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As the argument over a flood levy continues to swamp political debate, Greens leader Bob Brown cut through the rhetoric to lay down a simple truth on ABC radio this week: if we had implemented the mining tax as Kevin Rudd planned, the country would probably have enough money to rebuild flood-devastated Queensland. Obviously the numbers haven’t been crunched in detail, but Brown reignites a debate which has quietly perplexed me since the proposed Mineral Rent Resource Tax first hit the news cycle. On the one hand, I completely understand that West Australians finally feel, as a whole, it’s our time to shine. After a century of living in the wilderness we’re finally rolling with the big boys on the east coast; out-blingin’ the old-world establishment in Sydney and Melbourne with a, frankly, gross display of new wealth. It’s our dough and we’re going to blow it! But I wonder how those Sandgropers who pontificate this argument can sleep at night – I truly do. In case you forgot, we joined a Federation in 1901 – this new little country called Australia. And – in a country where the idiosyncrasies of individual states and territories is nigh on zip – we are first and foremost Australian, and secondly West Australian. A friend from Germany recently gave me a deeper understanding of a similar – but much more drastic – situation back home. With Greece and Ireland now failed economies, and the embers of disaster now drifting towards Spain and Portugal, Germany’s powerhouse
economy has been left to clean up the mess: to prop up states less fortunate (and mismanaged) than them. It’s do or die for the Euro Zone, and many argue Germany would be far better off keeping its money in its pockets and watching the rest of Europe burn. But they would never do that. While the country’s exorbitant rescue package for these failed economies is unpopular in certain sectors of the country, the Germans have a deep social conscience, rooted in the greater good of Europe and mankind. As with Germany, the WA economy is powering. We were circumstantially blessed with wealth deep below the dirt, and we’re doing very well from it. But some other states aren’t doing so well. In fact, some of them are in pretty bad shape. So why wouldn’t we want to contribute a very reasonable amount of a ludicrously profitable industry towards the greater good of our country as a whole, and its secure future? A stable and secure Australia is undoubtedly in our interest. Our short memories may prove our downfall; for it was only 150 years ago WA almost collapsed, a failed state – the cursed land. But we made it, joined the union and never looked back – until now. But the golden days won’t last forever. Let’s contribute our load and sleep safe in the knowledge that – like Queensland now – next time we’re in need the other states will be there for us, as fellow Australians.
NEW FUTURE
Future Music Festival has announced a bunch of smokin’ hot new acts to the already ridiculously amazing line-up. The lively, electro-rock party starters, Art Vs Science will be joining the bill, along with British rapper Professor Green, New Zealand electro-pop beauty Zowie, British trance act Binary Finary, TyDi, the German hip hop groover Tai, our very own Stafford Brothers, Shazam, Optamus and The Brow Horn Orchestra as well as US host Cobra Snake. There is less than eight weeks to go until the big day and tickets are disappearing fast. Get ready to rock’n’roll, dance and pump up the volume. Jump on board the Future Music Festival train. Grab tickets from Ticketmaster, 78’s, Mills, Planet and Rockeby Road Records. This will be big.
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Global pop/ R&B superstar Chris Brown, is bringing his F.A.M.E tour to Australia. And guess what everyone: Australia is going to be the first country in the world to see his new show before he embarks on a worldwide tour with it. Known for his break dancing mayhem, ridiculously over the top live performances and general partying, Brown will be bringing new works from his latest offering F.A.M.E which is due for release in early March. The first single from the album YEAH 3X is already sitting at #5 on the ARIA singles chart and has achieved double platinum status in Australia. Performing alongside him will be Australia’s queen of R&B Jessica Mauboy, the mighty fine dancers known as Justice Crew and DJ Havana Brown who has supported Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls and even Britney Spears. It all takes place on Tuesday, May 3, at Burswood Dome. Tickets on sale next Friday, February 4, through Ticketek. Kiss Kiss.
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of his revolutionary album The Pleasure Principle released back in 1979, electro-pop innovator Garry Numan is bound for Perth. FYI, The Pleasure Principle set a benchmark for many electro-pop artists who followed Numan’s legacy. Numan’s work had a direct impact on Nine Inch Nails, Basement Jaxx, Fear Factory, Afrika Bombaataa and Planet Funk. Traditional song structures were totally abandoned on this album – guitars were replaced with signature sounds of synthesizers fed through guitar effects pedals. Electronic group Severed Heads are coming out of a self-imposed retirement especially to support Numan on part of his Australian and New Zealand tour. Severed Heads were the first act to headline the legendary Boiler Room when the stage opened at Big Day Out in 1994. The show takes place on Tuesday, May 17, at the Astor Theatre. Tickets are on sale from bocsticketing.com.au from next Thursday, February 3.
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Red Hill Auditorium is a world class, multi-purpose concert venue. Red Hill is located 24km, or approximately a 25 min journey from the City CBD. Red Hill Auditorium has been designed as a fully tiered circular auditorium offering fantastic sight lines to the stage for all patrons. However,
getting an uninterrupted view of your favourite artist performing is not all you’ll see. Beyond the stage stretches a panoramic vista of the cityscape. Once the sun goes down and city lights come to life, the picture is completed perfectly with a truly breathtaking backdrop. Red Hill Auditorium is easily accessible from across the Perth regions with our Event Shuttle Service. The service operates from 14 iconic local
pub locations around Perth and runs directly to and from the venue for all events we present. The venue has onsite parking, as well as state of the art staging, production, fantastic food and bar facilities. Red Hill Auditorium is a hub for everything creative including music, festivals, theatre, film and comedy.
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What cannot be disputed is that Neil Finn and Paul Kelly have both emerged among the most celebrated and loved musicians of modern times. Over the last 30 years and more, these two gifted singer songwriters have built unique musical legacies for Australian, NZ and international audiences alike. Red Hill Proudly presents SONGLINES, featuring Neil Finn and Paul Kelly, and special guests Lior and Ben Merito, performing this ANZAC Day Holiday, Monday 25th April.
Neil Finn is one of those brilliant songwriters that we Aussies like to claim as being our own. However, the glory of Neil Finn unfortunately belongs to New Zealand along with the likes of the Pavlova and The Lord of the Rings film. While it’s true we are guilty of embellishing more than our fair share from our Kiwi neighbours. Paul Kelly, on the other hand is a bone fide national treasure and there is no man who captures the collective heart of this country more than Kelly.
FREE FILMS EVERY SUNDAY FROM 20 FEB TO 10 APRIL It’s the FREE FILMS SEASON at Red Hill Auditorium! Presenting a fantastic program of films to stretch the imagination and transport the audience to the world of the wondrous, the beautiful, the impossible, the heart gripping and the hilarious. The Red Hill Free Films Season runs every Sunday from February 20th to April 10th 2011. Perched magnificently upon the darling scarp Red Hill Auditorium is cast against a panoramic festival of city lights reminiscent of the California drive in cliché. High up, looking down over the city the Red Hill setting boasts plenty of drama and romance even before the movie starts. With superb viewing from all vantage points in our
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perfectly designed fully tiered, circular limestone auditorium Red Hill has all the fun nostalgic bits with all the modern day comforts. Including a delicious selection of ready gourmet offerings and premium products served over our bar. You can even hire a cushion and low lying chairs for maximum convenience and comfort. It’s luxury all the way... AND IT’S FREE! A unique film experience unlike any other. Great films showcased in an amazing venue at an incredible price (FREE!). Full program at www.redhillgigs.com.au
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Shuttle buses will be leaving a local pub near you to take you to the concert. They leave in time to see the first act and will drop you back at the pub after the last. In the interests of road safety and reducing our environmental impact we’re made sure they’re even easier than driving.
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Instead of having to wait at some street corner or train station each pickup point is from your local pub where they have comfy chairs, serve cold drinks and delicious food. • • • • •
All buses go direct, so once you’re on you go straight to the venue without stopping. Buses have express entry in and out of the venue so you can watch everyone else stuck in traffic as you drive by. On arrival bus ticket holders are given express entry through the gate and into the gig. It’s cheap........ $15 there and back. And you’re supporting your local pub.
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While this letter was written before Australia Day, I have to write in to complain about Australia Day. While it’s Tuesday I know what’s going to happen on the ‘big day’. Liquor shops are going to open and do a roaring trade; the trains will be packed with drunken Anonymous people of all ages – underage teenager and Via email underage teenagers at heart – the city will unite in hiding their booze from the police; cue Goanna’s Solid Rock and GANGgajang’s Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) and it’s the exact same thing as every other Skyworks. The state blows an incredible amount of money on some flashy fireworks; a whole bunch of people make arses of themselves on the nightly news as they try to fight the cops and Royal Perth Hospital’s long-suffering emergency department once again is reminded of what happens on the biggest boozeday of the year – the busiest and bloodiest day of the year. It’s like an entirely self-inflicted Hiroshima in there. BYO bandages.
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What are we celebrating again here? Hijacking the property of the original land owners? A culture that proudly can handle their piss? A culture that celebrates one’s ability to handle their piss while bitching and moaning about how the original land owners can’t handle their piss? We should be rethinking our culture instead of celebrating it.
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MONO MADNESS
GANG WARFARE
If you’ve been planning on entering the Maj Monologues Competition but haven’t quite found the time to sit down and write a script stress not, because the generous folks at The Brainbox Project have extended the deadline for entries to 5pm on Friday, February 11. Writers interested in taking part need to pen a monologue of 8 to 15 minutes in length on the theme ‘treachery and lechery in the 21st century’, to be in the running to win the Judges’ Choice prize of $3,000, the Australia Post Peoples’ Choice award of $1,000 or the Astrid Jackson Encouragement Award of $500. Find out more at hismajestystheatre.com.au.
Leo Sayer
With such hits as Gimme Some Lovin, House Of Cards, Giver Of Life and, of course, Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) up their sleeves, Aussie rock icons GANGgajang are returning to Perth to play the Swan Yacht Club on Friday, February 18. With Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan, Robert James and Chris Bailey on board, JJ Harris of the Divinyls will fill in on drumming duties as original drummer Buzz Bidstrup is busy with the Jimmy Little Foundation. Also dropping by the Swan Yacht Club is Leo Sayer, who is responsible for You Make Me Feel Like Dancing along others hits. See him on Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26.
HURRICANE STRIKES Bob Marley
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB
Bruno Mars
LIFE ON MARS
Responsible for penning hits such as Cee-Lo Green’s Fuck You and Travie McCoy’s Billionaire, Bruno Mars has had a very busy few months indeed, with his own single Just The Way You Are going three times platinum. Riding high on a wave of success, Mars will touch down in Australia this year for his first ever tour of the great land down under. Promising an incredible live show that will have ladies swooning in the aisles, Mars will take to the stage of the Astor Theatre on Tuesday, April 12. Tickets for the show go on sale on via BOCS on Tuesday, February 1, and are likely to sell out, so be sure to hit up artistarena.com for pre-sale ticket information.
MERRYMAKING WITH CALVIN
This is big news. Despite having only just left Perth after Stereosonic, we are very excited to announce that the legendary Scottish singer/songwriter, DJ, producer and entertainer Calvin Harris is bringing his beats to Perth again. The disco-grooving party boy will be taking to the decks for a special DJ set to celebrate the release of One Love’s Sonic Boom Box record which is out now for your listening pleasure. The three-CD compilation was remixed by Mr Harris himself, Andy Murphy and Acid Jacks. It’s all happening on Friday, March 11, at Metropolis Fremantle. This news is fresh so stay tuned for ticketing details.
Sunday, February 6, 2011 is an important date on the music calendar, marking 66 years since the birth of Robert Nesta Marley, better known to the masses as the one and only Bob Marley. Revered for spreading the sounds of reggae across the globe, and for being an advocate for the Rastafarian movement, Marley was responsible for hits such as I Shot The Sheriff, No Woman No Cry, One Love plus posthumous release Buffalo Soldier. Fans of Marley’s music will gather at The Railway Hotel on Sunday, February 6, to mark the occasion with the 30th Bob Marley Outernational Day, which will see performances from The Jamdown Kingz, The Sunshine Brothers, The Empressions, The Isolites, Danny Pashionfruit, General Justice, Tutomath, DJ Ray and Simba. Doors open at 4pm and tickets are $15 or $10 for concession, with part proceeds donated to Oxfam’s Clean Water In Africa project.
HANLON IT WELL
If you’re planning on moseying on down to the Nannup Music Festival from March 4-7, then we have some good news for you… Darren Hanlon has just joined the bill! Fresh from touring on the back of the release of I Will Love You At All, Hanlon will join the likes of The Pigram Brothers, Clare Bowditch, Passenger, Shane Howard, Eli Wolfe, San Cisco, Jez Mead, Benjalu, Oka, Elana Stone, Husky, Rosie Burgess, The Brow Horn Orchestra and plenty of other top notch acts performing at the festival. If you’re yet to purchase tickets you better get a wriggle on and head online to nannupmusicfestival.org to secure yours!
The Holidays
POST-HOLIDAY
With their self-produced debut album PostParadise proving to be a critics favourite in 2010, Sydney indie rockers The Holidays are gearing up for an even bigger 2011 fresh from being crowned winners of the prestigious Australian Music Prize Red Bull Award for best debut album. Following a trip to South By Southwest planned for March, the band head out on an Australian tour with support from Ballarat’s Gold Fields. See them at Amplifier on Thursday, April 28. Tickets from Moshtix.
Melbourne quintet House VS Hurricane are heading out on a national tour and Perth is on the bill. The post-hardcore act has been on quite the journey since releasing their debut full length album Perspectives in March last year. The boys have had successful headline tours, an appearance at the Come Together Festival and national stints with Enter Shikari and as part of the No Sleep Til Festival. This tour will be their last before they head back into the studio to work on the follow up to Perspectives. Joining the group on tour will be British young hardcore outfit Your Demise and Adelaide favourites Nazarite Vow. You have two choices: the first show is on Thursday, March 17, at YMCA HQ and tickets are available from Moshtix, Heatseeker, 78’s and Mills for this one, or the evening gig on the same day at Black Betty’s. Tickets for the Black Betty’s gig are available on the door only.
CHARIOT ACT
Hailing from the USA, The Chariot is a band that is rapidly rising through the ranks of aggressive music appealing to fans of punk, hardcore and metal. They’re heading to Australia to play a series of shows with South Australia’s Nazarite Vow. They play at Amplifier on Friday, April 15, also with Vanity and Afraid Of Heights; and an all ages show at YMCA HQ on Saturday, April 16, with Statues and Mom, Dad & The Kids. Tickets from Moshtix.
WAM BAM
A highlight on the local music calendar in WA each year is the WAMi Festival and it is set to return in 2011 from Saturday, May 21, ‘til Saturday, May 28. That’s eight days of music action – an upgrade on last year’s five day event, so prepare your vital organs for an onslaught. WAM have also appointed a new festival director with Brooke Kelly taking on the role. The former Sunset Events employee will ensure the best of WA music is represented at the Saturday Spectacular, on the Kiss My WAMi CD/DVD, the Kiss My Camera photographic exhibit, the non-traditional Awards Ceremony and the new genre specific showcases at The Bakery. Plus the festival will also see the return on the Bill Me Festival Pitch and Publishing Pitch. Keep your eyes on X-Press for all your WAMi Festival news.
Alestorm
ALE TO THE CHIEF
With viking metal almost passé these days, swashbuckling pirate metal is where it’s at; meaning Alestorm is your best bit for a nautical fix. Plundering our shores on an ale and wench raiding mission, they drop anchor at Amplifier on Tuesday, May 10, with support from the best band for a voyage such as this, Voyager. The Perth metalheads support the entire trans-Tasman tour! Tickets go on sale from Moshtix and 78 Records this Monday, January 31.
Kate Miller-Heidke
DON’T WANNA BE LONELY
During his long and prolific career as a musician, Ben Folds has accrued a huge legion of fans, a legion who are likely to be rather excited about his impending return to Australia – his home away from home – in May. Touring in support of Lonely Avenue, an album he co-wrote with novelist Nick Hornby, Folds will be joined on the tour by Australia’s own Kate Miller-Heidke, so his show at the Riverside Theatre on Tuesday, May 24, is likely to be a doozy. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, January 28, from Ticketek.
Holly Throsby
TEAM HOLLY
GROUNDED DOVES
In what is becoming increasingly more common these days, UK alternative rockers Doves have contracted a case the highly infectious “circumstances beyond our control” where the only cure is being “forced to cancel our forthcoming tour of Australia”. We wish them well on their recovery and those with tickets to see them on Monday, February 21, at Metropolis Fremantle can get a full refund at the point of purchase. Australia’s highest circulating Street Press
Steve Parkin
BIG BIRDS
Affable Perth troubadour Steve Parkin spent the last year flying here, there and everywhere as part of Aussie supergroup Basement Birds, and in 2011 the singer-songwriter is looking forward to focusing back in on his solo work. When not performing with the lads from the Basement Birds, Steve Parkin spent much of 2010 penning his debut solo album Mighty Big Light, which is finally set for release in April this year. Full of classic pop songs that Parkin believes are the best he’s ever written, Mighty Big Light will be on sale in April through Dirt Diamond Productions/Warner. Find out more at steveparkin.com.au.
The lovely Ms Holly Throsby is busy packing her bags in anticipation of the Team Tour, which will see her and her band (The Hello Tigers) take in 21 cities across Australia during March, April and May. Following the release of her fourth LP Team on February 18, fans of the talented songstress can catch her when she steps into the spotlight at The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Thursday, March 10, and The Bakery on Saturday, March 12, to play some brand spanking new tunes. Tickets for both shows are on sale now from Oztix and nowbaking.com.au.
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HENRY & AARON All Hail The New Kings Of Perth Comedy
Things are coming up trumps for Perth filmmakers Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann, who’ve just scored themselves $50,000 to fund the production of a seven part sitcom care of Movie Extra’s WebFest competition. After months of vigorous campaigning both on and off social networking sites, Inglis and McCann have finally achieved what they set out to do and the pair couldn’t be more excited about the task that lies ahead of them. Before the boys can temporarily retire from society to begin work on their seven part sitcom, they caught up with X-Press Magazine to chat about filmmaking, Christmas Specials and how to make comedy gold with a ludicrously small budget.
By EMMA BERGMEIER When did the two of you meet? Aaron McCann: It was 2002, we met at TAFE. We were both in two separate classes but we knew of each other. In 2003 I was directing my graduation film and I got on board Henry as an editor and we clicked in terms of personality. After we finished the film we kept catching up and writing little comedy sketches and from there it all grew. What made you want to work with each other? AM: Money (laughs). I t ’s weird, personalities click and you just want to work with the same sort of personalities. We had a very similar sense of humour and Henry had edit suites, so whenever we shot something we’d go to Henry’s house to cut it because he was the only person we knew who had an edit suite. Henry Inglis: At that time we were still cutting reel to reel footage, because digital hadn’t come around by that stage. AM: We’ve been around since the early days. The days of the talkies (laughs). HI: I remember when Aaron first came around and said ‘I’ve got a talky for you to see, you’ve got to fucking see this!’ and I was just blown away by having vision and sound together. AM: You would never know that we’re in our early 80s. What kind of films were you making when you first began collaborating? AM: Henry had done a very dark kind of psychological drama called Blank Point and my graduation film was called Black Swan, just like the Natalie Portman film. We had done a graduation film and he had written this comedy that he needed another actor for, so his sister and me starred in a comedy film called Clash. From then on we collaborated on comedy stuff. We did a few little things for TropFest that never
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“WITH THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL IT WAS ME AND AARON RUNNING AROUND, DRIVING TO PLACES TO GET PROPS AND BATTERIES, FIXING ANY PROBLEMS THAT CAME UP, OPERATING THE BOOM. EVEN THOUGH WE WERE ONLY SHOOTING FOR THREE DAYS, THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL REALLY TOOK IT OUT OF ME PHYSICALLY AND THAT’S ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE FOR SHORTS THAT WE’VE DONE, IT’S ALWAYS BEEN FRANTIC.” really got in and we’d work on little skits just for ourselves and then we started doing PAC Workshops together and practically everything we did at those workshops always had a comedy flavour to it. H I : W h e n i t co m e s to b e i n g a student filmmaker it’s hard to know what you want to be making in the future. When I was starting out I thought I wanted to be making films and the films that I liked were Fight Club and others with darker themes, films with black humour. As I’ve grown over the years I’ve become more specific with what I want to be doing and have started being influenced by different things. When we were doing these PAC Workshops together was the time when I decided that I just really wanted to do comedy because I get something out of it. AM: For me personally, working with Henry is where the comedy comes from but I just recently finished a horror film, which is the complete opposite to that. I like working on different things all of the time and everytime me and Henry work together it’s always comedy. We keep the drama there but there’s always comedy. HI: I love black comedy. AM: I think the darker it is the funnier it is. When did you first begin hatching a plan for this sit com? HI: In late 2007. We had written and were going to produce a no-budget thriller feature that we could shoot ourselves around Perth and do it for $5000 or whatever. For some reason or another we lost track, we wrote the script and then lost interest a little bit but we still wanted to do something. AM: We felt like we had to make a feature before we were 25. HI: There was always a thing that stopped us which was that it was really hard to find the right actors who were at our skill level but could perform in the way we needed them to. AM: Also writing it we decided it would be a really small film but then the writing got bigger and more ambitious and then we went ‘there’s no way we can do this, so what’s the quickest, easiest thing to do?’… we’ll be in it. It will just be about us and we can act in it and direct it. HI: So we came up with an idea about these two podcasters who are a comedy duo who think they’re really funny but none of their friends think they’re funny. AM: We wrote the script and it was kind of long and we did a reading for a small group through PAC and from there all the feedback was like ‘very episodic, it could be a TV series’. And we were like ‘yeah, it could be, let’s rework it and re-pitch it’. From there we re-pitched it and wrote down ideas from other discarded scripts and that became the basis. We had 20 or so episode ideas and we whittled it down to about 10 really solid ideas and began working on a pitch and
Comedy kings Aaron McCann and Henry Inglis with James Helm who plays their producer, Danny ‘The Dynamite’ Danielson (Photo: Richard Jefferson, Stylist: Colleen Sutherland). Throne courtesy of Queen Of Theme, 66 Angove Street, North Perth; costumes courtesy of Shakespeare In The Park. Park.
developing it into a series and that’s where So what now, are you busy preparing to WebFest came along. shoot the seven episodes? AM: We’ve got an outline for the How many other competitors were there episodes but we’ll probably re-jig a few of in the WebFest competition? them. We’re trying to re-jig them and make AM: About 107 or 108. We were them funny so they can act as a stepping one of the later entries, we were #57 or #58 stone to help us get a half hour series up. to enter, so it had been open for a while. HI: We see the series as a promo We were like ‘okay we’ve got the trailer now for what we can do, advertising the brand of let it just fly with the wind and maybe it will Henry & Aaron then that will open a lot of happen or maybe it won’t’. Then we got into doors hopefully. the finals and the big internet campaign started. It was all really about how you What happens when the episodes are market yourself, which we had never really finished? become accustomed to doing. From there it AM: It goes through mnc.tv which was a shock to find out we had won. is the Movie Network Channel. They screen the episodes on their website exclusively and Are you excited about having $50,000 to then after it’s done its run on their website fund the production of a seven part sitcom it screens on the Movie Extra channel. From having worked on a shoe-string budget there we have to do blogs and posts about for so long? it to keep it cross platform. Hopefully, with HI: It’s very exciting! I think the enough recognition and fans behind it it can biggest thing it will do for us is taking the progress forward and possibly be on Movie load off us having to run around and do Extra or one of the Foxtel channels they own. everything. With the Christmas Special it was me and Aaron running around, driving to places to get props and batteries, fixing any What do you attribute your win to? HI: All the other entries were worthy problems that came up, operating the boom. contenders, all the finalists’ films were really Even though we were only shooting for three days, the Christmas Special really took it out well done. What we’ve been told is that they of me physically and that’s always been the liked the way the film looked, the strength case for shorts that we’ve done, it’s always of the concept and of the performances and they thought the campaign and marketing been frantic. AM: There are scenes where both of were really well run. Chris Berry the Movie us had to be in front of the camera so we’d Extra Executive Producer thought it was the have to set the shot up then run in front of best trailer and that the Christmas Special sealed the deal. He told us that it was a the camera. HI: There were days when we didn’t unanimous decision between the four judges have any crew whatsoever. We’ve had that that ours was the best product. AM: The Christmas Special was very experience of being under crewed and exhausting ourselves so it will be great to much an after thought. We didn’t know what actually hire people to fill in all those roles we were going to do in the lead up to it… HI: We just wanted to do one big that we were doing. AM: For us to just focus on the extra thing to get us over the line. writing, a bit of the producing side and really dedicate ourselves to the acting will give us View Henry & Aaron’s winning WebFest a different dynamic and will hopefully make entry plus other shorts by the talented duo it better. online at youtube.com/henryandaaron. www.xpressmag.com.au
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!!! Chk Chk Boom Warped New York party starters !!! released their fourth album Strange Weather, Isn’t It in 2010, and now in 2011, they play St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival at Perth Cultural Centre on Saturday, February 12. MATTHEW HOGAN chats to main man Nic Offer ahead of their trip. When dance punk band !!!, pronounced ‘Chk Chk Chk’ or any other percussive sound repeated three times, were last in Australia they played a packed out Bakery on a Saturday night while the rest of the country saw them as part of the We Love Sounds all night festival. This time around they headline the PICA Stage at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival and frontman Nic Offer is confident his band will bring the show. “We are special – we just bring the show and that’s enough,” he states. After spending much of 2010 on the road, the band had a chance to reflect on the year that was and just how long they’ve been together last month.“We’ve basically just finished the rest of the world tour a few weeks ago and it went great,” Offer offers. “We’ve been doing it for 14 years and still have people saying that we were better than ever, so it was good. I feel like we had a good year.” While Offer initially says he couldn’t think of “anything of note” to describe their European tour late last year, the simple mention of !!! covering Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s one
“IT WOULD JUST COME ON STAGE IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERY SHOW AND THEN THE SECOND TO LAST NIGHT ON THE TOUR, ALL THESE DIFFERENT ANIMALS CAME ON STAGE AND WE WERE LIKE, ‘WHAT THE FUCK ARE ALL THESE ANIMALS DOING ON HERE’?”
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hit Relax was enough to get him telling a very entertaining tale indeed. “We were playing in Liverpool for Halloween and for the encore we said, ‘We’re going to come back dressed as Liverpool’s greatest group’,” Offer recollects. “We just figured everyone there would just assume that we’d come back as The Beatles, and everyone there would be sick of hearing about them every time they go to a gig, and so we came back and did the song. Then we joked about it when we got back to the hotel room and we wondered if it was on YouTube yet and, sure enough, somebody had already posted it.” But the story didn’t end their, as the band met somebody very interesting the following day while on a magical mystery tour.
“The following day, a few of us took a Beatles cab tour,” he continues.“And the driver asked us what we were doing in Liverpool and we said we’re in a band and we covered Relax last night because it was Halloween. He said, ‘Well that’s funny because my brother is Holly Johnson’, the singer for Frankie Goes To Hollywood. We were like, ‘Wow, that’s really weird’. Anyways, so he gave us the tour and he was a great guy and real nice and we told him to look it up on YouTube because you can see it. Later that same day, when we were in the next town in Leeds, we were soundchecking and I looked at an email on my phone and Holly Johnson had emailed us, because his brother sent him the clip and he contacted Warp, and kinda just said hello and big ups and posted it on his own Facebook, so it was a funny story!” While Offer is not promising anything, don’t be too surprised if the band whips it out by popular demand next month. “We haven’t been doing it, but we may have to start it up again just because everyone keeps asking about it,” he laughs. Offer seemed unsure whether the animals that have been known to invade their stage on recent tours will be in Australia as well. “It was a really strange thing that kept happening every night when we were playing,” he explains. “This weird thing – we didn’t know what was happening – we called it the ‘Stage Dog’. It would just come on stage in the middle of every show and then the second to last night on the tour, all these different animals came on stage and we were like, ‘What the fuck are all these animals doing on here?’ So we were never able to solve the mystery, but we were highly suspicious of our road crew; it may have been them.” A band that create songs that are easy fodder for remixers, !!!’s latest release is the Jamie My Intentions Bass six track remixes EP, featuring reinterpretations by former A.R.E. Weapons members Thomas Bullock, Liv Spencer, DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, Bibio and Australia’s own Canyons, who also happen to be playing Laneway – at the same time as !!!(!) “Thomas is actually my exroommate and he actually now just lives up the street, and I think I just asked him when he was by one day and he said he would do it and the other guys are just old friends we asked,” Offer tells. “Canyons we don’t know – I don’t know whose idea they were to get on, but I think they did a good mix. It’s just kind of the usual remix things, you know, some friends and some guests from other people’s recordss that you’ve liked.” The track, which also features a Twist & Shout vocal harmony moment that is sure to make the people of Liverpool think even more of them, was also accompanied by a very impressive one shot video clip that has changed Offer’s approach to film.“It’s not just fun because we were on were on a movie set, but all the movies that I watched after that I watch differently because now I know all the camera people and the gaffer people and the make-up people and the work they do,” he says.“It was fun. It was fun to try that out.”
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PAUL DEMPSEY Onto Something After relocating to New York earlier this year, Paul Dempsey returns to Perth to play The Fly By Night this Friday, January 28, and joins the Big Day Out – replacing The Black Keys – at Claremont Showgrounds on Sunday, February 6. JULIAN TOMPKIN catches him in chilly New York. “I think it’s always a good thing to get away from your comfort zone, or your familiar surroundings,” Paul Dempsey begins. “I guess it’s the reason people travel. When you are somewhere far from home you seem to see everything a little differently or through a different lens; everything seems somehow heightened or more strange and interesting, and your powers of observation seem sharper. It’s like you grow extra antennae.” Having spent his entire career running from his comfort zone, Dempsey’s move to New York came as little surprise for those who have followed the career of one of Australia’s most successful songwriters. Following on from a spell living in Dublin during the early days of Something For Kate, Dempsey’s move comes after one of his most successful periods in 2009-10, with the release of his highly lauded solo album Everything Is True. Rather than sitting pretty on the fruits of a career renaissance, Dempsey felt compelled to toss himself into turmoil again – chasing the perfect emotional cataclysm to lay the foundations for the sixth Something For Kate album, and first in half a decade. Scheduled to be released in the second half of 2011, Dempsey hesitantly gives a glimpse at the direction of the new record. “It’s hard for me to determine what is a direct influence and what isn’t,” he says of his penchant for cultural references in song; namely the influence of David Foster Wallace’s cult novel Infinite Jest on Everything Is True. “I don’t think anyone can draw a clear line between two things and say that one directly influenced the other. And if that is possible then it would concern me. I’ve been reading a lot of history and science but I’ve also been watching a lot of bad USA television, so who knows… Niels Bohr rhymes with Jersey Shore... “I think the time away from SFK has just allowed me to do a bit of exploring in terms
of different ways of writing and performing, and it’s also just made the three of us [wife and bassist Stephanie Ashworth and drummer Clint Hyndman] really hungry and excited to make another record. We feel like we’ve carved out our own little space where we can just do whatever we want, and that’s a good feeling. I like an album that has moods… and mood swings.”
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AMANDA PALMER Advance Amanda Fair Having been a Dresden Doll, covered Radiohead on ukulele and collaborated with everyone from indie-icon Ben Folds to sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman, there’s nothing and nowhere cabaret-punk rocker Amanda Palmer can’t conquer, least of all The Fly By Night on Friday, February 4. JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD reports.
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Why do people love Amanda Palmer? “I don’t know,” the charismatic chanteuse laughs, when posed the question. “I think Amanda Palmer is most associated with making the kind of music that troubled teenagers pledge their lives to – and I fucking love that. But other listeners seem to connect to it too for reasons I really can’t comprehend.” Perhaps it’s her beguiling stage presence? Her ever-present theatrical streak? Her audaciously expressive lyricism? Or her equally frank blog which vents whatever emotions or messages she can’t funnel into her lyrics? Or the business savvy that has seen her release her music directly to fans in customised bundles at bargain-basement prices? Whatever the reason, people undeniably love Amanda Fucking Palmer, as she’s been known to call herself. And now us Aussies have even more reason to jump on the bandwagon, given her Antipodean-themed second solo album, Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under - a grab bag of live and studio forays written and recorded down under exclusively, and covers including Nick Cave’s classic The Ship Song and the love-it-or-loath-it cultural anthem We’re Happy Little Vegemites. “It all happened kind of lopsided and gradually,” she explains. “Originally it was just three songs: Map Of Tasmania, Australia and New Zealand. I thought if I add a couple of cover songs, I’ll have a tour EP. Then one thing led to another and I kept adding songs, and it turned into an album. “It’s definitely the most improvisational album I’ve ever put out, but I actually think that’s kind of poetic, you know? Because I think one of the reasons I love it here so much is that Australians aren’t obsessed with perfection.” Despite its chaotic inception, the quality of the album is remarkably consistent – no small feat considering the notorious difficulty inherent in crafting a detailed concept album.
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“With concept albums, the potential is often great but the probability of getting it wrong is huge. You very rarely see an artist – let alone a female artist – step outside the standard and make some rules from scratch.” If anyone is making an effort to break the usual boundaries it is Palmer – a 32-year-old artiste who can barely read music; who wears crimson lipstick and has hairy armpits; who talks of herself in the third person and who happens to be sexually attracted to women as well as men. “Things are completely, absurdly off-the-wall one minute, and the next minute everything’s one big movie-scene cliché,” she jokes of the “typical Amanda Palmer” extremes. “I’ve always been a huge attention seeker; it’s just part of my personality. For the best part of my youth I struggled with it because I thought I was this evil, bad person – a freak of nature. It took me until my mid-20s to realise that didn’t have to be a negative thing. Now I embrace it.” www.xpressmag.com.au
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INXS To Play With Fire INXS with JD Fortune and guests Train and Baby Animals perform at An Evening On The Green at Kings Park & Botanic Garden on Thursday, February 3. BOB GORDON speaks with Andrew Farriss. It’s been an unusual last year for INXS, what with the (partial) return of prodigal singer JD Fortune and the release of Original Sin, an album featuring various vocalists joining the band on songs from the INXS back catalogue. The album has been well-received, a fact that clearly pleases keyboardist, Andrew Farriss. “I think the reception has been really good,” he says. “We were very unsure of how the reception would be initially, because I’m not sure what you could compare this project to. Everyone sort of stepped out of their safety area into a completely different one. “It was born out of us experimenting, initially. So it became what it’s become really; it took on a life as it began to take shape. We began to realise that we could form this into an album. How it’s reviewed is interesting because it isn’t like one of our normal studio albums from the past. It’s a very different concept in terms of what we’re trying to do. We’re very pleased with how favourably it’s been received because it may not have been, you know?” Initially, INXS were working on a different project with new material at the forefront. The band then began to rearrange some older songs as part of what they were doing and the venture took another path. “We found that we enjoyed that
process and at the same time found it musically challenging,” Farriss recalls. “It became more important than the project we were working on. So we switched track; the re-recording of our own material was really interesting because there’s no street directory for this. Obviously the songs were constructed and they are musically a part of us, but it wasn’t about face value – there was no rulebook about what we could or couldn’t do. We were into a completely different concept, really. And with the different singers we were fortunate to have their passion put into the recording as well. Once people understood what we were doing, once we understood what we were doing it really became quite a different animal.” In terms of choices what was first – the singer or the song? “That’s interesting... I think the first choice was the song and then that it matched the singer,” Farriss considers. “We worked on a few songs and we realised that it was going to be incredibly important to have the right person singing; male or female. We knew it was going to take a lot of getting it right and this is where it gets interesting – the tunes could change from being in a different key or moving the arrangement around from what we’d done before. It was kind of the chicken and the egg thing. With different singers suiting different songs, their ideas and contributions would become important as well.” As co-songwriter of INXS’ classic repertoire with the late Michael Hutchence, Farriss had to be careful not to be too precious as new light shone through old windows. “Having been integral in the construction of the songs in the first place it was quite challenging to step back and let people – those within the band and other guest artists – involve themselves in what they would like to try and do,” he says. “For a while there I almost took a back seat. I realised that possibly one of the best benefits I could give the project was simply not to be a control freak and let go of the reigns.”
Farriss says there weren’t any songs considered no-go zones but there was a mitigating selection factor. “One of the choices we made very early in was not to base the songs we chose necessarily on commercial success,” he explains. “Some of the tracks were never singles and a couple of them were quite obscure, especially internationally. Songs like Just Keep Walking [with Dan Sultan] and To Look At You [with Kav Temperley] were not part of the very well-known INXS repertoire. The criteria we used in choosing became really quite diverse. We had no hesitation in going back and looking at some really old material and, at the same time, doing possibly the unthinkable and touching on songs that have been massively ingrained as part of cultures. There was never any no-fly zone in that regard.” That said, Ben Harper gives a highimpact reading of Never Tear Us Apart; a song that has featured in his live set for some time. Farriss has many favourites. “For me I must admit that I like Mystify a lot because it’s so different. There’s some aspects to it that are just really off the wall for us. INXS never had a female lead singer before on a recording and here Loane is doing the lead vocal and she’s singing in French. It started out quite acoustic; we were looking for something ethereal. But then a version was played to John Mayer and he was interested in being on it, so that was great. That’s a stand-out track; there’s a few of them actually. “I like what JD did on The Stairs; that was really good. I also like the version of Mediate with Tricky – he really took command of that.” Echoing the INXSive comparisons of their Black Fingernails, Red Wine days, Eskimo Joe’s Kav Temperley brings a new hue to his contribution. “The other guys had been very aware of Eskimo Joe,” Farriss says, “they’re a great band. In particular, we really liked Kav’s voice.
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“FOR A WHILE THERE I ALMOST TOOK A BACK SEAT. I REALISED THAT POSSIBLY ONE OF THE BEST BENEFITS I COULD GIVE THE PROJECT WAS SIMPLY NOT TO BE A CONTROL FREAK AND LET GO OF THE REIGNS.” It was great to work with a variety of artists of different nationalities but obviously with some Aussies too. To Look At You just seemed like a great match-up with Kav. It just seemed right to us.” While the Original Sin album is said to mark the end of an era, he isn’t yet sure of what is to come next. All he knows is that there will, indeed, be another era ahead. “Yeah well, as part of the musical engine room for INXS for many years I can feel the pressure building again,” he says. “Which is not a bad thing; I’ve experienced that many times. I’ve got my own ideas of where things could go, but so do the other guys and that’s the beauty of the band. “I think that’s what’s very interesting about this album, it shows we’re in a position where there’s quite a lot of diversity in what we could choose to do and how we want to do it.”
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DEVILDRIVER Screamin’ Demon What does it take to be genre defining?Beast,theupcoming fifth studio album from heavy metal bastions Devildriver, sees these Californian greats attempting to put this theory into practice. JESSICA WILLOUGHBY chats with head honcho Dez Fafara ahead of their appearance at Soundwave on Monday, March 7. 2011 was the year Devildriver frontman Dez Fafara went through an ‘awakening’. It seems like this auspicious vocalist has gone through a lot of these purging processes in his maturing career. Initially through the welldocumented jump from Coal Chamber back in 2002, leading to the formation of his current
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Colin Meloy is a rare talent. There are few who create music where the lyrics evoke such vivid stories that they are often a piece of literature all unto themselves. With the previous album The Hazards Of Love, Meloy crafted a rock opera with a unified narrative making it a vast work as a whole. The Decemberists are acutely aware that they never wish to make the same record more than once and looked to a different focus for The King Is Dead. “The Hazards Of Love was breaking away from how I typically work, which is that you write songs and then you wait until you have enough that are good enough to make it onto a record and then you make that record,” Meloy offers matterof-factly.“With The Hazards Of Love I had an idea… it was an interesting challenge to have to write to order. It was a very different process.” For The King Is Dead, Meloy went back to the practice of just collecting individual songs that he had written in the hope they would turn into an album. While he feels some relief at getting back to the natural strategies that he previously used to collect songs, he does feel that The Hazards Of Love experience has turned him into a much more disciplined artist. “The last three records, at least the last two, were really influenced from the type of music that I was discovering at the time,” he explains. “For me, I was discovering the world of the British folk revival and some of the more obscure – well obscure to Americans – artists who were influential in that time. It was really eye opening to me to not only be working my way through this incredible music but also to be applying it and trying my hand at writing music in that style. “Once I had finished The Hazards Of Love I felt that I had to move away from that and zero out a little bit and reset. That resetting involved getting back in touch with some of the music that got me writing and playing music in the first place, and that was a lot of stuff like REM, Camper Van
Beethoven, Husker Du and The Replacements. That is the stuff that I cut my teeth on when I started creating a musical identity for myself. Because I was such a music obsessive; it wasn’t just a musical identity, it was my identity so I really connect with that music and it is very important to me.” Until the next chapter, The Decemberists will be zealously promoting their The King Is Dead; an album that Meloy is content with, even though the lyrics may be considered to be more straight forward than recent efforts. “It wasn’t intended to be ver y complicated,” he concludes. “It was an effort on my part to write some pretty songs that people might like to listen to while they are driving to work or something.”
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project, with each album spewing forth after referencing some rebirth – in one way or another. But things are a little different this time around. The upcoming fifth studio album, Beast, actually got pretty ‘heavy’ for Fafara – both musically and with emotions raging. “I was going through a really dark time during the recording,” he offers.“I had to leave the studio not once, but twice, for the first time ever. Had to finish recording my vocals in San Diego at a studio from Tim [Lambesis, vocals] from As I Lay Dying’s grandparents’ house. I was just lucky it was available at that time or else the album wouldn’t have been finished.” But what impacted this frontman so much that he had to step away from his mic? “It’s pretty personal, but it was just a time when things collided in my life. I got rid of a lot of vampires; stuck close to my family and friends. I also had to move my family three times in the past three years due to wildfires; I’m sure you Australians can relate to that. We were actually homeless when we started recording. You could say last year, I had an awakening.” Due for release next month, their latest sees this Santa Barbaran quintet not resting on their laurels. Instead, with a little push from producer Mark Lewis (Deicide), they decided to take their songwriting to the next level. “Mark was an obvious choice, as we’d worked with him before,” Fafara explains. “He was the engineer on The Last Kind Words. But the more we thought about it, he actually produced that entire album. He also really got the tones we wanted. I believe in giving people a chance, so we called him up and he was keen. I just remember him saying ‘you guys have really developed your sound, but now you need to take your sound and make it into a genre’. I keep repeating what he said because it was a defining statement about what we want for the band. And, for once, we worked with a producer who wasn’t scared of me (laughs).”
Portland indie folk luminaries, The Decemberists not only stole the show when they appeared at the Big Day Out but their latest album may be their strongest one yet. CHRIS HAVERCROFT spoke to songwriter extraordinaire Colin Meloy about The King Is Dead.
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Ursula Yovich: Magpie Blues Following tours with The Black Arm Band and roles in The Sapphires and the feature Australia, Ursula Yovich unveils a musical cabaret inspired by the magpie, which reflects the dual heritage of her life. Raised in Darwin in a bi-cultural Aboriginal/Serbian home, Ursula’s humorous, heartbreaking and utterly inspiring journey features gorgeous original songs and covers, including a medley of ‘80s hits.
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Featuring the best songs from his award-winning shows, New York’s legendary cabaret-dragperformance artist extraordinaire captivates with a subversive jukebox musical that will leave you exhausted and in love. Wickedly funny, this gender-bending fusion of insight, honesty and stark raving fabulousness demonstrates why Taylor Mac is considered one of the most exciting theatre artists of our time.
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AMOS LEE Mission Bell
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Amos Lee developed his passion for music when work ing in a record store specialising in jazz, and later turned his back on a teaching career to put his own tunes to the test. Soon after, Norah Jones got wind of Lee and took him under her wing. Since then he has been honing what he terms his brand of folky R&B. On his fourth album Mission Bell, Lee has teamed up with a plethora of people that although ludicrously talented, would not have been the first thought of to adorn an Amos Lee album. The first of those names is Calexico’s Joey Burns who takes on the role of producer for Mission Bell. Burns’ influence can be heard from the get go as a Mexican flourish is added to the Lee’s Americana during El Camino. Lee has no qualms about penning an earnest love song, but his craft is taken to a new level when big hitter Lucinda Williams adds her distinctive tones and ability to pull heartbreak out of a stone on Clear Blue Eyes. Willie Nelson makes an appearance to the El Camino (Reprise) and Sam Beam croons his way through the chorus’ of Violin, but it is the spacious Stay With Me that is the cream of this crop. With a little help from his new found friends, Lee has been able to move out of his folky R&B comfort zone to make his best album yet in Mission Bell.
This shit is free. Yeah I know, every album is free with the right interweb skills and loose morals, but this is actually legitimately free. Released on Christmas Day as a gift to anyone visiting their website, The Fall is an experiment in minimal sound production and mobile music creation. Created on tour and almost entirely on an iPad, The Fall is an album undressed with all its quirks bare and sketched edges left raw. Sampled sounds range from the announcer at Chicago train station making a final call to mobile phone interference sampled into a beat, making it almost like an aural tour diary. But on top of it all is a large range of sounds and a pretty tight final mix that makes it very listenable and not just a gimmick. The Fall is a mix bag of styles, ranging from the minimal instrumental beeps of Aspen Forest to full band, acoustic numbers with Bobby Womack knocking out his lungs. A pop hook is embedded in every tune however, and no one knows pop like Damon Albarn. Sure, you probably wouldn’t have wanted to pay more than the price of an EP for this, but it is definitely a valid member of Gorillaz’ growing catalogue and terrific value for (no) money. _TOM VARIAN
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SOCIAL DISTORTION Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
JONNY Jonny Popfrenzy Records
Epitaph / Shock
When Teenage Fanclub and Gork y ’s Zygotic Mynci were knocking around together in the ‘90s they were bound to become friends. From the time that Blake contributed to Gorky’s sublime How I Long To Feel The Summer In My Heart in 2001, a Norman Blake and Euros Childs project has been on the cards. Having had a brief crack at it in 2006, the duo now return under the guise of Jonny for their self-titled debut. There are hooks aplenty and tips of the hat to the classic songwriters that have always influenced both Blake and Childs albums in the past. First single Candyfloss has a hint of Bananarama’s Venus about it, before it sways into the type of sugary chorus that is the Blake trademark. The songs that fans would have been waiting for when Jonny announced their intentions appear during the perfect harmonies of the Teenage Fanclub-like Circling The Sun, classic radio sounding Waiting Around For You and the country tinged I’ll Make Her My Best Friend. When founding members of two of the finest bands to come out of the United Kingdom in the ‘90s join forces expectations are high, but as well as crafting some fine tunes Jonny shows a pair of songwriters who are clearly at ease in each others company and don’t take themselves too seriously.
With Social Distortion and a couple of notable solo records, Mike Ness has managed to cover a lot of ground in what is his primary manifesto of blending different genres and eras of rebel music. So there’s blues, outlaw country, rhythm’n’blues (and so on), flowing throughout an overall punk rock vein. It depends on which album as to what direction and degree the colouration leans, and this one right here is decidedly less of the punk and more of the blues. If you’re a Social D fan – and they are essential listening if you’re a newcomer – you’ll recognise most of the things you love about the band, plus a couple of new additions (lots of gospel influences for starters) though overall it is a touch softer than the band’s previous records. It’s more or less the middle-ground between solo Ness and Social D, which is probably the best place for Social Distortion to pick up some well-earned and well-overdue mainstream commercial success. And while the album is certainly not disappointing, listening to it got me all revved up to chuck on some older Social D, rather than keep listening. I guess it’s the same as the equally-exploratory new Bad Religion... great, but not one of the greats. You have to be in the mood. It is, however, a mood that strikes often.
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RYAN FRANCESCONI Parables
TOBY Sleeptalk
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Best known as Joanna Newsom’s band leader (and as the arranger of her triple album Have One On Me), this solo offering finds prodigious New Yorker Ryan Francesconi alone with an acoustic guitar, playing stern, searching instrumental tracks that reflect his interests in Malian kora music (a fetish he shares with Newsom) and exploring American bluegrass, Bulgarian folk and Baroque traditions. Whilst Francesconi isn’t even 30 years old yet, he’s built himself into a renowned figure in the space between folk, classical music, minimalism, and experimentalism through his collaborations with Newsome, and on this stunning eight song record, the talented young musician has finessed his 12-string acoustic guitar into a veritable solo symphony that is as schooled in uncommon beauty as it is in complex classical composition. Through a combination of otherworldly instrumental skill on the guitar and a highly developed sensibility for modern composition, Francesconi writes high drama into instrumental music with subtlety and charm, revealing myriad sentiments and stories without requiring a single lyric. A particular highlight, the magnificent Parallel Lights explodes in a torrent of brilliant finger-picking in its mid-section, sounding more like an army of pluckers and strummers than just one man.
While this, the fourth album from Perth-born folk/roots exponent Toby Beard, doesn’t really break any new ground, it’s still worth a listen. What sets Toby apart from other performers mining a similar vein is her infectious energy, a kind of worldly appreciation of life that makes even her most melancholy songs thrum with a kind of joyousness. It’s a key reason why her live performances are so acclaimed, and it’s translated well here. Working with a wide selection of backing musicians, including bassist Jon Evans, who has worked extensively with Tori Amos for more than a decade, and supporting vocalist Claytoven Richardson, Toby has crafted a wellrounded release than encapsulates her sound while still being acoustically diverse. Opening track Again is rife with country twang, and closing number Good Old Days is a weird, offkilter polka, somewhat reminiscent of an upbeat Tom Waits tune. In between, the album runs the gamut of moods and emotions, and although Toby is renowned as a singer/songwriter, the standout track is actually a cover: the stripped back, elegiac paean to lost love, Rather Go Blind. All up, Sleeptalk is a fitting framework for Toby’s powerful vocals and emotionally raw song writing, and fans will find it ticks all the right boxes. _TRAVIS JOHNSON
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SMITH WESTERNS Dye It Blonde
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Spunk / EMI
When Chicago up and comers Smith Westerns started playing music, they were too young to drink in pubs, but they were well versed in the world as depicted through the Nuggets compilations. Picking the eyes out of these seminal tunes and forging their own meld of garage, glam and punk. With a few lo-fi releases behind them Dye It Blonde is their first foray in gloss and glamour. There aren’t too many albums that start off in such an emphatic way as Dye It Blonde. The opening riff of Weekend is irresistible as the tune pulls on everything that is glam in three brief but brilliant minutes. It is the innocent tones of Cullen Omori that give Smith Westerns credibility as the band celebrate all of the trappings of young love. It’s not all in your face bluster though as swirling organs and lush harmonies adorn delightfully pompous ballad All Die Young. Things return to the joyfully feverish during Dance Away where Smith Westerns playful spirit never gets in the way of a great melody. Smith Westerns have taken all before them in their short few years, and Dye It Blonde is their biggest triumph yet.
MNDR (pronounced “man dar”) is already famous – it’s just that no-one’s heard about them… yet. Comprised of the titular MNDR – Amanda Warner – and bandmate Peter Wade (in another La Roux-esque photo-shy member situation), the Brooklyn-based electropop duo have recently garnered media attention as the latest protégés of notorious talent-spotter Mark Ronson (Warner even contributes vocals on Ronson’s catchy-as-hell single Bang Bang Bang). It’s not as if he’s plucked them from obscurity either. Before Ronson, the pair were rotating fixtures on the San Fran party scene, hanging with Nick Zinner and designing the synths-setup for Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2009 tour. Yet despite their social repute in NYC, the duo remain relatively anonymous on the global music scene, a state of affairs almost certainly set to change with the international release of their single Caligula. Undeniably trendy, the duo purveys prickly electro-pop that is disarmingly infectious, boundlessly exciting and proves they are so much more than your garden variety buzz band. Key Track: Caligula _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD
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Girls just wanna have fun? Not according to Anna Calvi. The young half-English, half-Italian singer-songwriter’s selftitled chamber-gloom debut alternately rings with loneliness and drips with menace, the only flickers of light come from Calvi’s voice which remains high, airy, and imperilled as she weaves her echo-coated and darkly soulful spell. Whilst Calvi has a fine knack for combining the beautiful and the bawdy instrumentally, lyrically her album is oppressively bleak. Her words never seem to come easily; instead sounding like the product of much effort, rigor, and pain, and without a hint of catharsis, much of her record’s desolation hangs in the air like a noose. That being said, there is certainly a disarming (if not wholly enjoyable) rawness to the young chanteuse’s tunes, a fact which has spurned a wealth of praise from gloom rock greats including Nick Cave (who recently invited Calvi to tour around Europe as special guest of Grinderman) and Rob Ellis (best known as PJ Harvey’s right hand studio man). On the right day, at the right time, the album’s powerfully claustrophobic intimacy is more palatable; on the wrong day, at the wrong time, in the wrong frame of mind, this may be the longest half-hour in the world.
Nick Drake rewrote the rule book on the posthumous career renaissance; his three beautiful studio album salvaged from oblivion and now mandatory in any half-decent record collection. And if there is one other artist deserving of a similar revival, it is undoubtedly Judee Sill. Whilst the Californian’s output was as limited as it was prodigious – totalling just two studio albums – the weight of her achievement in song is as rare as that of Drake himself. Heart Food was the second and final instalment of Sill’s short career as a songwriter, released in 1973 after 1971’s self-titled masterwork. A distillation of folk, country and baroque pop, there is something gloriously sacred about Heart Food; manifested in the masterstroke of heart-rending song that is The Kiss. Sill would tragically submit to her addictions in 1979 – yet another victim. But thank goodness she left us two of music’s finest documents.
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On Christmas day last year, Michael Jackson had been dead for over 18 months, although his continued presence in world media has rendered him like some bizarre undead Peter Pan – simultaneously gone and yet, uncannily, with us. Helping him stick around is Michael, the first of a proposed seven posthumous albums. The King Of Pop was famously a perfectionist who would hold back releases until they were ready, so it’s clear that these recordings have been mostly constructed after the fact by an army of studio wizards. Jackson’s mother’s own doubts about the authenticity of some of the vocals on the album have been attributed to rendering artefacts of Melodyne, a piece of software that offers advanced vocal modulation, which reveals that many of the tracks here have been fundamentally altered. Whether or not it is in fact Jackson himself singing, the Jackson of Michael sounds like a watered-down version of his late-period style, complete with falsetto “woo!”s and strained delivery. Similarly, the music is ersatz Jackson: on the surface it sounds like the same songwriter who gave us Billie Jean and Black Or White, but the songs themselves don’t have Jackson’s genius for catchy hooks and clever arrangements. Really The King Of Pop or not – in either case, Michael is little better than counterfeit goods. _CHAD PARKHILL Australia’s highest circulating Street Press
The success of films like Batman (1989) and The Addams Family (1991) convinced studios they were sitting on a goldmine of back catalogue content, and the rise of DVD a few years later gave us a new Hollywood model. Put together a blockbuster remake with hot stars and release the box set of the old series in the wake of the film’s attention to cash in. With forthcoming big screen outings for Thor, The Green Lantern and Captain America the craze is far from over. Just one franchise being dusted off and given the CGI once-over is The Green Hornet, and the inevitable TV series box set is out this week. The series that made Bruce Lee a star in the US as Kato is coming from director Michel Gondry of Be Kind Rewind fame, with Jay Chou in the role and Seth Rogen as Britt Reid. You could say the same thing about the endless American remakes of foreign hits like Spain’s [Rec] (remade as Quarantine) and the Japanese horror of ghostly, black-haired young girls. Ordinarily the announcement of a US remake of the triumphant Swedish Millennium trilogy (with the first sequel – The Girl Who Played With Fire – out this week) would be tiresome except for one detail that’s hard to ignore. Taking the helm is none other than David Fincher.
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Roll up, roll up one and all, because Fringe World is set to take over Perth for a month of fabulous performances that range from the wild to the wonderful and wacky. Housed in the magnificent Spiegeltent, which will be erected in the Perth Cultural Centre, Fringe World will play host to performers from across the globe, who will enchant and entice the folks of Perth from Friday, February 4, ’til Saturday, February 26. In addition to performers who’ve travelled from the far corners of the world to take part in Fringe World, a slew of local artists of the male persuasion will take to the stage of the Spiegeltent, including the likes of Damon Lockwood with Fuppet!, Shane Adamzack of Love Songs For Future Girl and Luke & Wyatt with their musical comedy spectacular This Way Up. Promising hilarious improvised puppetry suitable only for adults, Damon Lockwood will have audiences cackling with laughter when he steps into the spotlight to perform Fuppet!, a show inspired by you, the audience.“The puppets are so freaking excited about performing at the Spiegeltent, they keep knocking at my bedroom window asking me if it’s time yet. It’s getting to be a little disconcerting actually,” shares Lockwood ahead of his performances. Zack Adams is another comic who holds high expectations for Fringe World, “Whenever I’ve visited the Spiegeltent throughout my Fringe Festival travels, I’ve always thought about how great it would be to perform in one,” he declares in the lead up to the season. “It really is one of the most beautiful venues around so I am really excited to finally be doing a show there, and even more that it happens to be in my home town! I have really high hopes for the Fringe World Festival, there’s a lot of really positive buzz around it, there’s some really interesting acts coming here for as well some killer locals acts.”
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Perth comedy ex-pats Luke & Wyatt will return to their home town in February to present Fringe World audiences with This Way Up, a musical extravaganza full of catchy songs and undoubtedly immature gags. “To perform in our home town of Perth and in Artrage’s Spiegeltent is a dream come true,” the pair declare. “Not one of those weird ones where you’re at school with no pants on. A really good one. With unicorns.” To discover all the magnificent events that make up Fringe World, check out fringeworld. com.au.
The folks at Leederville boutique Varga Girl have welcomed a new designer into their ranks with the erection of an installation by Central Institute Fashion and Textiles graduate Shelly Tindale. Tindale’s immaculate collection captured the attention of Team Varga at the Institute’s graduate showcase late last year, and until mid February, her stunning creations will be on display at the Leederville fashion hub. Featuring both ready-to-wear and avant garde garments, the installation showcases Tindale’s exceptional design and construction skills. Wrap your peepers around Tindale’s collection at Varga Girl, located on Oxford Street in Leederville.
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Since its inception in 2008, the Made On The Left markets have supported various local designers, artists and purveyors of all things crafty, with regular events in and around sunny Perth. On Sunday, January 30, Made On The Left will roll out a special market in aid of the Perth Cultural Centre’s inaugural open day, offering up creations from pinchandspoon, Foal Design, White Square, B.H.O and many others. A day of fun, activity and entertainment, the open day invites locals to head into the Perth Cultural Centre to see the transformed cultural hub come alive. Taking place from 10am ’til 4pm in the James Street Mall in Northbridge, Made On The Left will have something for everyone, so grab your friends and mosey on into Northbridge to make the most of this fashionable affair. To find out what’s on and when in the PCC, head to perthculturalcentre.com.au.
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Zack Adams presents Love Songs For Future Girl
If you’re a budding director looking to share your short films with local audiences then the folks at the Margaret River Shorts Festival want to hear from you! Now in its fifth year, the Margaret River Shorts Festival recognises excellence in a variety of fields, with cash prizes awarded to those with the Best Film, Best Southwest Film, Best Grommet Film, Best Surf/Sports Film and the film that gets the Best Audience Reaction. Entrants’ films will be screened at the Colonial Brewery in Margaret River on Saturday, March 26, and Sunday, March 27. If you’re keen to get involved, head to mrshorts.com.
ROCKIN’ RED HILL Perth’s newest venue opened in style last Thursday, when media and music industry folk headed up to Red Hill Auditorium, nestled away next to John Forrest National Park. Located 24km from Perth and boasting a 5000 person capacity, Red Hill Auditorium is set to become a favourite of music fans across this fine state of ours. Punters at the launch got a taste of what the venue has to offer in terms of acoustics and ambiance when Schvendes and French Rockets took to the stage, wowing the crowd as the sun set over the Perth skyline.
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QANTM COLLEGE COMING TO PERTH New Bachelor Degrees Qantm College, a creative/digital media focused institution is due to open its doors in Perth in early February. X-Press chats with Damian Masters from Qantm ahead of its opening.
you think this ‘balance’ is something that we are going to be seeing more of in the future of education? I think this will most definitely be something we will see a lot more of in the future as employers seek to find employable graduates who have a broad range of relevant and applicable sk ills ih i i too much h further f h training. i i without requiring Th e wo r l d o f 3 D o f te n co m e s with a steep learning cur ve which can at times be quite daunting. By guiding and advising our students as they develop their practical skills, we can make the field far more accessible for them.
What is the main aim behind this initiative/opening? Many of our students who have completed our previous relevant diploma qualifications are interested in fur ther training to get a deeper understanding of the topics covered. Bringing in b a c h e l o r d e g re e s e n a b l e s u s to m e e t that need and give these future industry professionals more advanced practical training and theoretical comprehension. Qantm College prides itself on delivering Do you think there is a so called ‘niche’ prac tical courses that are taught by or need for more digital media degrees experienced teaching staff. Can you tell i n Pe r t h a n d A u s t r a l i a i n g e n e r a l ? us a bit about the industries/fields your T h e d i g i t a l m e d i a i n d u s t r y i s teachers come from? Dan Moller, for example, has a constantly expanding and digital media has infiltrated so many aspec ts of our background in visual effec ts for highmodern lives that there is a huge demand for end television commercial produc tion professionals in this area. Qantm’s degrees and has worked for local clients such as have been designed in collaboration with QBE, SGIO, Bank west, Lotter ywest, and key industry input to ensure everything the WA Government. Internationally he’s learnt is in sync with current industry trends w o r k e d fo r M i t s u b i s h i , To y o t a , I s u z u, Suzuki and National Geographic. He’s been and technologies. teaching for five years and is currently W h a t s o r t o f q u a l i f i c a t i o n s o r p r e - completing a Masters of Digital Media. requisites do aspiring students require Where do you see the industry of digital to be able to attend Qantm? For the current courses on offer at media heading in 2011/2012 aside from Qantm Perth, it is important that applicants more 3D films? have completed year 12 and have studied People are consuming media more English 4, SA. Other than that, the course today than ever before, from portable tablet is designed to cater to a broad audience interaction to internet on your TV. The future f r o m t h e n o v i c e t o t h o s e s e e k i n g t o of digital media is working towards total further their existing skills. Prior exposure transparent integration into our lives. Over to forms of training or an interest in art, the next two years, games and interactive design, computer graphics, film, IT, physics, applications will continue to increase their programming, theatre or photography market share, helped in no small way by a r e a l l b e n e f i c i a l b u t n o t e s s e n t i a l . the recent boom in smartphones and tablet devices. You’ve announced two new degrees that Qantm Perth is starting in 2011. Can you What have Qantm students gone on to tell us a bit about these? achieve? The Bachelor of Interactive Many of our students have found Enter tainment (major in animation) is designed to give students all the necessary local employment working for television skills to work in the 3D animation industry. post-produc tion facilities and various Students cover a range of subjects from visualisation companies. The hardestdesign principles through to game level working amongst the student cohort have design and character animation. This course been involved in work for companies such as Disney, HBO, Pixar, Harpo, L’Oreal and Honda. will commence on Monday, February 12. Our Bachelor of Creative Media ( m a j o r i n i n t e r a c t i v e m e d i a ) e q u i p s What advice would you give to budding students to deal with the current and young digital media/enter tainment/ future demands for interac tive media. animation/games loving people who want This not only includes web design but to get started? Take the plunge! Keep your passion fundamental skills in developing tomorrow’s world of media but also how to market it. burning and work hard - it can get tough This course will commence in September. sometimes but being able to turn a hobby into a career is an immeasurably satisfying Manager of Qantm College, Dean Pearson, experience. says that Qantm College bachelor degrees will give students the perfect balance of To find out more info on Qantm, head to academic tuition and practical skills. Do qantm.com.au. Australia’s highest circulating Street Press
Catherine Britt is not your average Australian country artist. She was whisked away to America early on in her career but has returned to Australia and is celebrating with her self titled and best album to date. With the largest event on the Australian Country Music calendar – The Tamworth Music Festival - imminent, Catherine Britt has just pushed the gentle heartbreak tune Sweet Emmylou as a single. As a record collector, Britt laments the demise of the physical single stating that singles these days are digital and are only used to garner more airplay. “It is one of my favourite songs that I have ever written,” chirps Britt about Sweet Emmylou. “I have had a lot of people comment on it as being their favourite on the record, so we have always known that we were going to release it as a single at some stage. “It made sense to release a really strong country single at this time seeing as we are leading into Tamworth. I just thought why not go for something that is purely country and that’s what it is. It is a heartbreak song and it is really sparse with just me and Shane Nicholson playing some guitar. It is not really a usual type of single, it is just a great song... I hope.” Having been lured to Nashville as a teenager, Britt is well credentialed to compare The Tamworth Festival to the scene of its larger country music cousin. She can see the similarities between the two cities but says that Nashville is like Tamworth 24 hours a day seven days a week. For the most part Tamworth is a beautiful, quiet country town except for 10 days of the year, as opposed to Nashville where there is constantly music playing and there are hocky tonks pumping. “It was amazing and life changing and good and bad and ugly and everything,” reflects Britt on her six year stint in Nashville. “I was really lucky to get that opportunity and I feel lucky still, but it was a fluke that I was at the right place at the right time. I took the opportunity for what it was and lapped up every moment of it, but at the end of the six years I realised that it wasn’t where I wanted to be. “It took having a real go at it over there and understanding the industry, finding out what it was all about, what kind of music that they needed to be on radio over there and just what artist you need to be. I came to the conclusion that is not the type of artist that I want to be in my career and not what I was willing to do. I
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had the best label in the world and we went our separate ways and they didn’t hate me for it, so I got to come home and make this record that I wanted to make.” While Britt doesn’t aspire to approach the Nashville mainstream market again, she will be touring the album overseas in a hope that it will foster interest from smaller labels like Lost Highway or Yep Rock. Britt doesn’t see the songs on this record fitting on mainstream radio, but she wouldn’t mind finding a market similar to that occupied by Ryan Adams. Britt suggests that they were able to use many of her guide vocals on the album because she was singing ‘really easy songs’ but there is no denying that the young woman has a pretty special set of pipes. In a world dominated by autotune the blonde singer is more concerned with capturing an authentic sound on her albums. “I try to do it as live as I can so people who come to the shows do not get something different on the record. A lot of the vocals that we did weren’t the best vocals that I could have done but there was something kind of special there so we kept a lot of the record like that. Even when we did overdubs for the vocals we tried to keep them to a minimum. This is my fourth album so hopefully the vocals are improving a little along the way.” _CHRIS HAVERCROFT
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Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman Before too long Abby’s loved ones Starring Yaniv Schulman, Ariel Schulman, start to add Yaniv as a friend on Facebook, Henry Joost, Angela Wesselman including her gorgeous older sister, Megan. Yaniv is instantly attracted to Megan, and what begins If the advertising material is to be believed ‘the as an innocent online friendship quickly turns less you know about Catfish the better’, but fear into a steamy virtual relationship. Just as compelling as The Social not fair readers, you’ll find naught a spoiler in this here review. A tale of virtual friendships Network and more awkward than Michael established via the world wide web, Catfish is an Cera on a good day, Catfish draws you in from endearing documentary created by good friends the get-go with its intriguing tale of social and partners in film Henry Joost and Ariel networking and the potential hazards sites such Schulman, plotting the relationship between as Facebook can pose. Henry and Ariel have done a stellar 24 year old photographer Yaniv Schulman and job piecing together the curious tale of Yaniv’s eight year old artist Abby. When one of Yaniv’s photographs friendship with Abby, utilising online platforms is published in an American newspaper, he’s such as Google Earth and Facebook to capture contacted out of the blue by Abby, a precocious the nature of their online relationship. Though Yaniv is reticient to be the painter on the other side of the country seeking permission to turn his photographs into subject of his brother’s documentary from paintings. Intrigued by the proposition, Yaniv the very get-go, he makes for an incredibly starts sending Abby images and within no time, interesting protagonist, and soon opens up to the New Yorker begins receiving parcel upon the camera, sharing his thoughts, desires and parcel of paintings by the prolific young creator. private email correspondence, which makes for a Intrigued by this random relationship, confronting and intimate piece of documentary. A cautionary tale that will draw you Yaniv’s brother Ariel and his filmmaking buddy in immediately, Catfish is a hilarious and terribly Henry Joost pick up a camera and begin awkward affair that will have you laughing one documenting the exchange, and the story that minute and cringing the next. unravels before their lens is nothing short of remarkable. _EMMA BERGMEIER
Directed by Ron Howard Winona Ryder, respectively, is picture perfect.... or Starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona at least it seemed so. When the tall one catches the fat one’s wife playing tonsil hockey with a young Ryder, Jennifer Connelly tattooed looker (Channing Tatum) he near has a Ron Howard’s latest film reminds us that honesty stroke, but can’t tell his friend that his wife is being is the best policy. If that’s the case, and as hard as unfaithful. That’s the whole dilemma. There’s not a moment in The Dilemma it is to come out with it (knowing it might hurt a few people - be it those involved in the production that I didn’t feel I was watching anything other or a publicist hired to stump the film), I’ll just come than some handsomely paid actors (and Clint out and say it: The Dilemma is shit. Shit smeared in Howard) doing a jig for the audience. Wanna know how real the story plays here? I smelt cigarette a pretty glaze, but still... shit. I don’t mind Ron Howard’s films - well, I burns. It’s a real pity too, because here’s a film did like them... right up until Opie lost a grasp on the cinemagoers’ needs. The actor-come-filmmaker that could’ve had real potential: the storyline made some great films early on (only a couple is intriguing enough, there’s some good talent of years fresh from retiring as an actor on Happy involved (Winona Ryder is giving it her all; Days), some really solid stuff, remember Splash? unfortunately this isn’t going to expunge the Cocoon? Working Class Man? Gung Ho? Backdraft? ‘shop lifter’ stigma that’s been following her around What came next though? Anyone remember? No? since that unfortunate incident), the usually-solid It doesn’t really matter (for the record it was Far And Allen Loeb wrote the screenplay, and Ron Howard Away, the schmaltzy Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman is capable of making a good comedy - go back and drama) anyway, what matters is that Howard watch Splash! Or Nightshift, there’s some sublime hasn’t really grown as a filmmaker; if anything, he’s moments in those. It’s just all gone wrong though. It’s hard to say whether Howard just become lazier. The problem with some of Howard’s later films - be it The Da Vinci Code or The Missing - is can’t be bothered putting in the extra effort or that they feel too much like movies. You know what whether he’s actually convinced - since rubbish like I mean? I like to be immersed in a story; I like to feel Meet The Fockers and Couples Retreat, which also as if I’m watching characters on screen rather than featured Vince Vaughn (who is becoming rapidly laborious), made a mint at the box office - this is actors. What I don’t like is feeling like I’m what audiences want to see, but one thing’s for sure, Milwaukee’s likely not flying the flag as high watching a movie. Vince Vaughn and Kevin James play best as they used to for Ritchie Cunningham. mates and partners in an electric car, whose home _CLINT MORRIS lives with girlfriend Jennifer Connelly and wife
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HENRY JOOST Letting The Catfish Out Of The Bag While in Australia promoting the latest offering from Supermarché and Hopscotch Films, one half of the directing duo of Catfish, Henry Joost, caught up with X-Press to chat about making a film that addresses love and lies in the virtual world. If you haven’t already had the pleasure of viewing Catfish, do yourself a favour and save reading this interview until after watching it, as we wouldn’t want to spoil the all important ending. How long have you and Ariel Schuman known each other? About ten years, we met in high school. Nev (Yaniv Schulman) was 15, I was 17 and Rel (Ariel Schulman) was 18. We didn’t all go to the same school but we all had a really good mutual friend. We bonded a few years later when Rel and I were at college and he was in film school and I was working at a TV station for the summer. We both had the same idea for the same documentary at the same time and called each other up and said ‘will you help me out with this?’ so we joined forces and have been a team since then. It seemed like Nev was a pretty unwilling participant in Catfish from the get go, how did you convince him to be the main subject? At first he didn’t think that it was interesting enough to warrant filming at all when it was just him talking to Abby and Megan. It was really Rel’s instinct to start filming. It’s pretty strange – a guy getting an email from an eight year old girl and sending him beautiful paintings. We were in the office watching this happen and were just like ‘wow, maybe this could make for a short film. One day we might meet this amazing family’ – they all sounded so interesting. We just decided to start filming it, and it wasn’t that much, we just filmed for a few minutes every day if that but if we saw something happening we’d pull out our cameras and start shooting it. Nev was unwilling in some ways but just trusted Rel’s instincts and later on my instincts and then he reacted, and there’s that scene in the movie where he gets mad at Rel for being insensitive, which was just Rel getting carried away with how exciting the story had
“IT’S PRETTY STRANGE – A GUY GETTING AN EMAIL FROM AN EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRL AND SENDING HIM BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS. WE WERE IN THE OFFICE WATCHING THIS HAPPEN AND WERE JUST LIKE ‘WOW, MAYBE THIS COULD MAKE FOR A SHORT FILM. ONE DAY WE MIGHT MEET THIS AMAZING FAMILY’ – THEY ALL SOUNDED SO INTERESTING.” become and forgetting that he was a brother first and foremost and a film maker second. Considering he was reticent to be involved it’s surprising some of the things that he let you film, like the sexting scene with Megan. You have to understand the context of that – if someone had said at that moment ‘this will be shown to millions of people and in a few years you will be talking about this in Australia on Sunrise’ we would have told them they were crazy. It was his brother and his best friend and we were all in this hotel room and were trying to save money so we were all staying in the same room and were alternating who had to sleep in the same bed together. It’s very different now, we all get our own room, it’s rather lonely. What was it like meeting Abby’s mum Angela – that experience seemed incredibly awkward. We had absolutely no idea what to expect and I think after we got over the initial weirdness of the situation it was just relief that it wasn’t a crazy person or villain, or someone with malicious intent; it was just this woman who we
Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost and Yaniv Schulman shooting Catfish
were really surprised that we got along with. We Has she seen Catfish? She’s seen the film but Vince [her started learning about her life and thought ‘wow, we really just need to step back as film makers and husband], last time I asked, hadn’t seen it, he wasn’t ready to see the film. I think he gets the let her tell her side of the story’. idea but doesn’t actually want to watch it but How did she respond when you told her you’d maybe that’s changed, I don’t know. It would be pretty tough to watch. been filming her interactions with Nev? She wasn’t surprised really at all. She probably assumed that we were doing Has making this documentary influenced the something because she was familiar with our way you use social media? Yeah, I think I’ve pulled back a bit with work and she was kinda our #1 fan. I don’t think she was surprised at all. We said ‘we’ve been what I share online but at the same time I remain shooting Nev’s side of the story, now we’d like to tell open and try to respond to every message that your side of the story’ and she immediately agreed. I get. I think part of what the film says is that we should be open to meeting new people online She’s pretty cool. but also be careful about what you put out there. Were you surprised that she eventually I don’t think you should totally shut yourself off because then you’ll never meet any Catfish. fessed up? Yeah. It was still so unbelievable to us even after we’d been there for a day that we What’s next for Supermarché? We have a bunch of projects on the couldn’t really believe it, we still expected Megan to come walking around the corner. She was stove right now. We’re writing a narrative feature really ready to let the whole thing drop; it was that’s partially based on a true story and we’re a big relief to her that we were there and were basically pretty close to making a pilot for a TV understanding and listening. It was a full time job show that tells of digital love and people meeting I think and that’s part of why we never figured online. It will basically be about people who have it out, because it’s inconceivable that someone a relationship online but have never met and the would spend that much time doing something show would facilitate their first meeting. like that with no gain other than an emotional _EMMA BERGMEIER connection with one person.
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SOLO SPOT 2011 All By Myself Solo Spot’s jam-packed program will take place during The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights festival, which runs from Monday, January 31, ’til Friday, February 25. Tickets are available from blueroom.org.au. With its status somewhere between storytelling and acting, and its reliance on a very particular relationship created between the actor and the audience, category confusion is quite common around the words ‘dramatic monologue’. To student actors, any speech longer than five lines can be found anthologised as a ‘monologue’ for audition purposes. Many people with only a vague interest in the theatre assume that the monologue has something intrinsically to do with the vagina. For local comedienne Nadia Collins, the one-woman monologue she has been crafting for the past few months certainly falls into the latter category. A contagious tale of sex, shame, and co-dependency, the aptly titled Herpes gives an entirely different take on an embarrassing disease. Less tricky to write than a full-scale drama and cheaper to produce, the one-person show is the nexus of Solo Spot 2011, a showcase of Perth’s bravest performance creators. In addition to Collins, a slew of local comedians, actors, singers and dancers are set to take to the stage at The Blue Room Theatre on Tuesdays and Fridays each week for a month to present solo works (each between five and 25 minutes long) on topics as diverse as familial dysfunction, puppy love and Germany’s foreign policy.
While so many performance programs do not reflect their own geographical or social mix and seem stuffed with shows that are made for the international festival touring circuit, Solo Spot instead exposes the underbelly of the WA arts scene in all its glory and promises to be more unconventional, uncompromising and uncouth than anything you’re likely to see under a spotlight in the city all year. Take, for example, Michelle Francis’ Click To Add Title, a transformative, intriguing ‘seminar’ designed to give the busy audience the tools needed to succeed in the cormorant sector. Or Isaak Lim and Nick Maclaine’s Bachelor’s Dance, a short cabaret using ‘60s-era Belgian songs to showcase the stories of bachelors and their variously ridiculous, tumultuous and bittersweet relationships with certain women. For those with more traditional comedic tastes, Chris Isaac’s An Ambitious Truth (performed by Natalie Holmwood) recounts the all-too-accurate fantasies of a young girl in love. “I think the thing that sets Solo Spot apart from other, similar, local performance showcases is that it’s so immediate. It’s literally performance happening now, happening here in WA,” Collins says. And it is literally that immediateness – in that there is ostensibly no mediation: nothing intervening between the character and the audience – which makes solo performances like these so hard to manoeuvre. As Collins can attest, getting inside a character’s head and manipulating their life from within requires a muscular imagination. “It’s surprising how many things you
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have to think about. It can literally take weeks to prepare for something that is over and done with in five or 10 minutes,” she explains. “Some of the other artists’ pieces rely on delivering twists, or punch-lines, while others are more concerned with exposition. There are light-hearted, funny ones and more dramatic and emotional ones, but I wouldn’t say any of them are ‘easier’ to write or perform, per say. There’s a lot of thought and work that goes into preparing to perform on stage, regardless.” Luckily, the organisers of Solo Spot have also provided networking opportunities for artists involved, giving brain-drained performers chance to support and evaluate each other’s creative ideas, as well as showcase their wares before the ‘real’ audiences arrive. More honourable still is Solo Spot’s existence at all. In a city which until the recent advent of the credit crunch was so booming that spaces for theatre were in short supply, the mere fact it is here at all is a sign of the times, and testament to the reach of a government and
local arts community that is doing its best to give emerging young artists a helping hand into the future. “Just the fact that performers can get involved in art projects like these, and be given the chance to perform in front of mainstream audiences, without having to pay a fee is wonderful,” Collins attests, “Without the existence of support like this, it’s hard to imagine such fresh, creative work finding a voice.” As for local audiences, the benefits of Solo Spot are just as numerous – depending on their taste. Thrifty punters may like being able to see the maximum amount of work in a shortest space of time, while others may enjoy being able to follow the thread of the performance schedule to see how one piece of work reverberates against another when they are suddenly set side by side. Then again, perhaps it is not just what these talented young artists are doing now, but what they might eventually do that is the most tantalising motivator of all. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD
COLOUR LUST ART SPACE Colour My World The Colour Lust Art Space launch exhibition opens on Thursday, February 3, and runs ’til Monday, February 14. The space is open from 10am to 5pm daily and is located at Unit 1/3 Coventry Street, North Fremantle. Early next month Perth’s newest exhibition space will open its doors with a vibrant show that celebrates art and creativity in its many forms. Curated by Susan Sheppard and Isabella Middleton in collaboration with the generous folks at Colour Lust Paints, the inaugural show will feature work that covers a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture and everything in between.
When asked what motivated Sheppard and herself to open a gallery of their own, Middleton is quick to clarify that Colour Lust Art Space isn’t a gallery, “it’s an exhibition space.” So what’s the difference? “A gallery is usually run, like your exhibition will be run by someone and your art is in there on permanent display, whereas this is very self organised,” Middleton specifies. “So it’s a space for hire, you may run an exhibition for one or two weeks, that’s where the freedom comes into it. You can decide on a theme and say ‘I’m going to paint in a particular way’ or ‘I’m going to sculpt in a particular way’.”
Grants to Create February Funding Round
Anticipation by Felicia Lowe
The Department of Culture and the Arts invites individuals, groups and organisations working within the arts (excluding television, film and radio), to apply for grants in the following categories:
All Art Forms
Development Distribution and Marketing
Writing
Publishing Assistance Program
Young People and the Arts Development Distribution and Marketing International Scholarship
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Applications close 5pm, 25 February , 2011 Please check our website for more details
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Whether you think of it as a gallery or an exhibition space, the aim of the new Colour Lust venue remains the same, to help artists share their work with a wide audience. “Colour Lust paints are still operating out of the space because it’s literally surplus space to their requirements. The artists who come through find it appealing because it is so big and well lit, so it’s not just suitable for wall art, but for sculptural art as well. It has an industrial feel about it – you don’t feel like you’re walking into a library where you have to be really quiet. “My partner in crime Sue made contact with Colour Lust Paints and they said ‘hey, we’ve got a spare space, would you like to do something about it?’. It was a good opportunity to have a casual space available. Sue and I see it as a stepping stone to the galleries and corporate art market. The space will give artists freedom in what they’re doing
and help get their art out there to the public.” Featuring artwork by Sheppard and Middleton, plus creations by Jodie Ditchburn, Robyn Varpins, Tanya McBurney, Felicia Lowe, Kylie Porter, Jude Scott, Paula Wiegmink, Jeannette Dyson, Mitzi Smith, Pam Lockwood and Sandy Tippett, the launch exhibition is set to go off with a very colourful and creative bang. Sheppard and Middleton are currently seeking exhibition proposals from local artists, so if you’re a painter, sculptor or textile artist on the hunt for the perfect location for an exhibition, look no further than Colour Lust. Interested parties can make enquiries by contacting colourlustartspace@ gmail.com. _EMMA BERGMEIER www.xpressmag.com.au
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PERFORMANCE
60 Minute Snapshot, The Slaughterblouse, 451 Beaufort Street, Highgate. 18 Photographers were given a 60 minute window during the Beaufort Street Festival to capture 60 images to a theme of their choosing. This exhibition brings together a selection of these images showcasing each shooter’s unique perspective of the Beaufort Street Festival. 60 faces, 60 kisses, fables, from one moment to the next, and what you might not have seen are just some of the themes shot by Bohdan Warchomij, Victor Hugo, James Wills, Adam Borrello, Emma Bergmeier, Giselle Natassia, Seng Mah, Bel Downie, Johannes Reinhart, Lauren Waye, David & Rhonda Crocker, Shenade Unicomb, Marianne Symons, Matt Bedford, Natalie Blom, Leanne Clements and Rhiannon Newton. E x h i b i t i o n r u n s ’ t i l T h u r s d a y, February 3.
Hamlet, Old Mill Theatre, Mends Street, South Perth. Directed by the experienced and well-known John Milson, Hamlet is set in the kingdom of Denmark and tells the story of Prince Hamlet gaining revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering the king – Hamlet’s father and Claudius’ brother – after he gains the throne and marries the widowed queen. Starring Paul ‘Werzel’ Montague who is best known for his stand up on the Perth comedy circuit, Hamlet sees the experienced comic depict a ghost, a grave-digger and Fortinbras, the prince of Norway. Season opens on Friday, February 4, and runs ’til Saturday, February 19. Bookings can bemade on (08) 9367 8719 or oldmilltheatre@ iinet.net.au.
The Quod Project, Heathcote Museum and Gallery, Duncraig Road, Applecross. The Quod Project is a multidisciplinary art exhibition by painter Tania Ferrier about The Quod – a building that is now known as the Rottnest Lodge. Prior to becoming a luxury tourist resort, The Quod housed many individuals imprisoned on the island, and during its operation it became the largest deaths in custody site in Australia. In collaboration with Aboriginal elders re p re s e n t i n g Wa d j e m u p / R o t t n e s t a n d photographer James Kerr, The Quod Project exposes hidden history and holds up a mirror to ourselves; are we responsible for our ignorance? Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, February 27. Frozen In Time, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle. Canadian artist Nathalie Daoust presents a series of delicately hand-coloured photographs from the picturesque Alps in her Perth International Arts Festival exhibition. Frozen in Time is a record of the artist’s response to the landscape during a sixmonth residency in Switzerland. Offset by the perfect whitewashed backdrops, luminescent figures appear in awkward and unexpected places, creating a landscape that drifts between dream and reality. Exhibition opens on Saturday, January 29, and runs ’til Sunday, March 20.
Waltzing The Wilarra, Subiaco Arts Centre, 180 Hammersley Road, Subiaco. Join Charlie, Elsa and Fay as they take you on a musical journey back to 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, whites and blacks manage to form their own club. For a night they can experience rare happy times singing, dancing and with a little luck... find romance! Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, our three characters stage a musical reunion in protest. The trio reflects upon loves lost and found, dark secrets are revealed and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry. A teaming of two of Australia’s leading Indigenous theatre makers, David Milroy (Windmill Baby) and Wesley Enoch (The Sapphires), Waltzing The Wilarra is an original music theatre work featuring an all-star Indigenous cast. Season opens on Thursday, February 3, and runs ’til Sunday, March 6. Bookings can be made at PerthFestival.com.au.
What Is Displace? by Nathan Stevens
MUSIC Marnie Kent Quintet, February 5 The Ellington Jazz Club; bookings via ellingtonjazz.com.au. Roy Ayers, February 12 Beck’s Music Box; bookings through PerthFestival.com.au. What Is Displace?, G aller y Central, corner Aberdeen and Beaufort Streets, Northbridge. Transforming the gallery into his own deserted island, North American nomad Nathan Stevens leaves you stranded in this landscape of found and lost discoveries. Influenced by ideas of cartography and communication breakdown, surveying and self-surveillance, this moving series of installations unpacks processes of displacement and dislocation through interactive broadcasts from a shipwrecked radio station; endless conversations with an auto-poetic artificial intelligence; a model for multi-dimensional travel to the Bermuda Triangle; and a body of unidentifiable glass objects. Exhibition opens on Thursday, January 27, and runs ’til Saturday, February 12.
Year 12 Perspectives, Art Gallery Of WA, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth. Year 12 Perspectives 2010 is your yearly taste of art by the best, brightest and most talented graduating high school artists in the State. An annual barometer of what our youth are thinking and feeling, it is also a rich celebration of the role of the arts in the development of individual identities. As can be seen in this dynamic exhibition, the visual arts are a medium through which thought, inspiration and intellectual inquiry is given striking form. Exhibition opens on Saturday, January 29, and runs ’til Friday, July 15.
The Unthanks, February 13 Beck’s Music Box; bookings through PerthFestival.com.au. De Ness Jazz Kabaret, February 13 The Ellington Jazz Club; bookings via ellingtonjazz.com.au. Doc Neeson Band, February 26 Charles Hotel; bookings through BOCS. Imelda May, February 26 Howard Park Winer y (Denmark); bookings through BOCS. Sounds In The Valley, February 26 Elmar’s In The Valley; bookings through BOCS.
Into The Blue by Geraldton Grammar School’s Molly Wellington
COUNTER CULTURE LITTLEBIGPLANET 2
littleBIGplanet is one of those modern games that could truly only exist on this generation of powerful consoles - a user-generated world with emergent gameplay and no fixed game style. But above all that, it is cute as hell. Although it’s only been two years since the release of littleBIGplanet (or LBP to fans), that is two long years to rabid admirers of the franchise. With a promise of not only improving on the winning formula of the first title, but completely blowing it out of the water technically, we finally get our hands on the cutest hardcore game ever made. LBP is a unique franchise, and one that doesn’t really fit too many classic game molds. While at its purest form it’s a joyful platformer, with DNA that goes back to Mario and Sonic, it really is more of a collection of tools for you to make any type of game you might wish. The feature set really is quite ridiculous, every single level and bit of story in this game was made with the actual game - the developers used the game to make the game. Mindboggling stuff really! If that’s all a bit complicated, just rest assured that ever y level you play on the disc is very possible for you to make with the Level Creator. The skill, patience and imagination however does not come with the disc. This doesn’t mean that the world isn’t full of talented gamers, just waiting for the right tool-set to jump into Australia’s highest circulating Street Press
game creation. In fact, several top community level makers from the first game got offered jobs at Media Molecule and worked on this sequel! Quite unparallelled in the game industry, let alone any industry. So even if you don’t make any levels, skilled fans will be doing just that for you to play for years to come.
Sackboy
So in a nutshell, what is LBP? You control a little sackboy or girl, and traverse levels, either alone or with up to three friends on one screen competing for points. The clever part is that you can make your own levels with the Creation tools and upload them to the world, for anyone with the game to download, play and rate. If making things isn’t your cup of tea however, you can never open up the Create side of things and just enjoy the Story mode created by the developers. Like the first game, Story mode is fairly long and shows you what is possible in the Creator. For gamers pressed for time, you can run through Story mode in just a few hours, but you would have only collected about 60 per cent of collectables. Taking at least a few replays of each level to collect everything possible, Story mode can run into 20+ hours to complete. You see, to create anything you first need to find the tools and stickers in Story mode. In terms of Creation, the tools added in this game are staggering. While it looks like the first game, its tool sets are so evolved it’s like comparing Homo sapiens to a Neanderthals. Not only is there a full music sequencer, but a whole microchip and logic gates system to create things. Coupled with the Controllanator, a circuit board
that lets you assign any button on your controller to anything you want, this really is a game that can make any game. Already the community have made twin stick shooters, kart racing, classic shooters and even Windows XP. Yes, someone remade Windows. Holograms are a new addition that let you create such wonders, basically 2D images that have limitless movement. Trust me, to the right people it’s an incredibly powerful tool. If you were even mildly impressed with the first game’s creation tools, you will be blown away by the evolution. Overall LBP 2 offers almost unlimited replay value. With a refined community section that makes finding the newest, coolest level super easy, you could boot up this game for years to come and still play something new. Exclusive to the PlayStation 3, it really is a title that every owner should have on their shelf. Media Molecule’s latest creation, littleBIGplanet 2 is on sale now for the PlayStation 3 for $109.95. Find out more by visiting littlebigplanet.com. _TOM VARIAN
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GARETH EMERY Lighting The Way
Having rocked international clubbing giant GodskitchenWinter Edition in June 2010, Gareth Emery is back for his Northern Lights club tour. GLEN CANNING steals a slice of time with the UK producer and DJ ahead of his Australian tour. “It’s been hectic,” begins Emery as he reveals what he’s been up to since his last visit to Australia. “I think when I was there last, I was just on the verge of finishing my debut artist album so I released that and had a mad year doing tours and promotions and stuff. Then I had a slightly chilled out beginning to 2011, had three weeks off and it starts again this weekend with some UK gigs, then Asia and then back down under for the club tour and I can’t wait for that.” Emery will be touring his Northern Lights debut artist album around clubs across the land shortly. He’s a little nervous and says there were a lot of expectations underpinning the release. “It went #1 on the iTunes Dance chart in seven different countries which was pretty mad and totally unexpected,” Emery says of the response to the album. “I think the first artist album is a difficult one to make. You spend a lot of time thinking about the order, trying to make sure it works as a piece of music rather than just a collection of tracks and it worked out well.” Unlike many releases in 2010, Northern Lights is an album which doesn’t endorse cheesy vocal saturation. Vocals are used sparingly with great effects and this is most evident on the album’s first single, Sanctuary. “I could only put out a record that had music in it that I liked,” Emery says. “A lot of people think that when they’re doing an album they have to do a lot of things that they haven’t done before but cheesy vocals were never in my singles. I try to never remix cheesy vocals and when I did an album they just weren’t going to be there. There are ten tracks and only four of them are vocal tracks.”
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COMPUTERS AND BLUES !!! (Chk Chk Chk) South West Soul’s Resident DJs
UNOFFICIAL LANEWAY AFTERPARTY
Tom Piper
St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is just around the corner and if you want to keep the party crankin’, Villa has just the party for you. Dan and Tim (Cutters DJs) from Cut Copy will be getting behind the decks along with !!! (Chk Chk Chk) DJs. Foals will be doing a DJ set too as well as Nile Delta and Das Moth (both from Cutters Records), Bastians Happy Flight and Lightsteed. The show goes down on Saturday, February 12, at Villa. Doors open 10pm. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee for the first limited release and $35 plus booking fee for second release. Grab them from moshtix. com.au, Planet and Mills. Carve up the d-floor with the Cutters kids!
PIPE UP FOR SOME GOOD TUNES Everyone listen up. Ministry Of Sound Clubbers Guide To 2011 Tour is happening shortly. This year’s instalment sees dance floor aficionados Goodwill and Tom Piper team up to bring one of the best compilations yet. Goodwill brings the big house goodness and Piper pumps out some underground, noisy electro bangers. Together, the pair will be taking you on an aural assault of late night noise. The first show is happening on Friday, March 25, at the Royal Palms in Busselton. Doors open 7pm. The second show takes place on Saturday, March 26, at Villa. Doors open 9pm. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee. Get these bad boys from Moshtix and Live Clothing or the venues themselves. Gonna be pipin’ hot.
UK NORTHERN SOUL PERTH BOUND With its roots firmly set in the UK, the dark depths of a relatively unknown dance music hailing from ‘60s black America is set to take Perth by storm. For those who are spending more time watching Oprah’s Australian adventure shows, Northern Soul is based on a heavy beat and fast tempo and was born from dance styles and fashions that were associated with the underground rhythm and soul scene back in the ‘60s. To celebrate the genre’s fifth anniversary on Australian soil, a grand spectacle which includes a DVD of the music’s origin and six DJs playing original vinyl records has been organised for your pleasure. Open your eyes and ears on Saturday, January 29, at The Fly By Night. Doors open 8pm. Tickets on door.
Good news and sad news. Good: Mike Skinner from The Streets is releasing his fifth album called Computers And Blues. The album crams everything Skinner has learnt over the course of his five album career. The man himself has described Computers And Blues as “balanced” in comparison to previous works. Given the album’s 14 tracks started life as demos given away on Twitter, it seemed appropriate to indulge in such a title for record. Bad news: It’s his final album. Naww. Computers And Blues is out Friday, February 4.
CONNECTIONS EXTENSIONS It’s the new year and renovations are rife. A new lounge bar and extension to the Terrace Bar at Connections nightclub is in the works. As y’all know, Northbridge is a tough place to get any kind of license so the team down there are asking for your help. All you have to do is complete the survey available from this link: www.coakesconsulting.com/ connectionsnightclub.html. Get involved everyone.
Progress Inn
Phetsta
JOIN IN HEADS ABOVE WATER Calvin Harris
GET READY FOR THE WEEKEND WITH CALVIN Big news. Despite having only just left Perth after Stereosonic, the legendary Scottish singer/songwriter/DJ/producer/entertainer Calvin Harris, is bringing his beats to Perth again. The disco-grooving party boy will be taking to the decks for a special DJ set to celebrate the release of One Love’s Sonic Boom Box record which is out now for your listening pleasure. The three CD compilation was remixed by Mr Harris himself, Andy Murphy and Acid Jacks. It’s all happening on Friday, March11, at Metropolis Fremantle. This is fresh news so stay tuned for ticketing details. Can’t wait for the merrymaking!
GARETH EMERY Northern Lights wasn’t Emery’s only achievement in 2010. He jumped two places in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJ list, to the #7 spot. “I knew 2010 would be a good year - in terms of the gigs I’d done, the nights we’d put on, I’d finally done the artist album,” Emery says upon reflection. “Sanctuary went above and beyond our expectations, that one kind of got a life of its own. So I was looking at the year and thinking ‘yeah, it’s been a decent year’ but that poll is so unpredictable, you never know what’s going to happen. So any time you go up and don’t go down you are going to be happy.” Being an artist who despises being pigeonholed into a particular genre, Emery says creating a balanced and varied set is one way to avoid such pigeon-holing. “I’m also realistic – whilst if I do play a whole lot of different stuff on my podcast, I am ultimately in the genre of trance,” Emery says. “In my DJ sets, I probably don’t stray 38
As everyone around the world pretty much knows, Queensland and Victoria have been doing it tough recently. WA has decided to chip in by hosting a benefit gig, a night of top shop beats, all in one place, at one time, for one cause. There are a bunch of local performers that will dropping beats throughout the evening, so if you’re up for some Friday night after-work drinks, this is the event to get on down to. Phetsta, Progress Inn, Aarin F, Darren J, Mona Lisa, Craig Hollywood, Sugar Army DJs, Declan, Dart,Lightsteed, Shazam, Gemma Pike, DJ Kate Chip and Rex Monsoon will be calling the shots along with countless of Perth’s finest live bands. Get on down to support and help our fellow neighbours tomorrow, Friday, January 28, at the Rosemount Hotel. Doors open 7pm. Tickets are $10. Good stuff.
too far from my core sound. It gets difficult if you’re known for one sound and then you try and play a totally different sound whereas for me, I’ve always played this kind of variety. There’s always been that level of unpredictability, there’s always been that mixed bag.” And with trance coming to interesting crossroads over the past few years, Emery says he’s excited about where the sound could be heading. “One of the great things about trance is it changes and it evolves and it takes inspiration from other genres and uses them creatively,” Emery says. “Some people don’t like that fact, they wish it was like 1998/1999 but it’s good for me, the fact that trance can change and [the changing genre] is crucial to the fact that it’s survived so long. In 2000/2001 when people were saying ‘trance is dead’, it didn’t happen. It changed and evolved and that’s how it survived. You look at some of
Dead Prez
DEAD PREZ, HELL YEAH! New York hip hop duo, Dead Prez, individually known as Stic Man and M-1 are hitting up Perth dudes. Formed in Florida back in 1996, the boys are bringing their mixtapes, albums and political street level hip hop which aims at challenging racial stereotypes to Villa. Dead Prez gained a strong following after word spread of their incredible live shows (apparently known to ignite dollar bills and toss apples into the audience, declaring everyone must eat healthily). The boys have collaborated with Jay Z and were even featured on comedian Dave Chappelle’s feature documentary Block Party. London’s Daily Telegraph has said this of the duo: “Dead Prez uses music not to lie about having expensive cars or girlfriends with big bottoms, but to rail against the inequities in American society.” DJs Charlie Bucket, Nathan J, Benni Chill, Selekt and AD ROC will be supporting. If you want to be part of the mayhem, it’s all happening on Saturday, March 12, at Villa. Doors open 10pm. Tickets $45 plus booking fee. Available from Moshtix, Heatseeker, Planet and Mills. Tickets $55 on door if available. Do it.
the other genres like acid house and hard house and stuff that never really changed and you never really hear these genres anymore. So the great thing about trance is it’s a bit of a chameleon, it’s got versatility there and that’s why I think it’s lasted so long.” Emery says this chameleon-type tour of Northern Lights will see him indulge in a longer, mixed set. “Obviously there’s going to be Sanctuary people who are going to want to be hearing loads of great remixes from Northern Lights,” Emery says. “The Northern Lights remix album is going to be coming out in March and got some amazing producers on there so… you can expect five or six really good remixes from Northern Lights and a bit of a varied DJ set, bit of house, bit of progressive, lot of trance and not too much chin stroking bollocks or anything like that, just good dance music to have a good night!”
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TREASURE FINGERS
SAM PERRY
SHAKE IT ACROSS THE DANCEFLOOR
THE GENIUS OF EFFECTS-STEP
Ashley Jones is Treasure Fingers, a disco house phenomenon who has seen the world jump into party pants and head out to festivals to watch the American DJ and drum’n’bass producer work his magic. Treasure Fingers was initially supposed to be a band but that never eventuated. Jones talks to ANNABEL MACLEAN from NewYork ahead of Big Night Out.
Sam Perry is lively and ridiculously energetic for an 8.30am interview. The London born multi-talented musician looks younger than 21. But he takes such comments in his stride with his dry, typical English wit, saying “It happens everywhere. I couldn’t go to Jackass because I didn’t have my ID”ANNABEL MACLEAN sits down with the master of his own genre to talk everything ‘effects-step’, David Attenborough and the result of punching a street sign on Boxing Day.
It has been just over a year since Ashley Jones graced our shores for numerous festival and club dates, including Field Day and Summadayze and there’s a tingle of excitement in his voice when he recalls the Australian summer and outrageously energetic crowds. At the time of this interview, Jones has just listened to Britney Spears’ new single and is preparing for his show in Las Vegas surprisingly - a gig which is set to be more relaxed than others on the tour. “There’s a few extremes,” Jones says of American audiences’ response to his work. “I’d say Las Vegas is one of the exceptions. It’s totally different everywhere. LA’s the really alternatively young crowd and then there’s Southern California and then even when you play out in the Midwest - like smaller towns, I feel like they actually go a little crazier because maybe they don’t have the same parties or something.” Jones has always been influenced by electronic music but during his early teens, listening to Prince, Michael Jackson and old ‘80s funk was of higher priority. Today, these early influences can be heard in his work, along with drum’n’bass, a genre Jones began exploring when he joined drum’n’bass group, Evol Intent. “I got into electronic music - really experimental kind of stuff,” Jones says. “Then I started making drum’n’bass on my own and I started getting reasonable crowds to play to at big parties throughout the south east and because of that I hooked up with these two other guys who are in Evol Intent.” But, it seems Evol Intent doesn’t have too much influence on prime project, Treasure Fingers. “I guess production techniques and that sort of thing I really learnt from doing Evol Intent but creatively there’s not much,” Jones reveals. “I was making funk and disco-tech type stuff ever since I learnt how to produce but it was always something to do as a hobby I guess on the side,
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Treasure Fingers and then when we came up with the name Treasure Fingers, that’s when I started doing some more stuff on it.” Jones was initially playing live bass, keys and guitar, with the thought of creating a band but when a friend came up with ‘Treasure Fingers’, it remained a one man game. “We all thought it worked really well, easy to find out about if you look it up online,” Jones chuckles. Following the naming however, there would’ve been no need to indulge your curiosity online as Jones’ track Cross The Dance Floor moved Treasure Fingers into the spotlight. “That was completely unexpected,” Jones laughs. “I started that track without any vocals or anything. It was just a filtered disco kind of track. I came up with that line and then recorded it that same night. We gave it out to blogs… and it went crazy from there.” With his mad touring schedule, Jones has hopes of releasing his debut LP in 2012 and comes across quite vague when the topic arises. Either that; or he’s keeping some serious surprises under wraps. Fingers crossed for some treasure. TREASURE FINGERS BIG NIGHT OUT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 @ VILLA
Being left-handed isn’t usually a real downer. But for Sam Perry, special effects lover/MC/singer and ‘pedal artist’ if you wish, a cast on your arm and hand that is responsible for writing after what Perry describes as “an awkward fall” is not exactly ideal leading up to his I Hear Voices EP launch at The Rosemount Hotel. “I’m not normally a violent person, six weeks in this,” Perry says in complete disbelief. “I’ve got to do my EP in this!” Surprisingly, the “awkward fall” hasn’t affected Perry’s live shows in any way because his performances are all done with his feet and his right hand is used as his microphone hand. Perry’s show, so to speak, involves loops, singing, effects, harmonies, drum’n’bass, jazz and random snippets of David Attenborough vocals. He uses foot pedals and a bunch of effects to create tracks live in front audiences.“We don’t have a genre for it yet which is quite exciting,” Perry says of his musical direction. “I call it ‘effects-step’ but that’s because I’m stepping on effects. What do you call it? Yeah, you laugh but what do you call it?” Perry has always been a musical fanatic, preferring to play the piano during recess and lunch at school instead of “hanging with the kids” as he jokingly puts it. “I’ve always loved the technical side of music, that’s why I got into the effects,” he says.“You spend hours with the effects – bringing out the kick drum or bringing out the snare. And then the next sound you’ve got to bring out - the ambient high hat and pan it left and right… so as soon as you get the sounds right, it’s really easy just to free style and roll with it.” Having previously played in a post high school band with his brother Wil, Perry says his musical direction changed over time. “We played a lot of gigs and stuff and then we just started crossing paths, you know - I was a better singer than him, he was a better singer than me,” Perry laughs. “Then I found a way where I could be the
Sam Perry whole band myself with these pedals and special effects. I could always think of all the melodies – like a guitar solo, I could sing it out to him [Wil] so now this is a way that I can think of whatever - jazz, bass sounds. I can just make them and loop them over and sing over the top of them. So me being the whole band now; we don’t argue, like no-one is ever late.” Perry’s debut EP I Hear Voices contains a bunch of David Attenborough samples and he says his show isn’t aimed at any particular demographic. “We found a bit where he [David Attenborough] talks about the human voice and throat and how it develops over time, where he’s saying that the more attractive male singer would get more women and stuff like that,” Perry describes. “I don’t want to play for a restricted audience; I just want to see who’s there and sort of decide the set there and then.” With a busking license in the works, a heap of open mic appearances around Perth and bunch of exciting collaborations in the pipeline, this young gun is one to keep your eye on. SAM PERRY SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 @ THE BIRD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 @ THE ROSEMOUNT
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Following the release of one of the past year’s most intricate albums, Canadian electronic master Caribou, aka Daniel Snaith, has reinforced his status as one of contemporary music’s most diverse artists. Reflecting on his most successful year to date, the stellar disco-fuelled entertainer speaks to TYSON WRAY about his musical direction and how 2010 unfolded. “It’s been relentless,” Snaith laughs.“But in a great way. Since the album came out in April, I’ve been on tour constantly. It’s been going unbelievably well, better than I could ever have anticipated.” Following a plethora of releases over the past decade under both his Caribou and Manitoba monikers, 2010 saw the release of Swim, an album showcasing Snaith’s acid dance creativity and psychedelic electro beats. Critically acclaimed and widely regarded as one of the most innovative and unadulterated records of 2010, Snaith believes his musical growth and development has resulted in the evolution of his music; infusing multiple genres and styles. “For me it changes naturally,” Snaith explains. “It evolves as my interest in music changes. For the past few years, I’ve been more interested in contemporary club and dance music. That’s very obvious in this record but my taste and interest in the music I listen to has changed and gone in a lot of different directions over the past five years. I wouldn’t say that it’s coherent - just that it follows my interest. “For me, the importance of the album’s reception is foremost my own opinion. By the time that the record comes out I’m generally
very certain of how I feel about it, I don’t spend too much time worrying about the critical response. Otherwise, the opinion of my friends and others that are close to me are who I find important as they’re the first people who I play the record to and get to hear it. People like my wife and Kieran Hebden [Four Tet] - if those people like it then I’m happy.” Returning to Australia for the first time since the release of Swim as part of the entertaining kaleidoscope of performances on offer at Perth International Arts Festival, Snaith will be bringing a slightly different live show this time round. “The live show has to integrate both live and acoustic elements much more than it did in the past,” Snaith says. “At first that worried me that we wouldn’t be able to have those spontaneous and improvised aspects that makes that real and genuine live interaction but, now that’s one of my favourite aspects of our live show. We’ve been able to augment our abilities to act spontaneous and on the fly instead of limiting them… because of that since we began touring the record many of the songs have changed significantly. The way that we change them night to night leads to a
Could you DJ for 60 hours straight? Probably not. Could you do it with one arm? Definitely not. YASMIN SHERIFF talks about the Black Coffee Foundation with handsome founder and multiple award winning South African DJ/producer Black Coffee, aka Nkosinathi Maphumulo. Caribou slow development to the point where now some tracks are quite different from the way that they were on the record. “ Snaith goes on to add that this Australian tour is the only touring that he’ll be doing for 2011 as music making and exploration are to be the prime focuses for the year ahead. “I’ll hopefully to be able to make my next album,” he says before concluding, “I’ve got no idea what it’ll sound like so it’s a whole process of discovery.” CARIBOU AND FOUR TET SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 @ BECK’S MUSIC BOX
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A generic formula is usually applied to the launch of a new charity: a fancy venue with a notable guest list, foie gras and French bubbly. Instead of travelling the beaten track, DJ Black Coffee took an alternative approach. The South African DJ focused on macro donations from the upper crust when he launched his new charity, The Black Coffee Foundation at a popular South African nightclub recently. For 60 hours thousands of people of all ages, economic classes and colours packed the dance floor to hear Maphumulo’s unique yet beautifully simplistic house beats that have been taking South Africa and America by storm. Although a gig like vibe infiltrated, this was a launch with a twist. The Guinness Book Of World Records have a record holder for the longest DJ set, (DJ Gee Papa spun for just over 116 hours) but a new addition is likely to be added. Maphumulo is awaiting confirmation from the officials to be added to the records books for his 60 hour set because he is the first DJ to have performed for such a length of time with the use of only one arm. “I wanted to get marginal exposure for the foundation,” Maphumulo says of the launch and possible entrance into the Guinness Book Of World Records. The rules stipulated that he could rest for 20 minutes per eight hour set. “Towards the end, I just went for like 15 hours straight,” he says. On advice from his doctor, Maphumulo resisted the urge to down a few energy drinks and instead sipped on water and ate muesli. “I was always munching on something,” he laughs. Thousands of people rocked up to the launch, sometimes multiple times over the 60 hours, to show their support. Many people had heard that the set for the launch was ‘legendary’ and were keen to check it out as well as lending a supportive hand to those less fortunate in South Africa. Born and bred in South Africa, Maphumulo had a keen interest in music from a young age. After studying music at university and dedicating himself to the scene, he is now beginning to shake things up on an international scale. Word of his unbelievable underground sets is spreading and his limited run US tours are selling out in hot spots Chicago and New York. But rather than focusing on his star status, Maphumulo decided it was time to give back to community by launching the DJ Black Coffee Foundation. “Kids need help with funding for clothing and food,” he says. “ I t w a s t i m e t h a t I h a d to d o something and talk to the right people to get the funding. There are so many charities for street kids and stuff, but it is the kids with disabilities that I want to focus on. There is a gap.” This weekend, DJ Black Coffee lands on our fine shores for the first time with his South African house beats and samples. Get down, watch, listen, dance and above all, admire.
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Kaskade, Photo: Matt Jalonek KASKADE/Mind Electric Villa Nightclub Saturday, January 22, 2011 There was a sense of anticipation in the air. Perth has been lucky enough in recent years to have been visited by some of the world’s finest house DJs, but all too frequently they are lumped together playing summer festival shows, which is fantastic, but nothing beats the grass roots of dance music - a late show in a loud club with an incomparable sound system on a Saturday night. This is where dance music was born and where it belongs. When Mind Electric took to the DJ booth, the dance floor was beginning to fill and the crowd was prepped to hear some great tunes. Dropping a collection of his own tracks, with the requisite club classics mixed in, it was clear that the intention of most punters was to dance the night away and have a rollicking good time. His set was criminally short; however, Bette Davis Eyes was probably an unnecessary inclusion. By the end of his set, the remaining crowd had descended to the dance floor, leaving their empty drinks and seats behind and sufficiently amped up for what was to come. Kaskade finally took to the booth as the bar was running out of Red Bull, which was clearly not the only stimulant of choice amongst the revelers. Apologising for having not been in Perth for such a long time (he was last here on the 2009 Parklife tour), Kaskade ripped into breakthrough track It’s You, It’s Me from 2003’s album of the same
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title. The well educated patrons were dancing from the minute his set began, and whilst a large portion of the set was drawn from his most recent offering Dynasty, his more trademark club staples from previous albums were received with equal enthusiasm. Between his own tracks, he kept the dance floor and stage thriving with the somewhat obvious, but probably perfect choice of tracks by house music colleagues David Guetta, Justice, Steve Angello and Kings Of Tomorrow. The highlight of the first part of the set was undoubtedly the Justin Michael and Kemal remix of Don’t Stop Dancing which ensured anyone who wasn’t currently on their feet joined the sweating throng on the floor. This was a long set, close to three hours, and those that stayed until the bitter end were richly rewarded. Sadly, as dawn approached, the dance floor thinned, a sure sign that the anticipation of the event led to myriad of punters peaking too early. But those left dancing were not going anywhere and given they were dancing to Steppin Out, Angel On My Shoulder and Move For Me, there was a sense that Kaskade had saved some epic big guns for the faithful. Finishing the set with the appropriately titled 4am, a wave, and a thank you, those who’d gone the distance walked out into the morning air safe in the knowledge they’d experienced something all too rarely seen in Perth. A proper house night. _ALASTAIR BOVELL
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Fusing traditional folk from the Basque region with the txalapartas and txistus (traditional instruments from northern Spain) as well as raw, punkish electronica, eerie synths, tambourines, ecstatic ‘60s acid rock and lyrics concerned with the meaning of love from a grandfather’s perspective, Crystal Fighters have produced a supremely chaotic and exciting body of work. If you’re a fan of exotica, drum’n’bass, unpredictability or even the psychedelic, Star Of Love is your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Beginning with the lounge-disco fuelled Solar System which could easily be played in an upbeat, busy café or at an ear-blasting rave, the album offers something unique for the cochlear. Xtactic Truth is an intriguing fusion of deep reggae influenced and soft, feminine ‘could shatter your bones’ inspired vocals which underscore a techno-house shimmering sound. I Do This Everyday sounds like a minimal ‘80s inspired pop tune with snippets of dub and is reminiscent of the playschool, primal type vocals of Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord or perhaps Crystal Castles’ Alice Glass. Highlights include the quaint, acoustic, French sounding Page, colourful tune In The Summer and strange Spanish influenced party track I Love London. If you want pure bliss, fun, ecstatic electronics and fresh experimentation, Crystal Fighters is your answer. ANNABEL MACLEAN 4.5/5
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Damian Lazarus. Head honcho of Crosstown Records, first came into prominence as the boss of A&R for UK based label City Rockers and with this release, the 54th instalment of the Fabric series, he shows he still has an ear for a good quality underground tune or two. Outstanding programming and seamless mixing ensures the CD flows perfectly from the opening strains of Ryan Crosson’s Metro Bunker to the down tempo, deep pop conclusion of a couple of Bill Holt tracks. The majority of the mix is high quality and packed full of character. Excellent tracks such as the jackin’ groove of Cajmere’s Freaks And Stars and the St Germainesque Every Cow Has A Bird by Guti & Redshape join the dots between disco, techno and house. Other highlights include the dark, haunting dubstep-y beats of Void 23 by one of 2010’s standout artists; Appleblim & Ramadanman, the lush melodic sweeping synths of Roska’s The Sheppard and Sing by Deetron which reminds one of a minor key version of Pete Heller’s Big Love. But to be truthful, there are no real duffers on here. An exceptional tune selection brought about by an intimate knowledge of the scene. This mix goes to prove that though the market may be flooded with commercial tat and disposable dirge, there’s still some quality music around for those willing to search it out.
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THURSDAY 27/01 Bakery – DJ Wrighteous. Broken Hill Hotel – Fixed Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Righteous Club Bayview –Hush- Sox Draw / Maxwell Club Marakesh –DJ Simon Cottesloe Hotel – DJ Shots / DJ Andy M Dolce – Maxwell/Damian John/ Hippo Club Eve – DJ Tony Allen Fl y i n g S co t s m a n ( M a i n Room)- The Big Man Flying Scotsman (Defectors) DJ’s Cowboys / Indie Kids Leopold Hotel – DJ Riki / Roger Smart Mustang – DJ James MacArthur Newport – Mills DJs Niche Bar – Flaunt / Johnni P / Feminem Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford Oxford Hotel – Johnny Taylor Paddy Hannans – Dr Bogus / Crazy Craig Swinging Pig – DJ Simon The Deen – DJ Flex/ DJ Nano/ DJ Surge/ DJ Don Migi The East End - DJ Midfield The Queens – Kapitol P The Whistling Kite - DJ Gareth The Shed – DJ Andyy Toucan Club -Shut Up & Dance - DJ PK Velvet Lounge - DJs Razor Jack / Holly / Tryanny Wolfe Lane – Soul Purpose - DJ Jimmy Mac Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin
FRIDAY 28/01 Bird - Trus’me The folks at the Bird are proud to announce that UK producer Trus’me will be in Perth this weekend. It is going to be a night of boogie, funk and house music. Trus’me hails from Manchester and has been deeply rooted in the sounds of techno/house from Detroit. Known to some as David Wolstencroft, the master behind the decks has support and admiration from all the right peeps in the
business. Gilles Peterson even championed Trus’me’s classy sample on Radio 1, saying “If there was ever a house record made for me, it would sound like this.” Rob Blanford and Ben Taafe will be dropping beats on the night too so make sure you head on down to the Bird on Friday, January 28. Doors open 8pm. Tickets are $5 on the door. Get in early to avoid the line out the front. Do it peeps.
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Rosemount – Heads Above Water- Phetsta /Progress Inn /Aarin F /Darren J /Mono Lisa/ Craig Hollywood /Sugar Army DJs /Declan /Lightsteed / Shazam /DJ Gemma Pike /DJ Kate Chip /Rex Monsoon QLD and Victoria have been going through quite the tough time recently. Being in WA, there are still things we can do to help out everyone over there through this devastating flood crisis. One of them is this: Heads Above Water. A heap of local acts, DJs and friends have got together to organise a fundraiser night for the peeps over east that need our help. It’s going to be a night of great tunes, great peeps, good food and balmy weather, so make sure you get on down to support your fellow neighbours. All three
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rooms at The Rosemount will be rocking. Entry to the gig is $10 and more donations will also be appreciated. So if you’ve got after work drinks planned, do this. Shape – Amon Vison/ GeRmAn /Illuminor /Jackson & Perry /Kenny L /Darren J / Jason Creek /Jay Vincente/ Travis Eddy /JT Yo! /Ryan Lee /Conor Arkins /N.abled /Ball Z /Avesta Who loves summer? Well even if you don’t, you’re bound to love good music. Inthemix Sounds Of Summer at Ambar are beginning. It’ll also be going on tour across 16 cities around Australia. To celebrate this lovely event, inthemix.com. au is running a competition which gives you the chance to extend your summer by winning a holiday to the Full Moon Down Under party on Magnetic Island in northern QLD. Accomodation, VIP party tickets and even a scuba diving course are included. You’ll need to head to inthemix.com.au for more info on this lovely offer. But in the meantime, get your party pants out because Sounds Of Summer is here this weekend. That’s right everyone, get on down to dance to some summer beats with some of Perth’s very best DJs behind the decks. Tickets are $12 on door and $8 for loyalty. Doors open 10pm. Do it. Ambar – Aston Harvey / Fdel/ Philly Blunt / Wish Amplifier – Jamie Mac Bar Open- Boutique Fridays Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol – DJs all night Carine Glades Tavern - DJ Abstar Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Jimmy-Mac Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Double Lucky – Aadam Kelly / Cee Enex100 Podium Level, Perth City - Mocha Jazz
Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Death Disco DJs Funk Club – DJ Charlie Bucket High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Library – Dorcia- Jus Hus /Time Travel Agent /Yon Jovi /Scott D/ Deadvents /Mickey Juice / Arrigold Liquid Nightclub - DJ Klar55 / DJ Jewel / DJ Stevie M Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays - DJ Dooey Merriwa Tavern – DJ Real McCoy
Sapphire Bar – SuperFly The Clink – DJ Jin The Deen – DJs Birdie / DJ Surge / DJ Nano The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Generous Squire - DJ anaru The Saint - DJ Jordan The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 Tiger Lils – Paul Malone / Joby / Alex K The Vic - DJ Durra We m b l ey H o t e l – D J Funk ybottoms / DJ Dean Charles Windsor – DJ Riki and Ray Woodvale Tavern – Dr Bogus Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin
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Moon & Sixpence - DJ Sneakee Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee Mustang- Swing DJ / DJ James MacArthur Newport – Micah/ Sardi/Can-le / Tom Drummond Norfolk - Perth’s Best DJs NormaJeans–DJ Phil Oxford Hotel – Recliners Paddy Hannans – Crazy Craig Paramount - Flyte /DJ Morgan/ DJ Jordan Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Simon Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Rubix – Gene Bourne/ Kenny/ Riki Rocket Room- DJ Brett Rowe Sail & Anchor - Balcony Beatz / DJ J-MAC.
The Railway Hotel - Black Coffee /Chris NG/ The Empressions/ PDJ & Trooper Could you DJ for 60 hours? Could you do it with one arm? No? Yes? Doubtful. Black Coffee, aka, the man behind a 60 hour DJ set who hails from South Africa, is bringing his beats to Perth. Durban born Nkosinathi Maphumulo has been making music for over a decade, dominating the South African airwaves for the past couple of years. He’s become a sought-after underground name. With house music taking root in unprecedented proportions in South Africa and Durban, Black Coffee shot to the forefront of this emerging sound and has been headlining around the world since. The one-armed DJ has recently entered the Guinness Book Of World Records for the longest DJ set. He played 60 hours to raise money for his charity; The Black Coffee Foundation, which helps out disabled children in South Africa. This is going to be a mammoth night. Prepare yourselves and head on down to witness what is truly going to be a grand spectacle. Tickets are available through Moshtix and there will most likely be some on the door too.
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CLUB DREAD GOES OFF Bar Open Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Club Dread, Bar Open’s new weekly night of pure roots and reggae has started off with a bang. Top Sudanese DJ, MG from the Bossmovement Sound, was rippin’ it up with his dancehall anthems. Jamaican reggae DJ Aswon Farenji was also sweetening the eardrums of all punters present with his top tunes. If you haven’t checked out this night yet, make sure you get on down for some good old fashioned reggae and dancehall in the weeks to come.
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Liquid Nightclub - DJ Klar55 /DJ Stevie M Mint – Pop Life – Darren Briais Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Danny M o o n & S i x p e n ce – D J Sneakee Mustang – DJ Rockabilly / DJ James MacArthur Niche – Frankie Button / Cee / Jonny Zimber Norma Jeans – DJ Darren Onyx - DJ Kayper Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount –DJ Meezy / DJ Jordan Q u e e n s Ta v - G a r e t h Richardson Rocket Room – DJ Brett Rowe Rubix – Kenny L/ Delaney South St Ale House – DJ Jay Soverign – DJ Jinx Tiger Lil’s –Adam Kelly/ Charlie Bucket The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Dyl/ eSQue The Deen - DJ Birdie/ DJ JJ/ DJ Tony Allen The Generous Squire –Late Night Sessions - iG Music The Saint – DJ Anaru The Shed –DJ Glenn 20 The Whistling Kite - DJ Craig The Vic – DJ Benny Chill Wembley – DJ Ben Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Windsor – DJ Ray Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real McCoy
SUNDAY 30/01 Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clink – DJ Tony Allen Club Bayview – DJ Pete Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve – DJ Birdie Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny L Mustang - DJ Rockin Rhys Players Bar – DJ-Udas Queens Tav– DJ Rhys Rosemount – Get Wet – Armee / Promimity Effect / Jazza Rubix – The Rotation – Krule/ Dazz K/ Untertone/ Lyndon Toucan Club – DJ Darren The Cott – Cott Sessions The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andy
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TUESDAY 01/02 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel – DJ Matty High Wycombe – DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Mustang Bar – DJs The Cott (Upstairs) – Maxwell/ DJ Jus Haus/ Damian John Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin
WEDNESDAY 02/02 Basement On Broadway – Damien John/Angry Buda/ Maxwell/Headayke Captain Stirling – WhiteLabel C l a n c y ’s ( Ap p l e c ro s s ) – Upbeat – DJ Andy Connections – DJs Joby / JJ / Rueben Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Double Lucky - Giftd – Wrt Attack Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays DJ iPod/Ben Pettit Eve – DJ Don Migi / Skooby Gold – Slick/ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Manhattan’s –DJJessica Kill Mustang – DJ Giles The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper and DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Queens – Wriggle on
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THIS WEEK Mos Def Thursday, January 27 @ Metro City Aston Harvey Friday, January 28 @ Ambar Amon Vision Friday, January 28 @ Shape Trus’ Me Friday, January 28 @ The Bird Black Coffee Saturday, January 29 @ The Railway Hotel
COMING UP Jpop and Kpop Electro Thursday, February 3 @ The Bird B o b M a r l ey B i r t h d ay Celebration ft Jam Down Kingz/ The Sunshine Brothers/ The Empressions/ Danny Pashionfruit/ DJ Ray/ General Justice/ Tutomath/ The Isolites/ Simba + more S u n d a y, Fe b r u a r y 6 @ Railway Hotel Sam Perry Saturday, February 5 @ The Rosemount DJ CXL/Sam Perry Saturday, February 5 @ The Rosemount Butch Friday, February 11 @ Geisha Cutters Records Night feat. Dan & Time (Cutters DJS) / Chk Chk Chk DJSet / Das Moth / Bastians Happy Flight / Lightsteed Saturday, February 12 @ Villa
Good Vibrations 2011 feat. Faithless /Phoenix/ Sasha/ Nas/ Damian Marley/ Cee Lo Green/ Kelis/ Ludacris/ Erykah Badu/ Friendly Fires/ Miike Snow/ Fake Blood/ Rusko/ Sidney Samson/ Mike Posner/ Yolanda Be Cool + more Sunday, Februar y 20 @ Claremont Showgrounds Cooly G/ Pickles/ Ben Ta a f e / C l u n k / D Y P / Sleephead Sunday, February 27 @ Ya Ya’s Mickey Avalon Thursday, March 3 @ Villa K i d Ke n o b i : D u b s t e p Invasion Saturday, March 5 @ Ambar Future Music Festival feat. The Chemical Brothers/ MGMT/Mark Ronson/ Pendulum/Dizzee Rascal/ Leftfield + more Sunday, March 6 @ Arena Joondalup
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Calvin Harris DJ Set Fr i d a y, M a r c h 1 1 @ Metropolis Fremantle Bassnectar Wednesday, March 16 @ Shape C l u b b e r s G u i d e To 2011 Tour ft Tom Piper/ Goodwill Saturday, March 26 @ Villa JS1/ Rhazel/ Super Nat Friday, April 8 @ Villa Sneaky Sound System Friday, April 15 @ Villa Black Coffee
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CACOPHANOUS CLASH Thursday, January 20, 2011 The Newport Hotel Punters at the Newport Hotel were treated to an evening of incredible live music last week when Hailmary, Sonpsilo Circus and Ozmonaut took to the stage for Culture Clash. Kicking off the evening’s proceedings, Ozmonaut busted out fat grooves, followed by Sonpsilo who laid down cool blues rock for the crowd to lap up. As the night progressed headliners Hailmary took to the stage, wowing all in attendance with their incredible live show.
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This week the boys are doing it for themselves this Friday, January 28, as Dave Mann and Justin Walshe hold the fort. Blue Shaddy will undoubtedly bring the roof down on Saturday, January 29, with their blues extravaganza, if you want to see just how to play and acoustic guitar, Lloyd Spiegel is the man to show you how it’s done on Sunday, January 30. Wednesday, February 2, sees up and comer Morgan Bain and company take to the stage, an act to watch this space for.
ROCKET ROOM S a t u rd ay, J a n u a r y 2 9 , s e e s Ve s p e r s Descent take to the stage with some fast paced melodic metal at the Rocket Room, supported by Nexus, Empires Laid Waste and Prescient. Head down for a huge night of local metal acts followed by resident rockers Kickstart after midnight. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.
JB O’REILLY’S Every Thursday at JB’s you get to choose from two delicious curries and any pint or a glass of wine for $15! Music is provided by the wonderful Rhys Wood and Nigel Healy making it a great run up to the weekend.
MOJO’S BAR
Friday, January 28, sees Blue Shaddy return to Mojo’s after packing the joint in December. The lads have big plans for 2011 including a run of Australia’s major festivals ranging from Port Fairy to Broad Beach as well as opening for Kasey Chambers at Elmars in the Swan Valley and Jimmy Barnes at the end of March at Drakesbrook Tavern in Waroona. In any case the fellows are going to blow the roof off with their high energy hillbilly surf funk. Special guests support. Entry is $20 from 8pm. Saturday, January 29, sees a double-A side split single launch. Mongrel Country have recorded Squid Voodoo and Bonehouse have laid down Australia Gothic. It’s actually a 7’’ split launch! Supports on this raucous night of Perth dirge and indie rock are Cat Black, Hunting Huxley and Like Junk. From 8pm for $10 entry.
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MANHATTAN’S BAR
On Saturday, February 26, inaugural RTRFM fundraiser The Outer Limits shall be held at Manhattan’s Bar in Victoria Park. The lineup features emerging and established acts Allbrook, Avery & Co., Apricot Rail, Astral Travel, Hunting Huxley, Zeks and Splendid Friends. Entry is $10 or $15 pending current RTRFM subscription status or more the door on the night. This night will sell out and starts at 7pm.
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NEWPORT HOTEL
Every Sunday at the Newport Hotel the retractable roof above the courtyard is rolled back for patrons to soak up some sun while they enjoy the weekly Corona specials. Stick around in the evening and you’ll see live sets from some of Perth’s best bands. The lineup in the following weeks includes The Fancy Brothers and Day Of The Dead. This Sunday, January 30, catch The Ghost Hotel and Davey Craddock & The Spectacles. Entry is free.
Feb 9 & 16: Dave Brewer
Guitarist Dave has been the backbone for many of Australia’s most seminal acts (including The Elks, The Dynamic Hepnotics, The Mighty Reapers and the catholics). “Dave Brewer has a reputation as one of the country’s best blues guitarists.” Sydney Morning Herald
Feb 23 & Mar 2: Rose Parker
Much-loved for her work with outstanding Perth duo, The Velvet Janes, Rose has continued making music as a solo artist. Rose brings to the stage a natural & honest performance, her powerful & emotive voice, earthy & melodic acoustic guitar, and an engaging blend of songs.
MUSTANG
The Painkillers will be performing a special free entry show at the Mustang Bar this Thursday, January 27, alongside special guests The Wishers and The Shallows. Doors Open 8pm. Bludge and Baker have just released a Double A side single Jump Your Ship / Same from their soon to be released next album titled Feel The Pain. The single is currently doing the rounds to local media and radio types, while Feel The Pain is scheduled for a March release through Melbourne based label Off The Hip.
Mar 9 & 30: Bill & John from Tin Dog
Local blues aficionados site the old-timey, authentic & infectious blues of Tin Dog as some of the best in the business. Bill Lawrie & John Loss are the heart of that sound. If you like your blues raw, dirty & heartfelt a dose of Bill & John on guitars, harp, ukelele & vocals is not to be missed!
FLY BY NIGHT
This Friday, January 28, Paul Dempsey returns to the Fly to play a very special, rare solo acoustic show that’s sold out. Then on Saturday, January 29, South West Souls’ celebrate their fifth anniversary at the Fly playing original Motown, Northern Soul and Modern Soul vinyl that will have you dancing your socks off all night.
Mar 16: Diamond Dave
Dynamic front-man of local Chicago-blues band, Diamond Dave & the Doodaddies, Dave’s sensational harmonica playing is guaranteed to get you moving. Dave’s charisma & musicality guarantee a night of outstanding blues as he & Andrew put each other through their paces!
Mar 23: Trevor Jalla
Trevor’s blend of soul-tinged blues and folk is a must-see. Whether on a festival stage or intimate club date, his rich vocal style and deft guitar work continues to garner critical acclaim for his interpretation of classics by the likes of Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, and BB King.
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Don’t miss the weekly lineup of local bands playing each Wednesday at the Paddo. Next Wednesday, February 2, come see Still Frame Mind, Hostile Little Face and Crunge Inc. Bands start at 8pm and as always, it’s free entry!
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A BALMY SUMNER’S EVENING STING & THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sandalford Winery Saturday, January 22, 2010
Cat Power (photo: Lisa Businovski)
THIS KITTEN’S GOT CLAWS CAT POWER / Grace Woodroofe Quarry Amphitheatre Monday, January 24, 2011 It was a true testament to the ongoing popularity and high quality of the Live At The Quarry series that they could land Cat Power for their encore season, but there were whispers early on as to whether tonight’s performance would be like last year’s flawless performance at the Astor Theatre or more like the train wreck this reviewer saw at the Fly By Night on Saturday, September 13, 2003. Grace Woodroofe has been rapidly rising in the Australian music scene for the past couple of years, and the locally-based Modular signee was given a gig she no doubt dreamed of with Cat Power being an obvious influence. Woodroofe and band did not let this opportunity go to waste and seemed genuinely delighted with the crowd who were silent and attentive throughout their set. Featuring two members of The Growl, Woodroofe’s band played some excellent covers of Etta James and Tom Waits songs that highlighted just how well her voice works with fellow husky-throated singer Cameron Avery. But it was her closer, H, that drew the most adoration. A sad, sad song about a lost love, it’s a sure sign that Miss Woodroofe has got a massive career ahead of her. Coming on stage after seemingly an eternity, Cat Power, or Chan Marshall if you will, picked her trusty Danelectro and started picking
the familiar notes to her version of the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction, which was a rare sight as she hadn’t played guitar on stage in Perth in years. What was even more odd was her high kicking in the direction of the photographers up the front, soon saying that this tour wasn’t meant to have any photographers and “it’s nothing personal”. Nonetheless, Marshall sung a version of Satisfaction unlike her recorded version, as this one featured the iconic chorus. She then went into Good Woman, which saw her band, The Dirty Delta Blues, join her onstage. She appeared to be road-testing some new material tonight from her forthcoming album, and her first record of originals in five years, and these songs sounded good – particularly the piano driven song early on about being ‘buried to the sky’. Playing in dim blue and orange light for the entire show, Marshall hid in the darkness and appeared as nothing more than a silhouette much of the time, but shyness subsided for a few moments when she took her microphone into the crowd and sung to those in the front rows. Unfortunately, these moments of ‘strength’ were rare, as for the majority of the show she was calling for the soundman to fiddle with the levels and could be heard whispering the ‘f-bomb’ on several occasions when she felt she’d ‘f-bomb’ed-up. She said many things to address these problems, which sounded minor at best to much of the crowd. Banter like, “It’s like we’re performing surgery up here”,“Things sound different at soundcheck”, and “Sorry” an infinite amount of times took away from the show and sometimes made it feel like the audience were the ones watching live surgery being performed. The two hour set was hard to watch at times, but thanks to a patient and incredibly professional band behind her, it was saved from being a total train wreck. The final song, Sitting On A Ruin, an unreleased song she’s played live for over five years, was a fitting farewell as she waxed lyrical about all the people with real problems in the world. She called for the crowd to stand up and “groove” and it was a triumphant farewell to an otherwise ho-hum show. _MATTHEW HOGAN
SELK & THE BONE SINGERS / Cal Peck & The Tramps / The Big Old Bears
The advertised starting time was 8pm but opening act The Big Old Bears didn’t start their set until ten past nine, holding off until something of a crowd had arrived. Sadly, by the time they started there were perhaps a dozen people in Manhattan’s, including staff, and it was clear that we wouldn’t be seeing many more punters through the door. It was shaping up to be yet another night when some good bands spend their time shouting into the well of audience apathy. The Big Old Bears are a fun act. The five-piece are resolutely folk and bluegrass influenced, but they manage to change things up almost every song, switching from banjo to guitar, from David Craft’s down-home twang to Nathalie Pavlovic’s breathy vocals (both, it must be said, complete with mandatory faux-American country accents), their songs ranging from mournful elegies to up-tempo toe-tappers, even encapsulating a decent cover of Syd Barret’s The Littlest Birds. By the end of their slot they had a trio of girls dancing in front of the cramped stage, which is about as good a reaction you can expect out of such a small audience. The crowd had roughly doubled by the time Cal Peck & The Tramps stepped up, the numbers swelled by a large rockabilly contingent who had clearly come only to see The Tramps perform. The boys served up a tasty mix of thunderous drums, dirty, scratchy guitar and, of course, Dave Banck’s howling harmonica, but even Peck’s legendary verve 46
Sting (photo: Matt Jelonek)
exciting life. I’ve let him down considerably,” he said at one point to wide amusement. With the flood crisis reflected on with the ever-moving Fragile (replete with ironic sprinkles of rain) it was Sting who ended with a lone acoustic guitar on Message In A Bottle. It was a strangely fitting end to a night of familiarities, unexpected turns and, yes, symphonicities. Finery at the winery indeed. _ BOB GORDON
FORGET THE FANTASY OWEN PALLETT
Fly By Night Saturday, January 22, 2011
BONE WEARY Manhattan’s Saturday, January 22, 2011
You’ve got to hand it to Sting, he’ll play to his audience’s needs but aside from the much longed for Police reunion tour of a few years back, he never trades in mere nostalgia. On this balmy evening, with a setlist of some 27 songs, Sting confirmed his talent as an artist who can soar and weave through his own musical history unafraid to tap-dance occasionally on his most revered signature moments. Opening with a big-four in If I Ever Lose My Faith In You, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Englishman In New York and Roxanne, the show immediately unveiled itself as a true orchestral exploration of Sting’s oeuvre, the MSO exquisitely finding new textures through arrangements that breathed new life into the likes of Roxanne and some needed-life into songs such as When We Dance and Hung My Head. That these more epic songs stood cosily next to numbers like the 1978 pop/ punk of Next To You said much for both artists and repertoire. Not as much could be said for the cashed-up bogan set who seem happy to shell out for $500 tickets and proceed to talk through or drunkenly sing along. Nor for the fool who yelled out ‘faggots’ when Sting introduced My Ain True Love, which was used in the movie Cold Mountain. (You were thinking of Brokeback Mountain, dickhead. And yes, I would know). However most loved it for all the right reasons and why not when life memories such as Moon Over Bourbon Street, King Of Pain and Every Breath You Take were the soundtrack? Throughout the evening Sting and band graciously shared acclaim with the MSO, orchestra conductor Steven Mercurio and backing vocalist Jo Lawry. Sting himself was most self-deprecating, even as he gave insights to the songs being played which reflected Perth-based relations and more poignantly, his parents. “I think my father wanted me to have an
and powerhouse vocals couldn’t lift a mood that had settled into apathy early on in the proceedings. Faced with such a lacklustre reaction, even from the crew who obviously were only there for them, there was little the band could do except run out the clock, drawing only a vaguely appreciative scattering of applause at the end. When the headlining act finally took to the stage the rockabilly contingent had already hit the road, along with a significant chunk of the rest of the crowd. Selk & The Bone Singers were hampered by a few false starts, before switching to a different opening number. Infused with a relentlessly downbeat melancholy, and with a sound hacked together out of drone and discord, this was absolutely not the band you wanted to hear at the tail end of such a dreary night. There’s a touch of Nick Cave to their sound, along with a bit of The Dirty Three, and a whole lot of Schvendes, and under the right circumstances they’d be well worth a listen, but this time the cumulative effect was about as depressing as watching someone slit their wrists at a baby’s funeral. The endless dirge had the expected impact on the dwindling crowd, and they ended the night playing to what was, for all intents and purposes, an empty room. And that was that – out with a whimper, rather than a bang. There was a lot of talent up on the stage, but it was in no way reflected by the numbers through the door, or the apathy of those that did attend. All up, a wholly disappointing night. _TRAVIS JOHNSON
Both as a young musician addled with “wunderkind” acclaim and an indie icon with a mild-mannered attitude and nose-grazing bangs, Canadian musician Owen Pallett has always been a squirrelly performer, whipping between genres and moods and spraying his orchestral magic over albums by Arcade Fire and The Last Shadow Puppets, as well as his own solo musical endeavours. At the tail end of 2009, Pallett issued a brief statement that he would be “voluntarily retiring” his stage name. For the previous five years, the songwriter and violin virtuoso had been producing ornate orchestral pop under the moniker Final Fantasy, a reference to the Japanese role-playing videogame series that had occupied a sizable chunk of his adolescence (not coincidentally, the announcement came as he was on the verge of getting his first proper album release in Japan). As such, fans who trekked to tonight’s live performance at the Fly By Night were presented – quite simply - with just Owen Pallett: the guy himself, a violin, and a loop pedal. Pallett has made something of a name for himself in refusing to stick to the rigid versechorus-verse-chorus blueprint favoured by most modern day ditties, instead lolling within the sprawling musical structures of his own creation, and tonight was no exception. But even at the most complex, oblique, high-flying moments of the set – when Pallett created layers and loops of dissonance using a foot pedal, containing formal tempo shifts, multiple strains, and big changes in arrangement – were tempered by a sense of discipline. Although he’s far from a showy performer, the self-assured and supremely entertaining musician possessed an unmistakable ability to maintain continuity while managing to quell any potential boredom before it began to detract from the listening experience – as such no song lasted longer than a few minutes.
Owen Pallett (photo: Matthew Hogan)
Yet, brief as they were, there was enough time to appreciate the variations on the violin/loop/keyboard theme: from the brassy blasts that offset Lewis Takes Action’s sprightly melody; to the cute pizzicato intro to He Poos Clouds, Pallett played his instrument with precision but always with a little swing and bounce in the picking and damping. There was also a pointed humour running through Pallett’s set, due in part to his jovial audience banter and also his trademark witty lyricism. Despite the comedy Pallett’s tunes never become parodic or sardonic, serving to prove he is as interested in musical beauty as he is in tongue-in-cheek humour as he cruised through pockets of melancholy and mayhem, tenderness and tragedy; his complex instrumental melodies curling to drive his stories, while his poetic lyrics served to illuminate the road with an often dazzling light. Stepping out under his own name, Pallett’s performance tonight was about as solo as anything gets – a performance, not a project, and a presentation, fully upright, as an artist of intimidating talent. Forget the fantasy, pledge yourself to Pallett. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD www.xpressmag.com.au
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THE SCOTCH OF SAINT JAMES (MICHAEL PAVER) Favourite BDO memory? Essentially time travelling. We did a radio interview for an eastern states radio broadcaster before our set two years ago which only got broadcast 1.5 hours after our set finished. So we heard ourselves talking about something we were about to do after we had already done it. Hot tip for the 2011 BDO? LCD Soundsystem, Primal Scream for sure, M.I.A and Iggy & The Stooges. What does your band have in store for 2011? Launching a single in Jan/ Feb then following it up with an EP, which we are releasing on vinyl. Then making an album, somewhere tropical. back in 2004. What does your band have in store for 2011? We have a busy year ahead with our The first Big Day Out you went to? My EP launch happening on February 4 as well mum took me to the 1994 Big Day Out when as gigs in Adelaide for the Fuse Festival and Soundgarden and The Ramones played, it Melbourne with Stonefield. was at Fremantle Oval and I was two at the time. I wish I could remember the day but I The Big Day Out takes in Claremont was too young! Favourite BDO memory? Playing piano Showgrounds on Sunday, February 6. The with guys from The Music at the 2003 after Scotch Of Saint James play the Converse party as well as Le Tigre’s lycra costumes Essential Stage at 11.45am; and San Cisco and awesome choreographed dance moves play the Hot Produce stage at 12 noon.
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CREEPING UP SLOWLY
After two years, 50 shows, a full length album, a 7” EP and a bunch of international supports, punk band The Creeps are calling it a day. This Saturday, January 29, they’ll play their last ever at Manhattan’s as part of the Misfits Tribute Night. The night also stars The Misfits Allstars, Blazin’ Entrails and the Bloody Hollys.
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ALL IN THE FAMILY
All family psych blues four-piece Grand Suns blast into 2011 with their first big shows of the year this weekend. This Friday, January 28, they blast into the Rocket Room with their own special brand of sonic thunder alongside Cavefire Cinema, Oishii and Red Dirt. They follow this up at the Rosemount on Thursday, February 2, with Head Full Of Steam, Stillwater Giants and The Clock Strikes.
There’s plenty of ways you can help those affected by the recent floods and enjoy local music in town and one of them is at the Rosemount tomorrow, Friday, January 28. Heads Above Water raises money for Queensland flood victims as well as those in the Carnarvon and Gascoyne area. It stars The Scotch Of Saint James, Project Mayhem, The Floors, The Brow Horn Orchestra, Chainsaw Hookers, Timothy Nelson, Sean Pollard, Simon Kelly, Amanda Merzdan, Dan Crook, Geraldine, Belowsky Poet, Curtis McEntree, Mike Swann, Will Udall and more DJs than you can poke a stick at in the beer garden! $10 from 8pm.
Wi t h t h e i r b ra n d n ew s i n g l e Radio Control lambasting the commercial radio industry and featuring a picture of a defaced Nova mascot made to look like a certain evil dictator, it was only right to meet Sean Regan, singer and guitarist for The Spitfires, outside the Nova 93.7 office in Subiaco. The acid tongued Liverpool-raised musician is known around town for his dry British wit, or is it just subtle self-pity? Either way, you can be sure Regan won’t pull any punches when discussing the music scene. So what does he think of Nova HQ? “I was actually quite disappointed with that really, I was expecting barbed wire and giant pictures of Rupert Murdoch that shot lasers at me as I walked by,” he daydreams. “It turns out that I’m as irrelevant as I’ve always been told I am…” The frontman is not quite ready to take credit for the rather catchy artwork – which certain street press affiliated with a certain radio station refused to print. “We may have inspired it and we may have condoned it, but I don’t think it would be useful for us to take credit for it… just in case it ever did backfire,” Regan ponders. “But it does look a bit like Charlie Chaplin with his hat off. We’ve had a few conversations about it and Chaplin wears a hat while Hitler doesn’t, but he’s wearing headphones anyway, so it could be either.” With other songs covering everything from working in the mines to Kate Middleton getting some royal booty call, there’s nary a subject The Spitfires won’t broach. “I hate things that are bland and one thing that is incredibly bland is commercial radio stations,” offers Regan. “When I’m at work I have to sit next to somebody who has Nova pumping out Rihanna 24 hours a day, or we have the
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After a very entertaining Heat One that saw blues rockers Hootenanny and one man disco Sam Perry get through to the final, the second round of the Path To Laneway competition takes in the Rosemount tonight, Thursday, January 27, with Antonio Paul, Simone & Girlfunkle, Like Junk and Rocket Surgery battling it out for a spot in the final, which takes place on Friday, February 4. The winner of the comp plays at the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival.
Hard rockers Diamond Eye are launching their live CD/DVD Alive And Kicking at Amplifier this Friday, January 28. With support from Stone Circle and The Corner, the band will play a larger than life set with super sized lighting effects.
The historic Swan Hotel has been doing more than its fair share for local original music for generations and this weekend a host of bands is giving something back with SwanFest. With all profits to be donated to the Queensland Flood Relief Appeal, be sure to check it out this Friday and Saturday, January 28 and 29 as it’s only $5 on entry. On the bill are Still Frame Mind, The Brown Study Band, Cavefire Cinema, G ombo, Ozmonaut, James Hall, Obscotch, Dave Robertson, The Proletariate, The Bronze, The Corner, Lantana in solo mode, Ultra Detectives, Silent Republic, Crunge Inc., iChoRa, Energy Commission, The Gizzards, The Kings & Sons, Nik Thompson, Obscotch, Red Letter Day, Ticket 4 Two, rock poet Belowsky and Ndorse from The Brow Horn Orchestra across three stages.
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About to go into the studio to record their fifth album, Dave Mann Collective are set to play some very special shows this weekend. With Roy Martinez and Angus Diggs in the band, they play at the Indi Bar this Friday, January 28 with support from Justin Walshe; Freo Arts Centre on Saturday, January 29 with Walshe; and Sunday, January 30, at Redcliffe On The Murray.
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wondrous Katy Perry doing her bit for gay rights by making it more acceptable to use it as crass commercial marketing. We’ve got no specific beef, we just think it’s crap!” Surprisingly, there was no Rick Rubin or Phil Spector at work on Radio Control. “ We recorded it with our good friend Jerry [Freedman] at Jericho Studios,” informs Regan. “ We don’t really go the route of trying to get a big name onto our records because it all seems quite pointless and it’s done to death. I was at the One Movement Music Industry Conference and everywhere I went I was given this CD which was allegedly remixed by Producer X, who worked with Band Y in the ‘80s and therefore, this somehow improved the CD. It doesn’t matter which producer you get at the end of the day, as most engineers are competent enough to mix a record.” The Spitfires launch Radio Control at Ya Ya’s this Friday, January 28, with support from Supersonic DJs The Likely Lads; and a special afternoon show at The Bird kicking off at 2pm on Saturday, January 29, with support from Sam Perry and Wash.
After travelling to Japan last year on tour, Rocket To Memphis have a big 2011 planned with Jungle Juice coming to Devilles Pad on March 26. What is Jungle Juice? Head to Devilles this Friday, January 28, and ask them yourself.
AIRTIME
With the guitar vocals twins of The DomNicks, Nick Sheppard and Dom Mariani, bunkered down for days in a studio in North Perth, they’ve come up for air and the band is set to light the stage on fire again! See them this Friday, January 28 at Clancy’s Freo. The band has slated in April as their release month.
FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Some of Perth’s bands with the scariest names are out on bail this weekend and playing shows in support of Melbourne’s Kromosom, which features members of Pisschrist, Nuclear Sex Addict and more. On Friday, January 28 at The Den, the band is supported by Suffer, Death Grenade, Frozen Oceans, Lie Cycle, Warthreat and Disease Process; while Suffer, Drowning Horse, The Craw, The Hunt, Clenched Teeth, Warthreat and Orkorei Hatecharch support at Dream Studio on Saturday, January 29.
Mongrel Country
COUNTRY HOUSE
Teaming up to launch their split 7” single this Saturday, January 29, are Mongrel Countr y and Bonehouse. The Squid Voodoo / Australian Gothic release was recorded at Cellar Session by the Reverend Max Ducker of Mongrel Country and the soon to be legendary Shitbird. Support on the night comes from Cat Black, Hunting Huxley and Like Junk.
VAULTAIRE TWINS
With a show that will get you moving, the Voltaire Twins play an all ages gig at The Vault in Booragoon this Friday, January 28, from 6.30pm. Joining them is Endora and Dyonisis. If you’re interested in playing at The Vault, send an email to yac@melville.wa.gov.au.
HAIL HAYLEY
Recently concocting her impending album at Blackbird Studios, Hayley B e t h h i t s Ya Ya’s t h i s S a t u r d ay, Januar y 29, with a new band. Featuring Alex “Mouth” Holt, formerly of Sex Panther, Beau Walker of Love Affliction and Brendan Jay of The Wednesday Society, the night will also see performances from Astral Travel, Solar Barge and Kabouter’s Forest.
Randa & The Soul Kingdom
THE RANDA BAND
Having recently toured Europe, Randa & The Soul Kingdom play their return show at Devilles Pad this Saturday, Januar y 29. The Freestyle Records signees play 21st century deep funk, so you better check your pulse! 47
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B, Jim Jones Revue, Booka Shade, Children Collide, Angus & Julia Stone, Die Antwoord, Gyroscope, Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock, Dead Letter Circus, Little Red, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Gypsy & The Cat, The THE NECKS Naked & Famous, Vitalic, 27 The Bakery Sampology, Lowrider, WK, CSS, Kids Of MARK SEYMOUR Andrew 88, Ratatat, Airbourne, & JAMES REYNE Blue King Brown, Will 27 – 30 Quarry Styles, Matt & Kim, Amphitheatre Sia, The Greenhornes, Washington, Black Milk, Reggfie Watts, Wunmi, MOS DEF Ed Bacteria Vacuum, The 27 Metro City Baloonatic, The UV Race, Barbarion, V Dentatas BLUE SHADDY and more) 28 Mojo’s 6 Claremont Showgrounds PAUL DEMPSEY KATE CEBERANO, GRACE 28 Fly By Night KNIGHT 6 Hotel Rottnest RATATAT TIM ROGERS 7 Capitol 28 Norfolk Basement TONIGHT ALIVE 8 YMCA HQ YOU AM I DON MCLEAN 29 Palandri Winery 9 Burswood Dome (Margaret River) RETURN TO FOREVER 9 Riverside Theatre KENNY ROGERS THE GETAWAY PLAN 29 Lake Karrinyup Golf 9 Capitol Course IN HEARTS WAKE 10 Black Betty’s 11 YMCA HQ BLACK COFFEE ST JEROMES LANEWAY 29 Railway Hotel FESTIVAL (The Antlers, Beach House, Bear PUGSLEY In Heaven, Blonde BUZZARD Redhead, !!!, Cut Copy, 29 Clancy`s Fish Pub Djanimals, Deerhunter, 30 Ellington Jazz Club Foals, Gotye, Holy Fuck, 1 Charles Hotel, Perth Jenny & Jonny, Les Blues Club Savy Fav, Local Natives, Menomena, Two Door (HED)P.E Cinema Club, Sherlock’s Daughter, Stornaway, 2 Amplifier The Holidays, Violent Soho, Warpaint, Cloud Control, PVT, World’s End Press, Yeasayer, Gareth PUGSLEY BUZZARD Liddiard, The John Steel 3 Settlers Tavern Singers and more) 4 Hotel Burlington 12 Perth Cultural Centre (Bunbury) DE LA SOUL THE HARKNOTZ 12 Metro City 3 Amplifier ROY AYERS A DAY ON THE GREEN 12 Beck’s Music Box (INXS, Train, Baby THE UNTHANKS / Animals) CATHERINE TRAICOS 3 Kings Park 13 Beck’s Music Box SUFJAN STEVENS TRICKY 3 & 4 Regal Theatre 14 Capitol AMANDA PALMER GWILYM SIMCOCK TRIO 4 Fly By Night 15 Beck’s Music Box CARPATHIAN / THE THE BOOKS BRODERICK / WARBRAIN 16 Beck’s Music Box 4 Amplifier MAYER HAWTHORNE & 5 YMCA HQ THE COUNTRY ALOE BLACC & THE 16 The Bakery GRAND SCHEME CATHERINE TRAICOS 5 The Bakery 16 Malt Bar IAN MOSS, NATHAN (Dunsborough) GAUNT 20 White Star Hotel 5 Hotel Rottnest (Albany) GLENN SHORROCK / 26 Rosemount WENDY MATTHEWS LLOYD COLE 5 Mundaring Weir Hotel 17 Beck’s Music Box BIG DAY OUT GANGGAJANG (Tool, Rammstein, 18 Swan Yacht Club Bloody Beetroots 50 LIONS / BLKOUT / DC77, Iggy & The WORD UP Stooges,Wolfmother, 18 Amplifier John Butler Trio, 19 Vineyard Auditorium Deftones, MIA, Pnau, (Bunbury) LCD Soundsystem, 20 YMCA HQ Bliss N Eso, Lupe Fiasco, DAVID HELFGOTT Grinderman, Operator 19 Mundaring Weir Hotel Please, Primal Scream, CARIBOU / FOUR TET Birds Of Tokyo, Plan 19 Beck’s Music Box
JANUARY 27 – FEBRUARY 02
FEBRUARY
MONDAY 31 JAN
PERTH JAZZ SOCIETY
CHRIS BUDHAN (CANADA) - A TRIBUTE TO BASSISTS IN tonight’s performance Chris will pay tribute to the music written by the many distinguished jazz bass players including music by Ron Carter, Buster Williams, Sam Jones, Scott LaFaro, Charlie Haden, Charles Mingus, Dave Holland, Paul Chambers and others. Doors Open 7pm Dinner Available from 6pm
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WITH $12 CHICKEN PARMIGIANA BEFORE 7.30PM
SATURDAY 5TH FEBRUARY
Die Antwoord, February 6, Big Day Out
Lloyd Cole, February 17, Beck’s Music Box
AN EVENING ON THE GREEN (Joe Cocker, George Thorogood, Diesel, The Dingoes) 19 Sir James Mitchell Park (South Perth) ROXY MUSIC, MONDO ROCK 19 & 20 Leeuwin Estate Winery KASEY CHAMBERS 19 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 20 Bunbury Entertainment Centre 22 Albany Entertainment Centre 24 Esperance Civic Centre 26 Elmars In The Valley 27 Queens Park Theatre (Geraldton) GOOD VIBRATIONS (Faithless, Phoenix, Sasha, Nas & Damian Marley, Kelis, Ludacris, Erykah Badu, Friendly Fires, Miike Snow, Fake Blood, Rusko, Sidney Samson, Mike Posner, Yolanda Be Cool, Koolism, Kill The Noise, Fenech-Soler and more) 20 Claremont Showgrounds KOOL & THE GANG 20 Perth Zoo SWERVEDRIVER 20 Beck’s Music Box MARTHA WAINWRIGHT 21 & 22 Beck’s Music Box JOE CAMILLERI 23 Friends Restaurant DOC NEESON 24 Friends Restaurant TUUNG 24 Beck’s Music Box KATIE NOONAN 24 Ellington 25 Kings Park THE PLATTERS / MONROE POWELL 24 & 25 Café Coast Wannanup BONJAH 24 Mojo’s 25 Settlers Tavern 26 Royal Palms Resort 27 Redcliffe On The Murray THE BATS / LAURENCE ARABIA 25 Beck’s Music Box LIOR 25 Fly By Night THE SEARCHERS 25 Friends Restaurant DAME KIRI TE KANAWA & WASO 25 Kings Park RESIST THE THOUGHT / BURIED IN VERONA 25 Amplifier 26 YMCA HQ PERTH INTERNATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL 26 Supreme Court Gardens PERTH INTERATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL 26 Supreme Court Gardens THE BLACK SORROWS, VIKA & LINDA BULL 26 Mundaring Weir Hotel THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA 26 Beck’s Music Box JACK DEJOHNETTE 26 & 28 Astor Theatre IMELDA MAY 27 Beck’s Music Box KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ 27 Government House Ballroom
MARCH ARCHIE ROACH 1 Beck’s Music Box JOANNA NEWSOM 2 Beck’s Music Box BANG ON A CAN ALLSTARS 2 State Theatre Centre THE PLATTERS / MONROE POWELL 2 & 3 Friends Restaurant 5 Mundaring Weir Hotel 6 Fly By Night CLARE BOWDITCH 4 Fly By Night DARREN HANLON 5 Fly By Night WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS / AMIINA 3 Beck’s Music Box MOUNT KIMBIE 4 The Bakery BEST COAST 4 Beck’s Music Box MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS / BANG ON A CAN ALLSTARS 4 Bishops Garden NANNUP MUSIC FESTIVAL (The Pigram Brothers, Clare Bowditch, Passenger, Shane Howard, Kim Churchill, Oka, Rosie Burgess and more) 4 – 7 Nannup Amphitheatre TIM MINCHIN 4 & 5 Kings Park OLD MAN RIVER, PASSENGER 4 Amplifier 5 Mojo’s MICHAEL BUBLE, NATURALLY 7 4 & 5 Sandalford Winery, Swan Valley 6 Sandalford Winery, Margaret River OMAR SOULEYMAN 5 Beck’s Music Box THE WAIFS 5 Old Broadwater Farm (Busselton) 6 Castelli Estate (Denmark) 8 Performing Arts Centre (Mandurah) 9 Fremantle Arts Centre 10 Astor Theatre NIKOLA SARCEVIC (MILLENCOLIN) 6 Rosemount FUTURE MUSIC (The Chemical Brothers, Dizzee Rascal, Pendulum, MGMT, Mark Ronson & The Business Intl, Ke$ha, The Presets, Leftfield, Plastikman, Steve Angello, Sven Vath, Sander Van Doorn, Steve Aoki, Loco Dice, Don Diablo, Etienne De Crecy, Zane Lowe, Cosmic Gate, The Subs, Sound Of Stereo, James Holroyd and more) 6 Arena Joondalup OS MUTANTES 6 Beck’s Music Box OLD MAN RIVER 6 Indi Bar STEVE REICH’S 2X5, BANG ON A CAN ALLSTARS 6 Perth Concert Hall SOUNDWAVE (Iron Maiden, Queens Of The Stone Age, Slayer, Primus, Slash, Social Distortion, Rob Zombie, Avenged Sevenfold, 30 Seconds To Mars, Stone
WEDNESDAYS
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RHYS WOOD
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SUNDAY
Spectacle, Big Big Sky and Uncle John John' s Band www.xpressmag.com.au
Amiina, March 3, Beckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music Box Sour, Gang Of Four, New Found Glory, Pennywise, Sum 41, Anberlin, The Gaslight Anthem, Third Eye Blind, DevilDriver, Sevendust, Less Than Jake, The Bronx, Monster Magnet, Terror, MxPx, Protest The Hero, Melvins, 36 Crazyfists, Ill Nino, The Ataris, The Starting Line, Bayside, Mad Caddies, The Maine, Trash Talk, Mayday Parade, Foxy Shazam, Never Shout Never, The Blackout, Alesana, Asking Alexandria, All That Remains, High On Fire, Dommin, The Sword, Kylesa, A Skylit Drive, There For Tomorrow, Breathe Carolina, Taking Dawn, I See Stars, Rise To Remain, Nonpoint, Veara, Every Avenue, Sevendust, One Day As A Lion, Bullet For My Valentine, Bring Me The Horizon, Murderdolls, Dimmu Borgir, Millencolin, Coheed & Cambria, The Amity Affliction, Feeder, H20, The Rocket Summer, Saxon, Silverstein, Fucked Up, We The Kings and more) 7 Venue TBC KE$HA 7 Challenge Stadium GANG OF FOUR 8 The Bakery HOLLY THROSBY 10 Prince Of Wales 12 The Bakery 13 Mojoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS 10 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 11 Mundaring Weir Hotel MARY BLACK 10 Quarry Amphitheatre WAVVES / BLEEDING KNEES CLUB 11 The Bakery IAN MOSS 12 Mundaring Weir Hotel
Gang Of Four, March 8, The Bakery
DEAD PREZ 12 Villa RIHANNA 12 Burswood Dome NEW ORLEANS 13 Perth Concert Hall SANTANA 13 Sandalford Estate USHER / TREY SONGZ 15 Burswood Dome CHRIS ISAAK 16 Kings Park STONE TEMPLE PILOTS / GRINSPOON 16 Challenge Stadium JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE 16 & 17 Mojoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BJ THOMAS 16 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 18 Regal Theatre HOUSE VS HURRICANE 17 YMCA HQ, Oh Snap UNWRITTEN LAW 17 Capitol SWEET 17 Regal Theatre 18 Bunbury Entertainment Centre BELLE & SEBASTIAN 18 Astor Theatre KATE CEBERANO 19 Mundaring Weir Hotel WEIRD AL YANKOVIC 21 Burswood Theatre KINGS OF LEON 21 NIB Stadium DOOBIE BROTHERS 22 Burswood Dome MF DOOM 25 Metro City LIOR 25 Fly By Night DIESEL 26 Fly By Night DAVE HOLE 26 Mundaring Weir Hotel FINNTROLL 28 Capitol NEIL DIAMOND 29 NIB Stadium THE MCCLYMONTS 30 Mandurah Perfoming Arts Centre 31 Bunbury Entertainment Centre EDDIE VEDDER 31 Perth Exhibition Centre
Kings Of Leon, March 21, nib Stadium
APRIL EDDIE VEDDER 1 Perth Exhibition Centre THE MCCLYMONTS 1 Burswood Theatre 2 Queens Park, Geraldton THE SCRIPT / TINIE TEMPAH 2 Challenge Stadium ERIC BIBB 2 Fly By Night GARETH LIDDIARD / DAN KELLY 2 The Bakery STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO 2 Rosemount LIONEL RICHIE / GUY SEBASTIAN 6 NIB Stadium TIM BARRY 6 The Den JIMMY EAT WORLD 5 Metro City CYNDI LAUPER 5 Burswood Theatre LUKA BLOOM 7 Fly By Night JS-1 / RAHZEL / SUPERNATURAL 8 Villa SUPAFEST (Snoop Dogg, Bow Wow, Nelly, Taio Cruz and more) 10 Joondalup Arena CITY & COLOUR 11 Astor Theatre BRUNO MARS 12 Astor Theatre GOOD CHARLOTTE / SHORT STACK / BOYS LIKE GIRLS 15 Challenge Stadium SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM 15 Villa SPARKADIA / OPERATOR PLEASE / ALPINE 16 Capitol BARRY MANILOW 16 Sandalford Estate WEST COAST BLUES â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ROOTS (Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Cat Empire, Rodrigo Y Gabriella, Gurrumul,
Michaelo Franti & Spearhead, Blind Boys Of Alabama with Aaron Neville, Rockwiz Live, Mavis Staples, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Toots & The Maytals, Washington, Ruthie Foster, Grace Jones and more) 17 Fremantle Park DISTURBED, TRIVIUM, AS I LAY DYING 20 Burswood Dome INDIGO GIRLS 21 Perth Concert Hall ZZ TOP 23 Perth Motoplex CHILDREN COLLIDE 25 Amplifier NEIL FINN, PAUL KELLY, LIOR, BEN MERITO 25 Red Hill Auditorium THE HOLIDAYS 28 Amplifier
MAY MAROON 5 1 Burswood Dome CLASS OF 59 / LONNIE LEE 6 Burswood Theatre JUSTIN BEIBER 7 Burswood Dome KYUSS LIVES 11 Capitol AGAINST ME! 11 Rosemount Hotel GROOVIN THE MOO (artists TBA) 14 Hay Park (Bunbury) GARY NUMAN 17 Astor Theatre SUICIDAL TENDENCIES 18 Capitol THE SWAMP FOX, TONY JOE WHITE 19 Fly By Night JOE BONAMASSA 23 Perth Concert Hall JAMES BLUNT 23 Riverside Theatre BEN FOLDS 24 Riverside Drive BRITISH INDIA 26 Prince Of Wales 27 Settlers Tavern 28 Rosemount Hotel
KENNY ROGERS
A wise man once said,â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to know when to hold â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em, know when to fold â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em, know when to walk away and know when to run.â&#x20AC;? While it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Kenny Rogers who originally said those immortal words â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it was a gambling man on a train â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it was Rogers who retold the story and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be telling it at Lake Karrinyup Golf Club this Saturday, January 29. The only thing that could be sweeter would be if Dolly Parton herself showed for a rendition of Islands In The Stream.
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Monica and the Explosions (UK) with special guests Applebite The beggars On Acid, Paltiva & Writhe (8pm, $8 entry)
Saturday January 29
Black Coffee (South Africa)
with special guests Chris NG, The Empressions, PDJ & Trooper (7.30pm, $35 + BF from Moshtix or $40 at the door)
Sunday January 30
The Sunshine Brothers
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Dave Mann, Friday at the Indi Bar
THURSDAY 27.01 BAKERY The Necks M. Roesner BAR ORIENT Simon’s Open Mic BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Ben Pettit BENNY’S Adrian Wilson BOTANICA Bluebottles BROOKLANDS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke DEVILLES PAD Jon Madd’s Karaoke CIVIC HOTEL (The Den) Open Mic Night CIVIC HOTEL Paul Daly & The Heavy Hitters Russell Smith Ace Follington Roy Daniel Dave Gillam & On The Level Ian Ironside Jim Awram Steve ‘Salty Dog’ Salt Bill Blissett Pete Romano Gary Campbell Simon Cox Hans Deberitz Sue Bluck Gary Howard Warren Daley Skippy ‘The Boy From Bundy’ Alan McCowat Gail Zagami ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Gun Shy Romeos ELLINGTON JAZZ Harry Winton Band FUSE BAR Nathan Gaunt HIGH ROAD HOTEL Quiz Night INDI BAR Bex’s Open Mic Night JB O’REILLY’S Rhys Wood KINGSLEY TAVERN Chris Murphy LEGENDS Steve Hepple LUCKY SHAG James Wilson MANHATTAN’S The Cannonels Helen Shanahan LadyBug MARRI PARK TAVERN Open Mic Night MARKET CITY TAVERN Mike Anderson Nik Thompson Noisy Poppy MERRIWA TAVERN Good Karma
MOJO’S Hootenanny Horny Pony The Loose Lips Ranga & Bash The Gotham City Crusaders MUSTANG The Painkillers The Wishers The Shallows PADDO Ben Merito PADDY HANNANS Dr Bogus Crazy Craig PADDY MAGUIRES Limerick Lads PRINCE OF WALES Johnny Taylor Justin Walshe QUARRY AMPHITHEATRE Mark Seymour James Reyne ROSEMOUNT Simone & Girlfunkle Like Junk Sam Perry Rocket Surgery ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Bill Chidgzey ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Clayton Bolger SOVEREIGN ARMS David Fyffe SWAN LOUNGE Agnes Ichora Coronal Sky X-WRAY CAFÉ Jack Doepel Jazz Quartet THE GATE Better Days UNIVERSAL BAR Off The Record VELVET LOUNGE Rocket To Memphis Bible Bashers Vivian Marlow X-WRAY CAFÉ Jack Doepel Jazz Quartet WANNEROO TAVERN Keith McDonald
FRIDAY 28.01 AMPLIFIER Diamond Eye Stone Circle The Corner BAKERY Bone Astral Travel Frozen Ocean These Shipwrecks BALLY’S BAR Copy Cat BALMORAL Kate Gilbertson BAR ORIENT Easy Tigers
BASSENDEAN HOTEL Filtered Replay BELMONT TAVERN Good Karma BENNY’S Faces BENTLEY HOTEL Bernadine Grigson BLACK BETTYS J Babies BURRENDAH TAVERN Keith McDonald COMO Tip Top Sound CAPTAIN STIRLING The Blue Bottles CARLISE HOTEL Blaze CHARLES HOTEL Salsa CHIME Amanda Timler COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Open Mic CIVIC HOTEL (The Den) Kromosom Suffer Death Grenade Frozen Oceans Lie Cycle Warthreat Disease Process CRAIGIE TAVERN The Select Few DEVILLES Rocket To Memphis Betty Bombshell Les Sataniques DUSK RedStar ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Darren Reid ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Libby Hammer Harry Winton Band ESS BAR Sonic FENIANS Tom Haron & The Clan FLY BY NIGHT Paul Dempsey FUSE BAR Groove Karaoke GLENGARRY TAVERN The Mustangs GREENWOOD HOTEL Baby Piranhas HALE ROAD HOTEL Slim Jim & The Phatts HIGH ROAD HOTEL Entourage INDI BAR Dave Mann Justlin Walshe JB O’REILLYS The Healys KINGSWAY TAVERN Good Karma LEFT BANK Bumpy Johnston
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SWANFESTFRIDAY 28TH AND SATURDAY 29TH OF JANUARY
3 STAGES IN 3 ROOMS AT THE SWAN HOTEL FREMANTLE.
FEATURING STILL FRAME MIND, THE BROWN STUDY BAND, CAVEFIRE CINEMA, GOMBO AND MANY MORE!
28th JAN
Diamond Eye, Friday at Amplifier Bar
The Long Strides, Friday at North Freo Bowls MANHATTAN’S Mistrust & The Polinators Buzz Kill Vamps The Bible Bashers Carnies With Candy MARKET CITY TAVERN Jessica Lee Ben Court Lemon Red MERRIWA TAVERN Free Radicals MOON & SIXPENCE Sonic MOJO’S Blue Shaddy MOUNT HENRY TAVERN Full Circle MUSTANG Harry Deluxe Cheeky Monkeys NEWPORT Milhouse NORTH FREMANTLE BOWLS CLUB Michael Gabriel & The Quixotics The Long Strides The Fags I-Pod Sally NORFOLK BASEMENT Tim Rogers NOVOTEL VINES RESORT Acoustic Nights OLD BAILEY TAVERN Zenburger PADDO Felix PADDY HANNAN’S Blue Gene Crazy Craig PADDY MAGUIRE’S Mayhem PARAMOUNT Flyte PLAYERS BAR (Mandurah) Slim Jim & The Phatts PRINCIPAL MICRO BREWERY Chris Murphy RAILWAY HOTEL Monica & The Explosions Applebite The Beggars On Acid Paltiva & Writhe ROCKET ROOM Grand Suns Cavefire Cinema Oishii Red Dirt Everlong (Late) ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Scotch Of Saint James Project Mayhem The Floors The Brow Horn Orchestra Chainsaw Hookers Timothy Nelson Sean Pollard Simon Kelly Amanda Merdzan Dan Crook Geraldine Belowsky Poet Mike Swann Will Udall Curtis Mcentee ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Freo) Countdown SAIL & ANCHOR Switchback SEVENTH AVE BAR Midnight Rambler SOUTH ST ALEHOUSE Robbie King Karaoke STAMFORD ARMS Lixy SWINGING PIG Neil Colliss SWAN BASEMENT The Brown Study Band Ticket 4 Two The Proletariate Silent Republic Ultra Detectives Crunge Inc Ichora The Gizzards James Hall Dave Robertson Lantana
SWAN LOUNGE The Brown Study Band The Gizzards The Proletariate James Hall Ultra Detectives Dave Robertson IChoRa Lantana Ticket 4 Two Silent Republic Crunge Inc. The Kings & Sons THE BALMORAL Shawne & Luc THE BOAT Mod Squad THE DEEN James Wilson THE EASTERN MIDLAND The Damien Cripps Band THE GATE Better Days The Other Guys THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Fix THE VIC Karin Page Duo UNIVERSAL Nightmoves VELVET LOUNGE Line At Infinity White Prints Hokusai VIC PARK HOTEL Ivan Ribic WOODVALE TAVERN Dr Bogus
SATURDAY 29.01 AMPLIFIER In League Afraid Of Heights Only Hope Divide Sleepwalker ATTFIELD TAVERN Powertrain BALMORAL Retrofit BALLYS BAR Glen Davies BAR ORIENT Better Days BAR 120 Flyte BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Chris Murphy BEELIAR RESERVE (Beeliar) Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers The Wishers BENTLEY HOTEL James Wilson BLACK BETTY’S Red Star BROKEN HILL HOTEL The Other Guys BURSWOOD CASINO Courtney Murphy & Murphy’s Lore COMO HOTEL Tip Top Sound COMMERCIAL TAVERN Robert Rodoreda CIVIC HOTEL (Backroom) Arkarion Kimura Harms Way DEVILLES Randa & The Soul Kingdom DREAM STUDIOS Kromosom Suffer Drowning Horse The Craw The Hunt Clenched Teeth Warthreat Oskorei Hatecharge ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Timeout ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Ali Bodycoat Quintet Danny Martin Cian Caton FENIANS Shanks Pony
The legendary Tim Rogers (You Am I) with very special guests. Doors 8pm. Tix thru Mills, 78s, Planet, Bocs. Be very early…
29th JAN
Live! The Witness with guests Deep River Collective and Mark Hewitt. Doors 8pm. Be Early!
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THE CIVIC PROUDLY PRESENTS THIS WEEK
THURS 27 JAN
Open Mic Night Contact Nick 0438 451 215 7.30pm. Free Entry
Blue Shaddy, Friday at Mojo’s FLY BY NIGHT Motown, Northern & Modern Soul FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Dave Mann Collective Justin Walshe GREENWOOD HOTEL In The Groove HIGH ROAD HOTEL Fit Swimmers INDI BAR Blue Shaddy INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Rhyme & Reason KARDINYA TAVERN Worx KINGSLEY TAVERN Neil Adams KINGSWAY TAVERN Fenton Wilde JB O’REILLY’S Jane Germaine & Ian Simpson LAKE KARRINYUP GOLF COURSE Kenny Rogers LEOPOLD HOTEL Greg Carter LEFTBANK Raggi Man Mantra MANHATTAN’S The Misfit Allstars Blazin’ Entrails The Creeps Bloody Hollys MOON & SIXPENCE Blaze MOJO’S Mongrel Country Bonehouse Cat Black Hunting Huxley Like Junk MOUNT HENRY Aaron Woolley MUSTANG The Rusty Pinto Combo The Damien Cripps Band NORFOLK BASEMENT The Witness Deep River Collective Mark Hewitt PADDO Cheeky Monkeys PADDY HANNAN’S Decoy PADDY MAGUIRE’S Double Take PALANDRI WINERY (Margaret River) You Am I PARAMOUNT Felix PRINCIPAL MICRO BREWERY Acoustic Inc. RAILWAY HOTEL Black Coffee Chris NG The Empressions PDJ Trooper ROCKET ROOM Vespers Descent Nexus Empires Laid Waste Prescient Kickstart (Late) ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Pyramid Of The Coyote Aztech Suns Thursday’s Page Jupiter Zeus Harsh Winter ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Flavor SAIL & ANCHOR The Bluebottles STANFORD ARMS Parker Ave SUBIACO HOTEL Off The Record SOUTH BEACH HOTEL Joint Band SOUTH STREET ALEHOUSE Paul Daly & The Heavy Hitters SWINGING PIG Zenburger
The Creeps, Saturday at Manhattans
SWAN BASEMENT Still Frame Mind The Corner Cave Fire Cinema The Bronze Ozmonaut The Origin Of Gombo Energy Commission Belowsky Red Letter Day Obscotch 44th Sunset Solo Loops SWAN LOUNGE Still Frame Mind Belowsky Cave Fire Cinema Red Letter Day Ozmonaut Obscotch Gombo Nik Thompson The Corner The Bronze The Origin Of Energy Commission Ndorse THE BOAT Bill Chidgzey Renegade THE EASTERN MIDLAND Sketch THE GATE Ben Pettit Duo THE MIGHTY QUINN Indigo Alley THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Huge THE WANNEROO Christian Thompson UNIVERSAL Soul Corporation WOODVALE TAVERN Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove X-WRAY CAFÉ The Whistling Dogs Minky G Duo
SUNDAY 30.01 BALLY’S BAR Bill Chidgzey BELMONT HOTEL Damien Cripps BENTLEY HOTEL Dove Lee BROKEN HILL Nathan Gaunt BROOKLANDS TAVERN Dom Zurzolo CAPTAIN STIRLING Adrian Wilson CHARLES HOTEL Gerard Maunick Band Ian Kenny Band Lady Zeppelin COMO HOTEL Acoustic Inc ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Pugsley Buzzard FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Split Seconds Goodnight Tiger GREENWOOD TAVERN Chris Gibbs Duo HIGH ROAD HOTEL Flyte INDI BAR Lloyd Spiegel INDIAN OCEAN BREWING CO Retriofit JB O’REILLY’S Spectacle Big Big Sky Uncle John’s Band KALAMUNDA HOTEL Stella Donnelly KINGSLEY TAVERN Richard Roberts LAKERS TAVERN Jamie Powers OCEAN BEACH HOTEL Parker Ave MANHATTAN’S Von Leon Paulo Gonzalez MOJO’S Sabata Sounds Future Sounds Ras Movements
MOON & SIXPENCE Mia & Good Company MUSTANG Peter Busher NEWPORT The Ghost Hotel Davey Craddock & The Spectacles PADDO Groove Times PUBLICAN BAR Open Mic QUARRY AMPHITHEATRE Mark Seymour James Reyne RAILWAY HOTEL The Sunshine Brothers SEVENTH AVE BAR Mister & Sunbird ROSIE O’GRADY’S Big Ears SAIL & ANCHOR Other Guys Good Karma SOUTH STREET ALEHOUSE Anthony Nieves STAMFORD ARMS The Midnight Collective Willow SWINGING PIG Flammin Rascals SWAN BASEMENT Shimmergloom The Latch Key Kids The 999s Rich Widow SWAN LOUNGE Helen Shanahan Danielle Rachel Gorman Kirsty Hulka Jasmine Riley THE BOAT Chris Murphy THE EASTERN HOTEL The Bluebottles THE GATE Better Days Mike Nayar THE SAINT Howie Morgan Project THE SHED The Healy’s Renegade VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Neil Colliss WANNEROO TAVERN Damien Cripps WOODVALE TAVERN Reckless Kelly UNIVERSAL Retrofit
MONDAY 31.01 BAR ORIENT James Wilson CHARLES HOTEL Chris Budhan MOJO’S Open Mic Night
Helen Shanahan, Sunday at the Railway Hotel MUSTANG Marco & The Rhythm Kings PADDO Rick Steele SPICE LOUNGE Courtney Murphy THE DEEN Plastic Max & The Token Gesture THE SHED The Healys Blue Hornet
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