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Last year’s Laneway Festival was the festival’s first ever show in Perth and the event couldn’t have been better. The sun shone, the music boomed and the vibe was perfect – no agro, no bogans and not a southern cross tattoo in sight. We’re therefore very pleased to announce that the Laneway Festival will head to Perth once again in 2010, for a fantastic inner-city event at the Perth Cultural Centre on Saturday, February 6.

So far, the lineup includes UK legends Echo & The Bunnymen, the fiery Florence & The Machine, Atlanta’s Black Lips, The XX, Daniel Johnston, Sarah Blasko, N.A.S.A, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Hockey, Dappled Cities, Mumford & Sons, The Very Best, Radioclit, Wild Beasts, Whitley, The Middle East and Kid Sam. Tickets go on sale on Friday, October 30, at 9am, from greentix.com.au(.)

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Die-hard Tim Finn fans snapped up all the tickets to his Live At The Quarry shows in November in no time at all, and they did it with such enthusiasm that Finn has decided to play a third show, so that nobody misses out – how diplomatic. In addition to his concerts on Friday, November 20, and Saturday, November 21, Finn also plays on Sunday, November 22, but you’ll have to be quick to score yourself tickets before this show sells out too.

Tickets are on sale now from BOCS. For more about the Live At The Quarry season, head to liveatthequarry.com.au(.)

It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark, under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart…

It’s The Chevelles, playing their final show for 2009, at the Halloween Monster Mash at Mojo’s Bar next Saturday, October 31. The Chevelles will by joined by the gruesome Jayco Brothers, Brodie Owen plus JHawke, with the beguiling Belly Lugosi as MC. Punters who attend the gig will go into a draw to win a swag of B-grade horror props and flicks. There’s a prize for best dressed too, so be sure to apply the blood and white face paint before arriving. Doors open 8pm.

If you’re sick to death of attending crappy house parties on New Year’s Eve, take a stand this year and go to Origin instead. Knowledge Music has spent the last few months organising Origin, and from the sounds of it, it’s going to be epic!

Taking place at Steel Blue Oval in Bassendean on Thursday, December 31, Origin will have four stages that will see performances from an array of musicians covering the genres of hip hop, electro, drum ‘n’ bass and dubstep.

The lineup is killer, with headliners Method Man from the Wu Tang Clan and his partner-in-rhyme Redman, and sets from LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad, Ed Rush and Optical, Marky and Sub Focus, Spectrasoul, Xample, Skream & Benga, Distance, Joker, Hatcha, Kito, Bliss & Esso, Dilated Peoples, Roots Manuva, Ugly Duckling, Amp Fiddler, the Bag Raiders, Cassius and Thunderheist.

SPOT YOURSELF

Western Australia’s favourite independent film event, The Revelation Perth International Film Festival, is on the hunt for entries into its 2010 program, and they want you! If you’ve made a short film, a narrative feature, documentary, experimental work, animation, micro-doc or anything in between, you’re welcome to submit your work to Revelation.

To celebrate the opening of submissions, Revelation is launching an international video promo shot during 2009, featuring clips of movie goers throughout the year. Head to revelationfilmfest.org and check out the video, if you spot yourself, send a digital image of yourself to communications@ revelationfilmfest.org and you’ll score a double pass to any session.

BOOMBASTIC!

Fans of reggae music in WA have fallen in love with the Raggamuffin festival in recent years, due to the fact that organisers continue to fly the world’s best reggae acts straight to Perth to play for an enthralled crowd.

Raggamuffin will return for 2010, taking over Member’s Equity Stadium on Monday, January 25, for a concert of epic proportions. So far, the lineup for next year’s festival includes Wyclef Jean, Julian Marley, Shaggy, Sean Kingston, Steel Pulse, Blue King Brown, Sly & Robbie plus House Of Shem.

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Wednesday, October 28, from ragamuffin.com.au.

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Christmas comes early to the Rocket Room this year, with the Annual Rocket Room Xmas Party set to kick off at 8pm on Thursday, December 3. To celebrate the year that’s been and the year to come, the Rocket Room has invited one of their favourite acts, Jebediah, to step onto the stage and rock out. Supports are yet to be announced, but DJ Brett Rowe will be on the decks between acts to keep the party going. Details on how to get tickets will be available soon, watch this space.

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We know it’s a fair way off, but before you know it, New Year’s Eve will be just around the corner, and you and your mates will be wondering where to go. Well, The Rosemount Hotel has it all sorted with the return of the New Year’s Eve Fiesta. On Thursday, December 31, music fans will head in droves to The Rosie, to catch a bunch of Aussie rockers performing, including Sugar Army, Capital City, Umpire, The Scotch Of St. James, The Preytells, Grim Fandango and Emperors. Doors open at 6pm, tickets go on sale on Friday, October 30, from Planet, Mills, Star Surf and Planet.

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DANCING IN THE STREET Dear X-Press,

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Though it was too hot for me to leave the house on Saturday for One Movement, I made my way into the city on Friday night for the Fringe Festival. It was really fantastic to wander the streets of Perth, which are usually fairly desolate past 5pm, and discover musicians and audiences on street corners around the place, bringing a lovely atmosphere to the balmy evening.

Though there were some acts that didn’t draw a big crowd, other bands had groups of people literally dancing on the street, getting down to tunes from WA’s best local bands.

Listening to music reverberating down St Georges Terrace was also a great novelty – indie acts were able to occupy the space usually reserved for hoards of office workers commuting to and from the city.

I hope we see One Movement back next year!

If laughter is the best medicine, then I am not alone in admitting to almost overdosing on the Silent Disco at the One Movement For Music festival last Sunday. A concept that originated in the Netherlands to allow the operating of late-night dance parties by overcoming noise restrictions in residential areas, it has taken on a life of its own as an increasingly regular fixture at festivals. The queue to enter the social experiment is a testament to its continuing success.

An innovative take on ubiquitous personal mobile technologies in our society, headphones which are designed for individual use allow the wearer to switch between two soundtracks by pushing a button on the side of the headset. This is when the fun begins as the game of finding who is listening to the same song as you is played on the strength of how Fringe Fan they are dancing.

Via Email Poetry in motion, this was a great example of how music, dance and a bit of creative thinking can provide an opportunity for a crowd to connect through sharing the experience. After all, isn’t that what we most desire, the desire to truly be in synch with each other?

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I’d like to vent my frustration and disappointment at seeing scalpers selling Big Day Out tickets on eBay for up to $350 a pop. Seriously WTF? To all the scalpers out there trying to make a profit out of an event like this go fuck yourself and get a life. If you don’t intend on going don’t buy a ticket. Leave some for people that are actually interested in going and listening to the bands.

Shame on you eBay for allowing such auctions to take place. I thought this would be against their policy and would hope the organizers of the BDO do something to stop this from happening. I also encourage people to boycott bidding on these auctions so these fuckheads get stuck with the tickets.

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The Box is the story of a young couple who find themselves in a bazaar and terrifying dilemma.

Set in 1976 Norma and Arthur are a normal suburban family-of-three, who one day are given a life altering choice when a mysterious man comes to them to offer them a box promising to bestow its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world, someone they don’t know, in what stars a series of events that spiral out of control. The Box stars James Marsden and Cameron Diaz and is cinemas on Thursday, October 29. We have 10 double season passes to The Box up for grabs!

Kiss’s first studio album in 11 years, Sonic Boom, is released in Australia Friday, October 23. The iconic band are currently touring the US and the album’s #2 debut on the Billboard chart last week is their highest album chart-placing ever. We have five copies of Sonic Boom, which receives the launch treatment in Perth when KISStake celebrate its release with a show at the Mustang Bar on Thursday, October 29, from 8.30pm.

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It’s karaoke night, Broome style. A lone cowboy blows into town. Whips crack, geishas perform and pearl fisherman take to the sea, while the ghosts of Broome’s past flicker on screen.

Coming to Perth this November is Marrugeku’s Burning Daylight. Presented by PICA and Mobile States, this haunting, explosive and incredibly bold piece of dance theatre will be performed on a purpose-built stage under the Moreton Bay Fig trees in Russell Square, Northbridge. PICA is offering five double passes to see Burning Daylight on Friday, November 6.

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After a highly successful debut album in 2008, Scottish lad Calvin Harris is back with his latest album, Ready For The Weekend. Not only will he be performing at next year’s Big Day Out, but he is set to release his latest single Flashback, in stores November 2. To celebrate this release, we’re giving away five copies of his current album, Ready For The Weekend.

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The legendary Steve Kilbey, from Australia’s best kept secret The Church will be flying in for a quick solo visit, playing with his trio that also features the legendary Ricky Maymi from San Francisco’s own evil ministry of shoegazers, The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Kilbey is bordering on being a national treasure these days with a career spanning three decades, so prepare to be tantalised, spiritualised and hypnotised as he runs through acoustic versions of his vast catalogue. Kilbey plays on Thursday, November 5, at Albie’s in Busselton and Friday, November 6, at Friends Restaurant, in a very special up close and personal performance. He also plays on Saturday, November 7, at the Fly By Night where we have five double passes to give away to catch him live. You know how to enter, or grab your tickets direct from the venue.

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GRANT SMILLIE Court In The Act Popular dance DJ Grant Smillie heads to Perth with Ruby Rose and Zoe Badwi to play at The Court Hotel Street Party on Saturday, October 31 as part of Pride.

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SNEAKIER THAN EVER

The always upbeat Sneaky Sound System have faced criticism from gossip columnists in recent months, who have incorrectly spread rumours about the band splitting following Daimon Downey leaving the group. We’re pleased to announce that Sneaky Sound System aren’t going bust, they’re powering through, sneakier than ever with Miss Connie Mitchell and Black Angus. The pair has revealed that they’ve spent the last month in London,writing and recording for the next album, set for release in 2010.

Meanwhile, Black Angus’s side project, You Only Live Once, this week released You Only Live Once Vol 1, mixed by Black Angus and Dangerous Dan. The pair will tour the release around the nation, hitting Capitol on Friday, November 20.

For prominent Melbourne DJ, Grant Smilie, life couldn’t get any better. One half of the award winning duo TV Rock, a regular feature on some of the hottest dance compilations and club nights and co-host of the popular Nova Nation radio show.

“I also do the Nova Essential 10,” Smillie adds,“and we (with co-host, John Course) now have a national show every Saturday and it’s going really strong. I think because dance music has become such a mainstream entity these days with so many things happening dance music records are crossing over into the pop culture. It’s a great thing to be able to have a dance show on commercial radio.

“I think if you look at last year with The Presets winning Best Album and Sneaky Sound System the year before, two years in a row at the ARIAs you have a dance act win the big awards and that has to be reflected that in pop culture it has crossed culture. You know there has to be close to 600,000 to a million who go clubbing in Australia at festivals in November through January so that has to sort of be reflected by support from the commercial stations.”

Smillie is no stranger to winning an ARIA award himself, having won ‘Highest Selling Single’ and ‘Best Dance Release’ for his work with Ivan Gough in TV Rock in 2006.

Three years later, TV Rock are paving the way for more success with two new

releases, Been A Long Time and In The Air. “Flaunt It did pretty well with the ARIAs and we followed it up with The Others,” Smillie says. “Been A Long Time is our first clubbased record that we really concentrated on which we did with the vocals with Rudy and that did really well in Europe. Coming off the back of that we thought, ‘right let’s write more records that are similar to that’ and we recently released a record called In The Air which also featured Rudy and that spent eight weeks at the number one position of the ARIA club charts and that did even better in Europe.

“So, we’re just trying to stay on that sound and are doing a couple of records at the moment that we are looking to release actually around the time of the gig.”

So will we hear some of these new tracks when Smillie plays at The Court Hotel?

“I like to mix it up when I play parties all over Australia. Definitely a couple of new things and remixes that we have been working on in the studio and also I guess some of my old favourites…a bit of the new stuff, a bit of old stuff and everything in between.

“Zoe Badwi is going to be with me and I’m not sure if I’m playing before or after Ruby Rose, so see how she goes and see how the crowd reacts to that.”

For more details about The Court Street Party head to www.thecourt.com.au.

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MOVING ON

Australian writer/director David Caesar, the man behind Prime Mover, will drop the fourth wall come Tuesday, November 3, engaging audience members at Luna Leederville in conversation for Talking Pictures.

Prime Mover, which screens at Luna from Thursday, November 12, is a love story about a man, a woman and his truck. Starring Ben Mendelsohn, William McInnes, Anthony Hayes, Andrew S. Gilbert, Gyton Grantley, Lynette Curran and Ani Finsterer, Prime Mover is bound to become an Aussie classic.

Catch David Caesar Talking Pictures at 6.30pm on Tuesday, November 3, at Luna Leederville.

HERE’S TO THE BARD

The Rosie’s four5nine bar was packed out last Friday, October 16, as purveyors of prose competed for a spot in the final of the Australian Poetry Slam.Congratulations to Byron Bard,who won the competition with his original material.

Slam spots are still available, so if you would like to speak, scream or whisper into a mic, then sign up at waslamheats.com.

Entrants go into the draw to win $5000 and a trip to Bali.

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MASTER THE THUNDAMENTALS

Hailing from NSW, hip hop collective Thundamentals recently released Sleeping On Your Style! and to celebrate, they’ll hit the road to share their live show with punters around Australia.

Prime Mover Catch Thundamentals when they play at Mojo’s on Friday, December 11, (with Rhythm Infinit, Paully P, TREE’S COMPANY BYP, Prez Juan, Simmo T) and the Rocket Room on Set in a stage hypnotist’s act, An Oak Tree is a Saturday, December 12, (with Bitter Belief & Porsah uniquely comic play performed by two actors, one Laine). Tickets are available from the venues. of whom will never have seen or read a word of the script until they’re performing in it.

The Perth Theatre Company production will feature 2008 Equity Guild Award-winner Luke Hewitt (Road Train, Krakouer!, Speed-The-Plow) in the role of the Hypnotist. Luke will not rehearse with any of the guest performers, who will include RTRFM’s Peter Barr, Peter Holland Dixie Marshall, Tim Minchin, Lee Sappho, Eskimo Joe’s Kav Temperley and ABC 720’s Bernadette Young.

An Oak Tree runs from Saturday, November 14, until Saturday, December 5, downstairs at His Majesty’s Theatre. Bookings at BOCS Ticketing outlets, 9484 1133 or www. bocsticketing.com.au.

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HOME TIME

A special gig will take place on Friday, November 13, to raise funds for Martin Kane, who has been afflicted by a very rare neurological condition, Devic’s Syndrome.

This crippling condition has left Martin unable to walk, talk or even lift his head, resulting in him being confined to Shenton Park Rehabilitation Hospital. Martin wants nothing more than to be able to return home to be with his wife Carolyn and children Sean and Alanna. The hospital cannot release Martin until his family raises enough money to have their home renovated to accommodate his clinical requirements, so they’re putting on a benefit gig, called Bringing Kano Home.

Taking place at the YMCA Coastal City Hockey Clubrooms on Alderbury Reserve in Floreat, the benefit will be hosted by Adrian Barich, who will hold both silent and vocal auctions. Performing will be Renegade, bringing on some contemporary and classic good times (check www.myspace.com/renegadewa).

To support Martin and his family, make sure you get tickets for Bringing Kano Home, by emailing Rita at ritareid@rpsmetocean.com(.)

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MY MIND ON MY MO AND MY MO ON MY MIND

As November grows closer, men around Australia will prepare to put their shaving gear away for Movember, an initiative that raises badly needed funds for those living with cancer. Movember For CanTeen is now in its sixth year of raising funds to support young Australians living with cancer, and to assist CanTeen in continuing to run their various charitable programs.

To raise as much money as possible, organisers have teamed up with WA’s music community to host a series of benefit gigs at the Norfolk Basement. Live gigs will take place every Thursday in November, featuring performances

by Red Jezebel, The Scotch Of Saint James, Felicity Groom & The Black Black Smoke, Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Pond and Red Shoe Boy with more still to be announced.

The folks at CanTeen have also put together a massive summer music festival raffle, offering up double passes to just about every festival in Perth over this year’s festival period. The raffle winner will pocket two tickets to Big Day Out, Good Vibrations, Groovin’ The Moo, Laneway, West Coast Blues N’ Roots, Southbound, Soundwave, Summadayze, plus passes to Beck’s Music Box as part of the Perth International Arts Festival, the Cat Empire gig at Fremantle Arts Centre, and the Leeuwin Estate concert. www.xpressmag.com.au

Yabu Band, Deadly winners

AND THE WINNER IS…

Members of the Yabu Band stepped out of the country and into the city last week to attend the prestigious Deadly Awards at the Sydney Opera House. Celebrating the best of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, sport and entertainment, the Deadlys awarded the Yabu Band the prizes for the Most Promising New Talent In Music and Band Of The Year.

Congratulations to the Yabu Band, who will continue to raise their profile in coming months with performances along the east coast.

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DEBONAIR FLAIR

If you’re sick of blowing your wages on decadent cocktails made by Perth’s best bartenders, then be sure to head along to Masterclass: An At Home Cocktail Party, an event at bamBOO that will teach punters the secrets of creating magnificent cocktails.With Luxe Bar’s James Spencer,Sommelier Andrew Bennett, and Cocktail Gastronomy’s Adam Keane at the helm, participants will learn all the elements needed for a cocktail dinner party.

Tickets are almost sold out, so you’ll have to get in quick to score a place at the Masterclass, which takes place on Friday, October 23, at 6.30pm.

Tickets are $50 and include three cocktails and matched cuisine.

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The RocKwiz team is escaping the confines of the Gershwin Room at The Espy, for a live Australian tour of epic proportions. The tour will see the RocKwiz crew hit the road, visiting 19 cities across Australia, bringing with them all the mayhem of the Kwiz plus stacks of music and live guests.

To catch Julia Zemiro, co-host Brian Nankervis, the RocKwiz Orchestra and Dugald (with mystery guests in tow), be ready to pounce when tickets go on sale next Thursday, October 29. RocKwiz will take over the Perth Concert Hall on Monday, May 10, 2010. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

TIME TO ACT

This Saturday, October 24, the world will stand up against climate change for the International Day Of Climate Action. Join thousands of environmentalists from around the globe, as they hold more than 2,200 events in 152 countries, to call for a fair and effective climate treaty to stabilise atmospheric carbon dioxide at less than 350 parts per million.

Perth events include action at State Parliament House by the Safe Climate Coalition at noon; an event discussing climate change issues in Rockingham at ANZAC Park, and the human spelling of 350.org at Darlington Oval at 12.30pm. For more info on how you can get involved, heat to 350.org.

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GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT One Movement

Perth Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009 In Perth’s busy festival calendar, the inaugural One Movement showcase festival was an intriguing prospect. While most people didn’t know many of the acts, that was the idea – to discover new and exciting bands from all around the world - sort of like a giant, musical weekend yum cha.

Friday evening saw delegates and industry types celebrate the opening at the Virgin Blue Delegate Lounge, certainly a hub for those peeps during the weekend, when not imparting knowledge or learning during the industry conferences. Beelines were made for the Rolling Stone Industry Showcases, but to hear the streets along the way echoing with sounds from The Chemist, The Veescars and Harlequin League was magic.

Heading into Perth city on Saturday afternoon, one had the strangest sense of dichotomy. On the one hand was the unheard of phenomenon of local and touring bands alike taking to street corners and back alleys, performing for the love of music - or perhaps more accurately on the off-chance that some industry big-wig would be impressed and dish forth the much sought-after buckaroonies necessary to sustain a career in the music business.

It was also a unique opportunity for punters to check out aspects of their city that they might not ordinarily be aware of. Who would have thought there was a venue down King Street’s Wolf Lane? It’s here where Fear Of Comedy and a myriad other local acts played their hearts out over the weekend, and a supportive community of local musicians from all around, just hangin’ out drinkin’ coffee and beer, was probably the highlight of the Fringe Festival.

Heading closer to the heart of the situation, one was again taken by the absence

itself were nearby, not much sound was really emanating from the Perth Esplanade compound.

There was a little bit, but not much; and it became increasingly apparent the closer one got, that this was mainly due to the fact that, considering it was a four-stage event in the heart of Perth, not very many people attended this festival. Certainly, the Arctic Monkeys impersonation that was being performed by The Touch probably had less people watching it than Mongrel Country had outside moments earlier.

Entering the festival itself, one noticed that it had been set out like a big carnival, which was kinda cool, and emphasised by the ludicrous Perth Eye which loomed above like a lame version of the London Eye. There was a silent disco, Little Creatures had a stall, there were the obligatory over-priced pre-mixers, and a little village where one could buy food and hang out on picnic tables while being serenaded on an acoustic guitar by a man clad in bunny ears wearing a red leather apron.

It was a scorcher on Saturday; the heat a blazon reminder of the summer of festivals ahead. In the shade of the Breakthrough Tent, rock outfit Pentagram put on a solid performance, but sounded a little like an Indian Nickelback.

Over on the main stage, Australia’s new indie-dance queen Bertie Blackman fronted up with her band and got a good response with her unique brand of emo-electro.

Meanwhile on the Discovery stage, Andrew Paul Woodworth put on a good display of US indie rock’n’roll balladeering, dressed in flannel and strumming his acoustic guitar, lamenting in a forlorn way.

Japanese electro-pop sensation Tigarah got one of the biggest reactions so far with her

of… well, anybody. Walking through an utterly deserted St George’s Terrace it was easy to be reminded why they call this town Dullsville. On the surface, Perth really is just a servicing and commercial centre for the mining industry.

When you start digging though, you can certainly find gold. Mongrel Country, playing in amongst the Moreton Bay Fig trees opposite the new Esplanade station, on a dusty patch of paving literally right in front of two massive piles of mulch, had just a perfect setting for their early evening twilight set. Playing through a smaller PA than most rehearsal rooms offer, they blew the fuck out of the hearing of any passers by who cared to stop and listen, while a few die-hards kicked up the dust and rolled around in a display of carefree grubby rock’n’roll frivolity. Shrouded in blue and red lights where the swamps once met the river, it was easily imagine Mongrel Country morphing into lizards and slithering away into the night…

It was curious to note that even though the main stages of the One Movement Festival

bouncy, baile-flavoured beats. She looked the part in her sparkly, midget jacket and orange dress, along with her DJ sporting giant sunnies. A little bit twee perhaps at times, with a lot of songs demanding we ‘dance’, but the production was phat and she had people moving.

Canadian Fefe Dobson impressed on the main stage, arriving with a bang to deliver a set of femme cock rock at its finest – complete with all sorts of Axl Rose-like moves.

Thailand’s biggest pop star, Tata Young, was an interesting inclusion, delivering something quite different for the crowd - a choreographed solo vocal pop show, complete with dancers. The songs were pretty cheesy, but there’s no denying she has a great voice, and carries herself like a diva, and there were obviously some delighted fans there.

Sarah Blasko tackled her set with her usual professional, quirky but calm attitude, and it was one of the best on the day, including a lot of new material – though not her best concert

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ever. This may have been in part due to the Saturday crowd, which wasn’t that large or lively.

But certainly made getting a good vantage a lot easier than your average festival. She mesmerised at her Friday night industry showcase it Wolf Lane too.

Scribe also suffered from a bit of a lacklustre reception and poor sound. He worked through his repertoire, including some new tunes, and while his rapping was tight, the beats were way too quiet, and didn’t have any impact.

Nevertheless Scribe cranked it out, climaxing with the rockin’ Stop The Music.

The following day promised, and delivered, more of the same. MySpace darling Meiko has attracted lots of curiosity in recent times and there was an enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Crossover Stage to see her perform. Hype and clicks aside, she is an engaging performer without hitting on anything altogether new. Given the manner in which she held the crowd, though, it’s undeniable that Meiko could well steal many more hearts, though her choice to cover Rick James’ Superfreak seemed odd, even if it was the most sincere version of the song you’d ever hear.

As part of an APRA enterprise, Old Man River had grouped with Japan’s Kat during the week to compose two brand new songs which they duly delivered in this short set. Upon firsthearing they were both simple and appealing songs, but it was great to see the growing crowd take on board the intention of the collaboration and clearly enjoy the freshness of what was being performed.

Lots of industry people had been walking around Perth touting Korean rockers Biuret over the weekend and indeed they were well worth taking in. Despite their anonymity in this part of the world, they took to the stage like conquering heroes and remained so for their half-hour set. It would be great to see this sassy act return to Australia for a headline tour. Sets from Little Red and Dappled Cities also tantalised the crowd, as Sunday’s cooler weather attracted more people to the Esplanade and the afternoon evolved into a balmy evening.

It’s damn impressive when you watch a fringe act earn their crowd the way Dallas Frasca did in the dying Sunday sun. While the red-headed rocket has been honing her craft for years, she remains a relatively undiscovered treasure. Today her power was simply undeniable and while electro powerhouses like Art Vs Science and Miami Horror thrilled crowds at the other end of the oval, Frasca and her talented offsiders (including our own Jess McAvoy making a guest appearance on backing vocals) championed the organic drive of strings and skins.

If there’s a flavour of the month in Australian music right now, it’s electro pop, and if there’s a front runner in the pack, it’s Art VS

Science. From the get-go the three-piece had their audience working the vertical with blips and beats that couldn’t be resisted. When their infectious cacophony threatened to stagnate, frontman Dan McNamee simply abandoned the keys, hip locked his six string and smashed out a barrage of dirty blues licks that would have had Marvin Berry on the phone to his cousin Chuck, lickety-split. With that simply versatility these guys will most likely survive the inevitable death of the electro craze, and quite rightfully so.

By evening’s greeting the Esplanade began to resemble something closer to the Big Day Out, as punters moved towards the main stage. The diversity of the higher echelon of Australian music came with successive sets from Kate Miller-Heidke and Hilltop Hoods. From Miller-Heidke’s gentle, lilting quirk to the Hoods’ evergreen and increasingly universal hip hop, they were poles apart but up there on a big stage represented everything this event evoked in terms of artistry and diversity.

Industry bods then scrambled down St George’s Terrace, to grab the last of the weekend’s goodies. Washington and Old Man River played warm sets that lifted folks from their haze over at The George. The SPA Party featured tearaway sets from Harlequin League, I Heart Hiroshima and Philadelphia Grand Jury, the latter re-living some of the chaos they revelled in earlier at their Esplanade slot.

One Movement was a huge vision, rendered underwhelming in areas due to some disappointing attendances. But as with all big dreams, these things take time to grow and with one committed to memory now hopefully the people of Perth will embrace it more across the board in coming years. The sounds of tomorrow today is an enticing concept, and one that is available at events such as One Movement if you want it. WA citizens revel in sporting events for sure, but the arts and cultural tourism need to be nurtured in order for all of us to grow.

All of us.

Until the next time. We’ll see you there. _ BEN WATSON, ALFRED GORMAN, GRANT MCCULLOCH & BOB GORDON

APOLOGY In last week’s issue we inadvertently printed that One Movement speaker, Doug Banker, had managed the likes of Kiss and Bon Jovi. While Mr Banker is indeed a band manager (Ted Nugent et al), he has not managed those aforementioned acts. We apologise to Mr Banker and McGhee Entertainment for any confusion or inconvenience – it certainly wasn’t intended.

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AXWELL Stereosonic Boom Sweden’s Axwell is kept ever-busy by his sheer diversity, which will be on display when he performs as part of Stereosonic at Claremont Showgrounds on Sunday, November 29. RK reports.

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Coming from the old-school, the young Axel Hedfors appreciated the early EyeQ material released on Sven Vath’s illustrious label. Resistance D and Hardfloor were also favorites, later followed by Daft Punk and Fatboy Slim.

“They were the styles and artists that gave me the grounding that I have – in reality, I feel like the luckiest person in the world because of what I am able to do,” the man now better known as Axwell says.

“In fact I’m blessed really; I do what I like every day and for the sake of that, I constantly remind myself of where I came from and try to learn something from the people I meet. Imagine travelling the world and being able to make people dance!”

Undeniably then, the Swiss are in effect – and whether you hark back to his Mambana outfit, or his relentless list of anthems, Axwell is something of a hit machine.

“It has been a bit of a massive roller coaster ride,” he says in jest. Since 2006, things have been pretty mad with releasing records and things; a lot of them have become big and of course we started our night in Ibiza this year – we did every Monday there. I’ve also been coming back and forth to Australia every year which I always look forward to. Then I took

one year off from that and while it’s been a lot of work, it has also been fun.”

A favorite jaunt in recent times was the opportunity to present a time capsule of the finest sounds of now and the future on the Ministry of Sound: Clubbers Guide. Along with partner in crime Goodwill, the Swede presented 13 hand-picked numbers including his own Together as well as material from Bob Sinclar, Moby, Pryda and Steve Lawler. And how did the chance come about?

“Well, Ministry Australia approached me to do this compilation. It’s always fun doing a compilation because it gives you the chance to pick out a bunch of songs that are defining dancefloors around the world. It is also gave me the opportunity to come to Australia for the first time on quite an extensive tour, which I was also really happy about!”

So after twiddling knobs for Cyndi Lauper in 2008 and doing a little bit for Bob Sinclar, Ron Carroll and David Guetta in between, 2009 has been another whirlwind year for the Swede.

“Well I’ve been away from the studio since June, but I signed a track called In the Air and did a remix of that and it went well. I did another remix with Dirty South, called I Found You and that was a big track too; and now I’m back in the studio trying to finish my album.”

Indeed, as highly anticipated as any release before it, Axwell admits he hasn’t completely come to terms with the direction the album should follow.

“It is kind of tough” he says. “In an ideal world, it would be great for the album to combine a bit of an experimental idea, but it should also be able to work well in the clubs.

It’s quite formalised in terms of what a DJ can play - and what the fans expect the DJ to play.

So I go and play and think, ‘so this is how things sound’ and then I go back into the studio to update it. So it’s hard, but I will try to have a good combination of relaxed tracks but also some bangers – a bit of both. That would be the ideal situation.”

Of course, the album will likely explore different genres too, as has much of the music being played around the traps right now. “Musically, you have to look in different genres and that’s because there isn’t enough good music coming out today. For example, you might do a good edit and grab something from a pop record; in house music there isn’t as much great music and it’s harder and harder to find those things, so you have to look around elsewhere.

“That really puts the pressure on you to produce good music. When you get it right, it is rewarding and it’s more fun to make music that gets good attention. Some tracks you start out thinking, ‘this is for me’ and then you finish up doing something that is for everyone else! When I DJ – and because I DJ so much – there is the pressure there, but every time you succeed you feel really happy.”

And expect that to transpire into the sets he will be performing shortly around the country. “I hope to be able to play some of my new material,” says Axwell. “But also, I want to play some of the tracks that people might know from me yet in a new form so not in the original version. I want to play combinations that might be nice and I’m really looking forward to the Stereosonic festival. The last time I did a club tour it was great, so this will be a different thing altogether – I can’t wait.”

On tour, Axwell prefers three Pioneer CDJs as well as a Pioneer mixer and effects unit.

The chance to get his hands on some filters is good too, and while he likes to be as technical as possible, he feels it is difficult staring down at a laptop screen when drunk!

“There are enough things that can go wrong when you’re on stage than to have to control a laptop!” As for his Australian tour he will be super eager to please, of course. “I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll be bringing some of the newest remixes I’ve done and I’ll play all my stuff and a few different things.

All in all, I hope I can deliver a really cool and uplifting party vibe.”

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SPIDERBAIT Buy Me A Dummy

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Like that redback that reappears under your outdoor-setting every year, perennial Australian The Real McCall rockers Spiderbait seem to lay low then reappear when it’s time for a summer party. DAVID CRADDOCK speaks with bassist Janet English about the band’s appearance at Westdale Rock Having solidified themselves as serious players in this Saturday, October 24.

Australia’s hardcore scene, phone from Melbourne where she has also been to Broome. I’ve got such great memories of doing 50 Lions are gearing up to using her time off to focus on her first love, graphic that. The distances and the isolation just blows release Where Life Expires. design. your mind.”

“But I think the late nights and the loud Westdale Rock might not be as far out GEORGE GREEN spoke with music was a good introduction to having a child. of the way as Broome, but Spiderbait are sure With a kid you can’t go away all the time and you to be in for a unique country experience with vocalist Oscar McCall.

Spiderbait In recent years much-loved Australian power pop band Spiderbait have swapped their instruments for dummies, bibs and bottles, with members of the band focusing on bringing up young families.

Drummer/co-vocalist Kram managed to squeeze a solo album into his parenting schedule this year, but for bassist Janet English, motherhood has mean putting the band on hold.

“It kind of puts a dent in the rock’n’roll lifestyle I must say,” English laughs down the

can’t rehearse so we were happy to have a little bit of quiet time after having such a full-on few years before we had the kids. Being a mum is a lot more demanding than being in a band ever was. But it’s great because you’re not on the road all the time so you can set up an easel and do some painting at home.”

Touring only sporadically since the release of their 2005 Greatest Hits album, English stresses Spiderbait still have the passion and drive to play live which is why they’re making the trip over to WA to entertain the punters at the laidback, out-of-town rock festival, Westdale Rock.

“We love playing out of the big cities,” English explains. “We all grew up in the country so regional shows are something we really love doing. I think people are genuinely excited to see bands come to their town. Especially when you play right up in the top of WA. It’s so isolated and such a fantastic experience going from Perth up

drag races, tattoo competitions and a motocross demonstration all part of this big outdoor party.

“That’s always been our thing,” English says of Spiderbait’s reputation as a reliably highenergy party band.“We started as a live band and our first gigs were in people’s lounge rooms at parties…it just all comes from being a live band.”

Spiderbait are also no hacks in the studio. In 1996 the band took out the top spot on Triple J’s Hottest 100 for their four-to-the-flour power pop anthem, Buy Me A Pony. So can fans expect more recorded goodness once the Spiderlets have grown up?

“I think we’ll do some more stuff but I’m not sure in what format,” English says.“We’re always playing and recording little bits and pieces – but whether we do the big long tours or bother with the overseas stuff anymore is an issue. We have been talking about it…we do love doing what we do. We’ll get back into it.”

The McCalls are a hard-working family.

With eldest brother Winston fronting Aussie metal giants Parkway Drive, Oscar McCall has followed in his brother’s footsteps, and has forged a name all to his own in 50 Lions. You would expect that with Winston in Parkway Drive, Oscar could easily exploit his brother’s position to help further his own band, but he rarely makes mention of this fact.

Oscar, along with his bandmates, is hellbent on pushing 50 Lions on their own merits.

The band, who started back in 2005, also in Byron Bay, have since become one of Australia’s most promising hardcore acts, and are one of the few that have a worldwide reputation.

Having built that reputation on hardwork alone, 50 Lions have spent most of their time touring, which McCall explains, is what the band live for.

“In general, I hate recording and anything to do with it, but I realise it’s something that you have to do in order to keep touring. Kids don’t want to see you playing the same songs for five years, so you’ve got to record new stuff to give them something new, and get them excited about seeing you play again.

“It’s fun to be able to write new songs, and I like hearing the finished product, but sitting in a studio for three weeks listening to the same shit gets boring for me personally. I don’t care about guitar sounds and all that kind of stuff, so for me, I just want to put anything out so we can tour. The other guys take more pride in recording as a whole anyway, so it’s not super important for me to care too much about recording, because I know the other guys in the band have got that covered.”

Don’t be fooled by McCall’s lack of interest in recording, because it seems as though McCall has been pretty busy when it comes to his role in the band.

“We’re doing our album tour in November, and we’re bringing over our friends from the States called Trapped Under Ice for that.

Then once that’s finished, we’re doing Boys Of Summer, then heading to South East Asia, then onto Europe, and then the States.

“The first time we toured Europe it was a bit of a shock,” explains McCall. “We played at some venues that were really poorly run and maintained, and it gave us a better perspective of what we have back home. Some of the places we played were basically run-down Nazi buildings, and they’ve been converted into youth centres. Some places literally have chunks of concrete and broken shit everywhere. It’s a big eye-opener.

One thing that Australian hardcore bands have in common is their communal love of Perth’s very own HQ. It has been the premier all ages venue in the country for the last five years, and will soon play host to 50 Lions’ only all ages show in Perth.

“HQ is seriously the best all ages venue in Australia,” McCall says emphatically.

“It sucks that it’s had it’s capacity cut in half, but so have all the other venues around the country. Every band that tours to Perth says it is the best in the country, and we’ve played there a few times, and it’s easily my favourite all ages venue as well.”

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LORD Headbanger’s Orchestra One of Australia’s hardest working heavy metal bands and all round nice guys, Lord are finally making their Perth debut this weekend at Amplifier on Friday, October 23, and the Rocket Room on Saturday, October 24. JESSICA WILLOUGHBY chats with vocalist and guitarist ‘Lord’ Tim Grose.

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The life of a studio producer is not glamorous.

In essence, it is totally a beast made just for the geek.

The sound dials become just extensions of your normal digits. The computer monitors?

Your voice. And the four smooth padded soundproof walls mark the outer boundary of your sanctuary and, also, your man-made asylum. On that note, it is clear that longstanding Australian metaller and Lord frontman Tim Grose – or ‘Lord Tim’, as he is often referred to – is a being that has developed a kind of Jedi / Zen needed to master this beast.

Talking to me from Wollongong, Grose is a man that has a certain well-grounded humour about the whole ‘studio geek’ thing.

Building a career as he sat behind producing duties for the six albums of his former band Dungeon, countless other opportunities cropped up that called for his budding expertise. Now getting comfortable in the skin of his more recent band Lord, he decided the birth of their recently released second album Set In Stone was the time to take his producing role up a notch. According the Grose, one cannot be a true producer until they have their own home studio. Thus enter SLS Studios.

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“We basically built our own commercial studio just for Set In Stone,” Grose chirps down the line, deep within the recesses of the studio itself. “We were wasting a lot of money on other studios and we would have had to fork out like $30,000 or $40,000 for this album alone. So we thought ‘bugger it, we’ll build our own…’ and I’m still in debt after the whole thing (laughs).

It took about a year to build and takes up the whole bottom floor of my house. The flipside is that I now work way, way too much. I’m only really getting about five hours sleep a night now.

I bathe in the light of my computer monitors, instead of bathing in the sun at the beach.

Totally geeky and unhealthy, but I love it.”

Set In Stone is somewhat of a landmark release for the lads of Lord. Or, at least, it is the album that has been brewing for two decades in the brain of Grose. Bringing together the best of Dungeon’s past and looking to the future, this sophomore release under the Lord banner reveals a wealth of knowledge Grose and company have not been able to really flesh out until this point. Bringing the well-known power and thrash elements of this crew to the table, as always, other influences of death, black and, daresay, even pop make headway on this offering.

“With this album, we wanted to fulfil what Lord was about,” he explains. “I’d say our first album Ascendency was a straight forward power / thrash metal EP. It was the album that we needed to do. It needed to appeal to the Dungeon fanbase. But it did seem a shame that we couldn’t draw on all of our musical influences. For this latest album, we knew that we pretty much had a clean slate to do whatever we wanted. So we ran with everything thing we had.”

Calling on their inner arsenal is not the only conjuring they did for this release.

For a band with the good fortune to tour continuously throughout the years, they made some high profile mates along the way – as you can imagine. So instead of trying to tackle this project on their own, they enlisted their own army of metal masterminds to come on board for the journey. Dio’s Craig Goldy, exMegadeth guitarist Glen Drover, Harem Scarem’s Pete Lesperance, and Angra’s Felipe Andreoli were just some of the men to return Lord’s battlecall.

“We’ve been very fortunate over the years to have become friends with many of our heroes. So when we asked if they wanted to help out, they were definitely down. Obviously some of the guys had to be compensated because we were making coin off their names. But then we had guys like Glen Drover who only asked for me to cook him an awesome meal when he toured Australia next. It puts a bit of pressure on me to make sure my cooking doesn’t suck (laughs).”

But with the slew of big names came another dilemma – the recording process itself.

“The logistics was just a nightmare,” Grose sighs.

“We thought recording ourselves would be fairly easy, but then it dawned on us that, oh shit, there will be a couple of hundred backing vocal tracks with an orchestra of guest vocalists. And I’m not even joking, there were literally hundreds of backing vocal tracks – it was insane. It took us about 10 months to record in total, a big jump from the last album which was recorded in 30 days because we had pressure from our recording label at the time. I think there is obvious results of the time taken. But when we were doing it, it was like ‘naw! I’ve gotta edit drums’ when my mates asked me to go have a few drinks or something (laughs).”

Though Set In Stone also signalled an end of an era for the band. After much deliberation drummer Tim Yatras made the decision to leave the band in June, at the end of the current tour’s first leg. Former Vanquish drummer, 21-year-old Damian Costas, now fills Yatras’ shoes. “Damo’s a freak, he first started going to Dungeon shows when he was 15 and he knows every single song we’ve ever written.

It’s a big jump going from the loveable angry drunk that T.Y is to Damo, who is like a bouncy eager little puppy. TY’s a fantastic drummer, one of the best drummers in Australia bar none – and we’re going to miss him.”

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LES CLAYPOOL Driving Force

The inimitable Les Claypool will be making his way to Perth for a show on Sunday, December 6, at Capitol.

LAURA GLITSOS reports.

While Les Claypool is undoubtedly known as a man of both comedy and substance through a well-established public career, a small biopsy pulls out a sample of a man with strong social and artistic convictions, on some surprising issues.

“For me, I have my pet peeves. I’ve written a lot about drunk driving, I think it’s one of the most wretched, heinous, irresponsible and asinine things you can do, so I tend to get involved as much as I can,” Claypool admonishes.

“I tend to be that guy that gets in people’s faces about it.” And he’s not exaggerating either. Claypool calmly retells a story where he “got into it” with a friend of a friend who was drinking at a bar after his third DUI. “I got right in his face, letting him know I’ve got kids on these roads. I was like ‘what the hell are you doing’.

“Of course it made all my friends very uncomfortable. But society and the community needs to call people up on this shit, otherwise it’s rationalised.” Something Claypool says he won’t let happen without

a fight. After the scene with the convicted drink driver, Claypool says it wasn’t over.

“He was sheepish at the time and then I heard later he was bad-mouthing me about it so I went at him again. I went down to his office and said ‘you got something to say to me?’ I was being rational but I was letting him know that I don’t appreciate it.

I grew up around alcoholics and substance abusers. While these people were wonderful and nice, they are still irresponsible.

“I’ve taken keys away from my best friend. He’s a great and fun guy; but he can be a shit. You need to let your friends know it’s not cool, otherwise you ignore it and then they kill somebody. It’s all about moderation and being smart.

“It’s selfish and I think it’s one of the lamest things. It’s up there with child molesters, rapists, wife beaters and then coming up from behind are drink drivers.

Even on the new record, there’s a track called Old Rosco about a friend of mine who likes to drink and drive.”

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Les Claypool Claypool tells the story, never once does he lose his cool or sound momentarily upset.

Instead, he says it’s important to “pick your battles”.

“As you move through life you become more and more responsible with relationships, children, possessions and things like that. But you to try remain as politically and socially conscious as you can.

At some point you also have to enjoy your life, because you can become so consumed with this stuff you just become a sour and bitter old bastard,” he laughs.

“Humour is a very powerful tool of persuasion. Look at Frank Zappa with Dumb All Over. On the surface it seems like a kooky little song, but you listen to the lyrics and it’s about the notion of how religion and books of faith taken to literally can adversely affect people.”

Claypool refers back to his own material and explains how very sombre notions can be hidden in the most unexpected places.

“There’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek subject matter in my material that’s dark as can be. Jerry Was A Race Car Driver seems benign, but at the end of the song Jerry gets drunk and drives into a telephone pole, killing himself.

“There’s a lot about dealing with addiction through my family too. You sort of exorcise your demons. I exorcise mine through these colourful characters. It’s like a Cohen brothers film, there’s a lot of humour but also very tragic elements.”

However, he says it has taken time to overcome the stigma of not being taken seriously.

“I’m comfortable were I am now, but people used to ask me back in the day if I worried about not getting taken seriously.

I was fine until we did [Wynona’s] Big Brown Beaver and everyone thought we were a joke band.” He laughs and says, “it took me a while to get over that one”.

Regardless, he wouldn’t trade his position in the alternative scene for anything.

“Every so often the mainstream will spit out something that I like, for example, I like the Beatles,” he jokes.

Claypool’s projects have always left-of-centre and he says the recent Oddity Fair he organised this year was no exception.

He describes it as a mini-festival filled with abstract artists and performers “freaking out the folks in middle-America”. And he says it’s still not hard to freak people out.

The new album promises to be “something that nobody’s ever seen or heard before, it’s a strange collection of incredible musicians.

“Some of the record is based on soundtrack work I did for a couple of different projects; one being an independent thriller / horror film that I scored called Pig Hunt, about a 3000-pound wild boar that terrorises the population of northern California.

So, is Claypool’s material truly dark or just ironic?

“Well it’s a bit of both,” he says.

“When you can mention Sarah Palin in a song, along with fake breasts, it has to be.”

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EDITORS Evening Shade English indie darlings Editors have just release their third album, In This Light And On This Evening. Fans hoping for guitar-led festival anthems are in for a big, dark, synthesised krautrock surprise, reports DAVID CRADDOCK. Editors are the kind of act the ravenous English music press either love or hate, d e p e n d i n g o n t h e w e a t h e r. A l l b u t canonised after the release of their 2005 debut, The Back Room, the band went on to receive Mercury Prize nominations and all the right high profile festival slots.

Come 2007 with the release of their curiously titled follow-up, An End Has A Start, and hyper-fickle indie comicbook the NME luke-warmly suggested the band were slowly shaking their similarity to Interpol, but were not quite there yet. “Behind the ProTools flam and deathbead dolour Editors are so much better than this,” NME scribe Mark Beaumont suggested.

Just how Editors’ fans and critics will receive In This Light And On This Evening, a headfirst leap into even darker, sludgier, Germanic synthesizer-led misery, will be extremely interesting.

“I think they’re not going to like it,” Editors bass player, Russell Leetch, predicts of the NME’s reaction to their ambitious.

apocalyptic, soundscape laden release.

“The UK press, they tend to not like us,” he says. “If you have any level of success they really try and shoot you down and throw things at you. We seem to get belittled quite a lot which is a bit annoying considering we’re from there. But it’s kind of happened to every band that came out around the same time as us.”

Citing the Terminator soundtrack as a key influence on In This Light And On This Evening, frontman Tom Smith has stated he wouldn’t be surprised if the album splits the band’s fanbase. Leetch agrees.

“I think people that might have got into the band from the second record, which I think was our most poppy and obviously commercial record - the casual fan that heard the band first that through Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors - I think they might feel a little pressured by this record and might not get there,” he says. “So yeah I think it might split opinion.”

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however, to split opinion in Germany, where Editors have just played a string of wellreceived shows. “The reaction that we’ve been getting from Germany is amazing,” Leetch says.

“There’s four Goth magazines that want to put us on the cover. In Germany they have a thing called Dark Wave which is kind of like, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Ultravox and that kind of dark pop thing. We’ve certainly become the band that’s filling that bracket. It does sound quite Germanic from the opening synth pulse. It sounds like a European record.

But that’s cool with us.”

The new, even darker sound isn’t surprising given the past output of its producer. Having worked with Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Nick Cave, English producer Flood has a resume steeped in dour misery.

“When we put a list together with people we wanted to work with he was the only person on the list,” Leetch laughs. “Flood’s made the most interesting and varied records over the past 25 years. I don’t think Chris (Urbanowicz, guitar) was very keen on the idea because he’d done Achtung Baby with U2 and some of the big records that he’d done are back in ’80s and ’90s. I think he was a bit put off by the thought that we might be working with some old dude that was an old-fashioned producer. We had to persuade Chris a bit but as soon as we met Flood it just clicked. He was very natural and just let us do our thing. He wanted to make a really gritty, urban sounding pop record.”

Leetch says the impulse to start experimenting with synthesisers, partly came out of the desire to not get bored and to keep moving forward in the studio. With a duo of guitar albums behind them, the bass player says the band were ready to spice things up by trying something more adventurous and new.

“I guess keyboards seemed to be the obvious answer,” Leetch says of the band’s evolution. “But we still wanted it to be a very live record, we didn’t want to do the drums, bass and guitars and then more guitars and then a vocal. We wanted to do a record that was very live and recorded live. Every song you hear is a take rather than built up. We didn’t want headphones on either. It becomes a little more workmanlike when you wear headphones and it seems like you’re really trying for per fection. It was more about playing for the mood rather than going for clinical precision.”

According to Leech, another way that things were kept fresh and exciting in the studio, was Flood’s eccentric recording style. With the studio set up like a rehearsal room with a full PA system, Leetch says Flood would simply record the band in one live take with the assistance of a giant ‘head-shaped’ microphone.

“There was this one microphone that was designed by some German company to completely replicate the human head and how you would listen,” Leetch laughs of Flood’s nutty-professor like equipment. “That microphone, I think it was worth 15 grand or something! He just put that in the middle of the room. He’s just recorded using that. It was quite an interesting way of recording.”

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WOLFMOTHER Version 2.0 Andrew Stockdale of psychedelic rock heroesWolfmother gets into an electric Kool-Aid funky satan groove with ALASDAIR DUNCAN as he prepares for the hatching of his band’s second album, Cosmic Egg. “I went to a yoga class,” Andrew Stockdale is explaining, on the genesis of Wolfmother’s new album, “and one of the positions, the lady said, was called ‘The Cosmic Egg’. I just thought, ‘that’s a cool name’, so I just went into the studio and decided to call one of the songs Cosmic Egg. Then the record came out and it was called Cosmic Egg. It just happened, hey?”

From the tip of his kinky afro to the toes of his white Cons, Stockdale is rock’n’roll in its purest form. He lives in a world quite apart from ours, a Spinal Tap fantasyland where the girls have kaleidoscope eyes and everyone eats the brown acid.

Case in point: nobody else but Andrew Stockdale can casually drop the phrase “I called up Devendra,” into the conversation and make it sound like having Natalie Portman’s ex (whose name is a synonym for the Hindu god of rain and thunder) in your phonebook is the most normal thing in the world. For the record, the name comes up during an anecdote concerning the Cosmic Egg recording sessions at Sunset Sounds in LA. “I called up Devendra at one o’clock one morning when we were finished to see if

he wanted a drink,” the story goes, “and he said come by the studio. I went thinking he’d be there doing things with his band, but I walked in and just thought, ‘holy shit, there’s Beck!’. ” If something like that that happened to you, you’d be texting OMG to all your friends and Twittering frantically until your thumbs fell off, but that’s why Andrew Stockdale is a rock star and you are not.

Cosmic Egg is an overwhelming listening experience. I put it to Stockdale that, hearing the album, with its chugging riffs and oldschool Black Sabbath-like touches, one can’t help but feel transported back to some point around 1975, sitting on a beanbag, staring into a lava lamp and wearing a big, chunky pair of headphones.

He considers this for a moment.“A beanbag with headphones ...” he says, sagely. “It definitely is a sit-down kind of album. It’s not wallpaper, you know what I mean? It’s a centrepiece. It’s active listening.”

A big part of my interest in Stockdale is in his process as a songwriter and in how he is able to create such immaculate, fuzzed-out ‘70s rock pastiches while still retaining that weird something that is totally and utterly Wolfmother.

Jamming in the studio for hours at a time is a

Wolfmother big part of that, but the key to understanding Stockdale as a songwriter is to understand him as a lyricist. Take the following story, about the creation of Cosmic Egg’s lead single, written during an extended session in Byron Bay. “New Moon Rising came about when I was driving to the studio in Byron Bay, and there was actually a new moon,” he says. “That got me thinking about the harvest moon, and wondering why it’s called a harvest moon, and how farmers live their lives around the moon, and pagan ceremonies based around the moon. When I went into the studio, the lyric just came to me, ‘I see the new moon rising’.

“Every day in Byron,” he continues, “when I drove to the studio, I’d see people hitchhiking along that stretch from the city to the highway – teenagers and stuff – and I thought, it’s kind of bizarre to think of some kid, who at one point lived at home with parents who sent them to school and made them dinner every night has kind of ended up with a didgeridoo walking the streets. I just kind of started thinking about what goes through, like, someone’s head when they decide to leave home, or define themselves or what they do, how they choose what they’re going to do. So yeah, that’s what I was thinking about at that time.”

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of songwriting, though, Stockdale offers a masterclass in how he goes about creating Wolfmother’s storming tracks.

“One way that I write that I usually try is I come up with a riff,” he says.“I’ll just press record and play a guitar for half-an-hour and let whatever happens happen, then I’ll listen back to it and pick out a some riffs that I like then play them again and maybe put them in an order. Then I’ll get a microphone and sing to the riffs and listen back to what I sang, and then write down the words that worked and then kind of go from there.

That’s one way I sometimes write.

“Sometimes, I try writing with a drum kit – I just sit down at the drum kit and start playing a beat, then sing along to the drum kit and later put the chords in, after I’ve got a beat.

So I’m not thinking of chords, I’m naturally just singing. Other times I’ll just go to a keyboard or a piano and make up some chords and just kind of go from that.”

The deliriously heavy sound of Cosmic Egg is thanks, in part, to Alan Moulder, the legendary English producer who has worked with the likes of The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and The Killers. In Moulder’s signature style, the record is drenched in layer after layer of thick noisy guitars, with traces of electronics underneath; band and producer could not have been more perfectly matched.

When asked how their collaboration came about, Stockdale is circumspect: “Well, I basically called up the label and said, ‘you can either get Alan Moulder to work with me on this record, or I’m going to produce it myself’,” he says.

“So they made it happen.”

As Stockdale describes it, Moulder’s approach to recording is effortless and casual.

“Alan’s a very positive guy,” he says. “It wasn’t a dramatic recording process, where he was saying, ‘I love this!’ and ‘I hate this!’ He just had a very open mind for ideas and experimentation, and would let things evolve.”

Moulder also had some profound music geek lessons to impart on Stockdale.

“There’s one song on the record, In The Morning, where I was finger plucking the chords on a six-string,” he says, “and Alan suggested I put a capo on the 12th fret of a 12-string and I’d play the same finger plucking like that, and it gave it a Byrds kind of vibe, a cool sort of ‘60s California vibe.”

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YORK JAZZ AND SOUL FESTIVAL Swing Out Each spring,die-hard jazz and soul fans make the pilgrimage to York,ready to experience a weekend of live music,as wildflowers bloom and the sun shines from above. Over seven stages, local, national and international artists perform, presenting jazz in all its forms, including be-bop, improvisational jazz, modern jazz, dixieland, soul, youth jazz, swing, gospel, funk and nu-jazz.

Here’s a rundown on some of the acts headed to WA for the Festival, which takes place from Friday, October 23, ’til Sunday, October 25. Tickets are still available, head to yorkjazz.com.au to snap yours up.

FRIDAY 23rd OCTOBER 2009

Linda Oh Trio (United States)

Intrepid traveller and musician Linda Oh was born in Malaysia, grew up in Perth (where she studied at WAAPA) and now lives in New York City, where she teaches bass at the Manhattan School Of Music. Consisting of Linda on bass, Obed Calvaire on drums and Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, the Linda Oh Trio are gearing up to release their debut EP Entry, later this year.

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Cnr Joaquina & Avon Terrace 7.15 - 8.45pm

Miguel 8.45 - 9.30pm

Sugar Blue Burlesque 9.30 - 1.00pm

Russ Dewbury DJ

SATURDAY 24th OCTOBER 2009

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TOWN HALL Main Stage

Cnr Joaquina & Avon Tce

Miguel

Miguel (Australia)

Michael Rogers and his nine-piece-band, Miguel, will have you kicking up your heels on the streets of York, with a generous helping of upbeat jazz complete with lashings of trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saxophones, and the deep tones of the double bass.

Linda Oh Trio

Ari Hoenig Quartet (United States)

Born with a conductor / classical singer as his father, and violinist / pianist as his mother, Ari Hoenig was destined to be a musician. After exploring musical genres as a child, Ari fell in love with jazz, using drums to explore the possibilities of the genre. Ari manages to elevate the role of drumming in his compositions, pushing his stick-work past percussion to an indispensable part of his performance

Laia Genc Trio

Laia Genc Trio (Germany)

Hailing from Cologne, Laia Genc is a piano lover at heart, having tickled the ivories since she was a young lass. With Sebastian Gramss on bass and Nils Tegen on drums, the Laia Genc Trio love to improvise, presenting a modern, melodic sound.

Ari Hoenig Quartet

DJ Russ Dewbury (Great Britain)

Russ Dewbury, founder of the infamous Jazz Rooms in Brighton, will bring his decks and record collection to WA for the York Jazz and Soul Festival. With a musical career spanning 23 years, Dewbury knows his stuff and has no problem filling a dancefloor with catchy, swing dance-worthy tunes.

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TOWN HALL

New Millennium Stage (rear)

11.45 - 12.45pm

Misinterprotato with Froy Aggre

12.00 - 1.00pm

Victoria Newton Quartet

1.15 - 2.15pm

The Idea Of The North

1.30 - 2.15pm

Miguel

2.15-3.00pm

Both Sides of Joni Mitchell 3.00 - 4.15pm

Megan Washington with Jamie Oehlers Quartet

3.15 - 4.15pm

Laia Genc Trio 4.15 - 5.00pm

Linda Oh Trio 5.00 - 6.15pm

Tinpan Orange

5.15 - 6.30pm

Neil Cowley Trio 6.15 - 7.00pm

Red Bantoo 7.00-8.15pm

Bamboos with Kylie Auldist

7.15 - 8.15pm

Tim Garlands Lighthouse Trio 8.15 - 9.00pm

Sugar Blue Burlesque 9.00-10.00pm

James Hunter

10.15pm-12.00am

SUNDAY 25th OCTOBER 2009

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9.15 - 10.30pm

Ari Hoenig Quartet

Russ Dewbury DJ

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MASONIC HALL

Cnr Joaquina & Avon Tce

TOWN HALL

New Millennium Stage (rear)

MASONIC HALL

Cnr Joaquina & Avon Tce

11.00 - 12.00pm

The Idea of the North 12.00 - 12.45pm

Cornerhouse Jazz

12.30 - 1.30pm

Sarah MacKenzie

12.45 - 1.45pm

Megan Washington with Jamie Oehlers Quartet 1.45 - 2.30pm

The Hounds

1.45 - 2.30pm

Linda Oh Trio

2.30 - 3.45pm

Neil Cowley Trio

3.45 - 4.45pm

Tinpan Orange

4.00 - 5.00pm

Laia Genc Trio

4.45 - 6.00pm

Tim Garlands Lighthouse Trio

6.00 - 7.00pm

The Bamboos with Kylie Auldist

NEIL COWLEY TRIO Line In The Sand

The Neil Cowley Trio bring a diverse palate to the York Jazz & Soul Festival this weekend.

BOB GORDON reports.

The Neil Cowley Trio is on a run of international jazz festivals of late and it’s treating them well.

The outfit was recently in Montreal, before returning home to London, then the Queenstown Jazz Festival in New Zealand, with York Jazz & Soul this weekend then an event in Brisbane thereafter.“We like to do festivals,” says Cowley down the line from Auckland, “it’s a different approach. You get to see and interact with lots of other cool groups and everyone’s up for seeing something new. It’s a good opportunity for us to meet new people.”

It makes for interesting times, given many jazz buffs have very firm definitions about what is-and-isn’t jazz. With a diverse background in dance and rock, Cowley watches as his outfit often literally converts festival-goers before his very eyes.

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“Definitely, I think maybe the more conservative, hardcore jazz listeners come to see us with an idea that they’re going to hate us and quite often they turned out to like us… so long as they don’t mind a bit of volume.

“But our listeners, or our fans, are a broad range of people who just like music first, predominantly, then maybe jazz second. But music is first their taste, just a general love of music. And they can be all age ranges – young goth kids are into us; surfer dudes and a whole range of people.

People worry me when they are only into one genre of music, that’s bringing very little to the table.”

Cowley has been described as a jazz musician who doesn’t listen to jazz. Such wellintentioned descriptions can often be hindering.

“I think often those phrases are red herrings because if you’re playing jazz festivals and

you’ve got the word trio in your band name then people are going to expect one thing from you anyway. So they have to hear us in order to find something alienating in the stuff.

“But we’ve got double bass, drums and piano in the band. When I set up this band I wanted to take that jazz trio format and use it because the piano is something I can use to express myself and relate to people with immediacy – finger on ivory, you know? But I wanted to take that medium and incorporate all the different types of music that I’ve encountered along the way.”

The Trio have released two albums, with another due by mid-2010. Cowley previously played and toured with Zero 7 and the Brand New Heavies,‘til one day he decided it was time to step out front.

“That’s something I thought of from a very early age,” he says. “Even when I did the

Neil Cowley Trio Brand New Heavies album, I was very selective about what I did on the sessions or the backing front. I made sure that a lot of my time was taken up with my own artistic output. So I was doing underground dance pseudonyms. So yeah, it was a conscious effort and then when I got to 30 I felt I had to draw a line in the sand and stop doing that.”

So how’s the last five years of music been like compared to the previous 10?

“I look at it as having a much clearer vision,” Cowley says, “much more fulfilling. I’m a much happier person now that I’m able to express myself in this way and get on stage and really say something, to shout from the rafters in this way.”

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THE FLAMING LIPS Coyne And The Gang Psychedelic pop voyagers The Flaming Lips recently visited Australian shores for some whirlwind dates including a rousing performance at Splendour In The Grass,where an enraptured audience got a taste of new double-album,Embryonic.Afterwards, KIRSTY BROWN caught up with frontman/ringleader/fried visionary Wayne Coyne in Sydney for an entertaining tete-a-tete.

At The Flaming Lips Sydney sideshow there was a lovely moment when two of the backup dancers, dressed as Geckos, became engaged onstage (a surprise for the bride to be) to the opening strains of Do You Realise.

It was a lovely moment, but not a new one for Coyne And The Gang.

“We do it a lot! Sometimes we don’t get very much notice – sometimes it will just be the guy gets a hankering for it and almost never does the girl know what’s going to happen. I always think that is a bit of a bummer, because he’s going to say it and there’s 10,000 people there. What are you going to say? Do you think that sometimes they get in the car and she’s like, ‘what the fuck were you thinking up there?’.”

The room explodes in laughter – Coyne is flailing his limbs and doing a damn good impression of a pissed off woman. “I think it sets a precedent, that your husband won’t ever think twice about putting you on the spot!

But I’m glad they make a moment of it. That’s the thing; to seize on it and do something different that is going to affect the rest of your life. That’s great. And at a Flaming Lips show, there is a sense that, if you can’t muster up the bravery or the enthusiasm and just surrender to the moment, then you probably never will.

We run into quite a few couples years later and they’re still going strong.”

A Flaming Lips show has to be seen to be believed. Glitter guns fire rapidly, balls bounce around the crowd, streamers fall from the roof and of course, Coyne gets in that giant inflatable ball and the crowd goes batshit crazy every time. On their recent Australian tour, they emerged through a giant video of a throbbing vagina. Awesome. When did the Flaming Lips first realise that adding some colour and spark to the mix would produce such emotional reactions in people?

“It was weird, because we never thought we’d be this live group. We thought, ‘okay, well we’ll just go and play some shows’ but never knew it would end up being this… thing.”

He ponders for a little, and then continues, “Around the time we were touring The Soft Bulletin, a record which, a lot of it is about death, wondering about insanity, but a lot about death. I realised, maybe it was because at that time I was in my late-30s, but I was like, ‘we’re playing shows to 19 year-old kids who want to smoke pot and have sex. Why would I want to bum them out on their Saturday night, singing about the triumph and the horrors and the beauty of death?’.

“But, if we do it and treat it like a giant party, I could probably sing songs about death and show them that I was really singing songs about life. We thought, ‘that’s a dumb idea, but let’s go for it’. Back then, I was throwing handfuls of confetti,” he says, raising an eyebrow.

The evolution of the live show did not stop there, however. Finessing the idea over time, Coyne is pragmatic about its affect on people…

“We really started to see the affects that this side of us was having. Don’t get me wrong, we are genuine about it. We really do embrace that sort of thing, but you never know what is going to work. Back then, we were finishing with Somewhere Over The Rainbow and people would literally start to cry. Grown, cynical punk rockers. We thought it was awesome! But you do want to get some response; so we would just try different things.

We were never concerned about being the greatest live band. The whole thing is contrived – people are being asked to partake in it. It showed me that people come to a show to do that, if you encourage them, even though it’s contrived, all you gotta do is say ‘let’s go!’.”

For a crazy band of outsiders, whose origins lay in the psychedelic and mystical, the emotional response to songs like Do You Realise has on their audience is not lost on the band.

“It changes people, it moves people,” he explains. “It isn’t just this empty sportsyahoo thing. These songs mean a lot to a lot of people. Almost everyone has relayed a story to me about, particularly Do You Realise?, being used at a funeral, or wedding. To some, these are their most precious songs. That release, that joy, is such a great thing. I try to stay professional, but it’s hard not to get caught up in it. The humanity in the room is beautiful. But I do care so much.”

With new album under their arms, the double-sided Embryonic, it’s a departure from their recent work. More psychedelic than the endlessly cheerful Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and the rifftastic surge of At War With The Mystics. As Coyne puts it, Embryonic is…

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to my strengths. Which is no strengths!” he laughs.

“So, since I’m the least able, I’ll play the simplest thing and they gallop along with me. That’s where their skill comes in. When they play to my groove, it moves along with a good humanistic energy to it.

“With this record, we were trying to just start completely at the weird accidents and just move backwards from there, and arrive at a strange sound, or mood, or exotic newness. It’s hard, after 13 or 14 records, you can easily be satisfied, thinking, ‘I’ve written every song I was ever going to write’. After 1984 when we made our first six-song EP, I thought, ‘I’m done here!’” he jokes, animatedly wiping his hands.

What’s true of Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips is that they’ll probably never be done. Lurking in that brain is a wildly creative man, interested in the obscure and unafraid to be oblique.

“You always want some reason to get lost, some freedom that lets you drift off into outer space. That’s the beauty of what art can do. If you get lost in it, you’ll never know what could happen…”

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JOSH PYKE One Last Fire

Josh Pyke is to give his goldsellingsecondalbumChimney’s Afire a special send off before getting to work on his third release.The Variations Tour,set to roll in to the Fremantle Art Centre on Friday, November 6, will see the likeable lad split his show into three unique sets.

DAVID CRADDOCK reports.

For Josh Pyke fans, the troubadour’s latest tour will be like a recession-busting threefor-one deal. Not one, but three(!) sets will be squeezed into the show to showcase the songwriter’s versatility, charm and musicianship. And, if you call now, he might event throw in a heart-tugging musical workout with hotly tipped songstress Gin Wigmore.

“I wanted to do something a bit different because these are the last shows that I’ll be doing for this album,” Pyke explains of show’s format which will be broken into solo, full band and quirky ukulele, banjo and toypiano led sections. “I just wanted to present the songs in all of the different ways I’ve played them over the last few years…Often after gigs people say they love it when I play solo and that they wish I’d done more solo songs, or they say they love the band songs. So I want to do it all in one go and put this album to bed.”

Matching the success of his ARIA award-winning debut Memories & Dust, Pyke’s current album Chimney’s Afire reached gold status earlier this year. Having toured hard to promote the release since October 2008, the songwriter says he’s well and truly ready to tuck the record away.

“I love playing live but I’ve been playing these songs non stop for almost a year now and it’s good to kind of re-invent them a bit,” Pyke says of his efforts to prevent his shows from feeling stale. “You end up finding new meaning in the songs and new inspiration

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which is always a great thing.”

Aside from the unique format of the gigs, this short four-date Australian tour will also see Pyke headline the biggest Australian venues of his career. Although he has a reputation for intimate folky performances in which a whole room can feel like they’re being personally spoken to, Pyke says he still feels

closely connected with audiences on bigger stages.

“Playing solo on [big] stages like these presents a different challenge, but in some ways I find that it’s a more intimate experience because you’re really showing your vulnerability when you’re one person up on stage in front of a couple of thousand

people,” he offers. “If I started thinking ‘I have to play differently to fill this place’ I’d start getting myself into trouble - so I think it’s more about the experience of the audience rather then the actual space.”

Pyke’s recent involvement in The White Album tour, in which he joined Tim Rogers, Chris Cheney and Phil Jamieson in performing the classic Beatles album, would certainly have warmed him up for larger crowds. Two-sold out shows treading, what are arguably Australia’s most prestigious boards, at The Sydney Opera House, fulfilled for Pyke a childhood dream.

“I kept having flashbacks to when I was a 16 year old and the fantasies I used to have of being a musician in the future!” he laughs. “It was pretty weird to be honest. Every now and then I’d walk out onstage at the Opera House in Sydney and I’d just be giggling to myself just saying ‘what are you doing!’.”

With such successful releases and prestigious shows already under his belt, it’d be easy for Pyke to rest on his laurels, but the down-to-earth Sydneysider says he’s determined to keep extending himself. While he was heavily involved in the intimate, warm and dreamy production of his first two albums, Pyke says he wants to find a producer who will extend and challenge him for his third album.

“I’d like to work with a producer again and take a back seat in that [production] department and allow them to push my limits,” he explains. “If I heard something that I think is totally shit then I’ll speak up but I really want someone to take my songs and work with me to push them in new directions.”

Production aside, it is as a lyricist that Pyke has truly made his name and endeared himself to a new generation of listeners looking for their own Paul Kelly-esque suburban poet.

Inspired by writers such as Tim Winton, or in the case of Chimney’s Afire, historical accounts of whaling, the keen reader says he has already begun collecting snippets of literary inspiration for his latest set of songs.

“I was reading a book about Galileo and his persecution during the inquisition,” he says. “That inspired a couple of lyrical phrases – that always happens, I’ll read something and think ‘wow that’s too good to waste’ so it’ll turn up in a song…It’s mostly books on history, other peoples lives and even paintings. I need to find ways of describing things in my own life without making it totally about me. I find that looking at other art and history helps you make those things universal.”

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THE GET UP KIDS Together Again

After disbanding over four years ago, The Get Up Kids have announced that they’re getting the band back together, and not just for a reunion, but back for good.

GEORGE GREEN caught up with frontman Matt Pryor ahead of their appearance at Soundwave.

There’s no doubt about it. The Get Up Kids are one of the most hotly anticipated acts at next year’s Soundwave. After what was a well documented and messy breakup, the members of The Get Up Kids all went their separate ways, and pursued their own musical avenues.

With other members going on to work with Spoon, Blackpool Lights and Reggie And The Full Effect, Pryor set out to work on his side project The New Amsterdams, as well as writing solo material.

Pryor, who was the instigator in The Get Up Kid’s breakup, was also one of the key players in getting the band back together.

With the announcement that the band would not be embarking on a reunion tour, but getting back together indefinitely, X-Press caught up with Pryor while he was in high spirits.

“I’m just at home in my back yard having a beer. It’s always good to have a beer with Australians. It’s just a general rule,” laughs Pryor.

“I’m particularly excited about heading out to Australia this time, because the last two times we came have been at points in my life when I have been really burnt on things. We’re heading out to see you guys just as it gets really shitty out here, so when it’s freezing cold with snow on the ground at home, we’re going to go to Australia and I’m gonna be like ‘Yyyeeeeeaaaahh’,” Pryor yells down the line.

You can hear the pure enthusiasm in Pryor’s voice when he talks about heading out to our sunny shores. The obvious weather conditions contribute to this, but Pryor has learnt from past experiences, and is just excited to be back with the band on positive terms again.

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It’s at this point when the subject regarding the band’s status arises. Pryor is very quick to distinguish any rumours about reunions and hiatuses.

“Other people have been calling these reunion shows, but we’re not. We’re moving forward with The Get Up Kids, and have written a bunch of new material, so for us, this is just an Australian tour. It’s just The Get Up Kids back together in a newer and less stressful way.”

The Get Up Kids played a pivotal role in the mid 90’s emo movement, and after 10 years as leaders of that movement, they broke up. Citing personal reasons, the band took four years away from each other, and the end result is The Get Up Kids being able to pick up where they left off. None of this would have been possible if egos got in the way of decision-making, and Pryor is fully aware of the way the whole situation panned out.

“We started this band when I was 18, and I’m 32 now. A lot of shit can happen between 18 and 32. In hindsight, we didn’t need to break up at all, we just needed to get away from each other for a couple of years and do different things, which ultimately we did do, but having to break the band up to do so always made it harder to get it back together.

“In theory, we should have used the word Hiatus, but that was a dark period in all of our lives, and I don’t think anybody was really cognitive enough to realise we just needed a break. For us, it was just shitty, and we wanted to stop it.”

Band break ups don’t usually seem to come on extremely amicable terms, and from the way Pryor explains theirs, it wasn’t.

So with such a checkered past, how did The

The Get Up Kids Get Up Kids get to the point where they were not only able to get along again, but organise an Australian tour?

“Last spring, which was about four years after I quit the band, we were all at a Spoon show hanging out, and all of that tension had melted away over that time. We needed four years apart to realise that we were all still friends, and we all still missed playing music together.

“We started off by discussing playing just one show, and if it went well, then we’d go from there. We played the one show in our home town, and it was a blast, so that’s about when we decided to get The Get Up Kids back together. We have realised now that we just need to forget all the bullshit that comes with being in a band, and enjoy it.”

It seems like the timing couldn’t be any better for The Get Up Kids to resume being The Get Up Kids. They’ve just released the 10 th anniversary edition of their second record Something To Write Home About, and with an offer on the table from Soundwave, the band couldn’t turn down an opportunity to head back to Australia.

“We’ve always received a lot of love from Australia and it’s people, so I think it’s really important for us that we get things rolling again with that positive mindset. To me, Australia is the best place we could tour, because it always feels like a vacation, and not like work. I get to chill out all day, go to the beach, go play a gig, and go back to the beach, so it’s super relaxing. It’s kind of hard to feel any negativity while you’re touring in Australia.”

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an approaching monsoon make this a balmy afternoon joy.

By final track Saudades you might have fallen asleep, but in a good way. This is a calming, whimsical and pomp-free acoustic record that should’ve come with a free hammock.

NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Come To Life Island Universal Music

_DAVID CRADDOCK

Although she may be a much maligned actresscum-singer, there have been times when Natalie Imbruglia has made some fine tunes indeed.

Record sales don’t count for everything, but although she may not be the first name that rolls off the tongue, she is one of Australia’s highest selling female artists. Four years in the making, Come To Life is her fourth album.

Living in the UK, Imbruglia has increasingly become known less for her music and more for her celebrity. This type of fame obviously comes with its advantages as Chris Martin reportedly searched her out and offered three songs for Come To Life. Martin is said to have his hand in Want, the tepid dance floor targeted single. Luckily the others he is responsible for, the more refined Brian Eno produced Lukas and Fun fair a lot better.

Imbruglia has always had a strong pop sensibility but when she adds electronic elements, is prone to losing the plot. She again falls for that trap here and WYUT and Cameo are hideous as a result. She does manage to redeem herself with the charming acoustic lament Scars.

If it was up to Marcia Hynes she would tell Imbruglia ‘honey you look fantastic’ …sadly, it is doubtful that she would also let her know, that Come To Life sounds like in the best case she has stagnated as an artist, and in the worst case it’s a pile of shit. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

MADNESS Total Madness Union Square Music The seven-piece band from Camden Town became a hit machine during the ’80s with their brand of ska-pop. The songs about petty crime and childhood memories of inner London struck a chord with Australian audiences that made their videos a staple on Countdown. Total Madness collects the hits and a few less-known moments.

At a time when UB40 were showing us all that is wrong with reggae, Madness offered up a high quality counter argument. Fast-paced tunes littered with brass and Suggs’ prominent Cockney accent saw songs like One Step Beyond, Baggy Trousers and Embarrassment become anthems of the era.

A more pop edged was added to the Madness sounds and uber hits like Our House, House Of Fun and their take on It Must Be Love were spawned. Their popularity waned after this point but songs like Michael Caine, Lovestruck and NW5 are still worthy.

Their live show at the start of the year showed that the band still have it, and Total Madness affirms that they have always been a force to be reckoned with. Total Madness is also packaged up with 22 of the band’s music videos on DVD so you can watch these larger-than-life critters as well as hear their tunes. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

STRUNG OUT Agents Of The Underground Fat Wreck Chords Shock It’s pretty hard to fault Strung Out when you consider that not only have they stuck to their formula since day-dot, but that it has resonated strongly with people just as long… particularly in Australia.

In fact, the only gripe attached to this album (factoring in that sticking to the formula is the point) is that the vocals often sound really AutoTune’y. Considering how good a singer Jason Cruz is, it may well just be an aural illusion, but it certainly sounds like there’s some unnecessary tinkering going on.

Other than that, this is straight-up Strung Out. If you like ’em, you’ll like this.

There are better bands out there doing a similar thing, but few have had the loyal following Strung Out continue to enjoy. For that reason alone, there must be something going on… and if you’re a fan, you probably already know what that is without needing someone else to tell ya. _MIKE WAFER

TINPAN ORANGE The Bottom Of The Lake Vitamin Bottom Of The Lake is the kind of intimate acoustic record where you can almost hear the floorboards creaking under the players’ feet.

While the Melbourne-based band’s melancholic ‘Sunday afternoon’ tunes are beautiful in their own right, it’s Harry Angus’ warm, airy production that steals the show.

Sparsely augmented with ukulele, mandolin, double bass and Spanish guitar, Angus’ gives the listener the feeling that lead singer Emily Lubitz is whispering each intimate tale of longing into your own ear.

La La La is an early highlight with its nursery rhyme naivety and cute penny whistles.

While fully-grown women singing like they’re still making daisy chains under the footy goals on the top oval seems to be de-rigueur at the moment, Lubitz’ pulls back and doesn’t sound farcical. Beautifully evocative lyrics about fans spinning around, chirping insects and 30

MIKA The Boy Who Knew Too Much Casablanca Universal As a master of vibrant, sappy and occasionally uncool pop, it would be difficult for Mika to build on his critically acclaimed debut without completely over-dosing his listeners with sugary melodies. Almost identical in style, this second outing mostly follows the same technicolour formula, though the Beirut-born, UK-based singer employs a few extra colourful elements with mixed results.

Imogen Heap collaborates on the only decent ballad, By The Time, though the melancholy track sounds more like one of her own and jars on this otherwise playful album.

Rain veers dangerously close to ’90 boy band territory during the opening verses, while Toy Boy’s twee attempt to recall a retro children’s TV show theme seems a bridge too far. A Gospel choir assists on the anthemic We Are Golden, while the gleeful piano-pop of Good Gone Girl mimics his successful hit Grace Kelly.

Sadly, many of the tracks seem to be reaching for that same dizzying height, only to fall short. Nevertheless, there’s a good deal of Freddie Mercury-idolising on The Boy Who Knew Too Much to make up for it. A worthy follow-up, even if Mika doesn’t shine quite as brightly here as on his debut. _ROBERT PENNEY

MAGIC DIRT White Boy Emergency Music MGM By now, anyone who has a passing interest in Australian music knows that one of the scene’s all-time nice guys, Dean Turner, lost his battle with cancer recently. People have been quick to pay homage to the quiet and dignified founding member and bass player of Magic Dirt. His band Hittin’ the town since 1985

saw it as fitting to release the final recordings that he had worked on in the form of the White Boy EP. Of the six songs here, the title track is an abrasive number lifted from the recent Magic Dirt album Girl. The brooding Valley Of The Rose is a nice representation of the Geelong quartet’s less frenetic qualities and is a great foil for huge guitars on Deep In A Net Of Red. Turner’s punk rock spirit is also captured here in the riff heavy sludge of Future Fuck.

There are two duets that Turner was in the production chair for. Summer High finds Rowland S Howard joining forces with Adalita for the downbeat rocker, while man of the moment Gareth Liddiard throws his distinctive drawl at Love Is The Armour.

Magic Dirt and Dean Turner have made a massive contribution to the Australian music scene over the past couple of decades.

Turner’s warmth and inspiration will be felt for a long time to come. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

THE NOVOCAINES Cup Of Coffee Ampersonic MGM Distribution ‘One more cup of coffee before I go’ and something about a gramophone.

It doesn’t even matter what the rest of the lyrics are about because the listener is already hooked in by sheer enthusiasm, exploding through impenetrable fuzz punk riffage and straight-ahead rock’n’roll vocal action in less than 1 minute 30 seconds. The Novocaines’ publicist, who should possibly be shot, suggests that the band are ‘at the cutting edge of the exploding rock revival that is happening all round the world’. Maybe, but this little 7” single smashes The Vines, Grinspoon, Jet, and all those other lame poser bands out of the park.

B-side Like A Sunday Morning is a more chilled affair, all harmonica groove built on a solid acoustic rhythm base. ‘Won’t you come on over / we’ll be gettin’ high’ has all the homage enthusiasm and melodic ease Oasis were known for, without sounding anything like ’em.

This is a neat little record, made all the more palatable by little touches like the analogue tape twang at the beginning of the title track and the closing unexpected tom hit. No new ground, but classic material nonetheless. _BEN WATSON

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS: DIAMOND EDITION Disney Although DVD sales would have undoubtedly had to deal with similar ‘download’ issues that CD sales have, the film industry certainly has more of a budget to work with than the music industry, and judging by this package sent in by Disney, it’s a budget in the hands of people who know what to do with it.

Presented in a beautiful red velvet box (or fabric equivalent at least) and containing not just the film and feature discs, but also some collectible pins, paper goods and whatnot; one of Disney’s most popular films has been given the royal treatment.

A fairytale that will no doubt endure the ages (it’s still going strong 72 years on), Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs needs no synopsis or re-telling. A classic tale of good versus evil, the story – and more so Disney’s animated version of it – is almost essential viewing for any child… but the new Diamond Edition also provides hours of stuff for parents to enjoy as well.

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it seems very much like Disney looked at this project from the perspective of the film’s place in pop culture and history, as well as how much kids dig it. To that end, they’ve got it right on every level.

Even in a contemporary context, classic Disney films – made while Walt was still alive and well – are so distinct in their look and feel that it almost seems otherworldly now. There’s no razor-sharp CG characters, no embedded adult humour, and no modern day setting. Innocence is the name of the game. The simple story lines of all Grimm fairytales, and their deviations, are enough for Disney to have needed nothing more than to make them look pretty – and it is this combination of simplicity and elegance that set what most people would still regard as Disney’s standard… a world of bright, beautiful colours, where talking animals are as commonplace as castles and magic. An escape from reality.

This Diamond Edition really hammers the legacy of this film home when you manage to absorb all of it. With hours of stuff to work your way through, this is no easy task, but it’s a great journey no matter which way you want to look at it.

From an adult’s point of view this becomes particularly interesting when you factor in Walt Disney’s own reputation for being all sorts of dark things, and how impossibly huge the contrast is between what went on behindthe-scenes and the feature films themselves. If you’d rather not explore Snow White from that particular contextual angle, you can swap it with many others… such is the depth, influence and vastness of this film, the studio behind it, and everything that followed.

An amazing tale, one of Disney’s best examples of animation, and a modern-day swag of extra information make this Diamond Edition a cracking package to have, and one that absolutely defines the very notion of ‘family entertainment’. Although it’s unclear as to how many various forms Disney will release this in, even as just the DVD set itself without all the fancy packaging, this is going to sell like hotcakes. _MIKE WAFER

THURSDAY October 22nd

FAME (2009) & PUSH (double feature)

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FRIDAY October 23rd

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN & 9pm RESIDENT EVIL (double feature)

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SATURDAY October 24th

FAME (2009) & PUSH (double feature)

7pm 9pm

SUNDAY October 25th

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APOCALYPSE NOW: REDUX (R) THURSDAY October 29th Exclusive advance screening for Astorians of the

“BOYS ARE BACK” starring Clive Owen (Live at the Astor subscribers and their guests only)

SATURDAY October 31st

John Waters “trashy double”

7pm PINK FLAMINGOS 9pm DIRTY SHAME

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UNE FEMME MARIÉE Madman Just watch the black turtleneck and beret brigade disappear up their own arses describing this one. The commoditisation of beauty, the subverting of genre conventions using genre clichés, the revelations of the life beneath the veneer of a civilised, sophisticated marriage…

If this is your introduction to Jean-Luc Godard, you could do a lot worse. You might not realise from a first viewing, but it’s the story of 24 hours in the life of an attractive young Parisienne who’s apparently happily married to a pilot but is conducting an affair with an actor on the side.

She spends the morning with her lover, the evening with her husband, there’s a visit by a doctor, lots of running around in taxis and it’s unmistakably French New Wave no matter how many genre conventions Godard subverts or cinema references he (apparently) includes. The film seems to be broken up into chapters, each new one marked by the pixie-ish voice of the hot young wife whispering a series of things that take her fancy, confuse her, frighten her or just looked all cool and avant garde in the script.

The ‘narrative’ is also broken up by perfunctory glances of body parts in beds.

The French New Wave wasn’t a storytelling style. In many cases it seems to have completely rejected the principle of telling a story altogether, instead favouring mood and tone. While A Married Woman isn’t so confusing it makes you want to switch it off half way through, you have to love this style to really get into it, despite a surprisingly heady sense of eroticism given the era. _DREW TURNEY

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Artwork in the new Northbridge Piazza

A PRISTINE PIAZZA

Today, Thursday, October 29, Perth’s newest creative space will open, inviting punters to step off the street and into the Northbridge Piazza, to discover art and entertainment in the heart of our city’s entertainment district. To launch the space in style, the City Of Perth has organised an evening of free entertainment, kicking off the first of many public events the Piazza will host.

The Pyrophone Juggernaut will kick things off with mechanical artwork, including the largest multi-octave fire organ in the world; made completely from reclaimed metal and car

parts. Artists will create incredible performance art, framed by 15m high flames.

The Piazza features a community building with a retail space and rooms available for hire, a huge LED screen measuring nearly 5 metres high by 8 metres wide; artwork from Lorenna Grant and the ololo collective, and more.

To take part in the launch and discover everything the Piazza has to offer, make your way to the corner of James and Lake Streets in Northbridge, today, from 6pm ’til 11pm. For more on the new space, head to perth.wa.gov.au(.)

SNAIL MAIL

Perth based artist Aska wants to know where you live for her latest artwork entitled Mail Art Project.

The project attempts to connect people in a conceptual exhibition where each participating person gets part of the exhibition mailed to their house. For the exhibition to be a success, Aska needs postal addresses and lots of them! If you want to be a part of something fun and creative, email your postal address to aska.doll@gmail.com, and receive something other than bills in the mail for once! You can also check out the project, and recommend it to friends, through a Facebook group called ‘Mail Art Project’.

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LAUGHING AT LADIES

This Saturday, October 31, female comedians will take to the stage of the Woodvale Tavern for a spot of estrogen fuelled stand-up.

With headliners Corinne Grant and Felicity Ward, plus support from some of WA’s top female comics, the evening is bound to be a great night out, for men and women alike.

To find out more about the gig, and other comedy events coming up, head online to comedylounge.com.au. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

Rick Shapiro

THE ONE, THE ONLY – RICK SHAPIRO

Back in 2007, a bunch of Perth comedians set about creating a night to showcase experimental styles of comedy, labeling their creation Shapiro Tuesdays. With Jack Tandy and Josh Makinda at the helm, Shapiro Tuesdays slowly gained momentum, delivering unconventional comedy to live audiences at Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den on Tuesday nights.

Not many know that Shapiro Tuesdays is named after oddball American comedian Rick Shapiro, who is characterised for his often bizarre improvisational style that is unpredictable and never dull. An icon for all things unconventional, Shapiro became the namesake for the night’s trademark breed of experimental comedy.

In the lead up to the second birthday of Shapiro Tuesdays, organisers decided that the best way to celebrate would be to invite Shapiro himself to make the trek to Perth but tracking the elusive comic down turned out harder than expected. It’s at this point that former Perth comic Jason Chatfield tossed himself into the equation, vowing to locate Shapiro, camera in hand, wherever he might be in the US. The result is two hilarious YouTube videos, documenting Chatfield’s Shapiro-locating mission, which proved a success. Long story short, Chatfield managed to locate Rick Shapiro, and convinced the comic to venture down under, for a series of gigs around the nation.

After playing at Shapiro Tuesdays this week, Rick Shapiro, will take to the stage of The Comedy Lounge at the Charles Hotel tonight, Thursday, October 20, and Lazy Susan’s at The Brisbane Hotel on Friday, October 23. Bookings can be made through BOCS. To check out the YouTube videos or book tickets, head online to shapiroiscoming. com(.)

COUNTRY FOLK

If you fancy getting in touch with the country, don’t miss out on Harvey Dickson’s Rodeo, a spectacular show in pristine surrounds. The atmosphere will be electric as the cowboys roll into WA to test their skill at the biggest event ever in Boyup Brook on Saturday, October 31.

Harvey Dickson has been involved in the organisation of concerts for years now, allowing music fans to set up shop on his farm, which spans over 49 acres, and includes a Country Music Centre. For more on the event, head to harveydickson.com.au(.)

AND THE NOMINEES ARE…

Each year, the Perth Theatre Trust pays tribute to Perth’s fantastic theatrical community, nominating actors, directors and designers for their work on productions in WA. Congratulations to this year’s nominees, who include: Best Actor Female: Anna Brockway (A View Of Concrete), Rosemarie Lenzo (Rose), Angela Punch-McGregor (Far Away) and Alison Van Reeken (Dying City).

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Thursday, October 29, 2009.

Celebrate the beginning of a new Northbridge at the grand opening of Perth’s new cultural hub, Northbridge Piazza.

On the night, we’ll be unveiling WA’s biggest public outdoor screen and showing just what it’s capable of with an eye-popping electronic spectacular. Plus, there will be live music, dance and a whole host of other

FIVE fun hours of free entertainment. performances, including a sizzling fire and pyrotechnics show by Pyrophone Juggernaut. Don’t miss your chance to be amongst the first to experience a new side of Northbridge.

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Best Actor Male: James Hagan (The Haunting Of Daniel Gartrell), Luke Hewitt (Speed The Plow), Sam Longley (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Steve Turner (Speed The Plow).

Best Director: Chris Bendall (Checklist for an Armed Robber), Neill Gladwin (Taking Liberty), Emily McLean (Dying City) and Adam Mitchell (The Dark Room).

Best Design: Andrew Lake (Cyrano de Bergerac), Claude Marcos (Speed The Plow), Kingsley Reeve (Taking Liberty), Bryan Woltjen (Far Away).

Best Production: Dying City by Red Ryder Productions, Krakouer

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JONATHAN AUF DER HEIDE Van Diemen’s Land

Filmmaker Jonathan Auf Der Heide grew up hearing the disturbing stories of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra-banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving… the Australian wilderness. The men ultimately turned on one another to survive.

A couple of decades after first hearing about the cannibal-convict, VCA grad Der Heide has brought Pearce’s disturbing story to the big screen…

I’ve been reading your website – it’s great; good lot of information about the film there.

Thanks. But nobody is reading it (laughs). They tell me, ‘Just keep blogging’. But what’s the point of blogging if nobody’s reading?

What’s funny is, before blogs were fashionable, my housemate and I had a website called ahousenearyou.com, and it was getting 50,000 hits a month. It was nuts – I use to get stopped on the street, I had girls approach me… it was madness. And then you make a feature film and no one cares! (laughs).

Van Diemen’s Land, opening next Thursday, October 29 but a lot of the money in it is our own. Friends a short version of it, Hell’s Gates – which tells of psychopath, but I wanted to avoid that. and family also helped – my dad won Tattslotto, the story of Alexander Pearce up until the first murder – as my third year film. After I graduated Well, that’s what they did in that terrible Dying which also helped!

VCA, it was about a year before we got the feature Breed movie… version up. It was a really quick turnaround from I think Pearce was only in it for a minute Fabulous!

Yeah, he won like a hundred grand, and short to feature. The VCA says it’s the quickest – the opening sequence – but yeah, Dying Breed is based more on the mythology of the Alexander he gave up 30 to go towards the film. So that that’s ever happened.

Pearce stories. contribution got the ball rolling. We weren’t after Where’s the interest in Alexander Pearce come That’s the Australian film industry for you. a massive budget, because most of the people from?

I think what’s good about your film is that it’s involved in the film were happy just to donate Was it a hard slog getting the film up?

I’m Tasmanian, so I heard a lot of stories got a lot of fresh faces in it – it’s not a stock No, it was actually a lot of fun getting their time. So getting it up was as painless as I’ve about him growing up. I remember doing a tour Aussie roster, or a Who’s Who of the local it up – and relatively easy. I’d made a short film, heard of. of the Sarah Islands, and the Gordon River, and industry. as my VCA graduating piece, called Hell’s Gates. it was on that day that I first heard the story. I Yeah, no Samuel Johnson in my film It was a 21-minute film. And so we had that as So how long ago did you decide to do the remember thinking, ‘Wow, these poor European (laughs). I wanted audiences to see these guys part of our pitch. (Producer) Maggie Miles, (actor) film? convicts, trying to survive in this foreboding, as the characters, as the convicts, and I think by About 12 years ago. I decided I wanted impenetrable forest. So harsh’. And the Alexander casting recognisable faces in the main roles you’d Oscar Redding, and myself shopped Van Diemen’s Land around. We got some independent finance to do the film before I went to film school. I did Pearce story is the perfect example of the white be taking something away from the movie. It fellas coming in to the country and just turning wouldn’t play as true. I just wanted the film to be on themselves – resorting to violence, rather as authentic as possible. than trying to adapt to the landscape. It’s always I also thought it was a good opportunity stayed with me, that story. And considering there to use all these great actors that just don’t get film hasn’t been a convict story since 1927, I thought work. It’s not that they’re not great actors, they are this was the perfect opportunity to do one.

– they’re working constantly – it’s just that they’re not the leading man or go-to people. And they’re Is everything true in the film? Or did you have great actors too – very determined. They spent six to exaggerate a little bit for entertainment years hopping in and out of freezing cold water, purposes? trekking through the snow, having hoses sprayed There’s definitely no exaggeration in the on them. They all did it for the love of it. film. We wanted it to be a subtle as possible. We followed Alexander Pearce’s confessions down to What about yourself, romantic-comedy for the letter. There are a few little things that have you next? been changed just for brevity – the escape was Yeah, well I think so (laughs). Suppose a little cleaner than what it was in real life, only I gotta keep ‘em guessing. I don’t want to go out because I wanted to get to the story quicker. I and make another film about a group of guys wanted to get to the main gist of the story, and to entering their Heart Of Darkness. It’d be nice to Unrelentingly innovative that that Lord Of The Flies/Deliverance-style thing, actually make a film with some female characters where there’s only one man standing. And there in it. Oh, I have to tell you… I got attacked by a and entertaining - leave was no need to embellish it anyway, because the female Herald-Sun journalist yesterday who said, your expectations at home. confessions themselves were pretty intense.

‘The problem with you guys is you have no respect for intelligent women’. What? Are you kidding?

Yeah, bloody disturbing…

I was like, ‘Well, I’m making a film about Proudly presented by The Observer It’s hard to believe it’s a true story. I the 1820s in Van Diemen’s Land – and there were don’t think people are necessarily looking at it as no women’. That’s why there are no women in the one either, because it has such a perfect structure film – because I wanted it to be authentic. I wasn’t for a fictional story – eight go in, one comes out. going to do a Ned Kelly and just create a Naomi There have been scripts going around about Watts character – bugger that.

Pearce for years, but most of them make him out to be a bloodthirsty monster or some sort _ CLINT MORRIS

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AN EDUCATION School Of Life

Directed by Lone Scherfig Starring Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Cara Seymour, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins.

For her latest film An Education, Danish film director Lone Scherfig departs from the filmic purity requirements of the Dogme 95 filmmaking movement, through whose manifesto her Berlin Oscar Redding stars in Van Diemen’s Land, opening next week Silver Bear winning film, Italian For Beginners, was Directed by Jonathan Auf Der Heide as a couple of nights at a Vegas hotel to make, directed. Despite her first non-Dogme, EnglishStarring Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul it’s quite admirable what Tasmanian filmmaker language film, 2003’s Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, Ashcroft Jonathan Auf Der Heide has been able to do being a rather bleak - albeit comedic - work, in a with the limited budget and resources on hand. bit of an about turn, Scherfig has delivered us a It’s definitely got enough sauce, but Van Diemen’s The VCA graduate (whose third year film was touchingly dramatic coming-of-age film in An Land really needed a bit more meat to truly actually a short-film based on Pearce) knows Education.

Jenny (newcomer Carey Mulligan, a satisfy. exactly what to shoot, where to shoot, and how Much like the Tasmanian terrain itself, to shoot. It’s a very polished production indeed. dead ringer for Audrey Hepburn and every bit as watchable) is a 1960’s schoolgirl living in middleJonathan Auf Der Heide’s intriguing piece on He has a bright future in this industry.

1800’s cannibal convict Alexander Pearce is very, He also proves he’s got a great eye class, suburban London: her life is full of grey skies, very pretty but it’s also small and not as easy to for casting. Oscar Redding (reprising the role grey uniforms, homework, cello practice, and rules. get into (as the other states). he played in Auf Der Heide‘s graduating piece) Once she’s finished her finals, Jenny’s bound for Like one of those disconcerting low- gives a masterful performance as the flesh- an English degree at Oxford - a future ordained rent re-enactments they used to do of real-life eating European, and a very talented cast of new by her conservative parents (Alfred Molina and crimes for TV’s Australia’s Most Wanted (only faces backs him up. As Auf Der Heide has said in Cara Seymour) that she’s never questioned, without the dodgy accents and performances), interviews, the film wouldn’t have worked had a despite her burgeoning fascination with French much of what takes place here plays more like familiar face played Pearce, and he’s right – this music, and regular trips to the coffee house to the middle chapter in an interesting three-part is one of those films where you need to see a sneakily smoke cigarettes and speak in French.

One day, post orchestra practice, Jenny’s documentary that you’d usually find on cable. ‘character’ not a ‘movie star’. Given a little more Considering we’re talking about a thrilling to do, and some of these ‘characters’… er… left lugging her cello home in the rain, when a real-life story involving a cannibal convict here actors… might have been frocking up for the well-dressed and intellectual older man, David (the indefatigable Peter Sarsgaard), pulls up alongside – a man who lost it in the harsh terrain of Van AFI Awards this year. They’re all quite good.

Diemen’s Land, and ultimately turned on his There are a few things the screenplay her in his sportscar. Using his charm and wit, David own people to survive, that’s probably not the lacks, but mostly a punchy pace and a reason convinces Jenny to let him drive her home, and result everyone hoped for – least of which, the to care about the core characters. Much like before long he’s swept the impressionable Jenny audience. You’d think, considering the premise, one of those later Friday The 13th or Nightmare off her feet; gathering her up into his colourful, emphasis might’ve been more on thrills and On Elm Street sequels, you don’t much care vibrant world of parties, champagne, money, art less on impressive footage of the currents of the who ‘gets it’ next – you just sort of watch the and music, winning Jenny’s parents trust with a numbers dwindle down, knowing the film will series of pearly white lies, going so far as to forge Gordon River?

In 1822, eight convicts (including the be over when it’s only Pearce who stands – CS Lewis’ signature in a bid to steal Jenny away legendary Alexander Pearce) escaped Macquarie and you should. Because everything is a tad for a ‘purely educational’ weekend in the country.

David introduces Jenny to his friends Harbour in a fateful bid for freedom. This band underwritten, we don’t get to know any of of Irish, English and Scottish thieves were the characters much better than a nun would Helen (played with a wonderful amount of ditz

by Rosamund Pike) and Danny (Dominic Cooper): immediately hurled into chaos as their plan midori Van Diemen’s Land is worth a visit – if Jenny’s enthralled with their fantastic clothes and failed and they were thrust into the heart of possessions, easily impressed by their vivacious a harsh and foreboding landscape. And pretty only a fleeting one. personalities, and cultural sophistication. A bright, soon, their stomachs started to rumble… _ CLINT MORRIS educated young lass, Jenny has no problems Considering it cost only about as much

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An Education keeping up with her older companions, and is more than happy to let them ‘mould’ her into their likeliness, as she wines, dines and dances with David’s gang. A romantic 17th birthday trip to Jenny’s dreamland, Paris, seals the deal, and Jenny, already the school scandal, drops out to pursue‘the real world’(young romantic obsession), despite her teachers’ best pro-feminist efforts to dissuade her. However, not all is as classy, or wonderful, as it seems, and David’s not the great guy Jenny thought he was: she is soon brought back to a reality with implications even more devastating than the mediocrity of the life she’s escaped.

Nick Hornby (About A Boy)’s sharp screenplay, based on the short memoirs of British journalist Lynn Barber, is rich in humanity and hilarity, he graces his protagonist with a perfect balance of naivety and sensibility. Whilst some might find the narrative’s twist predictable, or the dialogue clichéd at times, Scherfig never overplays these relationships, and expounds Hornby’s tale of sexual awakening in 1960s Britain with tender accuracy: costumes, settings, music and props are all attended to in great detail; yet simultaneously didactics are avoided: rather, the film’s mood speaks of a nuanced nostalgia throughout.

Scherfig draws excellent performances from her characters:the delightful ingénue Mulligan handles Jenny with a beautiful playfulness, and Saarsgard makes for a great ‘playboy’: fascinating enough that the audience has no trouble falling as hard and fast as Jenny (and her parents) for his wicked ways.

An Education’s already scooped up the World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic and the World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. And rightly so: this film’s impact is not huge, nor is it at any point overly tense or complex dramatically, yet it’s more than easy to come away from the film feeling enriched from the delightful combination of romance, fantasy and emotion.

An Education is a charming, enjoyable, and well-rounded viewing experience. _DANIELLE MARSLAND

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BURNING DAYLIGHT Asian Wild West

Burning Daylight runs at Russell Square in Northbridge, as part of the Northbridge Festival, from Wednesday, November 4, ’til Saturday, November 7, at 7.30pm. Tickets available at pica.org.au or on (08) 92286300.

There exists a well-worn caution that ‘the past may come back to haunt you’, and on the still, dark streets in Burning Daylight, the new production from contemporary dance company Marrugeku, this has never been truer.

“Burning Daylight is set in the streets of Broome at night and the idea is that it starts outside a karaoke bar and it runs from opening to the darkest part of the night to dawn,” explains Rachael Swain,artistic director of Broome company Marrugeku, who was inspired in making this work by the depiction of Brome in early 20th century as the ‘Asian Wild West’. Fittingly, then, it is with the arrival of a cowboy, the very figure of dissident disruption, that the peaceful night is truly stirred, as he awakens in the town the memories of its own past. What ensues is a parade of iconic imagery associated with the cultures that have come together to form contemporary Broome society – Geishas, and pearl fishermen, and the cracking of whips – carried out through both karaoke video and the physicality of Marrugeku’s own dancers.

The role of the cowboy, heralding from Kalgoorlie,tells Swain,was created with ideas“about being Aboriginal, but not of this place. People really worked from their own experience.” This held true for the one non-indigenous character also, which

was built from “her experience about not being indigenous. It’s performer led” continues Swain, speaking of the evolution of the work, which took place over an intensive five year period.“A number of the performers are local and come from a range of Broome cultural backgrounds. They have their own styles in Broome cultural practices from a range of different backgrounds like Aboriginal, and Malay, and Indonesian and Filipino. We have a Japanese performer - we couldn’t find one from Broome so we got one from Melbourne - and she responded to her feelings and what she imagined it would be like for Japanese immigrants and she created the role based on that. Because the Japanese now are very local and integrated, she created a Broome style Japanese character.”

The lengthy development of the piece has largely been a matter of logistics, says Swain, but certainly not without tremendous benefits.

“In Australia it’s hard to get large chunks of money to get work up front. If you want to make more ambitious work that requires training and research, you have to work in stages. You work,

Burning Daylight you use it to get money for the next stage, and you bunny hop along in this process of research and development.” This process of working in stages then has afforded Marrugeku advantages for the production which may otherwise have been missed, such as bringing in Belgian based West African Serge Aime Coulibalay (former member of Les Ballets C de la B) and Broome based indigenous choreographer Dalisa Pigram.

“We wanted to shift the company choreographically into a new place... We were looking how to cross from cultural dance to contemporary work, working with Japanese and Malay and Indonesian dance forms. We couldn’t cut corners or the end result would be stuck together from the outside. We took our time over two and a half years to develop the first draft of the show and did a showing in 2006 to figure out what we wanted to do it. And it’s taken this time to finish it and do a national tour… It’s been a powerful process.”

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Forget Me Not

REFRACTIONS AND FORGET ME NOT Double Up

Refractions and Forget Me Not are on at the Deckchair Theatre at 179 High Street in Fremantle, from Monday, October 26, ’til Friday, November 6. Bookings can be made through Deckchair on (08) 9430 4771.

Known around town as man with a sharp wit and a well-tuned sense of humour, writer Damon Lockwood is often associated with comedic productions, but in 2009, Longwood Productions (a collaboration between Damon Lockwood and Sam Longley), will delve into more mellow waters, exploring serious issues in Deckchair’s double bill Refractions and Forget Me Not. Lockwood explains that his move away from comedy wasn’t accidental,“I wanted to take a step into the serious world of drama but importantly, they’re very short plays – one is about 35 and the other 42 minutes. I don’t want people thinking it’s going to be one of those fucking epics that has everyone asking ‘Please God, when’s this going to end?!’. I think the greatest thing you can achieve with theatre writing is leaving the audience wanting more – I always have that in the back of my mind when I’m writing theatre.

“I’ve done it before but when I started to bore myself writing drama, I thought ‘no way I am going to subject an audience to watching this’, so the difference with these two is that I enjoyed it all the way through and I’m excited to present them to an audience.”

Though they’re presented in a double bill, Refractions and Forget Me Not each deal with separate, and very intimate issues, inspired from real events.

“Forget Me Not is based on a news report I saw about a man who got the disease that gives you cold sores on your mouth, and the disease loses its way and goes to his brain.

He literally lost his memory overnight – he went to bed one night and then woke up and had a 30 second to one minute memory. Incredible stuff. He has memories of before it happened, so every time he sees the woman he was with, it’s like the first time he’s ever seen her again and he just gets incredibly excited and overjoyed even though it could have only been half an hour from when he saw her last.

“The other one is about an acquaintance of an acquaintance – I heard a story about a married man who had a gay lover of ten years, the whole time he’d been married – stuff like this goes on all the time.”

To complement the intimate nature of each of the play’s subject matter, Longwood Productions have used the space at Deckchair Theatre to bring the audience close to the actors, so that they can get caught up in the drama he explains, “It’s very intimate. The first play is set in a one room apartment and the other in a lounge room, so we really wanted to throw the audience right into the guts of it.”

Lockwood has teamed up with director Mark Storen for the double bill, citing his friendship and faith in Storen’s directing ability as the motivator behind his decision.

“He’s directed a couple of things of mine and we have a really good working relationship. We can be really honest with each other and still be friends. I can call him a bald dickhead and he can call me the same back!

“I believe that an artist’s greatest tool is humility and I know that when I show things to Mark and he has suggestions, and maybe it’s because we have a really good working relationship, but I know it’s based on trying to make the best production we can and it’s not personal or petty or anything like that.” _EMMA BERGMEIER Hittin’ the town since 1985

VISUAL ARTS

Australian Ballet has nurtured the talents of a host of exciting, emerging choreographers.

At the forefront of this wave of talent is Cass Mortimer Eipper, who will present his moving work Soul Searching.

Season opens on Friday, November 13, and runs ’til Saturday, November 14, at 7.30pm.

Bookings can be made through BOCS.

Subways And City Days, The Butcher Shop, 276 William Street, Northbridge.

Subways And City Days is a culmination of Jack Lovel’s love of city travels and getting into places where he is probably not meant to be. In New York he was pulled up by undercover cops as his camera guided him down the ever so intriguing train tracks, which lead him to be in neighbourhoods the policemen really didn’t think he should be. Stockholm, Amsterdam and Rotterdam all see Jack’s camera again lurking in tunnels, ditches and on tracksides. What’s come from it all is an fascinating collection of gritty city images, capturing the delicate balance between the man made and nature as it reclaims its crumbling surrounds. No doubt it will make us all dream of visiting greener (or perhaps grottier) pastures.

Exhibition runs ’til Tuesday, October 27.

Instant, Linton & Kay Contemporary, 123 Hay Street, Subiaco.

Paul Stojanovic’s inaugural solo exhibition Instant, on display for one night only, is a gem. An exhibition of photographs taken with his ‘toy’ Holga cameras, it is a collection of compelling images that encourage the viewer to slow down and see the simpler side of life, just for an instant. According to Stojanovic, today’s society is heavily influenced by consumerism and the disposal of unwanted, obsolete objects. The same attitude prevails in the way that we take and view photographs.“The digital age has given us the ability to capture and delete photographs instantly. Technological and software advancements encourage the manipulation of media imagery to the extent that minor imperfections and blemishes are removed or deleted,” he said.

Exhibition is on for one night only on Thursday, October 29.

Standing In Her Light, Greenhill Galleries, 6 Gugeri Street, Claremont.

Celebrated Sydney artist, Jason Benjamin, returns to Perth with Standing In Her Light, an exhibition of sensitively rendered and breathtaking landscapes, seductive floral works and thought provoking portraits. In the past, Benjamin’s paintings stemmed from this turmoil; each painting an expose and journey into the depths of such sensitivities. Of recent, Benjamin has become more aware of the physical presence of the land in his paintings, it’s essence, and loiters less in the recesses of his imagination: it is what it is. This change in approach has had a profound effect on his works, with the landscapes in his upcoming exhibition being more refined and complex, and a pure celebration of the raw beauty of the land.

Exhibition opens on Friday, October 30, and runs ’til Saturday, November 21.

Considerable Funk!, Subiaco Arts Centre Studio, 180 Hammersley Road, Subiaco.

Considerable Funk! is the hilariously original debut performance for Climbing Vine Theatre Company, a new company which is the evolution of Kalamunda Youth Theatre Company. After seven years successfully producing over twenty five original shows in Kalamunda, the company has moved out of the hills to bring its productions to larger audiences, performing in such venues as the Perth Town Hall and the Subiaco Arts Centre. Written and Directed by award winning writer Emma Humphreys, Considerable Funk! is a hilarious comedy musical about the trappings of fame. Considerable Funk! looks behind the scenes of a pop music T.V show and is performed by Perth’s finest up and coming actors.

Season opens on Thursday, November 12, and runs ’til Saturday, November 14. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

Battle For Territory Twelve by Martin Wills

Territory Twelve: Volume 2, Kurb Gallery, William Street, Northbridge.

Territory Twelve: Volume 2 is the second solo exhibition of emerging artist Martin E. Wills. This exhibition is another trip into the same world of last year’s Territory Twelve, an apocalyptic mashup of science fiction, disaster and comic book kitsch. After the unexpected success of his first solo show, Wills spent 2009 participating in group shows with other emerging and established artists like Jodee Knowles, Sean Morris and Creepy, and participating in prominent projects like the Condor Tower Carpark project - the southern hemisphere’s largest single collection of street art and graffiti in a single location. Territory Twelve: Volume 2 is an explosion of colourful city-crushing machines battling jelly-headed warriors and putrid pink blobs absorbing entire neighbourhoods, while pompadoured scientists watch the terror unfold.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, October 24, and runs ’til Monday, November 2.

2009 Western Australian Tourism Award. For Viktor, who completed a sculpture degree at the Hungarian Institute of Fine Arts in the 1970’s, the exhibition highlights some recent ‘good fortune’ when the artist was able to source part of the 100 year old Carrara marble altar from Saint Brigids Church to complete the series of works for the upcoming exhibition. Dedicated to the ongoing exploration of the human form, Viktor’s fluid, organic sculptures compliment the delicate and sensuously rounded contours of Eve’s etched metal works. The elegant pieces are a testament to her quest for perfection and the accuracy of her unwavering hand as she gently guides her tools around her blank metal canvas.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, October 31, at 6.30pm and runs ’til Sunday, November 15.

They Call Him Steve, DownStairs At The Maj, Hay Street, Perth.

In a sophisticated new show Ann Adlem and Ian Toyne celebrate the work of four of the great Steves of the music world - Foster, Sondheim, Schwartz and Flaherty. Accompanying these Steves is a dangerously sharp witted script

by Ian Toyne who employs a combination of conspiratory theories in search of the answer to why all these four composers were named Stephen. Discover some home truths about each composer and the meaning behind some of their most popular songs.

Season opens on Friday, November 23, and runs ’til Saturday, November 24. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

PERFORMANCE

Seven Deadly Sins, Four Deadly Sinners, Playhouse Theatre, 3 Pier Street, Perth.

Seven Deadly Sins, Four Deadly Sinners is an anthology evening of wicked comedy, heavenly drama, devilishly tall tales, enchanting poetry and seductive stories. Starring four deadly beautiful temptresses, who will enlighten you on how to survive, or even live by, the seven deadly sins. Seven Deadly Sins, Four Deadly Sinners has been compiled from the works of nearly everyone with a sense of humour (sometimes unintentional!) - from Chaucer to Victoria Wood, from Woody Allen to Oscar Wilde via Flanders and Swann, Joyce Grenfell, Steven Berkoff Incite, Heathcote Museum and Gallery, Duncraig and Noel Coward – by the award-winning Road, Applecross. scriptwriter and author of the first six of the Incite by Pat Thomas and Daniela Dlugocz explores layers and manipulation of imagery, with human Stonewall, PICA, Perth Cultural Centre, Carry On... films, Norman Hudis.

Season runs ’til Sunday, November 1. and media motifs, in order to challenge the Northbridge. viewer to engage and take time to explore the For his latest solo exhibition, Dominic Redfern Bookings can be made through BOCS. deeper meaning of the works. The play on words presents two major new video works; Stonewall incite – insight, indicate the link and the difference and Mythos. Redfern is a video and performance Counter Point, His Majesty’s Theatre, Hay Street, Perth. between Daniela and Pat’s work. Daniela explores the limits of vision by limiting the contrast in her artist whose practice investigates issues of place Strut Dance presents Counter Point - three and identity.

He presents unresolved narratives in extraordinary dance artists in one remarkable works and causing the viewer to look carefully to gain insights into the subject, whereas Pat’s work theatrical installations that critique the relationship show. This triple-bill will give Perth audiences looks at the way information in the electronic age between the artist, the screen and the viewer. His the chance to see a work from one of France’s is manipulated and repeated to influence and most recent work, Stonewall, was shot in 2008 most intriguing choreographers, a rare for a solo show at the Centre d’Art in Marnay performance by WA’s best-known dance artist, incite the viewer.

E x h i b i t i o n r u n s ’ t i l S u n d a y, sur Seine in France. In the video, the artist climbs as well as a new work from one of the hot new through a rocky outcrop in Tasmania, suggestive choreographers with West Australian Ballet.

November 8. of both alpine and lunar landscapes. His winding Didier Théron is renowned as a cutting-edge Re-Turning Point, Elements Art Gallery, 131A narration of the journey promises the viewer maker of provocative danceworks. His new a hidden meaning that ultimately remains piece, Harakiri is a highly physical and emotional Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith.

Featuring works by Eve Arnold and Viktor Eszenyi, elusive. Heightening this tension; the narrative is work centering around the Japanese notion of Re-Turning Point signals a return to self for the sporadically interrupted by the beat of his body self-sacrifice. Chrissie Parrott’s incredible career two artists. For Eve, it heralds the return and a falling to the ground on a screen at the opposite as a dance artist has spanned four decades and renewed commitment to an art practice which end of the gallery.

Counter Point will be her first time performing Exhibition opens on Friday, October 30, on stage since 1996 in the Perth Festival. Under has spanned 15 years and has led to recent commissions to create the award piece for the and runs ’til Sunday, December 20. the artistic direction of Ivan Cavallari, West

Behind The Scenes

Behind The Scenes, Parmelia House, 191 St Georges Tce, Perth.

This year’s graduating cohort of Production and Design students from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts are taking their creations to the city in an exciting exhibition of set designs and costumes. Behind the Scenes, will feature original creations by WAAPA’s Costume and Design students, recalling inspirational production moments from WAAPA’s diverse 2009 performance program. Set designs and costumes from WAAPA’s highly successful seasons of 42nd Street, Parade, Rent, Coram Boy, Top Girls, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, As You Like It and Richard III will feature in this fabulous exhibition. Exhibits will catch the eye of theatre and performing arts enthusiasts, whet the appetite of industry professionals and excite the general public. School and university groups are encouraged to attend.

Exhibition opens on Monday, November 2, and runs ’til Friday, November 6.

BREWED TO PERFECTION

There’s a new kid on the block in the form of The Generous Squire Pub, a brand spanking new venue located on Shafto Lane in the city.

Offering up a huge selection of premium beers, some of which are brewed on premises, the Generous Squire also caters to those with an appetite, with an A La Carte menu to satisfy all palettes.

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FASHION LUSH NOSE BEST

Those who live or work in the city are pretty used to encountering a variety of noxious odours on their day to day travels, whether that is the stench of urine, or foul body odour from someone who hasn’t yet learnt the art of showering. City pedestrians will therefore be rather surprised when their noses are greeted by delicious, sweet scents, on Hay Street Mall, thanks to the opening of a brand new Lush store.

Lush is a cosmetics retailer that uses fresh ingredients to create natural merchandise including a variety of aromatic soaps, fizzing bath balls and face masks. Unlike many other retailers, Lush is ethics driven, opting for fair trade ingredients, vowing never to test on animals, and not providing plastic bags or excessive packaging to their customers.

Whether you want to pamper yourself, or get a head start on Christmas shopping, Lush at 650 Hay Street, Perth, is the destination for all things delightfully aromatic and indulgent.

WHO MADE SHOE

Many folks are used to wearing their hearts on their sleeves, but now music fans can metaphorically wear their hearts on their feet, courtesy of Converse’s new rock inspired range.

With 150 million album sales and counting, AC/DC have proved themselves as the kings of high voltage rock and roll, which is why Converse decided to pay homage to the band with the All Star collection.

Get your hands on AC/DC Cons at Planet, located on the corner of Walcott and Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley.

Check them out online at planetvideo.com.au.

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Lush

MIRACLES HAPPEN

The gorgeous Orangutans of Borneo are facing injury, disease and death at the hands of Palm Oil loggers, who destroy their habitat as part of their farming practice. To help save these inquisitive creatures, the World Society For The Protection Of Animals has joined forces with The Body Shop, to raise awareness and funds for the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, which is currently home to over 650 rescued Orangutans.

The Sanctuary rescues many orphaned babies, including Inka (pictured here), who require up to six years of rehabilitation to learn the skills they should have been taught by their mothers, before their release back into the wild.

To help these incredibly beautiful creatures, make your way in to The Body Shop and donate to the Borneo Sanctuary, or support the cause by purchasing some of their cute Orangutan merchandise. For further information on the project, head to wspa. org.au/miracles.

Inka, an orphaned baby Orangutan

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WAX WORKS

Halloween is creeping up on us like a one legged zombie, slowly but surely, so it’s time to stock up on candles and decorations in time for Saturday, October 31. To help get you in the mood, Dusk has released a range of Halloween inspired candles, including a huge black skull candle that will melt away slowly, casting an ominous atmosphere as it flickers in the night. To get your hands on Dusk’s Halloween products, head online to dusk.com.au and locate your nearest store. _EMMA BERGMEIER

Dusk skull candle $24.99

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SALE AWAY

Fans of local labels will be pleased to hear that a huge clearance sale is taking place this weekend, offering shoppers the chance to take home cut price garments from a variety of designers. Taking place at the Mt Hawthorn Community Centre Lesser Hall on Saturday, October 24, from 10am to 5pm, the sale will include garments from Joveeba, Katou, Katya, Pocket Designs, Miin, Mink Pink, Pulse, Soul Sisters, Talulah, Tu, Vallen, Varga Girl and many more. Prices start at just $5, and cash, credit card and Eftpos facilities will be available on the day.

SWAP TIL YOU DROP

Introducing Swap-O-Rama-Rama, a new event that’s headed to Perth to get people swapping clothes and participating in do-ityourself sewing workshops. The event will see consumers taught to be creators, through the recycling of used clothing. For the Saturday, December 5, event to be a success, Swap-ORama-Rama need staff who can help out with DIY workshops, designer run sewing stations, silk screening, fashion show production and general hands for odds and ends. To find out more about Swap-O-Rama-Rama or to get involved, head to swaporamarama.org.

2009 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award $12,500 Acquisitive Award 15 – 31 October 2009 Lakeside Joondalup Shopping City Open during shopping hours The City of Joondalup is pleased to present the work of 37 of Western Australia’s leading contemporary artists.

Visitors to the exhibition can vote for their favourite artwork in the Popular Choice Award.

Free public tours: Wednesday 21 & 28 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm. Meet in the exhibition space.

Further information available from www.joondalup.wa.gov.au or call 9400 4705.

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Jon O’Bir

JON-NY B GOOD As a resident at global dance party Godskitchen warming up for the likes of Sasha and Tiesto for many years, Jon O’ Bir is a name that’s been splashed across the industry since he catapulted to the front of the line in 2002 after winning a prestigious competition run by Passion and M8 magazine.

In the seven years since this Jon has gone from strength to strength in gaining respect, fans and accolades. On the production front Jon’s accomplishments have been just as formidable. His release Ways & Means became one of the biggest selling tracks of 2008, and 2009 sees the new EP Answers / Prophase out on Vandit. O’Bir’s recently remixed tracks for Paul Van Dyk, Giuseppe Ottaviani, John O’Callaghan and Aly & Fila, but is taking a break from his hectic schedule to share some of his mad productions with us at Rise!

Joining O’ Bir on this night of mayhem and magic is UK based DJ/producer Mike Foyle, whose best known for his smooth, melodic trance on Armind Recordings, along with his remixes from some of the best producers on the global dance music scene. His DJ sets are an affair just as eclectic, featuring anything from classic trance to modern and edgey madness drenched in tantalising melodies, atmospheres and soundscapes, all expertly blended together.

Friday, November 6, Rise, Northbridge.

Door sales from 10pm. Rise members $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter. Non-members $10 before 11pm, $20 thereafter.

Lee Coombs

COOMBS & MIYAGI MAKE WAVES For over a decade Lee Coombs has been making big techy sounds, infecting one and all with his dirty sonic mayhem. His 2004 release Breakfast Of Champions, on Finger Lickin’, genre-hopped like there was no tomorrow, injecting elements of house, electro and techno into breakbeat, and became a style Coombs made his own. His latest album, Light And Dark, carries the raw essence and edginess of 1991’s burgeoning music scene - grimy old school analogue sounds are fused with bold tech drum progressions.

Coombs hits superclub Villa on Saturday, November 7, for a mindblowing live show, together with Canadian tech-funk master Miyagi. Famous for his remixes for the likes of Orbital, The Crystal Method, The Dub Pistols and Thievery Corporation, Miyagi’s original material has topped the Beatport charts in the past. Tickets $20 plus booking fee from Planet, Mills, 78’s, Moshtix outlets and online from the Boomtick SHOP, www.moshtix. com.au and www.inthemix.com.au(.)

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The home of bratwurst and pretzels, Germany also happens to be a rather fine leader in the world of electronic dance music, constantly producing some of the finest producers and DJs on the world circuit at the moment.

Defyre For one night only, a showcase of Berlin dance music comes to Perth, giving punters the HIP HOP ‘TIL YOU CAN’T STOP opportunity to share in the creativity of the The toast of the WA hip hop town are city. The third annual Beck’s Berlin Sessions coming together this Saturday, October 24, tour brings us modern club legend Âme. From to showcase their talent in Forrest Place in their infamous originals and tasteful remixes to hip hop and breakdancing extravaganza their celebrated collaborations with label mates Freestyle WA. Traipse by to catch some of Henrik Schwarz and Dixon, Âme’s sound is deep WA’s most skilled and energetic hip hop and complex: themselves are their record label artists rapping and freestyling in the streets Innervisions are key players in the renaissance of the city. Competing for the title of WA’s Hip of deep house.

Joining Âme on the bill is co-founder Hop Champion. Hunter, Tomahawk, Joe Black, Defyre, Dialekt, Freekstyles and more compete, of Permanent Vacation records, Benji Frohlich. with DJs Charlie Bucket and Armee spinning Selecting tastes of balearic disco, nu disco, deep plates. Breakdancing b-boy Lama (the nine house and leftfield pop, Permanent Vacation is time Ozzie champ!) will be pulling moves leading the way at the present time, releasing throughout the ‘Place, as will B-girl Porsaih amazing compilations and artist albums, Lane be tearing it up. There’ll be breaks, beat showcasing work from the likes of Aeroplane, boxing, battles, competitions and best of all, Holy Ghost!, Lindstrøm, Hercules and Love Affair the chance for audience members to give it a and Todd Terje. Frolich’s own production work shot too, thanks to a series of interactive hip (check his remix of Woolfy vs Projections’ Neeve) hop workshops from 10am – 11am. Definitely is also top notch.

Finally, David Moufang aka Move worth getting down there early for! From D, whose had releases on Warp and Running 11am until 7pm.

Back, completes the line up, performing his first live show in Australia. Friday, November 6, DANCE FLOOR BOUND at Ambar, Perth. Tickets from inthemix.com.au/ Southbound 2010 is set to be one great berlinsessions(.) week end of fun in the sun (and dir t!) down south, and we’re jumping for joy at the sheer volume of super rad club acts on the line up, that should see us dancing under the stars until well into the night….

The show Spank Rock put on in Perth last year was one of the top gigs of the year – the sweat was dripping from the roof faster than Amanda Blank could spit out her rhymes.

So we’re stoked to hear that DJs Devlin and Darko, of Spank Rock, are heading Southbound way as their act Fully Fitted, after having steadily infiltrated clubs across the US over the past year, and that Amanda Blank will also wow us solo. Philadelphia turntablist DJ Cash Money, who used to be a pal of Jazzy Jeff’s back in the day, is also bringin’ his skills to the ‘Bound.

The fireworks continue with tropical disco sensations Canyons, the lightning electro-rock of Art v Science, not to mention hip hop star Urthboy, The Inspector Cluzo from France, The Yacht Club DJs, Miami Horror, and UK turntable magician DJ Yoda!

Local dancefloor whiz kid producers Shazam (signed to Bang Gang’s label) and Kit Dose Pop (Paper Chain) are set to tear up the Sir Stewart Bovell grass dancefloor, but not before A DOSE OF THE GOOD STUFF fellow Perth producers The Transients weave their infectious, ambient electronic productions New Zealand! Land of Lord of The Rings, sheep, Flight Of The Concords, kiwi fruit…but surely through the air.

Hit Moshtix (www.moshtix.com.au) for there’s more to the isle than magical forests tickets now. Friday, January 8 – Sunday, January and wool? Indeed there is – there’s drum ‘n’ bass! Thanks to our friends at The Cube, Perth’s 10 at Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Bussellton. home of drum ‘n’ bass, there’s a Kiwi invasion set to go down in a couple of weeks at Shape, featuring none other than Christchurch drum ‘n’ bass artist Dose. Dose has fast become one of New Zealand’s hardest working DJ/ producers, releasing work on labels like Critical Music, Renegade hardware, Cyanide, Citrus and more, not to mention collaborating with the likes of Menace, Teknik, Bulletproof, Blackplanet, Trei and Vicious Circle, with a debut album set for early 2010.

Fellow hardworking Kiwi Menace has also been steadily climbing the ladder of NZ drum ‘n’ bass, with work on Citrus Recordings’ EP, as well as collaborations with Dose and Trei, which led to a release on Klute’s Commercial Suicide imprint. In early 2008, Menace did another collaboration with Dose, Trigger Happy, that was released on the diverse UK label Revolution Recordings. His talent ahs led him on the DJ circuit around both Australia and New Zealand, supporting top artists like ShyFX, Klute, Moving Fusion, D-Bridge, Teebee, Black Sun Empire, Pendulum, and Concord Dawn. His energetic and progressive set is sure to thrill.

Local support from Access, Illusiv, Bear and Sempy. Friday, November 6 at Shape, East Perth. Tickets $25 plus booking fee from Planet Video, Mills, DJ Factory and Canyons www.shapebar.com.au(.)

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D’Julz

D’JULZ’ DELIGHTS Over twenty years in the business, Parisian born D’Julz, aka Julien Veniel, has laid claim to many fames. D’Julz’ infamous ‘Bass Culture’ parties have boasted the likes of Onur Ozer and Loco Dice behind the decks, and D’Julz himself has had releases on labels like 20:20 Vision, Ovum, Dessous and more. Recently launching his own record label, also under the title ‘Bass Culture’, D’Julz has recently releases the EP of Greek producer Lemos, and the EP’s already a firm favourite of DJs like Tiefschwarz, Loco Dice, Luciano and Josh Wink. Thanks to local even planners Democracy Events, D’Julz will play a special Perth show at Ambar on Friday, November 20, joined by none other than man of the Mannheim moment, Nick Curly. Presales $25 plus booking fee through Planet Video, Mills and Moshtix.

Travis, PDMA Best Techno DJ 2008

MAKE YOUR MOVES COUNT All too often it seems great nights (and mornings!) out dancing in the clubs are fuzzy in our memories – we remember we had a great time, but aren’t exactly sure of the details…

Well, it’s time to sit down now and rack your brains of the ins and outs of your year in the clubbing world, as voting for the 11th annual Perth Dance Music Awards is now officially open!

Whether you’re a dub-head or a disco freak, a drum ‘n’ bass dedicatee or a connoisseur of techno, there’s a Perth producer or DJ out there that needs your support! So log onto the site: www.perthdancemusicawards.org, cast your vote, and do your bit to reward the people that have made your nights out ones to remember! Or forget, as the case may be… there’s also a chance to vote for your favourite club snap. Hop to it!

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Despite his diminutive physical stature, few loom larger behind the decks than the man born Richard Quitevis. ALEX ROCHE discovers that for Q-bert, scratching is akin to meditation.

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Q-Bert

Quitevis, or Q-Bert as he’s known to millions worldwide, has been on the cutting edge of the turntablism movement since the late ‘80s.

Pioneer, innovator, perfectionist, and space cadet; all words that can be applied to him as easily now as when he kicked off in FM 20 with Mixmaster Mike all those years ago.

In the lead up to his live freestyle battle with Supernatural this Sunday at Low:Fi, which comes off the back of a gigantic national tour, Q-Bert’s on the line from So-Cal, animatedly speaking in his chipmunk tones about the impending Aussie performances.

“It’s going to be fun - I love the heat, so

I can work out while I’m scratching,” he laughs.

“With Australia, it’s like a different planet to me.

It’s the longest trip I’ve ever flown and I just love it out there. It’s clean and chilled and not too crazy. The people are always great. I can’t wait!”

Alongside his ongoing ‘Super Seal’ scratch tools series, Q-Bert’s latest project is an online scratch university, and anyone who’s tried to nail a three-click crescent flare will know how handy his online tutorials can be.

“We’ve got guys from Australia - this guy called Seek - he’s just killing it. All the students are blowing me away on a regular basis with all these different, fresh styles and ways of messing with the turntables. I’m a student in there, y’know? I mean I’m teaching and I’m learning at the same time. We’ve got almost 750 members in five months, and everyone’s got something that nobody else knows about. It’s pretty outta control.”

The ability to deconstruc t and explain ridiculously complex routines and scratches is one of Q-Bert’s strongest points, and something that not a lot of top-notch turntablists actually have the patience to do.

“At first I thought scratching was just one thing; the moving of the record back and forth. But as I got older, I realised that there were many facets to it. There’s rhythm, patterns, feeling, soul, heart, subtlety, there’s emotion, triplets, double time, triple time, triplets, all these things ... as you get used to it, all the facets just come together. You think you learn something and that’s just one step of the plateau - it just keep going higher and higher.

“There might be a Zen master at work in me. It all works out best when I’m in control, when I’m calm and relaxed and the sounds are just coming out of my fingers really beautifully.

I’ve also discovered that the best time to perform is after some serious rest. Having a clear mind means you gotta eat well and get your rest. You gotta go slow to go fast.”

Q-BERT SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ LOW: FI FESTIVAL: THE DEEN, THE SHED & THROUGH OUT ABERDEEN ST, NORTHBRIDGE

CALYX AND TEEBEE BORN AGAIN Calyx, aka Larry Cons, talks of the musical re-birth of Calyx andTeebee with REUBEN ADAMS. Taking an interview call at 3:30am in the morning, London time, to talk about the upcoming Calyx and Teebee album, Cons’ excitement is palatable over the phone. He admits that he’s enjoying his music more than ever, attributing this re-genesis to a decision to take some big risks.

“It’s definitely going to be a change, yes. I mean, we both always wanted to write other music, and this album is basically two LP’s in one, a double album”,he explains.“The drum ‘n’ bass CD is going to be different from Anatomy and No Turning Back in that we’re trying to come at the tunes with a lot more diversity and different influence. With Anatomy we really wanted it to have a signature sound, a sound that was totally synonymous with us and identifiable as us. This next one, don’t get me wrong, it still sounds like Calyx and Teebee, but we’ve really gone for deep influences, liquid influences, just a whole mixture of styles.The other half of the LP is basically incorporating all kinds of genres; techno, house, minimal, hip-hop. A whole mixture of things - everything except dubstep!”

Calyx chuckles.

Not that the boys have anything against dubstep, mind you:“We do like it, but I think there are two things stopping us from making dubstep.

One, having already worked on such ‘bass and drums’ derived music we’re really pining to do something different rather than a close relative of drum ‘n’ bass. And also, right now there’s just no room left on the bandwagon.”

Working with a variety of genres has reignited the fire for these two. “We love making music more than ever, to be honest. I think that working on other genres has really inspired us even more with our drum ‘n’ bass”,Calyx enthuses, before continuing, “I don’t know, I just feel so born again musically at the moment; after a decade of doing almost exclusively drum ‘n’ bass we’re just loving it. I’m just so excited about this album, pushing ourselves and making music that we really enjoy listening to.”

Over the last few months Calyx and Teebee have been featuring more and more tracks that they have been working on for the forthcoming LP. “We will be playing loads of forthcoming LP material on this Australian tour, and at our Low: Fi appearance people will be getting to hear many of

Calyx the drum ‘n’ bass tracks for the first time”,expounds Calyx.“As the album gets closer to completion and we play more of the material out in our sets, our gigs really have that buzz and excitement that you get when playing a whole load of your new tracks to audiences who have never heard them before; for us it’s at that moment that we really feel and see that our next chapter is well underway.”

Those who venture to Low:Fi will be treated to the Calyx and Teebee extravaganza: six decks, two mixers! Calyx remembers the first time it happened, quite by accident. “A few years back we had a gig in Russia, and when we got to the venue we got up on stage; it was a massive gig, a crazy Russian gig, and they’d laid out eight decks and three mixers,” he laughs.

“They were like ‘there you go guys!’ We hadn’t been told anything about this, and like most people up until that point we’d been play our gigs back to back, taking it in turns. So anyway, we stood there for about five minutes firstly talking about how they’d set it up, and then thinking about how we should approach it. So we winged it and it went great; it was literally one of my favourite gigs of all time. It’s just so exciting being able to surprise the other person, it’s just a whole other level of performance when you can both do stuff simultaneously.”

CALYX AND TEEBEE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ LOW: FI FESTIVAL: THE DEEN, THE SHED & THROUGHOUT ABERDEEN ST, NORTHBRIDGE

LAST MAN STANDING

NAS “Some people were calling it a career suicide mission,” explains Nas, in a lazy drawl, “but you know, I’ve been lucky enough to make a lot of records and have a career that’s long. I’ve had a lot of number one albums, I’ve been blessed, so at this point it’s like, if I don’t do something that’s risky then I’m bullshitting, you know, ... But [the album] was a great success for me, a lot of obstacles, a lot people worried, but whatever, I do what I do.” The Untitled album debuted at #1 in the US charts and has since been certified Gold in the US. In a world of ringtones and club hits, it really was the exception that proved the rule. It also cemented his title as ‘last man standing’. Simply put, none of the other acts that came up alongside Nas in the early ‘90s are still around – they’re certainly not debuting at #1 on the Billboard charts.

Of course things were a lot simpler back in the Timbaland boots, scowling on New York street corner days.“Back then the excitement wasn’t just to make the money or be famous, it was about being great. I wanted to be good at what I did. I loved rap music so if I was doing it I wanted to be great, or be considered one of the greats, and that was my main concern, that was more important than money. Now it’s a business. Before, hip hop was an underground thing, and it was special because it was underground, and people didn’t like it, and people were scared of it, and they wouldn’t play it on daytime radio – so it wasn’t like it is today. Now it’s like the Michael Jackson thing, its superstar status, and that’s cool too.”

That early ‘90s New-York-frame-of-mind has always stuck with Nas, even at his commercial worst (i.e. Hate me Now alongside Puffy). He came up in an era of social commentary alongside party tracks, and as he gets older that side is coming to the forefront. “I’m thinking about things I never thought about before. So I’m excited to see what comes along, it’s like when I write, I never know how the song is gonna turn out, and it’s always a great surprise at the end to see the result ... I think my life is just beginning, and there’s so much opportunity for me and so much more I could do.”

In a way, Nas in 2009 mirrors the character he played in the Hype Williams hood movie, Belly. A protagonist fighting against the grain because he knows there’s more to life than the status quo. If Nas did an admirable job playing the character ‘Sincere’ in the 1998 movie, it’s because he was basically playing himself. Also, he helped write the script, and that’s an area he’s looking to explore further.

“Look backing, I think it was a cool, classic hood flick. And I would like to do more movies that people out in the hood identify with, people who know what real life is like, I want to do movies for them. So Belly was just cool for back then, and Hyper Williams was the biggest music director in the world at the time, so that was just a special time for him, and for him to include us in his movie, and have me help with the story ... yeah, I can see myself doing [script writing]in the future.”

With nine albums and nearly 20 years’ industry experience under his belt, Nas continues to defy expectations. He changed hip hop forever with his debut album, 1994’s Illamtic, and has remained one of the genres biggest acts, walking his one path as countless acts, gimmicks and scenes have come and gone. Still, in his mind, he’s only starting out - the Untitled album was simply the end of the first act.

The next part of his life begins with the birth of a new son, Knight, a collaborative album with Damian Marley and divorce from a certain Kelis.

“Well, when I look at people like Sting, David Bowie and Rolling Stones... Marvin Gaye like how he took it from the Motown sound to being on CBS Records, how he matured, and his sound matured, and he stayed with the times, and he inspired so many other acts around that time. I look at that like, ‘man, we just getting started’. I’m just getting started, I’m a few years away from being [able to be] nominated for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, I’ve been here close to 20 years trying to make an impact, so, you know, as I grow more doors open up and hopefully I can make people proud.”

“I started out with a pen and paper and it ended up like this, so I’m excited about my future.

It’s about starting with something small and ending with, I don’t know, something I never thought would happen.” The ‘Street’s Disciple’ isn’t going anywhere.

NAS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ LOW: FI FESTIVAL: THE DEEN, THE SHED & THROUGH OUT ABERDEEN ST, NORTHBRIDGE Hittin’ the town since 1985

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EXCISION BUILDING AN EMPIRE Whatever assumptions you had of dubstep, Canada’s Excision, AKA Jeff Abel, is sure to radically redefine them. ANGELA KING examines the darker side of dubstep with one of its key players.

With influences ranging from drum ‘n’ bass, metal, and even hip hop, Excison’s sound slots between a mass of throbbing bass, mind numbing wobble, grinding robotic samples and dark gritty self made beats. It is incomparable with others bundled under the same moniker.

To Abel, however, pigeonholing his music is of minor consequence, as he passionately explains: “Truly it’s all about energy; unleashing feelings and emotions on the dance floor or wherever, taking things up and down, good vibes and dark ones...Growing up listening to metal and d ’n’ b, bringing those sounds to dubstep just seemed like the next logical step.”

Crediting tracks from Vex’d album Degenerate with opening his eyes to the genre back in 2005, the 22 year old has since made a respectable name for himself with releases on self owned label Rottun Recordings and is now getting a chance to expose Southern Hemisphere crowds to his aural brutality at Low:Fi festival, this Sunday.

The first chance many got to listen to the producer’s self proclaimed ‘sound of the future’ was a recording of his immensely dark 90 minute set at five day Canadian festival Shambhala, in 2008. Abel speaks warmly in reminiscence:“Playing a headliner slot at Shambhala with a 100,000 watt system to 3-4000 people is definitely an epic moment. It’s a

very rewarding experience. When you’re making tunes it’s hard to imagine how many thousands of people will hear the songs you’ve made... Those nights are among the best of my life and that alone makes the years of effort completely worth it.”

With the bulk of successful dubstep producers streaming from of the UK, the North American artist believes there are two sides of the coin when it comes to where you are situated in the world. “It’s had its ups and downs. I’ve been able to pioneer the dubstep sound in Canada and watch it grow from nothing. Touring throughout Canada has been great and we have a lot of awesome festivals.” He continues,“Having said that, I’m sure I’ve missed out on a tonne of cool shows in the UK and not being able to properly network with the majority of big names in dubstep.”

Driven to deliver bone crushing bass weight and dominate the world of dark beats, the future is ironically bright for Excision and Rottun Recordings. Currently in the process of purchasing a house, the ambitious Able is soon to expand the Rottun empire with a studio for himself and other signed artists, conveniently to be built in his back yard.

“Datsik and Downlink (soon to be big in the game), will be moving in and we’ll be building a world class studio exclusively for our

VARIOUS Ministry of Sound: Chillout Sessions XII [Ministry of Sound]

Requiring a soundtrack to coax out the summer spirit, temporarily buried by dismal weather beneath beanies and woollen coats? Chillout Sessions XII should do the trick. Thankfully, the album backs away from the cheesy electro Excision house remixes: its unequivocally chilled vibe own productions. Expect us to take things to the makes it the perfect mix to kick back to and next level once we’re up and running.” Sporting enjoy at your leisure.

Local boys Tame Impala channel a an overactive imagination, Abel gives a comedic account when probed regarding the origin of his psychedelic vibe with Sundown Syndrome while alias, “It came to me in a dream, hordes of naked Anchor Made of Gold, care of Jenny Wilson, drags women were lying down on black background, out like a messy divorce. The first disc finishes up with Empire Of The Sun’s Standing On The Shore and their outline spelled Excision.”

All comedy aside, Excision possesses a and one of the biggest dubstep remixes of 2009, slurred sense of sincerity for his music:“Life, people, La Roux’s In For The Kill (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey emotions, other music…anything really. I’m quite a Remix), which although played to death, still a cynical person so it’s not hard to find inspiration!” very poignant track adamantly far better than the original.

EXCISION Disc Two takes a more upbeat SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ LOW: FI FESTIVAL: electronic turn with remixes of Friendly Fires, THE DEEN, THE SHED & THROUGHOUT Ladyhawke and Sia tracks. Heavily featuring ABERDEEN ST, NORTHBRIDGE artists from this year’s Parklife line up, Wild Turkeys provide their take on powerful Sydney vocalist Bertie Blackman’s Thump, along with beats from Metric and Metronomy. Hit tune Heartbreaker - a collaboration between party starters MSTRKRFT and luscious lyricist John Legend - goes down a treat as the album ends on a vocal driven house trip with Grizzly Bear Two Weeks (Fred Falke Remix).

An album not only sure to see you through afternoons relaxing in the sunshine, but to also help fill in the gaps from the first festivals of the season.

ANGELA KING 3/5

VARIOUS ARTISTS A Boys Own Odyssey:

Acid House Scrapes & Capers [Junior Boys Own/Stomp]

( SO SWEET RECORDS / LA )

* PLUS * BAD WEATHER, HICKEY, PRODJE, HOLY THURSDAY

* HABITAT DEN * FLEX, DARREN J, PROGRESS INN, LA GOOCH, LUKE RETI, RICHARD LEE

$20 on the door or $10 with Costume/Membership.

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Bocca Juniors’ proper old school anthem Raise (63 Steps To Heaven), with its rolling piano chords and stomping beat, is an apt way to set the tone for this 20 year retrospective release from the legendary Junior Boys Own label.

Presented are two CDs of uplifting, soulful, classic tunes from the golden era of UK house music - the early ‘90s. JBO was at the forefront of that movement, a pioneering label, run by clubbers, for clubbers. Terry Farley and crew lead a charge that saw electronic music crossover into the mainstream. Setting a benchmark for things to come, JBO put dance music and culture on the stage, alongside rock.

Courtesy of a couple of groundbreaking releases on the label from Underworld and The Chemical Brothers, the scene blew up. Their massive tunes Born Slippy (Nuxx) and Leave Home are included here. And there’s an abundance of other old gems from legendary acts like Primal Scream’s Loaded and Happy Monday’s Hallelujah.

Sunscreem’s classic groove Perfect Motion is a welcome inclusion. Love & Happiness by River Ocean is another; the scorching vocals having been sampled by LTJ Bukem.

Farley and his partner Heller contribute a couple of tracks, as do other JBO regulars, X-press 2 with their irrepressibly funky Say What! and Andy Weatherall, who rocks things up with his brilliant remix of James’ Come Home.

It’s a nostalgic trip, and a true education in dance; though some tracks have not aged quite as well, there’s more than enough gold here to make it a worthwhile journey.

ALFRED GORMAN 4/5

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BOXING DAY SATURDAY 26 DECEMBER 2009 BELVOIR AMPHITHEATRE. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11pm. Early Birds: $73+BF. General Admission: $83+BF Available from LIVE Clothing, Planet, Mills, 78s, Moshtix Outlets. Online from the Boomtick SHOP, Moshtix and inthemix For event info head to www.boomtick.com.au

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JOHN B ACTING OUT

STEVE AOKI KAR-AOKI STYLE

Ahead of his set at Mayhem this Saturday, the effervescent DJ John B gives DANIELLE MARSLAND a crash course in the art of “electrorobopunkDnB”.

“Dudes getting walked on by ladies in super pointy heels right in the middle of the dancefloor and stuff. That was cool.” Famous for introducing electroclash and synth sounds into the world of drum ‘n’ bass, the enigmatic DJ John B is used to hanging at the fringes of club culture (“the freakier the better, really”).

When we recently pulled him aside for a chat, we asked John to clarify the ins and outs of his unique, genre-bending sound: “I think on my business card it says something like ‘electrorobopunkDnB’! Unless I’ve been booked for a specifically 4/4 techno/electro crowd, my sets are about 80 percent d’n’b, and I try to cover everything I like within the genre, high energy and fun- leaning towards electro/punky stuff but also pretty epic trancey/ progressive influences in there a lot too... I usually end up dropping in a section of 4/4 stuff too.”

John has few reservations working with such a confluence of styles, aside from the fact it’s hard to get his hands on exactly the sound he’s looking for:“The only problem I have, which is also a blessing, I suppose - is that no one else is doing the same stuff as me, so if I want some wikkid electro-ey (or trancey for that matter) d’n’b then I usually have to make it myself or realllllly hunt for stuff”.

He continues: “Most mainstream d’n’b out there isn’t really suitable for me to play, so I have to go through a lot of tunes: I sift through Beatport like a madman - looking for tracks from other genres that are almost d’n’b speed, or re-editable into something that would fit into a John B set.”

When John first unleashed his electroinfused drum ‘n’ bass style on punters back in 2002, there were a few upturned ears and quizzical looks from the drum ‘n’ bass community, something John has pushed through in order to ensure the evolution of the genre.

“I just do my best to attract people to my sound and entertain people that have an open mind – drum ‘n’ bass fans are generally pretty open, so it’s not a big deal - if guys are twats about it, its usually only online, and it’s their problem - if they’ve come to one of my gigs to be a negative twat then at least they paid to get in so everyone still wins, they just get to mope

Steve Aoki/ A1 Bassline Villa Nightclub Friday, October 16, 2009

John B around in the corner while everyone else has fun!”.

And there’s definitely a lot of fun in store when John B’s at the helm, not least thanks to his outrageous costumes: “When electroclash kicked off in 2000, that’s when I started making the effort to dress differently, when I realised I could do it. I’ve always been a big fan of the ‘80s and the New Romantic look, and my music hopefully reflects that too - I always thought the way Bowie, Madonna, and others had different ‘looks’ for each album, to accompany a new direction in their music, was really cool.”

Currently working on a Greatest Hits and Remasters project, John has launched a website that is integral to the compilation process for the record, as he explains: “Earlier in the year, I tracked down all my originals, dating right back from Day 1, and recorded everything in digitally to my computer, so its all sitting there, ready to be remastered. I think I’ll probably put remix sample parts up online too so we can have some remix competitions, and get the fans involved in choosing which of my older tracks to remix and who they’d like to hear do the remixes.”

Involving his fans in his work is something John has always been really passionate about; the mentality remains the same come his set at the drum ‘n’ bass festival extravaganza Mayhem this Sunday, as John explains that the crowd should prepare for some “energy-boosting” manouevres: “You can be a boring DJ, and just stand there smoking and looking bored, or you can make and effort to put some extra ooompf into it all, get animated, do something more to be unique and connect with the audience.”

JOHN B SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 @ MAYHEM, BELVOIR AMPITHEATHRE

It was destined to be a sold out gig from the moment tickets were released; Dim Mak magnate and the man behind the Bloody Beetroot’s success, Steve Aoki, playing alongside UK sensation A1 Bassline at Perth’s favourite venue, Villa.

The line outside the venue was still meandering down the street when A1 took to the stage at twelve, but there wasn’t much room left inside either. Touted a one of the brightest new British talents and here on his first Australian tour, A1 Bassline was relatively subdued behind the decks for much of the night but his deep bass driven tunes told a different story. Smashing out a set that consisted predominately of current electro favorites A1 successfully kept the punters hooked for the entirety of his hour and a half set, and as the place started to heat up so did he. The Villa sound system almost guarantees ringing ears the next day, and A1 utilised evry square inch of it; from a shrieking high note he dropped flawlessly in Drop The Pressure which transformed lowered dance pit into a sweaty heaving mass of young electro lovers.

Meanwhile Steve Aoki was mixing it with the crowd, posing for photos and chatting casually with groups of people to the left of the stage. At 1:20 he quietly slipped onto the stage but he didn’t go unnoticed, the people at the front of the dance floor almost crushed by the forward push. The transition between sets was less than smooth when the sound cut out for more than twenty seconds, but the crowd was too hyped to care. The question asked for much of the night was, why use the raised dance floor as a makeshift DJ setup at a sold out gig while the booth was totally unused?

Aoki answered this question almost immediately. Amusingly, he started his set with the incongruous Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear before dropping Warp, grabbing the microphone and screaming ‘Woop Woop!’ as he leapt around the stage in a maddened frenzy. From then on it was a journey through every single genre you could think of, but it was his punk rock roots that were most apparent

Steve Aoki (Pic: David Chong)

in the way he approached his show, at one point shaking up a bottle of champagne and spraying the seething crowd as Warp Version 7.9 made an appearance. It was a set like none other.

Screaming ‘This is a brand new song from my new band!’, Aoki launched into a hardcore punk tune shouting indecipherable lyrics into the hapless microphone. It went down well with the hyped up crowd, but on a system set up for dance tunes the track came across as a little muddy. His energy was amazing, at one point he dived into the packed crowd off the DJ table. Some sloppy beat matching at the start of New Noise was superseded by a phenomenal drop into Alkan’s re-edit of Waters of Nazareth.

At this point Aoki slowed it right down, dropping some dubstep style tunes before getting punters thrashing about madly to golden-oldie Sandstorm by Darude. It was a set that changed so rapidly there was no time for respite, pure showmanship at its very best.

While it was a set with a few sloppy moments, it rates up there with one of the most high energy and entertaining sets that anyone will see this year. Once again, Knowledge Entertainment and Villa provided a truly mind mashing, ear bending night.

REUBEN ADAMS

Friday 30 October - Players Bar, Mandurah (Cut Off Your Hands not appearing at Players Bar) Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets

Saturday 31 October - The Capitol, Perth With French Rockets

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FEADZ & BOY 8-BIT A night of broken house & jacking electro grooves

Friday 23 October 2009

FEADZ & BOY 8-BIT

187 Stirling Street Perth. Doors Open at 10pm. Tickets: $30+BF. Available from: Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP, Moshtix and inthemix.com.au. For more info www.myspace.com/boy8bit, www.myspace.com/feadz www.boomtick.com.au, events@boomtick.com.au

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STEVE AOKI - VILLA

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BAR 459 SERIF After five solid months of entertaining Perth, Serif is saying goodbye to y’all for the summer. To say thank you for all the support received thus far, the boys are going to throw the biggest farewell party this fair city has ever seen, Garage Sale style! That’s correct, the last Serif theme for the year is Garage Sale. So head down to grab yourself a bargain, including some limited edition prints from some of Perth’s best artists and designers.

Four hours of back-to-back DJing thanks to Micah, Travis, James Francis, Craig Hollywood, Benji, James Garnaut and Blade Jackson.

Doors open 8pm for $10.

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singer Julie Scott. Catch Ronski tonight at Rise. Rise members $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter.

Non-members $10 before 11pm, $20 thereafter. Doors open 10pm.

MOJOS CUT & PASTE 8 LAUNCH It seemed like only yesterday local media matadors Cut & Paste launched the latest edition of their radicool DVD-zine, but they’re back again, in time for summer, with Issue 8! The edition (free!) is set to feature interviews with the likes of Ratatat, DJ Revolution and Polo Club, with inimitable drum ‘n’ bass producer ShockOne taking mixtape duties, plus loads more.

Join the C&P gang tonight at Mojo’s for the official launch, hosted by master of ceremonies Diggy Bones, with performances from Mile End, Brash & Sassy, Tomas Ford, Tangled Thoughts of Leaving, Shock One, with Cut & Paste’s adopted son Massiv Trav spinning. Tickets are $10 plus booking fee from Heatseeker, Planet and Mills. Doors open 8pm.

AMBAR DJ PIERRE DJ, producer and remixer Nathaniel Pierre Jones AKA DJ Pierre, is a rare breed. An artist who is considered a mentor to many of the ‘A’ list DJ fraternity, old and new, and one man who continues to stand strong in an industry that has had its ups ‘n’ downs. From the days of ‘Phuture’, Pierre’s highly successful guise with fellow squelchers Spanky and Herb J – and their epic release Acid Trax, to his biggest hit The Horn Song, featuring Barbara Tucker, his solo projects with David Morales, Felix Da Housecat and his stint as Head of A&R at Strictly Rhythm, DJ Pierre is a force to be reckoned with. Support on the night comes from one of Perth’s own pioneers of house, Dave Jackson, plus Kid Deep and Nina Van Dyke. Tickets $20 on the door.

Eve - DJ Tony Allen Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Wrighteous Devilles – Rockin Rhys Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) – Global Rhythms - Charlie Bucket Flying Scotsman (Main Room) Pasha’s Kitchen – The Big Man Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Open Decks Sessions 14 Foundry- DJ Travis B Hyde Park Hotel - DJ Skooby/ Bsyde/ Rami/ Mama’s Boys/ DJ Slick/ Ill Ones/ Xzakt & Bjah/ DJ Kyte Kutter/ Nate Wade/ Shorty/ Avey Rose Leopold Hotel- DJ James/ DJ Jack Liquid Nightclub – DJ Buda Llama Bar – DJ Kapitol P Mojo’s – J Kash/ MC Amani/ Misslie/ MC Amani Mustang Bar – DJ Giles/ WiKid Newport Hotel – Culture Clash – DJ Shannon Fox Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford Paddy Hannans - Dr Bogus Players Bar – Neon Lights - DJ Samuel Spencer Rosemount – Beatfiiix – Defyrle/ Trifle/ Endeva/ Fractured Beats/ NVS/ Alba The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen- DJ Tropical Funk Merchants – Zone 3/ DJ Flex / Ben Mac - Zone 1 / Don Migi / Dj Nano /DJ Surge The Eastern - DJ Midfield The Queens – Weekend warm up – DJ Andy/ DJ Ben

VILLA FEADZ Paris hip hop/beats expert Feadz has long had a cult following, hooking the Parisian underground scene with his poppin’ mix tapes and crackin’ collaborations early on. After meeting the one-andonly Mr Oizo, they released the killer Analog Worms Attack in 1999, the first of tonnes of EPs to come. Catch him at Villa tonight, billing with UK’s Boy8-Bit. Tickets $30 plus booking fee available from Planet Video, Mills, 78 Records, Moshtix Outlets and online from the Boomtick SHOP, Moshtix and inthemix. Doors open 10pm.

RISE RONSKI SPEED Starting his musical career in 1997, German DJ and producer Ronski Speed has created some of the most in demand tracks and remixes of the past decade. His records have been hammered by the likes of Paul van Dyk, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Above & Beyond and Ferry Corsten, as have his standout remixes for Above & Beyond, ATB and Heather Nova and his singles The Space We Are, Soulseeker (in collaboration with Stoneface & Terminal) and Love All The Pain Away with Dutch

LEEDERVILLE HOTEL RED BANTOO Electronic come nu jazz group Red Bantoo take over the Funk Club tonight, bringing their live brand of improvised performance, that incorporates vintage beats and samples, to punters. Support from the Funk Club House Band, DJ Charlie Bucket, and More. Doors open 8pm.

SHAPE THE CUBE Watch out, here comes the next wonderful instalment of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass at The Cube! Proximity Effect, Ylem and Killswitch are representing dubstep, and Jazza, Rowdy v Skinny and Dvise are holding it down on the drum ‘n’ bass side of things. Get ready to witness the battle for sub bass supremacy! $5 before 11pm; $10 thereafter.

MINT CLUB RETRO It’s retro abandon at Mint every Friday, with the best ‘80s and ‘90s hits spinning all night. With two bars, a huge cocktail list, friendly vibes and comfortable seating, Mint’s a perfect place to dance or just kick back. Doors open 9pm-4am. Free before 10pm, $5 before 12 midnight, $10 thereafter. Mint is located on the

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F E AT U R I N G : SPLITLOOP S U P P O R T: Blend, Tee El, Micah & Prizzy I N F O R M AT I O N : 10pm - late. 104 Murray Street Perth. Door Sales Only: $15

corner of Lake and James streets in Northbridge.

Amplifier – DJ Shannon Fox/ DJ Jamie Bar 138 – Lokal – Oktoberfest Bar Open (Both Levels) – Dorcia Scott D/Yon Lennon/Kid Sux/D-Lo Time Travel Agent/Muv Bar Republic – Love Saves Fridays – Petrosex/Rex Monsoon Black Bettys- Trubble Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol– Shuggie Disco – Shuggie DJ’s Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Boogie Devilles Pad – Jumpin Josh/ Barbara Blaze Double Lucky – Full Circle – DJ Adam Kelly/ DJ Cee/Josh Devlin MC Webbz/ MC Pugz/ MC JK/ MC Rtilary/ Danjawun Eurobar- Crazy Sexy Cool - DJ Roger Smart/ Riki Eve – DJ Migi/Skooby/Crazy Craig Flying Scotsman (downstairs) – DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 Flying Scotsman (upstairs) - The Beat Suite – Micah/ Sharif Galal Foundry – Crave Funk Club - Red Bantoo Geisha – Sounds Seductive – Cody/ Tizer/ Mandy Bubb/ Bongo Logo Harry’s Bar - DJ Double L / Benny T / Luca Castelli Inglewood Hotel – DJ Simone Llama Bar- DJ Morris/Kava Library – DJ Munch / DJ Reuben / Aswom Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Lakers Tavern - DJ Adrian Manor – Mr Thing Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry Metro City - Obese Records Block Party - Drapht/Muph & Plutonic/ Gully Platoon/Illy/Thundamentals/ Spit Syndicate Metropolis Fremantle – Congorock Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny Mustang- DJ James MacArthur/ Swing DJ Niche - DJ Jonni Zimber Norfolk Basement – DJ Daniel Norma Jeans – DJ Phil Onyx Bar – Slick/ Adroc Paramount – DJ Morgan / Jordan Priory Lodge - DJ Sticky Ricky Queens Tav – DJ Rueben

Rubix –DJ Pascal Sail And Anchor – Balcony Beats – T-Mac/ Pow! Rocket Room – DJ Joshy Josh/ DJ BJ Real/ DJ Sixpence Shape (Downstairs) – Baby Beats - Sling K/ Miss Behaviour/ Carla/ Angelbel/ Needlenurse South St Ale House – DJ Jay Swan Lounge – Electroganic – Clive/ Benny Aims/ Lunacy The Boat – Dr Bogus The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – Spanish Fly – DJ Nano/ DJ Surge – Zone 5 The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Andy The Stamford Arms - Dj Anaru The Velvet Lounge – Deuce - Kimba Dawhitelion/ Brash & Sassy/ 6000 red The Vic – Tip Top Sound DJ’s Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Joby / Alex K Toucan Club – DJ Armee Windsor – Dj Riki and Ray

Ù SATURDAY 24/10 BELVOIR AMPITHEATHRE MAYHEM FESTIVAL One of the year’s biggest drum ‘n’ bass festivals roll into the Belvoir bowl today, with a smorgasboard of international and local drum ‘n’ bass artists on the bill, ready to make it a day (and evening) to remember. All the way from the UK, Mayhem brings ‘true skool’ DJ Phantasy, Randall, Original Sin, Taxman, Micky Finn, John B, MC Shabba D and Adam F, as well as Perth’s own High Roller. Tickets still available from heatseeker.com.au, Live clothing outlets, Planet, Mills and Star Surf. The action kicks off at midday, and continues ‘til 11pm.

FLYING SCOTSMAN (VELVET LOUNGE) HOT CAKES There’s nothing quite like the feel of a 12” in your paws….RTRFM’s annual second hand vinyl and CD sale, Hotcakes, returns this year, ensuring we can all feel rare things in our paws, for cheap, too! Every year RTRFM needs to clear out a massive stack of CDs, vinyl, clothes, and all sorts of stuff, so

they throw a big ‘ol sale so we can all have a peep and take something home to keep. The sale goes down today at the Velvet Lounge (next to the Flying Scotsman), from 10am3pm. Cash and carry only, so bring a bag! For more Hotcakes info, hit up www.rtrfm.com.au(.)

ROSEMOUNT Emerging from Melbourne’s live hip hop scene with the November release of his highlyanticipated debut EP, The Waiter Minute, artist Seth Sentry has had a busy summer, finalising his debut full-length (due for release later this year) whist touring and promoting in support of the EP. After two stints in P-Town already this year (his own shows in Feb and a national tour with Pez in Aug), Seth Sentry comes back to play The Rosemount for FlowLab on tonight, with support from the Bleeding Hearts Crew: Thorths, Esvee, Class A, DJ Bogues, Grifters Inc (Adl) and more!

Tickets online from Heatseeker, or from Planet, Mills and Star Surf.

VILLA DJ HELL Born in Munich, but residing in both NYC and Berlin, Helmut Geier AKA DJ Hell, has continued to balance minimalism with the more chic trance and hardcore in his productions. Not satisfied by simply taking a standard beat and overlaying a repetitive synth, DJ Hell nurtures synth lines and is aggressive with his rhythms.

Support from Micah, Sean Chee and Craig Hollywood. Tickets $39 plus booking fee from Moshtix, moshtix. com.au and inthemix.com.au(.)

Photo ID is required. Doors open 9.30pm.

RISE BROOKLYN BOUNCE Hamburg house music producer Dennis Bohn, aka DJ Bonebreaker, comes fresh from a slew of Top Ten dance hits last year to play this month at Rise. As half of Germany’s top DJ/producer duo Brooklyn Bounce, Bonebreaker been responsible for the massive club hits Get Ready To Bounce, Bass Beats & Melody, Club Bizarre and Crazy. Get ready to bounce to all the hits and more as Dennis rocks Rise tonight, from 10pm. Support from Simon

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Barwood, Rousa, Greg Packer, Xsessiv and Daze. Rise Members $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter. Non-members $10 before 11pm, $20 thereafter.

MINT POP LIFE Every Saturday night resident DJ Darren Briais presents Pop Life, a night of sexy house and electro, top 40 tunes and r’n’b party anthems with a dash of retro favourites paying homage to pop icons of eras past. Indulge yourself from Mint’s deliciously decadent cocktail list and party to your favourite tunes in a playful and friendly atmosphere.

Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric Ambar – Japan 4 – Tee El/ Philly/ Marty McFly/ Ben Mac/ Wish Bar 138 on Barrack – Uptown Top Rankin’ - The Empressions/ DJ Ray/ Mr T Bar Open (Upstairs) – Frisk Andy Van/ Rob Sharp/ Cam Duff/ Mind Electric/ Frankie Button Bar Open (Downstairs) – Soul Project - Neil Viney/Disco Tech/ Warren 10/Terry Waites Bar Republic – Sexy – TeenWolf/ Petrosex/ JackAttack Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Black Bettys- DJ Trubble/ DJ Jinx Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol – Death Disco DJ’s Capitol (Upstairs) – DJ Ryan Clink- DJ Clint Club Bay View – Shake & Pop - DJ Zelimir Connections – Michy T / JJ / Brian Devilles Pad – Little Franco Berry/ Microgroove Double Lucky - Paul Raf /Alex K/ Angus Dusk Lounge – New Generation – Skinny/ Rowdy/ Fusion/ Concept/ Skoptix/ Decept/ Blanko/ Disorder/ Arson/ Defkon/ Snub/ Some Guy/ MC Stylee/ Pugz/ JK/ Rtilary/ Losd Eurobar - Roger Smart / DJ Ray Rush Eve –Kenny L/Richie G/Riki Flying Scotsman (Upstaris) – Flying High - Sandpaper Hands/ Pex/ Dennis Gedling/ Cutter Flying Scotsman (downstairs) – Under the Influence – Andrei Mazz/ U.T.I Allstars Geisha – Joie – Nic Nac/ James A/ Kytka/ Dan Da Silva High Wycombe – DJ Matt Inglewood – DJ Leigh Library – Paul Malone / DJ JMC / DJ Zeek Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Leederville- DJ Loco Ren Llama Bar- VJ Zoo/ DJ Tony Lopez/ DJ Reuben Metro City - DJ Matty S/ DJ Simon S/ DJ Double L/ DJ Slick/ DJ Kenny L Metropolis Fremantle – Dr Bogus Mustang – DJ Rockabilly/ DJ James MacArthur Mint – Pop Life - Darren Briais

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Mojo’s – Bass Boutique VI – Lyndon/ 2 Fat Djs/ DJ Pickle/ MC Jamain Niche – DJ Manda Power/ Cee/ Adam/ Kelly/Josh D Norma Jeans – DJ Dwayne Old Bailey Tavern – Dr Bogus Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequera Paramount – DJ Meezy / Jordan / Reuben Queens Tav – DJ Gear / Tizer Rocket Room – DJ Brett Rowe Rubix – DJ Pascal Sail And Anchor – Balcony Beats – DJ Jimmy Mac/ Ad Lustre Shape - Darren J/ Bad Weather/ Hickey/ Flex/ Aarin F/ La Gooch/ DYP/ Prodje/ RADJs/ Mickey Juice/ Richard Lee/ Martin Clayton/ Luke Reti/ Rohan Smith/ Olivier C/ Sleepyhead/ MUV/ Alex Tong Sapphire Bar – Filthy Gorgeous – Sketchism/Jackness/Nathan Francis/ Dee Jay Vee/Richie G South St Ale House – DJ Jay Tiger Lil’s –Charlie Bucket/ Adam Kelly The Deen - DJ Birdie – Zone 2 / DJ Tony Allen – Zone 3 / DJ JJ - Zone 5 The Eastern – Dr Bogus The Shed – Glenn 20 Toucan Club – Samuel Spencer/ Mr President Windsor – DJ Ray / Jinx

Jay Marriott Inglewood – DJ Shifty Mash – DJ Ricky Mint – Love 80’s – Simon Barwood Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny Mustang- DJ Rockin Rhys Players Bar - DJ-Udas Queens Tav- DJ Reece Rosemount –Charlie Bucket / Bsebastian Stamford Arms – Shakedown Sessions Volume 1. Final Edition - The Great Anaru/ Friday Night Funkster/ Refresh/ Affiliate/ Kurtox/ K-Pax/ Shanks The Cott – Cott Sessions - Nathan Francis/ Paul Scott/ Marko La Kucha/ Jay V And Black Sambi/ Sketchism And Jackness/ Ruby Lou The Court - DJ Nick Alexander The Wembley – Dead Easy / DC / PoW!

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Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Double Lucky - Substance – DJ Paul Malone/ DJ JMC Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Endgame Mojos - DJ D Pad The Paddo - DJ DPad

THE DEEN/THE SHED/ABERDEEN ST LOW:FI FESTIVAL Perth’s newest boutique festival is currently the only festival dedicated to It hip-hop, drum ‘n’ bass and dubstep in the southern hemisphere. The big names roll in thick and fast this Sunday, with none other than New York hip hop legend NaS as the top biller. Joining NAS will be a formidable lineup of hip hop artists: Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 fame, with DJ Qbert and MC Supernatural together performing their live freestyle battle routine. Bristol’s TC and Jakes, Netherlands’ noisehead trio Noisia and Perth’s favourite duo Calyx and Teebee represent the drum ‘n’ bass heads, whilst for the dubsteppers will be treated to Coki, Loefah and Hench. Plus a load of local supports! Tickets $105 plus booking fee from BOCs, 78s, Planet, Mills, Live clothing outlets and www. moshtix.com.au(.) Doors open 2pm.

Bayswater Hotel (Bar eighteen98) – Drum’n’Steaks Bar Open – Frisk - Here After Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clancys - Rancho Relaxo / DJ Gear Deen – Low:Fi Festival Double Lucky – Charlie Bucket Eve – DJ Birdie/MC Jex Flying Scotsman (downstairs) Nathan J/ Dan Tha Man/ Nisbit Geisha – Transition – Damir/ Zelmir/ Frankie Button/ Nic Nac Hip E Club - DJ E-Funk Hydey – Club Seal - DJ Luke Dux/ DJ

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Ù THIS WEEK

Cut Off Your Hands Saturday, October 31 @ Capitol

Obese Records Block Party - Drapht/Muph & Plutonic/Gully Platoon/ Illy/Thundamentals/Spit Syndicate Friday, October 23 @ Metro City

Mischief – Grant Smillie/ Ruby Rose/ The Only Saturday, October 31 @ Villa

Feadz/ Boy 8-Bit Friday, October 23 @ Villa Nightclub DJ Pierre Friday, October 23 @ Ambar

Eli Smith Saturday, October 31 @ Shape

Ronski Speed Friday, October 23 @ Rise

Seth Sentry Saturday, October 21 @ The Rosemount Kim (The Presets)/Beni/ LA Riots/ Tonight Only Friday, November 6 @ Villa

Red Bantoo Friday, October 23 @ The Funk Club; Saturday, October 24 @ York Jazz Festival

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Ù WEDNESDAY 28/10 FLYING SCOTSMAN (UPSTAIRS) EXPOSURE The TAFE Graduates’ Class in Photography are approaching the years’ end and are holding a fun night of tunes to raise money. From 7pm ‘til late, catch Beta v O’Po.Wan, PushPaw, Syede and 101 spinning plates. $10 entry.

Basement On Broadway – DJ KB Captain Stirling – DJ Ricky Connections - DJ’s Joby / JJ / Rueben Double Lucky - Natural Selection Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Eve – Déjà Vu - DJ Don Migi Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Unique – Ben Taafe/ The Elliots Gold – Slick/ Adroc Oak & Ivy –PCJ/Son Of The Father Mustang – DJ Giles Newport Hotel – DJ Tony Allen Niche - DJ Frankie Button Rosemount – DJ Shannon Fox The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper & DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Eastern – DJ Jinx The Queens – Wriggle on - DJ Gareth / Pranjal

Ladyhawke Saturday, November 14 @ Capitol

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T.Pain Saturday, October 31 @ Metro City

Cut & Paste 8 Launch Friday, October 23 @ Mojo’s Fremantle

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

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A Nightmare on James Street feat. Brisk Friday, November 13 @ Rise

Jon O’Bir/ Mike Foyle Friday, November 6 @ Rise

DJ Hell Saturday, October 24 @ Villa Nightclub

Dose/ Menace Friday, November 6 @ Shape

Mayhem - DJ Phantasy/ Simon ‘Bassline’ Smith/ Randall/ Taxman/ Original Sin/ Micky Finn/ John B/ Adam F/ MC Shabba D Saturday, October 24 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre

Beck’s Berlin Sessions – Ame/ Move D/ Benjamin Frohlich Friday, Novmber 6 @ Ambar

Brooklyn Bounce Saturday, October 24 @ Rise

Lee Coombs/Myagi Saturday, November 7 @ Villa Rahzel (The Roots) Thursday, November 12 @ The Rosemount

Low:Fi Festival – NAS/ Charli 2NA / DJ Qbert/ MC Supernatural/TC & Jakes/ Noisia/ Calyx/ Teebee/Coki/ Loefah/ Hench Sunday, October 25 @ The Shed, the Deen, and throughout Aberdeen St Northbridge

Phrase Thursday , November 12 @ The Prince Of Wales; Friday November 13 @ Esplanade Bussellton; Saturday, November 14 @ The Rocket Room Horrorshow/Urthboy Thursday, November 12 @ Mojos; Friday, November 13 @ Prince of Wales; Saturday, November 14 @ Amplifier

Ù UPCOMING Splitloop Friday, October 30 @ Ambar Stoneface And Terminal Friday, October 30 @ Rise

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Force Majeure 1st Birthday/ D*Funk/ The Loops of Fury Friday, November 13 @ Ambar

Cuban Brothers Friday, October 30 @ Villa Midnight Juggernauts/

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Bass Kleph Saturday, November 14 @ Villa Foals DJ’s Sunday, November 15 @ Amplifier Open House Party Launch Wednesday, November 18 @ Mint nightclub

Ministry of Sound 2010 Annual Friday, December 11 @ Capitol Breakfest – Napt/Miles Dyson/Mickey Slim/Elite Force/The Nextmen/ Rennie Pilgrem & MC Chickaboo/Superstyle Deluxe/Lady Waks/ Funkoars/Streetlife DJs plus more Saturday, December 26 @ Belvoir Ampitheathre Pendulum Saturday, December 26 @ Metro City

Stanton Warriors Friday, November 20 @ Villa

Summadayze Festival - Carl Cox/ 2 Many DJ’s/ The Presets/ Roger Sanchez/ Danny Tenaglia/ Sharam (Deep Dish)/ Infected Mushroom/ LCD Soundsystem/ Josh Wink/ Eddie Halliwell/ Danny Howells/ Ian Carey Project and more Sunday, January 3, 2010 @ Supreme Court Gardens

D’julz Friday, November 20 @ Ambar

Here After Sunday, January 3 @ Bar Open

Sneaky – You Only Live Once Launch Friday, November 20 @ Capitol

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Nick Curly Friday, November 20 @ Ambar Sasha Vatoff Saturday, November 21 @ Villa Rico Tubbs Friday, November 27 @ Villa Stereosonic Festival feat.

The Bloody Beetroots/ Deadmau5/ Axwell/ Fedde Le Grand/ John Dahlbäck/ The Crookers/ Laurent Garnier/ Dragonette + More Sunday, November 29 @ Claremont Showgrounds

Southbound Festival – Midnight Juggernauts/ Major Lzrs/ Urthboy/DJ Yoda/Hilltop Hoods and more Friday January 8-Sunday January 10 @ Sir Stuart Bovell Park, Busselton Tiësto Wednesday, February 10; Thursday, February 11; Friday, February 12 @ Metro City Good Vibrations Sunday, February 14, 2010 @ Claremont Showgrounds NEW

Pacha Friday, December 4 @ Capitol

Future Music Festival - The Prodigy/ Franz Ferdinand/ Empire Of The Sun/ David Guetta/ Booka Shade/ Erick Morilla/ Sven Vath/ John Digweed and more Sunday, February 28, Ascot Racecourse

Danny T/ Wongo Friday, December 11 @ Ambar

Cobra Starship Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ Metro City

Pharoahe Monch Friday, December 4 @ Villa

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THEY’RE OFF AND RACING AT BURSWOOD!

They’re off and racing at Burswood Entertainment Complex for the race that stops the nation Melbourne Cup 2009!

For all those young fashionistas, saddle up and dress to impress for an afternoon of riverside decadence at Perth’s most unique Melbourne Cup event,Pony Lounge.With your host Fuzzy Agolley from Video Hits,you will enjoy ultra chic fashion parades includingTalulah and Hussy, sultry sounds by DJ Andy M, a luscious lunch with accompanying fine wine and bubbly, plus fabulous door prizes to be won. Not to mention huge screens to capture all the Flemington action.

IntheGrandBallroomTheGlamourField will be hosted by Tom Williams. Glitz and glam will be the focus for this event with an indulgent three course meal, breathtaking fashion parades including Aurelio Costarella, Camilla and Lisa Ho and live entertainment by Wilbur Wilde and the All Star Band featuring Frankie J Holden and Lisa Edwards.

Where will you be when the nation stops? For more on Melbourne Cup action at Burswood, head to burswood.com.au(.)

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FASHIONS ON THE FIELD

Scores of women made their way to Ascot last weekend for the WA final of the 2009 Myer Fashions On The Field competition. Congratulations to Elizabeth Pollard who won the competition sporting a cream pencil skirt by Nicola Finetti teamed with a pink Alannah Hill top. Chelsea Kwietniewski took home first runner up,with Jane Chami winning second runner up. Best of luck to Elizabeth who will compete in the national final of the Fashions On The Field on Crown Oaks Day in Melbourne.

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Rosemount Melbourne Cup Day at Ascot will be a heady cocktail of thoroughbred racing, fun, fashion and entertainment!

When it comes to the race that stops a nation, why would you want to be anywhere other than at Ascot - Perth’s racing heartland - for Perth’s biggest Melbourne Cup day celebration!

General Admission $30, Concession $15.Buy your tickets now from Perth Racing or on the day at the gate. Gates open at 9am. Call Perth Racing on 9277 0777 for more information.

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KISS AND RUN

KISSCHASY / Regular John / Sparks Vertigo Capitol Saturday, October 17, 2009

As the doors began to open, the punters outside Capitol were gearing up to enter what felt like the first show of summer. With a scorching 35 degree day behind them, many braved the heat to enter Capitol, although it depended entirely on your gender whether you had the right to feel comfortable or not.

With girls being granted entry wearing the tiniest of short-shorts, male punters were turned away at the door for wearing any form of pants that didn’t reach their ankles. Are we really going to turn paying punters away from shows for wearing shorts? We live in Perth, for fuck’s sake.

With those who were granted entry now inside, local lads Sparks Vertigo put on a stellar opening set. Sparks Vertigo are brimming with impeccable individual musicianship, but more importantly, display an exceptional amount of cohesion between members.

Being a relatively new and undiscovered entity, Sparks Vertigo were unknown to a majority of the crowd, although that didn’t stop their songs and performance from leaving a great first impression. With a few more shows up their collective sleeves, you can expect Sparks

Vertigo to become regular faces on the Perth rock scene.

Next up were the aptly named support pigs from Melbourne, Regular John. Playing a straight-up style of rock, their set tonight was exactly as their name suggests – regular. These guys were a tight and professional unit, but there just seemed to be something lacking from their set, and that something was great material.

There’s no doubting their ability to put on a show, but with songs that go in one ear and straight out the other, there’s nothing for you to take away from seeing this band. As a support act, Regular John are invaluable, as they play well, but without any chance of stealing the show away from the headliners. The band are the musical equivalent of appetisers – they taste good, but you wouldn’t want to consume them as the main course.

It’s pretty safe to say that Kisschasy are a band for the ladies. With Capitol’s room having seen fuller nights, tonight’s crowd was predominately made up of punters of the female variety, which resulted in a high-frequency cheer when the band hit the stage.

The band set the pace for the night with the ever-popular Do-Do’s And Woah-Oh’s, followed by Strings And Drums. From the outset, Kisschasy highlighted their penchant for writing great pop-rock numbers, and how they have the ability to play them exceptionally well live.

Frontman Darren Cordeux really holds

Kisschasy (photo by Denis Radacic)

the band together, with not only his strong and commanding vocals, but with his presence and crowd interaction. Cordeux has the ability to interact with punters on a genuine level, at one point thanking the crowd for ‘not going to a dance club and getting on the pingaz’.

With Kisschasy’s back catalogue sitting in the easily-digestible pop-rock basket, newer material from their recently released Seizures marks a mature progression for the band. With more in common with Weezer than Fall Out Boy, songs like Tarantula and Weekend

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Shihad (photo by Michael Wylie)

- but that won’t be a problem. Not only have Phil SHIHAD / Bradley and Rob Troup landed on their feet, with The Devil Rides Out / Brutus the help of Phil’s offspring Jake on drums, they’ve launched straight into a throat-crushing ninja Amplifier Bar kick that knocked tonight’s early crowd on their Saturday, October 17, 2009 collective arse.

As with any new band the initial hunt is It’ll be a while yet before the Brutus lads shake on for a sound that Brutus will eventually call their the comparisons to their previous band, Subtruck own. The song arrangements in particular will need

some more scrutiny, but unlike most bands these guys are walking into battle with fuck-off sized guns from the get-go.

While the Brutus lads have just started their freshman years, The Devil Rides Out are now well and truly hitting their sophomore straps. With a WAMi-Award and a shit load of high profile shows under their belt these guys continue to up the ante and it all comes down to better songwriting.

allowed Kisschasy to enter uncharted territory, with Horsell Common’s Mark Stewart tucked away in the corner providing the tambourine performance of his life, as well as harmonies.

Overall, Kisschasy tonight showcased their two main strengths – they have a killer arsenal of songs, and the ability to play them at an international standard. It wouldn’t be surprising if we didn’t see much of these guys over the next few years, because they have what it takes to tour the world and fly the flag for Australian rock music. _GEORGE GREEN

Where the band initially relied on the cock-rock pseudo humour bent, they are now betting hard on their own abilities to rise above a scene and sound which nurtured their initial forays into the Perth market. Their train of thinking is smack on the money; with a lyricist like Joe Kapiteyn in the band the gradual move toward more substantial and indeed serious themes is absolutely the right thing to do.

Tonight the set was comprised heavily of this newer material that is hopefully indicative of what’s to come. Tracks like Slow Gun and The Shape Of A Heart have a depth the band’s earlier work lacks and in the live sense this new layered sound stacks up against anything else in the genre.

The best way to recount Shihad’s show tonight is to fast-forward 90 minutes. Scores of music fans are streaming into the beer garden drenched in sweat, adrenalin and awe. There are nigh on 500 people having exactly the same conversation. An hour and a half earlier, as they have done hundreds of times over in their career, Shihad arrived on stage with one goal in mind destroy everyone.

Their back catalogue is mind boggling and it serves as one mama-jama of an arsenal.

My Mind’s Sedate, Day Will Come, Wait And See, Run, Comfort Me and the pulverising grind of The General Electric reigned down Ali sized haymakers on the audience as Jon Toogood literally rode the crowd, at times reaching the far wall bar.

Amplifier is quite simply the best small rock venue in Australia, and over the last 10 years it has played host to some amazing shows. Bands like The Bronx, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Converge have all but levelled the place – and tonight’s show was right up there. _GRANT MCCULLOCH

POISON WAS THE CURE POISON THE WELL / Eleventh He Reaches London / Blkout Amplifier Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Tuesday night shows in this little city of ours can be tough at times, but last week’s Slayer and Megadeth show set a new precedent.

Tuesday nights can produce some killer shows, and tonight was no exception.

Openers Blkout received little fanfare from the almost empty Amplifier room.

Flagwavers for hardcore of the old-school variety, Blkout played a musically tight set, but were ultimately let down by sub-par vocals.

While the guitars were absolutely spot-on, the vocals fluctuated in and out of time, and lacked in any real attack or aggression. With the infrequent back-up vocals proving to be better than those of the frontman, Blkout offered glimpses of hardcore with massive potential, provided the vocals are at a level that matches that of the music.

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as supports for heavier acts, is because the band are like a 40-minute wank with no happy ending. Slowly building songs in intensity with no resolution, Eleventh leave the stage with that ‘almost’ feeling, and any band that play after them release all built up tension and stickiness that Eleventh He Reaches London forgot to take with them from the stage.

With the lights dimmed and the feedback screaming, Poison The Well got straight down to business, and ripped into Botchla with fierce precision. The band, who are known for their diverse bridge between heavy and melodic, made no bones about what they were here to do tonight. Leaving most of their melodic material at home, Poison The Well bludgeoned the ears of those standing front and centre at the foldbacks.

Zombies Are Good For Your Health and Antarctica Inside Me kept things rolling at a frenetic pace, and it wasn’t until four songs in that frontman Jeff Moreira had the chance to speak to the crowd. Thanking them for all making it out on a Tuesday, Moreira seemed genuinely excited to be playing shows again in Australia.

Last time we saw Poison The Well was at this year’s Soundwave, with the outdoor festival setting wreaking havoc with the band’s chaotic mix. Tonight, within Amplifier’s accommodating walls, Poison The Well came

into their own. The band were relentless in their delivery, and sounded 10 times heavier than they do on any record. Whether it be the energy that they capture on stage, or the ability to turn their shit up to 11, they sounded absolutely devastating.

With their set comprised of an even mix of material over the years, there were songs in there to please everybody.

Ghostchant and Apathy Is A Cold Body were standouts from You Come Before You, with Exist Underground from their latest album The Tropic Rot also proving popular, but there was no denying what the majority of punters were keen to hear.

Ending their punishing set with Artists Rendering Of Me and Nerdy, Poison The Well gave the crowd what they wanted – an opportunity to sing along with songs that they identified with almost 10 years ago.

Poison The Well are a band who have come along way since their early days, and still manage to make their older material seem relevant in the live forum. Tonight’s set was a huge statement to all those who have been doubters of their progressive stylistic change.

Whether you like their newer direction or not, Poison The Well are a band who can deliver a crushingly heavy performance that rivals any other. _GEORGE GREEN

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MONGREL COUNTRY To The Max

On Friday, October 23, Mongrel Country launch their new album at the Hydey, in tandem with Cat Black, who are also doing the launch thing.

The band’s two voices, Max Ducker and Dean Anthonisz, are happy chaps indeed.

After all,this album has consumed a huge part of their lives for the past year – particularly for Ducker, who engineered and recorded the album at his Cellar Sessions studio, piece by piece, as it unfolded in creative real-time.

“Well we’d have some songs ready to go and others that were on the way, but even the songs that were ready evolved once we started recording them. I guess that’s the beauty of having your own studio… you have the luxury of being able to use it whenever you need to,” he says, adding “which works out well for us because we’ve

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been really productive for a while now. In fact we’ve already got some new songs ready to go for the next one,” he says with a grin.

And although the ‘next one’ hasn’t had all the details ironed out yet, it seems that Ducker is brainstorming a compilation CD of a few of his favourite Perth bands.

“We want to do a compilation that is a bit more substantial… bands having a few songs each, rather than just one. I’ve always thought that

was a better idea because you get more of a sense of what a band is about,” he says.

But nothing explains what a band is about more than an album does, and Mongrel Country’s is a cracker. Tracking two drummers wouldn’t be an easy task, especially considering one of them sliced off a few fingers in a work accident not long after recording had commenced, but Ducker explains that Mongrel Country records are not entirely the same as Mongrel Country live.

“We don’t double track a lot of the stuff we play live because there are other ways to do it in the studio,” he explains. “Like, we’ll track the drums as they are, and then add other stuff over the top so that it doesn’t kill them or get too messy.

We kind of piece songs together based on the songs but also the sounds. If the sounds are there, you can pretty much do what you want.”

And with a resulting wall of sonic crunch, it seems Ducker’s on the money. More than just a collection of songs and sounds, though, Mongrel Country’s album flows very theatrically, placing all of its aggressive songs first, then slowly easing into the more gentle ones. Well, gentle by Mongrel Country standards at least.

“There were a few different versions of the album tracklisting,” Anthonisz explains. “It was definitely something we thought about, because it could have gone a few different ways.”

“And Laith [Tierney, manager] had this kind of grand idea about how it should flow and all that, but in the end I think the best order was the one we picked. We were a little bit concerned that putting all the full-on songs first might feel too much like a peak and then it’s over, but it worked out well.”

Certainly for ear drums at the very least.

HOMEBREWE Learned Kohen Bravo Inferno

TOWERING INFERNO

Melodious indie-rock band Bravo Inferno are set to launch their debut album, Chasing Knives, on Saturday, October 24, at the Rosemount. Laced with horns, organs, piano and mellotron; the band have taken their pop / rock leanings and shaken them up to forge songs ranging from tense and urgent to dense and melancholy. Helping them celebrate will be their friends College Fall, Long Gone Midnight, and My Mad Flow. $12 entry. Chasing Knives is out now through Firestarter Distribution.

Homebrewe

On Friday, November 6, Homebrewe launch their debut album, My Own Nemesis, at the Rosemount. As frontman Kohen Grogan points out, the album marks a huge turning point in the band’s sound as much as their career.

“The band has evolved a shit load since we started out,” he begins, excitedly.

“One of the best things about recording is that every time you do it you improve so much. Your strengths and weaknesses are always exposed when recording and it constantly reminds you of where you need to focus to improveyou have to work through weaknesses in the studio.

“After finishing the new album our stage show is tighter, our songs are more refined, more energetic and done with greater confidence. We have evolved into more competent musicians, songwriters and performers. Everything about My Own Nemesis is a step up from our debut EP and we are looking forward to keeping on working hard and evolving more and more as time goes by,” he says.

And he’s not kidding either.The album is a good few years ahead of where the band were as recently as a year ago. More refined, for sure, but more importantly more self-assured; the newer Homebrewe material has the mark of confidence, which, as we know, is often the mark of experience.

“When we released our EP we were

all really young. Dylan [bass] and Rory [drums] were 15 or 16 when we hit the studio in 2006/2007, I was 18 and Casey [guitar] was 21. Since then we have grown so much in our song writing and maturity. Looking back at our older material I think it is fair to say we were a little reserved with what we wrote about. This is the whole reason we decided to write all new tracks for the album and not include any from our previous release. We had grown since releasing it and wanted the album to reflect that. Now we aren’t afraid to say what we want and no topic is untouchable. Our music has gotten a little heavier, more dynamic and more interesting,” he says.

Which comes down to the process by which Homebrewe write their tunes. Or, more aptly, processes, plural.

“We never really stick to the same formula when writing songs... sometimes it starts with lyrics, sometimes one of us will write a whole song and bring it to the band and other times we just jam it out. The majority of our songwriting takes place while jamming,” he explains.

“I always keep a pen and notebook on me and write down an idea as soon as it comes to me- if I am driving I will pull over to pen it down, I have woken up in the middle of the night and penned ideas down. We only write about things that inspire us, that we are passionate about, that affect us and that we mean.”

The Craw

LUCKY CHARMS

The Castle hosts the latest edition of Feel Lucky, Punk? on Friday, October 23, featuring The Craw GWH, Death Grenade, Run And Kill, and Decay from 8pm. Entry is $6.

Boom! Bap! Pow!

POW WOW

Boom! Bap! Pow! are preparing for a busy weekend, bringing the sax, suits and sweet harmonies to Devilles Pad on Saturday, October 24, and then playing an afternoon show on Sunday, October 25, at Luxe Bar’s BambOO mainstage. In other news, BBP! have recruited Forrester Savell to take the helm on a new album which will start production in December.

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launch their new CD with help from College Fall, Long Gone Midnight, and My Mad Flow. Doors open 8pm and entry is $12. Sunday, October 25, it’s Tonight, Thursday, October 22, the Front Bar the Rosemount’s Acoustic Open Mic Night hosted features The Goat, Pex The Astonishing, and Frozen by Turin Robinson - head on down and have a bash Ocean from 8pm. Entry is $7. Friday, October 23, or just play some free pool. Action from 4pm and the Front Bar host a double CD Launch for Mongrel it’s free. Tuesday, October 27, it’s the Rosemount’s Country and Cat Black, with supports of Moonlight weekly Quiz Night - see www.quizmeisters.com.

Wranglers, Bonehouse, and Bible Bashers. Doors au for more info. Wednesday, October 28, catch open 8pm and entry is $15. Get down to The Sean Brown And The Red Lights, Jukebox Zombies, Backroom tomorrow night for Daylight playing The Tumblers, and The Ginger Ales. Doors open with Burning Fiction, 3 Days Later, The Proletariate, 8pm and entry is $5. In the beer garden catch DJ and Bridge the Gap. Doors 8pm and entry is $20. Shannon Fox for the Rosemount’s Student Night.

Saturday, October 24, the Front Bar host Michael Check out www.rosemounthotel.com.au for more Strong And The Ghost Anyway CD launch, with Rosie info.

The City Watch, Mrs Henry, and Justin Walshe from 8pm. Entry is $12. In the Backroom this Saturday night Break Even, In Trenches, Battletruk, Into The ROCKET ROOM Sea, and So, Night Owl play from 8pm and entry Friday, October 23, We Are the Emergency drop is $12. Sunday, October 25, the Front Bar present in to Rocket Room, along with Mandalay Victory, Club Seal featuring DJ Luke Dux, DJ Jay Marriott, Surrender, and Here We Ghost. Late Night Live The Sure-Fire Midnights plus more. Doors open features Wolves and Colour The Sky – along with 6pm and entry is $8. Wednesday, October 28 The MC Tomas Ford, DJ BJ Real, DJ Joshy Josh and DJ Dreggs, Carbon Pig, and Brown play at the Hydey Sixpence. Saturday, October 24, Lord fly over from Sydney, with support from Psychonaut, Neverborn, Front Bar from 8pm and entry is $5. and Empires Laid Waste. After midnight, Rocket Fuel takes off with Kickstart and DJ Brett Rowe.

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

Friday, October 23 catch local heavy-hitters New World Revolt launching their new EP with special guests Junkadelic, Pale As Ashes, The Union Of Crazy Monkey People From Outer Space, and Rascal Fist. Doors open 8pm, entry is $15 which includes a copy of the CD. Saturday, October 24, Bravo Inferno

INDI BAR

Tonight, Thursday, October 22, Ash Grunwald will perform. The Murder Mouse Blues Band will return to the Indi on Friday, October 23. Gerard Maunick is becoming a regular favourite, he’s back Saturday

October 24. Former Tea Party singer Jeff Martin will be playing another special acoustic set, Sunday October 25. The Sunshine Brothers will provide the mid-week party, Wednesday, October 28.

get your weekend started from 8.30pm. Saturday, October 24, catch Brown Sugar; and Sunday, October 25’s Original Music Night features The Orphans and Ramblin Van Walker from 6.30pm.

AMPLIFIER

MOJO’S

Friday, October 23, Lord take to the stage at Amplifier, joined by Voyager, Noctis, and Lacrymae.

Doors open 8pm. Saturday, October 24, Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke will perform with The Silents, Red Shoes Boy, and The Atlas Mountains. Doors open 8pm. Sunday, October 25, The Ataris hit Amplifier for their first Australian tour since 2003. They will be joined by Melbourne’s Stealing O’Neal and locals Grim Fandango from 8pm.

Tonight, Thursday, October 22, the Long Strides play Mojo’s Bar with MF And His Truck Load Of Hope, The Inept Dilettantes, and The Whiskey Clones. Entry is $6 from 8pm. Friday, October 23, will see Cut & Paste 8 launched at Mojo’s by Shock One, Mile End, Brash & Sassy [original lineup], Tomas Ford, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, Massiv Trav, MC Diggy Bones, and Twenty Eleven – who will be displaying new works in the courtyard gallery, and an ‘exclusive’ bus motion sensory installation from members of RAILWAY HOTEL the ololo collective. Tickets are available through Friday, October 23, the Railway hosts InVoid, Heatseeker, Planet, and Mills. Sunday, October 25, Book Of Lilith, Invert Velocity, and Khariot. Doors Cheer To The Echo, Helen Shanahan, Sugarpuss, open 8pm and entry is $8. Saturday, October 24, and Alecducak play Mojo’s, Entry is $10 from 6pm. catch Satan Himself, Aaagh Bats, The Tumblers, Monday, October 26, performing at Mojo’s for the and Lummix. Doors open 8pm, $8 entry. Sunday, Wide open mic will be a bunch of ambitious cats October 25, there’s a great Sunday Session courtesy of Treasure Road, Blackhart Strangelove, Filthy who will simply rock up on the night. This night is Mono, and Keith Johns. Doors open 6-10pm and hosted by Justin Walshe – 0408 755 233. Tuesday, October 27, catch Nomoowolf Downs, Prita And entry is $5.

The Perfect Strangers, and Sean Brown And The Red Lights. Entry is $5 from 8pm. Wednesday, October JB O’REILLY’S Tonight, Thursday, October 22, catch The Murder 28, the Fremantle Blues And Roots Club presents Mouse Blues Band from 8.30pm and grab a curry- Blow (The Groovesmiths), Leah Miche, and Matt and-pint for $15. Friday, October 23, The Healys Cal. Entry is $10 / $5 for members from 8pm.

A BONE TO PICK

Having already forged a solo career, Selk Hastings has now focused her attention on the band thing, enlisting Hugh Veldon, Corey and Shane Osboine, and Sarah Norton to form Selk Hastings And The Bone Singers. You can catch the new five-piece at their first two shows: Friday, October 30, at the Norfolk Basement (with Fall Electric); and Friday, November 6, at The Hydey (with The Painkillers and The Floors).

The Veescars

THEY LOVE LUCY Selk Hastings And The Bone Singers

INNER SPACE

Devilles Pad is celebrating Halloween in fitting style on Friday, October 30, with Invasion Of The Space Mutants – a night of rockin’ fun courtesy of Day Of The Dead, The Kreepy Kreeps, and Rough Housers. Doors open 5pm, and the door charge of $10 kicks in from 8pm onwards.

INNER CITY

Once they get back from playing New York’s CMJ Music Marathon, Capital City will launch their new album Keep It Stupid, Sucker at Amplifier Bar on Saturday, October 31, with support from The Scotch Of Saint James, Shakeup, and Emperors.

Tickets are available through Heatseeker, Moshtix, Planet, Mills, and Star. More on that next week.

The Veescars are amped up to launch their debut EP, Lucy, at The Civic Hotel on Friday, November 6, with aid from amigos Blackmilk, Split Seconds, and Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill. Entry to the show will be $10 / $15 with an EP from 8pm. Stay tuned for more.

The Fags doing the live thing, and Jay Marriott and Laith Tyranny doing the DJ thing.

SWANNING AROUND

On Wednesday, October 28, the Swan Basement will host the epic lineup of SunFish, Alby, Katie J White, Xave Brown, Alkaline Earth, Tropical Rejection, and Minute 36. Entry is $8 from 8pm.

ASTRO, BOY

Astro play two gigs this weekend, starting 8pm tonight, Thursday, October 22, at Double Lucky in Leederville. On Sunday, October 25, they take over JB O’Reilly’s from 6pm. Free entry to both.

SET TO GO

Kim Williams and Pascal Bartolone debut their new band, The Honey Set, at Tiger Tiger Coffee Bar (Murray Street, Perth) on Friday, October 23.

FasterLouder are celebrating their fifth birthday The love begins at 7.45pm sharp, and entry is on Thursday, November 5, at the Rocket free.

Room. The Devil Rides Out, The Spitfires, zxspecky, Ashoka, and DJ Carlos provide the entertainment, which kicks off at 8pm. Entry is TOMAS TOMAS by gold coin donation, with proceeds going to Electro-disco showman Tomás Ford feels like he’s pretty much done with 2009. He’s had a Movember. Nice. huge year, taking in three national tours, a WAMi Award win, performances at all kinds of festivals BANGERS AND MASH The Chevelles will see 2009 out a little early, and a successful CD release, and on Friday, performing their last show for the year as part October 23, he’ll play his last live show of the of Monster Mash, at Mojo’s on Saturday, October year to help launch Cut And Paste 8, alongside 31. Joining them will be The Jayco Brothers and Brash And Sassy, Shock One, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, Mile End, and Massiv Trav. For more Brodie Owen. Entry is $10 from 8pm. information, music downloads and his blog, head to tomasford.com.

NUMBER 5 IS ALIVE

WALKING ON THE MOON

The Moon Café has more live music this week, with Andrew Weir doing his thing from 8pm on THREE’S COMPANY Sunday, October 25; and Jordi James, Jason Ayers, Heat Three of The Foundry Band Comp kicks off and Goodnight Tiger Going Solo on Wednesday, from 8pm Wednesday, October 28, with Diode, The Frighteners, Reaper’s Riddle, Hostile Little October 28, from 8pm. Free entry to both.

Face, and Head Full Of Steam battling it out.

Good luck to all.

CREATURE FEATURE

Boom! Bap! Pow! Felicity Groom, Simone and Girlfunkle, and Trent Williams perform at Little Creatures Loft from 8pm Friday, October 23.

Entry is $8.

SMOKE SIGNALS

Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke hit Amplifier on Saturday, October 24, where they will join The Silents, Red Shoes Boy, and Atlas Mountains from 8pm. $15 entry.

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JEFF MARTIN & THE ARMADA Kitchen Tea

Jeff Martin & The Armada perform special acoustic shows at the Fly By Night Club this Saturday, October 24, and the Indi Bar on Sunday, October 25. BOB GORDON has a chat with Jeff Martin.

People have seen you in various acoustic flavours in recent years, how is this more epic and luscious?

(Laughs) Well basically it doesn’t get more epic and luscious than this. What the three of us are doing, right now, is climbing an incredible mountain, with each plateau that we’re reaching. I’m using everything. We might as well at the end of this show come out with the kitchen sink and put it in the middle of the stage.

I’m sure you’d be able to find a way to play it in E-flat…

That’s right But it would be like an Indian kitchen sink (laughs). But it’s all my instruments, that I’ve had stored in different parts of the world, from The Tea Party days and all that. It’s all here now. So it’s just such a rewarding challenge, what this whole tour’s going to be, because this is like true, top-shelf musicianship. Jay (Cortez, bass) and I have been preparing for Wayne’s (Sheehy, drums) arrival, just getting all the instruments tuned and restrung and everything like that. Then when we started making sounds...

What we’re going to be doing is Armada and Tea Party material, but the way that we’re presenting this songs is say like The River from the first Tea Party album - that song is based on based loosely on a melody I heard from a very old Persian classical piece. So what we’ve done is using instruments from let’s say Iran, we’ve redone The River but put it smackdab in the middle of Tehran. So that’s the vibe with this whole tour, it’s definitely the most ambitious thing I’ve ever done. I would place it above even the symphony tour that The Tea Party did back in the late ‘90s. This is the one.

So obviously beyond that of the Toronto Tabla Ensemble tour of a couple years back as well?

Beyond the tabla one too, because that tour was very rewarding, but this is just basically three men being professional schizophrenics (laughs). There’s just so much going on. I just wish we could get on a flatbed truck with loudspeakers and just go all around Australia and make sure that everyone and their fucking dog comes and sees this concert… including musicians. I have all the respect in the world for a lot of musicians, but if you want to see the real deal, come to this show.

So has Jay become versed on various other instruments, like those crazy, kooky ones that you may or may not have stolen at gunpoint from gypsies?

(Laughs) Well Jay over the last week has really become almost a master at this instrument called the santoor, which is a hammer dulcimer from India. He’s doing his own thing on it because this instrument’s meant to be played with wooden hammers and Mr Cortez is playing them with cocktail spoons (laughs). And it sounds amazing!

I have one as well, tuned in a totally different key, and some point in the show we’ll be doing duelling santoors, while Wayne’s just going insane on a percussion kit that is twice

Jeff Martin

the size of two drummers and their kits.

Do you feel like you don’t have to draw the line now between electric and acoustic – you have the power of both?

I think so, yeah. What I’m trying to do with everything that this band and how it’s trying to present itself is - whether it’s the band or just me – is that it truly has to be an Armada.

We’re firing from all points, everything we have we’re going to let it go. This is the one thing we haven’t presented yet. There are so many ways that the band can present itself but this is the one is the most challenging. If we pull it off… if we pull it off – it’s going to be one of those things where you walk towards that stage with an incredible amount of trepidation – but if we walk off that stage having pulled this concert off it will be one of the most rewarding feelings of my career.

There’s suitably lots of dates on this Australian tour…

A lot of dates, yeah. Not at all of them can we do this type of show, so it has to be venues that are the equivalent size of the Fly (Sunday’s Indi Bar show is the scaled down affair).

In Sydney we’re doing two nights at this place called Notes and we’ve got a five-camera shoot coming in for a DVD. There’s more gear for this acoustic tour than there was for the last electric Armada tour.

What’s the next chapter look like?

I spent two weeks in Byron, in a place that I like to use to write. When I was there I came up with six new songs, sketches for the next Armada record. It’s definitely getting stronger. The music is getting more confident.

I think that this tour and what we’re going to pull off on it will definitely be a big influence on the sounds and direction of the next Armada record as well.

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THIS WEEK

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS October 31

DAYLIGHT

October 22 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury October 23 Hyde Park Hotel

LORD

October 23 Amplifier October 24 Rocket Room

BREAK EVEN / IN TRENCHES

October 23 YMCA HQ October 24 Hyde Park Hotel October 25 Eaton Community College

NICK OLIVERI

October 23 Settlers Tavern, Margaret River October 24 Norfolk Basement

YORK JAZZ AND SOUL FESTIVAL

DON WALKER AND THE LUCKY STRIKES October 30-November 1 GOMEZ October 31-November 1 HARD ONS October 31-November 1 SETH SENTRY October 31 T.PAIN October 31 ARCH ENEMY / SUFFOCATION / WINDS OF PLAGUE November 1 NORTHBRIDGE FESTIVAL (Kram, Van She, Cassette Kids, Downsyde, End Of Fashion, Blue Shaddy and more) November 1-8 WINDS OF PLAGUE November 3-4 CALLING ALL CARS/ AFTER THE FALL November 4-8 STEVE KILBEY November 5-7

October 23-25 Masonic Hall/ Town Hall, York

BIRDS OF TOKYO November 6

WESTDALE ROCK (Living End, Spiderbait, Mammal, Dave Hole, Abbe May and the Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pneumonia, Kill Devil Hills, Hells Bells)

JOSH PYKE November 6

October 24 Westdale Rock Site

JEFF MARTIN AND THE ARMADA (Acoustic) October 24 Fly By Night October 25 Indi Bar

MUNDY

October 25 Fly By Night

COMING UP YOU AM I October 29-30

BRITNEY SPEARS November 6-7 GOLD KIDS / GHOST TOWN November 7-8 A DAY ON THE GREEN (Kasey Chambers, Shane Nicholson, The Whitlams, James Reyne, Ross Wilson, Dragon) November 8 RAHZEL November 12 BUDGIE / PHIL EMMANUEL November 11-12 PHRASE November 12-14 SARAH BLASKO November 12-15 IAN MOSS November 13-14 THE SUNPILOTS November 13-14 50 LIONS/ TRAPPED UNDER ICE November 14-15

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Saturday October 24

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Aaagh Bats, The Tumblers, Lummix.

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POLAR BEAR CLUB / BREAKEVEN / THE GIFTHORSE January 27-28 AUSTRALIAN ROCK SYMPHONY January 30, 2010 BIG DAY OUT (Muse, Powderfinger, Lily Allen, Eskimo Joe, Groove Armada, Ladyhawke, The Mars Volta, Dizzee Rascal, Karnivool, Peaches, The Temper Trap, Kasbian, Midnight Juggernauts) January 31, 2010

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ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Freo) Arrival SAIL & ANCHOR Easy Tigers SETTLERS TAVERN Nick Oliveri Acoustic SLUG + HARE Christian Thompson SPICE LOUNGE Timeless SWAN LOUNGE Pins And Ladles Hanna Osman Sean Corlson Richard Lane SWAN BASEMENT Helix To The Sun Seraphyn Rare Shadow Artillery Road SWINGING PIG Spritzer THE BURRENDAH Keith McDonald THE DEEN Clayton Bolger Slim Jim And The Phatts THE EASTERN MIDLAND Bill Chidgzey THE GATE Mike Nayar THE PRIORY Chris Murphy And The Murphys THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Pulse THE VIC Nat Ripepi THE VICTORIA HOTEL (Collie) Lips McConague TIGER TIGER COFFEE BAR The Honey Set VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Ivan Ribic UNIVERSAL Retriofit GTA UWA Kristen Arnott WATERFORD TARVEN Bogan Bingo WOODVALE TAVERN Cherry YMCA HQ Break Even In Trenches Anime Fire Blkout Here We Ghost

SATURDAY 24.10 AMPLIFIER Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke The Silents Red Shoes Boy The Atlas Mountains BALMORAL The Other Guys BAR 120 Flyte BAR ORIENT Better Days BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Chris Murphy BENNYS Housequake BLACK BETTY’S Red Star CARLISLE HOTEL Free Radicals CLANCY’S Jordie James Grace Barbe Matt Gresham Toby

COLONIAL BREWERY Trent Williams (evening) DEVILLES PAD Boom! Bap! Pow ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Timeout ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB James Flynn With Strings Cristal Phillips ESS BAR Gun Shy Romeos FENIANS Shanks Pony FLOREAT TAVERN Damien Thornber And The Orphans The Blue Finish FITZGERALD’S (Bunbury) Skinny Lane FLYING SCOTSMAN Loads FOUNDRY Spritzer FORRESTFEILD TAVERN Michael Power GLENGARY TAVERN Wasted Youth GREENWOOD HOTEL Midnight Rambler HYDEY (Frontroom) Michael Strong And The Ghost Anyway CD launch The City Watch Mrs Henry Justin Walshe HYDEY (Backroom) Break Even In Trenches Battletruk Into The Sea So, Night Owl HIGH WYCOMBE King Karaoke IMPACT BAR Freeform INDI BAR Gerard Maunick INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Mike Vee JB O’REILLY’S Brown Sugar KATANNING SHOW Crave KULCHA Rusichi KINGSLY TAVERN Tall Stories MASH BREWERY Alex Lewinski MASH BREWREY (Bunbury) Trent Williams METROS (Freo) Lady Penelope MOON AND SIXPENCE Bar Code MOONDYNE JOES Murder Mouse Blues MT HENRY In The Groove MULLALOO BEACH HOTEL Timewarp MUSTANG The Continentals The Damien Cripps Band NORFOLK BASEMENT Nick Oliveri NEWPORT Gravity OLD BAILEY TAVERN Decoy PADDY MAGUIRES Polka Dots Rocket

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Voyager, Friday at Amplifier PADDO Cheeky Monkeys PARAMOUNT Felix PLAYER’S BAR (Mandurah) 3 Corner Jack PUBLICAN BAR Jazz With Quench RAILWAY HOTEL Satan Himself Aaagh Bats The Tumblers RAVENSWOOD HOTEL Kokomo RIVERBANK WINERY Peppermint Jazz Duo ROCKET ROOM Lord Psychonaut Neverborn Empires Laid Waste Kickstart ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Freo) Countdown ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Bravo Inferno CD launch College Fall Long Gone Midnight My Mad Flow SAIL AND ANCHOR Howie Morgan Project SALT ON THE BEACH Polka Dots SETTLERS TAVERN Lloyd Spiegel SPICE LOUNGE Going Duo STAMFORD ARMS Blue Hornet SUBIACO HOTEL Off The Record SWAN LOUNGE Luke Dux Salvage Diver Ruby Boots SWAN BASEMENT Richard Parker Mathematrixx Dillip And The Davs Progress Inn Ayanaki Matty Moon SWAN YATCH CLUB Dom Zurzolo SWINGING PIG Zenburger THE BOAT Lady Penelope THE COURT Pink Corduory THE DEEN Cherry THE EASTERN Men And Their Sheds THE GATE Retriofit THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Huge THE VICTORIA HOTEL (Collie) Lips McConague THE WANNEROO Tod Woodward UNIVERSAL Soul Corp VIC PARK HOTEL Festivus UNIVERSAL Oak Tree Way Soul Corp WHALE AND ALE J Babies WOODVALE TAVERN Renegade

Prita And The Perfect Strangers, Tuesday at Mojo’s

WEST COAST BLUES AND ROOTS CLUB Jam Night

SUNDAY 25.10 AMPLIFIER The Ataris Stealing O’Neal Grim Fandango BALLYS BAR Damien Cripps BALMORAL Karin Page (duo) BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Benjamin Glynn BROKEN HILL One Perfect Day CLANCYS (Freo) Pascale Rusty Pinto Charlie Brown Brass Band Zydecats COMO HOTEL Chris Murphy COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Tourist DONGARA TAVERN Lips McConague EASTERN MIDLAND Steve And Ben EATON COMMUNITY COLLEGE Break Even In Trenches Foundations Curtains ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Dennis Frolov Quartet Grace Woodroofe FORRESTFIELD TAVERN Michael Power FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE The Autumn Isles GOSNELLS HOTEL Chris Gibbs HIGH ROAD HOTEL James Wilson HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL James Wilson HILTON PARK BOWLING CLUB Jane Germain And The Yahoos HYDEY (Front Bar) The Surefire Midnights INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Retriofit Shawne And Luc INDI BAR Jeff Martin JB O’REILLY’S The Orphans Ramblin Van Walker KALAMUNDA ZIG ZAG FESTIVAL Fat Jackal Grudge Baby LAKERS TAVERN Mike Nayar LUXE BAR Boom! Bap! Pow! MASH BREWERY Prita MOJO’S Cheer To The Echo Helen Shanahan Sugarpuss Alecducak MOON Andrew Weir MOON AND SIXPENCE OTT Munich Swing MUSTANG Peter Busher And The Lone Rangers

NEWPORT The Blue Finish Ryan Webb Duo Helen Shanahan PADDO Gun Shy Romeos PADDY HANNANS Polka Dots PUBLICAN BAR Open Mic ROSEMOUNT Open Mic Night RAILWAY HOTEL Treasure Road Blackhart Strangelove Filthy Mono Keith Johns RAVENSWOOD HOTEL Chill Factor ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Dublin Rogues ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene SALT ON THE BEACH Rocket SETTLERS TAVERN (Margaret River) Rory Ellis SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Rocket SOVERIGN ARMS Ivan Ribic SPICE LOUNGE Quinten Going STAMFORD ARMS Bill Chidgzey SWAN BASEMENT Moustache Cape Town Lullaby Lucy Peach Crysanthem SWAN LOUNGE Kizzy Swoop Swoop Siobny Ben Andrews SWINGING PIG 2 Tenors THE BOAT Polka Dots THE COURT Timeout THE EASTERN Steve And Ben THE GATE Topkats THE SAINT Howie Morgan Project THE SHED Zenburger THE WANNEROO Chris Gibbs THE WEMBLEY Pow! Funkybottoms Scotty Wilkins VIC PARK HOTEL Clayton Bolger WOODVALE TAVERN Cherry Acoustic UNIVERSAL Retriofit

MONDAY 26.10 ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Chamber Jam BAR ORIENT James Wilson ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Chamber Jam INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Dan The Audition MOJO’S Open Mic ROSEMOUNT Bada Bingo

Book Of Lilith, Friday at The Railway

THE DEEN Plastic Max And The Token Gesture SETTLERS TAVERN Open Mic

TUESDAY 27.10 BAR ORIENT Mike Nayar COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Scapegoats ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jamie Oehlers Quartet FENIANS James Wilson FLOREAT HOTEL Open Mic Night IMPACT BAR Open Mic Night LLAMA BAR Karin MOJO’S Nomoowolf Downs Prita And The Perfect Strangers Sean Brown And The Red Lights SPICE LOUNGE Francis Chan THE SWINGING PIG Joys Open Mic

WEDNESDAY 28.10 BAR 120 Felix BLACK BETTY’S Side Fx DAVILAK TAVERN Open Mic ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jamie Oehlers Quartet FENIANS Cranky FOUNDRY Diode The Frighteners Reaper’s Riddle Hostile Little Face Head Full Of Steam HYDEY The Dreggs Carbon Pig Brown IMPACT BAR James Wilson

INDI BAR The Sunshine Brothers JB O’REILLY’S Open Irish Session LLAMA BAR One Island East Sweetest Taboo LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan MOJO’S Blow Leah Miche Matt Cal MUSTANG Circus PADDO Comic Effect PADDY HANNANS Murphy’s Lore With Courtney Murphy PUBLICAN BAR Tunesmiths ROSEMOUNT (Main Room) Sean Brown And The Red Lights Jukebox Zombies The Ginger Ales The Tumblers ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Freo) Better Days ROSIE O’GRADY’s (Northbridge) David Fyffe SETTLERS TAVERN Open Mic Night Brett Wilson SPICE LOUNGE Sue Bluck Adam Robinson SWAN LOUNGE Minute 36 Tropical Rejection Akaline Earth Xave Brown Katie White Alby Sun Fish STAMFORD ARMS Joys Open Mic THE MOON CAFÉ Jordi James Jason Ayers Goodnight Tiger UNIVERSAL Strutt Ses Seyer

Bravo Inferno, Saturday at Rosemount

BRAVO INFERNO CHASING KNIVES – DEBUT ALBUM LAUNCH WITH

COLLEGE FALL LONG GONE MIDNIGHT MY MAD FLOW

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SWAMP > Cam Avery (Red Shoes Boy) hosts a Blues packed jam night with special guest bands and performers. Doors 8pm.

23rd OCT.

Rock’n Roots with the amazing Matt Gresham + special guests. Doors 8pm. Be Early.

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LIVE! Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator) plus some very special guests.

Tix from the usual outlets. Doors 8pm.

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artists, but also provided the local community with entertainment and fun.

“VOW is committed to providing these same communities with music-educational workshops on a yearly basis, so as to inspire, sustain and develop the talents of young Aboriginal children in these communities on a long term basis” says Thornber. “What VOW does, is provide remote and rural Western Australia with yearly access to a genre of professional musicians, instruments and sounds, where the focus is on music-education and entertainment” This one is straight from the horse’s mouth.

The 2009 Desert Feet Tour will include Remote and rural Western Australia get professional musicians, namely Moana Dreaming, ready for the 2009 Desert Feet Tour …

Bryte MC, Damien Thornber And The Orphans, “The 2009 Desert Feet Tour is an initiative and a guest performance from Perth’s favourite of VOW” says Damien Thornber (Chairperson, VOW upcoming blues, roots and reggae artist, Matt Educational Services Incorporated), “our aim is to Gresham. host music-educational workshops and concerts Thornber said: “With the help of our in remote Aboriginal Communities and rural sponsors, this year VOW is able to maintain its towns throughout Western Australia on a yearly original seven communities and is able to include basis.” another seven Aboriginal communities (Jigalong; In 2008, VOW hosted its first tour Punmu; One Arm Point; Newman; Nookanbah; throughout remote Western Australia covering Yakanarra; and Bayulu) in their 2009 tour of musicseven Aboriginal communities, interacting with educational learning and entertainment.” approximately 2,500 school children over 14 days.

“From October-November 2, over 5,000 Feedback from this tour showed there was an school children living in rural and remote Western unmet demand for music-education workshops Australia will take part in music-educational in remote communities that gave an insight into opportunities over 20 days,” says Thornber. “How future career opportunities for aspiring young cool is that.”

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