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January Dog trumpet $20pre/$25door 10pm Friday 2nd That 80s Band 10pm Saturday 3rd Mama K And The Big Love 2.30pm Wahbash Ave 8.30pm Sunday 4th Rach & Damo 8.30pm Monday 5th Billy Whitton Tuesday 6th Billy Longo 8.30pm Wednesday 7th Reggae Inc 9pm Thursday 8th Krafty Kuts + Mc Dynamite $25pre/$30door 10pm Friday 9th Jed Appleton UK Trip Fundraiser with Guests $10 10pm Saturday 10th Sunday Afternoon Soul Sessions (Beergarden) 2:30pm Sun 11th Yesterday Gentlemen 8:30pm Sun 11th Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm Sunday 11th G.B. Balding (Finger Picking Blues) 8:30pm Monday 12th Anita & Simon 8:30pm Tuesday 13th Daniel Champagne $15 9pm Wednesday 14th Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm Thursday 15th Boil Up (Reggae) $5 10pm Friday 16th Road kill + Mountains Of Madness + James Masser 10pm Saturday 17th Ross Sermon 8:30pm Sunday 18th
Helen Crowther 8.30pm Monday 19th The Sign 8.30pm Tuesday 20th Alanna Eileen 8.30pm Wed 21st 4 Letter Fish 9pm Thursday 22nd The Mornings + Bully Hay Band + Leo Creighton Trio $8 Friday 23rd Tex Perkins & Charlie Owens $30pre/$35door 10pm Sat 24th Beer Garden Party - Free Lamb On The Spit and Live Music, All Welcome 2.30pm The Darlings 9pm Sunday 25th Ross Sermon 8.30pm Tuesday 27th Bobats 9pm Wednesday 28th Brad Gillies 8.30pm Thursday 29th Sugartrain $5 10pm Friday 30th Hobart Funk Collective 10pm Saturday 31st PLUS Jeff Lang Sunday Feb 15th J Mascis Sunday Feb 15th Seth Sentry Saturday Feb 28th
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deliciously sloppy and totally infectious. Turns out, that’s a winning combination, and The Coathangers have become a force to be reckoned with. They’ve just released their most well-recorded and well-written album to date (via Australia’s own “Smack Face Records”), Suck My Shirt teems with both force and emotional depth as they spit out a venomous, garagey brand of punk rock’n’roll. The Coathangers will be playing at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Saturday January 17.
Mongolian Horse Fiddle meets and Oud in the unique fusion of galloping Mongolian rhythms, and sparkling harmonic singing that is, Horse & Wood. Their recent project combines the sounds of the Mongolian Horse Fiddle and harmonic throat singing from Bukhchuluun Ganburged with the classic Arabian textures of John Robinson’s Oud. First conceived at Woodford Folk Festival in 10/11, the duo are setting out on their Tasmanian launch tour in January. You’ll be able to catch them at MONA on Friday January 9 (free 1pm show!), Little Asia Restaurant in Devonport on Saturday January 10 (7:30pm), Little Asia Restaurant again on Sunday January 11 (11am gig), and later that same day at the Homestead in Hobart (6:30pm kick off).
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Lush, pastoral sounds adorned with strings, woodwind and modal harmonies, Laura Jean alternates between startlingly honest portraits of domestic life, and more allegorical tales of a dream world as the focus of songs. Laura plays on the MONA lawns on January 24 and 25, with an evening show at The Homestead on January 24. All shows are free entry.
Anybody who flicked past the cover of this edition would notice there’s an advert for the Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow Renegades of Rhythm show at the Odeon Theatre on Sunday March 8. We at Warp have two double passes to give away on Monday January 12. Hop onto www.facebook.com/ warp.mag for your chance to score a pair.
SKREECHTRAMPS were formed in Hobart way back in 1998, but in January, they’ll be playing their first gig since 2000. The unique folk/punk duo established a firm reputation on our island as something very special. With a distinct raw, bittersweet sound and some amazing Irish trad style harmonica playing, SKREECHTRAMPS bridge the gap between the folk scene and a more alternative underground sound. Singing original songs of convict history, apple picking, the Bass Strait Islands, love and the hard life of travellers and tramps, the group connects to a wide range of the public both young and old. You can catch SKREECHTRAMPS at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Sunday January 25.
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GOOCHY GOOCHY GOO The Gooch Palms sounds like one of those ye olde timey maladies that one would get from doing less than respectable things. But it isn’t. Is It? I guess it might be. “Woe is me, I appear to have come down with a case of the gooch palms”. Anyway, that was ye old timeys and now is ye now timeys. In ye now timeys, The Gooch Palms are something you actually do want to catch! Oh how times have changed. You’ll only get one opportunity in 2015 to witness the Novacastrian gnarliness that is The Gooch Palms. They’re only touring Australia once before they head off the the U.S. to record their second album. If you’d like to find out what The Gooch Palms look and feel like, head along to the Brisbane Hotel on Thursday February 5. CJ IS BACK!
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village called The Ramonesville. He fit in nicely in The Ramonesville, he loved it there. He settled down, solved all the town’s problems, and help it thrive for the rest of it’s years. The end. Since that faithful day, our hero has gone on to found his own town, along with guitarists Steve Soto and Dan Root, and drummer Pete Soso. Our hero’s name is CJ Ramone, and he is uprooting his new village and taking it around the globe. You can visit his village at The Brisbane Hotel on Sunday February 8.
The Vanns will be driving all around Tasmania in February. Hopefully these Vanns won’t be anything like those freaken’ awful Wicked Campers vans. In fact, they definitely won’t be. Because they’re a band. Not actually vehicles. Boom. Anyway, they’ve just announced their latest single “Operator” and wrapped up a lightning East Coast tour, so now they’re setting out on a much larger, 18 date tour. They’ve called it the “Scattered by Sundown” tour, and 3 of it’s stops are in Tasmania. On Friday February 13 they’ll be playing a free gig at The Otis Room in Burnie. On Saturday February 14 they’ll be at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart, and on Thursday February 26, they’ll be back in the north of the state, playing at the Royal Oak Hotel in Launceston. SUNNY SUMMER VERSUS DARK DARK WINTER
Waaaaay back in the days of yore, long before most of the people reading this were born (1989), there lived a bassist. This bassist was a man of legend, of great mastery and skill. Once upon a time, our hero rode into a popular but very troubled
Infectious and cathartic female punk group, The Coathangers are bringing their raucous and electrifying live shows to Australia this January. Like so many bands these days, The Coathangers started as a joke band. Completely unaffected, unpretentious,
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Last we saw Jeff was during the shadowy gloom of the Dark Mofo Festival. This time it’s all about happy happy or in this case, Jeff’s version of happy happy (see the cover of his latest album, which has 6 foot bunnies on it). Anyway he is playing two Tasmanian shows this time, starting in Devonport at Red Hot Music on Saturday Feb 14, followed by an afternoon show at The Republic Bar on the Sunday.
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released Her Kiss EP. Their blistering live show, accompanied by their intelligent and emotive songs set Lepers & Crooks apart and win them new fans whenever and wherever they are seen or heard. Tasmania gets three opportunities to both see AND hear them on this tour. On Thursday February 19 they’ll be at The Royal Oak Hotel in Launceston, on Friday February 20 they’ll be at The Homestead in Hobart, and on Saturday February 21, they’ll be playing Party in the Paddock. INTO THE HOT TUB
The globetrotting electronic soldiers, the Stanton Warriors will be decending on Hobart on Sunday February 15 to play a day/evening party at Apartment 808 on Murray St. Enjoy the Summer vibes before they wane and you become all vitamin D deficient from lack of sunlight. Tickets available via www.moshtix.com.au and Ruffcut.
and food fights and creepily stalking café waitresses and Jimmy Kimmel. MUSIC FESTIVAL #7054 Just when you think there isn’t possibly enough days on the calendar to fit in another music/arts festival, along comes Electrona7054! Taking place over three days (Feb 27 - March 1) in three venues, the brand spanking new festival will showcase the likes of Angus Webb, Close Counters, Kowl, Mathew Carey, Nadege, PhilippeJanon, Orlando Furious, Rainbow Chan, Red Mum, The Townhouses, Tiger Choir, Sarah Jones, and many more. Full line up hadn’t been announced at the time we went to print, but it has been now, so head over to electrona7054.com and cop the deets. Tickets should be available for purchase by now too, so why not scoop up a couple?
Touring nationally in support of their latest release, the captivating self-titled third album, Angus & Julia Stone, the Summer adventure follows their recent sold-out Australian album tour, and sees Angus & Julia Stone heading to capital cities and regional areas, performing at some of Australia’s finest and most iconic venues. The Odeon Theatre in Hobart is one of those iconic venues that has recently returned to being flavour of the month for those looking for somewhere bigger than a standard pub, but not as big as the DEC. And rightly so, The Odeon is awesome, it‘s a welcome addition. Angus & Julia Stone are ending their tour there on Saturday February 28, because they’d pack out a bar, but probably not quite fill the DEC. Head along and see a great band in a great venue. SWAMP FOX BLUES
KINGSWOOD’S COUNTRY Hot Dub Time Machine is taking his BEST PARTY EVER to Launceston in February. So after you have slid down the 325m long waterslide on the streets of Launceston during the day, you can jump into some Hot Dub action at Hotel Tasmania. Support from DJ Dameza and guests. All up makes it for a hot wet long day on Saturday February 21.Tickets from www.tixtas.com. au.
LEPERS & CROOKS = MUSICIANS?
HOVERBOARDS ARE REAL NOW, SETH.
With their signature rock’n’roll swagger and unstoppable quest for greatness, ARIA nominees, Kingswood were never going to be content staying home for the summer. So they’ve gone ahead and announced a huge nation-wide tour, from iconic capital city venues to taverns off the beaten track. There’s been nothing small about the Melbourne band since their inception, and certainly not since their debut album Microscopic Wars was released earlier this year. As part of the Microscopic Wars National Tour, they’ll be making one stop in Tasmania, playing at the Hellenic Hall in Hobart on Friday February 27. Tickets available online via oztix. ROMANCING THE STONES
Following their highly successful recent 30 date RAW Tour across Australia, one of the hardest working rock bands in Australia - Lepers & Crooks are heading out on the road once again. This time on a very ambitious 50+ date (25,000km) tour of the country, to support their newly
Old mate Seth Sentry is hitting the road again. I’ve only met Seth Sentry once, but he just seems like the kind of dude that every single person in Australia could easily refer to as “old mate” and it wouldn’t feel weird or seem out of place at all. Anyway, he has a new single out, called “Run”, which uses the same sample that People Under the Stairs famously used on “San Francisco Knights”. But you wouldn’t remember that. The Run Tour hit’s the Republic Bar and Café in Hobart on Saturday February 28. You should go along and quiz him about hover boards
The Swamp Fox, Tony Joe White, is a bona fide legend of the music game that has been honing his craft for the best part of 50 years, and it will be on display once more as he returns to Australia for an 18 date tour that will see him play shows all around the country. The part-Cherokee musician was brought up as part of a big brood on a cotton farm in Louisiana, and raised on a diet of Lightnin’ Hopkins and local bluesmen, an upbringing that is reflected in his evocative, haunting music. Tasmania only gets one chance to catch the Swamp Fox, and that’s at the Forth Valley Blues Festival at Devonport on Saturday March 21, 2015.
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FREAKING AWESOME FRIKSTAILERS, (PRONOUNCED FREAK-STYLERS), AKA RAFA CAIVANO AND LISANDRO SONA, AKA “THE INDISPUTABLE GALACTIC EMPERORS OF THE TROPICAL FUTURE” PLAN ON TAKING YOU ON A MUSICAL JOURNEY AROUND SOUTH AMERICA AT FAUX MO THIS YEAR.
The Argentinian natives, now based in Mexico, came from the Buenos Aires electronic cumbia scene that flourished in the mid-2000s. “It’s underground but it’s big”, says Rafa. “There are some regular parties going on and many new producers coming up every year, not only in Buenos Aires, but also in the rest of Argentina and other Latin American countries”. The Frikstailers released their EP Crop Circles this year, a hybrid of cumbia, hip hop, funk, house electro and techno. The EP follows their 2013 release En Son De Paz, which was named one of the top ten albums of Latin indie music last year.
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It was traditionally a courtship dance among the African population, but nowadays it’s all over Latin America and lots of regions have contributed to the evolution of electronic cumbia. Rafa says that touring in Latin American countries has influenced the Frikstailers’ music. “Everyday little things, like listening to their music, eating their food and talking to their people” have all seeped into their sound. Cumbia music has long-since been considered ‘poor people music’, something you might here coming out of the slums of Buenos Aires or anywhere else in Latin America.
“Crop Circles is an EP with six very different tracks”, says Rafa. “The music travels through Amazonic drums, German sounds, outer-space details and lots of tropical madness”.
Rafa says that that’s no longer the case, at least in Buenos Aires. “Everybody dances to cumbia now, it’s a genre of music that unifies social classes”. “On the other hand, in Mexico for example, where the social class division is bigger, that notion of ‘music for poor people’ is more present”.
Cumbia music originated in Colombia and is a hybrid spawned by the influences of native Colombians, Panamanians, African slaves, and Spanish colonisation.
Crop Circles is a sample of a sound that the Frikstailers having been exploring for the last year, and they’ve begun thinking about new side projects.
“We’ve been touring so much in the last 6 months that we didn’t have any time to sit down in the studio and think about it. But, we’ve been working on a new side project which started in a show we played at Mexico’s Mutek MX festival. It’s called “Klik and Frik” and we’re planning to play a secret show sometime in the tour”. Meanwhile, Rafa and Lisandro have planned their performance for Faux Mo. “We have our light glasses, our wigs and our shirts ready”. “Well, the idea is to take the audience into several landscapes of Latin America. There will be a big sense of futurism and fun”. “So, we expect to see people dancing and having a nice trip at the same time”. Join Frikstailers in the festivities of the opening night of the four day MONA FOMA festival as they keep the dance floor grooving at the festival afterparty club, FAUX MO, in the Odeon Theatre Precinct on Liverpool St. The sounds of cumbia plus so much more will take you all the way through to sunrise. EMMA LUIMES
Frikstailers perform as part of the opening night of Faux Mo on Thursday January 15 at the Odeon Theatre. See the full lineup for Faux Mo plus ticket sales at www. mofo.net.au/program/faux-mo.
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CHUPACABRA ON CHUPACABRA
What was the last row you had as a band and what was it over? Elias and Maggie fight like cats and dogs because they are unrelated brother and sister and live together. The last serious argument in the band was about the best hot sauce at The Winston. The only way to resolve it was to try all of them with a bowl of chips. Ring sting...
LOCAL BAND CHUPACABRA HAVE BEEN GETTING BUSY IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS IN PREPARATION FOR THEIR EP LAUNCH THIS JANUARY AND A FLUTTERING OF SHOWS. WE DECIDED TO LET THEM INTERVIEW How would you describe the process of recording your first EP? THEMSELVES FOR SOME INTIMATE DETAILS THAT ONLY MEMBERS OF THE BAND WOULD KNOW… Chupacabra is a weird name, where did that come from? The Chupacabra is a mythical animal from Central America that preys on livestock and sucks their blood. We were sitting having dinner trying to brainstorm a name for the group when Jim, our trumpet player, mentioned Chupacabra after seeing an old episode from the X-Files. It was the only word he knew in Spanish. How did you guys all meet? Most of us were studying at the Conservatorium last year and we started jamming Latin music just for fun. From there we decided to add more vocals and trumpet and invited Jim and Violeta to play with us. Pretty soon we realised we were onto a good thing, and started the long process of getting originals together. Four words to describe what you do: Rum. Cigars. Dancing. Trumpet. What’s the band’s guilty pleasure? A large dead animal roast over a fire and a big pot rice... and some rum. We are easily please when there is food and rum involved, generally we are happy. When you’re playing gigs, what’s the most important thing to you all? First things first, having a good time with the cumbia family. We believe that if we are having
fun on stage then it should be contagious. So far it’s worked. We try to create the same party atmosphere for every gig. If we haven’t got people dancing than we haven’t done our job right. Which groups tickle your pickle? We get tickled a lot. Chico Trujillo is a Chilean based cumbia group, we cover a few of their arrangements of classic cumbias. We also listen to heaps of cumbias from the sixties which have a sound we’d love to echo. The folkloric music from the Caribbean coast in Colombia is AMAZING! Its percussion based and uses two flutes and singing/ yelling, we’ve written our own version of this from the coast of Tasmania. We also love the new sounds of Bareto, Manu Chao, Calle 13, Systema Solar and Ozomatli. Where is the house of fun? Where do you guys make noise and rehearse? Elias and Maggie live together in a huge share house with two understanding housemates. We often rehearse in the garden or on the front porch. Rehearsals always ends with dinner, mostly beans and rice, and scheming fancy tours to Mexico. What’s the bands pre-gig ceremony? Ryan, our bass player, is the king of the spaghetti dance. Usually he’ll start it off and we all fall into his trap of spaghetti dancing and eyeballing each other. Alternatively, the boys have a boys club while the girls victory roll their hair. Generally there’s cigar smoke in the air and no one stands up to quickly.
Epic. Luckily we were in the large safe warm hands of Ivan Johnston. We took over his studio above Frankie’s Empire and spent about three months recording and tweaking. It was heaps of fun having a reason to play music all day and hang out with Ivan all night. Lots of beer was consumed. We’re really happy with how it turned out. Describe the ideal setting to listen to Chupacabra. A campervan by the beach miraculously full of all your favourite people. Several bottles of Cuban rum, a warm evening and a general consensus for dancing. Alternatively, a lazy afternoon BBQ that turns into a spontaneous evening dance off. Really, all you need is room to dance. Where can we see Chupacabra in 2015? AT OUR EP LAUNCH! 9th January at the Founders Room in Salamanca. We going to make fancy cocktails – mojitos using imported rum and caipirinhas using imported cachaca. We’ll also be at FAUX MO on the 15th of January. Keep your eyes peeled on our website and facebook page for more pop-up gigs in between. Elias Solis
Keep up to date with happenings at camp Chupacabra at www.chupacabraband.net and www.facebook.com/ chupacabra.au.
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BEACH LIFE THE CITY OF HOBART’S YOUTH ARTS AND RECREATION CENTRE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HOBART PCYC, IS STAGING A NEW AND EXCITING EVENT IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, TO BE KNOWN AS “BEATS AT THE BEACH”.
Taking place at Long Beach in Lower Sandy Bay, the day may be called “Beats at the Beach”, but it’s not just about the music. There will also be a whole bunch of other activities to take part in, including volleyball, sumo suit wrestling (!!!!), soccer, and basketball. Yep, you read that right, SUMO SUIT WRESTLING. WRESTLING. IN. SUMO. SUITS. Sumo Suit Wrestling is an ancient and often overlooked and underappreciated pass time. Avid practitioners of the art are often heard to exclaim “heck yeah, this is freaken’ awesome fun“. You can’t have a day called “Beats at the Beach” without beats. So they’ve got you
covered there. There’ll be a number of top acts performing on the day, including Close Counters, Max Power & DJ Secrets, and Zios. Max Power & DJ Secrets are best known for being the founders of Hobart’s only regular Bass event, We Love Bass. When they’re not testing the limits of subwoofers, they’re also completely addicted turntablists with a strong loyalty to hiphop, break beats and scratching. Close Counters is the future beat sounds of neighbours Finn Rees and Allan McConnell. This year saw the release of their debut EP, with the single “Fluctuate” receiving attention from triple j, Rage, and a number of international blogs. As experienced
instrumentalists, the duo has recently toured their live set that showcases visuals and guest vocalists, playing both their own headline shows and supporting artists including The Aston Shuffle and The Kite String Tangle. Rounding out the lineup is Zios. Zios is a 17-year old Electronic Dance Music producer-DJ on the rise from Hobart, Tasmania. Zios has had support and also great feedback on his own music from many well known DJs in Australia and also internationally. Zios’ sets are always full of energy and known for fresh music. Zios has performed in venues such as local clubs PlanB and Ivory. Prepare to hear lots of
TAPES ARE THE IN THING WITH KIDS AGAIN PUNK-ROCKERS SCOTDRAKULA HAVE GONE OLD SCHOOL WITH THE RELEASE OF THEIR MUSIC ON CASSETTE. TWO TRACKS FROM THEIR SELF-TITLED LP ‘SHAZON’ AND ‘O’CLOCK’ ARE FEATURED ON THEIR NEW CASSINGLE, AND DRUMMER EVIANNE CAMILLE TELLS US WHY THE MELBOURNE BAND WENT BACK IN TIME FOR THEIR RELEASE. THEY’LL PLAY AT THE PANAMA FESTIVAL THIS MARCH 6-7.
So, cassingle, hey? Why did you decide to go with tape? First reason: we could afford tape. Second reason: we released the first two singles from the ScotDrakula LP pretty close together and booked a headline gig at the same time. We wanted something physical to sell at the show but couldn’t afford 7”s. We asked our friend Tim, who played in and released a Rayon Moon cassette a while back, and he said he could make some for us. So, the ScotDrakula cassingle and Tim’s Middle Class Tapes were born. What’s it been like to release your music the old school way? We do most band-related activities the old school way! We write, rehearse and record on our instruments, at home, in a shed or at a mates place. We sleep on couches and floors when we tour, we design and make our merch, we send our music out to people ourselves and get friends to help us along the way. So cassettes kinda work in with the way we already do things. What’s your cassette collection like? Mine is pretty big. For the longest time, I thought cassettes were the way of the future! My collection covers everything
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new original music and remixes from Zios in 2015. SHANE CRIXUS
Beats at the Beach will be taking place from 11am to 1pm on Friday January 16, 2015, at Long Beach, Lower Sandy Bay. This City of Hobart Initiative is a drug and alcohol free event. For more details, visit www.youthartsandrec.org, or call 6231 5150. It’s a free day, so that’s great, and oh yeah, don’t forget, SUMO SUIT WRESTLING.
from classic rock, to old school hip hop, African rhythms, movie soundtracks, comedy sketches and garage mixtapes. I’ve still got these old McDonalds Hot Hits tapes that came out in the ‘90s with every cheeseburger purchase! Who did you used to listen to, rewind, and listen to over and over again on those little plastic pieces of joy? The Fugees, Jimi Hendrix, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixes. Do you stop at cassette? How do you bring back a good old fashioned party? We stop at cassette. What’s with your name? Are you secretly a vampire? No. ScotDrakula was the result of a misheard conversation involving Scott Bakula’s name and the synopsis of Quantum Leap. How would you sum up Scotdrakula in ten words or less? We trick people into dancing to our worst feelings. What can we expect from your panama gig? Screaming, sweaty rock and roll. STEPHANIE ESLAKE
ScotDrakula will perform at the Panama Festival, March 6-7. For tickets go to www. panamafestival.com.au.
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A CUT ABOVE |THE REST A DUDE THAT NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION, KRAFTY KUTS, THE MASTER OF BREAKS IS BACK IN THE COUNTRY AND IN TRANSIT ANSWERED SOME BURNING QUESTIONS ABOUT LIFE AS A WORLD CLASS DJ AND MUSIC PRODUCER. HE’S RETURNING TO TASSIE ON JANUARY 9 WITH HIS MATE DYNAMITE MC, BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW TO PARTY!
It’s not long since you were in Hobart last. Are you warming to the deep South? I love it here and yes the last show in Tazz was ridiculous, place was jamming. Every time Hobart always knows how to get wild and I expect nothing less.
DJ’s and Australia more than any other country has nurtured some fine talent. I think there are so many festivals now that the club scene has struggled. Also electronic dance music became too noisy dare it, and just became soulless in some way shape or form.
You’ve been playing the club circuit for many years now, how has the club scene changed in Australia?
Is it true you got into DJ-ing initially through a competition or is it a Wikipedia myth?
Totally changed the music is more throw away, here today, gone tomorrow. DJ’s are playing form laptops having not learnt their trade from spinning on turntables or even CDJ’s. Some artists don’t even consider themselves DJ’s. The art and love of dj-ing has been lost somewhat as a form, that said there are some exceptionally talented
I did, when I was 14 I reached the finals of a DJ comp and had my first experience spinning on turntables and that totally helped me get where I am today. What do you prefer to mix, digital or analogue? Digital 4 CDJ’s, a 900 mixer and a pumped crowd!!! How has the sharing of music affected DJ’s and music producers? Tell us about Instant Vibes? It is hard to make money selling music. Instant Vibes is a platform for new artists and for myself to get my music to my fans. I love running the label and finding new talent but it comes at a cost. Videos, artwork and production are all very expensive so we actually lose money on a release unless it gets licensed or is a big tune. Instant Vibes has a great roster with artists like Marten Horger, Krossbow, Skope, Erb n Dub, Dub FX, Ed Solo, Dirtyphonics, Dodge & Fuski, Deekline, Freestylers, and many more who have released some wicked dance tunes. Music is just so easy to download for free now that not many people want to pay for it which makes it really hard to keep a label moving. We have to think of new ways to bring in revenue but it keeps us on our toes. What are some young standout DJ’s that have caught your ear in recent years in breaks? Marten Horger, A.Skillz, Featurecast, DJ Ark, Wuki, Beatslappaz, Kill Paris, Neon Steve, Je Boogie, Chris Lorenzo, Mafia Kiss, Jimi Needles, Skope, Lady Waks & loads of very talented new breaks acts coming through. It is very good times indeed. I imagine it is an industry where it is easy to come undone. How do you sustain yourself? I eat healthy, sleep well and dog the gym. I love juicing in fact I am crazy into juicing all sorts of fruit and veg. I love travelling so my body gets used to the different climates. I take lots of vitamins & supplements. It is hard to stay on top of things but I try my best. What are your favourite clubs? So many, there is one in Hungary called the A38 but I reckon either Fabric in London or The Metro in Sydney. Those 2 places hold some of my best ever memories in nightclubs. Plan for 2015? Release loads of new Krafty tunes and get my new band project Wicked City on the move, it’s a live Funk act… watch this space ….https://www.facebook.com/ wickedcitymusic?fref=ts or https://twitter. com/wickedcitymusic. LIZ DOUGAN
See Krafy Kuts plus Dynamite MC perform at The Republic Bar on Friday January 9.
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MUSIC ON THE EDGE JAPANESE LADY-ROCKERS SHONEN KNIFE WILL STEP INTO OVERDRIVE WHEN THEY HIT HOBART FOR MONA FOMA THIS JANUARY 17-18. FOUNDER AND SINGER-GUITARIST NAOKO YAMANO HAS SPENT OVER THREE DECADES ROCKING THE WORLD IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE AS PART OF THE TRIO. THE BAND HAVE 19 ALBUMS UNDER THEIR BELT, WITH THEIR NEWEST OVERDRIVE RELEASED IN 2014. NAOKO TELLS US WHAT IT’S BEEN LIKE TO BREAK DOWN CULTURAL BARRIERS AND MAKE THE ‘70S WESTERN HARD ROCK SHE LOVES.
So what’s it like to be in a Brit-rock band in the musical world of J-Pop? According to Naoko, pretty cool – but also rare when you’ve hit your 50s. “Doing a rock band is popular especially for young people. I’m not so young and it’s rare,” she says. While the band has been in action since 1981 when she founded it with her sister Atsuko Yamano and friend Michi Nakatani, Naoko says the Shonen Knife sound hasn’t changed all that much. “The basic is the same but I think I got improved and skilled.” As the only original member left in the trio, Naoko admits she’s “still growing” as a musician – but in a time where young people aren’t as enthusiastic about rock music as they were in her earlier years. Nonetheless, Shonen Knife is still going strong and making waves internationally with just-released 19th album Overdrive and killer Ramones tribute Osaka Ramones. Naoko digs the ‘70s band because “their melody line is pop and simple. Joey’s voice is so sweet. I love that.” It’s the role of the melody line which inspired Naoko to follow the path of Western rock music over mainstream Japanese in the first place.
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“I don’t know why, but I might like melody line with English language. The structure of syllable is very different between English and Japanese. I also like Western scale.” Influenced by some of the Western world’s biggest bands such as the Beatles, Buzzcocks, and Jam, Naoko has built a career reviving ‘70s British hard rock and American rock or, “pop sound with rock mind.” But when you hit up their music, you’ll find Shonen Knife is as Japanese as they come. “I’ve been living in Osaka ever since I was born and I’m very Japanese. My singing style is not Western style but unique. Without notice, my songs have Japanese essences.” When they visit Tasmania, Shonen Knife will play songs from their new album Overdrive as well as some of their best hit songs. “We’ll do our best and I hope everybody at our shows have enjoyable time and got happy through Shonen Knife music. I can’t wait to play in Tasmania.” STEPHANIE ESLAKE
See Shonen Knife for their Step into Overdrive tour at MONA FOMA. They’ll play their Osaka Ramones tribute act at the Odeon Theatre, 10.30pm January 17, and will give another performance at PW1, Stage 1, 8pm January 18. Tickets from www.mofo.net.au.
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DOG TRUMPET:
TALKING TO PETER O’DOHERTY ABOUT THE ROLLING STONES
THE THING THAT REALLY SHINES THROUGH ABOUT PETER O’DOHERTY IS THAT HE GENUINELY LOVES MUSIC. HE’S A PASSIONATE FAN OF THE ROLLING STONES (AND WHY NOT? THEY’RE STILL A GREAT BAND) AND LOVES THE IDEA OF A DEBATE ABOUT THE BEST STONES RECORD. I WAS DAMN FORTUNATE IN THAT I PICKED STICKY FINGERS OVER EXILE ON MAIN STREET AND PETE AGREED! PHEW!
“I just love those records – there’s mistakes on them you can hear, a bum note or a misplaced chord at times and I really like that those are on these classic recordings, it makes them feel really alive and immediate y’know?”
existed for many a long year, had a bunch of hits and are fondly recalled as group of people who did their own thing, had a number of hit records including ‘If You Leave Me Can I Come Too’, the video clip for which was largely shot in Hobart.
We discussed the merits of Beggar’s Banquet and a number of other Stones classics but in the end I had to find out a few details about Dog Trumpet, what with them touring here and all.
Pete seems to consider himself a very fortunate bloke: “We’ve been lucky enough to channel ourselves down a route of making music – in a way we don’t have to make money, because we both do okay with painting. I avoided the real – I did avoid the other jobs, I did all right with music and doing paintings.
So you may well have heard of Dog Trumpet, but it’s fine if you haven’t, because brothers Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa are incredibly laid back about the whole thing. Dog Trumpet is a band in the conventional sense, and it’s a long term project that has generated a whole lot of recordings and live shows, but talking to Pete O’Doherty over the phone revealed as something of lifestyle as well – an extremely laid back one that also manages to incredibly, well, productive. Pete and Reg are the sons of a carpenter who emigrated to Australia as lads and eventually ended up in legendary Australian band Mental as Anything. The Mentals
Yep, painting! These brothers don’t just make music. Reg Mombassa is kind of famous for his Mambo designs and has an incredibly distinctive style that’s one of the most well known in Australian pop culture. You may not have known it was Reg, but I’d bet you a shandy that you’d know his art. The big surprise though was that Peter is a very successful artist as well, whose paintings of the tiny details of every day life are much sought after. “I stick to paint on canvas and paper – suburban domestic, suburban details. Our father was a carpenter builder, so I suppose it’s very much in the DNA, that I look at kind of ordinary stuff. I like the stories you know form your own life, the stuff that makes the sense, the minutiae of every day living, and that’s what’s in my paintings, That local thing when you think about your personal history and you tell stories and make songs or whatever from there. This time around, Dog Trumpet are touring their latest album Medicated Spirits. As with their previous albums, it was all recorded at Reg and Pete’s home studios. “All of the last 4 records all done at home. It’s been hard recently, I had to take the plunge into the dark world of computers, and I’m not all that technological but it’s bloody amazing actually, what you can get done. It’s incredibly different to watching the clock in a recording studio, you’re there with you budget - we had bigger budgets in the 80s with Mental As Anything, but you’re there at night and there goes another 100 bucks, and you’d get recordings that you weren’t happy with sometimes. The great thing about home recording is it’s your own time, and if you need to go back and do something again you can. If you want to make a double album, which we did this time as we had all these songs. Songwriting is an ongoing process with us so we just thought yeah, get these ones out now because there’ll be more and we don’t want these ones to get lost. There’s always lots of extra songs.” According to Dog Trumpet’s website Medicated Spirits is the best album Dog Trumpet has produced. I wondered why that was the case and Pete gave the best answer ever: “Oh, we’d say that about any recent album!” Heh. This is what Dog Trumpet, and Reg and Peter Themselves are about: a kind of workman like honesty coupled with a love of making music, making art and sharing the details of life. Dog Trumpet are playing are playing two venue shows; Fresh on Charles in Launceston and The Republic Bar in Hobart which is coupled with a showing of their art. The guys will also be appearing at MONA and The Taste of Tasmania. ANDREW HARPER See Dog Trumpet perform at The Republic Bar and The Taste on Friday January 2, Fresh on Charles on the Saturday January 3 and MONA on Sunday January 4.
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CHASING THE SUN CARAVANA SUN HAVE BEEN CHASING SUMMERS THROUGHOUT 2014, AND IT MAKES SENSE WHEN YOU HEAR THEIR TUNES. AFTER ACQUIRING A NEW BAND MATE AND RETURNING FROM THEIR THIRD EUROPEAN TOUR, INSPIRATION IS FLOWING. THE FOCUS FOR THE COMING SEASON IS TO START WORK ON A NEW ALBUM AND A NATIONAL TOUR THAT TAKES IN SOME OF AUSTRALIA’S UNIQUE REGIONAL CENTERS INCLUDING OUR VERY OWN CAMEMBERT CAPITAL, KING ISLAND.
The South Sydney boys have been playing together as Caravana Sun for about three and half years now, with the exception of Ken Allars on keys and trumpet who joined in early 2014. During their time together they’ve developed a growing fan base both at home and overseas. There last tour of Europe took in outdoor festivals in the Neatherlands, Northern France, Malta and Portugal, experiences that will weigh in on their upcoming album. “Travel has a huge impact on what we are writing for sure,” although more for the perspective it provides. Ant Beard, the band’s bassist and singer suggests “its Australian orientated, we’ve really focused in on our heritage, and being away for nine weeks this year has shown us how much
Australia plays in us, and plays a role in our music.” The addition of Allars has also spurred new material “he’s brought in such a fresh energy to what we do, and has given us a bit of a shake up in what we love, why we do it, why we play our instruments.” “We’ve been hitting the circuit for a few years now…and we’re definitely at a stage where we’re pulling up in towns and we know where the local shop is, we know where our friends are, we have communities everywhere, so to bring someone else on board… it wakes you up, you’re like oh my gosh, this is pretty amazing!”
OUT OF THE LABORATORY WHILE IT WOULD SEEM NEIL FRASER, AKA MAD PROFESSOR, GAINED HIS MONIKER THROUGH HIS WORK AS A DUB PRODUCER AND ENGINEER, HE HAS ACTUALLY HAD IT SINCE A YOUNG AGE WHEN HE TAUGHT HIMSELF ELECTRONICS IN HIS HOME COUNTRY OF GUYANA. AFTER RELOCATING TO LONDON AT THE AGE OF 13, HE CONTINUED CREATING AND SOON BECAME INTERESTED IN RECORDING EQUIPMENT. IN 1979 HIS LIVING ROOM SET-UP BECAME A STUDIO NAMED ARIWA SOUNDS, WHICH EXISTS STILL TODAY.
Apart from outdoor festivals like Rainbow Serpent and Woodford, these guys love playing small towns. “The rural thing is just a real stem of our grassroots attitude ever since we started…wherever people are picking up what you’re putting down, and its always been in rural communities like Broome, Albany, Denmark down in southern WA, places around Byron Bay, Cairns…”
It was through touring and building an ever increasing fan base that they managed to fund these, and you can’t help but wish them well on future tours and projects new given their positive attitude. LIZ DOUGAN
Their upcoming tour Under a Southern Sky is no exception, kicking off the new year in Brunswick Heads. Eighteen months ago, these guys managed to dedicate themselves full time to their music and along the way have produced two independent albums, Aya and Rising Falling.
Early in his career, Fraser worked closely with legendary Jamaican reggae and dub producer Lee Scratch Perry. He has remixed a huge catalogue of music by the likes of The Beastie Boys, The Orb, Jamiroquai and Depeche Mode, and is particularly well known for remixing Massive Attack’s second album under the title No Protection. In the earlier days of The Mad Professor’s career, he would have to create his own effects in a very organic way as well as build his own gear. Fraser embraced the transition from analogue to digital and developed advanced ways of producing his music. But while newer dub artists have an abundance of comprehensive gear and digital effects at their fingertips, Fraser’s technical experience sets him apart. “I was building and reading circuits from before my teens,” he says. “I think just having a clear knowledge of signal paths and circuits give you an advantage in the recording studios.” Fraser has produced hundreds of records since the 1970s, helping to define the second generation of dub and then continuing to keep it alive and well until the present day. Fraser says, “It’s actually over 300 albums to date on my Ariwa label, and maybe less than 100 on other labels.” More recently he released Dubbing With Anansi and Deliverance - a collaboration between Fraser and Reggae musician Luciano. There is no lack of motivation for The Mad Professor, who simply says, “I love being active.”
Catch these guys at Fresh on Charles in Launceston the January 29, at The Cinema in Burnie on January 30 and at the Festival of King Island on January 31.
Despite often being credited as one of the originators, Fraser is honest about his role in the genre. “I won’t describe myself as one of the originators,” he says. “I think that belongs to King Tubby and Errol Thompson. I’m from the 2nd generation!” Dub has influenced many genres and has had many offshoots including dub step, although Fraser resists deciding whether dub has evolved as a genre since he first became so involved. “Dub is still dub, all the rules are the same!” he says. He continues to tour consistently, and has only recently returned from Cuba. “There is so much happening around Cuba.” he says. “As you now know, the USA has resumed trading relations with Cuba, at the beginning of December there was a Caricom meeting in Cuba, and there was a celebration of a Yoruba hero, Zumbi, in Cuba... many reasons to be there!” The Mad Professor has visited Tasmania before, about five years ago, and says he is excited to return soon for MOFO where he will perform at the festival’s dark and extravagant after party, Faux Mo. ERIN LAWLER
The Mad Professor will perform as part of Faux Mo at The Odeon, Hobart, on Friday January 16.
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SONGS FROM SYRIA DONNING A KEFFIYEH AND SUNNIES, SYRIA’S OMAR SOULEYMAN IS EVERY BIT AS COOL AS HIS NAME IMPLIES. THE SINGER-SONGWRITER STARTED OUT AS TRADITIONAL WEDDING SINGER BACK IN ’94, AND NOW MORE THAN TWO DECADES ON HE’S BRINGING HIS IRAQI-KURDISH MUSICAL BLENDS TO TASSIE FOLK AT MONA FOMA ON JAN 17, PWI.
You started out as a wedding musician. Has your music changed over the years, and with your growing international audience? I am a singer only. My music has not changed at all – it is still the same as I learned from other musicians and I carry the same tradition to this day and not planning to change that either. I did not ever try to do anything in particular to make it more accessible to any audience. Actually all my audience – wherever that may be – enjoy the music as it is. What’s it been like performing your traditional music to audiences around the world?
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It is a great thrill to perform my music wherever I go in the world. I do not see that as performing ‘traditional’ music versus anything else – I just sing my songs the way they are and people have a great time. You’ve said that your favourite artist to collaborate with is your keyboard player. For your band, how do you collaborate and find inspiration for new material? I enjoy working with many other people in other roles than my accompanists. I work with producers and appreciate all who work with me. The work mainly consists of songs that I choose to sing, firstly with the lyrics and the tunes I want from thousands of those I know. And it is an important part
because I decide which instruments should accompany me and which beats.
understand the words. If I did that, it would just be for show and I am not like this.
You have also collaborated with poets, such as Hassan Hamadi, who provided lines of poetry for you to sing as you perform live. Incredible!
Your music seems to be mostly about love and longing, but is it also just as much about having a good time together?
I have worked with many, many, many bands from my village and the area. A poet is often needed for me in a live setting during a wedding or celebration because I need assistance in addressing the wedding party and saying something special about all of them, because the wedding music takes many hours. I have never done this for the audiences in the West – it would not be appropriate because they do not
My lyrics and the inspiration for my music is all in love and finding love and the love’s bliss and love’s pain. But absolutely, people dance to my music no matter what the lyrics, and yes, it is mostly about having a good time together. STEPHANIE ESLAKE Omar Souleyman will perform at PWI on Stage 1, Jan 17, 7.30pm. For tickets head to mofo.net.au.
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ANDREW ON ART ART AND ART CRITICISM ISN’T THE ONLY THING I THINK ABOUT BUT I THINK ABOUT IT A LOT. FOR THE LAST WHILE I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ART CRITICISM AND IF THERE’S ANY POINT TO IT. I THINK THERE IS, BUT I THINK IT’S GOTTEN A BIT LOST.
I’ve developed a bit of an issue with academia. Well, more the academisation of art and how this might have formed a kind of barrier for some consumers of art. It’s something I noticed about MONA; that instituion avoids and indeed takes the piss of ideas around art. The thing is it doesn’t do it all that well – just having a thing you can press on the MONA smartphone called ArtWank isn’t enough, because it’s saying that talking about art is wank for wankers and we’re happy to wank and perhaps we should all wank together, but I find that a lot of toss (rather than wank). What I want is clear dialogue that invites people to take part. Years ago I had a job working at the TMAG. I was gallery attendant or invigilator as they are now known, for the rather awesome
Mike Parr show that was on in the newly opened Bond store. This is one of the most important art experiences I ever had, because I got to look at some art work for a long time and really engage with it (and this is why I wish I could buy more art and why you should if you can, because the good stuff reveals itself slowly over time, sometimes over years), but I got to talk to a lot of people. Man, some of them were wankers. It was amazing. It was totally obvious that some had come to be offended and did not really see the art at all. It was incredible. I recall with great fondness the person who told me they thought ‘people’ were turning away from ‘ugly’ art and reaching for ‘beauty’ again. I had a job to do so I didn’t ask that person what that even meant, but
I haven’t forgotten it. The other thing I’ve not forgotten was the plasterer. One day I was doing my thing on the top Floor of the Bond Store and a chap who eventually identified himself as a tradie, a plasterer, came for a look. He was amazing. He was totally engaged with the work. He had a take on it that was all his own. It spoke to him of the difficulties of true human communication, the isolation of conciousness and the stricturs of mortaility. He used no four syllabyle words but he was clear in his ideas and his feelings and how he reached for the work and what he found in it. He went further though and noted that was only what he found, and that others might
see something else, and that was what he liked about contemporary art – the many meanings, the possibilities. This man had no education in the field but had a sharp and enquiring mind, he wanted to engage and allowed himself to do so. He did not see art as wank and he was not shut off from either. He just liked it because it made him think. I think of that tradie often, when I write. I think don’t talk down, I think be clear and I think of possibilities. Best art critic I’ve ever met, and I never saw him again. ANDREW HARPER
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TIDAL ART PRIZE and FESTIVAL TIDAL IS THE CITY OF DEVONPORT’S AMAZING ART PRIZE THAT HAS EXPANDED INTO A FESTIVAL IN 2015. IT’S JUST ABOUT THE BIGGEST ART PRIZE IN THE STATE, IT’S AMAZINGLY PRESTIGIOUS AND IT’S CONSISTENTLY ONE OFF THE MOST DIVERSE AND ECLECTIC EXHIBITIONS TASMANIA EVER SEES.
A themed contest, all entrants must investigate the idea of tidal: the natural, cultural, personal or political concerns related to the sea and coastal regions. It’s a biannual prize so each tidal exhibition is an important event. This year the $15 000 prize went to Joel Crosswell for his work Glaxias, a marvellous series of images that features a selection of wonderfully creepy fish people.
It’s almost funny but it’s also sinister – Joel Crosswell is a known fan of horror film and it echoes in across his work – here are the Deep Ones of HP Lovecraft’s strange tales, or perhaps something from the worlds of famed horror writer and film maker Clive Barker. Galaxias is an evocative work, and because it now belongs to the City Of Devonport (Tidal is what we call an acquisitive prize), you’re going to have to travel to see it. Of course, although Joel won the prize, there’s still all the other entrants as well and Tidal attracts quite the field. The entrants is like a who’s who of interesting art from Tasmania (and elsewhere), so Tidal is something of a must see. What’s extra interesting and exciting though is the Tidal Festival. Devonport has made superb decision to make a festival around the contest. Happening for four days from January 27 to February 1, there’s a selection of free or low cost workshops, a forum that discusses the complex and fragile environments you find in coastal regions and some music. ANDREW HARPER
Check out the full program for the Tidal Festival at www.devonportgallery.com. TIDAL ART PRIZE at the DEVONPORT GALLERY until February 1. TIDAL FESTIVAL Jan 27 – February 1
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THE MONA SCHOLARSHIP YOU’RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR, ART PUNTERS OUT THERE IN TASMANIA, WITH THE MONA SCHOLARSHIP, BUT LET’S JUST DO A RECAP: IT EXISTED BEFORE MONA DID AND WAS THE FIRST THING DAVID WALSH DID TO INVEST IN AND SUPPORT LOCAL ART CULTURE. IT’S A SIGNIFICANT PRIZE THAT ALLOWS TASMANIAN ARTIST TO REALISE WORK ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE – ART IS RESOURCES INTENSIVE AND IT OFTEN NEEDS A BIT OF CASH THROWN AT IT. WELL, THE MONA SCHOLARSHIP HAS BEEN DOING SO FOR OVER A DECADE AND LOTS OF QUITE WONDERFUL WORK HAS EMERGED FROM THIS EXCELLENT AND LONG RUNNING PROGRAM.
Okay, that’s the blurb and backgrounder, what’s the deal? The last winner was Rahni Allen. Rahni is no slouch when it comes to making her own work and has exhibited around Tasmania and interstate. Her work is big in idea yet elegantly simple – she just seems to love the cosmos. Her work is about the stars, space and the complex realities of particle physics. Her work doesn’t create meaning as much as it seeks to express a sense of wonder and delight at the reality of existing in an expanding and possibly infinite universe. Rahni’s MONA Scholarship work is intensely complex in creation. Stars In Disguise uses fibre optic cable attached to an external telescope which tracks the movement of our nearest star, the sun. These optic cables, arranged to resemble the night sky, sit above a reflective pool. If you go along, you’re allowed to touch – a rare thing at museum. The installation
also features a mirror suspended above a platform, which anyone anyone can lie on and observe a slow cascade of images captured by the Hubble telescope mixed in with collage of everyday objects made by the artist. The work presents the large and impossible and seeks to make it reachable and still retain that sense of marvellous awe. It’s not on for much longer so you’ll have to hurry, but Stars In Disguise is a beautiful work made by an excellent younger artist. This is what needs to be invested in and encouraged: new work by artists from here – and it’s great to see the MONA Scholarship continues to do just that. ANDREW HARPER
Stars in Disguise will exhibit at The Library Gallery, MONA, Berriedale, until January 12.
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Art show “The works of Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty” at the Republic Bar Hobart
Reg is well known for his idiosyncratic work for Mambo Graphics and as a fine artist.. Peter is also a successful and much sought after painter. For over three decades the brothers have exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia and now the USA. The exhibition is from 28th December to 28th January 2015 @ The Republic Bar Hobart.
Come along and meet Reg and Peter at the opening on 2/1/15 @ 7.30pm
Arts BOOKS:
TRANSPORTATION: ISLANDS AND CITIES THE RISE OF LOCATIVE MEDIA, AND VARIOUS ALTERNATIVE MAPPING EFFORTS DURING THE NINETIES CARRIED WITH IT IN ITS WAKE WEB2.0 NO DOUBT GAVE THE IMPETUS TO COME TOGETHER IN VARIOUS WAYS AND MEANS, OVER VAST DISTANCES, MORE REGULARLY. THE CREATIVE AND SUBVERSIVE ENERGY OF THESE TIMES HAVE NOW DISSIPATED BUT CURIOUSLY WE FIND OURSELVES SHIFTING OUR PERSPECTIVE TO APPRECIATE THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS ALREADY INHABITED AND IMAGINED IN RELAYS OF ENTWINED AND FRAGMENTED CULTURAL NETWORKS AND IMAGINARY PERHAPS IN MORE SUBTLE WAYS.
PAIGE TURNER 2015 IS A RATHER PROSAIC NUMBER FOR A YEAR THAT PROMISES REAMS OF BOOK RELATED EXCELLENCE, EVENTS AND EXCITEMENT IN TASMANIA. THERE IS A BOOK, READING OR WRITING RELATED FESTIVAL SCHEDULED FOR EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR AND WE EXPECT TO SEE DETAILS OF THE TASMANIAN LITERARY PRIZES ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. THERE IS ALSO NEW WORK IN PUBLISHING PIPELINES FROM SOME OF THE MOST READ AND RESPECTED WRITERS OF THIS STATE.
Initially reading the title of the book Transportation: islands and cities, one is at first under the impression this may be full of stories of convicts and cattle settlements and if you are a little knowledgeable of the two places, one can’t help of thinking bitterly about say, the 600 barrels of whale oil from the Derwent River that lit the streets of London for a few years; especially if one has to stand in the long queue in customs at Heathrow under the Other Passports gateway (seriously one wonders why - those of us who are Australian are still a colony of the British Empire which means this is an odd category). So in this way the spectre of UK, even London and its associated ‘schooled aristocracy’ feels like an analogy of when a dead tree topples over in the woods, its withered branches get entangled with the branches of Tasmania, as the living tree. As years go by, the living tree must grow the best it can with the decaying wood trapped in its midst. Carrying the rot that other people have burdened our state with.
But let me tell you Transportation Islands and Cities, a collection of short stories from Tasmania and London is an excellent way to help us get disentangled from the dead weight of the past. It brims with smatterings of stories about our cosmopolitan present. Upon reading one gets the impression of the ambience of each place, simply the material descriptions upon the first few sentences in the way they seep into the reader. The locations of London and Tasmania seem manage to thread their way through a certain null point of understanding into a kind of mirror world, that engages the reader in each writer’s different style. This is reinvigorating, it causes the reader to ultimately question how history is represented, framed, and processed in the present moment, to discover connections and relationships among these places that would not be possible or probable otherwise. Just like a tree isn’t capable of freeing itself, however unwittingly, these writers engage in sophisticated
January, and Bruny Island are home to a fabulous festival of children’s literature, Book An Adventure. Running between January 15-18, it will feature writing and illustration workshops and activities for the under 13s and networking and promotional opportunities for children’s writers and illustrators. For more information go to www.bookanadventure.org.au.
is the Tasmanian launch of Transportation, islands and cities, new short stories from London and Tasmania. As editor in chief of this beast I am obviously biased, but the work in here is exceptional – and the design, by London editor, Sean Preston, absolutely gorgeous. The launch will feature readings from some of the writers and Tasmanian Convict Punk band, The Dead Maggies (acoustic, we are demure literary types after all) 5.30pm, Thursday January 15. Come along to celebrate this exciting international collaboration and fantastic new work from Londoners and Tasmanians. See www.transportationbook. com for more details.
Neil Gaiman will be in town for MOFO, reading, for the first time ever, from his new book The Sleeper and the Spindle. He will be accompanied with music from Jherek Bischoff and illustrations from Chris Riddell. The program says “think Sleeping Beauty meets Snow White with a hearty dollop of dark magic thrown in for good measure.” A trusty Gaiman formula and I’m looking forward to both the book and hearing him read from it. His last MOFO event was a fabulous tale, read and accompanied by a string quartet and illustrations. It had the comforting pleasure of being read to as a child, only with beer. Fullers Bookshop in Hobart is starting their events calendar with a bang. January 15
Fullers is also hosting the launch of Wild Island, a collection of photographs portraying Tasmania’s beautiful natural scenery by renowned photographer Wolfgang Glowacki. At 5:30pm Thursday January 29. The world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publisher, Springer (www.springer. com) has recently expanded its Australian presence with a Tasmanian based Account
historiography, asking questions about the nature of representation of the past, in relation to a object, especially contextualizing such materialism, the movement of the raw object from the writers own created environments is more than a matter of geography; it allows instead a hermeneutic ownership. And this book exists not only to be read but also to be seen, the subtle illustrations by Tony Thorpe are curious and playful, creaky lines are opened and bring across this ambient tone. The texts alert one to the possibility that perhaps there will always be a certain rouge intimacy between these two islands on oppositional hemispheres. Often, as island people, we all feel alienated, at some point, a certain empathy extends to the reader, when they encounter one of these stories in the collection. Transportation Islands and Cities deftly embodies some of the subjects of our times while disrupting our expectations of what the a short story book genre should be, at the same time it opens out the resistance in a technocratic society to rehabilitate living memory by incorporating the experiences one has as apart of our written materiality. Many of the works have dark humour reminding us of the value of the short stories and how sharing mirrors worlds brings a deep knowledge of the past and of the particular, self-reflection, a willingness to question what seems obvious or without question, and to reaffirm what seems of enduring value we cannot afford to take the risk of losing the insights into ourselves, our pasts and our futures that they teach us. Nancy Mauro-Flude
Development & Marketing Manager, Lisa Maclean. Welcome to Tasmania, Springer, how wise you are to make this place one of your homes. Vale 2014, we will always and unavoidably carry you with us. Thank you for the joys, such as Flanagan’s most deserving Booker Prize and Prime Minister’s Lit Award wins (stick it up your jumper Les Murray) and the sadness - the death of a writer who wrote good stories with solid literary prowess, Christopher Koch. Both of these writers offer profound insights and fabulous introductions to Tasmania in literature. My Summer squeeze/read is Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I kick myself for taking so many years to start but it truly is the ultimate book of the sea. Discard the intimidating label of ‘literary classic,’ it is a bloody good read. Happy New Year, polish your specs, we’re in for some wild reading rides. RACHEL EDWARDS
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Arts COMEDY:
COMEDY:
APOCALAUGHS NOW
RHYS NICHOLSON
"I love the smell of JOKES in the morning... smells like... COMEDY” - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now (some paraphrasing)
NEWCASTLE BORN AND BRED, RHYS NICHOLSON IS ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST OUTSTANDING YOUNG COMEDIANS. A 2009 RAW COMEDY FINALIST AND WINNER OF THE 2012 TIME OUT AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER AT THE SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL, RHYS’ BRAND OF WRY HUMOUR AND SARDONIC WIT HAVE DEVELOPED HIS TRADEMARK FOR HILARIOUS SOCIAL COMMENTARY.
A regular at the Sydney Comedy Store, Rhys has previously supported Louis CK (USA), Kathy Griffin (USA), Greg Fleet, Jim Jefferies, Steve Hughes and Wil Anderson. After making his Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) debut in 2012, Rhys returned to the festival circuit in 2013 with his critically acclaimed new show “The Dawn Of A New Error”. After playing to full houses at the Brisbane Comedy Festival, MICF and Sydney Comedy Festival, Rhys took the show to his first Edinburgh Festival Fringe, receiving rave reviews for his stylish, black comedy. 2014 has been a big year for Rhys. He has already toured his new show “Eurgh” performing at Festivals around Australia, added an encore performance at Sydney’s Comedy Store, performed at his second Edinburgh Festival Fringe and performed a debut solo season at the Soho Theatre. Rhys recently appeared on ABC2 in the hilarious “Gaycrashers” with fellow comedian Joel Creasey. Here’s some quick questions from the majestic Rhys so you can get the flavour. Where are you from Rhys & how long have you been doing comedy? I’m from a little sleepy/druggy town by the name of Newcastle. I stated doing open mic there when I was 17 but didn’t get paid for comedy until I moved to Sydney when I was 19.
What do you love best about being a comedian?
a cider, cognac, mescal, arrack, some paint thinner and an apple.
I would like to think I love the feeling I get when I walk out onstage in front of a big audience and they laugh and applaud at jokes that I wrote, but if I’m honest it’s the cash and fact I wake up at midday.
Please tell us a joke so we get a sense of the cut of your jib.
What’s your greatest challenge in life? I fluctuate on a daily basis between being an indefatigable perfectionist, to slothfully lazy. My biggest challenge is probably finishing things...and finding the other half of this magical amulet.
A friend of mine once asked me if I was a glass half full of glass half empty type of guy. Well, I grew up in Newcastle, I live in Kings Cross. I’m a glass smash into your face type of guy. Check Rhys out when he’s in Hobart AND Launceston ANDREW HARPER
What’s the best thing about touring & being on the road? Touring is great because for a certain amount of time you are totally disconnected from your usual life. You are lifted into a completely deferent circumstance where almost anything goes. Plus you eat a lot of Drive-Thru. Any pre-show routines when you perform? I like to have a Red bull before I go onstage. Then maybe a whiskey. Also if I feel like it, maybe a little gin. If they have it in the rider I’ll try a tequila shot. Some places I have a tipple of Ouzo. A beer perhaps? Some sake is always nice. What about some rum, brandy, a few assorted liqueurs, vodka,
HOBART: The Clubhouse at RACV / RACT Hobart Apartment Hotel Thursday January 15. Doors open 7.30pm, show starts 8.30pm LAUNCESTON: Fresh Comedy Friday January 16. Doors open 7.30pm, show starts 8.30pm Tickets: http://www.trybooking.com/115649 Reserved Seating $20 or General Admission $15
COMEDY PROFILE:
Because I like freeing people, I believe making people laugh will help their lives. A bit like Jim Carrey, who is my role model. He said that he likes to free people from concern. And that is exactly what I want to do. How many gigs have you done? I’ve done one recently - , but I will be in the RAW comedy competition. I’ve been writing all my life. Describe your style of stand up, if you can. Lies are fine. My standup style is from Lenny Bruce to George Carlin from George Carling to 26
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The Nine Horsemen and One Horselady of Hobart Comedy will descend upon the humble brewpub for a night of uproarious gags, cringe worthy stories, and gut-busting punch lines in what has been described (by me) as “the best comedy night in the world, ever.” Prepare your laugh-holes for: CHRIS MENEZIES ROB BRASLIN ANNA KIDD JAMES G WARREN ANGUS REYNOLDS MAEDI PRICHARD BRENT WATKINSON TIM CLARK JOSH GRAHAM TRENT SHAND All under the guidance of Archangel and MC, MATT YOUNG. Not only do you get stuffed chock full with chuckle-makers, but also you’ll have access to $4 beers and ciders all night long! World’s End has a metric shit-ton of craft beers in stock, including Little Creatures on tap. You beauty. Tickets are $10, and places are limited. Booking online will not only guarantee you a place, but also net you a free drink at the door! How’s that? Mark your calendars, folks.
JEREMY LIMN Why are you doing this shameful, financially crippling thing they call comedy?
On Friday January 16, Hobart’s only dedicated brewpub, The World’s End, will be ushering in comedy Armageddon - just as the Mayans predicted it.
Bill Hicks. I find my energy style from Robin Williams and Jim Carrey. You awaken in the middle of a desert. You have a parasol, one shoe, a thermos of cool water and a pack of rice thins. In the distance you can see - too the east, a cloud of dust approaching. Katy Perry rides up upon a horse and offers you either a ride, a bag of dates or a key. What do you do?
Doomsday? More like HILARIOUS Day!!! Book here: https://quo-45015.ticketbud.com/ apocalaughs-now
I would take the ride see how deep the rabbit hole of life goes. Take the Red Pill because that sounds meta. Jeremy’s next gig will be in the new year, although he will be doing open mic via skype to New York. He’s a RAW Comedy 2015 entrant and a part of the ridiculously expanding Hobart comedy scene, so go and look at his head at a mic near you.
APOCALAUGHS NOW The World’s End January 16th doors from 7:30
Arts
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RECOMMENDS
Gallery
Guide NORTH
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146 ARTSPACE 27 Jan – 5 March Julian Scheffer
ACADEMY GALLERY Tasmanian College of the Arts, (Inveresk) 17 Dec – 15 Jan Robert Boldkald
COMEDY
BETT GALLERY 14 Jan Wormholes (group show feat: Amanda Davies, Annika Koops, Neil Haddon, Rob O’Connor, Meg Walch ) CONSTANCE ARI 9 – 31 Jan MAIN SPACE: Alex Bishop-Thorpe FOYER SPACE: Sally McIntyre (NZ) PADDY LYN SPACE: Matt Warren CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA 15 Jan – 22 Feb Martine Corompt, Philip Brophy
Warp says get to CAT on Tasma St from January 15 to February 22 and remember CAT is open every day of MONA FOMA. Yep.
Guide
South
ART MOB 9 – 25 Jan Charmaine Pwerle
Kick your art-eating for 2015 off with an amazing collaborative installation at CAT in North Hobart by animator Martine Corompt and Philip Brophy. Part of MOFO 2015, this is a completely immersive experience that you’ll want to sit with for some time. Brophy in particular is one of the most consistently interesting artists in Australia, and anything he’s involved with cuts the mustard.
performing arts
DESPARD 17 Dec – 12 Jan Summer Show 14 – 15 14 Jan – 16 Feb Caroline Rannersberg HANDMARK 16 Jan – 10 Feb Faridah Cameron INKA 18 Dec – 6 Jan Member’s Show MONA Ongoing -Monanism 22 Nov – 13 Apr Matthew Barney PENNY CONTEMPORARY 11 Dec – 7 Jan Bill Hart SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE LONG GALLERY 15 – 18 Jan Johannes S Sistermanns TOP GALLERY 5 – 31 Jan Nicolas Sarter SIDESPACE GALLERY 2 – 12 Jan Claudio Polles 23 Jan – 2 Feb Carmen Hannay KELLY’S GARDEN 15 – 27 Jan Brendan Walls TMAG 9 Oct – 18 Jan Transplantation 6 Dec – 1 March George Davis, Jorg Schmeisser
BRAVE ART GALLERY 6 Dec – 1 Feb Angus Douglas, Anna Van Stralen BURNIE REGIONAL GALLERY 13 Dec - !8 Jan RACT Insurance Tasmanian Portraiture prize 2014 13 Dec - !8 Jan High Art Summer Show 13 Dec - !8 Jan Paper Garments for the grave DESIGN TASMANIA 22 Nov – 22 Feb Design Tasmania Award 2014 DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY 13 Dec – 1 Feb TIDAL City of Devonport Art Prize GALLERY PEJEAN 5 – 31 Jan Works On Paper group show HANDMARK EVANDALE Until 7 Feb The Summer Exhibition Group Show QVMAG Until 8 Feb 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 20 Dec – 12 April ARTRAGE 2014 Collection
SOHO
7 Jan Cloud Comedy
DICKENS CIDER HOUSE
8 Jan Uber Comedy Hobart
THE RACV/RACT HOBART APARMEMT HOTAL 15 Jan The Clubhouse presents Rhys Nicholson
THE WORLD’S END
16 Jan Apocalaughs Now THE GRAND POOBAH 18 Jan Improvising Private Ryan
THE BRISBANE HOTEL
29 Jan The Comedy Forge
DOCTOR SYNTAX
30 Jan The Doctor’s Best Medicine
FILM CINEMONA
Ends 4 Jan The Legend Of love Bolshoi Ballet Ends 9 Jan Drawing Restraint 9
THEATRE THEATRE ROYAL
17 JanThe Adventures Of Prince Achmed (1926)
NORTH COMEDY THEATRE ROYAL
17 Jan Neil Gaiman – The Sleeper and The Spindle 22 – 24 Jan The Naked Magicans
DICKENS CIDERHOUSE 14 Jan Uber Comedy
FRESH ON CHARLES
16 Jan Fresh Comedy presents: Rhys Nicholson
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Event Guide
Hobart Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Date
JANUARY
Venue
Acts / Start Time
C Bar
Jerome Hillier
Thursday
1
Birdcage Bar
Shaun & Joel
Dickens Ciderhouse
The Sign 8pm
Friday
2
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Dane
Brisbane Hotel
Peter Bibby + Emlyn Johnson
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
C Bar
Sambo & Patto
Republic Bar & Café
Krafty Kuts + MC Dynamite 10pm
Dickens Ciderhouse
Dave Sikk Quartet 8pm
The Homestead
The Dead Maggies
Grand Poobah
Blanka (Japan) + Antohy Rochester solo + Airto + Selfcontrol System (Japan) + DJ Yota (Japan) + DJ Fwah Fwah 9pm
Waratah Hotel
After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
Smokestack + Kingfall
C Bar
Matt & Abby
Dickens Ciderhouse
Dan Pastoor 8pm
Grand Poobah
Eden + Dead Horse + Machines of Indeterminate Origins
Grand Poobah
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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6 7
8
9
Saturday
10
(Kissing Room) Festable Interstate Sideshow: The Unofficials + Glitter Rats + Bound By Hound + The Curse
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Magneetis
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
Dog Trumpet 10pm
Mobius
DJ Rectangle
The Homestead
Three Eyed Monsters + Ian Murtagh + Ivy Bloom
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Waratah Hotel
After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm
Pier One
James Maddock
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice
Republic Bar & Café
Jed Appleton UK Trip Fundraiser with Guests 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
Teaky’s 40th - The Native Cats + Bi-Hour + Ewah & The Vision of Paradise
The Homestead
Shanti Dreads
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
Venuslight Overdrive + Peter Charles McPherson + Lucky Dips + DJ BTC
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan
C Bar
Manhatten + Tony Voglino
Doctor Syntax
B-Rex
Grand Poobah
Palmed Out: DJ Katie Drover + Tristan + Sexy Lucy + Finn Whitla + Finch
Republic Bar & Café
Soul Session Soundsystem Sunday (Beergarden) 2:30pm
Sunday
11
C Bar
Matt & Abby
Dickens Ciderhouse
Fee Witala 8pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Pier One
Billy & Tilly
Republic Bar & Café
That 80s Band 10pm
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Republic Bar & Café
Yesterday Gentlemen
Brisbane Hotel
Ramblin Roots and Tracey Hogue
The Homestead
Horse and Wood
Brisbane Hotel
Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan
Waratah Hotel
Reggae Sundays w/ Reggae Ink 3pm
C Bar
Matt & Abby + Tony Voglino
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Tilly
Doctor Syntax
B-Rex
Hotel Soho
B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Mama K And The Big Love 2pm
Republic Bar & Café
G.B. Balding (Finger Picking Blues) 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Wahbash Ave 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo
Waratah Hotel
Reggae Sundays w/ Reggae Ink 3pm
Republic Bar & Café
Anita & Simon 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy Whitton
Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
12
13 14
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Tilly
Hotel Soho
B-Rex
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Rach & Damo 8:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Daniel Champagne 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice
Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Makro
Thursday
15
Republic Bar & Café
Billy Whitton 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo
Brisbane Hotel
Inquisition (usa) + Ruins + The Wizar’d
Brisbane Hotel
Virginia & Vincent (QLD)
Republic Bar & Café
Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
The Homestead
The Darlings
Republic Bar & Café
Billy Longo 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Everburn
Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
C Bar
The Robinsons
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier
Dickens Ciderhouse
Dave Sikk Quartet 8pm
Dickens Ciderhouse
Uber Comedy 8pm
Grand Poobah
The Simply Irresistable Show
Republic Bar & Café
Reggae Inc 9pm
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Dane
The Homestead
Valerie Hodges
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Republic Bar & Café
Boil Up (Reggae) 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
DAMAGE w/ Speech Patterns + Knife Hands + Skate Wounds + Life’s Vice + DJ Challis + Lilith + Rat Shadows
The Homestead
Formidable Vegetable Sound System
Waratah Hotel
After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm
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Date Saturday
Sunday
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Venue
Acts / Start Time
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
C Bar
Fuse
Brisbane Hotel
The Coathangers (usa) + Unfolding Vostoks + Work Ethic + ALL The Weathers + Lucky Dips
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
C Bar
Tony Voglino
Pier One
Alan Gogoll
Dickens Ciderhouse
Sam Gobbey 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
Tex Perkins & Charlie Owens 10pm
Grand Poobah
The Noise Edition: COCKS ARQUETTE, The Harrison Forward, Aktion Unit, Niko Niko, Drunk Elk, Granpa Abela, Ragtime Frank, PENGUINS, Radio Cegeste, Crude, Ghost Gums, Pip Stafford & Evelyn Morris, Joshua Santospirito & Blair Rideout, The Hunter & Georgia Lucy, Polanyi & Domicile, Mutterland & Chrysalis and Eddie Eves & Hannah Fitzgerald
The Homestead
Laura Jean (Vic)
Birdcage Bar
Matt & Abby
Brisbane Hotel
Skreech Tramps + The Dead Maggies + Craicpot
C Bar
Shaun & Joel + Jason Patmore
Doctor Syntax
B-Rex
Grand Poobah
Palmed Out: Andy Hart (vic), Sexy Lucy, Finn Whitla
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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23
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Pier One
Billy & Tilly
Republic Bar & Café
Beer Garden Party 2:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Road Kill + Mountains of Madness + James Masser 10pm
Republic Bar & Café
The Darlings 9pm
The Homestead
Billy Longo
Waratah Hotel
The Eskimo Club - Live Music & DJs 3pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randall
Hotel Soho
B-Rex
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier
Republic Bar & Café
Ross Sermon 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice
Ross Sermon 8:30pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Waratah Hotel
Reggae Sundays w/ Reggae Ink 3pm
Republic Bar & Café
Bobcats 9pm
Birdcage Bar
Billy & Randall
Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Hotel Soho
B-Rex
Birdcage Bar
Jerome Hillier
Republic Bar & Café
Brad Gillies 8:30pm
The Homestead
Jo Meares (Vic)
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
Resonate w/ Kodiak Kid + SpinFX + Bonsai Vs Deall + Harzee + Piglet + The Ringmasters
C Bar
Shaun & Joel
Dickens Ciderhouse
Dave Sikk Quartet 8pm
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ Magneetis
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
Sugartrain 10pm
The Homestead
Ego (AV DJ, NSW)
Waratah Hotel
After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice
Brisbane Hotel
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds (usa) + The Spinning Rooms (vic) + Powernap
The Homestead
Reflekt & Ziak + Statik & Tyrant
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES - 6pm - Birds In Row (Fra) + Calavaiire (Fra) + Colossvs (vic) + Departe Bingo w/ Ramblin Ryan
C Bar
Tony Voglino + Aaron Courtney
Doctor Syntax
B-Rex
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Thursday
Republic Bar & Café
Helen Crowther 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Sambo
Brisbane Hotel
Quiz-A-Saurus
Friday
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Republic Bar & Café
The Sign 8:30pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice
Grand Poobah
Formidable Vegetable Sound System
Grand Poobah
(Kissing Room) Two Crows
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Republic Bar & Café
Alanna Eileen 8:30pm
Waratah Hotel
Quiz Night 7pm
Birdcage Bar
Tony Makro
Republic Bar & Café
4 Letter Fish 9pm
The Homestead
Pete Cornelius
Birdcage Bar
Jason Patmore
Brisbane Hotel
Back - Maricopa Wells (vic) + Ride The Tiger + Rhino
C Bar
Ebeneza Good
Front - Ben David (sa) + Craic Coburn + Bec Stevens + Ratrick Marshall
Dickens Ciderhouse
Mathew Dames 8pm
Observatory Main Room
DJ B-Rex
Pier One
Billy & Tilly
Republic Bar & Café
Hobart Funk Collective 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES - 6pm - Chiodos (usa) + Interview With An Escape Artist + Minds In Motion + The Dawn Of Your Discontent
Doctor Syntax
B-Rex
Brisbane Hotel
Saturday
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Republic Bar & Café 19
Sunday
Observatory Main Room
Brisbane Hotel
Monday
Date
C Bar
Everburn
Observatory Lounge Room
DJ B-Rex
Saturday
Observatory Main Room
DJ Johnny G
February
Republic Bar & Café
The Mornings + Bully Hay Band + Leo Creighton Trio 10pm
Sunday
The Homestead
Chupacabra
Waratah Hotel
After Work Blues w/ Stompfoot Dogs 6pm
Birdcage Bar
Glen Challice
Brisbane Hotel
Dogtower + Tantric Sax
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Launceston Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
The Royal Oak
Julio Matthew in the bar @ 9pm
Tonic Bar
Retweet
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Fresh on Charles
Dog Trumpet
The Royal Oak
Scott Haigh in the bar @9 pm
Tonic Bar
Ball & Chain
January Friday
Saturday
Sunday
2
3
4
Tonic Bar
The Beat Surrender
Watergarden Bar
Tony Voglino
The Royal Oak
Brad Gillies in the bar @9pm
Watergarden Bar
Rino Morea Halfway to Forth w/ Dan Townsend in the bar @9pm
Friday
9
Club 54
In Your Honor: The Songs of the Foo Fighters
Fresh on Charles
Lucie Thorne + Matta Mu
Tonic Bar
Well Strung
Watergarden Bar
Andy & The Woodmen
Club 54
The Schoenberg Automation + Zeolite + The Absolution Sequence + Imperium
Tonic Bar
Midnight Flyers
Watergarden Bar
Trevor Weaver
Sunday
11
The Royal Oak
Open folk session in the bar from 5pm
Wednesday
14
Club 54
Thump!
Fresh on Charles
Senyawa + Lucas Abela (Indo/Syd)
The Royal Oak
David Knight (Vic) in the bar @ 9pm
Watergarden Bar
The Tassie Tenor
The Royal Oak
Daniel Champagne @ 9pm
Watergarden Bar
Acts / Start Time
Thursday
1
Devonport
Molly Malones
Jerome Hillier
Devonport
Molly Malones
Brett Collidge
Club 54
The Saxons + Radio Silence + Pat Broxton + Jack McLaine (DJ Set)
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Unit
The Royal Oak
Pete Cornelius in the Boatshed @9pm $10
Tonic Bar
Ball & Chain
Nick Evangelou in the bar @9pm
Tonic Bar
Take 2
Watergarden Bar
O Rly
Club 54
Thump!
The Royal Oak
Bronny & Pheobe in the bar @9pm
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Club 54
Dark Matter of Storytelling + Run to Versii + Phosphenes + J. Robert Youngtown
The Royal Oak
AYCC Fundraiser: Ursine, Turbulence, Sumner, The Saxons
Tonic Bar
Doctor Rocksters
Watergarden Bar
Jerome Hillier
Club 54
Maricopa Wells + Dog Dreams + A Day From Tonight + Jack McClaine (DJ Set)
The Royal Oak
Becca Stevens w/ Ben David (SA) & Craig Coburn(Vic) in the bar
Tonic Bar
The Beat Surrender Becca Stevens w/ Ben David (SA) & Craig Coburn(Vic) in the bar.
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Elvis We Remember
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January Evil Cisum
Wednesday
Wednesday
Date
O Rly
The Royal Oak
Wednesday
7
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Dev Cup After Party w/ The Ringmasters
Thursday
8
Devonport
Molly Malones
Rino Morea
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Friday
9
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Retrograde
Saturday
10
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Tim Roberts
Devonport
Molly Malones
Take 2
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
Wednesday
14
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Open Mic
Thursday
15
Devonport
Molly Malones
Proud Phoneys
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Friday
16
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
Saturday
17
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
The Nasty Boys
Devonport
Molly Malones
Retrograde Band
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Unit
Thursday
22
Devonport
Molly Malones
Jerome Hillier
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Friday
23
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Tex Perkins & Charlie Owen
Saturday
24
Latrobe
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Jerome Hillier
Devonport
Molly Malones
Midnight Flyers
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
Molly Malones
Ratfunk
Thursday
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Tapas Lounge Bar
Evil Cisum
Watergarden Bar
Andy & The Woodmen
Friday
30
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
The Ringmasters
Venue
Acts / Start Time
Saturday
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Latrobe
Open folk session in the bar from 5pm
Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Rino Morea
The Royal Oak
Devonport
Molly Malones
Ball & Chain
Thump!
Devonport
Tapas Lounge Bar
Retrograde
Club 54
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Tues 6 Andy Colins in the bar @9pm Wed 7 Brad Gillies in the bar @9pm
Wed 14 David Knight (Vic) in the bar @ 9pm
Tapas Lounge Bar
Open folk session in the bar from 5pm
25
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Mackey’s Royal Hotel
Birds In Row + Calvaiire + Colossvs + Departe
Sun 4 Open folk session in the bar from 5pm
Sun 11 Open folk session in the bar from 5pm
Devonport
Proud Phoneys
Sat 3 Scott Haigh in the bar @9 pm
Sat 10 TBC
Latrobe
Watergarden Bar
Fri 2 Julio Matthew in the bar @ 9pm
Fri 9 TBC
2
Club 54
January
Thurs 8 Halfway to Forth w/ Dan Townsend in the bar @9pm
3
The Royal Oak
Sunday
31
Friday
18
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Saturday
Saturday
Sunday
24
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The Red Hot Summer Tour Hoodoo Gurus + James Reyne + Mondo Rock + Daryl Braithwaite + Boom Crash Opera 12:30pm
The Royal Oak
Saturday
Electric Boogaloo in the boatshed @9pm
Country Club Lawns
8
23
The Royal Oak
Lennon Legend: The Songs of John Lennon
Thursday
Friday
Body-Heat
Club 54
Confession + Save the Clocktower + Zeolite + Dawn of Your Discontent
17
Club 54
Jerome Hillier
Andy Colins in the bar @9pm
Saturday
Matthew Dames in the bar @9pm
Watergarden Bar
Club 54
16
The Royal Oak
Open folk session in the bar from 5pm
The Royal Oak
Friday
Caravana Sun ft. Shanti Dreads + Bad Beef
Rino Morea
7
15
Rino Morea
Fresh on Charles
Watergarden Bar
6
Thursday
30
Watergarden Bar
The Royal Oak
Wednesday
10
Friday
29
MEGA Open Mic Night in the bar @9pm
Tonic Bar
Tuesday
Saturday
Thursday
The Royal Oak
Thurs 15 Daniel Champagne @ 9pm Fri 16 Pete Cornelius in the Boatshed @9pm $10 cover Sat 17 Nick Evangelou in the bar @9pm Sun 18 Open folk session in the bar from 5pm Wed 21 Bronny & Pheobe in the bar @9pm Thurs 22 TBC Fri 23 AYCC Fundraiser: Ursine, Turbulence, Sumner, The Saxons Sat 24 Becca Stevens w/ Ben David (SA) & Craig Coburn(Vic) in the bar Sun 25 Open folk session in the bar from 5pm Wed 28 MEGA Open Mic Night in the bar @9pm Thurs 29 Matthew Dames in the bar @9pm Fri 30 Electric Boogaloo in the boatshed @9pm Sat 31 TBC
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