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Okidoki, so The Cat Empire are playing at MONA on Saturday November 29. They’ll be joined by the most awesome Tom Thum. More awesome will be that the show will be an afternoon show on the lawns on what will be hopefully a warm and sunny second last day of Spring. It’ll be an all ages event and tickets are now on sale via the MONA website. LINCOLN LE FOREVER
but whatever really, let’s just stick genre names to a wall and throw darts at it and then call them that. They’re a band with five voices, piano, bass, drums, guitars, ukuleles, accordions, violins, and probably a melodica and definitely a kazoo. Surely, there is a kazoo. They’re playing at The Homestead on Friday September 12, so if seeing bands with unnecessarily confusing descriptions are your thing, get along and be amazed! (They actually are a pretty damn ace band, I just need to drink a lot more coffee before I write these things) Tickets $10. TELSTRA - NATIONAL COVERAGE For the past 12 years, the Telstra Road to Discovery competition has travelled the land, unearthing music talent from towns big and small. Along the way, they’ve come across the likes of Jessica Mauboy, Melody Pool, Gena Rose Bruce, and Harry Hookey. In our little corner of the country, they’ve helped push along the careers of Jesse Teinaki, current winner Christopher Coleman, and others. This year the physical showcase heat will be taking place at the Republic Bar & Café on Thursday September 25. To enter, you’d better be quick. Entries close on Tuesday September 9. Jump on the Telstra Road to Discovery website and enter your deets, yo.
See him at the following locations: Wed. Sept. 24 The Republic Bar and Cafe, Hobart, 9 pm, Fri. Sept. 26, Royal Oak, Launceston, Sat. Sept. 27, House Concert, Hobart ... details tel. 0448758459, Sun. Sept. 28, MONA Gallery, 1 pm, and Sun. Sept. 28, Longley Hotel, 4 pm. CARAVAN OF LOVE
THEY GOT TIGER BLOOD, MAN The Tiger and Me, were described by Melbourne’s Inpress Magazine as “Cabaret/ Circus/Euro Indie Folk-Pop”. I can’t believe they didn’t call them “Hiphop/metal/punk/ dub/electro mainstream classical-pop”,
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BUCK THE TREND Mia Dyson has gone from strength to strength with the release of her album Idyllwild, which has just enough letters different to not be confused with Outkast’s 2006 album, Idlewild, Dyson’s album possibly has a tad less rap on it too. Anyway, Dyson’s album scored Double J’s feature album (Double J being one J less cool than triple J, dunno why these people aren’t aiming for at least five J’s) in May, and received critical acclaim locally and abroad, leading to an ARIA nomination and complete reinvention of her career. You’ll be able to see all that for yourself at Red Hot Music in Devonport on Thursday October 23, and at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Friday October 24. Tickets available from the venues!
Pugsley Buzzard continues to dazzle audiences far and wide with his deep funky grooves, rollicking boogie, blazing stride and dark hoodoo blues. With a voice that can make ladies sigh and grown men cry, his performances are guaranteed to booglarize ya and get ya jumpin’. Pugsley has just returned from a hugely successful Summer Festival Tour in Europe and USA promoting his latest album Chasin’ Aces that was recorded in the Crescent City last year.
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) is a Canadian alternative hip hop artist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant-garde influences. Terfry is also a radio host, hosting the weekday Radio 2 Drive show on CBC Radio 2 since September 2, 2008. On September 30, Buck 65 will be releasing his newest album, titled Neverlove. This will be approximately his 9000th release over the course of a
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Realising their talents at home, brothers Zech and Eze Walters looked to friend, Bowen Purcell, to provide the driving beat behind their tales of life, love and lemons to form, the now well known, Woodlock. After only a short stint of writing and playing the trio bought a caravan, painted it up, somehow got it registered and decided to go on an adventure up and down the east of coast of Australia taking their music with them to the streets of both rural and capital cities. The Caravan may not be making it to Tasmania this time round, but the three members of Woodlock will next month with a show in Launceston on Friday October 17 at Fresh on Charles and Hobart on the Saturday at The Republic Bar.
BUZZARDS AND STUFF Is anyone more deserving of the title “stalwart of the Hobart music scene” than Lincoln le Fevre? He’s been around forever, solidly putting in work and doing his thing, and we love him for that. We look forward to taking our grandkids to see him in the year 2057. Fortunately we can take ourselves to see him before that. Poison City Records are reissuing Lincoln le Fevre & the Insiders 2008 debut album 30-Watt Heart as a vinyl release, so to celebrate, they’re heading off on tour. They’ll be playing the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday September 5, and The Royal Oak in Launceston on Saturday September 6. Tickets available from the venues, jump on the book of faces
career spanning roughly 125,000,000 years. On Tuesday October 21, he’ll be playing at The Republic Bar and Café in Hobart. Tickets will be available from the venue. $15 presale, or $20 on the door. Thanks, Wikipedia.
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When Brian Eno (of all people) calls your band “completely surprising”, “original and quixotic” and says “I can’t say I’ve ever heard anything else like it!” you’re either really good, or really, really bad. Fortunately, he was talking about The Crooked Fiddle Band, and they’re really good. After rocking out at Dark MOFO and the Huon Valley Mid Winter Feast, they’re returning to Tasmania for the third time in a year. This time they’ll be playing a much more intimate show at The Homestead in Hobart on Friday October 24. Supports TBA, tickets are $12 presale (available via moshtix). Head along and catch some violin-led high-octane future-folk. BIBLE ROCK
old dogs but they still seem to be able to come up with new tricks. They are back in Australia to celebrate ten years of their Futures release and are bound to sellout every show they do. That’s a good trick. See them play the Hobart Uni Bar on Saturday November 15. Tickets are available from www.moshtix.com.au.
FROM SMITH STREET TO BRISBANE STREET Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band have announced they’ll hit the road this November to support their upcoming third full length, Throw Me in the River. No strangers to hosting international guests, this time they’ll bring along New Jersey’s indie-folk-punk sweethearts The Front Bottoms and English comrades Apologies, I Have None to round out a triple threat tour de force. See them at The Brisbane Hotel Wednesday November 19. AND ON THE THIRD DAY, THEY SHALL PLAY A GIG
The Mark of Cain have been rockin’ along for about 30 years now. That’s pretty damn cool. It’s been almost 20 years since their breakthrough album Ill At Ease (1995). That’s also pretty damn cool. Also kinda depressing. But lets forget how old that makes us feel and just be happy with the fact that we get another chance to catch The Mark of Cain in action. Yep, that’s right, they’re touring again, and they’ve included Tasmania in the list of places they’ll be hitting up. Saturday November 1 is the date, and the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart is the place. Tickets will be available from Ruffcut Records or the venue and online via moshtix ($38 + bf), support by Captives. Rock the hell out folks, this will be a big one!
Husky are a band with a dude that totally looks like Jesus. Well, the Jesus that the roman catholic church wants you to see. I’m pretty sure it actually is Jesus. Anyway, much like Jesus, they haven’t played many gigs of late. In fact, their appearance at the inaugural Panama Music Festival, was their only headline gig since 2012. Apparently this is by choice though, it’s not due to the amount of atheists in the modern music scene. Regardless, November will see the second (Third? Fourth? Who can keep count?) coming of Jesus and another tour by Husky. They’ll be playing at Hotel New York in Launceston on Wednesday November 26 and The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Thursday November 27. Hallelujah!
JIMMY BACK AT IT
BACK AT THE BASIN
old Basin Concerts, maybe it’s more like a relaxed sigh of life. Anyway, the Basin Concert Series is back, and that’s all you really need to know. I mean, apart from the rest of the details. Which I’ll tell you. Right now. Thursday January 1 is the date (That’s New Years Day!). The Basin at Cataract Gorge Reserve is the place (That’s the Basin!). 3pm is the start time (That’s gives you enough time to sleep off most of your hangover!). On the bill will be Xavier Rudd, Ash Grunwald, and Younger Dryas. Tickets are on sale now from oztix outlets. Numbers are limited, so don’t leave this one until the last minute.
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STAMPEDE TO FALLS
YOU KNEW IT WAS COMING MOFO have announced their dates for 2015. It’s in January so you have a solid 3 and a bit months to learn how to survive for a few days on no sleep and stock up on floral print skinny jeans and vests and cardigans and top hats or whatever the hell it is that people wear these days. Taking place from Thursday January 15 to Sunday January 18, the four day festival ticket will be packed with music and art, ranging from New York post-punk to Japanese girl groups, Mexican DJs, guitar orchestras, inflatables, and interactive sound art. It sounds very MOFOey, and therefore pretty gosh darn awesome. I assume we’ll be seeing you there, in fact, I KNOW we’ll be seeing you there. Because it’s rad, and so are you. ;) NOVEMBER IS OFFICIALLY BEER MONTH
The Falls Music & Arts Festival’s line-up is reaching dizzying heights with extra delights. As excitement builds for general ticket sales just around the corner, the fest has gone and dropped another batch of 24-karat artists playing across Lorne, Marion Bay and Byron this summer. Last weeks’ Ballot sales were met with unprecedented demand and have concluded with Lorne tickets selling out in record time. The festival has set aside allocations of all ticket types for sales commencing tomorrow, which will kick off at 9am AEST. For those of you wanting a head start they’ve put together an informative little checklist, take a peek.
The Tasmanian International Beerfest has made it to ten. Located at PW1 shed in Salamanca, the festival honouring the beer goods will run November 14 and 15. Hobart’s annual Beerfest is paradise for those who love beer and is a showcase for brews from around the world and some of our finest craft beer-makers. Expect over 300 different beers and ciders. Great beer. Fine Food. Jimmy Eat World are twenty years old. That’s old in rock years. They may be
The Basin Concert series has recently been given a new breath of life. Although, given the incredibly relaxed vibe of the
Serious Fun. Tickets on sale now at tasmanianbeerfest.com.au, with all weekend pass tickets bought before
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KINGS OF THE CASTLE CREATE, INNOVATE, INSPIRE, REPEAT. IT IS THIS ETHOS THAT HAS ALLOWED ADELAIDE’S HILLTOP HOODS TO CONTINUE TO RATTLE THE KEYS TO THE AUSTRALIAN HIP HOP KINGDOM. THEY ARE BACK WITH A NEW CHART TOPPING ALBUM, AND HEADING FOR WORLD DOMINATION. For 15 years, MC Suffa, MC Pressure and DJ Debris have been setting the Hip Hop scene alight. Their infectious beats have opened up hip hop to a more mainstream audience, gathering a wide range of ever increasing fans along the way. So watch out Hobart. The Hilltop Hoods are coming. Stage One and Two of their World tour (UK ,Europe and New Zealand) are done, Stage Three (USA and Canada) is in progress and Stage Four - the Cosby Sweater Tour of Australia - has just been announced as we track the boys down for a chat with MC Suffa. “We’re on a tour bus in Chicago. Today we saw Chicago play Milwaukee (baseball) at a sold out Wrigley Field - great fun and great hot dogs” With their new album Walking Under Stars debuting at number one on its release at the start of August, it looks like they are well on their way to hitting the platinum status achieved by their last four albums and have come a long way since they put out their first LP in 1999. This album is out under their own label - Golden Era Records. “It’s the companion piece to the album Drinking From The Sun. It’s a more soulful album for us, as we have worked with a lot more vocalists than ever before.”
“We’ve had help on this one from Maverick Sabre, Brother Ali, Drapht, Dan Sultan and Aarandhna.” “We recorded it mainly in Adelaide - at Takeaway and Suffering City Studios. We also recorded at the Red Bull Studios in London (with Maverick Sabre) and New York (with Brother Ali).” It’s been a pretty busy year for the Hilltop Hoods. Gigs, tours, albums and then there was also a mini doc that was filmed with Red Bull - check it out, you can find it on YouTube.
“We had a great time with the guys who put them together (Grindhouse) after Red Bull Flew us to London and New York so we could record 2 tracks in their studios.” The mini doc shows exclusive behind the scenes footage of the collaborations. The first single from the new album was one of these - ‘Won’t Let You Down’ - with Maverick Sabre. The past few months alone have included, June spent touring New Zealand, July in Europe, back for a quick gig at Splendour, a side step into Bali before hitting the States. “The tour has been amazing. We have really enjoyed playing tracks off the new album. It’s always great seeing new places and especially the festivals where we’ve been able to see some of our favourite acts, such as Dilated People and NAS. And we were in Berlin to watch the German’s win the World Cup - that was quite a party.”
And their favourite gig so far on the World Tour? “Splendour - we just love playing at the festival.” And they’ve played at some pretty cool festivals over the years, including Glastonbury, T In The Park and Open Air Frauenfeld. And now Stage Four of the World Tour The Cosby Sweater Tour of Australia has been announced, and the news is great. There are dates all over the country, from Alice Springs, Broome and Darwin, to Gladstone, Townsville and Dubbo, Capital cities and regional centres, but most importantly - Tasmania. On November29, Hilltop Hoods will be hitting Macquarie Wharf 2. To mix up the tour a bit, there’s also a stop by the GC600 V8 Supercars to headline the party. “We’ve played the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide twice now, so I guess it’s natural to play at the other big race in the Gold Coast.” The rest of the year looks to be stacked up with gigs, and 2015 is heading the same way. “From here on it’s basically just tour, tour, tour. And as far as next year goes it will be the same again.” And any last words from MC Suffa on the tour bus? “Don’t forget to check out the new Briggs record - Shep Life - and we’ll see you very soon Tassie.” KYLIE COX
Hilltop Hoods play MAC2 shed, Hobart Saturday November 29. Presale tickets via Oztix.
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JELLYLAND MELBOURNE DIXIELAND JAZZ FIENDS, THE ROYAL JELLIES ARE FLYING THEIR OWN BRAND OF NEW-MEETS-OLD-MEETS-NEW DOWN TO LAUNCESTON FOR THE JUNCTION FESTIVAL THIS SEPTEMBER. FRONT MAN, RAPHAEL HAMMOND TELLS ME ABOUT THE SOUNDS AND THE NAME AND HOW MUCH THE JELLIES LOVE TASMANIAN AUDIENCES.
It seems a set by The Royal Jellies isn’t just about whipping out time honored jazz standards. It’s about imbuing what’s modern with that sepia coloured feeling, including taking recent chart topping pop songs like Beyoncé’s All The Single Ladies and soaking them in prohibition gin. In an age of pop and rock, I was interested to know what it was about Dixieland jazz that attracted Hammond and the other Jellies to it. “For me personally,” Hammond tells me, “I just wanted to play some old school Jazz. I love listening to Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke and other old school artists. But from there I also wanted to do my own thing. So at the moment we do pop music with an old school context, so it’s a mash between the old school and the new school.” At full flight, there are 8 Royal Jellies all making the sounds. Hammond tells me that there will be only six at the Junction gig but that it will still be a sweet sound. While Hammond admits that he tries to curate the direction of the band, it’s often something of an experiment. “I picked songs out and said, let’s play this. And then sort of said let’s play our own stuff and put old stuff together with the new stuff and see what happens… Collaboration is integral to the whole thing though.”
The Royal Jellies have been to Tassie a few times. Once supporting Claire Bowditch’s national tour and again to raise moula for the Save the Tassie Devil campaign. “I felt like the Tasmanian people were just so warm and lovely and receptive to what we were trying to do. I’m really looking forward to the Junction Arts festival,” Hammond tells me with a laugh. “There has been a theatrical aspect in the past but whether our alter-egos will come out this time, I guess it kind of depends on a number of factors but either way it’ll be party fun times,’”says Hammond. “People cant help smiling, [our shows have a] real feel good kinda vibe. They like it.” But what’s in a name? Royal Jelly, Hammond tells me, is a natural antibiotic produced by bees and thought to have a wide range of medicinal uses. Because it makes you feel good, Hammond says, it was a good name for the band “because the music makes you feel good [too], it’s like a natural high but it could also be a euphemism for something else but I’ll let you use your imagination.” LUCINDA SHANNON Party-fun-times to be had with The Royal Jellies on the 10.30pm September 12, at The Junc Room in Launceston for the Junction Arts Festival.
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BASS WITH FUNK SPRINKLED ON TOP
First off the rank is AMB - a native of Hungary, he is currently one of the hottest names in glitch hop. AMB has been smashing out electronic music for 14 years now. He has released official remixes for Opiuo, Infected Mushroom, Fort Knox Five, Dirtyloud, and Russ Liquid and with over 80 records to his name, he certainly has the repertoire to be ranked amongst the kings of bass music, and in the words of the UK Glitch Hop blog; “could be seen alongside Tipper as one of the pioneers of what we now call glitch hop.”
HEY FUNKY PEOPLE, THERE’S A COLLABORATIVE BOMB OF EPIC PROPORTIONS ABOUT TO OFF AT THE HOMESTEAD THIS OCTOBER. THE LOVELY PEOPLE THAT BRING YOU FRACTANGULAR GATHERING ARE JOINING FORCES WITH THE SUB-LOVING WE LOVE BASS CREW TO PUT ON A SHOW OF SOME OF THE MOST GLITCHED-OUT, PSYCHEDELIC BASS MUSIC YOU WILL HEAR THIS YEAR!
Next up is CHESHIRE – Now based in Melbourne, this bass-loving Kiwi has always found his solace in producing electronic music. In 2008 he released the number one selling dubstep E.P. “Punk”, gaining a broad recognition within the genre. Over the past seven years he has developed his production techniques and style arriving recently to a point where bass and glitch meet jazz funk and soul. Now working with Adapted Records and after three top charting EP’s, Cheshire has recently released his first album “Simply Lifted” which has received a huge response around the world.
Fractangular & We Love Bass presents AMB + Cheshire – Friday October 3rd @ The Homestead, 305 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart. Tickets $15 on the door.
RAT ATTACK BRISBANE STONER-POP TRIO DUNE RATS ARE LIVING THE HIGHLIFE IN INDONESIA WHEN I REACH LEAD SINGER DANNY BEUSA VIA SKYPE, SOAKING UP THE SUN AND PLAYING GIGS IN EXCHANGE FOR BOTTLES OF SPIRITS. YOU CAN’T GET MUCH MORE DOWN TO EARTH THAN THESE GUYS, WHO HAVE TRAVELLED ASIA, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA AND EUROPE SO FAR THIS YEAR AS WELL AS RELEASING THEIR FIRST SELF-TITLED LP, BUT STILL REALLY JUST PLAY GIGS BECAUSE THEY ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. In the lead-up to their European tour, Danny wasn’t sure what to expect. “Europe’s so bloody cultural, people try cheeses and stuff! So we didn’t know how we were going to deal with it, but in Paris, when we got there it was just amazing, they looked after us and showed us all around. It was the same in all the countries (…) We were never used to venues really looking after us so it was just an endless sick time.” They enjoyed large-scale success at a couple of gigs, with 600 people showing up to their first Capetown show, and 200 at their London gig. They also, naturally, visited Amsterdam. “We saw the sights, the red light district, just for pure educational purposes, and then exploited their cafes a bit,” Danny says with a grin in his voice. Back in Australia, Dunies have completed one Australian tour and are about to start a second. Plus, their new killer single
‘Superman’ has enjoyed high rotation on Triple J in the past couple of weeks, although it’s a track that Danny didn’t have high hopes for. “That one’s a dark horse,” he says, “we recorded 14 songs and this one didn’t even have lyrics till the last day, or a vocal melody.” The song’s eventual success was down to producer Woody Annison, who Dune Rats met on the Children Collide tour and gave the party boys some direction. “[He’s] a legend! He was just like, ‘get in there, and sing whatever the fuck comes into your head!’ And that’s what’s so awesome about recording with Woody,” Danny says. Dune Rats’ first album wasn’t much of a sweat with the likes of Woody helping out. Danny says they wrote the album in a month at bass player Brett Jansch’s mother’s back shed, “and then recorded it in a week in Melbourne. Yeah. It was fucking awesome.”
When I bring up Brisbane’s blossoming garage rock scene, it brings out a lot of love in Danny. While there’s pressure in the music industry to get competitive with other bands, the politics smell a bit too strongly of bullshit for Dune Rats and they have a huge network of mates to share bills with. Danny explains, “BC [BC Michaels, the band’s drummer] in particular is someone who doesn’t give a fuck about status and that unintentionally worked to our favour because before, it was almost like a lot of bands were competing, but because we’re all mates it was like, fuck, we just fucking love each other.” ERIN LAWLER
Dune Rats play at Republic Bar, Hobart, on Saturday September 27.
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BREAKING THE ISOLATION EMMA ANGLESEY’S MUSICAL CAREER BEGAN WITH HUMPHREY B BEAR.
“My dad worked in radio, so when we were little kids, he’d have us come in on his show”. “Humphrey B Bear’s studio was next door, so we did singing and dancing with Humphrey B Bear, my memories of it are very blurry”. Emma will be launching her debut single Bike at the Junction Arts Festival. Emma lives in Launceston but her band is based in Melbourne. “Mostly I play gigs in Melbourne, which is actually really fine, cos you can get there in an hour and a half”. After growing up in Launceston, Emma spent time on the mainland and overseas, “when I got back mid last year, I just felt really inspired by the place”. “It’s an experience that lots of young artists have, when I was in my early twenties, I had to get out, to be able to fully express myself, away from my parents and my childhood”. “I did find that I got to a point living in the city, it’s really draining on your energy, you’re almost overstimulated”. “In an isolated place you have more stillness and time for reflection, so definitely being in Launnie makes my work a lot stronger”. “There’s this edginess about Launceston, it’s kind of dark, but it’s really beautiful at the same time”. “It’s always been a place that felt a bit conservative and a bit supressed”. And so what comes out of that, is people are just breaking free, so there’s that kind of energy in the place, I really like it, cos you kinda have to push it a bit, it’s a place of transition at the moment”.
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Emma has previously released one studio album and some live CDs. “With the other stuff, I liked it, but I didn’t believe in it enough to really put everything behind it, but with the new stuff, I’m really into it. I think that I felt like it’s worth putting a lot of energy behind it, and people seem to be connected to it as well”. “I just did a show with Brian Campeau in Sydney and there was this beautiful audience, they were all just totally silent when I was playing, they were giving me energy, and I was giving them energy”. “I just got to the end of that gig and felt so amazing, and I thought wow! that’s what this is all about, as the audience and the performer reach the point of that energy, and that connection. I’m so excited about creating and performing”. Bike is getting a lot of attention from Double J. “They’re playing the song which is so exciting”. I get tweeted by them every day, just to let me know they’re playing my song, cos they’re playing it four times a day at the moment”. “It’s really cute, because I haven’t really had much media play before”. “I like, ‘like’ them, they’re all just me and maybe one other person liking them, it’s a bit daggy”. EMMA LUIMES
Emma Anglesey plays at the Junction Arts Festival Friday September 12. She will also support Guy Pearce on his national album tour, details to be announced. For info go to www. emmaanglesey.com or www.junctionartsfestival. com.au.
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PEER REVIEWS & POLITICS PLAYING FESTIVALS, WRITING, RECORDING AND RELEASING A DEBUT ALBUM AND RUNNING A RECORD LABEL ASIDE, COURTNEY BARNETT IS REALLY EXCITED TO BE COMING BACK TO HOBART.
Before crossing the Strait to the welldeserved recognition that has since transpired (most recently she has been nominated for UK’s AIM Independent Music Awards Independent Breakthrough artist of the Year) Barnett spent her last two years of high school here in Hobart. Intentional or not, Hobart is where she kicks off her upcoming 12-gig Australian tour. Speaking in a relaxed drawl, Barnett tells of her recent two-week trip to North America with equal enthusiasm. “America was cool, was lots of fun” she says, casually noting her place on the line-up of Chicago festival Lollapalooza and Pickathon in Portland. “Big festivals with lots of people was kinda scary, we did pretty good I think. It’s just fun playing on those big stages; it’s a different energy than playing small club shows. Everyone’s in a different mood when they go to a festival, it’s different but it’s good.” Barnett admits playing to large crowds doesn’t make her as anxious as playing in front of her peers. “It’s more frightening to play in front of fellow musicians and peers than complete strangers. I guess because you’re looking for their respect in return. Melbourne musicians especially, [they’re] people who I spend all my time around and watching play,” she says. “At festivals when bands watch you from the side of the stage
it’s kind of fucking terrifying. It’s more terrifying than playing to the ten thousand strangers in front of you. It’s a weird psychological thing.” The Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas released last year was “recorded all over the place, in lounge rooms and studios and bedrooms” and when Barnett had the money. For her forthcoming debut album she took a different approach. “It was kind of written all over the place. It feels a bit more cohesive in a way,” she says, noting the importance of setting aside time and money to focus on the LP. The creative process for this release focused on doing her best rather than the creation of an album as opposed to an EP or a single. “It’s more about the process than worrying about making my first album; trying new things experimenting with new ideas and new ways of doing things. It’s more about being happy with what I’ve done and being proud of it myself. I’m really proud of it.” Started back in 2012, her label Milk! Records liberates Barnett from the restrictions and requirements of bigger labels. “I guess I’ve created it that way so I do have that freedom, it feels really good, yeah. I feel in a really lucky position to be able to - well I feel like I’m in a lucky position anyway - but to be able to call the shots in that way." Barnett admits Milk!
Records is not the most traditional record label or the most professional, she has lots of friends helping out. “Its extra hard work but I think it’s worth it to be able to do things your own way.” “We recorded the next album a couple of months ago and maybe I’ve grown a bit as a person, as a songwriter, as I’ve chucked a few very strong frustrations with the government on there,” reveals Barnett. “I feel like my stuff, in a very underhanded way, has always been kind of secretly along those lines, I don’t know if people pick up on it. You kind of can’t help it when it’s everywhere, taking over your world, ruining your world” she laughs. “It’s easy to kind of just brush it off and hope that someone else would fix it but I guess the point is that if we all talk about it then you realise you’re not alone in having those same frustrations. You realise that maybe everyone together can do something good to change it.” ANGELA NIKULINSKY
Courtney Barnett will play The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Thursday 25 September.
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NO BULL Four years after his last release, Andy Bull fans can finally get their mitts on his brand new record. Sea Of Approval redefines the gifted Sydney musician’s sound, bravely but smoothly taking on a complex and dark 80s pop feel. It’s a personal but poetic record that Andy took on entirely on his own.
It’s been a big lead-up to the release of this album, having been four years since Andy’s last EP, Phantom Pains. “Yeah, [it’s] definitely a massive relief,” he says, “and also [there is a] strange negotiation from it being totally private to then being more public and having to talk about it with other people. It’s almost a bit surreal, particularly this time.” After the last release, Andy decided not to work with a producer for the next record, and on Sea Of Approval for the first time he wrote, recorded and produced everything himself. It may sound like a jump into the deep end, but Andy insists that, “It wasn’t daunting. But it was sometimes confusing or difficult but also really good, it was exactly what I wanted.” “I didn’t necessarily know how I was going to do it. But I thought, I’m going to try anyway. And I’m going to turn myself into a producer. Which took some courage, and then confidence comes thread by thread as you make little steps towards it,” he says. He speaks about this weight of responsibility as a new experience rather than a massive challenge. “Playing all the instruments on the tracks, and being technician and writer and also being the guy who has to troubleshoot when the equipment stops working, a lot of that, the extraneous stuff, was new.”
something, maybe a more interesting approach. I don’t know what it was, but around that time I bought myself my first synthesizer and started using it. I immediately felt very strongly like I’d found an instrument [with which] I was able to say what I wanted to say, and it felt very personal to me.” We talk about the effective use of synths in modern music, and bands like Future Islands that manipulate the sound to one of tangible emotion, but Andy consciously avoided being influenced by contemporary music. “I really tried not to listen to too much while I was working,” he says, “because I didn’t want to be swayed too much by fashion, and in the space of a year things can change a lot and you don’t want to get caught up in it. I was really just trying to do something for myself, not to be a part of a particular moment in music or anything. I didn’t want to be confused.” That said, some of the classics from the late 70s and early 80s like David Bowie and Gary Newman are longtime influences for Andy. He says, “They weren’t of consequence now, they weren’t happening now, I liked them because I liked them, not because they were in fashion.“
Also new for Andy is the noted move away from his indie folk identity. Sea Of Approval is a fascinating exploration of the singer/ songwriter’s character, adopting the use of intricate samples and emotive, expressive 80s synthesizers.
While the record is spruiked as open and personal, I wonder to what extent this is true. “I would say it’s open but in a certain way.” He agrees. “I’ve never been interested in stuff that’s deliberately earnest, even though I’ve made in the past I may have made stuff that in moments came close to that. I don’t necessarily feel very comfortable with that, I don’t think it’s the best way to talk about your personal life.”
These were sounds that he connected strongly with. “I remember finishing that last EP and I was still looking for
Instead, Andy says, “It’s a degree removed from the event. So you’re being totally open but in a symbolic way. You’re not reading
my diary because that takes ages, we don’t have time for that, we’re dealing with sound. That speaks volumes. It’s cinema. It’s using objects to create meaning to create thousands of words to say.” Andy agrees that presenting such a personal body of work to the world can be confronting, especially when publicly analyzed. He says, “Some of the first reviews came in and they were like, ‘this is quite cold and distant,’ and they were almost saying it like they weren’t sure whether that was a good thing. And I was like, ‘but that’s kind of what I wanted.’” “So there’s that moment of adjusting like I have to divorce myself from that in a way, or accept them but not let it change the way I feel about it.” Sea Of Approval does, though, seem to have been quickly accepted into the Australian music community, with singles ‘Talk Too Much’, Baby I Am Nobody Now’ and ‘Keep On Running’ receiving heavy airplay. But for Andy, extensive touring aside, this project is as good as over, already opening up thoughts on the next record. “It’s definitely done,” he says, “and I would like to release more music. Who knows what’s going to happen but I would prefer for it not to be another four years before I release something!” ERIN LAWLER
Andy Bull plays at The Waratah Hotel as part of the Sea Of Approval Tour on Friday September 26, supported by New Navy. Tickets via Oztix.
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GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD GENRE-BUSTING TASSIE FIVE-PIECE CAPTIVES ARE ON THE ROAD TO GIVE US A TASTE OF THEIR UPCOMING EP BUTTERFLIES, DIAMONDS & LIGHTNING, SET FOR OCTOBER 3 RELEASE. AFTER HITTING UP THE BRISBANE HOTEL LAST MONTH, THEY’RE SET TO PLAY AT LAUNCESTON’S CLUB 54 ON SEPTEMBER 20 AND OCTOBER 4. DRUMMER MATTHEW DAMON CHECKS IN FOR A CHAT AHEAD OF THE GIG.
So, drums, hey? Tell me the story. When did you have your first hit? My first memory is creating a drum out of an ice cream bucket with a tea towel over the top of it to stop it from breaking – top idea at the age of eight. I’m definitely not the type of drummer who practices every day of the week; I’m actually lazy as all f#*@. I really don’t get enjoyment out of playing by myself. On stage, I try to just play with as much intensity as I can and express myself through my playing. I occasionally pull priceless faces and throw the occasional beer to the crowd, but it’s all ‘in the moment’ stuff. Your band is somewhat of a musical response to Tassie’s convict history (hence the name Captives). Why has our island’s past influenced your music making? We are proud of where we come from, and I guess Tassie’s convict past has somewhat given our name some meaning. It’s not to say that we are completely wrapped up in searching through the archives of our ancestors, but we wanted to choose a name that would paint a picture for people and ‘Captives’ to us just felt kinda cool in that aspect. It’s been said that Captives likes to shy away from being “shuffled into a box” in categorising the music into specific genres. How do you personally characterise your music? We really have no idea about what category of music we fall into. These days, there are so many types of genres that bands call themselves, there could be an acoustic duo that classify themselves as dramatic/ emotional/post-emotional folk, which makes no sense to us. So we thought, ‘why not come up with our own genre?’, which we like to call Tasmanian Forrest Horror. It’s just honest and aggressive music which we love playing and we just hope that everybody can dig it too. Tell me about Butterflies, Diamonds & Lightning. How did it happen? We joined forces with producer Tom Larkin (Calling All Cars, Strangers, The Getaway Plan) at Studio In The City. Tom has worked with us from the beginning and seems to have a knack of punishing us into submission until we write something that we are all happy with. We changed stuff, got angry, then got angrier and then we liked it and it was good. We love the punishment. It’s a love hate thing. We recorded the whole EP live, which can be a grueling process although it allows us to put out our real sound. We are so happy that people are jumping on board the new single ‘Insomnia’ and it’s always satisfying when you hear it from your fans and other bands that we are doin’ something people can dig. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
Captives will perform at Club 54 in Launceston on September 20 and October 4. Details at www. captives.com.au. They will also be supporting The Mark of Cain on Saturday November 1 at The Brisbane Hotel. In the meantime, download their new single ‘Insomnia’ for free on Triple J Unearthed.
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SET FREE TO FLY MELBOURNE SINGER-SONGWRITER HELEN CROOME IS GOSSLING – THE GORGEOUSLY GIFTED CREATOR OF DREAMY INDIE-POP TUNES. HER DEBUT ALBUM HARVEST OF GOLD WAS RELEASED IN AUSTRALIA LAST YEAR AND IS ABOUT TO MAKE ITS WAY AROUND THE UK AND US. HELEN TALKS ABOUT HER INSPIRATION FOR THE RECORD, WHICH INCLUDED COMING TO TASSIE TO GET “LONELY AND DEPRESSED”. BUT DON’T WORRY, IT’S NOT ALL THAT BAD.
Even though the record has been out for a year in the country, Helen admits she still feels the buzz of her big release. “I still feel in the head space of the record. It took me a long time to get to make a debut album so I’m happy with how it was received and I am really proud of it as a piece of work.” The album itself took quite a process, and with a plan to lock herself away from distractions, Helen came to Tasmania for a three week stint. Living alone in isolated Bicheno, she planned to get “lonely and depressed” for inspiration – though things didn’t go quite as she’d planned. “I went by myself, got lonely and depressed, and didn’t write anything. I was about a hundred metres from the beach, but I’d
spend most of the days sitting inside trying to write. I would really look forward to 5pm every day when I could make myself dinner and watch Big Brother and pretend that they were my friends, because I did feel quite lonely and sad, but the writing didn’t come with it.” Originally from Tassie, Helen moved to the mainland at a young age but travelled back to Tassie every year for holidays. Staying in her parents’ Bicheno house, she planned to fix her writer’s block and although she didn’t produce the music she wanted to, she still found it a “good learning experience.” “It made me realise that being by myself and secluded and away from the world isn’t how I can write. So it took me to come back to Melbourne again to start writing again.
THE TALE OF THE 24BIT GUITAR ORCHESTRA IT ISN’T ENOUGH FOR A BAND TO TALK OF HAVING WORLDLY INFLUENCES AND CHUCK IN THE ODD SITAR RIFF INTO A TRACK; INDEED, TO BE TRULY CONSIDERED A WELL-TRAVELLED MUSICAL OUTFIT, YOU MUST BE, WELL, WELL-TRAVELLED AND PAUL GEORGE, OF GOLD COAST INDIE-ELECTRO BAND TIJUANA CARTEL, IS JUST THAT.
Now I know that Tassie is just there to go for holidays and relax.” But why did Helen even want to get depressed in the first place? “Most of my songs have a sad element to them and it’s also the music I’m inspired by. I find happiness through other people’s depression.” Despite her inclination toward dark stories and emotions in her music, Helen is not actually an unhappy person at all. In fact, she describes herself as “the complete opposite.” “It does seem quite odd that I have a happy life but find it easier to write about sad events. I don’t find it too difficult to switch between the feelings – it’s kind of like an
Much of the band’s new album, 24bit Guitar Orchestra, was recorded in Bali and features Balinese Gamelan instruments and beats and sounds that speak of the locale. “We were living in Bali at the time” George explains. “It was in between tours, so we thought: “What better place to stay?”. We heard of an older muso living up the mountains who had a studio slash retreat so we headed up to check it out. We spent around two weeks recording there and chilling out.” Sounds divine. Another thing you will notice about the record is its stark lack of vocals. A rare thing in today’s musical climate, the album has barely any vocalisation on it; the band choosing to let the instruments speak louder than them. “We’d finished 12 tracks that were vocallydriven and we just couldn’t make up our minds on whether they felt right. After much thought, we decided to go back to what we had originally set out to do; which was fat beats with some exotic elements twisted in, from there the whole thing came together in more of a steady flow.” What began as a two-guitar band ten or so years ago, Tijuana Cartel has morphed into a synthy, multi-handed, electronic beast. Over the time, they’ve hit up festival tents and pub rooms alike and always tried to create happy ruckus with their etchy, darkened dancefloor beats. With 24Bit, they’re revisiting a lot of those days. “I think it’s good to re-visit your early influences” George states, on the ‘return to form’ album which sees the band flung
actor when they get into character and switch off when they get home for the day, I think that would be more difficult.” Helen is heading back to Tassie to share her charmingly feminine voice with us – but she’s certainly not depressed about it this time. “I’m excited to come back. I love Tasmania it has a special spot in my heart.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE
Gossling plays with 360 at The Hobart Uni Bar on Wednesday September 10. Tickets via the Unibar, Ruffcut and www.moshtix.com.au.
back to an older Cartel sound. “It was a way to remind ourselves of what it was that got us into producing music. We’ve been playing quite a few years now and we’ve moved so much, it was refreshing to realise where it all started.” Obviously you only need listen to the Cartel to know they put on quite the show, but I was curious as to how this new batch of tracks would settle with their fan base and newcomers; pop audience are used to singalong lyrics, and these guys are bringing instrumental to stages across the land. Will it work? “The songs work great live, mainly due to the heavy beat element” George explains “They’re very dancefloor-oriented and tie in nicely with the beats we’ve produced before.” Well, thank dog for that. Once the happy Cartel have obliterated floors around Australia on their upcoming tour (a big one, I might add), they’re jetting off to farther shores once again. “We’ve got a very heavy tour schedule ahead of us! We play nearly everywhere in Australia and then head to Europe and India and America next year. It’s all going very beautifully and chaotically.” Beautiful chaos...I like it. LISA DIB
24bit Guitar Orchestra is out now. Tijuana Cartel play The Republic Bar in Hobart on Friday September 19.
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Give The People What They Want NOW I FEEL BAD. SOUL DEITY SHARON JONES IS TRYING TO HAVE SOME OFF-TIME AND I’M BLUDGEONING HER WITH QUESTIONS ON THE NEW ALBUM AND THE AUSTRALIAN TOUR.
“I’m on vacation! I wanted to be fishing but I have to do these interviews” she says, not unhappily. “I’ve been going out at 4 in the morning and coming back at 8. I do want people to know we are coming though” A vacation is rightly on the cards for Jones who, last year, was diagnosed with cancer and underwent massive surgery and chemotherapy. This pushed back the release of their sixth and latest album, Give The People What They Want, but now both album and Jones are ready and raring to go. “I’m just grateful to be alive. New Years Eve was my last chemo treatment, they removed my gallbladder, a foot and half of my small intestines, I couldn’t even
walk straight from June to September; I couldn’t even walk the sixteen steps to my bedroom. You see the image I have on stage and to not have that energy was scary, but to see me now you wouldn’t even know I had that operation. I am cancer free as of today and hopefully for the next twenty years” Jones admits the no-doubt terrifying illness has changed everything. “I look at people different now, I just don’t want a bunch of negative nonsense around me, I just want positive things around me. My first day I was on my way to take the chemo, I was in this car with a friend, I broke down and started crying, it was like; “why me?” I was questioning God. You
need to take time to heal, take that time to get better. I just laid there, I didn’t listen to music, maybe a little gospel. What got me back was reading; reading stuff about cancer and the body and eating right. I’m being positive: “I’m gonna live”. On top of that, my fans: I got nothing but positive blessings and energy back and that pushed me, it was an extra boost.” A force for almost twenty years, Jones and the Dap-Kings’ music, as you should well know, is a slickly chaotic blend of soul, funk and r’n’b. Their live shows put one in mind of the old 1970s Motown revues; energetic extravaganzas, where one might expect glitter to fall from the ceiling or to suddenly be surrounded by dancing girls with three-foot hair. Although Jones will name-check the usual inspirations (Brown, Cooke, Aretha, all your faves) but, having been a church singer from a young age, Jones takes a lot of inspiration from gospel music and feeds that passion into her performances. “When I do a song, I can take it there. One of my songs on the album called Get Up And Get Out, I start the song and I do it totally different to the album, big slow gospel coming in, like Tina Turner. Big lead-in, end it up in a gospel shouting way. Some of the gospel songs they sing in church, we’ve done it, mixed up songs and made them gospel.”
“A lot of people come to my shows, people watch me and they feel the passion and that’s like gospel” Jones admits. “I put me in it, that’s when I get back to the soul, you’re feeling that soul. Soul is what comes to the heart. That’s what you’re feeling.” Having shunned major, commercial labels, Jones and band have created their own scene within Daptone Records, started by Dap-King Neal Sugarman and Gabriel Roth. This push for independence has meant harder work for financial reward, but ultimately a creative freedom they may not have been able to find with one of the Big Guns of the music Illuminati. “Major labels, it’s about your clothes, exposing yourself, getting up and “how’s my hair, how’s my nails”, they’re on stage and they’re looking one way or this way, they’re not feeling the songs. They have no love for it, they’re just doing this job and getting paid and getting out...that’s how some people do it but not me.” Jones admits that the financial aspect of professional musicianship does come into play, but does not inform all of her musicmaking decisions. It’s the genuine love of entertaining that satisfies her, and will be bringing her our faraway shores this September. “I’m waiting to see my first half a million (laughs) but my love for my music is great. I remember when we went to the Sydney Opera House; they came to see and hear me and they all felt it. That’s what I love about coming to Australia, they really appreciate it.” LISA DIB
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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings play the Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Sunday, 14th September. Tickets via www.mona.net.au.
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Dream, Dream, Dream If you don’t know the name James Keogh- or, most likely his alter ego Vance Joy, you certainly know the music. A relatively new face on the scene from Melbourne, Keogh struck gold with his sunny single “Riptide” which, as well as becoming the soundtrack to scores of ads and TV promos and accruing various industry nods, took out the coveted top place in Triple J’s Hottest 100 last year.
“There’s the pressure, but you can only write what you write and be true” Keogh says, on the expectations that follow a Hottest 100 winner. “A lot of time has passed since I recorded that song. There’s nothing worse than trying to chase the dragon, you just gotta keep going, find new songs and write new songs. It’s out of your control, I didn’t wanna constrain my writing too much. You don’t really know when you’re writing a song what the outcome is gonna be” Following on from his 2013 EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing, Keogh is now getting set to release his debut album, Dream Your Life Away.
“I treat it as a job. It starts out of the ordinary and then you get used to it. You enjoy challenges, playing a gig you were nervous about, but you give your best. It’s about working hard for something and feeling good for achievement when it’s done. You can’t control how the album sells but there are things you can control like going into the studio and getting a really good vocal track down. Some things can be out of your control.” The cute nom de plume “Vance Joy” intrigued me and I wondered why I had never asked a musician what made them give themselves a pseudonym. I mean, names like James Keogh and Robert Zimmerman are perfectly fine names for a musician to go by, right?
Radio help or no, Keogh confidently assures me that good music will always find its way to the people’s ears. “Songwriting will always prevail” Keogh states. “You just write a song, there’s still be a place for that song if it’s a great song, it’ll make waves somewhere. You can’t make everybody happy. You don’t need radio play to be an artist anyway, people are getting heaps of music from Soundcloud, Youtube, all that, and building audience from there.” Lisa Dib
“For me, it was part of my artistic vision I had songs I wanted to show people, but for some reason I didn’t want to put them under my own name. I thought maybe I wouldn’t be as accepted operating under my name. I just liked the name, you don’t go out to try and be mysterious or anything, you just do it. Bob Dylan did it, heaps of people do it. It’s something that I don’t fully understand either (laughs)”
“The album is all the songs from 2009 to now, from that period of time, all my changes in songwriting. It’s a good continuation from the EP; it’s more intimate, on the whole it’s quite stripped back”
Of course, one wonders where Keogh, and many like him, would be without the support of radio; namely airwave-titan Triple J. The radio bigwig has been a major stepping stone for many now-famous local acts and their support and far reach is unmatched amongst community radio.
Although a newer name in the industry, Keogh has already had a kind of phenomenal success; selling out tours, his tracks being added to radio left, right and centre, an AIR Award and a slew of ARIA nominations. He’s also hit the global circuit, playing Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo in the US and Glastonbury and V Festival in the UK, as well as UK, US and European headlining tours. Keeps him pretty busy!
“Triple J is really important for Australian artists and taking them out to bigger audiences. If you wanna be an established artist with a fanbase. You can use the internet and harness a group of people, make a career of it...Triple J allows you to do that as well; there’s a huge group of people that are loyal J listeners. It opens that door to those people. You can find a group of people that will stick by you”
Dream Your Life Away is out September 5 on Liberation Music. Vance Joy will be performing at The Falls Music & Arts Festival in December.
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BLOWING HIS OWN TRUMPET
ROCK’N’ROLL HIGHSCHOOL
YOU DON’T THINK OF JAMES MORRISON AS THE SORT OF MUSICIAN WHO WOULD HAVE STARTED OUT BUSKING FOR FOOD. BUT THAT’S WHAT HE DID ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, AND IT CERTAINLY PAID OFF. TODAY THE TRUMPETER IS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN MUSICIANS IN THE COUNTRY, AND HE TELLS US ABOUT HIS FIRST BIG BREAK AND WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE IT BIG.
ZACH SPINKS WAS BORED WITH HIGH SCHOOL SAXOPHONE. SWITCHING OVER TO GUITAR IN GRADE NINE, HE HASN’T LOOKED BACK ONCE. SELFTAUGHT FOR JUST FOUR YEARS, THE ROSNY COLLEGE STUDENT HAS BEEN FEATURED IN THE MERCURY AND ON ABC LOCAL RADIO. HE HAS WON A SONY NATIONAL SONGWRITING AWARD AND IS SPONSORED BY COLE CLARK GUITARS. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS KID?
When did you decide you wanted to make music your professional career?
freelance touring musician, which seems like most people sort of dream of being out there playing, then the qualification you receive from university aren’t that important. What’s really important is the actually education you get – what did you learn? Sometimes the holy grail of what people need from uni is the bit of paper, the qualification to apply for a job. No one has ever wanted to see any qualification of mine and I’ve never even heard of a musician having to present a qualification to perform.
No life, that’s what’s wrong.
What was the defining moment that pushed you forward in your career?
“I just went for it. I didn’t think I’d win but I won so it’s pretty exciting. It’s just a guitar piece and it’s quite a minor song. I just sat down on Parliament House Lawns one day and wrote it. It was the first song I wrote.”
I decided when I was about seven and I started playing the trumpet that it was what I wanted to do. I didn’t think of it as so much of a profession then, because you don’t when you’re seven! It’s just what I wanted to do with my life – travel around the world and play music. I guess in my mind it became a profession when I was about 13, around the same time I actually started working professionally – I started working in night clubs when I was 13. What was it like for you as a student to work your way into the industry? Do you think it’s harder now than it was, or are there different challenges that young musicians face these days? I think it’s always had its challenges, of course, and it still does. But the way that it’s done has shifted a bit. For instance, you can go back just before my time and a lot of the ways my older colleagues got into the industry was purely just by playing and hanging around with musicians. It was very informal and I was around at that time when they just started having jazz courses in universities, because prior to that you could only study classical music. You couldn’t say like you go to university to study jazz or rock, they’d just laugh at you. Now every major institution has a jazz department, they study contemporary music and so on. So that’s a different pathway.
I was in New York and didn’t have a gig. I’d been there for a year trying to get a break, I was playing on the street busking to get money to eat. I went along to a jam session one night and the band wasn’t even that great but I thought, ‘I’ve got to be out there playing’, and a guy came in hunting for talent. He needed a soloist, he needed one in a hurry and he was looking for someone unknown so he went to jam session. That day I played on the street to get money for lunch, and the next day I was sitting business class up the front of an airliner on the way to Europe to do a three month tour with a jazz group as a soloist. Had I been at home practicing or waiting for some paid work, it never would have happened. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
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Ok, I lie. He’s actually got quite a life. His award winning song ‘Through the Night’ has reached number four on Australia’s independent music charts, which was the last thing the self-taught muso was expecting.
“My music is kind of percussive finger style of tapping. A lot of people put it under instrumental folk but there is a lot of percussion going on inside that as well.” “Nothing particularly inspires my music – it’s just about whatever I’m feeling at the time. If I’m happy I’ll write a happy song, if I’m feeling down I’ll write a sad one. It depends how I am on the day when the idea comes to me.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE
Pretty cool to win an award for your first song, right? But it hasn’t come without a lot of hard work. “I was playing music around about four years ago now on the guitar and I just started writing my stuff last year. I have a passion and I loved it so much. I practiced it all the time and started to get better. It’s hard to squeeze in my school subjects and music at the same time but I’ve got to do my best.” The kid’s cool, calm and collected. Which you have to be when you’re teaching yourself how to become an ace musician while aiming to get into a degree in medicine. “Making a career out of music is the plan, but I’ve applied to a mainland university and will hopefully get a degree in medicine.”
As a budding muso, did you find your education or actual live performance to be more valuable? What I’m about to say doesn’t apply to a teaching musician or if you want to be in an institution, but if you want to be a
“Playing guitar is pretty much all I do, and hang out with my friends,” the grade 12 Rosny College student says.
Though he doesn’t yet sing, he’s training up those vocal cords. Style-wise, his solo guitar music is innovative and technically impressive.
James Morrison will perform with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra on October 1, 8pm at the Wrest Point Entertainment Centre. More info at www.tso.com.au.
“At Rosny, I do lots of maths and science subjects and chemistry. I am planning on not doing music at uni, but pursuing it at the same time. It’ll be hard, but I’m prepared to put in the work.”
Zach Spinks will perform at Rosnystock on September 11 from 7pm at the Brisbane Hotel.
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THE MUSICAL CLAN CUISENAIRE. PRONOUNCED: QUEESEN-AIR. ROLLS OFF THE TONGUE, DOESN’T IT? HOBART’S GYPSY SWING BAND STARTED OUT AS THREE MUMS GETTING TOGETHER FOR A WEEKLY JAM – AND THOUGH THEIR KIDS ARE STILL YOUNG, THE BAND HAS GROWN BIGGER THAN EVER WITH FIVE SPIRITED MUSOS. ACCORDIONIST JACK MCDONALD TELLS US WHAT CUISENAIRE IS ALL ABOUT. What’s it like to be in a band filled with parents of young children? Great! We are all mothers of two kids each, ranging from 18 months to 13 years old. Our double bassist Tim Duffy is father to a 12 year old son. The upside is that we all get each other in relation to the commitment and sacrifices required to raise our children. As a result, our rehearsals are succinct and to the point and we actually get a lot done because we can’t afford to fritter away time. Our clarinettist use to play with her baby strapped to her back. The children have been a big part of our development as a band. They are our biggest fans and usually first on the dance floor, and have even been known to steal our busking money for ice cream. Tim is a father and the only guy in the band so he may have a difference of opinion. I did
notice him going a bit quiet the other day when we touched on the topic of shampoo. Define for us the Cuisenaire sound. Our music pays homage to Klezmer, Balkan, and the gypsy swing sounds of the 1920s. It encompasses instrumentals, original songs, and we have even been known to inject riffs from the ‘80s into our arrangements. We write original music in these veins and also cover traditional European folk music with our own particular rhythms, beats and vocal harmonies. We have Rach Meyer on vocals and violin with her sharp virtuosity, Cal Heath with her songs which are both contemporary and folk in feel, Andrea Smith who takes the helm vocally with her rich, sensual tones. I’m on accordion playing melody, harmonies and rhythm, and finally Tim
DON’T BE FRIGHTENED… YOU’D BE HARD PRESSED TO REMEMBER A TIME WHEN STEPHEN CUMMINGS WASN’T ON THE SCENE. THE AUSSIE ROCK LEGEND MADE FAMOUS THROUGH THE SPORTS AND A LENGTHY SOLO CAREER HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE ‘70S, AND HE’S STILL CHURNING OUT NEW WORKS. LATEST RELEASE NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF IS GOING ON NATIONAL TOUR AND HITS HOBART’S REPUBLIC BAR ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 5. STEPHEN SHARES HIS THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ALBUM AND THE CONFRONTING CONCEPTS BEHIND IT.
Duffy on double bass is our pulse and brings his knowledge of eclectic world grooves to our sound. Tell me how the Balkan gypsy swing spirit can ease the soul? It seems to resonate with people on quite a primal level. Klezmer and Balkan music is simultaneously joyful and melancholic, both uplifting and contemplative, happy and sometimes even miserable. It’s a type of music where these opposite qualities co-exist, I think because it often moves between major and minor keys with occasional bizarre accidentals. I see a lot of people connecting with it when we play and even being in a trance like state when they dance.
I guess there is a sort of incongruity about living on a small island off the bottom of Australia and playing strange folk music from Eastern Europe. But I enjoy incongruities, which is partly what draws me to this music in the first place. I try not to intellectualise it too much, and am from the school of thought that if it sounds good, do it. At the end of the day, the music we love playing and listening to the most is about joy, emotion and feeling, wherever it comes from in the world. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
What’s it like as Tasmanians to take on such a strongly traditional and cultural form of music?
Cuisenaire will support Melbourne’s Tiger and Me on September 12 at 9.30pm at The Homestead.
Tell us about how your new album Nothing to be Frightened Of came together.
you’re not second guessing anything and you can go wherever you like.
Basically, I was bored! For me, it was to get some excitement and so I set some limitations. Limitation I find always really helps you. I thought, ‘I’ll write the songs over a week or two and then I’ll record them in a day – and keep it really simple’. And that’s what happened.
How do you find the experience of music making today compared to when you first started over four decades ago?
The new album throws around the ideas of human confrontation with loss and death. Was it a personal journey for you? Well, I’m getting older. You always think about it. You have to make some sort of sense of it all before you wrap it up. I think it’s a pretty powerful theme. I think it’s a really weird time in history with all these aids making you live longer. It’s a weird world and not something I ever thought about when I was in my 20s. But then, everyone thinks whenever they were alive that it’s an odd time.
It’s just as much fun and just as perplexing now as when I started. I know what I’m doing a bit more but the reason I keep doing it is because I’m still trying to get the thing in my head that I’m looking for. Somehow, I’ve been lucky enough to stay alive without getting another job – I feel happy about that every day. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
You’ve released a crazy 20 solo albums in 25 years. Has your experience given you more confidence in exploring these sorts of alternative themes in your music? You know more what you don’t want to do. But in some ways it does free you up but you can’t do certain other things. In a way, you want some people to acknowledge you – because once you’ve done it, you’re not going to listen to your own records over and over, it’s insane. It frees you up anyway and playing it live is a whole other thing. Usually, you play songs live much better after you’ve recorded them. Or there’s the other extreme – if you perform them a whole lot before you record them then 24
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Stephen Cummings will perform at the Republic Bar on October 5.
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EDGE
HOBART’S ONE AND ONLY INDEPENDENT YOUTH RADIO STATION HAS BEEN DELIVERING ECLECTIC AND PASSIONATE BROADCASTING TO THE STATE FOR OVER TEN YEARS. STATION MANAGER MARK CUTLER SPEAKS OF THE HISTORY AND UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHY OF THE STATION, AND WHY NOW MORE THAN EVER IT NEEDS THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY.
Edge Radio 99.3 started broadcasting in 2003, born out of an unmistakable lack of quality community radio in Hobart. Mark says, “The idea for a station like Edge came out of a few people, academic staff at UTas and a few others, who felt that the vibrancy of the community wasn’t really being served by community radio.” “Where was the advocacy for the sort of things that youth like,” he says, “[such as] independent music, local music, and issues that relate to younger people?” Existing station Cadence FM were approached in regards to a partnership of sorts to solve this problem. The response, Mark tells me, was that “they ‘weren’t going to have any of those Uni poofs involved in what they were doing.’” Naturally, this led to what was soon to be the Edge Radio team applying for their own license, which was granted by the governing body APRA. “I think they saw that there was a huge need for a new youth and current affairs based radio,” Mark says. Edge took little time to establish its unique and valuable identity. Mark says, “In the early years it jumped out of the box really well, it was fresh, new sounding, it engaged people.” Edge also won the awards for Best Contribution to Local Music, and Australia’s Community Station of the Year at the 2003 CBAA Industry Awards. “Ever since then we’ve continued to do the things that we are obligated to do by the conditions of our license. To engage with the community and reflect on issues, and as a positive thing, it’s about being a young person in Hobart. And that’s still the core part of what we do, and we’re very proud of that,” Mark says. In terms of playing local content, Edge are national leaders. “We’re an affluent leader in community radio, across Australia. Our peak body is the CBAA, and they’re based in Sydney and they ask all of their stations to play at least 25 per cent Australian content, from the music that they select,” Mark explains. “We’re over 45 per cent, getting towards 50 per cent Australian content, and half of that is Tasmanian. So in terms of showcasing that particular aspect of culture we’re industry beaters within the community broadcasting sector.” The vibrancy of Edge comes naturally. As the station opens its doors for everyone with a passion, it ends up with a huge variation of interest and talent. With over 100 volunteers and 60 shows per week, it covers jazz, soul, hip-hop, metal, dance, trance, electro, world music, funk, as well as politics, current affairs, the arts, sport, film, pop culture, geek culture, travel, and comedy, which is still just to name a few.
As well as providing a forum for the passionate youth, Edge provides accessible and quality experience for those interested in a career in radio. But independent radio stations, while existing to support community, only survive through the community’s support. “We’re taken for granted a lot,” Mark says, “partly that’s maybe our fault, historically perhaps or the outreach that we have we’re a small organization, we only have three employees part-time. It’s difficult to mount successful marketing campaigns and make people have an interest in what we do.” “3RRR [a large independent radio station based in Melbourne] have 10,000 supporters who pay 80 dollars a year, now that’s about 800,000 dollars every year. How do you compare that to us? We have maybe 60 supporters who are asked to pay 50 dollars a year to be a supporter/subscriber to Edge radio.” While I speak to Mark he is in the middle of planning for a meeting with state minister for the arts, Vanessa Goodwin, to gain government funding. “If we don’t get that then we are seriously in jeopardy of not being able to continue,” he says. The previous state government funded the station enough to keep them afloat, but while hoping to gain funding from the new state government, Mark and the rest of the team at Edge are relying heavily on support from listeners. Mark admits that, “The reality is that it may see us not be able to continue in two years.” The upcoming Radiothon goes over two weekends in September. “During that time we will have some live outside broadcasts, special programming, prize giveaways, quiz night and other initiatives not yet finalized,” Mark explains. Edge is aiming for 1000 sign-ups to ensure their continuance. An Edge Radio membership will gain supporters invitations to Edge supported gigs, eligibility for free CDs and t-shirts, a fortnightly mail-out, and of course, as Mark says, “you also should take great comfort in the fact that you’re supporting independent media in an increasingly difficult market, that you’re supporting Tasmanian music by supporting us, and you’re ultimately supporting the culture, and we think that’s a no-brainer.” ERIN LAWLER
The Edge Radiothon will start with a gig at The Republic Bar on Friday September 5 and continue with various events until Saturday September 13.
Junction Program Guide
Junction Arts Festival 10-14 September 2014 Launceston CBD Junction Arts Festival energises Launceston at the start of spring with five days of playful performances, experiences and late-night happenings that unlock hidden spaces of the city and offer audiences the opportunity to come into close proximity with artists, to observe, participate and create. We believe that art doesn’t begin and end at theatres, museums and galleries and invite audiences on an adventure to experience both art and venue in a completely new ways. Featuring a bold program of engaging performances by local, national and international artists and musicians, the Festival highlights the city of Launceston, creating site-specific and interactive works which aim to redefine the way we see a city and celebrate creativity and imagination. Junction Arts Festival turns Launceston into Tasmania’s best playground and extends a warm invitation to all to leave your expectations at the door and take part in a curious adventure that may lead you to an intimate one-on-one encounter, a high-energy spectacle or all manner of things in between.
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White Rabbit Red Rabbit
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Time Lab
Nassim Soleimanpour - Iran
Abigail Conway- UK
No director, no set and a different performer for every performance.
“I dived down into the depth of the ocean of forms.Hoping to gain the perfect pearl of the formless.”- Nitschke. Gunter
Tasmanian Premiere
Imagine being 29 and forbidden to leave your country. How would you share your story with the world? This internationally acclaimed theatrical experiment is an adventure for both audience and the performer who only receives the script as they walk on stage. Nassim Soleimanpour refused mandatory military service in Iran, and until recently, was not qualified to obtain a passport. White Rabbit Red Rabbit takes you on a journey through the humorous, terrifying and personal, and that defies national boundaries. THURSDAY 11 7PM FRIDAY 12 11AM FRIDAY 12 7PM FRIDAY 12 8:30PM 60 minutes THE PRINCESS THEATRE $20/$10 Suitable 15+
Australian Premiere
How precious is time to you? Escape the hustle and bustle of modern life and make your way to the Time Lab. Time lab is a workshop performance inviting audiences to deconstruct (a piece) of, and reflect on, T I M E by dismantling your own unused or broken wristwatch or small clock. Once dismantled, reconstruct the pieces to form an item of jewellery or sculpture that is yours to take away and enjoy. Each individual’s handmade item of jewellery or sculpture will be photographed and presented in a co-authored Time Lab book. THURSDAY 11 4PM, 5PM, 6PM, 7PM FRIDAY 12 4PM, 5PM, 6PM, 7PM SATURDAY 13 11AM, 12PM, 1PM, 2PM 60 minutes 150 CHARLES STREET $25/$20 Suitable for 14+
Junction Arts Festival offers a range of ticketed and free events for all ages.
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On Dancefloors Abigail Conway (UK)
Welcome to Dance karaoke. On Dancefloors is a durational, one on one, interactive performance, a celebration for people who like to move, watch, or listen to loud music in contained spaces. On Dancefloors explores the power dynamics of performance relationships through the shared movement of two strangers coming together to dance. Audiences are invited one at a time to choose a song to dance to. Once chosen and queued up you wait your turn. When your tune starts to play, enter the discotheque made for two and share a dance with Abigail. Will you join her? FRIDAY 12 8pm-10pm SATURDAY 13 8pm-10pm Drop in and queue for your dance THE JUNC ROOM, 93 CIMITIERE STREET $5 (paid at performance) Suitable 14+ Send your favourite song to Abigail at ondancefloorskaraoke@gmail.com by Sunday 7 September to guarantee a spot on Junction’s playlist.
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This year’s Program features more great Tasmanian and Australia live music in a variety of unusual places all around Launceston. Catch incredible live music at our two Festival clubs, The Junc Room situated in an abandoned warehouse and The Gospel Hall, the fitting venue for a secret 1930s Prohibition Bar. Two rare intimate pop-up gigs will also be taking place in the backyards of two of Launceston’s most spectacular housesThe Hatherley Birrell Collection and The Substation Hydrohouse.
The Walking Project
Thomas Quirk - Melbourne Where have you come from? Who has walked this path before you? Who will follow? What stories are trodden into the ground under your feet or along the water?
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Cypher
Nick Power- Sydney Tasmanian Premiere
usic, bar and curious adventures The Walking Project invites you to don your walking shoes and explore by foot Launceston’s rapidly redeveloping North Bank. One of the most visually iconic areas of the city, but rarely physically experienced, The Walking Project brings audiences to explore these local edge-lands and its histories, geography and stories through a collection of different guided audio tours. When you arrive choose the stories you’d like to hear.
in nooks and crannies.
The Boathouse, 55 Lindsay St, Invermay Look out for Junction signage and staff Thursday 11 September 11am-5pm Friday 12 September 11am-5pm Saturday 13 September 11am-5pm Sunday 14 September 11am-5pm 30-60 minutes $25/$20 This is a promenade performance, duration will be in part determined by pace. Dress for walking and weather.
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Step into the cypher, a circle where b*boys come together to battle and where style, energy, competition and celebration evolve. Witness a ground-breaking performance that invites you into the performance space and world of some of the best b*boys on the planet. Choreographed by Hip Hop legend Nick Power, Cypher offers a magnifying glass to the ritual and culture of Hip Hop and takes you into the heart of the battle. Thursday 11 7pm Friday 12 7pm Saturday 14 7pm Sunday 13 2pm Pilgrim Hall, 36 Paterson Street 60 minutes $25/$20
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Confetti
Big One Little One- (NSW/VIC) “It’s brilliant. Do it! “ - Sometimes Melbourne Things we won’t tell you... What is it? What happens? How long does it last? How will I feel afterwards? Things we will tell you... Waiting behind a door at The Junc Room is Confetti, a lightning-fast and dazzling encounter for one. It’s an intimate, tactile experience that celebrates you. Winner of the 2013 Live Art Award at Melbourne Fringe. Thursday 11 8pm-11pm Friday 12 8pm-11pm Saturday 8pm-11pm The Junc Room- 93 Cimitiere Street Drop in and queue for your performance Suitable 18+ $2 Gold Coin Donation (paid at performance)
Junction Program Guide
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Opening Night
The Junc Room
The Gospel Hall
Backyard Bands
The Festival starts with a bang and extraordinary Opening Night fan fare.
Where Junction Arts Festival goes after dark.
1930’s speakeasy drama, spectacle and respite.
We open the Festival and introduce The Junc Room, one of our late night Festival Clubs with an extraordinary collaboration between Launceston’s favourite funk and soul band, Funktional, teamed with The Scottsdale Choir Under the choral direction of Amanda Hodder, the Choir is made up of onion farmers, dairy owners, chicken lovers and CWA presidents with an average combined age of 75, performing swinging Rat Pack tunes straight out of 1960’s Las Vegas. Dancing shoes absolutely encouraged.
For music lovers, late night revelers, night cappers and those who just want to dance, we’ve got a curated pop-up club for you. The Junc Room will have you coming back night after night.
The beautiful and inconspicuous art deco Gospel Hall acts as a façade for a secret Prohibition Bar that takes you back to 1930’s speakeasy drama, spectacle and respite. A secret code ensures easy entry and dressing the part is absolutely encouraged.
Join us on a rare adventure into the backyards of two of Launceston’s spectacular historic buildings for an intimate live music concert. Two unique experiences of contrasting views, architecture, history and music.
Join us as we celebrate the opening of Junction Arts Festival 2014. A night you’ll never forget.
Featuring:
6pm - Doors Open 6:30pm-7:30pm - Funktional featuring the Scottsdale Seniors’ Choir
An abandoned warehouse is home to energetic late night revelry. Featuring some of Tasmania’s and Australia’s hottest live musicians, and bursting at the seams with pop-up performances. Soak it up, get close and personal and get ready to dance.
The Babe Rainbow (NSW), The Royal Jellies (VIC), The Tiger and Me (VIC), DJ Randall Foxx, Emma Anglesey, Younger Dryas, Violet Swells, The Stayns Joe Nuttall (Enola Fall), Bansheeland, Gentle Hurst, Josef Josef, Marty Kooistra, Paper Souls, Siobhan Corcoran
Enjoy a tipple and sway your night away to cool-swinging jazz funk sounds of our three resident bands and immerse yourself in Dean Baldwin’s The Congregation. Resident musicians The Mercenary Funk Bandits, Junk and King Cake Thursday 11-Saturday 13 5pm-12am The Gospel Hall, 66A Elizabeth Street $10 single entry
The Junc Room- The Old Launceston Salvage Centre- 93 Cimitiere Street
The Junc Room, at the Old Launceston Salvage Centre 93 Cimitiere St Wednesday 10 September 6pm-11pm Entry with gold coin donation All ages welcome
Or enjoy the sexy cabaret-esque gorgeous sounds of Lulu and the Paige-Turners at Hatherley House, a National Listed 1830’s grand mansion with an expansive Englishstyle parkland garden with snowy mountain vistas. Lulu and the Paige-Turners (Hobart) Friday 12 6:30pm Hatherley Birrell Collection- 43 High Street120 minutes $25/$20 The Embers (Launceston) Saturday 13 4:30pm The Substation Hydro House- 16 Alfred St $25/$20
7:45pm-8:45pm - Funktional 8:45pm-10:30pm - DJ Grinning Cat
Catch the reggae, folklore, hip hop and seedy blues swings of The Embers while perched high on the hills of West Launceston at the early 20th century electrical substation with dramatic views over Launceston.
Wednesday 10 September 6pm-11pm Thursday 11 September 5pm-12am Friday 12 Septmeber 5pm-1am Saturday 13 September 5pm-1am Sunday 14 September 12pm-5pm $10 single night entry $25 Junc Room 3 Night Pass Under 15’s Free
The Junc Room Schedule WEDNESDAY 6pm
THURSDAY
Doors Open
6.30pm - 7pm
Marty Kooistra
FRIDAY 6pm-7pm
Bansheeland
7pm-7.30pm
Gentle Hurst
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SUNDAY
6pm
Joe Nuttall (Enola Fall)
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6:30pm-7:30pm
Funktional feat. The Scottsdale Choir
7:15pm7:45pm
Siobhan Corcoran
7.30pm8.30pm
Emma Anglesy
7:30pm
Violet Swells
1:30pm2:30pm
Talks for artists from Llana Mitchell and Steven Richardson
7:45pm-8:45pm
Funktional
8pm-8:30pm
Paper Souls
9pm-10pm
Younger Dryas
9pm
The Tiger And Me
2:30pm4pm
Surprise Performances
10pm-10:30pm
Gentle Hurst
8:45pm10:30pm
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DJ Grinning Cat
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Josef Josef
10:30pm-12am
The Royal Jellies
10:30pm
The Babe Rainbow
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The Stayns
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DJ Randall Foxx
12am
DJ Randall Foxx
Junk
7pm
The Mercenary Funk Bandits
7pm
King Cake
4pm
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Arts ANDREW ON ART :
CROWDFUNDING: I’M SUSPICIOUS. BUT I’M DOING IT.
REMAKING TIME UK VISUAL AND LIVE PERFORMANCE ARTIST ABIGAIL CONWAY WILL PERFORM TWO OF HER SIGNATURE PIECES, TIME LAB AND ON DANCEFLOORS, AT THE JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER.
oKAY, SO WE’RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE, BY CROWDFUNDING, I MEAN SOMETHING LIKE A KICKSTARTER OR A POZIBLE CAMPAIGN THAT ASK FOR A RANGE OF DONATIONS TO FUND A PROJECT OF SOME SORTSOME JUST ASK FOR MONEY, OTHERS PRE-SELL IN VARIOUS WAYS. IT’S BEEN DEVELOPING OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS AND THERE’S A LOT OF GOSH-WOW-THIS-ISTHE-FUTURE BUZZ AROUND IT. . . There’s a huge range of these campaigns, and they do not always succeed in meeting their targets. Or they go over their targets and people have to deal with a tidal wave of money, which sounds like it’s great but, actually, has proven to be an enormous pain when you have to meet an unanticipated increased demand in a particular time frame. Still, it’s making projects happen, and I’ve got to confess – I participated in one such scheme as a recipient. That project is having troubles itself, but they’re medical and were unforeseeable at the time, so transparency is the order of the day there. Other ones I’ve contributed to have been interesting. I basically prebought a book and this arrived exactly when I was told it would. Great! Another was funding for a movie and I’m yet to receive my goods (a t-shirt) but that was my fault as I forgot to send my size, but communication has been exemplary and I’ve really felt like I was a tiny part of getting a really weird feature doco off the ground, which actually rocks, and there was third one for a book that I never got and I really don’t know why, although second-hand gossip reigns supreme there. So I am kind of dubious about crowd funding but I know it can work. What I’m wondering about though, is Arts Funding organisations using this method to close gaps in their ability to fund projects. Arts Tasmania are doing this with their Crowbar program and I’m yet to hear any reports either way about projects there, so I have an open mind, but I wonder how successful a series of crowdfunding campaigns that asks an-already cashstrapped local arts community can really be. It’s almost like a popularity contest, or I have a concern that’s how it could end up. My biggest concern though, is that something like this is not a real solution to securing arts funding for a wide range of projects, some of which are simply not going to work as crowd funded campaigns anyway. I get that arts organisations need to do something, but I think that it might be time for lobbying to all tiers of government to secure longer term funding arrangements. Crowdfunding is going to be of some help, but it’s a bit of a band-aid solution, and I’m concerned about how useful it will be in two years time. It could be useful in filling a gap, but it seems extremely finite to me, and that’s assuming every successful project does what it says it will anyway. Well, we shall see. ANDREW HARPER
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She will be hanging around in Launceston doing a residency developing a project for Junction 2015. Conway’s work focuses on working with material objects in playful, site-specific installations to create immersive and engaging experiences for audiences. “Time Lab is a workshop project where basically people are invited to come along with broken or unwanted watches that they don’t mind smashing up and taking apart, and then they’re asked to arrange the parts into a piece of jewellery”, says Conway. “Quite simply, it’s a deconstruction on how we measure time and, hopefully a quiet, mediation, the beauty of time is to lose track of time, when we’re in a flow or an activity”. “The most I could ask audience members to get out if it is having a little bit of time to think about time”. “On Dancefloors is a fun kind of durational piece ,where people choose a song and come down to a little dance floor, a little discotheque, and we have a little dance”.
what that dance might be, I’ve had a beautiful, unexpected slow dance with someone to a Smiths song”.
“We’ve found it quite easy to engage with bikers, generally, bikers like to show off their bikes”.
“I was interested in the kind of playfulness of being on a dance floor and how people engage with strangers”.
“I’ve had some people come down and just watch, and they’ve chosen quite a saucy song, which made me feel quite uncomfortable”.
“We’ll hopefully meet local bikers, I know there are several motorcycle clubs around, so we might go smashing on their door”.
“The last time I did the show was quite a few years ago, so I’m worried about my actual health, doing this two hour marathon in a hot room”.
After Junction, Conway will be working with local motorcycle enthusiasts developing the Ride project.
“There’s a massive eclectic mix of music, but if anyone knows they’re coming and definitely wants to make sure that their songs there, send it to me and I’ll make sure it’s on the list”. “I’m excited to see what people’s recommendations are, because sometimes I’m like, ‘oh my god!’”. “It’s really interesting how people interpret
“It’s a one-on-one performance for audience members to go on the back of a motorbike and ride out in a convey, it’s kind of one-on-one en masse”. “It’s a motorcycle meditation, playing with this idea of freedom, getting away, danger and risk”. Conway and her creative collaborator have started developing the piece in the UK.
“When you talk to someone about their bike and the idea of doing a project and showing it off for a bit, they’re quite up for it”. “But that’s here, so I don’t know what it will be like in Australia, especially two foreigners coming up going, ‘hi’ in our English awkwardness, ‘you fancy doing a show?’, we’ll soon see”. EMMA LUIMES To get your song on Abigail’s list, go to ondancefloorskaraoke@gmail.com by September 7. More information available from www. junctionartsfestival.com.au.
Arts THEATRE:
MEL KING TALKS FOOD YOU MIGHT KNOW MEL KING FROM EXCELLENT TERRAPIN SHOWS LOVE OR RUBEN GUTHRIE, BUT WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW IS SHE’S ONE OF OUR VERY BEST PROFESSIONAL PERFORMERS. MEL RECENTLY GOT RECOGNISED FOR HER BURGEONING TALENT AND LANDED A PART IN THE WONDERFUL PLAY FOR ADULTS, FOOD, THAT’S HEADING TO THE THEATRE ROYAL IN SEPTEMBER.
Mel found a moment out of her utterly insane schedule to give Warp the good oil on Food: “We’ve been rehearsing Food in Sydney and I’m happy to say that at the ripe old age of 46, this is the biggest for my career so far. It’s real privilege working with Kate Champion (one of the co-directors of Food) who is a genius. I’m playing Elma, the older of two sisters. Food is set in a town in northern Tassie. The sisters, Elma and Nancy run an easy greasy store, one of those things that opens from 5am – 12am in an industrial wasteland and shuts on weekends. It’s a family business, started by grandma, continued by mum and now it’s Elma and Nancy’s show. Nancy has been away, and she has returned to pick up where she left off and to make amends; they had a fractious time of growing up. Food is an exploration of the sisters finding themselves, re-visiting the past and it asks ‘how do we re-invent ourselves’? “It’s a totally contemporary piece of performance with an episodic narrative – and a massive food aspect. The whole story is based in a fish and chip shop – and we’re preparing food the whole time, in fact we serve up a meal in the middle of the show of minestrone and wine and water, which is about the night the restaurant opened. They decide that they’re better than Chico rolls and the sisters take a huge take a chance: they transform the takeaway into a rustic restaurant serving ‘normal’ food,
and we share that! We pass soup to the audience, we give them fresh bread and red wine. Do you talk to the audience, then? “Well yeah, sometimes we talk to the audience, and sometimes there is a 4th wall you know? At some points they can see in to a personal side of the characters and their stories. We pull them out of the action and we invite them in. It’s really involving! But it’s not all just nice tucker in Food? “ Oh no, the writing is hard – full on. We talk about heavy stuff like gang rape, bulimia, social issues, all juxtaposed with that classic harsh Australian rhetoric – I suppose want of a better word the Bogan vernacular, so it’s really raw and passionate. It’s not all confrontation though - we can be in the middle of a harsh scene and there’ s a movement sequence that softens the harsh reality of the text. There’s a love scene at one point, a really beautiful lovemaking ‘dance’ – gesture based movement and that’s really organic, a lovely mix of text, movement and sound“ ANDREW HARPER FOOD is at the Theatre Royal for two shows only on 25 -26 September. This passionate celebration of life and good tucker will sell out so book now! Head to www.theatreroyal.com.au for tickets and more information.
conclusion and have come up with a very bold idea: a version of Hamlet where the roles are decided on the night of the show by coin toss. There are twelve either brave or insane (or potentially both) actors in six pairings; all performances will commence with a coin toss where each pair will discover what role they are playing that evening – for example, Maeve and Campbell are Hamlet/Laertes, and they will flip to see which role they play for the evening. So will everyone else, and at certain points throughout the performance there are other coin tosses. So each performance is likely to be completely different – You could see this multiple times and see totally different shows. In terms of how we understand performance, it’s risktaking of the highest order. Maeve agreed: “I would call it a risk! I’m very scared! But I think if you’re never scared, you’re going to be bored a lot of the time” Indeed. The script has been tightly edited; rehearsals have been described best as “a mindfuck” There’s a fight scene between a pair where each actor has had to learn both sides of the fight, for example, but the challenge has been met. With reliable Hobart theatre veteran Matt Wilson wearing the director’s hat, Hamlet Heads Or Tails is being beaten into fascinating life, and sounds like it might be one the most exhilarating performances we see this year.
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HaMLET HEADS OR TAILS EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE IS PRETTY BLOODY RARE IN TASMANIA, BUT THAT’S ABOUT TO CHANGE. LOUD MOUTH THEATRE APPEARED OUT OF SEEMING NOWHERE EARLIER THIS YEAR AND PRESENTED HOBART WITH CUNNING NEW PLAY VENUS IN FURS. IN A VERY SHORT TIME, THEY’RE BACK AND TAKING A FASCINATING RISK. WARP HAD A QUICK BEER WITH MAEVE MCGREGOR, FOUNDING MEMBER OF LOUDMOUTH AND FOUND OUT ALL ABOUT HAMLET HEADS OR TAILS.
“Hamlet is one of the best known plays in the English Language, but other than that, it’s an exploration of a whole bunch of things, one of which is duality, and that exists in the themes, but it’s in the language as well. Campbell Mackenzie (another of the trio that set up Loud Mouth) and I have always both wanted to play Hamlet, and we were having this talk one day about the play, and the duality within the play, and he went ‘I want to play Hamlet’ and I said ‘No I want to play Hamlet’ and Katie (that’s Katie Robertson, the third pillar of this triumvirate) went ‘why don’t you just flip a coin for it?’ It was a flippant moment but Loud Mouth carried the idea through to its logical
Opening night should be a hoot, as there’s a live band afterwards, but Warp says – don’t sleep, there’s only 7 shows. BOOK. ANDREW HARPER
Loud Mouth Theatre presents Hamlet Heads or Tails September 12 – 20, nightly at 7:30pm at Pop Up Theatre No 1. 130 Murray St. Book online at www.loud-mouth.co.
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GIVING VOICE THE ART OF DISSENT WHILE TAKING THIS COMPLEX SHOW IN, I HAD ONE OF THOSE VOYEUR MOMENTS WHERE ONE OVERHEARS ANOTHER PERSON TALKING AND CAN’T HELP BUT LISTEN IN, WHILE TRYING TO DISGUISE THAT YOU ARE. AWKWARD BUT FASCINATING.
Image: Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie
The person was talking to their companion, with some dissatisfaction: “oh why is this art so ugly? I don’t want to see this. I don’t want ugly art. Art should be beautiful, it should make me feel good about the world” – and that is paraphrasing, but that’s the guts of it as memory allows. They were looking at Gaza Child by James Barker. It’s a confronting work of night lights with white-tipped bombs dangling from beneath, almost like a mobile; on closer inspection the shades feature images of dead children, killed in the terrible conflict. I don’t know if I found that work ugly as such but it was certainly unsettling. I did not find Barker’s lantern forms ugly, but they were shocking. So too is the reality of Gaza and the fate of it’s children. It could be possible that art that speaks about horror, conflict and the complex issues of modern life are necessary to wake people up. We’re used to news cycles, to the daily tally of death, where each life is reduced to numbers. Maybe it’s important to feel upset, to have a tiny inkling of the awful situation taking place so far away. An art work such as this can attempt to make it all more immediate. It’s a hard thing to take this on and it’s even harder to make the work function with any potency – there is little which is more trite and embarrassing than poorly carried off political art. Fortunately, the works in the excellent show Giving Voice are all good, successful in varying degrees. They cover a lot of ground – many issues are touched on, with the exhibition working hard to not favour
a particular issues but to note that stories need to be heard. Travelling through this show is almost exhausting and certainly confronting, but it’s good for you. It’s very important that as many people as possible in Australia see Richard Bell’s excellent video Scratch An Aussie. This work, if I am honest, made me feel uncomfortable, and it did so by using comedy and the ugliest of schoolyard jokes. I heard some new ones but most where familiar. That’s Australia. Bell shows it to you and reels you in. Everything in Giving Voice, is worth seeing. The communication of subtle and personal emotion around complex issues demands the best from artists, and while technical skill helps, what really shines through is intellect, concept and a bit of bravery. This is a satisfying and unsettling show that demands to be seen. And if it upsets you, perhaps that’s a good thing. ANDREW HARPER
Giving Voice continues until September 14 at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre. Curated By Dr Yvonne Rees-Pagh, the exhibition includes artists: Cigdem Aydemir, James Barker, Richard Bell, Pat Hoffie, Locust Jones, Megan Keating, Michael Reed and Khaled Sabsabi.
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ARTS OPPORTUNITIES THERE ARE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR TASMANIAN ARTISTS IN THE FORMS OF GRANTS AND PRIZES. LISTED ARE SOME CURRENTLY ON OFFER. WINDOW Artists and designers are invited to submit proposals to activate the window at front of Gallery Ten, the art space at Ten Days. The aim is to engage passersby in an intriguing, surprising, provocative series of experiences that can be appreciated from the street, although encouraging viewers to come into the gallery is also an option. It is intended that where possible the window would be activated both day and night. Possibilities might include filling the window with objects; projecting something colourful and dynamic onto a rear projection screen that fills the window; writing a provocative text on the window; performance art behind the window; connecting to sound through the window. The possibilities are endless. There are still a limited number of spots left. For further information look online at www.tendays.org.au/news/gallery-ten-callfor-proposals-for-window or contact Jane at jane@tendays.org.au.
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HELL AIN’T A BAD PLACE TO BE
SAWTOOTH WRITING PRIZE
HELL AIN’T A BAD PLACE TO BE TELLS THE LIFE OF AUSTRALIAN ROCK LEGEND BON SCOTT.
The show features Nick Barker, Doug Parkinson, and a band of “absolute AC/DC nuts”. “It’s kind of like a play, or a narrated concert, It’s me talking about Bon Scott’s life and everything leading up from when he was born up until his death interspersed with songs”, says Barker. “It’s not a tribute show, it’s not me dressing up as Bon Scott , occasionally I find myself holding the mic like he does, but that’s as far as it goes”. Although a fan, Barker says he didn’t know about Scott’s musical career before becoming the front-man of AC/DC. The show includes songs from Scott’s earlier bands The Spektors, The Valentines and Fraternity “Just before AC/DC, he was in a hippy progrock band where he played a recorder and had a big garden-gnome kind of beard and wore overalls” says Barker. “And the first band he was in was a bubble-gum pop band with two singers, and they had matching outfits with puffy blue sleeves”. Barker says that Scott is “a pretty easy guy to talk about for a couple of hours”. “He was an incredible party-animal, a lot of the situations he got into were almost slapstick”. “Bon would do things like meet people and just disappear for days on end, just go and party, or he’d turn up to concerts in America with fifteen Mexicans who he’d been drinking tequila with for a week”. The show is more than just tales of debauchery. “There’s more to him than meets the eye”, says Barker, “there’s lots of things about him that you wouldn’t realise”.
“There’s an underlying sadness to the whole story, it’s a classic rock and roll tragedy really. He died on the eve of AC/ DC fulfilling everything they’d worked towards”. Barker says he was “terrified” about playing the role. “So many people have got a real ownership of Bon Scott and AC/DC”. “Bon’s a bit like Ned Kelly, he’s this real mythical figure”. “Since I’ve started doing the show, I’ve noticed the love for the guy in this country”. “I’ve met guys with not one, but three or four Bon Scott tattoos, it’s funny, cos quite often some of them had Ned Kelly tattoos too”. “I really want all these hard-core AC/DC fans to come and see this great band we’ve put together, but also walk out of there knowing half a dozen things about Bon Scott that they didn’t know”. “That’s what I found so incredible about the show, I just shook my head and said ‘you’re kidding me’”. “I’m conscious of the fact that I’m not trying to impersonate him, and everything is truthful and really high quality. Believe me, you don’t want to get on the wrong side of AC/DC fans”. “It’s a great story to tell, people just love it”. “I’ve had really big, tough grown men just hugging me, going, ‘you did Bon proud mate’”. EMMA LUIMES
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be plays at the Theatre Royal Hobart September 11 & 12. More info at www.theatreroyal.com.au
The Sawtooth Writing Prize is an exciting initiative designed to encourage critical and creative writing responding to the Sawtooth 2014 exhibition program. Reviews and poems will be published regularly on the Sawtooth ARI website allowing writers, artists and general audience to engage with a broad cross-section of national artworks and approaches to arts writing. Catagories include Best Review, Best Folio Of Reviews and Poetry Prize. Futher information available from www.sawtooth. org.au/2014-sawtooth-writing-prize. REGIONAL ARTS FUND – REGIONAL QUICK RESPONSE GRANTS Regional Quick Response Grants are now open and online. This grant runs until funds are exhausted and will fund up to $1500 for individuals and $3000 for organisations. Further information is available from www. tasregionalarts.org.au/funding. ARTS TASMANIA Do you want to realise an artistic vision, create or present your work or develop your skills or business? Arts Tasmania may be your key to making it happen. Offered is a range of investment and development opportunities for professional artists, arts businesses and arts organisations across all artforms. Check online at http://www.arts.tas.gov.au/ funding for further information. 2014 GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE Now in its 19th year, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize remembers Tasmania’s most acclaimed poet. Proudly sponsored by The Hobart Bookshop and Island Magazine, the prize is for a single poem or linked suite not longer than 80 lines. Submissions close at midnight on September 30. First prize is a $2000, publication in Island Magazine and an annual subscription to to Island, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland, Review of Australian Fiction, Southerly and The Lifted Brow. More information can be found online at www.islandmag.com/gwenharwood2014.
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NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG FILM MAKERS Opportunities expanded for Tasmania’s next generation of filmmakers
This September and October Wide Angle Tasmania are excited to present the ultimate opportunity for teenagers and young adults looking to gain skills and experience in Tasmania’s expanding film industry. For the first time, Wide Angle will be running a series of specialised workshops called ‘Young Filmmakers Labs’. Unlike other programs, each lab will focus solely on one particular area of film production. Each unit has been carefully designed for students to be able to hone in on the core skills of film, such writing, directing and editing, using state of the art equipment and being taught by award winning professionals. In the past industry based workshops have usually been reserved for school- leavers and professionals. However, seeing a gap in opportunities for older teens, Wide Angle Tasmania felt a next step for young people interested in progressing into the production workplace was necessary. Wide Angle Tasmania’s Manager Abi Binning explains that for those looking to get involved in filmmaking as a career, or even just a hobby, these workshops will provide a strong basis to work from. “Experiences making films as students will stand these young people in good stead for working on professional productions once they leave school”, she says. Many of Wide Angle’s teen participants have gone onto develop their own independent works, as a result of their inclusion in
similar workshops. Sam Bell, a graduate of the Film Hothouse program, represents the next generation of filmmakers looking to work professionally in the industry. Sam is a 16-year-old student; he’s currently involved in crowd funding for his upcoming film ‘The Rope Taut’ and is also crewing on a number of this year’s Raw Nerve Films. Bell describes opportunities such as ‘The Young Filmmakers Labs’, as an essential part of expanding a student’s skills and exposing them to the everchanging industry standards. “My interest in Wide Angle’s workshops are primarily technical. I hope to learn more about using professional gear, as well as any industry knowledge the teachers may have to pass on”, he explains. Whether students participate in one workshop or all three, they are guaranteed to be given an insight into what it is like to be a working filmmaker. As the next generation of filmmakers continue to grow stronger, Wide Angle Tasmania encourages young people to enrol in these courses and set themselves up with the array of opportunities our local production industry has to offer.
Find out more: wideangle.org.au has course details – check out what’s on offer Call: 03 6223 8344 or email: info@wideangle. org.au Wide Angle’s office space is located at Space 123, Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart. Open 10 – 5 Monday to Friday
QUIDDITCH AND ALL THAT SEVEN BOOKS. SEVENTY MINUTES. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. HILARIOUS DUO DANIEL CLARKSON AND JEFFERSON TURNER HAVE CONDENSED THE ENTIRE HARRY POTTER SERIES INTO A SINGLE PLAY – WITH REAL LIFE QUIDDITCH. POTTED POTTER HITS THE THEATRE ROYAL BETWEEN OCTOBER 7-9, FRESH OFF THE STAGES OF HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE. WRITERACTOR DANIEL TELLS US MUGGLES WHAT TO EXPECT.
How did the idea of Potted Potter come about?
elements of the story to include in your show?
It was for the launch of the sixth book. A book store in London wanted something to entertain the queue at midnight, so we came up with the idea of doing all five books in five minutes. This was Potted Potter’s first incarnation.
This was tricky. I think the first draft of the script was seven books in seven days, there was so much we wanted to include. We tried to get as much in as we can, but often an important piece of plot was pushed aside in favour of me wearing a silly wig and putting on a strange voice.
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We’ve got to know - how exactly do you play real life, on stage, muggle Quidditch? I can’t give too much away, but let’s just say with some ropes and pulleys and a hint of magic we have the whole audience flying around the theatre. In nine years, we have only lost three people – that’s not bad odds, is it?
Potted Potter is a parody on the great HP (character, not sauce) - how do you bring comedy into what is quite often a serious story? This was a great challenge for us. As huge fans, we didn’t want to just send up the books, this whole show comes from a place of love. But trust me, you haven’t lived until you’ve witnessed the evil Lord Voldemort strutting around a graveyard to Tina Turners ‘Simply the Best’. How do you work on the development of romance (Ron getting it on with Hermione, Harry getting it on with Ron’s sister) over the short period of time you have?
Are you a fan of the dark arts? Shhh, don’t say such things – you never know who might be listening! Finally, the biggest question we’ve all got to know - is magic real? Please! Of course not. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go and work on my transfiguration... I mean math! I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that wizards are forbidden to reveal anything about magic to Muggle society due to the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy STEPHANIE ESLAKE
As Jeff plays Harry Potter and I play everyone else, it was a case of me having to fall in love with myself. As an actor, I’ve loved myself for a while so it wasn’t too difficult.
Book your tickets for Potted Potter between October 7-10 at the Theatre Royal through www. theatreroyal.com.au or 62 332 299.
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146 ARTSPACE 4 Sept – 2 Oct Ben Taylor
JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL 10 – 14 Sept More installations, performances and art than you can shake a stick junctionartsfestival.com.au
COMEDY
ART MOB 29 August - 7 September Quela’s Eden BETT GALLERY 5 – 26 – Sept Barbie Kjar; Paul Ryan CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 13 Sept – 12 Oct Nowish COLVILLE GALLERY 15 Aug – 3 Sept Milan Milojevic 5 – 24 Sept Matthew Armstrong 26 Sept – 15 Oct Luke Wagner DESPARD 3 – 29 Sept Peter Poulet DUNALLEY WATERFRONT CAFE Sept Michele Wilkie HANDMARK 14 Aug – 10 Sept Josh Foley 12 Sept – 8 Oct Works On Paper INKA 4 – 24 Sept Inka Members Show MONA Until 8 Sept The Red Queen Ongoing Monanism PENNY CONTEMPORARY 15 Aug – 11 Sept Richard Denny ROUND ROOM GALLERY (The Homestead 304 Elizabeth st, Nth Hobart) 13 August – 14 September Museum Patterns, Lucy Hawthorn. ROSNY BARN - SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY 29 Aug – 2 Oct Blake Prize Touring Exhibition 19 Sept – 4 Oct Dawn Oakford TMAG 30 May – 14 Sept Pat Brassington 27 Sept- 23 Nov City Of Hobart Art Prize
ACADEMY GALLERY Tasmanian College of the Arts, (Inveresk) 29 July – 21 Sept Luminous World: contemporary art form the Wesfarmers Collection 5 Sept -3 Oct Birchalls tertiary Art prize BRAVE ART GALLERY (Longford) 6 – 28 Sept Wish You Were Here BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 5 Jul – 14 Sept ArtRAge 2013 18 Aug – 14 Sept Primary Kaleidoscope 27 Sept – 18 Oct Mancell Financial Group TasArt Exhibition DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 16 Aug – 28 Sept Colin Langridge 4 Oct – 2 Nov Pat Brassington GALLERY PEJEAN 1 – 27 Sept Beyond The Lens HANDMARK EVANDALE 10 Aug – 10 Sept Robyn McKinnon 14 Sept – 2 Oct Works On Paper QVMAG 22 February – 22 March 2015 Vincent McGratt Until 19 October Fred Williams SAWTOOTH 5 – 27 Sept FRONT GALLERY: Travis John & Eric Demetriou (VIC) NEW MEDIA GALLERY: Julian Day MIDDLE GALLERY: Peter Maarseveen and Nicole O’Loughlin PROJECT GALLERY: Sonja Hindrum
SOHO 3 Sept Cloud Comedy 1 Oct Cloud Comedy DICKENS CIDER HOUSE 11 Sept Umber Comedy Hobart DOCTOR SYNTAX 26 Sept The Doctor’s Best Medicine THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE 10 – 13 Sept Meet Josh Earl THE WARATAH 18 Sept The Clubhouse presents: Demi Lardner
SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE PEACOCK THEATRE 11 -13 Sept Tell Tails
STORYTELLING, OPEN MICS DICKENS CIDER HOUSE 24 Sept Storyblanket
NORTH 10 -14 Sept JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL junctionartsfestival.com.au Check the separate Junction guide for a ridiculous amount of awesome stuff.
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DICKENS CIDERHOUSE 10 Sept Uber Comedy
CINEMONA From Sept 6 Hermitage Revealed From Sept 13 The Enchanted Island From Sept 20 Matisse From Oct 4 Medea
FRESH ON CHARLES 19 Sept Fresh Comedy presents: Demi Lardner
THEATRE PLAYHOUSE 12 – 27 Sept Anything Goes POP-UP THEATRE No.1 28 August – 7 Sept The Berry Man 12 – 20 Sept Hamlet heads or Tails
THEATRE PRINCESS THEATRE 5 – 13 Sept Life and Beth BURNIE ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE 1 – 2 Sept Swamp Juice 19 – 20 Sept White rabbit, red rabbit
THEATRE ROYAL 4 -6 Sept Swamp Juice (in Theatre Royal Backspace) 4 – 6 Sept Henry V 11 – 12 Sept Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be: The story of Bon Scott 25 – 27 Sept Food
WARP RECOMMENDS…
SAWTOOTH ARI, LAUNCESTON Landprints: Maatsuyker Island Peter Maarseveen and Nicole O’Loughlin (TAS) Pete and Nicole accomplished the bravest and craziest residency ever – they went and lived on Maatsuyker Island. This show is a record of that time spent in a very isolated and windswept place and deserves your attention. Get along to the Sawtooth ARI, one of the best art spaces in the state, and check out what they did on an island. Image: Nicole O'Loughlin, Shearwaters Taking Flight
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It’s wonderful to hear a music that so constantly evokes the power of nature and the vastness of the sky, and it seems very appropriate for a band from Tasmania to feel this way. Omahara are trio, not exactly new but rarely surfacing around Hobart’s band venues. Their debut album is a solidly crafted work of evocation: the mind is filled with images of shipwreck and dark seas, storms and languid movement. The parameters the band explore are initially well trodden – if you know the post-rock moments that took place over the last 15 or so years then this will not surprise you
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too much, but the introduction of a kind of instinctive, non-rock percussion lift this out of a slightly familiar (to this writer anyway) mire, taking the lead and providing propulsion, even levitation. There’s some magical thinking at play here, for despite feeling crafted and precise, the fragile crystalline percussion opens out the edges and lets something more random leak in.
thrilling when the percussion can become frantic and desperate as if seeking a way out of the overpowering layers of molassesthick guitar. It’s a world of contradictions, a quest for balance and a big glorious whoop in slow motion. Across six nameless tracks the listener is taken somewhere filled with delight most strange, and shown sights that will stay in the memory. Potent stuff.
Omahara’s debut album is an act of conjuring, vast in texture but not classically heavy. It has the feel of cinema but is not a soundtrack (although this band could probably make a fine one), filled as it is with it’s own images and tensions. Bombastic,
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Ride the Tiger
Typical System
Lower Plenty
Partystarter EP
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Life/Thrills
Sea When Absent
The second full-length album to arise from the Melbourne band Total Control takes a different turn, with an atmosphere ranging from serene trance inducing musings to the best of their garage punk influence. Between the more melodic 80’s influenced songs such as ‘Glass’ and upbeat punk hymns like ‘Systematic F**k’, the album maintains a fine balance between poetic and radical rhythms.
The first image to pop up when I typed Ride The Tiger into Google was a photograph of an elderly Korean woman straddling a fully-grown Bengal Tiger. Then I found the cover of the Partystarter EP – a hyperblue, yellow and black illustration of a constipated man that makes Black Flag’s latest look well thought out. I was all ready to judge the album by its cover when the title track opener rang out at just under a minute. It’s a punchy start with good backup hollers, and my favourite length for a song to be. If you’ve still got new riffs to play after a minute then you’re too good at your instrument.
One feature that will easily stand out your first time through will be the lyrics. They drive straight into the core consciousness in the face of the modern condition. The vocals are reminiscent of the beat poet era and drawing directly from that dissonance of living as a human in an urban environment. Total Control toured the US and recorded a split EP with Thee Oh Sees in the past, so keep an eye open this summer for a chance to catch them live.
Lower Plenty’s third album Life/Thrills makes me happy. Like discovering the inner workings of your granddaddy’s pocket watch, even if know you can’t put all the bits back together. If you like your tunes polished, take your time with this one. There is something truly special in the deliberate choice not to wrangle a thing to perfection, in spite of the occasional twinge that tuneless choruses evoke. If you didn’t come here with an open mind, ease yourself in with Sarah Heyward’s beautiful vocals in ‘Calculations’ or the end track ‘Lots of Lows’ before dropping yourself headlong into the hazy 3am jam ‘Waiting on a Tram’.
Ride The Tiger play melodic punk rock. An obvious reference point is pals Luca Brasi, but there’s a bit more edge to this. Feedback isn’t too frowned upon and the stunted outro to Where Chestnut Horses Sank is interesting, though I wished it had gotten weirder. Worth an inspection.
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The rolling, clang-jangly title track winds around earnest, deep vocals and reassuringly bawdy harmonies. Twanging acoustic guitar leads the hectic lullaby, ‘On the Beach’, a song so lovely it might have come from an awesome indie film soundtrack. Vocals soothe and the riffs rattle – this is the vibe for most tracks. Put some scotch in your tea, it’s a suburban journey where your ideas are welcome and space is ace.
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Shae Huddleston – Yeah, Science!, Tuesdays at 11am on Edge Radio
This fourth effort from this geographicallydivided six-piece is another album to reignite your love for dream pop and shoegaze. A Sunny Day In Glasgow stake their claim of the genre and avoid the overstuffed and underworked trap that most bands peddling this stuff fall into. The songwriting on Sea When Absent is detailed and ambitious, with glittering production from Jeff Ziegler (The War On Drugs). A Cocteau Twins influence can be felt but the truth is there’s a lot going on here and plenty of influence to pick apart. Ben Daniels and company don’t want to recreate any past glory from their own history or that of shoegaze; these songs are forward-thinking and distinctly modern. The eleven tracks are packed with an abundance of gorgeous vocal melodies and breathless experimentation by way of swift changes in direction and busy chopping and twisting to the songs that somehow never runs away with its own ambition. This time around the vocals are closer to the front and almost paradoxically it’s also their noisiest effort yet. Coming at just the right time of year when I’ve heard too many cynical attempts at the genre, Sea When Absent is out now on Inertia and Lefse Records. Alex Laird – Music Director, Edge Radio
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Event Guide
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September Friday
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Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
Damage Nightclub w/ Linc & The Insiders (album launch) + Lewes + Mess O’ Reds + Showground Tonne + DJs
Sunday
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Kaylen’s Rain Caricaturist 11:30am + James Maddock Swing 6:30pm
The Owls, The Lawless Quartet & Bansheeland 9pm
Brisbane Hotel (Back)
Lazy Eye + Courtney Schmidt + more tba
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Magneetis
Brisbane Hotel (Front)
Monsters of the Id + Black Mourning Band + Smutty Sam
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Dickens Ciderhouse
Finn Seccombe & Simon Reid 7:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Edge Radio Fundraiser: Pierce Brothers + More 9pm
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Magneetis
The Homestead
Sub Mara (Benefit Gig) feat - Fibonasti (Vic), That Bob Guy, Grommet, Kireesh, Ellis D
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
That 80’s Band 10pm
The Homestead
The Tiger and Me (Vic) + Cuisinaire (Tas)
The Telegraph
Rum Jungle followed by Big Swifty
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel (Back)
Die Die Die (nz) + Treehouse + Adventurers
Brisbane Hotel (Front)
42South + Statik + Reflekt + Draz + Tyrant + Stray + Remarcable + DJ Secrets
12 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Jerome Hillier Wrest Point Show Room Saturday
Dickens Ciderhouse
Daniel Townsend 8pm
Grand Poobah
Violet Swells, The Vedders and TBA 9pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Bonjah + The Middle Names 10pm
The Homestead
The Finn Seccombe Trio
The Telegraph
Ado & Devo followed by Serotonin
Waratah Hotel
One Day Crew feat. Horrorshow, Spit Syndicate, Jackie Onassis & Joyride 8:30pm
13 Birdcage Bar
John Waters - Looking Through A Glass Onion 7:30pm Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
Edge Radio Fundraiser w/ Catsuit + Pines + Mess O’ Reds + Tantric Sax
Dickens Ciderhouse
Emma Anglesey 8pm
Grand Poobah
The Big Hair 90’s Pump Up the Jam Party in the Main Room 8:30pm
Grand Poobah
We Love Bass presents Phaseone, DJ Secrets, Max Power, Actroid Dubstep, SoundwaveDJ & Mos Jef in the Kissing Room 9pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Double Down
PlanB
Kid Kenobi Rise Up Tour 11pm
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Republic Bar & Café
Sugartrain 10pm
ALL AGES - Protest The Hero (CAN) + Save The Clock Tower + Incarcerate
The Homestead
Hugo Race (Vic/The Bad Seeds)
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar The Robinsons
Republic Bar & Café
Jed Appleton + Tarik 8:30pm
Wrest Point Ent. Centre Wrest Point Show Room
The Homestead
Ben Lawless and Friends
Waratah Hotel
Reggae Sundays! w/ Reggae Ink 12pm
Sunday
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Colin Harvey
Tuesday
Dave Elliston
The Telegraph
Grand Poobah
Friday
The Coterie - Coal Valley Tony Makro 1:30pm Vineyard
8
Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 9pm
The Homestead
Mangus 7:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
Monday
Uber Comedy 7pm
Republic Bar & Café
Wrest Point (Roving)
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Sambo 6
Acts / Start Time
Dickens Ciderhouse
Dickens Ciderhouse
The Telegraph Saturday
Venue
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randall
Republic Bar & Café
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Wrest Point (Roving)
Caricaturist 11:30am + James Maddock Swing 6:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo
Republic Bar & Café
The Sign + Devon Robson + Friends 8:30pm
Wrest Point (Roving)
Acousta Roostas 11:30am
Wednesday 10 Birdcage Bar
14 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Residency with Choon & Goon
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan
Republic Bar & Café
Joe Meares 8:30pm
The Homestead
Citizens of Shrapnel
Waratah Hotel
Reggae Sundays! w/ Reggae Ink 12pm
15 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café Wrest Point (Roving)
Brisbane Hotel
NOBUNNY (USA) + The Hussy (USA) + The Native Cats
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Zankbank
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Acoustic Fox + Rod Fritz + Zach Spinks 8:30pm
The Homestead
Jolly Jugs from 6pm + DJ Funknukl from 8:30pm
The Telegraph
Luke & John
Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Adam Brand - My Side of the Street Tour 7:15pm Jason Patmore
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Billy Whitton Monday
Tony Voglino
The TSO Viennese Ball 7pm
Tuesday
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Billy & Randall Pat Curley 8:30pm AJ Trio 11:30am + James Maddock Swing 6:30pm Sambo
Brisbane Hotel
Quiz-A-Saurus
Republic Bar & Café
Baker Boys 8:30pm
Wrest Point (Roving)
AJ Trio 11:30am + Acousta Roostas 6:30pm
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Brisbane Hotel
Side Show Cabaret
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Zankbank
Republic Bar & Café
Finn Seccombe Duo 8:30pm
The Homestead
Jolly Jugs from 6pm + DJ Kal (Vic) + DJ Unknown from
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Brisbane Hotel
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Acousta Roostas 11:30am
Glen Challice
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Event Guide
Date
Thursday
Friday
Venue
Acts / Start Time
The Telegraph
Phrayta
Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Wrest Point (Roving)
Acousta Roostas 11:30am
18 Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice
Republic Bar & Café
Dave Wilson Band 9pm
The Homestead
Billy Whitton
Wrest Point (Roving)
Ollie Duo 11:30am + AJ Trio 6:30pm
19 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel (Front)
Date
Jason Patmore EVIL - Heavy Metal Night w/ Dracula + Ironhawk + Space Raven + Mountains of Madness
Dickens Ciderhouse
Siobhan Corcoran 7:30pm
Federation Concert Hall
Mozart’s Vienna 2:30pm
Grand Poobah
Spring Poobah Bazaar Night Market
Murdunna Forests
Earthdance Tasmania Bush Ball 2.0
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Magneetis
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Tijuana Cartel + Younger Dryas 10pm
The Homestead
Funknukl + Friends
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
Saturday
20 Birdcage Bar
Thursday
Friday
John Williamson - Honest People 8pm Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES - Elegist + Left For Wolves + Alpha Wolf + Actuality + The Dawn of Your Discontent
Brisbane Hotel
18+ - Elegist + Left For Wolves + Alpha Wolf + Actuality + Zeolite
Dickens Ciderhouse
Mangus 8pm
Grand Poobah
Younger Dryas and Friends
Murdunna Forests
Earthdance Tasmania Bush Ball 2.0
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Client Liason + Albert Salt + Local Guests 10pm
The Homestead
Phat Meegz + DJ Funbutton + Alvy Singer
The Telegraph
Pete Thomas followed by Ebeneezer Good
Wrest Point Show Room
Saturday
DJ Zankbank
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Pugsley Buzzard 9pm
The Homestead
Jolly Jugs from 6pm + DJ Tendekasha from 8:30pm
The Telegraph
Luke & John
Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
25 Birdcage Bar
Acousta Roostas 11:30am Glen Challice
Brisbane Hotel
Courtney Barnett + DD Dumbo
Republic Bar & Café
Telstra Road To Discovery 2014 9pm
The Homestead
The Aly Patmore Trio
Wrest Point (Roving)
Ollie Duo 11:30am + James Maddock Swing 6:30pm
26 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel (Back)
The Lawless Quartet + The Schwing Thing + James Lowes 3EZ
Brisbane Hotel (Front)
The Hard Aches (SA)
Dickens Ciderhouse
Dave Sikk Quartet 7:30pm
Federation Concert Hall
Beethoven’s Vienna 7:30pm
Grand Poobah
Verticoli (Single Launch) and Friends in the Main Room 9pm
Grand Poobah
Keith Nash, Timothy and Wilderness, Peter Charles McPherson & Emlyn in the Kissing Room 9pm
Observatory Lounge Room
R&B - DJ AJ Hardy
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Boil Up (Reggae) 10pm
The Homestead
Lewes + Radio Silence + Wham Bam Superman
The Telegraph
Ado & Devo followed by Entropy
Waratah Hotel
Andy Bull Sea Of Approval Tour w/ Special Guests
27 Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
Bear The Mammoth (Vic) + Cat Or Pillar (Vic) + Omahara + Violet Swells
Harry Manx in Concert 8:30pm
Dickens Ciderhouse
Sam Gobbey 8pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Brisbane Hotel
Brissie Residency with Choon & Goon
Republic Bar & Café
Dune Rats 10pm
Grand Poobah
Weird Japanese Film Night
The Homestead
Homegrown Freaks - Final Bout
Murdunna Forests
Earthdance Tasmania Bush Ball 2.0
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
Republic Bar & Café
Peter Hicks and the Blue Licks 8:30pm
Waratah Hotel
AFL Grand Final Day @ The Tah 12pm
The Homestead
Brad Gilles
Waratah Hotel
Reggae Sundays! w/ Reggae Ink 12pm
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Ebeneza Good Sunday
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Clay Soldier 22 Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randall
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan
Republic Bar & Café
Dean Stevenson 8:30pm
Wrest Point (Roving) Tuesday
Observatory Lounge Room
Jason Patmore
21 Birdcage Bar
The Coterie - Coal Valley Billy Whitton & Tilly Martin 1:30pm Vineyard
Monday
Little Miss Music w/ Jess Patmore and Geno + Half An Earth + Imperfecta
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar DJ Gezza
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Manhattan Sunday
Acts / Start Time
Brisbane Hotel
Wrest Point (Roving)
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Sambo Wrest Point Ent. Centre
Venue
23 Birdcage Bar
AJ Trio 11:30am + James Maddock Swing 6:30pm Sambo
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES - CC ROCKS
Republic Bar & Café
Billy Whitton 8:30pm
Wrest Point (Roving)
Acousta Roostas 11:30am & 6:30pm
Wednesday 24 Birdcage Bar Dickens Ciderhouse
Sambo Story Blanket 7pm
FEEL PRESENTS
28 Birdcage Bar
Brissie Residency with Choon & Goon
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan
Republic Bar & Café
Francesca De Valence 8:30pm
The Homestead
Helen Crowther
Waratah Hotel
Reggae Sundays! w/ Reggae Ink 12pm
Waterfront Hotel - C Bar Tony Voglino Monday
Tuesday
29 Birdcage Bar
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Billy & Randall
Republic Bar & Café
Quiz Night 8:15pm
Wrest Point (Roving)
AJ Trio 11:30am
30 Birdcage Bar
Sambo
Brisbane Hotel
Beer Pong
Republic Bar & Café
Brian Fraser 8:30pm
Wrest Point (Roving)
AJ Trio 11:30am + Acousta Roostas 6:30pm
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Brisbane Hotel
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Event Guide
Launceston Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Date
Club 54
Opposer + Zeolite + Actuality + Burning Horizons
Friday
5
Saturday
6
5
Country Club Show Marcia Hines - Amazing Tour Room 2014 7:30pm
Saturday
Magician
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Midnight
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Jerome Hillier
6
Devonport
Molly Malones
Clay Soldier
Watergarden Bar
Brett & Josh
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Unit
Club 54
The Owls + Guthrie + Bansheeland Gypsy Rose Open Folk Session
Wednesday
10
Club 54
Trivial Pursuits
The Royal Oak
Jarrod Pitman
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Thursday
11
The Royal Oak
Leigh Ratcliffe
Friday
12
Club 54
Kunvuk + Drillsaw + Zero Degrees Freedom + Satanicus
Country Club Show Adam Brand - My Side of the Room Street Tour 7:30pm
13
Fresh on Charles
Junction Arts Festival - Hugo Race supported by Zac Slater Live
The Royal Oak
Turbulence
Tonic Bar
Kaylens Rain
Watergarden Bar
Colin Harvey
Club 54
Nosce Teipsum + Infernal Outcry + Shark Puncher
Country Club Show John Waters - Looking Through A Room Glass Onion 7:30pm The Royal Oak
Live Music
Tonic Bar
Ratfunk
Watergarden Bar
Andy & The Woodman
Sunday
14
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session
Wednesday
17
Club 54
The Round & Round
The Royal Oak
Mary Koistra
Watergarden Bar
Rino and Jade
Thursday
18
The Royal Oak
Bronny & Phoebe
Friday
19
Club 54
The Decline + Bennylava + A Day From Tonight + Isaac Bowen
The Royal Oak
Danni and Andy
Tonic Bar
Matthew Garwood
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Club 54
Captives + The Styles + The 88’s + Hounds of Hiroshima + Jimi Steele
20
Country Club Show John Williamson - Honest People Room 8pm Fresh on Charles
Superfly Clubnight feat 7th Street Entry and DJs Grinning Cat and Corey Hudson 7:30pm
The Royal Oak
Stayns (Front Bar)
Tonic Bar
Tony & The Unknown
Watergarden Bar
Clay Soldier
Sunday
21
The Royal Oak
Open Folk Session
Wednesday
24
Club 54
Thump
The Royal Oak
Open Mic Night
Watergarden Bar
Tony Voglino Locally Tomato Sauced Live Music Gig 7:30pm
Thursday
25
St Ailbes Hall The Royal Oak
Daniel Townsend
Friday
26
Club 54
Ursine + Cat Or Pillar + Bear The Mammoth + A Day From Tonight
Fresh on Charles
Island Reggae
The Royal Oak
Pugsley Buzzard
Tonic Bar
Ball & Chain
Watergarden Bar
Colin Harvey
Albert Hall
Beethoven’s Vienna 7:30pm
Club 54
Grand Band Final: The Hard Aches + The Styles + Truck Dogs + Seth Henderson
The Royal Oak
Live Music
27
28
Tonic Bar
Take 2
The Royal Oak
Blues Jam (1pm) / Open Folk Session 5pm
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Wednesday
10
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Open Mic
Thursday
11
Devonport
Molly Malones
Proud Phoneys
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Face Painter
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Rock Pigs
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Unbalance
Devonport
Molly Malones
Kaylens Rain
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Younger Dryas / The Ringmasters
Hans Vonk Music House
The Huon Quartet 2pm
Linc LeFevre
Tonic Bar
38
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Take 2
The Royal Oak
Sunday
Latrobe
Mick Attard
7
Saturday
Acts / Start Time
Tonic Bar
Sunday
Saturday
Venue
The Royal Oak
The Royal Oak
Saturday
CITY
september
september Friday
NORTHWEST
Friday
Saturday
12
13
Sunday
14
Spreyton
Thursday
18
Devonport
Molly Malones
Jerome Hillier
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Magician
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Sheyanna Band
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Jerome Hillier
Devonport
Molly Malones
Retweet
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Unit
Friday
19
Saturday
20
Wednesday
Thursday Friday
Saturday
24
25 26
27
Ulverstone Gnomon Pavilion
Julien Wilson with Viktor Zappner, Michael Anderson, Bruce Innocent 7:30pm
Devonport
Molly Malones
Clinton Hutton
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Face Painter
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Slats of Soul w/ Jed Pickett
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Tony & The Unknown
Devonport
Molly Malones
The Collection
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
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