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MAY 2017 Monday 1st 8.30pm Jed Appleton Tuesday 2nd 8.30pm Ross Sermons Wednesday 3rd 8.30pm Nic Meredith and the Blues Underground Thursday 4th 8.30pm The Patron Saints Friday 5th 10pm The Raccoons Saturday 6th 10pm Bad Pony $12pre/$15door Sunday 7th 8.30pm Tim Hulsman Monday 8th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 9th 8.30pm Billy Longo (Farewell Gig) with The Rythm Tragics & Guests Wednesday 10th 8.30pm TIm & Scott Thursday 11th 8.30pm Dave Wilson Band Friday 12th 10pm Brett Collidge Saturday 13th 10pm Polish Club $20pre/$25door Sunday 14th 8.30pm Jason Ayres + Supports Monday 15th 8.30pm G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin’ Blues) Tuesday 16th 8.30pm Helen Crowther Wednesday 17th 8.30pm Daniel Champagne $15 Thursday 18th 8.30pm Billy Warner

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News in Brief IT’S A BAR, WITH MUSIC. OBVS. One of the best things about the Hobart bar scene is the plethora of options where you can have an ace drink, some tops grub, and catch some bonza local music. Now we have another option to add to your shortlist. The Music Bar is a great new venue at 11 Morrison Street in Hobart where you can see local muso’s doin’ their damn thang. Coming up in May, you’ll be able to catch the likes of Gabriele Dagrezio, Bat & Jax, Bridgy Pross, Harry Edwards, Nick Machin, Kat Edwards and many, many more. Check out themusicbar.com.au or head over to their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ themusicbarhobart) for all the details.

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Bo Jenkins was born on a small farm in Bottleneck, Arkansas. He spent his early years living next door to Levon Helms, future drummer and vocalist for “The Band” then moved to Helena Arkansas.

Growing up hearing his father sing and his grandfather (a full blooded Native American) play guitar led the way for Bo to pursue a career in music. He then started his career playing the roadhouses and bars in Helena and up and down Highways 49 and 61. Throughout the end of April and start of May, Bo will be playing 10 gigs around Tasmania. For information on when and where you can catch him (you have plenty of opportunities!) head over to www.bojenkins.com.

HULSMANIA Tim Hulsman has a distinctive sound and a stellar live show. He is unbound by genres and limitless in his aspirations. As a survivor of childhood abuse and exile he brings a raw and emotional edge to his live performances that is genuinely engaging and immediately relatable. Hulsman’s 2014 release Dead Man’s Garden received plenty of praise and enough airplay to

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debut at No. 18 on the Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Charts, increasing public awareness of his unique but somehow classic song-writing style. Throughout the start of May, you have three chances to catch Tim Hulsman live and in the flesh.

On Friday May 5, he’ll be at Red Hot Music in Devonport. On Saturday May 6, he’ll be at Steve’s Grill in Launceston, and on Sunday May 7 he’ll be at the Republic Bar in Hobart.

RING RING present a very special party, bringing back Sleep D and for the very first time Albrecht La’Brooy, playing live to launch the release of their new collaborative EP From 50. RING RING is a pop up night club in a place you wouldn’t expect to find it. As such, we have NFI where it is or how to get to it. So we can’t help you there. But if you jump on to ye olde book of face and join the / ringringparty page, I’m sure they’ll give you the 411. What we do know, is that visual artists and designers contribute to the event by creating installations/video art/light shows in the space. They serve great local beers and create a cocktail for each event. Sleep D and Albrecht La’Brooy will be supported by Puffy Pank and DJ Paulie. Tickets are up for sale and it’s looking to be another awesome one!

SO HOMEY So the Homestead in Hobart has a lot going on. A brand spanking new menu, and new opening hours. For the time being (presumably throughout Winter), The Homestead will now be closed on Sundays and Mondays. They’re sending off Sundays with a smooth Jazz gig by the Black Cat Jazz Trio on Sunday May 7. Your last chance for a Sunday sesh at the Homestead, so get amongst it. On top of that, the trivia jackpot is now up over $900. It’s starting to get cold, so their barrel fire is now umm.. fired up. Free 8 ball on both tables from 4pm to 6pm every day. Free wifi (when the stars align) and umm.. What else? A bunch of rad live shows, as per usual.

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have released the latest single from their upcoming album Sinner’s Lament: a galloping, thrash-drenched cover of The Eagles’ 70s classic “Hotel California”. The cover begins with the familiar acousticjangles of the original, before the band’s signature guitar harmonies usher in a barrage of relentless drums, bonecrushing guitars and passionate vocals, all delivered with the certainty, humour and respect the band are known for. Taberah are hitting the road in support of Sinner’s Lament, you’ll be able to catch them at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday May 26 before they head off to the big island.

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Mick Thomas is set to tour his new retrospective double album These Are The Songs and autobiographical book These Are The Days right across the country this May and June. Joining Mick and his band The Roving Commission on the road are the mighty Melbourne tour de force Raised By Eagles, who themselves are set for a busy 2017 with the release of their soon to be announced 3rd album. “Shape & Line”, the first single from the album, is out now. On Thursday May 25, they’ll be playing at the Hobart Gaol, and on Friday May 26 they’ll be performing at the Grand Poobah in Hobart. For tickets, head to trybooking.com.

Sometimes there is a perfect mix between the band, the venue and the audience that leaves a lasting impression for all concerned. Once tasted, you always want to come back for more. Such is the way for The Seven Ups and The Ivory Elephant, who have bringing their mixture of deep funk and afrobeat, and pschblues respectively back to the Homestead Tasmania for year. See both bands perform as a double bill on Friday May 26.

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about the countless poor musicians that need to survive on few and far between gigs to the Spring. One such chance for Tasmanian musicians to refill their pantries with cider is through a set on the Blundstone mainstage at the MidWinter Festival this July. To secure a spot on the line up they first need to be part of the playoffs on Friday June 2 and 9 at the Apple Shed in the Huon. To secure a spot email music@williesmiths.com.au with music links, bios and anything else relevant before the end of May.

from pioneers like DJ Harvey, Juliana Huxtable, Lipelis, Andras, Maurice Fulton, J’Nett, Legowelt and more. Transliminal invites attendees to dance beyond the threshold and worship in the temple of house and techno, as some of the world’s finest selectors bring the dark, electronic underbelly of their subterranean club scenes to Dark MOFO. Only a handful of tickets remain for each night so make sure you don’t miss out!

Flames, fireworks, food, and sound will rock the Festival of Voices from June 30 to July 16. Get set for big name artists such as Sarah Blasko, The Umbilical Brothers, Frente, Toni Childs, The Idea of North, All Our Exes Live In Texas, and many more.

And that’s not to mention the largest event of all - the City of Hobart Big Sing Bonfire.

Warm up those vocal cords, because you’re invited to join the party. More from www.festivalofvoices.com.

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EMBRACE THE DARKNESS (IF YOU CAN) Well, the Dark MOFO line up was announced, and by the time you read this it has probably sold out completely. But just on the off chance there are a few tickets still available, make sure you jump on darkmofo.net.au and listen to drones while you sit in their virtual waiting room.

As always, there’s a million things you’ve never heard of before and can’t pronounce anyway, but they’re guaranteed to be amazing. On the list this year are Mogwai, Einsturzende Neubauten, Messe IX-VI.X, Ulver, Chris Levine, Hermann Nitsch, Mike Parr, Alfredo Jarr, The Sound of Silence, Welcome Stranger, RBMA: Transliminal, alongside the always excellent Dark Park, and Winter Feast.

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Fresh off the back of their sold-out national Australian tour and the news that they have been added to the lineup for Splendour In The Grass, Dune Rats are pleased to announce the “FUCK YEAH LEDGE YEW!” (ugh.) regional tour in June/July, which will hit regional towns throughout NSW, VIC, WA, QLD and TAS. Tickets are on sale now and the band will be joined on the run by Perth legends Tired Lion and party-happy Rockhampton band Pandamic. And if that isn’t enough good news for you, Dunies also dropped the official video for their new single Braindead, from their ARIA #1 album The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit. The video shows the guys performing in a giant weed field (of course it does.). You can see it all at the Brisbane Hotel on Saturday June 24.

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Red Bull Music Academy are returning to Dark MOFO this year, with an event called Transliminal. It’s basically an industrialscale, transcendental warehouse rave held at Hobart City Hall. Four events over two weekends with immersive and disorientating light installations designed

by Robin Fox, as well as featuring sets

After the hugely successful KLParty tours in 2015 and 2016 with the likes of Young Franco, Nyxen and Terace, KLP is back on the road in 2017 - bringing the party to you all around the country with her new tour ‘Mix Match’. Known for bringing the party to Australia every Saturday night on triple j House Party for the last three years and selecting the freshest jams, this tour will see KLP take her signature house party on the road, incorporating her live vocals into a party DJ set with some very special friends and guests joining her in each city. KLP will be rocking two stages in Tasmania in July. On Friday July 14, KLP will be at The Grand Poobah in Hobart, and on Saturday July 15 she’ll be performing at Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport.

One of NZ’s biggest hiphop innovators, David Dallas, has dropped his new record Hood Country Club today ahead of his tour of Australia supporting Horrorshow throughout June and July. A hard hitting record he tips as his best yet, Dallas’s return is a vocal one. Carefully crafted and expertly executed, Dallas, doesn’t side step as he touches on everything from the political to the deeply personal. Combining this assertive approach with production duties from heavy hitters Styalz Fuego, Nic M, SmokeyGotBeatz and longtime collaborators Fire & Ice, then pulling from sonic influences as broad as UK 2-step and trip hop to straight up samples over dusty drums, and Hood Country Club cements itself as top shelf stuff. You’ll be able to able to catch David Dallas supporting Horrorshow in Hobart at the Republic Bar on Friday July 14.

SMILING CUTLERY It’s basically been twenty years since all the good stuff happened in music. Case in point, Grinspoon just announced a huge 20th anniversary tour for Guide to Better Living. 20. Bloody. Years. We’re all getting old, eh. Anyway, either you were a Grinspoon fan, or your mother was, so someone you know will definitely be interested in checking out the ‘Guide To Better Living National Tour’ when it hits Tasmania on Saturday August 5. It’ll all be going down at the Granada Tavern so get along and pretend you’re in the 90s again, or pretend you’re in the 90s for the first time, if you’re a whipper snapper. Keep an eye on your social media feeds for more details as they emerge. Over and out.

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THE SMITHS “I USED TO BE A LOT ANGRIER ABOUT IT, NOW I TRY TO SET A PRECEDENT. IF YOU CAN BE POSITIVE AND TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH LOVE IS IN THE ROOM, HOW EXCITING IT IS FOR US ALL TO BE TOGETHER, YOU CAN SET A VIBE WHERE IT’S NOT GONNA CROSS PEOPLE’S MINDS TO BE AGGRO OR DOUCHEY. THAT’S BEEN MY TAKE.” So says Melbourne punk act Smith Street Band frontman Wil Wagner, in regards to ‘bro culture’, gig violence and the band’s Death to the Lads track that covers these issues. Both bands and audiences are becoming more vocal about speaking out against sexism in the industry, and violent and/ or douchey behaviour at gigs. Wagner is trying to create a force for good, rather than stoking the flames.

“It’s a difficult thing to deal with.” he says. “We’ve had countless things happen at shows and I’ve been very firm and shut shit down, kicked people out of shows. If I go into every show expecting people to be shitty, I’m not gonna have fun. It’s such a tricky thing to talk about. I feel like I’ve dealt with crowd incidents in good and bad ways; I’m always on the side of people just there to have fun.”

“I’m trying to use anger in a positive way; rather than picking a fight online, I can make a song and use that song to generate money for charities, channelling anger into awareness [as the band did with their Wipe That Shit-Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Face EP, the proceed of which went to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre]. If I can use my anger at a backwards racist government in a way that directly helps the people getting fucked over by the government, I’m proud of that.”

The band’s new album More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me (the follow-up to 2014’s hugely successful Throw Me in the River) is also the first on their own label, Pool House Records. Although they had a good relationship with their last label, Poison City, the move gave them much-needed freedom and independence.

“We always had creative control at Poison City, but it just made sense- it was something we spoke about for so long. It was the natural progression. It

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was only about halfway through recording the album that it changed for us; we were so proud of what we were making and it seemed like the right time to do it. All these little finicky things, like what kind of plastic is the vinyl sleeve gonna be?”

“It can be a bit overwhelming, especially for a band like us, where we’re very controlling of our music, so passionate [and] we want to be involved in those decisions anyway. We had so much more time to record and it sounds exactly how I’ve always wanted a record of ours to sound. I love this whole process of making a record, it’s so fun seeing these projects come to life.”

“We’re always gonna sound like us, we haven’t made a techno record or anything. There are still people who are like: “Your first 7” was the best thing you’ve ever done and everything else was shit” (laughs) but we’ve just gotta keep ourselves inspired, keep the momentum going.”

“Our first two albums were basically recorded in a week each. Being able to let out ideas, work on something for a while, was a luxury we never had before; we’ve just spent so much time together as people and a band, working and talking with each other.” Wagner explains. “We’re very natural with each other now. We’re a bit more confident, I think, and ambitiouswe’re doing it all ourselves, we believe in it, believe in the music, we can take a few more risks. It’s just us being more confident as musicians.”

Wagner maintains his music is as much a healing process for his own issues as anything else. He hopes to unhinge the machismo and toxic masculinity in the music industry- very prevalent in punk and hardcore scenes- in any small measures by pioneering change in his own way.

“I talk about depression, anxiety, vulnerability. The more men express fear and anxiety, the less it comes out in an aggressive and violent way; it’s ok to be vulnerable. You can stop those feelings before it turns into anger, just through conversation. I think: ‘how can I leave this section of society a better place than I found it?’. I remember being a sixteen year-old guy, feeling sad and anxious, with not a huge amount of people to turn to in that situation.”

LISA DIB The Smith Street Band play The Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Thursday May 25. More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me is out now on Pool House Records.

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REIMAGINING AND REMINISCING DEAD LETTER CIRCUS’ FIRST EVER REVIEW OF THEIR DEBUT EP WAS A LITTLE SOUR. YOU SEE, IT’S NOT TOO OFTEN A BAND LEADING THE AUSTRALIAN ALTERNATIVE/PROG SCENE COMPARES YOUR MUSIC TO THAT OF CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE. MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO AN EXCITED KIM BENZIE RACED BACK HOME TO SHOW HIS MATES, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, HIS NEW RECORDINGS. NEEDLESS TO SAY IT WASN’T THE REACTION HE WAS HOPING FOR. “I played it for them and they both had these look on their faces and they went ‘mate, I don’t want to break your heart but I think it’s a bit full on, you’ve got too much flavour in there, it’s like concentrated orange juice…’.”

Today Benzie chuckles, reflecting on this moment and the many more that come with a decade plus ‘working’ as music professionals.

The Brisbane band celebrates 10 years since the release of their debut self-titled EP and have marked the occasion by recording a reimagined version of the original classics, plus a few tracks from later albums. The Endless Mile, set to be released on May 12, is a toast to the band and their fans. For Benzie it’s a reminder of just how far DLC has come, from those very first days when The Butterfly Effect told the lead-singer his music needed “to chill the fuck out”.

“It tested us for a couple of weeks and we were like ‘shit, if they don’t like it, then maybe it’s just going to be a demo thing and no one else is going to like it’. Then we whacked them up on

Myspace and a few days later one of the guys came in and said ‘dude we’ve had 400 spins on Myspace!’, and it just escalated to thousands every day and we were like ‘what is going on?’

The next show we did, we were a support band, and basically it was a sold out gig based on us being the support band, it was epic. Even the headliner band, at the end I think they felt guilty not paying us, we did the posters and everything and got 100 bucks or something like that.”

From that day forward it was obvious chilling out was the last thing Dead Letter Circus members were going to do, both in their song-writing and momentum as a band. DLC began riding the same wave as Karnivool, Cog and The Butterfly Effect. It was a beautiful time to be part of the Australian prog-rock movement, which was in full swing during the mid to late 2000s. Festivals like Big Day Out welcomed DLC and their compadres with open arms.

“I definitely think at that time our little scene had its moment where it was the biggest thing, like

mainstage at Big Day Out. I think a movement of music happens at a certain time and it coincides with how the people feel. When I think about this whole little Australian scene, this little bubble, it just really matched up perfectly with people in their fifteens to thirties, the lyrics and everything…”

Benzie said there was no denying the alternative-prog scene saw its peak some years ago, and thought the lack of Australian music festivals may have impacted it. So, if you’ve been living under a rock, you may have noticed that Big Day Out and Soundwave have gone to the grave. This unfortunately leaves little room for a band like Dead Letter Circus. “...it’s hard to get on the bill at festivals these days, unless you’re just a dude with a laptop.

We did this festival recently, we haven’t done one in a couple of years, and we were surprised that electronica has really taken over that little scene. I think at the moment the Australian artists that are doing that alt-pop thing are just killing it everywhere, in a good way. It is world class at the moment. It is that music’s time to shine.”

No matter the lack of festivals and a potential lull in the alternative-prog scene, Benzie and the band will forever hold Big Day Out as one of DLC’s greatest achievements.

“We posted a photo yesterday on our Instagram of Big Day Out, and it’s weird that we are talking about it now, because we were just reminiscing on how awesome that was in everyone’s life.

That was a really multi-genre festival, it had a bit of everything, all the way across the spectrum.

Yeah, I would say the wound is a little bit salty (laughs). When we started the band I remember we had a list of things we wanted to do and one of them was to play Big Day Out mainstage, and I remember going ‘it’s never going to happen’, but we put it on our little bucket list and then it fucking happened, and now I wish it would happen again.”

But DLC don’t dwell on the past, and Benzie maintains that while scenes may come and go there is, and always will be, a super loyal fan base following the band. This is one of the main reasons The Endless Mile was created.

“The thing about The Endless Mile, it’s not us trying to break out and win fans of any different genre, it’s literally for the people who have been there from the start, lived with these songs in their lives and have them as a soundtrack in their minds. I think they are the people that are going to truly appreciate it, the alternative universe concept that we are sort of going for with the songs.”

For Tasmanian fans, the news gets even better.

Dead Letter Circus will be performing two shows in the Apple Isle to shake off the cobwebs before heading into the studio for a new album.

There’s already been whispers that the next DLC record will be heavy, so a couple of Tassie shows will be the band’s perfect opportunity to channel such roots.

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Dead Letter Circus play The Goods Shed, Macquarie Point, Hobart, on Friday May 5, before heading to Club 54 in Launceston on the Saturday. Tickets for the shows can be found at www.deadlettercircus.oztix. com.au.

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THE ART OF BLEEDING GARAGE ROCKERS BLEEDING KNEES CLUB ARE HEADING OUT ON TOUR TO CELEBRATE THEIR NEW EP (THE FIRST SINCE 2012’S NOTHING TO DO ALBUM) AND A REVAMPED LINE-UP. FRONTMAN ALEX WALL EXPLAINS WHAT’S HAPPENING BEHIND THE EXCITING SCENES.

“We sound the best we’ve ever sounded, I’m pretty stoked.

The guys are the perfect fit. I met Michael [Barker, guitar] and Gio [Alexander, bass] at shows in Sydney; I knew they both had their own bands and I was looking for someone to play music with...we rehearsed, played a few solo shows, they just really made sense. I just met Nick [Leighton, drums] at a party: I was watching his band play, I really liked them and I hit him up. I’m pretty set, these guys are a really good addition to the band.”

Although the band, as a project, has been on since 2010odd, Wall has been back and forth from the USA, where he has roots.

“I’m gonna go back for a bit, I’ve got a lot of stuff planned...” he explains. “It’s nice living in Australia for a little while, it’s relaxing and easier than living in the States, but I love the States a lot. I will end up there eventually; my family is American, I was born there, I have friends over there. The art and music scene over there is amazing...it’s so good to be a part of. Everyone you meet is doing something creative and inspiring- it’s a bigger country and there’s a lot more happening that I’m interested in. In Australia, there’s not enough people for the subcultures to blossom.”

The band also recently made the decision to hook up with a label, and Inertia welcomed them with open arms.

“We recorded the EP last year, and we didn’t have a labelI just thought it would be fun to do Bleeding Knees Club stuff again, so I did it myself, then I met the guys from Inertia and they seemed cool and liked the music, so it just kinda happened. It’s nice to be with a label that’s like: ‘do what you want and we’ll put it out’ (laughs)” What’s nice is that Wall seems like he’d be pretty happy no matter what’s he’s doing, and doesn’t seem to be banking all his hopes on pie-in-the-sky fantasies that may distress other musicians.

“I’m not really making music to get popular; even if noone listened to anything I did, I’d still be making music. I think it’s weird if people wouldn’t make music if their band got ‘unpopular’, that’s a pretty sad way to be an artist.

When Bleeding Knees was at its peak with the last album, we were playing to thousands of people at festivals, then I went to the US and toured with my solo thing and I played to, like, twenty people at a house party, and it was just as awesome. If you don’t have the confidence in what you’re doing, you won’t get popular anyway.”

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Bleeding Knees Club play the Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday May 13 with Skate Wounds and A. Swayze & The Ghosts. Chew The Gum EP is out now on Inertia.

WAITING FOR THE DROP

As Sydney lads, I ask Drabble about the deteriorating live music and arts scene in this city, and whether things like the lock-out laws are filling local artists with fear for their futures.

SYDNEY ELECTRONICA DUO SET MO ARE ALL ABOUT MAKING YOU MOVE. THEIR POWERFULLY CATCHY BEATS HAVE BEEN SETTING PUNTERS OFF FOR A FEW YEARS NOW AND THE BOYSNICK DRABBLE, WHO I AM CHATTING TO TODAY, AND STU TURNER- SHOW NO SIGN OF SLOWING DOWN. THEY’VE JUST RELEASED THEIR NEW EP, AFTER DARK VOL. 1, AND ARE SETTING OUT ON HUGE TOUR, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND, TO SHOW OFF THEIR WARES.

“To be honest, it’s really sad and we’ve spoken about this topic a lot, as it’s definitely damaging the music scene in Sydney, but also affecting many other industries negatively too. We’re trying to focus on some of the positive things that have been happening recently. There has been a real rise in the amount of people going out in the Inner West, which is great. New bars are popping up, new club nights, old venues are being rebought and brought back to life. People will always want to go out and socialise, drink, dance and have fun. It’s important that we continue to stay positive, look after one another when we go out and spread the good vibes.”

The anti-“commercialisation” of house argument has been popping up in recent years for dance artists, something that Drabble can’t quite get behind.

“There are so many different styles of house music that it’s hard to keep track these days! House has been around since the late 80’s and the whole time since there’s been super underground stuff and then the more popular accessible stuff along with everything in between. I think it’s actually a good thing that there is the more commercial side of house music; it means that a wider audience are presented with that sound and people who like it often dig a little deeper and can come across stuff that they may have not found otherwise.

We love a wide variety of music, from well-written pop music right through to deep underground records. For us, we see the more commercial side of house putting a bigger spotlight on house music general which can only be a good thing, right?”

Of course, Drabble also reveals his methodology to getting audiences up and moving.

“The biggest thing in house music to have a track that really gets a crowd going is the balance between tension and release. If you had a banging club track that literally banged for the whole five-to-eight minutes, people get worn out and there’s nothing to look forward to. On the other hand, if you had a track with a three-minute breakdown, people would get bored on the dancefloor. It’s all about having a track that creates that tension and then at the drop there is that release which just makes people wanna dance!”

LISA DIB

Set Mo play The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Friday May 12 and Club 54 in Launceston on Saturday May 13.

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VISIONS OF BLUE HOBART’S EWAH & THE VISION OF PARADISE ARE NOT NEW TO THE MUSIC SCENE, THEY ARE NO FLASH IN THE PAN, YET THEY AIN’T HOUSEHOLD NAME EITHER; YET.

Ewah, a native Tasmanian, like many moved to the big smoke and over the space of a decade released 3 mainly DIY albums ranging from avant garde punk (This is remorse), indie singer songwriter (Lights and sirens) and tribal psychadelica (the BRILLIANT, Gospel Dance). Then realising that the” big smoke” is only an hour flight away, she came to her senses and moved back to the greatest city of all, Hobart, armed with a bunch of new tunes and ready to make her next and most defining statement.

Originally conceived as an Electronica album (a natural evolution you would probably think), Ewah did a U-turn, got out the guitars and keys and with the help of three talented lads who bravely call themselves, The Vision of Paradise have created Everything Fades to Blue, eight tracks of dark and light rock n roll and it’s all beautiful.

Everything Fades to Blue is an album, 8 songs where all the pieces matter; a concept of sorts, but not a “tacky concept album”, Ewah tells us stories of love and death from a females perspective - she after all is one. From the thumping bass groove of opener, ‘As the Sun Goes Down’ to the final washes of tremolo and delay (think spiritualized - old spiritualized) of closer ‘Goodbye’ we are treated with everything you should want in a great album. Interesting drum rhythms, grooves, sinister synths and Hammond’s that explode into freakouts and guitars that use delays, verb and tremolo with expert touch. This is not background music, this stuff makes you move! The greatest asset here though is Ewah herself, her voice and lyrics are a near revelation and they are downright moving, she has the vocal impact of PJ Harvey, but less political, more emotional. I’m not afraid to admit Ewah got me here, to the point where on the epic track, ‘Vision of Paradise’ I found myself welling up. Then I played it again and again. Same result. Dam you guys, I’m a hard man.

Australia has provided many classic albums over the course, but let’s be honest, I can’t think of too many in recent years that have gone to that level. Everything Fades to Blue tips it hat to some of the classics we know and love, Born Sandy Devotional ,Dig Lazarus Dig and Teenage Snuff Film come to mind, but is certainly its own sound and vision. It is as close to a god dam classic as I have heard in years. Will Ewah and The Vison of Paradise become household names? Maybe, maybe not, but that’s up to us. They’re doing their bit. Listen to the album, or better still, buy it (it’s got a great cover btw). It deserves to be heard. YES! JASON CLARK

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THE EX’S OF TEXAS “THEY WERE SO NICE! WE HAD DINNER EVERY NIGHT. I WAS LIKE A GIDDY PRIMARY-SCHOOL GIRL.”

All Our Exes Live in Texas’ Georgia Mooney is reliving- at my request, as a pop tragic- the experience of their group supporting none other than the Backstreet Boys.

“We put the idea to our booking agent when we saw them announce a tour, we were sort of thinking there was a slim chance.” she explains. “We were completely unknown at that time and so stylistically different, but Backstreet Boys picked us! Maybe because people going to the concerts were our age and going for those nostalgic reasons, so having a folk band is interesting for them.”

Mooney is busy with Exes stuff today, as with most days. They’ve still got a lot of prep in getting the album- When We Fall- out. The album was successfully crowdfunded, so there’s all the rewards to fans to sort, too.

“Personal songs, covers, movie dates, I’m cross-stitching things. I’m quite looking forward to going to the movies and going out for dinner with people!”

“We wanted to do [crowdfunding] a bit differently; we were aware of the nature

ORIGAMI IT’S ALL SYSTEMS GO FOR LAUNCESTON BASED ALTERNATIVE-ROCK BAND PAPER SOULS, WHOSE LATEST SINGLE ‘NOTHING IS BROKEN’ HAS SET THE TONE FOR NEW MUSIC HEADING OUR WAY.

of crowdfunding, you’re asking for money in advance, they haven’t heard the album yet, it’s a year before it comes out.” she says. “It just made all the difference in us being able to record, that getting twenty-odd grand from crowdfunding so we wanted to make the rewards quite personal and reflect what it means to us.

Katie is making a recipe book; Hannah is doing some drawings, we’ve all been working furiously. When people first started buying our EPs, we’d write little notes in them.”

The album, produced by Wayne Connolly (Sarah Blasko, Silverchair, You Am I) will be a bit of a diversion from what fans got on their self-titled EP, she explains.

“There is a new energy within the band dynamic, which is coming through in the new music. It feels great,” says Paper Souls front man Luke. “We’ve already started working on the next track and are planning on releasing several more singles throughout the year. We’ve been writing a lot of new material and really want to get it out there into people’s ears ASAP!” he says.

Paper Souls was brought to life in 2010 when Luke and Sarah (the voice behind the gorgeous harmonies) started playing material at local pubs. First as a duo, then a trio, and now a solid five piece, Paper Souls have been injecting their unique flavour into the Tassie music scene for years now, with the release of their debut self-titled EP in 2014 and their second EP Forever, Always in 2015. The folky vibes in the beginning became deeper, darker and rock based with the addition of the cello, bass, drums and electric guitar.

“The biggest difference from the EP is that the EP is mostly covers and this is all originals; we’ve each written three songs for the album. We’ve arranged them for a full band, with strings and drums and bass, we wanted to do something with the arrangements that we don’t necessarily do live. Maybe taking it a little more into that indie folk genre, and we were listening to a lot of albums with a lot of instrumentation, like Father John Misty.”

“At the time we were all doing solo projects, and we were thinking as a oneoff fun opportunity to just all sing together in harmony; almost straight away, it was really relaxing to be on stage with your mates as opposed to solo. I just never

“Nothing Is Broken”, which was released in April, shows off Paper Souls’ powerful alternative-rock energy. The layering of the luscious and romantic cello and their signature two part harmonies bring light, shade and fullness to the track.

“One thing I love about being in Paper Souls is having the ability to take a song from something melodic and sweet, to something darker and a bit twisted,” says Luke. “It’s dark and moody with hope and love infused into the themes”.

“Inspiration is everywhere for songs.

Sometimes it comes through personal experiences, but more often than not I tend to draw it from what’s happening around me. The struggles (and triumphs) of friends and family is very much an inspiration for me, as well as what’s going on in the world as a whole. Whatever the inspiration though, I always try to find the good and bad in things. Even when I’m

get nervous with the girls on stage with me. It was about a year or two even, and we weren’t actively trying to get gigs, but we would get asked to do things and just going with it, and it became busy enough that we had management approaching.

We figured, this is something chugging along and we should jump on the train a bit.”

LISA DIB

See All Our Exes Live in Texas perform at Devil’s Corner Vineyard, Apslawn on Sunday July 2 as part of Festival Of Voices. See full details of their performance from the festival website - www.festivalofvoices.com.

writing about something that may not be particularly uplifting, I’m always trying to bring an element of hope into the track,” he explains.

Paper Souls has been welcomed into the Tassie music scene with open arms, playing regular gigs in the north and sometimes south of the state. Performing at Falls Festival, the Taste of Tasmania and Festivale are just some of the band’s greatest highlights.

“Being in the Tasmanian music scene is something we are really proud to be a part of. The band diversity and the different kinds of events held around the state means we’ve been lucky to play with and meet a whole range of artists and industry people from all different walks of life. I think the diversity in particular is a real strength of the scene here in Tasmania,” he says.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for new music from Paper Souls in 2017 because it sounds as though they are gearing up to release some awesome new stuff. “We are certainly in a really good creative space as a band at the moment. More new music will be out there in one form or another”.

ZOE COONEY

Paper Souls will be supporting Killing Heidi on Saturday May 6 at The Goods Shed, Macquarie Point, Hobart. Tickets available from www. moshtix.com.au.

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ENCOUNTERS OF THE CLOSE KIND Combined, the talents of Finn Rees and Allan McConnell form Close Counters, Tasmania’s latest electronic music export. Hard at it in the bedroom only a few years ago, the duo have added a series of profile support shows, festival appearances, airplay on Rage and a bunch of overseas shows to their resume. The two enlightened us to what’s been happening in the Close Counters lab of late.

Close Counters relocated late last year to Melbourne. Why the change in scenery?

Finn has started his undergraduate music degree this year at VCA, majoring in jazz piano.

Allan has begun working full-time as a music producer and session musician, he’s about to go on tour with Bliss N Eso for two months playing keyboard for the support act Dylan Joel.

Melbourne’s also great as it’s cheap and quick to get back to Tassie, which means we could take up opportunities like supporting Peking Duk at the Odeon and putting on our headline show at the Waratah.

You managed to play your first overseas shows late last year. How did this come about and how did it go?

It went super well - we had always planned a gap year trip after Finn finished college and Allan finished uni. We started by basing ourselves in the UK, with Finn’s British family helping us settle in. We were lucky enough to work in a studio in London for a couple of weeks, and by night we’d try to check out as many gigs as possible. The scene for electronic music in London is insane, we had a hard time trying to stay in. We then began travelling through Europe and sat in on a number of jam sessions at jazz clubs along the way. The only instrument we could fit in our backpacks was a melodica - a

reed instrument with a piano keyboard powered by blowing into a tube. This coupled with the fact that Tasmania is an exotic location for Europeans gave us a good novelty edge at these jazz shows.

Highlights included playing with an amazing Brazilian samba group at La Cav du 38 Riv in Paris, and playing with ex-members of Sun Ra Arkestra at Das Edelweiss, Berlin.

Throughout these gigs, we made lots of new connections, including singer James Berkeley - who we recorded a video with in his studio in Brighton, England. The video is available to watch on YouTube under Close Counters - Just Friends. As we expanded our network more we began to get offers to play Close Counters shows. One of the best moments of our trip was when we got to play a packed show at the Soundhouse in Dublin. We were supported by two amazing local acts and had two singers and a guitarist join us for part of the set. This connection came from a weekend we spent in Ireland with fellow Hobart musician, Leo Creighton - who introduced us to a creative community of musicians called Common Grounds that operate in Maynooth, a halfhour drive inland from Dublin. We had such an amazing time and goes to show what a small world it is when our mate from Tassie could help us book shows on the other side of the planet!

Your SoundCloud is a mix or originals and remixes. Is there a different way you approach the creative process between the two?

Original songs are usually written based upon a groove or a chord progression that we create. Sometimes we make these together, or sometimes one of us comes up with an idea separately and takes it the other to develop. We then start building the arrangement together and then finish by writing a melody.

With remixes it’s the opposite, we will always start by isolating the vocals, and build the instrumentation around the melody. We’re firm believers that a remix should always recontextualise the original song by bringing something different to the table. This might be done by coming up with new chords, sounds or textures.

How do you distinguish between one of your DJ sets and a ‘live’ set?

In our live sets we play all original songs and remixes, and try to include as much live instrumentation as possible. This includes live keyboards, synthesisers, guitar, bass, drums and percussion - or just anything we can get our hands on when we tour. We always try to include some improvisation as we are both from a jazz piano background. We also sometimes invite guests to join us to perform, either fellow instrumentalists, singers, rappers or dancers.

In our DJ sets, we might slip one or two of our own songs in, but we mostly like to play music by other artists that inspire us, or music suitable for the vibe of the venue.

You’ve employed visuals into your shows. Do you find working with visuals very similar to audio, or are there marked differences?

The two are very closely related. For our shows, we just try to match the texture of the visual as close as possible to the feel of the song. As Finn has a background as a visual artist we are slowly trying to integrate more components of drawing and animation into our new visuals.

What are the big things in the world of Close Counters for the rest of 2017?

We are working on our upcoming instrumental mixtape which is built upon a number of samples we collected throughout our eight months in Europe last year. It’s heavy in soul vibes, with lots of synths and percussion. After that, we will be doing a commercial EP that is more house focused and will feature some guest vocalists. We’ll be playing new music from both projects at our headline show at the Waratah on May 20th.

NIC ORME

See Close Counters support Peking Duk at The Odeon Theatre on Saturday April 29 and then at their own headlining show on Saturday May 20 at the Waratah Hotel.

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ACTING UP TONGUE PLACED FIRMLY IN CHEEK, TIM ROGERS HAS ANNOUNCED THAT WHILE YOU AM I “HAVE BEEN BOGGED DOWN IN NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT A NEW GROUP HAIRCUT,” HE HAS RECORDED HIS SEVENTH “SECESSIONIST” ALBUM AN ACTOR REPAIRS. HE SPOKE TO US ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLABORATION, TOURING AND THE TRUTH ABOUT BEING “AT A VERY ODD STAGE IN LIFE”.

You’re touring An Actor Repairs to Hobart during May which is pretty exciting, not every nationally touring act adds a Hobart leg to their tour. Will you get any time to play tourist during your stay?

It’d be lovely to think I could actually just get away and exist, but just the nature of work at the moment is that I’ve kind of gotta grift and stay on the move and look for other shows. Which is definitely not a complaint, I think I’m kind of hard wired for that kind of life. The only disappointing thing is when you don’t get to spend time with people that you love and you’re consistently just saying “Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.” And I’ve got very, very close friends down there. I mean I can maybe grab an hour in between soundcheck and show to find a good bookstore or a record store but usually not. I think I also prefer to just work on some writing or otherwise when I’m not required at a venue. But having said that I mean

if someone says “Hey, there’s great Guinness up the road” then that’s where I’ll be.

You’ve had these songs floating around for two years. Having invested that amount of time with them, was there a particular feeling or mindset you hoped your audience would walk away with, upon hearing the album in full?

I don’t really think about any possible audience to tell you the truth. I think it’s a dangerous method of thinking to get into. I have to make records and write songs that I enjoy myself and then if Shane (my producer) likes them or Davey, or the You Am I guys like them, that’s got to be the reason to continue. I tend to jump into something else pretty quickly so I guess I’m not so concerned about audience reaction… it alters your performance and doesn’t make you a very pleasant person to be around if you’re considering how other people are receiving you.

I’ve released things in the past and I’ve thought “Wow man this is it. This is great!” and you kind of have your ears open…then there’s nothing but the roll of tumbleweeds and silence. But if you don’t go looking for it, it tends to happen. It’s been odd lately ‘cause people I’ve run into have said, “Hey Tim, that Youth song, wow, it’s really in my head”. I got a message from Kim Salmon who’s been a huge hero of mine for 35 years, saying just that. That gives you energy, the fact that someone you really adore, a hero, likes what you do.

There are some beautifully swelling vocal harmonies as well as string and woodwind parts on this album. How collaborative was the writing process with Clio, Xani, & Davey?

They’re very close friends. I’m touring with Clio and Xani and I think that I re-wrote things having them in mind. I’d write things to about 70 or 80% and leave a little bit open so that we could discuss it. With the song Age, I asked Clio to play piano on it and at a certain point I just wanted her to throw the script away and harmonise…all the way out. I like the couple (the characters in the song) to drift off into their uncertain alcoholic future. It was really thrilling you know, Shane and I were in the control room just moving this harmonic part. It was like watching Bill Evans or something (the jazz pianist) who I adore. If I’d have opened the door and Nina Simone was there it wouldn’t have surprised me.

Theatre seems to be a quite a theme in your career of late with your What Rhymes with Cars and Girls production also touring Australia this year. An Actor Repairs is mostly concerned with analysing the twilight years of an ageing actor; subject matter that would comfortably lend itself to a theatre production. What stopped you from going one step further and creating a fully blown theatre production around these songs?

I read the script that I wrote. [Laughs] It was initially written as a monologue ‘cause I was asked to write a piece for a theatre company down here. I worked on it and worked on it and one night I’d just had a couple and read it and thought “Mmmm it’s just not quite there yet.”

And so at the same time I was writing songs that had a similar theme … but a bit more personal because I’m kind of at a very odd stage in life where you know, you’re kind of closer to the end than to the beginning. I didn’t want to complete the whole project and get it all tied up and work with a dramaturge, I just wanted it a little open ended. I kind of wanted someone like and Aidan Fennessy to tap me on the shoulder and go “Hey Tim, I’ve written it”…and then we’d start collaborating.

Does writing an album around this subject matter and touring in a way that incorporates songs from different times in your life encourage you to personally reflect on different chapters in your own career?

Well oddly enough we’re actually doing a lot of songs by other songwriters as well; Dietrich, Simone, Newman, Wainwright. And we want to do those songs because Clio, Xani and I do them for fun. And I kind of resent in a way that tours go out and promote a record. It seems a little but too product orientated you know like “Here’s our new record!” So the show’s pretty much all over the place and because of that I don’t really get the opportunity to reflect on what I’ve done because a lot of the time I’m taking on characters from other people’s songs. I want to create a performance where it’s maybe a little bit baffling, then pleasing and also a little bit aberrant. I like each night to be a little bit different and to not condescend to audiences. I don’t want to treat audiences as prospective buyers.

AMANDA VAN ELK

Tim Rogers plays Hobart’s The Goods Shed on Wednesday May 3. Tickets available via www.moshtix. com.au. An Actor Repairs is out now.

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TRUMP DUMP PUNKS ARE MAKING TASMANIA GREAT AGAIN The infamous Uni Revue is back to weird us out for the 70th consecutive year and as Australia’s longest running Uni Revue, it’s their prerogative to offer audiences a gift in celebration of their own birthday. Naturally, that gift will be the chance to ‘Take a Dump with Trump’. At this year’s Uni Revue Make Tasmania Great Again, audiences will be invited sit next to an image of President Trump and post their photos on social media with the hashtag #takeadumpwithtrump. We chatted to Uni Review Co-Director Harrison Smith about the Uni Review’s controversial history and their indisputable loyalty to political subversion, toilet humour and boobs.

This year The Uni Revue is set to parody Donald Trump as well as most things Tasmanian.

Where are the writing team drawing their ideas from and how are you going to weave American politics into a Tasmanian landscape?

(and particularly this year), has been based on direct feedback from our viewers.

The writing team consider themselves fortunate to have a character like Trump. They’ve found there’s a smooth transition between his persona, actions and the ability to be able to parody him in performance. As for how he is weaved into our little island and Australia? These relationships are just something that has to be seen to be believed.

That’s a difficult question to answer easily. We’ve definitely created a lot of Revue friends and fans over the years. This year we are doing a survey to garner greater feedback, help build bigger Tasmanian audiences, and give them a giant dose of what they love – innovative Tasmanian Comedy! The difference with the production this year is we’re tracking the results and applying the gathered information to future Revues. This will be a great way for it to remain fresh and relevant for years to come.

The Uni Revue is the oldest Revue in Australia and it’s turning 70 this year. What can the Tasmanian audience expect in celebration?

The audience can expect a ‘back to basics’ approach to this year’s show. Whilst there are only subtle mentions of it being our 70th, we’ve chosen to celebrate by ensuring we’re hitting on all of the traditional parts of a Uni Revue our audience loves again. We’re aiming to bring back audience members who haven’t recently seen a Uni Revue and we’re trying a few new things we think future audiences will love.

70 Years is a long run, particularly in theatre entertainment. How has the Uni Revue remained sustainable?

The Old Nick Company prides itself in creating fresh new content for the Uni Revue and all of its other shows. We always encourage new faces and ideas, which keep the Uni Revue sustainable.

We also rely on feedback from our audiences and take that feedback directly to the stage. A lot of what has remained or changed over the years

And what do you think it is about the Revue that keeps patrons coming back year after year?

Do you think it’s more difficult this day and age to shock theatre audiences?

These days, with the rise of social media it’s becoming harder and harder to shock the audience, as anything can be found online at the click of a button for free. But we strive to make the characters relevant and relatable and ensure that we don’t insert “shock for the sake of shock”. We still want it to have context and comedic relevance.

As a first time Co-Director what have your main challenges been this year?

The biggest challenge I’ve found while working on this show has been trying to create a cohesion between how the Revue has been previously and how we are trying to change the show to keep it new, fun and exciting. Another challenge would be that as Co-Director, i’ve been learning all the do’s and don’ts of directing a Revue. This show is completely different to any other show because in Revue you create the entire show from the ground up, long before you even audition for a cast.

What do you think your performers love the most about performing in the Revue?

The Uni Revue is a unique part of Tasmanian Theatre. If you’re involved as part of the production team or as a performer, you’re instantly part of a fun and historic culture.

Whether it’s your first year or your fifth, you’re surrounded by good energy and good vibes and ultimately that’s what we aim to project to our audience every night. There’s also the fact that it’s more than just a bit addictive. It’s pure fun.

Indeed, I’ve heard there are some pretty outrageous cast parties with themes like ‘Blood of Christ’, ‘Harvey Wall Banger’ and ‘One Hundred Shots’. How would you describe the cast culture in Revue?

We definitely work hard. There are periods where the whole team is exhausted from the combination of effort, energy and performance.

Performance is our primary focus, then there’s the after show down-time. We work hard, and some (not all) of us party harder. It’s mainly a few good drinks to celebrate a great opening night, or the end of another great Revue season.

Have you thought about having a second display set up in theatres where your audiences can take a dump ON Trump? I think that would also prove a popular hashtag.

We’re very excited to adopt the concept to dump with Trump. It’s the first time we’ve had something of this nature in the foyer of our shows…and as far as ‘Dump ON Trump’ goes… it could be a stroke of genius. I think we’ll keep that up our sleeve for the future.

AMANDA LAVER

The 2017 Uni Revue runs from May 12 - 27 at the Theatre Royal, Hobart and then travels to Launceston to the Princess Theatre May 31 - June 3. Tickets for the shows are available from the venues.

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DRACULA THEATRE GROUP SHAKE AND STIR HAVE BEEN SMASHING OUT FUN, CONTEMPORARY SHOWS FOR OVER ELEVEN YEARS NOW AND THIS YEAR THE GROUP HAS SET OUT TO PUT ON ONE OF THEIR MOST EXCITING SHOWS YET, A FAITHFULLY ADAPTED VERSION OF DRACULA. WE SAT DOWN WITH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR NICK SKUBIJ TO DISCUSS THE SHOW AND ALL ITS GLORY.

What made you decide to start up Shake & Stir?

Well we have been around for 11 years now, so Shake and Stir back in the day was an opportunity for the three of us, who were actors at the time, to create some work for ourselves. As an actor it’s really tricky to get work and there’s not a lot of work going around and a lot of actors wanting it, so we thought instead of waiting around for auditions let’s put together a bit of a collective, a company consisting of the three of us, Ross, Nelle and myself, who still run the company, and let’s put our own stuff on!

What has been your favourite show that Shake & Stir has put on?

Dracula is a favourite. That’s not just because it’s our current one. We also just recently did a production of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ which was the beginning of the Australian version of the Broadway musical that was on broadway a couple of years ago. That was Shake and Stir’s first full-scale musical theatre piece, so that was a really enjoyable process of scaling up the work of the company a lot. We have done a lot of touring theatre productions with casts of 6 or 7 but this was a full on production with twenty people on stage and a full band. So that was a really great experience, watching the company that we started 11 years ago produce this behemoth show and it was a much greater scale than stuff we had done in the past so that was great.

There was also Wuthering Heights that went on tour last year which I directed and wrote, that was also another really cool experience. I mean there’s so many favourites, it’s like choosing a favourite child. Every show you do, you invest everything in and you want every show to be the best

show and you want that show to be better than the last so you’re always striving to create something that’s special and something thats going to really resound with audiences. But Dracula is a hell of a lot of fun.

Why did the company choose to put on Dracula?

Dracula has always a been a bit of a favourite story of ours, me personally I read the book when I was in high school and I remember we had to study it and we looked at it from the perspective of gothic literature, whatever that means, and I struggled with it when I read it because it’s in this format where it’s all in letters so the novel is reading these letters and journal entries in your head, extracting the story and putting it all together and I thought that was very interesting from a writers perspective because it gave myself and Nellie that challenge when we were adapting the novel into the play to really piece together our version of the story.

The novel gave us a lot of challenges, theatrically, having to realise this Transylvanian landscape and we wanted to make sure that if we ever did it on stage that we had to be quite bold with our design choices, we wanted the audience to be very much immersed in it, to really believe in it and invest in the story. And with movies like Twilight coming out and vampires becoming cool again we decided we wanted to take audiences back to the most famous vampire story.

Can you tell me a bit about the cast and crew for Dracula?

We have got a great cast of six, we’ve got David Whitney who plays Van Helsing who has a wealth of experience in major musicals all over the country and he’s just come out of My Fair Lady with Dame Julie Andrews. David is a great friend of the company and a fantastic actor in the role of Van Helsing We have Nelle and Ross who have come back to join the show again from the original season. Ross plays Jack Seward who is Van Helsing’s right-hand man and Belle plays Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker’s fiancé who Dracula hones in on and has a bit of a fascination with and starts to stalk her throughout London which then becomes the story. Ross really brings a sensitivity to the role of Jack and him and David have some of the best scenes throughout the play. Then we’ve got two new cast members that are joining us, we’ve got Michael Wahr whose a Melbourne based actor and Adele Querol who is a Sydney based actor, and they have both come into the show and bought a really great energy.

What can people expect when they go to see Dracula?

I think first and foremost people can expect to see the book faithfully bought to life on stage, we haven’t tried to reset the story or do anything to take away from Bram Stoker’s novel. It was really important to us to keep the integrity of the original novel. But hopefully audiences will be surprised by the sheer scale of the show, it’s a full on massive show for a theatre piece. It’s got a ginormous double-story gothic castle set on stage, were not talking about a painted curtain backdrop, we have an incredible crew who has built us this amazing stage. We have beautiful lighting design and we really wanted to create a lavish, scale-size production that will really blow people’s minds. So they will see a very faithful adaptation brought to life on a realistic stage, it will be the biggest set that a lot of people have seen. It’s really exciting for us to tour these massive productions so that people in both capital cities and regional areas are getting a full scale show, faithfully adapted from the Bram Stoker novel.

MACKENZIE STOLP

Dracula runs two nights at the Theatre Royal in Hobart - Wednesday June 14 & Thursday June 15. Tickets are available from www.theatreroyal.com.au.

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PAIGE TURNER A FEW WRITERS I AM LOVING AT THE MOMENT ARE LIDIA YUKNAVITCH AND LUCIA BERLIN. YUKNAVITCH’S NOVEL, THE SMALL BACKS OF CHILDREN IS CHILLING AND BEAUTIFUL AND VIOLENT AND SEXY; IT’S ABOUT BEING AN ARTIST AND ABOUT HOW ART CANNIBALISES LIFE. ADD SOME LUCIA BERLIN INTO YOUR LIVES TOO, HER SHORT STORIES, COLLECTED OVER MANY YEARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN A BOOK CALLED A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN. BERLIN HAS A WILD ENERGY IN HER WRITING (AND HER LIFE TOO, MANY OF THESE STORIES ARISE FROM LIFE) AND SHE CUTS THROUGH ALL OF THE FLAB OF THE WORLD, WITH A SENTENCE OR TWO.

Zealand. This is the Spring 2017 issue (indeed, the world is upside down, but it is Spring in Atlanta).

Recent local work that is excellent includes Seven Stories, a collection of short stories edited by Ben Walter that houses some of the best writers in Australia, who happen to reside in Tasmania, and Jesse Shipway’s difficult and challenging In Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013, Scars on the Archive.

Event wise, and as usual there are lots of offerings from around the state. Let’s start down south, at Kickstart Arts and as part of their fabulous program, Creative Exchange. On May 23 at 6.30 Yoav Bar-Ness from Tasmanian Geographic will be teaching tools on how to craft an engaging narrative with a focus on adventure and memoir. You can explore how nonfiction can best utilise the tools of fiction writers.

Thirty bucks, bookings essential - www.kickstart. org/cx. Kickstart are also calling for people to run courses in anything creative in the world to “teach what you love and get paid”.

Ivy Alvarez, poet, via Tasmania, via Wales, via Philippines, via New Zealand, has edited an edition of Atlanta Review, which contains general poetry submissions, as well as poetry by writers from New

Publishing comrades in Thailand, Crime Wave Press are about to publish two new books, one an anthology by Andy Rausch, a Hollywood screenwriter, Riding Shotgun and Other American Cruelties. The other is a noir-esque thriller a la Dennis Lehane by Tony Knighton, Three Hours Past Midnight.

Check out more at http://www.crimewavepress.com/ I normally focus on celebration of writing and events in Tasmania, but I seriously celebrate all small publishers from around the world. Check out their nifty vid here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9qb7iYIW8g.

Last month I was fortunate to attend a full day amongst inspirational people discussing Creative Activism.

Organised by Victoria Ryle, Sara Wright and Simon Spain as part of ‘All That They Are’, I am still percolating. Karen Revie was one of the artists I met. She has spent a long time in the visual arts and is returning to writing of recent times, and she’s off to Flinders Island to write, as an artist in residence at the Mountain Seas Artist Retreat. Karen’s artistic process involves the investigation of magic in science and science in magic. Her current writing project is a fantasy narrative about dragons and is a literary compliment to Draco, a permanent public sculpture by Karen on the grounds of QVMAG. My interest is piqued www.mountainseas.com.au/residency.

The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is gearing up towards the September festival and in May are offering a workshop with the erudite, experienced journalist, Claire Konkes.

This workshop is on May 21 and will cover the following; writing profiles, magazine features, reviews and opinion, how to pitch articles and get paid, how to structure magazine features, including literary devices, elements for effective writing and also working with sources. I think this is a seriously good opportunity, Claire has the knowledge and is able to convey it effectively. The Writers Centre, in collaboration with Recognise and National

Reconciliation Week are hosting a good looking session on May 30 at the Moonah Arts Centre, with speakers including Uncle Jimmy Everett, who I had the pleasure of meeting at Nayri Niara good spirit Festival, and New York Times correspondent and author of The Memory Bones, Caroline Brothers.

Hobart Bookshop are delighted to host an event to celebrate the release of Robert Dessaix’s newest book, The Pleasures of Leisure. Robert will be in conversation with writer Adam Ouston (whose PhD thesis focussed on Dessaix’s work) at the Salamanca Inn on Monday May 8th. The bar will be open and you’re come along to hear these two writers in conversation – it promises to be a leisurely and pleasurable evening. This is a free event from the ever generous Hobart Bookshop. Respect. www.hobartbookshop.com.au.

Finally, Transportation Press, a space where I spend quite a bit of time, has extended the deadline of their international microfiction competition, Smoke, until May 16. This comp is generously sponsored by Fullers Bookshop and has $800 in prizes available for your 320 word piece of fiction. Get amongst it – www.transportationpress.net.

RACHEL EDWARDS

If you have any book or writing news please drop me a line - racheledwards488@gmail.com.

FILM

STRANGER WITH MY FACE THE FIFTH INCARNATION OF STRANGER WITH MY FACE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WILL RISE OUT OF THE DARKNESS IN HOBART FOR A FEW LONG NIGHTS IN EARLY MAY. BASED UPON FEMALE’S PERSPECTIVES IN GENRE FILMMAKING, WITH A FOCUS ON HORROR, THE FESTIVAL WILL INCLUDE A MIX OF FEATURE AND SHORT FILMS, ART EXHIBITION, INDUSTRY EVENTS AND A SYMPOSIUM.

Highlights of the 2017 program include the Tasmanian premiere of the all-female horror anthology XX with an appearance of one of the filmmakers, Roxanne Benjamin; a retrospective of New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston; and a screening of Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs in the presence of its cinematographer, Sandi Sissel ASC. According to Festival Director, Briony Kidd, “Stranger With My Face is a place for newcomers get their films seen and to meet like-minded artists, but it’s also very much about highlighting older work that’s ripe for rediscovery.”

Outside the screenings, the Festival also includes the filmmaker development program, the Attic Lab, now in its second year. With mentorship provided by festival guests Gaylene Preston, Sandi Sissel and Roxanne Benjamin, aspiring filmmakers and film buffs can gain a greater perspective from industry trailblazers.

Stranger With My Face International Film Festival runs May 4 – 7 at the Peacock Theatre in the Salamanca Arts Centre. More information on the festival plus tickets can be obtained at the website - www.strangerwithmyface.com.

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A ROCK & ROCK WRITERS FESTIVAL - TOUR EDITION ON A RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN APRIL, BRISBANE BASED A ROCK & ROLL WRITERS FESTIVAL LAUNCHED THEIR FIRST TOUR EDITION EVENT AT MELBOURNE’S HISTORIC ABBOTSFORD CONVENT.

Arriving at the grand hall I found a seat up the back. On the seats were coasters with random song lyrics, I got - “Gimme your hands, you’re not alone” David Bowie 1972.

The ceremonies started fashionably late (on rock & roll time). The panelists throughout the festival were all high profile representatives from press, radio and music industries. The day presented a cohesive collection of four discussion panels, in the crowd was a mix of writers, songwriters and industry types.

A representative of the local indigenous tribe, led the traditional Welcome to Country ceremonies. It felt good to be reminded we were sitting on Aboriginal land.

The first panel ‘Place without a Postcar’” examined place impacting identity. They asked- “what is the meaning of home?”

And how who we are depends on where we came from, and how that shaped us.

How does that affect what and how we write? - does the experience of other places change the creative process?

Moderated by Nicole Hayes the panellists were Andrew Stafford, Bunna Lawrie, Mick Thomas.

The second panel ‘This Wheel’s on Fire’ reminded us that memoirs can be factual, imaginary, personal, detached, amusing and distressing; as an imperfect recollection of the past, can they be relied upon? Do we have to read between the lines to find the author’s real meaning and intention? Moderated by Andrew McMillen the panelists were Jenny Valentish, Hugo Race, Rob Snarski.

The discussion on memoir from the writer’s perspective was particularly intriguing. Topics covered included the representation of others in memoir and

how writers deal with death and addiction in writing. Is there such a thing as too personal? I am now excited to read the panelists’ books!

The third panel, I found the most challenging- ‘Nothing Can Hurt Me’. On one level, reviewers of music deal solely with an art form or an experience. On another, they reveal how art informs who we are and when done well, provide us with a context for the times. Moderated

by Jenny Valentish the panelists were contemporary music critics Michael Dwyer, Andrew McMillen, Kate Hennessy, Mikey Cahill. Reviews and music critique were discussed including what works what doesn’t, and what’s conflict of interest. What happens when white people review indigenous shows, and what’s being done to give Aboriginal women the skills to review their own cultures events in the mainstream press. What about white privilege?

In the final panel ‘The Comfort of Madness’, songwriters gave a detailed and humorous look into the mind and the motivation around songwriting and the conscious expression of subconscious thoughts, fears and desires through words and music. Moderated by Dom Alessio, the panelists, Jess Ribiero, Mike Noga and the inimitable Cash Savage discussed their creative processes to an attentive audience. Do all the songs live in the sky and you just have to simply pluck them down to earth? I wondered, were songs really spells?

Be sure to catch this fabulous event next year!

ZOE ZAC

www.rockandrollwritersfestival.com.

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FLAME TIP - SHORT FICTIONS

BY KARENLEE THOMPSON FLAME TIP IS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES THAT PIVOTS AROUND THE DEVASTATING 1967 BUSHFIRES THAT RIPPED THROUGH SOUTHERN TASMANIA, LEAVING 62 PEOPLE DEAD, 900 INJURED AND OVER SEVEN THOUSAND HOMELESS. THESE FIRES HAVE BEEN SEARED INTO THE TASMANIAN PSYCHE AND, FIFTY YEARS ON, EVEN AS HISTORY DRAGS THIS MOMENT IN TIME AWAY FROM US, TASMANIANS ARE HYPER VIGILANT AND AWARE OF LESSONS LEARNT FROM THOSE DAYS.

an edge of spite to them, though the cuckolded woman is the victor. They do seem to be a little raw though, a little as if it has been written as a revenge story, and this detracts from the reading experience. They feel burdened.

Those attributes, which could be as a result of trauma suffered by the community more broadly, have meant that recent suburban and peri-urban fires and the damage wrought is felt more keenly, but also that they have been responded too more wisely.

In her introduction, Karenlee Thompson borrows from the Nobel Prize winning Chinese writer Gao Xingjian, and talks about presenting a version of truth ‘under the mask of fiction’, and this does leave the reader to wonder what aspects of the stories are autobiographical, but that is superfluous, really, as these stories generally, save a few, have a good narrative arc and propel the reader onwards.

I often get nervous reading new short fiction, as it is rare to find true gems amongst any literature, even rarer amongst the smaller population of writers in Tasmania. I breathed a sigh of relief after the first story in this collection, confident that Karenlee Thompson can construct a solid story and take the reader on a short journey with her prose.

These stories hum a good tune, and are generally well constructed.

The book also has a foreword by David Walsh, with typically wonderful and obscure references, which has surely lead more people to pick up a book of short stories, which is a good thing.

As mentioned, the book’s stories pivot around the ’67 bushfires, but they also cover the territory of domesticated life, love and romance. Some of them delve into deceit and one of them, The Keeper of the Satchel, fairly distinct in the collection, delves into a man’s mind as he creates a new dictionary, a dictionary that better reflects his understanding of the world. A recurring theme is the burnt, or deceived woman, which is treated with a small element of bitterness in the poignant story, A Bird in the Oven, where a wife is left by a husband, dizzy with a new woman, and the story follows her personal regeneration, and that of her family.

The fact that the book pivots around the fires is tricky territory, as this book’s readership will predominantly be in Tasmania and to bring a version of fiction to an event that is painfully true for many, is brave, and ultimately healing.

We must, however, consider that the fire has been carried on, through living memory and even through epigenetic dispersal (not to get too Walshian on you’all) and that to bring it front and fore not only offers space for healing, but also for pain to arise.

Alongside the destruction of fire and ensuing loss are other motifs including the tacky ex-husband. These stories have

RACHEL EDWARDS

A SHAKE & STIR THEATRE CO AND QPAC PRODUCTION

Dracula

By Bram Stoker

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Gallery

performing arts

Guide

Guide

South 146 Artspace April 28 - June 2 10 Objects - 10 Stories: Celebrating Community Collections Bett Gallery April 28 - May 15 Neil Haddon May 19 - June 5 Annika Koops Contemporary Art Tasmania April 28 – May 28 Passages Colville Gallery May 2 Fine Art Auction May 5 Paul Boam May 7 Henrietta Manning (Gallery 2) May 26 Leanna Halls May 28 Julia Castiglioni-Bradshaw (Gallery 2) Handmark Gallery April 21 - May 1 2017 emerging artist - Olivia Moroney May 5 - May 31 New Paintings and Jewellery - Helene Weeding & Janine Combes Despard Gallery May 3 - May 28 The Animal Nights - Bertie Blackman and Helen Hopcroft May 31 - June 25 New Solo Exhibition - Josh Foley Salamanca Arts Centre Top Gallery May 3 - May 31Against the Dark Sidespace Gallery May 3 - May 8 Doing Time, Oatlands Gaol Residency May 9 - May 22 Linoleum May 27 - June 4 Art From Trash

Moonah Arts Centre May 4 - May 27 Light Recording - David Martin May 4 - May 27 Unique State TMAG Until May 21 Kanalaritja: An Unbroken String

NORTH QVMAG Until May 7 Steel Vignettes - Scott Gelston Handmark Evandale April 30 - May 17 New paintings - William Rhodes May 21 - June 7 New paintings - John Lendis Burnie Regional Gallery March 18 – May 7 Burnie Print Prize 2017 May 13 - June 25 Material Girl May 27 - June 25 Imagining food: art, aesthetics and design

SOUTH

NORTH

COMEDY

COMEDY

The Polish Corner May 3 Jokers Comedy Club: Amelia Jane Hunter, Ned Townsend, James Scheibner, Gavin Baskerville May 10 Jokers Comedy Club: Damian Callinan, Gillian English, Gavin Baskerville May 17 Richard Stubbs, Gavin Baskerville

Princess Theatre May 31 - June 3 Uni Revue: Make Tasmania Great Again

Republic Bar May 25 Comedy Clubhouse with Nick Cody

THEATRE

Theatre Royal May 6 Julia Morris: Lift & Separate May 12 - May 27 Uni Revue: Make Tasmania Great Again THEATRE

Royal Oak May 26 Fresh Comedy - Nick Cody

Princess Theatre May 3 - May 5 St Patrick’s College: Footloose May 24 - May 28 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Burnie Arts Centre May 13 Sensorium Theatre’s Oddysea May 13 Eurovision 2017 Live Stream

Peacock Theatre May 13 - May 14 INERTIA: by Hernandez and Tamayo & Special Guests Devonport Entertainment Centre May 12 - May 27 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Playhouse Theatre May 12 – May 27 Whistle Down The Wind After Dinner

Devonport Regional Gallery May 6 - May 28 North West Art Circle Annual Community Art Exhibition and Awards Gallery Pejean April 19 - May 13 Deeper Water - Robyn Harman May 17 - June 10 Another Way - Michael Weitnauer

Long Gallery May 27 - June 4 Art From Trash Studio Gallery May 6 - May 31 Blood Moon: Stranger With My Face International Film Festival

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PASSAGES CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA PRESENTS ITS 2017 CURATORIAL MENTORSHIP EXHIBITION, PASSAGES. UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF EMERGING CURATOR EMILY BULLOCK, PASSAGES BRINGS TOGETHER SIX ARTISTS WHOSE WORK RESPONDS TO THE CULTURAL LIMITATIONS IMPLIED BY TRADITONAL MAP MAKING.

Passages highlights the intimate meetings between people and places. The exhibition includes a mix of work, from video through to furniture design, by a group of artists, both established and emerging. Spread across Tasmania, Western Australia and the UK, artists Susanna Castleden, Vivienne Cutbush, Linda Fredheim, Julie Gough, Laura Hindmarsh and Pip Stafford have been selected due to their sensitivities around the representation of place.

image credit Susanna Castleden, Building the World (Mark II) 2013. Screen print, watercolour and gesso on rag paper. Approx 70 x 60 x 60 cm.

Photograph Robert Frith at Acorn

Passages opens at 6pm on Friday April 28, with a talk just prior by the curator and artists at 5.30pm.

The exhibition remains open through to May 28 at Contemporary Art Tasmania, Tasman Street, Hobart.

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

MAY Monday

1

Republic Bar & Café

Jed Appleton 8:30pm

Tuesday

2

Republic Bar & Café

Ross Sermons 8:30pm

Wednesday

3

Birdcage Bar

Kaye Paynes Presidential Suite 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy Sessions: Joseph Mackey, Backstick Agenda, Hugo Bladel 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Nic Meredith and the Blues Underground 8:30pm

The Brunswick

Tarik Stoneman 7pm

The Duke

Duke Quiz Night 7:30pm

The Goods Shed

Tim Rogers (Band) + Steve Smyth

The Homestead

Bo Jenkins 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Tim Davies 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Against Me! (USA) + Camp Cope (Vic) + Bansheeland 8pm

Irish Murphy’s

Thursday

Friday

4

5

Sunday

24

6

7

Acts / Start Time

The Homestead

Black Cat Jazz Trio

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed YIRRMAL featuring “Lonely Bay” as Support 1pm Monday

8

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Tuesday

9

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo (Farewell Gig) with The Rhythm Tragics & Guests 8:30pm

Wednesday

10

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Jamie 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy Sessions: Matthew Dames, Hannah May, Miss Jones Plays 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

The Brunswick

Elly Potter 7pm

The Duke

Duke Quiz Night 7:30pm

The Homestead

Tech Sessions in the Blue Bar

Waterman’s Beer Market

Matt Gray 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

Four Seasons 7:30pm

Art School Bullies 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

Boon’s Olive Church 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Patron Saints 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm

The Brunswick

Billy & Jamie 6:30pm

The Brunswick

Sam Forsyth 6:30pm

The Goods Shed

Tash Sultana

The Music Bar

The Homestead

Miss Jones

Quiz Night with Bodane Hatten 6:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

late Night Krackieoke

Brisbane Hotel

Federation Concert Hall

Beethoven’s Eroica 7:30pm

Dangerous Game + Ghost Drop + Feed Rick

Granada Tavern

Bo Jenkins 8pm

Federation Concert Hall

Angela Hewitt in Recital 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

Butter Sessions present Sleep D & Albrecht La’Brooy Live

Republic Bar & Café

Brett Collidge 10pm

T42

Hugo Bladel 5pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Raccoons 10pm

The Brunswick

Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm

T42

Hugo Bladel 5pm

The Homestead

Mocane

The Brunswick

Random Act 7:30pm

The Music Bar

Bridgy Pross 8pm

The Goods Shed

Dead Letter Circus

Waratah Hotel

Set Mo and Supports

The Homestead

Acoustic Fox / The Sketches / Ryan Garth / Emily Wolfe

Waterman’s Beer Market

Elly Potter 7pm

Westend Pumphouse

Dylan Eynon 6:30pm

The Music Bar

Gabriele Dagrezio 9pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Legally Blinde 7pm

Westend Pumphouse

Anita Cairns 6:30pm

Thursday

Friday

11

12

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed Dave Elliston Shanty Trio 6:30pm Saturday

13

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed Charlie the Fiddler 6:30pm Saturday

Venue

Birdcage Bar

Ani & Nick 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Greeley + Mouf & Gutz + Wombat + 3DP + Reflekt + Jestar Dahmer & Fierce + Statik + Stray + Burd Brain + SkurgeOne & Draz + Blaze + Odd Ones Out + Vokal

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Jamie 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Sleepyheads + Linc Le Fevre + Squid Fishing

Casino Bar

Sambo & Jimi 10pm

Federation Concert Hall

Angela Hewitt 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Polish Club 10pm

T42

Bridget Pross 4pm

The Brunswick

Legally Blinde 7:30pm

Casino Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

The Homestead

Lagoon Hill Zydecco + Frumious

Dunalley Hotel

Bo Jenkins 7pm

The Music Bar

Nadira & Friends 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Bad Pony 10pm

Waratah Hotel

Stefano Lubiana Osteria

Virtuosi - Mostly Mozart 11am

Bleeding Knees Club with Skate Wounds and The Hudson Cartel

T42

Nick Machin 4pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

No Balance Required 9pm

The Brunswick

Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm

Wrest Point Showroom

The Adele Songbook

The Goods Shed

Killing Heidi

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

The Homestead

The Vandals / Art School Bullies / YSLA

Republic Bar & Café

Jason Ayres + Supports 8:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm

The Music Bar

Gabriele Dagrezio 11am

Wrest Point Showroom

Harrison Craig 2pm

The Music Bar

Billy Whitton & Jamie, Bat & Jax 6:30pm

Waratah Hotel

The Hudson Cartel (single launch), Dark Matter of Storytelling, The Lawless Quartet

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca Clennett 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Republic Bar & Café

Tim Hulsman 8:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm

The Goods Shed

Ash Grunwald

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Monday

15

Republic Bar & Café

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

Tuesday

16

Federation Concert Hall

Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Helen Crowther 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Les Coqs 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy Sessions: Imogen Skye, Sam Marshall, Zena 8pm

Wednesday

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Date

Thursday

Friday

18

19

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Republic Bar & Café

Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Daniel Champagne 8:30pm

The Brunswick

Miss Jones Plays 6:30pm

The Brunswick

Jonathan Warwarek 7pm

The Homestead

Josh Deeble (Vic)

The Duke

Duke Quiz Night 7:30pm

The Music Bar

The Homestead

Tom Lee Richards (EP Launch)

Quiz Night with Bodane Hatten 6:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Matt Gray 7pm

The Odeon Theatre

The Smith Street Band

Wrest Point Showroom

Matt Ives & His Big Band

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Jimi 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

The Darlings 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Warner 8:30pm

The Brunswick

Billy & Jamie 6:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Crowther

Taberah (Album Launch) + GAPE + Zeolite + Atomic Riot (Vic) + Sudden State (Vic) + The Absolution Sequence + Sanctify The Serpent + Place Of Power

The Music Bar

Harry Edwards 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up (Reggae & Funk) 10pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

T42

Hugo Bladel 5pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

The Brunswick

Legally Blinde 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Golden Age of Ballooning (Qld) + Squid Fishing + Art School Bullies + Dark Dunes

The Homestead

The Seven Ups (Vic) + The Ivory Elephant

Waterman’s Beer Market

Elly Potter 7pm Patrick Berechree 6:30pm

Friday

26

Brisbane Hotel

late Night Krackieoke

Westend Pumphouse

Grand Poobah

James Parry, Ani Lou, Kat Edwards 9pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed Josh Deeble 6:30pm Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hobart Funk Collective 10pm

Casino Bar

Matt Edmunds 10pm

T42

Hugo Bladel 5pm

Federation Concert Hall

The Calming Sea 2:30pm

The Brunswick

Random Act 7:30pm

Onyx

Gypsy Rose 10pm

The Homestead

Hypnagog (Vic/Tas) + Juxta Pose + rBent + Piglet + Luti

Republic Bar & Café

Verticoli + Dog Dreams + Guests 10pm

The Music Bar

Nick Machin 8pm

T42

Bridget Pross 4pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca Clennett 7pm

The Brunswick

Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm

Westend Pumphouse

Billy Whitton 6:30pm

The Music Bar

Kat Edwards, Matt & Abby 7pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca Clennett 9pm

Wrest Point Showroom

100% Kylie

Republic Bar & Café

Jeff Buckley - 20 Years On 8:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm

Saturday

27

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed Tom Lee-Richards 6:30pm Saturday

20

Birdcage Bar

Adran Bryan Duo 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

“Something Different Variety Show” w/ Princess Tweedle Needle (Berlin) + Dead Maggies + Samora Squid + Le Fay + Vamp + Bodane Hatten

Sunday Monday

29

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:30pm

Wolfmother

Tuesday

30

Republic Bar & Café

Blue Flies 8:30pm

Wednesday

31

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Aaron 8:30pm

Granada Tavern

Hobart Brewing Company Live Sessions 7pm

Sunday

21

Republic Bar & Café

Standing Room Only - For The Fallen 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy Sessions Majella Eales, Madelena, Toby Straton 8pm

T42

Zac Henderson 4pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tim Davies 8:30pm

The Brunswick

Tim Davies 7:30pm

The Brunswick

Elly Potter 7pm

The Homestead

The Sheyana Band + Pete Cornelius

The Duke

Duke Quiz Night 7:30pm

The Music Bar

Kat Edwards 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Cam Stuart 7pm

Waratah Hotel

Close Counters with Lazer Baby

Waterman’s Beer Market

Legally Blinde 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Great Anticipators 2:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm

T42

Jed Appleton 2pm

Monday

22

Republic Bar & Café

Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm

Tuesday

23

Onyx

Catch Club 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Wednesday

24

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy Sessions: James Nutting, Bryce Tilyard, David McEldowney 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Michael Priest & Karly Fisher 8:30pm

The Brunswick

Karly Fisher 7pm

The Duke

Duke Quiz Night 7:30pm

The Homestead

Jamie Pregnel Jazz Quartet

Waterman’s Beer Market

Jonathan Warwarek 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Dave Sikk 4tet 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Senor Tabby 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Darlings 8:30pm

Thursday

25

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Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

MAY Wednesday

Sunday 3

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: Dark Dunes, The Planets Collide, Isaac Lethborg

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Miss Jones Plays 9pm

Watergarden

Tassie Tenor

Thursday

4

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Brad Gillies Blues 9pm

Friday

5

Club 54

Lip Sync Battle #12

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - When She Believes - Female Showcase 8pm

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier

Club 54

Dead Letter Circus, Cardinels, Actuality

RING RING

Sleep D & Albtrecht La’brooy (Live) 10pm

Saturday

Date

6

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Ash Grunwald Hammer Tour 8:30pm

Tonic

Gypsy Rose

Watergarden

Rino Morea

Sunday

7

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

10

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Jeremy Banjo 9pm

Watergarden

Leigh Ratcliffe

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Wednesday

31

Venue

Acts / Start Time

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Launceston Blues Club Jam 1pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Mic Night 9pm

Watergarden

Tony Voglino

NORTH WEST Date

Sat 6th Ash Grunwald - Hammer Tour ~ Boat Shed - moshtix.com Doors 8:30pm Sun 7th Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 5pm

4

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Don’t Come Monday

Friday

5

Devonport

House Niteclub

Will Sparks

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Ash Grunwald & Ian Collard

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Bonkas & Unique Beats

Forth

Forth Pub

Ringmaster’s

Thursday

11

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Trev Heins

Friday

12

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Ringmaster’s

Saturday

13

Burnie

Burnie Arts Centre

Eurovision 2017 Live Stream

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Delicious Takeover | Fresh til Death,Coby Watts,Check This,JFIZZ

11

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - James Walker Solo 9pm

Friday

12

Princess Theatre

Four Seasons 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Max Hillman Showband 9pm

Thursday

18

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Trev HEINS

Tonic

Groove FX

Friday

19

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Ringmaster’s

Watergarden

The Roller Rockers

Saturday

20

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Unit

Club 54

Set Mo + Supports

Ulverstone

The Wharf

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - The Embers 8pm

Tonic

Just Dance

Live Jazz @ The Wharf: Saxophonist Jack Beeche (Melb) 7:30pm

Watergarden

Trevor Weaver

Thursday

25

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Trev Heins

Friday

26

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Ringmaster’s

Saturday

27

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Dollop

13

Sunday

14

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

17

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Mr Andy Collins 9pm

Watergarden

Rino Morea

Thursday

18

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Daniel Champagne 8:30pm

Friday

19

Club 54

The Year Long Party

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Something Different Variety Show 8:30pm

Watergarden

Tassie Tenor

Club 54

The Year Long Party

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Guthrie + Guests LPCA Fundraiser 8:30pm

Tonic

Groove FX

Watergarden

Rino Morea

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

20

21

24

Club 54

Wolfmother + Carl Renshaw

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Launceston Jazz Club Jam 1pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Mary Shannon 9pm

Watergarden

Leigh Ratcliffe

Thursday

25

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - The Hat & The Horn 9pm

Friday

26

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier

Saturday

27

Club 54

Concert for Kev

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Blackstone Dukes 9pm

Tonic

Just Dance

Watergarden

Rino Morea

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Fri 5th When She Believes - Female Showcase ~ Boat Shed - $5 entry Doors 8pm

Acts / Start Time

Thursday

Saturday

Thu 4th Brad Gillies Blues ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm

Venue

MAY

6

Wed 3rd Miss Jones Plays ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm

TOWN

Thursday

Saturday

MAY

Wed 10th Jeremy Banjo ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Thu 11th James Walker Solo ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Fri 12th Max Hillman Showband ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Sat 13th The Embers ~ Boat Shed - $5 entry Doors 8pm Sun 14th Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Wed 17th Mr Andy Collins ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Thu 18th Daniel Champagne ~ Boat Shed - $15 Doors 8:30pm Fri 19th Something Different Variety Show ~ Boat Shed - $10 entry Doors 8:30pm Sat 20th Guthrie + Guests - LPCA Fundraiser ~ Boat Shed - $10 entry Doors 8:30pm Sun 21st L’ton Jazz Club Jam ~ Boat Shed 1pm Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 24th Mary Shannon ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Thu 25th The Hat & The Horn ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Fri 26th FRESH COMEDY - Nick Cody ~ Boat Shed trybooking.com Doors 8pm Sat 27th Blackstone Duke ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm Sun 28th L’ton Jazz Club Jam ~ Boat Shed 1pm Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 31st Open Mic Night ~ Public Bar - Free Entry 9pm

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