Warp Magazine March 2017

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Thursday 16th 8.30pm Dave Wilson Band + Sailor Jerry Take Over Friday 17th 10pm Asta + Sumner + Flxw $20pre/$25door Saturday 18th 10pm Katy Steele + Hazlett $20pre/$25door Sunday 19th 2.30pm The Great Anticipators 8.30pm Peter Hicks &The Blue licks Monday 20th 8.30pm Montz Matsumoto Tuesday 21st 8.30pm Bloom & James Morley Wednesday 22nd 8.30pm Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor Thursday 23rd 7pm Comedy Clubhouse with Daniel Sloss $20 8.30pm Dean Stevenson + Dave Wilson Friday 24th 10pm The Outfit Saturday 25th 10pm Roadkill Sunday 26th 2.30pm Zuma 8.30pm Blue Flies Monday 27th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 28th 8.30pm Dan Stonehouse + Betsy Blue Wednesday 29th 8.30pm Tarik Stoneman & Sam Forsyth Thursday 30th 8.30pm Tennyson King Friday 31st 10pm Gape (Album Launch), Desecrator (Album Launch), Mephistopheles, Create The Crayon $8

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News in Brief A KUNUNURRAN AMONG US Chris Matthews is a Kununurra (yep, all the way up in the top end of WA!) based singer/songwriter, and he will be in Tasmania for a short run of gigs through our amazing state to promote his 4th album release Hell West and Crooked, which is available now. He’s playing four gigs around the state, including Wednesday March 1 at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart, Friday March 3 at Tall Timbers in Smithton, Saturday March 4 at the Marakoopa Café in Mayberry, and a house concert in Swansea on Sunday March 5. Chris was recently in Tasmania playing at the Launceston Country Music Festival with Luke O’Shea, so if you caught him there and liked what you saw, now is your chance to see him again. Or if you missed him the first time around, now is your chance!

TALKIN’ ALL THAT JAZZ

Franko in Franklin Square (from 4:45pm), and on Sunday May 7 they’ll be returning to The Homestead to fill up the Sunday evening slot. There are more gigs on the way, so keep an eye on their social media for updates!

M.0.1.0.F.T.W. Formed in late 2007, Machines of Indeterminate Origin (M.0.1.0) sits somewhat strangely in a no-mans land between Metal and indie/alternative scenes. The band have appeared on bills with experimental electronic artists, traditional death metal bands and multi-layered pop. Although loud, sometimes harsh and noisy in places and experimental in nature, M.0.1.0’s music is not inaccessible. Vocally, the majority of what’s ‘sung’ is nonsensical. This in part is inspired by the ‘instant composition’ technique employed by Damo Suzuki, but also has its basis in the recorded Dadaist poetry of Kurt Schwitters (amongst others). They have a new album about to be released, titled 2.0 - A New Body of Work. They’re launching it at the Grand Poobah on March 11. Get along to that.

A NEW KIND OF FESTIVAL Not all festivals are just about seeing a bunch of good bands and more than often than not waking up the next day with a bad hangover. Newkind Festival is the new festival on the block and is selfdescribed as a “four day boot camp and a call to action for change makers”. Running from March 17-20, on the State’s East Coast, the festival will feature a series of workshops, lectures and activities based around a sustainable future. It won’t be all work however, with a range of performers programmed in to keep the festivities at a high. For more information on this event head to the festival’s website - www. newkindfestival.com.

Black Cat Jazz Trio have wasted no time getting back on the hustle and grind in 2017. Since it’s already March, you’ve already missed a few of their gigs around town, but fear not, you still have plenty of opportunity to catch some smooth, sultry, proper jazz action. On Sunday March 5 they’ll be playing at The Homestead on Elizabeth Street, Hobart. It’s an early-ish Sunday evening gig, kicking off at 7pm, so don’t be late, you’ve got work in the morning anyway. On Friday April 7 they’ll be performing at the awesome Street Eats

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If you want to help raise some much needed funds for Pancare Pancreatic Research AND see some kick ass music AT THE SAME TIME, boy, do we have some good news for you. On Saturday March 18 at the Saloon Bar in Launceston, you’ll be able to do exactly that! Beat Fest 2017 will play host to some fantastic acts, such as triple j sweethearts Luca Brasi,

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states. It’s their biggest run of headline shows to date. Peking Duk first captivated fans in 2014 with their 4 x platinum single ‘High’ featuring Nicole Millar, and then backed it up with the triple-platinum ‘Take Me Over’ featuring Safia and the gold-accredited ‘Say My Name’. One of the country’s most popular and charismatic electronic acts, Peking Duk have sold out consecutive headline tours at home, toured internationally and become beloved staples on the festival circuit. The “Clowntown Tour” hits Tasmania when Peking Duk supported by Ivan Ooze and Mallrat hit The Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Friday April 28.

LITTLE PEOPLE, BIG PARTY

Thirsty Merc. After a decade of making music, they’re still as thirsty as ever.

They’ve really done it all in that time, so it’s surprising that they’ve managed to maintain the thirst to such a degree.

They’ve signed major label deals, won awards and critical acclaim all over the world, toured extensively, done the indie thing, sold hundreds of thousands of records, you name it. In March they’re heading off on tour once again, and this time they’re only making the one stop in Tasmania. On Friday March 24 they’ll be playing the Granada Tavern in Berriedale.

Tickets are $34 and are available via Moshtix, so get along and grab one before they sell out. Doors open at 8pm, this is an 18+ event, sorry kids!

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Brandish, Kingfall, The Prickly Grapes, New Wave Saints, and Vauda. Tickets are $40 + booking fee, and are available from launcestontickets.com.au. All proceeds from the event are being donated to Pancare Pancreatic Research. Kick off is at 6:30pm, it’s gonna be a doozy!

Aussie faves Peking Duk have announced their forthcoming “Clowntown Tour”.

Starting in April through to the end of May, the tour takes in capital cities and regional centres in all five Australian

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Throughout the 1990s and the 2000’s the Dwarves chaotic shows and incendiary interviews drew the attention of both underground and mainstream press and their bad reputation made them the band that simply would not die. While the faint-hearted withered in their seats, real rock fans squirmed with delight.

And they’ve been squirming ever since.

Now the Dwarves are back in Australia to warp a new generation. Teach your kids to worship Satan! They’re playing six shows around the country throughout April and May. On Saturday April 29, the Dwarves will be playing in Hobart at the Brisbane Hotel. Boom. Tickets available from www. thedrunkpromoter.com.au.

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SULTANAMANIA!

There’s a 99% chance that this next gig has already sold out by now, but on the off chance it hasn’t, it’s definitely worth knowing about. Tash Sultana will be playing at The Goods Shed in Hobart on Thursday May 4. After selling out theatres all over the world months in advance and blowing away record festival audiences, Tash Sultana is returning to Australia to play a handful of select headline shows.

The Unearthed artist of the year has had a whirlwind 12 months that’s shot her in to orbit, exploding on to the scene and earning respect for her next level guitar playing, unique original sound and angelic voice. Her 2017 is already off to an amazing start, playing Laneway Festival and landing two songs in the Hottest 100, including radio hit ‘Jungle’ coming in at #3. Head to www.moshtix.com.au for a chance there are still some tickets.

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overuse of the word “troubadour”. Ash Grunwald is a legendary Australian TROUBABLOODYDOUR, and he’s returning in 2017 by opening a new chapter in his fifteen-year career with the release of blues/rock stomper ‘Hammer’, and a tour announcement. For Tasmanian fans of troubabloodydourism, you can check out the awesome Ash Grunwald on that tour when he hits The Goods Shed in Hobart on Sunday May 7. It’s a 3pm gig, everyone loves a Sunday arvo gig. If you’re in Launceston, you can catch him the night before, on Saturday May 6 at The Royal Oak, and if you happen to be in Devonport the night before that, you can catch him at Tapas Lounge Bar on Friday May 5. Tickets for all shows available from www.moshtix. com.au.

PARTY PARTY PARTY The good times never seem to end for Northeast Party House, which makes sense, they’re a party house, even when they’re hungover the next day they probably just punch a brekky bong and get straight back in to it, because they’re a party house. Anyway, the Melbourne six-piece has just announced a massive national tour kicking off this May in support of their latest single, ‘Calypso Beach’. The dance floor ready summer anthem is the third track to be added to triple j off the bands critically acclaimed album Dare. If you want to visit a party house on a calypso beach in Hobart, Tasmania in the middle of winter (who wouldn’t), you will get your chance on Friday June 2 when they play at the Republic Bar & Café. Tickets available at the venue or online via moshtix.

hits before joining in an extraordinary finale with all four sharing the stage. If you’re in Launceston you can catch all the action at the Princess Theatre on Friday June 16 from 8pm. For tickets or more information, head along to www. theatrenorth.com.au.

THEIR NAME IS LUCA Luca Brasi are bloody well killin’ it, mate.

Streuth. They’re all over triple j, all over the festival circuit, all over everything.

They’re like a Tasmanian, punk version of the Kardashians. Except they aren’t a completely useless waste of space.

They’re good. Anyway, they’re setting off on a nation-wide headline tour at the end of June, so if you know some mainlanders that still aren’t up on Luca Brasi, fill them in and tell them to get along to their gig!

On Thursday June 22 they’ll be at The Gov in Hindmarsh, on Friday June 23 they’ll be at 170 Russell in Melbourne, Saturday June 24 will see them at the Capitol Theatre in Perth, on Thursday June 29 they’ll return to Tasmania to play the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart, on Friday June 30 they’ll be at The Triffid in Newstead, and on Saturday July 1 they’ll be finishing up the tour at the Metro Theatre in Sydney.

Tell a friend to tell a friend.

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Far out. Remember Midnight Oil? That bald politician bloke with the weird dancing? And um.. Those other people?

The rest of the band? Me neither, really.

I think I probably saw one of their records in a vinnies once. Anywho, they seem to have reformed and are hitting the road again. They’re pretty much booked solid for the next year, heading off to North and South America, and Europe, the UK, and New Zealand before returning to Australia to play in every city they can think of. Hope they’re not using their parliamentary travel entitlements to do all this. They’re playing in Tasmania at the Derwent Entertainment Centre on Wednesday November 1, supported by The Jezabels. You’ll probably forget about this gig well before then, I know I will. We’ll set reminders and mention it again in another 6 months or so.

THEY KNOW EVERYONE

THESE ARE OUR GOOD TIMES! The annual Apia Good Times Tour returns for its fifth consecutive year with another once-in-a-lifetime line-up of Oz music legends, including The Black Sorrows with Vika + Linda Bull, Colin Hay (Men at Work), Mental as Anything and Deborah Conway leading the sing-alongs across the country. 2017’s line-up of legends have a huge array of hits to draw from including “Harley & Rose”, “Chained to the Wheel”, “Hold on to Me”, “Down Under”, “Who Can It Be Now?”, “Overkill”, “Nips Are Getting Bigger”, ‘Live It Up”, “Too Many Times”, “It’s Only The Beginning” and “Man Overboard” to name a few.

Each artist performs a solo set of their

exciting and dynamic live acts. Since the release of their ARIA nominated 3rd Album, So We Can Remember, the Blue Mountains via Sydney Hip Hop outfit have toured frenetically in Australia and Europe, playing massive runs of club shows and almost every major music festival in the country, fostering a connection with fans that has blossomed into something truly special. On ‘Everyone We Know’, Thundamentals’ first full-length release on their own newly minted label ‘High Depth’ and recorded at the studio of good friends Hermitude in Sydney’s Inner West, the band have reached new heights.”

They’re playing at the Republic Bar & Café on Saturday June 24.

Thundamentals have well and truly earned their mantle as one of Australia’s most

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GOOD TIMES “A LOT OF PEOPLE HATE TIME, BECAUSE YOU GET OLDER, BUT WITH TIME COMES A FEELING OF SELF-AWARENESS, AN ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING BIGGER, GET STRONGER AT IT. THE TIME THAT I’VE GIVEN MY CAREER OVER FIFTEEN, TWENTY YEARS, YOU CAN SEE IT.”

Martha Wainwright, in discussing her new album Goodnight City, is showing off some reserved optimism and reflection. The album, released back in November 2016, is a half/half collection of songs written by Wainwright, and songs written for Wainwright, by trusted peers. But more on that in a sec.

“That’s a better place for me, some people have different high points in their career- for me right now.” Wainwright continues. “I am enjoying more being on this side of it, where I feel like I know what I’m doing, I’m not worried what people think so much anymore. I know who I am, I know what I like and I don’t lie. That’s a relief for me. I guess what I have learned recently is that through the really nitty-gritty, tough stuff of life, I’m just glad to be able to have music, to be able to go out and sing and express myself, to have the freedom to do that. My songs have often been about sad and difficult things; music has been a way to exorcise, a way to be able to work through those things.”

Wainwright has said of herself that, compared to her musician parents (Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle) and brother Rufus, she feels she does not that have the sort of ‘natural talent’ that they do. It’s led to some insecurities on Wainwright’s part, but she’s channelled those sentiments- especially on Goodnight City’s Before The Children Came Alonginto musical vitality and passion.

“Nothing has ever seemed that easy for me.” she says. “Probably because I blocked my talent with insecurity, but the insecurity is also what fuelled my early songs, so that’s fine. The passion and the intensity and all that is the engine in a way, that thing that propels the songwriting and performance, but then it can unlock the talent or the craft that’s been honed, so that’s really what you’re looking for. It’s like in country or folk music, there’s the passion behind the lyrics that are intense, pushing it, and what’s up front is musical triumph, that’s the goal.”

Much of the decision-making in regards to who would contribute to Goodnight City came from producer Thomas ‘Doveman’ Bartlett (Sufjan Stevens, Magnetic Fields), who lined up a series of guests that knew Wainwright well and could create songs that would fit her like a glove.

Guests include Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), Glen Hansard (The Frames), poet Michael Ondaatje, Beth Orton and Wainwright’s brother Rufus.

“One of his ideas was to make a record of people, friends, to write songs for me.” she explains. “I sort of let him run with that; he asked people that we’ve worked with for years, so they knew about me. I also started writing songs myself, meeting at a halfway point. I didn’t have the pressure to write fifteen of my own songs and it freed me up to just be a singer: I can interpret the songs, be wilder with it. I also get to have my six songs talking about my life, that’s important to me. I’m a bit of an oversharer.”

Although her memoir Stories I Might Regret Telling You is on the way (“It’s supposed to be finished, it’s gonna get done, I keep telling myself that every day. It’s supposed to be done in the next three weeks (laughs)”), Wainwright maintains some sense of privacy in her art, even as exposed and raw as her music seems.

“Let me assure you, I keep a lot of things to myself (laughs). I imagine people that seem to say everything aren’t really saying everything. I come from a tradition of...mainly my father, who has written a lot of songs about family members that have offended him. I’ve done that too, Rufus has been extremely open, I probably have taken it further than any of them. It’s the thing that’s probably hurt me the most, and also probably brought me the most, in a way. People appreciate it, I think that’s what they wanna hear, they don’t get to hear people’s honesty all the time. That’s how I’m gonna justify it.”

“Since having children [Arcangelo, 7; Francis, 3], I am much more careful; I definitely wanna protect them, and you can hear that in the songs for this album. They’re nicer songs, more protective songs; especially with songs about them, there’s not as much anger, the targets aren’t the same. It’s a lot less navel-gazing, more forward-thinking.”

With some of her most furious work behind her (there’s no repeat of Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole on Goodnight City), and the new album showing both a new acceptance and calmness in the artist, it seems only fitting that I ask: are you happy?

“Depends on the day. But I think, as an artist, I’ve never been happier.”

LISA DIB Goodnight City is out now. Martha Wainwright plays Wednesday March 22 at the Theatre Royal, Hobart and Thursday March 23 at the Devonport Entertainment Centre, Devonport. Both shows are all-ages. Further information available from www.tendays.org.au.

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EYES WIDE SHUT “A DOWNLOAD CODE WITH A BOTTLE OF COKE, AND THE COKE’S WORTH MORE THAN THE SONG. MUSIC SEEMS INCREDIBLY CHEAP AND UNDERPRICED TO ME; THE BEAUTY I CAN BUY FOR A FEW DOLLARS.”

The Blackeyed Susans’ Phil Kakulas is wondering where the digital age will take us. Considering he’s been in the industry since some forty-odd years, he’s seen it all and, like many of us, does hearken back to more meaningful times for art and music. Although the Susans only got together in 1989, Kakulas was a part of The Triffids from 1978 and Martha’s Vineyard from 1987. Them’s good innings.

After releasing a retrospective box set (Reveal Yourself) in 2009, their new album Close Your Eyes and See is out this March and is their first batch of new material in over ten years.

“Time does fly!” Kakulas notes. “I would like to think it’s the culmination of all we’ve learnt before, come to bear on this project. I spent a few years writing about songs; I had a column for the Melbourne Review writing about songcraft. Through that, I rekindled my love for song, words and music, that mysterious union that they enjoy. It reminded me of what I really loved about songs; the open-hearted intimacy about songs that draw you close, the private world made public. The affairs of the heart. This album is a response to the brutal but beautiful world we live in; it asks questions of this world: “how do you be a good person in a bad world, or a

bad person in a good world?”. We all have those choices.”

“Humans are not unlike cats: beautiful, but also cold-hearted killers. They torture their prey before they kill it. We are the same; you wrestle with that within yourself, as individuals and collectively as humanity, we wrestle with that dual nature, which is probably at the heart of the writing and the band. Sonically, it’s a dreamy album, lush and atmospheric, quite beautiful, I’d like to think. That’s what we were aiming for, anyway. I think once or twice maybe we’ve kissed the moon.”

On the best-of, Kakulas agrees that that sort of release can seem like a death knell for a band, but it seemed like as good a time as any.

“It seemed like an appropriate time to do a retrospective, to look back on what, at that point had been twenty years.

Best-ofs do sort of signal ‘the end’ but for us it was an opportunity; we had a lot of rarities to put out, all the videos and singles all together in one place, very satisfying. We thought these songs were as good, if not better, than anything we had before, always a sense of ‘unfinished business’. The music industry is fuelled by dreams; you write your own destiny, it’s one big gamble, and the world throws so much at you, you just need to throw something back.”

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Close Your Eyes and See is out March 3. The Blackeyed Susans play The Republic Bar in Hobart on Saturday April 1.

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REBIRTH OF KILLING HEIDI KILLING HEIDI ARE BACK! AND THEY ADMITTEDLY SOUND BETTER THAN THEY EVER HAVE. AFTER YEARS OF DENYING A REFORMATION ELLA HOOPER HAS GIVEN IN AND THE BAND HAVE RETURNED, TOURING AUSTRALIA AND REKINDLING THE KILLING HEIDI SPARK WITHIN FANS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. WE SAT DOWN WITH ELLA TO DISCUSS THE REUNION, HER SOLO CAREER AND HOW ELLA EMBRACED HER INNER PISSED OFF TEEN TO SING THE SONGS SHE WROTE WHEN SHE WAS ONLY THIRTEEN YEARS OLD.

Killing Heidi reached great success, as majority of Australia remembers, during its career from 1996 and 2006. It has been just over ten years since the band disbanded and during those ten years Ella was adamant that Killing Heidi would never get back together. After many years of saying ‘no’ the band have reformed and are currently touring Australia. Ella says the band decided to reunite forces as time became right.

“I’m a classic for saying never. I think it was an overwhelming sense that the time was right and that there had been enough time in between drinks.”

Although the band had such a long time apart, Ella says that it wasn’t nerve-racking to come together to play again. Each member of the band

has grown and developed in the ten years they have been apart and it was exciting for them each to be able to preform the songs they love to the audience who loves to hear them.

“I was a little bit nervous but it wasn’t nerveracking. It was really exciting. I go into gig mode whenever it’s gig time and I just get it done and then I was hoping that it would go well. I was full of anticipation but I wasn’t sick with nerves or anything.”

Ella was only young when the band first started, thirteen to be exact, and so the lyrics and themes are the reflections of that period of Ella’s life. Since it has been almost twenty-years since she wrote those lyrics, the themes behind them have less relevance to Ella’s life. Ella was at

first sceptical wether she could sing the songs for that very reason, but to her surprise she connected quite easily.

“That’s part of the reason I said I would never do it (perform as Killing Heidi) – those lyrics are from a fifteen year old, or even a thirteen year old at some point and how can I do that with a straight face as at thirty-four. I’ve had to find a way to connect to my inner pissed-off teen. Lo and behold it was quite easy, she’s still there!”

During the years since the band broke up Ella has been keeping incredibly busy. Still working within the music industry, Ella has being working on a number of various projects, including another band with Killing Heidi’s Guitarist Jesse Hooper, her brother. Out of all her projects, Ella’s solo career is definitely her favourite. Ella is able to create and make music on her terms through her solo career, which she could never do with Killing Heidi.

“Well I really love to mix it up, my favourite thing changes every three months I would say. I get really passionate about radio and I loved having a show on radio a couple of years ago and then I was excited about TV and I kind of jumped into that with both feet. At the moment my favourite thing is my solo career, I have to say, making music. Making music on my own terms and making music with no expectations attached.

In the later years Killing Heidi had so much expectation that it was kind of stifling and I didn’t feel like we were meeting those expectations ever so making music with purely creative intent is my favourite thing at the moment. I’ve really had to learn. It’s been a really interesting, challenging learning journey with each solo release I feel like I’m getting close to being a fully empowered, autonomous artist. But I still have got a ways to go.”

Although the band is back together, fans will be pushing the limit to expect new music. For now the group are preforming their old songs and celebrating the hits they have. However, Ella is renowned for changing her mind.

“It has been talked about but we haven’t got any plans to do it and I think we’re just happy to celebrate what was. But that’s not to say that Jesse and I wont make music together but I don’t think it will be under the umbrella of Killing Heidi; however I am very good at saying no to things that eventually do happen, saying no and then yes.”

Ella is very excited to play in Hobart. She is a frequent visitor of Tasmania is looking forward to their Hobart show on May 6. She ensures it will be a great show and fans will not be disappointed.

“I’m so pumped to play in Tassie. I’m a big fan of Tassie and I come down just as a fan and a tourist really quite often so it’s great to come down under the guise of rock and roll. Not blow my own horn too much, but it is a really good show. It’s really fun and it goes right through all the stages of killing Heidi and it even throws in a little bit of new material of my own and a little bit of The Verses which was a band after Killing Heidi that Jesse and I had and then back into the big hits of the early 2000s Killing Heidi. It’s just working so well, the band sounds amazing, we’re actually a lot better than we were back then so if anyone saw us back then they will have all of those old feelings and hear those old songs and be able to say that we sound shitloads better.”

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Killing Heidi will perform in Hobart on Saturday May 6 at the Goods Shed at Macquarie Point. Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au.

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THE FRENCH CONNECTION AS TRUMPET/PIANO PLAYER FOR ECLECTIC FRENCH OUTFIT PARIS COMBO, DAVID LEWIS ORIGINATED IN HAMILTON IN OUTER VICTORIA, HEADING TO THE CABARET STAGES OF PARIS, FRANCE IN THE ‘80S, MET BELLE DU BERRY AND...WELL, HE TELLS THE STORY BETTER THAN ME.

“Belle and Francois [aka Jean-François Jeannin, percussionist] and Potzi [guitarist] had been playing together in other bands right back until the late ‘80s, early ‘90s and I met them around 1995, when Belle and I were playing in a show together called Cabaret Sauvage in a spiegeltent; she was the singer and I was the musical director. They already had a solid thing going and I joined up with them and that’s when it became Paris Combo.

It seemed to me that when people heard the band, they would find it as exotic and interesting as I did when I first heard them playing.”

Paris Combo have just released Tako Tsubo, their first album in four years. Fun fact: the title was inspired by takotsubo cardiomyopathy, known as ‘broken-heart syndrome’. The album is quite cinematic-feeling, a sentiment apparently shared by many.

“The feedback we’re getting is that the music is quite evocative of cinema, and quite varied atmospheres.”

Lewis says. “It’s more orchestral, in the sense that the previous album was more of a group album, conceived and played in the studio, whereas this one there’s quite a few musicians from outside the group, there’s strings... each piece was conceived like a little scenario.”

“Musically, the group has always been inspired by the past. As far back as the ‘20s and ‘30s, but even more recently, like the ‘60s, and the fact that we are Parisbased too means we’re naturally influenced by our own environment. Paris is a melting pot; just by being here you hear a lot of different music. In Paris...it’s got its own musical traditions, one of them being what the French call chanson, which is really sort of singer-songwriter I guess. That’s the water we swim in as fish.”

Although the Paris Combo sound does hearken back to different times, Lewis doesn’t consider himself or the band particularly nostalgic.

“We also like to take influences and kind of apply them to our own songs, and mix in more recent musical styles, too. We just use music from all periods as a material for creating our own musical world.”

Part of the band’s success, Lewis maintains, is down to the support that France offers its creative population.

“In France, it’s the extreme degree of importance that they attach to art and culture, which is also reflected in the amount of money that the French government put into helping culture and theatre companies, musicians, dancers...and that sort of attention to culture also has the effect of allowing people in general access to culture.

I stayed because I’ve always been able to live from my music. That’s partly due to the overall scene here, and the way in which it’s organised and financed.”

LISA DIB

Tako Tsubo is out now. Paris Combo play the Ten Days on the Island Festival in Burnie on Wednesday March 22 at the Burnie Arts Centre and Hobart on Thursday March 23 at Wrest Point.

NATIONAL YOUTH WEEK NATIONAL YOUTH WEEK WILL RUN MARCH 31 – APRIL 9 ACROSS THE STATE. A SERIES OF EVENTS CATERING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 12 – 25 WILL BE HELD TO PROMOTE CREATIVENESS AND ACTIVITY THROUGH THE ARTS AS WELL AS OTHER DISCIPLINES.

Included during the week will be events, exhibitions, festivals, forums and workshops that will encourage young people to foster and share their talents.

In Hobart, Light Up The Lane will run for its fourth year.

The digital arts festival will enable young visual artists to project their artwork onto buildings surrounding Mathers Place from 5.30pm – 9.00pm on Friday March 31. The visuals will be accompanied with a range of DJs and acoustic musicians playing across the lane. A cinema room will also be running screening short films made by young Tasmanian filmmakers. As a first, Glohaus! will be a new interactive installation that will feature as part of the festival.

If you’re in Devonport, The Sketchbook Project is returning for its third year. Participants are encouraged to collect a sketchbook now from the Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport Bookshop, Devonport LINC, Splash and Blue Apple Gift Store. The sketchbook is meant to be filled with drawings, writing and ideas using any mediums that will fit onto the pages. The filled sketchbooks need to be then returned to one of the above collection points

by Wednesday March 29. These will then be presented in a National Youth Week exhibition at Devonport LINC from March 31 – April 9.

Further details on events statewide can be found at www.ynot. org.au/nyw or www.facebook.com/nywtas.

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PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED FOUR PIECE ROCK-POP OUTFIT THE PREATURES ARE BUSY PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON THE NEW ALBUM; THE FOLLOW-UP TO 2014’S BLUE PLANET EYES (PRODUCED BY GUITARIST JACK MOFFITT AND SPOON’S JIM ENO) - THE ALBUM THAT SPAWNED A SLEW OF HUGE SINGLES, INCLUDING IS THIS HOW YOU FEEL?, WHICH MADE ITS WAY INTO THE PS4 VIDEO GAME PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2015 - THE BAND EVEN PERFORMED IT ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE. AN ODD TURN OF EVENTS, PERHAPS, BUT, AS BASSIST THOMAS CHAMPION NOTES, THE BAND ARE UP FOR A CHALLENGE.

“We’re just trying to get a couple of things done- we’re almost finished the album! It’s that frantic little push over the peak, over the hill.” he explains. “It’s a lot to do and a lot of time, but I actually really enjoy this process.”

“It’s made of songs (laughs), it’s made of songs from a really particular kind of place.” Champion says, when I ask what the new album is ‘made of’- he’s right, though. “There’s been a lot of changes we’ve gone through in the last twelve months, certainly a change of scenery as a group. We’re trying to get back to what it means to be a band, that’s been a real big theme for this recordto simplify and explore.”

Such notions are important for band in a tizzy: in March 2016, guitarist Gideon Bensen left the band (on good terms, mind), not long after they began working on the new record. Drummer Luke Davison also sustained an arm injury that put him out for a bit, too. Champion is happy, though, that they’ve made time to decompress and work solidly.

“In the past, we definitely have not had as much time on a record ever; we started recording in February [2016], but things happened: Gideon left and Luke had an injury, but we were writing and having fun, it was a salvation from all this forced change happening around us. When you’re making music in that space, you remember why you started making music in the first place, it’s a series of moments. We were able to acknowledge those simple basic things, and when Luke came back, we started to feel how it was to play as a four-piece.”

“It was interesting to be just adaptable and focus on what we have now, make it fun.” he says. “Things feel stronger now than they have for a long time. A band is really a fragile thing, everyone’s got a responsibility to it and themselves. We love playing live, but making the record is almost a confessional thing, using it as a space to try and figure out what would come next.”

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Signing with Mercury back in 2012, it was the release of 2013’s Is This How You Feel? EP, featuring the eponymous single (produced by guitarist Jack Moffitt), that got them a fair swell of attention: Feel nabbed the band a $50,000 Vanda & Young songwriting prize, and an ARIA nomination for Best Pop Release. It also came in ninth in the Triple J Hottest 100. A ‘breakthrough’ moment, if I may sound a touch corny. Blue Planet Eyes would eventually make its way up to #4 in the ARIA charts and score them three more nominations at the 2015 awards. In their time, they’ve made appearances at Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, South By Southwest, Splendour in the Grass, Coachella, and more, and supported Pink (or P!nk as you might know her) and The Rolling bloody Stones!

Champion notes that the burgeoning success of the band is down to how well they work together; like a well-oiled machine, and they can rely on each to call bullshit if needed.

“My whole thing was to elevate what happened on the first record, being frank about what I could’ve done better on the first album.

We never really think of ourselves as a ‘DIY’ band, it’s pretty normal these days. It puts you in an interesting position; you have to learn to be creative with what you’ve got. In that process, we’ve found a way to take this idea we have of ourselves and make it something that can be heard. We’ve got each other to rest on when a lot of that doubt can creep in. It’s great being in a group, we’re all pretty good about being opinionated (laughs). It’s about keeping each other in check, we’re better when we’re doing things in the moment; it’s more raw and real.”

LISA DIB

The Preatures play A Day On The Lawn (all ages) with Boy & Bear, Soul Truck and Sam Miguel and DMost at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Sunday March 26, 2017. Tickets are available from www.oztix. com.au.

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KING OF THE ACID LINE ROLAND TINGS IS A LITTLE BIT OF AN ANOMALY IN THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC SCENE. TASMANIANS WERE INTRODUCED TO HIS ARPEGGIOS AND DRUM LOOPS THROUGH THE MONA FOMA FESTIVAL A FEW YEARS BACK. SINCE THEN HE HAS POPPED UP AT A NUMBER OF CLUB SHOWS AND AN APPEARANCE AT PARTY IN THE PADDOCK.

Tings is back in Tasmania this April as part of his Each Moment A Diamond Live Tour. Unlike most electronic artists that pack a usb stick, a laptop and maybe a usb controller, Roland Tings likes to travel heavy with more than a couple of synths, samplers and drum machines stuffed into his checked luggage. Tings answered a few questions about current life and music.

Have you made a pilgrimage to Berlin or Detroit so far?

I’ve spent some time living in Berlin a few years ago and I spent one night in Detroit recently on tour with Rufus Last time we talked you were making techno on a farm with cows as your audience. Have you traded in your next door neighbours?

I have! I moved back to Melbourne city and then moved again to the country.

If you had some studio time booked in and could invite anybody to join you who would it be?

My good buddy and Hobart resident Bronze Savage.

We jam together frequently and always come up with something good, sometimes music, sometimes food.

Does lyrics wreck a good dance tune?

Always.

When playing live, how much of your music is really being played “live”?

On the upcoming tour all of the drums are played live, most of the synth sounds are generated & sequenced live. I have spent the last year experimenting with improvisation and have got pretty good at creating something new and interesting on the fly. It’s a very exciting way to play!

Do you have a collection of synths stuffed in your bedroom?

No, I sold them all to buy a Modular Synthesizer.

Ever had a jam on a Theremin? Thoughts on incorporating one into your sets?

No. What do you feel is the next evolutionary step for music to take?

Opposable thumbs.

NIC ORME

Roland Tings will perform at the Waratah Hotel on Saturday April 8. Tickets available from Oztix. Each Moment A Diamond is out March 10.

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THE GOD THAT COMES TO TASSIE

TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND WILL SEE THE RETURN OF CANADIAN ARTIST HAWKSLEY WORKMAN, BRINGING WITH HIM THE GOD THAT COMES, A DEBACHEROUS REVELRY OF INDULGENCE, SEX AND VIOLENCE. WITH THE RECENT RISE TO POWER OF A VERY IDIOTIC KING, HAWKSLEY’S MUSICAL PLAY HAS NEW SIGNIFICANCE, BUT HE’S ALSO PREPARING TO COMMUNE WITH HIS OWN BACCHUS SIDE WITH SOME GOOD TASMANIAN WINES, OR SO HE SAYS. What can audiences expect from The God That Comes?

Its a one man rock n roll cabaret show. It’s a retelling of the Greek play of the Bacchae, the God of wine and sex. It’s an adult night. It’s a bit of a dirty, sexy, naughty sort of Greek play. There is a grumpy old king who wants his city to abide by militaristic standards and to not have any fun. He loathes the idea of humans engaging in revelry and there seems to be a lot of those type of king characters these days so it’s an interesting thing to sit back and thoroughly think through.

How does it feel to be returning to this role?

It’s great. I don’t really ever feel like it’s too far away from me. I’m not an actor, I’m sort of a rock n roll or folk singer. The show for me is about conjuring the guttural demons. Letting them out of their cage and letting them run wild. The touring life of the show is slowing a bit, but there is a lot of talk giving that there is a brand new grumpy king (in America). The show might have a whole new set of legs because we have an insane narcissist with all manners of hubris to deal with. He seems rather archetypal and ready to be an emulative element to our king and our play.

Your art ranges from recording albums to writing children’s books. How is performing The God That Comes different from other projects?

When I go on tour to do my own solo stuff it’s not that much different. With The God That Comes, it’s a narrative. The show is all music. There is very little in the way of a script. If anything, The God That Comes allows me to be a bit more like the rowdy rock n roller that I was 15 years ago. It allows me to wear that hat again with some legitimacy, because of course it’s in the form of a play, and people think well it’s a play so it must be high art, which means my drinking and carrying on is high art.

Debauchery, ecstasy, jealously and wine that never ceases to flow are major themes in your play. How do these tie into 10 Days?

I do hear that there is a wine culture in Tasmania. I’ve been traveling to Australia for about 15 years and it’s interesting to see what I think I grew up understanding to be a fierce beer culture turn so quickly and so passionately to wine. I know that Australia is a big wine country, so that’s why we are bringing the God of wine to you. Why come to me when I can go to the source?

How do you relate to Bacchus and what influence has the God of wine played in your own artistic life?

I certainly have had lots of wine in my life. Wine is a funny thing. I think your relationship with wine is always changing and my relationship with wine continues to change. I’ve always been someone who struggles with moderation of any kind. But you know I don’t want to never have a relationship with wine so all of a sudden wine has invited me to have a relationship with moderation in order that we maintain a quality of life within our own relationship together.

So you have taken a hiatus from drinking for the time being?

Well it’s 8 days so far but to be honest, it’s mostly because I thought I would maybe give my liver a rest until I arrive in Tasmania. There is a method to my madness here. It’s not all altruism or health. I want to let my liver get a little bit pink before I get over there.

What do you believe humanity has lost that they can regain from attending your show?

Humanity has lost a lot I guess. The show really is about, why do we need to gather together in dark places with a glass of wine in our hands with loud music on? What is it about that activity that adds balance to our lives? What is a life without that? Without revelry? What is a life of emotional suppression? The show kind of asks those two things. Humanity has changed quite a bit in the Internet era. We’re all a bit more afraid to speak out loud. We all feel a bit more exposed and a little bit more connected but we also feel a bit more under the microscope.

The show is a place to kind of reengage with that communal atmosphere of loud music, of dark space, a bit of a wine buzz, a connection to that sort of sexy underbelly. The show tries to paint a picture of life that includes that revelry. That it’s a necessary part of a human life to let go now and again. That a life of pure repression is a life that goes unfulfilled.

Carmen Marsello

Catch Hawksley Workman perform The God that Comes on Tuesday March 21 at The Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre and Friday March 24 & Saturday March 25 at The Playhouse Theatre, Hobart. Further information available from www.tendays.org.au.

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FRANKO THIS SUMMER, HOBART’S FRANKLIN SQUARE HAS COME ALIVE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOONS THROUGH TO THE EARLY EVENING THIS SUMMER WITH A POP UP NIGHT MARKET. STREET EATS @ FRANKO COMES FROM THE TEAM BEHIND HOBART INSTITUTION, FARM GATE MARKET, AND ENCOURAGES THE PUBLIC TO SAMPLE LOCAL FOOD AND DRINK PRODUCE, WITHIN A FESTIVE CONTEXT OF LIVE MUSIC AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENT.

Each week, the market has hosted an array of local and travelling interstate musicians, providing an eclectic mix of blues, funk, jazz and soul just for a taster. For the remainder of March, Street Eats will feature The Dark Eyes and Anita Cairns (March 3), Halfway to Forth and Mangus + Co (March 10), Brett Collidge and Mocane (March 17), Billy Whitton and Mama Smooth (March 24) and finally on March 31, Fabio Chivhanda and Indigenous Australian artist, Yirrmal. Music kicks off each market at 4.45pm.

March’s headliner will be Yirrmal Marika, a native of North-East Arnhem Land. Grandson of Dr Yunupingu, former lead singer of Yothu Yindi, Yirrmal fuses traditional with contemporary as a singer-songwriter.

Debuting his Youngblood EP late 2016, Yirrmal has begun to tour Australia and is working towards his first fulllength album in early 2018. Check out his first Tasmanian appearance at Street Eats this March.

For more information on Street Eats @ Franko head to the website – www.streeteatsfranko.com.au.

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FOR THE SUPERHUMAN, THE ALIEN. LUTI OZKILINC LAUNCHED HER FIRST FASHION LINE ALIEN DESIGNS LAST YEAR, BRINGING ONE OF A KIND, SUSTAINABLE AND RECYCLED CLOTHING TO THE FRACTANGULAR FESTIVAL AND MARKETS AROUND TASMANIA. WITH DONATIONS FROM EVERY SALE GOING TO THE SKATEBOARDING DRIVEN NON-PROFIT SKATEISTAN, LUTI IS USING HER LINE TO BRING FASHION CONSCIOUSNESS TO THE ALIENS, THE UNIQUE SUPERHUMANS OF OUR TIME. How did your love for fashion develop?

My mum has such impeccable fashion sense that it is embedded in my genes. She told me to say that.

How long have you been designing and creating clothing?

Since I was a kid. I would trace out hundreds of figures and design clothes on them. It has taken me a long time to realize that this is something I have always been interested in.

How was Alien Designs started and when did you officially launch the line?

The idea has been in my head for years. When I moved to NSW last year I had the time, energy and focus to make it happen. The label was launched in November and it has been smooth sailing since then.

What hurdles have you faced in the development and launching of your line?

Constantly having to justify why I do things the way I do is tricky. If I need to buy something for the stall, I will spend hours upon hours trying to find it second hand. All my price tags are individually cut, hole punched, prices stenciled on (with second hand ink). Every single part of the process takes a really long time and people don’t get it. I am continuously having to explain that it’s about sustainability and not supporting big corporations. I will do whatever it takes to stay true to those values, but it does seem like a battle sometimes.

What is Alien Designs’ purpose and who is the clothing designed for?

The label is based on sustainability, For me it is not about making money. It’s about creating

positive change and changing the way people view fashion. The fast fashion industry is destroying our planet and people need to realize what they are supporting and that there are other options out there. I try to sell clothing that appeals to a broad range of people, as long as you like black.

No two pieces of your clothing are the same.

What are the advantages and obstacles in creating one of a kind designs?

I think people like owning something unique, it makes it special. Because each piece is different it does mean things take a lot longer.

How much of your materials are recycled/up cycled and where do you source the materials from?

All of the clothing is, including the fabric paint, threads, buttons, the lot. It is mostly sourced from op shops and second hand shops. The Shred Socks are made from Australian Cotton.

Which local artists have you contributed with on the line?

For the line itself no one yet. In the stall there is some beautiful jewelry made by Hannah Crane and clothing from Idis Designs. The stall itself was painted by the amazing Jamin. Now that I am back in Tasmania I can’t wait to start collaborating with friends more. There is some amazing talent here!

to explore what that means further. The line is a direct representation of my passions and style.

It’s all about getting amongst it, making the most of life and helping to make a difference.

Alien Designs donates $1 from every purchase to Skateistan, a non-profit organisation that uses skateboarding and education to empower underprivileged youths in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. What attracted you to this organization and how long have you been donating to them?

Skateistan are amazing! Not only do they provide education, support and teach life changing leadership skills, they are also about bridging gaps. You don’t need to have the same beliefs to go skating, be the same gender or even speak the same language. Over 50% of their students are girls. For somewhere like Afghanistan where a lot of females will never get the chance to go to school, that is massive. I’ve had my eye on the organization for a long time. They are making a huge difference in so many ways. It seemed like the perfect place to donate to.

Where and how can customers find and purchase Alien Designs clothing?

Markets and festivals at the moment. Check out the website and like the Facebook page to find out where we will be!

Where would you like to see the label go in the future?

It would be amazing if it was something that I could do full time and not have to work as well. But for the moment, if I can influence one person’s ideas of the fashion industry then I’m happy.

CARMEN MARSELLO

What links do skating, surfing, nature and fashion have in your own life and how did this influence the line?

I love skating (though I am terrible), am fascinated by the ocean and I always feel most content when in the bush away from the concrete jungle. I think of fashion as art and I can’t wait

Check out Alien Designs at www.aliendesigns.com. au, www.instagram.com/aliendesignsau and www. facebook.com/aliendesigns.com.au.

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A GIRL NEEDS A BIKE SINCE ITS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS AT BALMAIN HIGH SCHOOL IN 1991, FLICKERFEST HAS BLOSSOMED INTO A MULTIFACETED AND LARGE-SCALE EVENT. SO MUCH SO THAT IN 2003 THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCE DECIDED THAT FLICKERFEST WAS A QUALIFYING FESTIVAL FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM AND BEST ANIMATION CATEGORIES OF THE ACADEMY AWARDS, AND IN 2010, THE FESTIVAL WAS RECOGNISED BY THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS (BAFTA), MEANING THAT FILMS FROM THE UK THAT WON AT FLICKERFEST WERE ELIGIBLE FOR A BAFTA NOMINATION.

As Australia’s leading competitive short film festival, Flickerfest 2017 will be no different, as they continue unabated in showing off Aussie filmmaking talent. 2017 will also see two Tasmanian entries: Source: Our Co-operative (by Carly Rusden, produced by Mark Thomson) and Vivien Mason and Letitia Lamb’s A Girl Needs A Bike. I chatted to animator Mason about her film.

“It’s a good medium of communication, to be able to be openly interpreted in different ways.” she says. “You don’t wanna necessarily dictate how people will receive the message. Bike is a story I like because it’s about a girl who has a real passion for doing something, and she finds a way to share that with other girls in a way that potentially transforms their futures. You get people that are very passionate about art and then to see them put their passion into practice, share it with other people- it’s a simple thing to do, but very powerful. A positive story that’s worth hearing.”

The story follows Clara, a teacher working in a Ghanaian village. She helms the Village Bicycle Project that brings bike-riding (as well as confidence and independence) to her students.

Mason discusses the worth of showcasing real stories, for all of their power and worth in reality.

“There’s a lot of big complex problems in the world; we’re struggling to comprehend what that means for the future. It’s a bit overwhelming, that sort of scale of problems or challenges out there to solve, and it’s great to see a story where someone is able to, through doing something quite simple really, contribute a positive future to people that learn to share her passion for bikes.

It’s empowering to see stories of real people.”

there’s something different in the atmosphere, the sheer excitement of responding to the story.”

Although any art worth doing is a lot of work, animation is a particular task that requires both patience and dedication.

“Animation is particularly labour-intensive, it’s a lot of time, even for something a couple of minutes long.” Mason explains. “In our case, it probably took us eight months from start to finish, with people in different roles. We spent around five, six hundred hours on the animation. We interviewed Clara over Skype, which was very fun to be able to connect with her. An international story and something that was fresh and different.

We talked to her on skype, about a three hour conversation, and instilled that into the really key things she said that were the essence of her story.

It was a complex process. There’s room for a bit of imagination, even if it’s a factual story, there is so much freedom.”

“There’s a good place for fantasy and imagination out there, but to have characters on screen that you can really relate to, that are authentic to you, they’re more likely to resonate with you.” Mason says, on the joy of animation as a creative outlet, and filmmaking as a storyteller. “Although it’s fun to be free and have imagination, you’ve gotta stay true to your story and have a strong story, that’s the centre of everything. It’s exciting when you find something that has both interesting ideas and visuals, that can be so powerful; there are sub-genres of animation that are purely for a young audience, so they might not be so focussed in the story.”

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Since 1995, Flickerfest has been a touring production, heading to both metropolitan and regional cities all over Australia. Mason enjoys the benefits of the reach that such a jaunt can bring.

“It’s great to have an opportunity for people in regional areas to see Australian-made short films and great international films as well. Flickerfest is a well-respected event and a great way to meet other filmmakers. In the days of the internet, you can find all kinds of art things online, but with a live audience who are all interested, it brings people together; they share the experience of all these films that people have put so much time into making. I always enjoy watching films in a cinema, 22

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Flickerfest will hit Tassie Thursday March 30th-Friday March 31st at the Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart and the Town Hall Supper Room in Cygnet. Head to the festival website for tickets and details – www.flickerfest. com.au.

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BABEL AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF INVISIBLE PRACTICE, GLEN MURRAY HAS HELPED TO BRING MATURE BODIES TO THE FOREFRONT OF CROSS-PLATFORM PERFORMANCES. THIS YEAR, HE’S BRINGING SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT TO THE TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND FESTIVAL.

“Babel is a sound work. I’m collaborating with composer Heath Brown and sound and lighting designer Jason James, both exquisitely beautiful artists in their own right. We want to create an environment that the audience can come into to experience the beautiful music of language, without having to interpret or translate. Language is just so beautiful; part of my question through this work is: ‘Does language make us who we are? Or do we make language what we are? Are we who we are because of language?’”

“What we are endeavouring to achieve, at any one time within the performance environment, is that no one person will understand another person. Audiences will be encouraged to move towards languages they don’t understand; the beauty and power in the work is to immerse yourself in the power of a

language you don’t understand. People will self-direct themselves through this experience. Some of the languages in Babel are on the verge of disappearing; one lady speaks a dialect of Flemish that young people will not learn and that language will die.”

“A couple of people have fractured relationships with language; a German lady of a generation post-WWII has great difficulty speaking her language. Babel is a simple concept in some ways, but a very complex work. It’s powerful and intriguing. It’s beautiful because of the complete generosity of the members of the community who’ve grown up speaking languages other than English and want to share it.”

The project prides itself on ‘saying’ the unsaid; Murray’s work has often fixated

on pure body movement, as his work with MADE will attest.

“I founded MADE [Mature Artists Dance Experience] in 2005, a physical theatrebased ensemble, and was creating work and organising that.” he says. “I worked with them until 2014. I’m dabbling in film and 2D work. It is exciting, whether I’m working with bodies or objects or collaborating with a composer, I’m still choreographing; my role is the spacial position of the choreography in the space; where the performers are, how it looks visually.”

“I’ve done some research embarking on the project.” Murray explains. “The disappearance of language is a terrible thing, especially when you’re around to see it happen. Hundreds of thousands of languages over history that have

disappeared. Language actually hasn’t evolved; in most instances, it’s actually devolved.”

The more tragic part of such a project is the acknowledgement that languages can live or die on human use and abuse; think of the many Indigenous languages obliterated by colonization in a mere hundred years. Murray knows full well the damage we do to and with words.

LISA DIB Babel is on at the Hobart Council Centre, as part of Ten Days On The Island, on the following dates: Saturday March 18, 5pm – 10pm Friday March 24, 6pm – 11pm Saturday March 25, 5pm – 10pm Further information on Babel is available from www.tendays.org.au.

THEATRE

RAWSPACE AS PART OF TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND, THE THEATRE ROYAL IN CONJUNCTION WITH TEN DAYS AND TASMANIA PERFORMS, WILL PRESENT RAWSPACE, WHICH IS A PROGRAM AIMED AT NURTURING FLEDGING THEATRICAL WORKS BY TASMANIAN THEATRE MAKERS.

This year three theatrical pieces will be presented for public consumption. Brittle is a solo movement based theatrical work featuring Glen Murray. The Love Project, directed by Essie Krukemeyer and composed by Heath Brown, explores both the ordinary and extraordinary subject of love through music, movement and interviews between a small group of performers. Lipstick is a production that explores gender as an aspiring performer auditions for a role in a musical.

Zeb Direen is the writer and key performer in Lipstick. As he explained the theatre piece is still very much a work in progress having already transformed since originally being accepted to the Rawspace program.

“Originally the idea was how we perceive men in society. Makeup is slowly being accepted on males with a hint of mascara or eyeliner to accentuate their features.

Lipstick is a no go.”

Direen has explained the theatre work has moved on from there.

“We were on the Rawspace doing some improvisation and what we could come

up with as a storyline. I check Facebook daily for show auditions and noticed there were upcoming auditions for Cabaret in Melbourne. The lead character (Sally Bowles) is a maverick/subversive character and the idea came about that it could be performed by somebody of nongender.”

Direen has loosely drawn his own life into the piece of work. Self-relating to as non-gender, the play follows Direen – who plays the lead role – going about his day to day life working as a sales assistant at a local Manchester store. The character then sees the role of Sally Bowles being auditioned for a local production of Cabaret, and chooses to audition for it, even though he is male. What happens next? Go to Rawspace and find out.

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Rawspace runs from March 16 – March 18 in the Theatre Royal Backspace. For more information and tickets head to the Theatre Royal website – www.theatreroyal.com.au.

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FLICKERFEST HAVING BEEN WITH THE FESTIVAL FOR TWENTY YEARS, FLICKERFEST DIRECTOR BRONWYN KIDD HAS SEEN A HELLUVA LOT OF FILMS, AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF CHANGES. CONSIDER HOW MUCH TECHNOLOGY AND TRENDS HAVE CHANGED IN FIVE YEARS, LET ALONE TWENTY. KIDD TALKS ABOUT HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS INFLUENCED THE FESTIVAL AND FILMMAKING AS AN ART.

“In the beginning, filmmakers were using 35mm film, and touring actual film. There’s been a big change with digital technology- that was massive and it made filmmaking more accessible, which also allowed more diverse storytellers: women and Indigenous filmmakers.

We get such a broad range; it’s not a niche festival: there’s comedy, beautiful animation, moving dramas...it’s such a diverse range of genres.”

lot of disagreements. Some films I like better than others, but I can see the merit of all of them.”

Kidd has the mammoth task of, with her team, reviewing all the entries made to Flickerfest and picking out the ones that shine. It’s an epic task, and no doubt difficult, and this year was no different.

“You’ve gotta be able to survive in the industry; you can’t just screen films for your friends, that’s just a hobby.” she says. “Festivals are the way that talent gets discovered.

We’re not just trying to discover one type of talent. We have audiences in mind; we want them to enjoy it and engage with the films. We take it very seriously, it can have a big impact on a career.”

“We had about 2000 entries. It’s not like we just watch them once and then pick- it’s a yearlong thing.” she explains. “Making sure that the festival is really selecting the best short films that the world has to offer and being able to bring those, creative, unique stories. There’s not a

The nature of the Australian film and TV industry is that such there are so many keen personalities and just not enough jobs. Our relatively small industry has made for fierce competition, but Kidd sees this as a help, rather than a hindrance.

“It’s one of the most competitive industries in the world. If you’re good, you’ll succeed. You have to be a realist. But if you’re talented and determined to succeed, you will.”

It is also imperative to Kidd and her staff to continue the touring tradition of the festival, allowing more and more people all over the country to experience it, rather than just a few inner-city crowds.

“It’s important for us to bring it to regional audiences, encouraging filmmakers within those audiences to aspire to those films, see the level of competition. The tour’s been 21 years now, we’ve been coming to Hobart for about 10 years. I think our tour is really extensive, we’ve got a really good reach.”

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The Eleven O'Clock

Flickerfest is coming to Tassie on March 30-31 at the Peacock Theatre and in Cygnet at the Town Hall on the March 31. Two Tassie entries will be shown: A Girl Needs a Bike (Vivien Mason and Letitia Lamb) and The Eleven O’Clock (as part of the Best of Australian Shorts programme.)

Head to the website for more info – www.flickerfest.com.au.

BOOK REVIEW

A HISTORY OF PORT DAVEY, SOUTH WEST TASMANIA, VOLUME 1, FLEETING HOPES ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THIS COMPREHENSIVE, GROUND BREAKING HISTORY OF PORT DAVEY IS THAT IT IS FIRST VOLUME IN A SERIES OF AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. A HISTORY OF PORT DAVEY, SOUTH WEST TASMANIA, VOLUME 1, FLEETING HOPES, WILL LEAVE YOU WANTING MORE. TONY FENTON HAS RESEARCHED THIS POCKET OF TASMANIA WITH A PASSION NOT MANY HAVE AND HE PRESENTS HIS GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH AND PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE AREA IN A WAY THAT WE AS READERS ARE NOT LEFT DISAPPOINTED.

Port Davey is reachable only by water, plane or foot. No roads go there, and may they never, as the wilderness is part of the internationally recognized South West Wilderness World Heritage Area. It is a legendary area that also is home to so much hearsay and rumours that they have become myths; we’ve all heard of the man who went seeking a Jewish homeland, the bushwalker who lived on nothing but a Mars bar for two weeks, the escaped convicts, but we’ve not necessarily heard the truth of these tales, though you may have read Christobel Mattingley’s gorgeous King of the Wilderness, the life of Deny King.

Fenton is the grandson of Deny and he spent his childhood holidays roaming this area. The book, however, is not only the result of an intimate personal knowledge of Port Davey and surrounds, it is the outcome of many hours researching primary and secondary sources, trawling the archives and old newspapers.

It begins with a brief history of traditional Aboriginal lives in the area and their earliest encounters with the invading Dutch and later British people. The space dedicated to Robinson’s so- called ‘Friendly Missions’ builds on this time in Tasmanian history, and offers some fresh insight and detail into these expeditions. The book then begins to explore later expeditions into the area, the flurry of activity and exploration for precious metals that followed the gold rush in Victoria, the whalers, both pelagic and shore, the piners and then the mining that occurred in the area.

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Fenton’s writing style is engaging and while he doesn’t wear the research on his metaphorical sleeve, the detail and nuance he provides, as well as the detail provided in discussion of individuals and activities is obviously as a result of checking numerous sources. The story of the brig Victoria that bumped a reef several times in the area in 1862 is fascinating, but only so after she was slipped in Hobart and a piece of quartz was found to be imbedded in her rudder. The introduction to a new language, one from both history and the region, like the mention of ‘tonguers,’ men who grew vegetables in the area to trade with pelagic whalers and who received the carcasses of sperm whales in return, is also rewarding. The trade there was for the promise of the precious ambergris. Ambergris is essentially whale vomit, but it was (and still is) valuable for its use in the perfume industry. Dab a bit of that on yourself.

There are parts of this book I would like to have known more about, and while Fenton seems to know about things like the ‘farcical confrontation’ between Crowther and Askunas as they fought over leases on nearby islands where they believed guano could be farmed for export, I want to know the details of the farce. This is not a book that lacks for much, it is a rich and insightful read, very accessible, and one that leaves me seeking more history of the area and waiting in anticipation of volume 2.

RACHEL EDWARDS

Arts BOOK REVIEW

THE ISLAND WILL SINK CLI FI, OR CLIMATE FICTION IS A BURGEONING GENRE IN AUSTRALIA. WE MAY HAVE GROWN UP READING END OF THE WORLD DRAMAS, SUCH AS NEVILLE SHUTE’S CLASSIC ON THE BEACH, OR Z FOR ZACHARIAH BY ROBERT C O’BRIEN THAT PLACED THE WORLD IN ITS DYING DAYS POST NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; THIS NEW GENRE EXAMINES A WORLD THAT HAS UNDERGONE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE, OR A WORLD WHERE WE ARE EXPERIENCING THE HARSH NUANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, SUCH AS MIREILLE JUCHAU’S VERY BEAUTIFUL A WORLD WITHOUT US.

There’s not a lot of the beautiful in Doyle’s fast paced, riot of a novel, apart from some delightful turns of phrase. It is a wild ride, a thriller of sorts as, post energy crisis, Ecolaw is being enforced and ‘immersive’ film maker Max Galleon and his producer plan to film the sinking of the eponymous island, Pitcairn. Immersive film is a notion that is not too far-fetched from the 3D rides we are sent on when we go to the movies today, except they are a total sensory experience, where we, the viewers, are plugged in and physically experience the catastrophes occurring around us. The true fear experienced by the viewers/experiencers of these films is always offset by the idea they can unplug as they need to. To be present to film the sinking of Pitcairn though, is actual devastation and loss of life – and this is one of the fascinating notions on which this book spins.

Galleon has also outsourced his memory, meaning he has been able to pick and choose what remains and, accordingly, how his reality now looks. His wife has chosen not to ‘plug in’ as much as he has, though the structure of the buildings in which they live are completely connected and they respond to the extreme weather conditions, we hope. After a storm the “whole of Bay Heights looks as though it has returned from a day spa. The armoured beetle shells have retreated back into their holes and the heavy rains have left glistening and vivid mosaics on the solarbitumen. The cabin pressure adjusts. The music goes up and he windows down.”

Doyle is a scholar of the apocalypse, like Tasmanian author and academic Francesca Haig, though they have chosen to convey a post apocalyptic world in very different forms. Doyle’s is a romp, and Haig has chosen a more traditional sci-fi narrative for her Fire Song Trilogy.

This is a fiction book, though I fear it may become closer to the reality of our experiences, firstly as we increasingly and ironically disconnect from people around us by spending more and more time on social media and secondly, as the reality of climate change begins to impact more and more of our lives.

This is especially important as we face a new destructive, profit driven and ignorant regime in the United States of America, under Trump, who within his first days in office had mention of climate change removed from the White House website. What a dangerous, dangerous twit.

RACHEL EDWARDS

VIBRANCE A COLOURFUL FESTIVAL WILL EMERGE THIS MONTH OUT OF HOBART’S CONCRETE JUNGLE. VIBRANCE FESTIVAL WILL AIM TO BRING COLOUR TO A CURRENTLY DRAB AREA OF HOBART’S CBD, OVER TWO DAYS OF LIVE PAINTING ACCOMPANIED BY LIVE MUSIC, SKATE DEMOS, FOOD AND DRINKS.

The event will run Saturday March 25, midday to 10pm and then Sunday March 26, 1pm to 5pm at 82-84 Bathurst St Hobart.

Five selected artists will paint their visions onto the bare concrete wall that runs along the rear of the carpark space as a permanent artwork. During the day there will also be a number of featured ‘Art Battles’ between two or more artists on temporary walls.

The soundtrack to the event will feature a diverse range of Hobart DJs and bands, with the music on offer each day as follows: Saturday 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00

DJ Poga DJ Brocolli Bronze Savage Good Marinations Dark Dune Mum and Dad A. Swayze and the Ghosts EWAH and the Vision of Paradise Hugs

Sunday 1:00 2:00 4:00 5:00

Funknukl Good Marinations Milquebarth Chupacabra

Further information can be found at www.vibrancefestival.com.

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PAIGE TURNER IT WILL BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID A BOOK OR STORY RELATED EVENT IF YOU ARE IN TASMANIA DURING MARCH. NON-STOP READING AND WRITING PARTIES, IT WILL BE NONSTOP. OR AT LEAST A VARIETY OF WORD RELATED EVENTS THAT WILL TICKLE YOUR WORDIEST DESIRES. READ ON, DEAR DEVOURER OF SYMBOLS, READ ON.

Look out for newly minted, gorgeously devised and positive change creating local storytelling organization, The Story Island Project. They want to hear your Stories of the Brooker Highway.

If you have something to share about the currently chaotic arterial, they are gathering these stories as part of a larger project that will bring together the diverse communities that have lived, worked and travelled along the highway.

You can share yours on March 5 at the Mona Market, the Showgrounds Market on Sunday 12 and 19 March and at the Moonah Taste of the World Festival on Sunday March 26. For more details about this, check their website – www. storyislandproject.org.

Local designer Jennifer Cossins has had her delightfully illustrated books, A-Z of Endangered Animals and 101 Collective Nouns snaffled by international publisher Hachette (Australia). This is a major achievement and I send a hearty round of applause, smattered with anticipation for Jennifer’s new audiences. These books are slated for June release and in the mean time you can check her work at Red Parka in Criterion Street, Hobart.

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 28 & 29 April

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27 to 29 April

James Boyce, award winning historian and writer, is becoming increasingly recognized as an incisive social commentator. He has been particularly vocal about gambling in Tasmania and the destruction it causes individuals and communities, while a few people get very rich. His latest book Losing Streak, How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry, (pictured) is impeccably researched, calm in execution and beautifully written – and an indictment of the nuances of Tasmanian power structures. This will be launched at the Republic on Tuesday, March 14 at 5.30pm More information can be found on the publisher, Black Inc’s website - www.blackincbooks.com. au/books/losing-streak.

Kate Gordon, author of young adult (YA) novels, including the amazing Thyla and Vulpi that tell of shapeshifting girls up kunanyi/Mount Welly, is working with multi-award-winning publisher, Twelfth Planet Press. She’s in charge of their children’s imprint, and getting the word out about their YA anthology, Kaleidoscope. This anthology includes twenty original stories that are fun, edgy, meditative YA science fiction and fantasy with diverse leads. The stories tell of scary futures, magical adventures, and the joys and heartbreaks of teenage life. The book contains New York Times best-selling and award winning authors along with newer voices including Tasmanian locals Tansy Rayner Roberts, Holly Kench and Dirk Flinthart.

In Hobart, Blue Pollen Beautiful by Elizabeth Goodsir, with etchings by her daughter Madeleine Goodwolf (I love

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their complementary names) will be launched on March 21 at the Hobart Bookshop. It’s also World Poetry Day and what a way to honour poetry than to celebrate the launch of a new collection.

The Writers’ Centre is hosting Maria Tumarkin in March. Tumarkin, who will host a workshop on long form creative non-fiction, has taken my breath away with her concise and beautiful essays.

She faces the world unflinchingly and this comes across in her work.

It’s a unique opportunity and one I wish I could attend. This is happening on March 12. They are also hosting children’s illustrator Christina Booth for a full day workshop on How to Create a Picture Book. This is happening, as with the Tumarkin one, at the Moonah Arts Centre, and it is on March 26. For more information, and for other upcoming events see www.taswriters.org/events.

The State Cinema Bookstore is hosting local author Katherine Johnson for a Meet the Author event on Sunday March 26 at 2pm. She will be discussing her book The Better Son. This event will be held in the bookstore more information to follow on their website - www. statecinemabookstore.com.au.

Fullers Bookshop in Hobart is bursting at the proverbial seams in March.

Starting on March 3, a play adaptation of the book The Shape of Water by Anne Blythe-Cooper, tells the heretofore untold story of Sophia Degraves, wife of the founder of Cascade brewery.

On March 5 they are hosting, with the Theatre Royal “Meet the Cast” with Nathan Maynard about The Season.

More launches hosted by Fullers in March include Flame Tip, by Karen lee Thompson, with an introduction by David Walsh and on March 28, Krissy Kneen will be there for the launch of her new book An Uncertain Grace. On March 30, Caroline Cochrane’s book A Changed and Uplifted Life will be launched and on the 31st Melanie Thompson will launch her book All the Birds in the Air. On March 24 and March 26 Damon Young and Ruth Quibell will be discussing The Art of Reading and The Promise of Things, and My Brother is a Beast, respectively. More information? See www.fullersbookshop. com.au.

RACHEL EDWARDS

If you have any book news or events please get in touch Racheledwards488@gmail.com.

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South 146 Artspace Until March 10 CONSTANCE presents: Somewhere, Away March 17 – April 21 A Shared Exhibition with Promised Denial by Shireen Taweel and Anteroom by Sam Johnstone Bett Gallery Until March 13 Outside Window – Tim Burns Until March 13 Tortured Earth – Michael Shlitz 17 March – April 3 Patrick Grieve Colville Gallery March 3 Jason Cordero March 5 Luke Wagner (Gallery 2) March 24 Donna Lougher Handmark Gallery Until March 1 New Furniture and Lighting – Design Exhibition March 3 – March 19 Celebrating the 250th anniversary of John Glover’s birth – dscape Exhibition March 24 – April 16 New Paintings – drian Barber

Moonah Arts Centre Until March 4 Masks – Tyler Faulstich and Julie Monro Allison Until March 4 Back Burner – Tasmanian Graphic Designers Let Loose March 10 – April 1Crossroads – Ten Days on the Island TMAG Until May 21 Kanalaritja: An Unbroken String Until March 19 One Hell of an Inferno: The 1967 Tasmanian Bushfires Until April 2 A World of My Own – Patricia Giles Until March 3 The Early Dutch Explorers March 17 – April 8 Full Void- Mary Scott and David Edgar

NORTH QVMAG Until May 7 Steel Vignettes - Scott Gelston

Rosny Barn Schoolhouse Gallery March 3 – March 23 Through The Looking Glass – Australian Society of Miniature Art

Handmark Evandale Until March 8 New Paintings – Clifford How March 12 – March 29 Celebrating the 250th anniversary of John Glover’s Birth – Landscape Exhibition

Despard Gallery March 8 – April 2 At Bull Bay – Group Exhibition with Joanna Logue, Susan Baird, Camie Lyons, Catherine Cassidy, Melanie Mccollin Walker and Ian Marr

Burnie Regional Gallery Until March 12 In Search of Turner – Lesley Ann Rowe March 18 – May 7 Burnie Print Prize 2017 March 18 – April 30 The Lost Storeroom

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Devonport Regional Gallery Until March 12 Giving Voice: The Art of Dissent March 17 – March 26 A Decolonial Geographic – 10 Days Festival Program Exhibition

Kelly’s Garden Until March 5 Safe – Cigdem Aydemir Lightbox March 1 – March 31 The Pacific Specific – Donna Ritchie Top Gallery March 3 – March 31 Solastalgia – Belle Moody

Gallery Pejean Until March 11 Thresholds – Leoni Duff March 15 – April 8 The Celestials – Mandy Hunniford

SOUTH

NORTH

COMEDY

COMEDY

The Polish Corner March 1 Rod Quantock March 8 Richard Stubbs March 15 Rachel Berger March 22 Xavier Michelides

Earl Arts Centre March 26 Raw2! Winners Concert

Republic Bar March 23 Clubhouse Comedy with Daniel Sloss

Devonport Entertainment Centre March 31 Anh Do - The Happiest Refugee Live!!

Peacock Theatre March 8 Class Clowns 2017: National Secondary School Comedy competition: Hobart Heat/Tas State Final March 9 Deadly Funny 2017: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander National Comedy competition: Hobart Heat/Tas State Final

Burnie Arts Centre March 29 Anh Do - The Happiest Refugee Live!!

Princess Theatre March 30 Anh Do - The Happiest Refugee Live!!

Royal Oak March 3 RAW Comedy 2017 Northern Tasmania Heat March 24 Fresh Comedy presents Daniel Sloss

THEATRE

THEATRE

Princess Theatre March 3 - March 18 Wicked March 16 - March 18 You, Me and the Space Between March 21 White Snake: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre March 24 Fragile Matter

Playhouse Theatre Till March 11 The Hounds of the Baskervilles Theatre Royal March 16 - March 19 The Season March 24 - March 25 White Snake : Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre Backspace Theatre March 16 - March 18 2Rawspace Moonah Arts Centre March 17 - March 18 Fragile Matter - Tasdance & Jukstapoz Peacock Theatre March 17 Fire: Ten Days on the Island March 17 - March 18 The Frock : Ten Days on the Island March 20 - March 21 Dance Interrogations : Ten Days on the Island March 24 - March 26 You, Me and the Space Between: Ten Days on the Island

Earl Arts Centre March 18 - March 19 Mudlark’s One Day Project March 18 - March 26 Fringe at the Earl March 23 Exposing Edith March 24 - March 25 The Frock : Ten Days on the Island Burnie Arts Centre March 5 Mardi Gras 2017 Live Stream March 12 Facing North March 21 The Frock: Ten Days on the Island Devonport Entertainment Centre March 22 The Frock: Ten Days on the Island

Sidespace Gallery Until March 5 Ripples in the Red Sand – Henrietta Norris March 10 – March 27 Displaced – Nina Ken March 31 – April 16 Desolata – Kim Foale Long Gallery March 15 – March 26 Proof of Life: Studio Sessions

WARP RECOMMENDS

STEEL VIGNETTES TASMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER SCOTT GELSTON HAS EMBARKED ON HIS FIRST MAJOR EXHIBITION, STEEL VIGNETTES, AT THE QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM WHICH IS SHOWING THIS MONTH. STEEL VIGNETTES DOCUMENTS THE WORK OF INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ARTISAN BLACKSMITH PETE MATTILA, AT WORK IN THE MUSEUM’S HISTORIC BLACKSMITH SHOP.

Gelston visited the workshop over the course of a month as Mattila worked on a six metre long fire breathing sculpture. From the thousands of images taken during the visits, Gelston has condensed his body of work down to 30 large prints for the exhibition. These have been printed on aluminium composite panels, allowing the metal grain to shine through the prints as a representation of the tie between the taken images and the work that has been captured on them. The prints range from A2 poster size up to human size canvases.

Steel Vignettes runs until May 7 in the Community Gallery at the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston.

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Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

MARCH Thursday

Friday

2

3

4

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

28

5

6

7

8

9

The Homestead

Australian Songwriters Ass. WAX Lyrical 6:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar - MOMENTUM w/ Raymond ScottWalker + Ruiner & The Threshold Forms + Projekt Camus

Dave Sikk 4Tet 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Karly Fisher 6:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams

Irish Murphy’s

Radio Silence 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke

Peacock Theatre

The East Pointers

Brunswick Hotel

Elly Potter 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Fabulous Bluecats 8:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

Ode to Nellie Melba 7:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Crowther 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

Rahann (Chicago), Puffypank, Moconna and Brocc

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Grand Poobah

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar - Zero Degrees Freedom + Plague Of Sickness + The Absolution Sequence + Behold The Defiant (Vic) + To Kill A Coward (Vic) + Break Through

James Parry, Emerson Snowe (Panama Sideshow), Disrepute & The Emojis in The Kissing Room

Long Beach

Hobart Twilight Market - Live Music 4:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Dean + Culic Bro + Susie Gregory + Paul Warren 9:30pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

The Incidentalists 9pm

T42

Maddy Jane, DJ Brent 5pm

The Duke

Bill Longo Trio

The Westend Pumphouse

Patrick Berechree 6:30pm

The Whaler

Justin O’Garey, Pete Cornelius 7:30pm

Theatre Royal

The Best of The Eagles - Together and Alone

Waterman’s Beer Market

Cam Stuart 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - 6pm - Lewis Spears

Brisbane Hotel

Ride the Tiger + Skate Wounds + Cashman

Brunswick Hotel

Sticks & Kane 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

S’n’B Sessions: M.O.1.O (Machines Of Indeterminate Origin), Dani Kirby & Mat Ward

Friday

10

Front Bar - All the Animals (Vic) + Lizard Johnny + Jason Clarke

Brunswick Hotel

Sticks & Kane 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

Steven Be Calm, Bronze Savage, Puffypank & Flac

Macquarie Point

Hobart Twilight Market - Live Music 4:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Carus Thompson & Band + Nathan Gaunt 10pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Billy Whitton 9pm

T42

Gabriel Dagrezio, DJ Brent 5pm

The Duke

Bill Longo Trio

The Homestead

Live Music 9pm

The Westend Pumphouse

Katy Raucher & Mark Schmalfuss 6:30pm

The Whaler

Dylan Eynon, Jensen 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Matt Gray 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Urthboy + Joyride + Alice Ivy 10pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - The Absolution Sequence + Behold The Defiant (Vic) + Plague Of Sickness + To Kill A Coward (Vic) + Break Through

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Terry Nomikos 7:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton, DJ Broccoli 4pm

Birdcage Bar

Annia Baron 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Republic Bar & Café

Urthboy + Joyride + Alice Ivy 9.30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Sunday

Acts / Start Time

Birdcage Bar

Brisbane Hotel

Saturday

Venue

18+ - Community 4 CD Launch w/ ALL The Weathers + Ewah & The Vision Of Paradise + Andie Laureson + The Soda Creamers + Mount Trout + Foxy Morons + DJ No Requests

Saturday

Sunday

11

12

Brunswick Hotel

Legally Blinde 7:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm

Grand Poobah

Burlesque Idol

The Homestead

Figure It In Life Drawing 4pm

Republic Bar & Café

Official Hot Dub Wine Machine After Party 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Emily 7:30pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Lauren O’Keefe, Hui & The Muse 6:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

T42

Jed Appleton, DJ Broccoli 4pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

The Homestead

DJ MAD + Dameza AV + Milquebarth 9:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hui & The Muse 8:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Jonathan Warwarek, Dane Connor 9pm

The Duke

Dukebox - Featuring Upcoming Local Talent

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Grand Poobah

Fundraiser for Sudan - The Anthony Rochesters, Kath Daly, Smutty Sam, Bronze Savage, Filthy Little Star

Monday Tuesday

Wednesday

13 14

15

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 7pm

Grand Poobah

Art School Bullies (EP Release), Squid Fishing & Carl Renshaw

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy: Crystal Sky, Ian Murtagh, David McEldowney 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tim Woodz 8:30pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Paul Gerard 7:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

The Homestead

Black Cat Jaz Trio 7pm

The Duke

Weekly Quiz Night 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 7:30pm

The Homestead

Billy Whitton & Emily Wolfe 8:30pm

Hobart Town Hall

Orava Quartet

Republic Bar & Café

Helen Crowther 8:30pm

Thursday

16

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca & Sean 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Dave Sikk 4Tet 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 6:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin’ Blues) 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams

The Duke

March Blues Club: Yesterdays Gentlemen

Irish Murphy’s

The Surreal Estate Agents 9pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dave Wilson Band + Sailor Jerry Take Over 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Aaron 8:30pm

The Homestead

Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 7pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy: Ian Paulin, Jed Appleton, Joseph Mackay 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Patto 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Skinpin (Syd) + Roma Antica + Samora Squid

The Duke

Weekly Quiz Night 7:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

No Balance Required 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca & Dan 7pm

Casino Bar

Catch Club 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Uncle Gus & The Rimshots, Jazz for Cows, Mangus & Taiga Balm DJ Set

Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan Warwarek 6:30pm

Onyx

Ebeneza Good 9pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams

Republic Bar & Café

Asta + Sumner + Flxw 10pm

Irish Murphy’s

Squid Fishing 9pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Lauren O’Keefe 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Warner 8:30pm

T42

Bridget Pross, DJ Brent 5pm

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Event Guide

Date

Saturday

18

Venue

Acts / Start Time

The Duke The Homestead The Westend Pumphouse

Nick Machin 6:30pm

The Whaler

Jensen, Legally Blinde 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Gabriele Dagrezio 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES (3pm) & 18+ (9pm) - Kerser + Greeley + Manaz III + Burd Br

19

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

21

22

23

24

25

Republic Bar & Café

Roadkill 10pm

YETI (Weapon Records, Melb) + Positive Thought (Up ReCords, Melb) + Local Legends 9:30pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Anita Cairns, Finn Seccombe 6:30pm

T42

Bridget Pross, DJ Brent 4pm

The Homestead

The Darlings 9pm

The Odeon Theatre

The Waifs 25th Anniversary Australian Tour

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Grand Poobah

Ginger and the Ghost and Buba Zula (Turkey)

Onyx

Catch Club 9pm

Sunday

26

Katy Steele + Hazlett 10pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Paul Gerard, Finn Seccombe 6:30pm

T42

Nick Machin, DJ Broccoli 4pm

The Homestead

Yesterdays Gentlemen 9pm

The Waratah Hotel

Amy Shark - Adore Tour 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca & Dan, Dynomite Drew 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 7:30pm The Great Anticipators 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks & The Blue Licks 8:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm Billy & Randal 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Bloom & James Morley 8:30pm

The Duke

Jazz Jam Jar

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Les Coqs 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Karly Fisher 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy: Nikaylah Taskinen-Smith, Nick Machin, Zac Henderson 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 8:30pm

The Duke

Weekly Quiz Night 7:30pm

Theatre Royal

Martha Wainwright

Waterman’s Beer Market

Jonathan Warwarek 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Tarik Stoneman 6:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams

Irish Murphy’s

The Seratones 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dean Stevenson + Dave Wilson 8:30pm

The Homestead

Pepper Jane (QLD) 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Angela Bryan Duo 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

PURE

Brunswick Hotel

Sean & Tori 7:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

The Rite of Spring 7:30pm

Long Beach

Hobart Twilight Market - Live Music 4:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Outfit 10pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Madalena 9pm

T42

Zac Henderson, DJ Brent 5pm

The Duke

Crystal Sky

The Homestead

Nicole La Zingara 9pm

The Westend Pumphouse

Finn Seccombe 6:30pm

The Whaler

Justin O’Garey, Dylan Eynon 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Elly Potter 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Patto 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Linc Le Fevre & The Insiders + The Vandals

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - Mannequin Death Squad (Vic) + Ghost Drop

Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

Vibrance Festival Afterparty: Red Red Krovvy, ALL The Weathers and Native Cats

Onyx

Tony Voglino 9pm

No Balance Required, Dane Connor 9pm Terry Nomikos 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

TASMOD #3

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Republic Bar & Café

Zuma 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Blue Flies 8:30pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

The Incidentalists 7:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm Billy & jamie 7:30pm

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Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Tuesday

28

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brisbang Vegang Dinner Diner

Republic Bar & Café

Dan Stonehouse + Betsy Blue 8:30pm

The Duke

Local Artist

Wednesday

29

Legally Blinde 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Waterman’s Beer Market Birdcage Bar

Monday

Brissie Bingo

Republic Bar & Café Salamanca Whisky Bar 20

Mama K and the Big Love - Album Launch

Casino Bar

Brisbane Hotel

Monday

Acts / Start Time

Tim Davies 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sunday

Venue

Brunswick Hotel

Date

Thursday

Friday

30

31

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Dave Sikk 4Tet 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

No Balance Required 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy: Ani Lou, Celeste Meincke, Tim Chivers 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tarik Stoneman & Sam Forsyth 8:30pm

The Duke

Weekly Quiz Night 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Tim Davies 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Cult Comedy

Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 6:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

The Sneetches and Tubby the Tuba 6:00pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams

Irish Murphy’s

Vitamin Cake 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tennyson King 8:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Crowther 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Dan Vandermeer 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Mustang (2nd last show ever) + Warped (Vic) + Meatbeaters (SA) + Mountains Of Madness

Brunswick Hotel

Random Act 7:30pm

Casino Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Grand Poobah

Squid Fishing, Aleks Folvig, Black Hole Sugar & Luke Seymoup

Republic Bar & Café

Gape (Album Launch), Desecrator (Album Launch), Mephistopheles, Create The Crayon 10pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Lauren O’Keefe 9pm

T42

Bridget Pross, DJ Brent 5pm

The Duke

Jarrod and the Hunters featuring Nadira

The Homestead

Mia Palencia ‘n’ Friends 9pm

The Westend Pumphouse

Anita Cairns 6:30pm

The Whaler

Dylan Eynon, Jed Appleton 7:30pm

Theatre Royal

Beatlemania on Tour

Waterman’s Beer Market

Gabriele Dagrezio 7pm

Wesley Hall

Scottish Music Concert - BLACK BEAR DUO 7:30pm

APRIL Saturday

Sunday

1

2

Brisbane Hotel

The Silverbeets + The Sketches + Acoustic Foxx

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - Sweet Gold (Vic)

Brunswick Hotel

Sticks & Kane 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Black Eyed Susans 10pm

Salamanca Whisky Bar

Madalena 7:30pm

The Homestead

Craicpot 9pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca & Hutch, Dynomite Drew 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Howmomer + Meatbeaters (SA) + Bu$ Money + The Soda Creamers

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

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Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Venue

Acts / Start Time

MARCH

Tonic Bar

Groove FX

Thursday

Watergarden

Day Star Duo

Friday

Saturday

2

3

4

Date

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Elliot Courtnage, Bianca Jagoe, Lilyana Sanoe

Club 54

Turbulence, Japara, Fiontan Cassidy

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Brad Gillies 9pm

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Katy Hanson 9pm

Club 54

Dark Dunes, Carl Renshaw, Flxw

Watergarden

Rino Morea

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Bronny and Phoebe 9pm

Royal Oak

Tonic Bar

Jerome Hillier

Boat Shed - Launceston Blues Club Jam 1pm

Watergarden

Clinton Hutton

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Bakers Lane

Arvo in the Lane: Scattered By Sundown, The Midways, Shanice // Connor

Club 54

HM Party: Jungle Party

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Mic Night - 4 Spots Available 9pm

Watergarden

Tony Voglino

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Pat Broxton, Trent Buchanan, Brodygreg

Royal Oak

TBC 9pm

Club 54

Lip Sync Battle #11 Jane Rutter 7:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Prickly Gapes, Japara, Brodygreg

Royal Oak

Boat Shed - When She Believes Female Showcase 8:30pm

Tonic Bar

Trevor Weaver

Watergarden

Sambo and Patto

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

25

26

29

30

31

Sunday

5

Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Princess Theatre

Wednesday

8

Club 54

Universal Wednesday

Royal Oak

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Andy Collins 9pm

Public Bar - Tennyson King (Canada) 9pm

Watergarden

Tassie Tenor

Watergarden

Trevor Weaver

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Pat Broxton, Tim Whybrow, Fiontan Cassidy

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Angus Austin 9pm

Club 54

Scattered By Sundown, Bullet House, Angus Austin

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Katy Hanson 9pm

Watergarden

Rino Morea

Club 54

Lip Sync Battle #10

Royal Oak

Boat Shed - THE SLEEPYHEADS + Paper Thin + Squid Fishing + Trent Buchanan 8:30pm

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

9

10

11

Tonic Bar

Two Strung

Watergarden

Sambo and Patto

Sunday

12

Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

15

Club 54

Universal Wednesday

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Pat Broxton 9pm

Watergarden

Rino Morea

Albert Hall

Ode to Nellie Melba

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Disrepute, The Art of Surviving, Shanice Osita

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

30

16

17

18

19

22

23

24

Royal Oak

Public Bar - The Hat + The Horn 9pm

Club 54

Katy Steele, Hazlett + supports

Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Whitelion 3 Peaks Fundraiser 9pm

Royal Oak

NORTH WEST Date

TOWN

Venue

Acts / Start Time

MARCH Saturday

4

Devonport

Ghost Rock Vineyard

Leo Sayer

Thursday

9

Devonport

Devonport Entertainment Centre

The Best of The Eagles

Friday

10

Ulverstone

Gnomon Pavillion

The Kyron Howell Band + Liquid Nails 5:30pm

Burnie

Burnie Arts Centre

TSO - Ode to Nellie Melba

Forth

Forth Valley Blues Festival

Ian Moss + more

Forth

Forth Valley Blues Festival

Ian Moss + more

Zeehan

Gaiety Theatre

TSO - Ode to Nellie Melba

Friday

Saturday

17

18

Tuesday

21

Devonport

Devonport Entertainment Centre

The God That Comes

Public Bar - Max Hillman Showband 9pm

Wednesday

22

Burnie

Burnie Arts Centre

Paris Combo

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier

Thursday

23

Devonport

Martha Wainwright

Bakers Lane

Arvo in the Lane: Japara, HTML. GHOST, Harry Dempsey

Devonport Entertainment Centre

Friday

24

Burnie

Burnie HS Performing Arts Centre

Jazz Goes to School: Mia Palencia In Good Company 7:30pm

Club 54

Asta, Sumner, Flxw

Falls Park Pavillion

Glove Prize

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Frankie Andrew + Elliot Courtnage + Denni Sulzberger + Kenna Reid-Clark 9pm

Tonic Bar

Jerome Hillier

Watergarden

Tassie Tenor

Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Launceston Jazz Club 1pm

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Club 54

Universal Wednesday

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Isla Ka 9pm

Watergarden

Day Star Duo

Albert Hall

Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra 7:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Dark Dunes, George Edmondson, Angus Austin

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Trent Buchanan 9pm

Club 54

Third Degree, Mannequin, August Wolfbiter, Fraser Rathmell

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Devonport

The Don Centre

The Waifs 25th Anniversary Australian Tour

Thursday

30

Burnie

Burnie Arts Centre

Flute Spirits & The Four Seasons

MARCH Fri 3rd FRESH COMEDY - RAW COMEDY ~ Boat Shed $10 online / $15 door.

Doors 8pm Bronny and Phoebe in Front Bar ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Sat 4th When She Believes - Female Showcase Doors 8pm ~ Boat Shed $5 Doors 8.30pm Sun 5th Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar - Free entry 5pm Wed 8th Andy Collins ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Thu 9th Angus Austin ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Fri 10th Katy Hanson ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Sat 11th THE SLEEPYHEADS + Paper Thin + Squid Fishing + Trent Buchanan ~ Boat Shed - $10 Doors 8.30pm Sun 12th Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar - Free entry 5pm Wed 15th Pat Broxton ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Thu 16th The Hat + The Horn ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Fri 17th Whitelion 3 Peaks Fundraiser ~ Boat Shed - $20 Doors 8pm Max Hillman Showband ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Sat 18th Frankie Andrew + Elliot Courtnage + Denni Sulzberger + Kenna Reid-Clark ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Sun 19th L. JAZZ Club Jam~ Boat Shed 1pm - 3pm Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 22nd Isla Ka ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Thu 23rd Trent Buchanan ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Fri 24th FRESH COMEDY - Daniel Sloss Live International Scottish Comedian ~ Boat Shed - $35 www.trybooking.com 9pm Sat 25th Katy Hanson ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Sun 26th L. BLUES Club Jam ~ Boat Shed - Free Entry 1-4pm Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 29th Open Mic Night - 4 spots available ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm Thu 30th TBC The Royal Oak 9pm Fri 31st Tennyson King (Canada) ~ Public Bar - Free entry 9pm ~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~

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