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Michael Priest + Bianca Clennett Sunday 20th Ben Lawless + Becca Tilley Monday 21st Billy Whitton Tuesday 22nd Finn Seccombe Duo Wednesday 23rd Reggae Inc Thursday 24th Sugartrain Friday 25th Chase City + Lewes + Guest Saturday 26th Melissa Oliveira Quintet Sunday 27th Quiz Night Monday 28th Ross Serman Tuesday 29th Transvaal Diamond Syndicate Wednesday 30th 4 Letter Fish Thursday 31st August Like Thieves (Clint Boge, Butterfly Effect) $20pre/$25door Fri Aug 1 Mental As Anything $25pre/$30door Sat Aug 2 Art Vs Science $20pre/$25door Fri Aug 8 Coolio + Dameza $35pre/$40door Sat Aug 9

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Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall and Wunderland have had one hell of a crazy first 12 months! From the coolest rooftop parties Hobart has ever seen, to some of the most interesting and innovative events they could think of. Now they’d like you to join them to help them celebrate! On Friday July 4, they’ll be having a big ol’ 1st birthday party, featuring some of Hobart’s finest. Live music will include the likes of everyone’s favourite rockabilly band, the Sin & Tonics, and everyone’s favourite soulfunk band, The Briefcase. Following them will be everyone’s favourite all-vinyl DJ collective, the Soul Session Soundsystem.

Plus there’ll be killer drink specials, which is also everyone’s favourite. $6 pints, $5 shots, $10 cocktails. Kicks off at 7pm!

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Aquila Young. Small and fragile with an electric presence. Now backed with a recent expansion, Aquila Young is set to tour the east coast of Australia with an added twist of daft punk electronica and bass-heavy beats all within the solooperated game. The added wave of synths and sounds to the intense performances makes this tiny girl a force to be reckoned with. Hobart gets two chances to catch it all go down, Thursday July 8 at The Republic Bar & Café, and on Saturday July 10, down the road a bit at The Homestead and inbetween a Launceston show at Alchemy Bar on the Friday. Sounds super intriguing. I’m super intrigued. I hope the gigs are both super AND intriguing. Let’s find out together.

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ALIVE AND KICKING The Dead Maggies are a folkpunk/cowpunk/ convict punk band from Hobart that perform tragic tales of Tasmanian folklore, set to upbeat, toe tapping, fast-dancing tunes. In August and September they will be spreading their tragic tales around Europe, but they’ve found time to slot in two more gigs in Tasmania before they set sail.

On Saturday July 5 at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart they’ll be playing a free gig in the front bar, kicking off at 9pm, they’ll be followed by Craicpot at 10pm. On Saturday July 12, The Dead Maggies will be playing at The Royal Oak in Launceston, with The Stayns, who will be launching their debut album. Also on the bill are Phat Meegz and Heloise. $5 entry. 9pm start.

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Transvaal Diamond Syndicate are visiting Tasmania for the fourth time, which means they’ve probably played here more than your favourite Tasmanian band has. This time they’re playing the followings dates and places: Friday July 25 at Spurs Saloon in Devonport (9pm start - Free entry!), Wednesday July 30 at The Republic Bar and Café in Hobart (8pm start - Free entry!) , Thursday July 31 at Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport (8pm start - Free entry (again!)!), Friday August 1 at the Royal Oak Hotel w/ Guthrie and Hounds of Hiroshima (8pm start - $10 cover on this one). They’re also playing a few private parties around the place, so who knows where you’ll see them pop up!

There’ll be a bar with some special drinks, and a Faldum merch stand. Everyone loves gig merch! For more information on Faldum, head over to www.faldum.com, then head along to the gig. Be popular. Be awesome.

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Courtney Love will be dropping in to Australia for a quick eight stop tour on her way to personally fish missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 out of the water wherever the hell it was that she found it.

It’s her first solo headline tour of Australia, it’s called the “Courtney Love - You Know My Name” Tour, which begs the question: why did they have to put her goddamn name in the title? Monday August 18 is when you can catch her at Wrest Point Casino in Sandy Bay, tickets are already available from Wrest Point, or online via tixtas.com.au, they’ll run you around $80. Worth every cent to see the “most controversial woman in the history of rock” eh, Rolling Stone?

PRETTY FLY Launceston is already a pretty fly kinda town, but now it’s about to get Superfly!

Courtesy of The Soul Funk Experiment (which Hobartians may remember from its popular run as an Edge Radio show), SUPERFLY will be Launceston’s very own soul, funk, afro, latin club night!

It’s basically a night full of awesome.

Featuring live band The Mercenary Funk Bandits playing two sets of soul-funk classics, plus DJs Grinning Cat and Corey Hudson on that sweet all-vinyl tip!

Saturday July 12 is the date, 7:30pm to 12am is the time, Fresh on Charles is the place (178 Charles st, Launceston) and $5 is the cover charge. Bargain. For more information, check out www.facebook.com/ thesoulfunkexperiment.

A LITTLE BIT OF DRUM, A LITTLE BIT OF BASS Like drums? Sure do. Like bass? Darn tootin‘. Got rhythm? Hells yeah. Want to learn more about how the rhythm section works together in a variety of styles? OMG SO YES! This is the perfect opportunity for you then. Distinguished groove players and instrument teachers Konrad Park (drums) and Nigel Hope (bass) present a custom clinic focussing on how the boom boom chik and the bow chikka bow wow interact.

Fun and entertaining, it’ll be a hands on experience. Drums will be provided, but bass heads, please bring your own bass along. Tuesday July 15, from 1-4pm at the Rosny Barn, for ages 12-16. Cost is $20. For bookings, call 6245 8764, email schoolhouse@ccc.tas.gov.au , or visit trybooking.com/FEFX. TRIPPING TO SOME HOP

Awesome and popular trio Faldum are at it again, and this time they’ll be taking over the awesome and popular Tricycle Café and Bar. Supporting Faldum on the bill will be the equally awesome and popular Close Counters, which makes for a night full of awesome and popular live trip-hop awesomeness! Saturday July 19 is when it’s going down, and 8:30pm (running till around 11pm) is when it’s firing up. Admission is only a fiver on the door.

Anyway, this is rambling. You all know who Mental As Anything are, and you all know what they’ve done. You know you want to see them live on stage again, and now you can. They’ll be playing at The Republic Bar & Café on Saturday August 2. Tickets available from Ruffcut, the venue, or online via moshtix.

ARTS MEETS MUSIC CROSSROAD Buddy Hell! Or Buddy Heaven, if you actually like Buddy Holly, which most people seem to. Anyway, Scott Cameron’s amazing recreation of Buddy Holly is highly regarded among audiences and is returning this July and August. Scott has been playing Buddy for 10 years now, and what better way to celebrate that accomplishment than by playing Buddy some more.The show can be seen on Friday July 25 at the Launceston Country Club (tix via countryclubtasmania.com.au or 1300 795 257), and Saturday July 26 at the Theatre Royal in Hobart (tix via www. theatre royal.com.au or (03) 6233 2299). Get along and get your ears filled with some of those good time classics, like “Rave On”, “Peggy Sue”, or “That’ll Be The Day”.

Junction Arts Festival returns from September 10 – 14 this year to energise Launceston at the start of spring with five days of playful performances, experiences and late-night happenings that unlock hidden spaces of the city and offer audiences the opportunity to come into close proximity with artists, to observe, participate and create. From one minute one-one-parties to projects exploring unused spaces of Launceston by foot and all manner of things in between, Junction Arts Festival will be ringing in spring by reigniting the city with live art, music and unexpected adventures. Stay tuned to Junction Arts Festival’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more news in the coming months.

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Ball Park Music are back again, but they aren’t playing in a Ball Park. In fact, they’ve probably never even played music in a Ball Park once. What a crock. This time they’re playing at the UTAS Uni Bar in Sandy Bay, which doesn’t look anything like a Ball Park. It’s part of their “Trippin’ The Light Fantastic” Tour. So you’ll be able to go park your balls at that. You’ll also be able to catch Millions and Pluto Jonze while you’re there. It’s all going down on Friday September 12, but tickets are on sale now. If you’re a regular old schmuck, it’ll cost you $40 + bf for a presale ticket, or $45 on the door. If you’re a student young schmuck, it’ll only cost you $36.50 + bf for presale, or $41.50 on the door.

FULL OF SOUL Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are returning to Australia! That’s pretty much the coolest thing ever. But even better than that, is that they’re coming to Hobart! Holy sweet jebus yes! It’s the “Give The People What They Want!” Tour! It’s an old school soul revue and dancehall style tour through iconic theatre and town hall venues, which means, for us, they’re hitting up The Odeon Theatre on Liverpool street in Hobart. It’s the most monumental and explosive soul live show they have ever toured and they’ll be supported by monumentally explosive bands The Bombay Royale, and Saun & Starr. Sunday September 14 is the date.

Lock it in your diaries. Tickets are on sale Friday July 4 via Oztix.

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Dewayne Everettsmith is one of Tasmania’s favourite sons, and rightly so. With great success comes great responsibility (or something), and Everettsmith sure seems like a mature and responsible bloke. Since coming to prevalence through Tourism Australia’s $250 Million advertising campaign using his debut single “It’s Like Love”, Everettsmith has gone from strength to strength, releasing his debut album Surrender earlier this year and backing it up with a national tour. Now he’s releasing his second single from his debut album (the second single is the title track), and heading off on another tour, this time it’s the east coast. Unfortunately, Tasmania isn’t on the list this time, but we’re sure we’ll get a chance to catch him again real soon!

WHAT’S COOLER THEN COOLIO? WELL COOLIO IS Remember Coolio? Of course you do, he was here like, 3 weeks ago or something.

Anyway, he’s coming back for another Australian tour (had to cancel last time due to being too gangsta). I’m pretty sure I used up all my jokes about Coolio being a “chef” on the news item for his last tour, so whatever, go read that one again. It’s funnier than this one. This one has the relevant details though. Saturday August 9 at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart.

Tickets will run you around about $40 a piece, and are available from The Republic, Ruffcut Records, or online via Moshtix.

Something something something Blasian (Black Asian) food, something something something Ghettalian (Ghetto Italian) food.

Coolio vs. Action Bronson in an Iron Chef cook-off? I know who my money’d be on.

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MENTAL I TELL YOU Haha holy crap, Mental As Anything are still around? Who’da thunk it? Probably not the group of art students who started calling themselves a band and playing gigs just to get free beer in the 70‘s. It’s 37 years later and now the band themselves are almost in their 70’s. They don’t play for free beer any more though, they’ve probably moved on to fortified wines or prune juice or something.

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A BIG HEART GORGEOUS, SELFLESS, AND INSANELY TALENTED. ARIA WINNING SINGER-SONGWRITER CLARE BOWDITCH HAS GOT IT ALL AND WILL SHARE HER PASSION THROUGH HER FESTIVAL OF VOICES CONCERT AND WORKSHOP ON JULY 11. SHE TALKS LOVE, LIFE, AND SONG AHEAD OF THE EVENTS.

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Clare Bowditch has worked her way to success since breaking out onto the scene in the late 1990s with her band Red Raku.

The former Rolling Stone Woman of the Year (Contribution to Culture) and YEN Young Woman of the Year (Music) has toured with Gotye and Leonard Cohen and her compositions have put her albums up in the Top Ten. As well as working on an eighth album set to come out in 2015, Clare’s most recent venture is through her role on Channel Ten’s Offspring – which landed her a Logie nomination in 2012.

fly to la and write a song with someone.”

“Offspring has been fun, and I’m looking forward to watching this next season on the box like everyone else,” Clare says.

“When I’m sitting there with my cuppa joe on the sofa watching, I’m a fan like anyone else. I love it – it’s such a clever show, it’s really fun.”

So, what’s it like having love in the studio?

According to Clare, “it is hot, hot, hot baby!”

But don’t get too excited – the power couple have created rules to ensure they really do record when they ‘record’, and spend family time together after hours.

It’s somewhat fitting that Clare’s time spent relaxing in front of the tellie is still so closely intertwined with her work.

Describing her work-life balance as “an elusive beast”, Clare spends most of her time occupied with her creative practice – whether it be songwriting or business.

“Some days, I’ll drop the kids off at school and I’m literally sitting at the desk typing all day, doing administration, and then I might

“I quite enjoy the variety of it, but I think we all live with this idea that there’s someone who is doing it better, who is balancing it better, who is in more control of themselves – but we’re all doing the best we can.”

Clare has a history of morphing business with pleasure, having worked for years in the studio with her manager, producer, and father of her three children, Marty Brown.

“Marty and I are like seven different people depending on the time of day that we’re working together, but I really enjoy the straight forwardness – we worked together for years before we fell in love,” Clare explains.

“But a couple of years ago, we had to get really conscious about it and set rules for ourselves. We don’t talk about work after certain hours and we definitely try not to talk about it in bed.”

Compassionate and modest, Clare considers her relationship with Marty to be “very typical of a lot of people in today’s day and age who are multipassionate sorts.”

“We are trying to do the things we love in the world, and the things that make sense to us and that mean something, and we’re doing it in conjunction to our families. It’s not an either/or. It’s not that classic ‘80s model of either having a family or career.

We get very lucky when we have partners who support us in that.”

Having been a hit on the scene since the ‘90s, the Aussie singer is definitely doing something right. But despite her unquestionable talent, Clare feels the key to her longevity is not in her abilities but in her willingness to take control of her career and meet her goals in her own time.

“One of the great advantages I had was that there was no rush. It was not always about the quickest way to make money, but continuing to understand that as an entertainer that I’m always in the position to service. I’m there to bring something into people’s lives, and that’s what keeps me going.”

“I’m infinitely inspired by humans trying to do stuff – it’s really that simple. I see so many people in today’s day and age who are worthy of stories, so the thing that inspires me the most are people’s emotional lives.”

Giving the gift of song to the same people who have inspired her is one of the many ways in which Clare offers her passion and knowledge. Last year, Clare founded Big Hearted Business – a success made possible through one of the biggest crowdfunding campaigns in Australia.

“Big hearted business is not just for musicians – it’s for anyone who runs a business to do something good in the world,” Clare describes.

“I got really frustrated with seeing incredible people with great ideas and huge hearts having no idea about how to run a business and make a living doing the thing that they love. About two years ago, we decided to do something about it and we put on a conference and built a website about it.”

While Big Hearted Business aims to support business minded Australians, you don’t have to do anything but sing to take in Clare’s wisdom when she comes to the Festival of Voices. Along with her concert, she’ll be holding a workshop for “anyone who’s ever said ‘I’d love to sing but I can’t sing’” (which, according to Clare, is “bollocks”).

“If you can talk, you can sing. Sure, we can’t all sing like Liberace – I can’t sing like Liberace – but you can sing like yourself, and do that in a group of people, and it can be really fun.”

“I think there are times when the divide between audience and performer is diminishing, and so what I love to do with these workshops is very much involve the audience in the experience of singing, rather than the passive experience of observing.”

The concert itself, however, is for “anyone who feels like a bit of a life, a bit of fun, and a bit of truth telling. I’ll just be there trying to make people laugh and sing.”

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Clare Bowditch will perform at the Federation Concert Hall, July 11 and will host a workshop on the same day. For tickets and further information go to www.festivalofvoices.com.

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THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT “I HATE IT (LAUGHS) I DON’T EVEN LIKE MAKING FILM CLIPS. IT’S A PAIN IN THE ASS, YOU GOTTA GET CHANGED ALL THE TIME. I LIKE JUST BEING DRESSED AND STAYING DRESSED. WORKING ON A FILM LIKE BRAN NU DAE, THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN IT, SOME AMAZING ACTORS WHO REALLY HAVE HONED THEIR CRAFT AND SEEING HOW THEY WORK AND HOW MUCH THEY CARE AT WHAT THEY DO, I REALLY REALIZED I’M NOT THAT GOOD. I’M NOT AN ACTOR.”

It’s fair that most of us consider Aussie soul rocker Dan Sultan a musician first and all else after; I mean, it’s what he does best. But it would seem after Sultan’s appearance in the 2009 Rachel Perkins film Bran Nu Dae, he has no plans to become a triple-threat. So he made a new record instead, and thus was born Blackbird.

“I thought, “am I gonna keep doing or am I gonna get a job?” but then I realised this is my job so I better pull my finger out and give it a good go. I had to make a few changes and after not writing anything for years I wrote 38 songs in six months! When you have passion, you feel compelled; when it’s your passion you have to do it, you can’t exist without it. I was feeling good again.

It’s a good feeling, for a creative person to be being creative, it’s affirming. I hope

to never have that gap again, to feel that uninspired again...if it does though, i’ll take it on the chin.”

You need only look at the five year gap between “Blackbird” and Sultan’s late 2009 release, “Get Out While You Can” to know that the man has been incubating for some time. Sultan had to push through some pretty hefty creative stagnation and writer’s block in order to bring this new, well worth the wait, record out to the world.

“There are tricks that you can do, little ways so you can trigger yourself into doing it.

I’ve learned a couple of those: one is taking care of yourself, exercising and feeling a bit more positive about things. There are things that can spur on, kickstart the process.”

MUSICAL OPTIMISM LAURA IMBRUGLIA’S MUSIC IS WITTY, FUNNY AND SATIRICAL, AND SO TO IS THE LADY HERSELF. YET BENEATH THAT WIT AND HUMOUR IS A GIRL WHO’S BEEN THROUGH SOME TOUGH TIMES, AND, LIKE MANY MUSICIANS, TELLS THIS THROUGH HER MUSIC. HER WIT AND HUMOUR MAY BE CLEAR IN HER MUSIC BUT THE TOUGH TIMES ARE HIDDEN UNDER THE POP BEATS AND COUNTRY HARMONIES.

“I don’t really have a way of doing things, it just comes to me. I know some people, great songwriters, they need everything just so, but me personally, I don’t really do that. There is no right or wrong way to do it.

Before this record, for three years I didn’t write anything, I was busy touring a lot and I wasn’t inspired or motivated to write anything. I had to just make a few changes and soon as i did that, then everything came together.”

Although he pushes himself, Sultan admits the drive to flawlessness in their art can make some creators go mad.

perfectionist but I’m also a realist. Things are gonna be the way they are; once you take something out of your soul and mind and you put it out into the world, it’s got its own life, it breathes its own air.”

“It’s an ongoing battle in myself internally to look on the bright side, but it’s something I do have” Sultan says on remaining optimistic when all the chips seem eternally down. “I’m always excited to be positive, to be my best. There are times when I’m not and I dont give a shit though” LISA DIB

“The creative process starts and ends in your soul and in your mind. Making a record is not fucking up the idea you have in your head as much as you can. I’m a

Dan Sultan plays The Wrest Point Showroom on Friday 8 August, followed by The Country Club Showroom in Launceston on the Saturday.

Tickets are available from www.tixtas.com.au.

What A Treat, Laura’s third album, was voted #17 in the Mess+Noise Readers’ Top 50 Albums of 2013, and is full of fun, upbeat songs shifting between country, pop, punk, rock and folk. They tell stories of moving, love and life, ‘the whole album is a bit of a meditation on heartbreak,’ she tells me.

‘I’m not very prolific so when something happens to me that inspires me, it tends to affect or inspire the whole album and set a tone for the whole thing.’

with my friends. Laura is surprised by my feedback and says that others have had similar reactions to her music and is surprised, ‘I’ve always thought that my songs can be quite depressing but when I speak to people about them, people tell me that they’re really optimistic and they get a lot of positive stuff out of listening to my music…I guess I’m an optimist but I don’t realize it, I don’t see it that way but apparently that’s what my lyrics say.’

Laura’s love for varying types of music inspires her unique sound, ‘I’m a big fan of Ween and Steely Dan, they’re experts at shape shifting which is what I try and let myself do so I don’t get stuck in one type of thing because I get bored.’ Her taste has also influenced the unique sound she produces today, ‘I don’t listen to much current music so I guess [my music has] a nostalgic bent to it, I listen to a lot of 60s and 70s power pop and heaps of country,’

Laura has been performing in bars since she was legally allowed to and has already toured with the likes of The Eels, Josh Pyke, Bob Evans and Tegan & Sara. As Laura reminisces the early tours, it is no wonder her music is full of humour and wit.

‘They did some weird things,’ she recalls of her early tour with The Eels. After her first performance the band pulled her backstage, saying they had a present for her. ‘They had one of the band members and a crew member, handcuffed with fluffy handcuffs and they both had Viking helmets on and one of them had a pack of edible undies in his mouth!’

The 60s-70s, pop, country sound is evident in ‘What a Treat,’ songs like ‘Harsh Dylan Songs’ involve country guitar solos and poppy vocal layers. ‘I really like big harmonies and melodies and guitar solos.

So I try and incorporate them into my music and make other people do the things that I can’t do, like the good guitar solos.’

‘Straight To The Bar’ feels like a swing, blues song, that makes your foot tap and body move, and the lyrics add another element, Laura says it’s ‘just me coaching a friend through a shit night. That’s kind of where the lyrics are coming from but it also could be taken as me talking to myself.’

The whole album makes me want to swig on a beer and jive in a small bar, laughing

Coming along for the ride are her band members Adam Donovan from Augie March on lead guitar, and Chris Baker from Anthony Atkinson on pedal steel.

ELLA RICHMOND

Laura plays The Homestead on Saturday July 19 and MONA in the Void on Sunday July 20.

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NEVER A DULL MORNING SAMUEL J COLE, SINGER IN HOBART INDIE-FOLK BAND THE MORNINGS, SITS ACROSS FROM ME ON A PICNIC TABLE IN A SHITTY BEER GARDEN IN THE SQUINTY, HUNGOVER LIGHT OF A WEEKDAY AFTERNOON. HIS BROW IS FURROWED OVER THAT UNMISTAKEABLE STARE, CEASELESS IN ITS INTENSITY. HIS ARMS ARE FOLDED, SLEEVES PUSHED UP TO REVEAL HIS ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE HEART TATT ON HIS VEINY FOREARM.

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I take some shorthand notes in my black A6 Moleskin note book and coerce my Wayfarers up my pock-marked nose. The Mornings have been described as Indie without the moustaches and folk without the overalls and I’m keen to see what they’re up to these days.

After a show in Launceston on the 31st of July we’re coming back to Hobart play a show at the Grand Poobah on August 1st with Verticoli and The Beautiful Chains.

When I ask him, Samuel takes a sip from his flat ten ounce of Bush Lager and strokes his beard thoughtfully.

The Mornings have had an eventful past: it’s been only a few months since the night at the Playhouse Theatre where people were handing around tiny bootleg bottles of whiskey and singing The Mornings’ homemade Tassie lyrics. It’s been a little while since they were posing for fan photos with Coolio before playing on the main stage at Falls in Marion Bay 12/13. And it’s been a little longer since the band drove all night from Sydney to Port Macquarie to play at Festival of the Sun.

“We’ve got 16 shows on the mainland from July 16-31st with Seth Henderson performing his solo show along with us.

We’re starting in Queensland and travelling down through New South Wales and Victoria.

Then we’re hiring the Abbotsfield convent in Melbourne on July 30th for an accoustic show.

“We’re also in the middle of recording some new songs,” Sam says.

“We don’t all see each other every day. But it feels fantastic to be back in the studio

recording a fter a small break. We’ve got a bunch of new songs that we’re really excited to share and feel great to play.

It’s great to be able to fit in writing new material, playing gigs and recording.

We really can’t do anything without the support of people in Hobart and we’re really appreciative all the opportunities we continue to have.”

“And you probably want to know about the others,” Samuel continues. “My brother Ben O’Cole worked 24 hour shifts in a greasy burger bar to afford his various addictions. Our violinist Anna competed in the underwater chess championships in Russia. Caleb our soundie just gets drunk and does back flips off beds in hotel rooms. Jem, the drummer, has spent the last 6 months smuggling Swedish babies to Antarctica for the correct measurement of penguin onesies. And that leaves Nick the sax player who you can find on some Hobart street corner any time between 10pm and 4am in a mist of Cuban cigars.” x I realise my mouth is slightly open but I’m too engrossed in the story to close it.

“And what happened to you, Sam?” I’m nearly too scared to ask.

“I just did a stint in hospital. I’ve been working on my sex addiction. It was going smoothly until I started sexing everyone in the ward - the nurses, the doctors, the other patients. Hell, I sexed everyone in there. And I’ll sex every fucking Warp reader. Only if they want to, of course.”

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The Mornings play Fresh on Charles in Launceston on Friday July 31, before heading to Hobart on the Saturday for a show at The Grand Poobah.

FRACTANGULAR GATHERING 2015 – OPEN AIR COLLABORATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL WE’RE BACK…JUST LIKE WE SAID WE’D BE!

We laid our tools to rest for the 2014 summer and welcomed a new addition to the Fractangular Family. The warmth has well and truly passed, there is a dampness in the air and fungi are fruitful almost everywhere. The darkness of winter is a time for hibernation and creation.

For those who know us and for those who are new to us Fractangular Gathering is a three day open air collaborative arts festival held in Buckland, South-East Tasmania, 6-8th of February 2015. Punters come to discover and experience a fusion of alternative electronic and acoustic music genres with visual and performing arts across multiple stages. They participate in a variety of interactive workshops and explore the market, lounge, bar, artworks and bush throughout the festival while camping under the stars and pretty lights! Artists, local, interstate and international anticipate this special moment in time where they get to shine and meets others alike.

2015 will Feature our largest selection of arts yet including music from across the globe covering gypsy, balkan, swing, folk, dub reggae, roots, jazz-hop, general bohemia & pirate caper, minimal tech and techno, progressive and broken beats, glitch, psytrance, psygrooves and plenty more. Circus performers fresh off the streets and out of theatres of the UK, Australia and Tasmania will entertain us by day and night with their aw-inspiring stunts and breathtaking telent on stage in cabaret, street performance, circus, puppetry, clown, comedy, burlesque, flying trapeze, highwire and more. Did we say flying trapeze? Yes we did, and you will have the opportunity to spread your wings and fly on this giant human swing. And there is more

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- installation art, sculpture, digital media, visual mapping, painting and experimental art that promises to take you on a journey of outer galactic awareness and into the realm of visionary consciousness.

There will be workshops that will empower ones inner creativity and encourage positive self-indulgence through arts, crafts, health and wellbeing. Also onsite is The Market precinct - a buzzing hub of food, arts, crafts, clothes, incense, buskers, coffee, a kids bush playground and The Velveteen Lounge and Bar - a warm and friendly space to engage in or just kick back and watch it all dance by.

We have some LARGE announcements to make in the next few months and cannot wait to share them with you all. Be sure you’re signed up to the Fractangular mailing list via the website: www. fractangular.com.au and or like us on Facebook to keep updated.

APPLICATIONS OPEN MID JULY …… Music, Visual & Performing arts, Workshops, Market Stalls and Volunteers. Apply via the website.

Spread the love, spread the word, and spread this festival as far as you can.

Be part of the momentum in putting Fractangular Gathering on the festival circuit of Australia and the Earth!

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WE JUST LIKE BEARDS I DON’T THINK I NEED MENTION THAT THIS INTERVIEW IS PRETTY MUCH JUST ENTIRELY ABOUT FACIAL HAIR?

Nathaniel Beard, of Adelaide’s- nay, Australia’s- most gloriously hirsute musical comrades, boasts no small amount of dedication to his craft. Crafts, rather: one being rock and roll music, of which he and his band are very good, and another being majestic beard action, of which he and his band are possibly even better. They’ve just launched their opus, The Beard Album, and plan to tour the hell out of it.

“Every time we do one of these big album launch tours, it gets bigger” says the hairy muso. “We really wanted to get to parts of places like Queensland and Western Australia, aside from major centres and capital cities that we normally go to. We wanted to get to other places we don’t get to go to basically try to get the bearded message out to as many people as possible” Having read a recent piece of fluff journalism that declared beards were... shudder.. out (or even, dare I say, passe!), I pass on this information to Nathaniel who cares about as much as I care about AFL: that is to say, not a jot.

“Beards have nothing to do with fashion, they’re not a fashion accessory, they’re a

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way of life. If beards every become less popular than they are, maybe people will shave them off but those people never deserved to have a beard.”

Having declared that we should all, as a species presumably, get down with our bearded brethren (You Should Consider Having Sex with a Bearded Man from 2012’s “Having a Beard is the New Not Having a Beard”) I wonder if Nathaniel has ever done the same.

“I’ve never had sex with a beardless man.

I assume it would be rubbish. Having never tried the alternative, it’s hard for me to compare, I assume that having sex with a beardless man is a weak comparison to the total satisfaction of having sex with a bearded man”

Nathaniel is also into gender and sexual equality when it comes to beards, too.

“Beards are pansexual. There’s a lot of stigma around women wearing beards.

Never remove any hair that grows from your face. Welcome it; don’t shave it away, we would ideally like all women to wear a fake beard at all times. That doesn’t go just for women but men and children who can’t grow beards. We want them to be living a life that shows solidarity to their bearded counterparts...and then maybe consider a beard face tattoo. If you’ve a spare 8000 dollars you can buy a beard, you can buy beard implants” “The Beard Album”, as you might expect, is the band’s latest record in their bushy catalog and possibly the culmination of

their years of combined bristly work. “This album is really going in a very bearded direction; the last album was pretty beard-related but never have we been so convinced by the epic beardyness of an album that we would be willing to attach the name “The Beard Album” to it. This album would possibly go down in history as the most beard-related album we’ve ever done.”

“We don’t even really like music. We just like beards.”

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A TASTE OF TEETH AND TONGUE MELBOURNE MUSO JESS CORNELIUS’ PROJECT TEETH AND TONGUE ARE COMING TO TASSIE TO GIVE US A TASTE OF THEIR THIRD ALBUM GRIDS THIS JULY 11 AND 12. THE SINGER-SONGWRITER CHATS WITH US ABOUT ‘80S SOUNDS, NEW TRACKS, AND THE STRUGGLE TO PERFECTION AHEAD OF THE GIGS.

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While Jess is known for her ‘80s influenced sounds – in particular, her Kate Bush style melody lines and nostalgically dated snares – she hasn’t a clue where her passion for music from the era came from.

“I’ve always had a soft spot for that type of production, but I don’t know where it came from because my parents never listened to that kind of music,” Jess muses.

“They were into much more raw sounds like Lou Reed and Tom Waits. But when I started this kind of music, I just had a fascination with it. I don’t want to take all those production ideals from that era, though. I like lots of raw guitar sounds and that more garage production as well. It’s really a bit of a mix.”

After taking that Teeth and Tongue sound all the way to the US for a 2012 tour, Jess got back into songwriting mode and ideas for a third album slowly started to emerge.

Released this March, Grids is a compilation of ideas Jess came up with over the course of a year.

“I didn’t initially think, ‘I’m going to make an album called Grids and it’s going to be like this’. You start with a handful of songs, but you never really set out for something.

But I did know that I wanted to make another record.”

Using drum machines and layered backing vocals which she started to experiment with in the States, Jess put together her newest Teeth and Tongue creation.

The gorgeous final numbers incorporate guitar, voice, and piano, and are consistent in their underlying messages.

“In hind sight, there are quite a lot of songs about similar themes. It wasn’t like I set out to write an album based on a set of ideas, but it certainly comes through to me when I think about it.”

“A lot of the songs are about trying to be content with what you’ve got and not searching for something better or exciting.

It’s about that struggle to be at peace with everything that is going on.”

An age old and universal struggle, Jess is no stranger to it herself. Her latest album is tribute to her inherent perfectionism and despite her success with Teeth and Tongue, she still finds it “difficult to feel really satisfied that I’ve done enough.”

“I think it happens with every album: you do your best to push yourself and get the ideas across that you want, and create an album that’s in your head. You never make the record that you really wanted to make, but you get closer and closer.”

“I think it’s a struggle for everyone to be questioning if they’re really working hard enough or doing the best they can. But there’s also a certain amount of contentment and satisfaction that comes from just putting a lot of work into something.”

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With a year between the first song and the last, Jess admits the time that passed had a significant impact on the release.

“One of the earliest songs we recorded didn’t make it onto the album because it had changed so much and it just didn’t fit.”

SILENT WAR ARIA WINNING SINGER-SONGWRITER MONIQUE BRUMBY ISN’T AFRAID TO GET POLITICAL. THROUGH HER NEW SELF-TITLED ALBUM AND SINGLE ‘SILENT WAR’, MONIQUE SHARES HER DESIRE FOR SAME SEX EQUALITY AND THE STRUGGLES FACED BY GAY COUPLES UNABLE TO MARRY. THE PASSIONATE MUSO TALKS ABOUT THE BIG ISSUES AHEAD OF HER GIG AT THE BRISBANE HOTEL ON AUGUST 2.

You’re now a successful independent artist – but when you first started out, you were signed to a major record label. What was it like to ‘come out’ in this spotlight?

The music industry is a very cut-throat, male dominated industry. I was signed to a major record company when I was 20 and my sexuality became a big topic in the media and for the label. How do we promote it? What can we say about it?

I’ve had these extra things to deal with regarding my sexuality that shouldn’t even be an issue. I’ve sort of developed a toughness over the years and don’t take it as personally. But I do mind – I don’t want people to discriminate against gay people.

Your new single ‘Silent War’ highlights the need for same sex equality. With the Australian public starting to voice a lot of support for same sex unions and support for LGBT couples, do you think the fight for equality still is a silent war?

It’s a silent war in terms of what people go through inside. The silent war that I speak of is in reference to my journey through acceptance of myself and my sexuality. It was very difficult when I came out 20 years ago. Times have changed a lot since then – in the polls, you can see that society is actually very supportive of same sex unions and there’s no denying that. But I also see a lot of homophobia and a lot of young people who are still unable to accept their sexuality. I feel really passionate about equal rights for all people. It’s not just about being given the right to marriage – it’s about the tone of the government. Not being given the same rights sets a tone of discrimination.

Hear the sum of Jess’ hard work when Teeth and Tongue bring the Grids album tour to Launceston’s Club 54 on Friday July 11 and Hobart’s The Homestead on Saturday July 12.

Tickets are available from Oztix.

PART OF THE SCENE MELODY POOL IS LIVING THE GLAMOROUS, HIGHFALUTIN LIFE OF A TOURING MUSICIAN. SHE’S ON THE TRAIN FROM SYDNEY TO NEWCASTLE. SUCH ARE THE EXPECTATIONS OF A TRAVELLING ARTIST.

“Touring, it’s a big part for me at the moment, it’s all part of sustaining this sort of crazy lifestyle. It’s exhausting and gruelling at times, but I do love it. It’s all I’ve ever known; my dad has been a fulltime musician for almost forty years and mum was in the band with him...it’s in my blood, I guess.”

Pool has been peddling her debut album The Hurting Scene to hungry ears. Created via crowdfunding, the album was made possible, as many sometimes are, by the generosity of a music-loving public. But is this- the death of the major label! - the very future of the music industry?

“It’s a huge thing, it’s kind of amazing for independent artists that now they don’t have to go broke and into debt to make a record, if there’s a big enough fanbase. The

fans feel like they’re really contributing, and they really are.”

Pool’s current project is touring the land with partner in crime, alt-folk.country dude Marlon Williams. They’re doing a classic double bill of their complementary styles because, after all, it’s nice to have company...

“It’s not a huge backstory; we got thrown together by management, did a gig together and gelled together really well musically- lot of the same influences- and this tour got thrown together! We’d both been touring solo for a while and both used to be in bands...it’s nice to have someone to talk to in the car for twelve hours, besides myself.”

Pool ended up recording the album in a sweet little town called Nashville,

Tennessee (uh, heard of it?) with producers Jace Everett and Brad Jones. “It was pretty cool. we recorded in a place called Berry Hill. I went over there without really knowing anyone, it was such an awesome way to do it. It disconnected me from my life and let me focus on the record.”

You’ll be glad to know - though I don’t rightly recall how this comes up in conversation- that Melody Pool was not an angsty, raging teen. Although it seems she may be now…

“I feel like I’m more like an angsty adult!

It’s all coming out now. I was kind of in the middle, I got along with everybody, I wasn’t ever very rebellious. I feel like I am probably more like that now. I’m rebelling against adulthood!”

Pool has a few guilty pleasures up her (record) sleeve, too.

“It’s a weird way to describe it [“guilty pleasures”] because I’m totally proud of it! Been listening to a lot of Spice Girls, Hanson, downloaded Bachelors Girls’ Buses and Trains the other day... ooh, and Alanis Morissette’s Hand in My Pocket!”

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Melody Pool and Marlon Williams play Thursday 24 July at Grand Poobah, Hobart and Friday 25 July at the Royal Oak Hotel, Launceston. The Hurting Scene is out now.

How did you and your wife Sophie work within the limits of these laws to come together?

My wife Sophie and I had a ceremony in Hobart three years ago. We called it a marriage – we invited people to our wedding, we wore dresses, and we tell people that we are married. It’s not legally recognised, but as soon as the laws change here we’ll renew our vows. Gay couples are just as worthy of being able to have a marriage and not just a ceremony.

Why did you decide to confront these issues through your music?

If you’re walking down the street holding hands with your partner, you will get verbally abused. This has happened to me with my wife, even in Melbourne. This is why I wanted to write a song about the celebration of love and the relationship between two women. There are many really gender specific songs that people can relate to in terms of a relationship between a man and a woman. I’m wanting to set a new precedent that gay artists can write love songs and be open about two people of the same sex being together.

So will equality ever be possible?

I think one day it will be. You have to have a positive approach to life to bring about change. If children grow up in an environment where acceptance is part of their daily life and is cultivated within the home, I think that attitudes can change.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE Monique will play a special all ages show at The Brisbane Hotel on Saturday August 2.

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YOU GOT WHAT YOU WISHED FOR. POPULAR DEMAND HAS SEEN SASKWATCH ADD A TRIP TO HOBART ON THEIR NATIONAL ALBUM TOUR, WHICH CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF NOSE DIVE. THE SOULFUL MELBOURNE NINE-PIECE WILL HIT THE WARATAH HOTEL ON JULY 11, AND TRUMPETER LIAM MCGORRY TALKS FRIENDSHIPS, THE X-FILES, AND PLAYING FOR CHILDREN IN SPAIN.

PEANUT BUTTER, BANANA AND HONEY ON TOAST. IS IT THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS? IT’S CERTAINLY THE BREAKFAST THAT KEEPS JIM FINN, ONE THIRD OF HOMEGROWN ELECTRO ROCK POWERHOUSE THAT IS ART VS. SCIENCE FULLY FUELED. I CAUGHT UP WITH JIM TO TALK MORE THAN JUST BREAKFAST THOUGH. IN PARTICULAR, I WANTED TO GET THIS ONE BIG QUESTION CLEARED UP: HAS ART VS. SCIENCE SINGLEHANDEDLY BUILT THE WORLD’S LARGEST HYPNOTRON? ‘We’re going to say that it’s the largest because we made it and we want it to be the largest,’ Jim says with a laugh. The spinning, black and while circle made to mesmerize is 2.4 meters across he tells me and features in the clip for the band’s latest single Creature of the Night. ‘We’ve been really involved in the making of all our clips but none more so than Creature of the Night,’ says Jim. ‘We came up with the concept and Dan Mac took those ideas and ran with it and created a whole concept for the clip and created a story board with all the ideas, all the props we’d need to make and where to shoot it.’

The DIY approach is something that’s pretty darn important to Art vs. Science, Jim tells me, and this means having input into everything associated with the band.

Ideally, its about the music, art and film

FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE “I’M LIVING IN AN OLD CHAPEL FOR TWO MONTHS RECORDING, HANGING OUT. IT’S A CONVERTED CHAPEL. WHICH IS AN INTERESTING PLACE TO LIVE, IN THE MIDDLE OF DAIRY FARMS. YOU CAN PUMP MUSIC OUT PRETTY LOUD. IT LOOKS LIKE A BIG OLD SCOUT HALL”

clips working together to create something bigger than the tunes themselves and creating a world that people can immerse themselves in. ‘I think we’re trying to guide it towards a creative art project in all aspects,’ Jim says. ‘I think we want it to be less about us as people and more about our consciousness as entities and try to connect people to the three of our combined creative consciousness which is what Art vs. Science is and give people as much of an insight into that as we can.’

That connection is why Art vs. Science favours live performances, working with real instruments over playing around with laptops.

‘For me, it’s about connection and the emotions of that person in front of you,’ Jim says. ‘And as an audience member

Melbourne dance muso Roland Tings is forever on the go. Having released an EP Who U Love this April and just finished recording his as-yet untitled album (due in September), he is always looking for new projects.

“At the moment I’ve got this album finished that’s coming out soon but I finished it a while ago, so I don’t know what I’m working on now! I’m just exploring some ideas and seeing what comes out. I’ll make the next logical step off from the stuff that’s already done” Tings has become a major globetrotter, travelling all over Europe and Asia, but he still considers Australia his prime roosting spot.

“I go to different places for different things, it really depends what I’m looking for. Not to be patriotic, but I really seem to get work done when I’m in Melbourne. I’ve tried to work while travelling a lot but I seem to need my gear setup of stuff that I have here, rather than a portable set. I went to Portugal on my last tour, I would like to go back, I had a really good time there. Seems to be some kind of connection between Portuguese and Australian people, I can’t quite understand what that is”

you want to have emotions stirred within you and I think it’s just a lot harder to do when you’re playing with a track because there’s something inherent about having a mechanized click that’s got a continuous time frame to it,’ he tells me. ‘It lacks that humanity and that emotion that comes from the beat just pushing and pulling a little bit… it’s almost unnoticeable, one or two beats a minute. Tempo is a dynamic thing, like notes and melody, that can move through out the song but I think a lot of dance music doesn’t take advantage of it.’

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If you want to feel emotions coursing through you like a wild river, grab a ticket for their gig at the Republic Bar, Friday August 8.

know anyone, wasn’t going out much.

I was quite a passive participant. The record that’s gonna come out is me working through from...I don’t wanna say an outsider perspective, which has its own perspective, but more like, outside of the understanding of the whole world of dance music”

Their new album Nose Dive is quite a shift away from their first release Leave it all Behind, which came about rather unintentionally.

sweet’. I started on bugle for a year to try and get technique down because I was pretty young, and then I just took it from there.”

“We started out busking without any original songs and we weren’t trying to be a band or anything, but it slowly came together over two or three years,” Liam remembers.

“I’ve also played a bit of guitar and bass – I tried trombone as well but wasn’t very good at it.”

“People saw us busk and we started playing sets of covers then started writing our own songs. I feel like the first album represents this progression from busking on the street to being an actual band, because it’s literally the first 12 songs that we wrote and rehearsed.”

Liam says Nose Dive saw the band give themselves more of “a push to write better songs and make it a bit more into the context of an album rather than just a bunch of songs. While we’d written songs before, we wrote because we felt we had to, not because we wanted to be better at writing. That’s the mentality that we have now.”

Liam can scarcely remember a time when he wasn’t making music. While he started off with the bugle (I know, right?), he eventually graduated to trumpet and has stuck with the brass bombshell ever since.

“When I was in year three, apparently I just came home from school and my parents were like, ‘you want to learn trumpet? Ok,

All of Liam’s practice, practice, practice compelled him to start thinking bigger about what he wanted to do with music – and like a rebellious and curious young teenager, he used to sneak his way into bars and clubs to watch music played live.

“A lot of my high school teachers were great players, and I wanted to see them play regular gigs outside of school. I’d be 15 or 16 and sneak in the back door to the gigs and watch them. Seeing them playing in bars and clubs in Melbourne was one of the major reasons I started to take music seriously.”

think we’d get such success – we are happy doing what we are doing, playing with friends.

enjoyable job at Melbourne’s Northside Records.

I feel very lucky that we’ve done half of what we have done – putting out an album and touring internationally. It’s beyond what I thought we’d do.”

“It’s amazing working in a record store because you just listen to whatever you want. It’s great to be exposed to new music and getting into stuff you wouldn’t normally listen to.”

One of Liam’s most memorable experiences from his time spent entertaining overseas was during a festival in the fiery nation of Spain.

This certainly gives Liam a break from the original Saskwatch hits the muso thinks about on a daily basis – along with his eight other band members.

“The Spanish people are really fanatical about music. It was amazing – they were so lovely to us and they loved the show.

It was a great experience, but really confronting as it was the first time I’d played to a non-English speaking audience as well.”

“Being around people 24/7, you can get sick of them – but with our band, we’ve got nine people so it’s a bit hard to get sick of each other.”

You know you’re onto a great thing when your music crosses the barriers of language – and age groups.

“We also played at a kid’s version of the festival to about 25 Spanish kids, which was pretty weird but great.”

The band have been crazy busy since their sophomore release, playing shows and festivals right around the country – but Liam likes to keep the momentum going strong.

From a passionate school boy, Liam has grown into a talented young man – and with his experience he is able to kick back and enjoy the work involved in his successful musical career.

“When you’re doing things every day, having days off can be a bit confronting, particularly when it’s your own original music and something you can’t turn off or switch off. It’s not like a day job; I’m thinking about it 24/7. It’s not really a downside, but it’s just about trying to switch off.”

“I don’t really see it as a career, but more like playing with friends. Just getting better at playing and writing and just having fun when we play.”

When Liam does get some time to himself, he relaxes like the rest of us – binging on The X-Files (he’s currently up to season three), and hanging out with his mates.

The trumpeter certainly hasn’t let the fame get to his head, and admits “I didn’t

He also passes on his skills to young trumpet students as a tutor, and holds an

“It’s been sort of a blessing. It’s really easy to travel with the band and everyone has their own thing they’re good at and sticks with it. We’ve evolved into this sort of self-sufficient unit because we’re touring a lot and playing a lot of shows, and we’re all in the same boat so we know what it feels like.”

“I feel very lucky and I hope that’s translated into the album” Though Liam describes the band as a “real tight unit,” the album isn’t all about the joy and friendship they experience during their time rehearsing, gigging, and touring together.

“We’re trying to give a well-rounded view, not just about being happy all the time. Sometimes everything isn’t ok.

Things are not just black and white – but different shades in between. The album is trying to fill out the spectrum emotionally.”

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Check out Saskwatch when they visit the Waratah Hotel in Hobart on July 11. Tickets available via Oztix.

“People talk about how they went to their first rave when they were fifteen and took a pill and heard some legendary DJ. It always starts with some big revelatory moment... but with me I spent my whole youth listening to punk and rock music, guitar stuff. I never really got into house music until I was about twenty-four. I started getting interested in it and making it, it wasn’t through some revelatory moment.

I didn’t have this idea of being the club guy. I went on tour for the first time after I did one show; I did Spain and Japan and Germany, that was really my first hardcore exposure to the clubbing scene.”

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LET’S GET THE PARTY STARTED… 2013 WAS A HUGE YEAR FOR REMI THAT ENDED UP WITH HIM GRABBING THE TRIPLE J UNEARTHED ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD, AND IT LOOKS LIKE 2014 IS GOING TO BE EVEN BIGGER.

He hasn’t just been kicking back and sipping sangria, Remi has an album about to drop, a brand new single on the way, and a sweet little tour across the country with Sensible J, Dutch and a whole assortment of friends about to start. To make it even better, Hobart is on the list. We managed to get hold of Remi on a brief break in proceedings, as he chilled out at his home in Melbourne, waiting for all the fun to begin.

When we spoke to Remi, his newest work – ‘RAW X INFINITY’ - was about a week out from release.

“It’s been all good for a while, we’re a bit more organised this time around, so it should all go smoothly. All systems are go.

This is the second album, plus there’s been a few EP’s in the mix.”

“I first started releasing stuff in 2011.

I’m just trying to keep busy, I think that’s the key, always strive to be better. I keep doing stuff so I’m not bored either. The new album isn’t even out and I’ve already finished stuff for the next one. I don’t like to stop. Until the tour, I’m just going to focus on pushing the album, promoting it and planning all the finer points of the trip,” Remi said.

And on June 26, Remi and good friends and collaborators Sensible J and Dutch, will hit the road on their latest tour with a revolving cast of extras.

Included in that list is Silent Jay,

L-Fresh the Lion, N’fa Jones, Hau Latukefu, Akouo, WZRDKID, KNOE, MzRizk, Omar Musa, Tigerilla, Relevant, and Bates.

“I’m going to be performing with a bunch of good friends on this tour. But just a few are coming with us, some we are picking up on the road.

Every show will have a different cast, every show will be different.

We are starting the tour in

Newcastle, where I’ve never been before.

And we are off to Tassie.”

“My Mum’s from Tassie, so it will be really good to get there. It will be my first time performing at the Republic Bar in Hobart.

It’s great the places we are getting to see.

New places too. Love getting over to Perth too, it’s such a great landscape.”

“Plus we are then playing at Splendour in the Grass, and hanging out in Mullumbimby. Hopefully we can organise a few more gigs around that.”

But, the core of the group is Remi, Sensible J and Dutch. When they are on the road together, J does the drum work, Dutch hits the turntables and Remi does the vocals.

“Our music is quite diverse and varied. We try to bring something new and exciting to the table when people see us play live.”

But, that’s not the end of it. There’s another 3 tours after this one – one in August, one in September, one in October, and then in November Remi is off to Germany.

“The plan is to go over to Germany and start to also build a fanbase there, and release there too. Berlin, Stuttgart, the planning is still in the works, but there’s great beer and great people there.”

But, first things first. Remi has his Aussie adventure.

KYLIE COX

Wonder who will turn up on stage with Remi when he plays in Hobart? Whoever it is, it’s going to be an amazing show. Get yourself down to the Republic Bar on Saturday July 12 to find out.

PAINTING MUSIC BY COLOURS DARK MOFO MAY BE OVER – BUT THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED. THE MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART AND THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ARE COLLABORATING ONCE AGAIN, HOT OFF THEIR HAUNTING JUNE SOLSTICE CONCERT IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS. SYNAESTHESIA+ IS A JOURNEY OF COLOUR, MUSIC AND ART TO SEDUCE THE SENSES BETWEEN AUGUST 16 AND 17.

So what is synaesthesia, anyway? Geoffrey Rush has it. So did Vincent Van Gogh, Marilyn Monroe, Leonard Bernstein, and Duke Ellington. Is it something reserved for famously creative minds? Not really – but as only one in 2,000 experience the phenomenon, you’d be lucky to join them.

Synaesthesia is the association between sounds, thoughts, words, and experiences, with colour. While many listeners may visualise stunning landscapes and rolling hills when listening to a work by Vaughan Williams, seeing the specific colour of blue when hearing E major (as did Rimsky Korsakov in his Scheherazade), or feeling the experience of happiness to be a shade of purple, is less than common. MONA is out to recreate this human potential for everyone to experience through different spaces in the galleries, accompanied by custom-designed lighting and old and new musical works.

TSO Artistic Director and Chief Conductor will join the orchestra for the series of concerts along with many renowned musicians. Award winning soprano

Allison Bell will tackle Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, an atonal work based on the poems of Belgian writer Albert Giraud. The Tassie-born musician has a history of tackling the challenges of such contemporary works, having performed this one previously in London’s Wigmore Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Scottish-born pianist Steven Osborne will perform Messiaen’s Vignt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus – the work that brought him worldwide fame when he released it on recording in 2002. If you’re unfamiliar with Messiaen, I have three words for you: check him out. One of the French masters of 20th Century composition, Messiaen himself claimed to have synaesthesia, and said that the colours he saw when he listened to chords were integral to his composition process.

The TSO will join with Genevieve Lacey to perform Elena Kats-Chernin’s Reinventions – a modern spin on Bach’s Inventions.

The TSO recently gave a magnificent performance of Kats-Chernin’s Wild Swans

with singer-songwriter Katie Noonan. If you missed it, then you are absolutely obligated to attend this performance of her work.

Besides which, Genevieve is an ARIA award winning recorder virtuoso, so the chance to see her play live is also not one to be missed.

Also inspired by the genius of Bach will be a performance of his selected cello suites played by Michael Goldschlanger – who has previously recorded these pieces with the aim of performing them under his own interpretation rather than being bound by music’s strict conventions.

Aussie composer, violinist, and conductorturned daredevil surfer Richard Tognetti will perform pieces by Ligeti and Bach accompanied by oscilloscopic lighting by Robin Fox. Last year, Tognetti took out a 250 year old violin worth $10 million into the waves as part of a stunt with a surf board – only to be attacked by a two metre shark. Tognetti escaped just fine – but his violin, surfboard, and the shark (who he had stabbed in the nose with the violin’s bow) weren’t so lucky. Audio-visual artist Robin Fox, on the other hand, keeps his works close to shore – his art has been displayed in over 50 cities around the world and he works across live performance, dance, and public artwork.

In the same vein as their intimate candlelight concert In Praise of Darkness, the TSO Chorus will take it a daring step further and perform in complete darkness.

The also loved and local Tom Vincent trio will pay tribute to Thelonious Monk. Aside from having the coolest name in history, Thelonious Sphere Monk is considered to be one of the greatest names in American jazz. Donning suits, hats, and sunnies, the man played in style as he improvised on piano and occasionally got up to do a little dance.

Michael Kieran Harvey, who comes from a bizarrely musical family, will play a selection of solo piano pieces by Scriabin – a continuation of the performances of contemporary works for which he is popularly known. While Michael was a late starter in music himself, he has one sister a pianist and another a violinist, his brother is a conductor and brass player, and both his parents made music for a time in their own lives. It was always going to happen – and Michael is now an award winning artist.

Go see him.

The event will be held over two days – and with a full pass you can listen to even more than these fascinating works, while enjoying drinks and feasts. A single day pass will also include a meal and drinks, and the museum will be closed both days to everyone except Synaesthesia+ audiences.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Synaesthesia+ will be held between August 16 and 17. For more information and tickets go to www.mona.net.au.

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THE BIGGEST NEW BAND IN THE WORLD

OICE OUT OF THE BOX FROM NEW YORK, NEW YORK TO HOBART CITY HALL COME SOME OF CABARET’S HOTTEST CLAIMS TO FAME. KICKING OFF THIS JULY 4, VOICEBOX BRINGS INTERNATIONAL ACTS INCLUDING JOEY ARIAS, JANE BADLER, AND ERIN MARKEY TO THE TRANSFORMED VENUE AS PART OF THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL OF VOICES. CURATOR AND NEW YORK BASED CABARET STAR KIM SMITH CHATS ABOUT WHY THIS YEAR’S VOICEBOX WILL BE A SERIES OF EVENTS TO REMEMBER.

Voicebox is where the Festival of Voices gets down and dirty. Deep red velvet, dark eroticism, and a concoction of cocktails will set your evenings on fire.

The City Hall will house timelessly brilliant cabaret acts over nine days, with jazz, drag, outrageous outfits, and voices you wouldn’t believe. Along with the impressive headline acts, artists including Cath Alcorn, Will Ferguson, Meow Meow, Nicolette Minster, Ali McGregor, Tex Perkins and Charlie Owen, and Kim Smith are set to grace the stage.

New York based Aussie artist Kim Smith makes his magic with the quirky combination of cabaret and electropop.

The award winning cabaret performer just released his new album Nova, and will perform his music on opening night.

He’s also been busy curating the entire Voicebox series.

What’s it been like to curate Voicebox, and how did you go about picking the best acts?

It was really fun. I had to think about what inspires me in cabaret, and what I like to see. Mostly, what I like to see is an unusual and talented person being themselves. That’s my favourite thing about an intimate small performance,

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like the type that we’ll be putting on for Voicebox. My favourite cabaret artist in New York City is Joey Arias. Nobody does what he does – he is just so blissfully unusual, but completely relatable and beyond talented. I knew I had to have him. I also wanted people like Meow Meow who epitomise dangerous cabaret.

She has an insane edge.

How do people feel these days about the old genre of cabaret?

I think cabaret is having a resurgence and has been since around 2000.

Especially in Australia with the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, we’ve been really forging a path and curating amazing acts. We’ve been bringing people to Australia and bringing up Australian artists as well. I just finished my third season with them, and being part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival has inspired the way I’ve thought about Voicebox as well – I’ve decided to bring the very best awesome artists to Tasmania who wouldn’t normally be here. For me, Adelaide and Hobart audiences are easily my favourite in Australia. They’re up for anything, they’ll go with you somewhere, and they’re ephemeral. That’s mostly why I’m so excited to be artistic curator for Voicebox – because we’re working with an intelligent audience.

How do you find the experience of working as a male artist in a style that’s so popular among female performers?

Your own music brings cabaret together with electropop – what inspired you to combine the two in your career?

For me personally, gender is such a fluid thing. My name is Kim, I’m gay, at times I’m effeminate and at times I’m strong.

Those things are characteristic of both men and women, so I don’t think it’s a woman’s or a man’s world. I sing a lot of female repertoire – I sing about men because that’s what I know and it’s what stirs emotion in me. I feel like a lot of female performers aspire to be popular in cabaret – but I actually think it’s harder for women.

I’ve always had a deep interest in ‘80s and ‘90s pop music. I released my first pop album in June last year, which is all electronic music. For sonic reference, it’s been likened to the Pet Shop Boys and that sort of thing. So, to start incorporating that into the cabaret stuff is sort of natural. We have things like synths coming into Marlene Dietrich songs. My pure joy is from putting together my own programs where I can change things, mutate things, explore different songs and put it all together.

So what are some of the challenges faced by female cabaret artists?

One of the hardest decisions is what to wear. It’s the same for women in classical recital as well. My husband is an American opera singer, so we have a lot of opera singing friends. What women have to wear in performance has so many layers to it in terms of expectations, matching it to the repertoire, and just the way that we scrutinise women in general – there’s less room for women to be themselves. This is why I’ve chosen people like Jane Badler for Voicebox.

She is a powerful, strong woman who completely knows herself.

Is this juxtaposition the future of cabaret?

I think it could be. Cabaret is so ephemeral that its future is based on whoever is out there and getting it done.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

EVERY BAND’S DREAM IS TO BE DISCOVERED, SIGNED UP TO A RECORD CONTRACT, FLOWN HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD AND NAMED ‘THE BIGGEST NEW BAND IN THE WORLD’.

Global Battle of the Bands (GBOB) makes these dreams reality. GBOB is the World’s biggest band competition; bands from over 30 countries compete for the final prize of $100,000US. In Australia there are heats in every state, and the Australian winner is flown to London where they get a manager, agents, and a new album.

“I just wish that they had something like this when I was doing this stuff because it does give a band a big chance,” says Denny Burgess, ex member of Masters Apprentices and Managing Director of A Red Letter Day, the Australian representatives of GBOB. “It’s fantastic for up and coming bands because it gives them profile, it gives them publicity.”

My memories of Battle of the Bands consist of sweaty high school boys, spiky hair, drinking goon bags in the toilets and extremely loud rock music. Denny insists that this Battle of the Bands is anything but that. “It’s pretty cool, it’s got a lot of cred.”

The first World GBOB Final was in 2004 in London, where only European bands competed. In 2010 the competition went worldwide and is growing every year. Past Australian winners include the Crawford Brothers, Heston Drop, and Powerage who came second in the World Finals. Denny says that although an Australian band as not won yet, they are always placed in the top ten, “So it’s only a matter of time before we win.”

producer based in South-East Asia. Past judges have been Steve Lillywhite, producer of U2 and The Rolling Stones, and Gary Helsinger from Universal Music Publishing.

So how does it work? Around 8-10 bands will compete at the Republic Bar on July 3, each band will play for 15 minutes and the audience vote for their favourite.

These votes, along with the choice of the three judges, will determine the winner.

The winning band will then compete in Regional Finals in October, if they’re lucky onto the National Final in November and the winning Australian band heads to London for the World Final after December.

Although the three Tasmanian judges have not yet been chosen, Denny says they will be leading people from Tasmania’s music industry.

The most common genre for the competition is rock but Denny says a variety of bands compete. A West Australian duo have been in the Australian final, and a reggae band from Melbourne have won the Australian final, “It’s not only for rockers, it’s for anybody,” Denny says.

But could the winning band be from Tasmania? For Denny, that is a likely possibility, “We’ve had some amazing bands from Tasmania,” he says. “We really look forward to coming down to Tasmania every year because there is such a lot of talent.”

ELLA RICHMOND

‘The Best New Band in the World,’ of 2013 was UK group Firekind. Judging the World Finals in Chang Mai was Arian Prart, president of PMG, the leading music company in Thailand; Jan Andre Heggem, the Label Manager of GBOB Records; and Henrik Alhgren, Swedish songwriter and

Heats are currently on for Global Battle of Bands in Tasmania. To be involved contact info@gbob. com.

Voicebox events will run from July 4 to July 12. For information and tickets go to www. festivalofvoices.com.au.

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HANDMADE

PARTNER EVENT

FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE

ROWAN SMITH HOOLAHOOP 6.30pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24

THURSDAY 3 JULY

DAVID LAWRENCE PD FOR CONDUCTORS 9.30am | The Farrall Centre $130 bookings essential

VOCAL WORKSHOP

KIM SMITH NOVA NOIR 9pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

HANDMADE

SHORT COURSE

PILLOW TALK 4pm | Hadleys Hotel | Free

TEX PERKINS & CHARLIE OWEN 10.30pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

PARTNER EVENT

VOICES@THEBARN EMMA BENNISON FINE LINE

7.30pm | Rosny Barn | $29 inc. tasting plate

SUNDAY 6 JULY VOICEBOX WILL FERGUSON VISIONS OF VIENNA 7.30pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180 ERIN MARKEY THERE’S A NEW EMERGENCY CONTACT IN TOWN 9pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

VOICES@THEBARN

HANDMADE

ALLISON FARROW & ANDREW SHORT AFTERNOON AT THE RITZ 2pm | Rosny Barn | $29 inc. tasting plate

GEORGINA RICHMOND & PAUL GERARD ARABESQUE 8pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24

MELODY BECK UNSEEN: TRIBUTE TO MARNI NIXON 6pm | Rosny Barn | $29 inc. tasting plate

CATH ALCORN NOTHING BUT A SONG 7pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD 10am & 12 noon | Theatre Royal | $24 / $34 HANDMADE

HEADLINER CONCERT

CHOIR OF HIGH HOPES ODYSSEY 2014 2pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24 CHORAL CONCERT

MAJOR WORKSHOPS

HIGH TEA WITH CHOIRS 2pm | Hadleys Hotel | $40

THE EXCHANGE CONTEMPORARY A CAPPELLA

MONDAY 7 JULY

ERIC DOZIER GOSPEL SPIRITUALS

JOEY ARIAS IN CONCERT 8pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

MEOW MEOW

9.30pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

TASMANIAN CABARET FESTIVAL 7pm | Hobart City Hall | $38 HANDMADE KYLIE CANTWELL THE ORANGUTAN BOY 2pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24 WORKSHOP

VOICES@THEBARN THE WHISKY ROOM & CLAIRE DAWSON MOLLS & MOBSTERS 5.30pm & 7.30pm | Rosny Barn $29 inc. tasting plate

VOICEBOX

BIG WORLD, SMALL VOICES Mon 7 – Sat 12 | Linmor Hall, Collegiate $270 bookings essential

DAVID LAWRENCE MOZART’S REQUIEM Wed 9 – Sun 13 (see website) From $198 bookings essential

TESS HANSEN, JUDE ELLIOT, JED APPLETON & LILLEE MAE A MEMORY OF LOVE

7.30pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24

SINGERS LOUNGE

From 7pm | Long Gallery, SAC Free for Festival Passholders or $15 at the door PARTNER EVENT CINEMA FIASCO VAMPIRE LOVERS 2.15pm | The Old Woolstore Theatrette $20 / $25

ANGE BOXALL WRITING LETTERS 7.30pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24

FIONA STEWART FAVORIS FRANCAISES

7.30pm | Rosny Barn | $29 inc. tasting plate

SHORT COURSE

HANDMADE

CHOIRS

CRAIG M WOOD, MICHELLE WOOD & LES WINSPEAR A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM 8pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24

SINGERS LOUNGE

From 7pm | Long Gallery, SAC Free for Festival Passholders or $15 at the door

CLARE BOWDITCH

10am | Federation Concert Hall | $60

ERIC DOZIER GOSPEL

3.30pm | Long Gallery, SAC | $38

CHORAL CONCERT

PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP

SHORT COURSE

BIG WORLD, SMALL VOICES 3pm | Nolan Gallery, MONA Museum fees apply MOZART’S REQUIEM 3pm | The Farrall Centre $18 / $25 / $29

CHOIRS SINGERS LOUNGE

From 7pm | Long Gallery, SAC Free for Festival Passholders or $15 at the door

SHOWCASE CONCERT

3.30pm | Hobart Town Hall

Free for Festival Passholders or $20 at the door PARTNER EVENT THE SPOOKY MEN’S CHORALE WORKSHOP 2pm | Port Arthur Historic Site | $25

PARTNER EVENT

CINEMA FIASCO HOUSEBOAT HORROR 4.15pm | Old Woolstore Theatrette $20 / $25

SALAMANCA WINTER WONDERLAND 7pm | Salamanca Square | Free

COMMUNITY SING-A-LONG 4.30pm | Port Arthur Historic Site | Free

SINGERS LOUNGE From 7pm | Long Gallery, SAC Free for Festival Passholders or $15 at the door

SATURDAY 12 JULY

THE SPOOKY MEN’S CHORALE CONCERT 7pm | Port Arthur Historic Site | $30

PARTNER EVENT

THE EXCHANGE

8pm | Federation Concert Hall $38 / $48 / $58

CHORAL CONCERT SHOWCASE CONCERT

6pm | Hobart Town Hall

Free for Festival Passholders or $20 at the door

CINEMA FIASCO TROLL 2 7.30pm | The Old Woolstore Theatrette $20 / $25

CHOIRS

ALLISON FARROW & ANDREW SHORT AFTERNOON AT THE RITZ 2pm | Rosny Barn | $29 inc. tasting plate

HANDMADE

SHOWCASE CONCERT

3.30pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC Free for Festival Passholders or $20 at the door

SHORT COURSE

VOICES@THEBARN

DEBORAH CONWAY & WILLY ZYGIER STORIES OF GHOSTS

7.30pm | Rosny Barn | $29 inc. tasting plate

CHORAL CONCERT

CHOIRS

THE SPOOKY MEN’S CHORALE 3.30pm | Long Gallery, SAC | $38

HANDMADE

YOUNG VOICES

3.30pm | Long Gallery, SAC | $38

FAMILY EVENT

HANDMADE

ERIN MARKEY THERE’S A NEW EMERGENCY CONTACT IN TOWN 6.30pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

VOICES@THEBARN

VOICES@THEBARN

VOICEBOX

SUSANNAH COLEMAN-BROWN & JANE MACARTHUR BACK TO THE ROOTS

7.30pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24

VOICEBOX

VOICEBOX

BONFIRE & BIG SING 6pm | Salamanca Place | Free

WILL FERGUSON BEAUTIFUL DREAMER

7.30pm | Rosny Barn | $29 inc. tasting plate

SATURDAY 5 JULY

BEN LEE 8pm | Federation Concert Hall $48 / $68 / $78

FAMILY EVENT

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD 10am & 12 noon | Theatre Royal | $24 / $34

WEDNESDAY 9 JULY

JANE BADLER DIAMOND CRIMSON BLOOD 8.30pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

THURSDAY 10 JULY

FAMILY EVENT

CINEMA FIASCO HOUSEBOAT HORROR 8.15pm | The Old Woolstore Theatrette $20 / $25

NICOLETTE MINSTER OR ELSE 10.30pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

CATH ALCORN NOTHING BUT A SONG 8.30pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

DAVID LAWRENCE CONDUCTING 3.30pm | Long Gallery, SAC | $38

PARTNER EVENT

KIM SMITH NOVA NOIR 9pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

CINEMA FIASCO TROLL 2 8.15pm | The Old Woolstore Theatrette $20 / $25

JANE BADLER DIAMOND CRIMSON BLOOD 7pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

MIRAGE AND FRIENDS COLLA VOCE 7.30pm | Peacock Theatre, SAC | $24

HOMEGROWN HARMONIES 6pm | The Farrall Centre | $20

VOICEBOX

JOEY ARIAS IN CONCERT 7.30pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

TASMANIAN CABARET FESTIVAL 7pm | Hobart City Hall | $38

CHORAL CONCERT

FRIDAY 4 JULY

OPENING NIGHT 6pm | Hobart City Hall | Free

VOICEBOX

WORKSHOP

TRAVEL TALES 8pm l Brunswick Hotel | Free

TUESDAY 8 JULY

BEN LEE

10am | Long Gallery, SAC | $50

CHORAL CONCERT TASMANIA SINGS 6pm | The Farrall Centre $14 / $23 / $25

TSO TWO CHOIRS AS ONE 7.30pm | Federation Concert Hall $18 / $22 / $27

FRIDAY 11 JULY HEADLINER CONCERT

VOICEBOX ALI MCGREGOR O TO THE J 7.30pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

SUNDAY 13 JULY CHORAL CONCERT

VOICEBOX

CRAIG WELLINGTON & FRIENDS 7.30pm | Theatre Royal | $29

CLARE BOWDITCH

8pm | Federation Concert Hall | $45

HEADLINER CONCERT

FINALE CHORAL CONCERT 1. 030pm | Federation Concert Hall $18 / $33 / $38

NICOLETTE MINSTER OR ELSE 6.30pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

ALI MCGREGOR O TO THE J 8pm | Hobart City Hall

$10 / $25 / $180

LEGALLY BLONDE

5 – 20 July | The Playhouse Theatre $60 / $62 / $65 See website for details

EAST COAST UNPLUGGED 18 – 20 July | East Coast See website for details

ABSINTHE MIND 9:30pm | Hobart City Hall $10 / $25 / $180

PARTNER EVENTS Continued

Arts

FESTIVALOF VOICES AND TTC PRESENT CINEMA FIASCO

ANDREW IS BORED WITH PRETTY PRETTY

MOVIES ARE ACTUALLY PRETTY DULL AND PREDICTABLE THESE DAYS, BUT FEW ARE EVER REALLY TRULY BAD. FEW ARE UTTER TURKEYS THAT MAKE SO LITTLE SENSE THAT THE CAST SEEM GENUINELY LOST AND THE SET FALLS OVER AND SOMEHOW THEY KEEP GOING AND IT MAKES THE FINAL CUT. FILMS LIKE THAT ARE ACTUALLY RARE AND WONDERFUL, LIKE AN EXOTIC BIRD AND DESERVE YOUR ATTENTION. FINDING THE BEST ‘SO BAD IT’S GOOD’ FILMIC DISASTERS TAKES SOME PATIENCE; YOU WILL NEED TO WADE THROUGH SOME TRIPE TO FIND SOMETHING SO TRULY RANCID IT TURNS ITSELF INSIDE OUT AND BECOMES TRULY AWESOME IN IT’S DEPRAVITY.

I DON’T REALLY LIKE “BEING ENTERTAINED”.

You can get lost and it’s dangerous out there in Bad Movie World.

I don’t really like ‘pretty’ stuff either. I prefer the grotesque.

I like a good drawing of a monster. I really like badly drawn monsters that are on hand-drawn posters advertising metal gigs. I realised I like them in almost exactly the same way that I like, or get something out of, rather than ‘like’ or ‘enjoy’, the work of Goya. His works is ugly and has rough edges, and it is exactly correct for his subject matter. If you draw war, it shouldn’t be pretty. It should be kind of horrible. Goya’s art does this well – it’s monstrous and yet very compelling. It’s not pretty.

Goya’s capturing of the horror of conflict is some of the very finest art ever made, disturbing and powerful.

I don’t like pretty pictures. Well I do, but I mean those pictures that people hang somewhere that are there to set the room off. You know. Nice Prints Of Someone Dancing Or A Watercolour Of A Boat. I’m sure they’re well done and I’m sure the artist meant it – but it’s just not for me. Art that draw me in and provokes me with its mystery – with it’s grotesque vocabulary – is what does it for me. I want to be provoked and asked to consider and this is what I go to a gallery or any of these things for at all, because having my eyes soothed or having the world switched off for a while is bit like the dread Soma of Huxley’s Brave New World; I wonder if it is truly okay to feel calm when so much of the world is chaos?

I feel that not everyone might not see it like this and that too is just fine, I can’t really find it in me to say that all art should be anything in particular, and I am pretty sure I do allow myself to be charmed by beautiful music now and again; just so long as what is soothing is not merely that. That’s the source of my discontent with the pretties you see; when that’s all it is.

Beauty for the mere sake of beauty just seems like a wasted opportunity.

ANDREW HARPER

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Cinema Fiasco is here to make it easy for you. Janet A McLeod and Geoff Wallis are bad movie experts. They know everything is to know about appalling special effects, extras with massive egos, drunk directors, night scenes shot during the day and forgotten lines. They have watched every bit of celluloid crap you would never have had the gumption and lived to tell the tale, and they’re bringing a glamorous selection of codswallop so blistering it must be seen.

Janet and Geoff will gently guide Hobart audiences into the land of Bad Movies with comedic commentary on three magnificently woeful flicks:

HEY NOW, YOU’RE AN ALLSTAR

Troll 2

FOR ANY COMEDY FAN WORTH THEIR SALT, THE 1980S, AND A LITTLE OF THE 1990S, WILL LONG BE THE GOLDEN AGE FOR AUSTRALIAN COMEDY. THIS WAS THE TIME OF THE LONG-REIGNING KINGS AND QUEENS OF AUSSIE COMEDIC CULTURE LIKE COMEDY COMPANY, D-GENERATION AND FULL FRONTAL. OF COURSE, SITTING SNUGLY WITHIN A VENN DIAGRAM OF UP-YOURS PUNK AND CHEEKY LARRIKINISM SITS THE DOUG ANTHONY ALLSTARS. Originally made of Paul McDermott, Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler, DAAS were a rawkish, cheeky madcap trio that remain major standouts in the history of alternative comedy. Now, DAAS (in their new form: Paul Livingston - ‘Flacco’ - has now taken Fidler’s place) are back.

“We had to wait until Richard had a job he couldn’t leave” McDermott laughs. “We’ve tried to get him employed for years, then finally the ABC came along with some drive-time thing and it was a blessing. And our real friend Paul Livingstone, Flacco, who we’ve worked with for many years, he toured with us back in the day, it’s been a long and very fruitful relationship, it’s great to have him on board. The dynamic is pretty similar, it’s a different kettle of fish, we’re not the young sprightly wonders we were on the scene, it opens entire new avenues for fun” The oft-argued point of both censorship and freedom of speech in comedy rages on in the industry; although there are arguments for the idea of being free to say pretty well whatever you please, a seasoned performer and writer like McDermott has a more sensitive approach.

“I think you do what you do. If you wanna express something that isn’t currently part of the zeitgeist, you have to do it but you can’t lob a verbal grenade into a room with no repercussions, you have to have a reason for it, a motivation for saying it. If you’re just saying stupid unappetizing things, there’s no point. Political correctness gets a bad rap, we fought for that back in the day, the idea of not being vulgar about people and using words that are more respectful isn’t a bad thing, it gets a bad rap by the right-wing headline turners. They’re only changing these laws for fat Christian white guys. It’s just ratbaggery”

“I don’t think any of us were aware of alternative comedy as a thing, as a form” McDermott says on having created the DAAS beast. “For me, my interest was just in old black and white films on Saturday mornings, old Abbott and Costello, things like that, bizarre stuff. We were certainly influenced by the last days of punk, that look and that idea that anyone can get up and do anything. I mean, we started on the street, we busked. I think that was quite unusual to take that free-wheeling, unrehearsed world in the confines of a comedy club, it was different to what most people were doing. We just used to do different things every time we hit the stage.

Out of those free-form onstage moments you’d get so much material, out of that instance where your brain is working 100 miles an hour” With alternative performer Flacco (who GNW fans will no doubt remember fondly) now having joined the group, has the dynamic changed?

“The glorious thing about Paul on stage is that he’s very funny. It’s wonderful doing the old songs again, I would never do those songs solo. When we started rehearsing them and lovely to sing with Tim and Paul again, the reactions from audiences has been magical”

THE WARP JULY COMEDY ROUND UP WE LIKE LAUGHS AT WARP. JUST LOOK AT A PICTURE OF OUR EDITORS. SEXY, SEXY PEOPLE. IT SEEM THAT HOBART IS DIGGING COMEDY AS WELL BECAUSE THERE’S NOW A COMEDY SHOW EVERY WEEK. YEP, REALLY. THE QUALITY ISN’T BAD EITHER, AND GETTING BETTER BECAUSE EVERY STAND UP WANNABE IN HOBART AND LAUNCESTON IS GETTING BEHIND THE MIC SO MUCH THESE DAYS, THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO IMPROVE AND SOME ARE JUST GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.

So, what do you want to see? First Wednesday of every month there’s CLOUD COMEDY up at SOHO; people polish their material and make stuff better at this one so it’s a safe bet for the new comedy punter you’ll always see RAW performer Chris Menzies at this one and believe me, his head is incredible, almost as incredible as the laughs he generates.

Second week is UBER COMEDY at DICKENS CIDER HOUSE – this one is tighter show, with only 8 comics (or so, you can’t trust comedians) doing their very best stuff, hosted by Stand Up Golden Boy Jono Mastropolito and the awesome David Ja as well as hand-picked local comedy legends It’s a newer night but it’s already going off and will only get bigger so get on the bus now. UBER in LAUNCESTON is on the Second Wednesday, in Hobart it’s on

Australian Direct-to-Video atrocity Houseboat Horror (1989) a film where bad hair and terrible fashion compete with gore and stunningly poor dialogue;

a Thursday but just remember – UBER WEEK and you’ll be okay.

Week THREE of any given month it’s THE CLUBHOUSE at THE WARATAH in HOBART and FRESH COMEDY at FRESH CAFÉ in LAUNCESTON (that enough capital letters for ya?) – this pearler of a night features the best Australian Comics, specially freighted to Tasmania for one night only.

This one sells out, so buy in advance and in July, you have NO HOPE of just rocking up on the night because this time it’s KHALED KHALAFALLA!! He’s abrasive, he’s won awards, he does social commentary that’s intelligent and hilarious and he will sell out because he’s been on ABC 3 radio and stuff! Thursday in Hobbit Town, Launie on Fridays! EXCLAMATION MARK! MORE CAPITALS!

The Vampire Lovers (1970) a magnificent entry into the fabled lesbian vampire horror sub-genre that features something of a budget, actual decent actors like Ingrid Pitt and Peter Cushing and a plethora of Hammer Beauties with the lowest necklines imaginable outside of pornography, and; The legendary Troll 2, which is possibly one of the worst films of all time, with special effects that were stolen from a kindergarten 40 minutes before the scene was shot, a total absence of plot, dialogue written by people who have no first language and actors who are so devoid of talent it’s breath taking. Troll 2 must be seen to be believed that anyone could have made such a thing.

CINEMA FIASCO 8 – 12th July: Tuesday 8th, 8.15pm – Houseboat Horror Wednesday 9th, 2.15pm – The Vampire Lovers Wednesday 9th, 8.15pm – Troll 2 Thursday 10th, 7.30pm – Troll 2 Saturday 12th, 4.15pm – Houseboat Horror Venue: The Old Woolstore Theatrette – 1 Macquarie Street, Hobart Patron’s advise: Films may contain occasional use of strong language, violent and sexual themes. Laughing can be very good for your health.

Last Thursday of any month it’s time to get to The Brisbane Hotel and hit THE COMEDY FORGE for all-new material every time.

The Forge is awesome, it’s brutal, and it’s always packed to the gills. No-one knows what will happen but there will be owls and there’s often serious outrage- forge is energetic and mad and not to be missed.

Last but not least – the new night on the scene – THE DOCTOR’S BEST MEDICINE. Get to the Doctor Syntax for an excellent night hosted by Tassie comedy veteran and charming chap Ben Payne on the last Friday of July and every month after that.

Now go out and hunt down some laughs.

They’re running wild in the streets.

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LISA DIB

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FUNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS “WATCH OLD SHOWS LIKE SKIPPY, THERE’S SUCH A GREAT ACCENT. IT’S THE CLOSEST THING TO A NATIONAL VOICE. WE’RE ALL ‘LIKE’ AND UPWARD INFLECTIONS NOW...IT’S NOT EVEN SORT OF AMERICANISED. HIPSTERS WEARING NBA AND AMERICAN BASEBALL GEAR.” “ The beauty of it is no-one bats an eyelid, no-one says anything. It concerns me as someone who lives in Australia and is an artist trying to build a sense of Australian identity. I am sure there is one under all that American grease and salt and fat and bullshit” There’s a few things Justin Heazlewood is deeply passionate about and one of them appears to be Australian voice, culture (“There’s a passionate indifference towards the arts. More people went to art galleries than the AFL in 2011...Justin drops statistics bomb”) and national identity.

Being Australian is one thing (we’ve got

some nice beaches and forests and such but what kind of rubbish democracy elects Tony Abbott?) but it’s even harder to survive as an Australian Artist. We could talk all day about the restrictions and issues with the Australian arts landscape but I’m sure you have places to be.

“That’s the common Australian gripe, the tall poppy thing: don’t blow your own horn unless you’re at the cricket” Heazlewood notes. “One girl literally came up to me and said “you’ve turned into an arse”. One ex emailed me to say she had heard I had become a bit arrogant. There’s the shame of succeeding, hiding your English marks

in high school so the cool kids don’t see you were smart. There’s no dignity in that, and I’m a big believer in dignity and self respect” “I just wanna have a big fucking fight.

I don’t personally go to pubs and have it out with narrow-minded people but I am certainly gonna have a crack at challenging some ideals. Stuff you’re not supposed to talk about: fame and bitterness and how much money you make and debt...stuff people overlook. My default setting is ‘tell the truth all the time’. If someone wants to get upset and wants to have a debate about why artists matter and why we should have a culture, I’d love that” Hazlewood’s latest book- after 2013’s The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries- is Funemployed, about the Australian Working Artist, the trials and annoyances therein.

“It’s self-help meets memoir meets nonfiction” Hazlewood explains. “It’s got the voices of over 100 other artists as well as me, it’s a 3D picture of what it’s like trying to be a professional artist, from the early days to being burnt-out and wondering what you’re doing. There’s some good topics to discuss; people think you’re having fun and making a lot of money but the reality is completely opposite. You have to be really savvy with how your run your business. I treated it like a joke and then I had two maxed credit cards and was very tired. I like the idea of turning shit into gold, people learning from my mistakes I just wanna write books now; a childhood memoir, some sort of erotic cookbook, I got it all worked out” Don’t be misguided though; this isn’t a Bedroom Philosopher show, Heazlewood explains: “I’m actively engineering my performances to suit me. That’s why I’m going under Justin Heazlewood for this tour, I’m about 400 miles from the Bedroom Philosopher hipster jokes. I can’t be doing that anymore, it makes me sad. I need to explore. I’m doing more quirky songs I suppose than comedy songs; if I was an audience I’d be interested” LISA DIB

Justin Heazlewood plays at MONA on Saturday July 5 and The Night Owl on Sunday July 6.

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SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE PEACOCK THEATRE 4 July Georgina Richmond and Paul Gerard 5 July Rowan Smith 6 July Choir of High Hopes 7 July The Orang-utan Boy 8 July Mirage 9 July Back to The Roots 10 July A Memory Of Love 11 July Show case concert 11 July Craig Wood 12 July Ange Boxall

CINEMONA From 12 Jul A Small Family Business

ART MOB 11 – 27 July Nyirripi Now BETT GALLERY 4 – 25 July Tricky Walsh, Locust Jones CONSTANCE ARI 11 July – 2 August Volunteers show, Laura Purcell, Jemima Dodd CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 11 July – 3 August Jessie Lumb and Claire Krouzecky COLVILLE GALLERY 4 – 23 July Jock Young DESPARD 9 July – 3 August Terence Munday DUNALLEY WATERFRONT CAFE July Michele Wilkie HANDMARK 4 – 2 July Janine Combes INKA 3 – 23 July INKA members Show MONA Until 28 July Hubert Duprat

Roger Ballen Until 15 Sept The Red Queen

DESIGN TASMANIA 30 May – 24 August Focus On Glass DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 28 Jun – 10 August Fashion Fancies: Textiles from the moon GALLERY PEJEAN 9 July – 2 August Sculpture 2014 HANDMARK EVANDALE 6 July – 6 August Still Life QVMAG 17 May – 27 July Bea Maddock SAWTOOTH 4 – 26 July FRONT GALLERY: It Is Not It That We See Cur: Liam James NEW MEDIA GALLERY: Daryl Rogers MIDDLE GALLERY: Mat Carey and Jamie Stacey PROJECT GALLERY: Celebrating NAIDOC: a diverse collection of contemporary Aboriginal art work

THEATRE PLAYHOUSE 5 – 20 July ExitLeft presents Legally Blonde THEATRE ROYAL 10 July Craig Wellington and Friends

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LONG GALLERY 9 – 12 July Singers Lounge

COMEDY

THE FOUNDERS ROOM 12 July Alin & Melike

DICKENS CIDERHOUSE 9 July Uber Comedy

SALAMANCA PLACE 11 July BONFIRE AND BIG SING

FRESH ON CHARLES 18 July Fresh Comedy presents: Khaled Khalafalla

COMEDY SOHO HOTEL 2 July Cloud Comedy 6 Aug Cloud Comedy DICKENS CIDER HOUSE 10 July Uber Comedy Hobart THEATRE ROYAL 11 -12 July DAAS Live

THEATRE PRINCESS THEATRE 26 Jul Bodane Hatten - Deception EARL ARTS CENTRE 25 Jul – 2 Aug Launceston Players presents Steel Magnolias

THE WARATAH 17 July The Clubhouse presents: Khaled Khalafalla DOCTOR SYNTAX 25 July The Doctor’s Best Medicine THE BRISBANE 31 July The Comedy Forge

ROSNY BARN - SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY 22 Jun – 13 July Hunter Island Press 18 July – 10 Aug Peter Tankey Aaron Wasil ROUND ROOM GALLERY @ THE HOMESTEAD 9 July Carol Maney TMAG 30 May – 14 Sept Pat Brassington

WARP RECOMMENDS…

Tricky Walsh Very low – Very High

Tricky Walsh is a treasure. She makes clever, intricate work that folds new worlds out of colour and light, she draws comics, plays with electricity and is generally just ace. A new show from this artist sis always a cause for excitement, and a whole bunch of new stuff will be displayed at Bett Gallery in North Hobart.

Director Bec Reedman describes the play as” a demonstration of the strength and importance of love between girlfriends, and the characters in “Steel Magnolias” have that special quality that makes them truly touching, funny and marvellously amiable company in good times and bad” – and isn’t that what everyone wants in their “besties” or (girlfriends).

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BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 14 Mar - 15 May 2015 Burnie Print Prize 5 July – 14 September ArtRage

PENNY CONTEMPORARY 13 Jun – 14 July Johnny Romeo

Filled with hilarious repartee and a few prickly but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves to pathos when the spunky Shelby, a diabetic, risks pregnancy and her life.

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“Steel Magnolias” is set in Truvy’s beauty Salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are ‘anybody’ come to have their hair done. Aided by her eager new assistant Annelle (who is not actually sure if she is married or not!) the outspoken, wisecracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town rich curmudgeon Ouiser (an eccentric millionaire) Miss Claree (a raging sweet tooth), M’Lynn and her daughter Shelby (the prettiest girl in town and about to get married).

Tickets are available from the Princess Theatre Box Office or from the website www.theatrenorth.com.au.

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Chaos Emulsified (2014)

Check out Very low – Very High from July 4 – 25 and prepare get all wow. Tricky rocks, basically.

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Cd Reviews

Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband

The talent seeping out of Sweden right now is making me think there’s something special being added to their Scandanavian water. Inadvertently following Lykki Li’s release I Never Learn earlier this year, Little Dragon have proven there is more to the Swedish musical landscape than death metal.

tendency to throw tantrums. Her attitude seems to have been tolerated by her bandmates and high school chums Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Källgren Wallin (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards) long enough to have sustained four albums’ worth of material since ’96 and for the most part I’m thankful.

Nabuma Rubberband, then – the band’s fourth release - hears vocalist Yukimi Nagano dominate each track with her uniquely European tones. Dominance is certainly a theme recurring with this performer; the band is according to lore named after her diva-eqsue antics and

You’ve probably already been exposed to the first release from Nabuma Rubberband – ‘Klapp Klapp’ - which attests perfectly to the sound Little Dragon are aiming to achieve in 2014. Despite that there seem to be hypnotic Grimes-style vibes to go along with their usual hard punching synths

Nun’s self-titled debut album is a cold and sinister meeting of synth-pop and abrasive noise punk. Their ominous sound is complimented by nostalgic references to retro horror like Cronenberg, and a fascination with the uncanny quality of science-fiction. The Melbourne fourpiece formed in late 2011 and features Jenny Branagan, Tom Hardisty (Woollen Kits), Steven Harris, and Hugh Young (Constant Mongrel / Hamhock). After the anxiety-inducing gut-punch that is opener ‘Immersion II’, some melody is introduced, and noisier tendencies carry through the rest of the tracks.

Their sound often feels kinetic and escalating, as if Nun are performing a ritual or attempting to beckon a supernatural force, both thematically and musically.

That unification along with the originality of the album make this debut a confident and fully-realised vision that suggests a promising future for the band.

For the lucky few that managed to get tickets, Little Dragon peform two sold out shows in Australia next month. The rest of us will have to hope they return in Summer.

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Louise Love

Wrong Place, Right Time: Hobart 2014 (compilation)

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and in this case, all components build to a climatic chorus. I picture this song as an ideal party starter.

The Murlocs Loopholes

First Day

Wrong Place, Right Time is a snapshot of a sound that is going around Hobart at the moment which I particularly like. The sound has no concern for cleanliness or holding cards close to chests (or recordings under beds), or anything, really.

Small Black Lambs could write a rock ‘n’ roll banger playing only a mashed potato and it would still be catchy. RBP and Treehouse are world-class, and BiHour are a dissonant synth hit to the front of the head. This is strong compliment.

Mess O’ Reds are consummately carrying the nihilistic noise rock flame left by Sea Scouts and friends.

Each song is interesting on Wrong Place, Right Time, which is the perfect quality in a compilation. It definitely sounds like Hobart.

This debut album produced by Louise Love is a musical delight from Tasmania and so easy to listen too. Oops, did I say that?

Yes. The flow of Love’s artistic endeavor, described in her own words “it’s all my own work”, bares witness to the fact that she can write, sing, play and produce electronic music.

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The title track ‘First Day’ is an instrumental that unfolds as a new age, world music beat feel that gets the listener in. A sophisticated easy listening style is captured in tunes like ‘Simone’, ‘Gambler’s Lie’ and ‘Bare in The Wind’. When it comes to content (‘Bruise’, ‘Thief’ and ‘Back Up’), Love goes her own way and I dare to say she has skillfully vaulted genres. First Day might just stumble into mainstream if given a chance.

The Murlocs debut album Loopholes finally arrives after a set-back that cost them the bulk of their initial recordings, due to a stolen laptop. Loopholes is a scuzzy, reverbsoaked trip through ‘60s garage, blues and psych rock - all carried along by vocalist Ambrose Kenny-Smith’s hysteric yelp.

There’s a lot of comparison to Gizzard and living in their shadow, but The Murlocs have a more consistent and fleshed out sound which Gizzard trade in for unbridled experimentation with mixed returns. Nearly every track could work as a single, which demonstrates that they’ve nailed their very specific sound. Their next release will be a test on whether they can bring something new to the table. As it stands, Loopholes is an ideal chill-out listening. After releasing two EPs in 2012, their debut boasts production by Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) and is out now on Flightless / Remote Control Records.

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Event Guide

Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

JULY Friday

Saturday

Sunday

4

5

6

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

DAMAGE! The Sinking Teeth + Grenadiers (SA) + Speech Patterns + Bennylava

8

Thursday

9

Verticoli + Lewes + Spiral Kites + Wham Bam Superman 9:30pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Remi 10pm

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall 1st Birthday Celebrations! Feat. The Sin & Tonics + The Briefcase + Soul Session Soundsystem

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Mindz Eye

The Homestead

Teeth & Tongue (Vic) + Native Cats + Catsuit 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Joel Everade / Entropy

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino

The Homestead

Radio Silence + Smokestack 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Residency w/ Emlyn Johnson

Brisbane Hotel

BACK - Adamus Exul + Atra Vetosus + Random Order + Departe + Lacerta

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Mick Clennett / DJ Dezzy

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd / Cam Stuart

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks & The Blue Licks 8:30pm

Alan Gogoll 7pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

That 80’s Band 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Mick Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

SLAM - Poetry Slam + Max Power + 20 Gallons of Rum 9pm

The Odeon

Chet Faker

Waterfront Hotel

The Goodfellas

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart / Tony Mak Celebration with Joe Pirere & Friends 3pm

Monday

Alma Da Vida 7pm

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays w/ Reggae Ink 12pm

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall

Republic Bar & Café

G.B. Balding 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo

Republic Bar & Café

Aquila Young 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Tim Hibberd

Dickens Ciderhouse

Alan Gogoll 7pm

Federation Concert Hall

Two Choirs As One 7:30pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Zankbank

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

The Darlings

Telegraph Hotel

Dr Fink

The Homestead

Jolly Jugs with Luti - Techno/Minimal 9pm

The Night Owl

Zerafina Zara (Vic) with Special Guests

Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

10 Birdcage Bar

Brad Gilles 7pm

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays w/ Reggae Ink 12pm

Waterfront Hotel

Colin Harvey

14 Birdcage Bar

Tuesday

Billy & Randall

Thursday

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Tim Hibberd

Dickens Ciderhouse

Alan Gogoll 7pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Zankbank

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Finn Secombe Duo 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel The Homestead

24 Birdcage Bar

Brisbane Hotel

Side Show Cabaret

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Tony Mak

Dickens Ciderhouse

Alan Gogoll 7pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Magneetis

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Smashers

The Homestead

Jolly Jugs with DJ Tendekasha (Reggae/Dub/Roots)

Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

17 Birdcage Bar

Brisbane Hotel

Glen Challice

Brisbane Hotel

Lyndon Jay Band

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Mick Clennett

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart

Republic Bar & Café

Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm

25 Birdcage Bar

Saturday

30 Birdcage Bar

Pete Thomas

Jolly Jugs with Max Power 9pm Quiz Night 7pm

Thursday

31 Birdcage Bar

CillBill 7pm Jason Patmore BACK - Caged Grave (VIC) + Trespasser + Hygiene (ACT) + Uncle Geezer + Skun Knees

Brisbane Hotel

FRONT - Muscle Car (VIC) + Lennin Mkarthy

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Tim Hibberd / Ado & Devo

Dickens Ciderhouse

Sam Gobbey

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory Lounge Room

R&B Friday - AJ Hardy

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Glen Challice

Brisbane Hotel

The Comedy Forge

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Mick Clennett

Jack Greene

Cam Stuart

Republic Bar & Café

4 Letter Fish 9pm

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Pop Trivia Quiz The Homestead

The Aly Patmore Trio 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Damage 4th Birthday - The Bennies (VIC) + Luca Brasi + Clowns (VIC) + Knife Hands + Speech Patterns + Captives + Laura Palmer (VIC) + Reggae Ink + Damage DJs

Sugartrain 10pm

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Mick Clennett / Phrayta

Telegraph Hotel

Mick Clennett / Dr Fink

Jack Greene

Rum Jungle

The Homestead

Tim & Scott 9pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Magneetis

The Polish Club

Tom Vincent Trio - Pop-Up Bebop Jazzclub 8:30pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Waterfront Hotel

DJ Gezza

Republic Bar & Café

Like Thieves (Clint Boge - Butterfly Effect) + Wham Bam Superman + Babylon Howl 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Joel Everade / Entropy

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AUGUST Friday

1

Jason Patmore

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Mick Clennett / Phrayta

Telegraph Hotel

Pete Thomas

Dickens Ciderhouse

Mark Schmalfuss and Katy Raucher 7:30pm

The Homestead

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Zankbank

Fractangular & We Love Bass Present: R.O. (Adapted Records) + Grommet + Newport + Max Power + Maxomytosis + Hibernated 9pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Australian Made 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Rum Jungle / Big Swifty

The Homestead

Roland Tings (Vic) + Kowl + Louise Love + Gretta 9pm Tom Vincent Trio - Pop-Up Bebop Jazzclub 8:30pm

Saturday

Sunday

2

3

The Homestead

the Puta Madre Brothers 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Monique Brumby

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Jim King

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Mental As Anything 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Mick Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

The Roobs 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

The Polish Club

Tom Vincent Trio - Pop-Up Bebop Jazzclub 8:30pm

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Sam Stuart / DJ Millhouse

Waterfront Hotel

Manhattan

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd / Tony Mak

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Go !! Show Golden

Tim & Scott Tony Voglino

Brisbane Hotel

Betsy Blue + Smutty Sam + John Johnson & The Johnsons

Brisbane Hotel

BACK - (the) Hard Ons + The Roobs

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Jim King

Brisbane Hotel

FRONT - Naked + Lenin Lennon + Mess O’ Reds + DJs

Dickens Ciderhouse

Alan Gogoll 7pm

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Cam Stuart / Rum Jungle

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Dickens Ciderhouse

Siobhan Corcoran + Special Guest 7:30pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up 10pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Pravmaster Flash

Telegraph Hotel

Mick Clennett / Dr Fink

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

The Homestead

Laura Imbruglia (Vic) 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Adalita + Matt Bailey 10pm

The Polish Club

Tom Vincent Trio - Pop-Up Bebop Jazzclub 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Mick Clennett / Dr Fink

Tricycle Café & Bar

Faldum supported by Close Counters 8:30pm

The Homestead

Featurecast (UK) + 8 Local Supports 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

The Goodfellas

Waratah Hotel

Saskwatch - The Nose Dive Tour - w/ The Middle Names and Gordi (Syd) 9pm

Wrest Point Ent. Centre 20 Birdcage Bar

Wednesday

Waratah Hotel

Chase City + Lewes + Guest 10pm

Glen Challice

Ross Serman 8:30pm

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Quiz Night! 6:30pm

Smashers

Republic Bar & Café

19 Birdcage Bar

Sambo

The Homestead

DJ B-Rex

Waterfront Hotel

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Transvaal Diamond Syndicate 9pm

Observatory Main Room

The Polish Club

29 Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall

Telegraph Hotel

Lady Crimson (Album Launch) + The Deep End + Johnny B & The Goodes

Son Del Sur (Cuban Salsa) 9pm

Tuesday

Glen Challice

Mick Clennett

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

DJ B-Rex

Alan Gogoll 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sambo

28 Birdcage Bar

Republic Bar & Café

Jack Greene

Glen Challice

Reggae Sundays w/ Reggae Ink 12pm

Waterfront Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Dickens Ciderhouse

18 Birdcage Bar

Soul Session Soundsystem 4pm

Waratah Hotel

DJ Zankbank

DJ Millhouse

Clubhouse Comedy feat. Khaled Khalafalla

Monday

The Homestead

Observatory Main Room

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Waratah Hotel

Starling 4pm

Tony Mak

M.O.1.O + Omahara + Pinchgut

Pat Curley 7pm

Melissa Oliveira Quintet 8:30pm

Riverview Inn

Observatory Lounge Room

Brisbane Hotel

The Homestead

Tim Hibberd / Cam Stuart

Republic Bar & Café

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Pop Trivia Quiz Friday

Mick Clennett / Jim King

Jack Greene

Jolly Jugs with Close Counters (Hiphop/Indie/ Electronic) 9pm

Carl Rush 8:30pm Pete Thomas

Brissie Residency w/ Emlyn Johnson

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Dr Fink

Republic Bar & Café 16 Birdcage Bar

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

Brisbane Hotel

Little Miss Music w/ Create the Canyon + Showground Tonne + Robert Leon Basser

Reggae Inc 9pm

The Homestead

Jason Patmore

Brisbane Hotel

Brisbane Hotel

Republic Bar & Café

Jack Greene

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Scoparia

Quiz-A-Saurus

Uber Comedy 8pm

Sunday

Brisbane Hotel

Waratah Hotel Thursday

Pete Thomas

Brisbane Hotel

Dickens Ciderhouse

Aquila Young (Vic) 7pm

23 Birdcage Bar

Tony Mak

Mick Clennett

Waterfront Hotel

Wednesday

Jack Greene

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Saturday

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Sambo

15 Birdcage Bar

Brisbane Hotel

Pete Thomas

Republic Bar & Café

Mick Clennett

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Pop Trivia Quiz

Friday

Beer Pong Championships!

Acts / Start Time

The Coal Valley Vineyard Coterie Tony Makro 1:30pm

Sambo

Brisbane Hotel

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Quiz Night! 6:30pm

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Quiz Night! 6:30pm Wednesday

22 Birdcage Bar

Ben Lawless + Becca Tilley 8:30pm

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Zerafina Zara (Vic) 7pm

12 Arts Factory

Tuesday

Billy & Randall

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Brunswick Hotel

11 Birdcage Bar

Pete Thomas

The Homestead

Republic Bar & Café

Wahbash 8:30pm

The Homestead

13 Birdcage Bar

21 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café

The Coal Valley Vineyard Coterie Billy Whitton & Tilly Martin 1:30pm

Mick Clennett / Millhouse

Republic Bar & Café

Jack Greene

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Alan Gogoll 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Homestead

Saturday

Dickens Ciderhouse

Tony Voglino

Monday

Venue 27 Birdcage Bar

Motor Road 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

Mick Clennett

Dickens Ciderhouse

Republic Bar & Café

DJ Millhouse

Jack Greene

DJ Millhouse

Sunday

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

DJ B-Rex

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Date

Tim Hibberd / Cam Stuart

Reggae Sundays w/ Reggae Ink 12pm

Observatory Main Room

FRONT - The Dead Maggies + Craicpot

Acts / Start Time

Jack Greene

Waratah Hotel

DJ Jim King

Brisbane Hotel

Venue

The Coal Valley Vineyard Coterie Sticks & Kane 1:30pm

Observatory Lounge Room

Sunday

Date

FRONT - Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC Slambuoyant (aka. Smutty Sam)

Rum Jungle

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Pop Trivia Quiz Friday

BACK - Vanity (WA) + Idle Eyes (WA) + Uncle Geezer

Jack Greene

Tattersalls Beer and Food Hall Quiz Night! 6:30pm Wednesday

Brisbane Hotel Brisbane Hotel

The Coal Valley Vineyard Coterie Louise Goich 1:30pm

Tuesday

Glen Challice

Mick Clennett / Phrayta

Republic Bar & Café

7

Acts / Start Time

Birdcage Bar

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Monday

Venue

The Sounds of the Supremes Jason Patmore

Jerome Hillier

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan

WPR Presents: Treehouse + Skun Knees + Tantric Sax 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Residency w/ Emlyn Johnson

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge

Tony Mak / DJ Millhouse

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Event Guide

Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

NORTHWEST Date

CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Tapas Trivia

JULY

JULY Wednesday

2

The Royal Oak

James Fitch

Wednesday

2

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino

Thursday

3

Friday

4

The Royal Oak

Global Battle of the Bands

Tonic Bar

Luke Parry

Friday

4

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Sheyanna Mach 4

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

Saturday

5

Latrobe

Threeza Crowd

Fresh on Charles

Josh Rennie-Hynes + Steve Grady Live

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Devonport

Molly Malones

Midnight

Tonic Bar

Gypsy Rose

Watergarden Bar

Clay Soldier

Wednesday

9

Thursday

10

Saturday

5

Devonport

Molly Malones

Ringmasters

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Richo

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Open Mic

Devonport

Molly Malones

Sambo

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Tim Roberts

Sunday

6

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session

Wednesday

9

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino

Thursday

10

The Royal Oak

Yyan and Gumpa

Friday

11

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Friday

11

The Royal Oak

Ursine

Saturday

12

Latrobe

Sambo

Tonic Bar

Sambo

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Watergarden Bar

Tim Hibberd

Devonport

Molly Malones

Bandioke / The Unit

Alchemy

Aquila Young

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Brofriendman

Fresh on Charles

Superfly - Soul Funk Club - DJ Grinning Cat

Molly Malones

Jerome Hillier

The Royal Oak

THE STAYNS, WHEN CHAOS COMES TO TOWN (ALBUM LAUNCH)

Saturday

12

Tonic Bar

Take 2

Watergarden Bar

Sambo

Sunday

13

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session

Wednesday

16

The Royal Oak

Andy Collins

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino

Thursday

17

The Royal Oak

Scott Haigh

Friday

18

The Royal Oak

Shanty Dreads

Tonic Bar

Clay Soldier

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

The Royal Oak

The Something Different Variety Quiz Night

Tonic Bar

Tony & The Unknown

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman

Saturday

19

Sunday

20

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session

Wednesday

23

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino

Friday

25

Country Club Show Room

Buddy The Concert

Fresh on Charles

Girls Night

The Royal Oak

MELODY POOL // MARLON WILLIAMS

Tonic Bar

Tim Hibberd

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman

The Royal Oak

The Max Hillman Show Band

Tonic Bar

Take 2

Watergarden Bar

Colin Harvey

Saturday

26

Sunday

27

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session

Wednesday

30

The Royal Oak

Open Mic Night

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino

31

Fresh on Charles

The Mornings

1

The Royal Oak

Transvaal Diamond Syndicate (QLD) + Guthrie + Hounds of Hiroshima

Thursday

Thursday

17

Devonport Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Brad Gillies

Friday

18

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

Saturday

19

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Jerome Hillier

Devonport

Molly Malones

Clay Soldier

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Thursday

24

25

26

27

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Devonport

Molly Malones

Unbalance

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Matt & CJ

Devonport

Spurs Saloon

Transvaal Diamond Syndicate (QLD)

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Latrobe

Mackey’s Royal Hotel

Clay Soldier

Devonport

Molly Malones

Blue Monday

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Jazz Weekend King Cake 12pm / The Unit

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Jazz Weekend Emu Jelly Jazz Band 12pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Brett Collidge

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Transvaal Diamond Syndicate (QLD)

JULY Friday, 04 Jul Global Battle Of The Bands Sunday, 06 Jul Open Folk Session Thursday, 10 Jul Yyan and Gumpa Friday, 11 Jul Ursine Saturday, 12 Jul The Stayns (Album Launch) Sunday, 13 Jul Open Folk Session Wednesday, 16 Jul Andy Collins Thursday, 17 Jul Scott Haigh Friday, 18 Jul Shanty Dreads Saturday, 19 Jul The Something Different Variety Quiz Night

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