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CREAM OF THE CROP
Creamfields 2012 is coming right at ya! As X-Press told you months ago, legendary Frenchman David Guetta is headlining Perth’s third edition of the boutique festival which hits its new home at Supreme Court Gardens on Saturday, May 5, from 12pm ‘til 10pm. Performing alongside Guetta will be UK trance trio Above & Beyond, Dirty South, Alesso, Giuseppe Ottaviani (live), Excision, W&W, Congorock, Vitalic, Sied van Riel, Tritonal, Downlink, ShockOne, MaRLo, Bombs Away and MC Stretch (who will be on hosting duties). It’s $99.95 plus booking fee for first release tickets, which are on sale from Moshtix now. Here’s to hoping the weather isn’t as overcast as it was this year and that Circque De Soleil don’t come again at the same time – what a mind trip!
FINE FELINES
Soundgarden are coming to Victoria Park!
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The Perth leg of Big Day Out in 2012 has certainly earned it’s first drink on Sunday, February 5. Originally planned to take place at the venue where it’s been since 2002, Claremont Showground, it was then moved to Brownes Stadium at Lathlain Park. Well it’s now changed again and will take place at McCallum Park on the Victoria Park Foreshore. WA BDO promoter Ken Knight says it’s new location will “minimise the impact of the event on the local community and environment”. That means the only people who can complain about the noise will be black swans. Soundgarden, Kasabian, My Chemical Romance, The Living End and two versions of The Bronx are just some of the bands on the tasty bill. Tickets are $165 plus booking fee plus Perth Department Of Transport levy from bigdayout.com, Ticketmaster and the usual outlets.
GAME ON!
The Game
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Eye4 Movies: Best & The Worst Films 2011
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After wowing audiences at Supafest last April, Grammy nominated hip hop artist The Game will be hitting our shores once again to perform his own headline tour. The Game will be performing all of his hits plus tracks from his latest album, R.E.D. This night of street bangers and pop pleasers is a must-see for all fans! The Game will take to the stage at Metro City on Tuesday, February 21. Tickets are available from Ticketek.com.au or by calling 132 849. Savage supports.
No summer in Western Australia would be complete without a touring extravaganza from funksters The Cat Empire. Well now you can stop holding your breath as The Cat Empire HQ are pleased to announce that they have pulled out all the stops to bring together one of the most dazzling shows of summer at Fremantle Arts Centre on Friday, February 10, with Tijuana Cartel and The Brow Horn Orchestra; and the feel-great musical group are also set to headline the Summerset Arts Festival at the Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre on Saturday, February 11. These two shows will be your last chance to see Felix, Harry and co. in WA before they head to North America and then into the studio to make a brand new album. Tickets for the Fremantle Arts Centre show are available Heatseeker, the Fremantle Arts Centre Box Office and all the usual outlets. For more information on the Summerset Arts Festival hit up stirling.wa.gov.au/summersetfestival.
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LITTLE BIRDY
Following the birth of her daughter Poet last October, multi-award winning country superstar Kasey Chambers is heading out on tour once again to present tunes from her critically acclaimed album Little Bird. The album was released in September 2010, debuting on the national album charts at #3 and winning four Golden Guitars at the recent Tamworth Country Music Awards. Catch Kasey at the Mundaring Weir Hotel on Saturday, February 11; and Mandurah Offshore Fishing Sailing Club on Sunday, February 12. Tickets are available from Bocs. Kasey Chambers
2012: THE LAST YEAR THAT WAS It’s that time of year again. Time when top 10 lists are made so critics can make you feel inadequate by telling you what their favourite albums were that you didn’t listen to. Yeesh! Let’s let Perth shake and instead predict what we’ll be reflecting on this time next year. In January, Triple J listeners around the globe will be left bewildered by the fact that Rebecca Black will take out the Hottest 100. I n Fe b r u a r y, p e o p l e t h r o u g h o u t t h e Co m m o n we a l t h should be celebrating the 60th anniversar y of Queen Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne, but instead we’ll all be commenting on her sister’s shapely behind. In May, Powderfinger and Silverchair will reform for a joint photo opportunity. In July, the Olympics will kick off in London, and armchair athletes across the globe will celebrate by lacing up them sneak’s, and running to the official liquor shop of the XXX Olympiad between events. In November, an Australian band that nobody had heard of a year ago will win seven ARIA Awards and then struggle to reach that success ever again. In December, the predictions made on countless metal gig posters will come true and the world will end... but how? Perhaps the only man iller than Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong’s underlinger, will drop some bombshells... or perhaps it’ll like that time when the world ended on May 21, 2011. Happy public holidays, see you in 2013! _MATTHEW HOGAN 7
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MOVIES BY BURSWOOD
Movies By Burswood is Perth’s family-friendly, affordable outdoor cinema. Screenings are held in the Burswood Parklands near the Causeway. Lying back watching a movie under a starry sky is one of the magical joys of our lifestyle - knowing that you are helping out local children’s charities is a bonus. Organised and run by a team of over 400 volunteers the event benefits local children’s charities seeking to improve the quality of life of children in a health or physical ability crisis. Get in now to be in the running to win a double pass to see any of the movies showing during the Movies By Burswood season. It’s got to be one of the best things to do on a summer’s night so you don’t want to miss out!
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AMPLIFIER NEW YEARS EVE
Looking for a good time this New Year’s Eve? Well look no further, New Year’s Eve at Amplifier is here. While Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, Injured Ninja and Runner are sure to get the party started, the evening’s highlight is sure to be the long-awaited return of much-loved local rockers Sugar Army. Offering fans the first opportunity to see Sugar Army in a pub setting in over eight months, this exciting evening will be the first to showcase the new look and feel of the outfit, who have recently introduced two new members to help deliver their fresh sound live. We have three double passes to give away to our lovely readers so simply email underandabovepresents@hotmail. com with ‘New Year’s Eve Sugar’ in the subject line to win!
MOONLIGHT CINEMAS
Let’s get this summer started by winning one of ten double passes we have up for grabs to the Kings Park Moonlight Cinemas! From Tuesday, December 6, until Sunday, March 25, 2012, Moonlight Cinema will again transform Synergy Parklands in Kings Park into the ultimate outdoor cinema experience, showcasing an extensive schedule of classic, cult and new release films. On those balmy nights when a warm breeze drifts across our lush city gardens, the best way to soak up the last rays of sunshine is to kick back with good friends, tuck into a picnic and a sunset six-pack before getting up close and personal with the stars under the stars. There is a Candy Bar on site or you can BYO food and drink.
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For the first time, all of Bob Seger’s top hits are now available on a career-spanning two CD and digital release, Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets. The 26-track collection includes Night Moves, Turn The Page, Hollywood Nights, Mainstreet, Old Time Rock And Roll, We’ve Got Tonight, Against The Wind and many other Seger classics, as well as the Detroit rocker’s two #1 radio singles from this year, Downtown Train and his current #1 Classic Rock hit, Hey Hey Hey Hey. All songs on the album have been meticulously re-mastered from the original master tapes. Get in now to be in the running to win a copy of rock n roll at its best!
SONS & DAUGHTERS
Inspired by Italian Cinema, Scottish serial killers and Stevie Nicks, Sons and Daughters’ latest release Mirror Mirror tips its hat to a more electronic feel in the hands of producer DJ Twitch (Optimo). Described as “brilliantly bloodthirsty” the Glaswegian four-piece’s sound hints of dark Americana mixed with tons of Scottish heart. Sons and Daughters will be hitting Perth shores to perform live at The Bakery on Saturday, January 14, and we are giving you the chance to win one of two double passes we have up for grabs. Get in quick as this is set to be an amazing show.
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In a career spanning 27 years, Billy Birmingham’s comedy creation - The 12th Man - has become one of the most successful spoken-word recording artists in the world. The 12th Man’s much loved comedy masterpieces have mainly focused on cricketing and commentating legend Richie Benaud and his fellow channel nine cricket commentators. His most inspiring utterances have become part of the language. Kids hurl them across playgrounds, adults across workplaces and sporting fields. Now, for the first time in his long and illustrious career, the 12th man is releasing a range of exclusive merchandise and we are giving you the chance to win a prize pack including a talking bottle opener, talking can cooler and a 12th Man stumps T-Shirt. Get in now for your chance to win this hilarious prize!
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In the leadup to New Year’s Eve, we asked our Facebook fans which albums topped their best of lists, here’s what they had to say…
Andrew The Black Keys, Ben Ottewell, Boy & Bear, Gomez, Abbe May.
Joey Tom Waits for Mastodon
Belinda SBTRKT and The Black Keys
Jay Vee’s EP must get an honourable mention
Jason Abbe May, The Jezabels and Wim
Mikaela Rebecca Black!
Naomi Bonjah – Go Go Chaos!
Sarah LMFAO
Brendan Death Grips, Thee Oh Sees and UMO
Nikki Grouplove, closely followed by Gotye, closely followed by Ball Park Music, closely followed by The Black Keys.
ROSIE DISPOSITION Dear X-Press, I happened to be at the Rosemount on Friday, December 9 , having a festive drink and hearing the sounds emanating from inside decided, somewhat uncharacteristically, to fork out $12 to go and check out the live bands. Overall, it was the usual thing with four young bands trying to engage the sparse(ish) crowd coping with the din and an average sound mix. I liked all the bands up to a point, so it was with interest, followed by irritation, that I read the review by Ben Watson and his scathing comments about one of the bands, the Insatiables. Ben seems to be your typical self important and earnest wannabe rock critic. He had a real problem with the lead singer and her supposedly “second rate philosophical nonsense”, and expressed his distaste with a torrent of second rate journalism and third rate philosophical nonsense. According to Ben, unless you are a tribal elder or an acquaintance of the Dalai Lama, you should keep your mouth shout, as it seems that only those imbued with an aura of irrationality, ooga booga and a desire to reverse time to a less enlightened place have anything meaningful to say. Oh and by the way Ben, should you ever get to meet Bono I would wager a considerable sum that you forget to tell him how much you hate him. Lee Via Email
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NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTION
Perth Bands Set To Destroy 2012 2011 was another banner year for Perth bred bands taking on the world, and we’re sure there’s plenty more world domination set for 2012. MATTHEW HOGAN chats to cover folk Felicity Groom, Sean Pollard, Scarlett Stevens and Jay Watson. Cover photograph by LUKE THOMPSON, shot on location at 140 William. The days when WA bands only rarely got some recognition and national radio play are well and truly behind us - and 2012 looks to see even more local goods exported than ever before. This year, the usual suspects in The Panics, Jebediah, Eskimo Joe and The Waifs each brought out albums that found places on the ARIA charts and ARIA awards nominations list - and hip hopper Drapht even took out a gong, for his album The Life Of Riley. But it’s the bands represented on this week’s front cover that we expect will doing great things in 2012. Firstly there’s the pink pleather jacket rocking Jay “Gumby” Watson. Having spent the last couple of years travelling the world with Tame Impala, one of his other bands Pond looks to follow in that global success with their forthcoming album Beard Wives Denim set to be released through Modular. He says the story of how they came to sign isn’t all that spectacular. “It kind of kills the magic of the story, but because I signed with Modular with Tame Impala, I’m contractually obliged to show Modular everything I do,” he says. “Normally we give them a Pond album and they’re like ‘Thanks, but no thanks’, but this one it’s probably less accessible than the last one [Frond] in terms of sound. Sonically it’s really wild, but structurally it’s a lot of pop songs. Modular figured they could work with it.” Watson has also kept busy with his solo project, Gum, and more recently playing bass in Felicity Groom’s touring band, but says he’ll only focus on his main two outfits next year. “I’m only going to do Pond and Tame Impala, and they might be going at the same time, so we might be able to tour together,” he ponders. “But I’m going to cut back
on my solo thing while Pond are doing stuff, and vice versa. I won’t be able to play bass for Flick anymore.” He also reveals that Tame Impala album #2 is almost complete. “Tame’s been pretty quiet as Kevin moved to Paris,” Watson says. “He’s moved to Paris with his Parisian girlfriend. He’s just been doing the new album, and I think he’s just finished mixing it as well at Dave Fridmann’s, so it’ll come out next year.” Indie pop four-piece San Cisco have also had an incredible year. After releasing their Golden Revolver EP at the start of the year and seeing the title track and Girls Do Cry getting some airplay all over Australia and abroad, follow up single Awkward has blown up and become one of the most played tracks on Triple J. Drummer Scarlett Stevens, seen on our front cover ripping a bus in two (sorry Transperth), hopes she doesn’t have to do too much more singing on future tracks. “I hope not,” she exclaims. “It came about in the studio when we played a song to our producer, Steve Schram, and it just wasn’t working, so he said ‘let’s just write a song in the studio’. He wanted to record a duet with kind of kooky vocals and I think Jordi [James] had a few lyrics but we didn’t plan on it being about a stalker, but it just got out of hand and that’s why the lyrics are so wrong.” She says that nobody needs to be concerned as the story told in the song is completely fictional. The also have found a new home having just signed on with Alberts Music - home of such up-and-comers as AC/DC and The Angels. “Well I think Alberts are trying to get a few younger bands on their line-up,” Stevens says. “Washington is on there, and they’ve signed a few other young
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Goodnight Tiger
LANEY LANE
Lovely local folk-rock outfit Goodnight Tiger have been added to the St Jeromes Laneway Festival line up as the Triple J Unearthed winners for WA. Local unsigned outfit Cow Parade Cow have also just been added to the bill after taking out first place in the Path To Laneway competition at The Bird last week. The announcements come as UK postrock outfit Wu Lyf have announced they have pulled out of the festival. As yet no replacement has been mentioned. Laneway Festival will be held on Saturday, February 11 at the Perth Cultural Centre, and sees an all star line-up of 2011’s best album constructors like EMA, SBTRKT, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, The Panics, M83, The Horrors, Feist, Cults, Girls and the list just keeps on going. Pick up your tickets from perth.lanewayfestival.com.au.
Last here in 2009, R&B sensation Lloyd’s sell out shows left fans with no doubt as to why he is one of the smoothest artists in music today. He is back due to overwhelming demand so don’t miss your chance to see this R&B superstar who will be performing all his hits plus tracks from the King Of Hearts album in this energy packed, must see live show. Lloyd will charm local audiences with his fresh beats and rhythmic stylings at Metro City on Tuesday, January 31. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster.com.au. www.xpressmag.com.au
bands. They were always interested right from the beginning and I think when people take your interest early on and they like your songs, you just want to work with them.” Split Seconds’ 2011 just kept getting better and better for them as well. Before he took out a helicopter while hanging off the tallest building in Perth, Sean Pollard started Split Seconds as a recording project and recorded their self-titled debut EP, but by the time it came out the newly settled fivepiece was already knees deep in recording follow-up single All You Gotta Do. The success of that song has led to national tours with The Panics, Jebediah and Owls Eyes, a spot at Homebake, and an invitation to South By Southwest 2012. But Pollard doesn’t sound overly confident about making the trip to Texas. “It depends on funds, really; it’s just super expensive,” he sighs. “I think we’ll be doing some sort of fundraiser just so we can have enough to go. It would be incredible to see everything, let alone play, in Texas. We just have to find a way - sell a house!” Right now they’re also finalising their debut album. “We’re halfway through it now and we’re finishing it in January with Matt Gio down at Couch Studios,” says Pollard. “We’ve done six songs and we’ve just got to put the last ones
together. It’s close. Hopefully it’ll be out in April or May. I say that now but I’ll probably be talking to you this time next year!” After a couple of years of working on two albums at once, Felicity Groom combined the best bits of both to release one super album in Gossamer. The recently released album has seen her tour around Australia to launch it before finishing up at The Bakery the weekend before last, and the record even was named a feature album by Triple J. She celebrates this achievement by dining on people directly from a car on our cover. While Gossamer might still be fresh to listeners’ ears, she already has a couple more releases in the works, including one with beat tourist Diger Rokwell. “That was a total accident in terms of Jon (Macliver) from Cut & Paste suggested a whole lot of names that I might want to collaborate with for their gig and Diger Rokwell was in there. We’ve already started recording an album to be released next year.” Groom has also been invited to play at Canadian Music Fest. “We’ll probably go over to the States as well,” she says. “Hopefully we’ll do all of that together. I’m really looking forward to that. I’d love to go over to the UK next year as well, but obviously it’s a matter of whether the finances permit.”
THE SECRET CIRCLE
One of Perth’s finest rock ‘n’ roll exports, Dan Durack, returns to Perth this holiday season for some catch-ups with family and some long overdue beer swillin’ with old friends. As an added bonus for those in the mood for some post-Christmas grog‘n’roll, Durack has decided a live show is in order and has roped in a couple of Loasbys to help him out for this exclusive onenight-only performance at the Mustang Bar on Thursday, December 29, under The Zebra Three moniker. There will be classic Whips cuts for those wishing to shed a nostalgic tear, songs penned for Dan’s new garage punk outfit Thee Savage Kicks, and possibly a cheeky cover or two. Joining in the fun of the night will be The Sure-Fire Midnights and The Community Chest. Action starts 9pm and entry is free.
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X-TREME SOUNDS
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X-Press Magazine in conjunction with Sunset Events and Southern Skydivers for the X-Treme Jump for Southbound competition. What does the winner get? A double VIP Happy Camper pass to Southbound and the opportunity for one person to jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet in the air on the morning of Saturday, January 7. How do you enter? Strike an X-Treme pose, take a pic and post it on X-Press’ Facebook page (and tag Southbound and X-Press in it). The three finalists whose pictures have th emost votes will then be called into the X-Press office to pick from one of three envelopes. Two have a double Happy Campers pass and Southbound t-shirt and one has the major prizes. Get snapping as entries close Monday, January 2. Southbound happens at Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton on Saturday, January 7, and Sunday, January 8.
AN EDUCATION CARDS ON THE TABLE
Felicity Groom, Sean Pollard, Jay Watson and Scarlett Stevens
On Wednesday, January 11, and Wednesday, January 18, local soundman Rik van der Velde will be presenting a Live Sound Seminar at the Fly By Night. Van der Velde, is a music lover and professional soundman who has worked with many famous names in his 35 years in the music industry. Filled with plenty of helpful information for musicians, people already employed mixing live music and anyone who wants to increase their understanding of the practical side of live music. Tickets are available from flybynight.org.
The tail end of 2011 sees Seams’ first label release: a limited run of 200 7” vinyl singles. The band’s darkest and most erratic effort to date, Magic Circle is an erotic occult jam that leaps from melodic psych to brash noise punk freakout in the blink of an eye. B-side Boomer tumbles along feverishly - propelled by violin riffs and restless snare - with nods to math-rock and surf. Seams will christen the record in the midsummer warmth on Thursday, December 29, when the confines of Ya Ya’s will be transformed into a cavern of light, smoke, goodtime voodoo and mind-altering sounds. Support comes from Cow Parade Cow, Mei Saraswati and Andrew Sinclair.
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OPETH
Taking risks are never easy, more-so if you are a beloved heavy metal band renowned for brutal songs and some of the best growling chops in the industry. When Mikael Akerfeldt started writing for the most recent Opeth album, Heritage, he began it in similar form to 2008’s Watershed – heavy with strong jazz fusion elements. After writing a few songs he realised he didn’t feel right going in that direction, and then bass player Martín Méndez told Akerfeldt “I’m disappointed with this shit.” He dropped the growling death metal and ran off with the jazz and prog ideas, giving us the end product of Heritage. The bold move flowed into Tuesday’s show which steered completely clear of their heavy back-catalogue and focused on their mellower work. Devil’s Orchid opened their set followed by Heritage track I Feel The Dark demonstrating the sheer depth of talent that makes up an Opeth show. Each song was teased out as Akerfeldt savoured each note and belted out his clean cutting, jazz-tinged voice. Blood red lights bathed the band as the first notes of the tragic Face Of Melinda rang out, placating some of the punters baying for, well, Baying Of The Hounds. Their wishes went unheard however, as Akerfeldt let everyone know this night was something different. “You don’t want to eat McDonalds every day,” he mused. Then Porcelain Heart ripped its way through the venue with an extended drum-solo, which neatly summed up the band’s musical progression to this point. Mid-set the tempo slowed right down as the acoustic guitars were pulled out with Throats Of Winter, Credence and Closure.
Opeth (photo: Denis Radacic) Hex Omega closed the set with the heaviest moment of the night before the encore, where a room full of metalheads were convinced to mosh in silence. Opeth were always asking for trouble by touring a metal show sans-metal, or at least their own brand of metal, but by pulling out a flawless live show full of soul and engaging music those Swedish buggers may have just gotten away with it. _BRENDAN HOLBEN 11
Our Year In Music coverage kicks into overdrive as we ask the extended X-Press family – our staff writers, regular contributors and far-flung correspondents – and a few of our famous friends the inevitable question: what were your thoughts on the year that was 2011? KEVIN MITCHELL, BOB EVANS/JEBEDIAH/BASEMENT BIRDS What was your personal highlight of the year that was 2011? Becoming a dad for the first time and disproving any prediction from health professionals that near on twenty years of questionable lifestyle decisions had ruined any chance of my sperm being able to successfully procreate. What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Steve Parkin - Mighty Big Light. We should all take more time to support the aged community. STUART MACLEOD, ESKIMO JOE
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What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? The Chemist’s 1st album. Well, it hasn’t actually been released yet, but they just finished
recording it. Sounds incredible. Great songs, and a courtyard of the Fremantle Art Centre for the Sonic Sessions series. ridiculously talented bunch of guys. STEVE PARKIN What was the best gig you saw this year? My kid’s 1st school concert. They stole the What was your favourite WA music release of the show. year and why? Jebediah’s Kosciusko – because it rocks and DOM SIMPER, TAME IMPALA sounds awesome. What was your personal highlight of the year that What was the best gig you saw this year? was 2011? Eskimo Joe playing Sweater at my Drinking delicious summertime beverages engagement party after a 10 year drought! on the beach in beautiful Norway. What was your favourite WA music release of the GRAHAM WOOD, ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB year and why? Felicity Groom - Gosammer. Lovely lady What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? makes excellent album. Carl Mackey’s 11/11 – because Carl and I have been good mates since we were 16 and it was great to LUCKY OCEANS see him release his debut album. What was your favourite WA music release of the ANDREW RYAN, COOL PERTH NIGHTS year and why? Jazz Aziz Vol 6 – A high quality, diverse, What was your favourite WA music release of the creative compilation of WA jazz players and composers, year and why? reflecting a coming of age of WA jazz. Probably Andrew Sinclair’s Evil Summer release. The guy has made some big honest rhythms What was the best gig you saw this year? and continues to make music in a humble way. He’s real Me playing with Harry James Angus in the young and it’s quite obvious to me due to the honesty, humility and youth that there’s a great amount of music that he may very well make over the next decade or so. DAVE CUTBUSH, LIFE IS NOISE What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? The Snowman release was incredible. It was such a great shame that the band broke up. What was the best gig you saw this year? Sufjan Stevens at The Regal Theatre was not only the best gig I saw this year but one of the best I have seen ever. I also really enjoyed Teebs at The Bird. And of the life is noise gigs it was pretty hard to top Russian Circles with the amazing supports of Eleventh He Reaches London, Tangled Thoughts of Leaving and Drowning Horse. SCOTTY ‘MC ASSASSIN’ SCHMID What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? The Silent Rain EP by Greg Packer & Assassin. It was my favourite because, well for a start, it was ours. But it also heralded in a new era for Greg and I, bringing our brand into the new era of D&B and showing we can do anything, any style. It was a very important release for us. LIZ SHEEHAN, PERTH DANCE MUSIC AWARDS What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Anything from local producer and Boomtick DJ Philly Blunt. His tunes are guaranteed to make you dance and I love playing them in my own sets! 78 RECORDS Amber Bateup Who to look out for in 2012? Pond! There’s gonna be plenty of pink pleather jackets, dirty mustaches and shirtless dudes contorting and distorting their flimsy bodies, all whilst bringing back the funk! 78 RECORDS Dayvid Clarke What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Umpire - Now We’re Active. This album is the missing piece to the WA indie-rock puzzle. Sonically it’s kind of like all my favourite bands of the 90s got together and made a perfectly quirky yet sharp and anthemic pop record. BEC VARGAS, LUNA PALACE CINEMAS What was the best gig you saw this year? Definitely Santigold at Parklife. It was an awesome set she played, with booty shaking dancers that were fantastic performers in their own right. And it was her birthday too – which made it even more special. LUKE RINALDI, SWEET MATE PROMOTIONS What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Russian Winters - Last Battles. Disclaimer: I should say I’m now the band’s booking agent, largely as a result of hearing this album. It’s an amazing recording that’s taken myself and many others by surprise. It’s a real album, as opposed to a collection of songs – most rewarding when listened to in its entirety. NATALIA COOPER, CHANNEL 7 WEATHER PRESENTER What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Husband’s self titled EP is awesome – very powerful, heartfelt music. I also really like San Cisco’s EP Golden Revolver – such catchy, sweet songs.
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STAFF LISTS 1. THE BEACH BOYS - SMiLE If an album was recorded in 1966 but not released until 2011 does that make it eligible for a year end list in 2011? Sure it does, after all it couldn’t be in any year end lists in 1966 or the years following it because it hadn’t yet been released. I didn’t listen to every album that came out this year, but I’m pretty sure The SMiLE Sessions is the only one that had a whole disc of Good Vibrations versions and outtakes on it, making it much better than every other release in the year 2011.Try harder, everyone else. 2. WILCO - The Whole Love 3. WILD FLAG - Wild Flag 4. WILD BEASTS - Smother 5. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS Mirror Traffic 6. THE BLACK KEYS - El Camino 7. BILL CALLAHAN - Apocalypse 8. ABBE MAY - Design Desire 9. KURT VILE- Smoke Ring For My Halo 10. JEBEDIAH – Kosciusko _MATTHEW HOGAN
1. CHASE & STATUS- No More Idols It’s got everything from trance, grim, hip hop, glitch, dubstep and drum’n’bass all melded into a fiercely smart record. Massive mood shifts in between songs. Unpredictable yet flows incredibly well despite such a mash up of genres. It’s bass music topped off with some of the best collaborations seen this year – End Credits ft Plan B is a winner, along with Blind Faith ft Liam Bailey, the festival friendly Hitz ft Tinie Tempah and Brixton Briefcase ft Cee-Lo Green. There’s also a weird indie/electro tune Embrace ft Whites Lies which somehow works. Chase & Status are delivering the good without saturating it in dubstep. Bring on Future Music Festival. 2. NERO – Welcome To Reality 3. DIGITALISM – I Love You Dude 4. PNAU – Soft Universe 5. THE JEZABELS - Prisoner 6. TRIAL KENNEDY – Living Undesigned 7. EXAMPLE – Playing In The Shadows 8. THUNDERCAT – The Golden Age Of Apocalypse 9. GIRLS – Father, Son, Holy Ghost 10. JOKER – The Vision WORST ALBUM OF 2011: RIHANNA – Talk That Talk _ANNABEL MACLEAN
1 . F L E E T F OX E S – Helplessness Blues Just as enchanting as their 2009 self-titled debut release, Helplessness Blues reminds folk fans why they fell in love with Fleet Foxes in the first place, and proves that the Seattle band is impervious to ‘second album syndrome’. Kicking off with Montezuma, a track that is as captivating as it is beautiful, Helplessness Blues digs deep with beautiful melodies and haunting harmonies that stay with you long after the music stops. 2. THE GRATES – Secret Rituals 3. THE BLACK KEYS – El Camino 4. KIMBRA - Vows 5. GOTYE – Making Mirrors 6. THE DRUMS - Portamento 7. GORILLAZ – The Fall 8. ABBE MAY – Design Desire 10. SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM – From Here To Anywhere WORST ALBUM OF 2011: JUSTIN BIEBER – Under The Mistletoe _EMMA BERGMEIER 1. SNOWMAN - Δbsence Earlier this year, Snowman vocalist Joe McKee said his band’s final album was “about tearing yourself away from the things you love in order to do just that…move on. It’s about not turning into this thing that you have created. Keeping that distance. Killing the myth.” Sadly, Snowman has delivered on such prophecy by deciding to call it a day, but not before releasing their finest work to date in third LP Δbsence – a livid, breathtaking collision of distorted surf, electro, punk, and metal sounds and ethereal harmonies. Despite its posthumous 2011 release, Δbsence brought the avant-rock Perth-via-London foursome sharply back into focus as one of the most boundary-pushing, genre-defying experimentalpsychedelic-whatever outfits to have made a stand in the past ten or so years and it’s really a shame knowing this is Snowman’s swan song. They were easily one of the most matured and consistently captivating rock groups to pass us by, and Δbsence ends their short run on a very high note. 2. PJ HARVEY – Let England Shake 3. RABBIT ISLAND – O God Come Quick 4. JACK LADDER AND THE DREAMLANDERS Hurtsville 5. YOUTH LAGOON – The Year of Hibernation 6. BON IVER – Bon Iver 7. KURT VILE – Smoke Ring For My Halo 8. TY SEGALL – Goodbye Bread 9. MOUNTAIN GOATS – All Eternals Deck 10. CULTS - Cults WORST ALBUM OF 2011: HEART2HEART – Heart2Heart _ JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD
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1. FLEET FOXES - Helplessness Blues For me, my number one couldn’t be anything else except Helplessness Blues. I listened to this album so much that if it were the only album I received in 2011, I would have been more than content. As someone who’s play-lists generally includes Bert Jansch and Nick Drake, Fleet Foxes gives me modern music but with a classic folk sound. Seriously people, Folk music had been in hibernation for 30 plus years until these guys showed up. 2012 will be the first time the lads visit WA, playing Southbound in January and fingers crossed it will be a show for 2012’s Top Five live gigs list. 2. THE BLACK KEYS - El Camino 3. GORILLAZ - The Fall 4. GOTYE - Making Mirrors 5. TOM WAITS - Bad As Me 6. RADIOHEAD - The King Of Limbs 7. FEIST - Metals 8. GOMEZ - Whatever’s On Your Mind 9. THE DRUMS - Portamento 10. JIM GUTHRIE - S&S LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies WORST ALBUM OF 2011: VANILLA ICE - WTF _TOM VARIAN
1. JOSH T PEARSON – The Last Of The Country Gentlemen Pentecostal Texan Josh T Pearson fronted the short lived Lift To Experience for their double album before spending a decade being sighted less often than Elvis. Dragging his ample beard out from behind his 10 gallon hat Pearson puts aside his soaring feedback, loud guitars and lays back on the biblical imagery in favour of rambling country infused ballads. Pearson does love, loss and a more than healthy dose of self loathing better than anyone in 2011. The Last Of The Country Gentleman is the greatest return since Mary’s son. 2. HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF – Hurray For The Riff Raff 3. YOUTH LAGOON – The Year Of Hibernation 4. BOSTON SPACESHIPS – Let It Beard 5. YUCK - Yuck 6. UMPIRE – Now We’re Active 7. RYAN ADAMS – Ashes & Fire 8. GILLIAN WELCH – The Harrow And The Harvest 9. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE – Sky Full Of Holes 10. FELICITY GROOM - Gossamer
1. TRUE WIDOW – As High As The Heavens And From The Centre To The Circumference Of The Earth True Widow strike the youth chord. Harkening back to late ‘80s and early 90s tastes, their most obvious influences draw from the golden era of indie alternative where bands like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive reigned. A cathartic combination of dark-romantic gothic, drone, doom and beyond – the Texan trio coined the term “stonegaze” to rectify their genre dilemma. But what they create is a balance between this nod to yore and the contemporary sludge fever. Fronted by singer and guitarist Dan Phillips, vocalist and bassist Nikki Estill at his side, the dual harmonies they relay is mesmerising. Melodic hypnosis, in its finest form, this sophomore release is my top album for 2011.
WORST ALBUM OF 2011: CHRISTOPHER CROSS – Doctor Faith _ CHRIS HAVERCROFT
2. THE HAXAN CLOAK – Self-titled 3. LOCRIAN – The Clearing 4. MOURNFUL CONGREGATION – The Book of Kings 5. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM – Celestial Lineage 6. CORRUPTED – Garten der Unbewusstheit 7. KROMOSOM – Self-titled 8. GALLHAMMER –The End 9. FUCKED UP – David Comes To Life 10. //TENSE// – Escape EP WORST ALBUM OF 2011: MORBID ANGEL - Illud Divinum Insanus _JESSICA WILLOUGHBY 1. OPETH - Heritage Amazing musicians writing amazing music is always a winning combination, which lead to Heritage, which I believe was by far the best album released in 2011. A flawless piece of art by a band content to write for themselves in honour of a genre of music they obviously grew up listening to and have been inspired by.
2. MACHINE HEAD– Unto The Locust 3. PUSCIFER- Conditions Of My parole 4. FOO FIGHTERS – Wasting Light 5. GOTYE – Making Mirrors 6. MASTODON – The Hunter 7. PINK FLOYD - A Foot In The Door 8. NIRVANA – 20th Anniversary Nevermind Boxset 9. DRAPHT – Life Of Riley 10. MEGADEATH - Thirteen _CONAN TROUTMAN
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1. JAY-Z & KANYE WEST - Watch The Throne Watch The Throne was the ‘event’ record of 2011. No other release arrived amidst such high expectations, yet Jay-Z and Kanye West, both at the top of their game, managed to exceed them. Of course, the grandiose boasts of Otis and Ni**as In Paris were highlights, but the album also has both rappers at their most vulnerable, addressing unborn sons on New Day (Kanye’s lines “Just want him to have an easy life/ Not like Yeezy’s life/ Just want him to be someone people like” are particularly telling). Whether they were making dubstep nouveau riche on Murder To Excellence, evoking Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on Made In America, or finding a fresh way to flip the Apache break on That’s My Bitch, Jay-Z and Kanye’s gloriously OTT opus never had a dull moment, shining like a beacon over a great year in music.
1. KIMBRA - Vows Skilful pop music – bit of an oxymoron but Kimbra did the impossible. Well written and well executed, Kimbra exuberates confidence and talent way beyond her humble years and deserves much more credit than what pop music bestows. The songstress is a musical chameleon and Vows features everything from jazzy horn symphonies, sultry slow burners to whimsical dance numbers. Every track is delivered with a perfect, champagne-soaked voice, void of any sign of greasy mass-manufactured auto-tune or a reality-TV show in sight. Who doesn’t love Cameo Lover?, Settle Down is really quirky but simultaneously sweet but then she really lets her vocals loose on Call Me which is such a soulful and expressive track. Kimbra is a very talented songbird and songwriter and her powerful voice coupled with ageless songs is a rare commodity. Vows is an impressive and memorable introduction by anyone. 2. ADELE- 21 3. FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - Ceremonials 4. PENDULUM - Immersion 5. RAPHAEL SAADIQ – Stone Rollin’ 6. ROBIN THICKE – Love After War 7. CORINNE BAILEY RAY – The Love EP 8. GOTYE – Making Mirrors 9. BEYONCE - 4 10. SUPERHEAVY - Superheavy _ CHELA WILLIAMS
2. THE ROOTS - undun 3. JAMES BLAKE – James Blake 4. GIL SCOTT-HERON & JAMIE XX - We’re New Here 5. THUNDERCAT - The Golden Age of Apocalypse 6. DRAPHT – The Life Of Riley 7. TINARIWEN - Tassili 8. BON IVER – Bon Iver 9. DRC MUSIC – Kinshasa One Two 10. FRANK OCEAN – Nostalgia.ULTRA WORST ALBUM OF 2011: LMFAO – Sexy and I Know It _JOSHUA HAYES 1. BALL PARK MUSIC – Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs How many bands can combine flipping hilarious lyrics with commentary on the world and seriously sweet riffs for 11 songs straight? Not many. Songs like iFLY and Sad Rude Future Dude bring the quirk, and anyone who doesn’t sing or tap along to those tunes is simply lying to themselves. Not only is this album upbeat and super fun, it also has depth and intelligence – a listen to tunes like Alligator and Glass Jar will prove that frontman and songwriter Sam Cromack has a lot to say about the world. A great album is one that you never tire of - you love every single track, can recite every lyric, and would happily listen to it every day (and sometimes do). This is one of those albums.
2. BIG SCARY – Vacation 3. LYKKE LI – Wounded Rhymes 4. THE MIDDLE EAST– I Want that You Are Always Happy 5. OH MERCY – Great Barrier Grief 6. SPARKADIA – The Great Impression 7. GROUPLOVE – Never Trust A Happy Song 8. THE JEZABELS- Prisoner 9. THE GRATES– Secret Rituals 10. KIMBRA - Vows WORST ALBUM OF 2011: KORN – The Path of Totality _ CHLOE PAPAS www.xpressmag.com.au
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1. THRICE – Major/Minor With every record, Thrice seem to be able to expand on their creative horizons and push the envelope as far as their own sound goes. Major/ Minor saw Thrice take the best sounds from their last few records and combine them to create arguably their strongest record to date. With the band’s future up in the air amidst family tragedies, it will be sad to see them go, but at least they will go out on an unbelievable end note. 2. MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA – Simple Math 3. INCUBUS – If Not Now, When 4. BALANCE AND COMPOSURE – Separation 5. TAKING BACK SUNDAY – Taking Back Sunday 6. CALLING ALL CARS – Dancing With A Deadman 7. MASTODON – The Hunter 8. TITLE FIGHT – Shed 9. TOUCHE AMORE – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me 10. CITY AND COLOUR – Little Hell
1. THE SHAKE UP - …If You Have No Shame Look, I don’t want to sound clichéd and I know this album probably technically caught the tail end of last year but that’s not the point really. I slammed this album throughout 2011 and demonstrated the Sydney act’s recorded output to many house guests—one of whom, in typically astute style, observed “oh it’s like The Saints’ second album!” and there I was, metaphorically thumping the table and exclaiming “Jesus! I tried so hard to place it!!” but influences, of course, are superfluous to the catchy tunes, danceable rock beats and world weary lyrics. 2. BAD RELIGION – The Dissent Of Man 3. SILVER LIZARD – Tales Of Lost Tails 4. FAIM - Dork 5. BATTLETRUK - Chainsaw 6. AC4 – AC4 7. FLOGGING MOLLY – Speed Of Darkness 8. SURE-FIRE MIDNIGHTS – Strike At Midnight 9. THE KILLS – Blood Christmas WORST ALBUM OF 2011: THURSDAY – No Devolucion 10. TIMOTHY NELSON AND THE INFIDELS – I Know This Now _ GEORGE GREEN _BRENDAN HOLBEN
1. ADELE – 21 It ’s easier to write a top ten list than it is to choose your top album of the year. So, I’ve put them in alphabetical order and as a result Ad e l e’s a l b u m 21 i s my album of 2011. Released in Januar y, 21 held steady all year at the top of the charts and drew critical acclaim from all parts of the popular music world. Her incredible voice has enchanted and entertained across continents and genres all year now. Go Adele! 2. THE BEACH BOYS – Smile 3. BJORK - Biophilia 4. THE BLACK KEYS - El Camino 5. FOO FIGHTERS – Wasting Light 6. F*CKED UP – David Comes to Life 7. GRYF RHYS - Hotel Shampoo 8. LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking 9. DJ SHADOW - The Less You Know, The Better 10. WAVVES – Life Sux _DANIEL PARKINSON
1. BACKSLIDERSStarvation Box Star vation Box by Sydney-based Blues trio, Backsliders continued to take listeners in to new territory whilst still retaining the links with the past. 2 . R AY B E A D L E Spellbound 3. ABBE MAY-Design Desire 4. FIONA BOYES-Blues For Hard Times 5. DIESEL-Under The Influence 6. CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES-Baby Caught The Bus 7. MIKE DE VELTA-Whiskey In The Mornin’ 8. VIBROLATORS-Frangipani 9. THE WAIFS-Temptation 10. BLUE SHADDY-Across The Road _DEREK CROMB 1. LANIE LANE - To The Horses A deliciously retro, rockabilly-country album about cowboys, horses and heartbreak, and any album that manages to cover those subjects without turning into a Dolly Parton sound-a-like is a winner in my books. 2. ABBE MAY - Design Desire 3. FLEET FOXES - Helplessness Blues 4. TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS - I Know This Now 5. SMITH WESTERNS - Dye It Blonde 6. JAY Z/KANYE WEST - Watch The Throne 7. MAN MAN - Life Fantastic 8. THE BLACK KEYS - El Camino 9. FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - Ceremonials 10. YUCK - Yuck WORST ALBUM OF 2011: LOU REED/METALLICA - Lulu _TARA LLOYD 1. CLIFF MARTINEZ– Drive Soundtrack 2. TOM WAITS – Bad As Me 3. THE BLACK KEYS - El Camino 4. CAKE – Showroom of Compassion 5. MOTORHEAD – The World Is Yours 6. PJ HARVEY – Let England Shake 7. WILCO – The Whole Love 8. KATE BUSH – 50 Words For Snow 9. DRIVE BY TRUCKERS – Go-Go Boots 10. MASTODON - The Hunter WORST ALBUM OF 2011: SYNDICATE - Syndicate _TRAVIS JOHNSON 1 . F L E E T F OX E S – Helplessness Blues The songwriting, the instrumentation, the harmonies – everything just comes together on this amazing LP. 2. CUT COPY - Zonoscope 3. METRONOMY – The English Riviera 4. BON IVER – Bon Iver 5. ACTIVE CHILD – You Are All I See 6. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 7. JAMES BLAKE – James Blake 8. AZARI & III - Azari & III 9. JUNIOR BOYS – It’s All True 10. JUSTICE - Audio Video Disco _BEN SWAN 1. STATELESS – Matilda For their second album, released through Ninja Tune, Northern UK lads Stateless raised the bar more than a couple notches. Dark, intense and dramatic, yet warm, lush and beautiful – it’s an expansive and varied album with many flavours. 2. MODESELEKTOR Monkeytown 3. NICHOLAS JAAR - Space Is Only Noise 4. APPARAT - The Devil’s Walk 5. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - Codes & Keys 6. SBTRKT - SBTRKT 7. REAL ESTATE - Days 8. RADIOHEAD - The King Of Limbs 9. AMON TOBIN - ISAM 10. THE WEEKND - House Of Balloons WORST ALBUM OF 2011: LOU REED/METALLICA Lulu _ALFRED GORMAN
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PLAN YOUR DAYZE 2012 kicks off in style with Summadayze hosting one of the biggest lineups of bonafied party starters this city has ever seen. Taking place on Tuesday, January 3, promoter Brad Mellen tells us why the festival has moved to Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth. “The Esplanade in Perth will probably be a hole in the ground soon, so we knew that last year’s Summadayze was going to be the last one there. “Summadayze has been around for 10 years and we wanted to find a venue where it could have a home for another 10 years and I think we’ve found it with the venue that we’ve got in South Perth.” He says the site boasts free parking and a truckload of it - all within easy walking distance of the venue as well. Free shuttle buses from the city to and from the venue, leaving the city from Terrace Road behind the Perth Concert Hall starting at 11am. “The City of South Perth have been really good to deal with,” Mellen says. “They recognise the need and importance for these events and the need for outdoor venues within close proximity to the city now that the Esplanade is out of play.” It doesn’t happen very often with festivals in Perth, but Summadayze takes place on a working day. Mellen says there’s a method to his madness. “We wanted to take the full lineup and add Justice to
it and to do that we had to run it on the Tuesday, and it’s better that we deliver the people of Perth the full lineup,” he says. “It’s a cracking lineup - Snoop Dogg, Justice, Calvin Harris, Scissor Sisters, Moby, Sasha, Erick Morillo, it goes on.” Summadayze tickets are available from Ticketmaster now. Check it.
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SNOOP DOGG Poppin’ Caps Lock
One of the headliners of Summadayze, Snoop Dogg, recently took a moment out of his busy schedule to answer MATTHEW HOGAN’s questions. We present them to you unedited... There always seems to be a drama when Snoop Dogg comes to Australia – what do you think the Australian party poopers have against you? Any suggestions on how they could chill the fuck out? NO DRAMA JUS PEACE N LUV. I GOT ALOTTA LUV FOR AUSTRALIA AND THEY GOT LUV FOR ME TOO. PEOPLE IN CHARGE ALWAYS GONNA HAVE PROBLEMS WITH SOMEONE THAT THE MASS MAJORITY GOT LUV N RESPECT FOR. IMMA JUS DO ME, KEEP IT PUSHIN, HAVE A GOOD TIME N I KNOW THA PEOPLE GONNA DO THA SAME. UGOT2DOIT. BREAK BREAD OR FAKE DEAD. IM ROLLIN IN LIKE 4 FLAT TIRES AND COMMN OUT WITH A FAT SACK OF CASH, YA DIG?!? Last time you were here, you said that you wanted to move to Australia – where in Australia would you take up residence and why? SYDNEY CUZ I GOT A HOMEY NAMED RUSSELL CROWE THAT U MIGHT KNOW. HE GOT A COUPLE SPOTS OUT THERE THAT I WOULDN’T MIND RESIDIN IN. LAST TIME I CAME THERE I VISITED GOLD COAST AND STAYED AT THE VERSACE HOTEL. I COULD SEE MYSELF LIVIN IN THA PENTHOUSE THERE OR MAYBE AT CASINO. IT GOT A REAL VEGAS FEEL OVER THERE.
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You were among the first people to get a profile and Google+ and you’ve been called the ‘social media king’ – why do you feel it’s so important to keep up with internet trends and communicate regularly with your fans? IF U DON’T HAVE NO INTERNET THAN HOW R U SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT’S POPPIN? INTERNET RUNS THINGS THESE DAYS. BOOKS AND TV ARE ABOUT AS RELEVANT AS OLD SCHOOL MAPS. PEOPLE SPEND 2 HRS A DAY WATCHIN TV BUT ARE ON THA INTERNET ALL DAY AT WORK. ANYONE CAN USE THE INTERNET TO PUSH AND PROMOTE ANYTHING THEY GOT GOIN ON. SO IF U DOMINATE THAT ASPECT OF PEOPLES LIVES, THAN U DOMINATIN A WHOLE LOT, DONT U AGREE??? MTV tells us you’re working on a stoner comedy with Wiz Khalifa – what can you tell us about Mac & Devin Go To High School? What’s it going to be about and how do you think it will compare to such classic romps as Half Baked, How High and Friday? IT’S A REAL CLASSIC MOVIE THAT’S GONNA BE A CULT CLASSIC FOR THA STONER NATION. WE GONNA END UP MAKIN 4 OR 5 OF EM AND KEEP MAKIN BREAD OF THA NAME. WE JUS FINISHED UP A TOUR OF THA USA - HIT ALL THA MAJOR MARKETS AND HIT THA FANS WITH A DOPE SHOW AND CLIPS FROM THA MOVIE. MOVIE WILL BE OUT SUMTIME IN APRIL. ALBUM JUS DROPPED LAST WEEK AND IS A CERTIFIED CLASSIC. REAL SMOKERS NATION KINDA ALBUM. CLASSIC ISH. UGOT2DOIT How did you celebrate your recent 40th birthday? What would you like to accomplish in the next 40 years of your life? I HAD A NICE LITTLE PARTY AT CLUB IN HOLLYWOOD. HAD ALL MY CLOSEST FRIENDS AND FAMILY COME THROUGH AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE REAL SPECIAL. NEXT 40 YEARS IMMA DO IT BIGGER THAN THA FIRST 40. THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO DO IT AND THAT’S BIGGER. SO IF YOU CAN IMAGINE DOUBLE OF WHAT U JUS SAW. THAN THAT’S WHERE BIGG SNOOP DOGG IS GONNA BE. I KNOW IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE BUT ITS GONNA HAPPEN. X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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Amy Winehouse Tribute
EYE4 MUSIC
New Year’s Resolutions
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THE MUSIC OF AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black
The Music Of Amy Winehouse tribute show takes place at the Ellington Jazz Club on Saturday, January 7. For more information and to book tickets, visit ellingtonjazz.com.au.
The Cat Empire
THE CAT’S OUTTA THE BAG
Next February the Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre will come alive with music thanks to those crazy fellas from The Cat Empire. Taking to the stage as part of Summerset Arts Festival, The Cat Empire will get audiences up and dancing with support from San Cisco and Jay Grafton, followed by a fireworks finale, and best of all, the show’s completely free! The fun kicks off at 6.45pm on Saturday, February 11. Also on offer as part of the Summerset Arts Festival, the Polka Dot Vintage Market will invade Scarborough Beach Reserve on February 10-11, dishing up the best vintage threads Perth has to offer. Like to laugh? Then you’d be a fool not to check out Comedy Under The Stars at Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre on Friday, February 3, featuring Dave Thornton with Sammy J and Randy. To find out more info hit up stirling.wa.gov.au/summersetfestival.
SCREEN DREAMS
Doodlers, drawers, illustrators and animators listen up because the folks at the Northbridge Piazza want to hear from you! Next year the Piazza will play host to a two month long celebration of animation, and artists who want to share their work on the big screen are invited to submit their creations for consideration. Find out more by emailing animatorshour@gmail.com.
REVVED UP
One of Australia’s most highly regarded celebrations of cinema, the Revelation Perth International Film Festival will hit the ground running in July 2012, serving up the latest features, docos, animations and short films. Founded back in 1997, Rev is a great jumping off point for young filmmakers looking to share their work with screenwriters, producers, directors, distributors and other industry peeps who can make or break a career. Entries for the 2012 Festival are open until March 2012, so there’s still plenty of time for Perth film buffs to get on board. Find out all there is to know about Rev via revelationfilmfest.org.
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RAW SKILL Think you’ve got what it takes to transform an audience of strangers into a room full of laughing fans? Then listen up, because entries are now open for the 2012 RAW Comedy competition. Our nation’s most prestigious comedy competition, RAW pits amateur against amateur to find Australia’s latest and greatest stand up star. Previous winners include Chris Lilley, Josh Thomas and Peter Helliar, so the caliber of entrants is pretty darn high! Hit up rawcomedy.com.au to find out how you can get involved.
We all know Amy Winehouse. The tabloids may have portrayed her as a cracked-out hopeless case, but she was also a tortured soul who made beautiful, accomplished music. Following Winehouse’s untimely death at age 27 earlier this year, one of Perth’s brightest musicians, Melody White, is putting together a tribute to the lost star, which will be taking place at the Ellington Jazz Club early next year. After being signed to a record label in Chicago for the past three years as Mellow-D, White is back in Perth and set to tackle the blues, heartbreak and passion of Ms Winehouse’s songs in a very special tribute show. “I want to pay Amy my respect and show some recognition to commemorate her hard work and raw talent,” she explains. “She reintroduced jazz, du-wop, soul and roots to our charts, providing an opportunity for a larger number of artists within these styles to be heard globally by today’s listeners.” Whittle is familiar with these styles herself, having released a soul album, Melody Presents The Rebirth Of Soul, in 2010. “Soul is a genre close to my heart; I love it for being true,” she says. Its simplicity and rawness are also appealing, as well as the unique performance style. “In the late ‘60s and ‘70s there were hardly any frills at a live concert, just the music. People were hooked on the musical content. “Everything was a lot harder back then and I have a lot of respect for the artists that made it through and kept going, shaping the music industry.” It’s this kind of performance style - just a woman and her voice - that first drew Whittle to Winehouse. “I first heard her in 2006 on [UK music show] Later With Jools Holland, singing her song Stronger Than Me and playing guitar. No back up dancers or ass shaking, just one talented woman singing with a tight band about the man she was with. “In the song she feels her man is becoming a pale version of her who can’t make a lot of decisions and needs her support, rather than the dominant figure she’d like him to be. The song
Melody White presents The Music Of Amy Winehouse says, ‘I’ve forgotten all of young love’s joy, I feel like a lady and you my lady boy’,” she laughs. “Amy sings with a mixture of poetry and sarcasm; amongst other things her songs are about love gone wrong, heartbreak, making mistakes, life, and dealing with consequences, and she articulated these things on her two albums.” It’s hard to believe that with the huge influence she had on the music industry, Winehouse had only released two albums at the time of her death (Lioness: Hidden Treasures is an album of previously unreleased recordings and was released posthumously). “Her albums Frank and Back To Black are both standouts to me, every song has a statement. I couldn’t tell you one favourite track, it would be like trying to pick a favourite colour! Amy’s music is like a close friend sharing dark secrets.” Whittle will be performing with a seven piece band at the tribute shows, which she says will help her to approach Amy’s music with sensitivity and flavour. _TARA LLOYD
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FANTASTIC ASIA FILM FESTIVAL Asian Invasion
The Fantastic Asia Film Festival runs at Luna Outdoor in Leederville from Monday, January 2, ’til Saturday, January 7. Find out what’s on and when at lunapalace.com.au. Jaded by what’s on offer at the local suburban multiplex? Perhaps it’s time you cast your eyes further afield; there’s a wealth of truly original cinematic visions being churned out just next door, geographically speaking, a selection of which are about to land on our doorstep, courtesy of Melbourne distributor Monster Pictures and Neil Foley. “It came about because we acquired a bunch of films from Japan and Korea in our quest to find cool horror films and edgy genre films,” Foley explains. “It just happened that a bunch of those came from Asian countries. I thought, ‘what could we do to promote awareness of these films?’ and I came up with the idea of doing a film festival. We took that to Cinema Nova in Melbourne, and they were right into the idea. So then I approached some other Melbourne-based distributors and got some films off them, and then some films straight from producers and licensing agents in other
countries, and ended up making a programme of about 20 films, and we screened that in Melbourne in November, and that did really well.” And now we get to reap the benefit, with a selection of the best films of the festival being screened as part of Luna Palace’s summer outdoor program. “They’re ones that we really want to build up,” says Foley. “They’re films that we think are fantastic, and they’re the six that were most popular of the films that played. They’re the ones that people respond really well to.” Of course, your response may vary; anyone expecting something along the lines of your typical Hollywood fleapit fodder is in for a rude awakening. The low budget, high concept genre cinema of Asia knows no boundaries, and obeys no rules. Genre lines are not so much blurred as erased, and any adherence to standards of taste, decency, or even narrative logic are largely accidental. Take Helldriver, for example, from special effects guru and director Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Mutant Girls Squad), which reads like an insane take on Neil Marshall’s postapocalyptic action mash-up, Doomsday. “There’s not that many Japanese zombie films,” Foley opines. “And it’s a real reworking of the zombie genre. It’s something quite different; they kind of create their own rules for the whole zombie thing. If you’re a fan of Tokyo Gore Police or Machine Girl, it’s really gonna be right up your alley. It’s a lot of fun, and it’s really brutal and demented; it’s just a trip.”
Helldriver is just one of countless gonzo splatter flicks that have emerged from the Japanese underground in recent years. When asked what has caused this welter of cinematic excess, Foley shrugs. “I’m not exactly sure what has kind of inspired it, really. I guess a bunch of filmmakers have all come of age around the same time, and they’ve all got similar tastes. I know one particular label, Sushi Typhoon, they did Tokyo Gore Police, Machine Girl, RoboGeisha, and Mutant Girls Squad, and those kind of films. I know they’ve been really well received internationally, and they’ve got a real kind of particular Japanese craziness that people have kind of responded to. Buoyed by that, and buoyed by international success, it’s enabled these guys to get together and make really out there films and have a bit of fun and not play by the rules.” For those whose tastes run to the - ever so slightly - more conventional, there’s the Korean crime thriller The Yellow Sea, a tense urban thriller from director Na Hong-Jin with a death toll that’s the envy of most small wars. “It’s from the same director who did The Chaser a couple of years ago. It’s a big budget film, really sleek urban thriller with the most brutal hand to hand hatchet action for two hours. It’s like John Woo but without guns. It’s got a body count that must be in the hundreds but there’s not a gunfight in sight. It’s just close-ups of people battling it out with hatchets, and it’s just fucking amazing.” When pressed for a personal favourite, though, Foley admits an affection for the oddball Underwater Love, a sexually explicit love story between a young woman and a Japanese water spirit, or kappa. “It’s a completely different kettle of
Underwater Love fish again, a really fun, cute, fluffy pink film, which is the Japanese erotic genre. It’s a German/Japanese co-production. It’s got a slight arthouse aesthetic, in that Chris Doyle, the Australian cinematographer shot it. It’s a really crazy story, really sweet and cute, but it’s also really filthy, with loads and loads of off the wall sex. It’s like a sex film for the whole family! It’s a lot of fun.” With the rest of the program comprising of Shion (Suicide Club) Sono’s erotic noir Guilty of Romance, the bizarre and bloody baseball comedy Deadball, and Tomie: Unlimited, the latest instalment in the long-running Tomie horror series, fans of truly boundary-pushing cinema are in for a rollercoaster week of gory, gratuitous fun. _TRAVIS JOHNSON
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STAR QUALITY The Australian Baseball League (ABL) held its inaugural All-Stars game last Wednesday in front of a capacity crowd at Barbagallo Ballpark. The game, which was broadcast world-wide, and was the largest Baseball event ever held in Australia. On the night, The World All-Stars were too strong for Team Australia, winning 7-4. For all of you ball cap wearing fans be sure to check out the remainder of the ABL season, head to perthheat.com.au for more info. Photographs by Matt Jelonek
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True Grit is one of this year’s cinematic releases
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Cinema in 2011
Anyone who thinks this has been a bad year for cinema is either an unpleasable grinch or just hasn’t been paying enough attention. 2011 has been a great year for movies; comparable with 2010, which was an impressive year in itself, if not quite up to the standards of 1999, which will go down in history as one of the great film years of our lifetimes. We got a good mix; the crop of Hollywood blockbusters was, on average, pretty decent, while the indie/arthouse side of things gave us some truly original visions. Sure, we got our fair share of stinkers, but why shine a light on those? Far better to accentuate the positive, as they say, so here, in no particular order, are ten of the top films of 2011. True Grit. The Coen brothers manage to do the unthinkable and remake an iconic film to greater effect than the original. Both grim and heartfelt, with a towering central performance by Jeff Bridges, it instantly joined the pantheon of great westerns, which is no mean feat. Drive. Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn’s ice-cool thriller takes a standard pulp scenario and runs it through an ‘80s retro filter, the result being the most stylish thriller of the year, hands down. Ryan Gosling is effortlessly iconic as the nameless protagonist, and he’s ably supported by
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one of the year’s best ensembles, including Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, and a terrifying Albert Brooks. The Ides of March. George Clooney’s return to the director’s seat is a mature, assured political polemic about the price of success in the public arena. It’s also notable for containing the second great performance this year from former Mousketeer Ryan Gosling. The Tree Of Life. Although critically acclaimed, Terrence Malick’s meditation on The Big Questions divided audiences, who didn’t seem to be game for a lengthy tone poem on the nature of all things. No matter; reading like god’s autobiography, Malick’s beautiful and wilfully obtuse masterpiece proves once again why the enigmatic director is regarded as one of cinema’s most essential thinkers. Attack The Block. Joe Cornish’s streetsavvy comedy thriller demonstrates that there’s still life in what was considered a played-out genre. Brisk, brilliant, and utterly engrossing, Attack The Block puts sci-fi back in the ghetto, and features an impressive performance from newcomer John Boyega as street hero Moses. The Guard. John Michael McDonagh turns the buddy-cop formula on its ear in this winning comedy thriller. Veteran character actor Brendan Gleeson is incredible as the amiably corrupt Irish copper who’s forced to team up with Don Cheadle’s uptight FBI agent to tackle a gang of drug
smugglers who have intruded onto his country beat. An absolute gem. Captain America: The First Avenger. Director Joe Johnston, who also helmed the pulp period adventure The Rocketeer some years back, captures just the right tone in this note-perfect superhero adventure. Eschewing the darkness and psychological complexity that has marked so many efforts in the genre, this film gives us a hero we can really root for, and serves as a perfect appetiser for 2012’s The Avengers. We Need to Talk About Kevin. A searing and unflinching look at familial dysfunction, Lynne Ramsay’s film is as uncomfortable as it is captivating. Tilda Swinton knocks it out of the park again, and Ezra Miller is as fascinating and repulsive as a rattlesnake sunning itself on a hot rock as the eponymous Kevin. Warrior. Gavin O’Connor uses the brutal, high stakes world of mixed martial arts to look at family tragedy and redemption. Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton are both great as the estranged brothers who reconnect through applied violence, but the real standout is Nick Nolte, who’s entire life has been a rehearsal for his amazing performance here. Fire in Babylon. Steven Riley’s exhaustive examination of the rise of the legendary West Indies cricket team is the standout documentary of 2011. Not a cricket fan? It doesn’t matter; this film tackles issues of race, class and cultural imperialism against a backdrop of social upheaval and world class athleticism. An absolute must-see. Honourable mentions go to Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins for being one for the most joyfully bloodthirsty films in ages; Werner Herzog’s Cave of
The Ides Of March Forgotten Dreams for proving that, in the hands of a master iconoclast, 3D has artistic merit; X-Men: First Class for demonstrating that there’s still life in the franchise after the last two appalling misfires; Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia for giving emotional depth to a fairly hackneyed disaster movie trope, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes for proving that there’s a right way to reboot a series; The Inbetweeners for being the filthiest, funniest film of the year; The Adventures Of Tintin for showing us that Spielberg can still make a fun movie; and Never Let Me Go, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Snowtown, and The Hunter for just existing. Oh, and Black Swan, which accidentally got listed on last year’s Best Of, but actually belongs on this one. _TRAVIS JOHNSON
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VISUAL ARTS Sofles & Fintan Magee: Hole In The Wall Gallery, 64 Adelaide Street, Fremantle. During December and January, Freo’s Hole In The Wall Gallery will host a new exhibition featuring works from notorious graffiti figure Sofles and renowned street, mural and installation artist Fintan Magee. Beginning his career as a graffiti artist in Brisbane, ten years later Sofles now has his fingers in many pies, spreading his work across illustration, tattoo, canvas and any markable surface he can get his hands on. Hailing from similar roots, it was in Brisbane that Fintan Magee was first exposed to graffiti culture and began scrawling his name across the city with large vibrant letterforms. Having since moved away from traditional graffiti, his bold guerilla mural works often combine still life paintings of found objects with installation elements. Runs ’til Jan 8. For opening hours hit up hitw.com.au. Extraordinary Stories From The British Museum: WA Museum, Perth The Western Australian Museum and the British Museum have partnered to bring a unique collection of rare artefacts to Australia for the first time - telling extraordinary stories about the world’s people, who we are and where we’ve come from – taking visitors on a 1.8 million year journey around the world. Runs ’til Feb 5.
outback. Spanning 70 years, Virgie tracks her story through Australia and Europe, her loves and tragedies, using verbatim material, original writing, and a soundtrack ranging from Tchaikovsky to Nick Cave to capture snapshots of an extraordinary life. Runs Feb 6-11. Bookings can be made via blueroom.org.au or fringeworld.com.au. Super Night Shot: Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Perth Romance, action, strange men in rabbit masks, Super Night Shot has it all. This Perth Festival production proves that all the world’s a stage, as renegade theatre making collective Gob Squad sync their watches, pick up their video cameras and take to the streets of Northbridge exactly one hour before start time to make your show. Runs Feb 10-13. Bookings via perthfestival.com.au. Place Des Anges: St Georges Terrace (outside Council House), Perth Cast your eyes to the skies as heavenly bodies glide, float and careen through the air, leaving a burst of feathers in their wake. Beginning with a single quill, a trickle grows into an incredible cascade, a seemingly endless blizzard of white, showering you in two tonnes of downy bliss. Les Studios de Cirque have been creating unforgettable aerial spectacles around the globe for a decade - and this once-in-a-lifetime event on show as part of the Perth Festival places you in the centre of the action. Performance on Feb 11. Free event.
Occupied: The Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge Artists from around Australia will join local independent dance artist Ashleigh Berry to present her edgy new dance theatre work Occupied. In a nightclub bathroom, we meet a group of young women. Strangers at first, they become linked only for one night. The interactions between these drunk, bold and brazen ladies are often hilarious and all too familiar - you can’t help but wonder about the risks being taken and the unforeseen consequences of this ‘harmless’ night out. Runs from Jan 31-Feb 4. Bookings can be made via blueroom.org.au or fringeworld.com.au.
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The Tom Malone Prize: Art Gallery of WA, Perth This year the Art Gallery of Western Australia celebrates 10 years of the Tom Malone Prize. An acquisitive award, the Tom Malone Prize has strengthened the Gallery’s engagement with the contemporary Australian glass scene. This year’s exhibition will showcase work by 14 shortlisted finalists including Alexandra Chambers, Aseem Pereira, Ben Sewell, Brian Corr, Christine Chlowea, Gerry King, Jason Sims, Jeremy Lepisto, Jessica Loughlin, Kayo Yokoyama, Nick Mount, Tim Edwards, Tom Moore and Tom Rowney. Runs ’til Apr 2.
Eulogy by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah Inside The Little Kingdom: Kurb Gallery, Northbridge On show as part of the Fringe World Festival 2012, Inside The Little Kingdom, a solo exhibition of recent work by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah explores a search for identity, sorting through the cultural baggage of a childhood buried in faded memories and family lore that resonates from a time of absolutes. Runs from Jan 29-Feb 3.
THEATRE/DANCE Hummingbird: Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland A contemporary dance work performed by Dawn Jackson and Lee West, Hummingbird is an intercultural performance that weaves a tale with music and dance. Runs Jan 19-22. Bookings via kulcha.com.au. Shakespeare In The Park: Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth Shakespeare WA will give local lovers of the Bard a triple treat this summer with three productions being presented during Shakespeare In The Park: The Comedy Of Errors, The Tempest and The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare. Runs Jan 6-Feb 4. Bookings via shakespearewa.com. Virgie: Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge Direct from the New York International Fringe Festival, Renee Newman-Storen’s Virgie centers around a stubborn 19th Century trailblazer who brought Shakespeare to the harsh Australian www.xpressmag.com.au
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PERTH FESTIVAL VISUAL ARTS Feast Your Eyes
The Perth International Arts Festival’s Visual Arts program takes over various locations around Perth from Friday, February 3, ‘til Sunday, April 8. All exhibitions are free. For more info head to perthfestival.com.au
Artwork by U-Ram Choe
Artwork by Jeong Hwa Choi Whether you’re an arts novice or not, the term visual arts can sound a bit vague and exclusive. Fortunately, a sneak peak at this year’s offerings from the Perth Festival will have you thinking otherwise. When, as a collective, the works traverse forms ranging from paintings, photography, multi-media, traditional and kinetic sculpture to large-scale installations that you can wander through, you’d be hard pressed not to find something to stimulate your interest. Perth Festival Visual Arts programer, Margaret Moore, gives an insight into the art we can expect and why 2012 is anyone’s festival. This year sees a definitive shift in the program’s structure, with various local initiatives entering the fray. Margaret Moore explains, “projects [like] Spaced –Art Out Of Place, Purnu, Tjanpi, Canvas: Art of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands and Hijacked 3, Contemporary Photography From Australia And The UK are each major local projects that have been developed over considerable time by a lot of talented people. They will collectively present the work of around 60 individual contemporary artists from Australia and various parts of the world.” The decision will see the festival deviate from previous year’s that have been geared towards solo exhibitions, and provide exposure to some bold collaborative works. IASKA and Fremantle Arts Centre’s Spaced – Art Out Of Place is one such initiative. “I think the whole concept of Spaced is brave. Rather than talking about issues of regionalism or local and global interaction this project stems from real life displacements where the work results from artists living in residence in regional communities throughout Western Australia. Deriving from unexpected social engagements this project will have long term impacts on artists and communities,” comments Moore.
The notion of the ‘unexpected’ or underexposed in our socio-cultural landscape is one that seems to underpin many of the exhibitions. Purnu, Tjanpi, Canvas: Art of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands features previously unexhibited Indigenous paintings, carvings, and sculpture, cumulating in a vital wave of work from the Western Desert. Tim Acker’s accompanying documentary photographs of the artists and landscape provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the development of the work and community. Equally revealing, Hijacked 3 sees Mark Macpherson for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art teaming with Derby Quad in the United Kingdom to deliver a refreshed model of the series, bringing together images from established and lesser known artists. The Hijacked collections have a reputation for featuring striking work. As Moore puts it, “This series encourages viewers to look at the context of still photography that tracks social currency in a world that is dominated by digital media and social networking.” As thought-provoking and socially-aware these exhibits appear to be, there is definitely a spirit of play and originality that buoys them. While photographs featured in Hijacked 3 toy with our perceptions of reality, South Korea’s Choi Jeong Hwa’s series of large-scale sculptures are vibrantly obvious. Using everyday consumer products ranging from moulded plastic, shopping trolleys, lights and wires, to real and fake food, Choi’s colourful feats simultaneously revel in and implore consumerism. “Choi Jeong Hwa will create especially for Perth a large scale environmental sculpture on the foreshore entitled Wave. It will be assembled from approximately 15,000 plastic baskets and at Gallery Central he will fill the gallery with 1000s of coloured balloons. It is considered a three part project and will be especially rewarding for audiences if they visit
THE YEAR IN ARTS, FASHION & MUSIC JACQUI BROWN
What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? My New Year’s resolution is to finish my Vogue project! Illustrating the March 2005 issue of Paris Vogue: 332 pages in total and I am 61 pages down, so that’s 271 pages to go! I wanted to participate in A Drawing A Day which is a world wide project, so this ties in nicely.
What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? My New Year’s Resolution for 2012 is to work with as many creatives as possible! I get so inspired by the immense talent of local creatives, and I love working one-on-one with designers, artists, writers to develop a truly unique experience or event. I hope 2012 sees an abundance of creative events pop up all over Perth, and I hope I get to work on them!
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What was the best arts gig you saw this year? There are too many to choose from! Looking back on this year it has definitely been my busiest. Perth Fashion Festival has been so great to me this year including me in March’s Ellery trunk-show, the festival itself and my show at Claremont Quarter with Anya Brock. The spring/summer campaign I was asked to illustrate for Claremont Quarter was an amazing opportunity and a week after that I spent three days doing a massive mural at Louis Baxters in Subiaco. All that along with five covers for the Perth Urban Walkabout guides and my first fashion illustration solo show at Tu has left me ready for a holiday! So what I’m most looking forward to in 2012 is a trip to Paris!
What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? To find more time to relax and spend with my family enjoying life here in WA.
What was your top fashion event in 2011? Hands down the Ellery RTW Spring ’11 Collection launch @ 140 William. Kym is the most amazing person I have ever met – so naturally talented, with this unbelievable knack of getting it so right every single time. The show really lifted the standard of fashion events in Perth, and it inspired Jacqui Brown quite a few local designers and event managers to take their work to the next level. As corny as it sounds... This year we created an absolutely beautiful editorial I believe this event was a turning point in Perth’s campaign, which reflected the true sophistication and fashion history. world-class talent of the WA Fashion community. It was the best campaign to date, and will be a hard one What are you most looking forward to in 2012? to beat. However we have a really strong vision for the 2012 I am really, really looking forward 2012 campaign, I can’t say much else, but watch this to the Perth Fashion Festival’s marketing campaign. space. It will be amazing.
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Perth comedians holding their own with national and international comics.
What was your personal highlight of the year that was 2011? Being able to tour the world doing comedy all because I wrote a few dick jokes. What were your top five albums of the 2012? 1. OKKERVIL RIVER – I Am Very Far 2 SCREECHING WEASEL – First World Manifesto 3. BILL BURR – Let it Go 4. MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA – Simple Math 5. THE ROOTS - Undun
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What was the best arts gig you saw this year? For the Gallery, 2011 was a big year so it’s tough to name just one. The State Art Collection rehang is now complete; we announced the exciting three year partnership between the Gallery and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, which launches in June 2012 with Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters. And of course, there was the exquisite second instalment of the Great Collections of the World series with the exclusive Australian showing of Princely Treasures. Outside of the Gallery, I would have to say The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik and the Australian Chamber Orchestra weekend at Vasse Felix. What are you most looking forward to in 2012? I can’t go past the MoMA opening in 2012, however, there are some excellent events in the Perth International Arts Festival for 2012 and it’s great to see that the Perth Cultural Centre is cementing its place as a strong arts hub. I’m also looking forward to the 2012 Fringe Festival.
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Director of the Fremantle Arts Centre What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? Not to feel that my life lacks wonder and magic because I don’t have New Year’s resolutions. What was the best gig you saw this year? At the risk of being parochial my two top local 2011 arts gigs were at the Fremantle Arts Centre and very recent: Harry Angus at Sonic Sessions with Lucky Oceans and Tim Rogers at Sonic Sessions with Lucky Oceans, both in December. My top more high brow gig was the Australian Brass Quintet premiering WA composer Iain Grandage’s work Soapbox as part of our Soft Soft Loud series in March. Another top gig was the in-your-face dance piece Political Mother by London-based Israeli choreographer, Hofesh Schechter, as part of Melbourne Festival in October.
What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? Write more dick jokes.
What was the best comedy gig you saw this year? Internationally - comedian Doug Stanhope at the Leicester Square Theatre in London. The rawest comedian on the circuit at the top of his game. Locally – The Wild West Comedy Festival Gala –
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Director of the Art Gallery Of Western Australia
Designer Liason at the Perth Fashion Festival
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the three sites and experience how these sculptures approximate life,” says Moore. Departing from the colourful trend of fellow South Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa, U-Ram Choe’s collection looks set to satisfy those with subtler tastes. His highly technical, luminary kinetic sculptures come to life in the dark, moving with the gentle motions of the living things they seek to imitate. YouTube footage of his work plays out like an exquisite silent film and the real thing will undoubtedly mesmerise the crowds. Though diversely realised, all of this year’s Visual Arts offerings appear to strike a chord with reality, and in doing so, extend themselves to widespread appeal. “When planning the Visual Arts Program I am keen to bring to the Festival audiences a range of experiences. I think there is a very life affirming thread running through the projects this year and I hope the program resonates with people for a little longer than momentary looking. The measure of some of the most significant contemporary art is that it stays with you or makes you think beyond leaving the site or the gallery walls.”
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Perthonalities Reflect On The Year That Was PIPPA MCMANUS
Headspace by Julia Davis, on show for Spaced – Art Out Of Place
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What are you most looking forward to in 2012? Soft Soft Loud: The Americas – fine ensemble music from North and South American composers at the Fremantle Arts Centre as part of Perth Festival 2012. Shaun Tan – A Suburban Odyssey an exhibition of never-before-seen paintings by Shaun Tan featuring Perth suburban street-scapes and sea shore, at the Fremantle Arts Centre in May. X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
RETAIL RESOLUTIONS
Three of Enex100’s biggest retailers share their resolutions and tips for a stylish New Year. Lisa Gorman - Designer & Creative Director of Gorman New Year’s Resolution To w e a r m o r e prints and more colours at the same time! Tips for 2012 Clash colours and pair neutral garments with neon bright accessories. Don’t save your best clothes for the dark, evening wear can be day wear too.
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Jack London Karl Bartl - Designer for Jack London New Year’s Resolution I can’t make fashion resolutions as my mind changes too often. But if I were to make a fashion resolution it would be to get into the ‘50s and ‘60s French vein of the likes of Alain Delon, Serge Gainsbourge and co… Oh and maybe more nakedness, strong sexual innuendo and good old rock’n’roll! Tips for 2012 Wear a nice, well fitted leopard print jacket, pink tie, tight pants and codpiece. Everyone wants to be a star, this way the clothes can make the man.
AARON MCCANN Actor, Director, Writer
What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? To convince every person I know to watch Game of Thrones and anticipate the second season as much as I am. What was your personal highlight of the year that was 2011? Getting our webseries Henry & Aaron’s 7 Steps to Superstardom up on Foxtel and working on Drift, the new Sam Worthington surfing film due for release in 2012. What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Mathas - White Sugar EP. The man is a lyrical
KATE CHERRY
Artistic Director of the Black Swan State Theatre Company What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? I have to be near water which is one of the reasons I love Perth so much with its beaches, the river and wonderful public swimming pools. If I swim in the morning I have time for reflection and planning, and I spend my day feeling creatively buzzy. I am determined to swim six days a week next year and to get to the magnificent WA beaches as often as possible. What was the best arts gig you saw this year? Black Swan’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, because it was the first performance broadcast in real time by an Australian theatre company. The Dream was broadcast live via satellite to audiences across WA – from Kununurra all the way to Esperance. We received lots of enthusiastic feedback from across the state, which made me very proud! What are you most looking forward to in 2012? Personally I can’t wait to take my six-year old son to see Tintin on Boxing Day. When I was a child, a very dear friend of the family brought Tintin books over from London for Christmas every year and now I am delighted my son shares my passion. Professionally, I am also really looking forward to consolidating Black Swan’s relationships nationally and internationally, and exploring how we can best support and collaborate with WA theatre’s emerging artists. There are so many talented artists in WA, we want to find as many ways as possible to develop, promote and showcase their talent. www.xpressmag.com.au
kikki.K Kristina Karlssonm - Founder of kikki.K New Year’s Resolution Having been on many inspiring trips to Sweden, and with two young children, I have a lot of photographs to organise. It’s so important to treasure these precious memories and in the New Year I would love to work on this. There are so many different ways to organise photographs, and it does take time to get it done properly. We’ve just launched our new digital Photobook printing service, Create With kikki.K (create.kikki-k.com) which I am so excited about and cannot wait to use to organise my photos. You can arrange your photographs and memories and design your own personalised Photobooks, complete with gorgeous kikki.K embellishments to present them in style. Tips for 2012 In your home or workspace, have a place for everything and everything in its place. kikki.K storage boxes are essential for your workspace and around the home. They are the perfect combination of form and function, and available in a stylish range of fashion colours. Use them to organise everything from files and paperwork, to CDs and other bits and pieces. You’ll be organised, and your place will look fantastic. The key to staying organised is not getting cluttered in the first place. Surround yourself with useful tools, like those from kikki.K at enex100, and you’ll make the task of keeping organised even easier. It’s easy to let things slip, but once you turn chaos into order and feel the freedom it brings, you’ll be motivated to keep it that way. Sometimes making a start is the hardest part. A great way to inspire you to start, receive practical advice and empower you to tackle your organisation issues are our kikki.K Organisational Workshops at enex100. Once you’re inspired to organise, the best thing to do is to make the first step – even if it’s as simple as writing a list for what you need to do the next day.” genius. He will blow up in 2012, not literally... that would be tragic and strange. What was the best gig you saw this year? Portishead at Belvoir. The voice, the visual, the vibe... amazing.
JONATHAN HOLLOWAY
Artistic Director of the Perth International Arts Festival What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? My New Year’s Resolution is to take advantage of the outdoorsy life in WA and go to the beach at least once a week – I’ll miss it when I’m gone! What was the best gig you saw this year? My top arts gig in 2011 was Grinderman at the Metropolis in Fremantle, just a couple of nights before they split up. Their bassist Jim Sclavunos (who also plays with the Bad Seeds and formerly The Cramps) was in town planning his amazing Faustian Pact gig, and they were just sensational. What are you most looking forward to in 2012? In 2012 I’m mostly looking forward to making a brand new music venue, the Festival Gardens, in Northbridge behind the Museum. I’ve been watching the design and the build, and know it is going to be pretty damn special – and how often in life do you get to build a venue from the ground up, then fill it with great gigs?
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ROCK NO NEED TO REMINISCE Twenty years on from his debut, 1991’s All Souled Out EP with C.L. Smooth, legendary New York hip hop producer Peter Phillips, aka Pete Rock, is as busy as any point in his career. He discusses his numerous projects with JOSHUA HAYES ahead of his Australian tour. In what will be his first visit to Australia, Phillips will be showing off his prowess on both the turntables and drum machine. Although he is best known as a producer, DJing is in his blood. His father, a Jamaican immigrant, was a DJ, and Phillips inherited his love of vinyl, amassing a record collection reputed to number in the tens of thousands. Phillips says he chooses the songs for his set by just listening to records every day. “Keeping my ear to the streets and kind of having a play list already built in my brain of songs that I’ve loved for years and years and years,” he says, talking sets. “[Any time] I do a gig I’m always sort of rearranging this man-made play list in my head and I literally walk around like that, with that play list constantly being updated in my head.” While always dabbling in DJing, Phillips’ main passion was production. He got his first breaks in the music industry through his older cousin, singer Heavy D, who passed away earlier this year. “If it wasn’t for my cousin Heavy D, I wouldn’t be working with anybody on anything. So I have to pay that respect first,” he says, recalling fond memories of watching Jamaican comedies together and “laughing our butts off”. Working with rapper C.L. Smooth, whom he met in high school, Phillips followed All Souled Out with two full length collaborative albums - 1992’s Mecca And The Soul Brother and 1994’s The Main Ingredient, which are now hip hop classics. With the SP1200 drum machine as his instrument, Phillips’ aesthetic – laying soul soaked horn lines over meticulously chopped drum breaks – resulted in some of the greatest hip hop tracks of all time, such as Nas’ The World Is Yours and They Reminisce Over You with C.L. Smooth (not to mention some of the genre’s best remixes, including his timeless takes on House Of Pain’s Jump Around, Naughty By Nature’s Hip Hop Hooray and Public Enemy’s Shut ‘Em Down).
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His sampling prowess proved to be a major influence on later generations of beat-makers, in particular J Dilla, 9th Wonder and Kanye West. He would go on to work with each artist including, most recently, producing The Joy for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne album. It ultimately didn’t make the final cut, but was released as part of West’s Good Friday free download series. Despite his discography, and turning 40 last year, Phillips is not content with resting on his laurels and has a number of new projects in the works. For one, he is working with DJ Premier – one of the few producers who could rightfully argue that he had a more profound effect on the sound of ‘90s New York hip hop – on a project that he describes as “the ultimate hip hop album.” “We’re going to be featuring rappers over tracks and it’s going to be one of the hottest hip hop albums to come out,” he says.“Guys in the ‘60s and ‘70s used to do records together like Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock so I figure let’s do that in hip hop… We figured we’d take two of the hottest DJ/producers from New York and do an album together. It’s dope because we get to show off our talent and really get to put out music the way we feel it should sound.” Phillips has also been collaborating with Smif-N-Wessun and Camp Lo – two New York acts that released great, if underappreciated, albums
in the ‘90s (1995’s Dah Shinin’ and 1997’s Uptown Saturday Night, respectively) but have done little of note since.“I just wanted to try something that I didn’t really get a chance to try back in the days when everybody hit the scene in the ‘90s. It was just something I wanted to try out and I really liked the way everything came out musically,” he explains. His album with Smif-N-Wessun, Monumental, was released earlier this year, and the Camp Lo album, 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s, is due out soon (following a mixtape released earlier this year). Finally, Phillips says he’s also working with upcoming blues singer ZZ Ward in the studio.“I’ve been in the studio with her working on some really dope stuff,” he says.“Besides that, just keeping busy and continuing to contribute to this thing we call hip hop, doing what I love.” Unfortunately, the one project that many hope for – the rumoured third full length album with C.L. Smooth – looks unlikely. The pair has had a testy relationship since splitting in 1995. Although they have collaborated on each other’s solo albums, they have also been known to criticise each other in interviews. In late 2010, they embarked on a reunion tour and discussed the possibility of a new album, but things appear to have stalled since then.“I don’t know what the future may hold as far as that is concerned,” Phillips says when asked about the album. While
Bare Noize Pete Rock this will come as a disappointment to fans, the other projects in the pipeline will surely make up for it. As one of the hip hop’s most influential producers, Phillips’ reputation is secured. However, when asked if the 20 year anniversary of All Souled Out caused him to reflect, Phillips reached the following conclusion:“My future says it’s money making time,” he says, laughing.
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CAN YOU BARE THE NOIZE?
Hailing from the depths of the London dubstep scene, producers Bare Noize are hitting town oh so soon. Originally a three piece who formed in 2009, Daniel Brown and Oliver Pile continue to blitz the dubstep scene – check out their remix of Medison and Skein’s tune Harry which was snatched up by Foreign Beggars for their imprint Dented Records. Next year, the now two-piece will be releasing an EP and tour about the world. The lads hit town on Friday, January 20, at Shape Bar. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee, hit up shapebar.com.au to snatch them.
Zeds Dead
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If you haven’t heard of Toronto-based Zeds Dead then you will soon. The electronic/dubstep/ progressive duo have been slaughtering the interwebs with their hits and have garnered shitloads of support from the likes of Bassnectar and Diplo. Skrillex has even chirped up about them – “The Zeds Dead boys are the kind of artists who are willing to explore all sorts of genres in bass music and do them all really well. Not to mention they are the best of dogs!”Their track Rudeboy reached #7 on the Beatport Dubstep Charts only 48 hours after its release and their remix of Eyes On Fire is the single most-viewed production on the UKF channel. The lads hit town on Thursday, January 26, at The Overflow (at The Court). Stay tuned for ticketing deets.
AN AUDIENCE WITH TOMAS FORD
It’s the moment many have been waiting for – the release of local crazy beat maker/cabaret performer Tomas Ford’s debut album! It’s been six years in the making and finally the launch the record titled An Audience With Tomas Ford shall be let loose on the public on Friday, January 27, at Amplifier. A two stage epic, multi-arts performance party, this show is set to be filled with madness, mayhem and Sydney’s Simo Soo will be bringing his lunacy over too. If you want to witness something that’ll make you feel like you’ve just walked out of a Sam Simmons show, this is for you. He is the electro-disco showman.
Taylor McFerrin
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Here’s something to melt your brain – in case you haven’t heard, Brainfeeder’s Taylor McFerrin is coming to town. The Brooklyn based producer builds songs from scratch. He’s all about the vocals, synthesizers, samples, beat boxing and Fender Rhodes meshed together, drawing from roots deep in ‘60s soul. He’s hitting town for the first time on Thursday, January 12, at The Bakery. Future crazy cats Cosmo Gets, Sam Perry and Charlie Bucket are on support duties. It’s $15 on the door or $10 plus booking fee from nowbaking.com.au. Check it.
PREPARE FOR PRECISION
Back in the old day, the Hydey had a bunch of DJs and electronic artists spinning tunes who have made it was it is today. It all started with Monday night ‘hip hop’ night where the likes of Armee and Drapht cut their teeth in the scene. A Tuesday DJ night then came about in the late ‘90s – it was called Precision. It was all about the drum’n’bass. It was a cheap night out with quality beats and ran for a long time. Now, it’s time for a reunion. Get on down to the Hydey on Tuesday, January 17, from 8pm for Precision: Reunion to catch some of the old crew smashing out jungle, dub and drum’n’bass. El Hornet, Muller, Dan Lucas, Sardi, Mike L, General Justice and Jo 19 will all be on the decks. What’s more – it’s free. 30
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to make colourful tunes. For me, it is about being able to express various things with my music; if I make a dark rave tune, the next one will be a jazzy one or a chill-out one. For me, drum’n’bass is great because it allows me to be able to be influenced by all different styles while still remaining in one genre. If I try to do anything else other than drum’n’bass, then I stop trying to fit into any box, and just make what I like. “Both approaches are a challenge; it’s very hard to make something original within a certain genre, but it’s also quite difficult to keep yourself in check when you don’t care about the limits. You are the only one to decide whether a track is good enough or not because it’s harder to compare it to B-Complex other music made.” Being hooked into the Hospital system means that he has found the fine balance between art and music – something he admires. “There is amazing support and human connectivity at the label,” he says. “For me personally, it definitely opened the doors to the drum’n’bass world and it allowed me to meet great people and play basically everywhere. I have basically fulfilled a dream and I it would have happened like that without Barely an adolescent when he doubt their support.” penned his first bit of music, Mato Production wise too, Lenicky is getting Lenicky was a self-confessed, busy in the studio again after spending considerable touring and relocating his studio recently. But hyperactive child. Music, he claims, time with all of that out of the way, his plan is definitely was the only way he could be to get twiddling again soon. “I’d even like to do an he says. “I have a lot of material which I pacified. Yet today, he is connected album,” can use, but I also want to make something fresh to Tony Coleman’s Hospital imprint, and not just dig in the old stuff. Very recently I did one of the most intelligent places for a collaboration with Ego, a Slovak rap star. To be I was quite worried about doing it in the a drum’n’bass artist to be. RK talks honest, beginning but seeing how genuinely interested he with the man known as B-Complex was in music moved me as well. I would love to do tunes with singers like Riya or Elsa Esmeralda as he’s packing his bags to return some – it was also a nice experience remixing Invisible down under. Worlds from the London Elektricity album.” Finally, he adds that he is super excited Mato Lenicky hails from Bratislava in Slovakia. Since to return down under, loving how easy going the he was 12 years old, the DJ and producer has been people are in Australia. “It’s a very healthy approach fascinated by music. “I recall the time my parents and to stay healthy you will need some vitamins and would place my headphones around my head so I’ll deliver them,” he says. “It will be good fun but that I could play the walkman in peace,” Lenicky even if you don’t feel like dancing you shouldn’t be says. “It was only good for 40 minutes. I would start disappointed by the musical content. I can’t wait to shouting when it stopped and I needed to change see you guys!” sides on the cassette.” Lenicky began experimenting with hardcore, trance and psytrance before moving into » B-COMPLEX down tempo and hip hop. It wasn’t until the early » ORIGIN NYE noughties when he started his B-Complex project, » SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31 @ BELVOIR that drum’n’bass became his genre of choice. » AMPHITHEATRE “Definitely for me, that is my genre!,” he says. “I love
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THE SHAPESHIFTERS NOTHING BUT LOVE
“We’ve always prided ourselves on the fact that we’re unashamedly hands-in-the-air,” says Simon Marlin of London house duo The Shapeshifters, ahead of their latest and, by far, most ambitious Australian tour. “It’s about [a] positive dancefloor experience.” He speaks with JOSHUA HAYES. The duo – Marlin and his musical partner of 15 years, Max Reich – are renowned for bringing positive vibes to crowds, but by the time they reach us they’ll need all the energy they can muster. After playing New Year’s Eve on the Gold Coast, they fly to Melbourne for two afternoon shows on New Year’s Day before flying here for an evening set at Salt On The Beach. “I’m slightly scared, and excited all at the same time. It’s been put together with military precision,” Marlin says of the whirlwind tour. “It’s gonna be mad, but you know what? It’s always really fun when we come over there, so as long as the crowds in front of us are up for it, we’ll be up for it.” The tour, which starts in Sydney on Boxing Day, caps another successful year for the duo. Most recently, they released the popular Nothing But Love For You on Defected Records, collaborating with Baltimore vocalist Charles Dockins, aka C-Dock. The song has its origins in the duo’s close relationship with house music legend Frankie Knuckles.“[Dockins] had written a version of this song in 2005 and Frankie played it to us,” Marlin says. “We had it in our box and loved it for so many years and just always thought it was never given the attention it deserved, so we approached [Dockings] and asked him if we could rewrite it with him and completely do a new production on it, and do it as a collaboration, which he was more than in to.” The group is putting together a two disc compilation of their own remixes. “It will be all our favourite [remixes] to date. Literally from Candi Staton
The Shapeshifters to Empire Of The Sun and everything in between; Moby, George, Christina Aguilera,” he says. This year also marks 20 years since Marlin completed his nightlife apprenticeship, with a club night he began in 1991. “When I first opened the door, [the club] had 50 people in it,” he says. “When I finished three years later, [it] had a regular crowd of between 1,000 and 1,500 people.” Two decades, several UK chart toppers and a Brit Award nomination (for their acclaimed 1994 hit Lola’s Theme) later, Marlin is comfortable with were he and Reich are. “I think we’re quite good at checking ourselves. We never let anything get to our heads in that sense, you know? And, I think, even when we had major success with Lola’s Theme and Back To Basics, because we had the time before that, struggling, we were a bit more humble about [success] when it came about,” he says. “I’m quite proud of what we’ve managed to achieve, and what’s even cooler for us is that we’re able to sustain it. I think that’s the harder thing. It’s one thing to have success; it’s another thing to keep going and keep being relevant, you know? And that’s what we always think about; is to keep relevant and keep putting out the music that we love.”
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MARTYN BRAINFEEDING BEATS Dutch beat-maker Martyn sees his upcoming Australian tour as a great way to kick off a new year full of exciting projects. 2011 has already been chock-a-block full of them, as he tells NINA BERTOK, listing his latest record Ghost People as possibly the biggest achievement of his career so far. “I have never played live in Australia, so it’s going to be a whole different trip for me,” Martyn begins. “My live set is going to be based on the Ghost People tracks, as well as some newer things that I’ve made specifically for the set. There will also be a few different versions of the old tracks – I do like some of my older stuff, it stood the test of time so it’s still relevant I think. I like the album especially, though, it’s great to be able to ‘tell a story’, as cheesy as that may sound, but I like the time that you can spend on making a statement. The other side of the coin, obviously, is that it’s very strenuous and the longer you are absent from the world of quick assurance that comes with singles, the more insecure you can get!” According to Martyn, it’s been one hell of a ride this year, starting off with a creative period that saw the release of his sophomore record Ghost People and a signing to the highly regarded Brainfeeder. “The Brainfeeder thing has been quite a big deal for me, I’m very happy about that,” he says. “With this album, I think I’ve written the best tracks I’ve ever done, in my opinion. Doing the press and promotion for Ghost People and actually getting to play my very first live gigs – that’s been a completely new experience altogether. “My first live set I got to play at a festival in Austria and it was just the strangest experience ever! After having DJ’d for over 15 years, to be up there with no records and no CDs, not even headphones, and only just my very own music to rely on to play a good set… That was different! But after a few live sets, I learned so much about playing each time I did it that I wished I could play live every day just to learn more and more about it. It’s very exciting to open new doors like that.” Playing live in Australia for the first time at PRZM New Year’s Eve at The Bakery, Martyn says he is both excited and a little nervous about returning down under – but it’s more about the flight over than anything really. “It’s very far away,” he says. “The last time I was there was in www.xpressmag.com.au
Martyn September 2010 for a Red Bull Music Academy tour. That was my first time and I even got to celebrate my birthday down under…. I always love visiting far-away places, though. Even before I moved to America, I was fascinated by it... I love the vastness of it and the space – it’s like Australia in that way.” Martyn claims that unlike many other native European DJs, he believes America’s output isn’t as bad as some would make it out to be. “I think electronic music has made a huge leap forward in the last few years, especially in America,” he says. “It’s because of both the insurgence of dubstep’s rave-ier side as well as the hip hop and electronic community meeting each other in the middle via the Brainfeeder output.”
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Mustang – DJ James Paddy Hannans – Dr Bogus/ Crazy Craig South St – DJ Castasia/ Dpad Swinging Pig – DJ Simon The Avenue – Jon Ee The Craftsman – Roger Smart The Deen – DJ Flex/ DJ Nano/ DJ Surge/ DJ Don Migi The East End Bar - The Prestige The Queens – Kapitol The Velvet Lounge – Sub City The Whale & Ale – Josh Tilley The Whistling Kite - DJ Gareth Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin
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THURSDAY 29/12 Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Wrighteous Claremont Hotel – DJ DD/ DJ Matt/ DJ Millie Club Marakesh – DJ Simon Cottesloe Hotel – DJ Shots/ DJ Andy M Double Lucky - Parlour Duchess - Fiveo Eve – DJ Tony Allen Leopold Hotel – DJ Riki/ Roger Smart Llama Bar – DJ Maxwell/ EMAS/ Lukas Wimler Mint Nightclub – DJ Simon Barwood Mt Henry Tavern - DJ Matty J Mullaloo Beach Hotel - DJ John Paul/ DJ Slick
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Ambar – Nervo Amplifier – Cowboys & Indie Kids Bar 459 - DJ Smurf Broken Hill Hotel – DJ Nick Alexander Brooklands Tavern - DJ Jayden Burswood Dome - Lil Wayne Capitol – Retro Mash Capitol (Upstairs) – Electric Touch Carine Tavern – Greg Packer/ MC Assassin Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Boogie Claremont Hotel – DJ Nick Sheppard Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Double Lucky – Full Circle Fridays Duchess - Fiveo Eve – DJ Don Migi/ DJ Danny Boi Funk Club – DJ Charlie Bucket Gosnells Club – DJ Now Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays - DJ Dooey Left Bank – DJ Frankie Button
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Library – Dorcia Little Creatures Loft – Marine Beats Llama Bar – DJ Reuben/ DJ Morris Malt Super Club - Fiveo Merriwa Tavern – DJ Real McCoy Metro City (Solace Bar) – DJ Slick Metro Freo (Upstairs) – DJ DTuck/ Suave Mint Nightclub – Club Retro ft Chris McPhee Mullaloo Beach Hotel - DJ John Paul Mustang – Swing DJ/ DJ James MacArthur Paddy Hannans – Crazy Craig Paramount - DJ John/ DJ Jordan Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Sail & Anchor - Balcony Beatz / DJ J-MAC The Avenue – Jon E The Boheme – Amanda Power The Carine – Mind Electric/ DJ Now/ DJ Alex The Craftsman – DJ Abstar The Deen – DJs Birdie/ DJ Surge/ DJ Nano The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Generous Squire - DJ Anaru The Queens – DJ Rueben The Saint - DJ Jordan The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 The Whale & Ale – Josh Tiley Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Adam Kelly The Vic - DJ Giles Wembley Hotel – G Martin Windsor – DJ Riki and Ray Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Giles
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Ginger Nightclub – Studio 54 NYE ft J Rad/ Groovenuts/ Musik/ DJ Pete Francis/ DJ Lorne Padman Malt Super Club – Fiveo Metro City - Mayan NYE End Of The World Party Metro Freo –The Shore House NYE Salt On The Beach - Countdown To New Year’s Eve ft Lyrics Born/ Russ Dewbury/ N’FA/ Charlie Bucket and more The Attic - NYExcuse ft Shazam/ Blend/ Lightseed/ Tron/ The Exploder/ Willy Suede/ Lemon Lime & Biddiss/ Esio Trot The Bakery - PRZM New Year’s Eve 11/12 ft Martyn/ Africa Hitech/ Arp 101/ Kit Pop/ Zeke/ Modo and more
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The Wembley – Jon Ee Toucan Club - NYE ft DJ Lee Stephen Venn - Venn New Year’s Eve Party ft Scenic/ Randa/ DJ Sharif Galal/ Lightsteed/ Nic Elliott/ Scotty Sour Villa- School Disco NYE ft Karl Blue/ Junior/ Raji d/ Angry Buda/ Headayke
SUNDAY 1/1 Broken Hill Tavern - Sophie Jane Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Claremont Hotel – DJ DD Clink – DJ Tony Allen Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve Nightclub – RNB Superclub 10th Anniversary ft MC Jayson/ DJ G-Wizard Mint - Chris McPhee Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Slick/ DJ John Paul Mustang – DJ Rockin Rhys Queens Tavern – DJ Rhys Salt On The Beach - Club Paradiso ft Wynter Gordon/ The Shapeshifters and more
Martyn The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Dyl/ eSQue The Clink – Az-T The Manor - Manor NYE 2011 ft Paper Plane Project/ MT5K/ Nathan J/ Charlie Bucket/ Carlsani/ Ad Roc/ Essar 1/ Kit Pop/ Pawel
SATURDAY 31/12 Ambar – New Year’s Eve ft Elite Force Amplifier/ Capitol – The Indie Kid Strikes Back NYE ft Death Disco/ Eddie Electric and more Belvoir Amphitheatre - Origin NYE 2012 ft Noisia/ Foreign Beggars/ S.P.Y/ Borgore/ ShockOne/ Modestep (live)/ Danny Byrd/ 12th Planet/ Roksonix/ B-Complex/ Zomboy/ Calyx & Teebee/ Loadstar/ Alix Perez/ Opiuo/ Gran Calavera/ Ekko/ Sidetrack/ Dr.Space Double Lucky – New Years Eve White 3000 Ad Party
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Kit Pop
The Cott – Cott Sessions The Flying Squadron Yacht Club - Cuban Club 2012 ft Sampology/ Cut & Paste Soundsystem/ Sambalicious/ Audageous/ El Ginger Mojito/ Brow Horn Orchestra/ Yacht Club DJs The Kiosk – DJ Cinder The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Wembley – DJ Funkybottoms/ Boogie/ Dekoyfox
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Ginger Mojito/ Brow Horn Orchestra/ Fluxx ft Death Disco/ Feeding Car/ Charlie Dali Yacht Club DJs Wednesday, January 11@Amplifier Sunday, January 1 @ The Flying Grant Smillie Squadron Yacht Club Wednesday, December 28 @ The Bow Wow Newport Club Paradiso ft Wynter Gordon/ The Thursday, January 12 @ Metro City Shapeshifters and more Nervo Sunday, January 1 @ Salt On The Beach Brookes Brothers Friday, December 30 @ Ambar Friday, January 13 @ Shape th Countdown To New Years Eve ft Lyrics RNB Superclub 10 Anniversary ft MC Immortal Technique Jayson/ DJ G-Wizard Born/ Russ Dewbury/ N’FA/ Charlie Saturday, January 14 @ Villa Sunday, January 1 @ Eve Nightclub Bucket and more TBC Saturday, December 31 @ Salt On The Shabazz Palaces Summadayze ft Pendulum/ Snoop Beach Dogg/ Justice/ Calvin Harris/ Scissor Sunday, January 15 @ The Bakery Sisters/ Moby/ Grandmaster Flash/ New Year’s Eve ft Elite Force Sneaky Sound System/ Erick Morillo/ Precision: Reunion ft El Hortnet/ Saturday, December 31 @ Ambar Sasha/ Markus Schulz/ Tiga/ Skream Muller/ Dan Lucas/ Sardi/ Mike L/ & Benga/ Busy P/ Jack Beats/ Flying General Justice/ Jo 19 School Disco NYE ft Karl Blue/ Tuesday, January 17 @ The Hyde Park Lotus/ Seth Troxler/ Spank Rock/ In Junior/ Raji d/ Angry Buda/ Hotel Flagranti/ Mightyfools/ Ruby Rose/ Headayke Stafford Brothers & Timmy Trumpet/ Saturday, December 31 @ Villa Matthew Dear Bombs Away/ Russ Dewbury/ Black Friday, January 20 @ The Likes Of You & Blunt/ Mind Electric/ Kenny L NYExcuse ft Shazam/ Blend/ (venue TBC) Lightseed/ Tron/ The Exploder/ Willy Project/ Death Disco DJs/ Junior/ Naik/ Sam Perry/ Darren J vs. Suede/ Lemon Lime & Biddiss/ Esio Bare Noize Trot Craig Hollywood/ Jason Creek vs. Saturday, December 31 @ The Attic GeRmAn/ Sun City/ Bastian’s Happy Friday, January 20 @ Shape Flight/ Jack Masel Origin NYE 2012 ft Noisia/ Foreign Tuesday, January 3 @ Sir James Mitchell Death Grips/ Injured Ninja/ Mathas/ Ourobonic Plague/ Sleepyhead/ Mr Beggars/ S.P.Y/ Borgore/ ShockOne/ Park th Starks Modestep (live)/ Danny Byrd/ 12 Saturday, January 21 @ The Bakery Planet/ Roksonix/ B-Complex/ Zomboy/ Calyx & Teebee/ Loadstar/ Sets On The Beach Vol 5 ft Whitest Alix Perez/ Opiuo/ Gran Calavera/ Boy Alive/ Villa/ Shazam/ Zelimir/ Ekko/ Sidetrack/ Dr.Space Fluxx ft Death Disco/ Loki Gold Fields/ Swissco Disco and more Saturday, December 31 @ Belvoir Wednesday, January 4@Amplifier Sunday, January 22 @ Scarborough Amphitheatre Beach Amphitheatre Nina Las Vegas PRZM New Year’s Eve 11/12 ft Friday, January 6 @ Bar 120 Golden Apples Of The Sun ft Claude Martyn/ Africa Hitech/ Arp 101/ Kit Mono/ Diger Rokwell/ Tristan Gibbs Pop/ Zeke/ Modo and more Nina Las Vegas and more Saturday, December 31 @ The Bakery Friday, January 6 @ Bar 120 Sunday, January 22 @ The Bird Manor NYE 2011 ft Paper Plane Soul Project ft Eddie Leader Heavyweight Sounds: Australia Day Project/ MT5K/ Nathan J/ Charlie Saturday, January 7 @ Geisha Eve Annual ft Andy C/ MC GQ/ Camo Bucket/ Carlsani/ Ad Roc/ Essar 1/ & Krooked/ DJ Fierce Kit Pop/ Pawel Southbound ft Dr Don Don/ Drapht/ Wednesday, January 25 @ Metro City Saturday, December 31 @ The Manor Dub FX/ Nina Las Vegas/ Pnau/ Plump DJs Venn New Year’s Eve Party ft Scenic/ Q-Bik/ ShockOne/ Young MC/ Wednesday, January 25 @ Villa Randa/ DJ Sharif Galal/ Lightsteed/ Bass Kleph/ Hook N Sling/ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs/ Nic Elliott/ Scotty Sour Charlie Bucket/ Darcy/ DJ Swami Bart B More Saturday, December 31 @ Venn Adima/ Alex K/ Frankie Button/ Wednesday, January 25 @ Ambar, Mutchy/ Zelimir and more Perth Cultural Centre Mayan NYE End Of The World Party Saturday, January 7 & Sunday, January 8 Saturday, December 31 @ Metro City @ Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton Prins Thomas Wednesday, January 25 @ The NYE ft DJ Lee Stephen Saturday, December 31 @ Toucan Club Pete Rock/ The Stoops/ N’fa/ Charlie Spiegeltent, Perth Cultural Centre Bucket Zeds Dead Saturday, January 7 @ Villa The Shore House NYE Thursday, January 26 @ The Overflow Saturday, December 31 @ Metro Freo (The Court) Taylor McFerrin/ Cosmo Gets/ Sam Perry/ Charlie Bucket Cuban Club 2012 ft Sampology/ Bass Kleph Thursday, January 12 @ The Bakery Cut & Paste Soundsystem/ Friday, January 27 @ Ambar Sambalicious/ Audageous/ El
COMING UP
Erick Morillo
ORIGIN
Noisia
CHEEK
IN THE
Bar Orient - DJ White Label Broken Hill Tavern - DJ Mario Tavelli Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris The Deen – Plastic Max / The Token Gesture The Paddo – DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy
Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel – DJ Matty J High Wycombe – DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Sir James Mitchell Park Summadayze ft Snoop Dogg/ Pendulum/ Moby (DJ set)/ Justice (live)/ Calvin Harris/ Scissor Sisters/ Erick Morillo/ Sasha/ Tiga/ Grandmaster Flash/ Skream & Benga/ Busy P/ Markus Schulz/ Flying Lotus/ Spank Rock/ Jack Beats (live)/ Seth Troxler/ In Flagranti/ Mighty Fools/ Sneaky Sound System (live)/ Stafford Brothers/ Timmy Trumpet (live)/ Bombs Away (live) and more
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NYE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31 @ BELVOIR AMPHITHEATRE
Boom Box Boat Party ft DJs Don Migi/ Danny Boi/ Skooby Friday, January 27 @ Barrack St Jetty The Wonderful World Of DJ Yoda ft DJ Yoda/ Buda/ Charlie Bucket/ Tee EL Saturday, January 28 @ Villa Lloyd Kings Of Heart Tour Tuesday, January 31 @ Metro City Limelite 5th Birthday ft Laidback Luke/ Rogerseventytwo/ Zelimir/ Jus Haus?/ Mel B Friday, February 3 @ Metro Freo Big Day Out ft Odd Future/ Girl Talk/ Royksopp/ Nero/Q-BIK/ MC Red/ Seeka/ Ekko & Sidetrack/ Deadvents/ Mumma Says Yes Sunday, February 5 @ Lathlain Park St Jerome’s Laneway Festival ft M83/ SBTRKT/ Washed out and more Saturday, February 11 @ Perth Cultural Centre Future Music Festival ft Swedish House Mafia/ Fatboy Slim/ Tinie Tempah/ Paul van Dyk/ Chase & Status/ Skrillex/ Aphex Twin/ Die Antwoord/ Gareth Emery/ James Murphy & Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem/ DFA)/ Sven Vath/ Alex Metric/ Azari & III/ Horse Meat Disco/ / Frank Ocean/ The Stafford Brothers/ Friendly Fires/ Knife Party/ Professor Green/ Dubfire/ Flux Pavilion/ Orjan Nilsen/ Porter Robinson/ Ruby Rose/ tyDi/ Kill The Noise/ Timmy Trumpet and more Sunday, February 4 @ Arena Joondalup Balam Acab Friday, February 17 @ The Bakery Soul II Soul (Sound System) Sunday, February 19 @ venue TBC The Game Tuesday, February 21 @ Metro City Mickey Avalon Friday, March 9 @ Villa The Herd/ Thundamentals Saturday, April 14 @ The Rosemount 360 Friday, March 16 @ The Rosemount Hermitude Friday, March 30 @ Mojo’s Hermitude Saturday, March 31 @ Amplifier Supafest ft P.Diddy/ Ice Cube/ Rick Ross/ Trey Songz/ Kelly Rowland/ Lupe Fiasco and more TBC Sunday, April 22 @ Arena Joondalup
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2011: THE YEAR IN GIGS
Abbe May (photo: Daniel Grant)
It’s been a blessed year for live music fans and here are the best gigs to prove it. Aussie pop sensations past and present, some of the world’s best musicians at the top of their game and some long-awaited comeback shows: it was a tremendous year for gigs in WA. This week, some of our music writers pick their favourites.
CHLOE PAPAS
Neil Finn & Paul Kelly (photo: Mike Wylie) MATT HOGAN
ANNABEL MACLEAN
1. GRINDERMAN @ Big Day Out, February 6 and Metropolis Fremantle, December 5 2. THE NATIONAL @ Metro City, November 17 3. FRENZAL RHOMB @ Civic Hotel, September 10 4. TUMBLEWEED @ Mojo’s, June 12 5. FUTURE OF THE LEFT @ The Rosemount Hotel, December 4
1. DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? @ Amplifier, August 3 2. DIE ANTWOORD @ Big Day Out, February 6 3. LES SAVY FAV @ St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Amanda Palmer (photo: Lisa Businovski) February 12 4. MOUNT KIMBIE @ The Bakery, March 4 TOM VARIAN 5. MC SUPERNATURAL, RAHZEL and DJ JS-1 @ Villa, April 8 1. GOTYE @ Belvoir Amphitheatre, December 9 JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD 2. GOMEZ @ Astor Theatre, August 8 3. PORTISHEAD @ Belvoir Amphitheatre, 1. MINK MUSSEL CREEK @ Norfolk Basement, November 15 March 20 4. THE DRUMS @ Astor Theatre, May 12 2. SUFJAN STEVENS @ The Regal Theatre, February 5. KOOL AND THE GANG @ Perth Zoo, February 20 3. SOUTHBOUND 2011 @ Sir Stewart Bovell Park, January 1-3 CHRIS HAVERCROFT 4. MARNIE STERN @ The Bakery, October 8 5. RABBIT ISLAND @ The Bakery, March 25 Gyroscope (photo: Sammy Granville) 1. SUFJAN STEVENS @ Regal Theatre, February 4 2. JOANNA NEWSOM @ Beck’s Music Box, March 2 3. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH @ The Rosemount Hotel, October 27 4. STEVIE NICKS @ WA Athletics Stadium, November 26 5. BUILT TO SPILL @ Rosemount Hotel, January 4
Boys Boys Boys! (photo: Lisa Businovski)
Duck Sauce (photo: Matt Jelonek)
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1. CAT EMPIRE @ The Rosemount Hotel, October 9 2. MATT CORBY @ Secret Garden Party in Como, November 4 3. JINJA SAFARI @ Amplifier, December 3 4. SOUTHBOUND 2011 @ Sir Stewart Bovell Park, January 1-3 5. SPARKADIA @ The Astor, September 3 BRENDAN HOLBEN 1. NEW YORK DOLLS @ Amplifier, October 7 2. SSA and NEW HUSSEINS @ Dream Studios, February 26 3. FRENZAL RHOMB @ Rosemount Hotel, May 27 4. THE HOMICIDES @ Civic Backroom, July 8 5. THE HIVES @ Esplanade Park, July 23 JESSICA WILLOUGHBY 1. KROMOSOM @ The Civic Den, January 28 2. SARRY @ The Bird, October 3 3. KYUSS @ Capitol, May 5 4. IRON LUNG @ The Civic Den, March 8 5. ALCEST/HEIRS @ The Bakery, October 29 DANIEL PARKINSON 1. GRINDERMAN @ Big Day Out, February 7 2. FUTURE OF THE LEFT @ The Rosemount Hotel, December 4 4. TUMBLEWEED @ Mojo’s, June 12 5. SEA OF TUNES @ Beaufort St Festival, November 12 6. NOVOCAINES @ Amplifier, November 4
JOSHUA HAYES
CONAN TROUTMAN
1. HUNTER AND MORTAR @ The Rosemount Hotel, August 12 2. BIG BOI @ Metro City, September 3 3. ALOE BLACC @ The Bakery, February 5 4. MULATU ASTATKE @ Fremantle Town Hall, November 20 5. DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN @ The Rosemount Hotel, July 23
1. SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL 2011 @ Claremont Showgrounds, March 7 2. TOOL @ the Big Day Out, February, 7 3. PORTISHEAD @ Belvoir Amphitheatre, November 15 4. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS @ Challenge Stadium, March 16 5. KARNIVOOL @ Metro City, April 14
Blazin’ Entrails (photo: Stefan Caramia)
Suicidal Tendencies(photo: Denis Radacic)
1. LEFTFIELD @ Future Music Festival, March 6 2. PORTISHEAD @ Belvoir Amphitheatre, November 15 3. CHRIS CORNELL @ Perth Concert Hall, October 10 4. EDDIE VEDDER @ Riverside Theatre, April 1 5. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH @ The Rosemount Hotel, October 27
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HYDE PARK HOTEL
FESTIVE FUN
Celebrate 2012 in style at the Hyde Park Hotel’s Auld Lang Hyde New Year’s Eve party! There will be plenty of great live music from the Steve Parkin Band, The Seals, Carus Thompson and Ruby Boots. Festivities kick off at 7pm on Saturday, December 31, and will be going on well after midnight! Tickets are $15 and selling quick. Get yours from the venue.
The Leederville Hotel Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Packed to the rafters with punters enjoying a few festive beverages, Wednesday night at the Leederville Hotel rocked until the wee hours of the morning. Crowds packed out the five bars over three rooms, dancing along to tunes by DJ Rueben and DJ Chase.
Sandra & Olivia
Photographs by Courtney McAllister
Abbey, Stephen & Vanessa
Tony & Joel
ROSEMOUNT HOTEL
The Rosemount Hotel once again presents a stellar local line-up for its annual New Year’s Eve Fiesta. The event has always been one of the favourite NYE options in Perth for the local music lover, its increasing popularity won’t be slowing down this year! Catch Abbe May, The Chemist, Sons Of Rico, Boys Boys Boys!, Arts Martial, Russian Winters and Mezzanine all hitting the Rosemount stage for the ultimate Perth music party! In the beer garden there’ll be tunes courtesy of Rosemount’s regular party-starting DJs Cowboys & Indie Kids. For more info and to purchase tickets check out rosemounthotel.com.au.
LEEDERVILLE HOTEL
As summer begins, the Leederville Hotel kicks into gear with Perth’s biggest and best midweek party. Every Wednesday, the venue goes wild with Perth’s best DJs and lighting shows. The hotel is also famous for their many annual events including the NYE Beach Party where they bring the beach to you, Sexy Bunny Easter Party and Christmas In July – anytime is an excuse for the Leedy to get the party started.
THE LEFT BANK Georgia, Jodie, Barry, David, Claire & Emma
Steph, Emma, Sally & Stephanie
Get ready to countdown the New Year in celebrity style with Fashionista at The Left Bank. Five piece funk and groove band, Off The Record, will be playing live, combined with DJ Giff (Berlin) bringing you the biggest and best tunes. The first day of 2012 should be the entrance into a new, fresh and exciting year. With summer style and sophistication, The Left Bank is the perfect place to begin anew!
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Looking for a good time this New Year’s Eve, but trying to avoid being let down by another disappointing event? Well look no further, New Year’s Eve at Amplifier is here. While Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, Injured Ninja and Runner are sure to get the party started, the evening’s highlight is sure to be the long-awaited return of much-loved local rockers Sugar Army. Tickets
are available from Heatseeker and Moshtix for $30+bf. Very limited tickets will be available at the door on the night for $50 so get your presales while they last!
BROKEN HILL HOTEL
The Broken Hill will be home to the New Orleans New Years Eve Party and will host a lineup of DJs and live music. Be ready to experience the infamous bourbon street in the heart of the French quarter. Tickets include a welcome cocktail, traditional New Orleans wrap (poyboy) and free shuttle to public transport! Tickets on sale through The Broken Hill or Moshtix.
BRASS MONKEY
Kick off your weekend in style by heading down to the Brass Monkey for Sun Downer Fridays featuring acoustic sessions with live artists from 4.30pm to 7.30pm and DJ Vicktor from 8pm ‘til late. There will also be a complimentary platter of nibbles going around. Bookings are essential.
LLAMA BAR
New Year’s Eve at The Llama bar is set to be GLAM. Headlining the night with bangin’ beats will be acclaimed resident DJ at Pacha, Ibiza, Nicc Johnson (Spain) who is guaranteed to bring the house down and set the dance floor on fire. Sneaker Fox and DJ Reuben will also be tearing it up with video art by VJ Zoo. Tickets are $45+bf from Moshtix or get exclusive Moet VIP lounge access for $65+bf. For a night to remember, book now.
MUSTANG
Catch The Continentals on stage from 7pm to start off the NYE party. 10 Cent Billionaire take the stage from 11pm for the late shift and counting you down to 2012, a multi-genre rock/pop/top40 featuring a group of talented musicians that know how to get the dance floor shakin’ with your favourite tunes. DJ James MacArthur will be on the wheels of steel to keep you going throughout the night.
MOJO’S BAR
Sunday, January 1, Simmer Down Sunday is a super chill charged 100% reggae music powered by the Fisherman Style crew to bring you a refreshing and revitalized vibe for New Year’s Day! Be very much soothed by Sabata Sound, Earthlink Sound, Future Soundz, Kritical and Corby. Entry is $5 from 4-10pm! Tuesday, January 3, The Whores play Mojo’s Bar supported by Gloria Ironbox, Hokasai and Broken Skins. Entry is $5 from 8pm.
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NEW YEAR’S NOISE
Whether you’re up for a hedonistic night of dancing, a dirty, loud rock gig or a more intimate under-the-radar affair, some of WA’s best local musicians have the New Year’s Eve night out sorted for you and will be providing the soundtrack for welcoming the new year on the dancefloors all around town. We quizzed some of the musicians about their musical highlights of 2011 and what punters can expect from their end-of-year shows.
JAMES SHER, SUGAR ARMY What was your personal highlight of the year that was 2011? We were in Sydney for a good amount of time recording our new album. That was an excellent creative time for all of us. What were your top five albums of 2011? 1. TV ON THE RADIO- Nine Types of Light 2. BATTLES - Gloss Drop 3. THE KILLS - Blood Pressures 4. UNKNOWN MORAL ORCHESTRA - Self Titled 5. MOGWAI - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
is annoying me just say it straight up. Where are you playing on New Years Eve? Amplifier’s New Year’s Eve party with Injured Ninja, Runner and Timothy Nelson & The Infidels. A New Years Eve party is not like any other – how will you take your show to the next level? I was thinking UV paint and black lights, giving the show a tribal vibe but that could be too proggy!
What was your personal highlight of the year that was 2011? We had a bunch of really good things happen for Boys Boys Boys! in 2011, such as touring over east with Sons of Rico, selling out the Bakery for the Casio Joy launch and having our songs played in a US TV series, but the highlight for me was definitely going on tour supporting childhood heroes Regurgitator and getting to hang out with them AFTER EVERY SHOW (They couldn’t escape!). What were your top five albums of 2011? 1. CSS – La Liberación 2. SebastiAn – Total 3. REGURGITATOR – SuperHappyFuntimesFriends 4. USURPERS OF MODERN MEDICINE – Acid Chess 5. FOSTER THE PEOPLE – Torches What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Usurpers Of Modern Medicine – Acid Chess. Live, these guys are an impressive, solid unit, and on the EP it comes across with really great sounds and vibe. When I heard the EP it was such a fresh sounding thing to come out locally, and I found it really inspiring.
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I’m involved in like, 3 projects at the moment so it would be nice to have 3 albums done by 2013. But who knows. Where are you playing on New Year’s Eve? Amplifier’s New Year’s Eve party with Injured Ninja, Runner and Sugar Army. A New Year’s Eve party is not like any other – how will you take your show to the next level? We’ve all these new tunes we’re keen to unleash. They’re a lot more rockin’ than the last lot, we’re becoming a somewhat different band I think, but for the better.
What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? Felicity Groom - Gossamer. Finally I can hear her songs through my headphones, not just at a gig, and it’s great. I couldn’t move when I first heard An Ache, that song especially is amazing.
What was the best gig you saw this year? The most recent two Dada Records shows. That is the genuine place these days to get a vibe going, nowhere else seems to have it. Big companies you screwed us with the Hydey, thanks a lot for ruining culture.
ALWYN NIXON, BOYS BOYS BOYS!
What was your personal highlight of the year that was 2011? Finally put out the Infidels record, got started on new material, and formed a new band I’m very excited about - High Horse. What were your top five albums of 2011? 1. FEIST - Metals 2. WILCO - The Whole Love 3. FOSTER THE PEOPLE - Torches 4. GIRLS - Father Son Holy Ghost 5. YUCK - Yuck
What was your favourite WA music release of the year and why? These Shipwrecks - Salt, Sulphur, Mercury. I think they released this [last] year but they are a mind bending journey. Very cool.
What is your New Years Resolution for 2012? Be more like Larry David - if something
TIMOTHY NELSON, TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS
Sugar Army
What was the best gig you saw this year? Sufjan Stevens at the Regal. His new material’s more up my alley and the show he put on was amazing. I also got a kick out of seeing all his old fans get pissed off. What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2012?
What was the best gig you saw this year? Gary Numan at the Astor.
SIMON KELLY
What is your New Years Resolution for 2012? Be omniscient
What was your personal highlight of the year that was 2011? Getting Claudia’s phone number.
Where are you playing on News Years Eve? The Rosemount Hotel, with a bunch of amazing bands, such as The Chemist and Abbe May. We’re really, really excited, especially to be playing with our good buddies Sons of Rico and Russian Winters again. A New Years Eve party is not like any other –how will you take your show to the next level? New Years Eve parties are all about hanging out with your good friends, partying, having a boogie and hopefully stealing a few kisses…We know it’s NYE and people are going to be up for a good time, but we’ve been working on a few special songs to make sure everyone is in the party mood to bring in the new year.
Boys Boys Boys!
Timothy Nelson & The Infidels
What were your top five albums of 2011? 1. MASTODON- The Hunter 2. BON IVER- Bon Iver 3. GOMEZ- Whatever’s On Your Mind 4. MACHINE HEAD- Unto The Locust 5. THE RED EYES- Red Army What was the best gig you saw this year? Elbow at Metropolis Perth. Where are you playing on New Year’s Eve? The Shipwrecked Ball at Little Creatures Loft in Fremantle. A New Year’s Eve party is not like any other –how will you take your show to the next level? I’m playing a Calypso set – Calypso is already next level!
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Hilltop Hoods, February 9, Capitol
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COUNTDOWN TO NYE (Lyrics Born, N’FA and more) 31 Salt On The Beach
BAD MANNERS 31 Civic Hotel 1 Newport
DEPEDRO 1 Fremantle Arts Centre
CUBAN CLUB (Lyrics Born and more) 1 Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club
SUMMADAYZE (Pendulum, Snoop Dogg, Justice, Calvin Harris, Scissor Sisters, Moby, Grandmaster Flash, Sneaky Sound System Erick Morillo, Sasha, Markus Schulz, Tiga, Skream & Benga, Busy P, Jack Beats, Flying Lotus, Seth Troxler, Spank Rock, In Flagranti, Mightyfools, Ruby Rose, Stafford Brothers & Timmy Trumpet, Bombs Away, Russ Dewbury, Black & Blunt, Mind Electric, Kenny L Project, Death Disco DJs, Junior, Naik, Sam Perry, Darren J vs. Craig Hollywood, Jason Creek vs. GeRmAn, Sun City, Bastian’s Happy Flight, Jack Masel) 3 Sir James Mitchell Park
JANUARY ARCTIC MONKEYS / MILES KANE / VIOLENT SOHO 6 Belvoir Amphitheatre ALPINE 7 Amplifier GOSSLING 7 The Bird
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SOUTHBOUND (Arctic Monkeys, Arj Barker, Fleet Foxes, The John Butler Trio, An Horse, The Head & The Heart, Kimbra, CSS, The Jezabels, Tim Finn, Crystal Castles, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Josh Pyke, Papa Vs Pretty, Wonderful World Of DJ Yoda, Aloe Blacc, Dan Deacon, Jim Jones Revue, The Kooks, Metronomy, Pnau, Emma Louise, Lanie Lane, Missy Higgins, Josh Thomas, Drapht Alpine, Beirut, Cant, The Grates, Regurgitator, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Grouplove, Miles Kane, The Naked & Famous, Tijuana Cartel, The Vines and more) 7 & 8 Sir Stewart Bovell Park Busselton THE KOOKS 9 Astor Theatre BOW WOW 12 Metro City TAYLOR McFERRIN 12 The Bakery LEWIS FLOYD HENRY 12 Mojo’s Bar 13 Prince Of Wales 14 Ya Ya’s 15 Mojo’s Bar SCOTTIE MILLER 10 Charles Hotel 11 Mojos Bar 12 The Ellington THE DRESDEN DOLLS / THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER 12 Astor Theatre DEERHOOF 13 The Bakery PJ HARVEY 13 Perth Concert Hall SONS & DAUGHTERS 14 The Bakery SUN ARAW / RITES WILD 15 The Bird COMBICHRIST 15 Amplifier LUCKY SEVEN 15 The Ellington LYDIA 18 Amplifier THE RED PAINTINGS 19 The Bakery THEE OH SEES 20 The Bakery NOUVELLE VAGUE 20 Fly By Night VENGABOYS 20 & 21 Metropolis Fremantle 80’S DANCE PICNIC PARTY (Ali Campbell’s UB40, Billy Ocean, Big Mountain with Junior Marvin) 21 Athletics Stadium Mount Claremont DEATH GRIPS 21 The Bakery THE DAMNED (CANCELLED) 22 Capitol THE WHITEST BOY
Jason Isbell, February 25, Perth Concert Hall ALIVE 22 Scarborough Beach IL DIVO 23 Kings Park BETH ORTON 24 & 25 Quarry Amphitheatre THE STEPKIDS 25 The Bakery KING TIDE 25 Prince Of Wales 26 Settlers Tavern 27 Devilles Pad 28 Fly By Night Club 29 Indi Bar THE WHITLAMS 27 & 28 Quarry Amphitheatre ROGER WATERS THE WALL 27 & 28 Burswood Dome SARAH MCLEOD 27 & 28 The Ellington BACKTRACK / IRON MIND 28 The Den 29 YMCA HQ LLOYD 31 Metro City
FEBRUARY SEETHER 1 Rosemount (HED)P.E. / JEFFREY NOTHING 1 Amplifier PRINCE RAMA 2 Mojos 3 The Bakery ROD STEWART / DIESEL 4 NIB Stadium REGURGITATOR 4 Indi Bar SCOTT KELLY (NEUROSIS) / JOHN BAIZLEY (BARONESS) 4 Civic Hotel BIG DAY OUT (Soundgarden, Kasabian, My Chemical Romance, The Living End, Röyksopp, Boy & Bear, Parkway Drive, Architecture In Helsinki, Battles, The Jezebels, Odd Future, Frenzal Rhomb, Girl Talk, The Getaway Plan, Cage The Elephant, Foster The People, Best Coast, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Nero, The Vaccines, Bass Nectar, Regurgitator, Drapht, Kimbra, Bluejuice, Tonight Only, The Bronx & Mariachi El Bronx) 5 Brownes Stadium Lathlain HILLTOP HOODS/ VENTS/ DAZASTAH/ LAYLA 9 Capitol 10 Capitol LITTLE ROY 10 Perth Festival Gardens THE CAT EMPIRE 10 Fremantle Arts Centre TIM MINCHIN 10 & 12 Challenge Stadium RACHEL CLAUDIO
Matt Corby, February 24 Amplifier
10 & 11 The Ellington KASEY CHAMBERS 11 Mundaring Weir Hotel 12 Mandurah Offshore Sailing Club ST. JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL (Active Child, Anna Calvi, Austra, Bullion, Cults, The Drums, DZ Deathrays, EMA ,Feist, Geoffry O’Connor, Girls, Glasser, The Horrors, John Talabot, Jonti, Laura Marling, M83, Oneman, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Pajama Club, The Panics, SBTRKT, Toro Y Moi, Total Control, Twin Shadow, Washed Out, Wu Lyf, Yuck and more TBA) 11 Perth Cultural Centre SEAL 12 Sandalford Estate Swan Valley THE MEDICS 12 Perth Festival Gardens DENNIS’ ROLLINS VELOCITY TRIO 13 Perth Festival Gardens FAUSTIN PACT 14 Perth Festival Gardens SEASICK STEVE 15 Perth Festival Gardens LA DISPUTE 15 Amplifier 16 YMCA HQ THE SUITCASE ROYALE 16 Perth Festival Gardens RONAN KEATING 16 Kings Park JOSH PYKE 16 Prince Of Wales 17 Settlers Tavern BALAM ACAB 17 The Bakery DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 17 & 18 Perth Festival Gardens ICEHOUSE / WASHINGTON / JOSH PYKE / CLARE BOWDITCH 18 Kings Park DONOVAN FRANKENREITER 18 Newport SOUL II SOUL 19 Venue TBC CORNERSHOP 19 Perth Festival Gardens SOUND OF RUM 20 Perth Festival Gardens GAME 21 Metro City CARNIVAL OF SOULS 21 & 22 Perth Festival Gardens VAN WALKER 23 Settlers Tavern 24 Indi Bar 26 Fly By Night (Fly Trap) OLIVIA NEWTON-
JOHN/ JON ENGLISH 24 Burswood Theatre BONNIE PRINCE BILLY FEAT. THE CAIRO GANG 24 Perth Festival Gardens THE PLATTERS FEAT. MONROE POWELL 24 Fly By Night MATT CORBY 24 Amplifier MEN 25 Perth Festival Gardens RYAN ADAMS/ JASON ISBELL 25 Perth Concert Hall ERYKAH BADU / FAT FREDDYS DROP / MAYER HAWTHORNE 25 Belvoir Amphitheatre HETTY KATE 25 The Ellington NEON INDIAN / SLOW CLUB 26 Perth Festival Gardens ENNIO MORRICONE 26 Sandalford Winery Swan Valley PUGSLEY BUZZARD 26 The Ellington SWAY MACHINERY 27 Perth Festival Gardens BARO BANDA 28 Perth Festival Gardens ROXETTE 28 & 29 Challenge Stadium DAN MANGAN 29 The Fly Trap EDDIE PAMIERI 29 Perth Festival Gardens DAN MANGAN 29 The Fly Trap
MARCH THE MAGNETS 1 Perth Festival Gardens GOSSLING 1 The Bird STICKY FINGERS 1 Indie Bar 2 YaYa’s 3 Settlers Tavern STAFF BENDA BILILI 2 Perth Festival Gardens PENGUIN CAFÉ 3 Perth Festival Gardens TAYLOR SWIFT / HOT CHELLE RAE 2 Burswood Dome NANNUP MUSIC FESTIVAL (Lanie Lane, Mojo Juju, Lou Bennett, Adalita, Oka, Sietta, Swamp Thing, Gossling, Tinpan Orange, Albert Wiggan Band, Bobby Alu, Kavisha Mazella, Neil Murray, Jordie Lane and more) 2 - 5 Nannup BON IVER/ SALLY SELTMAN 3 Red Hill Auditorium FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL (Swedish House Mafia, Fatboy Slim, Tinie Tempah, Paul van Dyk, The
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Sally Seltman, March 3, Red Hill Auditorium Wombats, Chase & Status, Skrillex, Jessie J, The Rapture, Aphex Twin, Die Antwoord, Gareth Emery, James Murphy & Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem/DFA), The Naked & Famous, Hercules & Love Affair, Sven Vath, Alex Metric, Azari & III, Horse Meat Disco, The Juan Maclean, New Order, Friendly Fires, Gym Class Heroes, Mark Ronson vs. Zane Lowe, Knife Party, Professor Green, Dubfire, John O’Callaghan, Oliver Huntemann, Fluxx, Pavilion, Orjan Nilsen, Porter Robinson, Kill The Noise, TyDi, Ruby Rose, Timmy Trumpet) 4 Arena Joondalup SOUNDWAVE (System Of A Down, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, A Day To Remember, Machine Head, Lamb Of God, Trivium, Alter Bridge, Lost Prophets, Angels & Airwaves, Cobra Starship, The Used, You Me At Six, Devin Townsend Project, Unwritten Law, Coal Chamber, Dashboard Confessional, Thursday, Forever The Sickest Kids, Raised Fist, Dillinger Escape Plan, Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society, Mastodon, Underoath, Saves The Day, Circa Survive, Steel Panther, Jack Mannquin, Meshuggah, The
Sisters Of Mercy, Enter Shikari, Four Year Strong, Black Veil Brides, Madina Lake, Zebrahead, Hatebreed, Biohazard, Times Of Grace, CKY, Street Dogs, Dragonforce, Gojira, Kvelertak, Letlive, Hellyeah, CroMags, The Cab, Relient K, Framing Hanley, Watain, Royal Republic, I Am The Avalanche, Turisas, River City, Extension, Bad Religion, Strung Out, Staind, Wednesday 13, Unearth, The Pretty Reckless, Cathedral, Shadows Fall, Tonight Alive, Motionless In White, Heaven Shall Burn, Your Demise, A Rocket To The Moon, The Ready Set, The Menzingers, Dream On Dreamer, Kittie, Dredg, Attack! Attack!, The Smoking Hearts, The Summer Set, Bush, In Flames, The Black Dahlia Murder, Holy Grail, Hyro Da Hero, These Kids Wear Crowns, In This Moment, Black Tide, Kids In Glass Houses, Fireworks, Conditions, Cherri Bomb and more) 5 Claremont Showground JESSIE J 5 Challenge Stadium ADAM COHEN / GOSSLING 6 Fly By Night MARILYN MANSON 6 Metro City WILD FLAG
St Vincent, March 8, The Rosemount 7 The Bakery BLACK LIPS 8 The Bakery ST. VINCENT 8 The Rosemount DIRTY THREE 9 Astor Theatre KERSER 9 Civic Hotel FAITH HILL & TIM MCGRAW 14 Burswood Dome CHARLES BRADLEY 14 The Bakery DIESEL 16 Quarry Amphitheatre 360 16 Rosemount Hotel MADELEINE PEYROUX 16 Riverside Theatre SEEKAE 17 The Bakery 18 Mojo’s Bar BORIS 20 The Bakery DANIEL O’DONNELL 24 Riverside Theatre BRIAN SETZER’S ROCKABILLY RIOT 24 Fremantle Arts Centre DURAN DURAN 24 Sandalford Estate Swan Valley DARYL BRAITHWAITE 24 Bunbury Entertainment Centre NICK LOWE 26 Astor Theatre FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS 27 Kings Park LENNY KRAVITZ / THE CRANBERRIES / WOLFMOTHER 28 Athletics Stadium Mount Claremont WOODEN SHJIPS 30 The Bakery GEORGE MICHAEL
Sublime With Rome, April 11, Metropolis Fremantle
31 Sandalford Estate Swan Valley HERMITUDE 31 Amplifier EDDI READER QUARTET 31 Fly BY Musician Club
APRIL WEST COAST BLUES ‘N’ ROOTS (Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Pogues, The Specials, My Morning Jacket, Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Steve Earle, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Husky and more TBA) 1 Fremantle Park DEAD MEADOW / PINK MOUNTAINTOPS 7 The Bakery STRAWBERRY JAM MUSIC FESTIVAL (P.O.D., Hawk Nelson and more TBA) 8 Albany SUBLIME WITH ROME/ MATT McHUGH 11 Metropolis Fremantle FAIRBRIDGE FESTIVAL OF WORLD & FOLK MUSIC (Paul Brady, Seth Lakeman, My Friend The Chocolate Cake, Chipolatas, Chris While, Julie Matthews, Kavisha, Tjupurru, Stiff Gins, The Woohoo Revue, Linsey Pollak, Mal Webb, Fred Smith & Liz Frencham, April Verch Band, Blu Guru, Dry Bones, Totally Gourdgeous & more TBC) 13 Fairbridge Village Pinjarra 14 Fairbridge Village Pinjarra 15 Fairbridge Village Pinjarra JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
14 Fly By Night Club 15 The Rosemount Hotel SUPAFEST (P. Diddy, Ice Cube, Rick Ross, Trey Songz, Kelly Rowland, Lupe Fiasco and more TBA) 22 Arena Joondalup BURT BACHARACH 23 Riverside Theatre
MAY CREAMFIELDS (David Guetta, Above & Beyond , Dirty South , Alesso, Excision, W&W, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Congorock, Vitalic, Sied van Riel, Tritonal, Downlink, Shockone, MaRLo, Bombs Away , MC Stretch) 5 Supreme Court Gardens JASON DERULO 6 Burswood Dome DAVID CAMPBELL 16 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 17 Queens Park Theatre Geraldton 18 Perth Concert 19 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 17 Burswood Dome GROOVIN THE MOO (Line-up TBA) 19 Hay Park Bunbury NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK / BACKSTREET BOYS 29 Burswood Dome
JUNE TINA ARENA 8 Riverside Theatre
JULY MELISSA ETHERIDGE 20 Riverside Theatre
SYSTEM OF A DOWN
System of a Down
On Monday, March 4, the world of hard rock and metal will come together in a communion of thunderous songs and stories to tip its collective glass to American alt-rock stalwarts System of a Down who will be bringing their frantic, frenetic and brutal live assault to the Claremont Showgrounds as headliners of the 2012 Soundwave Festival. Tickets to the festival are available now from soundwavefestival.com.
DIRTY THREE
Led by violinist Warren Ellis (Grinderman, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), instrumental trio Dirty Three, return in 2012 with a new album and a nation wide tour. Kicking off in early March, the tour will follow hot on the heels of the band’s first studio album in seven years, which Ellis declares, “may well be the definitive album from Dirty Three”. Don’t miss this opportunity to catch the Dirty Three as they pass through WA, playing the Astor Theatre on Friday, March 9. Tickets are available now through BOCS.
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Georgi Kay, Wednesday at Indi Bar
Rainy Day Women, Wednesday at Mojos
WEDNESDAY 28.12 ROSIE O’GRADY’S BALMORAL Nathan Gaunt BALLY’S BAR Greg Carter Karaoke BAR 120 Felix BASEMENT ON BROADWAY The Organ Grinders BLACK BETTY’S Everlong BURSWOOD CASINO Slim Jim & The Phatts CLAREMONT HOTEL Open Mic Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Freddie Grigson Quartet HALE ROAD TAVERN Fenton Wilde HOTEL ROTTNEST The Good Lies INDI BAR Georgi Kay The Velvet Echo LOBBY LOUNGE (BURSWOOD) Courtney Murphy LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan METRO FREO The Other Guys MOJO’S Rainy Day Women Sam Carmody A Beggars Second MUSTANG Hi NRG NEWPORT Grant Smillie PADDO Miles Redfern & DT Subject To Change Hundred Acre Wood
HOTEL ROTTNEST The Good Lies HYDE PARK HOTEL Open Mic Night INDI BAR Bex’s Open Mic Night LUCKY SHAG James Wilson MERRIWA TAVERN Shawne & Luc METRO FREO Dexter MOJO’S BAR King Wasabi MOON & SIXPENCE Bob & Clem MUSTANG BAR The Community Chest The Zebra Three Sure Fire Midnights OCEAN BEACH HOTEL Open Mic Night THURSDAY 29.12 OXFORD HOTEL Jonny Taylor BELGIAN BEER PADDY HANNAN’S CAFÉ Dr Bogus Bernardine Grigson ROSEMOUNT BOAB TAVERN Dilip & The Davs Dom Zurzolo The Gypsie Howls BROOKLANDS Palatial Digs TAVERN Papertrail Celebrations Jessica Hewett Karaoke Steve Martin COMO HOTEL ROSIE O’GRADY’S The Other Guys (Northbridge) DEVILLES PAD Bill Chidgzey Jon Madd’s ROSIE O’GRADY’S Karaoke (Fremantle) ELEPHANT & Clayton Bolger WHEELBARROW SOVEREIGN ARMS Proof David Fyffe ELLINGTON JAZZ THE BROOKE CLUB Open Mic Night Sly THE GATE FUSE BAR Better Days Howie Morgan UNIVERSAL BAR HIGH WYCOMBE Off The Record HOTEL WANNEROO Damien Cripps TAVERN Groove Karaoke YA YA’S Seams Cow Parade Cow Mei Saraswati (Northbridge) David Fyffe ROSEMOUNT Rich Widow Paper Like House Bears and Bulls Von Leon SAIL & ANCHOR Dove SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Christian Thompson SWAN LOUNGE Lain Alex Adam THE MOON David Craft Jesse Woodward Justin Walshe UNIVERSAL Strutt YA YA’S Darren Guthrie Sexy Robot The Origin Of The Lammas Tide
FRIDAY 30.12 Sugar Army
SUGAR ARMY INJURED NINJA, TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS, RUNNER
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7th AVENUE Midnight Rambler ASCOT QUAYS Trevor Jalla BAILEY BAR Slim Jim & The Phatts BALLY’S BAR Jamie Powers BALMORAL The Other Guys
Cow Parade Cow, Thursday at Ya-Yas
BAR ORIENT Crown Jewels BELMONT TAVERN Billy & The Broken Lines BENNY’S Faces BLACK BETTYS J Babies BOHEME BAR Soul Corporation BRASS MONKEY David Fyffe BROOK Better Days CAPTAIN STIRLING Bluebottles CARLISLE HOTEL Reload CIVIC HOTEL The Axe Band Bee Rock Nyayaxism CIVIC HOTEL (THE DEN) The Brown Study Band Something Humble Blind Highway Red Dirt CLAREMONT HOTEL Parker Avenue COMO HOTEL Tip Top ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jade Crompton FLY BY NIGHT CLUB Aztech Suns FUSE BAR Groove Karaoke GLOUCESTER PARK Free Radicals GREENWOOD Local Heroes HARBOUR TERRACE Everlong Acoustic HERDSMAN LAKE TAVERN Acoustic Licence HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL Dexter HOTEL ROTTNEST Howie Morgan HYDE PARK HOTEL Nathan Gaunt Threeplay INDI BAR Ben Meritto K1 BAR Everlong Acoustic KINGSWAY BAR &
BISTRO Dr Bogus LEFT BANK Frankie Button LEGENDS BAR Everlong Acoustic LEISURE INN Neil Colliss MOJO’S BAR Bolsty V Hyderabad Ghost Sibalance V Vishnu DYP V ST1 Boy Prince V Saxon Ylem V Zanetic MUSTANG Harry Deluxe Cheeky Monkeys NEWPORT Milhouse OXFORD HOTEL Recliners PADDINGTON ALEHOUSE Felix PADDO Stu Harcourt PADDY HANNANS Gun Shy Romeos PADDY MAGUIRE’S 43 Cambridge PARAMOUNT Flyte PEEL ALEHOUSE Next Generation Karaoke PRINCPAL Dirty Scoundrels ROSEMOUNT The Novocaines The Love Junkies The Tumblers Foxes ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Spyce SAIL & ANCHOR Switchback SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Greg Carter SUBIACO HOTEL Empire THE BOAT Pop Candy THE CHASE James Wilson THE DEEN James Wilson THE GATE Smoking Section THE SHED Kickstart THE VIC Rhyme & Reason UNIVERSAL Nightmoves
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Russian Winters, Saturday at The Rosemount Hotel VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Ivan Ribic WANNEROO TAVERN Clayton Bolger WOODVALE TAVERN Dr Bogus YAYA’S Lady Libertines Burgers Of Beef Here In Heaven Everything Looks Ok
SATURDAY 31.12 150 RIVERSIDE EAST (ASCOT QUAYS) Adrian Wilson AMPLIFIER Sugar Army Timothy Nelson & The Infidels Injured Ninja Runner ATTIC Shazam Blend Tron Lightseed Willy Suede The Exploder Lemon Lime & Biddis Esio Trot BAILEY BAR Mod Squad BALMORAL Aftershock BALLY BAR Stu Harcourt BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Chris Murphy BLACK BETTY’S Redstar BOAB TAVERN Spritzer BULLSBROOK RODEO J Babies BURSWOOD CASINO Proof CAPTAIN STIRLING Switchback CIVIC HOTEL Bad Manners CLANCY’S FISH PUB FREMANTLE Carus Thompson Band COCO’S Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove COMO HOTEL Tip Top
Friday Friday TravisCaudle Caudle Ruby Boots, Saturday at The Travis FlyPark ByNight Night Hyde Hotel Fly By
CORNERSTONE ALEHOUSE Copycat EDZS SPORTS BAR Better Days ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Ali Bodycoat Quintet Jeremy Gregory GOSNELLS Dakota GREENWOOD HOTEL Two Dogs GREYHOUNDS CANNINGTON Dexter HARBOUR TERRACE Neil Colliss HIGH ROAD HOTEL The Damien Cripps Band HYDE PARK HOTEL Steve Parkin Band The Seals Carus Ruby Boots INDI BAR Matt Gresham Sneaky Weasel Gang KINGSWAY BAR Dr Bogus LITTLE CREATURES LOFT Matty Blade Simon Kelly’s Rumskull Lady Velvet Cabaret LUCKY SHAG Travis Caudle M ON THE POINT Rhythm 22 METROS FREO Karma MIGHTY QUINN TEAVERN Kontraband MOON FUNCTION CENTRE Freddy Mercury Tribute Rod Stewart Tribute Showgirl Kylie ABBA4U MOON & SIXPENCE Blaze MOJO’S BAR Allbrook/Avery Felicity Groom GUM Mink Mussel Creek POND The Growl MUSTANG The Continentals 10 Cent Billionaire
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NEWPORT Gravity PARAMOUNT Flyte PLAYERS BAR Empire ROCKET ROOM Kickstart ROSEMOUNT The Rosemount Hotel’s New Years Fiesta Abbe May The Chemist Sons Of Rico Boys! Boys! Boys! Arts Martial Russian Winters Mezzanine ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene SAIL & ANCHOR Chris Gibbs Band SPRINGS TAVERN Greg Carter STEVE’S BAR Shameem TaheriLee Trio THE GATE Dirty Scoundrels Mike Nayar THE QUEENS The Crux THE SAINT Lixy THE VIC Pop Candy THE VINES RESORT Timeout THE WHALE & ALE Insideout WOODVALE TAVERN Slim Jim & The Phatts YA YA’S The Sweet Janes Agent Double O Soul
The Growl, Saturday at Mojos
FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Sunshine Brothers Depedro Shangara Jive Todd Pickett Lorraine Clifford GREENWOOD Electrophobia HIGH ROAD HOTEL Mike Nayar HOTEL ROTTNEST Chris Gibbs HYDE PARK HOTEL Adam James INDI BAR Moonshine Sugar INDIAN OCEAN BREWING CO Retriofit Dove K1 BAR Damien Cripps KALAMUNDA HOTEL Alitia Martin LAKERS TAVERN Jamie Powers M ON THE POINT Bluebottles MOJO’S BAR Sabata Sound Earthlink Sound Future Soundz Kritical & Corby MUSTANG The Party Rockers NEWPORT Timothy Nelson Bad Manners PADDY HANNAN’S Flyte ROSE & CROWN Christian Thompson SAIL & ANCHOR Shawne & Luc SOUTH ST ALEHOUSE Blackhart & Strangelove
SWINGING PIG Karin Page THE GATE Better Days Electrophobia THE QUEENS Soul Empire THE SAINT Howie Morgan Project WANNEROO TAVERN Steve Hepple WHISTLING KITE James Wilson WOODVALE TAVERN Mia & Good Company MONDAY 2.1 HOTEL ROTTNEST Chris Gibbs LOBBY LOUNGE (BURSWOOD) Courtney Murphy MOJO’S BAR Open Mic Night MUSTANG BAR Marco & The Alley Cats THE DEEN Plastic Max & The Token Gesture Dean Anthonisz
TUESDAY 3.1 MOJO’S BAR The Whores Gloria Ironbox Hokasai Broken Skins PADDO Stu Harcourt PRINCE OF WALES Open Mic Night SETTLERS TAVERN Open Mic Night X-WRAY CAFE Open Piano Night
SUNDAY 1.1 7TH AVENUE Good Karma 150 RIVERSIDE EAST (ASCOT QUAYS) Adrian Wilson BALLY’S BAR Greg Carter BALMORAL Cranky BROOKLANDS Greg Carter CARINE BOB Dove COMO HOTEL Jonathan Dempsey
The Novocaines
THE NOVOCAINES
THE LOVE JUNKIES, THE TUMBLERS & FOXES
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30 THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL
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This week, Volume examines a state-of-the-art guitar effects pedal which promises to give both electric and acoustic players full control of their compression. The concept of compression is apparently something that transcends the language barrier quite well, as the new Compressore pedal from Italian innovators DV Mark clearly demonstrates (yes, that is the actual Italian translation of “compressor”). Designed for players who want real control over their dynamics and not a preset that is likely to squeeze the life out of their signal, the DVM Compressore gives the user many of the controls found on studio compressors. Not only does it give the player full control of gain, threshold, ratio, attack, release and output volume, it does so through the use of an ECC81 tube, which evens out the sharp peaks of their playing in a natural, transparent way while adding warmth and harmonics to their sound. Made entirely in Italy from top-grade components, the DVM Compressore represents professional quality effects in rugged housing. Although it does not bear the recognisable bright yellow paint job of previous DV Mark models, those familiar with the Mark Bass range of pedals should recognise the appearance of the DV Mark DVM Compressore as it is built into the same chassis as the Bass Compressore. Like all the products from DV Mark, the DVM Compressore is built to last. All the control knobs are recessed within the casing so that a stray foot cannot damage them, and the valve is housed under a tough grill to allow venting without any danger of the unit getting dented or scratched. The unit needs to be powered by a 12V adaptor, so unfortunately players aren’t going to get away with using a battery to power the unit, as the valve will drain it too quickly. However, this shouldn’t be an issue as long for players as long as they use a pedal board containing a power source offering numerous outputs for all the pedals in use. As well as being suitable for electric guitars, the Compressore is also compatible with electro-acoustic instruments and basses. Like all DV
Mark pedals, a true bypass facility is also provided, so when the compressor is off, the signal goes directly from the input jack to the output jack with no sound quality degradation. A simple onebutton operation turns the compressor on and off, with an LED signifying when it is engaged and an additional LED showing when the signal is being compressed. Whether you are looking for a compressor that is subtle or one that is brutally tough, you are likely to find it in the DVM Compressore. Working similarly to an outboard studio compressor, the state-of-the-art compression tool will add warmth and brilliant harmonics to your sound without being harsh on your tone. Really, what else would you expect from an Italian-made workhorse? For more information on the DV Mark range of products, phone CMC Music on (02) 9905 2511 or visit cmcmusic.com.au.
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AHOY 2012 Annabel Maclean Perth was shit. Well that’s what I thought when I was imprisoned in boarding school back in 2003. By the time 2006 rocked around and high school graduation was on the tip of my tongue, I couldn’t wait for the last exam to be over so I could sell all my awesome notes for booze dollars for leavers and piss off down south for a week of drinking Smirnoff and coke out of a Mt Franklin water bottle like the classy 49kg dickhead that I was.
Attempting to create a Mexican wave with the freshers on the Yarra River…fail I have never put as much effort into anything as I did for year 12 final exams. I don’t think I ever will. Gave myself diarrhoea before the drama exam I got so retardedly stressed. No sleep. Ate cereal for pretty much every meal and smashed out 15 essays for the exams. Year 12 was all about doing the subjects which were going to get the best marks in the final exams and get you the best possible T.E.E score to get you into the course that you’d go on to apply for. Then (some) people cried at graduation, others stressed about not having a course or plans for the post-school year locked in, and others just didn’t give a shit. I filled out TISC forms and tried to apply for uni from Soroako on Sulawesi Island in Indonesia –a town filled with 50,000 Indonesians and roughly 50 expats on the middle of a starfish shaped island above Bali. That’s where my parents lived at the time when I was finishing year 12. Everything was done online and with barely any reliable internet connection sources, it was fucking stressful to say the least in terms of accessing T.E.E results and sorting out your university preferences with specific deadline days. It was a split second decision that I managed to access my results one day up there I decided to change my top two university when there wasn’t an earth-tremor and it wasn’t course preferences around just for kicks. That’s monsooning down in the summer afternoon. how I ended up studying journalism at RMIT in Melbourne for three years and living at Queen’s College (one of the Melbourne University residential colleges) for three years too. Moving over to Melbourne was one of the best things I did. Summing up three years of drink ing excessively, putting on 10kg (mum thought I was pregz), meeting outrageously talented people from all fields of study, parading at bogan-themed parties, hosting Battle Of The Bands events, organising theatre and cultural outings, being part of the theatre scene at Melbourne University, living with 150 kids, running around nude in five degrees on campus, rocking up to host radio shows on Friday mornings straight from the pub, giving drunken speeches, experiencing the Melbourne gay, cultural and club scene and somehow getting to uni, is near impossible. I despised first year uni. One of the first lectures I went to was on media law and we got shown a two hour video about 60 Russian journalists who had been killed between 20062007 in their native country – definitely didn’t help with my justification to study journalism. teaching the freshers about Club X Instead, I rocked up hungover with some pasta,
I rocked up hungover with some pasta, and questioned why the hell I was rocking up when I didn’t like what they were crapping on about
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O’Week leaders performing the Haka to freshers outside Melbourne’s State Library
150 freshers doing dead ants in Melbourne’s CBD on O’Week
and questioned why the hell I was rocking up when I didn’t like what they were crapping on about. Although first year had a few tedious units, everything we studied was relevant and I absolutely loved my degree. Having listened to other people’s whinging and bitching about their essay and theory based journalism or communication degrees, I definitely am grateful for having spent three years filming, writing and recording weird stories. It was a struggle to spend hours upon hours in the RMIT dungeon editing booths piecing together a story on the financial crisis or trekking out to Ballarat in rural Victoria for a week in the middle of winter to do some work experience at WIN TV and listen to farmers talk about the drought and get shitty coffees from the dodgy Ballarat Maccas. But writing essays isn’t going to get you a job as a journalist so I’m now extremely grateful for having listened to farmers talk about turnips, pre-primary teachers talk about their crap pay and euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke tell me why Perth quadriplegic Christian Rossiter should be helped to die – all while learning the ins and outs of radio, TV and print journalism. When you get to uni – stick out the course for at least six months even if you’re not enjoying it. Have a chat to tutors and lecturers about course content and decide whether you think you’re heading in the right direction. If anything, you’ll know what you don’t like after six months and will be able to make decisions from that as opposed to having not even given the course a shot. Fo r t h i s Education Feature, I ’ v e interviewed a bunch of peeps around Perth who are doing really well for themselves in their respective fields – they’re young and haven’t necessarily studied to work their way up but, they’ve put in the hard yards and can tell you how you can get to where they are in a relatively short amount of time. They don’t bullshit about their industries and have great advice for all you young dudes who have just finished up your final year of school. Read, enjoy or trash. Best of luck to y’all for 2012 – don’t get fat from too much booze.
Queen’s College freshers pose for a group photo…didn’t see this coming.
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Known For: industry-led training.
If you haven’t decided to trot on overseas for a year or work until you can attempt to get youth allowance (good luck!) then hopefully you’re considering studying rather than sitting on your ass. If you’re not sure about what to do yet - here’s a bunch of universities and institutes that you won’t have read about on Facebook. Check it.
FYI: West Coast Institute Of Training (WCIT) provides general and specialist skill training in commerce and technology, community services, health, hospitality, tourism and trades. The Institute is partnered with the WA Police to create an International Academy of Law Enforcement and Security. Study Options: Full time, part time, off campus, on campus. More Info: westcoasttafe.wa.edu.au.
QANTM COLLEGE Known For: Creative media technology education.
Cyril Jackson art student Rosie Fletcher
CYRIL JACKSON SENIOR CAMPUS Known For: Being an innovative and supportive learning institution, offering Year 11 and 12 curriculum, and Western Australia Certificate of Education (WACE) courses. FYI: Cyril Jackson is located a stone’s throw from the Bassendan Train Station and operates under an ‘adult ethos’ which means it’s a friendly place to learn where students are supported by teachers but given some freedoms that you wouldn’t have in regular high schools. Cyril Jackson Senior Campus offers flexible learning opportunities to suit individual needs. Study Options: Full time, part time, on campus, off campus (online). More Info: cyriljackson.wa.edu.au.
FYI: QANTM and SAE are closely related. QANTM also specialises in animation, games design, games programming and more.
WAAPA
WAAPA
Study Options: Flexible, on campus, off campus. More Info: perth.qantm.com.
Andrew Leece - Certificate III in Automotive Mechanics (Light Vehicle) at Challenger
CHALLENGER INSTITUTE Known For: Being hands on and more recently Jessica Duchesne (X-Factor finalist who was a model and now is studying engineering at Challenger). FYI: Challenger has a bunch of campuses and is all about training students for the industry they want to enter – they’ve got a shipbuilding training centre! Study Options: Full time, part-time, on campus. More Info: challenger.wa.edu.au.
Known For: Being the joint that Hugh Jackman studied at, offering courses in all things costume design, acting, musical theatre, dance, music, broadcast, backstage and arts management. FYI: Courses are rigorous and many require auditions and/or interviews as part of the application process. They have insanely awesome teachers who work in their fields in the arts. WAAPA puts on over 300 public performances a year at a range of venues.
SAE Institute
Study Options: Full time. Hardcore. More Info: waapa.ecu.edu.au
SAE INSTITUTE Known For: a practical, hands on approach to audio education.
Murdoch University
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Known For: Vet science, marine biology courses, chiropractic care to indigenous communities, awesome sports science performance lab and law moot court.
University Of Notre Dame
FYI: SAE is all about audio, film, sound, electronic and music production. The Institute covers all aspects of audio engineering, live sound, postproduction, mixing, acoustics, filmmaking, game design, animation and more.
CENTRAL INSTITUTE
Study Options: Flexible, on campus, off campus.
Known For: fashion courses, sport and education courses.
More Info: sae.edu.
Central Institute
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
FYI: Campuses are centrally located. They’ve got apprenticeships, traineeships and customised training programs.
Known For: Having a cool campus down in Freo and being a Catholic higher education provider.
Study Options: Full time, part time, flexible.
FYI: It has over 18,000 students and 1,400 staff (wtf!). There are 200 undergraduate degrees and postgraduate courses across a range of disciplines including law, veterinary science, teaching, psychology, business and nursing.
FYI: Law, health science and nursing are popular courses chosen at Notre Dame. Notre Dame also has a number of partner universities overseas (Boston College in America is one of them) and in Broome and Sydney.
Study Options: Full time, part time, on campus and off campus. Students also have access to lecture recordings for most courses on a 24 hour basis.
Study Options: Full time, part time, on campus, off campus (Broome only).
More Info: central.wa.edu.au.
More Info: nd.edu.au.
More info: murdoch.edu.au.
University Of Western Australia
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ECU’s Mt Lawley campus
EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY Known For: Being hands-on, having fresh looking campuses. FYI: Better known as ECU, it has two campuses – one in the hip Mt Lawley and one in Joondalup. The Joondalup campus has a multi-million dollar sport and fitness centre and an outdoor cinema in the summer months. There’s also on campus accommodation. ECU has a great rep for the arts – WAAPA (Western Australian Academy Of Performing Arts) is located on their Mt Lawley campus.
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The Film & Television Institute
FILM AND TELEVISION INSTITUTE Known For: Producing some of the best filmmakers in WA who have gone on to achieve grand things (see interview with Iskandar Sharazuddin in this edition). FYI: The Film & Television Institute (FTI) works closely with ScreenWest, Screen Australia and the ABC. It’s all about real world experience. Courses are all taught by industry professionals and most courses are hands-on.
Study Options: Full time, part time, on campus and off campus
Study Options: March 2012 intake has been cancelled at this stage but there will be an intake later next year. Stay tuned.
More Info: ecu.edu.au.
More Info: fti.asn.au.
Known For: Being close to Chelsea Pizza, top notch degrees in medicine, law, finance and engineering. FYI: These guys have a big open day for new kids on the block every year – they get big bands playing which is a good enough reason just to enrol for the day really. They’ve got a bunch of residential colleges for those who want to live on campus. UWA is bringing in a new system next year which is based on ‘the Melbourne Model’ which is the same educational structure that the University of Melbourne work with – basically means if you’re looking to do a specialist type course offered, you’re going to have to do a general arts degree first. Study Options: Full time, part time, off campus, on campus. More Info: uwa.edu.au.
Endeavour College Of Natural Health
ENDEAVOUR COLLEGE OF NATURAL HEALTH Known For: Being the largest provider of natural health higher education degrees and VET courses in the Southern Hemisphere. FYI: Endeavour offers six Bachelor Of Health Science degrees in Acupuncture, Musculoskeletal Therapy, Naturopathy, Nutritional Medicine, Western Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy, and Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualifications in Massage, Reflexology and Aromatherapy. They’ve also got diplomas in beauty therapy, massage and more. Located in the city. Study Options: Flexible, on campus and off campus. More Info: endeavour.edu.au.
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WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT O-DAY? O-Day (Orientation Day) is one of the best parts about going to uni. Some of the big universities put on bands for the day as well as barbeques and various activities. All the university clubs are usually out on display – you can join clubs like the ‘electronic music appreciation society’ or the ‘tennis club’ or check out the Guild which is where lots of the cool activities on campus are organised. It’s a good way to get to know the campus and your course but most of all, have a good bevy or two and meet some cool peeps who are taking on university too.
Bag Raiders smash it out at UWA’s O-Day earlier this year
Bag Raiders play UWA 2011 O-Day
Freshers getting pumped for Bag Raiders to play UWA’s O-Day concert this year
UWA What’s In Store: UWA’s O-Week kicks off with four days of academic info, introductions and campus tours before the main event - the UWA Guild O-Day Festival - which attracts more than 5,000 new and returning students. Over 100 Guild-affiliated clubs and societies, covering every aspect of student life, set up across James Oval to help newbies get involved. From the UWA Nap Club (UWANC) and the Sausage and Bun Appreciation Society (SABAS) to the UWA Waterslide Club and the Electronic Music Appreciation Society (EMAS), there is a club and/or society for every kind of good time. O Day Concert: To wrap up the day, the action moves to the Oak Lawn for the O-Day Concert, which has featured local faves Birds of Tokyo, Little Birdy, Gyroscope and Tim and Jean, as well as touring acts like Bluejuice, Muscles, Bag Raiders and the legendary Daryl Braithwaite. It’s hot, sweaty and loud; basically the perfect way to wrap-up the summer festival season before the learning begins. Bands Playing UWA 2012: TBC When: TBC
CURTIN UNIVERSITY
Curtin O-Day 2011
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What’s In Store: It’s the biggest Guild event of the year! Attracting over 10,000 new and returning students, the 2012 O-Day will be packed with campus information, tours, clubs signups, stallholders giving out free stuff and live music galore. When: Wednesday, February 22. Bands Playing Curtin 2012 O-Day: There will be three massive stages set up - one for general entertainment where students can go head to head in the famous “Pizza Eating Competition” as well as other planned shenanigans, stage #2 will be set up as an all ages live music stage (yet to be announced). The Aston Shuffle will be headlining the DJ stage in the Tav. It’s free!
Murdoch 2011 O-Day
Carl Fox plays Murdoch O-Day 2011
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY What’s In Store: Murdoch Guild will be transforming Bush Court into Carnival/Sideshow Alley. It’s all about the rides, laughing clowns, donuts, fairy floss, finding out about the facilities and services on offer at Murdoch, signing up to a club or society, tasting samples from Walter’s café and grabbing a gym membership to The Zone. When: Thursday, February 16 (Orientation Day Festival) and Thursday, February 23 (Reconnect Day). Music: On Reconnect Day, DJ Drew will be spinning some tunes and a bunch of bands will be rocking it in the afternoon at the Tav.
ECU
What’s In Store: ECU Guild is rebooting O-Day in 2012. For new and returning students, this is your chance to kick off your studies in style, sign up for awesome discounts, join heaps of clubs, and get important info about uni services. Don’t forget to wrap up the day and chill out at the Guild’s O-Party in the Tavern. There’s a free BBQ and all new membership packs for students. There will be heaps of stalls through the day; everything from student clubs and sports to banking and youth health services. When: Saturday, January 21 (Joondalup campus); Monday, January 23 (Mt Lawley campus). Live Music: Yes, performed by ECU students.
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MATT STONE HEAD CHEF AT GREENHOUSE AGE
MICHAEL NIELD TOUR GUIDE AGE
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How did you get into cooking? I had no idea what I wanted to do, wasn’t into high school so much and left pretty early halfway through year 10 - and dad said ‘if you don’t want to go to school that’s fine, but you have to work’. I started washing dishes in a kitchen and just went from there. I started an apprenticeship [at Leeuwin Estate] and did almost two years there before I moved up here [Perth] (I never actually finished my apprenticeship, I’m not a qualified chef in any way). It was awesome, working in a winery’s really cool, you work days and got nights to surf heaps. How did you work your way up into the industry? I worked at Star Anise for almost five years for David [Coomer] - two and a half years as an apprentice and then when I was 20 he assigned me as sous chef. Then [After that] I was in limbo for about two months; I was pretty set on moving to Spain. I was approached by Joost [Bakker] from the Greenhouse. I’d never essentially run my own kitchen at that stage - it was the first time - and a venue of that size, so it was a pretty big undertaking but I just threw myself into it.
Michael Nield giving a tour
You participated in Iron Chef Australia and battled against Neil Perry – what was that like? It was an intense hour. I didn’t expect to come that close but Iron Chef’s always been one of Matt Stone at Sydney’s pop up those shows that amongst serious chefs is one of Greenhouse earlier this year the more credible shows. Neil and I are quite good friends, he helped me out in Sydney with supplies and I helped him out here in Perth, and he’s quite good friends with Joost as well so we’ve always people, keep trying to talk to people and just reading. been in association and I eat at Rockpool probably once a week, sometimes more, because I live quite What’s next for you in the cooking world? Any close. other projects in the works? I live in Vic Park and I think that Vic Park What advice would you give to year 12 peeps finishing high school who are looking to become has massive potential at the moment. I’d love to a chef? You’ve got to do a job that you enjoy. open up a bar/restaurant in Vic Park; it’s definitely My dad always said to me that if I wake up in the the next boom area of Perth. I’ve expressed interest morning and decide I don’t want to go to work, in a few places, but I just can’t manage it with the that’s the day I’ve gotta quit. Don’t let things like school affect you. I think hard work and dedication time I have and heading overseas [to help set up and making sacrifices [is the key] - I went through London’s Greenhouse next year]. My best mate and a period for five or six years where I missed every I are working on a clothing label (Frank Martini) that birthday of my friends, I didn’t get to go to any event. Whatever field you’re in - just keep interested we’re hoping to release pretty soon - all Australian and keep networking and keep trying to meet made, really environmentally friendly inks.
CERTIFICATE III IN HOSPITALITY (COMMERCIAL COOKERY) WCIT This apprenticeship will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to plan, organise, prepare and cook food in a commercial kitchen environment. Practical experience with small classes. These guys have heaps of industry partnerships too which will you secure a job once you’ve finished the course. Course Duration: Three years, full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: wcit.wa.edu.au.
How did you get into tour guiding? While travelling to Europe at the end of last year as a part of my gap-year, I fell in love with walking tours. I have always enjoyed exploring and investigating history and old stories and for me walking tours seemed to be the pinnacle of that exploration and storytelling. When I returned to WA, I started a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts with a double Major in Contemporary Performance and Theatre Studies at ECU, I then contacted a local tour company, Two Feet & A Heartbeat to see if I could join their team and they gave me a chance.
Perth Heritage Days this year. By all accounts the tour went exceedingly well but Ryan and Ryan (my two bosses) got a bit of a shock when their “small tour” of about 40 people turned into a parade of 107!
What advice would you give high school students who are looking to get involved with the tourism industry but aren’t sure how to go about it? Often we want to jump straight into the dream job, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to have that happen, but often you have to start at the bottom in order to prove you have what it takes. Getting a job What tour guides do you run? I currently run the Fremantle Urban (especially in tourism) is not about having the right Adventure and the Eat, Drink, Walk Perth tours and qualifications on paper, it’s about having the right am also learning the material for the Perth Urban attitude and being willing and ready to just say yes. Adventure. The Fremantle and Perth Urban Adventures are exactly the type of tours that I wanted to run - You’re studying contemporary arts at ECU – what’s essentially a collection of fun facts and interesting the course like and why did you choose it? stories and characters from the history of these two I picked this course specifically because I cities, both these tours run for about two hours and have always loved story-telling and performing, having are a fantastic opportunity to share our beautiful state with others. The other tour I run is a small bar tour been involved with local theatre groups and scholastic focused on revealing Perth’s growing nightlife and public speaking events from a young age. I have activity growing in and around the CBD, Perth is really some of the most supportive and devoted teachers I evolving and it’s fantastic to be able to share that with have ever known, they are passionate, dedicated and others. absolutely devoted to helping my classmates and I grow. The most problematic part of the course thus Have you had to deal with an awkward tourist or far would probably be group work, we often work in an awkward incident on a tour before? I have been quite fortunate and have only ensembles and large groups to create original works had one or two incidences on my tours, most of which and sometimes rehearsal schedules and creative are simply the result of a miscommunication. I am development can become very difficult with so many grateful I was not running the Northbridge tour during passionate and talented people.
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE IN TOURISM, HOSPITALITY AND EVENT MANAGEMENT Curtin University This major in hospitality, tourism and event management will provide you with the knowledge and skills to become an effective manager in these closely related sectors in our darling country and overseas. You’ll study contemporary issues in international tourism and explore sustainable management of tourism and events in theory and practice. You’ll also look at the wider impacts of tourism, hospitality and events on the local and global economy and the role of marketing in all sectors. Course Duration: Three years full, part time, on campus, off campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
CERTIFICATE III IN FOOD PROCESSING (RETAIL BAKING) WCIT You’ll be able to work in the baking industry as a producer of a variety of breads, cakes, pastries and yeast goods after doing this course. You will also learn how to decorate an extensive range of cakes and other baked goods. Course Duration: Three year, full time. More Info: wcit.wa.edu.au.
CERTIFICATE II IN HOSPITALITY (KITCHEN OPERATIONS) Cyril Jackson With this course – you’ll be on campus for three days of classes and the remaining two days are allocated to workplace learning in a relevant hospitality placement. You’ll be looking at the way a kitchen and restaurant operates, develop skills in food and drink preparation and restaurant service. Course Duration: One year, 341 hours to be precise. More Info: cyriljackson.wa.edu.au
CERTIFICATE IV IN TOURISM (GUIDING)
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE IN HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT Murdoch University This is definitely more book-orientated as opposed to practical. It’s all about learning tourism systems, tourism and hospitality law, sustainable tourism, destination management (crazy!) there’s even a unit called International Study Tour. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus and off campus. More Info: murdoch.edu.au.
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CERTIFICATE II COMMUNITY SERVICES CERTIFICATE III IN HOSPITALITY (COMMERCIAL COOKERY)
CERTIFICATE II HOSPITALITY (KITCHEN OPERATIONS) Cyril Jackson Senior Campus This nationally accredited course is for those who want to enter any sector of the hospitality industry. The units of competence making up each course include Organise And Prepare Food, Clean and Maintain Kitchen Premises, Work In A Socially Diverse Environment, and many more. On successful completion of the course you will be eligible for the Certificate II Hospitality (Kitchen Operations). You will also be accredited with the equivalent of six Curriculum Council Endorsed Units. Course Duration: Year long: three days on campus per week, two days workplace learning. More Info: cyriljackson.wa.edu.au. 63
Central Institute Of Technology You’ll get practical skills and knowledge to provide tours and pass on info to tourists and visitors. You’ll learn about the tourism industry, preparing and presenting tour commentaries and coordinating, operating and leading a tour. You’ll also learn skills in conducting pre-departure checks, setting up and operating a campsite, operating tours in remote areas, customer service and team work. Central offers a bunch of other tourism related diplomas and certificates too. Course Duration: Six months full time or part time equivalent. Approx 22 hours per week. More Info: central.wa.edu.au.
Challenger Institute Of Technology This will give you the practical skills and knowledge to plan, organise, prepare and cook food in a commercial kitchen. You will learn skills to produce quality foods, plan menus, prepare food according to dietary or cultural needs, control costs, work as part of a team and serve a range of meals in a professional manner. You’ll be able to prepare salads, appetisers, stocks, sauces, soups, vegies, eggs, fruit, poultry, seafood and meet and even desserts and pastries, not to mention food for buffets! Course Duration: Full time, two semesters, on campus, off campus. More Info: challenger.tafe.wa.edu.au.
Cyril Jackson Senior Campus This nationally accredited course will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to participate in local government and community organisations that seek to encourage and assist community groups to identify their needs and plan and develop appropriate services and facilities to meet those needs. You will learn about the community services sector and ethical behaviour. You will also develop skills in communication, information provision and processing, administration support, networking and group support. Course Duration: Year long: three days on campus per week, two days workplace learning. More Info: cyriljackson.wa.edu.au.
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METRIC PROMOTIONS EVENT PROMOTIONS AGE
(ALEX, HARRISON, LUKE & FRASER)
TESSA MCONIE ARTIST AGE
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What university/TAFE/educational studies are you guys all undertaking? We are all studying at the UWA. If we all graduate - we will have an engineer, architect and commerce graduate between us. How and when did all four of you get together and start Metric Promotions? Fraser and myself (Alex) had organised a captains themed party river cruise and by chance Harro and Luke had organised on the same day a pirate party river cruise. When the two boats saw each other we decided to merge parties into one large raft up boat party, that’s really where Metric was born. How did you get involved with the local clubbing scene and get a bit of a following? We had each been involved with the various party and faculty clubs at university. This is actually an interesting story as Luke always wanted to throw his 20th birthday at Villa. When we approached them about the idea they said we needed to be an “official promoter” to book the venue so we decided to call ourselves Metric and registered as official promoters. Turns out you need to be more then just official promoters to book Perth’s premium club venue.
Skrillex enjoys an Emu Export at a Metric promotions night
Any exciting guests/new projects for next year? Heaps of exciting things in the works. For example Wonderland – this is catering for 3,000 people and is our biggest undertaking yet. Next year we hope to grow this into a full day event with more quality acts. We are also about to drop our first iPhone app and a new and improved website. You guys donated $20,000 to Uni Camp For Kids this year and a fair bit last year too. Is this something you’re going to continue? We have all been involved with Uni Camp For Kids since starting uni. Basically you take Speakeasy ft Flight Facilities underprivileged kids on day time picnics and week long camps. It’s an amazing charity to support. We will continue to support them. Next year we want to You guys had a warehouse called The Pile - how did all that come about? raise even more money. The Pile is a soft spot for all of us. We had seven of us living in a warehouse in the city. There was a half pipe which we built ourselves, DJ equipment constantly set up, graffiti by some of Perth’s most awarded artists, basketball hoops, more tip furniture then at the tip itself. But we didn’t have a shower so we had to disconnect the pipes in the urinals, put a hose there and attached a shower head to that, with no hot water. It was a serious six months of our lives.
Speakeasy ft Tim & Jean
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What advice would you give year 12 peeps finishing high school who want to get involved with club events and promotions? If you want to get involved the best thing to do is start going out and enjoying the nights being put on in Perth. People used to say Perth was a sleepy city but times have changed, there are people putting on quality events almost every night of the week. Go out enjoy what is there and if there is a gap in the market grab it. It’s a fun industry to work in but don’t underestimate the workload. We have an office that we work from every day of the week. We are currently looking for people who would like to come on board for work experience, email us on contact@metricpromotions.com if you’re interested.
Tessa McOnie and a painting from her recent exhibition Desert Seed You left school half way through year 12 to pursue a career as a full time artist. What did you do when you left school? I did lots of courses. I went to Claremont School Of Art but it was taught by artists which is completely different. I had a mentor called Richard Merito, He was great. He taught art in a way that made you really enjoy it and see how artists see and made you really quite inquisitive as well. Did that for about a year, went to university – decided it was time for Curtin. I deferred so I’m still enrolled.
Having had your first exhibition To The Core at LK last year, you’ve recently put on your second exhibition Desert Seed at LK which is a collection of paintings of people who make up the Indigenous community of Mowanjum near Derby. What was it like visiting Mowanjum and how did indigenous people feel about you painting their people? It was quite confronting... it was good to get out and meet indigenous people and they were great to paint. A lot of them feel quite honoured, particularly the kids, they get really excited. They want to make sure that they’re in the exhibition and they want to see photos. It’s funny because the young ones are really open to it What was your experience like at Cur tin but then there’s a period of adult-hood where they’re University? quite reserved and they don’t really like the idea of I don’t think I was mentally mature enough photos. The one thing that’s really surprised me about as an artist. You were bombarded with too much the community is that there’s no expectations put on information and at that stage, a lot of people weren’t the kids. They’re there to be nurtured as best as the ready. Some could handle it, some couldn’t and by community can. the end of it I was questioning whether or not art is the right thing for me. So it really did tamper with What advice would you give to year 12 peeps who the true passion that myself and a lot of other people want to become artists? had for art and I couldn’t do essays. It was actually Don’t do something you feel you might be quite timely because I entered some paintings into a loss at. Don’t do something that might deduct that Art At PC [College] which is a good exhibition. The creative energy out, creative energy is #1 for artists. guys at LK [Linton And Kay Contemporary] came Remain healthy – don’t put your health as a second. over and they were like ‘well if you want a show and Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Don’t get too you know what you want, come to us and we’ll give you serious. Take time to think about what you want as well. an exhibition at the back space’. That was a year after So many go through life without realising what they university so that was about 2009. really want and that is such a sad thing.
BACHELOR OF TOURISM (APPLIED EVENTS MANAGEMENT)
BACHELOR OF ARTS (HUMANITIES) Curtin University Completing a major in Fine Art with this degree means you’ll be focusing on the traditional and contemporary forms of fine art practices including painting, print media, sculpture, electronic art and photography. You can choose a minor in 3D design, textiles or art and design studies to enhance your studies. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
CERTIFICATE I IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES - MUSIC Cyril Jackson This qualification is recommended for people with little experience and beginners who wish to work in the music industry. By the end of this course students should be able to confidently play chords, scales, riffs and perform simple songs on guitar, play in a group and learn elementary bass and drums. Students are also given experience in using amps and working safely whilst setting up and playing. Course Duration: One year full time. More Info: cyriljackson.wa.edu.au.
Murdoch University You’ll be looking at event and festival management, community work, social research methods and learning and communicating in business. There’s also an internship program. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus, off campus. More Info: murdoch.edua.au.
CERTIFICATE II IN VISUAL ARTS AND CONTEMPORARY CRAFT Polytechnic West You will be researching history and theory and its application to your work, drawing techniques and how to use them to represent concepts, occupational health and safety, security procedures, and the development and articulation of your own work. The Midland campus where you will study has its own public access art gallery where students can display their works and designs in a realistic gallery environment. Course Duration: One semester full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: polytechnic.wa.edu.au.
Want to do what Tessa and the Metric boys do? Check out these course options
DIPLOMA OF EVENTS Challenger Institute Of Technology You’ll get the practical skills and knowledge to plan and organise events and to manage and supervise activities. You will learn skills in coaching and managing staff, marketing, developing event proposals, bids and programs, developing sponsorship programs, managing projects, finance and budgeting, implementing and monitoring business systems and providing on site management of events. You will also learn about the legal requirements for work in this area. Course Duration: Two semesters or equivalent, on campus. More Info: challenger.wa.edu.au.
CERTIFICATE II IN MUSIC INDUSTRY
CERTIFICATE III IN EVENTS WCIT WCIT has strong industry connections where you’ll be working in a real work environment such as an event office or on site during events while undertaking training at WCIT. WCIT have their own restaurant for work experience and have a bunch of guest speakers from the events industry who bring in presentations. You’ll be able to work as an event assistant, function assistant or exhibition assistant upon completion of this course. WCIT also offer the Diploma of Events which is a bit more hardcore. Course Duration: Three/four days a week on campus full time or part time equivalent. More Info: westcoasttafe.wa.edu.au.
Cyril Jackson This qualification is recommended for students who wish to work in the music industry. By the end of this course students should be able to confidently play, make music in a group by developing the skills for working in an ensemble, develop industry knowledge and operate recording and P.A. equipment using safe handling practices. Students are also given experience in music creation including song writing. Students completing this course can apply for Certificate III Music Industry at Central TAFE. Other possibilities include applying for Certificate IV in Music (Contemporary) at WAAPA. Course Duration: One year full time. More Info: cyriljackson.wa.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF ARTS (ARTS MANAGEMENT) WAAPA This will give you a solid theoretical and practical foundation to business administration and management practice within the arts industry. It’ll give you the knowledge and skills required to manage theatre companies, venues, dance companies, exhibitions, community arts centres, galleries, concerts, festivals and other institutions within the arts and entertainment industries. Course Duration: Three years full time, on campus. More Info: waapa.ecu.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF ARTS (HISTORY OF ART) UWA If you do the major in History o f A r t , y o u’ l l b e s t u d y i n g visual arts, literature, film, new media, architecture, landscape architecture and the impact of other art and design practice on the history of cultures. Visual arts also plays a big role in this major. You take art practice unites alongside history units too. Course Duration: Three year full time or part time equivalent. More Info: uwa.edu.au.
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JAIME LEE MAJOR FASHION DESIGNER AGE
OTILEE LAMB ART DIRECTOR/PHOTOGRAPHER/STYLIST/DESIGNER AGE
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CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – ADVANCED DIPLOMA OF FASHION & TEXTILE DESIGN
BA ARTS (DESIGN) (HONS) IN DESIGNING IMAGE AND BRAND IDENTITY THROUGH ART DIRECTION IN FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ADVERTISING
You initially started out as a visual artist focused on water-colour paintings – how did the progression into fashion happen? I had always painted and whilst studying fashion one of our units was figure drawing. It wasn’t really a progression into fashion, it was happening at the same time.
Kimbra wearing one of Jaime Lee’s designs
like being a local over there as opposed to a tourist? What was the course you studied like? I was here on holiday and I had just shown It’s really hands on; we did about nine units at RAFW as did Alice McCall. She saw my show and a term that were mostly practical. through a friend we met and she offered me a job designing for her label and to be the designer for a label What is the process like of putting together a called Fairground. Two weeks later, I moved over. It can collection? be really frustrating at times for example the weather I like to take my time with it; design textiles determines whether I reach deadline… my power then see what happens. What I envision always changes generally goes out most nights. But after a frustrating by the time I reach the final product. Designing for a day I can go next door and have a $6 massage. commercial label that drops 10 times a year into stores is much faster and time is a luxury. I design prints, draw What has/is Bali doing in terms of furthering your them up into garments and hand them over. I’m usually label and yourself as a person? working on at least three collections at a time. I was working in retail so I could afford to do my own label. I am designing for other labels and In terms of the business side of things – what have selling prints instead of working in a shop. I still go you learnt since getting into the industry and home and work on my own work at night and on starting up your label last year? weekends. I am meeting amazing contacts that can Well in all honestly unless you have millions help with my own work and learning how to do things of dollars don’t start a label and try and manufacture on a commercial level which I really had no experience in Australia. Now that I live in Bali I have realised that I in before. I appreciate Australia so much more now - if was very narrow-minded about off shore production, I the Balinese can’t afford to send their kids to school, assumed that Bali and China factories were sweatshops. they don’t go. The government is also very corrupt so Where I work, the staff are pretty happy, they sleep it has been interesting learning about their culture and during their lunch break, work at a leisurely pace and the way their country is run. go home and don’t take a second thought about work, which is completely different to the work ethic I have What advice would you give to year 12 peeps who been brought up with in Australia. want to get into fashion design? Do it. You’ll soon find out if it’s what you want You’ve been living in Bali for seven months now. to do for a living when it eats at your wallet and your Why did you decide to move over there? What’s it social life.
Your studies are quite specific yet quite broad at the same time (art director, photographer, stylist, designer) – how did you decide these were all career options you wanted to do? When I decided to go back to uni, I knew I wanted to get into advertising (and advertising for fashion in particular). For my undergrad degree, I studied Creative Advertising Design, Graphic Design and Illustration, as well as taking a few Fashion and Photography units. During Honours, I looked at “Designing Image and Brand Identity through Art Direction in Fashion Photography for Advertising”, producing a thesis and a body of work. This body of work involved art directing and styling a series of images which I took the photos for as well, having no previous desire to pursue the photography – but I had a positive response from the images and kind of rolled with it. You’ve worked on a ridiculous number of projects for various publications and worked on numerous exhibitions – how did you initially start out? Graduating during the GFC, there weren’t any jobs around so together with my partner, we made our own - starting up a small studio catering to Fashion and Music / Entertainment Advertising. We MacGyver’d everything, wearing all the hats and working almost 24/7 to make ends meet. It sort of snowballed into a big body of work in a small amount of time! Out of all your exhibitions and projects you’ve done for publications – you must have some crazy stories to tell. Any you can elaborate on? Probably the craziest shoot was for local label On Tour. We shot on location at a scrap metal yard - chaperoned between piles of all kinds of post apocalyptic junk around the site, with different areas
CERTIFICATE IV IN DESIGN (Fashion & Textile Design) Central Institute Of Technology This course will give you the practical skills and knowledge to design, construct and adapt fashion garments and accessories. You will also learn skills in research, concept and design development. You will learn about the history of fashion and textiles, where to source textiles and marketing practices. You can then do a diploma and an advanced diploma. Course Duration: One year, full time. Approx 20 hours per week. More Info: central.wa.edu.au.
Want to do what Otilee and Jaime do? Check out these course options DIPLOMA OF APPLIED FASHION DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY Challenger Institute You will learn skills that will enable you to construct complex patterns, estimate costs for fashion products, develop and present design concepts and produce fashion illustrations. You will learn about advanced construction techniques and product specifications. You will have the skills to operate a small business or work in the fashion industry as a member of a design and production team creating fashion garments in the role of designer, pattern maker and more. Entry requirements apply. Course Duration: Two semesters, flexible. More Info: challenger.tafe.wa.edu.au. 59
Otilee Lamb being shut down at a time so we didn’t get squashed by flying fridges and ovens and cars. As the sun was going down it was all pretty surreal. What advice would you give to peeps finishing year 12 who are looking to get into fashion photography, styling and design? Go out and experience the world. The best schooling you can get is life experience. Be a sponge and suck in all the visual inspiration you can in everyday life. Experiment with your work and study lots of sources past and present - don’t just copy one or two people. Make things every day and continuously challenge yourself. A uni or TAFE course will give you the structure, theory, technical skills and commercial sensibility to get started, but you’ve got to put in the hard yards to make a career of it. What’s planned for you in the near future? I’ve recently put down the camera for the most part, working full time as an art director at a local ad agency and looking forward to putting my stamp on future campaign work. I’m also super excited to be planning a very long overdue body of new personal (photographic) work and a solo exhibition with a twist for around September 2012.
BACHELOR OF ARTS (Major in Contemporary Fashion and Textiles) ECU You will investigate and apply a range of nonindustrial construction techniques, creative material methodologies and contextual research approaches. The course will prepare you for a range of creative design and contemporary art outcomes such as textile design and production, pattern making and garment construction, contemporary art and fashion presentation and contemporary art practice. You will be required to have a folio interview for this major. Course Duration: Three years, full time. More Info: ecu.edu.au.
DIPLOMA OF APPLIED FASHION DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY Polytechnic West This course will provide you with practical skills and knowledge to work as a member of a production team involved in the design, making of patterns and construction of fashion garments. You will have the skills to operate a small business. Course Duration: One year, full time. More Info: polytechnic.wa.edu.au.
ADVANCED DIPLOMA OF LIVE PRODUCTION, THEATRE AND EVENTS (Costume) WAAPA You’ll get training in management and creative skills in order to enter the arts and entertainment industry as a costume technician specialising in costume construction, management and supervision. As part of a production team, students work in a variety of wardrobe positions for WAAPA productions. Classes include tailoring, corsetry, undergarments, millinery, pattern drafting, art finishing and sculptured costume. Course Duration: Full time, three years. More Info: waapa.ecu.edu.au.
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INDUSTRY ACTOR/FILMMAKER/FOUNDER OF ELLANDER PRODUCTIONS You studied the Diploma of Screen Acting at the Film and Television Institute – what was the course like? The course specialised in the methodologies of Lee Strasberg, Irene Adler and Harold Guskin. It was a very emotional experience, with a small group of people who grew to know each other extremely intimately both as performers and as individuals. A lot of personal development is involved in the course content which I think is imperative to an actor learning about his/her craft. How has your course at FTI helped you in your career so far as an actor and filmmaker? The learning at FTI has flowed through into my professional career in varied ways. I still work with human kinetics as an actor and as a director working with other actors, as a tool for focus, I have often applied the method of Harold Guskin to my work, whose theories I most connected with at FTI. It all sounds very wanky but really, everything is relevant and for me a good actor is a good listener and an excellent observer. As a filmmaker, my course at FTI was very hands on and as actors we often interacted with the digital production students, which afforded us an expansion in industry knowledge. The networks I built at FTI have carried through into my work in the film industry and have served me very well. You started Ellandar Productions with good friend Elliot Cook – how did all this come about? We met through gymnastics, where we both trained in the High Performance Program at Challenge Stadium. Ellandar Productions was a concept founded in 2003 when we were much younger. It consisted of us writing comedy sketches and songs, none of which may I add have made it to a public audience (for good reason – we’re a lot better at it now). By the time we registered the business
FILMMAKING AND ACTING FTI The Film and Television Institute is the premier professional development centre for screen production in Western Australia. Working closely with organisations such as ScreenWest, Screen Australia and the ABC, FTI provides industry focused courses which are delivered by professionals. All of FTI’s programs feature a high level of guest speakers who provide practical and up-todate knowledge concerning the media sector. FTI has two working cinemas for showcases of student productions and industry showcases. They’ve also got awesome production suites and equipment. March 2012 intake won’t be happening but you’ll be able to enrol in courses later on next year. Course Duration: Varies More Info: fti.asn.au.
BACHELOR OF ARTS (MASS COMMUNICATION PHOTOGRAPHY) Curtin University If you study the photography major in this degree, you’ll be covering all aspects of the visual medium while focusing on the ‘photographer as designer’. You’ll develop your competencies in technical, mechanical, cultural and aesthetic aspects of photography and the interdependence of these. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (FILM AND VIDEO) ECU You can choose a major in either animation, environmental and spatial design, film and video, game design and culture, graphic design, interactive media, screen studies, photo-media. It’s all about understanding media, design and visual culture within a continually evolving work context. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: ecu.edu.au. 55
Iskander Sharazuddin name in 2010, we’d already had seven years practice of collaborating on writing music, theatre and various other things. The season for A Gigantic F#*ck To You All? is about to begin - what’s involved for you and Cook in terms of getting the production off the ground? A Gigantic F#*k You To You All is a new theatrical work that was largely written by Elliott Cook, there is additional material from myself. In terms of getting the production of the ground, Ellandar Productions faces the same problems any independent producer faces in W.A - a serious lack of funds, a fight for a theatrical space, sourcing a rehearsal space. One thing we don’t have a lack of in WA is home-grown talent. What advice would you give to year 12 peeps finishing high school who want to become a filmmaker, actor or run a production company? I think it is important to look at all the options; WAAPA is a magnificent institution, however, it is not the only route, this is something I think is often forgotten or not taught. It’s important to be proactive in W.A - to take it upon yourself to learn who’s who and what’s what. Go and see productions at The Blue Room, at PICA where young artists are making contemporary statements or just having fun in the medium of theatre. Go and see short film screenings from the students at the universities or the independents screening at places like 1UpMicrocinema in Northbridge.
Want to do what Courtney, Iskander or Mat do? Check out these course options BACHELOR OF ARTS (MASS COMMUNICATION – SCREEN PRODUCTION) Curtin University If you take up the screen production major then you’ll gain knowledge and creative skills by working with professional-level equipment in a challenging and creative film and television environment. You will specialise in corporate production, learning how to effectively plan and implement corporate production projects. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF DIGITAL FILMMAKING SAE You will learn to understand countless technologies and techniques used in modern film making through formal lectures, practical workshops, competency assignments, guest lectures and creative film projects. SAE has cutting edge equipment and software and it has schools around the world which means you can tailor your studies to the country, industry and lifestyle of your choice. Course Duration: Varies More Info: sae.edu.
DIPLOMA OF SCREEN AND MEDIA (FILM AND TELEVISION) Central Institute Of Technology You’ll be learning about the different areas in screen and media - directing, cinematography, producing, production design or sound design. You’ll be working at Central’s industry standard studios and on real life productions. Central also offers Certificate courses in screen and media too. Course Duration: One year full time, on campus. More Info: central.wa.edu.au.
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COURTNEY MCALLISTER AGE
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What made you decide to be a filmmaker? I was around a lot of very talented people - both at school and then outside of school. I’ve always been kind of observant of what’s going on - combine that with a sense of humour and integration of a few friends… then we started making skate films which was like the first progression and we kind of all shared the camera around. I had a very cool media teacher – a teacher who could make five per cent difference.
Mat De Koning filming for a community project
What advice would you give to year 12 peeps who are finishing high school and want to be a filmmaker? You haven’t studied a filmmaking course – how Ultimately you need to figure out what did you work your way into the industry? you’re doing and fit into society at a large. So if you I did work experience at Channel Nine. I wanna make money from it, right, you need to keep was like ‘fuck that’. It was bullshit - the people that yourself afloat. There’s two ways: you can go work a work just treat the camera men like crap. When I job in retail, get paid crappy hours and then do this left high school I and I applied for a Certificate IV [filming] in your spare time or you can get involved in media at TAFE and [I] didn’t get in so I ended up in what I did which was community arts projects - I just working in a skate shop and making skatespend a lot of time at regional communities. With boarding videos and then went on to do music the internet being very large, you can approach videos, then did like a crash course five day thing businesses and say ‘your project is lacking, let me at FTI [and] a small business certificate through the make a video for you that will help promote your Neis program. business’. Once you’ve got the skills there you want to find out how you can make a basic living from You won WA Young Filmmaker Of The Year for it and aspire to make more and more so you can 2011 – what’s next in store for you? maintain that lifestyle. What’s given me an edge Sundance Film Festival. I’ve been making to be able to do this for so long from such an early a feature length film doco for six years, its called age is that I was a one man band - I learnt how Meal Tickets. It’s a film about being ambitious and to film, edit, direct, produce, the whole lot. The in your ‘20s and aspiring to be a contender in the industry is just not there to be able to specialise in art music world and the journey you go through one thing. You gotta seek. and the struggles and monogamy is a huge issue Be self employed. I always say self there. I’ve filmed over 500 hours of footage for it [so employed is the next best thing to being a far]. I’ve almost finished cutting the first third down gangster. You need to be a hustler. If you’re a to like 70 minutes. My plan is that I’m going to have hustler, you can make things happen, you can live a screening of the first third [of the film] in February off this stuff. But you expect to be given handouts, and hopefully make some money off that because not really gonna happen. And the other thing in I do not have an income at the moment and then this town, is that Perth is an easy place to get work I’m going to go to Los Angeles to finish filming and if you have a good reputation, it is also an easy then get myself a distribution deal/a producer. place to burn bridges.
When did you first take an interest in photography? It actually happened when I went to my first concert which was Coldplay back in 2007 at Burswood Dome. Snuck my way to the very front and with a tiny little camera I borrowed from my school library, snapped away. I thought ‘how easy was that?’. Then I ran out of memory. Have you done any photography courses at all? If not, how did you work your way into the industry? Nope! I have still not yet figured if this is to be a bad thing, but I know that because I didn’t go, it has made me think a lot more on my feet, fail, win and start all over again. I scored a sweet job at 92.9 FM as my first major job… since then; I’ve worked for numerous publications, The West Australian, Triple J, and the paper you’ve currently got your hands on… It’s about carving your own way in! What gigs have been a highlight to shoot? I always have to say AC/DC was in my top five; our place to stand was on a platform that was lower than the stage but way above crowd height. Standing in front of 45,000 people was daunting enough before the boys even came onstage! I love the bands who make you do laps up and down the photo pit, keep you on your toes and throw you with unexpected things - Pharrell Williams from N*E*R*D pulled me up on stage at Future Music to take photos from the middle of the stage. Bands like Crystal Castles and the Prodigy are beyond intense, shit flying through the air, water, 200 more security than you need and strobes. And then you add a singer jumping into the crowd on top of that or your usual Swedish crazy boys, The Hives. Pelle [frontman] stole my big zoom lens at Southbound a few years back whilst I was changing my lenses over and he offered it to all the other photographers and then pretended to throw it into the crowd. It was brand new at that point
Courtney’s snap of Usher at Burswood 2011 and I nearly died! What advice would you give to peeps finishing year 12 who are looking to work as a photographer? Get out there and do everything and anything. Being a photographer is something that requires patience and application. If you want to be better, look for the things that inspire you to do so. There are websites like Fasterlouder, Inthemix and Spaceship News that will send you out there with a free ticket in, and help you help them. Don’t expect to get paid straight up. Make it happen on your own terms. If that means having two other jobs to afford the camera, then do it. How do you maintain dollars in the bank with freelancing? Maintaining a good rep with all your clients is always super important. I’ve always had a second job though. I always say it keeps the sanity levels balanced, too much of an awesome thing can be too much. You will miss a lot of things to go to gigs or functions! What are the main lessons you’ve learned along the way? Remember your shit! Countless times I’ve gone somewhere, left my flash/batteries/memory cards/camera/lens/I.D, etc in the car. Miss your three songs whilst racing back to the car for one of these crucial items. Don’t be late or rude - two things that will have your clients leave you in their dust at the drop of a hat. Update everywhere. Don’t turn something that you love into something that you despise.
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What are both your roles/job descriptions at Head Studio? When you own a small business, job descriptions for an owner go out the window. I [Mark] will put out the bins one day, unblock a basin the next and may be behind the camera with Marie on our next shoot the next. Generally I look after broad categories such as HR, PR and marketing, ordering, business monitoring and growth. Head Studio has been nominated for and won awards for the Australian Hairdressing Awards for your achievements with the salon/s and business – what’s that been like? The ride has been incredible. We have
CERTIFICATE III IN CARPENTRY AND JOINERY Challenger Institute This qualification will provide you with the skills and knowledge to be trained as a tradesperson to work on dwellings up to two stories high. You will acquire skills that enable you to specialise in both carpentry and joinery required to construct residential dwellings. You will also learn to use tools and equipment to install floors, walls, and roofs, and to construct and assemble windows, sashes, doors and stairs. Course Duration: Full time over three years. More Info: challenger.tafe.wa.edu.au.
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Rose and Mark Cain started Head Studio over 20 years ago now in Rockingham and now the business has three locations and you are both involved. Marie – how did you come to be involved with Head Studio? Mum [Rose Cain] pulled me out of school. I wanted to chase a career in musical theatre. Mum bribed me into the salon with promises of a musical career so I started working in the salon as a salon coordinator. After sitting and watching through my apprenticeship I said to mum ‘if you’re going to make me do this, let me do some hair’. So she did and the rest is history. Mark – you came into the business a year after Marie. How did you get involved? In a way you could say that I fell into it. We grew up around mum’s salon. We would get picked up from school and hang out there every day almost. Sometimes mum had to bribe us with hot chips and a milkshake from the diner next door to keep us quiet. How I really got involved was, one summer after I finished my study for the year which was in building, I started to help out in the salon. I worked from our home office just doing a bit of marketing, ordering and general running around. We then were lucky to have Marie nominated in a national award for L’Oreal Professional which she ended up taking out. Then I saw a whole new side to the industry and jumped into helping mum manage our Rockingham salon. I never studied business or started an apprenticeship. I was lucky to have spent the time in the Rockingham salon as my ‘initiation’.
KIM PARKER SHEET METAL WORK/ ENGINEERING Sheet Metal Work and Certificate III in Engineering
Marie & Mark Cain met some amazing friends along the way and it has helped out so many careers within our business! What advice would you give to year 12 peeps finishing high school who want to get involved in the hairdressing industry? Roll with it! You do not need a business degree, you just need to get your hands dirty and have fun. In saying that though, knowledge is power. So surround yourself with people who you admire and can look up to on any level. Pick out people that you admire for what they have done in their industries and apply it to your own. Grab one or two mentors that you can just chat to, ask questions and be real with. Marie has one or two that she is constantly in touch with to seek advice on a creative level to help with decisions on career growth and direction. I have a couple of people within the L’Oreal group that I seek constant advice from but I also have other business owners within our industry who are only a phone call away.
CERTIFICATE II IN ENGINEERING (PRE APP/ FABRICATION-HEAVY) West Coast Institute Of Training (Clarkson) The successful completion of this qualification provides you with the opportunity to become a trade assistant or gain an apprenticeship in one of the following trades within the metals and engineering sector: Fabrication -Heavy (Boilermaker), Light (Sheet metal), Welder or Heavy/ Welder trade. You will need to be employed and registered as an apprentice or trainee before you can commence apprenticeship training. Course Duration: One semester full time. More Info: westcoasttafe.wa.edu.au.
Where and what did you study? I studied at Midland Tafe and my apprenticeship was called Sheet Metal Work and Certificate III in Engineering. I actually finished high school at the end of year 11 as I felt TEE wasn’t for me. One of my favourite subjects at school was metalwork as that was what I was best at and so I decided that working with my hands was what I should be doing. I had an interest in big industry and I was interested in working on mine sites but back then they didn’t offer apprenticeships directly from school – maybe they do now. So that led me to do a pre-apprenticeship course in Fremantle which I thought would give me an in to the industry. After completing that course I approached a big boat yard down near the Naval Base but they were only interested in taking on an on-the-job pre-apprentice. The difference between a pre-apprenticeship and an apprenticeship is that in a pre-apprenticeship you are basically used and abused until they decide if they like you or not and want to keep you on. I did that for six months before deciding it was too far away and I left.
where I wanted to be, the people were a bunch of cowboys and the conditions weren’t great, they had me welding all day by myself inside a confined space – that breaks about a 100 safety rules! When I came back one of the places I worked was a completely unorganised business – this was really a blessing in disguise as they pushed me to take the next step and break out on my own. As I am just starting out What did you do after your pre-apprenticeship? in my new business [Parker Response] I do anything I applied for a four year apprenticeship at and everything right now. I have just completed a Arcus which was run through the Apprenticeships major job for an engineering company that fixes Board. That was one day a week at Midland Tafe for bridges, building custom scaffolding. This was a really three of the four years. In the beginning it was a bit great opportunity as it allowed me to buy many of slow - sweeping floors and generally shit-kicking - but the big tools that I needed for my business. That is ultimately it was great. It was exactly what I wanted really the way to go when just starting out, winning to be doing. It taught me the hands on side of the the jobs and then getting the tools you need along trade, TAFE taught the educational side but the the way. It is much more manageable that way – less apprenticeship at Arcus taught me everything else. I overwhelming when you think about all the things made heaps of friends and was mentored; my mentor you need as a tradesperson. handed over more knowledge than any other person there. After finishing the apprenticeship at Arcus, I What advice would you give to year 12 peeps stayed on for another six years and rose to supervisor who are finishing high school who want to do an and in turn mentored many of the apprentices that apprenticeship or trade? came through. Pick something that you enjoy and are good at, TEE and university isn’t always for everyone. Where are you working now? If you feel passionate about a certain area there are I am now working for myself. I tried a always ways to get certified and make that passion a stint up north in Karratha and decided that it wasn’t career.
CERTIFICATE III IN HAIRDRESSING
If you want to get hands on like Kim, Marie and Mark then a trade course or apprenticeship might be just what the doctor ordered.
CERTIFICATE I IN RESOURCES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Polytechnic West This qualification provides you with the practical skills and knowledge to carry out a range of basic tasks in the resource and infrastructure sectors such as mining, drilling and construction. You will learn to work safely by following occupational health and safety procedures, communicate effectively and work in team. You will also learn skills in reading and interpreting maps, carrying out measurements, collecting samples and operating tools and equipment. Course Duration: full time over one semester. More Info: polytechnic.wa.edu.au.
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CERTIFICATE III IN MARINE Challenger Institute Of Technology This qualification will provide training for apprentices employed in the marine industry. The apprentice undertaking this role will be located in a boat workshop or in a combined workshop/retail sales outlet. A Marine Mechanic will work on inboard and outboard boat engines and equipment. The duties will involve diagnosis of problems, repair and servicing engines and engine components, cooling and petrol fuel systems and clutch assemblies. Course Duration: Full time as part of a two and a half year apprenticeship. More Info: challenger.tafe.wa.edu.au.
Kim Parker working on a paving machine
CERTIFICATE IV IN BEAUTY THERAPY West Coast Institute Of Training This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to apply face and body treatments and advice on skin care. Subjects covered include those in Certificate III in Beauty, plus you will learn skills in assessing client needs and providing facial treatments. Successful completion of this qualification provides you with the opportunity to become a Beauty Therapist. Course Duration: Full time for two semesters. More Info: westcoasttafe.wa.edu.au.
Challenger Institute This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to cut hair using clippers or scissors, to shampoo, condition and rinse hair and dry and style hair using brushes, combs, rollers and other equipment. You will also learn skills to operate a cash register and computer, perform reception duties such as answering telephone calls and making appointments and write up client record cards. Course Duration: Four semesters part time. More Info: challenger.tafe.wa.edu.au.
CERTIFICATE II IN ENGINEERING (SPLIT SYSTEM AIR CONDITIONING) Polytechnic West Successful completion of this qualification provides you with the opportunity to become a trades assistant, gain an apprenticeship to become an electroplater, surface finisher, foundry worker, plant mechanic or ship builder, or gain a traineeship in engineering. You will need to be employed and registered as an apprentice/trainee before you can commence apprenticeship/traineeship training. Course Duration: Part time over one semester. More Info: polytechnic.wa.edu.au.
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CALUM FOULNER AGE
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SOCIAL ENTRPENEUR/ NOT FOR PROFIT LEADER/ PUBLIC SPEAKER/ CONSULTANT/ LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COACH AND MORE
FOUNDER OF THE CMF PROJECT
You’re the president-elect at the Rotary Club of Crawley which means you’ll be the youngest ever Rotary president come next July. Do you come up against a lot of prejudice because of your age? When people think about the Rotary they think about electing 60 year old men and our club is very different. We’ve got 30 per cent of our club under 30 and 50/50 women - not our club but certainly when you’re looking at a broader level within rotaries - there are a lot of challenges with modernisation and progressing that, but I’m a big believer and passionate about what that organisation stands for and yet I look at the situation we’re at - where they’ve got two per cent of their international members under 30 and 12 per cent women, and you’re like, ‘you guys are dead in 10 years unless you change this’. It’s a big challenge to take on but it’s something that I believe in passionately.
Holly Ransom helping out in Kenya earlier this year
think about it. One of the biggest things is the world doesn’t change through thinking it, you have to action it, so if you’re interested in something then try it out, actually do some work experience, intern, find someone who’s in your field and email them and say ‘hey, I’m doing this, I’m really passionate about what you’re doing, is there any chance I could take you out for a cup of Aside from travelling, public speaking and running coffee in the next couple of weeks and ask you a couple programs and groups, you’re studying law and of questions?’. Mentoring without a doubt is the single economics at UWA – what’s that like? biggest thing that’s contributed to my growth. Don’t I’ve just finished my fourth year and it’s think that all your learning comes from within the four good, I’m over the halfway mark so I’m happy. It’s a six walls of a classroom because it certainly doesn’t; my year degree and my friends joke that uni’s what I do in university experience has been so enriched by all the my free time, a fairly accurate statement, it generally extracurricular stuff that I throw myself into. happens post 1am in the morning and on plane flights but I’m very blessed to be at a uni where I have a vice You met Hugh Jackman in 2008 – what was that chancellor who is so encouraging of leadership and experience like? extracurricular involvement. I particularly enjoyed the That was a wicked weekend, it was very surreal, I had economics side of my degree - the business school just graduated high school and ended up being the as far as I’m concerned is the best taught part of my youngest Australian selected for the 2020 Summit in degree. Canberra - this crazy long weekend with Hugh Jackman and Cate Blanchett - and my group was specifically What advice would you give year 12 peeps finishing the future government group… I’m there with all my high school who are looking to make change in the year 11 and 12 politics and law textbook authors [and] world in various spectrums? you’ve never seen so many bloody journalists, it was I think the first thing is do it, step in, don’t hilarious.
You started the CMF (Communities Moving Forward) Project in 2009 which is a not-for-profit organisation working to create a better future for kids of Nepal. How did you come up with the Project? We called ourselves the CMF Project which is my mum’s initials and the reason behind that is I lost my mum when I was going through high school. I went over to Nepal after finishing high school and went to an orphanage there and I felt quite a strong connection with them because I’ve been through a similar thing. From there I got all inspired to try and not improve the lives of the orphans, but make sure they didn’t become orphans in the first place, so I came back and formed this organisation in memory of my mum at the time and since then we’ve rebranded as Upside. How often do you visit Nepal and what projects have you got going at the moment? I go back to Nepal once or twice a year so I’ve been up probably about six or seven times over the last three years and I’m going to spend most of the year there next year because we’ve got a whole new project kicking off, I kind of want to be a lot more involved in the hands on side of this next one, so I’ll spend eight or nine months there next year. Rather than handing out money in Nepal, we [CMF/ Upside] invest the money into agriculture projects in these needy villages. Our first project will be the apple orchard and so the idea is that the villagers work in that community and the money that that [working on the apple orchard] generates during the long term will continually fund the school and the healthcare in their village.
Calum Foulner hanging out with Ghiling locals getting there? We had to fly to Kathmandu on an airplane, then drive for eight hours on a motorbike, then get off the motorbike and jump on a little twin propeller plane and go through a little valley, and then get to the last village with cars and electricity and things like that, then we pick up horses and ride for two days on the back of a horse up into the mountains and we get to this village called Ghiling which is perched on the top of a bridge. It’s like going back in time, they’re grinding flour to make bread and there’s no electricity, there’s no cars, it’s like another world. You studied finance at UWA – how has that helped you with the CMF Project? I use my finance models to draw up the models that we’re using. I’d say my degree helped a lot, I think it more gives me the confidence in my models that they actually really work. Mohammad Yunus – I’ve read his book and I think it’s amazing… we’ve adapted the model to include economies where money doesn’t exist and there’s no local currency.
What advice would you give to year 12 peeps finishing high school who want to make a change through charity? If you take a scared approach to aid work and not try and change anything and continue doing it the way every other charity organisations done it in the past, no one’s going to fail but no one’s going to You’re currently in the process of constructing succeed. If you’ve got an idea on how to implement boarding school accommodation in the tiny social change in a third world country then just take Himalayan village of Ghiling. What was it like a punt, it could happen.
SHORT COURSES If you’re not up for doing a hardcore degree straight away, there’s a bunch of sick short courses which could be for you. ACTING/ BACKSTAGE AND MORE SIMPLIFYING OILS – AN INTRODUCTION TO PAINTING AND COLOUR Claremont School Of Art In this course, you’ll learn the basic techniques of oil painting. You’ll be introduced to colour theory and will be guided through a series of painting exercises, beginning with colour mixing and understanding the colour wheel. You’ll learn how to prepare painting surfaces and the use of different tools, methods of structuring the palette and mixing techniques. Course Duration: Eight weeks, usually one evening a week. More Info: claremontschoolofart.com.au.
CERTIFICATE III IN BEAUTY SERVICES Challenger Institute You’ll be learning the art and skills of waxing, tinting, manicure, pedicure, nail enhancement, makeup, how to work effectively in a retail environment, industry networking and professional conduct, skin biology, safety, nail science and more. Course Duration: Vary, part time option available. More Info: challenger.wa.edu.au.
AUDIO/ MUSIC/ ANIMATION AND MORE SAE Institute SAE offers a bunch of online short courses available on subjects like audio and music, animation, business, games, creative media and film. Online classes are in group form – are run for specific weeks. You’ll be given an online lecturer who will be an experienced SAE lecturer or industry professional who will help you. Course Duration: Dense four week programs which are approx 10 hours a week. More Info: online.sae.edu.
ART/ FASHION/ JEWELLERY/ TEXTILES/ DESIGN TECHNOLOGY Central Institute Workshops cover drawing, painting and the visual arts, fashion and textile design, jewellery, print and graphic arts. Practising artists come in as lecturers and students focus on learning creative and technical skills with a focus on learning practical skills. Course Duration: Run for approx 15-20 hours and takes place in the evenings or during the day on Saturdays. More Info: central.wa.edu.au.
AQUAPONICS/ RECREATIONAL SKIPPERS TICKET AND MORE Durack College Durack College is up in G eraldton and offers a bunch of short courses in hospitality, marine industries and workforce development and industrial training. You can study a nine week course on Aquaponics or a recreational skippers ticket course which runs for one day. Durack College is known for its hands-on approach to study and is definitely worth checking out if you’re heading north. Course Duration: Hours vary. More Info: durack.edu.au.
WAAPA WAAPA offers a bunch of short courses from May through ‘til October – aimed at everyone from teenagers to professionals in a range of different areas. There’s Backstage Boot Camp which is for budding sound and lighting designers and stage managers. There’s also Acting Up! which is for aspiring actors and is held in the mid-year. Students are mentored by industry-based professionals throughout the week and are then given the chance to showcase new skills in a devised work presented to family and friends at the end of the course. Beware – these courses aren’t cheap but they’re worth it! Course Duration: They’re usually held over a weekend or are week long in duration. More Info: waapa.ecu.edu.au.
CARTOON ILLUSTRATION Central Institute You’ll be learning the unique illustration skills to create cartoon style pictures and comic strips. Central often has artists or renowned cartoonists who come in and share their knowledge with the students. This is a beginner’s course or for anyone who’d like to develop their skills. You’ll also be looking at comic strips and where cartoons are used, computer aided cartoons and printing equipment. Course Duration: Runs for three hours a week for five weeks. More Info: central.wa.edu.au.
DIRECTING/ EDITING/ ACTING AND MORE Film and Television Institute FTI offers a range of short courses – special guest lectures, beginners workshops, specialised courses and youth workshops – in filmmaking fundamentals, screenwriting, producing, directing, editing, acting and new media. Course Duration: All courses vary in duration. Next intake is in May 2012. More Info: fti.asn.au.
SPORTS NUTRITION Endeavour College Of Natural Health This course is a valuable guide for personal trainers, students and practitioners who aim to guide athletes by applying cutting edge nutritional strategies in order to optimise training sessions, performance capability and recovery times. You’ll be looking at an overview of how nutrition can assist athletes, performance foods and key performance hints, energy and strength management for different sports, how to overcome fatigue, female athletes versus male athletes, nutrition for young athletes, drugs in sport and more. Course Duration: Held over one day from 9am ‘til 5pm. More Info: endeavourshortcourses.edu.au.
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CERTIFICATE I IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
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Cyril Jackson Senior Campus The Certificate I in Business is a course that will help you develop basic skills and knowledge to prepare you for further studies and for future employment in the business sector. The Certificate includes six competencies from the nationally accredited Business Services Training Package, which meet the requirements for two Curriculum Council endorsed units. Successful completion of these six competencies will lead to a nationally recognised, industry-based qualification – Certificate I in Business, issued by Central Institute of Technology. Course Duration: 150 hours. More Info: cyriljackson.wa.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF LAW/ARTS (ECONOMICS MAJOR) UWA A major in Economics will prepare you for work in financial institutions, government, international agencies and the private sector as a forecaster, analyst or consultant. The major includes core subjects in both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics provides the framework for analysing issues in taxation, trade and the competitive structure of markets, while macroeconomics focuses on the forces that influence long-term economic growth, inflation, unemployment and the balance of payments. Course Duration: Six years full time, on campus. More Info: uwa.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (BUSINESS LAW) Curtin University You’ll be examining the processes by which law is created, changed and applied to business and government. With this major you’ll gain a foundation in business law and develop significant knowledge of torts, real property, trusts and trade practices. You’ll also consider the ethical issues in business practice. Course Duration: Three years full time, on campus, off campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF LAWS Murdoch University
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (BUSINESS LAW)
You’ll be studying the Aussie legal system, torts, criminal law, constitutional law, Australian admin law, contracts, corporations law, legal theory, criminal justice, criminology, legal protection of international human rights and so much more that your mind will be bursting with info. Murdoch has a moot court too so you can get some serious practice in! Course Duration: Four years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: murdoch.edu.au.
UWA A major in Business Law will provide you with a solid understanding of the Australian legal system and how it impacts on business and commercial transactions. The units studied give detailed consideration to the law relating to contract, torts, corporations, agency, partnership, fiduciary obligations, taxation, banking, finance, intellectual property, competition, consumer protection and international trade. If you’re all up for a career in professional accounting, business management, international trade or industrial relations then give this a shot. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: uwa.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF ARTS (HUMANITIES) Curtin University You’ll be looking at ways to develop viable communities, social, cultural and economic institutions and finding effective systems of local, national and international governance. This major focuses on geography – examining the threats and opportunities to developing and maintaining local communities and habitats. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus, off campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF LAW AND BACHELOR OF COMMERCE Notre Dame This degree has a strong emphasis on ethics, practical legal learning and the concepts of duty, social function and service to others. Notre Dame is backed by members of the WA legal profession and judiciary and calls on these members to assist in teaching at the uni. Notre Dame has strong links for various universities in the States and around the world – you’ll have the opportunity to complete part of your degree in places like Boston, Washington DC, Indiana and in Europe if you’re up for it. Course Duration: Five years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: nd.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE (INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT) Curtin University This course covers five main areas of study essential for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community management and development practitioners, including management theories and practices, community development processes, policy development and implementation issues. You will analyse the main historical, social, political and economic factors and the ways in which they have influenced contemporary indigenous society. If you’re keen to work in management, leadership or community development positions in Aboriginal or government organisations, this is for you. It is community based so you will develop your skills in a community setting and complete most of your study in your workplace. Course Duration: Three years full time, on campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au. 50
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (ELECTRICAL POWER ENGINEERING)
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (CIVIL) ECU Civil engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the humanmade environment, including buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, dams and other large physical structures. Course Duration: Four years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: ecu.edu.au.
CERTIFICATE II IN ENGINEERING Challenger Institute Of Technology This course will provide you with practical skills and knowledge in a range of metals and engineering industry areas. You will learn skills in using tools, measuring and calculating, technical drawing and drafting, load shifting, thermal cutting, using forging and casting equipment, and welding. You will also learn about safety in the workplace, computing and maths. Course Duration: Two semesters full time, on campus. More Info: challenger.tafe.wa.edu.au.
Murdoch University There are prerequisites for this one so make sure you check them out. You’ll be looking at engineering computer systems, circuits and systems, power electronic convertors and systems and a bunch of other crazy systems which are included in the course units. Course Duration: Four years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: murdoch.edu.au.
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BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING) Curtin University This course deals with the processing of minerals and the production of metals, mineral concentrates and mineral products. It will offer you sound training in mineral processing, hydrometallurgy and pryometallurgy. You will explore environmental considerations and mine finance and management and focus on plant and process design and industrial research. FYI you’ll be spending two years in Kalgoorlie as part of this degree. You’ll also do 12 weeks of practical experience in the industry before graduation. Course Duration: Four years full time, on campus. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (MECHANICAL)
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ENGINEERING SCIENCE) UWA Studying this major will see you complete a strong, broad foundation of engineering and science units before moving into your third year to study a more specialised area of engineering. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: uwa.edu.au.
ECU Mechanical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the design, manufacture and maintenance of mechanical components and moving systems. You’ll get a foundation in physical and engineering sciences along with engineering mechanics, computer aided design, computer aided manufacturing, and more. Course Duration: Four years full time or part time equivalent, on campus. More Info: ecu.edu.au.
Frank Kornaat (left) and Brendon Williams with their flight simulator
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COURSE BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING AGE (MECHATRONICS) You’re studying engineering at ECU – why did you choose to study this and what are the best and worst parts of the course? I decided to study mechatronics after reading an article about a student who made an artificial hand using pneumatic actuators. It seemed really cool at the time but the worst part about the course is the amount of solid work you have to put in just to understand the concepts. This gets easier as you get further into the degree but it was difficult starting out. The best part about the course was all of the awesome facilities and workshop. What specific projects have you enjoyed in your course so far? The entire of the robotics unit was fantastic, we got to work with robot arms and find out how they work. The FEM (Finite Element Methods) unit was also really impressive to work with; it actually shows how engineers use software to their advantage. Lastly, I chose a unit called Real-time Embedded Systems which was great; it showed me how engineers work in their real-life teams and how elements of building automation works. Had any stressful moments during the course? The most stressful times are always the exams, the assignments aren’t such a big deal but you have to pass the exams to pass the units and they are sometimes worth 60 per cent. The most exciting times are when your robot does what it’s meant to or the project you have been working on works perfectly. You were asked to build a flight simulator for the aviation department at uni, what was that like? I have to say it was the biggest, most complex project I have ever undertaken. The end product was far better than I initially expected and felt great when I finished. What advice would you give to year 12 peeps finishing high school who want to study engineering? Try not to slack off in your first year, pay attention and don’t let your mark fall below 70 per cent. It’s hard getting a good average when it begins to slip below that mark, and extremely hard to get a good average when you fail units. When you try to finish your work experience it will be hard to convince a company to hire you if your academic record shows a poor average and that you have been failing classes. Those stains don’t wash out! You recently got a job at Kentz here in Perth – what’s that like? We are working on the Gorgon Gas Project which mainly revolves around the gas production facility at Barrow Island. Kentz are building most of the facility for the contract suppliers, namely Chevron. [They’re] keeping me fairly occupied with the small projects at work such as the audio alarm system for the fire and chemical suppression at the facility. What’s planned for the future? I would like to take a closer look into subsea engineering because it’s fairly challenging and off shore oil and gas are beginning to invest large amounts into it. 49
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (EXERCISE SCIENCE AND REHABILITATION) ECU Joondalup Gives students the opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge and sound practical skills in exercise science and rehabilitation. This course coincides with the three-year Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Sports Science) degree and includes exercise physiologist units accredited by Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA). Course Duration: Full time for three years or part time. More Info: ecu.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (SPORT SCIENCE) UWA A Sport Science major provides you with expertise in the sport sciences and trains you for a career in the sport and recreation industries. Your studies will provide you with a mix of core units and your choice of elective units to give you the knowledge, skills and understanding you need. You will be prepared for careers in areas such as sport management and delivery, and in service delivery essential for athlete preparation and specialised fitness industries. Course Duration: Full time for three years or part time. More Info: uwa.edu.au.
If, in the words of Olivia Newton John, you like to get physical, then perhaps a career in Sports Science/Physiotherapy is for you. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (PHYSIOTHERAPY) CERTIFICATE III IN FITNESS Challenger Institute This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to plan and conduct a fitness program and a group exercise class. You will learn about the role of fitness instructors, exercise science and gain an overview of work in the industry. You will learn skills in effective communication, administration and organisation. You will also learn how to analyse risk, respond to emergency situations and maintain equipment. Course Duration: One semester full time. More Info: challenger.tafe.wa.edu.au.
Curtin University In this course, you will undertake a combination of theoretical, practical and clinical subjects. You will explore the foundations of anatomy, structure and function of the human body in your first year. Your subsequent years will be devoted to a more intensive study of the musculoskeletal, neurological and cardiopulmonary areas. Course Duration: Four years full time More Info: curtin.edu.au.
HUGH SINGE AGE COURSE INDUSTRY AND COURSE: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (EXERCISE AND HEALTH), MEDICINE, RESCUE AND REVIVE MANAGER You get flown around the world to be in charge of medical tents at music festivals – can you tell us a bit about that? Every job has its highlights and visiting events in other parts of the world has certainly been one for me. I find it interesting learning about the subtle differences in the systems we operate under in Australia compared to other countries. Being involved with events on an international level is very educational and allows me to develop my personal skills and knowledge and improve the services I manage. I am always learning and developing the way I operate as a result. While I never envisaged doing this as a career, it has turned out to be as close to my dream job as I could imagine. I have been fortunate to visit many exciting events however the 2010 and 2011 Glastonbury Festivals in the UK are a stand out.
Glastonbury Festival of nerves. I think the nerves and anxiety is good as it reinforces to me that I enjoy and care about what I do. The day that disappears is probably the day I need to look for another career. Have you met anyone exciting since being involved in your industry? One of the appealing parts of working in the events industry is meeting the interesting people that are part of it. A personal highlight was meeting the guys from U2. It is rare I get to meet artists as I am usually busy working, however, on this occasion I was thrilled to give the work a miss for a short while.
What are the various responsibilities that you undertake as part of your job? My responsibilities vary from event to event and across different venues. My responsibilities typically involve input in risk assessment and management planning for each event through to developing operational plans for health services on site and their interaction with permanent health services.
What advice would you give to year 12 peeps finishing high school who are looking to go down your career path? This industry involves long hours and hard work to be successful, however if it is something you want to be a part of then have a red hot go. It is worth every bit of hard work and extremely rewarding eventually. The best advice given to me in high school was that life continues after those final exams.
Being in such a highly stressful industry – you must’ve encountered some pretty crazy situations or had moments of stress/nervousness? I imagine that every career has its challenges and the events industry is well known to involve high stress and intensity for long periods of time. In itself that adrenaline can be an attraction with the satisfaction at the end of such challenges. No one incident stands out from the others due to stress or anxiety, they all have their own accompaniment
Any other crazy stories? There are plenty but one that comes to mind is seeing an international headlining act departing after a show. Their car became bogged in some very swampy ground. Watching members of the headline act stand in the mud and help push the car will remain in my memory for some time. The persons involved can remain nameless, however, it was one of those moments that created a unique bond for all those present.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (EXERCISE, SPORTS AND REHABILITATION SCIENCE) Curtin University The Exercise and Sports Science major within the Bachelor of Science (Exercise, Sports and Rehabilitation Science) is designed to provide you with knowledge of the human body and how it relates to sports and exercise, and the practical skills to apply your knowledge in a professional setting. You will study a combination of theoretical and practical subjects, beginning with an interprofessional year in which you’ll explore the foundations of anatomy, structure and function of the human body, psychology, health and health behaviours. Course Duration: Three years full time or part time. More Info: curtin.edu.au.
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CERTIFICATE IV IN SPORT (DEVELOPMENT) Central Institute This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to develop, coordinate, coach and officiate in a wide range of sports. You will learn to facilitate the development of competing athletes to improve performance for themselves and/or that of a team. You will also learn to coach children and people with special needs. You will learn skills in sports science, sport psychology, nutrition, and planning and conducting training programs. As part of this qualification you will undertake a supervised work placement where you will be able to apply the skills and knowledge you have learned. Course Duration: One year full time. More Info: central.wa.edu.au.
BACHELOR OF EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCE Notre Dame This multidisciplinary degree in Exercise and Sport Science will draw on exercise science, biological science and social science sub disciplines. Graduates of this course will be eligible for accreditation with Exercise and Sport Science Australia (ESSA). Course Duration: Three years full time. More Info: nd.edu.au.
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