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Hailing from Maryland, Clutch have challenged the boundaries of rock n’ roll since 1991, and in 2009, the band pleased fans with not one, not two, but three releases following the launch of their own record label, Weather Maker. In 2010, Clutch will head down under to join Jane’s Addiction, Placebo, AFI and Faith No More at the Soundwave Festival, and while they’re down under, they’ll also headline their own tour, that will see the band make the trek to Perth for the first time ever. Catch Clutch with support from The Devil Rides Out playing at Amplifier on Tuesday, March 2; and at the Soundwave Festival at Steel Blue Oval on Monday, March 1. Tickets through Moshtix and soundwavefestival.com.

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LET THE SOUND ABOUND

If you’re serious about music and having a good time, you won’t want to miss out on RTRFM’s Seriously Sound System, a massive dance event held in the leafy surrounds of Hyde Park. Taking place on Sunday, December 20, from midday ’til 10pm, SSS will see sets from soul-hoppers The Typhoons, funk fanatics the Askari Afrobeat Orchestra, Naik, The Brow Horn Orchestra, MC Mathas and The Transients. On the DJ front, Dan the Man, Rok Riley, Micah, Ben Mac, Diger Rokwell, Sardi, Declan, Dr Gonzo, Mama Cass and Rex Monsoon will get behind the decks to keep the party going into the cool evening. Get your tickets before Friday, November 20, to take advantage of the early-bird ticket specials, with tickets available at RTRFM, Planet, Mills, 78 Records and on the door, if available.

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A MARVELOUS NIGHT FOR SOME MOONLIGHT

With summer descending on Perth, the staff at the Ford Fiesta Moonlight Cinema at Kings Park and Botanic Garden are gearing up for another season of al-fresco cinema. To open to 2009/2010 program, a screening of Nowhere Boy will take place on Tuesday, November 24, telling the story of John Lennon’s childhood. Other films that will be screened over summer include Beautiful Kate, Top Gun, Inglorious Basterds, New Moon, Grease, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, ensuring film fans from a variety of genres can get in on the joy of a moonlit picnic and movie. For the full list of what’s screening and when, check out moonlight.com.au.

SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE

The world’s first ever Idol, Kelly Clarkson, is preparing to head down under following the release of her latest musical offering, All I Ever Wanted. This album is Clarkson’s fourth, with the singer revealing her new material is more dancier than ever before, ensuring that her shows will be upbeat and fun when she hits Aussie shores. Fans can catch Clarkson play at Challenge Stadium in Perth on Thursday, April 22, 2010. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday, November 12, from Ticketmaster.

PARADISE ON NEW YEAR’S DAY

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All female African/Australian hip hop crew don’t come around that often, so when they do, and when they get the endorsement of Canadian production MC heavyweights South Rakkas Crew, you sit up and pay attention! Hailing from Uganda and Belize, Kween G and Belizean Bombshell together make Sydney dance/hip hop outfit KillaQueenz. Dishing up sassy girl power in the vein of Yo Majesty, Peaches and M.I.A., KillaQueenz’ debut album, Sistarhood, was partially produced by South Rakkas Crew, and has received a tonne of airplay already on Triple J, as well as winning Album Of The Week in east coast street press The Brag. As a live outfit, they’ve played support for the likes of Lady Gaga and Bone Thugs N Harmony, and now they’re set to bring their throbbing beats and infectious rhymes to Perth. Check out these dynamite dames on Friday, December 4, at the Rosemount in North Perth, supported by Porsha Laine, Mathas and DJ Armee. Otherwise catch them at Mojo’s on Friday, December 5, or the Indi Bar in Scarborough on Sunday, December 6, with support at both shows care of Porsha Laine and DJ Armee. Tickets to all shows $15 plus booking fee from Moshtix on 1300 438 849 or at www. moshtix.com.au, or through Heatseeker at www. heatseeker.com.au. Tickets $20 on the door if available.

HENRY’S ROLLIN’

As the Swan River laps on the shore at Burswood on New Year’s Day, punters will head in droves to the pristine parklands for Perth’s most decadent event, Club Paradiso. 2010 will mark the second year Club Paradiso will take place, with a huge lineup including Sweden’s globe-trotting DJ, Sebastian Ingrosso. Also on the bill is Dirty South, Zelimir, Mel B vs Maxwell, Darren Briais, Jus Haus, Rob Sharp, Tank Top, Mind Electric, Moe Steez and Master Dash, Cool Hand Luke and plenty more. Limited early bird tickets are on sale now through Moshtix and In The Mix.

It might not be known to most casual fans of the group, but Henry Padovani, was the founding member/guitarist of The Police, making way for Andy Summers in 1977. A lifetime creative forece and raconteur, Padovani is touring Australia to present, Rock and Roll of Corse/ a new documentary based around his life. A special screening/Q+A of Rock’n’roll Of Corse happens on Saturday, November 7, from 4pm at Luna on SX. On Sunday, November 8, Padovani will perform a live concert at Kulcha, doors open at 7.30pm. Door sales $30, pre-sale $25, Kulcha members get in for $20

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INHALE THE FUMES

Cover: The Dirty Three play at the 2010 Perth International Arts Festival. See pages 10 and 13 for more details. Salt cover: Rahzel plays The Rosemount on Thursday, November 12

The Fumes

Recently returned from performances at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City,The Fumes bring their distinct brand of blues-infused rock to Australian capital cities in December in support of their recent album release Sundancer. Known for their electrifying and raw live blues sets, The Fumes have played an integral part of the Australian live music circuit since they burst onto the scene in 2004, after which time it didn’t take them long to swipe the MusicOz Award for Blues Artist Of The Year in 2005. Since then, they’ve gigged at over 25 major music festivals including Woodford, Falls, Bluesfest and the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, and have supported acts like Queens Of The Stone Age. Get smokin’ with The Fumes when they hit the Indi Bar in Scarborough on Thursday, December 3, The Royal Palms Resort in Busselton on Friday, December 4, Amplifier on Saturday, December 5 and the Norfolk Basement in Fremantle on Sunday, December 6. All tickets $16 plus booking fee through www.heatseeker.com.au or www.moshtix.com.au, or $20 on the door if available.

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The opening of the Northbridge Piazza was a great step towards making Northbridge a safer, more family-friendly environment, and I hope other sandgropers appreciate the effort of those who pushed for the project. I look forward to taking to the streets this weekend for free music and a good time – I just hope everything goes down without an ugly incident! Buck up Perth!

Dear X-Press, It baffles me that the Melbourne Cup really is the race that stops the nation. Why do we make such a big deal over one bloody horse race?! I can see the allure of the Melbourne Cup racing day if you’re a Melbournite but why do we in Perth give a shit? Racing season is basically an excuse for cashed-up-bogans to spend their cash on gaudy neon suits, tacky fascinators, fake tan, fake nails, and spend a fortune on booze and betting – so why do we celebrate it every year with such vigour? In my opinion, horse-racing is a dangerous and archaic sport for both jockey and horse, and hence, I don’t see why everyone in Australia gets behind it, even if it’s just for one day.

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Why do some Australians insist on ‘celebrating’ Halloween? I had three kids knock on my door on Saturday night, and when I opened it, the little buggers yelled ‘trick or treat’, but they weren’t even wearing costumes! If people are going to get into the spirit of Halloween, at least put some fricking effort in to it – costumes are what Halloween is all about! I resent that these kids knocked on my door in the first place but they compounded my annoyance even further by expecting to get lollies from strangers without even donning a costume. It’s fun to get dressed up and all, but since when do Australians want strangers knocking on their doors asking for lollies? Halloween is a commercial American tradition that Australia could do without. Buy your own lollies you stingy kids, don’t you youngins know we’re in the middle of a global financial crisis?!

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Pubs and clubs aren’t the safest; most bouncers are racist, failing that, they are of ethnicity, something we fear, in the somewhat backwards Perth city. Disregard the mental scars of those rally car coloured, dancing biscuits you just ate and realize the potential Perth has. Not only are we isolated, but we are violated. Human and civil rights are left hiding in the shadow cabinet, and standing over us Chris C is a CCTV TRG Police baton magnet. In ending, Menora Northbridge is safe. Get over it.

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Ford Fiesta Moonlight Cinema will light up the big screen at Perth’s Synergy Parkland in Kings Park and Botanic this summer, for 16 glorious weeks of new release blockbusters, classic, art house and family movies. The summer season runs from Tuesday, November 24, ’til Thursday, March 4, so gather a group of friends and relax with a picnic as the sun goes down and the screen lights up. Moonlight Cinemas are giving away 15 double passes to the opening night of Ford Fiesta Moonlight Cinemas on Tuesday, November 24, for the Perth premiere of the new movie about the life of John Lennon, Nowhere Boy.

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VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR SOUTHBOUND 2010! Want to experience WA’s iconic music festival from behind the scenes? Well you can! We have various vacancies for paid and volunteer roles. Maybe you’ve been dreaming of becoming an Ecobound Warrior? Then join the Green Team and assist with on site recycling and spreading the Green Team Vibe. Or maybe you can you see yourself welcoming patrons at the gate; managing the mammoth cloakroom; selling the latest sounds from Southbound artists; or do you see yourself as one of the cool campsite crew; or maybe helping set up the site before the festival begins is more your thing; or if Arts is your passion we need help there too!! Free on site camping is available for staff over 18 years, who volunteer to work 2 or more shifts over the 3 day period, so get your crew together and come have an experience of a lifetime! Please note Volunteers must do a minimum of two by 8 hour shifts over two consecutive days to receive entry/ticket to festival. You must be 18+ to work at our events. ID checks will be conducted on successful applicants. TO REGISTER GO TO THE WEBSITE AND CLICK ON WORK

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CHRIS GIBBS When The Genres Talk

Chris Gibbs has been a wellknown musician in Perth for many years in bands such as F.U.L.L.,KingpinandHuge,plus a multitude of session work. He’s just released his first solo album, Little Empires, to be launched in acoustic mode tonight, Thursday, November 5, from 8pm at Double Lucky, with special guests Manni and MEXICO AT THE MOVIES Anthony Nieves. Ola! It’s that time of year when Luna Paradiso You’ve been a musician for many years now in various bands, did you intrinsically know what you wanted to do for your first solo album, or was there a lot of thought cast on it? I knew I wanted the album to represent and reflect what I love about music: variety. My favourite bands and albums are strong enough in composition and delivery to cross genres. That has always been my thing, I think I write in a very specific style, but I am not bound by any specific trend, current or otherwise. So, as a solo project, the slate was clean. As the songs started to evolve, the flavour of the album presented itself. Then the result and the intent feed off each other, it gets its own momentum. What flavoured the choice of material on it? You must have stockpiled songs a bit over the years, were a lot cast aside? My agent Frankie G suggested that the album have some acoustic material because live performances of my own work have been predominantly acoustic for the last few years. So the challenge became to record an album of electric and acoustic music and still have it all make sense. From that perspective, song choice was paramount. Some songs that I really love have been held back from this album as they tended to upset that delicate balance. There are still dozens that haven’t been recorded or performed yet, but I’ll get to them! In putting a debut solo LP after many years in band entities, what have you learnt about yourself (musician and otherwise)? I’ve learnt that when I am in complete control of the project, I tend to be more open to ideas. That was a strange and refreshing thing to find out. Because I knew that I had final say on everything, I didn’t need to be so protective of my vision, because there was never a chance that it would be taken from me. As a result I listened to the producer, Rob Agostini, the musicians on the recording, colleagues, and friends much more objectively. There were no band politics to contend with, so the only agenda to push was my own. Musically I learned that I am able to push myself as hard or harder than I have pushed bandmates in the past. They’ll be happy to hear that! I was a little concerned that taking on the whole project and recording most of it myself would take some pressure off, but if anything I was more strict and demanding than ever before, and that was good to know. I didn’t want to be sitting around for years saying, ‘oh yeah, I’m making an album...’. What are your plans to support the release? Well the little empire is slowly growing! After so many years of making contacts, it’s looking good for visits to the East Coast, the UK and Europe in the near future. And of course closer to home I’ll be stepping up the live appearances with a full electric band rather than the acoustic solo spots I have been promoting my songs with up until now. My work is available for the first time online through CD Baby and I’m looking forward to promoting the album as more than just the physical CD. There’s so much to do, and so much more to learn even after such a long career in music! That’s what I love about it, there’s always something new for me to do. _BOB GORDON

pulls out the big smokin’ guns and celebrates all things Mexico, with the launch of the 4th edition of the Hola Mexico Film Festival, which started as the smallest foreign film festival in the country, and now takes its screenings as far as Los Angeles, Chicago and NY! The programme for this year’s Hola festival brings the best of Mexico to the screen. On offer on opening night is the multi-awardwinning film Sin Nombre, an epic dramatic thriller from director Cary Fukunaga, winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2009 ‘Best Director’ award. Join Luna on Thursday, December 10 for a screening of the film, followed by an after party upstairs at Oliver’s On James, with refreshments and entertainment (all tickets to the opening are $40 and will be on sale soon from lunapalace. com.au). There’s also plenty of raunchy comedies, like Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas (Sex, Shame and Tears) a flick from 1999 that still stands as one of Mexico’s biggest box office hits, as well as Humberto Hinojos’ entertaining and unique film Oveja Negra (The Black Sheep). Tickets to the Hola Mexico Film Festival on sale soon from the Cinema Paradiso box office and online from lunapalace.com. au. Check out the full Hola programme at www.holamexicoff.com(.)

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WINNING COMPANY

The Perth Theatre Company has proved time and time again why they’re regarded as one of WA’s best production companies, and at the tenth annual Perth Theatre Trust Equity Guild Awards they were rewarded for their work, with 13 nominations across nine categories. Congratulations to PTC, who ended up taking out seven awards, including the Geoff Gibb Best Newcomer Award, Best Supporting Actor (Female), Best Actor (Female), Best Supporting Actor (Male) and Best Actor (Male). To get a taste of PTC award-winning skills, make your way DownStairs at the Maj for An Oak Tree, which runs ’til Saturday, December 5. For a full list of award recipients and nominees head online to equityguild.org.au(.)

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LOVELY LADIES ON THE GREEN

Grammy award-winning pianist and singer Diana Krall, Madeleine Peyroux and Melody Gardot, all on the same stage, all on the same night? It might sound too heavenly to be true, but we’re not pulling your leg, merely informing you of the all-star cast that’s set to bill at An Evening On The Green next February. Accompanied by members of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Krall will perform many of her original recordings, as well as offerings from her twelfth album Quiet Nights, out next March. Krall’s appearance in Perth will be her first since 2005, since which she’s released four albums, produced and performed on Barbra Streisand’s new album, and toured extensively across the United States, Europe and UK. Joining the renowned jazz musician will be the sweet and soulful sounds of FrenchAmerican singer Madeleine Peyroux. Rounding out this phenomenal touring lineup is American jazz singer Melody Gardot. The girls perform on Tuesday, February 23, and now a second show on Wednesday, February 24, at the Kings Park Botanic Gardens. Tickets $119 plus booking fee from Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100). Licensed event, no BYO.

The Wardarnji Aboriginal Cultural Festival is gearing up to take place on the Fremantle Esplanade next weekend, giving us a chance to glimpse an insight into traditional Aboriginal culture. As well as performances of Middar, the traditional dance of Australia’s first people, there will be the opportunity to taste bush tucker, and hear stories and music from local Nyoongar people, as well as performances from the Yabu Band, Warangka, Boom! Bap! Pow!, The Old Flames Band, Wadumbah and more. On display will be arts and crafts, stalls and displays. The action kicks off on Saturday, November 14, from 2pm-7pm, on the Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle.

After kicking off 2009 with a huge tour of South East Asia, Japan and The US, Byron Bay quintet Parkway Drive spent the Northern Hemisphere summer gigging at some of the hugest music festivals in Europe. Now they’re back in Australia and busy promoting their new DVD (The DVD), which has already shot to #2 on the ARIA chart, bagging gold sales only a week after its release! To celebrate, the boys are back on the road – this time in our own homeland, with support from Break Even. Get yourself down to catch Parkway Drive perform live at the Albany PCYC on Thursday, December 17, or else head to the Naturaliste Community Centre Sports Stadium in Dunsborough on Friday, December 18, or Eaton Community College PAC Centre in Eaton on Saturday, December 19. They’ll also play on Sunday, December 20, at QE2 Centre in Geraldton. Tickets to all Parkway Drive shows available at www.resistrecords.com(.)

The Fremantle Festival kicks off in style next Friday night with the Duck and Cover Hop a very Freo event that mixes politics with pleasure and fancy dress! Billed as a fancy dress fundraiser for the campaign to stop uranium mining in WA, the 1950s themed ball will show just how old fashioned the nuclear industry is, and will have great time doing it! Featuring performances by the radiated girls from Sugar Blue Burlesque (pictured), with two bands Harry Deluxe and The Rough Housers and dance demos by the Swing Academy. There will be prizes galore and an opportunity to practice your duck and cover techniques with the dapper host 1950s styled newsreader, Ziggy Twit-owski. So travel back in time, dust off your cool threads and get crazy for a cause at the Duck and Cover Hop Fremantle’s first and finest retro radioactive ball; Friday, November 6, at the Fremantle Town Hall Tickets $30/$40 via 9420 7266.

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Grant Hart

HEAR THE HART

One third of the legendary Minneapolis trio Hüsker Dü, American punk icon Grant Hart played a crucial part in the burgeoning US underground hardcore scene in the early 1980s. His band, Hüsker Dü, garnered wide respect for their incessant touring and inventive, emotionally charged songwriting, which broke the mould of the then prevalent loud/fast/rules ethos of the punk scene. Since Hüsker Dü came to an end in 1987, Hart has pursued his music, releasing eclectic offerings like 1989’s Intolerance. Whilst label problems have prevented some of Hart’s finest work reaching a wider audience, Hart has recently emerged with Hot Wax, his first record in ten years. Recorded largely as a one man affair in his Montreal studio, Hot Wax is rich with psychedelic pop/rock soundscapes, and features guest appearances from members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion and Rank. Hart brings his live solo show to The Norfolk Basement in Fremantle on Friday, February 12, 2010. Tickets $33 plus booking fee from www.heatseeker.com.au, Mills and Planet Video. Don’t miss your chance to see this American punk icon in the flesh!

The Funk Club family is pleased to welcome songstress Cle Wootton to their clan, as the new lead singer for the popular Funk Club house band. Having kicked off her career at the tender age of 12 on kids’ TV show Ship To Shore, Cle moved on to Australian Idol, making it into the top 10. With a love of music, film and performing, Cle is bound to be a perfect fit for the band. To catch Cle and the Funk Club house band with support from Odette Mercy and her Soul Atomics, make your way to the Leederville Hotel this Friday, November 6, at 8pm.

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DANNI COLGAN The Beck’s Is Back

With the exit of Kristy Pinder to the Sydney International Arts Festival early this year, Danni Colgan had big shoes to fill when she took over the role of the Perth International Arts Festival’s Contemporary Culture Program Manager. However she comes to the role with an impressive resume. The Perth born-andraised music-lover and photographer (including a stint with X-Press Magazine in the late ’90s) spent the last five years in the UK gaining programming and producing experience with entities such as the London Jazz Festival, London Film Festival and London International Festival of Theatre. Her time with international music producers included mounting largescale jazz and world music productions at the renowned Barbican and Southbank Centres (including Jarvis Cocker’s 2007 Meltdown Festival in 2007 and Massive Attack’s 2008 Meltdown) and other venues throughout the UK. All of which adds up to another tasty Contemporary Music Program for 2010 at the Beck’s Music Box, as well as events at the Perth Concert Hall and the Astor Theatre.

Do you feel there is a kind of act that ‘works’ best at the Music Box? The venue lends itself to a party atmosphere like Breakestra playing on our opening night, then is as equally great for an intimate show such as comedian Josh Earl or the way we are presenting the iconic Marianne Faithfull. I think what works brilliantly at the Music Box is the great selection we are able to offer across the 23 nights, allowing people to come to their favourites and then take a chance on something that might be unknown to them but sounds fun.

What changes have been made to the venue for 2010? The venue is essentially the same, production-wise it seems like we’ve done good. There will of course be certain little touches to take it to its third year which are currently in the making.

Is there much of a gap between what the Beck’s Music Box is and how you’d like it to see it evolve? We can present an immense variety of work as we have this great structure and 23 nights, which I love. I do have plenty of ideas - big, small, By BOB GORDON Music Box-friendly and looking outside the box. I have touched on a lot of the ideas with this years’ You’ve taken up the role in time for the third program, the film projects at the Astor Series and season of the Beck’s Music Box, what’s it been Antony & The Johnsons performing with WASO, like to assume the mantle of Contemporary but I am excited to build on the 2010 program for Culture Program Manager? 2011. Well Beck’s Music Box certainly holds a special place in a lot of people’s summer Across the board, how do you feel about the calendar - I learnt that pretty fast, so there has line-up you’ve put together this year? been the odd daunting moment within the fun It’s feeling great actually – soul, rock ‘n’ of programming. But generally it’s been great, I roll, comedy, dance, world music, jazz – there are have always been a gig-goer and listen to music some amazing musicians and performers joining all the time. I also enjoy hearing what others are us in February. I could have filled twice as many listening to and seeing, so to be able to present nights but as will always be the case a couple of stand-out artists at such a loved venue has been fish had to get away but again that makes 2011 all a pleasure. the more exciting.

Breakestra, Saturday, February 6, Beck’s Music Box

Pivot, Thursday, February 18, Beck’s Music Box

Danni Colgan, Perth International Arts Festival’s Contemporary Culture Program Manager

Calexico, Friday, February 26, Beck’s Music Box

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Friday, February 19, Beck’s Music Box

British Sea Power, Wednesday, February 17, Beck’s Music Box and scoring Man of Aran at The Astor on Thursday, February 18

Josh Earl, Monday, February 15, Beck’s Music Box

Health, Saturday, February 27, Beck’s Music Box

Some of the acts are also doing film soundtracks at The Astor… what’s the thinking behind opening this angle up? The Astor is such a beautiful venue and I think this series will compliment it perfectly. I love the thought gone into projects such as these - the artist is often opening themselves to a new experience and challenge or pursuing an idea they’ve had years back. And being able to sit back in front of a film with a band performing in front of you and in front of the picture - it’s a visual and aural treat. The imagery of Man Of Aran, Last Hope’s surf films and Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests all have that beautiful exposed grain and texture Marianne Faithfull seems the consummate to them, likewise the artists present a beautiful artist for this kind of Festival… vulnerability within the music they are scoring. I’m really excited about Marianne’s show. Each performance is quite different but each is Easy Come Easy Go is a fantastic album so teamed captivating. with the seated intimate set up at the Music Box I think the night is going to be something What are the other gems - or perhaps surprises special. She is perfect for an arts festival with her - in the program that you’d dearly want people unique history and approach to music but I think to see? There’s plenty… Amadou & Mariam join the same of a lot of the artists we are presenting such as Antony, Dirty Three and newbies such us from Mali with their band - they are superstars as Health whose great story help make a great in Africa and championed by Coldplay, Damon Albarn, Manu Chao and the list goes on. Energyperformance. fuelled Californian noise boys, Health, their first Yo La Tengo and Calexico finally in Perth. That’s shows in Australia are sure to be great. New material from Pivot is definitely worth catching; gonna make a lotta indie kids happy innit? I hope so, I’m definitely happy. Every Yo The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have a great La Tengo show I’ve seen has been fantastic and a name and great album and British Sea Power who lot of fun. And Calexico have such a great sound. are presenting their mesmerising Man of Aran So on the back of Popular Songs and Carried to score at the Astor will also be playing the Music Dust they’re going to be some great Friday and Box - I’m sure they will live up to their live antics once out of the confines of the cinema. Saturday nights out. The Dirty Three are coming to perform their Ocean Songs album as originally performed for All Tomorrow’s Parties. Do you feel those sorts of showcase performances are important, especially in terms of focussing on Australian creative works? The Don’t Look Back series is fantastic for an audience to rediscover hidden gems and to keep you revisiting your record collection and it elevates the craft of the making of an album. So it’s great to be able to present the series in Australia and in particular see Australian artists perform their acclaimed albums here and abroad alongside their international contemporaries.

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THE DIRTY THREE Ocean’s 11 The Dirty Three return for a performance of their classic Ocean Songs album for the Perth International Arts Festival’s Beck’s Music Box on Thursday, February 11, 2010. BOB GORDON takes a walk downmemorylane,recounting an interview with violinist, Warren Ellis, upon the album’s release in April, 1998.

was fantastic, very much part of the recording.” Ocean Songs had a much softer edge to its predecessor, 1996’s Horse Stories, though it lacked nothing in its sense of dynamics. Ellis said the band wanted to get away from the more histrionic side of The Dirty Three to explore the possibilities of quieter textures. “We just found on other records that it was the quieter songs that, paradoxically, had the most dynamics within them,” he explained. “If you’re playing quietly you have room to move either up or down. You can go quieter or louder. But when you start off loud you can only go in one direction and that’s down. Unless you turn the volume up, then it’s louder, but in terms of dynamic or intensity it’s not doing anything. We wanted to make an album of beauty.” So while the inherent beauty within the After three intense and acclaimed years, the Dirty Three spent much of 1997 in separate album eventually gave birth to the oceanic theme, this writer wondered at the time what thoughts quarters, apart from the August recording in and stories were wrapped up in the songs? Chicago of Ocean Songs. “Well I don’t know,” Ellis said, a little “We kind of decided that we needed to take a break before we broke,” Warren Ellis hesitantly. “Some of the songs have something really relative; they’ve come out of something. explained in an interview with this writer in April, “But it’s not really pertinent anymore. 1998.“It had been extensive and intensive touring three years before that. Especially the two years It’s up to the people who listen to put their own since we left Australia and it’s been three years thing to it, really. The intention doesn’t really matter, since we’ve lived here. That had been an amazingly ultimately.” Indeed Ellis’ banter at Dirty Three intense and enriching experience and yeah, we fucking needed to break. So we made the decision shows over the years was often in the form of to stop there and hang up our boots for a while.” introductions that were merely suggestions of Even so, the members of The Dirty Three meanings, along with audience connections that had been as busy as ever. Ellis spent much of 1997 went hand-in-hand with the music. touring with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds as part of The Boatman’s Call tour – it was his first foray with the Bad Seeds in an association that continues to this day and has seen him assume the role of Cave’s head co-conspirator from Mick Harvey. The pair’s White Lunar album of soundtrack material was recently released and a new Grinderman LP is also pending (as is a new Dirty Three album) for 2010. At the time guitarist, Mick Turner, released his Tres Phantasma album and had toured with drummer, Jim White, as The Tren Brothers, both in Australia and Europe. As it turned out the time spent apart provided much to chew on and proved to be quite an influence when they met up to prepare Ocean Songs. “It definitely was,” Ellis recalled.“It made me really miss the band and miss playing, because it had been something that we’ve done six nights a week forever. I really miss that intensity of the shows and I missed my mates, you know? “It meant that when we got together we were refreshed. We did something really unusual where we actually sat down and rehearsed and wrote a record. Our stuff normally half falls together playing live and by the time we got to recording it we have a shape to it and the other half would be worked out in the studio. But we actually sat down for about two weeks in a rehearsal room and write a record.” At the time of Ocean Songs’ release, The Dirty Three, were in their first peak of acclaim and had begun to draw international applause for their incredibly evocative work. In the most beautifully apt way Ocean Songs conveyed a feeling of the sea, but it would seem that the tide came before the title. “We recorded two hours’ worth of music and we originally thought to release a double album,” Ellis said, “but then we pulled out these 10 songs. We had a couple of older songs in there that just seemed to sound like us a while back, you know? We wanted to put out all new material, basically. These 10 some to fit together, there was a shape to them, like a cohesion or something. “The thematic thing came after. We didn’t sit down to write a collection of songs about the sea. It just seemed to sort of imply that when we listened to it. It very much feels like a body of work.” Or indeed, a body of water. Ocean Songs was produced by Steve Albini, whose name seems forever glued to recollections of Nirvana or his own band, Big Black, but whose talent often revelled in other lush and diverse realms. “His approach with us was, ‘you’re making the record, go for it’,” Ellis explains. “He is a very varied man with what he does. That is actually what attracted us to him and the fact that his recordings sound unadulterated. That’s something we’ve always tried to achieve on our recordings, just to get the sound of the instruments, because what we’re using – drums, violin and semi-acoustic guitar, are very rich in their sounds, naturally. That’s what we’ve always tried to do on our recordings and it was a big reason for us approaching him. He

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The Dirty Three, 2009 Warren Ellis cover photography by Richard Sharman

In another conversation with Ellis recently, he remarked that although he’s always been a musician with his thoughts on future creativity and not on the past, the ATP performances thus far of Ocean Songs have provided a rare moment to embrace a previous work in totality (the full album was not performed in entirety in its ‘first’ life). Since 1998 life has changed in many ways, he has a wife and children, lives in France and now spurns alcohol, but he insists that as he has

always been fiery in his passion for music in any case this makes no difference to his connection with it. Or for that matter, the audience’s… “The best shows are when there’s an interaction with the audience,” he said, “when you feel like they’re a part of what’s going on. The audience plays a really important role. Their feedback is really important, whether it’s positive or negative.”

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BIRDS OF TOKYO Domestic Violins

Few bands achieve as much in a whole career as Birds Of Tokyo have in but a handful of years. Their latest and grandest ambition, The Broken Strings Tour, will see the band perform acoustically, backed by a string quartet and grand pianist, at the BurswoodTheatre on Friday, November 6. MIKE WAFER reports.

stars do when facing the monotony of the press barrage, Kenny, as always, looks on the bright side. “It’s a good thing man,” he says cheerily, “but I am definitely sick of talking about myself (laughs). I live with myself, y’know? It’s hard to keep coming up with different answers when there’s only really one,” he laughs. “But that’s the nature of this thing we do, and it has to be done.” Indeed it does, as – more or less – Ian Kenny is one of the most bankable singers in Australia, and between Birds fans, ’vool fans, and the giant overlap of both; everyone wants to talk to him about him… which would be a trick to put up with if you’re sick of talking about yourself, wouldn’t it. So we don’t talk about him in this interview. We talk about everything else instead. And it turns out that there has been With two hot properties simultaneously a hell of a lot going on in ‘everything else’ on his hands, Ian Kenny is familiar with land. Mostly, Kenny spends his time talking b e i n g i n t e r v i e we d. A s t h e f ro n t m a n about his mates and the inspiration they of both Birds Of Tokyo and Karnivool, give him. In context, that would be Adam everyone wants to know his thoughts and Spark, Adam Weston and Anthonny Jackson experiences. – collectively known, along with Kenny, as Naturally, that means he’s been Birds Of Tokyo. asked the same questions countless times, But The Broken Strings Tour has but rather than react the way a lot of rock extended that family somewhat, and the

Birds Of Tokyo

game has changed for Birds Of Tokyo. Joined onstage by a classical ensemble, the band are not so much playing acoustic versions of their songs as they are playing completely tailor-made ones. This decision, Kenny explains, came about by the band wanting to do an ‘unplugged’ show, but not wanting to do it the way it’s already been done. “I think the idea came from our favourite bands of the ’90s who had done the Unplugged shows. We’ve always really liked that idea, but we didn’t want to just

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do stripped-down versions of our songs. There’s nothing wrong with doing that, we just figured it would be more interesting to try doing it a new way,” he says. So the band teamed up with Anthony Cormican, who had previously worked with the Birds Of Tokyo adding string sections to their album material, and the ball got rolling. Kenny, somewhat reluctant to explain just how the songs were altered to fit the Broken Strings format so as not to take anything away from the show itself, simply reveals that ‘it will make sense when you see it’, and that the process was ‘a lot of thought and work’. Needless to say, fans are very curious. The setting itself is a sign that there are interesting things afoot with The Broken Strings Tour. Across Australia, Birds Of Tokyo are playing only seated venues in a ‘one night only’ format that is a far cry from the usual manner in which a rock band conducts its business. But Birds Of Tokyo, as we’ve all come to know, are not intent on doing anything in the usual manner. From day one (no pun intended) the band have been a strange phenomenon within a circle of strange phenomenon. Although their earliest songs were not the bombastic pop anthems they were to later write, Birds Of Tokyo resonated with punters straight away, due in no small part to Ian Kenny’s voice. Once that voiced found itself fronting music scored by a more ambitious and driven band (due in no small part to the vision of guitarist / producer Adam Spark) things started to rocket along. Kenny, as humble as ever, looks upon the band’s rise with a sense of awe and gratitude. “I feel very lucky… very lucky,” he says genuinely. “There’s no guarantees in a band, so every person that likes you, or everything that goes your way, if a gift. I’m super lucky that I’m surrounded by amazing musicians who have a very clear vision of where the music can go,” he says of both his bands, adding that his career is a ‘dream come true’ situation that is “worth whatever work needs to be done.” And the elephant that was once in the room is now gone, because of this hard work. With Birds Of Tokyo being one of the best Australian pop/rock bands in however long you care to mention, and Karnivool fo re running progre ssive, creative ro ck way ahead of the pack; Ian Kenny has less pressure on his shoulders than he used to. Both of his bands – and indeed his creative outlet overall – can exist harmoniously. Which ultimately means more work, of course, but that suits Ian Kenny just fine. “Seriously, I could keep doing this forever,” he enthuses. “I really could.”

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BOB EVANS Seeing Double

them: one is to make a concept record; and the other is to make a double-album. I’m sure many people have tried the two-in-one approach, and I would be lying if I said I haven’t spent many times fantasising about making a triple-album-conceptrecord… I just don’t know what it would be about,” he says with a laugh. “You don’t know how long you’re going to have the resources and the opportunity – where someone is basically paying you money to make records – and it’s such a wonderful opportunity to have that you start thinking ‘shit, maybe I need to hurry up and make this concept double-album’ (laughs).” And while there is the definite possibility that hurrying out a concept doublealbum could be the very thing that sinks your career, Mitchell’s point is definitely worth noting, as it is a combination of ‘be thankful for what you have’ and ‘nothing lasts forever’. One of the most respected artists in Australia, Mitchell has gone Bob Evans through most professional musician scenarios, highs and lows, all without turning into the He’s one of Australia’s most kind of jaded ego-monster such a journey often Far from it, he’s the nice guy he always accomplished songwriters, creates. was, and his eyes are open. Of course, most bands seem to think the enjoys a good glass of Shiraz, times are endless, and that the bubble’s never and is capable of talking high gonna burst. “You’d have to be blind to your ’til the cows come home to think that. It’s life, and life is about all sort of cool stuff. surroundings completely unpredictable. You never know what’s the corner… nothing is certain,” he says. Fittingly, Bob Evans (AKA around But, as a younger man fronting Jebediah, Mitchell Kevin Mitchell) will combine tasted the kind of meteoric rise in popularity tends to lead to this sense of invincibility in all three skills when he takes that bands… so how did he not fall victim to it? “Well to get a clearer picture you’d part in Sonic Sessions at need to ask the people around us, but, the Fremantle Arts Centre probably looking back on the Jebs’ early days, we were just tonight,Thursday,November so innocent and naïve that we were actually able to enjoy it. If it happened to me now it would 5. MIKE WAFER reports. be different, because I know things now, but at the time we were just having so much fun and And without getting too deep into wine enjoying each other’s company so much. There are appreciation, or encroaching upon Sonic so many bands that go through that exact same Sessions territory by asking Mitchell to talk experience, so very differently. Ignorance really can about his songwriting, what is on the mind of be bliss, and I’m so glad that we were a little bit one of our country’s finest tunesmiths? clueless at the time. “I’m going to throw an idea out there,” “Now, there are things that, had we have says the ever happy-go-lucky Mitchell. “Anybody been a little bit less clueless about or a little bit who is in a band, or writes songs, or aspires to… more ‘street smart’ about, that would have led to there are two things you wanna try and do before decisions that may have been better for us in the you either die or you’ve lost the opportunity to try long term, but you take the good with the bad.”

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TINPAN ORANGE Lakeside Tinpan Orange will head to thisyear’sBluesAtBridgetown festival on Friday, November 13, and play the Fly By Night Club on WednesdayThursday, November 18-19. DAVID CRADDOCK reports. Most girls in Year 4 are happy hanging out with their classmates, making daisy chains and playing hide and seek. But for a young Emily Lubitz, the now frontwoman in ethereal Melbourne folk outfit Tinpan Orange, recess meant hanging out with her new, slightly older, mate Clare Bowditch. “She was seven years older than me, she was in Year 11 and I was in Year 4 and somehow in the playground we just became friends,” Lubitz explains of the childhood friendship. “I think she was maybe looking for a little sister figure, but not even that, we just loved each other. We would hang out at recess, and she took me out for lunch one day, we went to the city and it was just the most exciting day ever.” Years on, the two now find themselves listed amongst Australia’s best purveyors of broody, intense and heartfelt acoustica. And where Bowditch would babysit a young Lubitz, the Tinpan Orange songstress now looks after Bowditch’s kids. “I would watch her sitting on the couch playing music and writing songs,” Lubitz explains. “She was a big influence on me, just to see someone who wasn’t trained in any musical way but she was someone who had something to say and wanted to say it through a song. I feel that’s my position too.” Tinpan Orange’s new album The Bottom Of The Lake might provide the perfect soundtrack to such a film. Innocent, naïve, but very adult in their melancholy, La La La and Chinese Whispers are some of the album’s sing-along highlights. “I like children stories but I’m not sure what I’m going for with those songs,” Lubitz says. “I think they are a bit nursery rhyme-ish, I like to have a little bit of tension between writing a song that has an innocent sound but a twist or depth to it beyond the childish. La La La is about missing a love or ‘waiting for your man to come home’ but it’s written in a childlike way and I like that tension.

I like things that are subtly contradicting.” Produced by Lubitz’s partner/fiancé Harry Angus (also a member of Australian party starters The Cat Empire) with Jesse Lubitz (her brother and fellow band member) as engineer, the album was recorded in Mama and Papa Lubitz’s living room as well as a beach house situated along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. “Our mission statement before we started recording was that we wanted it to be melodic, beautiful and subtle,” Lubitz explains.“We wanted it to be somewhat understated but if you listen closely you can hear that there’s actually a lot of layering of voices, instruments and little string sections, but we didn’t want anything to be overpowering.” Along with setting up shop in the family living room, Tinpan Orange enlisted some family help to form the ‘Lubitz family singers’ to provide a warm, eerie backing to some of the tracks. “In a way there’s more opportunity for honesty,” Lubitz says of recording with family members. “I think that’s a result of there being more opportunity for forgiveness. You can’t really hold a grudge too long against your family. A lack of politeness is acceptable. Sometimes it’s a bit more straightforward to just say what you mean. But then there’s the tensions that comes. Because I know Jesse so well I see when he regresses, or I regress, into being a child and that happens when you’re being creative. There’s that unspoken knowledge.”

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MILES TO GO The Road Less Travelled

David Hyams & The Miles To Go band celebrate 10 years together this Friday, November 6, at Kulcha with support from The Lonely Brothers. BOB GORDON reports.

The Miles To Go Band

Back in 1999, David Hyams decided he wanted to do something different. He’d played rock and pop music and touched on a well-received folk formula as part of his work in the acclaimed outfit, Devils On Horseback. He had a bunch of instrumental material “lying around,” but wanted to do unlike anything else he was doing at the time, or had done before. “My vision was really just to create an album of beautiful melodies, supported by lush instrumentation, with a lot of textures and layers, where every note had its place,” he recalls. “It wasn’t something I thought I’d be playing live and so I approached it having the freedom to record whatever I thought would best suit each piece. A lot of pieces were based around fingerstyle guitar, which I had noodled with for a few years but was really still a novice. “I’d been listening to players of Celtic styles, who were emulating the sound of fiddle and bagpipes in their use of ornamentation on the guitar. Around that time I’d also been travelling in Ireland and Scotland, playing as much as I could with traditional musicians and really trying to immerse myself in that music. That and my travels in the Pilbara and Kimberley had led me to develop

a number of pieces which all seemed to come together with a broadly ‘Celtic’ treatment, though I didn’t want to make just a Celtic album - it was important for the album to have an ‘Australianness’ about it, to capture that feel and the space of the Australian landscape that had inspired much of the music.” When it came to launching the Miles To Go album, the free-ranging music required a core eight-piece band (though at one time 11 were on stage) to evoke Hyam’s direction. What he didn’t know is that it was just the start. “The first time it really crossed my mind that a band of this size, playing almost entirely instrumental music, might have any sort of life post the album launch, was when Steve Barnes (artistic director of Fairbridge festival) approached me afterwards to say he’d be very interested in booking us for the next festival. Everyone seemed to be pretty keen to perform again, which gave me the motivation to go out there and find out what sort of opportunities existed.” The Miles To Go band was on its way, eventually releasing a second album, Knowing The Place, in 2007. Over the years quite a few members have passed through, having come from a diversity of musical and cultural backgrounds that have all

left their mark on the outfit. Shades of jazz, funk and some Latin and African rhythms slinked into the folksome mix. “With the melody instrument players, we’ve had some excellent players with that very strong traditional background - including our front line for the first six years of Dougal Adams and Ormonde Waters, who were players of wind instruments like flute, concertina and bagpipes - so even though what was going on underneath was really different, the way the melodies were being played was very true to the source traditions. Then we’d have some little quirky touches, like Andy Copeman’s didgeridoo or Nola Formentin’s trombone.” While Hyams is the core of the Miles To Go Band, the evolution of the outfit has also centred on his openness to the creativity of all members, allowing compositions to evolve and new material to be drafted in. “We’ve started to bring more songs into the line up, so we’re less of an instrumental act,” he says.“At first the songs were from Andy Copeman, as I’d felt his material really suited the lineup, along with some traditional ones that we’d played around with and put our own stamp on. “It wasn’t until three years ago, after I’d

had a revival in my lyric writing and was coming up with songs that I felt would suit, that we started to try them out. The trio line up had also emerged around that time, to do some smaller festivals and tours - and this was a great way to ease the songs into the lineup and try them out before they became part of the full band’s set. The trio has also taken on a bit of a life of its own, as well.” Perhaps not surprisingly, Miles To Go has become hugely popular at the myriad of folk and roots festivals around the country. “I think it’s partly the unusual mix of instruments and styles,” Hyams says of the band’s festival successes.“We don’t fit into the ‘traditional’ category but we still have strong Celtic influences, as well as touches of blues and country. A lot of the stories we tell are Australian stories inspired by places that seem to have meaning or relevance for audiences we play to - we get folks coming up and telling us that listening to a piece took them back to the time when they were at such and such a place, that had really touched them. “Festivals are our bread and butter really - we’ve become very used to playing to listening audiences and so we mostly don’t play in pubs. I think there are a lot of festival-goers that are very open to new musical experiences and the combination of styles and players does seem to have found some appeal.” As well as recording a third album encasing new styles (including the hip hop styles embraced in his songwriting/recording workshops in WA jails), Hyams would like to see Miles To Go do some overseas touring in the next couple of years, with an invitation already extended to the International Folk Alliance in Memphis in February. Either way, the 10 year anniversary of Miles To Go is a proud achievement. “It’s pretty satisfying to reach a milestone like that, especially for a band that I put together and have driven for all of that time,” he says. “I’ve been in a fair few lineups now and none of them have been going concerns for anything like that long, so you do look at it and think that it really is special to have arrived at this point! “It’s a bit strange as well to look back and think how this had never been part of the plan - it was just a little album project and I didn’t give it much more thought than that at the time. Now it’s pretty much the major musical force in my life.”

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KINGS OF CONVENIENCE Fateful Day There are millions of reasons why people decide to create bands; whether it’s to connect with friends, create beautiful music, become famous, or in the case of acoustic duo Kings Of Convenience, to attract members of the opposite sex. Eirik Glambæk Bøe reveals all to EMMA BERGMEIER, upon the release of the band’s third album, Declaration Of Dependence. enjoy listening to albums that are coherent and I wanted to make something that was coherent.” It wasn’t until the lads started writing in English, though, that the temptation to compose lyrics to accompany their music presented itself. “We started off as a Norwegian band and the reason why we didn’t sing together is that we have two very different dialects in Norwegian, I have the Bergen dialect and Erlend has the Oslo dialect. You cannot sing harmonies in two different dialects, it would be like a Dutch person and a German person trying to harmonise together, it wouldn’t sound very harmonious. Our harmonies began from the day when we wrote our first song in English. I haven’t written a song in Norwegian in many years – my brother, who is a poet writing in Norwegian, made me aware that if you choose Norwegian as your language, there will be so few people out there that you could connect with. “It’s an advantage I find, the little bit of distance that is there between me and the Kings Of Convenience: Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambæk Bøe

Down the line from his hometown of Bergen, Norway, Eirik Glambæk Bøe explains that he and bandmate Erlend Øye had never planned to become musicians, until a young Frederick Saroea (of Datarock fame), showed them the perks of the ‘job’. “We went to the same school, me, Erlend and Frederick,” shares Bøe in a delightfully thick Norwegian accent. “He was our guitar hero when we were younger. He’s actually a year younger than us but we were in the same senior high school. It was the music school of Bergen, and me and Erlend weren’t musicians, we didn’t play music at that time but we were surrounded by people who were aspiring musicians and Frederick was one of them. “He was such a good guitar player, we would walk past him in the schoolyard

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“IT’S AN ADVANTAGE I FIND, THE LITTLE BIT OF DISTANCE THAT IS THERE BETWEEN ME AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. WE ARE A LITTLE BIT UNAWARE ABOUT HOW OUR LYRICS COME ACROSS. WE DON’T REALLY KNOW IF IT SOUNDS PROFOUND OR POETIC, AND THAT’S GREAT, IT GIVES US LESS FEAR OF SAYING THE WRONG THINGS.” English language. We are a little bit unaware about how our lyrics come across. We don’t really know if it sounds profound or poetic, and that’s great, it gives us less fear of saying the wrong things.” Unlike many other bands, the lads behind Kings Of Convenience get their best writing done while on the road, with most of Declaration Of Dependence composed during

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and listen to him sing and impress all the girls, who would sit around him. He’s basically the reason why we got inspired to play guitar.” After that fateful day in the schoolyard, Bøe and Øye picked up guitars and began writing music, and as their skills as musicians improved, so to did quality of the music they were producing. “Well, we didn’t know a lot of chords, so our music was simple. The taste I have in music hasn’t changed that much, what I liked then is basically what I like now, our style hasn’t changed much either. We are closer, more knowing about what we are doing. When we were younger we could make one song from a genre and then we’d think ‘oh cool, we can make this kind of music as well’ and now, the temptation to do all kinds of stuff is less. The feeling I have now is that I really

soundchecks on the band’s last tour. “When you’re doing a soundcheck at a concert hall, the room is new to you, so when you play the guitar it’s going to sound a little bit new, and there’s a feeling of curiosity you get when you make sounds that you’ve never heard before, which inspired a lot of these songs. The production on the album has a lot of reverb on the guitar, that tells you that these songs were made in really big halls, because that is the exact sound from the guitar we get when we play at these halls. It bounces back on the walls, it sounds like a cathedral.” Having known each other since the age of 16, Bøe and Øye have a strong understanding of each other, which enables them to collaborate easily. “I think the reason why we can write together is because we know each other so well. A lot of these songs one person has written verse one and the chorus, then the next person writes verse two. For this to be possible, you really need to understand what the other person is going through.” The next few months will rather busy for Kings Of Convenience, as they hit the road

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PROJECT MAYHEM Loose Change Project Mayhem launch their self-titled album at Amplifier Bar on Saturday, November 7, in a flurry of sword-swallowers, magicians and all things carnivale. MIKE WAFER spoke to frontman Ben Watson and bassistJezFitzgeraldtofindout what’s what.

It has been very interesting watching Project Mayhem grow. In the early days they were very much a Hydey band, tightly interwoven into the Higginsera punk scene that flourished in the venue. As that dissipated for all the known reasons, Project Mayhem seemed – like many of the bands from that community – to be effectively homeless. But as they kept going they got better, and as they got better they became more aware of how much better they were getting, which in turn led to the self-belief that saw them win the Next Big Thing competition. They won, more or less, because they truly believed they could. And that’s where the story really picks up, as winning the competition spearheaded a change in the band that seemed epiphany-like… ‘if we can win that, we can do anything’. Armed with this confident sense that anything at all was possible, the band began challenging themselves. What used to be their ‘A game’ didn’t cut it for them anymore. They had to get better, bigger and more outstanding. The earliest results of this, in terms of the band’s music, can be found littered throughout their album. While much of the material on it is akin to where the band has come from, a proportion of it spells out where they are going. “Certainly as we’ve moved on in years our musical tastes have expanded, but we’re also much more confident in taking risks as a band,” explains Fitzgerald. “Jozef [guitar, sax, piano] has certainly pushed the band the most as far as styles and sound goes and has also worked with us all in the technical side of our playing.” “I would tend to suggest that it has not been so much us stepping outside of our former genre,but that we have developed both personally and musically in recent times,” Watson adds.“For a

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long time in the early days the wheels turned very slowly in Project Mayhem, as we consolidated our lineup. Simple riffs and melody dominated for a long time, however we always knew we were capable of creating something much more dynamic. All through the second EP you can hear us trying to change and mature… but with the album we really got a chance to create something that we would be proud of, and we were under the pump - the heat was on - yet all these new things came out of the pressure-cooker,” he says. So the band began working on their pre-production with Max Ducker, laying out the template for what was to come, eventually hitting the studio with Al Smith for the final production. As their pre-production had shown them, there was room in Project Mayhem’s sound for more complexity and daringness, so, entrusting multiinstrumentalist Grech to steer the ship, Project Mayhem booked in one final recording session to see what would come of some experimentation. “Joe took the bull by the horns and arranged an emergency weekend recording

session with James [Collins] and Brian Kruger. The rest of us had no idea what to expect until we played it with Al several days later and just about fell off our chairs due to the unrelenting awesomeness and imagination which we had not foreseen,”Watson enthuses. Imagination that kept on spilling forth ideas, it seems. In addition to the strings and keys recorded with James Collins, Grech used one of the Al Smith sessions to track a lead saxophone over one of the songs, which has effectively opened the door for future possibilities for the band. Not necessarily in terms of the saxophone, but in a more general ‘the door is open’-kind of way. “It is the nature of all living things to keep moving, so I think that is the key,”says Watson. “I think we’re happier now than we’ve ever been. We’re starting to see rewards for the enormous amount of effort and sacrifice that we have made in the name of Project Mayhem. We’ve got goals, and we understand that we need to work together in order to achieve them and bring this great thing that we’ve created to the world.”

Adds Fitzgerald: “I think we’ll just need to keep exploring with different instruments and sounds as we have been. I personally wouldn’t mind creatively looking into aspects of our live show now though,” indicating that not only is the creative door open, but that the band are very keen on there being no conditions of entry. And although this is but a mere turning point for Project Mayhem, it is an extremely important one, as the band can now effectively look at each record, and indeed each song, with an open-minded approach that everything is a blank canvas, and that there’s no harm in trying things outside your own existing knowledge. As for where this creative freedom will lead the band, even they’re not sure at this stage, which is a good sign that nothing is to be forced. “It’s hard to tell at this point, but personally I’d like to go down some darker roads,” says Fitzgerald, “[We] still want to maintain that element of fun though. It’s hard to juggle the two at times.”

IAN MOSS Soul Provider

With a new album, Soul On West 53rd, out now, Ian Moss will head to WA for shows on Thursday, November 12, at the Ravenswood Hotel; Friday, November 13, at the Fly By Night Club; Saturday, November 14, at the Charles Hotel and Sunday, November 15, at the Esplanade Hotel in Busselton. TIM STEWART reports.

Ian Moss was feeling a little bit frustrated. After a long and illustrious career with Cold Chisel and as a solo performer, in 2008 the notoriously shy singer and incendiary guitarist enjoyed a good run on the Australian television ‘celebrity duet’ series, It Takes Two. 20

Ian Moss “After I put the guitar down long enough to sing a couple of soul ballads,” explains Mossy, over a strong, post-Telethon coffee at the X-Press office,“some people seemed to see me in a different light altogether. I‘d have them say to me, ‘yeah I knew you sang a bit, but I never knew you could really sing’. On the one

hand it was very flattering, but I kept wondering what exactly they thought I’d been doing for the last 30 or so years.” Convinced that he should further explore this side of his music, Moss teamed up with producer Danny Kortchmar and an A-list band of session musicians, including drummer Steve Jordan, Leon Pendarvis on keys, Neil Jason on bass and Hugh McCracken on guitar. The result of these sessions is Soul On West 53rd, a blistering selection of classics and much lesserknown gems from artists such as Sam Cooke, Al Green, Levi Stubbs and Otis Redding. As far as the veteran session guitarist and producer’s credentials were concerned, says Moss, “to be honest I didn’t know a great deal about him before we met. We went to a company in LA called World’s End, who manage all these producers and mixers and engineers and all that kind of thing, and said, ‘this is the kind of record we want to make; who would you suggest?’. Then they put forward a couple of names and eventually we settled with Danny Kortchmar.” They came together pretty quickly, pretty easily,” says Moss, in terms of the selection process. “I don’t have any great library, either on the shelf or in my head, really, so for me it was a process of grabbing some of my favourites – particularly the Sam Cooke ones – and relying on Danny Kortchmar, who came up with some great ideas. “The record company had a couple of... suggestions,” he adds, breaking into a broad grin, “that were a bit...off the mark, yeah, some sort of ’80s white rock, I guess you could call them. And I had a couple of friends, in particular Don Walker and Alex Baudo – even Barnesy had a couple of good suggestions. So to begin with it was basically the two of us just jamming through a bunch of songs on acoustic guitars. And I mean, you know, hats off to Danny as a producer. He whipped it together pretty quickly.” While the intention was always to keep the primary focus on Moss’ vocal skills, he confesses that with such an impressive band behind him it would have been near impossible not to pick up a guitar – in this case often a Gretsch White Falcon, in favour of his trademark Stratocaster – and add a bit of sizzle to the mix.

“I mean there were still some tracks where I didn’t play any guitar at all, or maybe just an acoustic. In fact there were a couple of times when Danny would complain that he thought he was producing a vocal album. But he would still always let me try it my way, and more often than not he would agree that, you know, it wasn’t too gratuitous or anything like that. It’s hard to be objective, I know, but I think we struck a pretty good balance, in terms of my guitar work on the album.” Some producers will tend to give you a lot of notes, while others will pretty much just let you go until, you know, they start jumping up and down in the control room when you do something they really like. With Danny it was more the latter, I guess. I was pretty much just doin’ my thang, but he was really good in that I think he could feel me if I kind of drifted out of character.” Moss smiles again, shyly this time, and flashes an inquisitive glance across the table after this last comment. One of the humblest rock stars you are ever likely to meet, Mossy hates to sound ‘precious’, but the fact is that he really cares intensely that the listener believe the words they hear him sing. “It’s kind of my way to try and remain genuine to the character of the song. I know this could sound a bit... you know, rich, but I try to think of the song in terms of an actor, and how it’s really important to immerse yourself, and disappear, and become the character. So you have to take the lyric really seriously, and you’ve got to choose songs that have lyrics – I mean, it doesn’t have to be deeply poetic, but you can read it and see that some guy’s really hurting here.” For me there’s this funny little thought process I go through, whenever I’ve been nervous about going on stage and performing. I have to tell myself: “well mate, you might be nervous and feeling pretty insecure or whatever, but you’re second in line; this guy in the song really needs your help, needs you to knuckle down and help him out because he’s in a lot worse state than you’.” So you keep that in mind. You’re telling that guy’s story, and you’re not there to think about what note can I hit here? or what kind of acrobatic trill can I do here? or what tone can I try with my voice here? Because then the last thing you’re thinking about is what the song’s about – which should be first and foremost of course.” Hittin’ the town since 1985

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You can be sure that when TV addict Kasey Chambers was sitting at home watching the kids channels on Foxtel that she would have come across Justine Clark and thought that she could make a better fist of writing tunes for the rugrats than some of the current crop. In typical Chambers fashion she has enlisted the extended family to help her out with Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill And The Little Hillbillies. Penning many of the tunes with her father Bill, the collection of songs contains some that are aimed firmly at the under-fives in Eye Spy and Old Man Down On The Farm, but doesn’t dismiss the adult listeners with the tender Before You Came Along and the nostalgic When We Were Kids. Chamber’s eldest son Talon even makes his songwriting debut with his take on living in a mixed family (Two Houses). The songs are short and punchy so as not to challenge the attention span too greatly, and for the most part come across as dumbeddown version of Chambers tunes. The aim may be to appeal to all ages but there has been no lessening of her country roots, in fact there is no hiding the overtly country, blues and bluegrass elements throughout. Credible musicians have entered into the world of children’s music with great results (Dan Zanes being a prime example) and Kasey Chambers is on her way. Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill And The Little Hillbillies is a lot less torturous than some of the stuff the young ones will demand gets played on the car stereo.

Fully aware that survival in today’s everchanging rock scene requires constant evolution, Editors have shed the commercial U2-like quality of their last record to borrow synth-rock posing from the likes of Gary Numan and Kraftwerk. The quartet seem to get it right with some thick hazy keyboards (Walk The Fleet Road, You Don’t Know Love) while other tracks seem purposely written to be singles and not the heart of the band’s output. Containing just nine tracks, all roughly five minutes in length, In This Light And On This Evening seems to trip up by dragging each idea out for too long. The angst found on their earlier records is missing, now that the group now seem somewhat emotionally distant. Perhaps an obvious downfall when playing ‘robots’ with Gary Numan, as evidenced on Papillon as they channel the vibe of Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, while the likes of the The Boxer and The Big Exit tend to veer away from pop to focus on atmospheric industrial rock. Th e l a t te r te n d s to wo r k b e s t, as Editors have mastered the ar t of being misery-mongers much better than commercial stadium rockers. _ROBERT PENNEY

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CONVERGE Axe To Fall Epitaph Shock There’s no two ways about it. Converge are one of the heaviest bands on the face of this planet, and Axe To Fall does everything to solidify that very notion. Whilst there are bands who play a technically heavier style of hardcore, or metal, or whatever you want to label it as, She is the person left holding one of the greatest you’d be hard-pressed to find a band who musical legacies of all - that of the Cash family. create such extreme levels of intensity as For her latest outing, Rosanne Cash revisits the Converge, and that is what makes Converge, list of songs that her father wrote down for her and in-turn Axe To Fall, so fucking good. in 1973 as the ‘100 essential country songs’. Cash Converge are able to affect you has long held onto that sheet of paper and has on a level that very few bands are able to now decided to put her hand to reinterpreting do. There are moments on Axe To Fall when a dozen of those on The List. you could shit your pants or have a heart Covers albums are hardly a rare attack, and when you’re listening to music commodity these days, but Cash manages to as extreme as this, you really couldn’t ask for keep her hands firmly on the tradition of these a better outcome. At the end of it all, what tunes while adding her own flavour. Having good is extreme music if it does not incite a voice dripping with emotion on Motherless an extreme reaction? Children and She’s Got You, Cash approaches Sonically, Axe To Fall is flawless. loss and loneliness in differing ways. Dylan’s Girl Recorded by guitarist Kurt Ballou, each song From The North Country also gets a significant is given different attention according to its aural needs. The faster tracks are allowed reworking. When reinterpreting tunes there to go balls-out and rip your face off, while is ample opportunity to invite friends and the slower more brooding tracks are left to admirers into the fray. Some of music’s most stew in the disgustingly evil energy that recognised voices make an appearance, headed Converge created in the studio. There’s no point going into details by Springsteen on Sea Of Heartbreak and the always reliable voice of Jeff Tweedy is present on about the songs specifically, because Axe To Fall i s a re co rd i n t h e w h o l e s e n s e. the Lefty Frizzell death ballad Long Black Veil. There was never any doubt on her Contextually, songs do not deliver their full credentials, but Cash was clearly listening when impact if not highlighted against the others, her father offered her some musical guidance. and as a record, Axe To Fall would not reach For those with even the slightest interest in the its full potential if not listened to from start genre, her latest album should be at the head of to finish. Converge exist in a world of their your shopping list. own, and Axe To Fall is a step in a different _CHRIS HAVERCROFT direction, that sees them still somehow moving forward without losing sight of what the band has set out to achieve. Converge are a band who strive to push the limits of extremities, and have done just that with Axe To Fall.

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ROWLAND S HOWARD Pop Crimes Liberation Rowland S. Howard is probably best recognised for the grinding, industrial guitar noir he provided in formative Nick Hittin’ the town since 1985

Cave bands The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party. This, the second solo album from the cult underground figure has a slow, sludgy, bass-driven, utter miserable-ness that will appeal to fans of both of these projects. Where hipsters now make albums like this with knowing pose and faux-Berlin grime, Howard is the real deal. Pop Crimes is an album as sincere, haunting and bleeding-on-the-floor intense, as you’re likely to have heard for some time. Opening duet (I Know) A Girl Called Jonny has a sleazy glamour to it. It’s the sound of a nicotine-stained lounge singer, singing to the only person left in some mouldy bar, as the broken plumbing drips into his ashtray. The album’s dark and infectious (in a lingering killer virus way) title track highlights Howard’s florid, gothic way with the pen as he picks apart organised religion, ‘coiffured snakes’ and an ‘Open-Heart-Surgery Kiss’. Dystopic squeals, police-siren guitars and a concrete-heavy bass line, evoke a particularly bad night in Gotham City where all the loonies have broken out at once. Fetch the bass, Batman. _DAVID CRADDOCK

WEEZER Raditude Interscope Universal Weezer fans are so forgiving. After all, a lot of them have stuck with an otherwise boring band based on a fun and truly rockin’ debut and its even more creative and kooky follow-up. Two great records don’t hold much weight when the pile of shit ones is constantly being updated, grossly outnumbering the band’s former glories. Remember that band Wheatus and how utterly crap they were? It was like a shit version of Weezer with a chipmunk singer. Remove the chipmunk and that’s what Weezer have now become… a bland impression of the Weezer of old. Die-hard fans who still think it’s the mid-’90s will probably cry foul and talk about Weezer as some untouchable legendary band, but that just isn’t the truth. Those of us without nostalgia in the driver’s seat will be far less forgiving, as Weezer have done nothing of note since the last echo of Pinkerton faded back into silence. Raditude, as if the title didn’t give it away, is part of what Weezer’s legacy has become… sweet fuck all. _MIKE WAFER

GLEE CAST VERSION Don’t Stop Believin’ Columbia Sony Don’t Stop Believin’ is just one of many singles lifted from the painfully American TV musical Glee, though perhaps unsurprisingly it loses a great deal of oomph when compared with the triumphant 1981 version. With horns, a capella and male and female vocal parts, it’s perfect for the teen market, though with its recent high-profile appearance in the Sopranos finale, it’s likely even the younger market will prefer Journey’s Zippowaving original. _ROBERT PENNEY

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only $5m). It’s also possible – though extremely unlikely – that they didn’t realise how close in tone their film was to that other Sundance-flavoured, quirky family dramedy, Little Miss Sunshine. Both films are set in the suburban Midwest, conservative enclaves the big city excitement of LA and New York forgot populated with hardworking people trying to clamber over challenges in their lives, while fate delivers laughs the tears and brings them closer together. Pretty Rose (Adams, sexier than we’ve seen her before) is a close cousin to Leap Of Faith’s Marva (Lolita Davidovich), a former cheerleader / homecoming queen type who’s discovered adolescent popularity is fickle and won’t put food on the table in adulthood nor guarantee a life of excitement beyond the school gates. Looking sexier than we’ve seen her before, Adams as Rose similarly feels life has passed her by, still meeting the man she loved in high school (Zahn), now a cop, in cheap motels to conduct their affair years after he’s married her high school rival. Between her no-hoper younger sister Norah (Blunt) and her well meaning but possiblygoing-senile father (Arkin, another common element with Little Miss Sunshine), Rose has more than she can handle bringing up her little boy alone. When her lover talks about the money crime scene cleaners make, Rose figures she has little to lose, and as well as carving a very special and only slightly embarrassing niche for herself, she finds herself put in the path of people who are really suffering. What the experience teaches her and Norah, who goes into the business with her, isn’t clear apart from some ephemeral references to their own mothers’ suicide years before. It’s more just about the mood of the movie and Adams’ irrepressible perkiness. _DREW TURNEY

LA VIE EN ROSE Madman Remember Cameron Diaz’s first feature role? During her career, the reformed Charlie’s Angel has been in some excellent roles where she’s held her on and owned the movie, such as the early arthouse flicks like The Last Supper or later gems like In Her Shoes. But every serious actress has to tread the boards early as the pretty face in the background of a star vehicle, and Diaz paid her dues as Jim Carrey’s token love interest in The Mask. I thought of Diaz while watching Marian Cotillard as Edith Piaf, because if you were one of the few who saw 2006’s ill-advised Ridley Scott / Russell Crowe rom-com A Good Year, you’d have seen her in a similar role as the token babe who centres the hero’s quest and teaches us all you need to be happy is a $25m vineyard and a gorgeous 22 year old French girlfriend. Now here she is just one film later the centre of attention in the most serious of films, the biopic of a flawed artist. If you don’t know Edith Piaf, you’ve certainly heard her. She’s the one who sings that signature rambling French love song (Non, je ne regrette rien – No Regrets) from a million TV commercials and movie soundtracks trying to invoke a fantasy France. Cotillard as Piaf is as magnetic as the real singer was (or how you imagine her to be if you aren’t familiar with her), making the character all her own, a blaze of charismatic personality with her child-like demand that her every pleasure be met and her boisterous sense of self and song. From her earliest days growing up in a brothel to being forced into her father’s failing streetside theatre act, Piaf was a tragic figure. The theory that all art is born of suffering is given wide reign, showing us circumstances kids all over Europe were subjected to of broken homes, itinerant childhoods and strange role models. All that stood Piaf apar t was remembering the songs her childhood companions sung while at work or waiting to service clients, and when her father tells her to do something to bring in crowds, Edith Piaf the singer is born. The story is neither linear nor easy to follow, and some people won’t like a storyline that seems to swing between episodes and leave long and important swaths out of Piaf’s life, and like the real woman who’s live dissolved into excess, there’s no happy ending on offer. I hate musicals, and even I found it hard not to get caught up in the pure strength of Piaf’s voice and character. Like in few other biopics, Cottilard makes us forget we’re watching an actress, and her Oscar was entirely deserved. The camerawork and direction is as rich and lush as Piaf herself. The word of early France that follows her everywhere is rouge-tinged like 23

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A PEEK AT THE PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2010

Each year, organisers of the Perth International Arts Festival travel far and wide, searching for art that inspires, theatre that thrills, music that moves and daring dance, to bring to Perth audiences. PIAF launches their program for 2010 today, revealing which international and national acts will make their way to Perth for the Festival, which runs from Friday, February 5, ’til Monday, March 1. Here are some of our top picks from the 2010 PIAF program. To discover more about PIAF, head online to perthfestival.com.au or call 6488 5555.

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The Society, Octagon Theatre, Thursday, February 18 ’til Sunday, February 21. When a group of devout coffee drinkers uncover a used tea-bag in their coffee beanexclusive sanctuary, all hell breaks loose. Created by Norway’s Jo Strømgren Kompani, The Society sees three actors indulge in physical comedy, French ballads, impromptu dance and lip-syncing, in a hilarious play that will surprise and amuse. Fashion WA founders Jacqui Brown and Chelsey Wayte

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FashionWA.com has joined forces with the Oxford Street Markets for a seasonal launch not to be missed. As the warmer weather rolls in, market stalls are set up on Saturdays in Leederville, showcasing wares by local jewellers, designers and artists. To launch the markets, FashionWA is helping out by exhibiting pieces by local designers in two shows, to entice pedestrians into the markets and off the street. FashionWA is looking for designers who would be interested in showcasing their designs at the launch event, which is set to take place on Saturday, November 14, between 9am and 4pm. Designers should also be interested in having a stall at the market for the first four weeks. Any interested designers should contact Jacqui Brown at jacqui@fashionwa.com.

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Jeppe Hein, PICA and Perth Cultural Centre, Friday, February 12, ’til Monday, April 5. Danish artist Jeppe Hein invites Perth to cool off this summer by taking part in his interactive outdoor water sculpture. Hein turns air into architecture, shooting jets of water into the sky to create rooms that disappear as quickly as they emerge. Sit back and watch or try traversing the rooms, guaranteed fun for young and old. Cecile Williams: Contained, Central TAFE Art Gallery, Saturday, February 6, ’til Saturday, March 6. When Cecile Williams found an Arabic message in a clear plastic tube floating on the ocean, wishing a fisherman a safe passage on his voyage, she was inspired to comb the coast in search of more flotsam and jetsam. Sourcing materials from Greta Beach on Christmas Island, Williams transformed bottles, toys and refuse into refine miniatures that pay homage to the history of the Malay and Chinese people on this remote Australian territory. Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender, PICA, Wednesday, February 24, ’til Saturday, March 6. Acclaimed Perth director Matthew Lutton presents Love Me Tender, an Australian tale that charts the relationship between a father and his daughter. Written by Tom Holloway, Love Me Tender stars five actors, who explore the dream of modern life, as inspired by Euripides’ Lphigenia in Aulis.

Dance:

Happy As Larry, Playhouse T h e a t r e , S a t u r d a y, February 13, ’til Monday, February 15. Shaun Parker and Company have created a playful and poignant dance work that explores human happiness through pure physicality. Incorporating ballet, breakdancing and contemporary dance, Happy As Larr y involves nine performers who assume the personality types of the Enneagram, a psychological mapping system.

DEVILS FROM DOWN UNDER

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Haircuts By Children

Haircuts By Children, various locations, Saturday, February 20, ’til Monday, March 1. Surrender yourself and your hair to Haircuts By Children, a fun family-friendly event, which sees Perth children chopping locks off the public. The mini-hair stylists will be trained up before being allowed to let loose on the shears, providing free hair-cuts to anyone game enough to give it a go!

A fiesty Tasmanian Devil has just arrived at Perth Zoo and to celebrate, zookeepers are inviting residents of Perth to come along to comedy event Going Ape At The Zoo, and vote for names for the new devils while they’re there. Taking place on Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7, Going Ape At The Zoo will see stand-up sets from Frank Woodley and Tom Gleeson on Friday; then Pete Rowsthorn and Scared Weird Little Guys on Saturday; followed by an audience vote to name the new Devil after one of the comedians. The Devil will take on the name of the comedian who wins the vote, and will assume one of these new titles: Woodley, Gleeson, Pete or Scaredey. Tickets for Going Ape are on sale now through Ticketmaster.

Film-maker and pan pipe enthusiast, Peter Keelan

PIPE DREAMS

Intrepid filmmaker Peter Keelan has recently returned from an international voyage to Romania, Malawi, Bolivia and the Solomon Islands, where he filmed a brand new documentary, The Pan People. What started as a trip to document world music turned into an adventure, with Keelan encourtering riots, thieves and knife attacks while filming The Pan People. Living and performing with the world’s greatest pan pipe virtuosi, subsistence farmers in drought stricken Africa, gypsy musicians from Romania and Quechuan Indians from Bolivia, Mr Keelan’s travels were turbulent and full of questions. The result is a remarkable film that documents those with a love of pan pipes, which will be screened at Kulcha (1st Floor, 13 South Terrace, Fremantle), on Saturday, November 14. Doors open at 7.30pm, screening starts at 8pm. Tickets are available on the door, or online at kulcha.com.au.

ALL THE FUN OF THE FESTIVAL The Northbridge Festival kicked off proceedings for 2009 on Sunday, November 1, with a soiree and concert at the new Northbridge Piazza. As End Of Fashion played, guests mingled, exploring the new Piazza and Northbridge Festival program, both of which have plenty of secrets to discover. The Northbridge Festival runs ’til Sunday, November 8; to discover what’s on and where, check out northbridgefestival2009.com. au.

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ROSS WILSON The Idol Rock

As the frontman for Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, Ross Wilson has become one of the most recognisable faces in Australian rock. He joins Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, The Whitlams, James Reyne and Dragon for A Day On The Green on Sunday, November 8, at Sandalford Wines.

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY Rinse, Lather, Repeat Directed by Michael Moore

Few people could say there is no need for a hard-hitting documentary providing insight into the people, institutions and circumstances that combined in what is now known as the GFC. Capitalism: A Love Story has already grossed over US$13.6M at the box office, and that doco still needs to be made. It’s been said before, but in light of the During the 40 odd years that Ross Wilson has latest promotional chutzpah Moore has been been involved in the music industry he has been spraying through Australian media channels in responsible for some of the biggest Australian the last week, perhaps once more is appropriate; songs of all time. Michael Moore is the Johnny Knoxville of docoA tenure that long in music is rare in making. this country and while he has been gigging for Moore has said he ‘tricked’ his studio most of this time, Wilson has also put his hand backers by saying he was making a sequel to to being a record producer and publisher as well Fahrenheit 9/11, then using the money to make as running a record company. Outside of Wilson his story on the GFC. Well, it wasn’t much of a the only people who have maintained a music trick – Moore’s shockumentary tactics are now career for that long have been country artists. so well-established that future films may well “In this country the whole thing of use roman numerals for titles. singing rock’n’roll music is alien to this land, as Importantly, given that the GFC not many people do it,” says Wilson of his job. has been the subject of more media scrutiny, “Country fans are quite loyal so there is always Ross Wilson financial analysis, vox pops, international policy a market there and they are prepared to move up pretty quickly psychologically and then they etc – than any other event or phenomenon since around. Rock’n’roll is a bit more ephemeral. It is sing to you with just a piano accompaniment 9/11, the truth is that there is very little or new about doing it when they are young and then which is pretty hard. You then chat to them or surprising in Capitalism… it’s Michael Moore you get a real job.” about the songs and hear them sing and then weighing in with his two cents. Wilson is a songwriter as well as a you give suggestions. They were all pretty open As a documentary film, Capitalism isn’t performer. He credits some of his success to the about it and sponge-like. I gave different advice exactly a taut argument. There are sympathetic fact that he grew up in the ’60s when the charts to each one. At the end of it I thought, ‘gee, I vignettes about the real struggles faced by were full of all kinds of music. It taught him that actually know something and have things to pass various communities; inspirational stories instead of having a specific formula or style to on’. I kind of enjoyed that.” of solidarity; alternate business models that adhere to, it was more important to consider Wilson is regularly working on new empower all participants – but nothing much what it is that a song ‘needs’. The thing that links material and has an album that he recorded that hangs them together other than Moore them together is not a specific style but instead in Nashville coming out next year but when it himself. Still, he does succeed in putting ‘human the link between Wilson’s mind and his voice. comes to his show at A Day On The Green, he is faces’ to the flood of red numbers on Wall St “The Top 40 would have all types of intending to play lots of his better-known songs. stock tickers. stuff on it,” reflects Wilson on the music that He still enjoys playing hits such as Eagle Rock The second half of the film is, in theory, he was growing up with during the ’60s. “The and his role as a performer is the one that sits Moore’s attempt to explain the global financial Beatles wouldn’t care what genre it was. They most comfortably with him. crisis, and some of the self-interested parties would jump all over the place and I guess that “I may be a songwriter but as a that either (a) caused it and/or (b) found a kind of stuff influenced me. Now all the rock performer I am guy who likes to sing his own way to profit at the public’s expense from the bands to me sound like U2’s little cousins, and all material. Another part of the onstage thing I collapse of the free market – or ‘life as we know the hip-hop will be distinctively that 12 months have come to realise is I am an entertainer. I it’, if you’re one of those evil Republicans or their or that voice gimmick for that year.” am not going to browbeat people or give them Wall St cronies/overlords (depending on how When you are a music legend in this some type of deep message about myself or you look at it). country there are plenty of opportunities that anything like that. I just want them to have a Moore skims over the mechanics pop up unexpectedly. As such, Wilson was good time, to entertain people and sometimes of the subprime market, focusing instead on recently offered the role of a guest judge on the let them entertain me. I am not an intellectual, personalities and outrage. He requires the bad current series of Australian Idol. put it that way. I have a few ideas but I don’t guys to be bad, so he can be the white knight “It was hard work, but I really started over-think it.” storming the gates. He names names, points the to get into it,” he says of his guest judge/mentor finger and then films himself being refused entry role. “As they come in the room you size them _ CHRIS HAVERCROFT to a number of buildings. Rinse, lather, repeat.

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Where Moore does succeed, however, is in his look back on recent US history – in reminding the audience of Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ and the proposed Second Bill of Rights, of the importance of the collective will to improve life for all – in short, the promise which America made to itself, and then sold… and then hope, again, with Obama. In Moore’s latest film, we learn ‘Greed is Bad’, OK?. Sure Oliver Stone made the phrase ‘Greed is good’ famous 21 years ago in Wall Street, but apparently the ironic overtones were lost on some people and now we all have to pay. There’s a saying that goes like this: In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In the world of American film-making, it is all too easy to imagine Michael Moore and Oliver Stone beating each other to death over who gets to have the eye. Come to think of it, that would make for pretty entertaining television. Perhaps Simon Cowell can get on that. _ SABIAN WILDE

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CASE 39 Fair Lillith Directed by Christian Alvart Starring Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O’Malley, Callum Keith Rennie

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In keeping with the cyclical nature of the mainstream movie industry, it seems that supernatural thrillers – particularly those involving sinister young children – are back in vogue at the moment. The latest of these to reach our screens is Case 39, the slick, albeit a little over-the-top, English language debut of young German director, Christian Alvart. Renee Zellweger is Emily Jenkins, a social worker who genuinely cares a great deal about the well-being of her clients. She becomes aware of the case of a 10-year-old girl, Lillith Sullivan (Ferland), who appears to be suffering terrible abuse at the hands of her creepy parents. After a particularly traumatic incident leads her to intervene, fearing for Lillith’s safety, Emily recklessly abandons her professional detachment and decides to get personally involved. While she urges a detective, Mike Barron (McShane) to investigate the parents further, the conscientious social worker takes the unusual step of applying for custody of Lillith herself until a suitable pair of foster parents can be found for the silent and deeply withdrawn child. But of course nothing is quite as it

appears with the case of the Sullivans. When her closest friend, child psychologist Doug Ames (Cooper), suddenly meets with an untimely and very unpleasant demise, it eventually dawns on Emily that she has no idea what sort of evil forces she is dealing with. Former American president Franklin Roosevelt once famously noted that ‘there is nothing to fear but fear itself’. Well, in this case that is actually quite a lot. Young Lillith soon reveals that she is not the helpless waif she first appeared to be, and in fact seems to possess psycho-kinetic powers that can transform a person’s deepest, darkest fears into a fatal reality. Wunderkind director Christian Alvart clearly relishes putting an audience through the wringer with this unashamedly generic supernatural thriller. Zellweger may seem like an unusual choice for such a film, but then she brings an intensity to her character that allows you to accept that Emily could possibly get personally involved. If you wanted to get really picky you could argue that there is pretty much no explanation at all for Lillith’s powers, but then it’s unlikely that fans of this kind of scare-fest will care all that much about the absence of any narrative logic. _ TIM STEWART

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CHRISTIAN ALVART 39 Steps

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Renee Zellweger and director Christian Alvart on the set of Case 39

As a boy, this future film director’s career didn’t get off to a very promising start at all. Named Christian by his strict, deeply religious parents – maybe just to remind him of his upbringing for future reference – Alvart was acutely aware of his parents’ distain and disapproval of movies. For all intents and purposes they were forbidden, which of course only made them all the more seductive. Naturally, horror films were particularly frowned upon, but according to Alvart they were all equally fascinating when he first began to experience them first hand. “I wasn’t just drawn to horror films or supernatural films, per se. I just really enjoyed seeing something that was a bit bold, or daring, you know... that tried to do something new.” Desperate to become involved in the industry, Alvart started out working as a runner (on-set production assistant) before gradually working his way up the ladder and filling more meaningful roles on a number of productions. Armed with this experience Alvart wrote and directed his first serious film, Antibodies, in 2005. He is presently overseeing an English remake of the film, but points out that, “look, I’ve already made the movie I made; I don’t want to just repeat it, so whoever signs on to make it will be allowed to make it their own way. “I suppose you could say it’s a horror film, in a way,” adds the director, “but it’s much more about the inner life of a murderer, and

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what goes through their mind.” Alvart laughs at the idea of being pigeon-holed as ‘a horror movie guy’, so early in his career, but also notes that his other completed film is in fact a sci-fi thriller, Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. “It’s funny, you know, but down in Australia you are one of the first to see Case 39 and among the last to see the other one.” Alvar t is the first to admit that the central premise of Case 39 is totally preposterous, but adds that “that’s what makes it so much fun to do a movie like this, when you want to just take the audience by the hand and slowly convince them that something unbelievable is real. So the style has to be quite naturalistic to begin with, and then gradually it becomes more abstract and disturbing.” Lauded as a new talent to watch out for, Christian Alvart has nothing but praise for his leading lady and says their working relationship was a very happy one indeed. “You know, we all hear about some actors doing a movie just for the pay cheque, but I can assure you that Renee was totally committed to her job and her character from day one. “And that includes two nights of shooting basically Renee running in the rain in her underwear,” he adds with a slightly mischievous chuckle. _ TIM STEWART

half a person and unsure how to deal with his two traumatised daughters. An answer comes in the form of a job offer in Italy, and the family takes a year out to head to Genova to lick their Michael Winterbottom is one of those directors wounds. with a reputation for avoiding categories or In the rabbit warrens of the old city, genres. With each new film he redefines himself, Joe’s college buddy Barbara (Catharine Keener) moving from westerns (The Claim) and period finds them a cheap apartment, and has a pieces (adaptations of Thomas Hardy’s Jude and crack at renewing a long dead relationship. An Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shandy) to extended adolescent Kelly (played by the disturbingly thin music biopics (24 Hour Party People) and muted Willa Holland) sets off to explore her burgeoning science fiction (Code 46). There have even been sexuality in a thinly-disguised rebellion against stories of human trafficking (In This World) and her father, while her sister Mary (Perla Haneydocumentaries about the perversions of the Jardine) juggles soul-destroying nightmares Coalition Of The Willing (Road To Guantanamo). of the accident that killed her mother, with S o i t ’s r e a l l y n o s u r p r i s e t h a t wide-eyed appreciation of her new home, and Winterbottom’s latest film is pretty much Joe begins to rebuild his new life as a single unclassifiable. Is Genova – which recently toured parent. around Australia with the Lavazza Italian Film This is all pretty standard family Festival – a love story, a family drama, a tragedy, drama, and – dare I say it – feels a lot like a a challenging childrens’ film, or a story of loss midday movie. Yes, the depiction of grief is and redemption set in an ancient city? Well, to quite articulate and painful, but there are some tell the truth, it’s hard to say. very clumsy moments that almost drag the film In the opening scenes, it quickly into farce, especially poor Mary’s hallucinations, becomes obvious that something dramatic which start sensitively, but are ultimately is going to happen, as Marianne (Hope Davis) ridiculous. From a less experienced director, this drives along a busy highway playing games in might be forgivable, but Winterbottom’s heavythe car with her two daughters. Moments later, handed direction here is regrettable. the girls are suddenly without a mother, and Joe (Colin Firth) is a directionless widower feeling like _ TIM MILFULL

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WHITE FOLKS LIKE YOU AND ME We Are One, We Are Many

White Folks Like You And Me is on at the gluten free sesame crackers and things like Subiaco Arts Centre, on Friday, November that. 13, and Saturday, November 14, at 7.30pm. Werzel: He’d be the guy at the Yum Bookings can be made through BOCS. Cha restaurant eating a pie. In some ways that disturbs me as an image, I think he’s a traitor Three very different comedians from the same to his ethnicity. city will converge on the stage of the Subiaco Arts Centre in coming weeks for White Folks How long ago did you guys meet each Like You And Me. Headlined by rising comedy other? star Xavier Susai, the show exposes cultural X: Three years ago. differences in a hilarious format, with funds W: Is that all? It feels like longer, it raised going to the Children’s Surgical Centre feels like you’ve always been there in my life. in Cambodia. Susai and fellow White Folks You’re like a garden gnome that you put down performer Werzel Montague caught up with and from day one, you feel like you’ve had it X-Press to talk race, comedy rooms, and a forever. He’s more than that, he’s a garden whole bunch of crap. gnome on the mantel piece. Where did the name White Folks Like You And Me come from? Werzel: Xavier must answer that because I’m too white. Xavier : You are. I look at us as three diverse acts, three diverse individuals; there’s no doubt that we are the spectrum of randomness and I’m fairly Australian, so I figured a better title than ‘Western Folks Like You And Me’ would be White Folks Like You And Me. Werzel: Xavier is strangely white. It disturbs me a little. Xavier: I am, I am very white. I like Wagon Wheels and Emilio Estevez, D12: The Mighty Ducks series, chocolate Weatons and

How has your deliver y/comedy st yle changed over the last three years? X : I n t h e l a s t 1 2 m o n t h s i t ’s dramatically changed – I have a bit more edge and confidence about my delivery and style. I don’t have any drama or performing experience, and all of that definitely came in to play in the last 12 months. W: His dancing has improved dramatically in the last 12 months. X: I can do the robot now. W: Which is all anyone wants. How are preparations for the show going? X: I’ve spent a good eight weeks trying to figure out how to deliver things so

Joel Creasey, Werzel Montague and Xavier Susai star in White Folks Like You And Me

Michael Jackson won’t sue me. W: You haven’t heard the news man? Michael Jackson didn’t make it… X: His lawyers did! You’re generously donating funds from the show to the Children’s Surgical Centre in Cambodia, why did you choose that charity? X: There’s an organisation that talked to me about five or six months ago called Yes Cambodia and it started with that. I was trying to think of really good organisations to donate to and there is a lot of red tape and bureaucracy involved with the larger charitable organisations. This guy Don from Yes Cambodia, bless his soul, because he went all the way there, talked to all the organizations and figured out which place needed it most. W: I’m stoked about the charity because it only costs something like $35 for life-saving surgery on a kid. X: So essentially we can pay for about a hundred surgeries. _EMMA BERGMEIER

ARTSOURCE OPEN STUDIOS Open Up!

Motion Study II by Rebecca Baumann

Artsource opens Old Customs House to the public on Sunday, November 15, from 10am to 4pm, at 8 Phillimore Street in Fremantle. Become an Artsource supporter today by joining Artsource Friends on (08) 9335 8366. It’s quite rare for members of the public to be invited into artists’ private studio spaces, but Artsource is throwing convention out the door, inviting all and sundry to step into Old Customs House in coming weeks, to peek inside the workspace of over 20 creative practitioners. Located in Fremantle, Old Customs House is a heritage building that has played host to over 150 resident artists in the last two decades, and in 2009, has 24 residents. One such artist is Rebecca Baumann, who has taken on a curatorial role for the open studio. Baumann explains that she has quite a bit of cleaning to do before the public steps over the threshold on Sunday, November 15. “[My studio is] pretty messy! I’m going to clean it up a little but my practice is a bit different to other people here - where I don’t necessarily have work in there. I do larger installations and sculptures and things, a lot of the time it’s just thinking space and more to have all your stuff with you. A lot of the time I just go in there and do stuff in my visual diary. So it’s more like a creative office or something like that, for me anyway. Some people work in mess and I’m of one of them, but other people work in really beautiful and clean spaces.” So what can art-fans expect from the open studios aside from a collection of neat and messy workspaces? Baumann explains that at 2pm, six artists will talk about their work for six minutes, including Ian de Souza, Laurel Nannup, Pip + Pop, Rachel Coad, Toogarr Morrison and Baumann herself. “There’s also a free circus workshop for kids from 2-3pm but you do have to book in; people should contact me on (08)9335 8366. And other than that, basically the studios are open, most if not all the artists should be there. I’ve found it really interesting because I’ve gone to everyone and talked about their work with them and it’s good to see those points of difference and the differences in people’s practices. And basically it’s a great way to see a showcase of contemporary West Australian art at the moment. Even if you are an artist as well, you can go see how other people work, so that’s always quite interesting to find out.” A diverse range of artists are residents at Old Customs House, with writers, installation artists, painters, sculptors and innovators, many of whom will have finished work exhibited in the building’s spacious hallways. “There’s also the show in the hallways, which I’ve been curating, so you get the mix between the finished work which has made it to the hallways and then seeing what people are working on in their studios and maybe how they got to that point, so you see both sides.” _EMMA BERGMEIER

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VISUAL ARTS Stonewall, PICA, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge. For his latest solo exhibition, Dominic Redfern presents two major new video works; Stonewall and Mythos. Redfern is a video and performance artist whose practice investigates issues of place and identity. He presents unresolved narratives in theatrical installations that critique the relationship between the artist, the screen and the viewer. His most recent work, Stonewall, was shot in 2008 for a solo show at the Centre d’Art in Marnay sur Seine in France. In the video, the artist climbs through a rocky outcrop in Tasmania, suggestive of both alpine and lunar landscapes. His winding narration of the journey promises the viewer a hidden meaning that ultimately remains elusive. Heightening this tension; the narrative is sporadically interrupted by the beat of his body falling to the ground on a screen at the opposite end of the gallery. Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, December 20. Westend Windows Opening Party, Orient Hotel and High Street, Fremantle. High Street Fremantle and local artists come together in celebration of the Fremantle Festival this week on High St. View collections of art by local Fremantle artists and explore the creativity behind so many businesses in this precinct. From 5pm, punters are invited to collect a map and stamp for drink specials at Bar Orient. . Event takes place on Saturday, November 7, from 5pm to 7pm.

Faithfool, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Building 200, Bentley. The role of the media on our declining faith in humanity is examined by artist Shaun Passmore in Faithfool. The exhibition features a video installation and a series of supporting sculptures. The premise for the exhibition is an elderly man, disturbed by scientific evidence that suggests the moon is gradually receding from the planet Earth, endeavours to invent ways to slow down what could become a disastrous event for mankind. His creative mind, extraordinary faith and determination lead him to transform the roof of his humble Heart Of Gold home into a site for his interstellar operations. Considerable Funk!, Subiaco Arts Centre Studio, Is this a case of lunar lunacy or simply a man on a moral mission? 180 Hammersley Road, Subiaco. Exhibition runs ’til Friday, November Considerable Funk! is the hilariously original debut performance for Climbing Vine Theatre 27. Company, a new company which is the evolution of Kalamunda Youth Theatre Company. After Troy Barbitta: New Works, ABD The Gallery, seven years successfully producing over twenty 240 Lake Street, Northbridge. five original shows in Kalamunda, the company Using the latest design techniques and his has moved out of the hills to bring its productions fascination of 17th century illustrations, Troy to larger audiences, performing in such venues as Barbitta brings his final art pieces together the Perth Town Hall and the Subiaco Arts Centre. through the combination of weird thoughts, Written and Directed by award winning writer plaster, paint, concrete and lacquer. The Emma Humphreys, Considerable Funk! is a hilarious inspiration for Troy’s work comes from blogs, musical comedy about the trappings of fame. magazines and moments from real-life events, Considerable Funk! looks behind the scenes of a as well as his travels immersed in the arts pop music T.V. show and is performed by Perth’s saturated cultures of places like Melbourne and New York. finest up and coming actors. Exhibition opens on Friday, Season opens on Thursday, November 12, and runs ’til Saturday, November 14. Bookings November 13, and runs ’til Sunday, November 29. can be made through BOCS.

Making Friends Is Easy by Laura Adel Johnson Alda’s Gallery And Project Space, Wolf Lane, Perth. The inaugural exhibition at Alda’s Gallery and Project Space features the unique art of Carol Wells, Laura Adel Johnson and Rizzy. All three artists use unconventional mediums, manipulating their supplies to create pieces that draw viewers in through familiar materials and alluring aesthetics. Carol Wells’ artwork reconfigures recycled packaging into sculptures and large puppet clouds made of painted paper that creates a floating landscape. Rizzy is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice incorporates installation, photography, performance, print and sculpture. Through her work she explores the decadent trappings of femininity using crystalline sparkly sugar, against delicate luxurious icing to create curvaceous lines, feminine form and intricate undergarments. Laura Adel Johnson is a multimedia artist who uses unconventional materials to make drawings that describe or comment on the current social/political environment. Her most recent series of works utilize fairy lights to create large scale illustrative portraits of people that seductively spill down the walls and floors tracing the hypnotic gaze of the subject. Exhibition runs ’til Saturday, November 28. 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 runs ’til Saturday, November 21.

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Heart Of Gold, PICA Performance Space, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge. Iris Brown lives in isolation with her children, Angus and Violet, until their solitude is broken by the arrival of Constable Irving Saddle. As Irving’s control gradually infects the household, Angus becomes dangerously unhinged from reality. He retreats to ‘Westralia’ – a fantasy version of WA, fighting for its independence from the East. As Angus’ waking and dreaming lives melt into one another, Irving uncovers a horrible secret beneath the family’s house. Set in rural WA, Heart Of Gold is the result of an intensive collaboration between three interdisciplinary visual artists – Thea Costantino,Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont – and their exploration of nationhood and West Australian identity. Season runs ’til Saturday, November 14. Bookings can be made through PICA on (08) 9228 6300 or online at pica.org.au(.)

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Counter Point, His Majesty’s Theatre, Hay Street, Perth. Strut Dance presents Counter Point - three extraordinary dance artists in one remarkable show. This triple-bill will give Perth audiences the chance to see a work from one of France’s most intriguing choreographers, a rare performance by WA’s best-known dance artist, as well as a new work from one of the hot new choreographers with West Australian Ballet. Didier Théron is renowned as a cutting-edge maker of provocative danceworks. His new piece, Harakiri is a highly physical and emotional work centering around the Japanese notion of self-sacrifice. Chrissie Parrott’s incredible career as a dance artist has spanned four decades and Counter Point will be her first time performing on stage since 1996 in the Perth Festival. Under the artistic direction of Ivan Cavallari, West 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.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, His Majesty’s Theatre, Hay Street, Perth. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, known affectionately as ‘The Trocks’, combine the physical capabilities of male dancers with the grace and grandeur of ballerinas. Add a layer of expert clowning and you have a company of dancers that lovingly lampoon the conventions of classical ballet. The Trocks deliver delicious entertainment for everyone. Long-time converts and first time fans will marvel at the comic timing, sheer athletic ability and skills that rival any prima ballerina. Season opens on Wednesday, November 18, and runs ’til Sunday, November 22. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

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LIFESTYLE

LASHINGS OF LOMO LOVE If sporting a moustache makes you look like

sleazy porn-star, or if you are simply unable to grow a mo, fear not, because the lads and lasses at Pigeonhole have devised a clever plan to help you support the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Beyond Blue during Movember. Instead of encouraging folks to cultivate a crumb catcher for Movember, Pigeonhole invites members of the public to head along to a free exhibition of lomography photography, which will be auctioned off at the launch of Lomovember on Friday, November 6. For those who haven’t already caught the Lomo bug, Lomography cameras were developed for use during the Cold War, and since then, have become a favourite of amateur and professional photographers looking to play with light leaks, colour flashes and perspective. Over the last few months, Lomo lovers have submitted their photographs to Pigeonhole, who chose the best from the bunch, and the finest images will be exhibited at 104B Murray Street (behind Ambar) on Friday, November 6, at 7pm, ’til Sunday, November 8. Over 100 images from 40 budding Lomographers will be up for sale via silent auction with profits from artwork and raffle sales going to Prostate Cancer research and mens’ health awareness. To keep the Lomo spirit flowing, Pigeonhole’s resident Lomography experts Yolanda Stapleton, Rikki Burns and Fiona McCallum, will host Lomography workshops to teach basic and advanced skills. On Saturday, November 7, Lomo beginners a r e i nv i t e d t o p a r t i c i p a t e i n a n 1 1 a m workshop, that will run through various basic Lomo techniques; and at 2pm later that day, a workshop for the Diana F+ camera will be held. On Sunday, November 8, another beginners workshop will be held at 11am, with a Lomo Experts workshop at 2pm. To find out more about Lomovember, head online to lomovember.com. To get your hands on a Lomo camera of your own, check out Pigeonhole’s online store at pigeonhole. com.au or visit one of their two stores in person, at the Bon Marche Arcade and Shafto Lane in Perth.

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Link Dance Company (Photo: Christophe Canato)

THE MISSING LINK If your wardrobe is busting at the seams with ill-fitting garments or

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outfits you simply never wear, be sure to head along to Link Dance Company’s massive clothes swap on Saturday, November 7, to swap ’til you drop. Fashion fanatics are invited to make their way to Studio A at WAAPA’s Mt Lawley Campus, to exchange unwanted items with other swappers, to raise funds for Link Dance Company. Entry is only $10, with a complimentary glass of champagne for participants once clothes have been checked in. Doors open at 1pm for swappers to check-in their items, with the swap taking place at 2pm. WAAPA is located at 2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley. _EMMA BERGMEIER

THE SKYE’S THE LIMIT

To celebrate turning 100, the Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club will host a special cocktail party on Saturday, November 14, with entertainment in the form of a stylish fashion parade. Talented West Australian designer Kirsten Shadbolt will showcase her label Paper Skye at the event, with designs from her Spring/Summer 09/10 collection, Dreams By The Lakeside. Featuring beautiful smocking details, and hand dyed, 100 per cent silk, Paper Skye garments ooze elegance and sophistication. To purchase a ticket, which includes food and drink, head to cottsurf.com or email admin@cottsurf.com(.)

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THIS WEEKEND AT

The Nu Wave of Nu Rave

LA RIOTS (DANIEL LINTON) K.I.M. & BENI VILLA NIGHTCLUB FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER I N FO

187 Stirling Street. Doors open 10pm Tickets: $25+BF Available from: Planet Video,

Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP, Moshtix and inthemix.com.au www.boomtick.com.au or events@boomtick.com.au www.myspace.com/lariotsofficial www.myspace.com/kimberleyisaacmoyes www.myspace.com/listentobeni

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Hittin’ the town since 1985

RAHZEL

GODFATHER OF NOYZE Seeing the self-proclaimed ‘Godfather of Noyze’ Rahzel perform live is an offer few hip hop heads can – or should – refuse. JOSHUA HAYES speaks with the world renowned beatboxer about his upcoming tour. Rahzel has played in Perth twice previously, supporting Method Man and Redman in 2005 and then performing at Good Vibrations in 2007. Joined onstage by DJ JS-1 of the Rock Steady Crew, he wowed local punters with near-perfect vocal recreations of the beats from Jay-Z’s Dirt Off Your Shoulder, Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot and Eric Sermon’s React. He says that his upcoming show will be the same formula. “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” he adds. “The audience comes first. Coming from The Roots, that’s the formula that I know.” In addition to his regular touring schedule, Rahzel is also working on a number of new albums – not that he’s keen to talk about them. “I really don’t like talking about these projects ‘cos it pretty much gives other people ideas,” he says. “I don’t like really giving out too much information about the stuff that I’m working on.” It’s an odd stance to take. After all, interviews are opportunities for artists to promote their new projects; to sell themselves. But for Rahzel, generally considered to be at the very forefront of beatboxing, an art form that is still defining itself, it sort of makes sense. Beatboxing has always been a little brother to the four established elements of hip hop – rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti. This oftforgotten fifth element is finally gaining some mainstream attention due to acts like Joel Turner and Blake Lewis beatboxing on Australian and American Idol respectively, however Rahzel has been elevating the art form – and influencing every other beatboxer – for decades.

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 DO THE TRYST

NAPT will play at Breakfest 2009

ROGER THAT

Roger Shah

It’s been a stellar year for trance DJ/producer Roger Shah, one that saw him get to #21 in the 2009 DJ Mag Top 100, and out out three massive album releases on trance giant label Armada, not to mention being awarded #1 spot for a trance hit on online site Beatport. Armin Van Buuren chose no less than three of Roger’s songs in his A State of Trance Top 100 and to top it all off, Shah was nominated in dance music’s night of nights, the 24th Annual International Dance Music Awards in Miami for Best Break-Through DJ of 2008. Join Roger Shah as he shares some of his biggest hits, remixes and new unreleased material with the Rise audience on Saturday, November 14. Door sales only 9.30pm – 6am. Rise members $10 before 11pm $15 thereafter. Non-members $15 before 11pm $25 thereafter.

BREAK OUT THE WIN At the recent Faster Louder Festival Awards, wherein Australian festival goers vote for their fave festivals and acts nationwide, local Boxing Day breaks festival Breakfest recently took out the ‘Best Value For Money’ prize! Congrats to a great festival for a well deserved accolade. The high caliber artist/low ticket price ratio continues this year, with Breakfest 2009 set to go down on Saturday, December 26, at Belvoir Ampitheatre, with a host of talent (Napt, Miles Dyson, Mickey Slim, Elite Force and The Nextmen, to name a few) set to appear. Early bird tickets $73 plus booking fee now available from LIVE Clothing, Planet Video, Mills Records, 78 Records, Moshtix Outlets and online from the moshtix.com.au and inthemix.com.au(.) Thereafter, Breakfest tickets will be $83 plus booking fee. Get in quick, this one’s officially an award winning festival!

REGGAE ACTION Summer – the perfect season for lounging by the pool, Pina Coladas, and a little laid back reggae music…for the last two years, the huge reggae festival Raggamuffin has blazed a trail through Australian capital cities, and it’s back for 2009, with a cast drawn from around the world. Heading the line up is Grammy award winner Wyclef Jean. With sales of over 30 million under his belt, he was a pivotal member of one of the biggest selling hip hop groups of all time, The Fugees, and is more than ready to share with us all his work as a solo artist, as he previews tracks at Raggamuffin from his brand new album, Music Theory. Son of Bob Marley, Julian Marley, also brings his soulful vocals, hypnotic beats and the roots-reggae sound to Raggamuffin, along with one of Jamaica’s finest musical exports – Shaggy! International platinum selling artist Sean Kingston will get the crowd moving to selection of his feel-good anthems, as will the UK’s only Grammy Award winning Reggae

Wyclef Jean group – Steel Pulse, bring a large dose of their spiritually up lifting music. Blue King Brown, Sly & Robbie, House of Shem and more will also strut their stuff for ‘Ragga. Raggamuffin hits Perth on January 25 at Members Equity Stadium. Tickets through Ticketmaster on 136 100 or www. ticketmaster.com.au(.)

Bexta

THE BEX IS BACK BeXta has made a unique and integral contribution to Australian dance music history. As well as having been permanent fixture in the InTheMix Top 50 DJ poll, Melbourne-residing BeXta runs local Melbourne night Bass Station and travels to up to three different cities every weekend of the year. Currently in its 12th instalment, BeXta’s mix series compilation, Mixology, is one of the longest lasting DJ compilations of that genre in Australia, and the CDs have become a collectors item. BeXta will be working her magic at Rise on Friday, November 20. Rise members $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter. Non-members $10 before 11pm, $15 thereafter. Doors open 10pm.

DOOMSDAY Sydney’s The Bang Gang Deejays recently started their own label, Bang Gang 12”, under which they’ve already released a slew of prominent artists, including KIM (The Presets), Muscles and Nicky Van She, not to mention Perth’s own Shazam’s 12”, Pool Party. The deadly duo that founded the label, Doom and Hoodrat (2/5 of the Gang) are in town to send crowds into a frenzy with their non stop party machine of a DJ set. Cavaliers of club, barons of Baltimore, tramps of techno and hobos of house, Doom and Hoodrat are a double act not to be missed! They’ll be leant a helping hand by local disco dons Thunderclaps, as well as Bad Weather, Hickey, MUV and in the Habitat Room: Flex, Darren J, Luke Reti, La Gooch, Matt Wright and Dario K. Saturday, November 14 , at Shape, East Perth. Limited $15 early bird tickets from www.shapebar.com.au. More on the door if available. Doors open 10pm.

A ‘tryst’ is, by definition, an appointment to meet or a secret rendezvous between lovers – it’s also the name of the exciting new Saturday night weekly Tryst at the Onyx Bar in West Perth, that kicks off this very Saturday. With a huge weekly line up, that includes Perth local superstar DJs Lara H, Paul Malone and Maxwell, for the opening night spectacular, Tryst have enlisted the help of Steve Edwards, whom you may know as the guy that co-wrote the smash hit World Hold On, with Bob Sinclair, or Watch The Sunrise, with Axwell, or whom you may recognise frno his collaborations with Basement Jaxx and Cassius. The going gets started this Saturday, November 7, at Onyx. Tickets on the door, or are available for $20 presale, and can be organised by calling Onyx Bar on 9321 8661. Doors open 7pm.

RAHZEL’S RULES Beatbox maestro Rahzel (of The Roots) hits Perth this week with his eclectic sounds. A master of the art, Rahzel is able to recreate full songs, with accompaniment by himself without instrumentation, able to sing a chorus and provide a backing beat simultaneously, able to invoke impressions of singers and rappers on a whim. Perth punters last caught Rahzel when he supported Method Man’s Perth show in 2007. Roll up for Rahzel next Thursday, November 12, at The Rosemount, joined on stage by his renowned tour DJ, JS-1 from Rock Steady Crew, with support from Belief, Porsah Lane, Diger Rockwell & DJ’s Fdel, Armee and Lstreet. Tickets on sale from outlets and online www.moshtix.com.au, www.oztix.com.au, www. heatseeker.com.au and Highs & Lows stores.

REBOOT YOUR ENGINES Germany’s Frank Heinrich, AKA Reboot, is known for his approach to performance and production, a melange of genres based around what he calls ‘complex polyrhythmic architecture’. With a musical heritage that spans house, techno, world music and jazz, proven releases on such labels as Below, Cadenza and Cocoon, an explosive live show and a DJ career that’s more versatile than many imagine, Reboot has earned every inch of his reputation as a ‘speaker-freaker’. In fact, he now spearheads what others are calling the new sound of Frankfurt, alongside friends like Chris Tietjen, Robert Dietz and Markus Fix. Reboot brings his cutting edge sounds to Ambar on Friday, December 11. Keep your eyes firmly glued to Salt for more details to come!

ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISO Now in its second year, boutique party event Club Paradiso returns to help you bring in 2010 in style. Swedish House Mafia main man Sebastian Ingrosso plus Australia’s very own dance deities Dirty South will provide the entertainment at this event, hosted on the banks of the river, and featuring a gourmet BBQ and day beds! Sebastian Ingrosso is that rare thing Killa Queenz in dance music: a musician who understands the FIT FOR A QUEEN world of melodies just as well as he understands They ’re already favourites of Canadian the power of the kick drum. As both a producer heavyweights South Rakkas Crew, who produced and globe trotting DJ, Sebastian Ingrosso is two tracks on their album Sistarhood, and this a man on fire and ready to heat up this New month Sydney’s premier female hip-hop crew, Year’s Day. Dirty South is Australia’s great dance KillaQueenz, embark on an eight piece live music export and has had an impressive rise to band tour of Australia to strut their stuff. Hailing stardom. He made an instant name for himself in from Uganda and Belize, Kween G and Belizean the dance music world with his remix of It’s Too Bombshell draw inspiration from their respective Late for Evermore. Having played everywhere homelands and cultural heritage to bring a from Pacha Ibizia to Exit Festival Serbia, Miami distinctly original voice to the Australian hip hop Music Conference to Sensation White Europe, scene: imagine a tag team dose of real female girl he is currently blazing a streak of world-beating power akin to the likes of Yo Majesty, Peaches and form. Don’t miss your chance to catch these M.I.A. Their live show leaves all the lads and the two world class artists in a laid-back festival ladies in the house hungry for more, with the girls atmosphere. Limited early bird tickets are $125 recently nominated for Best Live Perfomance at the from inthemix.com.au and moshtix.com.au innagural ‘SMAC Awards’, presented by FBI Radio and Time Out Magazine. Catch the ‘Queenz at the top Rosemount in North Perth on Friday, December 4, (with support from Porsha Laine, Mathas and DJ Armee); Saturday, December 5, at Mojo’s in Fremantle; and Sunday, December 6, at the Indi ALBUMS PUSHING OUR WRITERS’ Bar in Scarborough (with support from Porsa Laine BUTTONS THIS WEEK… and DJ Armee). Tickets through www.moshtix.com. au or www.heatseeker.com.au: $15 plus booking BIBIO fee presales, or $20 on the door. The Apple and The Tooth

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PDMAS: MAKE IT A DATE!

Celebrating another epic year in the scene, the 11th Annual Perth Dance Music Awards are set to take place on Sunday, December 6, at the Rosemount Hotel. And so we can see out the winners in style, the PDMAs have organized an all-star cast of local dancefloor talent to keep us entertained well into the evening. Winner of the 2008 Habitat DJ Competition, Darren J, will get behind the decks, as will Minimal X-Posure regular Joe Stawarz. Also spinning are Rhythm Trippin’ presenter on RTRFM, Smurf, Mach-1, Devo and Tee Al. Get down to the Rosemount from 3pm for all the action, entry is free. Voting for the PDMAs is now open, and ends on Friday November 20, so head to http:// www.perthdancemusicawards.org/vote.php and make your vote count! You’ll also go in the running to win two tickets to Future Music Festival, Summadayze, and Breakfest, not to mention a record gift pack and more – certainly no reason to be lazy! 36

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JON O’BIR THE NEW GENERATION

RAHZEL

By 19 years of age, Jon O’Bir held a coveted residency at super club Godskitchen in the UK. Fast forward six years and he now boasts his own successful radio show and is signed to Paul Van Dyk’s mega label, Vandit Records. GLEN CANNING caught up with O’Bir.

MAINROOM THURSDAY

PASHA’S KITCHEN

The Big Man cooking up Meaty Beats. Free Entry

FRIDAY

Rockus & Drum Media presents the return of live music at the Scotto with

MILE END

and DJs Rok Riley and Joe 19

SATURDAY

UNDER THE INFLUENCE with Andrei Mazz and the U.T.I. all-stars

SUNDAY

PIZZA & PINT

Nathan J, Dan Tha Man and The Nisbit

WEDNESDAY

UNIQUE

WITH DJ’S SELECT AND MISSILE. BRING YOUR STUDENT ID PLEASE.E.

UPSTAIRS FRIDAY

THE BEAT SUITE

Micah and Sharif Galal and Guests. 9pm Free Entry

SATURDAY

FLYING HIGH

Indie Rock, Avant Pop, Classic Rock and Party Faves with Sarah Delfante vs. Scot Smith, Ryan Sandilands, Cutter & Angie Boyce vs. Dave Owen. Free Entry 8pm

He is regarded by Paul Van Dyk as one of the most exciting producers in the world today and with a string of brilliant releases to his name, it’s not hard to see why. Despite his rapidly growing list of achievements and accolades, Jon remains modest when discussing his rapid rise, “I needed a hell of a lot of luck to break into the scene when I was young, being in the right place at the right time, everything just seemed to fall into place at the start of my career and I think that’s what you need.” 2008 saw the release of Jon’s first artist album, From Within, which was released on Vandit Records, home to some of trance’s greatest producers of the last decade. “It’s a dream come true really to work with Paul Van Dyk. The list goes on with the amount of huge artists that are on Vandit and just really is a privilege to join such an elite group of artists.” With an ever widening spectrum of trance sub-genres, some DJs and producers have drawn the line and now only want to be known as electronic music producers. O’Bir contemplates the significance of genre specific labels in carving a niche in the industry. “I’ve never been one to step away from saying that I play trance but I think it’s pretty important. We’ve got all these genres popping out now so I think it’s quite important to state what style of music you’re going to play as it gives the listener an insight of what you’re going to play on the night. “I love the old school trance and all of the melodies and I love putting a new twist on it but it can be kind of tough trying to work the old and new together,” continues O’ Bir. Not content with his phenomenal solo success, he has teamed up with Rob Stevenson to give rise to Aria Force. “It was a bit of a break really from our own names and productions. We thought why not smash out a new alias and we made some tracks and got a lot of support from Armin Van Buuren who really picked up the Aria Force name.” November will mark O’Bir’s second visit to Australia, having previously toured to Perth for Godskitchen last year: O’Bir has fond

memories of his time in Perth. “Perth, well Australia as a whole is just such a quality place, everyone just seems so relaxed and there’s a great vibe about the club nights, there’s pretty great weather too so it’s got everything going for it and hopefully it will keep continuing on and I’ll be able to go over there to Perth and Australia once, maybe twice a year still.” It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it, as Jon explains, “It’s amazing to be doing a job like this that I love you know! I think the next key stage for me is trying to sneak into the DJ Mag Top 100 list, just trying to get in there. I just want to keep cracking the tracks out, you know get my sound out there, just keep doing what I’m doing and fingers crossed. I just keep climbing that ladder!”

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Jon O Bir

JON O’ BIR (+ MIKE FOYLE) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ RISE, NORTHBRIDGE

WIPPENBERG AN ELECTRIFYING PROGRESSION

His MySpace page boldly proclaims “I’m the boy you’ve heard about!”, but Wippenberg, aka Olaf Dieckmann, makes it very clear that home crowds are always the toughest to win over. REUBEN ADAMS sits down for a relaxed chat.

THURSDAY

The Gonzo Show. Steve Shelly W.A. tour

FRIDAY

DEUCE presents BREAKS, HIP HOP, DRUM & BASS. FASHION PARADES & LIVE VISUALS. Live beats from RAYZA, YARHKOB & DJ SUMO. FASHION PARADE BY WILL WEAVER. LIVE DIGITAL GRAFFITI BY SHOES & SOCKS DOORS OPEN & 8, FREE ENTRY

SATURDAY The Community presents all that’s fresh in the local Hip Hop scene

SUNRDAY M ROSNER LP Launch. After a three year hiatus M Rosner returns with “Repeat” a Ltd edition 12” with special guests Adam Trainer & Gilbert Fawn. Doors open 6pm Pizza & Pint special with Nathan J, Dan tha Man and The Nisbit.

TUESDAY Free Films Doors open 5pm Film at 7pm

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Wippenberg

It seems bizarre at first glance, but his homeland of Germany is well behind the eight-ball when it comes to the Wippenberg phenomenon. “I just did an interview in Germany on an online radio station, and the funny thing was they were all about my Kidsos remix. It was the first track they had ever heard from me,” he laughs.” When I told them ‘Hey man, I’ve been in the business for 15 years!’ they were totally shocked. That’s what I mean; German people are just not into that type of music.” By ‘that type of music’ Wippenberg is referring to trance and progressive, which is remarkable considering Germany is often cited as the birthplace of trance culture.So what happened? “I think the big sell-out of trance was in 2002. Most German DJs play more in foreign countries more than their home country, especially if it’s trance or progressive Trance, because that kind of music is kind of dead in Germany,” he muses.“It’s broken up into two separate things right now; the big main room clubs play mostly house and r’n’b, and the real club scene plays mostly minimal and techno stuff.” Perhaps this has been a boon for Wippenberg, as his sound ranges widely and incorporates anything that takes his artistic fancy. His big room banger Chakalaka was (and still is) a Beatport rocket, as is his remix of Axwell’s Kidsos (which samples MGMT’s Kids). His new single Pong (named after the first video game he ever owned) was released a week ago and seems destined to take the same route. “For me it’s quite interesting, because I’m always keeping my eyes open to a wide

range of different styles; with minimal and techno being quite popular in Germany at the moment I have a lot of contact with that style.” He infers that the death of trance in his own country has just unlocked new possibilities. “I might listen to a minimal track and really like the way that they introduce a particular sound, and then try and do a similar thing in my own tracks, but mix it up with my own style.” After his record company went bankrupt in 2003 Wippenberg stopped DJing entirely, and focused solely on his productions. He pauses. “I was just a little bit tired of it. I just decided to stay at home with my family and focus on my production, but then some years later I began thinking ‘Oh man, I miss playing live’, and that was the reason I decided to go on tour again.” He doesn’t do things by halves either. At the time of this interview, Wippenberg is sitting in a hotel in Jakarta after playing a gig at X2 the night before. Instead of relaxing in Perth for a couple of days before his set for international trance event Freefall at Metro City, he’s about to jump on a plane back to Germany for a couple of days. He makes it sound positively chaotic.“I’m going back home to Germany tomorrow, just to jump back on another plane on Thursday to come to Australia. I’ll be in Perth on Friday, Sydney on Saturday, and then on Sunday I think I’m flying back home,” he chuckles. WIPPENBERG FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ FREEFALL, METRO CITY

“I didn’t really have any equipment or really have any outlets to produce music on DJ equipment, so out of necessity I began to beatbox,” he says, explaining how he first started. “When I first heard Fat Boys that kinda gave me the idea, like, ‘okay, that’s what I need to do’.” His other influences range from Biz Markie to Bobby McFerrin, however perhaps the most significant was his cousin Rahiem, a member of Grandmaster Flash’s Furious Five. The hip hop pioneers were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, which is where Rahzel wants to take his chosen art form. “When I look at beatboxing, I’m just trying to help propel it to astronomical heights where one day it will be recognised with the Grandmaster Flash’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” Rahzel says. “Hopefully it inspires me and I hope it inspires others who wanna push it to that level.” After his early exposure to hip hop through Rahiem, Rahzel began establishing his reputation as the best beatboxer on America’s east coast, before joining live hip hop juggernauts The Roots. He toured and recorded with the group for a number of years, before going his own way to work on solo projects. In 1999 he released his solo debut Make The Music 2000, which was followed compilation album Rahzel’s Greatest Hits in 2004. At the same time he began working with an eclectic group of collaborators, from Bjork to Ben Harper to former Faith No More front man Mike Patton on his Peeping Tom project. He’s currently working on Greatest Hits Volume 2, which will be coming out on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Records. “This one is a little more geared towards the whole essence of hip hop, you know? The hard beats, hard rhymes, beatboxing. This one tells a little bit more of a story than Volume 1. It has excerpts from a movie that I did,” he says. That movie, The Magnificent Cooly T, is perhaps the first feature film about beatboxing and is scheduled for a 2010 release. He has also finished another album called Superhuman, but is looking for a distributor to put the project out. “The Superhuman album is more experimental, with different artists. It’s hip hop based but it’s more experimental, with different artists from different genres, like Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Everlast, DJ Muggs.” These albums have been in the works for years, and Rahzel blames the delays, in part, on trying to stay ahead of his imitators. “Sometimes people are, like, ‘why are you taking so long?’,” he says. “Every time I say something (I’m planning to do) it’s like next thing I turn around, on YouTube someone’s doing it, you know? Sometimes I’ve got to shift gears. Sometimes it works against me. You know? They wanna jump on what I’m doing and try to do it before I do it.” “Everything that I’m doing, my main focus is to elevate anyone that’s trying to beatbox, and to push them in the direction of being more creative,’ he says. “I’m trying to hit every venue, I’m trying to hit every avenue in order to elevate what I do, and to elevate the kids that are coming behind me, to give them a more creative outlet.” RAHZEL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 @ ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Hittin’ the town since 1985

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Chris Clark throws sound around with flair and precision. ANGELA KING checks in with the maestro ahead of his live Australian debut this weekend. Another mind blowing eccentric artist within the exceptionally talented Warp Records family, Chris Clark’s career currently spans around 20 years. With six EPs and five LPs to his name in his time on warp the Warp roster, Clark takes us back to the beginning of this well made marriage. “I sent them [Warp Records] some tapes and minidisks of stuff that became Clarence Park [Clark’s debut album] within about three weeks. It was a sort of joke at first - just a thoroughly engaging one that meant I wouldn’t have to carry on delivering pizzas for a living. I still sort of approach music a bit like that I guess - a sort of delicious, tantalising joke that makes you laugh, cry and shit yourself.” Clark’s latest offering - Totems Flare – is an eleven track calamity of noise Clark himself describes as “energetic, mellow, soft, abrasive, crude, sophisticated, horrible, beautiful and careless.” He suggests creating this style of music was always at the back of his mind; however this ‘style’ is constantly evolving, as he shares: “I think I had an idea about it once or twice. It changes all the time. When it doesn’t something is going wrong I reckon... I’ve been pretty critical of myself

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recently, realised a few habits that need changing and shaking up a bit since I finished Totems Flare..... it’s hard to maintain the discipline when you’re on tour so much but next year is free, I’m gonna reform and mutate myself again through militant dedication.” Clark’s music has an intricate groove about it: a melange of boisterous drums and gritty warped samples created with old school synths and valve amplifiers, although it’s not all vintage: “I’m too much of a nerd to ignore the new software coming through!”,explains the artist. “I make loads of mellow tunes, folk-y stuff, piano tunes, vocal tunes and atmospheres but whenever I play live it just doesn’t excite me enough to use this material... So I tend to sort of play the more dance floor edge of my sound, it seems to work. It seems to mix better with beers and vodka somehow.” A relentless tour schedule through Europe has kept Clark occupied of late, with performances at various Warp 20 celebrations around the world, and while this has been a

worthwhile experience, it has left Clark eager for studio time.“I’ve just been doing loads of live shows for them; it’s been fun but man it takes up so much music making time...” He adds, “All this birthday indulgence makes me want to turn my phone off and sit in front of a tape-player with a drum kit and a piano for about three years. I’m going to maroon myself.” Visiting Perth (and Australia!) for the first time this Friday night, Clark brings his live performance to The Republic, and from all reports it’s set to be a tantalising spectacle, as Clark himself confirms to us. “The live show is all hardware samplers and a few guitar pedals, nice and simple, with old tracks and new unreleased stuff all ready to be mangled and re-processed at the push of some buttons, plus some visuals courtesy of the wonderful Flat-E.” CLARK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ BAR REPUBLIC, SHAFTO LANE, PERTH

With a career that spans nearly two decades, German DJ/ producer David Moufang runs a number of different projects, is a wizard in the studio and equally proficient on stage. RZ gets in deep with the house legend. “I knew that music was the thing for me when I was a four-year-old boy,” begins Moufang, “My mum had just married my stepdad and he had the most amazing record collection and home stereo, which he even allowed me to use. That was around 1970 and I was discovering The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and so on. It took quite a while before I picked up any instruments - first were the drums when I was about ten.” No surprise then that he turned his mind to beats and bars. The names mentioned above and the likes of Miles Davis or Frederic Chopin are preferred - but also ‘70s funk and ‘80s boogie – “I listen to many different things!” chimes the master. “In the early ‘90s the fact that there was only techno but not a lot of listening electronic music motivated me to explore that kind of leftfield electronica that I was doing on ‘kunststoff ’. Of course, you can also hear what else influenced me at that time: Larry Heard, Carl Craig, Marc Kinchen, Nexus 21, Rob Gordon, KLF, DJ Pierre…today a good party can be very motivating, a good record by someone else, but also a not so great record by myself can be a good push to prove that I can do better!”

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Over the years, Moufang has seen many trends come and go yet he still believes in house music. “There are records in my case that may date back to 1988 but they are still unequalled put out recently. I guess from a party / DJ point of view, the concept of rather straight beats at around +/- 120 bpm will last for a while - I think that kind of groove and tempo is one archaic root element of (dance) music. Of course, there were times where I could relate to the obvious trends better or worse. In general I loved the ‘90s until clicks and cuts and electro clash took over. I also loved early deep house music, liked the ‘90s minimal sound of Rob Hood and Dan Bell but I never got to warm with the recent (German) minimal techno hype - blessings for the return of deep house and a friendly, love and emotional driven vibe in the clubs once again - if you can’t get the girls you will not get a party!” As for his tour, Moufang’s stoked w i t h t h e Berlin S essions l i n e u p. “ I a m happy to know who I will be playing with - sometimes this can be a problem, if you don’t know who you will be playing with and what k ind of sound it is. I’m really looking forward to my first time down under - always heard great reports, now I will get a chance to find out for myself!” MOVE D FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ BECKS BERLIN SESSIONS, AMBAR

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ANTHONY PAPPA Moments Volume 2 [Red Light District / Stomp]

A local boy making waves across the globe, Anthony Pappa has been in the game for the past 15 years and Moments Volume 2 is the eagerly anticipated follow up to last year’s Volume 1. He has an uncanny ability to fuse elements of house, techno and progressive into a seamless collection of mouth watering tracks from the darker side of electronica. Disc Two really starts moving courtesy of a Reset Robot progressive double header. Both M Siren and Continue complement each other to perfection, rolling out a distinct progressive underlay punctuated with tech inspired harmonies. Brendon Moeller’s The Big Thrill is an aptly titled track which hammers wave after wave of fluctuating rhythms. Positioned half way through the mix, is the pinnacle of what’s on offer on Disc One. Disc Two immediately reveals itself to be considerably edgier and darker than its predecessor with one being swept away on a journey through the shadowy underground of progressive. Tracks

such as the throbbing, unrelenting bass line in Paul Jackson’s Souls and the persistent tribal drums of Peter Horrevorts Romance Is Overrated have a hypnotic charm, whilst the uplifting melodies of Glen Morrison’s Orange Glow briefly illuminate the mix. Worthy of special mention is the cranking track The Call Of The Wild by Silicone Soul which pierces the darkness with tranquil refrains until it unexpectedly gives way to a funky, thumping beat. Anthony Pappa has long been regarded one of the best progressive DJs in the world - the release of Moments Volume 2 will only further enhance his reputation. GLEN CANNING 4 / 5

JOAKIM & THE DISCO Milky Ways [!K7/Inertia]

producer started the hipster dance label trend with Tigersushi, a Kitsuné before Kitsuné. After his second album died alongside the sole hard drive it was housed in, Bouaziz had the stones to re-record it with actual studio musicians, and created a masterpiece (Monsters & Silly Songs) to hasten the demise of electro-house. So here’s Bouaziz’s third LP proper, entirely recorded with his now-seasoned band, The Disco. The bad news: it starts with an eightminute track, Back To Wilderness, designed to fuck with everyone’s disco expectations by delivering a whole bunch of Sabbath-lite thrashing. Get past this faux pas and things improve radically: second track Ad Me has the elastic funk of WhoMadeWho melded with vintage synths and the kind of weird vocoder effects not heard since everyone started taking cues from Daft Punk. Lead single Spiders is this album’s highlight: cascading Italo arpeggios meet Talking Heads-like male/female harmonies with a chugging Afrobeat backing (so yes, it sounds like a Remain In Light B-side,but that’s not a bad thing).It’s hardly an album of dancefloor destroyers, though: many tracks (Glossy Papers, King Kong Is Dead) are downbeat numbers that flirt with jazz and blues. In Milky Ways, Joakim reveals himself to be an inveterate adventurer without concern for genre – and you could do much worse than joining him for the ride. CHAD PARKHILL 4 / 5

In the cold light of 2009, it’s hard not to see Joakim Bouaziz as a visionary. The Parisian DJ and

HUDSON MOHAWKE Butter [Warp/Inertia]

Hudson Mohawke AKA Ross Birchard is an inspirational musical prodigy. He won the UK DMC Championships at age 14 under the ‘DJ Itchy’ alias, and was announced back in 2007 as the latest edition to the prestigious Warp family. At the tender age of 23, he has released his debut LP Butter, and unsurprisingly so, nothing about it is standard. Joy Fantastic sparkles with an infectious, funk beat, with Olivier Daysoul’s quirky lyrical input lending the track an ‘80s disco feel; certainly as overtly danceable as the lyric ‘just be fancy free and do it whenever your heart desires’ would suggest. Obscure track Acoustic Lady is a serene interval to the madness, proving Birchard unafraid to explore minimal vibes within the kaleidoscopic calamity of his compositions. Just Decided ft. Oliver Daysoul and Tell Me What You Want From Me ft. Dam Funk are equally seductive: sleazy, fruity funk beat dabbling with soul and r’n’b. Vivacity and oddity reign supreme throughout the album. Exceptionally luscious track FUSE showcases a mesh of hand claps and flute-like synth melodies. Star Crackout, also featured on the Polyfolk Dance EP, has a vintage vibe with incoherent samples of romantic sentiment saturating the hymn like track. The infatuating sound of fellow Glaswegian Nadsroic exhales over a pounding marching drum in suggestive ditty Allhot. This infectious album immediately requires repeated listening. Butter doesn’t give a second thought to being pigeonholed as one or even two separate genres – making it something truly original in a sometimes sea of imitations. There is no more better advice than to promptly buy this album and listen for yourself. ANGELA KING 5/5

LEE COOMBS Light & Dark [Lot 49 Records]

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Fighting over the territory that Elite Force and Meat Katie have occupied in the past couple of years with one-off productions, Lee Coombs has lifted the lid on a full artist album, Light & Dark – a fat-bottomed effort featuring some massive artillery. The first salvo fired is Control, the saw-laden throbber that’s already a proven winner on 12-inch and in clubland. Bass Dweller is another bomb; a double-kick on the first beat nodding to the breaks massive, a kick-ass octave jump and simply obscene amounts of resonance all slamming the floor into top gear. At the album’s midpoint, the title track is appropriately named, with dark tribal percussion and an entranced vocal hook soaring into a classic 303-styled melody. Coombs’ acid house breeding comes through in most tracks, and he splashes a bit Chicago vocal flavour around with a diva (Katherine Ellis) opening up the lungs in You Make Me Crazy and Control. On the other hand, his subsequent years exploring breakbeat aren’t as transparent – but the influence is there hidden in the percussion, despite the kick drum being stuck quite strongly to the floor in 4/4. It’s apparent from the feel of the album that Coombs wants to win by brute force; rupturing bass bins seems to be top priority, though there are a couple of quite surprising and successful departures (his take on Echo & The Bunnymen in the album’s closer Blues I’m Singing most notable). Light & Dark shows that although Coombs hasn’t won the war, he’s got the firepower to rage on for some time yet. SCOTT HARMS 3 / 5

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Ù THURSDAY 05/11 LLAMA BAR RUN RABBIT RUN Perth’s finest disco DJs come together to provide something just a little bit different for the discerning crowd in this new Thursday weekly. Sink back in a plush couch, sip a cocktail at the bar or enjoy some of the gourmet tapas while RRR’s chosen vinyl pimps spin disco grooves into the night. Expect anything from classics to current, Moroder to LCD Soundsystem. Tonight’s grand opening sees Jörg Thor, Nhat, Petrosex and Black Swan blazing trails of stardust. Entry is free: just wear something nice! Eve - DJ Tony Allen Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Wrighteous Devilles – Little Franco Berry Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) – Global Rhythms - Charlie Bucket Flying Scotsman (Main Room) Pasha’s Kitchen – The Big Man Foundry- DJ Travis B Leopold Hotel- DJ James/ DJ Jack Liquid Nightclub – DJ Buda Mustang Bar – DJ Giles Newport Hotel – Culture Clash – DJ Shannon Fox Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford Paddy Hannans - Dr Bogus Players Bar – Neon Lights - DJ Samuel Spencer Rocket Room – Faster Louder Birthday Party - DJ Carlos Rockets 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 Ben Elliot/ Andy Tighe The Shed – DJ Andyy Universal Bar- DJ Crisp

Ù FRIDAY 06/11 BAR REPUBLIC CLARK Fans of UK experimental label Warp – they who lead the way in glitchy, abstract, electronic beats - should be thrilled to bits at the news that Clark is

making his first ever Australian performance in Perth tonight, fresh from touring through Europe and playing the Spectacular Warp20 showcase in Tokyo. Chris Clark, who practices his art under the name of Clark, combines conventional rockstyled drums with laptop magic, breaking and bending each sound, phrase and pattern into an exact science of sound. Support comes from Dave Miller of Pivot (also on Warp), and local pysch-beatfreak Naik (Paper Chain); who’ll be sharing cuts from his recently released debut LP In The Shadow of Thunder Mountain. DJ Ben Taaffe’s also on board to make eclectic dance waves in between sets, with Petro rounding the night out with some disco cuts. Strictly limited capacity, so it’s highly advised you organise your tickets early! Tickets on sale for $25 plus booking fee through heatseeker.com.au, Planet, 78s and Mills. Very limited tickets will be available on the door on the night of the show from 9pm. A truly unique evening awaits! VELVET LOUNGE DEUCE As the weather gets warmer, the nights are made for stepping out – head to the Velvet Lounge this Friday (next to the Flying Scotsman) to catch Yarkhob, of Injured Ninja, performing his solo act - a glitchy cranking beat fest, along with Rayza, who’ll be dishing out grimy warehouse trash anthems. Support from hip hop/ breaks extraordinaire DJ Sumo. This week’s Deuce also features a catwalk show parading the designs of Will Weaver, as well as digital graffiti from local VJs Shoes and Docks. Doors open 8pm, entry is free. AMBAR BECKS BERLIN SESSIONS 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. For one night only, a showcase of Berlin dance music comes to Perth, giving punters the opportunity to share

in the creativity of the city. The third annual Beck’s Berlin Sessions tour brings us modern club legend Âme, who will be accompanied by the Balaeric cuts of co-founder of Permanent Vacation records, Benji Frohlich. David Moufang aka Move D, whose had releases on Warp and Running Back, completes the line up, performing his first live show in Australia. Tickets from inthemix. com.au/berlinsessions(.) RISE JON O’BIR/MIKE FOYLE As a resident at global dance party Godskitchen warming up for the likes of Sasha and Tiesto for many years, Jon O’ Bir ’s production accomplishments are 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. 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. Door sales from 10pm. Rise members $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter. Nonmembers $10 before 11pm, $20 thereafter. SHAPE KIWI INVASION Thanks to our friends at The Cube, Perth’s home of drum ‘n’ bass, there’s a Kiwi invasion tonight 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

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2010. Fellow hardworking Kiwi, Menace, has also been steadily climbing the ladder of NZ drum ‘n’ bass, with work on Citrus Recordings’ E P, a s we l l a s co l l a b o ra t i o n s with Dose and Trei, which led to a release on Klute’s Commercial Suicide imprint. Dose and Menace’s progressive sets tonight are sure to thrill. Local support from Access, Illusiv, Bear and Sempy. Tickets $25 plus booking fee from Planet Video, Mills, DJ Factory and www.shapebar. com.au(.) VILLA TONIGHT ONLY - KIM/BENI/ LA RIOTS Three of the electronic music scene’s hottest contemporary talents - LA Riots, K.I.M. and Beni - come together for a ménage a trios at Villa tonight. LA Riots’ Jo’B and Daniel Ledisko bring their hot-as-hell club bangers, K.I.M. (aka Kimberley Isaac Moyes, one half of The Presets) previews tracks from his new album, Selected Jerks 2001 – 2009, and former Bang Gang DJ, Beni rounds up an excellent line up. Tickets $25 plus booking fee, now available from Planet Video, Mills, 78 Records, Moshtix Outlets and online from the Boomtick SHOP, Moshtix and inthemix. METRO CITY FREEFALL Freefall Recordings are reknowned for their releases constantly topping the Beatport charts, as well as hosting sell out events in Bali, not to mention hosting arenas at this year’s 2009 Trance Energy tour in Sydney. Perth gets a taste of trancey Freefall goodness this Friday as the brand brings a great line up to Perth. Holland’s Rank-1, Germany’s Wippenberg and Scot Project, Melbourne’s Dr Willis, and a slue of local stars – Jason Creek, Kenny L, Damien Blaze, Progress Inn, Darren J and Aarin F – are set to entertain you with 100% trance all night long! Tickets are $55 plus booking fee from www.inthemix.com.au, www.moshtix.com.au. Doors open 10pm. Amplifier – DJ Shannon Fox/ DJ Jamie

Bar 138 – Bar 138 – Lokal – Oxygen/ Sven/ Broni/ Aidan Beyer/ Matty Moon/ Progress Inn Bar Open (Upstairs) – Control Scott D/Yon Lennon 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 – Little Franco Berry/ Herman the German 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 Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) - IL CAPS/ Modularman/ Dan Tha Man/ Blackjack/ Jimmy James Foundry – Crave Funk Club – DJ Charlie Bucket Geisha – Sauce - Darren J/Richard Lee/Suric SA/ Sean M/ Deviance/ Scottie K Harry’s Bar - DJ Double L / Benny T / Luca Castelli Hyde Park - DJ Zoom Inglewood Hotel – DJ Simone Kalamunda Arts Centre – Fat Jackal Llama Bar- DJ Morris/Kava Library – DJ Munch/ Aswom Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Lakers Tavern - DJ Adrian Manor – A Night At The Jazz Rooms - Dj Russ Dewbury/ Grace Barbe/ Charlie Bucket Mojo’s – Fisherman’s Style Drummie/Sherriff Lindo/Simmo T/ Prince Isis/Judgement/Papa George Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry Metropolis Fremantle – Congorock Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee

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Ù SATURDAY 07/11 VILLA LEE COOMBS/MIYAGI For over a decade Lee Coombs has been making big techy sounds, infecting one and all with his dirty sonic mayhem. 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 tonight for a

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ZOMBIE NATION BRAIN(S)DANCE The enigmatically named Zombie Nation is the chief creative outlet of German producer, remixer and DJ, Florian Senfter. One fine day in Munich, Florian bemoans to GLEN PARKS of the difficulty of creating ‘human’ dance music. When I ask Florian Senfter how he settled on the name Zombie Nation, something shifts in the back of his throat. He pauses for a moment and considers his answer.“That question I have already heard and I never have a really good answer. It sucks when you have to look for a new name for a project. We made a long list and in the end had two names – something like Well Cool Squad Zombies and Zombie Nation – and I was fed up thinking about it. I need a better story!” The Zombie Nation story has humble beginnings which stem from Senfter’s own partying days. “I went to some underground parties that I liked. Then when I played records I always thought, ‘Hey, why didn’t that record go in that direction?’. So I had the idea that I can do better. I got my first music machine and started to play around with it. I always made music with guitars so I wanted to see how I could transform that into making music also with an 44

electronic machine. One piece of gear came to the other one, and I’ve ended up today with a studio full of machines.” When describing his own sound, Senfter is quick to humanise his music.“It’s always a difficult question to describe your own sound. I would say it’s danceable but also listenable. It’s organic, human and funny.” Is it important for Sentfer to have that human element in something traditionally as cold as techno? “Yeah, that’s definitely something that I like, because it’s also a lot harder to make. Instead of taking the hi-hats from a drum machine you just hit it yourself and it has this little imperfection that breathes life into the recording. Also the ear doesn’t get tired when you listen to it, I think, when you have a little bit of a human element.” After the release of his brilliantly titled Zombielicious album, Senfter is feeling good about

the Zombie Nation project. “I’m definitely going to keep Zombie Nation as my main thing and do some collaborations with other people and who knows? I would like to produce a band just for the fun of it – just to see how I can do that – but that’s not a concrete plan, it’s a distant plan.” In the meantime, Senfter says he is going to keep trying to create perfect moments. But what creates a perfect moment? “Maybe it comes from the time I used to do parties in squats and empty houses, that were always a one off thing. Each party would be in a totally different place and every time was a chance for something new. So in a way I see it like that today too. Each situation where people come together to have a party, a special energy can be created. I do my best that I can in the moment. What would the perfect moment be? The perfect moment is when everyone is right there in the moment and there’s no before and no after.”

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mindblowing live show, together with Canadian tech-funk master Miyagi, whose famous for his remixes for the likes of Orbital, The Crystal Method, The Dub Pistols and Thievery Corporation. 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(.) SHAPE JOJO DE FREQ/MURAT KILIC/ TONE A resident of Erol Alkan’s club night Bugged Out! At The End in London since 2003, DJ and producer JoJo De Freq has been at the forefront of the electro-techno scene in the UK since 2001.Her energetic, taste-making DJ sets are packed with suspense, style and surprises, and her sound is synthetic and acid-tinged, with quirky electronics as well as futurist percussion, riotous riffs and wonky basslines. Joining JoJo on the line up tonight are Murat Kilic and Tone, both from Sydney. Local support from Hickey, Mickey Juice, Prodje and Alex Tong in the Tick Tock Room, and Rohan Smith, Flex, Richard Lee and Kyran Smith upstairs at Habitat. Doors open 10pm ‘til late. $15 door sales only. Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric Ambar – Japan 4 – Buda/Ben Mac/ Tee El/Mono Lisa/Marty McFly Bar Open (Upstairs) – Frisk 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 Captain Stirling - DJ Dano Clink- DJ Clint Club Bay View – Shake & Pop - DJ Zelimir Connections – Michy T / JJ / Brian Devilles Pad - Barbara Blaze/ Jumpin Josh 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 (Upstairs) – Flying High - Sarah Delfante Vs Scott Smith/ Ryan Sandilands/ Cutter/ Angie Boyce Vs Dave Owen Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Velvet Lung – The Community: Clompy/Mathas/DOS4GW/Arms In Motion/Chronik/The Community Jam Band

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Inglewood – DJ Shifty Mash – DJ Ricky Mint – Love 80’s – Simon Barwood Moon – Mathas/ Emcee Able Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny Mustang - DJ Rockin Rhys Players Bar - DJ-Udas Queens Tav- DJ Rhys Worth Rosemount – Sundae - Ben Mac & Philly Blunt Stamford Arms – Shakedown Sessions Volume 1. Final Edition - The Great Anaru/ Friday Night Funkster/ Refresh/ Affiliate/ Kurtox/ K-Pax/ Shanks Swan Basement – Gignition – Duke/ Mayerswell/ Muthaz The Shed – DJ Andyy The Wembley – Deckeclectic Pow!/ Dead Easy/ Nago/ Kapitol P

▶ MONDAY 09/11 Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris Metro City - Creatures Of The Night – Vandalism/ Rueben/ Jordan/ Angry Buda/Headayke/Andrei Maj The Deen – DJ Birdie/ DJ Roger The Paddo - DJ John Paul

▶ TUESDAY 10/11 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Double Lucky - Substance – DJ Paul Malone/ DJ JMC Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel - DJ Matty J High Wycombe - DJ Ricky Mojos - DJ D Pad The Paddo - DJ DPad

▶ WEDNESDAY 11/11 Basement On Broadway – DJ KB Broken Hill Hotel – Oasis - DJ Armee (Downsyde)/ Refresh/Shaker/CutNice/Jeremy C 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 – Charlie Buckets/ Dan Tha Man 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

▶ THIS WEEK Kim (The Presets)/Beni/ LA Riots/ Tonight Only Friday, November 6 @ Villa Jon O’Bir/ Mike Foyle Friday, November 6 @ Rise Dose/ Menace Friday, November 6 @ Shape Beck’s Berlin Sessions – Ame/ Move D/ Benjamin Frohlich Friday, Novmber 6 @ Ambar Freefall – Rank 1/ Scot Project/ Wippenberg/ Dr Willis Friday, November 6 @ Metro City Lee Coombs/Miyagi Saturday, November 7 @ Villa JoJo De Freq/ Murat Kilic/ Tone Saturday, November 7 @ Shape Creatures Of The Night – Vandalism/ Rueben/ Jordan/ Angry Buda Monday, November 9 @ Metro City

▶ UPCOMING Rahzel (The Roots) Thursday, November 12 @ The Rosemount 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 Force Majeure 1st Birthday/ D*Funk/ The Loops of Fury Friday, November 13 @ Ambar A Nightmare on James Street feat. Brisk Friday, November 13 @ Rise

Laurent Garnier/ Emcee Able Friday, November 13 @ The Dragonette + More Sunday, November 29 @ Rosemount Claremont Showgrounds Ladyhawke Saturday, November 14 @ Pharoahe Monch Friday, December 4 @ Villa Capitol Bass Kleph Saturday, November 14 @ Villa

Pacha Friday, December 4 @ Capitol

Bang Gang 12” Tour Party Danny T/ Wongo Friday, December 11 @ – Doom/ Hoodrat Saturday, November 14 @ Ambar Shape Reboot NEW Friday, December 11 @ Roger Shah Ambar Saturday, November 14 @ Rise Ministry of Sound 2010 Annual Foals DJs Friday, December 11 @ Sunday, November 15 @ Capitol Amplifier Open House Party Launch Wednesday, November 18 @ Mint nightclub Sneaky – You Only Live Once Launch Friday, November 20 @ Capitol Stanton Warriors Friday, November 20 @ Villa Nick Curly/ D’Julz Friday, November 20 @ Ambar BeXta Friday, November 20 @ Rise Sasha Vatoff Saturday, November 21 @ Villa Adsorb Saturday, November 21 @ Ambar Rico Tubbs Friday, November 27 @ Villa Someone Say Dubstep? The Final Rinse – Tes La Rok/ Paradox/ Kito/ Dust/ Rekab Friday, November 27 @ Ambar Stereosonic Festival feat. The Bloody Beetroots/ Deadmau5/ Axwell/ Fedde Le Grand/ John Dahlbäck/ The Crookers/

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 Origin NYE - Method Man, Redman/ Bliss N Esso/ Roots Manuva/ Dilated Peoples/ Ugly Duckling/ Cassius/ Bag Raiders and more Thursday, December 31 @ Blue Steel Oval Pete Tong Saturday, January 2, 2010 @ 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 Here After Sunday, January 3 @ Bar Open

KillaQueenz December 4 @ The Rosemount; December 5 @ Mojo’s; December 6 @ Indi Bar 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 Raggamuffin – Wyclef Jean/ Shaggy/ Julian Marley/ Blue King Brown/ Sly & Robbie/ Steel Pulse/ Sean Kingston/ House Of Shem Monday, January 25 @ ME Bank Stadium Big Day Out - Groove Armada/ Ladyhawke/ Dizzee Rascal/ Peaches/ Kasabian/ Midnight Juggernauts/ Calvin Harris/ Girl Talk and more Sunday, January 31 @ Claremont Showgrounds Good Vibrations - The Killers/ Basement Jaxx/ Armand Van Helden/ Gossip/ Busta Rhymes/ Salt N Pepa/ Friendly Fires/ Kid Cudi/ Gym Class Heroes/ Plump DJ’s/ Art Vs Science/ Naughty By Nature/ Sam Obernik and more Sunday, February 14, 2010 @ Claremont Showgrounds 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 Cobra Starship Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ Metro City

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natural progression which, as proven by Dylan in ’65, will mean losing a few fans but gaining a whole lot more. The only ingredient lost in the translation, unfortunately, was Alex Archer’s violin. An integral part of the KDH sound which could easily be remedied by putting him closer to the centre where he belongs. The back-to-back placing of Drinking Too Much and Cockfighter Blues made sense as it got the crowd excited about what was to come. With You Am I currently between albums there was no hard sell on the first show of this national tour. All the greater for the diehard fans who got the opportunity to hear a bunch of songs which the band hadn’t played for a very long time as well as some gems from last years rather brilliant Dilettantes long-player. The intention of this tour is for the band to play a different set list each night. Cherry picking a You Am I set list is always going to throw up a few surprises. Never having had an actual ‘hit single’ means the band can play whatever they feel without disappointing the faithful. Reaching way back into their well stocked catalogue were early gems like Embarrassed (from the ’93 Coprolalia EP) as well as Forever And Easy and Sound As Ever. Live, these songs have taken on a more Stonesy feel as opposed to the post-grunge textures of the original recordings. The Hi Fi Way album was the most heavily represented with Handwasher, How Much Is Enough, Ken, Applecross Wing Commander and Cathy’s Clown while the only inclusion from Hourly, Daily was Good Mornin’. Always the perfect song for Tim Rogers to let loose some well-honed windmilling. The rarely played Gasoline For 2 from the Idiot Box soundtrack was a great surprise. Convicts threw up the full-throttle Gunslingers, It Ain’t Funny How We Don’t Talk Anymore and Constance George. Givin’ Up & Getting Fat from Dilettantes is a modern day You Am I classic. A loose and fiery River Deep, Mountain High was more Saints than Tina Turner while Andy Kent took some lines on Neil Young’s Let’s Go Downtown. Rusty Hopkinson also got to shine on a cover of the 1910 Fruitgum Company bubblegum hit, Indian Giver. With Rogers fresh from playing a 1968 Beatle and a solo tour just wrapped up, it was pleasing to see him back in control of this ragged beast called You Am I. As was to be expected on this first show, You Am I were equal parts loose and stylish and it’s this winning combination which has given them a classy run on a close to 20 year career.

CAPITOL PUNISHMENT ARCH ENEMY / Suffocation / Claim The Throne Capitol Sunday, November 1, 2009

Pure fucking metal, the catch cry for Swede’s Arch Enemy, is somewhat of an understatement when it came to this evening’s much-awaited affairs. The pairing of heavyweights Suffocation and the female-fronted melodic death metal outfit themselves could only be described as titillating to the senses.That is only if you like it hard, fast and as mean as all hell because there was no way this tour was going to be a fucking picnic. Perth’s Claim The Throne were in a bit of a predicament. They were slightly out of their comfort zone, though, realistically, there is no pigeonhole for these medieval rapscallions. With longstanding drummer Brenton Pedler departing this sailing ship most recently, it was up to the new drummer to prove himself in this uphill battle. But, alas, tonight was not the eve. Working through their classics Fable From An Oaken Table, the heavy version of acoustic track Two Pints Of Honey And A _ STU LOASBY Barrel Full Of Beer and, as always, ending off with

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Set Sail On Ale – these lads (and one lass) were still deliciously entertaining, despite the odd sloppy timing and tempo issues. It has been a mighty while since the burly bastards of Suffocation came to our shores. Two years, a new album and the dawning of a new pattern of thinking for the now ageing death metal aficionados. And Perth fans were among the first in the planet to hear this new chapter in Suffocation history. Massacring fans’ eardrums for two decades now, musically they have nothing left to prove with a set that hit the near flawless stakes. Sampling from the tried and true days of their yore with the well-received numbers Pierced From Within and Bind Torture Kill, they felt it was their duty to plug their latest effort, Blood Oath, as much as possible as a reminder that their days are far from numbered. Oh the groove, oh the precision, oh the breakdowns – the sheer songwriting gorgeousness of it all. Especially with the absolute centrepiece being the incredible skin work by Mike ‘Jackhammer’ Smith, making his style look effortless for the rest of us fools. But you know what somewhat ruined it? Vocalist Frank Mullen’s between-song banter. Did anyone know what the shit he was talking about? By the end, the pit was semi-laughing at him – not with him.

The Amott brothers and company from Arch Enemy then took this shindig to an epic new level as they practically exploded onto the stage with very little fanfare. Into a more holistic approach then the previous act, dressed in matching stark black and white outfits with vocalist Angela Gossow standing tall, proud and oozing with confidence – the crowd were already wetting themselves halfway through the first song. Starting it off with the title-track from the recently released The Root Of All Evil, this set was all about power and passion with no stone left unturned. It was insane getting to hear tracks from the first three, pre-Gossow, albums now that the band have the ditties recorded on their latest effort and to see how Ms Gossow has made them her own. Of course, there has been much contention about the band taking this step. But seeing how they put it out live really smashed any disbelief in the older fans of AE. Highs of the set ranged from the jaunty My Apocalypse to drummer Daniel Erlandsson’s five minute, tribalistic solo with accompanying thunder fills. Pure fucking metal? Hell fucking yes. _JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

I TOUCH MYSELF Voodoo Lounge Saturday, October 31, 2009 For the first time ever, the Annual Halloween Fetish Ball fell on a Saturday, allowing more freedom for those who like to play. And play they did. From couples who suddenly discovered the wilder side of their sexuality, celebrities who were ‘sceneing’, soft core and hardcore fetish fanciers alike, to those who just wanted to dance and drink, it didn’t matter where you looked, this party was rocking. For the 4th year in a row, the Rocket Room and the Voodoo Lounge were both transformed and transmogrified (like in the Rocky Horror Picture Show) into one venue. On this night they surrendered their identities and were taken over, possessed, by a bizarre, sub-cultural energy: an alternative world on two levels. Upstairs in the Voodoo Lounge, everything that is fetish, the erotic and exotic takes centre stage. Entertainment included a parade by F-Fetish featuring the kink of rubber,

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latex and leather. Punters were also treated to an outstanding performance by Allegra (#1 Pole Dancer in Australia), live tattooing by the boys from Artful Ink in Morley, and hot cabaret performances by the Voodoo Dolls. Downstairs in the Rocket Room, the space was converted into a ‘dungeon’, with a brand new layout including a custom-made scaffold stage fitted with a full suspension rig and flogging stations, to a professional photo stage sponsored by Absolute Vodka - fitted with props from cages to crosses. The stage was run by Detlev with an intricate Geisha Rope Bondage Show. Also featured was girl on girl play with ‘the electric wand’ and headlining act Sado BJ and Pepper with something a little heavier. Photographs by David Chong

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THE VEESCARS Lucy Strike On Friday, November 6, The Veescars launch their Lucy EP at The Civic Hotel with support from Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill, Split Seconds, and Blackmilk. Guitarist Tom Varian spills the beans about all things Veescars. Tom Varian is a very striking fellow. playing something just for the sake of playing it.” Which is getting down to brass tacks. Impossibly tall, and slender to the point that even clothes tailored to be tight-fitting balloon around Inkster, the band’s frontman and propulsive his body and casually hang, he peers from behind songwriter, has a clear vision, Varian explains. a mess of hair looking like a rock star without Rather than get in the way of that and create a even trying. And although looking the way he trainwreck of everyone else’s visions colliding, he does might seem like the most relevant factor for alludes that the idea is to build around Inkster’s an interview about his band, it is the latter – that foundations, not straight on top of them. For Varian personally, this comes down he is not trying – that says the most about The to how and where he places his guitar.“Personally Veescars. In a world where those clambering for I’m a really big fan of guitarists who nicely back credibility will dress, act, or play the music required the band up, but when they want to be heard to try and bluff their way into some, chaps like they step out with their own hooks,” he explains. Tom Varian are the blueprint of what to follow, as “People like Jonny Greenwood and British Invasion being cool without trying to be is pretty much the fuzz guitar like Dave Davies from The Kinks. With aim. Of course, the principle force of irony alone recording Lucy, I really wanted the lead guitar to states that if you have to copy someone cool to mirror the vocals, like a shadow. So I went about be cool yourself, you’re desperately un-cool; and it with that in mind, where as Handsome Pair is a probing into how The Veescars works provides pure pop track so the guitar has hooks that aren’t the only answer worth noting… that those who too overbearing, just toe-tappin’,” he says. Varian’s understanding of how to texture know themselves also know the path. Otherwise Inkster’s songs so as to accent and embellish the known as ‘just shut up and get on with it’. “We kinda take an ‘all to arms’ sort dynamic that already exists within them is not of approach, with everyone doing whatever only a sign of his advanced understanding of they are best at creatively,” Varian begins of songwriting, but also of Inkster’s songwriting in the band. “Everyone is a part of some process, particular. Not surprisingly, as long as the pair whether it’s managing or graphics. We can all be have been into playing music, they have been into stubborn about what we play so we write our own playing music together. “Well when it was us two, we weren’t instrumental parts. “The main sound and direction of the really a band, it was more a case of us learning band is definitely taken straight from Maynard guitar together. I leant Maynard an old classical [Inkster, vocals / guitar]’s brain though, I’d even say guitar after hearing him play piano at a party. I he dictates it fully, but he is far too disorganised was kind of finding myself again as a guitarist, to be a dictator. The guy has serious talent and after not touching the things for over three years. an amazing ear for taking something familiar and I think that really is one of our strengths though, making it original, a skill all good true songwriters we learnt together, sitting in my room until 4am, have. He really is a songwriter in the truest sense, taking breaks to watch live bands on YouTube and agonising over every lyric and note, we hate break down what they did.”

the world making it spurs us on. “We definitely have our eyes set on an LP. We really wanna capture our current live set, and want to take some time to really hone our own sound. This past year we’ve really worked on our sound as a whole, thinking about the bigger picture, you know, making an LP that sounds really cohesive and well thought out. Fantastically, someone would throw us some money to do this tomorrow, but realistically we’ll record it ourselves over the next six months and grab some studio time when we can afford it.” And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you shut up and get on with it.

Empty room or not, Sydney’s The Shake-Up performed like they were headlining Altamont. Catchy and ballsy, as much as they look like they are a part of the garage rock revivial, The Shake-Up are so much better than it. The sound of the band is overly familiar, but their delivery and songwriting ability is far more honest and finely-tuned than the likes of Jet, as an obvious example. In short, The Shake-Up were shit-hot. As were The Scotch Of Saint James, who are surely destined for big things. All of

the boxes are ticked… they sound great, they look great, and their music is as interesting live as it is recorded. On stage, the band is as cool and casual as all fuck – a perfect pairing with TSOSJ’s increasingly more intuitive and natural songwriting, which is producing catchy and direct pop songs, but dressed up in sonics that are so much more advanced than that of your average pop band. As they keep getting better and better, The Scotch Of Saint James keep making one wonder why the hell they haven’t been signed yet, for out of the current crop of Perth hopefuls, they are by far the most hopeful. Hopefulness and getting signed shouldn’t ever really drift into Capital City’s world though, as they have the potential to do just fine without either. Coming from the kind of musical background they do, Capital City are – and have been for some time now – poised to be one of those Australian bands, like The Drones, who can tour the world regularly and independently, because their music is universal. In terms of live performance, this has never been more obvious than it is now. As the band have gotten tighter and more confident, their live potential has been realised, as they are now performing their songs with the same cleanness and precision they have recorded them with. While that might sound obvious, consider how many bands you have seen live who sounded flat compared to their records. And it’s the small differences that make the big differences. As his confidence on stage

has grown, bassist Chris Pierucci has become more animated and more aggressive a player. Drummer Jake Snell, whose playing is simply perfect for Sam Scherr’s songwriting style, has locked in with Pierucci and added a secondary set of hooks in the band’s songs by way of catchy rhythm playing. And Scherr himself has learned how to project his snarl in such a way as to give it more character and strength, thus making the narrative of his always well-written lyrics come to life. Between this and going back to a three-piece setup, Capital City’s live sound is clearer, punchier and more effective. The band also spend a lot less time farting around between songs than they used to, quite possibly because their catalogue has grown to the point where there simply isn’t enough time in a set to play everything, let alone waste time idling. Their performance was perfectly lean. Hopefully Capital City’s recent jaunt to New York has whet their appetite to try bigger things than they have. If this, as Sam Scherr has expressed, could very well be the last Capital City album, then they owe it to themselves to give it the reddest, hottest go this year. Nothing will drop in their lap, but if they go after what they want there is next to nothing in Capital City’s way, as they truly are a world-class act that has the most important thing of all at their disposal: a unique and identifiable sound. If it’s ‘now or never’ time, then it has to be now.

The Painkillers, The Floors, and Hayley Beth. Doors 8pm and entry is $12. Friday, November 6, Calling All Cars play the Front Bar with After The Fall . Doors 8pm and entry is $15. Tomorrow night the Backroom features DJ Zoom, Ray Ray, and The Empressions from 8pm. Entry is $10. Saturday, November 7, the Front Bar presents Gold Kids, Ghost Town, Suffer, and Death Grenade from 8pm. Entry is $16. In the Backroom this Saturday night The Autumn Isles hold their CD Launch with supports 6s & 7s, Plastic Palace Alice, Russian Winters, and Wolves. Doors 8pm and entry is $15. Sunday, November 8, catch Hostile Little Face, A Month Of Sundays, and Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill play the Front Bar from 6pm. Entry is $6. On Wednesday, November 11, check out Montage Of Jesus, Lantana, Desertship, and Paul Hill from 8pm in the Front Bar. Entry is $6.

Sunday, November 8, it’s the Rosemount’s Acoustic Open Mic Night hosted by Turin Robinson - head on down and have a bash or just play some free pool. Action from 4pm and it’s free. From 6pm catch the last of the Emergenza semi-finals featuring The Milkmen, Endora, The Revolvers, Generals And Majors, The Boss Error, One Island East, and Seraphyn. Doors open 6-10pm and it’s $20 entry. In the Garden Bar, the new Sundae session continues – free entry. Tuesday, November 10 it’s the Rosemount’s weekly quiz night - see www. quizmeisters.com.au for more info. Wednesday, November 11 catch We Volytion, The Blue Hour, The Other Woman and Ben McCoy. Doors open 8pm and entry is free. In the beer garden catch DJ Shannon Fox for the Rosemount’s Student Night. Check out www.rosemounthotel.com.au for more Rosie info.

THE CIVIC HOTEL BACKROOM

RAILWAY HOTEL

CITY SLICKERS

Capital City (photo by Amy Vinicombe)

CAPITAL CITY CD LAUNCH Amplifier Bar Saturday, October 31, 2009 It seems very much like the phenomenon of Amplifier’s ‘after midnight’ punters attending the night’s earlier live shows (in order to avoid the midnight queue) is an ‘everyone wins’ situation, with but one small snag… how to get those people out of the beer garden and into the main room.

AMPLIFIER

Friday,November 6,Homebrewe launch their debut album, My Own Nemesis, with support from Stella’s Kitchen and Blackwater Station. Doors open 8pm. Saturday, November 7, Project Mayhem release their self-titled debut album with a Carnivale of magicians, sword-swallowers and music from The Floors, Black Buzzard, and FAIM Project. Doors open 8pm.

INDI BAR

The weekend always kicks off with Bex’s Open Mic, tonight,Thursday November 5. Howie Morgan will bring his chilled out grooves on Friday, November 6. Zarm are back for their monthly appearance, sure to get the people dancing to their reggae beats, Saturday, November 7. The Davs love to head up to the Indi from Freo, and will continue the reggae vibe of the weekend, Sunday, November 8. There’s another episode of The Jum Show on Wednesday, November 11.

ROCKET ROOM

Tonight,Thursday, November 5, FasterLouder turns five and are celebrating with The Devil Rides Out, zxspecky,The Spitfires,Ashoka and DJ Carlos Rocket. Friday, November 6, The Smiling Assassins launch their new EP along with Fools Of April, FoulPLAY, and Tracksuit. After midnight, Fergus Brown heads in to play the late show alongside The Painkillers and DJ Benn9000. Saturday November 7, Cat Black is in charge with Moonlight Wranglers, Minute 36, and Dead Man Dean next in rank. After midnight, Skinny Lane and DJ Brett Rowe keep the party going ’til 4am.

THE HYDEY FRONT BAR & BACKROOM

Tonight, Thursday, November 5, the Front Bar host Selk & The Bone Singers’ debut show with supports

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The Veescars

And amidst the no doubt scores of musical influences the pair share, the biggest influence either of them appear to have had is each other. After all, their creative partnership – which developed from the very rudiments of learning how to play – is what led them to start The Veescars to begin with. And, like all journeys, the goals have changed. As each incremental achievement is met, a bigger picture comes more and more into focus. Now, for The Veescars, that bigger picture is becoming crystal clear. “I would say the idea of making a living out of music is our biggest influence. Just the concept seems to be enough nourishment for us. Seeing guys, like Luke Steele, from your place in

Friday, November 6, The Veescars launch their new EP from 8pm with supports Blackmilk, Split Seconds, and Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill. Entry is $10 / $15 with EP. Saturday, November 7, Dome Sunset, Freeworld, Rhapcity, and Tantrixx play The Civic Backroom from 8pm. Entry is $5.

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

Tonight, Thursday, November 5, the main room hosts the Emergenza band comp, tonight’s installment featuring The Tumblers, The Origin Of, Sins Of The Father, The P-Whack Express, The FAIM Project, Amberdown, and Priority One battling it out for a place in the final. Doors open 7pm, entry is $20. Friday, November 6, Emergenza continues with Buried In Damascus, AK47, Paperfly, The Drawn, Mullholand Siren, Crash Compass, and Stately Shape. Doors open 7.30pm, entry is $20. Saturday, November 7, it’s the third Emergenza semi-final starring Mandalay Victory,Red Shoes Boy, Deserthead, Red Triangle, Grover’s Coma, The Exit Line, and The Blue Finish. 7.30pm start, entry is $20.

MOJO’S

Friday, November 6, the Railway hosts Ridakyual, The Union Of Crazy Monkey People From Outer Space, Empires Laid Waste, and Beef. Doors open 8pm and entry is $10. Saturday, November 7, Brisbane indie-rockers The Gonzo Show hit the Railway with local support from Ambidexter, Burgers Of Beef, and Laced Affair. Doors open 8pm, entry is$10 / $7 concession. Sunday, November 8, there’s a great Sunday session courtesy of Copious and Satan Himself. Doors open 6-10pm and entry is $5.

Thursday, November 5, is the next in the Inspiring Songwriter Series, this time featuring Neil Young. Rose Parker, David Hymes, Xave Brown, Dave Robertson,Marie O’Dywer,Ian Lilburne,Karl Griffiths, and Mark Dixson play songs by the Canadian bard and one or two of their own compositions.$10 entry from 8pm. Friday, November 6, Earthlink Sound returns for Fishermans Style #42,featuring Earthlinks Drummie, Sherriff Lindo, Simmo T, and Prince Isis alongside Papa George and DJ Sorted. $10 / $5 concession (free before 9pm). Saturday, November 7, Eleventh He Reaches London join Fall Electric, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, and Mystic Eyes. Entry is $10 from 8pm. Sunday, November 8, Calling All Cars and After The Fall join The Novocaines from 6pm. Entry is $16. Monday, November 9, performing at Mojo’s for the Wide Open Mic will be a bunch of ambitious cats who will simply rock up on the night. This night is hosted by Justin Walshe – 0408 755 233. These nights kick off at 8pm with about four acts each hour until midnight. Entry is free. Tuesday, November 10, the Acoustic Café night returns with Matt Cal Band, Tracksuit, Miche Suite, and James Michael Thompson all in acoustic mode. Entry is $5 from 8pm. Wednesday, November 11, the Fremantle Blues And Roots Club is at it again delivering some of the best blues and roots music Fremantle has to offer. This week catch John The Revalator, Ali Beal, and Squid. Entry is $10 / $5 for members from 8pm.

JB O’REILLY’S

THE CASTLE

Get down to JB’s tonight, Thursday, November 5, and catch the Murder Mouse Blues Band from 8pm - plus a $15 curry-and-pint deal from 5-9pm. Friday, November 6, catch The Healys from 8.30pm. Saturday, November 7, Brown Sugar perform from 8.30pm; and Sunday, November 8, is Original Music Night, featuring Mayuka, Cam Avery and Control Control from 6.30pm.

Get yourself down to The Castle on Saturday, November 7, for Metal ’Til Midnight, featuring Kingdom of Ruin Grave Forsaken, and Episiotomy. Doors open at 8pm, and there’s no points for guess when they close. The following night, Sunday, November 8, features Aztech Suns and West End Riot – with a free sausage sizzle from 1-6pm. Hittin’ the town since 1985

THE VEESCARS Lucy Strike On Friday, November 6, The Veescars launch their Lucy EP at The Civic Hotel with support from Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill, Split Seconds, and Blackmilk. Guitarist Tom Varian spills the beans about all things Veescars. Tom Varian is a very striking fellow. playing something just for the sake of playing it.” Which is getting down to brass tacks. Impossibly tall, and slender to the point that even clothes tailored to be tight-fitting balloon around Inkster, the band’s frontman and propulsive his body and casually hang, he peers from behind songwriter, has a clear vision, Varian explains. a mess of hair looking like a rock star without Rather than get in the way of that and create a even trying. And although looking the way he trainwreck of everyone else’s visions colliding, he does might seem like the most relevant factor for alludes that the idea is to build around Inkster’s an interview about his band, it is the latter – that foundations, not straight on top of them. For Varian personally, this comes down he is not trying – that says the most about The to how and where he places his guitar.“Personally Veescars. In a world where those clambering for I’m a really big fan of guitarists who nicely back credibility will dress, act, or play the music required the band up, but when they want to be heard to try and bluff their way into some, chaps like they step out with their own hooks,” he explains. Tom Varian are the blueprint of what to follow, as “People like Jonny Greenwood and British Invasion being cool without trying to be is pretty much the fuzz guitar like Dave Davies from The Kinks. With aim. Of course, the principle force of irony alone recording Lucy, I really wanted the lead guitar to states that if you have to copy someone cool to mirror the vocals, like a shadow. So I went about be cool yourself, you’re desperately un-cool; and it with that in mind, where as Handsome Pair is a probing into how The Veescars works provides pure pop track so the guitar has hooks that aren’t the only answer worth noting… that those who too overbearing, just toe-tappin’,” he says. Varian’s understanding of how to texture know themselves also know the path. Otherwise Inkster’s songs so as to accent and embellish the known as ‘just shut up and get on with it’. “We kinda take an ‘all to arms’ sort dynamic that already exists within them is not of approach, with everyone doing whatever only a sign of his advanced understanding of they are best at creatively,” Varian begins of songwriting, but also of Inkster’s songwriting in the band. “Everyone is a part of some process, particular. Not surprisingly, as long as the pair whether it’s managing or graphics. We can all be have been into playing music, they have been into stubborn about what we play so we write our own playing music together. “Well when it was us two, we weren’t instrumental parts. “The main sound and direction of the really a band, it was more a case of us learning band is definitely taken straight from Maynard guitar together. I leant Maynard an old classical [Inkster, vocals / guitar]’s brain though, I’d even say guitar after hearing him play piano at a party. I he dictates it fully, but he is far too disorganised was kind of finding myself again as a guitarist, to be a dictator. The guy has serious talent and after not touching the things for over three years. an amazing ear for taking something familiar and I think that really is one of our strengths though, making it original, a skill all good true songwriters we learnt together, sitting in my room until 4am, have. He really is a songwriter in the truest sense, taking breaks to watch live bands on YouTube and agonising over every lyric and note, we hate break down what they did.”

the world making it spurs us on. “We definitely have our eyes set on an LP. We really wanna capture our current live set, and want to take some time to really hone our own sound. This past year we’ve really worked on our sound as a whole, thinking about the bigger picture, you know, making an LP that sounds really cohesive and well thought out. Fantastically, someone would throw us some money to do this tomorrow, but realistically we’ll record it ourselves over the next six months and grab some studio time when we can afford it.” And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you shut up and get on with it.

Empty room or not, Sydney’s The Shake-Up performed like they were headlining Altamont. Catchy and ballsy, as much as they look like they are a part of the garage rock revivial, The Shake-Up are so much better than it. The sound of the band is overly familiar, but their delivery and songwriting ability is far more honest and finely-tuned than the likes of Jet, as an obvious example. In short, The Shake-Up were shit-hot. As were The Scotch Of Saint James, who are surely destined for big things. All of

the boxes are ticked… they sound great, they look great, and their music is as interesting live as it is recorded. On stage, the band is as cool and casual as all fuck – a perfect pairing with TSOSJ’s increasingly more intuitive and natural songwriting, which is producing catchy and direct pop songs, but dressed up in sonics that are so much more advanced than that of your average pop band. As they keep getting better and better, The Scotch Of Saint James keep making one wonder why the hell they haven’t been signed yet, for out of the current crop of Perth hopefuls, they are by far the most hopeful. Hopefulness and getting signed shouldn’t ever really drift into Capital City’s world though, as they have the potential to do just fine without either. Coming from the kind of musical background they do, Capital City are – and have been for some time now – poised to be one of those Australian bands, like The Drones, who can tour the world regularly and independently, because their music is universal. In terms of live performance, this has never been more obvious than it is now. As the band have gotten tighter and more confident, their live potential has been realised, as they are now performing their songs with the same cleanness and precision they have recorded them with. While that might sound obvious, consider how many bands you have seen live who sounded flat compared to their records. And it’s the small differences that make the big differences. As his confidence on stage

has grown, bassist Chris Pierucci has become more animated and more aggressive a player. Drummer Jake Snell, whose playing is simply perfect for Sam Scherr’s songwriting style, has locked in with Pierucci and added a secondary set of hooks in the band’s songs by way of catchy rhythm playing. And Scherr himself has learned how to project his snarl in such a way as to give it more character and strength, thus making the narrative of his always well-written lyrics come to life. Between this and going back to a three-piece setup, Capital City’s live sound is clearer, punchier and more effective. The band also spend a lot less time farting around between songs than they used to, quite possibly because their catalogue has grown to the point where there simply isn’t enough time in a set to play everything, let alone waste time idling. Their performance was perfectly lean. Hopefully Capital City’s recent jaunt to New York has whet their appetite to try bigger things than they have. If this, as Sam Scherr has expressed, could very well be the last Capital City album, then they owe it to themselves to give it the reddest, hottest go this year. Nothing will drop in their lap, but if they go after what they want there is next to nothing in Capital City’s way, as they truly are a world-class act that has the most important thing of all at their disposal: a unique and identifiable sound. If it’s ‘now or never’ time, then it has to be now.

The Painkillers, The Floors, and Hayley Beth. Doors 8pm and entry is $12. Friday, November 6, Calling All Cars play the Front Bar with After The Fall . Doors 8pm and entry is $15. Tomorrow night the Backroom features DJ Zoom, Ray Ray, and The Empressions from 8pm. Entry is $10. Saturday, November 7, the Front Bar presents Gold Kids, Ghost Town, Suffer, and Death Grenade from 8pm. Entry is $16. In the Backroom this Saturday night The Autumn Isles hold their CD Launch with supports 6s & 7s, Plastic Palace Alice, Russian Winters, and Wolves. Doors 8pm and entry is $15. Sunday, November 8, catch Hostile Little Face, A Month Of Sundays, and Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill play the Front Bar from 6pm. Entry is $6. On Wednesday, November 11, check out Montage Of Jesus, Lantana, Desertship, and Paul Hill from 8pm in the Front Bar. Entry is $6.

Sunday, November 8, it’s the Rosemount’s Acoustic Open Mic Night hosted by Turin Robinson - head on down and have a bash or just play some free pool. Action from 4pm and it’s free. From 6pm catch the last of the Emergenza semi-finals featuring The Milkmen, Endora, The Revolvers, Generals And Majors, The Boss Error, One Island East, and Seraphyn. Doors open 6-10pm and it’s $20 entry. In the Garden Bar, the new Sundae session continues – free entry. Tuesday, November 10 it’s the Rosemount’s weekly quiz night - see www. quizmeisters.com.au for more info. Wednesday, November 11 catch We Volytion, The Blue Hour, The Other Woman and Ben McCoy. Doors open 8pm and entry is free. In the beer garden catch DJ Shannon Fox for the Rosemount’s Student Night. Check out www.rosemounthotel.com.au for more Rosie info.

THE CIVIC HOTEL BACKROOM

RAILWAY HOTEL

CITY SLICKERS

Capital City (photo by Amy Vinicombe)

CAPITAL CITY CD LAUNCH Amplifier Bar Saturday, October 31, 2009 It seems very much like the phenomenon of Amplifier’s ‘after midnight’ punters attending the night’s earlier live shows (in order to avoid the midnight queue) is an ‘everyone wins’ situation, with but one small snag… how to get those people out of the beer garden and into the main room.

AMPLIFIER

Friday,November 6,Homebrewe launch their debut album, My Own Nemesis, with support from Stella’s Kitchen and Blackwater Station. Doors open 8pm. Saturday, November 7, Project Mayhem release their self-titled debut album with a Carnivale of magicians, sword-swallowers and music from The Floors, Black Buzzard, and FAIM Project. Doors open 8pm.

INDI BAR

The weekend always kicks off with Bex’s Open Mic, tonight,Thursday November 5. Howie Morgan will bring his chilled out grooves on Friday, November 6. Zarm are back for their monthly appearance, sure to get the people dancing to their reggae beats, Saturday, November 7. The Davs love to head up to the Indi from Freo, and will continue the reggae vibe of the weekend, Sunday, November 8. There’s another episode of The Jum Show on Wednesday, November 11.

ROCKET ROOM

Tonight,Thursday, November 5, FasterLouder turns five and are celebrating with The Devil Rides Out, zxspecky,The Spitfires,Ashoka and DJ Carlos Rocket. Friday, November 6, The Smiling Assassins launch their new EP along with Fools Of April, FoulPLAY, and Tracksuit. After midnight, Fergus Brown heads in to play the late show alongside The Painkillers and DJ Benn9000. Saturday November 7, Cat Black is in charge with Moonlight Wranglers, Minute 36, and Dead Man Dean next in rank. After midnight, Skinny Lane and DJ Brett Rowe keep the party going ’til 4am.

THE HYDEY FRONT BAR & BACKROOM

Tonight, Thursday, November 5, the Front Bar host Selk & The Bone Singers’ debut show with supports

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The Veescars

And amidst the no doubt scores of musical influences the pair share, the biggest influence either of them appear to have had is each other. After all, their creative partnership – which developed from the very rudiments of learning how to play – is what led them to start The Veescars to begin with. And, like all journeys, the goals have changed. As each incremental achievement is met, a bigger picture comes more and more into focus. Now, for The Veescars, that bigger picture is becoming crystal clear. “I would say the idea of making a living out of music is our biggest influence. Just the concept seems to be enough nourishment for us. Seeing guys, like Luke Steele, from your place in

Friday, November 6, The Veescars launch their new EP from 8pm with supports Blackmilk, Split Seconds, and Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill. Entry is $10 / $15 with EP. Saturday, November 7, Dome Sunset, Freeworld, Rhapcity, and Tantrixx play The Civic Backroom from 8pm. Entry is $5.

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

Tonight, Thursday, November 5, the main room hosts the Emergenza band comp, tonight’s installment featuring The Tumblers, The Origin Of, Sins Of The Father, The P-Whack Express, The FAIM Project, Amberdown, and Priority One battling it out for a place in the final. Doors open 7pm, entry is $20. Friday, November 6, Emergenza continues with Buried In Damascus, AK47, Paperfly, The Drawn, Mullholand Siren, Crash Compass, and Stately Shape. Doors open 7.30pm, entry is $20. Saturday, November 7, it’s the third Emergenza semi-final starring Mandalay Victory,Red Shoes Boy, Deserthead, Red Triangle, Grover’s Coma, The Exit Line, and The Blue Finish. 7.30pm start, entry is $20.

MOJO’S

Friday, November 6, the Railway hosts Ridakyual, The Union Of Crazy Monkey People From Outer Space, Empires Laid Waste, and Beef. Doors open 8pm and entry is $10. Saturday, November 7, Brisbane indie-rockers The Gonzo Show hit the Railway with local support from Ambidexter, Burgers Of Beef, and Laced Affair. Doors open 8pm, entry is$10 / $7 concession. Sunday, November 8, there’s a great Sunday session courtesy of Copious and Satan Himself. Doors open 6-10pm and entry is $5.

Thursday, November 5, is the next in the Inspiring Songwriter Series, this time featuring Neil Young. Rose Parker, David Hymes, Xave Brown, Dave Robertson,Marie O’Dywer,Ian Lilburne,Karl Griffiths, and Mark Dixson play songs by the Canadian bard and one or two of their own compositions.$10 entry from 8pm. Friday, November 6, Earthlink Sound returns for Fishermans Style #42,featuring Earthlinks Drummie, Sherriff Lindo, Simmo T, and Prince Isis alongside Papa George and DJ Sorted. $10 / $5 concession (free before 9pm). Saturday, November 7, Eleventh He Reaches London join Fall Electric, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, and Mystic Eyes. Entry is $10 from 8pm. Sunday, November 8, Calling All Cars and After The Fall join The Novocaines from 6pm. Entry is $16. Monday, November 9, performing at Mojo’s for the Wide Open Mic will be a bunch of ambitious cats who will simply rock up on the night. This night is hosted by Justin Walshe – 0408 755 233. These nights kick off at 8pm with about four acts each hour until midnight. Entry is free. Tuesday, November 10, the Acoustic Café night returns with Matt Cal Band, Tracksuit, Miche Suite, and James Michael Thompson all in acoustic mode. Entry is $5 from 8pm. Wednesday, November 11, the Fremantle Blues And Roots Club is at it again delivering some of the best blues and roots music Fremantle has to offer. This week catch John The Revalator, Ali Beal, and Squid. Entry is $10 / $5 for members from 8pm.

JB O’REILLY’S

THE CASTLE

Get down to JB’s tonight, Thursday, November 5, and catch the Murder Mouse Blues Band from 8pm - plus a $15 curry-and-pint deal from 5-9pm. Friday, November 6, catch The Healys from 8.30pm. Saturday, November 7, Brown Sugar perform from 8.30pm; and Sunday, November 8, is Original Music Night, featuring Mayuka, Cam Avery and Control Control from 6.30pm.

Get yourself down to The Castle on Saturday, November 7, for Metal ’Til Midnight, featuring Kingdom of Ruin Grave Forsaken, and Episiotomy. Doors open at 8pm, and there’s no points for guess when they close. The following night, Sunday, November 8, features Aztech Suns and West End Riot – with a free sausage sizzle from 1-6pm. Hittin’ the town since 1985

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GREAT SCOT

Mile End perform at the Flying Scotsman on Friday, November 6, for Rockus’ Friday Night Live. Entry is free, and the band kicks off at 10pm.

KHAAAAAAN!

Genghis will take part in the Northbridge Festival from 6pm Saturday, November 7, when they take over the James Street stage.

FEEL THE PAIN’ Eleventh He Reaches London

LONDON CALLING

Eleventh He Reaches London will team up with Fall Electric, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, and Mystic Eyes for a show at Mojo’s on Saturday, November 7. $10 entry from 8pm.

THE ISLES HAVE IT

JUSTIN TIME

The Autumn Isles launch their latest single, Sun Soaked Horizon, at the Hydey Back Room on Saturday, November 7. Supporting them will be 6’s And 7’s, Plastic Palace Alice, Russian Winters, and Wolves.

On Friday, November 6, The Justin Walshe Folk Machine will give The Norfolk Basement lots of folk-country love when they launch their ‘brand spanking cranking’ new single Pockets Full of Gold. Xave Brown And His Magic Band, Hang On St Christopher, and Mitch Becker will support from 8pm. The first 50 punters score a copy of the new single.

OF THEIR OWN VOLYTION

Volytion play their final show at the Rosemount on Wednesday, November 11, where they will be joined by The Other Woman and Ben McCoy. Entry is free. Au revoir, Volytion!

FULL MOON

BLACK NIGHT

Cat Black team up with Moonlight Wranglers and Dean Man Dean for a jaunt at the Rocket Room on Saturday, November 7, starting at 8pm. Entry is a tenner.

THE GREAT CRUSADE

Arons Crusade lead the charge at the Newport on Sunday, November 8, performing alongside Lost Radio and A Beggar’s Second from 6pm. Entry is free.

SOUTHBOUND

DON’T FORGET

The Forgotten perform at the Mustang Bar tonight, Thursday, November 5, as part of the Northbridge Festival, as well as at Karragullen’s Rock Inne on Friday, November 6.

SWEET AS HONEY

ISLAND RESIDENTS

GRANDE CAFE

YOUNG TALENT TIME

Acoustic Café returns to Mojo’s on Tuesday, November 10, with Tracksuit, Miche Suite, Matt Cal (full band), and James Michael Thompson. Entry is a fiver from 8pm.

Dilip N The Davs keep it south o’ the river this weekend, with a show at the Gypsy Tapas House on Friday, November 6, and the Indi Bar on Saturday, November 8.

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LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE

The fourth annual Rockers Rumble takes place from midday Sunday, November 8, bringing together the very complementary worlds of rock’n’roll and hi-octane machinery. Featuring a performance by Brutus at 2pm, as well as the sea of hot rods and choppers on display; Rockers Rumble looks set to be wild. Head to U5/18 Thurso Road, Myaree and check out www.rockerschoppers.com for more details.

The Honey Set play the music of The Summer Suns, The White Swallows, The Love Letters and The Troggs in a most melodious style when they hit Tiger Tiger Coffee Bar (329 Murray Street) from 8pm Friday, November 6.

The Moon Café continues to host live music this week, with the Co Lab Jam Band, Mathas, and Emcee Able taking control on Sunday, November 8. On Wednesday, November 11, Swoop Swoop, Lois Inglis, and Craig McElhinney will all be Going Solo. Entry is free.

Brash and Sassy, Good Little Fox, and Eunuch Schools will perform at Little Creatures Loft on Friday, November 6. Entry is $8 from 8pm.

The Painkillers support Sydney’s Fergus Brown at the Rocket Room’s Late Night Live show on Friday, November 6. Everything kicks off at midnight.

Bunbury’s Prince Of Wales will tickle metal fans pink on Saturday, November 7, when it hosts Parietal and Cabalistic – two fine local purveyors of the dark musical arts.

One Island East have two weekly residencies you should know about: Thursdays at The Leedy; and Fridays at Bar Orient in Freo. Also worth noting is that entry to both is always free. Rose Parker, David Hyams, Xave Brown, Mark Dixon, Dave Robertson, Marie O’Dwyer, and Karl Griffiths will be paying tribute to Neil Young at Mojo’s tonight, Thursday, November 5. 8pm start.

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NICK BARKER No Bull

Nick Barker hits WA with Mick Thomas & The Sure Thing with shows at Lancaster Wines on Thursday, December 3; the Railway Hotel on Friday, December 4, the Old Coast Brewery on Saturday, December 5, and the Oxford Hotel on Sunday, December 6, in support of his new album, Black Water Blues. You have been quoted as saying that Black Water Blues is back to what you’ve always done best… Well you know in context to all my other work the CD seems to make a lot of sense. I made a decision to take a direction. I didn’t over think it. I recorded it quickly; it’s bare bones country rock, loose and straight. I am really hard on myself so I wanted it to sound live and real.

has been a healing process.

You worked with good mate and mentor Mick Thomas. How long do you guys go back? A fucking real long way, when I was still in The Reptiles. Weddings Parties Anything and The Reptiles were happening at the same time, and I had heard that Mick was giving us shit in interviews so, we didn’t like each other. I saw him out one night and just thought, ‘fuck it, I will go Does it capture the spirit of your earlier work? ask him what his problem is’. I approached him I came to music through The Reptiles. and was just upfront with him. We got drunk and We were a bar band. We had a harmonica player, sang old Aussie folk songs together. My mum had for God’s sake. We tried to become Guns n’ Roses, taught me lots of traditional Aussie songs when I but we paid for it. This one cost six grand, the first was a kid. Mick and I have been mates ever since. Reptiles CD cost a quarter of a million. We recorded He is my mentor, really. We have toured overseas this one on tapes, 16-track, one track for each together. guitar. No overdubs really. We pretty much played it live. You collaborated with him on some songs. How did that work? Are they like Wreckery or Reptiles songs? Yeah we did a few with Mick. We set out No, it is a Stonesy thing that I have to do fast or slow - not mid-tempo songs - that done. I saw the Stones movie (Shine A Light) and were easy to record with simple arrangements. I saw Charlie Watts, songs based on a solid simple got my head out of my arse. rhythm section. I assembled band that is straightlaced and the songs are not pushed along. The You also collaborated with Van Walker, Halfway, overall theme is about relationships splintering. and Adelaide roots rockers Southpoor… Van’s a gun from Tassie, he has lit the So it’s a raw loose roots rock record? scene up in Melbourne, he is on his third album in Yeah, I hate the label alt-country. It’s a no 18 months, he decided to write a song everyday bullshit record. If it was released in the ’70s, it would for a year, he gave me five. Halfway is a band on be similar to The Band. Laughing Outlaw Records. They are a country rock band and are great songwriters. Justin from Why did you choose tales of heartache and Southpoor I have as my guitarist. bittersweet break-up songs? Well that’s what is what was going on in And country star Felicity Urquhart? my life. Having finished it I feel so much better. It I was working a lot with other Mushroom helped me get a lot of shit out of my head Publishing acts. Mushroom had writing sessions and put us rockers with country artists. We went It is your first solo album in four years. What did on a retreat for a week we wrote together. She you do in that time? recorded two and had one left over that I did. I did a lot of touring overseas and I had a young son so I was looking after him. I wrote a You’re out on the road and heading to Perth? song from his point of view. I have played it live Yep, with Mick Thomas and a band. We and made big, butch blokes cry. When I was writing are coming over in early December. I do love Perth, after the last album I was angry which didn’t work. it’s just hard to get over there.. People don’t want to hear angry. So I capped a whole heap of songs and started again. This record _ BUSTER STIGGS

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SUMMADAYZE (Carl Cox, 2 Many DJ’s, Sharam, Infected Mushroom, LCD Soundsystem) January 3, 2010 MICACHU AND THE SHAPES January 8, 2010 CHIMAIRA January 13, 2010 SOUTHBOUND (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Hilltop Hoods, Wolfmother, Jamie T and more) January 8-10, 2010 JOHN BUTLER TRIO January 16 THEM CROOKED VULTURES January 19, 2010 RAGAMUFFIN (Wyclef Jean, Shaggy, Julian Marley, Sly + Robbie and more) January 25, 2010 THE TEN TENORS January 27-28, 2010 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 ACE FREHLEY Febuary 1, 2010 LANEWAY FESTIVAL (Echo And The Bunnymen, Florence And The Machine, Black Lips, The XX’s, Daniel Johnston, Sarah Blasko, N.A.S.A, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Hockey and more) February 6, 2010 BECK’S MUSIC BOX (Breakestra, Sharon Shannon, Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Marianne Faithfull, Portico Quartet, Dirty Three, Jamie Lidell, Amadou & Mariam, Josh Earl, Die Roten Punkte, British Sea Power, Pivot, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Plus, Bachelorette, Yo La Tengo, Mista Savona, Dancing on Your Grave, Robert Forster, Dan Sultan, Calexico, Health, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) February 6-28

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Black Buzzard, Saturday at Amplifier HYDEY (Back Room) Ray Ray The Empressions HYDEY (Front Bar) Calling All Cars After The Fall IMPACT BAR Freeform INDI BAR Howie Morgan INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Evergreen JB O’REILLY’S The Healey’s KULCHA David Hyams The Miles To Go Band LITTLE CREATURES LOFT Brash And Sassy Good Little Fox Eunuch Schools LLAMA BAR One Island East LUXE Eat My Monologue MOONDYNE JOE’S Dave Gillam Trio MOON AND SIX PENCE Blue Hornet MOUNT HELENA TAVERN Fuse MOUNT HENERY TAVERN Full Circle MUSTANG Adam Hall And The Velvet Playboys Cheeky Monkeys NEWPORT Felix NORFOLK BASEMENT The Justin Walshe Folk Machine CD Launch Xave Brown Hang On Saint Christopher Mitch Becker OLD BAILEY TAVEN Peace, Love And All That Stuff OXFORD HOTEL The Recliners PADDO Just Ace PADDY HANNAN’S Proof PADDY MAGUIRES 43 Cambridge PARAMOUNT Flyte PLAYERS BAR Kickstart PUBLICAN BAR Alfredo PRIORY HOTEL (Dongara) Slither RAILWAY HOTEL Ridakyual The Union Of Crazy Monkey People From Outer Space Empires Laid Waste Beef REVOLUTION LOUNGE Corner Coronal Sky Wicked Sky ROCKET ROOM Smiling Assasins CD Launch Fools Of April Foul Play Tracksuit Fergus Brown The Painkillers ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Emergenza Buried In Damascus AK47 Paperfly The Drawn Mullholand Siren Crash Compass Stately Shape ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Freo) Arrival

Rachael And Henry Climb A Hill, Friday at the Civic Hotel

SAIL & ANCHOR Easy Tigers SETTLERS TAVERN Kenny L SPICE LOUNGE Timeless SWAN BASEMENT The Tumblers The Milkmen The Midnight Condition SWAN LOUNGE The Electromen Head Full Of Steam The Aretinos SWINGING PIG Mr Brightside 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 ROCK INN Failsafe The Forgotten Palvita The Love Junkies THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Pulse Pan THE VIC Nat Ripepi THE VICTORIA HOTEL (Collie) Rocket TIGER TIGER COFFEE BAR The Honey Set VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Kris Arnott UNIVERSAL Retriofit Soul Corp UWA James Morley WATERFORD TARVEN Bogan Bingo WOODVALE TAVERN Cherry

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Volytion, Wednesday at The Rosemount PADDY MAGUIRES Play Things PADDO Cheeky Monkeys PARAMOUNT Felix PLAYER’S BAR (Mandurah) 3 Corner Jack PUBLICAN BAR Jazz With Quench RAILWAY HOTEL The Gonzo Show Ambidexter Burgers Of Beef Laced Affair RAVENSWOOD HOTEL Swamp Donkey ROCKET ROOM Cat Black Moonight Wranglers Minute 36 Dean FoulPLAY Skinny Lame ROSEMOUNT Emergenza Mandalay Victory Red Shoes Boy Deserthead Red Triangle Grover’s Coma The Exit Line The Blue Finish ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Freo) Flavor ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene SAIL AND ANCHOR Hotplate Heaven SALT ON THE BEACH Polka Dots SETTLERS TAVERN Timothy Nelson And The Infidels SPICE LOUNGE Going Duo STAMFORD ARMS Blue Hornet SUBIACO HOTEL Off The Record SWAN LOUNGE Lantana Aztech Suns The Midnight Condition The Silence Inbetween SWINGING PIG Zenburger THE BOAT Lady Penelope THE DEEN Cherry THE EASTERN Men And Their Sheds THE GATE Retriofit THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Huge THE VICTORIA HOTEL (Collie) Kris Arnott THE WANNEROO Tod Woodward UNIVERSAL Soul Corp VIC PARK HOTEL Festivus UNIVERSAL Shawne And Luc Soul Corp WHALE AND ALE J Babies WOODVALE TAVERN Renegade WEST COAST BLUES AND ROOTS CLUB Jam Night

Marie O’Dwyer, Tonight (Thursday) at Mojo’s

X-WRAY CAFÉ Mitch Beker Grace Woodroofe Helen Shanahan

SUNDAY 08.11 BALLYS BAR Damien Cripps BALMORAL Karin Page (duo) BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Alex Lewinski BROKEN HILL One Perfect Day CASTLE West End Riot Aztech Suns CLANCY’S Zydecats COMO HOTEL Chris Murphy COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Tourist DONGARA TAVERN Lips McConague EASTERN MIDLAND Steve And Ben ELIZABETHAN PUB Jimmy James ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Karl Florisson Quartet Shelly Addison The Perth Jazz Orchestra FORRESTFIELD TAVERN Michael Power FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Tin Dog GOSNELLS HOTEL Dom Zurzolo HIGH ROAD HOTEL James Wilson HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL Keith McDonald HILTON PARK BOWLING CLUB Jane Germain And The Yahoos HYDEY (Front Bar) Hostile Little Face A Month Of Sundays Rachel And Henry Climb A Hill HIGH WYCOMBE Keith McDonald INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Retriofit Shawne And Luc INDI BAR The Davs JB O’REILLY’S Mayuka Cam Avery Control Control KULCHA Henry Padovani LAKERS TAVERN Mike Nayar MASH BREWERY Lips McConague MOJO’S Calling All Cars After The Fall The Novocaines MOON Co Lab Jam Band Mathas Emcee Able MOON AND SIXPENCE OTT Munich Swing MUSTANG Peter Busher And The Lone Rangers NEWPORT Arons Crusade Lost Radio A Beggars Second

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

TUESDAY 10.11 BAR ORIENT Mike Nayar BROKEN HILL Acoustic Licence CAPTAIN STIRLING Prita COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Scapegoats ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Backlash FENIANS James Wilson FLOREAT HOTEL Open Mic Night FLY BY NIGHT Destiny Bridge IMPACT BAR Open Mic Night LLAMA BAR Karin MOJO’S Tracksuit Miche Suite Big Big Sky James Micheal Thompson Matt Cal Band PETH BLUES CLUB Hamilton Loomis John The Revelator Ali Penny THE SWINGING PIG Joys Open Mic

WEDNESDAY 11.11 BAR 120 Felix BLACK BETTY’S Side Fx CLANCY’S Chet Leonard Dot Lucky DAVILAK TAVERN Open Mic ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Nina Ferro FENIANS Cranky

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Classifieds and Music Services Hotline: 9213 2888

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Display ads: musicservices@xpressmag.com.au Deadline: 4pm Tuesday Credit cards welcome

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FEMALE GUITARIST/VOCALIST WTD for BAND SERVICES original indi/electro pop act. Good sense MOBILE DRUM KIT TUNING and/or lube of humour and gear a must. Exp pref. service and cymbol cleaning. Working drummer, Ph Bridget 0404 285 738 or boysboysboysband@ 25 years exp.”Hear the Difference”. Contact gmail.com 0414 067 964 FEMALE SINGER WANTED for 80’s to now EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING top 40 covers. 18-30 yrs. Ability to harmonise D O YO U K N OW W H AT A R OA D I E I S ? and professional attitude ess. Exp prefered as Have you got any background in AUDIO, will be working with another vocalist. Phone LIGHTING or BACKLINE? Are you looking for 0422 353 228. CASUAL work in the entertainment industry? If LEAD GUITARIST WANTED for new top 40’s that sounds like you contact Events Personnel cover band, 20-30 yrs. Must be reliable and Aust. On 08 9361 5005. dedicated. Ph Vince 0417 915 051. SYKES MUSIC is looking for teachers for piano, M/F GUITARIST WITH VOCALS WANTED by voice, drums, violin, saxophone and other areas. female vocalist for established acoustic duo Send your CV to juliasykes@sykesmusic.com.au expanding to trio. Harmonies a must, lead vocals or ph: 93804494. bonus. Artists covered include: Matchbox 20, VOCALIST & PIANO/KEYBOARD PLAYERS Diesel, Jewel, Evanescence. Julie 0408 792 611 wanted to teach students of all ages in velvetandstone@hotmail.com. established music school. Must be experienced NEW OPEN MIC NIGHT every Tuesday at Impact and versatile. Call Olga on 9370 1185. Bar, Northbridge. All welcome. Phone Nick HAIR, HEALTH & HAPPINESS 0438 451 215. DOTTIE’S BRAIDS & DREADS Specialising in OPEN MIC NIGHT at the Davilak Tavern, Dreads/Exts/Maint/Weaves/Braids/Cornrows. Sth Freo. Wednesday nights from 8pm Working 7 days & some evenings. For app call Phone Pete 0404 430 165 0414 082 993. OPEN MIC NIGHT every Thursday night at WAXING FOR MEN Hairy back? Unwanted hair? Indi Bar. Just call Bex on 0404 917 632 Clipping, waxing, hair removal, personalised OPEN MIC NIGHT ‘ G e t a R e a l J o b’ a t service. 10 yrs exp. Athletes Effigy 9384 2950 Moondyne Joes, 74 Wray Ave Fremantle,Thursday MUSICIANS AVAILABLE nights at 8pm. Call Mark 0409 137 850 or visit BASS PLAYER Able to travel Funk Blues Rock. myspace.com/getarealjobopenmic Steve 0430 274 728 stephen.dgray@yahoo. SINGER WANTED fo r S a x I n Th e C i t y. com.au Call Graham on 041 9966 042 or visit

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required. Call Jerry on 0405 653 338 / 9362 2252 www.jerichcomusic.com.au

0408 097 407

CVP Digital, Protools, Recording & Mastering. ACOUSTIC ACTS WANTED for Thursday open SINGERS WANTED for $1000 prize comp! Productive enviroment, songwriters welcome, mic and gigs at Bar Orient in Fremantle. Amatures and professionals welcome. session musos available. Ph 9349 9365 Yokine area. www.clearviewproductions.com.au Live recording avail. For bookings call Simon Malaga area. Call 0418 957 866. Dowling 0405 812 263. MASTERING-FORENSIC AUDIO MASTERING PHOTOGRAPHY BASS PLAYER & DRUMMER WANTED for new M I C H A E L W Y L I E P R O M O T I O N A L High end analogue and digital mastering. original band. Inf Nightwish, Within Temptation, PHOTOGRAPHY Studio, Live, Location. West www.forensicaudio.com.au. Ph 0401 499 667 Shihad, Cog, Garbage. Committed only. Perth. 9328 1769. 0417 975 964 Online gallery: RECORDING MIXING MASTERING PRODUCING Ph Chris 9385 8873. Fremantle location. Call Pete Kitchen Cooked www.projectphotography.com

DRUMMER WANTED for est original hard rock band DIAMOND EYE. In process of recording debut album. Inf KISS, Crue, Maiden, Metallica. Serious applicants only. Myspace.com/ diamondeyeperth. Ph Greg 0412 807 796 or Will 0406 335 505.

PROFESSIONAL P.A. HIRE For concerts, parties, or corporate events. Call Sound Pro 3000 on 0424 279 328. SHORT FUSE SPEAKER REPAIRS Put new life into old speakers. General repairs on all makes. Ph 9249 4179 2/73 Holder Way, Malaga

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TUITION ***GUITAR LESSONS*** The Guitar Specialist. Xmas vouchers avail. Latest techniques, styles and songs. Guaranteed results. Beg-adv, all levels including bass. Cliff Lynton Guitar Institute. Mt Lawey 9342 3484 / www.clifflynton.com

AVA LO N R E CO R D I N G , M I X I N G A N D MASTERING STUDIO- BIBRA LAKE 32 track, 2 live rooms, running pro tools and logic, avalon and joe meek pre amps and compressors, vintage analouge effects, plus the latest digital plug ins. Vintage amps and key boards, BASS LESSONS Rock, funk & jazz. Tony Gibbs valve mics plus more. Call Tony 0411 118 304, 9470 6131 DRUM LESSONS The Drum Shop has Perth’s avalonstudios@bigpond .com C U S T O M B E AT S , B A C K I N G T R A C K S biggest drum academy with 12 teachers. Drum Production & mixing. Studio specializing in Pop, kit, African drumming and orchestral percussion R’n’B & Hiphop. goldustconstruction.com tuition. See ad Below. Lessons from $18.

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BASS PLAYER WANTED for blues/roots band, PRODUCTION SERVICES acoustics/electric. Covers and orgininals. CD & DVD MANUFACTURE “Check out our Compositions and harmonies an adv, but don’t panic rehearse twice a week. Ph Tony latest CD & DVD specials online at “www. procopy.com.au 9375 3902 0422 289 015. BASS PLAYER WANTED for original band into MATRIX PRODUCTIONS AUSTRALIA Lighting, a mix of Indi and Progressive rock. Inf The Cure, staging, sound systems, smoke machines, night King Crimson, Radiohead, New Order. Must be club FX, intelligent lighting, strobes & mirror balls, crowd barriers, video projectors. “9371 reliable. Ph Grant 0403 843 532. 1551 DRUMMER REQUIRED for original metal band, One Last Charge. Inf Pantera, Machine Head and PA HIRE Vocal to concert size. Pro gear. Slipknot. Demo’s avail and gigs waiting. No time Pick up or delivery. Exp crew. Ph 9307 8594 / mob 0404 410 020 wasters. Enq call Nick 0417 187 447.

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SHOWCO LIVE Suppliers of audio and lighting REHEARSAL STUDIOS for concert, corporate, installations & driveway ASTRO STUDIOS REHEARSAL ROOMS available. hire. SHOWCO DJ’S - Professional staff and Armadale area. Call Dave 0438 839 999 or equipment for every occasion. Modest to www.thetankstudio.com.au massive. Ph 08 9405 6450 CVP Private Rehearsal studio, excellent facilities. RECORDING STUDIOS Protools, Recording and Mastering. Demos to ALAN DAWSON’s WITZEND RECORDING albums, Musos avail. Ph 9349 9365, Yokine area. STUDIO Professional quality albums or demos, www.clearviewproductions.com.au large live room, experienced engineer, analog to PLATINUM SOUND ROOMS Professional digital transfers, mastering.Ph: 0407 989 128 rehearsal rooms, airconditioned, quality PAs ANDY’S STUDIO International multi award mob 0418 944 722 winning songwriter / producer. No band STREAM STUDIOS The place to rehearse in required. Broadcast quality. A songwriter’s Perth.. Phone: 0403 152 009 paradise. Ph 9364 3178 www.streamrehearsal.com.au ARE YOU GOOD ENOUGH FOR LONDON? Free appraisals by producer, 20 years working VHS Good facilities & vibe. Unit 5 /16 Peel in London. Great studio also available- Road, O’Connor. Phone 9418 5815 bus/hrs or arrangement and production help included if 0413 732 885 After hours

DRUM TUITION: PRIVATE LESSONS with Warren Daley. Beginners welcome.Hire kits avail. Ph: 9349 8594 (Osb. Park) DRUMS TUITION Experienced and qualified teacher. All styles. Kit-to-kit teaching. Contact Anton Gavin M.I.M.T on 9384 8523 ELECTRIC BASS LESSONS All styles. Beginner to Advanced. NOR. $50 p/hr. $30 p/half hr. Phone Peter 0423 686 109.

GUITAR LESSONS Learn guitar by ear from a prof with over 20 yrs exp in teaching & performing. RECORDING, MIXING OR MASTERING with WA’s All levels & ages. blues & rock specialist. Results largest collection of tube recoring equipment. guaranteed. Phone Ian Wilson “The Teacher That Classic analog tape recorders combined with the Students Recommend” on 9403 3212 very latest audiophile digital converters. Record your band using the worlds finest Analog and GUITAR TUITION (Beginners- Professional) digital rock’n roll equipment at Poons Head One on One lessons. Burswood Ph 9361 1444 Studios. “Today’s sound with vintage soul”. www.gvkschoolofmusic.com.au Records. Ph 0407 363 764 / 9336 3764

O N E - O N - O N E T U I T I O N fo r p r o t o o l s . REVOLVER SOUND STUDIO Ph 9272 7505. Phone Steve on 0419 040 981 www.revolverstudio.com.au SINGING LESSONS learn the technique of SOLO STUDIO specialising in singer/song over 120 Grammy award winners! Extend your writer music productions. No band required. range and develop strength. Call Progression John 9330 6168 or mob 0419 794 683. Music on 0431 335 495 or email S T U D I O I N N OVAT I O N S Te l : 0 8 9 4 3 7 simonar1@optusnet.com.au. 2151 Record, Mix, Master, and Film at one SWING DANCE LESSONS Join us at The of Perth’s finest studios south of the river. Deen every Monday at 7.30pm for easy www.studioinnovations.com.au and fun lessons, no partner req, any level. www.poonshead.som / Ph 9339 4791

Private Lessons avil in swing and lindy hop. www.swingitout.com. Ph 0409 095 476. THE DJ FACTORY Exclusive agents for Allen & Heath Xone DJ Mixers. Sound advice on all leading brands in DJ hardware, studio software/hardware, sound & lighting. For quality customer service and the lowest possible price, Check out W.A.ís award winning vinyl & DJ hardware store.

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VOCAL COACHING All styles, clean to scean. Melissa Cross heavy metal and Seth Riggs speach level technique. 30 yrs experience. Ph Sue on 0412 125 918 or suzydazzle@hotmail.com. VOICE COACH/SINGING LESSONS Over 23 years exp. All levels, all styles. Have fun learning to sing. ‘Find your true voice’. NOR. Phone 9407 9078 or mob 0407 260 762.

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BILLY SHEEHAN CLINIC Billy Sheehan has long been regarded as one of the world’s finest bass players, making his mark with the likes of Mr Big, Steve Vai, and David Lee Roth, and musicians should note that he will be holding a bass clinic on Wednesday, November 11, at the Western Australian Academy Of Performing Arts. This is your chance to see and learn from of one of the true masters. Brought to you by Yamaha, tickets are available from Kosmic, Concept, Music Park, and Sound Centre. Billy Sheehan

BELEZA ESCOLA DE SAMBA VS. SAMBALICIOUS LADY VELVET SAMBA DANCERS PLUS

MILIJANA VS. NIC K CLAUDE MONO VS. JADE NOBBS CHARLIE BUCKET BEN TAAFFE VS. FRANCESCO GEAR VS. APOROSA - TOM FOSS Saturday 7th Nov

FRI NOV 13, DEVILLE’S PAD

info@kosmic.com.au

1/3 ABERDEEN ST, PERTH. $10/$15 FROM RTRFM.COM.AU MORE ON THE DOOR ON THE NIGHT. 18+ EVENT ID REQUIRED

@ 2pm For registration, email:

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