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Capitol became the music capital last week as WA’s best of the best gathered to accept cake and be merry, for the 2010 WAMi Awards. And it was WAMingtons galore as the following accepted the (creamy) fruits of their hard work. After waiting for a good three years for their second album, Karnivool fans showed their appreciation for Sound Awake and voted it as the Most Popular Album. After a solid year of touring in Australia and abroad, Karnivool were also voted Most Popular Live Act. Birds Of Tokyo managed to score the Most Popular Act award for the second year in a row.

In the public voted categories, Fremantle favourites, The Joe Kings were voted as Favourite Newcomer. In the industry voted categories, The Emperors won Most Promising New Act, Yabu Band scored the WAMington for Indigenous Act Of The Year, WAMi Award night performers The Brown Horn Orchestra scored Best Funk Act, Best Commercial Pop Act went to Eskimo Joe and Best Urban/Hip Hop act was awarded to The Typhoons. And the Golden WAMi went to Mr Peter Barr (RTRFM’s Breakfast announcer), his third such gong. Congratulations all, and see you at the gym.

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A lot of WA music fans were pretty devastated to hear about all the incredible acts venturing to the eastern states for Splendour In The Grass. Luckily for us, organisers of this massive festival are bringing some of the best acts from the Splendour bill to WA for On The Bright Side. WA’s newest and beautist festival, On The Bright Side will take over the Perth Esplanade on Saturday, July 24, offering punters the chance to see acts like The Strokes, Mumford & Sons, Angus & Julia Stone, Band Of Horses, Ting Tings, Hot Chip and more! Tickets go on sale on Friday, May 28 through heatseeker.com.au, Star Surf in Perth and Mandurah, Mills Records, Planet Video, Blue 62 Busselton, Prince Of Wales hotel in Bunbury and Live clothing stores. Chances are this festival will sell out fast, so make sure you get your hands on tickets pronto.

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They are perhaps this generation’s greatest exponents of metal. They are Bullet For My Valentine! With at least three albums destined to be classics in the genre, the band’s latest and greatest effort, The Fever, has infected the globe, hitting the #1 spot on The US Rock and Alternative charts, and top 5 across Europe, Japan and here in Australia. Now, the legendary noise mongers come to Perth to play Challenge Stadium on Sunday, September 5.

And if there was any proof required of the band’s confidence in their craft you need look no further than Bullet’s choice of touring mates. Lesser bands than Bullet would not dare take the stage after the wounded primal beast that is Bring Me The Horizon. BMTH have backed up being the single most talked about band of The Warped Tour last year by producing an album of breathtaking riffs and complexity in Suicide Season. Also bringing their rhythmic ferocity to this already amazing bill are Canada’s Cancer Bats. Tickets for this hard rock feast go on-sale from 9am today, Thursday, May 27, from ticketmaster.com.au.

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Muse

BELL A MUSE

Fresh from rattling our foundations at The Big Day Out in January, Muse will return to bring 2010 to a close with the biggest shows they’ve ever played in Australia – pulling out all the stops to bring their entire, world-class arena production to Perth. Five albums in, the rock galaxy occupied by English trio Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme is ever expanding – beginning with a spark on 1999’s Showbiz, sending shockwaves across the solar system with Origin Of Symmetry, Absolution and Black Holes And Revelations, and most recently erupting with the big bang of worldwide #1 album The Resistance. How could it possibly get bigger? Muse always finds a way. With a brand new radio single in Neutron Star Collision Love Is Forever Muse descend on Bassendean Oval on Sunday, December 19. Tickets go on-sale from Monday, June 7, through ticketek.com.au.

Leonard Cohen, returning to Perth in November

Ladies and gentlemen, the Messiah has risen… for the second time. Leonard Cohen – god bless his Canadian cotton socks – is returning to Perth for his second visit in as many years. Hallelujah to that! With many scribes – including yours truly – lamenting the end of his 2008/9 world tour as most likely his final bow (the great man turns 77 this year) Cohen has surprised all, including his ardent devotees, by keeping on keeping on.

Wrenched from retirement in 2008 after coming down from Mount Baldy Zen Centre to discover his bank balance significantly depleted at the hands of his now-former manager, the Ladies’ Man (or Silent One, depending on whose bed he was sleeping in at the time) dusted off his tailored suit and hit the road for a string of quietlyannounced dates that quickly morphed into a full-blown world tour – a tour that can only be described as a genuine triumph of emotion and song. For are there any greater songs than those of Leonard Cohen? Bird On A Wire, Suzanne, Alexandra Leaving, In My Secret Life, So Long, Marianne, Famous Blue Raincoat… this man’s canon is one of the finest in modern song.

The great man returns to Perth to play ME Bank Stadium on Wednesday, November 24. Pre-sale tickets go on-sale at frontiertouring.com from noon AEST on Monday, May 31. General tickets go on-sale on Thursday, June 3, from ticketmaster.com. au.

In other news, X-Press would like to sincerely congratulate Madeline Bates, who leaves the Edinburgh International Film Festival to take up her new appointment at the Perth International Arts Festival as Program Manager, Film. Madeline has big boots to fill in the wake of the retirement of the dearly respected Sherry Hopkins, and we look forward to enjoying her good work at 2011’s PIAF season. _JULIAN TOMPKIN

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Editorial As a vegetarian I was disgusted to WAM, BAM, THANK YOU sight so many lamb shank bones on the ground MAM – it looked like a flock of small animals had been trampled on the site months before in some sort Dear X-Press, of weird sacrifice.

Turns out no sacrifice had taken place, Just wanted to say thanks for all the awesome someone had just invited the ‘Lamb Van’ along coverage of the WAMi Festival over the past few to cater the event, and they were selling lamb weeks. It’s great how much support you guys shanks, bones and all. I was lucky enough not to throw behind the local music industry and those have to touch one of the bones but a friend of who love it. mine had a bone thrown at her by some dick in the licensed area, leaving a massive meat stain Peace, on her jacket – which obviously is not an ideal scenario for a vegetarian or fashion lover!

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Upon arriving it was easy enough to get in to the venue, but once you entered it was like walking into a massive bogan reunion. There were drunk dickheads as far as the eye could see, and though drinkers were kept in a fenced off licensed area, any time a band they wanted to see was on they would force their way out of the designated drinking area, causing annoyance to those who was there to enjoy the music, rather than just the booze.

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Booka Shade Gyroscope will be in Perth on Sunday, June 6, playing at Metro City, following the release of their current album, Cohesion. We have five BOOKA SHADE Berlin-based Booka Shade leapt to the forefront double passes to Gyroscope’s Perth show! of the contemporary dance music scene in 2005 with their classic single Body Language. Their latest album More is out now, featuring single Bad Love. If you want to score a copy of Booka Shade’s More, get your entries in now to win one of five copies.

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Drawing from an international network of coconspirators including Boys Noize, Kid Sister, Tiga and many more, Destroy is a musical force openly divulging the most reckless side of electro with two discs of razor sharp tracks. The Aston Shuffle join the Destroy Tour, destroying Villa Nightclub this Saturday May 29. We have five copies of Destroy to giveaway.

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Los Angeles based street artist, Mr. Brainwash, celebrated his first solo show in New York last month with a private opening. This body of work is the result of travelling throughout Europe and the United States as the subject of Banksy’s new documentary, Exit Through The Gift Shop. For one winner, we have a double pass to the Exit Through The Gift Shop premiere, along with a Ben Frost limited edition signed and framed piece.

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Richard Ashcroft

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In a comeback described in Lazurus proportions, former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft is back with a new album and his new band, The United Nations Of Sound. Ashcroft achieved acclaim with the northern soul of The Verve and three well-received solo albums and his return to Australia is highly-anticipated.

Catch Richard Ashcroft & The United Nations Of Sound at Metro City on Wednesday, August 4.

Tickets on sale Monday, May 31, from ticketek. com.au.

Jack Johnson

JOHNSON O’ JOHNSON

The ever-popular Jack Johnson is packing his bags for his 2010 Australian tour. He’ll bring in the summer with a visit in support of his new album, To The Sea (released June 4), opening the jaunt here in Perth on Saturday, December 4, at ME Bank Stadium. Tickets are $89.90 (+ booking fee) on sale from Friday, June 4, available from ticketmaster.com. au and 136100. It’s an all-ages event with licensed areas. Sit back, relax and let Mr Johnson take you for a ride.

Lucky Wonders

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Breezy, folky, Byron Bay based band The Lucky Wonders are currently touring WA in their ‘wonder bus’, on a truly epic stretch of dates that sees them play right the way up the coast from Fremantle to Broome. Local audiences can catch them playing songs from their recently released debut Thirteen O’Clock at Clancy’s, Fremantle, on Saturday, May 29, and The Paddo on Sunday, May 30. The band will then play shows in Carnarvon, Monkey Mia, Coral Bay, Exmouth, Broome and Kununurra right throughout June (see myspace.com/ theluckywonders for dates).

“Lots of people mention that they’ve heard us on triple j,” band member Jessie Vintila says of the band’s song Happy Pill reaching #1 on the triple j Unearthed chart.

“Which is great because after the first couple of plays triple j stopped telling us when they played it, and we don’t get much of a chance to listen to it.”

LOVE CANCELLED

In a statement to the media, the organisers of We Love Sounds have announced the Perth show has been cancelled. The statement says: “It is with great disappointment the We Love Sounds Perth event has been forced to cancel. Faced with advanced ticket sales well below any reasonable expectations and meeting the commitments of an enormous budget with extraordinary production, we have no choice but to do the responsible thing and cancel the event.” All other Australian We Love Sounds festival events are proceeding as planned and Perth ticket holders can obtain refunds from the original point of purchase. Head to welovesounds.com.au for all details.

A DATE WITH MCQUEEN

After two hugely successful sell-out seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and rave reviews in Edinburgh, Marney McQueen and her swag of Aussie characters in Sunburnt Country are heading west to Perth! Marking very special appearances will be Perth Airport’s chief Border Security officer Karen Barnes, international world traveller Damo Greggs, carbon neutral bride Annabel Sarah Victoria Winters-Smythe and Gold Coast cougar Raelene Dreggs, who will perform her new hit single Song For Shana to raise money for her incarcerated daughter. Written by Marney McQueen with Tim Bain, with some good ideas

by Barry Humphries, McQueen comes to Perth for one night only at UWA’s Octagon Theatre on Wednesday, June 30. Tickets are $40 from the venue, (08 6488 2440). See marneymcqueen.com for all the details.

Basement Birds

BASEMENT BIRDS

A gathering of musical luminaries creating a luminous indie folk sound, Basement Birds will release their first bundle of tracks exclusively on iTunes next Tuesday, May 25. Featuring Kav Temperley, Josh Pyke, Steve Parkin and Kevin Mitchell, the band made their first public outing with a performance on Channel 7’s Sunrise programme this week. They performed Waiting For You, which last month was one of the highest downloads ever seen for an iTunes Single Of The Week, with over 19,000 free downloads.

The first of four iTunes bundles released this week includes the tracks Skin Of The Sky, Reasons and Bus Stop (featuring Julia Stone on guest vocals). For more news head to basementbirds.com.au.

John Butler Trio

BUTLER DOES IT

The John Butler Trio have been busy touring their new album, April Uprising, across the UK, Europe and the US to excellent response, taking time out to appear on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno earlier this week. There’s plenty more international touring action in store, but fans here at home will be pleased to know that the JBT have announced an Australia tour, which touches down here on Friday, August 27, at Fremantle Arts Centre, under the big top. This is a licensed event (under-18s must be accompanied by a legal guardian). Tickets are available Monday, May 31, from heatseeker.com.au or the venue (08 9432 9555), plus usual outlets.

The Bank Holidays

If you’re desperate to venture to Venice but your wallet is emptier than Paris Hilton’s noggin, fear not because the Art Gallery Of WA will exhibit world class art works normally on display in Venice, right here in Perth, this October.

The Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection In Venice exhibition will feature works from incredible artists such as Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, covering key movements in modern art. Tickets are on sale now; exhibition opens on Saturday, October 9, and runs right through ’til January 2011.

IF I COULD PAINT…

That’s When I Think Of You, If I Could, You’ll Never Know and Compulsory Hero… they are songs ingrained in the fabric of Australia! They were all hit singles from 1927’s multi platinum selling …ISH album and now, for the second time in just over 20 years, the band are treating fans to a live performance of these hits and more as 1927 take to the road again on a national headline tour.

The tour follows the positive response from fans at last year’s shows. Lead singer Erik Weideman, who has spent many years based in Perth, said:“Being on the road last year made me realise we had been away far too long. With such an overwhelming response each time we played, it gave us the inspiration to get back out there and do it all again.” The legendary outfit come to Perth’s Astor Theatre on Saturday, June 26, with special guests Wa Wa Nee. Tickets for this one off show are on-sale now through ticketmaster. com.au.

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Perth pop luminaries The Bank Holidays will finally release their second album, Sail Becomes A Kite, though the Lost & Lonesome label. The album was recorded with Martin Roth at ABC Studios here in Perth and Steve Bond ( The Panics, Snowman) at Cazfair House. To celebrate the long-awaited release, The Bank Holidays will launch the album on Saturday, June 19, at Amplifier, with support from The Morning Night and Goodnight Tiger. For full and glorious details hit up through thebankholidays.com.

Dionne Warwick

DON’T WALK ON BY

Boasting five Grammy Awards and more than one hundred million album sales, Dionne Warwick is a music pioneer who shot to fame in the late ’60s. Responsible for tracks such as Walk On By, Do You Know The Way To San Jose? and I Say A Little Prayer, Warwick has an incredible back catalogue that is sure to make for one seriously unforgettable concert.

Fans of Warwick will have the opportunity to watch the diva perform live on Friday, July 16, when she takes to the stage of the Perth Convention And Exhibition Centre with support from Kate Ceberano. Tickets are on sale now from Ticketek.

Darren Hanlon

C’MON DAZZA

In news just in, Darren Hanlon has just announced he’ll be returning to Perth to play The Fly By Night in Freo on Saturday, August 21. The tour is in celebration of the release of Hanlon’s long-awaited fourth studio album, I Will Love You At All, which will hit shelves on July 16. I Will Love You At All is a charming Australian songbook of gentle longing and reminiscence. Featuring the first single All These Things, which is released via iTunes this Friday, May 28, the album is self described as Hanlon’s ’mature’ album. It is indeed further ripening of this uniquely rewarding storyteller.

Tickets for his Freo show are on sale now from flybynight.org.

A NIGHT IN PARIS

In their Grand Gala for 2010, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra presents A Night In Paris, featuring one of the world’s greatest sopranos, the outstanding Korean artist Sumi Jo, in an evening of music and song from some of the best-loved operas and operettas of the past two centuries. Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice and for her outstanding musicianship, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of the world’s most sought-after sopranos. She is joined by tenor Roberto Abate, who studied at the WA Academy Of Performing Arts and joined WA Opera in 2006, and Conductor Tom Woods takes up the baton.

A Night In Paris comes to Perth Concert Hall for two nights, on Friday, July 2 and Saturday, July 3. Tickets start from $60 and are on-sale now at waso.com.au or bocsticketing.com.au.

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ANIMAL KINGDOM The Jungle Crook

Diving headfirst into Australia’s ‘real’ underbelly, David Michod’s gritty debut feature film Animal Kingdom opens in cinemas on Thursday, June 3, boasting an all-star cast of Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton and James Frencheville.

Two young policemen were investigating an abandoned car in Melbourne’s Walsh Street, South Yarra in 1988 when they were ruthlessly gunned down by vigilantes as payback for the death of one of their friends.

Four men were charged with the murder, while the two other suspects were later shot and killed by police before being brought to trial. Known as the Walsh Street police shootings, it is this – and other – real Melbourne criminal events that inspired David Michod’s debut feature film Animal Kingdom: a fictional gritty crime drama that explores the tense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught in the middle.

Michod’s film has been one of the most hotly anticipated local releases in years; not only for its hard-hitting content, but also because of the actors involved: Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton and James Frencheville.

When the film won the world cinema grand jury prize at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, followed by news that it received distribution in America, local cinema-goers’ curiosity was further piqued.

Writer/director Michod and world renowned actor Pearce speak with X-Press about the film that’s making headlines around the world.

BY KELLY GRIFFIN David, what inspired the story of Animal Kingdom and what compelled you to tell it?

DM: When I first moved to Melbourne from Sydney, you know this big sprawling city was really new to me and it felt like an exploration and while that was going on I was reading these books, on Melbourne true crime writing…

That are just so popular…

DM: And that there’s just so much of.

My favourite ones were these ones by a guy named Tom Noble, who was the Chief Police Reporter at The Age back in the ’80s and he’s written a few, one’s called Untold Violence and another one about the Walsh Street killings, and another one about Neddy Smith that Blue Murder was based on. He also ghost wrote the Mick Gaddot autobiography that came out recently. His writing is just so detailed and kind of serious in a way. These books were just kind of fleshing out, just giving me stories, filling these new streets with stories and as soon as I started reading these books, I just started building what I hoped would be a big Melbourne crime story in my head and then it just kind of evolved over years and years.

When you move to a new city or even just visit one and you know the history of the place, you really can just let your imagination run wild with stories from the past and also untold stories of the present.

DM: Yeah it helps contextualise new neighbourhoods. I remember when I first moved to Melbourne it felt… it kind of doesn’t feel that different to Sydney to me anymore because I’m so familiar to both places now, but when I first moved here it felt very different. It had a kind of raw texture, you know, Sydney is

beautiful and it’s all built around hills and water and stuff like that. Melbourne felt like a much more grittier kind of little Chicago or something.

It was great to have these stories to flesh out these new streets and neighbourhoods.

I love the scene in the National Gallery Of Victoria, where several of the criminals are scheming on a course of action. It makes you realise that these meetings could really be taking place anywhere and that criminal activity is probably happening everyday, just lurking underneath the surface.

DM: I think that’s one of the things that was fascinating for me generally about Melbourne crime. And one of the things that kind of differentiated it from Sydney crime in a way is that sense you get here that the criminal fabric stretches right across the whole city.

When things explode, things of a gangland nature explode, they very often explode in very public places, in places you might have been or streets you may have walked down yesterday.

I knew that I wanted to make a crime film that felt like it was happening in just regular places.

While the Animal Kingdom story is loosely based on the Walsh Street police shootings, the characters are fictional. Why did you decide to not base it on anyone in particular?

DM: The reason I didn’t base it on anyone in particular is because I knew that there was a certain kind of structural framework that I wanted to use, but I wanted to fill it with my own characters, I wanted to be free to build my own world of people, build my own Cody family. I knew from very, very early on that I didn’t want to make a true crime story.

I wanted to build my own big world of people and places.

You’ve got such a big cast of incredibly talented actors. How did you get everyone involved? Did you write characters with specific actors in mind?

DM: I’d been writing for Jacki [Weaver] for quite a long time. I wrote the Pope character for Ben [Mendelsohn] as well for quite a few years and I wrote the Baz character for Joel [Edgerton]. I had known Ben and Joel for a few years anyway, just socially.

Even though Joel and Ben are mates of yours, I’m sure they wouldn’t have signed up if they didn’t believe in the film, or if they thought it may embarrass them.

DM: Joel was somebody who not only said yes, but was one of those first really passionate champions of the script and who demonstrated from a very early stage that he wanted to do whatever he could to help me get the movie made. So we did a short together, which was actually logistically difficult for him to do. He really wanted to do it so he had to juggle and shift other things so he could do it because he knew it would help me get Animal Kingdom made.

But yeah, you’re right… especially when actors are very experienced. When they’re your friends if they don’t want to do something they’ll find a way of not doing it.

But you know, Guy [Pearce] was our first choice for Leckie and that felt kind of easy, he became

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“I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO MELBOURNE IT FELT… IT HAD A KIND OF RAW TEXTURE; YOU KNOW, SYDNEY IS BEAUTIFUL AND IT’S ALL BUILT AROUND HILLS AND WATER AND STUFF LIKE THAT. MELBOURNE FELT LIKE A MUCH MORE GRITTIER KIND OF LITTLE CHICAGO OR SOMETHING.” attached to the project about a year before we started shooting and it never felt like we were going to lose him. He read the script and he watched the shorts and he met me and he just wanted to do it and that was very confidence inspiring.

Guy, why were you attracted to the film?

Why did you sign up?

GP: Really it was David and his vision… meeting David and really feeling so sort of moved by his honesty and his creative outlook and his perspective on things as well as then seeing Crossbow, his short film that he’d made, I just went ‘oh wow’ this guy knows how to create a world. So yeah, pretty straightforward really as far as feeling the urge to go and join in.

I was obviously aware, I mean I know the film is not a direct re-examination of the Walsh Street killings, but obviously there is the basis there and you know that story, I was fascinated by it when it occurred after I moved to Melbourne. I’m always interested in crime and crime stories, so you know there were a number of things that sort of pulled me in to doing the story. Primarily, I think it was David and his viewpoint.

Can you tell us about your character, senior cop Nathan Leckie?

GP: Well, funnily enough it’s something I’m actually really terrible at. I’m much better at playing a character and I think part of why I’m an actor is because it’s much easier for me to express a character through playing it than describing them. But one of the things David talked about, that he wanted to make sure we got right was, and this is not just this character but it’s potentially the police in general, the sort of very mundane sort of quality of their work.

You know, we get blinded by police on TV shows because they’re kind of hard hitting and they’re slick and they’re opinionated and they run an interview in a particular way, and they’re slamming their fists on the table and shouting in the suspect’s face.

But if you listen to police tapes, the majority of

them are very pedestrian. They go on forever and ever and they go ‘you know, it’s really just a chat’ and there’s something incredibly ominous about them even without trying to prompt the suspect into saying something. If the suspect has something to hide, or they’re trying to hide something, it’ll just come out and it’s so much more effective when the police have just been really mundane, you know, just asking the questions just getting on with it, just writing down the facts. There was something in the way that David expressed that, that I found really appealing about the character and obviously with the way he looks and stuff, David was quite specific about that, so it was great to really be able to honour what he wanted.

One of David’s aesthetic specifications was that you grow a moustache for the role.

GP: Yeah that was his idea; I was really happy to do it, but it was his. And David is so softly spoken and so polite and so lovely ‘there’ll be a moustache, yeah okay great’ and he talked about what that might mean as far as not necessarily consciously hiding behind, but from an outsider’s point of view, there’s a little bit of mystery if you can’t see someone’s mouth properly. So, it helps I think [in creating] Leckie.

It’s a bit of a uniform I think for some of those police, so, it was fine with me.

What sort of preparation did you do for the film?

GP: I didn’t do a lot to be honest; I mean listening to the tapes was really the majority and there was a stack to go through; a variety of people being interviewed by police for a number of crimes, within that sort of realm of serious crime, like serious aggravated burglaries or murder or whatever it happened to be. To hear voices of those people answering questions was really great. I find that sort of stuff so much more satisfying than, I mean it is great to go and talk to people about things and hear about their experiences, but it’s so much more satisfying to be a fly on the wall during something than have someone else recount their experiences because I’m recounting an experience in my performance so I don’t need to have someone else recount their experience as well. That should be already there in the script.

I’ll do a certain amount of research for things, but there comes a point pretty early on for me, where I go ‘you know what? I’ve got what it is I want to do’ and if I’ve got to do too much research then I shouldn’t be doing the film.

The film did incredibly well at Sundance this year, taking out the world cinema grand jury prize. You must have had an inkling the film would be well received, but were you surprised at just how well it did at Sundance?

GP: I don’t think I was surprised, I mean at that stage I’d only seen a rough cut of the film, I hadn’t seen the fully finished film… but even the rough cut I thought ‘wow, this is really effective’ so I wasn’t surprised. I was really excited and really pleased. I thought ‘gee, this is fantastic’. That really solidified for me what I thought about the rough cut was really true: it really was a great piece of work. www.xpressmag.com.au

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Second Wings It’s been a long wait for fans but rock foursome Stone Temple Pilots are back in the fold with a new album. Singer Scott Weiland and guitarist Dean DeLeo catch up with KELLY FILLERMAN. Believe it or not, a twist of country is the secret weapon on the long-awaited new Stone Temple Pilots album. According to guitarist and songwriter Dean DeLeo, they’ve put a little bit of country in their rock’n’roll and you’re gonna love it.

While often considered outsiders to the grunge explosion of the early ’90s, STP are one of the bands who actually weathered the storm, took on all comers and despite some well-documented ups and downs, have come out the other side with new albums in hand.

Their track record proves they’re no slouches. The multi-award winning band have sold 35 million albums and racked up six number one singles. Their new self-titled album proves that, six albums on, the band which helped define an era are hungry for what comes next. Their heady rock continues to be smartly underscored by a pop sensibility, a combination that underpins singer-songwriter Scott Weiland’s love for The Rolling Stones, The Clash and The Beatles.

STP formed in Los Angeles in 1986 when Weiland and bass player Robert DeLeo met at a gig. Recruiting drummer Eric Kretz and DeLeo’s brother, guitarist Dean, they eventually released the seminal album Core in 1992. Tours, albums and awards followed until the band went into “hiatus” in 2002. Since then, every year has thrown up a rumour or three that the quartet are getting back together.

When the band separated, its members continued to pursue music in different arenas. The flamboyant Weiland – who has struggled with drugs, been arrested a number of times and has been diagnosed as bipolar – remained the member with the highest profile, joining the much-vaunted Velvet Revolver, which had its own share of public wrangling between members. Depending on who you believe, Weiland either left or was kicked out.

Dean DeLeo says the band came back together in 2008 “because of some phone calls”.

“We’d been getting word that there were some offers to headline festivals in the US,” he says. “I called the rest of the band to see how they felt about it. I pursued it because Weiland had expressed to me that things were

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Maver. They all have a bit of country going on but we put it in more of a rock format, which is what makes the record a little different. Lyrically, Scott is being a bit more of a storyteller on this record.”

Produced by the band and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, My Chemical Romance), Weiland says he’s happy with the end result, both the sound and the feel of the songs. “We were working between touring,” he says, “and I was doing an average of one or two songs a day.”

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not so velvety in Velvet Revolver. Everyone knew it would be a great idea – getting back on the road together.”

“When we got back together it was pretty obvious that was the next phase,” Weiland adds. “We’re not interested in being an old band playing county fairs. We’ve drawn from all our influences at the right time and written songs that are relevant. That was the goal in the beginning and that’s still the goal.”

He says everyone having their own projects outside STP has meant they have brought all those experiences back into the band.

“It is more back to basics,” Weiland says, of Stone Temple Pilot’s sixth record. “It was like Shangri-la Dee Da; the whole intention was to push the envelope, even though it was more of an art rock record. With this one we wanted to capitalise on not having made a record for a while and show off the real core points of

the band. That includes never stealing from ourselves, always trying to create music that sounds fresh and exciting – and rocks – but is also as exciting for the younger generation we have acquired as fans.”

Those fans will find a record which bubbles with energy and enthusiasm, darting between being heavy enough to rumble your stomach and at other times pop enough to sing along.

The singer says it was important to make a whole record which counted as an experience from first track to the end of the last, not just a series of singles, which is how many people discover a band these days. He wants the listener to take the entire ride.

“This is not a group of singles with a bunch of filler. It’s an album,” he says adamantly.

“To me the record has a bit of a country tinge to it,” Dean DeLeo adds, “like on Huckleberry Crumble, Hickory Dichotomy and

“WE’RE NOT INTERESTED IN BEING AN OLD BAND PLAYING COUNTY FAIRS. WE’VE DRAWN FROM ALL OUR INFLUENCES AT THE RIGHT TIME AND WRITTEN SONGS THAT ARE RELEVANT. THAT WAS THE GOAL IN THE BEGINNING AND THAT’S STILL THE GOAL.” As for their choice of self-titling the album, DeLeo says when it came to the album cover they didn’t want any words to obscure the peace sign image they chose by graffiti artist Sheppard Ferry.

It’s also a pretty simple statement to explain without a doubt that they’re still standing.

“Yeah, that’s kind of nice,” Weiland opines.“In your youth you think you’re invincible and as time goes on you get a bit of a sense of mortality. That just makes it really important to go for your dreams.”

Stone Temple Pilots is out now through Warner Music.

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DAN SULTAN

CLOSURE IN MOSCOW Riding The Wave

Fighting Words The buzz around Dan Sultan has grown louder this year.

The 26-year old now returns to Perth to play The Fly By Night tonight, Thursday, May 27; The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Friday, May 28; and Settlers Tavern in Margaret River Saturday,May 29.CHRISTIE ELIEZER reports.

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Dan Sultan

near his digs.“I’m sure the way we (the band) look doesn’t hurt. But I used to weigh 130 pounds at high school, and few girls looked at me. So now Dan Sultan is a star on the rise. With festival I’m lapping it up. This is justice!” performances abounding, he also made his Thankfully, Sultan remains focused on acting debut on Bran Nue Day, popped up on the music. He turned down offers from major TV high-raters Spicks And Specks and Rockwiz, labels to work on his second album Get Out While and he’s starting to get mainstream airplay.

You Can, which mixes blues, soul, rock and country.

Sultan’s photogenic mixed-race looks Sultan’s father is an Irish lawyer who and sexy onstage moves (which had Clare worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service near Alice Bowditch dub him ‘the black Elvis’) explain why 68 Springs. His indigenous mother, Roslyn Sultan, is an per cent of the traffic to his website is female. They arts administrator from the Aranda and Gurindji offer him marriage proposals, gifts of homemade clans of central Australia, who got her name from perfumes and ceramic owls (to complement his the Afghan camel drivers of the central desert. owl tattoo) and a lesbian couple even asked him As a kid, when he walked into a store with his white father, shop assistants would coo over him to provide the seed for their child.

“Not sure how serious they were about – if he was with his mother they’d cast dirty looks. that,” Sultan chuckles during a late lunch at a café Growing up in Melbourne and Cairns, he was often one of the few black kids at school. He learned boxing to survive. “I haven’t been in a fight for a long time, which is nice,” he says quietly.

Cut through his affability and you find a strong ambitious streak. Growing up with his mother there was little money. They’d eat Weet-Bix with water, the fridge wouldn’t work and people slept in lounge rooms because there weren’t enough bedrooms. “So at a young age I was determined to be comfortable,” he shrugs. “Not extremely rich; I don’t need a pink Cadillac or a hot tub full of white girls.

“It was never a case of could I do it or want to do it,” Sultan concludes, “it was just ‘I’m doing it’. If things got stressed in the house I’d go into my bedroom and pretend to be a rock star.”

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Melbourne outfit, Closure In Moscow were shoved into the limelight earlier this year over their well-documented spat with Soundwave organisers.Forging ahead,the boys are back on the bandwagon, playing The Civic Hotel on Saturday, May 29, and YMCA Headquarters on Sunday, May 30. JESSICA WILLOUGHBY spoke to guitarist Manny Zennelli.

“Seriously, we are still baffled by the whole Soundwave thing,” Closure In Moscow’s guitarist Manny Zennelli raves. “We still have absolutely no idea what actually happened.”

For those who are not familiar with the bizarre Soundwave 2010 debacle, picture this: the young Melbourne outfit had nabbed a spot as the only Australian band on the popular alternative festival’s main stage.

Prestigious, yes?

But literally hours before the tour was set to go the band was immersed in a bitter row with organisers. Kicked off the bill, with no national act selected to fill their void, the boys were left out in the cold and allegedly scratching their heads after the whole experience.

With each party releasing their own response to the event it’s been hard for fans to choose sides. And, although several months have passed since the blow, the emotional aftermath has carved an impression in the blossoming quintet.

“It was blatant lies, you know what I mean,” Zennelli states. “It’s so negative; I don’t even want to give it validity by talking about

it. It sucked – we didn’t get to play Soundwave and we had people contacting us because they had bought tickets just to see us. It was a shitty situation and we’ve had absolutely no contact with AJ (Maddah, organiser) since then. But you definitely feel like you’ve been screwed, being the only Australian band that was on that bill.”

Playing a string of free replacement shows for CIM-lovers who missed their Soundwave appearance under the title The Supreme Turbo Facilitator, Zennelli says the scandal “boosted” their fan-base. “After the Soundwave experience, we were touted as money-hungry bastards,” he says. “We did the free shows because we wanted to give something back to our fans. And we’re cool now.”

Now based back in Melbourne, after a stint over in America last year, Closure In Moscow have a tentative European tour in the works – marking the upcoming national dates their last in Australia for a while.

“We are going to be doing the Vans Warped Tour up to August after this, then hopefully the UK and Europe, then Japan,” Zennelli concludes. “(We’re) also aiming to get to new material at the end of the year.”

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TRACEY THORN Love Bud LIONEL LOUEKE Tracey Thorn is best known for her work with Everything But The Girl, the alt-pop duo she formed with her husband Ben Watt. With that band on a long term hiatus, Thorn has put the finishing touches on a rare solo outing entitled Love And The Opposite. CHRIS HAVERCROFT spoke to Thorn about juggling parenthood, music and middle age.

The lack of product from Thorn over the past decade hasn’t been through any lack of inspiration; it’s more to do with a change in priorities. Parenthood became her focus, first and foremost.

“I think it is a really lucky position that I am in now, because the job that I do is one that I was able to put on hold for a few years and then go back to,” Thorn begins. “It is completely flexible in terms of the hours that it demands. At the moment I am just working it so that I fit it in around my full time job, which is being a mum to my kids. At the moment they are at school for instance so I can do interviews.

“That is how I did the recording really; I tried to fit it in during the day. I went to Berlin a couple of times to do little two-to-three days of recording, because I realised it was quite useful to get away from home to get myself out of that mindset for a few days to be more creative. With doing it in short bursts like that it wasn’t really long enough for anyone to notice that I had gone.”

Although Thorn’s world has changed

since she became a parent, it has had little effect on her songwriting. She has always tended to write stories about people and their personal lives and, although Thorn has made her way into middle age, the only difference she can see is that her perspective on things has deepened as she gets older and her sympathies widen. There is also no shortage of material, even though her subjects are now in their 40s.

“No one has a clue what is going on any more than they do when they were young,” Thorn laughs about life after 40. “We are all still making a mess of everything, and there is so much drama going on. I look around and people’s relationships are breaking up, new ones are starting and people are doing the most unpredictable things. For some one like me who writes songs it is an absolute gift that it hasn’t all just dried up. I don’t have to pretend I am a 20-year-old going out clubbing, as there is more than enough drama going on here.”

Love And The Opposite is out now through Inertia.

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Fela From Benin

On his latest album, guitar maestro Lionel Loueke invites listeners to enjoy his effortless blend of jazz and African music. He discusses Mwaliko with JOSHUA HAYES. Mwaliko – Swahili for ‘invitation’ – is Loueke’s fourth album as a bandleader.

“I wanted to have a CD that put together my background as an African and today as a jazz musician,” he explains. “So that’s why Mwaliko is for me very special; it’s what I’m doing now but at the same time look ing back at what has been done before.”

The album has received rave reviews in the US and is now available in Australia. Loueke’s fusion of jazz and traditional African music is per fectly encapsulated on Vi Ma Yon, a traditional song on which he collaborates with world music star Angélique Kidjo. “Our mothers are from the same village, so basically our parents grew up together, so I knew her since I was very young” he says of Kidjo.

Born and raised in the small West African nation Benin, Loueke played percussion as a child until, influenced by his older brother, he picked up the guitar at 17.

Despite starting late and being self taught he would bloom into a guitar virtuoso. His mentor, legendary pianist Herbie Hancock, would later describe Loueke as “a musical painter”.

Loueke star ted out in wedding bands, playing music inspired by African icons such as Fela Kuti, Sunny Adé and Franco. However, he was exposed to an entirely new world when a friend brought a CD of jazz musician George Benson back from France. Inspired, he spent most of the ’90s studying music in Côte d’Ivoire and France, before receiving a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

It was there that he met the two musicians who would form his trio

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Gilfema. The international group (drummer Ferenc Nemeth is from Hungary and bassist Massimo Biolcati is half Italian, half Swedish) first started jamming together at Berklee, and anyone who caught one of his two Per th shows at the Ellington Jazz Club earlier this month would attest to their incredible onstage chemistry. In 2001 they all applied for, and were accepted into, the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

Loueke first met Hancock at this audition, where he was on the judging panel along with fellow Miles Davis Quintet members Ron Carter and Wayne Shorter.

After completing the two year program at the Institute, Loueke joined Hancock’s Quartet and, in 2005, toured Australia.

Loueke recently contributed to Hancock’s new album, which is due within the next year. “I love to be back in Perth,” he says. “Hopefully I won’t have to wait another three years before I get here.”

Mwaliko is out now through EMI.

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CLOUD CONTROL Fluff Free ADEM K Baring His Chest Widescreen pop purveyors Cloud Control have just released their staggeringly good debut album, Bliss Release. DAVID CRADDOCK spoke to keyboardist and vocalist Heidi Lenffer ahead of the band’s shows at The Prince Of Wales, Bunbury, on Thursday, May 27; Mojo’s on Friday, May 28; and Amplifier on Saturday, May 29.

compendium of all of his favourite sounds, including those made by his former outfits, and blend them all together in a fuzzy, synth-heavy and wonderfully unpredictable mix tape. The result, The Community Chest, makes for exciting listening.

“A lot of my favourite albums are consistent all the way through, but a lot of my favourite records do jump around a lot,” he says of the mix tape feel of the album. “It’s probably why I was a big Pavement fan for that very reason – May is proving to be a busy month for mind- while Ulrich [drums] and I were on a walk, Al [guitar they’d do a lot of different things on their records.” and vocals] came up with the verse.” bending Australian psych-pop.

200 Year Old Volkswagen, the lead single Indeed, for Cloud Control, the hills are Just as you’re recovering from the brainoff The Community Chest, is a good example of twisting trip of Tame Impala’s InnerSpeaker, along alive with the sound of music. So let’s start at the the album’s delightfully jolty unpredictability. The comes Cloud Control, an exciting band from the very beginning, a very good place to start. The verses chug along like a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club song coming out of an old ring-dial telephone Blue Mountains that make a softer and folkier, but band ‘formed’ in Sydney about five years ago after before, out of nowhere, K treats us to a lush, no less heady brew, on their debut album Bliss Lenffer decided, on a whim, to join a university band competition – pulling together a group of harmony-laden ‘walkin’ through the city/everybody’s Release. unwitting friends who all grew up together in the pretty’ Beach Boys-esque chorus. But before BRMC Gold Canary, one of the singles from are back on the phone for another verse, it’s time the album, has already been named Single Of hills. At the tail end of 2008, after significant interest in their afro, psychedelia and folk melding tunes, for a vaguely Arabic percussion interlude. Why not?

The Week on the Rebel Chart of influential British the band sign to Ivy League records. Come 2009 “I’m not a huge fan of studios in general,” broadcaster BBC 6 Music. The band’s talents have they’re back in the Blue Mountains recording their K explains of the album which was recorded also been noticed by current kings of worldly pop debut album in producer Liam Judson’s (Bells Will entirely on an 8-Track tape machine (sometimes Vampire Weekend, who invited the quartet along Ring) parent’s lounge room. between lunch breaks at K’s previous workplace, as support on their recent Australian tour.

“I don’t think it’s something you can put Musgroves Music store), before being mixed at a “We went up to the Megalong Valley, your finger on,” Lenferr says of how the band’s conventional studio. “I prefer setting up my own which is in the mountains,” keyboardist and idyllic birthplace may influence their sound. “But atmosphere as opposed to one that’s made.”

Adem K vocalist Heidi Lenffer explains of how Gold Canary, I think that where you grow up and where you Another charmingly jarring moment a harmony-laden track reminiscent of Fleet Foxes spend your formative years intrinsically effects your on the album, the delicately acoustic Slumberpop and Paul Simon, came about.“It’s pretty much just outlook on life and your values. But it’s not like the Perth indie pop stalwart Adem Beauty Machine, came about as a result of K being a valley with sheep. We went up there to jam and trees whispered lyrics to us or anything.”

K launches his debut solo open to taking in inspiration from another unusual album The Community Chest at locale. “When my wife had the baby she had The Bird on Saturday, May 29. to stay in hospital for a week, so I had to take my in there and just play in the hospital room.”

K pulled off the freeway on the guitar he explains of the sweet track which floats along with a accompaniment. “It’s pretty much way home from work to have a just an cello exercise in finger picking. I liked the little chat with DAVID CRADDOCK. progression so I turned it into a song. It’s actually a ’50s doo-wop chord sequence that I’ve just put As frontman of ’90s Perth indie band Turnstyle, into a finger picking style.” who are best known for their hit Spray Water And as for the iconic, synth-pop sounds On The Stereo, Adem K certainly knew how to that make songs like Ceiling To The Floor so damn knock out a catchy indie pop tune. catchy?

In the Burton Cool Suit, the songwriter “I just like the square wave, the fullness, wrapped his teeth around some crunchier sounds the fatness and the way that it really cuts through but always with a classic ’60s beat-pop grounding. everything,” the songwriter says of his love of In recent years, K even decided to release a ‘science- vintage synthesisers, many of which featured on pop’ EP, influenced by a book entitled When The Sky Turnstyle’s output. “The old analogue ones can Fell, with his wife Dee. be a little bit unpredictable as well. I’m a bit of a On his debut solo album it’s as if K collector, I don’t have a zillion but I have a few that Cloud Control has decided to compile a weird and whacky are really prized.”

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SOULFLY Taking Root US heavyweights Soulfly are back with their seventh instalment,Omen,this month.Legendary Brazilian frontman Max Cavalera tells JESSICA WILLOUGHBY why he is excited to reveal the band’s most “aggressive” release to date.

Roots, bloody roots. We all know the line.

As the most powerful lyric penned

by Soulfly’s Max Cavalera during his time with former project Sepultura, the simple three-word line came to serve as his universal dictum. Roots, according to the legendary frontman, are about returning to the essence of a person. A true nod towards individuality, regardless of ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. A celebration of past and present while looking to the future.

The seventh Soulfly release means something a little special to this Brazilian. Cavalera firmly believes the number seven has “mystical” ties. As a man who has always held his spiritual beliefs at his crux, he felt the time was apt to flesh out this sentiment through latest effort, Omen.

“Even the word ‘omen’ holds a mystical meaning for me,” he explains from his home in

“WITH SEPULTURA, I ONLY DID SIX ALBUMS, SO THIS IS NEW TERRITORY FOR ME. THE TITLE CAN BRING A GOOD OR BAD MEANING. I LIKE TO LEAVE IT OPEN LIKE THAT, SO THAT EACH PERSON CAN TAKE FROM IT WHAT THEY BELIEVE.” Phoenix, Arizona. “With Sepultura I only did six albums, so this is new territory for me. The title can bring a good or bad meaning. I like to leave it open like that, so that each person can take from it what they believe. But for me, the title relates to the feeling when I step on to a stage. I’m a pretty chilled person in life generally, but on stage I love the chaos and the danger of not knowing where it’s going to go. It’s what I thrive on.”

Twelve years since their debut, Omen once again signals Cavalera’s ability to return to his ‘roots’ – developing an album founded on the groove of Primitive (2000) and the aggression of Conquer (2008). More than that, a few different ingredients see new Soulfly material step on to a higher ground. Thrash, brothers and sisters, rears its welcome head on this release with a healthy does of Cavalera’s love for older hardcore tunes also marking its place.

“The opening song on the album, Bloodbath And Beyond, is a total hardcore song,” he explains. “A total New York hardcore scene explosion! It could have been a Sick Of It All or Agnostic Front song. The album signals a return to my roots; you could say that. There is a good mix of metal, hardcore and thrash there. This was intentional; I have wanted to take a darker road since the Dark Ages (2005) days. But I wanted to flirt with aspects of thrash too. As a survivor of the thrash era of the ’80s, I can have some credibility in doing this. And I love the outcome.”

0Apart from a continuation of the band’s tradition of having a self-titled song on each album – with Soulfly VII turning down the distortion for this quartet – collaborations are plentiful on this release.The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato features on Rise Of The Fallen, with the band’s longstanding friend Tommy Victor from Prong lending himself to Lethal Injection. Cavalera also points out a heart-warming moment during the making of this album, where he got to work alongside his sons – drummers Igor and Zyon.

“I basically just said to my boys that they could choose to do a cover of any song they wish and we would play it with them,” he explains.

“Zyon chose Sepultura’s b-side Refuse/Resist and Igor chose Your Life, My Life by Excel. Excel are an old Venice hardcore skate band, from Suicidal Tendencies days. That was really fun to do. But it was also a very proud moment for me as a father, being able to work alongside my sons. It makes you feel really good inside.

“But, other than working with my boys, I also got to work with a few different people like Greg from Dillinger. I actually bumped into him at

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a Deftones show in LA, at a tribute show for bassist Chi Cheng. Both of us were singing with Deftones and I just asked him in conversation if he wanted to come down the next day to the studio and record a song with us. The song, Rise Of The Fallen, is actually my favourite song on the album.”

Co-produced by ex-Sepultura bandmate Logan Mader (Gojira, Machine Head), Cavalera basically let him and lead guitarist Marc Rizzo take the reins in the creative department of this release.

“Logan was a bit of an obvious choice, because he had worked with me on the first Cavalera Conspiracy album,” he says. “But I really enjoyed what he did with Devildriver and Gojira.

He’s becoming a really great engineer. I love what he did with us because this album is crisp sounding, but still very heavy. Logan played with me in Sepultura for a year in ’99, but he’s grown up a lot since then. Our working relationship was tight; we worked on this album non-stop for twomonths. And, even though I wrote about 90 per cent of the album myself, I also basically gave guitarist Marc the green light to go crazy with this release. And what he came back was this insane sound. What we call the ‘cell phone’ sound. He

blew me away.”

Although no dates have been set for Soulfly to make their way Down Under yet, Cavalera says he is eager to get their new material to our ears.

“The last time we were out there was as support for Megadeath a few years back,” he concludes. “I hope someone invites us out to Australia soon.”

Omen is out now through Roadrunner Records.

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Self Titled

THE DEAD WEATHER Sea of Cowards Third Man/Warner

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Not even a year has passed since they released their debut Horehound, but The Dead Weather are back with Sea Of Cowards. The fast follow up is logical given that the band have Jack White’s label and studio behind them and rack up songs at a rate of knots by jamming on the road and in sound checks, but this release doesn’t propel the band to new heights.

First single Blue Blood Blues opens the album and confidently rings the bell that The Dead Weather firmly crafted in their debut.

Jack White’s trademark macabre blues-rock may steer this release, but it is the almost hip hop vocal styling of Alison Mosshart that gives the band an original sound. She shrieks and pinches her voice to a pitch that starts to compete with Jack White’s signature pitch shifted guitar. At times they almost seem like they are trying to do an impression of each other’s instrument of choice.

This may be the reason The Dead work so well, despite looking at first glance like yet another side project for White. He has tightened up his guitar tone even more, not relying so much on the ambient reverb of previous recordings, the sharpness of his guitar is only broken up by Mosshart’s howls.

Sea Of Cowards doesn’t nessecarily take the band to a new place, but if you enjoyed Horehound - keep your fork, there’s pie.

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HOLE Nobody’s Daughter

ADEM K The Community Chest

Cherry Forever Records/Mercury

Love Is My Velocity

This is not a Hole record.

This is the Courtney Love solo soiree. It’s a tad sad that the infamous Ms Love would hang on to the moniker. The move might be forgiven, considering the flop of her 2004 debut solo effort American Sweethearts, but it certainly will not be forgotten, much to the disdain of her former ‘90s-era band mates.

Nobody’s Daughter is not actually a complete pile. But the 10 or so years of drugs, booze and, of course, her delightful temper have made her favourable Celebrity Skin days a thing of the past. Love’s signature howl and bitter angst are intact, but hit a weary and repeated note with each line spewed from her not-so venomous mouth.

Bringing British guitarist Micko Larkin (ex-Larrikin Love), bassist Shawn Dailey (Rock Kills Kids) and drummer Jack Irons (exRed Hot Chili Peppers) along for the ride, the album reveals a personality-less sheen that should make Ms Love retch.

It seems she has aimed for a collection of songs that don’t even live up to her self-mythology.

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If you needed proof that Stone Temple Pilots are one of the most under-rated rock bands in history, this is it.

From the first note, the sheer excitement and enthusiasm for making music takes hold and doesn’t let go. Rhythmically clever without sounding complicated, and multi-layered without coming across as overdone, this album has that ‘instant classic’ feel with a production and composition style that doesn’t suggest any particular genre or era.

Stone Temple Pilots have always been a band that has produced infectious melodies without relying on standard diatonic melodic conventions and this album is no exception. The band sound confident - drummer Eric Kretz, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo, and vocalist Scott Weiland all take enough risks to keep your ears guessing throughout the 16-track journey, which includes three live tracks, one of which is the band’s ‘90s hit Vaseline.

It is a joy to hear an album so consistent, and the production, composition, and performance on this effort are faultless. So much so that it is near impossible to pick the standout tracks, but full marks go to Hazy Daze for its brilliant riff, Cinnamon for its singalong vocal approach, and First Kiss On Mars for sounding like summer.

Buy two of these. You’ll wear the first one out pretty fast. _CHRIS GIBBS

_JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

With the successful Turnstyle reloaded show still fresh in people’s minds, local pop maestro Adem K launches his solo career with The Community Chest. Kerimofski plays almost all of the instruments from go to woe on the album made almost solely in the back shed of a Bassendean home.

There was a time when the bulk of Kerimofski’s influences came from slacker indie rock but recently he has ignited a love of all things to do with the ‘60s. Prize for the best titled tune by a local artist goes to Burning Questions For Sportsgirl which shows the hours that have been spent by Kerimofski immersed in the Head Soundtrack.

Harry Dacre’s 1892 standard is given a futuristic work over as Daisybell 2010, with the Perth songwriter taking it out of the music hall and into a new century. When the fuzz subsides, cello accompanies acoustic guitar during the sweet little Slumberpop Beauty Machine, with Surf Venus being a balancing act of garage, surf and synth rock.

An album with a few flavours, The Community Chest has enough vintage synthesisers to make Kraftwerk blush and more hooks that an abattoir. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

ESCAPE THE FATE This War Is Ours (Deluxe Special Edition)

DEFTONES Diamond Eyes Maverick/Warner

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Are you aged between 12 and 15? Do you have a floppy fringe with pink highlights? Are your jeans tighter than your parents are with pocket-money? Yes? Then Escape The Fate is the band for you.

The War Is Ours is actually a re-release of the 2008 album of the same name, with some extras tacked on in the form of movies and two new songs. The back cover of the album features a photo of four smug guys whose hair-dos you’ll instantly want to mess up – a fate worse than death for them I’m sure.

It may seem shallow to start judging the band just on what crappy picture they have on the back of their album, but it’s just a reflection of how utterly shallow their music is. Like a shopping list of lyrics to make girls swoon we have: ‘You are so beautiful/ You are the kind of girl/That has the chemicals to make me fall in love’, and the classic ‘Not loving you is harder than you know/‘Cause girl your driving me so crazy’ (sic).

As for the music, it’s the same old poppy by-the-numbers metalcore that gets the kids all riled up with a scream here and a breakdown there. They just forgot to make any of it interesting. _BRENDAN HOLBEN

Okay, we all know by now the adversity that Deftones have faced in the last 18 months, and if you don’t, you’re probably not a fan of Deftones anyway. Diamond Eyes is not so much a record, but a bold statement from a band that have well and truly had their limits tested. Diamond Eyes emphatically proves that no matter what obstacle you throw in front of them, Deftones will get the job done, in untouchable style.

I feel horrible in saying this, but it’s almost as if Deftones needed Cheng’s accident to happen for them to step back and reassess the situation. Their last record Saturday Night Wrist had its moments, but as a whole, was one of their weaker performances. Diamond Eyes is a record brimming with a genuine energy that hasn’t been captured by the band in some years.

Dynamically, Diamond Eyes is still what you would expect from a Deftones record.

There are the heavier tracks (Royal) thrown in with the rockier tracks (Prince) as well as more mellow moments (Sextape).

Releasing Diamond Eyes was the ultimate challenge for a band that had already proven themselves. The fact that Deftones were not only able to continue as a band, but come out the other side with an album this good just goes to show how monumental they truly are. _GEORGE GREEN www.xpressmag.com.au

TTT Lands

TARA SIMMONS Myspace.com/ tarasimmonsmusic

MGM Distribution

Melbourne rock quartet TTT, formerly known as Tic Toc Tokyo, have shed their post-punk trappings and embraced a fuller sound to produce their latest offering Lands.

As indicated by its title, the album is primarily an exploration of landscape, beginning with the exceptionally catchy lead single Animal, a nod to the band’s self-proclaimed primary musical influence, Talking Heads. The landscape then changes, as the band spend the rest of the album layering heavy percussion beats and downright addictive bass lines over various tribal chants.

Lyrically unsophisticated, the tracks featured on Lands favour a monotonous repetition of abstract phrases over anything more meaningful. However, when vocalist Simon Gibbs begins to whoop like a jungle king he evokes a fantastically compelling primitivism.

Hinterlands, which features an unforgettable screeching of withering horns, and Traps, which starts with 30 seconds of whistling followed by the arching progression of incessant swelling drumbeats, prove to be the most thrilling and engaging tracks on the record.

Compass Point takes the only noticeable step back. Completely removed from the chaos of the rest of the album, it showcases TTT’s musical maturity, adding depth and density to what is otherwise a very youthful record.

Lands is, most certainly, a tribal sounding record,as TTT take their listeners to an otherworldly place from which they may never want to return. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

THE MAYFAIR SET The Mayfair Set

A mélange of ambient beats, intricate harmonies and sample-driven electro material drive Brisbane songstress Tara Simmons’ quirky brand of indie-pop, brandishing a complex mix of bold directness and enchanting sensitivity.

Recently released ‘60s-tinged single I Cannot Be Saved utilises multi-tracked vocals and a big, catchy chorus, building up from a simple two-chord opening verse to a full, Beach Boys-like symphony of sound, in a way that is somehow both calming and compelling.

Although comparisons with eccentric indie-popsters Kate Miller-Heidke and Regina Spektor are almost certainly unavoidable, Simmons’ effortless breed of cool and experimental willingness thrust her out of the confines of the traditional singer-songwriter mould, introducing her as one of the most unique and intriguing female musicians to emerge in this genre in recent years.

Key Track: I Cannot Be Saved _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

SPACEMEN 3 The Perfect Prescription Myspace.com/spacemen3

Spunk/EMI

Kirsten Gundred and Mike Sniper are better known as the brains behind Dum Dum Girls and Blank Dogs respectively, and although their individual projects are doing exceptional things, the two artists have joined forces as The Mayfair Set. This eponymously titled CD collects their early recordings.

In line with their other projects The Mayfair Set is sonically understated and the playing is rudimentary, but under the tape hiss there is plenty of charm. When the two bedroom rockers join forces on Junked a love for mid ‘80s British indie comes to the fore.

Sniper takes the lead on Dark House to come across as a less polished Stephen Merritt.

The Mayfair Set’s sound is less like Dum Dum Girls garage rock yet doesn’t spare the squall, with the two voices working best on the fuzzed out Let It Melt. The duo throw up some unexpected twists when dub is on the agenda during Three For Me. They may not be breaking any new ground with their reverb drenched lo-fi but that doesn’t hinder The Mayfair Set any.

“For all the fucked up children of the world, we give to you Spacemen 3”. It’s hardly a T-shirt that you’d wear at your Granny’s on a Sunday but this was the rallying call of the influential English psych-rockers, whose career highpoint coincided with the release of The Perfect Prescription in 1987.

As the LP’s title and tracks like Ecstasy and Come Down Easy suggest, expanding one’s mind and dealing with the consequences are its overall themes - the deafening guitars, euphoric synths and dreamy basslines resulting in a glorious cocktail of tripped-out psychedelia.

While Jason Pierce went on to find mainstream success with Spiritualized, The Perfect Prescription proudly stands alone as a classic piece of work and was a key record in shaping the early careers of bands like The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, both of whom listened intently. Give it a whirl.

Key Track: Walkin’ With Jesus _ ROSS MCNEILL

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I’ve read reviews of SSA’s work from as far afield as California, and every single one of them harps on about the band’s name. It’s dumb humour - very Perth nobody’s denying that, but the criticisms that some writers have levelled at the band seem to miss the point. Hasn’t punk rock always embraced the fiendishly absurd, or do these critics think, for example, that The Ramones seriously advocated the beating of children with baseball bats?

SSA get the last laugh on this split single with Swedish hardcore royalty AC4 - consisting of Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström from Refused. AC4’s contribution to the 7” is the 1:08 minute Ten To One, a catchy little ball-tearer with no frills attached.

The SSA side features exclusive track The War Is Over, a desperate critique of state control, and the stand-out number, Suffer. When vocalist Eddie Francis hits that song’s chorus, he’s pushing himself to the absolute limit. Truly captivating, it’s the sound of a man about to break under the sheer weight of disappointment and desperation at capitalism’s broken promises.

A punk band to the core, SSA are a vital point of resistance and should be regarded as one of the best in the country. _BEN WATSON Australia’s highest circulating Street Press

The only thing Hollywood studios and producers really do properly is endlessly copy each other by ripping off whatever’s in vogue at ay given moment. In 2003 Mario van Peebles satirised his father Melvin’s signature role in Gettin’ the Man’s Foot Outta Yo Badaaaaas, and Tarantino has made a very lucrative career out of referencing the films we all ignored in the ‘70s and ‘80s but which now turn over serious money in video store ‘cult’ sections.

A more satirical entry into the nouveau-grindhouse genre is Black Dynamite.

Openly a comedy, it trades on films like Superfly, Shaft and Cleopatra Jones and features oversized guns, lurid costumes and sets, sideburns, afros and Michael Jai White as the bad mutha in the middle of it all. When the Man kills his brother, one man army Black Dynamite (yes, that’s his name) is out for revenge, and he’ll get it with his fists, karate and 44 magnum.

Black Dynamite gets it so right, that if you came across this movie on late night cable TV you’d assume it was the real thing, a badly-filmed blaxploitation classic complete with nunchuks, breasts, gunfire aplenty, woeful dialogue and a politically incorrect sense of ‘cool’ that will have you howling with laughter.

It’s the polar opposite of the government-backed period dramas that were being financed and filmed in Australia around the same time, and if you love the Blu-ray release of Picnic At Hanging Rock as much as Black Dynamite, you can truly call yourself a fullspectrum film fan.

The Haunting In Connecticut (Roadshow) Erotic Tales (Madman) Picnic At Hanging Rock (Blu-ray) (Umbrella) Black Dynamite (Roadshow) _DREW TURNEY 19

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PIZZA, PASTA AND ALFREDO

Charming vocalist Alfredo Malabello will bring the sounds of Italy to Ribaudo’s Ristorante on Friday, June 11, to launch his latest musical offering Ciao Bella.

Featuring eight Italian and English songs from the sixties and seventies, plus three original compositions, Ciao Bella is an album 30 years in the making. Catch Alfredo playing tracks from Ciao Bella with backing from a full band, and support from Kristen Plati, at Ribaudo’s Ristorante at 125 Melville Parade in Como this June; tickets include a three course meal. Doors open 6.30pm, meal at 7.30pm, show at 9.30pm. Bookings can be made via Ribaudo’s on (08) 9367 7411, or Forza Italia on (08) 9344 6880.

Alfred Malabello

CYCLOPS LOVE

WA’s only baroque opera company, fittingly named Opera Baroque Inc, will entice audiences to the Subiaco Arts Centre this June with a production of Handel’s Acis And Galatea. This classic Greek tragedy sees Galatea, a love sick nymph, and her lover Acis, a shepherd, overcome with joy until Polyphemus the Cyclops enters the equation and messes it all up. It seems Polyphemus is also in love with Galatea and when she does not return the sentiment, he threatens her with force.

Starring David Woodward, Siobhan Patrick, David Dockery and Daniel McMillan, with direction from Kevin Langoulant and musical direction by Pettine-Ann Croul MBE, Acis And Galatea promises to be a spectacular production that opera fans will not want to miss. Season opens on Wednesday, June 23, and runs ’til Saturday, June 26. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

It’s Just Gary

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On Saturday, June 19, the Fly By Night will be converted into a makeshift cinema for Future Shorts, a showcase of short films from home and afar. Kicking off the evening’s festivities will be This Is Perth creators, Perrella and Osborn, with their latest offering, It’s Just Gary. Starring Damon Lockwood, It’s Just Gary follows a ‘nobody’ who just wants to stand out, until he comes face to face with the cult of celebrity.

The June 19 event will mark the beginning of monthly Future Shorts screenings, featuring a mix of films from destinations such as China, South Africa and the UK. Tickets for the next edition of Future Shorts are on sale now from flybynight.org.

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SUPER STARS AT SUPANOVA

Pop Culture expo Supanova will return to Western Australia this June, bringing with it a slew of stars, along with movie previews, gaming demonstrations and a whole lot more. Set to take over Claremont Showgrounds on Saturday, June 26, and Sunday, June 27, Supanova will feature appearances from the Incredible Hulk himself, Lou Ferrigno; Charisma Carpenter (who starred as Cordelia Chase in Buffy); Daniel Logan (who played Boba Fett in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones); Allan Hyde (Godric from True Blood); Chaske Spencer and Jodelle Ferlan from Twilight; plus many many more. To find out more about this exciting event head to supanova.com.au.

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Jimmy James Eaton possesses an uncanny ability to make people laugh both at and with him; which is exactly what he’ll do later this week with his brand new comedy show, When Jokes Strike Back. In this Wild West Comedy Festival extravaganza, Eaton will turn stand up on its head to determine what holds more power – the joke or the person telling the joke. Comedy fans will find Eaton doing his thing at the Astor Theatre from Wednesday, May 26, ’til Saturday, May 29; all shows are at 7.30pm. Tickets are on sale now from BOCS. 22

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SARA STORER No Place Like Home Born in Mallee district of Victoria – an area that John Williamson sings about so passionately – it appears Sara Storer was always destined to be a country singer. The former school teacher has just released her best of album,Calling Me Home.

She may not find herself on the radio as much as contemporaries Kasey Chambers and Keith Urban,but Sara Storer is clearly no slouch considering that in 2004 she won seven Golden Guitars – the record number awarded to any artist in one evening.

With this calibre of songwriting at her disposal,it’s not too great a surprise that Storer now has a ‘greatest hits’to her name,even though her first decade in the music industry may have snuck up on most.

“We were questioning when do you release a best of album and is it too soon,” Storer states in regard to Calling Me Home.“Looking back, I have four albums and I also have just re-signed back to ABC Music, so we thought it would be a special album to come back and release with ABC. I started out with ABC and I am back there now, so we thought it would work for me to put out a best of which is a fun album.”

The idea of putting out a best of seems like an easy one for an artist. Surely you just throw a few of your better known tunes onto a disc and then sit back and watch the royalties come in.

Storer found it easy enough to choose the songs to go on Calling Me Home, but as she wanted to add a bonus disc of rare material and record some new songs for the collection it did take a little more work than most.

“Picking 22 songs was pretty easy, but then I had to cull two out and I couldn’t choose which ones to leave out,” Storer explains. “I solved

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that problem by putting them both on the bonus disc.The bonus disc just grew longer and longer, so I decided to keep a theme with it being all covers and duets. In the end it ended up 37 songs, so if there are any complaints that there aren’t enough then I don’t know what I have to do to please people!”

Storer owns a few greatest hits albums from other artists and, while she loves the convenience of having all the hits in a neat package, she wanted to give her fans more. In doing so she recorded some new material to be included on Calling Me Home. There was never any fear in Storer’s mind that the new tunes wouldn’t ‘stack up’ against the cream of her collection.

“There was no pressure in that way because I really wanted all five on there, and there was no pressure in writing them as some were newly written and some were 15 years old,” she says. “When I re-recorded them they have come up wonderfully and I am really proud of them all.

I feel they all have something to say. I can’t wait until people start to have a listen and I get some feedback on them.”

Storer’s appeal is in her knack of remaining unaffected and authentic during her vivid narratives. Part of this is that she has lived the life that she sings about, but there is more to her craft than that. Storer notices more detail in the landscapes than others around her and, in turn, creates engaging songs full of meaning and colour.

“You sort of go into layers that other people probably don’t dig so deep into,” Storer says of the songwriting process.“With songwriting you have to be creative and you have to get into the soul of the song. Anyone can write a shell, but when you can transport somebody inside a song is what I like to be able to write. It’s best when people go in and they see the journey and forget that they are actually listening to a song, and come out the other end feeling that they were in that place. It’s peeling back those layers and getting to people in a different way.”

So, with a newly announced engagement and the birth of her son Harry you imagine there will be plenty of new narratives for Storer to draw on. Storer can’t declare with any certainty what these changes in her personal life will do to her songwriting.

“I will start writing and I guess the changes are that I am in such a positive place,” Storer says.“I am living in Darwin and I have a family and feel like I belong; so I am in a really good space.

What we will see on a new album will be probably a change in the emotions. They will be a lot more positive and a lot more happy. I’m curious to know what I am going to write about. Usually songs are about loss of love or something tragic, which is so much fun to write about. But this will be a challenge because it is hard to write about a happier song because after you say you are happy, what are you going to say next?”

The country music world runs parallel to the mainstream for the most part, but it is something that Storer tries not to get too bitter or jaded about. It is this positive outlook, and love of her lifestyle, that shines through in Storer’s songs and endears her to the loyal country music fans. It is a trait that ensures, regardless of the call of the mainstream charts, she will be doing quite nicely thanks.

“Will I be around for another 10 years?” she asks. “Well in all likelihood yes, because the country music audience will let me whether I am good, bad or get too long in the tooth. They are so loyal and they love realness. We owe a lot to our fans as country artists, so it is really up to me when I quit and not them. That doesn’t happen in the mainstream because once you can’t get around in your hotpants you are gone.” _ CHRIS HAVERCROFT www.xpressmag.com.au

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Directed by Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini world comes crashing down when Jay suddenly Starring Charlotte Rampling, Nichola Burley, utters that clichéd phrase ‘I need a break’ from her Richard Winsor, Diversity Crew and Flawless. and his streetdance team captaincy just weeks out from the finals.

It seems that every filmmaker is jumping on the Taking over the leadership role, Carly 3D bandwagon these days. Now don’t get me is forced to search for a new rehearsal space wrong, I thought Avatar was one of the most and upon a chance encounter and unlikely visually stunning pieces of cinematic creation partnership, she finds her dance crew entering ever made, however, do we really need this extra the hallowed hallways of a ballet academy dimension every time we grab a popcorn and where students are currently preparing their settle into the darkness of a movie theatre? Well, audition pieces for The Royal Ballet. However, producer James Richardson and directors Max unconventional ballet schoolmistress Helena Giwa and Dania Pasquini thought so for their (Charlott Rampling) will only provide the rehearsal latest cinema release, StreetDance 3D. The 10 year room free of charge if her ballet students can join long partnership of the directing duo has now the streetdance team, as she hopes the change in seen them jumping from the music video world genre will inject some much needed passion into into full length features, bringing their slick and her uptight students including the eye-catching sophisticated sense of style along with them. ballet dancer Tomas (Richard Winsor).

Challenging themselves by making the Here in lies the conflict, as dance UK’s first 3D live action film, the creative team produced a strong and entertaining dance movie disciplines collide and the clash of cultures that showcases the undeniable talent of some creates sparks between the two sides who must of Britain’s best movers and shakers. It becomes learn to appreciate their differences and find their apparent while these dancers are popping, similarities in order to go up against the reigning locking, breaking and krumping their way across streetdance champions The Surge (Britain’s the screen that they are the real stars of the show Got Talent finalists Flawless) plus Aaron’s Crew and that despite the enhancement of some of the (Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity Crew).

With an extra hurdle or two thrown formations by the 3D effect, this added element is almost unnecessary and plays second fiddle to into the mix towards the end of the film, it’ll start the skilled choreography lighting up the screen. to make you wonder if all this nail biting tension Carly (Nichola Burley) is riding high is just delaying a predictable Hollywood ending. on success. The streetdance team she’s in has But is it really important who the eventual winner just made it into the finals of UK’s Streetdance is anyway? When it’s all for the love of dance, National Championships and she is totally in street or ballet, it doesn’t much matter. love with her boyfriend and fellow dance crew _TANYA MACNAUGHTON member Jay (Ukweli Roach). Unfortunately, Carly’s

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as her every avenue of escape or redress is taken from her. It’s a portrait of institutionalised and codified misogyny; male characters initially shown to be sympathetic are revealed to be deeply If you’ve been told that the sole purpose of compromised by their sexist beliefs, while the cinema is to entertain, you’ve been lied to. village’s community of women are completely Cinema, specifically narrative film, exists first and powerless to stop the proceedings. As the film foremost to elicit an emotional response. Whether progresses and Soraya’s execution becomes more the desired response is laughter, tears, fear, or and more inevitable, the only reaction possible is excitement is largely irrelevant; if your mind shifts numb despair at the bleak horror of it all. gears in the way the filmmaker intended, the film It’s no spoiler to say that the stoning is is successful. shown in excruciating detail; it’s the point of the The Stoning Of Soraya M. is here to film, to show every visceral moment of Soraya’s shock and outrage you. It is not comfortable prolonged suffering and murder. By forcing the viewing by any stretch of the imagination, and audience to confront the pain and terror, it robs giving it the label of ‘entertainment’ just doesn’t us of the distancing power of intellectualisation; sit right. It’s certainly engrossing, and there is a any possibility of abstraction is destroyed by the palpable sense of dread and tension throughout brutality of the scene. This is the dark heart of the the proceedings. It also has the added weight film, both powerful and disturbing, and it stays of being based on a true story, specifically the with the viewer long after the credits have rolled. non-fiction book of the same title by Freidoune There are a few flaws, but they are Sahebjam (played by Caviezel in the framing minimal. Soraya’s husband Ali is portrayed as sequence). such a despicable human being that he threatens The story is simple; set in a remote to become a cartoon villain, devoid of any village in post-revolutionary Iran, it follows the complexity. And director Nowrasteh occasionally machinations of prison guard Ali (Negahban) to relies on film techniques - slow motion, rapid rid himself of his wife of 20 years, Soraya (Marno) editing, the odd fantasy sequence - that break so that he can take a new bride. Soraya refuses a divorce, on the grounds that Ali will no longer from the realistic feel of the film and create a support her or their two sons. So Ali engineers a distance that the rest of the piece so successfully conspiracy to frame Soraya for adultery, a crime avoids.

But these are minor quibbles. The which carries the death penalty under Sharia law. All this is related to journalist Sahebjam by Stoning Of Soraya M. is a powerful and confronting film that focuses on and humanises a terrible Soraya’s aunt Zahra (Aghdashloo), who attempted crime that is still all-too-frequently committed to save her niece from the titular fate.

It’s harrowing viewing; once Ali sets today, and it deserves to be seen. his plan in motion, Soraya’s fate is pretty much _TRAVIS JOHNSON sealed, and the viewer can only watch helplessly

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PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Sheik and Bake

Directed by Mike Newell Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina Megaproducer Jerry Bruckheimer has reteamed with Disney in an attempt to kickstart another franchise in the mould of Pirates Of The Caribbean.

This time, rather than dusting off an old theme park ride, they’ve drawn inspiration from the dubious well that is the videogame, trusting that a big name cast and a massive budget will result in something a bit better than German schlockmeister Uwe Boll’s oeuvre.

Prince Of Persia is ostensibly set in the Middle East of the 6th century, but much like the Pirates films it relies more on myth and imagination than anything so stolid as real-world history, and the storyline likewise fairly drips with mythic resonance. Orphan boy Dastan (Gyllenhaal) is adopted by the Persian king and raised to manhood alongside his two legitimate sons. After being framed for the King’s murder by the duplicitous grand vizier Nizam (Kingsley, who knows exactly what kind of movie he’s in and overacts accordingly), Dastan takes to his heels with haughty princess Tamina (Arterton) in tow, in an effort to keep magical MacGuffin the Dagger of Time out of the hands of Nizam and his Nazgul-alike henchmen, the Hassansin. Along the way buckles are swashed, blocks are busted, and the fate of the world rests in the hands of our two chemistry-free leads, who are (allegedly) growing to like each other very much indeed, thankyou...

It’s fairly generic stuff, but that’s not to say it isn’t fun. With the roguish Dastan they’re clearly trying to forge another Jack Sparrow icon,

FISH TANK Out Of Water

Directed by Andrea Arnold can soothe Mia’s turbulent soul is the hip hop Starring Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, dancing she practises alone in abandoned Kierston Wareing buildings. That is, until her mother brings home a new beau, Connor (Michael Fassbender).

So this is Essex, England. Well, the grittier part at Our perception of events, drawn least. Writer/director Andrea Arnold has fleshed principally through Mia, hum with the energy out a world of striking opposites - small, neat of a high school crush as her relationship with suburbia, run-down buildings, grey industrial Connor develops. It’s not just Arnold’s adept sites and a vast blue sky that stretches over use of a hand held camera to create panic and sprawling marshlands. Insert idle teens that intimacy, but the craft of her cast. Fassbender loiter in vacant lots and who communicate via (Inglorious Basterds) strikes a balance between head butts and profanity. It’s not the glossiest concern and deception in Connor, and we Prince Of Persia picture and mightn’t do wonders for tourism, are, like Mia, confused as to what we should but kudos for giving us something real in an feel about him. There is a fine line between although in Gyllenhaal’s hands he comes across industry of Hollywood sheen. guardian and lust interest and it’s executed as another Will Turner - really, there’s only so much Newcomer Katie Jarvis is Mia Williams, a personal trainer and a tanning bed can do. a 15 year old girl who lives in a bleak British with artless seduction, sans creepy paedophile.

Equally engaging is Jarvis’ vulnerable Having said that, he serves adequately as a focal public housing estate with her wayward point for the massive action sequences and lavish mother, Joanne (Kierston Wareing), and cussing and fearless approach to Mia. Untrained, and set pieces to unfold around. Similarly, Arterton younger sister, Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths). “I hate plucked from a train station in Essex mid can’t do much with the petulant and demanding yous” are a frequent exchange and despite argument with her boyfriend, Jarvis’ personal Tamina, and we never really care whether these being based at home, the young mother history adds to the credibility and emotional two hook up or even survive, although if you Joanne is not the nurturing sort - she’s apt clout of this picture. She brings the experience doubt either outcome you’ve never clapped eyes to hosting drunken parties and shutting her and raw energy needed to actualise the role on a summer tentpole film before. The older cast daughters out. Her neglectful approach has with formidable realism. members know not to take this stuff too seriously, fostered a brutish resilience in her offspring, Fish Tank explores what can be and Alfred Molina in particular is a standout as a and sees Mia hurtling from one angst to a claustrophobic, often volatile passage to proto-capitalist bandit chieftain with a penchant another. She is at war with her family, school adulthood. for ostriches and a hatred of taxation. and peers.

The main problem here is ethnocentric; It seems that the only thing that _EMMA D’ORAZIO for a film set firmly in the Middle East, none of the principal cast are from the region, and an early plot point about an invasion being staged due to faked information about non-existent weapons of war is either slyly topical or on the nose, depending on your political persuasion. Once the action slips into high gear such concerns are mostly forgotten, but they niggle, and on later reflection you have to wonder who the studio felt the need to whitewash the main cast so completely.

Prince Of Persia is a factory-standard blockbuster, seemingly cobbled together out of spare bits from Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Mummy, Lord Of The Rings, and a dozen other films. Minor cultural insensitivities aside, it’s an affable enough action-adventure, although it ultimately lacks the degree of charm or epic scope it was obviously shooting for. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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THE RONNIE JOHNS HALF HOUR

SAM SIMMONS

The Ronnie Johns Half Hour – Live On Stage takes over the Octagon Theatre (UWA) from Tuesday, June 1, ’til Friday, June 4. All shows 7:30pm. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

Catch Sam Simmons performing Fail on Thursday, June 24, at the Astor Theatre.

Tickets are on sale now through BOCS.

The Third Degree

The team from one of Australia’s most loved television sketch comedy shows from yesteryear, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, are back with a live stage show, reincarnating classic characters Chopper, Paulie, Mlak Mlak and many more.

The show, which began as a live sketch show by a collection of performers from Australian universities, known as The 3rd Degree, propelled a little known female comic by the name of Felicity Ward into the limelight.

“I was accidentally involved, they kidnapped me,” Ward laughs, at home in Melbourne between touring dates around the country.

“I auditioned for the group in its second year, even though I’d never gone to university and failed TAFE in the late ’90s, but for some reason they let me in,” Ward says.

“There were two girls and five guys, and we were performing for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Executives from Channel 10 were in the crowd, and they had been interested in The 3rd Degree the first year but the show just wasn’t quite right.”

At this second show, the executives from Channel 10 loved what they saw, and soon after the team were given a workshop and asked to go away and work on new material for two months. Ward says it was one of the most fun and terrifying experiences of her life.

“We all had regular non-creative day jobs – I was a waitress who wanted to be an actor and I thought I was pretty good, but the world didn’t necessarily agree. We’d never had real jobs in the creative industry, and we were suddenly getting paid to do what we’d done in our free time out of the love for it.”

Fast forward two years, and the TV show had two successful seasons from 2005 to 2006 on network television, albeit with just under 200 viewer complaints. “Two complaints were regarding Chopper’s swearing, the other 198 stemmed from a skit where Jesus answers his mobile phone on the cross,” Ward giggles.

Ward says getting back together with the team for the live stage show has been extremely fun and it is a privilege to

Monkeying Around

Best known for his comedy segments on Triple J, and the hilariously odd miniseries The Urban Monkey With Murray Foote, Sam Simmons is a curious chap with an absurd sense of humour, who is set to confuse and delight Perth audiences this June with his latest show, Fail.

When X-Press’ call gets patched through to Simmons the ex-Perth lad seems flustered; “I just stumbled off a tram. I hate public transport with a massive passion! I’m such a snob now (laughs). There was a guy who didn’t know how to validate his ticket who was really annoying me! It was a really annoying trip and now I’m out the front of a block of commission flats so it’s really dodgy.”

Though Simmons lived in Perth until the ripe old age of 10, he’s never ventured back out west for a comedy show before, a dilemma which he’ll rectify with an upcoming show at the Astor Theatre.

“If I was to say to you that I have fond memories of Lake Monger would you know what that means? I used to have a Felicity Ward little cubby in the bamboo down there. I’ve be creating with everyone again. “There are never performed in Perth, never! So it’s pretty solo sketches with just one character, but the sketches with everyone on stage are the most exciting.

“I consider myself more from fun. A lot of the time it’s hard to keep a straight face, I find myself laughing if I spot the slightest Adelaide just because where you get your pubes, or where you go through all that grimace from one of the other guys in a scene,” puberty shit, is where you grew up. I just she laughs. don’t remember heaps about Perth.”

“We’ve had such a great time with Much like UK comics Peter this show and audiences have too. Those who loved the TV show can see their favourite Serafinowicz (Look Around You) and Noel characters and sketches in the flesh, as well as Fielding (The Mighty Boosh), Simmons is getting the new material we’ve been working a master of all things absurd who loves on. About 60 per cent of the material is to perplex people with his comedy; and remounts from the TV show, 20 per cent is new though he’s received numerous awards at sketches with the same characters, and the rest the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, is all new sketches. We also begin the show he feels that most Australians just don’t get with a hilarious death metal musical number to what he does and frankly, he just doesn’t understand most Australians (particularly get everyone in the mood,” Ward says.

Although she doesn’t want to ruin those who enjoy the re-animated corpse that the finale of the show, Ward tells me in between is Hey Hey It’s Saturday).

“I feel a kinship with your generation giggling hysterically down the phone “it’s the most disgusting thing you’ll see live. Custard, because I’ve got no interest in the dream of owning a home and shit because I think we and fruit salad is all I’m going to say.” all know, deep down, that it’s all over so we _DAVID HALL may as well have fun. I’ve got a few weeks

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off and because I fly around a lot I have a lot of Frequent Flyer points, so I was thinking I could just fuck off to Bangkok and really just experience life. This country is fucked; I don’t watch a lot of tele and I was getting fish and chips the other night and Hey Hey It’s Saturday was on and I just thought ‘we are so retarded in this country, we’ve gone backwards’. I don’t know what’s going on in this country but it’s not awesome.

“I’m heading to the UK straight after Perth actually; I have an opportunity to do some work over there for the BBC in London and hopefully they’ll like me. I did Edinburgh (Comedy Festival) last year and they seemed to like an Australian ‘absurdist’; they seemed to really dig it opposed to over here. I had a guy pull me up after a gig in Brisbane and go ‘mate, you know what your problem is? You’re like nobody else’; and I just thought ‘that’s a positive isn’t it?!’. He just couldn’t categorise what I do!”

So there you have it folks, this is your last chance to catch Simmons before he buggers off to the UK, leaving a largely perplexed nation in his wake. If you like your comedy random and unpredictable, Fail is sure to tickle your funny bone. _EMMA BERGMEIER

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Mrs McLeavy’s funeral just might have gone smoothly if her ex-nurse had not been making a play for the recently widowed husband, or if her son and his friend had not just carried out a bank robbery – hiding the loot in Mrs McLeavy’s coffin and locking the corpse in a handy wardrobe – or even perhaps if the local police inspector had not turned up on the track of the money, disguised as an official of the London Water Board.

Season opens on Friday, June 4, and runs ’til Saturday, June 19. Bookings through BOCS.

Ben Frost in his Sydney studio

Tales Of Terror, Wasteland Gallery, Level 1, 44 King Street, Perth.

For Ben Frost’s second artistic assault on Perth, the artist makes a statement about society’s continuing loss of innocence and the ‘capitalist-corporate-western-death-machine’ that we are living in. His works attempt to devalue corporate identities through the misuse of their mascots and logos.

Exhibition opens at 7pm on Saturday, May 29. Opening party is strictly 18+.

VISUAL ARTS Copains, Juicebox Gallery, 24 Angove Street, North Perth.

A joint exhibition by Will Smithwick and Bevan Griggs, Copains explores the different mediums of copper-wire sculpture and realist paintings.

While Smithwick recycles and manipulates copper wire to create ‘electro-bonsai’, Griggs creates paintings inspired by the beauty of the Australian landscape.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, May 29, and runs ’til Sunday, June 6.

31 In 30 Days, Kurb Gallery, 214 William Street, Northbridge.

In setting out to capture the personalities of 31 people with a 50mm lens, over a period of 30 days; photographer Jake England used a single light and an array of ‘ridiculous questions’ to both probe and excite his subjects into revealing themselves, all for the sake of a great exhibition.

Exhibition opens on Tuesday, June 1, and runs ’til Sunday, June 6.

Make It Happen, Little Creatures, 40 Mews Road, Fremantle.

Photographer Alexandre Schoelcher invites Perth to join him on a photographic journey through Ghana, Nepal and the Phillipines in Make It Happen.

Featuring images that capture scenes of day to day life, the Make It Happen encourages viewers to hop a plane in search of adventure.

Exhibition runs ’til Monday, June 7.

The Poetics Of Connection, Greenhill Galleries, 6 Gugeri Street, Claremont.

Studying the form of the horse amongst other creatures, with layer upon layer of shadows, Adriane Strampp’s dreamlike images pose the question: is this reality or is this all imagined? Her oil paintings have a sense of unique detailing, exploring the graceful lines, shapes and shadows In Transience, Riseborough Estate Gallery, Lot 21, Mooliabeenie Road, Gingin. found only in nature.

West Australian emerging artist Stuart McMillan’s Exhibition runs ’til Saturday, June 5. exhibition In Transience, deals with the Spirit Of Place, Elements Art Gallery, 131A contemplative experience of being in a world of constant transience. Exhibition showcases a Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith.

Spirit Of Place is Western Australia’s first selection of McMillan’s paintings, drawings and opportunity to view the work of Emma Hack, prints, plus recent installation work.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, June 27. internationally acclaimed body illustrator and photographer. Emma’s work ranges from Soulburbia, Gallery East, 94 Stirling Highway, beautiful transformations of the human form into landscapes and exotic sculpture, to elegantly North Fremantle. intricate camouflaged figures melting into In a new series of meditative and playful works, handpainted or wallpaper backgrounds. Her Alan Muller portrays the garden suburbs of Perth detailed designs can take up to 19 hours to as a restorative sanctuary amidst the intensities of contemporary urban living and global challenge. create.

Here, nature continues to refresh and inspire: Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, June 6.

The Myth Of Julian Rose, Blue Room Theatre, James Street, Northbridge.

Mondo Di Corpo and The Blue Room Theatre present the world premiere of new Western Australian work The Myth Of Julian Rose. The protagonist, Julian, is a man with a disturbing past which surfaces with a vengeance when a Minotaur begins to stalk his family. The Myth Of Julian Rose gives voice to the unspeakable, boldly portraying the effects of maternal child abuse and suppressed trauma, resulting in a story that is emotive, tragic and chilling.

Season opens on Tuesday, June 8, and runs ’til Saturday, June 26. Bookings via blueroom. org.au.

Anything Goes, Regal Theatre, corner Rokeby Road and Hay Street, Subiaco.

Following on from last year’s sold-out season of 42nd Street, WAAPA proudly presents Cole Porter’s most popular musical, Anything Goes, boasting 40 cast members and a 22 piece orchestra. This huge song-and-dance spectacular follows the madcap antics aboard the ocean liner SS America as young Billy Crocker discovers true love in the form of gorgeous heiress Hope Harcourt.

Season opens on Friday, June 11, and runs ’til Saturday, June 19. Bookings can be made through Ticketek.

MUSIC James Flynn CD launch, The Ellington Jazz Club, Beaufort Street, Perth.

Friday, May 28; bookings via ellingtonjazz. com.au.

Matt Rosner, Kulcha, 13 South Terrace, Fremantle.

Friday, May 28; bookings via kulcha.com.au or on the door.

Marnie Kent Quintet, The Ellington Jazz Club, Beaufort Street, Perth.

Sunday, May 30; bookings via ellingtonjazz. com.au.

Way Out West, Don Russell Performing Arts Centre, Murdoch Road, Thornlie.

Friday, June 4; bookings via gosnells.wa.gov. au.

All Your Need Is Harmony, Subiaco Arts Centre, 180 Hammersley Road, Subiaco.

Saturday, June 5; bookings through BOCS. Richard Tognetti with WASO, Perth Concert Hall, 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth.

Friday, June 11, and Saturday, June 12; bookings via waso.com.au.

Katie Noonan & The Captains, Fly By Night Bar, Fremantle.

Saturday, June 12, and Sunday, June 13; bookings via flybynight.org.

Drum Tao: The Samurai Of The Drum, Perth Concert Hall, 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth.

Tuesday, June 22, ’til Saturday, June 26; bookings through BOCS. Music On The Terrace 2010: Fused, Government House Ballroom. St Georges Terrace, Perth.

Sunday, June 27; bookings through BOCS. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Intentions, Astor Theatre, Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley.

Monday, June 28; bookings through BOCS.

A Collec tion O f Organised Spaces, Free Range Gallery, 339 Wellington Street, Perth.

Perth artist Jacqueline Ball presents a collect ion of photographic i m a g e r y t h a t i nv e s t i g a t e s constructed architectural spaces, geometric forms, light and materiality. Over the past three years angular forms have been a central concern in her practice and A Collection Of Organised Spaces represents her latest outcomes of this ongoing investigation.

Exhibition opens at 6pm on Friday, May 28, and runs ’til Sunday, June 6.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST The WA music industry and its many fans came together to celebrate the best of the west last Sunday, May 23, when the Music Industry Reunion Club took over the Charles Hotel. Those in attendance witnessed music legend Matt Taylor’s inception into the WAM Hall Of Fame, and were treated to music from some of WA’s best artists.

The night was one for the history books with unforgettable performances from Neptunes, and from members of Allegiance, Rookies, Company Of Men and the much loved Perth Blues Club Allstars.

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Faculty information nights at Curtin throughout June, as part of Curtinnovation Live.

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It’s not every day you get to interview a 406 year old intergalactic shaman. But while most of the world know him as Naboo, Mike Fielding is stepping out from the shadow of the The Mighty Boosh and coming to DJ this weekend for two sold out shows. He won’t be dressing up, but everyone else will.As he explains to ALFRED GORMAN, he’s not that different from Naboo really.

“Yeah actually it gets confusing sometimes, I mean, without sounding really mental, I am Naboo,” he laughs. Indeed it is strange speaking to the man, as he sounds just the same in voice and mannerisms, “Though I’ll be DJing as myself, but just not in costume, it’s just too much, wearing the wig and the curly shoes.

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I’m quite accident prone as it is, so that’s just asking for it.”

While he might not be touring in full shaman regalia and is now touring the world as a DJ independently, Fielding is obviously used to fielding (no pun intended) questions about The Boosh and takes it in his (rather small) stride, “Bolo’s not coming either,” he jokes, “because he’ll be at home looking after my flat, paying the bills, doing the shopping – so who knows what I’m gonna go back to.”

Fielding’s been a busy boy since the end of the last series, with his DJ career really taking off, “Yeah I been doing loads of DJing lately. It’s been non-stop really since last year, when we did the live Boosh tour. I’m lucky to be doing a job I really enjoy.”

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ď Žď Ľď ˇď ł RAPPAS BACK IN TOWN So Supafest may have had its hiccups (hello, $20,000 fine from the Town Of Vincent) but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a ripper night! Now the promoters that brought you Supafest are back to give you your urban dose for the winter. Winterbeatz 2010 is coming to Perth, featuring multi-million album selling artist Ne-Yo, Grammy Award winning artist T-Pain, local duo Phinesse, and Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s number one urban man, DJ Nino Brown. This R & B extravaganza goes down on Saturday, July 31, at the Burswood Dome. Presales from Monday, May 31, with general tickets on sale Wednesday, June 2, through www.ticketek. com.au.

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MIKE â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; FLEM! John 00 Fleming is one of few artists that has maintained underground respect whilst enjoying commercial success during a career spanning almost a quarter of a century. Not just a DJ, Fleming has made numerous mix albums, produced singles and remixs and heads his own underground label, Joof Recordings. John has sold 10 million records, with singles on over 100 mix compilations and has remixed a cross section of elite artists whilst DJing across a global playing field.

Joining John 00 Fleming is Belgiumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s M.I.K.E, whose album Universal Nation took the world by storm, winning several dance awards, and undoubtedly being recognised as one of the classic dance-records of the trance era to this day. Saturday, August 14, Villa. Ticket details to come.

HOLD ON, HEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COMING Between a hectic touring schedule which has taken in just about every corner of the world, running his Zeitgeist-defining label, and his status as hugely in-demand remixer du jour, it is little wonder that James Holden hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been to our shores since 2006. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about to change. On the back of the release of his release for the DJ â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Kicks compilation series, the Border Community head honcho brings his DJ set to Perth for an intimate show. Friday, July 23, Ambar. Tickets $30 plus booking fee from Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets and online from Boomtick.com.au, moshtix. com.au and inthemix.com.au.

Cloud Control Sydney ethereal pop group Cloud Control have recently unleashed their debut album, Bliss Release, on the Aussie public at large, with local connoisseurs Mess and Noise magazine proclaiming single Gold Canary, off the album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the best Australian singles of the yearâ&#x20AC;?. Fresh from a stint playing at the Great Escape Festival in the UK, alongside the likes of The XX and Kasabian, Cloud Control look set to be the next big thing.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your chance to see what all the hype is about: Cloud Control play at Mojos this Friday, May 28. Support from fellow Sydneysiders Richard In Your Mind, and local lovelies Split Seconds. Tickets are available from Moshtix for $15 plus booking fee, otherwise itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $18 on the door from 8pm.

Prepare for an evening of truly Bliss-ful tunes!

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NIGHTMARE ON NOCTURNAL STREET The annual Nocturnal Ball, the night of nights for WAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nightclub industry, will take on a particularly â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;horror-bleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; theme this year. Prepare for the residents of evil. A zombie invasion. A decked out and frocked up show-stopping, nail-biting party of terror! Nocturnal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Night Of Horror takes place on Monday, July 12, at Metro City. Tickets $55 plus booking fee (industry) or $60 plus booking fee (general public), now on sale from www.moshtix.com.au, Planet Video, Mills Records, Dirt Cheap CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Red Stripe Clothing and Rockeby Records, or through your own venue.

Staples of Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institubes label, Drop The Lime, head to Australia with a series of club shows.

In recent years, Drop The Lime has created a storm both on Institubes and his own Trouble & Bass label. The manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavy-duty productions and remixes for the likes of Moby and Midnight Juggernauts have kept him chained to the studio, while on the weekend he cuts loose all around the world. Catch him on Friday, July 9, at Metro City, Perth.

ROOTS GURUS Now that the birthday celebrations have died down, Fishermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Style are getting back to what they do best â&#x20AC;&#x201C; putting on a great eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertainment. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reggae music focus is roots and culture. Let Earthlink Sound gurus Drummy and Sherif charm you with their selections, whilst also building on what will be a joyous party are Sabata Sound, DJ Sorted and special guests Platinum Galore and DJ Deruki. Mojoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizzas will be running up â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til 10pm. Fishermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Style goes down on Friday, June 4, at Mojoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fremantle. Entry is $10/ $5 (concession) from 8pm.

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BRIGHT HOT Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to look on the bright side because winter in Perth is about to be the hottest on record as the promoters of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Splendour In The Grass festival bring Perth the brightest stars from Splendour In The Grass under a fabulous super top right in the heart of Perth! On The Bright Side is the newest boutique festival to hit Perth, and as well as some top quality indie rock acts, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some neat-o dance acts too.

Alexis, Joe, Felix, Al and Owen from UK dance-electronic act Hot Chip will all be making the trip over, ready to deliver their deeply danceable singles Over And Over, Ready For The Floor and new tracks from most recent album One Life Stand. Joining Hot Chip as another dance act to note will be Bluejuice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; no doubt the Australian five piece will be in their element at the festival making you dance in a foot loose, unselfconscious way with their performance power, energy and humour.

Perth Esplanade, Saturday, July 24. Tickets on sale Friday, May 28, from heatseeker.com.au, Star Surf Perth and Mandurah, Mills Records, Planet Video and Live Clothing Stores. This event is over 18s only.

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The Future Sailors tour, which was recorded for DVD, was probably the most intense tour any comedy act has ever been on, “Yeah it was 99 gigs over six months, it was insane, six nights a week, not even bands do that! But it was great fun – getting to tour with my brother. But it’s good to get to do something that doesn’t involve everyone else, ‘cause everyone has their own things going on.”

DJing is still something relatively new to Fielding, “I only really got into DJing during the first season, but me and Noel have always been really into music. Our parents were really cool parents. I remember when I was about three or four, looking at all my dad’s records and seeing stuff like the New York Dolls and kinda being freaked out by these four guys dressed up as women.”

As far as his sets go, you can expect a mix of indie and electro party tunes, but with a touch of eclecticism and nods to the past as you might expect, but Fielding prides himself on being able to read the crowd, “You go and see a DJ in an indie club and you’ll generally see the same sorta set – but I like to mix it up a lot, people never know what’s coming up, and every sets different – I never know what I’m gonna play ‘til I get there – that’s what playing live is all about.”

As with many of the shows he does, billed or not, his Perth shows are fancy dress.

“Some of them have been amazing – they had me choose the best costume at one, and a guy had dressed up as Old Gregg, but he went a bit too far and actually used real seaweed as a wig!

It stank up the whole dancefloor, so it wasn’t that good, but he did put the effort in so he won.”

It must be an odd thing to see how willing fans are to dress up as characters from the show. “Yeah it’s like Rocky Horror. It’s weird, ‘cause when we did the show we got feedback about how many people were watching and stuff, but it’s just numbers. But when you do a live show, you actually get to see all the fans in the flesh and they all dress up, and it’s all mad. It can be a bit overwhelming and we kinda have to block it out, otherwise we just kinda freak out and hide in the corner and go ‘woah this is intense’,” he laughs.

Back in the early days, Fielding never imagined that this little, low budget BBC comedy would become this huge worldwide cult hit. “It’s amazing really, ‘cause its such a weird show! I watched some of the first season again the other day and it just really dawned on me how ridiculous it is! I think that’s why people really love it, ‘cause it is just so different and insane.”

There are indeed an amazingly bizarre cast of characters, “I tend to like the darker characters like the Crack Fox and the Hitcher – who is actually based upon our Grandad.”

Though he does add that his Grandfather doesn’t urinate in people’s faces. “He’s from South London and he’s an old Cockney guy with white hair and he talks just like him. And yeah I love the Crack Fox – when I first saw that episode it scared the hell out of me!”

Having grown up in London, Fielding’s own style was defined by his early experiences in the world’s clubbing epicentre, “I used to go to this place in Camden called The Monarch, though I think they changed it to The Barfly – which they’ve got all over London now. They used to have really cool

nights there where they’d play psychedelic ‘60s and ‘70s stuff and upstairs they played ‘80s and ‘90s. I used to go there with my mates and stay ‘til seven in the morning.”

“But then it became kinda commercial and just full of idiots getting drunk and starting fights, which is a real shame as it used to be such a chilled place. But it’s just like that in London – I used to live in Melbourne for awhile, about eight years ago – I backpacked down the East Coast and worked in Melbourne for a bit, and the clubbing there was great and I never saw one fight, but in London you’re almost guaranteed to see at least three or four fights on the way home.”

This tour is Fielding’s first time back in our country since then and he’s looking forward to it, though wishes he coulda made it down for the summer, “It’s mad how popular we are there, we’ve always had these Australian fans coming up and asking when we are coming down there. I’m really looking forward to Perth, as I never made it across.

Hopefully in the future we can bring across the live Boosh show too - but it’s up to the guys really. There’s also a movie in the works and other bits and pieces, like these Gritty Drama Button vids I’ve done [check out on you tube].”

So for those lucky enough to have tickets to the shows, get decked out in your Boosh-iest garb, get your crimp on and prepare yourself for a magical journey through time and space.

DJ NABOO SATURDAY, MAY 29 & SUNDAY, MAY 30 @ SHAPE, EAST PERTH

SIN AGAINST US Gilkinson’s Saturday, May 22, 2010 Goths gathered en masse at Sin last Saturday for a night of dark grooves and potent beverages.

Held every Saturday night until 3am, Sin is an institution on the alternative scene, providing a place for those who wouldn’t be seen dead in Northbridge.

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ASCENSION YOUNG ONES ON THE RISE Travis Eddy / Jason Creek / GT Watson / Joe Benger / Dylan Curtis / Swilky Rise, Northbridge Friday, May 22, 2010

Featuring an all local line up from the very start to the very finish, Friday night’s Ascension at the Rise was the first edition of a new night that hopes to inject some enthusiasm into the local trance scene.

Upon entering the club close to 11pm, one was greeted by a sparse dance floor with the smallish crowd content with socialising upstairs and out on the balcony. Dylan Curtis was charged with the unenviable task of opening proceedings and whilst looking a touch nervous at times, he finished strongly with Laidback Luke’s remix of Flight 643 and Michael Woods remix of I Said which encouraged some punters to get downstairs and start grooving.

Joe Benger looked like a man on a mission as he took control of the DJ booth. With his combination of great track selection and raw enthusiasm; the growing crowd found the dance floor too irresistible a proposition. Dropping in the right track at the right time, Benger’s set was all class; featuring Above & Beyond’s Anjunabeach, a Johnny The Fox remix and ending on Dash Berlin’s vocal favourite Waiting.

It was during Benger’s set that there was a rapid influx of people, quickly filling the club: as Jason Creek hit the decks just after midnight the party was in full swing. Creek worked the dance floor into a frenzy as hands were thrust into the air, clapping and cheering to a Rank 1 remix of Safe

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Dylan Curtis Pics: Matt Jelonek Wherever You Are. Creek played an intriguing combination of driving bass lines, undulating melodies and vocally inspired tracks. In the last fifteen minutes he started to push it up a notch, learning towards the darker, dirtier sounds of tech trance: dropping Bart Claessen’s pounding remix of Coldfront followed closely by another Claessen track, Elf, to close out an impressive set.

Jason Eddy took to the stage and unleashed his trademark brand of unrelenting, high octane sounds, mashing up John O’Callaghan’s Big Sky with Seas Tyas’ remix of Time, a move that resulted in the dance floor erupting into a mass of heaving bodies. Eddy worked the crowd to perfection, visibly enjoying himself as he jumped onto the back of the booth, further encouraging the crowd to join in the fun. Eddy’s set was one of epic proportions with nonstop mayhem from start to finish.

GT Watson joined Eddy after an hour to play back to back before flying solo, continuing the auditory onslaught into the early hours of the morning with a considerably sized crowd that seemed transfixed to the dance floor and was in no hurry to go home.

With a warm and friendly atmosphere, great crowd and outstanding local talent banging out some amazing music, Ascension was a fantastic night. With the attendance exceeding many people’s expectations and the crowd staying well into the early hours of the morning, this first installment of Ascension will surely not be the last.

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STILL TURBO CHARGED Approaching his appearance in Perth as part of the We Love Sounds Festival,Tiga tells RZ that he plans to create a “mutant rave” at his Turbo stage.

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bit of an oddball. I never really tried to fit in – I just made sure my experiences were fun. I was into a Growing up in Montreal, Canada, Tiga recalls his lot of things and I was always getting obsessed upbringing and the remarkably relaxed parents with stuff. Like performing and entertaining – at who gave him his direction.“Musically, I never had that age, I wanted to be an actor on stage.” Yet any aspirations of being a musician,” he says. “I fulfilling his dreams through others, he helped loved music, though didn’t have a band - I played orchestrate a number of Canadian dance events clarinet in school for a while but have awesome including touring The Orb as well as organising and supportive parents who allowed me to be the first North American appearance of continental myself. The first time I decided I loved techno illusionist, Jean-There.

In 2010, he is embarking on a Turbo culture was when I was 17 and went to a rave.”

Indeed, Tiga was well travelled before tour, picking up a fair few airline miles in the his brilliant career took off. “My folks did a lot of process. “We started the label tour a few weeks travel. They started in the early 1970s, looking for ago; basically we’ve got our artists travelling with new places to go - and they took me along for us; we’ve got our own sound and lighting as well the ride. By the time I was six I was hanging out and that’s going really well, great in fact.”

Production-wise, Tiga says they’ve in some far out places - one of those places was Goa in India, where there was already a fledgling got some albums in the pipeline and plenty party scene. I enjoyed it - I realised this was an of 12”s to come as well. “Jasper has something acceptable way to live your life.” Upon returning coming out with us and the other big thing to Canada he became disillusioned with the is that we’ve started a sub label - we don’t scene there, calling it “the plumage of a bird I know the name yet but we’re also working cannot bring myself to want.” In return, he began on releasing sets and compilations and to throw a series of small parties with friends. exclusives and things via the new website “In my formative teenage years, I was a we’ve just launched which is at planetturbo.

com. Otherwise it’s just business as usual.”

The other important question though is where Tiga is positioned musically in the new decade. While admitting he is still inspired by techno, he claims he doesn’t always make it: “at least it might not sound like that right now; there is a bit of a split in the music I make. It’s been hard to categorise - for me its techno but I’ve been making stuff that’s a bit slower and dirtier and not quite as manic as well.”

Indeed, the tour in Australia will see the Turbo crew travelling with the same lineup to every show. “It has worked very well in Europe so far. While it’s not a revolutionary concept and there isn’t much to it, we still want to work it full spectrum.

“We’ve got Seth from Detroit who is amazing, Felix da Housecat is also along and while he isn’t on Turbo, he is a great friend. Then there is Zombie Nation who will play live and of course Proxy and myself. So that with some local support, we should see a little bit of chaos – it’s a great idea and we’ve put a lot of effort and thought into it, so expect to have a great party.

There is a Swedish guy working with me to develop light and video ideas as well.

“In the end, we hope it’s like this mutant rave! A bit psychedelic; like a weird twisted warehouse party from the nineties. We want to combine things in an intelligent way. No one will be flying out of cannons or anything like that but there are plenty of surprises in store; all of us are really looking forward to it!”

DJ ASWON From Jamaica (via London), DJ Aswon is a key player in Perth’s reggae scene. Kulcha celebrate Aswon’s warrior-like talent with a series of smooth (and free) Sunday reggae sessions, featuring Aswon on the decks.

Salt uses the opportunity to get to know him a little better.

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DJ Aswon

How did you come to be known as DJ Aswon?

I was born in Jamaica. My family migrated to the UK during the ‘60s so from the age of nine I grew up in London. I chose ‘Aswon Farenji’ when I created my band Farenji Warriors in London during the ‘70s. I came to live in Australia in 1983.

What was the first public DJ set you ever played?

My first set as a DJ was in Australia at Club Dread, Fremantle - the reaction I got from the audience was wicked.

What could a Salt reader whose never seen you play before, expect?

I play reggae music predominately.

As a DJ I get asked to play at weddings and other functions so I can mix it up with other music like R&B, hip hop, dance, drum ‘n’ bass and various other music. I am a percussionist when I am doing live music and I do session work for other musicians and bands.

Care to share some career highlights with us?

I have had many great moments during my music life. Some of my great memories come from when I performed with Curtis Mayfield, Taj Mahal and Hugh Masekela. I had wonderful times when I played with Dennis Brown and Bob Andy.

When I first came to Australia I formed Dread Affair and toured across Australia with a full Jamaican band. During the ‘80s when the music scene was very vibrant and exciting it was a wonderful time and it really brought reggae music to the forefront in Australia.

All time favourite 12”?

Exodus Movements Of The People, Bob Marley.

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What DJs in Perth do you rate?

In Perth, I would have to say Greg Packer. He’s a true professional at drum ‘n’ bass.

Just love that. Another particular DJ I must mention is DJ Coby, for her reggae mixing ability. DJ Slick also has a great ability to mix between hip hop and dancehall reggae in his sets.

What, in your opinion, do you think the Perth dance music scene needs more of?

More serious musicians and a more professional attitude to business. The music and entertainment of Perth has seriously degraded and has not grown much in 20 years. It needs to come up to standards that supports the true artists and gives the industry a new credibility.

Talent should be flourishing and thriving in this rich city. We need to respect and find ways to make that happen.

For more info on DJ Aswon, check out myspace.com/aswondawg. Aswon plays from 5pm every Sunday during the Kulcha Sunday Reggae Sessions, at Kulcha, 13 South Terrace, Fremantle (upstairs). Entry is free. www.xpressmag.com.au

MARKUS SCHULZ DOING DAMAGE ON THE DANCE FLOOR “Right now there is a cool atmosphere of change in the air and my most important goal is to be part of that change.” The eighth best DJ in the world (DJ Mag), Markus Schulz, tells GLEN PARKS he doesn’t care about being number one, so long as he’s part of the energy and the vibe.

After emigrating from Germany to America with his family in the ‘80s Markus Schulz’s deep interest in music developed. Through some difficult teenage years he found comfort in music. “I used to listen to the radio quite a bit, that’s how I got into music. I had kind of a hard childhood growing up, so I spent a lot of time in my room listening to music. When I listened to music I used to dissect it. I’d listen to the drums, the synthesizers; all the elements that went into these tracks.”

This fascination led to Schulz exploring the breakdance scene and eventually led to his natural progression toward DJing. But whilst Man Parrish, Kraftwerk and Soul Sonic Force were all in Schulz’s early sets, he got his career kick started in an unexpected way. “After the breakdance stuff, I started getting into the rave scene. Actually before that I started DJing in the gay clubs because that was the only place you could play really cool synthesized dance music back then. That kind of led to where I’m at right now.”

Whilst Schulz has been pigeonholed in the trance sound, he is often compared to Pink Floyd and has been labelled ‘the Pink Floyd of trance.’ Schulz has his own opinion on his music though. “It’s a little deeper, a little darker, than the typical trance that you think about. I think most people think trance is sometimes some cheesy riffs, but I’ve always prided myself on the darker sound.”

As a DJ, producer, remixer and label owner, Schulz is always busy. Whilst he acknowledges that it’s hard to find the time to do everything he would like, he says he wouldn’t have it any other way.“I’ve dedicated my life to this.

I’m not going to say it comes easy, but when this is what your life is, then it’s all part of just living.

I have a really great team of people that keep things rolling when I’m on the road. I think time is very important when you’re in this industry and touring at the pace that I’ve been touring the last few years.”

All that hard work has been rewarded with Schulz being voted the eighth best DJ in the world in DJ Magazine.“It’s an honour because that poll is the fan’s voice. It’s not the reviewers, it’s not the media or the labels or other DJs. And for the fans to vote and give me their confidence is really rewarding. Anybody that kind of doesn’t give that poll credit is trying to take the fan’s voice away so for the fans to vote for me it’s very humbling and

gives me a boost of confidence.”

Even with his success Schulz isn’t getting ahead of himself and is focusing on touring, not increasing his position on the DJ Magazine poll.

“You know what? I don’t really think about things being number one. I really dedicate my life to the music and see what happens. I definitely think that right now there is a cool atmosphere of change in the air and my most important goal is to be part of that change. There are some amazing new trends that are coming out.”

“Right now I’m really enjoying the energy and the vibe of South America; they’ve really, really got it going on down there. Also of course the Central European Quarter has always been amazing. I’ve been very lucky, there’s just been a lot of amazing cities that I’ve been fortunate enough to travel to over the last couple of years. It’s just a really, really

good vibe all over the place.”

And Perth audiences will have their chance to be part of this good vibe when Schulz visits Metro City as part of Godskitchen Winter Edition.“I’m going to be coming with a lot of tracks and remixes from my new artist’s album, as well as big tracks that I’ve got coming out on my label. In general I’m going to be coming with a lot of heavy hitters on this tour. I want to do some damage on the dance floor.”

With the impending 100th release of Schulz’s music label, Coldharbour Recordings continues to go from strength to strength. “It’s incredible to have the 100th release coming up this summer. We’re preparing a package of remixes of some of the biggest tunes from the first 100 releases. The artists who have put out through my label are absolutely cool; they’re people I look up to and are artists I’m very proud to say we

BOOKA SHADE More!

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There’s been much talk from the Booka Shade camp espousing that More! is a club-ready antidote of sorts to their previous album, the deliciously sad and downtempo The Sun & The Neon Light – but this is only half the truth.

Restrained beauty is still the order of the day, and while they come out kicking and quirky with Havana Sex Dwarf, it’s clear Booka Shade have grander ambitions than delivering a Movements version 2.0 packed full of club anthems. And how can you argue with that?

The album’s first single Donut can pass for a tech house cut of sorts, but they find their highest peak with the gorgeous Regenerate – haunting female whisperings contrast with sparse bleeps that twinkle on top, eventually building into an evocative melody that knocks you for six. The word ‘restrained’again springs to mind: Arno and Walter prove you don’t need massive chords to stir emotion.

Even if it lacks the game-changing punch of Movements, and the thrills aren’t as direct as some might have liked – the emotion comes across crystal clear. Booka Shade are still channelling their dancer hearts, they’re just striving for something bigger and better.

Previously Stephen Hindman and Penelope Trappes had recorded together as Lismore.

But on their debut album as The Golden Filter, Hindman and Trappes have toned down their previous efforts, adding flitting beats, icy synths and constantly exploiting Trappes’ upper vocal register to add a disconnected air of cool to their music.

Voluspa opens strongly with one of the album highlights, Dance Around The Fire, starting things off with dramatic violins. Solid Gold is still one of the best things they’ve written, even if the lyrics are ridiculous in their repetitiveness. Other notables include the throbbing Stardust and album closer, Thunderbird.

However, occasionally Hindman and Trappes slip on the icy accruements of their tracks. Moonlight Fantasy and The Underdogs meander, both lack ing the direction or nuance to hold our attention, let alone warrant repeated listens.

Overall, Hindman and Trappes have made an album that is cohesive and often fascinating. It doesn’t all work for sure, but The Golden Filter are to be commended for making the stylistic jump from their previous Lismore work to create some of their best music together.

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A greatest hits collection can arouse suspicion these days: some view them as a cheesy money grab, others see it as the last act of a desperate artist whose popularity is in decline. With Tiësto’s recent sell out Australian tour fresh in our minds, the latter can be easily discounted. With speculation aside, Tiësto is still responsible for some of the most memorable tracks of the trance generation.

The album doesn’t get off to a great start with an uncredited vocal version of Flight 643 that pales in comparison to the vastly superior original.

Despite this, the memories start flooding back with his classic instrumental tracks like Suburban Train, Lethal Industry and arguably his best remix, Adagio For Strings. For the vocal enthusiasts he has included his two collaborations with BT; including dance floor favourite Love Comes Again.

In what could be seen as a changing of the guard, Disc Two is a collection of eleven remixes, showcasing the best of the new wave of producers including Laidback Luke’s downright dirty remix of Flight 643 and Sean Tyas’ thumping version of Suburban Train.

Disc Two in some ways outshines the first but in saying that, when they were originally released they were groundbreaking tracks which opened up trance to a whole new generation of listeners. Opponents of Tiësto’s new direction in sound can relax; this release is all about the Tiësto of old.

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discovered before any other labels picked them up. Coldharbour is doing exactly what my vision is; to give an outlet so up and coming producers can be heard.”

But what would Schulz be doing if he wasn’t in music? “I’ve been asked that question before, and to be honest with you there’s nothing else I’ve ever done in my life or anything else I’d want to do. I don’t think I’d be alive if it wasn’t for music. I really feel when I look at my life that everything happens for a reason, I honestly feel that’s why I was put on this planet; to do what I’m doing right now. I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing.”

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[Jive Records/Sony Music] The man with the million dollar abs has seen the pen finally dry on his divorce papers and celebrates his new found freedom on Raymond v Raymond. Usher has used all of the technology at his disposal to pull out every studio trick in the book during these fourteen tracks.

There is no Burn or True Confessions II on Raymond v Raymond, but although he doesn’t hit top gear, there are many serviceable moments. Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) has processed handclaps and vocal acrobatics, but it is Foolin’ Around that is the most knee weakening performance. Papers sees the usually suave singer showing a few cracks in his veneer as he ponders the dissolution of his nuptials.

OMG featuring will.i.am would have been better suited to the dance floor filling Black Eyed Peas than the smooth as silk Usher, and while it may be on the irritating side it is hard to get out of your head. When he plays the lad around town during So Many Girls and She Don’t Know is when Usher is at his most forgettable.

Raymond v Raymond manages the best and the worst of the genre rolled into one shiny little disc.

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Doors open 7.30 pm.

Samuel Spencer Swinging Pig – DJ Simon The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – DJ Flex/ DJ Nano/ DJ Serge/ DJ Don Migi The East End - DJ Midfield The Queens – Kapitol P The Whistling Kite - DJ Gareth The Shed – DJ Andyy Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin

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RISE DJ ZANY is rightly known as a veteran of the dance scene, with over ten years of experience at the turntables. Having started his career in the hardcore world, working between techno and trance under various aliases, he has concentrated his efforts on hardstyle producing many of the genres defining anthems and headlining every major festival including Defqon 1, Qlimax, Inqontrol, Sensation Black and Q-Dance. Door sales only 9.30pm – 6am.Rise members Bird – Hip Hop Karayo!ke – The $5 before 11pm $10 thereafter.

Right Side Non-members $10 before 11pm Broken Hill Hotel – Fixed $20 thereafter.

Capitol – Autechre Civic Hotel (The Den) – DJ LEEDERVILLE HOTEL Messy Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ ( U P S TA I R S ) F U N K C LU B FUNKRAISER Beloved to many Wrighteous in the Perth music industry, Club Bayview – DJ Ryan Lui Paolino was a local Perth Club Marakesh – DJ Simon Cottesloe Beach Hotel - Slip musician, playing and teaching Cocktail Night - DJ Shots/ DJ drums. Earlier this year Lui passed away at the age of 32, Andy M after a long battle with cancer.

Ellington Jazz Club – Detour Lui’s story is one of sadness Eve –DJ Tony Allen Flying Scotsman (Main Room) and also of warning, that even - Pasha’s Kitchen – The Big Man at the age of 30 people can be Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – susceptible to cancer. Lui’s family and Funk Club bring to you the Latin Styles – DJ Moogy Flying Scotsman ( Velvet first of an annual fundraiser to Lounge) – Isolation Derelicte – raise money for cancer research for the Cancer Council of WA Koe/ Travis Doom and also to broaden awareness Foundry - DJ Dura for people under the age of Liquid Nightclub – DJ Buda Mojo’s – King Brown Records 40 years about cancer. There’s - Bitter Belief/ Creed/ DSC/ a great night of entertainment Freekstyles/ PC Generals/ Knoe on the cards, with Epicentre, The Funk Club House Band, and FM/ Verdikt Charlie Bucket on the decks.

Mustang – DJ Giles Tickets are on the Door and are Niche Bar - Indulge $5 for Funk Club members or Newport – DJ Shannon Fox Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford $10 Non Funk Club members.

Get down to the Leederville Onyx - Avicii and show your support. Doors Paddy Hannans - Crazy Craig Players Bar – Neon Lights - DJ open 9pm.

KULCHA MATT RÖSNER West Australian based sound artist Matt Rösner releases a limited edition cassette tape tonight at Kulcha. Using guitar and piano improvisations played

by Adam Trainer and Greg Taw as a starting point, Matt Rösner has added field recordings and max/msp processing to craft longform pieces that play at the listener’s sense of time and place. Joining Matt Rösner at the launch are The Ghost of 29 Megacycles, with DJ Adam Trainer (RTRFM) spinning tunes in between the live acts. Also expect to see impromptu improvisations between Greg, Matt and Adam during the show.

The cassette tape is only available at local shows and via Matt Rösner’s website pablodali. net. Doors open 7.30pm.

MANOR SAMPOLOGY Brisbane turntable maestro Sampology hits the Manor tonight. If you caught his set at Becks Music Box in February as part of PIAF, you know you’re in for a treat!

WAMi Best DJ Charlie Bucket and Cut & Paste Soundsystem (Massiv Trav, King John Ill, Aarom Wilson, Craig Hollywood) support. Tickets $15 on the door from 9.30pm. An epic night of super-visual proportions awaits!

Amplifier – DJ Shannon Fox/ DJ Jamie Ambar – Japan 4 - Tee El/ Ben Mac/ Philly/ Marty McFly/ My Creature Bar 138 – Lokal (see above) Bar Open – Dorcia – Dan Sena/ Scott D & Yon Jovi/ Time Travel Agent/ Pearly Whites/ Destruct/ Arrigold Basement On Broadway – Friday Therapy – DJ Urban Tiger Bird - Rhythmatism- Ben M/Ben Taaffe/Miranda/Flip/Rok Riley Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol – Capitol Fridays Retro Mash Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Boogie Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Double Lucky –Full Circle – Adam Kelly/ Cee

Eve – Suga N Spice – Don Migi/ Skooby/ Dannyboi Flying Scotsman (Main Room) – Time Tunnel - DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - The Beat Suite – Micah/ Sharif Galal/ Ben Mac Flying Scotsman ( Velvet Lounge) – Open Decks Session – Batizm/ Mac One/ Stoitzy/ Rickae/ Sistym/ Iller Insinct Geisha Bar – Tribalism - Rob Sharp/ Luke P/ Kid Deep/ Social Damage/ Box/ Carl Drake/ Kastel Chiari/ Ace Basik/ Cam Duff/ Andy Sadler/ Sirius B High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Impact Bar - So Fine Fridays – Lukie D Kulcha – Matt Rosner /Adam Trainer/ Ghost Of 29 Megacycles (see above) Leederville Hotel (upstairs) – Funk Club Funkraiser – Charlie Bucket/Funk Club House Band/ Epicentre (see above) Llama Bar - DJ Morris/DJ Reuben Library – DJ AZT/ DJ Fiveo Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays DJ Dooey Manor – Sampology/Cut & Paste Soundystem/Charlie Bucket (see above) Manhattans – Stratosfunk Metro City – Back 2 Back Headayke/ Andry Buda Metropolis Fremantle – Limelite – Christian Luke/ Mind Electric/ Zelimir Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee Mojo’s - Cloud Control/ Richard In Your Mind/ Split Seconds Mustang- James MacArthur/ DJ Swing Norma Jeans – DJ Phil Onyx Bar – Slick/ Adroc Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paddy Hannans - Crazy Craig Paramount – Mexican Fiesta - DJ Morgan / Jordan Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Simon Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Rise – Magic City – DJ Zany/ Rousa/ Pace/ Mayhem/ Euval Spirits/ Steven Tranzor

Rocket Room –MC Tomas Ford/ DJ Tyranny Rosemount Hotel – Th e Chemist Rubix – Gene Bourne/ Kenny L Sail & Anchor - DJ Anaru Sapphire Bar – SuperFly Settler’s Tavern (Margaret River) – Direct Influence Shape – DJ Lord/ Selekt/ Arms in Motion/ S Man South St Ale House – DJ Jay Stamford Arms - DJ Janic The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – DJ Birdie/ DJ Nano/ DJ Serge The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Manor – Sampology The Queens – DJ Rueben The Republic – Pin Up! Francesco Pilling/ Cluedo Pierres/ Amnesia/ Muv & Larry The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Joby / Alex K Toucan Club – DJ Armee Windsor – Dj Riki and Ray Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin

▶ SATURDAY 29/05 EXIT BAR VANDALISM KLSF Events is a hot new production and promotions company dedicated to shaking up the dance music scene throughout the South West. Thanks to KLSF, tonight at the Exit Late Night Bar in Bunbury, DJ Andy Van and Cassie, AKA Vandalism, will be rocking the club ‘til the wee hours. Australia’s hottest duo in electro house, Vandalism will be making the dance floor go wild with their insane tunes. Tickets are $35 on the door. There will be free drink vouchers for the first 100 people through the door so make sure you get there early! Doors open 9pm.

Ambar – Japan 4 – Buda/ Prizzy/ Oli/ Wish/ Len Bones Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric Bar Open – Filthy Gorgeous Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Bird –The Community Chest – Adam K Black Bettys- DJ Trubble/ DJ Jinx

Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol (Downstairs) – Death Disco – Death Disco DJs Capitol (Upstairs) – 80s Classics – DJ Ryan Captain Stirling - DJ Dano Clink- DJ Cheese Club Bay View – VIP Saturdays – DJ Ryan Connections – Michy T / JJ / Brian Devilles Pad – Razor Jack Dusk – Flashback – DJ Benny c/ DJ Josh Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ Raci Exit Bar - Vandalism Eve – DJ Don Migi/ Skooby/ Tony Allen Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Lucid Dreaming - James Francis/ La Gooch/ Nina Van Duke/ El Dario/ Matt Wright Flying Scotsman (Main Room) – Transmission – Andrei Mazz Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Everybody Loves Sandy – Bokchoy/ Ben Businovski/ Arn/ Flaunt Geisha – Joie – Lara/ James A/ Darren J High Wycombe – DJ Matt Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Impact Bar – DJ Abstar Indi Bar – Direct Influence Leederville - DJ Loco Ren Library - DJ AZT/ DJ Fiveo/ DJ Jimmy Phatz/ DJ Zeke/ DJ L Street Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Little Creatures Loft – Liquid Lounge Llama Bar – VJ Zoo/ DJ Rueben/ DJ Tony Lopez Manhattans – OverLoad II : War Of The Hard Sounds Mint – Pop Life - Darren Briais Metro City – R&B Saturdays DJ Havana Brown Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Danny Mustang – DJ Rockabilly/ DJ James MacArthur Niche – DJ Manda Power/ Cee/ Adam/ Kelly/Josh D Norma Jeans – DJ Dwayne Onyx - DJ Kayper Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount – DJ Meezy /

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▶ SUNDAY 30/05 Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clink – DJ Tony Allen Club Bayview – DJ Pete Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve – Industry – DJ Birdie/ MC Jex Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Back To Mono – Gareth Richardson/ Ted Schlechte/ Death Disco’s Anton Mazz Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) - Nathan J/ Chris Wright/ The Nisbit Funk Club – Direct Influence Impact Bar – Soul Night Out – Nick Alexander Kulcha – DJ Aswon Mojo’s – Mojo Project - DJ Ink Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny L Mustang - DJ Rockin Rhys Paddo - DJ PDS

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Autechre Thursday, May 27 @ Capitol

Nick Skitz Friday, June 4 @ Rise Lee Mortimer Friday, June 4 @ Ambar

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Oxia Friday, May 28 @ Geisha

Challenger Ready Saturday, June 5 @ Ambar

Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris The Deen – DJ Birdie The Paddo - DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy

Sampology Friday, May 28 @ The Manor

Emily Scott Saturday, June 5 @ Rise

▶ TUESDAY 1/6 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel - DJ Matty J High Wycombe - DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart The Cott (Upstairs) –Maxwell/ DJ Jus Haus/ Damian John The Paddo - DJ Deepad Victoria Park Hotel - DJ Melvin

▶ WEDNESDAY 2/6 Basement On Broadway – Damien John/Angry Buda/ Maxwell/Headayke Captain Stirling – DJ Ricky Connections - DJ’s Joby / JJ / Rueben Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Double Lucky – Dirty Elegance Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays - DJ iPod/Ben Pettit Eve – Déjà Vu – DJ Don Migi/ Skooby Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Uni-Que Ladies Night– Gemma Pike Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Twist - Agent 85 Gold – Slick/ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Manhattans – Massiv Trav Mustang – DJ Giles Newport Hotel – DJ Tony Allen Niche - DJ Frankie Button Paddo - Ben Merito Rosemount – DJ Shannon Fox The Clink – Spin FX The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper & DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Eastern – DJ Jinx The Queens – Wriggle on

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This Sunday, May 30, Queensland veterans of hardcore, Mouthguard, deliver a blistering set, and are joined by The Creepers, Death Grenade and The New Husseins.

Born Into Suffering

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It’s a big night of hardcore and metal happening this Friday, May 28, at The Den with Perth bands Born Into Suffering, Lost For Words, Skyshark, Only Hope and Turning Tides. Doors open 8pm. On Saturday, May 29, Melbourne’s Closure In Moscow hit the stage in the Backroom with their Singularity Tour, supported by Arms Like Branches, Sleepwalker, The Chase and In League. Doors open 8pm.

CAPITOL

Head to Capitol tonight, Thursday, May 27, to see UK electronica legends Autechre. Cited as an influence by none other than Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, this duo have been at the cutting edge of music for twenty years, and are finally in Perth playing a show that fans thought would never happen. Doors open at 7.30pm.

SOLID GOLD Gold Bar Sunday, May 23, 2010 Carli, Claire

Subiaco’s most stylish sauntered their way into Gold Bar on Sunday afternoon for ‘Any Given Sunday’, the most slick Sunday session in town. As DJs span tracks from a variety of artists, guests took shelter from the rain inside, soaking up the tunes with tasty beverages.

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The Burger Kings

MUSTANG BAR

The Mustang Bar welcomes back, for a very special performance on Saturday, May 29, The Burger Kings. A little bit Elvis, a little bit Jerry Lee, a lot of Perth talent – the band are celebrating their 10 year anniversary and this is a show not to be missed. The Burger Kings play southern fried Elvisonic rock ‘n’ roll and cool cabaret and consists of musicians who between them have played in a large number of quality Perth bands over the decades. From 7pm.

Jonny Taylor

POW @ THE PADDO

Don’t miss out on the weekly lineup of local bands playing each Wednesday at the Paddo.

On Wednesday, June 2, come and see Hyte, Ladybird & The Midnight Sun, Jonny Taylor and Clayton Bolger. Bands start at 8pm, free entry.

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On Saturday, May 29, up-and-coming pop sensation Cloud Control return to the Amplifier stage, this time on a headline tour. The quartet behind the sensational indie single Gold Canary have won hearts all across the nation with their charming, kitchsy pop style, and with support from Richard In Your Mind and Split Seconds, this is a show you’d be a fool to miss. Doors open at 8pm.

Mojo’s have begun serving pizza every night of the week from 5-8pm except Sundays where pizza is served from 3-6pm. On these Sunday afternoons there are great deals on pizza and a drink to be snapped up and gobbled. Hot bands and yummy pizzas every night of the week!

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WAMI SATURDAY SPECTACULAR CLOSING PARTY Amplifier Saturday, May 22, 2010 The three-stage extravaganza that took place at Amplifier on Saturday night was the high-point of the WAMi Saturday Spectacular, a day in which local bands filled every nook and cranny of Northbridge in an effort to get WA music heard by as many punters as possible.

With a line-up headed by big-name Perth success story Jebediah and rapidly emerging talents like Will Stoker And The Embers, the event illustrated, in a very tangible way, the great job WAM does in helping WA bands go from corner bars to national stages.

The Jackards charmed early with their endearingly simple brand of blues-y, bar-room

rock. Their beat-driven, danceable, style brought to mind The Pictures or even The Faces, with lead guitarist Glenn Sarangapany’s lead breaks particularly tasty. No wank or pretense, just a hell of a lot of fun.

Just as actors get referred to as ‘Oscar nominated’, a recent magazine article means that Emperors may have developed a special prefix for the rest of 2010, Emperors: Rolling Stone’s Band To Watch. The band’s first number We Are The Rain did a good job of showing their appeal. While there’s nothing especially nuanced or elaborate about the song – there’s an inexplicable broody energy that comes with anthemic lyrics and thick, grungy ‘90s guitars. It reminds you of a time when one’s room was plastered with posters and moody verse was scribbled on lever arch files in black pen.‘Radio hit’ Favourite Colours is an undeniably a phenomenal rock song, but given that this is an extremely new band, we’ll hold the hype until we hear more.

Back on the smaller stage, Goodnight Tiger were charming those still filtering into the

venue like a breathy and melodic double attack of two Sarah Blaskos. One Tiger Down,The Tigers, and Goodnight Tiger mean that there are a few ‘tiger’ bands in Perth now – perhaps ‘tiger’ is the new ‘wolf’, in terms of band naming trends?

The first to grace the Capitol main stage were The Wire favourites Arts Martial, who attracted a respectable crowd, with many punters forced into all three stage areas due to drizzly weather. Sure, Supernational sounds like someone switching a radio between The Clash’s London Calling and Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out, but this is half the fun – it’s recognisable, accessible and widely appealing.

Back on the by-now packed Amplifier stage, Will Stoker And The Embers gave a performance full of pomp and bravado. Some may not like their rock served with high kicks, pulpit preaching and extended instrumental freak outs – but with more than enough brood indie acts on the scene Stoker’s unapologetic dandy styling is rather refreshing. Beginning with The King, Stoker

wasted no time in whipping the crowd (and his band) into a frenzy. You’d think the spluttering, fidgety rhythm of this song would be hard to replicate live but Stoker and his Embers did it with aplomb. The raucous gypsy stomp of The Waves Hiss & Burst was a set highlight with Stoker coaxing his clarinet like a menacing serpent charmer.

Those who managed to squeeze into the viewing area of the Capitol main stage witnessed a fittingly vintage Jebediah performance. With the odd crowd member launching themselves into the crowd, and frontman Kevin Mitchell ditching his folky croon for the nasal wail of old, it was like a ‘90s YAC It Up. Jerks Of Attention got a huge reaction early, as moshers of yore came out of the woodwork for a good old jump. Fan favourites Animal and Fall Down also got an airing, but there was no sign of Harpoon or Leaving Home. With a long-awaited new album apparently being mixed, the band debuted some new songs, one of which has a particularly raucous, sloppy punk feel.

With Amplifier’s usual Saturday night line snaking down the laneway, Tomás Ford took his place behind his elaborate milk crate, mixing board and spotlight contraption, to shock the hell out of anyone who hadn’t seen him before. All the usual delights were there – crowd surfing, telling the audience to be seated, outrageous costumes and sultry electro crooning. However, given the high-profile billing, Ford seemed to lift the bar on this particular night to give a truly outrageous performance. It was quite simply impossible to keep your eyes off him as he frenetically pogoed around the room wearing a suit emblazoned with neon piping.

French Rockets kept the neon glowing into the evening to those who hadn’t fled Ford’s nut house, capping off a diverse night of Western Australian music. _DAVID CRADDOCK

MORNING FRESH THE MORNING NIGHT / Split Seconds / Ruby Boots / The Atlas Mountains / James Teague / Modular Man / Ryan Webb Amplifier Friday, May 21, 2010 Having recently returned from a European tour with the Triffids, Morning Night frontman Adrian Hoffman couldn’t have asked for a better homecoming gig than Friday night at the Amplifier Bar, a night so big it couldn’t be contained by one stage.

Modular Man took to the main stage early , with the trio exciting the small crowd with their ultra tight rhythms, arpeggios, and soft, layered vocals – a truly entrancing way to start the night. The Atlas Mountains then rocked their way through what felt like a much too short set. Luckily they were given enough time to pump out their hit Time Waits For No One. Unfortunately for the band, the sound was way too loud given the amount of people in the room, resulting in a muddying of what was an otherwise gratifying musical experience. Chatanoogan Taylor Smith booming vocals from behind his impressive moustache was a particular highlight.

The sound troubles continued on the small stage set up next to the Amplifier entrance as James Teague performed solo to a growing crowd. His set was interrupted a few times by equipment faults, but he handled it well and held the attention of the very young crowd with his Jeff

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Buckley-ish vocals and presence.

Inside, Split Seconds’ performance made the evening worthwhile in itself, with women (and more than one man) swooning over the swelling three-part vocals and catchy tunes.

Sean Pollard and Benjamin Golby (New Rules for Boats) lead a cast of experienced campaigners in a band that will only continue to make waves locally and nationally.

As The Morning Night set up, Ruby Boots took to the stage outside. Her country and blues-infused folk music featuring some fiddle accompaniment seemed a bit out place in an evening otherwise dominated by indie rock stylings, but she did a good job of entertaining a crowd restless for the main attraction.

After a long build and a line-up of some of Perth’s hottest artists, The Morning Night found it difficult to reach the bar set by the previous acts.

They did, however, manage to get into the groove as they went along, revealing a heavier and more raucous sound. The crowd got into it and the band generated some moving bodies, with Hoffman in particular maintaining a commanding presence on the full stage. The stage became too crowded at times with up to seven people bashing away on banjos, glockenspiels and violins, with the guitars often drowning out the band’s signature vocals.

The single they had come to launch Someday was a stand out among largely new songs but they kept the night rollicking along at a great pace all the way to the end.

The band will follow up with their first album and a national tour in the future, but Friday was quite simply a fantastic night that showcased some of the most promising acts on the scene.

HOWLING SUCCESS THE CHEMIST / Young Revelry / Wolves / Wolves At The Door Rosemount Hotel Friday, May 21, 2010

A pack of Perth’s indie-rock aficionados embraced all things wolf-y to celebrate the release of The Chemist’s The Wolves’ Howls Shatter The Old Glass Moon EP. Blessed with good-looks to match their musical grace, youthful folk duo Wolves At The Door kicked off the night. Understated on the stage, their imperturbable demeanour was let down by furtive smiles at each other, which distanced their audience.

Next up were Wolves, filling every inch of the venue with their atmospheric gothic sound, _STACY GOUGOULIS with hugely talented violinist Rachael Aquilina bringing a moody intensity, as she plucked and stroked her instrument with seasoned vivacity.

Wielding whiny guitars and rolling drum beats Young Revelry broke the ‘wolves’ theme, drawing a larger crowd that was thrilled with their brand of heavy, indie-rock, reminiscent of the work of their members’ previous bands Harlequin League (Seb Astone), End Of Fashion (Tom King) and The Silents (Alex Board). Sharing obvious chemistry, their combined experience made for a watertight performance.

Easily the biggest crowd of the night gathered to watch The Chemist as people flocked en masse from outside, clambering chaotically to fill the venue twenty minutes before they were scheduled to start, with gamier audience members perching themselves on ledges and kneeling on The Morning Night (photo: Amy Vinicombe) barstools for a better view.

When drummer Elliot Smith and bassist

The Chemist (photo: Lisa Businovski)

Hamish Rahn appeared on stage to set up their equipment, their ear-to-ear grins indicated their gratification over the encouraging attention from the crowd.

“I hope you left your shit at home, because you’re about to lose it,”growled enigmatic frontman Benjamin Witt, eliciting screams of pleasure from the audience who bopped along from the first guitar riffs of Don’t Look Down.

Witt’s penchant for teasing his audience was exhibited when he feigned irritation at the end of Alison, barking “Wait for the ending, fuck!”, sighing at the audience’s premature applause before launching into a cacophony of ferocious chord progressions, entertaining the audience immensely.

The inauguration of a female back-up duo, horns, and strings section gave the songs an orchestral fullness, however it was a shame that keyboardist James Ireland’s charming solos were all but obscured by the bass-heavy mix.

EP opener End Of July was a highlight, as Witt looped its four-bar chord progression, embellishing five layers of vocal harmonies, including one final, spine-chilling note wrestled from deep within his lungs, before dropping to his knees to manipulate pedals, eating up his carefully constructed layers with ugly, distorted digital effects.

After years playing the Perth circuit the band’s performance was a polished testament to their deliciously listenable catalogue of material.

If the crowd’s exclamations of admiration were anything to go by, it would not be crying wolf to recognise The Chemist as Perth’s best-kept secret – indie-rock fans should certainly keep an eye out for these cubs. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD www.xpressmag.com.au

Edited by David Craddock Email your news and pics by 12 noon, Monday to: localmusic@xpressmag.com.au

FOLK ON THE HIGH SEAS

THE CASTLE FALLS

The Justin Walshe Folk Machine’s second album Walking To China is a swashbuckling tale full of shipwrecks, whisky and gold. DAVID CRADDOCK spoke to Walshe ahead of the band’s launches at Whitestar Hotel, Albany, on Saturday, May 29; Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, on Sunday, May 30; Mojo’s on Sunday, June 6; and The Charles Hotel on Tuesday, June 8.

The Justin Walshe Folk Machine

A Justin Walshe Folk Machine live show sits somewhere between a campfire yarn, a sea shanty, bush poetry and a country rock hoedown. In a one hour set you might get a historical anecdote about convicts and shipwrecks, croony, delicate tales on love and whisky (in no particular order), and plenty of barnstorming folk rock to tie it all together.

The band’s second album Walking To China, replicates the experience well, but heightens the natural drama of songs like Pockets Full Of Gold (a song that vividly describes skeletons lying on the bottom of the blue) with cinematic flourishes and sound effects.

“Like many people I like watching these big fantastical movies,” Walshe says of the picturepainting power of such tracks. “Where they just totally take you away and you have a real sense of a journey and being submerged in this other world. I really like that feeling and I loved the idea of trying to make that within a song. Even just a morsel of that epic-ness.”

Walshe and his ever-rotating band of musicians recorded Walking To China in studios on both sides of the country, jumping in whenever Walshe felt the time was right to record the live atmosphere created by a group of travelling musicians. Within these sessions, all-star performances by violinist Alex Burkov (Tinpan Orange), double bassist Gavin Shoesmith (former John Butler Trio), banjo player Ian Simpson (Paul Kelly) and long-term JWFM guitarist Craig Sinclair (who is leaving the band after the launch shows) were captured.

Another special contributor to the album is Rhyll Wilson, Walshe’s girlfriend, who provides sweet harmonies on heartfelt tracks like Sail Away, as well as during Folk Machine live shows.

“It’s complicated,” Walshe laughs of performing with a loved one. “In once sense it’s fantastic. I’ve often heard stories from other people saying that their relationship suffers this problem where their music always comes first and takes over. I guess it’s good that my relationship is part of that – it’s not exclusive. That’s still to a limit as well, not every part of the music that I do involves the other half of my life [laughs]. It’s good in that it’s not like ‘her or music’ it can intermingle.”

Matt Rösner

CUT THE TAPE

Sound artist Matt Rösner is releasing a limited edition cassette on Friday, May 28, at Kulcha.

The CD includes Rösner’s collaborations with with Perth artists Greg Taw, and incumbent RTR FM Music Director Adam Trainer, and is available in a super limited edition of 50.

X-PRESSIONS OF INTEREST Bloodstock, Perth’s annual gathering of all things hard, loud, heavy and local, is now in its third year. This year’s instalment will feature performances from Chainsaw Hookers (who are also launching their new EP First Blood as part of the shows), Pale As Ashes, Scalphunter, Raw Nerve, Helta Skelta, Brutus, Sins Of The Father, and Mouthguard (special Queenslander guests) at Rocket Room on

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THE GREAT CONTENDERS

The owner of Perth venue The Castle has confirmed that the venue will not reopen after recently closing its doors. Since opening in 2004, The Castle has been an accessible launch pad for emerging bands looking to develop their act, particularly those is the punk, hard rock, and metal communities. “ I t w a s a s s t r u g g l e f ro m t h e beginning,” owner Wayne Smith told X-Press.

“It was never a money making thing and it never really built to the point where we had the crowds that justified making the bar bigger or [improving] the toilets and all of those things that were issue with the building… In the six years I’d like to think we’d helped a lot of bands and a lot of people have a good time and I really do appreciate the people that did support the venue.”

Laith Tyranny, a former booker at the venue, said that while improvements to the venue could have been made, he is sad to see the venue go: “Say what you want about the place, but it always gave new bands and promoters a chance… From a booking agent and promoters perspective, the Castle helped breed a new generation of managers, booking agents and promoters.”

Friday, May 28. Chainsaw Hookers, The Devil Rides Out, Fear Of Comedy, Psychonaut, Atolah, and Mouthgaurd keep the show rollong on Saturday, May 29, at Mojo’s. We asked some of the bands on the line-up: What appeals to you about the darker and harder corners of the Perth music scene?

“It’s a comfort to know that on the fringes of this sunny and sterile city, a dark cultural underbelly exists in the form of this small but vital music scene.

Creative people, passionate people, often damaged people, playing and listening to dirty, uncompromising rock’n’roll music really, really loud. There is something primal and cathartic about the shared experience of it that still excites me,” Joey K, The Devil Rides Out. “I think Perth’s hard, fast and heavy bands are world class, with great diversity…

Chainsaw Hookers will pulverise Bloodstock with blood rock antics and new songs added to the set,” Jon Russo, Chainsaw Hookers.

The entrants to the Kosmic Sound & Jack Daniels Mojo’s Rising band competition have been wittled down to a final 32. In Juan Antonio Samaranch like fashion X-Press can reveal that the selected contenders are: Sanduettes, Mercy Mercy And The Success Of Satan, Louis And The Honkeytonk, the Tumblers, Hunting Huxley, The Spitfires, Echoes Of Django, Little Black Books, Goodnight Tiger, James Teague, Hootenanny, Stu Orchard, Auto Suggestion, Georgi Kay, .auAU, Old Croak, The Revolvers, The Silent World, Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill, SonPsilo Circus, The Moltens, The Witness,The Holly Go Trio, A Beggars Second, Sean Brown And The Red Lights, The Spin Chorus, The Love Junkies, Hang On Christopher Street, Stillfire, Escape Artists, The Shallows, and Seams. The first heat of the competition begins on Tuesday, June 1, at Mojo’s featuring Sanduettes, Mercy Mercy And The Success of Satan, Louis And The Honkeytonk and The Tumblers.

AMPFEST THE FINAL MINUTE

Minute 36

Minute 36 have taken out Heat Three of AmpFest meaning they’ll be battle it out with Goodnight Tiger and Fat Jackal at the final on Friday, May 28, at Subiaco Church Hall. The final will also feature a special per formance from The Novocaines. Make sure you head on down and support these four local bands as they continue to develop their careers.

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

Louis And The Honkeytonk

Perth-based charity VOW, a non profit organisation aimed at providing free education for disadvantaged children around the world, is holding a festival-style event at The Railway Hotel on Sunday, May 30, that will feature performances from Nathan Gaunt, The China Blue Experiment (featuring Simon Kelly), and The Blue Finish amongst others. There will also be busking, juggling, pop opera from Veronica Santoro, African drumming from Wasamba, photography, short film screenings and interactive theatre. Noon ‘til 10pm, entry $25 including a copy of the Artist For Education CD.

The Autumn Isles (photo: Lloyd Hughes)

Goodnight Tiger

GOODNIGHT TIGER Self Titled Demo Melodic folk outfit Goodnight Tiger, have been gigging particularly hard of late, and their efforts were recently rewarded with a WAMi Award nomination for Most Promising New Act. This weekend the band lift the bar by playing their very first headline show at The Norfolk Basement on Saturday, May 29. They’re also playing in the final of AmpFest on Friday, May 28, at Subiaco Church Hall.

Goodnight Tiger recently went into the studio to record an impressive five track sampler that will be available at gigs. Endings is classic Australian folk-pop with echoes of Sarah Blasko or, as others have remarked, Frente’s Angie Hart. Live favourite Tight Arse Tuesday gets some nice organ and glockenspiel treatment giving the song a dreamy fairground feel, but with a slightly menacing melancholy.

This broody quality is perhaps the most powerful aspect of the band. The delicate, often whispery, songs have you humming along, but it’s never cutesy or contrived, there’s always an emotional depth, and at times menacing feel. We’re looking forward to the band’s up coming EP. _DAVID CRADDOCK Australia’s highest circulating Street Press

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TROY CASSAR-DALY Golden Boy

There aren’t too many country music awards going around that Troy Cassar-Daley hasn’t had his hands on at one time or another. From ARIAs to singing at the MCG on Anzac Day, the relaxed Cassar-Daly takes it in his stride. He returns to WA to play Friends Restaurant tonight, Thursday, May 27; Ravenswood Hotel on Friday, May 28; Divers Tavern in Broome on Saturday, May 29; and Pace Rd Tavern in Medina on Sunday, May 30. CHRIS HAVERCROFT reports.

Troy Cassar-Daly is a student of music and, from the ease with which words drip off his tongue, you can tell that he has made music his life.

The former Grafton boy quickly launches into a dialogue about a documentary he had just viewed on The Rolling Stones and their heady days recording. The trappings of rock’n’roll were all on display as they had partying, women and debauchery going on upstairs. But he said that no one was allowed downstairs in the studio where the recording was going on. These stories of excess are not as prevalent in country music’s history.

“The best part about a lot of the role models that we have is that they have a good woman in their corner,” Cassar-Daly reflects on the culture of country music. “It is all good to be single, but you can get in a lot of trouble when you are single. I know from experience! But when you have a settling influence in your life, like a wife who can guide you through your career and inspire you as well, that is the biggest plus you could ever hope for. The old adage of behind every good man is a great woman is very true.”

One thing that country music is very good at is recognising the achievements of their artists. Cassar-Daly is a regular in being nominated for awards, and is still pleasantly surprised when he finds himself up on the podium.

“I always go there expecting nothing, because that can happen – you can come home with nothing,” he says. “I remember coming back after winning six Golden Guitars at Tamworth this year and I didn’t expect it, but I remember that I got home and I was making sandwiches for the kids’ lunches on the Monday. It was straight back to business, making up the best sangers I can. But

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Troy Cassar-Daly

I would rather be the king of my kids than the king of country music any day of the week.”

I Love This Place, the album responsible for Cassar-Daly’s six Golden Guitars, is often thought to be inspired by the singer’s love for the land that we live in. While his affinity to the land can never be questioned, the album draws from a much more personal location.

“It really wasn’t geographically about Australia to start with, it was about the place that I am at with watching my kids grow and nurturing the love that I have with my wife,” he explains.

“Tending to that garden is something that people do neglect every now and again. I am the worst when it comes to being a romantic but I try. Even though some things come off looking a little half arsed, at least I have a go. That is what I have learned about relationships, is that they don’t go along on autopilot – you have to throw a bit of work in there to get results. I have always felt more positive about that than my career.”

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