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Carus Thompson The Lucky Wonders
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS
It was nine years ago that Freo boy turned international troubadour Carus Thompson recorded his career defining double live record Acoustic At The Norfolk. Now, after spending years touring the globe and releasing three more critically acclaimed albums, the local superstar is set to return to the Norfolk Basement to record Acoustic At The Norfolk Volume Two, over two very special nights on Friday, January 27, and Saturday, January 28. Like on the original recording he’ll be joined by a bunch of special guests, but this time he’ll also be getting Mo Wilson on a upright piano and his brother Christian Thompson on vocals. There will be a limited capacity of 100 each night to ensure the recording sounds its best, and there is a small amount of tickets for both nights sold at a special weekender price for those who want to make sure they will definitely be heard in the background of the new album. Tickets are available from Mills, 78’s, Planet and Heatseeker.
SMALL WONDERS
On the last leg of a national tour, Byron Bay folk/alt pop four piece The Lucky Wonders, fronted by WAMi Award winner Jessie Vintila, are heading our way with their acclaimed songwriting and warm, quirky appeal. After a massive 2011, they kick off 2012 with a big WA tour. See them at the Prince Of Wales this Thursday, January 5; with Rachel & Henry Climb A Hill at the X-Wray Cafe on Friday, January 6; Wignalls Vintage Blues Festival in Albany on Saturday, January 7; Denmark Tavern on Sunday, January 8; Indi Bar with The Painted Bird and Ivory Wolf on Wednesday, January 11; Dunsborough Tavern on Friday, January 13, and Saturday, January 14; and Redcliffe On THe MUrray on Sunday, January 15.
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PULLING A SICKIE
Perth Festival organisers have recently announce that due to unforeseen circumstances American blues stalwart Seasick Steve will no longer be appearing at the Festival Gardens on Wednesday, February 15. Melbournian neo-soul outfit Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes have been announced as Seasick Steve’s replacement for the evening. Mixing elements of soul, blues, doo-wop, ska and gospel, the hollers, growls and whisky-drenched tones of the nine-piece is sure to lure you back to ‘60s Motown. All people with tickets for Seasick Steve will be contacted by PIAF for a ticket exchange or refund. Tickets for Clairy Browne are available from perthfestival.com.au and BOCS outlets.
Perth hip hop fans are about to experience a serious Heatwave as the chart smashing Chamillionaire, the Grammy award winning artist behind the 2006 worldwide hit Ridin’, rides the wave into Australia as a blockbuster headline act for the Heatwave Festival being held at Challenge Stadium on Friday, January 20. Chamillionaire will be joined by Detroit superstars D12, lightning fast Kansas City spitter Tech N9ne, Shifty-led LA rap rockers CrazyTown and former Shady Records signee Obie Trice. Locals Gunn Boy and Shock will open proceedings. Head to Ticketmaster for your tickets.
Some of Perth’s freshest local talents are set to come together to provide funding for Tumaini Children’s Foundation that takes care of youngins who have been orphaned by AIDS in Tanzania, Africa. Artists including Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics, Ladywood, Speekeasy, Marksman, ASAP, Joshua Charles, Wisdom2th and DJ Silence will lend their diverse musical gifts to a fundraising show at the Rosemount Hotel on Saturday, January 14. Tickets are $10 at the door with all proceeds raised from this event will go towards Tumaini Orphanage in Tanzania, Africa.
LOSING GRIP
California’s “sonic grim reapers” Death Grips have unfortunately chosen to cancel their debut Australian tour, which included a WA show at The Bakery on Saturday, January 21. Heatseeker and Now Baking tickets will be refunded minus the booking fee. Hard tickets will be refunded at the place of purchase. All tickets bought at lifeisnoise.com will be refunded in full including the booking fee.
PARK LIFE
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The City Of Vincent’s 2012 Summer Concert program Live In The Park is set to offer a feast of music, film and family entertainment over a series of delightful Sunday evenings this January and February. This year’s offering kicks off at 5pm on Sunday, January 15, at Hyde Park with a scintillating performance from the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra. On Sunday, January 29, Braithwaite Park plays host to alt-country band the Jayco Brothers and quirky folksters Rachel & Henry Climb a Hill. Sunday, February 12, sees blues and gospel pianist Paul Giola do his thing, followed by Ruby Boots; and Beach Boys tribute act Sea Of Tunes hit Hyde Park on Sunday, February 26. Hit up vincent.wa.gov.au for more information.
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ALL THAT JAZZ
From the smoky jazz cellars of Berlin to the womb of the blues in downtown New Orleans, one of Australia’s finest consummate artists Pugsley Buzzard has dazzled and delighted audiences far-and-wide with his unique blend of dark hoodoo blues, good time rollicking boogie and blazing stride style piano playing. Local audiences can prepare to be booglarised by the enigmatic artist at the 2012 Fringe World Festival, where he will perform his new Chicago Typewriter show each night from Friday, January 27, until Tuesday, January 31. Tickets are now on sale from fringeworld.com.au. 7
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When three Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet theatre for oil, they set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years. Kermit lives in his own mansion depressed in Hollywood, Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo’s Royal Flush, Fozzie performs with a tribute band called The Moopets, Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger management rehab centre in Santa Barbara. A delightful film for the whole family, get your entries in now for your chance to score one of five family passes we have up for grabs plus movie soundtrack.
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SERLOCK HOLMES
Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large— Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)—and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of death and destruction—all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history. Get in now to win one of five double passes we have up for grabs to this must see film which is sure to have you on the edge of your seat.
What more could you ask for on a summer’s evening than being in our beautiful southwest! Movies In The Vineyard is being held in the Cape Mentelle Winery, Margaret River, and is the perfect way to make the most of your trip down South. Bring a picnic basket and blanket to spread out on the winery’s lawn to watch the films as the sun goes down. With screenings from Saturday, December 17, to Wednesday, February 22, Cape Mentelle is Margaret Rivers’ only outdoor cinema and is truly a magnificent spot. We are giving you the chance to win one of two double passes we have to giveaway to Movies In The Vineyard, get in now as they are sure to go quick.
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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Doctor Who U.N.I.T Files box set features these classic episodes, Invasion Of The Dinosaurs and The Android Invasion. The third Doctor faces ravenous prehistoric monsters in deserted London, while the fourth Doctor battles robot duplicates in a strange village - but are the forces of U.N.I.T friends or foes? Find out in these classic adventures! The DVD features extras such as commentary, deleted scenes, photo gallery, production information, subtitles and much more. Get in now for your chance to win one of three copies we have up for grabs. A cult classic and a must have for any Dr Who fan!
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, 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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The organisers of Big Day Out have again announced a new venue – McCallum Park in Victoria Park. Here’s what our fans had to say about the new location…
Ryan Yeah Basso FTW. But anything’s better than Claremont.
Rob At least it’s not Rockingham.
Jarrod Who cares? With the exception of Soundgarden the line up sucks balls. But any things better than Claremont I guess.
Fah I think it is a great location. Plenty of shade and good on the Town Of Vic Park for making it happen. Hopefully more festivals are put on there. They used to have lots of free festivals there and they were great.
Liam I remember when they announced The Bronx, I thought shit, I have to go. Then I remembered the price.
Jessica Glad it’s not at Claremont, I hated it there. Was the best at Bassendean, with the Boiler Room being under the tent. Hope the new location works well.
Anthony What Liam said, times a brazillion.
ONYA BREAKFEST Dear X-Press, Netsky is one hell of a mad dog! Just wanted to give a big pat on the back to all the people involved with putting on Breakfest. Absolute winner. Not sure why Netsky wasn’t headlining because he was clearly the dude of the day… well him and Hollywood Holt. What a sicko! Definitely going places. One thing that was poor form though – the pizza van, what the hell was going on there? It was like someone shat on a piece of bread and then topped it with rat poison. Aside from that nightmare, was a good day indeed. Bring on Breakfest 2012. Bruce Kenner Hillarys
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THE MUPPETS Green Is Good
After more than a decade away from the cinema screen, The Muppets return with an all new adventure in 2012. DARRAN PRICE and PHIL JENG KANE caught up with none other than the film’s writer and star Jason Segel along with Mister Rainbow Connection himself, Kermit The Frog, ahead of the film’s release on Thursday, January 12. ‘It’s time to play the music…it’s time to light the lights…’ Nostalgia runs deep after the gang’s 12 year big screen hiatus, but on January 12 we get to experience the brilliance that is The Muppets once again. Millions all over the world tuned into their weekly TV series to catch up with their unique comedy ever since they made their debut appearance on Sam & Friends in 1955. The biggest stars of the day guest-starred on The Muppet Show and often found themselves upstaged by Muppet diva, Miss Piggy. The Muppets are back in a big budget, big screen reboot courtesy of Disney and we have Jason Segel from television’s How I Met Your Mother and a thousand Judd Apatow films to thank for their timely return. Disney’s The Muppets is a passion project for Segel who says, “Ultimately they’re my first influence in comedy combined with the fact they’re so positive – it’s two things I really care about grouped into one,” he begins. “The fact that I got to work on something like this and deliver it to a whole new generation was a really exciting idea for me.” Segel was recently in Australia to promote the new movie, and his travelling companion was the green superstar himself, Kermit The Frog. Kermit is a showbiz veteran who has been working since the mid ‘50s. He and Segal couldn’t be happier about the reaction to the film’s green carpet premiere in Sydney. “It’s gratifying,” Kermit says. Segal agrees, “Everywhere we’ve gone people are really excited that The Muppets are back on the big screen. They turned out in droves to meet Kermit.” One of the keys to The Muppets’ success has always been the quality of the music. Twice they had a hit with their cover of the Swedish pop song Mahna Mahna. Their original 1979 feature film launched Kermit’s signature song The Rainbow Connection which went on to become the 74th greatest song of all time as rated by the American Film Institute. Lucky for us, Segel brought that special song back in a bit of a different way for the latest outing. The new movie reworks everything from classic pop songs like Starship’s We Built This City to a version of Cee Lo Green’s Forget You sung by Camilla & The Chickens. A number of the original songs are written by Bret McKenzie, the bearded half of New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo Flight Of The Conchords. His songs include the movie’s title track Life’s A Happy Song, a duet with Amy Adams with Miss Piggy titled Me Party and, surprisingly, a rap for actor Chris Cooper. Segel comments on Cooper’s scene. “It was in the script originally and I think it’s part of what drew him to the role, he does play so many serious parts and for him to be able to cut loose a little bit was a nice departure.” McKenzie also stepped in as the film’s music supervisor with his good buddy, and co-creator of the TV series Flight Of The Concords, James Bobin behind the camera as director. The new movie is filled with surprising cameos from a galaxy of Hollywood stars such as Neil Patrick Harris, Jack Black, Whoopi Goldberg, Alan Arkin, Emily Blunt and Dave Grohl. Casting Amy Adams in the lead female role was something of a coup. Segel says, “I absolutely wrote the movie for Amy to play that part ever since I saw Enchanted and Junebug. I knew she had that kind of wide-eyed innocence that was perfect for The Muppets.” Segel persuaded her to get involved in a particularly cute way. He and Kermit sent her a video invitation to be in the film. It features Segel singing part of a song in an over-the-top tribute to Adams’ talents. Kermit and Segel are an oddly matched pair. Segal is 6 foot 4 inches in height and Kermit stands at an even 3 feet. They obviously come from a very different comedy tradition. Kermit earned his comedy stripes on Sesame Street and then later in the Vaudeville world of The Muppet Show. His mentor was the beloved founder of The Muppets, Jim Henson. Segel’s inspiration was the somewhat spikier producer, director and writer, Judd Apatow. He first met Apatow when he was cast in the cult TV series Freaks & Geeks, which also starred Seth Rogen and James Franco. Segel says, “He taught me how to write and really mentored me and has been an amazing force in our whole group’s life, his big goal was to give us the tools we needed to then go off and make it on our own.” This eventually led to his writing and starring in the Apatow produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which Kermit rates very highly. “I’m obliged to say Sarah Marshall is my favourite because of that opening scene, we both have that in common, Jason generally tries to perform naked and I always perform naked.” Coincidentally, Segel worked alongside the Henson Company to create the puppets used in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. His current collaboration with The Muppets has presented Segel with some interesting challenges. The production closed down Hollywood Boulevard for two nights running. Segel, Adams and the entire www.xpressmag.com.au
Muppets crew backed by hundreds of extras, performed the elaborate final musical number. “It was wonderful. We had an enormous crowd of 500,000 extras on the first night, stretched all the way down the street from one end of Hollywood to the other,” Kermit laughs at his exaggerated numbers. “It was a magical night,” Segel says, “All of The Muppets were there and we were singing and dancing. Totally coincidentally on a lamp post there were banners for a Jim Henson retrospective that were not part of our set dressing, so the whole time we had a beautiful picture of Mr. Henson looking down on us, smiling.”
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“Jason generally tries to perform naked and I always perform naked.” - Kermit The Frog
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SPICKS AND SPECK-TACULAR Last Call
After a whopping 277 episodes over seven seasons, Adam Hills, Alan Brough and Myf Warhurst decided to end their hit ABC show Spicks And Specks late last year. But before they sign off for good, they return to the stage for one last time on the Spicks And Speck-tacular: The Finale tour, which kicks off tonight, Wednesday, January 4, and runs until Sunday, January 8, at the Perth Convention Centre. Warhurst chats to MATTHEW HOGAN. In her relatively short career, Myf Warhurst has accomplished more than most who set out for a career in the Australian music media. After scoring the managing editor role of Victorian street press Inpress she became one of the most popular announcers on Triple J and she’s even given commercial radio a shot. But it’s her role as team captain on ABC’s Spicks And Specks that has truly placed her on the map as it’s been a ratings winner ever since it debuted in early 2005. So why would Warhurst along with fellow team captain Alan Brough and host Adam Hills decide to end it? “It was our decision,” says Warhurst. “We’ve gone into every year of the show asking each other if we’re still doing a good job and whether people still like it. ‘Is it as fun as it should be?’ I reckon seven years is good timing, you know? Usually you don’t get the luxury to say when you want to go, most of the time you get sacked - I’ve been sacked a few times from radio jobs. I think it’s really quite the luxury to make that decision.” Warhurst recalls how she unexpectedly got offered the role. “The way I got the job is through Adam’s housemate,” she recalls. “Adam was living in London and his housemate was from Adelaide, and they were looking for the person to play my role and his housemate suggested me. So I ended up doing it, well it wasn’t really an audition, but we filmed a pilot, and then I had the job and we started the week after. It was very unexpected, and we were very lucky that it ended up being a show that people liked. It was all a big surprise!”
The show came to an end with an hourlong final episode that aired in November, and while Warhurst got the right answer to the final question on the show, her team lost. “I always lose,” she laughs. “You know it’s hilarious because people are always like, ‘It must be rigged’. But if I knew all the answers then there’s no way they would let me lose as often as they do. I’d choose when I would She swears they’re not planning on win, but it was never an option, so there you go. I retiring the show in the same fashion that John was always on the slower team, but Alan’s a genius Farnham ‘retired’ all those years ago. “Hopefully we ,so I can’t compete with that!” leave everyone with that good taste in their mouth rather than a bad one because a lot of TV shows go on a bit too long,” Warhurst says.“We’ve also had one of the best years ever on the show - that’s always the “Hopefully we leave way, but we’ve made our decision and we’re sticking to it.” Much like Farnham’s The Last Time Tour, though, they’re heading out on a rather extensive everyone with that good tour to say goodbye to their fans in person. Anyone who saw the Spicks And Speck-tacular tour in 2007 would know what to expect from the stage show. taste in their mouth rather “What we do is we bring the show to Perth and we get audience members to be on the team and there’s a whole lot of musical numbers throughout the than a bad one because a show - we do a whole lot of singing and dancing and there’s a big opening number,” Warhurst promises. “It’s pretty funny, I would imagine, for other people lot of TV shows go on a bit to see, and it’s slightly humiliating too because at some points the boys are wearing leotards. It’s like the show but all the musical stuff is provided by us. We’ve done a lot of dance lessons and put together too long.” some routines that we hope are funny.” The travelling show also features a live band, which is led by Warhurst’s brother Kit, who
“You shrug off your sort of youthful snobbery that certainly my generation had, because my generation completely rejected our parents’ music, which isn’t the case nowadays.”
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NICK LOWE
An Understated Renaissance Due to arrive on our shores for a tour in the near future, bona fide British music legend Nick Lowe explains to DERMOT CLARKE the writing process that went into his latest album, The Old Magic. He plays at the Astor Theatre on Monday, March 26. He doesn’t sound like a 61-year-old man, be it conversationally or musically. He’s disarmingly modest and polite: even though Nick Lowe wrote (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding, to this day he isn’t bothered a whit that it’s credited to Elvis Costello. He was in the thick of punk and new wave, but never let himself be identified with either movement, even though he was pivotal to 10
both, and one gets the feeling that – no, really – he likes the idea of getting old. One difference between The Old Magic and Lowe’s previous effort, 2007’s At My Age, is that his new album is actually selling well, and garnering him some much-deserved attention. What’s curious is his reasoning behind why it took him so long to put the new record together.
“Well, it’s too hard to write songs for you to be actually able to decide: ‘right, I’m going to do an album like this’. You can do that when you’re younger,” he says. “But as you get older it gets harder to do. You’d think it would be a walk in the park. What normally happens is I wait until I’ve got two or three tunes that I think are pretty good, that stand a good chance of becoming good records. It’s a bit like a snowball on a hill, gathering more and more snow as it goes down. From that three-song nugget, the other songs kind of attach themselves. That’s a writing process which in my case can take three or four years, I suppose.” The Old Magic is deceptively shrinkwrapped in a sort of middle-of-the-road plastic croon, that perhaps is a bit too smooth. But this is just the ploy of a master craftsman who knows exactly what the hell he’s doing. In terms of the aforementioned ‘snowball effect’, this record plays itself back out the same way. It initially has the veneer of a chardonnay wine tasting session, and then you get over the shock. Checkout Time is the first one to take hold: a tongue-in-cheek look at his own mortality that is nonetheless utterly poignant. Really, this is the same guy who wrote Truth Drug, it’s just that he doesn’t feel like beating on dead horses. By the time Insensitive Man and Somebody Cares For Me reveal themselves, the ghosts of Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly weave their way through. Restless Feeling is the song that triggered the writing process of The Old Magic. It’s one of the more bizarre moments on the album, and it has its genesis in a rather absurd conversation fueled by a sake drinking session. “ Two of my co-collaborators, Neil Brockbank who does the mixing and Robert Traherne the drummer, had a record label called Blue Five, and they put one record out,” Lowe explains. “It was Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham from Memphis. We put out a live album of them on Blue Five. So Blue Five
The cast of Spicks And Specks is best known for playing drums in Rocket Science. “They’re called The Specktors and they came on tour with us last time, so it’s the same band, and it’s my brother Kit, who I guess is the musical director of the production,” says Warhurst. “Then there’s Steve Hesketh on keys, who’s played in You Am I, Jet, he’s like the go-to keyboard guy; and Gus Agers, who is also in The Gin Club and Tex Perkins’ Ladyboyz. So they’re a great band, an absolute cracking band and they’re part of the team.” After the national tour winds up, don’t think that will be the last you’ll see of Warhurst as she’s already finished filming her new six-part series for the ABC, Myf Warhurst’s Nice. “It’s not about me being nice at all, it’s about all the stuff that we grew up with that we never thought was particularly great,” she previews. “So I was looking at the obvious popular culture references in food, fashion, art, music and all that sort of thing. We’re seeing whether or not there is any great deeper meaning to them all. So it’s really nostalgic but it’s also looking at the stuff that’s around us and celebrating it. There must be a reason why we love this stuff even though we look back at it now and go, ‘Oh my god!’”. There must have been some redeeming features to it. It’s all the stuff that you think about and go, ‘Oh that’s, er, nice.’” released one record and it was pretty successful. One night we were in Tokyo doing some shows, and we were in a bar, laughing about how Blue Five had got this tremendous success, never had a flop, and we started to joke about making a record of phony Blue Five artists, as if Blue Five had all these other artists on its books, and how we’d do a compilation record, like they used to do back in the ‘60s. We’d had a few drinks, and we started thinking about decent names for some of these different artists. One of the artists we came up with was this slightly over the hill boy band like a cross between New Kids On the Block and the Osmond brothers. There’d only be maybe one or two of the original guys in it, the others having left: maybe died of drug overdoses, or bought a shoe shop or something. And the name we came up with for this over the hill boy band, which we thought was spot-on, was ‘Coastline’. “And after a few more sakes I suddenly jumped up and said, ‘Well I’ve got their tune, I know exactly what their tune goes like’.” Lowe chuckles, “and I started singing Restless Feeling. We went back to the UK, and one day we thought, ‘What about doing Coastline? Let’s start this record, it’s a pretty good idea.’ So I finished the song, and the more we worked on it the more we got into it. We thought, ‘Well actually this is pretty cool’.” Checkout Time is another example of combining a somewhat unforeseen arrangement of music with such (seemingly) poignant lyrics. “I was watching TV and strumming a guitar one evening, and I came up with the little chord changes and the melody. I didn’t intend to write a song – even though it’s rather tongue-in-cheek – about my own mortality. But when I came up with this melody, I actually heard Johnny Cash’s voice singing: ‘I’m 61 years old now, and I never thought I’d see 30’. I heard Johnny Cash singing it, and it fitted, y’know, just fitted great,” he explains. Lowe’s attitude to his age, ironically, affords him with a kind of spark of youth. It sounds syrupy and sentimental, but it’s rather inspiring. “One of the great things I’ve found about getting old in a business that up until fairly recently ... it would be inconceivable that someone in their 60s or 70s, such as Bob Dylan, can still be incredible artists, writing and producing records that are great and that people think are worthy of discussion. You shrug off your sort of youthful snobbery that certainly my generation had, because my generation completely rejected our parents’ music, which isn’t the case nowadays,” believes Lowe. “My generation didn’t, but the older you get the more you welcome anything. It’s something that a younger audience can go for as well, and that suits me down to the ground. Because it’s music that I can perform, and I can reach a younger audience without having to get down with the kids in some kind of embarrassing and patronising sort of way.” X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
Scottie Miller
SCOTTIE MILLER Genuine Draft
It’s mid-winter in Minnesota, when American blues pianist-singer-songwriter Scottie Miller phoned for a chat with DEREK CROMB ahead of his seven-date WA tour. Check Tour Trails for full details. The contrast could hardly be greater. “It’s been a brown Christmas, no snow and around 40 degrees here,” says Scottie Miller. We could say the same, only difference being that the temperature down under is in Celsius! With 24 hours of flying ahead of him, Miller is coming all the way back for his second tour of WA, having been here in April/May of last year for the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival (as part of Ruthie Foster’s band) and a few stand-alone gigs. The vibe from these shows was palpable, with plenty of heat coming off the stage and from the audience, prompting him to get back here as soon as possible to build on these well-received performances. So just who is Scottie Miller? He hails from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, to the northwest of Chicago, and he’s an inductee in the Minnesota Blues Hall Of Fame, a former pianist with the legendary Bo Diddley’s band and currently accompanying Ruthie Foster, when not playing solo or with his own band. Blues Revue magazine described him as sounding “like Dr John meets The Band at Bruce Springsteen’s house”. Add to that his selection to represent his local Blues Society at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2005, where he went on to the top five finalist category, and you know that he’s a bluesman who has the goods. When asked about his beginnings on traditional piano, Miller explains how he got started at the age of six, went on to study jazz and blues at the
prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston, before joining bands in 1986. He has been influenced by some of the Great 88 players of our time, including Professor Longhair, Otis Spann, Ray Charles and Pinetop Perkins, the latter giving him his blessing after seeing Scottie perform at Antone’s in Austin, Texas. “You sound great man, I really like what you’re doing.” Miller has been fortunate recently to be part of the line-up on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruises out of San Diego and Florida, which he describes as “a giant floating blues festival for seven days and seven nights.” One for any blues lovers’ bucket lists! His style of blues is seen as a blend of barrelhouse blues, New Orleans funk, jazz and soul, making it hard to pin him down to one specific genre. “I try not to pay too much attention to one style. Maybe Jackson Browne meets Bonnie Raitt”, he offers in response to the question. Yet he is still experimenting with both his songwriting and his most recent live shows with full-blown string arrangements. This should be evident on his next CD release, due out later this year, on which he says he is aiming to combine “high energy blues stuff with some dirty blues.” Something to look forward to. Meanwhile, make sure that you catch Miller and his West Aussie band made up of Ace Follington and Roy Daniels at one of his gigs in the next week or two. You won’t be disappointed.
THE NOVOCAINES Idle Time
KORN The Path of Totality
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The Novocaines have been frequenting the Perth gig scene for about five years now, chucking out a few EPs and slamming out the shows. So there was a collective sigh of relief from band and fans at the beginning of November when the band released their fittingly titled debut full-length, Idle Time. The tunes are dirty, reckless and raw, yet structurally well-formed. The beauty of The Novocaines is that though each song is stylistically sound, they don’t take on that boring polished sheen that many rock bands tend to lean towards these days. First two tracks Trampled Hearts and Summer Waiting are sure to go far, with colossal riffs and excellent lyricism and rocking arrangements. Space is Closer than America is a definite standout. Unlike any other song on the record, this tune shows off Corey Marriott’s vocal ability and is a spectacularly bluesy ‘70s rock influenced tune that proves these boys are true musicians. All the Action Wants is classic garage grunge with great lyrics, such as “Feels like we’re living in a B-grade sitcom, You always leave me on a bad cliff hanger.” The album evokes mixed emotions, from wanting to grab a beer and get your head-mosh on, to sitting in a smoke-filled room and just feeling the music, man. For those of you asking where all the rock and roll has gone, it’s right here. _CHLOE PAPAS
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GORILLAZ The Singles Collection 2001-2011
SHELLEY SHORT Then Came The After Flippin’ yeah/MGM
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It is oft said that the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. She may not be the textbook freethinking hippy, but Shelley Shorts parents did instil in her a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. The Portland songwriter who has become a regular in Darren Hanlon’s band over the past few years has many tunes of her own. The most recent on Then Came The After. Short has a rich voice that sounds like it has been revived from a past era. Previous albums have shown Short to be right at home with a sparse arrangement that never appears to get out of first gear yet wins you over with delicate tones. There are moments that follow down that path here, with travel song Plane and the She & Him sounding Caravan. Other times, Then Came The After dabbles in the more accessible with Short showing her melodic chops as The Dark Side channels the classic ‘girl groups’ and Steel finds a more fuzzed out space to operate in. Short has more tricks than Felix when she unfurls ukulele and thumb piano during the percussive beauty These Walls. Then Came The After is Shorts finest record to date as its gentle melancholia evokes a smile more often than a tear. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT
Prescient
PRESCIENT A New Framework Perth progressive thrashers Prescient are all set to debut their first offering, The Polynomial Framework EP. JESSICA WILLOUGHBY talked to guitarist Andrew Shepard and drummer Taz Buckle ahead of the launch at the Rosemount Hotel this Friday, January 6. “We only know of one other instrumental band here that’s ever gone anywhere,” Prescient guitarist Andrew Shepard talks of the band’s dilemma. Making the choice to go instrumental, as a metal outfit in Perth, is… uncommon. Though this decision for locally based three-piece Prescient happened more by default. Originally starting with a vocalist in 2009, a parting of ways shortly after brought the option to reality. A reality which these progressive musicians have run with and made their own. Now on the brink of the release of their debut EP, The Polynomial Framework, early next month, the band will be solidifying their first foray into unchartered territory. But, according to Shepard, they are not looking to be locked into the genre per se. “We certainly don’t want to do that,” he says to X-Press. “We may be instrumental now, but we are looking to put some vocals in on our upcoming full length. We’ve decided to do a few songs with vocalists from well-known Perth metal bands. These are bands we really like. We want to make sure we do a couple of collaborations with very different singers on each one, so we don’t get stuck with www.xpressmag.com.au
just one type of vocal. Richard (Clements) from Vespers Descent is already appearing on a track.” Although this release is not pegged for release until later next year, the trio’s excitement for the eminent release of their EP is obvious. Written over a 12-month period, the six-track opus was recorded by Chaos Divine guitarist Simon Mitchell across three studios. One which was a homemade ensemble, as drummer Taz Buckle explains. “I converted the granny flat I was living in into a home studio for drums,” he says. “So I had to go out and get as many mattresses as I could find and try and soundproof the room. Just to get creative with the acoustics. It turned out pretty impressive really.” Shepard adds making this debut release is no easy feat. “We had to over think everything, from the music right down to the title of the album and songs,” he says. “It is so hard to write titles to songs when there is no lyrics. The album was laid on unsure groundwork, meaning we don’t know if we’ll remain instrumental in the future. Polynomial means undefined and every-changing and that is definitely us.”
Metal and dubstep. It just fits together, you know? Like pop and rock, or blues and roots. I don’t know why we didn’t think of it before. For those of you who have been under a rock for the past few months, nu-metal rockers Korn have gone all lost and confused in their old age and released a dubstepmetal album called The Path Of Totality. And man, it’s a doozy. First track Chaos Lives In Everything, featuring dubstep king Skrillex, is evidently directed at someone the band doesn’t like very much, with frontman Jonathan Davis wailing: “Gonna rape you/ Fuck you bitch frown”. Tracks like Burn The Obedient and Kill Mercy Within prove that no matter how good you are with technology, metal and dub should never ever mix – they are disjointed and awkward, and for some reason death growls just don’t have the same effect on top of robotic beats. At many points throughout the album the two genres are constantly doing battle; guitars drowning out electronica and vice versa. Final track Bleeding Out just sums up the utter embarrassing mess that is The Path Of Totality, with so many sounds spewed out that it hurts to make it through the entire song. This is a clumsy, overbearing headache of an album, with nothing of real merit. Be nice to your ears and don’t even give this one a listen.
It’s hard to believe it has already been 10 years since Blur front-man and all-round musical bad ass Damon Albarn unleashed his animated concept band, Gorillaz. With three major albums, and one minor release this year, Gorillaz have given radio stations plenty of catchy tunes to spin. To mark the 10 year occasion Parlophone has put together an album that neatly compiles all the band’s best hits. The title of this collection is strangely a tad inaccurate. It opens with Tomorrow Comes Today, the band’s first hit and still my favourite ‘rillaz track, but it actually made its debut in 2010 on its own EP. The Singles Collection 2001-2011 also ends with hits taken off 2010’s Plastic Beach and single Doncamatic, released in 2010. Title nitpicking aside, I couldn’t help but notice how much better the start of the album, or hits off the band’s debut, still trumps their later work. Del the Funky Homosapien, who memorably made early hits Clint Eastwood and Rock The House, sadly didn’t collaborate on any more tracks. As much as I love the later two LPs, they never captured the fun of that debut album. The only track not on an LP (depending on what copy of the self-titled Gorillaz LP you have) is Doncamatic, a single released at the end of 2010. This collection isn’t likely to bring any surprises to old fans, but does stand as a nice gift to the marginal Gorillaz fan. _TOM VARIAN
THE LOVE JUNKIES Louise PROFESSOR GREEN At Your Inconvenience
Independent
Local garage rock outfit The Love Junkies are bringing rock back with their new single Louise following the huge success of their self titled debut EP . The Love Junkies was received with raving reviews and it’s not hard to understand why. The threepiece are very at home with their dirty blues and rock ‘n ‘roll sound and face-melting guitar solos make another glorious appearance on Louise. Lead singer Mitch McDonald’s unadulterated grunge tones execute a convincing plea of affection which perfectly compliments Robbie Rumble’s dirty bass line. You want to compare McDonald’s vocals to that of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) with the similar growl and bluesy edge but McDonald’s performance on Louise is exceedingly raw and untouched. For the sake of the Love Junkies, hopefully it doesn’t change. Drummer Lewis Walsh’s work echoes the White Stripes but with added heartbreak blues reverberating on every hit of the snare. The only criticism if there must be one is Louise is too short, you want it to keep going but it exits too soon. The single also features fantastic old-school garage blues track Black Sheep Blues. The fuzzy guitar screams through and coupled with the half-time breakdowns, the track instantly gratifies all ‘90s nostalgic guilty pleasures. These boys serve a very important duty – reminding listeners of a much simpler time where grunge and pure rock ‘n’ roll reigned supreme.
Possessing a cer tain unplaceable, familiar aura that will undoubtedly earn it a spot on the “safe hiphop for indie rockers” list, UK rapper Professor Green’s At Your Inconvenience is an unlikely, remarkably successful stab at launching the first major male indie/hip-hop star of the decade. A genuine leap forward from 2010’s bland Alive Till I’m Dead, At Your Inconvenience is accessible, polished and brimming with verve. Astronauts combines the urgency of soul with the giddiness of Green’s breathless rap delivery and the catchier Read All About It is sure to be a welcome addition to daytime radio. Littering his lyrics with wry pop culture references, a sharp sense of humour and an honesty rarely found in rap music right now, Professor Green has used this record to showcase his obvious talent for forging damn sharp hippop hooks, keenly paired with melodramatic lyrics. At Your Inconvenience more than proves itself to be the rare contemporary rap album that insists on being heard, in full, in sequence, until the story ends. If 2012 proves to be a year in which promising artists get their due respects, then At Your Inconvenience will surely provide Professor Green with a breach for international success.
_CHELA WILLIAMS
_JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD
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1Up MicroCinema
1UP MICROCINEMA Celluloid Surprise
1Up MicroCinema is located at 312b William Street in Northbridge. Find out what’s on and when at insertcoins.com.au. Cineastes have it rough in Perth. If you don’t want to trek out to a suburban megaplex, your options are fairly limited, with the inner city home to only a couple of theatres. But if you know where to look, things aren’t nearly as grim as they first appear. Take 1Up Microcinema, for example; a combination 20 seat theatrette and clothing boutique tucked away on William Street in Northbridge, 1Up exhibits a wide range of cult and underground films from around the globe. “I guess when you develop a passion for art, things like fashion and film, you eventually want to create,” explains the proprietor, the enigmatic Player One. “Unfortunately, every time I tried to, my stuff was really shit. So, I thought ‘what skills do I have to contribute to the scene?’. I’m good at marketing and advertising and budgeting and stuff, so 1Up is a place where I’m not responsible for any of the art or work or products; I’m more facilitating it or curating it.” Selecting films for exhibition is no easy task, requiring endless hours of trawling through world film culture, looking for the occasional underappreciated gem. “I do a lot of research on the net. There’s a lot of film festivals around the world, and a lot of films that come out. I’m still sort of tinkering with it. At first I just picked stuff that interested me, but I’ve slowly learned that not everyone’s gonna enjoy the movies that I
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watch. I guess I look for films that have a little credibility on the festival circuit, and have gotten good reviews.” Of course, the films that find a home here are generally the kind of fare that could never find purchase in the wider film market, regardless of their merit. 1Up is a haven for the offbeat, the quirky, and occasionally the downright weird. “The more popular ones have been something like (high school hermaphrodite comedy) Spork,” Player One says. “And that was really good. It was surprising that that didn’t get an Australian distributor. It’s a comedy, it has a lot of ‘90s hits in it, it was fun for everyone, so we got a lot of people to that. Machotaildrop was another good one as well. Stakeland and Rubber, Nude Nuns With Big Guns... stuff like that. If you’re gonna come, you’re gonna want something different. I’m also pretty proud of a lot of the docos that we’ve done, like the Monopoly doco, Under the Boardwalk, and Superheroes. They maybe didn’t get the big turnout that we hoped, but I’m proud we showed them.” Indeed, he admits there have been difficulties drawing audiences to such idiosyncratic films. “Yeah, definitely, and that’s why I’ve combined it with the clothing store. I don’t think the microcinema would survive unless you could find a place that was rent-free or something like that, so I knew I needed a more tangible thing. So the clothes drive most of the profit, actually. The cinema’s only been open for about five months, but the clothes still drive the majority of the profit. It’s almost like they’re subsidising the cinema.” _TRAVIS JOHNSON
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Late Bloomers
LATE BLOOMERS Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number Directed by Julie Gavras Starring William Hurt, Isabella Rossellini, Joanna Lumley Late Bloomers is a film which attempts to explore the trials and tribulations of growing older. Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt play Italian-born housewife Mary and architect Adam, a married couple who are pulled apart by a fear of aging, and the film explores how each reacts to the inevitable reality that they’re growing old. After Mary experiences an incident of memory loss, it forces her to re-assess her life. She tries (and fails) to keep up in an aqua aerobics class, attempts to take up charity work with a condescending boss, and she tries to make herself desirable to the opposite sex and only attracts Peter (Hugo Speer), the owner of the swimming pool where she exercises. Unfortunately, her efforts go mainly unnoticed by Adam, who is too preoccupied with taking on projects that will get him closer to a young, attractive associate (Arta Dobroshi). While Mary wants to take every precaution to enable an easy life for when she and her husband are officially considered elderly, Adam is reluctant to admit that he’s growing old at all. When Mary buys a telephone “for old people” and a posturepedic adjustable bed, Adam retaliates by spending more time with his much younger
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colleagues, trying to recapture the glory days of his youth. “You don’t just want to work,” Mary says in frustration. “You want to work with your junior architects so you feel younger.” “Well, I don’t know if they’re making me younger,” Adam retaliates, “But you’re making me older.” Eventually things get to the point where the couple barely know each other anymore and their three children feel like they have to scheme to get them back together. But with their parents turning into two very different people in front of their eyes, do their parents even want to get back together anymore? Ultimately, while it is wonderful to watch Hurt and Rossellini onscreen, the film is slow-moving and is targeted towards quite a niche audience. It’s very hard to get into if you’re a 22-year-old reviewer with no real worries about growing elderly anytime soon. However, even when sharing the screen with two acting greats such as these, the supporting cast shine particularly brightly - especially Simon Callow and Joanna Lumley. Lumley in particular is a standout in her role as a ‘Grey Panther’, a social rights activist who wishes she’d put the same amount of effort into her marriage. She also makes possible the most poignant point of the movie when she tells a group of peers, “We have wisdom and experience, but we have no role models. How are women between 60 and 80 meant to behave? There’s no recognition.” While the film might not exactly answer that question, it certainly does draw to attention that this is one of very few films being made for an exclusively older audience. Unfortunately, with its slow-moving plot, sloppily written dialogue and not a whole lot of action, it shows exactly why there aren’t many films being made for the 60 to 80 year old age group. _TARA LLOYD
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VISUAL ARTS Sofles & Fintan Magee: Hole In The Wall Gallery, 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. 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.
THEATRE/DANCE The Show by Sarana Haeata The Show: Feast Your Eyes Gallery, Fremantle Local illustrator Sarana Haeata will adorn the walls of the newly opened Feast Your Eyes gallery with her whimsical artworks this week with The Show. Exploring the effects of emotion and psyche on one’s interpretation of reality, The Show is colourful and kooky. Runs Jan 6-19.
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
Perth Festival Theatre Program The Per th International Arts Festival runs between Friday, February 10, and Saturday, March 3. Information about the Theatre program and other festival events can be found at perthfestival.com.au, or by calling (08) 6488 5555. The 2012 Perth Festival is fast approaching and with it comes a spectacular and diverse theatre program. From the remarkable citizen journalism spectacle of Super Night Shot, to the fantastical grand plays of Shakespeare in The Winters Tale and Henry V, and the vibrant and beautiful The Red Tree by local artist Shaun Tan, this year’s program is designed to reach out and engage
audiences from all walks of life. Perth International Arts Festival associate producer Annette Madden describes the common idea that binds these shows together.“The theatre program was really about the diversity of experience - finding ways for audiences to not only experience something different in terms of the aesthetic or the story telling on stage but also providing experiences for an audience that takes them out of being purely a spectator... that was I guess one of the threads throughout the program where we were looking at work, and I think you’ll see in the program that there’s work where people can engage in new and innovative ways.” With this thread in mind, staff at the festival have strung together a truly remarkable line up of theatrical performances from both international and Australian artists. Taking the stage are works from local artists such as the Ilbijerra Theatre Company, and Perth-based Barking Gecko Theatre Company. “We really wanted to create opportunities both only for Australian artists, but also for the diversity of stories coming out of the Australian theatre scene at the moment,” says Madden. “llbijerri’s work Jack Charles vs The Crown is one of those beautiful theatrical stories but also a very personal story. Here is a man, an elderly man, who’s not young, but who has this great hope for the future, and I think that there’s this great fusion between a beautiful story and a great Australian man, and his ability to look at his life really honestly and tell that story in a fantastic
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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. Romeo & Juliet: Quarry Amphitheatre, Floreat
Presented by the Perth City Ballet, with direction from Diana Waldron, this production is a stunningly beautiful realisation in dance of the world’s best known love story set to Prokofiev’s exciting and haunting music. This will be a true love story with the star-crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet, danced by husband and wife, Sergey Pevnev and Fiona Evans, who appear courtesy of the West Australian Ballet. Season runs from Jan 18-21. Bookings via Ticketmaster. STRUTathon: Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts, Perth STRUT presents an exuberant and eclectic 10 hour dance marathon event marking a milestone 10 years of the organisation. Inspired by the low-fi, experimental forum of STRUT’s annual short works season, STRUTathon will be a bold and exciting celebration of independent contemporary dance culture in Western Australia over the last decade. Performance takes place on Jan 28 from noon ’til 10pm. 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. 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.
theatrical way is a great entertaining night, as well as being a touching and moving story.” Similarly Barking Gecko’s Driving Into Walls is a starkly honest and personal account of what it means to be a teenager in a modern, media driven society. Drawn from over 500 candid and extremely confidential interviews with West Australian teenagers, the show follows the lives of five teenagers, each trying to find their footing on an emotional roller coaster of online and offline dating, colliding with each other and breaking down the walls that surround them. “We were really excited about the idea of working with Barking Gecko to try and create a work that really engaged with the ideas and issues that [teenagers] are dealing with and create this vibrant and theatrical work that the many teenagers that they interviewed for the project had an investment in,” says Madden. Joining these local acts are an impressive range of theatrical heavyweights from the international community. In their sold out show Oraculos, Spanish theatre company Teatro de los Sentidos will open the minds and awaken the senses of their audiences in a personal and individualised performance experience. “Oraculos is a one on one experience,” says Madden. “The audience is taken through a labyrinth, a kind of custom built site specific space, and the experience that everyone has is kind of altered and changed and kind of mediated by their own experiences and by what they bring to the situation. So it’s a very personal experience, and it’s quite an extraordinary journey that you kind of go on in that hour long performance.” With such wealth of artistic talent visiting WA during this time, it is unsurprising that both festival staff and performers are looking for a way to offer more at a grass roots level. Under a new framework called ‘Vital Stages’, the festival will offer local artists the opportunity to engage with artists of the festival, including the chance to directly participate in works, masterclasses, workshops, and professional development events. “For example, with Oraculos we’re working with the company, they’re bringing their team out and they’re going to run a week long workshop with 16 participants prior to their pre-production, and then four of those artists will be invited to perform with the company,” Madden explains. The quality of the artists in this year’s theatre program reflects the Perth Festival’s ability to attract the best of the best internationally as well as locally. “When we’re looking for work for the program artistic excellence always comes first,” says Madden. “For us it’s really fantastic that over the years there has been such good will and good conversation about the festival that artists absolutely plan to come here. It is really exciting because it means that we’ve got such a wealth of fantastic artistic product to choose from.” _LEAH BLANKENDAAL
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NEW YEAR, NEW YOU A fresh year is a chance for a fresh start, and X-Press’ beauty correspondent ANNETTE GOHL has plenty of ideas for kicking off 2012 in healthy and happy style, with a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions that are good for the body and soul. While it's a well known fact that a lot of people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, even if you pick just one of the little life enhancing habits below, you will definitely be rockin’ an added glow in 2012. • Ditch one mainstream beauty product in favour of a more natural/organic alternative. This is getting easier and easier thanks to the beauty industry embracing the “good for the planet, good for you” ethos. My newest top tip is to dab some Tisserand ethically harvested lavender oil (available from echolife. com.au) on any type of spot and watch it magically disappear in a day or two! If you need inspiration for some more luxurious face and body alternatives, head to peachyclean.com.au or bathingbeauty.com.au and be amazed at their gorgeous natural beauty offerings! • Spend more time with friends who make me happy. We all have busy lives, and I've found over the past year I've often neglected lovely friends in favour of getting more work done, in 2012 I aim to catch up with one different friend one-on-one each week. This will create laughs, smiles, memories and be sure to keep my spirits high.
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• Do a 10 day yoga challenge. This has already been locked in. Ten days, MondayFriday, 90 minute classes, 6am starts. To say I'm terrified is an understatement, but I know this will be an incredible journey in self-discipline and hopefully I'll come out the other side feeling inspired and capable of tougher challenges. Not to mention how healthy and peace-filled I'll feel, that in itself is worth the 5am wakeups. If you've ummed and ahhed over the idea of beginning a yoga practice before, maybe diving right in with a challenge like this is the right way to start? Come join me... Namaste! • Drink a green smoothie or eat a giant salad every day. I may sound like a broken record, and I could talk about green smoothies and fantastic salads ’til the cows come home, but there is a reason for this! If you have a green smoothie (think spinach, kale, watercress, cos lettuce, banana and your choice of frozen fruit plus any other extras you'd like to add) every day, I can guarantee your life will change. You will feel energised, happier, healthier. You will be on your way to radiating with health and people will notice. Yummy salads are a great way to get a heap of nutrients as well and are deliciously light and easy during summer. Don't just think lettuce, tomato, cheese and cucumber either. Experiment with dried cranberries, kalamata olives, fetta, papaya, strawberries, pumpkin seeds... anything healthy that your heart desires can be thrown in! Smoothies and salads, watch out, every day you will be mine. • Be in bed by 11pm most weeknights. This may sound boring to some, but I'm personally a giant ball of cranky if I don't get enough sleep and when I stay up past 11pm my wellbeing is severely compromised the next day. My plan is to get those much needed 8 hours a night and feel nice and rested each morning, which will mean less bleary eyes and “you look tired” and more shining peepers and “damn girl, you lookin fly”. Maybe. • Use a targeted facial serum to treat my skin at night. Following on from the last point, this is a resolution to nourish my skin with beneficial essential oils and serums so that I wake up with bright skin. Those in the know have long been massaging 2-3 drops of rosehip or jojoba oil into their skin at night, and the difference the next day is very noticeable, these oils even help clear up pimples and scarring! So if you've not tried them, I heartily suggest you do so. For those with cash to spare, you'll want to get your hands on some of the locally made Franc Serum ($72), it smells gorgeous, feels divine and contains an incredible array of nourishing oils including macadamia, carrot, avocado, apricot kernel and more. Mmm food for the skin! • Have a massage once a month. This one may be a bit of a pipe-dream since I'll be studying next year, thus poor, but it would be my absolute dream to be able to afford a relaxation massage every month to help combat stress, swoosh toxins out of the body and generally improve wellbeing. This one’s a wish as well as a resolution! • Take up dancing again. …And I don't mean the 3.30am Carnegies beer fuelled shame-a-thon variety that used to haunt my younger years when the line to Amps was too long. No, I'd like to get back into some ’50s and ’60s style vintage dances c/o the gals at Sugar Blue Burlesque. I took these classes a few years back and the improvement in my confidence, cardio fitness and calves was phenomenal! I'd also like to learn to swing dance/ lindy hop as well, and there are heaps of classes around Perth so anyone that wants to get their swing dance on can. www.xpressmag.com.au
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THE VENGABOYS THE VENGA BUS IS HERE “For everyone who comes totally naked, we can arrange them to get an album” – these are the words of Kim Sasabone, lead vocalist of the legendary Euro-pop group The Vengaboys, talking of their gigs on their upcoming Australian tour (the first in roughly a decade). ANNABEL MACLEAN talks Perez, Pete Burns, Rocket To Uranus, crazy fans and boobs with the fit superstar. The Vengaboys are usually one of the first thoughts which spring to mind whenever the topic of the ‘90s arises in conversation. The Netherlands pop-group are known for their outrageously flamboyant costumes, crazy dance routines and lyrics filled with sexual innuendos and – of course – being one of the most influential Euro-pop groups of the 21st century. Since bouncing onto the scene in the ‘90s, the four-piece (who have had members come and go) have sold 20 million singles and five million albums and then suddenly – they quit. Since calling it quits back in 2004, the group began to receive a bunch of performance
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requests for ‘90s parties around the world and so the decision was made to get back together after a two year break in 2006 and give the fans what they’d been pleading for – a Vengaboys party. Now performing 80 shows a year, the original foursome are heading down under to show us again what they’re made of. “We’re super excited to come back to Australia because we haven’t been there in like 10 or 12 years so we’re really, really looking forward to it and almost all the shows have sold out. It’ll be an honour and so exciting!,” Kim Sasabone says down the line from her home in the Netherlands. Along with famous tunes We Like To Party, Shalala Lala and Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!, fans can expect to hear the group’s new tune Rocket To Uranus at their upcoming shows. The video clip for the tune features notorious socialite Perez Hilton and English singer-songwriter Pete Burns of Dead Or Alive.“Oh that was so much fun,” Sasabone says of creating the clip.“Obviously we hadn’t recorded a CD in like 10 years or so, so it was so much fun to be in the studio again and you know, playing dress up… Pete Burns - when he walked in, it was like ‘yes! a star enters the stage!’ and there were so many extras who were like ‘oh my god, he’s here, he’s here!’ and it was really cool to meet him. He’s quite a different kind of personality.”
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Darren Emerson The Vengaboys Meeting Pete Burns hasn’t been the only form of entertainment for the group of recent times. The group have a tab on their website called Daily Bra World Cup (s) which showcases fellow Vengaboys’ lass Denise van Rijswijk in various bust-heavy snaps.“It’s a very funny thing I think,” Sasabone declares. “We did that I think last year… we were just thinking ‘what can we do to make it [the website] more exciting, a little bit more fun?’ and then we came up with this idea and it was so much fun to shoot it because every time we were in a hotel room somewhere around the world and we’re like ‘oh we need to shoot your boobie!’ and we went ‘click, click!’ and we put it online and so I don’t know how the people received it but it was so much fun putting it online.” But, showcasing their flesh has, from time to time, seen the group get into strife. “When we were touring around back in the time, we did loads of Islamic countries and I can remember we were performing in Kuala Lumpur and we were all actually on the plane from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur which is like really short, like a half an hour or so, and we were sitting on the plane and then we read the newspaper - ‘Islamic party bans Vengaboys concert’ and we were on our way to that concert. So we came there and there was a huge riot and the Islamic party wanted to ban the concert, to block it, but fortunately they didn’t have their way. But the organisation asked us ‘could you please cover up a little bit more because we don’t want to have any more riots and stuff like that’ so we didn’t really do that (laughs).”
Sasabone notes how strange performing around the world is – in one country the group is covering up and in another, they’re going all out. And so are their fans. “A couple of weeks ago we had a huge ‘90s show in Norway and just imagine like a big sports hall with like 7,000 people and they’re all going crazy,” she says. “There was this one guy in the front… he said ‘I just had my tattoo done on my ankle, it says Vengaboys’ and he showed me the photo [on his phone]. This was like, I don’t know, a 28 year old guy. That was pretty crazy.” Sasabone declares all who will be attending their upcoming shows should expect “one big party”. “What you can always expect from a Vengaboys show – loads of energy from us,” she says.“People are going to be singing along to all our songs, so lots of interaction and just lots of fun.” As for what 2012 has in store, well it’s just smashing out the never ending list of requests coming in from all over the world. “It’s pretty funny actually – I saw a request in January for Bangladesh – can you imagine? Going to Bangladesh? So we’re going there and then the We Love The 90s Tour in Norway has expanded to all the other Scandinavian countries like Finland and Sweden and also there’s an option to go to Iceland which is really exciting!”
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TO THE UNDERWORLD
He’s had an impressive 17 year career, he’s worked with everyone from Depeche Mode to Jamie Cullum and he’s remixed for The Chemical Brothers and Bjork – who is he? That’s right everyone – the man himself Darren Emerson is coming to town. This dude was invited to become the third member of techno band Underworld when he was 18 and has gone on to achieve brilliant stuff since. Underworld’s single Born Slippy even made it onto the movie soundtrack for Trainspotting. During his time with Underworld, the band releases three albums and sold over a million albums world wide. Since departing ways with Underworld back in 2000, Emerson has gone on to release his own tracks and those of other artists on his Underwater record label – the label now has its own night at Pacha in Ibiza. Emerson hits Geisha on Friday, January 13. Tickets are on sale now from Moshtix. Check it.
EUPHONIC BEATS
Amon Vision is celebrating its first birthday at Shape shortly with some peeps who are no strangers to the scene. Having been around for over 15 years, Kyau & Albert and have been working hard on their record label Euphonic. Founded back in 1997, the label is one of the longest running trance labels in the world. Joining Kyau & Albert will be Greg Downey who is known for his dirty trance beats. GeRmAn, Illuminor, Jt and Travis Eddy will be supporting. It’s all happening on Friday, January 27, at Shape. Tickets are $30. Hit up shapebar.com.au to get your mittens on them now.
That’s right y’all, Limelite has been bringing the party to the people since 2007 and now, they’ve got a massive party in store to celebrate their fifth birthday. The man himself – Laidback Luke – is coming to the big house to smash out some beats. If his appearance at their sold out Australia Day show last year is anything to go by then you know that this is going to be massive. The Dutchman has been globetrotting and releasing bangers for years – he’s even got his malleable house sound now aligned with Dim Mak and Defected. Supporting Laidback Luke will be Rogerseventytwo and resident peeps Zelimir, Mel B and Jus Haus?. It’s all happening on Friday, February 3, at Metro Freo. Tickets are on sale now from Heatseeker.
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Club Paradiso is having an Australia Day Edition and it’s all happening at Salt On The Beach – the ultimate place to get your Australia day party on. Headlining the big day will be Australia’s favourite party DJs The Stafford Brothers (you can catch these guys at Fly The Flag Festival in Rockingham on Australia Day too!). Alongside these lads will be trance young gun tyDi who will be bringing his Tiesto praised beats along for the ride too. King of the head-turning mash ups Hook N Sling will also be joining the festivities and local peeps Zelimir, Mel B, KNO Agents, Wasteland, Jus Haus?, F.T.W., Felis, Mr Of, Axon, Brokn House, Kipa, Fendi, Shiftn and The Barons Red will also be pumping out tunes. It’s all happening on Thursday, January 26, at Salt On The Beach. Tickets start from $50 and are on sale now through Moshtix.
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SOUL II SOUL (SOUND SYSTEM) DJ YODA WELCOME TO HIS WONDERFUL WORLD KEEPING IT MOVIN’
London musician Duncan Beiny, aka DJ Yoda, is bringing his acclaimed audiovisual show The Wonderful World Of DJ Yoda to Southbound and Before the Grammys, before the iconic hit singles (Back To Life, Keep On Villa shortly. He chats with JOSHUA HAYES about the AV art form and Movin’ et al) and before they were even officially a band, party starters his new album ahead of the show. Soul II Soul emerged on the dynamic London music scene in the form of a sound system. It all started from there and is the most important piece of the puzzle, founder Jazzie B explains to ANDREW HICKEY. “For me personally the most important factor is where we started, the nucleus of Soul II Soul, which is what the sound system is all about,” the enigmatic Jazzie B, known to some as Trevor Beresford Romeo, says down the line from London. An integral part of Jamaican - and subsequently hip hop - history the sound system culture originated in the 1950s and would find local DJs, typically accompanied by an MC, performing at house and street parties with a makeshift set-up trying to make as much noise as possible. After years of honing their craft as a sound system outfit, beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, it was almost as if Soul II Soul had no choice but to become a ‘proper’ music group. “I guess we were just victims of the circumstances in the terms of the demand of people who wanted to see us as a group,” Jazzie says. “So back in 1990 we put a live band together and we went on the road and travelled for like eight months.” While the band lineup has changed over the years, the core elements have remained the same. Fresh from performances in Italy and Japan, Jazzie B and the Soul II Soul Sound System will be bringing the party down under for a series of shows sure to get bodies moving. First hitting Australia as a band back in 1990, Jazzie and the sound system crew are looking forward to coming back and performing to fans young and old. “It will be an interesting journey because here you’ll get to hear the genesis, the sound system of Soul II Soul,” Jazzie says excitedly. “The icing on the cake is that you have a member of the band who sang on the records who will also be present as my MC.” The singer in question is Caron Wheeler, the rich-voiced front-woman who helped bring those classic Soul II Soul anthems to life. Also joining them will be regular collaborator MC Chickaboo. The sound system, he affirms, is largely based on interaction between the performers and the
Jazzie B of Soul II Soul (Sound System) audience. “We’re not a sit down kind of show,” he says. As opposed to a performance by Soul II Soul as a music group, which he says typically incorporates around 30 personnel; the sound system set-up is powerfully minimalist. Encompassing a record label, live events, clothing and more, Soul II Soul is not just a group; it’s a lifestyle for Jazzie B. Keeping a busy performance schedule, he is still driven by the opportunity to spread positivity through music. “If I’m not in London I’ll be in Antigua, that’s my roots, that’s where I come from. I organise a festival out there. But, my big interest is totally just me as a DJ and the sound system and the eclectic-ness of what we do as Soul II Soul.”
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BALLS OF FUN BREAKFEST Belvoir Amphitheatre Monday, December 26, 2011 Another year rolls by, as does another Breakfest. It’s always exciting to see who Boomtick line up each year, and following on from their massive 10 year anniversary last year, it was another Christmas cracker of a lineup. We were blessed with a perfect day, and the punters were out and getting stuck into it early on. While it took a while for the big bowl to fill, the top stage was full of bodies early on – Oli & Ben Mac and Black & Blunt doing the damage. The always entertaining Silent Disco saw locals face off against each other, battling for party majority. But it’s all about the amphitheatre. Adding some hip hop flavour to proceedings, Illy’s laidback beats and rhymes got things properly underway, featuring hits like Pictures and The Chase. Netsky played a nice summer arvo mix of drum‘n’bass that climaxed with beach balls being released upon the crowd. Up top, Brisbane ex-pats Loops Of Fury had the soundsystem pushed to the limit with their unique brand of energetic party breaks and massive breakdowns. These young guns are definitely ones to watch. As the sun went down, the lights came up and the party really got underway. An amazing stage set featuring towers of LED screens brought the music to life. Slyde seemed to have a few technical difficulties early on, but that didn’t stop them from firing things up with a bass heavy party set. Perth fav Jason Laidback showed off his skills, cutting and scratching like a boss. Meanwhile Robin Twelftree www.xpressmag.com.au
grabbed the mic, shouting out shit like,“Are you ready for fucking summertime?!” Breakfest wouldn’t be complete without someone from the Fingerlickin roster, and this year they sent one of their finest - certified party starter and mindblowing decknician, A Skillz - and he claimed set of the day. Tearing through a wide range of banging tracks, you never knew what to expect next. Opening with Jump Around the crowd did just that and didn’t stop. RHCP’s Otherside was melded with Pendulum’s The Island Part II (Dusk) to devastating effect, and his wicked mix of California Soul and Azealia Banks’ 212 sent the place nuts. Up top, the Scratch Perverts had to contend with a minimal crowd, and for the skilled, veterans, it was an uninspiring set of murky, mid-tempo beats. Stanton Warriors made a big entrance. Dominic Butler was representing the duo, accompanied by one very excited MC Hollywood Holt. Precinct heralded their arrival and from there on, it was a rollercoaster ride of beats and bass. Holt adds a new dimension to the Stantons’ set – though one that didn’t agree with some - with a more commercial, US, hip hop angle. “Are you ready for the best show you’ve ever seen?!,” he screamed. The crowd’s response indicated that yes, yes they were. With an explosion of lights and confetti, it was a huge set to end the night, winding up with their hit Get Up. Giant white balls bounced over the crowd and it was clear we were blowing the Chicago MC’s mind - “This is the best party I’ve ever done in my life!”. While at times a bit clichéd, you didn’t doubt the man’s sincerity. Gladly, following last year’s dubstep dominated event, it seems we were back on track with a more breaks oriented vibe. Breakfest is a world renowned festival, and we’re very lucky to call it our own. » ALFRED GORMAN
An incredibly inventive DJ, Beiny’s sets and mixtapes may include hits from the ‘30s or the ‘80s, and showcase country music or hip hop music. He has dabbled in avant-garde classical with his Concerto For Turntables and recently did a run on live shows with a 14 piece Balkan brass band. However, Beiny is best known as one of the world’s leading audiovisual DJs. The relatively new art form involves scratching videos as a DJ does records. “It’s kind of hard to describe and it’s very easy [to understand] once you’ve watched 30 seconds of it on YouTube,” he says of his live show. Taking the step from DJing to AVDJing came naturally to Beiny. A film buff who began DJing at local pubs while studying at uni in the late ‘90s; he quickly began melding his love of music and movies. “[When I made mixtapes] I would throw in audio samples from movies that I liked or TV shows that I liked,” he says. “I would put in little clips from Star Wars or Scarface or anything that I thought was cool.” When AVDJ technology became available, Beiny viewed it as his obvious next step. In a 21st century equivalent of digging in the crates for old records to sample, he says his Wonderful World of DJ Yoda show consists of footage sourced entirely from YouTube. “There’s such an infinite bank of stuff to use there that it’s almost overwhelming,” he says. “I sit down and think ‘what would be cool? What can I use?’.” With a never-ending flow of new videos being uploaded to YouTube each day, Beiny’s show is always evolving. “It’s a continual process; it’s ongoing and it never really ends,” he says. “If I like something, I save it and I’ll put it in the show, and whatever I think is weakest in the show goes out, and whatever is newest goes in.” Beiny says it’s a great time to be working with the young technology. “It’s all moving very fast, and that’s really exciting because it means that everyone that’s doing it is doing something very different; using the technology in a different way.” However, he has concerns about the direction AVDJing may take. “My fear is that in 10 years time the technology will have settled down, there will be an industry standard and it makes everyone do the same thing, and that’s the way I don’t want it to go,” he says. Beiny is playing his part to keep the art form developing. One particularly exciting potential progression he has his eye on is working in 3D. “That’s something that I’ve had meetings with people about already,” he says. “I don’t think the technology is quite there yet to do exactly what I want to do, but I think it’s
going to be coming pretty soon.” Beiny is no slouch away from his AV show, either; with his turntable wizardry earning him a spot on UK publication Q Magazine’s 2002 list 50 Bands You Must See Before You Die. Perhaps the best demonstration of this talent is his How To Cut And Paste series. After starting with eclectic but reasonably straightforward mixes in the early noughties, 2009 saw him release two editions exploring ‘30s music and country and western. Beiny is currently putting aside songs for his sixth edition; however, he’s keeping the theme close to his chest. He will be focusing on the next mix once he completes his current major project; his second studio release Chop Suey. The album has been in the works for four years, but Beiny hopes to finally have it out in March or April next year. “It’s been a really slow process, making this album, mainly because I’ve been touring so much,” he says. “One advantage of it taking so long is I feel like I’ve been really perfectionist about it, and what I’ve done I’m really happy with.” It’s a follow up to his studio debut, 2006’s The Amazing Adventures Of DJ Yoda, which featured appearances by a range of artists, including hip hop legends Biz Markie and the Jungle Brothers. Beiny is taking a similar approach with his sophomore effort. “I’ve done it in the same style as I did the first album, which is to make a dream list of every vocalist that I would like to work with,” he says. “It’s a really good mix of names on there, someone different on every track and some quite surprising names too.” Although he isn’t inclined to share the names of his collaborators just yet, he confirms that, despite some difficulty, he was able to tick all the names off his wish list. “The list that’s on there, I couldn’t make any better if I tried, short of picking artists that have died,” Beiny says. Despite the amount of work on his plate, there is one thing at the front of his mind in the lead up to his latest Australian tour. “I’m just counting down the days that I can get out of this shitty UK weather,” he laughs.
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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 Villa – Serbian Xmas Eve Party ft Serbian DJs
SATURDAY 07/01 Amplifier - Pure Pop ft Eddie Electric Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander/ James Wilson Capitol - Nina Las Vegas/ Death Disco DJs Capitol (Upstairs) – Cream Of The 80’s ft The Great RV
Bass Kleph
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Hook N Sling Library – MKT ft DJ Riki/ DJ Richie G/ DJ Vicktor/ DJ Kevvy T Little Creatures Loft – Marine Beats Liquid Nightclub - DJ Klar55/ DJ Stevie M Nina Las Vegas Llama Bar – DJ Reuben/ DJ Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Melvin Malt Super Club – Abstar Dood Club Bay View – VIP Saturdays Metro City (R&B Lounge) - DJ Slick/ DJ Ruthless/ DJ Soso ft DJ Ryan Metro City - DJ Stevie M/ DJ Double Lucky – DJ Paul/ DJ Matty S/ DJ Ruthless/ DJ Makka Rudy Metro Freo –DJ DTuck/ DJ Duchess - DJ Angel Minna East End Bar – Jon Ee Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ Raci Metro Freo (Upstairs) – DJ Wazz Eve Nightclub – DJ Don Migi/ Mint Nightclub – Pop Life ft DJ DJ Stevie M Aaron/ AJ Geisha - Soul Project ft Eddie Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Leader Danny High Road Hotel – DJ Simon Mustang – Rockabilly DJ/ DJ High Wycombe – DJ Matt James MacArthur Hipe Club – DJ E-Funk
Dr Don Don
Niche – Frankie Button/ Cee/ Jonny Zimber Norma Jeans – DJ Darren Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount- DJ Cornflake / DJ Jordan Queens Tav - Gareth Richardson Rocket Room – DJ Brett Rowe Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton - Southbound ft Dr Don Don/ Drapht/ Dub FX/ Nina Las Vegas/ Pnau/ Q-Bik/ ShockOne/ Young MC/ Bass Kleph/ Hook N Sling/ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs/ Charlie Bucket/ Darcy/ DJ Swami Adima/ Alex K/ Frankie Button/ Mutchy/ Zelimir and more South St Ale House – DJ Jay Sovereign Arms – Rockwell The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Dyl/ eSQue The Boheme – DJ Sneakee The Clink – DJ Az-T The Cornerstone – Aiden Wallis The Deen - DJ Birdie/ DJ JJ/ DJ Tony Allen The Generous Squire – On Tap ft Ben Mac & Philly Blunt The Gosnells Club – Az-T
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FRIXION
METRO CITY
FLAWLESS
The Saint – DJ Anaru The Shed –DJ Glenn 20 The Wembley – G Martin The Whistling Kite - DJ Craig The Vic – DJ Kristian Tiger Lil’s – DJ Bojan/ DJ Ben Sebastian Villa – Pete Rock Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Windsor – DJ Ray Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real McCoy Yaya’s - The Kings Of Cheese DJs
SUNDAY 08/01 Broken Hill Tavern - Sophie Jane Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Claremont Hotel – DJ DD Clink – DJ Tony Allen Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve Nightclub – DJ Birdie Mint - Chris McPhee Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Slick/ DJ John Paul Mustang – DJ Rockin Rhys Newport – Detonate ft Milly James/ Ylem/ Mei Saraswati Queens Tav– DJ Rhys Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton - Southbound ft Dr Don Don/ Drapht/ Dub FX/ Nina Las Vegas/ Pnau/ Q-Bik/ ShockOne/ Young MC/ Bass
Kleph/ Hook N Sling/ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs/ Charlie Bucket/ Darcy/ DJ Swami Adima/ Alex K/ Frankie Button/ Mutchy/ Zelimir and more The Cott – Cott Sessions The Kiosk – DJ Cinder The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Wembley – DJ Funkybottoms/ Boogie/ Dekoyfox
MONDAY 09/01 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
TUESDAY 10/01 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel – DJ Matty J High Wycombe – DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart The Cott (Upstairs) –Maxwell/ Jus Haus?/ Damian John Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin
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IN THE THIS WEEK Nina Las Vegas Thursday, January 5 @ The Newport Hotel Nina Las Vegas Friday, January 6 @ Bar 120 Soul Project ft Eddie Leader Saturday, January 7 @ Geisha Southbound ft Dr Don Don/ Drapht/ Dub FX/ Nina Las Vegas/ Pnau/ Q-Bik/ ShockOne/ Young MC/ Bass Kleph/ Hook N Sling/ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs/ Charlie Bucket/ Darcy/ DJ Swami Adima/ Alex K/ Frankie Button/ Mutchy/ Zelimir and more Saturday, January 7 & Sunday, January 8 @ Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton Pete Rock Saturday, January 7 @ Villa
Club Paradiso Australia Day Edition ft The Stafford Brothers/ tyDi/ Hook N Shabazz Palaces Sling and more Sunday, January 15 @ The Bakery Thursday, January 26 @ Salt On The Beach Matthew Dear Friday, January 20 @ The Likes Of Bass Kleph You (venue TBC) Friday, January 27 @ Ambar Immortal Technique Saturday, January 14 @ Villa
Bare Noize Friday, January 20 @ Shape HeatWave Festival ft Tech N9ne/ D12/ Obie Trice/ CrazyTown/ Chamillionaire Friday, January 20 @ Challenge Stadium Sets On The Beach Vol 5 ft Whitest Boy Alive/ Villa/ Shazam/ Zelimir/ Gold Fields/ Swissco Disco and more Sunday, January 22 @ Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre Golden Apples Of The Sun ft Claude Mono/ Diger Rokwell/ Tristan Gibbs and more Sunday, January 22 @ The Bird
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 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 and more COMING UP Heavyweight Sounds: Australia Sunday, February 5 @ Lathlain Park Day Eve Annual ft Andy C/ Taylor McFerrin/ Cosmo MC GQ/ Camo & Krooked/ DJ St Jerome’s Laneway Festival Gets/ Sam Perry/ Charlie Fierce Bucket Wednesday, January 25 @ Metro ft M83/ SBTRKT/ Washed out and more Thursday, January 12 @ The City Saturday, February 11 @ Bakery Perth Cultural Centre Plump DJs Bow Wow Wednesday, January 25 @ Villa Future Music Festival ft Thursday, January 12 @ Metro Swedish House Mafia/ City Bart B More Fatboy Slim/ Tinie Tempah/ Wednesday, January 25 @ Paul van Dyk/ Chase & Darren Emerson Ambar, Perth Cultural Centre Status/ Skrillex/ Aphex Friday, January 13 @ Geisha Twin/ Die Antwoord/ Prins Thomas Gareth Emery/ James Infexious ft Ben Stevens/ Wednesday, January 25 @ The Murphy & Pat Mahoney Nomad Spiegeltent, Perth Cultural (LCD Soundsystem/ DFA)/ Centre Friday, January 13 @ Club Sven Vath/ Alex Metric/ Bayview Azari & III/ Horse Meat Zeds Dead Disco/ Frank Ocean/ The Thursday, January 26 @ The Brookes Brothers Stafford Brothers/ Friendly Overflow (The Court) Friday, January 13 @ Shape
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 @ Mojos 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 Creamfields ft David Guetta/ Above & Beyond/ Dirty South/ Alesso/ Excision/ W&W/ Giuseppe Ottaviani (live)/ Congorock/ Vitalic/ Sied van Riel/ Tritonal/ Downlink/ ShockOne/ MaRLo/ Bombs Away/ MC Stretch Saturday, May 5 @ Supreme Court Gardens
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FOR WEIRDNESS SAKE INJURED NINJA / French Rockets / smRts / Apricot Rail / Drop Macumba The Bakery Friday, December 23, 2011
Injured Ninja (photo: Stefan Caramia)
A lot of the sounds heard over the weekend at the Bakery, came with the force of an assault. There were whipsaw screeches, scorching blasts and solarplexus-socking rumbles. It was all part of A Very Heartless Xmas Party, an end-of-year extravaganza organised by experimental record label Heartless Robot Productions. While the evening courted a hyper-specific subculture, the crowd of several hundred strong reflected an impact beyond the realm of the cloistered connoisseur. In this atmosphere, local foursome Drop Macumba stood out for several reasons. They used conventional instruments (guitar, bass, keyboards and drums) and their set brushed up against psychrock, showcasing some big, bare-bones riffs. This would be fine – great, even – if their tunes were carried through with anything resembling charm or commitment. However, their set tonight was
hobbled by disconnections – between verse and chorus, lyrics and music, intent and execution. The inherent sense of fun present on their recordings just simply failed to rear its head tonight. Next up, Apricot Rail was smart enough to know that listeners could only handle so much of their dense, sinister sound in one sitting, and kept their set at a lean, mean 40-minute length. Utilising light textures to help brighten the milieu, their set was like a French dinner: a tight package of intensely rich compositions, best taken one forkful at a time, accompanied by a gracious interlude to help cleanse the palette and, of course, a decadent finale. Proving one of the many highlights of the evening, smRts presented themselves as an outfit thinking huge, pushing itself to its limits, and devoted to breaking open its own understanding of what rock music can be. With influences ranging from ethnic field recordings to surf-rock to the elemental funk of James Brown to Pink Floyd, their
tunes were intellectual but funky – serious music that was also fun and interesting. Specialising in long, jam-heavy rock grooves, WAMi-award winning experimental rockers French Rocket turned a low-frequency churn into something disorientingly palpable. Shapes and textures kept mutating within the din. The overall effect was visceral as well as artful, and the crowd responded with some scattered moshing. At a time when a lot of pop is sounding wearily formulaic and the new year will bring the usual mix of stern-faced industry priorities and marketable pop, avant-garde experimental rockers Injured Ninja have come up with something far more unpredictable and playful. Their dancey stew of sounds and styles – hurling together everything from psychedelia to house music to Krautrock and Link Wray-style guitar fuzz – sounds ridiculous, until you hear them. Then it just sounds awesome. To n i g h t t h e y we r e n o t we i r d fo r weirdness’ sake, but the likes of Superluminessance and Redeemer were terrific tunes, delivered with a sense of fun and adventure (they never sound less than open and questing, as if their music is always searching for that psychdelic lift-off ). They might well be the most refreshing local band you’ll hear in 2012. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD
THE GRIME AND THE GLOW SEAMS / Cow Parade Cow / Mei Saraswati Ya Yas Thursday, December 29, 2011 Operatic wailing and sinister synths: for the love of Siouxsie Sioux, there’s a lot of it going around. Not least of which was presented by Seams during the launch of their first label release, Magic Circle – a gig where the quixotic quartet asserted the potential of their earlier work and flexed a bit more songwriting muscle, but unfortunately failed to shatter the idea that their style should make them little more than a niche interest or a local cult wonder. Making a mockery of rivals and genres, Mei Saraswati stood alone in her own world of pop, firing out her mercurial messages which were as complex as they were captivating. One of the most original artists the local scene has seen for
quite some time, the barrage of electrifying sounds were unmistakably Sarawati’s own: a lurid mashup of crunchy beats drawn from the party music of almost every continent, computer-generated clamour and the sweet sound of trickling waterfalls, all punctuated by her own sing-song R&B vocals. This endearing, eclectic mix made for a set which was bold, inventive and occasionally thrilling. Collecting sounds that delight them, and combining them with breezy confidence, Cow Parade Cow are proudly unrock‘n’roll. Affecting a clarity and delight that pleased their eager audience, their lyrically alluring, structurally hop-skip-andjumping songs weren’t deep – just thoughtful fun. The music kept a light pop touch, setting up neat grooves that dipped into bubble gum, new wave and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
Confidently weird, headliners Seams defined their sound right out of the gate, sporting tightly-wound, zoetropic riffs that sounded as if blasted from sand-filled amps. They had a rumbling, booming almost onomatopoeic sound which reverberated with memories of goth bands past and hints of goth acts present. There was also a touch of B-movie fetishism thrown in – sci-fi sound effects were not just fillers; they carried melodies, with mummy-movie organs and squiggly ray-gun feedback contributing some campness. Lyndon Blue’s juggernaut vocals felt relentless at times, but considering Seams is a deliberately poised and arty affair, the little over-reaching melodrama was hardly a surprise. However, after a while, the instrumentation, which mainly consisted of synths, strings, and
booming percussion, ceased to be acutely haunting, and Blue’s plaintive voice lost some of its potency. Likewise, when the songs and structures veered toward creepier pieces that concentrated on mood and tone, the music lost its visceral impact. Paired with a distinctly out-of-tune cover of The Beach Boy’s I Get Around and the unwise decision to break out the balladry mid-way through their set, a noticeably retreating audience signified a diminishing patience for Seams’ scrappy, anchorless anxiety. But that’s no reason to preclude anyone from hearing Seams; the intensity of their emotion is real, and given their theatrical roots, that the music never veers into cartoonish exaggeration or caricature is a wonder. A compelling pastiche. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD
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ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Autumn Isles
MUSTANG BAR
ROCKET ROOM
Thursday nights are original music night at The Stang’ and this week indie-folksters The Autumn Isles will take to the stage. Since their inception in 2005, The Autumn Isles have risen to prominence on the Perth music scene with a series of well crafted EPs and a reputation as one of the cities most dynamic and melodic live bands. Catch them from 9.30pm with DJ James MacArthur on the decks to keep you going till late.
RAILWAY HOTEL
The Railway Hotel kicks off its brand new openmic sessions in the Beer Garden on Sunday, January 15. It’ll happen every Sunday out there from 2-6pm, so interested acts should contact the arvo’s host Turin Robinson on 0425 171 585, or just pop on down and enjoy a sausage sizzle and some acoustic tunes.
The High Road Hotel is full of summer specials including their super Monday to Thursday lunch special from 12pm- 2pm. For $15 or less you can get a meal and a drink (middy of beer, glass of wine or soft drink) that is sure to hit the spot! For all the UFC and AFL action plus live bands head to highroadhotel.com.au for more details!
THE ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB
Summer is in full swing at the Leedy and on Saturday, January 14 it will be the place to be as they present the free event, Dazed. If you liked the Summadayze line up then you will love the music that will be spinning at Dazed. Kicking off from 7pm, this is a summer party event not to be missed! Check out leedervillehotel.com for more info and upcoming events in 2012.
BRASS MONKEY
INDI BAR
Kick off your weekend in style by heading down to the Brass Monkey for Sun Downer Fridays featuring acoustic sessions with live artists from 4.307.30pm and DJ Vicktor from 8pm till late. There will also be a complimentary platter of nibbles going around. Bookings are essential. 24
HIGH ROAD HOTEL
The Ellington is one of Australia’s finest Jazz clubs providing world class live music, delicious beverages, first class service and tasty food. This Friday and Saturday night catch the The Music Of Amy Winehouse as it performed by Perth singer Melody Whittle, along with a stellar lineup of Perth’s finest musicians. Saturday night sees Melissa Erpen and her killer band lay down some smooth soul and R&B for the late night set kicking off at 11.30pm. The Ellington is Perth’s best late night, live music venue so be sure to book your table at ellingtonjazz.com.au
LEEDERVILLE HOTEL
THE ELLINGTON
Catch smRts, Nick Allbrook, Pallas Athena and Ramona Bird in the main room of the Rosemount Hotel this Thursday, January 5. Doors open 8pm, $5 entry. Split Seconds frontman Sean Pollard will also be showcasing his DJing skills in the Beer Garden from 7.30pm. Entry to the Beer Garden is free.
Returning to WA shores, Scottie Miller and band hit the Indi Bar on Friday. Bringing you their combination of blues, funk and jazz, this will be a night to shake your bootie! Sunday, local favorites Morgan Bain, Boston & Chevy and Jamie Hall settle in for a night of sweet, soulful acoustic tunes. X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
Black Board Minds
ROCK‘N’ROLL HIGHSCHOOL
Following a sold-out single launch at the tail end of 2011, local rockers Black Board Minds are set to warm up your aural orifices once again with a headlining show at The Fly Trap in the Fly By Night on Friday, January 6. Showcasing a slew of their smashing tunes, including the surf-rock ditty Hell With Me and gritty gem Wasting Away, and with support coming from psych-rock crooners The Deep River Collective, this is one local gig you won’t want to miss!
TURNING JAPANESE
Come join The Novocaines, Sonpsilo Circus and We Move Walls at Mojo’s Bar on Thursday, January 5, as The Novocaines play their last show down under before heading off to Japan for a run of dates supporting the release of their debut album Idle Time in the land of the rising sun. Event proceeds will help to get The Novocaines to Japan where the band will perform live at the rock event at the Noel Gallagher photo exhibition plus several other shows around Tokyo. Tickets are available from Heatseeker or at the door. Doors open at 7pm.
ACOUSTIC AFICIONADOS
For a cosy sound this summer you could do worse than embrace the lovely, hush-laden harmonies of local acoustic folk duo That Velvet Echo. The lovely twosome are sure to engage with their intimate performing style during a series of January shows, starting with sets at The Ellington Jazz Club on Sunday, January 8, and The Bird in Northbridge on Monday, January 9.
VELVET CONNECTION
The Scotch Of Saint James are back in action after a quiet 2011, and continue their return to the live scene this Friday, January 6, at the Velvet Lounge for the year’s first edition of Sonic Velvet. Special guests will be Those Wretched Horses, The Insatiables and Black Rafferty. Doors open at 8pm and entry is $5.
THRASH AND BURN
Ring in the new year with the first Wired of 2012 at Black Betty’s on Thursday, January 5. The metal extravaganza will find Perth thrash veterans Psychonaut teaming up with thrash newcomers Cold Fate and Serial Killer Smile plus resident DJs spinning quality metal all night.
FINE FOLK
With her gutsy yet heartfelt performances, original singer, songwriter and guitarist Kizzy creates a plethora of high-energy music steeped in roots, rock, blues and folk. Accompanied by guitarist extraordinaire Tane Tarrent, the local chantuese will set the Indi Bar stage blazing on Wednesday, January 4 along side soft rockers Joe Graham and Shaun Seymour. Doors open at 8pm.
Milly James
TOP OF THE POPS
Re-casting herself as a solo performer, after being a significant part of The Ku-Ling Brothers in 2010, local pop-electronica singer-songwriter Milly James was keen to experiment with a new sound, which led her to join forces with electronic producers, and percussionists. The result was a cool, collaborative release in Run with the Flame. Catch Milly James’ kickin’ it solo style at the Newport Hotel on Sunday, January 8.
BOARDWALK BEATS
From Boardwalk Empire on our television screens, to speakeasy-style bars popping up on every other corner, Prohibition is all the rage. Not the actual prohibition of liquor, of course, but that period of time between 1920 and 1933 when alcohol was illegal, and yet it flowed with a reckless abandon. Local rock quartet Seer Cya have captured this moment on debut album, Prohibition which they are set to launch at the Rosemount Hotel on Saturday, January 7. Perth sensation Heath Marshall will be attending as a special guest of Seer Cya, rounding out the night with his unique brand of musical mastery. Tickets will be available on the door.
METAL MUNCHIES
With song structures walking the fine line between being “insanely technical” and the“chaotically improvised”, local metalheads Prescient manage to fit into each song a diverse range of feels and sounds, each drawn from a more obscure influence than the last. Prepare to have your mind blown and ear drums burst at Prescient’s EP launch for latest EP The Polynomial Framework at The Rosemount Hotel on Friday, January 6. With support coming from I am Eternal, Pyromesh and Animistic, there is sure to be some ferocious displays of playing technique on display.
BAD SEEDS
If one bad apple spoils the barrel, imagine how much fun a whole room full is going to be! On Friday, January 6, four local bands will unite to let loose the Bad Apple Showcase on spectators at The Civic Hotel. Alternative blues-rock outfit Blind Highway, countrified rockers Red Dirt, metallers Brown Study Band and prog-rockers Something Humble will come together in what promises to be an epic night of bad to the core rock entertainment. Tickets available at the door for $10.
NOW AND THEN
Following the release of their debut video clip for single Fire, local rock‘n’rollers In The Now will play their first show of the year this Saturday January 7, at The Fly Trap in Fremantle with support from Baby Jane and Engines Of Reason. With influences including Rose Tattoo, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones and The Who, the band’s rattlin’ and rollin’ live show will surely make for one local gig rock aficionados won’t want to miss.
STONE COLD CRAZY
Mixing straight-up fingerpickin’ country guitar and ukelele with programmed beats and vintage synths, Stoney Joe are set to bring their unique country and western/electro noir hybrid to local audiences for two special shows this summer. First up, the band will play Clancy’s in Fremantle on Friday, January 6 (with support from Lynda Smyth, Kate Kelly and Pete Stone). The band will also provide support for Datura on Saturday, January 21, at the Norfolk Basement.
The Love Junkies (photo: Mike Wylie)
NO LOVE LOST
Due to unfortunate circumstances The Love Junkies were not able to play at their Louise single launch on Friday, December 16, at Mojo’s, but local fans need not fret as the rock trio will be relaunching the single on Friday, January 6, with a free show at the Bird, with support from Puck. Doors open at 8pm. 25
RUBBERNECKIN’ ROMP
Elvis-sonic electric boogaloo combo The Burger Kings will celebrate the King’s birthday when they return to the Mustang Bar this Saturday, January 7. Elvis was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo Missisippi and the Burgers will pay tribute to ‘the man with the plan’ in song. From 7pm the masters of Memphis and Motown Presley stylings will dust off some old favourites as well as a few new surprise tunes that Elvis may have wanted to get to grips with. X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
CAPITOL
Clairy Browne & The Banging Rackettes, February 15, Perth Festival Gardens
JAN 4 – JAN 10
THE SAINT
ARCTIC MONKEYS / MILES KANE / VIOLENT SOHO 6 Belvoir Amphitheatre
THE LUCKY WONDERS 5 Prince Of Wales 6 X-Wray 7 Wignalls Vintage Blues Festival 8 Denmark Tavern 11 Indie Bar 13 & 14 Dunsborough Tavern 15 Redcliffe On The Murray
ALPINE 7 Amplifier
METRO CITY
GOSSLING 7 The Bird
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,
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Lucie Thorne, February 16, The Ellington
The Naked & Famous, Tijuana Cartel, The Vines and more) 7 & 8 Sir Stewart Bovell Park Busselton
THE KOOKS 9 Astor Theatre
JANUARY 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 6 The Indie Bar 7 Vintage Blues & Jazz Festival At Wignalls 8 Redcliffe On The Murray 10 Charles Hotel 11 Mojos Bar 12 The Ellington THE DRESDEN DOLLS / THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER 12 Astor Theatre RACHEL PRICE 13 The Ellington 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 GRAEME BLEVINS 17 The Ellington LYDIA 18 Amplfier 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 WHITEST BOY 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 CARUS THOMPSON 27 & 28 The Norfolk Basement ROGER WATERS THE WALL 27 & 28 Burswood Dome SARAH MCLEOD 27 & 28 The Ellington PUGSLEY BUZZARD TRIO 27, 28, 29, 30 & 31 Perth Town Hall BACKTRACK / IRON MIND 28 The Den 29 YMCA HQ RUPERT GUENTHER 29 The Ellington LLOYD 31 Metro City
Dan Mangan, February 29, The Fly Trap
RACHEL CLAUDIO 10 & 11 The Ellington 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 FEBRUARY Gardens SEETHER FAUSTIN PACT 1 Rosemount 14 Perth Festival (HED)P.E. / JEFFREY Gardens NOTHING CLAIRY BROWNE 1 Amplifier & THE BANGIN’ NINA FERRO RACKETTES 2 The Ellington 15 Perth Festival PRINCE RAMA Gardens 2 Mojos LA DISPUTE 3 The Bakery 15 Amplifier ROD STEWART / 16 YMCA HQ DIESEL LUCIE THORNE & 4 NIB Stadium HAMISH STUART REGURGITATOR 16 The Ellington 4 Indi Bar THE SUITCASE SCOTT KELLY ROYALE (NEUROSIS) / JOHN BAIZLEY (BARONESS) 16 Perth Festival Gardens 4 Civic Hotel RONAN KEATING BIG DAY OUT 16 Kings Park (Soundgarden, JOSH PYKE Kasabian, My 16 Prince Of Wales Chemical Romance, 17 Settlers Tavern The Living End, BALAM ACAB Röyksopp, Boy & Bear, Parkway Drive, 17 The Bakery Architecture In DEATH CAB FOR Helsinki, Battles, The CUTIE Jezebels, Odd Future, 17 & 18 Perth Festival Frenzal Rhomb, Girl Gardens Talk, The Getaway ICEHOUSE / Plan, Cage The WASHINGTON / Elephant, Foster The JOSH PYKE / CLARE People, Best Coast, BOWDITCH Noel Gallagher’s High 18 Kings Park Flying Birds, Nero, The DONOVAN Vaccines, Bass Nectar, FRANKENREITER Regurgitator, Drapht, 18 Newport Kimbra, Bluejuice, SOUL II SOUL Tonight Only, The 19 Venue TBC Bronx & Mariachi El CORNERSHOP Bronx) 19 Perth Festival 5 The Victoria Park Gardens Foreshore (McCallum SOUND OF RUM Park) 20 Perth Festival HORSE Gardens 9 The Ellington CARNIVAL OF SOULS HILLTOP HOODS/ 21 & 22 Perth Festival VENTS/ DAZASTAH/ Gardens LAYLA VAN WALKER 9 Capitol 23 Settlers Tavern 10 Capitol 24 Indi Bar LITTLE ROY 26 Fly By Night (Fly 10 Perth Festival Trap) Gardens OLIVIA NEWTONTIM MINCHIN JOHN/ JON ENGLISH 10 & 12 Challenge 24 Burswood Theatre Stadium
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 Wombats, Chase
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Black Lips, March 8, The Bakery & 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,
Madeleine Peyroux, March 16, Riverside Theatre
Enter Shikari, Four Year Strong, Black Veil Brides, Madina Lake, Zebrahead, Hatebreed, Biohazard, Times Of Grace, CKY, Street Dogs, Dragonforce, Gojira, Kvelertak, Letlive, Hellyeah, Cro-Mags, 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 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 PIERRE BENSUSAN 27 The Ellington LENNY KRAVITZ / THE CRANBERRIES / WOLFMOTHER 28 Athletics Stadium Mount Claremont WOODEN SHJIPS 30 The Bakery GEORGE MICHAEL 31 Sandalford Estate Swan Valley
Boris, March 20, The Bakery
HERMITUDE 31 Amplifier EDDI READER QUARTET 31 Fly By Night Musician Club
15 Fairbridge Village Pinjarra JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE 14 Fly By Night Club 15 The Rosemount Hotel APRIL SUPAFEST (P. Diddy, WEST COAST BLUES Ice Cube, Rick Ross, ‘N’ ROOTS (Crosby, Trey Songz, Kelly Stills & Nash, The Rowland, Lupe Fiasco Pogues, The Specials, and more TBA) My Morning Jacket, 22 Arena Joondalup Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Steve Earle, Trombone BURT BACHARACH 23 Riverside Theatre Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Husky and more TBA) MAY 1 Fremantle Park DEAD MEADOW / JASON DERULO PINK MOUNTAINTOPS 6 Burswood Dome 7 The Bakery DAVID CAMPBELL STRAWBERRY JAM 16 Mandurah MUSIC FESTIVAL Performing Arts Centre (P.O.D., Hawk Nelson 17 Queens Park Theatre and more TBA) Geraldton 8 Albany SUBLIME WITH ROME/ 18 Perth Concert MATT McHUGH 19 Bunbury Regional 11 Metropolis Entertainment Centre Fremantle FLORENCE + THE FAIRBRIDGE FESTIVAL MACHINE OF WORLD & FOLK 17 Burswood Dome MUSIC (Paul Brady, GROOVIN THE MOO Seth Lakeman, My Friend The Chocolate (Line-up TBA) 19 Hay Park Bunbury Cake, Chipolatas, Chris While, Julie NEW KIDS ON THE Matthews, Kavisha, BLOCK / BACKSTREET Tjupurru, Stiff Gins, BOYS The Woohoo Revue, 29 Burswood Dome Linsey Pollak, Mal Webb, Fred Smith & Liz Frencham, April JUNE Verch Band, Blu Guru, TINA ARENA Dry Bones, Totally 8 Riverside Theatre Gourdgeous & more TBC) 13 Fairbridge Village JULY Pinjarra MELISSA ETHERIDGE 14 Fairbridge Village 20 Riverside Theatre Pinjarra
WOODEN SHJIPS
Wooden Shjips
After returning from a lengthy European tour, San Franciscan space rockers Wooden Shjips will be hitting our shores for a national tour in support of their 2011 album, West. Playing loud rock ‘n’ roll in a style heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism, and garage rock excess, their songs sound something akin to the icy garage rock of early Echo & The Bunnymen crossed with the sun-bleached tremolo-punk of the Scientists. There are also hints of krautrock, Deerhunter style dance-drone and classic desert-fried garage-psych all mixed into one explosive whole. Catch their mind-bending live show at The Bakery on Friday, March 30. Tickets are available from nowbaking.com.au.
STICKY FINGERS
Magically combining whimsical English folk, West Coast psychedelia, and classic dub reggae, Sydneybased four-piece Sticky Fingers are bringing their wild live show to WA for three special dates in March and are promising a melodic, mega-hectic mash of psychedelic, pop and roots that’ll have you throwing shapes around rooms with people you barely know. Catch the quixotic quartet at Thursday, March 1 at the Indie Bar, Friday, March 2 at YaYa’s and Saturday, March 3 at Margaret River’s Settlers Tavern.
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Nick Allbrook, Thursday at The Rosemount
LUCKY SHAG James Wilson MERRIWA TAVERN Overload MOJO’S BAR The Novocaines Sonpsilo Circus We Move Walls MOON & SIXPENCE Bob & Clem MUSTANG BAR The Autumn Isles OCEAN BEACH HOTEL Open Mic Night OXFORD HOTEL THURSDAY 05.01 Jonny Taylor PADDY BELGIAN BEER HANNAN’S CAFÉ Dr Bogus Bernardine PRINCE OF WALES Grigson The Lucky BOAB TAVERN Wonders Dom Zurzolo ROSEMOUNT BURSWOOD Smrts CASINO Nick Allbrook Groove Night Pallas Athena Avenue Ramona Bird BROOKLANDS ROSIE O’GRADY’S TAVERN (Northbridge) Celebrations Fenton Wilde Karaoke ROSIE O’GRADY’S COMO HOTEL (Fremantle) The Other Guys Clayton Bolger DEVILLES PAD Jon Madd’s SOVEREIGN ARMS Karaoke David Fyffe ELEPHANT & THE BROOKE WHEELBARROW Open Mic Night Timeout THE DEEN ELLINGTON JAZZ Adrian Wilson CLUB THE GATE The Tilman & Ben Better Days Experience UNIVERSAL BAR FUSE BAR Off The Record Howie Morgan WANNEROO HOTEL ROTTNEST TAVERN Carus Thompson Groove Karaoke HYDE PARK HOTEL FRIDAY 06.01 Open Mic Night 7th AVENUE INDI BAR Undercover Bex’s Open Mic Acoustic Night ASCOT QUAYS Adam James BAILEY BAR Mod Squad BALLY’S BAR Jamie Powers BALMORAL The Other Guys BAR ORIENT The Scotch of Saint James Electrophobia THE SCOTCH OF SAINT JAMES BASSENDEAN HOTEL THOSE WRETCHED HORSES Overload BELMONT THE INSATIABLES TAVERN BLACK RAFFERTY Billy & The Broken Lines BENNY’S Faces
BALMORAL James Wilson BALLY’S BAR Greg Carter Karaoke BAR 120 Felix BASEMENT ON BROADWAY The Organ Grinders BLACK BETTY’S Everlong CLAREMONT HOTEL Open Mic Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Random Act HALE ROAD TAVERN Fenton Wilde HOTEL ROTTNEST Carus Thompson INDI BAR Jan Kizzy Joe Graham LOBBY LOUNGE (BURSWOOD) Courtney Murphy LLAMA BAR Dynamites LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan METRO FREO The Other Guys MOJO’S Matt Gresham MUSTANG Kickstart PADDO The Red Embers The Date Calectasia ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) David Fyffe ROSEMOUNT Grim Fandango Coveleski Burning Fiction Ten Points For Glenroy
Dove SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Christian Thompson THE BIRD Flume Tan Mostarsk THE MOON David Craft Jesse Woodward Justin Walshe UNIVERSAL Strutt
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Brown Study Band, Friday at The Civic Hotel
BENTLEY HOTEL Bernardine Grigson BLACK BETTYS J Babies BOHEME BAR Soul Corporation BRASS MONKEY David Fyffe CAPTAIN STIRLING Shawne & Luc CARLISLE HOTEL Reload CIVIC HOTEL (THE DEN) The Brown Study Band Something Humble Blind Highway Red Dirt CLAREMONT HOTEL Parker Avenue COMO HOTEL Tip Top DEVILLES Grace Barbe Russ Dewbury Les Sataniques ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB The Music Of Amy Winehouse Amanda Dee FUSE BAR Groove Karaoke GLOUCESTER PARK Kenji GREENWOOD Local Heroes HARBOUR TERRACE Everlong Acoustic HERDSMAN LAKE TAVERN Acoustic Licence INDI BAR Scottie Miller KINGSWAY BAR & BISTRO Dr Bogus LEFT BANK Frankie Button LEISURE INN Neil Colliss M ON THE POINT Jonny Taylor MIGHTY QUINN TAVERN Kontraband MOJO’S BAR Firehouse Sound Earthlink Sound Sabata Sounds Future Sounds MUSTANG Harry Deluxe Cheeky Monkeys NEWPORT 10 Cent Billionaire
OXFORD HOTEL Recliners PADDINGTON ALEHOUSE Felix PADDY HANNANS Gun Shy Romeos PADDY MAGUIRE’S 43 Cambridge PARAMOUNT Flyte PEEL ALEHOUSE Next Generation Karaoke ROSE & CROWN Stu Harcourt ROSEMOUNT Prescient I Am Eternal Pyromesh Animistic ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Spyce SAIL & ANCHOR Switchback SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Greg Carter SUBIACO HOTEL Empire SWAN BASEMENT Mourning The Collector Red Engine Caves Honeywheeler The Flying Swines THE DEEN James Wilson THE GATE Smoking Section THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Kickstart THE VIC Rhyme & Reason UNIVERSAL Retriofit Nightmoves VELVET LOUNGE The Scotch Of Saint James Those Wretched Horses The Insatiables Black Rafferty VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Ivan Ribic WANNEROO TAVERN Clayton Bolger X-WRAY The Lucky Wonders
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Seer Cya, Saturday at The Rosemount
SATURDAY 07.01 AMPLIFIER Alpine BALMORAL Bernardine Grigson Duo BAR 120 Flyte BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Chris Murphy BLACK BETTY’S Redstar BROKEN HILL HOTEL Switchback BROOK Electrophobia BURSWOOD CASINO Murphy’s Lore CIVIC HOTEL (THE DEN) Vanity Negative Reinforcement Wild Sense Dying Sun Cabin Fever Amend CLAREMONT HOTEL Pete Busher & The Lone Rangers COMO HOTEL Tip Top CRAFTSMAN Hi-NRG DEVILLE’S PAD Mondo Inferno Les Sataniques ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB The Music Of Amy Winehouse Melissa Erpen FLY BY NIGHT CLUB Baby Jane The Now Engine Of Reason GREENWOOD HOTEL In The Groove HARBOUR TERRACE Neil Colliss INDI BAR Zarm INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY The Other Guys LEOPOLD HOTEL Steve Hepple LOBBY LOUNGE John Sandosham Duo M ON THE POINT Rhythm 22
MOON & SIXPENCE Blaze MOJO’S BAR The Joe Kings One Thousand Years The Crooked Cats Calectasia Palatial Digs Weapons Of Mass Satisfaction The Cult Of Addiction Lucy Peach The Vans Delusions Of Granduer The Phonetics Misty Mountain Sticky Sweet Blue Condition Violet Scene Hart Petrashevski Circle MULLALOO BEACH HOTEL Overload MUSTANG The Burger Kings 10 Cent Billionaire NEWPORT Kizzy Gravity OCEAN ONE BAR Julius Lutero Trio PADDY MAGUIRES Bluebottles PARAMOUNT Felix RAILWAY HOTEL Pictures Of Sarah Twisted Affection Letter Bomb Parade ROCKET ROOM Kickstart ROSEMOUNT Seer Cya The Love Conduit Rare Shadow Heath Marshall ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Flavor SAIL & ANCHOR Better Days SPRINGS TAVERN Jamie Powers SUBIACO HOTEL Off The Record SWAN BASEMENT NJE Students Of Scripture Rukus Napalm The New Breed 6.0 Krew Kon Tempt SWINGING PIG Greg Carter
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That Velvet Echo, Sunday at The Ellington
THE BIRD Gossling THE GATEDirty Scoundrels THE SAINT Bluebottles THE SHED Huge THE VIC James Wilson THE WHALE & ALE Switch TWO ROCKS TAVERN Parker Avenue UNIVERSAL Soul Corporation WANNEROO TAVERN Tod Woodward WINDSOR HOTEL Everlong Acoustic
INDIAN OCEAN VICTORIA PARK BREWING CO HOTEL Retriofit Neil Colliss LAKERS TAVERN WANNEROO Jamie Powers TAVERN LEISURE INN Damien Cripps Steve Hepple WHISTLING KITE LOBBY LONGE James Wilson (BURSWOOD) Courtney Murphy WOODVALE M ON THE POINT TAVERN Reckless Kelly Bluebottles MOJO’S BAR Zarm MONDAY 09.01 The Crux ASTOR THEATRE Beleza Samba The Kooks School ELLINGTON JAZZ MUSTANG CLUB Peter Busher & The Grace Woodroofe Lone Rangers LOBBY LOUNGE PINK DUCK (BURSWOOD) LOUNGE BAR Courtney Murphy Paul Foster MOJO’S BAR PRINCIPAL SUNDAY 08.01 Open Mic Night Bernardine TH 7 AVENUE MUSTANG BAR Grigson Good Karma ROSE & CROWN Johnny Law & 150 RIVERSIDE Christian The Pistol Packin’ EAST (ASCOT Thompson Daddies QUAYS) SAIL & ANCHOR THE DEEN Shawne & Luc Adrian Wilson Plastic Max & The SOUTH ST BALLY’S BAR Token Gesture ALEHOUSE Greg Carter Blackhart & BALMORAL TUESDAY 10.01 Strangelove Cranky CHARLES HOTEL SOVEREIGN ARMS BENTLEY HOTEL Perth Blues Club Ivan Ribic Christian SPRINGS TAVERN Jane Germain & Thompson Steve Hepple The Yahoos BROKEN HILL SWAN VELLEY Scottie Miller Band HOTEL CAFÉ Gary Cox Band Chris Murphy Kenji MOJO’S BAR CAPTAIN THE CRAFTMAN A Hundred Acre David Fyffe STIRLING Wood THE GATE Sean Scott Seth Squid Lowe Rhyme & Reason CARINE PRINCE OF WALES Dirty Scoundrels Wesley Goodlet Open Mic Night THE SAINT Jamboree Scouts SETTLERS Howie Morgan CLAREMONT TAVERN Project HOTEL Open Mic Night THE VIC Sunday Driver X-WRAY CAFE Nathan Gaunt COMO HOTEL Open Piano Night UNIVERSAL Jonathan Dempsey Retriofit CRAFTMAN David Fyffe ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB That Velvet Echo GREENWOOD Electrophobia HIGH ROAD HOTEL Morgan Bain Mike Nayar HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL The Organ BOSTON & CHEVY Grinders JAMIE HALL INDI BAR Morgan Bain Boston & Chevy Jamie Hall
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SAE INSTITUTE
Training Award Winners Did you know that SAE Institute, the world’s largest entertainment technology institute with more than 30 years experience as the world leader in audio, film, multimedia and 3D animation, is now an approved higher education provider with a degree campus right here in Perth? Students who historically entered university are now looking beyond the old standard styles of higher education and seeking qualifications from institutions that offer specialised, industry focused education with real career outcomes. “We pride ourselves in knowing SAE students are learning from the best in the business and we are setting the platform to launch our students’ careers in their respective industries,” said SAE Perth Campus manager Dean Pearson. “Not only are SAE bachelor degrees internationally recognised, but students have access to state of the art equipment and instruction not only from professional educators but also from current industry professionals.” Pearson goes on to say that if you wish to break into the sound or film industries you need a strong qualification. The growth of the Australian entertainment and creative media industries has meant an increase in demand for highly qualified and knowledgeable professionals, and the opportunity to enter these exciting industries continues to expand. Pearson’s comments are vindicated by the past success of the institute’s graduates. Over the years SAE has produced graduates who have gone on to win Oscars, Grammys, and ARIA, AFI and WAMi awards, to name just a few. Students have the option of studying an accelerated two-year bachelor of audio or bachelor of film degrees at SAE Perth’s state of the art facilities. The courses are FEE Help approved and the accelerated programs enable graduates to get into the industry faster and commence their career one year earlier than normal. SAE’s bachelor of audio production will arm students with the technical and creative aspects of the recording process, as well all aspects of audio production including studio recording, live sound 30
An SAE studio in Perth techniques, mixing, mastering, MIDI and modern music creation, music business and studio acoustics. SAE’s bachelor of film production covers digital film making and productions. Students will learn concept development, screen writing, camera operation, production management, directing, editing and sounds design. As part of the degree, students develop skills as directors, producers and editors. If your dream career is obtaining a degree and producing music for an international act or working on a film set, it no longer needs to be a dream. SAE Institute is now taking enrollments. “SAE degrees enjoy international recognition and industry acceptance,” said Mr Pearson. “It is the perfect way to start the career you’ve always dreamed of.” For more information on courses offered by SAE Institute contact: 1800 723 338 (freecall), email infoperth@sae.edu or visit its website at www. sae.edu. X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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