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September 2016 Thursday 1st 8.30pm Merv Graham Friday 2nd 10pm City Calm Down + Ali Barter + Guest $20pre/$25door Saturday 3rd 10pm Australia Made with Wendy Moles, Norm (24/7), and a MRX Set $5 Sunday 4th 8.30pm Peter Hicks And The Blue Licks Monday 5th 8.30pm G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) Tuesday 6th 8.30pm Baker Boys Wednesday 7th 8.30pm Dan Vandermeer Thursday 8th 9pm Jeff Martin $40pre/$45door Friday 9th 10pm Hobart Funk Collective $5 Saturday 10th 10pm North East Party House + Polish Club + Twinsy + Chase City $30pre/$35door Sunday 11th 2.30pm The Great Anticipators 8.30pm Blue Flies Monday 12th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 13th 8.30pm Billy Whitton Wednesday 14th 8.30pm Tim & Scott Thursday 15th 7pm The Comedy Clubhouse With Luke Heggie $20 8.30pm Neil Gibson

Friday 16th 10pm The Stiffys + Guests $10 Saturday 17th 10pm Paul Dempsey $40pre/$45door Sunday 18th 8.30pm The Catch Club Monday 19th 8.30pm Montz Matzumoto Tuesday 20th 8.30pm Tarik and Sam Wednesday 21st 8.30pm Bridget Pross Thursday 22nd 8.30pm Dave Wilson Band Friday 23rd 10pm Boil up $5 Saturday 24th 10pm Plutonic Lab + Dameza + Reflekt $15pre/$20door Sunday 25th 2.30pm Beergarden party whole Lamb Roasted On The Spit Served In Souvlakis Live Music By Dan Vandermeer FREE EVENT 8.30pm The Darlings Monday 26th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 27th 8.30pm Dean Stevenson Wednesday 28th 8.30pm Anita Cairns and Simon Reid Thursday 29th 9pm Reverend Horton Heat (USA) + Yesterdays Gentlemen $55pre/$60door Friday 30th 10pm Dirty Wolves + Red Sea $10

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News in Brief GOT (S)WAG(TAILS) Aussie folk-jazz band The Willie Wagtails will be bringing their signature ocker style of true-blue banjo jazz to Tasmania, playing a night gig at The Homestead on Friday September 2, and an afternoon gig at Willie Smith’s Cider Shed on Sunday September 4. All as part of a nationwide tour that will see them play everywhere from the southern reaches of Tasmania to the corners of West Australia, outback NSW, and back again. Featuring songs about Geoffrey Rush, solar panels, creek side hanky-panky and those Southern Cross bumper stickers, The Willie Wagtails play an outrageous, swinging extravaganza of original tunes and wellloved Aussie classics. Both shows are free entry! We’ll see you there!

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the brilliant Care for Africa Foundation and their next mission to Tanzania this September, come celebrate with this year’s team at the official departure party!

With two venues and a lineup stacked with some of Tassie’s finest, we see the return of roots/rock legends Younger Dryas, and local funkadelic super group The Bad Dad Orchestra kicking the jams at the main event at Hotel Tas in Launceston. Taking place on Saturday September 3, and kicking off with a house party (including BAD BEEF, Sundaze and more) at 4pm, the party will continue at Hotel Tasmania from 8pm. Check out Zuck’s social network for more details on acts and tickets!

THE GO-BETWEEN Robert Forster co-founder of The GoBetweens has put pen to paper and released his memoirs covering life in the band and his musical partnership with bandmate Grant McLennan. Grant & I will be launched at the Hobart Town Hall on Tuesday September 6 at 6pm, featuring a performance by Robert and an in conversation with Tim Cox. Both the book and tickets to the launch can be obtained from Fullers Bookshop.

TOMMY LEE DOWN UNDER

Ben Salter will be circumnavigating Tasmania this month, with a boatload of shows. He will be performing solo… he will be performing as the Ben Salter Band… and he will letting out of the hold his new band – Hownowmer. See him at these following locations: Sep 4 –Schmorgasborg, 30 Muray St Hobart Sep 9 – Mountain Mumma, Sheffield Sep 16 – Willie Smith’s Apple Shed, Grove Sep 17 – Mona Markets (afternoon show) Sep 17 – The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart Sep 23 – The Wharf, Ulverstone Sep 24 – The Homestead, Hobart VIBE OUT Vibestown are stoked to bring you ‘Concert for Africa’, with all proceeds going towards

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Ok, we lied. Tommy Lee isn’t coming to Tasmania anytime soon, but I’m sure we got your attention! However Tom LeeRichards is making his way to Tasmania for three shows this month and you can see him perform his take on the Alt-Pop genre at The Wharf in Ulverstone on Friday September 9, followed by performances at the Otis Room in Burnie on the Saturday and The Homestead in Hobart on the Sunday. Touring on the back of his newly released single ‘Madness’, you can watch the clip on youtube and decide if he’s your cup of tea - www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QmllTiPIwyw.

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Drapht has just released his fifth studio album, and is heading off on a national tour to celebrate! The Seven Mirrors national tour kicks off Mooloolaba in October before moving on to Brisbane, Sydney, Launceston, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide, Bunbury, Perth, Darwin, Alice Springs, basically anywhere that will provide a stage for him. But, you read correctly, both Launceston and Hobart are both in there, win. Launcestonians, you’ll be able to see Drapht at Club 54 on Sunday October 9. Hobartians, you’ll be able to catch him at the Granada Tavern on Thursday October 13. Tickets are already on sale via the interwebs, so get your search on, grab a ticket, and rock out with Drapht.

HORRORSHOW, THE RETURN. Horrorshow are back in the spotlight and getting ready to set off on tour once again. This time, it’s the If You Know What I Mean tour, in support of their new single, which is called If You Know What I Mean, obviously. It’s been a while since the lads visited Taswegia, so it’s sure to be a cracker of a gig. They’ll be road-testing a whole bunch of new tunes, so it’ll be worth getting along just to scoop a few exclusives. It’s going down at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Thursday October 20. Tickets are available now via Moshtix, and will run you $33.40. Support will be provided by the awesome new Elefant Traks signee, B Wise.

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2016 is shaping up to be a huge year for Teeth & Tongue. The band will release new album Give Up On Your Health this September through Dot Dash/Remote Control. In 2014 Teeth & Tongue’s album Grids earned national acclaim including RRR album of the week and Double J Feature Album, and sent them touring the country with Courtney Barnett and performing at Falls, Laneway and Meredith Music Festivals. Officially launching their album Give Up On Your Health, Teeth & Tongue’s five-piece live show works unlikely combinations of garage and psych rock, disco, folk, dance and RnB into their inventive pop songs, often using sampled drums and disconcerting walls of layered vocals. You can catch them playing the Grand Poobah in Hobart on Saturday October 22.

JORDIE GLASELLLANE! One of Australia’s much loved songwriters, Jordie Lane returns with Glassellland, a bold and adventurous new record that sees Lane extend his musical boundaries far beyond his previous acclaimed folk and alternative country sound. Lane is back from America with his long awaited first full length studio album in 5 years, and to celebrate the Australian album release, Jordie Lane embarks on a massive national tour with his new band The Sleepers. Sweeping across Australia’s major capital cities and key regional venues this October and November.

Tasmanians only get one opportunity to catch Jordie and The Sleepers this time around, they’ll be playing at Republic Bar & Café in Hobart on Saturday October 29.

Tickets available now via moshtix.

YOHOBOFOPO! Just announced for November 2016, is HOBOFOPO, a new music festival. Another music festival. Holy crap we do love a festival down here, don’t we. Anyway, this one is a Folk-Punk Festival. That’s new.

What exactly is a Folk-Punk Festival, you ask? Well, you know folk festivals? Where you run from venue to venue to catch the acts you want to see? Well it’s just lie that, only all the bands are playing folk-punk, all the venues are pubs around Hobart, and nobody will tell you you’re being too loud. The first ever HOBOFOPO will take place all around Hobart from Thursday November 10 to Sunday November 13.

Keep an eye on your social networks for more details closer to the date.

Local artist Madelena is debuting her single ‘My Lightest Shade’ on Friday September 30 at 5.30pm at the Republic Bar & Café. This is your chance to hear the recorded single for the first time outside the studio and your opportunity to purchase a limited number of special edition CDs. All the usual things found at a launch event will be there plus some

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OLDIE-WAN KENOBI In August of 1996, a young kid by the name of Jesse Desenberg stepped up to the decks to play his first ever gig. It was a party put on by mates, for mates, and as a chance for a couple of friends to play tunes that no one else was playing. This was a time before “breaks” or “break beats” was even a thing, and the young DJ - recently named “Kid Kenobi” - instead played a mixed bag of hiphop, old school rave, and early “acid” break beats. But breaks soon did become a thing, in fact it soon became more than just a thing, it became a sound that would dominate Australia, and at the forefront of that domination was Kid Kenobi. Now, 20 years later, he’s back on tour. Appropriately, the tour is called the “20 Years a Kid” tour, and you don’t wanna miss it. You’ll be able to see it at Republic Bar & Café on Saturday November 12.

includes a Hobart show at the Unibar on Saturdary November 19. Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au.

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Williams, Lemaitre, and Shura were all going to be there as well! To keep up with announcements and ticketing details, head over to www.fallsfestival.com.

BRING OUT THE GYMP(IES)

So if you read down further you will find out you can see Remi perform at this year’s Falls Festival. However he will be down a few weeks early for the launch of his sophomore album, Divas and Demons at the Republic Bar on Saturday December 10. If you like your hip hop, twice in one month to see an artist this good is pretty tasty.

OUT OF COLD STORAGE We figure that Ice House spend their spare time in cryo-freeze when they aren’t playing shows. 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of their very first live performance. Subsequently they are being defrosted now for their “40 YEARS LIVE” live tour which runs nationally early next year and includes some Tasmanian dates.

See them as part of the Red Hot Summer Tour at the Country Club, Launceston Saturday February 18 or hold out for the Hobart shows at Wrest Point on Friday and Saturday March 17 & 18. Tickets from www.tixtas.com.au.

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VOICE OF AN ANGEL

Angel Olsen has released a couple of “strikingly different, brilliant albums”, and her third, My Woman, is hotly anticipated.

Her first album, 2012’s Halfway Home, found an audience locally and quickly spread around the globe. This was followed by 2013’s Burn Your Fire For No Witness, which elevated Olsen’s standing even further. This year, she’s heading off to play at Meredith, but before that, Angel will be finding the time to make her way down to little old Hobart to play a very special gig. For those of you that would like to be a part of this very special gig, all you have to do is head along to the Grand Poobah on Saturday November 26.… and possibly pay a cover charge.

Following a mega 2015 which saw Dallas Frasca achieve a Top 30 ARIA charting album, plus a top 10 Australian charting success and sold out shows across Europe, the band announce the pre-order of brand new EP, Dirt Buzz (comes out worldwide on digital + vinyl only on Friday September 16) to celebrate 10 years together with the “DIRT BUZZ” world tour, witch legends Ugly Kid Joe. The massive tour includes one stopover in Tasmania. You’ll be able to catch Dallas Frasca play The Homestead in Hobart on Friday December 23. What a cool way to get a Christmas-eve-eve buzz. Tickets are available now from dallasfrasca.com.

illustrious careers, and with a new album just about ready for release (in September) and a tour to follow, you can be sure that they’ll be scaling the heights of celebrity once again. And probably knocking nipple-bacon off it’s pedestal. They’ll be appearing at the Uni Bar in Sandy Bay on Saturday February 4. I doubt there’ll be nipple-bacon though.

I wonder how many metalcore bands there are in Gympie? The small Queensland town is famous for its annual charity country music muster, and for a nipple on a piece of bacon (google it), but it’s not really known for metalcore bands. Surely there aren’t any as popular and successful as Amity Affliction. Ahren Stringer’s band with a rotating roster of players has gone from strength to strength over their

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Tkay Maidza is ready to unleash her debut album titled TKAY onto unsuspecting ears worldwide on October 28. With the first monster tune ‘Carry On’ featuring one half of Run The Jewels, Killer Mike, out now, the album is destined to be an earth-shaker. See Tkay trample stages in November on her album launch, which

So what everybody has been waiting for the past eight months is finally out for public consumption, the 2016 Falls Festival lineup! We already knew that Childish Gambino was playing. We guessed that The Avalanches were going to make an appearance. What we didn’t know was that London Grammar, Violent Soho, Matt Corby, Alison Wonderland, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ta-Ku, The Rubens, The Jezabels, Ball Park Music, Grouplove, Bernard Fanning, Jamie T· Broods, Tkay Maidza, Grandmaster Flash, Illy, Mø, Hot Dub Time Machine, Dma’s, Alunageorge, Booka Shade, Client Liaison, Vallis Alps, Parquet Courts, City Calm Down, L D R U, Modern Baseball, Tired Lion, Remi, Ry X, Marlon

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CREATION, CHAOS, CACTUS ALEX HERMES, ONE HALF OF CANINE-FACED (IT’S A COSTUME, I DON’T MEAN TO IMPLY THEY HAVE ACTUAL DOG FACES) Prog-metal duo DIRTY WOLVES, IS GETTING DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS. THAT IS TO SAY, HE’S HUNGOVER AS HELL, BUT STILL METAL AS FUCK.

“Yeah, had a big night...had a few of the boys over, at GuitarBaby [studio]. We were getting on it, hit it hard. I feel like chaos. I feel like cactus.”

He’s right to feel a little celebratory. Dirty Wolves have just released their epic progressive-metal debut album Creation & Chaos, produced by Rick Will (Incubus, Nine Inch Nails, Cold Chisel), an album that was some time and effort in the making, to say the least.

“We have been playing together on and off for about fifteen years.” Hermes explains. “The idea of developing a two-piece heavy rock/metal band came about around 2007. Our previous band was a three-piece. We had a show booked and then lost our bass player on short notice, so just the two of us got up and played. It was a great performance. It was also our last show for some time before hooking up again.”

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polyrhythms...it’s breaking the barriers of what we're used to, uncharted territory. We pushed some boundaries and done something we haven’t done before. The term I’m trying to say is... we’re more genre-specific; we’re really into that progressive metal: Tool, Mastodon.”

We talk briefly about what it means to be “cool”. It often seems like there is periodically a “favourite” genre in the mainstream (and alternative mainstream) that is deemed ‘ontrend’ by press at one time or another, before being replaced by something else, and replaced again, and on it goes. Hermes and I are in agreeance that one need not take coolness or prestige into consideration when, you know, figuring out your life’s work and passion.

“The concept of Dirty Wolves kicked off around early 2012. We started the first track of the project and spent almost a year working on it, pulling it apart, rearranging and experimenting in an effort to define our sound and a method of writing. The goal was to develop our own unique sound, the ingredients of Creation & Chaos.”

“I think Ozzy [Osbourne] said a while back, heavy music is “working man’s music” (laughs) People like to say it’ll dwindle. I don’t think so... it’ll always be there, it’ll always power through: when one venue closes, another opens. I can’t play anything else. You gravitate to where you belong; it might be the coolest thing or whatever.

If you listen to a really good Tool or Killswitch track, it makes your heart beat and go wow. If it is ‘uncool’, that’s the way it is.”

“The album took four or five years.” he continues, “Such a big album. We put everything we had in it! It’s so progressive; ten minute tracks,

“I’ll tell you something, Catholicism rots my guts to the core.” Hermes says, as the conversation inevitably falls to the State of the World, etc. It’s

a natural discussion point in this day and age, seemingly, where bad news seems to surround us all. Hermes does have a certain soft spot for one religion, though.

“I’ll tell you one thing, there’s Zoroastrianism.

Freddie Mercury was one, it’s the oldest religion in the world. Came out of Persia, talking equal rights for women, how it’s a sin to hurt a dog, talking music and karma- it’s the best religion or philosophy I’ve ever heard of.”

I decide to lighten the mood, because you can’t talk misery forever. Somehow we get onto cinema, which leads nicely into the legacy and importance of Australian art and culture.

“Bad Boy Bubby is the best Australian film.

Aussie fucked-upness. You know what we do have? We have amazing actors. Russell Crowe is the best actor ever; Cinderella Man is just awesome. The actors that make it overseas are amazing. Australian artists are very powerful.

In the ‘80s, Aussie bands were dominating the world, we were destroying! It’d be great for Australians to dominate the world again. It was thriving, even the local scene. The culture comes in and out, but that was the peak. INXS was destroying the world. Australia has a lot to be proud of, music-wise, for such a small population to achieve what it has is significant. Australia has left its mark, in a big way.”

And it feels like they will continue to do so.

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Creation & Chaos is out September 2nd, 2016 worldwide through MGM. Dirty Wolves play: September 29 - The Royal Oak, Launceston September 30- Republic Bar, Hobart October 1 – Tapas Lounge, Devonport

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TURN UP THE HEAT PREACHING THE SERMON OF ROCKABILLY FOR 30 YEARS NOW, THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, AKA JIM HEATH, REQUIRES NO INTRODUCTION TO THE CONVERTED. THE MAN FROM TEXAS AND HIS BAND OF THE SAME NAME HAVE BEEN CONSTANTLY ON THE GO AND ARE RETURNING FOR THEIR SECOND TIME AROUND IN TASMANIA THIS SEPTEMBER.

Speaking from the back of a tour bus in the heartlands of America, Jim Heath, aka The Rev, may have stepped back a gear from his heady days of touring, but the 57 year old is no slouch.

“We go more low key these days. 120 days of the year travelling in a tour bus and a lot of flying. I could probably buy two houses with what the bus I’m travelling in now is worth - it’s pretty comfortable. We did decades in a chevy van. It was a hard life. We used to play 275 shows a year. I really enjoy playing the music but I’m over the travelling.”

And travel, is what the three piece has done. Jim along with bass player, Jimbo Wallace and drummer Scott Chuirlla have been around the globe more than once. A regular of the European circuit, The Rev has even made it as far as Russia, “We performed in a little town in the Arctic circle. It was bleak and the people lived in giant concrete apartment blocks”. In recent years Australia has

made it onto the Rev’s radar, with the current tour a follow up to 2013 visit, although Asia curiously has so far resisted the charm of The Rev. Considered by some as the father of modern day rockabilly and psychobilly, Jim tends to disagree.

“Psychobilly is really a European thing. It was born out of the punk rock movement, they got rockabilly and made it a little more aggressive. We are all over the map, we do so many different things – wild rock’n’roll, texas roots, rockabilly. But we’re not afraid to turn it up and make it more aggressive.”

With a genre associated with classic Americana, I was curious to know what Jim had tucked away in his garage and what other collections he may have.

“I have a neglected ‘32 Ford hot rod – it’s cool. Some of my best friends are metal fabricators and are heavily into the car scene. I collect debt! I have a nice collection of microphones and guitars and other music gear. I also have some pretty cool records, but I’m not a collector.

These days I’m a dad – my youngest is nine years old. I live vicariously through my friends.”

Most of Jim’s musical influences are from the classic American period of the 1950s – Little Richard, Roy Head, Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis. Obscure blues and Louisiana music feature heavily in his collection. Newer artists to be rated by Jim are Australian artist Rusty Pinto and American performer Lance Lipinsky, a modern day version of Jerry Lee Lewis.

Whatever the Rev does, he does it in style. “I’ve got a guy that makes my suits. An English guy by the name of Glen Palmer.

He made the Stray Cats’ clothes when they went to England the first time. These days he lives in Malibu. He actually lives on Tom Petty’s estate. I would love to visit there!”

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THE KING AND I MIKE NOGA, FORMER LONG-TIME MEMBER OF THE DRONES HAS BEEN BUSY CARVING OUT A SOLO CAREER FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS. LAUNCHING HIS THIRD SOLO ALBUM THIS MONTH, KING, NOGA HAS DEPARTED FROM HIS PREVIOUS, MORE TRADITIONAL “FOLK” OFFERINGS, TO A CONCEPTUAL RELEASE BASED ON A STAGE PLAY FROM THE 17TH CENTUARY. Mike Noga is proud of his latest offering, King.

Formulated during his time living in London, the album is a response to viewing a contemporary version of the unfinished classic German play

by Georg Büchner, Woyzeck. With the help of his fellow Australian artistic friends, Noah Taylor and Paul Dempsey, Noga has crafted a concept rock album complete with narrative story. I spoke to Noga now back residing in Melbourne, as a black cat crossed his path.

King is your third solo album. How much of a departure is it from your other albums and your work with The Drones?

King is a huge departure from my previous two albums which were both very purposefully stripped back and quite “folky”, if you will. For a start the new album has a full band. A lot of experimenting with different sounds and textures and themes. Not to mention it’s a concept album based on an old German play about a man that goes insane and kills his partner... so yes. It’s VERY different to anything I’ve ever done before.

For you what has been the key differences in creativity working as a solo artist versus your time spent in The Drones?

I didn’t write the songs in the Drones, so didn’t have a huge amount of creative input. With my solo albums it’s 100% me. It’s much more rewarding.

King from the description sounds as if it could be a soundtrack. Is it?

It’s not a soundtrack... but it can definitely be seen as the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t been filmed yet. That was the idea. It has a strong narrative that runs through the whole album. And the inclusion of actor Noah Taylor as “the Narrator” really adds to the whole filmic vibe.

Can you explain quickly what the play Woyzeck is about and how the King ties into it?

It’s a pretty complex play... but briefly... Woyzeck is about a man who returns home from war. Let’s a doctor conduct experiments on him in order to make money to impress his girl. Starts to go mad.

Believes his girl is cheating on him. Kills her.

Kills himself. It was written in the 1830’s by Georg Buchner but was never finished. There’s been lots of interpretations over the years... mine takes

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place in small town, 1950s Australia where the main characters Jack and Mary aren’t getting along too well.

You’re doing most shows on the album tour with a “band”. Who is the “band” and does this change fundamentally what you do versus the solo shows on the tour?

The band is four buddies of mine. I’m the singer. Totally different to playing solo. Solo is just me and an acoustic guitar and the songs are treated differently for these shows.

King features Noah Taylor as the narrator on the album, how did you happen to coax him to be involved with this project?

I’ve known Noah for years. We met at a Drones show and then we saw each other a few times when I was living in London over the last couple of years. I asked him. He said yes.

Paul Dempsey is also involved as the producer of the album. Was this a first for him and what was the process of working together like?

Paul and I have been good friends for years. He’s produced other bands albums. We work really well together. He’s very methodical and I’m very lazy... it’s a good combo.

Is King the stepping stone for yourself to depart from a more traditional musical world into a cross over world of art?

Yes! Most definitely. I can’t see myself going back and doing a traditional folk or rock album every again.

The album launch in Hobart will be out at MONA. Why here?

I grew up in Hobart. I’m a Tassie boy who moved to Melbourne when I was eighteen. I’ve known David [Walsh] and Brian [Ritchie] for a few years.

They’ve been always supportive of my work. It felt like right.

It’s the last show on the tour. That night as it’s based on a German play, I will have German folk musicians performing plus there will be a screening of the 1979 film version of Woyzeck by German director Werner Herzog. There will do some German opera and of course a couple of rock bands.

Being a drummer yourself, can you please tell us a drummers joke.

What do you call a drummer who has just broken up with his girlfriend? Homeless.

NIC ORME The Tasmanian launch of Mike Noga’s King will happen at MONA in the Eros/Thanatos room on Friday September 30. Tickets on sale from www.mona. net.au. King is out now via Cooking Vinyl Australia.

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SONG FACTORY ONCE A REGULAR OF THE LAUNCESTON MUSIC SCENE, DANIEL TOWNSEND IS NOW A SPECIAL GUEST OF THIS YEAR’S JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL, HAVING SINCE RELOCATED TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. TEAMING UP WITH MUSICAL COMPANION JOHN FLANAGAN, THE TWO WILL PRESENT A PROJECT OF THEIR DEVISING, SONG FACTORY.

I spoke with Daniel who has traded in the cold and wet Tasmanian Winter for the dry season of Darwin. Making a special trip back this month for Junction Arts Festival, Daniel will be bringing with him his project Song Factory, which he recently trialled at the recent Darwin Fringe Festival. The concept of Song Factory according to Daniel is to interact with the public to write as many songs as possible over a short period of time.

“I trialled Song Factory at Darwin Fringe and performed ten brand new songs to a full house. Five songs were written the day before, two that morning and two were completed during the performance!”

Accompanying Daniel will be awardwinning songwriter John Flanagan.

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS THE NAME MAY SOUND LIKE THAT OF AN OLD HOLLYWOOD FILM IDOL, BUT VERA BLUE- AKA SYDNEY’S CELIA PAVEY- DECIDED TO TAKE UP THE MANTLE AFTER PERFORMING FOR A WHILE UNDER HER REAL NAME FOR NO REAL REASON OTHER THAN...WHY NOT?

“I saw John perform at Cygnet Folk Festival many years ago. I listened to his albums constantly to the point my wife banned them to the car.” Since then, Daniel and John have musically bonded and now regularly perform together.

“During Junction, John and I will be chatting with locals and turning their stories into songs, to be performed at the Song Factory Showcase on Saturday September 10. We will be joined by two surprise guest local songwriters for the show. Anything could happen!”

For Daniel a well written song tells a story, but the story is conveyed by the music. “Places I like and places I go feature in my songs.” For other people they meet through the week the song can

“Changing to Vera Blue was something that happened naturally.” she explains.

“Because the sound [on the new EP] was so different to the music I’d previously written, I felt that it deserved its own little project name: Vera Blue!”

Pavey is making huge strides in the scene, and her latest EP, Fingertips, has more than a new nom-de-plume attached. It was co-written with Gossling and songwriter/producer Thom Mac and produced by Andy Mak (Boy & Bear, Tina Arena, Winterbourne) who were, as you might imagine, a golden team to get in with.

“They were and still are the best team ever!” Pavey says on her artistic cohorts.

“Incredibly talented at what they do, but also really wonderful people to be around. I worked in the studio at a writing camp with Gossling and Andy and showed them the chorus I’d written of a song called Fingertips. Gossling and I wrote the rest of the song. At the time I was listening to a lot of electronic music so we just experimented with sounds and just went all out! So we decided to continue with an EP co-written with Gossling and Thom also.”

be about a funny story, the best or worst day of their life or somewhere they have been or something they have seen.

Daniel adheres to a few boundaries with the project. Songs will never include names without permission. Otherwise as he says, sunset over the gorge and everything in between is hunopizzakon.”

NIC ORME

See Daniel and John perform the final product of Song Factory at the Fountain Bar in Princess Square on Saturday September 10 at 3.30pm.

Entry is free. Further information available from www.junctionartsfestival.com.au.

“I had a positive experience on The Voice!

I met so many talented and amazing people. It was satisfying, the growth and I learnt a lot.”

After her time on The Voice, Pavey released her debut album This Music (which debuted at #14 on the ARIA Charts) to wild acclaim; this led to a slew of gigs, including primo support slots with Conrad Sewell, Matt Corby, Broods and Flume, and her next release, an EP called Bodies in 2014.

Pavey is setting out once again on a mammoth tour of the country- her second this year, to celebrate her new musical baby- and bring Fingertips to local stages, something she, and we, are all looking forward to.

“I’m very excited! The stages will be slightly bigger so I will be able to move around more, yet still intimate for the audience. Just being able to perform my songs is really special. I just want people to be able to connect to my music; allow it to make them feel however they want, even to help through tough times or just to enjoy the melodies and production.”

LISA DIB

Pavey was also a part of musical TV talent show The Voice Australia (placing third in season two, which is no small potatoes), something that she holds no regrets towards (whatever you may think of reality TV and music talent quests, it still takes no small amount of guts and gusto.)

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Fingertips is out now on Universal/online.

Vera Blue plays Friday October 7 at Club 54, Launceston and Saturday October 8 at Republic Bar, Hobart.

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DUB STEPS “I’M WORKING ON PRODUCING THREE ALBUMS AT THE MOMENT! SO, A LOT ON.” THE SIMPLE QUESTION OF WHAT FORMER LONG-TIME SALMONELLA DUB MEMBER TIKI TAANE HAS BEEN ‘UP TO’ REVEALS A LOT. THE ARTIST IS IN HIGH DEMAND, AND IS WORKING WITH OTHER BANDS AND ARTISTS AS WELL AS HIS OWN CRAFT. “This is what I’ve asked for, this lifestyle. When I was thirteen years old, I wanted to make music and make a living. I try to find balance between touring and studio work; it’s tricky, but I love it. I love doing producing; I’ve been doing that more in the last ten years, trying to get a young band, get the best out of them. A lot of it is just people skills, dealing with different personalities and egos and ideas, putting in your own influence and making hard decisions sometimes.”

Although known for his dub grooves, reggae sounds and drum and bass, Taane started out- you may or may not know- in heavy metal bands. He eventually crossed over to different genres, but the joy and principles of hard rock never left him.

“In metal, I learnt about volume and distortion and how to rock out- the value of a kick-ass riff.

I apply that now, all those different textures. The drum and bass stuff I do now is very heavy and in-your-face; even in the reggae stuff, it’s got elements I’ve learnt from the metal days, rocking a crowd. At the end of the day, nothing beats a big kick-ass guitar riff.”

This October will see Taane embark on his biggest tour of Australia yet. Although his last album was 2014’s With Strings Attached, Taane is keen to get back out on the road.

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“It’s been building over the years. In 1998 with Salmonella Dub, we started playing to nobody, and we built it up over the years touring. I broke away and did the solo thing and kept the same idea: I’ve built up a circuit. I don’t have an album out, this is more just getting on the road touring again. Australia has always been awesome to tour. I’ve broke it down to a one-man-band: loop pedals and effects and drum machines.

Every gig is so challenging, it keeps me on my toes. Sometimes when you see someone do the looping thing you might get bored, so I’m really quick at making loops...it’s an awesome process. The last six years I really honed it in, I’m really doing something that’s pretty cool that people are digging.”

In 2011, Taane was arrested and charged with ‘disorderly behaviour’ after singing NWA’s police brutality protest treatise, Fuck Da Police at a gig.

Obviously some cops took offence (boo-hoo) and Taane was taken in. It hasn’t affected his passion for freedom of speech, of course.

“It was such a bizarre situation to be in: arrested and handcuffed because I sang thirty-eight seconds of a song. It was an awesome exercise at the same time! I learnt a lot about myself and the media and police and how to handle myself under the spotlight. It all blew over in the end.

It made me realise that it’s just quite powerful

being a musician. It’s given me more confidence to sing about things I’m passionate about. It’s given me encouragement. It’s important to sing about these things. It’s ironic that I got arrested for singing a song about police brutality.”

Early on in his career, he also released a charity single (“Starship Lullaby”), with proceeds going to Starship Hospital in Auckland. It’s a trend that has kept Taane caring less about ‘profits’ in the music industry and more about getting more and more ears on his work, and feet at the gigs.

“Even though money is harder to make in music now, people are even more generous. Ten, fifteen years ago, I wouldn’t have thought of giving the proceedings to charity- I was in a different headspace, and I’ve been involved in more charity work now. I’ve got a family now, too. The best ways I can shine light on a charity is with my music.”

“I’m not too fussed about royalties when it comes to music; I mean, the next album i’ll give away for free, as long as people pay money and buy merch when I come to the gig. I don’t have the big machine, I’m not really writing hit songs for radio. All my music now I’m gonna give it awayif you wanna give me some money for it, cool.”

LISA DIB

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DEEP ABOVE THE NOISE LEIGH RYAN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PLUTONIC LAB, FEELS HE ISN’T THE RAMBUNCTIOUS YOUNG SPRITE HE ONCE WAS. AS WE CHAT, HE’S HEADING OUT TO A LATE GIG.

that will work together in a certain way, but not a “sound” really. I don’t think you can beat yourself up for not reinventing the wheel, but you gotta challenge yourself a bit. You don’t need to start a new genre of music (laughs)” Make no mistake, Ryan is still keen as ever to work with other artists: blending sounds, stroking musical diversity, creating new art.

“To be honest, a 12 o’clock show is a bit late for me, but I’m truckin’ on. I don’t think it’s [lack of] energy, just my aversion to people in general. I think you get more selective as you get older. You don’t wanna be in a big crowd, just wanna hang out with people you like.”

As he does. Ryan is a master collaborator and producer, only recently heading back into the studio to bunker down on his own solo work.

That work was the vinyl double album Deep Above The Noise, released on Wax Museum. It took him a while to give himself a break from producing the work of others, but when he did, it yielded tremendous results.

“I needed a break from other people’s records and the time off really helped me focus. I always wanted to do another solo record; it was about having the head-space. Giving me room to get it done. I like collaborating with other people on their thing; now more so that I’ve gotten my own stuff out. In a weird way, the heat is off. I get to be creative, but I don’t have to do all that other stuff that comes with putting a record out. It’s a lot of work; it seems like it’s unending, especially with this record, on such a small label. I put my hand up a lot to take care of things. The next record will be distributed through a big label, so we’ll see what happens.”

Working with local record company Wax Museum was also a boon; Ryan maintains he does

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seem to prefer working with smaller, more independent types.

“For the record I just put out, I was chipping away for a while, then Wax Museum wanted to reboot and do something big and put my record out. Soon after that I got hit up for the same record on this other label, but had already committed, so I start working on another one after this one! It’s nice working with friends and I’m also excited about doing a ‘bigger’ thing.”

“I guess in its most basic form, if someone’s got something I can do something with or enhance, and it fits something I’m doing, I just sort of gravitate towards certain artists. I don’t like working with people if it’s a cold lifeless thing.

Through someone’s records, or the way they carry themselves, I get an idea of the kind of person they are, on musical terms. Especially vocalists, there’s nothing more intimate than listening to someone’s voice, whether it’s singing or rapping.”

As part of Muph & Plutonic, Ryan found his greatest commercial success, nominated for an ARIA in 2008, as well as his most notoriety in more mainstream circles. Ryan says that commercial viability in the music industry is all well and good, but why bother if you’re not doing dope shit?

Ryan also has little time for bothering with something you’re not super into. Not to toss something away immediately if it doesn’t strike you, but not to dwell on things that don’t make you happy (people that hate-watch/tweet Q&A, for example.)

“Nothing’s really cut and dry as far as commercial music goes. People that make pop music, maybe that’s the shit they like?” he says.

“To them they’re not selling out, they’re just making music they love. My taste in music is pretty diverse, always has been. I like to always think I’ve been progressive; some people think that’s a dirty word, like ‘going pop’ or ‘selling out’. You need to progress to keep interested.”

“Some music you just listen to and it’s just copying whatever flavour, it sounds like one hundred other things I’ve heard this month... not to be negative, I mean. There’s so many great new artists, so much stuff to listen to, you don’t have time to pay attention if you don’t like something, why would it bother you? I try to focus on finding new music that I really dig. It’s so easy now, with the internet being what it is, with so many networks.”

“The cool thing about this record was I didn’t know who my audience was. I thought, I’m just gonna make some shit I like. With the tracks on this record, I was definitely thinking about stuff

LISA DIB Plutonic Lab plays Saturday September 24 at Republic Bar, Hobart. Deep Above The Noise is out now.

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CHEAP SUITS BUT PLENTY OF STYLE

What was your first tattoo and is there a tattoo that only your wife knows about?

My first tattoo was on my wrist, There’s one somewhere special also and like any good story grows with excitement.

YESTERDAY’S GENTLEMEN HAVE CARVED OUT A WELL-DRESSED NICHE OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, PROVING THAT A SUIT AND TIE IS GOOD FOR MORE THAN JUST WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS. FORMER SIN & TONICS FRONTMAN DAVE “EDDO” EDMONSON HAS JOINED FORCES WITH BASSIST OLIVER PLAPP TO BRING HIS JUMP BLUES SONGS TO LIFE, THEY’VE SINCE BEEN JOINED BY LOUISIANAN EX-PATRIOT STEVE YOUNG ON PIANO AND RIT COOMBER ON DRUMS. THE BOYS ARE ABOUT TO RELEASE ALBUM NUMERO UNO, $1 SUITS THIS MONTH And Eddo wants you to know about it.

Album number one is almost out? Will there be a deluxe vinyl version for the collectors?

The album is done and was amazingly easy to capture.

The vinyl thing has been asked a whole bunch, maybe when we bank the cd sales? BUY IT!!!!!

Have you ever thought about being an Elvis impersonator?

The rockabilly capital of the world is The Republic Bar September 29th. We shall make the journey there to support The Reverend Horton Heat and love every moment. Our music is a contrast yet complimentary to the show

Do you wish you lived in America?

Do you feel that this music is dated?

Dream car. Dream Job.

I’ve always enjoyed and will always enjoy Rockabilly, Like any good style of music it comes from way back and will live on forever, it's raw, energetic and uncomplicated. It’s the blues on caffeine.

My dream car would be a 1965 Dodge Phoenix that didn’t leak transmission fluid and had an electronic distributor fitted and a full engine rebuild but still looked exactly like mine. Brown and imperfect. My dream job would be two gigs a week in my home town for $2000 each. Simple.

Dream on dickhead...lol!

I’ve had my sensual times with several highly strung mistresses...

SOUNDSCAPES

How important is a man’s threads?

Dameza

The event will feature five Tasmanian artists from around the State that will converge on the centre of Launceston for the electronic event of the festival.

In a world filled with disposable music and dime-a-dozen DJs playing web rips off a USB stick, scratch DJs still using vinyl are few and far between. Dameza doesn’t shyaway from the opportunity to balance the likes of electronica, 70’s funk and Hip- Hop all thrown together in his trademark mashup, turntable trick infused style. His motto is simple: ‘If the music is good, I’ll play it.’

Hayley Couper

Akouo has over 10 years of experience in the Australian electronic music scene, becoming the first ever Tasmanian-based act to play Splendour in the Grass back in 2015. His breakthrough EP ‘Mesa’ rocketed to #1 on the iTunes Electronic chats led by the highly acclaimed single ‘Not Enough’ featuring his signature synth tones and heavy bass lines. His originals and remixes have cracked the Top 10 on Hype Machine six times and counting, with an extensive collection of official remixes for ZHU, Flume, Shy Girls and many more. His latest remix for GANZ ‘Light Years’ featuring Maribelle is huge. With plans to finish off the year in the Fiji Islands, Akouo will play a massive DJ set at Your Paradise Festival alongside Skrillex, What So Not and Anna Lunoe.

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I am!!! I’ve got a regular weekly rotation around Hobart’s nursing homes and really know how to rattle them bones.

I’d like to also add the following: Yesterday’s Gentlemen will entertain you!!! It’s blues, rock n roll, jazz and swing that makes you forget life for a few hours and takes you somewhere else. Get to a show and grab a copy of our new album. Cheers!

I partly draw on American music for inspiration but would not want to be based there, Ill head back there again in a few years though for sure. Fuck Trump though!

AS PART OF JUNCTION FESTIVAL PROGRAM, MUSIC TASMANIA WILL BE PRESENTING THE BEST OF TASMANIA’S ELECTRONIC PRODUCERS IN THE FORM OF SOUNDSCAPE AT THE FOUNTAIN BAR, PRINCE’S SQUARE, ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10.

Akouo

Yesterday’s Gentlemen is a little more laidback than the Sin & Tonics, is this the onset of middle age creeping up on you?

The beige slacks have given it away...damn! Busted! Yes, the band is a different sound and vibe. It reflects on very similar inspirations as The Sin & Tonics but delivered in a whole different way. It’s musical exploration and yes it’s me getting older.

Where is the rockabilly capital of the world and have you made your pilgrimage to it?

Is it true that you sleep with your guitar?

I believe a person’s clothing can definitely benefit you in winter, what it looks like is slowly becoming less relevant as I get older. I enjoy a nice pair of beige slacks.

Hayley Couper is a captivating performer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. She’s been described by producer Woody Annison as ‘somewhere between Mazzy Star meets Souxsie & The Banshees’, while Triple J’s Nick Findlay believes she takes him ‘right back to when he first discovered PJ Harvey’. Her first EP, ‘Ships in the Night’ , which she produced and recorded in a friend’s studio, helped her garner the attention of radio stations such as Triple J, Edge Radio and 3RRR, as well as the organiser’s of events including the Falls Festival, at which she performed in 2012 and 2013. While travelling throughout Europe in 2014, Couper, was without a band and began to adapt her live solo shows by incorporating loops, drums machines and samples to fill out the sound. This new electronic approach has since become a permanent fixture, with Couper moving in a new direction, crafting her own blend of ‘hypnotic, dream pop’.

NIC ORME

There’s plenty of opportunities to see Yesterday’s Gentlemen this month and also by the album: Saturday Sept 3 - Republic Bar & Cafe - Oxjam Flappers & Dappers Saturday Sept 17 – Microbrew Fest at PW1 Saturday Sept 17 – Hobart Brewing Company - S1 Suits album launch Saturday Sept 24 – Lufra Hotel – afternoon through to dinner show Wednesday Sept 28 – Government House – soirée event Thursday Sept 29 – Republic Bar & Café – The Reverend Horton Heat

KOWL KOWL is the pseudonym of Hobart song-writer and producer Cal Young. Cal began his music career as one half of the electro outfit The Scientists Of Modern Music with class-mate and friend Simon McIntosh. Praised for their energetic and engaging live performances at festivals, supporting national touring acts and headlining clubs around Australia. After releasing their Debut EP ‘Electronic Sunset’, The Scientists Of Modern Music received radio rotation for their single ‘Easy’, and went on to release their debut album ‘A Personal Universe’ after a short stint in London. After deciding to take a break from The Scientists Of Modern Music to pursue independent music interests, Cal began working with Hobart singer-songwriter Asta. Shortly after, Asta won Triple J Unearthed High 2012 with her song “My Heart Is On Fire” - a song which Cal produced in his bedroom (and follow up Asta single “I Need Answers”). “My Heart Is On Fire” placed at number 50 in Triple J’s 2012 Hottest 100 Countdown. Whilst writing, recording, and touring with Asta, Cal’s love for production led him to create KOWL, his first independent musical endeavour. KOWL combines the creativity of hardware and sound found in The Scientists Of Modern Music, as well as the pop sensibilities of Asta, to become a fresh new approach to song-writing and production.

Sumner Sumner are an alternative soul duo, heavily influenced by hip hop, funk and alternative music. Chloe Wilson and Jack McLaine started sumner as a project wherein they were able to explore and tie these influences together. In the past 12 months, Sumner have been taking gig opportunities supporting Smith Street Band and performing to enthusiastic crowds at Falls Music and Arts Festival, Party in the Paddock Festival.

Soundscape runs from 7.30pm to 1am on Saturday September 10 at the Fountain Bar in Prince’s Square. Entry for the night will be $20. Further information can be found at www. junctionartsfestival.com.au.

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THE AAO GOES WILD THERE’S GONNA BE A WHOLE LOTTA MUSIC GOING ON THIS MONTH IN THE TINY TOWN OF TARRALEAH. FROM SEPTEMBER 5-16, THE AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA WILL OCCUPY THE FORMER HYDRO-ELECTRIC TOWN FOR A CREATIVE MUSIC INTENSIVE. THIS PROJECT BRINGS TOGETHER TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN, KOREAN, AND JAZZ MUSICIANS FOR A RESIDENCY FILLED WITH IMPROVISATION AND NEW MUSIC-MAKING. AAO ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PETER KNIGHT SHEDS LIGHT ON WHY IT’S IMPORTANT FOR US TO EMBRACE THE MUSIC OF ALL CULTURES.

Tell us about the mission of the Australian Art Orchestra, and why you have a strong interest in bringing Australian and Asian cultures together for music-making.

The Art Orchestra has a long history of trying to engage with the idea of the music of now. In Australia, we’re geographically a part of Asia.

Our place in the world, changing relationship with our Europeanness, and increasing engagement with the idea of Australia as a place that is culturally much closer to Asia, drive what we do in the Art Orchestra.

On the outset it seems Korean and Indigenous Australian musical cultures are wildly different.

But if you consider Australia an Asian country, do you feel there are many similarities?

The sounds of these different music traditions are wildly different, and at the AAO we come out of a contemporary jazz context that sounds different from Korean or Indigenous music, too. But as soon as you get people in a space together, working together, you find the common ground. The musical traditions sound different but there are similar things driving them because they are human impulses that lead to musical expression in the end.

What are some of those similarities on a practical level that we may be able to hear, or that make it easy for different musicians to work together?

The strength of the Art Orchestra is that we all come from improvisational backgrounds.

A lot of the Art Orchestra musicians are jazz musicians, and they’re used to working with open-ended musical ideas and forms; used to improvising and spontaneously making music.

Those approaches have a lot in common with the way Korean music is approached, and the way that Indigenous music from Arnhem Land is approached. The musicians are responding to what’s around them and the people they meet, and it’s the same with Korean music – there’s a lot of space for interpretation and improvisation.

It’s different from European classical music, where you’re trying to perform the works from composers who are a little bit more fixed in the form or the way that they’re expressed. I think improvisation is the key here.

You’re bringing jazz, improvisation, and modern ideas into the mix while still working with very old types of music. Are you also looking at the modern aspects of Korean and Indigenous music as well? Or is it that, by using improvisation, you’re going back to tradition anyway when all music was once improvised?

It’s a really good question and it goes to the heart of what we’re trying to do in this workshop and intensive. What we’re trying to do is create a new space for things to emerge. We’re not trying to learn the traditions of Young Wagilak and we’re not trying to learn how to be Korean opera singers. What we’re trying to do is to think about what ideas underpin these two musical positions and how we can take ideas into the space of creating new music. It’s the same with Western approaches as well. When we work with jazz or classical, we’re trying to think about what those forms teach us in the creation of new music. What we share with the artists who we’re bringing over to Tasmania from Arnhem Land

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and Korea is that they’re also very interested in that. They’re not musicians who are stuck in their ways and only want to be involved in traditional music – they’re musicians who are, within their cultural contexts, trying to create the new.

When you are using traditional sounds and instruments, are there any challenges or strategies regarding how to record these, and bring electronics into a sound that obviously existed long before electronics did?

It is a challenge and you want to be able to create a situation where people can express themselves and don’t feel inhibited by things like electronics or unfamiliar instruments, and that goes both ways – where you can create a space where people feel comfortable with others. Electronics help to open up those spaces because you can use sampling or live processing techniques, and with electronics you can work with what exists and immediately change the space.

It comes down at the end to creating friendships and relationships and negotiating these sorts of things. This is why the Creative Music Intensive is so important: because you’re going to Tarraleah for 10 days and at the end you have had experiences together you’ll never forget.

You’ve seen things together for the first time and those kinds of experiences are just as important as what happens in the rehearsal room.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE

The Australian Art Orchestra intensive will culminate in a performance at The Void, MONA, from 1pm to 4pm on September 11. Expect music influenced by the cultural traditions of Arnhem Land, and Korean p’ansori.

Images 1. AAO performing in the Void and Mona.

2. Bae Il Dong, Korean faculty leader for the AAO 3. Daniel Wilfred of the Young Wagilak Songmen

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Opinion OPINION

When words fail emotion “THE YOUNG PEOPLE THESE DAYS… THEY CAN’T WRITE, THEY CAN’T SPELL. THEY’RE ALWAYS ON THEIR PHONES, SPELLING WORDS HOWEVER THEY PLEASE, USING SMILEY FACES AND CHILDREN’S PICTURES INSTEAD OF WORDS… WHAT’S THE WORLD COMING TO….” I’M SURE YOU’VE HEARD THESE WORDS UTTERED AT SOME POINT. BUT IS THE WORLD REALLY COMING TO AN END BECAUSE WE’VE FOUND A WAY TO COMMUNICATE QUICKLY AND SUCCINCTLY THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD?

expression using only text, such as the examples above. Emojis on the other hand are pictograms.

The term emoji stems from two Japanese words - e and moji - and translates roughly to ‘picture character’ or ‘picture letter’. Unlike most written languages, emojis are generally easily interpretable (I say most because after Oxford Dictionaries declared the ‘Face With Tears of Joy’ emoji/LOL emoji/laughing emoji as their 2015 word of the year, a couple of academic studies concluded that the symbol is sometimes interpreted as grief-stricken emoji.).

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I’ll say it upfront: I love text speak. I love emojis and emoticons. They allow us to quickly and succinctly convey tone and nuanced emotion in written form. When we speak face-to-face, we read each other’s body language, facial expressions and vocal tone. However, thanks to the internet and the rise in email, text messaging and social media as preferred methods of communication, our ability to express ourselves via the written word is more important than ever.

Most of us have, at some point, sent an email or a text message where the tone or intention has been misinterpreted by the person at the other end.

It’s hard to communicate sarcasm via text message, but in some instances a couple of characters, such as (; can overcome this barrier. If I text a friend with “I went out last night. I have so many regrets”, they might panic. If I pop a wink at the end, they’ll probably know that I probably just had a couple of pints too many. Basically, two simple characters can turn a serious statement into a light-hearted one. Emoticons can also help tell a story. “I spent the day with a cat” is rather banal. If I write “I spent the day with a cat :/”, it indicates that the day really didn’t go to well (FYI this is based on a true story: I spent the day with a cat. In true cat form, it bit me).

ICYWW, there is a difference between an emoji and emoticon. They’re often used interchangeably, but in short, emoticons are a typographical

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Of course, there’s a time and a place for emoticons, text speak and the like. We haven’t got to the stage where it’s appropriate to use smiley faces in an email to your boss, or an academic essay or exam (I once marked a university art theory exam in which a student had described the Raft of the Medusa with a L. He didn’t pass). Perhaps we need to think of these new methods of expression as another language of sorts. Language is constantly evolving, and text speak in particular is already affecting all languages, not just English.

The fact that we use acronyms like LOL and IMHO doesn’t mean that the English language is dying.

To illustrate the evolution of language, (as well as our treatment of geese) consider this passage from the 1653 that exalts the joy of using a goose as an ‘arsewisp’ (now commonly called toilet paper): “...o conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole-cleansers and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well douned, if you hold her head betwixt your legs: and beleeve me therein upon mine honour, for you will thereby feele in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure, both in regard of the softnesse of the said doune, and of the temperate heat of the goose, which is easily communicated to the bum-gut, and the rest of the inwards, insofarre as to come even to the regions of the heart and braines; and think not, that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields, consisteth either in their Asphodele, Ambrosia, or Nectar, as our old women here use to say; but in this, (according to my judgement) that they wipe their tailes with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, aliàs Scotus.”

When people launch into a generational superiority rant like “young people don’t know how to write properly”, they reveal their ignorance as to the way language evolves.

If text speak, emoticons and emojis are the most efficient way of communicating then let’s embrace this evolution (IMHO).

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Images: 1. Not quite a swan, but close enough. Jan Asselijn, The Threatened Swan (c.1650). Google Cultural Institute.

2. Apple emoji images. Image source: Emojipedia.org 3. Emoticons generated by the iPhone’s Romaji keyboard.

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JENNY ORCHARD AND MISH MEIJERS AT DESPARD THE SYDNEY-BASED CERAMICIST JENNY ORCHARD HAS TEAMED UP WITH LOCAL ARTIST MISH MEIJERS TO PRODUCE A COLOURFUL AND HUMOROUS EXHIBITION, THE UNCANNY VALLEY, AT DESPARD GALLERY. There’s something very humbling about being the subject of the gaze of so many creatures.

On entering the gallery, all I can see are eyes.

Lumpy ceramic forms - some limbless, some with far too many appendages - stare at me.

Meijers’ painted mountains and eggs are anthropomorphised, with beady eyes and long pointed noses.

Meijer’s painting, Protest Series (they went topless), suggests a crowd of people through small pink concentric circles. There are so many eyes in this exhibition that I initially identify them as such; however, the title obviously indicates otherwise. It makes me revisit The Eggman, which also has eye-like dots hovering above his head. I’ve always considered eggs as somewhat magical objects. They form the basis of so many recipes. They make soufflés rise, hollandaise creamy, quiches solid, and are packaged in the most beautiful oval shells. The eggman’s head resembles an eggshell with its bald, rounded scalp. But then his eye also looks like a hardboiled egg with its yolk-coloured pupil. A yellow grid on his cheek - almost like a chain-link fence - allows us to see the frenetic patterning ‘inside’ his head, which makes me wonder if Meijers also respects eggs as fantastical objects.

The Uncanny Valley does indeed capture the uncanny. The term ‘uncanny valley’ refers to the feeling of unease or revulsion evoked by artificial near-identical human figures. Coined by roboticist Masahiro Moti in the 1970s, he observed that the increase in realism of a computer-generated figure or humanoid robot corresponded to a growing sense of anxiety. Of course, the figures in this exhibition are far from human facsimiles, and while they evoke a level of unease, they’re also incredibly endearing.

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lady with a shock of golden hair that drapes down her back forming a kind of thick tail. Her neat runway of gold public hair and her perky breasts suggest youthfulness, yet her daggy floweradorned hat looks like something a grandmother would wear. She is petit and alluringly round, but there are certain features that don’t seem quite right: her eyes are unnervingly too wide apart and her toes are sharp and curl unnaturally upwards.

Another of Orchard’s sculptures, Uncanny Man with Furry Hat, looks a little like Donald Trump with his toupee. Well, maybe it’s just the toupee (Trump doesn’t have yellow eyes, after all). The wig is echoed in the adjacent collage, Lobster, but this time it’s a toupee of fish.

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Last month I wrote about the science of ‘cute’ in relation to Pokémon, and I can’t help but see many of the same traits in many of the sculptures in The Uncanny Valley. Orchard’s Tesla’s Bride has the receding chin and large forehead that scientists have identified as attractively cute. Meijers’ rocks, with their tiny noses and innocent-looking round eyes also have a roundness, a paradoxical softness that invoke human affection. Her pink ceramic vessel, Puff, has similar traits, but looks more vulnerable, almost on the verge of tears. Its ‘hair’ waves upright like Medusa-style snakes. The surface is rough and lumpy with infectious-looking red dots, but its little round cheeks are endearing enough, cute enough, that it induces a strong sense of empathy.

The collages recall the work of 16th century painter, Giuseppe Archimboldo, whose portraits often comprise a melange of vegetables, fruit, plant life, and occasionally miniature human figures. Orchard’s collages, however, are more cryptic. In Lobster, a cut-out image of a mouth sits low on a green ‘chin’, but then the horizontal squid above it better represents the ‘mouth’. We only get glimpses of familiarity.

Images: 1. Jenny Orchard, Tesla’s Bride (2015) 2. Jenny Orchard, Portrait of Nick Dissolving (2016) 3. Mish Meijers, The Eggman (2016) Courtesy of the artist and Despard Gallery.

The two artists are an interesting pairing.

Orchard is known for her ceramics and has produced hybrid plant and animal sculptures since the early 1980s, but this is the first time she has exhibited collages. Meijers, on the other hand, has a background in painting, sculpture and installation, but has only recently started making ceramic objects after experimenting with the medium during a residency at Claremont College two years ago. This exhibition therefore combines each artist’s new and old practices: Orchard’s collages and ceramic figures, and Meijers’ paintings and ceramic objects.

I’ve long been a fan of Orchard’s grotesque creatures and this exhibition doesn’t disappoint.

They’re witty, wonderfully colourful, and inspire affection in the viewer. Rapunzel is a small purple

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NEVER DID ME ANY HARM NEVER DID ME ANY HARM IS AN AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION THAT EXPLORES THE CHALLENGES OF PARENTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF DANCE THEATRE. DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM REAL-LIFE INTERVIEWS, IT PUTS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE THE ISSUES OF ‘GOOD PARENTING’ AND THE ‘RIGHTS OF THE CHILD’.

WE SPOKE TO ONE OF THE PERFORMERS FROM SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY, TRACEY MANN ABOUT HER ROLE.

“I play a few women, using dance, text, verbatim and improvised movement that was devised four years ago in Sydney. I play a mother, a woman who hasn’t had children and third a woman with children” says Mann.

Originally developed by then director of Force Majeure, Kate Champion. Never Did Me Any Harm is inspired by a series of interviews taken from about eight years. “She interviewed friends, colleagues and contemporaries who were both parents and not parents and got their thoughts on parenting and parents” says Mann.

Topics raised according to Mann were: helicopter parenting that is prevalent now – people too hands on their children; parents that set boundaries and parents that do not; and parenting now and back then.

“The production is basically a comment on contemporary parenting. Many things that audiences will identify with and will have empathy for. It’s more on topic now and very resonant to family life.”

Posing to Mann If as a society we are better parents now.

How personal is the show to Mann?

“I haven’t had children personally, but I am a stepmother to some elder children. I have one monologue that I have to do that is for the mother with no child, so it is relevant to me. I have empathy for the characters, I empathise with them all equally.”

The show is placed in a suburban backyard. “All of us are playing neighbours in a neighbourhood in a neighbour setting” says Mann.

According to Mann, the show incorporates some “magnificent lighting” and use of projection, with the bodies of the performers used as canvases. This adds an extra dimension to the show that Mann believes to be “quite magical” to watch.

Summing up Never Did Me Any Harm, Mann says.

“It’s an imaginative and identifiable pieces of theatre that is engaging and beautiful to witness, but I don’t want to give things away.”

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“I would say we are different. I hesitate asking that question. I don’t want to put thoughts into the audience’s mind. This show is showing windows into styles of parenting and insights.

“It’s a wonderful exploration into contemporary parentings. It’s verbatim spoken text, directly from the people interviewed. It’s not didactic. It’s showing a wonderful cross section of parenting.”

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FESTIVAL

THE UNCONFORMITY THE REBRANDED QUEENSTOWN HERITAGE AND ARTS FESTIVAL, THE UNCONFORMITY WILL TRANSFORM THE ISOLATED WEST COAST MINING TOWN THIS OCTOBER FOR THREE DAYS WITH A DIVERSE ARRAY OF SIGHTS AND SOUNDS.

This year’s festival will feature a number of premieres that touch on the wilds of the West Coast along with its people. Mudlake Theatre will present I am a Lake, written

by Cameron Hindrum. Tasmanian dancer Wendy Morrow performs for the first time her solo work Geologies. A sound piece by percussion artist Mattias Shack-Arnott, Fault Traces will use subsonic frequencies to trigger visible patterns. The audience will be invited by Zoe Scoglio and Mish Grigor to eat cake in We Are Mountain.

While the documentary How to see through fog looks at the closure of the Mt Lyell copper mine through the eyes of Queenstown’s residents.

West Coast artists will open their homes and studios to the public via the Unconformity Art Trail. While unusual locations outside the town’s boundaries including disused quarries and mines will feature as backdrops for some of the performances. There is even an Aussie Rules football match in the program on the infamous “Gravel”.

The Unconformity runs October 14 – 16. The full festival program can be found at www.theunconformity.com.au. Further travel information to the area can be obtained from the West Coast Visitor Information Centre – www.westernwilderness.com.au.

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Never Did Me Any Harm shows at the Theatre Royal on Thursday September 8 and Friday September 9, both at 7.30pm.

FIRSTDRAFT The Sydney Artist Run Initiative Firstdraft has just established a National Travel Bursary to support artists, writers and curators who live outside Sydney. The ARI has been gradually moving away from the usual ‘artist pays’ model of ARI programming, and this year will provide artist, curator and writers fees for program participants.

Over the last decade and a half, budget airfares has made Tasmania seem less isolated, but things like the cost of freight still act as a significant barrier to exhibiting interstate, particularly for early career artists. The travel grant will therefore make it easier for Tasmanian emerging and experimental artists and other creative practitioners to exhibit work in Sydney.

Proposals are due at midnight, 11 September 2016. For more information visit www.firstdraft.org.au/proposals/.

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WELCOME TO OZ CIRCUS OZ IS FAST APPROACHING MIDDLE AGE, BUT THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN JUST YET. FOUNDED IN 1978 THE COMPANY WAS BASED AND CONTINUES TO OPERATE ON THE PRINCIPALS OF COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP AND CREATION, GENDER EQUITY AND A DISTINCTLY AUSTRALIAN STYLE WITH THEIR PRODUCTIONS. WITH A NEW SHOW ON THE ROAD, TWENTYSIXTEEN, THE CIRCUS WILL BE IN TOWN THIS MONTH FOR PERFORMANCES IN BOTH LAUNCESTON AND HOBART. Matt Wilson has been on and off with the troupe since 1999. “I’m 50 now. I thought I would have lasted to 35.

There is always something more to learn, but I have to be realistic about what I can do and cant these days.”

Like any kid, Matt had dreams of joining the circus though the reality came at the older age of 24. “I was a musician first, but have always been involved in theatre. The circus thing came for me a little later – most people are kids starting out. I do have memories of being five and running away to join the circus and being an acrobat.”

The current cast of Circus Oz came together two years ago. “We embrace diversity. We have a broad range of different types of people in the show. Our MC for

TWENSIXTEEN, Dale Woodbridge is adopted, indigenous and gay” says Wilson.

Personality of the characters according to Wilson is paramount to the circus. “The current show is a series of acts that show off the personality of the performers and the company. What you get in a Circus Oz show is that, as the audience you get to meet the artists. With theatre, the performers are performing a role but in the circus there’s a reality to it.”

Where Circus Oz deviates from standard circus shows is the heavy element of music and comedy worked into the frame of the acrobatics. “When we cast for the circus we are always on the lookout for multi-skilled performers.

You need to be a good performer but if you can act and can play a musical instrument then it’s even better. In the show we have a full band and these are members that also perform other roles in the performance.”

For Matt, TWENTYSIXTEEN is “the best show we have had in a long time. In recent years Circus Oz has been strongly themed. This time round we are focusing on the strengths of our individual performers.”

“I do something with a fellow cast member where she stands on my head for about five minutes and we swap clothes. Kind of a cross dressing show. I tend not to do as much acrobatics as I used to cause it hurts!”

If you have never made it to a Circus Oz show, this is your chance to see a uniquely Australian production as well as the talented performers that make up the troupe.

NIC ORME

See Circus Oz on Saturday September 17 at Theatre North, Launceston. The show then moves to Hobart for four performances from Thursday September 22 through to Saturday September 24. Tickets available from the Theatre box offices.

Images by Rob Blackburn

Event

Orogeny Print Event THE UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA PRINTMAKING DEPARTMENT AND THE HENRY JONES ART HOTEL ARE CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINT COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA WITH A SYMPOSIUM, EXHIBITION, AND ‘SUITCASE SALE’.

The symposium will examine the current state of printmaking in Australia, as well as its future. Speakers include Trent Walter from Negative Press; Mark Graver, artist in residence at the UTAS Printmaking Department; Yvonne Rees-Pagh, curator and artist; and Josh Santospirito, comic artist and organiser of the Her Majesty’s Really Great Graphic Festival. The exhibition aims to ‘expand the idea of print’ though a variety of print media, from installation and zines, to political and/or promotional posters. On the Sunday, a print sale will held in the Henry Jones foyer, with over twenty printmakers selling their work out of suitcases.

Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian College of the Arts, and the Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hunter Street, Hobart.

September 9 - 11, Exhibition opening: 5.30pm, Friday September 9, Plimsoll Gallery.

Symposium: 9am – 5pm, Saturday September 10, Plimsoll Gallery.

Print Sale: Sunday September 11, Henry Jones Art Hotel.

For further information contact orogeny.tas@gmail.com Image: Mark Graver - So With Present Time - Rivulet II 2016.

Archival inkjet, 2000x810mm

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PAIGE TURNER BURMA, OR MYAN MAR BECKONS ME FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, I’M OFF TO VISIT POETS AND PUNKS AND TO TREK SOME TRAILS IN SHAN COUNTRY, BUT YOU’RE SPOILT FOR LITERARY CHOICES IF YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE FAIR ISLE OF TASMANIA THIS MONTH.

and nibbles. Kickstart Arts, St Johns Ave, New Town. www. furiouspenguins.org There’s a new erotic novel, based on fact, whose author has, unsurprisingly, chosen a pseudonym. Makes sense to me, we are a small community and I have seen all your heads on Tinder -The blurb says - A compelling chronicle of one sexy summer in Tasmania, Seven Times Three is a true story of complex relationships, delicious secrets, and salacious self-discovery.

Kindle pre-orders are available now. Print and Kindle editions will be released on September 1 and available for purchase from www.daddyhipster.wordpress.com and from Haus Creative in Devonport. See www.facebook. com/7x3Book.

Stay tuned for more details about Haus Creative in Devonport, I am loving watching from afar this space develop….

The legendary Tasmanian Poetry Festival is back, in and around Launceston from late September. This year’s highlights include a masterclass with Anne Kellas (more details below), a lecture by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, readings by Island poetry editor, Sarah Holland-Batt, Dan Disney, Young Dawkins, Luke Wren-Reid, Jill Jones, Emilie Zoey Baker, Tanya Evanson and Stephanie Conn, the Launceston Poetry Cup, open mic readings in Launceston and Deloraine AND sandwiches. More details - www.taspoetryfest.org/Tasmanian_Poetry_Festival/ Welcome.html Anne Kellas’ latest book of poetry, The White Room has received acclaim here and abroad and she will be delivering a masterclass called ‘Outside your comfort zone’ in Launceston on September 24. This masterclass is a prelude to the Tasmanian Poetry Festival and is designed to encourage practising poets to go to the uncomfortable edge of their creativity. Bring along a poem in progress, if possible, an early draft. Details on the Tasmanian Writers Centre website www.taswriters.org/ events/outside-comfort-zone-anne-kellas/ This year’s Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) takes place on September 7. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation aims to spread awareness about the need to improve literacy levels and increase the opportunities for Indigenous children living in Australia. To coincide with ILD 2016, The Children’s Book Council of Australia, Tasmanian branch

is working with the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and The Tasmanian Writers Centre’ to run two days of events at Moonah Arts Centre titled ‘Hidden Stories’.

An evening event will take place on Wednesday September 7 with the theme of “Broadening the conversation”. This will be followed by a full afternoon of events on Sunday September 11 focusing on the theme “Celebrating the stories.” Some of the most respected Aboriginal writers and speakers from Tasmania and beyond have agreed to participate in an exciting program that will include storytelling, dance, song, discussion and film. Full program and further details: www.taswriters.org/events/ indigenous-literacy-day-hidden-stories/ Pete Hay is a poet and an elder, his new collection of poetry, Physick is available at Fullers and the Hobart Bookshop and I would encourage all of you, enamoured of poetry or not, to get your hands on it and roar some of these powerful poems out loud and to whisper some of them to yourselves too. www.shoestring-press. com/2016/08/physick/ Kick back at Kickstart with some spoken word performance, and acoustic song, delivered by poetry collective Furious Penguins. Feature performers include Anthony Francis and Tereska with open micslots available for those who’d like to strut their stuff; sign-ups on the night. Friday, 16 Sep, 7-9pm, $10 entry includes drinks

EXHIBITION PREVIEW

ALEX DAVERN JONATHAN KIMBERLEY HAS BEEN APPOINTED THE NEW DIRECTOR OF GASP. THE CURATOR, VISUAL ARTIST AND WRITER AIMS TO EXPAND THE PARK’S Public art program through what he terms ‘EXMODERN INTERCULTURE’, WHEREBY LOCAL CULTURAL DIVERSITY DRIVES PROGRAMS OF ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENT ‘RESONANT WITH NEW THINKING AND GLOBAL INTERCULTURAL DISCUSSION’.

Alex Davern’s paintings hint at familiar architectural structures through geometric, block colour forms. His largely black painting, Sitting Around Doing Nothing, suggests a cubic building complex through simple white lines. It’s unusually paired with a white female bust akin to a Greek statue, which is suspended in the foreground, her curves contrasting with the geometry of the background shapes. Household Gods opens on September 2 in the Bett Gallery backspace and will be paired with David Keeling’s The Long Game - a series of paintings depicting human-made paths winding though the natural environment.

Household Gods, Bett Gallery, Hobart September 2 – 19 2016 www.alexdavern.com Image: Alex Davern, Sitting around doing nothing, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 137×122cm Image courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery

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Back down south, the Moonah Arts Centre is working with the Writers’ Centre to develop a Glenorchy version of the fabulous Twitch Young Writers in the City Project. Sites for the residencies are yet to be announced but expressions of interest are now being sought from young (16-25) Tasmanian writers who are seeking a paid opportunity to develop their craft. Keep an eye on the MAC and TWC websites for more details. This offers a unique opportunity to pursue inspiration in familiar and unfamiliar city spaces and the opportunity to write for 2 hours per day for at least 8 days between November and January 2016, with a grant of $500 per writer. On September 11 Young Writers in the City - Launceston will be presenting their work at the Junction Arts Festival soapbox event in Prince’s Square at 1pm.

The Tamar Valley Writers’ Festival is holding their 2016 AGM on Wednesday September 21 at 7pm and the venue is Tamar Ridge Cellar Door facility, 1a Waldhorn Avenue, Rosevears. It is open to the public, however only paid-up members of FOGW will be eligible to vote. They would naturally welcome all new members, and encourage them to consider being more involved through nominating for a role on the committee.

Junction Festival is back September 7-11 in Launceston and will feature Bert Spinks with Poor Man’s Pot, a spoken word experience (pictured). Spinks, aka Storyteller Spinks (check out his delightful blog A Field Guide to Falling In Love in Tasmania) has hosted this show for over a year and, it cements the North of the state as Spoken Word Capital of Van Diemen’s Land.

RACHEL EDWARDS

If you have story, writing or word related news drop me a line Racheledwards488@gmail.com

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by Sue Henderson, Penny Mason, Anne Morrison and Susan Pickering.

Sep 8 - Oct 13 Sweetness and Light Devonport Regional Art Gallery

Sep 14 - Sept 26 From Paper to Silver Sep 28 - Oct 10 Portraits

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COMEDY

Long Gallery Sep 17 - Oct 2 RACT Insurance Tasmanian Portraiture Prize

The Royal Oak Sept 16 Fresh Comedy with Luke Heggie Sept 30 Fresh Comedy with Stewart Bell

Bett Gallery Sep 2 - Sep 19 David Keeling - The Long Game Sep 2 - Sep19 Alex Davern Sep 23 - Oct 10 Imants Tillers

Colville Gallery Aug 26 - Sep 12 Paul Snell - The Liminal Space Sep 2 – Sep 17 Paul Gundry - Supernatural Sep 20 Fine Art Auction Sep23 Effie Pryer

Moonah Arts Centre Sep 2 – Sep 24 Process/ion

The Polish Corner Sept 7 Xavier Susai Sept 14 Michael Workman Sept 21 Dilruk Jayasinha Sept 28 Mick Meredith

Handmark Gallery Aug 12 - Sep 5 Handmark Artists - Annual Works on Paper Exhibition Sep 9 - Oct 3 Denise Campbell - New Paintings and Works on Paper Rosny Barn Schoolhouse Gallery Sep 2 - Sep 25 Moving Creatures Rosny Cottage Sep 24 - Oct 9 Housemates Despard Gallery Aug 31 - Sept 25Graham Lang - A Fulcrum of Infinities Sepr 28 - Oct 23 Animalia Winter Group Show Salamanca Arts Centre Top Gallery Until Sep 14 Object to Artefact Sidespace Gallery Sep 2 - Sep 30 Apart

TMAG Jun 10 - Nov 20 Tempest Sep 2 - Sep 18 Antarctic Photography Exhibition

NORTH QVMAG Until Nov 24 ArtStart: The Seahorse’s Garden Until Sep 4 Kevin Lincoln: The eye’s mind Until Oct 2 The Liminal Space Sep 3 - Jan 29 Udo Sellback - And Still I See It Handmark Evandale Sept 4 - Sep 28 Tom Samek - New Works Burnie Regional Gallery Until Sep 14 2016 Paper Clothing and Mask Competition Until Sep 14 2016 Primary Kaleidoscope - Oceans Sep 24 - Oct 22 Mancell Financial Group 2016 TasArt

Gallery Pejean Aug 10 - Sep 10 Landscapes 2016 Sep 14 - Oct 8 Ryllton Viney - Journeys: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery

RAHNI These are amongst the experiments Rahni Allan will be conducting during her evolving show in Contemporary Art Tasmania’s project space. The exhibition of pseudo-scientific explorations into spectra stems from her given names, Rahni Maya, which apparently translates into ‘Princess Illusion.’ She writes, Light is life.

Light is a time traveller.

Light is cartographer.

Light is perception.

Light is the speed limit of the universe.

In 2014, Allan was the recipient of the Mona scholarship. For the associated exhibition, she transported stars into the museum through fibre optics, and documented her developing romantic relationship with the universe. Her work is humorous, fun and undeniably magical.

Rahni Allan, Rahni Maya AKA Princess Illusion presents Spectacular Spectra.

Image courtesy of the artist

Republic Bar Sept 15 The Clubhouse with Luke Heggie THEATRE Theatre Royal Sept 1 - Sept 3 The Marriage of Figaro Sept 8 - Sept 9 Never Did Me Any Harm Sept 17 An Evening with Henry Rollins Backspace Theatre Aug 26 - Sep 3 Freud’s Last Session

Princess Theatre Aug 31 - Sept 3 Rock of Ages Sept 5 - Sept 6 Snugglepot & Cuddlepie Sept 6 The Marriage of Figaro Sept 14 Conversations with Friends Michael Edgar Sept 14 - Sept 18 Twelve Angry Men Sept 19 - Sept 21 Peter Pan Sept 21 - Sept 22 Singfest Burnie Arts Centre Sept 1 Snugglepot & Cuddlepie Sept 24 Hobart Gang Show - A Perfect Face for Radio

Peacock Theatre Sep 16 Salamanca Moves: If I Never Was Now Sept 20 - Sept 30 Rite of Spring

CIRCUS Theatre North Sept 17 Circus Oz - TwentySixteen

Playhouse Theatre Sept 2 - Sept 17 Something’s Afoot CIRCUS Theatre Royal Sept 22 - Sept 24 Circus Oz - Twenty Sixteen

Devonport Regional Gallery Aug 13 - Sep 25 Lisa Garland: Solo Commission

WARP RECOMMENDS

WHO WOULDN’T WANT TO SEE ‘DANCING RAINBOWS’, ‘ELECTROMAGNETIC VORTEX SPECTRA SPINNERS’, ‘HIGH SPEED RAINBOW PHOTOGRAPHY’ AND ‘SPECTRA SPECTACULAR CHOREOGRAPHED RAINBOW METEOR SHOWER.’

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FILM

FORCE MAJEURE & SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY

Never Did Me Any Harm 8 & 9 September

TWENTYSIXTEEN

Circus Oz

22 to 24 September

If you want to join her in these experiments, Spectra Spectacular will include a number of pop up events and DIY workshops, which will be announced on Allan’s Instagram account: @ arsetronaught Rahni Maya AKA Princess Illusion presents Spectacular Spectra at the Contemporary Art Tasmania Project Space, August 26 – October 15.

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Hobart Venue

Acts / Start Time

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Captives (Tas/Vic) + Verticoli + Young Offenders + Cardinels

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Myridian (Vic) + Abrynth (Vic) + Atra Vetosus + Scoparia

Cargo

DJ Gamar Ali

Grand Poobah

Brightside Fundraiser: Weeper, Roma Antica, Break Through, Lung, Al’s Toy Barn & Ultra Martian in the Main Room

Grand Poobah

Oxjam Fundraiser: The Black Swans of Trespass, The Reporters and Babylon Howl in the Kissing Room

Front - PURE + Morton Stone + Oddling + Ruiner & The Threshold Forms

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Moonah Arts Centre

Ethereal Ensemble

Back - Dangle Manatee (Scotland) + The Dead Pheasants + This Is A Robbery + All The Best + Squid Fishing

Onyx

Girl Friday 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Hobart Funk Collective 10pm

Cargo

DJ Gamar Ali

Telegraph Hotel

Big Swifty

Claremont Hotel

Karaoke - DJ Dazz

The Apple Shed

Gillies Blues 6pm

Federation Concert Hall

Tognetti Vanska Bach Hobart 7:30pm

The Homestead

James Brook, Pinchgut + Dominic Francis Grief Ensemble 9pm

Grand Poobah

Space: The Vinyl Frontier with Poga, Dynomite Drew, Grimey Slimez and Funknukl

The Whaler

Billy Whitton, Michael Priest & Lauren O’Keefe 6:30pm

Waterfront Hotel

Rum Jungle

Westend Pumphouse

Jensen 6:30pm

Date SEPTEMBER

Venue

Thursday

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Grand Poobah

Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams 8pm

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Republic Bar & Café

Merv Graham 8:30pm

The Homestead

Billy Whitton and Sabine Bester 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel Brisbane Hotel

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Wednesday

Thursday

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Acts / Start Time

Grand Poobah

Good Marinations Afterparty in the Kissing Room

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Onyx

Billy & Jamie 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

City Calm Down + Ali Barber + Guest 10pm

Telegraph Hotel The Apple Shed

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Saturday

10 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Reflekt (EP Launch) + Skurgeone + Wombat + Bladel + Menz + AO (DJ Set) + Open Mic Battles

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Late Night Krackieoke w/ Trwippin n Skwippin

Lagoon Hill Zydeco 6pm

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

The Homestead

The Willy Wagtails

Haydn’s Creation 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Turn Up @ The Tah: KOWL (DJ Set), Junior Brando, The Lawless Quartet, Omega Prime

Federation Concert Hall Grand Poobah

The Whaler

Jed Appleton, Jensen 6:30pm

Sugar Fed Leopards, All the Weathers, Ghost Drop, Mum & Dad and Weak in the Main Room

Waterfront Hotel

Sambo & Patto

Grand Poobah

Westend Pumphouse

Nick Machin 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Sam’s Birthday Gig: Heart Beach, Out of Towners, Treehouse, Quivers, The Stitch, Call me Professor & OiL in the Kissing Room

Brisbane Hotel

Mum & Dad + The Soda Creamers + Niandra Lades + DJ Calamine Lotion + DJ Bitz n Pizzaz & DJ Opssie

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Onyx

Gypsy Rose 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

North East Party House + Polish Club + Twinsy + Chase City 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

The Whaler

The Box Captains 8pm

Theatre Royal

The Elton John Experience

Waterfront Hotel

Barrelhouse

Cargo

DJ Nik Berechree

Grand Poobah

Gone Fishin with Rainbow Trout, Hoop Dreams & Friends

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Onyx

Matt & Abby 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Australia Made with Wendy Moles, Norm (24/7), and a MR X Set 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Seretonin

The Homestead

8 Foot Felix (Melb) 9pm

The Whaler

Ani & Reid 8pm

Waterfront Hotel

Ebeneza Good

Birdcage Bar

Sunday

11 Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Co Co Sou Sop Kendo King

Brisbane Hotel

James Brook w/ Friends

Cargo

DJ Nik Berechree

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Claremont Hotel

The Good Fellas

Brisbane Hotel

Andrew Samuel (NSW) + Kahlo (NSW) + Kat Edwards (Hob)

Customs House

Noteworthy: Madalena, Elly Potter, Majella Eales 2:30pm

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Turdyuckinbag

Republic Bar & Café

The Great Anticipators 2:30pm

Cargo

DJ Gamar Ali

Republic Bar & Café

Blue Flies 8:30pm

Claremont Hotel

Tony Voglino

The Homestead

Tom Lee-Richards 7pm

Customs House

Noteworthy: The Sign, Xena, Emma Howard 2:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

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

Republic Bar & Café

Peter Hicks And The Blue Blicks 8:30pm

Waterfront Hotel

Manhattan

Schmorgasbaag

Ben Salter (solo) plus heaps more

The Apple Shed

The Willie Wagtails 1pm

The Homestead

Plum Green + Mayhem and Me 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

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

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Waterfront Hotel

Billy & Jamie

Westend Pumphouse

Kat Edwards 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

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

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Rock Challenge Heat

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex/Micheal Clennett

Republic Bar & Café

Baker Boys 8:30pm

The Homestead

Vibrant Matters Social Club 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Westend Pumphouse

Billy Whitton 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Dave Sikk 4tet 8:30pm

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Grand Poobah

Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex / Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

Neil Gibson 8:30pm

The Homestead

Michael Priest, Dan Hennessey + M T Blues Music 8:30pm

The Homestead

Matt Gray 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Postmodern Jukebox 8pm

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Wrest Point Showroom

Grand Poobah

Karaoke Thursday with DJ Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams 8pm

Jack Greene

Amber Lawrence

Republic Bar & Café

Jeff Martin 9pm

The Homestead

The Stitch 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

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Monday

12 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

13 Birdcage Bar

14 Birdcage Bar

15 Birdcage Bar

16 Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm Quiz Night 8:15pm Sambo 8:30pm

Billy & Aaron 8:30pm

Lisa Pilkington Duo 8:30pm

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Deadspace (WA) + Colossvs (Vic) + PURE + Taurus

Cargo

DJ Dez

Grand Poobah

Street Vibes: Lazer Baby, Kowl, White Rose Project & Milquebarth

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Event Guide

Date

Saturday

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Moonah Arts Centre

Tim Jones and the Big Cheese

Cargo

DJ Dez

Onyx

Suffrajettes 10pm

Grand Poobah

Burlesque After Dark

Republic Bar & Café

The Stiffys + Guests 10pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

Onyx

Sticks and Kane 10pm

The Apple Shed

Ben Salter 6pm

Republic Bar & Café

Plutonic Lab + Dameza + Reflekt 10pm

The Homestead

Jamie Prengell Trio Featuring Danny Healy 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe, Eddo 6:30pm

The Homestead

Ben Salter Band, Treehouse + more 9pm

Waterfront Hotel

Ebeneza Good

The Whaler

The Box Captains 8pm

Westend Pumphouse

Jed Appleton 6:30pm

Waterfront Hotel

The Good Fellas

Wrest Point Showroom

The Beatles No1’s 8pm

17 Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel

Brisbane Hotel

Sunday

Wednesday

Saturday

ALL AGES - The Absolution Sequence (EP Launch) + Zeolite + The Dawn Of Your Discontent + BREAK THROUGH + Al’s Toy Barn - 3pm Bu$ Money + All Fires The Fire + ALL The Weathers + Plovers + Hownowmer (Vic) + Chloe Escott + The Soda Creamers + ZoeZac + DJs

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Mystical Tentrahorn of Nibiru

Cargo

DJ Nik Berechree

Claremont Hotel

Aaron Courtney

Customs House

Noteworthy: Ashlee Prewer, Tony Brennan, Finn Carter 2:30pm

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Republic Bar & Café

Beergarden Party with Live Music by Dan Vandermeer 2:30pm

Viva Espana 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Darlings 8:30pm

The Homestead

Rowena Wise 7pm

Grand Poobah

Hazey Daze: Cutting Room & Harold

The Waratah Hotel

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

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

Mona Market

Ben Salter (solo)

Waterfront Hotel

Tony Voglino

Onyx

Tony Voglino 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Paul Dempsey 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Tim Davies/Entropy

The Whaler

The Box Captains 8pm

Waterfront Hotel

Hit Therapy

18 Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Feedith

Cargo

DJ Nik Berechree

Claremont Hotel

Monday

26 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café

Tuesday

Wednesday

27 Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randall 8:30pm Quiz Night 8:15pm Sambo 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Dean Stevenson 8:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Westend Pumphouse

Billy Whitton 6:30pm

28 Birdcage Bar

Sabine Bester 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Deep Image

Republic Bar & Café

Anita Cairns and Simon Reid 8:30pm

Customs House

Noteworthy: Cassie O’Keefe, Justin O’Garey, Ukes of Hazzard 2:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex/Micheal Clennett

The Homestead

Vinyl Club with Funknukl and Friends 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Catch Club 8:30pm

The Homestead

Neil Gibson

Brisbane Hotel

The Comedy Forge

The Waratah Hotel

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

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Tim & Scott

Republic Bar & Café

Reverend Horton Heat (USA) + Yesterdays Gentlemen 9pm

Billy & Randall 8:30pm

The Homestead

Jusit O’Garey 7:30pm

Montz Matzumoto 8:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

19 Birdcage Bar 20 Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Thursday

Friday

29 Birdcage Bar

30 Birdcage Bar

Nick Marshall 8:30pm

Glen Challice 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

Tarik and Sam 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

HOSS (sa) + A Swayze & The Ghosts + The Dreggs

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Westend Pumphouse

Doyle & Gravy 6:30pm

Grand Poobah

A Swayze & The Ghosts, Violet Swells & The Silverbeets in the Main Room

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Bridget Pross 8:30pm

Onyx

Dan Vandermeer 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

B-Rex/Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

Dirty Wolves + Red Sea 10pm

The Waratah Hotel

Quiz Night 7pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett/Dr Fink

Wrest Point Showroom

Matthew Ives & His Big Band 8pm

The Apple Shed

Greg Wells featuring Emily Wolfe, John Coleman and Al Campbell 6pm

Jerome Hillier 8:30pm

The Homestead

Tribone (Isr), Chunk (Isr) + more

Cargo

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

The Red Shed, Hobart TSO: The Live Sessions 7pm Brewing Company

Republic Bar & Café

Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Crowther 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Unlocked 7pm

21 Birdcage Bar Republic Bar & Café

Friday

Angela Bryan Duo 9pm

Tim Hibberd 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Federation Concert Hall

Jack Greene

Thursday

25 Birdcage Bar

DJ Millhouse

Republic Bar & Café Tuesday

Sunday

Cargo

Waterfront Hotel Monday

Date

22 Birdcage Bar

Black Coffee 8:30pm

Glen Challice 9pm

OCTOBER

Brisbane Hotel

(Back) - Steve Wright (Album Launch) + more tba

Saturday

1

Brisbane Hotel

(Front) - The Pits + Andie Laureson + Betsy Blue

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Sunday

2

Moonah Arts Centre

Nadira and Friends

Onyx

Jerome Hillier 10pm

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby / Big Swifty

The Apple Shed

Nick Osborn 6pm

The Homestead

Ed Solo (UK - Jungle Cakes/Ghetto Funk) + Hypnagog (Kinetic Rec.) + local support 9pm

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe, Jensen 6:30pm

Waterfront Hotel

Aaron Courtney

Westend Pumphouse

Dylan Eynon 6:30pm

23 Birdcage Bar

24 Birdcage Bar

The Whaler

Eddo, Dylan Eynon 6:30pm

Waterfront Hotel

Hit Therapy

Westend Pumphouse

Jed Appleton 6:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES & 18+ - Rates (NSW) + Greeley & Dunn D + Burd Brain + Vokal & Promise + Wombat

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matchan/Big Swifty

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Lambrusco Guzzlin Fiddlee Dee Downin Ramblin Ryan!!

The Waratah Hotel

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

Tony Voglino 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Totally Unicorn (Vic) + Pagan (Vic) + Knife Hands + Dog Dreams

Brisbane Hotel

Front - Nothin But A Glam Time

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke w/ The Sugar Queens

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Event Guide

Launceston Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

SEPTEMBER Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1

2

3

4

7

8

9

10

Bakers Lane

The Brew: The Art of Surviving, Denni Sulzberger, Jacob Hull

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Brad Gillies 9pm

Club 54

Mixtape: The 90s

Country Club Showroom

Las Vegas in Launceston 8pm

The Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - When She Believes - All Female Showcase 8:30pm

Watergarden

Clinton Hutton 7pm

Albert Hall

Tognetti Vanska Bach Launceston 7:30pm

Club 54

Slowly Slowly, The Saxons, The Sleepyheads, Cuban Heel

Country Club Showroom

Las Vegas in Launceston 8pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - The Imps 9pm

Tonic CCT

Gypsy Rose 8pm

Watergarden

Tassie Tenor 7pm

Bakers Lane

Ben Stewart, Nick Bennett, Pat Broxton, George Edmondson

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Session 5pm

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Tee Bee Cee 9pm

Watergarden

Rino Morea 6:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Angus Austin, Naomi Jones, Dani Quilliam

Club 54

Rock Challenge Heat

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - James Brook 9pm

Club 54

Mixtape: The 00s

The Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - Leon Withrington’s Colourful Language 9pm

Theatre North

The Elton John Experience

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Club 54

Hurricane Youth, The Art of Surviving, Brodygreg

The Royal Oak

30

22

Tonic CCT

The Doctors Rockster 8pm

Watergarden

Day Star Duo 7pm

The Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - Open Blues Jam 1pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Session 5pm

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Mic Night 9pm

Watergarden

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Paper Souls, Tim Gambles, Fiontan Cassidy

Wed 7th Tee Bee Cee ~ Public Bar 9pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Dirty Wolves 9pm

Thu 8th James Brook ~ Public Bar 9pm

Club 54

Cardinels, Fall Short, Sara Wright

Country Club Showroom

The Black Sorrows 8pm

Watergarden

Rino Morea 7pm

Club 54

Pokemon Go Party #2

OCTOBER Saturday

1

NORTH WEST Date

TOWN

Venue

Acts / Start Time

SEPTEMBER

Devonport

Molly Malones

Dr. Rocksters

Monday

5

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Rock Challenge Heat

Tonic CCT

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Thursday

8

Burnie

Watergarden

Trevor Weaver 7pm

Burnie Arts Centre

The Elton John Experience

Devonport

Molly Malones

Tim Roberts

Friday

9

Sheffield

Mountain Mumma

Ben Salter (solo)

Saturday

10

Latrobe

Mackeys Hotel

Stonie Jim

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Ring Masters

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Tiarni Cane, Tayla Long, Sara Wright

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Captives

Club 54

Rock Challenge Final

Devonport

Molly Malones

Proud Phoneys

Country Club Showroom

The Beatles No1’s 8pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Samuel Bester 9pm

Paul Dempsey ‘Strange Loop’ National Tour 8pm

Latrobe

Vauda, Pop Noi’ Sop, Tiarni Cane

Mackeys Hotel

Jerome Hillier

Club 54 Country Club Showroom

Paul Dempsey ‘Strange Loop’ National Tour 8pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

Gypsy Rose

Watergarden

Sambo & Patto 7pm

Devonport

Tapas Lounge Bar

Who Killed Mickey w/ Unique Beats

Club 54

Third Degree, Squid Fishing, The Jugular Band

The Royal Oak

Tamar Boat Shed - The Stiffys + The Vedders + Teens 9pm

Tonic CCT

Thursday

Saturday

15

17

Sunday

18

Ulverstone

Gnomon Pavilion

Live Jazz @ The Wharf Presents: Wendy with Strings Attached 3pm

John and Jai 8pm

Thursday

22

Devonport

Molly Malones

Phil Micale

Watergarden

Rino Morea 7pm

Friday

23

Ulverstone

Public Bar - Open Folk Session 5pm

Gnomon Pavilion

Ben Salter (solo)

The Royal Oak

Saturday

24

Latrobe

Raj Sinha

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

Mackeys Hotel

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Tee Bee Cee 9pm

Devonport

Molly Malones

J Arthur Band

Devonport

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm

The Black Sorrows 8pm

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Turbulence (Acoustic), Nick Bennett, Lilyana Sanoe

Devonport Entertainment Centre

Devonport

Molly Malones

Trevor Weaver

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SEPTEMBER Thur 1st Brad Gillies ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 2nd When She Believes - All Female Showcase ~ Tamar Boat Shed 8.30pm Sat 3rd The Imps ~ Public Bar 9pm Sun 4th Open Folk Session ~ Public Bar 5pm

Fri 9th Léon Withrington’s Colourful Language ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sat 10th Antithesis + Myridian $10 ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sun 11th Open Folk Session ~ Public Bar 5pm

Tamar Boat Shed - Antithesis + Myridian 9pm

Watergarden

Thursday

Tamar Boat Shed - The Sketches + Mayhem and Me + Paper Souls 9pm

Leonard & Tome

Public Bar - Tee Bee Cee 9pm

21

The Royal Oak

Mackeys Hotel

The Royal Oak

Wednesday

Snark, Hurricane Youth, Brodygreg

Latrobe

Sorority Wednesdays

18

Proud Phoneys 7pm

Club 54

3

Club 54

Sunday

30

Watergarden

Saturday

14

17

Friday

29

Tamar Boat Shed - OXFAM ‘OxJam’ Fundraiser 8:30pm

Brett Collidge

Wednesday

Saturday

Thursday

28

Turbulence, Bullet House, Pale Feet

The Royal Oak

Molly Malones

Public Bar - Open Folk Session 5pm

16

Wednesday

25

Club 54

Devonport

The Royal Oak

Friday

Sunday

24

Public Bar - The Hat and The Horn 9pm

1

11

15

Saturday

23

Acts / Start Time

The Royal Oak

Thursday

Sunday

Thursday

Friday

Venue

Thursday

29

Wed 14th Tee Bee Cee ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 15th Samuel Bester ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 16th Fresh Comedy - LUKE HEGGIE $15/$20 (no door sales) ~ Tamar Boat Shed 8.30pm Sat 17th The Stiffys + The Vedders + Teens $10 ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sun 18th Open Folk Session ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 21st Tee Bee Cee ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 22nd The Hat and The Horn ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 23rd OXFAM ‘OxJam’ Fundraiser ~ Tamar Boat Shed 8.30pm Sat 24th The Sketches + Mayhem and Me + Paper Souls $10 ~ Tamar Boat Shed 9pm Sun 25th Open Blues Jam / Open Folk Session ~ TBS 1pm / ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 28th Open Mic Night ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 29th Dirty Wolves ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 30th Fresh Comedy - STEWART BELL SOLO SHOW ~ Tamar Boat Shed 8.30pm

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

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