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FREE ENGLISH STYLE ROAST LUNCH WITH ROAST BEEF, YORKSHIRE PUDDING AND VEGETABLES + LIVE MUSIC BY MATT EDMUNDS 8.15PM
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Community Cup After Party Sunday 5 June
Queens Birthday Party Monday 13 June
Painters & Dockers Saturday 11 June
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British India Saturday 2 July
June 2016 Thursday 2nd 8.30pm Tin Lion + Jed Appleton Friday 3rd 5pm After Work Acoustic Sessions In The Beer Garden With Karly + Free BBQ 10pm Sugartrain $5 Saturday 4th 10pm The Catch Club Sunday 5th 7pm HOBART RECLINK COMMUNITY CUP AFTER PARTY w/ A.Swayze & The Ghosts, Kowl, SETH and Audrey Rose $5 Entry/Free with Community Cup Ticket Monday 6th 8.30pm G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) Tuesday 7th 8.30pm Ross Sermons Wednesday 8th 8.30pm Johnny McIntyre Band Thursday 9th 8.30pm Kashkin Friday 10th 5pm After Work Acoustic Sessions In The Beer Garden With Jed Appleton + Free BBQ 10pm Crikey $5 Saturday 11th 10pm Painters & Dockers $25pre/$28door Sunday 12th 5.30pm Phoenix Gallery Art Opening - Relatives - Jim Marwood 8.30pm Abby Howlett Monday 13th 2.30pm Queens Birthday Party With Free English Style Roast Lunch with Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, Vegetables + Live Music By Matt Edmunds Monday 13th 8.15pm Quiz Night (The Royal Edition) Tuesday 14th 8.30pm David "Eddo" Edmondson
Wednesday 15th 8.30pm Billy Longo & The Rythm Tragics Thursday 16th 8.30pm The Darlings Friday 17th 5pm After Work Acoustic Sessions In The Beer Garden With Tim & Scott + Free BBQ 10pm Australian Made $5 Saturday 18th 10pm 24Seven $5 Sunday 19th 2pm Find Rye Fundraiser - Many Local Bands Coming Together In Support Of The Family $20 8.30pm Blue Flies Monday 20th 8.30pm Montz Matsumoto Tuesday 21st 8.30pm Jed Appleton Wednesday 22nd 8.30pm Dane Overton Thursday 23rd 8.30pm Rory Ellis Duo Friday 24th 5pm After Work Acoustic Sessions In The Beer Garden With Matt Edmunds + Free BBQ 10pm Dave Wilson Band Saturday 25th 10pm Cunning Stunts - A Tribute to Metallica Sunday 26th 5.30pm Phoenix Gallery Art Opening - Hair - Cath Aronsten + Robin Mary Calvert 8.30pm Cert 4 Collective Monday 27th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 28th 8.30pm Billy Whitton Wednesday 29th 8.30pm Dan Vandermeer Thursday 30th 8.30pm Tim & Scott Friday 31st 10pm Sugartrain $5
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News in Brief SHE OAKS? DAMN RIGHT SHE DOES.
SURREALISTS
EWAH & The Vision of Paradise will be launching their new single She Oaks in Hobart on Friday June 3 at the Brisbane Hotel, and in Launceston on Saturday June 4 at the Gunners Arms, joining them will be special guest Pete Lyrebird, who will be debuting his new act to Tasmanian crowds. EWAH and Pete Lyrebird both grew up in Tasmania and later in life became friends in Melbourne. Pete still lives there, while EWAH returned to her home state two years back. Both performers are most at home telling tales on the dark side, and both have a love of word-smithing, story telling, and creating an atmospheric setting with music. Also on the bill for the Hobart show is Filthy Little Star, while The Slag Queens will be filling the roster at the Launceston gig.
Hobart band The Surreal Estate Agents are heading off to tour around Vic and NSW throughout June and July. Before they go, they’ll be kicking things off with a couple of gigs around the Hobart waterfront. On Wednesday June 8, they’ll be performing at Irish Murphy’s at Salamanca, and on Saturday June 11, they’ll be playing at Hobart Brewing Co, right smack dab in the middle of all the Dark MOFO madness! They’ll be heading off to play in Ballarat, Belgrave, Fawkner, Bendigo, Abbotsford, Footscray, Wollongong and Preston before returning to Irish Murphy’s at Salamanca on Wednesday July 13. Who knows, these prolific folks might even sneak in another local gig or two before they leave, keep your eyes peeled!
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THIS MAYBERRY WORTH YOUR TIME
Tim Rogers. What a bloke. He’s done it all. With a career now motoring along in its third unique decade, his remarkable resume encompasses the world of Music, Film, Television and Stage. He fronted the iconic Australian rock’n’roll band You Am I, and has released 10 studio albums, three of which debuted at number one in consecutive order in the mid-90’s. He’s collaborated with the likes of Tex Perkins, The Temperance Union, and The Bamboos. He’s done everything. Well, maybe not everything. He’s never played a gig at Shambles Brewery in Hobart before, but he’s just about to check that one off the list too. He’ll be playing at Shambles on Saturday June 4. Tickets are $35 + b/f, and are available from Moshtix. Doors at 8pm.
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EAT YOUR GREENS
RAH-RAH-RORY!
Master Australian songwriter Rory Ellis will hit the road this June to welcome his new 5-track release Rah-Rah into the world. An underground hero in alt-country and Americana circles, Ellis has released seven independent albums to date and is a veteran of the hard road of tough trails across Australia, the UK, and Europe. Rah-Rah is classic Rory Ellis and brings magically crafted lyrics, taking the listener to places of sensuality, life awakenings and the dark side. Ellis will be playing a few gigs around our state, you’ll be able to catch him at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Thursday June 23, Brookfield in Margate on Friday June 24, The Chapel Café in Burnie on Saturday June 25, and the Oz Rock Inn in Ulverstone on Sunday June 26.
‘Ecological electroswing’ is what Western Australia’s Formidable Vegetable Sound System are known for. This we think means that you can go out for a raucous good time and not harm the environment at the same time! A mix of speakeasystyle antique-beats with live ukulele and hyperactive horns with a deeper message of the principles of permaculture. Come and get entertained and educated when the Formidable Vegetable System plays The Homestead on Saturday July 9. Entry $10 on the door.
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FROM OSLO (IN MELBOURNE)
Dane Overton is returning to Tasmania as part of his “I’ll Tell You Later” Tour. Dane visited our fair shores in July 2015 and loved us all so darn much he just had to add us to his new tour! He’ll be playing four shows around the state. On
The annual Festival of Voices is returning from Thursday June 30 to Sunday July 17, and this years line up promises to be as spectacular as ever. There are too many things happening to list them all here, so this is just a sample of the names you’ll find on the bill: Meow Royale, Mia Palencia, Citizen Shrapnel and The Lords of Little Egypt, Choir of High Hopes, Annia Baron, Singh & Blanes, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum, Ngaiire, Broads, Tripod, Carlotta, Micappella & Suade, Iyakoko Patea Choir, Christopher Coleman Collective, Ange Boxall and Pete Cornelius, Dean Stevenson, Micheala Burger, etc, etc, etc, etc. Check out festivalofvoices.com to see
Melbourne two-piece grunge-punk band From Oslo will be heading out on tour down the South East of Australia in June and July to celebrate the recent release of their self titled EP. The bands latest single ‘No Sound’ has been receiving rave
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The Marakoopa Café in Mayberry is an ace little café. It’s right near the Mole Creek Caves ticket office, and is well worth a visit if you’re in the area. If we were you, we’d plan to be in the area on Sunday June 19 from around midday to 3pm. That way you’ll be able to see awesome folk musician Joe Mungovan performing along side Hobart’s own Jed Appleton. Tickets for this gig are $10, and are available by phoning the Marakoopa Café on 63635033, they’re super limited though, so get in early to secure your spot! It’ll be under cover in the café, the log fire will be blazing, there’ll be hot food, Ritual coffee, and Tasmania’s finest craft beers, ciders and wines. Sounds like a perfect way to spend a Wintery Tasmanian Sunday afternoon, if you ask us.
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Wednesday June 22 he’ll be performing at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart. On Thursday June 23 he’ll be at Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport. On Saturday June 25 he’ll be at the Wharf Hotel in Wynyard, and on Sunday June 26 he’ll be returning to Hobart to play at The Homestead. His set last year was a corker, so if you get the chance, head along and check out Mr. Overton’s wares.
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reviews from across the board since it’s release. The track was quickly added to spot rotation on triple J and received a 4-star review from Tricky Dicky Kingsmill. From Oslo will be playing 6 shows down the east coast, but the most important one is obviously the one in Hobart. You’ll be able to catch From Oslo performing at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday July 15. Tickets on the door.
A LANG TIME COMING.
NO PLACE LIKE HO(ME)BART
JUST PLAIN RUDE
SEEK THE TRUTH
New Zealand Dubstepsters, Truth have just hit 100 000 likes on Facebook... This is equal to the entire population of Launceston being dubstep fans. Unfortunately The Homestead can;t fit 100 000 people, so we suggest you get the early before the Launceston masses drive down through the midlands. Truth play The Homestead in Hobart on Friday July 15. Entry is $10 on the door. TAASHA OUT ON HER OWN
Australian-based musician Jeff Lang has earned worldwide acclaim as a virtuosic guitarist, a dynamic songwriter and a startlingly unique live performer. With a back catalogue of 15 studio albums, Jeff has been featured at major festivals, pubs, clubs, arts centres, and venues internationally for the past decade. Blending rock, roots, folk, blues, ballads, instrumentals, improvisation and a devastatingly high level of musicality, Jeff Lang is a singularly unique performer in our world. On his long music adventure, he has compiled a hefty collection of unreleased music, and now to celebrate the launch of Redhair Records, he has compiled a bunch of these for vinyl release. You can help Jeff celebrate the album that is celebrating the label by seeing him play at the Republic Bar on Saturday August 13.
Fresh off the back of his newest single No Place Like Home released in February 2016, New Zealand artist Tiki Taane has just announced a 14-day Australian tour to promote his latest material. Set to be the artist’s biggest and most ambitious tour of Australia as a solo artist yet, the tour will kickstart in Sydney in mid-October, and finish up at the Airlie Beach Music Festival on November 5. Stepping out from New Zealand’s leading band Salmonella Dub in 2007, Tiki Taane has established himself as an exceptional musician and producer since. Playing at the Republic Bar & Café on Saturday October 15, Taane says to “Expect this solo tour to be live and on the spot creation and experimentation of all music using an acoustic guitar, vocals, samples, and loops.” Sounds interesting!
To celebrate 40 years on stages all over the world, Bad Manners are embarking on their most extensive run of Australian and New Zealand shows ever. Six Kimi shows and ten Aussie gigs will give every dancehall fan the night of their life. Formed in 1976 in North London, Bad Manners spent the first half of the 80’s in the UK charts with a dozen hits including timeless classics including ‘Lip Up Fatty’, ‘My Girl Lollipop’ and ‘Special Brew’. Since then, the man once dubbed the anti-christ of etiquette, Buster Bloodvessel has barely left the stage, playing Ska anthems to audiences everywhere with his boisterous band of misfits. Bad Manners appear at the Republic Bar and Café in Hobart on Wednesday November 2.
NO TIME TO DWELL ON PAST SORROWS
Taasha Coates, the sultry songstress from multi ARIA winning folk duo The Audreys, is set to release her debut solo album later this year. Working with fellow singersongwriter and producer Shane Nicholson, the well-loved front woman has found a new voice through her solo material. Don’t miss this chance to hear the new tunes in intimate mode ahead of the record’s release in early September. She will be playing at the Royal Oak in Launceston on Saturday July 16 and as part of the Festival of Voices Unplugged East Coast program on Sunday afternoon at Devil’s Corner Vineyard.
After 50 years in the business you think it might be time to consider it time for a break. Not so for Joe Camilleri who passed that milestone back in 2014 and September this year will be releasing album number 18 for the Black Sorrows, Faithful Satellite. Two million album sales to date for the entire Black Sorrows back catalogue must mean the guys are releasing some consistent material. To keep up those album sales, Joe and the band will be touring their new material, including stops in Devonport, Launceston and Hobart at the end of September. More details to come.
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FIELD LINES IT’S UNSURPRISING THAT CAMERON ROBBINS’ WORK WOULD FIND A HOME AT MONA. ROBBINS’ WORK SHOWCASES AND UTILIZES UNIQUE FORCES OF NATURE, CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT; MONA ITSELF STANDS PRECARIOUSLY AT THE MERCY OF THE TASMANIAN SEAS AND GROUNDS. ROBBINS CREATES STRUCTURAL PIECES, MACHINES, WIND DRAWINGS, OCEAN-POWERED MACHINATIONS AND SOUND ART THAT REACT AND CAPTURE THE CHANGING MOODS OF WEATHER, LAND AND SEA. HIS PIECE THE SEA WAILING, FOR INSTANCE, IS AN OCEAN TIDE-POWERED ORGAN IN THE CLIFFS OF ELLISTON, SOUTH AUSTRALIA; A PIECE THAT RESPONDS TO A BLOODY MASSACRE OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE THAT OCCURRED THERE IN THE 1840S. THE SOUND RECORDED IS HAUNTING.
Robbins’ Field Lines exhibition is a multi-faceted, media-varied exhibition of illustration, video, photography, installation and sculpture that are direct responses and interpretations of Victorian and Tasmanian wind and weather; indeed, several of the pieces are specifically MONA-inspired. Robbins talks about how the project came to light (and wind, and rain…) “Tide Line responds and draws to the tides in the Derwent. I wanted to look at actual sea levels, but for a four-month show, the tides are more exciting.” he explains. “I started my weather-drawing works in 1990 in a tidal boatshed, and wanted to bring this dynamic into the museum. So this massive instrument starts with a fourteen-metre long balance arm and sevenmetre hydraulic system transcribing the tidal movements from river level up into the Museum level. It draws on a huge 3.2 metre diameter drum which revolves once every Lunar month - about thirty days.” As well as his varied mediums, Robbins uses music and instrumentation (he plays clarinet and bass clarinet himself) to enhance and act in tandem to the works themselves. He talks about how something that can be easily planned and rehearsed- like music- comes into contact with his other works, that are often at the mercy of unpredictable forces. “In [my piece] Sonic Wind Section, I amplified the sounds of the wind-drawing instrument as it 8
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responded to the winds and brought the energy indoors. With two other musicians, Jon Tarry and Peter Knight, we improvised compositions and soundscapes to this rhythm. In January, the sea breeze in Hobart arrives each day around 1pm, so we played to this. It’s difficult scheduling this for a festival as I didn’t really know when the wind would come. But we created six separate performances, and it was a great success. You can hear one recording in the Tunnel at Mona now, and see the drawing created during that performance.” “For the Field Lines opening, I have a different plan - we have hired The Hoodangers- a high-energy New Orleans improv/traditional jazz group- and I will join them on clarinet for an old-school, ceremonial walk through of the exhibition, and we will interact with some of the works on the way.” It is inevitable that questions of “agenda” or “message” would come to pass in regards to climate change, and how very dangerous the effects of it are becoming in the world, but Robbins maintains that his only dedication is to the art, beauty and intrigue of the world around us. “Nature is my own benchmark for concepts such as beauty and balance. Why is a cloud so beautiful? Tide Line is in part a response to David Walsh’s concerns about the flooding of the B3 gallery, where Field Lines is on. I have been working with the weather and natural
energies since at least 1989, and it came from my experiences in ocean and weather. I guess it has become more topical. While I never try to be didactic, my main concern is that we look closely at nature and learn from our observations. This is my understanding of how science works. Through my own observations, I have a natural respect for scientists who observe nature closely.” Robbins’ machines and setups are unusual in the sense of what we might normally see used as mediums and tools in ‘traditional’ art sphere. He discusses why he has chosen the method he has. “Kinetic art machines are so attractive because they are moving. Maybe it’s why dogs chase hubcaps. As Carl Andre said, kinetic art doesn’t work if it’s not moving - whereas his minimalist pieces only begin to work when they are not moving. Unless there are surprises, I find the machines disappointing. I think machines are invented to take the chaos out of life, but often artists want to bring it back in. It’s quite difficult to make a machine come up with lovely surprises which is why I use the wind as energy, because it is dynamic. Nought to infinity.” “In terms of art history, when you create something it seems you can always traces path back where others have explored before you.” he explains. “For instance, I see a lineage of art machines from artists such as Eliasson, Mortensen, Sugget, Fischli Weiss, Signer, Calder, Haacke, Bueys, Tinguely, Duchamp, and scientists like Hargrave or Lord Kelvin.” LISA DIB
Cameron Robbins’ Field Lines is currently showing at MONA. An official opening will be on Saturday June 11 as part of Dark Mofo at MONA. Head to www.mona.net.au for more information.
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DARK ARTS I COULD CALL CHELSEA WOLFE A “SINGER-SONGWRITER”, BUT I FEEL LIKE THE TITLE DOESN’T DO HER JUSTICE. HER MUSIC CROSSES SUCH VAST AND DIFFERING GENRES AS TO BE RATHER DIFFICULT TO SUCCINCTLY CATEGORISE, IS PROBABLY BEST DESCRIBED BY SOME AS “DRONEMETAL-ART-FOLK”. THIS KIND OF GENRE-BENDING SOUND MAELSTROM IS THE REASON WOLFE IS VENTURING TO HOBART FOR AN EPIC FESTIVAL OF ART, DARKNESS AND CREATIVITY, DARK MOFO. I CHATTED TO WOLFE IS THE LEAD-UP TO HER APPEARANCE.
“A lot of ideas come to me just before I’m falling asleep, and it’s quite frustrating sometimes, but I always drag my tired self out of bed to go record or write down the idea, because I don’t want to forget it.” Wolfe explains, on how, inevitably, her creative juices flow. This is a pretty unsurprising answer from her, especially once you’ve listened to her music and seen her videos, and felt the dream (or nightmare) like vibe of her work. “I follow the song!” she says. “I don’t focus on genre or what a song is “supposed” to be. It’s more important in the way that I write to be uninhibited and to feel free.” Since her first album in 2006 - the unreleased Mistake in Parting, which Wolfe herself admits was “embarrassingly bad” - Wolfe has been more and more steadily; in recent years, releasing a studio album at least every two years (between 20102013, it was every year). It wasn’t until her 2011 album, Apokalypsis, that she started to develop the kind of cult following and critical prestige. Her most recent record, Abyss, was wildly adored by those that heard it, and listeners were aghast at how Wolfe blended styles and defied categorisation. The album was produced by Wolfe and John Congleton, who has worked with an absurd amount of other interesting artists, like The Mountain Goats, The Polyphonic Spree, St Vincent, Modest Mouse, Sigur Ros, Sparks, David Byrne and loads more. The album also features Wolfe’s long-time creative collaborator Ben Chisholm, drummer Dylan Fujioka (Upsilon Acrux), viola-player Ezra Buchla (The Mae Shi, Gowns) and guitarist Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles.) “The breaks come on their own, because while I’m always working on things and writing, sometimes I’ll have a dry spell for a month or two where no good ideas are coming.” Wolfe explains, on her dedicated work ethic and busy schedule. “I’ve learned to use those times to just step back and focus on something else for a minute, whether it’s another art form or just living life and learning new things.” The contrasts in life are just something that I’ve always been able to understand and articulate.” Wolfe says, on her fascination with dark, almost horror-like aesthetics and the odd beauty of sadness. Wolfe and her band maintain the idea of making music that is heavy and dark, without it necessarily being straight-up metal music. A sufferer of both stage fright and sleep paralysis, Wolfe has found safety and comfort in the droning, sometimes
apocalyptic sounds she uses on stage. “I’m not trying to be a dark or depressed person, I’m just being realistic about the way things are in the world, and the world is pretty fucked-up. I also sing about some lovely things though, because I see both sides: the beautiful and the ugly. I shouldn’t speak for any other artist whether they’re inspired by pain or not, but I admire bands like Swans and Sunn O))) who aren’t afraid to confront and accept intensity and discomfort in their music.” Dark Mofo will be Wolfe’s only Aussie show (lucky you!) on her jaunt this end of the world, and the festival, as well as being a cavalcade of local and international art, will celebrate the winter solstice- the festival culminating on the longest night of the year. I quizzed Wolfe as to who she would have at her own solstice ritual. “Steve Vanoni and Damien Echols for some art, Laura from Hvnter Gvtherer and Sisters of the Black Moon for some cool installations and beautiful pieces to wear, Steve Von Till for some music.” LISA DIB
Chelsea Wolfe will be performing as part of the Dark Mofo Festival on Friday June 17 at the Odeon Theatre in Hobart. Further information available from www.darkmofo.net.au. Abyss is out now.
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BRING A PIG’S HEAD ONE OF THE PUNK/PUB ROCK STALWARTS OF THE 80’S, PAINTERS & DOCKERS ARE SET TO APPEAR IN TASMANIA AFTER A 20 YEAR ABSENCE. FOUNDING MEMBER PAULIE STEWART HAS REFORMED THE BAND AND HAVE SET A TARGET OF REVISITING ALL THEIR OLD HAUNTS.
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ADVENTURE ON THE LITTLE ISLAND A band that had clocked up over 1800 live shows between since their inception back in 1982 and disbanding in 1998, singling out your favourites would be a difficult task. Not so according to Paulie Stewart, lead singer and trumpet player for the group. “It’s been years since we last appeared in Hobart where at, one of our more legendary shows [Hobart Uni Bar], we were pelted with pig heads and bacon as we walked on stage (seriously) this was due to our then film clip Nude School being shot at a Pig Farm. We think Hobart has the wildest wild people.” The Dockers are accustomed to such antics at their live shows. Formed in a pub in Port Melbourne frequented by members of the notorious Painters & Dockers Union. From day one it was never a dull moment at one of their live gigs. “The guy who lived next door to the pub hated what we were playing, and this was our very first gig,” Paulie explains. “So he jumped the fence with an axe and starting chopping up the mixing desk. Everyone just went, ‘Fuck! What is this guy doing? This is outrageous!’ the guy was out of control… people are screaming, the PA is falling down, everyone is shouting and there’s madness in there. I’m on stage with the microphone and I thought: this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.” A cross between pub rock and punk ethics, The Dockers were never far away from championing social causes and clawing at the establishment with songs such as “Die, Yuppie Die” and proqueer and anti-monarchy “I Know Better Queens Than That”. Paulie muses of one tour of Tasmania, “We were the soundtrack to the punch-ons at the bar. Burnie was like out of the Blues Brothers with the band playing on while the crowd just brawled
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What made The Painters & Dockers unique in the punk and pub rock scene according to Pauile was firstly the big brass section that featured in the band and the use of “humour instead of anger”.
NINE YEARS IN AND THE ADVENTURE BAY BLUES AND ROOTS FESTIVAL HAS BECOME PART OF THE TASMANIAN MUSIC CALENDER, HOSTED EACH YEAR ON THE QUEENS BIRTHDAY LONG WEEKEND, IT BRINGS TOGETHER TASMANIAN BLUES & ROOTS MUSICIANS, THE OCCASIONAL TOURING ARTIST AND THE MUSIC LOVING PUBLIC FOR A WEEKEND OF PERFORMANCES AND JAMS.
Interesting trivia fact. The band’s brass section led to the guys being part of the Violent Femmes’s first tour of Australia. An archaic law protecting the Australian Music Industry meant that any Australian tour by a foreign band required an equal or more local musicians as support. This meant that the Docker’s would open for The Femmes and then the brass section came back onstage to play as part of The Femmes.
Original organisers Bill Hughes, Mark Sealy and Michael McGuire sourced that first lineup from bands that shared a jam space out in Glenorchy, and held the resulting event at the Lunawanna Hall. It was 2008, when the party relocated to Adventure Bay to make use of the expanded facilities and surrounding accommodation, that the festival was born.
The end for the Dockers came in the late 90s with Paulie Stewart falling ill with a terminal liver disease. However the arrival of an eleventh hour donor liver gave Paulie a second chance at life, with everyday now seen as a blessing for him. One of the songs currently in demo is titled “You’re like my first liver, you’re dead to me.”
The 2016 line-up will feature the following acts: MT Blues Music, Mama Smooth, JAX, Pete Cornelius, Sheyana, Wahbash Avenue and Mumbo Gumbo. In honour of the late and celebrated Joe Pirere, a local super group of blues musicians will perform under the name of Mo’Joe’s.
At the recent soldout Adelaide show, the band was impressed to see a group of both guys and girls turn up nude for the show. Paulie expects one better from Hobart, “Anybody that turns up naked gets guaranteed free entry [bring shoes though] and anybody that comes naked and brings a pig’s head along gets to meet the band!”
The traditional Saturday night jam will be on again this year under the lead of Pete Cornelius for those that wish to be involved. So pack your tent, swag and your guitar and make if for the Kettering ferry this Queens Birthday long weekend.
with each other. When we made it to Launceston we heard about the criminal law regards men wearing female clothing after dark, so we headed for the first op shop we could find, all bought dresses and heels and walked down the main street of Launceston hoping to get arrested. Of course the place was deserted.”
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Painters & Dockers will play on Saturday June 11 at Republic Bar in Hobart. Tickets are $25 plus b/f from the venue or moshtix.
The Adventure Bay Blues and Roots Festival Tickets is on at the Adventure Bay Hall on Sunday June 12. Tickets are available at Republic Bar and Café, Adventure Bay Store, or online at Moshtix, while futher information is available from www. facebook.com/BrunyMusic.
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HITTiNG THE FUNNY NOTE Party comedy, part musical, Tripod has been kicking around since last century, although there jokes are still fresh. A favourite of Festival of Voices, the threesome will return to perform shows next month in both Launceston and Hobart. On a lazy Saturday morning, I chat to Tripod’s Scott Edgar about Star Wars, Sydney and Spiegeltent.
Scott: “So I’ve just found out the casting of the new Hans Solo film...” Brittany: “Scott you are such a Star Wars fan.” Scott: “His name is Alden Ehrenreich, I’ve never heard of him though, I don’t even know who that is. I’m googling him right now. This is going to be like a young Han Solo film.” Brittany: “Just on Han solo?” Scott: “Yeah! They’re making a young Han Solo and I don’t know much about the actor but the director’s also directed the LEGO film...” Brittany: “How did I not know about this? Anyway when are you guys coming down to Hobart next?” Scott: “Ah I have no idea; that is information that is not available to me in my current state of hungoverness. I’m still trying to put together snippets from last night events...” Brittany: “Well it is so cold down here I am absolutely freezing this morning, I was going to go to Salamanca Market but I think I’m going to stay indoors..” Scott: “Really?” Brittany: “Yep. How’s Melbourne?” Scott: “Actually I’m in Sydney right now!” Brittany: “You’re in Sydney?” Scott: “Yeah we had a show last night, um and our book launch, we just put our song book out. We had Tim Freedman come and speak at the book launch; he gave a very beautiful, lovely spirited speech.” Brittany: “Who’s that?” Scott: “Tim Freedman? You know he’s one of the Whitlams.” Brittany: “So last time we spoke you had just released your Australian Songs Album, but that was a while ago what are you guys up to now?” Scott: “Well it’s our 20th birthday. It’s the anniversary of the band’s first gig and we’ve got the book we just put out, 101 of our songs 101 Tripod Hits. As you know, we get bored very easily...So every night is totally different, we do a different show every night and we just randomly pick out songs. The audience are loving it.” Brittany: “Can we expect the same for Festival of Voices? You guys are coming down aren’t you?”
Scott: “Ah I loved Spiegeltent but I don’t miss it because we had our fill of it during the comedy festival. We had six shows a week. But we have so many wonderful memories of the shows and things other than shows.” Brittany: “I can only imagine!” Scott: “I remember one night we were at Spiegeltent in Edinburgh and it was after the show and they turned it around into a bar. I was off my nut playing poker with acrobats and my phone rang and I went outside and took a phone call from my wife who told me she was pregnant with our first child.” Brittany: “What a wonderful story! How are Steven and Simon going?” Scott: “They’re pretty good they’re both out of bed finally...” Brittany: “It’s like 11:45 am? What are you doing for the rest of the day?” Scott: “Ah we have a pod cast for this afternoon, but I don’t know where my guitar is...I think it might be at the venue... but I’m not sure.” Brittany: “Good luck with that!” Scott: “The theme of the Podcast might have to be Acapella instead if I don’t find my guitar...” Brittany: “Look I’m okay with that, I love a bit of Acapella.” Scott: “Yeah me too. How have you been lately anyway?”
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Brittany: “I’m cold. Hobart weather is getting the better of me. I’m so jealous you’re in Sydney...” Scott: “It’s LA weather in Sydney at the moment. Totally beautiful blue skies...” Brittany: “Yeah thanks Scott. Enjoy. I hope you find your guitar!” BRITTANY BROWN
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Scott: “FOV! The big FOV! Yeah definitely.” Brittany: “Make sure you bring heaps of warm clothes you’ll be arriving in the middle of our winter...Hey last month I finally went to Spiegeltent! It was so good! You must miss it?”
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NO SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES “IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNEW NOW I WOULD PROBABLY FAINT,” SAYS LUCA BRASI’S THOMAS BUSBY. THE TASSIE LAD IS ON CLOUD NINE, AND YOU HAVE TO TAKE A STEP BACK IN TIME TO UNDERSTAND WHY.. Let’s rewind the clock. Luca Brasi emerged in 2009 and quickly made a name for themselves. They called Launceston and its emerging alt scene home, ripe with house shows and intimate venue settings. Now, seven years later, they’re selling out tours with The Smith Street Band, have landed their new album If This Is All We’re Going To Be at #18 on the ARIA Album Chart and even scored a coveted Triple J feature album. The Hobart four piece have supported the likes of Title Fight, You Me At Six, Kisschasy and Violent Soho. Now they’ll jump on board with Moose Blood to travel Australia on their album tour, before the favour is returned and both acts traverse Europe later in the year. But a surge in music prominence comes with increased commitment. Busby and the band members balance university, relationships and jobs. It’s just lucky Luca have their juggling act down to a fine art. If that means Busby has to pull a few allnighters, then so be it. He keeps
SEXY EYES YOU DEFINITELY KNOW 90S BABE WHIGFIELD - AKA SANNIE CARLSON - ALREADY, EVEN IF YOU DON’T KNOW YOU KNOW. CARLSON HAD SOME EPIC SINGLES IN THE 90S UNDER HER WHIGFIELD MONIKER, INCLUDING ‘SATURDAY NIGHT’ (1994) AND ‘SEXY EYES’ (1996), THAT ARE SOME OF THE MOST RECOGNISABLE HITS OF THE ERA. NOWADAYS, CARLSON WORKS AS A HOUSE/EURODANCE MUSICIAN- WRITING BOTH FOR HERSELF AND OTHER ARTISTS LIKE BENNY BENASSI- BUT DOES DIP TOE BACK INTO HER BUBBLEGUM BEGINNINGS OCCASIONALLY.
his band’s music accolades mostly to himself while at uni, yet his excitement couldn’t be contained after Luca positioned themselves so high on the ARIA Album Chart. “It’s a weird contrast. I was in a tute the other week and my teacher knows that I’m in a band because I had to mention it to her, because through our exam period is when The Smith Street Band tour is on so I said ‘I might need to defer an exam, is that cool?’ and at the end of the tute she was like ‘How’s the band going?’ and I was like ‘Real good’ and I thought to myself dude just have a casual brag (laughs), and I was like ‘Me and the boys are number 18 on the ARIA Chart this week and everyone was like ‘What the fuck?’ and she was like, ‘What’s your band called’ and I said ‘Luca Brasi’. It was a pretty small class and everyone in it was like ‘Oh is that your band?’ and my teacher was like ‘I’ve heard you on the radio, that’s amazing, I didn’t realise that was your band’...” The old cliché that Tasmania is an anchor to a band’s success is no longer relevant. Just take one look at Luca Brasi. Busby wouldn’t change Luca’s home for the world. The banter that was once
thrown his way for being a Tassie outfit has now been reversed. “None of us have any plans of going anywhere. We are all very happy is Tassie, we love living in Tassie and Hobart is such a great city. People have asked us for years ‘When are you moving to Melbourne?’,fuck Melbourne. Like if we play a gig at the Corner Hotel for example, what difference does it make that we flew in from Hobart as opposed to getting a cab from Fitzroy? I can’t really comprehend what it would be like to be a band in Melbourne, it’s probably fucked because how are we going to get a show, because there’s four million bands playing one million pubs, it must be fucking tough to start. Tassie has been super good to us and when we started our band all our friends supported us and came to the shows and bought our t-shirts because they wanted to look after us and wanted to get around us and it’s been amazing. I can’t imagine being a band from anywhere else, it’s such a big part of our identity.” Mark Acheson
Luca Brasi will be on their national album tour through August with guests Moose Blood (UK) and The Hard Aches. This includes The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart on Sunday 28th August. Details of the tour plus tickets available from their website, www.lucabrasi.com.au.
“In those days, it was more like a privilege to like music. Kids now have a computer at home, so songs have a very short lifespan now.” Carlson says, on the changes she has seen over the years. “We didn’t have the complications we have now. Young people weren’t really in front of a computer all day- in those days if you needed to see someone you had to call them on a telephone! You could really tell who was doing what kind of song in that time. Even silliness was cool. You could be as cheesy and silly as you wanted.” “I remember house music I used to listen to in the ‘90s and that sound is definitely coming back. I’m producing music under my own name and releasing house music and I get the old elements back. It might’ve been a bit cheesy but there was so much melody in music in the ‘90s. Carlson worked pretty regularly in the ‘90s, but there is a substantial gap of about a decade between ‘02-’12 where she dealt with personal tragedy, and a renewed idea about she wanted from music and her career. “I got pregnant in 2000, my daughter didn’t survive and I didn’t feel like going back on stage. I threw myself into songwriting and producing. I enjoyed that time in life, doing normal things, cooking. When you’re constantly travelling, you don’t have a normal life. I enjoyed that until I was sitting in a studio and thought, why am I writing music for other people?” “If you get to a certain level, a fame or financial level, you’re not hungry anymore and it’s good to be hungry. You have to listen to what’s out there, you have to follow what’s in the real world.” Carlson explains, on reinvention. “A lot of times you’re stuck in the past. I like to go out and do the ‘90s shows, they’re so fun and the crowds are amazing, but I also like to different things and experiment. You just want people to accept what you do.” “I can’t really be doing bubblegum anymore, my music to listen to now is more house. This is what basically is my comfort zone, where I know I can do my 100%. Because I’ve been surrounded by music since i was a kid- most of my family was into music- and I’ve been part of so many different genres of music, I think I can experiment. What I’m doing now is just for me. The day you stop worrying what other people think about you, that’s the day you’re gonna be happy.” LISA DIB
Whigfield will be performing in Hobart alongside The Vengaboys, Tina Cousins, Crystal Waters, DJ Sammy, Sonique and Joanne, playing at Wrest Point on November 3. Tickets from www.tixtas.com.au.
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UNLEASH THE BIRDS RADIO BIRDMAN FRONTMAN AND FOUNDING MEMBER DENIZ TEK LEADS A VERY INTERESTING LIFE. AS WELL AS HIS BIRDMAN CAREER, TEK IS ALSO A WORKING DOCTOR WHO LIVES IN THE SMALL NEW SOUTH WALES COASTAL TOWN OF KIAMA (FAMOUS FOR ITS BLOWHOLES.)
“I live in Kiama. Sydney’s too expensive, too crowded, the traffic is impossible... I prefer to be in a quiet environment… When you’re at a certain stage, when people are starting out, they need a lot of input, things to learn from, and to collect raw material you can use. Living in a place like New York has some value, but once you’ve done that, it becomes more valuable to live in places that have less distractions- distractions that aren’t particularly useful, like traffic jams.” he says.
analogue media. But everybody went for it. Now that vinyl is coming back, people have tweaked to the idea that it sounds better, but now digital media has advanced to point where it sounds good. You can get digital renderings of music that’s every bit as good as of vinyl. Albums these days, you buy a vinyl LP and it comes with a digital download card, so you don’t have to listen to it that way, you can just have the vinyl in your house like an artifact.”
I, of course, ask him about the blowholes, which I have only been lucky enough to see once.
As mentioned, Tek divides his time between music and medicine, working in a New South Wales hospital. It seems like a lot to have going simultaneously, but he maintains he can manage.
“I probably go once or twice a week, it’s nice up to a point. It’s also a good place to watch for whales, near the lighthouse, you can take a sandwich up there. Once you’ve seen the blowhole go off on a good day, you don’t need to go up there again, though (laughs)” Tek will be touring Australia with Radio Birdman to celebrate the release of a box set of archived material, as well as re-releases of some of their classic albums, which will be released on vinyl. Their last studio album, Zeno Beach, was in 2006, with a live album, Live in Texas, in 2011. “It’s a bit ironic; twenty years of development of digital music, when CDs came out they just about killed vinyl and tapes. The quality was terrible, you could never get the quality of vinyl or tape or 14
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“You just do one on one day, and another on the other. That idea that you ‘identify with your job’, some people do that and that’s who they are, but I don’t see myself that way. I see myself as something other than those jobs, so I can go from one to another, it’s like putting on a different pair of shoes. I find it easier to take blocks of time; I’ll take two months and just do music, then back to work at the hospital and do that solid for a couple months.” Radio Birdman have had their share of complications (tensions, members leaving, disbanding and reforming), which is why so many are excited to see the band touring again.
“We had been off the road, broken up essentially, for about seven years.” Tek explains. “We finished a world tour in 2007 and there were significant problems at that time with the line-up. We did about eighty shows in 2007, then several things happened that led us to say “we’ll finish it here”. The thing that got it back going again was the discovery of all these old tapes, archived and in very good condition that no-one thought still existed. Twenty boxes of tape!” “The idea was that this stuff deserves to come out, so we made a box set and released some of the better archived material. When we put that box set out in 2014, we wanted to do something to help promote it; the obvious thing was to get the band back together, and that worked so well we decided to keep it going!” “We have been known to let bad situations go on for far too long; like a bad marriage, you wanna make it work and there’s a sense of loyalty, so you don’t want to call it quits.” Tek says, on the troubles the band have faced in their time. “We’ve been known to let things go too far, but we don’t let ‘em go on forever. We don’t think ‘the show must go on’ at all costs; if it’s not gonna be good, we don’t wanna do it. It’s hard to extricate yourself from that sometimes. It’s not like the corporate world, where you can just make someone redundant- it’s much more personal in a band.” LISA DIB
Radio Birdman play Friday, June 10 at The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart.
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NO CARNIVAL ACT THINK ABOUT THE PERSON YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO. DIFFERENT IN MATURITY, TASTES AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE, RIGHT? YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A TATTOO THAT MAKES YOU CRINGE. NOW, TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION HOW TIME, AND NATURALLY AGE, CAN INFLUENCE A MUSICIAN’S SOUND. AUSTRALIAN PROG-ROCK KINGS KARNIVOOL TAKE ABOUT THE FOUR YEAR MARK TO RELEASE NEW TUNES, AND IT’S NO WONDER THEIR ALBUM CATALOGUE IS STARK IN CONTRAST. FRONT MAN IAN KENNY COULDN’T AGREE MORE.
“Absolutely man. That’s five guys changing and growing and whatever, it’s sort of coming back around the middle of this thing, Karnivool, and working, so yeah, for sure.” So, why does it take Vool such a lengthy period of time to release a new album? Not even Kenny knows. “I don’t know why we take three to four years to make and release a record. It’s something that we are constantly puzzled by. For some reason that’s how long it takes to make the records we want to make. It’s a terrible business model, I wish it could change from time to time, but it doesn’t, so we just roll with it (laughs). Sometimes I lay awake staring at the ceiling thinking about it (laughs).” The cat has clawed its way out of the bag, with Kenny declaring that Karnivool will work with renowned Australian producer, Forrester Savell. He’s produced two of the band’s previous albums, Themata and Sound Awake, and is going in for a third. That should be music to a Vool fan’s ears, as Themata was arguably the defining sound for the band, and Sound Awake took them sky high to #2 on the 2009 ARIA Album Charts. “I think because of the way the record is shaping up we are going to go with Forrester and that’s only because it feels like a different thing to Asymmetry and we have already sort of sent him some bits and pieces, some very early stuff, so he’s on board, but when we get to record I’m not sure when that is, it will still be towards the end of the year, but yeah Forri for sure.” Savell has been instrumental in shaping the sound of an entire Australian genre. He’s worked with Dead Letter Circus, Twelve Foot Ninja and The Butterfly Effect. He’s even been dubbed an extra member of Karnivool, thanks to his producing and creative prowess, and it’s for these
reasons that Kenny and the band have given him the two thumbs up. “He’s always there in the background and he was such a huge part of Themata. He’s just an invested operator. He’s just passionate about his role in things, passionate about the band and what the band does. We try not to repeat ourselves, which just want to try and create something different on this record from Asymmetry. Going back with Nick (Asymmetry producer) we might be boxing ourselves in, and just for other reasons everyone is feeling like Forrester is the guy.” So on a scale of Themata to Asymmetry, where does the band’s new songs sit? Kenny would be lying if he said Karnivool’s Themata Decade Tour last year didn’t relight “certain fires in the band”. “Well it’s going to be something new, a bit of a step away from something say like Asymmetry, but it kind of feels like it’s hovering over spaces like Themata and Sound Awake. It’s a bit heavier, there’s a bunch of riffs on this thing. I don’t know why that is, it might have had something to do with that Themata anniversary tour or it’s just what the band is enjoying at the moment. It’s really fucking hard to tell
sometimes because we make records every three or four years, it’s such a huge space for life and influences and those sorts of things to change within and around the band, but it’s not feeling like Asymmetry, it’s feeling like another thing.” If you want a taste of new Vool material, then jump aboard The Pre-Amination Tour. After jetting off to South Africa in April, Perth fans were the first to sample new sounds from the band, but now it’s the rest of Australia’s turn. Tassie, you haven’t been forgotten. “From our end it’s going really well. We’ve almost got enough songs to sort of look at, okay what sort of record is this. We just played a bunch of new stuff in Perth. That went down really well so the band is quite excited. In a way we are kind of quite on fire at the moment, looking ahead to this tour which we are going to play more new stuff. It’s kind of fucking weird, it’s actually like ‘We are actually getting ready to make another record’, and it’s pretty exciting.” MARK ACHESON Karnivool perform at the Hobart Uni Bar on Saturday July 2. Tickets available from www. oztix.com.au or the venue.
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WREST POINT CARLOTTA Friday 8 July • 8pm MICHAEL GRIFFITHS: SWEET DREAMS Tuesday 5 July • 7.30pm AMELIA RYAN: LADY LIBERTY Monday 4 July • 7.30pm MICAPPELLA & SUADE Thursday 7 July • 7.30pm BIRDCAGE BAR Friday 1 – Sunday 3 July • 5pm Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 July • 5pm JUDE ELLIOT & WENDY MOLES: CLOSER TO FINE Saturday 2 July • 7.30pm TINA C: HERSTORY Sunday 3 July • 7.30pm
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IN THE FASTLANE DESPITE THEIR RELATIVELY SHORT EXISTENCE, HOBART ELECTRONIC DUO S L O W IS THE PRODUCT OF MANY YEAR’S WORTH OF GROUNDWORK.
The duo, made up of Calypso Brown and Cal Young, released their self-titled debut EP in October 2015 after meeting at a house party six years earlier. “I remember we were sitting on the floor talking about Calypso’s music and myself mentioning I had a ‘studio’ for her to record some demos at but really it was just the corner of my room with a computer,” said Young. “It wasn’t until Calypso moved back from Melbourne early last year that we ended up hanging out again.” Initially Young was just going to produce Brown’s solo EP, however it turned into a collaborative project between the two. “She had been working on an EP but wasn’t happy with the results so I jumped in to give producing it a shot and since then we’ve never looked back. S L O W came about after chatting for months about working on a song together.” The first song the duo worked on together was ‘At Midnight’; a song that has now amassed almost thirty thousand plays on Soundcloud since it was posted in July 2015. “‘At Midnight’ was almost a throw away track,” Young said. “I had mentioned to Calypso to sing a little differently than normal for the song and the final product reminded me of ice cold white Nordic beaches. ‘At Midnight’ was featured on blogs such as Casual Band Blogger, Acid Stag and HillyDilly, which gave S L O W the confidence to produce a full EP. “We were really excited to do something new and so all the tracks came
very naturally to us,” said Young. “I would stay at the studio every night for what seemed like forever until the morning light just to get stuff done and then to go back a few hours later to prep for Calypso’s vocals.” The self-titled EP came out a mere three months after the release of ‘At Midnight’ and is something Young is proud of. “I don’t think I’ve been so happy and excited to work with someone like Calypso, her ideas and talent are astounding,” he said. Since the release of EP S L O W have been developing their live show, having already played at A Festival Called Panama and a bunch of shows around Hobart. In April they released a cover of ‘Party All The Time’, originally sung by Eddie Murphy, and are preparing to release a new single soon. “Future plans are to write many more tunes and play more shows around Australia,” says Young. “We’ll be writing an EP together whilst road tripping around California. It will be a different and exciting atmosphere for us, so we’re hoping that some great tunes will come from it.” SIMON MCGUIRE
S L O W are set to play Blacklist for Dark Mofo on Sunday June 12 and are also as part of Festival Of Voices in the Portraits in the Attic series on Thursday July 7.
BROODING INTENSITY HOW QUICKLY WE CAN CHANGE. ONCE UPON A TIME, TWENTY-THREE YEAR-OLD CALEB NOTT WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CAUGHT DEAD LISTENING TO INDIE POP, NOW IT’S HOW HE MAKES HIS BREAD AND BUTTER. NOTT AND HIS SISTER GEORGIA FORMED BROODS IN 2013, BUT HAVE ALREADY STORMED THE SCENE, EARNING KUDOS AND AWARDS LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE. NOTT ELUCIDATES ON HIS JOURNEY SO FAR.
“I would never listen to mainstream radio, I would never be caught listening to pop musici was strictly indie rock in high school (laughs).” Nott says, on his former tastes, but acknowledges that it’s not all so shameful. “Once you get to high school, you have this opportunity...it’s like a breeding ground for discovering what you want to listen to; up until then you might listen to the radio or what your parents listen to. You become independent in your music choices and people take pride in that.” Broods began when Caleb and Georgia decided to focus their energy on the band in early 2013, but their musical history goes back as far as their early childhood. They grew up in a musical family, and were entering talent shows in their teens. 2011 is an important milestone in their timeline; it is when they met producer Joel Little- who, two years later would produce Lorde’s epic Royals and has also worked with Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding- and decided to work with the man. They release their debut album Evergreen (which
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debuted at #1 in NZ and went gold) in August 2014 and will follow it up with Conscious, coming out in June this year. “He’s great to work with, he brought out something in Georgia and I that we didn’t know we had in us.” Nott explains. “He’s like the invisible member of the band. He’s just as much a part of it as me and Georgia. That’s one part of how people view the music industry that frustrates me a bit: people demean collaboration. Nothing against anyone that does it on their own, but doing it with other people shouldn’t change how good your music is. That’s the beauty of collaboration, ideas coming together into one huge pot. I really love collaborating. Different people work in different ways.” “There’s a lot of different sides to the job-in quotation marks (laughs) there’s parts that feel like a job but writing and performing never feels like a job, because that’s what we love to do,” Nott says, on the ins and outs of his profession. “We grew up in a different environment where pursuing creative careers wasn’t a problem. The last years of high school, I did only creative subjects; I stopped doing maths and all that to focus on visual art and writing. My parents never had anything against that. I was never gonna not be in a creative job, I was studying industrial design before I dropped out to do the band. See ya later, uni!” LISA DIB
Conscious is out June 24 on Capitol.
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MOTHER’S RUIN IF YOU, LIKE ME, ARE TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH BOTH MUSICAL THEATRE AND GIN, I CAN’T THINK OF A BETTER PROJECT TO WRAP YOUR EYES AND EARS AROUND. HALF OF MELBOURNE CABARET GROUP LADY SINGS IT BETTER ARE BRINGING MOTHER’S RUIN TO THE FESTIVAL OF VOICES; IT’S IS A SHOW THAT FOLLOWS THE HISTORY AND REPUTATION AROUND GIN, SET TO FANTASTIC SONG. MAEVE MARSDEN AND LIBBY WOOD TEAMED UP WITH PUBLICIST AND GIN EXPERT ELLY CLOUGH (WHOSE BLOG, THE GINSTRESS, IS A FOUNT OF TIPS AND KNOWLEDGE) TO CREATE THE SHOW. “We’ve taken a lot of creative licence. Elly guided our research, took us through key periods and we took the stories that were most interesting.” Marsden explains. “We based it largely around the characters we found: women in gin’s history, and what these women’s lives might have been like, as true as ‘reinterpreted-history-as-cabaret’ can be. This idea of “mother’s ruin”, a woman as a drunk, was pushed forward by politicians and beer producers. It comes from a place of propaganda as well as reality.”
“My hobby horse really is women, gin and the industrial revolution!” Clough says. “In London, in the early 1700s, it was the first time that sort of female drinking culture emerged; prior to that, there was a lot of beer consumption. People drank beer like it was water, because water was unsanitary and beer had been brewed so it was healthier! People didn’t drink to get drunk necessarily.” “In terms of Western Anglo culture, the creation of gin in London at that time was the first moment
that women had the opportunity, and the drink that they enjoyed drinking.” Clough continues. “There was so much going on for women at the time: people were moving into London from rural farming, into factories to work, starting to have a normal ‘urban’ life. Moving through the eras, gin is connected to the Queen Mother and that British notion of the female character.” The show features songs from all eras by artists like Amy Winehouse, Jessie J, Nina Simone, Merle Haggard and more. “We were looking for songs about gin, then for songs that were lyrically interesting.” Marsden says, on how the songs were chosen. “As we started to hone down the particular periods to focus in on, we just thought of songs from various collections we knew and used our own associations. It’s a nice and strange mix of artists that we’re covering: we’re talking about the industrial revolution but singing Jessie J (laughs)” “Gin and Juice by Snoop Dogg didn’t make the final cut, sadly (laughs)” notes Clough. Marsden describes Mother’s Ruin as less “actively feminist” than the typical Lady Sings It Better show, but this was by no means a decision taken lightly. “Look at all the satire and amazing work on the internet- you have to put your comedy and creativity first.” she explains. “If you think about being feminist first and then funny second, that’s the wrong way. The funny happens with us because we’re feminists; we don’t keep something in just because it makes a point. We spend more time working out harmonies than what is ‘feminist’. That’s what makes the show good.” “You can draw a direct line between the gin craze and Sydney lockout laws” says Clough. “The idea that people left to their own devices will go to wrack and ruin...which is not to say that it was a challenging time: people lived in poverty, in dire circumstances. There’s sad stories of women who were living in awful circumstances who found an escape in gin...it’s awful, of course, that these things happen, but society managed to create the idea that the only reason this was happening was because women were drinking gin. It’s interesting that it’s mother’s ruin, not women’s ruin; it’s really tapping into that nanny state’s attitude about ‘if we don’t have the nuclear family with women as mothers, the paragon of virtue, society falls apart’.” The shows will be held at Shene Estate, complete with gin tastings for audience members. Shene turned out to be the perfect venue for Mother’s Ruin. “Shene Estate is a distillery owned by women” Clough explains. “The alcohol industry as a whole in very male-dominated. A fabulous women’s wine society did a survey of women working in the wine industry, and the findings were that two-thirds of women have found sexism in the workplace. I mean, even just a woman writing about alcohol, I am spending time in bars, there’s a gender divide there: a cocktail bar has five blokes making cocktails and a girl in a skirt delivering them. The Shene distiller is a man, but the women own the distillery, and, as far as I know, she will be the first gin distiller in Australia.” LISA DIB
Mother’s Ruin runs as part of the Festival of Voices with two shows on Saturday July 9. Head to www. festivalofvoices.com for further information.
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Arts OPINION
ARTS FUNDING: BUDGETING FOR THE SOUL WHEN IT WAS SUGGESTED TO WINSTON CHURCHILL THAT HE CUT THE ARTS BUDGET TO FUND THE WAR EFFORT, HE REPLIED, “THEN WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?” WELL, SO THE MEME GOES. THE FACT THAT THE THEN BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DIDN’T ACTUALLY SAY THIS DOESN’T REALLY MATTER. IT’S REMAINED A FAVOURITE SOCIAL MEDIA MEME AND OFT (MIS)QUOTED MOMENT BECAUSE IT’S NOT AN ARTS ADVOCATE, AN ARTIST, A CURATOR OR AN ARTS-LOVING WRITER ARGUING FOR ARTS FUNDING – IT’S A POLITICIAN. IT SEEMS SO UNUSUAL THAT A POLITICIAN WOULD CARE ABOUT THE ARTS. On the whole, politicians are considered philistines when it comes to the arts. As we come into the federal election, it’s evidently not a priority. The headlines are all about wealth-creation (or barriers to it): surplus, superannuation, taxes, housing, ‘boat people’, dole bludgers, construction, unions, penalty rates etc. etc.…. And that’s why the arts community gave a collective sigh of relief when Malcolm Turnbull - a known art-collector and supporter of the arts was elected PM. The arts community was thus understandably upset when the new arts minister appointed by Turnbull announced that the changes to arts funding brought in by the conservative, balletloving George Brandis were not going to be reversed. Over the last year, the arts community has waged an admirable war against the changes. Last year’s senate enquiry into the Liberal’s art budgets, for instance, received a record 2719 submissions, leading one LNP senator to label the response as a conspiracy. Evidently, our politicians underestimated the passion and sheer doggedness of the Australian arts community. Last month the effects of the arts changes became particularly obvious when around 65 arts organisations, many of them established and respected, were de-funded in part as a result of the funding changes. Because of the Australia Council’s funding structure, the cuts in funding have disproportionately affected the visual arts and writing communities. As Alison Croggon pointed out in The Guardian, there’s been a massive 70% reduction in individual grants since the 2013/14 financial year. I don’t want to go into too much detail about the changes, and I recommend you google Croggon’s articles in The Monthly (16 May) and The Guardian (19 May) for a more detailed account. Instead, I want to emphasise why we should fund the arts, and
more specifically the visual arts (I’ll let my fellow columnist, Paige Turner, argue on behalf of literature). I strongly believe one of the major errors we’ve made in our argument for greater investment in the arts is to use the language of conservative economics. Our arguments have been based on financial return and job creation. Let’s be honest, no one goes into the visual arts in order to make money. We make, support and view art because it makes us happy and fulfils our intellectual curiosity. This is also backed up by science. According to Neuroscientist Jaak Panskepp, the key to human happiness is the act of seeking, which encompasses the quest for knowledge, anticipation, and the creation of new forms of expression. For an easy dopamine hit, create some art. Visual art a method of storytelling that we can trace back to our early ancestors. Archaeologists have discovered figurative cave painting in Indonesia and Australia that pre-dates the famous caves in Europe, and this concurrent emergence of visual expression suggests that art is something innate in us all. It defines us as humans. Art has also long-served as an important preliterate method of communication. The preModern frescoes and stained glass windows in the churches and palaces of Europe, for instance, were in part designed to communicate biblical stories, local history, and political authority to a largely illiterate public. Art has the ability to express stories, ideas and emotions in ways that words simply cannot. Even now that we live in a highly literate society dominated by written language, we’re incorporating emoticons and other forms of pictorial communication to convey nuanced emotion where words fail.
When we view art, we experience emotions. Entering a maze-like installation might inspire feelings of curiosity, excitement, and perhaps even a bit of adrenalin-pumping fear. A portrait of a dog may invoke affection, and a painting by J.M.W. Turner is undeniably visually pleasurable. Even the most abstract artworks can appeal to our emotions - many years ago I broke down in front of Robert Morris’ Minimalist L Beams. Art often demands a level of intellectual engagement from the viewer and can challenge us, ask difficult questions and expose us to different worldviews. It benefits society to have ready access to art both in galleries and public spaces, and therefore we need to support the producers. If you ask an artist why they make art, they’re not going to respond ‘to increase tourism to the region’. Increased tourism is great for Hobart’s many coffee shops, hotels and high-end restaurants, but it doesn’t change the fact that some local galleries do not even pay artists to exhibit or even provide material allowances. It’s particularly galling when you consider that the gallery’s cleaner gets paid in money, rather than the oft-cited ‘exposure’. We shouldn’t ask artists exhibiting in public galleries to work for free, and public galleries need to be funded so that they can pay artists fairly, just like they do the cleaners, plumbers and other workers. Art should be seen as a public good like health or roads, and it should not be expected to be financially self-sustainable. Art departments in schools and universities need to be better funded. We know creative expression can be therapeutic, so we need to use it as a method of healing in hospitals and prisons, and provide cheap and easily accessible spaces for community groups to create together. Many years ago I worked as an art therapist, and I remember one non-verbal client who would silently wrap objects in string, over and over with precise rhythm, resulting in a delicate cocoon. A few years later I attended art school and watched as a fellow student did the same thing. The instinct was the same, but only one needed an artist statement (or so the university’s unit outline stated). We invest far too much money in the worst parts of ourselves (the recent $50 billion on military submarines immediately comes to mind). It’s time to better fund the better side of our nature. LUCY HAWTHORNE
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Arts INTERVIEW
JOSHUA SANTOSPIRITO hER MAJESTY’S FAVOURITE REALLY GREAT GRAPHICAL FESTIVAL WAS INITIATED TWO YEARS AGO TO PROVIDE TASMANIAN COMIC ARTISTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THEIR WORK LOCALLY. I SPOKE TO COMIC-ARTIST AND ‘FESTIVALE CO-DIRECTEUR FLAMBOYANTE’ JOSHUA SANTOSPIRITO ABOUT THE FESTIVAL, HIS WORK, AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRAPHIC NOVELS, COMICS AND CARTOONS.
Why a festival devoted to graphic arts?
You mentioned the festival was ‘artist-run’. What kind of work do you do?
You made a facetious comment earlier about whether the festival fits into writing or contemporary art [in relation to Warp]. Most literary editors won’t even consider it for their publication. A former editor for Island claimed he couldn’t even read them. I wanted some kind of forum where comics can be championed, along with the community of Tasmanian comic artists. A lot of the time artists squirrel away in their studios, and only show their work outside the state. We have major designers in Tasmania, such as the animation studio Blue Rocket Productions. Most local children’s book authors are published interstate or overseas. There aren’t many comic publishers in Australia – there’s not much of an industry here.
I’m an artist and writer? (yes - that’s a question mark) and i’ve dabbled in lots of mediums… for fun. I guess I’m also a performance artist. Comics are my main focus. I’ve made a few graphic novels, magazines. Forgive my ignorance, but what’s the difference between a graphic novel, comic, and cartoon? A comic is the medium of sequential images. It’s also sometimes called ‘sequential art’. A graphic novel is a way of selling comics to bookstores -
Returning to the festival, what kind of events are you hosting this year? It’s the first year we had proper funding, which is exciting because we get to pay the artists. We have a bigger focus on exhibitions this year. We are using the billboards in Mather’s place run by HCC, as well Frankie’s Empire and a number of shop front exhibitions. Two interstate artists giving a talk at a new place called ‘Foundry’ – Mandy Ord, and Tasmanian-born Eleri Harris, who is also the festival’s artist-in-residence. Eleri’s about to publish a comic on Sue-Neil Fraser based on interviews with her daughter, and will be giving us a sneak peak at the festival. There’s an art crawl on the Friday night that starts at Frankie’s Empire and ends at the Grand Poobah for a night of live bands and live drawings. There’s also a zine fair. There’s no need to book. You can just rock up with zines, or a zine, and pull up a table or half a table. It’s organised chaos.
The festival has a couple of aims. The first is to raise the profile of local artists because most people don’t even realise there are so many comic artists in Tasmania. Secondly, it’s created more of a community. The festival deliberately includes a range of people at different levels, and different places in Tasmania, and therefore creates more linkages between people. I don’t think you can have great artists without a community. You can’t rise in a vacuum.
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What’s the significance of the rather unique festival name? I enjoy the creative side of having the executive view of creating a festival. I had to come up with the name that dictates the voice of the festival. You can be a bit bombastic about the festival. Having a silly name, for instance, speaks louder that if I named it The Hobart Graphics Festival. It appeals to a wider audience – people from interstate and overseas. It attracts attention.
they have a spine and bookstores like spines. A cartoon is a single image. Chris Downes and Jon Kudelka are cartoonists, whereas I’m a comicartist. ‘Graphic novel’ is used if people want to be taken seriously. There are childish associations with comics. I only write with adults in mind. I didn’t want to use the word comic because I didn’t want the preconceptions. I didn’t want people to think it was written for children. Last month I met [high-profile American cartoonist and comics advocate] Art Spiegelman in New York. He said that graphic novel was a bullshit term and they don’t exist. I agree. It’s just a marketing term. It’s a bit of a wank.
Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival runs June 3 – 9. For more program details visit www. hobartgraphicsfestival.tumblr.com. For more information on Josh Santospirito’s art, visit www.joshuasantospiritoart.com.
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Images: Tania Walker, Barkingham Palace (2016). [Billboard artwork for the Playhouse Theatre billboard]. Image courtesy of the artist and Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival
ARTS OPPORTUNITY
RACT INSURANCE TASMANIAN PORTRAITURE PRIZE ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE 2016 RACT INSURANCE TASMANIAN PORTRAITURE PRIZE. NOW IN ITS NINTH YEAR, THE AWARD IS OPEN TO YOUNG TASMANIAN ARTISTS AGED 30 AND UNDER. ALTHOUGH THE PRIZE INCLUDES A TRIP TO THE ARCHIBALD PRIZE IN SYDNEY (PLUS $5000), THE TPP ENCOURAGES A GREAT DEAL MORE EXPERIMENTATION THAN ITS FAMOUS, ALBEIT CONSERVATIVE, NATIONAL COUNTERPART.
Past award winners have included video portraits, photographs, graphite drawings, and oil paintings. Last year’s award went to Hobart-based artist Alasdair Doyle for a video that tackles the divisive issue of immigration, highlighting the discrepancy between money spent on the marketing of Tasmanian tourism and the paltry sums invested in “skilled and business migration”. Darkly humorous, the work’s title, A World Apart, Not a World Away, was taken from a former Tourism Tasmania campaign. As one of this year’s judges, Doyle urges future entrants to “explore the limits of portraiture and mediums in which portraiture can be represented.” Artists are required to create a portrait of a living Tasmanian in a two dimensional format, and entrants should visit the past winners page on the TPP website to see the breadth of interpretations. Best of all, entry is free.
Details about the RACT Insurance Tasmanian Portraiture Prize can be found at www.taspp.com.au. Entries close June 30 and the exhibition will travel across the state, showing at: • Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, September 17 – October • Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, October 8 – October 23 • Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, October 29 – December 9 Image: Alasdair Doyle, A World Apart, Not a World Away (video still). Image courtesy of the artist
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PAIGE TURNER THE FIRST TIME I READ ABOUT MY TOWN IN A NOVEL, EVERYTHING CHANGED. TO READ MY TOWN IN LITERATURE, THE VERY TOWN I WAS PLANNING TO FLEE, GAVE ME AN EXHILARATION, AND IT IRREVOCABLY DEEPENED MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PLACE. IT MADE ME READ THE TOWN VERY DIFFERENTLY AND IMBUED IT WITH A WHIFF OF INTRIGUE, THE TOWN HAD BECOME SOMETHING WORTH WRITING ABOUT. INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE IS SO WILDLY IMPORTANT, BUT TO READ STORIES OF HOME NOT ONLY AUGMENTS THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND THE WORLD, IT ALSO ALLOWS OUTSIDERS TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO OUR PLACES, OUR HOMES, OUR TOWNS. All of this is under threat right now, with the prospect of the removal of tariffs on books imported, and the proposal to remove copyright restrictions. The consequences of these two proposed changes are broad, but the most immediate threats are the loss of local stories, of generations of new Australian literature as well as massive reduction in an already paltry income of most writers across the country. Pay heed, check out arts policies, ask your local politicians what they are doing for writing and its delicious bedfellow, reading. To keep all your reading senses tuned, here’s what we’ve got coming up across the state when it comes to those bodily processes; reading and writing. Fullers Bookshop is hosting the launch of the excellent new novel from Giramondo, Wood Green by Sean Rabin, on June 9. This is a ripper of a book, set in the curious hamlet of Wood Green, somewhere on the side of Mt Wellington. Fullers is also hosting Professor Ian Lowe in conversation about his new book, The Lucky Country, with Bob Brown, 5:30 on Friday June 24. Tasmanian based historian and writer, Nick Brodie (remember his glorious, personal Australian history, Kin?) has provided the commentary for Dodging the Devil, by George Martindale. Launching this June, and published by Hachette. Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival is happening in and around Hobart in early June. The Small Press Zine fair is happening on Saturday June 4, between 1-5pm at the Grand Poobar, Tasmanian cartoonist/editor Eleri Harris is releasing the first part of her extraordinary Tassie comic focusing on aspects of the Sue Neill-Fraser story and on Monday June 6, Claremont College students are launching their exhibition Gagey Life. . Van Badham has written novels for young adults, incendiary speeches and she is a regularly columnist with The Guardian and other outlets. The Tasmanian Writers Centre are hosting her in a one day course on how to write an opinion column. This is happening on Monday, June 20 at the Moonah Arts Centre. $170 will give you Van’s insight and lunch. The Writers Centre, while notably silent on the current threats to writing and writers in Australia (copyright and parallel imports) has also suffered a set-back in terms of funding. They, like Island magazine did not receive four year funding in the latest round from the Australia Council, Island
EXHIBITION PREVIEW
UNHOUSED: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE HIDDEN IN THE ALLPORT THE ALLPORT LIBRARY AND MUSEUM HAS LONG FASCINATED ME WITH ITS ROPED-OFF DIORAMAS, ECLECTIC COLLECTION AND ARCHAIC DISPLAYS. IT’S AN INSTITUTION RIPE FOR ARTISTIC RESPONSE, WHICH IS WHY I’M EXCITED ABOUT THE UPCOMING EXHIBITION, UNHOUSED, WHICH PROMISES TO ‘UNSETTLE’ THE STAID DISPLAYS AND HIGHLIGHT LESSER-KNOWN ITEMS IN THE COLLECTION.
Curator Emily Bullock describes Unhoused as ‘occupying a liminal place somewhere between nightmare, memory and imagination.’ The exhibition will include the work of five Tasmanian artists, Linda Fredheim, Julie Gough, Brigita Ozolins, Sally Rees and Elissa Ritson, who will respond to selected objects or histories through sculpture, video, performance, furniture design and collage. As part of the exhibition, Ozolins will perform a marathon reading event on Friday 17 June, reading Mary Grimstone’s novel, Woman’s Love, assisted by a number of local female readers.
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Unhoused: Encounters with the Hidden in the Allport, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, June 9 – September 30. Opening: 5.30pm, June 9. Brigita Ozolins’ performance: 12-8pm, June 17. Image: Julie Gough, Hide 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.
are resilient, they have diversified their income streams and I’m sure the Writers’ Centre must have a contingency plan too. Twitch is an excellent program for young writers offered by the Centre and they have just announced their HotDesk recipients for this year - This year’s residents are University of Tasmania students Erin Hortle and Gemma Krambousanos, local poet Michael Stratford Hutch, and Sydney writer Vivienne Cutbush who will make the move to Hobart later this year. The successful writers were selected by Hobart essayist James Dryburgh, and former Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship winner Robbie Arnott. On June 21, Laura Kay will be running the third Twitch Tuesday on the topic of Writing, DIY publishing, and magazines. Omar Musa is back in town (Hobart) on June 21 and in conversation and performance at the Founders’ Room at the Salamanca Arts Centre from 8-9.30pm. Tasmanian writer, Kate Gordon will be awarded her IBBY, the Ena Noel Award. This award is presented to as an encouragement award for a young, emerging writer or illustrator. The presentation will take place on 15 June at 4pm at the McKillop Catholic College, in Mornington. RSVP Friday 10 June to info@cbcatas.org for refreshments. Andrew Harper is an old Tasmanian head, ok, not that old. He has some interesting observations that he pops in an occasional email. Good, weird links and the occasional rant. Subscribe here – www.tinyletter.com/AndrewWHarper. Rosemary Peterswald is launching her new book, Can My Pony Come Too? (pictured) at the State Cinema Bookshop on June 1, at exactly the same time that a crime novel by Barry Weston, The Long Con, is being launched at the Hobart Bookshop. And, adding to the growing number of spoken word evenings in Hobart, Furious Penguins is hosting a cosy fireside night of spoken word around the theme of Memories. This is on Friday June 24 at the Lady Franklin Gallery, from 7.30pm. Entry is $10 (suggested donation) and includes drinks, snacks and door prizes. RACHEL EDWARDS If you have any news, drop me a line – racheledwards488@gmail.com.
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South 146 Artspace Until June 2 10 Objects - 10 Stories: Celebrating Community Collections June 10 - July 21 Full House: 5 years @ Sawtooth ARI
Moonah Arts Centre Until June 11 Depths of the Derwent Until June 11 Henrietta Manning Selected Works June 17 - July 2 Nuance
artfarmbirchsbay Until June 10 Edith Perrenot
TMAG June 10 - November 20 Tempest
Bett Gallery Until June 6 Peter James Smith June 10 - June 27 Nancy Mauro-Flude (Mix Media)
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Contemporary Art Tasmania Until June 5 Ghost Biologies June 2016 Big Cheese June 2016 Divination Colville Gallery Until June 8 Leanne Halls - Painting from 3 Steps Back June 10 Royale Hussar June 10 - June 29 Milan Milosevic - Night & Day (The Tree) Despard Gallery Until June 5 Wayne Brookes - All the Glitters is not God! June 8 - July 3 The Museum of Doubt Handmark Gallery Until June 13 Lola Greeno and Friends - A Special Exhibition Celebrating Lola’s 70th Birthday June 17 - July 11 Ella Noonan & Emily Snadden - New Drawings and Jewellery MONA Until August 29 Cameron Robbins - Field Lines
QVMAG Until July 31 Community Collectors: Mark Davis and Simon Wood - Thunderbirds Fever! Until June 26 William Kentridge - Drawn from Africa Handmark Evandale Until June 1 James Walker - New Paintings June 5 - June 29 ‘Still Life’ Exhibition Handmark artists Burnie Regional Gallery Until June 26 Diversity - Handweavers Spinners & Dyers Guild of Tasmania Inc. Until June 26 Scanlines from dLux MediaArts Devonport Regional Gallery Until June 26 Diversity - Handweavers Spinners & Dyers Guild of Tasmania Inc. Until June 26 Scanlines from dLux MediaArts June 8 - June 26 Betta Milk Burnie Wearable Paper Art Competition 2016 Paper on Skin
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COMEDY
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Brisbane Hotel June 30 The Comedy Forge
Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre June 30 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
The Polish Corner June 1 Jokers Comedy Club - Ben Payne June 8 Jokers Comedy Club - Adam Richard June 10 Jokers Comedy Club Special Event - Judith Lucy June 15 Jokers Comedy Club - Tracey Cosgrove June 22 Jokers Comedy Club - Tom Siegert Theatre Royal June 30 - July 2 The Wharf Revue
The Royal Oak June 10 Fresh Comedy with Andy Matthews Theatre North June 6 - June 10 Uni Revue - Episode 69 June 29 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow THEATRE
Republic Bar June 9 The Clubhouse with Andy Matthews THEATRE
Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre June 20 The Peasant Prince June 28 An Evening with Mem Fox
Peacock Theatre June 2 A Midsummer Night’s Dream June 11 Youth Circus Showcase June 15 - June 18 Radio Gothic Presents Episode 1 - The Pit
Theatre North June 4 Tapestry Dance Studio Annual Concert June 26 Mister Maker June 28 - June 29 The Peasant Prince
Derwent Entertainment Centre June 25 Mister Maker
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Theatre Royal May 31 - June 4 Misterman June 2 - June 3 Evolve:Revolve June 8 - June 9 The Moon’s A Balloon June 23 - June 24 The Peasant Prince June 27 The Science of Life & Death
Theatre North June 2 BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Gallery Pejean Until June 11 SHE - Group exhibition
Rosny Barn Schoolhouse Gallery June 18 - July 10 Animal Madness Salamanca Arts Centre Sidespace Gallery June 10 - June 21 Dark Liminality Long Gallery Until June 1 Art from Trash June 4 - June 5 Dollhouse and Miniatures Show Top Gallery June 2 - June 30 Anxiety and Wonder
WARP RECOMMENDS
TOM O’HERN WALKING THROUGH THE HOBART’S MATHER’S PLACE, IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO MISS TOM O’HERN’S NEW MURAL. IT’S A COLOURFUL FRENZY OF PLANT AND ANIMAL HYBRIDS, SKULLS, SNAKES, AND OTHER AMBIGUOUS CREATURES. OVER TIME, YOU START TO SEE MORE AND MORE FANTASTICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE ELEMENTS. A BIRD, DEAD ON ITS BACK APPEARS TO BE INHALING AN EYEBALL. A SNAKE BATTLES A GRUMPY LOOKING APPLE, WHILE A HAPPY CACTUS WATCHES ON FROM ABOVE.
Commissioned by the Hobart City Council as part of their Urban Walls initiative, it’s an addition the small CBD courtyard desperately needed. Since graduating from the Tasmanian School of Art in 2006, O’Hern has featured in some of Australia’s top public art institutions, but you’re more likely to have seen his work around the streets of Hobart, such as the unfortunate Tasmanian Tiger on the side of the Alley Cat in North Hobart (both now gone), the traffic signal box on the corner of Brisbane and Harrington streets, or the stickered faces that have long ‘corrected’ the city’s ugly garbage bins. His personal website of drawings, videos and photographs is funny, edgy and dark, and includes some of his nonstate-sanctioned art projects. Just a warning: it’s a little NSFW. For further information on Tom O’Hern head to his website: www.tomohern.com or instagram: @tomohernia. Images: Tom O’Hern, 2016 mural in Mather’s Place, Hobart. Courtesy of the artist.
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Event Guide
Hobart Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Birdcage Bar
Sambo 8:30pm
Grand Poobah
Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat & El Perezidente 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
Tin Lion + Jed Appleton 8:30pm
The Homestead
Mocane 7:30pm
JUNE Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Date Friday
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
The Waratah Hotel
Unlocked 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
EWAH & The Visions of Paradise (Single Launch) + Filthy Little Star + Pete Lyrebird (Vic)
Grand Poobah
Wired For Sound & Vision #2: Mum And Dad, Alyssa Bermudez, Michael Blake, Luisa Romeo, Josh Santospirito, Piper Black, Alex Davern, The Stan Show & Carvis Jocker in the Main Room 7pm
Grand Poobah
Axe Giant, Ultra Martian, Straddlepuss & Shamen FoxHenry in the Kissing Room 9pm
Acts / Start Time
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar - Radio Birdman + The Roobs
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar - Unfolding Vostocks + Resilient Gums + The Foxy Morons + DJ Filthy Rich’s Fruity Frottage Parties after the bands
Brisbane Hotel
Upstairs - Java Fonda’s Love Nest + Xenosine (Vic) + Jasmine Guffond (Ger)
Grand Poobah
Rose Quartz x Heads With Tales presents: Luca Luzano, Rudolph C, Cale Sexton, Nali, Jennifer Loveless, Ben Fester, Finn Whitla, Surf & Turf & DJ Don Badman 9pm
Onyx
Girl Friday 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
After Work Acoustic Sessions in The Beer Garden with Jed Appleton + Free BBQ 5pm
Republic Bar & Café
Crikey 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink
The Apple Shed
Kyle Taylor + Support 6pm
The Homestead
Wild Marmalade (NNSW) 9pm
The Westend Pumphouse
Nick Machin 8:30pm
The Whaler
Michael Priest, Finn Seccombe 6:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar - The Dead Maggies’ Dark Orchestra presents: 200 years of Oppression - A History of Van Diemens Land + PURE + Diable Amoreux + The Satin Worshippers
Onyx
Blue Monday 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
After Work Acoustic Sessions in The Beer Garden with Karly + Free BBQ 5pm
Republic Bar & Café
Sugartrain 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Big Swifty
The Apple Shed
Omahara, James Parry, Tovaresh, Ruben Reeves, The Ukes of Hazzard 6pm
The Homestead
Grouch (NZ) + Groundforce (NSW) + Kireesh + Grommet + Reactant 9pm
The Westend Pumphouse
Foley Brothers 8:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar - Vulgod (Vic) + Vrag + Goatblood (Vic) + Morbid Florist (Tribute) + Dissonant Winds
The Whaler
Finn Seccombe, Dylan Eynon 6:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Upstairs - [RETURN] + Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC Snicklesnatch
Brisbane Hotel
Interview With An Espace Artist + Aburden (Vic) + Cardinels + Break Through + Weeper
Grand Poobah
Late Night DJ’s
Onyx
The Robinsons 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
Front - Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC Hippy Hair
Pier One
The Surrealists 6pm
Grand Poobah
Mocane & Friends 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
Painters & Dockers 10pm
Onyx
Gypsy Rose 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys
Pier One
Les Coqs 6pm
The Homestead
Kyle Taylor album launch + Albi (NZ) 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
The Catch Club 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink
Wrest Point Showroom
The Greats of 70’s Country Music - The Johnny Cash Show 8pm
The Homestead
The Seven Ups (Melb) 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Nick Marshall 8:30pm Front Bar - Bingo w/ The Howlin Moondog
Saturday
Sunday
11
12
Birdcage Bar
Fiona Whitla 8:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ The Ramblin Squid Monkey
Brisbane Hotel
Customs House Hotel
Noteworthy: Madalena, Ukes of Hazard, Katelin & Brad 2:30pm
Back Bar - Pitt the Elder (Vic) + Skate Wounds + New Wave Saints + Ultra Martian + Between the Lions
Republic Bar & Café
HOBART RECLINK COMMUNITY CUP AFTER PARTY w/ A.Swayze & The Ghosts, Kowl, SETH and Audrey Rose 7pm
Customs House Hotel
Noteworthy: Bianca Clennett, Jonathan Warwareck, Harry & Oscar 2:30pm
Grand Poobah
Late Night DJ’s
Republic Bar & Café
Abby Howlett 8:30pm
The Apple Shed
Django’s Tiger 12pm
Telegraph Hotel
Phrayta
The Homestead
Jason O’Garey
The Homestead
Hanna and Dana 7pm
The Waratah Hotel
Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm
The Waratah Hotel
Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8:30pm
Hobart Town Hall
Enso String Quartet
Republic Bar & Café
Matt Edmunds 2:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin’ Blues) 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Ross Sermons 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
David “Eddo” Edmondson 8:30pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Sabine Bester 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Black Coffee 8:30pm
Grand Poobah
Mark Wilkinson & Anabelle Kay 7pm
Grand Poobah
Atomic Suplex with DJ Filthy Rich & Friends 8pm
Grand Poobah
Dark Knight DJ’s with Crème Brulee and Friends 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Johnny McIntyre Band 8:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Matt & Abby
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett
The Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
The Homestead
Vinyl Club 8:30pm
The Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Wrest Point Showroom
Matt Ives Big Band - With Special Guest Tony Pantano 8pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Les Coqs 8:30pm Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat & El Perezidente 8pm
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
13
14
15
16
Grand Poobah
Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat & El Perezidente 8pm
Grand Poobah
Republic Bar & Café
Kashkin 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
The Darlings 8:30pm
The Homestead
Aus. Songwriters Assoc. WAX Lyrical 7pm
The Homestead
Simon Astley 7:30pm
The Waratah Hotel
Unlocked 7pm
The Waratah Hotel
Unlocked 7pm
Wrest Point Ent. Centre
Air Supply - 40th Anniversary Tour 8pm
Wrest Point Showroom
Foster & Allen 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Friday
24
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Event Guide
Date
Saturday
18
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Brisbane Hotel
Back Bar - Ironhawk + Pinchgut + Neon Deth Cult + Lager Than Life + Bu$ Money + Remains
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar - Crypt Vapor + Hdot + 0F.digital (Vic) + Rouge Hotline + Java Fonda
Brisbane Hotel
Upstairs - This is a Robbery + Mum and Dad
Grand Poobah
Wet Dreams with Daydreams, Milly & Donald 10pm
Grand Poobah
Mighty Duke and the Lords, DJ Astral Files in the Kissing Room 9pm
Onyx
The Doctors Rocksters 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
After Work Acoustic Sessions in The Beer Garden with Tim & Scott + Free BBQ 5pm
Republic Bar & Café
Australian Made 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink
The Apple Shed
Joe Mungovan Aust. Tour 6pm
The Homestead
Yesterdays Gentlemen 9pm
The Westend Pumphouse
Jed Appleton 8:30pm
The Whaler
Finn Seccombe, Ruben Reeves 6:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar - The Ancients (Vic) + Milk Teddy (Vic) + Pines
Brisbane Hotel
Front Bar Late - Gone Fishin’ with Rainbow Trout + Eazy Eadz + Crème Brulee + Bird Canyon
Brisbane Hotel
Upstairs - Pselodux (Vic) + Bikini Atoll + Laura Macfarlane (Vic) + Onion Engine (Vic)
Federation Concert Hall
Dark Mofo Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3 7:30pm
Grand Poobah
Sunday
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Wrong Place (Right Time) Presents: An afternoon of bands - Orlando Furious, Treehouse, Calamari Girls, Mondo Cool, Mount Trout, Starklane, Phoebe Robertson & Mia Schoen, The Satin Worshippers, The Foxy Morons & The Pits 1pm
Onyx
Ebeneza Good 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
24Seven 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Tim Davies / Entropy
The Homestead
A One Night Stant feat. Gecko Stance, Grommet + more
Wrest Point Ent. Centre
APIA Good Times Tour 8pm
Wednesday
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Rory Ellis 7pm
Federation Concert Hall
The Bold and The Beautiful 7:30pm
Onyx
Duncan “Sticks” Warburton 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
After Work Acoustic Sessions in The Beer Garden with Matt Edmunds + Free BBQ 5pm
Republic Bar & Café
Dave Wilson Band 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink
The Apple Shed
Golden Gate Duo 6pm
The Homestead
The Black Swans of Trespass 9pm
The Westend Pumphouse
Kat Edwards 8:30pm
The Whaler
Dylan Eynon, Michael Priest 6:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
THE BRISBANE HOTEL’S 9TH BIRTHDAY!
Grand Poobah
Burlesque After Dark 9pm
Onyx
Jerome Hillier 10pm
Pier One
Billy & Tilly 6pm
Republic Bar & Café
Cunning Stunts - A Tribute to Metallica 10pm
Telegraph Hotel
Ado & Devo / Serotonin
The Homestead
Harmony Byrne (Vic), Maddy Jane & the Janes, Amistat (Vic) 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 8:30pm
Customs House Hotel
Noteworthy: Kat & Oscar, Harrison Manton, Joel Barker 2:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Cert 4 Collective 8:30pm
The Homestead
Dane Overton 7pm
The Waratah Hotel
Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Voglino 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Billy Whitton 8:30pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Dance In A Shoebox 8:30pm
Grand Poobah
Atomic Suplex DJ’s 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett Mangus Duo 8:30pm
Bingo w/ The Jolly Jellybean Juicer
The Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Customs House Hotel
Noteworthy: Anita Cairns, Dylan Eynon, Lauren O’Keeye 2:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 8:30pm
Grand Poobah
Comrad Xero YT, Oceans, Projekt Camus & Cactus
Grand Poobah
Drum Up Big presents Midwinter Community Rhythm Immersion Event 3pm
Grand Poobah
Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat & El Perezidente 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
Find Rye Fundraiser Sunday 19th June 2pm Many local bands coming together in support of the family $20 2pm
Republic Bar & Café
Tim & Scott 8:30pm
The Homestead
The Stitch 7:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Blue Flies 8:30pm
JULY
The Homestead
The Sign 7pm
Friday
1
Grand Poobah
The Waratah Hotel
Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm
Hazey Daze Presents: Sleep D (Mel), Mr Sinclair (Perth), Bronze Savage & Bird Canyon 9pm
Telegraph Hotel
Tim Davies / Entropy
Saturday
2
The Homestead
The Dead Maggies 8pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink
Sunday
3
The Homestead
Zach Spinks
Republic Bar & Café
Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm
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Birdcage Bar
Sambo 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Jed Appleton 8:30pm
The Homestead
Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Aly Rae Patmore Trio 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Dane Overton 8:30pm
Telegraph Hotel
Micheal Clennett
The Homestead
The Social Club with Vibrant Matters + Shearwater 8:30pm
The Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Birdcage Bar
James Maddock 8:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Bennies (Vic) + Clowns (Vic) + Axe Girl
Republic Bar & Café
Rory Ellis Duo 8:30pm
The Homestead
Finn Seccombe Duo 7:30pm
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27
Punks For West Papua (Benefit Show)
Brookfield Margate
Brisbane Hotel
Tuesday
Friday
Monday
Brisbane Hotel
Fiona Whitla 8:30pm
Billy & Randal 8:30pm
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Birdcage Bar
Birdcage Bar
Thursday
Sunday
Venue
The Homestead
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Sub Theory presents Simon Caldwell, Simon TK, Jennifer Loveless, Natural Bronze, Finn Whitla & The Count 9pm
Monday
Wednesday
Saturday
LISTEN Presents Simona Castricum (Vic) + Stina Tester I Cinta Masters (Vic) + Beyond Elk (Vic) + Zoe Zac + Straddlepuss + Louise Love (Vic) + Xero
Brisbane Hotel
Grand Poobah
Date
The Waratah Hotel
Unlocked 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo & Patto 9pm
Thursday
30
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Event Guide
Launceston Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Bakers Lane
The Brew: The Art of Surviving, Luke Triffitt, Angus Austin
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Andy Collins 9pm
Club 54
Interview With An Escape Artist, Slow Descent, Break Through
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Tin Lion (Melb) 9pm
Watergarden
Clinton Hutton 7pm
Club 54
Private Party
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Max Hillman Showband 9pm
Tonic
Off The Cuff 8pm
Watergarden
Sambo (& Patto) 7pm
JUNE Thursday
2
Friday
3
Saturday
4
Sunday
5
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm
Wednesday
8
Club 54
Sorority Wednesdays
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Julio Mathew
Watergarden
Jerome Hillier 6:30pm
Bakers Lane
The Brew: Turbulence (Acoustic), Eve Gowen, Chris Jackson
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Ratfunk 9pm
Club 54
Cardinels + Squid Fishing + Alice Headlam
Country Club Showroom
The Greats of 80’s Country Music - The Johnny Cash Show 8pm
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Mick Attard 9pm
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
9
10
11
Watergarden
Jerome Hillier 7pm
Club 54
Pitt The Elder + The Sleepyheads + Cuban Heel
The Royal Oak
Boat Shed - Electric Boogaloo 8pm
Tonic
Jerome Hillier 8pm
Watergarden
Day Star Duo 7pm
Sunday
12
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm
Wednesday
15
Club 54
Sorority Wednesdays
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Hoolio & Hangus 9pm
Watergarden
Tassie Tenor 6:30pm
Bakers Lane
The Brew: Nick Bennett, Alice Headlam, Trent Buchanan
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - The Hat & The Horn 9pm
Club 54
Third Degree, New Wave Saints, Brodygreg
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Ronny & Phoebe 9pm
Watergarden
Rino Morea 7pm
Club 54
Bullet House + Isa + Tim Gambles
Country Club Showroom
Foster & Allen 4pm
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Dave Adams & Purple Cane Church 9pm
Tonic
Nat & Andy 8pm
Watergarden
Adam Page 7pm
The Royal Oak
Boat Shed - Open Jazz Jam 1pm
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm
Club 54
The Bennies + Clowns + Axe Girl
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Angus Austin 9pm
Watergarden
Tony Voglino 6:30pm
Bakers Lane
The Brew: Tiarni Cane, Michael Priest, Dani Quillam
The Royal Oak
Boat Shed - TAFE TAS Concert 8pm
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Mick Attard 9pm
Club 54
Lip Sync Battle #6
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Roller Rockers Rockin Roll 9pm
Watergarden
Tassie Tenor 7pm
Club 54
Cubal Heel + Ocean Bones + Jacob Hull
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Guthrie 9pm
Tonic
Tony Voglino 8pm
Watergarden
Rino Morea 7pm
The Royal Oak
Boat Shed - Open Blues Jam 1pm
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm
Club 54
Sorority Wednesdays
The Royal Oak
Boat Shed - Open Mic Night 9pm
Watergarden
Rino Morea 6:30pm
Bakers Lane
The Brew: Harry & Fraser, Sara Wright, Dylan Labuschagne
The Royal Oak
Public Bar - The Blackstone Dukes 9pm
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Wednesday
Thursday
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