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Surf/rockabilly/60’s extravaganza band La Bastard are back. They have a rep as being one of Melbourne’s wildest live bands - with antics ranging from playing on tabletops and bars to entire crowds storming the stage, and now Hobart will get a chance to see what all the fuss is about. Joining forces with local legends, The Sin & Tonics, and Mangus, La Bastard will be rocking out at the Republic Bar & Café on Friday March 8. On Saturday March 9 they’ll be invading The Royal Oak Hotel in Launceston, again with The Sin & Tonics. Cover charge is only $5 a pop.
Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania’s international arts festival, (Ten Days) is Australia’s only, state-wide, international arts festival and Tasmania’s premier cultural event. But if you think you’ve seen it all before, this year’s a doozy, with some really exciting theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature, film and food events and will deliver a multitude of accessible, as well as specialised, arts and cultural experiences to people of all ages. Our picks include The Select (The Sun Also Rises) based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, As We Forgive: Three morality tales for an Amoral Age, Ten Canoes, THINKtent, Objects in Place, Murder, Ockham’s Razor, As We Forgive, and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (legend). March 15-24 around the island, grab a program at www. tendaysontheisland.com SHOCKING: WRITERS UNITE
TIME TO STOP HOLDING YOUR BREATH So apparently you lot aren’t sick of music festivals yet? You so cray, you cray cray. Anyway, Breath of Life Festival has added even more acts to their list. Metalcore doodz, I Killed the Prom Queen have been announced as a replacement for House vs. Hurricane, who unfortunately had to pull out so vocalist Dan Casey could get his eyeball operated on. Also, as winners of the 2012 Tasmanian Rock Challenge (college section), The Modern Cure and (high school section winners), Panda Modium have been added. Aaaand the two winners from the recent B.O.L. DJ Play Offs have been announced and added, from the south, it’s DJ Mad, and from the north, it’s Ashley Tiffen, who will both go directly to the Ministry of Sound stage to perform. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Unless that’s how much Breath of Life is paying you. TESTING, TESTING
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“The Shock of the Now” is the theme for this year’s Tasmanian Writers Festival and it’s packed with literary guiding lights shining across a weekend of literary and cultural inspiration when writers, readers and thinkers come together to engage in conversation and exchange ideas. Peter Singer, ethicist, international author and controversial provocateur of thought and analysis, will present the keynote address. Frank Moorhouse, one of Australia’s finest writers, hosts The Martini Lecture, which is one of the numerous public and industry sessions for readers and writers. Other writers include Anita Heiss, Michael Leunig, Isobelle Carmody, Anne Summers, Jon Kudelka, Robert Dessaix, Peter Timms, Tony Birch, Damon Young, John Martinkus, Rebecca Fitzgibbon, and many others including writers who live and work in Tasmania. Keynote Address: $40/$25, Festival Pass: $195/$165, Day Pass: $90/$70, Masterclasses and selected events: $55/$35 and Individual Sessions: $20/$18. www.tasmanianwriters.org THE THREE C’s?
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Here’s a test for you. Salamanca Arts Centre’s major visual arts exhibition for 2013 kicks off on March 14 in the Long Gallery, curated by Julie Gough, as part of Ten Days on the Island. The idea is that artists - local, national and international – are tasked with testing their creative process by making experimental works that destabilise their ideas of gender, place and identity. It’ll be free entry, continuing until April 28. www. salarts.org.au
Mercury decided they were the foster act they wanted to promote to their readers. Go media power! Anyway, after a year and a bit of being everyone’s favourite band they’ve never actually heard, The Christopher Coleman Collective have finally decided to release a three track EP. Titled Burnt Black Wood, The CCC (Christopher Coleman Collective, not Clarence City Council) will be launching all three songs, that are already on the radio, at MONA’s The Void on Friday March 15 at 6.30pm. Free entry and all ages (underagers need to be with an oldy tho). So there you go. BLUES IN THE VALLEY The Forth Valley Blues Festival is in its sixteenth year in 2013. That’s quite an accomplishment in itself. As always, it’ll be taking place on the third weekend in March, which this year, is March 16 and 17. The popular event offers the usual benefits of free camping on the Saturday night, a great range of food, music and other stalls, bar facilities, motorbike show and shine competition, all while grooving out to 13 hours of continuous blues music in a relaxed, family friendly atmosphere. Entry is $50 for adults over 18, $25 for 16-17 year olds, and free for kids under 15 (must be accompanied by an adult). For more details, head along to www.forthvalleyblues.com THE LUCK OF THE IRISH If an Irish pub isn’t doing something awesome on St. Patrick’s day (March 17), well, they suck. Irish Murphy’s in Hobart is doing heaps of stuff, so they’re not sucking. Over the course of the weekend, they’ll be having a heap of live music, Irish food, and a whole bunch of promotional things happening. Saturday night will see Craic Pot and Mashup take the stage, while the Sunday will see the Hobart Pipe Band, The Foley Artists, Sly Grog Shanty Band, and Howl & Crow (Melb) take the stage. They’ll also be open for breakfast from 8am. There’s nothing like a good Irish breakfast on St. Patrick’s Day! ALLSTAR CIRCUS The 360 Allstars are an “urban circus” act that fortunately have absolutely nothing to do with the rapper 360. Consisting of BMX tricks, crazy drumming, basketball freestyling, roue cyr, and looping in an 80 minute extravaganza that will quite possibly leave you a bit dizzy, the 360 Allstars are made up of performers from all corners of the globe, all champions in their individual fields. The 360 Allstars will be performing at the Princess Theatre on Monday March 25 and Tuesday March 26. For ticketing information, check out theatrenorth.com.au OUT OF THE JUNGLE
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The Yacht Club DJs have announced their touring buddies for their current Mayhem tour. Sydney indie outfit Step-Panther are a
band that wishes it were the Incredible Hulk, but it is just a band. See them add an extra bit of crazy to two nights at The Republic Bar & Café on March 28 and 29. Local supports on the night will be DJ’s Fantini and Jesse.
Sunday May 12, DJ Afrika Bambaataa will appear at The Republic Bar & Café. Tickets are $35 plus b/f and are available from the venue, Ruffcut and Moshtix. This is one not to be missed.
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Well by the time this mag is in your mits, Hungry Kids of Hungary would have dropped their sophomore release You’re a Shadow, and, as bands do in this day and age, they’re setting off on a tour to promote the thing. This includes an Anzac Day Eve (Wednesday April 24) stop in Hobart at the Waratah Hotel. They’ll be joined by The Preatures, who are a “romping Sydney quintet”, apparently. Also a second support act to be announced closer to the gig. Tickets are 18+ only, will run you $21.45, and are already available via oztix and the venue. MOMA FINALI
MoMa (Mona Market) continues Saturdays from 11am to 4pm on the Mona lawns until March 30, 2013. MoMa is MONA’s radical art and produce market - where junky souvenirs are banned and we all relish in the art of living. Curated by David Walsh’s loving partner, Kirsha Kaechele, MoMa brings together urban growers, makers and artists, teepees, food, art and artful food, and live music each week. www.momahobart.net.au
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Remember Jebediah? Sure you do. You loved them. I know you did. I saw you. Anyway, Jebediah’s main-hombre (Kevin Mitchell) is about to make his live comeback as his solo alter ego Bob Evans. Touring his new album Familiar Stranger, Bob Evans will be hitting the stage with a full live band, and will be supported by Tigertown and Davey Lane everywhere he goes. Two of those places will be in Tasmania, one of them will be Launceston’s Hotel New York on Wednesday April 24, and the other will be Hobart’s The Republic Bar and Café on Friday April 26. MORE CASH FOR THE AIRWAVES Stephen Conroy finally did something notlame. He announced that the government will provide an additional $250,000 to ensure the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (Amrap) continues for a further six months. Hobart’s Edge Radio is one of the dozens of Australian community radio stations who rely on the services of AMRAP to source and deliver new Australian music to its listeners. Amrap Manager Chris Johnson has heralded the renewed funding. “This vital funding ensures that over the next six months Amrap can keep getting great Australian music to the airwaves and we look forward to an ongoing commitment from the government so Amrap can continue well beyond this financial year”, Johnson said.
Adam Hills is quite a funny dude. Which is handy when you’re a stand up comic. He’ll be standing up comically on stages all around the country when his Happyism tour kicks off in late April. It’s his first tour in three years, which makes it highly anticipated, three years worth of high anticipation right there. Wrest Point Entertainment Centre has a stage, and Adam Hills will be standing up on it, probably telling a few jokes too, he is quite a funny dude after all. Saturday April 27 is when you’ll be able to watch him stand, it’ll cost you $48 to do it though. Tickets on sale Monday February 11, and are available via tixtas.com.au. GRAND CELEBRATIONS Hobart Baroque is a brand spanking new event celebrating the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. From April 12 to April 20, Baroque fans (Baroqueists?) will be able to catch live performances all around Hobart (mostly at the Theatre Royal, though). There’ll also be the odd masterclass or two. For more information on what promises to be something interesting and out of the ordinary for Taswegia, check out Hobartbaroque.com.au. You can grab tickets and find out how to become a Hobart Baroque patron while you’re there! THE MONEY SHOT BOFA is trying to foster film making in Tasmania, and they’re doing so by once again partnering with Tourism Tasmania in their Essence of Tasmania Short Film Competition 2013. Prize money of $20k is up for grabs in the form of four $5000 prizes. Filmmakers are encouraged to capture the essence of Tasmania in the form of a story rather than a travelogue of images. Entries are open now, and close on May 31. For more information on how to enter, go to the BOFA website (http://bofa.com.au/2013/ home/prizes-awards/). Entrants must apply through the entry form on the website, and films must be recorded in HD. WIZARDS AND GIZZARDS AND LIZARDS AND MORE
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King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard have a funny old name. They also have a new album called Eyes Like The Sky. Well, sort of, anyway. It’s more of a spaghetti western audio book, really. They’re billing it as a rambling tale of badassery and retribution, honour and dishonour, the lay of the land and the criminals who roam it. Featuring legendary musician Broderick Smith (The Dingoes) as narrator (and writer). Drums swell and credits roll. Wild, wild west, baby. For more information on the album, head along to www. kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com.
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“Blues is a part of life. Everybody gets the blues from time to time, some more than others. It’s at the core of music it’s about expressing feelings not making money.”
WE ALL GET THE BLUES WITH A FRESH LIVE STUDIO ALBUM IN THE BAG, SHAUN KIRK HAS PACKED HIS GUITAR, HARMONICA, STOMP BOX, PEDALS AND MORE TO TRAVEL THE COUNTRY OFFERING UP HIS ONE MAN BAND SERMON TO ANYBODY WITH WILLING EARS.
Shaun Kirk has been described in the media as “one of the finest blues voices this country has ever heard” and has recently recorded that voice on a live studio album titled The Wick Sessions. Inspired by Freddie King’s In Concert: Dallas, Texas – 1973, Shaun Kirk set out to produce his own live recording at the Wick Studios in Melbourne. A collection of original back catalogue, some covers of blues classics and one new release, Every Dog Will Have its Day, Shaun recorded each of the tracks whole without any editing or over dubbing in front of the live recording crew. The DVD component contains interviews with Shaun between tracks. I asked why blues musicians tend to play a lot more covers in their live shows then musicians of other genres, often stretching back to the turn of the 20th century. “Initially I was intrigued by these songs most of which people had never heard before,” he said. “I could play a cover but not be classed as a cover band. I still have to sell these songs as people don’t know what they are, but it’s a cooler way of doing cover songs when people think they are originals. “I find blues songs are a little easier to relate to then other genres. Blues covers are 6
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general to heartache and hard life, stuff that we can all relate to instantly.” Do these songs still have relevance 100 years on in the 21st century? “The will always will be relevant. Blues is a part of life. Everybody get the blues from time to time, some more than others. It’s at the core of music it’s about expressing feelings, not making money.” Blues artists seem to keep playing to their grave, with careers spanning half a century or more. Foremost bluesmen Buddy Guy and B.B.King toured Australia last year, both in their seventies. People have commented that Shaun Kirk was only going to get better with age. Are blues artists like fine red wine, only getting better with age? “Age works in our favour - blues doesn’t fade, it’s a lifestyle not just a genre. Genuine blues musicians live it as their life. I intend to do the same.” A recent successful off-shoot of the blues has been the worldwide roots movement. Championed by international artists such as Ben Harper, roots has found a home in Australia among artists such as John Butler, Xavier Rudd, Ash Grunwald to name just a few. Shaun Kirk admits that there is a roots element to his songs, but feels strongly that he is a blues artist first. “How I was always look at the blues – is can sing about a hard time but put a smile on the audiences face then you know you are doing the right thing. “ Shaun’s style has developed into a one-manband. Born of necessity of keeping true to a full time musical career, he was unable to afford paying for a support band. Instead he experimented with trying to be his own band. On stage besides his vocals and trusty
guitar, Shaun wears a harmonica around his neck, stomp box at his feet and enclosed by his own compact drumkit. Is the one-manband a creation of blues musicians? “Guess so… You would hear Son House and Charley Patton in the recordings stomping on the floor with their boots as a backing. As times progressed the stomp box was created and it moved on from there.” Currently playing a setup that includes hi-hats and crash cymbals, snare and kick drum, stomp box, guitar, harmonica and vocals without the use of any looping pedals. Can you possibly incorporate more? “I’m confident, though at times i’m almost doing the splits on stage. For me it’s more a case of flexibility rather than co-ordination. Currently I’m more interested in creating different grooves with the instruments that I have then adding more elements to my music.” So for any real bluesman, the real question is what they would be willing to trade for their soul if they were to chance meet the devil at a deserted crossroads. “If he could give me a nice house, a nice family and a happy life I’m cool with that and play my music and make other people happy as well, he could have my soul.” “And world peace.” NIC ORME
Shaun Kirk plays three shows in Tasmania as part of album tour; The Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart on Thursday April 4, Tapas Bar & Lounge in Devonport on Friday April 5 and finishes off in Launceston at The Royal Oak Hotel on Saturday April 6.
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DENIZ ON DETROIT DENIZ TEK IS A SURVIVOR OF FOUR DECADES OF ROCK MUSIC AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF RADIO BIRDMAN, THE MAN MOONLIGHTS AS AN ER DOCTOR IN TWO COUNTRIES AND IS AN EXHIBITED PAINTER AND SCULPTER. HE HAS ALSO JUST RELEASED HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM IN OVER TEN YEARS TITLED DETROIT. Radio Birdman is synonymous with Australian indie rock. Arriving on the scene in the mid 1970s, the band influence shaped a generation of bands that followed. Breaking up in 1978, key founder Deniz Tek went on to a be a member of The Visitors, The Angie Pepper Band, New Race, The Deniz Tek Group and til current his solo career. Reforming in 1996, Radio Birdman went on to be inducted into the Australian Music Hall of Fame in 2007. The band officially called it a day soon after. Tek, unlike many other ageing rock stars, has maintained a successful medical career, spending time in the US Navy as a flight surgeon and moving on to become an ER Doctor which he continues to practise inbetween Australia and Hawaii. What else there is to do? “A lot more music to start with,” Tek says. “I’m also interested in is teaching, I have a lot of medical experience and having worked in emergency departments for 25 years and have seen plenty of things you don’t see in text books. I want to transmit this on to
the next generation of doctors. I’ve started painting and sculpting, mostly abstract and expressionist but also landscape and portraits. “Sculptures I make out of old pieces of iron I find from along railway tracks which I weld together into abstract or animal shapes. As they are all rusted up they suit more to being outside. I have an exhibition coming up on the fifth of April with new paintings. “With my artwork I can be a little more free; there is no history. The music has a big history. There is no expectation with my art so i can play and experiment with it. Clearly in exhibiting my musical history has help to get my stuff considered. So it’s impossible to completely separate the two. So as an artist and musician, what does Tek associate more with, love or escape? “I go with love - both its positive and negative things. In writing it’s all about grief and loss. Not so much remorse, but more along the negative side. With performing I’m more about the positive and exuberance. It’s so much more fun to do. “Negative emotions seem to provide more to write about. When things are going well and people are content there isn’t the need to consider what is going on but when there is tragedy, loss and grief and it forces people to examine. “I’m not a negative person, but negative things happen to everyone and those are things that spark creative and be
introspective about things.” Pushing further I asked if this had changed for him over the 40 years he has been making music. Where they the same feelings with clarity behind them or something else? “I take performing far less seriously. In the old days it was life or death. These days I enjoy it more and have more fun. Writing I take far more seriously in my evolution. Back in the day I had no problem writing complete nonsense for lyrics. Now I find it very important.” I asked about his early days in Radio Birdman, if he ever viewed he could make a career out of music. “We were anti-commercial. We were seen and viewed ourselves as outlaws. There never was an expectation that we would be commercial viable. We felt the most important thing was to take our live performances very seriously. We played every performance as if it might have been our very last and summoned every last shred of energy to make our shows passionate and extreme every time we played. “Early on we were thrown out of a lot of places. They would pull the power out two songs in and the bouncers would kick us out into the car-park. They didn’t like our attitude. By the time the Sex Pistols were doing it became accepted, it wasn’t new anymore and didn’t frighten venue owners as much and they saw they could make money out of it.” The new album Detroit is a culmination of the past three years. With Radio Birdman finally making the decision to permanently disband in 2008, Tek slowly took to producing his new solo album. In Australia he has brought together a backing band for his current album tour featuring ex-Birdman Philip Hoyle on keys, Andy Newman from The Visitors on bass and Gerard Presland of The Hitmen on drums. This will be the first time that Tek has played in Tasmania and something he is relishing. Coming back to the title of his new album Detroit, Tek grew up in neighbouring Ann Arbour but spent plenty of time in the motor city. I asked what the two cities meant to him “Still home. I haven’t lived there in a long time, but i go back regularly to visit. It’s home really and it’s full of memories for me. Detroit has changed a lot since I knew it. Ann Arbor not so much, it’s a quiet place which I prefer. To go back and see how devastated Detroit is an eye opener and not somewhere I would choose to live as it’s rife with crime and packs of feral dogs roam some of the neighbourhoods.
“I’m not a negative person, but negative things happen to everyone and those are things that spark creative and be introspective about things.”
“I do like to think Detroit can be saved though. Land is cheap and plenty of artists are moving in to the old warehouses turning them into art spaces. Pleny of areas have turned back to nature and small urban farms have sprouted up. I maybe might buy something there.” I finish with asking Tek what is the most beautiful, and the most ugly thing you’ve ever seen? He replies, “Detroit.” NIC ORME
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15 – 24 TEN DAYS MARCH ON THE 2013 ISLAND
Tasmania’s International Arts Festival 2013
15 – 24 MARCH 2013 500 artists from around the world and Tasmania. 500 artists from around the world and Tasmania.
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WE GOT THE FUNK WHAT IS IT TO BE FUNKY? A WHITE TASMANIAN GIRL MAY ASK. IT’S HARD TO DEFINE, BUT GEORGE CLINTON, THE PROCLAIMED GODFATHER OF FUNK, DR. FUNKENSTEIN, CAPTAIN OF THE MOTHERSHIP OF FUNK DELIVERANCE ITSELF, SHOULD BE THE FIRST PORT OF CALL.
Throughout his career he has done with Funk what Hendrix did with Rock and Roll, what Dylan did with Folk: he redefined it and made it his own, one intergalactic riff at a time. It all started in 1955 with a Doo Wop band called The Parliaments. While it was an unassuming start to a prolific career, they did get one hit single with (I Wanna) Testify. When Clinton had issues with The Parliaments’ label, he signed the band by the name Funkadelic and things started to happen. In both Parliament and Funkadelic Clinton and his ever evolving crew experimented with the melding of genres. Influenced particularly by Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Frank Zappa, they took what was Funky and soulful from Stone and James Brown and added, with all the required genius and capability, Hendrix style Rock n Roll. But on another level, still, it was more than this; it was silly, flamboyant, and psychedelic. Rainbow dreadlocks, sparkly space suits, nappies, nudity and wigs were (and still are) the front for the huge ensemble of talented but crazy musicians playing at any one show.
In 1982 Clinton launched into a solo career, during which he collaborated with numerous artists. The Red Hot Chili Peppers had him, in all his funky wisdom, produce their 1985 album Freaky Styley, back in the days when they slapped more bass. He contributed to albums by Prince, Snoop Dogg, Primal Scream, 2Pac, Wu-Tang Clan and Ice Cube to name a bare few. Come the 90’s, it became clear just how many musicians were influenced by Clinton. He was sampled by the likes of MC Hammer, LL Cool, and Snoop Dogg. He is now amongst the most sampled artists of all time. In 1997, with 15 band members, were inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Ultimately, the funky philosophy of Clinton’s empire lies in the phrase “free your mind and your ass will follow”. I feel that Hobart is largely deprived of the funk, but when Clinton and his 22 piece P-Funk Space Circus hits MONA, I’m sure we’ll do our best to summon The Mothership.
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Sure enough, it took off. During the 70s the band had more than 40 R&B hit singles, including Aqua Boogie, Flash Light, Get Off Your Ass and Jam, and One Nation Under a Groove. Three songs were number one hits, and three albums made Platinum. It became a genre of its own, P-Funk, ruled by Clinton and the 50-plus artists who recorded with him Among the most prominent are Bootsy Collins, his brother Phelps “Catfish” Collins, both from the JBs, lead guitarist Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell, Walter “Junie” Morrison, Garry “Diaperman” Shider (thus known, naturally, for his stage diaper).
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JAMMING WITH THE LIEUTENTANT
Having completed their debut album late last year, When I Say Jump, the four-piece were looking for ways to promote their album along with themselves.
YOU GOT TO LOVE A NOVEL IDEA AND THE GUYS FROM MELBOURNE’S LIEUTENANT JAM HAVE COME UP WITH A PEARLER.
Now everybody loves a good house party and when a callout for 3 bands to perform turns into a 23-band guitar fest, you know you are guaranteed a memorable night even after the cops have shut your down for the third time and drag your arse back to the station. The latter part may not have happened to Lieutenant Jam, but the runaway response was enough for the band to form a collective with other friendly bands aptly named House Party on Wheels.
They may be an indie rock band, but will happily stray into blues, jazz and Latin if the mood is right. With some instant success on Triple J’s unearthed indie chart with the track I’m not insane’, the guys have embarked on the first stages of an album tour including Joel Brokate’s home town Hobart with the intention of making it to Europe quick smart. The band even makes their own jam which you can buy at their gigs. Now that’s creative merchandising. NIC ORME
Launching this March, House Party on Wheels is a way for the bands involved to get noticed in the neighbourhood. Check the website www.housepartyonwheels.com. You provide the venue, House Party on Wheels provides the bands and you and your friends get to rock out to your very own mini-festival. The guys even offer to come back the next day to scrub your floors... How can you go wrong? Back to the Lieutentant. Formed mid 2012 when ex housemates Fernando Castaneda and Joel Brokate, freshly back from London decided it was ripe time to form a band. Enlisting Fernado’s boss Saint John and Joel’s girlfriend Loz Dinelli to the cause, Lietentant Jam was brought into the world.
CLAWING AT THE EDGES NOTHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS IS PITIABLE. CAT POWER HAS BEEN CALLED AN INDIE SONGSTRESS, BUT THAT’S A HACK TITLE BORN OF INEPT PRAISE.
Lieutenant Jam play The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart on Friday March 22 with supports The Archetypal, Peter Dickybird and Concrete Lines.
She’s a musician, an artist, a person that strikes out from the darkness of night and sound. I know her actual name because I had 20 seconds to spend on the internet, if you don’t know it, it doesn’t fucking matter, now is a great time to dive in and meet Cat. She’s beautiful and broken, singing always with a measured timbre that is a tease of deep emotion, like a ghost overcoming you. Y’know, she’s come a long way since recording two albums in one day back in 1994 with Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar… Which is kind of unsur-fucking-prising since 19 years is hard to pass through without moving. But do you see how I linked her credits with a date to give you context? I’m totes brilliant. Every few years since those beginnings, she’s released an album, usually doing something unique with it, getting due praise, working with different and respected musicians, been embraced by fashion, advertising and film. All the while her personal life has been beautifully chaotic, and her performances have become an abiding issue, for good or ill; usually ill. However, as someone who hasn’t seen dozens and dozens of her shows, I’m not invested in that history. It’s been said that her shows, especially around the early 2000s, were often unpolished, abruptly finished, and beleaguered by stage fright, and the subsequent alcohol excesses. Even if that has largely faded behind new chapters in her life and career, I don’t know about you kids, but I like my artists volatile and flawed. JARRED KEANE
Cat Power plays Mona Long Weekend on Sunday March 10. Tickets available from www.mona.net.au
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Over One Huge WeekenD ON THE LOW DOWN WITH LOWRIDER LOWRIDER ARE OUT OF THE STUDIO AND BACK ON THE ROAD, WITH THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM BLACK STONES. Recorded during 2012 in between the famed Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles and Chapel Lane Studios in Adelaide, the album - combined with an extensive tour of the United States - has seen Lowrider out of action in the local touring scene till now. We asked Lowrider’s Keyboard player John Bartlett a few questions... WARP: What are you looking most forward too on hitting the road for the album tour? John Bartlett: I just can’t wait to get out there and catch up with all our fans again. It’s been a while since we’ve toured in Australia due to our trip to USA last year and being busy writing/recording the new album. And it’s the fans that allow us to do what we do so I can’t wait to play all the new tracks live for them. W: Stand out track on the new album? JB: The 15 minute piano solo that was unfortunately cut from the album last minute. But seriously, this album for me is by far the most difficult of our albums to pick favourite tracks. I find taking the tracks to the stage adds a new perspective on them so am really looking forward to touring the Black Stones album and who knows, maybe I will have a clear favourite by the end.
getting to watch Rage Against The Machine 6 times will always be a great memory. W: Would you trade spots in the band given the opportunity and to what? JB: I was once considering trading places with Joe (Lowrider’s singer) but then realised my beard is nowhere near dense enough to fulfil the role. A lucky realisation because as much as keyboards aren’t the most visually amazing instrument to perform on, I love the feeling of being on stage in my keyboard world so wouldn’t wanna trade spots and lose that. W: What band would it be for you to drop Lowrider for if asked to join and why? JB: It would probably be someone like Metallica, because they don’t require any keyboards so boy would that make my job easy! Just sit back, enjoy some awesome music and travel the world. NIC ORME
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AN UNSUNG HERO OF AMERICAN UNDERGROUND HIP HOP, ODDISEE HAS HAD A LONG AND STORIED CAREER THAT’S NEVER LACKED CREATIVITY OR PRODUCTIVITY. Oddisee is joined by vocalist and instrumentalist Olivier Daysoul, a bit of a a go-to guy for soulful hooks in hip hop and EDM of late. The duo has worked together on numerous releases, for numerous labels, but March will be they visit Hobart. From an Australian point of view, aside from a small selection of radio stations and hip hop stores around the country, underground US hip hop with an intelligent and soulful edge is nowhere near as readily available as it probably in the States; our main hope is to search for it online. WARP: Was there a certain point when you realised you had an Australian fan base keen for a tour? Oddisee: Discovery through the internet is mutual for fan and artist alike. As an underground artist, I’m tied to my product, when people discover me, I discover them as well. Social networks showed me a growing response in Australia, New Zealand and several other countries I had no idea I had a following in. Once the records are being heard, generally it’s only a matter of time before the show offers start to come in. People always say not to judge a book by its cover, but as a record digger, I feel like first impressions are undeniably influential when selecting a record. What do you look for on a sleeve? That’s a tough one. To be honest, I turn the album over to look at who played on it. If I recognize some of the players or producers from another record, that’s usually a sign that I’ll find something I want to flip. In the Australian hip hop community, it’s common for a lot of well-known artists 12
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to attend local shows and support their fellow hip hop artists. Is there a similar collegiality in New York? I’m from Washington, DC. Much of my time in NY is spent in the house working on music as I don’t go out much. In DC however, we have the same camaraderie. There’s lots of support given to one another in our scene. What real life experience has inspired you most to write a song? I couldn’t pick on in specific but my travels in general are always my main source of inspiration. You’re touring with a soulful singer by the name of Olivier Daysoul, who’s known most recently for his work with electronic artists like Hudson Mohawke and Onra. What does Olivier contribute to your live show? Olivier is my best friend, we’ve known each other for 12 years. I’ve produced a large portion of his work and he’s also in my band. After touring with my band recently I fell in love with the feel of the band. It’s not always feasible for me to take my entire band with my so Olivier & I developed a set that can be done by he and I. It adds a great dynamic to my show. RYAN FARRINGTON
Oddisee and Olivier Daysoul perform at the Republic Bar & Cafe Wednesday March 13. Support comes from Launceston’s Akouo. Presales $10 or $15 on the door.
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“I’m happy with my long term musical career rather than 6 months of short-lived fame.”
FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS, JORDAN MILLAR TREKS UP THE EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA WITH HIS GOOD FRIEND JACK CARTY. Now long settled in Sydney, 25 year-old Jordan Millar has been very busy indeed. Credited with clocking up over 1000 live performances over the past seven years, Jordan has averaged around 150 shows each year. He has a backpack constantly packed near his front door and his 1993 Toyota Camry station-wagon, affectionately named Betsy, is kitted out permanently with a sleeping bag and gear for the road. He’s played headline tours and supports for Xavier Rudd and Lisa Mitchell, festival slots at Falls and Byron Bay Blues and Roots, and even prime-time TV on The Morning Show. The majority of shows have been awesome but some have been terrible, he laughs. “I was playing an acoustic night in a bar in Traralgon (rural Victoria) to four people playing pool. One of them jumped onto the stage while I was playing a funk song and demanded that I play Metallica.”
Jordan finally gets to expand his horizons again with first time tours of the United States and Europe lined up for the second half of the year. He’s made six EPs and one full length album and the current tour is in aid of his recently released album, Cold Lights on Curious Minds. Recorded and produced in full at Jordan’s home studio, Jordan is proud of his DIY nature. A blend of pop, folk and bluesy acoustic riffs, mixed with intimate and often candid lyrics, Jordan has had plenty of opportunity to take on the role of producer of his own album, a title he relishes. As a multi instrumentalist, he had time to experiment with drums, bass, piano, guitars and vocals on each song before recording the final take with his band. Passion for being a producer has spilt out into working with a number of young performers that he met on the road or via friends of friends. His home studio has
become a viable option for like-minded musicians unable to afford professional studio time, securing the preferable reality of “a producer that will work with them on their song composition versus a studio engineer who only presses record and stop.” Jordan has won many accolades and competitions over the years. Back in his days living in Hobart he won Amplified best upcoming artist in 2005 and followed this up in 2006 with best Tasmanian artist of the year. “For me this was a huge game changer. It was a huge benefit to me. This prize was great, recording time with Paul McKercher at Electric Avenue in Sydney followed by mastering at Studios 301. It helped me to build a network in Sydney as i was just in the process of moving over at the time.”
Australian Idol, Australia’s Got Talent. He laughed: “No. ” “Funnily enough I have been asked by the producers of The Voice and Australia’s Got Talent on several occasions to come onto the shows. They need the right acts, but it makes it ‘doing it your way’ hard as you become a product of a studio/record company. Soon as they leave you behind, it becomes very hard. I’m happy with my long term musical career rather than 6 months of short-lived fame.” So what is next for Jordan Millar? “Overseas touring for the first time, another Australian tour at the end of the year and then I start my new album. This one will be electric.” NIC ORME
He points out that Amplified was huge boost to his career and something that should be strongly supported by the state government for fostering young musicians. As a regular competition prize recipient, I had to ask if he had auditioned for any of the television music shows such as X-Factor,
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MUSIC FOR YOUR SOUL AMALI WARD HAS COME A LONG WAY SINCE APPEARING ON AUSTRALIAN IDOL AT AGE 16. THE FORMER HOBART GIRL IS NOW A SYDNEY-BASED ARTIST CRACKING AT A BIG BREAK.
After an extended period hanging in the City of Angels, Amali has returned with a freshly recorded debut album that has already picked up a prestigious international songwriting prize. WARP: You define yourself a pop/ soul singer. In some contexts “pop” is considered a dirty word. Do you think this is justified? Amali: That’s a good question. I definitely don’t consider “pop” a dirty word. I get that there can be a bit of elitism from people that consider themselves more ‘credible’ artists compared to pop artists, but I mean The Beatles were a pop/rock group. Michael Jackson was pop. And pop itself has such a broad definition really now, that making assumptions about anything by that word alone would be pretty closed-minded. How much of your musical career owes itself to your time on Australian Idol? Was the competition a key stepping point for you in establishing a music career? It wasn’t an immediate jump from then to where I am now, it was quite a long time ago. But it definitely gave me a platform to establish myself and has opened doors for me that otherwise would have been closed. When I went on the show I was 16 and figuring out who I was and what I wanted to do with myself. Going on the show opened my eyes to the possibility of doing music as a career and I haven’t looked back. You used to try your hand at rapping at some open mics back at the venue in Salamanca back in the day. Have you played around with this style or any others at all recently? Hahaha oh my god. Yes I did, I was like 13 or 14 or something and used to think I was really good but I am pretty, pretty sure I was terrible. I do love hip-hop though and there are a few Lauryn Hill songs I slip into the set occasionally but that’s about it. I do think it influences my lyrical delivery though, it’s pretty fast paced. How prestigious is the John Lennon prize? Has winning this opened anymore doors for you? The John Lennon Songwriting Contest is open to the entire world so it was a big shock to win - the prize I won was the Lennon Award for rhythm and blues, and the judges included Motown legend Lamont Dozier, so for him to be saying I’ve written the best R&B song in his opinion that year, that’s crazy! The prize came at the best time, we won a whole bunch of studio gear just as we were setting up a studio in our house. America just had Australian musical invasion with Gotye with Kimbra sweeping the Grammys. You have been spending a
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fair bit of time in the US of late - what is the general feeling about Australia’s music scene in the US? Yeah I have done a lot of writing trips in the US with a bunch of different writers and producers, and then I recorded my album over there. I remember telling a friend in the US about the Gotye song when it was huge here then all of a sudden it had blown up everywhere! I worked with David Ryan Harris on my album and he’s very familiar with Australia because he’s done a lot of writing with Guy Sebastian - he co-wrote Battle Scars - and he’s also toured here a bunch with John Mayer. It seems every musician dreams about going to LA to record their album. Yours was a reality. How did this manage to occur? I’d met David Ryan Harris a few times when he was on tour with John Mayer because my manager at the time knew his keyboard player, and then we stayed in very loose contact via Facebook and stuff. I actually
just Facebooked him one day and asked him if he was keen to produce my album and fortunately he had some down time from touring with John so we booked it in. I don’t have a label so everything was self funded but it was definitely worth it. It’s really nice getting out of your usual routine and going somewhere completely different to record. Supporting Seal was a landmark in your career – did you manage to spend some time with him while on the tour? Yeah supporting Seal was pretty exciting for me, getting to play for a stadium crowd. I only spoke to him a little bit but he was very lovely and very tall. He made an effort to come introduce himself to me which was nice. Do you feel you could have continued your career from Tasmania or did you feel you had to move? I moved to Sydney 7 years ago when I was 17. I love Tassie but it was good for me to move and meet new people and get out
of my comfort zone. I’ve grown so much musically from working with so many different musicians and gigging so much, sadly I don’t think I would have had the same scale of opportunity in Tassie, just because the industry is smaller. List 3 pet loves and 3 pet hates of Amali Ward. Pet hates: Cheese That show ‘Couch Time’ on Channel 11 People who interrupt conversations/meals/ moments to instagram them Pet loves: Cat memes and animal videos Spicy food Skill testers (I’m a sucker) NIC ORME See Amali perform on Thursday March 21 in Launceston at Irish Murphy’s or on Friday March 22 in Hobart at The Republic Bar & Cafe.
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DJS, PROTECT YOUR GEAR DJING HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN EXPENSIVE PASTIME. HERE’S SOME WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT.
Long gone are the days of some drunken goon in a nightclub spilling a beer in your record crate, causing all your near mint and mint+ (Lulz!) record covers to wrinkle and go smelly, and requiring a solid few hours with the old record cleaning cloth and solvent, essentially getting high, to return the wax to a playable condition. Nowadays, it’s all digital, which is obviously more convenient, but it is even more fraught with danger. If a drunk goon spills a beer on your digital crate (your laptop), you could lose everything, unless you’re properly prepared. The first and most obvious tip is BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP. If your music collection doesn’t exist in at least two places, it doesn’t exist. Some DJs go so far as to put their entire set online (in a private account on one of the many online file storage/sharing systems that haven‘t been taken down by the man) so it can be easily downloaded in case of an emergency. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Have a back-up plan in case of a random laptop crash. Whether it be a mixed CD you can throw on while you reboot, or a few trusty pieces of wax (vinyl records, like the ancient DJs of yore), depending on what equipment the venue has, a backup plan always comes in handy - no one wants to be DJ Dead-Air. Protect your laptop - you’d be crazy not to! I mean, those things are way expensive. For around $35, you can pick up a silicon keyboard cover which will help keep the spilt beer/vodka cruiser from seeping between the keys of your precious. A quick survey of Taswegian DJs shows how vital they have become, everyone should have one. Hobart’s DJ Grotesque had this to say: “It saves mine pretty much every weekend, I think I’m up to seven weekends in a row that I’ve had to clean beer off my lappy.” Got a Macbook Pro? Get a hardcover for it. You could spend as little as $10 and anywhere up to a couple hundred; you get what you pay for, but anything will help. Also, there’s this thing called gravity, it means that when someone spills their booze, it flows downwards. You wouldn’t walk into a bar and sit in puddle of beer on the floor; you’d use a stool and keep your arse dry. If you have a desk space next to the decks to sit your laptop, consider using a laptop stand to elevate your baby off the beer-covered desk. Finally - insurance. Ever thought about it? There are a few options here, but companies like Marsh and Aon are your best bet, especially if you tour a lot. Check them out on the interwebs! SHANE CRIXUS
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NEVER ENDING BLOOM
LUKA BLOOM IS AN IRISH FOLK-ROCKER WHO IS MORE INTO LL COOL J AND JAMMING WITH LOU REED THAN PLAYING THE FIDDLE AND SINGING ABOUT TATERS. He has released 16 albums since 1978, toured Australia 10 times, performed at festivals and venues all over the world, and has even been asked to play for the Dalai Lama. In other words, Luka Bloom is one thoroughly experienced dude. His upcoming Heartman tour celebrates 20 years since the release of his breakthrough album, Riverside. WARP: What do you consider as your breakthrough onto the international music scene? Luka Bloom: The 1990 release of Riverside was the moment that created the platform for an international audience. I was in a tiny apartment in New York, getting phone calls summoning me to Germany, Holland, Belgium, Australia… Yep that was a moment all right.
“It never crossed my mind to broaden the scope of Irish music; but it is important for me to keep my own music fresh. I need to be inspired and challenged.”
How important was your move to America in 1987 to your career? Would you have been able to achieve the same if you had stayed in Ireland? Had I chosen to stay in Ireland I might have had a career all right, but it would have been different. The timing of my move to New York and the energy I brought to the move, as well as the songs, propelled me forward in a way that was unimaginable in 1986. I have deep gratitude for that time, and the people who guided me then. In 1993 you jammed with David Byrne and Roseanne Cash at Lou Reed’s request for NYC club Bottom Line’s birthday. Can you tell me any specific memories from this period? My mother died in late 1992, and I fell apart. No interest in gigs or anything. Until February 1993, I got a call from the Bottom Line in New York inviting me to sing with Lou, Roseanne and David for a 20th birthday celebration in the club. Lou invited me. We sat onstage together for two 3 hour shows, and sang and joked, and it was magic. It snapped me back into life. That’s New York for you! You became an independent artist in 2001. Why was being an independent artist important to you? Most solo artists and bands that experience life with major labels, also experience the difficulties that arena brings, and we also experience the shock of being dropped. After Salty Heaven, I decided never to work with a major label again, unless to do a temporary license of my work. I just wanted to make the records I wanted to make, and not justify my decisions to corporations. It has meant a lot more responsibility, and embracing the practical side of a music life more than I would have wished for. But in the end, I look over my independent catalogue, and reckon I made the right choice. Particularly with my last record This New Morning.
experimenting and being open to different genres? It never crossed my mind to broaden the scope of Irish music; but it is important for me to keep my own music fresh. I need to be inspired and challenged. So I keep my ears open to music and stories and lives from other places, as well as Ireland. Keeps me on my toes. And when I stumble upon a song or a rhythm from another place, it is exciting to dig deeper and see if I can connect my songwriting with this ‘alien’ music, and find a way in there for my own songs. It’s a trip, and usually I end up with a few songs I love to sing. The life of a touring musician must be a hard one, and your touring schedule seems pretty relentless. What is it that you enjoy about touring? At home, I am a bit solitary, which is fine, because I love to create new songs. But in truth I suffer from an incurable condition, which is that I love people. And I love to sing for and with people. The travel is fine, because in the end I get to sing and share very good times with lots of people. No complaints. What brings your tour to Tasmania? Tasmania always seems a bit wacky to me; so it feels like home! I like Hobart very much, and see no reason to fly over [to Australia] and not visit. If I do a tour or two of Australia and Tasmania is not included I miss it.
As an Irish folk singer you seem very open to experimenting with musicians who play other styles and you are not afraid to cover rap songs and pop songs. Have you made conscious decisions in your career to broaden the scope of Irish folk music, how important is it to you to be constantly
See Luka Bloom perform at Wrest Point in the showroom on Friday March 22. Tickets available from www.tixtas.com.au.
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THE NEVER ENDING RIFF NAMED AFTER THE SEMINAL JOHN LEE HOOKER TRACK, ENDLESS BOOGIE IS A MELTDOWN OF METALLIC PSYCHEDELIA WITH A HEAVY RIFF, KICKARSE BEAT AND CRYPTIC LYRICS.
The New York outfit plays when they feel like it and have managed to pop up in all sorts of places including Golden Plains Festival in 2012. WARP: You only play shows that you are invited to play at, instead of seeking gigs. Why so? Guitarist Jesper Eklow (aka “The Governor”): We never really had an interest in being part of the music business, and whereas it is fun to play gigs, organizing them is kind of a drag, so without really planning to we said yes almost every time someone asked us to play instead. That of course meant we ended up on some pretty bizarre bills. Last year was your first time to Australia as a band - what were the instant differences to you between Australian audiences and back home? It kind of felt like we belonged there and it seems as though people understand what we’re about. People were super nice. We’re really honoured to be asked back to play. Can’t wait! In the US in general and NYC in particular there are a lot of bands and a lot of things going on, it can be pretty hard to be noticed even if you have a pretty steady following. It doesn’t bother us to be low profile, as we kind of already are by definition (no website, Facebook or anything), but it is still nice to get recognition far away from home and to meet people who understand where we come from and what we’re trying to do.
“I really hate when you hear a great song and it just fades out when the band really gets going. The idea that a song has to be 3 minutes was an antiquated idea even before the end of the 78 record.”
You cite many 70’s & 80’s Australian rock bands as major influences. Was it difficult to find these recordings back in the US? Did you have to have the skills as a crate digger to come across them? What drew you to this collective sound/music geography? They’re really impossible to find here, and they always were. Not until December of 2012 did a Coloured Balls LP get issued in the United States. I dunno, we’re all into records and music history and going way back we’re all of course into AC/DC, The Saints, X, Feedtime et al, and from an interest in all things punk and heavy rock we came to find out about Lobby Loyde and Billy Thorpe and that whole scene, Sunbury etc. But I can’t say I had even heard of Ball Power until the mid- to late 1990s, and that’s after a generation of reading rock fanzines and buying used LPs… it is a mystery to me that bands that popular and that great could go completely unnoticed in the rest of the world for so long. Four years jamming in a garage before you played a gig. Why? Well, it was a proper rehearsal space, not really a garage… and I’d been in that same space since 1993 or so. The idea for our band was just a private social thing: NYC can be a hard town to get together in, people live far away from each other, lots of other things going on, so we came up with this idea of getting together once a week to shoot the shit, have a few beers and play loud music together. And we had no interest of being ‘a band’ or anything, just getting together and jamming was good enough. Eventually we were asked to play a show opening for Stephen Malkmus, that must have been early 2001, and then it just kind of continued… and here we are.
decades of rock music that the elusive original new riff is becoming increasingly harder to find? I dunno, I guess our ‘style’ comes from an interest in minimalist music and kraut rock etc mixed with classic heavy and psychedelic rock but wanting it to be less intellectual or elitist. I was always interested in cyclical music, and I personally think there is a need for more heavy rock raga out there, in an un-stoner way too. It’s nice to get lost inside of that. I really hate when you hear a great song and it just fades out when the band really gets going. The idea that a song has to be 3 minutes was an antiquated idea even before the end of the 78 record…. And as for the riffing well being tried up, I really don’t think so. I may not come up with them but I bet there are many amazing new riffs in the future of music. I don’t believe in end times…
Endless Boogie is all about the never ending riff. Do you find that with the constant collective music outpouring of
Endless Boogie play The Brisbane Hotel Thursday March 28. Tickets are $29 + b/f or $35 on the door.
What is the longest single riff you’ve played? I don’t know, two hours for sure – probably 20 minutes of which were great! I remember a show in Austin, in 2009 maybe where we played this one Sister Ray type thing for what seemed like a day. But it was probably an hour and a half, and there was a definite euphoric eternal vibe about that. People refused to let us stop. It happens sometimes, things just feel right and you keep going… but most of the time we probably stop at 20 minutes or so, depends on how it feels and how it unfolds… it’s not that I mind short songs, it’s probably just that we need more time to get to the point than others do. NIC ORME
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WHAT SHOULD I DO? WARP’S OH-SOWISE AGONY AUNT, LOANI ARMAN, TACKLES PREMATURE BALDING, SECOND ONLY TO PREMATURE EJACULATION ON THE SCALE OF ‘THINGS THAT MEN CRY OVER’.
Dear Loani I’m a good looking 26 year old guy. About a year ago, I began losing hair on my head and I’ve now got a bit of a bald patch. I look like a joke because I’m a pretty hairy guy and have heaps of hair on my body but not much on top. My girlfriend dumped me because she didn’t like being with a bald guy. I’m desperate to get her back but I need to stop losing my hair. Should I go to a hair replacement clinic? Or just shave it all off? Simmo
Dear Simmo, I’m not a doctor, but I’ve seen enough ads for hair replacement clinics to know that those “specialists” are as informed about medical conditions as I am about herpes. Which means I don’t think I have herpes (it’s probably just a small rash) and those specialists know jack shit about hair replacement. What I do know, however, is that you need to find a way to wear your bald spot with pride! Despite your first instincts, a shaved head won’t work for you. Shaving one’s head is now such a common response to balding, that it screams, “I finished off the job that genetics began!” And sure, you could try calling your bald patch a ‘minimalist haircut’, designed to make others think about the void in their own lives, but to make that work, you’d have to love yourself enough that you’d move to an inner city suburb, add a hyphen to your name and wear Ray Bans inside. The real concern here, Simon, seems to be winning back your ex-girlfriend. There’s a simple solution: you need to make the lack of hair on your head look normal. The reason your bald patch is so apparent, is that you have way too much hair everywhere else on your body! Your bald patch is never going to look normal when the rest of you is like some kind of fuzzy gorilla. Genetics may be the reason you lost hair from your head, but you have the power to control the spread of it on your body. Remove patches of hair from your chest, genitals, legs, arms and back! Soon enough, you’ll have enough smooth patches amongst all that body hair, that your head won’t feel, or look, so alone. Your exgirlfriend will love it! A word of warning: DON’T SHAVE. Shaving cuts on your dangly bits will look like an STD to your ex-girlfriend. That, and you can’t buy bandages in that size. Which is small, I assume? Otherwise why would you be writing to me? I recommend waxing! Yes, it’ll hurt when you walk into a nail salon and an untrained beautician pours hot wax on your body, and tears away deeply rooted hair until you scream like a baby, but isn’t it worth it to draw attention away from what’s happening on top? To make the drapes match the curtains, so to speak? You’re welcome. xox Loani
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WASHBOARDPLAYING ROBIN OF TUBA SKINNY DIRECT FROM THE STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS, TUBA SKINNY RAGTIME BAND COULD BE OLD TIMERS, BUT SUSPICIOUSLY, THEY’RE NOT. WE SUSPECT THEY’VE SLIPPED THROUGH SOME TIME VORTEX INTO PRESENT DAY HOBART.
WARP: What about Jazz speaks to you, and to the young in general right now? Robin: The rhythms found in early jazz heritage and blues and ragtime speak to me. Now that traditional jazz is so old it speaks to the young as something fresh and new - intelligent compared to contemporary pop music. Jazz also speaks to the young because it can be complex, yet if struggled and learned, it can be very freeing and teach one to live life differently. Why are you musicians? I am a musician because when I was young I couldn’t stop tapping my fingers, rapping out rhythms that felt good. My father also taught me to become a musician from a very young age. If you had to live in just ONE city in the world for the rest of your life, how would you cope? I would study the city’s history and world history and keep up with the news. What is everyone doing wrong? There are many things people do wrong. The list is as long as humans have been around. What do you think when you hear someone say, “Do you believe in God?” I think of the question as an old-world statement. When does national pride become dangerous? National Pride becomes dangerous when it limits people’s pride of the greater world. When will revolt supersede the illusions that sustain bigotry and greed? When there is no more question of the illusion and people act. Do you have any clear goal as musicians, and how would you feel if you had to give this up? My goal as a musician is to learn more and have fun and unite the cultures of music and dance, rhythm and melody. If I could not be a musician I would have to learn to perform another way. JARRED KEANE
Tuba Skinny play The Republic Bar & Cafe, Hobart on Thursday March 21. www. republicbar.com
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Think.Make.Change.**
THINKtent
The Tree Widows
The Shock of the Now
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
The Other Journey
The Hemisphere Travellers**
The Dream of the Thylacine
Testing Ground**
Ten Canoes
Temporary Residency 4 TASMANIA
Tatton@RTBG**
Tasmanian Literary Prizes
Tasmania Today**
Sue Healey’s Virtuosi**
Sprag Session
Shadow Dreams
On Your Marks**
on the 10th day....?
Ockham’s Razor
Obsession**
Design Symposium
Objects in Place**
Murder**
Maatsuyker**
Luminous Flux**
Live! At the Riviera
Little Big Shots
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Grace Barbé
Finding Centre
Felt Presence**
Dougie MacLean
Domain**
Dame Kiri Te Kawana
Burnie Print Prize**
Birds
As We Forgive**
A Filetta
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8am-6.30pm Hobart
1pm-5pm Launceston
10am-5pm Hobart
Launceston
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10am-4pm
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2.30pm doco Hobart
2.30pm doco Hobart
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9am-5pm Launceston
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4pm, 6pm Hobart
12noon-5pm Hobart
12noon-7pm Hobart
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10am-5pm Launceston
1pm-5pm Devonport
12noon-4pm Hobart
8pm Launceston
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6pm Deloraine
Port Arthur
12.30pm 2pm
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10am-5pm Launceston
7.30pm Swansea
12noon-5pm Devonport
12noon-4pm Hobart
1.30-4.30pm Burnie
7pm King Island
2pm 7.30pm Hobart
Sat 16 March
11pm Hobart
1pm 8pm Launceston
12noon-4pm Hobart
7pm King Island
7.30pm Hobart
5pm Huonville
6pm Swansea
Physical Theatre
12.30pm Hobart
12noon Deloraine
Physical Theatre
21 Circus Acts
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Tasmania's International Arts Festival
Ten Days on the Island
10am-5pm Hobart
Launceston
9.30am-5.30pm
7pm Hobart
9am-6pm Burnie
Hobart
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10am-5pm Hobart
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9am-5pm Launceston
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7pm Huonville
12noon-5pm Hobart
12noon-7pm Hobart
7pm Hobart
9.30am-5pm Huonville
10am-5pm Launceston
7.30pm Deloraine
10am-5pm Devonport
12noon-4pm Hobart
10am-4.30pm Burnie
6pm Swansea
Mon 18 March
Day 4
10am-5pm Hobart
Launceston
9.30am-5.30pm
7pm Hobart
9am-6pm Burnie
10am-5pm Hobart
8am-6.30pm Hobart
9am-5pm Launceston
11am-4pm Hobart
7pm Hobart (Greater)
12noon-5pm Hobart
12noon-7pm Hobart
9.30am-5pm Huonville
8pm Devonport
10am-5pm Launceston
10am-5pm Devonport
12noon-4pm Hobart
8pm Burnie
10am-4.30pm Burnie
7.30pm Huonville
6pm Hobart
5pm Queenstown
Tue 19 March
Day 5
15 – 24 March 2013
6pm Hobart (Greater)
6pm Launceston
10am-5pm Hobart
Launceston
9.30am-5.30pm
7pm Hobart
9am-6pm Burnie
10am-5pm Hobart
Launceston
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9am-5pm Launceston
11am-4pm Hobart
12noon-5pm Hobart
Design Symposium
10am-4pm
9.30am-5pm Huonville
8pm Hobart
10am-5pm Hobart
Launceston
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8.15pm Hobart
Keynote address
10am Hobart
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11am-4pm Hobart
7pm Latrobe
7.30pm Hobart
12noon-5pm Hobart
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11am 7.30pm Burnie
8am-6.30pm Hobart
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11am-4pm Hobart
7pm Burnie
5.30pm Queenstown
12noon-5pm Hobart
12noon-7pm Hobart
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1pm Devonport
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8pm Launceston
8pm Launceston
6pm Hobart
12noon-5pm Devonport
10am-5pm Devonport
6pm 8pm Launceston
7.30pm Flinders Island 10am-5pm Devonport
7.30pm Queenstown
10am-5pm Devonport
12noon-4pm Hobart
1.30-4.30pm Burnie
7.30pm Launceston
8pm Devonport
12noon Burnie
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Day 9
7.30pm Hobart
12noon-4pm Hobart
10am-4.30pm Burnie
8pm Burnie
12.30pm Devonport
Fri 22 March
Day 8
12noon-4pm Hobart
8pm Hobart
10am-4.30pm Burnie
7.30pm St Helens
6pm Campbell Town
12.30pm St Helens
Thu 21 March
Day 7
ST helens Huonville Burnie Campbell Town Devonport & LATROBE Swansea Queenstown Deloraine Launceston Flinders Island King Island Port Arthur
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6pm Launceston
5pm Campbell Town
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Day 6
Festival Towns
Arts
ANDREW SAYS OH YOU’RE JOKING, IT’S MARCH? TIME JUST RACES IN THE TASMANIAN ARTS AND CULTURE SCENE, HOW ARE YOU GOING? OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID. I HEAR YOU. AREN’T WE ALL?
Okay, stop whinging, enjoy it as it goes and will not surprise if it all gets tougher. Recently Lara Giddings did publically acknowledge the importance of festivals to Tasmania, and that was good to hear – festivals bring tourists. It’s all about niches – look, nothing scares me more than a circus festival - I am highly sensitive to anything with even the slightest tinge of the new age juggler, street performers or People In Funny Hats, but lots of others enjoy it and generously inject finance into the state. That’s very nice of them and even if I run screaming from multi-colored balls the relative safety of an exploitation film festival, it’s great to know these things are happening. Whilst near Funny Hats, there were lot to be seen at the launch of Constance ARI, up there on Goulburn St. in Hobart. Constance, for those not in the know, is the re-branding and shaking up of the old INFLIGHT ARI, and they launched it with
a party where a Launceston crew, Team Textiles, got people making Funny Hats. The result was an art party and that’s how it should be – the art scene in the state could do with more weird fun stuff. I could also do with more spaces to have weird fun art stuff in. A new independent gallery space opened in Launceston and has its first exhibition up as I type this. The space is called Outward, it’s right in the middle of Launceston’s CBD and it has no fees. Good grief! Seeing as many of the artists I know in Tasmania are a wee bit strapped for cash, this is a welcome move and may see some really different stuff emerge. Well done, whoever is behind that (there’s a rumor it’s the founders of a significant Melbourne contemporary space, stay tuned on that one). The first show features work by Melbourne based sculptor Benjamin Woods and is on until March 9, so you
should just have time to head to Shop2, 155 Brisbane St, Launceston. Do it now. Go on. I’m still waiting on a date for the apparent new art space our esteemed Lard Mayor Damon Thomas alluded to when he opened the final show at The Carnegie Space. He didn’t give a date as I recall and that may have been wise, but it is nearly three months later. I realize that this odd situation was inherited from the previous administration and the findings of some research, and that Thomas is probably trying his best, and that there’s a lot on Arts and culture wise in the month of March, but how about some hint of something emerging? According to Thomas, the space exists. That is great, but the next step is to see it used.
We need things to happen and we need them now guys. We can’t wait for cruise ships. If bushfire art auctions, Taco trucks (Hey TACO TACO, you rock!) and MOFO can get people queuing and going out on weeknights, why not put some enrgy into an art space? Give people walls to hang stuff on and they do it. They did it up at The Grand Poobar, it’s happening NOW in Launceston – where’s our CBD space?
ANDREW HARPER
When’s the first show? Who will drive the space? Look, it’s a great opportunity for the Hobart City Council here to launch a new space, involve newer, contemporary artist and create some buzz.
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DANCE: FINDING CENTRE DANCE IS A HARDCORE ART FORM. LIVE, IT REQURES INTENSE PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE AND FOCUS.
Dancers are stupidly fit, flexible as elastic and have a thought process that translates mental symbols to physical movement. It’s weird to watch and breathtaking when it works, because it’s about the human instincts to move, communicate and tell stories blended. Contemporary Dance is some of the best bleeding edge performance you get to experience. For Ten Days 2103, Launceston gets some very new dance work from Trisha Dunn. Who’s that? She would appear to a very focussed, maybe obsessive artist who dances. The obsessive call comes from her being the mother of twins who decided to make her own solos show about the idea of balance in all its forms – Trisha has a life and that life informs her dance work. Finding Centre is about the chaos of modern life, something we are all too familiar with as we work our second and third jobs, run homes, look after our families and find space to breath for a second. Finding Centre is a vision of that ordinary, familiar struggle in dance, from the perspective of a person who lives, as all of us do, a complex life. Get along and see a show that has something to say about how we live now and how we manage, or how we try to. It’s made in Tasmanian by a talented local artist so if you’re into supporting new art of all kinds, it’s one to catch. There are only three shows so don’t miss it, book. ANDREW HARPER
Finding Centre will be presented at the Earl Arts Centre, March 20 and 21 at 8pm and March 22 at 6:30 pm. This project is presented in association with Ten Days on the Island, Theatre North and Tasdance. www.facebook. com/FindingCentreTD
Salamanca Arts Centre presents
TESTING GROUND curated by Julie Gough
<rea>, 1491s, Ólöf Björnsdóttir, Trudi Brinckman, Darren Cook, Rebecca Dagnall, Sue Kneebone, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Jeroen Offerman, Perdita Phillips, Keren Ruki, Christian Thompson, Martin Walch and Siying Zhou
14 March - 28 April, 2013 Open daily 10am – 5pm FREE LONG GALLERY
HOBART
www.salarts.org.au image: Sue Kneebone, Continental Drift (detail) 2012.
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TESTING GROUND
THE TMAG IS BACK
EVERY NOW AND THEN I HAVE TO EAT MY WORDS AS SOMEONE WHO WRITES ABOUT ART LOCALLY, BECAUSE FOR EVERYTHING THAT SUCKS, THERER IS A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL VERSION OF IT THAT WILL SHOW HOW THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE.
DID YOU MISS IT? I DID. I LIKE THE MUSEUM. IT’S ONE OF THE BEST FREE THINGS IN TASMANIA AND IT’S TOO OFTEN OVERLOOKED.
True, it needs an overhaul so it can be all it can be, but it’s getting one – Stage One of the redevelopment opens mid-March and there’s old and new to see. I’m glad because I’ve missed it as an exhibition space that shows consistently good art and has for years now, long before there was a MONA and everyone apparently got excited about art, if they weren’t before. If you haven’t been in years now is the time, as even the displays you thought you knew will have been given a dust.
Jeroen Offerman The Stairway at St Pauls, 2002 (still) Single-channel projection Colour, sound, 8:00 min
If I have a pet hate in Tasmanian Art, beyond cliched Wilderness Photography, it’s Art About Place. Art About Place became shorthand for “I’m doing landscapes” or “I don’t actually have an idea and Mt Wellington is really large and there’s heaps of bush and we are on an Island” or “I like Buswalking”. It has gotten so that I actually twitch when I see even the word “place” in an artist’s statement. But then we have Julie Gough, and I really should shut up and pay attention, because when it comes to the idea of place in Art, Julie Gough knows her stuff. I had a rambling chat with her over strong Italian coffee and discovered a pretty fascinating Tasmanian Artist, who is now getting into curating. The show sounds pretty incredible – one spectacular work features a guy singing Stairway To Heaven backwards. As in, he recorded the song and learnt the words as they sound when played backwards, and he sings that, but the actual video work is backwards, so the sounds are forwards again, and you can, apparently understand them fine. You can read that again it’s okay, but consider that if it is hard to think about, what was it like to make? Julie loves it. “Yeah, the back masking work, The Stairway At St Pauls. Something like that takes a lot of work to produce but then you realise this is insane, it’s that pain of making art that the viewer may not have access to - it’s a real contortion of the brain to sing a song backwards like that, and it’s so weird when you see it, because it’s a public space and all these people are walking backwards, but he sounds forwards but looks wrong somehow.” The Place question was interesting to Julie. I was a little worried about bringing it up but I shouldn’t have been. “I don’t think these artists work with the idea of place, that’s my premise. I went for 22
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artists that do things that I admire and who are different to me. These works all engage with time and duration, so perhaps it’s place across time – there’s a sense of duration, there’s people looking at identity but not in a dry way; I think you can do more.” There’s comedy work in the exhibition – dark comedy - by a Native American group the 1491s, which tackles identity in a very nondry way. These people produce sort-of satire about race in the US and deal with the idea of being an “Indian” so the work is about inverting a cliché, but it’s made as a comedy skit – which is apparently damn funny and bleak all at once.
What’s changed? Not too much, it’s just Stage One but the process of getting stuff out of storage has begun. The biggest problem the museum has faced is how much fascinating stuff it just has not had the room to display – you know that Theatre Of The World show at MONA, yeah? Much of the content of that spectacular show is from the museum’s massive archive, and there’s a lot more in there, preserved and catalogued and one day to emerge. It’s going to take time and money to get it all out but the TMAG are not sitting there whinging, they’re making it happen.
DREAM OF THE THYLACINE While you’re at it – go and see this rather sweet show. It features a remarkable Thylacine puppet and is kid safe, so borrow some kids from somewhere (just have your police check on you at all times) and nip along to see this. Why? Because it’s ERTH company, who are also doing the intense looking Murder as part of Ten Days, and are the people who gave the world The Dinosaur Petting Zoo. Which means the thylacine puppet will be as close as you will ever get to seeing a Tasmanian Tiger, which is sad, but also pretty special. ANDREW HARPER
Three shows daily in Hobart 15 – 18 March then in Launceston 21- 24 of March at Queen Vic at Invernesk. Check the Ten Days website for more details
So get along, because if you really think about it, it belongs to the public of Tasmania anyway, so you better check what they’ve been up to.
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This is Julie’s first crack at curation and she’s tackling with the same way she makes her art – with excitement. “I’m just like a conductor, I love soundtracks. I would love the job of making sound for films, borrowing songs and placing them! I think maybe the experience of walking around Testing Ground, well, I hope, anyway, will make an inner landscape. Placing these works in space is like an imagined world, composing an idea with these works,. I mean, they are visual artworks but I am after something else. A psychological inner space. Its about that I think, a sense of something beyond science, maybe?”
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So Testing Ground is a show that’s about Place, and Time and Identity, and features backmasking and Native American Comedy Skits. See you there! ANDREW HARPER
SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE PRESENTS TESTING GROUND CURATED BY JULIE GOUGH Thursday 14 March – Sunday 28 April 2013 Official Opening: Thursday 14 March 2013 @ 4:00pm LONG GALLERY
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Arts
Gallery
performing arts
Guide
Guide
South 146 ARTSPACE • Designed Objects Tasmania - SPRUNG Featuring by Lachlan Taylor & Dhab studios – Alec Balcombe and David Houbaer. Til Mar 7. • DIES BOOT WAR HELL ROT by Nadine Kessler, Mar 14 – April 11.
SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY Mono: An exploration in mono-chrome, Focus Fine Photography, Mar 8 – 28; opening Mar 8, 5.30pm.
ART MOB • Puwangari, Miyinga, Jilamara Dots, Lines, Designs Paintings by Tiwi Island artist Natalie Puantulura, Mar 8 – 17. • Pansy Personified Paintings by Pansy Napangardi & watercolours by Mary Derusha, Mar 22 – Apr 7.
THE BARN Sue Healey’s Virtuosi, An immersive film work by Sue Healey scored by Mike Nock, Mar 8 – 28.
BENCHMARKING BIRCHS BAY • Benchmarking Birchs Bay Sculpture Prize, outdoor sculptures trail, Mar 29 – Jun 30. • Trip the Light Fantastic, Lanterns and stories around the fire, Mar 29, 6.45pm – 9pm. • Photographic Phantasmagoria, Outdoor photographic competition & exhibition, Mar 29 – Apr 12. BETT GALLERY • TREMEZZO, Jonathan Kimberley, Mar 6 - 24; opening Mar 15. • Splits Streams, Annika Koops, Mar 27 – Apr 14. • Family, Heather B Swan, Mar 15 – April 14. CAST • 971 horses + 4 zebras, various artists, til Mar 10. • Obession, Fiona Foley, Mar 15 - Apr 14 COLVILLE GALLERY • Jerzy Michalski and Tim Fish, Mar 1 – 20. • Katy Woodroffe, Mar 22 – Apr 10. DESPARD GALLERY • Dale Richards Mar 7 - Apr 2. HANDMARK GALLERY, HOBART • Designer Rooms, Mairi Ward’s show, til Mar 14. • Tasmanian Landscape Exhibition by various Tasmanian artists, Mar 15 onward. INKA GALLERY INC. • Coast, Stephanie Parkyn, Mar 7 - Mar 27; opening Mar 8, 5.30pm. • Fractured Landscape, Susan Parsons, Mar 28 - Apr 17; opening Apr 5, 5.30pm.
TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY Reopening Mar 15.
WELLINGTON GALLERY Thomas Anderson last available works original paintings.
NORTH ACADEMY GALLERY - UTAS INVERESK Tasmania Today: An Island State, curated by Malcom Bywaters. Mar 15 – Apr 19. NEW GALLERY - UTAS Newnham Little (big) world: exploring cultural diversity in Tasmania, curated by Melanie Kershaw, Mar 19 – May 10. POWERHOUSE GALLERY Beautiful Tasmania, paintings, drawings, prints and fused glass works from Bridgette Wolfe and Gulcan Kilink, Mar 21 – 31 (Monday and Tuesday excluded), 10am to 3pm; Opening Mar 21, 6.30pm onward.
THE SOUTH
THE NORTH
COMEDY
DANCE
LOWER HOUSE Lower House Comedy Lounge, Mar 14, 8pm
EARL ARTS CENTRE • Luminous Flux, Mar 15 – 16, 8pm. • Finding Centre, Mar 20 – 21, 8pm. Mar 22, 6.30pm.
THE BRISBANE HOTEL The Comedy Forge, Mar 27. DANCE
MUSICAL
THEATRE ROYAL Ockham’s Razor, Mar 22 – 23, 7.30pm. Luminous Flux, Mar 26 – 27, 8pm.
THEATRE NORTH • Les Miserables, Mar 8 – 23, 7.30pm; matinees Mar 17, 2pm. • Grease, Mar 15 – 16, 8pm; Mar 20 – 23, 8pm; matinees Mar 23, 2pm.
THEATRE
PERFORMANCE
PLAYHOUSE THEATRE Fiddler On The Roof, Feb 22 – Mar 9, 8pm; matinees Mar 9, 2pm.
BURNIE ARTS & FUNCTION CENTRE 360 Allstars, Mar 23, 8pm.
THEATRE ROYAL The Select (the Sun also Rises), Mar 15 – Mar 20. THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE As we Forgive 3 Morality Tales for an Amoral Age, Mar 9 – Mar 16.
DEVONPORT ENTERTAINMENT & CONVENTION CENTRE 360 Allstars, Mar 23, 8pm. PRINCESS THEATRE 360 Allstars, Mar 25, 8pm & Mar 26, 1pm. THEATRE THE ANNEXE THEATRE The Woman Before, Mar 6 – 9, 7pm. EARL ARTS CENTRE As we Forgive 3 Morality Tales for an Amoral Age, Mar 23, 7pm. Mar 24, 2pm & 6.30pm.
NORTH-west tas BURNIE REGIONAL ART GALLERY • Burnie Print Prize 2013, 63 printed works by Australian artists, Mar 16 – Apr 21. • Watermarks – The Paper Sculpture of Joanna Gair, Mar 16 – Apr 21. DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY Felt Presence, Tara Badcock (Tas), Samantha Clark (Scotland), Anita Dineen (Tas), Anne Morrison (Tas), Irene Murphy (Ireland), Claire Needham (Tas), Rosemary O'Rourke (Tas), Sharyn Woods (Tas), Mar 15 – Apr 28; opening Mar 19, 5.30pm. In Conversation with Felt Presence curator Ellie Ray: March 20, 12pm.
MASTERPIECE GALLERY Martime paintings MOONAH ARTS CENTRE Cosmos Exhibition, Mar 15 - 28. MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART • Monanism, permanent collection. • Theatre of the World, TMAG & MONA collections, ends Apr 26 (2013) PEPPERCORN GALLERY A co-operatively run outlet for the fine art and craftwork of local Richmond artists. SADDLERS COURT GALLERY Exhibiting over 100 Tasmanian artists & crafts people. SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE • LONG GALLERY: Testing Ground, Julie Gough, Mar 14 – 28; opening Mar 14, 4pm. • TOP GALLERY: Perpend, Shane Laredo, Mar 8 – 31. • LIGHTBOX GALLERY: Apart, Mar 1 – 31. • STUDIO GALLERY G: New-Caledonian painting, various artists, Mar 1 – 31.
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Hobart Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Date
MARCH Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
6
7
8
9
Acts / Start Time The Morning Night 9pm
Wednesday 13 Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Blunt Force Trauma (wa) + Redemption Denied + Interview With An Escape Artist
Brisbane Hotel
Treehouse + Unfolding Vostocks + Pines (solo)
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Davies
Irish Murphy’s
Stalking Ella Scott, Masic Beans, The 88s
Irish Murphy’s
Harrison Manton, Dark Matter of Storytelling
Jack Greene
Tim Davies
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Jim King
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Grotesque
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Republic Bar & Café
Oddisee and Olivier Daysoul + Akouo 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
The Popes (Ireland) 9pm
The Telegraph
The Smashers
The Telegraph
Dr Fink
Wrest Point Showroom
Jason Patmore
Birdcage Bar
Glen Valentine 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Madelena The Band + The Dirty Unknown
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Irish Murphy’s
Becca Stevens, Sam Kucera
Irish Murphy’s
Emma Howard, Hannah Crane, Sarah Wells
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
Jack Greene
Bianca Clennett
Republic Bar & Café
Billy Whitton + Blue Angel 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
Sugarcane Collins 9pm
The Telegraph
Bianca Clennett
The Telegraph
Alex Hutchins
Wrest Point Showroom
Charmaine Wilson
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
DAMAGE NIGHTCLUB w/ Departe + The White Rose Project + Whisperers + Interview With An Escape Artist + DJ Kenji + DJ Vinyl Ritchie
Thursday
Friday
Brookfield Vineyard
Sitar Lounge
C Bar
DJ Gezza 8pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Sticks and Kane followed by Ado and Devo
Irish Murphy’s
Ethel the Frog
Ivory Bar
Behind Closed Doors
Jack Greene
DJ Millhouse
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Jim King
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
La Bastard + The Sin & Tonics 10pm
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES (3pm - 7pm) w/ Imagination Blind + Fatty Esther + Townes End + Feeding Connor + Falcon Fox + Leo Crighton Band
Saturday
14 Birdcage Bar
15 Birdcage Bar
Glen Valentine 9pm
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
The Lawless Quartet + Spiral Kites + New Saxons
Brookfield Vineyard
Acoustic Night
C Bar
DJ Gezza 8pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett followed by Phrayta
Conservatorium of Music Recital Hall
Shadow Dreams 1pm & 6:30pm
Irish Murphy’s
The Smashers
Ivory Bar
Jazzivory followed by DJ Jim King
Jack Greene
Bianca Clennett
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Grotesque
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
DJ Lord (Public Enemy) + DJ Dameza 10pm
The Telegraph
Alex Hutchins followed by Entropy
16 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Initials (vic) + Japan For (vic) + Tim Hampshire (vic)
C Bar
Girl Friday 8pm
Brookfield Vineyard
Fiona Hutchison 12pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
DJ Johnny G
C Bar
Micheal Clennett 8pm
Shadow Dreams 6pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
DJ Johnny G
Conservatorium of Music Recital Hall
Irish Murphy’s
Ethel the Frog
Irish Murphy’s
Craic Pot, Mash Up
Ivory Bar
DJ’s Gratz, Mez and Jim King
Ivory Bar
DJ’s Kenny Beeper, Lids and Jim King
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Jack Greene
DJ Alex Curtain
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Republic Bar & Café
Deborah Conway + Willy Zygier 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
Sails
Billy Whitton 6pm
Standing Room Only, Cancer Council Benefit: Black & Blue + The Colours + Forecast + Modern Daze + Stynes Legends 10pm
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by The Smashers
Sails
Fee Whitla 6pm
Jason Patmore 8pm
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
10 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel
Rock n roll Bingo with Timmy Jack Ray
Brookfield Vineyard
Colin Dean 12:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
0 + 1 + Ozone + Cape Hoy
C Bar
Billy Whitton 2pm
Brisbane Hotel
Rock n roll Bingo with Timmy Jack Ray
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett followed by DJ Johnny G
C Bar
Pete Thomas 2pm
Republic Bar & Café
Tallest Man on Earth 9pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Hibbered followed by DJ Johnny G
The Telegraph
Dr Fink
Shadow Dreams 4pm & 6pm
Suffrajettes 9pm
Conservatorium of Music Recital Hall
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Irish Murphy’s
Hobart Pipe Band, The Foley Artists, Sly Grog Shanty Band, Howl & Crow
Republic Bar & Café
Wahbash Ave 9pm
Monday
11 Birdcage Bar
Tuesday
12 Birdcage Bar
Republic Bar & Café Boardwalk Gallery
Jason Patmore
Irish Murphy’s
Open Mic Night
Monday
MARCH
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Billy & Randal 8pm
Fri 8th, Sitar Lounge Sat 9th, Fiona Hutchison / 12pm Sat 9th, Tony Brennan / 7pm Sun 10th, Colin Dean / 12.30 Fri 15th, Acoustic Night Fri 22nd, Kingborough Music Night Sat 23rd, 16 to 61 Sun 24th, Colin Dean / 12pm
24
Venue Republic Bar & Café
17 Birdcage Bar
18 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 8pm
A Touch of Class 8pm
Sun 24th, Fundraiser for Caroline House / $10 / 2pm Thur 28th, Southern Community Singers / 7.30
APRIL & BEYOND Sat 6th April / Citizen Schrapnel & the Lords of Little Egypt / 5pm Fri 19th April / Peter Denahy / 5pm Fri 26th April / Piano Marathon / 12pm Sat 11th May / Valana & Andrea Khozq / 7pm Fri 24th May / Bob Fest (Bob Dylans Birthday) / 7pm Thur 25th & Fri 26th July / Chet Baker Show by David Goldthorpe
Event Guide
Date Tuesday
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Republic Bar & Café
Carl Rush 8:15pm
19 Birdcage Bar
Friday
Sunday
Acts / Start Time Peter Hicks and the Blue Licks 9pm
25 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café
Glen Challice 8pm Quiz Night 8:15pm
Quiz a Saurus (Quiz Night)
Irish Murphy’s
Open Mic Night
Republic Bar & Café
Baker Boys 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Game On!
Glen Challice 9pm
Irish Murphy’s
Open Mic Night
Brisbane Hotel
Bad Vibrations
Republic Bar & Café
G.B. Balding (Finger Picking Blues) 9pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Irish Murphy’s
All Fires, Jack Storay
Brisbane Hotel
The Comedy Forge (Stand Up Comedy)
Jack Greene
Tim Davies
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Jim King
Irish Murphy’s
New Saxons, The Sketches
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Jack Greene
Cameron Stuart
Republic Bar & Café
The Breed 9pm
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Grotesque
The Telegraph
The Smashers
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Billy & Randal 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
Grandmaster Flash + Transvaal Diamond Syndicate + DJ Grotesque 9pm
The Telegraph
Pirates of the Cover Scene
Wrest Point Entertainment Centre
Ross Noble
21 Birdcage Bar Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Irish Murphy’s
Milo Bean
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
Republic Bar & Café
Tuba Skinny (New Orleans) 9pm
The Telegraph
Bianca Clennett
22 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel
Saturday
Monday
Venue Republic Bar & Café
Brisbane Hotel
Wednesday 20 Birdcage Bar
Thursday
Billy & Randal 8pm
Date
C Bar
DJ Gezza 8pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Davies followed by Rum Jungle
Franklin Tavern
The Original Cutouts 8pm
Irish Murphy’s
The Smashers
Ivory Bar
DJ Lids
Jack Greene
Grotesque
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Kenny Beeper
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
Amali Ward and Band 10pm
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
Wrest Point Showroom
Luka Bloom 18+ - Thy Art Is Murder + Mephistopheles + A Dead Silence + Anguish + Infernal Outcry
Brookfield Vineyard
16261
C Bar
Girl Friday 8pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
DJ Johnny G
Federation Concert Hall
Britten & Shostakovich 7:30pm
Irish Murphy’s
Pirates of the Cover Scene
Ivory Bar
DJ’s Grotesque, Mez and Millhouse
Jack Greene
Micheal Clennett
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
PlanB
DCUP
Republic Bar & Café
Ngairre 10pm
Sails
Billy Whitton 6pm
The Telegraph
Ado and Devo followed by The Smashers
Brisbane Hotel
Friday
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
24 Birdcage Bar
Thursday
Lieutanant Jam + Concrete Lines + Peter Dickybird (vic) + The Archetypal (vic) + The Beautiful Chains Kingborough Music Night
Jason Patmore 8pm ALL AGES (3pm - 7pm) - Thy Art is Murder + A Dead Silence + Anguish + Redemption Denied + Dawn Of Your Discontent
Brisbane Hotel
Rock n roll Bingo with Timmy Jack Ray
Brookfield Vineyard
Fundraiser for Caroline House 2pm
C Bar
Manhattan 2pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett followed by DJ Johnny G
26 Birdcage Bar
Wednesday 27 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore 9pm
Brookfield Vineyard
23 Birdcage Bar
Tuesday
Saturday
Sunday
28 Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randal 8pm
Glen Challice 9pm
Glen Valentine 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Endless Boogie (usa)
C Bar
Ebeneza
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Federation Concert Hall
The TSO Goes To The Opera 7:30pm
Irish Murphy’s
Paper Souls
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
PlanB
Far Too Loud
Republic Bar & Café
Yacht Club DJ’s + Step-Panther 9pm
The Telegraph
Dr Fink
29 Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
AMPOCALYPSE - Tyrant + Taberah + Lady Crimson + Battlecat + Random Order + Atra Vetosis
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett followed by Phrayta
Irish Murphy’s
Sticky Sweet
Ivory Bar
DJ Millhouse
Jack Greene
Cameron Stuart
Observatory (Lounge Room)
DJ Jim King
Observatory (Main Room)
Dj Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
Yacht Club DJ’s + Step-Panther 10pm
The Telegraph
Ado and Devo followed by The Pirates of the Cover Scene
30 Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman) with Band + The Roobs
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Dj Johnny G
Irish Murphy’s
Queen Beast
Ivory Bar
DJ’s Grotesque, Mez and Jim King
Jack Greene
DJ Millhouse
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Republic Bar & Café
Jordan Miller Band + Jack Carty + Charlie A’Court 10pm
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
31 Birdcage Bar
Glen Valentine 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Rock n roll Bingo with Timmy Jack Ray
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Davies followed by DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
Evan Carydakis Quartet 9pm
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Launceston Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Thursday Friday
Saturday
6 7 8
9
Tapas Lounge APAS TRIVIA 7PM Bar
Thursday
7
Devonport
Molly Malones Brett & Josh 8:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge LINOLIUM (NOFX Bar TRIBUTE) PUNK NIGHT 8PM
Wynyard
Hotel Federal
DJ Akouo 10pm
Latrobe
La Bastard with The Sin & Tonics
Latrobe Richard Gill and the Memorial Hall TSO 7:30pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge UNBALANCED/TMG Bar 10PM
Devonport
Tapas Lounge THE RINGMASTERS Bar 10PM
George Town
George Town Richard Gill and the Memorial Hall TSO 7:30pm
Burnie
King of Burnie Liam Padmore 8:30pm
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Devonport
Molly Malones Ball & Chain 9:30pm
Royal Oak
Becca Stevens
Tonic Bar
Comedy - Sam Makhoul
Bolters Bar
Jerome Hillier 7pm
Royal Oak
Sugarcane Collins
Tonic Bar Royal Oak Tonic Bar
Deejay Loco 10pm
Falls Park Pavilion
The Glover Concert 6:30pm
12
Country Club Show Room
Charmaine Wilson
Wednesday
13
Royal Oak
Andy Collins
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Thursday
14
Royal Oak
Seventh Street Entry
Friday
15
Bolters Bar
Jerome Hillier 7pm
Royal Oak
Dali & The Paper Band
Tonic Bar
DJ Nufe 10pm
UTAS Annexe Theatre Shadow Dreams 1pm & 6:30pm 16
Royal Oak
Luke Bennett
Tonic Bar
DJ Dragonite 10pm
Friday
Saturday
17
Princess Theatre
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 8pm
St Mark’s Anglican Church
A Filetta 6pm
Monday
18
All Saints Anglican Church
A Filetta 6pm
Wednesday
20
Royal Oak
Despite Ben McKinnon
St John’s Anglican Church
A Filetta 6pm
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Josef Chromy
Grace Barbe 6pm
Royal Oak
Scott Haigh
St Luke’s Anglican Church
A Filetta 6pm
Bolters Bar
Jerome Hillier 7pm
Royal Oak
Mick Attard
Tonic Bar
DJ Nufe 10pm
Flinders Art & Entertainment Centre
Saturday
Wednesday
21
22
23
27
Thursday
28
Friday
29
Saturday
30
8
9
Pure Blondes 8pm
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Sunday
10 Devonport
Tapas Lounge LONG WEEKEND LIVE Bar MUSIC 8PM
Wednesday
13 Devonport
Tapas Lounge OPEN MIC 7PM Bar
Thursday
14 Devonport
Molly Malones Proud Phoneys 8:30pm
Devonport
UTAS Annexe Theatre Shadow Dreams 4pm & 6pm
Friday
Acts / Start Time
Devonport
Jerome Hillier
10
Thursday
Venue
6
Mick Attard
Watergarden Bar
Tuesday
Sunday
CITY
Wednesday
Royal Oak
Sunday
Saturday
Date
MARCH
MARCH Wednesday
NORTHWEST
Friday
15 Burnie Devonport
Saturday
Sunday
16 Latrobe
Tapas Lounge THE MATT WEEKS Bar BAND 8PM Tapas Lounge MASTERS ACOUSTIC Bar 10PM Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Ball & Chain 9pm
Tapas Lounge THE ROCK PIGS Bar (LAUNCESTON) 10PM
Devonport
Molly Malones St Patrick Day Festival Burnie Town Hall
Shadow Dreams 4pm & 6pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge FETCHING RUBY 6PM Bar
Devonport
Molly Malones St Patrick Day Festival
Tuesday
19 Burnie
Burnie Arts & Function Centre
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 8pm
Dougie Maclean 7:30pm
Wednesday
20 Burnie
Burnie Arts & Function Centre
Sprag Session 7pm
Royal Oak
North vs South
Thursday
21 Devonport
Molly Malones Jeff Woodward 8:30pm
Tidal Waters Resort
Sprag Session 7pm
Tonic Bar
Deejay Loco 10pm
Royal Oak
Open Mic Night
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Royal Oak
The Embers
Bolters Bar
Jerome Hillier 7pm
Royal Oak
The Old Lyric Theatre
Tonic Bar
Deejay Loco 10pm
Royal Oak
Transvaal Diamond Syndicate
Tonic Bar
Deejay Loco 10pm
Friday
Saturday
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
NEIL GIBSON 8PM
Queenstown
The Paragon Theatre
Dougie Maclean 7:30pm
22 Devonport
Axeman’s Hall Sprag Session 7pm of Fame
Devonport
Tapas Lounge BRETT & JOSH 10PM Bar
Wynyard
Hotel Federal
23 Burnie
Luke Parry 8pm
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Kram 9pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge THE RINGMASTERS Bar 10PM
Devonport
Molly Malones Snatch Party Band 9:30pm
Sunday
24 Devonport
Tapas Lounge LIVE MUSIC 6PM Bar
Thursday
28 Devonport
Molly Malones Kram 8:30pm Tapas Lounge Bar
PADDY 8PM
Friday
29 Devonport
Tapas Lounge SHEYANA MACH 4 Bar 10PM
Saturday
30 Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Jerome Hillier 9pm
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
EVIL CISUM 10PM
Devonport
Molly Malones Unbalance 9:30pm
Sunday
31 Devonport
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King of Burnie Winga 8:30pm
Latrobe
Devonport
Wednesday 6th Mick Attard
King of Burnie Chris Liley 8:30pm
Devonport
17 Burnie
MARCH
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