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Eskimo Joe
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Tickets for Perth’s own Eskimo Joe’s Winter Warmer Tour go on sale this Thursday, May 30, via Oztix. The trio of Kav, Stu and Joel are planning a two hour acoustic based show for this one where they’ll be reinterpreting a selection of songs from their last five albums. See them at Moore And Moore, Fremantle, for two gigs on Tuesday-Wednesday July 9-10.
Mama Kin
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Fremantle balladeer Mama Kin continues to set crowds afire with her electrifying live shows as she promotes her latest album, The Magician’s Daughter. The soulful songstress plays at Fremantle’s Fly By Night Club on Thursday, May 30, tickets from flybynight.org. Then on Friday, May 31, she can be found at Clancy’s Fish Pub in Dunsborough - tickets from clancysfishpub.com.au.
Fear Factory
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Fear Factory’s landmark ‘90s album, Demanufacture outstripped the competition and has stood the test of time. They’ll be performing Demanufacture in its entirety at Metro City on Thursday, July 11. Tix from oztix.com.au.
Jimmy Barnes
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The Tearaways
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Rick Steele
BLUE MEMORIES
Clairy Brown & The Bangin’ Rackettes
The Perth Blues Club’s 10th Annual Memorial Showcase takes place at the Astor Theatre On Friday, June 28. Overseen by Perth music legend Rick Steele, the show features the best blues musicians the local scene has to offer coming together to pay homage to their fallen friends, with proceeds from the gig going to Legacy In WA. Taking to the stage will be such iconic figures as Dave Hole, Matt Taylor, The Healys, Mr Steele himself and many more. Tickets are available from showticketing.com.au, the venue box office and the Blues Club meetings Tuesday evenings at The Charles Hotel.
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Having won fans across the States during their recent headlining tour of the US, Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes have returned to more familiar climes to continue to wow audiences with their amazing live shows and delicious all-girl harmonies. Check them out at The Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Artbar on Thursday, July 4. Tickets are available from ticketek.com.au
Courtesy of local hardcore demons Worst Possible Outcome, Melbourne rock mavens The Tearaways have made their way to our fair state for the first time ever for two killer nights of mayhem. Friday, June 14, sees them at 459 Bar along with fellow ne’er-do-wells Grim Fandango, The Kuillotines, The Choke and Worst Possible Outcome; while on Saturday, June 15, they’ll be giving it to Bunbury’s Prince of Wales Hotel with help from Silver Lizard and Nightcrawler. Don’t miss out on seeing one of the best live bands in the country right now.
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Kim & Beni are on their way to town to play Metropolis Fremantle on Friday, June 28 and Capitol in Saturday, June 29. Kim Moyes of The Presets fame usually DJs hard minimal techno and boogie house while Beni became known in the world of dance as part of The Bang Gang DJs and Riot in Belgium. Tix from Oztix.
Fat Freddy’s Drop
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New Zealand’s Fat Freddy’s Drop are hitting the Astor Theatre on Thursday, September 5. Their third full-length release, Blackbird, has been received well, resulting in the band playing over 800 shows in their career-to-date, clocking up 412 appearances in Europe, 27 Australian tours and over 300 shows in their homeland. Tickets are on sale from this Thursday, May 30 from showticketing.com.au.
Fleetwood Mac are coming to Perth Arena on Friday, November 22, with the current line-up of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. With a career spanning more than four decades and global album sales amassing more than 100 million, tickets are sure to sell fast. General tickets go on sale on Thursday, June 13, from Ticketmaster. American Express card members have a pre-sale option from next Tuesday, June 4.
Kalgoorlie’s about to get one of the biggest shows the remote mining community has ever seen when Jimmy Barnes hits the old main drag on Thursday, September 19, to take part in The Red Dirt Concert, part of the XXXX Gold Kalgoorlie Cup celebrations. Barnesey will be joined by very special guest - and former Tin Lid - Mahalia Barnes & The Soul Mates. For tickets and info, head over to ticketmaster.com. au or mellenevents.com.
TOKiMONSTA
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Los Angeles producer and artist TOKiMONSTA hits The Bakery On Friday, July 5, in order to bring us her eclectic new album, Half Shadows. The woman occasionally known as Jennifer Lee combines electronic soundscapes, a hint of R & B and a smattering of hip hop attitude to create something best described as a kind of epic musical journey. Head to nowbaking.com.au for tickets and info.
Stereophonics
HAVE A NICE DAY
UK outfit Stereophonics will play Metro City on Tuesday, July 23, with support from Atlas Genius. Having just released their eighth studio album, Graffiti On the Train, Stereophonics are legends of UK rock and will be playing tunes from the new album and the back catalogue. Tickets are on sale now via livenation.com.au.
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Michael Jackson: The Immortal Would Tour
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After wowing Perth audiences with Ovo, Cirque du Soleil has announced it will return in the spring with their tribute to the late King Of Pop. Michael Jackson: The Immortal Would Tour will stop in at Perth Arena on Wednesday, September 18, until Saturday, September 21. Tickets are available through ticketek.com. au or 132 849. For premium tickets, VIP experiences and Official Travel Packages head to showbiz.com.au/ michaeljackson.
Ricky Martin
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After a too-long absence from the concert stage, Latin heartthrob and The Voice coach Ricky Martin will be embarking on a whirlwind tour of Australia’s capitals this October. These are Martin’s first Australian dates in a decade, and tickets are sure to disappear quickly. Catch him at the Perth Arena on Saturday, October 12. Visa card holders can get presale tickets at visaentertainment.com.au from 12pm today, Wednesday June 29, until 12pm Friday, May 31, or until sold out. Regular tickets go on sale From 12pm Monday, June 3 at ticketek.com.au 7
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The Natural In the lead up to a European tour, DM3 will perform warm up shows on Thursday, May 30, at the Mustang Bar; Friday, May 31, at Devilles Pad; Saturday, June 1, at Clancy’s Fish Pub, Fremantle and Sunday, June 2, at the Newport. BOB GORDON chats with Dom Mariani.
Having tasted intense acclaim in Europe for both The Stems and DM3, Dom Mariani has visited the continent numerous times over the years with both bands. While there is certainly a difference in musical styles, Mariani doesn’t sense to much of a preference between one band and the other for the European fans. “There’s a not a lot of difference these days,” he notes. “Both bands have a similar fan base, but you do get the odd fan that prefers the power pop sound of DM3 over, say, the ‘60s garage punk of The Stems. “There are festivals in Europe that I’ve played that only showcase ‘60s beat and garage music and it’s like going back in time to 1966. The audience is so into it, it’s a lifestyle thing for these fans and you wouldn’t be hallucinating if you spotted a Brian Jones or Jeannie Shrimpton in the crowd. They’re a lot fun and I’m grateful the opportunity that these bands have given me.” It’s a slightly different DM3 experience this time with bass player, Toni Italiano, unable to make the tour of Italy, France and Spain. Good friend Ash Naylor (Even, Paul Kelly) joins the line-up, along with regular DM3 drummer, Pas Bartolone. “It’s great to have Ash on board. Ash has come in to replace Toni who wasn’t available for this tour and he’ll no doubt bring his own signature and style to this line-up. Musically, we are kindred spirits and it’s a pleasure to share the stage with him. We’ve toured together in the past and it’s an easy fit. He’s a very fine musician.” Though it’s no new experience for Mariani to tour Europe with his various bands, he notes that there’s still a thrill to be had. “Having a small fanbase in Europe and other parts of the world has helped keep the musical flame alive. Until I’d toured there - the first time in ‘94 - I had no idea it existed. I’ve been fortunate enough to tour there many times since then and yes, I still get a thrill; it’s different every time. I still get excited about playing rock’n’roll in a different country. “The Andoaingo Rock Festival near San Sebastian should be great. I’ve not been there before and I’m told it’s a beautiful city. I’m also looking forward to playing Paris again. I’ve not played there or in France since 1999.” Upon his return, Mariani has plenty more plans for all his musical outlets “It’s the busiest year I’ve had in a while release wise,” he says. “DM3 have a new live album out on Citadel to coincide with this upcoming tour. There’s a new Majestic Kelp album titled Turn Up The Sun scheduled for release in July. Datura are close to completing an album and The DomNicks will be working on a new record. “Maybe I’m a workaholic, but music has always come natural to me.”
JAZZ MINE KNEEBODY Perth International Jazz Festival Ellington Jazz Club Sunday, May 26, 2013 The inaugural Perth International Jazz Festival wound up a very successful debut with a show at Ellington Jazz Club on Sunday evening featuring the incredible US outfit, Kneebody. Congratulations to Graham Wood and his team and here’s to next year!
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MATT CORBY Grace Woodroofe Astor Theatre Thursday, May 23, 2013 The Astor was absolutely brimming with excited patrons on Thursday night for the first show of Matt Corby’s Australian tour. The night began with divine Perth songstress Grace Woodroofe, who treated the crowd to a stunning set. It’s always a treat to catch a few tunes from Woodroofe, her sultry standout voice filling the theatre as she performed both old and newer tunes. Woodroofe has the unique ability to execute a beautiful slow tune, then throw on her electric guitar and rock the fuck out without missing a beat. After what felt like an eternity, Matt Corby took to the stage solo to screams and hollers from the crowd. He kicked the show off without any fanfare, sitting down and performing a keyboard ballad before calling his band on stage to amp things up a little. It was immediately obvious to anybody who had already had the pleasure of attending a Matt Corby show that this wasn’t exactly the same guy that performed in Perth a year ago. The contrast is stark; this time around everything was fuller, louder, bigger, and most of all, more cohesive. Each song was polished to just the right point, and it almost seems as if Corby has found his groove – he owned the stage. Taking some time away from Australia seems to have been just the right medicine for Corby. The singer debuted several new tunes – played for
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the first time anywhere in the world – and gave the audience a taste of his new record. Though he hasn’t strayed too far from the style of last year’s EP, there’s a different tone to the tunes; if ‘groovy’ were still a part of the common vernacular, that is exactly how the sound would be described. Corby has evidently taken some lessons in white boy funk, and goddamn, has he made it work. He, of course, also threw in all the old favourites, including tunes from his Transition to Colour EP, as well everything from last year’s Into the Flame – but almost every song had been changed up a little, whether in tempo or key. The tone was far from static throughout the set, transitioning from the singer’s new funky blues tunes, back to his poignant, emotional songs of yesteryear, not to mention an overwhelmingly gorgeous version of Lonely Boy. The crowd lapped it all up, particularly those under 18s who were happy to simply be included. An all-ages crowd always comes with a warning label, and at times the screaming was nigh on deafening (‘I’m just taking off my jacket!’ Corby protested), but all in all the atmosphere was great. The night ended on a beautiful note; a duet with Bree Tranter of ex-Middle East fame, who is now Corby’s keyboardist – the two performed a stunning version of their tune, Big Eyes. All up, Corby absolutely owned the stage. It seems as if the young performer has finally come into his own. _ CHLOE PAPAS
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The Big Splash band comp was launched last Wednesday at Mojo’s, with a splendid gathering of sponsors, bands, associated friends and a set from Gunns. Some 145 acts applied for the competition, with 32 chosen to battle it out in an eightheat comp which kicks off at Mojos on Tuesday, June 4, and will also run at The Bakery, The Rosemount, Ya-Ya’s & The Bird until a winner is crowned (not to mentioned handed $10,000 cash) on August 10. The 32 acts chosen to compete are Helen Shanahan, Red Engine Caves, Scalphunter, Villain, Railway Bell, Jacob Wylde, Rich King Matthews, These Winter Nights, Silver Hills, Mind Canary, Lilt, Space Man Antics, Double Rainbow, Apache, We Move Walls, Upnup, Riley Pearce, The Dianas, Black Heart Sun, The Bureaucrats, The Bonekickers, Man The Clouds, The Shakeys, Tired Lion, Blackbirds, Ensemble Formidable, Amani Consort, Our Man In Berlin, Leure, Water Graves, Lanark and Golden String.
Kosmic’s John Goldsmith and Big Splash founder Maria Florides at the launch last Wednesday The Grand Final is set for Saturday, August 10, at The Bakery with The Chemist and Sugarpuss performing for The Big Splash After Party. The Big Splash is sponsored by Coopers, Brownes Kick & Kosmic Sound. For more details, head to thebigsplashbandcomp.com. Photos: Buffy Murray
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Ruby Boots
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Set to record a new album with producer Tony Buchen (The Preachers, Tim Finn) Ruby Boots will support Mama Kin at the Fly By Night Club this Thursday, May 30. As one chapter ends, another starts. A couple years ago Bex Chilcott began performing under the Ruby Boots moniker, forming a band around it and going on to release a debut EP and gig often and fruitfully, stamping a real presence both locally and nationally. But life evolves and folks move on and, as such, Chilcott is now rebuilding Ruby Boots from the ground up. It’s a time to reflect whilst looking forward. “Things are a lot looser these days,” Chilcott says, “the last chapter was the face of the two EPs and I’m grateful to have had one solid band that helped get the songs out there. “Since forming the group after I’d recorded the first EP, we toured East/nationally four times and played countless WA shows and festivals. The biggest achievement for me was doing all that touring whilst keeping it together for that long, it offered plenty of challenges, with such a large group of people. “It’s fairly common that when there is a group of people that come together over a sole songwriter that the vision changes and so on, so to have the memories from the last two-and-a-half years is the most fruitful aspect for me.” Chilcott has been a fixture in the Perth music scene for some years now, but it has truly been through Ruby Boots that she has arrived artistically. “I feel I am very much still discovering myself as an artist, daily, weekly, from year to year,” she notes. “I fell in love with music at a much later age to the norm. The ‘Ruby Boots’ persona has guided me through different stages of that discovery thus far
and no doubt the next two months in the studio will only lead to an abundance of new discoveries both personally and musically. “It has definitely solidified for me that artistically, through constant discovery, that there is always more out there to explore and that possibility is the most exciting thing for me as an artist.” In recent times Chilcott has had the opportunity to travel to the US for various songwriting trips. It’s been an important factor in her artistic growth. “Where do I start on this? The last year has been such a key period of learning both musically and personally, I’m still pinching myself... and still recovering! I was going from a tour to the US to back on tour etc, this happened consecutively three times in the space of nine months. Throwing myself into the situations I was in, of the unknown nature, I needed to push past so much fear and doubt and basically succumb to it as best I could, it was either that or bowing out and the latter was never an option. “There wasn’t really any time to come up for air once the ball was rolling. Incidentally enough breaking through the barriers of the fear of the unknown was the basis and sentiment of the first song, Middle Of Nowhere, Vikki (Thornton, The Waifs) and I wrote, that song has a beautiful story and chain of events surrounding it.” From a pool of 35, Chilcott has chosen 10 songs for her soon-to-be-recorded album, and will then build a band around the needs of the songs. In the meantime, a performance at the Fly By Night Club looms in support of a kindred spirit. “I recently saw Mama Kin at Fairbridge for the first time after failed attempts to catch the show in the past,” Chilcott says. “Both times I was so moved by her performance that my sleeves got a bit wet, if you catch my drift. What’s more is that I’ve taken a bit of down time after all the touring and travelling left me rather exhausted and have been searching to try and find that place inside where I want to get back on stage again, it’s been hard and I hadn’t planned on playing live until after the record was finished. “Those performances at Fairbridge reinspired me beyond words, and I’m not sure how, but it’s all come back around. Sometimes you just get these little signs in life that push you back in the right direction, so this is a very special show for me to be playing.”
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The Dreams Of Ordinary Men After 40 years making music, Dragon are celebrating with an anniversary tour, which pops into the Astor Theatre this Friday, May 31. Cofounder/bass player Todd Hunter goes deep into the band’s long history with SHANE PINNEGAR. Forty years on, Todd Hunter has regrets – his brother, original singer Marc, and early songwriter/keyboardist Paul Hewson passed away through misadventure – but still feels his personal journey lived up to expectations. “Yeah, when I was a kid I just thought, ‘I’m going to spend my life playing in a band’,” he explains, “I just liked the idea of it so much – my uncle was in a band in Auckland in the ‘60s. And so the biggest reward is being able to be a working musician for such a long period of time.” Despite being best known for the band he and younger brother Marc formed in Auckland in 1972, Hunter spent over a decade out of the band composing incidental music for TV and movies. “Do I see myself as the keeper of the band’s legacy?” he posits. “I guess so. I’m the only one who’s been there since day one and after Marc died I was really happy to have nothing to do with it. The personal cost had been too great for me in the band. After
10 years of doing soundtrack work like Heartbreak High and a bunch of other films and things, I ended up feeling like those songs needed to be played again. “I realised it’s what I do. I’d forgotten I was a bass player, you know? Just because of everything else. I just rang these guys up and said right, I need a band, and it started from then and it hasn’t stopped.” That was 2006, and an induction into the ARIA Hall Of Fame followed two years later. The band’s past, though, is never far from thought, featuring as many dramas as successes. “Well in the early years there was,” Hunter agrees, “it was so wild, and the worse you behaved the more you were rewarded for it. But that was in the ‘70s in the ‘80s it was much more about the music. Now, there’s no misbehaving whatsoever in the band. This band has been together the longest of all the line-ups. We’re just coming up on our 500th show.” For now there is the anniversary tour to focus on, as well as the two-CD collection, The Dragon Years, which features one disc of classic material, and one of new material with the current line-up. “It’s great to have stuff all in one place.” says Hunter. “With the new band we just do little EPs and stuff all the time, basically to give them away, because we think it doesn’t matter about selling the music, but it’s cool to put it all in context.” Fans had best brace for a party at the Astor this Friday, with Hunter warning to expect a bit of everything – except a set list. “You can expect every single cracking song that you know and love to sing, a couple of new ones, some obscure old stuff, Age Of Reason (co-written by Hunter for John Farnham in 1988), Show No Mercy (singer Mark Williams’ 1990 solo hit) and whatever else we can throw in there. “We don’t have a song list or anything, we just throw whatever in there depending on how the crowd is going, just play whatever they want, you know?”
DENMARK FESTIVAL OF VOICE Song Of Joy an option - it provides a real opportunity to see nationally and internationally acclaimed artists in intimate concerts in lovely old heritage venues that are just a stroll apart. “Because the festival remains small and brings together many of same people each year, there is a real sense of community. It’s hard for a Festival Director to pick highlights, but Mitchell is game. “There is so much to look forward to After many years spent in Perth as a musician, both Kavisha and Kerrianne Cox are astounding broadcaster, journalist and publicist, Josie Mitchell performers who are able to hold an audience in the palm of their hand. Junior Bowles is a great new wanted a change. In Denmark she has found that and more. blues talent with an old soul and Salvation Jane is a “When (partner) Phil and I decided it was knockout five voice female a cappella act that does time to leave the city, we realised that we wanted to a killer set of bluegrass and gospel. change our lifestyle, not just our location,” she says.“We wanted to go to a place where we would be able to have a more sustainable lifestyle, somewhere we could grow our own food, somewhere the weather was milder so we could enjoy being out in nature and somewhere that had a real community we could be part of. “Denmark has all those things and more. It is a very vibrant and lively community with a high proportion of artists and musicians and the natural environment is just incredible. It must have been destiny. Mitchell accepted the position of Festival Director at the Denmark Festival Of Voice. Given her diverse background in the arts, it seems like a natural fit. The things I like about the Festival Of Voice are the same things I like about Denmark in general,” Mitchell says. “It’s a small but perfectly formed festival that has garnered a reputation over the last decade for quality over quantity. People love to come back year after year, performers and punters, so each festival is like a reunion. It can never grow big because of limited venue space in the Denmark village and because the festival is held at Kerrianne Cox the beginning of winter - so marquees aren’t really
The Denmark Festival Of Voice is on from Friday May 31, until Sunday, June 2. Check www.dfov.org.au for all event and ticket information. BOB GORDON catches up with Festival Director, Josie Mitchell.
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“The world music is going to be spectacular - The Burundi Band and Peace Choir, Daramad, with a fabulous new Iranian singer, and Carolina Cordeiro, a beautiful Portuguese Fado singer, all promise to be real highlights. There are some fantastic choirs too; Naya Chorale is a new choir of young people that has already gained attention from overseas. In March they were invited to perform with the Grammy Award-winning composer/conductor Eric Whitacre at Carnegie Hall in New York, after they were spotted by the concert producers on YouTube. They are 50 voices strong and performing a contemporary repertoire so should be awesome. Voicemale are always great fun and this year they are performing a live soundtrack to a 1920’s silent movie. There’s also the new Festival
Carolina Cordeiro
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Club Café in The Old Butter Factory - open from 7am to midnight every day of the Festival - that will be a perfect late night party venue.” Describing the Denmark Festival of Voice as “an immersion weekend that is all about singing,” Mitchell highlights the many workshops that are open to singers of all levels and types, with participation being the key. An atmosphere of joy and connection is at the heart of it all. “My hopes for this festival are that those that come to Denmark have a fantastic time,” she says. “And that we make beautiful music together. That’s what has brought a bunch of like-minded souls to this South Coast town for nine festivals over the last 10 years. Let’s hope it continues for many more.” X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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STATE OF THE ART PLAYING TIMES CONCERT HALL STAGE SESSION ONE DOORS 12.45pm Chain 1.15-2.15pm Dave Hole 2.45-3.45pm SESSION TWO DOORS 4.30pm Schvendes 5.00-5.45pm Abbe May 6.15-7.15pm SESSION THREE DOORS 8.00pm Karnivool 8.30-10.00pm ST GEORGES 1 STAGE 12.00-12.05pm 12.10-12.55pm 1.15-2.00pm 2.30-3.15pm 3.45-4.30pm 5.00-5.45pm 6.15-7.00pm 7.30-8.15pm 8.45-9.30pm 10.00-11.00pm
Welcome To Country Fitzroy Xpress Rainy Day Women Cow Parade Cow Day Of The Dead The Love Junkies Usurper Of Modern Medicine The Chemist Sons Of Rico Gyroscope
ST GEORGES II STAGE 3.15-3.45pm 4.30-5.00pm 5.45-6.15pm 7.00-7.30pm 8.15-8.45pm 9.30-10.00pm
Antonio Paul Mmhmmm Runner 44th SUNSET The Weapon Is Sound Emperors
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Abbe May Photo by David Collins, make-up by Ashley Brockman
ABBE MAY I Just Called To Say Fuck You
With her new album, Kiss My Apocalypse, doing great business, Abbe May performs at State Of The Art this Sunday, June 2, at the Perth Concert Hall, before setting off on a national tour, supported by The Chemist. The more interesting musicians are the ones who go their own way because it’s the only way to go. Abbe May has long been this way, but her latest album, Kiss My Apocalypse, is probably her greatest musical departure, swining down the avenues of doom pop and trip hop. It’s sexual and she knows it. The songs produced by bassist Sam Ford - are steamy in both music and lyrics. What’s more exciting, perhaps, is where it goes from here. By BOB GORDON So how come you’re always goin’ on about sex? Because it’s so dull and boring and not at all something I’d rather be doing right now (laughs). You’ve struck a Virgin Mary pose on your album cover. You seem more Bloody Mary to me... ‘Tequila Mary’ is more apt. Whichever it is, the term ‘virgin’ was never going to precede our modern Mary. What’s something everyone has been asking you about the album that you’re sick of answering? Well I’m not sick of it... but the thing I’ve noticed is - and it doesn’t really bother me - is ‘what is your favourite song off the record?’ Which I think is funny, because it’s like having children. If the songs had feelings - and who knows if they do or don’t you’d be reluctant to reveal it. But I don’t mind it, it’s not my least favourite question. To answer it, I say, ‘Kiss My Apocalypse is my favourite song’. I love that kind of music. It’s really slow, chilled, kind of club music and it’s about saying ‘fuck you’ with a really calm, confident smile on your face. And that is basically what the whole album is about. 14
Also, my favourite song is Tantric Romantic because for me it’s the first time as a songwriter where I’ve been able to without it being about bitterness or heartbreak. It’s a love song about love and appreciating someone and celebrating them without it being bitter. So those two songs are my favourite songs. And that is the question I’ve been asked maybe nine times out of 10 with every interview so far. But I don’t mind, you know what? The more people ask it the more I have a pre-prepared response.
that I’m not a victim in any of this. I was very much a willing participant in this love affair. If I had to go back and do it all again I would. It’s not about me and I think that’s why the media have been so cool about, ‘what bastard/bitch did this to you?’ It’s not that - I did this. I was involved with somebody and it was love for a while and it was destructive. Ultimately you find - and this is something I’m quite happy to be quoted for - sometimes the people that fuck you the best love you the worst. You can have a physical and chemical attraction to somebody that if you don’t have an emotional connection to, it can be What are the modes in which you’ve said ‘fuck very destructive. Some people go mad; some people you’ you to people in the past? spend tens of thousand of dollars on therapy, other To answer that I’ll have to describe what people write albums and release them. And I fall into the concept of the album is. It’s about the beginning, the latter category. the rise, the fall and the death of love. So you can say ‘I love you’ and ‘fuck you’ in so many ways. With this So now that these songs have been written and album, in saying ‘fuck you’, I’ve been able to say it recorded and you will now perform them, you in a calm, clear expression on my face with the title are quite far on from the experiences involved... track. As far as the concept of the album goes, we’ve I’m assuming you’re saying I’m removed all done it. We’ve all had that relationship or 10 where from the muse in the situation and it’s no longer you fall madly in love and you fall madly out of love a ‘thing’? and you have different modes of expressing those Yeah, it stings, but you’re over it... emotions to each other. I’m over it but it becomes this thing So Kiss My Apocalypse was cool, calm, collected way of saying ‘fuck you’; KARMAGEDDON where the songs take on a life of their own. They was the aggressive and almost uncontrolled ‘fuck really do. It’s really evident when people say to you you’. There’s many different ways to do it; there’s only that a song applied to a situation in my life and it’s one or two dignified ways to do it. In the heat of the actually different to what the song was borne out moment, it’s the root of the word passion, which is of. Suddenly you realise, these things, these muses, about loss of control. So if you can actually manage become irrelevant because it’s no longer about to rein passion in, you’d probably say it in a way that them. It’s about the listener and their take on it. It’s not me anymore, it’s them. It’s not my pain, it’s their I say it in Kiss My Apocalypse, the song. pain. I think that’s the beauty of any type of creative KARMAGEDDON - what came first, the song or expression, what’s personal can become universal. That’s the best thing about it, without a doubt. the title? Quite often I write with the title in mind, but that song, particularly, the title came after the `Girls who are boys/who like boys to be girls/who song. It was a play on the words ‘come, come, come do boys like they’re girls/who do girls like they’re again my friend’. So it’s a play on words but quite boys/always should be someone you really love’. often I will write a song with just a title in mind I love Do you agree? Oh, one of Damon Albarn’s clumsiest playing on words. I love punning. I love alliteration. And I love the way that words can just roll off the profundities. Always should be someone you really tongue and actually mean something outside of love... it’s better that way. what their traditional meaning is, based on the way Some people are surprised about the lack of that they sound. guitars on the album. Are you surprised at that? You k now what? I expec ted more The songs are quite personal to your circumstances, do you think that has made them aggression about it. I’ve only deleted and blocked a few more relatable to others? Most people have that same degree of people off the page because I like to keep the understanding. You know like, it’s not actually that band website really clean and happy. I’m not important who the songs are about, it’s more the interested in negativity; I’m not interested in trolls, emotion of it and the passion, the vitriol behind it’s like, you know, ‘fuck off. If you’re gonna wank, it. That’s far more important than who the muse go wank on your own time, not on my public actually was for those songs. I’ve never been asked page’. So I delete and block, but we’ve had very to name and shame anyone. I’ve also been quite sure few of those kind of reactions./ There’s been a
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few, where their identity is very much tied up in rock’n’roll and that’s fine, but for me it’s a case of, ‘if you wanna stick around and listen keep doing it and if not, my advice is if you want rock’n’roll go see Queens Of The Stone Age because they do it really, really fucking well’. But I’m not doing that anymore; we’re trying some new stuff. What about (guitarist) Doug? My brother Doug (May, aka KT Rumble), he’s got his own band, Loose Lips, where he gets to get his rock’n’roll and his grunge out. You’ll see in my shows he gets his grunge out; there’s a reason why I’ve worked with him for 15 years non-stop, it’s not just because I’m a sentimental old fool who could never fire her brother. One, I couldn’t; but he is also an amazing musician. So luckily I could never fire him but I don’t have to because he brings incredible grunge to a pop and trip hop sonic quality that Sam (Ford) and I are trying to develop. Doug brings his guitar along and luckily for me he’s my best friend and he’s also really good at what he does. We’ll never, ever have to play without him because he’s adaptable. We’ve had a few chats about it and he’s quite happy to keep going with it. He likes the experimentation; he would get bored of rock’n’roll if he didn’t have this along with his own thing. He’s up for experimentation as much as any other musician. You love him don’t you? Yes... yes I do. Everybody does. Doug’s one of those guys whom it is impossible to dislike. The music on the album is contemporary but not necessarily about ‘now’. Sam and I, we’re not trying to be popular. We’re not trying to do anything that’s trying to sell records. We’re not selling out; this is the music that we like. We’ve done rock’n’roll to death and we want to try something new. And we’ll continue to do that. If it’s your thing or not I think you can still hear its authenticity. Sam and I are partners in creativity and we’re gonna continue to make music that isn’t rock’n’roll based. We’re gonna work on making more tunes that make you dance and make you enjoy yourself. We’re still about intense performance and we’re still about connecting with the audience in a very personal way. My main thing is be open; be open-minded. Have a listen and allow yourself to go down the trip of Kiss My Apocalypse, rather than going ‘it’s not Design Desire and that’s my thing’. Give it go, I say. Well you would. And why not? (Laughs) Yeah, why the fuck not! When asked if he’d attained more ‘Satisfaction’ in the latter part of the ‘60s Mick Jagger replied, “Financially dissatisfied, sexually satisfied, philosophically trying.” What are your scores? Financially flippant, sexually exclusive. Philosophically... trying to balance sex and money. X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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DEERHUNTER Monomania Remote Control
CITY AND COLOUR The Hurry And The Harm Dine Alone
Like a daisy sprouting through a crack in the concrete, Dallas Green emerged from his post-hardcore brethren, Alexisonfire to become folk outfit City And Colour. Now, after eight years and three albums, City And Colour has won us over with a re-directed masculinity, trading thrash and anger for an acoustic guitar and a selfreflective folk sensitivity - it seems the only remnants of his past are the tattoos that poke out of his buttondown shirt. With fourth album, The Hurry And The Harm, Green is back on the radar with Alex Newport (The Mars Volta) as producer and joined, among others, by Jack Lawrence from The Dead Weather on bass. Recorded over winter in Nashville, Tennessee it doesn’t grab you by the throat at first like 2011’s Little Hell did. Having said that it was always going to be a hard act to follow with an opening song such as We Found Each Other In The Dark, but there are certainly echoes of the same self-conscious folk balladry as he mines emotional depths with breathtaking falsetto. There’s a delicious country lilt on the title track and gorgeous backing harmonies notable on Paradise as Green gently refrains, ‘I’m searchin’ for a paradise that I just can’t seem to find’. The Lonely Life ironically shows off the full band sound while first single, Of Space And Time, has beautiful sway, a sardonic lilt and is Green at his most poetic: ‘I don’t know what drugs to take / To successfully alter the state / That my mind has been in as of late’. It’s hard to fault City And Colour; mostly because he never claims to be anything he’s not. Sure, it’s not groundbreaking stuff but it’s always personal and woundingly honest.
_ ADELAIDE FRENCH
THE CAT EMPIRE Steal The Light Inertia/Two Shoe Records
This is the sixth studio album from Melbourne’s Cat Empire, and the first as an independent release. Almost 10 years on from the debut which featured the massive hits Hello and Days Like These, the band have had a huge amount of success at home, in Europe and across the globe. Steal The Light is a pretty enjoyable record, led by excellent opening track and lead single, Brighter Than Gold, which makes one feel like they’re in a Guy Ritchie film. However, at times there’s a little too much mucking around, with tracks like Sleep Won’t Sleep sometimes feeling like they’re an excuse for band members to explore their favourite pre-recorded keyboard sound effects. Overall the album feels a bit less pop and a bit more exploratory than their other work in recent times. Many tracks including Wild Animals and Prophets In The Sky have had their live debut and received rave responses from fans, and although brilliant live bands like The Cat Empire can sometimes fail to translate to recording with the same energy as they have on stage, both tracks are still highlights here.
_ JOSH FERGEUS
BARBE-Q-BARBIES Breaking All The Rules Sound Of Finland
Five young ladies from the chilly climes of Finland who wear their attitudes like a badge, Barbe-Q-Barbies are here to get you jumping around, shouting out and punching the sky to their melodic, anthemic rock n’ roll. Like The Runaways, The Donnas and our own Sure Fire Midnights, these girls have the fire in ‘em, and play like Old Skullface himself having a midnight jam at The Crossroads. With nary a flat spot to be seen, the girls – who are pictured on the cover striding purposefully down a highway in the middle of a desert vista that can only be America, because no book I ever read at school said Finland looked like that! – make it hard to pick out highlights when the whole album is so good. The sozzled anthem One More (And I’ll Be Gone) will get the boozehounds jumping, with it’s ‘Hey Mr bartender, have mercy on my thirsty soldiers / one more drink and you know I’ll be gone’ chorus; Breaking All The Rules shows they know their AC/DC, especially drummer Niina who plays Rudd-y rock solid throughout; while STFU is as dance as metal, and would be a global hit if Pink released it, even with the chorus of ‘shut the fuck up and dance’ intact. Singer and Roxette’s Marie Fredericksenlookalike Niki Rock delivers time and time again, the head shaking rock of Due Time, acoustic ballad Gun In My Hand and closing party anthem Friday especially. An early favourite for the year already.
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‘Finding the fluorescence in the junk’ is the first line sneered by Bradford Cox on the new Deerhunter album and it sums up the qualities of this body of work well. Monomania is a well-timed change of tack for Deerhunter, sitting somewhere between the raw intensity of their nearforgotten debut Turn It Up Faggot and the lo-fi solo melodies of Cox’s Atlas Sound recordings. It’s a seamless run of dark but approachable songs originating from a grim period of heavy drinking and depression for Cox, interrupted by the abrupt departure of bassist Josh Fauver and then recorded with an invigorated new line-up. Cox describes this as their ‘punk album’, though the songs aren’t as ragged and aggressive as this descriptor suggests. When you peel back the messed-up garage-rock exterior, which is at its most confronting on its first two tracks, Monomania is as much pop as it is punk. Cox even makes references to retro radio classics in Dream Captain (‘I’m just a poor boy from a poor family’) and the album’s title track (‘Send me an angel’). Monomania’s self-conscious stripping back to bare essentials means less sidetracking into ambient meanderings or wild guitar wig-outs, but it retains the band’s playful genre-bending. Part of the back-to-basics agenda is relegating all of the lead vocals/compositions back to Cox, with the exception of Lockett Pundt’s comparatively mellow The Missing. Cox’s obsessive qualities, his very own monomania, result in his band continuing to defy expectations and deliver great albums, and this is no exception.
_ CHRIS GIRDLER
RILO KILEY Rkives Little Record Company
One of the most promising young bands signed to Saddle Creek (Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine) in the new millennium, Rilo Kiley’s bare-faced, selfdeprecating yet highly likeable brand of indie rock won them many fans. But after the major label flameout that was Under The Blacklight – which actually wasn’t that terrible – the band seemed to implode and they were outta there. If there’s one thing that Rkives, a selection of rarities , B-sides and re-recordings by the band across their career, proves, it’s that Rilo Kiley always had the songs to back themselves up. It sounds like a full album despite poaching its sounds from a wide cross-section of their creative career, and takes in the full scope of Lewis’ aspirations as a vocalist. There’s many nods towards the delicate, alt-country sound that endeared them to so many on 2002’s The Execution Of All Things, but there’s also quite a substantial amount of powerpop-influenced rockers in there, too. This record could serve as an introduction to the band perhaps more holistically than any of their official releases, and the things that make Rilo Kiley attractive – their penchant for drama, Lewis’ arcing melodic lines, their mastery over quiet introspection and fist-pumping ballads – are all here. A bittersweet end to a highly underrated and meaningful career.
_ JONNO SEIDLER
CHK CHK CHK Thr!!!er Warp
Californian indie disco via post punk outfit Chk Chk Chk have been relatively quiet since 2010’s Strange Weather, Isn’t It?, but it seems the break between records has done the unpronounceable six-piece a world of good. Lauded by the band themselves as their own Thriller (a Michael Jackson reference... in case you had any doubt), the band have certainly set the bar high here and it helps that there are plenty of big hitting, bombastic tracks that somewhat justify all the self-drummed hype. The album’s producer, Spoon drummer Jim Eno, has reigned in the scattered, spasmodic energy that ricocheted across previous offerings to a much tighter focus with Thr!!!er. Lead single, Slyd, was crafted with the dancefloor in mind; repetitive, peppy female vocals crop up in a delicious mash of funk/ house rhythms and one of the chunkiest basslines you’ll have the pleasure of grooving to in 2013. Elsewhere, there’s plenty more of the hybrid indie-funk pop-fusion the band has come to hone so well. Opening track, Even When The Water’s Cold nails their oddly addictive fusion perfectly, while Station (Meet Me At The) is all funky guitar pop just waiting to get stuck in your head and drive everyone around you crazy. There’s something about Thr!!!er that passes by too quickly; it will draw you in and spit you out before you realise the record is over. At only nine tracks, it leaves you lusting for one more sneaky track. There’s plenty to thrill you on this record, but whether it belongs in the same sphere as the canonised masterpiece it references remains to be seen.
_ MARISSA DEMETRIOU X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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Pondering what to do next month? What’s On, this issue, casts an eye on what’s up over the coming weeks. ere’s a view to the month of June... EVENT CINEMAS
AQWA SHARK MONTH June is Shark Month at AQWA, come in next month to uncover the secrets of sharks as you come face to fin with them. You can also attempt to solve the Whose Tooth? mystery for the chance to win an exclusive AQWA Adventures Dive or Snorkel With Sharks session for three people and a Family Ocean Pass, enabling two adults and two children to visit AQWA four times in a year for free. Shark Month at AQWA features Meet The Sharks presentations daily at 10.45am and 2.45pm, where you can discover more about the five different shark species in AQWA’s Shipwreck Coast, while they swim above. You’ll also touch a shark in the touch pool, feel shark teeth and eggs on the touch trail and discover bonus shark secrets as you journey along the coastline of WA. AQWA Adventures Dive or Snorkel With Sharks adventure happen every day in June Bookings are essential. Head to aqwa.com.au for full details.
X-Press Magazine, Nova 93.7 and The Garage are presenting Movie Marathons at Event Cinemas on Friday, June 7, from 9.15pm, with something for all movie tastes. Marathon One is Fast And Furious from the get-go, with the last two installments, 5 and 6, followed up by the movie that started it all back in 2001. Get your Diesel on! Marathon Two offers something for trekkies and toughies with Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness 3D and GI Joe Retaliation 3D. Marathon Three brings you the entire wolf pack trilogy. Yep, it’s The Hangover, The Hangover Part II and The Hangover Part III. YOu know you want it. Tick ets are $20, available now at eventcinemas.com.au.
Aussie Wanderer has some great trips planned for early winter. Three-Day South West Tour - Long Weekend Special Only $425! ($40 off ). Departs Saturday, June 1, at 7am - Stirling Ranges & Porongurups, Albany, Greens Pool, Valley of the Giants, Tree Top Walk, Bicentennial Tree, Leeuwin Lighthouse, Margaret River, Busselton Jetty...and more. One-Day Pinnacles Adventure Tour - June Special Only $125 ($20 off). Book in June, travel now or later. Departs every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 7am - Caversham Wildlife Park, Pinnacles Desert, Sand boarding, beaches.....and more. One-Day Taste Of Perth Tour - June Special Only $99! ($36 off). Book in June, travel now or later. Departs every Wednesday at 8am Caversham Wildlife Park, Chocolate Factory, Premium wine & cheese tasting, Fremantle, Cottesloe Beach, Kings Park, Barrack Street Jetty....and more. Book now phone 08 9438 2070 or head to aussiewanderer.com.au.
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MEN IN BLACK 2013
The annual Men In Black Ball will be hosted by Momentum Forum Events on Saturday, June 15, at the Hyatt Regency Perth during Men’s Health Week. The MIB Ball was created in 2008 in support of men’s mental health, the fight against depression and to remove the stigma attached. The evening will be co-hosted by Ryan Campbell (Australian Cricketer and Postcards WA presenter) and Barbara Kendell, former Channel 7 Gladiator, Foxtel presenter and Face Of Momentum 2013. The testimonial speaker will be John Rankin, ex Fremantle Dockers and Sydney Swans coach/officer. John Rankin was a former Sergeant Major in the Australian SAS and has overcome post traumatic disorder as well as other mental health challenges. Ryan Campbell, Men The Momentum Most Inspiring Man of the Year 2013 will also be In Black Ball announced on the night. Tickets may be purchased at www.momentumwf.com.au.
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A WANDERER’S LIFE
While the Stafford Brothers now live in Los Angeles, and have brought it big time from Whistler to Warsaw, they haven’t forgotten their roots. That’s why, for one night only, the dynamic DJ duo will hit Metropolis Fremantle on Friday, June 7. Doors will open at 9pm for what is sure to be a sell-out show. Tickets available now from Oztix.com.au.
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OTTEWELL’S ABOUT
WA HOT ROD & STREET MACHINE SPECTACULAR
Ben Ottewell, normally seen as one of English indie band Gomez’s three lead singers, is heading our way to give his pipes a solo outing. Get a load of his bluesy tenor at Mojos on Wednesday, June 26, where he’ll be playing selections from his solo album, 2011’s Shapes & Shadows, as well as Gomez classics. Tickets though lovepolice.com.au and oztix.com.au
This year will see the 17th running of Perth’s premier indoor car show, the Hot Rod & Street Machine Spectacular. After 13 successful years at the Burswood Dome, the show is moving to Claremont Showground, the spiritual home of speedway racing in WA. Claremont Showground is also the original venue of the Hot Rod & Street Machine Spectacular. With pride of place on the show floor, Mark Craine-White’s 1931 Ford Coupe and Lennard Vidot’s HQ Monaro will be the first thing that showgoers see when they walk in the door. With 150 vehicles on display, the Hot Rod & Street Machine Spectacular is the perfect place to see the best hot rods, street machines, muscle cars and motorbikes in WA. Some 10,000 people are expected over two days Saturday-Sunday, June 15-16. For more information or to download an entry form, visit www.wahotrodshow.com.au.
A Gun In Each Hand, 16th Spanish Film Festival
16TH SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL
Ben Ottewell
Presented by Estrella Damm, the 16th Spanish Film Festival will delight audiences with the best of Spanish and Spanish-speaking Latin American cinema when it comes to Cinema Paradiso June 12-23. Make sure to check out the special Opening Night Screening of A Gun In Each Hand (Una Pistola En Cada Mano) on Wednesday, June 12, Cinema Paradiso, from 6.30pm, followed by an after party at The Bakery Artrage Complex. Drinks for all guests come courtesy of Estrella Damm beer and Torres wines, catering includes tapas from Spanish Flavours and paella from Simply Paella! Post-screening entertainment includes a mix of classic and contemporary; with performances from six-piece salsa band, Latin Fusion, and DJ Rex Monsoon. Tickets are $50 and are available online via Luna Palace Cinemas website. For full programme details and to book tickets in advance visit the spanishfilmfestival.com or lunapalace.com.au.
DUB TO THE DEATH
Who’s the best reggae DJ in Perth? The Reggae Club at Bar Orient in Fremantle aims to find out. Each Friday in June will see two DJs take to the decks to showcase their skills and style in order to win the approval of the crowd, the glory of victory and the honour of proceeding to the finals in July. The grand prize is a cool $1000, plus 500 CDs of the winner’s mix! The first heat is on Friday, July 7. Entry is free.
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MUSIC FOR NEWPORT
Last year’s winner, DJ Simba
They’re always mixing it up at the Newport Hotel and the month of June is no exception. On Wednesday, June 19, M.A.F.I.A. brings her world-renowned DJ antics to the Newport. Perhaps Australia’s hardest working female Hip Hop DJ, she has supported and toured with Stevie Wonder, Missy Elliott, Die Antwoord, De La Soul, T-Pain, Ice Cube, Lady Gaga, Lupe Fiasco, Salt’n’Pepa, Pharell Williams, Dizzee Rascal, Snoop Dogg, Vanilla Ice, Kid Cudi, A-Trak, Girl Talk and Aloe Blacc to name but a few. It’s free entry yo, from 8pm. In The Mix’s #6 DJs of 2012, Canberra’s Peking Duk, appear on Friday, June 28. Free entry before 8pm, limited tickets available from the venue. Up and coming hip hop artist Allday heads in on Thursday, June 27, loved by triple j and leading a new Aussie era in the genre. Tickets available through oxtix.com.au. And for those who like to rock, Australian music legends Russell Morris (Thursday, June 13) and Mark Seymour (Thursday, June 20) will bring the noise. M.A.F.I.A.
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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Private Life To The Public Eye
Martha Wainwright was born into the world of performing, yet still maintains a refreshingly honest and open approach to everything that she lays her hands too. CHRIS HAVERCROFT speaks to the Canadian singer regarding a time in her life filled with both tragedy and triumph. The resultant album, Come Home To Mama, will be showcased on her upcoming Australian tour which stops by the Astor Theatre on Saturday, June 22. Martha Wainwright had the unenviable task of giving birth to her first child, Arcangelo, at almost the same time that she had lost her mother, singer/ songwriter, Kate McGarrigle, to cancer. To again add to these mixed feelings of joy and grief, Arcangelo was born pre-term and needed even more of Wainwright’s energy and attention than the usual all-consuming new born. “I really wanted to be strong for Arcangelo and as he was born particularly frail and premature,” offers the defiant Wainwright. “That meant that I really had to focus on being there to help the infant live. That made it clear to me of what was needed of me. It wasn’t until the baby had gained enough weight and was on a clear path to success that everything came crashing down in a way. I am really lucky to be able to indulge in songwriting and tears on my own where I have an outlet to express, which is very helpful for me.” Wainwright was also keeping a lot in as she felt that it was important with a newborn child in her arms that she didn’t cry or fall apart around a baby, making a concerted effort to ‘keep it all together’. When she did get to writing the songs for Come Home To Mama the grieving and catharsis began in earnest. “Eventually, when I was able to write songs, I really let a lot of those feelings go into the songs and that made me feel good to finally be writing songs again
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ASH GRUNWALD
The ‘End Is Just The Beginning Blues’n’roots maestro Ash Grunwald teams up with two-thirds of The Living End for a national tour hitting the Fly By Night Club on Saturday, June 8, and The Bakery on Sunday, June 9. SHANE PINNEGAR reports.
Martha Wainwright in a way that I remembered writing songs,” she says. “I wasn’t shackled or restrained in any way and it is very naked and revealing and that also includes an energy of excitement, too. It is not a very maudlin record, although there are some sad songs on it.” For the recording of Come Home To Mama, Wainwright decided not to use husband Brad Albetta in the role of producer - a new step for the couple. With the changes that had occurred in Wainwright’s personal life, she had a really strong instinct to work with a woman at the helm for production duties. When deciding on a producer, former Cibo Matto member, Yuka Honda, became the inspired choice. “We had been through so much with losing Kate, becoming parents and owning a house together and some of the songs that I write dealt with marriage, so I think that we probably would have killed each other if we had to make a record together. It was actually Brad’s idea to work with Yuka Honda and I think that he welcomed the change as a relief because making an album together is intense.” Albetta still played on the album and remains in Wainwright’s touring band, so it will be a family affair when they return to Australia for this current tour. The couple may be sharing a stage together, but this doesn’t stop the crowd from yelling outpourings of love and affection to Wainwright during their shows. “I love that and hopefully he loves that too, even though I don’t know how much of that actually happens. When I first met Brad I saw him play and he was really beautiful and sexy, and I too want to be really beautiful and sexy on stage as it’s part as to why you do it. I hope that is never taken away, that you are part of people’s desires. Especially on this record where I reference marriage and it could be potentially cringeworthy with Brad being up there with me on stage but we like to have fun with it and make a joke of it. “A certain amount of lightness is needed when you are in this world of opening up your private life to the public eye.”
Family barbecues and Bali holidays led to more than a close friendship between Grunwald and Living End double bassist, Scott Owen. First there was a single (a cover of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, also featuring Living End drummer Andy Strachan), then the announcement of a national tour and, just announced this week, an album, Gargantua, by the threesome set for a June 20 release. When X-Press spoke to Ash he was still undecided if more music would follow up the single and tour. “We’ve actually had a couple of days in a few different studios,” he says thoughtfully, as if processing the possibilities as he goes,“and Scotty and I are going down to Melbourne today. Just so much has taken off after Crazy, that we’re there anyway so, we just booked a day in the studio as well.” That day in the studio turned into a handful, where they bashed out huge rocking versions of some of Grunwald’s old material, a few new tunes, and some covers. Rather than sit on the album, they’re releasing it in less than a month, “while the excitement within us is still crackling.” If the idea of The Living End’s rockin’ rhythm section teaming up with Grunwald – a proponent of rootsy guitar often set to loops and sampled beats – seems incongruous, he is adamant that “it actually works remarkably well. “It’s definitely different for all of us and we’re hearing ourselves in a different context, but it’s very… it just makes it sound so good. They’re so tight and they’re so good it just makes the music sound amazing. From my perspective, I just think it works really well based on how good they are. But, I guess, you could have somebody who is really proficient who didn’t know how to jam, that wouldn’t work at all, but they’re good jammers, they’ve got good ears and yeah, it’s good. “It’s just kind of my set list,” Grunwald elaborates excitedly about their live set, “but we’ve got this great song that I’ve always wanted to do
Andy Strachan, Ash Grunwald and Scott Owen but I haven’t really had that rock band kind of thing. It’s an old Matt Taylor & Chain song from the ‘70s called Black and Blue… our version is just really, really, really fat and it’s a fat song to start with. I mean, I love the song, it just reminds me of the ‘70s and makes me want to drive around in a Sandman panel van! To me it’s that Aussie, rebellious ‘70s, kind of vibe and I just feel that when I do that song. So I was stoked to do it with the boys because it’s a great example of what you can achieve with those guys. “So, it’s all pretty out there,” Grunwald sums up, “but I just think we’ve struck upon something and it’s grown a little bit of unexpected wings. So my plans for my album that I was supposed to be working on, it went from ‘maybe I’ll get the boys to play on a track or two’ to ‘maybe I’ll just leave that album for a while, bang out an album with these guys because it sounds fat!’’”
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MARLON WAYANS In The House
Having just recently performed here with his brother, Shawn, as part of the Perth International Comedy Festival, multi-talented performer Marlon Wayans is back to bring us his latest cinematic effort, A Haunted House. For Marlon Wayans, there was little chance that he would pursue a career outside of show business. Coming from a lineage that includes brothers Keenan Ivory, Damon and Shawn, it was pretty much inevitable that Marlon would find himself working in the family business - comedy.
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Banbury Cross, Perth International Burlesque Festival
BURLESQUE BABY
In less that a month Perth will bump and grind with the best of them at the second Perth International ALIEИ ALIE ИATION Burlesque Festival. Over 60 local, interstate and international performers will hit the stage in a gigantic celebration of the playful, the pretty and ALIEИATION is the newest production from the the provocative. Guests include Banbury Cross (UK), Perth Theatre Company, an examination of how Indigo Blue (US) and Perle Noire (US), as well as local ordinary people cope with the inexplicable. Based favourites such as Beehives GoGo, Kinetica and on interviews with Australian alien abductees, the Vivien Marlowe. For info and tickets, head on over to play is written by Lachlan Philpott and directed by perthburlesquefestival.com Melissa Cantwell. It runs at the State Theatre Centre Marlon Wayans in A Haunted House of Western Australia from June 28 - July 13. Tickets of cognitive dissonance when we saw the way the are available through Ticketek. protagonists reacted to their predicament. “I couldn’t help but think, ‘Boy, white people sure do some dumb things in these movies. What if Paranormal Activity Six works by the late Shane Pickett have a new happened to a black couple?’ Then I started laughing home at the Perth Arena. Split into two collections, and thinking about things that we would do in that the pieces will be displayed on the second and situation, so then I called up my producing partner, third levels. Pickett’s paintings are well known for Rick Alvarez, and he became my writing partner on combining traditional themes and subjects with innovative modern techniques, and are a welcome this one and we just banged it out. Just like that.” Working on an extremely tight budget of addition to Perth’s premiere live venue. $1.7m meant grappling with adversities alien to the Dfaced Clothing at Fox Feet - image courtesy set of a bigger film. of Jules Szoke Photography “Well, your trailer’s a lot smaller! Marlon Presented by the Japan Foundation, the Architectural Institute of Japan and the Consulatelaughs.“There’s a lot of challenges. We had to shoot in one location for 20 days and get as much as we can. General of Japan in Perth, Parallel Nippon is Fox Feet Fashion Agency is launching their website We took our garage and turned it into a basement - an exhibition showcasing some the best and and online clothing store this Friday, May 31, at Perth you have to do as much as you can, do it low cost and most influential modern Japanese architects. On City Farm in East Perth. The night features a runway be extremely creative. But I had a great team, great display are over 100 large-scale photographs of fashion show, market stalls, art exhibitions and live crew, great cast, and I ended up making a fun movie.” design and architectural models divided into four music in a glorious gala designed to celebrate WA thematic sections: Urban, Life, Culture and Living. Haven taken in over $60 million worldwide designers, artists and performers. Doors open at 6pm at the box office, it seems that audiences have taken The exhibition is on at the Central Institute of and entry is $12. Head to the Fox Feet facebook page to his sense of fun. Still, Marlon isn’t resting on his Technology’s Gallery central from June 8- 27. Go for more info. laurels, having already started penning the perhaps to pt.mofa.go.jp for further information. inevitable sequel. “The challenge of comedy, I think, is Brian Cox, the wildly popular physicist, not the underappreciated. Drama? Look, we all can cry - we all Entries are now open for the 2013 Iris Award, an accomplished character actor, is coming to Perth for got pain. But can you make someone laugh with your international prize for excellence in photographic one night only. The good professor will be presenting pain? That’s what’s special about comedy. Finding portraiture with a purse of over $4000 in cash and An Evening of Scientific Phenomena at the Riverside different ways to do that is fun and it is challenging, prizes. The closing date for submissions is Thursday, Theatre on Saturday, August 10, along with host and there’s more to it than meets the eye.” June 27. Head to pcp.org.au for further information. Adam Spencer. Tickets are available through Ticketek.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 27. “You know, I was raised in comedy,” he muses. “My brother Keenan, ever since we were little boys, would take us to go see Airplane, take us to see A Fish Called Wanda - I remember him taking us to see Monty Python’s Holy Grail, Kentucky Fried Movie - he raised us in comedy so it was just a natural progression for us to get into it. We love it. I used to watch him go onstage at The Improv. My brother, Damon - I remember going on tour with him and watching him perform and put together acts. I couldn’t picture myself doing anything else.” It turns out he’s got a knack for it. Since making his debut in a walk on role in 1988’s I’m Gonna Get You Sucka, Marlon has written and or starred in - more often than not alongside his siblings - Mo’ Money, Scary Movie, White Chicks and Dance Flick, while also appearing in projects as diverse as GI Joe and Requiem For a Dream. His latest project, the found footage horror comedy A Haunted House, came from the realisation that the type of films he wanted to do were getting fewer and farther between. As he explains, “It started basically because Hollywood’s not making the sort of movies that they used to - everything’s either a superhero movie or a big budget blockbuster movie. I wanted to an independent comedy with big budget potential - I wanted the comedy to be big but the budget to be small. I wanted to do a found footage movie because it’s cheap to do those.” Wayans settled in to watch the Paranormal Activity movies, and was immediately struck by a kind
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Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianiakis and Ed Helms star in The Hangover III
THE HANGOVER PART III Third Time’s The Chow
Directed by Todd Phillips Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianiakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, Heather Graham, Melissa McCarthy The ‘epic trilogy’ comes to a close in this third outing for the Wolf Pack. The gang return to their old stomping grounds, the streets of Las Vegas, in a film which improves on the dire second installment and returns the series to the form which made the original such a classic. After an episode involving a giraffe and a low hanging bridge, Alan (Galifianiakis) is confronted by his friends, Phil (Cooper), Stu (Helms) and brotherin-law Doug (Bartha) who offer to take him to a clinic in Arizona so he can get his head straight, but things don’t quite go according to plan. While en route they are kidnapped by gangster Marshall (Goodman) who has a vendetta against criminal ‘mastermind’ Leslie Chow (Jeong) over a shipment of stolen gold. The only people who he figures can find the missing madman, is the Wolf Pack. Cue hijinks. Where the first Hangover felt like a breath of fresh air, the second was a cynical re-tread of its predecessor, so expectations were not very high. Luckily, director Phillips and co-writer Craig Mazin discard the ‘characters black out and have to retrace their steps’ conceit and go for something a little 22
fresher; a chase film. The inimitable Mr Chow is always one step ahead of our witless heroes, which captures the underdog quality of the first two films and allows proceedings to stay fast and funny. While this may be an improvement on its predecessor, all three films share one unique quality which is the reason to come back to the franchise; Ken Jeong. He is peerless in his manic energy and his ability to make even the most perfunctory line of dialogue sing with demented glee. Most definitely the MVP of the entire series, Chow has gone from a one-off eccentric villain to the de facto star of the series, easily eclipsing every other actor when he is onscreen. Speaking of which, Galifianakis is excellent once again as the mentally challenged man child (a shtick that should be getting old by now but somehow hasn’t) who finally finds a kindred spirit (McCarthy) while Helms and Cooper are serviceable in their roles, but there’s really not much for them to do. Goodman is fine but he’s not called on to do much but show up occasionally and be menacing. At the end of the day, this is very funny but disposable entertainment. It does not aspire to anything more than to be crude, shocking and funny and it achieves all three. Thankfully, they really have tried to put a cap on the series and have it come to some kind of natural end point (if that is at all possible). Having said that, the studios love to have their cake and eat it too, and there is a coda suggesting the gang will continue to have adventures off screen so it’s a safe bet that it will only be a matter of time before the cinematic release of The Hangover: At World’s End. _ LIAM DUNN X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
Happiness Never Comes Alone
HAPPINESS NEVER COMES ALONE L’Amour Conquers All
Directed by James Huth Starring Gad Elmaleh, Sophie Marceau, Francois Berleand, Maurice Barthelemy Love conquers all - eventually - in this high-spirited but helium-light French rom-com from director and co-writer James Huth (Hellphone, Lucky Luke). Sacha Keller (Moroccan comedian Gad Elmaleh, seen in Midnight in Paris and heard in The Adventures of Tintin) is a jobbing pianist and man about town with a lengthy string of one night stands and brief encounters under his belt. He dreams of writing a Broadway-style spectacular with his best friend, the boozy Laurent (Maurice Bathelemy), but for now is pretty content with his lifestyle. All that changes when he crosses paths with the drop dead gorgeous but catastrophically clumsy Charlotte (Sophie Marceau). At first he sees her as just another conquest, but it’s clear there’s a real connection here. Problems arise, though, when the child-adverse and commitment-phobic Sacha must deal not only with Charlotte’s three kids, but with her formidable estranged husband, Alain (Francois Berleand, a frequent flyer in the Transporter franchise). Can these two mismatched lovebirds make a go of it? Well, of course they can - it’s that sort of film. France has long had a love affair with classic Hollywood cinema, and Huth’s film is, when you strip
it right down, a screwball comedy in the Hepburn/ Grant or Hudson/Day mould. It’s a sunny, optimistic film; while there are obstacles aplenty in the path of true love, we know they’ll be overcome without too much sacrifice on the part of our protagonists, and a happy ending is guaranteed. Now, that means we’re dealing with a fairly lacklustre plot, but the well worn narrative is pretty much just a life support system for the performances of the stars, who bring all their considerable charisma to bear on the subject matter. Although relatively unknown to Anglophone audiences, Elmaleh is a fairly major figure in European culture, and he manages to bring just the right combination of knockabout charm and childish selfishness to the role of Sacha. Meanwhile, the statuesque Marceau turns out to be a game physical performer, throwing herself into the slapstick routines required of her character with gusto. The success of the entire film is predicated on what chemistry exists between these two, and happily they have it in spades. At the end of the day, anyone going into this one with their eyes open already knows if they’re going to get much out of the experience. If you’re after a trenchant and insightful dissection of modern relationships in post-millennial Paris, you’re probably not going to have a lot of fun here. This is an old-fashioned, colourful and at times almost campy romantic comedy, full of warmth, humour and charm. Leave your cynicism at the door and you should have a good time of it. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON
The Great Gatsby
THE GREAT GATSBY Spectacular Spectacular
Directed by Baz Luhrmann Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Elizabeth Debicki As expected, Australian director Baz Lurmann (Romeo And Juliet, Moulin Rouge) captures all the glamour and intoxicating hedonism of the Jazz Age in this adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. But does he get to the heart of the source material? For those who dozed through English Lit, the story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), a young man who has come to New York at the height of the Roaring ‘20s to make his fortune on Wall Street. Settling in the Long Island village of West Egg, playground of the nouveau riche, he is drawn into the orbit of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), wealthy man of mystery and host of the most lavish parties the city has ever seen. Gatsby harbours a passionate love for Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), Carraway’s cousin, who lives across the bay in old-moneyed East Egg with her oafish husband, the aristocratic Tom (Joel Edgerton) and enlists Nick in his plans to woo her. But who is Gatsby really, and where does his money come from? Arch-stylist Luhrmann excels at filling the screen with pomp and pageantry, and his vision of ‘20s high society is something to behold, packed as it is with fops and flappers, swimming in champagne and bathtub gin and set to a typically eclectic soundtrack that mashes up jazz standards with modern hip hop www.xpressmag.com.au
and R&B. The problems start when you consider the underlying themes of the source material, which Luhrmann clearly didn’t. Gatsby, the novel, functions not just as a depiction of excess and a tragic love story - two elements that Luhrmann can handle in his sleep - but also as a condemnation of the essentially hollow and emotionally unfulfilling world it is set in, and that is where Luhrmann’s interpretation stumbles. Baz is so in love with the sheer, over the top spectacle that he has crafted that any criticism of what it represents rings hollow. We’ve seen his work before, and we know he loves this stuff; anything on the screen that suggests the contrary is lip service at best. Instead, the narrative is centred on the human story of Gatsby’s doomed longing for Daisy, and on this level the film fares much better. Despite some stiltedness early on in the piece, the cast all do rather well; DiCaprio is an engaging, if occasionally stiff, Gatsby, while Mulligan is an alluring Daisy. For all that, Luhrmann’s almost total aversion to having a still moment or two means that much of the time we’re being told what to feel through Maguire’s ubiquitous voiceover, rather than being allowed to react organically to the onscreen action, which serves to distance us from the narrative. ‘Distant’ is a very appropriate adjective, all told. Luhrmann’s Gatsby is a delicate snowglobe of a film: it’s well crafted and pretty to look at, but it’s also impenetrable and utterly disconnected from the real world. As a visual feast, the film is a triumph, but if you’re looking for depth, you’re better off with the book. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON 23
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He Died With A Felafel In His Hand He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, the stage adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name, returns after 10 years to the Velvet Lounge, June 13-29. We speak to co-director and actor Chris Thomas about the appeal of the source material and the challenges of playing multiple roles. Chris Thomas has been a Perth performer for many years, mainly in community theatre, but his cofounding of Groovy Boots Theatre was a way to take the next step into the realm of professional theatre, with a focus on collaboration. “Phil Barnett and myself, we had been involved in the community circuit for many years, we just wanted to take a step up to another level. So we created the company and basically decided that our goal would be to pay our actors and pay professional writers under a cooperative or profit share arrangement, which is how a lot of productions around Perth carry on. So far, we’ve been successful in achieving that aim.” Thomas and Groovy Boots Theatre’s next project is the stage adaptation of He Died with a Felafel in his Hand. “We’re always looking for something that’s going to attract an audience and something Perth hasn’t seen for quite some time, which is part of the appeal. Also, the book has a cult following and there’s a certain recognition with the title, so those factors combined are the reason why we wanted to bring it back to the stage.” This recognition of the source material confirms the universality of the stories within the book and by extension, the stage play. “I think everyone goes through house-sharing, I went through the whole having to move every three months and whole series of different people I lived with. In the book it’s like the extreme of the housemates but you can recognise types of people and I think that goes for anyone who has been through the share house experience.” It is these stories that could pose a problem for adaptation to any other medium, as they are really loosely strung together anecdotes. Thomas says that the play has solved this problem in interesting ways. “Basically there’s the lead character, he has asides to the audience, monologues, and then he walks into various scenes, into those anecdotes. There might be an explanation in a bit of a monologue about what
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand was going on in his life and then he’ll turn around and act out what that anecdote might be.” Another challenge facing the production was the fact that a small group of actors needed to take on multiple roles and be able to imbue these characters with their own personalities. Qualities Thomas was looking out for during the casting process. “Essentially the ability to create different characters so that even though they’re the same people, you believe they’re a different character each time and the ability to portray that whether it’s through movement, voice, different things like that. When we went through the audition process we went through that to see if they could do that sort of thing. “ _ LIAM DUNN
MICHAEL MUHLING Mapping Middle-Earth
In his new book, The Real Middle-Earth: The Origin Of The Lord Of The Rings, available now from Sid Harta Publishers, Perth author Michael Muhling postulates the idea that esteemed fantasy author JRR Tolkien was inspired to write The Lord of the Rings by the ancient North African Christian kingdom of Abyssinia, now modern-day Ethiopia. We spoke with him about his theories. Michael Muhling has been an avid fan of the works of JRR Tolkien since he first read The Lord of the Rings when he was 10 years old. However, it wasn’t until almost a quarter century later that some idle research led him to propose an unorthodox theory about the respected author’s work. “My wife and I planned to travel to Ethiopia in 2005,” Muhling explains. “And while reading about its history I noticed the initial connections between it and The Lord of the Rings. Three trips and eight years later this book came about. Ethiopia’s present image does not reflect its rich history and culture, so I am passionate about letting everyone know there is a lot more to the place than famine and drought.” At first taste, it’s an odd fit - Tolkien’s pastoral fantasy drawing on the history and culture of the North African nation, and initial connections that Muhling made could be written off as coincidence. “I was reading about Ethiopia’s five primary tourist sites - Gondar, Bahir Dar, Harar, Lalibela and Axum. Gondar reminded me of Gondor, and to a lesser extent Bahir Dar reminded me of the dark tower of Barad-dur and Harar of Harad. However, it wasn’t until I learned that Lalibela had been named Roha (Rohan) that this really caught my interest. That’s when I started to take the connections seriously and wondered if they could be more than just mere co-incidences.” However, on closer examination, if the similarities are mere coincidences, they are remarkably unlikely ones. As Muhling says, “If my theory had any merit then there needed to be a reason why Tolkien was inspired by them, and he needed to have access to it. I looked into this and found that there were indeed substantial gaps in our knowledge as to where the ideas for his books and new realms came from, and 24
The Real Middle-Earth I found there was a rich logic into the timing and reasoning for why Tolkien could have been inspired by Ethiopia.” Reactions to the book have been mixed so far. “General readers tend to be very sceptical about Ethiopia, but once they grasp the logic and the arguments they get very excited. Academics tend to be more open to the logic of the Abyssinian hypothesis, but they are more wary of reading too much into the connections too soon. Anyone can make connections by selectively connecting two sources as rich as Abyssinia and The Lord of the Rings, but the point I keep stating is that it is not selective work.” Whatever your take on Muhling’s theories, his book provides a new and interesting angle on Tolkien’s epic, something that long-standing fans of the Rings saga should find enticing. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
VISUAL ARTS Made To Remember: Ar t G a l l e r y O f WA , Northbridge A beautifully considered display of significant Indigenous objects from the State Art Collection. With a diverse selection of works including glass and ceramic objects, textiles and clothing, as well as examples of traditional sculpture, Made to Remember encourages dialogue about the place of an object not only in Indigenous art and culture, but in the broader Australian context. Runs until June 30.
is tasked with teaching his unfeeling overlords about creativity. At once laugh out loud funny and layered with meaning, this is one of the standouts of the 2013 Perth theatre season. Runs until June 1. Head to blueroom.org.au for sessions times and tickets. Swan Lake: His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth The renowned St Petersburg Ballet Theatre presents Tchaikovsky’s beautiful and moving ballet, Swan Lake, and such has been the demand that additional shows have been announced. The season now runs from July 31 - August 8. Tickets are available from ticketek.com.au
FESTIVALS
Fremantle Heritage Festival: Various locations Now in its 20th year, this festival is a celebration of the port city’s rich and storied history. Events include The Arthur Grady Motorcycle Ride, which showcases pre-1930 motorcycles; the Vintage Vixens and Vamps Fair; a workshop on researching the history of your house; the Fremantle Eisteddfod musical competition From War to Remembrance - A Living History of the and more. It runs until June 3. Go to fremantle.wa.gov. au/Festivals/Heritage_Festival for more information. RSL: The State Library of WA An exhibition on the history, goals and activities of the RSL in Western Australia, encompassing art 16th Spanish Film Festival: Cinema Paradiso installations, interactive displays, archival photographs Presented by Estrella Damm, this celebration of the and objects, film screenings and guest speakers. It best cinema that the Spanish diaspora has to offer is a feast of filmic treats for the discerning cineaste. Over runs until June 30. 20 films are on offer, ranging from the opening night Apparition - The Syndicate II: Fremantle Arts Centre satirical comedy A Gun in Each Hand by Cesc Gay to Renowned WA sculptor Peter Dailey presents a Luis Bunuel’s surreal classic, Tristana. The festival runs series of ten life-size human figures presented under from June 12 - 23. Head to lunapalace.com.au for specific lighting designs in a darkened gallery in tickets and session times. order to allow the viewer to contemplate the cultural, economic, political and environmental mechanism Revelation Film Festival: Luna Leederville, Cinema Paradiso, Luna on SX they are a part of. Runs until June 2. Perth’s very own celebration of rebel cinema is not The Trail of Time - The Sandalwood Project: too far away now, having spilled the banks of its former home at The Astor and now spreading across Fremantle Arts Centre WA born, Melbourne based artist Michael Bullock’s three venues. A whole host of the edgiest, most sculptural exhibition is a look at WA’s sandalwood experimental and downright outré films from every industry. It mixes personal experiences of place and far-flung corner of the globe will be on offer, as well family with a detailed understanding of the history, as the best local content and the RevCon academic trade and uses of sandalwood. The exhibition runs program. It all happens from July 4 - 14. Head to revelationfilmfest.org for details. until June 2. Year 12 Perspectives: Ar t G aller y of WA, Northbridge An exhibition of works from the best, brightest, and most creative graduating high school artists in the state. Runs until June 30.
Mad About You - 40 Years of the Fremantle Arts Centre: Fremantle Arts Centre In a nice bit of metatextuality, this exhibition at FAC is all about FAC; specifically, the history and culture of the now 40 year old institution. It runs until June 2 - head to fac.org.au for more. Bound to the Rush: Gadfly Gallery British artist Becky Blair ’s 10th anniversary exhibition is a celebration of life filtered through the understanding that existence is, by necessity, seasoned with risk and tragedy.. It runs until June 2. Visit gadflygallery.com for more. Now & Then: The John Curtin Gallery Presenting works from Brian Blanchflower and Paul Caporn, two of Western Australia’s most acclaimed artists, this exhibition includes both recent efforts and earlier pieces drawn from the Curtin University Art Collection. The result is a fascinating look at how two distinct styles have developed over the past 40 years. The exhibition runs until July 7. Go to johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au for further information. Secrets of the Afterlife: The Western Australian Museum This collection of over 100 Egyptian artefacts from the British Museum collection - including two mummies! - explores ancient attitudes to life after death. The exhibition runs until September 22. Go to museum.gov.au for more. Future Generation Renewable Energy Art Exhibition: Memorial Hall, Hamilton Hill The City of Cockburn brings us this presentation of visions of a sustainable future. Encompassing a series of models demonstrating a variety of green technologies and sustainability solutions, one piece will be selected by the city to become a public artwork in one of the city’s parks. It runs until May 31. Go to cockburn.wa.gov.au/RenewableEnergy for more.
David Hasselhoff, Supanova Supanova Pop Culture Expo: Robinson Pavillion, Claremont Showgrounds Let your geek flag fly at Australia’s premiere gathering of sci-fi, fantasy, comic book and animation obsessives! Featuring a baffling array of stalls, kiosks and displays, exhibitions and demonstrations, along with the ever popular cosplay competition, this a weekend where everyone gets to unleash their inner child. Guests this year include Margot Kidder (Superman), David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider, Baywatch), Karl Urban (Star Trek, Dredd) and Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Suburgatory). It runs from June 28 - 30. Head to supanova.com. au for details.
Plans: Melody Smith Art Gallery, Carlisle This exhibition by 25 year old Perth artist David Ledger explores the work and ideology of architect Bruno Taut. Ambitiously complex, this series of paintings sits at the intersection between landscape and architecture. It runs from May 31 - June 25. Go to melodysmithgallery.com for more. Van Gogh, Dali and Beyond - The World Reimagined: Art Gallery of WA, Northbridge The third exhibition in AGWA’s MoMA Series promises to be one of the most fascinating. This extraordinary show encompasses 134 works from 96 artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Richard Long, Frida Kahlo and more, tracing the development of modern art in the 20th Century. The exhibition runs from June 21 - Dec 2. Go to artgallery.wa.gov.au for further information.
THEATRE/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE Robots Vs Art: The Blue Room Theatre In this hilarious and trenchant examination of art and emotion set in a future where robots have enslaved humanity, a playwright (Damon Lockwood) www.xpressmag.com.au
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MUSIC Dido & Aeneas and La Serva e L’Usser: ECU Music Auditorium, Mt Lawley Performance by WAAPA Classical Voice May 29 - 30, June 1. Go to waapa.ecu.edu.au for tickets and session times. 25
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LA rap brats Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler The Creator are part of the Odd Future collective. JODY MACGREGOR talks with Earl, who’s back after a couple of years spent in reform school. Earl Sweatshirt returned from two years at a Samoan reform school with a new song called Chum in 2012, but instead of a howl of triumph celebrating his freedom we heard him sounding unusually vulnerable. “I’m indecisive, I’m scatter-brained and I’m frightened,” he admitted, ending the final verse with, “Been back a week and I already feel like calling it quits.” It wasn’t the Earl Sweatshirt we were used to. His first album, Earl, was a parade of monsters: “This is my zombie circus, you better get a fuckin’ ticket.” That line was delivered by frequent guest, collaborator, co-pilot and big-brother figure Tyler, the Creator; together they pretended to be vampires and devils as well as serial killers and rapists, not seeming to realise or care that there was any difference between fantasising about being John Wayne Gacy or Count Dracula. EarlWolf was another of those monsters, one they formed when combined together, a twoheaded angry teenage misfit who hated the world because it was full of homework and parents who were either absent or overbearing. The skit where Earl’s mother tries to wake him up for school by saying she won’t make him breakfast if he doesn’t get out of bed, to which he replies “I can fix myself breakfast, I’m 16!”, might be the most perfectly self-aware satire of teenage rebellion ever recorded. But Tyler’s last album, Wolf, wasn’t about annoying old people, taking the piss out of himself or playing Halloween dress-up as Satanists and rapists. Reviews called it ‘deeper’ and were surprised to hear him sounding ‘remorseful’. Tyler found more mature things to rap about, just like Earl, who told the New York Times that after working in a crisis support centre in Samoa as part of his counselling and talking to victims of sexual abuse, it wasn’t possible to write songs about the subject any more, “if you have any ounce of humanity. “I think I speak for me and him both when I say it happened naturally cause it was just like outgrowing it,” he says of the change in his and Tyler’s music. “Like, enough shit had happened to the point where we didn’t have to rely on that or have to go there, because there was other subject matter. There’s other very pertinent, very personal subject matter for us to touch on.” While he was in Samoa, Earl had to talk to therapists every day and take educational courses, but
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he also found time to read Richard Fariña’s novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, (“I fucking love that book, like I read that book like 10 or 11 times”) and learn the basics of playing piano (“I just try and find chords that I think are cool”). Those experiences are part of what’s going into his next two albums, Doris and Gnossos, the second of which is named after the main character of Fariña’s book. He’s eager to have the releases ready and a little frustrated by performing with Tyler on his current Wolf tour and getting bigger reactions when he pulls out the old stuff. “I’m having a lot more fun performing now,” he says, “but I just really want this album to come out so the crowds can be familiar with it when I play new stuff cause I’m not sick of the old stuff, it’s just that at this point I’m transitioning out of wanting to play it all the time.” The EarlWolf shows, which they’re currently touring around the US before they come to Australia, feature Earl and Tyler performing a joint set, with backup from fellow members of Odd Future Jasper Dolphin and Taco as their hypemen. “There’s like a tentative set list but me and him have a bunch of songs that we’ve done together. Like, I have solo shit, he has solo shit, so it’s just a mixed bag of all that stuff.” If it’s anything like the footage on YouTube of them performing together it’s likely to be chaotic, featuring them changing their mind about which songs they want to do halfway through and Earl having to talk Tyler into doing Tamale, the goofiest, bounciest and least mature song on Wolf.“Yeah, that’s the most fun song in the entire world,” Earl says. “We played that two times last night.” Watching footage like that of the two of them on stage, clowning and goofing off, Earl and Tyler seem so closely connected that it’s weird to hear that they weren’t always so tight. But when they first met, Tyler having tracked down Earl after hearing him rap on MySpace, it was underwhelming. “We didn’t really like each other at first,” Earl says. “I don’t know, we both thought we were annoying.” Plenty would agree with that first impression, but somehow they got past their mutual abrasiveness and Earl became an essential part of Tyler’s posse of skate kids and rap brats. “There was no, like, joining processes,” Earl says of becoming part of Odd Future.“We did songs and then that’s how that happened. We just started doing music together. We did Couch and Asthma first out of anything and then it just happened naturally. It wasn’t like, ‘All right, man. Fucking jump through this hoop and beat this wizard and you can be down with me and my homies.’”
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Mixed by renowned Melbournians Anthony Pappa, Rollin Connection and Phil K, Darkbeat’s 10 th Anniversary mix provides deep, late night house music at its best. This three disc compilation combines the experience and ability of these three respected house DJ/producers, collectively resulting in a sublimely mixed album that dismisses notions of date and time, drawing the listener into a dark underworld nightspot adhering only to throbbing kick drums, minimal synth chord progressions and timely vocal snippets. The three artists responsible have achieved a varying mixture of classic house and experimentally deep sounds, melding big names artists including Solomun, M.A.N.D.Y. and Digitalism to complete an extended listening marathon that will captivate lounge and house lovers alike for hours. The smooth, exceptionally timed blending of tracks sets an example in successful mixing: to synchronise tracks exactly enough to create the illusion that the song hasn’t changed; the next melody simply elaborates on the previous track, providing a new sound and keeping the listener hooked in. This is the kind of music that requires the bass turned up all the way, allowing for the minimal melodic elements to take a back seat as the steady, house beat watermark controls the mood and tempo of the listening experience.
SNOOP LION REINCARNATED
Beni Delta
MAD DECENT
In case you haven’t heard, Snoop Dogg is now Snoop Lion - reggae artist. This album features - amongst others - Chris Brown, Akon, and Miley Cyrus. The production is largely done by Major Lazer. They even made a documentary about this. It sort of sounds like a surreal joke, but Snoop remains one hundred percent deadpan throughout the whole thing, lending a certain air of earnestness. The LP kicks off with Rebel Way, a track not too dissimilar in flow and message to a regular Snoop track, just with more singing than rapping. Then the next track, Here Comes The King, comes across like an honest-to-Jah dancehall jam. It’s really hard to say if it works or not, purely because it’s impossible to disassociate yourself from Snoop’s previous incarnations. The vibe is there, it all feels good, but it’s really hard to be convinced that this isn’t all a joke, or at best, some kind of tactless tribute album, albeit to a genre that Snoop obviously loves. It’s a confusing listen if you think too much, but if you’re in the right frame of mind, the sound quality and musicality definitely carry it off. Miley even sounds OK. Kind of.
DELTA NOT HEAVY
New Zealand’s big bros of D’n’B, Shapeshifter, are releasing their fifth studio album this Friday, May 31. Delta is an eclectic record, taking in jungle, bass and trancy vibes, with a array of all-analogue instrumentation of vintage synths, horns and guitar, true to the outfit’s usual non-genre specific take on dance music. Get it from Truetone Recordings via Ministry of Sound Australia.
Kim & Beni are on their way to town to play two three hours sets back to back. Kim Moyes of The Presets fame usually DJs hard minimal techno and boogie house. He’s DJd as a special guest for Thom Yorke too, which is instant cred in our eyes. Beni became known in the world of dance as part of The Bang Gang DJs and Riot in Belgium. Check them out at Metropolis Fremantle on Friday, June 28 and Capitol in Saturday, June 29.
Diger Rokwell Ta-ku
TASTY TREATS
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KIM & BENI B2B
Ta-ku and Kit Pop are launching their #TREATS mixtape this Sunday, June 2 at Ezra Pound. With support from Cosmo Gets, Sid Pattni, Mmhmmm, Move DJs, Sour and Aslan, #TREATS is the follow up to #EATS and will be available for free download soon. Tickets are $25 and the gig goes 3-10pm.
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TOMMY TRASH
A.I. ALL NIGHTER
RTRFM’s Artificial Intelligence Crew are bringing you a long weekend special this Sunday, June 2. Vamp up the volume for an all night dance party from 11pm to 6am with a huge lineup of breaks, house, glitch and techno from local talent including Ylem, Diger Rokwell, Arn One, Stu V and Emerald Cabal & Reece Walker. That’s 92.1 FM. Lock it in.
ONI CA$H & MR STARKS BACK TO BACK
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A tertiary qualified multiinstrumentalist-turned global electro house DJ,Tommy Trash never thought he would be where he is today. TOM KITSON speaks with him about his musical journey. A career in dance music has happened rapidly for Thomas Olsen, aka Tommy Trash. Studying at university, he was still yet to consider living the life of a DJ or producer. He exudes a high energy, musically educated persona, and Ministry of Sound picked up on this almost as soon as he started dabbling in electronic music production. “Getting signed to Ministry of Sound was a massive turning point,” he says. “Having those guys support me and my records was just massive, and mixing The Annual and Sessions for them were really big in terms of my career. “The second turning point was when I moved to London and released The End, and guys like Swedish House Mafia, Tiesto and Laidback Luke started playing it.” When Olsen was invited by Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso to record music together, he leapt at the opportunity and the res ult was the massive, bass-heavy tune Reload out last year, which has since received widespread play and spawned remixes. He recalls his amazement at getting the chance to record with one of his favourite producers. “It was really surreal. When I first got in the studio with Seb, I was like “Dude, this is such a spin-out man,”’ he says. “I’d listened to his records for so many years, and he was just laughing at me. “We got on really well though, having chatted online for a long time before getting to the studio, so it wasn’t like a first date or anything.” At the top of the ladder regarding Australian DJs, Olsen has now produced over 50 tracks including his remixes with big name DJs such as the Swedish House Mafia crew, A-Trak, John Dahlback and Aussie duo The Aston Shuffle. Having studied classical trumpet and piano for years, Olsen was expecting to end up at the back of an orchestra rather than head-banging centre stage in nightclubs. 28
Tommy Trash “It wasn’t until I moved to Brisbane and started going out to Monastery nightclub back in the day, where I heard house music and just knew I had to get into it. It’s way better than sitting up the back of an orchestra.” With a broad taste in music stemming from lifelong training and a raw enthusiasm for what he does, Olsen says he isn’t inspired by EDM currently and rarely listens to it, instead praising an unexpected name he really appreciates. “If I could narrow it down to one artist right now, I’ve been listening to the Bon Iver album for about a year,” he says. “I just love it man, it’s nothing to do with dance music but the beauty that this guy gets in his music is just amazing. It would be such a challenge to get that into dance music.” As for new releases coming out soon, he’s just finished remixes for Boys Noize and Size Records, but says he’s not sure about doing an album. “I’ve thought about doing an album a lot actually, but I think it’s a really hard thing to do in the current musical climate,” he says. “It would be heartbreaking to make an album and then for it to not receive attention you know, so for now I’d rather put my energy into making good singles and I’ll see what happens.”
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Oni Ca$h (photo by Elle Borgward)
Oni Ca$h and Mr Starks usually play twisted, bass and house around town. This Sunday, they’ll be going back to back for the first time to play a footwork set supporting DJ Rashad. JO CAMPBELL asks Starks aka Maxwell Hearn what it’s all about. How did you guys get into footwork/juke? We got into juke/footwork about three years ago off the back of the beat scene/bass music scene that was becoming popular around 2010/11. Releases like Juke Trax Online and Bangs & Works on Planet Mu records really exposed this genre to the world outside of Chicago. Personally I remember listening to DJ Rashad’s Itz Not Right for the first time and being like wow’ww... I hadn’t heard anything like this before. The big 808s with 160 tempo and some like raw soul chops in there. After that I got deep into it and did my research, Chicago has been on this tip since like ‘99/2000 off the back end of ghetto house. It was like opening up a whole new can of worms. How did you guys get together creatively? We’ve been mates through DJing and going to gigs for only maybe like a year and a bit.
Mr Starks When you’re not playing ghetto sounds, what are you spinning? Good music. I really like playing Detroit house but we both enjoy playing footwork, this will be the first time both of us will get to play a raw set of it together. Top 5 footwork/ juke tunes? Boyaln - Bullet Proof Soul RP Boo - Heavy Heat DJ Manny - All I Do Is (Smoke trees) DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad - 4 Tha Ghetto Adam F - Circles (Philip D Kick Footwork Edit) Steve Silk - Jack Your Body What are you gonna ask Rashad when you meet him? Is it hard to fly kites in Chicago? Why should peeps make it out to Rashad? This genre is popping off. Perth people know what’s up already, they should be hyped to check out something fresh. Three words to describe your set? Spacey Ghetto 808’s.
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BREACH LET’S JACK
Bristol bass producer Breach is in town for the first time this weekend with Route 94. JO CAMPBELL catches up with the Naked Naked Records head honcho for a chat about his sexy new tune, Jack, which made it into the Beatport top 10 in days of its release and was the talk of this year’s Miami Winter Music Conference. Ben Westbeech aka Breach is a man in demand. When X-Press catches up with him, he’s in Amsterdam, where he moved two months ago to soak up the chilled vibe as inspiration for creating his first Breach album. He’s also in the throes of compiling his first Essential Mix for Radio 1. His bass heavy sojourn into pure sex, Jack, caught the world of house’s attention earlier this year. Released on Claude VonStroke’s Dirtybird imprint as a b-side to Let’s Get Hot, the main vocal hook of the track (I want your body everybody wants your body; so let’s jack) definitely fits the suggestive bill given to him by VonStroke one night over dinner in London. “I had that conversation with Claude about making a sleazy, sexy kind of dirty roller and had a dream that night about it,” recalls Westbeech. “I woke up in the morning with the lyrics in my head and then from there I put it in my phone and went straight to the studio to record it. I left it for a few days, came back and made the song in about four hours.” Westbeech is obviously no choir boy, but did actually professionally play cello and sang in choirs until age 18, performing in prestigious places like the Royal Albert Hall and the Berlin Symphonia. “I’ve always been into underground music; it’s what drives me. While I was playing in the orchestra, I was mixing records and buying vinyl from age 12. I heard a few bootleg rave tapes at that time and I just had to do this as a job. I knew from then it was the only thing I wanted to do. “But I had to kind of un-learn a lot of stuff to be honest though. I think being too musical is sometimes a bad thing in dance music. You have to
Breach think about groove and feel too.” In entrepreneurial style, Westbeech set up his own record label last year, Naked Naked, on which he’s released Midland and Dark Sky with work from Dusky and Citizen on its way. He intends to keep releasing records in the house vein. “Yes I think so. I will always put out music that I really believe in to be honest. It was born out of my love of what was going on around me and my friend’s music and collaborations.”
» BREACH & ROUTE 94 » FRIDAY, MAY 31 @ GILKISONS
BITTER BELIEF
THE ART OF THE GALLERY Despite some set backs, rapper Bitter Belief’s tale is more inspirational than cautionary. NICK SWEEPAH catches up with him to chat about his new album, life lessons, and the dreaded writer’s block. “Mary, get off!” Not the first words you’d expect to hear when you’ve got Bitter Belief on the phone. He’s just got back from shooting a couple of scenes for an upcoming video, and is presently trying to keep Mary, his new puppy, from gnawing his ankles. On top of this, he’s struggling with something most artists have experienced - writer’s block. So what’s the cure? “I get dudes asking me that quite a bit. I usually just give it a break. Give it a month or so off and in the meantime I just read or whatever, or watch docos. Try to just keep living life, really, and hope something triggers a thought and inspires a concept. Every time I sit down and write lately I just block up. I used to just sit down and write for the fun of it and it would just come really easy, but it’s like, there’s more pressure that there used to be.” When asked if this pressure is self-inflicted, he replies “Yeah probably. Definitely. That’s just what I’m like though. I went through a phase where I kept sitting down and thinking what everyone else wanted to hear. Going back on it, I never ended up liking it because it wasn’t what I wanted to hear, what I wanted to talk about, whereas this album is a lot more of the stuff that I wanted to do, what I wanted to talk about.” The album he speaks of is The Gallery, which will be his first release officially available in stores, after releasing over nine mixtapes and the self released album, Isolation (not to mention the dozens of collaborations with many of Australia’s finest). The first track to be unveiled was The Circus, which, despite the video’s clowning around, reveals some insight into Bitter’s past. “Turned 17, signed to a label,” he intones in the first verse. It’s surely every young rapper’s dream, but like so many relationships forged in this industry, it wasn’t to work out. In the song he talks about “Dudes who just see (hip hop) as a popularity thing, or as a thing to become cool by association, and just jump on the bandwagon. So in the first verse I wanted to say that, dudes who have earned a position, this is the kind of shit that we go through.” Without specifically naming the label in question, he www.xpressmag.com.au
Bitter Belief explains “I wasn’t doing it to diss them, or spark any beef or anything. I just did it because it was part of my story.” It’s a story with many recent highlights, including becoming a major part of Drapht’s live show - to the point of performing on stage at the 2011 ARIA’s. “I’ve learned a lot from touring with Drapht. Stuff I apply to my own set, even life lessons you learn on tour. Especially because all the crew we tour with are a couple of years older than me. When they’re talking, sometimes I just sit back and listen. I can learn heaps from them. I know that one day I’m going to be off on my own national tour, and there’s stuff I can learn, take in and apply to my own stuff.” With a measured maturity in his approach to music and business, and ideal tour mates to learn from, you can only expect this anticipated national tour will happen sooner rather than later. The Gallery is out this Friday, May 31.
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AMBAR
WEDNESDAY 29/05
THURSDAY 30/05
FRIDAY 31/05
Amplifier – Harlem Wednesday’s ft Genga The Bird – Hula Night Groove Bar (Crown) – 5 Shots Mustang Bar – DJ James MacArthur Newport Hotel – Angry Buda, Tom Drummond & DJ Helena Sovereign Arms - Lokie Shaw The Grand Central - ANG3L
Club Bay View - Dj-Vi Son Eve Nightclub – Retro Thursdays Geisha Bar - Von D ft DDWYT Crew/Bolsty/Bazil Zemplys/Clunk Mustang Bar – DJ Phat Pat Newport Hotel – DJ Tim from Mills The Avenue – DJ Jon Ee The Beat (downstairs) - Fantasy Thursdays The Craftsman – Fiveo The Grand Central – Roger Smart
Ambar – Fresh Produce ft Arms In Motion/ Subwalker/ Alex Tong/ Austy /Fendi Amplifier - DJ Jamie Mac The Avenue – DJ Lokie Shaw The Bakery – Lil Jabba & Cashmere Cat Brass Monkey – Vicktor/James Ess Capitol – Retro Mash ft Jamie Mac Capitol (Upstairs) – Retro Mash w/ DJ Roger & The Great RV The Carine - Az-T Geisha Bar – Foreign Exchange Gilkisons Dance Studio - Breach & Route 94 Groove Bar (Crown) – DJ Crazy Craig The Grand – Jinx Project Lakers Tav – Grizzly and Friends Metro Freo - Death Disco DJs Mullaloo Beach Hotel – Kenny L Mustang Bar –DJ James MacArthur Newport Hotel – DJs Tom Drummond & Tahli Jade, Sardi & Evan Rocket Room – Howlers ft DJ Frank N Bean The Saint – Mikeee Sovereign Arms - ANG3L The Aviary (Birdcage) – Tomás Ford The Aviary (Rooftop) – Paradise Paul /Troy Division The Beat (downstairs) - Play The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 Villa – Speakeasy ft What So Not + LDRU Whale & Ale - DJ Spinback
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Ambar - Japan 4 Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric The Avenue – DJ Jon Ee Beat Nightclub (Upstairs) Canvas Brass Monkey - DJ Peta (downstairs)/ DJ Jewel (upstairs) Capitol – Death Disco DJs Capitol (Upstairs) – Cream of the 80’s Claremont Hotel – DJ G-Martin The Cornerstone – DJ Spinback Geisha Bar – Dark Beat The Generous Squire – James Nutley The Library - DJ Victor / DJ Riki Metro City – Seven Deadly Sins
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Metro Freo – DJ Wazz/Ben Carter Metro Freo (Upstairs) – I Love 80s 90s Mullaloo Beach Hotel – Kenny L Mustang Bar – Rockabilly DJ Newport Hotel – Tahli Jade, DJ Wot Evs & Steve Parkin Rosemount Hotel - Mantra Sovereign Arms – The Jinx Project The Aviary (Birdcage) – NDORSE Supported by Micah, Paradise Paul and Troy The Aviary (Rooftop) – DCUP ft Micah/Troy Division/Paradise Paul The Craftsman - Madam Montage The Court – DJ Flex/DJ TimBee The Grand Central – Jay Mackay The Saint – Az-T The Shed –DJ Andyy Villa – MixMash Australian Tour ft Oliver Twizt/ Uberjak’d Velvet Lounge – FACE Modesty Blaze (Jo L), Dr J (J Burton), DJ Greese Arrestor (R Savage} Heather Gray (Mark K) 133 Aberdeen St - +Riff Raff: Neon Icon /
SUNDAY 02/06 Amplifier - The Animal House: Cowboys & Indians Club Bayview - DJ Vicktor Connections – Jodie Harsh Eve Nightclub –DJ Slick / Migi / Francesco. Geisha Bar – +It’s a London Thing – Pure Garage ft DUANE A/ RHYS D/RUFKUT/GREG PACKER/ RU-KASU/J RIPPA/WEBBZ Groove Bar (Crown) – HI-NRG Metro City - Dash Berlin ft Marlo Mustang Bar – DJ Rockin’ Rhys / DJ James MacArthur The Avenue - DJ Ben Renna The Aviary (Rooftop) – Aviary Rooftop Sessions ft Andy Bull Live/ Anton Franc/Charlie Bucket/Troy Divison/ Lightsteed The Bakery - DJ Rashad & DJ Manny ft Rok Riley/420 Crew/Oni Ca$h Vs Starks/Allstate Vs Clunk The Court – Heaven & Hell Villa - +CASPA & MC Ken Mac 133 Aberdeen St - Tommy Trash ft ACEBASIK/Chiari
TUESDAY 04/06 Capitol – Earlwolf ft Tyler, The Creator & Earl Sweatshirt
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IN THE THIS WEEK Von D ft DDWYT Crew/ Bolsty/Bazil Zemplys/ Clunk Thursday, May 30 @ Geisha Bar Lil Jabba/Cashmere Cat Friday, May 31 @ The Bakery Breach & Route 94 Friday, May 31 @ Gilkisons Dance Studio Brow Horn Orchestra Friday, May 31 @ C5 Freo Saturday, June 1 @ Settlers Tavern Fresh Produce ft Arms In Motion/ Subwalker/ Alex Tong/ Austy /Fendi Friday, May 31st @ Ambar MixMash Australian Tour ft Oliver Twizt/Uberjak’d Saturday, June 1 @ Villa Riff Raff: Neon Icon Saturday, June 1 @ 133 Aberdeen St
DCUP ft Micah/Troy Division/Paradise Paul Saturday, June 1 @ The Aviary Mantra Saturday, June 1 @ Rosemount Hotel
DJ RASHAD SUNDAY, JUNE 2 @ THE BAKERY
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John Paul/Slick Sunday, June 24 @ Mullaloo Beach Hotel Allday Saturday, June 29 @ Amplifier
Force Majeure ft South Rakkas Crew Dash Berlin ft Marlo (Florida) & Swick (Mel) Traffic Light Flirt Party! Sunday, June 2 @ Metro Friday, June 7 @ Ambar / DJ Crazy Craig City Saturday June 29 @ Eve Timomatic! / Plus DJ It’s a London Thing Crazy Craig – Pure Garage ft DUANE Saturday, June 8 @ Eve Coolio Club Show A/RHYS D/RUFKUT/ Saturday, June 29 @ GREG PACKER/RUJack Beats Metro City KASU/J RIPPA/WEBBZ Saturday, June 8 @ Villa Sunday, June 2 @ Geisha MAJOR BASS ft Bar Branchez (NYC) & LADY WAKS/CRNKN/ JD Butcher (Bris) CASPA & MC Ken Saturday, June 8 @ 133 SLYNK Mac Aberdeen St and for the first time at Sunday, June 2 @ Villa Villa, the MINOR BASS Kid Kenobi SILENT DISCO with an Tommy Trash ft Friday/ 14 June @ all-star Boomtick cast! ACEBASIK/Chiari Ambar Saturday, June 29 @ Villa Sunday, June 2 @ 133 Aberdeen St Bass Kleph Friday/ 14 June @ 133 A$AP Rocky DJ Rashad & DJ Manny Aberdeen St Sunday, June 30 @ Metro ft Rok Riley/420 Crew/ City Oni Ca$h Vs Starks/ Jeff Mills Allstate Vs Clunk Saturday, June 15 @ BLISS N ESO Sunday, June 2 @ The Geisha Bakery Wednesday, July 10 @ Lil B Metro City EARLWOLF ft Tyler, Sunday, June 16 @ The The Creator & Earl Bakery ALT-J Sweatshirt Saturday, July 27 @ Tuesday, June 4 @ Capitol Goldfields Friday, June 21 @ Metro Challenge Stadium COMING UP Freo P-Money & David Dallas Saturday, June 22 @ Passion Pit Amplifier Thursday, June 6 @ Villa Sunday, August 4 @ Villa jungle shakedown Friday 21 June @ Ambar SUPAFEST ft T.I./50 Cent/Waka Flocka/ Akon/Ne-Yo/Young The Upbeats FLAVA Fortnightly Fridays ft T’Dodge vs N1/ Friday, June 7 @ Metro Jeezy/Mindless Terrence & Phillip/ City Behaviour/DJ Unk/ Rexop Kevin McCall/DJ Nino Tensnake ft Sepalcure/ Friday 21 June @ Geisha Brown/Dizzy Doolan/ Jimmy Edgar Phinesse Hook N Sling ft DJ Friday, June 7 @ The Postponed date TBC Kenny L/Jus Haus/ Bakery John Digweed Friday, June 7 @ Villa
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Hedkandi ft Gregor Salto/Henton/James Ess/Ace Basik Vs Paul Scott Friday, June 7 @ Geisha Bar
VILLAGE OBLIVIA
Beige/ Velcro/ Ourobonic Plague/ Critics/ Emerald Cabal & Reece Walker/ Strunkdts/ Basic Mind Velvet Lounge Friday, May 24, 2013 Mind altering analogue techno experiments were at large last weekend in the underlit cavern that is Village Oblivia at Velvet Lounge. Some of the acts on the bill are better known for their work in local indie bands, but all of them, whether playing from laptops or synths and drum machines, were doing it 100 per cent live. A monthly shindig now on its fifth leg, Village Oblivia is no DJ spin fest. First up was four-piece outfit Beige. Usually known as post-rock/noise outfit Brown, these guys did a good job of making it seem as though they were jamming everything out fresh, creating a moody vibe setting the scene for the rest of the night. Using drums, guitars and something that looked like a lute, this act didn’t exactly fit the techno bill but did make it into the weird category. In a good way. With simple 808 drum machine beats overlaced with live melodic keys and beautiful, yet unobtrusive live female vocals, Velcro took us straight back to the ‘80s. Down-tempo, post-electro sounds with a distinct analogue feel created a blissfully brooding vibe reminiscient of a retro-styled Ladytron. Ourobonic Plague performed a laptop set, messing with his own pre-produced tracks. He lifted the bpms, delivering a dark, driving, almost industrial set that got them up dancing. We’ve all heard of stoner rock, but what about stoner techno? The vocalist/bassist from post-rock outfit, Usurper of Modern Medicine, does exactly that. Going under the name of Critics, Steven Aaron Hughes’ set started down-tempo then got more driving towards the end. A nice touch was the use of his own vocals live as he worked Ableton from a laptop. Totally tripped out. Emerald Cabal & Reece Walker are developing quite the local following and it’s not hard to see why. Traversing acid to industrial to more minimal techno sounds, these guys know how to start and maintain a dancefloor. Using Aldeton Live, they ended on a driving tempo worthy of Berlin’s famous powerhouse of techno, Berghain. Strunkdts’ set conjured up the mental image of a relentless techno juggernaut charging across a road to nowhere, stuck in a groove.
Strunkdts (photo by Matt Jelonek) Stomping and tribal from the get go, Strunkdts took us on a journey, weaving horror imagery sounds in and out of a repetitive landscape. Hypnotic stuff. Tim Loughman from local band Astral Travel has recently started making live beats under the moniker of Basic Mind. Using synths and something that looks like an old fashioned telephone exchange, Loughman’s sound is masterfully analogue; sort of early Aphex Twin meets Orbital. Beautifully fusing the uplifting and melodic with a dark undercurrent, his set offered some real light and shade, delivering dancefloor action counterpointed by trippy, soundscape interludes. Pure sound that took you on a journey. Village Oblivia is shaping up to be a unique showcase of Perth’s innovators of experimental, live beats.
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…AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD SUPER WILD HORSES
Sincerely, Grizzly
The Rosemount Hotel Saturday, May 25, 2013
South Australian Triple J Unearthed winners, Sincerely, Grizzly, kick off their shoes and the night, easing us gently into their set as you would a cute baby cow with big eyes into a meat grinder. For a mere three-piece band they sure do pack a wallop in the sound department. Using a loop pedal allows them to create a massively dense and ethereal soundscape for their carefully constructed songs. Drummer Rowan Mount is put through his paces with a series of varied and complex rhythms. Watching him pummel those skins is like watching a dancer. This is not simple music, yet somehow it makes you forget its complexity by kissing you with beauty. The set ends, as it began, with singer and guitarist Joshua Calligeros setting down his guitar, which appears to be held together with duct tape and dreams, joining in with the percussion as sparkly firework-like lasers bounce off the band’s tight T-shirts and skinny jeans. A familiar piano melody plays as …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead explode onto the stage. Their sound is gargantuan, even more so live than in their recorded work. Trail Of The Dead play their most influential album, Source Tags & Codes, in its entirety. Front man Conrad Keely wears the expression of a man who has had a burning itch which has been just out of reach for a very long time and has found just the right stick to scratch it with. He
looks elated and almost pained as he belts out track after track with unfailing energy. To say that this set is epic would do it no justice. Time and time again Trail Of The Dead push us to the very edge of the abyss with intense, pulsing, driving rhythms, allowing us the shortest peek over the edge of the world before yanking us back, soothing us with a few delicate guitar licks and then pounding us again. I feel punch drunk from their songs. This is not your normal four chord rock. This is thinking man’s music, vast, deep and unrelenting. After completing the first half of their mammoth two hour set, Keely casually quips “We were going to take a break mid-set but I think we’re just gonna keep on playing. Is that okay?” As if there was ever any doubt. The crowd is almost frenzied as the band smashes on with some hits from their latest album, Lost Songs. They somehow enter a new level of speed and furiousness. The range of intensity within each song is almost unfathomable. As part of their finale, guitarist and vocalist Jason Reece launches himself off stage and into the pit to sing one of the final songs for the night. This is an act you need to see live. They are exciting, intoxicating and unforgettable. Trail of the Dead live are the musical equivalent of being fucked up against a wall for two hours. They will keep driving, pushing harder, harder, faster, faster, deeper, deeper and, just when you think they are going to stop they will whisk you up again into another sweaty, relentless crescendo of tumbling beats and emotionally heightened chords. _ DANI DEVILLE
Super Wild Horses - Photo By Daniel Grant
The Dianas/Gunns The Bird Saturday, May 25, 2013 The Bird was home to a packed house Saturday for an entertaining night of lo-fi surf and garage rock that further proves that Perth is becoming home to an increasingly diverse roster of raw talent. Another brilliantly programmed line-up offered up a wonderfully laid back affair in the intimate surrounds of the biggest little live music venue in the city. First out of the gate, The Dianas built up the excitement of the crowd with their quietly affecting indie pop. This all-girl three piece played a tight and energetically, while keeping things a little dark. The beautiful harmonies and the band’s two lead singers called to mind The Dirty Projectors, and added a new dimension to their already well written pop. Gunns appeared as the outlier of the night, coming on strong with their spacey psych-garage. A little bit Tame Impala and Roky Erikson, Gunns’ reverbed vocals opened out and filled what empty space was left in The Bird. They played exceptionally
well considering the drummer was a pinch hitter who’d only had two rehearsals. Good stuff. Finally, the headliners took the stage. The guitar/drum duo Super Wild Horses, brought their unique lo-fi garage sounds out to play. Their extremely well crafted pop songs sounded great, if a little more pared down than their recorded versions. Swapping instruments throughout their set, the girls managed to get the crowd going with a set list that ranged from a garage sound to something a little more psychedelic and even to R ‘n’ B with an exemplary cover of Smokey Robinson’s You Really Got A Hold On Me. There appears to be a growing trend, in Perth anyway, of indie pop skewing more toward the genres that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and that ain’t no bad thing. The big question is, are they any good? If the performances of Super Wild Horses and their support acts are a barometer of the local music scene, the answer is yes. Bands that share a delight with the old but have something new to say, ain’t no bad thing. Not at all. _ LIAM DUNN
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Mullaoo Beach Hotel
MULLALOO BEACH HOTEL
Gemma, Shaun
The sun is forecast to be out this long weekend, and where better to be than by the beach with your mates. For the biggest Sunday sesh on the coast, drink specials all day, DJ Kenny L on the decks, footy on the screens, you want to be at the Mullaloo Beach Hotel this Sunday, June 2.
THE NEWPORT HOTEL
It’s all happening down in Fremantle this Sunday, June 2, when The Stingrays bring back the sounds of the sun-drenched ‘60s with cult cuts from The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Dick Dale, The Atlantics and more! Support comes from The Dom Mariani Three. The show starts at 4pm, and entry is free.
Mustered Courage Elizabeth, Anna, Hannah
Paul, Moses, Bryan
Eliza, John, Sasha
Dani, Andy
Jake, Jess
Saba, Lija
THE INDI BAR
Mustered Courage are an earning their reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative alternative bluegrass bands in the country they’ve been hard at it touring their latest release, Powerlines, and they are in WA this week, gracing our stage on Saturday, June 1. joining them and bringing their usual raucous This Friday, May 31, catch local metal monsters hoedown are The Seals. Evolution Machine launching their new EP Hopeful Monster with help from special guests Beyond Never, Axe Cane and Arkayan. Doors open 8pm and entry is only $5 with a free copy of the EP. It’s a full week of fun at Clancy’s! Catch Sean Thomas and Kirsty Hulka tonight, Wednesday May 29; Saint Ravine on Thursday, May 30; DJ Boogie on Friday; This Friday catch A Nameless Fear, Adverse Reaction, Mister & Mitch on Saturday; and round out the Wicked Wench and Ebb and Flo. Doors open 8pm, week with a dose of Minky G and Jacob Diamond $10 entry – dress theme is medieval! Saturday catch on Sunday, June 2. Waiting 4 Andy, The Rumble and The Hum hitting the stage. Doors open 8pm, $10 entry. A huge week starts tonight, Wednesday May 29, with Chaos Club - A punk rock comedy club with bands, Thursday, May 30, Elli Schoen launches her debut EP, poetry and comedy. The Shakeys and The De Niro’s Love in Suburbia, with Special guests The Evergreen, are live from 7.30pm. Thursday, Delta Iota Kappa has Rupert Pupkin and Richard Glover. Her gutsy, sassy, your party sorted. Friday, May 31, The Disappointed no holes barred approach to performing is a slap launch their Strangers EP, with support from The in the face to any preconceptions you may have of Community Chest, Harlequin League and Sons the female singer songwriter. A true storyteller, her of Saviour - doors at 8pm. Saturday downstairs has eclectic live performance showcases songs to make another Runaways floorshow with El Capitan and you dance like a you haven’t a care in the world, and Idle Eyes, who together released a split EP earlier songs that make you pull over on the side of the road this year - doors open at 10pm. Sunday downstairs on your way home to text someone special. Doors relaunches ‘90s Flashback and get funky upstairs with Spanish Harlem - Live Salsa. open 8pm, entry is $10.
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THE DISAPPOINTED Alt-rock outfit The Disappointed are popping the top off their debut EP, Stranger, this Friday, May 31, at The Beat Nightclub, with support from Harlequin League and Indigo. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $12 including a copy of the EP. We caught up with singer/guitarist Michael Strong.
What’s your writing process like? We write in the group way, pushing and pulling, my verse, Mark’s chorus, Andy’s bridge, Matt’s pre-chorus, Mick’s.... cigarettes. Andy stealing my frequencies, Andy stealing Mark’s frequencies, Andy stealing Matt’s frequencies, Andy stealing Mick’s.... cigarettes. Me stealing Mark’s guitar parts for vocal melodies. Lots of blurry lines. I write the words though, the other guys are illiterate.
How would you describe your sound? We’re a new wave alt rock band. Some folks have said we sound like Modest Mouse and Interpol. I’m like 1980 crossed with 1996, the other guys are other years.
What does the future hold? Next up: EP launch Friday night at the Beat, some regionals, national tour in July, and then back into the studio for EP number two. A billion anxiety attacks in between. Arguing. Debt. Death.
How did recording the EP go? We did the EP with Dave Parkin at Blackbird. What can I say, we fell in love with the How did you guys form? dude. Fun sessions, heaps of spark, coffee, group The Disappointed came out of a couple vocals, pedals everywhere. Scratch tracks, stoned of old bands, and we threw in a new guy, and there and pregnant with painkillers. Booze and donuts. it was. Five guys throwing everything we’ve got into Fat snare sound. Studio is like the most productive a thing. holiday you’ve ever been on.
The Weapon Is Sound Dom Mariani
YOU’RE KRAKEN ME UP
Nascent local arts co-op Arcadia Collective present another night of fun with Release the Kraken II at The Bird this Thursday, May 30. Music comes from The Dom Mariani Three are spreading the love dub demons The Weapon Is Sound, Doctopus and around Perth before they take off on their rapidly Mudlark, while DJ Lovecraft will be plugging the approaching European tour. Catch them at Mustang gaps. Doors open at 8pm, Entry is $5. Bar on Thursday, May 30; Devilles Pad on Friday, May 31, Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle on Saturday, June 1; and The Newport Hotel on Sunday, June 2. Technical death metal terrors DeathFuckingCunt are letting their debut LP, Ungodly Violation, off De Grussa Band are shooting a music video this the leash this Friday, May 31, at Amplifier, with Saturday, June 1, at the Fly By Night Club, and they support from Nails of Imposition, Inanimacy, want you to be in it. They’re taking their stylistic cues Entrails Eradicated and Queensland’s In Death. from Countdown and Top of the Pops, so you’ll need It was a close run thing, with the printers initially to rock up in your finest late ‘70s or early ‘80s fashion. refusing to print the CD, so make the effort to The shoot will be followed by a live show. Doors open get down there. at 7:30pm, entry is $15.
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30/05/2013 Elli Schoen Love in Suburbia EP Launch @ Mojo’s 31/05/2013 The Disappointed Every Made Up Eye In The City Single/Video Launch @ The Beat Nightclub 31/05/2013 DeathFuckingCunt Ungodly Violation Album Launch @ Amplifier 31/05/2013 Evolution Machine Hopeful Monster EP Launch @ Mojos 01/06/2013 The Empty Cup Sojourn LP Launch @ Mojo’s 08/06/2013 The Love Junkies Maybelene LP Launch @ Mojo’s 07/06/2013 Riley Pearce We Are Fools EP Launch @ Ya-Ya’s 08/06/2013 The Love Junkies Maybelene LP Launch @ Mojo’s 06/06/2013 Tracksuit Shining Star Single Launch @ Ya-Ya’s 21/06/2013 Violet Scene Loaded EP Launch @ Ya Ya’s 28/06/2013 The Devil Rides Out Ugly Creatures EP Launch @ Amplifier
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THIS WEEK MAMA KIN 30 Fly By Night Club 31 Clancy’s Dunsborough ROSE TATTOO 31 Charles Hotel DRAGON 31 The Astor Theatre THY ART IS MURDER 31 Prince Of Wales 1 Amplifier 2 YMCA HQ SAN CISCO 1 Astor Theatre (sold-out) 2 Mojos KAKI KING 1 The Bakery RIFF RAFF 1 Black Betty’s STATE OF THE ART MUSIC FESTIVAL (Dave Hole/Abbe May/Karnivool/ Bob Evans/ Gyroscope/Kav Temperley and more TBC) 2 Perth Concert Hall CABLE SOUNDS (Icehouse, The Stephen Pigram Quartet & Desert Child) 2 Cable Beach Amphitheatre EARLWOLF (Tyler, The Creator & Earl Sweatshirt) 4 Capitol NORTHLANE 4 & 5 YMCA HQ JUNE NORTHLANE 6 Amplifier HAPPY MONDAYS 5 Metro Freo
KATE MILLERHEIDKE 5 St Joseph’s Church 6 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 7 Albany Entertainment Centre 8 Margaret River Cultural Centre P-MONEY/DAVID DALLAS 6 Villa SOMETHING FOR KATE 7 The Astor THE BEARDS 7 Amplifier 8 Prince Of Wales D AT SEA 7 C5 Freo 8 Amplifier 9 YMCA HQ KILLING JOKE 9 The Rosemount EMMA LOUISE 13 Prince Of Wales 14 Fly By Night 15 Amplifier THE TEARAWAYS 14 459 Bar 15 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury LIL B 16 The Bakery THE BLACK ANGELS 17 Capitol KORA 19 Capitol ANDREW STOCKDALE 20 The Bakery 21 Fly By Night 22 Prince Of Wales GOLD FIELDS 21 Metro Freo 22 Amplifier MUNICIPAL WASTE 21 Rosemount Hotel THE SUPERJESUS 21 Amplifier 22 Amplifier UNKNOWN MORTAL
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Thy Art Is Murder, May 31-June 1
ORCHESTRA 23 Rosemount Hotel PINK 25, 26 & 28 Perth Arena BEN OTTEWELL (GOMEZ) 26 Mojos BILL ODDIE 27 Astor Theatre ALLDAY 27 Newport Hotel 29 Amplifier THE RED PAINTINGS 28 Rosemount Hotel COOLIO 29 Metro City A$AP Rocky 30 Metro City
San Cisco, June 1-2
STEREOPHONICS 23 Metro City JAMES BLAKE 26 The Astor ALT-J 27 Challenge Stadium BLEEDING THROUGH 28 Amplifier BABYSHAMBLES 31 Metro City
AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA 8 Astor Theatre PARKWAY DRIVE 14 Metropolis Fremantle 15 & 16 Capitol FOALS 22 Metro City RIHANNA 24 Perth Arena ONE DIRECTION 28 & 29 Perth AUGUST Arena COLD WAR KIDS XAVIER RUDD/ 2 Capitol DONAVON VILLAGERS FRANKENREITER/ 2 Fly By Night NAHKO & FIDLAR MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE 3 The Bakery 28 3 Oceans BARDO POND 4 The Rosemount Winery, Margaret River DON MCLEAN JULY 19 Perth Concert 29 Fremantle Arts Centre CLAIRY BROWNE Hall & THE BANGIN’ GEORGE OCTOBER RACKETTES BENSON SOILWORK 4 ARTBAR 21 Riverside 8 The Rosemount TOKIMONSTA Theatre RICKY MARTIN 5 The Bakery ANDREW 12 Perth Arena LA DISPUTE STRONG: THE AMORPHIS 6 Amplifier COMMITMENTS 16 Capitol 7 YMCA HQ 22 Metro Freo THE BREEDERS ESKIMO JOE THE SMITH 31 The Astor 9-10 Moore And STREET BAND ENSLAVED Moore, Fremantle 22 Rosemount 31 The FEAR FACTORY Hotel Rosemount 11 Metro City 23 Prince Of BALL PARK NOVEMBER Wales, Bunbury MUSIC/EAGLE & BERNARD FLEETWOOD THE WORM MAC FANNING 12 Metro Freo 25 Astor Theatre 22 Perth Arena ENGLEBERT SUPAFEST (T.I/50 JAPANDROIDS Cent/Waka HUMPERDINCK 26 The Flocka/Akon/ 13 Crown Theatre Rosemount Ne-Yo/Young YOU AM I THE WHITLAMS/ Jeezy/Mindless 13 Astor Theatre WASO Behaviour/ (sold-out) 30 Perth Concert DJ Unk/Kevin 14 Astor Theatre McCall/DJ Hall JONNY CRAIG Nino Brown/ 17 Amplifier Dizzy Doolan & SEPTEMBER A DAY TO Phinesse) MANHATTAN REMEMBER/THE Date TBC Perth TRANSFER DEVIL WEARS Arena PRADA/ DREAM 1 Regal Theatre FAT FREDDY’S ON DREAMER DECEMBER DROP 18 Metro City TAYLOR SWIFT 5 Astor Theatre SAINT VITUS/ 11 Perth NIB THE CAT EMPIRE Stadium MONARCH 7 Red Hill 21 The BON JOVI 12 Perth Arena Auditorium Rosemount
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Almost Sunday, Thursday at The Rosemount
WEDNESDAY 29.05 Annabelle Harvey BAR 120 Felix THE BIRD HULA NIGHT THE BEAT CHAOS CLUB The Shakeys The De Niros BRASS MONKEY Sugar Blue Burlesque CARINE Open Mic Night CLAREMONT HOTEL Acoustica GREENWOOD Bernardine ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Night Cap Sessions Chelsea J Gibson Quintet GROOVE BAR (CROWN) 5 Shots INDI BAR Hugh Jennings Steve Parkin LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan MOJOS BAR One Armed Scissor Red Engine Caves Mountain Strangers Jasmin Campos MOON CAFÉ Going Solo Luke Dux Todd Pickett Kaurna Cronin MUSTANG BAR Blue Gene NEWPORT Newport Wednesdays & RnB Heaven Angry Buda, Tom Drummond & DJ Helena PADDO Nat Ripepi Rose Parker
ROSEMOUNT Apache Room at the Reservoir Bath Tom & the Astronauts UNIVERSAL Retrofit VILLAGE BAR Village People - Open Mic YAYA’S Graves Moana Mai Barnes
THURSDAY 30.05 BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) Fantasy Thursdays BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Jean Proude THE BIRD Release the Kraken II The Weapon Is Sound Doctopus Mudlark DJ Lovecraft BRASS MONKEY Rhythm Bound Karaoke BRIGHTON Open Mic Night BROOKLANDS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke CROWN PERTH GROOVE LOUNGE Dr Bogus DEVILLES PAD Rock’N’Roll Karaoke DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Open Mic Night ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW 5 Shots ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Cliff Lynton Reflections
Blackwater Station, Friday at Ya-Ya’s EXCHANGE HOTEL KALGOORLIE Masterplan FLY BY NIGHT Mama Kin INDI BAR Bex’s Open Mic Night LUCKY SHAG James Wilson MARKET CITY TAVERN Brett Dunham Karla Mare Blacksmith Kane Dodd Andrew Edwards MOJOS BAR Ellie Schoen The Evergreen Rupert Pupkin Richard Glover MUSTANG BAR DM3 TV Snow NEWPORT HOTEL Pink18Stink Melon Colon ROSEMOUNT Almost Sunday Limpin’ Dave Foley & The Straight Legged Freaks Calectasia In Orbit SETTLERS TAVERN Acoustic Open Mic Night Claire Warnock THE SHED Mikey T SWALLOW BAR DJ Mama Cass THE AVIARY Empire THE BOAT Jen De Ness THE COMO Courtney Murphy THE GATE Greg Carter THE SHED Mikey T UNIVERSAL Off The Record YA YA’S Jazz at YaYa’s MacPherson, The Kate Pass Quintet Nisha
FRIDAY 31.05 AMPLIFIER
Sleephead
SLEEPHEAD WILL SLADE, LEON OSBORN, DONNA & BAMBI
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DeathFuckingCunt In Death Nails Of Imposition Inanimacy BALMORAL Mike Nayar BAR ORIENT The Reggae Club BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) The Disappointed
Rocket to Memphis, Saturday at Devilles
The Community Chest Harlequin League Sons of Saviour BRASS MONKEY Vicktor BROKEN HILL HOTEL Matt Milford C5 FREMANTLE Residence CHARLES HOTEL Rose Tattoo CLAREMONT HOTEL Fnkd Up Fridays Eloise & The Infinite Squeeze CORNERSTONE Krakatinni Brothers DEVILLES PAD DM3 The JAC ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Ali Bodycoat Quintet The Spread and Friends EMPIRE BAR Howie Morgan EXCHANGE HOTEL KALGOORLIE Masterplan FLY BY NIGHT CLUB – THE FLY TRAP De Grussa Band GREENWOOD Greg Carter GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Tod Johnston & Peace Love HYDE PARK HOTEL Acoustic in the Courtyard INDI BAR Vdelli KULCHA Nile Nation MARKET CITY TAVERN Jukebox Lady Lefty METRO FREO Frat House Fridays MOJOS BAR Jack Doepel Leon Osborne & Willy Slade Aslan, Andrew Sinclair & George Capelas MOUNT HELENA TAVERN Nasty Dogz MUSTANG Oz Big Band Cheeky Monkeys NEWPORT HOTEL Steve Parkin Zowie Simpson
PADDO Chris Gibbs Easy Tigers PADDY MAGUIRES Madam Montage PLAYERS BAR Almost Famous PRINCE OF WALES Thy Art Is Murder Saviour THE RAILWAY HOTEL A Nameless Fear Adverse Reaction Wicked Wench Ebb and Flo ROSEMOUNT Evolution Machine Beyond Never Axe Cane Arkayan ROSIE O’GRADY’S FREMANTLE Groove SAIL AND ANCHOR Howie Morgan SAIL AND ANCHOR (UPSTAIRS) NightShift SETTLERS TAVERN Timothy Nelson & The Infidels THE SHED Fun House SOUTH ST ALEHOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Die Hard Karaoke SWAN BASEMENT Coronal Sky Astro Pig Raging Lincolns SWAN LOUNGE Cyclone Tess Benjamin Elliot 34A9ER The De Niros SWINGING PIG Greg Carter Rockit THE BIRD Sleephead Will Slade Leon Osborn Donna & Bambi UNIVERSAL Nightmoves YA YA’S Valdaway Gombo The MDC Blackwater Station
SATURDAY 01.06 THE ASTOR THEATRE San Cisco AMPLIFIER Thy Art Is Murder Aversions Crown King Parrot I am Eternal BAKERY
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The Brow Horn Orchestra, Saturday at Settler’s Tavern Kaki King BALMORAL Retrofit BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) CANVAS BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) RUNAWAY El Capitan Idle Eyes BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Mike Nayar BOAB TAVERN James Wilson CIVIC HOTEL BACKROOM (Private Function) CHARLES HOTEL Adam Brand CRAFTSMAN Madam Montage DEVILLES PAD Rocket To Memphis ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW Gunshy Romeos ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Victoria Newton Alicia Keys Unplugged - Abbey Foster Falle featuring Elise Lynelle ELMAR’S IN THE VALLEY Ben Merito EXCHANGE HOTEL KALGOORLIE Masterplan FLY BY NIGHT De Grussa Band THE FACTORY Stone Circle FLYING SCOTSMAN Under The Influence Andrei Maz GOSNELLS HOTEL Sugarfield GREENWOOD Carbon Taxi GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Switch INDI BAR Mustered Courage The Seals KULCHA Pundit Deboyoti Bose Pundit Kuma Bose LAKERS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke LYNWOOD ARMS Mustangs METRO FREO Brow Horn Orchestra MOJOS BAR The Empty Cup Timothy Nelson & the Infidels The Flower Drums & Archi
Friday Friday Travis Caudle Winter’s Calling,Travis Saturday at Caudle Fly ByNight Night The Swan Basement Fly By
MUSTANG The Continentals Combo Milhouse NEWPORT HOTEL Paul McCarthy Gravity PADDO Cheeky Monkeys PARAMOUNT Felix THE SHED Huge RAILWAY HOTEL Waiting 4 Andy The Rumble The Hum ROCKET ROOM Kickstart ROLEYSTONE COUNTRY CLUB Carbon Taxi ROSEMOUNT Mantra ROSIE O’GRADY’S FREMANTLE Flavor SETTLERS TAVERN The Brow Horn Orchestra The Arsonists SWAN BASEMENT Winter’s Calling Such A Wreck Mr Chance The Take Over SWAN LOUNGE New Band Showcase Echostone, Thatchers The Moonwhores THE GATE Dirty Scoundrels THE SHED Huge UNIVERSAL Soul Corporation WHALE & ALE Surrender YAYA’S Kaurna Cronin Polly Melden Billie Rogers Rachel and Henry Climb a Hill YMCA HQ DeathFuckingCunt Entrails Eradicated In Death Inanimacy Obscenium
SUNDAY 02.06 BAILEY BAR & BISTRO AMPLIFIER Kobra Kai BALMORAL Andrew Winton THE BEAT NIGHTCLUB ‘90s Flashback Spanish Harlem Live Latin Salsa
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BROKEN HILL HOTEL Nathan Gaunt THE COMO Adrian Wilson ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Sonja D’Anne Vocal Studio’s Present The Beatles Random Act ELMAR’S IN THE VALLEY Ben Merito FLY BY NIGHT Stage Fright Open Mic Night FLY BY NIGHT – THE FLY TRAP Stage Fright! GROOVE BAR HI-NRG INDI BAR The Lucky Numbers KALAMUNDA HOTEL Alitia Martin KULCHA The Aunts The Whistling Dogs King Of The Travellers Moana Burnhabit Kim McDonald LAST DROP TAVERN Alan McCowat METRO CITY Dash Berlin MOJOS BAR San Cisco Millions Chaos Chaos MUSTANG BAR Peter Busher & the Lone Rangers Flash Nat & the Action Men NEWPORT HOTEL Tim Nelson Bang Bang Betty & The H-Bombs The Stingrays Dom Mariani & DM3 PADDY MALONES Gary Fowlie PERTH CONCERT HALL State Of The Art Music Festival Karnivool Abbe May Bob Evans Gyroscope Kav Temperley Dave Hole & Chain The Chemist Day Of The Dead Sons Of Rico Emperors
San Cisco, Sunday at Mojo’s
Grace Woodroofe The Love Junkies Rabbit Island Cow Parade Cow +more PORT KENNEDY TAVERN Dean Anderson QUARIE BAR & BISTRO Better Days ROSEMOUNT Soundz Like Sunday Acoustic Showcase SETTLERS TAVERN Mustered Courage SWALLOW BAR Limelights Swing Jazz Trio SWAN LOUNGE Siren Of Sound Broken Bones THE GATE Greg Carter THE SAINT Fiveo Roger Smart THE SHED The Healys Renogade UNIVERSAL Off The Record YA YA’S Yarhkob Nora Zion Golden String & Step Reckoner YMCA HQ Thy Art Is Murder I am Eternal
GROOVE BAR (CROWN) John Sandosham Duo MOJO’S BAR Open Mic Night MUSTANG BAR Triple Shots YA YA’S Big Tommo’s Open Mic Night
TUESDAY 04.06
AMPLIFIER BAR Earlwolf BRASS MONKEY Open Mic Night Chris O’Brien CRAIGIE TAVERN Open Mic Night CHARLES HOTEL On The Level ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Quentin Angus GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Ruby’s Groove KALAMUNDA HOTEL Open Mic Nunz Vacca MERRIWA TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke MOJOS BAR The Big Splash Heat I Helen Shanahan Red Engine caves Scalphunter & Villain MUSTANG BAR Danza Loca Salsa MONDAY 03.06 Night ROSEMOUNT BALMORAL Quiz Meisters Trivia Astro Bat Night BRASS MONKEY YA YA’S Monkey Madness Jacob Diamond ELLINGTON JAZZ Sarah Pellicano CLUB Mingus Amongst Us Amanda Merdzan Luke Dux & Little Sky ELMAR’S IN THE YMCA HQ VALLEY Northlane Ben Merito
The Empty Cup
THE EMPTY CUP TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS THE FLOWER DRUMS & ARCHI
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ANDY’S STUDIO International multi award winning songwriter / producer. No band required. Broadcast quality. A songwriter’s paradise. Ph 9364 3178 AVALON STUDIOS BIBRA LAKE One of Perths best equipped studio. Record to analog tape or digital, Avalon pre amps, Neumann mics, the latest and best universal audio, plug in’s for digital recordings. All styles of music, $55 per hour call Tony 0411 118 304 email avalonstudios@bigpond.com BANDS! - UNLOCK YOUR SONGS’ POTENTIAL +FREE APPRAISALS. UK Producer, 40,000+ hours studio experience. 20 yrs in London with bands and songwriters. Kicking arrangements, great studio and the ability to really listen will give your material the edge you need. Call Jerry on 0405 653 338 or visit www.jerichomusic.com.au GOLDDUST Production Mixing, recording and composition. Leederville $70 p/h. 0408 097 407 POONS HEAD MASTERING Analog mastering at its best. Clients include M ink Mussel Creek, Jeff Martin, The Panics, Pond + The Floors. World class facility. World class results. www.poonshead.com 9339 47 91 RECORDING MIXING MASTERING PRODUCING Fremantle location. Call Pete Kitchen Cooked Records. Ph 0407 363 764 / 9336 3764 REVOLVER SOUND STUDIO Ph 9272 7505. www.revolverstudio.com.au S AT E L L I T E R E C O R D I N G S T U D I O www.satelliterecording.com 0419 908 766 ProTools..17 Years exp TONE CITY RECORDING STUDIO Professional recording & mixing. Clients include Abbe May, Pond, Felicity Groom & The Silentís. Ph: 0409 297 362. REHEARSAL STUDIOS AAA VHS REHEARSAL ROOMS Great facilities, great vibe & great price!!! Unit 5 /16 Peel Road, O’Connor. Phone 9418 5815 or 0413 732 885 BIGBEAT SOUND STUDIO Clean rooms, all new PA systems, air-con and good parking . Willetton Ph: 0425 698 117. PLATINUM SOUND ROOMS Professional rehearsal rooms, airconditioned, quality PAs mob 0418 944 722 TUITION ***GUITAR LESSONS*** Perth’s ultimate guitar studio. Beg-adv, all styles and levels including bass. Cliff Lynton Guitar Institute. Mt Lawley 9342 3484 / www.clifflynton.com BASS LESSONS Rock, funk & jazz. Tony Gibbs 9470 6131 GUITAR & KEYBOARD TUITION (BeginnersProfessional) One on One lessons. Free guitar trial lesson. Burswood Ph 6460 6921/ 0415 238 729 www.gvkschoolofmusic.com.au GUITAR TUITION Tired of being taught scales and theory? Why not learn your favourite songs instead, at my studio or in your own home. Competitive rates. Rock, Pop, Metal, Folk and Classical 0403 223 958, 9319 9015 (Bicton area) jaymusic@optusnet.com.au. To advertise in Classified call 9213 2888 or email musicservices@xpressmag.com.au
Novation X-Station 61 Keyboard at auction from Ross’s Auctioneers and Valuers
GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE...
Don’t miss out on the chance to snag some top notch DJ gear at rock bottom prices! Ross’s Auctioneers and Valuers are holding an online DJ and audio equipment auction until 8pm, Thursday, May 30. Over $70 000 worth of gear has to go out the door, including full recording studios, portable rigs, CD players, video mixers, headphones, smoke machines, foam machines and more! Head to auctions.com.au for info and pics. You better hurry!
A LEGEND IN THEIR OWN LIFETIME
D’Angelico Guitars D’Angelico Guitars recently launched their Reborn campaign, reissuing a selection of iconic guitar models that pay tribute to the legacy of master guitar craftsman John D’Angelico. Labelled one the biggest line launches in the guitar industry, the line debuted at the NAMM conference. Each guitar features spruce top, maple back and stair-step pickguard and tailpiece that are the essential hallmarks of the D’Angelic brand. Head to dangelicoguitars.com for more details.
Gunn Audio iWall
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
If your puny little iPod dock just isn’t cutting it any more, Gunn Audio have just the thing for you. The Gunn iWall is a one metre tall Bluetooth sound tower, packed with way more grunt than most such speaker systems can hope to muster and featuring Gunn’s Seven Speaker System. Retailing around the $499 mark, it comes packed with Aerio Bluetooth headphones, a stylus pen, and ships free from the manufacturer. Head to gunnaudio.com for more information.
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
The third WAM 2013 Music Industry Sundowner is happening on Monday, June 10 at The Rosemount Hotel from 6:30pm. This time around, the curious KRK RP-103 can pull on the coats of a panel of music video professionals who will answer any and all questions as Kosmic are pushing their full range of KRK gear right to the increasing importance of the promotional video now. KRK make some of the best monitors on the in the music industry. Panel members include Ben market, having been founded by Keith Klawitter in Young, Andrew Nowrojee, and Steven Aaron Hughes 1986 with a customer experience-focused ethos and the moderator is Justine Smith of the Australian driving both their tech development and marketing Directors Guild of Western Australia. It’s free for WAM strategies. Head to kosmic.com.au to check out the members who RSVP by Sunday, June 9; otherwise it’s current range in stock. $10 on the door. Go to wam.asn.au for more info.
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