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January Dialect & Despair + Aimz + DJ Two Toes $12pre\$15door Saturday 5th Somerset Barnard Sunday 6th Billy Whitton Monday 7th Calypso Tuesday 8th Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) + Crixus + DJ Dameza + Dundee $35pre/$40door Wednesday 9th Zulya and the Children of the Underground $10 Thursday 10th Chris Assaad Trio (Canada) + Adam Cousens $8 Friday 11th Fritz + Prarie $5 Saturday 12th Wahbash Avenue Sunday 13th G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) Monday 14th Rory Mcleod Tuesday 15th Double Down Wednesday 16th Dave Wilson Band Thursday 17th Pete Cornelius & The Devilles Friday 18th All Good Funk Alliance(USA) Featuring MC Think Tank (USA) + Acumen $15pre/$20door Saturday 19th
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WARP NEWS - january GOTYE GOTYE GOTYE Well the ARIAs have come and gone once again, and once again, it’s all about Gotye. Gotye, Gotye, Gotye, Gotye, Gotye. Ol’ Wally won four ARIAs this time around, taking out Best Male Artist, Best Album, Best Pop Release, and Best Live Act. During his 500th speech of the night, Gotye confirmed that he is indeed, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Other winners on the night included a girl who made a song with Gotye, and some people who aren’t Gotye but probably wish they were Gotye. GOTYE! Because too much Gotye is barely enough! Gotye followed up his epic and monumental and probably Earth-shattering (or whatevers) ARIA haul with three Grammy nominations. This is what the Mayans predicted. Gotye is up for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/ Group Performance for Somebody That I Used to Know, and Best Alternative Music Album for Making Mirrors. Unfortunately Gotye didn’t receive a nomination for Best Supporting Gotye in a Gotye, Gotye. Maybe next time, Gotye.
themselves a “Retro power-pop trio”, and claim to be “The ultimate 60’s party band”, that’s a pretty big call, the only way to verify it would be to check them out in the flesh. Fortunately, you can do exactly that at the Carlyle Hotel on Saturday February 2. They’re not just a cover band though, they’ve just released their second album of 60’s inspired original pop songs, called That Life. So head along to the gig, and pick up the album if you like their style. HIGH ROTATION Well triple J has once again given us an insight into which acts they’ll be flogging the bejesus out of in the New Year. It’s kinda handy that they do this really, as it lets us know whether we should bother tuning in at any point during 2013. It’s a fairly varied lot this time, with a hefty bunch of producers, DJ’s, crooners, and rappers scattered throughout the usual indie rawk acts and quirky pop princesses. Here’s the full list: Asta, Bored Nothing, Chet Faker, City Calm Down, Courtney Barnett, Flume, Hayden Calnin, Hey Geronimo, Jackie Onassis, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Kingswood, Millions, Mr Hill & Rahjconkas, Northlane, Sticky Fingers, Stillwater Giants, Ta-Ku, Thelma Plum, The Trouble With Templeton, Tyler Touche. Anything you dig? FOOD FOR THOUGHT
60’s FLASHBACK Man, there was some seriously kick-ass music made way back in the 60’s. If you don’t agree with that, you ain’t half as hip as you think you are. Sorry kiddo. The Breed (consisting of Wayne Crisp, Dan Graver and Kenny White) call
MOFO isn’t just about music and performing arts, it’s about food and education too, apparently. On Friday January 18 at PW1 (free with a Festival ticket), master butcher Marcus Vermey will break down a whole Lamb into prime cuts before your eyes. While he’s doing that, Vince Trim of The Source restaurant at MONA will cook the cuts as they come off the carcass. Sounds kinda interesting, huh? They’re calling this event DEAD. The following day at the same spot, Paulette Whitney of Provenance Growers will join Vince Trim to present ALIVE, which unfortunately won’t bring the Lamb
back to life, because that’s impossible. Instead they’ll be showing you how to create a living, edible vegetable garden made out of savoury edible soil, plants, herbs, flowers and tasty weeds (I said “weeds”, calm down, stoners).
MORE ACRONYMS AND MARKETS IN EVEN MORE MONA RELATED NEWS BECAUSE MONA AND GOTYE ARE ALL THAT EXIST ON PLANET EARTH: MoMa (Mona Market) is back, each Saturday on the MONA Lawns from 11am to 4pm until March 30, 2013. “The theme of MoMa this year, ‘eat the problem’, has been a long-standing obsession of mine” says MoMa artistic director Kirsha Kaechele. There’ll be a heap of stalls along these lines, plenty of new and random and possibly bizarre thingies to eat and try. Also, plenty for the kids too, it’s a feast of family fun and food! Eff yeah! LOCAL ARTIST ON WAX MC and Producer, Crixus has just released the Prototypecast EP on local imprint, Edge of the World Records. The self-produced, recorded and mixed six-song 12” 45rpm vinyl release, also features the talents of Urshula Leung and Nicholas Mercer from Hobart band Little Bear. Available from select independent record stores around the country, and online via edgeoftheworldrecords.com, Prototypecast is Crixus’ first appearance on vinyl since the 2003 release of the acclaimed Culture of Kings 2 compilation. You can catch Crixus supporting Chali 2na at the Republic Bar & Café on Wednesday January 9.
TIMEWARP IN 40th ANNIVERSARY Regines is back! What’s Regines? Ask your parents! Regines was a long running nightclub at Wrest Point. Originally opening way back in 1975, Regines is opening again for four weekends over January and February, as part of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Casino. Celebrations will kick off with the ticketed VIP opening night on Friday January 18 featuring ‘60s and ‘70s extraordinare DJ Emma Peel, Warren Hankey and more 70’s selectas to be announced. Tickets are $60 including a two-hour beverage package and nibbles, and can be purchased from the Wrest Point Service Centre on 6221 1700 or via wrestpoint.com.au. Each weekend after, Regines will move forward a decade, with the weekend of January 25 and 26 being 80’s inspired. February 1 and 2 will usher in the ‘90s and conclude with the ‘00s on February 8 and 9. MUSIC WITH TANG With the momentum of a thousand horses bolting from a forest fire, the Barons of Tang pause only for a quick head count. A year’s worth of touring has turned the Barons into an impressively tight ensemble, expertly delivering their strange brand of Eastern European inspired punk chaos the band has
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david walker If you were so addicted to something that it destroyed your life, what would you like it to be? Arnott's Ginger Nut Biscuits. Digesting too many over a certain period of time would lead to morbid obesity and diabetes - that’s life destroying enough. What musical genre dominates your iPod? All the music that’s rejected by gangstas and narrow-minded pop princesses, which would be the bottomless pit of heavy metal and One Direction for good measure (kidding). Music’s the best thing in the world, isn’t it? Well, unlike Mongolian, it’s the universal language most people can understand and relate to. Great for a stress outlet, exercising and having sex to.
Do you love or hate writing? I love writing, I wouldn’t be writing for WARP otherwise! It allows me to express my opinion on something and inform other people on what I think. That’s if they really care. If you could interview one person, dead or alive, who would it be and why? Rob Zombie, because of his multi-talented skills – musician, film director, graphic artist, etc. When will your dreams die? Never. I live in a dream-world. I’m a part of the Never Ending Story!
FROM SMITH ST WITH LOVE become renowned for. Festivals around the world, recently, saw them share the same bills as Bon Iver, the Cure, Refused, Snoop dog and the Flaming lips to name just a few. The Barons of Tang will play the Grand Poobah in Hobart on January 25 and then head north to perform at the Tasmanian Circus Festival in Golconda. The Band has also just finished recording their long awaited debut album set for release mid 2013.
AN IDEA OF HAPPINESS Van She is quietly one of the weirdest outfits around. Have you seen some of their music videos? They’re weirdos. And if you like a bit of the weird, they’re well worth seeing live, on Thursday January 31 at The Royal Oak in Launceston, and Friday February 1 and Saturday February 2 at the Republic Bar & Café in Hobart. Tickets for all three gigs are available at Ruffcut, Mojo Music, online via Moshtix, or at the respective venues.
In news from Smith St, The Smith St Band announced a national tour kicking off at the end of January. Two of the fourteen planned gigs are in Tasmania, so people from both ends of the state have a chance to catch ‘em in action! Thursday February 21 at The Royal Oak in Launceston, Friday February 22 at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart. They’ll be joined on tour by Bomb the Music Industry (USA). Also in February, lead singer Wil Wagner will be releasing his Laika EP via Poison City Records, recorded in Hobart with local singer/ songwriter/producer Lincoln Le Fevre.
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MUSIC NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED One of heavy music’s most established and innovative bands, Converge, will return to Australia in February. Their latest album All We Love We Leave Behind is being lauded as their most integral album to date, in a catalogue that’s celebrated to an almost religious degree by fans of punk, metal and hardcore worldwide. Joining them on their tour will be U.S. supergroup Old Man Gloom. You can catch Converge and Old Man Gloom at the Brisbane Hotel on Friday February 14 (a perfect Valentine’s Day date, right?), tickets available from The Brisbane, Ruffcut, or online via Moshtix.
BREAK OUT THE SUMMER Recreational Thugs have been killin’ it in Launceston over the past couple years. They’re the heads behind some mad jams of late, DJ Dexter, DJ Flagrant, and The NC Laneway Party to name a few, and their Drop (monthly dubstep) gigs are consistently going from strength to strength. In their biggest and best move yet, they’re putting on a huge one on Sunday January 27 (Australia Day long weekend)! SUMMER BREAK will feature the likes of M-Phazes, Airwolf, Alta, DJ Dagwood, DJ Akouo, DJ Mufasa (and more TBA) at Royal Park (situated in a temporary venue around the Launceston Rugby Club) in an all day extravaganza of food, beer, wine, feel-good electronic music and good people. Limited tickets go on sale Monday January 17. For more information, hit up www.recreationalthugs.com. FUN AT FRACTANGULAR Fractangular is a three day event on February 8 to 10 with art, workshops, and about a zillion live performers, muso’s and DJs. Headliners this year include Rinkadink (South Africa), Haltya (Finland), Rapskallion (Vic), and EMDEE (N.T.). There is fifty other acts on the bill (I’m not even joking about that), so it’s gonna be nonstop beats and festival frivolities for days. The early bird tickets ($60 + bf ) are already selling like bottled water, so get in quick! Once they’re gone, you’re stuck with regular old normal tickets ($80 + bf ).
THAT’S HEAVENLY First act under the Heavenly Sounds banner in 2013 is the splendiferous Julia Stone. For those of you who don’t know the dealio with the Heavenly Sounds gig, it’s essentially acts playing in old churches. The acoustics in these churches are usually pretty sweet, so it adds an extra bit of awesome to the music itself. Anyway, Julia Stone will be visiting Hobart’s St David’s Cathedral on Tuesday February 19. She’ll be joined on stage by Ross Irwin (Cat Empire, The Bamboos), and Ben Edgar and Ed Fairly (Gotye), who will all be playing a variety of instruments. Support will be provided by Melbourne based folk-pop act Vance Joy. A RED HOT SUMMER Good ol’ Barnesy eh! Who’d have thought he’d still be kickin’ about here in 2013? Well, he is. So is Ian Moss, so are Dragon and Chocolate Starfish. Rock on. You can see them all rock on next month in Launceston and Hobart as The Red Hot Summer Tour Aussie Rock Extravaganza visits Tasmania Saturday February 9 at the Country Club Lawns, and Sunday February 10 at Wrestpoint Lawns. Tickets start from $79.90 and are available via TixTas (1300 795 257 or www.tixtas.com.au).
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Clubfeet have just announced their Heirs & Graces Australian album tour. The eight-date jaunt will encompass all major cities throughout February, shortly after the release of their new LP, Heirs & Graces, on January 18. The Melbourne (via Cape Town) band originally made a name throughout the US and Europe with the release of debut album Gold on Gold in 2010, which received rave reviews from all those industry types. Since then, their stock has risen dramatically, and Tasmania gets a chance to experience their acclaimed live show on Wednesday February 27. Tickets are $12 + bf (or $25 + bf (including a copy of the album), and are available via Ruffcut, the Republic, or online via Moshtix. BREATHING NEW LIFE Breath of Life is slowly creeping up on us, and the organisers just keep throwing big name after big name in our faces, it’s a good thing! This time they’ve announced Sydney based DJ/Producer/all-around-freakshow Flume, and Melbourne based DJ/Singer/Dancer/Everythingelser Havana Brown will be joining the bill. Both acts have been tearing up their respective charts lately, with Flume’s recently released debut self-titled album debuting at #2 on the ARIA Album Charts and holding the #1 position on the iTuned Album Charts for a while there, and Havana Brown’s We Run The Night single going nutso in the pop-club circles. Check em out! WHOLE LOTTA LOVE Robert Plant is coming to Tasmania. Yep, you read that correctly. ROBERT PLANT IS COMING TO TASMANIA! His latest project, The Sensational Space Shifters are a loose band "inspired by the roots music of Mississippi, Appalachia, Gambia, Bristol and the foothills of Wolverhampton and drawing on influences collected in a lifetime of meander and journeying." Playing at Launceston’s Silverdome on Friday April 5, tickets are either $119 or $149, depending on where you want to sit. We’re pretty sure they won’t last long, so get in early! They’re available from www. silverdome.com.au
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BLASKO TURNED INSIDE OUT BECAUSE HEARTS WERE MEANT FOR CHESTS, NOT SLEEVES. Sarah Blasko sounds a little worn out. “Sydney is home for now; I’m re-adjusting to being elsewhere for a while,” she says with a sigh. “But I don’t know about next year. I never quite know where the music will take me.” Blasko has followed the music over mountains high and valleys low since her 2004 debut. The woman on that that record is fragile and transparent, broken and refired by the dissolution of an unhappy marriage. Each following record has exhibited an artist still vitreous with emotion, but who has both toughened up and lightened up too. With album number four, I Awake, Blasko sounds more positively self-possessed than ever. “This record is probably my most confident to date,” Blasko says. “But it’s hard to have perspectives on how you come across. I have always tried to be honest and open... I don’t know.” To be fair, Blasko probably has a right to sound enervated. She is standing at the base of a mountainous national tour which sees her performing with a different symphony orchestra in every capital city, and she has only just completed the album which she says nearly killed her. “I spent the first half of 2011 in a house in Brighton in England alone with my thoughts and memories, haunted and unsettled,” she says. “Out of that, I believe, came a strength. The decision to simply give it all.” Blasko spent seven months in Sweden, a land which she describes forthrightly as “just cold, really, without much sun.”
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She chose to produce the record herself there, a world away from the place which, for now at least, she calls home. Each step was a choice to walk away from what was familiar and move ever closer toward the adventure. “Honestly, the thing was a behemoth!” she says. “There were moments I felt I would sink beneath it. But that's the kind of thing I choose.” She also chose to record with the Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria, the homeland of her father, but says she didn’t feel any kind of connection with the place. In fact, she says she has never found a place where she feels completely at home. Some of this may be attributable to her upbringing. “My parents were Christian missionaries and I grew up with an 'Us' and 'Them' view of the world,” she discloses. “I grew up seeing myself as being kind of outside the world. To be honest, I wish we hadn’t been so isolated. Belief can really isolate people.” Reflecting on her own childhood, Blasko ponders what she would say to her younger self if she had the chance. “I would say ‘life is pretty complicated’,” she says, after a long silence. “You want to have high dreams and think beyond what is possible, but you also need to be happy with where you are. You need to have dreams and be content with where you are." “Be constantly aware of being happy with life and its complexities…” Another pregnant pause. “I still have to make myself constantly aware of being happy with the present.”
This is the stuff of I Awake: embracing the paradoxes. It is an album of contrasts. All Of Me is about wanting to give oneself entirely to love without losing oneself in the process, and Cast The Net is about being honest with yourself, something which Blasko admits is often impossible to do. “Someone said recently that I was inside out,” she says. “They were talking about how I openly express my emotions and how I am honest, so that it’s as if my insides are on my outsides for all to see. I was horrified! That was really, really scary to hear. I’m an emotional person but I don’t want to be inside out.” Sometimes Blasko’s honesty is more obvious to others than it is to her. Like all strengths, this can also be her weakness, and an exhausting one at that. Perhaps this explains her weary disposition today. Who really wants to have their secrets on their t-shirt anyway? “I kinda wish I wasn’t inside out but, at the same time, if I hadn’t been this way and made the mistakes I’ve made, I wouldn’t be who I am,” she says. “I’m really hard on myself.
“You want to have high dreams and think beyond what is possible, but you also need to be happy with where you are. You need to have dreams and be content with where you are."
“My grandfather is 90, he’s still got his mind, he’s still writing and still engaging with the world,” she muses. “If I was his age and I could talk to 36 year-old Sarah I would say, ‘Don’t worry. You get so caught up in worries and things that don’t really matter’.” “I might never get the opportunity to play with an orchestra again,” she smiles. “I want to enjoy it.” DANIEL TOWNSEND
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pick up from the street. In Brazil, I’ve been lucky enough to see the Candomble rituals; percussion and trance-like dancing accompany them. The purpose of the music is to conjure spirits. It’s overwhelming and magical.
WARP: How do think the origins within your band affects your sound?
KF: The oud is an ancient Persian or Arabic stringed, pear-shaped instrument played most often in Greek, Turkish and Arabic music. The instrument in Karavana Flamenca brings out the Moorish roots of Flamenco. A possible ancestor of the guitar and definitely an influence on the flamenco guitar, most people would know the lute which derived from the oud. The scales and rich tones of the oud are stunning.
Karavana Flamenca: Karavana Flamenca combines old and contemporary styles and instruments, like the oud and the fretless bass. The sounds and scales from the Moors (Arabic) connected with Flamenco singing allow us to reach a “duende”, that is the spirit of the earth. To have musicians with such diverse and rich musical experiences makes our sound more authentic and allows us to recreate new music. W: Miguel - you sing in Romany (Gypsy); is it still widely spoken and are there a number of dialects within the language? Miguel Ovejero: The Romany communities still speak their language that originates from India. They’re well preserved through oral history with three main dialects from Russia, Spain and the Balkans. W: How did you all end up playing together? KF: Three of us have been together for almost ten years. We met in different circumstances all related to music, at gigs and performing at festivals. After a few wines and lots of jamming you usually know if a new member has been born! W: What are some of the most exciting music scenes you've come across in your travels? KF: In Los Andes, I was witness to a Bolivian pagan ritual. Old women and men were playing charangos (a small lute-like instrument), trumpets, flutes and whatever they could
W: Can you give a little detail about the oud and cajon?
The cajon, that translates as ‘box’, is just that - a wooden box the percussionist sits on with a hole at the back. It originated in the ports of Peru with the African slaves making music on anything they could find and play without being noticed. The instrument found its way to Cuba where it accompanied rumbas, especially the yambu rumbas. The Spanish immigrants that came and left Cuba took the cajon to Spain, as well as the rumbas. It’s now the main percussive instrument for Flamenco and popular worldwide. The Hoodoo Gurus toured with one, I seem to remember. W: If there were a band or performer you could see anywhere in the world, who would it be? KF: It would be Camaron de la Isla. He was the master of the art of 'Cante' flamenco. He bought flamenco to the world. LIZ DOUGAN
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Pretty Lights DEREK SMITH, BEHIND THE MONIKER PRETTY LIGHTS, HAS BEEN A REJUVENATING FORCE IN THE LAND OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM THE WORLD OF ‘DANCE’ WITH HIS HIP-HOP INSPIRED BEATS.
Calling from his home studio in Denver, Colorado it was clear that he is a busy, busy man. After finishing up from three straight months of touring, mixed with two years of musical production, Smith was keen to discuss his forthcoming release. Crafted entirely from equipment which dates back before the 1970s, Smith has every intention of doing things differently. “Being a hip-hop producer, it means I can sample a lot of things: Classical, Jazz, Blues, Roots, Funk, you name it, it is on there somewhere.” The laborious task has surely kept him occupied over the past few months, while also filming an expansive documentary which will accompany the release of the album next year. He stressed the importance of the forthcoming album, claiming that it would show the “direction Pretty Lights is now moving in.” Careful not to give anything away, Smith moved quickly onto the impending Australian tour, something which he clearly couldn't wait for. “I’m really fucking excited,” he confessed. “I’m going to get there a week early to travel; it’s a beautiful country.” Playing both the national Big Day Out festival and MONA FOMA festival in Hobart, Smith had every intention of doing things differently.
Catch Pretty Lights at the MONA FOMA 2013 opening party on Wednesday January 16, 10.15pm at PW1, free of charge. www.mofo.net.au
“MONA FOMA will be great - electronic music isn’t just what they think it is. It’ll be like a music history class mixed with some hip-hop beats, something like that,” he laughed. Hooked by the recent film The Hunter, filmed in Tasmania, Smith couldn’t be more excited about visiting Hobart. However, with all good things there is one mild drawback: “The stage in Tasmania isn’t big enough for my stage show, so that’ll only be for mainland gigs.” Smith's famous light display captures the elements of an urban landscape, and the changes that occur with it. The most exciting aspect of his live show in Australia is his intention to please the crowds. After a twenty minute discussion on which Australian classics he should rework to incorporate into his set, we settled on three: ACDC's Thunderstruck, Jimmy Barnes’ Working Class Man and Daddy Cool’s Eagle Rock: three Australian classics which Smith may now possibly rework to ensure the best possible experience for the Australian fans. Returning to his excitement for his Australian tour, Derek briefly reminisced about his last tour as a part of the 2011 Stereosonic bill, where he befriended the likes of Carl Cox and LMFAO. Yet building on last years' experience, it was the diversity of the 2013 MOFO line-up which is the most appealing aspect for his appearance. Performing alongside the likes of Death Grips, Dirty Projectors and David Byrne & St. Vincent is something new to Smith, and it's this diversity which makes him so “fucking excited”. With the impending album release, new remixes and Smith's intention to blow the minds of audiences across Australia, it’s easy to tell that the Pretty Lights performances of 2013 will be up there amongst the most talked about for some time.
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MOFO ON SPEED MONA FOMA’S FIRST ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, CHICKS ON SPEED, IS A WHIP-SMART OUTFIT THAT COULD BE CALLED DJING ARTIST ELECTRO MUSICIANS WHO GIVE PERFORMANCE LECTURES AND MAKE GARMENTS. I THINK. To clarify, founders Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie answer some questions, correct some assertions, and confuse me even more. Awesome. WARP: I see Chicks on Speed as being punk - punk as in the idea of punk as a mode of expression accessible to all. Or is that too limiting?
ALEX: The French have always adored to be made fun of in a tongue and cheek way, that's how we see performing Fashion Rules at Fashion Week, it's about humour and using paradoxes in our work to make people just want to dance and freak out! Is giving a performance lecture poking fun at the Academy?
MELISSA: Yes, of course punk is limiting, our work does include subversion as a working method, and punk did as well, so there is a connection. We do not waste energy being against government or against the wealthy, out strategy is infiltration, knowledge and through that change can come about in a lasting way.
A: I think it's more about just wanting to take over every genre possible and infiltrate as many public and private spaces as possible, turning everyday life situations into a performance! I have to say I’m a big Leigh Bowery fan; his attitude has definitely permeated into COS in many ways.
You appear to be lots of things: a band, DJs, designers, artists, pranksters. What do you consider yourselves to be? Or do you avoid being anything in particular?
Are you academics?
M: I like that question. We do not have a wellknown term for what we do at the moment. We are active in music of course, but do not like the band structure with its lead singer, dumb drummer, management. We are a clan of artists. And we do what we want to do, poetry, naked performing, teaching, DJing, building an app. Please let us know if you have any good terms, multidisciplinary sounds dull compared to the spontaneity and intensity with which we work. One thing that seems important about Chicks on Speed is the sense of fun. It comes across as a big trashy art party that anyone can join in on. M: Oh this is horrible, a sense of fun! A big trashy art party! OH NO. I thought we are so strange that we are not so accessible. No, we are not always having a good time; we are mostly working actually. We do want everyone to enjoy themselves, but pleasure is overvalued, most of the planet is addicted to food, gourmet gimmicks that people have as hobbies, because they are scared of something with content in their lives, while the rest of the planet starves. Much of what you do is subversive. Is doing a performance at Paris Fashion week a vast prank, did you have a good time doing it or did you enjoy it for what it was?
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A: Actually yes! I'm commencing my PhD research at CCS, University of Technology Sydney. The feminist aspect of Chicks on Speed is evident, but there's another element of re-cycling and maybe even a criticism of consumer culture at play in what you do – is that just as important? M: We are so saturated in consumer society, capitalism. A direct critique of it is stupid, especially when you go to countries that do not have functioning social web, a capitalist structure controlled by another continent. For example how the Ivory Coast is controlled by France... I am a big fan of an honest exchange of money for goods or service, and a big fan of governments protecting their populations. As Artists in Residence, what will Chicks on Speed get up to at MONA FOMA? We're collaborating with Academic and artist Kiley Gafney on a new piece titled Prototype Hits, it's about jumping over the ivory tower into pop! ANDREW HARPER
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CASSETTES FOR THE MASSES THE LURE OF AN OUDATED, SUPERSEDED FORMAT – THERE’S NOTHING LIKE IT. PEOPLE STILL BUY BOOKS AND THERE’S A BIT OF A REVIVAL FOR THE VHS, BUT CASSETTES HAVE COME BACK WITH A VENGEANCE.
That doesn’t explain, though, why there are cassette-only labels in Hobart right now, (with other labels happily releasing cassettes as well as vinyl records – there’s another format that should be dead) and even though I have bought more than few local cassettes and find listening to them whilst cooking risotto in my kitchen a very comforting activity, I am still at something of a loss to explain why anyone would bother making the damn things, beyond being bloody minded in the dedication to analogue sound. Joel Hedrick, sole owner operator of the newest cassette only label in Hobart, Uninterrupted Tapes, shed some light on the whole thing for me. “It’s the aesthetic, sort of. The size, the way you can make covers, the way they fit in your hand” Joel reckons. It’s easy to understand when you’re hanging out in a kitchen drinking homebrews while something like Wendy in the Mountains and the Caves with the Slaves plays a beautiful soundscape.
The format seems like a scrappy secret from a thrift shop. Joel got excited talking about how he and his flat mate, Jesse, of the aforementioned Wendy band, have been randomly buying cassettes from second hand spots and listening to just about anything, finding weird and daggy things indeed, but having a great time in the process. It seems to me the Joel, and anyone else who is releasing cassettes, wants to take part in a hunt for buried treasure. So, yes, you could go and get the shiny new cassettes of black metal, noise or scrubby Hobart punk tunes that kick around (and I suggest you do because the sounds are great no matter what format you hear them on), but you could also go buy something from Vinnies for 50 cents and try and work out what the hell it is and where it came from. You may well need to hunt down a player l, but digging up working stereo bits and slapping them together is another adventure that’s pretty fun as well.
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WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL, MOFO? ROCKING OUT TO ONE OF THE VIOLENT FEMMES' HUGE HITS AND SIPPING OOLONG IN A TRADITIONAL TEA HOUSE TO THE TRANQUIL TONES OF THE JAPANESE FLUTE MAY SEEM LIKE WILDLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES. BUT FOR MONA FOMA CURATOR, BRIAN RITCHIE, VARIETY AND ARTISTIC EXPLORATION ARE RITUAL. The Violent Femmes' bassist-turnedShakuhachi master has toured most countries you could name. He has played with Zen Circus, The Green Mist, Paddy on the Railway, and even formed Australian surf band The Break with a few old friends from Midnight Oil. Ritchie has put together a provocative line-up for this year's MOFO – a festival that he formed with David Walsh in 2009. We caught up with Ritchie to talk about some of his experiences and thoughts on the Tasmanian musical event. WARP: As the curator of MOFO, how do you think the festival is changing people's perspectives on the Tasmanian music scene? Brian Ritchie: I think it's probably changing people's perspectives on Tasmania as a destination for events or as a happening place more than on the music scene in general. If by music scene you mean the local musicians we do not use a quota system for anything in MOFO but I analysed it and it's about 1/3 local, 1/3 national and 1/3 international, which works for me. But my policy is that the local content has to be of equal quality as the visiting musicians and also uncommon. This means our best local stuff, such as Michael Kieran Harvey's 48 Fugues for Frank and IHOS' The Barbarians, both of which have won awards, are bespoke projects for MOFO.
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This year we have 'POUAW!' by Mat Ward in that situation. When the visitors come to MOFO they will notice that the quality of the local music is equally as splendid as the rest. However I wish more locals were coming forth with interesting project; we're not likely to book a local band doing their usual stuff because that's not going to be different than what people can get during the rest of the year. W: This year's MOFO features underwater drumming, Elvis Costello, and three centuries of harpsichord music in a nutshell. Is there method to your program madness, or is it just a case of, “man, people have really gotta see this?” BR: There are plenty of themes running through MOFO and also crossing from one MOFO to the other. But I don't tell anybody what they are! People have to discover for themselves the only way it counts - by attending and listening. Some of the stuff is truly curated from start to finish. The touring acts are a case of saying, "this is too good to pass up". So it's a bit random at times, but there is some thought that goes into it. W: From playing your own Violent Femmes songs with Amanda Palmer to dragging Chinese throat singers all the way to Hobart, what is your most memorable MOFO experience so far?
BR: The most moving experience was to see Pierre Henry broadcasting his performance from his home studio in Paris. To see a mighty genius like that in such a frail situation but still creating in top form was heavy. The other memorable moment for me was when Jon Rose's Big Ball got kicked and perched atop the outdoor stage at PW1. The audience gasped in unison, wondering whether it would fall back into the crowd or invade Castray Esplanade. When the ball went into the road, pandemonium erupted. I was particularly amused watching a cabbie drive towards it and imagining him thinking, "Why is a giant ball coming towards me?"
W: How have your die hard Violent Femmes fans reacted to your move into such a contrasting meditative genre?
W: So after performing with the Violent Femmes in 35 different countries, and studying the traditional Japanese shakuhachi in New York for seven years, what was it that made you decide Hobart was where you wanted to settle down?
BR: Kotaro Takamura wrote an interesting essay called 'Green Sun', in which he explored the concept of his Japanese nationality in reference to his art. His conclusion was that the more removed you became from your origins, the more your background is apparent in your art, not less as might be assumed. I have found this to be true - the more time I spend away from America, the more American I become.
BR: My wife Varuni and I had come to Tasmania a number of times on gigs for me and scientific work for her. We wanted to move to Australia anyway because of the positive nature of this country and thought Tasmania was the most interesting place in the country. It also presented a huge contrast to NYC. It wouldn't have made sense to move from NYC to another big city.
BR: In Australia, people seem to be completely open to the idea that I do a vast array of different things; from Shakuhachi to tea to Australian Chamber Orchestra, The Break, Rodriguez, working with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, MOFO or whatever. It's only the Americans who seem baffled by this kind of musical multi-tasking. But I don't live there anymore so that's not my problem. W: Are you turning Japanese?
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HERMITUDE’S PARADISE LIFE COULDN’T BE SWEETER RIGHT NOW THAN IT IS FOR HIP-HOP DUO HERMITUDE. THEY’VE JUST RELEASED A NEW SINGLE, ARE HEADING OUT ON TOUR, SCORED AT THE ARIAS AND WON AN AIR AWARD. Angus Stuart, or ‘Elgusto’ to fans, is keen to start touring after an intense year of shows with fellow Hermitude brother Luke Dubber. “We’ve had a really great year. We released our album HyperParadise and it’s just been on the up and up, and we’ve done a lot of wicked shows, and we’re actually just quite keen to get back out on the road again,” he tells. Snatching up two nominations at the ARIAs for Best Video and Best Dance Release, Hermitude has also this year won an AIR award for Best Dance/Electronica Album. “We were really stoked! You know, it’s a bit of an honour to get nominated for the AIR awards and we were up against some stiff competition. We were definitely surprised when our names got called out, and we hadn’t really prepared any speeches or anything, but that was pretty cool!" “We were [also] pretty stoked to be nominated for the ARIAs. We went along and we got beaten unfortunately, but it was all a lot of fun and it’s great to be recognised and that our record’s out there doing things.” The limelight is nothing new for Hermitude, having played at numerous festivals throughout the year such as Groovin’ the Moo, Parklife and Homebake. They will also headline a show in Sydney this month. “We did our first headlining tour for HyperParadise back in March, and since then just been doing festivals and stuff. We realised towards the end of the year, 'Man, we have to
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do another headline tour', ‘cause we really want to do our own shows and get in front of fans that don’t want to go to a festival and see a million other bands.” But despite scoring support slots with some huge international acts in the past such as Dizzee Rascal, keeping a cool head and openness into making music has also been a contributing factor for the duo’s success. “I think every time that we put out a record, we progress in some way. I think that I’m always learning. I don’t know that I’ll ever be the master of an instrument or production or anything like that, it’s like every time you do something in the studio you learn something new. I just think that it’s key to progress and keep things fresh. We’ve definitely come a long way.” And the New Year is already looking prosperous for Hermitude, as the duo will finally be able to play their “own shows” with their “own fans”. “We’re definitely looking forward to getting down to Hobart, ‘cause gigs down there are really awesome,” Angus says. “We can’t wait to get down to Tassie . . . it’s a beautiful spot”. ENRICA RIGOLI
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Summer is here, the weather is fine and it’s probably about time you got outside and expanded your aural tastebuds. New Year’s resolutions are ripe for the picking, and how about promising yourself an outing to something slightly spicier than the average by sampling one of the below freakily fantastic musical showcases. 1. SUBMERGE
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Ever longingly wished that you could watch an extreme female drummer be craned into the Derwent River to play a frantic underwater set in frisky waters? I know I have! If this experience features heavily on your bucket list too, Tina Havelock Stevens' show Submerge is a must-see. Returning after a stellar performance on the back of Nell’s flatbed truck last year, Tina will combine frequency and the electromagnetic pulses of place and time, with an awesome aquatic ambience to deliver a pumping out-of-this-world performance. Hopefully she won’t scare the fish.
Why not combine a night of Sangria, Spanish Sausage and Señoritas with Elizabeth Anderson’s exploration of Barock harpsichord music. Spanning three centuries and ranging from traditional Baroque repertoire by Bach, Purchell and Balbastre through to Nineteenth Century Spanish fave Leyanda, Gershwin and those old Hispanic dreamboats Los Beatles (I joke, I mean The Beatles), Anderson presents a thorough exploration of this underrepresented genre. Ariba!
Wednesday January 16. Free Entrance, at PW1.
2. AKATHISTOS Seven hours is a relatively substantial part of any day. Approximately a third, in fact. What can happen within these hours is completely up to you. For example, you could comfortably fly to Darwin from Hobart in this time. Or, as blast from the past celebrity Lauren Conrad (from The Hills) recently revealed, use the entirety of these precious hours to get your hair done. However, if you don’t fancy Darwin this time of year, or have no desire for LC’s luscious locks, how about dropping into bassist and composer Nick Tsiavos' seven-hour-durational and ritualistic work based on the past realms of Ancient Greece. Tsiavos spans cultural boundaries in his piece that spans Sixth Century chanting to contemporary minimalism through fervid improvisation that’s sure to expand your musical preconceptions.
Elizabeth Anderson (AUS) performs on Sunday January 20 at 1pm, at Hobart Town Hall. Entry is free.
5. DEATH GRIPS If you fancy some experimental electro rap both in your face and your ear holes, Death Grips show at MOFO is probably a good place to start. Hailing from sweet Sacramento, but sounding about as sweet as a lump of coal, Death Grips' sound is abrasive, reverberating and uncompromising. It may not be the kind of music you’d listen to in the bath, but they’re sure to make for a raw, sweaty gig with Stefan ‘MC Ride’ Burnett’s writhing, topless and tattooed torso spitting the lyrics as an added visual. Gripping. Thursday January 17 from 10pm at PW1. JESSICA LEVER
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CONSIDERING THE MILEAGE THAT RAPSKALLION HAVE COVERED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT’S SURPRISING THAT CONSIDERING AND THE BUGGER-ALL BUDGETS WE’VE WORKED WITH ABND THE RAGGED BAND OF REPROBATES THAT ARE INVOLVED, THERE HAVE BEEN NO DISASTERS. EXCEPT... If you ask any touring band a similar question, probably the most common shared problem would be with the automobile. This anecdote is set in the fair city of Edinburgh or Ol’reeky, as it’s affectionately known. The nine or ten of us - can’t quite remember - had been on the road for a month from Berlin to Scotland, and everything was going swimmingly in our van full of accordions, hula hoops and frou frou. But disaster struck when the van decided to die in the car park of a recreation centre, leaving us all to forage for survival, during festival time, sleeping in the long grass and eating discarded gig flyers. Then things got even worse when we recruited the dubious mechanical talents of a Glaswegian mobile mechanic, whose name will not be mentioned. To cut a very long story short, after a very arduous relationship with him, 400 quid out of pocket, and still stuck in a rec centre car park, the situation culminated in our drummer Zac leaping onto the dickhead’s speeding van’s windscreen, followed by a somewhat heated discussion in a police station, devoid of police, which in the end solved nothing. Anyway, by sheer providence, we managed to get the van started, deciphering that it was a dodgy petrol pump, and with great joy left Ol’reeky to seek our fortunes in England.
Sunday January 20, 10am - 5pm in The Void at MONA.
Hybrid media artist Wade Marynoswky combines art and technology in his latest piece Black Casino. Joining the likes of Bolan and Hendrix, Marynoswky has been making music with not one, but five great Gibson Flying V guitars. But instead of strumming away like an average Joe, he has instead mounted the instruments atop a rotating spinning wheel to create a five pointed star (Aww, sounds cute and twinkly, don’t it?) Alas, this image connotes the Eighteenth Century ‘diabolus in musica’ or tri-tone musical interval; in other words. The Devil’s Chord. Eat your bat out, Ozzy Osbourne.
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But, as misfortune would have it, approximately 50 miles South of Glasgow on the A7 motorway, our beloved Fiat Ducati once again gave up the ghost amid speeding trucks and, managing to get it to the side of the road, we employed the power of the nine(?) to push the wagon onto the slip road that led into the blessed village of Crawford...which, my friends, is another story for another time. But let me just say, may the blessed inhabitants of Crawford never want for the finest of single malt whiskeys! MONA FOMA happens across Hobart from January 16 – 20, 2013. Tickets and program available from www.mofo.net.au
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ANIMATION FOR THE EARS SONIC ANIMATION IS BACK AGAIN, AND YEP, YOU GUESSED IT – THEY’RE BRINGING THEIR FURRY TECHNOTUBBY BUDDIES ALONG WITH THEM.
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A year and a half since the end of their hiatus, Sonic Animation have taken on a new approach for their upcoming self-released album, Once More From The Bottom. Rupert Keiller and Adrian Cartwright are currently running a campaign through www. pledgemusic.com to assist them in the release.
thought it would be cool if we could get some of that footage and put it together to make a video clip."
Republic Bar Hobart Friday January 25
“People can purchase a digital download of the album, or they can look at more exclusive things like experiences with the band like afternoon tea or dancing in suits, and we’re selling some old equipment. And all that money goes towards putting out the new release,” Rupert says.
“Then I thought, well maybe there are people there that have an interest in filming as well, so shots might be different, and sure enough... there’s one where the whole thing’s upside down, which is pretty funny. We just thought it was weird that they’d sent us a 1GB file that was upside down...”
$15 plus b/f. And while all over the world teenage girls are screaming to get a feel of Justin Beiber, for $20 on the door. these guys, the suits are the showstoppers. 10pm Having just wrapped up a cameo at Homebake,start. “We did a show in Brisbane where the audience our beloved techno/dance award winners for tried to drag the suits off the stage and take Tickets fromfestival venue Best Live Act in Australia have reminded their shoes and gloves. I had the legs of one of punters that they have still got it in them. the characters and the crowd had the top half, so we were just fighting over this person. I won / ruffcut / moshtix “We didn’t really know what to expect because we were on at 3:30 in the afternoon, and we weren’t really sure whether people would be ready for that at that time of day [but] it was great. The tent was pretty much full and everyone got really into it. And we felt really comfortable on stage; we haven’t really played for a while at a festival but we just got back straight into it and the swing of things.”
in the end,” Rupert laughs. “It was one of those early shows when triple j had been playing a lot of Theophilus Thistler. We didn’t really know what to expect, but everyone just went crazy.”
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Lately the duo has been busy compiling footage from fans of their set at Homebake, which they will merge together to create a video clip for their new single, I Will Be Twisted.
And the future for Sonic Animation? “Ideally I’d like to think that we could make a living from it. And continue to do something that I love and am passionate about, but who knows.”
$15 plus b/f. ENRICA RIGOLI $20 on the door. Sonic Animation will be performing two shows across Tasmania this month, January 25 at the “There are so many people with smartphones 9pm start. Republic Bar and Cafe in Hobart, followed by and digital cameras now. There are always Tonic bar in Launceston on January 26. these hands in the air holding cameras, and we Tickets from www.tixtas.com.au I introduce myself to the guitarist who looked like the main character from Corpse Bride, but sort of like someone had taken a sickle to his hair in the night and something from my dad's vegetable garden had eaten holes in his pants. The drummer and the bassist, with a beard like Jesus, trundled into the corner, shortly followed by the lead singer, with hair more unruly than a Brett Whiteley piece. I had just finished listening to their set, with an audio set-up that created a rounded, emphatic atmosphere and a 'creative fusion' (what all the 2hip2Bsquare daddy-O's call it) somewhere between the ambient melancholic vibes of Explosions in the Sky mixed with the standard four-chord grunge quality of Kings of Leon. We all get chatting and the guitarist explains the background of the band and how it all began (of course, it mostly involved his journey as a tortured artist and how it took him quite a while to find the right people to create the sound he wanted).
INTRODUCING... PINES I LOWER MYSELF INTO THE BEER-SOAKED, RED VELVET COUNCHES OF THE BRISBANE HOTEL, IN A POORLY-LIT CORNER WITH STRANGE PICTUES PLASTERED ON THE WALLS OF PEOPLE SHOOTING UP AND OLD MOD HAIRCUTS CIRCA 1973, TO MEET PINES.
“They all just began to piss me off in one way or the other,” he says conversationally. “They were all my friends, and you know, your friends eventually end up pissing you off.” Uh...sounds about right. Joel the bassist interrupts and said they all found each other through their 'drinking around the traps'. Apparently it had been a struggle to find the creative equilibrium that they now share, the lead singer confirms whilst the others gesture wildly and debate the topic of importance of pop culture references. The lead singer tells me that it's funny I should compare it to Kings of Leon, as they all fly in separate jets when going to gigs, and apparently that's his number one dream. “What do they call the 10,000 mile high club when it's just you on the plane?” I ask, jokingly.
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At this point the rest of the band are laughing and talking over the top of each other, informing me I have to “sensationalise the shite out of this article” and that “Jacob Leary does art for Qantas”. Saul the guitarist, who had been silently absorbing everything with a glazed look in his eyes, leans over and picks up my phone and begins a tangent about the hypocritical nature of donkey-on-a-triangle post modernist BS. At this point my compadre and I had concluded that doing an interview under these circumstances couldn't afford to be taken too seriously as we were doubting the sobriety of our interviewees, so we finished on the post-modernist pearl “Would you rather be attacked by 100 duck-sized horses or 100 horse-sized ducks?”, which to me sounds like the kind of thing 40 year old Ethel Wellington, social worker, would ask you in a determinative questionnaire regarding your status as psychotic. They were probably expecting a rorschach ink blot test to follow. If you want to experience a night where you can sit in a meditative state on the floor with comforting, ambient music paired with pining lyrics ('scuse the pun) regarding ex-lovers, lemonade (or alcoholic beverages, if you're really tough) in hand, these are the people to see. If you are seeking extra entertainment, watch them all debate post-modern philosophy at the end of the show. Remember: gigs are only as good as the people running the joint. MORGAN DUHIG
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5 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TRISTAN 'TRIZO' BOUILLAUT
1. TRIZO HAS A STRONG SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO THE OCEAN He lives in a Sydney Northern beach suburb and visits the beach every morning as a form of meditation and inspiration before heading back into the studio to record or write. "I was drawn to the area as a child. I felt a strong connection even driving through the area as a kid. I still feel it coming home off a tour today! At least now I know my faith is saltwater and it’s surrounds, ha ha." 2. HE NOT ONLY WROTE THE SONGS, BUT PLAYED ALL THE INSTRUMENTS, MIXED AND PRODUCED DEAD IN A SECOND’S DEBUT EP, MARETIMO Maretimo is a Spanish word which relates to the Maritimes (oceans). The EP's cover image featuring a model floating in the ocean is called The Lady in the Water, which was photographed by fashion photographer Toni Frissell, and was first published in Harper's Bazaar magazine in December 1947. Maretimo debuted at #3 on the Australian iTunes Rock Charts in June 2012. 3. WHEN TRIZO IS NOT IN THE RECORDING STUDIO, HE RUNS A PRIVATE GUITAR SCHOOL TEACHING MORE THAN 40 STUDENTS A WEEK “Teaching is a great way to keep your feet on the ground, especially when dealing with the music industry on a daily basis. I love the fact I can still learn such basic guitar skills on a daily basis just by watching my students play. My students get to hear all my songs before they're released; I value their opinion when it comes to that.” 4. JEFF MARTIN PRODUCED THE TRACK INTO ETERNITY “This song was written about my father. It was a popular song live, as I think a lot people related to losing someone close to them.” The track reached #4 on the Australian iTunes Rock Charts in 2011. 5. TRIZO HAS GAINED MANY SPONSORSHIPS OVER THE YEARS AND WAS NAMED OFFICIAL AMBASSADOR FOR VOX AMPLIFIERS THIS YEAR “I have been fortunate to represent some great brands and their products. It’s a nice feeling when someone believes in you! Especially in this industry.”
Trizo will be representing VOX in Launceston on Wednesday Jan 9 for the Newstead College Summer School run by Barratts Music. He will be giving a talk on everything music, including his experiences from touring, recording and, of course, the industry in general. He will also be sticking around for some private coaching Thursday January 10. Trizo's band Dead In A Second will hit the road late February.
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dear Loani,
FINE 2NING THERE’S MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR TO CHALI 2NA. There’s a guttural shuddering. Momentarily I consider the possibility that I’m listening to the death of Chali 2na, live and interactive. But no; he’s laughing, and all that’s dying is my phone’s speaker. His voice is just too low for it to handle. Few voices in hip-hop are as distinctive as Chali 2na’s rich baritone. Over a 20-year career, he’s enjoyed success with groups such as Jurassic Five and Ozomatli, releasing his first solo LP in 2009. But there’s another (unexpected) side to the man with the caramel larynx. “Painting might be more important to me than music, to be perfectly honest,” he tells. “It’s my first love. We had a relationship for a long time, and then all of a sudden, the girl that I married was music. For the longest time it was something that I held kinda sacred to myself. But I’ve accumulated so much art that now I want to share that with all of the people that have been supporters through these years.” And that’s just what he’s doing; Against the Current is an ambitious, multi-media project. Five EPs are to be released over several months, culminating with the release of a limited-edition book of his paintings. “The idea originated from me trying to pay more attention to how people are consuming music. Because of mp3, everyone is able to just go to iTunes, get a feel of the album and just buy what they like. So I thought what if we give them less things to choose from, so I’m putting my best foot forward when it comes to the music I do choose to give them.” It does seem that this project is about giving back. Chali 2na may have fallen into a career in music, but he’s grateful for all it’s given him. “This music and this art has saved me from the dark side,” he says. “I’m Obi-Wan now, but I would have been fucking dark Anakin. I’m being really honest with you man. My family is full of criminals and hustlers and thieves and gangbangers and drug addicts; I’ve seen all that shit. That’s why you don’t hear me talking about it as much in my music. That’s something that I’ve lived; something I’m trying to get away from.” Each EP in Against the Current is to be based on a different genre, and he says he’s not going to worry about following current trends. “A lot of the individuality within music gets lost when people try to appease the public using the things that are publicly popular. Hip-hop has been dumbed down to the point of not being lyrically relevant. You used to walk away from hip-hop learning things. It was a way for people in, say, the UK and Australia to learn about people in America and vice versa.” He believes the important thing, for both established and emerging artists, is to say something of substance. “This is art. Remember that. And remember that what’s in your heart is what’s going to show regardless. So you may as well embrace that. I’m just trying to do the music that I love.” ANGUS DAVISON Chali 2na plays The Republic Bar on Wednesday January 9 with support from Crixus, Dameza and Dundee. Tickets are $35 plus b/f from the venue, Ruffcut and Moshtix
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WHAT SHOULD I DO? OUR TRUSTY AGONY AUNT, LOANI ARMAN, WELCOMES IN THE NEW YEAR WITH SOME HEARTWARMING ADVICE FOR A READER WHO HAS BEEN HIDING HIS LOVE IN A CUPBOARD.
My parents are very conservative and don’t know I’ve been living with my girlfriend for over a year. When they come around, we hide her clothes so it looks like she doesn’t live here. Lately, they have been dropping by unannounced. When we hear their car pull up in the driveway, we have to hide in the cupboard so they don’t know we’re home but then they peer through the windows calling out our names. My girlfriend’s sick of it. What should I do? -Tom
dear tom, This sounds like a classic tale of forbidden love! Keeping a relationship secret is hard, and it isn’t fair on your girlfriend. She shouldn’t have to hide her clothes all the time. At the very least, you should be wearing her clothes to Sunday roasts with your folks, so that when they come to visit, your poor girlfriend doesn’t have to keep hiding her bras. However, if you want to keep your parents stalking gaze away from your windows, then you probably need to make a sex tape. Yes, you heard that right: a sex tape. How X-rated it is and whether you dress up as garden gnomes, or not, is up to you. It’s not about the content, but all about when you release it. The next time your parents come over, and stick their nosey beaks in your window, do as you always would and hide in the cupboard, but this time, make sure that what they see through the curtains isn’t an empty lounge room but your sex tape playing on a TV. It would help matters if you had a large and sweaty friend called Barry, and he sat naked in front of the TV, squirting whipped cream all over his face. A sex tape (and Barry) will not only awaken your parent’s conservative minds to the fact that you have a girlfriend, but it may give them some insight into what they can do with a frozen sausage, a tube of super-glue, and some latex masks. That, and seeing you naked will mortify them so much, that they’ll never mention the tape to you, or drop by unannounced ever again. Just to be sure they keep their distance, it’s probably best that you leave a 2-litre pump bottle of lubricant on your door step, with a note - “Please Lube-Up Before Entry”. Sex tapes have received a bad rap in the last decade or so, thanks to likes of Paris Hilton and one of those Kardashian things, but in your case, it may be the only way to take your relationship out of the cupboard. -XOX LOANI
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STACEY PIGGOTT SAYS BLOW YOUR OWN TRUMPET FOR MUSICIANS STILL WRITING MASTERPIECES IN THE GARAGE, MAKING IT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY MAY SEEM A DREAM.
The struggle for a large and paying audience is one faced by many upcoming artists who, despite their talents, are in the dark when it comes to the skills needed to build up a fan base. Public relations practitioner Stacey Piggott knew this was a serious problem, and so her new book, Blow Your Own Trumpet: A Musician's Guide to Publicity and Airplay, was born. “Musicians are entering an unregulated industry and I want them to see that as a positive thing,” says Stacey. “It is an opportunity for them to create their own rules and if someone says no, and they can't find an alternate way, they can create a new one and be the first to tread that line.” Stacey has been promoting local and international artists since 1998, when she launched boutique PR company Two Fish out of Water. Her years of working closely with musicians has taught her that many are disadvantaged by their lack of guidance when it comes to gaining media exposure. Blow Your Own Trumpet is a compilation of ideas that serves musicians as a reference for self-promotion and communications with the media.
“The internet has opened up a direct line to fans, platforms to showcase their music and an endless amount of information to help them get to where they want to be at the end of their fingers.” “I think the music industry will do what it has always done, it will evolve and create new revenue streams and there will be brilliant creative minds that will rise to the top with genius ideas to ensure it continues to churn out great, mind blowing tunes throughout the ages.” Blow Your Own Trumpet shares the advice and experiences of Stacey Piggott and an abundance of musicians from bands such as The Waifs, Blue King Brown, Art Vs Science and The Drones. Consider it an inspiring kick up the backside for wannabe music managers, band members and music students who are looking for a head start in making it to the top.
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INIQUITY
ANDREW HARPER, HENRI PAPIN (TRICKY WALSH AND MISH MEIJERS), ROBERT O’CONNOR, TOM O’HERN, ANDREW REWALD, CAZ RODWELL, NICOLA SMITH. CURATED BY VICTOR MEDRANO CARNEGIE GALLERY, HOBART DECEMBER 2012 – JANUARY 12, 2013 Iniquity: Immoral, unrighteous, harmful action or conduct, gross injustice, wickedness, sin; and the quality of being wicked or sinful. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
I am at Carnegie Gallery in Hobart, previewing what is sadly the last show of this gallery space: Iniquity, curated by Victor Medrano. Victor’s shows have always been the perfect mirrors of their creator: ambiguous, subtle, and apparently careless of details and formalities. Medrano is described by many of the artists as a “one-man gallery”. He uses exhibition spaces to show the work of the artists he believes as talented although he never closes his doors to new talents, as in this case, Nicola Smith. “Iniquity is an ambiguous term,” Medrano says. I first confused it with “Inequity”. Paradoxically, Inequity still seems to apply to the works at the Carnegie, so I have chosen to complement Victor Medrano’s idea of Iniquity with “Inequity”. “Inequity” is also an ambiguous term: un-equal, un-balanced, it can refer to both geometric aspects of formalism or to social issues of reality.
This is the point where Iniquity and “Inequity” meet. In the works presented at Carnegie, I can see a formal play on the opposition between the balanced and the un-balanced, as well as a social play on the acceptable and the un-acceptable. Adding to the paradox all works presented in Iniquity have an inequity of dimensions: almost a carnevale of language. Starting with dimensions, the big works are Haj by Rob O’Connor, Slack Babbath, by Tom O’Hern, and Can of Worms by Caz Rodwell. Formally, these are cube, square, triangle; and linguistically reversible. The medium works are Scold by Andrew Harper, Map to Purgation by Andrew Rewald, Untitled (or at least yet not titled) by Henri Papin. These works are perhaps insights of the self - the land and the obvious or maybe mirrors of consciousness.
A CROWD-SOURCED LOVE STORY SEDUCES THE AUDIENCE OF MONA CINEMA THIS MONTH. A tall, sexy Russian girl strides down the street with a plate of cake perched on her hand. It is a fairy-tale like image, and she is proud and beautiful, so when New Zealander Florian sees her, he falls instantly in love.
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While this reeks of a poor attempt at a quirky romantic flick, Love Story comes to offer much more. Our skinny, white and smitten Kiwi takes to the streets of New York, employing the help of the beautiful and strange public to make each decision in the film, and they share their wisdom in abundance, and so unfolds the unconventional romance between Florian and Masha.
Not small exactly; Nicola Smith’s work is perhaps all three dimensions. This untitled work includes eight small and neatly framed watercolours and two slightly larger oil diptychs. It extends horizontally along two walls and pictures three different portraits in a repetition that appears to be almost a mathematical sequence. The two diptychs are details of two portraits already pictured in the sequence of watercolours. A search for a mathematical formula in reality, or a loop on painting, just to reformulate that in art language. As the Iniquity of the equal, it is also the inequity of the Iniquitous. And just that is the signature of curator Victor Medrano. FRANCISCA MOENNE
[Kika Moen] Artist-curator
Part art-house romance, and part social experiment, the joy of Love Story is in Florian’s authentic encounters on the street. His bravery in asking the most awkward questions imaginable is impressive; any lull in the film is soon remedied as the answers he entices out of these people never cease to surprise. Approaching an old, rough looking guy on a stool, Florian enquires, “Have you ever been with a woman and found out she’s a man?” Dread an abrasive reaction, his surprising reply is: ‘Oh yeah, of course. Oh… are you kidding? Three or four times.’ But the film goes beyond getting funny reactions from weird strangers. The couple’s romance and their collaboration on the film often cross over; so much of the intrigue comes from working out what is reality and what is not. And as the love story progresses so does the depth of the interviews.
Florian digs out some heartbreakingly sentimental and romantic comments. One regular interviewee, a jolly New Yorker in a Christmas hat, eventually confides that if he could be anything in the world, it would be a puppy in a lady’s arms. Love Story is a truly sweet tale, but more importantly it is a surprisingly charming portrait of the sex workers, bums, fortune tellers, yuppies, children, elderly, trannies, dwarfs, lesbians, and hipsters of New York, whose wisdom on love and life is absolutely real. ERIN LAWLER
Love Story screens at MONA cinema throughout December and January. www. mona.net.au/what's-on/cinema-program
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ANDREW IS GLAD 2012 IS OVER IT WAS A WEIRD YEAR FOR ARTS AND CULTURE IN HOBART. The HCC didn’t can the Hobart Art Prize, and that’s a good thing (thanks for listening people) but we are, as of writing, yet to see how the Council will go about replacing the Carnegie Gallery, and if the Carnegie space, which is a fine one, will be given to the Maritime Museum. I trust that the Council has something up its sleeve – Our Esteemed Lord Mayor, Damon Thomas, hinted as such at the opening of the final Carnegie exhibition. Well, good news, but when (and if!) this space emerges I would hope the council does a better job of promoting the new gallery and using the space than it has in the past.
I have to say I felt the Carnegie was underpromoted during its life as a gallery, and that I feel Hobart deserves better. It’s an opportunity for the council and it’s members to look good isn’t it?
national treasure yet, he will be. It was one of those works that would get anyone excited about contemporary art and that’s what I want more of.
I suppose we’ll find out in the coming months. I just hope the new room is somewhere central, because the bottom line is we want people to get along.
Also notable was the INFLIGHT memorial service, run as if a funeral, that was the cheekiest, funniest local thing this year. Clever, sharp and sneaky, this event was an artwork in itself. I loved it, and it’s stayed with me as a moment when the arts scene in Hobart laughed at itself. I wouldn’t want to say the whole thing was a joke, but a few more pranks, a bit more comedy and a lot more discourse are things we need; besides, I’m over Walshy having all the fun.
Anyway, Andrew’s brief 2012 art round up. I saw a lot of good stuff last year in Hobart, but the best single bit was Robin Fox’s excellent installation that inhabited the Long Gallery in the first part of the year. Fox’s lasers have rarely been put to better use, and if he’s not a
Okay, see you at MOFO. I’ll be yelling about destruction, but more on that next time.
THE SELECT (THE SUN ALSO RISES) FOR TEN DAYS One of the best theatre companies in New York, Elevator Repair Service, will appear in Hobart with an acclaimed adaptation of Ernest Hemingways’ The Sun Also Rises, covering the stage with liquor bottles in a café that transforms as a the characters journey from France to Spain, finding themselves in Pamplona at a bullfight, all of which happens live on stage.
theatre to it’s limits. This show is something to catch if you want to see live performance being and doing everything thing it can be, created by professionals at the top of their game.
Yep, there’s a bullfight, as well as human fights, dancing and extreme alcohol abuse. It’s a vision of the lost generation between world wars squeezing life until bleeds and by all reports it’s a winner and a half of a show. The Select features superb mastery of the craft of theatre, committed performances, intelligent use of theatrical device, precision choreography and sound effects, all stretching the potential of
The Select (The Sun Also Rises) happens for Ten Days 2013 at the Theatre Royal fro March 15 to March 20. www.tendaysontheisland.org/2013program/the-select-the-sun-also-rises
MURDER FOR TEN DAYS DARK MATERIAL IS THE BEST MATERIAL. BLUES IS FUELLED BY ALCOHOLISM AND VISIONS OF HELL. COUNTRY MUSIC IS STEEPED IN HUMAN MISERY. YES, EVERYONE LOVES SONGS ABOUT HORRIBLE THINGS. And and that’s why the fabled Erth company – the people responsible for the incredible Dinosaur Petting Zoo – have decided to make a new show, called Murder, that looks our culture’s ugly obsession with violence and death. Murder was inspired by the legendary Murder Ballads album by Australia’s very own Dark Lord, Nick Cave, and looks to be a wild evening of intensive puppetry, digital imagery and old carny tricks that will take an audience on a voyage into the void. You’ll meet Stagger Lee – he’s a worry, a cast of shady characters and get a good dose of the old Sex and Death, laced with a sharp serve of pitch black comedy. Sounds like this one will be, ahh, killer. Murder will feature as part of Ten Days On The Island 2013, there’ll be only five performances at the Playhouse theatre and you should probably be over 18. You can book now if you want a nice dose of Murder. ANDREW HARPER
Murder for Ten Days happens at the Playhouse Theatre on March 14 – 18, 2013. www. tendaysontheisland.org/2013-program/ murder
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Mural by JAMIN. Location adjacent to The Theatre Royal Hobart
STREET ART: NEW MURAL WORKS JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER, THERE’S SOME NEW OUTDOOR COLOUR AND IT’S ABOUT TIME.
Mural by Rob O'Connor. Location outside adArt, Elizabeth St Hobart
Murals are brilliant and should not be just confined to the North West town of Sheffield. They should be everywhere. Look at that boring wall – if you own it, give some local artist some cash and some sunblock and get them to do something bright and lovely on a sad, vacant wall. Some forward thinking types got local art tart Rob O’Connor to do one on Elizabeth St, up towards North Hobart there, and there’s another ripper by Jamin, down on Campbell Street just next to the Theatre Royal. Gorgeous and legal so they’ll be there for ages, but go and see them before they start to fade. Street art is supposed to evolve, so get in fast and check these out.
Photo by Martin Nester
NICOLA SMITH’S THE GENERAL ARTIST NICOLA SMITH’S PAINTINGS ARE DECEPTIVE. THEY APPEAR TO BE ALL THE SAME BUT THEY ARE NOT. NOT QUITE. They look complete in and of themselves, yet reveal as fragments from a greater whole. Sometimes. Sometimes she paints individual frames of a film, or finds a moment in a film and replicates it, sort of, taking each moment and capturing it as a painting. It’s an act of transformation that mocks movement and time and asks the viewer to become still, to look at a tiny sliver of something else in a different way. There is something about Smith’s work that is hypnotic and compelling and just out of reach; there’s an elusive quality, which is not obtuse
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but borders on enigma. Her images in her solo show at Inflight, The General seems to suggest that she is making one cascading masterwork that sits over time as a career-length arc of fragments; fragments borrowed and adapted by her light painting style.
Smith, for as I have engaged with her work over the last few years in exhibitions around Hobart, what has stood out is the idea of a still point amongst the passing of time. Each work has asked me to be still, and this suggestion fascinates me.
Smith’s style suggests another era and another place in the history of painting, and her interest in images gleaned from other times adds to this – it so odd to see the stillness of the painted image so profoundly engaging with time. Time seems to be an eternal subject for
Her images draw me in. Every detail seems important, every decision considered. I wonder why a Buster Keaton comedy from 1926 becomes a source for investigation, and how all her work seems so very contemporary. Smith’s style and sources seem to not be an
escape from now but an engagement with the overload of information: She reaches for one tiny fragment of history and shows it to you, asks you to consider what its implications are. ANDREW HARPER
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• KELLY'S GARDEN: Liminal, Brianese and Heffernan, ends Jan 4.
146 ARTSPACE • Suspended Impressions in Nature: Derwent, Julian Thompson, ends Jan 3 • Music Sound Pictures, L.R. Nold, Jan 10 - Feb 7
• SIDESPACE GALLERY: Retrieval, Sarah Clarkson and Tina Aldridge, Jan 3 - 9 • TOP GALLERY: Daddy Issues, Gabby Stolp, Jan 4 - 31, OPENING Jan 4 at 6pm • LONG GALLERY: Jimmy He : Oil Paintings, Jimmy He, Jan 10 - 23, OPENING Jan 10 at 6pm • SIDESPACE GALLERY: Belonging, Christine Kerruish, Kate Piekutowski and Stephanie Parkyn, Jan 10 - 30, OPENING Jan 11 at 5.30pm • LIGHTBOX: Not Just Stuff, Rengin Guner, Jacqui Renton and Tanja von Behrens, ends January 31. • STUDIO GALLERY: Handmark Summer Show, Skye Targett, Michaye Boulter, Adrian Barber and Sally Brown, ends Jan 31
ART MOB Wardaman Medicine, Bill Harney, Jan 11 - 27, OPENING Jan 11 at 6pm BETT GALLERY • The Black Mirror, Black Burn, Opera, Neil Haddon, Jan 11 - Feb 11 • BACKSPACE: Related Forms, Peter Atkins, Jan 11 - Feb 11 CARNEGIE GALLERY Iniquity, Andrew Harper, Henri Papin (Tricky Walsh & Mish Meijers), Robert O’Connor, Tom O’Hern, Andrew Rewald, Caz Rodwell and Nicola Smith with Curator Victor Manuel Medrano-Bonilla, ends Jan 13
SONA GALLERY Ongoing stock exhibition
CAST Black Casino, Wade Marynowsky, ends Feb 3
TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY • Stories From the State Numismatics Collection, Medals and Money Gallery, Permanent Exhibition. • Islands to Ice, Antarctic Gallery, Permanent Exhibition
COLVILLE GALLERY Donna Lougher, Jan 18 DESPARD GALLERY Annual Summer Show, 18 Dec – 12 Feb curated by Lucia Ufmiani HANDMARK GALLERY, HOBART Open Poem Paintings by Faridah Cameron, Jan 18 INKA GALLERY INC. • Festival, Inka members, Jan 3 - 23, OPENING Jan 4 at 5.30pm • Untitled, Russell Joyce, Jan 24 - Feb 13, OPENING Jan 25 at 5.30pm MASTERPIECE@IXL & MOSTLY MARITIME GALLERY The Muse Of The Sea, Haughton Forrest, John Glover and many more colonial and contemporary artists, along with scrimshaw and maritime curiosities, ends Feb 12 MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART • Yannick Demmerle, Mona Library Gallery, ends March 11 • MoMa, MONA's radical art and produce market, ends Mar 30 (every Saturday) • Monanism: Evolving, permanent collection • Theatre of the World, TMAG & MONA collections, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, ends Apr 8 (2013) PEPPERCORN GALLERY A co-operatively run outlet for the fine art and craftwork of local Richmond artists SADDLERS COURT GALLERY Exhibiting over 100 Tasmanian artists and crafts people SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE • TOP GALLERY: What Bird Is That? Ella Noonan, ends Jan 2
TASMANIAN LANDSCAPES GALLERY Luke O’Brien Photography. Art printing & mounting services also available
PARADOX BAZAAR Unique Tasmanian Art & Craft creations operated by, and featuring the works of, local Artists and Craftspeople and is constantly changing throughout the year www. paradoxbazaar.com.au ULVERSTONE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE Watercolour Paintings, Matthew Williams, Jan 2 - 31
KING ISLAND LOLLIPOP GALLERY + BOATHOUSE GALLERY Paintings by Caroline Kininmonth and Bridget Levy on exhibit throughout the year and continually changing
* If you are an exhibiting gallery or space in Tasmania and want to be included in the Warp Gallery Guide email: ali@warpmagazine.com.au
WELLINGTON GALLERY Thomas Anderson last available works original paintings, Thomas Andersen and other prominent Australian Artists, ends Mar 31
NORTH ACADEMY GALLERY - UTAS INVERESK Heartlands: Vincent Mcgrath 7 Dec – 15 Jan DESIGN CENTRE, LAUNCESTON 2012 Design Award Finalists 1st Dec – 24th Feb
THE SOUTH COMEDY THEATRE ROYAL HOTEL The Yard, Tuesday Jan 1, 15 & 29, 8pm start. WARATAH HOTEL The Clubhouse, Thursday Jan 24, 8.30pm start. THEATRE PEACOCK THEATRE • The Great Gondos Variety Show, Jan 5, 8pm start. • The Great Gondos Variety Show For Kids, Jan 6, 1pm start. • Starchild, two show Jan 19, 3pm & 7.30pm, and Jan 20, 5pm start. THE THEATRE ROYAL • Treasure Island, Jan 2 - 27, Wednesday - Friday, 11am; two shows Saturday, 2pm and 5pm; Sunday, 2pm. • Mystique: Magic And Illusion Spectacular, two shows Jan 5, 2pm and 8pm, and Jan 6, 2pm start. • Neil Gaiman, MONA FOMA, Jan 20, 8pm start. • Freckleface Strawberry The Musical, two shows Jan 25 and 26, 1pm and 4pm. WREST POINT COUNTRY CLUB Mystique: Magic And Illusion Spectacular, two shows Jan 4, 2pm and 8pm.
THE NORTH COMEDY FRESH ON CHARLES Fresh Comedy, Friday Jan 25, 8.30pm start. THEATRE DEVONPORT ENTERTAINMENT & CONVENTION CENTRE Mystique: Magic And Illusion Spectacular, two shows Jan 8, 2pm and 8pm.
THREE WINDOWS GALLERY Changing Southern Midlands Artists Queen Victoria Museum Art Gallery Come to life, young Tasmanian artists, until Feb 17 2013
NORTH west BURNIE REGIONAL ART GALLERY • Jenny Sages: Paths to Portraiture, Jenny Sages, ends Jan 28 • Moments of Splendour, Bob Brown, ends Jan 28 • Ha! High Art Summer Show, Students from High Schools and Colleges along the north west coast of Tasmania, ends Jan 28 DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY Tidal – City of Devonport Art Award 2012, ends Jan 27
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POLLEN TEA ROOM Outwardly, the Pollen Tea Room oozes Hobart with its colonial cottage frontage, blending in seamlessly with the surrounding Battery Point architecture, but step through the door a la The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and you would be forgiven for thinking you had just blown in off Brunswick Street in Melbourne. No surprise then to find out that the proprietors, Shae and Matthew, have recently relocated from Melbourne - and they certainly have brought the vibe along with them. Inside is fresh and airy with a homely feel - a classical guitar propped behind old clothbound books, bookended by a bakelite art deco radio; little brown apothecary bottles as vases for succulents and dried gumnuts; newly-glossed recycled timber throughout with seams of pink and white paint still embedded in the grain; the open door to the sunny courtyard smiling summer back into the room. Trad jazz drifts through the space, and everything from the homemade almond milk to the range of 27 organic teas is crafted to give you a gentle, tranquil experience. The selection of food offered is small, but is of high quality and clearly made with thoughts of lovingly nourishing the patrons.
56 Hampden Road Battery Point 03 6224 8000 Monday: Open from 26th November Tuesday to Friday: 7.30am - 4pm
Fragrant fresh basil and crumbled fetta top baked eggs with runny yolks and deep red tomatoes. A hearty serve of smashed avocado with mint and fetta on wood-fired sourdough with flavoursome olive oil glistening on the toast like honeycomb makes for a good, clean simple lunch. The organic (or gluten free) muesli is made even more wholesome with cinnamon, honey and milk, and sourdough fruit loaf, local jams, and various house-made sweet treats help to make up the light, well priced menu. Pollen Tea Room's title wastes no words - Shae is also a florist and caters for weddings, corporations, functions and events upon request, having worked in high-end florists in Melbourne. So lovely to see heartfelt, beautiful places like this blossom in Hobart.
Saturday to Sunday: 8am - 4pm
RASPBERRY FOOL Replacing La Cuisine next to the New Sydney Hotel in Bathurst Street, Raspberry Fool has opened up the space with a pared-down retro 50's diner feel. No actual raspberry fools in sight - instead, an all day breakfast menu and some light sandwiches, pies and cakes are the jive. It all seems very unremarkable, until you sink your teeth into one of their sandwiches. These people would give Arthur from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - in his incarnation as hallowed Sandwich Maker - a run for his money. I didn't have a Perfectly Normal Beast sandwich - instead, mine was filled with pumpkin, creamy goat's curd, beetroot, rocket and herb mayo. When I uttered that it was the best sandwich I had ever had, they explained that everything was made here. What, even the bread? Yes, even the bread. And what bread it is - a crisp sourdough outer and a yielding inner, light but with just the right amount of chew and so unbelievably fresh. And the elements within were so well matched - someone had seriously, seriously thought about this food. My dining companion expressed similar delight in his toasted sandwich sporting fat rashers of free-range bacon, boiled egg halves, kasundi relish and mayo. Everything is made on site - except the marshmallows. And, of course, the Campos coffee. For those not familiar with Sydney's coffee scene, Campos is a coffee producer of cult status, and is considered the best coffee by many in the big smoke. My tastebuds happily verified this - it has been a while since I've had the pleasure of one of their powerful but well-rounded brews. A peek in the sweets cabinet revealed plump chocolate and strawberry Swiss rolls, truffles the size of golf balls, and lemon curd tarts. Hello, coffee partners. Hell, I'm going to swing by here all the time. Crazy low prices for incredible handmade food served by friendly staff with awesome hair (well, one guy did, anyway). Who's the fool? You, if you don't come here.
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Album Reviews
Music is an amazing thing - it can make you think, cry, laugh, f**k, love, dance, forgive and forget at different moments. If it’s good, it will do at least one of these things, and if it’s great, possibly more. And Manilla-via-Sydney band Regular John seem to have ticked at least a couple of these boxes on their sophomore album, Strange Flowers. The band has not suffered from difficult second album syndrome - far from it. But it’s not like they weren’t faced with their fair share of challenges along the way, as frontman Ryan Adamson had a serious spinal injury, which resulted in a lengthy recovery period. But he used his time wisely, learning how to navigate his way around, and ultimately master the analogue synth.
REGULAR JOHN STRANGE FLOWERS
CALEXICO
That said, from the first track, Epic, with its steady acoustic strumming, sparse vocals and cleverly placed piano and electric guitar parts, the album is unmistakably Calexico. You are instantly transported to a land of canyons and coyotes. There are moments on Algiers, such as the instrumental title track and Maybe On Monday, that capture some of the urgency and rawness of 2003's Feast of Wire, easily Calexico's strongest album to date. The space on these tracks creates a sadness and intensity that is lacking on other songs that have more instrumentation and polished arrangements. Algiers is a strong album that has the trademark Calexico sounds, but it’s a little disappointing that a few New Orleans influences didn’t creep into the recording.
The band had aimed to make an album that was heavy like Black Sabbath, and psychedelic like Pink Floyd’s early material, and they seem to have achieved this on all counts. At times, the closest band they seem to align with is The Church on account of the abundance of atmospherics and epic soundscapes.
Strange Flowers is a self-deprecating, introspective record full of reverb and fuzz; subtle at the right moments and heavy and soaring at other times. It is rewarded by repeat listens as extra textures and elements reveal themselves and come to full focus, teasing and tickling the eardrums and piquing your interest with every note, every vibration. Strange Flowers is ultimately a dark and romantic album, signalling an honest and powerful band embracing change and creating intoxicating and relatable tunes with a heady musical combination that holds its own among the best by the Smashing Pumpkins and Tame Impala. NATALIE SALVO
KID KOALA
DRAWN FROM BEES
12 BIT BLUES
ALGIERS
Calexico are a band inextricably connected with the American landscape and specifically the South-West. Calexico is actually a small town on the California-Mexico border. Their indie-rock traverses the borders of different styles from this region, most evidently, Tex Mex, Mariachi and Western. It is interesting then that they left Tucson, Arizona to record this album, instead heading east to New Orleans. They chose a converted Baptist Church in the suburb of Algiers on the banks of the Mississippi river.
Adamson’s new skills have lead to a change in direction in the group’s sound. The guitarfuelled, rock debut, The Peaceful Atom is a Bomb seems light years away from 2012’s more expansive and psychedelic vibe. The second album often plays like a noisy, esoteric dream, where ruminations on modern romance and early adult angst are coupled with a standard band set-up, plus added goodness from samples, vocoder, synths and all manner of technological wizardry.
THE MAY KING AND HIS PAPER CROWN Canadian turntablist Kid Koala, aka Eric San, has gone back to basics with his new album, 12 Bit Blues - well, for a DJ anyway. He got his hands on an E-mu SP-1200, which was THE sampler for hip hop artists in the late 1980s. The limitations of the equipment drew him to the rawness of the blues, and he set about remixing a number of old blues recordings.
The May King & His Paper Crown is the latest offering from the Drawn From Bees gents, an LP that is the result of a 12 month production process in which the band has decided to approach the record in a completely new way. Trading some of their string elements for ghostly synths, this record is constructed around the themes of love, loss, murder, betrayal and the fleetingness of youthful hope. These themes are reflected in the title, and as physics will ascertain, a paper crown burns easy, whilst viewers of Game Of Thrones will know that a king can only hold his power for a short time – the month of May.
Rather than use sequencing software, San went old school, using the pads on the sampler to play the songs in real time. With this recording technique, San has tapped right into the soul of the original recordings, capturing their gritty grooves and melancholy vocals with his own angular style.
With The May King and His Paper Crown, Drawn From Bees have released an album akin to a Mumford & Sons record, in that every songs lives together, yet stands alone. This is the sort of style of music that exists in a realm whose name I may have just coined, prog-folkart-rock. The thing that perhaps best surmises this niche genre has to be its chameleonic nature; this is the sort of music that can be transmuted to suit any environment it is experienced in; be it the back room of a beachside hotel, kicking it on the festival circuit, as ambient background noise, or being blasted out of arena speakers.
In this era of streaming and digital downloads, artists and record companies seem to be inventing more and more creative ways to rope us in to buying the real thing. The packaging of the first run of 12 Bit Blues includes a cardboard record player kit where you can build your own working mini-record player. Gimmicks aside, this is a brilliant, clever record and well worth its valuable space in the real world. LEE KINDLER
MICHAEL CLOHESY
LEE KINDLER
JANUARY Sat 5th, Nadine & Sammy / 7.30 / $20 Sun 6th, Lucy Thorne / 4pm / $15 Wed 9th, Mal Webb / 7.30 / $15 Thur 10th, Karavanca Flamenca / 7.30 / $15 Fri 11th, Debra Manskey / 7.30 / $10 Sat 12th, Fiona Hutchison / 12pm Sat 12th, Colin Offord / 7.30 / $10 Mon 14th, The Company & Sunas / 2pm / $15 Tue 15th, Jo Quail / 7.30 / $20
Wed 16th, Carl Cleves / 7.30 / $15 Thur 17th, Daniel Champagne / 7.30 / $15 Fri 18th, Acoustic Night / 7pm / free Sat 19th, Magic Carpet Ride / 7.30 / $10 Sun 20th, David Carr / 12pm Sat 26th, AUSTRALIA DAY CONCERT / 6pm / free
FEBRUARY
Fri 1st, Open Mic / free Thur 14th, Modhan / $15 Sat 16th, Pugsley Buzzard / $20
Album Reviews
You know that level of anticipation and excitement you harbour towards a band who have announced the release of new material, years after dropping a record which blew your mind? That’s what the lead up to the release of Pacifica, from Australian geniuses The Presets, was like for me.
THE PRESETS PACIFICA
Apocalypso (2008) was a huge part (and still is) of my musical library and rightfully established the Sydney duo as kings of the local electro-dance stream, bringing some banging sounds to commercial success. With Pacifica, The Presets seem to have taken their time in forming a record which has taken the best of Apocalypso and Beams (2005), showing their younger competitors of the genre how to successfully mix delicious and penetrating drum-and-synth patterns with some equally as powerful vocals.
The album opener in Youth In Trouble was the first song to be released off Pacifica, and I remember thinking it was a risky move. Running more than six minutes, the song immediately points out that this is an album unlike anything The Presets have made before. There’s no song on the album which is another My People or Are You The One?, something which has the potential to alienate some fans, but I think that people would be silly to completely write the record off, as Pacifica is quite possibly the most matured album from The Presets yet.
Pacifica came at a time for me, when I thought that Australian music was having a good year, but on a grand scale, wasn’t showing too many signs of bold steps forward. The Presets do what they do well because they aren’t afraid to take their time and furthermore, they aren’t afraid to shelve established preconceptions of what they produce and what they’re capable of producing. Four years away has changed them as musicians and indeed, as people, but as this record shows, the duo haven’t wasted the years. SOSE FUAMOLI
Promises and A.O are two songs where Julian Hamilton absolutely shines – his talent as a vocalist has always been something I’ve admired, but his shifts in range on these particular two songs make them definite standouts.
TARA SIMMONS
TIGERTOWN
WINTER PEOPLE
IT’S NOT LIKE WE’RE TRYING TO MOVE MOUNTAINS
BEFORE THE MORNING EP
A YEAR AT SEA
Brisbane songstress and multi-instrumentalist Tara Simmons has been kicking around the music scene since 2006, releasing several selffunded EPs, as well as her debut LP Split Milk in 2009. This year, Simmons tours as the female vocalist for electro pop duo YesYou, as well as following up her solo efforts with ...Mountains, an album that strays away aesthetically from the sample-driven folk-pop that permeates her earlier work. Instead, Simmons decisively chose to redefine her sound, taking cues from the esoteric world of Scandinavian pop, and seeking inspiration from its powerful female performers such as Robyn, Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar. ...Mountains is Simmons' most ambitious work to date. The album as a whole is an emotive, personal affair that taps into an honest reservoir of experience, observation and reflection, whilst aurally soaring into the stratosphere on wave after wave of synth driven pulses. It's Not like we're Trying to Move Mountains is a slow burner of a record; every time I re-listen to it, the album grows on me, and I notice subtle nuances and layers that I hadn't prior. Tara Simmons has produced a fine album that showcases her broad base of sound and style, combined with an authentic attitude. MICHAEL CLOHESY
Bigger IS better, as Tigertown’s sophomore EP, Before the Morning, proves. The Sydney quintet produces rich and energetic music that falls into the folk, pop and indie genres. It’s a sprawling sound, or one you’d associate with cuts from a film soundtrack, because at some moments it is full of hope, while at other times it is about coming together to face adversity head-on. The group is made up of one married couple (Chris and Charlie Collins), both enlisting the help of siblings. They have cited their influences as including Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash and Fleetwood Mac; the latter group is particularly important to them because often when they are faced with a creative dilemma they ask themselves: “What would Fleetwood Mac do?” Before the Morning is a polished collection of tunes where folk and pop is fused into something that is personal, relatable and fun. These five gems are like diamonds, shining in a large, open landscape. While the sheer depth of the plains would overwhelm some, nothing is a trouble when you’re in as good company as this, because their weapons are like mature, opulent and well-crafted pipes of peace. NATALIE SALVO
Sydney folk-rock band Winter People’s stunning debut traverses themes of love, grief and loss as starting points in some great and moving pieces of music. As a debut, A Year At Sea is a big album, with ambitious and clearly-defined instrumentation, yet the fragility of the vocals add a layer of warmth and innocence which cannot be ignored. The Banker’s Lament is a perfect album opener – establishing the alternative folk/rock feel of the record which is sustained excellently throughout. There are fleeting moments of Mogwai and Editors in the arrangement of Gallons and Time Out Of Mind especially, while the depth in the vocals are reminiscent of early Interpol and even some of Nick Cave’s work. This isn’t an album full of happy, pop hits – but it’s evident that Winter People aren’t out to produce such a record. Instead, they’ve made a record that is drenched in gorgeous string and guitar arrangements which establish some golden and vintage imagery of a musical landscape long in the past. Many could and probably will draw large similarities between Winter People and Arcade Fire or Angus Stone, but there’s something unequivocally individual and unique about A Year At Sea that’s fascinating to listen to. I cannot wait to see what they release next. SOSE FUAMOLI
Event Guide
Hobart Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
DATE
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
JANUARY Monday
Irish Murphy's
Jack Storay, Helen Crowther
Republic Bar & Café
G B Balding 8:30pm
Jack Greene
Bianca Clennett
Waratah Hotel
The Perch Creek Family Jugband 9pm
Republic Bar & Café
Inside Out 9pm
The Telegraph
Alex Hutchins
Brisbane Hotel
Quiz-A-Saurus (Quiz Night)
Brisbane Hotel
Damage w/ Chasing Ghosts + Cashman + Speakeasies + Thommo + DJ Kenji + DJ Vinyl Ritchie
Brookfield Vineyard
Jo Quail 7:30pm
Irish Murphy's
Open Mic Night
Brookfield Vineyard
Open Mic 7:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Rory Mcleod 9pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Davies Duo followed by Ado and Devo
Irish Murphy's
Atari 2600
Ivory Bar
Lids
Jack Greene Observatory (Lounge Room)
JANUARY Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
3
4
5
6
Tuesday
Wednesday
VENUE 14 Brookfield Vineyard
15 CAST
16 Brookfield Vineyard
ACTS / START TIME The Company & Sunas 2pm
Wade Marynowsky - Black Casino 6pm
Carl Cleves 7:30pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Hibbered
Alex Curtain
CAST
Wade Marynowsky - Black Casino 12pm
Grotesque
GASP!
Susan Philipsz 11am
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Johnny G
Irish Murphy's
Daniel Champagne
Republic Bar & Café
Snapback + Raccoons + Bone Rattlers 10pm
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
The Telegraph
Tim Hibbered followed by Big Swifty
Observatory (Lounge Room)
Grotesque
Brisbane Hotel
Small Black Lambs + Pines + Venuslight Overdrive + Jo Connnnnely (vic) + The Harrison Forward + Black Mourning Band
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
PW1
Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann 5pm, Mat Ward with Tania Bosak and the No Mates Ensemble 5:30pm, Los Coronas 6:15pm, Tina Havelock Stevens is the White Drummer 7pm, Bickram Ghosh 7:30pm, Tania Bosak and the Barefoot Orchestra 9pm, Pretty Lights 10:15pm,
Republic Bar & Café
Double Down 9pm
St Mary's Cathedral Centre
Bickram Ghosh 10am
The Telegraph
Pirates of the Cover Scene
Brookfield Vineyard
Fiona Hutchison 12pm - Nadine & Sammy 7pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Johnny G
Irish Murphy's
Mystique
Ivory Bar
Kenny Beeper, Mez and Jim King
Jack Greene
Millhouse
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Republic Bar & Café
Dialect & Despair + Aimz + DJ Two Toes 10pm
Brisbane Hotel
Blake + Wing It
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Dr Fink
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Republic Bar & Café
Glen Watson 8:30pm
Irish Murphy's
Ryan Rogers, Gerard Rush
Rock n Roll Bingo w/ Timmy Jack Ray
Republic Bar & Café
Rudely Interupted 9pm
Brisbane Hotel Brisbane Hotel
Beer Garden Opening Party
Thursday
Thursday
13 Birdcage Bar
17 Baha'I Centre
Glen Challice 9pm
Elizabeth Anderson 3pm
Brookfield Vineyard
Lucy Thorne 4pm
Brookfield Vineyard
Republic Bar & Café
Somerset Barnard 9pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Daniel Champagne 7:30pm Micheal Clennett
Monday
7
Republic Bar & Café
Billy Whitton 8:30pm
CAST
Wade Marynowsky - Black Casino 12pm
Tuesday
8
Irish Murphy's
Open Mic Night
GASP!
Susan Philipsz 10am
Republic Bar & Café
Calypso 9pm
Hobart Town Hall
Jenny M. Thomas and the System 6pm
Brisbane Hotel
Bad Vibrations w/ the White Rose Project + Bears + Dean Learner + Decades
Irish Murphy's
The Scarlet Robins, Katy Hanson
Jack Greene
Bianca Clennett
PW1
Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann 5pm, Josephine Truman 6pm, Mat Ward with Tania Bosak and the No Mates Ensemble 6:30pm, Chicks on Speed 7pm, Mahmoud Ahmed 8:30pm, Death Grips 10pm
Wednesday
9
Brookfield Vineyard
Mal Webb 7:30pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Davies
Irish Murphy's
Joel Imber
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
Observatory (Lounge Room)
Jim King
Republic Bar & Café
Dave Wilson Band 9pm
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
St Mary's Cathedral Centre
Adam Simmons 10am
Republic Bar & Café
Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) + Crixus + DJ Dameza + Dunn D 9pm
The Telegraph
Alex Hutchins
The Telegraph Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
30
Friday
18 Baha'I Centre
Elizabeth Anderson 3pm, Anna McMichael 10:30pm
Atari
Brisbane Hotel
Something Crawls Out of the Swamp w/ 4 String Phil + Bridget Bridge + VAMP + Matt Burton + MC Rose Kokkoris
Horse and Wood with Mongolian Throat Singer and Horse Fiddle master Bukchuluun Ganburged + The Lawless Quartet + Gutter Parties
Brookfield Vineyard
Acoustic Night 7pm
Brookfield Vineyard
Karavana Flamenca 7:30pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Ado and Devo followed by DJ Johnny G
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
CAST
Wade Marynowsky - Black Casino 12pm
Irish Murphy's
Kirsten Crombie, Seth Henderson
GASP!
Susan Philipsz 10am
Jack Greene
Bianca Clennett
Hobart Town Hall
Douglas Lawrence 12:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Zulya and the Children of the Underground 9pm
Irish Murphy's
Mash Up
The Telegraph
Alex Hutchins
Ivory Bar
Jim King
Ruined Fortune (vic) + The Native Cats
Jack Greene
Grotesque
Brisbane Hotel
FRONT BAR - DJ Jay the Ripper (Ger)
Observatory (Lounge Room)
Grotesque
Brookfield Vineyard
Debra Manskey 7:30pm
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Davies Duo followed by Rum Jungle
PW1
Cygnet Folk Festival
Little Bear
Irish Murphy's
Ethel the Frog
Ivory Bar
Adusk and Millhouse
Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann 5pm, Mat Ward with Tania Bosak and the No Mates Ensemble 6:30pm, Benjamin Skepper 6:30pm, Orchestre National De Jazz 8pm, Dirty Projectors 10pm
Jack Greene
Grotesque
Regines (Wrest Point)
VIP opening event
Observatory (Lounge Room)
Millhouse
Republic Bar & Café
Pete Cornelius & the Devilles 10pm
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Johnny G
Rosny Barn
Troup Formant, Bickram Ghosh 8pm
Republic Bar & Café
Chris Assaad Trio (Canada) + Adam Cousens 10pm
St Mary's Cathedral Centre
Josephine Truman 10am
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Entropy
The Telegraph
Micheal Clennett followed by Big Swifty
10 Brisbane Hotel
11 Brisbane Hotel
12 Brisbane Hotel
Squidsniper + Smokestack + The Ritz + King of the Wizards
Saturday
19 Baha'I Centre
Elizabeth Anderson 10am, 6:30pm, Anna McMichael 10:30pm
Brisbane Hotel
ALL AGES - Trainpark + Schwerpunkt + Bears + Treehouse + Dean Learner
Brisbane Hotel
18+ - Trainpark + Schwerpunkt + Bears + Treehouse + Dean Learner
Little Bear
Brookfield Vineyard
Magic Carpet Ride 7:30pm
Ethel the Frog
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
DJ Johnny G
CAST
Wade Marynowsky - Black Casino 12pm
GASP!
Susan Philipsz 10am
Irish Murphy's
Daniel Champagne, Atari 2600
Brisbane Hotel
Late Night Krackieoke w/ MC Superhawk
Brookfield Vineyard
Fiona Hutchison 12pm - Colin Offord 7:30pm
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Johnny G
Cygnet Folk Festival Irish Murphy's Ivory Bar
Mez, Grotesque
Jack Greene
Millhouse
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Ivory Bar
Grotesque, Mez and Jim King
Republic Bar & Café
Fritz + Prarie 10pm
Jack Greene
Millhouse
The Telegraph
Ado and Devo followed by The Smashers
MONA
Nick Tsiavos - Akathistos: The Machineries of Ritual 2pm
Rock n Roll Bingo w/ Timmy Jack Ray
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Sticks and Kane followed by DJ Johnny G
Peacock Theatre
Dylan Sheridan 3pm, 7:30pm
Republic Bar & Café
Wahbash Avenue 9pm
13 Brisbane Hotel
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Event Guide
DATE
VENUE
ACTS / START TIME
JANUARY
20
Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann 5pm, Ben Walsh's Orkestra of the Underground 5:30pm, Amanda Palmer 6pm, Mat Ward with Tania Bosak and the No Mates Ensemble 6:45pm, Colin Stetson 7:15pm, Scot Cotterell 8:30pm, Graveyard Train 9:30pm
DJ Beerex
Regines (Wrest Point)
80s Aussie Day Party
Republic Bar & Café
Sugartrain 10pm
The Telegraph
Atari
Brisbane Hotel
Rock n Roll Bingo w/ Timmy Jack Ray
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett followed by DJ Johnny G
Republic Bar & Café
Joe and Katie 9pm
Irish Murphy's
Open Mic Night
Republic Bar & Café
Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 9pm
Brisbane Hotel
Ideal Wives
GLORY NIGHTS w/ Wil Wagner + Ben David + Lincoln Le Fevre + Isaac Bowen
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Sticks and Kane followed by DJ Johnny G
Irish Murphy's
Fat Crust
Rock n Roll Bingo w/ Timmy Jack Ray
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
Observatory (Lounge Room)
Grotesque
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Republic Bar & Café
The Ray Martians 9pm
The Telegraph
Pirates of the Cover Scene
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Johnny G
70's Disco Party
Republic Bar & Café
All Good Funk Alliance (USA) Featuring MC Think Tank (USA) + Acumen 10pm
St Mary's Cathedral Centre
Nick Tsiavos 10am
The Telegraph
Tim Davies Duo followed by Dr Fink
Brisbane Hotel
Sunday
Tuesday Wednesday
Micheal Clennett followed by DJ Johnny G
CAST
Wade Marynowsky - Black Casino 12pm
GASP!
Susan Philipsz 10am
Hobart Town Hall
Elizabeth Anderson 1pm
MONA
Nick Tsiavos - Akathistos: The Machineries of Ritual 10am
Jack Greene
Bianca Clennett
MONA: Outdoor Stage
Richard Gilewitz 2pm
Republic Bar & Café
Peacock Theatre
Dylan Sheridan 4:30pm
Hermitude "The Villain" Tour + Jonti 9pm
PW1
Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann 7:30pm, David Byrne and St. Vincent 8:30pm
The Telegraph
Alex Hutchins
Republic Bar & Café
Jaja 9pm
St Mary's Cathedral Centre
Colin Offord and Yilan Yeh 10am
Thursday
Neil Gaiman 6pm Carl Rush 8:30pm
Tuesday
22
Brisbane Hotel
Game On!
january
Irish Murphy's
Open Mic Night
Saturday
Republic Bar & Café
Hoot Owl 9pm
Wednesday
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Tim Hibbered
Irish Murphy's
Chase City, Harrison Manton
Jack Greene
Alex Hutchins
Observatory (Lounge Room)
Grotesque
Observatory (Main Room)
Saturday
25
26
31
Launceston
Republic Bar & Café
Friday
30
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Theatre Royal
24
29
David Carr 12pm
21
23
27
Brookfield Vineyard
Monday
Thursday
ACTS / START TIME
Observatory (Main Room)
Regines (Wrest Point)
Brisbane Hotel
Wednesday
VENUE
JANUARY PW1
Sunday
DATE
Date
Venue
Acts / Start Time
5
The Royal Oak
Pat Tierney & Somerset Barnard
9
The Royal Oak
Scott Haigh
Thursday
10
The Royal Oak
The Bucket Feats
Friday
11
The Royal Oak
Something Different Variety Show w/ Guthrie
Saturday
12
The Royal Oak
Yyan & Yaan
Wednesday
16
The Royal Oak
Brad Harbeck & Friends
DJ Beerex
Thursday
17
The Royal Oak
Purple Cane Church
Friday
18
The Royal Oak
Daniel Champagne
PW1
Pinky Beecroft and the White Russian 7pm, Elvis Costello and the Imposters 8:30pm
Saturday
19
The Royal Oak
L.B.C. Presents - Pete Cornelius & The Original DeVilles
Republic Bar & Café
Joe Pirere & The Blackberries 9pm
Wednesday
23
The Royal Oak
Andy Collins
The Telegraph
Pirates of the Cover Scene
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett
Jack Greene
Bianca Clennett
Republic Bar & Café
4 Letter Fish 9pm
The Telegraph
Alex Hutchins
Brisbane Hotel
Luca Brasi + Millhouse (nsw) + Headaches (QLD) + Ride the Tiger
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Micheal Clennett followed by DJ Rabb
Irish Murphy's
Neon
Ivory Bar
Jim King
DATE
Jack Greene
Mez
JANUARY
Observatory (Lounge Room)
Grotesque
Saturday
5
Tapas
Evil Cisum
Observatory (Main Room)
DJ Beerex
Sunday
6
Tapas
Rainbow Rothe
Wednesday
9
Tapas
Devonport Cup After Party
Regines (Wrest Point)
80's Party
Thursday
10
Tapas
Neil Gibson
Republic Bar & Café
Sonic Animation + Lids + Dale Baldwin 10pm
Friday
11
Tapas
Masters Acoustic
Saturday
12
Tapas
The Sun Kings
The Telegraph
Dr Fink
Sunday
13
Tapas
Live Music
Brisbane Hotel
Naked + Pines
Thursday
17
Tapas
Return of the Punk Night
Brisbane Hotel
Brand New Second Hand "Hottest 100 Pub Disco Hits" Hosted by DJ BTC
Friday
18
Tapas
Unbalanced
Saturday
19
Tapas
Pearl Jam
Thursday
24
The Royal Oak
Gendra
Friday
25
The Royal Oak
The Titz
Saturday
26
The Royal Oak
The Old Lyric Theater
Wednesday
30
The Royal Oak
Open Mic Night
Thursday
31
The Royal Oak
Van She w/ Bombsquad
devonport VENUE
ACTS / START TIME
Brookfield Vineyard
Australia Day Fantastic Evening Concert 6pm
Sunday
20
Tapas
Evil Cisum
Thursday
24
Tapas
Neil Gibson
Cargo Pizza and Lounge Bar
Cam Stuart
Friday
25
Tapas
TMG
Irish Murphy's
Australia Day Party
Saturday
26
Tapas
The Ring Masters
Ivory Bar
Lids
Jack Greene
Millhouse
Sunday
27
Tapas
Brett & Josh
Thursday
31
Tapas
Evil Cisum
JANUARY Wed 9 Scott Haigh Thurs 10 The Bucket Feats Fri 11 Something Different Variety Show w/ Guthrie Sat 12 Yyan & Yaan Wed 16 Brad Harbeck & Friends Thur 17 Purple Cane Church Fri 18 Daniel Champagne Sat 19 Pete Cornelius & The Original DeVilles Wed 23 Andy Collins Thur 24 Gendra Fri 25 The Titz Sat 26 The Old Lyric Theater Wed 30 Open Mic Night Thur 31 Van She w/ Bombsquad
~ Live Music ~ ~ Great Food ~ ~ Open 7 Days ~ ~ Open Mic Night the Last Wednesday of the Month ~
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