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38,000 OCTOBER 2011 - MARCH 2012 AUSTRALIA’S HIGHEST CIRCULATING STREET PRESS | THE EVERYTHING URBAN FEATURE

DINOSAUR JR.

GUNS N’ ROSES

JULIO BASHMORE

GIGI EDGELY @ COMIC CON

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Boomtown Rats

BOOMTOWN BOUND

Featuring the one-and-only Sir Bob Geldof, the Boomtown Rats have announced a reunion tour, their first outing together in 26 years. They don’t like Mondays, so you can catch them in Perth on Tuesday, May 28, at Challenge Stadium. Head to boomtownrats.co.uk for more details.

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Jamie xx

AN AWESOME RAVE

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE XX

British outfit alt-J (Δ) will be returning to tour Australia this July, including their first headline performance in Perth. Their Mercury Prize-winning debut, An Awesome Wave, has been certified gold by ARIA and achieved Catch Jamie xx play a solo show over the Easter its highest chart placement globally in Australia, peaking at #9 on the album chart earlier this year. Three Long Weekend on Sunday, March 31, at The Bakery. tracks from the album made it into Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown of 2012, including third place finish with Swedish fuzz rock legends Truckfighters have The past few years have been meteoric for Jamie xx, Breezeblocks, a song described by NME as “a delicate, macabre triumph”.

Tickets go on sale today, Wednesday, March 6, for their Challenge Stadium gig on Saturday, July announced their first national tour of Australia. With who has earned a name for himself as one of the three classic stoner rock albums, a documentary world’s hottest producers. In 2011 he crafted the 27. Hit up Ticketmaster.com.au. and tours across Europe, USA and South America underground hit Far Nearer and collaborated with under their belt, Truckfighters have been blowing Gil Scott-Heron on the album We’re New Here, a reaway audiences since 2001. The three-piece from envisioned version of Scott-Heron’s 2010 masterpiece Örebro, Sweden have an as yet untitled album set I’m New Here. Jamie also reworked Radiohead’s track to be released later this year. Tickets are on sale now Bloom for their remix album TKOLRMX123456. from oztix.com.au for their Friday, May 3, show at the Rosemount Hotel. They’ll be joined by The Devil Rides Out and The Sure-Fire Midnights.

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TRUCKFIGHTERS

FIRST TIMERS’ PLAYGROUND

Rocket Room is launching a new night to showcase up-and-coming local bands. My First Gig will be held on the last Thursday of every month, starting Thursday, March 28. The venue says the night will be all about bringing things back to the basics and giving inexperienced outfits the chance to show their stuff. Sounds like the goods to us. Entry is $10.

ONE MORE LEEDY LOUNGE TV

This Thursday, March 7, will unfortunately be the final night of The Leederville Lounge TV Show. The final taping promises to go off with a bang, headlined by local hard-rockers Chainsaw Hookers and supported by theatrical punks FAIM and Perth’s premier lazer rock’n’rock act, The Branson Tramps. Go check out what could have been!

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Music: Future Music Festival

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Music: Soundwave Festival Review

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New Noise

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Music: Birds of Toyko/ Guns n’ Roses/

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Music: Urthboy/ George Clinton

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Eye4 Cover: Gigi Edgley - Comic Con

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SCARY STUFF

Melbourne outfit Big Scary have announced a national tour, backing up their latest track Phil Collins, a preview of their forthcoming new album Not Art, due out mid-year. The alt-pop outfit’s Tom Iansek and Jo Syme will expand their live set-up to include an additional player, hinting at the fuller sound to be found on Not Art. They’ll be joined by Caitlin Park at Mojo’s and Amplifier on Saturday-Sunday, April 18-19.

Tickets from heatseeker.com.au.

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Arts Listings

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Feature: Urban Central

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Salt Cover: Julio Bashmore

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Salt: News/Sampology/ Savage Skulls

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Salt: Harmonic 313/ State of Mind

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Salt: Club Manual

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Salt: Rewind: Soul To Soul

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Scene: Live

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Scene: Local Scene

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Tour Trails

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Gig Guide

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The Weapon Is Sound

THREE MEN IN A TUB?

The first Thursday of every month sees The Weapon Is Sound drop two massive dub sets at The Newport Hotel fo’ free for Rubadub. Get down this Thursday, March 7, for The Weapon Is Sound’s launch of their Wicked Man redub CD. They’ll be supported by threepiece The Latch Key Kids, DJs Trinadad & Tabasco and Community DJs Sibalance and Yahrkob.

RECORD THIS Cover: Urthboy is playing at Mojos this Friday, March 8 and Amplifier on Saturday, March 9.

Salt Cover: UK purveyor of all things house, Julio Bashmore will be headlining Why Make Sense this Friday, March 8. www.xpressmag.com.au

For the fifth year running, Australia is set to pull the crowds into stores across the nation for Record Store Day Australia. To misquote Mark Twain (who famously said reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated) reports of the demise of the record store are very much exaggerated.

To get into the spirit, Record Store Day Australia is counting down the days to Saturday, April 20, on their Facebook page with a daily vote on best album/video-clip. Visit facebook.com/ RecordStoreDayAustralia to vote.

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SAMPOLOGY

Having played a number of the world’s greatest festivals including Splendour in the Grass, Big Day Out, SXSW, Berlin Music Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival Sampology has earned a reputation as one of the leading Audio Visual DJs. Catch Sampology’s Summer AV Show at the Leederville Hotel this Friday before he goes on his US tour. Pre-sales and first release tickets for this show have already sold out so enter now to grab one of the five double passes we’re giving away.

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FLICKERFEST

Flickerfest, Australia’s most important short film festival is going on tour! It hits Perth March 7 - 10, screening at Camelot Outdoor Cinema. The opening night will play host to the Best Of Australian Shorts including Lois, starring Oscar-nominated acting legend Jacki Weaver. The quirky, highly crafted animation A Cautionary Tale voiced by David Wenham, Cate Blanchett and Barry Otto and the slightly twisted comedy The Captain by Nash Edgerton. We have five passes to the Opening night on Thursday. This will include free drinks, food and musical entertainment by Villa Cuba. Enter now.

Oz

WE’RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD

The prequel to the Dorothy’s legendary journey is here! Oz the Great and Powerful follows conmanmagician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) as he arrives in a magical land. There he meets witches played

by Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams & Mila Kunis and so the story goes! You’re definitely not in Kansas anymore. We have 10 double passes to see this in 3D, 9213 2854 Fly my pretties, FLY!

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TALON

If you like animals, magic, mystery and a little mayhem you will love this book. Animal trafficking is savage, cruel and often targets the rarest of animals. When it is combined with government conspiracies and South American cults it goes to a whole new level of danger. Jack Rawson has an astonishing gift and it is this gift which drags him into the dark and dangerous world of animal trafficking, cults and treachery. It’s a race against time to save some extraordinary creatures from disappearing forever and to stop the unspeakable atrocities which are happening all around them.

Young adult fiction at its best, we have five copies of Talon to give away. Enter now to grab one!

Incredible Burt Wonderstone

INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE

Magician Burt Wonderstone splits from his longtime stage partner after a guerrilla street magician steals their thunder. By spending some time with his boyhood idol, Burt looks to remember what made him love magic in the first place. Starring Steve Carell, Steve Buschemi, Jim Carey and Olivia Wilde. We have 10 double passes to the preview screening on March 12. Get your entries in.

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URTHBOY

Fresh from releasing one of the most talked about albums of 2012, Smokey’s Haunt, Urthboy is hitting the road with a new live band. Supporting are two recipients of the Hilltop Hoods Initiative, Jimblah as well as One Sixth, the exciting young MC hailing from Namibia and residing in Melbourne. It’s all happening at Amplifier on Saturday. We have two double passes to giveaway, enter now to win.

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Rooftop Movies

ROOFTOP MOVIES

The next month of Rooftop Movies have been announced and it’s a great line-up. Ride the elevator up to the roof-top oasis, kick back and relax in an open-air cinema six levels above the ground with the best views of the city. To top it off (pun intended) Dough Pizza has signed on to be the official pizza supplier to the rooftop!

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MICHAEL TUCAK

Arts For Our Sake In The Pines

COMING OUT OF THE WOODS...

Last week RTRFM 92.1 made its first In The Pines 2013 line-up announcement featuring The Panics, Usurper of Modern Medicine, The Volcanics and four reformed bands in Adam Said Galore, The Bank Holidays Lite, Circus Murders and Schvendes.

Well, there’s more. How about Felicity Groom, Gata Negra (reforming), O! (reforming), Red Jezebel (reforming), Spank (reforming), Timothy Nelson & The Infidels and Turnstyle (reforming)?

It’s looking like a lot of good now-and-then action all lined up fpor the Somverille Audiotorium on Saturday, April 20. Tune into Breakfast With Barr on Monday, March 11 from 6am, for the next announcement, or check out their band spanking new website at rtrfm.com.au.

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FRATDANCE!

Frathouse Fridays at Metropolis Fremantle is celebrating their first birthday on Friday, March 15. Has it really been that long? A whole year of toga parties, UV parties, superhero parties, beach parties, and whatever else? To celebrate, they’re hosting a Prom Night Party with Strange Talk DJs! Given their reputation as fearsome funsters, this is sure to be a night to remember.

PARLEZ_VOUS CINEMA?

The 24th annual Alliance Francaise French Film Festival returns to Luna Palace cinemas from Tuesday, March 19, with a host of special events to complement the finest cinema that France has to offer. Opening night at Cinema Paradiso features a screening of Haute Cuisine, followed by an opening night party at The Bakery with entertainment from Lezamis and catering from Marthineau Patisserie and JP Sancho Boulangerie. Head to lunapalace.com.au for further information and tickets.

The Flower Drums Morgan Joanel

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE

Singer, songwriter, and former Perthite Morgan Joanel launches her new EP, Borrowed & Blue, this Friday, March 8, at Ya Ya’s. An intimate homecoming show, this gig sees Morgan sharing the stage with local folk band Rachel and Henry Climb a Hill, with support from Moana and Miranda & Gordo.

Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.

HEARD AT THE BIRD

In a charitable effort to make easing back into the Monday grind easier for all of us, The Flower Drums will be playing a gig at The Bird this Sunday, March 10, in order to alleviate your workaday pain. Assisting in the procedure will be Mayor Dadi, Mei Saraswati and Childsaint.

What’s more, Flower Drums will be giving away copies of their double A side, Night Rats/In One Place, for free! The show starts at 7pm, entry is $5.

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The Kill Devil Hills

THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO FREO

On Saturday, March 10, the legendary Kill Devil Hills will play a rare more-or-less acoustic set in the tranquil surrounds of the Fremantle Arts Centre courtyard, with support from Felicity Groom. What makes it really special, though, is that they’ll be recording and filming the gig for a planned live album. Tickets are available through Oztix.

WICK-ED WAYS

Blues and soul multi-instrumentalist Shaun Kirk recently laid down a collection of tracks at Wick Studios in Melbourne, and to celebrate the release of The Wick Sessions and the accompanying DVD, he’s playing a series of shows throughout Perth and the South West from March 19-24. A consummate performer who draws his inspiration from the early Delta blues, Kirk is an electrifying singer blessed with a powerful and soulful voice. Head to shaunkirk.com for full dates.

BEARDS WITHOUT BORDERS

No longer content with being the ambassadors of handsome hirsuteness in Australia, the mighty Beards have decided to spread their message of face-follicle liberation across the globe, embarking on a tour that will take in the US, Canada, Germany, England, Scotland, The Netherlands and Belgium. Not to fear, though, because they’ll also be playing in their home country of Australia, including shows at Capitol on Friday, June 7, and Bunbury’s Prince of Wales Hotel on Saturday, June 8. Tickets, sure to be snapped up quickly by the band’s furry fanbase, are on sale now. www.xpressmag.com.au

The Beards

Michael Tucak - a long-time enthusiast and supporter of music and the arts in Perth - will run as an independent candidate for the North Metropolitan seat in the Upper House on the March 9 Western Australian State election. BOB GORDON has a chat with him.

Michael Tucak We can’t just build things and hope our culture will follow, it needs to be built in, planned for and supported, and in all areas of state development.

We need to fix our current public transport system now, well ahead of what we build by 2018 - which is still a while away - so artists or entrepreneurs can remain viable and audiences can come to events.

Local governments deliver amazingly well on locally relevant arts/culture, such as Beaufort St Festival or City of Perth’s bars, so we need to avoid council amalgamations that make mega-councils totally out of touch with local needs. Arts and cultural funding also needs strong commitment, the $2million promised by the Liberals to ScreenWest pales against the $20 million promised to support mining, and Labor’s recent promises on contemporary music are a great start, with crucial sound-proofing and licensing issues being addressed, but there is much more to arts and culture than music, and I worry Labor see music as an easy win based on their good past record.

The most important thing, however, is we need our government as a whole to recognise the importance of properly developing our arts and culture as part of an overall planning approach, which will lead to both social and economic benefits, now and ongoing.

You’re standing on a platform of city arts, culture and vibrancy, describe how your background has led you to this point?

I started a career as an arts and entertainment lawyer by being disillusioned with corporate law at the same time as a developing a love of Perth music. I started hosting RTRFM’s Homegrown local music show in my first year working as a lawyer and was constantly amazed at how much great Perth music there was, but it was not being heard outside here, and most people in Perth didn’t even know about it. Ever since I’ve been passionate about promoting and developing Perth’s arts, music and other creative talent, so I turned my legal career to that goal, providing legal support to Perth musicians, film makers, entrepreneurs and designers.

I firmly believe Perth has so much untapped potential in the arts and creative industries and that it adds so much value to our lives, and we now have a golden opportunity to develop this in the boom, so I am offering to extend my lawyer skills into Parliament, to help shape our arts, cultural and creative What is the feedback you have gotten from people development as a voice in the ‘upper house’. in the time you’ve been campaigning?

When people realise I’m standing for issues When did it occur to you that you indeed wanted directly relevant to them, their eyes light up, and its not to run? just from young people. I think Perth people want their I had been thinking about what more I city to be better but get disillusioned with all the carrycould do for Perth for a while and the idea of running on of the two parties. We need more people willing took shape late last year, so I first set about talking to to do something for our city and me running for this people in the sector about the value in doing so. But it seems connect well with lots of people. was the clear lack of any ‘arts and culture policy’ from either of the major parties that crystallised it for me - if What of the future (a) if you get in and (b) if you someone was to speak up for Perth’s arts and cultural don’t? development, and the building of a vibrant city, not If people do get behind me,I’ll commit myself just concrete and glass, then it may have to be me. I to backing Perth’s arts and culture at every opportunity think Perth people want more vibrancy in their city, in Parliament - as I’m running in the upper house - or but no-one in politics seems willing to do something senate - I can shape and influence all government policy clear about it. or decisions and offer fresh ideas on how we plan our city. I’m determined to make a difference and be open What key points are the main parties missing when and inclusive in doing so. If not, I will keep supporting it comes to nurturing and developing arts and Perth’s arts and culture in my legal work and find other culture in WA? ways to help build Perth.

Neither Liberal or Labor have an Arts & A lot of people see elections as Liberal v Culture policy, and whilst the Greens do, it’s quite Labor (or Greens) but what I’m offering is actually a general, so none of the parties seem to have a vision completely additional option, not one to replace those for a vibrant, creative Perth. Or if they do, its not part of parties - I think it’s a second best outcome for our city their overall vision for how we develop and grow over if the ‘upper house’ is simply filled with Liberal or Labor rubber-stamping all laws. the next few years.

ELI WOLFE Artist Recording

Gaining some useful exposure from the One Movement Festival, singer/ songwriter Eli Wolfe went from painting and lounge room recording to travelling the world, the artist’s way.

Wolfe speaks to SABIAN WILDE ahead of his shows at Clancy’s Fremantle this Thursday, March 7, and the Town Square in Port Hedland on Saturday, March 9.

Eli Wolfe is a young man with vision, or at least a man who perceives the world in a way he expresses in a variety of ways and mediums, not least of all, the art of living. He’s down in Nannup preparing to create a sand mandala, which will last only slightly longer than his live performance later that day.

And that’s OK. “I’m a self-taught guitarist and I have a real punter vibe; I started off playing just to relax and chill out, to combine my love for writing and drawing in a really self-indulgent way,” Wolfe laughs. “Musically, it’s been an ongoing concern since 2009, 2010... in terms of touring either solo or with a band.”

Strangely, it was when Wolfe came to Perth for One Movement that he caught the eye of some transatlantic visitors who invited him to play in Canada, when he was completely taken by surprise when the makers of Futurama asked to use one of his tracks in the show.

“It was pretty auspicious, although I didn’t believe it at first,” Wolfe says. “The guys at Futurama tracked me down through a booking agent and got

Eli Wolfe a hold of me at a gig in Victoria. They convinced me it wasn’t a joke and seeing as I was already planning to go to Canada it wasn’t too hard to slip in some time in Los Angeles where I got to see it all put together.

“But you can’t count on that sort of thing happening,” he laughs, “you just do things and hope something happens. I’m so grateful... the weird thing is that the idea for that song came from a painting I’d done of an egg emerging from this blue ether...”

Wolfe talks about art constantly and without differentiation between media. He even ‘sees’ his music.

“In my own insular way, the riff that starts the EP and We All Started Something is a kind of lightwave... ‘bow-wow-ow-ow-ow’,” he sings.“The verse is kind of geometrically unfolding, like a lotus. Musically, I tried to capture that philosophy that we’re all human beings hanging out together, and our motivation is a root note that can create an ongoing concern outside of ourselves...

“I tried to continue those themes in the cover artwork, a kind of aurora borealis effect surrounded by earth and water, with a path opening up inside it... if you want to go into all that,” he laughs, as if suddenly remembering we’re living in an age of cynicism and ennui.

But you can’t fault a man for having vision.

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FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL

MONSTER MULTI-STAGED MADNESS

The Stone Roses

The Prodigy (Pics by Daniel Craig) Sunday, March 3, 2013 @ Arena Joondalup Eighty acts across eight stages performing to 45,000 revellers is no small logistical operation.

Rita Ora and Avicii may have pulled out at the last minute citing health reasons and The Prodigy’s set may have been delayed by 35 minutes due to technical difficulties, but on the whole the day was pretty dead-set awesome.

The Future Music stage was EDM dominated, drawing the biggest crowd, with at least 10,000 punters cramming in at some points of the day. Australian sisters Nervo were clearly excited to be playing in Perth for the first time, singing along to each of their vocal house numbers.

Like it or not, one of the most anticipated and intriguing acts on the lineup was Korean sensation Psy. Flanked by a posse of dancers dressed in white, he wasted no time giving the people what they wanted, launching into the unexplainable global phenomenon, and most watched YouTube video of all time, Gangnam Style. The crowd went appropriately mental, doing their best attempts at the dance, and admittedly it was all pretty fun. Psy himself has it down to a fine art. A veteran in his home country with five albums behind him, he did actually play a couple of other songs, but as a man of the people, he knew we wanted more – so gave it to us again, twice.

Dim Mak Records head honcho, Steve Aoki, was admittedly entertaining but you couldn’t really say his set was all about the music. Employing flamboyant stage antics involving everything from covering the crowd in cream pies to champagne spray, the last five minutes of his set involved him jumping on a blow-up raft for a crowd surf, which upsettingly ended in him making friends with the ground. Who was DJing when this was happening?

With Avicii’s cancellation, it was left to Hardwell to close the stage with an extended set, but he struggled to hold the audience’s attention with numbers dwindling as The Prodigy’s set started.

A last minute rearranging of stages would have been a better option, as many people ended up being turned away from the packed Warrior’s Dance Arena.

UK pop sensation, Ellie Goulding pulled a decent crowd for her early billing on the Mazda Marachi stage. A rising star, Goulding’s impressive vocals shone above her solid backing band, sounding much stronger live than on her over-pro duced recordings. Dancing around the stage, she charmed the crowd with infectious enthusiasm and a smile.

While very much in the pop vein, she avoided being too cheesy with a sincere performance of

Anything Could Happen and Under The Sheets, with an occasional foray into harder territory, dropping into the dubstep remix of Lights... pop-step?

Azealia Banks managed to avoid doing anything controversial, backed-up by two flamboyant stage dancers and DJ Cosmo on decks.

She impressed with a selection of numbers from her Fantasea Mixtape and latest two EP’s with Luxury and Liquorice being highlights.

A-Trak was crowned world DMC champion back in ‘97 at the tender age of 15. He still mixes on vinyl, pleasing the crowd with a selection of upfront electro punctuated by the occasional scratch frenzy all caught on camera and streamed onto the big screen. Impressive stuff.

For many, The Stone Roses’ return to the stage was a festival drawcard. The Mancunians have become the stuff of legend, since their sad demise 15 years ago, just when they were on the cusp of becoming the biggest band in the world. Mani kicked off with the famous bassline from I Wanna Be Adored, causing an absolute eruption from the crowd. The coolest frontman ever, King Monkey, strutted his strut, while John Squire did his modest, guitar god thing.

The four lads belted out an hour of classics, with each song being greeted with hollers and cheers.

Waterfall was glorious. The timeless Fool’s Gold got a huge response, and the boys paid it justice, jamming it out in full, with the amazing Reni, in constant, fluid motion, donning his trademark bucket cap.

It’s been a while since Bloc Party have been in town, and they were given a very warm reception, concluding the night on the Mariachi stage in fine fashion. Backed by a dazzling laser and light show, frontman Kele Okereke was in fine form – ever the consummate showman – his theatrics and cheeky banter in between songs was almost as entertaining as the tunes themselves.

Kicking off with Octopus, they featured a lot of new material, but finished strong with a crowd pleasing run including One More Chance, Banquet, Flux and the brilliant This Modern Love.

Sven Vath’s Cocoon Heroes stage drew a healthy crowd all day, with a top notch techno lineup. Detroit-raised DJ Magda showcased some excellent stripped down grooves, the influence of her homeland evident. The normally larger than life Berlin based, US house DJ Seth Troxler seemed to have a fairly sedate set by his standards, possibly due to some turntable trouble. Ricardo Villalobos played a fun, funky, wonky house set that slowly built-up momentum as the sun dipped, but there wasn’t much evidence of the harder, darker style he’s renowned for.

The indoor Wake Your Mind arena was

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jammed-packed for fresh faced Finnish duo Super8 and Tab. Their uplifting, feel good set was just the ticket for the trance kids.

The Prodigy’s Warrior’s Dance Arena cranked it from beginning to end with chunky, dubstep beats being the main selection. LA- based Kill The Noise, was clearly enjoying himself, announcing most tracks over the mic, frequently asking the crowd how they were feeling. Audible cheers were returned, not least from his fans, donning the Kill The Noise bandana.

Canadian’s Zeds Dead encountered a momentary technical fault - losing sound after asking the sound guys to turn up the bass, perhaps overloading the system. Their mostly dubstep set was impressive, working in many a creative build-up and breakdown on their original, released work.

German producer, Alexander Ridha aka Boys Noize has had a big couple years – now a regular fixture on the festival circuit. He may have a limited range, but his unique brand of live electro breaks has loads

Psy of energy. Starting with What You Want, he stormed through a set including barnstorming tunes like & Down and Ich R U. The crew packed in waiting for The Prodigy’s set, delayed by 35 minutes, may have been drenched with sweat but their passion was not diminished as Maxim appeared on stage exclaiming, “we might be late but we’re here and we’re fucking here to stay.”

Their 14-track set definitely proved this statement true, being a case of ‘all filler and no killer’, starting strongly with Voodoo People to explosions of frenzied joy from the crowd.

Smack My Bitch Up, Omen, Firestarter and Run With The Wolves knocked the roof off the venue with older numbers Poison, Breathe and Out Of Space adding some old skool depth. These guys have in no way lost it. _JO CAMPBELL, ALF GORMAN & ANDREW NELSON

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Claremont Showgrounds Monday, March 4, 2013 Soundwave is, without a doubt, the number one annual event for those of us who like our tunes on the heavier side; the numbers - and apparently there were well over 40,000 at the Claremont Showgrounds on Monday - do not lie. The threat of rain deterred no-one. The overcast day turned to searing heat, and nobody batted an eyelid.

When a lineup is this good, you either go hard or go home. Damn near nobody went home.

Red Fang opened Stage 5 with their own brand of Portland charm and stoner rock to a decent early day crowd. Either by curiosity fuelled by their excellent video clips or their no-frills aesthetic, the sizable crowd were quickly digging the dirty tunes. Hamstrung to start with thanks to a switched off mike, two songs in Bryan Giles’ gravelly roar was finally unleashed to complete the filthy sound. The set was a rolling gallop of repetitive chugging guitars interspersed with wild breakouts at just the right time to keep spirits high.

Meanwhile, Sydney’s Northlane were busy tearing it up on Stage 6 and proving why they’re breaking the metalcore mould in Australia and earning a legion of fans in the process.

Despite picking up a cold over the weekend, vocalist Adrian Fitipaldes exuded energy and positivity as the band jumped around on stage and incited circle pits in the crowd. He called their festival tour ‘a dream come true’ after smashing out Dispossession, going down like a treat to one of the bigger crowds the stage saw on the day. His cold didn’t affect his singing too much, save for occasionally not being able to hit the low range screams, but the rest of the band more than made up for it.

biggest acts. With a spot-on sound mix, their blend of thrash and death metal was infectious and one of the better straight-up performances of the day. More static on stage than some acts through the day, it was their musicianship driving the performance, as lead guitarist/vocalist Josh Middleton growled away while shredding away vicious riffs and solos, his sweep-picking nearly putting DragonForce to shame.

While waiting for Melbourne hardcore band Confession to get rolling, plenty of kids in the growing moshpit were practicing their hardcore moves - it’s good to see they appreciate the benefits of a good warm up. Not that getting warm was a particular problem by now, as the sun was in full bake mode and the band were about to make things a bit sweatier. The set started off a bit flat but became progressively heavier as it went on, with Die To Live increasing the intensity.

The decent sized and energetic crowd began to thin thanks to Slayer’s looming set but She’s Not What She Seems and Long Way Home were still hits with the remaining crowd.

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Metallica (Pics by Denis Radicic) My Age Again? and All The Small Things it didn’t seem necessary for either Tom DeLonge or Mark Hoppus to even do the singing themselves, and sometimes that’s exactly what they did. Their selfdeprecating shtick was as entertaining as ever and the banter didn’t seem too forced, but the trio were happy to blitz through the set making sure to tick off Dammit and Carousel, finishing off the set with Family Reunion.

Kyuss Lives!

Anthrax Veteran rockers Anthrax got the crowd pumped almost effortlessly, commanding a circle pit into existence seemingly by sheer force of will. Joey Belladonna displayed the energy and enthusiasm of an 18 year old, leading the crowd through such classics as Antisocial, before going on to a touching tribute to fallen rock gods Ronny James Dio and Dimebag Darrell, finally lifting the tone once more with a rousing cover of AC/DC’s T.N.T. Stone Sour have rapidly developed into minor masters of modern melodic metal and their main stage appearance was an early highlight for many. With a diverse collection of songs that range from pop rock ballads through to alt metal, Corey Taylor pulls off the different vocal requirements seemingly with ease (and always with great counterpoint to his day job band, Slipknot), while the band remains resolutely heavy and rock solid in all it’s guises.

Mission Statement and Made Of Scars sounded as epic as ever, before 30/30-150 just about blew the audience’s gasket.

Under clearing skies London’s speed power metal sextet, DragonForce, put on a show of guitar theatrics and complete metal excess. Punters turned out in droves, drawn by the spectacle of Herman Li and Sam Totmam’s guitar wizardry and the fist-pumping mentality of dragon-based power metal. New vocalist Marc Hudson performed admirably, hitting all the high notes while not being completely outshone by the ridiculous four minute duelling guitar solos, gracefully fading into the background when the instrumental sections took the fore. With a short set time to contend with, DragonForce managed six songs spanning their career, including Fury Of The Storm, and Seasons from 2012’s The Power Within. With the last song of the set Hudson promised the crowd something to song along with, presenting the string melting Through The Fire And Flames to round out an entertaining show.

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Kyuss Lives! delivered a desert rock masterclass that took no pause for between song chatting or “Hey Perth…” small talk: just a monstrous drum sound courtesy of Brant Bjork, Nick Oliveri making mincemeat out of his fingers on his fat string bass, blissfully downtuned rifferama from Bruno Fevery and John Garcia’s oblivious-to-the-outside-world vocals. Fittingly for the tour slated as Kyuss Lives!’s last under that name, the set-list delves deep into Kyuss’s legacy to feature some of the biggest and baddest: One Inch Man, Thumb and Green Machine and more recreating the dusty and bottom-heavy sound of the desert jams that the band formed around in the late 80’s and which replicate the dry westerlies blowing in across our own deserts.

Danko Jones is an intense fella, especially when he singles you out of the crowd for taking review notes. “If you rate out of five, I expect this to be a seven! If you rate out of TEN, I expect you to give us THIRTEEN!” he spit dramatically. It’s all in good fun and – as he exhorted more than once – “I’m a good guy!” His namesake band were also Soundwave 2013’s best kept secret and arguably the standout set of the afternoon by far: a three piece that sounds like there’s five of them and is as tight as a duck’s backside. It’s one sex-related song after another: Terrified, Forget My Name, First Date, Full Of Regrets, Bad Thoughts, Lovercall and more bang the gong, and the man’s self aggrandisement is not only the stuff of inspirational speakers, but also totally endearing. If a straight shooter with self belief and confidence is what we all want to be inside, Danko Jones is just the one of us who made good.

Madball Slayer – or half of them, since Exodus’s Gary Holt continues to deputise for Jeff Hanneman and Jon Dette stood in for drummer Dave Lombardo after the band told him his services would not be required for the tour, following some contractual issues – laid waste to the main stage as the mosh pit erupted into a hellish melee. Delivering a set of old school thrash mayhem, Tom Araya screamed like a tortured soul as they wrapped up a blistering set with classics Dead Skin Mask, Angel Of Death, South Of Heaven and Raining Blood.

Three times Grammy nominees Paramore delivered a great set of poppy hard rock with a touch of metal and a little indie chick chic, courtesy of vocalist Hayley Williams, a true star if ever there was one. A bright orange-haired ball of energy, Williams didn’t stop bouncing around the stage, her voice never missing a beat despite the constant movement. The Only Exception stood out as an acoustic ballad, while rockers Let The Flames Begin and Ignorance (‘the theme song to this band’s soap opera’) stood shoulder to shoulder with tracks from their forthcoming self titled album including Now, and the crowd roared

with delight when audience member Renee was pulled up to help sing Misery Business to close out their set.

Say what you like about Linkin Park, their rappy nu-pop metal fired up a huge crowd on the main stage. Hit singles Paper Cut, Given Up, Somewhere I Belong, New Divide and Waiting For The End all see as many people dancing as headbanging and singing along, whilst set closer Breaking The Habit brings the house down with the crowd almost as loud as the band.

A reformed Garbage seem to have put their personal issues behind them and play a great set of ‘90’s and early ‘00’s indie pop rock. Singer Shirley Manson – a fiery Scots redhead if ever their was one – and guitarist/uber producer Butch Vig riffed off each other playfully throughout the show, and in an extended rant Manson explained that it was music industry bullshit that broke them up rather than anything personal. Dark and passionately angsty hits I Think I’m Paranoid, Stupid Girl, Special and the poppy Cherry Lips all got dancers dancing and lovers embracing, whilst set closers When I Grow Up and Push It rivalled the roars from Metallica’s main stage crowd.

Of course they came on to the strains of Morricone’s Ecstasy of Gold, and of course they played longer and louder than anyone else, and of course they had the most - if not the only pyrotechnics of the entire tour - they’re Metallica, for crying out loud. Age shall not weary them, although they have certainly aged; James Hetfield now looks like a caricature of an angry Tom Waits, and Lars Ulrich’s hairline is somewhere near the back of his neck these days. It doesn’t matter, though - they are still one of the greatest metal bands of all time, and even a couple of dud albums can’t rob them of that status. Wisely sticking to a greatest hits set, the fearsome foursome powered through Master of Puppets, Harvester of Sorrow, Ride the Lightning, The Memory Remains, One, Enter Sandman and more, Hetfield occasionally bantering with the crowd, but never long enough to drag. It was a consummate performance, and if more than a few fans left before the encore, it was only because, after almost 12 hours in the sun and more than two hours of ‘Tallica, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. _SHANE PINNEGAR, BRENDAN HOLBEN, & TRAVIS JOHNSON

Shai Hulud Shai Hulud only had a few dozen front and centre for their small stage set but that didn’t stop them playing some pummelling punky thrash metal that referenced NoFX and Voivod as much as Metallica and Testament and had heads banging enough to need some neck braces the next day.

One of the prerequisites of being a teenager is having some form of exposure to Blink 182, whether you like them or not. Their 50 minute set was littered with hits and dick jokes, but really you wouldn’t have it any other way.

Bad Religion’s Brooks Wackerman took the role of Travis Barker on drums and performed admirably, but otherwise stayed quiet while pounding the skins. With the crowd singing anthems like What’s

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HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY You’re A Shadow

GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP

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Hits And Memories Gary Puckett & The Union Gap bring back the memories at the Astor Theatre this Saturday March 9. BOB GORDON reports.

Gary Puckett is at home enjoying the weather in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Like any long-term artist, his career has had its ups and downs since his popularity peak in the late ‘60s with such songs as Young Girl, Woman Woman and Lady Willpower, but the songs still speak to people in spite of the years.

“I think the audience there is very loyal and I love that,” he says of performing in Australia.“They’ve grown to love the music over the years; they’ve loved it since the late ‘60s. Hopefully they’ll all come out and we’ll sing the songs once again together.”

Puckett grew up with two musical parents, learning classical piano and being encouraged to sing. By the mid-’50s, however, he began hearing a different beat.

“Very early on I used to listen to my dad in barbershop quartets and feel very inspired by the harmonies,” he reflects. “My mother also sang in The Sweet Adelines, which were like a women’s chorus or quartet. I really liked the harmonies that I was hearing.

And during that period of time a long came rock’n’roll music.

“By the time 1955 rolled around we had Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent and The Platters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and others.

Rock’n’roll is really what got me going. Bill Haley & The Comets in the movie, Black Board Jungle.

“Though I started out learning The Three Bs - Brahms, Beethoven and Bach - I took a left turn

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DAVID BOWIE The Next Day

Gary Puckett and got into rock’n’roll. Jerry Lee Lewis inspired me to try stuff on piano, but then when I was 15 I found a guitar in my grandmother’s attic. And the guitar is what swept my heart away.”

He may have had a way with the guitar, but Puckett is best known for his emotive singing voice, which drove the Union Gap’s hits to the top of the charts during the classic era of rock’n’roll.

“I never knew it until we finally had a hit record,” he says, modestly. “When we made our first record and I heard myself I went, ‘oh! Is that me?’ (laughs). My mother told me she thought all kids sang like I did. It was completely normal; it’s not like I was singing particularly well, I was just singing.”

The songs that Puckett is famous for may have defined an era, but they clearly mean the world to many people. It’s a fact that he witnesses each night from the stage.

“I do see it. I can tell that they are transported back to a time when they were falling in love, or starting a family or they were school and being anxious to drive a car, or going into the service to serve their country. I can tell that they’re having great memories. And they always tell me after the concert, ‘you just don’t know what great memories that brings back’.

“But I do. I too lived in that era and I too, was a fan of the music of all the groups making records then from Chicago to Creedence Clearwater Revival to Three Dog Night. I loved their music. The Beatles, The Stones, you name it. For me, being a fan just like they were, I have great memories from that time. So it’s always fun to get together with the people and sing these songs.”

Only David Bowie could in this day and age, record an album in secret while the music industry and other gossips pondered whether he was long for this world. With producer, Tony Visconti, and band members sworn to secrecy, the rock’n’roll chameleon has surprised one and all with the rather sudden release of his first album in 10 years, The Next Day. After some wayward dallying from the mid-’80s to the mid ‘90s, Bowie hit form again on albums such as Hours (1999), Heathen (2002) and 2003’s Reality. With a cover featuring a hijacked image of 1977’s Heroes, this new LP sees Bowie avoiding niches and spreading his flavours with ease. While the beautiful first single, Where Are We Now?, suggested a reflective outing, as Bowie embraces late fatherhood and age, the rest of the album is alive with melodic intensity, from second single, The Stars Are Out Tonight, to Valentine’s Day, which revisits the melody of Where Are We Know? in a manner not unlike Crowded House.

I’d Rather Be High strides on a guitar riff, not unlike what The Edge seemed to favour on U2’s last album. Dancing In Space and Boss Of Me are both playful and atmospheric, catchy yet obtuse, distant yet heartstring-tugging. Dirty Boys, meanwhile, lumbers like a shoe-polished Tom Waits, the saxophone all sassy and dripping dark cabaret.

The mystery that Bowie first created back in the early ‘70s seems to be rejuvenated, he’s not about to answer why he’s decided to come out of reclusion and he’s certainly not taking to Twitter either.

The Chameleon is back and it’s a welcome return indeed.

It’s been three years since Hungry Kids Of Hungary’s critically acclaimed debut, Escapades, and after time spent touring and apart, the cohesive quartet have crafted a seamlessly orchestrated album.

Unlike their debut, there’s less of a feeling that HKOH are out to prove that they can plate up playful indie tracks next to soulful R&B songs followed by wistful ballads. Rather, the Brisbane outfit have clearly spent time trying to focus their sound via a different, no-fuss production style, aided by producer, Wayne Connelly. But make no mistake: there is no shortage of energy here (you need only listen to the first five seconds of Sharp Shooter to know that), and the album is diverse, but less blatantly so.

HKOH’s signature harmonies, executed with delicate precision, are liberally scattered over the album; they’re especially evident in Memo, whose heavenly ‘ahhs’ sound like sighs of long-awaited realisation and tap into something unnamed, yet familiar. When Yesterday’s Gone contrasts sweet melodies and vocals which make you swing sideto-side like an infatuated schoolgirl, with something more ominous in the final echoes of You’re A Shadow.

Being the first co-write for the two singer-songwriters, Dean McGrath and Kane Mazlin, it makes you wonder why on earth they don’t write together more often.

Do Or Die is a standout track; towards the end, it reaches impressive emotional heights and resonating pangs of grown-up sadness which will stay with you long after the last guitar strum.

Masters of the catchy melody, HKOH are shaping their indie-pop sound into something that surpasses former pleasantries. _ KATIE DAVERN

THE JAC Record Store _ BOB GORDON The Next Day is released on Friday, March 8.

CAITLIN ROSE The Stand In Spunk

Caitlin Rose is not the most successful musician in her family, but then that wouldn’t be an easy feat. Her mother has co-written more than a dozen hit songs with Taylor Swift, but that should by no means dismiss the efforts of Rose. Her debut was one of understated genius, so her sophomore album, The Stand In, has some competition.

For this outing Rose draws even further on her Nashville roots to pull together a dozen tracks that are both authentic and modern. The warm voice of Rose could melt hearts and still have you coming back for more during the string-soaked I Was Cruel.

Rose takes the rustic charm of the Felice Brothers Dallas and turns it in to a classy late night croon.

There are moments where Rose wouldn’t be out of place pushing the top of the Nashville charts, with Only A Clown having the right balance of twang and sugar. With access to the cream of session musicians going around, Rose and her regular bandmates Jeremy Fetzer and Spencer Cullum deliver a polished performance from start to finish.

The Stand In is a glorious piece of country by a potential A-grader. Catlin Rose is equal parts Patsy Cline and Neko Case…. and a direct line to Taylor Swift.

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There was a time in the ‘90s when Joe Algeri was on almost any line-up at any of the favoured original music watering holes. From then he travelled to Europe and became better acquainted with women’s clothing until settling in Sweden for some years. Now back in Perth he is hitting his home studio with the regularity that he used to have for the stage. Record Store is hot on the tails of the debut The JAC album and a collection of Christmas ditties.

The title track is the kind of power pop gem that Algeri can conjure on autopilot, while remaining as solid a tune as he has penned. If you are a fan of chiming guitars and a melody that won’t let go then this doesn’t disappoint. Fuck It could be Algeri’s first foray into punk-like territory and its aggressive minute-and-a-half is probably a result of him venturing too close to the Armadale line.

The advantages of having your own studio is evident with the electronic take on Heart Of Gold.

The vocoder is given a good working over as Algeri turns Neil Young into a Mi-Sex sounding classic. Its pretty difficult to ruin a Gram Parsons tune, and this acoustic version of Sin City was always going to be in fine hands with farm boy Algeri.

Record Store is another ripper from Joe Algeri. You too should get The Jac! _ CHRIS HAVERCROFT

THE DRONES I See Seaweed MGM

_ CHRIS HAVERCROFT Gareth Liddiard has never been one to shy away from ANAT COHEN expressing the way things are Claroscuro and he again goes straight for the jugular on his band’s Anzic Records latest album, I Sea Seaweed.

O n e t h e m o s t e xc i t i n g The strong sense of place is retained here, little record labels around but they also branch out and move to more universal i s a s m a l l c o m p a ny i n themes. Most importantly, this is a confident jump downtown New York called up in quality after 2008’s variable Havilah. The band Anzic Records, founded by play to their strengths, marking a triumphant return an NYC philanthropist named Colin Negrych, along to bloody, bruised rock epics. with clarinettist/saxophonist Anat Cohen. It has The album offers a bleak view of a beatenprovided a home for many mainly Jewish jazz artists down population who are ‘lockstepping in their who, like Cohen, are not only musically creative but millions’, with a sense of helplessness relieved by the also conversant with the many facets of the music rumbling outrage of the louder peaks of the songs; when they crash in, they’re like wrecking balls against industry.

Claroscuro is Cohen’s third CD and is the big, brick walls of an unfeeling world.

Laika follows the story of a dog shot into filled with strange and enlivened tonal contrasts ,particularly in the first track, Anat’s Dance, followed space as part of the controversial Russian space trials of by a sparse arrangement of Le Vie En Rose with a vocal the ‘50s, the victim a stray who was always intended to and trombone solo by one of the most exciting new perish. It builds up to a thundering takeoff into space, a blood-soaked Space Oddity. Whether they’re dogs or generational players, Wycliffe D’Rivera.

Artie Shaw’s composition, Nightmare underdogs, Liddiard’s characters are fighting against the ,features the Cuban reedman, Paquito D’Rivera, odds and helplessly weighted down by a harsh, cruel allowing us to hear his complete mastery on the reality. It all comes to a head in the fiery closing track, instrument and his musical thoughts transforming Why Write A Letter That You’ll Never Send. After a gentle into exciting modal streams that are breathtaking. acoustic intro, it crawls ominously to its halfway point. It lets rip, erupting into a rant about everything from Tudo Que Voce` Podia Ser by Brazilian composer Lo then the holocaust to the Vatican, even wily a dig at Band Aid. Buorges, gives Cohen the opportunity to stretch This is the best kind of anger management, surely? her musical mind beyond the norm, with a creative I Sea Seaweed’s eight songs are brash, and daring solo along with her rhythm section - Joe rallying and raucous, but also insecure, unhinged Martin on bass and Daniel Freedman on drums. and pessimistic. It’s that brilliant juxtaposition of For any jazz lover (or someone who wants conflicting emotions that has always marked The to step outside their comfort zone for a while) this Drones as more than just an everyday garage-rock one’s for you. band and here they’re in commanding form. _ HELEN MATTHEWS www.xpressmag.com.au

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BIRDS OF TOKYO Just Before Breaking Point

Birds of Tokyo’s fourth studio album, March Fires, one of the most anticipated Australian albums of 2013, has finally dropped and the band is ready to take the new machine out on the road. Direct from the engine-room, drummer Adam Weston speaks to SABIAN WILDE ahead of their shows this Thursday, March 7, at Bunbury’s Prince Of Wales, and Friday, March 8, at the Fremantle Arts Centre.

After their second album, Universes (2008) peaked nationally at #3, while the self-titled Birds Of Tokyo (2010) hit #2, it’s easy to understand why there’s more than a little bit of excitement surrounding the release of March Fires.

“The joke is we’re hoping it won’t go to number one,” laughs drummer, Adam Weston.

“Once you do that, the only way from there is down.”

Even so, Weston feels the Birds have put everything aside to make the best album they can, and in some ways, that’s taken some of the pressure off. “We haven’t done a proper tour for 12-18 months. It’s the first time we decided to turn down all bookings and really take all the time we needed.”

In that time, the band forged a new form of communicating with each other and in turn, a new approach to making music. “This record was really about creating a new sound, a bit of reinvention. To be honest, we probably felt more pressure with the last record,” he says.

Birds Of Tokyo “When you make that conscious effort to redefine your sound, it completely frees you from your previous work and keeps you excited about what you’re doing. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut, but really, no one’s making us do this,” he laughs. “What kind of record do we want to make?

“We didn’t just jam these songs into shape,” he explains. “We tried them in many different formats, styles and structures. We pushed to see how far we could go before we hit breaking point, the point of no return.”

The break from touring also allowed the band some space from the expectations that have grown around their great live performances. “A lot of bands start out writing for the stage,” Weston explains. “What sounds good in rehearsals should be really explosive on stage.This time, we’ve really dialled back some of the angular, hard-edged, aggressive tones and spent a lot more time on sounds, getting wider and textural.”

By thinking of songs in visual and emotional terms, Weston says the band has been able to work towards specific goals in a new way.“We wanted to identify a certain aesthetic for this album, and we’re actually revisiting our old material to bring it into line for this tour. The vibe has been all about experimenting and asking, ‘Hey, what can we do?’. It’s our material. There’s no reason why we can’t screw with it, change things up.

“Adam Spark has just been spewing out ideas and has really grown as a core songwriter, but in terms of us working together, doing all the things a band should be able to do, it’s been a really great and rewarding process.”

The band is touring nationally for March Fires this month. Beynd that, the world awaits.

“Overseas is on the cards after we take care of things here,” Weston says.“I can’t say too much, but in the second half of this year we might be getting busy... elsewhere.”

DINOSAUR JR. Hooked On Classics Dinosaur Jr. appear at the Astor Theatre on Tuesday, March 12, with The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Moon Duo. JOSHUA KLOKE reports.

It’s 11.30pm on a Friday night in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Lou Barlow has just walked offstage.

The bassist for the iconic three-piece Dinosaur Jr. is relaxing backstage with a beverage after what was, by his admission, a strange night for the band.

“We had a very strict db limit so we had to constantly turn it down,” he says, bewilderingly, of the Gothenburg show, one of the last of their current European tour.“They were quite strict about it because apparently if we went over this level the place would lose its license.”

The 46-year-old shrugs at the notion that this would’ve presented more of a challenge for Dinosaur Jr., often recognised for the sheer volume of their sets, than other acts. Throughout our 20-minute conversation, Barlow is reluctant to hastily agree to many preconceived theories about the band’s existence.

“I think noise and melody are perfectly compatible. I think Dinosaur Jr. has always been a very melodic band,” he notes. When pressed further on how concise I Bet On Sky, their latest release is, Barlow again feigns agreement.

“The songs are simpler in some ways, there’s a little more keyboard, a little more acoustic guitar. Since J writes the majority of the songs, I can’t really speak for him.

“I just do what I do,” he adds, with little dramatic flare.

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Dinosaur Jr.

One of the most endearing (though for many at times, incredibly frustrating) elements of the Dinosaur Jr. aesthetic has been how low-key they’ve remained about their ascension. From humble beginnings in Massachusetts in 1984, they reunited after an eight-year dissolving of the band. Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. parted ways in 1989 before the band reunited in 2005 with its original members. Three albums later, they’ve evolved into a dependable stalwart of guitar-rock, still remaining loyal to themselves and their vision.

Barlow admits that the idea of becoming a more recognisable band is a tempting one, but not one they’d actively pursue by making drastic changes to their approach.

“I rejoined the band eight years ago. I don’t think we’ve never shied away from getting bigger,” he says bluntly.“But in terms of playing arenas by opening for bigger bands, I don’t think that helps Dinosaur Jr. very much. I don’t think that broadens the band’s fanbase. What seems to be the most effective thing in terms of making our audience grow is just being ourselves. We have our way of doing things, and that’s what we do. If we were to do anything too radical to engage a larger audience, I think it might backfire.”

Fans rejoiced when frontman J Mascis and Barlow buried the hatchet in 2005. While many wondered if the three-piece would be able to capture their fans’ imagination with the same gusto they had in the late ‘80s, I Bet On Sky has left little doubt.

Barlow now finds himself and his band in a special place. Not quite elder statesmen, not quite cult favourites. It’s a strange position that he relishes being in.

“Considering most of the elder statesmen of guitar rock are still alive - Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton - I don’t know if I’d put us there. But we’re definitely in some middle ground. Some strata of classic rock,” he says with relative ease.

GUNS N’ ROSES Boys Keep Swinging Guns N’ Roses play Perth Arena on Saturday, March 9, their third visit to our shores in five years. Guitarist DJ Ashba tells SHANE PINNEGAR what to expect.

Guns n’ Roses have courted controversy from their earliest days as the most dangerous band on the planet, tearing a swathe of sex, drugs, rock’n’f’n’roll and chaos across the Western world, and with Axl Rose the last original man standing, drama escalated.

Going onstage three hours late became the norm, and riots ensued when Rose stormed offstage multiple times. Incredibly, 2008 album Chinese Democracy took 13 years to complete and release, and no new material has appeared in the four-and-a-half years since, prompting accusations that Rose is a diva, or perhaps even bipolar.

“No, he’s definitely not either,” says Ashba, genial and good-humoured in the face of even the toughest questions. “He’s a perfectionist. He is so passionate about what he does, and that’s what people don’t really understand. When that guy sits down at a piano, my jaw just drops. I’m like, ‘has anybody heard this stuff?’ And he’s like, ‘nah, it’s just something off the top of my head’, and I’m diving for a tape recorder to hit record because the stuff is just that good.

“He’s just super, super talented and the one thing that people misconceive is that he is

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actually one of the funniest people I know. This guy sends me jokes every day. He is constantly pulling pranks. It’s funny stuff, and that’s the side people don’t see of him. He treats his band like gold and he’s always buying gifts for everybody. That’s the stuff nobody will ever see, because it’s all behind the scenes. But I’m very, very lucky that I met him, not just because I play in the band, but I’m very proud to call him one of my friends.”

Ashba is insistent that the Australian shows will be special.

“We’re just gonna go over there and throw some massive, massive rock’n’roll parties,” he chuckles.

“We’ve got ZZ Top, Rose Tattoo - it’s just an insane line up, and just expect about three hours of non-stop rock’n’roll, with rockets and bombs! You’re going to get everything from Appetite [For Destruction] to Chinese [Democracy], so it’s going to be a lot of fun.

“No matter which way you slice it or dice it,” Ashba says about the set-list gelling together well despite the latter-day material being very different in feel to the band’s debut album, “it’s still Gn’R you know? We’re out there swinging every day.”

The final word has to be about going on stage on time, though Ashba neither confirms or denies things will run to schedule in Australia.

“We’ve been doing really great especially the last year I’ve been in the band. The problem is getting off on time! Once we get up there - we don’t want it to stop! We’ll just go and go and go, that’s the thing that not many people talk about.

‘Oh they came on a little late’, yeah, but they played three hours!

“We’re excited to come over and give people a show that they’re never going to forget.”

JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION Little Boy Blue The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion plays the Astor Theatre next Tuesday, March 12, along with fellow ‘90s legends Dinosaur Jr. and San Francisco outfit, Moon Duo. TRAVIS JOHNSON catches up with Jon Spencer to find out where he’s been.

Frankly, we’re lucky to get a hold of Jon Spencer when we do. Of late, he’s been a busy man, spruiking his latest album, 2012’s Meat + Bone, around the traps, and when we speak to him it’s during a rare and brief moment of downtime.

“We’ve been touring all over the place,” he explains in a voice that is surprisingly soft and gentle. “We just finished a run of shows in the United States of America - I just got home from that a few days ago. I’m home now over the weekend, and then next week we’re going to start another leg of the tour, and this one will be in Europe. Then, after that, we’re making our way to Australia and New Zealand.”

That’s a pretty full itinerary by anyone’s measure. Of course, it’s been a while since Spencer and The Blues Explosion have had their hands this full. Indeed, for a while there it looked like they’d gone the way of all things, with 2004’s Damage standing as the final punctuation mark on their career together, which began back in 1991.

“Well, we took a few years off in the middle of last decade,” Spencer says candidly. “We didn’t do any work for three or four years. Then in 2008 we started playing again. It was slow going at first, just a few shows here and there, but we found that we really enjoyed it. There’s something special to this band, and there’s something... some kind of link between the three of us that allows us to play music and write these kind of songs, and we really do enjoy making this kind of music. So we continued to work, and then the work picked up speed, and then at a certain point we figured, ‘Well, let’s make a record.’ “ Another factor in the equation was that, thanks to a decision to reissue the group’s earlier work, Spencer and his bandmates, Judah Bauer and Russell Simins, spent a good amount of time poring over their old material. “It was a big project, but in the course of the project, and going through and reviewing the band’s history and kind of rediscovering some forgotten songs, I think that we took some energy - it was kind of a shot in the arm for us. I think that good feeling, that kind of energy and enthusiasm and power, comes through on the record.”

Meat + Bone has been described as a raw and stripped back album, adjectives that leave Spencer a little nonplussed.

“These are just the songs that we wrote. We do like to make a racket - they are a bit raucous and definitely a bit raw.”

He’s also dismissive of any notion of a preplanned or overarching theme, saying,“I think themes emerge later. We write songs by getting together and playing, and we don’t talk about it - we just do it. We don’t talk about, ‘Well, maybe we should write this sort of song’ or ‘What about this idea?’ - we just play, and the song’s inspiration will come and the song will come.”

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URTHBOY

The New Leaf Of Respectability Touring in support of his Smokey’s Haunt album, Urthboy heads to Mojos on Friday, March 8, and Amplifier on Saturday, March 9.

BOB GORDON reports.

Tim Levinson, aka Urthboy, is on his way to a gig in Adelaide. In a few hours he’ll be playing his second show with a bran new live line-up, it’s a new era and things are feeling fresh.

“We’ve got this whole new band,” he says, “everything’s completely changed in our structure.

We’ve always toured as a DJ and a rapper and a singer. So now there’s like drums and keys and a DJ and it’s complicated things a lot but that the same time, it’s really brought a new energy and something exciting. It’s cool; it’s still early days but it’s great.”

Where Levinson once collaborated with Gusto, since the latter departed to concentrate on Hermitude he has assumed all control of edits, arrangements and the creative thinking behind putting his show together.

“I actually found that really inspiring,” he notes, “because the buck stops with me, essentially, which is the way that the record has come together.

“It was a bit intimidating at first, but I’ve used music equipment over the years and I tend to try and take a step back from that because I like to defer to people that really know what they’re doing.

This gave me the opportunity to get my hands dirty again. To get stuck into some software and really think about how I wanted the shows to differentiate themselves from other acts out there.”

When you were onstage bringing the new show for the first time, did it feel slightly surreal, or were you just in the moment as it was happening?

“No,” Levinson responds, “it’s all in the moment by that point. Some part of you is almost capable of removing yourself from that moment and being a bit self aware. I think when you remove yourself and see yourself maybe how the audience is watching you it makes you second guess yourself

GEORGE CLINTON Dope Dogs In Space

George Clinton& ParliamentFunkadelic bring the Galactic Space Circus Tour to Metro City this Thursday, March 7. BENJAMIN COOPER speaks to the funk legend himself.

After a 15-minute phonecall with George Clinton, I was at a total loss. The only way to return to some semblance of normality was by throwing my Mothership Connection LP on the turntable, and hoping like crazy that the smooth sounds of interplanetary funk might eventually bring me back to earth.

When we speak, the Godfather Of Funk is sitting in a hotel room surrounded by members of his band and various industry types – all of them clamouring for his attention. “Don’t you worry about none of that noise,” he says. “Right now I’m talking to you, and that’s the only thing that matters. Los Angeles is always like this: there’s always 10 billion people screaming, wanting a piece of you. It’s all good, man. We got nothing but time.”

It’s worth pointing out that Mr Clinton doesn’t really speak like anyone else. In some ways it probably doesn’t actually qualify as speaking. The sound that emanates from his throat and lips is mellifluousness in its purest form: words arrive and depart without the usual rush of sentences trying to take shape, probably because the speaker is relying on the rest of the world to make sense of his pronouncements.

Clinton founded doo-wop group The Parliaments in 1956 at the age of 15; they scored one major hit with (I Wanna) Testify in 1967, when Clinton was also working as an in-house songwriter at Motown Records. By 1970, Clinton was running two separate entities: Parliament was the evolution of his earlier group and concentrated on RnB grooves, and Funkadelic was branded as the harder, psychrock sister. Both released albums in 1970 – Osmium and Funkadelic respectively – but it wasn’t until the addition of several members of James Brown’s live band in 1972 that things really began to take off. www.xpressmag.com.au

and there’s never any room to be able to stop and think, because stopping and thinking makes you forget things. It makes you think about how ludicrous it is being up onstage to begin with.”

As an evolving songwriter and performer, Levinson feels it’s healthy to change the blueprint, even if he’s quite modest about the creative level he operates on.

“We’re not doing anything that’s unprecedented,” he says. “The same way that when you sit down and write a song it’s not like you’re covering new ground that no one ever has before.

That’s the reality of it; you don’t delude yourself with the idea that you’re Burke & Wills, that you’re someone carving out new territory.

“But at the same time, if you don’t do something that feels like it’s refreshing your experience and takes you out of you comfort zone, or coming up with something original even in your own sense, it’s very hard to inject a whole lot of energy into it. You have to feel like there’s some purpose to what you’re doing. If you’re not bringing anything to it that might illuminate it for other people then really why bother? I think that you always feel the need that it has to have some purpose to it.”

Although Levinson has been at this for years - also managing the Elefant Traks label - the reaction to Urthboy’s 2012 album, Smokey’s Haunt, took him to a wider audience - beyond hip hop and on towards a higher profile.

“Nothing stands still,” he notes, “that’s the one inevitability about what we’re doing. You could just keep your seatbelt on and go this is how it is and enjoy the journey, but things change around you. It’s pretty fascinating seeing that happen.

“When we put this record out, all of a sudden I’m getting these requests for media from corners who have never been interested in what we’re doing. More conventional media; media that is more respectable.

“There’s some really good people there and I’ve always been a big fan of writing and journalists, I’ve always found myself enthusiastic about media in general, but it’s quite amusing that we’ve pout these songs out and I’ve turned over a new leaf of respectability or something. I’m now seen as this different character, but in my mind I’ve always been the same.”

The new leaf of respectability was depicted when Levinson recently appeared on the ABC’s Q&A program as a panellist alongside former Howard government minister Amanda Vanstone, Labor member for Lindsay, David Bradbury, and Senior Liberal, Christopher Pyne. It came in the wake of Kate Miller Heidke’s less than successful appearance last year.

“I don’t think I’m the best person to speak on those types of shows,” Levinson notes, “but for Bootsy Collins and The Horny Horns left The J.B.’s and took the collective in a new direction.

The combination of Bootsy’s thumping bass and Clinton’s vocals was augmented by the tried and tested brass and woodwind strength of The Horns.

The melting pot of such a surfeit of talent gave the world a new style: P-Funk.

“I was excited at the time… because I think whenever you can feel people catching on, it’s exciting,” recalls Clinton. “I knew that parents everywhere hated what we were doing, and I knew that our sound threatened some people. Some places were saying we were X-rated, whatever that means.

So I guess we used that to fuel us, but there was a lot more people who were just recognising what we were doing, and getting turned on to it. It’s always been about those people.They’re the most important ones.”

A significant part of the groups’ appeal was their creation of a unique mythology. Clinton and his cohorts declared that they were ambassadors from another world, sent to Earth to provide enlightenment through a new kind of music. Bootsy and Clinton’s repartee encouraged the audience to view them as ‘alien’: different, but not dangerous.

“I never thought we were weird,” Clinton says. “We’ve always done things like this, and people just keep wanting to listen and get involved… I can’t explain it.

“At the moment we’re recording an album about dope dogs,” he says, “because that’s what we feel like doing.” Sensing my confusion, the Funkfather adds: “You know how they’ve got those little dogs to sniff out drugs at the airport and everywhere? Well, what if those dogs went too far and got addicted to the drugs? I wanna know what happens to the little dope addict dogs. I mean, in some ways it’s the most undercover album I’ve done, but I just gotta know about those dogs.”

Clinton drew inspiration for the forthcoming album from YouTube and airport security. “Man, I just love all the stuff on YouTube!” he exclaims.

“I get so many ideas from all the new shit I see online that sometimes my mind is just racing.

But then I’ll hear some of the pop they’re playing on the radio and it’s just like, ‘Stop playing all that French stuff. You’re boring me!’ What I want to hear is good music done well; it doesn’t matter if it’s very minimal type stuff because that is often the music that sticks in your head.”

One change that Clinton heralds is the dominance of hip hop on the radio and in the wider cultural consciousness. It’s a situation that Parliament-Funkadelic helped to create over five decades, through their pioneering funk and soul music.

“At some point things changed, and when it happened it was huge. Hip hop has become the pop music of today, absolutely,” he says. “Once again

Urthboy, aka Tim Levinson whatever reason they asked me to. I’m just a big advocate of getting involved. I really believe in people participating in the dialogue and hopefully providing some different insight, some important insights that aren’t of the educated classes. Or the intellectual elite. The voices that sometime make the change or make you think or stimulate the reaction, quite often aren’t the articulate ones, or the media trained voices that know how to phrase a sentence that will be agreeable to the people who are already politically aligned with that way of thinking.

“I found it pretty interesting. I don’t consider myself the best person for that kind of a job, but I thought it was hilarious. It was a fascinating experience.

Before the show Chris Pyne and Amanda Vanstone were kind of ganging up on Bradbury, sort of slagging him off about the small margin he has in his electorate.

It was this little intro, while cameras and mics weren’t on, to try and put the Labor guy off.

“I guess in MC battles it’s the same thing, you’re trying to win a psychological war over your opponent... and politics is no different.”

George Clinton you got the parents kickin’ against it, telling kids they don’t like this hip hop track or that. But none of their opinions matter because now Jay-Z and Kanye are the biggest pop stars on the planet. You look at the influence of that whole Dirty South sound – that shit is everywhere, dominating all the beats. No one can stop it. It fills up my YouTube page every day!”

Clinton is able to spend such a substantial amount of time trawling the internet because of his group’s unique approach to band practice. “We don’t like rehearsals, so we don’t really do ‘em,” he says.

“Our members are all scattered around the country, and when we get together we have a lot of catching up to do, so the talking takes a lot of time. Plus we’ve been around for a while, and as far as I’m concerned we’ve been around long enough to know how to do

our thing really, really well. We’ll play a song for eight minutes up on that stage, and when we get going it’s like nothing else. And it must be working, because we’re still getting new fans all the time.”

The group’s enthusiasm for touring and recording seems certain to continue growing exponentially. Clinton says that’s due, at least in part, to their shared history, as well as the love they get shown whenever they perform.

“We’ve been doing this a long time but the songs never seem old. Maybe we’re a little older,” he laughs, “but we still get people calling out for their favourite songs, and singing along. That love keeps us in the game and ready to go, you know? There’s nothing more important than that.”

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OZ COMIC

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Farscape star Gigi Edgley, along with such sci-fi luminaries as Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1), Callum Blue (Dead Like Me, Smallville), Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Conan the Barbarian) and, yes, William Shatner, appear at Oz Comic Con this weekend, March 9 and 10, at the Perth Exhibition Centre. Point your browser at ozcomiccon.com for more info. TRAVIS JOHNSON reports.

THE GIRL FROM MARS

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She’s Australian entertainment royalty - her father, impresario Michael Edgley, is a renowned event promoter - and she co-starred in the acclaimed Western Australian drama Last Train to Freo back in 2006, but Gigi Edgley is still best known for her long run as alien thief Chiana on the cult sci-fi series, Farscape. That last achievement is the reason she’s returning to her birthplace of Perth this weekend, to press the flesh and sign autographs for the legions of fans who will be attending Oz Comic Con. Edgley remembers how excited she was to land the role - largely because the show was being made by Jim Henson Productions.“I’d always grown up watching up Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, so when I got the audition for it, I sort of triple-blinked. I was like, ‘What, is this for real? Oh my gosh, how exciting!’ I felt so excited to be auditioning for it.”

That enthusiasm translated into a winning performance and a popular character. Though Chiana was only originally intended to be a one-shot plot device, she - and by extension, Edgley - wound up sticking around for a lot longer. “They kept her on for four and a half years, which was good for me! It’s allowed me to travel all around the world and meet people who love the show, and The Jim Henson Company is just a massive, amazing, beautiful entity in and of itself.”

It almost goes without saying that working on a Jim Henson show meant interacting with state of the art puppets and animatronic characters, which was something Edgley relished. “When I was working in scenes with Pilot and Rigel,” she says, referring to two characters wholly realised through puppetry.

“You just fall so deeply into their eyes that, by the end of the scene, you’re convinced you’re speaking with another living creature. At no point do you ever dismiss them as just an animatronic, because the work is so meticulous and so out of this world.”

For her part, Edgley had to endure long hours in the makeup chair. While initial attempts to transform her into the grey-skinned, catlike Chiana took up to half a day, eventually practice and experimentation got it down to more manageable timeframe.

“It took about three and a half hours every day to put on from start to finish,” she recalls. “But I was that young that I really loved it. I’ve always been fully entrenched in method acting, so anything along my journey that’ll help me believe I’m an alien, I will eat it up like crazy. It was so exciting to watch myself transform into this creature. It was really cool. I’d never worked on a show that paralleled that - most shows here are doctors and nurses or cops and robbers. You just had license to do anything.”

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HITTING THE MARK GET SOME PERSPECTIVE

Now in its 21st year, The Year 12 Perspectives Exhibition is once again upon us, showcasing 63 selected works in a variety of media from graduating Visual Arts Students from across Western Australia.

The artists on display are the very future of the WA creative industry, and their works explore a diverse range of themes a f fe c t i n g Au s t ra l i a n culture from the all too often marginalised viewpoint of today ’s youth. The exhibition runs at The Art Gallery of WA from Thursday, March 7 Sit, stay, fetch by until Sunday, June 30. Go Grace Lee - Year 12 to artgallery.wa.gov.au Perspectives for details.

Dragica Milunovic returns to Elements Art Gallery with a new exhibition. Milunovic’s series of painted cubes at first seem minimalist to the point of simplicity, but further contemplation reveals a compelling sense of depth and movement catalysed through the painstaking production process. The exhibition runs from Friday, March 8, until Sunday, March 24.

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MILITARY MOMENTS

Israeli Air Force veteran Rachel Papo explores the way the lives of young women in Israel are interrupted by their mandatory military service in her photographic exhibition, Serial No.3817131.

Her works contrast the individuality of her subjects with their regimented, authoritarian surroundings in a provocative and thoughtful manner. Runs at The Perth Centre For Photography until Sunday, March 31. Head for pcp.org.au for more details.

FOUR ON THE FLOOR

Uneven Floor is WA’s newest independent poetry magazine. Presented as a blog rather than a physical mag, each month it will feature around half a dozen works form a featured poet, as well a number of new poems from individual contributors updated each week.

The first featured writer is Neil J. Pattinson, with other works supplied by Allan Padgett, Kia Groom, Maureen Sexton, Terry Farrell, and Anthony Costello. Head to unevenfloorpoetry.blogspot.com to check it out.

THE WORKS

A joint exhibition including items from a number of renowned painters, Works runs at the Melody Smith Gallery in Carlisle from Friday, March 8 until Thursday, March 28. Artists include Dr. Darren Ansted, Cynthia Ellis, George Haynes, Dr Martin Heine, Alex Spremberg, and Elwynn Lynn. Go to melodysmithgallery.com for more information.

Military Kiosk Counter by Rachel Papo

PAINFULLY EARNEST

Previews for The Black Swan State Theatre Company’s production of Oscar Wilde’s immortal comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, kick off this Friday, March 9, before the season opens on Wednesday, March 13 and runs until Thursday, March 28. A sterling cast will be giving voice to Wilde’s arch and witty dialogue, including Adriane Daff, Pete Rowsthorn, Jenny Davis, Rebecca Davis, and Stuart Halusz. Go to bsstc.com.au for times and tickets.

LUCHA LIBRE Black Forest by Elwyn Lynn

The Regal Theatre once again serves up a tantalizing mix of wrestling, wildness, burlesque, circus, drag, and more with the return of Lucha Royale! Cruise over to azureentertainment.com.au for details and tickets.

What’s In A Name?

WHAT’S IN A NAME? Dinner Table Conversation

Directed by Alexandre de La Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte Starring Patrick Bruel, Charles Berling, Valerie Benguigui, Guilaaume de Tonqueduc, Judith El Zein A very gentle scalpel is taken to French bourgeois sensibilities in this amusing farce, which was adapted by co-directors Alexandre de La Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte from their own successful stage play.

Set almost entirely in a single Parisian apartment, the film focuses on an elegant dinner party hosted by liberal professor Pierre (Charles Berling) and his wife, Elisabeth (Valerie Benguigui). It’s a joyful occasion, made all the more so when Elisabeth’s brother, the raffish Vincent (Patrick Bruel), announces that he and his partner, Anna (Judith El Zein) are expecting a baby. Things get heated pretty quickly, though, when Vincent announces that they’ve decided on a name for the tot. It’s a grossly unpopular and incredibly politically incorrect moniker, arch-lefty Pierre takes umbrage, and the barbs start flying thick and fast.

As these things tend to go, it’s not long before secrets, hypocrisies, and old grudges boil to the surface, and all involved acquit themselves well, which is to be expected; Berling aside, everyone seen here was in the cast of the stage production, so they have these characters and their dialogue down pat. Bruel, recently seen here in Paris-Manhattan, is the standout; his Vincent revels in acting as a provocateur, and a lot of the fun is trying to figure out if he’s really bent on naming his child... that... or merely stirring things up for his own amusement.

Please Sir, Can We Have Some More?

Directed by Mike Newell Starring Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes The British cinema elite get together on this very impressive outing to turn in perhaps the best adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic love story oozing with Victorian characters all colliding with class, injustice, freedom and, of course, the most romantic notions of romantic love.

It tells the well-known tale of Pip, a young ‘un from the dopey north of England who, following a chance meeting with an escaped and hungry convict, finds his way into the glitterati of London’s social order and finds himself, attempting to find himself, and, on the way, like Caine in Kung Fu, generally getting into all sorts of mind boggling and oft-times life threatening adventures.

Director, Mike Newell, who has offered up an intriguing body of work over the years from the little charmer Four Weddings And A Funeral to the big budget monolith of Harry Potter’s Goblet Of Fire, has crafted a film which is both faithful to the original work but also nods to the director’s sense of good taste and understatement, whilst tackling the sprawling epic. Newell allows the power of the film to be firmly rooted in Dickens’ storytelling and he achieves this through extracting terrific performances from his leading men.

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Ralph Fiennes summons the spirit of Ben Kingsley and Daniel Day Lewis in his menacing portrayal of Abel Magwitch, the convict who has a life changing encounter with the young Pip, played magnificently by the Toby Irvine (who in fact steals the show from his real life big brother playing his onscreen future self ). Robbie Coltrane turns in his usual brilliance as the unnerving and unscrupulous big city lawyer Jaggers, while Helena Bonham Carter performs a little too close to her Tim Burton-esque incarnation she so often wheels out as her bread and butter pantomime-take on women with money, power and mental apprehensions.

Newell has crafted the Dickensian tale beautifully, drawing on as much of the novel’s juiciness as possible without letting the picture drag as period dramas can so often do. The novel, indeed, has enough quack in it to be a year-long miniseries on British television but Newell manages to produce a pacey affair, moving quickly enough through the lingering loves scenes and just as swiftly through the violence and appalling living conditions of the day.

This version of Great Expectations truly is a remarkable film. It not only tells the complex and interwoven tale of Dickens’s masterwork, it does so in a sense which breathes life into modern cinema itself. The artistry on display acts as a potent antidote to what is generally the ongoing toxic misery of contemporary film making. Essentially it reminds the viewer of the power and possibility of cinema and hopefully contributes to raising the standards and expectations of filmgoers and filmmakers alike.

Please sir, can we have some more? _ ADAM MORRIS

_ TRAVIS JOHNSON What’s In A Name? screens as part of the Lotterywest Festival Films season at UWA’s Somerville Auditorium until March 10 and Joondalup Pines from March 1217. For more details, head to perthfestival.com.au.

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Great Expectations

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It’s a very stagey production, both in terms of its closed setting and small cast, as well as its narrative structure. The second half, in which the spotlight lands on the gentle classical musician, Claude (Guillaume de Tonqueduc), who has a few secrets of his own, is so clearly demarcated from the opening chapter that it feels like they should be separated by an intermission. While Claude’s plotline is amusing enough, it doesn’t feel particularly well integrated with the rest of the film; it’s a minor failing, but a noticeable one.

In many ways, it’s reminiscent of Roman Polanski’s recent Carnage, a film that also has its roots in theatre, although What’s In A Name?, while enjoyable enough, lacks Carnage’s sharp and merciless wit. Where Polanski’s film goes for the throat, de La Patelliere and Delaporte are content to merely chide their characters for their foibles.

What’s In A Name? is ultimately a gentle and genial couple of hours. It’s interesting to speculate whether its social satire played better in its native France - here, while the broad archetypes are recognisable, perhaps some of the specific details are lost in translation. If that’s the case, what we’re left with is an amiable comedy of manners which, while funny enough, is unlikely to make anyone’s Best Of list.

FLICKERFEST Short and Sweet

Founded in 1991, Flickerfest is Australia’s only Academy Award accredited short film festival, dedicated to bringing the best in short form cinematic entertainment to the public. The Flickerfest National Tour runs at Luna Camelot Outdoor Cinema from Thursday, March 7 to Sunday, March 10. Go to lunapalace.com.au for session times and tickets.

From little things, big things grow. It’s a terrible cliché, but it happens to be true under certain circumstances.

Film, for instance; countless top directors cut their teeth on short films, proving their mettle by crafting a few taut minutes of cinema before moving on to bigger projects. Nash Edgerton - brother of Joel and director of The Square, is an obvious local example, but you could even look at Scorsese’s early efforts remember The Big Shave and It’s Not Just You, Murray?

One Australian filmmaker who knows the value of the short form is Michael Spiccia, the director of the 2012 short thriller, Yardbird, which is screening as part of Flickerfest. Now, barely 12 months after Yardbird hit the festival circuit, Spiccia is in town executive producing his first feature, Son of a Gun, starring Ewan McGregor.

Asked to describe Yardbird, he says “It’s essentially about a young girl with a secret past who comes out of hiding and takes on the town bullies with the thing she fears most - which is herself. I would describe it as an elevated genre. We always set

out to make what we described as an elevated genre piece. I’d been percolating with the story for some time, and always wanted to execute it with some form of heightened twist - essentially dealing with a drama but throwing in a twist that elevates the genre, so to speak.”

Shot on a low budget in the rural Victorian area of Talbot and Clunes, Yardbird is a taut and strangely haunting film that belies its monetary constraints. Spiccia acknowledges that the production would not have been possible without the help of many generous collaborators.

“I was incredibly grateful and fortunate to work with a lot of people who donated their precious talent and time,” he says. “I got amazing favours. The nature of short films is something that requires a lot of love from a lot of people, and I was incredibly fortunate to have a lot of support from my fellow peers that helped me get there.”

The film was critically lauded, winning Best Live Action Short Film at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival and getting nominated for the Short Film Palm d’Or at Cannes. Spiccia agrees that the short’s success greatly contributed to Son of a Gun getting a green light.

“We’ve been very, very fortunate to have our film travel to so many festivals,” he tells us. “And it’s been really inspiring and surprising to see us get invited to so many festivals around the world.

Judging from that experience, it’s really obvious that short films do have a place out there. They are quite great vehicles and springboards for directors to move into bigger things.” _TRAVIS JOHNSON X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays

Neil Young And Crazy Horse (Photo: J-F Foto)

NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE Husky The Perth Arena Saturday, March 2, 2013 It’s been a good decade since legendary protest rocker Neil Young headlined a tour in these parts, and four years since he trod the boards at the Big Day Out, which is a long time for his fans - and you better believe Young inspires fervent devotion in his audience - to wait between doses of Old Shakey.

Thankfully, Saturday’s two-hour-plus gig, which drew mainly from Young’s 2012 album, Psychedelic Pill, was well worth the anticipation.

Melbourne folk-rock outfit, Husky, were charged with warming up the packed crowd, and they were received warmly, if not enthusiastically. The four-piece band, fronted by and presumably named for Husky Gawenda, have decent musical chops, as evidenced by their debut album, last year’s Forever So. We also got some new material, the stand out of which was Wolf Man, and a cover of Leonard Cohen’s Lover Lover Lover. It was the latter which, perhaps unsurprisingly, got the best reception from the crowd.

After a bit of business wherein the stage crew, dressed in lab coats, fussed about pretending to have some trouble setting up the onstage apparatus, Neil Young And Crazy Horse appeared to the strains of Advance Australia Fair and a roar of applause. It seemed a bit odd for the old hippie to enter the arena to the strains of what is, essentially, an ode to colonialism, but then Young, Superman-style, tore open his shirt to reveal an Aboriginal Flag t-shirt underneath. Oh Neil, don’t go changing.

Then the music hit, and didn’t let up.

One thing about Crazy Horse is that they just love to jam, losing themselves in long, involved, instrumental rock-outs, seemingly oblivious to the presence of an audience at all. In practical terms, that means we got about a dozen songs all up, from the opening Love And Only Love through to the epic Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black). In between, we got treated to a few classics - Cinnamon Girl got a look-in, as did Heart of Gold, which Young performed solo, and we even got a dose of Buffalo Springfield - as well as a lot of newer material. One thing about Young is that he doesn’t lean too heavily on his established catalogue, and his recent writings are just as good as his old stuff. Walk Like a Giant is a monster of a song, as is Born in Ontario, and the 15-odd minute breakdown of Ramada Inn was a spinechiller.

What stands out the most is the sense of genuine engagement that came from Young and his cohorts. Anyone expecting a greatest hits concert - and apparently there were more than few - might have been disappointed, but Young should be commended for keeping his hand in the game.

The decision to focus on newer music might have annoyed those who were just hoping to relive the glory days, but it meant that the band looked like they actually had a stake in what they were playing, rather than ploughing through songs that had become rote over 20 years ago.

At the end of the day, it’s only through constant creative experimentation that we can hope to ensure that rock’n’roll will never die, and even now Neil Young is still walking the walk. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON

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The City of Melville Sculpture Walk: Deep Water Point, Mt Pleasant Picturing New York: Photographs From The Museum Now in it’s 10th year, the Sculpture Walk presents Of Modern Art: Art Gallery Of WA, Northbridge 26 new sculptures and installations set against a Depicting the iconic New York that captivates the picturesque backdrop. It runs From Mar 23 - April 7, world’s imagination and the idiosyncratic details that and entry is free. define New Yorkers’ sense of home, this exhibition from MoMA’s extraordinary photography collection celebrates the city in all its vitality, ambition and beauty. Made by approximately 90 artists responding to the city as well as professionals on assignment, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Lewis The Importance of Being Earnest: The Heath Hine, Helen Levitt, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, and Ledger Theatre Weegee. Runs ‘til May 12.

The Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Oscar Wilde’s classic play of manners and Made To Remember: Art Gallery Of WA, Northbridge misunderstandings. Runs Mar 9 - 28. Tickets Made To Remember is a beautifully considered display through Ticketek. of significant Indigenous objects from the State Art The Seven Wishes, Fern Petrie Collection. With a diverse selection of works including glass and ceramic objects, textiles and clothing, as In a remarkably short period of time, well as examples of traditional sculpture, Made to Petrie has earned a reputation as an insightful and Remember encourages dialogue about the place of evocative artist, something that this latest exhibition an object not only in Indigenous art and culture, but proves beyond any doubt. in the broader Australian context. Runs ‘til Jun 30.

“This particular collection is all about childhood fantasy and living in a fantasy world,” Sculpture By The Sea: Cottesloe Beach, Perth Petrie tells us. “That’s why the colours are so bright Over 70 local, interstate and international artists will and there’s so many interesting little things going on transform Perth’s most popular beach into a stunning in the background. I really love Italian art, especially sculpture park overlooking the Indian Ocean with Renaissance art and surrealist art. In all of those some of the most glorious sunsets of any major city things, like Maori art, everything in the picture has in the world. Runs from Mar 8 - Mar 24. Entry is free. symbolism. I really like that, so I tried to add lots of small symbols that represent feelings and emotions.” Material Murmurings: Spectrum Project Space, Ultimately, her goal is to help us return to a Perth time in our lives when the walls between fantasy and Australian artist Brooke Zeligman works in handmade reality were thin. glass and mixed media objects to explore the roles of “When you’re a child, everything is open women in modern society. Appropriately enough, the to you; anything could happen in the world. You read exhibition opens on International Women’s Day. Runs these books about adventures and stories and feel Mar 8 - Mar 22. like you’re actually living them. There’s no separation between real life and that fantasy world. I just wanted Not A Still Life: The Moore Gallery, Fremantle to connect with that innocent, imaginative side, An exhibition by Daveena Cox. Runs until Mar 10. because I think that life these days can be pretty banal, and you have to deal with the mundanity of Ngaaditj Boodja (Salt Country): emerge Art Space, Adriane Daff, The Importance of Being Earnest life. We have to remember that there’s so much more Inglewood to life than that. When you’re young and you read The Lindsay Harris’ new solo exhibition looks at the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings there’s something within devastating effects of unchecked land clearing and Once on This Island: The Geoff Gibbs Theatre them that stays with you, and it can’t be rubbed the subsequent encroachment of salt upon once- WAAPA presents this Tony Award-nominated, Caribbean-flavoured, musical love story. Runs Mar out by all the days of drudgery and all the awful fertile soil. Runs Feb 27 - Mar 23.

16 - 23. things that go on in life - you’ve got those seeds of something great inside of you, and I just wanted to Fern Petrie - Flights of Fancy: Linton and Kay Galleries, The Old Perth Technical School Hamlet: Subiaco Arts Centre express that.”

Printmaker turned painter Fern Petrie’s latest WAAPA, in conjunction with Barking Gecko _TRAVIS JOHNSON exhibition draws on images from 19th century Theatre Company, present a new interpretation of children’s literature to comment on the notion of Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy. Runs Mar 16 - 22. childhood fantasy. Runs Mar 7 - Mar 21.

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FERN PETRIE Flights of Fancy

Flights of Fancy, Fern Petrie’s new collection of fantastical paintings and sculpture, goes on display at Linton and Kay Galleries at The Old Perth Technical School this Thursday, March 7. The exhibition runs until March 22. Go to lintonandkay.com.au for more information.

Some people never grow all the way up. That’s no bad thing; keeping the connection to childhood fantasy alive is the key to creativity, not to mention a useful corrective for the woes of the world.

One of those people is New Zealand-born, Perth-based artist Fern Petrie, whose latest collection draws inspiration from 19th century children’s literature and other phantasmagoria to draw the viewer back to a place of wonder and inspiration.

The exhibition is an impressive accomplishment, especially for someone who, by her own admission, only started seriously painting a few years ago. Formerly a printmaker, Petrie had all but given up on art when, while working at Jackson’s Art Supplies, she was inspired to pick up the brush.

“I’ve always wanted to paint,” she explains.

“But for some reason it never happened. It always seemed too difficult. Then, when I kind of lost sense of myself by coming to another country and leaving everything that was me behind, I kind of felt free to try something new. I wanted to work in colour; I was very monochrome before. I felt that I needed to put more sunshine into my life. One thing led to another.”

Look the Other Way: The Dolphin Theatre, UWA Buzz Dance Theatre presents their latest work, which delves into the immigrant experience. Runs Mar 8 - Mar 16.

Look The Other Way FolkWorld Fairbridge Festival: Fairbridge Village A friendly celebration of folk, roots, blues, acoustic, Western Australian Police Pipe Band, The Quarry Celtic, a capella and world music in a traffic-free, selfcontained bushland site at Fairbridge Village. Three Amphitheatre Performance March 13. Tickets via Ticketmaster. days of the best folk music that Australia and the world has to offer, including Kristina Olsen, Tinpan Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Perth Orange, and Pugsley Buzzard. It runs Apr 26 - Apr 28.

Concert Hall Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique, performances March 14 - 16. Bookings through folkworldfestival.com.au Tickets via waso.com.au.

Perth International Comedy Festival: numerous Oz Concert, Government House Gardens locations across Perth Performance March 17. Entry is free.

Encompassing over 50 acts and 150 performances over 19 days, the 2013 Perth International Comedy Festival brings together the world’s top comic talent for a concentrated blast off laughs. Guests Fremantle Street Arts Festival: City of Fremantle The streets of Fremantle come alive over the Easter this year include 30 Rock’s Tracy Morgan, Margaret weekend with a range of performances spread over 10 Cho, Jim Jefferies, Stephen K. Amos, and The stages, including busking, street theatre, comedy, circus Wayans Brothers. It runs May 1 - May 19. Head to perthcomedyfest.com.au for details acts, cabaret, and more. Runs from Mar 30 - Apr 1.

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THE X-PRESS GUIDE TO EVERYTHING URBAN to ADVERTISE: EYE4@XPRESSMAG.COM.AU Summer is officially over! Not that you could tell from the heat. The festival season is behind us, the days are growing shorter and, to paraphrase a certain wildly popular HBO series, winter is coming. Still, never fear - there’s always something to do in Perth. In the latest Urban Central, we give you the skinny on the best small bars, the finest food, the hippest fashions, and more.

BAR NONE Perth’s small bar scene has exploded over the past couple of years, with niche venues serving up bespoke cocktails and small batch beers all over the urban landscape. We dispatched an elite team of crack dipsologists to investigate what’s happening in the city’s best speakeasies.

Braeden la Marr, Ezra Pound Ezra Pound Tucked away in Williams Lane in Northbridge, Ezra Pound quickly became a favoured destination for Perth’s arty crowd. With a relaxed atmosphere and an alfresco area that’s shielded from the hustle and bustle of James Street, the Pound, as it’s affectionately known, is the perfect venue for a quiet catch-up or a boozy creative meeting. The bar staff know their way around a cocktail shaker, and featured drinks are frequently rotated, with such concoctions as the painkiller, the corpse reviver, and the t-bird finding favour with the clientele of late.

399 399 If there’s such a thing as an elder statesmen of the Perth small bar scene, then 399 is certainly it. Located on William Street in Northbridge, 399 recently changed hands, leading to a new and exciting era for the venue. Always popular with the young urban professional crowd, 399 remains a must-visit destination for those who appreciate the finer side of inebriation.

Mechanics’ Institute Located above the new Flipside Burgers in Northbridge and commanding a nice view of William Street and its surrounds, Mechanics’ Institute The Bird This tiny bar became a William Street icon so quickly combines a casual urban atmosphere with a liquor and completely that it’s hard to believe it hasn’t selection that skews toward the upmarket. Exposed been there forever. For a small venue it’s big on brickwork and plank tables - not to mention the entertainment, with nightly live music from some alleyway entrance - contrast with a cocktail menu of Perth’s newest and most eclectic performers, that quickly became renowned as one of the best making it the best place in town to get an early look around. The only significant issue with the place is at the next big thing. In fairness, the drinks range is that it’s sometimes hard to get a seat, but let’s face nowhere near as broad as some of the other venues it - if it’s that popular, proprietors Hamish Fleming in the neighbourhood, but the friendly, bohemian and Siobhan Blumann, who also honcho Mrs Brown down in Fremantle, must be doing something right. atmosphere more than compensates.

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Voudon Zazou, Swallow Bar Swallow Bar Well, what does one do in a bar more than swallow?

Located in the newly gentrified Maylands shopping precinct just opposite the train station, Swallow is a cozy and nostalgic establishment that features a top notch beverage selection and a varied and enticing food menu. Their Sunday nights now feature live music, with ‘Gypsy Jazz’ exponents Voudon Zazou performing on the second Sunday of every month, and a rotating range of performers taking the stage at other times.

The Cheeky Sparrow The Cheeky Sparrow Duck down the right back alley in the CBD, and you could find The Cheeky Sparrow. This chic wine bar boasts an excellent list of vino, an impressive upstairs cocktail bar, and a delectable menu - the charcuterie in particular is worth checking out. Over the course of March, the bar will be celebrating Western Australian winemaking, with free tastings every week, so there’s no better time to head to Wolf Lane.

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COMBAT CHIC Back again, year after year, military inspired fashion is a trend that just won’t quit, resurfacing for Autumn 2013 in all it’s camo and khaki glory.

From coats to sneakers and scarves to jewellery, combat chic is slowly creeping its way back into our fashion consciousness, mounting a surprise attack on wardrobes the world over.

Best worn in moderation (people will definitely stare at you if you rock head to toe camo), this season’s take on military is generally pretty laid back in style, which makes it perfect for weekend adventures and recon missions (of the shopping variety, of course).

Complement camo and khaki threads with neutral, easy-to-style shades like black, white and gold, dressing up your outfit with over-the-top jewellery and chunky heels, or down with flat boots and an oversized jacket (a la Lindsay Weir in Freaks & Geeks). For a more subtle take on the trend, focus on military details like epaulets, studs and brass buttons which hint to the trend without shouting it from the rooftops.

Shop smart and invest in trans-seasonal pieces that will last the tests of time, like the Equipment riley top from Zara Bryson. A classic cut that works during the warmer months - paired with shorts and sandals, or in the depths of winter - worn under a coat with tailored trousers; this camo print top is a versatile and stylish piece that transitions easily from day to night.

If you’re hunting for boots to keep your tootsies warm during the cooler months, set course for Betts.com.au where’ll you’ll discover a plethora of embellished combat boots in all different shapes, sizes, colours and finishes. Don’t be afraid to experiment with buckles, studs and other adornments - the more bling the better.

More subtle than the feminine take on combat chic, military inspired menswear is best left to the accessories - opt for caps, bags and shoes that play on the trend, and steer well clear of cargo pants - they may be practical if you’re out hunting or fishing but in day-to-day life they’re a major fashion faux pas.

An urban uniform that’s here to stay, military chic is one of the more functional and easy-to-wear trends that’s surfaced so far this year; get on it with these goodies for guys and girls.

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Current Elliott Infantry jacket from ZaraBryson.com.au $305

Camo print sneakers from Williams $79.99

Bjorg black night ear cuff from shop.behindthemonkey.com $145

ManiaMania crowley cocktail ring from _EMMA BERGMEIER shop.behindthemonkey.com $260

For those who want to try their culinary skills, Chef Dale will be on hand to perform cooking demonstrations, while the Australian Meat Industry Council will be sponsoring the beef burger and pie competition. Children are also invited to prepare for The Go For 2 & 5 Araluen’s Fremantle Chilli Festival a career in the legal or political fields by learning is on this weekend, Saturday March 9 and Sunday what goes into making sausages.

March 10, on the Fremantle Esplanade. Point your It’s not all fiery food and tortured tonsils, browser at araluenbotanicpark.com.au for further though - a wide variety of entertainment is also information. scheduled for the weekend. Dance Workshop will be performing throughout the weekend, and a range of Ten years of chilli! wandering acts, from stilt walkers to a full mariachi Since 2003. the Chilli Festival has been band, will be prowling the Esplanade. Anyone with a calendar highlight for Perth foodies - a two day a yen to top out the temperature of their tastebuds celebration of the not so humble chilli, one of would be doing themselves a disservice by not the few foodstuffs that serves as an ingredient, a heading down to Freo this weekend. condiment, and a test of fortitude.

Having said that, anyone who thinks the chilli is the sole providence of the iron-stomached TOP 5 CHILLI FACTS and masochistic is greatly mistaken. It’s a versatile 1. All varieties of chilli are native to South little veggie. Although best known for its presence in America, and were spread to other parts Mexican cuisine, its use has spread across the globe, of the world by European explorers. the and it can now be found on menus the world over, Portuguese introduced chilli to India. being used in a surprising variety of ways. A quick 2. The substance that gives chillies their perusal of the more than 80 stalls at the festival heat, capsaicin, is the same stuff used in including Ragin Cajun Louisiana Food, The Kimberly pepper spray.

Rum Company, and Snags & Sons - sees chilli being 3. According to Guinness, the hottest used in pickles, tapenades, cheese, and chocolate, as chilli on record is the Trinidad Scorpion well as the expected curries and salsas.

“Butch T” grown by Australia’s Chilli Of course, for some of the most tempting Fa c to r y. I t c l o c k s i n a t a s e a r i n g products on offer will be the range of chilli beers 1,463,700 Scoville Heat Units. and wines. A number of small breweries and 4. Chillies are high in Vitamins A and C, wineries have experimented with chillies as an potassium, magnesium, and iron. ingredient, to generally good results. Indeed, Matsos’ 5. Chillies have long been regarded as an Brewery in Broome claims that their chilli beer aphrodisiac. We make no guarantees as is ‘probably the hottest in the world’ - a claim that to their efficacy. demands to be put to the test.

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Hudson Leeloo super skinny crop jeans from ZaraBryson.com.au $299

Y.R.U sneakers from KarmaLoop.com $56 Cirtine necklace $360 from shop.seeunearthen.com

Scarf from ForeverNew.com.au $24.99

Reclaimed Vintage backpack from Asos.com.au $65.69

Boots from Betts.com.au $109.99

EXPERT WORKOUT Muscle Worx is a WA owned chain of sport nutrition stores with outlets across the metro area. They have loads of handy tips for reaching your fitness and health goals and each store is operated by fitness specialists such as Summer Bernard. Summer has competed in the IFBB West Australian State Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships and runs an online nutrition and training coaching business. Read on for some of her insights.

How long have you been working out and why?

I have been seriously weight training for the past 10 years when I began a career in the fitness industry, firstly as a personal trainer. I have always been a very active person, exercise not only makes me feel good on the outside but amazing on the inside.

What are your best tips for creating a beachready figure?

You can exercise as much as you like and get average results but if you want the best results you need to ensure that you cover all bases of a healthy lifestyle – nutrition, supplementation and exercise. Nutrition and supplementation fuel your body to give you the results that you need. Eat clean, unprocessed healthy foods and have a balance of all macro and micro nutrients. Do not starve your body. Ensure you have the correct supplements to enhance your training performance and muscle recovery. If you get lost within all the information out there, seek advice from experts.

Why is it important to exercise and when is enough, enough?

The importance of exercise would depend on the individual. Obviously it’s good for health and also our appearance. It will help people in day to day life as well as those with specific goals. Enough would also depend on what someone’s goals are. Are they training for an event or a sport or just for general health? The best thing to do is listen to your body, if you feel run down and tired you need to slow down.

The body responds well to rest and when we rest our body recovers and can then grow.

Summer Bernard accountable for achieving them in a certain time frame. Documenting your progress with photos is a great way to inspire yourself on how far you have come if you ever have doubt.

Muscle Worx carries lots of supplements.

Which one have you tried and who would you recommend them to?

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Being signed to Claude VonStroke’s influential Dirtybird label in 2009 put the highly eclectic Julio Bashmore house sound on the radar. Now residing in London, in the late 2000s Mathew Walker (his real name) was going against the bass-orientated grain that had firmly lodged in his hometown of Bristol, preferring the finesse of house. JO CAMPBELL reports.

“Yeah, I did. To be honest,” Mathew Walker admits when asked if he’d felt like the black sheep in Bristol. “Of course, now there’s literally house nights everywhere in the way that five years ago, there was dubstep nights everywhere.

It’s amazing how much has changed in the past year; it’s really mad. But before that, there’s such a strong music scene in Bristol, but I didn’t really get into it until after I’d started releasing.”

In 2009, Walker was all set to start a sound production course at university when an email from VonStroke dramatically transformed his life.

“It was a week before I was supposed to start and I’d been talking to my brother, saying I was going to do the course and maybe in three or four years then try to get signed to Dirtybird. Then literally a week or two later, I checked my email and there’s one from Claude VonStroke saying ‘I want to sign some of your tracks’ and I was like: ‘no way - I’ve just bypassed five years worth of work.’”

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Zeds Dead

ZEDS ALIVE!

Julio Bashmore He’s now gone on to set-up his own label, Broadwalk Records, with the first single on the imprint, last year’s Au Seve, becoming an instant club hit. Walker has a wide vision for the label, with plans to sign grime, techno and house artists, mimicking his own style, defying pigeon-holing.

“It’s not gonna be straight-up house music,” he explains. “It’s not just the old Chicago and New York sounds that I listen to and want to make...

I listen to a hell of a lot of Prince and lots of French stuff, so it’s going to be the usual eclectic mix - not just straight-up house.”

Witnessing his underground appeal, Walker was invited to play LA’s Boiler Room just before Christmas last year. “I wasn’t on my best form for that. I was literally just off the plane, straight into this crazy, mad club, god knows where in LA and all these people dancing behind me. I got my manager to stand behind me so I could focus...” (laughs) “so it was just head down, in the mix, so I could just knuckle down and commit.”

His production has also garnered commercial success, with Jessie Ware’s If You’re Never Gonna Move, which he made the beats for, making it to the UK Top 40 recently. The track was written three years ago in Bristol, when Walker was still living with

Canadian dubstep phenomenon Zeds Dead will be banging it out at Ambar on Wednesday, March 13, fresh from the Future Music Festival tour. DC and Hooks formed Zeds Dead in 2009, after a previous incarnation as hip hop outfit, Mass Productions. The result is the bass-heavy, dubstep sound that thrilled audiences at The Prodigy’s Warriors Dance Arena last Sunday. Zeds Dead’s first official single Rudeboy made it to #7 on the Beatport Dubstep Charts just 48 hours after release. Check out their latest EP, Hot Sauce, out just a few weeks ago. Tickets are $25+bf from Moshtix - that’s pretty Mad Decent.

his parents. He also cameos in the video-clip, jumping into a vintage car as Ware drives them through the countryside of Surrey.

“Ha, no that wasn’t my idea,”he laughs.“That was Jessie’s idea. I’d have love to have driven the car but we didn’t have the insurance because I was under 25.” So her driving wasn’t a feminism thing? “Well it turned out that way,” he laughs again. “But yeah, I was absolutely gutted because I turned up expecting to be driving but they said “sorry - you’re too young.”’

Luckily, Walker is back in the driver’s seat with the re-emergence of his Velour side-project with Hyetal. The duo have just released Speedway, a single in the vibe of ‘80s electro, which sports a video-clip that features cut-up Nascar footage. It’s been two years since the two have worked together.

Daniel Bortz “We’ve always been into this really sleazy, synth-based sound cos we got together through a mutual appreciation of synthesiser stuff - so that’s why we make stuff like that.”

Be it ‘80s new wave, ‘90s West Coast hip hop, disco or dance mania, Daniel Bortz brings sounds together without being bound-up in any school of thought.

He fuses his own world of sound for today’s dance » JULIO BASHMORE floor. His notable re-working of James Blake’s cover of » WHY MAKE SENSE? Feist’s Limit to Your Love created much a-buzz. Lucid » FRIDAY, MARCH 8 @ THE ALLEY Dreaming are bringing him out on Friday, March 22.

NO LIMITS

Black & Blunt

SHARP AS

Local breaks masters, Black & Blunt have combined forces with MC Coppa and Sam Perry on Wandering Strangers, recently out on Ground Level Recordings.

With musical boundaries blurred between breaks, nu-jungle and dubstep, this is a chucky underground track with crossover potential. Phetsta has also put together a dubstep remix, turning it into a euphoric anthem while Fisso & Spark have provided an electro-breaks reworking.

Yacht Club DJs

YACHT CLUB MAYHEM

Stoking the proverbial party flame, Yacht Club DJs have announced their national Mayhem Tour.

Main support takes form in part-man-part-rock trio Step-Panther, who are known for face-melting sets alongside the likes of Yuck, Kurt Vile and Girls.

Following the release of their self-titled debut album, Step-Panther was hailed one of the Best New Bands of 2012 by NME. Tickets are on sale now via heatseeker. com.au for their Friday, April 12 show at Amplifier.

Mayhem they said, and mayhem they will make.

SAVAGE SKULLS PIE FACE KILLERS

Sampology

SAMPOLOGY SUPER VISUAL

Brisbane beat banger Sampology is bringing his Summer AV shows to the Leederville Hotel this Friday, March 8. RYAN BUTLER caught up with the one-man audiovisual phenomenon before his visit.

When you talk to Sampology about his work, you very quickly get the sense he operates differently to the rest of the DJ crowd.

What separates him from the pack is his command across audio and visual mediums, blending and blurring the lines between the two, culminating in his monster AV sets.

“Last year was about the end of the world,” Sampology says. “The year before that was the monster mash theme show and this year I’m putting together the next thing. I haven’t announced it yet but it’ll be pretty funny.

“I generally try to take things people know and apply it in a completely different way. Juxtaposing things is something I really enjoy. It all falls into the remix culture, juxtaposing pieces. I like to tie it up and present it in a completely different way and I really like weird stuff. If I can get as much weird stuff in there as I can I like that as well.”

Weird stuff could be an understatement.

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Some of his previous works include working with Chris Lilley on remixes for S. Mouse’s Slap Your Elbow and the Re-Wiggled album, a record of remixed The Wiggles tracks. The word unconventional springs to mind.

“I like doing different stuff I haven’t done before,” he says. “In terms of remixing another kid’s show, I might not, I’d probably do something different next time but at that point it was pretty left of centre for me to do The Wiggles thing for example, so that appealed to me at that time.

“It was just a different thing to do and I was happy with it when it came out. I get bored easily so if I get the chance to collaborate with different people I will, like The Wiggles thing or Chris Lilley for example, that was somebody I’d always wanted to work with in some way so when the S. Mouse and Angry Boys thing came along I jumped at that.”

This indefinable nature to Sampology’s projects may stem from his AV shows, which sees him playing the delicate balancing act between a DJ and director.

“The thing I like about the video sets is it’s not a super defined thing like DJing, so you can approach it in as many different ways as you want,” Sampology explains. “The way I try to put it together is finding that balance between making people dance and giving up a lot of their attention span to check out the visual of it as well. I don’t like people stopping and just watching. I like them dancing as well. It goes up and down through the set. I plan bits that take more attention span and then times where it’s about dancing.”

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House duo Savage Skulls have been steadily carving out their place within the genre’s current resurgence.

Having released tunes on Southern Fried, Mad Decent, and most recently on Dim Mak, these Swedish pranksters are ready to unleash their party music on Australian shores once more. NICK SWEEPAH asks a few questions about their music, and er… pies.

Hey guys, care to introduce yourselves?

Hiya! Måns and Carli from Savage Skulls here.

How would you describe your sound?

Savage Skulls It’s been noted that you have a huge interest in food, and consider yourselves good cooks. Do you ever think tracks you make would match a particular food or cuisine?

No, never. We do like food though.

You’ve given away a few tracks as free downloads over the years - some say that giving music away somehow takes away the value of the music, while others subscribe to the “pay-what-you-want” system via websites like bandcamp.com - what’s your take on all that?

We’ve given up on making money from sales anyway so we’re all for illegal downloading.

Music for girls.

Do you have any expectations or is there anything you’re really interested in doing while you’re in You’ve previously described meeting via a mutual Australia? interest in graffiti - would you say the graffiti culture in Stockholm has somehow influenced your music? We’ve been to Australia before. The main reason for coming back would be Pieface. We love Pieface.

Yeah, maybe in the beginning.

Electronic music would seem to lend itself to solo How would you describe your live show? work - one person hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by different toys and cables. Since you Girly. guys work together as a team - what’s your creative What’s the next big thing we can expect from process like?

Savage Skulls?

It’s basically just two guys hunched over a keyboard.

We’ve just had an EP released on Dim Mak that we You’ve remixed and worked with a pretty A-list made with Douster. bunch of people - what are some of your favourite Any final words to your Australian fans? tracks from these collaborations?

I think maybe our Moby remix. He was an icon to us Give me Pieface! when were kids.

Any future/fantasy collaborators you would love to work with?

Ghostface Killah.

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STATE OF MIND

REFINED METHODS Whether or not the name of their outfit is a reference to Goldie’s seminal and superbly jazzy State of Mind, the Auckland drum’n’bass outfit of the same name are well on the way to concreting themselves as being timeless. JO CAMPBELL catches up with one half of the duo, Patrick Hawkins, for a chat about business ventures and their upcoming third album.

Patrick Hawkins and Stu Maxwell (State Of Mind) are prolific producers, having been released on heavyweight labels such as Friction’s Shogun Audio and Future Bound’s Viper Recordings since initially signing to Total Science’s CIA label in 2005.

Since their first album was released in 2006, they’ve come a long way, having set up their own boutique imprint, SOM Music, becoming no less than New Zealand’s great entrepreneurs of drum’n’bass.

This business-minded streak is tempered with a love of collaboration, with the pair being no strangers to promoting their local scene, having featured many of their fellow homeland artists on last year’s compilation album Live!, and hosting The Next Level, a dedicated D’n’B radio slot on NZ’s 95bfm. They’ve also just set up a monthly club night named Bad Habits.

“With the Auckland nightclub scene, particularly for drum’n’bass, there used to be one major club that everyone used. When that closed down last year there was no real home for it, which has been kind of damaging for the scene,” Hawkins explains.

“That’s why we wanted to find a new venue and get the vibe back that Auckland City was renowned for.”

A recent collaboration with Wellington producer, Trei, on tech-step number, Breed, out on SOM, is just the tip-of-the-iceberg with that partnership, with Hawkins saying SOM are set to put out Trei’s second album soon.

“We’ve been flying down to Wellington a lot. It’s just like catching a bus these days, because it’s just an hour flight,” he laughs.

“In the early days when we were trying to get noticed, we were sending our stuff to DJ Presha, who owns Samurai Records - he was one of the founders of the NZ scene. And at the same time, Trei was also sending him beats, so we ended up talking and that’s resulted in four released collabs, possibly more.”

An on-going relationship with Dutch trio, Black Sun Empire has also resulted in many a hard-hitter, most recently in the form of Tripel, out on BSE Recordings.

“We’re really tight with those guys.

Whenever we’re touring Europe we stay for a couple of weeks at their studio, which usually results in a couple of collabs. And the same applies to them - whenever ever they come over here, they usually stay for a week in one of our houses and again, we work on tracks.

“With them and other artists like Chris Su, there’s just a similar vibe and its comfortable in the studio, it just sort of flows naturally, which is why we’ve kept the collabs going.”

State Of Mind are currently bunkering down in the studio working on their third album, a follow-up to 2011’s Nil By Ear, which reached number five in the NZ charts.

“Production-wise I would say we’ve come along way,” says Hawkins of how the outfit has changed in recent years. “With a lot of those early tunes, our production methods were really hit and miss and we weren’t entirely sure of what we were doing. So it’s a lot more calculated these days.

“With the last album we released, we tried to make something that was really an album that people would listen to start to finish and we weren’t DJing a lot of it out. So with this record we’ve decided to make stuff that we’d play every set. So it was a fair example of what we were doing so that when people see us live, that’s what they’ll hear.”

State Of Mind Tipped for release in September/October, rappers. Hawkins is currently co-producing a hip Hawkins says six tracks of the work have been hop album for PNC while Maxwell is producing completed, one featuring vocalist Sasha Vee, who beats for Dave Dallas. appeared on Three Dimensions from Nil By Ear, along with a collab with BSE and UK MC, Codebreaker.

“There’s a little less guess work - we’ve refined our methods,” says Hawkins. » STATE OF MIND Hawkins and Maxwell have also been » SATURDAY, MARCH 9 @ VILLA NIGHTCLUB venturing outside of D’n’B, both working with NZ

HARMONIC 313 A MANY-NAMED MAN

After years of releasing music under an array of pseudonyms, Mark Pritchard (Harmonic 313) is considering scrapping them all for his next album. SIMON HAMPSON has more.

Mark Pritchard is no stranger to Australia, having lived in Sydney for a while now, and although there would be clear advantages to moving back to England, he’s not feeling like doing it anytime soon.

“I have been thinking about the possibility of moving back to Europe for a few years,” Pritchard confesses, on the phone from his studio in Sydney.

“I’ve been living here and really enjoying it so I don’t really want to go back!” he says with a laugh.

“There are times that I feel that if I was in Europe I could maybe do a few more things that I want to do and certain gigs. Then I see all the snow and I hear all the shit going down in Europe! Although Sydney is apparently one of the most expensive cities in the world - so there are downsides - it’s really great to live in a city where there is nice weather most of the time and it’s quite chilled and relaxed.”

Pritchard had a fairly quiet 2012. After he released a collaboration with Steve Spacek as Africa HiTech, the two spent quite a bit of time touring. “We basically toured for five months when the Africa HiTech album came out and then last year we did two months.

“So last year we were both getting back to working on other music that we had started the year before. Steve is working on a solo project and I’m working on lots of solo stuff. So last year was all about getting back into things and getting music done that was sitting around for ages. There will hopefully be an album later this year but more likely early next year.”

“The idea was to stick to one name for a while and not confuse people anymore. If I just go with Harmonic 313, it still kind of limits me in some ways because there is a preconception of what the last album was like. People are already saying to me, ‘Will the next album have computer game, 8-bit vibes to it?’ and it’s kind of like, ‘No idea.’”

Pritchard has never let expectations dictate what he produces. “I’ve just done what I feel like at www.xpressmag.com.au

Harmonic 313 the time. So the chances are that my next album will be completely different. I’m thinking that the better move might be to just do it all under my name and that’s the end of it. Goodbye all names!” he says with a laugh.

“It feels like the right thing to do. Then I can release a much wider range of music because I have a lot of music that has been sitting there for a long time. I kept it aside for certain types of albums but it has come to the point now that I have realised that my music is sitting here for too long. I should just do it all under my name and basically release twelve inches where one side is ambient or an experimental electronic release in the midst of club stuff.”

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FUTURE MUSIC

WEDNESDAY 06/03 Bar Orient – DJ Ben Renna Beat Nightclub (Downstairs) – Soul Seduction Boulevard Tavern – Wub Wub Wednesday Capitol – Harlem Wednesdays Captain Stirling – Fiveo Club Red Sea – Cheek Connections – DJs Joby /JJ / Reuben Dusk Lounge – Lucas Willmer Flying Scotsman – Benni Chill/ Chris Healing Leederville Hotel – DJ Slick/DJ Reuben/DJ ViSon Llama Bar – Jo 19 Mustang – DJ Giles Niche Bar – Juicy ft Frankie Button Newport Hotel –Tom Drummond/ Angry Buda/Mr Phat Rosemount Hotel – DJ Anton Maz Sovereign Arms – Jeremy Stark The Bird – Unititled 001 ft Andre/ H.W. Sims/Viv G/Dream House The Court – Wicked Wednesday The Grand Central – DJ ANG3L

THURSDAY 07/03 Boulevard Tavern – 151 Thursdays Old Skool R&B Claremont Hotel - Institution Thursdays ft DJs Bryn Jones/ James Thorne Connections - BINGAY Eve Nightclub – Retro Thursdays DJ Tony Allen

JOONDALUP ARENA

Flying Scotsman –Gidget Duck/ Muldoon Wing Leisure Inn – DJ Peta Metro City – George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic ft Greg Wilson Mullaloo Beach Hotel - DJ John Paul/ DJ Slick Mustang – DJ James MacArthur Newport Hotel – Rubadub ft The Weapon Is Sound/DJ Tim Paramount –DJ Jordan Railway Hotel – Hugo Mendez ft The Brown Horn Orchestra/ Charlie Bucket Rosemount Hotel – Sons Of Rico DJs The Avenue – Fiveo The Deen – Chase The Sun ft DJ Flex/ DJ Nano/ DJ Surge/ DJ Don Migi The Grand Central – Roger Smart The Queens – DJ Riki The Velvet Lounge – Descent Toucan – DJ Matty J

FRIDAY 08/03 Admiral Hotel – Steve Hepple Amplifier –Bastians Happy Flight Ambar – Fresh Produce Prime Cuts Edition ft Defyre/Qwerk/Sequeira/ From Hell/Bronsonic Art Of Gallery Of WA – AGWA Nights ft Jason Cleary & Shannon Jenkins Bar One Twenty – DJ Grandmaster Vicious Bar Orient - The Reggae Club

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ft General Justice/DJ Ray/Black Knight/The Empressions/Mumma Trees/Sista Che Beat Nightclub (Downstairs) Play Boheme Bar - DJ Majiika Boulevard Tavern – Habit@ ft DJ Andyy/(6-8) Sea Level Brass Monkey - DJ Viktor/DJ James Ess/Green George Brighton Hotel – Peta C5 – Underground ft DJ K-La Capitol (Upstairs) – I Love ‘90s Claremont Hotel – The Soul Purpose/Tea King Club Bayview – Fresh Devilles Pad – Lady Carla/Johnny Safari Empire Bar – James Shipstone Eurobar - DJ Fat Albert/DJ ZOOM Flying Scotsman – Back To Mono DJs Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Rok Riley Geisha Bar – AEPH ft Moving Fusion/N1/T’Dodge/Skoptix/ Rexop/MC Stylee/X-Sessiv Ginger Nightclub – Mondo Fridays Grand Lane – Why Make Sense ft Julio Bashmore & T.Williams Lakers Tavern –Grizzly And Friends Leederville Hotel – Sampology ft The Arsonist/Electonic DJs Library - Dorcia Llama Bar – Jim Pearson Malt Supper Club – Cheecho Brothers Metro Freo – Miller City Sessions ft MYNC Mint Nightclub – Club Retro Mojos Bar – Urthboy ft One Sixth/ Jimblah Mustang – Swing DJ/ DJ James MacArthur Newport Hotel – One Love Summer Festival CD Launch Party ft Sardi/Evan/Tom Drummon/Tahli Jade Niche Bar – Let Loose ft DJ Jonny Zimber Paramount - DJ John/DJ Jordan Railway Hotel - Hugo Mendez ft The Brown Horn Orchestra/Charlie Bucket Rocket Room – Coyote Ugly Sail & Anchor - Balcony Beatz Sovereign Arms – Fiveo The Avenue – Lokie Shaw The Carine – Mikeee The Court – DJ Flex/DJ TimBee The East End Bar – Az-T The Generous Squire – DJ Anaru The Grand – Ruben

The Saint - Abstar The Shed - DJ Glenn 20 The Velvet Lounge – Community Fridays ft Naik/Diger Rokwell/The Colab Jam Band Toucan – Misschief Whale & Ale - DJ Spinback Ya Ya’s – DJ Pup

SATURDAY 09/03 Admiral Hotel – Insane Dwaine Ambar – Japan 4 ft Savage Skulls/ Bezwun/Tee El/DNGRFLD/Marko Paulo Amplifier – Urthboy Bar One Twenty – Little Nicky Bar Orient – DJ Troy Barrack St Jetty - Maiko Boat Cruise 003 ft Lovebirds/Adam Carter/Rob Sharp/Luke P Beat Nightclub (Upstairs) Canvas Boheme Bar – Amanda Power Brass Monkey - DJ Peta (downstairs)/ DJ Jewel (upstairs) Brighton Hotel - Misschief Capitol – Death Disco Capitol (Upstairs) – Cream Of The ‘80s ft DJ Ryan Claremont Hotel - Safari Club Bay View – DJ Roger Smart Devilles Pad –Razor Jack Empire Bar –James Shipstone Eurobar – DJ Fat Albert/DJ Zoom Eve Nightclub – Charlotte & James From Geordie Shore Flying Scotsman – Andrei Maz Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Future Wives Club Grand Lane – Why Make Sense ft Gold Panda & Maribou State Library – DJ Victor/DJ Riki Liquid Nightclub - DJ Klar55/ DJ Stevie M Llama Bar – DJ Reuben Metro Freo – Roger Smart/DJ Wazz/Ben Carter Metro Freo (Upstairs) – I Love 80s 90s DJ DTuck Mint Nightclub – Pop Life ft DJ Aaron/ AJ Mojos Bar – Ngati/DJ Illicit Kopua/ DJ Doughboy/MC Cera/Crookz/ International Ronmack/Glen Prophecy/DKO Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Danny Mustang – Rockabilly DJ/ DJ James MacArthur Newport Hotel – Tahli Jade/Tom Drummond/Sardi/Ru-Kasu Paramount- DJ John/DJ Jordan Sail & Anchor – Catch The Child’s Play DJs

DJ Generik Sovereign Arms – The Jinx Project The Avenue – Lokie Shaw The Boheme – Amanda Power The Causeway – Luke Miguel/Clint Turner The Cornerstone – Michael Brittliff The Court – DJ Flex/DJ TimBee The Craftsman – DJ Shortz The Generous Squire – On Tap ft DJ James Nutley The Grand Central – Armee The Queens – Kenny L The Saint – DJ ANG3L The Shed –DJ Andyy The Velvet Lounge – Laser Rock Show/Astro Pig/The Branson Tramps/The De Niros/The Potent Remedies The Wembley – Jordan Scott Tiger Lil’s – DJ Bojan/Benjamin Sebastian Toucan – DJ Samuel Spencer Villa – State Of Mind ft Voltron/ Network/Nartex/Darren D/MCs Xsessiv,Stylee & Armee Ya Ya’s – DJ Pup

Geisha Bar - Fear Of Comedy/Rag And Bone/Like Junk/Heytesberg/ DJ Jessica Kill Ginger Nightclub – DJ Rudebean Mustang – DJ Rockin Rhys Newport Hotel – Tom Drummond The Avenue – Az-T The East End Bar –DJ Gold Finger/ AZ-T The Grand – Lockie Shaw/Philly Blunt The Queens – Samuel Spencer The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – James Wilson and more The Velvet Lounge – Coburn Sound/Helen/Townsend Band

MONDAY 11/03 Eve Nightclub - DJ Don Migi Llama Bar – Jo 19 Malt Supper Club – Industry Night The Deen – DJ Birdie

SUNDAY 10/03 Claremont Hotel – James Thorne/ Dan Delstra Club Bay View - Fiveo Empire Bar –DJ Riki/ DJ Victor Eve Nightclub –DJ Slick Flying Scotsman –Nathan J/ Nizbet/ Pasha/ Chris

TUESDAY 12/03 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon High Road Hotel – DJ Matty J Llama Bar – Charlie Bucket Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin

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AMPLIFIER/CAPITOL

EXPOSED FOAM PARTY

THE COURT

FRAT HOUSE FRIDAYS

METRO FREO

IN THE THIS WEEK George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic ft Greg Wilson Thursday, March 7 @ Metro City Sampology ft Micah/The Arsonist/Electonic DJ’s Friday, March 8 @ Leederville Hotel Bastians Happy Flight Friday, March 8 @ Amplifier Smokey’s Tour ft Urthboy Friday, March 8 @ Mojos AEPH ft Moving Fusion/ N1/T’Dodge/Skoptix (Network)/ Rexop/MC Stylee & X-Sessiv Friday, March 8 @ Geisha Bar Fresh Produce: Prime Cuts Edition ft Defyre/Qwerk/Sequeira/From Hell/Bronsonic Friday, March 8 @ Ambar

Native Bass ft Filth Collins/ Zanetic/Killafoe & J.Nitrous/J Switch/JD4D/Poseidon Friday, March 15 @ Shape AGWA Nights ft Mama Cass Friday, March 15 @ Art Gallery Of WA The Heroes Of Villa ft The Only/ Peking Duk/Saccas/Knoagents/ Tapeheads Friday, March 15 @ Villa Skool of Thought ft Ed Solo Friday, March 15 @ Ambar Actress ft Oneohtrix Point Never/Leaving/Basic Mind/ Reece Walker/Emerald Cabal/ Kynan Tan/Ben T & Clunk Saturday, March 16 @ The Bakery

Infexious UV Party ft Ben Stevens/Kermit The Prog & Dr Stem/Damien Blaze & Ball-Z / Cube & Jt/LK & King Owl/ Miller City Sessions ft MYNC Josh Grin & Remarc/Alleyycat & Friday, March 8 @ Metro Freo Beni C/Rinski & ST/Shie’ox/ Clint Scott Hugo Mendez ft The Brown Horn Saturday, March 16 @ Gilkisons Orchestra/Charlie Bucket Dance Studio Friday, March 8 @ Railway Hotel Sets On The Beach ft Hermitude/ Smokey’s Tour ft Urthboy Strange Talk/DJ Lord/Yes You/ Saturday, March 9 @ Amplifier Twinsy/Drop Out Orchestra/ Luke Million State Of Mind ft Voltron/ Sunday, March 17 @ Scarborough Network/Nartex/Darren D/MCs Beach Amphitheatre t Xsessiv,Stylee & Armee Saturday, March 9 @ Villa Ministy Of Sound Clubbers Guide To 2013 ft Denzal Park/ Japan 4 ft Savage Skulls Uberkak’d Friday, March 22 @ Villa Saturday, March 9 @ Ambar Maiko Boat Cruise 003 ft Lovebirds/Adam Carter/Rob Sharp/Luke P Saturday, March 9 @ Barrack St Jetty

COMING UP Pass The Mic ft Paulie P/ FG/Cortext/Archi aka ASAP/ Wisdom2th/Tripl M.U.M/Nick Sweepah/Eddie L Friday, March 15 @ The Rosemount

DJ Greg Wilson GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC WITH GREG WILSON THURSDAY, MARCH 7 @ METRO CITY

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Speakeasy:Woodstock ft Dune Rats Thursay, March 28 @ Villa

Sound Utopia ft Lazy J/Big Guy/ Israel Cruz Saturday, April 13 @ Red Hill Auditorium

Force Majeure ft RESET!/ Micah/Tapeheads/Qwerk/ Baden M Thursday, March 18 @ Ambar

Plump DJs ft Black & Blunt/ Marko Paulo/Tonic Friday, April 19 @ Villa

Roller Easter lineup TBC Thursday, March 28 @ The Rosemount

AGWA Nights ft Paul Lindsay Friday, April 19 @ Art Gallery Of WA

Jason Lema Friday, March 29 @ Mullaloo Beach Hotel PVT Saturday, March 30 @ The Bakery Cyantific ft The Prototypes/ Utah Jazz/Illusiv & Dvise/ Qbik/Bastian/MCS: Xsessiv, Stylee & Bear Saturday, March 30 @ Villa XXYYXX ft Modo/Water Graves/Zehnmee/Clunk Saturday, March 30 @ Gilkisons Dance Studio Stanton Warriors ft Far Too Loud/Micah Sunday, March 31 @ Villa The Grizzly Tour ft Sinden/Brenmar Sunday, March 31 @ Villa The xx Tuesday and Wednesday, April 1 - 2 @ Metro City

AGWA Nights ft Dennis Gedling Friday, March 22 @ Art Gallery Of WA

Blu, Exile & Houseshoes ft Mathas/Speekeasy/Up&Up/ Soma Friday, April 4 @ The Bakery

Gemini ft Genga/Micah/JS Friday, March 22 @ Ambar

Jason Lema Friday, April 4 @ The Dusk Lounge

Nina Las Vegas Saturday, March 23 @ Amplifier

Miller City Sessions ft Warren Peace Japan 4 ft LKiD/Qwerk/Oli/Dead Friday, April 5 @ Mullaloo Beach Easy/Tee EL Hotel Saturday, March 23 @ Ambar AGWA Nights ft Charlie Netsky ft Ekko & Sidetrack/ Bucket Blend/Bezwun Friday, April 5 @ Art Gallery Saturday, March 23 @ Villa Of WA Miller City Sessions ft Jason Lema Saturday, March 23 @ Wembley Hotel

RAW ft Mobin Master/J-Trick/ Micah/Chris Moro Friday, April 5 @ Villa

Black Sun Empire ft Voltron/ Skoptix Thursday, March 28 @ Amplifier

Yacht Club DJs Friday, April 12 @ Amplifier

The Uni-Verse Tour ft Drapht Thursday, March 28 @ The Rosemount

Doll Friday, April 12 @ Art Gallery Of WA

AGWA Nights ft Holly

Miller City Sessions ft Easter Thursday ft Mark Pritchard/Dan The Man/Mathas/ Jason Lema Diger Rokwell/Ylem/Vishnu/FG Friday, April 12 @ The Dusk Thursday, March 28 @ The Bakery Lounge

Spit Syndicate ft Jacki Onassis Saturday, April 20 @ Amplifier Sunday, April 20 @ Metro Freo The Potbelleez Friday, April 26 @ Capitol Handpicked ft ShockOne/ Baauer/ Eats Everything/Mosca Friday, April 24 @ Metro City and The Bakery Rufus Saturday, April 25 @ Newport Hotel Sunday, April 26 @ Prince Of Wales Monday, April 26 @ Amplifier AGWA Nights ft Craig Hollywood Friday, April 26 @ Art Gallery Of WA Movement Festival ft Nas/2 Chainz/Chiddy Bang/Joey Badda$$/Angel Haze/Spit Syndicate Tuesday, April 30 @ Red Hill Auditorium Blokhe4d Friday, May 3 @ Geisha Bar + AGWA Nights ft Chris Wheeldon & Craig Hollywood Friday, May 3 @ Art Gallery Of WA Example ft Sun City Friday, May 10 @ Metro City Seth Sentry Friday, May 10 @ Villa Sunday, May 12 @ Newport Hotel Groovin The Moo Festival ft Alison Wonderland/DZ Deathrays/Example/Flume/ Midnight Juggernaughts/Pez/ Seth Sentry/Shockone/Tuka w/ Ellesquire/Urthboy/DJ Woody’s Big Phat Mixtape/Yacht/ Yolanda Be Cool Saturday, May 11 @ Hay Park Bunbury Flume ft Chet Faker Sunday, May 12 @ Metro City Atari Teenage Riot Sunday, May 19 @ The Bakery A$AP Rocky Sunday, June 30 @ Metro City ALT-J Saturday, July 27 @ Challenge Stadium

Soul II Soul

SOUL II SOUL

ONE FOOT IN THE RAVE CAPITOL FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Jazzie B and his Soul II Soul sound system commanded a lofty position in the dance music world. Scene setters and trendmakers, the Soul II Soul groove was ubiquitous and is often cited as being a huge influence on many current DJs. So it was a little sad to see the low turnout for their show at Capitol. Perhaps it was bad timing -with Future Music Festival taking precedence, or just the fact that so many years have passed since their heyday, but you could have given all the attendees a dollar each and still had change from a fifty. Being the professional that he is, Jazzie B took it all in stride and after a small delay (presumably to see if the numbers swelled) he came on stage and started the banter. Looking good for his years, with only slight tinges of grey in his beard, he joked and coaxed everyone to the front.

Back in rave’s hey-day the ‘live PA’ was very popular, where the hottest dance acts were encouraged to play a few numbers in a club, the performance usually involved a backing track with the singer adding vocals on top. This was similar to the show that Jazzie B produced, he mixed in the instrumentals, with either himself or his two guests Caron Wheeler and MC Chickaboo adding

the accompaniment. Most of the punters were of a certain age able to remember the old school and had dusted down their clubbing boots to bring back fond memories. They lapped-up the classics, starting with Fairplay, first released in ‘87 and moving through to Keep On Movin’ and Get A Life, they danced like it was ‘89, dropping shapes and generating enough noise to make up for the missing crowd.

Jazzie B seemed to be enjoying himself too, as he played a couple of more modern numbers with MC Chickaboo taking centre stage before all too soon it was time for the ‘encore’. Caron Wheeler taking to the mic to sing Back To Life, looking almost identical to the way she looked in the video to the track all those years ago. This was what people were there for. As on the original the track, this one segued into Jazzie’s Groove, the funky groove accompanied by the man himself waxing lyrical about the principles of Soul II Soul, but this came to an abrupt end as Jazzie B went to get his camera from back stage and we received the highlight of the night.

Originally wanting to take a picture of the crowd, he ended up coming down amongst us to take part in a mass group photo. Jazzie in the middle surrounded by the complete audience posing with their hero. Chaos then reigned as everyone jostled to shake his hand and take their own snaps. Once he had managed to personally thank everyone, (which didn’t take too long to be truthful), with one last quick wave he was off, and everyone was left to return to their post-clubbing existence. Ah well, back to life, back to reality.

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KISS

Photography: Michael Wylie

Motley Crue/Thin Lizzy/Diva Demolition Perth Arena Thursday, February 28, 2013 The Monster tour had finally come to Perth!

Openers Diva Demolition gave their first arena show a good nudge, delivering an enthusiastic set of pub rockers with a pop/punk edge which could benefit from more road testing. There’s potential and presence there, but their songs need a bit more work before they’re ready for another major league appearance.

Thin Lizzy have the miles under their belt and proved it from the first bars of opener, Are You Ready? While original members Scott Gorham and Brian Downey nailed down the guitar and drums, singer/guitarist Ricky Warwick led the crowd through an amazing set of favourites including Jailbreak, Don’t Believe A Word, a singalong packed take on Bob Seger’s Rosalie and – of course – Whiskey In The Jar. Wrapping up with a promise to return and a triumphant The Boys Are Back In Town, many in the audience were already fulfilled.

Motley Crue took proceedings over the top with enough pyro to be seen from space, a flamethrower bass guitar, 360 degree rollercoaster drumkit, ribbon gymnasts, leather clad dancing girls, a blinged up baby grand piano and – surprisingly for the band who were the high water mark for hair metal decadence – all four original members.

Vince Neil’s vocals may be a fair way from pitch perfect, but Motley deliver a show full of sturm und drang and – more importantly – an abundant, career encompassing set of hits. From Live Wire to Girls Girls Girls, Home Sweet Home to Dr Feelgood and Kickstart My Heart through to more recent singles Saints Of Los Angeles and Sex, it was a thrill ride from start to finish. _ SHANE PINNEGAR Last time Kiss played in Perth at the WACA in 2004, it was the first official tour show the lineup of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer had ever played. At the time even the band acknowledged that it was a little uneven, to say the least.

Some nine years on, their stack-heeled steps may have been a little slower, but Kiss as a band and as a production, certainly brought the show. It was beautifully classic fare, as the houselights dimmed and Google Earth located the Perth Arena on the big screen and the well-worn walk-on line, ‘You wanted the best well you got the best, the hottest band in the world, Kiss!’ was announced-along-to by almost every one of the 14,000 in attendance. The

band lowered down on a spaceship platform, smoke, bombs and fire going off in every direction and Detroit Rock City powering out of the speakers.

The devoted knew what they had come for and the merely curious were soon made clear on the fact that this was all going to be big. DRC’s dual lead solo saw Stanley and Thayer guitar-monising mid-stage, flanked by a chest-beating Simmons. It was a tighter band than 2004, as Shout It Out Loud soon testified. Stanley was in fine form; always the rock’n’roll cheerleader he must have set a record for the amount of times the word ‘Perth!’ was used in just under two hours. And while it was predictable, it’s always a reassuring to hear that our fair city has always welcomed Kiss with ‘open arms and open legs’.

Classic tunes Calling Dr Love and Firehouse were crowd favourites, with Simmons breathing fire as impressively as he ever could. The band’s new album, Monster, was showcased throughout the evening. The first gambit, Hell Or Hallelujah, met with good response, but there was a noticeable lack of crowd energy when Simmons’ Wall Of Sound was followed up by Thayer’s Out Of This World.

That was until the latter song turned into Thayer’s featured guitar solo spot (previously he covered his predecessor Ace Frehley’s signature tune, Shock Me) and evolved into a guitar and drums face-off with Eric Singer. Thayer’s guitar shot rockets and Singer’s drums levitated, before he shot some bazooka thing that brought hell up and/or heaven down.

Simmons loomed alone at the front of the stage for the blood-spitting intro to God Of Thunder.

As blood streamed down his tongue and onto the floor, he was lifted to the roof of the stage, although not quite high enough, as he had to scramble up to the platform to the microphone. A few choice words were yelled off-mic at an unfortunate tech, before the song smashed in and Godzilla bombed Tokyo.

After a six-song break Stanley returned to the mic. The toll of 40 years of screaming and recent throat surgery has taken the range from the man, but he still gets it out there, from an acoustic version of Shandi, through to Love Gun, which saw him hauled out on a flying fox to a stage in the middle of the standing area. Black Diamond, until recently a shelved classic, brought the main set to a close, but there was much more to come in the form of a three-song encore featuring Lick It Up, I Was Made For Loving You and the eternal rock’n’roll national anthem, Rock’n’Roll All Night.

Kiss sure do blow a lot of shit up. And then there’s the confetti. ‘Credibility’ is one thing but entertaining a crowd that has paid to be entertained and making the world outside the Arena seem nonexisting is a noble art in itself. It was the best fun and the fun never stopped.

And in that sense, Perth! got the best. _ BOB GORDON

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MOJOS BAR

Hussle Hussle presents Urthboy this Friday, March 8. Fresh from releasing one of the most talked about albums of 2012, Urthboy hits the road with a new live band. The new album Smokey’s Haunt has received a phenomenal response, being nominated for a J Award and was JJJ’s Album of the Week.

Smokey’s Haunt has been lauded for its storytelling, receiving four star reviews across the board.. Supports on the night are One Sixth & Jimblah. Tickets through Oztix. To win a double pass to this show, email mojos@coolperthnights.com with ‘Urthboy’ in the subject line.

YA YA’S

A great week of live music at Ya Ya’s coming right up!

Jazz at YaYa’s is on this Thursday, March 7, featuring Andrew Gioia’s Trumpet and Bass Band, Shaun Rammers and The Anea Duratovic Quartet. Then the weekend serves up a double shot of “Morgan” with Morgan Joanel’s EP Launch on Friday, March 8 and then Morgan Bain gracing the stage on Saturday, March 9. Open from 8pm!

ROCKET ROOM

Gather your wolf pack and head down to Coyote Ugly Friday March 8. Entertainment a plenty, with topless bar dancing and live old skool rock from Kickstart.

With special guest appearance by some of Perth’s Minnie Marks returns with an insane talent that’s lovliest ladies, there is nothing ugly about it. Book in out of control, playing what she calls dirty sweet rock your bucks parties or guys nights out, with seated and roll. This young singer/songwriter/guitarist/multi instrumentalist is being compared to everyone from areas and food platters provided. Open from 8pm to the likes of John Butler, Janis Joplin, Ash Grunwald, 4am, it’s going to go off! and even the late great Billy Thorpe. See Minnie this Sunday, March 10, from 8pm Teledex and PICA Bar are giving you the chance to catch some of Perth’s best acts for free this Friday, Voudou Zazou, the Perth-based trio draw inspiration March 8. A killer lineup including the mighty bastards from Django Reinhardt and add a touch of their own of blues The Floors, surf macabre highway roamers musical voodoo, taking their name from the sharply- Day of the Dead, party starting pop-rock outfit dressed French jazz fans of the ‘40s - the Zazou. With Tracksuit and Johnny Ajax of the late, great and a repertoire that encompasses both classic gypsy- infamous punk outfit The Homicides. Doors open at jazz tunes and a choice selection of contemporary 7pm, get there early to get a great spot! numbers, these swingin’ cats are guaranteed to get your feet tapping and bring a smile to your face. See them at the Swallow Bar this Sunday, March 10, and After six years rocking the Perth scene and many on the second Sunday of each month. Doors open tours throughout WA, alt-rock band Copious have at 5pm. decided to call it a day. Having played East-coast supports for the likes of Sydonia, Greenthief, Full Scale Revolution and Bellusira, among countless others, Your week of live music starts at The Beat! This Copious have also graced the stages of most major Thursday, March 7, upstairs My Fears, Your Phobias Perth venues as a major player in the vibrant local are making their second trip down from Port Hedland, alternative/rock scene. The boys will be putting on supported by the recently revamped and relaunched one last show this Friday, March 8, with support from Afraid Of Heights, heavy newcomers Severtone, good friends Serial Killer Smile, Paltiva and Gombo. new favourites A Haunting On Ravenswood and Doors open at 8pm, entry is $12 local hardcore heroes Take It Or Leave It. Doors open at 8pm. Kick on Friday, March 8, with PUNKTURED upstairs. A night that showcases all things fast, hard and loud! Scalphunter are headlining with many This Friday, March 8, catch king of tropical funk Hugo great supports, doors at 8pm. And at the very pointy Mendez bringing his super rare collection of tropical end we have The Witching Hour from midnight records and dub plates for a night of dancing in the on Saturday March 9. Catch Blazin’ Entrails, Worst beer garden. Super special guests are The Brow Horn Possible Outcome and DJ Tyranny taking you VERY Orchestra and DJ Charlie Bucket. Doors open 8pm late into the night. LONG LIVE THE WITCH! and tickets are available from heatseeker.com.au.

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BEACHY VIBE

Kalamunda Hotel Beach Party @ Kalamunda Hotel Saturday, March 2, 2013 A mechanical surfboard, dunk tank, and bikini and iron man competitions were just the beginning of long weekend festivities at Kalamunda Hotel last Saturday. Bikinis and boardies were the main choice of outfit as Almost Famous, DJ Grizzly and DJ Jeremy Stark entertained revellers.

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NEVSKY PROSPEKT

Power rock triumvirate Nevsky Prospekt unleash their debut EP, Poseidon’s Ire, at The Rosemount Hotel on Saturday, March 9, with support from Hailmary, Midnight Boulevard, and Dirtwater Bloom. Lead singer Stuart MacKay invites us into the band’s world.

Tell us about Poseidon’s Ire. Poseidon’s Ire is our debut EP and it seems like it’s been a long time coming, but we didn’t want to rush into the recording process. I know a lot of bands will release an EP not long after they’ve started playing live but I personally believe that building a fan base, however big or small, is really important so they can connect to the songs on a live level first, which then builds anticipation for the recorded release. The EP itself is made up of five songs that we felt are not only strong live but also translate well on record.

What was the recording process like?

The recording process was relatively quick and easy. We recorded it over three days at Soundbaker Studios with WAM nominated producer Rob Agostini, who we’d worked with previously on our first single. Rob was really excited to work with us again and I felt that that was an important virtue to have in a producer, and it was great to have someone who actually cared about the music we were making and not just looking at it as another job.

So we basically recorded all the instruments at Soundbaker and because we were on a limited budget, I recorded all the vocals with the exception How did you guys form? of one track in my makeshift vocal booth comprised of an upturned couch, I had moved from my hometown of Inverness in Scotland and had a mattress and a blanket suspended from the ceiling. Recording at home loads of songs I wanted to develop from the ones I had written on gave me the leeway to leisurely record when I felt like it with no pressure, the acoustic guitar, and I met ex-Hailmary bassist Haydn Bishop. We although it was a sweaty affair, sitting in a room hemmed in with no air con. started of as a duo initially, while looking for that ever elusive drummer. I’m happy with the finished result and I feel that the divide between how Gumtree was our unlikely saviour, finally providing us with drummer Pat it’s recorded and how we sound live isn’t too big, so people could listen to Burke. So we started as a band proper in early 2011 and have continued it and not fell so alienated if they saw us live. to play as regularly as possible.

What’s up next?

How would you describe your sound?

We just want to play as much as possible and keep honing our craft.

For me it’s a hard one to define exactly. When people ask me I tend An east coast tour is another thing on the future agenda, once we raise to use the analogy: ‘If the sperm of Muse fertilised the egg of System Of enough money to fund the trip. Until then we’ll just concentrate on A Down and the zygote was implanted and grown in the womb of Jeff writing more new material and eventually record another EP, hopefully Buckley!’ Ha! by the end of the year.

RIDE SALLY RIDE

ASHES TO ASHES

None more black local doom rockers Fear of Comedy release From the Ashes, the first single from their new album Delapsus Resurgam, at Geisha Bar on Sunday, March 10, with support from Heytesburg, Like Junk, Rag ‘n’ Bone, and DJ Jessica Kill on the decks. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.

Thursday, March 7 sees The Indi Bar come alive in support of The Hawaiian Ride For Youth. Morgan Bain, Sophie Jane and The Chilly Bin Boys, and Jay Grafton will be providing the tunes, doors open at 8pm, and entry is $10.

DUB MINUS STEP

A brand spanking new dub night is taking over The Newport Hotel on the first Thursday of every month! Rub*A*Dub kicks off on Thursday March 7, with the mighty The Weapon Is Sound being supported

by The Latch Key Kids, and DJs Trinidad & Tabasco, Sibilance, and Yahrkob. Doors open at 8pm, entry is free.

Fear of Comedy

Stu Orchard

CRUCIAL TAUNT

The finger-picking, folk-flavoured singer and guitarist Stu Orchard launches his new EP, Crucial Colours, on Sunday, March 10, at Mojos Bar, backed by a full, seven-piece band. Support comes from Julio Cadriguez, That Velvet Echo, The London Bureau, and Old Blood.

Doors open at 4pm.

NOT WAVING, DROWNING

Ambient pop duo Water Graves ply their trade at their first official show this Thursday, March 7th at The Bird, with support from Seer Wave, Weeks, and Sacred Flower Union. Having begun as a bedroom project for Coel Healy before the addition of Blake Hart to the mix, it’ll be interesting to see how their sound translates to a live context.

Doors open at 8pm, entry is $5.

The Lizards

PUNKTURE WOUNDS

The first Punktured night of 2013 touches down at The Beat Nightclub on Friday, March 8. The superb Scalphunter are fresh out of the studio and keen to tear up the stage again, and Adelaide’s The Lizards are keen to help them. Blindspot, Suburban and Coke and them SHARKS round out the bill. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10. www.xpressmag.com.au

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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, March 6 FESTIVAL OF THE WIND (Dan Sultan, French Butler Called Smith NICK CAVE & THE and more) BAD SEEDS/MARK 16 The Sound Shell Esperance LANEGAN BOB MOULD 6 Red Hill Auditorium 16 The Rosemount PRESIDENTS OF DEEP PURPLE/ THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / HEY JOURNEY GERONIMO 7 Perth Arena 16 Metro Freo HEARTS WAKE GEORGE CLINTON IN 16 Amplifier & PARLIAMENT 17 YMCA HQ FUNKADELIC/ SETS ON THE BEACH VOLUME 10 GREG WILSON (Hermitude, Strange 7 Metro City Talk, DJ Lord, Yes Twinsy, Drop BOB SEDERGREEN You, Out Orchestra, Luke 7 The Ellington Million) 17 Scarborough Beach BIRDS OF TOKYO Amphitheatre 7 Prince Of Wales THE MARK OF CAIN 8 Fremantle Arts Centre 17 Capitol MUTEMATH

THIS WEEK

Pennywise, April 2 GUY SEBASTIAN 28 Crown Theatre 30 Crown Theatre STANTON WARRIORS 31 Villa

APRIL

HITS & PITS 2013 (Mad Caddies, Good Riddance, A Wilhelm Scream, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Flatliners, Diesel Boy, One Dollar Short, Jamie Hay, Jen Buxton, Totally Unicorn & Paper Arms) 1 Metropolis Fremantle THE xx 1 Metro City 2 Metro City PENNYWISE 2 Metro Freo LUKA BLOOM 2 Fly By Night COUNTING CROWS 3 Perth Concert Hall THE SCRIPT 3 Perth Arena FRANK TURNER SAMPOLOGY 19 The Astor 4 Amplifier 8 Leederville Hotel NINA LAS VEGAS DEAD LETTER CIRCUS 21 Prince Of Wales 4 Prince Of Wales URTHBOY 23 Amplifier 5 Rosemount 8 Mojos VANCE JOY GRINSPOON 9 Amplifier 22 St Josephs Church 5 Prince of Wales WILLIAM ELLIOT 6 Amplifier WHITMORE SONS OF RICO GUNS N’ ROSES 23 Mojos Bar 5 Amplifier / ZZ TOP / ROSE 6 Settlers Tavern WEST COAST BLUES TATTOO ICEHOUSE/MARK & ROOTS FESTIVAL 9 Perth Arena SEYMOUR (Sensational Space 5 Perth Zoo Shifters, Iggy & The GARY PUCKETT & Stooges, Chris Isaak, BIRDY Riverside Theatre THE UNION GAP Jason Mraz, Staus Quo, 6ROGER HODGSON Manu Chao La Ventura, 9 The Astor Tedeschi Trucks Band, 7 Riverside Theatre HUNGRY KIDS OF Fred Wesley & The CAT EMPIRE New JB’s, Julia Stone, HUNGARY 10 Fremantle Arts Newton Faukner, Kitty, 11 Newport Hotel 12 Capitol Daisy & Lewis, The Centre YACHT CLUB DJS Music Maker Blues 12 Amplifier Revue, Grace Potter, DINOSAUR Russell Morris, Mama 13 Prince Of Wales JOSH GROBAN JR/ THE JON Kin, Blue Shady & SPENCER BLUES Breakthrough Winner) 16 Kings Park Botanic Garden 23 Fremantle Park EXPLOSION/ ZUCCHERO DEBORAH CONWAY MOON DUO 17 Regal Theatre 23 The Ellington 12 The Astor STU LARSEN THIS WILL DESTROY 17 The Ellington YOU RONAN KEATING/ 23 Rosemount Hotel BUZZCOCKS 18 Rosemount BRIAN MCFADDEN WEST COAST BLUES 28 DAYS & ROOTS FESTIVAL 12 Crown Theatre 19 Capitol (Ben Harper, Santana, THE DRONES/KING Paul Simon, Steve GIZZARD AND THE MARCH Miller Band, Wilco, LIZARD WIZZARD TITLE FLIGHT/LUCA Bonnie Raitt, 19 The Astor BRASI Jimmy Cliff, Rufus SPIT SYNDICATE/ 13 Amplifier Wainwright, Michael JACKIE ONASSIS 14 YMCA HQ Kiwanuka, Gossling, 19 Prince Of Wales THE JACKSONS Ash Grunwald, 20 Amplifier 14 Perth Arena Graveyard Train, 21 Metro Freo PAUL KELLY/ NEIL FINN/ LISA MITCHELL/ Brothers Grim, Sticky RTRFM’S IN THE PINES Fingers, Benjamin (Adam Said Galore, GRACE WOODROOFE Francis Leftwich, The The Bank Holidays 14 & 15 Kings Park DomNicks & Davey Lite, Circus Murders, Botanical Gardens Craddock And The The Panics, Schvendes, GLENN SHORROCK/ Usurper of Modern WENDY MATTHEWS/ Spectacles) 24 Fremantle Park Medicine & The DOUG PARKINSON STICKY FINGERS/LYALL Volcanics) 14 & 15 Quarry MOLONEY 21 Somerville Amphitheatre 27 Rosemount Auditorium THE ONLY/PEKING DRAPHT SILVERSTEIN DUK 28 The Rosemount 22 Amplifier 15 Villa PVT EPICA DAMIEN DEMPSEY 30 The Bakery 23 Capitol 15 The Bakery

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THE BLACK SEEDS 24 Metro Freo DAVE JACKSON 24 The Ellington RUFUS 25 Newport Hotel 26 Prince Of Wales 27Amplifier BRITISH INDIA 25 Prince Of Wales 26 Settlers Tavern 27 Capitol MARILYN KELLER 26 The Ellington THE POTBELLEEZ 26 Capitol FAIRBRIDGE FESTIVAL (Tinpan Orange/ Bustamento/ Frank Yamma/ Kristina Olsen) 26-28 Fairbridge MIDGE URE 27 Charles Hotel SIX60 27 Metro City DIG IT UP (Hoodoo Gurus, Flamin’ Groovies, Blue Oyster Cult, Buzzcocks, Peter Case, The Stems) 28 The Astor MOVEMENT FESTIVAL (NAS, Bliss N Eso, 2 Chainz, Chiddy Bang, JOEY BADA$$, Angel Haze, Spit Syndicate) 30 Red Hill Auditorium

MAY THE RUBENS 2 Prince Of Wales 3 Capitol 4 Settlers Tavern BOB EVANS 2 Settlers Tavern 3 The Bakery 4 Prince Of Wales TRUCKFIGHTERS 3 Rosemount BLACK SABBATH 4 Perth Arena BETH ORTON 6 St Joseph’s Church HAPPY MONDAYS 8 Capitol NORMA JEAN 8 Amplifier TEGAN AND SARA 9 Metro City 11 Hay Park, Bunbury EXAMPLE 10 Metro City THE BRONX/DZ DEATHRAYS 10 Capitol 11 Hay Park, Bunbury THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 10 The Rosemount 11 Hay Park, Bunbury SETH SENTRY 10 Villa 12 Newport Hotel GROOVIN THE MOO (Alison Wonderland/ Alpine/The Amity Affliction/The Bronx/ DZ Deathrays/ Example/Flume/ Frightened Rabbit/ Hungry Kids Of Hungary/The Kooks/ Last Dinosaurs/Matt And Kim/Midnight Juggernauts/Pez/ Regurgitator/Seth Sentry/Shockone/

Tame Impala/Tegan And Sara/The Temper Trap/They Might Be Giants/Tuka With Ellesquire/Urthboy/ DJ Woody’s Big Phat 90’s Mixtape/Yacht/ Yolanda Be Cool) 11 Hay Park, Bunbury THE KOOKS 11 Hay Park, Bunbury 12 Fremantle Arts Centre FLUME/CHET FAKER 12 Metro City DARYL BRAITHWAYE/ JOE CAMILLERI/JAMES REYNE/ROSS WILSON 12 Perth Concert Hall CRADLE OF FILTH 12 Metropolis Fremantle TENACIOUS D 15 Riverside Theatre EVERMORE 16 Newport Hotel 17 Players Bar 18 The Charles CHRISTINE ANU REWIND – THE ARETHA FRANKLIN SONGBOOK 17 & 18 The Ellington TAME IMPALA 18 Belvoir Amphitheatre FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND 18 Prince Of Wales Bunbury 19 Amplifier ATARI TEENAGE RIOT 19 The Bakery THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM 19 Metro City DEFTONES 21 Metropolis Fremantle JULIE ANDREWS 21 Riverside Theatre THE GHOST INSIDE 23 Amplifier AIRNORTH KIMBERELEY MOON EXPERIENCE (Guy Sebastian, Mark Seymour, James Reyne, Gurrumul Yunupingu) 25 Jim Hughes Amphitheatre Kununurra THE SEEKERS 30 Riverside Theatre DRAGON 31 The Astor Theatre

JUNE CABLE SOUNDS (Icehouse, The Stephen Pigram Quartet & Desert Child) 2 Cable Beach Amphitheatre KILLING JOKE 9 Rosemount PINK 25, 26 & 28 Perth Arena A$AP Rocky 30 Metro City

JULY ALT-J 27 Challenge Stadium

SEPTEMBER AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA 8 Astor Theatre ONE DIRECTION 28 & 29 Perth Arena

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Scalphunter, Friday at Beat Nightclub

WEDNESDAY06.03 BAR 120 Felix BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) Soul Seduction BRASS MONKEY Sugar Blue Burlesque CLAREMONT HOTEL Acoustica ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Adam James Jade Crompton FLY BY NIGHT Brazil Film Festival Opening Party FLYING SCOTSMAN Benni Chill Chris Healing GREENWOOD Bernardine GROOVE BAR (CROWN CASINO) 5 Shots INDI BAR Ladies Night Karin Page Elk Belk Helen Shanahan Tash Shanks LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan MOJOS BAR Fremantle Blues And Roots Club Hussy Hicks Minnie Marks Matt Zarb MOON CAFÉ Jake Webb Luke Dux Mai Barnes MUSTANG BAR Easy Tigers Almost Famous DJ Giles PADDO Dove Oliver Halvorsen Andy Newman RED HILL AUDITORIUM Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Mark Lanegan ROSEMOUNT The Underscore Orkestra Little City Dream Glenn Musto’s Scrapbook Malachi Wehipeihana DJ Anton Maz ROSIE O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) David Fyffe THE BROWN FOX

Birds of Tokyo, Friday at Fremantle Arts Centre

Courtney Murphy UNIVERSAL Strutt Ses Sayer VILLAGE BAR Village People - Open Mic YAYA’S The Southwicks Pippa Lester Tell The Shaman Misty Mountain

MALT SUPPER CLUB Kaberet Thursdays Howie Morgan MARKET CITY TAVERN Wild Chilli Lauren O’Hara Jenia G John Adams Tommy Serge Sharinovsky METRO CITY George Clinton & THURSDAY 07.03 Parliament Funkadelic Greg Wilson ADMIRAL Robbie King Karaoke MOJOS BAR Matt Gresham BEAT NIGHTCLUB Toni E (UPSTAIRS) My Fears, Your Phobias MT HENRY TAVERN Neil Adams Afraid Of Heights MUSTANG BAR Severtone Tired Lion Band A Haunting On DJ James MacAurthur Ravenswood PERTH ARENA Take It Or Leave It BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Deep Purple Journey Howie Morgan PORT KENNEDY BRASS MONKEY TAVERN Rhythm Bound Adam James Karaoke PRINCE OF WALES BRIGHTON Birds Of Tokyo Open Mic Night ROSEMOUNT BROOKLANDS The Date TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke The Red Embers The Sun Orchestra COMO HOTEL Tourist Courtney Murphy Sons Of Rico DJs Neil Adams ROSIE O’GRADY’S DEVILLES PAD (FREMANTLE) Rock’N’Roll Karaoke Clayton Bolger DUNSBOROUGH ROSIE O’GRADY’S TAVERN (NORTHBRIDGE) Open Mic Night Neil Colliss ELEPHANT & SOVEREIGN ARMS WHEELBARROW David Fyffe 5 Shots STEVES BAR ELLINGTON JAZZ Dove CLUB SWAN BASEMENT Bob Sedergreen Silver Grenade FLYING SCOTSMAN Between The Seconds Gidget Duck & The Abandonearth Muldoon Wing A Nameless Fear FREMANTLE ARTS SWAN LOUNGE CENTRE Stephanie Robson In Principal Dylan Roggio Andrew Nicholson Haydn Ward Giovanni Pasini THE BOAT GREENWOOD Jen De Ness Monarchy THE BROOK GROOVE BAR Open Mic Night (CROWN) THE GATE Decoy Greg Carter HIGH WYCOMBE THE PRINCIPAL HOTEL Bernardine Flyte THE SHED INDI BAR Mike Nayar Bex’s Open Mic Night THE VELVET LOUNGE LUCKY SHAG Descent UNIVERSAL James Wilson

Copious

COPIOUS

SERIAL KILLER SMILE PALTIVA, GOMBO

FRIDAY 8TH THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

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The Floors, Friday at PICA Bar

Off The Record WOODVALE Two Plus One YA YA’S Jazz At Ya Ya’s Andrew Gioia Shaun Rammers Anea Duratovic Quartet

FRIDAY 08.03 7th AVENUE Free Radicals ADMIRAL Steve Hepple AMPLIFIER Rainy Day Women ART GALLERY OF WA AGWA Nights Jason Cleary & Shannon Jenkins BAILEY BAR Mod Squad Tip Top Sound DJ Bren BALLYS BAR Bernardine BALMORAL Mike Nayar BAR ORIENT The Reggae Club The Empressions Mumma Trees Sista Che BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) PLAY BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) PUNKTURED Scalphunter The Lizards Blindspot Suburban And Coke Them Sharks BELMONT TAVERN Electrophobia BENTLEY HOTEL Kevin Curran BLACK BETTYS Everlong BLVD TAVERN Sea Level Trio BRASS MONKEY Adrian Wilson BROKEN HILL HOTEL Matt Milford BROOKLANDS TAVERN The Bluebottles BROWN FOX Easy Tigers CAPTAIN STIRLING Chris Gibbs CARINE Pop Candy CHASE BAR & BISTRO James Wilson CIVIC HOTEL Make Believe Me Lights Of Berlin Here Come The Calvary Where Oceans End COMO HOTEL Trevor Jalla CORNERSTONE Krakatini’s CRAFTSMAN Masterplan DEVILLES PAD Isolites Special Brew Lady Carla Johnny Safari Les Sataniques EAST 150 BAR Ali Towers EDZ SPORTZ BAR One Trick Phonies ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Darren Reid & The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Belleville Joe Southwell

Sam Nafie EMPIRE BAR Howie Morgan FLY BY NIGHT Motown & Soul Night FLYING SCOTSMAN Back To Mono FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Birds Of Tokyo FREMANTLE WORKERS SOCIAL CLUB Sean Roche GLOUCESTER PARK Courtney Murphy GRAND LANE Why Make Sense Julio Bashmore T.Williams GREENWOOD Greg Carter HERDSMAN Astrobat HIGH ROAD HOTEL Envy HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL Dr Bogus HIGHWAY HOTEL The Reals HYDE PARK HOTEL Steve Parkin INDI BAR New Soundland INDIAN OCEAN BREW Ben Merito KALAMUNDA HOTEL Better Days KULCHA Gypsy Masala LAKERS DJ Grizzly Slickenside Melee LAST DROP TAVERN Neil Adams LEEDERVILLE HOTEL Sampology LEFTBANK Groove Acoustics LEGENDS BAR The Organ Grinders LYNWOOD ARMS Mustangs MAHOGANNY INN Dean Anderson MARKET CITY TAVERN Matt Burke Mike Anderson MERIDIAN ROOM Local Heroes MERRIWA TAVERN Nasty Dogz M ON THE POINT Third Gear MOJOS BAR (ARVO) Captn K Simmo T MOJOS BAR (EVE) Hussle Hussle Urthboy One Sixth Jimblah MOON & SIXPENCE Soul Corporation MUSTANG BAR Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys Swing DJs Cheeky Monkeys DJ James McArthur NORFOLK BASEMENT Mick Thomas And The Roving Commission PADDO Stu Harcourt Easy Tigers PADDY MAGUIRES Madam Montage PARAMOUNT Flyte PEEL ALE HOUSE Sugarfield

PICA BAR The Floors Day Of The Dead Tracksuit Johnny Ajax PINK DUCK LOUNGE Jonathan Dempsey PRINCESS ROAD TAVERN Local Heroes RAILWAY HOTEL Hugo Mendez The Brown Horn Orchestra Charlie Bucket ROCKET ROOM Coyote Ugly Kickstart ROLEYSTONE COUNTRY CLUB Bernardine ROSE & CROWN Tod Woodward ROSEMOUNT Copious Serial Killer Smile Gimbo Paltiva SAIL & ANCHOR Howie Morgan Duo Nightshift SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Jamie Powers STEVE’S BAR Velvet SWAN BASEMENT Salv Jo Deeg The Renzullo Project Mat Cal & Black Heart Sun SWAN LOUNGE Scott Ruthenberg Jack Stanley Tinder Thieves SWINGING PIG Frenzy Greg Carter THE BROOK Acoustic Aly THE GATE Dirty Scoundrels THE PRINCIPAL B.O.B THE SAINT Almost Famous THE SHED Krank THE VELVET LOUNGE Community Fridays Naik Diger Rokwell The Colab Jam Band THE VIC Jen De Ness UNIVERSAL Nightmoves VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Ivan Ribic WOODVALE TAVERN Wayne Stanley Tip Top Sound YA YA’s Morgan Joanel Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill Moana Miranda & Gordo

SATURDAY 09.03 ADMIRAL Insane Dwaine AMPLIFIER Urthboy ASTOR Gary Puckett & The Union Gap BAILEYS BAR Courtney Murphy & Murphy’s Lore BAKERY Fat Shan Festivus

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Apricot Rail, Saturday at The Bakery Apricot Rail The Community Don & Jon Kucka Perth Runner Shy Panther Timothy Nelsons And The Infidels BALLYS BAR Dove BALMORAL Retriofit BAR 120 Flyte BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) Witching Hour The Blazin’ Entrails Worst Possible Outcome BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) CANVAS BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Mike Nayar BELMONT TAVERN Stu Harcourt BLACK BETTY’S J Babies BREAKERS Masterplan BROOKLANDS TAVERN Carbon Taxi CIVIC HOTEL Animal Axe Cane Graham Green Band Lightshift COMO HOTEL Acoustic Aly DEVILLES PAD Johnny Nandez Hammond Explosion Feminems DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Kris Buckle Rok DJ ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Timeout ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Saffron Sharp Howie Morgan ELMARS IN THE VALLEY Adrian Wilson FLY BY NIGHT Miss Burlesque WA Heat FLYING SCOTSMAN Under The Influence Andrei Maz FORRESTFIELD TAVERN Christian Thompson FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Kill Devil Hills Felicity Groom FREMANTLE WORKERS SOCIAL CLUB Bluegrass Extravaganza Mike Compton Hardrive Bluegrass Band Bluegrass Parkway GOSNELLS HOTEL Chasing Calee GRAND LAND Why Make Sense Gold Panda Maribou State GREENWOOD Astrobat GROOVE BAR (CROWN CASINO) Hi-NRG HARTFIELD PARK Courtney Murphy & Murphy’s Lore HIGH ROAD HOTEL

Renegade HOTEL ROTTNEST The DomNicks INDI BAR Matt Gresham INDIAN OCEAN BREW Helen Shanahan Duo KULCHA Gina Williams With Guy House & David Hyams LAKERS Celebrations Karaoke LANGFORD ALEHOUSE Die Hard Karaoke LEOPOLD HOTEL Steve Hepple M ON THE POINT Rhythm 22 MERIDIAN ROOM (CROWN PERTH) Howie Morgan MERRIWA TAVERN Greg Carter Karaoke MOJOS BAR Ngati DJ Illicit Kopua DJ Doughboy MC Cera Crookz International Ronmack Glen Prophecy DKO MOON & SIXPENCE The Damien Cripps Band MUSTANG The Rusty Pinto Combo Rockabilly DJ Milhouse DJ James MacAurthur NEWPORT HOTEL Kizzy Gravity NORFOLK BASEMENT Dead Reckoner The Loved Dead Jonathon Brain Nevada Pilot OSBORNE PARK HOTEL Plastic Max PADDO Cheeky Monkeys PADDY MAGUIRES Parker Avenue PARAMOUNT Felix PEEL ALEHOUSE Supernova PERTH ARENA Guns N’ Roses ZZ Top Rose Tattoo PORT KENNEDY TAVERN Sean Scott QUARIE BAR Diamond Dogs ROSEMOUNT Nevsky Prospekt Midnight Boulevard Hailmary Dirtwater Bloom ROSIE O’GRADY’S (FREMANTLE) Flavor ROYAL PALMS RESORT Kris Buckle SAIL & ANCHOR Better Days Childs Play STEVES BAR Jamie Powers SWAN LOUNGE 12 Bars Past Goodnight Villain Bath The Itch SWINGING PIG

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AstroPig, Saturday at The Velvet Lounge

FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Cat Empire GEISHA BAR Fear Of Comedy Rag And Bone Like Junk Heytesberg DJ Jessica Kill GOSNELLS HOTEL Conny The Clown GROOVE BAR (CROWN CASINO) HI-NRG HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL The Organ Grinders HIGH ROAD HOTEL Nat Ripepi INDI BAR Minnie Marks INDIAN OCEAN BREW CO Retriofit INGLEWOOD HOTEL James Wilson KALAMUNDA HOTEL Christian Thompson LAST DROP TAVERN John Unitt LATTITUDE 28 Gaunt SUNDAY 10.03 Nathan M ON THE POINT 7TH AVENUE A Bit On The Side Reckless Kelly MERIDIAN ROOM ADMIRAL (CROWN PERTH) Sugarfield Courtney Murphy James Wilson MOJOS BAR ALEXANDRA BAR Stu Orchard Neil Adams Old Blood BAILEYS BAR The London Bureau Gary Fowlie That Velvet Echo BALMORAL Julio Cadriquez Velvet And Stone MUSTANG BAR BELMONT TAVERN Peter Busher & The Adam James Lone Rangers BLVD TAVERN DJ Rockin Rhys JOONDALUP NEWPORT HOTEL Open Mic Night Tim Nelson BREAKERS BAR Sea Of Tunes Chris Gibbs OCEAN VIEW TAVERN BRIGHTON One Trick Phonies Ali Hill PADDY MALONE’S BROKEN HILL HOTEL Gary Fowlie Glenn Musto PADDO BROOKLANDS Groovetube Acoustic TAVERN PEEL ALEHOUSE Mike Nayar Christian Thompson CAPTAIN STIRLING PERTH CULTURAL Jamie Powers CENTRE CARINE Littlest Fox Wesley Goodlet John Ralph Jamboree Scouts John McNair CHASE BAR Keith Anthonisz Duet Chasing Calee PINK DUCK LOUNGE CIVIC HOTEL BAR Riley Pearce Kevin Conway CLAREMONT HOTEL POINT WALTER Sunday Driver DJ Dan COMO HOTEL Adrian Wilson ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Sonja D’anne Julius Lutero Gina Williams Guy Ghouse David Hyams Nueva Salsa Orchestra ELMARS IN THE VALLEY Chris Gibbs EMPIRE BAR CB3 FLY BY NIGHT Open Mic In The Fly Trap FLYING SCOTSMAN Nathan J Nizbet Pasha Chris

FORSHORE Darren Reid & The Soul City Groove PORT KENNEDY TAVERN Dirty Scoundrels PORTOFINO’S RESTAURANT Matt Milford QUARIE BAR & BISTRO Better Days QUEENS TAVERN Velvet ROSIE O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) Neil Colliss SAIL & ANCHOR Mike Nayar SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Blackhart & Strangelove SOVEREIGN ARMS Craig Ballantyne SWINGING PIG Matt Angell Stu Harcourt THE BIRD Flower Drums Mayor Dadi Mei Saraswati Child Saint THE DEEN Plastic Max & The Token Gesture THE GATE Greg Carter THE SAINT Howie Morgan Project THE SHED James Wilson THE VELVET LOUNGE Coburn Sound Helen Townsend Band UNIVERSAL Retriofit WANNEROO TAVERN Acoustic Aly WHISTLING KITE Electrophobia WOODVALE TAVERN Free Radicals YA YA’S Electric Toad Man The Clouds Yokohomos Fabian Rojos YMCA HQ Hand Of Mercy Sensory Amusia Vanity Adrift Friend Zone

MONDAY 11.03 BRASS MONKEY

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IT’S GOOD TO BE THE KING

Kerry King, founding member of metal legends Slayer and all-round guitar virtuoso, made an appearance at Guitar World on Sunday, March 3, courtesy of B.C. Rich Guitars. King spent a good chunk of time signing autographs for his rapt fans just a day before his thunderous performance at Soundwave.

Photos by Nicole Norelli

B.C. Rich Kerry King JRV The Kerry King Signature Series from B.C. Rich are designed under the supervision of King himself. Purpose built for the relentless, hard-thrashing guitar style pioneered by King, they’re any metal merchant’s dream axe. Head to bcrich.com to check out the range.

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