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Canberra-based Key Grip’s motto is, “It’s Gotta Swing” and they are out to set a high bar for blues in Canberra and wherever they play. Their reputation as Canberra’s premier blues outfit has been supported by Ron King’s (Fore Fay Riders) praise of them as “true Australian blues”. Band leader Leo Joseph set up Key Grip on returning from the US back in 2005 after 12 years overseas, mostly in Philadelphia. “Key Grip explores the many shades that the blues genre has to offer from West Coast jump to soul and New Orleans flavours but it will always swing.” You’ll be able to catch Leo Joseph and the rest of Key Grip when they play the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart on Thursday October 4.

CARMADA CHAMELEONS There’s been a change of date and venue for the Carmada gig! Take note, peoples!

It’s now on at The Mez Bar at The Odeon in Hobart on Friday October 5. Carmada, of course, is the collaboration of two of Australia’s most talked about young producers, LDRU and Yahtzel. They decided to go beyond their back to back set and previous collaborative efforts by merging their mad production skills and sheer talent. You can also catch support from OOC, Max Power & more. Doors from 9.30pm and presales available from Moshtix.

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Brisbane chart-toppers Sheppard recently announced the first shows of the biggest tour of their careers, visiting over thirty regional, metro and suburban communities – including special massive shows at Club 54 in Launceston on Friday October 12 and the Granada Tavern in Hobart on Saturday October 13. With a victory lap to celebrate their #1 album Watching The Sky, the band are heading out to do what they do best – playing live with hits from the new album including ‘Hometown’, ‘Coming Home’ and ‘Keep Me Crazy’ as well as their multi-platinum smash hits ‘Geronimo’ and ‘Let Me Down Easy’. Tickets for both events are available via Oztix and will set you back $34.70.

STICKING POINTS “Sticky Fingers is a reggae fusion/indie rock band formed in 2008 in Sydney, Australia. The band consists of Dylan Frost (lead vocals/guitar), Paddy Cornwall (bass/vocals), Seamus Coyle (lead guitar), Beaker Best (drums/percussion) and Freddy Crabs (keys/synth). Former band member Taras Hrubyj-Piper (guitar/ keyboards) left the band in 2009, shortly after their debut EP Helping Hand was released. They have released three studio albums.” - Wikipedia. They are playing at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart on Saturday October 13, starting at 3pm. Tickets are available now from Moshtix, and will cost you $69.95.

SEE MORE MARK! Mark Seymour & The Undertow are playing at The Unconformity this year!

If you don’t know who Mark Seymour is, I feel bad for you, son. But here’s the schpiel: Mark Seymour formed Hunters and Collectors in 1980, with a bunch of Uni friends. The band became famous for its rhythmic power and very quickly became touted as the “next big thing”.

The album Human Frailty was recorded in Melbourne in 1985. This record has proven to be one of the most important and enduring records of the eighties and Hunters and Collectors were still playing a large part of this cut in 1998 when they retired. Since then, Mark’s solo records have been directly connected to this era and bear the same stamp of raw honesty and emotional power. Head to www. theunconformity.com.au for more details on the whole shebang.

SWAYZE BABY After being blown away by their explosive live shows at this year’s Bigsound, Ive League Records announced the signing of garage/punk act, A. Swayze & the Ghosts – who will join the likes of Hatchie, The Rubens, Rolling Blackouts C.F., The Teskey Brothers, I Know Leopard and more on the Australian label’s stellar roster of artists. To mark the occasion, the local lads have released their blistering new single ‘Suddenly’, the accompanying video, and announced a string of shows across October and November. Of course, there would be riots in the streets if there wasn’t a Tasmanian show as part of the tour, so along with their performance at Til The Wheels Fall Off in Launceston on Friday November 2, A. Swayze & the Ghosts will be playing at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Wednesday October 24 (show day eve). Tickets are available now via oztix, and will cost you $17.85.

FRENCHTASTIC Frenchy is back – bigger, better and lankier than ever! After selling out 2018 Australian festival seasons, Edinburgh Fringe in the UK and a successful regional tour of Oz, Frenchy is ready to hit the National Comedy Tour again with a brand-new show. With the language of a sailor and the face of a boat, Frenchy’s live shows involve killer one-liners, crowd work, bogan ballads, stories and jokes you won’t be able to repeat the next day.

The Frenchy “Sex, Drugs & Rollerblades” tour hits the Granada Tavern on Friday November 9, tickets are available via Oztix and will cost you $39.95 for General Admission, or $69.95 for General Admission with a meet and greet with Frenchy himself.

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IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME. Formed in 1996 for a school talent competition, Downsyde kicked open the doors for WA hiphop artsts as well as being early pioneers on the national scene. Since then, they’ve released four acclaimed albums, won a stack of awards, had charting albums and singles and toured Australia and the world numerous times, building up a legion of fans across the globe. Finally, FINALLY, they are making their way to Tasmania as a crew, and they’ll be joined by fellow WA hiphop stalwarts Mr. Grevis, Mortar, Bitter Belief, Emjay and Rob Shaker. Local supports will be Greeley & Dunn D, Bladel & Ayeo.

SWANFEST 2018 will be taking place on Friday November 16 at The Brisbane Hotel. Tickets are on sale now via Oztix.

MADNESS MAD MAXX is the result of years of hard work, perfecting a unique sound, embodying all the travels, experiences and parties of the past 20 years. The music is a mix of trance, ethnic and deep sounds, with a strong kick and ominous bass line, and electro touch, emotional chants, and at times nostalgic atmospheres, with a BPM ranging from 138 to 145 in general. All this sonic mayhem delivered in a whirlwind of psychedelia of course. It’s all happening on Friday November 23 at The Homestead in Hobart (tickets $15-$35 via outix.co) and it will be supported by legendary locals Corney, Kireesh, Delix and Awkward Silence.

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“Hack”. But he’s not a hack at all. He’s a top bloke. Along with hosting a show called Hack, he’s also a sick af bassist.

He plays for Client Liaison, who released their debut album Diplomatic Immunity not long ago and are about due to tour again.

On top of all that, he’s also none too shabby on the wheels of steel (or the USB of plastic), spinning those sweet disco and house bangers. He often plays at Client Liaison after parties, but now he’s coming down to Taswegia to play a few sets by himself. Good stuff. You can catch him at the Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Friday November 9, or at Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport on Saturday November 10.

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Ben Ottewell, singer and guitarist of English indie band Gomez, has announced he will be returning to Australia for his

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fourth solo tour of Australia in November.

Ben will play dates in Brisbane and Hobart plus multiple dates in Sydney and Melbourne. All dates are on sale now.

The tour follows the release of his third solo album A Man Apart which like 2011’s Shapes & Shadows and 2014’s Rattlebag, began it’s life in Los Angeles. The three days spent at The Chalet near Culver City were primarily to procure the services of ace engineer/bassist Will Golden and Richard Thompson’s live drummer of choice, Michael Jerome. Ben plays Peppermint Bay on Sunday November 25, with Buddy.

the Hobart City Hall on Saturday January 26. Featuring Safia and Client Liaison as headliners for this year, also on the bill are E^st, Bootleg Rascal, Robitikus, Chase City and Session B. Early birds available now from Moshtix.

on Saturday February 23, and will have the awesome Baker Boy in support. For more information, or to grab tickets, head to www.johnbutlertrio.com.

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Global sensation Tash Sultana has announced long awaited Australian national headline shows as part of the ‘Flow State World Tour’. This will be the first headline tour in well over a year on Australian soil and Tash will be playing a full 2-hour set. The tour hits Tasmania on Saturday March 2, at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hobart. Tash will be supported

by Sydney’s own Ocean Alley, who will bring their independent brand of sunsoaked psychedelic rock to town. Tickets are available via www.ticketmaster.com. au, starting at $89.90, and will definitely sell out quick. So don’t be a slouch!

OOOH. SPOOKY. John Edward has brought a fresh, honest and thought provoking attitude to the world of psychic phenomena. Yep. As a psychic medium, author and lecturer, he has, over the last three decades, helped thousands with his uncanny ability to predict future events and communicate with those who have crossed over to the Other Side. Ok. Deeply compelling, often startling and occacionally humorous, John’s down to earth approach has earned him a vast and loyal following around the world. John is performing at Launceston Country Club on Saturday December 1, and Wrest Point Showroom on Sunday December 2.

LOLA Described by triple j as “the most assured we’ve heard The Rubens yet”, the Menangle band’s third album LO LA RU was a huge moment for their 2018.

Picking up from where their triple j Hottest 100-topping single “Hoops” left off, the new record features exuberant party jam “Million Man” and album standout, “Never Ever (feat. Sarah)” - a powerful duet that won the hearts of music fans across the world. After spending close to three months on the road supporting P!NK on her mammoth Australian tour, The Rubens are now gearing up for a huge run of shows on their own, where they’ll be playing new songs to fans alongside their classic jams. The “LO LA RU” tour hits the Red Square & The Goods Shed in Hobart on Friday December 7, tickets are available via Moshtix, and will cost $55.59.

WINE + MUSIC = ALWAYS GOOD It’s time for a good ol’ fashioned country shindig! The Summer Moon Country Music Festival explodes at Josef Chromy Wines on Saturday December 15.

Presented by Jam Mountain Music, and running from 11am until 8:30pm, you’ll be able to see the likes of Lee Kernaghan, The McClymonts and Catherine Britt. Plus Matt Cornell, Alyece Simmonds, Casey Barnes and Montgomery Church! A huge line-up, and an incredible location – this blockbusting event showcases the cream of Australian Country Music! Tickets are on sale now via ticketweb.com.au. Tickets are $69 for Under 18’s, or $109 for the Adults. Check the website for other ticket options.

WHOSE GOT THE GOODS? Second year running, The Goods is back this Summer to bring you that splash of multicolour electronica to liven up your life. Moving to the Australia Day long weekend, the festival will operate out of

Set among the vines of Home Hill Winery in Ranelagh, the Huon Blues & Roots Festival returns for it’s second year with twice the lineup. Headlining will be Australian favourite, Tex Perkins accompanied by The Fat Rubber Band.

Known for his work over four decades with such groups as The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon, and Tex, Don and Charlie, Tex Perkins is an Australian musical workhorse. Also on the amazing bill, are the likes of Jeff Martin, Jeff Lang, Pierce Brothers, Pete Cornelius and Monique Brumby. It’s all happening on Sunday February 3. Tickets will set you back $81.09 for General Admission, $132.09 for VIP, or $188.19 for a General Admission Family Pass (2 x Adult and up to 3 x Kids tickets), and are available from Moshtix from Friday October 12.

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WINE + MUSIC = HOT With the recent announcement of a South Australian gig, Hot Dub Wine Machine general release tickets have officially gone on sale nationally, and are already selling fast. The Tasmanian leg of the tour hits Home Hill Winery in the Huon Valley on Saturday March 9. Hot Dub Wine Machine is a fullbodied day of wine, food and live music, showcasing both the splendour of our nation’s most picturesque wine regions and the spectacular music artists borne from Australian soil. Head to www. iwannaticket.com.au.

BIG WORLD TOUR SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT Due to overwhelming demand from his Tasmanian fans, Britain’s biggest comedian Michael McIntyre will return to Australia in June, three months after his national tour to perform his highly acclaimed BIG WORLD TOUR SHOW to include a show at the Derwent Entertainment Centre on Friday June 14.

Michael McIntyre’s Big World Tour will see the BAFTA award-winning comedian perform in arenas around the world.

The tour, which began in late 2017, will come to Australia in March 2019 before returning again in June. Tickets for Michael McIntyre’s BIG WORLD TOUR SHOW are on sale now, and are available via Ticketmaster.

DOWNLOAD IT Download Festival! Holy crap! Have you seen the line up? It’s freaken huge, man!

Ozzy Osbourne is headlining, and it’ll be his only Australian show. It’ll be the only Australian show for Judas Priest too, AND The Amity Affliction, AND Halestorm..

AND Slayer will be playing as part of their final world tour. JFC. Alice and Chains are on the bill, so are Ghost, so are Behemoth, so are Anthrax. This is epic. I haven’t even mentioned the massive local line up. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, I Prevail, Converge, Frenzal Rhomb, Luca Brasi, Code Orange, Andy Black, The Fever 333, War on Women, High Tension, Outright, Ruins, Alien Weaponry, plus loads more to be announced!

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Ghost Rock Wines Concert in the Vines 2019 will feature headline artists Daryl Braithwaite and Taxi Ride, supported by three Tasmanian bands, Bad Dad Orchestra, Agent 99 and Halfway to Forth. The full line-up (the biggest yet) of bands will smash out hits for 6.5 hours straight of solid tunes, that is certain to get event goers off their feet dancing and singing. Hits such as “Horses”, “As the Days Go By”, “One Summer” and many more will be performed. It’s all taking place at Ghost Rock Wines in Northdown on Saturday February 23. Tickets are available now via Oztix, and start at $80 for General Admission.

JB IS BACK With their recently released first album in four years (HOME), John Butler Trio have also released a new single and announced a massive national tour, and they’re taking good friend Missy Higgins along for the ride. They’ll be joined by upcoming singer songwriter Stella Donnelly, as well as special guests in each city including Dan Sultan, The Waifs, The Teskey Brothers and Baker Boy. The Tasmanian leg of the tour hits Tolosa Park in Hobart www.facebook.com/warp.mag 7

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“I’m full deep in wedding stuff, which is intense but exciting!” he says. “It has been fun, people always say weddings are a lot to plan and organise- obviously I’ve planned tours and live shows, but weddings are a lot. You have to feed all these people! We’ve got people coming from the UK, Boston, Australia. It’s gonna be really fun, I’m really looking forward to the honeymoon: Fiji and then Japan.”

The UK-based Aussie star will be back on home turf this December for a series of Ministry of Sound-backed ‘Orchestrated’ shows. Dubbed the ‘Strings of Life tour’, MOS will take the likes of Sparro, Crystal Waters and Alison Limerick around Australia for a series of dance-slashorchestra shows that promise to be uniquely fascinating.

This 2018 jaunt will be Ministry Of Sound’s biggest Australian ‘Orchestrated’ tour to date, with shows slated in Gold Coast, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. In case you didn’t know, the show ‘reimagines’ massive dance hits with a live symphony orchestra. It began last August. Musical Director Adam Sofo (pianist, film composer) and Creative Director Groove Terminator (aka Simon Lewicki, massive electronic artist) will return for this run.

“Club music and dance music- and dance music culture- is so much about being in a club with pre-recorded music with a DJ.” Sparro says.

“But there’s so many great songs from that universe that are really beautiful compositions, there’s some club classics that have a lot of depth and are near and dear to people, myself included. There’s material in the show that I 8

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“WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME IF I SAID I WAS FOLDING LAUNDRY?” SAM SPARRO IS FOUR DAYS OUT FROM HIS WEDDING WHEN I AM SPEAKING TO HIM, SO YOU’LL EXCUSE HIM IF HE ISN’T KNEE-DEEP IN MUSIC BUSINESS.

grew up listening to and means a lot to me.

Rearranged and presented with live strings, I think it’s gonna be powerful.”

“Personally I always like to put as much into the show as I possibly can, so people walk away inspired and alive. If I could tour with an orchestra, I would! It’s so extra and over the top, but I’ve been fortunate enough to do shows with orchestras and there’s nothing like it.”

Since Sparro’s “breakout hit” in 2008, Black and Gold (the single and the self-titled album it came from earned him five ARIA nominations that year), he’s been working solidly across the industry. Black and Gold was a massive hit and really launched Sparro into immediate notoriety (#2 in the United Kingdom, #4 in Australia, nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 2009 Grammys, included on the soundtrack of FIFA 09, appeared in two films and various promos).

As well as pumping out material under the Sam Sparro moniker (albums Sam Sparro in 2008 and Return to Paradise in 2012), he’s guested on tracks by Basement Jaxx, Beni and DMC; he’s written with all sorts of acts like Adam Lambert, The Bloody Beetroots and Courtney Act; he’s made some amazing remixes, and done music for TV. Fingers in a lot of pies.

happened. The album is written and my studio is under construction; we’ve moved into a new house, moved to the mountains, and I’m building a new studio. When I get back from my honeymoon, that’ll be finished. The album is called Boombox Eternal, it’s a love letter to my ten year-old self, inspired by my cassette collection which I still have. I’ve always been very nostalgic, always really loved music from the jazz era, 1960s, 70s.”

The vibe of this long-awaited new album no doubt stems from his own feelings of nostalgia and dissatisfaction with an overwhelmingly online world. Sparro notes that it’s hard to tell whether we’re all just feeling more nostalgic for the past, or just disgruntled with the present.

“I don’t know if people are more nostalgic [these days], but I think in this age of overwhelming information and connectivity, it is kind of nice to ruminate or meditate on a time when it was a bit more innocent? I’m looking forward to going on my honeymoon and switching off my social media and being switched off and isolated. It’s important to switch off and think about what we’re supposed to be doing. I love being in the present and thinking about what’s next, but I also love to remember the past.”

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Sparro does have a new album in the pipeline that you expect...sometime soon.

“We don’t have a release date, I’m kind of wrapping it up- it kind of got pounded while I’m getting married (laughs). Was planning on finishing it earlier this year, but then life

Ministry of Sound’s ‘Orchestrated’ happens on Saturday, December 8 at Wrest Point Lawns, Hobart (with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra plus special guest John Course DJ set). Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.

TOM TILLEY plus guests

Friday November 9 - Hobart - The Tah (tickets from oztix)

Saturday November 10 - Devonport - Tapas Lounge Bar (tickets from moshtix)

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SEARCHIN’ FOR THAT RELEVANT SOUND

THERE’S A GRITTY EMOTION IN SAFIA’S MUSIC THAT CAN SOMETIMES BE BRUSHED OFF DUE TO ELECTRONIC BEATS AND FESTIVAL CROWDS. I CHAT TO VOCALIST BEN WOOLNER ABOUT THE CHANGES AND PROGRESSION WE CAN EXPECT FROM THEIR UPCOMING RELEASES.

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I want to talk about your single Freaking Out, you’ve recently released the acoustic version, and wow, it puts another emotional spin on the song completely, it’s so beautifully done. What made you release it this way?

Thank you so much! It’s hard when you play electronic music; we get promoters that want to book us a gig and still assume that we are DJs. We wanted to show the musicality behind the songs, and yes, they are shiny produced things sometimes, but they do com from a very organic sense. We do come from a rock background and we’re very much still learning, in the early electronic aspect of it. It is a bit playful in the original release, there was an emotional side to it that I think - in hindsight - I wanted to get across a bit more, which I think was lost in the original release. So yeah, that’s why we decided to put that out and people seem to really like it!

Can we expect to hear more of that in coming releases?

Yes definitely, I think we will absolutely explore it in the next release, maybe in more detail. We might do - these are just ideas at the moment - but we might do a few of the songs in acoustic and write specific acoustic songs. It’d be fun to go to costal towns and do small rooms, do acoustic shows as well! There are all pipeline ideas at the moment, but I think its something we are all very comfortable doing! It’s a side to us that we kind of want to show off more I think.

Looking at your tour it seems to be festival after festival, are you looking for a change?

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I like both. I think theres something about our show and performance that lends itself to a festival and big stage. The first live show I ever saw was Alice Cooper; Michael our drummer came as well, so we’ve always been drawn to big theatrical, larger than life shows. I’ve always been drawn to those big shows where its more than just a band playing their songs. It’s a theatre piece. The bigger stages have always lent themselves to that kind of show, I think that’s why we enjoy it, and promoters keep on asking us back!

Did you always envision SAFIA as an electronicstyle band?

We came from a rock background, and just started writing songs in a different method; we started producing and doing a bit more sequencing stuff, sampling and electronic style production and yeah! We didn’t think much of it, when one of our first songs got played on the radio, I remember being like eighteen or nineteen at the time and I’d been and writing putting up songs, on Unearthed and online for a long time, and they didn’t get much notice. When this one got a place, we were like ‘oh okay… there might be something here!!’ We went from there! We’re learning with each release and that’s why our stuff is a bit sporadic and ADD, we’re just doing whatever we feel! [laughs]

is gunna be a short time between albums! Then as we do, it kind of spanned out. I think we’re heading in the right direction now… That’s all I can say. It’s all collectively, coming together; at least it feels like it is! So hopefully within a year [laughs]. The difference between this one and the last one is the last one we wrote, we had an average amount of songs we were working on, and they were it. This time we’ve written SO many songs, and essentially finished an album’s worth that we probably wont use. They’re all really cool, it’s just about finding more than a record of songs. I really want a narrative, I think we’ve turned that corner and they’re on that track. It’s taking a while, but I feel good about it!

What kind of message or impact would you like SAFIA to project?

First and foremost I’ll just be so grateful that I can continue playing music as a profession, and write music, I’m so content with that. To further that, if that music impacts on other people’s lives positively, that’s pretty special. Having a tangible impact on someone’s life is pretty special. You can’t really ask for more than that I think if anything, I’d like to get the music to more people and have more people hear it!

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We waited so long for your first album Internal, can we expect the same wait for the next?

Yeah it was a long wait [laughs]. Initially, after doing a whole bunch or writing I was like oh this

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KNOW YOUR ROOTS MOJO JUJU IS HEADING TO TASMANIA IN OCTOBER AS PART OF A NATIONAL TOUR TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF HER ALBUM NATIVE TONGUE. I SPOKE TO MOJO TO DISCUSS HER APPROACH TO THE RECORD, ITS PERSONAL NATURE AND HER PARTNERSHIP WITH PLUS1.

Incredibly personal, Mojo Juju’s third studio album Native Tongue is a raw and honest exploration into her own family history.

Native Tongue certainly isn’t lacking in collaborations, the album including a multitude of featured artists and producers.

“It’s been cathartic performing some of the work. It was a pretty huge process, like getting to the point of writing it. It took me three years to make it but it took me my entire career to get to the point where I felt like I could make it.”

“Those kind of collaborations happen very organically so for me it was about just going where it felt right for the song.

But as far as featured artists, there were some deliberate choice made because I wanted to work with other people of colour, I wanted to work with people who had their own personal connection to the narrative.”

In comparison to previous work, Mojo approached Native Tongue differently.

“I try and make a habit of approaching every album differently. I’m always kind of pushing myself to do something new, cause I think that’s where interesting stuff happens. I went and sat in a desert for a few weeks in complete isolation in order to write some of the songs.”

Given the incredibly personal nature of the record, many of its songs are particularly special to Mojo.

“I guess “1000 Years” is one of the songs that I feel very emotionally connected to, as well as “Bound To”. But also Native

Tongue, I think that was a really important song for me as an individual to sort of say those things.”

While inherently writing the album for herself as a statement of where she was at personally, Native Tongue is more than just a record to Mojo, made for anyone who has ever felt displaced or like they didn’t belong.

“In a lot of ways I made it for myself, like my younger self. And, I guess anyone who sort of feels the way that I felt when I was a kid.”

Mojo Juju is partnering up with PLUS1 on her national tour, with $1 from every ticket going to the charity.

“My amazing booking agent Katie Rynne has worked with PLUS1 in the past and

BACK IN AFRICA

How does Deran differ from your previous albums?

BOMBINO HAS BEEN SHARING HIS CULTURE AND HERITAGE THROUGH IS MUSIC FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW, HOWEVER HIS LATEST ALBUM DERAN EXPLORES THE ARTISTS TUAREG AND NIGERIAN BACKGROUND ON A DEEPER LEVEL. I HAD A CHAT WITH BOMBINO ABOUT THE ALBUM AND ‘GETTING CLOSER TO AFRICA’.

Deran is just a continuation of the musical path I have been walking for years. Deran to me is just the next level of these styles my group and I have been working on for years on the road - Tuareggae, Tuareg rock and acoustic styles.

What made you decide to record the album in Casablanca and how was the experience?

I wanted to record the album in Niger but it was too complicated and expensive to do that. So we started thinking of alternatives in Africa, and we thought Morocco could be interesting, as there is a close cultural connection between the Berber and the Tuareg. The environment is also similar, the language, the food.

Geographically it was also the best meeting point as the band was coming together from New York, Brussels and Niger. A friend of ours in Morocco recommended this studio and they offered us a great situation to record, so we went for it and I am very glad that we did. It was a wonderful experience.

You said your “mission for this album was always to get closer to Africa”, can you explain this further?

As I mentioned I wanted to record this album at home in Niger, but accepting that that was not possible I wanted to record as close as possible in Africa. My last two albums were both recorded in the United States with famous American producers, so for this one we wanted to get away from this style of production and be as raw and natural as possible. This is why I wanted to return to Africa for this album.

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she sort of put it out there to me. I was like wow this is amazing, I would love to be involved however I can. We ended up going with the Aboriginal Legal Service.

I felt like this was a really important organisation, so I was like let’s do it.”

“Expect to have a good time. I know it’s a heavy record but we have a lot of fun on stage, so yeah, I think people can expect that.”

HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI

Mojo Juju will be bringing her Native Tongue tour to Tasmania this month, playing at the Republic on October 19 and the Bridge Hotel in Forth on the following night.

Can you tell me about music and people’s opinions on music in your home country of Niger?

Music is a very important part of life in Niger, for everyone. Every major event will involve live music - marriages, babynaming ceremonies, and so forth. It is a very deep and important part of our culture and we are very proud of that.

People in Niger like local music very much. They also like reggae, and hiphop and pop music. But everyone will know the local artists and the latest local hits. It is a big part of what connects us socially.

What are your hopes for the future of Niger and Africa? Can music help with those hopes?

All I hope is for continued peace and development for Niger. I have seen too much hardship and war to hope for more than this. We need to develop in terms of education, in terms of medical and business resources and in many other ways. But none of this can happen without sustained peace and so we must stay vigilant to preserve peace in Niger above all else.

What can people expect at your upcoming Tasmanian shows?

People can expect to dance and have a lot of fun. At least, this is my wish for the people of Tasmania when we meet. I always wish to get people dancing and to spread joy.

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EXTRAORDINARILY AVERAGE HER PARENTS WERE BEGGING HER TO STUDY, BUT RUBY FIELDS HAD OTHER PLANS. NOW, AT JUST TWENTY YEARS OLD SHE’S GAINING ATTENTION AROUND THE NATION DUE TO HER RELEVANT AND UNASHAMEDLY HONEST LYRICISM. OH, AND YOU MIGHT JUST CATCH HER PARENTS STAGE DIVING.

NO SO PLAIN

So, we met last year when things were just taking off for you with the release of your debut single, how have things been since then??

A REGULAR VISITOR FROM THE MAINLAND, CACAO-DUSTED COTTONY FOLK SINGER PEPPER JANE AND HER GUITAR, MAUREEN, HAVE FINALLY RELEASED THEIR (OFFICIAL) DEBUT SINGLE, ‘KEYS’.

The last year has been pretty crazy! I mean even that night at Til’ The Wheels Fall Off, I got to meet the bass player from Violent Soho and we had a couple of beer together. They were one of the bands that kickstarted me into wanting to play music, even that in itself was incredible!

He asked to get a photo with me!!! I was like, can I marry you please?! I think the last year has been pretty hectic, I’ve got to meet some really incredible people and play some incredible shows that I never thought I would. It’s crazy I mean I’m paying rent, trucking along, working as a bartender, still get yelled at by customers…

My life is pretty average when you put it that way, but I definitely think I’m insanely lucky to be twenty years old and doing exactly what I dreamed of hopefully doing by thirty!

You call yourself an average girl, I think that’s why your music resonates so much with fans.

What is the most memorable encounter you’ve had with a fan?

The most beautiful thing is when somebody actually cares enough to listen to the song and tell me my lyrics mean something. There are lots of songs I’ve written that are just about being an idiot, and there are other songs that mean a lot to me. One of the things I have trouble with is when people misconstrue me for that party chick, or that it’s simple, easy rock...

I’m focused on lyrics and when people say they like them I think it’s such a beautiful thing. Most people just write it off as shit music when I work really hard to make those words.

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“I seem to have developed a little sensory sensitivity over the years, and ‘Keys’ is about that crunchy, obnoxious noise keys make when you pick them up off the counter, which was magnified on the night of writing the song by the room being dark and quiet. That was about four years ago.”

Do you consider yourself dangerously underestimated?

Oh yeah, as a young female in a rock band, 100%! It’s fucking hard man, just getting people to listen to the lyrics is the hardest part, cause people want to headbang or muzz-out to your songs, or they want melodies and cool catchy things. I don’t really care about that, I just wanna say words that matter to me, and for people to listen to them.

You were in your bedroom angry at your parents when you wrote ‘I Want’, now you live out of home, has that inspired a whole lot of new music in itself?

Yeah! I live down in a farm on Stanwell Tops in NSW, its beautiful, in the middle of nowhere! I’ve set up a home studio with my bass player who is one of my roommates. We’ve built an art studio and music studio and it is just the most creative space with no neighbours; I’ve written an entire sophomore EP! So that’s coming out real soon, I’ve even prepared for the album after that already. I’ve got like five song in the bank, I’ve had this insane creative outburst. It’s not that living with my parents was inhibiting that but living out of home helps – it takes the pressure out of them not to live with my grubby self! I get to visit them in Kiama, a little further down, and its a nice holiday to go see them. I think they’re really relieved to see that this has all worked out for me, you can imagine when your eighteenyear-old daughter says “I’m gunna start a band, drink heaps of beer and make money out of it!!” They were like… “No chance, go to uni.” I say “NOPE” And now they’re cool! They’ve seen the shows I’ve played, they’ve stage dived!

Mum went front ways – idiot! After that they’ve relaxed, they know I’m taking care of myself.

KEIRA LEONARD

Does that feel like a long time to be incubating it?

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“I got a decent recording done at the Gold Coast 3 years ago with a live video, and wasn’t going to put this old flogged out horse on the record (still coming) but people like it, it’s accessible, so I took the advice of the people who’ll be buying it. My favourite Toowoomba performer, Andrzej Fenner (who has his own EP out btw) was super keen to help rearrange and re-record it, so he plays all the guitars on the new version, did the engineering and a couple of his famous mates even played on it.

“It’s a bit funny ‘cause now I don’t even know how to play my own song properly.”

You toured to Tasmania six times last year and this is your third visit this year, what do you love about the place?

“I first came to Tas to volunteer at the Bruny Island Bird Festival in 2016 - I was stoked to be here but I did come down with a deadly flu about the second day I was here and the weather was MISERABLE. But that year I had a goal of playing in every state and I did it.

“The value you guys place on original music here is so reassuring and encouraging, I feel really welcomed here. I love popping down to Willie Smith’s, I’ve volunteered at the last two Huon Valley Mid Winter Fests. I think I’ve only experienced the mild parts of winter so far but they’ve been magnificent.

GRANADA TAVERN

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“The song happened really quickly in the first instance.

Sometimes you get a feeling about something that’s happened in front of you, or that your brain invented and your subconscious invents a whole back story for that moment.

“I’m also stoked to come back to the gorgeous Huntington Tavern in Kempton, who are having their second annual Kempton Country Music Muster October 20.”

What’s with the unusual off-stage footage in the video clip?

“We wanted to show what my life looks like: I play shows, sometimes watch other people’s shows and I brush my teeth in the street. Maybe your street.”

NIC ORME

Pepper Jane will play four shows in Tasmania, beginning at the Republic Bar on October 16, Irish Murphy’s on October 17, Willie Smith’s Apple Shed on October 19 and the Kempton Country Music Muster October 20. Keep up with Pepper at www.facebook.com/pepperjanehq.

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A FALLS FLASH BACK FALLS you beautiful and cruel mistress. Each year you chew us up and spit us out, elation and high spirits turning to sleep deprivation and sore heads. But we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Falls Festival Marion Bay is a rite of passage for many Tasmanians, a staple of their New Year festivities. Early signs pointed towards record numbers for the 2017-2018 event, with three day tickets selling out a week before it was due to kick off. As a result, 16,000 people flooded the picturesque hills and grounds on Tassie’s SouthEast Coast. Perhaps it was the line-up that drew so many, and when you dig deep you find that Australian artists championed the festival.

Take for example the three Australian artists that secured performance times leading up to midnight. Thundamentals showed patrons how to bounce on the first evening, Flume the second and Peking Duk the third. Despite the calibre of international acts, it was our home-grown talent that triumphed.

Daryl Braithwaite might still be scratching his head as to why millennials picked The Horses as their anthem, but his addition to the festival lineup could be nothing more than a crowd pulling pick by festival promoters. Punters waited with bated breath for the messiah of Australian rock n’ roll to belt out his most adored tune. The song was demanded during the entire set, but only until the end did Daryl deliver. Being a seasoned rocker you could tell Braithwaite was buggered by the end of his performance. Perhaps this was the reason he let the crowd take over for the chorus of The Horses, or maybe it was because their singing nearly drowned out his. Crowds then lost control (sorry not sorry) when it came to Grinspoon’s performance. A late addition to the Marion Bay line-up, those wanting grungier sounds from the festival got what they asked for.

Front-man Phil Jamieson was alive and alert when he made his way on stage, a welcome change from his sloppier, drunken performances

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back in the Grinspoon glory days. Champion and More Than You Are saw small circle pits open, while the first chord from Chemical Heart signalled an almighty roar from the crowd.

Tassie talent shined at this year’s Falls. Kat Edwards and Maddy Jane had the honorary job of performing first for the whole festival. Edwards attracted a small but dedicated fan base for her set on The Field Stage, while Jane breathed life into the main festival arena with her upbeat originals like No Other Way and Drown It Out. Think Courtney Barnett but with an injection of pop. Tasmanian stalwarts Luca Brasi attracted a crowd big enough to rival bands playing several sets after them. Their cover of Paul Kelly’s How To Make Gravy had both fans and new listeners bopping along to the punk-rock rendition. It was by far Brasi’s biggest Falls performance to date and singer Tyler Richardson spoke with gratitude to the punters that amassed before him. There was plenty of punk and rock to go around too, with The Smith Street Band lighting up the Valley Stage with Death To The Lads at the conclusion of their set. DZ Deathrays kicked off their show with Shred For Summer, only to stop the song so members could change instruments for the final jam out. Eyes were fixed on drummer Simon Ridley as he hit his kit with more energy than ten taiko drummers. But the award for the most heartfelt performance went to Bad// Dreems’ Ben Marwe, whose on and off the stage enthusiasm demanded the attention of everyone watching. Marwe pinched hats from audience members, pulled out some bizarre dance moves and took to the photography pit between the stage and crowd where he launched himself into the front row. An honourable mention goes out to the South Australian band for sipping Woodstock Bourbons on stage.

Look up the definition of ‘space cadets’ and it’s bound to make reference to Dune Rats. Midway

through their afternoon set the Brisbane trio called for an audience member to join them on stage and strum out some tunes. The band murmured words about having limited songs to finish their set, so in classic Dune Rats fashion they had their volunteer down a shoey. Cheers turned to confusion as the kid then jumped on the guitar and butchered Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit. The band’s set was messy, but that’s what fans expect. If you were a Dune Rats newcomer, you’d be utterly confused as to what you were hearing and seeing. Liam Gallagher showed his true colours come his evening set, mocking crowd members for waving their hands from side to side. The Brit even singled out a few punters about their choice of attire. He might be a knob, but there’s no denying the man’s talent. Composed and perhaps even a little bored, Gallagher found the compassion to end his set with an acoustic version of Wonderwall, a bucket list moment for many. The question still remains; why did festival promoters give Fleet Foxes such a late performance time? Sure, a band of this stature deserves a later set on stage, but the band’s indie-folk sound hardly got punters in the mood for New Year celebrations.

The Smith Street Band or Foster The People would have been more appropriate substitutes.

Another questionable move by Falls was putting The Kooks on so late in the piece. There’s no denying it, the British band has some serious pull, especially when it comes to songs like Naïve and Always Where I Need To Be, but to perform after Peking Duk was a bit of an anticlimax.

Over the past year we’ve seen Peking Duk gravitate away from the DJ decks to wield actual instruments. It’s a move first seen by punters at Splendour In The Grass and now Falls had its turn to see Peking Duk with a full backing band.

The Australian electronic outfit’s set was one big party, featuring tracks like Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love. It wouldn’t be a Peking party without a guest appearance from SAFIA singer Ben Woolner, who helped take songs Say My Name and Take Me Over to the next level.

Of course, it’s the ever growing calibre of artists that’ll keep punters coming back year after year.

Ladies and gentlemen, the 2018-2019 line-up is no exception. Grammy nominated Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals are landing in Tasmania for the first time, while acts like Catfish and the Bottlemen, Interpol and DMA’s are all making a return to the festival. There’s a high calibre of Australian acts making their mark too. Amy Shark, whose new album Adore went 4x Certified Platinum, will undoubtedly take her place alongside the event headliners. She’s joined by Aussie names like Vance Joy, Hilltop Hoods, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tkay Maidza and Flight Facilities. Did we mention that the clock will be rewound to the 1970’s when Toto make their debut Falls Festival appearance?

Like the Daryl Braithwaite of American rock, this seasoned outfit will have punters singing one particular anthem so loud it’ll be heard as far away as Africa.

MARK ACHESON

For further information on the 26th Falls Festival check the website – www.fallsfestival.com.

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IT BEGAN IN AFRICA RYAN SWEENEY IS THE BRAINCHILD BEHIND MELBOURNE ALT-FOLK GROUP ROOSTAR; ALTHOUGH IT’S BEEN A WHILE BETWEEN FULLLENGTH ALBUMS (OUT OF THE WOODS WAS RELEASED IN 2013), THE BAND HAVE BEEN HAPPILY TOURING, JAMMING AND WORKING ON VARIOUS PROJECTS. SWEENEY FINALLY DUG IN ROOTS IN MELBOURNE IN 2003 AFTER LEAVING HIS HOME GROUND OF SOUTH AFRICA AND BRIEFLY SETTLING IN LONDON. IN THAT TIME, HE’S PLAYED WITH THE LIKES OF MIDNIGHT OIL, SPIDERBAIT AND REGURGITATOR AND TOOK ON SOME HULAHOOPING DUTIES WITH THE DANDY WARHOLS AT PARKLIFE.

“When I finished studying in South Africa and started to play in a band in 1994, I went to the UK.” he explains. “With apartheid, there was not a lot of gigs in South Africa. We were starved for music and that sort of thing. As soon as I was able to, I went to London to see a lot of bands I was already following, and ended up living in London for a long time. One of the guys I used to play with was from Sydney; I made a lot of connections and friends in London and travelling, met a lot of Australians.”

“I was twenty-six when my daughter came along” he says. “I was living in a squat and doing the band and random laboring jobs. It did change my focus- I did what the provider does, put on a suit and got a job, but I was determined not to let that stop music. I built a home studio, did a lot of lo-fi stuff for a while, still played around London.”

“Growing up in South Africa, where there’s a lot of wide open spaces, outdoors, I was gonna sette in either Canada or Australia.

Coming from London, I didn’t wanna stop gigging and playing and writing, and I heard Melbourne is the next best thing.

It’s been fantastic. Australia’s been really kind to me.”

“Tony [Jackson, Mighty Horse frontman] used to manage a band back in the ‘90s and got into playing himself; three of the members are from Tony’s other band Speed Orange. Tony was delving into some more roots and folk genres and I’d always wanted to work with him.”

Having kids also changed the direction of his career.

On the band’s Tassie tour, they’ll be playing with rootsy act Mighty Horse, of which Sweeney is also a member.

Although it’s been many a year since he lived there, Sweeney has a complicated relationship with his home country.

“I always say everyone comes from somewhere [and] you never lose that. I went back last year, I’ve still got friends there, but my feelings are definitely mixed. Certainly there’s a lot of beauty, but then there’s a lot of hatred and violence and a lot of violence towards women. If you’ve got a daughter…it’s a risky place. There’s a lot of poverty, if you have something, you have to guard it with a fence. There’s certainly a lot of Africa that’s so beautiful and peaceful, but there’s a lot of ugliness and corruption as well.”

LISA DIb

Roostar play October 4 at the Royal Oak in Launceston, October 5 at the Homestead in Hobart and October 6 at the Next Door Bar in Franklin.

GOODBYE NIC ALTHOUGH BRITISH INDIA’S BASSIST WILL DRUMMOND TELLS ME HE’LL BE “MAKING SOUNDS” WITH HIS DAY, DON’T EXPECT A NEW ALBUM ON THE HORIZON SUPER SOON. WITH THE DEPARTURE OF THE BAND’S GUITARIST NIC WILSON EXPECTED AFTER THIS UPCOMING TOUR, BRITISH INDIA ARE A BIT IN LIMBO.

“To be honest, we don’t know what we’re working on. In the light of Nic retiring from music, we’re having an existential crisis (laughs). We’re just focussed on doing this tour and then deciding what to do. We’ve been doing this for half of our lives together, so we’re unsure. But I’ve always been in the habit of waking up and making music every day. Just have to wait and see.”

The band members all met in high school around 2004 in Melbourne. They’d soon enough start a band, release their debut EP Counter Culture in 2005, and their first full-length album Guillotine in 2007, and the rest was history, as they went on to become one of Australia’s most-loved and prolific bands. So, how will they forge a future without their brother-in-arms?

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“Nic still loves writing music, but he’s doing other things with his life.”

Drummond explains. “Touring had ground him down a bit. I totally understand. I’d do it until I die, I enjoy every aspect of it, but Nic found it harder to tour all the time, which is totally fine.”

“We’ve all needed time since Nic told us to just think, talk to friends and family, now we’re gonna do this tour and it’ll give us a lot of time. Hours in the Tarago or sitting around on planes, we’ll talk about what’s next. We just don’t know, which is equally terrifying and equally great.

With music, you never want everything to be the same all the time anyway, you’re always looking for something strange or weird to happen to upset the apple cart.

It’s the biggest change of my life.”

“When I was younger, I took it for granted,” he explains, on how his outlook has changed over the many years of touring, recording, press and juggling the personal and professional. “I probably thought everyone was afforded these opportunities. Now, being in a position like this, I enjoy it, I try to soak it in a lot more. I work harder now than I did even three or four years ago. I find it more enjoyable to work hard now.”

The tour- dubbed the ‘Nic The Poet’ tour- will be a massive string of shows, kicking off in late October and stretching into 2019. Drummond, in this state of unknowing he finds himself in, is unsure how he’ll feel- sad, bittersweet, anxious?but knows that, at the end of the day, it’ll be a British India tour, pumping out tunes

that the fans have loved over their nearfifteen years.

“It’s tough, I don’t know how we’re gonna feel until we get on stage.” he says.

“We’re just gonna play the songs we always do, throw in some album tracks, but I am unsure about how I’ll feel. I’ll appreciate it and try to suck out as much as I can from it. I’d better enjoy every last second, I can’t sit around and mope.”

LISA DIB

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SONGS ABOUT LOVE

Blue Mountains hip-hop act Thundamentals’ Tuka is talking, of course, about the group’s latest album, I Love Songs. Released about a year and a half after Everyone We Know (which debuted at #2 on the ARIA charts and has so far clocked up about 40 million streams), Songs is a far more relaxed affair; something fans could tell immediately when first single I Miss You was dropped.

Tuka explains that they’ve put their sociopolitical passion aside for more interpersonal songs of love, heartbreak and the unique and bizarre habits of us all as we navigate human relationships. They’re said a lot about politics, the media and conflict, and now they want to talk about arguably something more important and urgent: the way we relate to one another, how we treat ourselves and others, and the importance of love of whatever kind. The band clearly hope the album will be a panacea to the overwhelming negativity, conflict and loathing that is seemingly everywhere in this internet age.

“That’s what I Love Songs is to me: it’s alternative media.” he explains. “We just wanted to make an alternative media that made you feel good.

Let’s just try to balance out the internet a bit! It’s people’s punching bag at the moment. People, for the most part, wanna be negative and vent and use it as a therapist. I’m all for spreading a bit of positivity, there’s a lack of it online... but we’ve been getting good feedback [on the album]” “We’d just finished a record [Everyone We Know] and when you finish a record, you have to reset 22

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“THERE’S THE OBVIOUS LOVE NARRATIVE, BUT WE ALSO JUST LOVE MUSIC. WE’RE CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF BEING A GROUP, AND MUSIC IS OUR FULL-TIME JOB NOW, THANK GOD, BUT WITH ALL THAT IN MIND, WE JUST LET THE SONGS GUIDE THE WHOLE THING AND NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT THE REST OF THE ALBUM. THERE’S LOTS OF R&B, CARIBBEAN INFLUENCES. WE LET THE SONGS DICTATE THEMSELVES. ONE THING THAT WAS COMING UP WAS, ‘WE’RE NOT DOING ANYTHING THAT AGGRO’ (LAUGHS). USUALLY WHEN WE’RE PUTTING TOGETHER AN ALBUM, THOSE PIECES WILL COME UP. THE RECORD FEELS TO ME A LOT MORE CHILLED THAN PREVIOUS RECORDS. A LOT OF OUR PRIOR RECORDS, WE JUMP AROUND A LOT IN TERMS OF ENERGY.”

and start again.” Tuka says, on the formative beginnings of Songs. “We’d just installed a studio, moved back into a spare room in our DJ’s house. All just tinkering away, not just necessarily as a group, talking and making songs. I started writing heaps of love songs basically, I was on a rampage.”

“I had an interesting conversation with my father once: he called me when I was on a walk. When he was growing up, there was an alternative, punks, breaking the norm. I related that to the way the internet is breaking the norm of everything now. There’s a strong sense of counter-culture. As an artist, you wanna comment on that; we’ve been really vocal in action and on social media. We’ve done a handful of songs about how we feel on the current climate. My dad’s comment was that interpersonal connection can far outlive politics, and I felt like exploring that idea. I Love Songs came out of that conversation, and I brought it to the boys who were open to whatever (laughs). We just dived in with that idea, ignoring the sociopolitical climate and focusing on interpersonal relationships, rather than having a macro worldview.”

different songs without the pre-existing fanbase being dirty on you for it. I always generally have read reviews, I’ve never read an album review of mine that felt totally unfair. Being an artist, you have to let go of the idea of our subjectivity and allow other people their subjectivity. Good or bad, I don’t let it affect me. I find it interesting what people like to comment on, more than anything.”

“The thing that messes me up is when I’m writing a record and I listen to someone whose released a good album and I think, ‘I’ve gotta write a song like this’. When I’m neck deep in a record, I don’t tend to listen to other people’s music (laughs). Some of the best ideas just strike you out of nowhere; my thing is, you have to show up, you have to be there in the mindframe to interpret your experiences and process that into art. You have those penny-drop moments, but if you’re not present of mind, you won’t transfer that into art” LISA DIB

Thundamentals fans have so far happily embraced the group’s new direction, but be careful what you say about it in print or online, because Tuka is a review-watcher.

“I do read the ones that have come through. It’s actually been across the board pretty positive, it was a bit of a change in stylistic genre in some songs, and it’s refreshing to be able to flex

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BRINGING THEIR A GAME

The ferocity Press Club have on stage on stage has to be seen to be believed. The soft spoken Natalie Foster turns into a siege of energy, immersing her entire mind and body into every song, moving and swaying from one side of the stage to another. Engaging with the audience, whether that be a small crowd or sold out room, people are completely captivated by the power of Press Club.

“I suppose I have to keep fitness up in my life,” Laughs Foster when asked how on earth she maintains such energy every night. “I get used to, sometimes a longer show can take it out of me a bit, but I try and chill out for a bit in the middle of a show!”

Kicking off their headline tour in Tasmania is exciting for the band, after quick trip here in May supporting The Smith Street Band, Tassie left a mark on them.

“Our last experience here was really great!

Hobart was particularly great, I love Tassie, we all do! It’s so beautiful, the drive between the Launceston and Hobart is probably the nicest drive that we do on tour!” Says Foster.

Playing to some of Tassie’s most loyal music community at Launceston’s Til The Wheels Fall off on Sunday night, Foster says they’ve got the night off, and she’s stoked to be able to catch Luca Brasi among others. Touring with The Smith Street Band early in the year, Foster says she’s then looking forward to getting back on the road again, this time, as a headline.

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HAVING FINISHED A MASSIVE TOUR SUPPORTING THE SMITH STREET BAND EARLIER IN THE YEAR, PRESS CLUB VOCALIST NATALIE FOSTER TELLS US THEY’RE EXCITED TO BE BACK ON OUR SHORES SO SOON. GET READY FOR ONE HELL OF A SHOW!

“I think we were pretty overwhelmed last tour, because it actually sold out some places! We’re adding a bunch of new places on there, as well as being super excited to go back to places we went with Smith Street.”

Being together less than two years, the band quickly gained momentum. Having been in other bands in the past, Foster explains that when Press Club formed, it felt different, and completely right.

“There is just something that works in every element that we are doing. All our motivations are as high as they’ve ever been. I think that’s nice… It’s really nice to feel like we’re not pushing things up hill. We’d all played music together before in previous bands, and we kind of just knew we didn’t want to stop playing music with each other; but we didn’t know what kind of music we wanted to be playing. We just got into a rehearsal room and thought ‘let’s see what happens.’ We did that and I dunno, we all thrashed out some punk music and that was the start of it all, getting into a room together and realising we were all going to be playing the types of music that we wanted to!” Explains Foster.

Releasing their debut album Late Teens earlier on in the year, saw the band compile eleven tracks together, from a choice of thirty-nine! It’s filled with energetic and salient punk anthems, that have resonated with fans around the country, but it didn’t come without some debate, Foster explains.

“We actually had a real democratic approach to it, we did a voting system. If someone voted something really highly and no one else had, we still gave it a go to work on it more. To see if we could get it to a point where we were all like ‘actually, this is great,” she says.

“We had a pretty unanimous vote on about ten of the tracks and I think we chose about fifteen out of the thirty-nine to work from, to see if we could get the album ready. We got down to twelve, then one didn’t make it on the album!”

So how does one band create thirty nine tracks in such a short period of time together??

“I guess when we get into a song writing stint we don’t really stop, we’ll just keep on writing and writing and every rehearsal we get into we will develop a new idea, til it gets to a certain point where we can listen to it and it not be a 20 minute recording. We’ve just done another big stint as well!” explains Foster, before telling us to expect a brand new single very soon.

“All together, we have someone bring in a small idea, but if anything it kind of gets bought in too developed, and it doesn’t seem to fit as well…

That’s something we’ve kind of figured out over the last few years. It’s all super collaborative, we write the lyrics together in the same room!”

KEIRA LEONARD See Press Club perform at The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, on Saturday November 3 and the sold out Til The Wheels Fall Off festival on Sunday November 4 in Launceston.

Music

Music

SEA-SIDE ESCAPE

Queenscliff Music Festival is one of the most exciting and unique festivals currently running in Australia. Set in the beautiful sea-side town of Queenscliff, the festival caters to not only people of ages, but a wide variety of music tastes. From Courtney Barnett to Bombino, QMF has it all. I chat a chat to Andrew, the director of QMF about the festivals incredible line-up, its incredible setting and the future of the festival.

SPEAK YOUR MIND A CULTURE OF SILENCE HAS MEANT MANY PEOPLE DON’T FEEL THEY CAN OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES, WHICH INCLUDES THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES. TIM KLING HOPES HIS EVENT, MINDSPEAK, WILL BE A SMALL PART OF CHANGING THIS NARRATIVE.

“The whole idea was to get these musicians together in an intimate environment, with a bit of a Q&A, and each musician will approach the craft of their music and share the process with the audience. Everyone will perform together too. It’s really cool.”

Kling, a man of many trades (sound engineer, management, producing), has worked in the industry for two decades and wanted to combine his work experience with personal struggles, in order to keep the mental health conversation going.

“I’ve worked in the music industry for over twenty years and have had many friends suffer from mental health issues, which is an under-explored area in the creative industries. I’ve lost two family members to suicide, and another brother who had severe bipolar mental illness.”

To start off, can you tell me a bit about your role as director for Queenscliff Music Festival and whats involved?

My friends often joke about me working full time, to organize something that only runs for 3 days. There is a massive amount of work that goes in to organizing the festival, the 15 stages, 500 volunteers, 200+ contractors & staff, 400+ performers, 15,000+ festival goers. I love every second of it though. My role covers everything.

I’ve booked the bands, cleaned the toilets, done everything.

What is the best part about directing the festival?

I’ve probably got 2 answers….. people ask me what my personal highlight of the festival is quite often, and I normally say Sunday night at about 9pm when I’m sitting on a couch with a beer and it’s all over and done.

Other thing I love is when the festival is in full swing and I can stand back and just watch people enjoying themselves, the punters and the artists.

What makes QMF different from other Australian festivals?

Queenscliff. We’re in a beautiful old sea-side town. The festival arena is right next to the beach and the pier, and then runs right up through the main street with venues in the old pubs, restaurants and cafes. We also have music on an old historic steam train! We’re so fortunate to be able to hold the festival where we do.

We’re also a very family friendly festival, which might not be unique as festivals like Woodford Folk Festival do it so well too, but we pride

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ourselves on being a festival that people of all ages can enjoy. I’ll never forget the crowd for Urthboy in 2016. There was primary school aged kids on mum and dads shoulders, teenagers on the front barrier, and grandparents in the crowd throwing their hands in the air.

them. Also though, we have some beautiful halls in Queenscliff, and it’s such an obvious great fit for us to showcase our old Town Hall. Both Harry Jakamara and Madison Violet are wonderful acts that we get to welcome as part of the Festival too.

What goals do you have for not only this years QMF, but for the future of the festival?

Can you also tell me about the Emerging Artist Grant and how you chose MDRN Love and Fenn Wilson?

We’re always looking to improve each year.

We think we do what we do well, and people come back year after year because of it, but sometimes changing things up a little just helps keep things fresh. We’re starting to challenge our crowd a little more with some of the program. I love that we can book a Japanese Funk band on the same lineup as Kasey Chambers for example.

Any particular favourites of yours off the lineup?

The acts I always look forward to seeing are the ones I think will really blow people away.

The ones that will be someones new favourite artist following the Festival. So this year I’m really looking forward to Osaka Monaurail (that Japanese Funk band), Amistat, The Cool Calm, Jesse Redwing, Wanderers, Thando and Alana Wilkinson Can you tell me a bit more about Festival of Small Halls and why you decided to include it in this years festival?

“I was looking for diversity first, the [theme] of Mental Health Week is “stronger together”. These guys probably hardly ever play in the same venues at the same time, not really the same style, so bringing them together would be incredible for the audience, the music speaks to people in different ways. That’s the incredible power of music, to tap into people’s psyche fast and deep. Music moves people.”

Kling was also able to secure a grant in order to pay the performers, something

And finally, why should people come along to the festival?

Obviously there’s the music…. Courtney Barnett, Sarah Blasko, Dan Sultan, The Herd etc etc.

BUT also come for the adventure. Queenscliff and the Bellarine Peninsula is a beautiful part of the world, right near the Great Ocean Road, surrounded by wineries, and classic little towns.

Come for the Calamari Cones too…. have you had one of those?! They’re life changing…

he is passionate about becoming a culture-wide norm.

stereotype of the ‘tortured artist’ as a beautiful, poetic goal.

“One of the important outcomes of the grant was that each artist is paid the same nominal fee for their participation and performance. We believe that too often musicians struggle to make a meaningful income and get asked to play for free all the time, which creates a cycle of devaluing the hard work creatives put in to make their art. We would like to change that mentality so musicians are being respected like any other industry with a minimum standard fee for their services that values the music that shapes our community. This has a direct correlation to their ability to live meaningful and fulfilling lives and consequently improves overall mental health wellbeing.”

“I disagree that artists need to suffer to create great art. I think people in creative fields do have more empathetic feelings, I’m sure that’s the same for anyone that’s a filmmaker or a writer or some such, they get to that craft because they have an intuitive understand of what humans relate to.”

Kling also wants to abandon the

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Mindspeak happens October 12at the Hobart Brewing Company. The event is free with gold coin donations going towards Support Act, a charity that directly supports musicians and artists facing hardship.

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NOVEMBER THURSDAY 15 The Foundry, Brisbane QLD FRIDAY 16 & SATURDAY 17 Mullum Music Festival, Mullumbimby NSW

We’ve been running the great for several years now. We open it up to submissions each year. It’s aimed at local emerging artists to help them get a bit of a leg up. We offer grants of up to $10k each year. It’s a really important way for us to put back in to the local music community. Both MDRN Love & Fenn Wilson are really quality, young, emerging artists, that are looking to release new material and we felt that could both use the grant $s to help further progress their music careers.

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The simple answer is that our friends at Woodford Folk Festival are absolute legends, and they run the Festival of Small Halls. So when they asked if we’d like to be a part of it we said ABSOLUTELY. I’m just stoked to be working with

As well as wanting a safe space in which to open up about mental health, Kling wanted a diverse lineup of artists who could talk about the different types of mental health experience. Performers include Mary Shannon (Meres), Christopher Coleman, Jed Appleton, EWAH, Jake Long, Jay Jerome and more.

SUNDAY 18 The Lansdowne, Sydney NSW S THURSDAY 22 Jive, Adelaide SA FRIDAY 23 Republic Bar, Hobart TAS

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FALLS FOSTER BAND CELEBRATING THE EIGHTH YEAR OF THE FALLS FESTIVAL FOSTER BAND INITIATIVE AT MARION BAY, WE AT WARP MAGAZINE ARE SUPPORTING LOCAL ARTIST RUBEN REEVES ON HIS ENDEAVOUR TO PLAY ON THE BIG STAGE.

The Winking Eye of God bid him to go with joy unto the place of burning. And with no voice but the anus singing Ruben Reeves Returned home with no light, but the enlightenment you find through over turning. This year’s Foster a Band Entrants are some of the grooviest movers around! Hailing from the southern most reaches of the Wild Isle the Ruben Reeves Band boasts and the horns of Doom and deep roots party tunes to have you dancing the night away to peace and love songs for the apocalypse.

For three years they have ruled the roost of Salamanca strip keeping the fires burning in the belly of the whaler and they have graced the stages of the Mid Winter Festival and supported Ross Wilson (Daddy Cool) at A Taste of The Huon. Now upon the back of their new single ‘Master Plan’ is your chance to vote for these southern beat merchants in Tasmania’s most renowned band competition. Make sure you Foster the Man himself Ruben Reeves for your chance to grow up big and strange!

One man band, Ruben Reeves is a mid-twenties singer/ song writer/poet and multi-instrumentalist who currently lives in Tasmania. Featuring a full band sound layered onto guitar with foot drums the album is upbeat, reflective, topical questioning and exuberant in its themes. Fitting into a rootsy a punk folk blues skank idiom the tones on resonator guitar, banjo, double bass, horns and musical saw. With warm all live band sound honed from a longer Saturday night residency at the Whaler bar on Salamanca Wharf in Hobart, the songs are road tested with sweat celebration, irony and purpose. Dancy , rocky, bluesy ,poppy with a dash of instrumental finesse and spoken word. The Ruben Reeves band album is a fusion of roots styles of quality song writing and enthusiastic social commentary.

For those in doubt about the musical prowess of Ruben Reeves and his fine band, head to Hobart Brewing on Wednesday October 24 for the Ruben Reeves Abduction

Release Party. Supporting will be Baba Bruja, Jimmy Davis and Come Knights. Presales are $10 from www. trybookings.com/XZVJ or buy them at the door for $12 from 8pm.

Keep up with Ruben Reeves via his website – www. rubenreevesofficial.com or facebook page - www.facebook. com/Rubenreevesofficial.

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Voting for the Falls Foster Band program begins on October 3 and concludes November 2. The winner is announced to the public on November 9. To vote head to the website – www.fallsfestival.com. au.

FILM

THE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL THE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL (LAFF 2018), WILL SHOWCASE A FILM FROM EL SALVADOR - THE CLAIM, ARCHBISHOP ROMERO, HIS PEOPLE AND POPE FRANCISCO”. MONSIGNOR OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO, ARCHBISHOP OF SAN SALVADOR, THE CAPITAL OF EL SALVADOR IN CENTRAL AMERICA, WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1980 BY DEATH SQUADS. POPE FRANCIS, UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN 2013, INITIATED THE PROCESS OF HIS CANONIZATION, A STORMY ONE THAT HAD DIVIDED THE ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS.

The night will start at 6:30pm, with drinks, finger food and music, followed by a 7pm screening of film. Organised by the Latin American Embassies in Canberra, the festival will be held in Hobart from October 5 - 14 at the Stanley Burbury Theatre at the University of Tasmania. David Humberto Cruz, from Embassy of the Republic of El Salvador, will be the guest speaker of the opening night of LAFF on Friday October 5 at 6:30.

The film festival is open to the public and the entire program is free entry. All films will be subtitled in English. The countries represented in this festival include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

More information on the festival can be found at www.facebook. com/HobartLatinAmericanFilmFestival.

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Books

Arts

PAIGE TURNER THE FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH SEES THE CLAREMONT COMMUNITY LIBRARY (WHICH WAS OPENED BY VOLUNTEERS WHEN THE CLAREMONT LIBRARY WAS CLOSED) IS HOLDING A BOOK FAIR BETWEEN 10-3. THIS IS A FULLY VOLUNTEER RUN COMMUNITY LIBRARY AND YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE CLAREMONT HALL. THE HOBART BOOKSHOP, ALONG WITH ASTROLABE, ARE ALSO HOSTING A BOOK FAIR, THIS ONE AT THE BATTERY POINT HALL, ON OCTOBER 6 (POSSIBLY SOON TO BE CONSECRATED INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR DAY).

Jane Williams’ collection of poems for children My Nan Speaks Nanish, and her picture book Oskar Saves The Day World, are being launched by Anne Morgan at Hobart Bookshop, on October 4th at 5.30 pm.

On October 2 I’ll be in conversation with Krissy Kneen about her new novel, Wintering a thriller set in the deep south of Tasmania. Krissy’s one of Australia’s most transgressive and exhilarating writers and thinkers, and this foray into thriller (she has written memoir, erotica, spec fic and poetry) has me on the edge of my seat. Fullers Bookshop, 5.30.

The night after, you can hear Krissy in conversation with author of Flames, Robbie Arnott, with Island editor Vern Field guiding the conversation, umpiring a possible arm wrestle. This is organised

by Island mag, and will incorporate the monthly Silent Reading Party – from 6pm in the Crystal Room at Institut Polaire. Check Island’s Facebook page, this is filling fast. This event is run in conjunction with Text Publishing.

Novelist and academic, Dr Rosie Dub, along with Neil Cameron, founder of the Festival Of Voices are taking bookings now for their writing workshop, The Heroic Journey. In this workshop you will take a close look at the stages in the Heroic Journey, their purposes and how they can be implemented in your stories in ways that are exciting and original.

Salamanca Arts Centre on Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th November. ($250 or $230).

For further information, visit - www. centreforstory.com/.

Hobart Fringe Festival? Last I heard of this when I was crying on the Fringe secretary’s door step C2007, stepping away from all involvement, burnt burnt burnt out, like it did to so many of us – so I rejoice at the redux of a Hobart Fringe Festival. All power, and good night sleeps to the new Fringe heads. You can submit your expression of interest now – it is open and accepting of everyone and everything – though I do wonder if the Polish Club will be as um, avant-garde as we were – eg will there be a poetry show with wads of offal thrown around the stage. That said, the Hobart Fringes of yore featured some bloody amazing stuff, from here, from abroad, some of the absolute crazy gems that inform a lot of the current arts scene in Hobart (alongside that museum of course, of course) -www.fringeattheedgeoftheworld. com.au.

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South Contemporary Art Tasmania Until November 4 Beyond the Field (Still) Colville Gallery October 12 Stephen Lees

Publishing.

The Tasmanian branch of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators are holding a conference and professional development opportunity on Saturday October 27. They are also offering manuscript assessments, and the opportunity to meet agents face to face. This is a wonderful opportunity for those on the ground in Tasmania, who are brewing books for children. More information contact Anne Morgan – morganataswa@gmail.com.

Arts Tasmania have announced which organisations they are funding for 2018/2019. They had just over $700 000 available for all the arts organisations in the state for this period, and it is good to see that the Sydney Review of Books will be commissioning essays on the Tasmanian Writing Life, though no other support for literature orgs made it past the dollar sign – and nor do I know if others applied. The Tasmanian Writers Centre, which was not awarded funding from Arts Tasmania last year, has recently had Jill Eddington, formerly of the Australia Council looking in to their situation as well as the literature ‘scene’ more generally in Tasmania, and it is understood the centre did not apply in the latest funding round.

The twelfth Bushcare Walking Book Club, organised by scientist and writer Nicole Gill of the Hobart City Council will see a group of walkers strolling along the Sandy Bay Foreshore and discussing George Monbiot’s Feral. This book is a “search for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding”, and a very readable call to arms by Monbiot, for us to consider returning some of our human landscapes to the natural world, and to enliven ourselves in the process. Monbiot is perhaps best known as a journalist covering social justice and environmental issues for The Guardian. He also hates sheep. During the stroll, Nicole will also explain­a little about a rewilding program taking place beneath the waters of our own river. Meet at the Sandy Bay Sailing Club car park, Long Point Road, Sandy Bay, at 2PM on Sunday 7th October. RSVP to bushcare@hobartcity.com.au RACHEL EDWARDS

Handmark Gallery Until October 3 New Paintings – Junko Go + Jewellery October 5 – October 31 New Paintings – Michael McWilliams Despard Gallery Until October 14 A Joint Exhibition - Lisa Garland and Lucia Usmiani October 17 – November 11 A World of My Own – Micheila Petersfield Bett Gallery Until October 13 Digital Satiety - Nathan Taylor Until October 13 Double Yolker - Mish Meijers October 18 – November 10 Middleground - Amber KorolukStephenson October 18 – November 10 Further – Anna Eden Salamanca Arts Centre Top Gallery October 1 – October 31 Approaching From a Distance – Ai Shanshan Lightbox October 1 – October 31 Sketch – Emily Snadden Sidespace Gallery October 5 – October 13 they tell you which rock they were and how they travelled so far – Constance ARI October 16 – October 22 Youth Speakout – Reconciliation Tasmania October 24 – November 5 Abstracts and Contemplation – Margaret Skowronski Long Gallery October 6 – October 21 RACT Insurance Tasmanian Portrait Prize 2018 Studio Gallery October 3 – October 31 Looking At Place – Hilary Clared

NORTH Handmark Evandale Until October 11 New Paintings – Jeff Gatt October 14 – November 8 New Prints – Olivia Moroney Burnie Arts & Function Centre October 2 – October 3 Tape Installation – Spring School Holiday Workshop Gallery Pejean Until October 13 Petals, leaves and dust – Susan Doust October 15 – November 10 In the Kingdom of Desire – Keith Lane QVMAG October 5 – November 5 Minds Do Matter Until November 11 Disappearing into Being - Robyn McKinnon Until November The Great War 1914-18: Sacrifice and Shadows Unitl February 3 Material Memories

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COMEDY

COMEDY

The Polish Corner October 3 Rod Quantock October 10 Georgie Carroll October 17 Brett Blake October 24 Bev Killick October 31 Aaron Gocs Wrest Point Showroom October 27 The Dollop – Down Under 5 Pancho Villa October 9 Side Splitting Comedy #12 – Gillian English Hobart Brewing Co October 4 The Clubhouse with Sam Simmons October 11 Tassie Mental Health Week Comedy Roadshow Brisbane Hotel October 25 CULT COMEDY THEATRE Peacock Theatre October 5 – October 13 [title of show] October 22 – November 3 The Campaign

The Tramsheds Function Centre October 5 The 2018 Fresh Comedy Gala The Royal Oak October 12 Tassie Mental Health Week Comedy Roadshow Red Brick Road Ciderhouse October 10 Incider Comedy Ladies Night Central Bar October 13 Tassie Mental Health Week Comedy Roadshow THEATRE Earl Arts Centre October 11 25! The Community Celebrates The Earl October 24 New Writing for Tasmanian Theatre in 2018 Princess Theatre October 17 Catching Up With Friends Burnie Arts and Function Centre October 12 – October 13 Encore 10 Years Variety Show October 19 Death By Soprano October 20 Encore – The Big Sing October 26 Super Troupers – Planet ABBA

Mona Until April 22 Zero Until February 11 The Inward Eye: A Psychoacoustic Journey - Jane Baker Moonah Arts Centre Until October 15 Beyond the Field (Still) TMAG Until March 3 The Mission – Michael Cook Until November 11 Thomas Bock Until November 11 The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War

Speaking of festivals, the Tasmanian Poetry Festival runs over the first weekend of the month, in and around Launceston. This year will feature, among other events, a night of Slamduggery, Tasmania’s pre-eminent slam poetry competition, and Arielle Cottington. More information can be found on their website - www.taspoetryfest.org/.

Alison Alexander’s new book, Duck and Green Peas Forever, finding Utopia in Tasmania is being launched by Professor Henry Reynolds at the Town Hall on October 12 at 4pm. It looks like another ripper of Tasmanian history from Fullers

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Sunday

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Tuesday

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Birdcage Bar

The Evan Carydakis Trio 9pm

Date

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & The Great Muldavio

Date

The Goods Shed

Ball Park Music & San Cisco

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Noteworthy (Ryk Goddard, Liam Johnstone, Ian Murtagh) 8pm

The Lounge by Frogmore Creek

Tony Mak 6pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Hobo Magic 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 9pm

Shambles Brewery

Tuning In – A Pint of History

Cargo

DJ Rikin

The Brunswick Hotel

Henry Rippon 6:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & The Great Muldavio

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Noteworthy (Celeste Meincke, Majella Eales, Christina Hogarth) 8pm

Jack Greene

Isaac Westwood

Post Street Social

Gabrielle Dagrezio

Republic Bar & Cafe

Zac Henderson & Katie Wilson 8:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 6:30pm

Bar Celona

Karly Fisher 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Van Diamond’s Band 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Billy Whitton and the Swinging Hepcats 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Dub in Da Pub w/ Dublo, Funk Nukl, DJ Pressed, RIKU, Max Power

Brooke Street Pier

Hobart Twilight Market 4:30pm

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Central Hotel

Bridget Pross 4pm

Cooleys Hotel

Lasca Dry 5pm

Jack Greene

Terry Nomikos

Post Street Social

Tim Hibberd

Prince of Wales Hotel

GFB

Republic Bar & Cafe

Hobart Funk Collective 10pm

T-Bone Brewing

Gabriel Dagrezio

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby / 33 Seconds

The Brunswick Hotel

Dave West 6pm

Bar Celona

Tim Davies 7pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & The Great Muldavio

Birdcage Bar

Dan Vandermeer 9pm

Hobart Town Hall

TSO Chamber Concert 1

Bright Eyes Cafe

Tassie Devil’s Own

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: Lake Myer (Single Launch), A. Swayze & The Ghosts, Bansheeland, Subdivision

Noteworthy (Miss Jones Plays, Zara Graham, BALTIMORE) 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Darryl Beaton & Friends 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: The New Town Hounds, The Developers, Tarraleah Power Station

The Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 6:30pm

Bar Celona

Dan Vandermeer 7pm

Bar Celona

Jonathan Warwarek 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Django’s Tiger 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar Late: Garageland w/ DJ Tex Napalm

Birdcage Bar

Almost Cut My Hair 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Coyote Serenade 6pm

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Bright Eyes Cafe

Gypsy Suitcase 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: Puritanik Elekution, The Cards

Central Hotel

Joel Everard 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: Ragged Hollow, The Sketches

Cooleys Hotel

Sarah Letters 5pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar Late: Late Night Krackieoke

Federation Concert Hall

The Joy of Mozart 7:30pm

Infestation II w/ Gape, Kingfall, Lacerta, The Absolution Sequence, Minds in Motion, Scoparia, Interitum, Create The Crayon, Mountains of Madness, Lunar Rampage

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Grand Poobah

Berks

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Central Hotel

Hannah May 4pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Central Hotel

M.T. Blues Music 4pm

Cooleys Hotel

Billy Whitton 5pm

Long Beach Sandy Bay

Hobart Twilight Market 4:30pm

Conservatorium of Music

The Miraculous Mandarin

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Post Street Social

Gabrielle Dagrezio

Cooleys Hotel

Tarik Stoneman 5pm

Long Beach Sandy Bay

Hobart Twilight Market 4:30pm

Queens Head Hotel

Tony Voglino 8pm

Grand Poobah

Bear Cub

Post Street Social

Tim & Scott

Republic Bar & Cafe

Mephistopheles + Pure + Break Through + Coward Punch

Hobart Brewing Co.

Mindspeak 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Mojo Juju 10pm

Post Street Social

Tim Hibberd

T-Bone Brewing

Tim and Scott

T-Bone Brewing

You Me and The Sea

Republic Bar & Cafe

Stephen Cummings 9:30pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Black Swans of Trespass Duo 7:30pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Zac Henderson 7:30pm

T-Bone Brewing

Dan Vandermeer

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Tom Booth 7:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan Warwarek 6pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan Warwarek 6pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby / Big Swifty

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke

The Brunswick Hotel

Tim Davies 6pm

Jamie Taylor Duo 7pm

The Lounge by Frogmore Creek

Jamie Taylor Duo 7pm

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke

The Lounge by Frogmore Creek

Club Carmada 9:30pm

Tash Zappala, Hugh Foley Duo 7:30pm

The Whaler

The Odeon Theatre

The Whaler

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe, Parlour Band 7:30pm

Bar Celona

Isaac Westwood 7pm

Finn Seccombe, Saucy Jack and his Ripper Band 7:30pm M.T. Blues Music 6:30pm

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke

Distorted IV

Van Diamond’s Band 9pm

Velvet Lounge (Cygnet)

Twisted Lime

Birdcage Bar

The Whaler

Patrick Berechree, Zac Henderson Duo 7:30pm

Ruben Reeves, Ani Lou & Lasca Dry 7pm

BIRTHDAY BASH – Gerry Balding & Ross Sermons 6pm

The Outfit 9pm

Yambu

Bright Eyes Cafe

Yambu Bar Celona

Cam Stuart 7pm

Yambu

Soft Power (MEL) 7pm

Bar Celona

Dave West 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Jimi 9pm

All Saints Market

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Wombat, Chillnit, Alex Jones, Huskii Ben

All Saints Market (Katie Wilson, Miah Aplin, Matt Dean) 10:30am

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: Teddy Picker w/ DJ Britt in Boots

Bar Celona

Tim Davies 7pm

Grand Poobah

Faze Action, Flac, Session B & Jean de la Baptiste

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Birdcage Bar

Dan & Lan 9pm

Federation Concert Hall

Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Post Street Social

Dan Vandermeer

Back Bar: ALL AGES: THC TV Presents Dunn D, Rowdy, Bladel, Butter D, 10Six, Hermit, Mr Lucky, Nibs, Brando, Chills, Reflekt, Fynny Florence

Republic Bar & Cafe

Rose Carleo Band (NSW) + Roadkill + Rogue Sharks 10pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: 18+ Ride The Tiger, Phil Wolfendale Band (Vic), Hudson Cartel

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Serotonin

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: POXNOX

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 6pm

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

ALL AGES: The Saxons, Kat Edwards, The Tinderboxers, Alex Vann 3pm

Grand Poobah

Foxx & Hound presents Markus Homm

Grand Poobah

Sideways in the City in The Kissing Room

Friday

Saturday

12

13

Brisbane Hotel

Friday

Saturday

19

20

Infestation II w/ The Midways, Slow Decent, Ultra Martian, Without Fail, Hudson Cartel, Daisycutter, Babylon Howl, Sleaze, The Venus Figurines, Radio Silence

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Grand Poobah

I Love Dancehall in the Main Room

Grand Poobah

Spiral Kites, The Surreal Estate Agents and Ewah & The Vision of Paradise

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

25

26

27

Hobart Town Hall

A La Danza 7pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Post Street Social

Gabrielle Dagrezio

Hobart Town Hall

TSO Chamber Concert 2

Republic Bar & Cafe

24Seven does Thunderstruck ACDC Tribute 10pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Post Street Social

Terry Nomikos

Regines

SupaNova 10pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Aunty Donna – The Album Tour 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Founders Room

18+: The Saxons, Kat Edwards, Ani Lou 8pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Duncan Warburton 6pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

The Waratah Hotel

KLP Venus x Mars Tour

Jay Jarome Duo 7pm

Post Street Social

Dan Vandermeer

The Whaler

Yesterday’s Gentlemen 9pm

Regines

SupaNova 10pm

Birdcage Bar

Crystal Sky Duo 6pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

British India 10pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Peter Hicks 4pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

The Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 6pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Jay Jarome Duo 7pm

Post Street Social

Gabrielle Dagrezio

The Lounge by Frogmore Creek

Republic Bar & Cafe

Rockin’ for West Papua – Fundraiser gig with Jax & The Wayward + Radio Silence + The Sign + Mayhem & Me + Tim Roze + Billy Whitton + More

The Whaler

Ruben Reeves Band 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Anna Maynard Duo 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Gerry Balding 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Cargo

DJ Dezzy

Hobart Town Hall

Stefanie Farrands with Leigh Harrold

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Post Street Social

Tim Hibberd

Republic Bar & Cafe

Blues Jam: Hosted by Pat Curley 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Blue Flies 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

33 Seconds

The Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer 6pm

The Homestead

Baba Bruja

The Waggon and Horses

Zac Henderson 7pm

The Waratah Hotel

Peter Bibby

The Whaler

Dean Stevenson Duo 9pm

The Lounge by Frogmore Creek

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Country Heart Tour – featuring The Wolfe Brothers, Gord Bamford and Jody Direen

The Whaler

Yesterday’s Gentlemen 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Django’s Tiger 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Ross Smithard 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Hobart Town Hall

TSO Chamber Concert 3

Jack Greene

Hugo Bladel

Post Street Social

Gabrielle Dagrezio

Republic Bar & Cafe

Aunty Donna – The Album Tour 9pm

Waterfront Hotel (C-Bar)

M.T. Blues Music 4pm

Birdcage Bar

The Suffrajettes 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Hui and the Muse 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Post Street Social

You Me and The Sea

Republic Bar & Cafe

Wahbash Avenue 8:30pm

The Buffet & Coffee Shop (Wrest Point)

Jerome Hillier 12pm

Conservatorium of Music

Conservatorium Orchestra

Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Billy Whitton 8pm

The Duke

Dukebox Audition Jam 7:30pm

Bar Celona

Tom Booth 7pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Cafe Choir with Annie Woolley 7pm

Federation Concert Hall

Romeo Retold 7:30pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

The Sign 9pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Maestro Koko 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex / Matt & Abby

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 7pm

The Homestead

Anna and Dave 8pm

The Lounge by Frogmore Creek

Crystal Sky 6pm

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Monday

15

Republic Bar & Cafe

Mona Staff Showcase 8pm

Tuesday

16

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Conservatorium of Music

Eyjafjallajokull – Experimental Music Ensemble

Wednesday

Thursday

17

18

Republic Bar & Cafe

Pepper Jane 8pm

The Duke

Jazz Jam 7:30pm

Bar Celona

Gabriele Dagrezio 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM w/ DJ Chloe Black, DJ Jigglypuff

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Pepper Jane Band 9pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Django’s Tiger 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex / Micheal Clennett

The Brunswick Hotel

Isaac Westwood 7pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Matthew Ives & His Big Band

Birdcage Bar

Kaye & Randal 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Unlocked 6pm

The Founders Room

Sunday

21

Sunday

28

Monday

22

Republic Bar & Cafe

Ross Sermons 8pm

Tuesday

23

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Sarah Letters 8pm

Bar Celona

Nick Machin 7pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Cafe Choir with Annie Woolley 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar: A. Swayze & The Ghosts, Meres, Bianca Blackhall Band, Vivien

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar: PRISM w/ Slaughterhaus Surf Cult

Monday

29

Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Tuesday

30

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Grand Poobah

DJ’s

Republic Bar & Cafe

Montz Matsumoto 8pm

Hobart Brewing Co.

Ruben Reeves Abduction Release Party 8pm

Wrest Point Ent. Centre

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Clover Hitch 9pm

Kate Ceberano, Michael Falzon + TSO – The Music of James Bond

Jack Greene

Tony Mak Duo

Bar Celona

Isaac Westwood 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Isaac Gee Band 9pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex / Matt & Abby

Republic Bar & Cafe

Soul Division 8:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Cam Stuart 7pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ B-Rex / Micheal Clennett

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 7pm

Wednesday

24

Wednesday

31

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Event Guide

Launceston / NORTH WEST Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Gnomon Room

Flaming Red Hot Variety Show 5:30pm

The Greenwood Bar

Likewise & Jaden Wake Invade

The Saloon Bar

The Wolfe Brothers – Country Heart Tour

Watergarden Bar

Rino Morea

OCTOBER Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Wednesday

5

6

7

10

Royal Oak

Brody’s fairwell, featuring Brody Green, Angus Austin & Deni (Public Bar 9pm)

MODE Bar & Niteclub

Duane Bartolo

Rockin’ Hot Pizza

Karaoke Grand Final

Royal Oak

Liam Guthrie memorial event (Boat Shed 8.30pm)

Sharmans Wines

Saturday Evening Session with Vinyl in the Vines

The Greenwood Bar

Fireflies! 9Pm

Tonic Bar

Groove FX

Watergarden Bar

Roller Rockers

Queen Victoria Museum

A La Danza 2pm

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session (Public Bar 5pm)

Saint John Craft Beer

Bop ‘n’ Brews: Sunday Jazz Sessions 3pm

The Point

Clinton Hutton 2:30pm

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: The Protagonists, Monique How + Band, Stephanie MacKean

Irish Murphy’s

House Sessions – Spacey Space

MODE Bar & Niteclub

Show Day Eve ft. Brynny, Press Play and Jesse James

Royal Oak

TBA

Watergarden Bar

Von Rock

Thursday

11

Royal Oak

Heath Hodgetts (Public Bar 9pm)

Friday

12

Chapel Cafe

The Fats Hollers 7:30pm

Club 54

Sheppard

Gnomon Room

Chester Draws and the Low Boys 5:30pm

Royal Oak

Rude Lixx (Public Bar 9pm)

Royal Oak

Fresh Comedy (Boat Shed 8pm)

The Greenwood Bar

Greedy Boss 9pm

Saturday

Sunday

13

14

Watergarden Bar

Jerome Hillier

Club 54

Mashd N Kutcher

Princess Theatre

Tasmanian Independent Country Music Awards

Royal Oak

Eve Gowen (Public Bar 9pm)

Tonic Bar

Just Dance

Watergarden Bar

Trevor Weaver

The Point

The Sheyana Band 2:30pm

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session (Public Bar 5pm)

Royal Oak

Rockin Sunday with Doc Martin & The Sorry Souls (Boat Shed 1pm)

Monday

15

Annexe Theatre

Original Songs & Big Band Swing 7:30pm

Tuesday

16

Gnomon Pavilion

Original Songs & Big Band Swing 7:30pm

Wednesday

17

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: Slightly Salted, Taynisha Parry

Royal Oak

Mathew Dames (Public Bar 9pm)

Watergarden Bar

Electric Vue

Thursday

18

Royal Oak

Matt Gibson & Joe Kalliman (Public Bar 9pm)

Friday

19

Gnomon Room

The Billy Rocket Band 5:30pm

Royal Oak

Mick Attard (Public Bar 9pm)

The Greenwood Bar

The Smokin Elmosres Are Back!

The Saloon Bar

KLP – Venus x Mars Tour

Watergarden Bar

Tassie Tenor

Royal Oak

Max Hillman Showband (Public Bar 9pm)

Saint John Craft Beer

Hobo Magic – Sonic Sword Single Tour

The Greenwood Bar

D-Bassment House/Techno Launch Party

Tonic Bar

Gypsy Rose

Watergarden Bar

Emmanuel Perez

Royal Oak

Open Folk Session (Public Bar 5pm)

Sharmans Wines

Sunday at Sharmans with Nathan Broomhall

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: Angus Austin, Emily Lawton

Royal Oak

Andy Collins (Public Bar 9pm)

The Irish

Live and Acoustic at The Irish!

Saturday

Sunday Wednesday

20

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Watergarden Bar

Roustabout

Thursday

25

Royal Oak

Anthony Tenance (Public Bar 9pm)

Friday

26

Club 54

Phil Wolfendale, Hurricane Youth + Guests

Earthy Eats

Emma Anglesey Album Launch

Gnomon Room

Champagne Jam plus The Tearaways 5:30pm

Royal Oak

Dave Adams Big Band (Public Bar 9pm)

The Star Bar

DiscOh!

Saturday

27

Watergarden Bar

Leigh Ratcliffe

Olde Tudor Hotel

Scott Haigh

Royal Oak

Jacob Boote & Georgia Slim (Public Bar 9pm)

The Iron Horse

Groovers Fright Night

The Saloon Bar

The Halloween Party

Tonic Bar

Max Hilmen Trio

Watergarden Bar

Leigh Ratcliffe Open Folk Session (Public Bar 5pm)

Sunday

28

Royal Oak Royal Oak

Blues Jam Session (Boat Shed 1pm)

Wednesday

31

MODE Bar & Niteclub

Halloween Darkness ft Eliza Brayshaw 9pm

Watergarden Bar

Tony Voglino

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OCTOBER Wed 3rd Deamon Souls (public bar 9pm) Thu 4th Mighty Horse & Rooster (public bar 9pm) Fri 5th Brody's fairwell faturing Brody Green, Angus Austin & Deni (public bar 9pm) Sat 6th Liam Guthrie memorial event (boat shed 8.30pm) Sun 7th Open Folk Session (public bar 5pm) Wed 10th TBA Thu 11th Heath Hodgetts (public bar 9pm) Fri 12th Rude Lixx (public bar 9pm) Fresh Comedy (boat shed 8pm) Sat 13th Eve Gowen (public bar 9pm) Sun 14th Open Folk Session (public bar 5pm) Rockin Sunday with Doc Martin & The Sorry Soles (boat shed 1pm) Wed 17th Mathew Dames (public bar 9pm) Thu 18th Matt Gibson & Joe Kalliman (public bar 9pm) Fri 19th Mick Attard (public bar 9pm) Sat 20th Max Hillman Showband (public bar 9pm) Sun 21st Open Folk Session (public bar 5pm) Wed 24th Andy Collins (public bar 9pm) Thu 25th Anthony Tenace (public bar 9pm) Fri 26th Dave Adams Big Band (public bar 9pm) Sat 27th Jacob Boote & Georgia Slim (public bar 9pm) Sun 28th Blues Jam Session (boat shed 1pm) Open Folk Session (public bar 5pm) Wed 30th Jazz in the boat shed featuring The Quartet (boast shed 8pm)

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