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Carus Thur 3 Jan
Matiu Te Huki (NZ) Sat 12 Jan
The Lachy Doley Group Thur 24 Jan
Hot Potato Band Fri 1 Feb
JANUARY 2018 Thursday 3rd 9pm Carus $10pre/$15door Friday 4th 9.30pm Karavana Flamenca Saturday 5th 10pm The Outfit Sunday 6th 2.30pm The Great Anticipaters Sunday 6th 8.30pm Layts & JD Monday 7th Closed - Happy New Year! Tuesday 8th 8pm Graham Rix Wednesday 9th 8.30pm Tim & Scott Thursday 10th 8.30pm Tennyson King Friday 11th 10pm Roadkill (CD Launch) + Rogue Sharks + Jax & The Wayward $5 Saturday 12th 10pm Matiu Te Huki (NZ) + Boil Up $10pre/$15door Sunday 13th 3pm-midnight Swaz & The Benjamins W/ Special Guests - 'Daze Gone Bye' EP Entry by donation to Cancer Council Monday 14th 8pm Montz Matsumoto Tuesday 15th 8pm Ben Fowler Wednesday 16th 8.30pm Tim Scanlan Thursday 17th 8.30pm This Way North Friday 18th 10pm Boogieman
Saturday 19th 10pm Hobart Funk Collective $5 Sunday 20th 2pm-8pm An Evening For Eleanor - Beergarden Festival fora great cause $5 8.30pm Vice Captains Monday 21st 8pm Tarik Stoneman Tuesday 22nd 8pm Pat Bereche Wednesday 23rd 8.30pm Tim & Scott Thursday 24th 9pm The Lachy Doley Group $18pre/$20door Friday 25th 10pm Australian Made $5 Saturday 26th 10pm TBA Sunday 27th 2.30pm Blue Flies 3pm Beer Garden Party: Lamb on the Spit + Music by Daniel Townsend 8.30pm Dave Wilson Band Monday 28th 8pm Ross Sermons Tuesday 29th 8pm Sam Forsyth Wednesday 30th 8.30pm The Foley Trio Thursday 31st 8.30pm Maja
FEBRUARY Friday 1st 10pm Hot Potato Band $25pre/$30door Saturday 2nd 10pm Sugartrain $5
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News in Brief MARATHON OF MUSIC For those who dig endurance, the place to be for the next month will be Mona, camped out on the lawns listening to Jazz and a bunch of other musical genres. Running daily from lunch to 6.30pm each day from till the end of January, Mona's 42 Day Music Marathon finishes up this month. If the weather’s nice, the music is on the lawns and free. If it’s crap, it will be inside the museum as part of the standard museum entry. For a daily update of who is playing head to the website - www.mona.net.au.
celebration revolves around the songs which have made the biggest impact on the lives on the hundreds of thousands of triple j listeners all over the world. Voting for the Hottest 100 opens Monday December 10, and closes Tuesday January 22, with the countdown kicking off at midday on Sunday January 27. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT PNAU
TWO/4 HOURS OF AWESOME. Saturday January 12 will see an epic 24hour electronic dance event taking place, TWO/4 Festival 2019 promises to envelop you in a unique musical and sensory experience. Situated in picturesque Springfield, nestled within the Tasmanian highlands, and appealing to like-minded individuals with appreciation and love for electronic music. It’ll be a showcase of Tasmanian and national talent in a breathtaking location. On the bill are Jensen Interceptor, Made in Paris and Lex Deluxe (all from NSW) plus 18 acts from the top shelf of Tasmanian talent. It’s a BYO (no glass bottles) event, with camping encouraged. For tickets and more information, head to www.ticketbooth. com.au, or check the facebookz. COOL GARDEN TIMES The best place to be on a long hot Summer afternoon will be under the cool shade of a tree in the Botanical Gardens. Saturday January 26 will be the second year of Aus Day in the Gardens, with a selection of Hobart’s top musicians performing on the lawns from 1pm through to the early evening. Hear the sounds of Tim and Scott, Billy Whitton and Kate Baker, Mamma Smooth, Moccane, The Racoons and The Outfit as you relax with a drink and food from a selection of Hobart’s best food vans. Entry is $5 on the gates.
On the back of scoring a history making third ARIA Award for Best Dance Release, multi-platinum selling LA based Australian electro pop pioneers, PNAU, have announced that they will be returning to Australia for select headline festival dates. On top of this, comes the amazing news that they will now be including a one off massive show in Forth (crazy, huh!) at The Bridge Hotel, within their specially designated ‘Out The Back’ stage. Camping overnight is encouraged and is free of charge at the Forth Recreation Ground Oval. It’s all going down on Sunday January 6, and tickets are already on sale via Moshtix. Only $62+BF, this one is gonna be mega, so jump on it! COOL NAME, COOLER MUSIC
ring of the gritty, earthy roots of rock and roll. A high energy and mesmerizing live performer playing music that has the emotional sweetness of the blues with a rock and roll sensibility. Tennyson King is an international touring act from Hong Kong and Canada. In 2017 Tennyson King embarked on his first Australian Tour playing over 100 shows, highlights include playing at MONA, and performances with Paul Dempsey, Yirrmal, and Brad Marr. In January, Tennyson King will be returning to Tasmania to play a string of shows, including Wednesday January 9 at The Royal Oak in Launceston, Thursday January 10 at The Republic Bar in Hobart, Friday January 11 at Willie Smith’s Apple Shed in Grove, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 at MONA, an evening show at the Brisbane Hotel also on Saturday 12 and Monday 14 at Brookfield Estate in Margate.
extravaganza will be hosted by Queen VHS, and will feature the likes of SteezE, BALTIMORE, Dispraze, Puffy Pank, Odd Ones Out, Mambo Afro Trio, and Bladel on the support tip. A fundraiser for the Cancer Council Tasmania, entry is by donation! The Daze Gone Bye vinyl will be available on the day, along with Men’s and Women’s Tees, and download code stickers. Sounds like it’s gonna be a right ol’ jam, so get amongst it! SPUDS.
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Irish/Canadian folk sensation, Irish Mythen recently announced her fifth tour down under, so best hold on to your hat! Renowned for her electrifying performances, Irish can hold a crowd, be it 50 or 50,000 people, right in the palm of her hand with just a guitar, her monumental voice, refreshingly subversive lyrics and wicked wit in tow. This time around, Irish is bringing her inimitable foot-stomping, soulshaking show to almost every adultcontemporary music festival in the southern hemisphere, from Woodford Folk Festival to Bluesfest, with intimate shows in capital cities and regional towns in between, including a show at Hobart’s Rosny Barn on Thursday January 10.
Over the past 4 of their 9 years, Hot Potato Band have seen an unprecedented evolution. Beginning their journey as roving street performers, the 10-piece band from Sydney have been twice around the literal and figurative block. They’re proud of their all acoustic line up. The absence of electronic instrumentation has set them apart from many other acts and continues to tie them to their roving roots, but not to the stage. The bands energy is released through an amalgamation of catchy music and lyrics, infectious dance moves, and audience interaction. If you’d like to be a part of the audience they interact with, you can do that at the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart on Friday February 1. Tickets available via Moshtix or at the venue. DREAMS COME TOGETHER
STILL HOT On Sunday January 27, Triple j will be counting down the Hottest 100 songs of the year, as voted by the kinds of people that vote for these kinds of things. Then on the public holiday, Monday January 28, they’ll back it up with the songs that just missed out, the Hottest 200. The
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Tennyson King – it’s a name that evoked notions of classic, literary depth and majesty. But is also has the hallowed
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at The Hobart Uni Bar on Friday February 1. For what has been talked about for years, the two bands have finally managed to align their diaries for a co-headline tour, both with still fresh 2018 releases, It Comes and Goes for Dream on Dreamer and The Getaway Plan’s Dark Horses, which debuted at #10 on the Aria charts. Along for the ride is Victorian act, Ocean Sleeper. Tickets available from Oztix.
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Formed in 1986 by guitarist Dom Turner, Backsliders quickly became festival favourites, a tag they carry to this day, over thirty years later. The line-up boasts the drumming talents of the legendary Rob Hirst, along with the harmonica attack of Ian Collard. It’s a lineup that carries serious weight, not just on the Australian blues scene, but across genres and styles the world over. The latest release, Heathen Songbook, the band’s 14th to date, is a varied and eclectic mix of 21st century original blues as well as a number of versions of songs by artists as diverse as Robert Johnson, Dock Boggs, and John Fogerty. They’ll be appearing at the Forth Valley Blues Fest, and also playing the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart on Sunday March 17 (afternoon show). Presale tickets for the Hobart show are $20 with door sales $25.
Drummers are often the butt of jokes, but occasionally there is one that can dish out more than he gets. Steve Hughes has successfully transitioned from hitting the skins in such classic Australian metal bands, Slaughter Lord, Mortal Sin and Nazxul to become an international famed comedian. Often referred to as the ‘Heavy Metal Comedian,’ Hughes has carved a niche in the world comedy circuit, touching on the issues of capitalism, politics, religion and war in his satire with a good dose of philosophy for good measure. See Hughes at Comedy Command at the Hobart Uni Bar on Saturday February 16. Tickets available from www.comedycommand. BUST OUT THE CHAMPAGNE
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2018 has been a mammoth first year for Tropical F*ck Storm! They released a run of limited edition 7inch vinyl, and their anarchic, apocalyptic debut LP A Laughing Death in Meatspace to worldwide critical acclaim. A sold-out national tour, a number of radio feature albums, and a trip to the “United States of A Massacre” (ooo, topical), that saw them opening for indie rock legends Modest Mouse and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (who they have just finished a sold out Aus tour with). Throughout March 2019 they’ll be heading out on yet another national single tour, and this time they’ll be hitting the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart. Friday March 22 is the date, www.oztix.com.au is the ticket outlet.
Ol’ Matt Corby is back at it. His recent release of Rainbow Valley was accompanied by the announcement of a headline tour, his first in two years, in March and April. The 6-week tour takes in all capital cities but also visits regional areas. Matt and his band will play songs from the new album to Australian audiences for the first time since his headline Telluric Tour in 2016, which sold 80,000 tickets worldwide. The Rainbow Valley tour visits Tasmania on Tuesday April 23 with a stop at the Odeon Theatre in Hobart. Tickets are available now via Oztix, and will set you back $81.50.
Peking Duk are returning in 2019 with their “Biggest Tour Ever”. After selling out The Wasted Tour across Australian capital cities, Peking Duk will share the epic live show and reveal brand new music to 50,000 fans across capital cities and regional areas. Over 3 months starting in March, The Biggest Tour Ever will hit all corners of the country, including stops in Launceston and Hobart. On Friday April 26 they’ll be at The Saloon Bar in Launceston, and on Saturday April 27 they’ll be playing The Goods Shed in Hobart. Only limited tickets are left, which you can access by joining their mailing list at www. pekingduk.com.
ROSNY FARM ARTS CENTRE: SUMMER SERIES Raise a glass to Daniel Champagne, one of Australia's leading lights in acoustic music, has recently made the move to North America to expand his career. The story goes that the young Australian singer, songwriter and one-of-a-kind guitar virtuoso first picked up his instrument of choice as a five-year-old following in the footsteps of a musical father. He began writing songs at 12, training classically throughout his teens and performing solo wherever he could, honing his craft and developing what would become the dynamite live show that he is renowned for today. At 18 he left school, turned professional and hit the road. Not forgetting his Australian roots, Daniel will be touring Tasmania early April with shows in Hobart, Launceston, Sheffield and Cygnet. Check Daniel's website for more information, www. danielchampagnemusic.com.
‘IT’S JUST A BRIDGE, GET OVER IT!’ Irish Mythen (Canada)
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“I should also note that it’s important to remind people of the difference between nationalism and patriotism.” Miller explains, when asked about the cringe- or worse- surrounding ideas of ‘Australian pride’. “National identity, individual identity, pop cultural history, sociology, politics... these are all subject matters we explore and investigate through our music, and it comes out in all forms. We usually describe ourselves often as multi-sensory.”
policies, I think that would be quite polarising. You can have a thorough interest in politics without having to tow a line. I treat the nightly news as an installment in a soap opera, just as one might sit down and not miss The Bold and the Beautiful. It’s hilarious- on par with Game of Thrones. That kind of Les Patterson larrikinism, they’re all themes we love. It’s part of Australiana, our politicians are these kind of boozy larrikins.”
what I do to relax. I write every night for at least an hour.” “I do the music side and Monte does lyrics; I’ll make a loop of something funky and if Monte likes it, if it catches his ear, he’ll write some lyrics for it. Then we go from there.”
“I look at some of our nation’s great culturally significant icons, like Barry Humphries or Germaine Greer or Clive James or any musician for that matter, and it’s as if they did experience the cultural cringe, and they had to go abroad because it would’ve been quite insufferable growing up and seeing the big wide world from Australia. You would’ve wanted to get out and I can sympathise with that. But our generation, there’s so much cultural capital that people who have come before us have created, you’d be crazy to even consider something like cultural cringe now. I think that we live in a connected world nowadays, this idea of fantasizing a grand European history, it doesn’t add up anymore. A lot of people have realised, ‘oh, it’s an amazing country’.”
The band are constantly working on new music (their last album was their 2016 debut smash LP Diplomatic Immunity), but also have- because, why the hell not?- their own fashion line, Client Liaison Deluxe Line- something they consider a natural extension of their aesthetic and creativity.
“My mother worked at Wrest Point when it first opened in the ‘70s. She worked with Honey Bacon, the late Premier Jim Bacon’s wife. He was the Premier in the mid to late ‘90s [19982004]. I’ve got a bit of love for Wrest Point Casino. I don’t mind table gaming, but I don’t like slot machines. Wrest Point is fantastic, it should be heritage listed; the decor is amazing. There’s this bar downstairs called the Birdcage Bar, and the restaurant on the roof is a revolving restaurant- there’s nothing more ‘80s than a revolving restaurant. I reckon it’s very overlooked.”
Although they frequently invite members of federal parliament to their shows, the guys don’t feel to necessarily share their political beliefs and ideas.
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IT’S MORE THAN JUST CLIENT LIAISON’S FASHION CHOICES THAT COME FROM THE 1980S. THE TWO MELBOURNE LADS- VOCALIST MONTE MORGAN AND KEYBOARDIST/ PRODUCER HARVEY MILLER- CONSIDER THE 80S A HIGH POINT FOR CLASSIC AUSTRALIANA. CULTURALLY, POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY, AESTHETICALLY- YOU CAN EASILY SAY THAT THE 80S WERE AN INTERESTING TIME, AND CERTAINLY CEMENTED AN IDEA OF A CERTAIN KIND OF AUSTRALIAN-NESS. WHEN I CHAT TO MILLER, HE’S WORKING ON A COVER OF GREAT SOUTHERN LAND.
“The relationship between fashion and music is entangled, you can’t untangle them.” Miller says. “It was a great way to extend the Client Liaison narrative; we like to sell experiences and tell this story. Client Liaison continues with the fashion line; if you look at some of the garments, we took inspiration from the Sheraton Mirage, Christopher and Pixie Skase, the histories that interest us.”
“If I wanna relax, I sit down and make music. That’s not work, that’s the holiday; touring is the work and photoshoots and meetings and stuff like that, none of that is too much fun. Writing is
Miller also had a real fondness for, of all things, the Wrest Point Hotel Casino (opened in 1973, with still very much an 80s feel to it.)
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Client Liaison play The Goods Festival on Saturday January 26 at Hobart City Hall with SAFIA, E^ST, and Bootleg Rascal. Tickets available from Moshtix.
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“This came about because of my work with Matt Walker, one of Australia’s true bluesman.” Perkins explains, on how Fat Rubber Band came to be. “He’s a great musician, I’ve known him for a long time, but only recently started working with him. I guess it came about when... we’ve always shared a love for an artist called Link Wray, we’ve talked about his music over the years. I picked up a copy of his album, Beans and Fatback, and I took a picture and sent it to Matt to say, ‘look what I got’, and he wrote back: ‘we should make an album like that’ and that was it! It was on. We started recording this album and we slapped the name Fat Rubber Band on it. It just sounds interesting, surprised it hasn’t been used before.” Beasts of Bourbon’s new moniker arose more or less from the deaths of two Beasts band members: one of the founding members, Spencer P Jones, who died in August 2018 of liver cancer, and Brian Hooper, who played with the band until 2008, died of lung cancer in April 2018. Perkins says that new material from the remaining members wasn’t intentional, but a result of their shared grief and history. “Whenever somebody is unwell in the rock and roll business, we do a fundraiser benefit and get them some money to help them through. It’s also an opportunity to pay tribute to these people. At Brian’s fundraising concert, he had terminal lung cancer and he was determined to play at his own benefit, and he did! Beasts of Bourbon played, and Brian played in a wheelchair and an oxygen mask. It was inspirational.”
THE PATRON SAINT OF AUSTRALIAN PUB ROCK, TEX PERKINS HAS HAD MORE IRONS IN THE FIRE THAN A BLACKSMITH. CURRENTLY, HIS ROSTER FEATURES TEX PERKINS AND THE FAT RUBBER BAND, A BLUES-ROCK PROJECT WITH MATT WALKER, AS WELL AS A NEWLY-REBRANDED BEASTS OF BOURBON, KNOWN SIMPLY NOW AS ‘THE BEASTS’.
“After that it seemed like we thought, ‘let’s go to a studio one last time’. Brian died exactly a week after his benefit; everyone gathered for his funeral, so we were all together and we went into a studio the next day. The intention was just to be together in that context, enjoying each other and we didn’t really think ‘let’s make an album’. I really didn’t expect anything to come out of it. We thought we’d record a Brian song; Spencer was very ill, but he played on one song. Everyone had been in the Beasts of Bourbon before, but that combo hadn’t worked together before; it was this new combination. We recorded this music and it was ridiculously strong, it’s really strong, concerted together music. It all came out of this situation. The music and songs are about the whole situation. It’s a tribute to Brian and Spencer and there’s also a lot of selfreflection of the Beasts of Bourbon. About the consequences of the lifestyle of the band.” “The name change is really about...Beasts of Bourbon was a band I started with Spencer, that was a constant through different lineups. Now he’s gone, it’s not the Beasts of Bourbon, but it is of the Beasts of Bourbon. With respect to Spencer, I had to draw a line, but I had to pay tribute to how good the work of these musicians is.” As well as his appearance at the Huon Blues & Roots Festival with Fat Rubber Band, Perkins will also slip in a gig at the Taste of Tasmania, doing a jazz spot. “I’ll be singing jazz songs on New Years’ Eve. I’m the type of guy that says, ‘yeah, I’ll give that
a go’. I do love the music and the songs I’ve selected, I lean towards the work of Nina Simone and Frank Sinatra.” Tex Perkins has been plugging away across the country- massive halls and country pubs and all the glory in between- since the early eighties, and he’s becoming torn between his long-running desire to play, rock out and entertain, and the reality of his energy and the toll of the rock and roll lifestyle. But he’ll never stop being Tex. “I have loved the variety of my career. The last ten, fifteen years I’ve done all sorts of things. It comes from being around for a while, but I reckon I’m getting a reputation: “Get that guy, he’ll do anything!” (laughs). I’d like to slow down a bit. I’d like to do a bit less, but I don’t see any reason to. I’ll always create music. I don’t see any reason to stop that. I could certainly see a time when I don’t feel like travelling anymore.” LISA DIB
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WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE BEATLES SONG? THE ANSWER IS IRRELEVANT, THE MAIN POINT IS THAT YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE BEATLES SONG. EVERYONE DOES. AND WHILST WE CAN ACCEPT THAT WE WON’T EVER SEE THE BAND PERFORM, A TRIBUTE IS A WONDERFUL WAY TO REVEL IN THE MUSIC OF A BAND LONG PAST. SCOTT TARGETT HAS ORCHESTRATED A SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEART’S CLUB TRIBUTE AND YOUR NOT GOING TO WANT TO MISS IT.
How did you think of the idea to do a Sergeant Pepper’s Tribute? I’d always thought it would be fun and challenging to cover a classic album from start to finish so when Sgt Pepper turned 50 in 2017 I decided to take that opportunity to put a band together. I think we managed to play a show about one week before the album turned 51. Have you ever done anything like this before? Never. You’ve got some great guest vocalists! How did they get on board? Chris (Coleman) was the first person I mentioned the project to and, to my relief, he was very enthusiastic about it. So, we sat down and made a ‘dream list’ of locals who we thought would be a good fit. I guess I’m lucky The
Beatles wrote such a fantastic album because everyone we’ve asked to join has said yes, so far. We really didn’t have to work too far down that list before we had a solid lineup. It’s crazy that people still love and listen to the Beatles. Why do you think people do love them so much, how did they remain so highly regarded? There’s certainly a few factors at play but first and foremost it’s the songs - the music and lyrics. They pumped out a huge volume of work in a rather short space of time and the majority of that work is exceptional. The broadness of styles they took on or created is also impressive – early rock n roll, psychedelic, country, acoustic, Indian, experimental – and sometimes all of that across just one album. Then there’s the production/ engineering aspect – On the later records George Martin and Geoff Emerick created new ways of achieving better sounds and managed to make records which don’t sound like a lot of other albums from that same era. Is there a possibility for another tribute in the future? What would it be? Anything’s possible but there’s no plan just yet. I do like the idea of tackling a different album though. Maybe a different artist from a different era. Bowie or Pink Floyd could be cool. What can people expect from the show? We’ll be performing the Sgt Pepper album in it’s entirety, from start to finish, with a core band. There will be guest vocalists coming and going throughout that set and we’ll top it all off with an extra set of other classic Beatles numbers. MACKENZIE STOLP
See Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band performed in full at the Longley International Hotel, Longley on Sunday January 13 from 2.30pm. Entry is $5 on the door.
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDREL “He lost his BMW sponsorship, what a shame.” CARLOS LARA, OF HIP-HOP FUSION ACT BOOTLEG RASCAL, IS REFERRING TO NOXIOUS SYDNEY RADIO HOST ALAN JONES, SOMEONE EMBLEMATIC OF THE OLD GUARD OF AUSTRALIA: ANTIQUATED BOOMERS WHOSE IDEAS ABOUT GENTRIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT HAVE MEANT, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, THE SHUTTERING OF MUSIC VENUES AND PUBS. IT’S BEEN HARD FOR SYDNEY CREATIVES. “It really harms the small bands.” he says. “Melbourne has so many little venues that a small band can fill out; there’s not many small venues in Sydney where a small band can stretch its legs. It really harms the up-andcoming market. But you see this cool resurgence of pubs putting on live music, I feel like there’s a resurgence of
garage rock coming out of Sydney, which I enjoy. There’s a lot of white old dudes that have their fingers very deep in the pie in Sydney, buying land and ripping down pubs to build at a hotel that makes you more money.” “He lives in the building next to the Opera House.” Lara says on Jones. “When that building was being built, he was against it, now he has a penthouse in it. It’s weird how he can call out people on his radio show, there’s something weird going on there.” But onto better things. Lara and his Rascal bandmates released their second album Anónimo (produced by longtime collaborator Ian Pritchett [Boo Seeka, Angus and Julia Stone]) this year to great acclaim. Since their debut on the scene around 2013, they’ve already hit up all your favourite festivals, and toured heaps overseas. They’re in a little break at the moment, but there’s always gears turning, evidently. “Some of us have jobs on the side that take us away from the band life, so at the moment, we’re having a bit of downtime.” Lara explains. “We’re already writing and talking about a third album; very loose talks about it, but we’ve started the process of listening to songs and ideas that we could release in the future, already all guns blazing with new stuff. I get bored real easy, I need to be doing stuff. I’ve finally got my setup in Sydney at home. It’s a nice vibe, I like writing in there. I’m even working on some solo stuff for myself. Just really enjoying writing.” “Recognition is hard for every band.” Lara says, on the sometimes fickle music world. “The recognition you get as a musician sometimes is winning awards, if that means anything to you, but when you’re just an artist doing your thing, it’s hard to find recognition amongst a release. It comes down to what you want from music: some people wanna become hugely famous, some people just wanna travel the world and do the things they love. It’s such a weird world.” LISA DIB Bootleg Rascal play The Goods 2019 at Hobart City Hall on Saturday January 26 with SAFIA, Client Liaison and E^ST. Tickets from Moshtix.
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First off, how are you guys going after the release of We Are A Ghost Now, You And I? It’s gotten some great reviews! Congrats! We’re stoked! The response has been awesome so far. From friends sending us really positive messages, to reviews, to people coming up to chat to us at the launch show. When we were making the record we kept talking about how all we want is for people to connect with the music in some way so it’s totally floored us having people tell us what the songs mean to them. How did you guys set out writing/creating the album? It was tricky to start off with for a couple of reasons - it’s our second album so we had to figure out how to follow up King Salt, and we were welcoming in two new members (Liam Davies on guitar and Reece Choucair on bass). We spent the first few months getting to know each other musically but then when we started to focus on the writing, we hit the ground running. We had a shared vision of what we wanted to do after King Salt (incorporate more piano, spend more time on arrangements, write more dynamically, etc) which really helped the writing process, and having Liam and Reece in the room really lit a fire in us creatively. It took Luke a while to work out how he wanted to tackle the lyrics as he was conscious of not wanting to repeat themes and ideas and wanted to take a new approach. He tells us that the majority of the lyrics were written when he was reading a book called Australian Gothic about the tumultuous relationship between the Australian artists Albert Tucker and Joy Hester. I have a feeling it somewhat resembles what was 12
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HAVE/HOLD ARE YOUR NEW FAVOURITE ALT/ROCK BAND. THE MELBOURNE GROUP HAVE JUST REALISED THEIR BEST WORK IN THEIR LATEST ALBUM WE ARE A GHOST NOW, YOU AND I. THE BAND ARE SUPER KEEN TO COME BACK TO TASMANIA AND SHOW OFF THEIR NEW SONGS.
going on in his own life at the time and he drew a lot of inspiration from that. Any funny/unique/interesting stories about the creation of the album? Good question! Most of the album was written in the back room of an abandoned Starbucks down in the Docklands which we shared with our friends The Sinking Teeth and Halcyon Drive! It was our first permanent rehearsal space and we got evicted in the end. We miss that room so much! It sounded great in there. How does this album differ and evolve on from your previous music? There’s actually a lot that’s different about We Are A Ghost Now, You & I compared to our previous releases. The main thing is the instrumentation - there’s more piano and vocal harmonies, Luke took a step back from guitar and let Liam take on the main/lead guitar role, and Reece’s approach to bass is a lot more creative and musical. The other main point of difference is that these songs were written in a lot more of an improvisational way. With a lot of our previous songs they were either written by Luke on his own before being brought into the rehearsal room or we’d talk through arrangements and ideas before playing them, whereas with We Are A Ghost Now… we’d pull songs out of thin air, we’d improvise a riff of Luke’s or Liam’s or we’d completely dissect songs that Luke had started writing. It was a lot more of an organic experience this time. You’ve said ‘Dear Sun’ is collectively your favourite song, could you expand on why for me?
It’s mainly just a lot of fun to play! It’s a long, emotional song and as players we can’t help but get caught up in it. It’s physically demanding and requires our full attention. It’s a song that we played around with a lot before we were satisfied it was finished so we’re really proud of it. It taught us a lot about each other as musicians as well. We had to really learn how to read each other and play together as a unit before we could pull it off. What’s in the future for you guys now after the tour? We’re really just hoping to play as many shows as possible! We’d love to get a second Australian tour in before the end of the year. Hopefully get over to WA! We’re also starting to think about heading off overseas to places like New Zealand and Europe. But also writing. We never stop writing and are already thinking about album’s 3 and 4! What can people expect at your upcoming Hobart show? It’s been a few years in between shows for us in Hobart so most of our set will be mostly songs we haven’t played down there yet! So you can expect a big, loud rock show and a really great time. MACKENZIE STOLP
See Have/Hold perform Thursday January 10 at The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, and Friday January 11 at The Gunners Arms, Launceston.
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KEEPING UP WITH CALEXICO
For a band that originated as a side project, the fact that Calexico’s founders, Joey Burns and John Convertino, are now celebrating a musical legacy that has no only spanned over two decades but encompassed nine studios albums, numerous collaborations, soundtracks, and countless world tours, is something the duo still finds not only magical, but mystical as well. “I think something can be said for things that aren’t planned out and where there’s no expectation,” said Calexico front man and guitarist, Joey Burns. “The Black Light was cobbled together from various recordings that we had been making over a couple of years. We didn’t really have an identity as we were still rooted in being a rhythm section, mainly for Giant Sand, but also for people like Victoria Williams. We were also playing with The Friends of Dean Martinez at the time and that’s what gave us the confidence as a songwriting team.” Given The Black Light’s unorthodox genesis, its resulting success took both Burns and Convertino by surprise. “We sold something like 20,000 copies of The Black Light and we didn’t expect anything like that,” offered drummer John Convertino. “For an indie-rock band that was a lot of records back then. We toured Holland after the record was released and I remember a journalist asking me what its success meant to us and I literally didn’t have an answer to that because we weren’t expecting anything like that to happen.” A lot more was to happen for the duo across the ensuing years. Along with Calexico morphing into a fully-fledged band and releasing a succession of its own albums, the Burns and Convertino also recorded and toured with 14
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WHEN TUCSON-BASED CALEXICO BRINGS IT DISTINCTIVE BRAND OF DESERT NOIR TO THE STAGE OF HOBART’S ODEON THEATER ON JANUARY 26, THE ARIZONA SEVEN-PIECE WILL BE CELEBRATING TWO VERY DIFFERENT RECENT RELEASES. ALONG WITH THEIR LATEST STUDIO ALBUM – THE THREAD THAT KEEPS US – CALEXICO HAS ALSO RELEASED A 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BLACK LIGHT; THE 1998 ALBUM THAT THRUST THEM INTO THE MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT.
Victoria Williams and collaborated with Neko Case on her breakthrough album, Blacklisted. They went on to make an album with Iron & Wine, In the Reins, work with Willie Nelson on the I’m Not There soundtrack, and be intricately involved with the production of Amos Lee’s chart topping album, Mission Bells. On the Calexico front, the colorful desert tinged sound Burns and Convertino had passionately sculpted on The Black Light’s follow up – 2000’s Hot Rail - was fully realized with the release of a 2001 EP titled Even My Sure Things Fall Through. Given a full mariachi treatment, the song “Crystal Frontier” put bold underline under the cultural fusion that had flavoured so much the band’s musical musing to date. The song was big and brash and uniquely Calexico. Never a band to sit creatively still for too long, following on from a series of albums produced and recorded in Tucson - including the celebrated Feast of Wire (2003), Garden Ruin (2006), and Carried to Dust (2008)- Calexico sought to explore different musical terrain. For its 2012 release, Algiers, the band ventured to New Orleans before heading to Mexico City to make 2015’s Edge of the Sun. For Calexico’s latest release, The Thread That Keeps Us, it was Northern California that was calling. An inspiration for the band venturing father afield to record is the opportunity to expand the its creative scope.
Recorded in a sprawling house/recording studio that overlooks the Pacific Ocean, Calexico infused the album with essences of old and new. While the soaring brass on songs such as “Another Space” give trumpeters Martin Wenk and Jacob Valenzuela another chance to shine, “Dead In The Water” and “Bridge To Nowhere” throws a little newfound guitar angst into the mix. But it’s love that shines through in the end, as reinforced by the unbridled beauty of the album’s closing track, “Music Box.” With The Thread That Keeps Us written and recorded in the divisive aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, both Burns and Convertino feel that it is more important now than ever to channel that inspiration into bringing people together. “That’s why people like Willie Nelson reply inspires us,” said Convertino, who worked with the veteran in 2007 when Calexico recorded “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)” with Nelson for the soundtrack of the Bob Dylan biopic, I’m Not There. “He came up playing country music to fans who for all practical purposes lean more to the Republican side. In the 1970’s you had all these conservatives going to his concerts, but you also had the pot-smoking hippies going as well. They were all brought together by his music. I think that shows you what music can do.” BRETT LEIGH DICKS
“Part of the reason we travel to record in different locations is that I think it’s important to get to a new creative space,” Burns said. “It opens your eyes and ears and forces you not to rely on routine or formula. We instinctively love that so that’s why we look to a new place for new inspiration and new sounds and that’s what The Thread That Keeps Us was all about.”
Calexico perform at the Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Saturday January 26.
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THE FOLK MAESTRO “PEOPLE THINK OF FOLK MUSIC AS BEING POLITICAL, BASING THE IDEA ON EARLY DYLAN OR SOMETHING LIKE DUST BOWL BALLADS BY WOODY GUTHRIE, AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC- THESE ARE ACTUALLY STRANGE, SUPERNATURAL STORIES WITH GRIM, REAL REALITIES OF EXISTENCE WITHIN THEM. SOME OF IT IS HARD TO GET A MORAL OUT OF, IT’S ALMOST IMMORAL SOMETIMES. YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE THE STORY. DOESN’T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE A BIG RIBBON TIED ON TOP OF SOMETHING, NEATLY DELIVERED FOR YOU.” Melbourne blues-folk musician Jeff Lang likes music that doesn’t condescend to its audience. His own music seems to hearken back more to ghostly US folk standards than poppier contemporary indie-folk. Lang’s songwriting style, though, is more ethereal. “Someone once told me a song is like a room a listener can walk into. I’m certainly not like, ‘people need to take on my message’. If it feels like, ‘here’s a list of my thoughts on a topic’, I’m wary of that. I have my thoughts all the time, I’m sick of them; I prefer a song that grabs me by the ear and drags me somewhere else. If people wanted to hear that sort of thing, they can read your comments on Facebook. Sitting down and telling people, ‘this thing happened, so feel this’, that’s not my style. I’m not pointedly ‘message driven’. I’ve got my own little standards for these things. These are my little goals for myself.” As an independent musician, Lang has the luxury of maintaining his own standards when creating, and not having to kowtow to any bigwig demands. It’s been this way since he started his solo career in 1992, knocking out thirteen studio albums since then, including his most recent, 2017’s Alone in Bad Company. He enjoys the
additional workload that being an indie musician comes with, though. “I’ve never had it any other way, I’ve never been a major label guy.” he says. “I can’t complain about my career; it’s a lot of work, but I like the work, I like being busy. I like to find ways to keep myself creatively stimulated. Being busy helps to keep that particular thing at bay, where you sit around thinking about how you suck (laughs). If you’re busy working on something, something ahead of you that you’re working towards, it keeps that at bay. Plenty of time later to question it.” Although Lang is still out and about touring, he has a family at home now to consider, though he might end up adding them to the staff. “I’ve got a young family now, I’ve got a home, touring life is no life for a young kid. Maybe I’ll teach ‘em how to roll leads, put ‘em away without scratching, teach ‘em how to play instruments I don’t have in the band (laughs) I’ll get ‘em on vibes.” LISA DIB Jeff Lang plays Festivale on February 1 in Launceston, February 2 at The Bridge Hotel, Forth and the Huon Blues and Roots Festival in Ranelagh (Huon Valley) on February 3.
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NOT SUCH A SLOW DANCE BIG WORDS IS A NAME THAT HAS BEEN DANCING IN PEOPLES HEADS AND FOR GOOD REASON. THE HIP-HOP INFLUENCED SOUL GROUP HAVE BEEN GAINING MUCH DESERVED ATTENTION. I HAD A CHAT TO WILL SCULLIN ABOUT THE BANDS UPCOMING ALBUM AND TASMANIAN SHOW.
Big Words are no new band, forming in 2010 the band are a well-kept secret. However that cat is out of the bag, especially with their recent double-single release. These two songs are quickly gaining momentum and praise, and for good reason. “Slow Dance is a cute little song about the sweet and innocent times of a past love. The term ‘Slow Dance’ in this regard is really a metaphor about holding onto moments dearly like you were looking them in the eye. The lyrics are describing being at rock bottom of a breakup, but finding beautiful moments in the never-ending spiral of sadness that is, a break up.
‘Girl With The Golden Skin’ is about a summer fling that took a chip out of my heart, it’s a cheesy corny pop song that you should listen to if you’re obsessing over someone. I guess the two together was a phase in my song writing, I was listening to a lot of fun rocky stuff with cool harmonies and I guess that’s what seemed to pour out at the time. We decided to release them together because they not only fit perfectly, but are a completely different tone to what we are currently working on.” In exciting news, the band are currently working on their first full-length album, set to be
released end of next year sometime. The band are quite collaboratively with their songwriting, however Will and fellow band members Kieren often take the lead. “Absolutely, we’re currently working on our first full length. It’s going to be a musical experience, deep, winding and pushing across many genres. No guarantee’s, but it’s looking like mid to late 2019. Myself and Kieren do all of the major song writing, but having three other people to contribute and add parts is incredible. Kieren and I generally write separately and then come together with ideas and demos, then we’ll play them with the band and expand on ideas further. At this point music is all we do, all we think about so it’s very natural. There’s no pressure, we’re just exerting our creativity naturally. Making projects and albums just feels like right thing to do, it’s the way forward for us.” Big Words definitely have a unique sound in our current sound landscape, and it stems from Melbourne’s beautiful music scene. Melbourne’s RnB and Soul scenes in particular are big influences to the band and their sound. “Melbourne’s RnB/Soul scene is beautiful. It’s introduced me to some of my closest friends and influences. Like any scene it has it’s people on top and people that cruise under the radar, Melbourne’s underground Soul/RnB scene is easily one of the best and diverse. We have amazing artists playing shows almost any night of the week.” Although the band does not have an extensive tour record, they’ve still managed to create some interesting memories. Here’s hoping this story from Victoria doesn’t replicate itself on our island state. “We’ve only been to Sydney once and Brisbane for Big Sound, so maybe we should answer this question the next time we speak to you guys. Actually one time we played a show near Mt Buller in Victoria. Our manager couldn’t make it, but he let us borrow his then car which was an old Mercedes 4WD. It was pretty fucked to begin with tbh, but it broke down on the way home at 1am an hour away from Melbourne. We had to call our manager and bless his soul he came and picked us up. The car is now RIP.” The band have never been to Tasmania, and are excited to play here. “We haven’t! We really love oysters, so I wanna try and eat a lot of them. I really want to see MONA, hopefully we can come for Dark Mofo soon, that would be really cool. Our shows are electric, high energy and emotional. Expect new music, loud noises and a party. SEE YOU SOON!” MACKENZIE STOLP
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SUPER ORGAN-IC I’M SURE THAT THE HAMMOND ORGAN IS NOT NECESSARILY THE FIRST INSTRUMENT THAT EVER COMES TO MIND, BUT IT SHOULD DEFINITELY BE ONE THAT YOU KNOW. LACHY DALEY FELL IN LOVE WITH THE INSTRUMENT, DEDICATED MUCH TIME TO IT AND NOW IT IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF HIS MUSIC. I HAD A CHAT TO LACHY ABOUT THE INSTRUMENT, HIS UPCOMING ALBUM AND TASMANIAN SHOW.
The hammond organ is an incredibly interesting instrument! How did you get started/interested? Yeah it’s an absolute ripper of and Instrument. I first discovered the Hammond after playing the piano for a year or 2. A muso friend of my mums played me some Booker T and the Mgs and was instantly taken with the sound of the Hammond which featured heavily in that band. When I finally got to play a real one it was amazing. It was setup in our garage, I turned it up to full and it was like magic. The expression you could get out of this instrument, I felt was much more powerful than the piano. You are currently recording a new album, how is it going? Yeah it’s going great. It’s come together better than I could have imagined. I think we’ve really captured the live spirit of the band plus our crazy energy, huge dynamics. It’s loud and soft, fast and slow, fun and heartbreaking. The album I’ve been hoping for. What’s the creation process like for you? It’s always different for every tune. Some tunes start with a chorus melody. Some start from a bass line or a drum beat. I’m also always listening to new and old music to get inspired lyrically and musically. Then I take a sketch to the band and we nut out the rest. I like to visualise how we would play these tunes live to really squeeze the most excitement out of each tune.
be the most intense. Lots of screaming Hammond organ and Whammy Clavinet. Lots of pained vocals and rocking, funky, bluesy grooves. The drummer Jackies Barnes and the Bass player Joel Burton are so awesome that they’ll virtuoso playing will be featured a lot too. I putting everything I got into this one. Do you have a favourite tour story? We played in Canada a few years ago at Kitchener Blues festival. A killer festival over there. We were two songs in and having the best time. I could tell it was gonna be a great show. When straight after our second song we were interrupted by the stage manager announcing over the PA that there was a Hurricane coming and we all had to evacuate into the town hall. I quickly grabbed my Clavinet and at the last minute grabbed my merch as well and made our way into the town hall. The vibe was so crazy we had people coming up left right and centre to chat with us. Ended up selling almost 100 cds. It was totally nuts! After the hurricane passed the festival organised a huge jam in our hotel lobby. So we ended up playing there for an hour or so. Was an unforgettable night What can people expect at your Tasmanian show in January? High energy. Intensity to the Max. Lots of heart gripping blues drenched ballads and lots of ball tearing rockers as well. Not to forget a crazy load of fun!!! MACKENZIE STOLP
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The Lachy Doley Group perform Thursday January 24 at the Republic Bar in Hobart before heading to the Bridge Hotel, Forth, on the Friday night. Tickets from Moshtix.
Bridge hotel forth valley Saturday 2 february 7.30pm tickets available at: www.moshtix.com.au
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A UNIQUE VENTURE DANIEL TOWNSEND, A TASMANIAN LIVING IN THE TOP END, HAS JUST RELEASED HIS LATEST ALBUM, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, AS A PODCAST. I SPOKE TO DANIEL ABOUT RELEASING THE WORLD’S FIRST PODCAST ALBUM AND HIS DECISION TO RELOCATE TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.
What made you decide to release your album A Tale of Two Cities as a podcast? I was living in Darwin and reading Charles Dickens’ novel of the same name. I’d written a bunch of songs about being a Tasmanian in the Top End, and I thought his title worked nicely. I also discovered that he had released his book one chapter at a time, so I nicked his whole staggered release too. I couldn’t have imagined I’d be the first in the world to release an album as a podcast. I’ve never done anything cool in my life.
What has the response been like so far? Folks are really intrigued by the concept, and a whole lot of people have listened to it and loved it. Except my brother. But that’s what brothers are for. Do you think you will continue to utilise the podcast format for future releases? Every album I release feels like the final thing I will ever do. But eventually I find myself walking around with a new song behind my teeth and get to wondering all over again. I have really enjoyed creating this podcast. I’d like to have another crack, if that’s what needs to happen. How did the album making process differ from your previous albums? I have self-produced and played most of the instruments on my previous records, but for A Tale of Two Cities I worked with an award-winning producer named Broadwing. The guy’s a genius. Uses paint canvases as kick drums and loops the squawks of zebra finches. I would record my voice and my guitar and then send the tracks to him with instructions like “make the first movement sound like a Scottish field, then industrial-era Glasgow for the second and a cautiously hopeful ocean voyage for the third.” And he’d do it. That’s the kind of guy he is. And the kind of guy I am, for that matter.
Tasmania? What sort of person moves to the Top End? And then what happens? It makes for good listening. How has the move impacted your creative process? Living in the Territory helped me to slow down, to seek out the wise people and to learn to love the land. It has made me really appreciate silence. In fact, silence has become a key feature of what I do. When my songs really work live, they fill a room with a special kind of respectful silence. That’s the Territory in me. What’s one piece of advice you’re glad you never listened to? Any sentence which includes the words “music industry”. Any upcoming shows? Thur Jan 10: The Homestead, Hobart Jan 11-13: Cygnet Folk Festival with “Townsend and Spinks” Fri Jan 25: Red Velvet Lounge, Cygnet Sun Feb 10: Saint John Craft Beer, Launceston HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI
What sparked the decision to relocate to the Northern Territory? That is pretty much 50% of my podcast material, right there. Why do people leave
VISIONS EMMA WATERS- AKA THE EWAH OF EWAH & THE VISION OF PARADISE- IS HAVING THAT FUN PROBLEM OF NOT KNOWING WHAT TO TAKE WHEN YOU HEAD TO MELBOURNE. WILL I NEED AN UMBRELLA, A BEACH TOWEL, A PONCHO, GUMBOOTS? OR ALL OF THEM? OH, WACKY MELBOURNE.
The Hobart-based ‘post-punk/new wave’ band are hard at work finishing off their second album, after their 2017 debut, Everything Fades to Blue. The band recorded at the famous Head Gap studios in Melbourne, and their next step is a little more unconventional. “We’ve put those rough mixes to our tight-knit group of friends and we’re just gonna see what they think, which is something we’ve never done before.” Waters explains. “We’re keen to try new things. It’s been good so far, what we’ve been hearing back from people, and their trusted ears. It’s confirming things we were feeling ourselves, and some of the decisions we’ve made. Our friends are a mixed bag as well, hopefully they reflect all kinds of different thoughts and backgrounds and opinions and experiences.”
Listen to A Tale of Two Cities wherever you get your podcasts – www.soundcloud.com/danieltownsend-1.
“I think about music quite cinematographically, I guess that helps with the creative side, in shaping songs and arrangements, thinking in pictures and shapes and colours. A couple of movies have been on my mind: Walkabout and Wake in Fright, which were made in same year [1971]. Both were made by people outside of Australia, at a time when Australia was pretty isolated still, and fairly conservative, with a wild inner realm. These anthropological directors casting an eye to this wild inner world. They’re pretty stark movies in the way they’re shot and there’s not heaps of dialogue either. There’s a hallucinatory feel to them, lots of wacky echo effects.” LISA DIB
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Lovers of the band’s first record will enjoy a similar but different shift in style and tone for their follow-pup, says Waters. “I think there’s a really clear shift; we are still the people we are, we still play the same instruments, but we’ve grown with those things, even on very practical levels. Even if it’s just a different effects pedal or different guitars, our keyboardist has a second keyboard, the drummer has tweaked their sound, the bassist has a different bass….the sound itself has moved on. The first album was really a concept album, telling stories of violent crimes against women and my bluesy post-punk roots showed through in that. This next one has sharper points of focus and then lots of blurry mess as well.” One of the self-supplied descriptors of the band’s sound is ‘cinematic’. Waters notes that she’s been recently influenced by two of our most classic ‘Australian New Wave’ films.
EWAH & The Vision of Paradise play: The Longley International Hotel - Sunday January 13, Longley MONA FOMA - Sunday January 20, Launceston The Brisbane Hotel (single launch) - Saturday February 2, Hobart Party in the Paddock - February 7-9, White Hills
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DECK THE HALLS THE FESTIVAL OF SMALL HALLS REMAINS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC FESTIVALS. INCREDIBLY UNIQUE AND INSPIRING, SHOWCASING GLOBAL TALENTS TO SMALL TOWNS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. I HAD A CHAT TO ELEANOR RIGDEN, PRODUCER OF THE FESTIVAL ABOUT THE UPCOMING SUMMER FESTIVAL.
Small Halls is continuing to get better and better with each year! This year proves to be a show not to miss out on. The tour travels to small rural communities across Australia, bringing delightful music to all tiny corners across our great country. “We’ve never toured a Scandinavian musician before, much less three of them! We’ve had really strong connections to Canada on previous tours and we’re looking forward to this new sound. Our Australian artist is quite different this time too. Liam Gerner is a rock and roll guitar slinger turned folk troubadour. He started out in the industry opening for the likes of Paul Weller and playing in bands with Jackson Browne and Ryan Bingham, as well as composing for films. His background makes for a totally new personality on the tour and we can’t wait to see how that contrasts against the rather delicate beauty of Fru Skagerrak. “ We all know and love music, but we never think how lack of music and arts might effect a community. Rural Australia is rich in a variety of ways, but often never gets to experience the same musical richness as cities quite often do. It is important to tour country towns and share the love of music, and the Small Halls Festival is doing amazing work to do so. “85% of Australians say that the arts make for a richer and more meaningful life but in the same time period that research was gathered, one in five Australians neither creatively participated in, nor attended, an arts activity. For nearly three-quarters of them, barriers to access, including distance and opportunity were what prevented them engaging. Add to that fact that 59% of regional dwellers see the arts as having a big impact on ‘helping us manage stress, anxiety and depression’, it really puts a different spin on what folks are missing when they don’t have access to the arts in their local area – packing up the car and heading to the city for a show just isn’t an option for everyone, especially families!” The two featured acts on this year’s tour are Fru Skagerrak and Liam Gerner. Two artists who bring a bucket load of diversity and talent to the upcoming festival. 20
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“We met Maya from Fru Skagerrak in Denmark at the world-famous Tonder festival. She gave us great tips on things to see in Denmark, and also told us about a very specific and overwhelming icecream dessert with cream and this kind of fairy floss stuff on top of it. Fru Skagerrak were pretty new at this stage but already completely captivating. Anna has already been to Australia and so convincing three Scandinavians to come out in the dead of their winter tends to be an easy sell. Liam is a fantastic songwriter, has a wonderful voice and is very charming and charismatic and funny. We really look for folks who will fit in well in a community atmosphere – who are interested in the stories and in telling them.” Not that you need anymore convincing, but Eleanor ensures it’s an exciting event! One that any music lover needs to attend. “Festival of Small Halls audiences can expect a beautiful night of original music, as well as a chance to catch up with their families and friends during a supper break. A variety of food is served at each show, including cake and tea, usually alongside with the best country barbeques you can find. Every event is all ages, and all are welcome. For newcomers, they can usually expect to walk in with little to no idea of what’s to come, and walk out with a new favourite, felling connected and inspired “ MACKENZIE STOLP
For a full list of the Small Halls dates across Tasmania this January, head over to website – www.festivalofsmallhalls.com.
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FEAR OF A BROWN PLANET IT’S ONLY WHEN YOU LOOK BACK WITH FRESH EYES THAT YOU REALISE HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED. WATCHING A MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL GALA FROM 2003, I FOUND MYSELF THINKING, ‘OH, YOU COULDN’T SAY THAT NOW’ AT SOME OF THE MORE SPIKY GAGS.
The force for good of this change- what shock jocks and bad comics call ‘PC Culture’- is up for debate (“Is it good, bad, the end of free speech as we know it???”)- but one of the things that has definitely changed for the better is the people telling the jokes: although comedy in Australia is still very white, straight and male, there’s more and more diverse voices reaching prominence all the time, slowly but surely. Melbourne comedian Nazeem Hussain- who broke into the spotlight alongside Aamer Rahman with their comedy duo, Fear of a Brown Planet- has seen the changes himself in his fifteen-odd years working in comedy. “The culture of comedy in Australia has changed for the better.” he says. “If you’re gonna say something questionable, you’ve gotta have thought behind it, you can’t be as reckless as you were, historically. When I first started standup, often in rooms I felt like the only person not being racist or sexist or homophobic sometimes (laughs), now those same rooms have gone the other way. It’s more inclusive and the audiences are looking more diverse, comedy is starting to reflect more and more the Australian population. Obviously because of the push from the audience to change direction and get with the times.”
“I was surprised that Channel Seven showed interest; they pretty much let us do what we wanted as long as we understood the audience. It was great, working with good comedians and writers. The cast were all involved in the scriptwriting too, so it felt very ‘them’. People seem to like it. I can’t believe it’s stayed on (laughs), it’s pretty nuts: the return of sketch comedy after all these years, and it’s on Channel Seven, and they let a guy like me helm it.” Hussain is clearly happy, as many of us are, to see that Australian TV comedy has come a long way since Fast Forward and D-Generation did blackface back in the ‘80s. “Australia is still hung up on the idea of what sketch was, but sketch comedy has moved on. The production’s nicer, it looks new and very different. The way to make sketch has evolved very quickly. YouTube has helped that. The audience has also needed to catch up a little, but they’ve embraced it in a good way. People watch comedy on TV differently than they watch drama- they either really love it or really hate it.” LISA DIB Nazeem Hussain will perform at the Hobart Uni Bar on Saturday January 19. Further details available from www. comedycommand.com.
“Comedians can’t just get up on stage and say horrible things, all the Instagrammers can call it out online and that can have an impact on a comedian’s career. There’s a huge debate as to whether that’s a good or bad thing. There’s a big debate as to what is tasteful comedy, but it’s about the the content and the angle. If you’re gonna be referencing things that are horrible, you’ve got to consider: ‘who is the butt of the joke?’. People come to a comedy room to feel better, you don’t wanna make them feel horrible.” Hussain met Rahman in 2004, and they decided to take Fear of a Brown Planet to audiences in 2007; by 2008, they’d won the coveted Best Newcomer Award in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. They toured globally, played the Opera House, released a DVD- Australian Story even did a piece on them. But the guys didn’t take the “work your way to the top via standup” route that is so often seen as the norm, because they wanted to find their audience. “With Fear of a Brown Planet, we’d put on our own shows. The audience grew and we got the attention of a mainstream audience. We took an alternative path. I didn’t try to win an audience at rooms, we just did our own thing. I didn’t get into comedy to do comedy that’s too cool for the audience.” Hussain would also be best known for his previous TV show, Legally Brown (2013-2014), nominated for the 2015 Most Outstanding Comedy Logie. This allowed him to do something Aussie comedians sometimes find treacherous: breaking America. Hussain was a featured correspondent on Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves the World, and was invited to play the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival as part of Kevin Hart’s LOL Network. Hussain’s current project is Orange is the New Brown, a sketch show with him at the center, joined by comedy names like Urzila Carlson, Matt Okine and Rhys Nicholson- famous Aussie faces like Claudia Karvan, Sigrid Thornton and Kamahl pop up, too. Hussain considers it a good turning point that a mainstream TV channel would give a person of colour their own vehicle.
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YOU’RE THE VOICE
TASMANIAN RESIDENCES ARE ABOUT TO BE TREATED WITH UPCOMING EXHIBITION SEEING VOICES COMING TO THE PIMSOLL GALLERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA. I HAD A CHAT TO CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION FRANCIS E. PARKER ABOUT THE ARTISTS INVOLVED AND THE THEME OF ‘THE VOICE’
Photo Credit : Michael Cook - Majority rule (Parliament) 2014
Tasmania is incredibly blessed to be include in the tour of Seeing Voices. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to view artworks from a collection that are not often available, and an opportunity that should not be missed. Francis highlights how special this opportunity this is. “There are many ways in which exhibitions take shape. With Seeing Voices, the original intention was specifically to develop a touring exhibition out of the Monash University Collection. The Collection has about 2,500 objects, more than 50% of which are on display around the Victorian campuses, which is exceptionally high – most museums only have about 4% on display. However, our exhibition program at MUMA most often involves new works and commissions rather than artworks from our collection, so we wanted to make an opportunity to draw something out of the Collection and to show it to audiences who may not normally visit the campuses. “ This exhibition has the idea and theme of ‘the voice’, which is incredibly interesting as it can have a variety of responses. Francis explains the exhibitions theme of ‘the voice’ and how it fits into contemporary practice and thought. “The voice as a frame for an exhibition appealed to us because it’s open-ended, it encompasses a broad range of artworks without narrowing down the reading of each one. It also reflects the concern that underlies some of our other recent projects at MUMA for the critical voice of the artist, which has sometimes been undermined in Australia, such as when a number of artists in the 2014 Biennale of Sydney took a stance on Australia’s offshore detention of refugees 22
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and withdrew until the Biennale cut its ties to Transfield Holdings, a branch of which had been granted government contracts to manage the detention centres. Members of the government labelled the artists as ‘ungrateful’; members of the public said much worse. We did consider focussing on the voice from an entirely political point of view – the notion of ‘having a voice’ in public debate and so on – but that left out artworks that we particularly wanted to show, and perhaps the self-consciously political works are more potent in combination with the subtler ones.” This exhibition features a wide variety of artists and artworks. As ‘the voice’ is a broad topic, many different interpretations of the voice are presented throughout, meaning there is art to suit all tastes and inspire a multitude of discussions. “The artists are all living and working, mostly in Australia but there are two from overseas: Erik Bünger from Sweden and Susan Hiller who is American but based in London. They’re both represented by video works. Erik’s video is adapted from his lecture performance The girl who never was 2014, which is a spiraling narrative that links a nineteenth-century French invention, a pre-cursor to sound recordings in which vibrations were traced into soot, to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey via the song that the ship’s computer HAL sings as he’s being disconnected, which in the French dubbed version is Au clair de la lune, the same song that Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville inscribed in 1860 as a series of squiggles that were ultimately played back via a digital realisation in 2008. It’s a work that links sound recordings,
particularly of the voice, to artificial intelligence and the inherent anxieties that come with that. Susan’s The last silent movie 2007-08 also draws on historical recordings but of extinct or endangered languages from around the world. It’s a disarmingly simple work and contradictory because there is no moving image, only subtitles, and nor is it silent. It’s the silence it implies that is profoundly moving.” This exhibition is a completely unique experience, and one that demands to be experienced. Francis concludes with his hopes that this exhibition inspires each individual to analyse speech and the use of language, particularly in contemporary art. “In the context of Seeing Voices, these black and white photographs show that it’s impossible to talk of a singular voice, ‘the voice of the people’, as is often invoked in politics. The intention with this exhibition is that it functions instead as an open-ended grouping of artworks to which one could continue imagining further inclusions, further perspectives – further voices. I hope that the experience of it suggests how the subject of the voice opens outwards, that the various artworks lead off in different directions as to how speech, language or vocal sounds can be thought of in contemporary art.” MACKENZIE STOLP
Seeing Voices runs until January 27 at the Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Centre for The Arts, Hunter Street, Hobart. The Gallery is open Thursday to Sunday, midday to 5pm.
Arts
Gallery Guide
performing arts Guide
South
SOUTH
NORTH
COMEDY
COMEDY
Plimsoll Gallery Until January 27 Seeing voices Colville Gallery January 4 Anna Sabadini January 18 Richard Dunlop Handmark Gallery Until January 14 New Paintings and Jewellery – Nick Glade-Wright + Linda Van Niekerk Despard Gallery Until February 3 Summer Show 18/19 Bett Gallery January 18 – February 9 Pendulous – Robert O’Connor, Rosie Hastie Salamanca Arts Centre Lightbox Until January 3 The Processing Plant – Donna Ritchie Top Gallery Until January 31 Colourfields of Memories – Catherine D’Orazio Studio Gallery Until January 30 Avian – Katherine Cooper Long Gallery Until January 7 Images of Tasmania Sidespace Gallery January 12 – January 20 V a r o m – Nina Keri January 23 – January 28 LIGHT of a FEATHER – Cassandra Faux January 31 – February 12 DISSOLVE – Julie Stoneman Mona Until February 4The Everted Capital - Fabien Giraud And Raphaël Siboni Until February 11 The Inward Eye: A Psychoacoustic Journey - Jane Baker
Until March 25 Your Shadow Rising – Toby Ziegler Until April 22 Zero Moonah Arts Centre January 12 Bring Your Own Beamer TMAG Until March 3 The Mission – Michael Cook Until May 5 Dinosaur rEvolution: Secrets of Survival
NORTH Handmark Evandale Until February 6 ‘Summer’ Exhibition – Handmark Artists Burnie Arts & Function Centre Until February 3 Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels Until February 3 Alison Thomas: A Francophile in Burnie Gallery Pejean Until February 2 2019 Summer Show – Group Exhibition Devonport Regional Gallery Until January 27 tidal.18 Until February 24 In Your Words – The Robinson Project QVMAG Until February 3 Material Memories Until February 17 The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War Until February 24 The Midlands: Whimsy and Pathos - Mandy Hunniford Until April 23 ArtRage Until June ArtStart 2018-19
Falls Festival January 1 RIOT Comedy The Polish Corner January 2 Fringe at the Edge of the World Sneak-Peek Preview January 9 Sarah Bennetto January 16 Daniel Connell January 23 Liz Miele January 30 Kevin Kopfstein
The Tramsheds January 25 Fresh Comedy with Celia Pacquola
THEATRE Earl Arts Centre January 12 Raw4! Young Talent on Stage January 17 – January 19 MOFO: anOther
Hobart Uni Bar January 19 Nazeem Hussain Hobart Brewing Co January 24 The Clubhouse with Celia Pacquola
THEATRE Botanical Gardens January 1 – January 20 The Wind in the Willows Hobart Supreme Court January 4 – January 19 Trial By Jury Pooley’s Wines January 11 – January 27 A Midsummer’s Much Ado
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Hobart Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Date
JANUARY Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
24
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
Lewisham Tavern
Carus Thompson + Pete Cornelius + M.T. Blues Music 3pm
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tennyson King (CANADA)
The Brunswick Hotel
Sam Forsyth 7:30pm
The Duke
Jay Jarome 7:30pm
The Homestead
Daniel Townsend 8pm
Birdcage Bar
Tezmond 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar – Lucy & The Rats (UK), The New Town Hounds
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar – Past Present (Vic), Ultra Martian, Tarraleah Power Station
Central Hotel
Joel Everard 4pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 8pm
Irish Murphy’s
My Girlfriend’s Sister 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm
Taste of Tasmania (Lawn Stage)
M.T. Blues Music 1pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Isaac Westwood 7pm
Birdcage Bar
SAMI 9pm
Grand Poobah
Karaoke with Dr Rusty & The Great Muldavio 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Irish Murphy’s
Noteworthy: Lines Like Water, Crystal Sky, Tim Chivers 8pm
Roadkill (CD Launch) + Rogue Sharks + Jax & The Wayward 10pm
Street Eats @ Franko
Matiu (NZ), Boilup 4:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Carus 9pm
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Finn Seccombe 7:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Nick Machin 6:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Got Your Six
The Duke
Jay Jarome 7:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Cam Stuart 6pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 9pm
The Duke
The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm
Central Hotel
Bridget Pross 4pm
The Homestead
Django’s Tiger Quartet 9pm
Hobart Twilight Market
Ian Murtagh, Daarsya & Luke, Matthew Dames, Mayhem & Me 4:30pm
The Whaler
Dylan Eynon, Billy Whitton and the Swingcats 9:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Karavana Flamenca 9:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Tennyson King (CANADA)
Street Eats @ Franko
Carus, Claire Anne Taylor + Band 4:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar – Late Night Krackieoke
The Brunswick Hotel
Gabriele Dagrezio 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Duke
The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm
Back Bar – Tennyson King (Can), Cotton Pony, A Boy Named Sue
The Homestead
Dave Graney Solo 9pm
Grand Poobah
Samora Squids Sideshow
The Whaler
Zac Henderson, Layts & JD 7:30pm
Grand Poobah
Bloody Mary (France)
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Kenta Hayashi (MELB)
MONA
Tennyson King (CANADA)
Birdcage Bar
Isaac Westwood 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Maitu Te Huki (NZ) + Boil Up 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Curse, Stranger Still, Evil Goat, A Window In Time, Surprise Band
The Brunswick Hotel
Dan Vandermeer 6pm
The Homestead
Uncle Gus and The Rimshots 9pm
The Whaler
Layts & JD 9pm
Visual Bulk
Synthesthesia 7000 CD Launch 2pm
Yambu Cafe
Blossom Dearie & Nancy Wilson Tribute
Birdcage Bar
Jacob Boote 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
MONA
Tennyson King (CANADA)
Republic Bar & Cafe
Swaz & The Benjamins w/ Special Guests - “Daze Gone Bye” EP Launch 3pm
Waterfront Hotel (C-Bar)
M.T. Blues Music 4pm
Brookfield Margate
Tennyson King (CANADA)
Republic Bar & Cafe
Montz Matsumoto 8pm
Peacock Theatre
Lindsay Lou and Band 7pm
Grand Poobah
DJ Boring, Rainbow Trout, Flac & Curlicue
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Outfit 10pm
Room For a Pony
The Bittermen
The Brunswick Hotel
Jonathan & Alan 6pm
The Homestead
Freeloader Jazz 9pm
The Whaler
3 Fifths of 4 9pm
Twisted Lime
The Iron Lime #5: Rock & Metal Night
Uni Bar
Plump DJs, DJ Yoda, DJ Nu-Mark
Birdcage Bar
Graham Rix 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
11
12
13
14
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Great Anticipators 2:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Layts & JD 8:30pm
Richmond Arms Hotel
M.T. Blues Music 1:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Ben Fowler 8pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
Saucy Jack and his Ripper Band (TAS)
The Duke
Jazz Jam 7:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Graham Rix 8pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
The Duke
Hobart Blues Club – Wahbash Avenue 7:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
PRISM
Irish Murphy’s
Gabe & The Dagrezio’s 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tim Scanlan 8:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Karly Fisher 7pm
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
The Homestead
Teresa Dixon 8pm
Birdcage Bar
The Suffrajettes 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Veganuary Quiz Night
Irish Murphy’s
Noteworthy: Finn Seccombe, Joe Richards, Celeste Meincke 8pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
This Way North 8:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Zac Henderson 6:30pm
The Duke
Jay Jarome 7:30pm
The Homestead
M.T. Blues Music 8pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo & Jimi 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar – Nanoplex (UK), Ben Coda (Uk), Delix, OGP, Bablon, StomPsy, Squilphon
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES – Tidas, Kings Reign, The Method, Megalove
Irish Murphy’s
Clover Hitch 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tim & Scott 8:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Henry Rippon 7pm
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Crystal Sky 9pm
Bright Eyes
Unlocked 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar – Veganuary Film Night
Brisbane Hotel
Have/Hold (Vic), Little Island, Celeste, Yielderbeast
Grand Poobah
Spooky Mens Choral
Grand Poobah
Karaoke with Dr Rusty & The Great Muldavio 9pm
Irish Murphy’s
Noteworthy: Zoe Merrington, Jackson Simpson, Dan Vandermeer 8pm
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Thursday
Friday
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16
17
18
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Date
Saturday
Sunday
19
20
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Brisbane Hotel
Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Front Bar – Southern Desert Metal (NT)
The Brunswick Hotel
Gabriele Dagrezio 6pm
Central Hotel
Hannah May 4pm
The Odeon Theatre
Calexico
Grand Poobah
Odd Mob
The Whaler
Dean Stevenson 9pm
Hobart Twilight Market
TBC 4:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Django’s Tiger 6pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Boogieman 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Street Eats @ Franko
Greasy Spoon, The Blues Brothers Revival Band 4:30pm
Grand Poobah
The Beat Down: Meat Katie, Freq Nasty, Rola, DJ Pressed, Miele, Max Power
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Black Swans of Trespass 7:30pm
Hobart Brewing Co
Triple J Hottest 100 Party
The Brunswick Hotel
Isaac Westwood 6pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Blue Flies 2:30pm
The Duke
The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Whaler
Finn Seccombe, Saucy Jack & His Ripper Band 7:30pm
Beer Garden Party – Music by Daniel Townsend 3pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
This Way North (Vic)
Richmond Arms Hotel
M.T. Blues Music 1:30pm
Sunday
27
Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 9pm
Monday
28
Republic Bar & Cafe
Ross Sermons 8pm
Brisbane Hotel
Lunar Rampage, Coward Punch
Tuesday
29
Republic Bar & Cafe
Sam Forsyth 8pm
Grand Poobah
Hidden Spheres
The Duke
Local Act 7:30pm
Peacock Theatre
All Star Jazz 7:15pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Hobart Funk Collective 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
Veganuary PRISM
The Brunswick Hotel
Jonathan & Alan 6pm
Irish Murphy’s
Radio Silence 9pm
The Homestead
Gnarlhund 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Foley Trio 8:30pm
The Whaler
3 Fifths of 4 9pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Isaac Westwood 7pm
Wednesday
30
Birdcage Bar
Les Coqs Incroyables 6pm
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Bingo
Wrest Point Entertainment Centre
The Splendor of China
Republic Bar & Cafe
An Evening for Eleanor 2pm
Birdcage Bar
Angela Bryan Duo 6pm
Thursday
31
Republic Bar & Cafe
Vice Captains 8:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Veganuary Comedy Night
Monday
21
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tarik Stoneman 8pm
Irish Murphy’s
Tuesday
22
Republic Bar & Cafe
Pat Bereche 8pm
Noteworthy: Patrick Chung, Ruby Austin-Lund, Zara Graham 8pm
The Duke
Local Act 7:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Maja 8:30pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Billy whitton and Jamie Taylor 6:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
PRISM
The Duke
Jay Jarome 7:30pm
Irish Murphy’s
Kashkin 9pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Tim & Scott 8:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Billy Whitton and Jamie Taylor 7pm
The Duke
Duke Trivia 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy Whitton 9pm
Bright Eyes
Unlocked 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Veganuary Debate Night
Irish Murphy’s
Noteworthy: David McEldowney, Marcus Keetch, Adrian Hayes 8pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
The Lachy Doley Group 9pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Tim Davies 6:30pm
The Duke
Jay Jarome 7:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Tim & Scott 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Abraharm Kenny (Estonia)
Central Hotel
M.T. Blues Music 4pm
Grand Poobah
Juna, Lazer Baby & Baba Bruja
Grand Poobah
Art School Bullies in the Kissing Room
Hobart Twilight Market
TBC 4:30pm
Republic Bar & Cafe
Australian Made 10pm
Street Eats @ Franko
Studley Moore 6:45pm
Tasmanian Inn Hotel
Layts & JD 7:30pm
The Brunswick Hotel
Dave West 6pm
The Duke
The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm
The Homestead
Jamie Pregnell Trio
The Whaler
Dylan Eynon, Zac Henderson 7:30pm
Willie Smith’s Apple Shed
The Heart Collectors (NSW)
All Saints Market
TBC 10:30am
Birdcage Bar
Matt Edmunds 9pm
Grand Poobah
Human Movement
Hobart City Hall
The Goods: Safia, Client Liaison, East, Bootleg Rascal, Chase City, Robotikus, Session B
Republic Bar & Cafe
TBA 10pm
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
23
24
25
26
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Venue
Acts / Start Time
O’Keefe’s Hotel
DJ Skipp Free Music Trivia Night
JANUARY Wednesday
2
The Royal Oak
Heath Hodgetts (Public Bar) 9pm
Thursday
3
The Royal Oak
Elliot Courtnage (Public Bar) 9pm
Friday
4
Cargo Bar & Functions (Burnie)
This Way North
Drift
Friday Vibes with Cam Windram
The Irish
Platinum Fridays – Jesse James
The Royal Oak
Timothy Gambles (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Tim & Scott 9pm
Watergarden
Hat & Horn 8pm
Cargo Bar & Functions (Burnie)
Heavy Rollers
The Royal Oak
S&M (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Watergarden
The Roller Rocker 8pm
Drift
Summer Sun-Daze + Luke Parry
The Bridge Hotel (Forth)
PNAU Live
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm
Saturday
Sunday
5
6
Wednesday
9
The Royal Oak
Tennyson King (Public Bar) 9pm
Thursday
10
Burnie Town House
Viktor Zappner Swingtet featuring Sophie Leslie 7:30pm
The Royal Oak
Andy Collins (Public Bar) 9pm
Friday
11
Burnie Arts & Function Centre
BREATHE.... The Sound Of Pink Floyd
Drift
Friday Vibes with Ella Rose
The Gunners Arms
Have/Hold Album Launch
The Royal Oak
Dave Adams Band (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
SupaNova DJ 9pm
Watergarden
SAMI 8pm
Iron Horse Bar & Grill
Mumbo Jumbo
Sharmans Wines
Summer Sessions at Sharmans
The Royal Oak
Past Present, Josh Sadkowski, Paper Souls (Boatshed) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Flight 9pm
Watergarden
Raj Sinha 8pm
Drift
Summer Sun-Daze + The Ben Tome Band
The Irish
Live and Acoustic at The Irish
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm
Saturday
Sunday
12
13
Wednesday
16
The Royal Oak
Cody Gunton (Public Bar) 9pm
Thursday
17
The Royal Oak
Raj Sinha (Public Bar) 9pm
Friday
18
Drift
Friday Vibes with Brad Von Rock
Kings Bridge Bar & Restaurant
Scott Lewis
The Royal Oak
Jade & Dane (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Off The Cuff 9pm
Watergarden
Rino Moreo 8pm
Paranaple Arts Centre
Scottish Power
The Point West Park
Unstable Minds – Hip hop for Mental Health
The Royal Oak
Southside Stalkers, Ben Birt, Kathellisism (Boatshed) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Nightshift 9pm
Watergarden
Trevor Weaver 8pm
Drift
Summer Sun-Daze + Kitty Martini + The Tom Collins Trio
Mudbar Restaurant
Scott Lewis
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm
Saturday
Sunday
19
20
Wednesday
23
The Royal Oak
Scott Lewis (Public Bar) 9pm
Thursday
24
The Royal Oak
Amy Pegg, Joel Kallman (Public Bar) 9pm
Watergarden
Tony Voglino 8pm
Friday
25
Drift
Friday Vibes with Shasa Bolton
The Royal Oak
3 Indecisive Musos (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Clinton Hutton 9pm
Watergarden
The Tassie Tenor 8pm
Country Club Casino Lawns
RED HOT SUMMER TOUR
The Royal Oak
Ben Castles (Public Bar) 9pm
Tonic Bar
Brett Collidge 11pm
Watergarden
Jerome Hillier 8pm
The Royal Oak
Launceston Blues Club Jam (Boatshed) 1pm
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm
Watergarden
Clinton Hutton 8pm
Saturday
Sunday
26
27
Tuesday
29
The Royal Oak
Dan Bolton (Boatshed) 8:30pm
Thursday
31
Watergarden
Adam Page 8pm
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