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BALL PARK MUSIC KATIE NOONAN MOONLOVER PETER BIBBY THE NEW TOWN HOUNDS THE RAY MARTIANS TRIPLE J ONE NIGHT STAND

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The Audreys Fri 7 Sept

Sailor Jerry Party Thur 14 Sept

Stephen Cummings Fri 12 Oct

Aunty Donna Sat 13 & Sun 14 Oct

SEPTEMBER 2018 Saturday 1st 10pm Sugartrain $5 Sunday 2nd 8.30pm Moonlover Monday 3rd 8pm Layal Tuesday 4th 8pm G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) Wednesday 5th 8.30pm Julian James Thursday 6th 9pm Billy Warner Band Friday 9.30pm 7th The Audreys $30pre/$35door Saturday 8th 9.30pm Vice Captains Sunday 9th 2.30pm Calhouns 8.30pm Wahbash Avenue Monday 10th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 11th 8pm Billy Whitton Wednesday 12th 8.30pm Rhyley McGrath Thursday 13th 8pm Sailor Jerry Party with Chase City + Kowl + Free Haircuts + Free Flash Art Tattoos + Sailor Jerry Drink Specials (Music from 9pm) Friday 14th 10pm Nothin' But a Glam Time - Glam Rock Tribute $10

Saturday 15th HFC Sunday 16th 2.30pm Blues Jam: Hosted By Pat Curley 8.30pm Tim & Scott Monday 17th 8pm Montz Matsumoto Tuesday 18th 8pm Ross Sermons Wednesday 19th 9pm PolyMantra Thursday 20th 9pm Brett Collidge Friday 21st TBA Saturday 22nd TBA Sunday 23rd 2.30pm Big Small Band Sunday 23rd 8.30pm Sean McMahon + Jed Appleton Monday 24th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 25th 8pm Finn Seccombe Wednesday 26th 8.30pm Graham Rix Thursday 27th TBA Friday 28th TBA Saturday 29th The Outfit Sunday 30th 2.30pm 120Ys 8.30pm Blue Flies

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THURSDAY 15 THURSDAY 15Brisbane QLD The Foundry, The Foundry, Brisbane QLD FRIDAY 16 & SATURDAY 17 FRIDAY 16 & SATURDAY 17 Mullum Music Festival, Mullum Music Festival, Mullumbimby NSW Mullumbimby NSW SUNDAY18 18 SUNDAY The Lansdowne, Lansdowne,Sydney NSW S The NSW SSydney THURSDAY22 22 THURSDAY Jive, Adelaide AdelaideSA SA Jive, FRIDAY23 23 FRIDAY RepublicBar, Bar,Hobart HobartTAS TAS Republic SATURDAY SATURDAY24 24 Howler, Howler,Melbourne MelbourneVIC VIC SUNDAY 25 SUN SUNDAY 25 SUN Queenscliff QueenscliffMusic MusicFestival, Festival,VIC VIC

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News in Brief NATHAN HAS THE POWERRRRRR

8, The MOVES offers a packed program of workshops, performances and events.

Many of the events are free or cost under $20. For more information, or to book tickets, head to www.themoves.com.au.

24, and they’ll be joined by Aborted and Zeolite. It’s going to be epic. Tickets available from Oztix.

YOUR FAMILY IS WEIRD

FANCY SHOES

KLP can be found hosting the countries biggest dance music program, triple j’s House Party every Saturday night.

Triple j is still a big deal. And when you have that kind of clout, why the hell wouldn’t you head out on tour? So, that’s exactly what’s happening this October. KLP will be appearing at the Saloon Bar in Launceston on Friday October 19, and at the Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday October 20. Tickets for both events are available via Oztix.

UNCONFORMING AWESOMENESS

Melbourne folk singer-songwriter Nathan Power has launched his new single “Shoes”. The jauntiest break up song of 2018, Shoes meditates on the little things left behind after a relationship. Shoes comes out with a 26-date national tour across VIC, NSW, TAS, ACT, and QLD and follows on from the launch of Nathan Power’s debut EP We Were Wild. Nathan’s tour includes three stops in southern Tasmania, on Thursday August 30 he’ll be at the Republic Bar & Cafe, on Friday August 31 he’ll be at T-Bone Brewery in Hobart, and on Sunday September 2 he’ll be at Next Door Bar in Franklin. Check with respective venues for ticket info.

SHE SAID, SHE SAID She Said, She Said is a semi-regular female fronted event, this time taking place at the Grand Poobah in Hobart, on Friday September 7. Running from 8:30pm to 11pm, the gig will have some of Tasmania’s finest on stage, and is definitely not to be missed! You’ll be able to see the likes of Baltimore, Ruby AusinLund, Babylon Howl, and YSLA when they take the stage, and all for the excellent cover charge of $10. That’s like, not even one beer these days. Well worth it! For more information head to everyone’s favourite social media website.

MOVING ON Everybody can dance, it’s a universal language. The MOVES Festival is an opportunity to view, create, perform, experiment and experience new ways of moving. This festival is an inclusive, exciting, inviting celebration of dance in all it’s many and varied forms. The MOVES is a biennial festival. The Moonah Arts Centre is hosting the 2018 event.

Nice. Kicking off on Thursday August 30 and running until Saturday September

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Purple Sneakers have announces that the Next Generation of Purple Sneakers DJs will be heading out on their first tour this August and September. Having relaunched Purple Sneakers DJs earlier this year, the team, now comprised of Caitlin Medcalf, Holly O’Neill and Eddy Diamond, have been firing on all cylinders over the past six months. With a set at this year’s Splendour In The Grass, jumping on the decks for a Midday Mix on triple J, and a closing set at Purple Sneakers sold out Twelfth Birthday as part of Vivid Sydney plus much more under their belts, they’re now ready to light up dancefloors across the country. And they’ll be doing exactly that in Hobart when they play at The Tah on Saturday September 15.

Since 2001, The Black Dahlia Murder have created a musical brute that embraces all the finest qualities of melodic death metal yet does not shackle them, giving them room to constantly evolve and grow. The latest album Nightbringer, released in 2017, delivers a punishing and cutthroat form of melodic death metal with a searing visceral intensity. The Black Dahlia Murder continues to inflict a cavalcade of riffs to the table, upping the stakes in technicality, melody and sheer blunt force trauma. They’re visiting the Brisbane Hotel on Monday September

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The Unconformity is an arts festival inspired by a rare geological unconformite and the remarkable cultural paradoxes of Queenstown, a small mining community in Tasmania’s wild west coast. You can experience the community’s unmatched sense of place and unique creative vision by visiting Queenstown from Friday October 19 to Sunday October 21.

There’ll be plenty happening, with artist residencies from Natalie Abbott (NSW), Jill Orr (Vic), Andrew Callaghan (Vic), Jordan Baseman (UK), Nathan Maynard (Tas), and Selena de Carvalho (Tas). To find out more information, head over to www.theunconformity.com.au.

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Aunty Donna are going on tour. Like, on a musical tour. With, like, a live band.

And, like, a backing singer. Wtf, right?

It’s weird. They’re weird. But, like, good weird. Not just weird weird. Not like YOUR Aunty Donna, who is legitimately just weird weird. Anyway, Aunty Donna (Aunty Donna the comedy blokes, not your actual Aunty Donna) are playing at the Republic Bar & Cafe on Sunday October 14 with a full band and a backing vocalist and it’s sure to be a good ol’ bloody riot. Tickets are available from Moshtix and will run you $35. But if you’re smart you’ll pay an extra $10 and get a copy of the album as well.

There is so much to see and do at The Great Huon Valley Festival. Your entry ticket gives you access to Live Music on The Oval, Comedy at The Fun House, Performing Arts and the Festival Arena. This is the ticket to your unique adventure. The Great Huon Valley Festival is a family friendly event featuring live music, comedy, arts, crafts, local produce, river activities, history and guided adventures. The location of the event is the scenic heritage town of Franklin, 35 minutes south of Hobart. It’s all taking place on Saturday November 10 and Sunday November 11, tickets range from $37.75 for a Day Pass, to $116.30 for a Premium Camping Pass.

For more information, head to www. thegreathuonvalley.com.au.

THE FLOOR GENERAL

KLP is a talented force of the Australian music industry, with credentials that cement her reputation as a multi-faceted industry heavy weight. Between writing and recording her own music, co-writing for other musicians and collaborating with local and international artists,

General Levy will be bringing his Clean Heart Incredible Australian Tour to Tasmania! Woohoo! If you like Jungle, Dancehall, Reggae and Roots, don’t miss this night. This will be an official launch party for The Jamaican Music & Food Festival (www.jmff.com.au), which is also

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gonna be incredible. General Levy will be joined by Joe Ariwa, and supported by an absolutely stellar cast of all-stars.

Melbourne based musician, producer, engineer and activist Monkey Marc, will be hitting the decks, as will “I Love Dancehall” creator So Fire, and Japan’s inspiring Yuki Shinobu. It’s all taking place at The Grand Poobah in Hobart on Saturday November 10. Tickets are available via eventbrite, and will set you back $33.

Following the release of lead single ‘I Miss You’, Thundamentals recently announced that their new album, I Love Songs will drop on Friday September 21.

In more news, they’ve announced they will be taking their new album on the road for their I Love Songs Tour. The seven stop tour will take them all around the country, including Hobart, when they play the Goods Shed on Friday November 30.

Tickets available from moshtix, and will cost you around $60.

TOOTIN’ THEIR OWN HORNS

PRESSING BUTTONS

Australia’s oldest newspaper is hitting the road! Following mass lay-offs in Australian media and the merger of Channel 9 and Fairfax, the editors of The Betoota Advocate will visit each corner of the country explaining how, in this day and age, they have managed to keep a newspaper in the black. Fast becoming one of Australia’s most widely read news publications, The Betoota Advocate has won over disenchanted millennials and attracted attention internationally with its jocular headlines. Fan favourites include “Builder Shocked as Apprentice Comes Back From Bunnings With Tartan Paint, Box Of Bright Sparks” and “Demolished Cheeseboard Suggests The Girls Are Having A Real Crack Tonight.” Classic.

The Betoota Advocate Roadshow hits The Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Sunday November 18. Tickets available via oxtix, starting at $68.85 (and going up to $186.15 – I guess now we know how they’ve kept a newspaper in the black in this day and age).

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Press Club are taking off in the big Tarago of the sky on what will be their second Australian headline tour for 2018.

November will see Press Club revisit towns that have shown them support on previous jaunts as well as call on a few less frequently played locations. The band who have already flourished in the proving ground that is the Australian live-music scene, recently took on triple j’s Like A Version to ovation and are excited to be taking their reputably raucous show to their already incredibly loyal fans around Australia. Both ends of Tasmania will get the opportunity to get raucous with Press Club, when they play The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Saturday November 3, and Til The Wheels Fall Off in Launceston on Sunday November 4.

assault counsellors on site at all events, specific training for event staff in dealing with the reporting of incidences of sexual assault or harassment on site. The Falls team will be issuing more detailed information of numbers to call and locations of services closer to the event via the website. So feel more safe at Falls this year.

BEER FESTIVUS I dunno about you lot, but New Years Eve is basically a Beerfest for me. But this year it’s gonna be Beerfest for everyone in Launceston. Launceston’s Royal Park will host the Tasmanian leg of the Beerfest tour on Monday December 31 with delicious eats, wines, ciders, cocktails, and of course, beer. Lot’s of beer. All the beer. There’ll also be entertainment, with music from some of Australia’s leading names, plus comedy for the woots and the lols. For tickets or more information, head over the www.beerfestivals.com.au.

EVERYBODY HAS THE BLUES

on Sunday February 3. The inaugural 2018 event featured Diesel and Ash Grunwald, so we expect the bar will be high for 2019. The full lineup will be released in October, but for the moment we know that Tasmania’s blues favourite, the Pete Cornelius Band will be performing.

Tickets to be released through Moshtix.

The Drop

The biggest export out of New Zealand beside Lorde, Fat Freddy’s Drop is gracing Australian shores this Summer, on the back of their new single, ‘Trickle Down’.

The tour will also feature the Australian Queen of hip hop and neo-soul, Ladi6. See the New Zealand invasion at The Odeon Theatre on Wednesday March 2019.

Tickets available via Oztix.

The Huon Blues & Roots Festival is back for 2019 at Home Hill Winery in Ranelagh

LIVE IS LOVE

On Friday November 23 you’ll be able to catch Bombino and his electrifying band on their 2018 Australian tour, playing songs from the new album Deran and selections from his prior releases. Tuareg guitarist and singer Omara “Bombino” Moctar first came to international prominence via his second full length album Nomad back in 2013.

The album was recorded with GrammyAward winning Producer Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and debuted at #1 on the Billboard World Music album chart, earing rave reviews from top media outlets all around the world. You can catch him at the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart, tickets available via Moshtix.

GOOD THUNDA

Well it’s almost time for the National Live Music Awards again. What are the National Live Music Awards? They’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect them to be, they’re a broad recognition of Australia’s diverse and successful live industry, celebrating the diversity and success of the Australian live music scene – recognising the best vocal talents and musicians alongside the best venues, events and festivals. This year the Tasmanian event is returning to Hobart (it was in Launceston last year), taking place at Hobart Brewing Co on Thursday December 6. Check www.nlmas.com.au for more details.

FALLING UP Sexual assault is a broad social issue within our community, with one in five women experiencing sexual violence in their lifetime. Falls Festival acknowledges the position they hold when it comes to influencing widespread cultural change and they take that responsibility very seriously. They have been working closely with a number of organisations and individuals over the past two years in a continuous effort to improve patron safety and raise awareness around crowd conduct and expectations of reasonable behaviour. In 2018, Falls Festival will continue to add to this by: increasing the number of CCTV cameras across the sites, increasing security in the campgrounds, key staff to undertake psychological first aid training, sexual www.facebook.com/warp.mag 7

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LDRU X YAHTZEL = CARMADA!

Hey guys, what are you up to today?

Drew: I’m currently about to walk into a Four Pines brewery after this. I’ve been in the studio all day, thought I’d treat myself to a schooner.

Max: I’m cleaning my house, I gotta go to LA. Drew: Ooh, domesticated.

Max: I’m playing a festival called Flash House in Palm Springs.

It seems like you often have other stuff besides Carmada going on. Does every project get equal time allowance?

Max: I’d say it’s sixty percent being personal projects and forty being Carmada.

Drew: Sounds about right. You gotta put the time in.

So how did Carmada come about, anyway?

Drew: We were both on the same booking agency playing shows, and we ended up on the same bill at Oh Hello [nightclub] in Brisbane. After we played, we had some beers, had a party at the hotel room, and since then we’ve just been hanging out and writing stuff. I can’t remember specifics- we just went, ‘let’s jump in the studio together’.

Max: With Carmada, we’ve had that approach of, it’s an outlet but we don’t carry as much stress in it. We’ll just be screwing around and seeing 8

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DREW CARMODY AND MAX ARMATA- BETTER KNOW BY THEIR STAGE NAMES LDRU AND YAHTZEL, RESPECTIVELY- MAKE UP CARMADA, A DANCE-ELECTRO DUO. THEY’VE BEEN PLUGGING AWAY THROUGH THE EDM SCENE SINCE 2013, AND ARE ABOUT TO SET OUT ON THEIR MASSIVE FIFTEEN-DATE CLUB CARMADA TOUR, OFF THE BACK OF THEIR HUGE SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS PERFORMANCE, THAT SAW THE PAIR PERFORM FOR ALMOST FOUR HOURS. THE BAND HAVE HINTED AT MORE RECORD CONTENT TO COME WITH THEIR SINGLE READY FOR IT, FEATURING VOCALIST TRIBES, BUT NOW THEY’RE GEARING UP FOR A SLEW OF LIVE SHOWS, AS WELL AS THEIR VARIED OTHER PROJECTS.

what comes from that. The projects represents fun, two kinds of artists having fun.

What are you trying to bring in the live sense?

Max: I suppose it’s all about having a good time, and making sure the crowd is having a good time, because without them, we’d be nothing.

Some people go up there with ‘stage face’.

Drew: You go to a techno party, some of those DJs barely move, they look at their CDs for two hours. You can tell they’re having an awesome time, but on the outside, it doesn’t look like they’re having fun.

Max: ‘Stage face’ is an involuntary act. If I’m laying down some guitar in my studio, you go into a trance, it’s a natural music state- we always make fun of each other’s drumming faces or guitar faces (laughs).

Drew: It’s not something you do on purpose.

You’re also hitting up some regional venues as well as capital cities on this tour, which a lot of people will appreciate.

Max- We love those intimate clubs, where you’re really connecting with the crowd on a mutual level, and being a part of the party rather than the act that someone’s watching. You become part of the crowd which is an awesome feeling.

Do you feel any pressure to stand in quite a crowded scene?

Drew: Everyone’s a DJ these days.

Max: You can make a living doing something you love which is awesome [but] it’s good and badthe market at the moment is quite saturated, there’s a lot of people DJing. But if you work hard, you’re gonna shine through. Stick to what you love. Jealousy’s a curse.

Drew: I’m sure behind the scenes there’s jealousy, it’s rare we meet an artist where we go ‘that person’s a weirdo’ (laughs). Most of the artists we meet are the best people we meet.

The Australian scene is real light and everyone’s really friendly. We look around and think, ‘how lucky are we’.

I guess you’ll have to prepare for the onslaught of touring once you start again, and then hopefully jump back into the studio?

Max: You gotta slowly ease yourself back into it.

Drew: I’m really looking forward to the sessions after we get back. It’ll be exciting how this new formula works in the crowd. There’s a change coming...it’s not gonna be what people will expect, that’s what I’m most excited about.

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Carmada play Saturday October 6 at The Goods Shed, Hobart. Tickets are available via Moshtix.

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ELIXIR OF STRINGS

Gratitude and Grief is a multi-faceted collaboration, featuring music, poetry and live art. The theme and title is based on a poem of Leunig’s, and is many a year in the making, according to Noonan.

“The overall purpose is to create this kind of beautiful dream, an otherworldly place, a sumptuous feast of stuff” Noonan explains.

“You’ve got the beautiful speaking of Michael, then we make the music, and the incredible musicians of the TSO, then you’ll have a huge screen where Michael will be drawing his images that accompany the poems live at the same time. A feast for the senses. I absolutely love that room [Federation Concert Hall], too. I’m really excited to come back there.”

KATIE NOONAN HAS BEEN A MAINSTAY OF AUSSIE MUSIC FOR YONKS NOW: SINCE HER BAND GEORGE BURST ONTO THE MAINSTREAM SCENE IN 2002, NOONAN HAS HAD HANDS IN MANY PIES, AS SHE DOES NOW. ALTHOUGH GEORGE IS NOW DEFUNCT, HER LONGEST-RUNNING PROJECT- JAZZ TRIO ELIXIR, FORMED IN 1997IS STILL TRUCKING ON AND WILL TEAM UP WITH CARTOONIST/POET MICHAEL LEUNIG AND THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THIS SEPTEMBER FOR SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL.

children, gratitude is something we could all work at more in our lives, because we are all so goddamn lucky.”

“Everything takes a natural course. This Elixir project has been brewing for about four years. II first met Leunig years ago and thought, ‘I wanna make something with this guy, he’s amazing’.

Everything just falls into place.”

The project also resonated quite personally for Noonan.

Along with George and Elixir, Noonan has dipped her toe into all sorts of projects: she released a jazz/opera album with her mother (Two of a Kind) in 2004; she’s released solo albums; in 2008 she supported Cyndi Lauper in Perth; she lent her vocals to a Telstra ad; in 2008 she also released an album of jazz covers of Lennon/McCartney songs, called Blackbird: The Music of Lennon and McCartney; she collaborated on several albums with German-Australian classical guitarist Karin Schaupp. She was also the Queensland ambassador for the National Office for Live Music in 2013, was the official ambassador for the Adelaide Fringe in 2014, and performed only this year at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games. She’s done a lot.

Noonan is also the current Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival. She took up the helm in 2016, taking over from jazz musician James Morrison.

“I’ve had to deal with some big family issues that have been tragic and traumatic, and my father has been quite sick which has been a gradual grief- but he’s doing well. I have the gratitude at having an incredible husband, it’ll be twenty years in March. We have incredible

“It is something I sent out to the universe a few years ago” she says. “I’d been producing events myself like [circus group] Circa, that kind of large-scale work was something I was doing anyway. I’m also a fierce advocate for the arts and music education and QMF is a combination

“This project is just dreamy, meditative, very special. Really healing for me actually, ruminating on the themes of gratitude and grief.

I’ve studied Leunig’s writing for a solid decade, and that poem has always resonated. The themes run through the whole album. Leunig is so beautiful at capturing the minutiae of life and making it something special. He’s an amazing philosopher.”

of those things. I’m also a big believer in community work, particularly in regional areas. I put in an application for the job six years ago and didn’t get it- I’m glad I didn’t, I was too young.

I’m the first Queenslander to get the job, the second woman in twenty years, and the youngest ever Artistic Director of the festival.”

Despite the many balls in the air currently, Noonan loves being busy, and doesn’t intend to rest on her laurels anytime soon.

“I already have my next recording project underway. I’m always writing and thinking about what works I’ll be doing next. My career has been a series of happy accidents but I’ve always had a strong gut instinct.”

“I don’t think I would ever run out creative ideas, the possibilities are limitless.” she says.

“I love working with people who are experts in a different vernacular than my own. Dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, working with other artists who are in a different space. I love working with people who aren’t of my generation, too. I have my next three recording projects in my head, planning my next festival for next year...but I have to be careful not to spread myself too thin, I’m also a mother of two beautiful boys. I’m a hyper-organised human.”

LISA DIB

Elixir Gratitude & Grief is on at the Federation Concert Hall on Friday September 28. Tickets avaialable through the TSO website – www.tso.com.au.

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“Sometimes I will Google the band to find reviews of a record, but I don’t really Google myself. I’m not afraid of what I’d find. The weird thing is when you find snapshots of how ‘the internet captures you or the band, it’s like going into a weird time portal.” he explains. “I prefer to stay in the present. It makes me really think about people who are large-scale famous. I have experienced some seriously mild levels of fame, if you will. You’re starting with an earnest dream of playing music and as you achieve that, you’re

BALL PARK MUSIC FRONTMAN SAM CROMACK IS HANGING OUT ON YOUTUBE WHEN WE CHAT. IN THIS MOMENT OF OFFTIME, HE’S WATCHING A VIDEO PRANK OF SOME FAKE MORMONS TRYING LSD FOR THE FIRST TIME. THANKFULLY, CROMACK KNOWS WHEN TO GET OFF THE INTERNET AND AVOID THE RABBIT HOLE- NO, HE DOESN’T GOOGLE HIMSELF.

also like, there’s a price to pay, it means more people know more about you. I imagine it’d be extremely fucked up for people that are really famous. I feel genuinely sorry for those people.”

You could easily call Brisbane’s Ball Park Music “seriously mild famous” as they gear up for a massive co-headlining tour with fellow indiepop act, Perth’s San Cisco. The band have been edging up the Aussie music hierarchy since their inception in 2009, with their triple j-approved EP

Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Ourselves to Sleep.

They were eventually named the Unearthed Artist of the Year at triple j’s J Awards; they even supported Weezer on their Aussie tour in 2013.

They’ve been darlings of both the broadcaster and the Australian music-buying public for some years now and show no sign of slowing down.

“We had wanted to get into some bigger venues, we were itching to take that next step, which means trying to sell more tickets to make it worthwhile and we were unsure whether we could do that. We had been talking about a coheadline thing for years. We asked San Cisco and they were keen and it came together really quickly. It felt like such a good obvious tour to put together. It’s not very common. The first taste we got of the co-headline thing was, we got billed for these zoo events at Melbourne Zoo and Taronga, they billed us and the Jungle Giants together for an event. The capacity was much bigger than anything we’d played on our own, the tickets fucking flew out the door! That was us seeing it firsthand.”

“We certainly do do a lot of touring [but] the perception is that we are much busier than we are.” Cromack says, when I note how much touring the band has been doing in the last few years. Indeed, the band did a national tour earlier this year to coincide with the new album release, that included a slot at Groovin’ The Moo Festival.

“The last tour finished in May, now it’s August.

We get routine and adventure, it’s our livelihood, we love it. Usually you record an album, and by the time you finish, you never wanna set foot in a recording studio; then you go on the road to tour the album and you never wanna tour again and you’re itching to get in the studio.”

Speaking of albums, the band’s fifth album, Good Mood, is aptly named. Their latest after 2016’s Every Night the Same Dream, the record is chockers with blissed-out pop, hopefulness and even the odd moment of artful sadness.

Cromack notes that this vibe came naturally and they just ran with it.

“It’s funny for us because I don’t feel like we ever start any album with a manifesto or anything, no big picture goals.” he says. “In some ways that’s a challenge that hasn’t changed since day one; you go in very idealistic to making the best music you can. I’m just trying to better myself at writing music. Since day one I’ve written pop-rock music.

We were enjoying ourselves so much, such a good feeling. We wanted a feeling of confidence and joy to run through the record. It was a highlight of our career so far, making this recordhow you dream it’s gonna be. I felt creatively like we were kicking goals. We’ve been around long enough that you don’t feel like an ‘emerging artist’ and there’s some confidence with that. You think, ‘let’s just do what we do best and enjoy it’; you get less neurotic as years go by.”

LISA DIB

Ball Park Music play The Goods Shed, Hobart, on Wednesday October 24 along with San Cisco and Ruby Fields. Good Mood is out now.

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DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT MOONLOVER IS THE EXCITING NEW PROJECT FROM QUANG DINH. SINCE RELEASING HIS DEBUT ALBUM THOU SHALL BE FREE IN MARCH, MOONLOVER HAS BEEN MAKING WAVES (GET IT?). I HAD A CHAT TO DINH ABOUT THE PROJECT AND HIS UPCOMING HOBART SHOW.

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The name Moonlover might sounds slightly unfamiliar, but Little Red should resonate. Moonlover is the solo project of Quang Dinh, former bassist of Little Red. Little Red had a great run from 2005-2012, first featured on Triple J’s Unearthed and then gaining love nation-wide. But that’s enough about Little Red, Moonlover is fresh, exciting and completely invigorating.

Dinh independently released three solo EP’s between 2015-2016, however in 2017 he decided to challenge himself and create a full-length album. Dinh spent nine months working alone in his bedroom, he we wrote, performed and recorded his debut album, titled Thou Shall Be Free, which was then released through Melbourne label Our Golden Friend in March 2018.

Whilst Moonlover is Dinh’s solo project, and he does occasionally perform solo, Moonlover also showcases its sound with a live band, composed of members Richard Bradbeer, Rob Muinos and Paul Ceraso.

Moonnlover is already off to an incredible start, developing an incredible fan base and repertoire, performing with Angel Olsen, Saskwatch and Cloud Control this year, and playing at both Gizzfest and Changes festival in Melbourne.

Dinh has been to Hobart before and holds some extremely interesting thoughts on Hobart and how we Hobartians operate, which are both humbling and uplifting.

“Earlier in the year on account of the I Ching, I went down to Hobart and stayed with some friends for a few days. Hobart seems to be like a rogue planet, a Mad Max kinda thing, where the artists and the young are operating on a different frequency, don’t mind bending things outta shape a little, but where the bread is good and people read books, eat seafood and have time. I like that.”

Moonlover is currently on tour, playing five solo shows across the East Coast of Australia. These are Moonlover’s first solo shows since the release of his album.

Dinh assures that his upcoming gig at the Republic is not one to be missed.

“The Republic Bar show will be me, my acoustic guitar, my harmonica and my desperate croon. I’ve been crooning recently and it’s been breaking hearts. But really I just look forward to hanging out, meeting some new folk and entertaining them, facilitating their night.”

MACKENZIE STOLP

See Moonlover perform in Hobart on Sunday September 2 at the Republic Bar. Entry is free.

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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

EIGHTEEN-YEAR OLD JASPER KENNEDY GREW UP IMMERSED IN ROCK AND ROLL DUE TO HIS FATHER’S MUSICIANSHIP. UNLIKE MOST TEENS WHO ARE EMBARRASSED BY THEIR PARENTS THE MINUTE PUBERTY HITS, JASPER STARTED A BAND WITH HIS DAD AIDAN HIBBARD, AND THE NEW TOWN HOUNDS WHERE BORN.

photo credit: Megan Kenna

First up, Japer, how did you wind up starting a band with your dad?

Jasper: I started writing music and lyrics, I wanted to be in a band but I didn’t know anyone my age that was into the same sort of scene as I was into. The mod culture, the punk that I liked.

My dad did so… He said, you gotta do it with me, and then we got Jimmy. Perhaps I’d prefer to do it with people my age but I think it’s alright, it’s good, we have the same tastes in music and we get along well!

Aidan: We were just jamming, I’d hear this great music coming out of Jaspers room, like for me it was having the best radio station in the world, just across the corridor! It was really cool to hear that, and what sort of stuff Jasper was picking up on, and what he wasn’t! He’s got pretty eclectic taste. I remember one night, going back a few years, he’s got some Nat King Cole coming out of his room. I’m texting Jas saying turn it up!

What were you like twelve when you picked up the guitar?

Jasper: I started playing properly when I was about fifteen I think.

Aidan: He’s self taught really, I showed him a few chords and that was all. I’d hear him playing and singing in his room and be like man is that one of yours? It’s good!! I was blown away with Jasper’s ability man. I’m f*cjking jealous that I didn’t have his talent when I was his age. It took me decades to be able to write songs as good as what he can do. The other thing that blew me away was when we started rehearsing in the shed instead of acoustically in the loungeroom or whatever, was how much Jaspers lyrics and voice sounded like my late, very good friend Guy Lucas who was the lead singer and guitarist of The Philistines, my first band. That blew me away. It was such a solid connection, he really writes some good shit.

Do you think being in such a close relationship it helps or hinders the band dynamics?

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Jasper: I think it helps, I guess because we’re so close we can talk about the music, where its working and where it’s not.

No fights yet?

Aidan: There’s no fights, he knows I’d kick his ass! [laughs] And how did Jimmy get on board?

Aidan: When I first moved down here I played in a band with him called the Boothill Gigalows.

That was a big band, it took a lot of work. That is one of the reasons we decided to go three piece.

I’m so glad we did it with Jimmy, he energises both of us. He turns up, and he’s ready to go. I always say ‘can we have a beer first?’ He loves it, he’s working semi-professionally with a couple of other outfits, but he says that what he loves about The Hounds Is how things come together so quick, he loves the freedom and spontaneity of the style we do it in.

Jasper, I imagine your dad inspired you immensely growing up?

Aidan: Not at all, I just gave him the shits didn’t I, Jasper? [laughs] Jasper: I think listening to my dad’s band The Roobs, influenced me heaps. Growing up, seeing them play in the shed, it’s a big part of it!

Aidan: Jasper grew up as a rock and roll kid, I don’t think there’s ever been a time that he’d remember that there hasn’t been live music happening around him.

What’s the best fatherly advice you’ve given?

Aidan: I think the best advice I ever gave Jasper was from my perspective, we went away on a motorcycle trip the summer before he was starting high school and I figured that’d be the last time we ever really going to hang out. He was going to high school, hit puberty, he wont want f*** all to do with his old man anymore, so we were on this road trip.. The solid gold

nugget of advice that came out of that road trip was ‘jasper, safety first, but curtesy to chicks above all else’ and he’s a beautiful boy. He’s always been so good in that respect. I’m sure that wouldn’t happen without my genuine gentle advice. [laughs] What kind of message do you want projected through The New Town Hounds?

Jasper: I think just the truth. The lyrics I write, some of them kind of tell the truth, there is a lot of fake news going around, people are really ignorant to things. There’s a new reggae one we do called Maturity and it’s basically just about how money isn’t everything. You’ve got to see past it, it shouldn’t’ be your main goal, happiness should be.

Aidan: I never anticipated that out of Jasper’s music, I was thinking we’d be doing much simpler, Dee Dee Ramones style stuff. I was surprised to see the reggae aspect creep in, but it’s made it a lot more interesting for me, to switch over from six stings to four. When you start adding reggae, the bass has to pick things up. I feel more involved in the song writing process as well, I’m writing the bass lines. It’s a different feel. That reggae tinge to the punk-rock we do, works really nicely. And its authentic too!

I asked previously about the inspiration you received from your dad jasper, but it seems to me like Jasper’s really inspired you, Aidan?

Aidan: Oh, he really has inspired me enormously man, and he always has, his whole life. It’s been great him growing up around me, and me growing up around him.

KEIRA LEONARD

New Town Hounds will perform at The Grand Poohbah in Liverpool St, Hobart, on Friday September 7. The Hounds will be supported by Last Year’s Address & The Developers, with entry $5 on the door, from 9pm.

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GETTING UP AND GETTING ON TERESA DIXON BEARS ALL ON HER DEBUT ALBUM. BASS STRAIT IS A RAW AND HONEST DEPICTION OF THE THINGS WE DO TO PULL OURSELVES TOGETHER. I HAD A CHAT WITH TERESA ABOUT THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE ALBUM AND HER WRITING PROCESS AS A SOLO ARTIST.

Bass Strait is the debut solo album from Hobart based multi-instrumentalist, Teresa Dixon. Having performed with The Stragglers and The Little Sisters, Teresa went solo to create a record full of sadness and optimism. With touches of folk, country and blues, Bass Strait was inspired by Teresa’s need to heal through the power of song.

“I was suffering from a bad case of depression and anxiety that stemmed from a non-existent relationship with my father and childhood abuse in his absence. To top it all off, I was doing my fair share of ‘self-medication’ and stuffed around with my serotonin levels just a little too much for the fragile state I was already in. Writing songs was my saviour. The process of writing about my experiences and emotions was extremely healing, and every time I play these songs I heal a little more.”

Taking the leap to go solo had its difficulties, but also proved a positive experience for Teresa.

“In some ways making a solo record is a lot more difficult than with a band, in other ways it’s a lot easier. It is a much lonelier experience and its tough making decisions with no band mates to bounce ideas off and collaborate with. However, there are a lot less arguments.”

Having written songs for the past decade, Teresa had a wealth of material to choose from when making Bass Strait.

“Interestingly most of the songs on this album are ones that simply seemed to pop out of me. It was like the inspiration came from some place deep in my subconscious and then transformed into

a song very quickly. Most of them weren’t really planned, sometimes I would just start singing along to a little riff then boom, a song was made. Sometimes I would think a bit about a topic for a week or so then when I hit this sparky, skittish sort of mood, out they came without too much trouble.”

The album, which features nine tracks, was produced by renowned Australian producer and engineer Andy Stewart of The Mill in Victoria (Paul Kelly, Gotye).

“Andy Stewart was a dream to work with.

He created a comfortable and stressfree environment in the studio which is essential to getting music down in a natural and truthful way. He provided the perfect amount of constructive criticism and knew when to push me and when to move on to something else.”

Resonating most with Teresa, Little Girl is a hauntingly beautiful track that provides a perfect mix of sorrow and hope.

“It has brought me to tears almost every time I listen and is extremely cathartic.

It is also quite exciting to hear what I affectionately call the ‘orchestra of Lucy Rash’ who played the most beautiful and apt violin parts throughout the track.”

Following the release of Bass Strait, Teresa is embarking on a run of shows up the East Coast of NSW with Teri Young and Whiskey Dram throughout September.

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FLEXIN’

Tkay Maidza has created an incredible name for herself as a head of the Australian pop genre, however, Tkay says her upcoming album is her “coming into who I [she] is supposed to be”. In Last Year Was Weird Vol.1, we see a new, fresh and depth side to Tkay.

‘I just feel like when I first started, with Brontosaurus and everything up to know, its always been me doing what I thought was right.

So from there I’ve had a lot more experience

TKAY MAIDZA IS EASILY ONE OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN AUSTRALIAN MUSIC CURRENTLY. HER FUN, POP/RAP/ELECTRONIC MUSIC IS EASILY RECOGNISABLE AS TKAY, SHE POSSESSES AN INCREDIBLE, ORIGINAL VIBE. I HAD THE ABSOLUTE PLEASURE OF CHATTING TO TKAY ABOUT HER LATEST ALBUM AND UPCOMING TOUR.

with writing and with this project and I had a lot of time, so I felt like ‘okay I feel like making this kind of song’, and then I worked to achieve that kind of thing rather than going with the first thing I made.”

Tkays newfound self came from lots of hardwork. Rather than just rolling with a good sound, on these songs Tkay worked and reworked until she created the sounds she wanted to hear. The blood, sweat and tears are

evident when listening to the album. It is an incredible level up for Tkay.

“It’s just more like pre-meditated or like manifesting. Ill be like ‘oh I wanna make the song sound like this’ and it’ll be more in-depth and I’ll push myself harder. For all of this [latest album], it seemed like a challenge. We would finish a song and then re-work it and re-work it again to get to that final part. So it was more about paying that attention to detail and also just having an intention before I make something.”

Whilst Tkay is known for making incredible pop music, this album definitely takes a new direction. Whilst the album still has pop vibes infesting its entirety, other genres evidently influence this album, from reggae to RnB, this album plays with genre and does it well.

“Obviously it’s not straight up pop music. It’s more of a vibe. You always want everything to go really well straight away but I think I know with this that it’s going to be more of a journey, like step by step. I just really want to have a good base for everything I think what I make will always be pop anyway.

I think I just wanted to make something that sounds real which is what I would listen to. It wasn’t intentional, I just wanted to make stuff that I was like “yep, dope”.

First single of the album ‘Flexin’ has the absolute best vibe. It’s such a catchy carefree song, and Tkay fans are eating it up. Tkay describes the sing as the perfect bridge between her old music to her new direction.

“I think because it’s the most similar to the old me, but also it’s bold. I think it made to sense to go bold first off and then it would make more sense to show the rest of the EP. I think everyone just knows me to be like Flexin but a level up, and the rest of the album is more chill so we can balance it out by showing everyone the rest of the EP after.”

As the name implies, we can expect more albums in the future from Tkay, carrying on from this cool new sound. If this first album is anything to go by, were in for some good music.

“I have a lot of music that I’ve made. I think the idea is to make two more of these albums. So there’s like Vol.1, and then I wanna do a Vol.2 and Vol.3. and also make stuff in between, I just wanna grow I guess. “ Tkay will be blessing us with her presence at this years Triple J One Night Stand in St Helens and assures it will be a good time, and judging by this album and Tkays unbelievable presence, it will be.

“Were gonna have a new stage set-up, I’ll play Flexin’. That’ll probably be my first time actually playing it live, and then there some guests, etcetera, etcetera….”

MACKENZIE STOLP

Tkay Maidza performs as part of triple J’s One Night Stand on Saturday September 1 in St Helens. The event starts from 3.30pm and is all ages, and also drug and alcohol free. Entry is free.

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THE GREAT WHITE AUSTRALIAN INDIE-PUNK SONGSMITH PETER BIBBY IS RELEASING HIS SECOND ALBUM, GRAND CHAMPION, THIS SEPTEMBER, AND EXPECTATIONS ARE HIGH. THE WA ROCK-POET WOWED THE SCENE WITH HIS 2014 DEBUT, BUTCHER/HAIRSTYLIST/BEAUTICIAN, AND FOLKS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE FOLLOW-UP. IT WAS, INDEED, A BIT OF A SHEMOZZLE TO PUT TOGETHER.

“The recording process was totally different.” he explains. “On my first album my band and I basically went in and recorded our live set which we had honed like a heat-seeking missile; whereas this time I had been living in Darwin for a few months prior to moving back to Perth and hadn’t really been doing ‘band’ for a while, so I had to wrangle musicians from around Perth and- for the most partteach them the songs as we recorded them, so it was done more layer by layer, piece by piece hoping it came together. In terms of songwriting, it’s still my same old songs of love, hate and observation. I had more time to play with ideas but my intention remained the same: make music that sounds good to me and hope other people like it.”

“Besides the aforementioned disorganisation, it was interrupted by a grueling two-month trip driving from Perth to Melbourne and back again to help my girlfriend at the time move to Western Australia. After returning, I finished recording over a week or so, then it took me a few months to find someone to mix it. It was finished within a year of starting the whole thing, but due to personal issues and my label rejigging their operation, almost two years have passed since its completion. It’s a relief to blow the dust off the old bastard and set it free into the world.”

Bibby is one of a type of artists I’ve noticed recently harnessing their ‘Australian-ness’ in their music, even leaning into being a bit of an ‘ocker’. He explains the complicated relationship he- an no doubt many othershave with the country.

“I enjoy being Australian. but I would not consider myself patriotic in any

sense of the word. I have mixed feelings about being Australian: the freedom and privilege that comes with being a white Australian male makes life nice and easy, however I am deeply ashamed of our country’s dark history, our continued political disgrace and our ignorance towards equality, race and poverty. I also love hot meat pies, cold beers and white sand next to blue ocean. I like Akubra hats and I like calling my friends ‘cunts’ in an affectionate way. We have a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and a rich culture which I’m proud of but the ignorance and privilege is pretty sickening I must say.”

Bibby is clearly dead-set on not allowing another several-year gap between records.

“I’m going to tour this album around Australia, maybe even the world, and once we’ve juiced everything we can out of it, we’ll release the next album which my Dog Act [Bibby’s band] and I have already recorded and I’m very excited to share it with everyone. I’ve nearly finished writing my fourth album, so I’ll keep cracking on with that. Besides music stuff I’m going to get better at making furniture, further my pie making skills and continue doing yoga with Adriene. Namaste, motherfuckers.”

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Peter Bibby plays The Waratah Hotel on Saturday October 6. Grand Champion is released September 28 through Spinning Top Records.

Kate Fuller performs I Like Men at the Festival of Voices on July 13th at Hobart City Hall. Further details available from the website – www.festivalofvoices.com.

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ALL OUR BORDERS, TWISTED WIRE

The Ray Martians got their start almost twenty years ago, born, bred and grown in Hobart.

Although there has been slight-line up, the band has been constantly evolving and developing.

Nicholas: Damian and Tony were in a duo together and then Damian went away to Europe and I remember, it was at your going away party, you played Broken Two and I had learned the bass line to it. So we played it and you said “that sounds so much better than with Damian” and from that Tony and I decided to play as a duo for quite a while. We had a fiddle player play with us and that was around the time of all that Irish pub sorta stuff. Damian came back, the guitar came back and the fiddle went out, then we got a drummer in.

The band has always performed originals, but used to dedicated time to performing covers, however it never suited their style. After a few years playing well-loved covers, the band discovered that performing their own music was not only more stimulating, but also much more rewarding.

Tony: We were doing more covers in those days and bringing in the originals. Damian and I had a set, and then Nick came in and learnt the same set. By the time he (Damian) came back we had two/ three hours of work.

Nicholas: I think that we’re so unique that to try and curve that into somebodies else’s music was never really going to work.

Damian: We also did put our own twist on them [covers] though, I never learnt a song properly.

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THE RAY MARTIANS HAVE BEEN HOBART FAVOURITES FOR ALMOST TWENTY YEARS NOW. THE BAND ARE GEARING UP TO RELEASE THEIR THIRD ALBUM CLOSE BETWEEN THE SYLLABLES AND ARE HOSTING AN ALBUM LAUNCH IN SEPTEMBER. I HAD A CHAT TO THE BAND ABOUT THE ALBUM AND THEIR GROWTH AS A BAND.

Nicholas: It never sounded as good as the originals did either. It was always like you were taking a step back. “ The band is also notorious for taking their time and releasing music at their own pace. Their first album Ten Steps for Success was released in 2001, and their second album Nature Study Project was released in 2013, twelve years between the two. Now it’s been another five years between albums. The band acknowledges this is the result of the luxury of recording an album yourself.

Nicholas: It was 2014 when we started this recording process.

Tony: We also concentrated on having children.

Not together.

Damian: We were getting a lot of work at the stage, and we had played the songs lots of times.

But when it comes to recording, you always find holes in it. So it took a long time to re-learn the songs and figure it out.

Stefan: Also, when you record an album yourself you have that luxury of time. You can do the 20 guitar solos.

hear it, the way we wanted to hear it. So it was only ever us that we had to consider.

Stefan: With the new album, we had already been working on it for two and a half years, we had at least a dozen songs, so we went back, had a listen, decided what were the best songs, drew the line and went from there. Having it go for so long, we wanted to just draw that line and finish it and move onto new songs.”

The band will be celebrating the release of their third and latest album Close Between the Syllables at The Hobart Brewing Company and insure it will be a good time.

Tony: It’s free entry!

Nick: We will play the full album in it’s entirety and then some old favourites after that.

Damian: When we play it live we can loosen up on stuff.

Nick: We are known for extending intros if they’re working well. I actually find that because were not playing live as often now, theres a sense of anticipation.”

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Nicholas: So you don’t rush it. I think it takes that long because it doesn’t need less time than that. When you get near the end you speed it up a bit because you want to get it out.

Damian: And were also learning as we go. We haven’t recorded anything in anticipation of setting the world on fire, it’s because we wanna

Keep up with the goings-on of The Ray Martians at https://www.facebook.com/TheRays-729105507217197. Check out the launch of Close Between the Syllables at Hobart Brewing on Friday September 7.

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SLEEPYHEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Deservingly so, 2018 has certainly been the year of years for Launceston punk-rockers The Sleepyheads. From being Triple J Unearthed feature artist, collaborating with Tyler Richardson of Luca Brasi in their poignant single ‘Never Forget You’re Here For Them’, releasing their three track EP ‘Be more Optimistic?’ - which saw streaming numbers exceed expectations, and now, being announced as Triple J’s One Night Stand winners, the boys will join some of Australia’s biggest acts in St Helens.

your most vulnerable moments. Seeing people sing the same words with just as much passion is really humbling. I think that’s why people seem to connect with our music so much.”

I’ve spent days writing a song and wondering if it’s any good, having a big group of people sing the words back to me at a show is the most fulfilling thing.”

Broxton explains that their new single ‘Pessimist’ was originally meant to be the fourth track for their EP ‘Be More Optimistic?’ but due to deadlines, just didn’t make it.

Broxton whom wrote his first song with his dad when he was a teen, admits that his song writing tends to come in bursts, which can be slightly terrifying for him.

“It kind of wraps everything up if you listen to it straight after the other three tracks,” he says.

“I was actually just about to get out of bed when the call came through,” explains Broxton.

“It was a private number, so I answered it with my ‘this is probably a telemarketer’ voice… That quickly changed when I realised it was actually Tommy from Triple J!”

“It’s about finding a person, or a group of people, that you just feel really good around. I like the sentiment because people can put their own meaning to it. It’s also about personal growth and realising that it’s okay to not have everything together at the age of twenty-four. It’s definitely a positive song, despite the title.”

“Every time I write a song and we finish it, I’m like ‘is that it? I don’t think I have any songs left in me. ‘We have some new stuff in the works though. It’s coming slowly!”

The recognition the Launceston band have been receiving lately is flooding in, from rising Spotify steams, to getting a shout out from The Smith Street Band’s Wil Wagner. Sitting across from Broxton, I can see him grinning, virtually blushing as we listen to Triple J’s Dave Ruby Howe compare them to the likes of Ceres and Slowly Slowly, before premiering their brandnew single ‘Pessimist’. There is a modest excitement in Broxton’s face that is enthralling; the same can certainly be said when you see the band play live, but we’ll get to that.

“Being put in the same sentence as those bands is really exciting for me, they’re bands that have had a huge influence on me and The Sleepyheads’ sound.”

Howe describes The Sleepyheads as sad music with a joyous feel, Broxton agrees.

“There’s something about being able to connect with a group of people by singing about some of

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AS MONTHS GOES ON, IT SEEMS THERE IS CONSISTENTLY EXCITING NEWS COMING THE SLEEPYHEADS’ WAY. I CHAT TO VOCALIST PAT BROXTON ABOUT THE MAGICAL YEAR THE BAND HAVE HAD, AND HOW THERE IS NO BETTER FEELING IN THE WORLD THAN SEEING PEOPLE SING THE WORDS HE WROTE.

That resonation listeners have with The Sleepyheads is more than obvious if you’ve ever experienced their live shows. And if you haven’t, now is the time. You’re surrounded by people whom are singing along to every word, or in total awe from the bands energy and sound.

There is a feeling that you’re surrounded by a crowd and band, whom in no time at all, will be skyrocketing. The look on Broxton’s face, much like the one I mentioned previously, is another testament to that, as you catch him utterly awestruck by the crowd.

“I find it hard not to smile when I’m on stage because it is definitely my favourite place to be.

It makes it hard sometimes because some of our songs have some pretty dark themes, so I try not to smile during those one,” he says.

“I think for any musician, there’s no better feeling than when someone tells you they have a genuine connection to one of your songs. When

Inspiration is sure to be ignited as the boys prep for One Night Stand, before heading out on their biggest national headline tour to date in October.

The Sleepyheads will venture around the country, including places they’ve never travelled to collectively, such as Adelaide, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Wollongong and Canberra.

“We are really excited to go and play to completely new people. We are also interested to see of the One Night Stand hype will translate to heads through the door!” Says Broxton.

“I never expected The Sleepyheads to achieve what we have achieved up to this point. Going from me opening shows acoustically and recording in my bedroom, to having two songs premiered through Triple J and touring the country multiple times. It’s insane. We have worked really hard and have had some very lucky breaks. We aren’t looking to slow down anytime soon!”

KEIRA LEONARD

See The Sleepyheads at triple J’s One Night Stand in St Helens on Saturday September 1.

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LOST FRIENDS IN ST HELENS AS PART OF TRIPLE J’S ONE NIGHT STAND SHOW, MIDDLE KIDS WILL APPEARING AT THIS YEARS SHOW IN ST HELENS. WITH THEIR INCREDIBLE DEBUT ALBUM LOST FRIENDS UNDER THEIR BELT, YOU WON’T WANNA MISS THIS SHOW. I HAD A CHAT TO HANNAH ABOUT THEIR RECENT ALBUM AND THE UPCOMING GO.

Just got back from touring the US, how was that?

It was so fun. It’s awesome. We’ve been spending a bit of time there in the last year. Its fricken huge, so we’ve been trying to do as many laps as we can.

You each come from quite diverse musical backgrounds, how did you find your style?

I think it really came around the songs, you know? Our first single ‘Edge of Town’, I actually wrote before I met the boys and it was kinda like “oh this songs cool, gotta try and find a band to play it”. I thin going forward we just all really like the kind of music were making. So then its cool because we have different influences but we kind of insert them into the song as we see fit, which is cool. I mean we like heaps of the same music, we all grew up listening to rock, which is kind of where this sits, so it makes sense.

Did you have a direction you wanted to take when creating Lost Friends or did it just happen?

Partially we were like following what we had created from the EP, but also I think we had spent a bit of time on the road by then, and realised our live sound was a bit more rock than the EP, so we tried to make it more rock. But we just love dancing and playing and singing, so we wanted to make an album we could do that to. So it’s been fun to now play it live.

Why did you guys decide to record the album yourselves?

I think partially because that’s where we started, like making songs in the basement so it felt really comfortable.

Tim is getting really good at that, so we

want to keep exploring his skills in that area. It’s also just a cool way to catch unique sounds and just random thins were doing at the house. It’s just partially what we know and also something were interested in growing in as well.

What the best and worst aspects of recording your own album?

The same thing is the best and the worst thing. Like you can just play and make a thousand different things, which is cool because you can find things that maybe you wouldn’t have, but then it also means you go into a rabbit hole and lose your mind and don’t even realise what is good anymore.

Have you guys began thinking about the next album? Or just sitting on this one for a little while?

We’re not going overseas for the next month or so, so were using this time to just play. And not necessarily with the intention of making a second album, we will obviously get there. But we just want the freedom to play and create and have fun.

What can people expect from you One Night Stand set?

Well were actually have a guest performer playing with us that will be really fun, so they can expect a guest. We also just love to dance and pay and have a good time with our audience so were just going to dance and pump out the tunes from our EP and album. Have a good time doing it.

MACKENZIE STOLP Middle Kids performs as part of triple J’s One Night Stand on Saturday September 1 in St Helens. It starts from 3.30pm and is all ages, and also drug and alcohol free. Entry is free.

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GROWING FROM THE SEEDS UP

You two are the founders of YSLA, whom are now are band of six, how did this all begin?

a great opportunity, and a similar thing, which certainly inspired the event!

Crystal: It’s hard to know isn’t it? Cause we’re probably just so used to it.

Crystal: Anna Stalked me! [laughs]

Crystal: I went through The Conservatorium doing cotemporary guitar as my main area of study. At the time it was only me and one other female doing that, you’re definitely in a bit of a man’s world as a female instrumentalist. It’s been the running theme since I started learning guitar at the age of ten. There are not as many girls doing that sort of thing. It’s really improved though, I used to teach and there were more female guitarists coming through, particular in lead guitar, which can be a bit more ‘unusual’.

Anna: That happen just being in a female in general, not necessarily because of music but I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone blatantly say ‘oh you’re just a girl’ etc. I think I’ve been fortunate in that way. We’ve definitely both experienced assumptions based on our gender! In 2010 Crystal turned up with her bass guitar, and the door people didn’t think he was even apart of the band and weren’t going to let her in to set up! They let her in when her male counterparts showed up after.

Anna: When I was doing the singer song writer bachelor, even being a singer/writer role, the majority is still everywhere you look it’s a bunch of guys! Which is fine, we’re not haters! Triple J did a write up recently about the facts and figures and it just blew my mind, how they were talking about woman and festival figures. I think a lot of men in A&R roles too. It starts with not just pointing the figure at anyone though, it’s doing it in the community and this is what we’re trying to do. In a small way, seeing how we can grow from the seeds up. Try and create more platforms for women to be seen and heard.

You go to a festival, and I for one can get sick of seeing all these men all the time!

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Anna: “I think I’d heard about you. I was at the time looking for a female artist because I wanted to start a girl band. That first band didn’t work out in the end, but that’s alright! You were traveling, and a year later I had another crack.

I’d heard so many good things I was like, aw man I gotta have her. We finally caught up and it went from there!

Crystal: We added on person at a time, which has been good!

We started with the basic, guitar and drums and we like the electronic sounds so we were like lets get a drummer to do this, or we liked the sound of the keyboard and we then needed someone to play it!

What drove you to start up She Said She Said?

Crystal: Another Crystal, Crystal Sky Campbell if you’ve heard of her, does solo stuff and has her own band; I went through The Conservatorium with her years ago… I was chatting with her at The Republic and said ‘we should do a gig with your band’ and it evolved from there! We wanted to make it into a female led, or female band, that sort of thing, to put a spotlight there. There is a lot being said about women in music, and the fact there are not a lot of women who play in bass or backline, general instrumental stuff. We wanted to highlight that.

Anna: There was a woman to the front even last year called Game Changers, we got to play to which was awesome. We got spotted there and played at Falls festival from that, that was

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WOMAN ARE STILL DANGEROUSLY UNDERESTIMATED THE MUSIC WORLD, IT’S MUSICIANS LIKE YSLA’S ANNA WILLIAMS AND CRYSTAL LIVERMORE WHO ARE DOING EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO FIGHT THAT. I CHAT WITH THE LADIES AS THEY ORGANISE THEIR NEXT SHE SAID SHE SAID GIG.

Crystal: The last time we did one in May it was a really good turnout, everyone was so supportive and fantastic quality! It’s such a nice community feeling! There are so many quality female acts in Tasmania, we wouldn’t run out for ages.

Have you guys experienced much misogyny in your music life?

Anna and Crystal say they’d love to eventually get interstate acts in the future, but right now it’s about showcasing and celebrating the phenomenal talent we have right here, and first and foremost bringing women to the front. They want more woman involved in the organisational role of the industry and are excited to be doing their bit with their second She Said She Said gig.

From the poppy, electronic and funky sounds of YSLA, whom Crystal says is heavily influenced

by Client Liaison, to the angelic sounding singersongwriter Ruby Austin-Lund. Also on the bill will be RnB/soul act Daarsya and the threepiece rock group Babylon Howl.

KEIRA LEONARD

She Said She Said will run on Friday September 7 in the Kissing Roon at The Grand Poohbah.

Books

PAIGE TURNER MANY TIMES HAVE I BEGUN THIS COLUMN WITH A BREATHY INCITEMENT TO GET SOME BOOKISH EVENTS INTO YOU. THIS MONTH YOU’LL BE STRUGGLING NOT TO – WHAT, WITH INGENIOUS AND LOVELY PEOPLE’S LIBRARY, THE TAMAR VALLEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL AND A RESOUNDING SWATHE OF OTHER EVENTS, BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH, I CHALLENGE YOU TO STAY BY THE HEARTH WITH A CAT ON YOUR LAP. You’ll also find her performing some of her own poetry – and a performance to behold it will be - I’ve had the fortune to see her perform twice before, once in Guangzhou, China and once in Singharaja, Bali, I travel for beautiful words, I really do – at The People’s Library on September 18 at 7pm. I hope she will also be delivering a workshop – check out www.transportationpress.net for more details (Transportation Press is sponsoring her visit to our island, and yep, that’s me).

Ray Glickman is in the state for the Tamar Valley Writers’ Festival and after the festival he’s travelling south to deliver, with Ian Andrew, a special workshop on democratic publishing called Publishing Power to the People. This will take place on the afternoon of September 20. This workshop will cost $30, run for three hours and cover subjects such as they lay of the land in independent (self) publishing, what the merits of independent publishing actually are, especially compared to the traditional publishing space, and it will also include a panel discussion, as well as a Q&A opportunity for participants. Drop me a line for more details.

As well as the above two celebrations of the word, which you can read more about in these pages, I am really looking forward to hearing Sholeh Wolpe (Iran/ US) discuss her translation of The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar. Originally written in Persian in the twelfth century it is considered one of Persian literature’s most celebrated masterpieces.

Rumi (who is the number one bestselling poet in the United States today, all these centuries after he first penned his earthy and ethereal beauty) believed Attar to be “the Master” of Sufi mystic poetry.

Sholeh will read from her translation and discuss the process of bringing this luminous, allegorical tale to a contemporary English translation. All this, at Fullers on September 19, 5.30pm. Make sure you drop Fullers a line to rsvp –www.fullersbookshop. com.au.

Let’s jump ahead a little to October 2 at Fullers Bookshop, when I’ll be chatting with Krissy Kneen about her new novel, Wintering. This novel takes Queensland author Kneen, who has in the past delved deep into some transgressive erotica, pushed boundaries with futuristic imaginings and smashed paradigms with sexy blue goo to the deep south of Tasmania. Krissy makes for a generous interview subject – and this book is rich pickings for an entertaining conversation.

Margaretta Pos has edited Among the Willows and Wild Things: The Fingal Valley Nature Diary of a Young Girl in the 1930s. This was written by Ann Page, Margaretta’s mother and will be launched at the Tamar Valley Writers Festival at the Tamar Valley Resort at Grindelwald, on Saturday, September 15 at 1.15pm. It is a free public event and legendary raconteur and editor of the Tasmanian Times, Lindsay Tuffin, will be doing the launching honours.

He will be in conversation with Margaretta Pos about the book. The Governor, Professor Kate Warner, has written a foreword, the preface is by Margaretta Pos, with illustrations by Sabina Gillett, who lives in Perth (Tasmania). The Hobart launch will be at the Hobart Bookshop, Salamanca Square, on Friday, September 21

ART FROM BOOKS ONE OF THE MAGICS FROM THE FOUNDERS OF THE PEOPLE’S LIBRARY, MARGARET WOODWARD AND JUSTY PHILLIPS OF A PUBLISHED EVENT, IS THAT THEY CALL THE LIBRARY A ‘CONTEMPORARY ART WORK’. AND I SUPPOSE IT IS, A BIG, BOLSHY, BEAUTIFUL, TACTILE, SPACE TAKING, MIND CONSUMING, DELIGHT EVOKING, INTELLECT CHALLENGING, LEARNING OPPORTUNITY – THAT IN ITS VERY ESSENCE IS ACTUALLY A LIBRARY – AND INDEED A LIBRARY OF THE PEOPLE.

at 6pm. It will be launched by Don Knowler. Knowler writes the weekly column, On the Wing, for the Mercury.

He is the author of The Shy Mountain, a year in the life of kunanyi/Mount Wellington and other books.

Among the Willows and Wild Things is a limited edition of 300 copies published by Forty South. It retails for $35.

Poet Jane Williams will be bringing her work to an appreciative audience alongside Susan Austin at the next Republic Readings, on Sunday, 2nd September at 3pm. This will happen at the Republic Hotel in North Hobart. It’s a free event, with a welcoming open mic.

I’m super stoked to see Robbie Arnott’s book Flames shortlisted for The Readings Prize, and it is equally lovely to see playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer win the Brotherhood of St Lawrence’s national Hope Prize for his short story ‘Like Dresses in a Tree’.

Silent Reading returns in September. In September it is coinciding Australian Reading Hour (some days I have a few of those) and is happening as part of the soon to be fabled People’s Library. For more details, check out the Island Facebook page.

You’ve read here about the progressive monthly gathering Reading For the Revolution, organised by Millie Rooney. These are now a regular instalment at 0730 on the second Tuesday of the month at the Food Store in South Hobart.

As always Fullers Bookshop is providing a buzzing space of culture, hosting book launches including Andrew L Urban’s Murder by the Prosecution on September 6, and Clementine Ford discussing her new book Boys Will Be Boys on September 27.

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If you’ve got any book news or interesting word related elements, drop me a line Racheledwards488@gmail.com.

This work is ‘made up’ of over 140 different books by Tasmanian authors, that are ‘exhibited’ in a library that is installed in the Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre between September 8-30. The art work has however, been activating for many months, indeed from its conception, which could have taken place at any time, considering the cognitive firing of this creative pair, whose recent work has often revolved around the book as a form. More often than not, books that evoke thought, engagement, or dirty fingers, as their beauty from Fall of the Derwent did, with its charcoal cover. So engaging, so tricky.

The books of The People’s Library, will each have a dedicated colour on their covers, each book a different colour – each from a beautiful and arcane colour chart, which references each shade back to the colours in nature in which it is found. This elemental response to each book’s design, somehow riffing back an ongoing project from A Published Event, Lost Rocks – where writers are matched with missing elements from a board of Tasmanian rocks and minerals they found at the Glenorchy Tip Shop.

The stories in the books in the library will take you, the readers, everywhere – from a futuristic Launceston, to a reflection on the guru Osho, to an examination of

the bridge at Ross, to memoir, to poetry, to fiction that had been labouring in the bottom draw – and beyond, way beyond.

These individual voices form another sense of this island, and also remind each author that their individual story is relevant, their voice has value. The diversity of these tomes makes for a wild cross section. The writers are teenagers, they are grandparents, they are collaborations, they are you…. And then of course they are someone else. And each of these writers, now extra validated as they have been published, will receive 5 copies of their own of these beautifully designed books. I’m yet to hold one in my hands but I know that the tactile response I will have, visually from the design, and tangibly from the quality of the materials used. The project celebrates the book as a form, and reading as art and an activity as creative as writing.

There is also a wonderful series of events that will run throughout the month of September in and around the library– and the HOB/ART Book Fair on September 21 and 22. Engage! This is a unique opportunity that warms me to the cockles of my heart.

RACHEL EDWARDS Find out more at - www.thepeopleslibrary.net.

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HEAVYHEARTED HUMOUR FIONA O’LOUGHLIN IS COMING OUR WAY TO TELL US SOME OF HER MOST MISERABLE ANECDOTES, WITH THAT BRILLIANT HUMOUR OF HERS, OF COURSE. I HAVE A QUICK CHAT WITH THE COMEDIAN ABOUT THE EVOLVING STAND UP INDUSTRY, AND THE PERKS OF WINNING I’M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE.

Firstly, what audiences can expect from Gap Year?

As always, it’s a heavily autobiographical show, so Gap Year is the telling of the worst year of my life. As the saying goes, tragedy plus time equals comedy.

What’s the best and worst thing about stand up?

The best thing about stand up is how portable it is as a craft. All I need are my stories and a place to tell them. The worst thing is how brutally immediate the feedback can be. There’s no tricks or mirrors.

How has the comedy industry changed in the last decade?

Stand up comedy is a relatively new art form, which is constantly evolving but what continually surprises me, is how supportive it is by live audiences. The world we live in today absolutely supports stand up comedy.

How about your style? Are you more or less cautious about what you say?

The older I get, the more liberating the craft feels. My audiences are getting younger and more diverse which is keeping me deliciously busy in my writing.

I think we’ve seen women comedians finally get more of a solid platform in the past few years, do you agree and if so, what do you think that’s due too?

There’s no ‘board of directors’ in the industry; so long as you consistently get funnier, it really makes no difference to audiences what sex, race, or age you are.

Make them laugh – it’s your only job.

THE TAMAR VALLEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL IT’S BOOK FESTIVAL SEASON AND ON THE MAINLAND THERE IS A RUCKUS AROUND THEM, PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN INVITED. IN FACT, A SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WROTE AN ACTUAL NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT THEIR JOURNALISTS, WHO HAD ALSO WRITTEN BOOKS AND HAD NOT BEEN INVITED. NON-NEWS REALLY, BECAUSE MOST OF THE PROGRAMS OFFER RICH PICKINGS AND TO LOOK FOR ABSENCE IS TO MISS THE WEALTH.

The Tamar Valley Writers Festival, formerly known as The Festival of Golden Words, is in its mere adolescence as a literary festival compared to some of the mainland behemoths, but following the near demise of the Tasmanian Writers Centre it is currently the only literary festival ‘proper’ on our island.

This year the festivities will be held around the resort, Grindelwald, around which the town, strangely also called Grindelwald has sprung since the Swiss Replica Village first started hitting our southern screens as ads on TVT6 – it had a heated pool AND a games room. I digress.

I love the Tamar Valley Writers Festival and am looking forward to this year’s – not just because I enjoying interviewing writers (i‘m chairing a few panels) but because it is a good spirited, entertaining and generally informative gathering – with an accessible and collapsed structure (you won’t see security whisking talent towards the green room) that offers the opportunity to meet the writers if you’re a reader, and to network if you are so inclined.

This highlights of this year’s festival for me include Shokoofeh Azar, an Australian Iranian author of the dark and magical The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, children’s author Lian Tanner whose

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Do you still think it’s a bit of a commodity? (e.g., do we still commonly see ‘women’s night’ posters, etc).

I’ve never experienced sexual discrimination in the stand up world.

Stand up requires a certain amount of arrogance and I guess blokes can be more arrogant than women. Ultimately, the power of success in stand up lies with the audience.

How’s your life changed since winning I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here?

It’s given my career an extreme make over. Speaking of which, it’s also afforded me a tummy tuck and new veneers.

What made you do it?

I couldn’t think of any good reason not to do it. A show where I just had to be myself while lying down.

Was it quite cathartic being so open with your past and present struggles to the world?

I don’t know any other way. I’ve always been a pretty open book.

What are you most looking forward to while here in Tasmania?

The scallop pies.

KEIRA LEONARD

See Fiona O’Loughlin perform at the Theatre Royal, Hobart, on Thursday September 2018.

Tickets from the theatre box office.

books are rippers for primary school age readers, and is always considered and interesting when she speaks, Katherine Johnson, into whose new novel Matryoshka I am only a few chapters into and am intrigued to find out what happens when the protagonist back to Tasmania having inherited her Russian grandmother’s cottage on the island, Adam Thompson, an emerging short story writer who someone seriously has to publish a collection of soon – he’s fearless and spellbinding – a Launceston based pakana man who tells it how it is. There are more of course, Julian Burnside, a perennial at Tasmania’s lit fests, Robbie Arnott – soon to be award winning Tasmanian novelist, I’m sure, and author of the magical Flames, James Dryburgh, possibly the best essayist on the island, Rachael Treasure, the internationally renowned ‘ruro’ (rural romance) writer who is generous and wicked in equal measures – be ready to be entranced by regenerative agriculture – who knew it could be THAT interesting?!

Anyway – this is gem of a weekend, the program is diverse and while writers’ festivals are often the domain of nice demure middle aged ladies, - um, the point I’m trying to make is – if you don’t normally come to writers’ festivals – you should come to this one – the Tamar Valley is also in a particularly gorgeous part of the world.

RACHEL EDWARDS

The Tamar Valley Writers festival runs September 14-16 at Grindelwald. More information can be found at the website - www. tamarvalleywritersfestival.com.au.

Arts

performing arts Guide

Gallery Guide South Contemporary Art Tasmania Until September 9 Exquisite Corpse Colville Gallery August 31 Jane James September 21 Jason Cordero Handmark Gallery Until September 5 New Paintings and Prints – Jennifer Marshall September 7 – October 3 New Paintings – Junko Go + Jewellery Despard Gallery Until September 16 Have One On Me – Sam Field September 19 – October 14 A Joint Exhibition - Lisa Garland and Lucia Usmiani Bett Gallery Until September 15 Patrick Grieve September 21 – October 13 Nathan Taylor September 21 – October 13 Mish Meijers Salamanca Arts Centre Top Gallery September 1 – September 30 Self-Dissolve:Reiteration – Dexter Rosengrave Studio Gallery September 3 – September 29 Harmony and Balance – Eun Ju Cho

Mona From June 2018 The Inward Eye - Jane Baker From June 2018 ZERO Until October 15 The Unmanned (part 1) – Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni

NORTH Burnie Arts & Function Centre Until September 20 ArtRage 2017 Collection Until September 20 Primary Kaleidoscope Devonport Regional Gallery Until September 30 From Here to There Until September 30 Mersey Bluff: The Marks That Make The Place – Kelly Slater

SOUTH COMEDY The Polish Corner September 5 Evan Hocking September 12 Alex Ward September 19 Xavier Michelides September 26 Richard Stubbs Theatre Royal September 8 Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase September 20 Fiona O’Loughlin – Gap Year

The Founders Room September 29 – September 30 No Regrets: The Edith Piaf Story Peacock Theatre September 1 Talking Heads Retrospective – Dominic College Creative Arts Festival 2018

NORTH COMEDY The Royal Oak September 21 Fresh Comedy with Becky Lucas

Gallery Pejean Until September 15 Same Ocean – Robyn Harman September 17 – October 13 Petals, leaves and dust – Susan Doust

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre September 21 Jimeoin – The Ridiculous

Handmark Evandale Until September 13 New Paintings – Carmel Dilger September 16 – October 11 New Paintings – Jeff Gatt

Hobart Brewing Co September 20 The Clubhouse with Becky Lucas

Princess Theatre September 21 Fiona O’Loughlin: Gap Year

Brisbane Hotel September 27 C.U.L.T. Comedy

Devonport Entgertainment & Convention Centre September 23 Jimeoin

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QVMAG From September 22 Australian Lace Guild Triennial Award disply Until November 11 Disappearing into Being – Robyn McKinnon Until February 3 Material Memories – group exhibition Until October 7 Landmarks – Ilona Schnewider

Pancho Villa September 4 Side Splitting Comedy #11: Brodi Lucas

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery September 7 – September 22 Hamlet Theatre Royal August 30 – September 1 Cockfight September 14 – September 15 Madame Butterfly September 21 Lennon: Through a Glass Onion September 28 – September 29 A Russian Triple Bill

Kingsway Bar September 26 Kingsway Comedy with Nick Capper

Albert Hall September 26 – September 27 Singfest Princess Theatre September 6 – September 8 ESC. September 18 Madame Butterfly September 26 A Russian Triple Bill Burnie Arts and Function Centre Until September 8 The Boy From Oz September 12 Madame Butterfly September 26 Big Bad Wolf

Moonah Arts Centre September 20 Quiver – Karen Lyttle September 20 Beyond the Field (Still) September 20 Nature’s Rock Stars – Peter Angus Robinson TMAG Until March 3 The Mission – Michael Cook Until November 11 Thomas Bock Until November 11 The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Date

Acts / Start Time

SEPtEMBER Saturday

Sunday

1

2

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

3 4

5

6

7

The Bootleg Gin Sluggers 9pm

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe / Dean Stevenson 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Sam Scholfield 6pm

Bar Celona

Tom Booth 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim Rozemulder 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Isaac Westwood 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Nice Pie + Radio Silence + The Venus Figurines + Jackson Simpson

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar – 3LD + Unpossible Sour Shapes + Overlook

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Brisbane Hotel

Federation Concert Hall

French Impressions 7:30pm

Front Bar – Philomath + Polymantra, After the bands, GARAGELAND w/ DJ Tex Napalm

Grand Poobah

Sideways in the City

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Jack Greene

Tony & John

Granada Tavern

Neil Diamond – Tribute Show

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Grand Poobah

Demuja

Onyx Bar

SupaNova 10:15pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams

Joshua Dunn Trio (NYC), Al Dobson Quartet

MONA

As The Crow Flies

Post Street Social

Tim Hibberd

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar

Sugartrain

Post Street Social

Tony Mak

Telegraph Hotel

Got Your Six

Regines

SupaNova 9pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Amy & Sean 6pm

Republic Bar

Vice Captains

The Whaler

Dean Stevenson 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

Got Your Six

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Johnny Cash The Concert

The Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan Warwarek 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Pepper Jane 6pm

The Homestead

Spiral Kites, Moonglue, Tarik Stoneman 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Slimmer Pickins 4pm

The Whaler

Billy Whitton and The Swingcats 9pm

Brighton Bowls and Community Club

Neil Diamond – Tribute Show

Birdcage Bar

Liv & Lachlan 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Gerry Balding 4pm

Brissie Bingo

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Jack Greene

Isaac Westwood

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Longley International Hotel

Mike Noga

Republic Bar

Calhuons - 2.30pm / Wahbash Avenue - 8.30pm

Sunday

9

Monday

10

Republic Bar

Quiz Night

Tuesday

11

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Grand Poobah

Tasmanian Rock Challenge – Southern Heat

Republic Bar

Billy Whitton

The Duke

Audition Jam 7:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Bar Celona

Gabriele Dagrezio 7pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Cafe Choir with Annie Woolley 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Prism w/ Yoni and The Steamers + Samara Cullen + Cool Beanz

Irish Murphy’s

Hui & The Muse 9pm

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar

Rhyley McGrath

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex Followed by DJ Nik

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton and Jamie Taylor 7pm

The Duke

Duke Trivia 7:30pm

The Homestead

Tim & Scott 7:30pm

Bar Celona

Henry Rippon 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy Whitton Duo 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy – Katie Wilson, Lasca Dry, Zac Henderson 8pm

Post Street Social

You Me & The Sea

Republic Bar

Moonlover (aka Quang Dinh)

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

The Mt Wellington Porch Pickers 1pm

MONA

Queens of the Stone Age

Republic Bar

Layal

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Derwent Ent. Centre

Queens of the Stone Age

Sush Track

Montz Matsumoto

Republic Bar

GB Balding

The Duke

Hobart Blues Club – Billy Warner Trio 7:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Bar Celona

Karly Fisher 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Prism w/ The Sign

Irish Murphy’s

No Felix 9pm

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams

Jazz Jam

Republic Bar

Julian James

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex Followed by DJ Nik

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 7pm

The Duke

Duke Trivia 7:30pm

The Homestead

M.T. Blues Music 7:30pm

Republic Bar

Sailor Jerry Party

Birdcage Bar

Anita Cairns Duo 8:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Isaac Westwood 6:30pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Unlocked – Open Mic Night 6pm

The Duke

Jay Jarome 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & The Great Muldavio 9pm

The Homestead

The White Tree Project 7:30pm

Bar Celona

Dan Vandermeer 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Rum Jungle 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Patron Saints 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar – The Ascended (Vic) + Plague of Sickness + Break Through + Scoparia + Eloraline

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar – The Pits + Lyrebirds + The Silverbeets

Noteworthy – Nick Machin, Majella Eales, Tarik Stoneman 8pm

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

12

13

14

Republic Bar

Billy Warner Trio

The Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 6:30pm

The Den

Finn Seccombe 7pm

The Duke

Jay Jarome 7:30pm

The Homestead

Rhyley McGrath 7:30pm

The Odeon Theatre

The Cat Empire

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Bar Celona

Dave West 7pm

Central Hotel

Bridget Pross 8:30pm

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Grand Poobah

Issue Concert: Aid for Africa

Peter Hicks and the Blues Licks 6pm

Grand Poobah

The Coven in The Kissing Room

Unsanitary Napkins (NZ) + Feed Rich, Ironhawk + Smooth For Radio

Irish Murphy’s

Nevermind the Grunge (Nirvana Cover Band)

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Central Hotel

Sambo 4pm

Republic Bar

Nothin’ But A Glam Time

Grand Poobah

She Said, She Said

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Black Swans of Trespass 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

The New Town Hounds, Last Years Address & The Developers

Telegraph Hotel

33 Seconds

The Ray Martians – Close Between The Syllables – Album Launch

T-Bone Brewery

Tim & Scott

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 6pm

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm

The Homestead

Craicpot 9pm

The Whaler

Zac Henderson / Yesterday’s Gentlemen 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Origami Island (4 Piece) 6pm

Bar Celona

Jonathan Warwarek 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Birdcage Bar Bright Eyes Cafe Brisbane Hotel

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The Homestead

Isaac Westwood 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

Friday

8

Acts / Start Time The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm

Bar Celona

Brisbane Hotel

Monday

Saturday

Venue The Duke

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Post Street Social

Tim Hibberd

Republic Bar

The Audreys

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Tash Zappala 7:30pm

T-Bone Brewery

Alf & Ant plus Tim Roze

Telegraph Hotel

33 Seconds

The Brunswick Hotel

Tim Davies 6pm

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Event Guide

Date

Sunday

16

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES – CC Rocks

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar – 208 Litre Containers + Bert Shirt

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Grand Poobah

Venue

Acts / Start Time

The Whaler

The Bootleg Gin Sluggers 9pm

Wrest Point Showroom

A Taste of Ireland

Birdcage Bar

Jane & Harry 6pm

Wobbly Gherka Presents: The Proggly Dherka!

Bright Eyes Cafe

Jacob Boote 4pm

Jack Greene

Tony & John

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Onyx Bar

SupaNova 10:15pm

Longley International Hotel

The Bad Dad Orchestra & The Sheyana Band

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

Post Street Social

You Me & The Sea

Republic Bar

HFC

Republic Bar

The Brunswick Hotel

Dave West 6pm

Big Small Band - 2.30pm / Sean McMahon 8.30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Purple Sneakers DJs Next Gen Tour

Brisbane Hotel

The Whaler

Dean Stevenson 9pm

The Black Dahlia Murder (USA) + Aborted (Bel) + Zeolite + Scoparia

Wrest Point Showroom

Roy Orbison Reborn

Republic Bar

Quiz Night

Birdcage Bar

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Peter Hicks 4pm

Republic Bar

Finn Seccombe

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

The Duke

Local Act 7:30pm

Jack Greene

Isaac Westwood

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Post Street Social

Tim & Scott

Bar Celona

Karly Fisher 7pm

Republic Bar

Blues Jam - 2.30pm / Tim & Scott - 8.30pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Cafe Choir with Annie Woolley 7pm

Richmond Arms

M.T. Blues Music 1:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Prism – TBA

Irish Murphy’s

Mayhem & Me 9pm

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex Followed by DJ Nik

The Brunswick Hotel

Isaac Westwood 7pm

The Duke

Duke Trivia 7:30pm

The Homestead

Nadira & Friends 7:30pm

Bar Celona

Tash Zappala 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Dan Vandermeer 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy – David McEldowney, Tim Chivers, BALTIMORE 8pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton and Jamie Taylor 6:30pm

The Duke

Jay Jarome 7:30pm

The Homestead

Helen Ashworth 7:30pm

Bar Celona

Cam Stuart 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Jimi 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Coyote Serenade 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Terrorbrawl (Album Launch) + Ultra Martian (EP Launch) + Lake Myer + Tarraleah Power Station (EP Launch)

Monday

17

Republic Bar

Montz Matsumoto

Tuesday

18

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar

Ross Sermons

The Duke

Jazz Jam 7:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Bar Celona

Cam Stuart 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Prism w/ The Boners + Tim Blizzard Explosion + DJ Jigglypuff

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

19

20

21

22

Date

Sunday

23

Monday

24

Tuesday

25

Wednesday

Thursday

26

27

Irish Murphy’s

Nice Pie 9pm

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Republic Bar

Polymantra

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex Followed by DJ Nik

The Brunswick Hotel

Karly Fisher 7pm

The Duke

Duke Trivia 7:30pm

The Homestead

The Countershine Trio 7:30pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Matthew Ives and his Big Band

Birdcage Bar

Bridget Pross 8:30pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Unlocked – Open Mic Night 6pm

Noteworthy

Noteworthy – Eve Gowen, Helen Ashworth, Jackson & Alexandra 8pm

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Republic Bar

Brett Collidge

Central Hotel

M.T. Blues Music 4pm

The Den

Billy Whitton and Jamie Taylor 7pm

Federation Concert Hall

Katie Noonan’s Elixir Gratitude & Grief 7:30pm

The Duke

Jay Jarome 7:30pm

Jack Greene

Gabriele

The Homestead

Little Green 7:30pm

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Bar Celona

Karly Fisher 7pm

Post Street Social

Tim Hibberd

Birdcage Bar

Neon Acoustic 9pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Patrick Berechree 7:30pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Moonshine Whiskers 6pm

T-Bone Brewery

Hugh Foley (Foley Brohers)

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES – Lewis Spears (Vic) 7pm

Telegraph Hotel

Entropy

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar – Ruiner & The Threshold Forms

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar – Teddy Picker w/ DJ Britt in Boots

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

The Homestead

Whitebear (EP Launch Aus Tour) + Shearwater + Piglet + More TBA 9:30pm

Central Hotel

Hannah May 4pm

The Whaler

Dylan Eynon / Yesterday’s Gentlemen 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

The Venus Figurines, Valium, Tidas and Valkyries

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Bowen May Kingston (Jazz Trio) 6pm

Bar Celona

Jonathan Warwarek 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Jimi 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar – School Damage (Vic) + Smooth For Radio

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar – Slag Queens + Mum and Dad + Just Jesus + DJ’s

Friday

Saturday

28

29

Huonville Town Hall

TSO Live Sessions 7pm

Jack Greene

Tony & John

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Jonathan Warwarek 7:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Got Your Six

Cargo

DJ Rikin

T-Bone Brewery

Sam Scholfield

Grand Poobah

John Dimas

The Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer 6pm

Hobart Town Hall

Borodin String Quartet

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke 8pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

The Homestead

Vanguard Jazz 9pm

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe / Dean Stevenson 7:30pm

Onyx Bar

Matt Edmunds, SupaNova 6pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Moonlover (aka Quang Dinh) 6pm

Post Street Social

Tony Mak

Bar Celona

Dave West 7pm

Republic Bar

The Outfit

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

33 Seconds

METAL UNITED DOWN UNDER w/ Interitum + Nosce Teipsum + Lacerta + Lab A + Satanicus + Minds in Motion + Perceptions + Vice

The Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart 6pm

The Homestead

The Evan Carydakis Trio 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke

The Whaler

Dean Stevenson 9pm

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

ABBAsolutely Fabulous

Granada Tavern

Jon Stevens – “The Best Of” Tour

Birdcage Bar

The Incidentalists 6pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Bright Eyes Cafe

Ross Sermons and Louise Bell 4pm

Observatory Bar

DJ B-Rex

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Onyx Bar

SupaNova 10:15pm

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Post Street Social

Tim Hibberd

Longley International Hotel

Chester Draws & The Lowboys

St David’s Cathedral

TSO Brass 7:30pm

Republic Bar

120Ys - 2.30pm / Blues Flies - 8.30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Serotonin

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

The Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 6pm

Waterfront Hotel

M.T. Blues Music 2:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Tumbleweed

Brisbane Hotel

Sunday

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Event Guide

Launceston / NORTH WEST Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Country Club

Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie’s ‘Skyhooks’ and Richard Gower’s Racey

MODE Bar & Niteclub

Mode Presents LOCKDOWN

Olde Tudor Hotel

Scott Lewis Live

Royal Oak

Julian James

The Greenwood Bar

Good Vibes Only

SEPTEMBER Saturday

1

Sunday

2

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session (5pm)

Wednesday

5

Royal Oak

Danny Kealley

Thursday

6

Albert Hall

Schubert & Strauss 7:30pm

Royal Oak

Matthew Dames

Junction Arts Fountain Bar

Isla Ka, Cotton Pony, Promise, TBA 7pm

Burnie Arts & Function Centre

Virtuosi Tasmania

Gnomon Room

Eliza Bird and Isaac Gee Band 5:30pm

Junction Arts Fountain Bar

Heart Beach, The Saxons, Lazer Baby, The Bad Dad Orchestra 7pm

Royal Oak

Gabriele Dagrezio

The Greenwood Bar

The Smokin Elmores and Guests

Bakers Lane

Ellie Couch Music

Club 54

Mashd N Kutcher

Gnomon Room

Elio Villafranca 7:30pm

Junction Arts Fountain Bar

The Embers, TBA, MMT, Big Money Gino, Boil Up 5:30pm

Kingsway Bar

Susannah Coleman-Brown

The Greenwood Bar

Psychosis presents: Megapixels + Locals

The Saloon Bar

The Audreys

The Irish

Live and Acoustic at The Irish!

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session (5pm)

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: Seth Henderson, Angus Austin

Royal Oak

Heath Hodgetts

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

7

8

9

12

13

14

15

The Saloon Bar

Tasmanian Rock Challenge – Northern Heat

Royal Oak

Geoff Achison

Country Club

Roy Orbison Reborn

Gnomon Room

Mitchell Broomhall and Grace Maher with Next Please 5:30pm

Royal Oak

Vice & supports

The Greenwood Bar

Minimal Invasion

The Greenwood Bar

Heavy in Tassie Weekender

Royal Oak

Bansheeland + Cotton Pony

Design Tasmania

MOFO Sessions

Sunday

16

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session (5pm)

Tuesday

18

R0

Slam Duggery

Wednesday

19

Burnie Arts & Function Centre

A Taste of Ireland

Thursday

20

Devonport Entertainment Centre

A Taste of Ireland

Royal Oak

Danny Kealley

The Saloon Bar

Tasmanian Rock Challenge Final

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

21

22

23

Gnomon Room

5 O’Clock Somewhere and Right On Cue 5:30pm

Royal Oak

Denni Sulzberger

Royal Oak

Fresh Comedy in the Boatshed - Beccy Lucas + Ian McCarthy

The Saloon Bar

Jon Stevens

Devonport Entertainment Centre

Lennon: Through a Glass Onion

Iron Horse Bar & Grill

Fast Train Rocks The Horse

Country Club

Lennon: Through a Glass Onion

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session (5pm)

Tuesday

25

Royal Oak

Launceston Jazz Club (Boatshed)

Wednesday

26

Royal Oak

Open Mic Night

Thursday

27

Royal Oak

Jacob Boote + Georgia

Friday

28

Saturday

Sunday

29

30

Country Club

ABBAsolutely Fabulous

Gnomon Room

Georgina Harvey and the Jazz Boiz 5:30pm

Royal Oak

Mick Attard

The Greenwood Bar

Miicha Invades Greenwood

The Greenwood Bar

The Smokin Elmores and Guests

Royal Oak

Wanderer

Cinco Passiones

Singco @ Cinco

Royal Oak

Blues Jam Session (1pm) Open Folk Session (5pm)

SEPTEMBER Sat 1st Julian James Fri 2nd Open Folk Session (5pm) Wed 5th Danny Tealley Thur 6th Matthew Dames Fri 7th Gabriele Dagrezio Sat 8th TBA Sun 9th Open Folk Session (5pm) Wed 12th Heath Hodgetts Thur 13th Geoff Achison Fri 14th Vice + Supports Sat 15th Bansheeland + Cotton Pony Sun 16th Open Folk Session (5pm) Tue 18th Slam Duggery Wed 19th TBA Thur 20th Danny Kealley Fri 21st Denni Sulzberger Fri 21st Fresh Comedy in the Boatshed - Beccy Lucas + Ian McCarthy Sat 22nd TBA Sun 23rd Open Folk Session (5pm) Tue 25th Launceston Jazz Club (Boatshed) Wed 26th Open Mic Night Thur 27th Jacob Boote + Georgia Fri 28th Mick Attard Sat 29th Wanderer Sun 30th Blues Jam Session (1pm) Open Folk Session (5pm)

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