pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Glenn Skuthorpe 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

The Smoking Elmores 9:30pm

Watergarden Bar

The Firebirds 7pm

Club 54

Basin Concert After Party

Thursday

14 Devonport

Molly Malones

Jerome Hillier 8:30pm

Friday

15 Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - S+M+H Trio

Mandi’s Glitter Tattoo’s 5:30pm

Tonic Bar

Nic & Carmel 8pm

Saturday

16 Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver 7pm Devonport

Molly Malones

The Unit 9:30pm

Thursday

21 Devonport

Molly Malones

Phil Micale 8:30pm

Friday

22 Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Magician 5:30pm

Saturday

23 Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Phil Micale 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

The Collection 9:30pm

Public Bar - Jericho Jack (Mary Shannon)

Thursday

28 Devonport

Molly Malones

The Firebirds - Duo 8:30pm

Lip Sync Battle #3

Friday

29 Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Mandi’s Face Painting 5:30pm

JANUARY Friday

Saturday

Wednesday

Thursday

8

9

13 Club 54

Saturday

Public Bar - Catherine Davies 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm

14 Bakers Lane

15 Club 54

Marshmelody showcase

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - When She Believes Female Showcase 8:30pm

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 7pm

16 Club 54

Tonic Bar

Brendon & Janelle 8pm

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 7pm

Wednesday

20 Club 54

The Royal Oak

Van Walker & Lucie Thorne (House Concert) Public Bar - Open Folk Session 5pm The Local @ Club 54: Third Degree, The Sleepyheads, Brad Gillies, Josh Durno

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Julio Mathew 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 6:30pm

21 Bakers Lane The Royal Oak 22 Club 54

The Brew: Lilyana Sanoe, Josh Durno, Lisa Tedeschi Public Bar - The Hat and The Horn (Carl Bulow) 9pm The Harry Potter Party

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Lennin Mkarthey 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Sambo 7pm

23 Club 54

Christian James, Leeze The Kid, Those Guys, Stray, Dirturtles, Remarcable, Jesta MC

Tonic Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

Watergarden Bar

The Firebirds - Duo 7pm

Sunday

24 The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Session 5pm

Monday

25 The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Luca Brasi - Aeroplane Tour 9pm

Tuesday

26 Watergarden Bar

Rino & Hank Koopman

Wednesday

27 Club 54

Th Local @ Club 54: Turbulence, New Wave Saints, Pat Broxton, Tiarni Cane

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Ratfunk 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

28 Bakers Lane

Ben Salter, Lucie Thorne, Van Walker

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Brad Gillies Blues 9pm Public Bar - S+M+H Trio 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Adam Page 7pm

30 Club 54

The Smith Street Band, Fear Like Us, Loose Tooth

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Max Hillmen Showband 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 7pm

31 The Royal Oak

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Sunday

Live At The Wharf: Ben Salter, Lucie Thorne, Van Walker

JANUARY Friday 1st Closed - New Year’s Day Saturday 2nd Men From Earth - Touring (Pale Riders) 9PM Tamar Boat Shed Sunday 3rd Wednesday 6th Nick Chugg + Friends ~ 9PM Thursday 7th Matthew Dames ~ 9PM Public Bar Friday 8th Jive Dogs 6PM-9PM Matinee Show / Glenn Skuthorpe 9PM TBS / PB

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Trevor Weaver 9pm

Saturday 9th S+M+H Trio Public Bar

Devonport

Molly Malones

Durturtles 9:30pm

Sunday 9th Open Folk Session ~ 5PM Public Bar

Sheffied

Mountain Mumma

Ben Salter, Lucie Thorne, Van Walker

TBC

Ben Salter, Lucie Thorne, Van Walker

30 Latrobe

31 Mole Creek

Wednesday 13th Catherine Davies ~ 9PM Public Bar Thursday 14th Jericho Jack (Mary Shannon) ~ Public Bar Friday 15th When She Believes ~ Female Showcase 8.30PM Public Bar Saturday 16th Dave Adams + The Sugar Cane Church 9PM Public Bar Sunday 17th Open Folk Session ~ 5PM Public Bar Wednesday 20th Julio Mathew ~ 9PM Public Bar Thursday 21st The Hat and The Horn (Carl Bulow) ~ 9PM Public Bar Friday 22nd Lennin Mkarthey ~ 9PM Public Bar Saturday 23rd TBC 9PM TBC Sunday 24th Open Folk Session ~ 5PM Public Bar Monday 25th LUCA BRASI - AEROPLANE TOUR ~ 9PM Public Bar Wednesday 27th Ratfunk ~ 9PM Public Bar Thursday 28th Brad Gillies Blues ~ 9PM Public Bar Friday 29th S+M+H Trio ~ 9PM Public Bar Saturday 30th Max Hillmen Showband ~ 9PM Public Bar Sunday 31st Blues Jam 1PM / Open Folk Session ~ 5PM TBS / PB

Northlane, Bare Bones, Zeolite

The Royal Oak

The Royal Oak

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The Brew: The Art of Surviving, Emmanuel Perez, Lauren Hawkins

Fresh on Charles

29 Club 54

Ulverstone Ulverstone Wharf

James Zabiela + Microlot (Live) + Matty C + Synjon Fraser + Roger Davis 6pm Public Bar - Dave Adams + The Sugar Cane Church 9pm

17 St Mary’s

Saturday

Rockaoke! Volume #1

The Royal Oak

Sunday

Friday

The Brew: Pat Broxton, Tom Fowkes, Denni Sulzberger

Fresh on Charles

The Boathouse

Thursday

The Local @ Club 54: Cardinels, Run To Versii, Timmyhasheart, Sara Wright

The Royal Oak

The Royal Oak Friday

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