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News in Brief VICTORIA HEARTS BEACHES

JAXTASTIC!

Awesome locals Heart Beach, and awesome Victorians Low Talk, are playing a bunch of shows across Australia throughout May following up on the recent release of a 7” by Heart Beach on Rough Skies Records. Low Talk are a noise/folk band made up of members of Ninetynine, ex-Sleater Kinney, Ivy St and Marlon Williams and the Yarra Benders. Sounds like a good combo to me! If you’re in southern Taswegia, or you have wheels, you can catch the action at the Grand Poobah in Hobart on Friday May 6. If you’re on the mainland and reading this via the magical interwebs, you can catch them at Old Bar in Melbourne on Friday May 13, Ancient World in Adelaide on Saturday May 14, The Foundry in Brisbane on Thursday May 26, The Polish Club in Canberra on Saturday May 27, or The Record Crate in Sydney on Sunday May 28.

After taking out first place at the Republic Bar on October 22 last year, Tassie band JAX headed to Sydney recently to represent Taswegia in the Global Battle of the Bands hosted by Denny Burgess (Master’s Apprentices) at the Bald Faced Stag in Leichhardt. They put on a cracking performance and took out third place nationally. Congrats to Jax! Ten bands from all over Australia were given 15 minutes (2-3 songs) to strut their stuff. Three judges with music industry experience gave marks out of 25 for categories such as quality of song writing, musicianship, and performance.

JAX are currently writing and recording their second album, and will be playing at the Grand Poobah in Hobart on Saturday May 14 in support of George Begbie & the Mystery Guests. Check out www. jaxmusic1.com for more information.

OLD MAN, NEW SONGS.

AN ENIGMA WRAPPED IN A LAUNCH. Enigma the LAUNCH is the first of a trimonthly IDENTIFIED LADIES only night happening upstairs at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Friday May 20. On the bill for the launch night are acoustic acts Molly Kate and Bridget Pross, a burlesque performance by Groovy Lushious, exotic performances by Diss Miss and Honey, and DJ sets by ST. Saffire and Dynomite Drew. There will also be a lucky door prize consisting of 2 tickets to Flamingos “Queens Birthday Party“, a raffle hamper full of chocolate, wine, and other goodies valued at $200, and an art auction! Sounds like an action packed night! Tickets are $15 on the door, and there’ll even be a private smoking balcony and chill zone!

Sounds fancy.

Juno award winning folk singer/ songwriter/artist, Old Man Luedecke embarks on a string of Australian tour dates that include performances in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, and more.

Set to kick off April 29 at the weekend long Woodford Planting Festival in QLD, the tour will support Old Man Luedecke’s latest album Domestic Eccentric, out now on True North Records. The tour spans 10 cities across Tas, ACT, NSW, VIC and QLD. Yep, that says TAS. Old Man Luedecke will be playing two gigs in Tasmania, the first on Friday May 6 at Mountain Mumma Restaurant in Sheffield, and the second at the Brookfield Shed in Margate on Saturday May 7. Head along to oldmanluedecke.ca/tour for ticket info!

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IT’S A RADIO! IT’S A BIRD! IT’S A MAN!

Radio Birdman are back! After a madly successful 2015 European tour made enough noise for them to gain spots on several festivals later in 2016 - most notably, Spain‘s Azkena Rock Festival and Belgium‘s Sjock Festival. Their sell out gig in London generated enough heat to get them invited back to tour the UK. But anyway, the good news for us is that before they jet off overseas, they’ll be playing a limited number of shows around the country. These will be their only Australian shows for 2016, so don’t miss out. We get our chance to see them when they visit the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday June 10. Tickets will be $52.05 (why is that extra $.05 there? I don’t get it.) and will be available via Oztix.

BLACKER THAN THE BLACKEST BLACK, TIMES INFINITY.

Blacklist, Dark Mofo’s after-hours dance party is an imaginative social space with an artistic purpose to continually break the mould of audience expectations of what a “club” is, and what a “party” can be. Curated by Supple Fox and Duckpond, Blacklist aims to provide a space where counter culture can take shape, under the cover of darkness, through experimentation, freedom of expression and escapism from the realities of our daytime lives. Highlights for 2016 include the likes of Brooklyn breakout rapper Junglepussy and rowdy, jagged club music producer Joey LaBeija, Melbourne’s selfstyles ‘sad goth party jams act HABITS, solo project of The Fuck Buttons muso Benjamin John Power - Blanck Mass, Melbourne hard rawk act Power, Aus/NZ collabo Jaala, King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard, Gang of She, Lossless, Nozinja, NO ZU, and local Tassie legends S L O W. Blacklist runs Saturday June 10, Sunday June 11, Friday June 17 and Saturday June 18 from 10pm until late. It’s an 18+ event taking place at the Hobart City Hall Precinct. Tickets are $39 + BF, or $45 on the door (subject to capacity). Some nights are already sold out (although door sales will be still available) and the rest of the nights will sell out hella soon, so get on www.darkmofo.net.au to guarantee yourself a spot inside and not waiting in the line outside.

BOWIE WOULD APPROVE. It’s time to polish your space boots and sprinkle a little moon dust for the 2016 Queen’s Ball! This years theme, “LIFE ON MARS” is in honour of the legendary sexuality and gender bending David Bowie.

Sunday June 12 at Hotel Soho. Festivities will be led by the smoking’ DJ Scissorfist, drag acts hosted by Raining Men, plus

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Everyone should experience some latin lovin’ at least once in their life. But really, who has the time and money to head off overseas on a whim. Fortunately, a couple hundred of you will be able to get a bit of latin lovin’ at the same time and in the same room on Saturday May 21. Melbourne’s Amaru Tribe will be hitting the stage at the Founders Room at Salamanca, and they’ll be joined by local legends Chupacabra. Also on the bill is a rad DJ called Saca la Mois DJ. He lived in Tasmania for a bit, so we’re allowed to claim him as a local now. Pretty sure that kind of thing is in the Australian constitution. Tickets will be $15 on the door, or if you’re concerned about missing out, you can grab one of the limited presale tickets from Frankies Empire on Elizabeth St.

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there’ll be shows by Layla Mann and many more! Prices are $20 for members, $25 concession, or $30 for the peoples that don’t qualify for either of those discounts.

If you want to grab a ticket on the door, it’ll be $35. Tickets are available online from www.trybooking.com/183343, from behind the bar at SOHO, or at the TLRGR stall at Salamanca Markets on Saturdays. As always, prizes are up for grabs for the best costume, so shine your space suit, this is a ball not to be missed!

IT’S THE BENNIES. AGAIN. Jebus flippin christ The Bennies love to tour. It feels like only a month ago that they played shows in Hobart and Launceston. It feels like only a month ago because it was only a month ago. But whatever really, do another tour, even bigger than the last one. Get dat money.

I’m pretty sure they’re actually homeless and tour so much because they drink and smoke away all their money every time they get enough to put a bond down on an apartment. I mean, it seems plausible.

They can’t afford haircuts, poor guys. But hey, that’s not your problem, nor is it mine.

We just have to rock up to the gig and go a bit bloody nutso with them. They’ll be playing Club 54 in Launceston on Wednesday June 22, and at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Thursday June 23.

They’ll be joined by special guests Clowns, and Axe Girl.

DAMN KARNIES!

Karnivool are always all over the place.

Right about now, they’re all over the place in South Africa, playing a bunch of gigs all the way over there. This is following up a few shows they’ve recently played in WA whilst taking a break from making their fourth album. They’ve also re-released their first three albums on vinyl recently, in case you were interested.

2005’s Themata, 2009’s Sound Awake, and 2013’s Asymmetry will soon be joined by a fourth child. Good times. Hey, for more good times, you can go see Karnivool live when they play at The Uni Bar in Hobart on Saturday July 2. That’s really all the info we have at this point. Keep an eye on the Karnivool website for a press release, which we can only assume will be released sometime soon. Good times!

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BRITAIN/INDIA/TASMANIA

Five albums in and British India are still rockin’. Their latest album Nothing Touches Me debuted on the ARIA charts at #5, their 4th album in a row to chart in the top 10.

Pretty epic achievement, that. Featuring the lead singles “Wrong Direction” and “Suddenly”, Nothing Touches Me carries on the momentum generated by their fourth album Controller. Because they apparently have a deep disdain for taking time off, they’re heading off on a national tour in the middle of Winter. Fortunately they’re making two stops in the most wintery of states (Tasmania, duh). On Friday July 1, they’ll be appearing at Club 54 in Launceston. On Saturday July 2, they’ll be appearing at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart. Tickets from the usual places.

used car salesman, or something. I’m not sure if his new thing is American political satire or what, regardless, Seth always puts on a cracking show, and you know it’s always worth heading along to one of his gigs. Fortunately, you’ll have two opportunities to cast your vote for Seth for President, or PM, or just buy a used Datto Sunny from him. Or maybe even watch him rap a bit, who knows in these crazy times. Regardless, he’ll be at Club 54 in Launceston on Friday August 5, and on the following night - Saturday August 6 - he’ll be at UTAS in Hobart. He’ll be joined by REMI at both shows. Tickets available now.

JAFTASTIC! Junction Arts Festival is thrilled to announce that previous Adelaide Fringe director Greg Clarke has been appointed as creative director for 2016. For the previous five years, Greg has been CEO and director of the Adelaide Fringe, spearheading the largest arts festival in Australia. Under his leadership, he is credited with having increased Fringe audiences by 100 per cent to a record-breaking two million, increased interstate visitation to the festival and created unique free and popular outdoor events. If Mr. Clarke can turn in that kind of performance for the Junction Arts Festival, Launceston is in for a real treat!

Let’s hope he can elevate JAF to the level it deserves to be on. Do your best, Mr. Clarke!

AN EVENING OF VENG SHUI

I’ve got something to tell ya. I’ve got some news for you. Gonna put some wheels in motion. Get ready ‘cause they’re coming through. Hey now, hey now, hear what I say now, happiness is just around the corner. Hey now, hey now, hear what I say now, they’ll be there for you. The Vengaboys are coming, and everybody’s jumping. Wrest Point casino. An intercity disco. The wheels of steel are turning, and traffic lights are burning. So if you like to party, get on and move your body.

Ok, now that all that is over with, The Vengaboys are playing Wrest Point on Thursday November 3. They’ll be joined by Tina Cousins (UK), Crystal Waters (USA), DJ Sammy (Spain), Whigfield (Denmark), Sonique (UK) and Joanne (dunno).

C Wanna play some of your own music on the main stage at this year’s Huon Valley Mid-Winter Fest? Of course ya do. Why wouldn’t you? It’s an awesome festival and an awesome gig! Well, now you have to opportunity to do just that. All you have to do to go in to the running is send links, tracks and your bio to music@williesmiths. com.au and you’ll be considered for an audition. Auditions will be held on Friday May 27 and Friday June 3 at The Apple Shed (2064 Huon Highway, Grove), so get on to it ASAP. If you win, not only will you get to play on the main stage, but you’ll get free entry, and free cider! Woohoo!

Free Cider! The Huon Valley Mid-Winter Fest takes place from Friday July 15 to Sunday July 17.

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Researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre would like to speak to people who use drugs when they go out.

Face to face interviews will be conducted between April and mid-June. The interview takes around one hour and is held at a convenient location for you. Interviews are anonymous and confidential. Human Research Ethics Code No: HC15015.

You will be reimbursed $40 for your time.

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DEEP IN DRONE LAUDED AS ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST REVERED LIVE ACTS, THE DRONES ARE DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST AND HAVE EMBARKED ON A NATIONAL TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM, FEELIN’ KINDA FREE. THIS BRINGS THEM BACK TO HOBART AT THE END OF MAY, ALMOST THREE YEARS AFTER FEATURING AS ONE OF THE HEADLINERS OF THE INAUGURAL DARK MOFO FESTIVAL BACK IN 2013.

Lead vocals and guitars for the band, Gareth Liddiard has been keeping busy since the band’s 2013 release of I See Seaweed.

“We’ve been touring a lot - we did Europe twice, making albums and setting up our own record label [Tropical Fuck Storm Records]. Plenty of boring office type work and housekeeping… mundane stuff really.”

“Record labels are pointless these days. It seems silly to have a middle man. We also manage ourselves these days, although I would prefer to be in a recording studio all the time. You need a manager for Led Zeppelin, but we don’t need one.

With us we’re too weird and wouldn’t sell enough – we’re an old mule, managers need horses.

Managers are all business – would you tell Bob Dylan what to do?”

Last time the band was down was for the 2013 Dark Mofo festival. This time they will be performing at Hobart’s intimate Brisbane Hotel.

How strongly does the surroundings affect the show?

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“The Brisbane is available that night - we don’t always choose where to go. Last year we did two shows in a week - one in a backyard and the other in the Sydney Opera House. We tidied it up a bit for the Opera House but essentially we played the same.”

Feelin’ Kinda Strange is The Drones’ seventh studio album from a career that begin back in 1997. Does it cover new territory?

“The new album is pretty different. The last album [I See Seaweed] was for us a way to consolidate the past. When we started, we thought we were completely weird, now we are going back into completely weird.” Says Liddiard. “You have to listen to unusual stuff… basically to rip it off, so to make your own music more interesting. You can never run out of ideas if you are constantly looking out for new ideas.”

Elements that remain the same in The Drones’ releases have been Liddiard’s vocals.

“My voice defines the songs, my yucky voice. It may be a bit of chaos but it’s still recognizable.”

Musically Liddiard has been experimenting with the use of synthesizers and drum machines, but avoiding traditional instruments outside guitar which he is confident with.

“I like picking fights that you can win. I used to play saxophone but quit when I heard Charlie Parker and John Coltrane playing - I realised I could never compete.”

The Drones have been described to as unique in the Australian music scene for most of their existence. What sets them apart?

“We’re not a retro act - the whole retro act has got out of hand, we’re not into that. We aren’t trying to be somebody else - Jimi Hendrix wasn’t trying to sound like Jimi Hendrix, he was Jimi Hendrix. So many current bands are trying to be like artists of previous generations, to the point of going to the extent of dressing up like them. We’re not being clones.”

For a band that has been together for 19 years, line-up changes would seem to have been inevitable (Liddiard being the only original member). Is it still the same beast?

“It’s kinda the same. We got serious in 2000 - we needed a label for our cassettes from then on.

We have three of the four [band members] still in from 2000.”

So what is the ethos behind The Drones?

According to Liddiard, “trying to pervert and subverse would be our moto. Using rock’n roll as a trojan horse!”

NIC ORME

The Drones will perform at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Saturday May 21. Support will come from Melbourne’s Harmony. Tickets available via www.oztix. com.au. Feelin’ Kinda Free is out now.

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SUPERSTITIONS

Her most recent release is a double A-side CD single My Heart is Your Home/Superstition or love, which was recorded with her band The Vision of Paradise. EWAH is the solo project of Emma Waters, a Melbourne based artist who relocated to Hobart two years ago.

For her upcoming shows EWAH will be joined on stage alongside The Vision of Paradise.

LOCAL ELECTRONIC PRODUCER EWAH HAS A NEW SINGLE OUT AND IS CELEBRATING THE RELEASE WITH A SHOW AT THE FLUKE & BRUCE ON SATURDAY 28 MAY.

“My band is The Vision of Paradise,” said EWAH. “It’s a bunch of mates who I convinced to get involved over a few beers.”

Recruiting a live band was done in the hope of creating a more immersive and better live experience in which EWAH could perform her songs.

“I’d laid down electro demos of a new batch of songs, but didn’t want to take a laptop to the pub and that be the show - me and a microphone and a laptop of music,” EWAH said. “I felt bored just thinking about it and it seemed a bit at odds with the type of pub venues I’d be likely to be playing at.”

“There’s also a lot of fun to be had in a band if you have the right people around you and it’s likely to be a bit more interesting for the audience as well.”

The two songs that feature on the new CD release have already been released as solo songs for EWAH, with both “My Heart is Your Home” and “Superstition or Love” released on 7” vinyl last year.

EWAH happily admits that her solo music is very 80’s inspired.

“I’m a child of the 80s and that must be the homeground in my mind of pop songs; heart wrenching ballads, early hip hop beats, and synth strings which make me feel weirdly melancholic, creeped out and nostalgic in the way that hearing an ice cream truck jingle in the street across might. I decided I wanted to embrace melody and write pop songs.

The focus for EWAH going into the future is making an album with her band The Vision Of Paradise.

“We’re working towards releasing an album that captures the sleazy, atmospheric and ghostly vibe that truly reflects the band.

We’re aiming for a few singles in the lead up to that; Heart and Superstition will give people a little taste of the band on CD format until then.”

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According to EWAH the new CD release happened by accident.

“We put them down [Heart of Love & Superstition of Love] at the end of a session at Red Planet Recordings that was about recording songs for an upcoming album. We were tracking much better for time than expected and it seemed a pity not to capture The Vision of Paradise’s interpretation of these songs. I feel that if a song works, it can work in various translations and it’s potentially interesting to share that.”

See EWAH at their single release at The Fluke & Bruce on Saturday May 28. See www.ewah-music.com for further information on EWAH happenings.

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HARDCORE PARTY CRASHERS MASSACHUSETTS HARDCORE BAND A WILHELM SCREAM’S SINGER NUNO PEREIRA ONCE SAID, IN A DIFFERENT INTERVIEW: “IF YOU’RE NOT STRUGGLING IN LIFE, THEN YOU’RE MISSING THE POINT”. HE SAID THIS IN RELATION TO HAVING KIDS AND TOURING, BUT I TOOK THIS AS A GREATER IDEAL ABOUT WORKING HARD AND ACCEPTING CHALLENGES AS PART OF LIFE, AS OPPOSED TO ROAD BLOCKS. I WAS CORRECT IN MAKING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PEREIRA’S STRONG WORK ETHIC.

“I’m not saying you can’t grow without adversity, but it is a motivator.” he explains. “If you’re not struggling, you’re not being challenged. It’s a bit dramatic (laughs) but if it were easy, everyone would do it.”

With their most recent album released three years ago (Partycrasher), A Wilhelm Scream look to be having a rest; rather, they are still flinging themselves around the world, rocking shows and loving life- as well as working hard on an upcoming 7” release- as they will be in May, when they hit Australian stages.

Although the band were here only here a year or so ago, this tour, they maintain, will be more comprehensive, as they fit more cities and supports into their tour schedule. They’ve been doing it for almost twenty years now, so they know a thing or two about what their fans want from them.

“Bands like ours tend to survive just outside of the mainstream; we survive by going out on tour and connecting with our fans in that sense, and that’s never gone away. I don’t think there’s a lack of passion in these scenes, it’s totally true of the pop music scene, the “major” scene- here today, gone tomorrow has literally become true, and it’s scary how fast people will grab something up and go onto the next thing.”

Pereira notes that A Wilhelm Scream haven’t lost too much sleep worrying about trends and fitting in anywhere, especially

Party All The Time AS WELL AS KEEPING TRIPLE J AND FBI RADIO (SYDNEY) LISTENERS HAPPY, SHANTAN WANTAN ICHIBAN IS ALSO YOUR GO-TO DUDE TO EXPLODE A DANCEFLOOR. HIS FBI SHOW ‘STOLEN RECORDS’ HAS BEEN THE CORNERSTONE OF THE STATION’S URBAN AND WORLD MUSIC SECTOR, AND HIS SPOTS ON TRIPLE J ARE SO OFTEN CHUCKED ON TO TURN A PARTY RIGHT.

“When I play, it’s more of a party vibe, but I’m judging the crowd” he says. “I also do an R&B club here in Sydney, it’s all about booty shaking (laughs). You have to be creative and think of fun ways to make it different, trying to offer a good balance of something that’s fun but you won’t get someone else.”

Ichiban discusses the importance that avenues like J have paved in the music scene, and how influential they’ve been to the wider community, as well as the artists themselves.

“Triple J is a part of the Aussie music landscape. The internet has changed that a bit, you have a lot of options. J and FBi have been at the forefront, pushing local content, that’s a big part of their strength, it’s really helped to build and develop our local music scene. They do bring awareness to a lot of amazing music produced across the world, but a big part of that is they support local content and people wanna know about that, and gigs to go to.”

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looking at the trend-spike hardcore music had several years ago that has been oscillating since.

“I think because of where we came from, and having dogged it out slowly and surely, we were able to avoid that time, trends are for better or worse. Sometimes you’ll discover a new band or style, and it’s a good thing; other times it puts a stranglehold on the scene, it tends to homogenise the scene. Everything has to be like this, or that, to be part of the scene; in that regard, it’s a little painful to watch.”

“We come from a small scene where trends come and go.” he says, happily. “We try to strive for...not necessarily making new fans by dressing a certain way or saying the right things; [it’s about] making good music and making sure the fans we’ve made over the years stay with us and stay energised.”

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A Wilhelm Scream play Saturday May 28 at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart.

“I think the balance is definitely towards local music. A big part of what I play is Caribbean and I love music from Nigeria, India...and you find audiences now, it doesn’t matter where they live, they have the internet, so they are so up on what comes out. You have to be as good as anyone else because they can listen to anything else around the world.”

Of course, we end up talking about the Queen (Beyoncé).

“Something like Formation is a really interesting track; club friendly with a message behind it.” Ichiban says. “She’s done a good job of marrying up the videos, selling what she’s doing. She’s developing and changing as an artist. She’s really pushing boundaries.”

Hip hop gets a lot of flack for its content- which is interesting, considering rock and roll bands have been singing about screwing groupies and snorting coke since the dawn of the drums, which is more a sign of a racist society than protecting children from naughty wordswhich brings about ideas of what music, as an artform, should “do”.

“It comes into arguments about whether all art should have a positive message; obviously a lot of great rap records are morally ambiguous, you wouldn’t advise that as a way of living. There’s a lot of questionable things that hip hop artists say, but they’re good records.” Ichiban explains.

“There’s a lot of artists we like that aren’t nice or decent. In the same way people like American Psycho, or whatever. It shows a darker side to humanity. When people are dancing they’re not actually paying attention to what’s being said on the record, in the club. If it was said to them in a different context, maybe…(laughs)” LISA DIB

See Shantan Wantan Ichiban play at The Grand Poobah in Hobart, on Saturday May 7. Support from Dameza, Sexy Lucy, Rbent, Max Power and Vibrant Matters across two rooms. Tickets $15 + b/f from www.moshtix.com.au or $20 on the door.

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PUMP UP THE JAM THE DUO OF SI MULLUMBY AND MATT GOODWIN, COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS WILD MARMALADE HAVE CARVED OUT A MUSICAL NICHE UTILISING PERCUSSION AND DIDGERIDOO IN A MODERN SETTING. PLAYING TO DANCEFLOORS GLOBALLY, THEY RETURN TO THE HOMESTEAD IN HOBART, AFTER PLAYING AT THE HOTEL’S OPENING WEEKEND IN LATE 2013. DIDGE PLAYER SI TALKED US THROUGH WHAT THE BAND WAS ABOUT.

You classify yourselves as ‘Totally live Tribal Breaks’ Is this a fusion of traditional world music with the 21st century?

Ah well we are technically unclassifiable! When we started playing there was no genre that we fit into. As time has moved on there has been a space in the spectrum of genres opening for us. We have created a movement of bands that are based on didgeridoo and drum kit that has been called many things organic trance for example. Totally Live Tribal Breaks works for us. Well it’s a fusion of ancient instruments (drums and didgeridoo) with modern day dance concepts. So yes!

I gather as a band you’re about the live versus the recorded?

Well we have recordings that are indeed pleasurable to listen to but our real gift is a first hand experience. We are one hundred percent improvised and have no plan whatsoever before we play. So in this way yes absolutely - we are all about the live show. There is nothing like having a direct experience with a powerful group of musicians tailor making music for their audience.

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Would ‘Wild Marmalade” be a pseudonym for an ‘out of control jam’?

Ah it could be anything you want it to be but truth be known “Wild Marmalade” was pulled out of a hat of words that my poetic Sister Jaya has to initiate her creative process whilst writing poetry. This magical hat has

been the source of much amusement and when we were looking for the band name back around 2000 (yes it’s been a while!!!!) my best friend Jon Worsley pulled the name out of the hat and it stuck.

Wild Marmalade is a two piece core. You have guests that perform with you for some shows.

What do they add to the wild marmalade experience?

We are didgeridoo and drums. That’s what we do.

Sometimes we work with other players to give a flavour for a particular event. We keep the same free play ethos and invite our guest to come create with us. We have had epic meetings on stage with people we have never played with before and it’s been a treat.

Musically are you on a constant learning curve?

We always play at our limit, every time. We push ourselves and encourage each other to take risks musically. Go out on a limb. Find the new ground every gig. We are constantly evolving and changing. I personally am playing at the highest level in my life for sure.

Do both of you experiment regularly with new technology as a way of expanding your dynamic range?

No. We are nuts and bolts. Just microphones and cables linked to something that makes it a lot louder. When we played the main stage at Boom festival some years ago we played our set through the biggest Funktion 1 dance sound system in history. Not even reverb. It was huge. We are about being real and direct. Human to human power needs to be as tampered with as little as possible. As little digital conversions and additions as possible. That’s us.

Is it a life of constant travel? Where has it taken you?

I am always based in Byron and then go out, do the shows and come back. We tour Europe and Japan every year so there is around 3 months of touring in the year. Otherwise we are in the Bay leading our lives and trying to stay out of trouble, not always successfully.

Tell us about your times with Cirque du Soleil.

A very different kind of adventure. We moved to Montreal and then on to Vegas to join the show KA. I could write a book about how epic it was. Big times, colourful friends.

How many different didgeridoos have you got in your collection?

It’s hard to say. Maybe 10. I have a few that are just mine and then there are several that I share with Jon the hemp didgeridoo designer and also my best mate. So yeah there is no exact answer to that question!

Please tell us about the Hemp Didgeridoos on your website?

Best didgeridoos I have ever played. The hemp didgeridoos are made in Mullumbimby using a patented world first technology. They are made entirely from hemp and water. There are no glues, resins or synthetic ingredients. The hemp is ground up very fine in a special mill at the hemp factory. It gets ground up so many times that the cellulose molecules are eventually separated from each other. The resultant hemp and water slurry goes through a spray gun onto a central mould which has the internal shape of the didgeridoo.

As it dries the cellulose molecules re-bond and the result is a hemp didgeridoo. The material has incredible acoustic properties and is very very strong and can resist extreme heat and cold so it’s super good for traveling. They are bionic didgeridoos with a much greater dynamic range than their wooden counterparts.

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Wild Marmalade play at The Homestead, Hobart, on Friday June 10. Entry is $10 on the door.

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THE MUSIC JUST GOT DARKER DARK MOFO HQ HAVE PUT TOGETHER ANOTHER MUSIC PROGRAM TO STUN, SHOCK, SEDUCE AND GENERALLY DELIGHT YOUR SENSES. SPREAD OVER TWO WEEKS, ACROSS A NUMBER OF LOCATIONS THROUGH THE CBD, DARK MOFO WILL INCLUDE A NUMBER OF AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVES AND PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE ARTISTS THAT WOULD NOT NORMALLY APPEAR IN TASMANIA. WEVE PUT TOGETHER SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS YEAR’S MUSIC PROGRAM. 1. ZHU (USA) (Friday 10 June, 7.30pm, all ages, MAC2. Tickets $69-$79 +BF) Headlining the opening party, American electronic producer ZHU is returning to Australia with his Neon City Tour. The reclusive Los Angeles based artist known for his global hit Faded, is due to release his debut album Generation Why this July. The Neon City performance will feature a show specific stage setup and visual production set to a feature-length film. Supports from Oscar Key Sung, Kucka, Bronze Savage, Nite Fleit and Zero Percent.

2. LUSTMORD (UK) (Sunday 12 June, 7pm, all ages, Black Box – MAC2, $29 +BF) Credited as the creator of the dark ambient musical genre, Lustmord aka Brian Williams has been sonically challenging ears for well over three decades. The 1990 album Heresy is considered a milestone of the dark ambient genre. Having recorded in such places caves, crypts and animal slaughterhouses, Lustmord has contributed to film scores, notably The Crow and Underworld, video games, as well as a guest artist and remixer for bands such as Tool.

Live performances have been relatively few and until recent years rare. He appeared live for the first time in 25 years in 2006 on June 6 as part of the high mass observance by the Church of Satan. Lustmord’s next live performance was in 2010. A few performances later will see him at Dark Mofo as an Australian exclusive.

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Ben Salter has been a perennial favourite for Mona’s festivals. For Dark Mofo the seasoned solo performer and key member of The Gin Club, will be performing his new album The Stars My Destination, complete with full band. Support from Melbourne singersongwriter Olympia.

4. EPHMERA (LIVE) (Wednesday 15 June, 6pm, 8pm, all ages, Black Box – MAC2, $29 +BF) Bringing together scent, sound and light, Ephmera is an installation piece that will be performed live in Hobart as an Australian exclusive for Dark Mofo. Berlin avant-garde perfumer Geza Shoen has created scents for bass, drone and noise with associated audio composition by a team of sund artists including Canadian Tim Hecker who will perform the soundtrack live. Added to this will be the visuals of Marcel Weber (MFO) to complete the sensory delights. You will be guaranteed leaving breathless and smelling sweet of drone.

5. HYMNS TO THE DEAD (Wednesday 15 June, 7.30pm, 18+, Odeon Theatre $49 +BF) This year’s offering to the Metal Gods features a collection of European metal bands for the first time. Czech black metal musicians Cult of Fire will appear as an Australian exclusive. Swedish black metal band Tribulation and Greek death metal artists Dead Congregation form the overseas trinity. Added to the bill are Melbourne’s doom metal purveyors, Inverloch. This will possibly be the heaviest thing to feature at Dark Mofo yet.

6. CHELSEA WOLFE (USA) (Friday 17 June, 7.30pm, 18+, Odeon Theatre, $49 +BF) There’s something called Doom-folk and American singer-songwriter, Chelsea Wolfe, is an international ambassador of this genre. Characterized by her experimental guitar playing, hazy vocals and surreal soundscapes, she officially debuted on the scene with her 2010 album The Grime and the Glow. Her music has featured in such places as Game of Thrones Season 4. This will be her exclusive Australian show.

Supports on the night include singer-songwriter Jarboe (USA) who came to prominence as a member of the New York City experimental band Swans, and JG Thirlwell, and Australian born, New York based composer, who will be performing his electro-acoustic piece Cholera Nocebo.

7. SAVAGES (UK) (Saturday 18 June, 7.30pm, 18+, Odeon Theatre $49 +BF) Savages return to Australia after their 2014 Laneway Festival appearances, on the back of their sophomore album Adore Life. The female four piece have quickly risen to international prominence since debuting live in 2012, with a post punk rock sound that has taken them to the heights of playing Coachella Festival last month. Support will come from Melbourne multi-instrumentalist J.P. Shilo.

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Dark Mofo Festival runs from June 10 – 21. Further information about all events as well as ticketing can be found at the festival website, www.darkmofo.net.au.

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A FUNK TO REMEMBER

MELBOURNE INDEPENDENT SEVEN-PIECE THE SEVEN UPS LIKE TO PARTY. THAT MUCH IS CLEAR FROM THE SECOND YOU HIT “PLAY” ON THEIR 2015 SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM: RAUCOUS HORNS A-BLAZING, NOODLEY BASS SOLOS, WAILING GUITAR AND SLICK, FOOT-STOMPING, RATTLING PERCUSSION- THIS IS THE SEVEN UPS SOUND THEY’VE BEEN HONING FOR SOME YEARS NOW.

Drawing influence from a well of 70s funk and soul acts (James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Betty Davis), as well as a global funk/rhythmcentric sound, the band describe their style as Afrobeat, a genre that doesn’t hit the mainstream that often. So I chatted to Trent Sterling, guitarman and chief songwriter, about it.

“Afrobeat can be really simple, but really complicated at the same time.” he explains. “It’s like a machine where all these basic parts come together to create an unstoppable force. Also the way the rhythms intertwine and make you move is something that grabbed me from the first time I heard it.”

Much of the band have studied in various music or arts schools in the past, something I was curious to know more about from a musician perspectivedoes “education” in an art necessarily make you better at it? How much can we chalk up to raw passion and dedication? Does learning the “how to” necessarily give your music more than feeling, emotion or the plain want thereof?

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and discourage individuality. I studied with some great metal guitarists who, instead of focusing on the music they love, were encouraged to spend their time practicing jazz standards. What you ended up with was a mediocre jazz musician who could’ve been a killer metal player.”

The band struck off one of their long dream goals in 2014 when they supported legendary funk/soul singer Charles Bradley. For a local band straight outta Melbourne, this was a big deal.

“That was like a dream come true.” Sterling says.

“I couldn’t believe it when we got the offer to play that gig. He’s such an amazing performer and a really warm and friendly dude too. Getting to watch him and the band side of stage was a huge thrill.”

The Seven Ups’ self-titled debut was gobbled up by their fanbase, and they are currently in the creation stages of their next release (you’ll be able to hear a few of the newer tracks at their upcoming Hobart show!). The debut- which you can nab on Bandcamp as well as the usual music places- was also released on yellow vinyl and nabbed a ton of praise, accolades and airplay, even as far as the US, where it was premiered on Wax Poetics.

“In the lead-up to recording, we rehearsed like crazy, as we had very limited time in the recording studio. Production-wise we were going for a super lofi, not too ‘produced’ sound. So we tracked it all to tape and chose an engineer [Tristan Ludowyk (Bombay Royale, Public Opinion Afro Orchestra)] who’d gone for that sort of sound before.

Overdubs were kept to a minimum, too and we tried to resist doctoring the tracks too much in the mixing stage.”

“Vinyl is a big part of the sound we go for.”

Sterling explains, on the decision to release on vinyl is such a digital-heavy age. “The crackle and pop add a certain authenticity to the sound, and most of us collect funk on vinyl, so we had to get ours out on vinyl. There’s something really cool about putting music on vinyl rather than CDs; the music is actually pressed into the grooves, not just digital data. Having said that, vinyl is a ridiculously expensive and problematic for indie bands to press! I think one of the reason vinyl’s making such a huge comeback is that music fans want something tangible when they buy music. It feels much more real than a mp3 file. It also puts significance back on the album artwork, which is cool.”

For a band that so regularly tours- hitting up festivals, doing entire East Coast tours, supporting internationals- and have such a comparatively large staff, the band have to keep in check with why they’re doing what they do, and the passion that keeps them afloat.

“There’s no right or wrong in music, no piece of music is too simple or too complicated.

Good music just works regardless of genre or musicianship. I think, as a musician, you’ve just got to play what you love, and play it for yourself.”

LISA DIB

The Seven Ups play The Homestead in Hobart on Saturday June 4. Tickets are $15 on the door.

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Hello Alexander! Thanks for taking the time to chat. How are you looking forward to your TSO performance?

I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to come back to the magical Tasmania and to share the stage with such incredible musicians while playing one of my favourite works, the Chopin F minor concerto!

You achieved a ridiculous amount of success by 21 - and indeed you’re still young. What’s the deal? How did your confidence evolve from when you were a child to enable you to put yourself out there?

At a certain point in time, I was fortunate to realise the joy of serving the music as an absolute priority. That gave me a huge boost of motivation and inspiration. Somehow it feels right to refrain from being in the way of the natural flow of music.

With such purifying processes in place, the personal perspective and confidence is less and less important. That being the case creates an endless path of musical, spiritual, mental and personal development which naturally translates in a cleaner prism through which I let every piece of music pass on the way to the audience’s hearts and ears.

THE GREATNESS OF GAVRYLYUK ALEXANDER GAVRYLYUK WAS BORN IN ’84 AND HAD HIS FIRST SOLO GIG AT 9 YEARS OLD. WITH SEVERAL WINS TO HIS NAME, THE JAPANESE MEDIA CALLED HIM “THE MOST TALENTED 16-YEAR-OLD PIANIST OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY” AND HE’S SINCE PERFORMED WITH MORE ORCHESTRAS THAN YOU CAN COUNT ON TWO HANDS. HE ALSO SHARES HIS SUPPORT OF YOUNG MUSOS THROUGH THE THEME AND VARIATIONS YOUNG PIANIST TRUST. HE’LL PERFORM WITH THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THIS MONTH AND CHATS WITH US AHEAD OF THE GIG.

GHOST FOLKS ANNIE HAMILTON, GUITARIST FOR SYDNEY “GHOST FOLK” BAND LITTLE MAY, IS ENJOYING SOME DECENT, PRODUCTIVE WEATHER (“IT’S REALLY HARD TO BE CREATIVE WHEN IT’S AMAZING WEATHER, I FEEL LIKE SO MUCH OF MY TIME IS SITTING IN MY ROOM BY MYSELF [WORKING]; WHEN OUTSIDE IT’S BEAUTIFUL SUNNY BEACH WEATHER, IT’S HARD GET ANYTHING DONE.”) AND LOVING LIFE. LITTLE MAY’S DEBUT ALBUM FOR THE COMPANY HAS BEEN WONDERFULLY WELL-RECEIVED SINCE ITS RELEASE IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR, AND THE BAND ARE HEADING OUT ON TOUR THROUGHOUT MAY. HAMILTON CHATTED ABOUT HOW THE ALBUM CAME TO BE.

Was there ever a time when the high of success went to your head? I mean, you were named the “most talented 16-year-old pianist of the second half of the 20th century” - no easy feat, I’d imagine. How did you stay cool and collected?

Luckily, no. After the bigger stages began inviting me, I got busier and busier on many levels. The most important of them was the personal one: marriage and the recent birth of our two daughters. It was the biggest inspiration and joy in life I could have asked for.

Had you ever felt any doubts about becoming a professional concert pianist, or was that your goal from the beginning?

When I was 18 years old, I decided to fully immerse myself into the music and be a concert pianist. Before then, I was on a challenging long and narrow road on which I learned many life lessons and had a chance to grow.

Who was your biggest musical mentor or influence growing up, and what did you learn from them?

I haven’t had a teacher for the past 12 years, but I continue to learn through recordings and other footage from the great masters of the past like Rubinstein, Horowitz, Hoffman and Rachmaninov.

Alexander Gavrylyuk’s top 3 tips for pianists to achieve their dreams:

Tip 1: Discover the passion in yourself and identify exactly where it lies in relation to music.

Tip 2: Embark on the selfless path to musical enlightenment.

Tip 3: Stay strong to not be too affected by some of the aspects of the industry of secondary importance - connected to serving the ego and not the music. Make serving music primary, and everything else secondary.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE Alexander will perform with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at 7.30pm, May 20 in the Federation Concert Hall. Tickets www.tso.com.au.

“We recorded it in New York last April, with Aaron [Dessner] from The Nationals, that was an amazing experience- a bit of a ‘pinch yourself’ moment. Being away was also a really good thing for the sound of the album; all the songs are very cohesive, we wanted for all the songs to fit really well and that came from us living together in a space far from home, isolated. We always had the intention of it being an album you really listen to as a body of work. It works a lot better if you sit down and put on the whole thing from start to finish and really listen. Listen to it when you’re sitting by a fire drinking red wine, thinking about life (laughs) it’s definitely not a party album.”

“We wanted it to require the attention of people, not just have it on the background.” she notes. “We didn’t want it to be an album of a couple of singles then filler. I really enjoy listening to albums in full, I think that’s something that got lost...there is magic in listening to an album in full, the way and order it was intended.”

Hamilton and Co. try not to get bogged down in trends- sure, folk is having its modern renaissance now, but who knows what the musical future will bring? It’s better to just make the music you like.

“We don’t think about it, we try not to; it’s really easy to get caught up in that, trying to cater for what people want. In the end, you’re never gonna please everyone, you never know what people want. If you try to write for a formula, it’ll come out sounding bored and lifeless.” she says.

The album has a different sound than their previous efforts, but it still in keeping with their ethereal motif.

“When we started the band, there was three of us, and there are six people on stage in our shows, drums and bass, lots of synths and guitars. We always wanted it to be really big, but at the time there was only three of us (laughs), so we didn’t have the resources or the extra players to make it happen. The songs are now more what we envisioned.

There’s always ways to grow and improve: how we can make our live show bigger and more impactful, what else can we do?”

LISA DIB

Little May play Saturday May 14 at the Waratah Hotel in Hobart, with Violet Swells and Empire Park. For The Company is out now.

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Tasmanian Craft Beer Roundup Seven Sheds - Railton

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Ok, so Cascade and Boags definitely aren’t craft breweries, but I’ll include them in this list just for the sake of completeness.

I mean, at one point they definitely were considered “craft” (100+ years ago, maybe).

Anyway, Cascade, the traditional brew of the southern Tasmanian is from the picturesque Cascade Brewery in South Hobart. The oldest brewery in Australia, hailing from an era when Tasmania had 40+ breweries, Cascade kick started it all in 1824.Unfortunately it’s now owned by CUB, which in turn is owned by South African drinks mega-company SAB Miller. This has seen Cascade’s stocks drop in the past couple decades (no point beating around the bush here). A raft of recipe changes and some somewhat confused marketing campaigns and ventures have seen it go from a beacon of brewing to one of the black sheep of Australian beer, and with the recent announcement that there would be no harvest ale this year, they seem to be going from bad to worse. Somehow, they still manage to make a couple of pretty decent brews, but we’d all love to see it get back to its glory days.

BEER ROUNDUP TASMANIAN CRAFT BEER IS BOOMING. THE RECENT FRESH HOP BEER FESTIVAL IN LAUNCESTON DISPLAYED JUST HOW EXCITING AND DIVERSE THE INDUSTRY HAS BECOME IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. SIXTEEN TASMANIAN CRAFT BREWERIES OFFERING EIGHTEEN UNIQUE FRESH HOPPED BEERS SEEMED LIKE A PIPEDREAM ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. HERE, WE’VE ATTEMPTED TO TAKE A BEERY SNAPSHOT OF THE CRAFT SCENE IN TASMANIA:

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J. Boag & Son - Launceston

Boags, the traditional brew of the northern Tasmanian is from the James Boag & Son brewery, located on the Esk River in Launceston. Focusing on pale lagers and ales, Boags was the weapon of choice for the Northern troops in the great Tasmanian North/South beer war. It used to be a rarity south of Oatlands, and indeed anyone caught asking for it in a Hobart bar was met with immediate calls of “you’re taking the piss aren’t ya, mate”. But nowadays you’ll see Boags all over Hobart, so I guess we know who won that war. Dating back to 1881 when CS Button opened the Esk Brewery (it became James Boag & Son two years later), Boags is unfortunately now owned by Lion, which in turn is owned by Japanese drinks mega-company Kirin. They still pick up the odd award for their Premium Lager (and a couple of other brews) though, and the vast majority of Australian light beer consumed is produced by either Boags or Cascade.

The largest of the Tasmanian craft breweries, and the one with the biggest presence on the mainland. Moo Brew was established at Moorilla Estate in 2005. It quickly outgrew that facility and moved to their current brewery site in Bridgewater, recently they've installed a canning line, a first for Tasmanian craft breweries. Moo make some great, sessionable brews in their core range, which sit alongside some fantastic seasonals (eg. their always spectacular "Velvet Sledgehammer"). Moo Brew is often criticised by people who know precisely sweet fuck all about beer - I don’t think their “Not Suitable for Bogans” campaign really made them many friends, but it did separate the people that can appreciate good beer from the people that’d drink stale dog piss in a can if it had a Cascade label on it. A fresh Moo Brew is a great thing, if someone tells you otherwise, dismiss their opinion as garbage and go find yourself someone better to drink with (also apply that rule to anyone talkin‘ trash about any of the breweries from this point in the article onwards).

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Launching all the way back in 2007, Ironhouse now seem like one of the grand-old-men of the Tasmanian craft beer scene. The White Sands Estate based brewery, vineyard and (now) distillery has a history of making very approachable beers, perfect for getting you started on your craft beer journey. A core range that runs the gamut of traditional styles (ie. pilsner, wheat beer (closer to a German Hefeweizen than a Belgian Witbier), lager, pale ale, porter, stout) brewed with water from their own spring. White Sands Estate is a beautiful location for a brewery (or any workplace), and definitely worth the visit if you get the chance.

Two Metre Tall - Derwent Valley

Morrison Brewery - Invermay

Morrison Brewery has tended to focus on traditional, malt forward ale styles from the UK (with a Belgian Saison thrown in for good measure), which is really a breath of fresh air considering how many of the newer breweries seem to be on a hoppy American-West-Coast themed quest for world domination right now. The Irish Red is a treat by an open fire in the middle of a Tasmanian winter. When the tanks aren’t full of Morrison’s own brews, his brewery has been a go-to spot for up and coming brewers, with Kicksnare, Last Rites and others delivering some of their first brews from his system. It’s not difficult to find Morrison on tap or in fridges at all the best beer bars around Tas, and even in a few of the non-beer-nerdy bars.

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What can you say about Seven Sheds owner and brewmaster Willie Simpson? The first thing that could be said is that if you google “Willie Simpson” you get a bunch of results about Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons. It’s not bad. The second thing is that Willie Simpson was the king of beer writers in Australia for a hell of a long time before establishing Seven Sheds in 2008. What he doesn’t know about beer, probably isn’t worth knowing. His depth of knowledge is always on display in the beers he brews, as they often educate and tell a story.

For example, the IPA he put in Lark Distillery barrels and left on the Spirit of Tasmania until it had covered as much distance as the original IPA’s sent from the UK to India. His brews can often be found on tap at fine Taswegian drinking establishments, especially the ones with open fireplaces.

Hands down, the most interesting and unique brewery in Tasmania, and probably Australia for that matter. Ashley and Jane Huntington had been making wine in France before returning to Australia in 2008, finding a perfect location, and setting up shop as Two Metre Tall in the Derwent Valley (The name comes from Ashley’s height, in case you were wondering. The dude is yuuuge). The old St Ives brewery was relocated and installed, and they set out to make farmhouse ales and ciders. The problem was, no one here knew exactly what a farmhouse ale was back then, the Huntingon’s included. Many kegs were returned as having “gone off”. A few years later and the tide has turned. Farmhouse ales, Saisons, Lambics, Berlinerweis’, and the countless other funky and sour styles are now right in fashion all around the world. Two Metre Tall is hot property, but still somewhat underappreciated locally.

Tasmanian Craft Beer Roundup Double Head Brewing - Cambridge

One of the many relative newcomers, the Cambridge based Double Head Brewery made a great first impression when they launched during 2015 Beer Lovers Week at Society in Salamanca. They then solidified their reputation with an awesome showing at the Taste of Tasmania. Started by husband and wife team Ty and Amanda Capaci, DHB have already pushed quite a few kegs around the state in their short time as an established brewery, and have a very solid core range. With a recently launched, easy drinking Pilsener adding to their ranks, and their first batches of bottles heading out the door any day now, they’re definitely a brewery to look for. They may have garnered attention for their Chupa Pale (a pale ale brewed with corn, capsicum and lime in collaboration with local band Chupacabra), but their Dunkelweizen is the pick of the litter for me. It’s probably the best Dunkel made in the country at this point, and their Harvest Witbier and Sweet Stout are also fantastic!

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The Winston Brewing Co - Hobart

The Winston Alehouse in North Hobart has been at the forefront of the craft beer scene in Hobart for a solid three years now, serving a range of mostly U.S. inspired brews, with the odd Belgian or German brew thrown in for good measure. Recently, they’ve begun brewing their own range of beers in a warehouse in central Hobart. Again, mostly hop-forward U.S. inspired beers are the call here (think IPA’s, hoppy Pale Ales and Session Ales), but their Nitro Coffee Stout is improving with every batch and is definitely worth a pint or nine. There are plenty of plans for barrel aged brews, and a few other nifty things are in the works, so it’s always worth dropping in to The Winston to see what they’ve been up to lately, and what’s on tap.

Shambles Brewery - Hobart

Hobart Brewing Company - Macquarie Point

The Hobart Brewing Company is also inspired

by Hobart’s rich brewing heritage, and really, why wouldn’t you be? Originally contract brewed at Moo Brew in Bridgewater, they now have a brand-spanking new brewery and taproom just behind the historic Hunter Street. It’s called the Red Shed, and it’s (obviously) in a large Red Shed, you can’t miss it. Focussing on sessionable, easy-drinking ales such as their Harbour Master Tasmanian Ale, and Iron Pot Rye Porter, both of which have been doing the rounds in Tasmanian bars for the past few months. With the new brewery and taproom comes new brews, such as the fantastic Saint Christopher Cream Ale and Xtra Tasmanian Pale Ale. A brewery in full view, a fire pit, some food trucks, and some live music, make Hobart Brewing Company yet another beer experience that isn’t to be missed.

Devils Brewery - Everywhere

Well, Shambles Brewery is a pretty damn spectacular thing. Opening recently on Elizabeth Street in Hobart at the site of the old Mundy’s butchery, the four friends behind Shambles have done an amazing job of converting the venue into a shiny new brewery, restaurant and all-around immersive beer experience. There are two beautifully designed seating/ dining/drinking areas, you can people watch on Elizabeth Street, or sit out in the large beer-hall beside the brewery itself, and play a game of table tennis. A few of their brews have popped up on taps around the state, but with the biggest range at the brewery itself, I thoroughly recommend grabbing yourself a tasting flight, a feed from their awesome kitchen, and a sunny seat right beside the brew tanks. They’re open Wednesday and Thursday from 4pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from midday.

Captain Bligh’s - Hobart Last Rites (also based at Cambridge - just 2 minutes from Double Head) started when five friends with various backgrounds but a common love of great beer, discovered the lack of “New World hop-driven” ales (ie. American ales) in the Tasmanian brewing scene. They’ve since gone on to fill that gap nicely, with a core range consisting of a stellar Black IPA (titled “Dead Man’s Revenge”), a hoppy Red Ale (“She’s No Bette Midler”), and a citrusy, piney Pale Ale (“Horn of Diligence”) alongside a range of seasonals and once-off brews. They’ve recently started bottling the core brews and they can be found at a growing number of bottle shops around the state, and their brews can often be found on tap at the better drinking establishments around Taswegia. Also, their cellar door/bar is open on weekends and is definitely worth checking out. Check them out on Facebook for opening hours/special events.

With the current explosion of breweries, Captain Bligh’s already feels like something of an elder statesman amongst the brewing community.

That could also be due to the fact they specialise in producing a range of colonial ales, paying tribute to Tasmania’s rich brewing heritage. Their brews are produced according to the Colonial Laws under which a Brewer’s License was granted. Back in the day, to obtain the License, all your ingredients had to be sourced locally. True to form, Captain Bligh’s uses only locally grown produce and recipes reminiscent of colonial times. The brewery, based on the corner of Elizabeth and Warwick Streets in Hobart, in a building that housed a brewery as far back as 1830, is open once a month with live music, food vans, and a pop up bar. It’s heaps of fun and always worth a visit!

Devil’s Brewery are a boutique gypsy brewing company based in Southern Tasmania.

Utilising existing Tasmanian craft brewery equipment and putting quality ahead of quantity. Every Devils Brewery beer is a unique “Limited Release”, with only 600 1000 litres having been made. Kicking off with a bang with their “Cherry Popper” Chocolate and Tart Cherry Stout, and “Smokey Moll” Porter using smoked malts, they’ve gone on to make a couple of variations on the IPA (in both English and American styles), and a cracking, aromatic Pale Ale, awesomely titled “Not Another F#&% Pale Ale”. Occasionally popping up on taps and in bottle shop fridges, they can be difficult to find, so if you’re lucky enough to see them, try them.

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TASMANIAN CRAFT BEER ROUNDUP Little Rivers Brewing Company - Scottsdale

A brainchild of former Burleigh Brewing brewer Chris Carins, Little Rivers launched all the way back in February 2014. Their core range consists of a particularly smashable Dark Lager, a light and fruity Kolsch, an aromatic Cascade-based Pale Ale (“Cascade” is the name of a variety of hop, by the way. It has no relation to Cascade Brewery.), and an awesome banana-bread tasting Hefeweizen.

They’ve also done a few very interesting once off brews and seasonal beers. Their RedLiquorice Ale at the most recent Beerfest was a standout. Little Rivers are available in most GOOD bars and bottleshops nowadays, otherwise, their brewhouse is open for tastings and takeaways 11am - 4pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Van Dieman Brewing - Evandale

Will Tatchell established Van Dieman Brewing in 2007 after a stint working in the British brewing industry. Since then, Van Dieman has grown to become one of the most recognisable, respected, and popular Tasmanian craft breweries. Their “Ragged Jack” Pale Ale, “Jacobs Ladder” Amber Ale, “Stacks Bluff” Oatmeal Stout, and “White Hills” White Ale are all incredibly solid brews (I‘m particularly fond of the Ragged Jack and Stacks Bluff, top stuff!), and the range of once off brews and seasonals that Van Dieman release have developed cult-like followings around the country.

Their recent (well, Spring last year) Muscat Barrel aged Barley Wine popped up on every beer nerds social media feed MANY times, and their White IPA is a highlight of the beer calendar every year.

T-Bone Brewing Co

Ocho Beer - Launceston

Ocho Beer is a really interesting concept.

They’re essentially an online, mail-order, craft brewery. Every month they brew a new beer, you order a box of beer from their website (a box consists of eight bottles, “Ocho” being Spanish for “eight”), they send it to you, you drink it, everyone has many many good times. They’ve only been established since March 2016, so they’re definitely new kids on the block, but the reports so far have been excellent. They launched with a Barrel Saison, fermented in a whiskey barrel. They followed that with the most excellent Deciduous IPA, brewed with Rye and using fresh hops within 24 hours of being harvested from Bushy Park.

We can’t wait to see what they’ll have on offer next!

Spotty Dog Brewers - Hobart

Kick Snare Brewing - Invermay

If you’ve been to any of the festivals or twilight markets around Hobart or the Derwent Valley recently, you have probably seen a T-Bone Brewing Co bar. If you spend a lot of time on Elizabeth Street in Hobart, you have probably seen T-Bone Brewing Co loading their shiny new brewery equipment in to their soon to be operational new location. If you haven’t been anywhere near these places, you’ll just have to sit tight like the rest of us before you can find out much more. What we can tell you though, is that their core range consists of a fantastic sounding Choc-Milk Stout, an American style Pale Ale, a citrusy IPA and an Amarillo-centric Golden Ale. That all sounds pretty damn good to me, can’t wait to try them!

Fox Friday Craft Brewery - Moonah

Creators of possibly the finest IPA in Tasmania and the owners of some of the coolest tap handles and tap badges in all the land, Kick Snare Brewing are another relative newcomer that have made a big impression of late.

Their west-coast American style “Stompbox” IPA has been seen in every craft beer bar in Tasmania, and rightfully so. It’s bitter, juicy, and aromatic, and seems to be bigger than its relative mid-range Alcohol by Volume percentage would imply (I say “relative“, because 6% is pretty much standard for a west coast IPA). They followed the “Stompbox” with the equally awesome “Ella Brown of Motown” Brown Ale, celebrating the Ella hop, Brown Ales, and Motown, all in one. Recently they’ve been experimenting with sours, proving they really have their fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in the international beer world.

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Fox Friday are new. They’re crazy new. They’re so new, that at the time of writing, you couldn’t actually purchase their beers yet. But you will be able to, soon. Brewing super small batches of Pacific and American inspired styles such as their “Bombshell” Blonde ale, and “Bangarang” Brown Ale as well as their adventurous “Prototype Series”, Fox Friday will offer growlers, share packs and bombers from their cellar door. They’ll also be able to point you in the direction of the nearest venue pouring their brews if you can’t wait to get home and need an immediate pint. Find their website or get in touch with them via facebook or twitter to find out more information!

An emerging craft brewing and food company, Spotty Dog have been seen at the Hobart Twilight Market slinging their super tasty beers alongside their super tasty American BBQ. Recently their brews have been available at some great bars and restaurants too, such as Franklin, Pancho Villa and Robbie Browns just to name a few. Currently brewing out of Last Rites Brewery in Cambridge, the brewers from both breweries turned out an absolutely awesome India Brown Ale for the Fresh Hop Festival in Launceston. Spotty Dog are another company to keep an eye on, they’re definitely going places, hopefully they can get their own brewery set up soon so we can enjoy even more of their brews! Until then, check out the twilight market scene to get a taste!

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Bruny Island Beer Co - Bruny Island

A couple years ago former Seven Sheds/Moo Brew brewer Evan Hunter set up a crowd funding campaign to start his own brewery. It was a huge success, and the target amount was met. This sparked the interest of Bruny Island Cheese Co, who evidently were interested in starting a brewery themselves. So Evan repaid the crowd funding cash and set off to start a brewery in a cheese factory. With only three brews under their belt at the time of printing, they’ve already made quite a splash. Their first brew, a Farm Ale, popped up at most of the good bars around Hobart and developed quite a fan base, it was much more complex than a standard pale ale. Their second brew, a Dark Pale Ale/Pale Dark Ale called Oxymoron, was equally as complex and beguiling. Their third brew, a Pepperberry Harvest Ale on display at the Fresh Hop Festival (and following that, good bars everywhere, we hope) won the People’s Choice Award. Awesome stuff!

Wineglass Bay Brewing - Wineglass Bay

The Eleventh Order - New Norfolk

At the time of print, The Eleventh Order had only made two public appearances. They made their public debut at the Derwent Valley Autumn Festival in early April with an extremely interesting line up consisting of “Magnus” (a 7.8% Belgian Golden Strong Ale with Galaxy Hops), “Verbena Tempora” (a 6.8% Lemon Verbena Saison), “Musa Sapientum“ (a 7.2% Dunkelweizen), “Terre De Diemen” (a 5.9% Pepperberry Porter), and “Lictenhainer” (a 5.8% Pale Smoked Wheat Beer). They followed this up at the Mount Field Fagus Festival in late April. There are many plans afoot for The Eleventh Order, in particular with the exceptional Agrarian Kitchen, where head brewer Jethro Havenhand has been employed for a number of years, recently teaching “Craft Beer Brewing” master classes. Sounds like a match made in heaven!

Church Hill Brewery - Ranelagh

Taverner’s Boutique Brewery

Taverner’s itself has been established since the 90’s, but we’re unaware if their range of products included their Honey Ales in the early days, but regardless, they‘ve been around for yonks. Makers of Dessert Mead and Honey Concentrate alongside their Honey Ale, Strong Honey Ale, Honey Porter and Honey Pale Ale, we’ve decided to include them on this list for hop reasons. Really, the range they produce is more a collection of hopped meads than actual Reinheitsegebotish beer, but hey, hops ftw. While I’m on the subject of blends, a few Tasmanian Cider makers have released hop infused ciders, as have some local distilleries with their spirits, but Tasmanian Ciders and spirits are both deep enough areas to fill their own articles (coming whenever my wallet and internal organs allow).

Welcome Swallow - Cygnet Rumour has it that there is another brewery starting production soon too, and it goes by the name of Welcome Swallow. There is a Welcome Swallow Cyderworks in Petcheys Bay, so we’re assuming they’re the same crew. No other info is known at this point.

Get in touch if you have the details!

Wineglass Bay Brewing make Hazards Ale. Hazards Ale is an ale produced in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the 500 year old German Purity Law which dictated that beer could only be produced by using Hops, Water and Malted Barley (later revised to add Yeast to the list). Hazards Ale is rarely seen in bars, and only occasionally seen in bottle shop fridges. It’s made using Tasmanian Franklin Barley and Hallertau Hops, it’s bottle conditioned in 300ml stubbies, and it’s 5.2% abv. It has similarities to a traditional English Pale Ale, but is often listed on beer websites as an Amber Ale. At some point there was also a “Hazards Dark”, but information regarding that is difficult to come by. Wineglass Bay Brewery has been around for 20 years, making it’s debut in 1996 when wine maker Claudio Radenti brewed three kegs of ale for a Freycinet Vineyard Jazz Concert. This makes them the oldest of the operational micro/craft breweries in Tasmania.

Still in development and yet to make their first public appearance, the construction of the Church Hill Brewery in the Huon Valley has been followed on social media by beer nerds around the state. Aiming to have the first line of brews available before the end of June, Church Hill Brewery’s head brewer and founder has been home brewing for the past 20 years, spending the last three or so working towards making his craft beer dreams come true. To keep up to date with the latest news from Church Hill Brewery, add them on face book (www.face book.com/ churchhillbrewery).

So that’s it, 27-ish breweries either currently producing beer, or aiming to be up and running by the end of 2016. For a state with our population size, that’s staggering. Is there anyone we missed? Do you have a commercial craft brewery, or are you planning to start one in the near future? If so, let us know (and feel free to send in some samples)!

SHANE CRIXUS

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE IF YOU’VE STROLLED DOWN MOLLE STREET RECENTLY YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE SUDDEN BUSTLE OF A BRIGHT, LEAFY CAFÉ THAT’S POPPED UP ALONGSIDE THE RIVULET. WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW IS THAT THERE’S A CLEVER COMMUNITY CONCEPT AT THE HEART OF THIS OPERATION THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. Hamlet café is a not-for-profit social enterprise providing work experience and training for people facing barriers to employment. It’s a sustainable business that pays rent, bills and wages and serves up a mean Buddha Bowl.

Program participants from organisations such as Work Skills and the Migrant Resource Centre volunteer alongside experienced staff, while profits generated go back into the business, with the aim of creating further employment opportunities.

Catering, wholesaling and out of hours activities such as charity dinners and literacy classes are prospects for how Hamlet might grow.

Hamlet cofounder Emily Briffa says there are many potential factors affecting unemployment

locally: “It could be that people are lacking English fluency, facing social isolation or longterm unemployment. Training opportunities seem to be a big part of the solution but what I get more than anything is that people need someone to believe in them, someone to support them, someone to read over their resume. They just need a little hub where they can feel comfortable enough to learn those skills.”

Briffa’s passion for social enterprise was sparked while volunteering at Melbourne’s Kinfolk cafe, where she eventually became head chef. Cofounded by her brother Jarrod Briffa, Kinfolk donates100% of its profits to chosen charities and attracts volunteers from across the community all of whom want to ‘give back’ in some way by carrying a coffee or

two. “There was a lawyer who worked in the CBD who would come and work a three hour shift over lunch washing dishes in his suit,” says Briffa.

“It wasn’t just about the café; we managed to build this community. We had stuff going on out of hours all the time: yoga, cooking classes, movie nights, camping trips. The more you spoke to the volunteers the more you realised how much they got out of it. Not just the skills they learnt, but from connecting with people that in day to day life they just didn’t have the opportunity to connect with.”

Fate found Briffa moving to Hobart and meeting like-minded lass, Hamlet cofounder Millie Pardoe, who shared her vision to open a café that made a positive social impact. One year later and thanks to much support from their “little village,” the vision has four walls, a stream of inquisitive and supportive customers, and a canine following to boot.

The food has a similarly “conscious” ethos behind it; serving up ethically sourced, local and seasonal food that is “scaled back, nourishing and wholesome.” Briffa believes that people should be aware of what they’re putting in their body: “Explaining where food has come from and what that means, not just for them the individual, but for the community at large. Buying from small local producers when we can and when we can’t get something explaining why. Being where we are in the CBD, supplying people with food and drinks that they can feel nourished by is important. I like the idea of people stopping and sitting down and enjoying their food rather than just shovelling it in their face to feel full. Conversations that are a bit more tricky occur when you’re sitting at a table sharing food with people.”

Tricky conversations like why social enterprise isn’t something you hear about often in Hobart, or why more businesses don’t offer work experience to people who need social support.

“Fear,” Briffa says. “People are scared of it because they don’t know enough about it yet. And of course, money. As a chef, you’re never going to make much money honestly. I could be doing this making X or I could be making a similar wage but having an influence on this community.”

“Seeing somebody grow, seeing someone develop a skill that they didn’t have, seeing someone build a friendship that they didn’t think could happen is worth a lot more than having money in my bank account,” says Briffa.

And of course volunteer programs come with their challenges, especially when crockeries involved.

Briffa knows that sometimes people don’t show up, some will have limited English skills and many will have little hospitality experience. “I would hope that the community would be understanding, but I’m also fully aware that if an order is mistaken or someone drops something that this can affect a food business badly. But apart from those little factors I think we will face the same stresses other businesses do,” she says.

No doubt putting diddly squat profit in your pocket isn’t part of everyone’s dream business model.

But as Briffa explains, it doesn’t have to be difficult to make a difference: “You don’t actually have to change your whole life.

You don’t have to give away your pay packet. You can actually just make it a part of your life. For me that’s the beauty about social enterprise, is that I’m still doing the same thing I was doing. I’m still cooking, still running a business, customers are still buying a coffee and food. When I tell people about Hamlet some say ‘why would you want to do that?’ I say, why wouldn’t you? Surely there being these social problems, we need to tackle them socially.”

OLIVIA DURST Hamlet café is located at 40 Molle St, Hobart. Open Monday – Friday, 7am - 3pm and 8pm – 3pm on Sunday.

To volunteer head to the website

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STOMPIN’S PANORAMA AT THE SPRING BAY MILL IN THE LATEST PERFORMANCE BY LAUNCESTON’S YOUTH DANCE COMPANY, STOMPIN, THE DECOMMISSIONED SPRING BAY WOODCHIP MILL ON THE STATE’S EAST COAST IS NOT ONLY THE INSPIRATION, BUT ALSO THE STAGE FOR THE DANCE PIECE PANORAMA.

Until this performance I’d never been to the mill. In the local news I’d read about financial troubles, its relationship to Tasmania’s ongoing forestry tensions, the impact of the mill’s closure on the local residents of Triabunna, its purchase by the environmentalists Graeme Wood and Jan Cameron in 2011, and the plans to turn it into an eco-tourism venture. John Van Tiggelen perfectly describes the political consequences in The Monthly: “it was like a vegan had taken over the abattoir. The environmentalists hadn’t just won the war. They were rolling in the spoils.”* I’m surprised at the sheer beauty of the site, and not just in relation to the views over to Maria Island. The machinery is intriguing: rusted, worn, and static. As someone who will never work in manufacturing or construction, I tend to romanticise these kinds of objects, reducing them to aesthetic objects with little consideration of the people who once worked them. Former industrial sites are trendy venues for arts performances at the moment, but there’s always the risk of fetishizing the objects of industry at the expense of genuine engagement with its social past – something that Panorama avoids.

It’s approximately fifteen minutes before we even encounter a dancer. As we listen to more stories from local residents, Amos leads us down a steep gravel path and up to a cylindrical concrete gantry where the dancers await. Amos’ fluoro flag atop a stick reminds me of those toted by tour group leaders in crowded European tourist attractions, and this modern concrete ruin the equivalent of a Roman arena. It’s hard not to get distracted by the stunning surroundings, particularly as we stand quite a distance from the impromptu stage. It's not till later, when the performers mingle with us, dancing in small groups along the trail, that my attention is diverted away from the site itself. The now pounding, machine-like soundtrack, composed by Alisdair Macindoe and designed by Dylan Sheridan, cleverly plays on the naturally occurring static caused by the wireless headphone technology. The beats are rhythmic, almost industrial. We hear once again a young

The second physical ‘stage’ of the three is designated by four rusted cranes upon an open concrete slab, before we’re swept into the third stage inside one of the corrugated iron buildings.

Disappointingly, we’re prompted to return our headphones and take a seat, thus removing the elements that make Panorama so unique, such as our freedom of movement and the intimacy created by the headphones.

There are so many risks associated with this performance, and Stompin must be congratulated for taking on such an ambitious project with such success. From the more practical, technological risks associated with the wireless technology and the pre-performance podcast, to the sensitive engagement with the local community - not just through storytelling, but the inclusion of the local youth population in the performance itself. Graeme Wood’s plans for the mill site appear to have stalled somewhat, and like many Tasmanians, I worry about the future of the families affected by the mill’s closure. I can only hope that the cautious optimism expressed in many of the stories, as well as their evident love of the area, will translate into a better, brighter future for these children.

LUCY HAWTHORNE Panorama ran at the Spring Bay Mill, Triabunna, April 8-10, 2016.

Director and choreographer: Emma Porteus; guest choreographer and sound artist: Alisdair Macindoe; lighting and spatial designer: Matthew Adey; sound designer: Dylan Sheridan; costume designer: Bones Sylvan. *John Van Tiggelen, ‘The Destruction of the Triabunna Mill and the Fall of Tasmania’s Woodchip Industry’, The Monthly, Jul 2014.

Image credit: Henry Hawthorne

Before the performance the audience is asked to download and listen to a half hour soundtrack on the drive to Triabunna. We hear stories from local residents, including former mill workers and their families. A few technical difficulties, such as my car’s terrible speakers, means that I absorb only part of the recording, but it helps builds

anticipation nonetheless. When we arrive at the site, we’re handed wireless headphones, which not only delivers the performance soundtrack, but also has a cocoon-like isolating effect. We stand in a group and are quickly called to order by our ‘guide’ around the site: a tiny sixth grader named Amos. While Stompin is based in Launceston, the performance involves a number of local children from Triabunna District School, singled out by their high-vis vests as opposed to the northerner’s tunics, dresses and hooded jackets – perhaps representing the mill workers versus the environmentalists.

boy expressing his love for the area: “I get to go shooting, fishing, motorbike riding. I wouldn’t change a thing.” Another child expresses concern about the environment, emphasising the divergent attitudes towards conservation, even within this younger generation.

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GET THIS I’VE OFTEN BEEN DISAPPOINTED WHEN I’VE MET COMEDIANS FROM THE PREVIOUS GENERATION OF COMEDY ICONS. MANY OF THEM BECOME JADED OR START COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW YOU CANT MAKE JOKES ABOUT GAY PEOPLE OR PAKISTANIS ANYMORE. TONY MARTIN, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IS NOT IN THAT CAMP. HE’S A BLOODY DELIGHT, FRANKLY. THE COMEDIAN/WRITER HAS TREADED THE COMEDY BOARDS, As well as jumping the divide OVER TO COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV. FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW, MARTIN WAS ONE OF THE KEY WRITERS AND/OR CREATORS OF GET THIS, MARTIN/ MOLLOY, D GENERATION, BARGEARSE, THE LATE SHOW, THE LIBRARIANS, UPPER MIDDLE BOGAN...BASICALLY ONE OF THE KEY PLAYERS IN MAKING AUSSIE TV AND RADIO GOOD SINCE THE LATE 80S.

“All the radio shows I’ve done were quite commercial.” Martin says, on his various forays into the ‘mainstream’. “I do quite weird things on these radio shows. I remember being told while doing Get This: “you’re getting in an audience, but it’s not the audience we want” (laughs). As long as it rated, they let you do whatever you want. We did things that were quite obscure and weird, that we thought would only amuse us. I never worry about how I come across, I was Bargearse for God’s sake!”

Martin was one of the lucky ones in commercial radio, with creative freedom. If you’ve ever listened to commercial radio, you’ll know others have not been so lucky.

“A friend of mine works on a major commercial radio station.” Martin says. “The day David Bowie died, he said, “let’s do some stuff about Bowie” and the producer said, “no, not enough people will know who Bowie is”, and apparently Jack Black stepped out of the lift to do the show and said “I guess we’re talking about Bowie” and then the producer went “Oh, yes, of course!” (laughs).

Everyone I know who works in commercial radio is just exhausted by the meetings they have to have: “let’s just talk about the Kardashians, everyone knows who they are, let’s just talk about the winner of The Voice”. But I never got any of that.”

Martin is on Twitter, prompting talk of public shaming, controversies and changing language.

“Controversies go away almost instantly.” he notes. “These things blow up. Unless it’s genuinely serious...if it’s just a mistimed joke or ill-thoughtout comment, it just goes away as the next thing comes along. When you get onto Twitter, you spend the first year having fights. I just ignore them and they go away. Comedy is not an exact science.”

“I do a bit in the show about turning fifty: there’s a knock on my door, the postman with a parcel from the National Bowel Cancer Screening Test.

The piece I do is like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, everything went wrong. I tell the story of what happened and when I do that piece to older audiences- people in their fifties or sixtiesthey just absolutely love it because, presumably, the same thing has happened to them. And I do say, “I’m not here to make fun of bowel cancer, it’s serious”. One night I got off stage and there was the furious woman saying: “Yes, that was interesting, can I just point out…”- I hadn’t even

stepped off stage and the words that came out of my mouth were: “IT’S A COMEDY SHOW”. Maybe she’s had it herself, maybe she lost someone, maybe it’s upsetting, but the piece itself in no way makes fun of bowel cancer. It’s often just that you’re talking about the topic.”

“Comedians pick up on ridiculous things, inconsistencies, things that strike them as odd, and those nuggets of comedy gold can be found anywhere. I would never tell someone what they can and can’t joke about.” he says. “In the ‘80s, it was drugs; in the ‘90s, it was political comedy.

Now...I did a country gig; three young comics, doing five minute spots and all three of them had jokes about rape and pedophiles. If they’re funny, fine, but it’s like someone told them to joke about that stuff to be edgy.”

With the Melbourne International Comedy Festival happening as we chat, I note that- thankfullythere haven’t been any of the usual nightmarish clickbait asking if women can be funny (seriouslyevery year!)

“Have you ever had a house with a garden?” he says. “With wandering dew, where you get rid of it all, and next week it’s all come back? That, to me, is like the argument about whether women can be funny. The only person I would ever hear say that is some old guy. It’s not an issue for anyone that knows about, goes to or likes comedy. If I do an interview with a Sydney talkback guy, he’ll go: “What do you think about women comedians, are they funny?” (laughs)” LISA DIB Tony Martin is performing at The Clubhouse at Republic Bar in Hobart on Thursday May 19, before heading to Launceston on the Friday for Fresh Comedy with a 6pm and 8.30pm show. Fresh Comedy is even fresher with a fresh new venue this month – The Royal Oak.

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Arts EXHIBITION PREVIEW / CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA

VISUAL BULK MAY EVENTS VISUAL BULK’S MAY PROGRAM INCLUDES A NUMBER OF SHORT EXHIBITIONS, PERHAPS WISELY ACKNOWLEDGING THE REALITY THAT THE MAJORITY OF ARTIST RUN INITIATIVE VISITORS ATTEND ON THE OPENING NIGHT. JAMES NEWITT’S ISLAND, AND TESS CAMPBELL’S EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL WILL BE EXHIBITED OVER THE WEEKEND OF MAY 7-8.

CURATORIAL MENTORSHIP GHOST BIOLOGIES EXPLORES THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ART, HIGHLIGHTING ‘THE UNCONSCIOUS OF SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE’.

USING BOTH PAST AND PRESENT TECHNOLOGIES, THE FIVE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS QUESTION THE SUSTAINABILITY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY.

Curator Eliza Burke suggests that ‘in the drive towards new biotechnologies, biology has developed its own haunted domain.”

Burke is the recipient of Contemporary Art Tasmania’s 2016 Curatorial Mentorship – an annual initiative designed to support aspiring curators in this increasingly competitive field.

The five artists - Cat Hope, Alicia King, Svenja Kratz, Sally Ann McIntyre, and Lynne Roberts-Goodwin - work in a range of art forms, from live biomaterials to photographs and audio recordings.

A relatively new field, Bioart has enjoyed a great deal of interest from the art and academic communities, but is sometimes treated as little more than a novelty. Barely a month goes by without someone sharing an old article on the ‘murder’ of an ‘out of control’ bioartwork in MoMA’s 2008 Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, for instance. I look forward to seeing Burke’s approach to this topical and challenging subject.

Applications for the 2017 curatorial mentorship are due June 30.

For more information visit www.contemporaryarttasmania.org/ opportunities/curatorial-mentorship.

LUCY HAWTHORNE Ghost Biologies, Contemporary Art Tasmania, 7 May – 6 June 2016. Opening 6pm, 6 May. Artist talk 5pm, 6 May. Image: Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Bad Bird #19, 2001/03. Courtesy of the Artist

LAMB SLOW ROASTED

BEER GARDEN PARTY

Images: Top. James Newitt, Island. Image courtesy of the artist.

Bottom. Tess Campbell, Explosive Material. Image courtesy of the artist.

Accompanied by a live performance on the opening night, Newitt’s video work explores the romantic notion of the desert island. Over several hours, we follow an individual walking around an imagined island ‘to the sound of an aurora during a permanent sunset’. Campbell’s videos examine ‘the sensationalism of 80s archival footage and the cult of the material individual’.

Later in the month, Melbourne-based artists Aaron Christopher Rees and Olivia Koh will show work inspired by the poetry of Fred Moten.

Visual Bulk is located at 153A Argyle St Hobart.

Visual Bulk exhibitions for May: James Newitt, Island & Tess Campbell, Explosive Material, From 6pm, May 7 & 11am-5pm, May 8.

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Aaron Christopher Rees and Olivia Koh, Impressions of Mars, from 6pm, Thursday May 19 – Sunday May 28 (gallery open Thursday-Sunday).

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2016 ART FARM BIRCHS BAY SCULPTURE TRAIL THIS YEAR MARKS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRCHS BAY SCULPTURE TRAIL. ORIGINALLY CALLED ‘BENCHMARKING BIRCHS BAY’, THE

RECENT NAME CHANGE TO ‘ART FARM BIRCHS BAY’ REFLECTS THE EXPANSION OF THEIR ART PROGRAM, WHICH NOW INCLUDES ART AND CRAFT WORKSHOPS AND AN INDOOR ART GALLERY - THE OLD DISTILLERY.

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I’ve visited a number of their previous trails, and have watched it mature and develop into a diverse and thought-provoking exhibition. Of course, there are a few of the usual twee sculpture trail offerings, such as mosaic flowers, and stick and shell constructions. But on the whole, the current exhibition easily rivals major public sculpture events in terms of scope and artistic engagement with the surrounding environment.

It’s about a 45 minute walk through the bush.

We initially wind our way through the working farm, including a pear orchard, which is quite appropriately scattered with oversized ceramic pears. After crossing a plantation of Tasmanian native pepperberry trees, we wind our way up to the natural bush trail. I walk with my small dog, who seems particularly attracted to the sculptures with a lingering smell (especially the caged oyster shells). The trail is on private land and presumably relies on their café revenue to partly fund the initiative, but visitors are nonetheless encouraged to bring their dogs, their kids, and a picnic. At one point I encounter a family of picnickers (including a happy Labrador) enjoying the incredible view over the Great Bay to Bruny Island. For awhile, I’m followed by a family who’s playing a game of ‘guess the price of the artwork’, with the ‘answer’ printed in the accompanying catalogue. Artwork sales are obviously important to the exhibition’s financial sustainability, but I also have a tendency to get distracted by price tags. As a result, 24

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I walk the rest of the trail without reference to the catalogue, enjoying the unexpected artwork encounters sans map.

The standout for me is Dean Chatwin’s witty installation, Nature’s Way. His sculpture mimics the design of Tasmanian street signs with one exception: like a weathervane, a gust of wind will alter the sign’s orientation. On one hand, the structure is an unexpected aesthetic intrusion, but it’s also such an everyday object that it’s comfortingly familiar, even natural. At the time of my visit, ‘Nature’s Way’ points to a barrier of bush scrub, although it could just as easily be pointing in the direction of the working farm. We might think we can control the world around us, but as the sign suggests, nature will ultimately have its way.

Unlike Chatwin’s work, which deliberately stands out against its surroundings, Sally Brown’s ­­­­Web, Net, Lace (2007) has weathered and faded over the years. The cobweb-like structure high between two trees is easily missed, particularly if you’re buried in the sculpture map. Each year, a couple of sculptures are acquired by the owners and remain permanently along the trail, aging sympathetically to their surroundings. There are sculptures by a number of fairly high-profile Tasmanian artists, such as Brown and Marcus Tatton. Brown’s other permanent work is a field of metal flowers dotted around the upper trail. Like ­­­­Web, Net, Lace, the flowers are weathering and rusting, blending with the surrounding environment despite the material’s industrial roots.

I’m conflicted over Mike Limb’s descriptively titled Cello. While the subject leaves me cold, there’s a lovely relationship between the curled strips of rusted steel around the instrument’s bridge and the scraps of bark littered around its base. Julie Milton’s Eucalion mimics the surrounding environment more directly – a steel and acrylic version of the surrounding natural grasses. I also enjoy Keith Smith’s Cuckoo Nest made from ‘beach floatsome’, including shoes, rope, fishing nets, and hats, although I wonder if the

awkwardly-located rusted metal birds are really necessary. The sound and light elements of Edith Perrenot’s towering sculpture aren’t working on my visit, but I’m nonetheless intrigued by the cheeky figures peering out from the golden vestibules.

We have a couple of high-profile art philanthropists in Tasmania who understandably receive a lot of media attention, but we’re also lucky to have a lot of smaller, privately-run art initiatives, such as Art Farm Birchs Bay. I urge you to check it out.

LUCY HAWTHORNE

The 2016 Art Farm Birchs Bay Sculpture Trail runs till July 23. In the Old Distillery, Edith Perrenot’s The crocodiles of Tasman will be on display from May 20 – June 10. Further information is available from www. artfarmbirchsbay.org.au.

Images: 1. Dean Chatwin, Nature’s Way, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.

2. Image credit: Art Farm Birchs Bay 3. Keith Smith, Cuckoo Nest [with the head of my dog, Pip]. Image: Lucy Hawthorne 4. Image credit: Art Farm Birchs Bay 5. Mike Limb, Cello. Image: Lucy Hawthorne

PAIGE TURNER

THE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT’S CULTURAL AND CREATIVE STRATEGY ONLY RECENTLY CROSSED MY BOW, DESPITE ITS CHRISTMAS TIME RELEASE. CHRISTMAS, A GOOD MEDIA ADVISER KNOWS, IS A PERFECT TIME TO LAUNCH WHEN YOU DO NOT WANT ATTENTION. IT IS FULL OF MENTIONS OF BRANDING AND MARKETING, SUPPLY AND DEMAND THOUGH LITTLE ABOUT CREATIVITY, ARTS FOR ARTS’ SAKE AND NARY A MENTION OF TANGIBLE SUPPORT FOR ARTISTS TO CREATE ART.

I’m concerned for a number of reasons, one of which is that, as a publisher I don’t want writers to dedicate their time thinking about how their work can further the Tasmanian brand, I want them writing. We apparently also have a new peak body for arts in Tasmania; Tasmanian Creative Industries. I thought this group redundant, as their website has stated for around two years “We’re a pretty new industry group with ambitious goals….watch this space.” They are not redundant, they are written into the strategy and set to receive $200 000 from the state government. They will release the results of a survey of the cultural and creative sectors, to which around 180 people responded, sometime in May. Oh yes – and here are some excellent book events and news happening in our fine state, for your enjoyment and perusal.

Kate Gordon, author of the excellent shapeshifting Young Adult books Thyla and Vulpi, has picked up the wonderfully titled IBBY Ena Noël Award, which is an encouragement award for a young, emerging writer or illustrator. Kate won for her latest novel, Writing Clementine. A list of former winners is at: www.ibbyaustralia.wordpress.com.

There’s an excellent new spoken word gig happening in Hobart, I’m looking forward to the next one. WORD LIFE. Is hosted by local performance poet Max Bladel and aims to provide an exuberant and nurturing habitat for our local word life. From common lyricists, reclusive authors and flightless standups,. to rare speckled yarnsters, spotted punsters, yellow bellied rhymsters and your garden variety rappers and bar spitters. All species of wordsmith are encouraged to bring their words to life on stage in front of a supportive audience. With one rule... five minutes only... choose your words wisely! Like them on Facebook to get the details of upcoming gigs.

Twitch, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – is an excellent opportunity for young writers in Hobart. The second in their Tuesday evening workshops for 2016 is coming up on Tuesday 24 May. Lydia Nicholson, theatre-maker and writer, as well as a successful recipient of grants, will be discussing: “How to enjoy applying for grants!”$5 members / $10 non members. Email twitch@ tasmanianwriters.org for more information.

Have you got your garlic in yet? No worry if not, gorge your eyes on a coffee table book entirely devoted to the plant. It’s called Garlic and it's from the brains behind Koonya’s excellent garlic

festival, Janice Sutton. The book is being launched by chef Paul Foreman, and actor John X at Fullers Bookshop on Thursday, May 5 at 5.30pm and there will also be cheese, wine and garlic tastings.

The Hobart Bookshop is hosting the launch, by historian Lucy Frost, of Sylvia Martin’s Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer on May 4 at 5.30pm. This books sounds fascinating. Aileen Palmer was a poet, translator, political activist, adventurer and the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. She inherited her parents’ talents, publishing poetry, translating the work of Ho Chi Minh, and recording what she referred to as ‘semi-fictional bits of egocentric writing’. She also absorbed their interest in leftist politics and joined the Communist Party at university. I want to read more.

Children’s author, Anne Morgan has a new children’s book, The Moonlight Bird and the Grolken, (pictured) illustrated by Lois Bury. This is being launched at the Hobart Bookshop on May 5 at 5.30pm. Anne Morgan is a well-published children’s author and a winner of the Environment Children’s Book of the Year Award for junior fiction. Lois Bury is an artist and illustrator in watercolours, oils and acrylics, and specialises in painting bird life on Bruny Island.

Up North at Petrarchs in Launceston, on May 1 a book launch and pyjama party combined will celebrate the new book by Christina Booth, Too Many Sheep. This is happening at 2pm, instore.

And on Friday, May 13 Peter Cundall will launch Breaking the Boundaries by Yvonne Allen and Joy Noble. This is a collection of stories about activism from around Australia. He will be joined

by Anne Layton Bennett, one of the key players in the marvellous Tamar Valley Writers Festival, discussing her experiences of the Tamar Valley Pulp Mill Campaign.

RACHEL EDWARDS

I’d love to hear your book and writing related news.

Contact me on racheledwards488@gmail.com.

VISUAL ART

KARIN CHAN’S AIRMAIL AND EXHIBITION CALLOUT FOR THE DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTING EXHIBITION PROPOSALS FOR ITS PROJECT SPACE: THE LITTLE GALLERY. AIMED AT EMERGING ARTISTS, THE GALLERY ENCOURAGES CONCEPTUALLY RIGOROUS EXPERIMENTAL ART PROJECTS. Currently on show is Karin Chan’s Airmail. Born in Singapore, the Hobart-based artist’s work explores her changing cultural identity and her relationship to both Tasmania and her overseas family. Far Away I Came features the artist standing atop a distinctively Tasmanian mountain while dressed in an absurdly impractical and ornate dress, akin to a frilly pink iris. Highlighted against the brilliantly blue sky, Chan is at once

within and separate from the landscape.

Another work comprises a series of postcards received from her family. Visitors are encouraged to leave postcards for their own family members, which the artist will post at the end of the exhibition.

Karin Chan, Airmail, runs till May 8 at The Little Gallery Project Space, Devonport Regional Gallery. The Little Gallery submissions close 5pm, 1 June. For more information, visit www. devonportregionalgallery.com.

Image: Karin Chan, Far Away I Came, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.

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WHEELER’S LUCK I TALK TO ACTOR CRAIG IRON ABOUT HIS UPCOMING PLAY WHEELER’S LUCK SET IN HOBART CITY. WITH THREE ACTORS, FIFTY CHARACTERS AND ONE SMALL TOWN THIS PERFORMANCE IS GOING TO BE FULL OF ENERGY, LAUGHS AND FAMILIAR FACES.

Wheeler’s Luck is about a small Tasmanian Community divided over plans for big development, can you expand please?

Wheeler’s is a rip roaring, fast paced comedy.

Very physical. Very heightened. Myself, Antony Talia and Karissa Lane play a town of people from the fictional east coast town of Bell End. When Nora Cox dies she bequeaths a great deal of land to the people who must then decide what to do with it. The powers that be desperately want to turn the land into a cash cow. Casino, golf course the whole shebang. They mayor tries to fast track the tender without anyone knowing about Nora’s will and testimony. Of course, with the aid of Murray the town postie, the people soon find out the mayor’s plans and half of them set out to scupper the entire deal. Half the town is for a big development. They want tourists, excitement and cash flow. They other half is fiercely against the development, arguing that the natural pristine beauty is what needs to be kept so future generations can enjoy the splendour as well.

It’s a very fitting setup for Tasmania as it stands currently.

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The best rehearsals are full of creativity and play.

Once we had found the world and the people who inhabit it, we threw the work away. From then on it’s about touchstones to get you back into the physicality. The smallest things are the biggest reminders. Also, because we don’t utilise any costume changes or props, it really must become about physical and vocal shifts in order for the audience to understand who we are playing in any given moment. Also we warm up like we are going to play sports. When a show is this heightened and physical, the body must be super ready to go.

Do you have a favourite character, and a character that you like the least?

I love playing Perry De Winkle. He’s the resident town octogenarian. He’s also a massive movie buff and very deaf. Makes for a fun time on stage.

I like that his average speaking volume would be considered a yell by the majority of people. I like playing the Ramsay family as well. Four boys including twins, all under the age of 15. They are reprobates, always up to something mischievous.

I don’t dislike any of the characters. There is certainly a varying degree of difficulty in each.

Playing the town mayor, Duncan Sanderson is a particular challenge. He’s incredibly overweight and I’m quite skinny.

Tasmanians definitely know how to laugh at themselves, but are you expecting any offense to be taken from your portrayal of Hobart characters?

Wheelers Luck has 3 actors, 50 characters and 1 town… How do you get yourself in the mindset for each individual and unique character?

Wheeler’s is not an inherently offensive show in the slightest. It is very tongue in cheek and pokes a lot of fun, but it doesn’t cross any boundaries. I expect the opposite. Audiences enjoy the people of Bell End because they are familiar, like an old pair of scruds.

It’s a process. One of the hardest projects our cast has collectively worked on. It is often less about mindset and more about physicality and muscle memory. We spent a great deal of time during rehearsal exploring and playing with characters, relationships, town history etc.

One of your characters Richard Lush is a mainlander who arrives in town announcing big plans for a big development which has the community divided. Is it funny because there are so many examples of when this has actually happened in Hobart?

There are certainly examples of this happening in Tasmania. Most recently up and down the east coast. I think it’s a funny setup because we can all recognise it with a simple trot around town.

I can tell you it’s no laughing matter in Bell End however.

I think that Tasmanians do not like change, do you agree?

I’m not sure I can answer for all Tasmanians but I will say that we are sure getting more used to it.

Changes are happening thick and fast currently. I think to an extent we all hold on to what we have and are fiercely proud of our patch of the world.

There are some who embrace and welcome the change and many who believe we are losing what essentially makes Tassie, Tassie. This is the major theme discussed in Wheeler’s Luck, where again half the town is pro development and half very against it.

This production has been nominated for a heap of awards. Obviously you operate as a great team, how long have you worked with Karissa Lane and Antony Talia?

I’ve done multiple shows with each. Karissa is actually my partner, so we’ve worked a lot together. Ant was one of my best mates through acting school in Ballarat and we went on to produce and work together on many occasions in Melbourne after graduation. Wheeler’s is the first time we’ve been on stage together, most of the time we’ve worked in different capacities, often with me directing. I think we do work well as a team. It is certainly a pleasure to work with the pair of them. In our industry you generally get thrown together with people for a gig here and there, so it’s super nice to be able to pick the people you want to work with.

BRITTANY BROWN

Wheeler’s Luck runs in the Theatre Royal Backspace from May 4 – 14. Tickets available from www. theatreroyal.com.au or the Theatre Royal box office.

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South 146 Artspace April 28 - June 2 10 Objects - 10 Stories: Celebrating Community Collections

Moonah Arts Centre April 28 - May 25 Richard Wastell and Matthew Newton - On Albatross Album

artfarmbirchsbay May 20 - June 10 Edith Perrenot

Plimsoll Gallery May 6 - May 29 Artists in Residence Exhibition

Bett Gallery April 29 - May 16 Brigita Ozolins March 26 - May 29 Helen Wright - The Edge of Reason May 20 - June 6 Peter James Smith Contemporary Art Tasmania April 5 - May 15 People Like Us May 7 - June 5 Ghost Biologies Colville Gallery April 29 - May 18 Douglas McManus - The Space Between May 20 - June 8 Leanne Halls - Painting from 3 Steps Back Handmark Gallery April 15 - May 9 Junko Go & Nanna Bayer - New Paintings and Ceramics May 13 - May 23 Heidi Woodhead - 2016 Emerging Artist May 27 - June 6 Lola Greeno and Friends - A Special Exhibition Celebrating Lola’s 70th Birthday MONA Until May 16 Mathieu Briand - Et In Libertalia Ego, Vol. II May 18 - August 29 Cameron Robbins Field Lines Rosny Barn Schoolhouse Gallery April 29 - May 22 Produce:Produce May 6 - May 29 Looking At Land Despard Gallery April 13 - May 8 I Dream …. Surrealism May 11 - June 5 Wayne Brookes - All the Glitters is not God! Salamanca Arts Centre Sidespace Gallery May 5 - May 15 Traversing the Edge Lightbox May 1 - May 31 Interchange Long Gallery May 20 - June 1 Art from Trash Top Gallery Until May 3 INK Inaugural Emerging Printmakers Prize May 6 - May 31 Fantasy Castle Dream Parade

TMAG Until May 22 Pattern Play Mar 18 - May 22 Snapshot Photography and Migrant Women: A Tasmanian Experience Visual Bulk May 7 - May 8 Island - James Newitt Explosive Material - Tess Campbell May 19 – 28 Impressions of Mars - Aaron Christopher Rees and Olivia Koh

NORTH QVMAG Until May 15 The Artist: 19th Century Watercolours, Drawings and Prints May 14 - July 31 Community Collectors: Mark Davis and Simon Wood Thunderbirds Fever!

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COMEDY

Peacock Theatre May 13 - May 14 Super Secret Circus Show

Royal Oak May 19 Fresh Comedy with Tony Martin

COMEDY

Tonic Bar May 5 Comedy Night

Doctor Syntax May 27 Doctor’s Best Medicine

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Grand Poobah May 9 C.U.L.T. Comedy

Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre May 13 - May 28 The Addams Family Devonport Choral Society May 30 The Wiggles: Wiggle Town Tour

The Polish Corner May 4 Jokers Comedy Club May 11 Jokers Comedy Club May 18 Jokers Comedy Club May 25 Jokers Comedy Club Theatre Royal May 1 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow Republic Bar May 19 Clubhouse Comedy with Tony Martin (Upstairs) THEATRE

Handmark Evandale April 10 - May 11 Jeff GATT - New Paintings May 8 - June 1 James Walker - New Paintings

Peacock Theatre May 7 Seasons & Reasons

Burnie Regional Gallery Mar 12 - May 22 Michelangelo: The Exhibition May 28 - June 26 Diversity - Handweavers Spinners & Dyers Guild of Tasmania Inc. May 28 - June 26 Scanlines from dLux MediaArts

Theatre Royal May 4 - May 7 Wuthering Heights May 13 - May 28 Uni Revue 69

Devonport Regional Gallery Mar 19 - May 8 Katherine Hattam: Desire First April 17 - May 8 Karin Chan: Airmail May 14 - May 29 NWAC Annual Community Artists Exhibition May 14 - May 29 Kim O’Brien

Gallery Pejean April 6 - May 7 MORE Paintings Made in Tasmania - David Lake May 11 - June 11 SHE - Group exhibition

FILM

Burnie Arts & Function Centre May 11 Spike the Echidna May 31 The Wiggles: Wiggle Town Tour Theatre North May 3 St Patrick’s College - Universal May 10 Wuthering Heights May 29 The Wiggles: Wiggle Town Tour Earl Arts Centre April 29 - May 7 Dad’s Army BALLET / DANCE

Derwent Entertainment Centre May 28 The Wiggles: Wiggle Town Tour

Theatre North May 11 Legacy - Celtic Thunder May 14 Victorian State Ballet - Don Quixote May 26 - May 28 Evolve:Revolve

Theatre Royal Backspace May 4 - May 14 Wheeler’s Luck May 31 - June 4 Misterman

Peacock Theatre May 12 Chasing Asylum

WARP RECOMMENDS

CAMERON ROBBINS

In his upcoming solo exhibition, Field Lines, Cameron will once more collaborate with nature, using both wind and local tidal motions to produce works of art. Walshie is evidently a fan: “some artists can give us a glimmer of things that we usually can’t see. Mona delights in such artists.

Cameron Robbins gives nature a voice, but he’s not telling it what to say.” Although the exhibition opens May 18, the official opening appropriately coincides with that other celebration of Hobart’s unique weather: Dark Mofo.

YOU MIGHT REMEMBER CAMERON ROBBINS’ WIND SECTION INSTRUMENTAL (2013) AT MONA A FEW YEARS AGO. VIA A SERIES OF CORDS AND PULLEYS, THE INSTALLATION CAPITALISED ON THE MUSEUM’S BLUSTERY LOCATION TO DRAW HYPNOTIC PATTERNS DICTATED BY THE WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION. OR PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER THE CACOPHONY ON HOBART’S WATERFRONT THAT WAS THE SOUTHERN MARINE MUSIC TEST RIG (MOFO, 2009). HIS ‘ORCHESTRA’ OF PIPES AND RECORDERS WAS MOUNTED TO A WHARF NEAR THE CSIRO AND ACTIVATED BY THE WAVES.

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a. Cameron Robbins, Dissipative Structures (video still) 2012 Image courtesy of the artist and Mona (Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) b. Cameron Robbins, Mt Jim Magnetic Anomaly, Loops II 2011 Image courtesy of the artist and Mona (Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) c. Cameron Robbins, Wind Section 21-24/3/2014 (Crocodile) detail

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Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with DJ Soft Car. A free shot with your first song

Republic Bar & Café

Catch Club 8:30pm

The Homestead

Sandino Cerrado 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Summer Flake (Vic) + Sarah Mary Chadwick (Vic) + Naked + All the Weathers + DJ BTC + DJ JSB

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Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Luke Thompson

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat

Republic Bar & Café

Mumbo Gumbo 8:30pm

The Homestead

Aus. Songwriters Assocc. WAX Lyrical 6:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

Eric Burdon & The Animals 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

AMPOCALYPSE!! Side Rock - Taberah (10 Year Anniversary Show) + Black Aces (Vic) + Diego The Butcher

Brisbane Hotel

Side Extreme - Claret Ash (ACT) + Greytomb (Vic) + Atra Vetosus + Sanctify The Serpent + DJ’s

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Slowly Slowly (Vic) + Lincoln Le Fevre

Grand Poobah

Heart Beach + Low Talk + Bronze Savage + Cape Hoy

Onyx Bar

Girl Friday 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

After Work Acoustic Sessions in the Beer Garden with Matt Edmunds + Free BBQ 5pm

Grand Poobah

Republic Bar & Café

Scoparia EP Launch + Create the Crayon + Zero Degrees Freedom 10pm

Teens, Violet Swells, Lizard Johnny & The Vedders

Onyx Bar

Ebeneza Good 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tim Davies / Entropy

Republic Bar & Café

The Apple Shed

Dominic Francis Grief Ensemble 6pm

After Work Acoustic Sessions In The Beer Garden With Tony Mak + Free BBQ 5pm

The Homestead

White Bear (Melb) + Dom + Kase Kochen + Reactant (DJ) 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

28 Days + Supports 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe 6:30pm

The Apple Shed

Montz Matsumoto 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

The Homestead

Mortisville and Friends + Squish + Kireesh 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Ultra Martian + AXE GIANT + Church Mouse

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Michael Priest 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Patto 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Jurassic Nark (Vic) + Bu$ Money + Adventurers + Pine

Brisbane Hotel

Spacejunk (Vic) + The Know Nothings + High Finance (Vic) + Lennin Mkarthy

Brookfield Vineyard

Old Man Luedecke

Grand Poobah

Burlesque Show followed by Saca La Mois

Grand Poobah

Afterparty for RUFUS

Onyx Bar

Lisa Pilkington 10pm

Onyx Bar

Angela Bryan Trio 10pm

Pier One

Zach Spinks 6pm

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dream On, Dreamer + Supports 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

ROTARTISTRY: Charity Art Auction Raising Money For The Fiji Cyclone Appeal And Other Causes (Upstairs) 4pm

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

The Fluke and Bruce

Mocane + Mayhem & Me 7:30pm

Waratah Hotel

Little May w/ Violet Swells + Empire Park 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Magik Winds of The Ramblin

Customs House

Noteworthy: Michael Priest, Joel Barker, Ruben Reeves 2:30pm

Frank’s Cider

Mayhem & Me 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Beer Garden Party With Slow Roasted Lamb Forequarter Souvlaki + Live Music 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm

The Homestead

Zach Spinks 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Quiz-A-Saurus (LAST QUIZ EVA)

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Black Coffee 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Atomic Suplex with Filthy Rich & Friends

Republic Bar & Café

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Fluke and Bruce

Annia Baron 7:30pm

The Homestead

Vibrant Matters Social Club 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Matthew Ives and his Big Band - Big Band Showcase 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Seth & The Beautiful Chains + Winter York + Empire Park + Betsy Blue + Omniside 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

Quivers + Filthy Black Star + Aon Stalp 9pm

Baha’i Centre

Kettering Piano Quartet Concert in D Major 2pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Rude Boy

Customs House

Noteworthy: Lasca, Jasmin Bade, Nikaylah & Sean 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Reclink Community Cup Trivia Night 8:15pm

The Homestead

Matt Gray 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Ross Sermons 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tarik Stoneman 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sabine Bester 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Dark Knights #3 with Crème Brulee & Friends

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Fluke and Bruce

Tarik Stoneman 7:30pm

The Homestead

Vinyl Club 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

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Birdcage Bar

Nick Marshall 8:30pm

Friday

Baha’i Centre

Huon Quartet Revolution II 6pm

Republic Bar & Café The Homestead

The Darlings 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Dan Vandermeer 9pm

Helen Crowther 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Saint Henry (Vic) + Skate Wounds + Empire Park + Pine

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Grand Poobah

Hazey Daze presents Jack J

Onyx Bar

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Mountains of Madness (EP Launch) + Lady Crimson + The Infected

Jerome Hillier 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

After Work Acoustic Sessions In The Beer Garden With Tim & Scott + Free BBQ 5pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front - PURE + Morton Stone + WOE

Federation Concert Hall

The Greatness of Gavrylyuk 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Bad Pony + Guests 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Grand Poobah

Omac & Complete

The Apple Shed

Mid-Winter Fest Audition Night 6pm

Grand Poobah

Coven in the Swamp

Onyx Bar

Sambo & Patto 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

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Billy Whitton 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

After Work Acoustic Sessions In The Beer Garden with Jed Appleton + Free BBQ 5pm

Brisbane Hotel

A Wilhelm Scream (Vic) + The Decline (WA) + Anchors (Vic) + Knife Hands

Republic Bar & Café

Enigma (Launch) - Acoustic Acts + DJ’s (Upstairs) 8pm

Grand Poobah

Issue / Impact Fundraiser

Republic Bar & Café

Nothing But a Glam Time - Glam Rock Tribute 10pm

Grand Poobah

Uncle Gus and the Rimshots, Yesterdays Gentlemen & Mangus in the Kissing Room

Telegraph Hotel

Big Swifty

Onyx Bar

The Sign 10pm

The Apple Shed

Jensen 6pm

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 6pm

The Homestead

The Mount Wellington Porch Pickers 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Urthboy + L-Fresh The Lion + Okenyo 10pm

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe 6:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Seretonin

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

The Fluke and Bruce

EWAH & The Vision of Paradise + Support 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Drones (Vic) + Harmony (Vic)

The Homestead

Klue (Syd) + Support 9pm

Grand Poobah

Hazey Daze Bradley Zero (Boiler Room)

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Onyx Bar

Sicks and Kane 10pm

Brisbane Hotel

Dorcelsius (France/Phnom Penh)

Pier One

Les Coqs 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Children Of The Horn \m/

Republic Bar & Café

Music Quiz Afternoon with Dan Vandermeer Playing Live 2:30pm

Customs House

Noteworthy: Zoe Merrington, Rhys Anderson, Matt Edmunds 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Phoenix Gallery Art Opening - Relatives - Jim Marwood 5:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Calhouns Arvo Show 2:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Old Man Goon Bones

Republic Bar & Café

Blue Flies 8:30pm

Customs House

Noteworthy: Celeste & Callum, Tony Brennan, Nick Machin 2:30pm

The Homestead

Tim and Scott 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

Republic Bar & Café

The Silver Beets 2:30pm

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Republic Bar & Café

Wahbash Avenue 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Sunday Sessions at the Tah with Junior Brando + DJ Mad 3pm

Republic Bar & Café

G.B. Balding 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dean Stevenson 8:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

Nikolai Demidenko in Recital Hobart 7:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Finn Seccombe 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Baker Boys 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Synth Jam Band + Java Fonda + Hdot

Grand Poobah

Dark Knights with Crème Brulee & Friends

Republic Bar & Café

Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Fluke and Bruce

MT Blues 7:30pm

The Homestead

Vinyl Club 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Birdcage Bar

James Maddock 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Comedy Forge

Grand Poobah

Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat

Republic Bar & Café

Royal Gala 8:30pm

The Homestead

Nadira & Friends feat. Kelly Ottaway + Nick Haywood

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

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Sunday

Monday Tuesday

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Event Guide

Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Club 54

HM Party: Nursing Home Theme

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Matthew Dames 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 6:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Turbulence (Acoustic) + Trent Buchanan + Tim Gambles

MAY Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

4

5

6

7

Date

Sunday

22

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Max Hillman Showband 9pm

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Tonic Bar

Nat & Andy 8pm

Watergarden Bar

The Firebirds 7pm

Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - Open Jazz Jam 1pm

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Tuesday

24

Albert Hall

Nikolai Demidenko in Recital 7:30pm

Wednesday

25

Club 54

HM Party: Guys in Ties & Girls in Pearls

MAY Wed 4th Matthew Dames ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry Thu 5th The Hat & The Horn ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry

Royal Oak

Public Bar - The Hat & The Horn 9pm

Club 54

Mixtape: The 00s

Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - When She Believes 9pm

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Mic Night 9pm

The Gunners Arms

The Midways + Mankind + Absolute Faces + Youth Faction

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

Sat 7th Samuel Bester ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 7pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Eve Gowen + Chris Jackson + Phoebe Divona

Club 54

The Sleepyheads + Linc Le Fevre + Ben Stewart + Isaac Bowen

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Mick Attard & Guest 9pm

Sun 8th Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar 5pm free entry

Club 54

Mixtape: The Beatles

Princes Theatre

Roy Orbison & The Everly Brothers

Wed 11th Andy Collins ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry

Royal Oak

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Samuel Bester 9pm

Tamar Boat Shed - Tasmanyiaks Charity Fundraiser with GUTHRIE 9pm

Thu 12th Roller Rockers ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry

Trevor Weaver 8pm

Watergarden Bar

Sambo & Patto 7pm

Tonic Bar Watergarden Bar

Adam Page 7pm

Club 54

Bad Pony + Saint Henry + The Sleepyheads + New Wave Saints

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Mayhem & Me 9pm

Tonic Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 7pm

Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - Launceston Blues Jam 1pm

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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27

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Fri 6th When She Believes ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Gold Coin

Fri 13th Spacejunk (Vic)/ High Finance + Lennin Mkarthey (Last Show) ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm - $10 Sat 14th Zero Degrees Freedom + Claret Ash + Grey Tomb + ... ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm - $10

Sunday

8

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

11

Club 54

The Local @ 54: Turbulence + Cuban Heel + Seth + Eve Gowen

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Andy Collins 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Seth + Tiarni Cane + Angus Austin

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Roller Rockers 9pm

Club 54

The Year Long Party #2

Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - Spacejunk (Vic)/High Finance + Lennin Mkarthey (last show) 9pm

Fri 20th FRESH COMEDY - TONY MARTIN - 2 Shows Tix online ~ Tamar Boat Shed 5.30 / 8.30 PM

The Gunners Arms

Pinchhitter + Meridian (USA) + Tyler, Tom & Pat (Luca Brasi) + BradyGreg

Sat 21st Max Hillman Showband ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Club 54

The Year Long Party #2

Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - Zero Degrees Freedom + Claret Ash + Grey Tomb + … 9pm

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

12

13

14

Tonic Bar

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 7pm

Sunday

15

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

18

Club 54

The Local @ 54: Bullet House + George Begbie + The Art of Surviving + Trent Buchanan

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

30

19

20

21

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Julio Mathew & Friends 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Denni Sulzberger + Lauren Hawkins + Jacob Hull

Royal Oak

Public Bar - Brad Gillies Blues 9pm

Club 54

The Pirate Party

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 7pm

Club 54

Concert for Kev

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Sun 15th Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar 5pm free entry Wed 18th Julio Mathew & Friends ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry Thu 19th Brad Gillies Blues ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry

NORTHWEST Date

Sun 22nd Open Jazz Jam / Open Folk Seisiún ~ TBS 1pm / PB 5pm

CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

MAY Thursday

5

Devonport

Molly Malones

Leonard & Tom

Friday

6

Burnie

Burnie Arts & Convention Centre

Roy Orbison & the Everly Brothers

Sheffield

Mountain Mumma Restaurant

Old Man Luedecke

Saturday

7

Devonport

Molly Malones

Stonie Jim

Thursday

12

Devonport

Molly Malones

Jerome Hillier

Saturday

14

Devonport

Molly Malones

Gypsy Rose

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Jesse Bloch

Thursday

19

Devonport

Molly Malones

Adam Page

Saturday

21

Devonport

Molly Malones

Agent 99

Sunday

22

Ulverstone

The Wharf

Kaye Payne Presidential Suite 3pm

Thursday

26

Devonport

Molly Malones

Sambo

Saturday

28

Devonport

Molly Malones

Doctors Rocksters

Wed 25th Open Mic Night - Contact us for one of four spots ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry Thu 26th Mick Attard & Guest ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry Fri 27th Tasmanyiaks Charity Fundraiser with GUTHRIE ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm - $10 Sat 28th Mayhem & Me ~ Public Bar 9pm free entry Sun 29th Launceston Blues Jam / Open Folk Seisiún ~ TBS 1pm / PB 5pm ~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~

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