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KIWI GROOVES
DIPLOMATIC FOLK
Folk songwriter and diplomat, Fred Smith along with songwriter/double bassist/singer, Liz Frencham are heading to Perth and Albany to play shows together at the MosArts Camelot Theatre (Friday, December 6, and Saturday, December 7) and one show at the Albany Town Hall (Thursday, December 5). They’ll perform live two albums - Into My Room and Bagarup Empires, the latter of which traces Smith’s experiences in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and will be accompanied by a photographic projection. The tour Maltesers Moonlight Cinema has announced its marks the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of the 2013/14 season dates, which will run again in Perth Peace Monitoring Group from Bougainville in 2003. at the Synergy Parkland in Kings Park between December 11 and March 30. Highlights of the 2013/14 program include The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; August: Osage County and Frozen. There’ll also the return of crowd favourites such as Top Gun, The Castle, Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, Dirty Dancing and Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Take a picnic hamper and hire a bean bed and check out the Gold Grass tickets also on offer. For full details head to moonlight.com.au.
The third instalment of the Natural NZ Music Festival takes place on Saturday, December 7, in the picturesque Red Hill Auditorium. It’s all about tasty kiwi rock, reggae, hip hop, R&B and dubstep that have been selected by NZA Music who make it their mission to promote New Zealand acts in Australia. Headlining is electronic roots five-piece Kora who’ll share the stage with a bunch of other acts including Shihad, Tiki Taane, Optimus Gryme, Australian Idol winner Stan Walker, reggae band 1814, DJ Sir-Vere, Tali and local Perth crew Box Party. Tickets on sale now from redhillgigs.com.au, Oztix and the usuals. Shihad
WHAT DOES PERTH SOUND LIKE?
The Perth International Arts Festival is working on a new project, Between The Desert And The Deep Blue Sea: A Symphony For Perth and is wanting you to send them the sounds of Perth. They ask: ‘What does Perth sound like? What are the quintessential noises that link you to this city?’ From now and in the months leading up to the Festival, they’re inviting you to send them your recordings and ideas. Record your favourite sounds and check out perthfestival.com.au for more info.
FASHIONISTA HIGH TEA
The Beaufort Street Festival (happening on Saturday, November 16) is throwing a High Tea Fundraiser at Forrest Park Croquet Club on Sunday, November 10, which includes a spring afternoon of croquet games, followed by a selection of designer runway shows, featuring collections by On A Whim, Steph Audio and House of SKYE. All proceeds will go towards supporting the fashion program at this year’s Beaufort Street Festival. Get your tickets from Ticket Booth.
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LET THEM EAT ZINES
Aunty Mabel’s Zine Distro (formally the Perth Zine Collective) is hosting a zine fair called Let Them Eat Zines on Sunday, November 3, at the Perth Town Hall. Between 12 noon and 4pm there’ll be array of stallholders from all around, including the East Coast and overseas and some live music from Alex Griffin and Sarah Tout. Entry is free and attendance is a must for anyone who likes to read and/or make zines. For more info head to: auntymabel.com.
GET ZOMBIFIED
Fans of ‘80s, industrial, goth, metal and alternative tunes might want to head to Gilkisons this Saturday, October 26, for an alternative Halloween party. Upstairs will feature live music from Sydney electro industrial band, AR12 plus local bands The Spitfires, Eschaton Hive and Epignosis; and downstairs will be the main dancefloor with Sydney DJ’s Vaein and Xerstorkitte, plus a ghoulish bunch of locals including Drastic, Revenant, Futureshock, Pheonix and Antistar. Doors open at 8pm and tickets on sale at the door.
PARROT PARTY
There’s just three weeks to go until the Red Parrot Reunion Party, which is happening at Devilles Pad on Friday, November 8. The event will feature the debut performance of rockabilly outfit, Atomic Stagecoach, who’ll be re-working very recognisable ‘80s tunes, plus DJs Claude Mono and Nick Sheppard. Tickets on sale now via Moshtix and be quick, because the last reunion gig at The Bakery sold out. This event is a fundraiser for another full-scale gathering next year.
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HEAVENLY METAL
Hipster black metal outfit, Deafheaven out of San Francisco is heading to Australia (and Perth) for the very first time. On the back of their acclaimed album, Sunbather, released earlier this year, the band are a tour de force of aggression and emotion that takes cues from post-rock atmospheres, shoegaze textures and black metal’s unbridled ferocity. They’ll hit the Rosemount Hotel on Saturday, January 11, with special guests to be announced soon. Tickets on sale now via lifeisnoise.com, Oztix and Heatseeker.
DARAMAD: WINNING
Eastern-world-meets-improvised-jazz collective, Daramad have won the World Music Network’s Battle Of The Bands for their song, Isfahan composed by Reza Mirzaei. Competing against acts from all around the world, the win will help take Daramad to the next level and launch an exciting new chapter for the band both in Australia and overseas. Catch Daramad live at the PS Festival Space/Late Space on Friday, November 1, as part of the Fremantle Festival. Tickets on sale via Ticket Booth. Daramad
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Nashville superstar, Dolly Parton is returning to Australia again, this time on her Blue Smoke World Tour, which arrives at Perth Arena on Thursday, February 27. Iconic singer, songwriter, musician, actress and philanthropist, she’ll be performing new songs from a soon-to-be-released album, Blue Smoke, and in proper showbiz style they’ll be VIP packages coming up, which will include access to Dolly’s personal wardrobe and instruments, a backstage tour, and an opportunity to meet the gal herself. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 1. Live Nation members can get access to presales from 2pm on Monday, October 28. Head to livenation.com.au for more info. 7
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From the producer of The Intouchables comes a new French comedy, Fly Me To The Moon and the plot goes something like this: In Isabelle’s (Diane Kruger) family, every first marriage has ended in divorce. To Hoodoo Gurus circumvent her family’s curse Isabelle devises a plan to marry and divorce a complete stranger before wedding her faultless fiancé, Pierre. It hits cinemas A bunch of Australia’s most loved, classic bands on October 31 and to win one of five double passes, including Hoodoo Gurus, You Am I, The Whitlams, email: win@xpressmag.com.au. Dave Graney & The mistLY are set to join forces for a sensational night of music under the stars in Kings Park for An Evening On The Green on Saturday, November 16 with support from Rainy Day Women. Get your tickets for these five great bands from Ticketmaster, or if you’re lucky we’ve got a double pass up for grabs. Enter by emailing: win@xpressmag.com.au.
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CHALLENGER READY: HALLOWEEN
For one night only, Challenger Ready at Ambar is doing Grand Theft Auto 5 Halloween style on Friday, November 1. Think of Ambar as San Andreas, the bar as Los Santos and the booth is your console. The night features DJs, Tonic v Mr B, Benny P v Genga, Tee EL v DNGRFLD, Philly Blunt v 4by4 and Bezwun v Marko Paulo. Presale tickets available from the Boomtick shop and/or enter now via win@ xpressmag.com.au to win one of two double passes. Oh and dress up on the night is encouraged!
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Off the back of a national tour to promote his new album, The Beginning And The End Of Everything, Josh Pyke is bringing his balladry to Wanneroo Showgrounds for a free concert on Saturday, November 9. Presented by the City of Wanneroo, the concert also features Lisa Mitchell and local acts, Rainy Day Women, Riley Pearce and Room For Reason. To reserve your free ticket, head to wanneroo.wa.gov.au/concert and for the chance to meet Pyke before seeing him live on stage, email win@xpressmag.com.au letting us know why you’d like to win!
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SUNDAY RUMMAGE
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RTRFM’S annual CD and vinyl sale, Hotcakes, is happening this Sunday, October 27 at The Velvet Lounge, Mt Lawley between 10am and 3pm. Up for grabs will be new releases, RTRFM feature albums and dusty deluxe classics, plus other music paraphernalia that’s been stashed in the RTRFM music archives until now. Get there early and rummage!
The WA Music Awards on Friday, November 8, is set to be WA’s premier celebration of local original music and musicians. The Astor Theatre will feature triple j’s Dom Alessio and Lewi McKirdy hosting the shebang. with performances from San Cisco’s Jordi Davieson The Love Junkies; the newly added ARIA-nominated chanteuse Mama Kin; Anton Maz from the Death Disco DJs playing an all-WA party set; and WAM Song Of The Year Grand Prize winner Mathas (featuring Abbe May). The WAM Hall Of Fame inductions will also be made, with details to be announced shortly. Get your tickets from showticketing.com.au.
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SECOND SHOW FOR HUNTERS & COLLECTORS
As we predicted, An Evening On The Green with Hunters & Collectors sold out faster than you can blink. It was yet another highlight in a recent string of victories for the classic Aussie band, including playing at the AFL Grand Final and scoring the coveted support slot at Bruce Springsteen’s Melbourne shows, not to mention garnering a strong chart showing for Crucible - The Songs Of Hunters & Collectors. Tardy fans who missed out in tickets to the March 29 show have no need to weep, though. A second show has been announced for Sunday, March 30. Tickets are on sale from 9am on Thursday, October 24, through Ticketmaster.com.au.
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On a short break from The Panics, singer/ songwriter Jae Laffer is currently touring Australia in support of his solo album, The Iron Glows Red. One of the songs on the LP, Leaving On Time, had its beginnings as a hotel room jam with Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) when The Panics toured as his backing band during Stevie Nicks’ 2011 Australian tour. Speaking to X-Press last week, Stewart had only good things to say about Laffer. “I love Jae,” he said. “He’s a great spirit and really philosophical. I love his approach to what he’s singing about.” You can check that approach when Laffer performs at Mojo’s this Thursday, October 24, and the Astor Upstairs Underground on Friday, October 25, supported by Karl Smith (new album, Kites) and Georgia Fair (new album, Trapped Flame, see this week’s Volume section).
SWEETER THAN WORDS
R&B icon Brian McKnight is bringing his world tour to Australia on Friday, March 7, at the Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention Centre. Performing songs from his latest album, More Than Words and a backlog of his greatest hits, they’ll no doubt be a few romantic moments in the audience when this urban crooner hits town. McKnight’s work has earned him 16 Grammy Award nominations and seen him collaborate with some of music’s biggest names including Mariah Carey, P.Diddy, Justin Timberlake and Nelly. Tickets go on sale this Friday, October 25, through Ticketek.
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Huge Magnet launch their debut Bootleg EP this Saturday, October 26, at Mojo’s and Sunday, October 27, at Clancy’s Dunsborough. BOB GORDON looks in. New boogie rockin’ outfit Huge Magnet features drummer Paul Sloan and guitarist Bretskii Hearn from the Sunshine Brothers. It’s a different beast to the laid back fare of the Bros. and a beast that’s been idling in the garage for a little while. “Bretskii ‘Hot Dog’ Hearn grew up in the tablelands of NSW on a diet of boogie, blues and rock,” says Sloan. “Canned Heat, John Lee Hooker, Carson, Rolling Stones were more likely to be at the dinner table than vegies out on the farm. He had always mentioned he really wanted to start a rocking boogie blues band that didn’t fuck about and just got down to the business of playing, writing and touring music. “One of my guilty pleasures when I was immersed in the thrash/punk scene in the early ‘90s was listening to Spoonful Of Blues every week on RTR, so I didn’t take much convincing to get into it with Bretskii while the Sunshine Brothers had a winter break and see if his idea had any legs and if I could get this shit down on the drums.” The pair are joined by one Jay Bale Jr. As an external force, he may very well bring a different outlook to proceedings... but that might not even matter. “We met Jay Bale Jr when he filled in on bass for a marathon three-gig-day with the Sunshine Brothers while Cheeky was away on tour with Drapht,” Sloan explains. We got on super well and he played like a demon so he was an immediate choice as someone to consider for the new band and as soon as we got Jay in the room it was obvious that Huge Magnet was going to be the three of us.
“As well as locking in musically, his spirit and perspective were right on and as an added bonus he came across like an awesome mix of Elvis, gravel and whisky, which is never a bad thing. Jay Bale Jr has the right stuff; working musician grit, a natural feel for this music and is a total realist about getting in the van and doing the work you need to do – the last thing you need in a band like this is a pretender, a soft cock or someone who thinks they are Thom Yorke and isn’t. Actually it would also be just as annoying if they were Thom Yorke. “So it isn’t so much that finding a lump of gold like Jay Bale Jr to bring Huge Magnet together changed our outlook – more that it consolidated it.” Launched this weekend, Huge Magnet’s Bootleg EP is an introduction to the band, an LP due in December and more besides. “There are a couple of exclusive tracks on it and the rest are album tracks so the Bootleg EP really serves as an introduction to the band’s live work and forthcoming album,” Sloan offers. “We’re also recording a totally improvised EP after the South West launch in Dunsborough on Sunday by setting up a recording suite in a VW people mover for the trip home. The engineer will sit in the passenger seat with four-track recorder and Huge Magnet will be in the back with acoustic instruments and an esky - accompanied by Blind Tiger Blues Box on the harp - for the two-and-a-half hour drive/after party. “That will also be available at gigs from December and called Live In The Back Of A Van Between Dunsborough And Perth, but we expect the recording quality to be a little rougher and the content a little more risque.” Has Bretskii converted you to the Rolling Stones yet? “No comment.”
REGURGITATOR Cow Parade Cow/Wampire The Rosemount Hotel Saturday, October 19, 2013
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Tenderhooks features a few familiar faces from the Perth music scene, but also one that many have not seen for a while. Daniel Durack fronted Three Orange Whips in the late ‘90s, defining ‘rock as performed in pubs’ before they moved to Melbourne and, quelle surprise, eventually broke up. “After the Whips ignoble rock ‘n’ roll death in 2003 I moved to England in 2004 to nurse my wounds and further my career as a typographic engineer,” he says. “I joined a garage punk group named Thee Savage Kicks, we did a lot of shows around London and some in Paris and released two full-length albums lauded by Shindig magazine and rock’n’roll types. “Stu Loasby (Datura, Majestic Kelp and so many more) and I had often talked of forming a band when I moved back and I wrote a bunch of songs that didn’t really fit the garage punk mould... stuff that may have caused me to take a sound beating from my erstwhile bandmates. I sent some GarageBand demos to Luke Steele who suggested we do an album. I resigned from my job and moved back home.” www.xpressmag.com.au
The pair went into Matthew de la Hunty and Laurie Sinagra’s studio in November last year and started tracking, quickly laying down 14 tracks for an upcoming release. “Luke produced three of the songs and added some vocals and guitar,” Durack reveals. “After some line-up changes we settled on Davyid Clark and Nigel Harford as our rhythm section. Once Davyid adds his drums in November the album will be done.” In describing the band, one receives confirmation that Durack knows what he likes and likes what he bloody well does. “Tenderhooks is, I suppose, yet another guitar-based Perth unit,” he says. “We have happy hooky choruses. There’s the odd acid folk interlude and an even spread of clanging minor-to-major chord ruction. As for plans, we’ll get this record out there and get out there amongst it with the rest of the beautiful rabble.” Tenderhooks are joined by The JAC and Josh Fontaine (solo) at PICA Bar this Friday, October 25. Free entry. _ BOB GORDON
Inclement weather wasn’t going to keep the punters away from The Rosemount on Saturday night - not when it was playing host to what was purported to be, if not the final Regurgitator gig ever, then certainly the last one in a long time. Quan Yeomans is committed to family duties in his adopted home of Hong Kong, so an almost capacity crowd of ‘90s veterans and even the odd younger fan rocked up to bid the iconic Aussie three piece adieu. That didn’t mean they were punctual, though, which meant local support act Cow Parade Cow played to a less than large crowd. Those that did witness the group - which this time out consisted of seven members - had a good time with their beat-heavy set, with three drummers working the skins to keep the music ticking over. CPC are an exuberant, enthusiastic act, prone to playfully jumping from genre to genre within the one song, and if their attempts to harmonise sometimes went askew, well, let’s just call that the birthmark that accentuates the beauty. Wampire got a warmer response from a larger crowd - yeah, we’ll come out early for the overseas acts, won’t we? - and proved to be a polished, pleasing presence, even with only three of the nominally five member band in attendance. Combining jangly psychedelia, a dash of ‘80s synth, a hefty dose of dreamy shoegaze and even a dash of surf rock to enjoyable if somewhat selfconscious effect. The band kept up a steady stream of audience-aimed patter and Perth-centric praise, winning the crowd with a poppy cover Kraftwerk’s The Model. And then it was time for the ‘Gurge. Resplendant in searing pink, leopardprint-accented jumpsuits, Yeomans, co-founder Ben Ely and drummer and sometime Hard On Peter Kostic hit the stage like they wanted to plough right through it. These lads are all in their middle years now, but age has not wearied them, and they delivered a full 90-minute, almost non-stop set that harnessed an energy that many bands of more recent vintage couldn’t even hope to muster. New album, Dirty Pop Fantasy, got a decent look-in - that’s the reason they’re touring, after all - but seasoned fans were well chuffed with the relentless number of classic tracks that the perpetually-pogoing Yeomans and co. hit the
Quan Yeomans, Regurgitator Photo: Denis Radacic crowd with. That’s not a diss on Fantasy, which as neat a slice of power pop as has ever been produced, but rocking out to tunes like I Sucked A Lot Of Cock To Get Where I Am and Black Bugs has a certain unassailable je ne sais quoi. The big singles got trotted out, of course, with Polyester Girl being a highlight, but the show was also a reminder of how lean and fat-free Regurgitator’s work was and is - every song was an anthem. 90 minutes sounds like a decently long set, but the crowd was hungry for more. Kung Foo Sing got everyone amped up right at the tail end, while a brief encore incorporating Song Formerly Known As sent everyone out the door with a smile on their face. Let’s hope rumours of Regurgitator’s demise have been greatly exaggerated - we need more of that more often. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON 11
SLEEP
Inside The Anomaly Seminal stoner doom outfit Sleep will be appearing in Perth for the first time next week. Guitarist Matt Pike tells JESSICA WILLOUGHBY some exciting news about the future of the band ahead of their show at the Rosemount Hotel on Monday, October 28, with The Devil Rides Out and Bayou.
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So it looks like Sleep might be releasing a new album this year. For anyone that has their finger remotely on the pulse of stoner rock, this is a huge deal. Albeit, it’s not totally unexpected. Since reforming in 2009 for what was meant to be a oneoff show, the trio has gone from strength to strength. Hitting the festival tour trails hard throughout Europe and the US over the last two years, the response
from fans and critics alike has been nothing short of full-scale hysteria – as the outfit garnered quite the cult following during their semi-permanent hiatus. Touted now as perhaps one of the defining acts of the stoner doom genre, the influence of the Sleep sound can be heard in many subsequent releases by bands from all over the world. But it wasn’t always this way. When guitarist Matt Pike, bassist Al Cisneros and thendrummer Chris Hakius first got together under their current moniker in the ‘90s, their vision was completely against the grain - even for lovers of the underground American punk rock and hardcore movement. Pike admits those early days were an uphill battle.
“There was all this time in between when we were apart and Sleep had a lot of time to grow. Now it’s become absolutely huge. I never thought that would happen. It’s really cool that we could come back and do these shows and have a lot of people really excited about it.” “We’ve had some hard times in the past,” he tells X-Press. “We made some really youthful albums, with probably the most well-known being Holy Mountain (1993). It was really full of piss and vinegar. We really became good at playing right around that time. It had a big impact, but not until a little later. What we were doing at the time, which was in the early ‘90s, was really not that popular. “Not like the death metal thing at the time. Like Napalm Death and Carcass; they were doing the popular thing. We were this weird Sabbath band out of the punk scene. We went from Asbestosdeath to Sleep and transitioned musically. It made an impact on people but it seemed like it took a long time to sink in. Almost to the point where at the end, just before we first broke up, people started catching on to it. We just started getting some fans then. “There was all this time in between when we were apart and Sleep had a lot of time to grow. Now it’s become absolutely huge. I never thought that would happen. It’s really cool that we could come back and do these shows and have a lot of people really excited about it.” The first to recognise the sharp rise in popularity of stoner outfits in the past few years, Pike believes the trend is due to people being more “switched-on” about music. “A lot of kids these days are smarter thinkers,” he says. “If something is really underground, outspoken or different – they all want to have an identity that’s not so MTV. I know what used to be underground hip hop in my day has now turned into a big corporate smear. “I’m happy there’s kids out there that aren’t so attached to the corporate spew and know about something that’s a bit better, in the musical context. Something that’s a little bit more real and has more self-expression. We believe there’s a lot of soul and humanity in our music. I don’t want to become some computer chip person. Or a cyber dork. It’s not my deal. I think there’s kids out there that want a taste of the real thing.” Although earning them respect, striving to live by their own ethos and not conforming to the desires of the record companies led to Sleep disbanding in 2003. Though not before they hinted at their masterpiece, the intoxicating 63-minute opus, Dopesmoker. Initially rejected by their label at the time, the single song album was shelved after the weed-loving outfit tried to edit down the track to 52 minutes – the cut now known as Jerusalem (1999). But last year, they finally released the original recording on vinyl – the way it should have been done all those years ago – through Southern Lord Records. A coup for the band, Pike agrees he is finally happy with how the LP turned out. “We wanted to give the album to fans in an organic way; on vinyl,” he says. “We outsold our CDs with actual analogue vinyl by tenfold almost. We sold the most ridiculous amount of LPs. It’s absurd. We’ve gotta have some of the highest number of actual vinyl records sold in the United States by one band; it’s incredible. It was a lot. It’s the opposite of what’s happening today, in terms of trends with MP3s. It’s cool to be part of the anomaly.” Now with Jason Roeder (Neurosis) on drums, Sleep is finally coming to Australia. With Pike and Cisneros both playing over here with their other projects – High On Fire and Om – in recent years, being down under is not a new thing for these musicians. But we may hear something different from their namesake outfit, if we’re lucky. “We have recorded some stuff we’ve been messing around with in rehearsals and some live shows,” Pike says. “We’re also pretty close to playing Dopesmoker live now. I don’t know if Australian audiences will see it when we come over. I guess it depends on what we feel like playing at the time. Sleep has the way of being a bit of a cosmic jam. We may even have a new album of unreleased tracks before the end of the year for fans. We’ll see how we go.”
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The Morning Night
I was 17,” he notes. “There’s no doubt that I’ve changed the way I approach music, generally. At a simple level, my listening and reading tastes have developed and that necessarily bleeds into what I create. “ The longer we work together, the smoother the process becomes, ” he adds, regarding the band’s general development. “We’ve had a few changes in band members since we started (Isaura Campbell recently took the place of Chloë McGrath), but we’re really happy with the current line-up, the way that we gel and the different talents that everyone brings to it.” In recent years Hoffmann has had some great experiences gigging and touring with his life-long musical heroes, The Triffids and The Church’s Steve Kilbey. There’s much to bring back to his own band. “We’re so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and experience and the unqualified belief they have in what we do,” he says. “They’ve inspired me in songwriting choices but also in the way that I approach the industry as a whole. “Of course, there are so many doors that have opened because of their involvement, too. I toured Europe with The Triffids and we have our national tour in November, supporting Steve Kilbey (local dates are Tuesday & Thursday, October 29 & 31, at The Wine Store, East Fremantle). Steve is the unabashed King Of The Dad Joke... our manager thinks our senses of humour go into decline the more time we spend time with him!”
“The longer we work together, the smoother the process becomes. We’ve had a few changes in band members since we started, but we’re really happy with the current line-up, the way that we gel and the different talents that everyone brings to it.” As for The Morning Night, it may be the second album but in reality it’s only just begun. There’s plenty to do with what is a very worldly release. “We have the tour in November and we just want to get it out and heard by as many people as possible,” Hoffmann says. “Amberola has the potential to appeal to a really wide range of people. So basically, world domination is on the cards!
THE MORNING NIGHT
Dawn Of The Dads The Morning Night launch their second album, amberola, this Saturday, October 26, at the Fremantle Arts Centre with Warning Birds and Flower Drums from 6pm. They also play in support of Television on Monday, October 28, at the Fly By Night. BOB GORDON catches up with vocalist/guitarist, Adrian Hoffmann. Adrian Hoffmann was always going to fall into the arms of music. Around this time 20 years ago his father Shaun’s band, No Flowers No Weddings Dress, for whom he drummed, were about to release their debut CD and while they ended in the late ‘90s, all its members continued to play music together and with friends. “Yeah, my dad and his band have played such a huge part in my career and my listening influences,” Hoffmann says. “There were always musicians at our house when I was younger and lots of ‘sitting around the campfire’ jam sessions. I was definitely one of those kids who wanted to grow up and be just like their dad.” It’s certainly looking that way, with Hoffmann’s band, The Morning Night, this week launching their second album, amberola. Not bad pace at just 22, but this second LP already had its beginnings before the first (2012’s Otis) reached completion. “Several of the songs were written while we were recording the first album because we were in such an amazing creative space,” he recalls. Ricky (Maymi, producer, from the Brian Jonestown Massacre) is great at encouraging us to stay keen for new opportunities all the time and the two albums complement each other really well because of his influence on both of them.” While the notion of a second album was encouraged early on, Hoffmann says he had no real points of details he wanted to try differently. Working again with Maymi allowed a chance to allow for a more fluid evolution between releases. “Not specifically, the more we worked on the tracks and added the layers, the more we started to see where they could go. But we knew we could trust Ricky to stay true to his vision for the album and keep amberola fresh but still with a Morning Night feel. “There are obvious benefits to working with someone you know well because you understand what the process is going to involve before you get into it. Ricky is extremely hardworking and spends a lot of time in the studio crafting each element of an album. We were prepared for that this time and able to work more collaboratively with him on the final product.” Though it’s been several years since The Morning Night’s first EP, Decide What You Want, a lot has happened in terms of creative development and life experience for Hoffmann and his bandmates. “Jesse (Brown, drums) and I were only 15 when we recorded the EP, it came out when www.xpressmag.com.au
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BEHEMOTH
Dark Enlightenment
these musicians have thrived on their thick skin and ability to rejuvenate their sound time-over. But in It’s been a hard few years for Polish 2010, iconic frontman, Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski, reported a medical diagnosis that shocked all. Receiving a bone blackened metallers Behemoth on marrow transplant in his bid to fight leukemia, he the cancer. Now, three years down the track, the personal front. Bassist Orion tells overcame he is a new man. But that’s not the only thing that’s why frontman Nergal’s battle with changed. with a renewed vigour for life, Nergal’s cancer has shaped the future of the outlook hasAlong influenced his fellow bandmates to live their band. JESSICA WILLOUGHBY reports lives better.To pour more energy into their art and enjoy fruits their hard work brings. Orion says Nergal’s new ahead of their show at Capitol on the attitude has rubbed-off onto Behemoth and he couldn’t Thursday, October 24, supported by be happier. “It was just one big lesson and I feel the Hour Of Penance. way we treat the band, and life in general, now is just better,” he says. “We do have a lot more appreciation “Tomorrow could be the last day for any of us,” for everything and we are trying to get as much as Behemoth bassist Tomasz ‘Orion’ Wroblewski muses we can out of it all, professionally and personally. And about the future of his band. everything that is happening with the band, it takes “But the situation we had with Nergal makes some work, but it’s growing. It’s hard to explain, but the us more aware of this fact.” change that we feel now is bigger than anything we’ve This Polish blackened metal outfit is no done with the band before.” With their next album pegged for release in stranger to illness or injury. Being together since 1991,
Behemoth 2014, any new recording was always going to reflect the impact of Nergal’s battle in some way. Though Orion didn’t realise how dark their 10th offering was going to be until Behemoth’s vocalist started bringing ideas to the table. Titled The Satanist, the bassist says this album fleshes out the negatives and turns them into positives. “There’s a certain attitude that comes with conquering death,” he says.“I haven’t been through it personally, of course, but being so close to someone who has and supporting them through the hard times reveals just how much of an emotional rollercoaster it can be. This album was one of the easiest for us because it basically wrote itself. On other albums, we had to force ourselves to push the boundaries of what was acceptable. This time we stopped doing that, because what we had experienced had already far surpassed our normal limitations. “This was just the album Nergal needed to create at this time. He had to get everything out so he could start with a clean slate. And although I talk of how this album was a positive experience, don’t think we have gone soft. This is a dark fucking record. It’s about glimpsing at death and coming back to tell the tale.”
Every Time I Die
EVERY TIME I DIE
Obstacle Course Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley once felt he was paying for mistakes made in past lives. Bolting over personal hurdles, Buckley and his merchants of metalcore masala will blow the minds of us antipodean types, appearing on Aussie soil twice in the one year. TOM VALCANIS reports. Buffalo, New York, screamer Keith Buckley feels optimistic. Buoyant, even. It ’s a complete 180 from last year. Personal obstacles and social media distractions felt like blows to Buckley’s vital spirit. Daily life felt layered over with a desire to curl into a ball and fade away. “At that period, I felt confronted by this thick wall. I was stuck,” he opens up. “I dealt with it very poorly back then. There was a lot of alcohol. There was a lot of self-deprecation. Complete fucking pessimism.” Buckley eventually carried torches into the dark of his soul. He just can’t remember when or how it brightened his world. “I’ve tried to figure it out,” he says in disbelief. “I’ve tried to go back and think ‘what was it?’ I don’t know. It happened in my sleep one day. It was like, ‘today I’m gonna start differently’. I was just saying to myself, ‘I’m just gonna try to be in a good mood’. I tried it, it was fun. I guess you just gotta keep your head up. The only thing to do is not get caught up in all of it.” Buckley’s renewed positivity steels him for this month’s second long-haul flight to Australia. “Oh yeah, we love it,” he confirms, sincerely. “The last thing we want to do is oversaturate it and ruin a good thing. But we have a good relationship and I really hope you want to see us.” Buckley figures Australia is like one of his night-time friends, one really long distance night-time friend. “You have daytime friends and you have night-time friends,” he explains. “Some friends you don’t get along with during the day but at night, they’re perfect. They’re the ones you hang out with when the sun comes down.” Who do you call when you’re eager for brunch then? “You call the guys in Blink-182 for that,” he says in all seriousness. He can’t help cracking up laughing. “They seem like brunch people to me.” Across the pond in Buckley’s home, a liquid brunch before football games or music festivals apes the night-time spirit. Fans indulge in a ye olde American tradition of tailgating – camping in a stadium carpark and drinking until the event begins. “Some fans tailgate all morning,” Buckley says. “They’re up at eight o’clock in the morning, drinking. Some people won’t even go inside the venue.” Those who managed to stagger into this year’s Big Day Out saw Buckley earnestly comforting non-metalheads, jostled and lost amongst veteran headbangers. He screamed, “If you don’t know what a moshpit is, I don’t have time to explain the formula.” So then, what is the formula? “Chaos. Complete chaos is the formula,” he chuckles. “I don’t think anyone who is gonna come to our shows will not know what it is. I’m sure that people are enlightened enough to know what to expect now.” Not that it matters to some, treating music like an open tab on their web browser. “I really just hope when people come out they’re going to be involved,” he says. “My dream now is to play a club where nobody has a cameraphone. I just want them to be there, to be present, to enjoy themselves. I don’t think it’s too much to ask. Hopefully it will happen.”
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JORDIE LANE
Here He Comes Jordie Lane returns to WA this weekend to perform at the Fremantle Arts Centre (afternoon) and Ellington Jazz Club (supported by Ruby Boots in solo mode) this Sunday, October 27. BOB GORDON reports. Having spent the last year living in the US, Jordie Lane is back with a new EP, Not Built To Last, and single, Here She Comes. The EP is recorded with a gathering of experienced Nashville musicians, providing a step on from Lane’s 2011 album, Blood Thinner, a more intimate affair, caught up a lot in the memory and spirit of Gram Parsons and a time spent residing at the Joshua Tree Inn. “I wouldn’t say it was caught up in the
it may seem unusual that Lane has opted for an EP this time around. It seems that it’s not a move away in general from album formats, more that he just wanted to let these songs fly. “I had a collection of songs that needed two different approaches,” he notes.“So I did break it up into Nashville sessions, and then some in LA. The experiment was to see if they wanted to be married on an album, but at this stage they don’t. And we really liked this group of tracks as their own thing, so Not Built To Last was born.” Nashville certainly has an effect on people who visit and record there. Lane is no different. “It’s definitely made me realise I don’t wanna live there,” he notes.“It’s too small of a town and creeps me out that way. But on the same point it is great to run into the same people in the strangest of circumstances quickly. “I think one definite thing it does, is make you take your music seriously. As a real, tangible thing. And it makes you get off your arse and get to work!” Lane will be touring Australia with Juno Award-winning Canadian musician, Old Man Luedecke. He can hardly wait. Jordie Lane “Old Man Luedecke, is a fantastically talented memory of Gram at all,” Lane qualifies. “It was initially folk songwriter and banjo picker from Nova Scotia,” he inspired by an experience out in the Joshua Tree desert explains. “It was back in February this year that we met in Toronto. I was blown away by his ‘in the round’ show yes, but more so a personal journey. with one of my all time favourites, Sam Baker, at a festival “It was only natural to take a different route there, and we got to talking about him coming out to indeed with this. I decided on full band of pro session Australia on tour. guys in Nashville, Tennessee, with producer, Skylar “He’s a brilliant musician and great guy, and Wilson, from Memphis.” although we haven’t actually toured before, I just know Given it’s been two years since his album, this one’s gonna be crazy good fun.”
The Cribs
THE CRIBS Cashing In
English trio The Cribs celebrate 10 years and five albums at The Rosemount Hotel on Tuesday, October 29, with support from The Love Junkies. TRAVIS JOHNSON catches up with bassist/singer Gary Jarman to find out what’s changed over the past decade and what’s stayed the same. With their 10th anniversary having coincided with the release of their Best Of collection, Payola, which hit shelves back in March, you could be forgiven for expecting The Cribs’ Australian dates to be little more than an exercise in paintby-numbers Greatest Hits recycling. Bass player Gary Jarman, one third of the band alongside his twin brother, Ryan and younger sibling, Ross, disagrees. Although he admits that sections of the band’s back catalogue will be rummaged through, they’re perhaps not the ones you’d expect. “It’s kinda gonna be based on Payola in some ways,” he says in a thick Yorkshire accent. “But I’m hoping that, rather than new stuff we go back to some deep cuts from the first couple of records. Because we didn’t get to come out to Australia on the first record, we’re hoping that maybe we can make it up to the fans. That’s why we’re doing small venues really, and going back to the early stuff, have it be more of a deep cut rather than a Best Of tour. I mean, obviously there’ll be some stuff off the compilation record, but hopefully it’ll be more deep cuts. That’s my intention, anyway.” For Jarman, it’s a chance to get away from the expected and try something more out there and interesting - a tendency the band pride themselves on. Infrequent visits to Australia have meant that, previously, their shows here have been somewhat more conservative than they might have liked and this tour, hitting smaller venues and playing to more intimate crowds, is an opportunity to remedy that. “When you come out there you kind of want to make the set bullet proof, and the people who see you... you’ve got to try and do a good job of encapsulating the last few years. So that means that you kind of play the more well known stuff. But the idea of coming out this time is to try and make it more esoteric. I’m hoping that, with the smaller venues, it’ll be more conducive to having a dialogue with the crowd and playing more things off the cuff and not really plan the setlist too much.” Jarman hopes this will bring The Cribs back towards something resembling their early sound, which was marked by reckless experimentation and a commitment to never doing the same thing the same way twice. “When I look back over those 10 years I think that, to some degree, we have deviated from what our original modus operandi was, which was about spontaneity and unconventionality, but then when you start having more commercial success and the venues get bigger, you start to feel more of an obligation to at least be good value for money. “But at the same time, things are still ver y far away from being a professional rock band, you know? There’s not many bands who approach it the way that we do.”
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CALIFONE Stitches Dead Oceans
When Califone started as the home project for Tim Rutilli in his Chicago house, the aim was to make little pop songs out of found pieces. It wasn’t too long before Califone outgrew that humble pursuit to become studio experimenters of some note. Stitches is another in the chapter of tunes that are much more than just ‘little pop songs’. Steel guitar and a laconic drawl show that Califone don’t shy away from some of the staples of their country tinged peers, but it is the smattering of electronica that stand them ahead of the pack. Being a significant contributor to soundtracks, Rutilli would know that Movie Music Kills A Kills. This opening track would be more at home in Texas than Chicago, but is perfectly suited to his almost troubled approach to singing. Frosted Tips dips further into indie rock territory with its fuzzed out sounds and voice hidden behind the wall of sounds and samples. Rutilli and his rotating cast of band members are as adept in singing about the desperate with Magdalene having a foreboding feel and We Are A Payphone capturing the often deserted and lonely road. The dense and varied Stiches holds Califone in the minority as one of the bands that are actually pushing the boundaries of the Americana genre.
KING KRULE 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
BODY/HEAD Coming Apart
JOHN LEGEND Love In The Future
XL Recordings/Inertia
Matador
Columbia
Say hello to British singersongwriter Archy Campbell, currently a tender 19 years of age, he is better known as King Krule, and 6 Feet Beneath The Moon is his debut album. King Krule’s sound is dominated by percussions, beats and echoes, underscored by lowkey guitar riffs, either electric or traditional acoustic. This layered ensemble is contrasted with the vocals bearing a very strong and deep British accent, of a non-posh variety, conveying a range of moods, from introspective to vitriolic, with plenty of blue language flung along the way. The repertoire will at first sound strange and jarring, but eventually, it is rather easy to warm up to. The album showcases plenty of variety in its tunes, from slow blues, to a more vigorous rock ballad style. 6 Feet Beneath The Moon is the perfect album for a quiet night to yourself (with beverage of choice on the side) or the perfect accompaniment whilst reading a book by Irvine Welsh or another story set in a gritty, dreary urban environment. To these ears, King Krule is best when he’s angry and furious. Nonetheless, King Krule is a pretty damn good, if at times somewhat melancholic, listen.
I’m having a nightmare, and Kim Gordon is in it. She’s whispering like a wall collapsing. ‘You’re it. No, you’re it’. Everything’s swarming and grey – I feel like I’m being dunked overboard on a pitch black night - but it’s all only getting worse, more intense, the longer the dream goes. Cicadas howl and mass, someone keeps fetching at my hair like they’re trying to move hay with a screwdriver, and I’m part of a procession down a great slope that’s thick with blood and smoke, somehow aloft on top of it and crushed underfoot at the same time. A hooded figure keeps appearing and then sluicing off into the background, like a cloud shaped after menace. Every time I see it, I shiver. A hammer swings high and low, chains clank and doors slam shut as we all pass. I don’t know why, and I don’t know what it means, and I can’t say to guess or understand about what it means about me, but I am certain that I never want to leave, if I knew how. And Lee Renaldo’s last solo album really sucked balls, so I hope he listens to this when he gets the chance too.
Simple and sophisticated, heartfelt and feel-good, Love In The Future is one of those rare love albums that doesn’t come across as cheesy and contrived – though the sheer number of times the word ‘love’ is mentioned throughout the album would baffle even the most jaded professor of theoretical mathematics. The songs have been stripped back in a painfully meticulous manner, drawing on those mythical roots of golden era R&B. Of course, certain songs, such as Save The Night, do carry the taint of pointless over-production, which, as a dedicated hater, I’m blaming on executive producer, Kanye West; and as long as we’re here, Rick Ross collaboration, Who Do We Think We Are, is bland and ponderous and should be scrapped. The album features about four billion songs, and while one should never badmouth an album for having too much content, the theme does begin to wear thin towards the end. All that aside, John Legend has found his jam and absolutely rocked it in this album.
_ SHAUN COWE _ ALEX GRIFFIN
_ CLAYTON LIN
_ CHRIS HAVERCROFT
MOTORHEAD Aftershock Warners
For all his grizzled, warty countenance and posterboy-for-the-speed-counterculture lifestyle, Lemmy Kilmister’s greatest asset has always been his witty, wry wordplay, and on Aftershock he’s kicking against the pricks in rude form. Essentially a heavy blues album, Aftershock plays to every strength in the ‘Head arsenal, from Mikkey D and Lemmy’s impossibly tight grooves, the heavy metal pounding that owes as much to punk as it does to the late ‘60s wave of garage and heavy rock bands, and all underpinned with the swing and hooks of Lemmy’s beloved Beatles and ‘50s/’60s pop’n’roll. This is the key to the extraordinary success of a band who, on the face of it, are a belligerent old school heavy metal band: there’s always more going on under the dermis, layers of melody and power that precious few bands can achieve, let alone a three-piece. The band career down the tracks like a runaway train on End Of Time, and play their purest blues since one-album-only guitarist Brian Robertson forced them to do Hoochie Coochie Man in ’84. Elsewhere they revisit the Overkill era with the belligerent Death Machine, Lemmy has a near-croon on the Metropolis-like ‘Head-ballad Dust & Glass, and with six of the 14 tracks under the three-minute mark, you’ll walk away feeling punchy, ears ringing. Without a doubt, Aftershock is a mighty beast that may well be the best Motorhead album since the 22 year-old 1916..
_ SHANE PINNEGAR
METALLICA Through The Never Blackened Recordings/Vertigo
I t ’s s t r a n g e t o t h i n k Metallica’s film Through The Never is their second foray on the silver screen (third if you include The Big 4 concert which was shown in a few cinemas) and stranger still that this one has a fictional story. The movie revolves around a young roadie popping off to the shops to buy Lars Ulrich a sandwich or something while the band smashes out a concert in IMAX. In lieu of a soundtrack Through The Never is the live set shown in the movie covering most of the ‘hits’, so there’s nothing from St Anger. Metallica are touring machines despite their age and anyone who saw them at this year’s Soundwave or the Death Magnetic tour a few years ago will have an idea about how this live show goes: The Ecstasy Of Gold to kick things off, generic crowd banter by Hetfield and lots of fireworks. Fuel and Cyanide make up the entire post-Black Album era of the set with the possible motive of matching their earlier, grimier material to the movie’s narrative. Bizarrely, about halfway through Ride The Lightning Hetfield’s microphone cuts out and you’re left sitting through about five seconds of awkward padding until it’s fixed. Unless it’s a fake malfunction of course (spoilers, there is a big one). As a live album it’s serviceable, but nothing we haven’t seen from Metallica before..
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MUSTANG BLOODY MUSTANG
CHARLES IS KING
The Mustang Bar’s Halloween Horror Weekend Party requests you to dress up both nights for some trick or treats. On Friday, November 1, it’s Rising Up From The Crypt with the Oz Big Band (with a swing DJ), plus Creepy Cheeky Monkeys and DJ James MacArthur. On Saturday, November 2, Come Back From The Dead will see Monster Milhouse playing a special 80’s set, so let’s see who can wear the best 80’s inspired zombie costume. DJ James MacArthur will surely walk with the zombies!
There’s always something going on in North Perth, with the Charles Hotel bringing it every night of the week. Every Tuesday, the Perth Blues Club, Australia’s longest running blues club (happy 21st!) gets on the good foot. Coming up is the Al Kash Reunion (three sets, October 29), Nick Charles & Doc Span launch their new CD, All About Sonny And Brownie, in the company of the great and mighty Matt Taylor & Chain. Every Wednesdays there’s $14 Parmas & Woodfired Pizzas to go along with Funky Bunch Trivia. Dinner available from 6pm. Show starts at 8pm On Thursdays The Comedy Lounge presents the biggest and best standup comedy in Perth. Dinner available from 6pm. Show starts at 8pm. And don’t forget the Charles’ Melbourne Cup Lunch on Tuesday, November 5 - $60 for a great threecourse lunch or just order from the aLa Carte Menu.
Mustang Bar
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THREE YEARS OF YAYA’S
DEADSET
On Saturday, November 2, the Sail & Anchor celebrates the Day Of The Dead. There’ll be live entertainment over two floors, with (get this) Rogue Dead Guy, Double Dead Guy, Hazelnut Brown Nectar, Gage Roads Pumpkin Ale and more all on tap, plus Tiki & tequila cocktails in the Green Room and free voodoo face painting.
YaYa’s will mark its third birthday with a fab bash this Saturday, October 26, from 6.30pm. On hand to celebrate will be Turin Robinson (acoustic), Burst And Bloom, Three Hands One Hoof, Pat Chow, The Midnight Mules, Timothy Nelson (solo) and, after 11pm, a DJ mixing tunes on the decks. Entry is free all night and there’s small price drinks between 6.308pm. For more details, head to ya-yas.com.au.
YaYa’s
NOT TOO HARD TO SWALLOW
Prepare to be wined, dined and educated at The Swallow Bar on Wednesday, October 30, with a special Winemaker Dinner with Ben Gould of Blind Corner & Two Brothers Wines. Share an intimate night with the winemaker (with Blind Corner Cremant on arrival), as he showcases five wines matched with five delicious dishes of Swallow style fare from 6.30pm. It costs $130 per-person, book now via theoffice@swallowbar.com.au.
SHEDWORTHY! Sail & Anchor, Day Of The Dead
$7 FOR THE PLACE
As if you didn’t know, it’s Melbourne Cup Day 2013 on Tuesday, November 5, and My Place looks like the place to be for lunch. Get set for a two-course menu ($35 per person) with a complimentary glass of bubbles. Book now! In the afternoon avail yourself of the 7’s Post-Race Party with $7 drinks specials from 3-6pm - $7 cocktails, $7 sparkling wines & $7 pints. Very 7 indeed.
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This Friday and Saturday night come and celebrate the Game Of Thrones fancy dress weekend at The Shed. Enjoy the festivities in the beer garden and get the chance to meet The Shed’s own Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen! The Shed is at 69-71 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. But surely you knew!
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Had a quiet October? Never mind, with the Melbourne Cup kicking the month off in style, November reigns...
GIDDY UP AT THE BUTTERWORTH!
Celebrate Melbourne Cup at The Butterworth with a field of function options. A three-course set menu with oysters and two glasses of fizz on arrival – $99; glass of fizz on arrival and substantial canepes – $25. There’s a range of separate function spaces available, from Jansz pop-up cocktail bar, to fashions in the foyer, Andy The Oyster Shucker To The Stars and live entertainment. Contact info@ thebutterworth.com.au to book your spot now.
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Explosive Pro Wrestling presents ReAwakening XII, featuring a championship match between current champion “The Behemoth” Sebastian Sander against challenger “The Smashing Machine” Chris Vice, a Tag Team Ladder Match for the EPW Tag Team Championships, a Hardcore Championship match as well as a new Invitational Tournament Winner, for what is the longest running tournament in Australia. ReAwakening XII happens on Saturday, November 2, at Cyril Jackson Recreation Centre, Fisher Street, Bassendean. Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7pm. Head to www.epwperth.com for all ticket information.
MACABREFEST
The City of Perth’s Carnival Macabre returns for its second year to celebrate Halloween and Day Of The Dead with some spooky activities in Northbridge, including film screenings, exhibitions, food markets, Halloween parties and well, plenty of opportunities to dress up. Check out The Dark Knight Dress-Up Party, The Rocky Horror Picture Show & Time Warp Dance, MoTet’s Nosferatu Symphony of Horror, Mexican Day Explosive Pro Wrestling of the Dead & Food Markets, the free films screening as part of the Carnival Macabre Film Season and the many Halloween parties. There’s more than a week of activities happening from this Friday, October 25, until Sunday, The Kiss My Camera exhibition is a s(l)ideshow November 3, so head to showmeperth.com.au for that accompanies the WAM Festival each year and the full list of tricks and treats. it will return as part of next month’s local music celebrations. From 300 entries, 32 entries have been chosen and will grace the WA Museum on Saturday, November 9, until Sunday, December 8, from 9.30am5pm daily. You’ll see entries from Alanna Kusin, Amber Bateup, Brad Lambert, Brandon Davies, Caleb Macintyre, Courtnie Hayes, Dan Bedford, Dan Grant, David McLoughlin, Dean Smith, Denis Radacic, Dhyan Verco, Elle Borgward, Gareth Andersen, James Gifford, James Kilian, Jasmine Eales, Karen Wheatland, Martin McClellan, Michael Farnell, Michael Spencer, Michael Wilson, Nicholas Cooper, Renae Harkins, Robert Simeon, Ryan Ammon, Samuel Allen, Shaun Ferraloro, Suzanne Crosbie, Tanya Voltchanskaya, Thomas Davidson and Tracey Wilson. There’s 50 images in all, each capturing a moment in WA music, and vying for over $1,000 in Carnival Macabre prizes. For more details, head to wam.asn.au.
KISS MY CAMERA RETURNS
DOCTOR WEREWOLF Happy Halloween
Extensively road tested to swarms of heaving crowds, the Sydney duo of Andrew Bell and Adam Zae, aka Doctor Werewolf, are as much about keeping their sets original, as they are about keeping their studio productions fresh. RK speaks to Adam Zae ahead of their show at Harlem Nights Presents House Of Horrors this Friday, October 25, at Metropolis Fremantle. Their stage name doesn’t give much away. Bits and pieces of random bass heavy music is how Doctor Werewolf is best described. “Andrew and I met in high school - so actually quite a long time ago now,” says Adam Zae with an innocent giggle. “Actually since about Year 7, both of us had trained in classical music as well as in piano and guitar before we got into electronic music. We had actually always been music nerds before that too.” Sharing a place to live during their university days also meant the boys were in each other’s faces quite a bit, so they decided to use the time productively and taught themselves how to make music. Starting off in a trio called The Impossibles, Zae describes losing a member and with it, creating a new posse - and how the current name just came at random. “It doesn’t have a particularly good story behind it,” he explains. “It doesn’t relate to our sound or our production process either,” (laughs) “it just sort of came up and has stuck!” Musically however, things have stuck, because the lads are part of a new breed of Australian artists making a name for themselves with quality EPs, collaborations and remixes, while ensuring they are not trapped in a single style or genre. “The both of us are pretty restless musically,” Zae says. “If you ask us six months from now what we’ve been up to, www.xpressmag.com.au
Dr Werewolf I bet we’ll have a different range of influences.” Likewise, given the lads get bored quickly their very raison d’être is to ensure they keep audiences guessing.“We’ve sort of temporarily left the dubstep realm,” professes Zae. “We’re moving again with the hip hop resurgence and the drum’n’bass sound. It’s still urban, but we’re trying to ensure that whenever something interesting happens, we’re there to try it. If you had to pin me down, I’d say our music right now is a fusion of trap, hip hop and drum’n’bass.” Finally, Messrs Zae and Bell can’t contain their excitement for the upcoming Perth gig at Metro Freo. “We’re both pretty excited about this event actually; as a group we’ve have to play some Halloween parties and we’ve even got some good costumes to wear. But overall, we’ve had a really good response to the bass sound we do in Perth. Our show is a fast-paced exercise; our mixing style works really well across four decks and a microphone, with us bouncing around on the stage. It’s all about being on the go and in motion!” 19
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Port City Party Australia’s longest running community festival stakes out a two week stretch of 2013 from Friday, October 25 until Sunday, November 10 with a program that encompasses over 100 different events, activities, displays and performances. City Of Fremantle Coordinator Of Cultural Development, Alex Marshall, has a lot in common with the festival he’s helped midwife into existence. Like the fortnight-long riot of colour and entertainment, he’s diverse, multi-faceted and has been around for as long as memory serves. “I’ve been involved in around the Fremantle Festival for probably around 20 years,” he tells us.“As a volunteer, as a performer, as an event holder, as a contractor and now, finally I suppose, as the Artistic Director. I’ve lived in Fremantle for many years and I was an arts practitioner myself so I’ve always been involved in the Festival myself.” Marshall declines to give us the details of his performance background, but it does involve “... juggling and unicycling and acrobatics and all that sort of thing. I travelled all over Europe performing in festivals and so on, but I also have a strong background in community arts, working in country and regional areas. I’ve been in and around all this stuff for a long time.” Which makes him a pretty perfect fit for the Fremantle Festival. Founded in 1906, the festival is a highlight of the Port City’s cultural calendar and easily one of the most eclectic festivals in the country, covering everything from music to film, fashion to food, high culture and lowbrow art, ancient traditions and innovative performances and everything in between. “I think it’s because we live in an extraordinary community,” Marshall reflects. “That’d be the short answer. There are things from out of town but not many - most things, the artists performing at the festival and the events being put on are Freo people. It’s about the community and the whole community is in here.” One of the oldest traditions that takes place during the festival is The Blessing Of The Fleet, a European custom first introduced to Fremantle in 1948 by migrant sailors.“ it’s a tradition that came from Italian and Slav migrants that made Fremantle their home in the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s. It’s linked with the Catholic Church and the opening of the fishing season. The priest comes down and all the boats go out into the harbour and the priest blesses all the boats as they come in. They have a big procession from the basilica opposite FTI where all the fishermen and their families march with their banners and they have fireworks and decorate all the boats - it’s quite a spectacle. And this year we’ve combined it with the seafood festival.” As an emblem for the Fremantle Festival’s blending of old and new, you could hardly ask for anything better. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON
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MIDSUMMER IN LATE SPRING HOCKEY ONE, HOCKEY TWO...
THE BEST OF THE FREMANTLE FESTIVAL
Head down to Freo and up to the roof of the new MYRE art space this Saturday, October 26, for Hockeyfest, the grand final of the inaugural Street roller hockey League season. Entry is $2 from 2pm, which scores you entry, a hat and your own copy of the SRHL ‘zine. There’s also a ‘Come And Try’ area for those who want to give the sport a shot. Then stick around for the after party,where $10 gets you an earful of Cow Parade Cow (some of whom roll for the West Leederville Wobbegongs), Red Mexico (Cottesloe Street Sharks), Anomalies (Hamersley Rangers), and DJs Tbox Wimmer, Chillipot and Yung Gershwine.Tickets are through trybooking. com/DSLF
With so much going on in Freo over the next few weeks, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all. We’ve picked out a handful of attractions that are well worth your attention.
Art Adrift - Photo by Evan Boogaard
ART ADRIFT EXHIBITION
Opening 7pm on Friday, October 25 and running Chela for the rest of the festival, this is an exhibition of floating artworks, vessels, buoys, photographs and other nautical ephemera that embodies Fremantle’s maritime spirit and the relationship between those A free celebration of Freo’s young soundsmiths, this who live on the shore and the fathomless ocean. At musical extravaganza takes place in - where else Norfolk Lane on Saturday, November 9 from noon. A Kidogo Arthouse and Fishing Boat Harbour. huge range of genres and styles will be represented, with performances from Chela, Bass Reflex, Grrl Pal, Water Graves, Villain, Jamie Mykaela, Mad Rabbit, Conner Minervini, Claudia and Ebony Tero, Tashi, Aborted Tortoise, The Liarbirds and more.
NORFOLK LANES
FREMANTLE FASHION COLLECTIVE
Ruined Pianos
ROSS BOLLETER - RUINED PIANOS
On Saturday, November 9, Victoria Quay plays host to an exclusive showcase of the best new fashions from Fremantle’s brightest designers, including Luka Rey, Tindale, Anna Excell, Belle Bijoux, Little Dove and Monster Alphabets.
TERRY JONES FAIRY TALES
From the pen of the wily old Python comes a series of fairy tales, all brought to life in Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s Blackbox Theatre. 4pm Saturday, October 26 and Saturday, November 2.
Avant-garde composer Ross Bolleter works on pianos that have been subjected to time and the elements in order to capture truly unique and unpredictable musical forms. He’ll be giving two For more information on the Fremantle festival, performances in The Round House on Saturday, including the complete festival program, jump online and head to fremantle.wa.gov.au October 26 and Sunday, October 27.
Border War
Directed by Robert Rodriguez Starring Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Demien Bichir, Lady Gaga, Sofia Vergara, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson Indie auteur Robert Rodriguez continues the adventures of his Grindhouse action icon, Machete (Danny Trejo) in this gleefully violent, willfully offensive and largely enjoyable B-grade romp. Rescued from a hangman’s noose by a phone call from the President (Charlie Sheen, credited under his birth name of Carlos Estevez and lampooning his father’s role on The West Wing), knife-toting killing machine, Machete, is charged with exterminating a Mexican revolutionary, Mendez (Demian Bichir), who is threatening to nuke Washington. After that... Well, after that, pretty much anything goes, which is either part of the Machete franchise’s charm or its major stumbling block, depending on your point of view. As a director, Rodriguez has pretty much dropped any notion of craft, instead preferring to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. Here we get a terrorist with multiple personalities; Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara as a vengeful brothel madam; a shape-shifting assassin variously played by Walton Goggins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lady Gaga and Antonio Banderas; Mel Gibson’s megalomaniacal weapons manufacturer plotting to build an orbital utopia from which to watch the world burn - and in the middle of 22
it all, the stoic Machete, always ready to lop of a head or yank loose some entrails if the pace ever threatens to slow. Digging for some kind of thesis is a mug’s game; the film exists so that Rodriguez and company can have some fun: limb-chopping, car-exploding, booty-shaking fun (indeed, the biggest moment of cognitive dissonance is seeing Alexa Vega, one-time star of Rodriguez’s Spy Kids children’s franchise, as a guntoting prostitute in assless chaps). You’re either on board from the get-go, or you’ll be left baffled and possibly offended; Machete don’t make converts. As enjoyable as it all is, it’d be nice to see Rodriguez change things up in his next few projects or at least whatever follows the promised Machete Kills Again... In Space! Whereas Tarantino clearly views their Grindhouse partnership as a passing fancy, Rodriguez seems to have taken it as a calling, all but abandoning the energetic but meticulous filmmaking chops he showed in earlier works - go take another run at From Dusk Till Dawn or The Faculty and you’ll see the work that is provocative and subversive, but also deliberate and polished. His recent stuff, while fun, has also been largely disposable, at times feeling like the work of a bright but somewhat emotionally stunted 16 year-old. While there’s some merit to that, it’s about time he put aside the fast food flicks for a while and tackled something that actually stretched him creatively. Until then, we have Machete Kills. At once completely over the top and willfully cheap, both in content and aesthetic, you already know whether you’ll like it or not. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON
THAT WHOLE ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK VIBE
The folks at Adventure World are getting into the Halloween spirit with Fright Nights ‘13. From November 1 until November 3, the park will be open every night with special horror themed attractions, face and body painting, a giant spider web, a Circus Of The Damned under the Big Top and and more. Even better, the new 12 million dollar rollercoaster, Abyss, will be operating! Head to adventureworld. net.au for tickets.
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QUIZZING MR CALLAN
Comedians Dave Callan and John Robertson are hosting a quiz night drawing on the excellent Van Gogh, Dali And Beyond exhibition at the Art Gallery Of Western Australia this Friday, October 25. Part of the AGWA Nights program, it promises to a fun and illuminating evening, with fantastic prizes such as framed van Gogh prints, passes to upcoming AGWA events, exhibition catalogues and more. Head to momaseries.com.au for info and tickets.
BLUE TO THE BONE
The third and final Art On The Menu is happening on Monday, November 4, at Madhatters On Millston in Henley Brook from 4.30pm. Perth artist will be auctioning off their food-focussed works and proceeds will be going to the charity Beyond Blue, which works to raise awareness of depression and related mental illnesses. Artists involved include Greg James - previously responsible for the awesome Bon Scott statue in Fremantle Jacqui Crossley and Cleide Teixeira. All up, over 30 pieces are up for grabs. For more info, go to perth. westcoastcafes.com.au/art-on-the-menu.
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OH SO MYSTERIOSO
WAFTA, The West Australian Fibre And Textile Association, presents Mysterium at Gallery Central. 74 textile artworks by WA artists and two international guests highlight the diversity of fabric art practice. Techniques employed include appliqué, bojagi, basketry, crochet, embroidery, dyeing, embroidery, encaustic, felting, quilting, Shibori and more. Don’t know what some of those are? You can either hit Google or head to the exhibition, which runs from October 26 November 16.
Captain Phillips
Machete Kills
MACHETE KILLS
The final play of The Black Swan State Theatre Company’s 2013 season, Midsummer (A Play With Songs). Georgina Gayler and Brandon Hanson star as a divorce lawyer and a petty criminal who, against all odds and better judgment, hook up after meeting in a bar and embark on a crazy, colourful and anarchic weekend. Damon Lockwood directs from a script by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre. It runs from November 9 - 24. Head to bsttc.com.au for session times and tickets.
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
High Seas Hijacking Hijinks Directed by Paul Greengrass Starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener Taking the real-life hijacking of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama in 2009 - or at least the account given in the book A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS And Dangerous Days At Sea by the eponymous Richard Phillips and Stephan Talty - director Paul Greengrass has crafted a nail-biting film that at times ratchets up the tension to almost unbearable levels. As played by Tom Hanks, R ichard Phillips is a by-the-books sea captain charged with commanding a merchant voyage through the pirateinfested waters off the Somali coast. Anti-hijacking drills are run and security measures are in place, but it all comes to naught when the ship is seized by a four Somali pirates, led by Abduwali Muse (Barkhad Abdi). The crew resists and negotiate for Muse and his men to leave in the ship’s lifeboat, but they kidnap Phillips in the hopes of extracting a lucrative ransom, leading to a tense standoff between the increasingly desperate pirates and the US military. It’s difficult to single out specific elements for praise in what is an across-the-board great film. Greengrass, who also directed United 93 and the good Jason Bourne films, puts his background in journalism and documentary filmmaking to good use, bringing a palpable air of authenticity and workaday realism
to the proceedings while at the same being deft enough to sketch such details quickly and clearly. Working on a script by the prolific Billy Ray, he gives us enough information to get along on without bogging down the film in socio-political table setting. Coupled with that is an admirably restrained and somewhat sympathetic approach to the issue of Somali piracy. Although the script never lingers on it, we are given to understand the economic and social drives behind the phenomenon (loss of traditional income due to commercial fishing and pressure from local warlords, to be precise) and we spend enough time with Muse and his crew to see them as people, not as anonymous threats to the status quo. For all that, this is Hanks’ show and Hollywood’s go-to everyman once again shows his flair for portraying ordinary men in extraordinary situations. His Phillips is a man driven by professionalism, pragmatism and situational fear, all of which war for dominance in the terrifying circumstances he finds himself in. It’s not a showy role as such, but it’s one that allows Hanks to project a remarkable solidity and humanity that makes it nigh-on impossible not to empathise with him. The pedantic may nitpick at some of the details, as some of the crew of the Maersk Alabama have, to the tune of a USD 50 million lawsuit, but it’s always more fun to print the legend anyway. As a film, Captain Phillips is the business; an expertly constructed, thoughtfully laid out thriller of the highest calibre. Don’t miss it. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON #youshouldreadxpress
Prisoners
PRISONERS
Extraordinary Rendition Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, Maria Bello When his daughter goes missing, survivalist Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is determined to pursue any means necessary to ensure her return. While police Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) investigates the abduction within legal bounds, Dover takes the extraordinary measure of kidnapping the prime suspect (Paul Dano) and attempting to torture an answer out of him. As both men strive towards solving the mystery they are inevitably drawn into conflict with each other. Prisoners is a deliberately uncomfortable film to watch. Heightening the tension early in the piece with the disappearance of the two girls, it provides little catharsis until towards the end of its run. Even then, you are only given a suggestion to one character’s final fate almost as the end titles roll. The audience is never allowed to sit comfortably with what Keller does in search of his daughter, and the morality of the situation is constantly questioned and scrutinised. In comparison to the vigilante films of the ‘70s and ‘80s this is much more morally ambiguous, a grey area that is bordering on midnight black. For all this, it is a masterfully constructed film. The relentless sense of tension is heightened by the careful shot composition. Characters often feel boxed in by their surroundings as the camera frames
them through a door or in a hallway, enhancing the inherent claustrophobia of a sequence. Cinematographer Roger Deakins presents a generally muted palette, occasionally punctuated by stunning bursts of coloured light for key sequences, leaving the viewer as disoriented as the characters. Johann Johansson’s score produces a Lynchian sense of foreboding, although the terror is utterly realistic rather than metaphysical. In the acting stakes there is a richness of talent on display here. Hugh Jackman dominates the screen, his anger barely beneath the surface and always threatening to bubble over. Yet the performance also has emotional depth and fragility, as the rightness of his cause and violence of his actions weigh upon him. By contrast, Jake Gyllenhaal gives a carefully measured performance. By his dogged persistence, calculated behaviour, occasional facial tick, and tattooed appearance, he is able to suggest a rich character back-story to the audience without revealing what that may be. Yet Villeneuve by no means creates a fait accompli. At two-and-a-half hours long with little relief from the grim tension, what should be a terse thriller is turned into an endurance test for the audience. This time is needed to draw the various threads of its complex layered plot together, but it also gives the audience time to poke at the weave and notice the occasional flaw. Admirable in its construction, but distressing, Prisoners is an experience that will promote debate and discussion rather than enjoyment. _ DAVID O’CONNELL
THE HARDEST WAY TO MAKE AN OMELETTE Eggsistential Crisis
The Hardest Way To Make An Omelette Perth-based performer Jessica Harlond-Kenny didn’t ever expect to become a puppeteer, but a formative experience at university changed her course dramatically. “I studied at ECU - Contemporar y Performance - and then I did a graduate program with Spare Parts Puppet Theatre for 18 months,” she tells us. “I did specialised training with them as a puppeteer and then I’ve been touring with them, performing in some of their shows. I graduated from uni in 2009 and graduated from the First Hand Program in 2010 and I’ve been working with them on and off ever since. “I wasn’t particularly drawn to it at first,” she continues. “I worked with Spare Parts at uni on an adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, and while I loved doing that, I didn’t see myself as a puppeteer - that didn’t cross my mind. But I applied, I got into the graduate program and I think it’s one of the most magical artforms that exists now. I’m an absolute convert.” This is evident in her upcoming show, The Hardest Way To Make An Omelette, which combines physical performance, traditional theatre and puppetry in a one-act, one-woman show. Harlond-Kenny plays a young woman whose inner contradictions and drives are made physically manifest at the breakfast table when, apropos of nothing, she suddenly starts to produce whole eggs from various parts of her body. It’s a comedy, she assures us, and not one of David Cronenberg’s weirder notions. “The Hardest Way To Make an Omelette definitely is the hardest way to make an omelette and www.xpressmag.com.au
it’s the messiest way to make an omelette as well. It’s a lot of fun, it’s a great comic show, but it’s got quite a serious undertone as well, like a lot of comedies do, I suppose. “It’s all about trying to find balance in your life,” she explains. “Everyone faces this problem as well, this conflict, that you want to be really on top of everything. You want to get your work done and have 2.5 kids and be really strict with yourself: ‘Why are you doing this? Don’t be so lazy! Get out of bed! Go for a run! Do something!’ So you’ve got that aspect of yourself, but on the other hand: ‘Fuck that! I want to travelling! Berlin’s great this time of year; let’s go!’ and going through things like that. So you have all these different drives that try and pull you in different directions in your life and you’re trying to find balance.” Harlond-Kenny says that such issues were reflected in the rehearsal process. Although she worked extensively with a host of personnel, including director Leah Mercer, much time was spent alone. “That can be a real psychological battle. You don’t have someone to bounce ideas off of and it’s a little bit like our woman in the show, where these eggs start taking over her life. I’ve got these eggs that I’m trying to juggle and balance and sometimes it gets a bit much. You’re only working with yourself and you can be your own worse enemy, I think.” The Hardest Way To Make An Omelette, by Cracked Egg Productions, runs at The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre as part of the Fremantle Festival from Thursday, October 21 until Sunday, November 10. Go to sppt.asn.au for info. 23
CROSSING ROPER BAR The River Runs Wild
Stephen Pigram
Stephen Pigram couldn’t be happier. He’s just finished a school performance of Crossing Roper Bar with the Young Wagilak Group (songmen from Ngukkurr in South-East Arnhem Land) and the Australian Art Orchestra (led by artistic director, Paul Grabowsky), having come from Broome and headed to Perth by way of Beagle Bay, Roebourne, Karratha and Exmouth. “It’s been brilliant, actually,” he says. “This is the first time I’ve been on the tour with the lads, I did some smaller stuff when they came to my region five years ago, but this is the first full tour I’m doing with them. “I think it’s good taking it into the school because it gives the kids a look at pure kinds of music, like jazz, traditional singing and even my songs. And the fact that some it’s also improvised, it shows them real music, in a sense.” A fusion of indigenous culture and contemporary jazz, Crossing Roper Bar first toured WA in 2008 with the late Ruby Hunter as vocalist. It’s a set work, but open to ongoing creativity. “We’re trying to keep it quite open and changeable as the tour progresses,” Pigram explains. “We did a song today that I ran quickly past the lads and they picked it up pretty quick (laughs). It keeps a freshness in the group as well. And young Daniel, the singer from Ngukkurr, he’s written a new song on tour. He dreamt up a song at One Armed Point, he was telling us. He did that one last night in Broome and at the school today. So it’s going really well. “It’s a very fluid kind of tour. There’s structures, obviously, but with the chance to improvise and create new stuff, which is great.”
Indeed Crossing Roper Bar is about telling stories, but it seems the journey itself becomes part of the story. “It’s truly the top level of that kind of music. They’re great jazz musicians in their own right, the song men from Ngukurr, they’re brilliant at what they do with the traditional stuff. “But to marry it together takes it out of its comfort zone. It brings it to another aural level.” The contemporary rendering of ancient songs has precedents, of course, but the absence of template forms in jazz allows this music to soar with emotion rather than adhere to construct. “The only attempt bringing traditional into mainstream in a collaborative sort of way was Yothu Yindi and Warumpi Band singing in language in a rock sense, but this lets the emotions come into the music more, being freeform jazz,” Pigram says. “I think it really suits the traditional singing and song. And even my songs; I’ve played with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, The Black Arm Band and my own brothers’ band, but to take my songs and dress it up in this jazz interpretation it turns out beautifully as well. It sort of keeps you on your toes. They’re all your babies but you dress them up in different clothes for a change (laughs). “And I’m learning their songs, too. It’s a great, evolving tour. It’s pure forms of music coming together.” Crossing Roper Bar comes to the State Theatre Centre on Tuesday, October 29. Bookings through ticketek. com.au. _ BOB GORDON
Nathalie Pavlovic, Dianas Photo by J-FFoto
THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL Jo Lettenmaier/Hayley Beth/Nora Zion/Dianas The Bird Saturday, October 19, 2013 In (belated) tribute to The International Day Of The Girl, The Bird joined forces with local fundraisers Girls For Girls to put on an estrogen-fuelled evening of art and music. While a near-empty venue was reflective of the wet weather outside, DJ Jo Lettenmaier soldiered on, her groove and funk-heavy dance anthems transforming the room into a laidback lounge bar. Hayley Beth and her incredible voice took to the stage next. While her rich, deep-throated vocals could be considered heaven-sent, her devil-may-care attitude showed that she’s no angel –embodying a punk aesthetic that is strangely refreshing in today’s polished musical landscape. Perhaps, ironically, it was this aesthetic that ultimately saved her from a scathing review, as a somewhat shambolic performance almost overshadowed her obvious talent. Alienating her wider audience and focusing instead on her friends in the front, Hayley Beth’s dissonant electric guitar lent an unpleasant cacophony to the set. She was afflicted by sudden bouts of the giggles mid-lyric, and as if to excuse all of the above, employed a constant refrain of ‘this is my third gig today!’ Proving to be a different beast altogether, mop-haired beauty Nora Zion cut a striking figure as she casually perched on stage, armed with just a drum machine and her voice. As a seductive soundscape combining lounge, trap and R&B beats flowed from her fingers, Nora’s soulful vibrato ebbed and flowed accordingly. While she could stand to work on her projection, her chameleon-like vocals displayed her versatility as a musician – it was just a shame that her stripped-back performance didn’t seem to capture punters’ attention the way it deserved to. Surf-rock darlings Dianas were the ladies of the hour, making their entrance via oceanic, reverbheavy track, Origami. With a throwback sound rich in ethereal harmonies and emotive, driving strings, comparisons to The Cranberries are probably rife for Caitlin Moloney, Nathalie Pavlovic and Ashley Ramsey– but while there is certainly some truth in the association, they have created a wonderful noise all their own. The dark and vaguely homicidal content of their songs is cloaked by sweet, danceable melodies, which makes for a gleefully fun listening experience. Further belying their twisted lyricism, the trio was unfailingly polite, taking the time to thank the promoters. As accomplished guitarist-cum-bassists, Caitlin and Nathalie routinely swapped axes throughout the show – with Caitlin even tackling a new guitar during the fantastically frantic track, From The Start. An admission that ‘I’ve never played this guitar before, so let’s see how this goes!’ showed her trepidation but, happily, it went swimmingly. As the chugging, groove-driven song Static saw the girls out, the tight-knit crowd dancing up a storm were clearly not ready for the night’s end. _ ELLIE HUTCHINSON 24
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Bruce: The Blue Room Theatre A new two man, one puppet show by Tim Watts and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd that runs from November 19 December 7. Go to blueroom.org.au for more.
VISUAL ARTS
Cavalia: The White Big Top This magnificent equestrian event combines Recent Acquisitions Your Collection: Art Gallery spectacle and acrobatic skill reminiscent of Cirque Du Of WA Soleil with jaw-dropping displays of horsemanship Many of the more recent additions to the gallery’s and derring-do. From December 4 - 29. Head for extensive collection are on display until October 27. cavalia.net for more. Go to artgallery.wa.gov.au for more. Van Gogh, Dali and Beyond - The World Reimagined: Art Gallery Of WA The third exhibition in AGWA’s MoMA Series encompasses works from Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Richard Long, Frida Kahlo and more. The exhibition runs until December 2. Go to artgallery. wa.gov.au for further information. Little Paintings, Big Stories: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Runs until December 14.
MUSIC Nosferatu - Symphony Of Horror: Perth Cultural Centre A Halloween screening of F.W. Murnau’s seminal vampire film, with live musical accompaniment by MotET (Music Of The Electronic Times). Film begins at 8pm on October 31, entry is free.
FESTIVALS
Spring Festival - Photo by Jarrad Seng Proximity Festival: PICA 12 intimate performances created for an audience of one. One artist and one audience member alone in a space together. Runs until November 2. For details, head to proximityfestival.com.
Fremantle Festival: Various Locations, Fremantle Over 100 events across two weeks, encompassing 17th Japanese Film Festival: Hoyts Carousel and a staggering variety of forms and media. Runs until The State Library Theatre November 10. Go to fremantle.wa.gov.au for details. Presenting a mix of classic and contemporary Japanese cinema, including Gatchaman (which you Spring Festival: The Perth Cultural Centre may remember as Battle Of The Planets or G-Force), Hosted by the Conservation Council Of Western Arrietty, Children Hand In Hand and The Grand Master. Australia, Josh Byrne And Associates and the Perth 1200 Degrees C: Linton And Kay Galleries A collection of bronze sculptures by renowned artist, Until October 27. Go to japanesefilmfestival.net for Cultural Centre, this one day event focuses on sustainability and environmental issues. Stephen Glassborrow runs until October 29. Head more information. over to lintonandkay.com.au for full details. alltervatn: Feast Your Eyes Outpost The inaugural exhibition at the new art space in Fremantle’s old Myer building features a selection of stunning aerial photographs by Jarrad Seng. The exhibition runs until November 3.
Hola Mexican Film Festival: Cinema Paradiso This celebration of south of the border cinema runs from November 14 - 24. Go to holamexicoff.com for more. The Beaufort Street Festival: Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley On Saturday, November 16, Beaufort Street is transformed into a Mecca of music, art, culture, shopping and food in a celebration of the inner city spirit. Go to beaufortstreetfestival.com.au for details.
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City Of Fremantle Arts Collection - Pristine: The Fremantle Arts Centre A collection of printed artworks consisting of abstract interpretations of shapes and forms found in the natural world. It runs until November 17. Go to fac. org for details. Lab Partners Showcase: Outré Gallery Original paintings and prints by San Franciscobased husband and wife team, Lab Partners. From November 1 - 30. Go to outregallery.com for more.
Veterinary Nurse doing Kung Fu in Backyard Huntingdale 1999 - from Momentum Momentum: The Perth Centre Of Photography A free exhibition curated by Paulo Anselmi that celebrates the 21st birthday of PCP. Featured artists include Max Pam, Toni Wilkinson, Juha Tolonen, Flavia Schuster, Perdita Phillips, Graham Miller and Chris Young. It runs from October 31 - December 8. Go to pcp.prg.au for more details. The Collective Focus: Fremantle PCYC Presented as part of the Fremantle Festival, this photographic exhibition presents works from young women aged between 11 and 19, all of whom were mentored by professional WA photographers an encouraged to find their own creative voice. It runs from November 2 - 16. Entry is free.
THEATRE/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE The Tribe: The Blue Room Theatre The latest confrontational work from Renegade Productions is a multi-part performance piece that examines the darkest parts of the human psyche. It runs until November 2. Go to blueroom.org.au for session times and tickets. When The Lights Go Down: Phoenix Theatre The latest effort from Dark Psychic Productions is a backstage drama set in a Las Vegas cabaret club. It runs until November 9. Tickets are available through TAZTix.com.au. Midsummer (A Play With Songs): The State Theatre Centre The last production of the Black Swan State Theatre Company’s 2013 season is uproarious romp through an unstable landscape of love, intoxication and chaos. It runs from November 2 - 24. Go to bsstc.com.au for session times and tickets. www.xpressmag.com.au
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Sum Of Its Parts Renowned local musicians, Diger Rokwell and Felicity Groom have combined their individual talents to make their first full length record together. TOM KITSON discovers great minds think alike. With beats written by electronic producer, Diger Rokwell and lyrics and vocals added by songstress Felicity Groom, the teaming of Rokwell & Groom seems to have come together with relative ease on their album, New Parts. “This project brings that individual style and that extra influence of us bouncing off each other into the mix,” Groom says.“There’s never been any need for compromise - this is a couple of people with a love of a vast array of musical styles and songs, getting together to play and write tunes that happen in the process.” Initially performing together for a one-off Cut & Paste Collaborations microfestival gig, the pair wrote songs especially for the show and then followed up to work together on an entire album. Constructing much of the show without physically meeting to record, these two seamless operators were able to work in each of their own styles while allowing the other’s input to come through. “The direction of the album came from there quite easily,” Rokwell says. “We based it on the songs that we first wrote for the micro-festival and then wrote some more after that as our live show developed.” Groom adds:“We’d been sending tracks back and forth between each other for the first gig, working them up to some kind of rehearse-worthy standard before we’d even met face-to-face. Then part way through a Frisbee match I confirmed with someone on my team that the person I was playing against was Diger Rokwell, so mid-match we said our hellos and then got on with the game.”
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Rokwell & Groom The role music plays in both of their lives is significant to say the least, with Rokwell managing The Community - a collective of musicians, bands, DJs, artists and producers - and earning national recognition for his music. “I’m so grateful about where I am in my musical life; The Community Records is releasing great music, my solo and Rokwell & Groom stuff is becoming known nationally and I love performing live,” he says. “I work full time as a teacher, so music is a definite second of my energy, and thirdly is coordinating The Community and then pursuing hobbies in surfing, health and socialising.” It seems a busy life, but with a passion for what he does spurring him on, Rokwell can apply himself to each role wholeheartedly and achieve great results. “Music making is a hobby and a great way to communicate with people,” he says.“I love performing live and the people in the music community on the whole are like family.” This relationship-orientated approach makes collaboration an enjoyable and rewarding endeavour, and Groom feels the same way, especially since the release of her successful album, Gossamer in 2011 and subsequent touring. “I’m also grateful about where I’m at in my musical life, it does take time and energy, but it gives when it takes,” she says. “It’s just what I love to do - I sit at home and play piano and just make up songs that have no other purpose than to keep me amused. It’s what I will always do long before or long after anyone’s listening.” With music as accessible as it is online, both artists believe the way they make music is a luxury - being able to make music at home on a computer without dishing out the dollars. “Making music is a blessing, and we are so lucky to be able to make this music effectively and inexpensively,” Rokwell says. “We live in a golden and accessible age of music production.” Groom chimes in: “Music is intangible, unquantifiable, structured yet
surprising, that’s what I love about it and what Diger said - it’s never been easier to make it in your room which is a great luxury.” The project was never designed to achieve a particular sound and this creative freedom and teamwork has been inspired by a number of close influences. “My mother passing has been a giant life kick in the ass for me,” Rokwell says. “She found her creative energy later in life and it inspired me to follow creative pursuits as a mantra.” “RTRFM has also been a big influence on me from a very early age. Andrew Ryan (Adam Said Galore, Fall Electric, member of Felicity Groom’s band and RTRFM Out To Lunch presenter) has been my biggest musical influence,” she says of her romantic partner. “We have been writing songs together for seven years and he’s there in the background of the Rokwell & Groom stuff, listening to the tracks and sharing enthusiasm for what we are doing. He has also always been alerting me to new and interesting tunes in the big world, which in turn influences my ways of hearing the world.” With Rokwell & Groom continuing to work together and planning future releases, their sonic inspirations are still flowing and providing the means to create heartfelt music right here in Perth. “The potential in the Perth music scene is always driving me, as is my desire to challenge mass perceptions and consciousness,” Rokwell says. “I would like music to take me overseas a bit more,” Groom adds. “It’s been a while since I have done that and if the tunes can take me to see new places, then that’s pretty exciting.”
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ROKWELL & GROOM NEW PARTS OUT ON FRIDAY THROUGH THE COMMUNITY RECORDS & SPINNING TOP FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ MOJOS BAR
Mix Master Mike
SPECTACULAR AFTER-PARTY
The WAMi Festival and its free Saturday Spectacular happening on Saturday, November 9 will continue well into the early hours with two ticketed Night Visions shows happening at The Bakery and Geisha. At The Mix Master Mike doesn’t need too much of an Bakery catch Gilded, Masonik, Craig McElhinney, introduction. Turntablist, DJ for the Beastie Boys and Adam Trainer (DJ set), Smrts, Usurper Of Modern three times, undefeated winner of the DMC World DJ Medicine, Pex (DJ set), Boys Boys Boys!, GRRL PAL, Championship, catch the mad skillz of one of the most plus triple j presenter Lewi McKirdy, who’ll be dropping influential figures in hip hop on Friday, November 22 a DJ set in addition to hosting the WAMi Awards the at Villa. Support on the night comes from Zeke, Tee night prior. Over at Geisha you’ll find Leure, Scenic, The EL and Charlie Chan. Tickets are on sale via Moshtix. Monarchy, Craig Hollywood, Emerald Cabal & Reece Walker, James A and J K Robert. Headlining the show is none other than Glasgow’s Alex Smoke the Soma producer who’ll take the WAMi Festival after-party to the next level. Head to wam.asn.au for more info.
MAD SKILLZ
Andy Stott Kry Wolf
TECHNO MADNESS
Get set for a double dose of techno in November thanks to I.C.S.S.C who’s bringing hot German DJ, Shed for a show at Ambar on Thursday, November 14 and UK boundary-pushing producer, Andy Stott who’ll play at Gilkisons on Friday, November 22. Local supports across the two shows include Everyteen, Mono Lisa, Craig Hollywood, Allstate, Strunk DJs, Raaghe, Ourobonic Plague, Craig McElhinney and Chris Cobilis. Double pass tickets for both shows are on sale through Ticket Booth.
BEHIND THE DECKS
SUMO SOUNDS
Lewis Darvill and Bill Francis aka UK underground house duo, Kry Wolf, are in Perth for a show at Parker this Friday, October 25. With a style spanning house, garage, techno, grime and electronica, they’re the masterminds behind the label, Sounds Of Sumo and a big names in the clubs of south coast England. Special guests on the night include Zeke, Rekab, Ben T, Bazil Zemplys and Deadweight Crew. It kicks off at 11pm and tickets are on sale at the door. Raddest DJ trick? I’m not really into tricks as such, but I do a lot of my own remixes as well as remixing on the fly and I like to use things that no one else is, stuff people know but would never think of - whether it be just a tiny sample or an entire a capella. You could say my sets are unpredictable but always crowd pleasing!
» JASON DEWEY » FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ THE DUSK LOUNGE » SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 @ THE SAINT GEORGE
ICONA POP
THIS IS… ICONA POP RECORD COMPANY TEN / WARNER We have a cat at home. Occasionally we’ll hear it have epic battles with the cat next door, complete with hissing and screeching. Listening to This Is… Icona Pop was not a dissimilar experience. Ok, sorry; a bit harsh. I guess a fundamental issue with reviewing is the fact that music, art and food are a subjective experience, so given I’ve stated my personal feelings toward the Swedish duo’s debut album let me attempt a less biased review. This is the album that gave us the onecstasy, upbeat single, I Love It. It was incredibly popular and (on its own…listened to in separate to the rest of the album) is delightful. It is a giant ‘fuck you’ to either an ex-boyfriend or daddy (depending on your interpretation) that has given rise to the ethos of ‘I don’t care’ (cue: ‘look at all the fucks I give’ memes). The duo’s vocals, as they admittedly are in most songs, are fantastic, flawlessly together and not outshone by the blasting synth pop they’re backed up with. However, too much of this and you have nauseating-children-screaming-sounds. Songs that rate include: All Night, In The Stars and On a Roll but all the other songs sound like they’ve come out of the same mass production machine as Justin Beiber and Miley Cyrus (in Hannah Montana form). At best, it is joyous. It’s a Starburst lolly bag in sound form – squirting noises equivalent of a unicorn farting. At worst, it’s the kind of album that makes you want to shoot yourself and steal lollipops from happy children. But give it a listen. Decide for yourself. Just not while hung-over. It will be the worst thing for your headache.
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A SAGITTARIUN DREAM RITUAL ELASTIC DREAMS
A Sagittariun is an anonymous UK techno producer who has been releasing music under this name for a couple of years now. From the quality of previous offerings though, it’s patently obvious that he’s been around the scene for a while and Dream Ritual, his first long player under the moniker, shows no due cause to deviate from this theory. What we do know about the artist is that he is from Bristol and the release bears the hallmark of others from that area such as Massive Attack, Roni Size or Eats Everything, in that it showcases the bassline. Seven Locks (In Dub) is crying out to be absorbed through chest-pounding speakers and a haze of dubious smoke and Crystallization, featuring the guitar playing of Skip McDonald (whose skills have been heard on legendary tracks such as The Message and White Lines), is an epic dub-funk track engrossing the listener throughout the whole of its ten minute length. But there is more to the release than simply bottom end, this multi-genre album brings to mind Leftfield’s illustrious debut, Leftism. It swings from the atmospheric soundscapes of Sundial and the summery chill-out of The Mind Has No Time through to the driving techno of V4641 Sgr and the retro breakbeat, tech-house of A Lucid Dream. All in all an engaging listen that offers more than the standard dancefloor fodder, though it would benefit from a vocal or two thrown in.
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Jason Dewey
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL WITH JASON DEWEY Best track to open and close a set with? Opening: Arty - When I see You (Alesso Remix). Closing: Jason Dewey - Feels So Sweet. Tools of your trade? CDJ2000’s, DJM900, Rekordbox and of course my headphones. Favourite new track? Lana Del Rey Vs Cedric Gervais -Young & Beautiful or Hardwell & MAKJ - Countdown. Best track to clean the house to? Above & Beyond - Satellite. It gets the dishes done! Weirdest tune you’ve ever played? I did a remix of Linkin Park that’s pretty tripped-out in the breakdown. It all comes back together after the break but it is funny watching the look on people’s faces. I can only think they are thinking, ‘WTF... he’s playing rock stuff’. (laughs)
Bootleg Brothers
BOOTLEG When: Back For One Night Only at Geisha this Friday between 10pm and 5am. Ethos: Tunes you know in the styles you love bootlegs, mash-ups, bastard pop, party bass, 808 love and party vibes. Expec t to hear: Classic throwbacks recontextualised into post modern, future party jams i.e. bootlegs!
Best country to play in? The Filipinos are the most energetic crowd I have ever had the pleasure of entertaining, no matter what, they are always ready to party.
Next lineup: The (return of the) Bootleg Brothers (Philly Blunt & Ben Mac), Get More, Tom Drummond, The Barons Red, Marko Paulo and Standards Down.
Strangest thing that’s happened while DJing? At Adhoc festival an Olympic gymnast stood on top of a crowd of 15,000 and did a pirouette with a Jason Dewey t-shirt on. I have no idea who lifted her up or how she pulled off the move, but I will never forget it!
Attend if...: Your name is Rod and you like to party; also if your name is not Rod, but you like to party.
Most exciting moment behind the decks? Opening for Tiesto Club Life at AsiaWorld-Expo Hong Kong; a feeling I cannot put into words. 28
SALT NIGHTS OUT
Anything else you’d like to tell us: You have great hair and everyone likes you.
» BOOTLEG: BACK FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY » FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ GEISHA #youshouldreadxpress
BOOKA SHADE IN ZE HOUSE
Everyone knows Booka Shade. Even if you aren’t personally acquainted with the Frankfurt duo Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, you’ve almost certainly had a handsin-the-air moment to In White Rooms or got down and dirty to the simple yet driving groove of Body Language. MORGAN RICHARDS reports. Both In White Rooms and Body Language are hits from Booka Shade’s 1996 album Movements, and they’ve certainly aged well - a well-timed Booka Shade track can still cause admirable devastation on a dancefloor seven years on. The duo are back on Australian soil this month following their rave-reviewed live shows at Summadayze and Field Day at the start of the year. Merziger explains why the pair go to such length to put on a great performance. “In the ‘80s, the DJ stood in the corner of a club behind his turntables and tried to make the people dance. No focus on the DJ at all, the music was the only important thing and the whole light show was on the dancefloor to give the dancers a great feel. “Nowadays the DJ’s play big festival stages or rock venues and because there are no musicians on stage to entertain the people with a great musical performance, you have to give the people something else. That means lights, lasers, visuals; the more the better (not really, in our opinion - blinkyblink massacre!). The expectation has always been, when it comes down to rock or festival stages, that there should be more to see than only two guys behind two laptops because it is boring to watch. It was never meant to be entertaining to watch a DJ playing records.” Nonetheless, Booka Shade are far from boring to watch as mere disc jockeys. This time around they’ll be leaving the drum kit at home and sticking to the clubs to spin tunes from their extensive repertoire of floor-destroyers. And the experience is certainly a lot more than two guys behind laptops.
Booka Shade “Some call what we do as DJs a live show already,” says Merziger. “In general Arno is the DJ in the team, he plays the music and I improvise and play along to the music with a Kaoss Pad, little Korg synth, Machinedrum and other little toys. We always need a bit of an artistic approach and a level of performance otherwise it’s boring for us.” Merziger adds cheekily that he’s usually on vibe man duties: “I’m quite good at clapping my hands together and waving with my right arm too (still practicing with the left one in front of the mirror).” He is happy to announce that the duo recently finished their latest album, Eve. “It was a long and painful journey but we’re very happy with the result and can’t wait to present the new music live. We’ll come back with the new live show to Australia next year for sure.” As if that isn’t enough, they’ve also founded a new record label to release their music on. “We came up with the idea to found a new label called Blaufield because we needed a platform to release our music,” continues Merziger. “The new album will be released on this imprint with help from OneLove in Australia and New Zealand. Watch out for our new single Love Inc.”
» BOOKA SHADE » EVE OUT NOVEMBER 1 THROUGH ONELOVE » FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ VILLA (WITH DIGITALISM)
BEN SIMS TECHNO TIME
In the electronic music world Ben Sims receives many plaudits, but what makes him stand out from the crowd is the praise and respect from his peers. ANDREW NELSON catches up with the prolific UK producer and finds out that it’s new music that makes techno’s Big Ben tick. Ben Sims is not a man to rest on his laurels. The producer who has over 50 quality techno releases to his name during a 20 year span, has worked with luminaries such as Tyree Cooper, Blake Baxter, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Kevin Saunderson, A Guy Called Gerald (and soon to be Robert Owens); and is about to turn 40 next year, so he could be forgiven for sitting back and coasting through his DJ engagements and living on past glories, but that’s not the case. “I’m more passionate right now than I have been for years,” says Sims. “There’s so much great music out there and with the new generation of producers/DJs coming through, it’s just a very inspiring and exciting time, I’m not anywhere near ready to hang up my headphones just yet.” Sims came from a hip hop background, getting his first decks at the age of 13 and becoming more involved with the scene as it progressed through acid house and rave, to develop into the go-to-person for quality techno, starring in clubs such as Fabric and Berghain and being involved with nine labels including Hardgroove and Theory. He’s immensely well respected by his contemporaries Derrick May and Jeff Mills endorsed his early work and Kevin Saunderson asked him to help launch the 25th anniversary of KMS Records - but refreshingly he doesn’t dwell on the past. “I could get all misty eyed about the good ol’ days but at the end of day, the first time you experience anything is the most overwhelming, that’s when it’s life changing. For many of the party people on the dance floor, this is their acid house movement, their first wave of techno, their first summer of love and they don’t care about some ol’ geezer harping on about way back when; and if I was just discovering the scene, I wouldn’t either.” He’s carried this ethos forward into his club night and label, Machine, which has a strict www.xpressmag.com.au
Ben Sims policy of new (techno) music only.“The concept was Kirk’s idea (Kirk Degiorgio, co-promoter)”, he explains “but he didn’t have experience running nights, so we joined forces. It’s been a lot of fun and hard work in equal measure. The concept really works and the crowds have been amazing, as have the guest DJs, who are often even stricter with the only unreleased or brand new music theme than we are.” It’s a philosophy he’s going to carry through to his tour down under and it’s the atmosphere rather than the temperature that’s coaxed him over for the second time in 12 months. “It’s definitely not the weather that’s bringing me back; the grey skies of England and a permanent studio tan suit me fine”, he laughs, “it was the vibe at the parties last year that I’m coming back for, it was great, especially after not visiting Aus for many years, so I just wanted to get over there again ASAP. On the tunes front I’m doing my best not to drop the big or obvious tracks I’m associated with and push more new, lesser known stuff, more in keeping with the Machine concept of brand new or unreleased music.”
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SHAPE
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THURSDAY 24/10
Amplifier/Capitol – Harlem Wednesdays The Bakery – Black Market Cabaret The Bird – Back In The Day The Brass Monkey – Victor Captain Stirling – Lokie Shaw Club Red Sea – Cheek Gold Bar - Famous Wednesdays The Grand Central – Fiveo Groove Bar (Crown) – DJ Crazy Craig Leederville Hotel (upstairs) Kreem Leederville Hotel (downstairs) Arena Party The Llama Bar – Akuna Club ft. Silo Mustang Bar - DJ James MacArthur Players Bar - Why Wait Wednesday? ft. DJ Ambadextrus Sovereign Arms – Jordan Scott The Village Bar - Village People Wednesdays The Velvet Lounge – Night of the Cheap Jugs
The Beat (downstairs) - Fantasy Thursdays The Bird – Gooch Palms Album Launch The Causeway - Xport Thursdays Club Bay View - DJ Matty S & DJ Ben Renna Club Red Sea – Candyshop The Craftsman – Fiveo Eve Nightclub - Retro Thursdays ft. DJ Crazy Craig Flyrite – Mulder/ Lilt/ Ssnoob Kalamunda - Grizzly Leisure Inn - DJ Peta Malt - The Collective Mustang Bar - DJ James MacArthur Newport Hotel - Tiki Bar Open Mic Night Ocean One – Lokie Shaw Parker – Atlas Divine 20th Birthday Party ft. Asta/ Boys!Boys!Boys!/ DJ Yon Jovi
Lemon Lime & Biddiss - Saturday, October 26 @ Party For 1, Proximity Festival, PICA Bar
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FRIDAY 25/10 Air Nightclub - VIP Platinum Fridays Ambar – The Hoot ft. Arms In Motion/ Escue Amplifier - Fridays Are Back The Avenue - DJ Lokie Shaw The Aviary - Troy Division/ Paradise Paul/ Tomas Ford The Bakery – Special Brew Music Video Premiere Bar Orient - The Reggae Club The Beat (downstairs) – PLAY The Bird – Rhythmatism @ 33 1/3 The Brass Monkey - Jon Ee & Jordan Scott. C5 – Residence ft. Bass Attics Capitol - Capitol Fridays Capitol (upstairs) - I Love 80’s & 90’s Daily Planet - Sundowner Sessions The Carine – Jimmy Beats T h e C a u s e w ay – Aco u s t i c Sundowner The Como - Armee The Craftsman – Michael Brittliff The Deen - Student Night Dusk Nightclub – Jason Dewey Flawless - Monarch Fridays Flyrite – J:Kenzo
Geisha Bar - Bootleg Brothers/ GET MORE/ The Barons Red/ Marko Paulo/ Tom Drummond/ StandardsDown The Generous Squire – Fiveo Ginger Nightclub - Mondos “Feel Good” Dance Party Gold Bar – Friday Vanity The Good Shepherd – Throwback! The Grand Central – Jay Mackay Groove Bar (Crown) - DJ Crazy Craig Lakers Tavern – Grizzly Library – Sneaky The Manor – The Manor 7 th Birthday Metropolis Freo – House of Horrors ft. Doctor Werewolf/Zeke/ Slumberjack DJ’s/Harlem DJ’s Mojos Bar: Rokwell & Groom Album Launch Mustang Bar - Swing DJ/ Cheeky Monkeys/ DJ James MacArthur My Place - Karaoke Newport - Karaoke Classic with Steve Parkin Paramount – Flyte/ Dj John/ Jordan Players Bar - Hooch The Queens - Reuben Rocket Room - Howlers ft DJ Frank N Bean The Saint – Mikeee Shape Bar: 10 Years Of Exit Records ft. dBridge & SP:MC / Truth Sovereign Arms – Ang3l Velvet Lounge: Village Oblivia: X Villa: Booka Shade & Digitalism YaYa’s - ACE ft DJ Pup
dBridge - Friday, October 25 @ Shape
SATURDAYS
CAUSEWAY
SATURDAY 26/10 Ambar - Japan 4 ft. Mo’Fly/ Tee EL/ Blend/ Philly Blunt/ Bezwun Amplifier - Pure Pop The Aviary – Paradise Paul/ Troy Division The Balmoral - Back To The 80’s Bar 120 – Little Nicky/ Jordan Scott Beat Nightclub (Upstairs) CANVAS The Bird – Usurper of Modern Medicine Single Launch Brass Monkey – DJ Peta & Jordan Scott The Brighton – Squinty C5 Metro Freo - I Love 80s & 90s Capitol - Death Disco ft. Death Disco DJs Capitol (Upstairs) - Cream of the 80s The Causeway - House Party Club Red Sea – Fresh Saturdays The Como – Zeus Rocks East End Bar – Home Flawless – LQ Saturdays Flyrite - FΔMILY Flawless – Cube Geisha Bar – Element ft. Mustard Cutter/ Carla/ Flex Vs Sir Clancalot/ Marko La Kulcha Generous Squire – Defanutly Gold Bar – Saturday Pure Gold The Good Shepherd - Chocolate Jesus The Grand – Jay Mackay Groove Bar (Crown) - DJ Dan Leederville Hotel (downstairs) – Under The Arena Party The Library - DJ Victor / DJ Riki Lost Society - Chalk (indie/ hip hop) Metro Freo – Metropolis Saturdays Newport – Karaoke Classic with Steve Parkin Parker - Parker Saturdays ft. Drifter/ Jackness/ KNO Agents/ Axen/ Subwalker Paramount – Felix/ DJ John / Jordan Pica Bar - Party For 1, Proximity Festival ft. Lemon Lime & Biddiss Players Bar – LUXE The Queens – Kenny L The Saint – Aviji Dey Sovereign Arms – Dazman Villa - Porter Robinson/ ACEBASIK/ Black & Blunt/ Chiari The Whale & Ale – DJ Spinback Wolf Lane - Soulville YaYa’s – Arcadia All Nighter
Mulder - Thursday, October 24 @ Flyrite
SUNDAY 27/10 The Aviary (Rooftop) –Aviary Rooftop Sessions ft. Asta The Court - Technoberfest ft. Ben Sims/DJ Qu Empire Bar - DJ Victor/ DJ Riki Eve Nighclub – DJ Slick Groove Bar (Crown) - DJ Crazy Craig Lakers Tavern - DJ Hages Mustang Bar - DJ Rockin’ Rhys Newport - DJ Tom Drummond Rosemount Hotel – The Get Down The Saint - DJ Jon Ee/ Az-T ft. Jason Dewey
The Queens – Fiveo & Mikeee The Velvet Lounge - RTRFM’s Hotcakes
MONDAY 28/10 Mustang Bar - Triple Shots The Rosemount Hotel - Bada Bingo!
TUESDAY 29/10 Mustang Bar - Danza Loca Salsa Night
Digitalism
BOOKA SHADE & DIGITALISM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ VILLA
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FRAT HOUSE FRIDAYS
METRO FREO
THE COURT
SATURDAYS
AMPLIFER/CAPITOL
IN THE THIS WEEK Atlas Divine 20th Anniversary Party ft. Asta/ Boys!Boys!Boys!/DJ Yon Jovi Thursday, October 24 @ Parker Mulder single launch Thursday, October 24 @ Flyrite Booka Shade & Digitalism Friday, October 25 @ Villa Rokwell & Groom album launch Friday, October 25 @ Mojos Bar The Hoot ft. Arms In Motion/ Escue/ Charlie Chan, Standards Down & Keymist/ Benny B Friday, October 25 @ Ambar
Aerea Negrot Friday, November 1 @ Connections
Tama Sumo & Heatsick Friday, November 15 @ Connections
Lowtec Friday, November 1 @ Geisha
Back 2 The Old Skool Anthems Night ft. Ian M Saturday, November 16 @ Gilkisons
Dialectrix Saturday, November 2 @ Mojos Anton Franc EP Launch Saturday, November 2 @ The Bakery Rainbow Nation ft. Sneaky Sound System/ Didier Cohen/ Sarah McLeod/ Sun City/ Tomas Ford Saturday, November 2 @ Russell Square, Northbridge The Get Down ft. 14KT Sunday, November 3 @ The Rosemount
10 Years Of Exit Records ft. dBridge & SP:MC + Truth Friday, October 25 @ Shape
Getter Friday, November 8 @ Shape
J:Kenzo Friday, October 25 @ Flyrite
Amon Vision: Black & Red Party Friday, November 8 @ Villa
Kry Wolf Friday, October 25 @ Parker
Optiv & BTK Saturday, November 9 @ Villa
ASTA - Aviary Rooftop Sessions Sunday, October 27 @ The Aviary
Container Saturday, November 9 @ The Velvet Lounge
RTRFM’s Hotcakes Sunday, October 27 @ The Velvet Lounge Porter Robinson Saturday, October 26 & 27 @ Villa Technoberfest ft. Ben Sims/ DJ Qu Sunday, October 27 @ The Court Sunday Sessions Summer DJ Superstar Search Sunday, October 27 @ The Claremont Hotel
COMING UP Chet Faker Thursday, October 31 @ ARTBAR Metric Halloween Party Thursday, October 31 @ Villa Andre Crom Thursday, October 31 @ Malt Challenger Ready: Halloween Friday, November 1 @ Ambar
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Alex Smoke Saturday, November 9 @ Geisha WAM Festival’s Saturday Spectacular ft. Bastian’s Happy Flight, Ylem & Dease, The Weapon Is Sounds & more Saturday, November 9 @ venues in Northbridge
Kid Mac Wednesday, November 13 @ Mojos Bar Thursday, November 14 @ Prince Of Wales, Bunbury Friday, November 15 @ YaYa’s Saturday, November 16 @ Settlers Tavern, Margaret River Sunday, November 17 @ Indi Bar Shed Thursday, November 14 @ Ambar
Chic & Nile Rodgers Sunday, December 8 @ The Astor Theatre
The Beaufort Street Festival ft. Lilt, Bastian’s Happy Flight, Anton Franc & more Saturday, November 16 @ Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley
Sets On The Beach ft. Miami Horror/DJ Snake/Alison Wonderland/Fort Knox Five/ Psychemagik/Punks Jump Up Sunday, December 8 Allday @ Scarborough Beach Saturday, November 16 @ The Amphitheatre Bakery Looptroop Rockets/Sage Big Sean Francis Sunday, November 17 @ Wednesday, December 18 Capitol @ Villa Mix Master Mike Friday, November 22 @ Villa Waka Flocka Flame Thursday, December 19 @ Metropolis Fremantle Andy Stott Friday, November 22 @ Dim Mak presents Botnek Gilkisons Friday, December 20 @ Parker Mr Grevis Friday, November 22 @ The Breakfest ft. Stanton Warriors/LTJ Bukem/Plump Rosemount DJs & more Saturday, November 23 @ Thursday, December 26 @ Prince Of Wales, Bunbury Belvoir Amphitheatre Bombs Away & Ivan Gough Salt On The Beach ft. De La Saturday, November 23 @ Soul Metro City Tuesday, December 31 @ North Fremantle Art Department and Jacques Lu Cont ft. Shadow Origin ft. Wiz Khalifa/A$AP Brothers Rocky Sunday, November 24 @ Tuesday, December 31 @ Parker Ozone Reserve Stereosonic Saturday, November 30 and Sunday, December 1 @ Claremont Showgrounds
WAM Festival’s Night The Bamboos Visions Saturday, November 9 @ Geisha Thursday, December 5 @ Capitol and The Bakery Chela Sunday, November 10 @ The Bird
15th Annual Perth Dance Music Awards Sunday, December 8 @ The Court
SCNDL Friday, December 6 @ Parker Todd Terry Saturday, December 7 @ Geisha Bar
Cuban Club ft. De La Soul/ DJ Yoda Wednesday, January 1 @ The Flying Squadron Yacht Club Club Paradiso ft. Bag Raiders & Yacht Club DJs Wednesday, January 1 @ Salt On The Beach Cyril Hahn Saturday, January 4 @ The Bakery
Slanted & Enchanted ft. Jon Hopkins/Le1f/Kelpe/Lower Spectrum & more Saturday, December 7 @ The Bakery
St Jerome’s Laneway Festival ft. Cashmere Cat/ Earl Sweatshirt/ Four Tet/ Jamie XX Saturday, February 8 @ Esplanade Park & West End, Fremantle
Natural NZ Music Festival ft. Kora, Nesian Mystik, Optimus Gryme & more Saturday, December 7 @ Red Hill Auditorium
Future Music ft. Deadmau5/ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/ Phoenix/ Hardwell Sunday, March 2 @ Arena Joondalup
LOWER SPECTRUM
SONIC ADVENTURES Omega Is The Alpha/ Leon Osborn/LOWER SPECTRUM The Bird Thursday, October 17, 2013 Entering the intimacy of The Bird on Thursday night and taking a seat amongst the candlelit kegs, the space paralleled the feeling of calm one takes for granted in your own lounge room. Though watching Omega Is The Alpha, the first supporting act for Lower Spectrum’s album launch, it began to feel like his weird lounge room. Experimenting with sound bites vaguely reminiscent of old gothic movies, the mish mash of the demonic came off a little strange, especially with the projection of traumatic imagery. Next up was Fremantle’s Leon Osborn, a humble guy with big tunes, producing music that walks the thin line between thoughtfulness and fun. Although The Bird was quiet, the dancing started as he slowly built and amplified whatever energy was dispersed amongst the group. Lowe r S p e c t r u m’s Little Appeal i s a progressive album, and with that comes the apprehension of watching it live. There’s not only the risk of losing the many intricacies integral to the feeling of the record, but unveiling its construction could lose its allure. Despite slight sound glitches at the beginning, Lower Spectrum allayed both of these concerns quickly. Starting with Invocation he gave the audience the gift of his harp, threading serenity into an expansive sound. Moving seamlessly towards Erasing Form, this track raised energy and anticipation, reinforcing Little Appeal as an impressive release. With its tinkles of far away sounds and captivating beats the anticipation of the audience was answered with Isometric. This is a track that’s even more addictive live. The pretty strings of Hollow enchanted the crowd to come in closer, punctuating the soundscape with movement. The Tuscan sounds of Estuary were sublime, the piano and opera bringing Lower Spectrum’s aka Ned Beckley’s world views into a higher realm. Beckley layered this track in a way that manipulated the audience to feel what he felt, pausing and reflecting on previous tracks, bringing them all together, not letting them simply rise then fall.
Lower Spectrum. Photo by Daniel Craig Watching live electronica can be comparable to watching someone think really intently, kind of like in the film, Garden State when Sam notices Andrew lost in thought; she asks, ‘You’re in it right now, aren’t you?’ Artist’s who are ‘in it’ while performing invites us into their minds as they express their creation as an extension of themselves. Beckley certainly has many thoughts running through his head; however, instead of them coming across as a jumbled mess he expresses his train of thought in a cohesive form. It is obvious Lower Spectrum’s sonic collages were inspired by Beckley’s travel adventures. Little Appeal sounds like a diary of wanderings, a musical culmination of his experiences. His delivery of these songs encourages the audience to reflect on this adventure with him, making them feel like they were there in real time. The present escaped the audience as these tracks connected to another time and place, every song offering an alternative perspective. The mixes of instrumental elements were adjusted by electronic skills that were enviable, and Beckley managed to balance these elements into a consistency that built and delivered. Furthering the album in affect, Lower Spectrum went beyond live expectations and delivered a satisfying performance.
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OH WHITE MARE Doctopus/Apache/Erasers The Rosemount Friday, October 18, 2013 Those who stayed outside with the starkly different, dance/pop music instead of joining in the rocky, bluesy, country, garage band, indie, electro soundscape of musical delights inside at the OWM EP launch party should be kicking themselves right now for missing out on a talent filled show. Electronic two-piece Erasers were the first delightful cab off the rank, treating the crowd to a very special soundtrack often reminiscent of Dead Can Dance. The light and airy melodies created with guitar, loops, keys and samplers shifted into spatial, atmospheric hums and beats, with emotive almost Arabic-like vocals. This intriguing sound was well received by their peers, who experienced the experimental vibe and probably got the creative juices flowing. Theirs was a set that will be and should be remembered for some time, not to be easily erased. The lively bunch of feisty and frenetic rockers, Apache brought piles of energy into the night, with their raucous, Strokes-esque vocalist thrashing around to the point of getting tied up in the mic chord. But that certainly was not going to slow these guys down any, and as the beefy drums kicked it up a notch, some drawl was added to the vocals, fitting in nicely with their dirtier, grungy moments. Their final song of the set began with some creative rim shot drumming, which sounded like
LITTLE SKYE Oh White Mare - Photo by Matt Jelonek a bug scuttling eerily across the stage. This was offset perfectly with the thick as hell, groovy bass tones and the Voodoo Chile chorus riff, Hendrix homage ending. Well known for their relaxed garage band style, those slippery little suckers known as Doctopus, or should I say Dr Chicken as they jokingly renamed themselves for the night, kept up their end of the bargain, displaying some throwaway style, heavier tunes. The band produced an amusing, boisterous, and entertaining set, however the vocal precision did take the back seat in exchange for some of the antics and more intricate bass moments. In ye olde hootenanny style, Oh White Mare began their set with a strange yet interesting country rock song, complete with heated monologuing like a drunk, angry Irish man. Both lead and backup singers had an amazing set of pipes, with their strong vocals bouncing off the walls, especially during the Dead Weather style song about obituaries. Oh White Mare really know how to mix it up, with harmonicas, keyboards, and even a tambourine being thrown into the ring. Unable to be tamed into just one genre, the band kept the now dancing crowd on their toes by flitting around from homey, country style songs with brilliant harmonica break downs like Amber Fresh Say’s Don’t Worry, to solid indie rock, and even some grungier rock tunes. Oh White Mare are still a relatively new band, so they are certainly ones to keep an eye on as their music and thoroughly enjoyable live performances progress even further. _ LIANA KELLY
Dead Owls/Flower Mouth/ Children PICA Bar Saturday, October 20, 2013 The PICA Bar seems to be the perfect venue for the grassroots local music scene and its small space was filled with an interesting combination of acts for the launch of Little Skye’s debut single Didn’t Say A Thing. The brain child of front woman Ashby Ransom, who initially performed her original compositions as a solo artist, Little Skye brings together a superlative group of musicians to create something wonderful. The first supporting act for the evening was the fresh faced four piece Children. Their music is certainly not without good intentions as they transitioned from a boppy, pop laced style to a melancholic one reminiscent of The Smashing Pumpkins. Having said this, the vocals were often cringe worthy and attempts at harmony and precision felt lacking. The final song contained flat and entirely unbelievable societal damnations. Flowermouth were next to take the floor level stage and kicked the energy up a notch with a style that was hard to place into a genre box. The wall of distorted riffs were punctuated by a strong effort by the front man’s vocals . Their full sound was packed with emotion and was heavy without being overbearing which is no small feat in PICA bar. Next on the bill were Dead Owls who deserve an especially honourable mention for playing through the squealing fire alarm. Giving no
Little Skye - Photo by Rachael Barrett regard to the ear splitting siren, they cranked up the volume a few notches and their creative force quickly became the focal point. This incredibly tight two piece, consisting of just drummer and guitarist, put on an energetic performance brimming with intensity. Their crunchy sound was paired with clean lines from the vocalist which were let loose into controlled screams at just the right moments. Taking their place quietly on the stage, hindered/helped by a local drunkard, Little Skye took their turn to shine. Little by name by not by nature, the band put on a hugely musical show, making use of interesting timing executed with perfect accuracy. This felt like a very organic culmination of talent as the band slid smoothly between tempos and styles. These swift changes from toe-tapping excitement to head-swaying introspection, combined with the rustic appeal of violinist India Ransom’s abilities, made for an engaging experience. A ridiculously surprising and admittedly wonderful re-imagining of Madison Avenue’s Don’t Call Me Baby was the icing on the cake of a rich and delicious set. Perhaps the only downside to this technically amazing group was the nonchalant and arbitrary nature of Ashby Ransom’s disinterested between track banter. One of the most magical things about free live music is that you are given a room full of energy and, more often than not, a showcase of genuine passion and skill without being asked to give anything but your attention as payment. The returns on this investment were immense and on the back of such a tight offering, it seems that Little Skye are destined for broad horizons. _ JAMES HANLON
OKTOBERFEST The Broken Hill Hotel Saturday, October 19, 2013 Much beer was drunk and many giant steins were clinked when The Broken Hill Hotel pulled out all the stops for their Oktoberfest. Live music, German food and frivolity were the order of the day - along with, of course, as much beer as humanly possible. Photos by Matt Jelonek
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YaYa’s celebrates its third birthday this Saturday, October 26! It’s going to be a massive night with a free gig featuring The Midnight Mules, Pat Chow, This Friday, October 25, The Beat hosts four local Three Hands One Hoof, Burst And Bloom and talents including The Lake And The River, 88 To Mossy Fogg (ft. Turin Robinson). Come down and Yesterday, The MDC and Tuxedo Pig. Doors 8pm. celebrate what’s been an amazing year of live music, Saturday, Runaways borrows Vices (NSW) while kicking off from 6:30pm they’re over here to support Saviour on their album launch, with additional support from Ruthless. Doors 10pm. This Saturday, October 26, our favourite blues explosion Blue Shaddy are back playing their monthly residency. Tickets are $20 on the door. Thursday, October 24, The Panics frontman Jae Laffer Sunday, October 27, local groove soul artist Malachi plays his just released album, When The Iron Glows Wehipeihana brings his band with him. Joining him Red. However, don’t expect Jae with just his guitar; on the night is Turin Robinson. this album has a full band sound throughout and contains Jae’s trademark subtle yet undeniable vocal hooks. Supports on the night are Karl Smith - yes, he of Thermos Cardy and Sodastream fame - and This Wednesday, October 23, catch Vida Cain Georgia Fair. Presale tickets are $20 plus booking and guests, while on Thursday night it’s Hyte, fee through Oztix, or $25 at the door on the night Welcome The Wildfire and more. Friday night from 8pm. catch local metalcore heroes Saviour launch their new album, and Saturday catch Lights Of Berlin launching their new EP. Sunday Finnish folk-metallers Korpiklanni hit the stage, Monday it’s US stoner doom metal band Sleep This Saturday, October 26, it’s the massive and Tuesday catch UK rock legends The Cribs. Three Of Life show featuring Zyce (Serbia), Ital Doors open 8pm each night, except for Sunday (Chile) and Basic (Israel) plus heaps more. Doors which is 6pm. Head to rosemounthotel.com.au open 8pm and entry is $35. Sunday it’s the for ticket info. monthly Gignition new band showcase featuring Social Madness, Who’s Your Daddy, Foreign Architects, The Heavenly Creatures and Scarlet Therapy. Doors open 4pm and it’s $8 entry. Thursday, October 24, it’s The Gooch Palms Album Launch! The Gooch Palms have just released their debut album, NOVO’s, and will be crossing the Thursday, October 24, Nick Sheppard’s on the decks Nullabor to bring their raucous live show to The once more. Saturday, October 26 DJ T King is on Bird! The Newcastle duo will be supported by Trash duty, while Sunday sees the return of The Limelights House and Night Signals, who’ll be making their debut live performance. Entry is $10 from 8pm. Jazz Trio.
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KATE GILBERTSON Singer/songwriter Kate Gilbertson launches her new EP, Olive Street at Clancy’s Fish Pub, Fremantle, this Thursday, October 24 alongside Patient Little Sister and Natasha Shanks.
Kate Gilbertson used to be on the other end of the artist-critic relationship, eking out a living as an arts journalist (not that there’s anything wrong with that). However, it soon became apparent that she would be much happier creating music rather than writing about it. “Realising that I wanted to be the one on the other end of the phone call was a strong indication for change,” she explains. “Music and writing have always been part of my make up. But when I realised my job as an arts journalist was interviewing artists I had forever longed to be, it became very clear to me I was on the wrong end of the line.” Her live debut came in April 2012 when she supported Passenger at the Fly By Night Musician’s Club. Since then she’s gigged around the usual places, honing her skills and building her audience, all leading to her debut EP, Olive Street. “Olive Street is the first chapter of my exploration as a songwriter,” Gilbertson tells us.“The EP captures a series of pivotal moments of change and coming into one’s self. Its folk lineage takes the listener on an intimate journey with lyrical sincerity and engaging melodies.” How the release will fare in the precarious Perth local market is difficult to predict. However, Gilbertson already has plans to spend more time in the recording studio.“Olive Street is the forerunner for a full-length album which I hope to release late next year. Working and playing with a band for the first time, including some of Perth’s finest musicians and an amazing engineer Greg Nosow, has inspired me to already start writing for my full length feature record.”
PUMPING ON YOU STEREO FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN Goth folk-poppers Stereoflower will be celebrating the birthday of their drummer, Dr Blythe, at PICA Bar this Sunday, October 27, and they’d like you to join them. Support comes from FAIM and Limpin’ Dave Foley & The Straight Legged Freaks. Doors at 6pm, entry is free.
Lights Of Berlin want to bring you a Brand New Day - their new EP, that is. It launches at The Rosemount this Saturday, October 26, with a helping hand coming from their mates Here Comes The Cavalry, The Insatiables and The Right Way Up. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10, which snags you a copy of the Brand New Day EP as well.
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A VIEW OF THE BREW
Ska veterans Special Brew have been making goodtime music for almost a quarter century now, and they’ve only just gotten around to making their first music video, In The Borough. See it unveiled in all its glory this Saturday, October 26, at The Bakery, along with dancing from The Beehives Go-Go girls, DJ BenDog on the decks, live body painting from The Salvador Darlings and more! Doors open at 8pm, tickets are $15 through nowbaking.com.au, $17 on the door subject to availability.
TAKE YOUR MEDICINE
Get a healthy does of Usurper Of Modern Medicine at The Bird this Saturday, October 26, when they launch their WAM SOTY-nominated single, Motorolla Borealis, ahead of their planned 2014 LP release. Joining them will be Kucka and Mudlark. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.
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AN EVENING ON THE GREEN
Folk pop provocateurs Edie Green release their new single, Southern Palms, at YaYa’s this Friday, October 25. Also along for the ride are Golden String, Flower Drums and Three Hands One Hoof. Doors at 8pm, entry is $10.
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GOING UNDERGROUND
Perth’s newest live music venue gets inaugurated this Saturday, October 26, when Upstairs Underground throws open its doors! The Astor have converted their upstairs cinema into a music space dubbed The Astor Lounge and French Rockets, FAIM, Dead Owls and Depth Boys will be popping its cherry from 8pm. Entry is free!
24/10/2013 Kate Gilbertson Olive Street EP Launch @ Clancy’s Fremantle 25/10/2013 Edie Green Southern Palms Single Launch @ YaYa’s 25/10/2013 Rokwell & Groom New Parts Album Launch @ Mojos 25/10/2013 Sensory Amusia Disrepair Album Launch @ Amplifier 26/10/2013 Lights Of Berlin Brand New Day EP Launch @ The Rosemount 26/10/2013 The Morning Night amberola Album Launch @ The Fremantle Arts Centre 26/10/2013 Special Brew In The Borough Video Launch @ The Bakery 26/10/2013 Usurper Of Modern Medicine Motorolla Borealis Single Launch @ The Bird 02/11/2013 Anton Franc All That Talk EP Launch @ The Bakery 02/11/2013 Cypher One Thousand Birds Album Launch at PICA 02/11/2013 Grace Barbe Welele! Album Launch @ The Fly By Night 07/11/2013 Scalphunter 10” Vinyl EP Launch @ C5 15/11/2013 Leeches Lords Of Dullsville Album Launch @ 459 Bar 15/11/2013 Mezzanine Strange Paradise Album Launch @ Amplifier 22/11/2013 Rag N’ Bone Single Launch @ PICA Bar 23/11/2013 Our Man In Berlin Airhead Single Launch @ Flyrite 20/12/2013 Kristie Smith The Bunny Boiler Album Launch @ The Fly Trap
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SIMPLE PLAN Hearts Out
While the rest of Australia gets a one-hour festival set from Simple Plan on the Vans Warped tour, Perth scores lucky with a full headlining show at Challenge Stadium on Tuesday, December 3, supported by Tonight Alive. SHANE PINNEGAR checks in with rhythm guitarist, Sébastien Lefebvre. Sébastien Lefebvre reckons that Australia is “one of our favourite places in the world - it’s like a nicer Canada, with beaches everywhere, so it’s always fun to come there. “On Warped we’re playing for an hour, ” he explains with no little enthusiasm, “and with four albums, we’re pretty much playing all the stuff that’s been on the radio, so people can pretty much sing everything from top to bottom. With a headlining set you can throw in an album track here and there, put in some fan favourites. We play for almost two hours when we headline, and we always pull out the acoustic guitars and jam out a few songs towards the end of the set, so it’s a little bit more intimate. It’s fun.” In contrast to the ‘sex, drugs & rock n’ roll’ cliché of a touring rock band, Lefebvre says the show is too important to compromise like recent history’s wild figures of rock might have. “Maybe some bands still do the ‘80s way,” he says, dismissively, “but it’s not the same
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any more. I have this crazy theory and I might be completely wrong, but I have a feeling that most bands back then weren’t that great live, but there’s no way of knowing ‘cause YouTube wasn’t around. And because they partied all night long, they just didn’t deliver onstage, but everybody was still having a good time at the shows so noone noticed. “Nowadays, if you go out and party every night and you step on stage, you’re done - you’re finished - no-one’s gonna come see you again. So it’s always been very important for us to be professional and to give the fans what they want.” That’s hardly a surprise for a band who formed The Simple Plan Foundation in 2005 to ‘help young people in need [and support] the victims of life threatening illnesses.’ The band use their foundation as a real force for good, and something they can be justifiably proud of. “We do have the Foundation,” Lefebvre agrees, “that has grown over the years and we’re very proud that we can make a difference, even if it’s small in some cases in some people’s lives, and it’s part of who we are in the band now.” Having toured their fourth album, Get Your Heart Out, for over two years now, Lefebvre says they are finally getting around to writing some new material for release hopefully next year. “ The next album is at very early stages, but coming along good,” he explains. “We have some songs that got left off Get Your Heart On that we’re gonna release as an EP hopefully before Christmas. In the meantime we’re writing, and we’re the type of band who really takes their time to write.” There’s also a DVD in the works that Simple Plan have taken their time editing and mixing. “We’re kinda slow, I guess,” Lefebvre laughs. “A year-and-a-half ago we were in Australia, and we had such amazing shows that we filmed a couple of them and we’re just finishing putting them together now.”
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The Amity Affliction, October 26 - 27 AURORA JANE 6 Mojos 7 Indi Bar EVERY TIME I DIE 9 White Star Tavern BEYONCE 24 Amplifier 8 & 9 Perth Arena THE GOOCH USELESS ID PALMS 8 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury 24 The Bird 9 Rosemount Hotel JAE LAFFER LISA MITCHELL/ JOSH 24 Mojos PYKE 9 Wanneroo 25 Astor Theatre Showgrounds BEHEMOTH ONEREPUBLIC 9 Metro City 24 Capitol DREAM ON DREAMER NARISSA 10 Amplifier CAMPBELL 11 YMCA HQ 25 Ellington Jazz SCOTT KELLY AND THE ROAD HOME Club 10 Rosemount Hotel WOLF & CUB LEONARD COHEN 26 Amplifier 13 Perth Arena DANCE GAVIN DANCE THE AMITY 13 Amplifier AFFLICTION BLACK REBEL 26 Metro City MOTORCYCLE CLUB 13 Metro Freo 27 Metro Freo KID MAC MATT CORBY 13 Mojos 27 Fremantle Arts 14 Prince Of Wales, Centre Bunbury 15 YaYa’s TELEVISION 16 Settlers Tavern, 28 Fly By Night Margaret River 17 Indi Bar SLEEP SINCERELY, GRIZZLY 28 Rosemount 14 Newport Hotel Hotel 15 Amplifier THE CRIBS BODYJAR 15 Rosemount Hotel 29 Rosemount 16 Prince Of Wales, Hotel Bunbury ANDRE RIEU THE MEMBERS 16 Rosemount Hotel 29 Perth Arena BEAUFORT STREET OCTOBER FESTIVAL TONY HADLEY 16 Beaufort Street 30 Astor Theatre DAN SULTAN 5IVE 16 Fly By Night 30 Metro Freo 17 Ellington Jazz Club CHET FAKER THE RED JUMPSUIT 31 ARTBAR APPARATUS THE BREEDERS 17 Villa Nightclub 31 Astor Theatre BIG SEAN ENSLAVED 17 Capitol JILL SCOTT 31 Rosemount Hotel 17 Riverside Theatre YELLOWCARD AN EVENING ON THE 31 Capitol GREEN VIOLENT SOHO Hoodoo Gurus, You 31 Mojos Bar Am I, The Whitlams, LIMP BIZKIT Dave Graney & The 31 Metro City Mistly, Rainy Day NOVEMBER Women VIOLENT SOHO 16 Kings Park & 1 Amplifier Botanic Garden YACHT ROCK BALL AN EVENING ON THE 1 Fremantle Town Hall GREEN SHEPPARD Bernard Fanning, 1 Leisure Inn The Cruel Sea, Sarah 2 Amplifier Blasko, Bob Evans 3 Mojos 17 Kings Park & EL VEZ/ JORDAN C Botanic Garden THOMAS BAND NILE 2 Devilles Pad 17 Amplifier BABY ANIMALS SARAH BLASKO 2 Astor Theatre 18 Fremantle Arts JESSICA MAUBOY Centre Courtyard 2 Perth Arena IAN BALL(GOMEZ) BLUEJUICE 18 Mojos 2 Capitol 19 PICA Bar 3 Prince Of Wales, TEX PERKINS Bunbury 19 Fremantle Arts THE SEEKERS Centre Courtyard 2 & 3 Riverside Theatre BELINDA CARLISE & PITBULL & KEI$HA 1927 5 Perth Arena 20 Astor Theatre
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Yellowcard, October 31 THE BELLRAYS 21 Fly By Night BOY & BEAR 22 Metro Freo 23 Astor Theatre JEDWARD 23 Regal Theatre FLEETWOOD MAC 22 & 23 Perth Arena HITS & PITS 2.0 Black Flag, Boysetsfire, Bad Astronaut, Snuff, No Fun At All, Good For You, Off With Their Heads, Jughead’s Revenge 24 Amplifier & Capitol MOONSORROW 24 Rosemount Hotel EROS RAMAZZOTTI 23 Challenge Stadium I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN 27 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury 28 Players Bar 29 YMCA HQ 30 Amplifier 1 Newport THE ATARIS 29 Amplifier STEREOSONIC 30 Claremont Showgrounds BIRDS OF TOKYO 29 Metro Freo MUSE 30 Perth Arena SCREAMING JETS 30 Astor Theatre
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KATAKLYSM 8 Rosemount Hotel SETS ON THE BEACH 8 Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE 10 Astor Theatre TAYLOR SWIFT 11 Perth NIB Stadium STEEL PANTHER 12 Metro City ARCHIE ROACH 12 Fremantle Arts Centre Courtyard 13 Quarry Amphitheatre POND 12 Metro Freo BON JOVI 12 Perth Arena CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES 14 Rosemount Hotel THE NERVE 19 Mojos WAKA FLOCKA FLAME 19 Metro Freo HUMAN NATURE 20 Perth Zoo SMOKE MY TOUR FlipTrix, Dirty Dike, Jam Baxter, Ed Scissortounge and DJ Sammy B-Side 24 Metro Freo BREAKFEST 2013 26 Belvoir Amphitheatre DE LA SOUL 31 Salt On The Beach
BRUCE STRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND 5,7,8 Perth Arena LANEWAY FESTIVAL 8 Fremantle THE NATIONAL 14 Belvoir Amphitheatre DOLLY PARTON 27 Perth Arena BRUNO MARS 28 Perth Arena
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FUTURE MUSIC Deadmau5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phoenix, Hardwell, Knife Party, Eric Prydz, Rudimental, Tinie Tempah, Chase & Status 2 Arena Joondalup THE WONDER STUFF 2 Rosemount Hotel SOUNDWAVE Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Rob Zombie, Megadeth, Placebo and more! 3 Claremont Showgrounds BRIAN MCKNIGHT 7 Riverside Theatre BILLY BRAGG 8 Perth Concert Hall DECEMBER QUEENS OF THE I KILLED THE PROM STONE AGE & NINE QUEEN INCH NAILS JANUARY 1 Newport Hotel 11 Perth Arena SCREAMING JETS DE LA SOUL/DJ YODA JOSH PYKE 1 Wintersun Hotel, 1 Cuban Club (Flying 12 Quarry Geraldton Squadron Yacht Amphitheatre SIMPLE PLAN Club, The Esplanade, KATE MILLER-HEIDKE 3 Challenge Stadium Dalkeith) 21-22 Quarry MARTHA DAVIS & SOUTHBOUND Amphitheatre THE MOTELS !!!, Bonobo, Crystal DARK TRANQUILLITY 4 Astor Theatre Fighters, Grizzly & ORPHEUS OMEGA ALICIA KEYS Bear, Horrorshow, 5 Perth Arena Johnny Marr, London 25 Capitol 30 SECONDS TO THE BAMBOOS Grammar, MGMT, 5 Capitol Neil Finn, The Roots, MARS THE MELVINS & Vampire Weekend 25 Challenge Stadium HELMET and more! HUNTER & 6 Metro Freo 3-4 Sir Stewart Bovell COLLECTORS NATURAL NZ MUSIC Park, Busselton, WA 29 (sold-out) & 30 FESTIVAL WATAIN Kings Park & Botanical 7 Red Hill Auditorium 9 Amplifier Garden KYLESA DEAFHAVEN 7 Rosemount Hotel 11 Rosemount Hotel APRIL CAVE DAUGHTERS WEST COAST BLUES 7 Astor Theatre 14 Amplifier N ROOTS JACK JOHNSON PARAMORE Matt Corby, Michael 7 Kings Park 16 Perth Arena Franti, John Mayer, INSANE CLOWN HALF MOON RUN Dave Matthews Band, POSSE 16 Fly By Night Doobie Brothers, Boy 7 Metro Freo MISFITS & Bear CITY AND COLOUR 19 Amplifier 13 Fremantle Park, 7 Belvoir Amphitheatre CELTIC WOMAN Fremantle SLANTED AND 24 Riverside Theatre ENCHANTED WE ARE SCIENTISTS BOZ SCAGGS 7 Astor Theatre/The 14 Crown Theatre 26 Amplifier Bakery MICHAEL BUBLÉ FEBRUARY METRIC 26 & 27 Perth Arena BIG DAY OUT 7 Metro City Pearl Jam, Arcade MAY AIR SUPPLY Fire, Blur, Snoop Lion, JASON DERULO 8 Perth Concert Hall Major Lazer, Tame JUSTIN BIEBER 10 Perth Arena Impala, Flume & 8 Perth Arena JUNE more! CHIC & NILE JAMES BLUNT 2 Claremont RODGERS 8 Astor Theatre Showgrounds 13 Riverside Theatre
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The Bonekickers, Wednesday at Mojos
WEDNESDAY 23.10 AMPLIFIER Academy Hellions Monuments Dropbears Protest BAKERY Black Market Cabaret BAR 120 Felix BAR ORIENT Karaoke BIRD Back In The DayYay Jack Doepel Sleepyhead Raaghe Capelas BRASS MONKEY Sugar Blue Burlesque CARINE Open Mic Night Chris Gibbs CLAREMONT HOTEL Acoustica GREENWOOD Bernardine ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jazz Graduation Recital Conan Greenway Valerio Fiorini Tyler Michie Night Cap Sessions GROOVE BAR (CROWN) 5 Shots INDI BAR Paul McCarthy LOBBY LOUNGE (CROWN) Decoy Duo LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan MOJOS BAR MattyTWall Andy Newman The Bonekickers Foreign Architects MOON CAFÉ Going Solo Amber Fresh Grant Touchell Sean McIllroy MUSTANG BAR Kickstart DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT HOTEL Full Moon Party PADDO Room For Reason GFH Matt Waring ROSEMOUNT Vida Cain Lionizer Ichora Sundström
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UNIVERSAL Retriofit VELVET LOUNGE The De Niros Gloria Ironbox Potent Remedies THE VIC Leighton Keepa VILLAGE BAR Village People - Open Mic X-WRAY CAFÉ Mario McClean Molly Black YAYA’S Chilling Winston Celebrator Dingbats Adam Dwyer
THURSDAY 24.10 AMPLIFIER Every Time I Die Chainsaw Hookers Statues BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) Fantasy Thursdays BALMORAL Howie Morgan BAR ORIENT Open Mic Night THE BIRD The Gooch Palms Trash House Night Signals THE BOAT Jen de Ness Duo BRASS MONKEY Rhythm Bound Karaoke BRIGHTON Open Mic Night Rob Walker BROOKLANDS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke CAPITOL Behemoth Hour Of Penance THE CAUSEWAY BAR Xport Thursdays DEVILLES PAD Rock’n’Roll Karaoke DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Open Mic Night Pat Nicholson ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW Distant Sun ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Manteca Night Cap Sessions FLYRITE Mulder Lilt Ssnoob
THE GATE Greg Carter GRAND CENTRAL PARK Bernardine GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Decoy INDI BAR Bex’s Open Mic Night LANEWAY LOUNGE Nicola Milan Trio LUCKY SHAG James Wilson MARKET CITY TAVERN Original Night Nathan Mayers Jeff Smith Kathryn McCarthy Dave Contra Maegan Johnson Michael John Jason Ng MOJOS BAR Jae Laffer Karl Smith Georgia Fair MOON CAFÉ Them Sharks MUSTANG BAR The Coronal Sky Special Guests DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT HOTEL Tiki Bar Open Mic Night NORTH FREMANTLE BOWLS CLUB The String Beans ROSEMOUNT HOTEL HYTE Welcome The Wildfire Oakland Shimmergloom SETTLERS TAVERN Acoustic Open Mic Night Claire Warnock SWALLOW BAR Nick Sheppard UNIVERSAL Off The Record VELVET LOUNGE The Brown Study Band Battle Of The Planets Nevsky Prospekt Potent Remedies THE VIC Harry Moore X-WRAY CAFÉ The Jack Doepel Jazz Quartet YAYA’S The Kin Timothy Nelson and the Infidels Kisshead Mercia Wise YMCA HQ Hellions Ruthless Hollow Ground Never Settle
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AMPLIFIER Sensory Amusia Advent Sorrow Darkenium THE ALBION Jen De Ness Trio THE ASTOR Jae Laffer Georgia Fair Karl Smith BALMORAL Shades Of Indigo BAR ORIENT The Reggae Club The Empressions Sista Che Mumma Trees
Shimmergloom, Thursday at The Rosemount Hotel
BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) The Lake And The River 88 to Yesterday The MDC Tuxedo Pig The Black Fridays BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) PLAY BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Feisty Burlesque Voudou Zazou BELMONT TAVERN Adrian Wilson BEST DROP TAVERN Pretty Fly THE BIRD Rhythmatism Raaghe Tom Ireland THE BOAT Ben Merito THE BOAB TAVERN Frenzy BRASS MONKEY Acoustic Aly BROKEN HILL HOTEL Trevor Jalla THE BROOK Jamie Powers THE BROOKLANDS TAVERN Jetpack THE CARINE Velvet CAVES HOUSE Sophie Jane Duo CHARLES HOTEL Beatles Stones Tribute CHASE BAR & BISTRO James Wilson CITRO BAR Dove CLANCYS FREMANTLE Simon Marks CORNERSTONE ALEHOUSE Madam Montage CURRAMBINE BAR & BISTRO Grant Hart CRUISING YACHT CLUB Kat Kinley DEVILLES PAD The Phillyharmonics Les Sataniques Vintage Reds Burlesque Mondo Inferno DJs DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Northern Muse EAST 150 BAR Anthony Neives ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW Darren Reid & the Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Narissa Campbell The Spread EMPIRE BAR Howie Morgan THE FLY BY NIGHT Robert Zielinski Morris and the Cuttlefish FREMANTLE RECORDING STUDIOS These Winter Nights Villain Apache Hunting Huxley Curtis McEntee THE GATE Dirty Scoundrels GOSNELLS HOTEL Chris Gibbs Trio
THE GREENWOOD Greg Carter GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Tod Johnston & Peace Love HYDE PARK HOTEL The Hitman INDI BAR Vdelli KALAMUNDA HOTEL Almost Famous KULCHA Del Fuego with Cathie Travers LANEWAY LOUNGE Brenda Lee Trio Hans Fiance M ON THE POINT Retriofit MAHOGANY INN Justin Cortorillo METRO FREO House Of Horrors Doctor Werewolf Zeke Slumberjack DJs Harlem DJs MOJOS BAR Rokwell & Groom Fall Electric Lower Spectrum Leon Osborn & Empty MUSTANG Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys Swing DJ Cheeky Monkeys DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT HOTEL Karaoke Classic NORTH FREMANTLE BOWLS CLUB Ibis Elm Blowhole In Orbit Sprawl PADDO Easy Tigers PEEL ALE HOUSE Indi: Rocky Horror Show Tribute PICA BAR Tenderhooks The JAC Josh Fontaine PORT KENNEDY TAVERN One Trick Phonies THE PRINCIPAL The Mojos RENDEZVOUS HOTEL Karin Page ROCKET ROOM Kickstart ROLEYSTONE COUNTRY CLUB Adam James ROSEMOUNT Saviour Vices Still Water Claims This Existance ROSIE O’GRADYS FREMANTLE GrooVe SAIL AND ANCHOR Howie Morgan Duo SAIL AND ANCHOR (UPSTAIRS) NightShift SETTLERS TAVERN Simon Kelly & The Big Bamboo SOUTH ST ALEHOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Die Hard Karaoke SWAN HOTEL (BASEMENT) Psychokinetic Gone By Morning
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Ibis Elm, Friday at The North Fremantle Bowls Club Cothe Social Madness SWINGING PIG Big Steve Spouse Band Greg Carter UNIVERSAL Nightmoves VELVET LOUNGE Village Oblivia: X WINSTERSUN HOTEL Warwick Trant YAYA’S Edie Green Three Hands One Hoof Flower Drums Duo YMCA HQ BLKOUT The Others Vanity Foxes Flowermouth Heath Legend
SATURDAY 26.10 AMPLIFIER Wolf & Cub Doctopus ASTOR LOUNGE French Rockets FAIM Dead Owls Depth Boys BALMORAL Retriofit THE BAKERY Special Brew Music Video Premiere BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) CANVAS BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) Runaways Vices Ruthless BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Mike Nayar BIRD Usurper of Modern Medicine Kucka Mudlark BOAB TAVERN James Wilson THE BROOKLANDS TAVERN Carbon Taxi THE CIVIC BACKROOM Psychonaut Legs Electric Cavalier Smokin Aces THE CLAREMONT HOTEL ANTICS Seams Golden String Dan Firkin Trio Lukas Wimmler CORNERSTONE ALEHOUSE All Star Show Stoppers CURRAMBINE BAR & BISTRO Hale & Pacemaker DEVILLES PAD Herb Alpert Trumpet Fiesta Les Sataniques Moogy & Cheeba Cheeba DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Travis Caudle EAST 150 BAR Jonny Dempsey ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW Desert Bells ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Blanche DuBois Hornography The Return
Tenderhooks, Friday at PICA Bar
FLY BY NIGHT Bantus Capoeira FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE The Morning Night Warning Birds Flower Drums THE GATE Greg Carter GILKISONS DANCE STUDIO Halloween 2013 AR12 The Spitfires Epignosis Eschaton Hive GOSNELLS HOTEL Light Street GREENWOOD After Hours HOTEL ROTTNEST Sophie Jane HYDE PARK HOTEL Howie Morgan Project INDI BAR Blue Shaddy INDIAN OCEAN BREWING CO Shawne & Luc KULCHA Juliana Areias LAKERS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke LANEWAY LOUNGE Astrid Ripepi Mama Red LOBBY LOUNGE (CROWN) Why Georgia? MERRIWA TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke METRO CITY Amity Affliction M ON THE POINT Rhythm 22 MOJOS BAR Huge Magnet Mt Mountain Blind Tiger Blues Box MUSTANG Bang Bang Betty & The H-Bombs Rockabilly DJ Milhouse DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT HOTEL Karaoke with Steve Parkin NOBLE FALLS TAVERN Little Ebony PADDO Cheeky Monkeys PADDY MAGUIRES Madam Montage PARAMOUNT NIGHTCLUB Felix PEEL ALE HOUSE Velvet & Stone PORT KENNEDY TAVERN Kevin Curran QUARIE BAR & BISTRO One Trick Phonies RAILWAY HOTEL Three Of Life Zyce Ital Basic Sam Wise Kilian Al Star Ilusha Psymon vs Daniel Sun ROSIE O’GRADYS FREMANTLE Flava ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Lights Of Berlin Here Come the Cavalry The Insatiables The Right Way Up
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SAIL & ANCHOR The Mojos SETTLERS TAVERN Tired Lion Apache THE SHED Huge SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Die Hard Karaoke SWALLOW BAR DJ T King SWAN LOUNGE Kickstart Cadillacs Trampods Half Stack SWAN HOTEL (BASEMENT) Violet Scene Odlaw Tumble Like Alice Crawjaw SWINGING PIG Jetpack Greg Carter UNIVERSAL Soul Corporation YAYA’S Turin Robinson Burst and Bloom Three Hands One Hoof Pat Chow The Midnight Mules YMCA HQ Afternoon Sensory Amusia The Hazard Circular Animistic Reflections of Ruin Xenobiotic Night
SUNDAY 27.10 BALMORAL Electrophobia BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Triple Shots BELMONT TAVERN Dove THE BIRD Stereoflower FAIM Limpin’ Dave Foley and His Straight Legged Freaks THE BRIGHTON Ricky Green BROOKLANDS TAVERN Gerry Azor THE CARINE Jonny Dempsey THE CAUSEWAY Accoustic Sunday CIVIC HOTEL Mike Nayar COMO HOTEL Velvet CLANCYS FREMANTLE The Zydecats DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Kris Buckle ELEPHANT AND WHEELBARROW Desert Bells ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jordie Lane THE FLY TRAP (FLY BY NIGHT) Stage Fright Open Mic FLY BY NIGHT Natya FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Matt Corby Bear’s Den THE GATE Jamie Powers HYDE PARK HOTEL Steve Parkin
Psychonaut, Saturday at The Civic Hotel
INDI BAR Malachi Wehipeihana Turin Robinson INDIAN OCEAN BREW CO Retriofit KALAMUNDA HOTEL Kizzy KULCHA Heartsong LAKERS TAVERN Wesley Goodlet Jamboree Scouts METRO FREO Amity Affliction (U18) Chelsea Grin Stick To Your Guns In Hearts Wake M ON THE POINT Nathan Gaunt MOJOS BAR Datura Cal Peck and the Tramps Red Mexico MUSTANG Tailgate Sundays Some Like It Yacht Patient Little Sister DJ Holly Doll Blue Gene DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT HOTEL Wolf & Cub PEEL ALE HOUSE Sophie Jane QUARIE BAR & BISTRO Darren Gibbs RAILWAY HOTEL Gignition Social Madness Who’s Your Daddy Foreign Architects The Heavenly Creatures Scarlet Therapy ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Korpiklaani Wrath of Fenrir Silent Knight THE SAINT Howie Morgan Project Matt Angel SEAVIEW TAVERN Jean Proude SETTLERS TAVERN Michelle Spriggs Trio SOUTH ST ALEHOUSE Blackhart & Strangelove SWALLOW BAR The Limelights Jazz Trio SWINGING PIG Pat Nicholson Steve Hepple UNIVERSAL Retrofit WANNEROO TAVERN Chris Gibbs WHISTLING KITE James Wilson
MONDAY 28.10 BRASS MONKEY Wire Birds XBOX Mondays ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Chamber Jam October FLY BY NIGHT Television The Morning Night Duo MOJOS BAR Wide Open Mic MUSTANG BAR Triple Shots ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Sleep The Devil Rides Out Bayou THE SAINT Celebration Karaoke YAYA’S Big Tommo’s Open Mic Night
TUESDAY 29.10 BRASS MONKEY Open Mic Night Josh Terlick THE COURT Open Mic Night THE CRAGIE TAVERN Open Mic Night GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Jack -& Jill ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jazz Graduation Recital Murray Bishop Oliver Christie Sorcha Alberquerque Sarah Ramsey KALAMUNDA HOTEL Open Mic Anthony Kay LOBBY LOUNGE (CROWN) Hans Fiance MERRIWA TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke MOJOS BAR Collections Hideous Sun Demon Eerie Serpent Lucidity Mad Rabbit MUSTANG BAR Danza Loca Salsa Night PERTH ARENA Andre Rieu ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Cribs The Love Junkies YAYA’S The Painkillers Trash House Alexander Peter Pander Leon Ewing Owen Wynn-Rees
These Winter Nights
THESE WINTER NIGHTS
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Six bad habits you can’t escape: Writing seemingly aimlessly, seeing faces in everything, seeing humans in other humans, buying bottles of whisky, buying groceries, drinking water.
Ten bands everyone should know about: The Band, Crazy Horse, The Wiggles, Steve Smyth, Tom Five people who inspire you: Waits, Bob Dylan, The Vengaboys, Band Of Gypsies, Bob Dylan, Robert Redpath, Joshua Wilcox, Chester Arthur Burnett, Orson Welles. Whiting Tennis, Credence Clearwater Revival. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Pickles, red wine, hard boiled eggs (with shell), Swiss cheese, horse radish, almond meal, carrot juice, thickly sliced bread, frozen peas.
Four things that turn you on: Words, sounds, humans, freedom. Three goals for your music: To express, to heal, to live.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget: Bob Dylan at the Hollywood Bowl, Brother Sal at Eight possessions that define you: Love, anger, pain, happiness, pleasure, instinct, Piano Bar. creation, thought. One day left before the apocalypse and you…: Have a Guinness. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape: Georgia Fair support Jae Laffer and Karl Smith this Chopper, Titanic, I’m Still Here, The Godfather, The Thursday, October 24, at Mojos and Friday, October 25, upstairs the Astor Theatre. Godfather 2, Toy Story 3, Life.
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