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If you’re reading this right now, congratulations. X-Press is a print press publication (ie we are made up of many pages of real paper that you can touch) and you’ve made the effort to pick it up off the ground.

Fa i r l y a d m i ra b l e a n a c t i o n , considering that some say the print press is a medium some believe to be in the process of dying – on a side note, people are also dying in printing presses – why, just late last year a maintenance engineer from Cambridgeshire was crushed to death in the machinery of a St Ives printing press!

A year or so back New York Magazine published an article entitled The End, exploring the idea that publishing houses (even the jolly great big ones) are floundering in the face of the Internet (either collapsing or desperately racing to capitalise on the e-book/Kindle industry), that readers are buying less books and that blogs/online news are killing print newspapers, which have high fixed costs in the form of journalists and printing presses.

I love reading online news in the mornings, but I also love opening The Australian broadsheet on a Saturday morning and devouring it from edge to edge with a honeyed crumpet.

But once upon a time, I also loved lugging a great big World Book Encycopoedia off the library shelf and inhaling its dusty insides – Wikipedia gobbled that pleasure up. Should I be worried, too, that one day The Australian won’t land with a ‘thud’ under my lemon tree, and I’ll be left to drip honey on my iPad, open on theaustralian.com.au?

I’ll attack that particular overhanging branch when it hits me, but for now I’m more worried about the little guys - the young, artistic individuals who want to make books but can’t get the money, or the publishers, to make it happen.

Do yourself a favour and check out Rounds – it’s a Perth based project that brings together nine artists and eight writers for a large scale exhibition at PICA, and an accompanying high end art book.

The artists have all created their pieces over four, six-week long cycles, which will be gathered in a 192 page full colour book dense with brilliant images of artwork and intelligent writing from Perth’s finest young essayists, who will respond to the artists’ work.

They need help making this book happen, and have set up an online donation site via independent fundraising site, IndieGoGo. They’re $65 into their $2, 500 target. I sincerely hope they make it, because this is the kind of independent effort (and ingenious approach to getting a book funded) that works as a giant rude finger to the doomsday predictions of that NY Mag article, and will result in a publication Perth can be proud of.

The Rounds folk aren’t the only Perth kids on the block making a difference: Love Is My Velocity’s RISO publication, launched last month at The Bird, is an A3 poster publication featuring works from emerging Perth writers and artists. It was made on a Riseograph machine, owned by Benchpress, a small print studio in Perth (by ‘studio’, we mean three kids bought a Riseograph machine and it’s in their shed). Not only have LIMV independently put out a work that showcases local talent, they used their own means of production to do so - by doing this they’re taking back the medium of print press. Not to mention giving us all something to leave our sticky honey fingerprints on.

The Basement Birds

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They may have started as a secretive jam between famous friends, but indie-folk all-stars The Basement Birds, are set to share their goodtimes with the whole of Australia as part of the band’s first ever, and only, national tour.

X-Press, as part of it’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, is proud to present the Perth leg of the Good Evening & Good Night tour which will see the supergroup (featuring Kav Temperley of Eskimo Joe, Kevin Mitchell of Jebediah and Bob Evans fame, Josh Pyke, and Steve Parkin) weaving folk-pop wonders at The Astor Theatre on Friday, August 13, along with special guest Old Man River.

The band’s debut single Waiting For You, is a lush, harmony-laden outing that gives you an idea of what it might have sounded like if George Harrison had written the melodies for Crosby, Stills And Nash. Like The Travelling Wilburys before them, half the fun of The Basement Birds is hearing how four very recognisable voices interact within and colour each song.

On its release Waiting For You received Single Of The Week on the Australian iTunes Store and the good news for fans is that three more songs are currently on sale, with two more bundles of tracks set to be released in the lead up to the tour. The band will also be releasing a self-titled physical album, including a never before heard track, on Friday, July 16.

Tickets for this unique group’s special show at The Astor Theatre are on sale now through heatseeker.com.au, basementbirds.oztix. com.au, and Oztix outlets.

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Salt Cover: The Midnight Juggernauts’ new album, The Crystal Axis, is out now through Inertia. They play on Saturday, August 14, at Capitol. Tickets through Moshtix.

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ANOTHER NIGHTCAP

Twelve years ago a little known band called The Whitlams released Eternal Nightcap, an album that caught the attention of many in the Australian music industry, propelling the band to the top of the charts. This September, The Whitlams will hit the road once more before an extended break, touring Australia, including a gig at the Astor Theatre on Friday, September 17. At this special show, The Whitlams will play Eternal Nightcap in its entirety, plus many other favourites from their back catalogue.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 25, from Heatseeker.

They’ve told us to drink Coca Cola, assured us It’s Alright, and now it’s time for Little Red to Rock It. The lads from Melbourne return to the charts this month with Rock It, the first single from their eagerly anticipated second album. Taken from the as-yet-untitled release, the track is full of the beautiful melodies and sweet harmonies we’ve come to expect from this stellar band.

Before the lads release their second album in September they’ll hit the road for one more tour, including a stop off at Amplifier on Thursday, July 8. Tickets are on sale now from Moshtix. To keep up-to-date with everything Little Red, head to Myspace.com/ littleredmusic.

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If you’ve had Angus and Julia Stone’s album, Down By The Way, on repeat for the last few months, you’re not alone – it’s been the highest selling Australian artist album this year! Siblings Angus and Julia, who X-Press featured on our cover just a few weeks ago, are set to play a whole bunch of shows in August, after completing a tour in Europe. Hear Angus and Julia play their new single Big Jet Plane, and a heap of other great live tracks, when they visit the Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday, September 18. Tickets are now on sale from heatseeker.com.au.

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ARIA award winning songstress Clare Bowditch will hop a plane to Perth this August for a very special performance at the Art Gallery of WA. Clare Bowditch and her trio will perform old favourites and new tracks off their soon-to-bereleased album Modern Day Addictions, which promises ‘political disco’ sounds. Be the first to catch Bowditch and her trio performing brand spanking new tracks at ArtBar on Thursday, August 5. Tickets are on sale now from BOCS.

Friday Night Live, a new show broadcast on WTV (Chanel 44) is dedicated to bringing viewers up-to-date information on Perth night life, restaurants, theatre, and our music scene.

Filmed on location at The Deen in Northbridge, the show kicks Perth’s Dullsville tag to the curb, with presenters Steph, Jesse, Paloma, Ryan and Aaron helping you plan your weekend every Friday from 7.30pm.

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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

Australian legends The Cat Empire are getting ready for a world tour and the release of their upcoming fourth studio album, the theatrical Cinema. Set to be released on Friday, June 25, the Empire’s next album serves up 11 tracks, capturing the joy and indestructible force of their mind-blowing live shows. The Cat Empire will storm Perth on Thursday, September 2, playing live at the Astor Theatre. Tickets are available from heatseeker.com.au.

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THE ROCK RETURNS

The Return Of The Jackards Tour will heat up WA’s south west in June and July, hitting locations from Margaret River to Perth over three massive weekends. Hailing from Perth, The Jackards are an awesome band who deliver brazen rock ‘n’ roll, as demonstrated on their debut album Attack Of The Jackards.

Catch these Perth lads doing their thing on Friday, June 18, at the Nannup Hotel; on Saturday, June 19, at the Dunsborough Hotel; Friday, June 25, at the Prince Of Wales in Bunury; Friday, July 9, at Settlers Tavern in Margaret River; and Saturday, July 10, at The Bird. To keep up to date with all things Jackards, head to myspace.com/thejackards.

Keep Australia Beautiful Week (KAB for short!) is just around the corner, set to start on Monday, August 23, and this year there’s going to be a special focus on public recycling. According to Keep Australia Beautiful, whilst 99 per cent of Australian households that have access to kerbside recycling do undertake recycling, there is still an excessive amount of rubbish ending up as litter, or unnecessarily being sent to landfill, from people eating and drinking when they are out and about.

Keep Australia Beautiful is hoping people will really start to think about what they consider ‘rubbish’, and perhaps consider that their rubbish could go into a recycling bin instead, so that their waste can become a resource instead of landfill. Ambassador for KAB, Jules Lund, shares some important advice: “If you’re out and about, look out for public recycling bins. If you can’t find any, take your empty bottles, cans and paper home for recycling so they can be turned into new products and packaging!”.

For further information on what you can recycle in your local area visit www.kab.org.au, or contact your local council to find out what public facilities they provide in your neighbourhood.

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MORE MOVERS AND SHAKERS

One Movement For Music has announced another 16 music industry luminaries who will be speaking as part of this year’s One Movement For Music festival which runs from Wednesday, October 6, until Sunday, October 10. Martin Elbourne (booking agent for Glastonbury and The Great Escape festival), Kyle Hopkins (Head of Music Xbox/Microsoft Media acquisitions), and highly experienced Swedish music industry mover and shaker Patrik Larsson, are but a few of the exciting new speakers that are joining an already bulging list which includes Todd Rundgren, Richard Kingsmill and Electronic Arts Music group president Steve Schnur. For more details on the festival, which also includes a huge public showcase, head to onemovementmusic.com.

CASH BLACK GUARUNTEE

Multi ARIA Award-winning Australian growler Tex Perkins has announced that he is bringing his highly-successful Johnny Cash show, The Man In Black, to Perth from Wednesday, August 25, until Sunday, September 5. Perkins has sold out seasons in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, and will now set up shop in The Regal Theatre with his chugging country backing band The Tennessee Four.

The Man In Black was written by theatrical producer Jim McPherson (Menopause The Musical) and features two hours of hits like Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk The Line, and Ring Of Fire interwoven with the iconic country legend’s dramatic life story. Rachel Tidd also appears in the performances as the love of Cash’s life – June Carter. Tickets $55 or $49 concession, through ticketek.com.au.

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Hot off her second consecutive WAMI Award win for best new act, Grace Barbé and her band will perform at Kulcha in Fremantle this Saturday, June 19. Barbé’s award winning band Afro-Kreol will be there for support, featuring Freddy Poncin on drums, Sally Quealy on keys and backing vocals and Jamie Searle on guitar and bass. Joining her will be the sweet new dance group African Addiction. Doors open at 8pm with tickets available on the door.

TALL ORDER

Brisbane hell raisers Six Ft Hick are rolling their legendarily intense live show into Perth this week for shows at Rocket Room on Friday, June 18, and at Mojo’s on Saturday, June 19. The band have terrorised audiences around the world for 15 years, but are back in Perth to not only play some gnarly rock ‘n’ roll shows before returning to Europe, but to record with Max Ducker at Cellar Sessions studios.

GOOD OL’ GOANNA

Shane Howard’s new studio album Goanna Dreaming will be released on Friday, July 2, ahead of a massive national tour. Howard will be joined on the road with many of the players who grace the album, including his daughter Myra and long standing band members, Ruben Shannon, Rory McDougall and John Hudson as well as some special dates with Kerryn Tolhurst and Amy Saunders. Catch Howard playing live on Saturday, July 24, at the Quindanning Hotel and on Sunday, July 25, at The Fly By Night in Fremantle. Tickets are on sale now from the venues.

BIG FOUR ON BIG SCREEN

The Big Four - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax - are bringing their historic European tour to the global stage by beaming the event via satellite to movie theaters around the world in a special HD cinematic event. These four legendary acts broke out of the underground thrash movement in the 1980’s to dominate the metal world, selling millions of records and packing arenas across the globe.

Despite huge demand, these musical giants have never shared the same stage until now.

The legendary concert comes from the tour’s stop off the Sonisphere Festival in Bulgaria and will air on the same day in 450 theaters in over 140 markets in the U.S., as well as beamed into theatres in Europe, Canada and Latin America…and Australia (although a little later for us!)

On Friday, July 9, and Saturday, July 10, at 9.15pm, head to Cinema Paradiso in Northbridge to catch screenings of the Big Four in action. Two screenings only, so don’t miss out! Tickets are $25 adults and $22 concession. For more information and tickets head to lunapalace.com.au.The show is three hours, so make sure you stock up on popcorn from the Candy Bar!

The Klaxons

LET’S GO SURFING NOW

The Klaxons are getting set to release their eagerly awaited second studio album, Surfing The Void, on Friday, August 20, which is the follow up to the highly successful, Myths Of The Near Future. The Klaxons took time out from riding the success of their first album to buckle down and create a new 10 track sonic explosion. Produced in LA by US rock legend Ross Robinson (Sepultura, Slipknot, At the Drive In, The Cure) and written over the course of a three year long musical journey, it’s a brilliantly diverse and engaging alternative rock record. A teaser track from album titled Flashover can be found on the band’s website, Klaxons.net.

GLOVES OFF

Debbie Harry

A SECOND DATE WITH HARRY AND HYNDE

Last week’s announcement that Blondie and The Pretenders are heading to Perth for An Evening On The Green in Kings Park on Wednesday, November 24, was so well received that organisers have added a second and final show on Thursday, November 25. Tickets for the second show go on sale on Monday, June 21, through Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com.au or 136 000). Get in early to avoid missing out on the rare opportunity to see two iconic front women, Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde, strutting their stuff back to back.

Operator Please will hop, skip and jump their way to the Astor Theatre this Friday night, with good mates Tim & Jean in tow, to perform tracks from their recently released sophomore album, Gloves. This sharply dressed quintet has really stepped it up with Gloves, it’s full of catchy tracks with killer hooks, which is sure to make for an awesome live show. Catch Operator Please with support from Tim & Jean and Chaingang tomorrow, Friday, June 18, at 7pm.

Tickets are on sale now from Moshtix.

Operator Please

MAIDEN’S VOYAGE

Iron Maiden’s highly anticipated new studio album The Final Frontier has been confirmed for release on Friday, August 13. To mark the occasion, the band has released one new track titled El Dorado, available for download in MP3 format from their website, Ironmaiden.com. The new album marks the reunion between the band and their old producer, Kevin ‘Caveman’ Shirley, recordered at Compass Studios. The Final Frontier will be the bands mammoth 15th studio album over their illustrious 30 year career.

SHORT STUFF

The world’s largest short film festival, Future Shorts, kicks off this Saturday, June 19, offering up hundreds of short films from Australia and beyond. Taking place at the Fly By Night in Fremantle, the red carpet launch will feature the premiere screening of It’s Just Gary, with local ladies Brash & Sassy bringing good tunes and massive shoulder pads. Tickets for opening night are still available, to secure yours head to flybynight.org.

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LAURIE ANDERSON Home Is Where The Head Is

Recently in Sydney to co-curate the Vivid Festival with husband, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson releases her new album, Homeland, next week.

The 2001 movie title, A Beautiful Mind, may have referred to Nobel Economics Laureate John Forbes Nash, but it could well apply to the life and career of Laurie Anderson.

Last seen here as part of the 2003 Perth International Arts Festival, for 30 years Anderson has cast an astounding presence on popular culture as a visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker and live performer, with an ever-experimental style characterised by a passion for storytelling and an ongoing mastery of sound technology.

It’s also an experiential style. Few established artists would get a job at a McDonald’s in New York City or live with an Amish family for a month to get a sense of what makes other people in society tick. On her new album, Homeland, she takes the opportunity on her first release in a decade to evaluate America over the same period, clearly a time of upheaval that has resonated throughout the world.

It is a wide-ranging album that touches on US foreign policy, torture, economic collapse, the erosion of personal freedom, medical malpractice, religion and cynicism with a diversity of musicians including husband Reed (who co-produced), Antony Hegarty, saxophonist John Zorn, members of Four Tet, the cream of New York experimental jazz players, the Tuvan throat singers and igil players of Chirgilchin and, not to mention, Anderon’s male alter-ego, Fenway Bergamot.

Anderson and Reed were in Sydney last week as curators for the Vivid LIVE festival, held at the Sydney Opera House, for which they constructed ‘a program of music, theatre and visual art which offers bold visions of contemporary American life and celebrates fearless innovation and ambition’.

The couple are indeed unique American (and uniquely American) artists and the festival was acclaimed as diverse, to say the least. Mirthful media attention centred on Anderson’s Music For Dogs, a concert featuring high frequency sounds that could not be heard by human ears. The dogs, apparently, loved it.

By BOB GORDON I just read a review of Music For Dogs in the New York Times. It sounds as though it went very well…

It did. It was a total dream come true for me, ‘cause those dogs were grooving (laughs).

The dogs in the moshpit were having the time of their lives. They kind of knew there was this thing that was going on for them, more or less.

Every time I looked at them I just couldn’t stop laughing, it was the greatest thing ever, because Sydney’s a great dog town, like New York. I think that a lot of Australian cities are.

Any city kind of gets better if dogs are around because they bring this energy. So it was a great day. There was a bunch of dogs who were just sort of drooling (laughs) and a lot of people got into the spirit. A vet showed up to donate his time and a therapy group were there for massages and treatments. Some arrived in really great carriages, some real old guys. It was great.

What yourself and Lou have done over there sounds really multifarious…

Absolutely. There’s a lot of improv stuff, really cool things. Really great musicians. It’s leading up to the close with a play called The Shipment, which is one of my favourites. I hope people like it.

I guess it’s a little risky to ask two curators who don’t want to just invite their friends, you know? We said we want to play with people over there and they were like ‘well they know all the people here. Bring some people who they won’t be so familiar with’. So we tried to do a balance of all of those ideas and still got a chance to play with some people from over here. I’m still kind of in the thick of the festival even though it’s the last day. I’m still just trying to gather my thoughts on it, but it’s been a really great experience. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.

“YOU JUST WISH YOU COULD PUT SOME THINGS IN REVERSE. IT’S LIKE, ‘WOW, COULD WE NOT SEE THAT COMING?’ IS EVERYONE A CROOK? WHO DOES WHAT FOR WHOM? THE IDEA OF HELPING EACH OTHER AND PULLING FOR EACH OTHER HAS KIND OF GONE OUT THE WINDOW. IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE A MARXIST CONCERN, BUT STILL IT’S AN IDEAL. BUT EVERYONE JUST FENDS FOR THEMSELVES. IT’S CHAOTIC.” You don’t really do traditional tours. Your performance works often involve curation, are event/venue specific or are specifically focused in some way. How much room is there for sentimentality, do you feel sad to move on or is that just the reality?

Well after this I’m headed to the rainforest. So I’m like, outta here (laughs). Every single minute was really intense and really a great experience, but I’m a person who lives in the present. That works out for me as a person and an artist. Of course, you have to make plans but as much as possible I try to keep that under wraps. A big thing for us of this week was for it to flow musically, slow, take it all in. You’re propelling yourself all over the place and for what? Just chill out for a second.

The first thing often stated when reading about your new album, Homeland, is that it’s your first album in a decade. What’s it like Were you able to get a fix on the attendance putting together a recording when you’re figures? aware that it’s been that long but also given Oh I have no idea about that. There how the last 10 years has been an incredible were lots! time for America?

It’s been an incredible time for the world. None of us are immune to this one (laughs). It’s so different, so much change. Huge changes…

True, you think back 10 years ago and it might as well be the ‘60s…

Exactly.

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So when did the cycle for this album begin?

I started doing things called Homeland that had nothing to do with this Homeland (laughs). I don’t know… four years ago or something. There were some shows that had a lot of fun in them, a lot of stories and songs, something felt very comfortable about them.

I was doing a lot of writing and I played them with a lot of different people, Mongolian, jazz guys, pop guys, a variety of people. Then I went into the studio you know, (sighs) ‘time to record’… and what happened is that the life went out of it. That was it. It was over and people left. It was like, ‘wait a second, where’d everybody go?’.

So I was left with all this live stuff to try and put together into a record. There were different things, different lines, some guitar recorded in Sweden one year, something recorded in Texas another. There were thousands of sound files. It was like building it from the ground up, plus I had work on all the other projects to do.

So this got to the point where I was

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only working on it two days out of a month, like a hobby. I was going to abandon it ’cause it was driving me insane. So, finally, Lou got sick of hearing this and he said, ‘I’m gonna work with you until you finish it’. I said, ‘is that a good idea?

I’m not sure that’s a good idea!’ (laughs). But he did and it was great stuff. He’s a good producer.

It’s like we’re all standing on melting icebergs…

Exactly… and watching those poor birds struggle in the Gulf. That tears me up.

It’s breathtaking in the worst possible way.

It is breathtaking. You just wish You’ve never been one for blueprints, but you could put some things in reverse. It’s you certainly didn’t have one for this… like, ‘wow, could we not see that coming?’

(Laughs) Oh it’d be nice to have a is everyone a crook? Who does what for blueprint. What a great idea! whom? The idea of helping each other and pulling for each other has kind of gone out The last decade has been quite the trip in the window. It might seem like a Marxist your homeland. When Barack Obama was concern, but still it’s an ideal. But everyone elected it seemed he was almost doomed just fends for themselves. It’s chaotic. to fail, such was the weight of expectation.

Quite similarly to Kevin Rudd here, although How refreshing is it to use your alter-ago, not as bad…

Fenway Bergemot? Can you just throw Really? What’s happened to him? things out there from a different angle?

Exactly, you get so sick of your The polls have come out in recent days and own opinions and just being able to hear he would be looking at an election loss right someone else is really, really fun. now, due to broken promises, among other things...

When the alter-ego kicks in, it’s obviously Well that’s the way it goes. emanating from yourself, but is there an intuition that springs forth from the As with Obama, he was once viewed as the character? shining light, but he’s let priorities tumble.

Ye a h , y o u s t a r t t o s o u n d l i k e Whereas Obama did dig in on healthcare that, start to think like that. It’s fun. I think reform… everyone needs one.

He’s done some amazing things, he’s There’s probably a lot of people who done a lot of work and has a lot of supporters. don’t realise they have one…

It’s hard to do anything when the whole (Laughs) That’s a very good point.

Senate’s trying to kill you (laughs). And you still But they do slip into that character. ‘Wait a get this thing where people can come back and second pal, that’s your alter-ego talking. It’s lobby right away. But there’s no magic wand your evil twin, man!’. as you know, one guy can’t reverse everything.

The big swings are the Liberal to Conservative To not realise that you have one would be swings - I feel the right’s dealing in politics and such a waste… the left’s dealing in poetry.

That’s right (laughs). I think your But the bigger ones in the last friends would know, way before you would.

10 years, the more important seismic shifts culturally and economically, that’s what’s going So you’re off to the rainforest in the next to take a while to really get used to. Those few days... are the real shocks. When the bottom drops Oh yeah! out, like in Greece, or in the Gulf of Mexico, or when things change so much culturally, Is that a time when you switch off from when everybody’s frantically downloading work and the business of creating things? and working on their laptops… what are you I love creating! But I don’t think doing this for? There’s a big vacuum now. Which about it. I just try to stop doing things and is almost exciting because it means you can relax… open your eyes and just go, ‘that’d invent a way ahead because nobody knows be fun to be that over there’. Or ‘look at that, what is ahead. what a colour!’. Just live. www.xpressmag.com.au

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THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM Bright Jersey Lights New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem release their third album in five years,American Slang tomorrow,Friday,June 18.GEORGE GREEN was one of the lucky few writers who managed to speak to hardworking frontman Brian Fallon before he cut short his run of Australian interviews.

Brian Fallon, frontman of New Jersey punk rock band The Gaslight Anthem wears his heart on his sleeve. His band has achieved phenomenal success off the back of his honest and personal approach to songwriting, bringing out three full-length records in five years and touring the world relentlessly.

Fallon, however, shows a sign that he is human when he cuts short his Australian interview schedule shortly after our chat, citing that he is too “burnt out”.

“This whole month has just been consumed by interviews, it gets pretty crazy in the month before a release, but it’s good I suppose, because it means at least people are into your band,” Fallon laughs down the line.

MY DAD WAS SITTING THERE WITH ME AT ABOUT ONE IN THE MORNING, AND RIGHT BEFORE I WENT TO BED, HE SAID ‘HEY LISTEN’ IN THAT REAL STERN NEW JERSEY ACCENT, ‘YOU GOTTA’ FOLLOW WHATEVER DREAM IT IS YOU HAVE HERE’ Having received rave reviews for their previous records Sink Or Swim and The ’59 Sound, the frontman and his crew took American Slang, their third full-length effort, as an opportunity to branch out and try to create a winning new formula.

“I think on the other two records we had a set goal that we were looking to achieve,” he explains. “We wanted to communicate a message musically, and there was definitely a sense of establishing ourselves as a band. I see our first record as our big introduction, the second one as where we come from, and this one is us having

THE VIBRATORS Still Buzzing

Legendary London punk band The Vibrators are to play in Perth for the very first time thisweekendwhentheytaketo the stage atThe Rosemount on Sunday, June 20. BEN WATSON spoketofoundingmemberand guitarist Ian‘Knox’ Carnochan.

It’s safe to say that The Vibrators are punk rock royalty. Formed in London in 1976, the band were at the epicentre of the punk rock explosion which engulfed youth culture in a primalistic rage throughout that heady year.

In many respects the band are dark horses they’ve never had the profile of The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, or The Buzzcocks but their legacy has been long and enduring.

There are few greater compliments that one can be paid as a musician or artist, than having one’s own influence absorbed by future generations.When a schoolboy band from Belfast heard The Vibrators’ Stiff Little Fingers in mid-1977, they soon adopted the song’s title as their name and quickly became the flagship band of the Ulster scene. Five years later controversial street punks The Exploited would also name perhaps their finest album after their cover of Troops Of Tomorrow.

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developed into our own band with a unique identity.”

Whether Fallon can put a finger on it or not, there’s no denying that The Gaslight Anthem are almost single-handedly winning back much of punk-rock’s credibility. Back in the good old days, the genre meant not caring about the rules – in fact, punk-rock was all about breaking them – but nowadays, it seems what punk truly stands for is lost in an ever-growing sea of straightened hair and fashion-conscious trendies.

This is what makes The Gaslight Anthem’s story so compelling. They have been able to take the true essence of punk, and swim against the current, to find themselves reclaiming the genre’s credibility.

“I look out to the crowd at our shows, and I see people my parent’s age, and at first I didn’t know what to think, but now I realise that if we can pull a crowd of all ages, it means we must be transcending something musically,” Fallon explains. “We must be doing something right.”

Perhaps one of the factors drawing in the older punters is The Gaslight Anthem’s much talked about influences and comparisons. There is much discussion regarding who The Gaslight Anthem sound like, but it is the band’s doffing of their hats to artists like Bruce Springsteen (who made a surprise appearance on stage with the band at last year’s Glastonbury festival) that seems to get tongues wagging.

“I see the Bruce Springsteen comparison thing, but to me, there’s so much other stuff there too,” Fallon stresses, mentioning The Clash, The Rolling Stones, and Tom Waits as key influences on past albums.,“that pointing out one influence seems a little redundant. I mean Bruce is a fan of ours which is cool, so at least if people are going to make comparisons it’s with someone that we actually like. There’s worse people we could be compared to, that’s for sure.

“I definitely learnt a lot growing up listening to Bruce’s records, but I think the Bruce comparison mainly comes from the fact that I grew up in the shore area of New Jersey, which is where Bruce comes from too. In his songs, especially his older songs, he writes about towns that I have written about, and that’s because we both grew

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up there. I was writing about what I saw, and what inspired me when I was younger.”

As well as his New Jersey upbringing, Fallon’s father, a hard-working Jersey-ite who sounds like he could quite easily fit into the narrative of a Springsteen song, has been a huge influence on his career. Fallon fondly recounts the time his dad validated and supported his decision to focus on a career in music.

“My dad has worked a lot, and he’s got this old school work ethic that a lot of people have where I grew up,” Fallon recounts. “I remember when I was getting pretty serious about playing

in bands, and my Dad was sitting there with me at about one in the morning, and right before I went to bed, he said ‘hey listen’ in that real stern New Jersey accent, and he had my full attention.

‘You gotta’ follow whatever dream it is you have here, because I can’t let you end up like me, where you’re just killing yourself to make a dollar. What I’m doing is always waiting for you if you fail, because you can always work with your hands’.

“I’ve always looked up to my Dad and wanted to make sure he approved of me, so having him push me out there and giving me his support was monumental for me.”

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relatively unfased by all this. “It’s very nice to be appreciated,” he says. “Sometimes I wonder what the fuss is about, as we’re just playing and recording songs, and there are other times when I think we should have become a lot bigger and be playing in stadiums.”

Stadiums or no stadiums, part of what makes a band like The Vibrators great is that they have stuck to their guns, have never compromised, and remain vital, releasing album Ever-evolving Adelaideafter album, year after year. Knox explains that the band’s longevity has been as much a result born pop artist Sia releases of circumstance as anything.“I think we were in a her new album We Are Born position where we didn’t have responsibilities, or families, so we just did what we most loved, and tomorrow, Friday, June 18. carried on and the years went past and here we The giggly songstress tells are.”

Here they are, indeed, and thankfully ROMI SCODELLARO why this not as any kind of nostalgia act. In fact the band album is sparkling with fun are touring in support of their new album Under The Radar.“It is all new songs,” Knox explains,“and and sequins.

I think it’s a very strong album and I would put it in our top five albums as it has the songwriting Sia Furler is in bed with her two dogs, Pantera Marvelous and Lick Lick Science, recovering from a Tim Tam overload.

“Tim Tam Slams are one of the best oral experiences you’ll ever have. I’m recovering by watching Say Yes To The Wedding Dress,” she says seriously, before explaining the show in detail. “I love reality TV and it’s getting worse and worse, the kind of TV I’m watching. There are times where I get scared and I think I’m running out of TV… That’s what I’m into. TV.” TV and, apparently, talking. “I’m a chatterbox,” Sia confesses, somewhat unnecessarily. She has a show tonight and apparently loses her voice if she talks too much, so she and girlfriend, Le Tigre’s JD Samson, have The Vibrators an agreement whereby they don’t speak for an and the spirit of the early albums. The songs have hour before our interview. Words must have been good strong ideas in them and the album’s had building up in that hour as Sia proceeds to natter excitedly. very good reviews.”

The Adelaide-born songstress is on the As for the enduring punk rock phenomenon they’ve been a part of for 34 cusp of releasing her latest album, We Are Born, an years: “It’s great it’s still around and people are album on as much of a sugar-high as she is. It starts still interested in it, and to be part of this ‘thing’ with a chorus of kids chanting: ‘We are born… which has almost gained mythological status is yeah!’, and maintains this level almost throughout, fantastic. We were there, it’s so funny that we were with Nick Valensi of the Strokes adding a catchy, there when punk happened and not in a soul bad distinctive flavour to the guitars. Dipping in the middle with a couple of slower tracks, the album or something else.”

Not that that would particularly bother builds back up joyful, danceable pop it began with.

“If you listen to the lyrics it’s the same Knox, who reveals a refreshingly diverse musical taste: “I like all kinds of music so anything good album I write every time, about the same issues is great. Also, I’m of an age where I suddenly like and stuff, it’s just wrapped in different clothing. I [‘60s cabaret singer] Matt Monroe… [I realised] think what this one is wearing bright and sparkly, that Matt Monroe, who was the guy you most a bit more ‘look at me’. I think Colour The Small One hated as a kid, has somehow come round full was wearing black, and I think Some People Have circle. ‘He did the gig’, as it were, and you actually Real Problems was wearing beige and red, and I now like Born Free, something you couldn’t think this one is wearing a lot of sequins.”

While she’s excited about the spangly imagine [as a kid]. I think that’s the magic of new get-up, Sia doesn’t want to talk about the music, the landscape forever changes.”

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process of writing it. She briefly explains “I tried to put them out but Universal dropped me,” referring to her previously reported suggestion that the record company thought these songs might alienate fans of her more subdued and haunting material. For now, it seems more fun to discuss what Sia learnt about Christina Aguilera when they wrote and recorded four songs for Aguilera’s upcoming album.

“We played a lot of Taboo,” Sia says of her new high-profile friend. “Taboo was what we were about. She was devout follower of the buzzer.

It was important to her that everyone follow the rules. I don’t care so much, I’m one of those people that helps the other team, and gives hints, and I annoy people who are competitive. We’re still friends.”

There’s much giggling on both sides of the phone line, particularly as Samson and Sia begin teasing each other. Samson was apparently a big influence on the sound of We Are Born, despite many of the songs being written before they knew each other.

“I don’t really listen to dance music or enjoy it, but because I like her I was going to clubs and she was playing a lot of pop and up-tempo pop music, so that influenced me,” Sia says.

Regardless of when the songs were written, Sia currently seems as up-tempo as her music, a sentiment reflected in the lyrics of Oh Father the Madonna song she covers on We Are Born: ‘I’ve never felt so good about myself.’ www.xpressmag.com.au

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Multi-platinum selling Sydney outfit Thirsty Merc are back with a new sound, a new guitarist and an exciting new album Mousetrap Heart.

JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD caught up with frontman Rai Thistlethwayte on the eve of an extensive national tour which includes shows at The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Wednesday,July 21,andThe Fly

By Night on Thursday, July 22.

With Mousetrap Heart Thirsty Merc set out to reinvent themselves, and as frontman Rai Thistlethwayte attests, they couldn’t be more pleased by the results.

Recorded in Los Angeles with super producer Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Maroon 5), Thirsty Merc’s third studio album signifies a revamped and reinvigorated band, and introduces Thirsty Merc with a dynamic new sound.

The band’s first two albums, 2004’s Thirsty Merc and 2007’s Slideshows, quickly brought Thirsty Merc to national prominence and success, but everything happened so swiftly that Thistlethwayte now admits a lot of it was a blur. He

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knew that if the band were going to commit to a third album but they couldn’t let time constraints or frantic touring but schedules define their work.

Glued to a fundamental desire to recreate what Thirsty Merc was all about, the outfit agreed to take as much time as was needed to create the best music that their considerable pooled talents could produce.

“We pretty much did two records backto-back,” Thistlethwayte explains.“We’d worked so hard over that five year period that we just really needed to take a break to replenish our creative batteries. Our bass player went traveling around the States and I remember one day we spoke on the phone about doing another record and he said to me ‘I’ve been missing that’ and I realised I felt the same.”

During their 12-month hiatus Thistlethwayte found himself composing on piano, marking a significant change from the guitar-driven structures which shaped the tracks on their previous releases.“Usually I would pull out my guitar to drive the writing,”he explains,“but this time I sat down and started writing on the piano. It was a big change for me and it’s really taken our sound in a soul-based groove-rock direction.”

Adding to their transformation, Thirsty Merc experienced a line-up change. Alongside the rock-solid rhythm section of founding members Phil Stack and Karl Robertson, the band now has a promising new guitarist in Matt Smith, formerly of The Strides.“Matt definitely influenced the rhythms we’ve gone for in the songs,” Thistlethwayte says, “not only does he play rock and blues, but he plays reggae and he has a really rhythmic, funky style which, combined with the way the band plays and the way I’ve been writing songs on the piano, really brings out that soul flavor and feel-good vibe.”

Continuing their theme of reinvention in the live arena, Thistlethwayte promises that, apart from showcasing brand new tracks off the new album, The Mousetrap Heart Tour will offer some reinterpretations of the band’s chart-topping songs from their first two albums: “We always try and mix things up in our live shows and even though sometimes we might be going out on a limb, there’s just so many ways to play the same songs differently and we just love experimenting with that.” _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

Boy & Bear

BOY & BEAR The Bear Necessities Built on the collaborative talents of three frontmen and songwriters from separate bands, it’s not hard to understand why indie-folk outfit Boy & Bear’s debut EP With Emperor Antarctica has been receiving rave reviews.

Band members Killian Gavin and Dave Hosking spoke to JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD ahead of the band’s support slot with Laura Marling at Capitol on Sunday, August 8.

Driven by a sense of adventure, musical exploration and experimentation Boy & Bear’s gift can be partially explained by the unique manner in which they formed. Brought together by a shared love of modern folk and harmonising, and frequently supporting each other at gigs, Killian Gavin, David Hosking and fellow member Tim Hart, were the lead vocalists and primary songwriters of their own bands before realising their true destiny lay in pooling their individual talents.

Uniting with Hart’s brother Jon and Jake Tarasenko, Boy & Bear’s range of influences span from modern legends like Cat Stevens and Neil Young to more contemporary artists like Fleet Foxes and Ryan Adams.

“Because we are literally three-fourths of different bands who played different music, everyone draws inspiration from a broad range of musical styles,” Gavin explains.

Despite the band’s remarkable cohesiveness, Gavin admits it took a while before everyone felt comfortable knowing they could contribute.“Everyone knew their place but we still had conversations about who had the authority and questioned whether it was equal,” he says.

“Although we originally started with Dave as the head and frontman, we were changing and working together to become more of an equal band, and it’s definitely now meshing well.”

In time, the group has also become more comfortable with comparisons with indiefolk contemporaries like The Shins, Grizzly Bear and Bon Iver, a point of contention early in the band’s career.

“I think we swallow comparisons a lot better now. When it first happened I was a little annoyed because you can’t have a career in the shadow of other bands, but I think we are putting our stamp on finding our original roots,” Hosking explains, to which Gavin agrees,“You can use what you love as a building block but you definitely need to break free, find your own feet, and make something that people can define as ‘your’ sound.”

Boy & Bear’s melodic aptitude has also earned the praise and revere of their peers, touring with some of today’s most respected artists, including Angus & Julia Stone, Lisa Mitchell and Laura Marling. The band recently supported Marling on a tour of the UK after accepting the acclaimed singers suggestion:‘come in our bus we’ll drive you everywhere, we’ll take care of you,’. With Marling soon to set foot on Australian soil, Boy & Bear can now return the favour. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

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The name Sirens Of Venice may be new but the faces of Gersey front man Craig Jackson and his actress/ musician wife Camilla Jackson should be familiar to many.CHRIS HAVERCROFT spoke to the couple on the eve of the release of their arrestingly-melodic selftitled debut.

The Sirens Of Venice is a name that conjures up images of sea nymphs and seductive singing that would lead one and all into temptation. It is a fitting name for the Melbourne band, and as Craig and Camilla Jackson suggest there are too many Jackson bands, so they couldn’t go down that route.

When talking about The Sirens Of Venice, the spouses are prone to finishing each other’s sentences. Appropriately, they both complete the story of how they started writing for this project four years ago and then sat on the songs for some time – Camilla’s self-professed problem with procrastination contributing to the lengthy wait.

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saying yes to things,” reflects Craig Jackson as to why this project took so long to see the light of day. “It is a great thing because it leads you in many adventures, but a lot of those adventures don’t get finished. Luckily this is one that did. We are pretty happy about the balance that we have with the music. I have bands that I’ve been in before that took over my life and became an obsession.”

They say that being in a band is like entering into a marriage, but for Craig and Camilla Jackson marriage turned into a band.

The two wrote all of the songs together and have both been equally invested in making sure that The Sirens Of Venice turned out exactly as they envisaged. But with the album now released they’re keen to make sure their life isn’t swallowed by their art.

“The realisation is finally dawning on us that we are going to have to get our act together for the album launch and the tour.” Craig says, “We are really putting a lot of pressure on ourselves to get the live show up to scratch. Now that the record is coming out and there is a deadline for the shows I think the panic stations are starting to fire up a little bit.”

The Sirens Of Venice have done things in the opposite order to most bands.

The normal trajectory is to get together, get in a room and write songs together, play some shows, do some recording perhaps and put the record out. But the Jacksons never had any intentions beyond making a record and are now having to contemplate the idea of a live shows. While the result is unknown, they promise there will be no Augie March like break downs.

“You’ve got to be a bit rock and roll about it,” adds Craig frankly about the live experience. “Each show is not going to be a complete replication of the record. There will be little mistakes, but you have to go with it and live in the moment at shows. If you start to panic about it being a train wreck, it will be a train wreck. If you steer that train into the wall as fast as you can with a smile on your face and with passion, you can manage to pull of that bombastic, falling apart, edge of your seat kind of show.”

Heavy metal pioneer Ozzy Osbourne releases his tenth studio album Scream on Friday,June 18.Ahead of the album’s release Ozzy spoke to SASHA PERERA about exercise, not really being the devil, and getting back on the road with Mötley Crüe.

_CHRIS HAVERCROFT

_SASHA PERERA

It’s hard to imagine that any other 62 yearold can rock as hard as Ozzy Osbourne. With over four decades in the music business, Ozzy continues his heavy rock assault with a brand new album Scream – his tenth studio album to date. And if the new lyrics are anything to go by (‘I’m black and bruised, beat up, but I still take the blows’) he’s ready to pound and pummel his audiences once again.

He may be advancing in years, but Ozzy sounds like he’s still got plenty of fight in him. On his new single Let Me Hear You Scream, the famously worn and torn rock survivor wails – ‘If you’re gonna go down, go loud, go strong, go proud, go on, go hard, or go home’.

The follow up to 2007’s Black Rain, Scream has been co-written and produced with Kevin Churko, who worked on Ozzy’s last release.

The new record also features some searing guitar-work from Ozzy’s new guitar-player Gus G. The result, Ozzy claims, is the closest sounding material to his Black Sabbath days.

“I always try to vary my albums and do different kinds of things,” Ozzy says. “On listening to the finished album, I can really hear my Sabbath roots ya’ know?”

In person, Ozzy isn’t as fragile and bewildered as the media make him out to be.

In fact, he’s very present, and always quick with a one-liner to keep his conversation peppered with humour and irony. “I was working on this new album on and off for about 18 months. It wasn’t eighteen months straight – that’d make me go fucking nuts,” Ozzy jokes. “I took some time off for a while. After the tour I just didn’t do anything for about six months, I just needed some time off after the Black Rain tour, then we just slowly got into the new album.”

The new album also signals Ozzy’s return the stage, which will kick off in emphatic fashion when he headlines his own Ozzfest festival throughout the USA in August. Joining Ozzy on the line-up are fellow hell-raisers Motley Crew, making it the first time these hard-living

Ozzy Osbourne acts have toured together since their legendarily debauched 1984 tour.

“We’re not going to repeat 1984, I can promise you now,” Osbourne says. “I’m too old, and I don’t drink, and I don’t wanna drink with them because they don’t know when to stop.

They’re fucking nuts.”

It seems, that later in life, Ozzy is more inclined to make the touring process easier for himself, rather seeing how close it can get to falling apart: “I exercise a bit, I like to keep my weight down, and I also exercise my vocal chords. I have a teacher named Seth who comes around my house to help me out. I exercise in my gym, and I jog a little. I’m human – I’m not really the devil – so therefore being human, my voice goes out sometimes. Sometimes I do bad shows, and sometimes I do good shows, ya know?”

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CROWDED HOUSE Intriguer

THE NATIONAL High Violet

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While their songs romantically evoke memories of happy times past, the second life of Crowded House was not all about nostalgia for the band itself. 2007’s Time On Earth had its origins as a Neil Finn solo album, but their new release, Intriguer, had its start at sound checks and sessions as the band toured the world in 2008-09 and is representative of the energy their new life has conjured.

It’s a different place, more layered. First single, Saturday Sun, echoes that perfect pop song immediacy that Neil Finn cornered in early Crowded House years, but is a dirtier, simple beast.

Indeed those perfectly formed moments are on Intriguer, but in different ways, as songs such as Either Side Of The World roll from pop to samba (closing on a keyboard line that is a stairway to a cumulo nimbus) or Falling In Love which segues from ethereal folk to Let It Be-ish Beatles to higher, heavenly crescendos, the latter feeling also reached on Isolation and Twice If You’re Lucky (melodically and vocally so).

Songs such as Amsterdam and Twice If You’re Lucky tweak at emotions that are contemplative, but not morose. It’s a gift that Finn has always gifted the listener with, but not for him is there the temptation of merely going the ‘classic Crowded House route’. With a living, breathing, brilliant band at his side he has set off on a journey up a different mountain. It has a truly sacred ring. _ BOB GORDON

The enduring quality of Brooklyn-based indie rock quintet The National’s previous releases, 2005’s Alligator and 2007’s Boxer, means that whether they like it or not, High Violet comes burdened with heavy expectation. It couldn’t have just been a good album, it must be a brilliant one. It couldn’t be merely better than what it followed, it needed to be an outright modern classic.

Perhaps, then, the greatest compliment you can pay the album at this stage is to assert that it makes good on these impossibly high expectations, subtly redefining the band’s sound all the while.

Although arguably The National’s most instantly gratifying release to date, it’s by no means instantly great - it’s a measured, brooding collection that does sound fantastic on first listen, but so much better on the fifth, and will still be offering fresh snippets of brilliance come the fiftieth.

While Anyone’s Ghost and Bloodbuzz Ohio satisfy the band’s quota of driving, brooding pop songs, it is the breathtaking England which truly astounds, revealing the band’s musical charms gradually as it rises to an unprecedented climax, seeping both into listeners’ headphones and their hearts long after an initial spin.

High Violet is an exceptionally crafted, gorgeously composed and remarkably rendered release by a band that might just be the very best indie rock outfit performing today.

GOSTELERADIO Great Deeds Against The Dead

VARIOUS V ARIOUS ARTISTS New Weird Australia Volume Six

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Listening to this album in the night brings ideas of clouds and floating away. You’re not sure if it should be the soundtrack to your nightmares or your trippy dreams.

Taking the spirit of classic progressive and psychedelic rock (read: Pink Floyd) Gosteleradio do well with hazy but haunting lyrics and decent organ work. Three of the eleven tracks are instrumental, adding to the lofty cloud-top presence that the album possesses.

It opens with a church-esque organ sound which melds into a harmonic dreamscape, which reflects the entire album.

In creating a cohesive dreamy sound on the album and turning a thick atmosphere in its wake, this release can almost feel energetic yet still sustaining the sparse air about it. Great Deeds Against The Dead is to be played when it’s a bit chilly outside and you’re drinking too much cheap wine, thinking about the ideals of the times gone by.

Grimean War Song, Guillotine and A Thousand Ships stand out as key tracks to pay attention to while letting the album drown out your everyday worries.

Hopefully, with time the band will grow on their sound to make more than just a night’s soundtrack. _BOBBY VON BAKER

_JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

JEZ MEAD Sucker

SUCKERS Wild Smile

ERNEST ELLIS Hunting

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Jez Mead’s approach is a simple one. The lead track on this, his first EP with major label distribution, consists of Mead on vocals and guitar, and one violin.Throughout this release, simplicity and grace shine, but never is the EP actually boring in anyway.

Arms Of The World thumps along around a piano riff, but goes completely skew-if when a Korg micro-synth drops in some seriously weird shit about three minutes in.

Mead is certainly no stranger to music.

Originating in Perth before heading to the East Coast in the late 1990s, he’s released three fulllength albums and is about to drop another one.

So it’s safe to say that his approach is calculated and just perfectly left-of-field.

It’s often difficult for singer-songwriters to avoid being too vanilla. Deliberate quirkiness or excessive sentimentality can be extremely offputting. Happily, Mead avoids this all spectacularly, even on his cover of KISS’s I Was Made For Loving You, which has been completely re-worked with a refreshing arrangement.

Vocally, too, Mead cuts it. Although a quiet artist, there are raw elements to his voice that resonate the hard-earned wisdom of a journeyman. There are subtle hints of Kurt Cobain and Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan in parts, but one gets a sense that these elements have not necessarily been imitated per se. Mead is simply tapping into a similar corner of the universe.

Suckers began life as a band that would jump on stage before and after the performances of their friends MGMT and Yeasayer. If their debut Wild Smile is any indicator, they would not have been even slightly out of place amongst such talent.

They may be led by Austin Fisher and his cousin Quinn Walker but there is no shortage of moments where all members of Suckers offer their voices to sing, shout and chant in unison. Whether it be the slow burn of tunes like Save Your Love For Me , the falsetto led Before Your Birthday Ends or the more propulsive Black Sheep, Suckers bring an anthemic quality to the table.

Sonically, Suckers would like you to think they sound like Labyrinth era Bowie when they are more likely to inhabit a space between Interpol and The National. It may not sound like an obvious formula, but songs like Roman Candles and King Of Snakes speak for themselves.

Wild Smile has all the ingredients of what, on face value, should be a shambolic mess, yet it turns out to be a dynamic and enchanting listen from start to finish. This album is better than even the band themselves would have expected.

Key Track: Black Lava _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

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Holed up in a cabin in the Blue Mountains for almost two months, Sydney artist Ernest Ellis wrote most of his stunning debut album Hunting, a left-field take on pop music which draws inspiration from both classic and modern literature.

Veering towards minimal, almost ambient composition, well-suiting to his laid-back delivery, Ellis’ professed inspiration from the spirit of wayward exploration embodied by Jack Kerouac’s On The Road is clearly evident, and makes for a beautiful reference point.

Kerouac’s sense of exploration and adventure, and the waywardness of his characters permeates its way through both Ellis’ music and lyricism.

The album crosses various terrains from the dramatic guitar-fueled Loveless to the pastorally acoustic Valley Song to delightful harmony-driven Heading For The Cold, creating a hermetically sealed, complete and deeply satisfying album.

Ellis’ use of layered, reverb-soaked vocals and a sublime falsetto echoes the likes of Bon Iver and TV On The Radio, in that it captures the sound of quiet isolation.

Managing to put its own stamp on a moribund genre Hunting is a quietly startling debut, a bold and beguiling collection of songs that showcase a writer of great talent and immense vision. More please!

_CHRIS HAVERCROFT

New Weird Australia is a not-for-profit initiative founded by Stuart Buchanan designed to promote and support new experimental Australian music. Beginning life as an ongoing weekly radio show hosted by Buchanan on FBi Radio Sydney that featured new music, performances and interviews, it soon expanded into a bi-monthly free compilation download, and now the project is expanding its horizons even further with live shows, events and more.

Latest release New Weird Australia Volume Six does what it says on the tin - it’s new, weird, Australian music - offering an eclectic mix of tracks from artists Ambrose Chapel, Jonny Telafone, Chrome Dome, Eastern Grey, Isle Adore, Philip Sulidae, Anna Chase and local boys Wigwam.

Even if experimental music isn’t your thing, it’s definitely worth checking out, if, for no other reason, than because it’s 100% free. Simply visit the website for your free 14-track download.

Picture the scene: it’s Manchester, England in 1990 and the phenomenon known as ‘Madchester’ is in full swing. Local heroes The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays have released classic LPs and indie kids are wearing flares, taking a load of E, and dancing to the latest house beats emanating from Chicago and Detroit. A renewed sense of optimism is in the air.

It was against this exciting backdrop that The Charlatans released their debut LP Some Friendly in October 1990, and in doing so unleashed their signature Hammond organdriven groove to the world. Indeed, thanks to the late Rob Collins, the band made the instrument cool again, and nothing encapsulates this more than on the era-defining The Only One I Know.

All the correct elements were in place, the kids lapped it up, and the LP went straight to #1 in the UK charts.

This record was recently re-released with the band playing the entire album at live dates. Some Friendly still sounds as fresh and as relevant as ever, and although very much a product of its time, what a time it was. Get on it.

Key Track: The Only One I Know _ROSS MCNEILL

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THE BEST OF AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY Various Artists EMI

Country music has often got a bad rap, but with almost every two-bit indie artist wanting to steal a bit of the country limelight via feel or instrumentation, it can’t be all bad. Nashville country is served up with a bigger than healthy serving of cheese, but the vast distance and rugged nature of our continent gives our local country artists a different flavour.

Some would argue that any Best Of Australian Country compilation should contain pretty much only Slim Dusty songs, such is his standing in the music community. He is represented once here with Things I See Around Me. Eric Bogle and Redgum also represent a previous era, but the majority of the material here comes from the last decade including Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daly and Perth’s own Adam Brand.

Female artists are well represented with poster girl for chart success Kasey Chambers placing Not Pretty Enough early on disc one.

Melinda Schneider, Beccy Cole, Sara Storer and Gina Jeffreys have been Tamworth stalwarts while sister act The McClymonts and Amber Lawrence head the list of the new breed.

Any compilation of this nature is bound to cause much debate and in this case the omission of Steve Forde when the likes of Jasmine Rea are included is baffling, but there is a fine spread regardless. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

THIRSTY MERC Mousetrap Heart

DEEZ NUTS This One’s For You

Warner

Roadrunner/Warner

Thirsty Merc’s third studio album, Mousetrap Heart is a great effort by the Dubbo band, not quite reaching the heights of previous albums, but still sure to appeal to fans.

The easy listening soft rock is back, and with it comes elements of love and loss featured very heavily within. The title single is a great song to start with, easy to listen to, gently easing you in to the album. The next nine tracks are a pleasant journey as well, faltering a few times, but providing a nice cruise-y listen.

Mousetrap Heart doesn’t have a pop song on the level of In The Summertime or 20 Good Reasons but it still offers a good cohesive listening experience. The sound of lead singer Rai Thistlethwayte is hardly jarring, and along with the guitars, a mellow rocky feel prevails. All My Life also provides the album with a slower more meaningful song with its emotional outburst.

This release provides a very chilled out atmosphere, which is sure to attract both old and new fans to the band. It may not reach the commercial popularity of the band’s last two albums, but it provides a more personal experience, giving it heart and substance. _LUKE TROLLOPE

Three records in and Deez Nuts has not only become one of Australian hardcore’s biggest money earners, but also the scene’s biggest joke. Whilst Deez Nuts was originally intended as a joke band, the success and ensuing profits have meant Deez Nuts have abandoned crude lyrical content and adopted more traditional hardcore clichés in an attempt to pretend that the band was a serious venture all along.

Unfortunately, singing about your mates and ‘staying true’ does not hide the fact that Deez Nuts is a musically and lyrically weak band, that relies solely on the gimmick of combining hardcore with, well I suppose it’s meant to be rap? Whatever it is, it isn’t good.

If you’re a 15 year old desperately trying to be in with the cool kids, then jump on the next available TransPerth bus, head into the city and grab yourself a copy of This One’s For You. If you’re actually into hardcore, you’re probably well aware that anything Deez Nuts releases is not for you.

For the longest time Martin Scorsese was the best guy to do films about the brutal, unbridled machismo of the gangster, whether it was the birth of an iconic movement in Gangs Of New York or the establishment of the Las Vegas underworld in Casino.

But with the novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane in his hands, Scorsese recasts himself a modern Hitchcock, and he’s as certain of his footing with the crazy angles, gothic mood and head-trip plot as he is the profanity and violence of a Mob story.

Using his current go-to guy in Leo DiCaprio, Scorsese has nothing but fun with Lehane’s twisting, turning story.

Everything from the setting to the music is bombastic and in your face from the opening frame as US Marshall Teddy (DiCaprio) accompanies his new partner Chuck (Ruffalo) through the mist on a ferry to a remote island.

They’re bound for a secluded mental asylum and a storm system’s threatening to hem them in as they search for a patient who’s mysteriously disappeared from her cell.

But from the time Teddy and Chuck set foot on the island we plunge into a delightful mental dystopia of secrets, red herrings and tantalising clues about what’s really going on.

_GEORGE GREEN Shutter Island (Paramount) Daybreakers (Sony) Robogeisha (Madman) The 39 Steps (Madman) _ DREW TURNEY

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Poet MC Janet Jackson invites fans of prose to make their way to Bar Four5Nine on Sunday, June 20, for the next meeting and performance of the Perth Poetry Club. There are a bunch of great poets and spoken word artists on the bill, including Steve Smart, Randall Stephens, Kevin Gillam, Amanda Joy, Kate Wilson, Tomás Ford and Dick Alderson. Doors open at 6.30pm, tickets are available on the door.

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Hailing from Sydney, ‘alternative’ comedian Nick Sun is one hell of a funny chap, which he’ll demonstrate at Little Comedy on Saturday, June 19.

Joining Nick on stage will be Perth’s own Joel Creasey and Laura Davis, with Queenslander Shane Hunter also thrown into the mix. If you’re chasing laughs and a good night out, there’s no going past Little Comedy at the Loft at Little Creatures.

Doors open at 8.30pm, comedy starts at 9pm. Tickets available on the door.

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Earlier in the year, the folks from the Maj Monologues competition invited writers to create a monologue based on the theme ‘a funny thing happened on the way to...’ . Each monologue had to be eight to 15 minutes in length and writers were encouraged to be creative, outrageous and entertaining. Over 100 entries were received but only eight made the final cut, including Chelsea Anderson-Crowe for A Brush With A Hood, Nicola Bradbury for Don’t Order The Jelly, Judith Bridge for D’you Understand What I Mean?, Therese Edmonds for Shelley Kelly’s Day O’Destiny, Paula L Kay for What’s The Game, Mister Wolf?, Steven Kuterescz for A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Theatre This Evening, Ian Toyne for The Domino Effect and Heather Wilson for Office Gossip.

These finalists will have their monologues performed by professional actors Downstairs at the Maj from Tuesday, June 22, ’til Saturday, June 26. On the final evening awards will be presented for Judges’ Choice, the Australia Post Choice Award and the Astrid Jackson Encouragement Award. Tickets for these performances are on sale now from BOCS.

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ALICE HUMPHRIES Alice in Jazzland

MARK SHOLTEZ Real Truth

and nurture young and emerging composers, giving them the opportunity to develop their talents, to stretch themselves artistically and to present their work to new audiences, all of which are important for the growth of big band music in Australia explains Humphries.

“I’m really thrilled and honoured to have been selected as WAYJO’s Composer-inResidence, it’s such a fantastic opportunity and I have really enjoyed being able to compose with freedom and creativity,” Humphries enthuses, “While WAYJO has provided me with direction and encouragement, I have essentially been given full artistic licence to express myself musically, which is quite unique for a young composer just starting out, and I’m really grateful for this break.”

In an exciting collaboration with Tura New Music, WAYJO’s modern jazz collective – the Composers Ensemble – will premiere new Australian orchestral jazz by Humphries as well as works by WAYJO’s Artistic Director, Mace Francis, and music from contemporary international big band composers including Maria Schneider, Bob Brookmeyer and Ed Partyka.

“There’s a great mix of music, from my own original pieces to some more well-known Alice Humphries jazz pieces, with everything coming together to make for a really spectacular concert,” WAYJO’s modern jazz collec tive, the Humphries explains.

Composers Ensemble, will premiere new work Humphries’ three major pieces, composed by Alice Humphries on Thursday, composed especially for this performance, June 24, from 8pm at the Ellington Jazz Club.

Tickets available from ellingtonjazz.com.au. will explore the effect that music can have on people’s emotions, sharing her experience Winner of the 2009 Tura New Music Commission and experimentation with human emotion Prize for Composition and the 2009 Bob Wylie in a joyful celebration of jazz music. However, Scholarship for Most Outstanding Graduation Humphries adds that old-school jazz-purists Recital, 24-year-old WAAPA graduate Alice may be surprised by the musical treats she has Humphries is one of the rising stars of Australia’s in store. growing contemporary jazz scene.

“I’m aiming to deliver a mix of modern Having previously written for many jazz compositions, so the audience may be ensembles including Eneksis, The Mat Jodrell All surprised by the performance if they think Star Big Band and the Alice Humphries/Daniel they’re turning up to a traditional jazz concert.

Thorne Dectet, she plans to take her unique contemporary-jazz compositions to a wider It’s a lot more contemporary, with lots of audience as part of her role as the 2010 The different, experimental sounds which will West Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra Composer- hopefully make for a beautiful and enjoyable night of music and entertainment.”

In-Residence.

WAYJO’s Composer-in-Residence _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD Initiative, now in its second year, aims to support

Mark Sholtez always wanted to be a songwriter. He began playing piano at age 10 and at school he was the odd kid with long hair, whose face you never saw (because of the hair). His parents wanted him to go to uni; instead he went on the road with a band and has made his living in music ever since. “I’ve had this weird thing; whenever one door closed, another has opened.”

Sholtez first caught the music world’s attention in 2006 with his jazzinspired debut Real Street, which debuted in the ARIA Jazz and Blues chart at #1 where it stayed for 10 consecutive weeks. When hitting the promotional trail for this album, Mark learned guitar so he could perform the songs everywhere from small clubs to TV shows. It would be a pivotal turning point for what became his second album The Distance Between Two Truths.

With a strong vision for the second album, Sholtez contacted American producer Larry Klein, who he bonded with immediately over a shared love of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and early Springsteen. After one lengthy phone call they’d already decided they wanted to make a record together. One thing led to another and soon after Sholtez was off to LA to record with Klein at the city’s famed Sunset Sounds studio. Simplicity was the key and Klein captured the right vibe by insisting on keeping many first takes. “I wanted it to sound like I was playing to you in your lounge room,” says Sholtez.

Mark Sholtez

The first single We Could Get Lost was written with Iain Archer, who co-wrote Snow Patrol’s breakthrough album Final Straw. “I spent a few days just wandering around London and Paris before starting a solid month of songwriting. Both those cites are incredibly enchanting and I couldn’t shake the idea of ‘we could get lost in this city’, ” says Sholtez. “Iain has a studio in the back of this little church, just out of the centre London, which was the perfect place.

The first thing he played when he picked up his acoustic guitar was that opening guitar riff, and from there, the rest just seemed to write itself.”

Now almost 30 years old, the ‘odd’ kid from school has definitely been put to bed. Sholtez smoulders in his new publicity shots (shot in Sydney Harbour; literally, in it) and his new album is his most assured and accomplished yet. You can find him on Twitter (“a necessary evil”) and Facebook, where he loves to post new demos and see the responses. He clearly appreciates his fan base, often playing specific songs at gigs that people have requested on his fan page because “sometimes a song will end up being more important to someone else than you.”

The Distance Between Two Truths is due for release on Friday, July 2, 2010. _CAITLIN IRVING

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Universal If ever there was a band to find a new way of making the ‘biggest ever’ even ‘bigger’ than ever it’s U2. And so it was that their show last year on October 25 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena (just outside of Los Angeles) was the band’s biggest ever show in the US, with 97,000 people in attendance. That they then decided to broadcast the show on YouTube worldwide to a potential audience of 10 million is testament to their trademark largesse.

Now 360° At The Rose Bowl comes on the heels of 2008’s theatrically released U23D, filmed at South American venues during the Vertigo tour in 2006-07 and a modern reminder of just how thrilling 3D can be. Oh boy that thing sung, but that’s not to say that this release isn’t a viewing treat. You already know if you can handle U2’s super-sized gestures or Bono’s do- times and if you’re a confirmed fan, then lie back good/do-more rants or not, so if you can then and enjoy as it’s a lengthy watch to be sure. proceed with a finger on the fast-forward at Opening with Get On Your Boots (Breathe was the actual opener of the show broadcast on YouTube), the energy is high and the scales begin to tip in favour of the material from last year’s No Line On The Horizon album. A lesser song in the vein of Vertigo (also featured on this DVD), Get On Your Boots benefits from the band/crowd-irresistible riff dynamic. Later on, Magnificent, No Line On The Horizon, I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight and Moment Of Surrender benefit from a certain contemporaneousness, as the band perform them with clear verve.

Being U2 though, a career of hits is also on display, with Magnificent, Beautiful Day, One and With Or Without You being the standouts. Bono (not at his best vocally), The Edge, Adam Clayton and even drummer Larry Mullen Jr make use of the stage, but they do often seem isolated from each other on the huge 360° stage structure. The audience is beyond stoked to be there and both parties are captured on film quite brilliantly.

There’s much in the way of political and social proselytising of course, but the sentiments have always been part of the fabric of the songs in any case and let’s face it, no other band could get Bishop Desmond Tutu or the commander of the International Space Station to intro or outro their songs. Use thy artillery!

U2, making biggest bigger since 1976. _ BOB GORDON

I Am Love

Directed by Luca Guadagnino Starring Tilda Swinton, Gabriele Ferzetti, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Pippo Delbono

contrast is too much, and their relationship comes across as melodramatic and overwrought.

On the other end of the spectrum, every other aspect of character and motivation Your enjoyment of this epic tale of the trials is underplayed to the point of being invisible. and tribulations of a rich Milanese textiles Swinton has made a career of essaying icy, family will depend largely on your appreciation rigidly controlled characters, and she takes of lush visuals in lieu of driving narrative. I am to the role here like a duck to water, but the Love (Lo Sono L’Amore in the original Italian) is a other actors suffer in parts that I’m sure were slow moving but beautifully staged film, more meant to be subtle but come across as merely concerned with atmosphere and composition underwritten. than pacing. It’s not so much a case of style over You can’t argue with the film’s visual substance as style over momentum, and the merits, however; director Guadagnino’s camera deliberate rhythm of the piece makes it difficult moves and zooms over lavish sets and exquisite to penetrate, despite the accomplished cast. costumes, capturing a wide range of moods Oscar winner Tilda Swinton stars as and locations from Milan’s wintry streets to the Russian trophy wife Emma, whose husband lush golden San Remo countryside, all threaded Tancredi (Delbono) and son Edo (Parenti) inherit the family business upon the death of the together by an odd, haphazard score. Indeed, patriarch Edoardo (Ferzetti). Their ascension whatever urgency the film has comes from marks the beginning of a turbulent time for the John Adams’ musical work, and his soundtrack clan; first Tancredi sells off the family business, is probably the most interesting element of the as soon as he is able, while daughter Betta (Alba whole enterprise.

Indeed, ‘interesting’ is probably the Rohrwacher) comes out as a lesbian. Meanwhile Emma, perhaps inspired by her daughter to seek kindest and most accurate epithet one can give some measure of freedom and self-expression to I Am Love. It’s like a scale model of a classic car; in what she has come to see as a gilded cage, stunning in its exacting attention to detail, but embarks on a torrid affair with Edo’s friend, chef bereft of power because ultimately you know there’s nothing under the hood. Without a deeper Antonio (Gabbriellini).

The key problem is the wild tonal shift emotional connection to the characters than the that occurs when Swinton’s character decides to script allows, it’s impossible to care about the tumble into bed with Antonio; whereas much of self-inflicted problems of the idle rich, and the the film is restrained to the point of being stilted, film remains an attractive but empty vessel. these sequences play out in hazy golden tones, like some kind of Mills & Boon style TV movie. The _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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the darker end of the emotional spectrum, as Toy Story 3, like their last film, Up, deals with notions like the inevitability of change, the process of ageing, and even the looming spectre of death.

There was always going to be another Toy Story Instead of positioning the characters in a kind of film – the success of the first two made it inevitable. ageless cartoon netherworld, the creative team For a while there it looked like one would be have moved them through time; Andy is now made without Pixar’s involvement; Disney owned preparing to go to college and Woody (Hanks), the sequel rights and Pixar weren’t interested in Buzz (Allen) and the gang must face an uncertain churning out another film just for the cash, so future where the boy who loved them no longer the House Of The Mouse was prepared to forge has room for them in his life. Events see them ahead without the original creators’ involvement. donated to a day care centre where the resident Happily, Disney’s purchase of Pixar meant that toys are under the thumb of tyrannical teddy the groundbreaking series could be given the bear Lots-O-Huggin’ (Beatty), and our heroes must send-off it deserved by the team responsible for stage a Great Escape style breakout in a last-ditch its initial success. attempt to be reunited with Andy.

A lot of the Toy Story success comes If Toy Story 2 upped the emotional down to their universal appeal; these are truly content with Cowgirl Jessie’s (Cusack) lament to films for the whole family, and they achieve this lost love, the third instalment goes even further; not by sprinkling pop culture references and risqué our heroes aren’t facing mere separation from humour over the kid-pleasing visuals (hi, Shrek) but their friends and loved ones, but the actual by dealing with rich and complex themes. Now it possibility of a very real death. There are points in seems that the Pixar crew are a little focused on the film where the emotional punch is almost too

Toy Story 3 much, and I can see younger kids getting freaked out, much as my generation was by E.T. That’s no bad thing by the way; children have an emotional resilience we tend to underestimate, and frankly they’re better off seeing something like this, which deals with this stuff in an intelligent and sensitive way, than the usual run-of-the-mill Hollywood pabulum.

All that isn’t to say the film isn’t fun; it’s a blast to revisit these characters after 11 years, and there’s an easy chemistry on display that, combined with the polished writing, makes even the most throwaway line a delight. And it goes without saying that the animation is simply beautiful, and the 3-D is used to good effect, giving the action sequences a richness and a kinetic quality that would not otherwise be possible.

Toy Story 3 is an excellent and moving piece of cinema, and a fitting final chapter to a series that not only revolutionised animation, but once again forefronted character and storytelling in family film. Pixar is the most consistently brilliant studio currently operating, and you’d have to be a cold-hearted monster not to enjoy their latest offering. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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The opening film of the 2010 Dungog Film Festival, Lou, offers up a raw and emotional portrayal of a broken family living in rural New South Wales. The film is amazingly engrossing, hooking you from start to finish.

The mixture of moving drama and touching, light hearted comedy is a reason to watch alone; however, it’s the characters of Lou (Lily Bell-Tindley) and Doyle (John Hurt) that really steal the show. The relationship the two share is touching, but at the same time very inappropriate.

The two don’t know any different, but to the audience, it appears very strange.

Overall, the film is a pleasure to watch, showing a family shattered after the departure of the man of the house. Rhea (Emily Barclay) has to contend with her three girls and the burden of her wayward husband’s Alzheimer’s suffering father Doyle (John Hurt). Rhea’s 11 year old daughter Lou (Tindley) has become bitter and resentful of her mother because of their financial and living situations, often leading to verbal and physical clashes.

Tindley’s portrayal of the broken Lou shows real acting props, demonstrating that she is certainly an actress to watch out for in the future.

The bond between Lily and her grandfather Doyle starts off very rocky, but as the film progresses, so does their relationship, and Lily’s understanding of Alzheimer’s, albeit through her young mind.

The fragile family unit is put on display for the audience, to great success, providing

drama and thought provoking, endearing scenes throughout the movie. The Alzheimer’s condition is tackled well by John Hurt, and in a very realistic way, giving the audience some insight into the struggle the condition causes. Doyle mistaking Lou for his ex-wife Annie leads to many strange and very awkward moments between the pair, which makes for compelling viewing.

The beach scene is one of the best of the film, with the shackles of their dreary life thrown off for one day of fun in the sun. The film is littered with little beacons of happiness, but it’s ultimately not enough for Lou, as the frayed relationship between her and her mother leads up to a sad, but justifiable ending.

The casting of John Hurt was a stroke of genius by writer and director Belinda Chayko, as he is a real asset to the film. The way Hurt and Tindley play off each other is amazing, showing such a connection, at such an age gap. Chayko should be commended herself for offering up such a visual and emotional delight, captivating the audience through a very real situation.

Lou is a powerful film, helped along tremendously by its lead actors and the way they interact with one another. It’s well written, and expertly delivers the audience captivating take on a broken family, and one little girl’s struggle to be loved. _LUKE TROLLOPE

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KING LEAR

All The King’s Men King Lear is on at His Majesty’s Theatre from Friday, June 18, ’til Saturday, June 26.

Bookings can be made through BOCS. Based upon the mythological pre-roman king Leir of Britain, Shakespeare’s King Lear stands as one of the bard’s most regarded works, tracking the decline and descent into madness of the titular king after wrongly distributing his estate to his three daughters upon the strength of their flattery. The coming production by the Bell Shakespeare Company is the second staging of King Lear by the company and marks the third time John Bell himself has played the king.

Tim Walter plays Edmund, the bastard son of the Duke of Gloucester who tries to usurp the throne, and my conversation with him is centred on the unique interpretation of this production of King Lear.

“It’s such an incredible play. This is the third time John Bell is playing the (titular) character and he’s still swamped by the enormity of it. Harold Bloom, the famous Shakespeare critic, actually declared the play unperformable due to the enormity of the questions it asks.”

Yet the company has not chosen to fetter this complex work with an equally complex interpretation, preferring it seems to stick to the text in its reading.

“It is a very simple production in many ways, and a lot of the focus of the concept was to do with solid performers, and telling the story, and making the language of the play really clear,

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so audiences could enjoy the language and the story. So it is quite pared back in any way, it’s not set in any sort of contemporary setting like a board room or World War II or anything like that; it’s set in the world of the theatre. In some ways, this simplistic setting emphasises the metaphysical aspects about the play, which does ask some pretty big questions about the universe”.

King Lear is a play well known for having a significant political allegory, reflecting Machiavellian ideas of the corrupting and degrading influence of power. Yet it would seem that this particular production has stayed away from making the more obvious political analogies to the play, and focused instead on its more human aspect.

“I think this production comes at it from another angle. There is certainly the stuff about status and the shedding of power in there, but part of King Lear’s journey is that he goes from all the mantle of royalty and power to discovering that underneath we’re all just animals at heart and essentially the same. There is a sense then that this production is about stripping back.”

Part of what we have come to expect from the Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company is the powerful, succinct ways in which its productions tackle questions of design, imbuing the thematic focuses of the production within its framework. “A lot of the characters are wearing these big fur coats, symbols of authority. And throughout the production the characters start stripping back these coats, in a sense revealing the human animal within, and discarding these representations of power.”

Any production of King Lear has to contend with a very specific set of moral and ethical concerns. “King Lear was actually written for King James the first, who believed in the divine right of kings, and of course Shakespeare really questioned that, and goes even further to ask questions of the universe. Is it friendly, and benign, or really is there no one there?

Shakespeare set King Lear in a pre-Christian world, as a way of getting through many of the ideas being thrown up by the renaissance that was being resisted by the church.This production also focuses on the family aspect of the play, with regards to questions about things as natural goodness, or whether or not we are merely products of our upbringings and environments.”

Be that as it may, Shakespeare’s texts have never been morally didactic, and this particular iteration of King Lear makes no moves toward finding solutions to the various moral dilemmas that form the crux of the text.

Shakespeare’s cunning invocation of pagan gods and themes allowed him to probe moral issues with a lot more freedom than was generally allowed those days, and thus the full complexity of its moral themes was able to be laid bare.

“The play asks many questions, but I don’t think it actually comes to any of its answers. Lear talks a lot about the Gods, and he prays during the play and he’s much focused on that kind of divine moral guidance. But it kind of fails him in a way. The text itself is set in the preChristian world, with many references toward the old pagan gods, which in a sense, enabled Shakespeare to get away with saying a lot and questioning the things that he does in the text.

Yet most of the characters are wandering in the wilderness of their own moral dilemmas. It asks whether or not we can, without god, have any moral fibre at all. My personal view is that the play is quite sceptical of the ideas of religious moral frameworks.” _JOE LUI www.xpressmag.com.au

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VISUAL ARTS B a r e f o o t D r u m m i n g Wo n d e r, T h e SlaughterBlouse, 451 Beaufort Street, Highgate.

It begun as a mistake. Stranded in Brighton on a gloomy October ’s day, a chair was dragged across weathered floorboards to the only window in the room. A photo was taken with a hand-me-down camera and available light for no other reason than to document our own existence. Skye and Chloe Sobejko present Barefoot Drumming Wonder, a collection of photography, installation and film, which documents our existence while simultaneously recording the inevitability of decay.

Exhibition runs ’til Friday, June 25.

Squared, Greenhill Galleries, 6 Gugeri Street, Claremont.

The annual Squared exhibition is designed to provide new collectors with an opportunity to purchase more affordable pieces, by providing beautiful smaller scale works.

This year ’s exhibition features work by some of Australia’s most sought after artists, including Robert Juniper, Jason Benjamin, Crispin Akerman, Peter Boggs, Dean Bowen, Zhong Chen, Marcella K aspar, Christine Johnson, Julian Meagher, Jim Thalassoudis and Katarina Vesterberg. Ten per cent of all sales will be donated to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Exhibition opens on Friday, June 18, and runs ’til Saturday, July 3.

Rounds, PICA, James Street, Northbridge.

Rounds is an exhibition of nine cutting-edge Western Australian ar tists that radically engage with issues of peer influence through a self-generating exhibition process. Working through a series of four cycles, it started on September 5, 2009, and continues through to March 27, 2010. Each ar tist responds to a work made in the previous cycle by another artist in the group. Features Neil Aldum, Rebecca Baumann, Tim Carter, Elise/ Jurgen, Shannon Lyons, Bennett Miller, Sarah Rowbottam and George Egerton-Warburton.

Exhibition opens on Friday, June 25, and runs ’til Wednesday, August 25.

Dawn, Kulcha, 13 South Terrace, Fremantle.

Perth based Colombian artist Nidia Hansen presents Dawn, an exhibition inspired by metaphysics, life patterns and underwater life. Using acrylics and mixed media her works reveal a passion and talent for the use of bold colours and compositions for nonrepresentational or figurative art.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, June 27.

Recent Paintings, Pe r t h G a l l e r i e s, 9 2 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle.

Eveline Kotai’s Recent Paintings reveals an extension of her enduring interests in experimentation of colour and the systematic approach to the unfurling of patterns. In these large scale paintings and stitched collages, the theme of landscape reveals

Three Blokes And Their Barbies, a show that combines comedy sketches with musical interludes. The three blokes in this delightful and wicked comedy view beer as the answer to the meaning of life and consider the love of a good woman no match for a Sunday spent in the tinnie fishing.

Per formance takes place on Saturday, July 10, at 8pm. Bookings can be made online at Gosnells.wa.gov.au or by calling (08) 9493 4577.

Sprung, PICA, James Street, Northbridge.

Sue Peacock and Stefan Karlsson join forces for Sprung, a new work about an odd couple.

She is ner vous, precise and demanding, he is relaxed, easy going and much to her discomfort, loves to improvise. In Sprung, Peacock and Karlsson decide to make one last dance, for fun, to celebrate the good times and to try to make sense of so many years of counting, stepping, stretching, swinging and sighing.

Season runs ’til Saturday, June 19.

Bookings can be made via PICA on (08) 9228 6300 or online at pica.org.au.

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Metamorphose, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley.

Curtin University art graduate Andrew Mallard will present a solo exhibition of new works this month. Metamorphose features a series of paintings which can be read as a single work but are also capable of being broken down into individual, stand alone pieces. In Metamorphose, Mallard expresses his past experiences and beliefs through the harmony and unity of colour.

Exhibition opens on Friday, June 18, and runs ’til Friday, July 16. hidden aspects and cycles of nature. an approach to the construction of and Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, June 27. layering of meaning.

Exhibition runs ’til Monday, July 5.

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Nicholas Folland, Turner Galleries, 470 Richard Healy, the 2009 recipient of Emerge William Street, Northbridge.

Art Space’s Cream Art Award will present Nicholas Folland’s self titled exhibition has his first solo exhibition this June, displaying an aesthetic of chaotic beauty, it’s playful, moody and ambiguous paintings which have sometimes whimsical, and often humorous. a ‘film noir’ feel to them. A graduate of Curtin He works with materials as diverse as crystal University, Healy’s work tends to focus on and granite, and incorporates domestic the sinister side of life, challenging viewers objects into dramatic new creations, such to create their own interpretations of his as chandeliers that grow ice, glassware moody images. that forms an icy floe, a bathroom that Exhibition runs ’til Wednesday, June continuously overflows, and a cloud formed 30. from multiple chandeliers. Nature and the romantic landscape make regular Poesis, Heathcote Museum & Galler y, appearances in his work, but always with a Duncraig Road, Applecross. twist, or a fractured unease.

Four local artists, Margaret Baker, Melody Exhibition opens at 6pm on Friday, Smith, Serena Aristei and Melanie Diss come June 25, and runs ’til Saturday, July 24. together to showcase their work which embodies the core element of the materiality and history of painting. Works vary from traditional to non-traditional approaches of Three Blokes And Their Barbies, Don Russell representational painting, jewellery making, Performing Arts Centre, Murdoch Road, sculpture, installation, gestural painting, to Thornlie. the creation of luminous pristine surfaces. The great Australian enigma of blokes, Each practice is based on process or poesis; beer and barbeques gets put on the grill in

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LoveBites, Playhouse Theatre, Pier Street, Perth.

Love bites hard, love bites soft, sometimes it leaves a bruise and sometimes it makes you laugh so hard you have to cry! LoveBites is a delicious collection of bite-sized vignettes revealing how modern romantic relationships start, and how they end... or end up. Told through the stories of seven different couples, audiences experience sudden love, forbidden love, true love, selflove, sexual love, unrequited love, and love that just isn’t enough.

Season opens on Thursday, June 24, and runs ’til Sunday, July 11.

MUSIC Drum Tao: The Samurai Of The Drum, June 22-26 Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. Music On The Terrace 2010: Fused, June 27 Government House Ballroom; book ings through BOCS. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Intentions, June 28 Astor Theatre; bookings through BOCS. Lior, July 8 ArtBar; bookings through BOCS. Space Classics, July 9-10 Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. Clare Bowditch, August 5 ArtBar; bookings through BOCS. Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, August 5-8 Various venues; bookings through Heatseeker.

SECOND HAND SPECTACULAR Vintage lovers packed out the Velvet Lounge on Saturday, June 12, for We Heart Vintage, a massive market sale offering up clothing, brica-brac, accessories and everything in between.

Presented by the Collectomaniacs, We Heart Vintage markets are a must-do for any lover of second hand items; check out their Facebook page for info on the next sale.

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launch a fashion label of her own.

Years on and Sorgiovanni is now the head designer of her own label, On Tour, which is stocked at a variety of boutiques around WA and beyond. Launched back in August 2009, On Tour caters to strong women who aren’t afraid to take risks and stand out from the crowd.

“On Tour was created to see what I could achieve as an individual breaking through the industry in Australia,” says Sorgiovanni about her goals as a designer. “I think there is a gap in the market between completely commercial product to high end designer product, and I wanted to situate myself in that bracket – to design a collection by creating my own concepts without completely following trends, have it all Australian made, and make the designs wearable, directionally fashion forward, as well as affordable for the general consumer.”

As her label name suggests, Sorgiovanni is a big fan of the music industry in general, an industry she has drawn much inspiration from.

“A big part of my thinking is always the music I listen to, immersing myself in an album or ten and escaping from reality to create concepts from an art perspective. At an early age I always watched and listened to my grandfather play the accordion so music was and still is an important part of my life. The landscape and my surrounds also play a massive influence; living in country WA you always see new colours and shapes which lead to new ideas and so on.”

ON TOUR Though her label has only existed for As a youngin’ growing up in the suburbs of Perth, just over ten months, Sorgiovanni has already Alicia Sorgiovanni developed a love for sewing accumulated quite the list of stockists, with her thanks to her grandmothers who were skilled On Tour designs available at Assirak in Bunbury, seamstresses. They may not have known it at the Pussycat Black in Melbourne and online at time, but Sorgiovanni’s doting grandmothers FashionWA.com. To keep abreast of all of On sparked a passion in their young granddaughter, Tour’s goings on, head to ontourdesign.blogspot. a passion that would one day see her create and com.

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During winter it can become extremely hard to motivate oneself to get off the couch and brave the elements for a spot of shopping, which is when online shops come in handy. This winter, Australian online boutique DirtyRich comes to the rescue of those too cold to step outdoors, promising to deliver designer wares to your door no matter how hard it’s raining outside.

Independently owned and run, DirtyRich stocks a fantastic array of labels, including Hellz Bells, Dimepiece, Married To The Mob, Wildfox, Cubannie Links, Claw Money, Free Gold Watch, Princess Of The Posse, De*Nada, L.A. Fine, Joyrich and Brian Lichtenberg.

Next time you want a fashion fix without having to change out of your pyjamas, look no further than dirtyrich.com.au.

HEART OF GLASS

When jewellery designer Kasia Grzesiak graduated from Curtin University in 2006, she began working for high end jewellery companies, crafting custom and show pieces for private customers and boutiques. Five years on and Grzesiak is now her own boss, having launched her very own label, Kashen Jewellery.

“It has been my dream since graduating from university to [launch a label], however developing a label takes a lot of time, energy and money. Thankfully I have a lot of talented friends who have helped me along the way, such as Alyce Mochini, who is an up-andcoming photographer who took all the photos of my jewellery pieces.”

Unlike many other jewellery designers, Grzesiak prefers not to work with gold, silver and precious stones, opting for glass as her medium of choice.

“Working with glass I enjoy creating different surfaces, from smooth to rough. The structure and fluidity of it creates a beautiful contrast when worn on the body and becomes more than just an adornment, transforming into life-like sculptures. I also like the fact that the outcomes are never predictable with glass, sometimes it melts more during a firing and sometimes not enough, and both times it still creates an interesting effect.”

To check out the full Kashen Jewellery collection, head online to kashenjewellery.com.

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RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY

People tend to get depressed in winter – sure it’s cold and dark but there are plenty of good things that come along with frosty winter weather. There’s steaming hot bowls of pumpkin soup to be had, puddles to jump in and scarves, gumboots and gloves to be worn. If you’re still not convinced about winter’s benefits, perhaps Little Miso can convert you with their gorgeous umbrella necklaces. The Carry Me On A Rainy Day necklace is an ode to all things wintery, reminding us to enjoy the rain and the umbrellas that come with it.

Get your hands on this cute little necklace and many more like it online at littlemiso.com. _EMMA BERGMEIER

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 DEFYING LOGIC

Bliss N Eso

BLISS BY THE RIVER Since the release of their ARIA Award winning album, Flying Colours, skyrocketing Sydney-siders Bliss N Eso have graced some of Australia’s biggest festivals (Homebake, Pyramid Rock, Splendour in the Grass). Their infamous live shows have built the foundation of their massive following and have propelled them to their current status as one of Australia’s biggest acts.

Bliss N Eso’s highly anticipated fourth studio album, Running on Air, will be released at the end of July, and to celebrate Bliss N Eso are tearing up the country on their Down By The River tour. Catch them on Saturday, August 7, at Metro City. Special guests for the night will be Melbourne’s Diafrix and Sydney’s Mind Over Matter. Tickets go on sale Monday, June 21, at 9am, from moshtix.com.au, blissneso.oztix.com. au or ticketek.com.au.The event is 18+ only.

Gtronic

TRASHY TIMES Having taken the east coast by storm, the Trashbags party series is set to inject itself into the Perth clubbing scene. The opening of Trashbags in Perth will see an international double header on the cards – Gtronic (Belgium) and Haezer (South Africa). Gtronic’s signed to Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak Records label, and is a massive proponent of the heavy thrash bass sound, whilst Haezer is known for his wizardry in progressive modern electro.

Saturday, July 17, is the date to mark in your diaries for Trashbags, at Villa Nightclub. Support from Defeat, Jus Haus? and Time Travel Agent.

Tickets $30 plus booking fee from moshtix.com. au or Moshtix outlets, or otherwise get tickets from Highs and Lows, Atlas Divine, or 78 Records.

Doors open 10pm.

Aswon

DRESS TO IMPRESS

Jason Creek

LOCAL LOCK-DOWN Following the huge success of new local trance night Ascension’s opening night, the club night is back for round two. Hosted by Perth and Australia’s hottest trance DJs, Ascension is leading the change for trance in Perth, and you can expect plenty of fresh goodness in their next line up. Fresh from his Godskitchen appearance is Perth’s #1 Trance DJ, Salt’s own Jason Creek, who will be playing alongside Rise’s Bedroom to Bigroom winner DJ Travis, Symbiosis (Joe Benger & Michael Ware), Gary Watson, Avesta and Steve Rg. Saturday, June 26, at Rise in Northbridge. Doors open 9.30pm (free entry before 10pm). Rise members free before 11pm, $5 thereafter. Non-members $5 before 11pm, $10 before 1am, $15 thereafter.

Returning to Bar Open (upstairs) this Friday, Mix It Up promises a night of mindblowing partying.

Covering styles from r ‘n’ b, hip hop, dancehall, straight fire and reggae, a line up of Perth’s best talents in these areas will ensure your hips are shaking all night long. Join DJ Slick, Blackbelt, Zoom and Aswon at Mix it Up. Ladies, don your best little black dress for a complimentary glass of champagne on arrival (pre-midnight only). All are encouraged to dress to impress. Friday, June 18, Bar Open (upstairs). Doors open 10pm. A Friday night that will have you feelin’ alright!

Brash & Sassy

TITANS OF DISCO Divas of disco, Brash and Sassy, front the line up at King Tito’s Dirty Disco this week. They’ll be joined by a selection of disco DJs - TCee, Friend, Fkn Midas, Dan Deelstra, Paul Malone, Cooker and more – for a night of dirty disco, future funk, delicious pop, indie dance and soul party hip hop. Friday, June 18, East End Bar & Lounge, Fremantle. $10 on the door from 9pm. Sounds like a Titan of a time, no?

Raised on a self-prescribed musical diet of Rage Against The Machine and Mo’ Wax, and growing up in the same household as Nu:Tone (his brother), it’s no wonder Logistics became the eclectic tastemaker that he is. Since being signed to massive UK label Hospital Records (a labelmate to his very own brother), Logistics has gone on to dominate new sub-genres of drum ‘n’ bass, adding his own liquid funk touch.

His anthem Together is no doubt on the classic lists of many, likewise Logistic’s seminal remix of Leviticus’s ‘90s classic The Burial. Logistics has gone on to influence DJs like Friction and Andy C, and he plays a big part in the modern Hospital Records sound. Logistics heads to Perth courtesy DJ Premier of Knowledge Events, to play at Shape on Wednesday, July 21. It’s a mid-week gig, but we SOLO STARR know you’ll rally to the occasion! Support from Together with MC Guru, he was one half of the Sardi, Muller and Deflo. Presales now available infamous duo Gang Starr, and now DJ Premier’s from shapebar.com.au for $20, or limited tickets rocking it solo, headed to Perth this weekend to on the door if available. give us a taste of his East Coast hip hop. Many fans and hip hop purists consider Premier to be the greatest hip hop producer ever, with The Source magazine naming Premier one of the five greatest producers in hip-hop history.Having worked with more people than most dedicated rap fans know about, Premier is responsible for the production of Jeru the Damaja’s first two albums, has done tracks with M.O.P., KRS-One, Group Home, NAS and Jay-Z. This Friday marks Logistics your chance to brush shoulders with Premier.

Support from Taku, Tracksmith and Headayke.

Friday, June 18, Shape Bar. Tickets from Highs and STRUTTING HIS STUFF Lows, Planet or Mills, or online at knowledgemusic. A young man is off on a worldwide mission to com.au or shapebar.com.au. Doors open 10pm. develop a clubbing and entertainment resource that uncovers the raw information today’s contemporary cutting edge clubbers need and want to know. Beginning on September 23, in Ibiza, Rob Strutt will begin Strutt10Global, a 10 week solo expedition around the globe consuming 10 of the most illustrious clubbing cities known to mankind. Strutt10Global is offering prospective brands and labels the opportunity to get exposed through this rapidly expanding website – shoot an email to strutt10global@ gmail.com if this sounds like your thing.

Kosmic Sound in Cannington Or else head along to the launch night in Perth on Thursday, June 24, at Wolfe Lane Bar, 7pm, to KOSMIC SALE The end of the ol’ Financial Year is coming around hear more about Strutt’s adventure. DJs Aarin F, again, which means massive sales! Kosmic Sound Darren J, James Francis, Oli, Danny and Ghasson in Cannington and Osborne Park are ready to will all be spinning on the eve. RSVP to the same tempt you with some serious bargains on all their email address above. music gear and DJ equipment, with all manner of MIDI controllers, monitors and more on sale, from FUNK YOURSELF UP now until the end of June. Loads of stock has to Get back to the roots, back to the where it all go so pop down and suss it out for yourself! Plus, started, back to the underground. If you haven’t on Saturday, June 26, there’s a Kosmic ‘Doorbuster yet experienced the Ibiza-tinged tunage that Day’ going down - Kosmic Sound have hinted is Funked Up, you’re missing out, brothers and we can expect up to 75% off. Keep your eye on sisters. Already spanning four countries (UK/ Kosmic Sound’s Facebook page for more details Mauritius/Ibiza/Aus) and having hosted some of or head over to their website kosmicsound.com. the biggest international talent about, Funked Up is ready to show Perth how it’s done. Head to Bar Open (downstairs) on Friday, June 25 to catch Kastel vs, Acebasik, Sirius B vs. Aaron Richards, Artista, Dash and AshBee bringin’ the downright sexy beats all night long. Doors open 10pm.

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Chase & Lariken

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Purple Sneakers DJs

PURPLE FREAKERS Australian party-starters the Purple Sneakers DJs have been pulling off massive parties every Friday at Sydney’s longest running indie club, Purple Sneakers, for god knows how long, going by the mantra ‘just because you play indie, you don’t have to suck balls as a DJ.’ Fair enough. In promotion of their new mix CD, We Mix, You Dance, Benny Lucid and MIT, of the PSDJS, are now ready to ride their party horse into Perth town. Friday, June 25, at Limelite, Metro Freo. Support for the boys comes in the form of Zelimir, Jus Haus and Craig Hollywood.

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ENTER AFRIKAN SPACE CAPSULE Just when you thought that {move} were sleeping, they hit you with a gob-smacking line up. A special edition of {move}’s new monthly Rhythmatism series will feature Los Angeles’ Ras G, an underground beat/hip hop maestro whose been in the game since the early ‘90s and is a founding member of Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder crew. Thursday, July 22, at The Bird, Northbridge.

Support from special guests TBA and the {move} family DJs. Doors open 8pm. First 50 people through the doors get a free mixtape from {move} DJ Ben M!

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Afrodisia returns to Funk Club (upstairs at The Leederville) this Friday. Leading the performances are the Askari Afrobeat Orchestra, a 13 piece Afro band, featuring the cream of Perth’s soul and world music musicians performing a mix of original and classic Afrobeat covers. WAMi Best DJ 2010, Charlie Bucket, will be on the decks, spinning an assortment of Afrobeat, Afro funk, disco and highlife. Friday, June 18, Leederville Hotel. $15 on the door from 8pm. Unleash your inner Afrobeat god/goddess!

King Brown Records is the album branch of local art magazine King Brown, and they’ve put together a really beaut little line up of local MCs and hip hop folk to support the launch of Adelaide rappers Chase and Lariken’s album, Cut To The Chase. The night will feature Chase, Lariken, Hunter, Verdikt, Soma, Complete, Defekt and Kkt Sever. Thursday, June 24, at Mojo’s in Fremantle. $10 entry from 8.30pm. For more information on Chase hit up his myspace, myspace.com/chaser85.

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P-MONEY Everything VARIOUS Hospital Presents Drum & Bass Anthems MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS The Crystal Axis

Let Perth’s finest deep house and funk DJs lead you out onto the dancefloor with a superb selection of underground sounds at Sound Seduction. Brought to you by the experienced Tasty Beat Studio (Eyan, Jim Pearson and RTRFM’s Tizer), Sound Seduction will this month feature special guests, MK and Bongo Loco. For more information, check out www.geishabar.com.au. Friday, July 2, Geisha, Northbridge. $15 from 11pm.

SLAM DUNK Celebrating the golden era of hip hop (when the stuff was only on vinyl) are Think Twice, who bring Mass Appeal back to the Manor for another night of fresh kicks, dope graff, crazy breaking and silky skills on the decks. The line up goes a little something’ like this: Nathan J, Selekt, Charlie Bucket, Benny Chill and The Paper Plane Project’s Nick Bennett. All the DJs are under strict instructions to spin only 12” vinyl. There will be awesome old school footage on the big screen, and prizes for best dressed. There will also be a mini dunk tournament in the laneway – if you’re interested in competing, email Charliebucket@ mail.com. Friday, June 25. Doors open 9.30pm.

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ď Žď Ľď ˇď ł IMMINENT RECOVERY Recovery, Eminemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly anticipated new album, was leaked on the internet on Monday night just gone, but is still not going to be released officially until June 22. Shadyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime partner in rhyme, Royce da 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;9â&#x20AC;?, took to his Twitter account to comment on the album leakage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eminemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s album leaked todayâ&#x20AC;Ś MCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how do you feel about what you do?â&#x20AC;? he asked.

The16-track disc (Eminemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth release) features guest spots from Lil Wayne, Pink and Rihanna, as well as production by Just Blaze, Havoc and more. Keep a firm eye on Salt Test Lab for the review in upcoming weeks!

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Us closet indie fans here in the Salt office are pretty excited that Bear In Heavenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s album, Beast Rest Forth Mouth, is finally getting an Australian release this week. And now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re even happier because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard that the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting a special release on September 14 as a double album, with the original LP packaged with an extra disc of remixes of every track on the album.

The Field, High Places, Studio, and Pink Skull all take on remixing duties.

DYINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; TRYIN Looks like 50 Cent could do with a few more fansâ&#x20AC;Śapparently at his recent show (June 12) at Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arena Theatre in the US, the venue was only filled to 50 percent capacity.

50 Cent still delivered on the tracks, although was apparently moving around the stage with less energy due to his massive weight loss. 50 Cent has lost over 50 pounds for his role in the upcoming film Things Fall Apart in which he plays a football player whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been diagnosed with cancer.

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MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS AXIS OF POWER After navigating Dystopia on their debut, the Midnight Juggernauts return to take a spin around The Crystal Axis. On the eve of the release of Axis, Andrew Szekeres speaks to GLEN PARKS about how the new album came together, not being daunted by following up a hit and how best to describe the music of the Midnight Juggernauts.

In 2007 Melbournian three-piece Midnight Juggernauts came to international attention on the back of their fantastic debut, Dystopia. After two long years of touring and another in the studio, they return with The Crystal Axis, an album full of spaced out soundscapes and pop tangents.

The creation of their second album has been long and arduous, but Andrew Szekeres insists that following up an album that has received praise internationally was not as daunting as it sounds. “I don’t think it was daunting, I think we were really inspired and keen to get back to writing. We did two years of solid touring and the last year of that we spent mainly in Europe and the US. We had the chance to play so many big festivals, so we were really keen to work on a new record. Dystopia came out in 2007 and many of the songs were from as far back as 2005 so we were really keen to start working on the new record.”

With the increased success of indiedance, Midnight Juggernauts could easily have made a facsimile of Dystopia, but for Axis they chose a new direction which focused on new touchstones. “Our influences are really varied. I think that’s what makes this album what it is – the three of us have a lot more input into it.”

“Previously it was a more separate recording process and this time we got together.

There’s so much different music which influenced

Axis I feel bad singling anything out, but I know there’s lots of music from the ‘60s and ‘70s and lots of film music. It’s just really all over the place.

The production style we were going for is a mid70s sounding production.”

The progression in style has led to a more interesting performance from the Juggernauts as well. Using a greater variety of instruments has created a more entertaining band experience. “It’s been really enjoyable to play a lot of these new songs live because we’ve added a lot of new instruments and toys, lots of new pedals and samplers, on stage. We’re all multitasking on stage and we switch mid-song to different instruments. It definitely keeps us on our toes. A great one to play live is Vital Signs because it has a long bridge where everyone starts playing percussion and it feels a bit loose. Sometimes we stuff it up, but that’s all part of the fun.”

While Szekeres highlights the “fun” side of the band, they’ve been described as everything from slasher-flick disco to deadpan landscape to prog-rock meets film scores. Faced with these descriptions, Szekeres laughs.“Wow, they’re great.

I don’t know about descriptions for our band, but they all sound really interesting to me. I don’t know what any of them mean but they sound kind of good. It’s really hard because our music is such a mixture of things; we just kind of wait to see where the record store decides to put it.

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Szekeres’ self depreciation and humility is a charming quality for a man that has released internationally lauded music and toured everywhere from the Big Day Out to Coachella and Glastonbury. But Szekeres takes it all in his stride.“There’s been a lot of great places we’ve been able to go to. I think Japan was a lot of fun; it’s a really amazing place to tour. The fans there are really into their music. We were really surprised when we first went there because we were getting really big crowds to our shows but a lot of people had all of our music that we’d ever made even down to demos and 7” singles and things we didn’t even own or know were around.

But it’s rare that you go to a place that you don’t really enjoy. It’s a pretty awesome experience.”

And while the Juggernauts have achieved great success with the aid of their self-run label Siberia Records, they are looking forward to be able to release interesting new music that doesn’t bear the Juggernaut moniker.

“The whole point of the label was just to release our music; that’s how it started. From time to time we’d have some parties and put on events.

“But we’ve been thinking recently about doing some other releases with some other acts, we just haven’t had time since we’ve been working on our own stuff which always takes up so much time. In the future the plan is to build the label a bit more and release some other music and maybe even next year we might do our first other release. It’s fun having a label and it’s more just made it easy for us and given us the freedom to release the music we want to release and have complete creative control of our own music.”

With the release of The Crystal Axis, an Australian tour pencilled in for August, big European festivals before that and the expanding of Siberia Records, the vitals signs for Szekeres and his cohorts are looking good.

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AGNELLI & NELSON

THE LUCK OF THE IRISH? They started off as the only blokes making tunes in Northern Ireland, now Agnelli & Nelson have remixes for the likes of U2 and Armin van Buuren under their belt and are constantly topping the charts.

Rob Nelson tells RZ that he never expected any of it.

The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;luck of the Irishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a mere fallacy. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get as good as trance superstars Agnelli & Nelson by accident. It happens because you have an eye for detail, a finger on the pulse and skills and talents garnered from years of experience. Indeed, Chris Agnelli and Robbie Nelson have been writing and producing music since 1997. In a recent chat, Nelson reflects back on the last 15 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We met years ago at a time when we were really the only people making tunes in Northern Ireland! Chris had done a track called Lush Gold and asked me to remix it. Then of course I thought it was only right for me to ask him to do a remix of one of my tracks; then after that we decided to do a track together!â&#x20AC;?

Likewise, their various anthems from El Nino to Everyday have helped shape trance music keeping many a fan fit in the process.

Indeed, countless chart hits, remixes and lifechanging performances have seen the boys firmly entrenched in electronic music folklore. Forget that Agnelli and Nelson have remixed major artists from rock legends U2 to dance music kings Ferry Corsten and Armin Van Buuren. T h e y have also played alongside plenty of friends and colleagues - as well as done and dusted countless appearances with the likes of Radio One and Top Of The Pops.

What they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anticipate was the smashing success they would become. In 2010, they have a number of UK chart hits under their belt as well as countless edits and remixes that people have asked them to put their name to.

Really, when you hear names like U2 and Ferry bandied around, you realize the boys are remixers to the stars â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not penny-pinching for their next

NADASTROM ARE YOU YETI? Agnelli & Nelson deal. That comes with being nothing less than brilliant at what you do. More recently, Nelson has been working in the studio on his own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been working with Chris for a year or so; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sort of the direction Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got another single coming out in a week or so called Shangri La and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m heading to the studio now to do a track and some touch ups on some other stuff that I signed John Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Callaghanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sub-label. And on top of that, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got another 15 tracks done that need fixing so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be quite busy in the studio!â&#x20AC;? Which of course begs the question, is there an album on its way? â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was the idea! I first got it last year - the idea then was to make an album but I got side tracked on the way! Also, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done about four or five remixes and some of those are coming out in a couple of weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time. There is another track called Forgotten, which has taken about three months to do! And then there are a lot of tracks and singles where I have a few spare parts lying around! So all in all, a lot of ideas!â&#x20AC;?

Trance no less, is where Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart remains, but in his own words, he is an open book and while he is keen on keeping the trance vibe alive â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be a house DJ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he is definitely open to what is happening out there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For example,â&#x20AC;? he says,â&#x20AC;&#x153;I might slow things down a little and get a little bit more progressive.â&#x20AC;?

Regardless, he is still close with Agnelli. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He just got into the family frame of mind and he had a child two years ago and he still does some gigs with me although not as many as he used to. Yet he is a master of Logic; he trains the trainer and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten into that though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not interested in making much music. We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t split up; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just doing different things at the moment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; our track Gravity will be out in the summer time, so look out for that.â&#x20AC;?

So what can we expect of Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming show at Rise? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Musically, I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t break any rules â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it will be the typical â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hands in the air happyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vibe with the odd classic drop in there, as well!â&#x20AC;?

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The DC duo of Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom have been making waves in the dance scene since their collaboration in 2007. Signed to the prestigious Dubsided Records, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve quickly commanded the attention of folks like Diplo, A-Trak and Tittsworth. On the eve of their Australian tour, Nadastrom take time to chat with TYSON WRAY. For those of us living under a rock, give us the back-story on Nadastrom. Who are you, where did you come from and what do you do?

Nadastrom is a legendary but elusive half-breed, part man and part beast. Various accounts detail Nadastrom as a huge monster with footprints three times the size of man, a creature with fanatical followers devoted to capturing evidence of the mythical phenomenon. Nadastrom is a Yeti, a hybrid creation of sound hunted around the world.

Nadastrom were pillaged by Yetiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital stomp. Only to end with the wildest night of all time in Glasgow, where the bravest of dudes and chicks battled Yeti to the finish.

How do you differentiate yourself from other DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s? What makes a Nadastrom set memorable?

To know Yeti is to see Yeti. Simple words do no justice to describe Nadastromâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live show. All we know is that it can be unpredictable, yet always powerful.

Who would you say you have drawn influences from for your music?

Nadastromâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound reaches from sources worldwide, spanning past and future centuries.

Yeti was believed to have been raised by the DC hardcore punk and rave scenes as well as Charm Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baltimore club music. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rap, soul, or electronic, Nadastrom knows no limits when it What other artists would you love to work with, comes to sound and inspiration. and who else would you like to tour with?

Nadastrom would love to collaborate Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the plan for after the Australian tour? with other bass warriors of the world that share More touring or back in the studio?

Rumours say there is an album in their love for endless nights of dance rituals and wild anthem soundtracks. Yeti foresees touring the the works. One that will reveal the truth about Yeti and what this phenomenon all means! world with the likes of Tittsworth, Starks & Nacey, Munchi, Maluca, Major Lazer, Tormenta Tropical, Dubfire, and Bird Peterson only to name a few. The Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to go down and why can we expect this to be an epic tour? bass wars continue.

Apparently, this is the first time Can you tell us of your experiences DJing Nadastrom has ever ventured pass the Pacific all around the world? What have been your Ocean to walk the land of Australia. Some say favourite gigs, personal DJ sets and basically it is armed with new sonic weapons of mass destruction and brain melting visuals to spellbind your memories on tour?

World tours have been catastrophic its followers. Storytellers say that it has all led up and fatal to dance floors and clubs worldwide. to this! The nightclub carnage! The endless nights But recently, evidence has been piling of dancing! The massive bass battles! We believe up with Yeti sightings all over Scotland. Are that 2012 might come early for Australia. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Nadastrom and the Loch Ness Monster related? look twice. Just brace yourselves and believe. This No one knows! But anything is possible. will go all night.

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Perth’s essential pre club night for discerning music lovers bringing you indie, electro, rock, punk & club classics with Andrei Mazz 8pm Free Entry

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TRENTEMØLLER Into the Great Wide Yonder [In My Room/Stomp]

I love listening to electronica in crowds - with my ipod on and the volume up loud. There’s

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an intoxicating blend of latin styles.

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Paul George and Carey O’Sullivan are better known as the control centre for popular flamenco/electronic hybrid act Tijuana

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Lucid Dreaming presents a night of house/ Deep House/ Disco/ Tech House “FORE” Featuring Aarin F, Richard Lee, Nina Van dyke & Kyran Smith It’s Free Entry and all kicks off at 9pm.

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Sunday Record Hop vs “Back to Mono”

Perth’s essential Free”N”Funky Sunday Sesh. Rare Groove, Ska, Rocksteady, Dub, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Afro Beat. With Dj’s Gareth Richardson, Ted Schlechte & Death Disco’s Anton Mazz. 5pm Free Entry

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featuring Agent 85 plus special guest DJs spinning vintage vinyl. Garage, Indi, Powerpop, Ska, Surf, Psych, Rhythm &Soul.

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I Love You and the melodic brilliance of Steve Brian’s aptly named Starlight; two examples of an inspirational collection of tracks guaranteed to really get the party moving.

Disc three takes some time to warm up, before really digging in its heels with an interesting yet catchy remix of Energy 52’s classic Café Del Mar and the equally dated but just as intriguing intensity of Ferry Corsten’s Galaxia.

In The Mix and in the zone! Great stuff from ATB.

something intriguing about watching everyone go about their moribund existence to the background noise of an everyday commute, whilst you’re listening to an intense techno soundtrack.

As I boarded the train one morning, I pressed play on Into The Great Wide Yonder, Trentemøller’s long awaited follow-up to 2006’s The Last Resort. I was expecting some sophisticated, intelligent and minimal techno. I certainly got the first two, but it was hardly the latter. I would go as far to say that it was more maximal (if that’s a word).

Trentemøller fills these tracks with vast, sprawling soundscapes, dotted with melancholic guest vocals and the odd sci-fi style sample. The sound is dark yet comforting. There are guitars too, plenty of them, along with other ‘real’ instruments - I could definitely see a live rendition of Sycamore Feeling going down well in a muddy festival tent.

The beats are still there, but they drift in and out of songs, rather than drive all the way through. The exception being Silver Surfer Ghost Rider, Go!! which is a huge cacophony of drums, ‘60s style surf guitar, and what sounds like a theremin.

All in all, it’s not a 4/4, techno-driven beast of an album – it’s more insular and (dare I say it) indie. But if you see some geezer on the train one morning, smiling away with his headphones on, don’t be alarmed - it could well be me and Trentemøller taking on the world.

Cartel. As Audio Shaman the boys have always favoured a more ambient vibe, and while comparisons to a Cafe Del Mar release don’t quite do them justice it’s an effortless connection to make.

Cityzen can be summed up in just three words; beautiful, calming, and most important of all, therapeutic. Essentially a mismatch of samples that the lads collected during their world travels, this album sounds exotic yet strangely comfortable; soothing, yet intricate and hooky enough to avoid becoming bland background noise.

There are, of course, a few tracks which will slide through one ear and out of the other, but this isn’t an album that needs to demand all of your attention to be considered a worthwhile experience. Goenkaji, and its beautiful meld of strings and intricate guitar lines has the ability to send your mind to a

tropical beach somewhere. Step Into the Light, featuring the vocals of Saritah, is a dub/reggae flavoured number which incorporates some eastern melody lines to give it a distinctive world flavour.

Audio Shaman said that this album is “...about trying to find a peaceful place. We just wanted to make something that melds perfectly with the background, something that you could concentrate on or not concentrate on.” They’ve succeeded.

In our busy lifestyles we often need as much zen as we can get, and Cityzen is just so relaxing it’s hard not to get sucked in.

After the hugely successful debut, Dystopia, Melbourne three-piece Midnight Juggernauts return with their sophomore effort The Crystal Axis, an album full of sci-fi soundscapes and meticulously detailed arrangements.

Influenced by old ‘70s and ‘80s albums, Axis has two clearly delineated sides signposted by the introduction track, Induco, and the slow build of halfway mark, Cannibal Freeway.

Of the two halves, it’s the first that is the most compelling. The propulsive single Vital Signs begins the album proper in an impressive fashion. But it’s the exciting triumvirate of This New Technology, Lara Versus The Savage Pack and The Great Beyond that shows the Juggernauts’ growth.

In these three songs, the Juggernauts construct compelling tracks that are alternately melodic (Technology), rocking (Lara) or grandiose (Beyond).

Whilst Axis is impressively consistent and cohesive, the Juggernauts come a bit unstuck on the second half. Cannibal Freeway and Winds Of Fortune fail to capitalise on the promise of the strong opening half, with both sounding like cut rate versions of earlier Axis tracks.

However, the devil of Axis is in the detail and repeated listens continue to be rewarding with new elements – like the synth stab right before the chorus of Virago – constantly coming into focus to provide new highlights. Not as strong as was hoped, The Crystal Axis is still worth a spin.

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Sketchism & Jackness When local DJ Sketchism introduced Jackness to the crowd by inviting him to play back to back during a set at Future Music Festival, it ended up creating a completely new dancefloor experience, birthing not only an awesome set but a special working partnership for the boys. Salt took some time out to get to know Sketchism & Jackness a little bit better.

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German producer Andre Tanneberger aka ATB shot to fame with his first single 9PM (Till I Come) in 1999 which was the first trance tune to go #1 in the UK. Fast forward 12 years and he is still ranked #11 on DJ Mag’s Top 100 list and continues to churn out releases like there’s no tomorrow. In The Mix Volume 5 is ATB’s latest offering, showcasing why he is still regarded as one of the world’s premier DJs. Disc one bounces along with an electro inspired theme, beginning with a banging remix of 9PM that sets the scene for an upbeat collection of tracks that makes a smooth transition mid CD into the uplifting melodies ATB is famous for; including Dash Berlin’s epic Man On The Run. Disc two doesn’t waste any time in establishing a trance laden premise with the pulsating Cosmic Gate remix of Kyau & Albert’s

How did you first get your start in DJing?

Sketchism: Whoah, it feels like a long time, especially when I think that it was last century! (laughs) It was actually playing bluelight discos, back in high school.

Jackness: Back then, Sketch was promoting Chemistry at the Maxx and he asked me to help him out with the stage lighting. I was only a bedroom DJ but learnt so much watching the boys behind the decks and eventually when I got good enough, I played a gig there. And the rest is history.

Jack and I play together using four CDJs at the same time, rather than back to back, so it really gives us a chance to play around.

J: I grew up with a hip hop background, so a lot of the times you’ll hear that influence when I’m dropping acapellas over house tracks.

But lately my personal style has really headed towards vocal Swedish house – I’m a sucker for strong melodies and sweet drops. I guess together as S&J, it’s very much a fusion of our two styles to create a whole new unique sound.

What has been one of the most memorable experiences you have had to date?

S: I would have to say a few years back, playing on a rickety, 20ft bamboo scaffolding at a Full Moon party in Thailand, with Crookers pouring vodka everywhere.

Sketchism & Jackness J: So far for me, playing at this year’s Future Music Festival on the Filthy Gorgeous stage, worried! (laughs).

I’ve been really impressed with because the crowd was just so huge and really got into our set. It went all too quickly, but was Aaron Richards, Jean Paul and Marko La Kucha, who took out the Strike3 DJ Comp. Jason Creek very fun! gets my vote on the trance-ier side of the tracks What are the origins of your DJ name?

S: (laughs) I’ve been called Sketch What track can’t you get enough of at the and of course Nathan Francis, Jay Vicente, Paul Scott and Richie G are pretty much an ultimate for as long as I can remember, I used to ride moment? motocross and was always doing ‘sketchy’ things S: I know I should pick a track that’s team, you can’t beat em.

J: Nathan Francis and Jay Vicente. (usually ending painfully!). When I started mixing totally cool and awesome right now, but I’d have it was just a natural progression. to honestly say I’m still loving the Axwell and When they play together, I tell you what - it’s J : A co u p l e o f m a te s f ro m my Dirty South’s remix of Sweet Disposition, there’s something magical. basketball team in my high school years use to a musicality about it that’s unbeatable. call me ‘Jackness’ and I guess it just stuck.

J: Junior Caldera ft. Sophie Ellis Bextor You can catch the boys in action on Saturdays – Can’t Fight This Feeling (Avicii Universe Mix). The at Bar Open, once a fortnight for Filthy Gorgeous, including this Saturday, June 12, or How would you describe your DJ style? second build up is sooo dreamy. else head to Fuse on Fridays at The Red Sea. S: I play quite a few styles overall but I guess if I could only choose one, it would be big Who do you rate on the local scene?

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GODSKITCHEN HIGH OCTANE ADVENTURE OPTAMUS MARKUS SCHULZ / GARETH EMERY / ROGER SHAH / Jason Creek Metro City, Perth Friday, June 11th, 2010

With all three internationals on this bill formerly down to tour Australia with the now cancelled We Love Sounds festival, it was a merciful twist of fate that saw them instead join forces to headline the special Winter edition of Godskitchen.

With the temperature dropping to a fresh 6°C outside, Jason Creek began generating some heat of his own on the big stage, laying down a laidback set of tunes to greet the arriving patrons attempting to thaw out after slowly filtering through the intense security cordon out the front.

By 11pm the line to get in seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance, which in turn gave a false impression inside that crowd numbers were considerably lower than previous years. However, by midnight, people were scaling the multiple levels, scrambling for the best vantage points as Roger Shah took to the stage to unleash his unique live show.

Utilising an array of ‘live’ instruments, such as mini synths and keyboards, in addition to the ‘standard’ CDJs allowed Shah to really bring some of his tracks to life, emitting some remarkable sounds. This was illustrated brilliantly towards the end of his set when he launched his spine tingling track Healesville Sanctuary, inspiring some animated dance moves across the club.

Markus Schulz received a thunderous welcome from the crowd and didn’t waste any time in capturing their undivided attention. With his infectious energy behind the decks electrifying the airwaves, Schulz enthralled the crowd with a mouth watering barrage of tracks that ranged from his latest album’s offerings Away, New World and Do You Dream to his own genre bending remix of Tomcraft’s stayer Loneliness with its broken beat rhythms causing anarchy on the dance floor.

With seething masses of flailing limbs punching the air in delight, there was no relief in sight for anyone wanting to take a break, Schulz continuing his onslaught with Rank 1’s uplifting masterpiece Breathing and the extremely catchy Phynn remix of Rex Mundi’s Opera of Northern Ocean. As Schulz’s

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WORTH WAITING FOREVER & A DAY OPTAMUS / Hunter / Smiley / Delta Forse / Freakstyles / Thorts and Kaydele Rosemount Hotel, North Perth Saturday, June 12 2010

With an impressive discography as a member of Downsyde, numerous live shows hosted to support the Perth hip hop scene and a role as mentor to most upcoming local acts, it’s little surprise that punters turned up to the Rosemount en masse to see Scotty Griffiths, AKA Optamus, launch his album Forever & A Day. Fittingly, the night was as much a celebration of the album as a showcase of the local talent Optamus and Downsyde paved the way for. Thorts and Kadyelle and four piece act Freakstyles opened the night, and Denmark natives Delta Forse launched their debut album Greatest Hits. The highlight of their set was an outstanding beatboxing routine - with clarinet and harmonica accompaniment.

Solo rapper Smiley was also launching Markus Schulz (pic: Matt Jelonek) his debut album, The Suspended Sentence. two hour, high octane adventure came Downsyde MC Dazastah joined him onstage for to a close, Gareth Emery swiftly checked How Ya Getting Up, and he closed with the raw himself into the party to close out the night’s Repeat Offender. A ‘Smiley’ chant started from proceedings. the crowd but, with the night running behind Turning the downright nasty factor schedule, there wasn’t time for an encore. He through the roof, Emery dropped several was followed by Hunter, who performed a brief evil remixes including the aptly named set starting with Say A Prayer from his recently Sean Tyas Dirty Remix of Tiesto’s Suburban released album Monster House, and crowd Train and his own re edit of Lethal Stadium favourite East Perth.

Four. From thumping bass lines to uplifting DJ Carlsani was spinning tunes melodies to annihilating rhythms, Emery was outside most of the night, and for a good part unrelenting, tearing it up with dance floor of the gig the beer garden was full. However, by explosions Exposure and the euphoric trance the time the headliner started at 11.30pm most epic Another You Another Me whilst saving of the sell-out crowd had found its way inside. his old school smash Mistral to close out yet Optamus – a three piece outfit consisting of another incredible set.

Griffiths, keyboardist Chris ‘Imposta’ Foster and Having built a reputation for being guitarist/singer Jeremy ‘Moondog’ Jonsma – one of the most anticipated events of the year; kicked off their set with Just A Little Bit; a banging Godskitchen thankfully lived up to all the hype track and a familiar part of Griffith’s solo show surrounding it and in some ways, exceeded over the last couple of years. it. The crowd was a welcome relief from the The high energy show wasn’t dissimilar agro of the festival season and Metro’s sound from a Downsyde set. The group’s sound was system really accentuated the power and firmly rooted in hip hop, yet the live musicians feeling behind an amazing night of inspired were given plenty of room to do their thing. music.

Foster and Jonsma, having strong jazz and Can we go again please? blues backgrounds respectively, added plenty of flavour to the mix while Griffiths effortlessly GLEN CANNING held the crowd’s attention.

Optamus (pic: Matt Jelonek) The set focused heavily on the new album and, after years in the making – hence the title Forever & A Day - that was fair enough. The second track, Time, liberally sampled Toto’s late 1970’s hit Hold The Line, but the thumping boom bap beat saved the song from being cheesy.

Also standing out was the upbeat Thank God It’s Friday. Although the crowd enjoyed the new material, they also seemed to relish the chance to rap along to familiar songs like All I Can Be from Downsyde’s When The Dust Settles.

The set began to wrap up on a harder note with the rock tinged Sympathy and the posse cut Judge And Jury, which saw fellow local icons Dazastah, Hunter, Layla and Mortar take the stage, before Optamus launched into a crowd pleasing Naughty by Nature homage (“You down with OPT? Yeah, you know me!”) and the fitting encore Somehow, Someway.

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Newport – DJ Shannon Fox Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford Paddy Hannans – Dr Bogus Players Bar – Neon Lights - DJ Samuel Spencer Swinging Pig – DJ Simon 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

raves’. Greg Packer will hit the decks, along with the awesome duo, Dair and Menis showing us how it’s really done. Hutcho will be putting down 10 years of d ‘n’ b. DJs Rewind, NVS, Kev and Deej will all be stepping up to the plates. Tickets are available on the door for $10 before 11pm and $15 thereafter.

NORFOLK BASEMENT MAYBE DANCING WILL HELP WA’s premier electronic music website, Perthquake, has rallied some performers for a night of debauched disco and nefarious nu-disco in Fremantle, featuring Tabularaza playing their first live show. Tabularaza are an up and coming duo who craft fun, grooving synth-disco jams that will literally prevent you from doing anything other than dance. They’ll be joined by Holy Thursday, Hippo Camp and the Perthquake DJs. Doors open 8pm.

RISE AGNELLI & NELSON are trance legends from the Irish isle, that have featured at gigs across the world, including regular dates for UK super power events Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, Cream, Slinky and Tidy. Having remixed everyone from U2 to Ferry FRIDAY 18/6 Corsten, their current tracks and BASEMENT ON BROADWAY remixes are in the record bags BANG GANG DJs Join Jaime of DJs across the world, not to Doom and Gus da Hoodrat mention getting regular airplay (also known as The Bang Gang on on Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell DJs!) this Friday for the end of and Dave Pearce’s shows at BBC exams party at Broadway. The Radio 1. Agnelli and Nelson bring Bang Gangs got their start at their Irish trance splendour to the Moulin Rouge in Melbourne, Rise tonight. Rise members $5 and have slowly played their before 11pm $10 thereafter. Nonway to success around Australia. members $10 before 11pm $20 The guys are Australia’s best thereafter. Doors open 9.30pm. known party enthusiasts and are guaranteed to give you METRO FREO NADASTROM an awesome night. Support Reigning from Washington from Audageous, Prodje and D.C., Dave Nada and Matt Lightsteed. Doors open at 8pm, Nordstrom, AKA Nadastrom, with drinks specials on all night. have seen nothing but success Tickets are $20 from Moshtix, since being established as duo Planet Video or Mills. Ticket DJs Nadastrom in 2007. Their holders will gain $10 access to aptitude for pumping out club, the after party at Limelite. house, electro and techno sounds is undefeated, a talent AMBAR JUNGLE PARTY The solidified when their debut EP Jungle Box will offer up a major Pussy (released on Swith’s label Old School invasion at Ambar Dubsided) shot straight to the top tonight. Perfect for anthem of the Beatport download charts lovers and jungle dwellers alike, in 2008. They tear it apart tonight get back to your roots at this at Limelite, Metro Freo. Support Old School jungle party. Perth’s from Timmy Trumpet, Jus Haus finest veteran DJs will dust off and Zelimir. Tickets $15 before their records and transport you 11pm, $20 after. to a time when ‘raves were really

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LIBRARY DORCIA FRIDAYS Same Dorcia, different venue…your favourite ‘no aggression’ club night is set for relaunch tonight at the Library, and plans to make use of the huge space with even huger beats. All the same Dorcia rules apply: no metrosexual attire, no assholes, no baggage etc – Dorcia will control who can and can’t enter (not the Library management). All your favourite Dorcia DJs will be in the house - Yon Jovi, Scott D, Time Travel Agent, The Pearly Whites, Clomas and Mickey Juice. Photos being snapped by wemetlastnight.

Doors open 9.30pm. For more info visit www.dorciafridays.com.

Amplifier – DJ Shannon Fox/ DJ Jamie Ambar – Jungle Party / Greg Packer / Dair & Menis / DJs Rewind / NVS / Kev / Deej / Hutcho (see above) Bar 138 – Lokal Bar Open – Arien /Ska / Skittlez / Substance / Johnny Quest Bar Open (Upstairs) – DJ Slick /DJ Blackbelt / DJ Zoom /MC Aswon Basement On Broadway – Doom / Hoodrat / Audageous Prodje / Lightsteed (see above) Bayswater Hotel – Beat/Off MR.eD/Bass Fiend/Mono Lisa/ Bob Noceros Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol –Retro Mash – Lady Penelope Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Boogie Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Double Lucky –Full Circle – Adam Kelly/ Cee East End Bar & Lounge – King Tito’s Dirty Disco – Brash & Sassy/ TCee/Friend/ Fkn Midas/Dan Deelstra/Paul Malone/Cooker 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) – Sonic Velvet - The Reserves / Ghost Hotel / The Japanese Tongue Sisters High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Leederville Hotel (Upstairs) – Afrodisia – Askari Afrobeat Orchestra/Charlie Bucket Llama Bar - One Island East

Library –Dorcia Fridays (see above) Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays DJ Dooey Metro Freo – Nadastrom/Jus Haus/Timmy Trumpet/Zelimir Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee Mustang- James MacArthur/ DJ Swing Newport –Culture Clash - DJ Andrei Mazz/Jerrem Lynch Norfolk Basement – Maybe Dancing Will Help (see above) Norma Jeans – DJ Phil Onyx Bar – Slick/ Adroc Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paddy Hannans – Blue Gene Paramount – Flyte / DJ Morgan /DJ Jordan Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Simon Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Rise – Agnelli & Nelson Rocket Room –DJ Benny Mayhem Rubix – Gene Bourne/ Kenny/ Riki Sail & Anchor - DJ Anaru Sapphire Bar – SuperFly Shape – DJ Premier/Taku/ Tracksmith/Headayke Stamford Arms - DJ Janic The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – DJs Birdie / Tony Allen / JJ / Tony Don Migi The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Saint - DJ Anaru The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 Tiger Lils – Paul Malone / Joby / Alex K Toucan Club – DJ Armee Windsor – Dj Riki and Ray Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real McCoy Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin

SATURDAY 19/6 METRO CITY THE WHITE PARTY Metro City is hosting its awesome annual White Party tonight, transforming the popular club into a winter wonderland, including a snow machine! Get your friends together and dress in white for the best party this winter. DJs Angry Buda, Slick and Matty S will be playing the best in commercial dance, r ‘n’ b, as well as all your favourite hits. You won’t want to miss this crazy night that will go off when the

doors open at 9pm. Make sure you get down nice and early to avoid the cue and to get free entry before 10pm.

SAPPHIRE BAR KISS & TELL The wonderkid of the Perth Club scene, Jus Haus?, is back at the home of all things club, Sapphire Bar, tonight, for a post exams party to end them all! Joined by fellow tidal wave survivor Maxwell, these two have the night sorted for a dawn finish.

Support from Cam Duff, Artista and Offset. If your name’s on the guest list you get free entry, so hit up musicmonkeyevents@ one20productions.com.au and save yourself a few pennies.

Doors open 9pm. Strictly 18+.

MANHATTANS UNSTOPPABLE GLUE Word on the street is that this new little club has been going off on Saturday nights, so what better time to check out what Manhattans has to offer than tonight, at Unstoppable Glue. This mad party is run by a super cool crew and features many styles of tunes; ranging from the dubstep of Burial to the classic pop of Beach House. Unstoppable Glue DJs include head honcho Fkng Midas, plus MIcky Juice, Lightseed, Ben Edit, Boy Crazy, Stacey and more. Entry to this plush evening is always free.

MINT POP LIFE If you like your dancefloor polished to perfection and your cocktails shaken, not stirred, it’s high time you hit up Mint on a Saturday night. Find yourself a spot of floor and let DJ Darren Briais spin you a night of sexy house and electro, top 40 and party anthems, with a dash of retro favourites for good measure. Indulge yourself in one of the creative cocktails on Mint’s infamous list and party to your favourite tunes in an intimate and friendly atmosphere amongst well-dressed partygoers. Doors open 9pm. Free before 10pm, $5 before midnight, $10 thereafter.

Ambar – Japan 4 – Voltron / Short Circuit / Toes / Stellar Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric Bar Open (Upstairs) – Filthy Gorgeous Euro Trip Party - Jay Vicente /Sketchism /Jackness / Benny T /Luca /Thomas Hart Travis Le Brun Bar Open (Downstairs) – Open House / dMo / Acebasik /Kastel /

Misprint /Bacich /Jewel Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Black Bettys- DJ Trubble/ DJ Jinx Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol (Downstairs) – Death Disco – Andrei Mazz/Anton Mazz Capitol (Upstairs) – Cream Of The 80s – DJ Ryan Captain Stirling - DJ Dano Clink- DJ Cheese Club Bay View – VIP Saturdays – DJ Ryan Connections – Michy T / JJ / Brian Crush – Volume Devilles Pad – Razor Jack Double Lucky – DJ Saxon/ Sadi/ Woz Dusk – Flashback – DJ Benny c/ DJ Josh Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ Raci Eve – DJ Don Migi/ Skooby/ Tony Allen Flying Scotsman (Defectors) –Lucid Dreaming FORE - Aarin F / Richard Lee / Nina Van dyke / Kyran Smith Flying Scotsman (Main Room) – Transmission – Andrei Mazz Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Seams / Farthing Woods / The Spin Chorus / Ivory Wolf Geisha – Joie – Lara H/ Daniel Teelstra/David Blackman High Wycombe – DJ Matt Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Impact Bar – DJ Abstar Indi Bar – Direct Influence Leederville - DJ Loco Ren Library - DJ AZ-T / 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 – Unstoppable Glue - FKNG MIDAS/ Micky Juice/ Lightseed/ Ben Edit/ Boy Crazy Stacey (see above) Mint – Pop Life - Darren Briais Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Danny Mustang – DJ Rockabilly/ DJ James MacArthur Niche – Frankie Button / Cee / Jonny Zimber Norma Jeans – DJ Dwayne Onyx - DJ Kayper Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount –DJ Meezy / DJ

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SUNDAY 20/6 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 –DJ Garath Richardson /Anton Mazz / Ted Schlechte Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) Nathan J/ Chris Wright/ The Nisbit 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 Moon – Co-Lab – Mathas/Diger Rokwell/CoLab Jam Band Paddo - DJ PDS Players Bar - DJ-Udas Queens Tav- DJ Rhys Rise – SHFL – BeXta/ Rousa/ Whiskey Rosemount Hotel – The Vibrators Raw Nerve / Zxspecky / The New

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Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris The Deen – Plastic Max / The Token Gesture The Paddo - DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy

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Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Bird – The Jamie Oehlers Quartet 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

2010 Habitat DJ Competition Heat 3 Saturday, June 19 @ Shape

Harvard Bass Friday, July 9 @ Ambar

Major Break 7 – NAPT/ Black Noise/ Peo De Pitte Saturday, July 24 @ Villa

White Party Saturday, June 19 @ Metro City

Drop The Lime Friday, July 9 @ Metro Fremantle

Hot Chip (On The Bright Side festival) Saturday, July 24 @ Esplanade

Ourstyle Launch Saturday, June 19 @ Rise

Stephan Bodzin/Hugo Saturday, July 10 @ Villa

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Winterbeatz - Ne-Yo/ T-Pain/ Big Boi/ Fatman Scoop/ DJ Nino Brown/ Phinesse Saturday, July 21 @Burswood Dome

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Nocturnal Ball Monday, July 12 @ Metro City

Midnight Juggernauts Saturday, August 14 @ Capitol

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Robert Hood Friday, June 25 @ Geisha

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RAILWAY HOTEL

The Railway Hotel hosts a winter warm-up party this Saturday, June 19, with Moonlight Wranglers, The Automasters, Stillfire, and The Witness joining forces to provide the perfect soundtrack to your World Cup cheering. Doors open 8pm and entry is $15.

High Road Hotel Saturday, June 12, 2010 It was a joyous occasion at The High Road Hotel on Saturday night as Fuse kept the party times at full strength with their ever-rocking live set, and DJ Simon filled in the gaps behind the decks.

The High Road Hotel has something for everyone, there’s live music and fun times every Friday and Saturday night, half-price pizza and free pool on Wednesday nights for those poor struggling students, and for those that like their knowledge tested, Thursday nights are for trivia.

If you fancy a feed, there’s a great menu for grown ups as well as kids, with a special Sunday breakfast menu.

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ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

It’s a killer triple-bill at the Rosemount on Saturday, June 19, when Dappled Cities, The John Steel Singers and Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! roll into town. Doors open 8pm, tickets are $18 (plus booking fee) from Heatseeker and Moshtix outlets and online, or $22 at the door.

THE CIVIC HOTEL

This Friday, June 18, at The Den see Sydney band Chaingang bang out a bit of pop, ‘70s punk and some gothic-rock all mixed into one. They’ll be joined by Arts Martial and Hayley Beth. On Saturday, June 19, in the Backroom, The Jade Diary launch their new single Girl With No Name, joined by Astro, Sonja D’anne and Toni Italiano. Doors open 8pm both nights

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The Newport is Freo’s home of the World Cup and the venue is staying up extra late with the BBQ going so you can enjoy every Aussie and English match on our big screens. This Saturday night (or Sunday morning, June 20, if you prefer) sees England play Algeria. Be there by 2.30am to ensure entry. The n on Wednesday night (or Thursday morning, June 24) Australia plays Serbia from 2.30am. Head down and cheer on your team!

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Don’t miss the weekly lineup of local bands playing each Wednesday at the Paddo. On Wednesday, June 23, come see Boston and Chevy, Goodnight Tiger, Red Delicious and James Teague. Bands start at 8pm and as always, it’s free entry!

MUSTANG BAR Brett & Josh

Two rockabilly heavyweights duke it out at the Mustang Bar this Saturday June 19, The Detroit Caskets vs Blazin’ Entrails. For one night only experience the skull exploding neo-rockabilly and psychobilly sounds of real rock ‘n’ roll rebels. See the Howlin’ Moondoggies’ Marco and Eddie back on stage as part of the Detroit Caskets and witness the Entrails’ fury on their first appearance at the Musty. Get your drinking overalls on early, bands kick off at 7pm.

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Saturday night is Transmission, Perth’s essential pre club night for eager music lovers bringing you indie, electro, rock, punk and club classics with Andrei Mazz. Doors open 8pm with free entry.

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On Friday June 18, Perth’s melodic metal heroes Voyager will launch their video clip for Lost, with support from Eleventh He Reaches London, Lacrymae and Bend The Sky. Then on Saturday, June 19, indie pop gets its time to shine when The Bank Holidays celebrate the release of their new album Sail Becomes A Kite. Joining the fun is The Morning Night and Goodnight Tiger. Doors open 8pm both nights.

CAPITOL

Friday’s Retro Mash at Capitol is the place to be at the end of the week. Grab a drink and hit the dance floor, where live sensation Lady Penelope will play all the classic hits you love to love. DJs will then keep the party going late, spinning the best pop remixes from the ‘80s, ‘90s and beyond. Doors open at 10pm and entry is free until 11pm.

FLY BY NIGHT

This Saturday, June 19, the world’s largest short film label arrives in Australia with a red carpet launch at the Fly. This is fresh cinema, Future Shorts. Doors open at 7.30pm.

MOJO’S

This Thursday, June 17, John Steel Singers will join Dappled Cities on stage. This tour is the first time these two amazing live artists have joined forces. Helping get the party started will be Adelaide’s kooky Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!.

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Birds Of Tokyo (photo: Mike Wylie)

THE MADDEST THING BIRDS OF TOKYO/Midnight Youth/Timothy Nelson And The Infidels Metropolis City, Perth Thursday, June 10, 2010 There comes a moment in every band’s career when they realise the magnitude of what their music has accomplished. For local lads Birds Of Tokyo, this evening marked one such occasion.

Heralding the end of their national The Saddest Thing I Know tour, the latest single from their upcoming third LP, the fan, band and the beat came together in what only could be described as a ‘moment’. Opening their mouths to scream every single word, old or new, that came from Ian Kenny’s now-iconic vocal musings – the audience were able to capture the essence of what more than six-years of this outfit meant to them. All this quartet could do was grin from ear-to-ear in acceptance.

SILENT TREATMENT

But Timothy Nelson and the Infidels were here to kick this shindig into gear. Earning a name in the past year as one of the must-see Perth acts, this five-piece were clearly basking in the feeling that they had been ‘hand-picked’ by the Birds Of Tokyo crew. According to frontman Nelson, they had to “audition in their underwear” for the slot. Bringing a warm southern twang to the proceedings, WAMi award winning lead guitarist Luke Dux revelled in injecting his electric flourish to the lush vocal harmonies and acoustic strings of Nelson and Ellen Oosterbaan. A refreshing sense of honesty bled through in Run For Cover and Let Her Go. New Zealand indie kids Midnight Youth then blew everyone out of the water.

Immersed in sinister red lighting tones, walls of wailing noise guitars, and tribal pounding drums the band brought in Cavalry, a taste from their recently released debut The Brave Don’t Run. Confidence oozed from their very core, filling the stage with a presence usually

THE SILENTS/DJ Rex Monsoon/Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke/ Electric Gooch The Bird Saturday, June 12, 2010 Having recently played a couple of weeks of sets to massive crowds across the country while touring with Tame Impala, psychedelic garage-rockers The Silents were back home and ready to launch their new album Sun A Buzz at a special intimate WA show at recently opened night-spot The Bird.

Teetering on the cliff’s edge between genius and lunacy, madcap adventurers Electric Gooch brightened the dimly lit confines early with their imploding musical pieces. An eclectic troupe of performers, including a tambourine-playing

The Silents (photo: Emma Bergmeier)

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH DEAD LETTER CIRCUS/ Sydonia/ The Siren Tower Capitol Saturday, June 12, 2010 Whether by virtue of a string of freezing evenings culminating in Saturday night, or the enormous hype Dead Letter Circus have generated since the release of their long awaited first album, punters were lining up early to get into Capitol.

As a result of the line I managed to get in just as The Silent Tower were packing up. Damn.

Not long later, Melbourne’s Sydonia took the stage to a rapidly swelling audience. Sydonia’s music is an incredibly hard to define mash of progressive melodic rock to brutal metal. Dana Roskvist began proceedings, attacking the murmur of the crowd with a falsetto, turning heads from the bar. While certainly loud and clear, Roskvist’s falsetto never sounded quite right (he mentioned a chest infection) and gave the set an uncomfortable start.

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Once they hit their heavy stuff, however, the four-piece really began to shine. In an instant they changed from shoe-gazing rock to aggressive metal and Roskvist showed no sign of faltering as he growled and screamed. The energy only kept building as Sydonia made use two small drum kits in Rubber Bullet to engulf the crowd in all encompassing sound. Dead Letter Circus then joined them onstage to help smash out drums on Incoming - a final crescendo of blinding lights and chest crushing beats.

By the time Dead Letter Circus were on stage there was barely room to move and anticipation – fed well by the preceding adrenaline pumping drumfest – had hit fever pitch. A sea of screams announced the band as drummer Luke Williams took his throne, the boys clearly having won the crowd’s heart long before the night. Kim Benzie’s vocals were sweet and serene coupled with Rob Maric’s spaced out guitars enveloping Capitol in a soaring and ethereal atmosphere.

The massive production time on the debut This Is The Warning album and subsequent

reserved for more mature outfits. Moody and highly capable, vocalist Jeremy Redmore drew each person into his tales of love, loneliness, rejection, hope and curiosity with lead guitarist Simon Oscroft the most captivating throughout.

An ominous and stark white light streamed through an elevated drum kit, emblazoned with the Birds Of Tokyo logo.

As each member of the celebrated quintet took stage, a roar grew from throughout the packed-out venue, only to be drowned out by the tour-headlining single The Saddest Thing I Know. To see each person singing along with each word to the new material, from the pit right up to the nosebleed section, shows the sheer commitment fans have to these popular local Australian rock stalwarts.

“Do you wanna dance?!” frontman Kenny boomed into the crowd, before Anthony Jackson’s rollicking bassline and Adam Spark’s guitar ploughed through Armour For Liars.

In a set littered with the old and a little bit of

the new, each song was marked by raucous applause and excitable squeals, with all the lads working to keep the audience participation at an absolute high. Wide Eyed Boy, An Ode To Death and Head In My Hands may have brought the show to fever pitch, but the greatest thing was seeing each member reveal their own character through each song, most notably Kenny delving more into Ian Curtis-esque territory – jumping between beauty and the manic on cue.

New number Circles saw the fourpiece travel into more atmospheric origins, hinting at notions of grace which might shine on their upcoming third full-length, heading back to Wayside and Adam Weston’s pummeling toms on White Witch. Sending the crowd off with an apt encore of Off Kilter ‘this is my goodbye, this is my farewell’ – fingers crossed we get another tour once the album hits the streets.

wizard and drummer outfitted in constructionattire, played a complex version of musical passthe-parcel, with styles and genres becoming increasingly warbled as their set progressed. Aside from moments where the wackiness became overwrought, the band hit their stride at times making for a ridiculously captivating performance.

Bringing her own brand of sexyweirdness Felicity Groom used every inch of the tiny space to her advantage, slinking across the stage as she enveloped the crowd with her dark folk tunes, with a full accompaniment from The Black Black Smoke.

Proving there is absolutely no better way to cheer-up a group of sullen artsy-types than with a carefully placed segue into Toto’s Africa, DJ Rex Monsoon spun beats from a wide berth of material, spanning from calypso to synth-pop, making for terrific entertainment between the other acts.

When they finally took to the stage, it was difficult to discern whether The Silents really wanted to be there at all. In the small venue their failure to acknowledge the audience (apart from a murmur of thanks on closing) was disappointing, as their rapt attention was drawn solely to the sounds unfolding around them.

Over a wall of barking guitars, throbbing bass, swirling keyboards and abstract drum beats, unflappable frontman Lloyd Stowe brought

his trademark slurring vocals to the band’s dark psychedelic excursions, which, although rigorously composed, appeared deceptively spontaneous, creating a startling atmosphere both alluring and severe.

Thickening the rich mix of sounds, band members Jamie Terry, Sam Ford and Michael Jelinek gauzed their performance with intricate three-part harmonies, adding interesting textural resonance against a host of sound effects, including an impressive guitar solo with violin bow from Jelinek.

Playing through the entire track-listing of their new album certainly proved that The Silents have lost much of the sun-struck naivety of their original Things To Learn sound, and the show established that their performance style has also changed.

Although the construction of their beguiling,dream-like sound was skilful,it ultimately made for a just-out-of-reach performance, too esoteric for much of the crowd which thinned noticeably towards the end of the set.

There is no doubt the outfit has succeeded in creating a sonic wonderland, and their jump-cut delirium was certainly transporting, but as far as live performances go, tonight’s gig by the blaringly gifted quartet unfortunately fell short of truly dazzling. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

massive radio exposure meant there was no lack of hits to get the crowd jumping from Big to The Space On The Wall. Most surprising was how well the album translated into the live arena, and how well the crowd knew the words to every song. The more electro inspired songs like Cage gave the front row something to jump about madly to, not that they needed much encouragement.

On stage the group were stoic yet commanding, the absolutely brilliant drumming of Williams a clear driving force of the band. Benzie held the audience’s attention in a fashion quite reminiscent of Karnivool’s Ian Kenny and his voice never wavered. There was a tendency during the

set for the music to go in a rollercoaster from high intensity to quiet which wore a bit thin by the end, but Dead Letter circus kept the crowd jumping until the end. When Next In Line hit not a soul was unaffected as their biggest song smashed the crowd, quite possibly affirming the band’s status as the next big thing.

As Dead Letter Circus began to close the show with This Is The Warning Sydonia came back onstage and took up their drums in an explosion of sound, raising pulses around the room for the perfect finale.

_JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

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STOKING UP THE BASEMENT

The extent to which Will Stoker And The Embers’ debut album The King is permeating all corners of Australia was illustrated recently when it received a review in classy gentleman’s publication People magazine (opening line: “Like finding a gourmet piece of pizza under your foot instead of tinea”). With triple j airplay, reviews in the East coast press, and a mention in this service station staple, the band have well and truly arrived. Catch them with The Floors, and The Joe Kings at The Norfolk Basement on Thursday, June 24. The acts have decided on ‘Russian Roulette playing times’ so head down early to avoid missing your favourites.

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Abbe May (photo: Toni Wilkinson)

ABBE MAY A New Hoodoo Abbe May, arguably the holder of the best damn singin’ pipes in the West, recently retired her long-serving band The Rockin’ Pneumonia. However, on Friday, June 25, May will unveil her new band – an apparently heavier affliction – at Mojo’s. DAVID CRADDOCK tracked down May to learn about her new hoodoo.

Abbe May surprised many about a month ago when she announced that she would be retiring her well-oiled rock ‘n’ blues machine The Rockin’ Pneumonia.

Numerous solo gigs throughout May’s career have proven that the husky-voiced singer can certainly hold her own, and her collaboration with members of The Kill Devil Hills and The Lazy Railway on Hoodoo You Do was critically acclaimed nationally, but for many, May and The Rockin’ Pneumonia were Perth’s premier purveyors of dirty, sultry, bar-room rock ‘n’ roll. So where to next and why the change?

“I just needed a fresh approach,” May tells X-Press between takes at Blackbird studios, where she is currently recording an album with her new, and as-yet unnamed, band.

“I spent three or four years of my life with [The Rockin’ Pneumonia], they’ve been great friends, supporters and collaborators. It was really hard.

It was like leaving a relationship, leaving a band.

But we all decided we wanted to sleep with other people which can be fun.”

May describes the recordings, which are being engineered by Sam Ford of The Silents, and feature Cam Avery and Clinton Oliver of The

Growl as well as long-term axe-man KT Rumble, as much heavier than her previous efforts. While May says the blues are always at the heart of what she does, her new recordings much more concerned with detail and tone.

“I think this is the best stuff I’ve done to date,” May hints.“It’s still not a particularly safe album – I think when you mention rock ‘n’ roll people assume a road that’s been well trodden but there’s a lot of attention to detail with this album.”

Local music fans who have been hankering for some howling and moaning will have the opportunity to get a glimpse into May’s new band and new material at her upcoming Mojo’s gig. The new outfit were scheduled to be unveiled at the recent WAMi Saturday Spectacular, but a freak, wrist-slashing, drum stool accident, which May attributes to a hoodoo or curse currently hanging over the band, prevented the gig from going ahead.

Other recent foibles have included spilling beer on a pricey mixing desk, and breaking down smack-bang in the middle of a freeway intersection.

“We’ve decided someone has put the evil eye on us so we’re looking for cures and things,” an admittedly superstitious May explains.“We’ve found these amazing cures that involves wrapping chillies around your neck and going and visiting an old Italian woman. I think I’m going to get the album title out of that – it’s called the Malocchio or something like that. The evil eye.”

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Will Stoker And The Embers

FINE MEN ON THE MOON

This week’s Going Solo session at The Moon Café features a particularly strong line-up of local songwriters on their lonesome. Benedict Moleta, Craig MacElhiney, and Louis Inglis will all emerge from the venue’s charmingly scuffed couches to provide the perfect soundtrack to your late-night chips and aioli.

What does this compilation hope to achieve for the Perth punk community?

The main thing I would hope to achieve would be to expose Perth’s huge (if not slightly underground) punk scene to the general punk CD buying public. Like the kid that would buy a Rancid or Pennywise CD from Mills Records or 78’s but has no idea that there are masses of awesome punk and hardcore bands playing in there town every weekend.

Benedict Moleta

SOMETHING IN THE WATER

From Deep Within

DIG DEEP

Progressive punk, metal, and rock melding outfit From Deep Within launch their EP Limited Imaginings at the Rosemount on Friday, June 18, with The Decline, Bat Country, and Atfault.

Formed in 2004, the boys cite Propghandi, AFI, Alexisonfire, Karnivool, and Dream Theatre as influences.

LIFT YOUR BROW

Best Funk Act WAMi Award winning brass ‘n’ beats outfit The Brow Horn orchestra are playing not one, but two, free shows at The Musting Bar on Thursday, July 1, and July 8.

Don’t miss this chance to see the band’s funky blend of skatronic, hip hop and pop in the heart of Northbridge, for free!

On Saturday, June 19, YMCA HQ hosts Balls To The Wall, a show which includes established Perth metal and hardcore acts like Arturo Chaos and I Am Eternal with up and comers like Still Water Claims, Our Fallen Legacy and We Need A Hero. Show kicks off at 6pm.

A swag of hopeful bands will play in Next Big Thing heats this week, in an attempt to join the ranks of past winners John Butler, Snowman and Project Mayhem. James Teague, The Faim Project,The Caballeros, Like Junk, Seams, Minute 36 and Baby Lemonade head into The Den for a Heat Two tussle on Friday, June 18. Then, on Saturday, June 1, Hostile Little Face, Head Full Of Steam, Ultra Detectives, Homebrewe, The Love Junkies, Serial Killer Smile, and Chasing The Ninth fight it out at The Rocket Room. Across town at The Foundry, Katrina Underwood, Louis And The Honkytonk, Hand Stands For Ants, The Tumblers, Resort, Dilip ‘n’ The Davs, and Crash Compass clash musical swords on Wednesday, June 30. Head to nextbigthing.com.au for more information on upcoming heats in this prestigious and lucrative local band comp.

Blues and roots trio Miche Suite are launching their upliftingly-titled latest single We Are All Going To Die at The Norfolk Basement on Saturday, June 19. The band will also be launching a video clip they have produced in support of the track. This will be the band’s last show in Perth before they fly North for the winter to extensively tour the state’s northern reaches throughout July.

Dilip ‘n’ The Davs

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Ferociously gigging local groove collective Dilip ‘n’ The Davs are playing over a dozen gigs throughout June. On Thursday, June 17, the band are teaming up with fellow Freo dwellers The Kirbens, and Rachel & Henry Climb A Hill at The Norfolk Basement. They then head down south for shows at Settlers Tavern on Thursday, June 24, and Friday, June 25, as well as a gig at Malt Bar in Dunsborough on Saturday, June 26.

Watch this space next week for a review of Dilip ‘n’ The Davs new CD Whaddya Reckon.

How healthy is the current state of punk in Perth are there any artists people should particularly look out for?

As far as bands on the up and up things are looking better than they have for years, there isn’t that punk or hardcore divide we saw in the early ‘00s. And there are more bands out there playing all styles of punk than I can remember seeing in the last 15 years. Lots of new exciting stuff taking on different directions. And of course a few of us older blokes still flying the old school flag. As far as artists to look out for Lucille are a pretty new band made up of veteran members of the scene. SSA just released one of the best local punk CDs I’ve ever heard and for fans of hardcore punk and Helta Skelta are insane.

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Local punk promoters 2Fast4loveMusic are releasing a compilation of songs by 25 local punk acts in an effort to further promote this corner of the Perth scene. To get the CD into the hands of people that most need to hear it, the album will be given away for free at local independent record stores to any shoppers who purchase a punk or hardcore release.

100 copies will also be sent to radio and press right around the country.

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Raw Nerve, a band formed in the wake of infamous in-your-face act The Homicides and dirty pub rockers Python, will play an appropriately raucous support slot with UK punk legends The Vibrators when they play at The Rosemount on Sunday, June 20. Zzspecky, and The Creepers will also be part of this sure to be paint-stripping show. The gig takes place from 5-10pm, tickets $25 (plus booking fee) through Moshtix.

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Brains will be both bent and soothed on Thursday, June 24, when an eclectic line-up of local pop, folk and indie talent gathers at The Den. Seams will deliver a freak-pop cosmo-party, The Wednesday Society a post-punk explosion and Erasers a meditative interlude of soundscapes, while The Felicity Groom Duo will be on hand for some dark, beguiling folk. www.xpressmag.com.au

MANHATTAN’S GETS LOFTY

New Vic Park venue Manhattan’s hosts its first official rock night on Friday, June 18, with Love Junkies, Hunting Huxley, and Hootenanny making up a punchy, psych, blues and garage flavoured bill. Hop into a yellow cab to make it there by 7pm. Entry $5.

A PERFECT (HOLI)DAY TO FLY A KITE

The Bank Holidays,will take away the winter blues when they launch their sometimes summery, sometimes autumnal, but always brilliant, new album Sail Becomes A Kite at Amplifier on Saturday, June 19. The band will be joined by The Morning Night and Goodnight Tiger, meaning this night is a veritable feast for indie-pop lovers.

SIRENS SOUND RECORDING ALERT

The Siren Tower, a local band with buckets of hard-gigging experience between them, have announced that they will be recording their debut album with ARIA nominated producer Forrester Savell (Karnivool, Dallas Frasca, The Butterfly Effect) at Underground Studios in Perth later this year. Coming off the back of recent support slots with Dead Letter Circus, the band are set to play at The Bird on Friday, July 16, and in support of Karnivool on Saturday, July 21, before heading up North for a residency at the Diver’s Tavern in Broome from August 19-21.

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James Teague took out heat three of the Kosmic Sound & Jack Daniels Mojo Rising competition on Tuesday, June 15, at Mojo’s. Next week’s heat features Georgi Kay, The Moltens, and The Love Junkies who are all playing for a grand prize which includes the chance to record with Blackbird studios engineer and producer Dave Parkin, as well as a $1500 dollar Kosmic gift voucher.

INTO THE WOODS

Alternative-folk act Farthing Woods are leaving their Fremantle confines for a show at The Velvet Lounge on Saturday, June 19. The band, who mix folk melodies with electronica reminiscent of Sigur Rós, will be joined by Seams, The Spin Chorus, and Ivory Wolf. Entry $6, doors open 8pm.

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Smilin’ is the first tasty morsel to be released from 6s & 7s’ highly anticipated long player The Sentinel Blooze, an album that will be launched at The Rosemount on Saturday, July 3.

Josh Fontaine’s croony, almost loungey vocal drives this song along as it did on his WAMi Song Of The Year Holidayz. But where Holidayz was augmented and enhanced by cheesy ‘80s synths, this track gets its atmospheric kicks from beautiful pop horns, and a cavernous, reverb-y sense of space.

A melodic similarity to The Kink’s Victoria struck me as irritating at first, but the horns, Fontaine barking away at the end of the track, and garage-y female backup vocals reminiscent of Billy Childish’s left-hand lady Nurse Julie, give this track more than enough of its own identity. If this is any indication, the album should be a cracker. _DAVID CRADDOCK

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THE BEARDS Shave The Day Hyper-whiskered Adelaide eccentrics The Beards are playing three shows in WA from June 18-20 (see Tour Trails) in support of their new album Beards, Beards, Beards. Bass player Nathanial Beard proclaimed the virtues of face fungus to a pathetically beardless DAVID CRADDOCK. In an industry full of perfectly marketed and image-conscious guitar-slingers, hilarious Adelaide outfit The Beards, are a breath of fresh air. Since 2005, the band have forged a career out of singing songs solely about beards, the virtues of having a beard, and berating those that are beardless.

While their tongues may be firmly in their whiskered cheeks, the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s odes to beard-dom (such as radio hit If Your Dad Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Have A Beard Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Got Two Mums) have led them to high-profile supports slots with Tripod, Peter Combe, and UK funny-man Stephen K Amos. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve even played the Adelaide Big Day Out â&#x20AC;&#x201C; twice! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our band is like having a beard â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the norm, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great,â&#x20AC;? bass player Nathanial Beard explains.

Indeed, for a group of clearly talented musicians and songwriters (the songs may be funny but the musicianship is slick and professional), it seems an unusual move to restrict the songwriting to one stubbly subject. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were originally just a normal rock band!,â&#x20AC;? Beard says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember at one practice we just kicked the idea around of starting a band that was all about beards, only half seriously. Then one day in 2005 we decided to make it happen but only as a one off gigâ&#x20AC;Ś Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing how far we can take it.â&#x20AC;?

What started as a rehearsal room joke has led to bigger and bushier things for this bristly band. In 2009, they achieved a career highlight by travelling to Anchorage in Alaska to both perform and compete in the prestigious World Beard And Moustache Championship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was so cool to see so many bearded men from all over the world descending on this tiny city,â&#x20AC;? Beard recalls of competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The locals didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what hit them. I remember the Mayor officially opened the event, and he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a beard! Can you imagine the nerve of this guy? So I yelled at him from the crowd,

The Beards demanding to know where his beard was!â&#x20AC;?

While their per formance at the competition went down a treat, The Beardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; entry into the facial hair competition as The Australian Bushrangers was far less successful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were the first Australians to ever compete in the event,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we never stood a chance! We were like the Jamaican bobsled team in Cool Runnings. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all got pretty impressive beards, but they paled in comparison to some of the entrants from Germany, Austria, Belgium and America.â&#x20AC;?

Despite their loss, The Beardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; current press photos suggest that are still dedicated towards working on their face-foliage. With that in mind, audience members planning on attending their upcoming Perth gigs may want to show the same dedication or risk a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mayor of Anchorageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; like telling off. â&#x20AC;&#x153; We encourage anyone without a beard to wear a false one to our shows,â&#x20AC;?

Nathaniel says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It saves us having to look at their pathetic beardless faces.â&#x20AC;?

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Daniel Susnjar’s professional resume is littered with the names of world-class performers and orchestras he has kept the beat for on stage, or on recordings. Revered musicians like American jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, Academy Award winning composer Dave Gruisin, and avant-garde jazz legend Sam Rivers, are all on the list, as are Australian greats like James Morrison, Graeme Lyall and Paul Grabowsky.

“I was not a pots and pans kid,” Susnjar says of how he came to learn an instrument that would eventually lead him from studying a Bachelor Of Music in jazz performance at WAAPA, all the way to performing with the Miami and Alabama Symphony Orchestras. “I started at age 10 when playing at church. My mum was playing piano and the regular drummer couldn’t make it. My friends showed me a basic beat and I took it from there.”

Like many successful musicians, Susnjar has embraced the advice and wisdom of experienced musicians and mentors throughout his career. In 2005 and 2003, after receiving a Department Of Culture And The Arts Creative Development Fellowship, the drummer travelled to New York City to watch performances and receive tuition from drumming greats like Keith Carlock (Sting, Steely Dan), Bernard Purdie (billed as ‘The Worlds Most Recorded Drummer’), and Dom Famularo.

“My favourite teachers are the ones that not only show me new skills, but also care to see me develop them in a musical way,” Susnjar says when asked who his favourite mentor has been over the years. “I enjoy drummers and music that combines great grooves, great sounds and creativity.”

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“I’m going to cover topics including improvisation, creativity as a soloist and accompanist, developing stronger time playing, developing better reading skills and memorising music faster,” he explains.

Given his background playing in groups like the Tom O’Halloran Trio, K, The Western Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra, and Tribal Jury, a band that includes Susnjar’s father, it is unsurprising his parting piece of advice for aspiring drummers is to focus on working in a team: “Enjoy the feeling of playing in a band and contributing towards the total sound of the group.”

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