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June 2015 Maestro Koko 8.30pm Wednesday 3 Slyde 8:30pm Thursday 4 Boil Up (Reggae & Funk) $5 10pm Friday 5 Kevin Borich Express $15pre/$20door 10pm Saturday 6 Bad Pony + Lewes + The White Rose Project 9pm Sunday 7 Quiz Night - New Comers Welcome 8.15pm Monday 8 Bakers Acoustic Duo 8pm Baker Boys Band 9pm Tuesday 9 Seth Henderson 8.30pm Wednesday 10 The Bucket List 8:30pm Thursday 11 Massive + Taberah $10pre/$12door 10pm Friday 12 Sugartrain $5 10pm Saturday 13 Sunday Afternoon Soul Sessions (Beergarden) 2.30pm Sunday 14 Mama K & The Big Love 3pm Sunday 14 Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8.30pm Sunday 14 Dan Vandermeer 8.30pm Monday 15 Billy Whitton 8:30pm Tuesday 16 Sassafrazz 8.30pm Wednesday 17 Comedy Clubhouse Upstairs with Nazeem Hussain 8:30pm Thursday 18

T.J. Rhythm 8:30pm Thursday 18 Harts + Violet Swells + Heart Beach $12pre/$15door 10pm Friday 19 Dallas Frasca + Guthrie $15pre/$20door 10pm Saturday 20 Busking For Nepal Fundraiser with Tarik Stoneman, Jed Appleton, Tim Davies, Dan Vendermeer, The Darlings & more 2.30pm Sunday 21 The Blue Flies 8.30pm Sunday 21 Joe Pirere 8.30pm Monday 22 Graham Rix 8.30pm Tuesday 23 Brad Gillies 8:30pm Wednesday 24 Son Del Sur 9pm Thursday 25 HOT DUB TIME MACHINE $30pre/$35door 10pm Friday 26 HOT DUB TIME MACHINE $30pre/$35door 10pm Saturday 27 Beergarden Party - 8 Hour Smoked pork shoulder tacos and live music by Joe Pirere - Free Event 2.30pm Sunday 28 Naked Bodies 9pm Sunday 28 Quiz Night - New Comers Welcome 8:15pm Monday 29 Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm Tuesday 30

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masks and hairy claws until the latter part of the year. The reason, according to Dirty Wolves front dog Skuewolf, is that the concept album is running well behind schedule due to the size of the project named Creation & Chaos. However the good news is that Skuewolf and Monster Mutt have assured us that Tasmania will be included in the Creation & Chaos Tour.

Dirty Wolves have released “Apache” as an album taster on Vevo which has already amassed just under 20K views. Many views. Such Doge love. Wow. MUSIC FROM THE EDGE

Awesome local band Paper Souls are finally on the verge of unleashing their first studio release on the unsuspecting public.

They’ve been busily working with Tim King (Slyphonic Productions) and recording has just finished, the EP is set to be mastered

by William Bowden of King Willy Sound.

As is custom (pretty much) in this day and age, they’ve launched a Pozible campaign to help cover the remaining costs of Mixing, Mastering and Pressing, go check it out on the Pozible website (www.pozible. com/papersoulsEP2015) and shoot a few bucks their way. Awesomely, the campaign is also being supported by the Arts TAS Crowbar initiative, they‘ll give Paper Souls even more money if they reach their Pozible target (which is only $3k).

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THE EVEN DARKER FESTIVAL Tim “Blizzy” Blizzard, Vicki “Animal” Pattersen, Phil “Harpo” McConnell and Sam “I need a nickname” Bester have pooled their talents and their time to produce an album of entirely original music, titled On The Edge. Lyrics come from Tim Blizzard’s journey through life while the music mix of these three musicians together has produced a seriously hard driving grunge rock sound.

Recorded in February this year at Lower Wilmot Hall, this album is guaranteed to turn heads. On Saturday June 6 at The Royal Oak in Launceston, the group known as Blizzy will be launching their new album. Don’t miss out on seeing some great local talent in action!

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The Brisbane Hotel’s No*GRIMOIRE*Fo festival runs from Friday June 12 to Sunday June 28. There’s about a thousand things happening at the Bris over those days so let’s get straight into it. Friday June 12 you’ll see nO waves, Tantric Sax, Peak Body, Xero, Java Fonda, The Stan Show, Burd Brain, The Cards and Mad Muz. Saturday June 13 will have Zodiac, The Wizar’d, Ironhawk, Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters, Mess O’ Reds, The Native Cats, Aon Stalp & The Out of Towners and Quivers. On Sunday June 14 they’ll host the Winter Record Fair.

Wednesday June 17 is a PRISM night, Treehouse, Hellskum, Wasted Idols and DJs on the bill. We’re not even halfway through here, just go check out the event page on facebook. There’s heaps of good stuff!

A Note In Time (ANIT) is an interactive show of song and poetry presented in a cabaret inspired setting. Each show consists of a collection of poetry and

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HEAD OFF ON AN ADVENTURE The Adventure Bay Blues and Roots festival is always a rollicking good time, and it’s 8th year, the 2015 instalment is promising to be every bit the bluesy, rootsy extravaganza! With tickets being super, crazy limited to only 250, it’s really an event you can’t afford to miss. Taking place on Sunday June 7 from 1pm at the Adventure Bay Hall, you’ll be able to catch the following awesome acts (if you’re lucky enough to score a ticket): Boil Up, Surfasaurus, The Raccoons, Delsinki Records, Halfway to Forth, The Calhouns & Croft, Angie Boxhall, Bill Longo & The Rhythm Tragics, Ruby & Dr. Fred, and Ben Lawless. Tickets are $50 and are available now via moshtix.

TIME, BATTERY, WATCH Australia’s own progressive “Hairy Metal” metal duo Dirty Wolves have cancelled their Tasmanian tour leaving some venues and punters disappointed, so it looks like Tasmania will not be seeing the wolf

songs all written by Hobart musician Madelena. The premier of A Note In Time was held in Hobart in March and then taken to the Adelaide Fringe Festival for four shows. A Note In Time is now in its second edition with material inspired by audience members of previous shows.

This all sounds quite interesting and we recommend checking it out for yourselves.

You can do exactly that at the Battery Point Hall on Saturday June 6. Get there around 5ish for a 5:30pm start.

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which can lead to aneurysm, blood clots and heart attack in very early childhood.

It’s rare but it’s presence is being felt

by Tasmanians. So why not raise some money for the KD Foundation, and rock out to some awesome music while you’re at it?

Heart Fest is a fundraiser gig on Saturday June 13 at the Homestead in Hobart featuring some of Tasmania’s finest hiphop acts, and one or two standouts from other genres. On the bill you will find the likes of Stray, Skurgeone, Juro, Burd Brain, DJ Two Toes, Draz, Joel Imber, Reflekt and DJ Secrets, Dispraze, Blaze and DJ Piglet, Swish Bank, Mr Lucky, Dirt Turtles and Remarcable. Entry is upon donation, with all proceeds going straight to the KD Foundation. When was the last time you could claim your entry to a gig on tax?

GRRR MAD SCIENTISTS GMS (also known as the Growling Mad Scientists) are a Dutch psychedelic trance duo who have attained significant popularity from the early 90’s to now. Formed by Riktam and Bansi in Amsterdam (in the early 90’s, can you imagine?), the duo has attracted a large international fan base. n 1997 they moved to Ibiza, where they still reside.

In ‘99 GMS founded Spun Records, the first psychedelic trance label in the U.S. and Ibiza. 9 years later in 2008, they left Spun Records to focus on their own careers. Having sold over 400,000 copies worldwide, GMS tunes have been used in films like Man on Fire, Domino, and Unstoppable. They’ll be appearing at PlanB in Hobart on Saturday June 20. Get along to that one!

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Jazz performer Evan Carydakis (with quartet and quintet) will be performing on the North West Coast throughout June, and why the hell wouldn’t you?

It’s a beautiful and underappreciated area. First of all, you’ll be able to catch the Evan Carydakis Quartet (featuring Denise Sam) at Shearwater Country Club in Shearwater, on Saturday June 20. One week later, on Saturday June 27, you’ll be able to see the Evan Carydakis Quintet performing at Laneway Café, featuring the sultry sounds of Georgina Harvey. You can find out more information about Evan Carydakis at www.evancarydakis.com.au.

If you like jazz and are in the area, it’ll be well worth checking out!

NINTENDO, BEER, MUSIC, PARTY. When I turned 8, all I wanted to do was listen to music and play Nintendo.

Evidently I’m not alone, when the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart turns 8 on Saturday June 27, they want to listen to music and play Nintendo too. I’m pretty sure their 8th birthday celebrations will involve a tad more booze than mine did, though. On the bill for what is always a spectacular evening of celebration at the Brisbane, are: Naked Bodies (vic), The Know Nothings (tas) and Unfolding Vostocks (tas). I should probably write something about Naked Bodies and Birthday suits here, but I won’t. Keep your eyes on your social medias for more details!

COOKIN’ IN THE KITCH MC Kitch makes electric soul spiritual music. It’s a creation and combination of his own unique blend of spiritual and soulful writings, inspired through awareness. Delivering his individual sound through beat boxing, reggae vocals with a flare for hiphop, through particular elements derived from the vast genres of dance music today. Kitch has twice been nominated for Urban Work of the Year, Kitch has been around the traps for a while, Kitch has paid his dues. To get yourself a little taste of what the Kitch is cookin’, head along to The Homestead on Saturday July 4. It’ll only cost you a tenner ($10) on the door to get in.

LAZERS AND BABIES DO MIX Lazer Baby have been doing the rounds hard this year, really putting in work, giving it their all. 110%. They’ve been

steadily gigging around the state all while working super hard to bang out an awesome EP. Before Carlos heads over to India, and Tess semi-permanently leaves for Europe, Lazer Baby are giving you one more chance to catch their awesomeness live, and help them launch their debut EP. All you have to do is rock up, and pay some money, like any other gig, but it won’t be just any other gig, it’ll be a Lazer Baby debut EP Launch. Get it? Got it? Good. It’s all going down on Friday July 10 at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart. Keep your eyes peeled for more details.

in Central Queensland. Produced by Dan Luscombe, Craig Pilkington and Salter himself, the album also features former Gin Club bandmates Adrian Stoyles and Gus Agars, as well as some special guests in the form of Liz Stringer, Seja Vogel and Julien Wilson. A Tasmanian favourite, having played many a gig and festival in the Apple Isle, Salter returns once again to play an album launch at the Grand Poobah on Saturday August 1.

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BROKEN, BUT FREE! Broken Things and The Homestead are coming together to put on an almighty night of broken beat madness, and it’s all free! Featuring local heavyweights of Hobart’s broken beat scene, Soundwave DJ, Piglet, DJ Do Little, Max Power and Project Weekend. With an epic journey from funk right through to drum and bass and everything in between, this is sure to be one hell of a party, so polish up those kicks and get ready to smash the dance floor. It’s all taking place at The Homestead in North Hobart on Friday July 17. Did we mention that it’s free? It’s free.

You should probably know that it’s free.

Free as a bird. Free as the wind blows.

THE CAT, THE STARS, THE DESTINATION, THE BEN.

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Jack Carty sure does love a good tour, and so does his old mate, Jordan Millar.

Following the release of Carty’s third studio album Esk (which landed at #7 on the Australian Independent Record Labels Association’s Album Chart) and the success of it’s first two singles “The Joneses” (co-written with Josh Pyke) and “Be Like The Water”, Jack embarked on a 37 date tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Bluesy pop singer-songwriter Jordan Millar has tread his own path with his DIY musician attitude and critically acclaimed, self-produced ’bedroom’ album Cold Light on Curious Minds. You can catch both of these guys in Hobart once again, playing a special matinee performance at The Grand Poobah on Saturday August 22. Starts at 3pm, keep your eyes peeled for ticket details.

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Acclaimed Australian singer songwriter Ben Salter is set to release his second album The Stars My Destination on May 8 via ABC/Universal Music. The follow up to 2011’s debut The Cat, The Stars My Destination was recorded in the winter of 2014 at Prior Park Homestead, situated

Lucie Thorne has earned her place as one of Australia’s most striking contemporary songsmiths. Together with long-time musical partner, legendary drummer Hamish Stuart, Lucie is touring far and wide this winter to celebrate the release of their new long player, Everything Sings Tonight. An exquisite collaboration which is at once bold, poetic and musically adventurous. Tasmania is obviously either far or wide because Lucie and Hamish will be paying visits to The Grand Poobah in Hobart on Thursday August 27, Falmouth Community Centre in Falmouth on Friday August 28, Fresh on Charles in Launceston on Saturday August 29, and The Little Theatre in Deloraine on Sunday August 30. For more information, check out luciethorne.com

Professor X-Rudd (Xavier Rudd) & The United Nations have revealed the picturesque new video for “Flag”, the second single from their new album Nanna, which reached #8 on the ARIA charts. On the back of the video, and album, they’re setting off on a national tour, and it’s a monster. 33 stops in total, including two down here in Tassie.

On Saturday September 12 they’ll be appearing at The Odeon on Liverpool Street in Hobart, and on Sunday September 13 they’ll be playing at The Country Club in Launceston. Tickets for both gigs are on sale now from www. xavierrudd.com.

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HEAVY SINGING AT 16, STEFAN SCHMIDT PLAYED GUITAR IN A METAL BAND. NOW HE “SINGS GUITAR” IN A METAL BAND. MADE OF JUST FIVE VOICES AND ONE DRUMMER, GERMAN A CAPPELLA GROUP VAN CANTO PUMPS OUT SERIOUS HEAVY METAL. STEFAN TELLS US HOW IT’S POSSIBLE AHEAD OF VAN CANTO’S FESTIVAL OF VOICES GIG AND FIVE-DAY WORKSHOP THIS JULY.

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snare loudness”; Ross on higher rakkatakka vocals (“stage sprint speed”); Inga on lead vocals (“lordette of darkness”); Sly on lead vocals (“testosterone tornado” and “stage destroying”); and Ike on bass vocals (“dooming sub bass strength”).

“It wasn’t planned to turn out as the world’s first a cappella metal band, it just happened that way,” Stefan says. “It was planned as a project and if somebody told us that we would carry on with that band for nearly 10 years, releasing five albums and preparing for a trip to Australia, we would have called him or her crazy.”

Love it or leave it, the heroes of Van Canto will keep doing their thing – in style.

“We put it this way: Van Canto is just an offer. If you don’t like it, no problem, there are about 5000 new metal albums every year and it is surely no problem to listen to the other 4999 albums if you don’t like Van Canto. But if you are interested in something different that really might suit your preference as a metal fan - check it out!”

Though Van Canto crosses styles in ways never before seen or heard, Stefan insists the music should be taken seriously.

“When it comes to songwriting, producing, playing live, and singing, we are very serious and want to ensure a professional performance.”

Van Canto is making its debut in our slice of the southern hemisphere as part of the Festival of Voices. Of all reasons, Stefan finds it “unbelievable that all this is possible just because we are singing”. Modest for metal, don’t you think?

Don’t go thinking they’ll come out wearing suits and ties, though – their a cappella approach does have its “funny sides”.

“We are very excited seeing “the other side of the world” and meeting many people interested in Van Canto doing metal a cappella,” he says.

According to Stefan, there are two basic challenges of making metal music with just voice and drums. The first is meeting the expectations of audiences who have a preconceived idea about the “wall of sound” created by the average metal band. The second: “to manage a one-and-a-half hour gig without breathing!”.

“Of course it is funny when mature men try to imitate guitars by singing: ‘randandan’. But having fun and giving people a good time is something completely different to making fun of someone, which we definitely don’t. We love what we are doing and when we play a cover song, it is because we really love the original band.”

The group will host a five-day workshop and participants – donning their best black clothes and digging up their studs and leather – will sing at the major Van Canto concert on July 11.

Van Canto is undoubtedly smashing expectations, and with both male and female lead vocalists the five-piece “sings” the roles of guitar, bass, and even keys.

If a supremely skilled a cappella vocal ensemble sounds too disciplined for metal, think again.

Among his “masterpiece making abilities”, Stefan’s own musical superpowers include “choir fighting” and “vocal cord roughness”.

The band’s self-produced debut A Storm to Come was released in 2006 and saw the metal heads offered record deals and perform originals and cover songs in Brazil. Their second album was released two years later and now they’ve got three more under their studded belts. Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Italy, and even Russia have been blasted with their voices and they’ve sold out shows and performed for audiences of more than 40,000.

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But despite their success, Stefan says the musicians never intended for their career to take this black, smoky, leather path. They all featured in “regular” metal bands before splitting up and deciding to work toward creating music that was heavy on the vocals.

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“Discipline isn’t exactly what comes to my mind when I think of my band - and especially of our live shows,” he says. “Of course, it takes a lot from people accepting a new approach and a new sound, and some of the hardline metal heads even tell us we are not metal at all.”

Also in the band is Basti on drums – his bio boasts skills of “percussive power” and “explosive

Van Canto will perform as part of Festival of Voices on July 11, MAC2, 8pm. They’ll also host a workshop from July 8-12. Tickets and info www.festivalofvoices.com.

Music DOOM METAL:

EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE WORDS ABOUT PALLBEARER PALLBEARER IS THE TITLE USUALLY APPLIED TO ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAS THE HARD DUTY OF CARRYING A COFFIN AT FUNERAL SERVICE. IT’S A VERY APPROPRIATE NAME FOR A DOOM METAL BAND, BECAUSE, THE PALLBEARER IS CARRYING SOMETHING HEAVY (A DEAD PERSON IN A BOX OF SOME KIND), THE EMOTION ATTACHED TO IT IS HEAVY AND THE DEMANDS OF THE ROLE ARE HEAVY. IT’S SYMBOLIC AND LITERAL, AND IT’S AN ALMOST PERFECT NAME FOR A GREAT DOOM METAL BAND.

This assumes you know what is meant by doom metal though. You may not, in point of fact. That’s fine. Please get as comfortable as you can, select a beverage (red wine or black beer would be the most amusing things here), and we will have a small discourse about heavy metal, and doom metal, and Pallbearer, the band. This by no means an attempt to be canonical either, it is simply some loose ideas. There are people who know better than I what defines these things and they are the subject of debate anyway. Dear experts, feel free to disagree.

The secret foundation of all Heavy Metal is the Blues.

The Blues are many things, containing myriad emotion, but the spine that supports the most vital form of twentieth century music will always be longing. Sadness, joy, regret, mourning, memory, fleeting happiness in the grinding reality of life as we all march toward our inevitable final destination are to be found in the longing of the Blues. The Blues proved to be an endlessly malleable musical form, shifting and warping

across the length of the Twentieth century into new forms, until Rock and Roll came to be in the Fifties. The advent of electricity and then distortion caused further evolution, until the moment came when Black Sabbath performed that most arcane of sonic rituals and created a new form: Heavy Metal.

Heavy metal is many things. It has spawned such a complex web of sub-genres that truly understanding the complexities is an exercise only for the most committed of disciples of the genre, but the foundations of this mansion with many chambers will always be the pondering sadness of Doom metal. Doom is best explained by listening to Black Sabbath, all of Black Sabbath, and not just the albums with Ozzy Osborne singing. You need to listen to Ronnie James Dio’s powerful vocal majesty as well.

Doom is slow, Doom is heavy. Doom Metal plays with tension and release of space between beats, with the construction of the riff, with guitar tones that ring with a kind of mournfulness, and with powerful vocals. This is where Dio comes in. In a classical sense, Doom Metal has what we might call clean vocals; if you have it in your head that all metal has those growling demon vocals, you’re a touch misguided my friend, it does not. There’s quite a variety of approaches and techniques. Dio is possibly the best example of where classical metal clean singing of all kinds comes from, and you can hear his influence in such diverse groups as the rightfully famous Iron Maiden or the notso-well-known Candlemass (who you should really check out). There are sub genres and pockets with Doom, as well, but Doom is generally sad, mournful or tragic in sound rather than angry or elated. Doom is cathartic music. It can be very emotionally overwhelming when it does its job well.

Which brings us, in a roundabout way, to Pallbearer, who are as stated, a doom metal band.

This band are very much of their genre, clearly invested in the traditions that were laid in place forty years ago, yet very much of their era: they are a twenty-first century band.

The nuts and bolts are thus: Pallbearer have existed since 2008 and have two albums under their belt. They have achieved a level of critical acclaim in the metal world and outside it, performing the spectacular trick of transcending their generic origins and gaining fans outside of the world of metal by sheer virtue of being incredibly good music, whilst not betraying their firm doom metal origins one tiny jot. The music that Pallbearer make is steeped with gorgeous harmonic sorrow, manifested by twin guitars and a powerful vocalist in Brett Campbell, who does indeed worked in the traditions laid in place by Sirs Osborne and Dio held in place by a meticulous rhythm section. Their long songs are beautiful and that’s the thing that will drag anyone in to the music Pallbearer make: it’s just simply gorgeous, but the beauty in this music is alike to a vast empty, crumbling palace covered in thick dark green moss. That’s the hallmark of doom: all beauty will decay, all that lives will die, mortality’s finite nature creates layers of meaning. Pallbearer are a band that will fill you with wonder and move you with emotional power. Their massive sound will envelope all who come to witness it.

ANDREW HARPER

See Pallbearer perform as part of Dark Mofo on Thursday June 18 at The Odeon. Tickets available via www.darkmofo.net.au.PALLBEARER

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A GUITAR CASE FULL OF TALENT OWEN CAMPBELL PROBABLY CAME TO YOUR ATTENTION WHEN HE WAS THE ‘ANGRY’ BUSKER GETTING LIPPY WITH THE JUDGES ON AUSTRALIA’S GOT TALENT. BEFORE THAT, THE BLUESY SINGER/SONGWRITER HAD BEEN BUILDING UP A SOLID FAN BASE, BUSKING ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR FOOD AND SOMEWHERE TO SLEEP.

Why did you go on Australia’s Got Talent? It doesn’t seem to suit your style.

“I ask myself the same question. I was doing a lot of touring, but I was sick of coming home so broke. People were always asking me, ‘why don’t you go on one of those shows?’ For years and years I was like ‘nah, no way, it’s not for me’. One time I got back and I was particularly unhappy about being so broke, and I thought, ‘what the fuck have I got to lose?’ and I did it, and it worked”.

Do you regret it?

“Not really, I got too much positive out of it.

It’s just the nature of those shows, they’re horribly cheesy and that’s why I guess I cringe a little bit when someone brings it up, because they’re a bit of a circus”.

Would you ever do the busking for a bed and food thing again?

“I still do busk. That show didn’t get me out of the woods by any means, but it beats doing any other job that I’m qualified to do… which is nothing”.

Favourite country you’ve played in?

“That’s a hard one, I don’t think so. Last year I went to the States, and it wasn’t really fruitful at all. It cost so much money going back and forth that it knocked me on my ass financially. But, it needed to happen, because the music that came out of it is the best I’ve ever written, and sometimes you need that incredible hardship to write some incredible songs”.

Are you working on your next album?

“Yeah, it’s pretty much all written. There’s a lot of different stuff on there. On this tour I’m releasing a six-track EP, called In the Shadow of the Greats. There’s four covers of artists that I really love, songs I’ve just played for years. I’d never considered recording them, but I thought, I’ve kind of made them my own, so I’ll get them out there”.

You said you like diversity in your sound, is there any style you’d never experiment with?

“I don’t know, I just don’t like cheesy shit.

I like anything with a bit of flair, a bit of intelligence and a bit of wildness. I probably wouldn’t do shitty covers just because they’re popular”.

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“For interesting factor, I’d say the Himalayan Blues Festival in Nepal. The sad thing is about three weeks ago they invited be back to play at the festival in November, and then that fucking earthquake happened. It has been really sad to see Kathmandu in ruins, the whole country is in ruins”.

You said you didn’t give yourself any other option than playing music. Given your financial grievances, do you wish you had a backup accounting degree or something?

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Throw some shrapnel in Owen’s guitar case at The Royal Oak (Launceston) Thursday July 9, The Homestead (Hobart) Friday July 10 and Red Hot Music (Devonport) Saturday July 11.

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IT’S JUST A BIT JAZZY HOT NEW JAZZ TRIO BLACK CAT IS ON THE PROWL. FRONTWOMAN URSULA LEUNG TELLS US WHAT IT’S BEEN LIKE TO PLAY IN A BAND WITH HER CELLIST PARTNER NICHOLAS MERCER AND THE COOL-AS-A-COCONUT DAVE ELLISTON ON KEYS.

Ursula Leung started singing when she was about 13 and growing up as a young teen in Tassie. “I spent a lot of time imitating singers I grew up with and that I loved,” she remembers. “Jazz has been something that I’ve always admired and my voice is just really suited to it.”

Though she was fond of jazz and blues recordings, Ursula also got into country music, which she says comes from her mum who grew up in rural Jericho.

Ursula had a break from singing while she undertook a Masters in Teaching at UTAS, but couldn’t let go of the music she listened to in her childhood. For her own students, Ursula would pull out the songs from her past and remember how much she loved singing them herself.

“I thought, ‘you know what, I am trained in jazz and I’ve loved it my whole life – why don’t I put a jazz trio together?’.”

The Black Cat trio was formed last October and launched casually over the summer.

With a repertoire featuring songs by Norah Jones, Patsy Cline, and Nina Simone, Ursula says the trio’s style is a hybrid of

jazz, blues, and folk – particularly with the addition of the folk-driven Dave Elliston.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been strictly one genre,” she says. But when you’re singing songs influenced by jazz, it’s all about the voice.

“There should be lots of textures and variations in your vocal delivery and being able to draw on the narrative of the piece,” she explains. “Also about your presence when you’re performing live – as a jazz singer you’ve gotta have sincerity and vulnerability.”

Taking over the bass side of things is her partner Nicholas Mercer, who she met five years ago when he was her session musician. Ursula says using cello in a jazz band is an unconventional approach.

THE BIGGEST TOUR OF THE YEAR JUST OFF THE BACK OF HIS RUN TOUR, SETH SENTRY IS ABOUT TO EMBARK ON THE BIGGEST TOUR BY AN AUSTRALIAN HIP-HOP ARTIST FOR HIS FORTHCOMING ALBUM. MOVING AWAY FROM WAITRESSES AND HOVERBOARDS, STRANGE NEW PAST IS THE AUSSIE RAPPER’S MOST TECHNICAL AND PERSONAL OFFERING YET.

“It’s usually an upright double bass,” she says about the role of the jazz bassist. “In much earlier periods of jazz they would use cellos but it’s just not very common.”

Though they’re life partners, Ursula insists that their rehearsals and performances are “strictly business”. Though it can be hard drawing the line, and if she’s had a rough day, her “elasticity is stretched more with Nicholas than with Dave” (basically, her partner cops it).

But Dave has performed with both of them before, and knows the deal. “Dave is the most chilled person you’d ever meet,” Ursula says.

Ursula lived in Melbourne in the late 2000s, where she studied at RMIT and the

You’ve got this huge tour coming up, how do you prepare for such a massive journey?

“I don’t think you can prepare, for the first five weeks of the tour I’m not coming home, so it’s a different bed every night, so you have to do a bunch of normal stuff before you leave. I’m just enjoying my own bed as much as I can, eating lots of good food, playing lots of video games, just staying inside really”.

Why are you focusing so much on regional Australia?

“We’ve always done a bunch of regional stuff, since the start, we’ve always worked on these little towns, I just love it. I love the reaction you get coming out, they come out in droves, and they go nuts, it’s cool. And I figure like, if you’re going to go all the way to other capital cities on the other side of Australia, you may as well do it by way of everywhere else”.

Do you ever get sick of touring?

“I love it, I just wish I could teleport home after every show. That would be amazing”.

Northern Institute of Performing Arts, but returned to Tassie for her partner and family. Though she admits there are challenges to making it big in a small state, she feels the sense of community and support among local musicians is top notch.

“My personal philosophy is that as an artist and as a musician, you should share your wares. You’re just going to die and go in the ground, so why not share it around? You just go for it brother, just go do your thing!”

STEPHANIE ESLAKE Black Cat play Sunday July 5 and August 2 at The Homestead, 304 Elizabeth St Hobart. Start time for both shows is 7pm. Image courtesy of She Bresnehan.

than put yourself into it. All I know is that my instincts told me to write these songs, about these things, and I thought it would be disingenuous to not go with it”.

This is a much more technical album, were you trying to showcase your talent?

Yeah, I wanted to showcase, my rap skills a lot more on this album, I felt like on my last album the topics were so particular that maybe it got overlooked a little bit, its more about, you know, the Waitress song on the ep, and the way that I was rapping wasn’t really getting noticed. That’s always been my thing, I used to love opens mics and rap battles, I’ve got a real passion for that, I’m still in the headspace that rap is a bit of a competitive sport. I just wanted to bring that to the forefront, and be a little bit more dynamic in the way that I’m delivering my lyrics”.

Would you still do rap battles?

“Nah, too sensitive for that shit, too sensitive”.

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Strange New Past is more personal than anything you’ve done before, did it make you uncomfortable?

“Yeah, a few songs, I ended up rewriting the really personal ones over and over, trying to get it perfect. It was definitely a challenge.

There’s one about a family issue, I rewrote it so many times. Eventually my brother heard it, and he was like ‘yep, you nailed it, that’s exactly what I wanted to say as well’.

It’s scary, it’s way easier to do a dumb kind of topical song and hide behind that, rather

Seth plays the Tapas lounge bar in Devonport August 6, Club 54 in Launceston August 7 and the Uni Bar in Hobart August 8. Run and Hell Boy are out now with Strange New Past is set for release on June 5.

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NO REGRETS ON THE DANCE FLOOR “ECLECTIC POP” OUTFIT TIGER CHOIR HAS RELEASED NEW SINGLE ‘SHANI’ AHEAD OF SOLD-OUT DARK MOFO GIG THIS MONTH. ELLIOT TAYLOR AND SAM NICHOLSON TALK US THROUGH HOW THE SOUND OF THEIR BAND HAS EVOLVED AND DEEPENED AS THE MEMBERS HAVE GROWN THROUGH THEIR 20S. Tiger Choir formed in 2009 “in a Hobart way”.

“By going out to gigs you get to know people from other bands and become friends and start jamming with each other.

It just grew out of the local scene,” says Elliot (vocals, electronics).

Some members went to college together and played in different bands here and there before collaborating to create electronic pop band Tiger Choir. The lineup has changed since it originally formed, and today features local musos Phil McPhee (bass, keys), Angela Schilling (vocals, keys), Ray Scottwalker (guitar), Elliot, and Sam (drums).

They’ve just released ‘Shani’, the first single from their upcoming second album

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(its title remains a mystery, but it’s been mastered by Andrei Eremin who worked on Chet Faker and Hiatus Kaiyote). Though the band has established itself as a “party band”, ‘Shani’ is a darker reflection on the morning after – a hangover song, of sorts.

“There’s that reflective sense of the party that was,” Elliot says.

The song is named after one of Elliot’s close friends and former housemates who he lived with in 2011 in a house on Hampton Road, Battery Point.

“That house that I lived in was pretty messed up in some senses – it was a

party house and the song reflects that in that sense,” he says. He was studying a Bachelor of Arts at the time, and says he “didn’t last long in that house”.

It bordered on two other party houses and Sam remembers “you could just jump the fence” between them. Elliot moved out after six months – and although it was only a short time in his life, it had a lasting impact and directly influenced Tiger Choir’s single, these years later.

“Songs take a while to sit and form,” Elliot says. “Especially on this record. There are a few songs from that sort of time.”

Their debut album Unicycles was released in 2012, and the songs from their upcoming album were written through the last three years. A lot has happened since, with the band going through breaks as members lived overseas and experienced hardships including deaths in the family.

“As a band you are going to change anyway – and in our personal lives we had a lot going on,” Sam says. “We all had our first major relationships come and go. Things like breakups creep into your song lyrics all the time, even if you’re singing about something entirely different.”

Tiger Choir’s members have spent most of their 20s in the band, and both Elliot and Sam say they feel more mature in their music-making.

“None of these personal experiences have hindered our ability to be together as a band – and at the same time, being in the band hasn’t hindered our ability to get through these experiences. One has gone alongside another,” Elliot says.

Keep your ear out for the new album, in which Tiger Choir lets their songs take directions of “dark disco”, “slow ballad”, and – a genre they’ve coined themselves – “disco regret”.

“It’s a very hungover theme to the record,” Sam says.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Tiger Choir will perform as part of Dark Mofo alongside The Preatures and Klo at The Odeon on June 12. This event is sold out. Listen to Tiger Choir’s newest music at tigerchoir.bandcamp. com.

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BAROQUE AND BEYOND PIANIST AND MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC, RICHARD EGARR IS ALL SET TO VISIT HOBART FOR A PERFORMANCE WITH ONE OF OUR BIGGEST, LOUDEST, AND FIERCEST MUSIC GROUPS – THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. AHEAD OF HIS PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC FROM THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES BY PURCELL, HAYDN, AND REBEL, RICHARD TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT EARLY MUSIC (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK).

You’re the musical director of Britain’s Academy of Ancient Music. What is it about ancient music that you love so much, anyway?

There is a necessary spontaneity and liveliness within Baroque and Classical music that I respond to very much. It must engage both performers and audience, otherwise you are doing it wrong.

What’s your guilty pleasure of baroque music?

I have no guilt when performing any music.

Too much is never enough. I enjoy every type of ‘good’ music (not only ‘Early’) and try to give the most appropriate and fullblooded performances.

With the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, you’re set to give us a taste of English and French baroque music. What are the differences in the music between these countries? Isn’t all baroque the same?

It all about language. Just as the English and French have different tongues and accent, so too does French and English music. So ornamentation to each country is very specific, as are certain rhythmic inflections.

Can we hear these different traits in music from more recent centuries?

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN MURDER BALLAD ANNE OF THE WOLVES CREATES SWEET, HAUNTING MUSIC. THEIR SOUND IS EQUAL PARTS NIGHTMARE SOUNDTRACK AND POIROT THEME MUSIC. IT’S FITTING THEN, THAT THEY’RE HOSTING A WORKSHOP AT FESTIVAL OF VOICES WHERE THEY TEACH THE PUBLIC HOW TO WRITE A MURDER BALLAD.

In case you missed Nick Cave’s 9th studio album, murder ballads drip with vengeance, ring with the fury of a man scorned. They indulgently boast as they detail the lead-up to and doing of crimes of passion.

These French and English differences are still very much present in music. Boulez sounds very different from Maxwell Davies.

The composer Haydn is the star of the show in this concert. What do you think it is about his music that remains so delightful all the way through history and right up to this day?

Haydn is thoroughly healthy. Ask any player, singer or conductor. His music is (like his personality) totally honest and completely likeable, even when he is at his most experimental.

Are you of the view that baroque music should be performed as close to the way it was those centuries ago, or that we should move with the times when presenting old works to new audiences – and do whatever we want?

We have no idea exactly how this music ‘originally’ was played and sounded. All we can do is read, listen, and learn, and then put that knowledge into a totally committed performance. That can be just as successful on modern instruments as old instruments, but the important thing is to first historically investigate as much as is possible.

Any famous last words for us?

Come and be surprised and perhaps even a little shocked at the boldness of this great music.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE Richard Egarr will feature in Baroque and Beyond with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, 7.30pm June 5 at the Federation Concert Hall. The concert will feature Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen – Suite, Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D and Symphony no. 101 The Clock, and Rebel’s Les caracteres de la danse. Bookings www.tso.com.au.

with a musical education background, the band will have participants expressing their dark sides, experimenting with new sounds and using their voice in different ways.

Melbourne five-piece Anne of the Wolves’ ballads somehow walk the tightrope of being hauntingly beautiful and crap your pants scary at the same time. Lead vocalist Bek Chapman said the band almost unconsciously created the eerie ballads that have had me looking nervously over my shoulder for the best part of a week.

The workshop groups would focus on creating songs that explored Tasmania’s convict history, with some to be performed at the band’s nightly performances. ‘’We’re really excited to be part of Festival of Voices because we often toy with the texture of a song and making our instruments sound different; by dragging a bow across a different part of the double bass, or hitting keyboard”.

‘’Recently we realised our songs and our lyrics are a lot darker than we initially realised. As the lead songwriter I had realised that I was emoting from a very deep place inside myself and tackling quite ferocious subject matter that explored quite vengeful, spiteful and restless feelings at times”.

‘’What we want to do is toy with those textural ideas with people who come to the workshop. What’s great is that the ideas and the songs that get created in the workshops we’ll use to perform alongside the participants as a sort-of Anne of the Wolves super-band during our nightly performances.”

Chapman said her lyrics, and the instrumental voices of her bandmates that accompany them, are motivated by her battle with depression and anxiety.

‘’We have a really special connection as a band, and we’re hoping to share that with everyone we meet. Everyone has got a story to tell, different emotions to get out themselves, and we want the workshop to do that for us and join their emotions with ours. It’s going to be really exciting”.

‘’Anne of the Wolves is my outlet for both of those things. A lot of my lyrics are written stream of consciousness style, and when I go back and check the choice of lyrics from it ends up becoming a song, A lot of the time I won’t actually know what the song is about until sometimes years later, where I come back and go, oh I know what that was about now”.

Chapman said appearing at Festival of the Voices was a perfect fit for Anne of the Wolves Featuring a number of members

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Learn more about murder ballads at Anne of the Wolves’ workshops and performances, held at the Salamanca Arts Gallery on June 7, 8 & 9.

Tickets are available from www.festivalofvoices. com.

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GYPSY SWING SELF DESCRIBED AS ‘A VIRTUOSIC GYPSY WORLD MUSIC FUSION BAND’, LOLO LOVINA IS FRONTED

BY HUNGARIAN ROMANI-GYPSY SINGER SARAH BEDAK, WHO HAS A COLLABORATED WITH A RANGE OF INTERNATIONAL MUSICIANS BOTH IN THE STUDIO AND ON THE ROAD.

When and where did the Lolo Lovina vision begin?

I have always been strongly connected to and in-love with the Rroma Gypsy side of my culture and in particular our music.

Around 8 years ago, just after giving birth to my beautiful son, I had an urge to pick up music again after a 5 year break. My vision has always been to celebrate Rroma Gypsy music, to promote positive Rroma cultural role models in Australia and Internationally and to inspire the audience to celebrate our joyous lives. I put an ad in a Sydney rock music street press magazine, et viola!

Somehow the only people that answered the ad were divine players who adore our music too.

What has been your favourite performance and why?

My favourite show I must say was in Noumea, New Caledonia for the Live En Aout Festival last year. It really came home to me that it is SUCH a blessing to have the opportunity to make a living playing the music that I so adore in absolute paradise and for the audience to be as appreciative.

A total 10 out of 10 set of shows!

Did you arrive in Australia or born here?

I was born in Sydney Australia, yes And how has it been growing up in Australian culture, musically?

Well, I’ve had a very strong tie and link to my Rroma Gypsy musical ancestors from Budapest, Hungary … it’s hard to describe, but it’s a little like music from here is the sound of my DNA! My mother saw my passion for music and performance early on and I was so grateful that she used to take me to some great and slightly inappropriate theatre for a 5 year old! She took me to see each of Reg Livermores 1 man shows around 5 times each. I used to want to be a female impersonator too when I grew up! Reg is still one of my idols, I love the honesty and emotional

realness in this performance. There some fabulous musicians in Australia and a lot of multicultural fusion going that is very inspiring. I love it here, but there are only a few Gypsies here. I adore being in say Serbia or Hungary in Gypsy villages there and being surrounded by people who have the same face as my own and the same insane passion for this music.

Lolo Lovina feels very traditional and true to its Eastern European origin, has Australian culture had much influence on the music and how?

We stay very true to our peoples music in terms of rhythm, chords, structure, language etc.. We are the only ones really doing authentic Rroma Gypsy music here, though lots claim the ‘Gypsy’ thing. We fuse

majorly. We have been experimenting with computerised music and our new album Rroma Sapien, is full of electro beats.

Nenad and I are very much into Balkan Gypsy Electro Swing right now, which is big in Europe. Nenad has just spent a few months in Berlin playing, researching, networking and gathering new sounds for us. I have digressed somewhat from your question haven’t I?! I guess the truth is that we love good music and know good music when we hear it. There is a lot of great music coming out of Australia. The blessing about Australia is that people here are non discriminative towards us and really love what we do. We’re very grateful for this ALISON MCCRINDLE Lolo Lovina play The Homestead in Hobart on July 3.

Do you use drugs when you’re out?

Researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre would like to speak to people who take drugs when they are out. Face to face interviews will be conducted between April and June. The interview takes around one hour and is held at a convenient location for you. Interviews are anonymous and confidential. Human Research Ethics Code No: HC15015.

You will be reimbursed $40 for your time.

If you live in Hobart call (03) 6226 7697, email estudy@utas.edu.au or SMS details to 0458 748 758 (you do not have to use your real name)

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A MUSICAL MATCH SINGER-SONGWRITER SARAH BLASKO AND COMPOSER NICK WALES HAVE JOINED FORCES ONCE AGAIN TO CREATE THE SOUNDTRACK FOR EMERGENCE. THE PROJECT IS ONE OF THREE DANCE WORKS PERFORMED BY THE SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY AS PART OF DE NOVO. EMERGENCE HAS BEEN RELEASED AS AN ALBUM ON ITS OWN, AND THE DANCE PRODUCTION HITS TASMANIA IN AUGUST. SARAH AND NICK TALK WITH WARP ABOUT SONG AND DANCE. “We’re friends, we’re both musicians, and we’re surrounded by music,” Nick Wales smiles.

Successful musicians in their own rights, Nick and Sarah have spent the past few years collaborating on a number of projects.

“I asked Nick to do I Awake because we travelled to India together – and I thought ‘if we can travel to India together, we can pretty much get through anything together’.”

But on a more serious note, Sarah found Nick to be a musical companion to which she could throw her ideas and ask opinions. “I felt that Nick understood my tastes and what I liked,” she says. And she was right – when Nick was invited to put together music for Rafael Bonachela’s contemporary Sydney Dance Company production Emergence for De Novo, he brought Sarah along for the ride.

De Novo is a triple-billed show and works feature choreography by Sweden’s Alexander Ekman for Cacti and Adelaide’s Larissa McGowan for Fanatic.

Rafael’s Emergence opens the dance show with its experimental soundtrack by Nick and Sarah.

dance (“just in my own private home,” she jokes).

“It was great working with Nick because he knew Raf really well and knew how it worked. But it was very different to do something in that context than just working on a record.”

Nick’s experience showed him that there isn’t a hierarchy between the musicians and dancers, but everyone works together on the production.

“It’s so amazing that there are lots of creative people working on one thing, and it’s so beautiful watching it come to life,” he says.

And part of it comes from having a good artistic director. Nick says Rafael is generous and open to ideas, and gave him and Sarah plenty of freedom.

“But if he hates something the story is over, it’s off the table,” Nick says.

They’re two highly creative minds, though they don’t clash and when I ask them if they dedicate roles to each other in songwriting they tell me simultaneously that their level of work is “equal”.

Sarah adds: “I think it’s good when someone has strong ideas. If someone doesn’t know what they want, then you waste too much energy and time going down the wrong path.”

Sarah has three platinum-selling works to her name and 14 ARIA nominations with a couple of wins. Nick’s compositions fuse classical, pop, electronic, and world music and he has credits in TV and film.

“We had to find a balance between each other’s voices because we’re both musically very headstrong,” Sarah says. “So it was about giving each other space to develop our own ideas.”

But as far as duos go, Sarah and Nick gel.

Nick had spent time playing strings for Sarah and after touring professionally the two decided to pack up and spend three weeks in India “to get to know each other a bit better”.

“It takes a bit of regearing your mind to be sharing a vision of something with someone. When you’re good at working on your own, it can be quite confronting to be in a room and come up with something with someone else.”

“People thought we were married – although we’re not!” Nick says of their 2011 trip.

“We seem to get on so well – maybe because we argue,” Sarah jokes.

The pair initially wrote two songs in just half a day and thought they’d fly through the process. But when they pushed on, it became more challenging than they had anticipated. They worked for two solid months in 2012 to create Emergence.

Sarah soon asked Nick to work on her fourth studio album I Awake the following year.

While Nick had worked previously with Rafael on production 2inDminor, Sarah had no experience in

“Music is about sharing with each other, and I think collaboration is one of the best ways of making music because themes come up that you could never have imagined yourself – and that’s always so fruitful,” Nick says.

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Emergence will be performed by the Sydney Dance Company as part of De Novo from August 20-22 at the Theatre Royal Hobart and 27 August at Launceston’s Princess Theatre. More info and tickets www. theatreroyal.com.au and www.theatrenorth.com. au. Emergence the album is separately available for purchase.

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A BIG WALK SINCE HIS MID-TEENS, FRASER A GORMAN HAS BEEN SINGING FOR HIS SUPPER; HAVING MOVED FROM SURF COAST TOWN TORQUAY IN SOUTHERN VICTORIA TO BUSTLING MELBOURNE WHEN HE HIT ADULTHOOD, HE WAS MORE THAN PREPARED TO JUMP INTO THE MUSIC SCENE FEET-FIRST. AND BOY HAS HE COME FAR SINCE BEING THE “CHEEKY AND OUTSPOKEN KID AT SCHOOL THAT LIKED TO TELL JOKES, LAUGH AND LISTEN TO MUSIC.”

Gorman’s debut album Slow Gum - after his 2013 self-titled EP - comes highly recommended from many, with Gorman’s alt-folk sound and poetic songwriting a major factor in his burgeoning success. He tells about how the record came to be.

“The making of Slow Gum was a little tedious a bit of a lengthy process for one reason or another. But, all in all, I learned a lot and enjoyed it. It’s been finished, or mastered rather, for quite a while now. So in my mind, I’ve been able to let it hang around like a puppy dog in my backyard.

I’ve been watching it mature, and I still like it.”

“So now I’m going to take it for a big walk

WINDING BACK THE CLOCK THIS MAN CAN TAKE YOU BACK IN TIME... IN STYLE. DJ TOM LOUD AND HIS HOT DUB TIME MACHINE WILL BE WINDING BACK THE CLOCK FOR TWO MASSIVE NIGHTS THIS MONTH AT THE REPUBLIC BAR AS PART OF HIS ONLY NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN TOUR OF 2015. WE CAUGHT UP WITH TOM RECENTLY BACK FROM A TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES.

and hopefully I’ll run into some nice people on the way and they will like it too. Maybe after a few walks it’ll become a mighty and noble hound. But maybe it might just be a little ankle biter...I guess you never know.

But I’ll walk the fucker anyway. It’s the least I can do.”

Gorman also had mixing and production help from Aussie stalwart, The Drones’ Dan Luscombe.

“When I was growing up through my teen years, Dan Luscombe was one of my musical heroes. He’s an amazing musician, lovely person and has an extremely wellrounded yet diverse taste in music. Working with him was a really great experience.”

Coachella Coachella?

Coachella was pretty crazy. I was playing on one of the smallest stages, the Heineken House, but I got to play every day of both weekends, which was awesome. It’s such a huge festival, and everyone is very good looking. ACDC rocked, Drake sucked.

Things you saw in LA that you wouldn’t see anywhere else?

At my showcase in LA a model-looking person said: “Is Scooter Braun the only famous person going to be here?” People are super comfortable with being shallow in LA. Are balloons the best thing ever?

“He’s a good mate of mine too, so it was easy and chilled” he adds. “He wasn’t scared to tell me if he thought an idea I had was shit and, at the same time, I felt comfortable to express my opinions and wants too. I think that’s important because sometimes engineers and producers can be intimidating, especially when you are newish and a bit green like me.”

you are or what is going on. Listening to Dylan. A good avocado. The smell of freshly cut hardwood. Strong coffee. I feel really lucky because I get to experience all of these things on a regular basis. And that makes me happy.”

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Gorman’s music has that sadly sweet, bonfire-story country twang to it. I ask him what makes him happy.

“I like playing rock and roll music. Drinking cold beer. Having naps in the afternoon... but not for too long because then you wake up when it’s dark and you don’t know where

Slow Gum is out July 3 through Milk! Records.

Fraser A Gorman plays Saturday July 4 Republic Bar in Hobart.

Yes!!!! I began doing balloon drops in April 2012, and have been addicted since then.

It’s the most photographed thing in my show, my instagram is full of photos of red balloons!

Best ever decade of music and video clips?

Five tracks that would NEVER make it into a Hot Dub set?

Most amount of songs you fitted in an hour?

Hmmmm. Never say never. I was playing ‘Let it Go,’ last year and loving it. Can I list 5 tracks that I didn’t think I would ever play, but I now love?

1. Good Vibrations: The Beach Boys. I used to hate the Beach Boys, but I can now see the genius in this song. The lads can sing.

2. Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson.

Everyone said it was too slow to work, but it really does! Get emotional....

3. Champagne Supernova: Oasis. I really didn’t like Oasis, but I heard this song in a pub in Manchester a year ago and that changed.

4. We Love to Party: The Vengaboys. I can’t believe how great this song goes. I only play about 20 seconds, but they are very good.

5. I Love It: Icona Pop. I thought this song was killed by over exposure, it was on every second commercial for a while, but it still kicks so hard.

I really enjoy 80’s music videos. They are still a bit naive and silly. I like music from all decades, that’s why I do what I do!!

I did 50 songs in 40 minutes at Groovin the Moo! But I do prefer a longer, slower show.

Do you feel the attention span of the audience is becoming shorter and shorter?

I certainly think the attention span of DJs has become shorter and shorter!

Technology has allowed everyone to mix so quickly between tracks that sometimes you don’t get a chance to really enjoy the song. I try to avoid that, and don’t play any mashups unless I’m layering tracks myself on the turntables. It’s a bit “old-skool,” but it keeps the focus on the music and not on the DJ. Do you own your very own hot tub at home?

No!!! If only! I live in a very small terrace house in the inner-west of Sydney and the rent is so stupid I can hardly afford a bath tub!

NIC ORME

Video killed the radio star?

Never! I DJ with visuals that I mix live from the turntables, and it’s a tricky balance; you don’t want people to just stare at the visuals and not dance, but you do want to create an immersive experience.

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Hot Dub Time Machine will play the Republic Bar on Friday June 26 and Saturday June 27.

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STRAY & SKURGEONE CARDBOARD CROWN KINGS

SkurgeOne and Stray are integral cogs in the hip-hop machine: Stray created the Cardboard Crown Kings label in 2007 as an outlet for his own musical output. More recently, CCK has taken on veteran SkurgeOne and the two have released new records and June will see them double-headline a rad gig in the name of charity.

Stray’s young daughter suffers from the rare, little-known Kawasaki Disease; an autoimmune disease that can lead to fatal aneurysms, as well as other repercussions. Stray and SkurgeOne will host a huge line-up of acts to bring awareness to the rare disease and raise some money for research.

What would most people be surprised to know about the Tassie music/hip-hop community?

SkurgeOne: To me, I think what would surprise people the most is the amount of raw unheard talent that Tassie has to offer! It’s so untapped that there’s a countless amount of dope emcees and DJs in Tasmania and there always has been.

It’s mostly a close-knit community and we all try to support each other but we do tend to go unnoticed a lot more than the rest of Australia.

Stray: I still find myself explaining to people who are not well-known hip-hop fans that Australia has our own brand of Aussie hip-hop and don’t just go around acting like we’re American gangsters from the ‘hood, and the surprise I see on their faces when they either listen to a track or come to a show and instantly become Aussie hiphop fan.

What do you feel is your place within such a scene?

Tang’s 36 Chambers, I ended up being addicted to hip-hop...that was in grade six, I’m thirty-two now!

SkurgeOne: Well, I’ve been writing and recording hip-hop music in Tasmania for over ten years now; not just myself, but I’ve been making beats and recording tracks for heaps of other upcoming artists. I’ve also been doing live shows and have supported Brad Strut, Pegs, Fatty Phew, Bliss n Eso, Art Of War, The Herd and many more, so I’d say I’m pretty essential to this scene and the way it has been shaped, I find a lot of young local artists look up to me in a way, which is quite humbling.

Stray: I first started out as a musician playing acoustic guitar and singing, I used to listen to a lot of rock and metal back then, stuff like Faith No More, Pantera and Pearl Jam. I remember a mate that made me listen to a few 2Pac albums; I wasn’t interested but I did listen to them in the end and just ended up steering in the hip-hop direction from there.

Stray: Being a bit of an old hand now at the scene I’m starting to feel some responsibility at building the scene more. I support the Tassie hip-hop scene as much as I know how and I’ve proudly managed to give some of the younger ones their first opportunities at either recording, doing live shows or being released on an album.

What does Cardboard Crown King mean to the scene, and to you as artists?

SkurgeOne: I feel it’s becoming a much-needed staple in the Tas scene, creating gigs and opportunities for artists from all around Tasmania, including myself, and I think it’s only going to continue to do great things. Keep an ear to the streets ‘cause there will be plenty more dope shit coming from Cardboard Crown King Records in the near future!

Stray: Entities like CCK are great for the scene and the artist involved. To have businesses that are willing to back artists financially and release CDs and run shows and give artist opportunities to be heard is only going to lift the scene. Music is art but, at the end of the day, you either need to make a living or get a job (laughs)

What’s your creative process?

SkurgeOne: It really depends on the situation.

I tend to write a lot on the go, so I put raps into my phone memo and that’s handy, but also I always write it out on paper before I hit the booth as I don’t like scrolling through my phone while trying to spit a verse. I find it a distraction, but if I’m at home with the beat playing I really like a pad and pen, nothing beats the feeling of scribbling rhymes on an A4 page, it just feels right to me!

Stray: When I create a track for me, it’s always about the emotion of the track. The beat will always give me a feeling or raise an emotion.

Then I’ll come up first with a hook, which will summarise the topic of the emotion which will then give me to topic on which to write the verse on. I don’t like to use my phone for writing lyrics though. I’d rather a solid piece of paper so when I record it I can see what I’m saying and not have to scroll through my phone.

SkurgeOne, Stray and many more will play the Homestead in Hobart on June 13th: entry by donation.

Skurgical Procejas and The Lightest Dark are out now on Cardboard Crown King Records.

What’s your earliest hip-hop memory?

LISA DIB

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WELCOME TO THE CULTURE WARS (PART ONE)

COMEDY:

HANNAH GADSBY FABULOUS EX-TASMANIA COMEDIAN HANNAH GADSBY FOUND US A MOMENT IN HER RIDICULOUS SCHEDULE TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS. IT WAS VERY NICE OF HER.

THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ANY INTEREST IN THE POLITICS THAT SURROUND THE ARTS IN THE CURRENT CLIMATE ARE LIKELY AWARE OF THE MOVEMENT OF GOVERNMENT FINANCE FOR THE ARTS FROM THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL DIRECTLY TO GEORGE BRANDIS, MINISTER FOR THE ARTS. THESE FUNDS WILL BE UNDER A NEW PROGRAM KNOWN AS NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS (NPEA). THERE’S A LOT OF NERVOUS DITHERING GOING ON IN THE ARTS COMMUNITY AS LINES ARE DRAWN AND PEOPLE WONDER WHAT IT ALL MEANS, BUT THERE’S NOT A LOT OF DIRECT STATEMENTS FROM THE UPPER END OF THE ARTS COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA (THE ONES WHO DIDN’T LOSE ANY FINANCIAL SUPPORT).

There are 28 major performing arts companies who have been quarantined from having their funding effected. Funds have already been granted to Bell Shakespeare and the Australian Ballet.

This should be enough to give you an idea as to what is meant by Excellence in The Arts, but digging into this a bit further reveals more: In 2014 Brandis publically denounced artists who took part in the Biennale of Sydney Boycott Action. There is no direct statement that states that the Budget action of removing funds from the Australia Council to the NPEA is a punitive measure towards artists in the wake of that action, but if it walks like a duck, and makes a noise like a duck, the likelihood is that it’s a duck.

This action, in and of itself is a bit weird and well might we wonder where it’s all heading and what it means, but in an immediate sense, the Australia Council has been forced to cancel its June funding round. This announcement comes after a large number of small to medium Arts Organisations across the nation have been working toward applying for six-year funding. That’s not simply artists, but the places that nurture them, show their work, and help build their careers. This action has placed a huge stratum of artists and people who work in the arts into an unenviable position: they have no idea of their future beyond the end of the year. This affects dozens of organisations across the country.

The message seems clear: the government is telling upstart artists to know their damn place. To make pretty things for the big end of town to stare at; nice ballets and operas to go to (opera is by far and away the largest recipient of government funding, by the way, so next time a moron moans about someone getting five grand to make an artwork about disappearing Australian birds, ask why they think something they can’t afford to go should get $18.3 million a year) and not to make politically or socially engaged work.

Confronting or experimental art is rarely commercially viable in its initial stages. Readers of tabloid press may consider that arts grants go on weird crap that no one wants to buy, but I would draw your attention to the amount of businesses that start up that sell weird crap that no one wants to buy. They get government grants as well; business start-up funding is considered valid and necessary. . Why is it not perfectly valid to see artists as workers who are running their own business for less reward than a lot of other small businesses?

ANDREW HARPER

I LOVED the show you did about Art. How did that come to exist? Was it fun to make? Will you make more?

Oh great, I’m glad you liked it. I made it because I thought that its time people started taking art history seriously.

Was it great to actually use your degree, which you will likely be in debt for the rest of your adult life for?

It certainly is a conversation stopper. People just don’t know what to say if you tell them you’ve made use of an arts degree.

If you could get a job teaching about art, would you still do comedy?

Given that teaching is a very important and underpaid vocation, I think I will stick to the unimportant and over valued art of bullshitting.

Stand up is not really considered art – it doesn’t get arts grants and it’s treated in a very different way. Is stand up an art form? If it is, why is it treated differently?

People who argue about what qualifies as art are really just arguing themselves out of a dynamic and fun existence. Comedians should leave arts grants alone because it’s cheap to produce and comparatively easy to find an audience who will fork out their hard earned in exchange for a laugh. It is the interpretive dancers that need grants.

I don’t really look at you as “feminist comedian” – I see you as “a comedian” but we’re living in a strange era: a growing neoconservative time that is also seeing a revitalised feminist movement.

Is this something you want to talk about in your comedy? How do you approach it?

(I’ll apologise in advance as well if this is a ‘boring women in comedy’ question, but I’m really interested in the voices we hear in stand up and the cultural politics thereof) I don’t approach feminism directly in my comedy but it is there because I like to take the piss out of dickheads and misogynists are dickheads.

Who are your current favourite comedy people? Who do you like and who inspires you?

Andrew bolt and Miranda divine. Brilliant Dickheads.

Is there anything you’re specifically looking forward to doing when you whip around Tasmania?

Seeing my folks and taking my dog, Doug, truffle hunting.

ANDREW HARPER Hannah is appearing as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow that’s on July 3 and 4 at The Theatre Royal in Hobart.

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Arts DARK MOFO:

FIRE ORGAN THE DARK PARK SECTION OF DARK MOFO 2015 IS A NEW FEATURE THAT WILL INCLUDE A WHOLE LOT OF BIG, AWE-INSPIRING ART INSTALLATIONS, SCULPTURES AND FIRE.

Located in that strange region of Hobart, the industrial docklands entered from Evans St (where the hell is that? Behind the Hunter St IXL art Hotel and Art School complex at Hobart’s fabulous Macquarie Point area), it seems that Dark Park will be a pagan wonderland of fire and reverberation, turning an industrial wasteland into an experience of overwhelming wonder. There will be a lot of astounding things to thrill the eager punters in a totally new and unexpected way.

One especially interesting aspect of this, would appear to a Fire Organ. Made by a chap called Bastiaan Maris, this remarkable thing is what Bastiaan calls a pyro-acoustic instrument.

Or to put it another way, it’s a bunch of tuned flame throwers and pipes that shoot hot jets of blistering flame into the sky and make a massive blatting explosive sound. The Fire Organ, or Large Hot Pipe Organ is actually tuneable and to some extent playable, or was for a recording

that’s floating around The Large Hot Pipe Organ consists of 20 pre-tuned pipes with a diameter of twenty six centimetres and heights from 3 to 10 meters. The sound is made by propane-air detonations inside the pipes, controlled by computer: set of MIDI responders and other special hardware to enable direct keyboard and computer manipulation of the instrument. So if you know what you’re doing, you can play it, but on a special computer that was developed precisely and only for this purpose by George Homsey.

Obviously not many people do know how to play this thing, and you have to build one that exactly fits the specifications, so this is a point where engineering meets art (the object itself looks really impressive) meets high technology, resulting in the most truly industrial music you will ever experience.

Sebastian Maris himself has been working on this, and other industrial scale musical machines for a long time, with the very first Large Hop Pipe Organ appearing in 1993.

Developed and refined ever since, the Large Hot Pipe Organ is now about as impressive as it’s going to be, it makes its own explosive music and turns the night sky into a spectacular pyro display. This thing is loud, massive and will blow your mind: there’s even some footage of it being played and it’s insane stuff that you need to check out, but what you will understand is that there’s only one way to really experience this thing and that is to see and hear it.

ANDREW HARPER

So get to Dark Park, Macquarie Point. Dress warmly, but expect to be warmed, and to be amazed.

Dark Park is open June 12 – 21, each evening of Dark MOFO from 4 until 10pm.

DARK MOFO:

BASS BATH THERE’S NOT MUCH REAL INFORMATION, THERE NEVER IS, BUT THERE ARE CLUES.

Firstly: 2100 horsepower monolithic subwoofers. Weird. Amplifiers are not engines. They do not have the power of horses, that being what horsepower means. Amps can be monolithic though, and evidence suggests that the folk at Dark MOFO like making stone circles that hum with sonic power. There is a type of subass, and Adam sub2100 that looks pretty terrifying and occult but that’s guesswork.

Second: Enter the circle of doom Ah. Imagine a magic circle of amplifiers. Really big ones that are arranged again, like a stone circle. Don’t think of Stonehenge; or just of that stone circle, for there are many, in many places, over a thousand. You find them in Israel. In Poland. They are old and strange things, stone circles. People have legends about entering and not entering.

They are supposed to alter you.

Coincidences: Iggy Pop, once said something like that being in front of so many amplifiers for such a large part of his life must have done something to his body.

The vibration. The electricity. If there is a shaman of the amplifier, some living pagan saint of the amplifiers, Iggy is not a bad contender for the position.

Third: Byron J Scullin. Has not updated his website since 2012. Damn. Still; he’s a composer and sound designer from Melbourne. He worked on Wolf Creek.

Wolf Creek, stone circles, subwoofers.

However, Byron J Scullin is on Twitter. He has not tweeted since April but that’s a lot more recent than 2012. On March the second, he retweeted a picture tweeted by Robin Fox. It’s an image of a contact mic

and a book: “the effects of noise on man”

by Karl D Kryter.

I’m starting to feel a little like I’m looking too hard and making connections that don’t really exist. I mean, it’s probably some really big speakers that will emit a subbass frequency that you can hear but you can feel, somewhat like the odd sensation some describe when entering an ancient stone circle.

I googled the book though: “The Effects of Noise on Man covers the techniques for the evaluation of environmental noise in terms of its effects on human. The book provides the fundamental definitions of sound, its measurement, and concepts of the basic functioning, and the attributes of the auditory system. The text also presents along with their experimental basis, procedures for estimating from physical measures of noise its effects on man’s auditory system and speech communications. The last part of the book is devoted to man’s non auditory system responses and includes information about the effects of noise on work performance, sleep, feelings of pain, vision, and blood circulation” I mean it could having nothing to do with what a Bass Bath is but in a few short moves, there it is: one of those strange moments where you recall that science replaced magic because it’s far more interesting and weird.

ANDREW HARPER

The Bass Bath is part of the Dark MOFO Dark Park installation, Macquarie Point, June 12 – 21.

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Arts FASHION:

COMEDY:

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL ROADSHOW

HUSTLE&SCOUT A NEW FASHION EVENT FOR TASMANIA WILL APPEAR THIS JUNE AT THE SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE. DESIGNERS FROM TASMANIA, MELBOURNE, SYDNEY AND CANBERRA WILL CONVERGE IN THE ONE SPACE TO EXHIBIT THEIR HANDMADE AND SUSTAINABLE FASHION COLLECTIONS AT HUSTLE&SCOUT.

THE BIGGEST COMEDY EVENT IN AUSTRALIA EVERY YEAR IS THE FAMOUS MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL. ALL THE HOPEFULS, NEWCOMERS, SEASONED PROFESSIONAL AND BEST KEPT SECRETS CONVERGE ON THE FAIR CITY OF MELBOURNE AND MAKE THAT PLACE ROCK WITH LAUGHTER. It’s UNFAIR! Why should Melbourne get all the damn laughs?

Well the truth is, it doesn’t. Each year the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow breaks out of the confines of AFL Land, stops bathing In Victoria Bitter and goes all over the damn country, taking a selection of the very best acts. It’s pretty much The Mountain going to Moses, and it’s a huge night of laughs for the discerning comedy savvy audiences of Hobart.

CHECK OUT THE LINE UP: All you comedy punters should know the awesome DAVID QUIRK, because he’s been to Tassie a few times already. He’s a sly, dry, pitchblack comedy genius who has been steadily getting bigger and bigger audiences. Quirk’s observations are lateral, precise and hilarious.

Music is the key for duo ELBOWSKIN, Ernie Austin and David Adams. Comedy music is hard to get right but this duo know the right material – beer (they sing about beer a lot actually), coffee, mums and annoying cafe staff. Anthemic and sharp, they’ll make you want to sing along with their guitar driven in tune shouting styles.

You should really know the awesome HANNAH GADSBY, because she’s from Tasmania (the fertile comedy ground of the North West Coast in fact), and she’s been on TV – she was a total regular on the Adam Hills Tonight for YEARS, she’s been on Channel 10’s Good News Week and she even had her own show on the ABC about art. Because Hannah is damn smart as well as damn funny and so is her comedy.

ANDY SAUNDERS is a deadset legend of Australian comedy. Fighting for people who can’t laugh at themselves for years now, he’s a powerful comedian with heaps to say, using satire to take his audience on a voyage. Saunders tackles political correctness, addresses injustice with jokes, and works hard to entertain everyone who comes to see him does his thang.

MATT FORD has been making people laugh since he was a teen, winning the Class Clowns contest in 2010. That means five years have gone by, and comedy wisdom tells us that after five years is when comedians start to get really good, and this is totally the truth about Matt Ford. His material is polished and he’s an endearing talent.

Each of the featured comics will deliver a strong, polished set, it’s a huge night of comedy in two halves and there ONLY TWO DATES. Given how much Hobart Audiences are finding that they love to laugh, booking is advised!

ANDREW HARPER

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow appears at the Theatre Royal for two nights only – July 3 & 4. Book online at www.theatreroyal.com.au or ring 6233 2299.

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Originating in Canberra in 2013, the event has grown into a national showcase of independent designers. The inaugural Tasmanian event will showcase 33 designers, with a mixture of standout local designers plus interstate collections never seen before in Tasmania.

Making the event unique from a traditional fashion market, Hustle&Scout will fuse fashion with live entertainment. The Hobart music lineup will feature Tasmanian musicians such as Hannah May, Maddy Jane, the Harry Edwards Trio,

Matthew Dames, Connor Claridge and more. The weird and the wonderful will be enhanced with mysterious animal figures wandering through the precinct and those that are famished or have the thirst, will find a winter themed menu of food and drink available on site.

Hustle&Scout runs Saturday June 20, 3pm – 8pm and Sunday June 21, 10am – 3pm in The Long Gallery and Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre and entry is free. More information available from www.hustleandscout.com.au.

GUEST OPINION:

LUCY HAWTHORNE ON ARTS FUNDING AND CULTURAL PHILANTHROPY I STARTED THIS PIECE AT THE OPENING OF THE VENICE BIENNALE. IT WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT ALL THE TOTE BAGS I’D SCORED, THE OUTRAGEOUS OUTFITS, AND MY LACK OF PARTY INVITATIONS. THE FACT THAT ARTS MINISTER MICHAEL BRANDIS OPENED THE NEW AUSTRALIA PAVILION DIDN’T EVEN REGISTER UNTIL THE FOLLOWING WEEK WHEN HE ANNOUNCED MASSIVE CHANGES TO ARTS FUNDING. The changes include the establishment of the ‘National Program for Excellence in the Arts’ (it deserves inverted commas), the funding of which will be transferred from the Australia Council for the Arts (Ozco) – a move that will disproportionately and deliberately affect individual artists, particularly visual artists, filmmakers, writers, and small and/or regional arts organisations. Tasmanian artists and audiences should be concerned.

In Venice, Brandis basked in the reflected cultural prestige of the world’s largest visual arts event, rubbing shoulders with the Australian art world’s most influential players. I guess it wasn’t the place to announce cuts to the very organisation that administers Australia’s involvement in the biennale. To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he hadn’t decided yet. One of the stated aims of NPEA is to encourage cultural philanthropy, and as the pavilion was largely funded with private money, perhaps it inspired

Brandis’ scheme. Unfortunately, it’s only ever financial donations that are acknowledged on golden plaques and programs, not the in-kind support provided by artists who often go unpaid or underpaid for their essential work. If we stopped participating tomorrow, the cultural economy would collapse, which explains why last year’s Sydney Biennale boycotts were so threatening to the status quo.

I did attend one party at the biennale by the way.

I wasn’t invited, but the champagne was flowing and the art was terrible. I guess I was a welcome rent-a-crowd. The Sheikh had evidently paid a large amount to stage the exhibition (it costs $30,000 just to register as a collateral event), but as the saying goes, money doesn’t buy taste. Ozco isn’t perfect, but if we leave it to rich individuals to decide what is and isn’t supported, the diversity of Australia’s art scene will undoubtedly suffer.

LUCY HAWTHORNE

Arts BOOK REVIEW:

MISTAKES WERE MADE MISTAKES WERE MADE IS A SHORT COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY LIAM PIEPER. IT IS A SMALL PAPERBACK, A GORGEOUSLY DESIGNED PENGUIN SPECIAL, TEAL AND CREAM, FEATURING THE DEATH CARD OF THE TAROT ON THE COVER. IT IS A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON DIVERSE SUBJECTS –THE PERFECT PAPERBACK TO ROLL INTO YOUR POCKET. Liam Pieper, whose first book was a memoir FeelGood Hit of the Year. This was deeply personal, raw, and mildly scandalous recount of his young life, which included the overdose of his brother and his own, extensive experiences with many aspects of his life with drugs.

which he visits on the advice of “another friend, this one a media personality turned bestselling author” who urged him visit bookshops and sign copies of his own book. “They love it, the shiny, popular celebrity assured me.”

What follows at his local bookshop, while possibly mortifying for him at the time, makes for an extremely funny – and perfectly retold vignette which made me laugh. I laughed and laughed, then I read it out loud to friends and laughed more.

Mistakes Were Made and the essays included are life after the Feel-Good Hit, they make both light and dark of some of the ensuing ‘adventures’ of the author experiencing himself as “…famous, for a week and a half, in the middle of my thirtieth winter,” as he describes himself in one of the essays.

Do yourselves a favour – essays are a wonderful invitation to consider our world in a different manner, with a different voice. They can bring short, sharp insight into our world, generally less than 5000 words (a bus trip into town) Pieper has a sharp wit, perspicacious mind and he brings clarity to varied subjects.

He interrogates his own racism in a strangely cohesive yet rambling essay called ‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Being.’ A self-proclaimed “white, lefty Australian, who’s fit to burst with his own sense of egalitarianism,” he recounts the experience though describing a promotional tour he is on for his book, in the United States. In the concise dissection of racism, this essay takes you, the reader, from the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, to a school camp at Uluru, to the rough, ready racism in Australia and the visible and entrenched one Pieper observes in the States.

RACHEL EDWARDS

In David Niven’s 1974 autobiography The Moon’s A Balloon there is a scene, where Niven and his army mate, Trubshawe, are drunk and dressed as a goat at a regiment party, where the others are mainly Bo Peep or Mini Mouses. It is WW2. The formal dance is moving in a circle, Trubshawe and Niven wheel off into the centre of the large circle and drop some small olives behind them and move off. Re-reading this scene makes me laugh and laugh. The out loud laughter that can arise from silent reading is a true pleasure to experience – and Pieper made me do it. In the essay and there is a scene in the essay ‘Fame! (I’m gonna live forever)’ where he describes a ludicrous and true moment in his local bookshop,

BOOK REVIEW:

VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, AN ABORIGINAL HISTORY

BY MURRAY JOHNSON AND IAN MCFARLANE

TASMANIA/VAN DIEMEN’S LAND HAVE A FINE OLD HISTORY OF WHITE MEN WRITING ABOUT ABORIGINAL HISTORY. EVEN PRECEDING JAMES CALDER ‘S SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WARS; EXTIRPATION, HABITS, &C, OF THE NATIVE TRIBES OF TASMANIA (HOBART, 1875), WHITE MEN (AND THE OCCASIONAL WHITE WOMAN) WERE RECORDING A HISTORY OF TASMANIA’S DIVERSE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE, THEIR HISTORY. Van Diemen’s Land, an Aboriginal History is another white man’s history of Aboriginal Tasmania, but in this case it is written by two men, Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane, who are extremely knowledgeable in the complexities of Aboriginal Tasmania, both of them having lectured and explored in the area for many years.

This book touches briefly on Tasmania pre colonisation and despite what the title promises, spends the most part of the book focussing on cultural interaction following white settlement. It is a hefty tome, offering chapters covering the specifics we expect to be covered in any contemporary history book covering similar matter; Sealing Fraternity and the Black War, The Black Line and Friendly Mission, Wybalenna.

Aside from the above ‘essential’ subject matter, the book includes an extraordinary level of detail in most areas. It recounts, in particular detail, a trip that Robinson made to Port Philip, travelling with Truganini, Wooraddy, Timme, Pevay and others. The Tasmanians, in a welcome act of rebellion against Robinson’s control, left Port Phillip and armed themselves. A group of them staged nine robberies and shot four Europeans. Robinson, who despite the name of his ‘Friendly Mission,’ was a controlling, driven and deceitful operator. Despite their former friendship, Robinson had Timme and Pevay sent to the gallows. The book is full of more tragic and curious detail – for example, Robinson had planned to join a utopian community in Nicaragua, but his fate led him to Van Diemen’s Land.

Van Diemen’s Land would make a wonderful text book, covering such a wide swath through the history of Tasmania. It offers some newly presented research on historically contentious subjects – such as the consumption of fish, the making of fire and the use of fish traps.

Tasmanians of a certain generation (shall we call them the Manganini generation?) may still be labouring under the notion that there was no known way to start fire, that a firestick must have been kept alight at all times, though the authors confirm that fire was regularly started. Another of the disputed facts the Johnson and McFarlane explore is the consumption of scale fish in the diet of the first people in Tasmania. They use the example of fish traps on the NW coast, though their argument is not final, Europeans were building fish traps – and while some aboriginal people were seen to eat fish, it is also important to acknowledge the cultural exchanges that occurred post colonialization, exchanges that James Boyces relates in his superb book, also titled Van Diemen’s Land.

While discussion and criticism are crucial for healthy debate, it is unfortunate that, some of the criticisms of the authors’ peers are strident and a bit petty. Despite my own criticisms, I unreservedly recommend this book.

RACHEL EDWARDS

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PAIGE TURNER SLAMDUGGERY IS A REGULAR LAUNCESTON STAND UP (SLAM UP) POETRY EVENT THAT I FINALLY TRAVELLED NORTH TO EXPERIENCE. IT’S HELD EACH MONTH AT THE RED BRICK ROAD CIDERHOUSE IN LAUNCESTON. THE MAY SLAM FEATURED A RANGE OF STYLES AND SKILLS IN WORDS AND DELIVERY, WITH A COUPLE OF STANDOUTS INCLUDING ANGUS ‘STATIK’ KING, WHO RHYMED, WITH HEART AND CONVICTION, MAINLY ABOUT MARRAWAH. POETRY PEDLARS IS ANOTHER NORTHERN POETRY GATHERING- MEETING AT THE ALBERT HALL PIONEER LOBBY ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 7.30PM. THANKS LAUNCESTON, I’M CURIOUS TO EXPLORE MORE OF YOU.

In Hobart, poetry events are flourishing too. The long running Republic Readings is on the first Sunday of every month – and the reasonably newly minted Silver Words, now organised

by Max Bladel, takes place at Tasman Quartermasters on the last Thursday evening of each month. Maybe we could play on some traditional parochialism and hold a North V South Slam on a barge on the Blackman River…..

June is a rip roaring month for arts and lit in Tasmania. Magnificently impossible to ignore is Dark Mofo.

Smack bang across the month the program offers rich, dark and varied performances, straddling genres, titillating passions and crossing both art and personal boundaries…. www. darkmofo.net.au.

Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival is happening between June 3-6 and features inspired events around graphic storytelling. It includes events such as the launch of Cope Quarterly, a new zine produced in Tasmania featuring

around 30 Tasmanian contributors and some mainlanders too. This is being launched at the Small Press Zine fair on Saturday, June 6 between 1-5pm at the Poobah in Hobart.

Her Maj, in conjunction with the Tasmanian Writers Centre is hosting a PEN Lecture – an evening with Graphic Artists Pat Armstrong (image featured from Serco) and Nicki Greenberg on June 6 between 6-8pm at 71 Murray St, Hobart (tickets $10/$15).

It’s excellent to see a PEN lecture here in Tasmania. PEN, which stands for “Poets, Essayists and Novelists,” was founded in 1921 and celebrates the power of the penfighting censorship and upholding freedom of expression.

Eros; crafting erotica and romance, a writing workshop, replete with award winning novelist and fearless writer of sex, Krissy Kneen and international bestselling writer of romance, Melanie Milburne is taking place at the Moonah Arts Centre on June 13 and 14. For more details and to book a seat ($245 for the weekend, including aphrodisiac inspired food) email epicentred@gmail.com Listen out for the voices of those who once inhabited the filthy streets of old Hobart Town – in the Story Island Project’s collaboration with Festival of Voices. A range of talented young writers will create real and fictional stories through a workshop with The Story Island Project, giving voice to these lost and sometimes dark stories. A selection of the written works produced in the workshops will be performed by local actors as part of Festival of Voices. Visit www. storyislandproject.org for more details on their projects.

The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is working with the Hachette Mentoring Program to offer a fantastic opportunity

to a Tasmanian writer - a professional mentorship opportunity for a year to work Sophie Hamley, a publisher with Hachette Australia and former President of the Australian Literary Agents’ Association.

Applications will open Monday June 1 and close 5pm, Friday June 26. Check out www. tasmanianwriters.org for further details.

Fullers Bookshop, as ever, has a diverse and engaging stack of events lined up in June, starting with Melbourne based Steven Carroll talking about his new book, Forever Young. Carroll recently experienced the ignominy of having Tony Abbott intervene at the PM’s Lit Awards and tell the judges that their choice of Carroll’s A World of Other People by Carroll was not actually the only winner, Richard Flanagan was to share it for his recently Booker anointed The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

What more perfect a time on a Sunday afternoon for the Tasmanian launch of Too Much For Turtle by Cat Rabbit & Isobel Knowles This is their second lovely collaboration. 2.30, Sunday June 14.

On Thursday, June 18, Amanda Lohrey will be in conversation with James Boyce about her latest novel A Short History of Richard Kline. I adore the words and brains of both of these writers and imagine their discussion will be extremely engaging.

Ben Walter, one of Tasmania’s recently emerged, and one of the state’s most excellent, writers has introduced some new Tasmanian fiction in Communion issue 3. He has also written somewhat of a manifesto, ‘The New Tasmanian Fiction,’ cleverly disguised as an introduction.

Included here is new work from Susie Greenhill, playwright Caitlin Richardson, Robbie Arnott, Adam Ouston, Michael Blake and expatriate Tasmanian, Tadhg Muller.

Pay heed. www.walleahpress.com.au/ communion3.html

RACHEL EDWARDS

ART:

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? THE CLEVER TYPES AT CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA HAVE DONE SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING: MADE A PODCAST. The podcasting sphere is growing by leaps and bounds all over the World Wide Web, becoming an important way that information is shared and discussion takes place. Contemporary Art Tasmania have taken the plunge into this medium with What Are You Looking at?, a series of programs about issues and ideas surrounding contemporary art. Each new episode is hosted by noted Hobart director and writer Briony Kidd and produced by Pip Stafford, with the first issue going over the complex ground of women who practice in the arts. Totally free to listen to, episode one gets a range of opinions out of a range of artists, women and men, about the gap between who shows and what might be going on.

Episode One is online now to listen to, download, share and enjoy.

The next topic will be about sound art, exploring the idea of what art is if you can’t see it. Stay tuned!

Check out: contemporaryarttasmania.org/ podcast

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Arts

GALLERY

PERFORMING ARTS

GUIDE

GUIDE

SOUTH 146 ARTSPACE 4 Jun – 16 Jul Burnie Print Prize ARTS FACTORY from 10 Jun - Selective Breeding: The Menagerie Jennifer Pelham,Josie Allyson Birchall, Briellen Feeney, Jenny Groves, Neil Holmstrom, Amelia Rowe, Somrak Maneemai, Selena de Carvalho, Kitty Taylor

SOUTH SALAMANCA ART CENTRE SIDESPACE GALLERY 22 May – 4 Jun Kate Piekutowski & Bethany Van Rijswijk 5 – 18 Jun George Vozar TOP GALLERY 1 – 30 Jun Liu Xianghua TMAG 20 Mar – 30 Aug Patrick Hall 12 Jun – 20 Sept John Kelly

PLAYHOUSE 14 Jun – 4 Jul Jane Eyre

COMEDY SOHO 3 Jun & 1 Jul Cloud Comedy

THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE 28 May – 6 Jun Grounded THEATRE ROYAL 12 – 14 Jun Orlando

DICKENS CIDER HOUSE 11 Jun Uber Comedy Hobart

MOONAH ARTS CENTRE 12 – 13 Jun Grounded

DOCTOR SYNTAX 27 Jun The Doctor’s Best Medicine FRANKIE’S EMPIRE 26 Jun Empire Comedy: Bart Freebairn

SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE PEACOCK THEATRE 12 – 15 Jun Funeral

NORTH

IRISH MURPHY’S 9 Jun Craic Up Comedy

NORTH

BRAVE ART GALLERY (Longford) 6 – 27 Jun John Hodgman, Group Show

THE BRISBANE 25 Jun The Comedy Forge

COMEDY

CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 13 Jun - 19 Jul Envelop(e) – Julian Day, Mick Harris AKA Lull, Jason James, Christina Kubisch, Elizabeth Veldon Cur: Matt Warren

BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 30 Jan – 12 Jul HA! High Art 16 May – 12 Jul Michael Muruste 16 May – 12 Jul 10 Stories, 10 Objects 16 May – 12 Jul Body Image

COLVILLE GALLERY 29 May – 17 Jun Young Moderns – Julia Castiglioni-Bradshaw, Suze van der Beek, Eloise Kirk, Tim Price, Josh Simpson 29 May – 17 Jun Zsuzsa Kollo 19 Jun Colin Langridge, Jenny Tofer

DESIGN TASMANIA 24 Apr – 19 July 40 Years of Jam Factory

THE POLISH CORNER 3 Jun JOKERS: Damian Callinan 10 Jun JOKERS: Dave O’ Neill 17 Jun JOKERS: Rod Quantock 24 Jun JOKERS: Antony Morgan 1 Jul JOKERS: Rachel Berger 8 Jul JOKERS: Adam Richard

ART MOB 5 – 19 Jun Sally Gabori BETT GALLERY 5 – 26 Jun Robert O’Connor, Nancy MauroFlude

DESPARD 13 May – 7 Jun Suzanne Playfoot, Sebastian Galloway 10 Jun Abstraction – Michael Muruste, Peter Poulet, Maeve Wodds, Jamin HANDMARK 29 May – 22 Jun David Edgar, Andrea Barker 26 Jun – 27 Jul John Lendis, Barb Heath MOONAH ARTS CENTRE 5 – 27 Jun Rene Ariston MONA 17 Jan – 6 July Biennale of Moving Images 13 Jun – 5 Oct Marina Abramovic PENNY CONTEMPORARY 15 May – 9 Jun Kate McCarthy ROSNY BARN SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY 15 May – 7 Jun Mary Buchanan Bailey 12 Jun - 5 Jul Hunter Island Press

DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 6 Jun – 12 Jul True Self: David Rosetzky 1998 – 2013 6 Jun – 12 Jul Nancy Mauro-Flude GALLERY PEJEAN 13 May – 6 Jun Ben Miller, Chris Flood 10 Jun – 11 Jul Michael Weitnauer HANDMARK EVANDALE 17 May – 13 Jun Helene Weeding 14 Jun – 9 Jul William Rhodes QVMAG 9 May – 5 Jul Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness 30 May – 19 Jul Stephen Bowers SAWTOOTH ARI 29 May – 20 Jun FRONT GALLERY Rag-and-Bone Twilight Mitchell Donaldson (QLD) MIDDLE GALLERY Joy follows like a shadow Jessica Lumb (SA) PROJECT GALLERY Colour and Transition Simon Gregory (TAS) NEW MEDIA GALLERY Cinema One: Memory Carpets Ashley Bird (TAS) @Sawtooth Space A SPACE Brigitte Trobbiani (TAS)

RED BRICK ROAD CIDERHOUSE 10 Jun Uber Comedy FRESH ON CHARLES 19 Jun FRESH COMEDY: Nazeem Hussain SHOTS ON WAX 30 Jul Crash Test Funnies

THE REPUBLIC 18 Jun THE CLUBHOUSE: Nazeem Hussain THEATRE ROYAL 26 Jun Em Rusciano 27 Jun Alex Williamson 3 -4 Jul Melbourne Int. Comedy Festival Roadshow

DEVONPORT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE 2 Jul Melbourne Int. Comedy Festival Roadshow

DANCE PRINCESS THEATRE 6 Jun Tapestry Dance Studio

THEATRE

FILM CINEMONA Until 6 JunNational Gallery Until 7 JunThe hard Question Until 10 Jun incent van Gough: A new way of seeing Until 11 Jun The Impressionists Until 19 Jul The Audience

THEATRE

PRINCESS THEATRE 24 – 27 Jun Bring it On: The Musical EARL ARTS CENTRE 10 – 13 Jun Time Warp: best Of the Big Show BURNIE ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE 5 – 13 Jun Jesus Christ Superstar DEVONPORT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE 13 – 20 Jun Suessical!

FASHION MARKET

WARP RECOMMENDS…

SELECTIVE BREEDING THE MENAGERIE WARP has been slack getting onto the Arts Factory, but here we all are. The Arts Factory is a new space in South Hobart, hiding behind a petrol station at 456 Macquarie St. There’s studio

spaces and they have big vegan feast nights with cheap yummers tucker, but WARP wants you to go check out some Art. On June 10, a massive group show, Selective Breeding: The Menagerie opens.

It’s “A group exhibition which uses the formal qualities of both human animal and non-human animal bodies to ultimately explore the often dysfunctional and cruel relationship between man and animal”, and features some terrific artists: Jennifer Pelham, Josie Allyson Birchall, Briellen Feeney, Jenny Groves, Neil Holmstrom, Amelia Rowe, Somrak Maneemai (from Thailand but now a Tasmanian resident who makes outstanding work you need to see), Selena de Carvalho and Kitty Taylor.

The space is worth checking out and this new show is important. There are few spaces in Tasmania now for younger artists to get their work seen.

So go see this!

SATURDAY 20TH: 3-8PM SUNDAY 21 ST: 10-3PM LONG GALLERY & SIDESPACE GALLERY, SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE SUPPORTED BY

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HOBART DATE

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

DATE

JUNE Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

3

4

5

6

7

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM w/ Monsters Of The Id + PCM + Ragtime Frank

Brunswick Hotel

Nick Machin

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Maestro Koko 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Joel Everard

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

Waratah Hotel

InnQuizitive Quiz Night

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer

Republic Bar & Café

Slyde 8:30pm

The Homestead

Kashkin

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 11:30am

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

DAMAGE w/ The Hard Aches (SA) + Kissing Booth (vic) + Bennylava (tas) + Third Degree (tas) + Ted Fogarty (erf) + DJ’s

Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart + Clay Soldier

Federation Concert Hall

Baroque and Beyond 7:30pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx

Everburn 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up (Reggae & Funk) 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Rum Jungle / Big Swifty

The Homestead

Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival featuring: Catsuit, The Stan Show, Femme Loins Kazoo

Waterfront Hotel

Ebeneza Good 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

(Back) The Casanovas (vic) + Lucky Dips (tas) + The 308’s (tas)

Brisbane Hotel

(Front) Love Like Hate (Qld) + The Native Cats (tas) + Ewah & The Visions of Paradise (tas)

Brunswick Hotel

Matt & Abby + DJ Mad

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Onyx

Transit 10pm

Pier One

Alan Gogoll 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Kevin Borich Express 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

June Six Chix Mix

Waterfront Hotel

The Good Fellas 8:30pm

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Billy Whitton 5:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Spaghetti Head

Brunswick Hotel

Fotti P & OGP

Claremont Hotel

Tony Voglino 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Bad Pony + Lewes + The White Rose Project 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tom Coulson Band

The Homestead

Hannah & Andrea

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays - Live Music and DJs

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo & Patto 2pm

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

12

13

14

15

16

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

The Homestead

Mayhem and Me

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Surrealists 11:30am

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

nO waves (vic) + Tantric Sax (tas) + Peak Body (tas) + Xero (tas) // Java Fonda (tas) + The Stan Show (tas) + Burd Brain (tas) + The Cards (tas) 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

AJ & Simon + Dan Vandermeer

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Dane

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx

Ebeneza Good 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Massive + Taberah 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

Local Produce #2: Mez, Soundwave DJ, Parky, Kireesh

Waterfront Hotel

Shaun & Joel 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Zodiac (Qld) + The Wizar’d (tas) + Ironhawk (tas) // Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters (vic) + Mess O’ Reds (tas) + The Native Cats (tas) + Aon Stalp & The Out of Towners (tas) + Quivers (tas) + DJ Rainbow Trout & DJ Filthy Rich 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Jensen + Paddy Duke

Federation Concert Hall

Requiem for a King 7:30pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Onyx

Tin Men 10pm

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sugartrain 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Rum Jungle / Ebenezer Good

The Homestead

HeartFest feat: Stray, SkurgeOne, Draz + More!

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Les Coqs 5:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Hobart Record Fair (Winter) 4pm

Brunswick Hotel

DJ Mad

Claremont Hotel

Sambo & Patto 2pm

Lazy May Markets

The Sign, James Robert Leon Basser, Fiona Hutchinson, Blancy Otto and Alfred, Jed Appleton

Republic Bar & Café

Sunday Afternoon Soul Sessions (Beergarden) 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Mama K & The Big Love 3pm

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm

The Homestead

Lilith Lane (Vic)

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays - Live Music and DJs

Waterfront Hotel

Jerome Hillier 2pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Quizmasters Trivia

Republic Bar & Café

Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Quiz-A-Saurus (Quiz Night)

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Les Coqs 11:30am

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM w/ Treehouse (tas) + Hellskum (tas) + Wasted Idol (tas) + DJ’s 8pm

Billy & Randal 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Matt & Abby

Wednesday

17

Monday

8

Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night - Newcomers Welcome 8:15pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Tuesday

9

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sassafrazz 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Bakers Acoustic Duo + Baker Boys Band 8pm

Telegraph Hotel

Joel Everard

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Les Coqs 11:30am

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

Waratah Hotel

InnQuizitive Quiz Night

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM w/ Fatty Esther (tas) + Zoe Zac (tas)

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart

Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Republic Bar & Café

Seth Henderson 8:30pm

Comedy Clubhouse Upstairs with Nazeem Hussain 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Phrayta

Republic Bar & Café

T.J. Rhythm 8:30pm

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

The Homestead

The Darlings

Waratah Hotel

InnQuizitive Quiz Night

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brunswick Hotel

Clay Soldier

Republic Bar & Café

The Bucket List 8:30pm

Wednesday

Thursday

24

10

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Friday

18

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Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Billy Whitton 11:30am

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Patto 9pm

Brunswick Hotel

Nick Machin + AJ and Simon

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Event Guide

DATE

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

20

21

22

23

24

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

Brisbane Hotel

Whitehorse (vic) + Pure (tas) + Pale Heads (vic) + Axe Giant (tas) + Church Mouse (tas) // Miles Brown (The Night Terrors)+ Crypt Vapor (ita) + Ecclesiastical Scaffolding (tas) + Art Couples (tas) + DJ Urinal Cake + Samora Squid 8pm

DATE

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx

That 80’s Band 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Harts + Violet Swells + Heart Beach 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

The Homestead

Maestro Koko + Support

Thursday

Friday

25

26

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

Waratah Hotel

InnQuizitive Quiz Night

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Comedy Forge

Brunswick Hotel

Harrison Manton

Republic Bar & Café

Son Del Sur 9pm

The Homestead

Mathew Dames

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Django Tigers 11:30am

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

West Papua Fundraiser w/ Ironhawk (tas) + Pure (tas) + Skun Knees (tas) + Hellskum (tas)

Waterfront Hotel

Aaron Courtney 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Spray Paint (usa) + Powernap (tas) + The Know Nothings (tas) + Smutty Sam & The Soda Creamers (tas) // Naked (tas) + Whitney Houstons Crypt (nsw) + ALL The Weathers (tas) // Shani Mohini-Holmes & Michael McNab (vic) + Pheobe Robinson // Headset featuring Skun Knees (tas) & Axe Giant (tas) (Silent Brutality) + DJ BTC 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

AJ & Simon + The Rooftop Robins

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G + Tigerlily

Onyx

Tin Men 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hot Dub Time Machine 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer + DJ Mad

The Homestead

Hobart Funk Collective

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Onyx

The Robinsons 10pm

Pier One

Acoustic Roosta 7pm

PlanB

Tribeadelic Presents GMS 1200 Mics DJ Set 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dallas Frasca + Guthrie 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

Tom Cosm (NZ) + Loagsta, Mintelec + more

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo & Patto 8:30pm

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Surrealists 5:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Destroyer

Brunswick Hotel

Dane Connor

Claremont Hotel

The Goodfellas 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Busking for Nepal Fundraiser with Tarik Stoneman, Jed Appleton, Tim Davies, Dan Vandermeer, The Darlings & More 2:30pm

Saturday

Republic Bar & Café

The Blue Flies 8:30pm

The Homestead

The Aly Rae Patmore Trio

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays - Live Music and DJs

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Quizmasters Trivia

Republic Bar & Café

Joe Pirere 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Graham Rix 8:30pm

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Les Coqs 11:30am

Birdcage Bar

Everburn 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM w/ The White Rose Project (tas) + Kashkin (tas) + Dog Dreams (tas)

Brunswick Hotel

Clay Soldier

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Brad Gillies 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

27

28

29

30

Waterfront Hotel

Ebeneza Good 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Brisbane’s 8th Birthday - Anything Nintendos Dress Up Party!! w/ The Know Nothings (tas) + Naked Bodies (vic) + Unfolding Vostocks (tas) + DJ BTC

Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer + Actroid

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Onyx

Ebeneza Good 10pm

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hot Dub Time Machine 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

The Homestead

George Begbie and the Mystery Guests

Waterfront Hotel

Fuse 8:30pm

Wrest Point Coffee Shop

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 5:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Jason Patmore 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Title Fight (usa) + Luca Brasi (tas) + Paper Arms (sa) + Speech Patterns (tas)

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Barking Spiders

Brunswick Hotel

DJ Mad

Claremont Hotel

Jerome Hillier 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Beergarden Party - Music by Joe Pirere - Free Event 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Naked Bodies 9pm

The Homestead

Pat Curly

Waratah Hotel

Reggae Sundays - Live Music and DJs

Waterfront Hotel

Shaun & Joel 2pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Quizmasters Trivia

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night - Newcomers Welcome 8:15pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

The Homestead

Naked Girls Reading

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Event Guide

LAUNCESTON DATE

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

The Royal Oak

Andy Collins in the Bar

Thursday

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Saturday

DATE

CITY

VENUE

ACTS / START TIME

4

Devonport

Molly Malones

Sambo 8:30pm

6

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Sambo 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Ball and Chain 9:30pm

Burnie

The Butter Factory

Matt and CJ

Devonport

Molly Malones

Jerome Hillier 8:30pm

Burnie

The Butter Factory

Massive

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Jerome Hillier 9pm

JUNE

JUNE Wednesday

NORTHWEST

3

Thursday

4

The Royal Oak

Julio Matthew

Friday

5

The Royal Oak

Luke Parry in the bar

Tonic Bar

Ball & Chain 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Sambo 7pm

The Royal Oak

BliZZy Album Launch “On The Edge” in the Boatshed

Tonic Bar

The Mocking Birds 9pm

Watergarden Bar

O’Rly 7pm

Hotel Tasmania

Jeremy Matcham

Devonport

Molly Malones

Retrograde 9:30pm

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session

Burnie

The Royal Oak

Live Music

The Butter Factory

The Wolfe Brothers with Tom Coulson

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

6

7

10

Thursday

Saturday

11

13

Wednesday

17

Ulverstone

The Ulverstone Wharf

Multi-Instrumentalist Steven Grant

June Wed 3 Andy Collins in the bar Thurs 4 Julio Matthew Fri 5 Luke Parry in the bar Sat 6 Blizzy - Album launch in the boat shed

Thursday

11

The Royal Oak

Seth Henderson in the Bar

Thursday

18

Devonport

Molly Malones

Proud Phoneys 8:30pm

Friday

12

The Royal Oak

Marty K in the Bar

Friday

19

Burnie

Tonic Bar

Retrograde Trio 9pm

The Butter Factory

The Angels Tribute Band and 24/7

Saturday

20

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Clay Soldier 9pm

Wed 10 Live music

Devonport

Molly Malones

Retweet 9:30pm

Thurs 11 Seth Henderson in the bar

Saturday

13

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 7pm

The Royal Oak

LBC present The Raccoons in the Boatshed

Tonic Bar

Agent 99 9pm

Thursday

25

Devonport

Molly Malones

Clay Soldier 8:30pm

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman 7pm

Saturday

27

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Tim Roberts 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Take 2 9:30pm

Sunday

14

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session 5pm

Wednesday

17

The Royal Oak

Brad Gillies in the Bar

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

The Royal Oak

Matthew Dames in the Bar

Watergarden Bar

Elvis We Remember

The Royal Oak

Graham Rix (Melb) in the Bar

Tonic Bar

Ratfunk 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Proud Phoneys 7pm

The Royal Oak

S & M in the Bar

Tonic Bar

The Mocking Birds 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver 7pm

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

18

19

20

Sunday

21

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session 5pm

Wednesday

24

The Royal Oak

Open Mic Night in the Bar - Sign up now - call 63315346

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

Thursday

25

The Royal Oak

TAFE end of semester showcase in the Boatshed

Friday

26

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Tonic Bar

Agent 99 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 7pm

The Royal Oak

Neil Gibson in the Bar

Tonic Bar

Gypsy Rose 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Midnight Flyers 7pm

The Royal Oak

Blues Jam Session in the Boatshed 1pm

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the Bar 5pm

Saturday

Sunday

27

28

Sun 7 Open Folk session

Fri 12 Marty K in the bar Sat 13 LBC present The Racoons in the Boatshed $5 cover Sun 14 Open Folk Session from 5pm Wed 17 Brad Gillies in the bar Thurs 18 Matthew Dames in the bar Fri 19 Graham Rix (Melb) in the bar Sat 20 S & M in the Bar Sun 21 Open Folk session from 5pm Wed 24 Open Mic Night in the bar - sign up now call 63315346 Thurs 25 TAFE end of semester showcase in the boat shed Friday 26 Live Music Sat 27 Neil Gibson in the bar Sun 28 Blues jam session in the boat shed from 1pm Open folk session in the bar from 5pm

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