Warp Magazine May 2015

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HER MAJESTY'S FAVOURITE REALLY GREAT GRAPHICAL FESTIVAL MORGAN BAIN PAIGE TURNER SAM SIMMONS SPENDA C THE CASANOVAS THE EMBERS WILD AT HEART Yngwie Malmsteen

British India Fri May 8 & Sat May 9

The Audreys Friday May 15

The Funkoars Saturday May 16

The Getaway Plan Saturday May 23

May 2015 Boil Up (Reggae & Funk) $5 10pm Friday 1 Hobart Funk Collective 10pm Saturday 2 Up Market Art Market In The Beer Garden 3pm Sunday 3 Republic Poetry Readings 3pm Sunday 3 Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm Sunday 3 Joe Pirere 8:30pm Monday 4 Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm Tuesday 5 Daniel Champagne $15 9pm Wednesday 6 Morgan Bain 8:30pm Thursday 7 British India $26.5pre/$35door 10pm Friday 8 British India $26.5pre/$35door 10pm Saturday 9 Zuma 3pm The Darlings 8.30pm Sunday 10 Quiz Night - New Comers Welcome 8.15pm Monday 11 Billy Whitton 8:30pm Tuesday 12 Slyde 8.30pm Wednesday 13 Steve Grady + Dan Parsons 8:30pm Thursday 14 The Audreys $30pre/$35door 10pm Friday 15 The Funkoars + DJ Total Eclipse (USA) + Mathas + Eloji $20pre/$25door10pm Saturday 16

Beer Garden Party - Free Spit Roast + Return Of The Dread Beer Launch $10pre/$15door 2.30pm Sunday17 Matthew Dames 8.30pm Sunday17 Helen Crowther 8.30pm Monday 18 G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) 8.30pm Tuesday 19 The Bobcats 8:30pm Wednesday 20 Comedy Clubhouse Upstairs with Sam Simmons 8:30pm Thurs 21 Tim & Scott 8:30pm Thursday 21 Yesterday's Gentlemen $15 10pm Friday 22 The Getaway Plan $25pre/$30door 10pm Saturday 23 Hui & The Muse 8:30pm Sunday 24 Quiz Night - New Comers Welcome 8:15pm Monday 25 Pat Bereche 8:30pm Tuesday 26 T.J. Rhythm 8:30pm Wednesday 27 Reggae Inc 8.30pm Thursday 28 Roadkill + B.O.M.S. 10pm Friday 29 Bareback Tittie Squad + Empire Park + Third Degree $10 10pm Sat 30 David Beniuk 2.30pm Blue Flies 8.30pm Friday 31

The Preatures + Klo + Tiger Choir

Friday—12 June 7.30pm

Gareth Liddiard + King Dude++ + Laura Jean

Sunday—14 June 7.30pm

Pallbearer + The Body++ + Oake

Thursday—18 June 7.30pm 18+

Odeon Theatre

—19 June RBMA presents Friday 7.30pm EYE: CIRCOM ++ 18+ + My Disco + Jake Blood + Kusum Normoyle

Presented by Dark Mofo and Red Bull Music Academy.

The Irrepressibles++ + Brous

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++ Australian exclusive

Saturday—20 June 7.30pm 18+

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News in Brief A TRIP DOWN THE LANE

Everyone loves an awesome laneway.

Everyone loves awesome street art (well, not everyone, right, Hobart City Council?). Everyone loves awesome food.

Everyone loves awesome beer. Everyone loves awesome music. Everyone loves an awesome party! Therefore, everyone will be at the Party in the Lane on Friday May 1. Collins Court in Hobart will play host to Moo Brew’s Party in the Lane! Music will be provided by DJ Dameza. Live art will be provided by Aeden and Jamin.

Food will be a menu curated by MONA’s executive sous chef Vince Trim. How goddamn awesome does this sound? Very goddamn awesome. See you there at 5pm!

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PRISMATIC The good folk at The Brisbane Hotel are launching a new new thing! Every Wednesday they’ll be featuring punk, indie, electro, electronica, psychedelic, rock, pop, weird, noise, fuzz, experimental, synth, etc etc (you get the gist). Every week a new line up of awesome talent.

Free entry is a big ol’ bonus, and so is this: cheap drinks! There’ll also be regular Djs spinning whole bunches of awesomeness.

The night is called PRISM, and it’ll kick off at 8pm every Wednesday. To find out who is on the bill each week, check out the gig guide at the back of Warp, or search for the event page on face book. It’s promising to be a typically awesome and eclectic night, just like the times of old.

BASS CATS Cheshire is one of a new breed of bass music producers, unafraid to take the old and mix it with the new. His songs are a badass mixture of classic funk and swing, alongside psychedelic and twisted glitches, layered over a healthy dose of wobbly bass lines. We Love Bass don’t just love bass, they love Cheshire. They love him so much that they’re bringing him to Hobart on Saturday May 9 to play at The Homestead.

Entry is $10 on the door, support will be provided by locals Newport, Fatty Boomsticks and Max Power. It’s gonna be heavy! Head along and catch the cat with the biggest grin in glitch hop!

out, they have quite a lot of interest in jazz, with events taking place in both ends of the state. The North-West in particular quite often has jazz events. On Friday May 15 you’ll be able to witness one such event at Burnie High School’s Performing Arts Centre when Jazz Goes To School Presents: Ultrafox with Hefty Kate. Australia’s leading Frenchstyle Gypsy-swing band joining forces with a leading Australian Jazz vocalist.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start, tickets are $30 are available online from burniehigh.org, or from the school office.

on Saturday May 30 at the Worlds End Brewpub in Sandy Bay. Support will be provided by Melbourne Legend JP Klipspringer and local acts Lewes and Maddy Jane. Once again, doors at 7:30pm.

CHUPACABRACADABRA

PAY ONE, (THEY) GET ONE FREE! Junction Arts Festival are thrilled to announce that Creative Partnerships Australia’s Plus1 Program will match all donations to Launceston’s own annual participatory live arts festival dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000, until May 20, 2015. So basically that means, you donate $1, Creative Partnerships Australia donates $1. You donate $50, Creative Partnerships Australia donates $50. It’s like magic. Magic money making madness! Junction Arts Festival are trying to max out the deal, by hitting the $50,000 limit, because really, why the hell wouldn’t you? So go help them out by visiting their site, and making a donation, all donations over $2 are tax deductible.

LAUNCHING AT THE WORLD’S END

“Winter is coming, so is Chupacabra.” reads the press release. Except, you know, this is Tasmania. So Winter never really left us. Chupacabra sure did though. They left us high and dry.

Except this is Tasmania, so probably high and wet. Anyway, the other part in the first sentence is correct.

Chupacabra are coming. Saturday May 30 at the Homestead. Apparently the ol’ Chupacabra lot have missed playing music together and getting sweaty with their Hobart friends, so make sure you head along and get hot and sweaty enough to hold off that Winter chill.

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JAZZY AND FOXY

If you’re a young songwriter, an old songwriter, an upcoming songwriter, or an established songwriter and you’re looking for a place to hone your craft and performance skills in a comfortable and intimate listening setting, try rocking up to Irish Murphy’s in Hobart on a Tuesday night (or alternatively, shoot an email to bookings.blume@gmail.com) for one of their Songwriter Sessions evenings.

Throughout May, they will be featuring Jed Appleton, who has just returned from a 22 date European tour with renown troubadour Stu Larson. Get along to catch a bit of Jedness, or to perform a bit of your own individual you-ness. 9pm - 11pm every Tuesday.

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So last month we just plum forgot to mention that International Jazz Day was on April 30. Our bad. It was a big ol’ celebration with events taking place around the world. There were even events in Tasmania! Oh my glob! Jazz in Tasmania? But only dregs, bogans and third-generation morons live there? What interest would they have in jazz? Turns

Some fun things are happening at the Worlds End Brewpub in May! After recently recording their new EP in Melbourne, Skate Wounds (the new project from the ever-prolific Ben Wells) will release their latest single “Jack” on Saturday 23 May. Support will be provided

by The Vallerkeries and The Beautiful Chains. Doors at 7.30pm. Also back from the mainland are Chase City, who were working with popular producer Magoo at 301 Studios in Byron Bay. They release their latest single “Scarlet Skies”

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Gareth Liddiard is one of the founding members of The Drones. That’s pretty ace, huh! He’s in Hobart for part of the Dark MOFO festival, and according to Dark MOFO, he’ll be “baring-all” in a “stripped-back” acoustic set. We all

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know Dark MOFO is about debauchery, so we can only assume that Gareth Liddiard will be playing naked. I mean, “baring-all”? “Stripped-back”? Subtle as a sledgehammer, Dark MOFO. He’ll be supported by American rock spiritualist, King Dude, who we can only assume will be passing out shroomz in an attempt to make everyone more “spiritual”.

Also on the bill will be Laura Jean from Melbourne. I guess you’ll just have to go along to find out what kind of zany, out-there stuff she’ll be doing. Sunday 14 June, The Odeon Theatre. Head along to darkmofo.net.au for tickets!

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Dark MOFO is all about the dark, and it doesn’t get much darker than doom metal - and doom metal doesn’t get much doomier than Pallbearer. The highly acclaimed four piece band from Little Rock, Arkansas will be playing at The Odeon Theatre on Liverpool street in Hobart on Thursday June 18. Support will be provided by equally impressive U.S. sludge metal band, The Body. They’ll be performing an Australian exclusive set! So you’d better get tickets for that one, you’ll be able to tell the rest of Australia that you saw it, and they didn’t. What a bunch of losers they are. Also on the bill is an act called Oake who apparently doesn’t believe in online promotion.

and conducting an experimental and immersive audio experience at Dark MOFO. Ok, now, re-read that sentence but put extra emphasis on the “mental” part of “experimental”. CIRCOM is the name of the game, and in it, EYE leads a group of eight participants through the Jo, Ha, Kyu, which is a traditional Japanese three-act structure. The participants will be seated around EYE in a circle as he conducts them. Combining musicians and nonmusicians, each operating a laptop and audio interface to create the sonic texture.

Supported by My Disco, Jake Blood and Kusum Normoyle. Tickets available from darkmofo.net.au.

NOT THE GUY FROM CHEERS Fraser A. Gorman’s bio reads like rock n’ roll folklore. A 23 year old kid who looks like a teenage Bob Dylan, a full time carpenter obsessed with the history of American rock n’ roll, expressing himself through wry poetry, bent tropicalia, country-soul and rock. After releasing a flurry of singles and an EP since 2012, Fraser Alexander Gorman’s collection of cool-as-fuck, funny, heartfelt, superinfectious tunes have finally come to fruition on his debut album, Slow Gum. He’s been to Taswegia before, but this is his first headline tour. He’ll be playing at The Republic Bar & Café on Saturday 4 July. Tickets available from Ruffcut, the venue, or online via moshtix.

sale now. Check out festivalofvoices.com for more information and hopefully a much more informative description of exactly what it is you‘ll be able to expect from this amazing gig.

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MO’ MUDU MO’ METAL MUDU is back and bigger than ever before!

This year Metal United Down Under (MUDU) has recruited promoters from all 8 Australian states and territories to join for a united night of metal on Saturday October 10. From Hobart to Darwin and Perth to Brisbane, 19 promoters in 16 cities have joined the MUDU project which tops last year’s 13 cities in 7 states/ territories. This huge event now promises to get even bigger with the 100 band mark reached comfortably. In Tasmania, where else could such an event be held, but at The Brisbane Hotel. Tasmania’s spiritual home of metal. For more information, head along to metal-united-down-under. com.au.

So cats are pretty cool. They basically run the internet. Now you can see them on stage, they’ll be singing and dancing and I can only assume they’ll have that one that wears a shirt and plays piano on youtube. According to the press release there will even be a “rapping ‘street cat’… who performs some serious breakdancing moves.” Well, golly, ain’t that the darnedest thing? A rapping, break dancing “street cat”. I bet he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Anyway, CATS is a classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but you already know that. It’ll be at the Derwent Entertainment Centre from Thursday 10 December to Sunday 13 December. Tickets available now via ticketmaster.com.au.

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Japanese noise rock pioneer, Boredoms founder, DJ and visual artist: Tetsuro Yamatsuka aka EYE, will be curating

Van Canto! VAN CANTO!! They’re a German a cappella hero-metal band. Yep, you read that right. They’re a GERMAN. A CAPPELLA. HERO. METAL. BAND. I know, right? I’m not even sure what else to say about them. I mean, “German“, “a capella” and “hero-metal” should definitely be more than enough to convince you to go see them at MAC2 on Hobart’s Waterfront on Saturday July 11. I don’t even know what “hero-metal” is but it sounds friggen amazing! Add “German” and “a cappella” to that and OH MY GLOB! Tickets are on

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SOME RANDOM STUFF YOU JUST CANNOT MISS THE DARK IS RISING, AGAIN.

Now in its third year, Dark MOFO is looking more and more like an eclectic heathen art ceremony trying to pretend it’s a festival. There’s some amazing things on their way, and the best advice is to take in as much as possible of what is not already sold out, and to just throw caution to the wind and go to stuff. Because there will be stuff aplenty to get immersed in. Here’s a by no means complete list of things that WARP wants to get stuck into and which we will suggest you should as well, but it’s not that this is the best of the fest or anything daft like that, because one man’s craft beer is another man’s VB, and if you like VB who am I to judge you?

EYE. Right. You want total living legend that you have never heard of but really should have? Meet Eye. Eye once borrowed a bulldozer and drove it through a wall and that was the gig. Eye is a founding member of unbelievable Japanese force of nature, Boredoms. Boredoms are a band in that they have instruments and make music, but the whole thing is fluid, has changed dramatically over the course of the band’s existence and sometimes over the course of an album. These days they organise intense drum circles that feature as many as 99 people and make albums of sun-worshipping minimalism that can feature the rhythm of tidal change as a component. Eye himself is a dynamic performer who is renowned for high energy and a commitment to experiential

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form. His new project EYE: CIRCOM. Following the Japanese concept of Jo-Ha-Kyu, a theory of movement, Eye will conduct six laptop performers to generate – well no one really knows but it’s bound to be not like anything else you’ll ever hear, because that’s what Eye does : he makes the new sounds.

EYE performs at The Odeon, June 19.

PATRICIA PICCININI and PETER HENNESSEY: The Shadows Calling Somewhere in the as yet un-open to the public Mercury Building, on the corner of Hobart’s Argyle and Macquarie streets something is waiting. You may be familiar with the unique beauty of the art work of Patricia Piccinini, but think again: there’s something new to see, and a new space to see it in. Even if you’re familiar with what Patricia has done before, evolution does not stop and the life forms she creates keep on doing whatever it is that they do. Equally exciting to getting a look at some new work by this major Australian artist though is where you’ll be able to see it: there’s a new gallery space getting ready to open its doors in June. It’s all pretty secret so far, but there’s an industrial space somewhere in Mercury building that will become a fantastic new gallery. Will it even be like a gallery as we know it to be? What is even in the space? There’s only one way to find out.

Shadows Calling opens on June 12 and runs until August 2 at Detached, Old Mercury Building.

DARK MOFO FILMS The films program is always a highlight of Dark MOFO, but this year it’s just nuts, and that’s probably because of all the Vikings. Picking just three flicks out as essential is challenging, but if you’re into film at all, you need to see Valhalla Rising. Making a character who never says a thing the centre of your film is surely a risk, but the performance Mads Mikkelsen cranks out as One-Eye is pretty damn potent. There’s few words and a lot of slow camera work and some really heavy violence, all from one of the finest film makers currently working, Nicholas Winding Refn.

You get more Viking action in Severed Ways : The Norse Discovery Of America, an independent and controversial flick that features again, a whole lot of violence, as well as a totally blasting heavy metal soundtrack, making for a very weird film experience. Metal also features heavily in A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, a beautiful film that aims to understand the spiritual dimensions of Black Metal. Featuring fire, endurance, exquisite camera work and a fierce band performance, A Spell looks to be an essential viewing experience.

Valhalla Rising June 16, 9pm.

Severed Ways : The Norse Discovery Of America June 18, 6pm.

A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness June 11, 9pm & 21 June, 6pm.

All screenings at The State Cinema ANGRY ELECTRONS It’s not all about importing amazing art – this year’s Dark MOFO will feature a new work by local artist Jason James. Jason is known for his excellent lighting design on a number of significant live performances in Tasmania and elsewhere, and you’ve probably seen his classy output already, but the last five years have seen him emerge as an artist in his own right, who uses light and electricity as a medium. Angry Electrons is a significant new work from Jason, and it will see a thousand dimly lit globes hanging from a purposely outfitted space in the Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street. The globes will react to body movement, so you’ll be inside a silent dance hall where you become the instrument. This ambitious installation will captivate all who discover it.

Angry Electrons is at The Centre for the Arts, 12 – 21 June. Free Entry.

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Dark Mofo runs June 12 – 21, further information and ticketing available from www.darkmofo.net.au.

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Terra Casanova ALTHOUGH THE SWINGING TRENDSWORD OF DAMOCLES SO OFTEN FORCES BANDS TO ADHERE TO SOCIAL TRENDS AND CULTURAL COOL, THERE ARE SOME BANDS AND MUSOS WHO JUST STICK TO THEIR GUNS NO MATTER WHAT. MELBOURNE ACT THE CASANOVAS, ROCKING SINCE 1999, ARE ONE OF THOSE BANDS. RECENTLY PLAGUED BY HARDSHIPS AND SCHEDULE CONFLICTS THAT MADE RECORDING THEIR NEW RECORD IMPOSSIBLE, THEY’RE BACK AND RARING TO GO, AS FRONTMAN TOMMY BOYCE EXPLAINS.

“We did the last album [All Night Long, 2006] and, back at that stage, us and the record company were pushing pretty hard to...for want of a better expression, “make it”, so when it goes a bit south, a bit of a wind gets taken out of your sails. I battled an illness for a bit, people got married and had kids; it made things get put on the backburner for a bit. We never really called it off or anything; we still did the odd show here and there, stuff was always getting in the way and it got dragged out.”

“Once I started to get better, I started to write more. I was like, “alright guys, let’s do it”. A lot of it hinged on me feeling good and ready. Then when we found out the record company was prepared to back us and give us some money to do it, so we got a really good producer, but even then,

ALL FIRED UP TASMANIAN ACT THE EMBERS HAVE SPENT THEIR MUSICAL LIFE ATTEMPTING TO DEFY CATEGORISATION. THE RANGE OF ACTS THEY HAVE SUPPORTED ACROSS THEIR CAREER (THE VIOLENT FEMMES, THE WHITLAMS, LIOR, AND MANY MORE) ARE EVIDENCE OF THEIR INABILITY TO BE MUSICALLY PIGEONHOLED. ALTHOUGH THEY MAY BE LISTED, FOR THE SAKE OF BREVITY, AS “FUNK” OR “ROOTS” OR “REGGAE”, THE BAND HAVE SPENT THEIR DECADE-ODD LONG CAREER EXPERIMENTING AND SOUNDMELDING; COMBINING ELEMENTS OF ALL THE ABOVE INTO A PASSIONATE FLURRY THAT HAS CULMINATED IN THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, BRIGHT. FRONTMAN MICHAEL ATTARD EXPLAINS HOW IT ALL CAME TOGETHER.

because everyone works and stuff, it takes a lot more time. I have a lot of respect for bands that have been around a long time, it means they really love it. It’s not a matter of doing it to “make it.””

Spoiler alert: the new album won’t be a radically different sound than what you know and love about the Casanovas, this much is true. Boyce explains how they stick to what they’re best at.

“It’s pretty raw, the new album. We tracked it live, as much as we could. We really pride ourselves on that; we really made an effort to keep it as natural as possible, not overproducing it. Songs-wise, it’s still rock and roll- we’re not starting a revolution, but our sound has evolved, and the quality of songwriting has improved and matured.”

“When we were choosing songs, we just got what we thought were good songs, how we felt playing them live and how they were received live. Plus we wanted a continuity in the album; people still accuse us of being multi-genre (laughs), it’s not an insult though. We’ve been playing most of the songs for a few years, so we had a good idea which songs were working. Our reputation is being a live band, but there were a couple songs that worked on a much more mental level. It was a conscious decisions to put on those darker tracks; most of the album is fairly upbeat and positive fire-in-your-heart sort of stuff.”

“I see these bands all the time” Boyce laments. “They were rock and roll once, then they got that indie hipstery sorta sound.

It clearly wasn’t that important what you were playing, you just wanted to be in the limelight. We’ve stayed to our true sound.”

“Rock and roll isn’t fostered in this country” Boyce explains when I mention Australia’s tendency to associate rock and roll with the kind of bogan culture that young people might want to distance themselves from. “It’s such a huge part of our musical legacy, but there’s so much cultural cringe.

Radio usually takes their cues from what’s happening overseas; it’s like ’that’s the Australian version of this band’. Australia has a great tradition of great rock and roll.

Art is always on a pendulum, between styles.”

With producer and revered singer/ songwriter Nicky Bomba on the team to produce the album, Bright was a success in the works already. It was only the financial aspect that needed ticking off: a grant from Arts Tasmania, along with some of their own funds, gave them the funds to record, and a crowdfunding campaign helped them physically press the album.

“More recently we did a crowdfunding campaign to do the artwork and pressing and get a video up; we used that money to do the actual pressing. You’ve gotta be realistic with your expectations; we aimed

“You just do what you do” he says, satisfied.

“You run it up the flagpole and hope someone salutes.”

LISA DIB

The Casanovas play Saturday 6th June at The Brisbane Hotel, with support from The Roobs and The 308s.

for $4000 and we got $5000. It shows you the local support you have in your hometown, and friends and family.”

Certainly the band have done their hard yards on their home turf, and the swell of local support is evidence of that. Attard and the band are deeply ingrained in the Tasmanian scene, so don’t go looking for a moving van near Melbourne or Sydney anytime soon...

“In some regards, Tassie is small; the community here...everyone knows each other and helps each other out. You make those relationships and contacts. There’s still a lot of bands locally, and venues that are still booking three or four months in advance. It’s healthy but not as crowded as the mainland.”

“Early on, our lifestyles keep us in Tassie... it’s not really an option for us [to move]. We will be doing a national tour in September, definitely looking forward to that. When you do shows, even in more regional areas in Tassie or small towns on the east coast, places where they don’t get music very much, they really appreciate it.”

LISA DIB

Bright is out now on available. The launch party will be at The Homestead, Hobart on Saturday May 16.

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THE SHRED KING

not be finished with it by the time we go to Australia. So it is what it is.

YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN HAS GIVEN US 35 YEARS OF PURE, UNADULTERATED SHRED. THE GRAMMY NOMINATED GUITAR KING HAS RACED ACROSS THE WORLD (AND THE NECK OF HIS FENDER) AND WILL HIT HOBART IN JUNE. IN HIS SWEDISH ACCENT, MALMSTEEN REVEALS THAT UNDERNEATH THE CHAINS AND BADASS LEATHER HE ROCKS, HE’S ACTUALLY…A PRETTY NICE GUY.

How many beats per minute can you shred?

It depends on the time signature, whether they’re 64th notes, 32nd notes, and all that.

But you know, I’ve never quite measured like that – I just play what I feel right. The notes must have value.

So do you play by ear, or is your music rooted in theory and scales?

I’m very, very, very rooted in theory and scales. But, it’s almost like I’m a writer – Hemingway or whatever – you don’t think about grammar, you just do it.

How many hours a day do you practice to get so fast?

No hours, really. I just play when I feel like I have to create something. I have the luxury of making it happen when it’s inspiring. If it’s not inspiring, I don’t do it. I’ll do other things.

What sort of things?

I play with my cars and play tennis and I have a family, there are a lot of things I can do. But music is always a very big part. I learn to take it when it’s inspiring and the end result is always better. Back in the day, you had to hire a studio and had to have an album done by so and so [a time], but I don’t do it like that anymore. I’m in the studio making an album now – but I might

WINTER WARMERS LOCAL ACOUSTIC GUITARIST ALAN GOGOLL WEAVES SONGS OF MEDITATION AND SIMPLICITY. THIS YEAR HE’S COLLABORATING WITH FROGMORE CREEK TO WARM YOUR WINTERS WITH A SEASONAL MUSIC SERIES AT THE WINERY.

Alan became involved with Frogmore early this year, when he provided background music for the celebration of their completed outdoor entertainment area. Staying on to perform as part of the summer sessions series on the venue’s new deck, Alan quickly established himself as a member of the Frogmore “family”.

Wintermore will feature world class musicians performing in a setting of up to 50 people.

“It’s an incredibly exciting time to be involved with them – there’s so much going on and they are truly wonderful people to work for and have as friends,” Alan says.

Teaming up with Flamenco guitarist Paul Gerard to form duo The Surrealists, Alan performs as a regular host act and guest artists feature every second week.

Acts include Harry Edwards, the Aly Rae Patmore Trio, Alma Da Vida, and Martin Blackwell.

Considering himself family first and Music Director second, Alan was excited to jump on board to organise Frogmore’s winter series – evenings by the fire and “the best food and wine and music Tasmania has to offer”.

“You can relax, are under no pressure to have dinner – it’s really a boutique, informal dining experience. There’s nothing else around like it.”

Alan says each muso is loosely tied together through jazz and fits in well with the “Wintermore ethos because they know how to create an ambience”.

Have you ever challenged anyone to a duel?

I don’t duel anyone. But I used to have a thing when I was a kid growing up, where I would record myself every day. I had a little studio in the city – my mum’s house was a little bit outside – and I would take a train every day, back and forth through the cold, and whatever I played the day before, I had to then play that a little bit better and a little bit faster and more actively. I was challenging myself and wasn’t competing with anyone else. But I also had a tape player in the house and a tape player in the studio [which played back] different speeds – so every day, I’d hear the day before a little bit faster than it really was. I didn’t realise that at the time, so I had to catch up to that every day. I never competed with anybody else, it always felt silly, you know?

With modern technology able to make rapid music, will good old fashion shred ever fade into oblivion?

I don’t know. Obviously, with modern technology you can shape and do anything.

The funny thing is, when I first came on the scene, and people started hearing my tapes and demos, they were convinced [the tape] was sped up – and they said, ‘you can’t play like that’. That was 30 years ago. I just do what I do, and hopefully people will be able to keep their real thing going.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

See Yngwie J. Malmsteen Monday June 8 at the Wrest Point Showroom, Hobart. Tickets available from www.tixtas.com.au.

“The musician ethos is to create an atmosphere that compliments the food and wine and encourages conversation. Each act should be able to hear the conversation on the table closest to them. To create a balance between performance and dinner music.”

Wintermore isn’t Alan’s first time at providing entertainment and having received the PBIA Tasmanian Wedding Musician of the Year Award, the guitarist has worked hard to forge a career providing soundtracks for lovers’ special days.

“I get to meet beautiful couples and see some spectacular places, and be involved in such a special way a big part of peoples lives. How could I not love what I do?”

He also released his fourth album Grizzly Caterpillar in March, featuring his signature tunings to create delicate sounds on a nylon string guitar. Inspired by his surrounds, Alan says “when you live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth, breathing the cleanest air, drinking the purest water, sipping the finest wine…and eating the tastiest produce in the world class venues, it’s impossible not to be connected to nature in any artform or walk of life”.

His style is a fine fit for Wintermore.

“When I saw Frogmore I thought, ‘this is what my music is about’. It’s been a really natural partnership.”

STEPHANIE ESLAKE Frogmore Creek’s Wintermore series runs from 5.30pm, May 1 to June 26. More info at www. frogmorecreek.com.au.

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EIGHT-BALL UP A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY, A LITTLE BIT BLUES, NORTH QUEENSLANDER 8 BALL AITKENS HAS BEEN ROAMING AUSTRALIA AND ABROAD WITH HIS GUITAR FIRMLY STRAPPED TO HIS BACK FOR NOW OVER A DECADE. RECENTLY HE HAS BEEN SPENDING SOME TIME IN THE UNITED STATES, TOURING, RECORDING AND JUST PLAIN HANGING OUT.

You are currently at SXSW in Austin Texas which is a bit of a mecca in the music diary. Can you explain it to the uninitiated?

SXSW is like is one of the major showcase music events on the planet. Austin, Texas comes alive every year for this festival. I have seven gigs this week here. The crowds and the industry networking are incredible. People from all around USA and many other countries descend on the place. It is hard to gauge exactly how many people attend SXSW. The city comes alive and the vibe is exhilarating.

Also you have been residing of late in Nashville. Is this the epitome of a country artist?

Do you approach your shows, music and general country persona with a bit of tongue in cheek?

Nashville is the coolest city I have ever lived in.

The population is young. Cool kids move there for college and also to make it in the music business.

The most dedicated musicians and songwriters from all around USA and the world find their way there and what results is a great live music scene. When I first visited seven years ago, I knew that I had to move to Music City. There is every kind of music, every night of the week. The session players and songwriters that I work with in Nashville are so good at what they do. If you could quantify creativity, they would blow up the scale. Nashville is known for country music, but these days the rock, blues, and Americana music scenes are also vibrant.

I don’t take myself too seriously. I do write sweet, sincere, serious songs sometimes, but my mind usually dwells on the funnier side of life. Let’s see, my most popular songs so far have been ‘She’s Going To Mexico… I’m Going To Jail’, ‘Outback Booty Call’, and ‘Chocolate, Jack Daniels, And LSD’. There is a song called ‘Seven Bucks An Hour In A Chicken Suit’ that I am very excited about.

When the video comes out in May it is going to expand some people’s minds. It is the sort of song that could become a viral karaoke hit in North Korea in 2017!

What are the differences between Nashville and Tamworth?

I don’t collect shirts. They seem to collect themselves. I like to have a week’s worth of shirts because I often play every night whilst on tour.

Guitars seem to collect themselves at my house, too. I prefer guitars hanging on the wall to art. In my opinion guitars are art. Playable art. I played 220 gigs last year so I was not at home very often.

When I am there, I am writing songs and working in the studio and changing my shirts over. A wise person said “When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life”.

Tamworth Country Music Festival is a great Australian party. It goes off for most of the month of January and I am always there performing during the busiest part. On the other hand, Nashville is not just pumping for one month a year. It goes off every night, and it is a lot more culturally diverse.

All your press shots show you with a pretty diverse range of shirts. Are you an avid shirt collector?

I saw some tied dyed merchandise on your page? Are you onto something that the rest of us don’t know about?

I have sold regular black 8 Ball Aitken rock ’n’ roll t-shirts for years on the road. A couple of years ago, I started the tie dye range. I release a new design every couple of months and my hardcore fans collect them all. I have a lot of fun with the logos. It is cool when I am playing live and I see a crowd full of people wearing the wild gear that I have designed.

You have a pretty amazing mane of hair going on... do you pack a lot of hair products when you hit the road?

My hair is rusting away like an old windmill. And I live on carrot juice. If I had $1 for every lady who has said to me that they want my hair colour, then I would probably have a fat Swiss bank account and a life cruising on a private yacht in the Bahamas. Having red hair has defined my life. When I was a kid I learnt to fight because of kids who didn’t like the look of me. These days those same kids come to my gigs and I sign CDs for their kids. I am a peace-loving musician and a professional ginger ninja. I don’t endorse any hair products, but I do like frangipani and coconut shampoo.

If there was such a thing as a stereotypical look for a country and western music star do your feel you would fit it?

I have always felt like an individual. I believe there are only two kinds of music… ‘Live’ & ‘Recorded’ not “Country and Western’. Nowadays, country music artists and fans dress any way that they want to. Times have changed and the universe just keeps expanding. Country is as broad of a genre as any. I think that a lot of well-meaning folks’ views of country music are outdated. In the United States, country bands rock as hard as rock bands do. Alternative country is as alternative as alternative rock.

NIC ORME

8 Ball Aitken will play four shows in Tasmania this month: Thursday May 14 – Lark Distillery, Hobart Friday May 15 – The Homestead, North Hobart Saturday May 16 – The Royal Oak, Launceston Sunday May 17 – Bridge Hotel, Forth

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A MUSICAL STRUGGLE

Doesn’t your girlfriend find that a little strange?

BRISBANE RAISED SINGER-SONGWRITER DAN PARSONS HAD HIS DAY AS A STRUGGLING MUSICIAN WHEN HE FIRST HIT THE STREETS OF MELBOURNE. FROM LIVING ON BARELY ENOUGH FOR A PACK OF CIGARETTES, DAN PUSHED THROUGH AND NOW RELEASES SINGLE ‘I’LL LIVE AND I’LL DIE’ FROM HIS THIRD STUDIO ALBUM. HE’LL MAKE MUSIC IN HOBART FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 14 MAY AT THE REPUBLIC BAR.

Jana is her name, and she did feel strange at first. It wasn’t a direct reflection on our relationship or anything. Thankfully, she respects the process and she’s a smart girl.

She was able to not be too down about it.

You’re making music in Melbourne – word has it when you first arrived, you went up to five days without money for food.

You’ve just released a new single ‘I’ll Live and I’ll Die ‘ – what’s it all about?

In today’s world, often when you desire something, it’s someone else’s partner. You often go there and take that chance and try to win that person over. But the song tries to find the romance in restraining yourself from ruining your life or someone else’s by fulfilling that temptation. Even in the strongest of relationships, the idea of being attracted to someone else is inevitable.

Everyone who is human has to deal with that.

Did you feel in love with someone else’s partner, too?

I feel like that song was cobbled together from fiction and some subconscious things that were going on. I don’t think I was actually in love with someone else or had that same level of desire as the song would imply, but I think it was more an exercise in being a writer more than anything else.

I’m trying to express more taboo parts of human life. Particularly when you’ve got a partner yourself. I felt like as a songwriter, I had to write about things that are meaningful and human.

There were times when I didn’t have any money at all. Any money I did have, I would save to buy cigarettes or bare essentials.

Things were pretty slow to get started. A tour I did with Kate Miller-Heidke played a big part in meeting more musicians around Australia and releasing music. Thankfully, Melbourne has served me with a sense of purpose that Brisbane hasn’t really offered.

You can’t work as a full time musician in Brisbane.

Why didn’t you just give up when you were in poverty, and opt for a simpler life?

I think it was pride more than anything else, and in reality I couldn’t really do anything else. I have no other skills and I’ve never really had a normal job. I’ve always tried to make ends meet through music and if that wasn’t happening then I was really paying for it in the sense of not having enough to live on. I’ve always been headstrong about what I wanted to do and had great parents who have been incredibly supportive.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

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SERIOUSLY GOOD

AT 20 YEARS OLD, WA SINGERSONGWRITER MORGAN BAIN MAY BE YOUNG – BUT HIS NEW SINGLE ‘WHY DON’T YOU STAY’ REVEALS A MATURITY BEYOND HIS YEARS. HE’LL HIT TASMANIA THIS MONTH AS PART OF A NATIONAL TOUR AND HE TALKS ABOUT HIS EMOTIVE NEW SINGLE, WHICH WAS RECORDED AT THE WASTELANDS STUDIO WITH ARIA WINNING PRODUCER JOEL QUATERMAIN.

You’ve described your music as cinematic, soul, alternative – what are you all about beyond the styles?

My music is dark and moody and emotive.

I want people to feel something no matter what that feeling is. I want to get a reaction – that’s what I’m all about.

So you’re all about getting that reaction – does this mean you’re just a big attention seeker?

Definitely. I’m an attention seeker. I want to have something that’s unique, and I’m constantly searching for that. I do like people’s reactions to the music – not to me, but something I’ve created.

As a person, are you as dark and serious as the music you create?

I was actually talking to my mum about this. I was sick as a child. I was in and out of hospital and she didn’t really let me watch TV – so now I’m very imaginative and quite sensitive. But as a person, I’m always looking for a joke. I take my music seriously and I don’t take myself seriously.

You’re not even 21 and you’re touring the country and winning awards like the recent WA Music Song of the Year. Has your musical career been a growing process for you?

I grew up around musicians who were a lot older than me, like my grandmother who is a pianist and an amazing opera singer. My cousins are into blues and rock, so it’s all a part of my music. Starting at such a young age and doing this whole music thing, I’ve had to pick up my game in terms of

connecting with people and keeping my feet on the ground no matter what happens. I’ve been on the road since I was 15 and I’m 20 now. There’s a lot of stuff you have to deal with on the road and you have to sit back and look at it as though you were an older person.

With being successful comes the fame and money. But the thing is, I don’t care about money, I don’t care about fame. I just want to be successful with myself.

Your new single ‘Why Don’t You Stay’ is about the anxieties of meeting someone new. What did this mean to you while you were writing it?

Meeting someone and feeling like you have a different and strong connection with them – and it’s a lot stronger than

MUSIC HAS NO AGE

Paul Gerard has been in the business since before Alan Gogoll was born.

ESTABLISHED FLAMENCO GUITARIST PAUL GERARD HAS TEAMED UP WITH EMERGING MINIMALIST GUITARIST ALAN GOGOLL. THE RESULT? TOTALLY SURREAL. THE NEW TASSIE DUO WILL PERFORM LIVE AT THE PEACOCK THEATRE AS ‘THE SURREALISTS’ – AND THEY’LL RECORD THEIR DEBUT ALBUM WHILE YOU WATCH.

“I’ve been a professional musician for over 35 years and Alan is only 27 years old – and I think that is just wonderful,” Paul says.

“The arts are the one area of a modern world where age is irrelevant. It would be great if all aspects of our modern world had the same respect for people.”

The tables were once turned, and when Paul was in his early 30s he spent eight years studying with a man twice his age.

“To me, music is ageless. I think when you play music with someone you have a connection where age is not important. It is the beauty of what you two human beings are creating.”

Paul gained his skills under retired Flamenco guitarist Fernando de Costa, who inspired him to study composition at university level. From the late ‘90s until 2009, he continued to enhance his technique with Spanish guitar tutors across Germany, France and England. The result: the ability to compose original Flamenco pieces without feeling the need to copy the age old works of the genre.

anything before. You almost don’t know how to handle it at the start because you don’t want to screw it up. So you worry when you should just be enjoying it and having an amazing time. That’s what it’s about for me but I like people to imagine their song in their own way.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Morgan Bain will perform at The Republic Bar, North Hobart on May 7 and Launceston’s Royal Oak, May 8. Over 18 events, more info at www. morganbain.com.au.

The duo, who officially teamed up in January, will record their concert to release as their debut album together. There’ll be 10 tracks – five composed by each muso.

But why would any professional musician want to make an album outside the comfort of a controlled studio space, anyway?

“We think that your first CD should be a very true representation of who we are, and only a live concert can capture that,” Paul reckons.

“No studio gimmicks, no over-playing, no second takes. We have a belief that to capture the improvisational aspect of what we are about can only be done live. We need to feed off the audience.”

Paul thinks it’s pretty special to team up with a fellow guitarist who isn’t afraid to show the world what he’s made of – not only as an artist, but as a man.

“To me, music is about your emotions – your mood at that moment. So many musicians I find are scared to hang their heart on their sleeve, but that is where the real stuff lies.”

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Paul says he passes his skills on to Alan through The Surrealists – and vice versa.

“We both offer a different challenge to each other. Alan plays in a lot of very unique guitar tunings, which I need to analyze and find harmonic and modal ideas for, and I play in a lot of unusual time signatures and rhythmic patterns which Alan has to work out. But this is a wonderful musical challenge for both of us.”

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DOWN IN JAMESTOWN BRAD BUTCHER IS AN INTERESTING CHARACTER: HE DIVIDES HIS TIME BETWEEN WRITING MUSIC AND TOURING HIS RECORDS, AND MINING IN QUEENSLAND. ONE WOULD NOT SUSPECT THAT SUCH JOBS WOULD EVER BE BEDFELLOWS, BUT AS I DISCOVERED, BUTCHER IS A UNIQUE ARTIST IN MANY RESPECTS.

Having grown up in Mackay, Queensland, has obviously done a lot for Butcher’s sense of community and goodwill which, often, is the cornerstone of well-written and meaningful music.

“In Mackay, there’s about 120,000 people living there now. I spent 20 years growing up there and during the mining boom it grew about 30, 000 people, roughly. It was originally built on cane farms, and lot of cattle. The mining boom sort of changed the landscape but Mackay is a great place. I grew up fishing and playing sports...I’ve moved away now, but it’s purely for the music.

You get a real sense of community in those small towns, friends for life that I still keep in touch with, fishing mates. I always like to get back home.”

His recent album Jamestown (the second after his debut self-titled effort in 2012) was recorded in New Jersey with producer/songwriter Mark Swersky. Butcher tells how the record came to be.

“Mark, that’s his home town. I’ve been with working with him the past two years, so it made sense to go there. I had been there once, played a couple shows. This was the first time I recorded outside of Australia, it was real eye-opening to see the talent they had there. All the guys lived in the area, Eric Haywood on guitar, arguably the best pedal steel guitarist in New York City. Everything just worked out.”

Although Australia has a strong country music scene, Butcher acknowledges that the States do it pretty damn well too.

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“There’s plenty of Australian country musicians...I dunno why it is, but most of my favourite records are all American-made. I just love the sound they capture over there. Some people frown at the fact that Aussies go over [to America] to make a record, but I just knew what I wanted. I didn’t want the clichéd Nashville record, I wanted to get something different. It was an intentional thing.

We could’ve made it in Sydney or Melbourne or even in Queensland, but for me it made sense to go over there. Mark and I put our heads and hearts into those songs for a long time so it really was a no-brainer.”

As mentioned, Butcher is a fly-in, fly-out mining worker, which can take its toll on even the strongest of people.

“I do the week on/ week off thing, it’s not a very creative time for me, every second week. It can be very isolating. I use that as motivation, I set goals for each week off. You’re basically counting your seven days and the time often flies when you get back. The last four years have just disappeared.

It’s just a job for me. It’s really easy to lose sight out there.”

LISA DIB

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READY… SET… GO! BRISBANE’S NONSEMBLE FUSES POP WITH POST-ROCK AND CHAMBER MUSIC FOR INNOVATIVE PIECES AND PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCES. LATEST ALBUM GO SEIGEN VS. FUJISAWA KURANOSUKE WAS COMPOSED

BY THE GROUP’S FOUNDER AND GUITARIST CHRIS PERREN, AND IS BASED ON A 1953 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME OF GO – THE JAPANESE BOARD GAME. CHRIS TALKS GO AHEAD OF NONSEMBLE’S MONA GIG. So, the work is inspired by one kickass round of Go. How does a board game translate into music?

Kickass indeed! One of the greatest games of the 20th Century, so say the Go nerds.

But to be honest, it could have been any game. For me, a lot of my love of music lies in the joy and beauty of abstract patterns.

Sometimes I’d take the position numbers from a sequence of moves and translate that to pitches or rhythmic durations, and other times I’d just turn the shapes of stones on the board into melodies.

to encapsulate aspects of Zen philosophy.

It’s so complex that you’d be hard pressed to ever repeat a game exactly in hundreds of years. It’s also a game of restraint— the moment you get aggressive playing Go is the moment you start to lose. The whole thing just fascinates me. Having said that, basing the album on Monopoly would have made the album title less cumbersome.

Why did you choose Go, anyway? Did Monopoly not sound as good?

What does it sound like? Is it aesthetically pleasing or does it sacrifice tonality for the sake of the game?

I’m really interested in Japanese culture.

I lived in Tokyo for a year and a half, learnt to speak Japanese, and I read a lot of Zen philosophy. Like many things in Japanese culture, the game of Go seems

I always want to write what I want to hear as a listener. So the game patterns are just a stimulus, they never take over. I realised early on that if I translated the moves into music in any really direct way, we

were going to end up with a kind of music I wasn’t really interested in writing or hearing. Creating something engaging and beautiful was always the goal. So I like to think it is aesthetically pleasing.

to understand the dynamics of the Go Seigen vs Fujisawa Kuranosuke game. But for the most part, those guys were playing at such a high level that for most moves I’m like, ‘I don’t get it…why?’.

There are hints of Cinematic Orchestra, Steve Reich, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, The Books, even some Ravel. So while it’s driven by all these odd patterns, it ultimately ends up sounding like a mash up of all the music I love, squeezed out through this hybrid rock band/chamber ensemble.

Can you play a mean game of Go yourself?

It’s so hard! And I’m pretty hopeless at it, to be honest. But I have played a few games and know the rules, so in a way that helped

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THE RINSE LIFE BESIDES DOMINATING MOST ANY SPACE HE MIGHT HAPPEN ACROSS, DANCE COMMANDER, SPENDA C (STEVE LIND TO HIS MA), IS FOREVER GIVING FANS MORE AND MORE BANG FOR THEIR BUCK. A MOST PROLIFIC ARTIST, HE IS CURRENTLY MID-TOUR, AS HE SEEMINGLY ALWAYS IS, PROMOTING HIS NEW EP WITH FELLOW SYDNEY DJ NEMO, RINSELIFE. THE EP AND THE SINGLE, “POP ‘N CHAMPAGNE” WITH DJ FUNK ARE ALREADY OUT AND ABOUT, WITH LIND PLANNING A SECOND REMIX PACKAGE ON THE WAY.

“I woke up with split pants” Lind explains.

“The tour’s just started, four or five shows so far, I’m in New Zealand at the moment.

It’s pretty crazy, I was probably crowd surfing.”

“How dangerous!” I say, clutching my imaginary pearls.

“Hey, as long as there’s someone to catch me, I’ll do it!” Lind laughs.

“It’s a lot more convenient” he says, on the technological aspects of his work. “I’m heading to the airport now, so I can work on music on the plane and by the time I land, I have stuff to play for the show. It’s more convenient than getting people together in

a room to rehearse like with a band. You’ve gotta have a lot of output, though; they get played for a few months and then you’ve gotta come up with something else. The more I can put out the better. My only rule to myself is to make stuff that I actually wanna play. I like to at least do one new thing for every gig; I like to keep it fresh for myself. I have a short attention span, I just do as much as possible.”

“I’ve got releases planned up to July, so I’m gonna focus on those, pushing those and then probably more shows! I can’t do the crowd surfing forever, I’d like to produce music for a long time, the touring side of it is hard work.”

So what does Lind look for in prospective acts?

“They just have to be different, innovative.

The internet is good to find local guys doing cool shit and it’s easier to communicate with younger guys, because they are keen for it.”

with them and people take the piss out of them and they don’t even realise people are taking the piss out of them. They are the minority, though. They’re [outlets like ACA] are more likely to report on the roided-up shirtless fuckwits than the 39,000 other people just having a dance and a drink.”

“I was a clubby guy in my younger days” he says, on ‘club culture’ (you know, that one that is so often maligned on A Current Affair), “it’s good to be part of a scene, part of the culture.”

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“They’re like a walking meme” he laughs when I ask about kinds of people that make clubs and electronic music festivals look like a cartoon gym. “People take photos

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THE THOUGHTS OF BROKEN SLEEP IT’S 4AM. I like this time. I just put my small son back to bed and made coffee. I will not return to slumber. I won’t even try to do so. There’ll be mostly silence from here until the rest of the house awakes in a few hours. There’s such thing as silence though, not really. We live in a world of noise, and even when we go into a chamber purpose built to remove all sound, we will finally hear the noise of our own bodies, the slight rasp of our own breath.

We always make sound.

Humans make noise and tell stories and build things and break things. Humans think laterally. We’re related to primates, but we are not primates, we are hominids. We are the only hominid on the planet now; there were others but they are gone, as things go, as we will probably go.

It seems as if we will make our world untenable for ourselves just now. That might change, and it might not and there’s not much I can do about any of it, here in my slowly warming house on my island at the bottom of the world.

I was talking to someone online a few hours ago, about getting paid for making art. I like to get paid but I don’t expect it; what I don’t like is being ripped off. I don’t know that anyone enjoys that.

Capitalism doesn’t steal from people when it’s working but it’s not working right now. Well, it is for some but not for most, and while I am certain that people in poorer parts of the world would like the very safe and secure life that I have, I am also certain that not everyone can live like this and that perhaps we should not so much. I read somewhere that there were probably enough resources for everyone, even this many people to

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live relatively well, it’s just that there is nothing that even resembles fair distribution of food and things that make life better, like toilets – lots of people don’t have toilets. They have to dispose of their own shit and it gets in the water and they get dysentery and die. Or something horrible.

It’s getting towards 5 and I’m not going to google the stats. You do it. You should. You should think about how great toilets are and how lucky you are that you don’t have to worry about shit.

I have no idea how to fix the world, so I do things like write about how I feel about it, or make art or argue with people on the internet about making art. I have no idea if this is productive and it probably isn’t but I do hope to reach out and make human connections with more people, because I’m not that concerned with being right as much as I am with group consensus and finding localized solutions to issues. Because while I think everyone in the world deserves a toilet and clean water, I don’t want to view them as victims and there are actually an awful lot of things in my immediate community that need fixing, badly, like the amount of people that have trouble reading in Tasmania. They’re a few kilometres up the road and they need some support to sort themselves out as well.

It’s so big. It’s so overwhelming. I balance depression with a desire to make things a bit better, and my version of this is to make a bit of art that makes people think about themselves and wonder at the world. Not too much. Thinking is for early in the morning, but I could do it all day.

I probably will.

THE LAWS IN AUSTRALIA ARE ABOUT TO TIGHTEN AND THE RECENT COURT DECISION ALLOWING THE MAKERS OF DALLAS BUYERS CLUB TO ASK FOR CASH FROM PEOPLE WHO DOWNLOADED IT WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE FREE AND ANARCHIC INTERNET IS IN ITS DEATH THROES.

But it’s not as if suddenly every tinpot muso is going to make loads more money or the film industry is going to improve or anything like that. Apart from driving the dedicated pirates underground and maybe creating more of black market, there’s something good that might happen, which is people will stop ripping off stuff at last and being using and consuming all the free stuff that’s available on the internet.

You see, copyright lapses and every year a new crop of work makes it’s way into the Public Domain and you can do whatever you like with that stuff: watch it, read it, listen to it, remix it, make art out of it and it’s all totally fine. You can also find Open Source software that will allow you do this and there are communities out there online who are able to answer your questions, it will not cost you a thing and it’s all legal.

Where do you find this stuff? Well, there’s the Internet Archive, for one thing, which is a little nerdy and sharp around the edges but filled to the brim with incredible culture. Dive in there and you will never come out, really. There’s The Public Domain review, which finds interesting stuff and serves it up bite size, or Open Culture which has links to things like free educational courses, places you can watch movies online for free.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Stop stealing art and take what you can legally and make more art. It’s a much better idea.

ANDREW HARPER

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Check out: www.publicdomainreview.org, www.openculture.com and www.archive.org.

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Wild At Heart LAST YEAR’S MOTEL DREAMING WAS ONE OF THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT SEGMENTS PRISED FROM THE DARK MOFO FRUIT: IT WAS TOTAL ART EXPERIENCE PART OF WHICH WAS SLEEPING AT THE VENUE. IT WAS, ALL REPORTS, EQUAL PARTS CREEPY AND WONDERFUL. The group of people that made it happen, The Unconscious Collective, have returned and become far more ambitious in scope. This time, the experience a select few will take part in is a series of events at Cradle Mountain. This time, the dream is not in a Motel you’ve driven past a thousand times. It’s at one of the most iconic wilderness locations in the state.

So what will actually happen, out there, in the wilderness? Well, first, you’re going to have to get there, aren’t you?

Road trip The curated road-trip includes a custom RACT route map and guide, car ornaments, a mix tape

(of either CDs or downloads) curated by Jonnine Standish, best known as the voice of HTRK and Regional Curse. This will create a self-guided road trip from Hobart or Launceston, to Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park. The route includes stops en route at some of the more peculiar parts of Central Tasmania locations you may have heard of but never visited, places like Poatina and Nowhere Else, with complimentary refreshments served by performers in character.

Bizarre bus trips are also available, if you don’t want to take an easy escape route with you.

Then you’ll arrive, tired after a day exploring the stunning winter countryside of Tasmania.

First night - Out there in here Based at Cradle Mountain Hotel, the first night includes contemporary Australian artist Ash Keating’s exhibition opening of Remote Nature Response at the RACT Wilderness Gallery, which continues until September 13. Ash will undertake a 2 week on-site residency, creating large works on canvas in response to the wilderness environment. The canvases will be installed on the outer walls of eight gallery spaces creating the effect of looking through panoramic windows out into the environment.

Following that, visitors retire to their rooms for an ‘in-room art experience’ created by Tasmanian artists Jason James, Matt Warren and David Patman. Each room is fitted with a purpose built audio-visual installation delivered via in-room TV channels to all guest rooms. Also includes inroom collateral, such as event program, custom sleep mask, ‘wilderness’ post cards, and curated mini-bar items.

The room installations will be a kind of indoor ‘glamping’ experience (taking the great outdoors indoors), complete with an outdoor spa and popup forest bar. Essentially, this will be a vast and complex work of contemporary art, informed by an ongoing investigation of dreaming and the subconscious, so each fortunate participant may wade in and perhaps be a little altered by.

15 of these installation rooms will retain their installations after the event, to coincide with the ongoing Ash Keating exhibition. So don’t think you’ve missed out if you don’t go for the whole thing, you can nip up and have a stickybeak later.

It’ll be worth it.

That’s the first night. You’ll wake up, and the world may seem a touch peculiar.

Daytime - ‘Holy Mountain pilgrimage’ A psychopomp-guided walk will occur. In Jungian psychology, there are guides of some kind who lead the individual between the waking and sleeping world. They might be some sort of contemporary shaman, they could be a helpful animal. Participants will be led by costumed performers from the Unconscious Collective camp on a sacred walk, encompassing the historic Walheim Chalet and the stunning Dove Lake under Cradle Mountain. The unconventional chaperones will undoubtedly add another dimension of dreaminess to the already otherworldly beauty of the region.

Second night - Dark banquet Come darkness, Wild at Heart trippers will settle into Peppers Cradle Mountain Lodge for a debauched dark banquet (curated by UK’s Bompas and Parr , who unfortunately won’t be on-site), with food wild hunted and foraged by Gourmet Farmer’s Ross O’Meara (who will be on-site). This feast, like all of the feasting we find around Dark MOFO, will be of legendary portions.

Out of the wilderness Come morning, guests will have breakfast at the Lodge, and drive or take buses back to Launceston and Hobart.

And that will be that.

It sounds simple, but what we know is, that it will not be. It will be a complex feast of experience for sense and sensibility.

It may also be very cold, so do what every good Tasmanian child has grown up being taught to do: bring an extra jumper and a raincoat at the very least. The weather is a fickle beast in the mountains and can turn like that. Cold and damp is something you’ll be able to do something about: the rest of the experience’ will be beyond your control and that’s the point: you may see something wonderful.

ANDREW HARPER

Wild at Heart: Monday 15 June - Wednesday 17 June, 2015 Tickets $250 - $790, by ballot from May 9: www. darkmofo.net.au/subscribe www.darkmofo.net.au/program/wild-at-heart

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PAIGE TURNER THE CHILL IS HERE AND IT IS WELCOME. MY BIG SUMMER REGRET IS THAT I DIDN’T GET UP NORTH ENOUGH TO CHECK OUT LAUNCESTON’S BUZZING SPOKEN WORD AND POETRY SCENE – INCLUDING STORYTELLER SPINKS’ (LOOK OUT FOR HIS GORGEOUSLY WRITTEN VIGNETTES OF TASMANIAN PLACE AND HISTORY) POOR MAN’S POT, STORY TELLING EVENINGS. YES, THE ONLY REGRET – OH, ALSO THAT I HAVEN’T FINISHED MOBY DICK YET.

Tasmanian Book Prizes, now known as the Premier’s Literary Prizes are open for entries until May 15. Awards this year include the return of the Tasmania Book Prize (best book with Tasmanian content in any genre), the Margaret Scott Prize (best book by a Tasmanian writer), University of Tasmania Prize (best unpublished literary work by an emerging Tasmanian writer) and the Tasmanian Young Writer’s Prize, a new category open t Tasmanian writers aged 35 or under, in most genres. The inclusion of this last category is a good way to open these awards to a new audience, literary prizes can become fusty quickly, so this is a smart move. The return of the People’s Choice would have also been savvy, few overheads and a great way to engage the public more broadly.

Forty South has recently announced the winners of their very own Tasmanian Writers’ Prize. Judges David Owen and Chris Gallagher announced these winners – Winner, Rachel Leary (Vic) A Concrete Aborigine and highly commended, Karenlee Thompson (Qld) Dear Ethan

and Melanie Cheng (Vic) The Honeymoon. These stories will be published in an anthology alongside all the finalists, later this year.

Helen Hayward’s book For the Love of Food, stories and recipes from Extraordinary Tasmanians will be available from early May, hot on the heels of Michelle Crawford’s A Table in the Orchard (tune in to Edge Radio on Tuesday May 5th at 6pm to hear me interview her on The Book Show).

The Launceston branch of the Society of Women Writers meets on the first Monday of the month between 10am to 1pm in the Ida Birchall Room at the Pilgrim Church in Paterson Street. All women writers warmly welcomed!

Poetry is the way that language is crystallised. It is the music and the science of creative writing, it can transform the reader – and sometimes provide insight, satori like. When done well, it is the perfect confluence of language – and when done badly, well, bad poetry is easier to define than good. The Tasmanian Poetry Festival returns again in October and they have announced a fantastic line up of some poets I know can take your breath and make you weep with joy and deep sadness. Ivy Alvarez and Ali Cobby Eckermann are two of these poets that you must not miss – and the others on the line up I look forward to sampling.

Talking further up the Derwent River, the new Moonah Arts Centre (MAC) offers diverse spaces and an inclusive community approach. The second Tuesday McGillycuddy adventure, A Week Without Tuesday will be launched at MAC on Friday May 8.

Written by Angelica Banks (a perfect writing storm of Heather Rose and Danielle Wood), these books are pitched at young readers.

On May 7 Twitch, the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre’s young writers group, is hosting myself and web editor Emma Waters from Transportation, to talk about our next publication (submissions open soon).

Tasmanian writer, Tom Dunbabin is releasing his new book, Tom Dunbabin: An Archeologist at War in Heraklion, Crete. The Dunbabin of the title is a relative of the author and it tells the story of the archaeologist’s outstanding intellect, mastery of local languattes and customs and a specialist in Greek cultural heritage. The book will be available in Tasmania from July. For further information contact tom@bangor.com.au.

If you’re in Sydney and need a fix of Tasmanian letters, Claire Corbett will be hosting an ‘in conversation’ with Amanda Lohrey at the Sydney Writers Festival on May 23.

Maggie MacKellar has written two memoirs, When it Rains and How to Get There as well as books on the history of settlement in Australia and Canada.

She now lives on the East Coast of Tasmania and is hosting a four day workshop at Brockely Estate Heritage Homestead on May 22-25. This will allow time to develop your writing and receive feedback from Maggie. The nifty $1499 pricetag includes all meals and accommodation – and while it is wonderful to see this kind of retreat/workshop offered the price tag alone will make this event an exclusive, as oppose to inclusive writing venture. If I write enough of these columns I’ll be able to attend in approximately 2099. Contact info@metimeexperiences.com.au for further information.

And, in another exclusive! You read it first here – Australia’s top erotica and sex writer Krissy Kneen, (whose latest book, pictured) is joining forces with international bestselling romance writer, Melanie Milburne to offer a weekend of sex and romance writing workshops at the Moonah Arts Centre on June 12-13. For further information contact epicentred@gmail.com.

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SAM SIMMONS IN TASMANIA SAM SIMMONS PERFORMS WEARING SHORTS. NO ONE SHOULD PERFORM WEARING SHORTS. THERE’S RULES FOR DOING STAND UP AND ONE OF THEM IS DON’T WEAR SHORTS, BUT SAM SIMMONS DOESN’T GIVE A RAT’S ABOUT THE RULES.

Sam is a weirdo. He untangles power cords on-stage to anthem dance music and it’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen. His shows are described as surreal by people who watch them but that’s because it’s really hard to get an angle of what Sam Simmons even does, beyond that it’s gut-busting and everyone loves it, although that doesn’t explain why Problems is not yet on DVD. Sam Simmons just won The 2015 Barry Award for best comedy show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

That means Sam Simmons is probably the hottest comedy property in Australia right now. He was pretty hot when the ABC let him make his TV show Problems in 2012.

He went over to the US where he did stand up on Conan O’Brien’s show and Conan liked it so much that he asked him back.

That was in 2013. He’s just been in the US again making a movie. There’s no stopping him.

Sam is a comedy Behemoth.

The point of all this is that Sam Simmons is coming to Tasmania. I would say that you should go and see him but at the time of writing, all the tickets to the Hobart Sam Simmons Event at the Clubhouse on Thursday May 21st have sold out.

SOLD OUT! I can’t even go. I snoozed and lost. That’s what happens when the best new weirdo comedian in the country comes down here, every comedy fan who was at his last Clubhouse show gets right on it and grabs a ticket.

NEVERTHELESS it is very important that you know that the show is on because The Clubhouse, which is one of the best Comedy Rooms in Hobart and has consistently bought awesome acts to Tasmania for years now, has moved is and is now at The Republic Bar. You know that room upstairs? That’s a now totally hot comedy venue, this show is re-launching

it and it will be HUGE. There’ll be amazing local supports from ghetto superstar Emesha Rudolf, RAW Comedy State Winner Jono Mastropolito, everyone’s favourite vegetarian metro sexual Stewart Bell, with MC wonder boy Mick Davies hosting. This is just the start, there'll be awesome guests at The Clubhouse very month. Like the facebook page and follow it on twitter.

If you are now weeping that you have missed Sam fear not, you have a chance.

You need to go to Launceston to Fresh Comedy where Sam is doing not one but two shows on the 22nd and 23rd of May. Your host will be the awesome Stewart Bell, Jono Mastropolito will turn up and there’ll be a talking sasquatch who thinks he’s a wizard flopping about. After that, Sam will probably head back to the US and take over Hollywood in his quest for global domination. So if you’re keen, and you should be, go to the Fresh Shows, or go hang out at the door of The Clubhouse and weep because someone might cancel or not turn up, you know how it is these days.

Stuff happens.

ANDREW HARPER

Sam Simmons in Tasmania: May 21, The Clubhouse upstairs at The Republic Bar, 8:30pm (sold out).

May 22 & 23, Fresh Comedy at 8:30pm $20 The Launceston shows are likely to sell out quickly. Buy your ticket RIGHT NOW from trybooking.com/132350.

BOOK REVIEW:

A SHORT HISTORY OF RICHARD KLINE

BY AMANDA LOHREY RICHARD KLINE IS A SEEMINGLY MUNDANE, RATIONAL, WHITE MAN WHO PURSUES WHAT ONE WOULD EXPECT A MUNDANE, WHITE MAN TO ENJOY; A CAREER, A WIFE, A FAMILY, MATERIAL COMFORTS, SOME VAGUE INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES. THROUGH THE SHORT PERIOD OF HIS LIFE THAT LOHREY REVEALS TO US WITH SUBTLETY, WARMTH AND AN INCISIVE EYE FOR THE HUMAN CONDITION, WE KNOW THAT WHAT HE APPEARS TO YEARN FOR WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH. The reader is briefly taken back to the childhood of Rick, as he is referred to. A suburban Sydney childhood, late 20th century, middle class, educated. This highlights how he differs from his siblings, how his parents experience him and of his alienation, which is almost a disdain for the world.

It is through the juxtaposition of characters that Richard is further revealed. This is a technique that Lohrey uses in a lot of her work, it is the minor or supporting characters who bring the main protagonists into sharper relief.

He is overcome by something he does not recognise, with darshan, a beautiful Sanskrit word that denotes a spiritual recognition, a homecoming.

The adult life of Rick, also traverses a terrain of normalcy; study, love, job, ambition, travel, yet it is suffused with a yearning, an emptiness that he is at first not aware of, and then he does not know how to have an emotional or spiritual vocabulary to describe, let alone shift.

One of the central premises of this finely crafted novel is the question of how a man who has had no time for spiritual ‘claptrap’ his entire life resolves to live with a deeply touching experience - and what happens to the relationships around him as this resolution sets in.

Richard’s life, subtly at first, begins a profound change.

He warily enrols in a corporate meditation practice, very much designed and pitched to improve productivity, concentration and reduce stress. He does this with a great deal of rationalising; his inner scepticism providing the perfect foil to the reader’s bewilderment about the spiritual progression that follows.

Lohrey was awarded the Patrick White prize in 2012. This prize, a legacy of one of Australia’s greatest writers is given to authors who the judges consider to deserve more attention. While Lohrey felt that she was receiving enough attention to her work, it is a deserving accolade and one that should serve to highlight her solid, yet singing and pulsating oeuvre.

When he follows a colleague into a Community Centre and, following a gentle fracas with the person on the door about whether he has to leave his pair of “almost new Italian leather slip-ons in a place where they could easily be stolen,” he is confronted with a crowd of devotees of a diminutive, dark skinned woman “draped in the gentle folds of a white cotton sari”.

A Short History of Richard Kline is a story split in two, of a man almost split in two – but who manages to reconcile this division ultimately for his greater fulfilment.

And, Richard, the heretofore rational, achieving, prosaic white male, is metaphorically touched by god in this suburban hall, he weeps and weeps and weeps. He cries for the first time he can remember and he doesn’t know why.

RACHEL EDWARDS

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In 2014 the first festival was held, and Her Majesty saw that it was good. So good, that in 2015 she decreed that she wouldn’t rest on her Lady Grey leaves: a second festival was commanded. And it’s on in June!

This year there’s a huge focus on EXHIBITIONS - with four openings during the festival and lots of artist talks, launches and the annual zine fair!

All events free unless otherwise specified.

Wednesday June 3

HER MAJESTY’S FAVOURITE REALLY GREAT GRAPHICAL FESTIVAL 2015 June 3 - 6 HER MAJ SAID TO HERSELF (IN A POMPOUS TONE), VAN DIEMENS LAND NEEDS ANOTHER FESTIVAL!!! A FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE HER COMIC-MAKERS, HER ILLUSTRATORS, HER ZINES! FOR ZINES ARE GREAT AND WONDERFUL EXPRESSIONS OF CREATIVITY AND THERE SHOULD MORE OF THEM!

Hoppers Issue 3 by human comics dynamo, Tricky Walsh will be launched at the Hobart Bookshop at Immediately afterwards across Salamanca Place (like 20 metres), there’ll be the big opening of the political cartoonists exhibition “I Ink Therefore I Am!”, curated by Christopher Downes (who did the wunderbar image of Queenie darling).

Thursday June 4 A Thousands Words artists talk night Venue TBA. Friday June 5 The first OFFICIAL - Hobart Art Crawl!

With three exhibitions along Hobart’s Elizabeth Street: we’ start the night at Frankie’s Empire for an exhibit by Rachel Tribout (Captain Blueberry), waltz on up the street after that to Basket & Green for Sam Lyne’s Quantum Folk - and then it’s on to the Homestead for bands and the opening of the exhibition of Karen!

Karen is an open submission exhibition all you have to do is draw a 210x210mm drawing of an Eastern Quoll doing cheeky things around Tasmania and drop it into the Homestead on the evening of the 21st of May. Saturday June 6 The Small Press Zine Fair will be held from 1-5pm at the Grand Poobah with bands!

Bring your zines to swap, sell, show-off.

Interstate zinesters will be coming to hang out with local ones!

Later that evening - look out for the annual PEN talk which will be given by Pat Armstrong - one of the team of people that worked on A Guard’s Story, the Walkley Awards nominated viral web comic published on the Global Mail website, about the experience of being a guard in an Australian Detention Centre. (Door charge for this one but it will amazing) And her Majesty saw that the Really Great Graphical Festival was not simply good but totally awesome and she regally let it be known: “We are amused” and so will everyone who gets along, takes part, makes a zine, attends a talk or has anything to do with this ripper DIY festival.

ANDREW HARPER

Look further at: www.hobartgraphicsfestival. tumblr.com, www.facebook.com/ hermajestysfestival or www. twitter.com/ hermajestytas.

THE SOUTH ARM SKATE RAMP BARBEQUE YOU’VE VERY PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT THIS BY NOW BUT LET’S JUST GO OVER IT AGAIN: A MUM IN SOUTH ARM BOUGHT A SMALL SKATE RAMP FOR HER KIDS AS A WAY OF GIVING THEM SOMETHING TO DO THAT WAS FUN, WOULD GIVE THEM A BIT OF EXERCISE AND GET THEM OUT OF DOORS. HER CHILDREN LIKED IT AND SO DID SOME OTHERS IN THE NEIGHBOURING AREA, ALL OF WHOM HAVE BEEN USING THE RAMP AND HAVING LOADS OF FUN ON IT.

Good on them.

The family received a note in the mail, however, which was anonymous (hmm) and threatening (not nice): “get rid of the skate ramp or it ‘will’ be torched”. The letter was reported to police, as anonymous threats of this nature should be, and the offending letter was posted on facebook by Hobart skate shop, Jimmy’s Skate. The response was rather incredible: hundreds came out in support of the backyard ramp, the story got bigger and made the ABC and the Mercury, and the end result was that the skating community headed down to South Arm on the last Sunday in April, to have a barbeque in support of the ramp. It was, by all reports, a terrific day, and we’ve got a photo to prove it. A sea of smiling heads and a huge range of ages, having a good time out of doors – what more do you need?

Well, an actual proper skate park in South Arm would probably be a nice thing. As you can see, there’s a lot of people who would use such a thing and have a great time doing so. The local community have been hoping to get one down that way for a few years now, and if there was ever a time for such a thing, it must be now.

Congratulations to Jimmy’s Skate and the skateboarding community. That’s how you do it.

ANDREW HARPER

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South 146 ARTSPACE 16 April – 28 May

SOUTH Eloise Kirk

ART MOB 8 – 24 May Tiwi Tales

TMAG 20 Mar – 30 Aug Patrick Hall 23 Jan – 30 May 21Up

NORTH

BETT GALLERY 1 – 29 May Amanda Davies, Sally Rees CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 2 – 31 May Tender Exotics Bobby Beausoliel, Nik Kamvissis, Margret Stones. Cur: Lisa Campbell-Smith.

COLVILLE GALLERY 17 April – 6 May Katy Wooroffe 8 - 27 May Ruth Frost DESPARD 15 April – 10 May Peter Hjort, Mike Singe, Andrew McIlory, Dale Richards, Catherine Woo 13 May – 7 June Suzanne Playfoot, Sebastian Galloway HANDMARK 1 – 28 May Phillip Bacon MAC 16 Apr – 31 Dec An/other time 8 – 30 May Penny Malone, Shaz HarrisonWilliams MONA 17 Jan – 6 July Biennale of Moving Images PENNY CONTEMPORARY 17 Apr – 13 May Laura E Kennedy ROSNY BARN 24 Apr – 21 May Centenary of ANZAC: Service at home and abroad SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY 6 – 10 May Schoolkids Poster Competition 15 May – 7 Jun Mary Buchanan Bailey SALAMANCA ART CENTRE LONG GALLERY 9 – 17 May Kim Foale and Jon Kudelka 23 May – 3 Jun Art from Trash SIDESPACE GALLERY 6 – 19 May Bronwyn Theobald & Alison Hill 22 May – 4 Jun Kate Piekutowski & Bethany Van Rijswijk TOP GALLERY 4 – 30 May Alice Griffiths & Cameron Johns LIGHTBOX 1 – 31 May Donna Ritchie

BRAVE ART GALLERY (Longford) 6 Dec – 1 Feb Angus Donald, Anna Van Stralen BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 30 Jan – 12 Jul HA! High Art 14 Mar - 10 May Burnie Print Prize 2015 14 Mar - 10 May Ed Jones 16 May – 12 Jul Michael Muruste 16 May – 12 Jul 10 Stories, 10 Objects

DESIGN TASMANIA 24 Apr – 24 May Tasmanian Architecture Awards 2015 24 Apr – 19 July 40 Years of Jam Factory DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 13 Mar – 10 May ReViewing Lisa Garland, Troy Ruffels, Ilona Schneider, Brian Sollors and the Robinson Collection Cur: Ellie Ray & Dunja Rmandic 13 Mar – 10 May Board(rs) and Surface: work from the Sawtooth ARI Board Sonja Brough, Mat Carey, Samantha Dennis, Jennifer Dickens, David Hamilton, Gillian Marsden, Marisa Molin, Mel de Ruyter, Patrick utczak, Helene Weeding Cur: Catherine Wolfhagen and Patrick Sutczak 16 May – 31 May NWAC Annul Community Artists Exhibition 16 May – 31 May Selena De Carvalho

GALLERY PEJEAN 15 Apr – 9 May Ryllton Viney 13 May – 6 Jun Ben Miller, Chris Flood

COMEDY

THEATRE

THE BRISBANE HOTEL 28 Mar The Comedy Forge

SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE LONG GALLERY 1 – 9 May Twelfth Night 14 – 16 May A Day in the death of Joe Egg

DICKENS CIDER HOUSE 14 May Uber Comedy Hobart DOCTOR SYNTAX 29 May The Doctor’s Best Medicine

THEATRE ROYAL 30 May – 2 Apr Kelly 8 – 23 May Uni Revue

SOHO 6 May Cloud Comedy 3 Jun Cloud Comedy

THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE 28 May - 6 Jun Grounded presented by Blue Cow

THE REPUBLIC BAR 21 May The Clubhouse Feat. Sam Simmons

NORTH

THE POLISH CLUB 27 May Jokers (debut)

COMEDY

THEATRE ROYAL 30 May Joe Creasy

FILM CINEMONA Until 20 May Behind The Beautiful Forevers Until 14 May Biennale Of The Moving Image From 2 May Iloante & Duke Bluebeard’s Castle From 7 May National Gallery From 9 May A View From a Bridge From 23 May The Hard Problem From 30 May The Impressionists From 30 MayFaust PLAYHOUSE 1 – 16 May A Murder Is Announced 21 – 30 May Iolanthe

RED BRICK ROAD CIDERHOUSE 13 May Uber Comedy FRESH ON CHARLES 22 – 23 May Fresh Comedy Feat. Sam Simmons SHOTS ON WAX 28 May Crash Test Funnies

THEATRE PRINCESS THEATRE 5 May Kelly 27 – 30 May Uni revue BURNIE ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE 7 May Kelly 15 May Crowns

HANDMARK EVANDALE 26 Apr – 16 May Jan Dineen 17 May – 13 Jun Helene Weeding QVMAG 21 Feb – 17 May Made In China, Australia 9 May – 5 Jul Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness 30 May – 19 Jul Stephen Bowers

WARP RECOMMENDS…

TENDER EXOTICS

Contemporary Art Tasmania on Tasma St is hosting an amazing show this month. This year’s CAT curatorial mentorship has really bought something incredible to Hobart: Tender Exotics.

Featuring work by an incredible botanical artist, a person formerly connected to the Manson Family and a noise muso who makes pictures, it’s a beautifully curated show that will ask you to look at visual art in a really different way. Tender Exotics runs from May 2, so don’t miss a truly unusual art experience.

Credit for image - Nik Kamvissis, Sucking On Nothing, 2011. Pencil on Paper. Courtesy of Artist.

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Jack Greene Observatory Lounge Room Observatory Main Room Onyx Republic Bar & Café Telegraph Hotel The Homestead Waterfront Hotel Waterman’s Beer Market Worlds End Brewpub Wrest Point Ent. Centre Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel

Brisbane Hotel Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Grand Poobah Jack Greene Observatory Main Room Onyx Pier One Plan B Republic Bar & Café Telegraph Hotel The Homestead Waterfront Hotel 10 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Claremont Hotel Jack Greene Republic Bar & Café Republic Bar & Café The Homestead Waratah Hotel Waterfront Hotel 11 Birdcage Bar Brunswick Hotel Republic Bar & Café 12 Birdcage Bar Irish Murphys Republic Bar & Café Wrest Point Coffee Shop 13 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Irish Murphys Observatory Main Room Republic Bar & Café Telegraph Hotel The Homestead Waratah Hotel Waterman’s Beer Market Worlds End Brewpub 14 Birdcage Bar Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Irish Murphys Jack Greene Republic Bar & Café The Homestead Worlds End Brewpub Wrest Point Coffee Shop 15 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Federation Concert Hall Jack Greene Observatory Main Room Onyx Republic Bar & Café Telegraph Hotel The Homestead Waterfront Hotel Waterman’s Beer Market Worlds End Brewpub 16 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Grand Poobah

Acts / Start Time Tony Mak DJ B-Rex DJ Johnny G The Robinsons 10pm British India 10pm Rum Jungle / Big Swifty Maddy Jane Band + Seth Henderson + Lasca Ebeneza Good 8:30pm The Squibbley’s 9pm The Paybacks Soul Night Anastacia 7:15pm Jason Patmore 9pm Taberah (tas) + Decimatus (vic) + Envenomed (vic) + Omnicide (tas) Front - Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC Inspecther Norse Finn Seccombe, DJ Mad 7pm DJ Millhouse Eden (Final Show) 9pm Tim Hibberd DJ B-Rex Ebeneza Good 10pm Aly Rae Patmore Trio 7pm Spenda C - Totally Awesome Autumn Tour 11pm British India 10pm Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink Cheshire + Fatty Boomsticks + Max Power The Goodfellas 8:30pm Jason Patmore 8pm Brissie Bingo w/ Ramblin Croaker Fotti P & OGP 5pm Tim Davies / DJ Dezzy The Goodfellas 2pm Tony Mak / Jeremy Matcham Zuma 3pm The Darlings 8:30pm The Evan Carydakis Trio featuring Brendan Siemsen + Janelle Stowe Reggae Sundays 12pm Aaron Courtney 2pm Billy & Randal 8pm Quizmeisters Trivia 6:30pm Quiz Night 8:15pm Glen Challice 8pm Songwriters Sessions w/ Jed Appleton 9pm Billy Whitton 8:30pm Les Coqs 11:30am Tony Voglino 8pm PRISM w/ Smutty Sam & The Soda Creamers (tas) + Pines (tas) + DOGLIPS! (tas) + DJ Paw Town (tas) Joel Everard 7pm Tim Hibberd LASCA, George Begbie, Dawnfield DJ B-Rex Slyde 8:30pm Phrayta Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle Inquizitive Quiz Night Matt & Abby 9pm Casual Encounters DJs Jerome Hillier 9pm Cam Stuart 7pm Micheal Clennett Seth Henderson Tim Hibberd Steve Grady + Dan Parsons 8:30pm Emlyn Johnson Funky Bunch Trivia Aly Rae Patmore Trio 11:30am Jason Patmore 9pm Heart Beach (tas) + Violet Swells + Quivers (tas) + James Parry (tas) Nick Machin, DJ Mad 6:30pm Tony Mak / DJ Curtain Gomyo plays Tchaikovsky 7:30pm Tim Hibberd DJ Tigerlily (Syd) with Local Supports Transit 10pm The Audreys 10pm Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink 8 Ball Aitken (usa) + Matt Bayes Jerome Hillier 8:30pm Brad Gillies 9pm Stalking Ella Scott + Pearly Whites + Colin Kucera Jason Patmore 9pm The Stoneage Hearts (vic) + The Lucky Dips (tas) + Truckshow (tas) + Mess O’ Reds (tas) Dan Vandermeer, Actroid 7pm DJ Johnny G Chupacabra 9pm

Event Guide

Date

Venue Jack Greene Observatory Main Room Onyx Pier One Republic Bar & Café

Sunday

Telegraph Hotel The Homestead Waterfront Hotel Worlds End Brewpub Wrest Point Coffee Shop 17 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel Brisbane Hotel Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Claremont Hotel Jack Greene Republic Bar & Café

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Republic Bar & Café The Homestead Waratah Hotel Waterfront Hotel 18 Birdcage Bar Brunswick Hotel Republic Bar & Café 19 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel Irish Murphys Republic Bar & Café Wrest Point Coffee Shop 20 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Irish Murphys Observatory Main Room Republic Bar & Café Telegraph Hotel The Homestead Waratah Hotel Waterman’s Beer Market Worlds End Brewpub Wrest Point Ent. Centre 21 Birdcage Bar Brunswick Hotel Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Federation Concert Hall Irish Murphys Jack Greene Republic Bar & Café Republic Bar & Café (Upstairs) The Homestead Worlds End Brewpub Wrest Point Coffee Shop 22 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel

Acts / Start Time Micheal Clennett DJ B-Rex That 80’s Band 10pm Billy & Tilly 7pm The Funkoars + DJ Total Eclipse (USA) + Mathas + Eloji 10pm Ado & Devo / Ebenezer Good The Embers - Album Launch Transit 8:30pm Fatty Esther + Three Eyed Monster + Smokestack Django Tigers 5:30pm Jason Patmore 8pm ALL AGES - w/ Save the Clocktower (tas) + Zeolite (tas) + The Saxons (tas) + Empire Park (tas) Brissie Bingo w/ Ramblin Gunther DJ Mad 5pm Micheal Clennett / DJ Johnny G Sambo & Patto 2pm Tim Hibberd Beer Garden Party - Free Spit Roast + Return of the Dread Beer Launch 2:30pm Matthew Dames 8:30pm Stikrad Solo Reggae Sundays 12pm Tony Voglino 2pm Billy & Randal 8pm Quizmeisters Trivia 6:30pm Helen Crowther 8:30pm Glen Challice 8pm Quiz-A-Saurus Songwriters Sessions w/ Jed Appleton 9pm G. B. Balding (Finger Pickin’ Blues) 8:30pm Les Coqs 11:30am Tony Voglino 8pm PRISM w/ Skun Knees (tas) + Tantric Sax (tas) + Peak Body (tas) + DJ Rainbow Trout & DJ Filthy Rich (tas) Clay Soldier 7pm Jeremy Matcham Orin, Valkyeries, Zack Henderson DJ B-Rex The Bobcats 8:30pm DJ Dane Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle Inquizitive Quiz Night Tim Hibberd 9pm Casual Encounters DJs Shaggy 7:30pm Tony Mak 9pm Cam Stuart 7pm Micheal Clennett Licence to Thrill Hobart 7:30pm Ben Castles Tim Hibberd Tim & Scott 8:30pm Comedy Clubhouse with Sam Simmons

The Darlings Funky Bunch Trivia Surrealists 11:30am Jason Patmore 9pm TRASH HEAVY METAL w/ Taurus (Iron Maiden Tribute) + Teuton (vic) + The Wizar’d (tas) + Sludko (tas) + DJ Crimson Idol & Fien’ds Brunswick Hotel AJ & Simon, Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Micheal Clennett / DJ Millhouse Jack Greene Tim Hibberd Observatory Lounge Room DJ B-Rex Observatory Main Room DJ Johnny G Onyx The Bob Cats 10pm Republic Bar & Café Yesterday’s Gentlemen 10pm Telegraph Hotel Matt & Abby / Big Swifty The Homestead Whitebear (vic) + Anfo + Fatty Boomsticks Waterfront Hotel Shaun & Joel 8:30pm Worlds End Brewpub Laser Baby + Lasca + Dali & The Paper Band Wrest Point Ent. Centre The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra 7:15pm 23 Birdcage Bar Glen Challice 9pm Brisbane Hotel Mesa Cosa (vic) + Smutty Sam & The Soda Creamers (tas) + DOGLIPS! (tas) + Treehouse (tas) Brunswick Hotel Nick Machin, DJ Mad 6:30pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge DJ Johnny G Hobart Town Hall Grand Regency Ball and Harp Concert Jack Greene Tony Mak Observatory Main Room DJ B-Rex Onyx Gypsy Rose 10pm Pier One Les Coqs 7pm Republic Bar & Café The Getaway Plan 10pm Telegraph Hotel Ado & Devo / Seretonin The Homestead Craicpot + The Pearly Whites + Three Eyed Monsters Waterfront Hotel Aaron Courtney 8:30pm Waterman’s Beer Market The Squibbley’s 9pm

Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Worlds End Brewpub

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Skate Wounds “Jack” Single Launch w/ Vallerkeries + The Beautiful Chains Wrest Point Coffee Shop Billy Whitton 5:30pm 24 Birdcage Bar Jason Patmore 8pm Brisbane Hotel Brissie Bingo w/ Ramblin Heimdallr Brunswick Hotel Dane Connor 5pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Micheal Clennett / DJ Millhouse Claremont Hotel The Good Fellas 2pm Jack Greene Tim Hibberd / Tony Mak Republic Bar & Café Hui & The Muse 8:30pm The Homestead Brad Butcher (qld) + Figure It In (life drawing) Waratah Hotel Reggae Sundays 12pm Waterfront Hotel Sambo & Pato 2pm 25 Birdcage Bar Billy & Randal 8pm Brunswick Hotel Quizmeisters Trivia 6:30pm Republic Bar & Café Quiz Night 8:15pm 26 Birdcage Bar Jerome Hillier 8pm Federation Concert Hall Christian Leotta plays Beethoven 7:30pm Irish Murphys Songwriters Sessions w/ Jed Appleton 9pm Republic Bar & Café Pat Bereche 8:30pm Wrest Point Coffee Shop Les Coqs 11:30am 27 Birdcage Bar Tim Rossington 8pm Brisbane Hotel PRISM w/ Kashkin (tas) + Art School Bullies (tas) + Lazer Baby (tas) + Carvis Jocker (DJ) (tas) Brunswick Hotel Joel Everard 7pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Jeremy Matcham Irish Murphys Dali & The Paper Band, Three Eyed Monster, Chris Belbin Observatory Main Room DJ B-Rex Republic Bar & Café T.J. Rhythm 8:30pm Telegraph Hotel Phrayta The Homestead Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle Waratah Hotel Inquizitive Quiz Night Worlds End Brewpub Casual Encounters DJs 28 Birdcage Bar Glen Challice 9pm Brisbane Hotel The Comedy Forge Brunswick Hotel Clay Soldier 7pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Micheal Clennett Irish Murphys Dan Vandermere Jack Greene Tony Mak Republic Bar & Café Reggae Inc 8:30pm Worlds End Brewpub Funky Bunch Trivia Wrest Point Coffee Shop Billy Whitton 11:30am 29 Birdcage Bar Everburn 9pm Brisbane Hotel The Sin & Tonics (tas) + The Lawless Quartet (tas) + The Dead Maggies (tas) Brunswick Hotel Matt & Abby, Cam Stuart 6:30pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Tony Mak / DJ Millhouse Jack Greene Tim Hibberd Observatory Lounge Room DJ Dane Observatory Main Room DJ Johnny G Onyx Tin Men 10pm Republic Bar & Café Roadkill B.O.M.S. 10pm Telegraph Hotel Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink The Homestead Son Del Sur Waterfront Hotel Ebeneza Good 8:30pm Waterman’s Beer Market The Squibbley’s 9pm Worlds End Brewpub Dawnfield + White Rose Project + Dali Srhoj + Milquebarth Wrest Point Ent. Centre Apia Good Times Tour - Brian Cadd, Joe Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, Glen Shorrock 7:15pm 30 Birdcage Bar Jason Patmore 9pm Brisbane Hotel Legions (nsw) + Manhunt (qld) + Trespasser (vic/tas) + Lifes Vice (tas) Brunswick Hotel Jensen, Actroid 7pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge DJ Johnny G Grand Poobah Hazey Daze in the Kissing Room 9pm Jack Greene Micheal Clennett Observatory Main Room DJ B-Rex Onyx Ebeneza Good 10pm Pier One Billy & Tilly 7pm Republic Bar & Café Bareback Tittie Squad + Empire Park + Third Degree 10pm Telegraph Hotel Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys The Homestead Chupacabra Waterfront Hotel Tom Coulson 8:30pm Worlds End Brewpub Chase City “Scarlet Skies” Single Launch w/ JP Klipspringer + Lewes + Maddy Jane Wrest Point Coffee Shop Aly Rae Patmore Trio 5:30pm 31 Birdcage Bar Jason Patmore 8pm Brisbane Hotel Brissie Bingo w/ Ramblin Shake Down Brunswick Hotel DJ Mad 5pm Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge Micheal Clennett / DJ Johnny G Claremont Hotel Tony Voglino 2pm Jack Greene Tim Hibberd / Jeremy Matcham Republic Bar & Café David Beniuk 2:30pm Republic Bar & Café Blue Flies 8:30pm The Homestead Hannah May Waratah Hotel Reggae Sundays 12pm Waterfront Hotel Tim Rossington 2pm

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Event Guide

Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Club 54

Tiarni Cane + Brodygreg + Freya Morgan

Country Club Show Room

The Australian Bee Gees Show 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Max Hillman Showband in the public bar 9pm

Tonic Bar

Retrograde 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman 7pm

Club 54

Britpop Revisited

Princess Theatre

Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Sunday

24

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the bar 5pm

Wednesday

27

Club 54

Thump!

The Royal Oak

Open Mic Night - Sign up now! Call 63315346

MAY Friday

Saturday

1

2

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

Thursday

28

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Friday

29

Club 54

Bareback Titty Squad + Third Degree + Brodygreg

The Royal Oak

Max Hillman Showband in the public bar 9pm

Tonic Bar

Agent 99 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver 7pm

Club 54

Thump! - The weekend edition

Howard’s Way Launceston 7:30pm

Country Club Show Room

The Royal Oak

L.B.C. present Yesterdays Gentlemen in the boatshed 9pm

Apia Good Times Tour - Brian Cadd, Joe Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, Glen Shorrock 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Tonic Bar

Agent 99 9pm

Joel Sulman (NSW) in the public bar 9pm

Saturday

30

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 7pm

Tonic Bar

Blue Monday 9pm

Sunday

3

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the bar 5pm

Watergarden Bar

Adam Page 7pm

Wednesday

6

Club 54

Thump!

The Royal Oak

The Royal Oak

Andy Collins in the public bar 9pm

Blues Jam Session from 1pm in the boatshed - All welcome to rock out!

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

7

8

9

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm British India + Grenadiers + 7th Street Entry + The Saxons

The Royal Oak

Daniel Champagne (NSW/USA) in the boatshed 9pm

Tonic Bar

Comedy Central 8pm

Club 54

Decimatus + Envenomed + Lady Crimson + Omnicide

Date

The Royal Oak

Morgan Bain (WA) in the public bar 9pm

Friday

1

Tonic Bar

Well Strung 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Club 54

Those Guys + Dirturtles + Trolley Dogs + Brett Batley

Saturday

2

Fresh on Charles

Roger Browns Underground Sound

The Royal Oak

Dave Adams Band (Syd) in the public bar 9pm

Tonic Bar

Ball and Chain 9pm

Wednesday

Proud Phoneys 7pm

Thursday

Sunday

10

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the bar 5pm

Wednesday

13

Club 54

Thump!

The Royal Oak

Dan Townsend in the public bar 9pm

Friday

Saturday

14 15

16

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 6:30pm

The Royal Oak

Circ Navashi in the public bar 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Elvis We Remember

Club 54

The Year Long Party: Luca Brasi + Ceres + Maricopa Wells + The Gifthorse + Bennylava + The Saxons + Third Degree + Seth Henderson & The Beautiful Chains

Fresh on Charles

Superfly Clubnight #4

The Royal Oak

Steve Grady (QLD) and Dan Parsons (VIC) in the boatshed 9pm

Tonic Bar

Ratfunk 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Sambo 7pm

Club 54

The Year Long Party: Save The Clock Tower + Zeolite + Incentives + Actuality + Interview With An Escape Artist + Johnny Sensei

Fresh on Charles

The Audreys

The Royal Oak

8Ball Aitken (USA) in the boatshed 9pm

Tonic Bar

Midnight Flyers 7pm

17

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the bar 5pm

Wednesday

20

Club 54

San Cisco + Crooked Colours + Methyl Ethel

The Royal Oak

Live Music

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Thursday

21

The Royal Oak

Matthew Dames in the public bar 9pm

Friday

22

Club 54

The Saxons + Empire Park + Paper Souls

The Royal Oak

Marty K in the public bar 9pm

Tonic Bar

Ball & Chain 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 7pm

Club 54

Got Metal? A Heavy Metal Showcase - All Ages

Club 54

Wizard + Turbulence + You me vs.

The World

26

23

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Session in the bar 5pm

NORTHWEST CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

MAY Ulverstone Gnomon Pavilion - Dan Keally Band at the wharf Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Midnight

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Phil Micale 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Blue Monday 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Sheyanna Band

Burnie

The Butter Factory Tom Coulson Band

6

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Tapas Trivia

7

Devonport

Molly Malones

Proud Phoneys 8:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

Friday

8

Saturday

9

Ulverstone Gnomon Pavilion - The Surrealists at the wharf Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Captives

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Gypsy Rose 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Unit

Wednesday 13 Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Open Mic

Thursday

14 Devonport

Molly Malones

Sambo 8:30pm

Tapas Lounge Bar

DJ McLovin

Friday

15 Burnie

Burnie High School Performing Arts Centre

Jazz Goes to School presents: Ultrafox with Hefty Kate 7pm

Devonport

Ulverstone Gnomon Pavilion - The Sheyana Band plus at the wharf Addison Marshall Devonport Saturday

Gypsy Rose 9pm

Watergarden Bar Sunday

Saturday

31

Club 54

Watergarden Bar

Thursday

Sunday

Thursday

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Sambo 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Tom Coulson Band 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

BFM

Burnie

The Butter Factory 70s & 80s REWIND Dance Party hosted by Tim Franklin with music from DJ Ozmosys

16 Latrobe

21 Devonport Devonport

Friday

Thursday

Rino Morea 8:30pm

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

22 Ulverstone Gnomon Pavilion - Xiao Xia PLUS Daniel at the wharf Townsend

Sat 2nd L.B.C present Yesterdays Gentleman in the boatshed @ 9pm Sun 3rd Open Folk Session in the bar from 5pm Wed 6th Andy Collins in the public bar @ 9pm Thurs 7th Daniel Champagne (NSW/USA) in the Boatshed @ 9pm $10 cover Fri 8th Morgan Bain (WA) in the public bar @ 9pm Sat 9th Dave Adams Band (Syd) in the public bar @ 9pm Sun 10th Open Folk Session in the bar from 5pm Wed 13th Dan Townsend in the public bar @ 9pm Thurs 14th Circ Navashi in the public bar @ 9pm Fri 15th Steve Grady (QLD) and Dan Parsons (VIC) in the Boatshed @ 9pm $5 cover Sat 16th 8Ball Aitken (USA) in the Boatshed @ 9pm $10 cover Sun 17th Open Folk Session in the bar from 5pm Wed 20th Live Music Thurs 21st Matthew Dames in the public bar @ 9pm Fri 22nd Marty K in the public bar @ 9pm Sat 23rd Brad Butcher (QLD) in the public bar @ 9pm Sun 24th Open Folk Session in the bar from 5pm Wed 27th Open Mic Night - Sign up now !!!

Call 63315346 Thurs 28th Live Music Friday 29th Max Hillman Showband in the public bar @ 9pm Sat 30th Joel Sulman (NSW) in the public bar @ 9pm

Slats Pickett Blighty

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Clay Soldier 9pm

Sun 31st Blues Jam Session from 1pm in the Boatshed. All welcome to rock out !!!

Devonport

Molly Malones

Retweet 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Open Folk Session in the bar from 5pm

Molly Malones

Tim Rossington 8:30pm

Tapas Lounge Bar

Brad Gillies

23 Latrobe

28 Devonport Devonport

Friday

29 Ulverstone Gnomon Pavilion - Billy Whitton with at the wharf Entresz

Saturday

30 Latrobe

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Unit

Mackeys Royal Hotel

Tim Rossington 9pm

The Royal Oak

Brad Butcher (QLD) in the public bar 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Take 2 9:30pm

Tonic Bar

Blue Monday 9pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Retrograde

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 7pm

Burnie

The Butter Factory Gypsy Rose

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Fri 1st Max Hillman Showband in the public bar @ 9pm

Tapas Lounge Bar

Devonport Saturday

Molly Malones

MAY

~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~

14 Brisbane St Launceston 7250 (03) 6331 5346

Beer Garden Party

with free spit roast and live music

Launching the new seasonal beer from

little creatures ‘Return Of The Dread Extra Stout’ 2.30pm Sunday 17th May. All Welcome and IT’S FREE.

at the republic bar 299 Elizabeth St North Hobart | Ph 6234.6954 | www.republicbar.com

REOPENING MAY 6 AT 222 ARGYLE ST HOBART

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