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September 2015 Bakers Acoustic Duo 8pm Baker Boys Band 9pm Tuesday 1 Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8.30pm Wednesday 2 Jebediah + Fur $35pre/$40door 9pm Thursday 3 Jebediah + Fur $35pre/$40door SOLD OUT 10pm Friday 4 Jebediah + Fur $35pre/$40door SOLD OUT 10pm Saturday 5 Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8.30pm Sunday 6 G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) 8.30pm Monday 7 Simon Astley 8.30pm Tuesday 8 8 Ball Aitken 8.30pm Wednesday 9 Dub FX + Max Power $25pre/$30door 9pm Thursday 10 Maddie Jane Band + The Beautiful Chains + The Saxons + DJ Lawless $5 10pm Friday 11 Abraxxas (Vic) + Iciclan + Omnicide + Create The Crayon $7 10pm Sat 12 Sunday Swap & Sale Clothing Market 2pm Mo Joes Blues Band 8.30pm Sunday 13 Quiz Night 8:15pm Monday 14 Billy Whitton 8:30pm Tuesday 15 Rewind 9pm Wednesday 16 Tijuana Cartel + Guest $15pre/$20door 9pm Thursday 17

Sugartrain $5 10pm Friday 18 Gang Of Youths + Chase City $20pre/$25door 10pm Saturday 19 Beer garden Party with Portuguese chicken cooked over the charcoal finished with Piri Pire sauce and live music from Zuma - FREE EVENT 2.30pm The Ray Martians 8.30pm Sunday 20 Joe Pirere 8.30pm Monday 21 Dean Stevenson 8.30pm Tuesday 22 Fourstring Phil 8.30pm Wednesday 23 Kay Proudlove 8.30pm Thursday 24 The Mornings + Jonno Coleman + Special Guests 10pm Friday 25 Boil Up (Reggae & Funk) $5 10pm Saturday 26 Mo Joes Blues Band 3pm Joe Pirere & Greg Frith 8.30pm Sunday 27 Quiz Night 8.15pm Monday 28 The Sign 8.30pm Tuesday 29 Hui & The Muse 8.30pm Wednesday 30 Tkay Maidza + Willow Beats + Porches + L.K. McKay $25pre/$30door 9pm Thursday 1 October The Jungle Giants + The Art Of Sleeping + Hockey Dad $34.50pre/$38door 10pm Friday 9 October

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News in Brief CROOKED FIDDLING 101

WRITE SONG, WIN MONEY (HOPEFULLY) The International Song Writing Competition is underway once again. The yearly competition in which people around the world pay money to get their music heard by super-famous judges and industry bigwigs in the hope of winning $25,000 in USA moneys. The judges this year include the likes of Tom Waits, Kesha, Bill Withers, Moby, Boyz II Men, Daniel Glass, Dan McCarroll and Sylvia Rhone (and many more). There are a bunch of categories with lesser prizes, so if you think you have an amazing song, it could be worth having a crack! Last year the grand prize was won by Australia’s own Vance Joy, with a whole bunch of Aussies picking up other honours. Go us! Entries close September 10, so you need to get on it. CHASING THE SUN

Tasmania loves The Crooked Fiddle Band, so it’s a good thing they’re coming back again this month, innit? Formed in 2006, this Sydney-based 4 piece has toured across Australia, the UK and Europe. They’ve even recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini. It’s easy to see why we love them, innit? Anyway, they’re playing their only headline show in Hobart for 2015, The Crooked Fiddle Band will be appearing at The Homestead in Hobart on Saturday September 5. If you’re in the north end of the state and want to catch a bit of Crooked Fiddle action, don’t fret. You’ll be able to see them playing at the Junction Arts Festival on Friday September 4. Simon-Rolled

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Born Lion are a classic rock band. Full of heart, packed with riffage and energetic as hell. Their debut album Final Words is a twisting and turning barrage of furious punk rock with a distinctly Australian sound. Blast it while having a beer under the hills hoist in your thongs, ay mate. Or you could just go see them play live, because they’re coming to Tasmania. Probably best not to wear thongs to a rock gig though. On Friday September 18 you’ll be able to catch them at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart. On Saturday September 19 you’ll be able to see them playing at Club 54 in Launceston. They’re touring in support of their new video for “Good Dogs Play Dead”, which is a killer clip, check it out on da interwebz. UNDERGROUND KING DOWN UNDER

Australian singer songwriter Simon (not Rick) Astley is embarking on a national tour this September. After a recent TV appearance on the Marngrook Footy Show, (not Rick) Astley is heading back on the road with shows in WA, SA, Vic and good ol’ TAS. Astley is touring the UK for the 3rd time this January with a surprise appearance on the Cuppa TV Show in London. See him live on Saturday September 5 at The Otis Room in Burnie, on Tuesday September 8 at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart, or on Thursday September 10 at The Royal Oak in Launceston. For more details, check out his website - www.simonastley.net Simonroll your friends along to a gig!

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No matter what the calendar says, Hobart locals Chase City bring the summer vibes all year round. Freshly waxed single Tear You Down from their forthcoming release is set to make waves with its bouncy hooks and nostalgic influence when they support Gang of Youths, Asta and Jinja Safari. After the release of their last single Scarlet Skies, the quartet jangled through an east coast tour including two hometown shows supporting Melbourne based indie rock outfit British India and another show opening for 80’s legends Mental as Anything. They have a whole

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bunch of gigs coming up around Tasmania in September, including the following: Saturday September 5 and Saturday September 12 at the Grand Poobah in Hobart, Thursday September 17 at Tapas Lounge in Devonport, Friday September 18 at Club 54 in Launceston, and Saturday September 19 at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart.

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appearances, and penned of the most iconic verses in the history of hiphop. Now, in 2015, he’s finally coming to Australia for his first ever Australian tour, promoting his 2014 release Mega Philosophy. Supported by Stumik, of Raekwon’s Ice Water Group, Cormega will play the Grand Poobah in Hobart on Saturday September 26. Early bird tickets are $38 and are available via eventbrite. RIP IT UP So it’s that time of year again. The Homegrown FreQs national Drum and Bass mixing competition is in full swing and it’s time to strut your stuff and go toe to toe with the nation’s best DnB DJs for a shot at the title. This year the judges for the Tasmanian region are Twisted Audio’s own Bonsai, former regional winner Alec Lamont, and DJ Max Power from Hobart’s We Love Bass. To learn about the rules and regs of the competition and to submit your entry, jump on to www.twistedaudio. com. Deadline for Tasmanian entries is Friday September 25 with the final taking place at The Homestead in Hobart on Wednesday October 2. Boh Selecta! GOT LOGS, CAN DRUM Taiko is the Japanese art of bashing the living crap out of ginormous drums with two logs of wood. Ok, so it’s a lot more than that, it’s actually pretty damn cool. Go google it and (if possible) witness it in person for yourself. If you want to catch something Taiko-ish but with a modern twist, you should look in to the world renown collaboration between TaikOz and The Digital Shamans. It’s a highly unique performance that brings Taiko in to the digital realm, utilizing electronic body triggers, ECG heart monitors, integrated visuals and graphics all tapping in to chakras and their associated colour and sound frequencies. If you’re in Burnie you’ll be able to catch this very special performance at the Burnie Arts & Function Centre on Tuesday September 29. Book at the Box Office on 6430 5850. A-MAIDZA-ING!

Well here’s something I didn’t think I’d ever say. Cormega is playing at the Grand Poobah! Cormega is legitimately one of the greats of hiphop, the New York legend has sold hundreds of thousands of records, had multiple multi-platinum

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Well the Tkay Maidza gig at The Republic Bar & Café on Friday October 2 blew the hell up and sold the hell out! Tour organisers were so impressed that they slipped another Tkay Maidza gig at The

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Republic Bar & Café into the schedule on Thursday October 1. So if you were one of the unlucky folks that missed out on tickets, you can now jump on moshtix and pick one up. They’re selling fast though, so make sure you don’t miss out. Tickets are $28.50 ($25+bf). While you’re waiting for the transaction to go through, check out the clip to “M.O.B”, Tkay’s second project working with the U.S. cult animation institution Adult Swim. IT HAD TO BE DONE

through a pozible project (check pozible. com/project/197269) to end on Sunday September 20. The planned release of three debut EP CDs simultaneously is pencilled for the end of the year. This, together with an audio/visual performance in conjunction with Arts Tasmania and The Moonah Arts Centre for the launch will render an extremely busy end of the year for The Stan Show. In the meantime, you can catch him supporting Kakariko (Melb) on Friday October 30 at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart. BASIC ENTITLEMENTS

The Bird are an awesome live electronic dance outfit, and are playing at The Homestead in Hobart on Friday October 23. They played at FAUX MO and are awesome, go google them to find out more information because I may never get another opportunity to use up my word quota by doing this: A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word. A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word. Well, don’t you know that the bird is the word? Everybody knows that the bird is the word! Suurrrfffiinnnn’ bbbiirrrrdddddd! Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-papa-pa-pa-pa Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-papa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow Papa-ooma-mow-mow (Tickets will be $10 pre-sale, and available through moshtix soon).

The internationally acclaimed powerpop-rock-trio, The Basics are back with their first studio album in six year, The Age of Entitlement. The guys will embark on another one of their mammoth live tours across the length and breadth of the country. You’ll have two opportunities to catch The Basics in October on the Apple Isle, Thursday 29 at Fresh on Charles in Launceston and Friday 30 at the Waratah Hotel in Hobart.

Look, Ash Grunwald has finally lost the dreads and if that isn’t enough reason to support him than I don’t know what you want from me. Anyway, he’s just released his second single (appropriately titled “Second Guess”) from his upcoming album Now, which will be available Friday September 25. He’s pushing his impressive 8th album, with an equally impressive 28 stop national tour. Tasmanians get three (count ‘em) opportunity to catch Ash sans dreads in the flesh. Wednesday November 4 he’ll be at Fresh on Charles in Launceston, Thursday November 5 he’ll be at Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport, and on Friday November 6 he’ll be at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are returning to Hobart as part of their silver jubilee tour! 25 years of BJM! Doesn’t time fly? The kings of mind-expanding, hypnotic psych rock have been blazing their own musical trail since 1990. With an extensive back catalogue of incredible music, no two BJM gigs are ever the same. If you went to their Hobart gig a couple years ago you’ll be able to find out just how different their gigs can be by going to their gig on Saturday November 14 at The Odeon in Hobart. If you missed their gig two years ago you should still go to this gig and just ask people about the gig two years ago. You missed a doozy! Definitely don’t miss this doozy though. Check out www.mona. net.au for ticketing information.

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JUST ANOTHER FESTIVAL NOW ON SALE Fractangular is one of the most highly anticipated events on the Tasmanian calendar (well, it is for most of the people reading this, anyway). And as of the start of this month, tickets are officially on sale! You’ve already missed out on the special pre-release ticket deal that was on offer to members of their mailing list (it expired at the start of the month), but if you get in early, tickets are still pretty damn cheap for the amount of awesomeness that Fractangular provides! Fractangular Gathering is a three day open air collaborative arts festival held in SouthEast Tasmania, and it’s taking place from Friday February 5 to Sunday February 7. Get amongst that!

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OOM-PAH LOOM-PAH Oktoberfest is back once again! Saturday Oktober 24 at Princes Wharf 1 in Hobart! There’ll be everything you’d expect from a German themed beer festival, Stein Races, Beard Competitions, Strong Woman Battles, Miss Oktoberfest, Cow Milking, Oompah Bands, The Chicken Dance, and Beer, lots and lots of Beer. Wonderful, lovely beer. You’ll have a chance to sample the finest in German food, taste a range of traditional beers, enjoy traditional German music and entertainment, learn about Bavarian culture and history and wear lederhosen. Go on, crack out the lederhosen. I know you have some stashed away in your wardrobe. STAN-TASTIC!

L-Fresh The LION is renowned for his powerful presence, inspiring live shows and thought-provoking lyricism. In a short space of time, the Western Sydney artist has gone from underground community events and ciphers to national tours and major festivals. It speaks of an MC with a sense of purpose and self-belief. Inspired by the soulful movement in US hiphop of the late 90’s/early 2000’s, and the love and respect for his own cultural and ancestral roots of the Sikhs from Punjab, India, L-Fresh is an artist like no other. After a killer show at the Spiegeltent in Hobart earlier in the year, L-Fresh is returning for his first headline gig! Performing at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Saturday October 31, tickets are available from the venue or online via moshtix. WHAT IS A GRUNWALD WITHOUT DREADS?!

After more than 7 years performing as The Stan Show, Stan Barnes (Violet Swells, Spiral Kites) is ready. On top of invitations to perform for national supports and small festivals, The Stan Show is midway

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BEING TOLD TO “FUCKING DIE” IS A TOUGH NOTION TO SWALLOW, BUT IF YOU’RE DOING IT FROM BEHIND A COMPUTER THEN YOU’VE JUST FUELLED WINSTON MCCALL OF PARKWAY DRIVE TO WRITE HIS BAND’S LATEST ALBUM.

“You are talking about a period of time where you have very easy access to someone going on a computer and saying ‘This band sucks so much I hope they fucking die’,” says the frontman of Australian metalcore masterminds Parkway Drive. The unmoderated world of the internet is something of a doubled edged sword for McCall, and the wrongdoings of keyboard warriors has the lead singer rightly pissed off. But the band’s soon to be released sixth LP Ire is more than just a rant against the web, it’s their most thought provoking and emotive work yet. The album doesn’t try and force feed opinion like a bible preacher on the street corner; it’s rather a subtle wake up call to those who have become complacent with their lives. McCall’s lyrics call out political and social corruption both here in Australia and abroad. His words are a massive shift from the classic Parkway bangers filled brutal and raw lines (think: “Will you fucking bleed for me with suicide” and “So cry me a fucking river, bitch!”) but he doesn’t look back on the past with any malice. Before their first Australian tour in over a year a jet-lagged McCall weighed in on the band’s most accomplished album yet, its meaning, and issues on either side of the spectrum like democracy failing its people and Australia’s dominant metal/ hardcore scene. A MATURED AND SEASONED PARKWAY The words ‘Parkway Drive’ and ‘maturity’ had McCall laughing, but he agreed- while band members had grown up, they were also becoming more seasoned writers. There’s a blatantly obvious change in the lyrics with Ire compared to the previous four gold certified albums. While its predecessor Atlas was the start of something

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lyrically new for McCall, his latest writings have totally encompassed these new themes. “To be honest it’s something where I’ve had to focus a hell of a lot more on, the vocals. Like the vocals themselves were way more focused on this record, but when it came to the actual writing there was large changes happening. It was one of those things where I didn’t just go ‘Fuck it, here’s some words and now they are on top of the music’, it went through large processes of having to move things around, change things around, making sure everything was maximised to a large degree and making sure every little part of it tied in, that we weren’t putting certain lines where they didn’t match, or the feeling wasn’t right. We’ve had huge discussions in the band simply over single words, like ‘That word sounds wrong’ or ‘It doesn’t have the effect it could have’, stuff like that. We’ve never done that in the past and that does come with I guess the maturity of personality and the writing side of it. I think I’m lucky in the personality I have that I take the lyrics as what they are, even the music as what it is and that is a snapshot of the person that I was. I think it’s very easy to go ‘Man I would have done so many things differently’ and ‘Fuck that’s written badly’ or whatever, but the reality is it’s written by the person that I was and the reflection of the person I was at that point in time, so it’s not like at any point in time I’ve just had throw away lyrics, I’ve always put everything I have had into writing these things, it’s just what comes out of you then and there.”

I’ve fought for this. Twelve years, my heart still beats. For those ones who’ve stood beside me. Still strong, you can’t break me”. Indeed, Parkway celebrates its 12th birthday this year, the band coming a long way from its first Byron Bay shows in 2003. Winston says Dedicated stands as a metaphor to all those who have believed in the band, and to those who haven’t. “...it’s literally been a third of my life spent in this band, and a third of my life that I’ve had this wonderful experience of people saying ‘I’m behind this, this is what I love, I love coming to your shows, I love listening to your music, this is what these things have done to me’, and at the same point in time you have people saying ‘This fucking sucks’. You are talking about a period of time where you have very easy access to someone going on a computer and saying ‘This band sucks so much I hope they fucking die’. It’s a very hyperactive communication source, so it’s one of those things you deal with, but at the same point in time I’m very proud of what we’ve done, I’m very proud of the fact we’ve done it in a way we wanted to do it, every single step of the way, and we’ve done it with the help of amazing people, and in the face of people that were so vocal about us not wanting to do anything. There’s been a lot of people who’ve wanted us to crash and burn, and the fact that we’ve had so many people hold us up the whole way has been very very nice.” MARK ACHESON

“I HOPE THEY FUCKING DIE”. You don’t have to be a mathematician nor master of encrypting lyrics to hear McCall’s heartfelt meaning behind one new track in particular. Dedicated hears him sing (scream): “Twelve years

Parkway Drive will perform at Hobart’s Odean Theatre on Sunday September 27 with special guests Thy Art is Murder, Memphis May Fire and The World Alive. To purchase tickets visit www.oztix.com.au. Ire is out September 25 via Resist Records.

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MEETING OF THE MUSIC BAND MEETING IS A NEW HOBART BASED MINI-FESTIVAL SHOWCASING PREDOMINANTLY TASMANIAN ACTS (AND A FEW SNEAKY MAINLAND IMPORTS) TAKING PLACE AT THE SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE IN EARLY OCTOBER.

Starting on Friday October 2 with a triple-header singlelaunch set in the historic Peacock Theatre, the evening will be true theatre style, with individual stage sets and lighting direction. Launching their singles will be The Beautiful Chains, Jed Appleton, and the Maddy Jane Band, who will be supported by Leo Creighton and Dawnfield. I spoke to Seth Henderson from The Beautiful Chains about the night; “It’s going to be great to share the stage with some of our close friends. We all play what some people would describe as similar ‘folky’ music but I think by having us all together on the same line up in such an amazing space, you’ll really see how different we are. The whole weekend is something that I think has been long overdue in Hobart, a showcase of the depth of talent here.” The following night, on Saturday October 3, it’ll be a celebration of all things music with over 20 acts from a bunch of different genres using three consecutively running

spaces; The Peacock Theatre, The Founders Room and the SAC Courtyard (Rectangos) will all play host to some of the finest Tasmania (and the rest of Australia) has to offer. The Founders room will be set up in “Gentlemen’s Club” style with the acts in the centre of the room and the audience on raised platforms around the outside, and The Peacock Theatre will be filled with beanbags around raised platforms and projections while performances are happening. The courtyard will feature some amazing DJs and producers with varying backgrounds from world to jazz to electronic to gypsy, and will play host to a special one-off pop-up cocktail bar run by award winning bar professional, Niall Maurici. On the first Saturday of October it’d almost be blasphemous for Australians to not celebrate and tune in to the AFL Grand Final, so to support this the Peacock theatre will open its doors before the game, with the match on the big screen and Babylon Howl hosting some traditional half time footy training for those out there

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What’s on in September? Tue 01/09 - Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton Wed 02/09 - George Begbie & The Mystery Guests Thur 03/09 - Bridget Pross Tue 08/09 - Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton Wed 09/09 - Jed Appleton + Dawnfield Thur 10/09 - Dan Vandermere Tue 15/09 - Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton Wed 16/09 - Seth Henderson & The Mystical Men Thur 17/09 - Scott Haigh (Laun) Tue - 22/09 - Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton Wed 23/09 - Surreal Estate Agents w/ Milo Bean Thur 24/09 - Dan Vandermere Tue 29/09 - Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton Wed 30/09 - Desi Boy + Friends Thur 01/10 - Hugo Bladel

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THE MORNINGS AT NIGHT SITTING WITH SAM COLE ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF INDIEFOLK BAND THE MORNINGS, HE’S SURPRISINGLY CANDID. “CONSIDERING HOW HECTIC IT WAS FOR A FEW YEARS THERE IT SEEMS STRANGE TO THINK WE HAVEN’T PLAYED A FEATURE SHOW IN HOBART OVER A YEAR. ACTUALLY PROBABLY LONGER.”

Back in 2010 The Mornings formed and after not much more than a year of playing around the state they rose to national acclaim, touring extensively for the next three years and sharing the stage at festivals and venues around Australia and New Zealand with world renowned acts including Paul Kelly, The Hives, The Kooks, Kimbra, Goyte, Jinja Safari, Daniel Champagne and many more. Last year the band cut back on touring commitments to allow all involved some time to catch up mentally and spend some time on the other aspects of their life they had been neglecting.

with a spin at probably their most played Hobart venue, The Republic Bar & Cafe. The Mornings will play a two hour set of their “greatest hits” Sam says with a laugh. The night will be a free show and a retreading of memories for The Mornings, with surprise guests that they have played with over the last five years appearing as supports. “We really want to say thank you to everyone that has supported us through these insane times and I think we all just want a good excuse to see all the familiar faces and jump around together.” REBECCA SNOW

“I think we were well overdue for a time out, it lasted a bit longer than we all expected but there’s no need to rush things. I don’t think people realise the preparation and down time that’s needed before you even launch a project. Even though audiences saw us play for the first time in 2010 it had all been slowly coming together for years before that. It takes as long as it takes and that’s it.” In preparation for The Mornings new release set for November this year and the announcement of their summer touring schedule the band is putting on a show

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The Mornings play at The Republic Bar & Cafe, North Hobart on Friday September 25. Show starts at 10pm and it’s FREE.

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GANG OF YOUTHS SINGER DAVE LE’AUPEPE HAS BEEN THROUGH SOME SHIT, TO SAY THE LEAST. THE SYDNEY BAND’S LATEST- AND DEBUT- ALBUM THE POSITIONS- PRODUCED BY KEVIN MCMAHON (SWANS, THE WALKMEN)- CAME ABOUT FROM RATHER SAD AND DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES, AS LE’AUPEPE EXPLAINS. “The Positions is the artistic culmination of four years I spent hopelessly in love with a woman fighting stage four cancer who would eventually break my heart.” he explains. “The record itself sort of plays out like a non-linear journal, and all my innermost fears and desires and hostilities are ingrained in each lyric and bar. For every moment of reticence I experienced, there were two moments of abject fucking clarity that followed.” “I knew that there was a bravery in the honesty, and some glory in full disclosure. It felt as if I was reclaiming some of the years I’d spent as a self-loathing and deeply private purveyor of these difficult circumstances. The great epiphany for me was seeing the strength in my vulnerability realized in the way that the local music press and music fans responded to the recording. It was vindication I needed.” Le’aupepe’s lyrical anguish is at the heart of the album, but it is by no means the only element: a feast of layered, dark tones, sharp and stinging guitar riffs and a kind of anthemic- in a beautifully sad way- feel. Le’aupepe went to hard yards to get the album together in the midst of chaos, though, including a respite from music altogether. “I ‘quit’ the band in July 2014 for a few months after my marriage began to well and truly break down. I had just spent a brief stint in rehabilitation

and, in desperately trying to resurrect a relationship that was destroying me, I threw my friends under the bus. I think I realized that the “want” was gone. I didn’t want anything anymore; I didn’t care for bright lights or big sounds; I cared none for love and adoration. The ‘want’ was dead and gone. “ Though it is considered gauche to talk religion at a dinner party, I assume that a music interview is as good a time as any- somehow actually a better opportunity, when you think about it- and thus I asked Le’aupepe if, with all his troubles, he still had any belief in, or relationship with, a higher power. “God and I are involved in a profoundly uncomplicated Union considering the drastic intensity of the last few years” he explains. “Despite the religious upbringing, I was probably an atheist until I turned eighteen, and for a good couple of years, God was, to me at least, this vindictive and unapproachable cunt in the sky incapable of basic compassionate impulses and just full of flowery, ornate rhetoric. In the period that followed, however, I learned not to ask questions I knew wouldn’t be answered and just be okay with the uncertainty in the present. Now that I’m older and less inclined to shake my fist at the sky, I’ve deconstructed a lot of the bullshit I attached to my faith, along with all the fucklord

evangelical detritus that comes with it. It’s simply me, Jesus and loving my neighbour. I don’t debase myself with the mindless sheepism and bigotry associated with Christianity, either- and, needless to say, I’m not exactly a glowing, silvery poster boy for Christendom. Fornicating former addicts don’t get written about on Christianity today a whole bunch.” Le’aupepe went to music in his time of need and poured his heart and soul into what became a dark, sometimes morose, sometimes glorious, record. He describes music as “paramount to the advancement of our species; imperative and vital”, and that love and dedication shows on The Positions. The band are touring their feet off, and with good reason; the album has been widely praised with many a listener getting that emotional rollercoaster and dance-high that Le’aupepe no doubt intended. This is also evidenced by what he wants their audience to get out of a Gang of Youths show... “Some semblance of a Proustian moment, or some small version of a great glowing hope; maybe the sudden rush of dopamine that hits the nerve centre when one hears something transcendental and invigorating. I think I always want to make uplifting music that paints the vivid beauty of humanness in a way that’s cathartic and life-affirming.” Lisa Dib

The Positions is out now on Sony. Gang of Youths play Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport on Thursday September 18, Club 54 in Launceston on the Friday and The Republic Bar in Hobart on Saturday.

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create an album in the same vein, but to have Guy lend a hand. “He [Guy] went through the album with us” O’Sullivan explains. “He’s just a cool guy, very intellectual. He digs our music, some songs more than others (laughs) and he just mainly wanted us to rearrange the order they were in and we just jumbled them up. He was strong about his work. It was such a cool thing, we loved it so much.”

CAREY O’SULLIVAN , OF GOLD COAST MUSICAL JAMBALAYA TIJUANA CARTEL, IS A LITTLE WORRIED ABOUT HIS BANDMATE. PAUL GEORGE, THE BAND’S SINGER, SEEMS TO HAVE COME DOWN WITH SOMETHING, AND AT A RATHER INOPPORTUNE TIME.

So much of the Tijuana Cartel sound simply comes from personal creative passion and desire, rather than a conscious effort towards a particular sound, as O’Sullivan says.

“Paulie came down with this killer virus; we were trying to film a clip and he just started shaking and we had to call an ambulance! We’ve gotta do a gig tonight, hope he can still sing!”

“When we get into writing, we don’t say ‘every song’s gotta have Spanish-sounding guitar and bongos’; we’ve taken that limitation away. We just pick up whatever instruments are there at the time, it’s so much more fun and we make better music. We do find some people say ‘what’s your theme, what’s your genre’ and I don’t feel like we need to have a strong genre. This album we’ve put all the vocal-centric songs together and more of a heavy, trippy synthladen feel, and a live drum kit which is new for us. I kinda wanted to have drums in the band since we started- our new guy [on drums] lives in Bali though! He’s coming on tour with us, he moves back and forth between Bali and Australia and we’re lucky enough to bring him over when we need to. He’s a super cool guy and super keen drummer.”

Tijuana Cartel are on the campaign trail for their new album Psychedelicatessen, released September 4. The album is a deviation- though not too sharp- from their usual sound. “This album has been on the backburner” O’Sullivan explains. “We wrote most of it before the album we just released [24 Bit Guitar Orchestra] and we just didn’t feel it was the right time to release. We’d been working on the songs for quite a while. There’s old influences in there; people we listened to when we were young, more electric guitar and synth and Pink Floyd and Chemical Brothers influence...we just write music and try not to limit ourselves to keep to a theme. This one is a group of all the songs that had that similar theme and we decided to keep them all on one album.”

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The album’s main inspiration though, was a trippy radio play called ‘What’s Rangoon to you is Grafton to me’ by Russell Guy. A “quintessentially Australian Gonzo rant”, the broadcast led Tijuana Cartel to not only

Tijuana Cartel play the Republic Bar in Hobart on Thursday September 17. Psychedelicatessen is out now.

TINKERING OUTSIDE THE BOX AUSTRALIAN ELECTRONIC ARTIST SPOONBILL HAS BEEN BUSY BREAKING SOME MUSICAL EGGS FOR WELL OVER A DECADE AND HAS JUST SERVED UP HIS FOURTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, TINKERBOX. THE RELEASE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY THE LABEL AS A “FRESH SONIC ANTHOLOGY THAT TRANSVERSES THE LANDSCAPES OF CINEMATIC GROOVE ELECTRONIC LIKE A CARAVAN OF SPACE GYPSIES.” SPOONBILL TOLD US WHAT WAS Happening in his sonic kitchen.

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Sunny side up, wobbling’ or in an omelette? Damn, I like my eggs every which way possible! A good egg is undeniable no matter how it’s served.

Which album have you listened to the most?

What’s your favourite instrument/plugin combo? I definitely have a soft spot for my Virus TI2 synth. It gets a good workout on most tunes. I also love the Continuum fingerboard for its ability to bend notes into awesome freeform gliding sonic warpage. For meat and potatoes processing I use Fabfilter stuff a bunch, and well as some UAD plugs. There are several others i also dig such as Razor, Serum, Prism & Kontakt to name a few. What’s the biggest misconception about you and why? That I make sample based funny Australian based electronic beats. This used to be true 10 years ago, but over the past 6 or 7 years I’ve been writing a vast array of electronic 12

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That would have to be Sly and the Family Stone, the album: Fresh. I was super obsessed with this album when I was 16. I only ever had it on vinyl, but I had 2 copies, one that was never payed and still wrapped in plastic… it’s such a super funky album and I tell ya... Sly is the man! What can we expect from Omelette in the next 12 months? Omelette has a new label manager and thus the mothership is very reinvigorated. We have a great release schedule planned including a debut from Eastward, a groove album from Cheshire, A new sound art album from Frank Riggio, a new Spoonbill party EP, an Alpha Channel EP, A new VA compilation album, and many more. What’s your favourite studio snack and how do you prepare it?

Buckwheat Savory crepe with an egg! Firstly cook the crepe one side, then flip it over, crack an egg into the middle, add fresh herbs and goats cheese and a bit of tomato relish and then add fresh rocket . Then fold in half and toast the other side on high heat for a min. delish! Is this your first time performing in front of the Hobart Massif? It’s the first playing in Hobart in a couple of years. But I’ve played Hobart many times over the years… and it’s always a hoot that’s to be guaranteed! What’s your thoughts on Molecular Gastronomy? It’s glorious but hyper nerdy terminology and technique of crafting a good ol bloody ripper meal. What’s your most epic fail? Well I was doing an after party set on the beach at Stradbroke Island as part of Island vibes festival… I had already been playing for 2 hours and really needed to take a piss, so I got my girlfriend to hold the fort. I bailed behind the stage, but it was pitch black, and I sprinted straight into a deep lagoon! I trudged back soaked but continued to boost some squishy tunes into the night! FATTY BOOMSTICKS See Spoonbill play The Homestead in Hobart on Saturday October 10.

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TURN UP THE SPEAKERZOID JANGLY ALT-POP BAND THE JUNGLE GIANTS’ SINGER/GUITARIST SAM HALES HAS HAD A SEMI-CHARMED KINDA MUSICAL LIFE; THE BAND’S NEW ALBUM SPEAKERZOID WAS CREATED IN WHAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOTHIC BELL TOWER FROM A HORROR MOVIE; HALES SPENT TIME IN CHARMING PAREE WORKING ON THE NEW RECORD.

“I spent a good six months demo-ing before Paris...after finishing the first album, I was looking for something a little different to work on; something challenging, fresh and new. The idea was just to go there, somewhere far away with nothing to distract me, a little trip to totally focus. I ended up going there for two weeks and wrote thirty or forty songs ‘cause I had nothing else to do (laughs). My apartment was this stuck-on little attic on top of this high building with a lovely spiral staircase and a little door with an old ancient key to get in. I had a 360-degree view of Paris. I could walk out onto the roof! But I played quietly so noone would complain.”

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Once he was back on home turf, the band took a different approach in getting the album together as they did for their debut, Learn to Exist in 2013. “The usual process is to compile a shitload of demos then listen and list our favourites, pick the winning songs and take that to the studio...after Paris I had this big load of songs and after a while the favourites really shone through, we just cut the fat . With the first album, we rehearsed those songs to shit...every second of every tiny ounce of detail we rehearsed until it was ready, and by rehearsing that hard, when you go to the studio there’s no space or time for ideas. I wanted to create more time to experiment in the studio, so now the songs are very “of the time”, instead of sounding like a bunch of songs just stuck onto a CD.” “This album is more adventurous. We don’t have a label telling us to write ‘this’ kind of single, we just made a colourful, playful, creative album. We write pop music that people can dance and sing along to; one thing I was aware of is that this stuff that works for us. We used that old formula of music you can hear and understand and dance to, as well as mixing it up a bit and sliding in some surprises in there. We’re just taking advantage of being independent.” As the Giants get more and more successful (they’ve just inked an international deal and will be heading to the US to tour later this year), Hales is considering future gigs. “It’s weird; say you’re at a family Christmas party and your mum says you should sing...something like that [small gigs] fucking terrifies me, all the eyes on you and it’s so quiet and a weird atmosphere. At this point I can feed off a lot more energy with a bigger crowd. We’ve done a couple of little acoustic sets in the past and I’ve learnt to love them; they do keep you on your toes.” LISA DIB

Speakerzoid is out now on Vinyl, CD & iTunes via Amplifire. The Jungle Giants play Friday October 9 at the Republic Bar in Hobart and Saturday October 10 at Club 54 in Launceston.

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BIG RIVER CHRIS COWBURN- SMITH STREET BAND’S DRUMMER- IS PRETTY CHUFFED, AND WITH GOOD REASON. THE BAND ARE CURRENTLY KNEEDEEP INTO THEIR EUROPEAN TOUR WITH THEIR MOST RECENT ALBUM THROW ME IN THE RIVER, THEIR FIFTH IN AS MANY YEARS, AND DOING PRETTY DAMN WELL AT IT. WHEN I SPEAK TO HIM, IT IS THE NIGHT AFTER TWO SOLD-OUT SHOWS IN LONDON; THE BAND ARE ON EN ROUTE TO SLOVENIA, HUNGARY, POLAND, AUSTRIA...NOT BAD FOR A RAG-TAG BUNCH OF MELBOURNE LADS. I ASK COWBURN IF IT’S HARD TO ADJUST TO THIS NEW TOURING LIFE.

“It’s not terrifying, but it is like starting from scratch which, in a way, is really cool. The possibilities are endless and you can sort of start again, meet new people and discover new venues and new cities. It’s awesome. At the beginning, I personally wasn’t very well-travelled and found it a bit daunting. It’s a bit of a culture shock but now that we’ve done it a bit, you get a bit more confident and a bit happier to throw everything you’ve got at it. We don’t care, we just like new experiences and you do, very quickly- or at least we did- meet some good people.” One of the most interesting things the band have done recently, in my mind, was their Wipe That Shit-Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Face EP. As you can tell by the name, it was inspired by our current Prime Minister and his- and the Government’s-

atrocious treatment of asylum seekers. The EP’s profits were donated to asylum seeker charities and we finally had a decent protest soundtrack to go with this rubbish Liberal government, of which, I note aloud, there have not been many to surface. “I was really surprised when Face was being called one of the only protest songs about Abbott. We just say what we feel and were honest, which is kind of the mantra for our band and always has been” he explains. “Joelistics has a couple of songs on his latest album that are loosely directed at the Government and Abbott. I’m sure they [protest songs] are out there, maybe people just haven’t named their songs such scathing titles (laughs)” “You see so much stuff that infiltrates every day from the Government and Abbott;

IT’S A JAZZ THING TOM VINCENT IS ARGUABLY THE GREATEST JAZZ PIANIST IN HOBART. NOW HE’S ABOUT TO MAKE WAVES IN AMERICA. THE MUSO WILL CROSS CONTINENTS TO RECORD WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS – STING’S FORMER SAXOPHONIST. TOM CHATS ABOUT HIS PLANS AND DREAMS AHEAD OF HIS UNITED STATES TRIP AND LOCAL GIGS. “This is like a dream for me,” Tom says. “Thirty years ago as a teenager I was listening to Branford. Not in my wildest fantasies would I have ever thought I’d get to play with him or record with him – or with any of the jazz greats, for that matter. My mind just doesn’t think like that or plan like that normally.”

the immigration policy makes you wanna scream and the next thing you think is: “What can we do to help these people? How can we overcome this problem?”, and even just to get the discussion started was cool. Sweden’s immigration policy is, it takes about two to five days to process someone, even if they don’t have a passport! There’s probably kids born in detention who are growing up there. It’s so harrowing to hear. It can make you feel quite small and powerless- music, communities and art and all of that can be powerful. People who maybe don’t have a voice in the political sense can have a voice in another.” The band carry with them a punk ethic and artistic realness- whether charged with political fervor or emotional animation, their tracks are straight-up, no-bullshit and hit you where you live. “One of the most

Branford mainly kicks ass on tenor and soprano sax, and Tom says his idol’s sound is “exquisite”. “Bran is a great soloist and jazz player. He is one of the best around.” When the Branford Marsalis Quartet toured Australia in 2010, the Tom Vincent Trio played as the supporting act. “He is way cool,” Tom says “After the gigs and also flying and moving around, we got to hang.” “On the last gig of the tour, Branford got my Trio up to do the encore with him at the Sydney Opera House. That was a great honour. He said something like, ‘we’ve been hanging with these guys and they are cool and they really swing, so I wanna do my last song with them’. I think it was after that, my dad then started saying to me, ‘Tom, you should record with Branford’.”

important things for an artist” Cowburn explains, “is to say how you feel and be honest, not try to sugarcoat anything; for me that’s what real art is and that’s what has always drawn me to any art; honesty and rawness gets me inspired.” LISA DIB

Throw Me in the River is out now. The Smith Street Band play Wednesday September 16 at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart.

Tom is now pumped for a recording session with Branford in home town Durnham, North Carolina. “I thought, let’s make this as convenient and cruisy as possible for Bran,” Tom says. “When you are not leading a session, there is usually less stress.” In October, Tom will take a 28 hour journey to Durham via Melbourne, Sydney, and Los Angeles. After spending a few days recovering from the jetlag, he’ll buckle down for full days of recording in the studio and – eventually – reward himself with a holiday to New York City. Tom is also in the process of composing new works for his 11-piece Tom Vincent Eleventet back home in Hobart. The jazz pieces are “influenced by basically all the music I’ve heard that I love”, Tom says. He started arranging and composing at 14 years old and has written for groups large and small over the years, receiving arts grants and releasing CDs along the way. “Nothing is ever the same,” Tom says of his compositions. “I always go for stuff. But I don’t always remember or even know what I’m doing sometimes. I get into the zone – really fresh. I’ll sit at the piano and play and muck around, thinking about what maybe I’ll write. I spend ages writing and arranging, trying out all sorts of different things. I don’t settle for something until I’m totally happy with it. “You’d think with only 12 notes, you’d run out of ideas. But actually, it’s unlimited the amount of variation and harmonies and counterpoint.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE

See the Tom Vincent Pop Up Bebop Jazz Club at the Derwent Sailing Squadron, 8.30pm September 26 and 27. Vincent on piano, Leigh Barker double bass, Alf Jackson drums. Tickets $25 from www.tomvincent.com.au.

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THE MUSICAL HOOK DR HOOK MAY HAVE MADE ITS FAIRWELL TOUR IN 1985. BUT FOUNDING LEAD VOCALIST DENNIS LOCORRIERE SHOWS NO SIGNS OF STOPPING. FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF RECENT GREATEST HITS ALBUM TIMELESS, LOCORRIERE WILL HIT TASMANIA ON THE FIRST LEG OF HIS TIMELESS AUSTRALIA TOUR. THE AMERICAN COUNTRY ROCKER RECALLS HIS FAV MEMORIES FROM THE DAYS OF DR HOOK BEFORE PERFORMING THE OLD CLASSICS IN HOBART.

You’ve come a long way since your early Dr Hook days as a young muso performing in bars with your mates – you’ve sold millions of records and enjoyed a threedecade career after your farewell concert. What are your favourite memories? My fondest memory of Hook is when we started and played in these bars in New Jersey, and our repertoire consisted of songs that would prevent us being beaten up or killed. The drunks came in and they’d say, ‘you know any country music?’ and we’d say, ‘yes sir, we do now’. Those were the very early days and we had some recording success and then we became a concert success and then an international success. We were a bunch of guys that were really amazed that we were doing so well and in our minds we never rose above bar band status. When you made your farewell with Dr Hook back in the ‘80s, did you think you’d continue making music the way you have so successfully? I joined the band when I was 19 and when we were doing a farewell tour I was 35 and thinking, ‘there must be something else’. I just needed to know. And I had a son who was growing up without me because we were on the road all the time and it seemed to me I wasn’t sure what I’d do next so it was time to find out. So I put some distance between me and the tour. Dr Hook remained in my life – but I didn’t want to be back on the road and singing the same songs. So I wrote, did some acting in New York City, and put a book out. I wasn’t trying to compete with Dr Hook and

NOT ONLY FOR THE OLDIES OUR TELEVISIONS ARE BOMBARDED EVERY NIGHT BY SHOWS LIKE THE VOICE, AUSTRALIA’S GOT TALENT, AUSTRALIAN IDOL AND X FACTOR, BUT WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE SAW AN 80 YEAR OLD SING AND PERFORM? I INTERVIEWED AMANDA HODDER WHO IS PROVIDING A PREPERFORMANCE VOCAL WORKSHOP FOR SENIOR IDOL TO FIND OUT.

overshadow them, I was just trying to see that there were other facets to my life. How do you feel about being ‘that guy from Dr Hook’ all these years later? It’s very unbecoming to have people congratulate you over something you did years ago. For some people, they go, ‘oh, great - that means I will never have to do anything else’. But in my case, people were coming up and saying, ‘I remember you, you used to be my favourite band’. I thought, ‘oh, I’m a ‘used to be’?’. In my own life I don’t want to be a ‘used to be’ – I want to be relevant even to myself so I carried on to do other things to make me feel these days like I’m a well-rounded person. These days I hear wonderful things about what I did 30 or 40 years ago. I’m a little bit more willing to accept them because I know now that’s not all I am. When you tour the old Dr Hook songs now, do you hear them with fresh ears and make them your own – or are they memories? When I put my current band together, they were handpicked people because I want to play the group stuff and have it sound the way people remember it sounding. Because Dr Hook is a sound – it’s no longer a band. Four of the members have passed away, we haven’t been a band since 1985. But people like this music a lot and it’s important to them. When I was 35 and Dr Hook was over, I wasn’t how we’d factored into someone else’s life – I was wondering how it factored into mine. I almost feel like it’s my duty to go out now and represent this stuff while I can and have it sound how it’s supposed to sound. If you asked me what Dr Hook used to be, I would tell you it was a bunch of friends who had some success. But if you ask me what Dr Hook is now, I would tell you that it’s a sound. People take the music with them wherever they go, and I feel qualified to represent that. STEPHANIE ESLAKE See Dennis Locorriere on his Dr Hook – Timeless Australian Tour 2015 at the Theatre Royal, 7.30pm October 14. Tickets from $79.90, www.theatreroyal.com.au.

What is Senior Idol?

What is your role in Senior Idol?

An opportunity for anyone who is 60+ years of age to get up in front of everyone and perform!

I will be holding a workshop on the 22nd of August to help prepare contestants, but the contestants will be responsible for their own rehearsing. On the day of the heats people will be able to come in before the show starts and run their performance on stage with the microphone and any instruments they might have before they actually perform.

There’s not really many platforms for senior people to sing and perform in Tasmania is there? Unless they want to join a choir or get into musical theatre, not really. Singing and performing might be on someone’s bucket list; maybe some people are wondering what it would be like to perform in front of people. They’re really aren’t many places that promote such an excellent opportunity. Senior Idol encourages all types of singers to get up and have a go. Is this the first Senior Idol in Tasmania? It is! It’s not the first in the world but it’s the first in Tasmania. It’s more popular on the mainland but it’s massive in Las Vegas. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and more varied than we initially thought. People have even contacted us who have been writing their own original songs. Others are struggling to find outlets to perform. What are the requirements to enter Senior Idol? You have to be over 60 years of age, and have to want to sing! Contestants have the choice of singing a cover, playing an instrument and/or performing an original song. I really believe anyone can sing; it’s a driving force in my life. The original idea was to get people even older than 60 to participate, like those in their 70’s and 80’s, but people seem to be wary and unsure.

You have a Masters in Music and are an Associate Lecturer in Accompaniment. How important is music in your life? It’s absolutely integral to who I am as a day to day person. I’m passionate about community based projects and that’s what I love most about my job. I get to help set people on the right track. To enter Senior Idol you need three songs and a stage name, what can viewers expect? I have no idea! This is my third year working for Junction Arts Festival and what I’ve learned is to expect anything! Junction puts ideas out there to see what happens, it puts emphasis back on the people, back on the community. It really is an amazing festival. BRITTANY BROWN

Damien Leith and Shannon Knoll are amongst some of the oldest Australian Idols, does age have anything to do with music? Music is really, absolutely ageless. For my Dad’s 60th birthday we arranged for him to have oboe lessons because it’s something he’s always been interested in. It doesn’t matter that he started at 60, it doesn’t matter what age you are when it comes to music.

Senior Idol performs as part of Junction Arts Festival in Launceston, September 2 – 6.

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A WONDERFUL ONLINE WORLD LONDON-BASED DUO OH WONDER DIDN’T MEAN TO GET FAMOUS. RELEASING THEIR “ELECTRONICTINGED ALTERNATIVE POP” SONG BODY GOLD ONLINE, ANTHONY WEST AND JOSEPHINE VANDER GUCHT ONLY EVER INTENDED TO CONNECT WITH THEIR AUDIENCE FOR THE SAKE OF MUSIC. BUT WHEN THEY CHALLENGED THEMSELVES TO CONTINUE RELEASING A SONG EVERY MONTH FOR A YEAR, THEY RACKED UP MORE THAN 30 MILLION STREAMS AND IT’S SAFE TO SAY THEY’VE GONE TOTALLY VIRAL. THEY’RE RELEASING THEIR DEBUT ALBUM AND MAKING THEIR LIVE PERFORMANCE DEBUT THIS MONTH. JOSEPHINE SHARES HER AMAZEMENT AT THE BAND’S SUCCESS. Instantly, it had an incredibly positive reaction which we weren’t expecting at all. It got 10,000 plays in the first week and we were anonymous so we were really surprised. Then we decided to release one song a month, mainly as a way to challenge ourselves as songwriters and give ourselves routine, structure, and concrete deadlines – which as artists we don’t normally have. That was the idea behind it. It began on the September 1, 2014. When did you decide to stop being anonymous? We decided four or five months in, only because people had started guessing who we were. We did want people to know who we were, but it was more wanting the music to speak for itself right from the get-go. Neither of us are into celebrity culture or fame – we’re songwriters at heart and really wanted to promote our music first and foremost. So what does it feel like to now have massive online fame without having anticipated or planned for it? How did you come up with the project of releasing a song every month, which will now form your debut album? To be honest, the whole thing was an accident. We wrote Body Gold a couple of years ago and for years, we had no idea what to do with it. It was an electronic, sexy R&B tune and neither of us had written anything like it before. The whole thing was only intended as a side project. What happened when you decided to make Body Gold live on the interwebs last September?

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I don’t know that it’s fame, but it’s success. Both of us are hugely grateful and astonished. We’ve wanted people to listen to our music and it’s so gratifying and really affirming. The listeners and our audience have been an integral part of our process. The people that are there supporting us, it’s like an incredible cuddle. We’re really enjoying ourselves and the opportunity to put the music into the world and people to hear it. With upward of 30 million streams of your music, is it easy to become obsessed with the numbers now that it’s grown into something viral?

Not at all. It’s funny, both of our parents are really dumbfounded that this has happened. I get daily updates from my dad saying, ‘you’re up to 4000 plays now’ or, ‘you’re number one on this’, which is really sweet. We get lots of emails from our fans that are really touched by our music, and I think those emails are more effective than a million views. That’s why we started our music, to connect with people and help people. When we get evidence of that happening through fans, that’s what I obsess over. That’s more important to us than X million number of plays. How do you feel about breaking out onto the scene for your first live performance when you’re already famous? It’s totally backwards. We’re equal parts terrified and excited. We find it really magical that it’ll be the first Oh Wonder show for everyone in the room. The audience will have never seen us before – we’ll have never seen us before. We’ve never met the fans or seen anyone who has listened to our music. No one knows what’s going to happen and I think that’s really cool. You’ve got to embrace that. Otherwise, we’ll just sit there quivering with fear. What’s behind your style? We both say that our music has songwriting at its core. The lyrics, melodies are all at the centre of what we’re doing. We wanted to learn from each other. We don’t listen to much electronic music – Anthony grew up on rock bands and I grew up listening to Elton John and Carole King, those classic songwriters. I think the reason why this album works is because we have no idea what we’re doing. We have no reference point. We are just inspired by songs rather than a genre so I think that’s probably been a good thing. STEPHANIE ESLAKE

Oh Wonder will perform at the Falls Music and Arts Festival in Marion Bay, December 31. For more info go to www.fallsfestival. com.au.

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SUNNY BOYS THE CENTRAL COAST FOLK DUO KNOWN AS WINTERBOURNE (JAMES DRAPER AND JORDAN BRADY) KNOW THEIR ROOTS BETTER THAN ANYONE; THE BAND HAVE SPENT YEARS BUSKING, AND WERE DISCOVERED PLAYING THEIR TUNES IN THE STREET. ALTHOUGH NOT ALL ACTS SUIT A STREET-SIDE STAGE, WINTERBOURNE HAVE FOUND IT A PERFECT WAY TO SHOWCASE THEIR TUNES, THEIR ROOTSY-FOLK/POP SLIDING INTO THE EARS OF PASSERS-BY.

“We’ve been busking at least twice a week for about three years now, and so it’s pretty much defined the way we play music” says Draper. “We really try to entertain people and grab their attention, rather than just play the songs. We’ve also become very comfortable talking to large groups of people, which is a big part of our set. Busking is quite a demanding job at times, it can be pretty rough. So it’s given us a great work ethic and really toughened us up to things like touring.” Winterbourne released their debut EP All But The Sun last year after much honing and tweaking and perfecting. Thankfully though, the guys could take their time with it.

“There wasn’t much pressure, more impatience. We had been sitting on those songs for quite a while and it was getting really frustrating not having released them yet. So when the time came to record it was just a relief more than anything, we loved the songs and were so excited to finally be able to show people. And it sounded better than we had even hoped.” Recently, the duo have added a few members to their cadre, beefing up their sound in a live capacity. Draper was happy to add to their musical family, though. “It’s very exciting! Even when we play as a duo we always have the full band sound in our heads, we’ve always just been restricted by a lack of limbs. So to not have any of those restrictions was awesome, and it was great to finally be able to achieve the sound we wanted. [Me and Jordan], we’ve known each other for about eight years now so we’re pretty used to it. Although, when we finish a tour it usually takes about a day of not speaking before we can hang out again. That’s an important rest day.” The band will be touring heavily in the coming months, since on the road and in the street is really where they thrive, but then it’s back to the grind. “We’re right in the middle of recording new music! We’ll be playing at Bigsound in Brisbane, we have a national tour with The Rubens coming up- which is going to be awesome- and then hopefully we can head out for another headline tour of our own in 2016. We loved our last stint on the road so we’re really just looking forward to spending some time playing to as many people as we possibly can.” LISA DIB

All But The Sun is out now. Winterbourne play Club 54 in Launceston on September 25 and Uni Bar in Hobart on September 26 as part of The Rubens Hoops Australian Tour.

RECORD LAUNCH:

H.M.A.S. FEAR GOD, HONOUR THE KING. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS BAND IS THAT THEY ONCE RELEASED A CASSETTE WITH VERSIONS OF THEIR EXISTING SONGS AS DONE VIA AN AMIGA 500. IN A STROKE OF MARKETING GENIUS IT WAS NAMED THE COMPUTER TAPE.

HMAS launched that album by playing the computer tape over the venue sound system and then having a game of chess on the stage. Marvellous stuff, from a band that existed during a period of vigorous musical activity in Hobart and who did not take themselves terribly seriously whilst being very hard working and playing a great many shows. HMAS started just as bass and drums, then got a drum machine, then got a real live drummer who was a very skilled musician, recorded an album they didn’t release and called it a day. Quite by chance a sound file on a website came to the attention of Richie Ramone, label boss of Homeless records, and he liked it so much he’s releasing an album of material that never saw the light of day – so Fear God, Honour The King is not really a re-issue or something pathetically nostalgic like that, more a missing piece of an alternative history of underground Hobart Music that doesn’t so much change things as broaden them out. Not macho, not dark, certainly punk music, just not the kind of punk that wears a uniform or even calls itself punk for that matter. It could just be good music that never got due attention, for a bunch of reasons that don’t really matter now. What matters is there’s a record launch at Tommy Gun, Friday September 4 at 6:30pm and you should get along. It’s time to fix a great oversight. ANDREW HARPER www.facebook.com/warp.mag 17

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ANDREW LOVES MONEY IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST AND YOU WANT TO BE PROFESSIONAL, YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT GETTING PAID FOR YOUR ART AT SOME STAGE. I HAVE A FEW FEELINGS ABOUT THIS. I THINK IT MIGHT BE A GOOD MOMENT TO START A DISCUSSION ABOUT MONEY AND GETTING PAID AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING.

RIDE OF YOUR LIFE “THEY SAY THAT DRIVING A CAR IS LIKE WATCHING TV, BUT WHEN YOU’RE ON A MOTORCYCLE YOU’RE IN THE TV. YOU ARE COMPLETELY IMMERSED.” SAYS ABIGAIL CONWAY, RIDE’S DIRECTOR. PART OF THIS MONTH’S JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL, RIDE WILL BE AN AUDIO/SENSORY DELIGHT FOR PARTICIPANTS, ACCORDING TO ABIGAIL.

First thing to note is that you’re going to get shafted. Not just a few times but throughout your career. Getting shafted is good because there are in fact a lot of ways you can get shafted so you know what they all are and can avoid them in future. So don’t feel bad when you get shafted. Just remember who shafted you and how they did it. When you are starting out in your arts career people will ask you to do things for no pay. In general, I would say your first response is not “NO” but “please tell me more”. There are some things that are great to do for no pay. If someone asks you to paint a beautiful friendly mural in a women’s shelter and cannot give you money but is able to pay for paint and give you lunch, this is something you’d be an arsehole to turn down(although you simply may not be able to in practical terms and that’s no drama). Women’s Shelters are incredibly important services. Also, you get to paint on a wall, which is fun, and you get whatever paint is left over. You’re also getting a cup of tea and some sandwiches and most importantly, a bit of respect. That’s the key thing. Does the person or organisation asking you to work for no money respect you? Think about how they ask you and want they are hoping you will do. If a business of any form ask you to do something for free, my first comment is to say no, but you might be interested in the thing, so you could say sure and ask for material costs, a travel allowance and some food allowance. If that isn’t forthcoming, I’d say just give it a miss. If they can’t afford materials they don’t really want the art work. By the way, getting paid in beer is not getting paid. Don’t work for 4 hours making an art work for a sixpack afterwards when the event is over. That’s bullshit. Also, how much is a sixpack these days? Why did they not say “okay, 40 bucks. That’s all we can do”? Forty bucks is not enough money but it is money. Sometimes you do that. I have plenty of times. I regret those times but I regret working for beer or for nothing more. Do consider as well if you get something skill wise out of it. Don’t ask for money if you do not know how to do something, and say you’re doing this thing in part because you have a skill to acquire. Painting a big wall is not something that happens often, so maybe that’s enough for you – but once you know how to do it, never do it again for nothing. If someone asks you for information, ask them what it’s for. If they’re going to make money from that information, you are a consultant. Consultants charge like crazy and that’s because we live in an economy where information is worth a lot. There’s a massive difference between “we need this, are you able to help?” and “this is a great opportunity for you”. You may be incredibly happy to help and not looking for an opportunity. It’s actually great and fine and wonderful to do things for your community. Investing in your community is investing in yourself – it’s not something that leads to paid work and that’s not how to think about it, but it is something that makes you part of a community. That’s valuable. ANDREW HARPER

For those who don’t know, what’s it all about? RIDE is based on the motorcycle rider you choose. It’s about the journey. It’s a thrilling experience, travelling through landscape, on different roads, through nature. It’s about how we perceive our landscape. RIDE is about reflecting on how we think about land. Participants in RIDE will come as an audience member and pick their own rider; because of this each ride has a different feel. They will travel in convoy and alone. Ultimately you end up in your own destination. What is the concept behind RIDE and where did the idea come from? Motorcycling restores faith in the human race. I’ve met riders here and in the UK and they are so generous, riders always look after each other. There is a real sense of community. A bike is a great leveller for people from all walks of life to talk to each other. It’s a beautiful thing. Learning to ride a motorcycle was a massive challenge for me. The idea came from taking something I don’t know and learning it and translating it into a performance. Motorcycling has always been something I wanted to learn. You live in the UK, what’s your role in all of this? Yes I’m from the United Kingdom! I travel between London and Sussex. I was in Tasmania last year and did two shows and it was such an amazing experience. I returned this year to make and premiere this show. So have you done anything like this before? No! It took me two years to get my motorcycle licence. It’s the most amazing feeling to me to be in control of a machine. It’s a great opportunity for

people to experience something new and exciting. It’s a thrill. I’m really excited to be performing in Launceston. It’s an incredible opportunity and an amazing place to do this project. I want audiences to experience what I’ve experienced with the riders. For those unsure about getting on a motorcycle, they can visit RIDE HQ instead, what’s that about? Yes, it’s the main hub where riders meet before each ride and afterwards. It’s where riders will start and end their journey. RIDE HQ is an installation of the traces and roots and experiences of riders. I encourage everyone to come down and have a look, even if you’re not sure about getting on a motorcycle! Just come down and get a sense of the project. What sort of things can riders expect to see on the journey? All sorts! Windy roads, flat roads, different landscapes, animals... every destination is different. There are 8 riders per performance, so every rider will have a different experience. What do people need to know before booking tickets? Dress really, really warmly! Riders need to come with warm socks and boots. We will provide each rider with a helmet, jacket and gloves, but it does get really cold out there even on a sunny day so please come well wrapped up and we’ll take it from there! BRITTANY BROWN

Ride Tickets are available from www. junctionartsfestival.com. Ride runs from Thursday September 3 to Sunday September 6.

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The Walking Project I TALK TO THOMAS QUIRK ABOUT HIS TASK TO EXPOSE PERSONAL HISTORIES THROUGH THE CITY STREETS OF LAUNCESTON. AS PART OF JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL, THOMAS BRINGS US A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO WALK IN SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES. IT’S JUST YOU AND SOME HEADPHONES AND THE CITY. THAT’S IT.

What I love most about this project is that you can take the tour at your own pace, and be moved by the stories at your own will. “Yeah, there’s 60 minute time allowance for the whole experience including accommodating for various walking paces and also the time it will take audience members to walk back to the front of house point. But the experience is intended to be very personal.” How many times do we walk or drive down a road and not even consider our past or heritage or who else has travelled these footsteps? “I think we do it every day. We keep our heads down and are focussed on getting from A to B. When we come across evidence that somebody else has walked

the route we’re treading before us – a lost piece of clothing, a dropped tax receipt or a personal item – then we find this confronting. It disturbs our rhythm and pulls us out of our introverted experience of our environment. Through The Walking Project I wanted to celebrate the nature of public spaces in that they are shared.” How many stories did you unearth? “We interviewed 10 locals during out trip to Launceston a few weeks ago. But we only have the resources to turn four of those interviews into walks for this presentation of the project – Amalia, Tim, Matt and Melody. However as the project continues to expand and grow across Australia it will become an active archive of logged stories across the country – weaving together personal histories from urban environments and rural areas."

Have you done anything like this before? “Yes. A lot of my work – when it exists outside the theatre – involves me creating a space or a method for people to share their stories with me and then for me to share these stories with others in a way that protects the stories origin and sacred nature but still allows it to be honest and candid. I think art has the ability to do this in really beautiful and eloquent ways and often that’s what I’m trying to achieve with my work."

that we forget, at times, to engage with the immediate, physical environment and leave less opportunity for chance encounters with strangers – the sorts of encounters we’d engage in if we sat down next to someone on a park bench and didn’t have or headphones in or if we stopped to have a conversation with someone that we bump into on the street or the person next to us at a bar while we waited for our friend – rather than checking Facebook.” BRITTANY BROWN

Why do you think it’s important to know of other people’s stories in the increasingly busy lifestyles we lead? “I don’t think we connect with strangers as often as perhaps we might have used to. I think we are so absorbed in our own worlds through screen based mediums

Tickets for The Walking Project are available from Junction Arts Festival website, www. junctionartsfestival.com.au/tickets/the-walkingproject.

BOOK REVIEW:

THE LONG HITCH HOME JAMIE MASLIN WAS BANNED FROM ENTERING IRAN FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF ONE OF HIS EARLIER TRAVELOGUES, IRANIAN RAPPERS AND PERSIAN PORN. THIS EXCLUSION, WHILE POTENTIALLY ANNOYING OR DANGEROUS FOR A TRAVELLER, PORTENDS WELL FOR THE READER OF TRAVEL STORIES. IT SUGGESTS THAT THE WRITER HAD STRAYED OUTSIDE THE SAFE AND THE BENIGN.

In The Long Hitch Home, writer Jamie Maslin hitchhikes from Hobart to London, and yes, he even hitched over bodies of water, those legs including one across Bass Strait, on a yacht returning north after completing the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The journey takes him through Australia, Indonesia, overland up to China, through a few ‘Stans, via Turkey to the UK and introduces the reader to local customs, history and a wealth of characters and scenarios as Maslin makes his way by thumb across a good few continents. Maslin’s attempt to visit Shipton’s Arch in Kyrgyzstan, which he had previously visited with his Tasmanian wife, Emily, while wrought by a thick layer of snow, and an ill prepared driver, provides a delightful stepping off point for some of the local history. He had first discovered this place, in a doctor’s waiting room, flicking through an old National Geographic Magazine in which was an article called ‘Journey to Shipton’s Lost Arch’. Earlier in the book, as he hitches through Indonesia, there is an excellent chapter on recent Indonesian history, woven well into the travel narrative and lacking the didactic nature of clumsier travel writing. These accounts sit alongside the ice dealers in outback NSW and pilgrimage he made to Kazakhstan’s greatest historical building. The Long Hitch Home covers fascinating territory in terms of history and landscape, and the hitchhiking provides the perfect device to provide insight into local life.

becoming horribly synonymous with hitching in Australia. Hitchhiking is, though, an exciting and curious way to travel, offering cheap travel and the opportunity to meet locals. Maslin offers some clear tips for sensible hitchhiking; 1) Do not sit and wait, walk along the road, thumb actively poised. Volition seems to result in more offers of lifts than simply sitting on your pack. 2) Trust your instinct – if it does not feel right, do not get in. 3) Do not use a sign, it allows drivers an excuse not to stop (and also takes away your opportunity to say “not heading there,” if you don’t trust them. 4) Have a shave, don’t look too bedraggled. With cover blurbs from Noam Chomsky and Oliver Stone, The Long Hitch Home is a good example of how an author who may be overlooked in the stodged up quagmire of the major publishers’ slush piles. Self-promotion is vital to those choosing to publish outside of the traditional sphere of publishing. It is also a reminder about the need for an effective editor, who perceives their role to respect the author’s intention, and ensure that the reader recognises it. This is a good strong travelogue, which, while slightly verbose in parts, is worth a read if you are seeking a well-researched and entertaining book of contemporary adventures. RACHEL EDWARDS

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PAIGE TURNER SEPTEMBER IN TASMANIA IS LADEN WITH EVENTS FOR READERS AND WRITERS. IT IS ALSO THE BEGINNING OF SPRING, ENCOMPASSING ALL OF THE DELIGHTS THAT THAWING CAN OFFER A PERSON INCLUDING THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ OUTSIDE, AN IMPORTANT ACTIVITY FOR ALL TO UNDERTAKE, FOR THE ONGOING PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD.

The Tasmanian Readers and Writers’ Festival will run from September 10-13. There is a rich, formal program and a few wonderful events fringing. The festival program has events that cater to a broad demographic including: Silver Words, masterclasses and a comedy evening. Some of the highlights will include one of Australia's best short story writers (and a generous and lovely speaker), Cate Kennedy in conversation with award winning poet and young adult writer Kathryn Lomer; An Inkpot of Faith, with graphic novelists and cartooners, Christopher Downes, Sarah Firth and Joshua Santospirito; My Brilliant Career, a life in food with Helen Hayward; and Short, Sharp Shreds, about the short story. In fact, I can’t do the program justice - check it out at www.taswriters.org/.

I’m chairing a discussion entitled; Tasmania: a Land of Dregs, Bogans, and Third Generation Morons which, while a quote from Leo Schofield, we will be avoiding all discussion of him for risk of litigation - and inviting three fantastic young writers, Lily Stojcevski, Jack Shaw and Georgia Coy to read their work and discuss the kind of Tasmania they would like to inhabit in future. The fringe-ness begins on September 10 at Frankies Empire in Hobart, with an event for Transportation Press, featuring some of the invited authors for their next publication, The Third Script, a collection of stories from writers from Tasmania, the UK and Iran. It starts at 5.30 and is open to the public. Remember, too, that submissions are open to you if you identify as

Tasmanian, Iranian or from the UK, until the end of September. More information at www. Transportationbook.com. On September 11 at 5:00 pm, Hobart City Council Alderman, Anna Reynolds will launch Beneath the Mountain, a Story of South Hobart by award winning writer Alison Alexander at the South Hobart Living Arts Centre (formerly Macquarie Street State School) at 408 Macquarie Street. All are welcome – I’m looking forward to checking out the new Living Arts Centre too. There is a long running literary exchange with the Tasmanian Writers Centre and Prince Edward Island, a little island tucked in behind Nova Scotia in Canada. The latest offering from these tiny shores is poet, Brent Maclaine who will be hosting a masterclass called See What I Mean, The Power of Description, on September 5 between 2-5pm in Launceston. More details available on the Tasmanian Writers Centre website. Don’t forget the Australian Poetry Slam heats that are happening around the state - Thursday September 3 is in Burnie at The Otis Room in Mount Street. Five bucks gives you entrance to the gig and everyone is welcome to slam. Tuesday September 15 is the Tasmanian Final at Fresh, Charles Street Launceston from 7pm. AGMs are one of my least favourite things, but this one gets a mention because it includes a shared lunch. On Monday September 7 at 10am the Society of Women Writers will meet in the Ida Burchill Room, at the Pilgrim Church, Paterson Street Launceston. There are also lots of events in bookshops around the state over the next month. Hobart Bookshop have two great offerings, Thursday 3rd September at 5:30pm see the launch of Josh Santospirito's new graphic novel, Swallows: Part One. They are also hosting Tim Flannery, head of The Climate Council, award winning writer and scientist in conversation with Bob Brown at The Dechaineux Theatre, 6:00pm, September 24. They will be discussing Flannery’s new book Atmosphere of Hope. Bookings are essential, and tickets available for $5 at the Hobart Bookshop. September is a bumper month for Forty South Publishing with four new releases and a coproduction with the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Ice in the Rigging: Ships of the Antarctic, 1699-1937 by E.A. (Ted) Mitchener (Edited by Peter Boyer & Graeme Broxam). The new releases which are appearing in bookshops around the state are: Mountain Men: Stories from the Tasmanian High Country by Simon Cubit and Nic Haygarth; Sweetbreads Out of Season: Pat Collins’ Bistro and Hobart’s brief bohemia (Art, food and fantasy in the 1960s) (author Jim Marwood will be at Petrarchs bookshop in Launceston, signing copies of this at 11am on Friday, September 4) ; My Normal Life: Bound by Launceston author/ teacher, Gaynor Spriggs; and the annual Forty South Short Story Anthology - the best of the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2015 as judged by Chris Gallagher and David Owen (to be launched by Lian Tanner at the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival). Petrarchs Bookshop in Launceston is holding a few events in September including a book signing, by Steve Harris of his new book, Solomon’s Noose: The True Story of Her Majesty’s Executioner of Hobart. This will take place at 11am on Saturday, 5 September. Volume 2 Bookshop in Launceston is hosting the launch of Last Day in the Dynamite Factory by Annah Faulkner, author of The Beloved (2012), her debut novel that was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. 5.30, September 25. And fabulous Fullers is hosting a wide array of events, including the launch of Russell Kelly’s new novel, Only The Empty Sky (pictured) on 24 September at 5.30. RACHEL EDWARDS

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BELL SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET:

TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE? SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET IS CONSIDERED THE MOUNT EVEREST OF THEATRICAL CHALLENGES BUT THAT HASN’T STOPPED DIRECTOR DAMIEN RYAN FROM TAKING IT ON A SECOND TIME. RETURNING TO THE BELL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY WITH A MASTERFUL CAST INCLUDING JOSH MCCONVILLE AS HAMLET AND MATILA RIDGEWAY AS OPHELIA, TASMANIAN AUDIENCES WILL SOON HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CATCH A CONTEMPORARY REIMAGINING OF THE BARD AT HIS BEST AT HOBART’S THEATRE ROYAL.

For centuries artists have borrowed from The Bard, retelling & reinterpreting his seminal works, and none more so than Hamlet. It’s his best known play about his best known character who delivers the immortal phrase: “To be, or not to be - that is the question.” Hamlet is thought to be one of the most popular works of Shakespeare’s lifetime and still ranks among his most performed and adapted. So what is it about this timeless tale about a sensitive new-age guy who’s rubbish at making up his mind that has captured our collective psyche for four hundred years? “Hamlet is one of the most complete experiences theatre can provide – extraordinary poetry, intense passion, dazzling intelligence, terror, casual slaughter, friendship, humanity, great humour and great grief,” says director Damien Ryan. “Shakespeare shows us how an old story can describe a new world.” As the old story goes, Denmark is on the brink of war – its royal family suddenly torn apart by the murder of the king, Hamlet’s father, and the hasty remarriage of his mother to his uncle, who usurps the throne. Burdened with the task of avenging his father, Hamlet is tormented by doubt and paralysed by inaction, gradually descending into a state of madness. Throw in a part-time girlfriend, a murder charge, a pestering dad-ghost, a pair of backstabbing school mates, a stolen throne and some serious mummy issues and you pretty much have Hamlet’s situation. But whilst this is the stuff that popcorn was invented for, it’s perhaps not what lends the play its legendary status. Hamlet’s ability to identify not only with the political climate of the day but to find relevance centuries on is what makes it something remarkable. This is a play not about ‘action’ but the inaction of its protagonist, through which Shakespeare poses the question: which is really more heroic? “Shakespeare only fools us into thinking it is a traditional revenge tragedy, explains Ryan. “[It’s] 22

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a play about how the root systems of the past can corrupt the present and stifle future growth; we meet a young man with a profoundly modern mind who is given an ancient task – bloody revenge. It’s the sort of argument that awoke Australia and Indonesia in recent months – how to serve justice and correct a crime? But Hamlet, the student, the thinker,  the humanist, a new kind of human, coming out of millennia of logical, brutal, sequential, cause-and-effect action into a capacity to think through that action, to consider the complexity of it, to recognise that justice is not blind and action is not sequential, but lateral.” Pointing to the complexity of human nature this play also reminds us, somewhat uncomfortably, that whatever evolution of thought we may claim to have acquired, the innateness of our most primal urges are as powerful today as in ages past: “It is the thing that makes Hamlet’s popularity in the modern world so remarkable to me, says Ryan, “we await with frustration the hero’s bloody act of retribution, in an age where revenge is supposedly our most reviled, inhuman trait. Is it not the madness of Isis, the crazed vengeance of the new terrorism, the assassination of princes and heads of state, old testament stuff? How can violence ever purify a state or a people? We know it, yet we can’t resist it.” Perhaps it is this that sets Shakespeare so far above the rest – his uncompromising exploration of the human condition. Revenge, love, lust, madness, mortality, envy, anxiety, deceit- this is what Shakespeare writes about, what Hamlet anguishes about and what finds relevance with every new generation of audience: “These plays are not static, they’re constantly adapting, helping us make sense of who we are, and the only way to truly appreciate his work is to see it brought to life through live performance.” The concept of a ‘story’ is perhaps Shakespeare’s final gift to us in this play. Hamlet knows he is standing on a stage before an audience, he tells them so several times. His dying wish is that Horatio tell his story, to preserve some meaning in a catastrophe beyond reason. “The story reinforces our need to tell stories. It is about why we tell stories,” says Ryan. “The double meaning for Shakespeare is that we, the audience, are Horatio in that moment. We leave carrying Hamlet’s story, continuing its cycle of life and growth, and thereby, hopefully, its lessons.” OLIVIA DURST Hamlet runs at the Theatre Royal in Hobart from Thursday September 24 to Saturday September 26, at 7.30pm. Tickets available from www.theatreroyal.com.au.

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Arts

Gallery

performing arts

Guide

South

NORTH

SOUTH

146 ARTSPACE 10 Sept – 22 Oct Karen Lyttle

BRAVE ART GALLERY (Longford) 5 – 26 Sept Jasper Da Seymour

COMEDY

THEATRE

ART MOB 11 – 27 Sep Beyond The Doors Warlpiri paintings from Warlukurlangu Artists

BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 18 Jul – 13 Sept ArtRage 2014 26 Sep – 17 Oct Mancell Financial Group 2015 TasArt Exhibition

THE BRISBANE HOTEL 24 Sep The Comedy Forge

MOONAH ARTS CENTRE 17 – 19 Sep Mobile States & Salamanca Arts Centre Presents: SDS1

BETT GALLERY 4 – 25 Sep Chayni Henry CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 4 Sept – 4 Oct Underground: Lucy Bleach COLVILLE GALLERY From 4 Sep Leanne Halls, Donna Lougher From 29 Sep Matthew Armstrong ENTREPOT 25 Aug – 12 Sep Troika: Honours in Photography 2015 works in progress HANDMARK 21 Aug - 10 Sept Emily Blom 11 Sep – 8 Oct Nick Gladewright & Toby Muir-Wilson INKA 26 Aug - 15 Sept Inka Members Spring Show MAC 16 Apr – 31 Dec An/other time – Anita Bacic MONA 13 Jun – 5 Oct Marina Abramovic PENNY CONTEMPORARY From 21 Aug Scot Cotterell

DOCTOR SYNTAX 25 Sept The Doctor’s Best Medicine

DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 5 Sep – 18 Oct Tara Badcock

IRISH MURHPY’S 8 Sep Craic Up Comedy

PLAYHOUSE 4 – 5 Sep OneFest 10 – 26 Sep Guys & Dolls 30 Sep – 10 Oct Legends Of Revue

GALLERY PEJEAN 26 Aug – 19 Sep Kate Piekutowski 23 Sep – 17 Oct Landscapes 2015 - Geoff Dyer, Michael Weitnuer, David Lake, Leoni Duff, Ryllton Viney, Jonathan Barnard, Margot Baird

SOHO 2 Sep Cloud Comedy 7 Oct Cloud Comedy

SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE Peacock Theatre 16 – 19 Sep TTC presents Sex with Strangers

THE REPUBLIC BAR 17 Sep The Clubhouse with Anne Edmonds

HANDMARK EVANDALE 6 Sep – 4 Oct Vika Fifita

THE POLISH CLUB 2 Sep Jokers with Des Dowling 9 Sep Jokers with Rusty Berther 11 Sep Jokers with KINNE live (special event) 16 Sep Jokers with Kelly Fastuca 23 Sep Jokers with Tien Tran

THEATRE ROYAL 10 – 12 Sep Blue Cow presents The State Of The Tasmanian Economy 15 Sep An evening with Richard Bell 24 -26 Sep Hamlet 30 Sep – 3 Oct The Weir

POWERHOUSE GALLERY 12 – 20 Sep Immersion to Emersion: EmilyRose Wills QVMAG 1 Aug – 2 Nov Growth Change Influence: The University Art Schools in Tasmania SAWTOOTH ARI 7 – 29 Aug Front Gallery Art3 (TAS) Middle Gallery Hannah Gatland (QLD) New Media Jess Dorloff (TAS) Pop-up #Exhibition James Horne (TAS)

THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE 31 Aug – 5 Sep Inappropriate Magic with Bodane Hatton FILM CINEMONA Ends 5 Oct the Artist Is Present

TMAG 12 Jun – 20 Sept John Kelly 18 Sep – 29 Nov City of Hobart Art Prize

NORTH COMEDY FRESH ON CHARLES 18 Sep Fresh Comedy with Anne Edmonds RED BRICK ROAD CIDERHOUSE 9 Sep UBER Comedy SHOTS ON WAX 24 Sep Crash Test Funnies

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ROSNY BARN SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY 4 -27 Sept Wild Comfort Kathryn Lomer & Penny Ruthberg SALAMANCA ART CENTRE LIGHTBOX 1 – 30 Sep Elizabeth Barsham LONG GALLERY 8 - 20 Sep Hutchins Art Prize 23 Sep – 4 Oct RACT Tasmanian Portraiture Prize SIDESPACE GALLERY 8 – 21 Sep Convergence: Saif Almurayati, Tony Richardson, Melinda Oogjes, Erin Amour 26 Sep – 4 Oct Jenny Dean, Gabby Falconer TOP GALLERY 1 – 30 Sep Rosie Hastie

THEATRE ROYAL BACKSPACE 25 Sep – 3 Oct Terrapin presents Red Racing Hood

PRINCESS THEATRE 18 – 19 Sep Swan Lake BURNIE ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE 20 Sep Swan Lake DEVONPORT ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE 20 Sep Swan Lake (Matinee)

LUCY BLEACH Okay, this is neat. Artist Lucy Bleach is going to make a big old wall out of dirt in the gallery space of Contemporary Art Tasmania. Said wall will have devices in it that react to seismic information gathered in CAT itself (the movements of staff an gallery visitors) as well as other seismic data harvested from world wide web, and this will trigger devices that will make the wall shake

and tremble and, over the length of the time the show is on, fall apart. It’s a sped up simulation of the movement of the actual planet beneath our feet and an examination of what it’s like to live in a place with volatile seismic activity. This will be one to visit multiple times and see how things fall apart. Lucy Bleach Underground at Contemporary Art Tasmania September 4 – October 5.

THEATRE PRINCESS THEATRE 2 – 5 Sep Legally Blonde 22 Sep Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet BURNIE ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE 6 Oct Terrapin presents Red Racing Hood DEVONPORT ARTS AND FUNCTION CENTRE 22 Sep Sex With Strangers

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Date

Acts / Start Time

september Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Wednesday 1

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8pm

Irish Murphy’s

Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton

Republic Bar & Café

Bakers Acoustic Duo 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Baker Boys Band 9pm

The Homestead

World Food Feast - Vegan

The Mill on Morrison

Jed Appleton 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

George Begbie & The Mystery Guests

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Longo & The Rhythm Tragics 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Phrayta

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

The Mill on Morrison

Harry Edwards & Isaac Gee 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Casual Encounters DJs + $5 Pints

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brunswick Hotel

Billy & Jamie 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Bridget Pross

Republic Bar & Café

Jebediah + Fur 9pm

The Grand Poobah

Kashkin & Stickrad

The Homestead

Tim and Scott

The Mill on Morrison

Paul Gerard 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Thirsty Thursdays 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Funky Bunch Trivia

Tuesday

Julius Schwing & Nick Haywood 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM w/ Black Claw (Canada) + Ruiner & The Threshold Forms (Tas) + Diable Amoreux (Tas) + Black Mourning Band (Tas)

Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Jed Appleton + Dawnfield

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

8 Ball Aitken 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Joel Everard

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

The Mill on Morrison

David Malone 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Casual Encounters DJs + $5 Pints

10 Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Brunswick Hotel

Katy Raucher with Mark Schmalfuss 7pm

Federation Concert Hall

Maximus Musicus visits the Orchestra 6pm

Irish Murphy’s

Dan Vandermere

Republic Bar & Café

Dub FX + Max Power 9pm

The Homestead

Jenny Biddle (Vic)

The Mill on Morrison

Paul Gerard 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Thirsty Thursdays 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Funky Bunch Trivia

11 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Spiral Kites (Tas)

Brisbane Hotel

Brett Collidge 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Mountains of Madness (Tas) + Suns of Solemn (Tas) + Black Bunny (Tas) AJ & Simon + Cam Stuart 6:30pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Moonah Arts Centre

The Surrealists CD Launch

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

Girl Friday 10pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Republic Bar & Café

Onyx Bar

Transit 10pm

Maddie Jane Band + The Beautiful Chains + The Saxons + DJ Lawless 10pm

Plan B

I Love Techno 10:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / The Atomic Playboys

Jebediah + Fur 10pm

The Brick Factory

Michael Panton and The Pantones + Soul DJ’s

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

Maestro Koko

Katy Raucher & Mark Schmalfuss + Allan McConnell

Waterfront Hotel

Aaron Courtney 8:30pm

James Basser, Sam Cole, Dion Jordan 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

TBA

The Homestead

Shekinah (Brazil) + Pspiralife (Melb)

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo & Patto 8:30pm

World’s End Brewpub

Babylon Howl + Special Guests

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

In Hearts Wake (NSW) + Stories (NSW) + Ocean Grove (Vic)

Saturday

Front Bar - Grey Places (NSW) + All The Weathers (Tas) + The Lucky Dips (Tas) + Adventurers (Tas)

12 Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Patto 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Obat Batku (NSW) + The Farting Arses (NSW) + IRONHAWK (Tas) + Skun Knees (Tas) + Pinchgut (Tas)

Brunswick Hotel

Clay Soldier + DJ Mad 7pm

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Odeon Theatre

Xavier Rudd & The United Nations

Onyx Bar

Jeremy Matcham 10pm Billy & Tilly 7pm

Brunswick Hotel

Katy Raucher with Mark Schmalfuss + KOWL 7pm

Pier One

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Plan B

Lazy Yak Presents Ian Munro @ Plan B 10:30pm

Onyx Bar

Matt & Abby 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Pier One

Les Coqs 7pm

Abraxxas (Vic) + Iciclan + Omnicide + Create the Crayon 10pm

Plan B

Discovery - Australia’s Daft Punk Tribute Show 10:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Serotonin

The Brick Factory

Transit + Funk DJ’s

The Grand Poobah

Chase City Underage Gig w/ The Saxons, Empire Park & Jensen 4:30pm

Waterfront Hotel

Everburn 8:30pm

World’s End Brewpub

My Friend Bryan + Pine + More

Republic Bar & Café

Jebediah + Fur 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Serotonin

The Brick Factory

Yesterday’s Gentlemen + Funk DJ’s

The Grand Poobah

Immigrant Union, Andrew Swayze & The Ghosts, Ian Stalp & The Out of Towners

The Grand Poobah

Sub Theory 8 in the Kissing Room 10pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Ciggie Butt

The Grand Poobah

Chase City Underage Gig w/ Empire Park, Nick Machin & Kelsie Hibberd

Claremont Hotel

Aaron Courtney 2pm

Hobart Town Hall

Kettering Piano Quartet Generations 2pm

The Homestead

The Crooked Fiddle Band (Syd)

Lazy May Market

Waterfront Hotel

Merkin Brothers 8:30pm

Matt Gray, Mt Music Blues, As The Crow Flies, Bombay Buskers 10am

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sunday Swap & Sale Clothing Market 2pm

ALL AGES - In Hearts Wake (NSW) + Stories (NSW) + Ocean Grove (Vic)

Republic Bar & Café

Mo Joes Blues Band 8:30pm

The Homestead

Figure It In - Life Drawing

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino 2pm

Brisbane Hotel

Naked Girls Reading

The Mill on Morrison

Brunswick Hotel

Brisbane Hotel

Monday

The Homestead

Dan Vandermeer + Jensen 6:30pm

The Globe

Simon Astley 8:30pm

Jerome Hillier 9pm

The Brick Factory

Sunday

Republic Bar & Café

Birdcage Bar

Telegraph Hotel

Friday

Acts / Start Time Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton

Brunswick Hotel

Republic Bar & Café

Saturday

Thursday

Venue Irish Murphy’s

Sunday

13 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Ramblin Apple Core

Claremont Hotel

Tony Voglino 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm

Brunswick Hotel

Quizmeisters Trivia 6:30pm

The Homestead

Deb Manskey

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Waterfront Hotel

Billy Whitton 2pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Quiz-A-Saurus

Brunswick Hotel

Quizmeisters Trivia 6:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton

Republic Bar & Café

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

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8pm

The Homestead

Aus. Songwriters Assoc. Wax Lyrical

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

The Mill on Morrison

Jed Appleton 6pm

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Tuesday

14 Birdcage Bar

15 Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 8pm

Sambo 8pm

Event Guide

Date Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Tony Voglino 8pm

The Mill on Morrison

David Malone 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Smith Street Band (Vic) + Andrew Jackson Jihad (USA) + The Sidekicks (USA) + The Sugarcanes (Vic)

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - The Dead Maggies (Tas)

World’s End Brewpub

Casual Encounters DJs + $5 Pints

Brunswick Hotel

Matt & Abby 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Seth Henderson + Roxy

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Rewind 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

The Mill on Morrison

Harry Edwards & Isaac Gee 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Casual Encounters DJs + $5 Pints

16 Birdcage Bar

17 Birdcage Bar

Acts / Start Time

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - Hobart College

Brunswick Hotel

Jed Appleton 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Scott Haigh (Laun)

Republic Bar & Café

Tijuana Cartel + Guest 9pm

The Homestead

Cathryn Taylor

The Mill on Morrison

Paul Gerard 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Thirsty Thursdays 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Funky Bunch Trivia

18 Birdcage Bar

Date

Thursday

Friday

Sambo 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Born Lion (NSW) + Verticoli (Tas)

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - Crypt Vapor (Italy) + Rouge Hotline (Sicily) + Dracula (Transylvania) + IRONHAWK (Valhalla)

Brunswick Hotel

Nick Machin + Dan Vandermeer 6:30pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ B-Rex

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

The Catch Club 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sugartrain 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Brick Factory

Katy Raucher & Mark Schmalfuss + Soul DJ’s

The Globe

Scott Haigh, Catherine Taylor, 4 String Phil 7pm

The Grand Poobah The Homestead Waterfront Hotel

Shaun & Joel 8:30pm

World’s End Brewpub

Saturday

24 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Comedy Forge

Brunswick Hotel

AJ & Simon 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Dan Vandermere

Republic Bar & Café

Kay Proudlove 8:30pm

The Homestead

Billy Whitton

The Mill on Morrison

Paul Gerard 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Thirsty Thursdays 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Funky Bunch Trivia

25 Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Whoretopsy (Vic) + Mephistopheles (Tas) + GAPE (Tas) + Sanctify The Serpent (Tas)

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Guthrie (Tas) + The Hunted Crows (Vic) + Verticoli (Tas) + The Saxons (Tas)

Brunswick Hotel

Jensen + Katy Raucher with Mark Schmalfuss 6:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

From Vienna to Hollywood 7:30pm

Observatory Lounge Room

DJ Dane

Observatory Main Room

DJ Johnny G

Onyx Bar

The Darlings 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Mornings + Jonno Coleman + Special Guests 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby / Big Swifty

The Brick Factory

Transit + Funk DJ’s

The Globe

Budge 7pm

The Homestead

Staunch (Melb) - Album Launch

Waterfront Hotel

Live Music TBA

World’s End Brewpub

TBA

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

Lee Kernaghan in Concert + The Wolfe Brothers and Christie Lamb 8pm

26 Birdcage Bar

Live Music TBA

Brisbane Hotel

Party Vibez (Vic) + Sorcery (NSW) + RANDOMORDER (Tas) + Skun Knees (Tas)

Environmental Film Festival After Party

Brunswick Hotel

Finn Seccombe Duo + DJ Mad 7pm

The Hobart Funk Collective

Hobart Uni Bar

The Rubens HOOPS National Tour w/ Saskwatch + Winterbourne

Jed Appleton Band + Seth Henderson + Jonno Coleman

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

Everburn 10pm

Live Music TBA

Pier One

Billy & Tilly 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Roy MacKonkey (NT) + Lizard Johnny (Tas)

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up (Reggae + Funk) 10pm

Brunswick Hotel

AJ & Simon + Fotti G & OGP 7pm

Sorell Hall

Rock The Hall

Federation Concert Hall

Wendy Plays Wolfgang 2:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

The Brick Factory

The Robinsons + Funk DJ’s

Onyx Bar

Boil Up 10pm

The Grand Poobah

CORMEGA, Stumik (NYC) & Swishbank 9pm

Pier One

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 7pm

The Grand Poobah

Hazey Daze in the Kissing Room

Republic Bar & Café

Gang of Youths + Chase City 10pm

The Homestead

Kashkin

Telegraph Hotel

Rum Jungle / Ebenezer Good

The Waratah Hotel

The Brick Factory

Mrs Cash + Funk DJ’s

LANEWAY PARTY feat. My Friend Bryan + More 4pm onwards!

The Grand Poobah

Ewah and the Vision of Paradise (Launch)

Waterfront Hotel

Matt & Abby 8:30pm

The Homestead

Pat Tierney (Aus. Blues n Roots)

Waterfront Hotel

Stonie Jim 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ Odeon, The Ramblin Alleyway Creeper

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

Elvis to the Max 8pm

Claremont Hotel

Tony Voglino 2pm

Odeon Theatre

Parkway Drive

Glen Challice 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Mo Joes Blues Band 3pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - AXE GIANT (Tas) + Andrew Swayze & The Ghosts (Tas) + Pariah (Tas) + Vault Dweller (Tas)

Republic Bar & Café

Joe Pirere & Greg Frith 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Rocky Road Rider

The Homestead

Francesca De Valance

Claremont Hotel

Billy Whitton 2pm

Waterfront Hotel

Jonny Taylor 2pm

Republic Bar & Café

Beer Garden Party - live music from Zuma 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Ray Martians 8:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Crowther

Waterfront Hotel

Jerome Hillier 2pm

19 Birdcage Bar

20 Birdcage Bar

21 Birdcage Bar

Quizmeisters Trivia 6:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Joe Pirere 8:30pm Sambo 8pm

Irish Murphy’s

Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton

Republic Bar & Café

Dean Stevenson 8:30pm

The Mill on Morrison

Julius Schwing & Nick Haywood 6pm

23 Birdcage Bar

Monday

Tuesday

Billy & Randal 8pm

Brunswick Hotel 22 Birdcage Bar

Sunday

Tony Mac 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Surreal Estate Agents w/ Milo Bean

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Fourstring Phil 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Joel Everard

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

Wednesday

27 Birdcage Bar

28 Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8pm

Billy & Randal 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Quizmeisters Trivia 6:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night 8:15pm

29 Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8pm

Irish Murphy’s

Songwriter Sessions w/ Leo Creighton

Republic Bar & Café

The Sign 8:30pm

The Mill on Morrison

Jed Appleton 6pm

30 Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8pm

Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Desi Boy + Friends

Observatory Main Room

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar & Café

Hui & The Muse 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

The Homestead

Unkl Funknukl + DJ Dolittle

The Mill on Morrison

Harry Edwards & Isaac Gee 6pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

World’s End Brewpub

Casual Encounters DJs + $5 Pints

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Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

SEPTEMBER Wednesday

Country Club Show Room

Nic Tolputt - In a Concert of Classical Masterpieces 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Stella Ferreras - Public Bar 9pm

Golden Groove Asylum

Watergarden Bar

Hank Koopman 6:30pm

Fresh on Charles The Royal Oak

Praise Potter Party - The Boat Shed

Watergarden Bar

Sambo 7pm

The Royal Oak

James Fitch & Sara-Jane Neep - Public Bar 9pm

Friday

Club 54

In Hearts Wake + Stories + Ocean Grove

The Royal Oak

Power Nap + Grey Places + Lenin McCarthy - The Boat Shed 8:30pm

Watergarden Bar

Proud Phoneys 7pm

Club 54

The Spring Fling

The Royal Oak

The Mocking Birds - Public Bar 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Andy & The Woodman 7pm

Sunday

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun - Public Bar - 5pm

Wednesday

Club 54

Thump! + The Backyard Invitational #9: Lilyana Sanoe + Connor Claridge

The Royal Oak

Jericho Jack - Public Bar 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Thursday

10 Club 54

Friday

11 Club 54

The Royal Oak

Saturday

Sunday

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter: An Alt-Rock Night

The Royal Oak

Luke Parry - Public Bar - 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Ball & Chain 7pm

12 Club 54

Lip Sync Battle #1

Whoretopsy + Mephistopheles + Zeolite + Intense Hammer Rage + Gape

The Royal Oak

Verticoli + Hunted Crows + Captives plus Guests - The Boat Shed

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor 7pm

27 The Royal Oak

Wednesday 30 Club 54

Open Blues Session 1pm - 4pm - Open Folk Seisiun - Public Bar 5pm Thump! @ Club 54 presents Vinyl Nights

The Royal Oak

Open Mic Night - Call and book a spot! - Public Bar 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea 6:30pm

NORTHWEST Date

CITY

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Wednesday

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Tapas Trivia

Thursday

Devonport

Molly Malones

Phil Micale 8:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Cover Me Up

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel Mandi Face Painting 5:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Unit

Rino Morea 7pm

Ulverstone

Ulverstone Wharf

Eddie Tuleja + Jenny Biddle

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel Phil Micale 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Retrograde Band 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

13 Country Club Show Room

Xavier Rudd & The United Nations 7:30pm

Saturday

Open Folk Seisiun - Public Bar - 5pm Thump! + The Backyard Invitational #10: Sara Wright + Those Guys Andy ‘The’ Collins - Public Bar - 9pm

Monday

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Rock Challenge

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm

Wednesday

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Open Mic

Thursday

Devonport

Molly Malones

Proud Phoneys 8:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

Friday

Latrobe

Bakers Lane 1st Birthday! w/ Special Guests!

Mackeys Royal Hotel Mandi Glitter Tattoo’s 5:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Club 54

Gang of Youths + I Know Leopard + Chase City

Ulverstone

Ulverstone Wharf

Country Club Show Room

Elvis to the Max 7:30pm

Patrick Murphy + Segway + Daniel Townsend

The Royal Oak

Pat Tierney (Sydney) - Public Bar 9pm

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel Trevor Weaver 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

The Unit 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

BFM

Devonport

Molly Malones

Jerome Hillier 8:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Gang of Youths

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel Fairy Tales & Pirate Sails 5:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Unit

Ulverstone

Ulverstone Wharf

ONE7 + Alibi

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel Rino Morea 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Gypsy Rose 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Devonport

Molly Malones

Sambo 8:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Evil Cisum

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel Mandi Face Painting 5:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Ringmasters

Ulverstone

Ulverstone Wharf

The Elliotts

Latrobe

Mackeys Royal Hotel Sambo 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Jonny Taylor 9:30pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Midnight

17 Club 54

18 Bakers Lane

19 Bakers Lane

Rock Challenge: Final A Mocking Bird (Mary Kooistra) - Public Bar - 9pm

Bakers Lane 1st Birthday! w/ Special Guests!

Club 54

Born Lion + Supports

Country Club Show Room

Johnny Cash The Concert - 60 Years of Cash 1955-2015 2:30pm + 7:30pm

Fresh on Charles

Roger Brown’s Underground Sound

The Royal Oak

Guthrie + Lenin McCarthy + BRAD GILLIES CD LAUNCH - The Boat Shed 8:30pm

Watergarden Bar 20 The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun - Public Bar - 5pm

Tuesday

22 The Royal Oak

Launceston Jazz Club - Bookings Essential - The Boat Shed Tori & Sherri (Bhean Si) - Public Bar - 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

Watergarden Bar

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Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Thursday Friday

24 25

Human Movement Society Party

The Royal Oak

24 The Royal Oak

Proud Phoneys 7pm

Sunday

Wednesday 23 Club 54

Saturday

The Lonely Ben McKinnon - Public Bar - 9pm Elvis We Remember 7pm

Saturday

All Public Bar (PB) Gigs Free Entry unless otherwise stated. Tamar Boat Shed (TBS) Gigs paid entry unless stated otherwise.

Wed 2nd Stella Ferreras ~ PB 9PM Thur 3rd James Fitch & Sara-Jane Neep ~ PB 9PM Fri 4th Power Nap + Grey Places + Lenin McCarthy ~ TBS $10 Doors 8.30PM Sat 5th The Mocking Birds ~ PB 9PM

Wed 9th Jericho Jack ~ PB 9PM

SEPTEMBER

Friday

September

Sun 6th Open Folk Seisíun ~ PB 5PM

Max Hillmen Showband - Public Bar 9pm

The Royal Oak

Sunday

26 Club 54

Watergarden Bar

Thursday

Saturday

The Royal Oak

Saturday

Simon Astley (Melbourne) - 9pm

Wizard + Isa + Johnny Sensei

Wednesday 16 Club 54

Friday

Rock Challenge: Heat

Fresh on Charles

The Royal Oak

Thursday

Acts / Start Time The Rubens + Saskwatch + Winterbourne

Thump! + The Backyard Invitational #8: Chris Jackson + Alex Williams & George Edmondson

Venue 25 Club 54

Club 54

Thursday

Saturday

Date Friday

Thur 10th Simon Astley (Melbourne) ~ PB 9PM Fri 11th Luke Parry ~ PB 9PM Sat 12th Max Hillmen Showband ~ PB 9PM Sun 13th Open Folk Seisíun ~ PB 5PM Wed 16th Andy ‘The’ Collins ~ PB 9PM Thur 17th A Mocking Bird (Marty Kooistra) ~ PB 9PM Fri 18th Pat Tierney (Sydney) ~ PB 9PM Sat 19th Guthrie + Lenin McCarthy + BRAD GILLIES CD LAUNCH ~ TBS $10 Doors 8.30PM Sun 20th Open Folk Seisíun ~ PB 5PM Tue 22nd Launceston Jazz Club - Bookings Essential ~ TBS $15/$20 non-members Wed 23rd Tori & Sherri (Bhean Sí) ~ PB 9PM Thur 24th The Lonely Ben McKinnon ~ PB 9PM Fri 25th Praise Potter Party - Announcement Forthcoming! ~ TBS $10 Doors 8.30PM Sat 26th Verticoli + Hunted Crows + Captives plus Guests ~ TBS $10 Doors 8.30PM Sun 27th Open Blues Session 1PM to 4PM ~ Open Folk Seisíun ~ PB 5PM Wed 30th Open Mic Night ~ Call and book a spot! ~ PB 9PM ~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~

14 Brisbane St Launceston 7250 (03) 6331 5346

FREE EVENT

BEER GARDEN PARTY WITH

PORTUGUESE

CHICKEN

COOKED OVER THE CHARCOAL FINISHED WITH PERI PERI SAUCE LIVE MUSIC WITH

ZUMA

At The Republic Bar Sunday 20th September 2.30pm