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Election debate vs Masterchef finale; Midlake vs Richard Ashcroft – ahh, the difficult decisions pelted at us in life can derail the mettle of even the sturdiest P-Towner. Luckily, some things are still pretty straight forward – like, for example, X-Press.

For 25 years we’ve been encouraging you to bury your burdens and let loose – so let’s do it again!

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It’s hard to think about mickeying around in the sunshine at a music festival when it’s currently negative what-have-you outside, but it’s still nice to know there’s some warmth and festival good times on the horizon – so that’s why we’re stoked to hear news that Stereosonic is gearing up for another killer event. Stereosonic has put together a crazy good line-up this year. Trance superstar Tiesto heads the bill, followed closely by electro-pop pin up boy Calvin Harris and techno legend Carl Cox. Dancehall demi-god Diplo brings the sirens with his outfit Major Lazer, and Swedish pop princess Robyn is also ready to bid us Konichiwa, as is BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac. That’s not all: Optimo, Sebastian Ingrosso, Benny Benassi, Wiley, Ricardo Villalobos, Infected Mushroom, Afrojack, Bart B More and a tonne of others are on the Stereosonic 2010 bandwagon.

Where? Sunday, November 28, Claremont Showgrounds; doors open 12pm. Tickets go on sale for $119 plus booking fee (first release price) on Thursday, August 5, from moshtix.com.au, stereosonic.com.au and Moshtix outlets. Now, we just have to make it through the chill and we’ll be laughing!

Hot Water Music

RUNNING WATER

Back in April Chuck Ragan brought his Revival Tour to Australia and thrilled many when he couldn’t keep tight-lipped about a possible return with his band of note, Hot Water Music. And now it’s official: Hot Water Music will tour Australia in December with New Jersey punkers The Bouncing Souls. Catch them on Wednesday, December 8, at the Rosemount Hotel. Tickets are available now through moshtix.com.au and heatseeker.com.au.

REGURGED

Those loveable larrikins, Regurgitator are back on the road this September – and Perth is in aim! After Seja went solo, Quan and Ben relocated to their new home town of Melbourne and have been in the studio recording their first new material since the Love And Paranoia sessions in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. Joining them on tour will be new Melbourne sensations Rat Vs Possum, plus Brisbane’s happygo-lucky Laneous And The Family Yah. Regurgitator will hit Amplifier on Monday, September 27; tickets are on sale from oztix.com.au.

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X-Press Cover: Birds Of Tokyo’s self-titled record is out on Friday, July 23.

X-Press would like to thank Otilee for our amazing Issue 1222 Basement Birds cover photograph last week.

Salt Cover: Ras G plays at The Bird in Northbridge on Thursday, July 22.

Tame Impala

If jaunting around the US with MGMT, selling out their own shows in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago and being awarded Best New Music status by Pitchfork wasn’t enough, Tame Impala’s Half Full Glass Of Wine was played on the closing credits of Entourage. Arrival! Good news for fans here on the home front is the announcement of a national tour for the boys in October, which will wrap up quite fittingly in Perth at The Astor on Friday, October 22.

Tickets are now on sale through heatseeker. com.au and bocsticketing.com.au (all-ages, reserved seating). Let’s roll!

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Re: Dave L’s letter (#1221, ‘Ale Tale’). We ďŹ rstly thankyou for taking your interstate business colleague to our venue the other Friday night and ďŹ lling him in on our rich history! We also thank you for your valued custom over the years.

We sincerely apologise however that you left with a sour taste in your mouth about our increase in price from 8pm. We certainly do not want to lose your custom as you are a valued customer and we would love to see you back at The Paddo.

Our price increase (on Friday and Saturday nights only) from 8pm by 6%, has nothing to do with greed, that can be assured - as we are a friendly family run business that focuses entirely on the customer. The 6% increase goes to cover extra security, bar and wait staff and live entertainment. Also our drinks prices are as cheap as any pub in town and we run $7 beer of the month (this month is Pure Blonde and Monteith’s Golden Ale pints) all day every day!

Anyway, I certainly hope you can visit us again Dave.

On Sunday, the Revelation Film Festival recently wound up a programme of ten excellent days of ďŹ lm viewing in Perth, and I, for one, would like to commend them on such a mindblowingly good festival.

The ofďŹ cial verdict was that audiences were up 40% from last year, but you don’t need statistics to realise that the festival was such an improvement on previous years –to quote The Castle, it was just a general ‘vibe’ felt by all present that the festival kicked ass.

Having The Astor as a central venue was great – right in the heart of Mt Lawley, the location drew in many younger cinephiles this year, and it was great having the Flying Scotsman so close by for a drink afterwards - it really contributed to a sense of community.

Jack Sargeant’s programme itself was highly commendable, with a number of innovative documentaries being my personal highlight (Disco & Atomic War, Cropsey, Double Take, Wheedle’s Groove), and it was fantastic that so many directors from overseas were brought over for Q&As. Congratulations to everyone involved, and kudos to the Perth peeps who went along to catch a ďŹ lm or two, or maybe ďŹ fteen – it’s your support of your state’s only underground ďŹ lm festival that will allow

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You know what, I don’t get offended very often, but the ‘Mentally Healthy’ category in the WAM Song Of The Year competition has managed to offend me.

As a songwriter and long-term sufferer of severe depression, the category’s call for songs that “deal with positive messages relating to mental health� came as a shock to me. Surely a competition sponsored by the Mental Health Commission would be more sensitive?

I know they’re trying to raise awareness, but in actuality all they are doing is belittling the seriousness of mental illness.

Mental Illness is a serious issue! I dare anyone with depression (or any other mental illness) to try and write a song with a positive message about it!

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We have two copies of Darren Hanlon’s new album I Will Love You At All to giveaway to X-Press readers. This is Darren’s long awaited fourth album with his most honest and understated work to date. I Will Love You At All is a charming Australian songbook of gentle longing and reminiscence. Get your entries in now to win a copy, and start listening to get geared up for his Perth tour in August!

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This strange, bizarre and unique ďŹ lm is an American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies. Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room is like no other ďŹ lm around today. Follow the life of Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) who seems to have it all: a beautiful ďŹ ancĂŠ, great friends and even a promotion at work. But Johnny’s world soon starts to crumble and the question is asked “Can you really trust anyone?â€?. We have ďŹ ve double passes for you and a friend to see this showing on Thursday, August 5, at Luna Cinemas. So get your entries in now!

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SOILWORK

Sweden’s death metal masters Soilwork will be landing down under, ready to tear apart Perth audiences with an extremely fun, destructive, performance on Thursday, October 28, at The Rosemount. Get your entries in to win one of three prize packs, which includes a double pass to the gig, a copy of their new album The Panic Broadcast and a fabulous tour poster. Don’t miss out on your chance to win this great prize!

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THE GHOST WRITER

Roman Polanski brings us The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan Mcgregor and Pierce Brosnan.

This fantastic thriller is a story of a successful British ghost writer, The Ghost, who agrees to complete the memoirs of former Prime Minister Adam Long. The Ghost will stop at nothing to get the book ďŹ nished. Get your entries in to win one of ďŹ ve double passes for you and a friend!

RICHARD ASHCROFT & THE UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND

Richard Ashcroft and his new band The United Nations Of Sound will be here in Perth on Wednesday, August 4, at Metro City, to promote their new album. We have ďŹ ve double passes plus a copy of the new album to giveaway. Get your entries in for your chance to experience one of Britain’s ďŹ nest rockers.

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To celebrate the release of their new album Colourful Girl, Village Kid will be playing a live concert on Wednesday, July 28, at the Paramount Nightclub, Northbridge. This alternative, funk/rock band produce a power and unique sound which will captivate and entertain any crowd. Get your entries in now to win a double pass for you and a friend, along with a copy of their new album!

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WHAT A BLAST

Releasing and launching a CD is a dream for many young bands and any help along the way is much-needed. RTRfm’s Program has long been a leg-up for bands with a product to launch. It provides you with a radio promotion package on RTRfm including 30 sponsorship announcements to promote the CD launch; 20 sponsorship announcements to promote the sale of the CD; a half-page advertisement in X-Press Magazine and $250 for any costs associated with your CD launch.

Applicants need to have a confirmed date at a venue, with a CD ready to be launched and put into shops for sale, and a venue that is not sponsored by Healthway. In receiving Fresh Blast support applicants agree to promote the Alcohol.

Think Again and Don’t Drink And Drive messages at their launch. Find the Fresh Blast application and deadlines at rtrfm.com.au/freshblast.

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ALL THAT JAZZ

To celebrate the Perth Winter Arts Festival, the city will transform into a New Orleans jazz club this weekend. Forrest place will be host to a massive range of different jazz, blues and funk artists, all showing off their smooth sounds and soulful styles. The City Of Perth has partnered with Australia’s longest serving modern Jazz society, The Perth Jazz Society, and the city’s leading jazz club, The Ellington, to deliver a lineup featuring some of Perth’s best jazz musicians.

So head on down and warm up from that cruel winter breeze in the heated marquee, and let your troubles melt away. The line-up includes The Graham Wood Trio, Troy Roberts and Ali Bodycoat, and sees what the future has to offer in the Western Australia Youth Jazz Orchestra.

It all happens in Forrest Place, kicking off this Friday, July 23 and runs until Sunday, July 25.

THE R GEE

The Bee Gees may no longer be as we once knew them since the sad passing of Maurice Gibb a few years ago, but their music lives on.

Testament to this is the forthcoming tour by Robin Gibb, which will see him joined in Perth by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, October 31, at Sandalford Estate in the Swan Valley.

Gibb will perform the Bee Gees’ biggest songs such as Massachusetts, How Deep Is Your Love, Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, You Win Again, Nights On Broadway, Jive Talking, I Started A Joke, Words, To Love Somebody, New York Mining Disaster and more, plus his own solo hits. Bonnie Tyler (with hits such as It’s A Heartache and Total Eclipse Of The Heart) will open the show. Tickets on sale Thursday, July 29, through ticketek.com.au.

JOIN THE PARADE

Sydney art rockers, Parades’ debut album Foreign Tapes was released in April and now the guys are heading our way as part of their national tour. Foreign Tapes is an ambitious mixture of pop harmonies, post rock guitars and electronic meanderings. Parades will play The Newport Hotel in Freo on Thursday, August 26, The Prince of Wales Hotel in Bunbury on Friday, August 27, and The Amplifier Bar on Saturday, August 28. They will be supported by Perth’s new buzz-band Split Seconds, and tickets are available from moshtix. com.au and heatseeker.com.au.

THE FINGER

Hot of the press we have news that Powderfinger’s long time friend Andrew Morris will be supporting the band along with Jet on their WA leg of the Sunsets Farewell Tour, to bid a final farewell to the legendary Aussie rockers. But that’s not the only exciting news, as the organisers are very pleased to report that they have got approval for a venue capacity increase at Supreme Court Gardens, meaning more tickets will now go on sale! New and very limited tickets to Powderfinger’s final ever Perth shows go on sale at 9am on Friday, July 30 and will sell out incredibly quickly. Tickets are available from ticketek.com.au and heatseeker. com.au, plus the usual outlets. Powderfinger say farewell to Perth on Wednesday, September 22, Thursday, September 23 and Friday, September 24.

Fare-thee-well Finger.

Be prepared to open your mind at Murdoch University this August. Open Your Mind Day aims to be the biggest open day yet, offering a great opportunity to find out about courses and career options. Between 10am and 4pm on Sunday, August 22, there will be plenty of activities to explore and free activities to get you excited about starting uni. Activities include a Zorb Ball, bungee run, cup and saucer ride, the travelling animal farm, a Red Bull chill out zone and a free concert of Perth’s finest musicians. The line-up includes Goodnight Tiger, The Joe Kings, The Novocaines, Boys Boys Boys!, Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke and loads more. The day will give you an insight into university life, with career councillors, professors and researchers available to talk to. Don’t miss the opportunity to open your mind to a bright new future. Hit murdoch.edu.au for details.

Tim And Jean, playing Hyperfest

CHASING AMY

After what has been an incredible start to 2010, Amy Meredith have now announced a national tour – and they’re coming to Perth. The tour comes off the huge chart success of their hit singles Pornstar and Lying. Just to get fans in even more of a flutter, the song that sent fans into an online frenzy, Young At Heart, will be released to radio in the coming weeks. The Sydney five-piece will play Settler’s Tavern in Margaret River on Wednesday, September 22; Mojo’s in Freo on Thursday, September 23; The Players Club in Mandurah on Friday, September 24; and Amplifier on Saturday, September 25.

Tickets are available from heatseeker.com.au and the usual outlets.

For all those bastards out there, Bastardfest is the festival for you! The Civic Hotel is hosting a heaving metal fest the like of which have never been seen in WA before. Bring out your inner bastard with two interstate acts and 18 of Perth’s best metal acts. Acts include Ruins, Dyscord, Gallows For Grace, Psychonaut and The Mighty Scrape. The first 100 pre-sale tickets receive a free sausage sizzle and CD, with all pre-sale ticket holders going into a massive prize pool on the night, with prizes including a guitar and amp.

So make sure to get your bastard mates together and have a killer night at The Civic Hotel on Saturday, October 16. Doors open at 2pm. Pre-sale tickets are available now from 78 Records and by emailing soundworkspromo@bigpond.com. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee.

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Red Jezebel, one of Perth’s most enduring acts, return for their first live shows in 2010 with an exciting new track, Closer To You – available for free download from the band’s website throughout the month of September. As usual, they have returned with an unconventional new song to surprise fans and convert the masses. Red Jezebel will play two shows in September before they head back into the studio to record their eagerly anticipated third album, playing The Norfolk Basement on Friday, September 17, and The Amplifier Bar on Saturday, September 18. Tickets are only $10 plus booking fee and are available from heatseeker.com.au, Planet Video, Mills Records and Star Perth.

BELIEVE THE HYPE

Hyperfest is back at the Midland Railway Workshops for its 10th birthday this September. The all-ages music festival boasts a massive line-up, headlined

by Sydney’s electro boys Arts Vs Science and a huge mystery band yet to be revealed. Joining them on the line-up will be Calling All Cars, hip hop king Pez, radio lovelies Tim And Jean, The Voltaire Twins and heaps of up and coming talent, including Fools Rush In. Punters will also be treated to show rides, a skate park, market stalls, chill out zones and skate, DJ and MC Comps. It all happens on Sunday, September 5. Pre-sale tickets are $16 or $20 on the door. They can be snapped up from heatseeker.com.au, Wendy’s Midland, Midland Gate Shopping Centre, 78 Records, Mills Records and the City Of Swan Libraries.

JETS SOLD OUT

Due to overwhelming demand, JETS: A Reason To Rock, a celebration of the life of legendary guitarist Paul Felton, has now sold out. The event takes place at The Charles Hotel on Saturday, July 24.

ROCK SOLID

Following on from the success of the inaugural TOO SOLID Music Awards in 2009 and the Australia Day TOO SOLID Music Festival, Abmusic’s program will now include TOO SOLID Records; the first WA Indigenous music record label.

The label will produce and scout for WA indigenous talent, with potential artists asked to apply online, submitting demo tracks along with a biography of their work. The TOO SOLID Records Independent Panel will be chaired by Pete Carroll, long-time WA music stalwart. Applications are now open state-wide and close on Friday, August 6. For more information go to toosolid.com.au or contact Abmusic on (08) 9458 9077.

Optamus, playing The Kings Of Perth Hip Hop Festival

ONE MOVEMENT, MANY VOICES

One Movement Music Perth 2010 looms ever closer, taking place in the Perth CBD from October 6-10. A new announcement of speakers was announced this week including Troy Carter (Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Coalition Media Group, the worldwide manager for Lady Gaga), Dave Curtin (Managing Director/Founder, DeepMix, USA), James Foley (Contributing Writer, Record Of The Day, UK), Tak Furuichi (International A+R, JVC Victor Entertainment Inc, Japan) and Taichi Inoue (President, Surfrock International, Japan).

Australian voices coming to OMFM 2010 include Lars Brandle (Contributing Writer, Billboard), Brett Cottle (CEO, APRA, Australia), Shaun James (General Manager, XYZ Networks), Dylan Liddy (Director, Blue Max Music), Mark Pope (ARIA Awards Producer, Mark Pope Music), Mark Poston (Chairman and Senior VP of Marketing, EMI Australasia), Phil Stevens (Director, Jarrah Music), Kathy McCabe (Journalist, News Limited/The Daily Telegraph), Carney Nir, (New Media Manager, Secret Service Digital), Leigh Treweek (National Marketing Manager, Street Press Australia) and Adam Zammit (Director, Peer Group Media).

For full details, head to onemovementmusic. com.

GET HIP

The Kings Of Perth Hip Hop Festival smacks down at The Rosemount on Friday, August 20, boasting two stages and 20 local hip hop legends – destined to be a night you’ll never forget. With more than a decade of successful ground breaking sounds comes a celebration of Perth hip hop that can’t be missed, with live shows, MC, DJs, break dancers, aerosol art and more, representing all the elements of Oz hip hop top to the fullest. The line-up includes Optamus, Porsah Laine, Dazastah, MC Hunter and heaps more. WA hip hop’s main event will sell out fast, so grab your tickets from heatseeker.com.au and moshtix.com.au.

WHITLEY’S OFF

Popular Melbourne singer/songwriter Whitley has announced that his next trek around the nation will be his final tour ever. Seems he’s off to Europe to try different things, taking in new sights as he makes different sounds. His final shows will see him perform a solo set, followed by a full band shebang. Whitley will be supported by Australian shoegazers Seagull and will open the tour in Perth on Thursday, August 5, at Amplifier and Friday, August 6, at Manhattan’s. Tickets are available through Heatseeker and Moshtix.

CURTIN CALL

On Sunday, August 8, Curtin University will be hosting an open day, packed with live music, an all age fun zone, campus tours… oh, and the all important course information as well. It’s all happening on the green, with each course presented in one convenient place to make it an easier choice for you.

The day is always jam packed with helpful info and fun activities, so get down to Curtin’s Bentley campus on August 8, and innovate your future. To find out more, go to curtin.edu.au/openday.

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Melodic Aussie metaleers Lord recently won new hearts with a cover of Kylie Minogue’s On A Night Like This (check it out on YouTube) but will serious things up a little with a new EP, Return Of The Tyrant – to be released very shortly. Lord will tour in support of the release – catch them here in Perth on Friday, November 19, at the Rocket Room and Saturday, November 20, at the Civic Hotel.

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CARMEN LAWRENCE Our First Lady On Saturday,as Prime Minister Julia Gillard made the slow drive up Dunrossil Drive to Government House,she instigated what’s destined to be one of the most confounding election campaigns in the nation’s history. Over the coming weeks X-Press speaks with the some of Australia’s greatest minds on the state of our nation, its leaders and the truth behind the news soundbite.

Two decades before Julia Gillard was catapulted into Prime Ministership and the history books, Western Australia’s Dr Carmen Lawrence made her own piece of history in becoming the first female Premier in Australia.

Born in Northam and schooled in Perth, Lawrence etched out a successful career in academia before joining the ALP and entering state parliament in 1986, followed by a rapid ascent to the top job in 1990.

In 1994 Lawrence contested the federal seat of Fremantle in a by-election and won; a victory which put her en route to Canberra, where she would walk straight into Prime Minister Paul Keating’s Cabinet as Minister for Human Services and Health.

A brilliant parliamentary performer, Lawrence was widely branded the ALP’s leader in waiting – the woman most likely to make history as Australia’s first female Prime Minister.

But it was another history that was to play out, with Keating’s government losing office in 1996 to a thrice-resurrected John Howard and his Coalition government. And in 1997 Lawrence would stand aside from the ALP’s shadow cabinet pending the outcome of a perjury trial, dating back to her days as the Premier of WA, of which she would be exonerated in 1999.

In 2000 she returned to Kim Beazley’s frontbench and in 2003 became the first directly elected president of the ALP – a position she held until 2005. Lawrence would retire from politics in 2007, taking up a position as a Professorial Fellow at the University of WA. Lawrence’s career was one marked by controversy. Firmly of the leftist persuasion within the ALP ramparts, as well as a born adversary of the coalition she was a thorn in the side of the New South Wales ALP right faction – the ‘faceless assassins’ behind Kevin Rudd’s graceless toppling. At the forefront of her career’s political conviction was the recurring and contentious issue of asylum seekers; namely her support of their human treatment under international law. It was a position that saw her resign from Kim Beazley’s shadow cabinet in 2002, in protest of his support of John Howard’s get-tough position; later branded the Pacific Solution.

Here, Lawrence speaks openly on Rudd’s fall, Gillard’s rise and an election campaign she believes is headed for dangerous territory.

into the world news because all of the Australian reporting is so partisan, and I think that’s a real worry – that a news organisation can feel that it is its god-given right to make and break the leaders of this country.

We’re heading into an election campaign – as someone who has worked with two of our most flamboyant Prime Ministers in Hawke and Keating, what are your feelings on the celebrity side of contemporary politics, and pop-culture appraisals of political leaders’ features, such as clothing, hair colour and mannerisms?

I am sure there was always some interest in it, but it wasn’t always headlines.The key question has always been ‘what are they promising for the country, how do they propose to do it and how effective are they at delivering what they promise?’.

Much more of an assessment of the performance of the incumbents, to the extent that their personal lives and foibles were the subject of scrutiny but at a much slower pace and a more considered reaction.

Recently, for instance, was the 65th anniversary of John Curtin’s death. Now Curtin, for example, had a real alcohol problem for much of his life, which he more or less kept under control for his life as Prime Minister. He suffered from severe depression and he came out of a very left wing tendency in the Labor Party, but was a socialist in a radical form and went on to become one of the best Prime Ministers this country has ever seen… arguably the best. And if the newspapers of today had been pulling Curtin apart – his appearance, his speech, his alcoholism, his depression, his left-wing tendencies – I am sure he wouldn’t have got there.

He would have been crushed in the rush long before it happened.

It’s all very superficial, and if you look at Keating and Hawke, these are larger than life characters, and they wouldn’t get there unless they had some very visual eccentricities.We’re now saying they need to be white bread politicians, as someone put it. We’re selling ourselves short, as we’re buying a product – we’re not looking at what’s really important.

OBAMA SHOULD BE ABLE TO STOP THE OIL LEAK IN THE GULF OF MEXICO; KEVIN RUDD SHOULD BE ABLE TO TURN AROUND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ON CLIMATE CHANGE. WELL, THESE ARE STUPID EXPECTATIONS… WE’RE A DEMOCRACY – IT TAKES PEOPLE COOPERATING WITH ONE ANOTHER TO GET ANYTHING DONE, AND ONE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL ISN’T GOING TO DO IT.

The right has seized power again within the ALP – you only need a whiff glance at Gillard’s new asylum seeker policy to identify the architects as the Labor conservative. Is this reBy JULIAN TOMPKIN emergence of the right going to be a curse for her and her quest for re-election?

We have our first woman Prime Minister, albeit I think the whole exploitation of the by slightly unorthodox means. As the person asylum seeker issue is sickening, whoever does once considered Australia’s first female Prime it, and I didn’t detect the wave of antipathy that Minister in waiting, what do you make of this historic occasion? they seem to think they’re responding to. I think I think it wasn’t such a surprise, in that that Australians did take a step back after the last people who were watching the Australian political regime of temporary protection visas and people scene – in the last year or two particularly – clearly being held in the Pacific, and the images of people saw her promise as a future leader. I think the only self harming – it’s hideous. These are people thing that’s really surprising is the timing. Her own who, for the most part, are shown to be genuine colleagues clearly saw her as the obvious successor refugees and have taken a big step, and make to Rudd, whenever that might occur – and some tremendous citizens when they get a chance. And of them obviously thought it should occur sooner they are a tiny, tiny portion of the large number of rather than later. people we have coming to this country as migrants every year – it is scandalous to exploit this.

Rudd’s fall from grace identifies many truths There is a problem to be solved of a in Australian politics – it outlines the rising general kind, which is that we have to ensure our interference of the media; it outlines the borders are secure – everyone expects that. But we overt move to a more populist style of politics also have reasonable international obligations to decreed by polling; and it’s also proof that the deal with people who are seeking our assistance old guard within the ALP still reigns with an But it goes both ways – the hyperbole when to prevent further persecution. And singling out iron fist. Let’s start with the media – effectively Rudd came into power was almost overbearing. arrivals on boats is to totally distort the problem, let the media brought about Rudd’s downfall. Do There was an unreal, unfulfillable sense of alone the solution. And I have to say, when I listen you see this populist, invasive media approach optimism. He even managed to convince us to the rhetoric, I think they are doing that precisely he’d broken the factional stranglehold on the to domestic politics a positive or a negative? as they think it has appeal to a certain part of the I think it’s a negative for the most part ALP… I think the problem for all Australian constituency, not because it’s a problem solving because it doesn’t allow the debate to be properly approach at all. It’s just exploitation. held before a conclusion is reached. People don’t leaders at the moment is that we’ve kind of even get a chance to assess the issue in question unthinkingly adopted the American approach to – whether it’s resource rent tax or superannuation leadership, which is essentially that the party is the The very fact that both major parties are reform, or whatever it is – before the media are leader. It was true under the Howard government trying to outdo one another with such feartelling you who is on which side of the argument. as well; they named the government the Howard mongering; does that signal that perhaps they And so people only get to hear what the contest Government… he was a control freak too, by all both view the average constituent as bigoted is rather than what it’s about, and I think that’s an information! And we expect these people in their or, at worst, xenophobic?

I think they do assume that – I think they extraordinarily damaging trend in a democracy. roles as President and Prime Ministers to be able That should be the second question: ‘okay, who to do anything. Obama should be able to stop assume the critical vote changers in marginal seats have hostile attitudes towards asylum seekers, likes this and who doesn’t like this’, but instead you’re the oil leak in the Gulf Of Mexico; Kevin Rudd trying to fight your way through the fog to find out should be able to turn around the international and that they need to speak to that in some way.

In fact, they can really do little about the numbers what is actually being proposed. community on climate change. Well, these are who decide to take that terribly risky journey to stupid expectations and hyped up partly by Australia – it’s slow, cumbersome international It’s been said that the media has become a political party in its own right – or in the least the politicians themselves, but often by the work, not a flick-of-a-switch solution. They seem to a pressure group. In your opinion, is it getting expectations people have on these instantaneous, be placating a community opinion which I’m not almost god-like capacity. We’re a democracy – it sure is as deep or as significant as they claim, but in worse?

I think it is.The tabloids have often taken takes people cooperating with one another to any case doesn’t solve the problem.

We don’t talk of the people who arrive a line on particular issues – The West [Australian] get anything done, and one single individual isn’t on airplanes – the Visa over-stayers who come for here notoriously campaigned for several years going to do it.

On the factional side, every organisation a bit of a holiday and decide they like the place against the [Carpenter] Labor government very strongly. It’s not without precedent in the Murdoch has its groups… but I would welcome the day and never go home. We never talk about them, stable, but it’s very unedifying and it means that when the New South Wales right is buried in a very because they tend to look more like us; maybe the journalists are often looking for trouble. At deep hole. And I think they are about to be when they come from the US or New Zealand and they various times reading The Australian, which I do they lose an election in a very catastrophic way in disappear into our community and no one seems to care. for my sins, you can’t get any news until you get New South Wales.

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Carmen Lawrence

Whether it was realised or not, Rudd did arrive with a new optimism for Australia, trumpeted with some pretty monumental statements such as the ratifying of the Kyoto Protocol, the apology to the Stolen Generations and a move to a more humane approach to asylum seekers after the get-tough approach of the Howard years…

And he largely kept his word on it too!

I think Rudd did a pretty solid job. Clearly there is lot of commentary about his character and about how he ran the government, but you’d have to say that collectively they did a very good job on the enormous [financial] crisis Australia faced; we’re one of the handful of countries that have come out the other side – and it’s not all down to the mining boom. A whole lot of employment generated by the stimulus measures would otherwise not have occurred and we would have had much more serious unemployment. As we know, once you get significant levels of unemployment it’s very hard to budge.

I think they did everyone in the community a huge service by undertaking it as quickly as they did and with such clear direction.

Now, there have been some fallouts on the intricacies of some of the measures but that’s always going to be the case. But on things like asylum seekers they took things in a much more humanitarian direction. Generally speaking, I think – after all they were only there two-and-a-half years – they made some pretty significant shifts.

We need to slow things down so people can have a look at what works, rather than grabbing the nearest policy idea off the shelf.

As you said, the powers that be clearly identified Julia Gillard’s talent early on. With us steamrolling to an election, what do you – as a former political leader – make of her potential, and likelihood of being voted in for another term.

I think, as it is for everyone, it’ll be a matter of how she performs – but she’s got all of the necessary skills I think. She’s smart, she’s determined, she’s more collaborative than Rudd – and that certainly would appear to be an important breakthrough as far as the colleagues are concerned. She understands the need to bring a lot more people into the process of policy making in order to get it right, so if that all comes together and she has got good advice then she could be a very good Prime Minister. But those tendencies towards speaking to a constituency who frankly should be encouraged to do better – speaking to the lowest common denominator – is worrying. www.xpressmag.com.au

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BIRDS OF TOKYO Walking On A Wire Four years after retuning Australian airwaves with a fresh brand of brutal and soaring hard rock, Birds Of Tokyo return with a new self-titled record this Friday, July 23 – and potentially their first ARIA #1 album. But this time, as its leaders Ian Kenny and Adam Spark tell JULIAN TOMPKIN,“we’re not afraid of being beautiful”. we say that with pride, as grown men, that we’re inviting you into our world here, and it’s as flawed and fucked up and as fragile as anybodies, so come on in and swim around with us in this weird little world of ours. That pretty damn cool to say I reckon.”

As it transpires, it took a frozen Swedish winter to achieve this new level of ‘cool’ Spark is referring to. For it was in Gothenburg that the bulk of recording took place, with producer Scott Horscroft (The Presets, Silverchair, Sleepy Jackson) at the helm. And it was from these dark, frozen and alien surrounds the band was able to tap into a sentiment and sound which would become what they clearly admit to being their best album yet

“Beautiful is a word we’re both content using on this record,” frontman Ian Kenny begins matter-of-factly, removing his dark sunglasses and leaning across the table. “I think it is a beautiful piece of work.”

For a band who has built a big career in a small amount of time on satisfying the redblooded desires of a largely masculine audience, this is a valiant admission indeed. Kenny – who also famously fronts one of Australia’s other acclaimed hard rock bands in Karnivool – has cut his reputation as a fearless, intimidating frontman; never afraid to unleash the inner beast, however brutal. It’s this raw honesty that’s made both Birds Of Tokyo and Karnivool major drawcards on the hard rock live circuit.

But, by his own admission, Kenny’s years have brought wisdom, and with that a new

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approach to songwriting which, for better of for worse, digs to the very depths of his soul – where beauty and ugliness live in an uneasy truce.

“You need to be honest to yourself and your body of work,” Kenny says in rapid-fire.“If you shy away a few per cent I don’t think it gets it across the line.You’ve got to commit and you’ve got to be willing to put your inner self on show for everyone, and really exploit yourself – you’ve got to fucking lay it on the line man. You’re letting people into your own space, and that’s pretty scary territory!”

“I am proud of the fact,” guitarist and the band’s creative director Spark continues, “that as a bunch of grown men in a place like Australia, where by in large sensitivity is a bit of a funny thing for the average Australian male, we can proudly stand here and use words like‘beautiful’and‘pretty’ describing a rock record. I am proud and confident;

“I AM PROUD OF THE FACT THAT AS A BUNCH OF GROWN MEN IN A PLACE LIKE AUSTRALIA, WHERE BY IN LARGE SENSITIVITY IS A BIT OF A FUNNY THING FOR THE AVERAGE AUSTRALIAN MALE, WE CAN PROUDLY STAND HERE AND USE WORDS LIKE ‘BEAUTIFUL’ AND ‘PRETTY’…” ADAM SPARK. – with singles The Saddest Thing I Know and Plans but a small taste of the tumultuous song cycle to come.

“There were some heavy moments,” Spark continues. “As cheesy as it sounds, we were recording in Sweden in the middle of winter, locked away from any semblance of what we consider the normal world. Everything is amplified

in circumstances like that. It always gives you absolute clarity as to why you’re doing it. Pushing everything else away, you concentrate on the task at hand; at minus 20 degrees – in this surreal environment – it’s amazing the sense of clarity you have when the bullshit’s gone.

The saga of Birds Of Tokyo is one of Australian rock’s finest. After hoarding a bunch of songs in head for years, Spark decided that – perhaps too old now to form a band – he should lay down some demos to send to publishers in the hope of getting his songs recorded by other artists.

He asked a favour of Karnivool’s Ian Kenny in laying down the vocals for the demos, but immediately the duo realised what they were working on was far too good to simply give away. It was a realisation that would see the two unite – along with fellow Perth lads Anthonny Jackson on bass and Adam Weston on drums – as Birds Of Tokyo and issue debut album, Day One, in 2007.

Day One would become one of the most acclaimed debuts in recent Australian history, and was quickly followed up by the band’s second offering, Universes, one year later in 2008.

That album would go Gold – no small feat for an independent band – and introduce them to tens of thousands of new fans Australia-wide.

Having recently inked a record deal with EMI and with new management, Birds Of Tokyo are now positioned to become one of the biggest bands in the country, with the album of their career and a renewed focus to succeed. ‘Business’ is indeed looking good.

“We’ve got no choice,” Spark says of the band’s business-like approach to the band.“We had to learn to become business people, as the choice is we can slack off and just see what happens or we can take the bulls by the horns and get involved, and secure a future in such a beautiful artform. If we didn’t do that we’d be like a lot of other people, sitting around going ‘oh man, that would have been cool’. By in large with any artform, especially with music, you get one shot… unless you’re Kenny, then you get two! We’re all sitting around as 30odd years of age – we’re not 17 year old dudes; we need to work hard and sacrifice a lot of shit to do it and succeed.”

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30 SECONDS TO MARS Leto It Be With renewed purpose after facing numerous struggles, prolific American rock outfit 30 Seconds To Mars has exploded back onto the music landscape by declaring war.Ahead of their Challenge Stadium show on Saturday,July 24,Jennifer Peterson-Ward caught up with drummer Shannon Leto to discuss the recording of the trio’s most personal and politically charged project to date; This Is War. “This Is War took two-and-a-half years from writing to production, and within that time period there was a lot going on,” Shannon Leto begins matter-of-factly. “We were being sued for $30 million dollars, we were getting a new president, the world was falling apart financially and we were each going through our own personal emotional struggles. A lot of that turmoil and sense of confusion is reflected in the record.”

Exhibiting themes of faith, morality, vindication, freedom and resurrection, 30 Seconds To Mars’ newest album title – This Is War – is more than a just reference to the band’s personal battles, a commentary on global crises and economic turmoil and homage to their now infamous $30 million lawsuit with Virgin Records.

As Leto reveals,This Is War also represents the result of an 18-month creative battle, fought ferociously, but surreptitiously, inside their Hollywood Hills studio. The result is a triumphant, sonically epic record that builds on the vision laid out in their 2002 self-titled debut and 2005’s multiplatinum A Beautiful Lie, and cements the outfit a world-class arena-crushing rock band. However, although the trio set out to make a larger-thanlife record from the outset, Leto explains that their goals weren’t always clear-cut.

“It was more of a gradual experimentation of ideas,” he says.“We were trying to encapsulate the energy of the Sex Pistols with the grandiosity of Pink Floyd, and what we ended up with was this big, dynamic, cinematic record. It’s certainly different to A Beautiful Lie, but we’re still the same band and it’s still very much a 30 Seconds To Mars record.”

Buzzing with layers of vintage synths and dozens of imaginative effects – from authentic Tibetan monk chants to the cry of a wild hawk – perhaps the most stunning and profound instrument on the album is what Leto describes as their “call to arms”: the euphoric sound of a more-than-100,000-strong legion of 30STM fans, infamously dubbed ‘The Echelon’, singing in unison throughout the record.

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our record was incredible. It has really become the defining element of the album.”

It was an ambitious undertaking, just like the band’s decision to offer 2,000 covers for their new CD; each featuring the face of a member of The Echelon. But then, as Leto explains, 30STM aren’t interested in doing anything in a small way.

“It really all stems from that excitement of doing things that haven’t been done before,” he continues. “We tend to look for things that have been trod upon a little less than others, because it keeps it interesting for us and it’s a great way to deepen the conversation with our audience around the world.”

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‘The Summit’ took place at Hollywood’s Avalon Club in early 2009 and was comprised of roughly 1,000 fans who travelled from around the world to lend their voices to the record. The success of the initial Summit quickly manifested into eight additional Summits held around the globe and, in response to a Twitter message from a fan in Iran who couldn’t get to any of the Summits, the introduction of the Digital Summit, where the trio invited anyone with an internet connection to record sounds for inclusion on the record.

“We never thought we were just a band up there playing on stage; we never thought it was ‘us versus them’, like a divided wall – we always had this ‘we’re all in this together’ outlook,” Leto explains.

“It’s always been important for us to include our family out there, and also we were curious to hear what people had to say and what they had to contribute.

“For Jared,Tomo and I,this whole musical journey has always been a shared experience – a selfless thing we do. Involving our fans means a lot to us. And we’re always inspired by our audience, so it’s a way to bring some of the energy from the live show to the album and encourage interactivity.

That being said, the sheer response we got from these fans wanting to get involved still amazes me – the fact that we had people from more than 10 different countries around the world willing to sing, stomp, chant, jump, holler and clap along for

WE TEND TO LOOK FOR THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN TROD UPON A LITTLE LESS THAN OTHERS, BECAUSE IT KEEPS IT INTERESTING FOR US AND IT’S A GREAT WAY TO DEEPEN THE CONVERSATION WITH OUR AUDIENCE AROUND THE WORLD. While the war on recording their new album may be over, 30STM are still inviting fans nationwide to join their ranks on their international Into The Wild tour, which includes their first ever trip to Western Australia. As Leto explains, fans can expect an impressive live concert experience showcasing tunes from all three albums.

“We are bringing the show to the audience, and the audience is really going to be brought to our show,” he concludes. “There are going to be a couple of surprises, so expect the unexpected. Get ready, we’re coming. Get excited!”

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CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS Fighting Solo He’s best known as the lead guitarist for rock heavyweights Foo Fighters, but with his new solo project Chris Shiflett aims to make a name for himself outside of the Foos. On the eve of his eponymous self-titled debut – released this Friday, July 16 – Shiflett explained the merits of taking a break from his main project to try something new to JENNIFER PETERSONWARD. When your band’s frontman runs off to play with a rock legend what’s a guitarist to do? If you’re Foo Fighters axeman Chris Shiflett, you start your own side project. But while Shiflett admits he doesn’t boast the rock-legend status Dave Grohl gets performing in hardrock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, he doesn’t deny that the decision to release his first country-rock album could be considered an equally ambitious departure.

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that’s just the rush of it all – it takes me out of my comfort zone,” Shiflett explains. “For me, it feels easier with T he Foo Fighters because I know and love the music and I know when I go out on stage there’s going to be thousands of people singing along at our shows, having a good time. But going out and trying to win people over with your little solo thing… that’s definitely a more daunting job.”

Steeped in his love for classic country, rockabilly and deep-rooted Americana-rock artists, including Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Willie Nelson, Shiflett admits that he’s doubtful his soulful pedal steel and twangy guitar-accented debut will be embraced by his existing fan base.

acoustic tour with friend Joey Cape of Lagwagon - he began writing what eventually became the new album.

“The Hootenanny gig was the catalyst it inspired me to start writing some songs in that countrified vein,” he continues. “After playing a few shows, and thinking in a country mindframe, I started writing like that and after a year I had written a whole new set of songs. The rockabillyAmericana sound is something that I’ve loved for a long time and, while it’s certainly different than anything I’ve ever played before, that’s the beauty and joy of doing it. I love that it makes me nervous and I love that it gives me this rush that takes me back to that feeling when I was 15 and starting IT’S DEFINITELY NOT A out in my first band. It’s just really exhilarating to be releasing something completely out of the ROCK RECORD AND IT’S ordinary for me.”

But while the quality of the record NOT EVER GOING TO BE certainly reflects the lengthy periods Shiflett ANYTHING ON THE LEVEL spent perfecting his skill and building the layers of his infectious Americana-laced rock songs, he OF FOO FIGHTERS, BUT admits that more time was spent lauding over the ostensibly simple decision of choosing a name for I DON’T EXPECT THAT IT his project.

WILL – NOR DO I REALLY “Originally I was going to call it Chris Shiflett And The Cheaters, but that didn’t go over WANT IT TO BE. I JUST too well with my wife so I changed it to Chris Shiflett And The Campesinos,” he laughs.“Then I found out WANT TO MAKE FUN there is another band called Los Campesinos and MUSIC THAT I ENJOY I didn’t want to go with that because it would’ve been too confusing. So then one day I was AND HOPEFULLY OTHER watching Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story, and there was a section in there where he talked PEOPLE WILL DIG TOO. about life insurance policies that companies take “I don’t know if anyone would come out on their employees without their employees out in person and say ‘I think your record sucks’, but knowing about it. They call those policies the ‘dead online people are scathing. Some fans will like it, peasants’ insurance policies’ and immediately but more probably won’t and that’s totally fine. It’s when I heard that phrase, it just stuck.” definitely not a rock record and it’s not ever going Despite the ‘Dead Peasants’ suffix, to be anything on the level of Foo Fighters, but I Shiflett admits the musical excursion really rests don’t expect that it will – nor do I really want it to on his shoulders. be. I just want to make fun music that I enjoy and “The Dead Peasants is really just a name hopefully other people will dig too.”

– it’s me and whatever group of friends I can get Penning the songs on the record over a together at any given time,” he concludes. “There two-year period, Shiflett professes that inspiration was one set of Dead Peasants who I corralled to first struck when a friend asked him to perform come into the studio with me to record the album at Orange County’s roots-rockabilly Hootenanny and now there’s a completely different set of guys I festival in early 2008. After re-immersing himself tour with - it’s always changing. in his Americana and old country music collection “I’ve been lucky to play in different to prepare a short set - and then playing a brief

Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants

bands with great musicians throughout the years, and while there’s no doubt the Foo Fighters is still my main band, this side project is the sum total of my own personal creative endeavours. I’ve always thought of myself as a guitarist rather than a singer and, even though I’ve always enjoyed singing, it’s taken me a little time to get to the point where I’m ready to share that side of me with the outside world. To be honest, that’s probably the most exciting part for me – getting to that comfortable place where I can settle down and just play my own material without thinking too much about it or worrying about how it’s going to be received.”

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KASABIAN Kings Of The Empire With Oasis no more, British rock band Kasabian have arguably taken up the mantle as Britain’s kings of arena and festival stages.

Bombastic, cocky and at times downright hilarious, frontman Tom Meighan is clearly also a graduate of the Gallagher School Of Publicity. Meighan spoke to DAVID CRADDOCK ahead of Kasabian’s performance at Metro City on Friday, July 30.

Pompous, grandiose and Oasis-like superlatives go perfectly well with Kasabian’s anthemic brand of stadium indie rock. But in the past 12 months a triumphant set at last year’s Glastonbury, a Brit Award for Best British Group, and a prestigious Mojo Award for Song Of The Year (Fire) has confirmed what the band have probably been telling journalists since forming in 1999 - they are the business.

Where Oasis employed thick walls of guitars and soaring vocals to fill soccer fields, the key ingredient in Kasabian’s recipe for success is a peppering of electronic quirks and samples that are used to enhance and thicken their already driving guitar anthems.

“It’s just another weapon we’ve got in our music – it’s just a grenade you can throw in with the bullets still being sprayed at the same time,” Meighan explains in a thick Leicestershire accent whilst on a tour strop in Brussels (for the record: he informs us that he’s been trying to track down Jean-Claude Van Damme, but to no avail). “I think Fire is a really good grenade – and it always will be.”

Having seen Kasabian’s rather epic set at last year’s Glastonbury festival, this scribe can attest to the startling affect of said grenade. The band had the unenviable task of playing before

Bruce Springsteen, but a huge field of flagwaiving Brits who sang along with every riff and chorus of songs like Fire and Vlad The Impaler, suggested that Kasabian more than held their own.

“I don’t think we intentionally write ‘big’ for stadiums,” Meighan says of his band’s reputation for hair-raising, big-ticket performances. “I don’t think Serge [Pizzorno, songwriter and guitarist] does anyway, I think it just happens for some reason – we’re just really atmospheric. When we come to town we’re a just a great rock‘n’roll event you see. I don’t think we do it on purpose – we mean it. We’ve just got that thing about us I think.

“It’s probably like seeing The Who in the ’60s or something similar, just the rock show and the whole caricature thing about the lead signer and the guitarist. There’s just something about us; not many rock bands have got that anymore.”

AT THE MINUTE HE’S SHITTING OUT THESE SONGS THAT ARE MIRACLE. I THINK SOME BANDS WOULD CUT THEIR FUCKIN’ ARMS OFF TO GET ONE OF THESE SONGS. Kasabian’s third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, was released in mid 2009 and, thanks to some brilliant production from genre hopping American producer Dan The Automator, confirmed the band’s reputation for merging the raw and jittery energy of indie rock with the excitement and spontaneity of dance and electronic music. As well as receiving a Mercury Prize nomination, a Q Magazine award for Album Of The Year and reaching number one on the UK charts, the album positioned the band at the top of the UK rock heap just as Oasis, a band that Kasabian often toured with, fell apart at the seams.

“I don’t think we could ever take over

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Oasis – whatever they did,” Meighan says of the now-defunct Britpop icons. “We’re the last generation of rock star – I don’t think they breed them like that anymore, I really believe that. We could never duplicate what Oasis did because they were huge and they were fucking rad - an amazing rock‘n’roll band.”

With Noel Gallagher often joining Kasabian on stage, it’s unsurprising that Meighan is full of praise for a band that had championed Kasabian right throughout their career. When discussing the pastiched and eclectic sound of albums like West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum and Empire, Meighan is equally humble and reverential of those who have gone before him.

“A band like The Who, on Who’s Next, they were using loads of electronic sequences and stuff,” he explains, dismissing the notion that Kasabian’s style is somehow new or

revolutionary.“That was 1971 or whatever year it was - and then there’s Pink Floyd of course. These early rock‘n’roll bands were using keyboards, and then there’s Kraftwerk. Primal Scream really mixed electronic and the dance era. You’ve got to remember all these bands have done it before – they carried the can well before us.”

While Meighan and his musical gang are currently in the thick of the European festival circuit, work is apparently already underway on the band’s fourth album. The results, Meighan hilarious concludes, are apparently rather good.

“Everything that Serge is writing is fucking gold, and I’m not just saying that because I’m his boy or the singer,” he stresses.

“At the minute he’s shitting out these songs that are miracle. I think some bands would cut their fuckin’ arms off to get one of these songs. I think he’s in the form of his life.”

I would record stuff at 3am, just to get a certain vibe to it. Everything was very planned out; nothing was really left to chance. It also gave me the opportunity to do a lot of country and Spanish guitar work, which I really haven’t had the chance to record before. And, of course, some crazy allout solos. Rob Zombie doesn’t really call for crazy playing like that. I think that’s why I’m so good at working with others because I can hold back and leave the more insane stuff for my solo work.”

More than that, The Art Of Malice also reveals itself as John 5’s tribute to his musical foundations. A cover of Ace Frehley’s Fractured Mirror, the first instrumental song to ever grace his ears, appears on this release – plus subtle

references to his father, guitar idols and his teenage years all log time on the recording.

“This album was absolutely a nod to my youth,” he says. “The song J.W was named after the nickname my father used to call me. S-Lot was the place I used to sneak out of school to go and play guitar at. There is also a few Jimmy Page and Les Paul licks on there. It just has so many moods.

The ups and downs; heavy and quiet moments.

That’s why it keeps people guessing.”

About to head out on the road for an American tour with Rob Zombie, John 5 was eager to note plans for an Australian run of dates behind the Zombie bandwagon in February next year. Also rumoured to be working on the musical score for Mr Zombie’s sixth feature-length film, he said there was still the possibility of taking his solo work out of the studio and on to the stage.

JOHN 5 The Low Road length, The Art Of Malice.

It’s an album that not only delves into the assumed blistering and down-tuned numbers, but also touches on western and bluegrass influences, and a good dose of acoustic work – all the while paying homage to John 5’s eternal love of the Fender Telecaster.

“There is so much going on, sound wise, on this release; to stop it from being just another boring instrumental album,” he explains.

“It’s like having your iPod on shuffle and guitar players love it. I would do most of the rehearsing at home, usually in front of the TV, so it would only take me an hour to lay out a song in the studio John Lowery, aka John 5, is a man who has because all the hard work was done. Sometimes fallen victim to a figurative ‘itch’ that can never be scratched.

Currently fulfilling the role of stringsman at the helm for Rob Zombie, after a longstanding stint behind the best years of the Marilyn Manson moniker, it would seem easy to brand this career guitarist with a few simple connotations: heavy, chugging, kitsch and altogether oddball slot in nicely here. But generalising does absolutely no justice to the musician John 5 has actually become.

Proving time and time again that he is one of the most technically proficient and versatile guitarists of the past decade, the list of artists that adorn his ever-growing resume venture into the highly unexpected at face-value. From Lynyrd Skynyrd, k.d. lang and Salt-N-Pepa to David Lee Roth, Les Paul, Rob Halford (Judas Priest) and Paul Stanley (Kiss) – there is no opportunity laid before John 5 that has been shunned. And that is exactly the way he likes it.

“It’s like, you just don’t know what you’re going to get when you’re in my shoes,” John 5 pauses to chuckle for a moment, as he speaks to X-Press from a studio in the Hollywood hills where Rob Zombie is recording bonus tracks for recently released Hellbilly Deluxe 2.“It’s like getting to be in a different band every day; who wouldn’t want that? I just did an album with Ricky Martin, which was a lot of fun. I tend to get along with a lot of people, so I guess that helps. But there are still so many people I would love to work with, like Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney – but those are just to satisfy longstanding pipe dreams.”

Yet John 5 is still, remarkably, unfulfilled.

In an effort to sate a personal void in his journey to cover all sonic territory, he released his first solo LP Vertigo purely by accident when he created a guitar demo for friends in 2004. Six years later and he is now celebrating his fifth instrumental full

The Art Of Malice, the follow-up to John 5’s 2009 solo remix release Remixploitation, sees this Los Angeles-based virtuoso guitarist taking a step towards youthful reflection.

JESSICA WILLOUGHBY reports.

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IT’S LIKE GETTING TO BE IN A DIFFERENT BAND EVERY DAY; WHO WOULDN’T WANT THAT? I JUST DID AN ALBUM WITH RICKY MARTIN, WHICH WAS A LOT OF FUN. I TEND TO GET ALONG WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE, SO I GUESS THAT HELPS. BUT THERE ARE STILL SO MANY PEOPLE I WOULD LOVE TO WORK WITH, LIKE MICK JAGGER AND PAUL MCCARTNEY…

John 5

“I haven’t been able to perform any of my solo work live as of yet, but there is a good chance it will happen in the future,” he poses.

“I’ve been doing some guitar clinics which have been insanely popular, which has amped me up for doing some solo tours. So maybe when it quietens down a bit then I can venture into that.

But everything is a little crazy with Rob Zombie at the moment. I love working with Rob – this is the best band I have ever been in. We just get along really well, and I really respect him a lot for what he’s done. I’m having the most fun I have had in my life.” www.xpressmag.com.au

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PVT A Rose By Any Other Name Sydney’s PVT (ex-Pivot) have totally made the last few years their bitch, evolving from a post-rock-prog ensemble fairly limited to an Australian fanbase, to their current incarnation as a super tight,electronic experimentalist three-piece,signed to UK mega label Warp Records. Their latest album, Church With No Magic, was released worldwide last week, and has cemented PVT’s talent in stone. DANIELLE MARSLAND talks new tracks, new names and new technologies with drummer Laurence Pike, ahead of the band’s gig on Friday, August 6, at The Rosemount.

‘indie-rock’ audience situation,” says Pike. This is true even more so now, considering that PVT’s new album, for the first time in the band’s history, features guitarist Richard Pike on vocals on nearly “It’s just a name.” PVT drummer Laurence With the internet the way it is now, everyone every track, veering the group’s sound more Pike’s sentiment as to his band’s recent name under the age of 30 appears to be in a band in the direction of indie-rock bands like Grizzly change is somewhat Shakespearean in nature on the internet. We were like ‘well, we can’t end Bear (Richard Pike’s vocals bear an uncanny and (What’s in a name?/That which we call a rose/By up in that same position again’, we really had to likeable resemblance to that of Ed Droste). “Our any other name would smell as sweet). Formerly make sure we weren’t going to get a law suit sound’s changed tremendously,” offers Pike.

“That’s always been the point of PVT, known as Pivot, the Sydney electronic/post- from anyone else.” Above all, the boys wanted to rock three-piece recently dropped the vowels ensure the cease and desist didn’t interrupt the to continue to develop. The reactions at the few shows that we’ve done with the new material after being presented with a cease and desist momentum of their then upcoming album.

We put it to Pike that ultimately, at the have been really positive. When you’re at a gig letter from US metal group Pivot.

“We were kind of aware that they end of the day, it wouldn’t matter to PVT’s fans and you play a new song, it’s often the point in the existed for a long time,” shares Pike, “We were whether they’re PVT or Pivot; so long as they gig when people go ‘Let’s go to the bar’. But we’ve on tour in the States when the label called us to continue to make good music. Pike is firm in his found that people have responded the best to the tell us we’d received this letter. We’d been on the agreeance.“That was exactly what we thought. We new material, which is very encouraging.”

One of main developments for PVT this road for hours, and we were like you know, fuck thought dropping the vowels would ensure a bit time around has been making Church With No it, we’ll change it. It’s just one of those things that of continuity, but also be sufficient to escape the Magic in the same room. This is par for the course law and just move on.” happens.” Pike goes on to reveal that the potential Move on they did, just last week for most bands, but for most part, PVT have been new names the band considered underwent a releasing their latest album, Church With No a band that have operated long distance, with thorough test prior to being approved.

Magic, which will be launched by PVT in a series brothers Richard and Laurence Pike working on “It’s disturbingly difficult to find a band of Australian gigs this month. A tour earlier this guitars and drums from their base in Sydney, name that hasn’t already been taken nowadays. year to the US, which saw the band (who have for while former Perth boy Dave Miller provided the a while now been signed to the influential Warp samples and laptop trickery from his home in Records, the home of Grizzly Bear, Aphex Twin and London. Pike shares with us what it was like for Autechre), take in their second stint at live indie all the gang to be together, after years of sending music Mecca South By Southwest, gave the band files back and forth across the Atlantic.

“The recording process was very much the opportunity to preview some of the material about the three of us in a room making a sound, off the new album in a live setting.

“We played in some shitty venues in trying to figure out what that sound was, reacting weird places,” recalls Pike of the US tour, “It was to each other in the same room, at the same time, more like a reconnaissance tour than a fully which was not something we had done a lot of. fledged one.” Whilst some might expect there to We didn’t want to force anything, we wanted to be a tendency for ‘electronic’ music to be quite make something that was a genuine combination processed, and laptop-driven, in a live situation, of where we’re at and the influence of everything PVT’s strength lie in their natural, physical live we’ve done in the last couple of years.”

It’s not just PVT who are all up in each performance, playing the electronic music they others’ faces in the rehearsal room – the band’s do in ‘rock’-like settings.

“I think we can fit into any sort of video clip for Window, the first single off Church

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With No Magic, allows fans to really get in PVT’s personal space, with a camera showing us what the boys see when they look down at their instruments in their practice space, then out at the crowd during live performance. Filmed by Parisbased, Sydney-born director Clemens Habicht, a former high school cohort of the Pike brothers (“It was a timing thing, we were all in Sydney at the same time, which doesn’t happen very much,”), Pike enlightens us as to the tech side of this ingenious clip.

“We had this small HD camera – it’s a new invention - people largely use it for extreme sports stuff. It’s got a strap so you can attach it to any part of your body. We took it to the US and tested it out, shared it around during a couple of gigs and rehearsal. The idea being that only one person wears the camera; at no stage do you ever see a camera on someone’s head. We wanted to show what it was like to be inside our heads as we’re playing, to get an idea of our point of view and experience while we’re on stage.”

What a high tech camera cannot perhaps cannot document, but what is certainly evident, is that PVT are on the cusp of something amazing. 2008’s O Soundtrack My Heart was an impressive album that resonated a lot of people, but didn’t quite see PVT become international heroes –2010’s Church With No Magic is the album that’s going to seal the deal for these Australian boys. Would Pike agree?

“I hope so!” he says. “It’s tricky when you’re making a record, you feel like you’ve made something really good and you have confidence, but you don’t want to allow yourself to think that.

At the same time, I feel like the last few months have been quite difficult, because we’ve finished the record and we’ve just been in limbo, really… now we have to let it go.

“It’s a weird place to be in, but we have high hopes.” As do we.

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KAREN ELSON The Ghost Who Walks XL/Third Man

THE JUSTIN WALSHE FOLK MACHINE Walking To China

EMMA POLLOCK The Law Of Large Numbers

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Chemikal Underground/Other Tongues

It’s easy to be cynical about the leap from frocks to rock made by supermodel Karen Elson, the former 1998 fashion model of the year and face of YSL perfume. Even easier still to be critical of the ‘help’ Elson has received from a bevy of musically talented friends including Jackson Smith (son of Patti), My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel and husband Jack White, who produces and plays drums on her debut album The Ghost Who Walks.

But this should not detract from the talents of the headliner, with Elson’s luscious, aching croon, matching her ensemble’s solemn high-mesa twang and groove with an arresting magnificence.

Opening with a title track, which, according to Elson, stems from a nickname she had when she was a teenager for being “tall, pale, and a little bit haunted”, an inherent eeriness shrouds the albums’ haunted songs - even cheery pop songs Pretty Babies and 100 Years From Now show a darker side upon closer inspection thanks to creepy keyboard and decaying slide-guitar effects lingering in the background.

Perhaps The Ghost Who Walks’ greatest strength lies in the fact that it doesn’t grasp for immediate popularity, and although this occasionally leads her dream-cinema tales to aimlessly meander, Elson’s astute ear for lilting melodies and clever lyrics really should leave her critics eating a cloud of Nashville dust.

Since their 2007 debut album, The Man Without a Bag, relentless gigging has earned local folkcountry collective The Justin Walshe Folk Machine a reputation for fine songwriting, explosive live shows, and has almost certainly contributed to the stunning confidence present on ambitious sophomore record Walking To China.

Although ostensibly a concept album - with frontman Justin Walshe recounting earlyAustralian history through his tales of shipwrecks, convicts and colonial settlement - at its heart these songs are also timelessly about Australia at large and the trials and tribulations suffered by the average person as they search for dignity amidst the shifting currents of history.

While their combination of introspective folk and gospel-infused country rock is heightened by effortless progressions, memorable melodies and the intricate stories Walshe’s pen weaves, there is also something in the magic of the telling that compels you to live the story as it’s sung - from the heat of the blaring sun on Promised Land to the feeling of Miss Whisky burning down your throat.

All in all, Walking To China is truly a testament to Walshe’s versatility as a song interpreter - he’s capable of imbuing his songs with real character in a way that few contemporary vocalists can match, accomplishing what many artists have tried and failed to do – capturing the essence of history in song.

_JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

_JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

SEVENDUST Cold Day Memory

RPA & THE UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND United Nations Of Sound EMI

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As part of much loved Scottish outfit The Delgados, Emma Pollock often played second fiddle to Alun Woodward. For her second solo album The Law Of Large Numbers, Pollock has made a record that is said to be a true representation of her muse.

Hug The Harbour pulls all the tricks that Pollock displayed in The Delgados including pounding drums, grandiose arrangement and her distinctive phrasing. It is not all more of the same from Pollock however as she stretches the boundaries the deeper you get into the album. The Loop has Pollock pushing her voice to the forefront of the mix in a moment that sounds more like Feist than expected.

Pollock had a knack for penning the melodic singles and the programmed drums of Confessions, coupled with a more straight ahead approach continues that tradition. The focus on melody makes Confessions leap at the listener without it sounding out of place even when positioned near the piano lead House On The Hill or the bare and acoustic The Child In Me. With a renewed approach Pollock gives more of herself than before during The Law Of Large Numbers. This one sneaks up on you like a schoolyard crush. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

CEO White Magic

Warner Music/Stomp

The tiles of this album’s two opening tracks, Are You Ready and Born Again, leave no doubt that legendary Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft sees this album as somewhat of a comeback. If the triumphant strings of Are You Ready weren’t dramatic enough, there’s also a rousing film clip which involves Ashcroft jogging through a park, air boxing and engaging in general Rocky like pomp.

On United Nations Of Sound however, Ashcroft appears to have taken his reverence for black traditions a step to far. Produced by No ID (known for his work with Jay Z) the album is full of the glossy production quirks loved by R ‘n’ B producers. Track three America would actually be quite at home on a Kanye West record. Ashcroft even manages to sneak in a few cheesy ‘yeah’s’ into the broody intro. Of course, there is nothing wrong with a skinny white geezer blending some R ‘n’ B sensibility into his sound, especially when his new band includes some dudes who have previously played with Mary J Blige and Toni Braxton, but it just comes across as laboured and insincere.

Ashcroft is undeniably one of the songwriters of his generation, but it feels like he is letting the pomp and ceremony of his comeback get in the way of writing decent songs.

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Sincerely Yours/Modular Records

It might come as a surprise to some, but Cold Day Memory marks the eighth studio album from the Atlanta rockers Sevendust, made famous during the infamous Nu-metal days. The album also features the band’s original line-up with the return of guitarist Clint Lowery.

I’m not overly familiar with their backcatalogue, but from what I understand there has been little change in the last 10 or so years. In terms of evolution from the late ‘90s metal sound, Sevendust have become a more straight-forward hard-rock metal band. Cold Day Memory does have an electronic ambient edge similar to Dead Letter Circus’s debut This Is The Warning, which is interesting, as this same quality feels dated in both albums.

Splinter is a decent introduction to the album bringing the heavy, even though the rolling beat has that worn out ‘90s feel to it. The album as a whole however is lacking in variety and standout moments, and what little there is hardly impresses. Every song relies on constant chugging guitars that lack any variety, and when guitar or drum sections are put in the spotlight they hardly impress.

In the end Cold Day Memories is a mixed bag of worn out riffs with the odd entertaining section, but it does little to raise a heartbeat.

_DAVID CRADDOCK

When it comes to the Mecca of Electropop, Sweden is unquestionably the place to be. Sprouting hit-spinners from Lykke Li to Robyn, the recent release of Ceo’s White Magic looks certain to cement the Swedes’ monopoly on the definitive synth genre.

Ceo is the Nom de Plume of Eric Berglund, one-half of dance-electronica duo The Tough Alliance, and while his solo excursion White Magic may lack heft at just over half an hour, it just may be the purest expression of Sweden’s ongoing pop hybridisation to date.

Instead of running from the Balearic Beat style that epitomised TTA, Berglund has tidied up the soft-dance equation, allowing the music to subtly progress while he makes his most sincere argument for his self-developed concept of ‘faith in fantasy’, inviting listeners to join him in the mysterious land that exists only in his head.

From the first beats of opener All Around, White Magic drips with positivity - as shiny dance beats, acoustic guitars, baroque-esque strings and lightly accented, hyper-sanguine vocals come together whimsically to create a perfect brew of head-noddingly infectious jams.

Packing a lot of ideas into a short running length with a flair, confidence and cohesiveness only an artist with Berglund’s pedigree could dispense, White Magic represents a great step forward for this artist and begs for replays.

_BRENDAN HOLBEN _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

BONE Face Prison

NICK WALES & BREE VAN REYK Happy As Larry

TRASH TALK Eyes & Nines Shock

Independent

Mysterious ex-Perthies Bone have long been regarded as very cool, if unassuming, purveyors of scuzzed-out indie punk.

The band are now based in Melbourne, but there’s plenty in this sprawling, slightly demented seven tracker to suggest that the sounds were conceived on the swamps between the desert and the sea.

Perhaps the most notable aspect of this band’s sound is their predilection for complex intertwining riffage, and this is absolutely on display throughout as the guitars meander around one another while the rhythm section jumps around the soundscape. Every conceivable nook and cranny is filled, yet the overall effect is one of subtlety and restraint.

Less interesting perhaps are the vocals, all distorted and atonal, and quite low in the mix, they provide a rhythmic accompaniment to the demented red-wine-and-weed guitar work. As such it’s perhaps a shame that there aren’t any lyrics included in this package, although the utter unintelligibility only serves to fuel the band’s mystique.

A relentlessly imaginative and complex act,Bone have created an interesting debut indeed, and the truly exciting part is that they clearly have the potential for so much more, both sonically and conceptually. Definitely a band to watch, or listen to, preferably loud!

Spurting 10 tracks of quite terrifying (at times) aggression in all directions, Eyes & Nines, the third album from Californian hardcore thrashers Trash Talk, is straight-forward, speed-focused brutal hardcore music which comes with a ‘for-fans-of-the-genreonly’ warning.

At barely 18-minutes total run-time, the overall tone of the album feels deliberately messy, as the band just bashes out its rage-fit growls extremely quickly, ostensibly without regard for subtleties like hooks or song structure.

Unsurprisingly, the music encourages a collective outpouring of aggression. From the first shriek on opener Vultures, Eyes & Nines’ sonic violence certainly packs a punch of inexorable anger, with the rawness of both its production and composition only adding to the antagonism.

Admittedly the band widens their sonic palette to some degree with the relatively lengthy four-and-a-half minute doom-inspired grind of religious terror Hash Wednesday, a slower-paced track which showcases startlingly well-crafted jagged mid-tempo interjections.

Representing a welcome change of pace, on an otherwise breathlessly boisterous album, Hash Wednesday offers a glimpse into the unique and powerful sound which has propelled Trash Talk’s status from angsty punksters to international super-thrash hardcore kings.

_BEN WATSON _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

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Bree Van Reyk may be the most in demand drummer in Australia.

When she is not sitting behind the kit for Holly Throsby or Darren Hanlon, she is playing with an orchestra or accompanying performances of Shakespeare. For Happy As Larry she has teamed up with distinguished producer Greg Wales to provide the soundtrack for Shaun Parker & Company’s latest dance theatre work.

Happy As Larry is a dance piece that explores the Enneagram and the nature of human happiness. As the album kicks off Wales and Van Reyk join forces to create some dreamy ambient electronica. There is some well placed glitch elements on Tsk Tsk and Sweetyheart plays like a music box as Van Reyk combines organic drums, thumb piano and strings for the most soothing of lullabies Towards the second half of the album bigger beats rear their head with Boing and Non Mitt being well suited to a crowded club in Ibiza.

The many programmed flavours of Happy As Larry make it a possible soundtrack for many an adventure.

Happy As Larry needs to be listened to from start to finish to provide the full experience – an attribute that should see it survive well enough outside of the theatre environment. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

Walk The Line, the second single from experimental Melbourne duo Flying Scribble’s debut album We’re A Chameleon, arrived at our office in a colourfully decorated brown paper bag reminiscent of those you’d put your lunch order in for the canteen at primary school.It was then folded in origami like precision around the disc. Points for ace packaging have been duly noted, but where’s my McCain Pizza Single?

The duo’s music is also rather infantile, with jolly junk percussion, glockenspiel, vintage synths, and eerie siren-like vocals darting in and out of a confusing and disorientating mash of instrumental oddity.

This certainly isn’t this scribe’s cup of tea, but those who enjoy Bjork’s wackier moments or even CocoRosie should definitely give it a spin.

Key Track: Walk The Line. _DAVID CRADDOCK

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A dose of Los Angeles’ all-girl brigade L7 at their absolute finest.

The year was 1992 and the golden summer of grunge was at its peak. Nirvana’s Nevermind had dropped a mere six months prior, paving the way for a slew of bands who had lurked in dark corners before the unexpected explosion. Even more stunning was how the movement shoved a bunch of snotty women into the limelight and they gave it the thick middle finger. Babes in Toyland, 7 Year Bitch, The Gits and, of course, the infamous Hole voiced the anti-thesis to patriarchal social norms of the era.

Bricks Are Heavy, the third instalment from these broads, was one raw slab of throbbing pop-rock dirt that left nothing to the imagination. Produced by Butch Vig, this album summed up all the pent-up and pissed off chemistry that made L7 great. Odes to boredom (Pretend We’re Dead), the streets of Hollywood (Wargasm) and the depressive nature of gender roles (Diet Pill) were all left unpolished, always amidst the slurring of Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner’s grimey guitars.

Loud, fast and tough as nails – these girls ain’t definitely no squares.

Key Track: Shitlist _JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

The box office was ambivalent to Kevin Smith’s Zack And Miri Make A Porno, but if you managed to catch the movie you’ll know it actually did a good job of finding the heart amongst the smut.

The new generation of comedy spearheaded by the Judd Apatow stable is the same – it’s peppered with as many fart and dick jokes as any Hollywood comedy written by far lesser minds, but it depicts real people talking and acting the way real people do and eventually touching, seeing or feeling love despite themselves.

Humpday is a comedy about two old friends who decide to make gay porn together on a dare. It stars nobody you’ve heard of, but yes, Josh Leonard is the cameraman from the Blair Witch Project all those years ago.

But in amongst all the embarrassment and mirth surrounding the idea of two heterosexual men sleeping with each other on a dare they find they can’t back down from, filmmaker Lynn Shelton manages to ask some serious questions about relations between the sexes, within marriage and within friendships and exactly where the various boundaries in our lives are.

Another product of the Apatow toolshed, Michael Cera (Superbad) impresses again in the comedy Youth In Revolt. Cera always seems to play the same stuttering, Woody Allenish, self-conscious teenager, so it’s great fun to see him play dual roles, one a bad version of himself telling the other he has to cultivate more of a sense of risk and danger to get the girl he loves.

Humpday (Madman) Micmacs (Hopscotch) Youth In Revolt (Roadshow) Room With A View (Umbrella, Blu-ray) _DREW TURNEY

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If you love getting behind the wheel then you won’t want to miss out on Auto Salon, a celebration of all things fast and furious at the Perth Convention And Exhibition Centre.

Taking place this Saturday, July 24, and Sunday, July 25, Auto Salon will showcase a range of top notch vehicles including Japan’s Jun Evo X, the Vibe Dredd and Twisted Metal’s Landbruiser.

Once you’ve checked out the cars, challenge yourself to a walk through the bass tunnel, a space kitted out with 36 subwoofers and 16 amplifier outputs making for 38,800 watts of ear-shattering bass. For the full rundown on everything that’s happening at Auto Salon, head to autosalon.com.au.

The folks from Twisted Vaudeville invite you to join them for a night of cabaret and burlesque that will titillate and terrify! On Saturday, July 31, Twisted Vaudeville will take over the Fly By Night in Fremantle for Dark Cabaret, a travelling side show featuring burlesque beauties, acrobats, contortionists and drag artists. With sets from avant garde performers such as Ash Baroque, Jon Madd, Modesty Env and Penny Dreadful, Dark Cabaret promises to tantalise all in attendance. Doors open at 7.30pm, tickets are on sale now from flybynight.org.

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Scott-Patrick Mitchell features in a recently published collection of poetry, Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets, released through Fremantle Press.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a poet. And from an early age he knew enough to know it. But it wasn’t exactly poetry calling to him from an early age…

“Short fiction was, actually,” he recalls.

“Terrible short fiction... well terrible in the sense that mad things would happen and then everybody would wake up and have some cornflakes.

“Poetry didn’t happen until Year 8 English here in Australia - I moved over from England at the age of 11 - thanks to one Miss Hull who asked us to write a mini-anthology of poetry.

I think I wrote it in two days, basing a lot of it on Walt Whitman, asking my brother to illustrate it all for me. The A+ spurred me on. I haven’t been able to shake it since. I’ll return to short fiction one day, just without the cornflakes.”

Mitchell is an impassioned poet, furtive and available in the sense that you can often see him performing it. He likes what it is to be a poet in WA in 2010, recently winning the 2010 Poetry Slam final. For some writers/poets it’s all about the page, yet performance is also key to Mitchell. His poetry has a double life… “ Yes, it does,” he laughs, “good observation. There’s the more literary end, which has a certain linguistic density. But the performance stuff has a wry sense of comedy muddled up with sharp storytelling and a charged eroticism.

“I like the idea of polarities, of travelling along spectrums and axis’... I feel that’s what the scope of my poetry essentially does.”

Mitchell is currently immersed in a Masters of Creative Arts in Performance Poetry at WAAPA. There’s much to learn about poetry but also about what kind of artist he is.

“It is early days, but I like how I’m preparing myself for the challenge,” Mitchell says.

“It’s again a duality: a tension of intellectual rigour and then a looseness of self for the performance side. I like that I’m going to be pushing my own boundaries and discovering what makes performance poetry tick, examining its accessibility versus its obscurity.”

A selection of Mitchell’s work appears in the just-released book, Fremantle Poets

Scott-Patrick Mitchell

1: New Poets, a collection which also features two other emerging West Australian poets in Emma Rooksby and J.P. Quinton. Each has a collection in the book, of around over 40 poems each. Mitchell says it’s a good reflection of emerging poetry in Australia in general, but his theme is quite specific in this collection.

“Are you familiar with ink splots?” he asks. “They are called Rorschach ink tests, where you take an ink splot and interrupt it, seeing clouds or horses or such within the inky silhouettes. This collection is based on them. It explores a mirror image of human experience, with the person travelling through nature into society. Very nature versus nurture. It explores love, nature, sex and the urban experience through these different prisms, dipping in and out of a density of language. Very mathematical and concise, yet experimental too, the complexity complimented by sincerity. I think readers will particularly enjoy the nature poems and the later love poems.”

Poetry is a passion, but Mitchell is all about words across the board. A one-time X-Press Magazine contributor, he also writes for Out In Perth, is part of the Cottonmouth collective and has a blog at motherhaswords.blogspot.com. But as all writers know, a book carries a fair bit of weight and he does have hopes for it.

“I hope that people read it and enjoy it and that they come to appreciate the breadth of voices present within,” he says. “More than anything, I hope it inspires others to write. At its core that’s what I hope it truly achieves.”

In that case do you have any tips for those considering wielding the pen?

“Do it. Write. Keep a blank-paged journal.

Read others. Re-write their poems in your own voice so you come to understand their style.

Experiment. Learn about chance operations. Read.

But more than anything write and write from a place of inspiration, not self gain. And don’t give up. Persist persist persist. Rejection letters are part of the trade. But then so are great opportunities.”

For more about Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets head to www.fremantlepress.com.au. _ BOB GORDON

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INCEPTION Frontier Psychiatry

PREDATORS Rumble In The Jungle

Directed by Christopher Nolan conceit, rather than being artificially inserted Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph into the flow.

Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Coming from such a master of Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy structure, the metaphysical framework is as tight as a drum; while not capturing the Success can be poison. More than one director, real feeling of dreaming, Nolan’s nested-box when handed the keys to the magic factory, has psychic universe runs on a set of logical and dropped the ball in a spectacular fashion; look deliberate rules, all of which come together in at what Richard Kelly did with the ambitious a series of impressive payoffs in the third act. In but terminally flawed Southland Tales. Now, particular, Nolan uses the concept of dreamsafter he made them more money than God within-dreams running at different time rates with The Dark Knight, Warner Brothers decided to marvellous effect, building a climactic action to let Nolan do pretty much whatever he sequence that must be seen to be believed. felt like with his next project, and there was It’s invigorating to see such an a danger of a similar spill; complete artistic auteur piece flourish in a production system freedom is a heady brew. Happily, Nolan has a that so often seems to have devolved into firmer grip on both his ego and his craft. self-reflexivity and redundancy; Inception is a Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) and his merry natural extension of Nolan’s existing body of band of back-alley brain hackers specialise work, and all his usual concerns are at play here: in information retrieval by the most devious notions of identity and the self, the subjective means: infiltrating their mark’s dreams to nature of reality, themes of control and selfsteal ideas. Mysterious businessman Saito awareness, and of course the art and beauty wants them to take it up a level and actually of the con. This is no mere blockbuster, but the put a new idea into the head of corporate heir work of a real artist pursuing his key artistic Fischer (Murphy), and so the caper is on. goals; the only difference is, working at this That’s pretty much all the plot that’s level, Nolan gets to use all the toys in the box. fit to print; like so many of Nolan’s previous Multilayered, exquisitely detailed, films (Memento and The Prestige spring audacious in its ambition and thrilling in its immediately to mind) this is a puzzle box of execution, Inception is quite simply the best a film, and a lot of the pleasure in watching mainstream film of the year. It’s a work that it comes from how skilfully Nolan doles out will reward multiple viewings and is already information. Which is not to say that this is just fuelling multiple interpretations. Any serious a cerebral headscratcher; with two Bat-flicks fan of cinema owes it to themselves to run for under his belt, Nolan is comfortable with action the multiplex for this one - it’s in a league of its sequences. What is most impressive is how his own. action beats develop organically, tethered to both characterisation and metaphysical _TRAVIS JOHNSON

Inception

Predators

Directed by Nimrod Antal Starring Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo

film serves as an easy entry point for newcomers to the series, there are enough references to the original film - the minigun, the musical cues, the mud - to bring a smile to the faces of long-time fans.

Now this is how you reboot a franchise. The Robert Predictability is a bit of a problem, Rodriguez-produced Predators wisely jettisons though. With most of the character types so three films worth of regrettable dross and returns obviously telegraphed and the actions beats to series to its testosterone-soaked roots. It almost essentially aping the first film, there are moments functions as complete remake; the only major when Predators seems overly familiar. However, the difference between this film and the original is film moves so fast that a new scene appears before that, while the ‘87 model had an alien hunter any complaints can begin to fester in the mind, stalking an elite military unit on earth, here we and you’re already distracted by someone being see a disparate group of badasses perfunctorily shot, speared, sliced, blown up or decapitated. A dropped on an alien world to re-enact the same few left-of-field character choices also help; Walton basic plot. It’s not exactly The Godfather Part II, but Goggins gets all the best lines as a foul-mouthed it was never meant to be. death row inmate, while Laurence Fishburne, The necessary plot setup is dealt with as playing a soldier who’s been hiding out on the efficiently as possible, and 10 minutes into the film Predators’ game-preserve plant for years, takes a we already know everything we need to about potentially boring part and runs off in a completely the characters: Adrien Brody’s Royce is our hero, unexpected direction.

Alice Braga’s Israeli sniper is probably too attractive What we have here is a perfect piece to die, the rest of cast lie somewhere along the of popcorn entertainment; a sequence of wellspectrum from ‘coolly efficient’ to ‘psychotically crafted action setpieces whose fundamentally unstable’, and we should probably keep an eye dumb central conceit is rendered invisible by on Topher Grace, ‘cause there’s no way he’s just a relentless forward momentum and a commitment doctor. Everyone is sketched in the lightest, most to being as entertaining as possible at any given archetypal terms, and that’s fine; Predators knows moment. It’s a throwback to the bloodthirsty films it’s a B movie with an inflated budget, and has the of the 80s, something we need in the wake of a good sense to embrace that ethos. decade of wire-fu, bullet time, and Bourne-inspired Director Antal (Vacancy, Armored) reluctant killers. After a lean year of anaemic and keeps things ticking over at a cracking pace, and underwhelming action flicks, Predators easily refreshingly stages his action sequences in such a stands out as the best bang for your buck. way that we can actually tell what’s happening on screen - there’s no shaky cam here. And while the _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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CLAIRE MCCARTHY & DENSON BAKER Waiting Gracefully

The Waiting City is the first Australian film to be shot entirely in India. On a recent visit to Perth, director Claire McCarthy and cinematographer Denson Baker gave X-Press Magazine a look inside the making of the film. The Waiting City is now screening at Luna Leederville.

“We realised we had to embrace the chaos.”

Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy took a pragmatic approach to being on location in India for the entire shooting of her recent feature, The Waiting City. Working with a cast of 120 Indian crew and 10 Australians in the massive urban metropolis that is Calcutta isn’t the type of challenge most first-time feature filmmakers would choose to take on, but McCarthy isn’t most filmmakers; for someone so young to have achieved such a feat, yet still display a complete lack of ego is refreshing.

“We knew that the process was going to be something that we had to build into,”shares McCarthy, “We couldn’t be result orientated, we had to be liquid and adaptable, and know that things would shift and move, but still be able to maintain our vision. That was probably our biggest challenge; how to get what we want without bullying our way into it, making sure the filmmaking process was graceful; respectful of where we were.”

The Waiting City tells the story of an Australian couple, Fiona and Ben (played by Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton) who travel to India to claim an adopted daughter, Lakshmi.

While waiting for beuracratic matters to clear,

the couple explore a foreign country rich in beliefs and values, and are led to look inwards to examine their own relationship and beliefs as prospective parents.

“My intention was to look at the judgements you bring in situations of cultural divides, and also to examine the things that bind us together as humans,” shares McCarthy of her script.“That paradox of what is a common, shared experience, as opposed to what is unique and particular to where you come from.

The Waiting City was developed after McCarthy spent significant time living and working in India, as she tells. “I went to India firstly with my younger sister. We went for three months, during which we did volunteer work for Mother Theresa’s nuns. We then returned again a year later. It was really confronting and transformative for both of us. It was a shell shock, but we were really embraced by the city, met a lot of friends, and also, through the nuns, met a lot of couples who were exploring adoption, and about to meet their kids.”

McCarthy continues to explain the genesis of the film. “I started to become quite interested in what was going on in these couples’ relationships, where were they at, emotionally, what had happened to them during that waiting period. The little filmmaker mouse in my head was thinking about it in terms of an interesting idea for a film. Upon my return to Australia, I continued to research and interview couples who’d adopted from India and other countries.”

After four years of script development, The Waiting City was born. The film’s cinematographer, Denson Baker (a former Perth boy and McCarthy’s husband) speaks of building the film’s visual style via a multitude of research trips to India to scout and frame locations.

“Calcutta is such a city of diverse culture and rich history. I didn’t want the film’s visuals to relay a tourism campaign, some kind of picturesque, ‘Welcome To India’ type thing. I wanted the film’s visual language to capture that feeling of being a stranger in a new place - you perhaps get up early at dawn, walk the streets, and notice those new little things.”

Baker continues: “We did find that the Indians had a different idea as to what the locations would look like. With the Bollywood film style being so prevalent, they have more of a commercial viewpoint: we’d go to shoot and they’d start sweeping up and we’d be like ‘nah nah, keep it as it is, keep it real.’ Once they realised that we just wanted to embrace the reality, it was much easier.”

Cain Rose Up

ROBERT LIVINGS Behind The Lens

to do something outside my comfort zone, to revisit that passion for old movies that I originally wanted to make like anyone else, I guess.

It’s a strange and rare kind of ambition, or at least youthful audacity, which allows a young Perth filmmaker to connect with one of the most popular novelists in history. Cain Rose Up director Robert Livings takes us through the process by which he wound up directing a Stephen King adaptation.

How’d you raise the capital?

We actually left it til about a month before we started filming. We looked at how much money you can make from fundraising and hiring cinemas, and it’s just not an easy process. So I sent an email out via Facebook to a load of friends and family, people who might be willing to help out, even people What was the inception of this project?

I’d read the Skeleton Crew collection I haven’t spoken to in a while. Within four as well as a lot of other King stuff when I was days we’d raised $1600. in high school, and then, I think it was my first day at TAFE in Northbridge, a lecturer What challenges did shooting a period mentioned something about this Dollar piece present?

Finding a school to shoot at was Baby deal. I contacted them straight away, and didn’t hear anything for a couple of difficult. Our original intention was using years. I’d follow it up every six months, send UWA. Now I have no regrets; I think St them an email, see how it’s going along. Hilda’s was amazing. Obviously the storm Then after the shittest shoot of my life, the kind of screwed us up a bit at UWA; they’d worst week ever as a producer, I got the cancelled any exterior stuff that was going contract to write the script, and it kind of on while they were rebuilding the school. turned a bad into a good. But it’s something I guess finding locations was the main I always wanted to do. You can make a short problem. Once we’d locked in St Hilda’s, it film, but they’re a hard way to get known, was amazing. and I noticed there’s a lot of Dollar Babies that have been made in America but only What was your casting process like?

Casting was quite long, I think the one’s been shot in Australia a few years ago, but it’s never been seen by anyone, it’s actors will tell you that. In the end we had obviously never been finished, so I thought, 27 direct auditions just for the lead role, and there was another 36 for the other roles, and well, we’ll try and jump on that wagon. it was a three week haul where we needed What was it that attracted you to this to get it all done. My advice is to be picky with casting - if you have to push shooting particular story?

When I read it in high school this back, do it. With every short film I’ve done, was obviously at the time when films like and the majority I’ve seen, there’s always Zero Day and Elephant were emerging, and one thing that an actor says that just puts it Bowling For Columbine followed a trend in off, and I think we’ve avoided that with this that sense, but after that I kind of assumed one.

I’d never make it. I want to make family, kids’ _DANIELLE MARSLAND movies, and this gave me the opportunity _TRAVIS JOHNSON

GREENBERG Midlife Malaise

Directed by Noah Baumbach Starring Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Messina I t ’s a l w ay s i n te re s t i n g - i f n o t a l w ay s successful - when a comedian tackles a dramatic role. It seems to be something that a lot of high-end comedy actors feel dutybound to attempt at least once, as a cursory examination of the careers of Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler can attest to. Director Noah Baumbach seems to be making a habit of using funnymen in serious roles, having previously cast Jack Black in Margot At The Wedding. Now he’s giving Ben Stiller a chance to show off his acting chops as the titular forty-something slacker.

R o g e r G re e n b e rg i s a w a l k i n g portrait of failed ambition. Recuperating from a failed suicide attempt while housesitting for his brother in Los Angeles, he

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Greenberg attempts to reconnect with old friends such his ex-girlfriend Beth (Leigh) and former bandmate Ivan (Ifans), but finds that they lack the deep dissatisfaction with life that plagues him. He begins an awkward, halting romance with his brother’s assistant, Florence

(Gerwig), but even that human connection has a hard time flourishing in the face of Greenberg’s bitter misanthropy.

Stiller does an excellent job, damping down his natural amiability to give us a character who, at least initially, is fundamentally unlikeable. It’s only as the film progresses and Greenberg’s layers are slowly peeled away that we start to see the root causes for his ennui; apparently, back in the ’90s, he ruined a record deal that his band had been offered, and it turned out to be the only big chance they were ever going to get. Although the other characters involved have been able to move on, Greenberg still harbours a deep-seated guilt over the incident.

For a film that is essentially about regret, missed opportunities, and coping with mediocrity, Greenberg possesses a deep vein of black humour. It’s cringe comedy, though, the humour of embarrassment pioneered by Larry David and perfected by Ricky Gervais, so

your enjoyment of the humour will depend largely on your appreciation of that style. All up, Baumbach does a good job of balancing the comic and the tragic, each tempering the other to give us a balanced portrait of Greenberg’s situation.

As a c h a ra c te r s t u d y, t h e f i l m lacks a strong narrative thrust, presenting a loosely linked series of events rather than a tightly plotted story, and viewers wanting something faster paced are advised to look elsewhere; this meandering contemplation of midlife existential crisis rewards longer attention spans. Greenberg celebrates the small victories, the quiet achievements and the tiny moments of human empathy that connect us.

It’s Baumbach’s ability to find things worth championing in the banal and everyday that makes the film worth looking at, and those who can appreciate his unique worldview will not be disappointed by this latest offering. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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HOME IS WHERE MY HEART IS Home Time Home Is Where My Heart Is opens on Thursday, August 5, and runs til Sunday, August 15, at 834 Hay Street in Perth (opposite His Majesty’s Theatre).

the poignancy of the images. You’ll find that every single young person, regardless of how they became homeless, has a real desire to have a home, to have a place to belong, and that is really the strength of the exhibition.

A part of National Homeless Persons Week, Home Is Where My Heart Is is a unique photographic exhibition that showcases the work that emerges from mentoring partnerships between up and coming photographers and homeless youth. Both provocative and informative, it addresses the theme of ‘home’ from a unique perspective: that of those who have been deprived of theirs. YACWA representative Lisa Lachon was good enough to let us in on the process behind this remarkable and challenging exhibition.

What’s the background on the Home Is Where My Heart Is project?

Home Is Where My Heart Is started in 2008 and we felt at that time, in 2007 actually when I started, that there just wasn’t enough of a spotlight on the huge numbers of young people who are homeless in this state, and we wanted to find a way for those young peoples’ stories to be told, because we know that it doesn’t matter how many stats you have, how much data, how many pie graphs, how many people at a government level talk about an issue, it’s actually when you hear real stories from those who are experiencing an issue, that the reality of that really comes through for people.

And for young people that are homeless, they are really disengaged from school, they’re disengaged from work, they’re the kids you see hanging around in Forrest Place, and nobody wants to talk about it, nobody wants to know. But, at the heart of each of those kids’ stories is something that we need to know about, and it’s something that really resonates with all of us, and that’s about a sense of wanting to belong somewhere, and they want to have a sense of home.

So the premise of the project is really simple - it’s about hearing the voices of young people who are homeless, and we’ve developed this project whereby young people are mentored by a young emerging photographer. The young person says ‘this is what home means to me’ and that photographer and the young person work

How do the young people participating in the project react to it?

It’s really interesting. It’s really important to us that the young people who participate really know what they’re doing there. They’re often young people who are really interested in photography. They often want their stories to be told, and also often want to advocate on behalf of other young people. Our premise is that you just have a really fun day, you know? You just go out and for a day, for a few hours, you don’t have to worry about where you’re gonna sleep that night, what you’re gonna eat.

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together to get those images, and then those images are produced, an exhibition happens.

Then those images are sold, and the profit from the sale of those images goes back to the services that supported the young people who are homeless. So really that’s kind of the kicker of the project, because those young people really feel that they are giving back to a place that supported them, and it’s often one of the first times that those young people are really acknowledged in a positive way, for simply just existing.

So it’s a deliberate effort to give disadvantaged youth a sense of agency?

Absolutely. It’s about voices and stories being heard, so you’ll see the images are really poignant. We wanted to get rid of a lot of those stereotypical images of young people who are homeless. You’ll see that there are some graffitied alleys and stuff like that, there are a few squats - that is what we would imagine is the reality for these young people.

But really beyond that, you’ll find that these images are supported with a very short story about what home means to them, and that’s

What kind of support are you getting from the Perth photographic community?

The Perth photographic community is brilliant. They come, they support - they don’t always buy - but they appreciate. And they feed back to the young people about the art, the photography, and that’s what’s really important. This is not a point and shoot exhibition; this is an exhibition of absolutely beautiful images. You’ll see that they have a real artistic integrity that people can enjoy.

There’s a real sense of professionalism within the images, and I think that the photographic community really respond to that.

And how endemic is the homeless problem in WA? It’s really difficult to qualify, the reason being that the stats that we use are from 2006. And when the census was taken in 2006 we didn’t necessarily have assessors who were counting those who were sleeping rough. So really, it’s very difficult , but the numbers we work with at the moment are about five and a half thousand young people homeless in Western Australia.

What’s the end goal for this project?

This is really about community awareness raising, that’s it. Ultimately, I wish we didn’t have this exhibition; I wish we had no photos there, I wish we had no stories of homelessness. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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VISUAL ARTS Subtle, Free Range Gallery, 339 Wellington Street, Perth.

Subtle investigates the notion of the self as a constructed and mediated state in an exhibition of individual and collaborative work that merges painting and video. Featuring works by Jacqui Monks and Nathan Peake, Subtle combines two divergent practices to explore similar philosophical terrain, merging video projection that contains the filmic body, and reflective monochrome painting.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, July 24, and runs ’til Saturday, July 31.

Darkrooming, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle.

Over 3,000 components glow and oscillate in Darkrooming, an eerie installation by Melbourne artist Vera Möller. By contrasting the real and the imagined, Möller mutates the natural and illusory in this cabinet of curiosities. Her exhibition is a collection of hypothetical life forms that seem like they’ve been plucked from under the deepest of seas. Her specimens are inspired to blur the boundaries between natural, artificial and illusory life forms.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, July 24, and runs ’til Sunday, September 19.

Romance was Born and Issey Miyake feature alongside high profile practitioners to exhibit their most innovative and sustainable garments and textiles. Source, make, use and last: Fashioning Now shows ways to minimise environmental harm in the fashion industry.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, July 24, and runs ’til Sunday, September 19.

Mind The Gap, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, 46 Henry Street, Fremantle.

For anyone who has travelled on the London Underground system, the public address announcement to ‘Mind the Gap!’ is an indelible memory of that experience. Time spent in faraway cities leaves an imprint on us, and it is this residue which interests North Perth artist, Kate Koivisto Wheeler.

Exhibition opens at 6pm on Friday, July 30, and runs ’til Sunday, August 8.

Human Selection, Elements Art Gallery, 131A Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith.

Award winning sculptor Ken Sealey presents his first solo show Human Selection, continuing his investigation of the properties of the lightweight aluminium composite cladding. Most often utilised in the construction of buildings, Sealey cuts, etches, distresses and layers his aluminium composite cladding in a most inventive and inimitable fashion.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, August 1.

Puturru Palyalpayi – Stringmakers, Holmes à Court Gallery, 1/11 Brown Street, East Perth.

In 2009, the International Year of Natural Fibre and the International Year of Reconciliation, an artist’s exchange project was arranged, enabling three established female artists from the coastal plains of Perth, to visit senior women artists from the remote community of Warburton in the Gibson Desert. Together the women camped out for 10 days in the bush where they experimented with natural bush dyes and various materials to explore colour and texture.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, August 8.

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Side Tripper, Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle.

Colourist and graphic photographer Simon Cowling presents his second solo exhibition Side Tripper – An Unreliable Memoir of travel photographs with a difference from the Middle East, Europe and America. The joy of travelling and photographing unfamiliar countries is, for Cowling, derived from the visually unexpected, quirky, strange or just downright silly.

These images or ‘postcards’ are a combination of luscious colours, unusual compositions and beautiful textures to make the often times mundane memorable.

Exhibition opens at 6pm on Friday, July 29, and runs ’til Sunday, August 29.

Rounds, PICA, James Street, Northbridge.

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

Exhibition runs ’til Wednesday, August 25.

Plasticity, Heathcote Museum & Gallery, 58-60 Duncraig Road, Applecross.

Featuring works from Minaxi May and Dawn Gamblen, Plasticity captures the essence of plastic as a vibrantly colourful material that conveys notions of the artificial and inorganic whilst also being undeniably flexible in its use and purpose.

Centering on ideas around collecting, artful The Glomesh Project by display, consumerism, process and the experiential Nairn Scott (detail), 2009 Get smART, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin nature of art, the artists create sculptural sitespecific arrangements using easily identifiable, yet The Glomesh Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, University, Bentley.

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With over 60 new works from established artists, banal, purposeful ‘ready-mades’ (everyday found Sydney-based artist Nairn Scott presents an Get smART features an array of ceramics, paintings, and collected objects) in the form of synthetic exhibition concerned with value, status – and drawings, sculptures, objects, photographs, prints materials including straws, cups and spray can lids.

Exhibition opens on Friday, July 23, and gold. The Glomesh Project is a glorious display of and audio visual works. The exhibition showcases Scott’s fascination with gold, the international the work of artists who have exhibited their runs ’til Sunday, August 29. symbol for wealth. Scott has collected a miscreations at the gallery since its inception in 1998, matched jumble of items in an installation of or are part of the Curtin University Art Collection.

100 individually printed works. Valuable gold Exhibition runs ’til Friday, August 13.

Yellow Moon, PICA, James Street, Northbridge. fob watches and lavish candelabra sit alongside Lee is a cocky teenager who seems to attract gloriously cheap nick-nacks from the $2 Shop.

Your Reference To More Gracious Living, PICA, trouble, silent Leila’s a 17 year-old Muslim girl Scott has meticulously photographed each James Street, Perth. looking for a way to fit in. She spends her Friday object and printed its image on handgilded In Your Reference To More Gracious Living, Bevan nights lost in the blurry universe of glossy paper, applying the same fine process Honey presents an ambitious new body of work celebrity magazines, Lee stealing booze from the regardless of monetary worth. that interrogates cycles of boom and bust, failed supermarket. They never meant to get mixed Exhibition opens on Saturday, July 24, building projects and consumerist fetishes. With up in a murder, but after Billy Logan is killed, the and runs ’til Sunday, September 19. a title that refers to Australian Better Homes and teenagers are on the run and need a place to hide.

Fashioning Now, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Gardens magazines of the ’60s and ’70s, Honey’s As the winter closes in, Leila and Lee take flight to latest exhibition builds on his interest in modernist the Scottish Highlands.

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Season opens on Friday, August 6, and Fashioning Now is an international exhibition that utopias.

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Love Songs For Future Girl, The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street, Northbridge.

Rock ‘n’ roll funnyman Zack Adams has just discovered the girl he thought was ‘the one’ is not.

Dumped, depressed and slightly drunk, the actor/ comedian figures if you can’t laugh at yourself, then you may as well let an audience do it. This all new show takes audiences on a musical comedy journey through love, loss, heartbreak, growing bad ginger beards and much more in between as he embarks on a quest for ‘the actual one’, wherever she may be.

Season opens on Wednesday, August 11, and runs ’til Saturday, August 28. Bookings through the Blue Room on (08) 9227 7005 or blueroom.org.au.

MUSIC Black Sorrows, July 30 Charles Hotel; bookings through BOCS Pavel Haas Quartet, August 4 Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. Clare Bowditch, August 5 ArtBar; bookings through BOCS. Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, August 5-8 Various venues;bookings through Heatseeker.

Ingrid James & Trudy Kerr, August 6-7 Ellington Jazz Club; bookings through venue (08) 9228 1088.

WAYJO Winter Nites, August 13 Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. David Campbell, August 14 Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. The Dingoes, August 21- 22 Various venues; bookings through BOCS. Darren Hanlon, August 21 Fly By Night; bookings via flybynight.org.

Gina Williams, August 26-28 DownStairs At The Maj; bookings through BOCS.

SIXTHOUSAND BOMB GOES OFF Young artists and hipsters gathered en masse on Friday night for the screening of street art documentary Bomb It!, as part of Perth’s Revelation Film Festival. Local online subcultural guide to Perth, sixthousand.com.au, threw a happening pre-party for the film, with free Gage Roads beer, tunes from Cut & Paste DJs, art murals from local collective Last Chance Studios, and a goods stall from The Butcher Shop. Director Jon Reiss flew in from California to introduce his film and answer audience questions in a Q & A afterwards.

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Hip hop fans, listen up! Over 20 local hip hop artists will come together for a celebration of Australian hip hop culture in a new, explosive music event – Kings Of Perth. Running across two stages, indoors and outdoors, at the Rosemount Hotel, Kings Of Perth will feature DJ sets and multi-deck, battle style action. On the line up so far are Optamus, playing as a full, three-piece live act, Porsah Laine, Downsyde’s Dazastah, MC Hunter, Mortar, Xzakt, Bitter Belief, Knowledge Bones, Delta Force, Mathas and Wolverine. Adding frenzy to the fire will be breakdancers, live street art, and DJs Armee, Fdel, Charlie Bucket, Selekt, Adroc, LStreet and Carlsani (Drapht) on the decks. Tickets are $30 plus booking fee from www.moshtix.com.au or www.heatseeker.com.au. More tickets on the door. Kings Of Perth is on Friday, August 20, at the Rosemount Hotel.

It’s been a year that Knowledge Music has been kicking around the traps now, bringing us a primo selection of hip hop and dubstep events.

For their first birthday celebrations, Knowledge are pulling out all the stops, bringing over the one and only DJ Marky to Villa for a ball busting party. Mild mannered Brazilian DJ Marky has been in the game for over twenty years – his club residency in his home town Sao Paulo witnessed Marky get caught up in the jungle movement of the mid ‘90s, which went on to become his consuming passion. After years of consistent touring, Marky is one of the most revered and coveted DJs in the world, with almost 100 releases in various formats, including some very high profile remixes for the likes of Everything But The Girl, Calude Von Stroke, Fatboy Slim and Deadmau5. Head to Villa on Saturday, August 21, to catch Marky doing his thang, with support from ShockOne, QBik and Muller. Tickets on sale now for $45 plus booking fee (first release) from moshtix. com.au and all Moshtix outlets. For more info, head on over to knowledgemusic.com.au.

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SPUR OF THE O’BIR MOMENT Having enjoyed an illustrious history of huge, sold out nights with Australian fans in some of the nation’s biggest venues for well over a decade, Godskitchen returns in October 2010 to do it all again. As well as the already announced acts Andy Moor, John O’Callaghan, Marcel Woods and Wippenberg, Godskitchen will be bringing Jon O’Bir along for the ride. Jon O’Bir is a name that’s been splashed across the industry since he catapulted to the front of the line in 2002. From a successful residency with Godskitchen, alongside some of the world’s biggest stars including Paul Van Dyk, Sasha and Tiesto, O’Bir became one of the selected DJs for Radio One’s The Residency shows in 2006. O Bir has played some of the world’s most respected events including Global Gathering, Radio One’s One Big Weekend and Gatecrasher to name just a select few. His release Ways & Means became one of the biggest selling tracks of 2008 on Beatport. He’s a hot choice for artists Paul Van Dyk, Giuseppe Ottaviani, John O’Callaghan and Aly & Fila when it comes to remixing. Catch O’Bir and friends on Friday, October 8, at Metro City.

Early bird tickets are $70 plus booking fee (or until sold out), thereafter $85 plus booking fee, from Ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100, inthemix. com.au, 78 Records, Mills Records, Live Clothing, Planet Video, www.mellenevents.com and www. futureentertainment.com.au.

KEEP HOLDEN’ ON British techno sorcerer and psychedelic shaman, James Holden, brings his adventurous, progressive, electronic sounds to Perth this weekend. Head of the zeitgeistdefining label Border Community, which boasts fellow forward thinkers Nathan Fake and Extrawelt on its roster, Holden can count himself amongst that very modern breed of DJ with a special knack for layering the most surprising of records with an unparalleled musical ear. His status as a freespirit unconstrained by genre or scene is now championed by independent stalwart !K7, who have called upon Holden to deliver the next installment in their definitive mix series DJ Kicks. Head to Ambar this Friday, July 23, to catch Holden playing his DJ Kicks selections live. Support from Declan, Aaran F, Progress Inn and James Francis. Door sales are $35 or guarantee your spot by pre-buying your ticket for $30 plus booking fee at moshtix.com.au or from Planet, Mills and 78s. Doors open 10pm.

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DANCING IN THE DARK An exclusive night where only patrons who are on the invite list and members will be able to gain entry, Hush Saturdays ensures that only the well dressed, well behaved, well mannered and well connected party goers are protected to enjoy a Saturday night in comfort and security. Opening at 9pm, the Hush lounge will have a relaxed chilled vibe where you will hear old school R & B jams, ‘80s classics, funk, disco and ‘90s hip hop, while enjoying a special cocktail from the cocktail bar or a delicious pizza. Then later, at 11pm, the nightclub room will be the place to let you hair down and get your Saturday late night dance fix - all the latest and hottest R&B, hip hop, pop and electro mash ups will be spun by some of Perth’s biggest club names. This Saturday, Hush has a very special guest – DJ Nacho Pop from Australia’s So You Think You Can Dance?. Read our interview with the man himself in this week’s issue of Salt. Only people who are lucky enough to be on the Hush Saturdays list each week will be allowed entry, therefore the club is not open to the general public. To get on this list, head to www.hushsat. com and complete the application form. Saturday, July 24, Shape, East Perth. Entry for those on the guest list is $10 before 11pm, or $15 after 11pm.

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Ascension is a new trance night all about celebrating a new era of trance that’s happening in Perth, with Perth’s hottest DJs combining forces to offer a surreal trance experience. Following the huge success of the last two instalments, the latest edition of Ascension is ready and roaring to go this weekend, featuring Perth’s #1 trance DJ (and Salt columnist!) DJ Jason Creek, who will be playing alongside Symbiosis (live set), Gary Watson (Machine Events), Avesta and Stefan Milanov and Drewz (both of whom are making their Rise debut on the evening). Saturday, July 24, Rise, Northbridge. Door sales only from 9.30pm, with free entry prior to 10pm.

Diplo’s label Mad Decent has become synonymous with forward-thinking dancefloor smashers from the likes of Boy 8-Bit, Rusko, South Rakkas Crew and Major Lazer; whilst Trouble & Bass has been taking out the competition with bass heavyweights Drop the Lime, AC Slater, Rico Tubbs and more. Get ready for a night of bone crushing beats as two of the world’s baddest bass peddlers go head to head at Perth’s home of the underground. Repping for Trouble & Bass is Los Angeles’ electro god Johnny Love, AKA Deathface, formerly of Guns ‘N’ Bombs (who you may remember from various Kitsune compilations). Johnny has moved into darker, dubbier territory, having recently dropped an EP of electro/dubstep hybrids on T&B. With remixes and collabs under his belt with the likes of Santogold, Evil 9, AC Slater and Brodinski, UK’s Mumdance is also about to drop EPs on both Mad Decent and Trouble & Bass, and he’ll join Deathface Mono Lisa for a night of crazy dancefloor action. Support from Shockone, Kit Pop vs Zeke, Rekab and PLACE FOR BASS Clomas. Friday, September 10, at Ambar. Tickets on sale now for $25 plus booking fee from Head down to Mojo’s this Saturday night for www.moshtix.com.au, Planet Video, Mills and Bass Boutique VII, a night of hand picked tunes selected by Perth’s finest DJs. Mono Moshtix outlets. Doors open 10pm.

Lisa, fresh from tearing up Ambar at Japan 4 as well as ripping up her fun ‘n’ funky breaks blend all across town, will be headlining. She’ll be joined by 2 Fat DJs, who recently received triple j airplay for their Heatstroke EP, as well as being voted #3 Tech House DJs at the PDMAs. DJ Grantley Hyde from the Destination imprint rounds out the line up. First 20 in the door get 2 Fat DJs’ new mix CD. Entry is $10 from 8pm.

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SHUFFLE BUG In 2007 The Aston Shuffle climbed all the way to #1 in the Aria charts with their hit For Everyone. Their remix of Pnau’s Baby also held the coveted #1 position, giving them two top ten singles in the chart at the same time. No Australian based super android duo has ever achieved this in ARIA music history!

Now their dynamic nu-rave sound has spread to dancefloors not just in Australia, but worldwide, with the duo having supported the likes of Digitalism, Justice, Busy P and Jesse Rose to name a few. Here’s your chance to check in with The Aston Shuffle: they’re playing on Friday, July 30, at Limelite, Metro Freo. Support from DJ Zelimir and Jus Haus?.

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RAS G SONIC BLISS Ras G is the DJ’s DJ. He’s not into fads or a special formula. Ultimately, he is a spiritual if not magnanimous individual who is at peace with himself and the world around him.

Hailing from the city of angels, Gregory Shorter Jr – or Ras G for short – is totally in his element. RZ talks to him about his first visit to the land down under.

Ras G anything it wills to be. During the creation there was no set sound direction; when I’m creating with Ras G is a permanent fixture on the the A.S.P we just go there and do it.” underground hip hop scene in California and Release wise, the great man is working he admits that he is a proud resident of South on his follow up to Ghetto Sci Fi – a new LP titled Central Los Angeles. A difficult neighborhood at Spacebase Is The Place; but not to be outdone, the best of times, it is what he considers home expect him to get the Alternate Destiny and Down and nothing is going to draw him away. With 2 Earth EPs done as well. partners in crime Black Monk and Ron Stivers, Ras “In the studio, it’s the same old thing; G completes the Poo-Bah label trio. Yet on his own, creation and striving to do the impossible because Shorter works with the past, present and future of the possible has already been proven! I’m also hip hop’s inevitable influences and he guides the working on a new Brainfeeder record so stay listener through a pleasantly interwoven culture of tuned for that one too. When I get into the studio, musical exploration.

I don’t just think it, I feel it. Like I said, when I’m in A quick scan of his biography suggests the studio, I’m drawing from ancient kemit; I’m Shorter makes music rich with space-funkified drawing from kush; I’m dealing with ancient things, rhythms, foghorns, subterranean bass lines, so I’m trying to present a present to a people from colossal percussion and glorious highs – yet their past which will be a guide to their futures.” listening to it, you can understand why Shorter It’s deep and it’s meaningful isn’t it? claims people will be listening to his music in the Shorter continues: “well as I stated before, I deal year 3000. Calling the Ras-man a lover of music is with ancient places and ancient things in my music. an unfair and gross understatement.

I’m influenced by sight and sound; vibrations “I got into music naturally from birth,” that speak beauty like the pyramids; and I’m also Shorter says.“Pops kept the Parliament Funkadelic influenced by the chaos of which the people on on blast with mad trees when I was a kid and this planet put themselves through. My favorite moms kept the turntable spinning r’n’b and soul sound lately is the sound you hear in silence. There shit loud while vacuuming on Saturday mornings! are some tones you will hear that you would never And then my homie’s brother had the first Technics be able to duplicate with a so-called instrument 1200s I had ever seen. He also had hella records so or CPU or program; and therefore, my biggest I would go through his records trying to get Mark inspiration and motivator is SUN RA.” In terms of the gig, expect nothing but Love (an L.A DJ) on; and then lastly my cousin used to come through with his SP1200s and hella bass heavy cosmic chaos. This guy doesn’t travel trees so that’s when the beats started - so in all, it half way across the world to play by halves. In was a natural progression for me.” Where that has closing , Shorter adds: “this will be my first time in all led now, is to what he terms the Afrikan Space Australia so yes, yes and yes, I will bring my world famous (S)pace (P)rogram 404! I’m Astro Hood, I’m Program. Something he explains as follows.

“The Afrikan Space Program is all my everything and nothing all at the same time!” machines lined up and synced up at my studio RAS G & THE AFRIKAN SPACE PROGRAM Spacebase 2912. My music is spiritual so I draw THURSDAY, JULY 22 @ THE BIRD, from the ancestors for spiritual invocation through NORTHBRIDGE the music, so that’s also a reason the music can be

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Nate Mendelsohn, aka Nacho Pop, is a bone fide media darling, but what sets him apart from his peers is a serious range of skills coupled with a deep-seated humility. His rapid climb into the spotlight has only just begun, as REUBEN ADAMS discovers.

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Nacho Pop is the complete package. A dancer, a DJ and a rising star on Australian television, Pop has an interesting background which has helped define his insane work ethic and humble approach to his varied successes.

“My dad’s a preacher and mom used to dance on Broadway. I never got formal training, but street dancers aren’t supposed to,” explains Pop.“If you wanna do street styles, you gotta leave the studio and go learn it for real!”

Relocating from the United States in 1999, Pop immersed himself in Sydney’s budding hip hop scene, both DJing and battling constantly to earn himself a considerable reputation amongst his peers. “Growing up in New York, everyone messes with all elements of hip hop. At least everyone I knew,” he chuckles. “Everyone raps a little, does graffiti a little, and beatboxes from time to time, just to be funny.

“It was only when I came to Australia that I started really honing in on these aspects

Nacho Pop of the culture,” muses Pop. “Nick Toth (one of Sydney’s leading hip hop DJs) actually showed me the logistics of where to stick the red and white cables.”

To say that Nacho Pop ‘honed’ his skills is perhaps a little blasé, considering his rapid climb up the popularity ladder, which was ignited after a stint as the hip hop choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance? Australia. However, he is quick to point out that it was far than overnight success.

“SYTYCD definitely catapulted me into the mainstream media, but I feel like it wouldn’t have happened without me laying all the groundwork for years and years before that,” Pop underlines.“The producers on that show were really down with the passion and dedication I had for my craft.The show wouldn’t have picked me up without me being able to represent.”

Passion and dedication is one thing, but

it is Nacho Pop’s ability to create opportunities which has set him apart. A gig driving big stars around when they visited Sydney would lead to international demand, not only for his dancing skills but for his mixtapes as well.

“Back in the days I used to know this Jamaican chick Sashya who would hire me to drive big American music stars around when they came to Oz. It was like working, but really just cruising the city with celebs. The hilarious thing is that I’m a pretty terrible driver,” he laughs. “After kicking it for a week or so, I’d usually get pretty tight with the artists, and they’d invite me up on stage during their show. That’s when I started saying I’ll dance on stage with an artist, but not behind them.”

This would soon lead to bigger things.

“Yo, check this,” Pop exclaims. “When I was driving Supernatural around, we were in an old school van that had no CD player; just a tape deck. So I went home and DJed for 90 minutes, and recorded it live.... one of the songs I put on there was Charlie 2na vocals over Busta Rhymes’ As I Come Back instrumental... it was new at the time,” he remembers.

“Now Supernatural is a large dude, and didn’t completely fit in the passenger seat.

He totally lost his mind when this one came on and started throwing his arms all around the van, yelling about how much he loved the mix, and I promise I thought the van was gonna tip over,” laughs Pop.“He wouldn’t get out till I promised him a copy!”

Nacho Pop will be performing his maiden club set in Perth this Friday after a string of dates on the East Coast.

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Melbourne reggae and hip hop producer Jake “Mista” Savona is wrapping up his Warn The Nation national tour with three dates inWA. He discusses his upcoming shows with JOSHUA HAYES. It may be the middle of winter, but Mista Savona is bringing a few rays of sunshine to WA on his current national tour. He is promoting his latest album Warn The Nation, on which he collaborates with some of reggae’s biggest artists, including Sizzla, Horace Andy and the late Alton Ellis. He has played his east coast dates with his 10 piece band; however, this time around he is only bringing his Mista Savona Sound System show to WA – not that local punters will be missing out.

“Basically people can expect tracks from the album, remixes, mash-ups and the incredible live vocals of Vida Sunshyne,” he says. “When playing as a DJ I do live reworkings of the songs, dropping different vocals in and out of the mix which keeps it exciting for me as well as for people on the dance floor.” Savona says he hopes to bring the live band out our way during the festival season.

As the title suggests, Warn The Nation features many songs with political or environmental messages. “I never expected the record to cause any monumental shift in society - however I think it’s really healthy that people hear these messages from the calibre of artists featured on the record,” says Savona.“How we live in our world today is absolutely and undeniably crazy, and the more obvious this becomes to everyone the quicker positive change can happen.”

Reggae, perhaps more than any other

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Mista Savona genre of music, is renowned for delivering potent messages while making people move. “I love so many kinds of music, but the love for reggae began in my teens when exposed to Jamaican artists like Bob Marley and Augustus Pablo. A stint in London solidified the interest, and I came back to Australia armed with a sampler and began creating beats,” says Savona.

He says that setting up the collaborations on Warn The Nation was as simple as travelling to Jamaica. “Connecting with artists over there is easy - they’re hungry for work and creativity never seems to stop flowing. It also helps if you have some good instrumentals, a love for the music and culture, and a good attitude.”

His travels have led to a number of other

projects that he has in the pipeline. “I’m working on a follow up album to Warn The Nation which was also recorded on my last trip to Jamaica, plus a full length album collaboration with one of my favourite Jamaican singers,” he says.

“I’m also working on tracks for Melbourne hip hop artists such as Mantra, and a remix album for Warn The Nation with some of my favourite Australian producers, so there’s plenty to keep me busy!”

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STILL BRINGING THE SOUL Phinesse are the Melbourne duo swiftly making a name for themselves in the Aussie market, with their unique brand of soulful melodies and smoothly delivered vocals. RZ goes behind the scene with Phinesse to ascertain more about their classy urban vibes.

David and Giovanni are Phinesse – and the duo have done what most of us would give up almost anything for – they played alongside 50 Cent and Lil Jon and will soon add T Pain and Fatman Scoop to their support list. And if that wasn’t an affirmation of their abilities as musicians, then I’d be hard pressed to name what is.

“Man, it was a great experience,” recounts George of being on stage with the hip hop heavyweights, “It was a great insight into how these people work. It’s the whole work ethic thing; it opens your eyes to a lot of different stuff!

With 50 Cent, I thought he’d be like this big party animal but he would just go back after the shows and relax, whereas the G Unit crew wanted to keep partying! He actually cracked it at them and told them they were working and not mucking around!

But it was really fun; there was even this incident in New Zealand where these chicks were trying to climb the fence thinking we were G Unit – we felt famous and all that!”

Clearly, things happen over the Tasman slightly differently. But I digress – it is the Phinesse crew’s take on a fusion of pop and r ‘n’ b that is making waves in a seemingly more crowded Australian market. But that doesn’t trouble the lads – as first cousins, they’re on the same page.

Says George of the group’s journey as a band: “We’ve been doing performances since school and after that we wanted to pursue a career in music. It was a friend’s advice but we were hooked; we did house parties and birthday parties and enjoyed pop and funk, hip hop; these were the things that appealed to us. And the beats and lyrics, the whole vibe was great.”

Last time we spoke, David and George were hopeful that their first artist album would take their fans into a specific direction.“It was a bit of a different style for us,” recalls David.“It was sort

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Phinesse of in the funk direction, but it’s different to a lot of the urban music in Australia; all of the music on that album was live instruments and we decided we wanted to go for that sound; we’ve done the beats and loops thing with our mix tapes so now we want to switch it up.”

Indeed, now the lads are back in the studio and working hard on an evolutionary phase in their careers.“I think we’re just reinventing ourselves a bit; we’ve got a really different look and sound and direction musically. We’re working with a guy called Steve on a few different things and he’s a big name in the industry in Australia. We’re also working on that Akon tour but traditionally we’re doing the r'n'b and hip hop thing and now we’re doing things that are a little more house and electro style – and that’s how it’s really changing.

We like all sorts of music and that gives us a chance to do things differently.”

“I guess in a way you can say that hiphop and r'n'b has been done before and we like all sorts of music and it’s a different sound we’re doing. We also worked with a few artists from the States last year and little things like that; the guys on the West Coast are on the same page as us and with our changed direction and style of music, we’re really enjoying it. We’ve got a few singles coming and we’ve got an EP coming out called I Just Wanna. There is a plan for another artist album too and hopefully it happens sooner rather than later.”

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FRIDAY 23/7 SHAPE THE CUBE Celebrating the local talent in Perth is The Cube, who tonight bring us a night called The Power Of Perth to do just that. Qbik returns to blow up the dancefloor with veteren MC Xsessiv.

This kiwi expat is turning heads all over the globe for all the right reasons, with a busy release and touring schedule as well as regular airplay on triple j. Also on the bill were true legends of Australians drum ’n’ bass, Greg Packer and MC Assassin, who have been blazing through dancefloors for nearly 20 years. Bringing the dark and filthy dubstep flavours are Killafoe and J. Nitrous, who have been as busy as ever in the studio, this is a duo who never fail to have dancefloors pumping and are fast becoming

one of Australia’s most talented and prolific dubstep exports. Also on the bill are Narkotic, Vitriol, Arien and MCs Bear, Rtilery and Tenacity. $5 before 11pm; $10 thereafter. $10 pizza and pints from 8pm.

GEISHA THE ROYAL RUMBLE Techno/progressive night Habitat, the folks that have brought you some of the best artists from around the world including Stephan Bodzin, Fergie, Jim Rivers, Charlie May, Stacey Pullen, Anthony Pappa, Format B, Alex Smoke and more, are taking up residence at Northbridge’s Geisha as of tonight with The Royal Rumble. Expect to see Habitat’s finest versus Perth’s DJ elite. Five rounds of funky house, breaks, tech and progressive madness. Darren J, Prizzy, Richard Lee, Terry Waites, Ben Jam, Sirius B, Cam Duff, Rikki, Sean Morrison and Marko La Kulcha on the decks.

Mobin’s remixes and tracks are now an integral part of house and club DJs’ boxes around the world.

He’ll be joined by special guest vocalist Karina Chavez tonight, with support from residents Zelimir and Mind Electric.

NORFOLK BASEMENT ONE ISLAND EAST Making reggae driven music with influences of jazz, Latino and roots, One Island east deliver a mix of upbeat and laid back vibes with an acoustic backbone. They’re launching their EP tonight, with support from hip hop trio The Goodfellas and acoustic hip hop artist Ray. Tickets $10 on the door.

Amplifier – Jamie Mac /DJ Shannon Fox Ambar – James Holden Breakers Bar (Geraldton) - Optamus AMBAR JAMES HOLDEN Between Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick a hectic touring schedule which Alexander has taken in just about every Capitol –Retro Mash – Lady Penelope corner of the world, running his Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Zeitgeist-defining label, and his Boogie status as hugely in-demand remixer Como Hotel – DJ Gazz du jour, it is little wonder that Double Lucky – DJ Adam Kelly, James Holden hasn’t been to our Cee, DJ Seb Sharp shores since 2006. But that’s about Eve – DJ Don Migi / Skooby to change. On the back of the F l y i n g S c o t s m a n ( Ve l v e t release of his release for the DJ – Lounge) – Stereoflower / Adem Kicks compilation series, the Border K’s Community Chest /The Imps & Community head honcho brings Geoffrey Power King his DJ set to Perth for an intimate Flying Scotsman (Main Room) – show tonight. Tickets $30 plus Time Tunnel - DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 booking fee from Planet Video, Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - The Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets Beat Suite – Micah/ Sharif Galal and online from Boomtick.com. Geisha - The Royal Rumble- Darren au, moshtix.com.au and inthemix. J /Prizzy /Richard Lee / Cam Duff / com.au.

Terry Waites High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk METRO CITY R & B SUPERSTAR All Llama Bar - One Island East your favourite DJs spin selections Library – Az-t /Fiveo of past and present urban tunes Liquid Nightclub - DJ Klar55 / DJ tonight, which means fresh r’n’b, Jewel / DJ Stevie M old school anthems and hip hop. Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays - DJ DJs Junior, Headayke, Ruthless, Dooey Brett Costello and So So are on Metro City – RnB Superstar All Star deck duties, so start rounding Weekend - DJs Headayken /Junior / up your crew for the biggest Brett Costello / Ruthless / SoSo r’n’b night in town! Doors open Metro Freo (Limelite) - Mobin 9pm, free entry before 10pm. Master / Karina Chavez Merrina Tavern – DJ Real McCoy METRO FREO MOBIN MASTER Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee Fresh from recording his album Get Mustang- Swing DJ / DJ James Lucky, ARIA nominated producer MacArthur and DJ Mobin Master is set to Newport –Culture Clash - DJ take over Limelite tonight! Mobin A n d r e i M a z z / J e r r e m Ly n c h is known for the world-wide Norma Jeans – DJ Denis club smash hit Show Me Love, a Norfolk Basement - One Island track that generated an insane East CD Launch / The Goodfellas movement of mash-ups and covers. /Ray

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Returning to Australia for the latest installation of the iconic DJ Kicks series, James Holden is no stranger to our country and his live shows are renowned by the techno patriots of the land. TYSON WRAY speaks trance, trends and teaching with the boundary-breaking DJ and producer.

What more could possibly be said about James Holden? A name synonymous with minimal techno, Holden is an institution, a pioneer and a cornerstone of the world’s electronic scene. Over his decade long career Holden has broken down musical boundaries, remodelled the landscapes and encapsulated the intrigue of millions of the 42

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SATURDAY 24/7 VILLA MAJOR BREAK 7 Hailing from UK ’s underground, the architects of N-Funk, NAPT are in town tonight to play the seventh edition of annual breaks fest Major Break. NAPT’s dance music productions are of enviable superiority. Due to their matchless, innovative technique, they have won multiple prestige awards owing to their unique N-Funk sound, which is synonymous to their name. This year NAPT won Best Producer and Best Track at Breakspoll 2010, a repeat of their Best Producer and Best Track wins in 2009, marking the first time in the history of the awards that the two categories have been won by the same artist in consecutive years.

Guaranteed to get you bouncing, don’t miss their performance tonight! Black Noise and Peo De Pitte round out the MB7 line up, together with local talent Fdel, Philly, Marty McFly, Micah and Bob

Noceros. Tickets for Major Break 7 are $35 plus booking fee from Planet, Mills, 78s, www.inthemix. com.au and www.moshtix.com.au.

ESPLANADE ON THE BRIGHT SIDE The promoters of Australia’s Splendour in the Grass festival bring Perth the brightest stars from Splendour in the Grass under a fabulous super top right in the heart of Perth today! They’ve got some fabulous dance acts on the cards, including UK danceelectronic act Hot Chip, who will be ready to deliver their deeply danceable singles Over And Over, Ready For The Floor and new tracks from most recent album One Life Stand. Joining Hot Chip as another dance act to note will be Bluejuice – no doubt the Australian five piece will be in their element at the festival making you dance in a retarded, unselfconscious way with their performance power. Tickets on sale from Star Surf Perth and Mandurah, Mills Records, Planet Video and Live Clothing Stores. This event is over 18s only.

REPUBLIC JACK IN THE BOX Tonight marks the official opening night of Jack In The Box, a night dedicated to house music in all its guises. ShockOne, whilst known for his impact in the drum ‘n’ bass world, will show a different side to his musicianship, playing house grooves all night. Defeat plans to bring the dancefloor some ‘80s scifi, soundtrack-inspired French disco, Amnesia Effect will be spinning a delightful selection of some of the early sounds of house, including Chicago house and UK acid house, while NVS will bring us some ‘90s house anthems and happy house.

Doors open at midnight for $7.

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world’s most pure techno aficionados. He’s not just a DJ and producer, he’s an inventor, and for one who has already achieved so much he promises that’s he has only just begun.

“It’s been quite a ride,” shares Holden in a recent chat. “I started writing music when I was eighteen. I was fortunate, at that time you were able to write music with just a computer, it wasn’t as expensive as it was in the past. So despite having no money I was able to write a record which did reasonably well.” He pauses, before gently laughing, “Back when I first started I was open to all sorts of music. My first releases were really quite trance like, which was unfortunate as I ended up getting signed to a really bad label which I had a lot of trouble trying to escape from. So personally I don’t believe my career started until 2003 when I got signed to a different label and was free and able to make music that I really wanted to.”

For an artist that has been creating music for over a decade, Holden has been witness to the many trends and changes that have been undertaken in the dance scene. “There’s a lot of interesting movements in the electronic scene at the moment, the whole dubstep genre has taken off with no warning, and artists like Caribou and

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Four Tet who are predominately electronic artists have taken a lot of influences and created really popular and successful albums which contain a lot of electronic elements.”

Whilst being an avid voyeur of these trends, Holden has established his role and popularity within the scene by never being influenced by what is popular, always staying true to what he loves,“I listen to everything that is going on around the world, but I’ve never felt the urge to try and fit in with everyone else.”

Holden is optimistic about his upcoming Australian tour.“I don’t think anyone plays the sort of mix of records that I do and Australia has always been really warm to that. I basically just try to play music that I really like. I think it’s the records that people really like aren’t always the most obvious ones. To be honest, when I see DJs playing popular tracks for the sole reason of getting a bunch of hands in the air, it just pisses me of, it’s not original, anyone can do that. You need to be able to play records people haven’t necessarily heard and expose them to a whole new experience. As always, that’s what I’ll be doing this time round in Australia.

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COUNTESS OF HEARTS SALLY SELTMANN / Split Seconds / Felicity Groom The Rosemount Hotel Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Bible Bashers (photo: Mike Wylie)

CELLAR DWELLERS Cellar Sessions CD Launch / The Trevallys / Cat Black / Mongrel Country / The Bible Bashers The Rocket Room Friday, July 16, 2010 It was a tiny crowd that clustered around the Rocket Room bar when the first band mounted the stage, but that says more about Perth audiences than the talent on display. Max Ducker of Mongrel Country has put together Cellar Sessions, a compilation album showcasing some of the best rock acts currently treading WA boards, and it’s a damning indicting of the local scene’s apathy that more people didn’t brave the weather to catch such a line up launching this disc.

The Trevallys were first up on the redcurtained stage, and it’s impressive how much noise just two guys can pump out. Their sound is somewhat reminiscent of The Damned in their early days, with simple structures supporting tasty guitar hooks and underpinned by fast, savage drum work. Their music has a driving, ragged edge, heightened by the absence of bass, and guitarist Drew and drummer Leeroy kept the onstage banter to a minimum as they hammered through their set.

Next up was Cat Black, dropping the mood down a notch with their blues and rockabilly-infused stylings. Vocalist Emma Heath has some of the best pipes in the business, and her intoxicatingly breathy vocals were anchored by her bandmates’ tight, energetic instrument

work. There’s a strange juxtaposition of energy and malaise in their music that just works, and it was a treat to hear them debut an as-yet-untitled new song.

Ducker himself took the stage next with the hard rocking Mongrel Country. What is there to say about these guys, except they’re one of the best live acts currently banging around the local traps, and if you haven’t seen them, you’re not only missing out - you should probably burn your music collection and take up knitting. Simply put, Mongrel Country don’t fuck around, delivering hard and heavy rock with an unbeatable drive and passion. They’re a band with two drummers for crying out loud - that’s worth the price of admission alone. Standouts of the night included the epic, lifting My Gun Shoots Out Love and the savage showstopper Long Pig. But if Mongrel Country is the best band out there at the moment, Laith Tierney is the best frontman, regardless of which of his numerous projects he’s playing with at the time. This time around it was The Bible Bashers, and Tierney makes a worthy vehicle for drummer and chief writer Jon Schmidt’s dark, playful lyrics. Tierney is a bold, energetic onstage presence, always moving, always engaging with the crowd, even going so far as to dive into the throng as the Bashers belted out such perverse tracks as Wine Haemorrhage, Cray Bait and Cock Fighting Man. The Bashers left the stage with a final shout out of thanks to Ducker, as was only fitting.

This was a brilliant showcase of the kind of excellent local talent that can be found in Perth, and one hopes we won’t have to wait long for another Cellar Sessions compilation.

It looks like people really do appreciate an optimist.

After ditching her more melancholy outfit New Buffalo and releasing a positively lovely album under her own name, Sally Seltmann has been gathering fans in their droves.The sizable numbers at the Rosemount Hotel would have eclipsed the audiences that Seltmann has been able to attract on any of her previous outings to Perth, but before Seltmann took her turn to satisfy the crowd, it was the locals turn to strut their stuff.

Felicity Groom stepped out in duo mode with only Andrew Ryan accompanying her from The Black Black Smoke. Groom may look like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, but once she opens up there is no doubt that she can more than hold her own in colourful company. Her repertoire of dresses are almost as impressive as her songs as she swayed around stage stylishly again. With chipper banter, Ryan enjoying every song as if he was playing Wembley Stadium and Groom’s uniquely haunting voice, it was another fine night for the pair.

Quickly becoming the town’s girl most likely to’, Split Seconds added another support slot to their well whittled bedpost. The band is barely a pup but such is the regularity in which they are playing shows they have blossomed into a polished little unit in the blink of an eye. With discussions about Sheryl Crow and songs about Amy Winehouse, the pop culture references kept the audience on their toes. They sound like a slacker’s take on Steely Dan, and with tunes like Bed Down, Paper Boy and What A Week they are bound to be your new favourite band if they aren’t already.

After an unusually long wait Sally Seltmann donned a glistening bowler hat and made her way through a stripped back You Don’t Know Me Anymore. Previous visits have seen

Seltmann joined on stage by multi-instrumentalist Jessica Venables but her new album has prompted the performer to give her songs the full band treatment. When the band joined in for Set Me Free the mix was a little unstable, but things settled in nicely over the course of the next few tunes.

Husband (and Avalanches member) Darren Seltmann handled drum duties while wearing a fine set of Mickey Mouse Ears. They would be a great statement had he been playing in Christina Aguilera’s band, but were at odds with his wife’s simple, refined tunes. Seltmann herself apologised for having a cold, but the performance showed little evidence of being derailed.

Sentimental Seeker captured the ‘60s pop shimmer of the album while a song about having children (always endearing when done with class) Harmony To My Heartbeat was a ripper. It was delivered with gusto and was an obvious high point.

The genial singer moved from behind her keyboard to brandish a guitar for Dark Blue Angel and those who didn’t have the greatest of vantage points were happy for the brief glimpse of the lady who owned the melodic voice. The newer material has allowed Seltmann to push her vocals to the fore and they are sounding more crisp than they ever have in the past.

I Tossed A Coin was a pensive and breathy moment that gave way to a joyous ‘shoo be doo bop’ ending. Songs influenced by Loudon Wainwright (Heart That’s Pounding) and a brilliant rendition of On The Borderline saw the band hitting their straps.

The mood then became more celebratory with 5 Stars and the handclap heavy Dream About Changing. The band opted not to step outside into the cold air to wait for the call of an encore so finished with a reworking of the song that originally bought Seltmann to our attention Recovery.

Seltmann is still easing into being seen as a solo artist, but if this outing was anything to go by, it’s going to be a pretty enjoyable ride. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

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Sally Seltmann (photo: Lisa Businovski)

THRONGS AS POND LAUNCH FROND POND / The Silents / DJ Rex Monsoon The Bird Saturday, July 18, 2010 The immense popularity of intergalactic psych pop troupe POND was confirmed this weekend, with the band quickly selling out both the Norfolk Basement and The Bird as they launched their third full length album Frond on Friday and Saturday night.

The sold out shows were bad news for the lines of hopefuls left waiting outside both venues, but the hot-ticket gigs definitely illustrated the benefits of Perth’s bourgeoning small bar culture for the local music scene.

Rather than launch Frond at a threequarters full large venue, the band (whose exposure has undoubtedly increased thanks to having three members of Tame Impala in the line-up) absolutely packed out these two tiny venues, creating an exciting atmosphere for those who’d managed to squeeze in. The fact that a hurried wave of ‘get here quick, it’s selling out!’ text messages would have flown around Perth is invaluable for both the band and the venues. When POND next play you can bet your afghan coat that people will jump on the tickets.

When The Silents took to the stage the attentiveness and well, silence, of those in the crowd was remarkable for a local rock

band room, but it seemed like every head had craned towards the band, which is great news for the musicians, but also those who hate going to a gig only to get an ear full of some clown talking to a long lost uncle on his mobile phone.

Playing a set largely made up of songs from their freshly released album Sun A Buzz album, The Silents played a disturbed, sloppy and menacing show which echoed the punky, noisy atmosphere of their new album.

It’s heavy and you don’t want to tap your toe, but like some fucked up late-night horror/art movie, you can’t stop watching.

Radiating like a rainbow over the darkened stage POND played a typically fun, energetic, and wild show that saw the band touch on all corners of their repertoire: Bowie-esque power ballads, groove-driven psych rock, calypso and Afrobeat tinged pop, and delightfully shambolic jams that teeter precariously from falling apart.

The lead single from Frond, Cloud City kicked the show into gear in a big way, with the mixed crowd (from young hipster girls wearing Indian headdress to crusty old rockers) clearly up for a dance. Pixie-like frontman and resident flautist Nick Allbrook also wasted no time in jumping on top of the crowd for a quick tour of the venue. Maybe it’s his small frame, but I have never seen a man crowd surf so gracefully.

Duck And Clover thickened things up with a fuzzy bass and watery psych organ,

the ridiculously catchy and frivolous Annie Orangetree. As with most of the songs throughout the evening, Allbrook’s slinky, jack-in-the-box delivery was melodramatic, gloriously silly, and mesmerising. Hands on hips and with his elbows pointing out at the crowd (a Mick Jagger funky chicken), Allbrook contorted his rubbery frame with each energetic spike in rhythm.

Grandiose power ballad Sunshine Cardigan (think MGMT playing Life On Mars accompanied by an extra camp Elton John) continued the melodrama, with the band culminating in a beautifully sunny and uplifting chorus. Tribal Afrobeat homage Mother Nigeria and gospel epic Betty Davis (Will Come Down From The Heavens And Save Us) were also highlights, with the band gathering around microphones to form a psych pop mens choir.

In many ways POND’s launches were a landmark for this phenomenally talented collective of musicians, who with a disregard for fashion or popularity, have played house parties, lounge rooms and garages for years, in the sole purpose of enjoying, exploring and stretching the possibilities of good pop music. Sure, celebs like Noel Fielding are now tweeting about Tame Impala, and triple j’s Australian music man Dom Allessio popped in on the Frond launch – but you get the feeling the band are simply doing what they’ve done for years. The rest of the world is just catching up.

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CAL PECK & THE TRAMPS Pact With The Deville Garage rhythm ‘n’ blues outfit Cal Peck & The Tramps launch their second EP Kill For You at Devilles Pad on Friday, July 23. Frontman Callum Peck told DAVID CRADDOCK how he manages to write broody and sincere garage blues tunes from the sunny banks of the Swan River delta

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It may have been recorded in sunny Perth by renowned local pop producer Andy Lawson (Little Birdy, End Of Fashion, Eskimoe Joe), but Cal Peck & The Tramps’ second EP Kill For You sounds like a frenetic five day tour of America’s south. All of the iconic sounds are there – haunting Mississippi blues, sparse Tennessean cowboy ballads, and dirty Texan garage rock.

“In Perth what would you write about?

‘Oh it’s too hot today’ – it wouldn’t translate into a rock ‘n’ roll song I don’t think,” frontman and songwriter Cal Peck laughs of how he goes about writing his deeply atmospheric and evocative songs in a care-free, good weathered, town like Perth. “But a lot of it is stuff where you come up

with a narrative from something that’s happened to you - you have felt it in some way - and then you just enhance it and make it more interesting.”

Hideaway, a fuzzy, rambling rock ‘n’ roller complete with tooting express-train harmonica is a good example how Peck is able to evoke the spirit of classic rhythm ‘n’ blues despite being miles away from its original source – an atmosphere perfectly suited to night spot Devilles Pad where the band hold a monthly residency.

“When I wrote Hideaway I was sitting in a car in the hills, scything of work actually – having a smoke,” Peck explains. “And I felt like writing a song and I wrote that. That’s just escapism – putting yourself in a character’s spot and creating a story around that.”

As is the case with many rock ‘n’ roll devotees, Peck’s first introduction to playing music was through the blues. After buying a box-set of blues classics from his local music store, Peck began teaching himself to play along with each of the masters on the discs. Surely there is no more suitable and thorough apprenticeship to rock guitar.

“It had Robert Johnson, Lightning Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker and all that kind of stuff. I just fell in love with it and that’s how I taught myself how to play guitar… With songs like Spoonful which was written by Willie Dixon but Howlin’ Wolf did it. I reckon today - even the way that song is set out - it is still current. That’s pretty fucking cool. I love the fact that it’s timeless. There’ll be some 15 year old in 50 years time who will hear than and go ‘oh that’s cool!’.”

By keeping their music simple, accessible, and sincere, Cal Peck & The Tramps latest EP also has a timeliness to it – a quality the band have recently noticed at shows.

“We’ve had people come down [to gigs] with their dad,” Peck says. “I reckon that’s fucking cool.”

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Experimental rock act Therapist, a band who have emerged from former Perth outfit Era, will launch their debut EP Dreams In Animation at Amplifier on Saturday, July 24. Featuring Justin Campbell (Skyrocket Flights), Anthony Jackson (Birds Of Tokyo, Tragic Delicate), Justin Story (Apollo National) and producer Adam Round, this band has experience in spades.

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Pyramid Of The Coyote, a fun and energetic rock band featuring former Lostsaints frontman Gary Cornell, play at the Newport on Sunday, July 25.

Cornell was involved in a motorcycle accident in May, but is now back on stage strutting his stuff once more. The band is currently recording their debut EP at Flat Spin records.

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Taking place from 1-7pm, the Super Sunday Session will include performances from Deja Blues, Nathan Gaunt, Empire Blues, Simon Cox Band, and Diamond Dave & The Doodaddies.

Tickets are $20 through 897fm.com.au or through Derek Cromb on 94092876 or cromb@ tpg.com.au. Primary school children free. Head down and support community radio in the Joondalup and Wanneroo region.

Online entries to the 2010 WAM Song Of The Year competition are now open, so if you’re a tight-ass muso who’s been waiting to save on envelope and stamp costs, now is your chance to enter! Now in its 21st year, the competition is offering the Grand Prize Winner $5000 cash, a three day recording session at Poons Head Recording Studio, a mastering session with James Hewgill Music, and 500 CDs pressed by Discbank. The opportunity for a publishing deal with Perfect Pitch Publishing is also on offer for the Grand Prize winner. Online entries close at midday on Tuesday, August 10. Hardcopy entries close at 5pm, Monday, July 26. Get to it!

New kids on the alternative rock block Village Kid launch their debut EP Colourful Girl at the Paramount on Wednesday, July 28. Produced by Anthony Cormican (Birds Of Tokyo, The Tea Party, James Morrison), the EP combines elements of alternative rock and funk with classical flourishes.

Tickets $15, including a copy of the EP and a beer, wine or spirit. Bookings recommended through villagekidband.com.

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iChoRa, a band who blend raw, guitar driven rock with dreamier piano and acoustic led material, play at The Railway Hotel in North Fremantle on Saturday, July 24. Playing in support are Coronal Sky, Boriskillshugo and Sideburn Joe. Doors 8pm, free entry.

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Explosive rock ‘n’ rollers the Volcanics and beatrock powerhouse Tracksuit are but two of the highlights on Mojo’s red hot line-up this Friday, July 23. SonPsilo Circus, Luke Dux & Paul McCarthey, and Piano Donkey will also appear. If anything, it’s worth going along to watch the ridiculous amount of talented guitarists peppered throughout this line-up – undoubtedly some of Perth’s best axemen on display here folks. Doors 8pm, tickets $15.

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Songwriter Benedict Moleta may sing delicately, but his intricately detailed vignettes of Perth life shine brightly as some of the best songs written in this city in the past decade. Having just returned from an Australian tour in support of his fifth studio album Timesheet, Moleta and his band play at The Den (at The Civic Hotel) on Friday, July 23, with appropriately high quality support from Sabre Tooth Tigers, 6s & 7s and Ramona Bird. Tickets $10, doors open 8pm.

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Garage acousti-punk ramblers The Painkillers play both sides of the river this week, forming an appropriately swampy partnership with The Kill Devil Hills at The Norfolk Basement on Thursday, July 22, and crossing the tracks for Cal Peck & The Tramps’ EP launch at Devilles Pad on Friday, July 23. They say not to mix your medicine but both of these shows sound like they’ll sit perfectly with some Painkillers.

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“We’re particularly concerned about the proposed gas hub off of Broome,” event coordinator Renae Williams explains.“So the night is about getting people together for a good time, but also to let people know what’s happening out there – the urgency of the situation. The fact that it is a marine wonderland of rich marine life and that there are other alternatives for the gas project.” www.xpressmag.com.au

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Since returning from the US late last year, The Art have busted down the doors of the rock scene, sharing a stage with the likes of Marilyn Manson and Them Crooked Vultures, gaining a spot in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Day Out and scoring the national Australian and NZ tour with one of their biggest inďŹ&#x201A;uences, The Pixies on their highly successful Doolittle Tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are trying to base ourselves back in Australia again because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re loving it here at the moment,â&#x20AC;? vocalist Azaria explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have scored all these really cool supports and everyone has really embraced us, so, apart from our drummer, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all bought houses here and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planning on settling down to live here for a while. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I prefer America in terms of how our band works - in that you can tour there for months â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and we still want to continue our work overseas, but in terms of friends and family and where our band feels at home, I prefer Australia.â&#x20AC;?

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