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Well, there’d sure been a lot of loose talk and wise cracks about the Perth Arena, but at its ‘soft opening’ last Friday night it certainly delivered. With quality local talent in Stillwater Giants, Split Seconds, Sugar Army and Drapht as opening gambits, the many who ventured down for the venue’s first serve of live music were duly impressed with the functionality of the venue and the quality of production. Sir Elton John marks the first official concert to be held at the venue this Saturday, November 10, (as well as Monday, November 12). Around the corner are Matchbox 20, INXS and Evermore (November 11), Nickelback and Jackson Firebird (November 17), Russell Brand (December 2), JLO (December 6), Nicki Minaj (December 8), Weezer (January 23), The Script (April 3), Black Sabbath (May 4) and P!nk (June 25-26/28-29). For more details, head to pertharena.com.au. Get behind it Perth, a proper world-class entertainment venue has been a long time coming since the EntCent stopped breathing.
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That’s right, the Godfather of Funk and his 22-piece psychedelic circus extravaganza are touching down in Australia this summer to deliver their complete 22 piece P Funk Space Circus for the first time since 2002. We’re talking about the one and only George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic. Put it this way George Clinton has inspired the likes of Prince, Afrika Bambaataa and Macy Gray, mentored Public Enemy and provided much of De La Soul and Snoop Dogg’s (Snoop Lion) musical education. He is the single most sampled artist in music history and has produced and recorded with the likes of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Primal Scream, Outkast and more. George Clinton’s Galactic Space Circus Tour hits Metro Freo on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Tickets are on sale now from metropolisfremantle.com.au and oztix.com.au. Expect a touring ensemble of singers, dancers, circus clowns, roller girls and more!
BEWARE THE BAT MEN
English heavy metal legends Black Sabbath have announced a reunion for the band’s first Australian shows in nearly 40 years. The Prince of Darkness himself Ozzy Osbourne, bassist Geezer Butler, and guitarist Tony Iommi will make a thunderous return to Australia in April 2013 for their first series of Aussie shows since 1974. Finishing at the Perth Arena on Saturday, May 4, the trio will be heading our way to promote their first new studio album in more than 33 years, which is helmed by seventime Grammy winning producer, Rick Rubin, and is touted for release in April 2013. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, November 8, from livenation.com.au
LOG ON!
Popular unknown one-man-band wild man Bob Log III has let it be known that he is bring his inimitable Boobscotch pandemonium back to WA. You only know the madness if you’ve seen him, and if you haven’t seen Bob Log III well, there’s a madness you need to know about. Catch Bob Log III on Friday, November 16, at Clancy’s Dunsborough; Saturday, November 17, at Mojos [with The Dianas and Doctopus] and Sunday, November 18, at Mojos [with The Bible Bashers and Cal Peck & The Tramps]. Tickets from heatseeker.com.au Mills, 78s, Planet, Star, Clancy’s Fish Pub Dunsborough and Mojos.
LIVE AT THE QUARRY JUST GOT BIGGER
Those funny musical lads Tripod are kicking off the Live At The Quarry 2012/2013 season this Friday, November 9, and Saturday, November 10, to be supported by local musical comedy peeps De Grussa Band who will be bringing their unique blend of influences - Queen, Meatloaf, Billy Joel, early Elton John and more for a glam rock revival. Washington’s shows on Friday, November 16, will be supported by Ben Witt ( The Chemist) and Saturday, November 17, will see Rabbit Island on support duties. The Reminiscing... shows featuring Glenn Shorrock, Wendy Matthews and Doug Parkinson will see Ruby Boots support the Thursday, March 14, 2013 show and Simone & Girlfunkle support the Friday, March 15, 2013 show. Hit up liveatthequarry.com.au for all tickets and info.
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Thee Oh Sees
SEE YOU SOON
It’s been a year since psych-rock titans Thee Oh Sees tempted Australia with their insane, hectic and cacophonous live shows, and each year they leave us wanting more. Having built a feverishly prolific reputation for their amazing live shows, Thee Oh Sees return to The Bakery on Saturday, February 2. Support on the night comes from local indie rock supergroup The Long Lost Brothers, Dianas and RTRFM’s DJ Jade Nobbs. Tickets are on sale from lifeisnoise.com and all the usual outlets.
OLD NEW MUSIC
For 25 years Tura New Music has presented award winning projects and supported the work of local composers, sound artists, performers and researchers. In celebration of the non-for-profit organisation’s continued success and dedication to the arts, Tura has planned a slew of celebratory performances from Wednesday, November 21, ‘til Thursday, December 6, included a special joint performance from Kynan Tan and Robin Fox on Saturday, December 1, at PICA, and a 25th party featuring a performance by Club Zho 100 on Tuesday, December 4, at Hellenic Club. For the full list of events click over to tura.com.au.
MITZI HEADING WEST
That Brisbane quartet who are all about lazy disco grooves, anthemic pop and a unique blend of pop are heading west for their WA debut show. Having released their 2011 EP All I Heard to critical acclaim, Mitzi are back with their first single from their 2013 forthcoming record. Released through Sydney hip label Future Classic, Who Will Love You Now showcases their unique brand of garage disco, indie and Aussie pop. The four-piece have supported the likes of Darwin Deez, Foster The People, Yelle and The Whitest Boy Alive. They’ll check into The Bakery on Saturday, December 8, along with The Brow Horn Orchestra, Lilt, Whisky Winter and Bears & Dolls. Tickets are on sale now through nowbaking.com.au. 7
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The Saints return to Perth shores ahead of their brand new album King Of The Sun and performance at the Homebake Festival. We have a double pass up for grabs to their show at The Fly By Night on Friday, November 30, and a copy of the album. Get in quick for your chance to win.
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The el Tren (train) has left Mexico and after a successful tour through Los Angeles, it is now set to head around Australia, for the seventh annual Hola Mexico Film Festival, arriving in Perth’s Cinema Paradiso on Thursday, November 15, ‘til Wednesday, November 21. We have 15 double passes up for grabs to this exciting event so get in now for your chance to win.
I had the opportunity to check out Perth Arena last Friday night thanks to the Plug Your Perth free gig. I’d just like to say that this is the best thing to happen to Perth in a LONG TIME. It’s a phenomenal space and it’s great that they have eftpos at the bars and drinks are already ready by the time you get to the bar, fantastic organisation! I hope it stays like this for all their future gigs because if it does, I will definitely keep going back. Good job Perth Arena! Via Email Claudia Montaine
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Those delicious Belgium lads 2manydjs are coming back to town to mix up Eye Of The Tiger with the likes of Kraftwerk, put their very own brilliant spin on tunes from The Beatles, pump out the bass and thumping electro and show you how to get your groove on down on the d-floor. They are serious pros. Boomtick and X-Press are presenting a super sick prize pack which includes: VIP tickets to 2manydjs at Villa Nightclub on Friday, November 30 Your own exclusive meet and greet experience at sound-check before the show A personally signed block mount A Boomtick Prize Pack for both you and your friend To be in the running, all you need to do is take a photo of yourself with “2many” of “something”. For example: you with too many pegs on your face; you with too many tattoos, you with too many festival wristbands. Then, upload the photo to the X-Press Facebook page. Whoever gets the most ‘likes’ on their photo will automatically go into the Top 5 Finalists. The winner will be chosen by X-Press ahead of the show.
With immersive visuals, live messaging and unparalleled production values, Above & Beyond will be bringing their famed and memorable DJ experience to six major cities around the country checking into Metro City on Friday, February 1. We have two double passes up for grabs so get in now as this is sure to be a knockout show!
NATURAL NEW ZEALAND FESTIVAL
Shaping to be bigger and better than its debut last year, 2012 Natural New Zealand Music Festival will again see an awesome lineup of some of Aotearoa’s meanest musical acts, with NZ music heavyweights Shapeshifter and Kora headlining the show at Perth’s Red Hill Auditorium on Saturday, December 1. We have double passes up for the taking so enter now for your chance to win.
DANGERFIELD
Dangerfield has moved its quirky Melbourne born and bred label into West Perth outlet shopping mecca Harbour Town. To celebrate the opening of this new store, we have five $50 gift cards up for grabs. Enter now for your chance to win this awesome prize and update your wardrobe just in time for summer!
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2
In the highly anticipated next chapter of the blockbuster The Twilight Saga, the newfound married bliss of Bella and Edward is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world. Want to win tickets? Enter now as we have a bunch up for grabs.
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We have three killer CD prize packs up for grabs consisting of Armin van Buuren’s Universal Religion Vol. 6, Sharam’s Night & Day and the newbie from Marcus Schulz, Scream. Enter now for your chance to win this incredible prize pack of electronic music.
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LIFE IS A KABARET
Add some soul to your Thursday nights when nine piece high-energy band Stratosfunk hit Malt Supper Club in Mt Lawley for Kabaret Thursdays on Thursday, November 8, and Thursday, November 22. Influenced by the Motown sounds of the ‘60s and early ‘70s, Stratosfunk have been sharing their love of soul and entertaining audiences with their engaging performances, virtuosic solos and charm while paying tribute to the soul and rhythm and blues greats like Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Ike and Tina Turner, Otis Redding, to name a few! With retro dance moves and style to match, their soulful sounds will have you up dancing from the first song! $10 entry fee includes complimentary sparkling beverage on arrival. Open from 8pm ‘til late. For more info hit up maltsupperclub.com.au.
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WARMING UP BEAUFORT STREET
The Beaufort Street Festival is around the corner folks and there’s no better way to celebrate than to have a five-day-long party. That’s right, each night from Monday, November 12, through ‘til Friday, November 16, the James Squire Festival Bar, located at 555 Beaufort Street, will play host to live art creations, music talent and an open air drinking space for the week. Across the week you’ll be able to witness DJ Rex Monsoon and Live Art Battles, a night dedicated to funk and jazz on vinyl featuring DJ Tedro, acoustic blues and roots maestro Morgan Bain and DJ NDORSE, Parallel Party, Andrew Sinclair, Felicity Groom, Diger Rokwell, Mei Saraswati, DJs Jason Burton, Mz Jo and Anton Franc. For all the info, head to beaufortstreetfestival.com.au.
HARDLY CIVIL
Australia will have to wait to see double Grammy award-winning duo, The Civil Wars, who have cancelled their March Heavenly Sounds tour. No reason has yet been given for why the Nashville two-piece pulled the pin on the tour, which included a Perth show on Friday, March 15, at St Joseph’s Church in Subiaco. Tickets purchased by credit card will be automatically refunded. Cash refunds can be obtained from Crown Perth and the Regal Theatre. For more info hit up frontiertouring.com/thecivilwars.
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2012 has seen grungy Melbourne four-piece Kingswood kick some serious career goals - they kicked arse in the Triple J Unearthed Splendour In The Grass competition, have recently been announced as Unearthed finalists for the 2012 J Awards and are set to tour the nation one last time before the year is out to showcase new single She’s My Baby. Catch their hard-hitting sweaty live performances when they support British India on Thursday, November 29, at the Prince Of Wales, on Friday, November 30, at Metropolis Fremantle, and Saturday, December 1, at Capitol.
BOYS OF SUMMER GONNA BE NUTS
That crazy summer festival tour Boys Of Summer Tour is returning for 2013 with a line-up that’s bound to get the moshpit cranking. Notorious hardcore lads Deez Nuts will be coming along for the ride alongside Canadian hardcore legends Comeback Kid and Michigan’s For The Fallen Dreams. Boys Of Summer 2013 smashes into Amplifier on Wednesday, January 13, and Thursday, January 10 and YMCA HQ for an all ages show. Tickets are on sale now through destroyalllines.oztix.com.au. Fuck yeah!
ART TIMES TWO
If you’re a follower of Perth up-comers, you’ll no doubt have heard of WAMi award winning pair Felicity Groom and Diger Rokwell. Successful musicians in their own fields, electronic artist Rokwell and folk songstress Groom have joined to produce a psychedelic-tinged futuristic sound as part of the Art Gallery’s AGWA Nights series. They’ll showcase their unique sound this Friday, November 9.
GET YOUR GROOVE ON
Whether it’s some of the best music of the past, or new vinyl for making fresh memories, vinyl records are enduring the digital revolution. The folks who run Perth’s newest record store Unknown Treasures are so convinced of vinyl’s future that they’re throwing a might big shindig this Sunday, November 11, at Coventry Square in Morley from 10am ‘til 3pm. Featuring live music and entertainment, there’ll be a huge selection of new and used records to suit even the most eclectic of musical tastes.
BLACK METAL BLIZZARD COMING
Swedish black metallers Dark Funeral are returning down under to once again to terrorise our stages with their classic black metal and epic live show (expect corpse paint, weapons, spikes and fire breathing). These guys are all about complex melodies and Satanic lyrics melded with freakish speed and aggressive, blasphemous volume. The Nordic metallers will be touching down in Perth to play Amplifier on Sunday, November 25. Tickets are on sale now from metropolistouring.com. Get your black metal on! www.xpressmag.com.au
The Beatles’ acclaimed original studio album remasters, which were released on CD in 2009 and in 2010 on iTunes, will make their long-awaited stereo vinyl debut release this Friday, November 9. The albums are manufactured on 180gram, audiophile quality vinyl with replicated artwork. Each album will be available individually, and accompanied by an elegantly designed 252-page hardbound book in a boxed edition limited to 50,000 copies worldwide. The boxed edition includes a book, written by renowned UK radio producer Kevin Howlett, featuring a dedicated chapter for each of the albums. Go to it Beatlemaniacs!
SHACK OF LAUGHS
The Comedy Shack has moved their Tuesday show to The Velvet Lounge at The Flying Scotsman. The ‘Shack provides a platform for Perth punters to check out some world class stand-up comedians and a chance to see the rising stars of the local scene. To celebrate the move to the new venue, The Comedy Shack will be playing host to Sydney comedy king Jacques Barrett. Barrett is all about weaving character renditions into social commentary and has spent the last year honing his craft on the world stage, touring South East Asia, South Africa, Prague, Switzerland and spent six months on the tough UK comedy circuit. It’s all happening on Tuesday, November 13. The show starts at 7.30pm. Get on down!
Alison Wonderland, Southbound-bound!
SOUTH- ABOUNDING
With summer comin’ round the mountain that means it’s soon to be Southbound time and with that comes a new announcement of acts featuring Ajax, Alison Wonderland, Art of Sleeping, Flume and Parachute Youth. Also announced for the comedy comedy program are Felicity Ward, Luke Heggie, Matt O’Kine, Nazeem Hussain, Ronny Chieng and Sammy J & Randy. They join Angus Stone, Ball Park Music, Beach House, Bertie Blackman, Best Coast, Bombay Bicycle Club, Boy & Bear, Coolio, Cosmo Jarvis, DJ Nu-Mark Toy Set, Django Django, First Aid Kit, The Flaming Lips, Hilltop Hoods, The Hives, Hot Chip, Jinja Safari, The Jungle Giants, Lisa Mitchell, Loon Lake, Matt Corby, Maximo Park, Millions, Oh Mercy, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, San Cisco, SBTRKT, Sharon Van Etten, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Two Door Cinema Club and The Vaccines. Southbound returns to Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton, on Friday-Saturday, January 4-5. For full details head to southboundfestival.com.au.
SARITAH In Deep
Saritah launches Dig Deep at the Fly By Night Club on Friday, November 9, and at Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, on Saturday, November 10. BOB GORDON reports. Former Perth and now Melbourne-based singer/ songwriter Saritah has just released her new album, Dig Deep. Recorded in California with help from producer Mario Caldato [The Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson, Manu Chao, John Butler Trio, Beck], it is in many ways a departure from her normal creative process. “The process of making this album was really different to my previous albums which were both recorded in bits and pieces over a long period of time. With this one, most of the album was recorded live in nine days. It was a really deep process for me - we made the album on an amazing property in Montecito, California, and I didn’t leave the property for the whole time. It was like a retreat, an albummaking retreat!” Along with recording the album in California Saritah often finds retreat in Santa Cruz. It seems that the similarities between the West Coast of the US and our own coast also provide inspiration. “Firstly there’s the ocean,” Saritah says. “The constant presence of the ocean, the sun setting into the ocean. Having grown up by the ocean it gives me a great sense of peace and comfort knowing that the ocean is right there, it makes me feel at home. One of my favourite daily rituals is to walk and ride along the beach at the end of a day, it clears my head and puts everything into perspective - it reminds me of the daily cycles of our planet. “I did this a lot in Santa Cruz. My manager is based there so it became a home away from home for me. Another thing that is really important to me is good food, conscious food, vegan food, and the
Saritah wholefood/health food situation in California blows my mind. There are all kinds of exciting vegan and raw food options, something that is slowly catching on here in Australia.” At the end of the track Tears Of Joy there is a very distinct ‘ha-ha’ laugh. It is Saritah, sounding happy and confident. It’s where she is. “Ha-ha yes, I’m feeling really great about this album and at this point in my life,” she say. “This song in particular was written about the importance of following your heart and the blessings that come when you do so. It really is amazing what can happen when you follow your heart and step out of your comfort zone. I feel a lot of doors opening with the release of this album and I’m so grateful for the growing support network and all the amazing people in my life.” Saritah will be releasing a second single and video off the album early in the 2013 and will spend most of the year taking touring internationally in support of the release. A US-based distributor has come on board and there are plans return to the US in March, then again for summer festivals, as well as plans for Europe in time for the LP’s third single release. “At some point after all of that I want to book in a writing getaway for a few weeks,” Saritah says. “Just taking a basic minimum of writing and recording gear to set up in a bungalow on the beach somewhere on an island where I can eat good fresh local food and surf everyday. Yes!”
Tracy Morgan
SATURDAY NIGHT ROCK
US actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, best known from 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live, will tour Australia for the first time with his critically acclaimed stand-up show in April next year. Nothing is off limits for this outrageous comic who recently blamed Republican Party US presidential nominee Mitt Romney for the tropical cyclone Hurricane Sandy. Catch his hilarious show on Monday, April 15, at The Regal Theatre. Tickets are on sale now from livenation.com.au.
HORSING AROUND
Critical acclaim has been flying from all angles for enigmatic UK six-piece Black Horses who have previously toured down under with the likes of Tame Impala, Black Mountain and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and are gearing up to release their debut LP Black Music this Friday, November 9. They’ve also just been announced as the support for Sigur Ros’ sold-out show on Tuesday, November 13, at Belvoir Amphitheatre.
Deep Purple Miloš Karadagli
GUITAR HERO
Montenegro guitarist Miloš Karadagli has taken the classical world by storm with his recent sellout performances at Carnegie Hall, his growing audiences elsewhere and popular recordings which have become chart-toppers. The 28-yearold prodigy is set to wow audiences with his amazing playing when he performs at the Perth Concert Hall on Monday, December 3. Tickets are on sale now through BOCS.
DON’T STOP SPACE TRUCKIN’
Two mega rock groups of legendary status, Deep Purple and Journey (who are here for the first time) are joining forces for a tour of epic proportions this summer. Warm up your vocal chords for an evening of classic rock sing-a-longs (who doesn’t love Black Night, Highway Star, Space Truckin’, Don’t Stop Believin’ and Anyway You Want It?) as well as brand-spanking-new tunes, when they touch down at Perth Arena on Thursday, March 7. Tickets are available from Ticketek. 11
BEN FOLDS Still Rocking The Suburbs
The re-grouped Ben Folds Five are touring in support of a new album, The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, and will perform at Fremantle Arts Centre on Wednesday, November 14. Ben Folds is more than happy for you to call him old. Just don’t tell him he can’t rock out anymore. It’s been more than 12 years since Folds ditched his cohorts Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee for the bright lights of a solo career, but he’s got the band back together with The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind - their first new album since 1999 - released earlier this year. They’re in the midst of a world tour and we’ve got the folks at MySpace to thank for the unexpected reunion... By JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD Let’s start with the obvious question - how exactly did the Ben Folds Five reunion come about? I’ve been asked that a million times and I honestly still couldn’t tell you why. I don’t know, I guess it was kind of an evolution. The way I remember it is this – although I think we all remember it in subtly different ways – I got really busy in 2000/2001 – I released Rocking The Suburbs, started going on solo tours, just playing the piano, going going going, and I wouldn’t have thought for a second about getting together with the guys, just because I was busy enjoying life. Then in 2008 MySpace gave me a call. MySpace gets all this bad wrap because they’re not Facebook or whatever but they were really doing some awesome stuff – and one of the things they were doing was these really great productions of live shows. They had a series called Front To Back which was based on this really great idea of asking a band who hadn’t played in a long time play their favourite record or their seminal record from beginning to end and they would film it. So they asked if I wanted to do it and at the time they called I hadn’t even thought about it before. I just said ‘yeah I’ll do it let me call the other guys and call you back in five minutes’ and I called back and said ‘they said yeah let’s do it’ and that was it. So that show went really well and over the course of the new few years we came around to the idea of making a new record. When you initially sat down to write the album together, did you find the dynamic had changed since you’d spent that time apart? It was basically the same - in that we’re the same band with the same instruments. I think what we were basically able to do was to toss away the tension and the things that were a drag and we were able to improve upon it because, you know, we are three pent-up white guys and we’re not going to sit down and talk about things. During the day things could get busy, busy, busy, and in the old days we would never really say what it was, but now you know, what else can I say – if I have a bad day or if I’m tired, if it’s coming to that, then we’ll say it and move on and that it makes it a lot better. I think all the obvious stuff is true – you’re older, wiser, all that. But you don’t have to be that damn old either. The thing is, I’m in pretty decent shape but despite that I find that I can’t make up for bad technique with muscle anymore, it’s not going to happen. When I was 28 years old I could play 20
gigs in a row with pure stupid stubborn muscle, but now it’s kinda like I have to do it right. Not a lot of the rock stars will talk about it because they don’t want people to know they’re getting old. I don’t give a shit. I’m old but the thing is that as a result I’m finding that I’m playing with a lot more energy. I’m able to do the right thing and my technique is a lot better and I can play rings around the way I used to play. Back in the day, part of the energy was undoubtedly that we were young and stupid so we would just give it unbelievable amounts of energy and muscle to get through a gig and I think that’s an attractive thing in a young rock band, but now we get the job done really efficiently. We’re still beating the shit out of the piano but we’re also applying technique. I think we’re making a more profound statement now then we were but I also think that when you first start out in your 20s there’s something very striking about being young and simple and I don’t disavow that either. We’re not bad but we’re better. Given the fact that you forged a very successful solo career, did you ever find it difficult to relinquish control during the writing and recording process? Not really. The guys are very respectful. I’m the primary songwriter. I mean the band is named after me. They don’t harbor any illusions about that. They’re both very respectful – they’re both artists. Whenever I collaborate it’s with artists – whether it’s Amanda Palmer, Regina Spektor or William Shatner – and when I play with Robert and Darren it very much has that feel because they’re artists. They get it and that’s the way we relate to each other even if they’re not writing all the material. Their approach is very much that of artists. When I play as a solo artist it’s not that different really, it’s just the company you keep. One day I’ll play with a symphony orchestra and then one day I’ll play with [US singer/songwriter] Sara Bareilles, just backing her up on the piano – we made a great little EP and I was in a very supportive role, I played all the instrumentals. So I just react differently in different circumstances, that’s just the way I am. You’ve been touring The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind now for a few months, what kind of Did you have any niggling concerns about reception have you received so far? getting the band back together? I think we’ve been killing it. The impression No, I think the reason we dived into it is I get is that people are really impressed to see because there weren’t any concerns. There might three dudes make that much sound and it’s so well have been concerns in 2006 and that’s why we composed. It’s been going really well and that feels didn’t do it back then. We beat out heads up against good. I kinda know what my audience is going to a wall to make sure that there was a statement be like when I’m playing solo, but to be completely being made that we felt resonated with all of us. honest you never know what you’re audience is Also, 12 years later I can clearly see that we made really great records. I didn’t want to defecate upon expecting. the memory and legacy of those three records so In terms of the audience composition - are you we tried hard to made it happen. finding it’s mainly older fans showing up? A lot has been made about the audiences You decided to record the album yourselves and called upon fans to donate cash to fund the being older – in the case of people coming back records - surely given your own record label ties to see us after all this time – but I don’t think that’s you could have called in some favours to get the necessarily true. I can’t really tell. I read a review which said ‘they played their old stuff and everyone dug it but record made? We don’t know what the fuck we’re doing when they played their new stuff no one gave a shit’ and I think that’s really a valuable thing for us to and I’m like ‘were you in the same audience?’. When I look out into the crowd I see huge acknowledge. We started making the record on our own – why did we do that? I don’t know! We just energy coming off the audience. The audiences are didn’t feel like negotiating, I guess. I feel like it’s a very engaged – they’re very engaged in our old complete waste of a day making a phone call to a stuff but they’re also very engaged in our new stuff lawyer or to management to start negotiating with and that’s good. I honestly don’t think they would record labels, and then they call us up and say ‘okay respect a band who just played a bunch of ‘blast from we’ve got four offers and when we’ve finally got one the past’ stuff. My perception is that they are very then we can talk about making a record’ and then interested in the new material; I don’t think they want you’ve got to whittle it down to two and keep to be thought of as an audience who are just into the negotiating and then you finally get one and it’s like ‘golden oldie’ songs. I mean, we just made a new record so ‘okay they’ve given us a budget what shall we use it for?’ and that’s all just a bunch of bullshit. I mean, we’re going to be playing songs from the new record, I know that’s necessary but if you haven’t been but the show is really well rounded. For instance, playing together for 12 years it’s not exactly a big I remember with our third record [1999’s] The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner when concern. What the crowdfunding allowed us to do we were presenting those songs live it was meeting was show up and start playing. As it turns out I filled with a lot of chatter. People, at that point, only wanted out a webpage, printed out all the paperwork and to hear the hits from the record before that. But I’m put the thing up. I woke up at 6am the next morning not feeling that about this new record. I don’t think – I’ve got 13-year-old twins and I needed to take it’s necessarily the record – some of it is – but for them to school – and I checked the computer whatever reason the audiences have been gone for before we left for school and we had met our target 13 years and they’re very interested in hearing a mix. 100 per cent. Awesome. I mean, if we just played songs from the new record
vocalist/guitarist, Jarrod Ross says, taking a break from work to chat with X-Press. “They are die-hard ‘band band band’. Those guys live for the band. They were doing a residency at Cherry Bar and they live in Sydney so they were going to Melbourne every week. I wouldn’t do that. “It was just good to get involved in that kind of tour. We’ve done our own sort of WA legs, but they’re nothing like that. It was nine guys in a 12-seater van and we drove from Adelaide to Brisbane in about a week, I think. It was our first taste Local lads Arts Martial launch their of life on the road which was fun. It’s really hard to healthy I found, [had] heaps of vitamin C and we debut album, Promises Will Get You stay had three days off in Byron Bay which was amazing. Nowhere, at the Rosemount Hotel We had long boards and were trying to surf and out with all the gypsies (laughs).” this Saturday, November 10, with [were] hanging Touring with Calling All Cars was just support from Emperors and Further one of the many opportunities the lads had, having Tom Larkin [producer for Calling All Cars, King Earth. ANNABEL MACLEAN chats met Cannons, Strangers] when they supported Shihad in with frontman Jarrod Ross. late 2010. “He liked our stuff and invited us on their WA leg of the tour,” Ross recalls. “And one thing lead Pop-rockers Arts Martial have learnt a lot over to the next.” the last year of so, particularly about life on the Indeed, Larkin is the producer behind Arts road, having spent a fair chunk of time touring Martial’s debut album, Promises Will Get You Nowhere. Australia with Melbourne rockers Calling All “He was keen to work on the record and we were Cars and Sydney boys, Strangers. keen to work with him so we started pre-production “Strangers are a dedicated bunch,” early last year,” Ross says.
Ben Folds I do think people would be pissed and if we played all old songs I think they’d be pissed too. We’re quite happy to appreciate the old material. It’s all kinda happy-happy right now. Are you finding the new songs sit alongside the older ones during your live shows? No. Ninety-nine times out of 100 you ask an artist that I’m sure they’re going to tell you ‘yeah they sit alongside perfectly’ because they want to stress to people that they haven’t lost it - that’s the first thing that comes to mind. But honestly we haven’t reworked the old stuff because I think people deserve to hear them as they are. I don’t feel the need to fuck with those – they’re well written, well composed songs. I think there’s a couple of new songs that we haven’t got into as much, and that’s not because they’re not good songs, it’s just that some of the older songs are going really great at the moment. Then again, right now I’d have to say my favourite [song to play] is probably Erase Me, because it’s just playing itself and it’s so unique. It sounds just like us but it’s better than anything we’ve done before. I’m really digging doing that one. We open with it most of the time because it’s so upbeat and strong and it’s a song that gets applause like three times during the song – after the piano solo people applaud and after the pause people applaud - to me, that shows real engagement with the audience. I don’t really think we have old material that cool. So what can people expect from the brandspanking-new Ben Folds Five live show? We’re pretty basic. It’s three musicians. It’s pretty bare-boned. There’s nothing going on, it’s just musicianship. On the one hand I’d say, ‘we’re just going to play the songs’ – we’re not fucking jumping around, there’s no video screens or confetti or anything - that being said, we’re a bit like jazz musicians. The tempos change, the vibe changes, the length of songs sometimes changes. A lot of it just depends on what it feels like in the air that night. We just play the songs – the way Miles Davis just played the songs. We’re very old fashioned that way.
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Arts Martial “We all flew over there for one session and we flew back in about March and started recording drums in May and then it was just like running a long distance relationship. We all came back here and we were over there one at a time, it was a pretty pain-staking process. Then I ended up doing all the backing vocals from here in a make-shift studio room in my house. We finished all the tracking at the end of last year. It’s all the boring stuff that follows that’s taken so long to get to this stage.” Structurally efficient, Promises Will Get You Nowhere is solid marriage of uplifting rock with delicious pop hooks. Some of the tunes
from their debut EP have even made the cut on the record although Ross says they have been rewritten. “We did that EP and we kind of just did a private pressing,” he says. “We never actually distributed it. We had about 15 tracks going into pre-production and those were part of it. We actually re-wrote Supernational... there’s different parts - Supernational’s got a totally different beat to it. We changed the key to Brew Like Bitter and it doesn’t have the keys in it anymore. You’ll recognise the songs but they have been totally changed. They’ve definitely got a different spin to them.” X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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Even so, there’s a grandeur that has been present since the Saints post ‘punk’ years. Especially so in Adventures In The Dark Arts Of Watermelonery which firstly has a brilliant title and secondly, references Judy Garland’s Over The Rainbow. “Look, I think it’s always admirable to aim high,” Bailey laughs. “I have been accused of having an awfully obtuse and rather obscure sense of humour. And whilst I take my work - and I take music - incredibly seriously, I would hope to not be pompous. “So I do like a little bit of humour - and I don’t mean laugh-riot Benny Hill type comedy. I don’t know what put it there but Over The Rainbow popped my head, not when I was writing the song, but Touring in support of a newly released into when I was doing the vocal. It’s a fine line between album, King Of The Sun, The Saints will corniness and actually pulling it off because the perform at the Fly By Night Club on song is actually quite a sad little wistful afterthought to quite a dark album. If you’re taken through some Friday, November 30, supported by dark places it’s nice to be shown a bit of light at the The Volcanics. BOB GORDON speaks end, if you follow me. And, watermelon is one of my favourite fruits.” with singer/songwriter, Chris Bailey. It’s an approach that goes way back to the upbeat horn section in the otherwise sneering 1978 A new album and a new schedule of tour dates by single, Know Your Product. Bailey’s been described as way of supporting its release... Chris Bailey has surely done this to death “There’s a myth that I and back, but with a new Saints LP, King Of The Sun, out there in the world, it seems he regards this just use The Saints as a scenario as one of life’s great treasures. “I still feel quite humbled by the fact that I am allowed the privilege of spending a couple of money-spinner, but that months in a recording studio; it’s a gift,” he says down the line from Amsterdam. He’s still stranded far from is just so far from the home, but it is his home. “The songwriting process is such a lovely, truth. It really is a labour solitary thing. It’s a bit like wanking, you do it by yourself (laughs). And that’s rather dull, but making records is a very fine, collaborative process. I like it.” of love.” Strangely, Bailey and Saints drummer Peter Wilkinson spent the last two years prior to being both punk and pompous, but there’s been wry this album as the rhythm section for French singer smiles and things working together (while appearing Renaud Brustlein. seemingly against) the whole way. “It was kind of like starting again, or “Pretty much,” he notes. “The bottom line is something,” Bailey says.“I’m kind of used to being the that I’m not really overly fond of show business. I don’t frontman of the band, or a folk singer. I realised what mind kind of poncing about onstage, but the reason I I’d been missing out on all these years, because I think drummers and bass players really have the best gig in do this, after all these years, is that I just really love the process of writing and making albums and all the rest is the band!” Playing bass may have seemed a lessened kind of peripheral. “I don’t want to sound too pretentious or workload for Bailey, but given how King Of The Sun swings it seems quite plausible that the stint may like I’m into prog or something, but if you’re going to do rock’n’roll it’s a pretty simple form and it’s probably all have influenced the new album. “I s’pose anything you do adds to your been done to death and I’ve always thought ‘that may canon,” Bailey notes. “One thing about being in a well be the case but it’s not been done by me’. So I’ve always rhythm section, you certainly learn about economy. liked to have an open mind and a fresh approach. “I guess that’s one of the beauties of Given that I’ve got a tendency to be a little bit Phil Spector in my spare time, I can overdo things. I think the constant changing line-up of The Saints. It the simplicity lesson was probably very beneficial.” constantly feels like going back to start all over
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Chris Bailey, The Saints again. I think that’s been a very healthy thing.” The band that formed in Brisbane, teaming Bailey with guitarist and fellow Australian alt-rock icon, Ed Kuepper, split amid acrimony in the late ‘70s. Bailey has recorded solo albums in his own name and other various releases, but The Saints is his mainstay, with many members left downstream. Like Billy Corgan with Smashing Pumpkins, for Bailey The Saints is the name that he feels most free and easy to create music under. “Thank you for saying that because I’ve often struggled as to how to express my affection and my steadfast refusal to never cease with The Saints,” he states. “That is precisely how I feel. When the teenage band imploded, I thought, ‘I’m not going to put up with this, that’s ridiculous’. But I also noticed that the old-fashioned Beatles rock band, all-the-lads-together-in-a-mini-bus was kind of a fiction. However, I just wanted to be the lead singer of that band and I’ve managed to be able to maintain that. “I have a newfound respect for Mr Corgan! There’s a myth that I just use The Saints as a moneyspinner, but that is just so far from the truth. It really is
a labour of love.” While his music since the mid-’80s could be more closely described as folkish, The Saints seem forever aligned with ‘70s punk rock. They were indeed an island outside of it, but are still drawn into that remembering. 1977’s (I’m) Stranded is regarded by many as the bona fide first punk rock single. Bailey remains bemused. “I learnt a long time ago not to take that shit seriously,” he says. “In defence of The Saints, we’ve always been notoriously shithouse at PR. EMI still owns the early catalogue, they’re still rehashing and re-releasing it, so it’s not surprising it has a profile. I don’t want to denigrate it. It’s fine; it’s part of the story. So be it. I feel that we’re lucky enough in some substantial areas to transcend that. “I sit down and have nice glass of wine and tell myself, ‘it’s all showbusiness therefore it’s all bollocks and that you’re only as good as the last song you write’. If that’s my maxim then I think that’s a healthier attitude to have.”
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DAN SULTAN For Those About To Recognise
A series of national concerts have been created to raise awareness for the recognition of indigenous people in our national constitution. CHLOE PAPAS speaks to headliner, Dan Sultan, ahead of Rock For Recognition at The Bakery on Saturday, November 10, and the Fly By Night Club on Sunday, November 11. Though we’ve come a long way in recent years, Australia’s recognition of and respect for the traditional owners of our land still has a long way to go. Which is why Rock For Recognition was initiated earlier this year, to raise awareness for the constitutional recognition cause. The concerts, held in each capital city, will feature performances from indigenous and non-indigenous artists alike, all performing for a common aim. The Perth leg will be headed up by singer/ songwriter Dan Sultan, with support from songstress, Leah Flanagan, and local indie duo, Wolves At The Door. Sultan, who is of Gurindji [NT’s Victoria River region] heritage, says he didn’t hesitate when approached to perform at the concerts. “It was something that was brought to my attention a little while ago, and it was mentioned just loosely that we might want to think about doing something like this,” he explains. “I said that I’d throw my support behind it in any way I could. I’m not a lawyer, or a constitutional lawyer, or someone who’s really got their head around the constitution – but I am a musician, so I thought I’ll do what I can do, which is put on a show and raise some awareness.” The cause has been widely accepted by both primary political parties as well as the general public, but some have put forward the notion that it
Dan Sultan is simply a symbolic gesture. Sultan believes it’s more than that, and it’s a simple change that needs to be made.“I just think it’s a very important thing. Not just being Aboriginal but being Australian and being a part of a functioning first world society. I think it’s pretty standard, pretty normal stuff to want to be recognised in our own country’s constitution.” However, Sultan doesn’t exactly identify as a political activist.“There’s a lot of amazing Aboriginal people out there who have been fighting the good fight for a long time; I’d like to think that I’m just helping where I can. I like to think of myself as a musician who happens to be Aboriginal.” He also notes that there’s a certain double standard involved with being both indigenous and a musician. “Unfortunately being a young indigenous man who has experienced a bit of success, that seems to be a political statement in itself, which is unfortunate. But, you know, I’ll cop that.” Sultan has previously written songs and spoken in interviews about his experiences as an indigenous man, in particular about his mother being a member of the Stolen Generation. But, he can’t pinpoint a particular aspect of his life that makes this cause so important. “It’s everything,” he contemplates, “it’s everything. I can’t separate things and say, ‘well, this is important because of this... because of that’. It’s just my life and my life experience and everything is interconnected to me. “I don’t really think about it very much, I just kind of live it. My past has obviously shaped the way I feel about a lot of things in my life and the way I go about things.”
The Mark Of Cain
THE MARK OF CAIN
Days Of Our Lives The Mark Of Cain are back with a new album, Songs Of The Third And Fifth, and a tour that will hit Perth on Sunday, March 17, 2013, at Capitol. SHANE PINNEGAR speaks with guitarist/ vocalist, John Scott. Rising up from Adelaide in the mid-’90s, The Mark Of Cain were all over Triple J through to the end of the decade with singles First Time, LMA, Interloper and [R] Retaliate. Producers Steve Albini and Henry Rollins helped them fashion some of the most bludgeoning rock ever produced in this country, yet in the past decade they’ve barely raised a mention. With the release of their new album, Songs Of The Third And Fifth, and a national tour next March, the Mark Of Cain name should be on many lips once more, but one wonders what took so long between albums? “I went back to work,” says vocalist/guitarist, John Scott. “Kim [brother and Mark Of Cain bassist] was working. From 2000 onwards John Stanier [drums, also with Helmet] was in the band and we could only tour when he was available. “I never saw us as about to conquer the world or anything, so we stepped back. I felt that it was the right thing to do with where we were with our lives.” Subsequently, the new album took quite a while to come together with recording sessions beginning in 2008. 16
“I guess we played on and off,” Scott says. “Whenever John came out with his band, we would take that opportunity to tour and rehearse. I was working, I had a daughter in 2005; Kim had two kids and I guess the band was starting to gig when we could and just aiming to try and get songs out there. “I’d been rehearsing with a drummer in Adelaide just to keep my hand in, and still writing songs and when John came out in 2008 with Helmet to play the Big Day Out, that seemed a good time to grab him and lock ourselves in the recording studio. And from that point on it was up to me - when I could get the time to go in and record with Kim. I mean, a lot of it is just the logistics of having a member overseas.” The end result is an absolutely pummelling record. Even the ever-measured Scott is enthused at how huge it sounds. “This is such a good album,” he says. “The band basically paid for everything; it’s really been an Australian do-it-yourself album and I’m really fucking over the moon about it. I think it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. I love all our albums, but this one in particular just feels so right.” As for the album title, it seems that was all left in Scott’s hands. “We jokingly called it ‘bloody songs to the third and the fifth’,” he laughs, “because all I can ever do is write around the third and fifth fret of the guitar, which is very simplistic. That sort of lent itself to that military imagery that we go for, as if it was songs of a particular band of brothers, so… it stuck. But yeah, the reality of it is that it describes the sort of simplicity that we use when writing.” That The Mark Of Cain continues to make such intense music after 25 years is testament to the determined Scott brothers. It seems there’s no room for sibling rivalry. “No,” Scott says of Kim, “as long as I get to tell him what to do, I’m happy! He’s done very well for himself in industry work, and I was in the position where he was actually the boss at a place I was working. “But I always knew that I could make him do the right things in the band room, so there’s not really any sibling rivalry.” X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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THE BEARDS Text With A Bearded Man
Seven years, three albums and one joke – you just can’t doubt The Beards’ commitment to their singular cause. Bassist, Nathaniel Beard, says ‘beard’ 68 times while speaking to SABIAN WILDE in the lead-up to their shows on Wednesday, November 14, at Mojos; Thursday, November 15, at the Prince Of Wales in Bunbury; Friday, November 16, at Settler’s Tavern, Margaret River; Saturday, November 17, at the Rosemount Hotel and Sunday, November 18, at the Indi Bar.
For some, it’s a sign that you’re letting yourself go, but for The Beards, you can’t go far enough. Some might call it a gimmick, but for them it’s a mission. One cannot help but marvel at their evangelical fervour. Every beard is a good beard. Except Kyle Sandilands’. “What a Grade-A fuckwit that guy is,” Beard exclaims.“People everywhere look at him and think, ‘He’s a jerk; I hate people with beards’. “That set us back a long way. I’d put Kyle Sandilands on par with rapists and paedophiles in terms of the damage he’s done to bearded people. I’d like him to shave his beard off. Everybody else should grow a beard.” This isn’t the furthest limb Beard goes out on in support of his cause. There’s a lot that can’t be printed. This is a man who would pump his own daughter full of testosterone for a punchline. It is, in toto, nothing short of spectacular. Nothing’s taboo and it’s a completely beardcentric world-view. Politics: “It’s a sorry state of affairs to learn that to be competitive in politics, you have to shave your beard off. People aren’t willing to trust a man with a beard, or a woman – and there’re no bearded candidates. It’s a two-party system, yet both parties are petrified of beards. “There’s nothing about Julia Gillard that makes her any more evil for not having a beard than Bob Hawke, Kevin Rudd or any of them... Menzies, Fraser... all beardless. I’d certainly vote for someone with a beard irrespective of their policies... unless it’s Kyle Sandilands.” Women: “Some of the female members of our audience feel ashamed at their lack of beards – and
The Beards they’re right to. They should be feeling a deep sense of shame about that and we appreciate that they compensate for that shame with the wearing of fake beards when they come to our shows. I’d much rather look at a fake beard than a beardless woman’s face.” Hipsters: “I’d like to stress that there are no bad reasons for growing a beard, and I approve unquestioningly of the hipster beard. I have no appreciation for hipsters, but that’s because I have no appreciation of anything that isn’t a beard. “Any hipster reading this article, when the time comes and trends change, I urge you to keep your beard. Anyone can grow a beard, but it takes dedication and commitment to keep a beard. I will always have a beard. I’d rather be dead than go a day without it.” Beard-on-beard love: “If people take proper care of their beards there won’t be any velcro action. If you wash your beard, condition your beard, sing to it at night... if you take proper care of your facial hair, there’s very little risk of entanglement.” It’s a wall of beard. There is no danger of this joke wearing out or even thin, as far as Beard is concerned. He doesn’t run out of steam and he doesn’t say goodbye. “Beard (click).”
Bleeding Knees Club
BLEEDING KNEES CLUB Let’s Go
Gold Coast lads Bleeding Knees Club are wrapping up the touring cycle for their debut album, Nothing To Do, and will hit Metropolis Fremantle on Friday, November 9, and Amplifier on Saturday, November 10. JOSHUA KLOKE reports. Once a fairly full-time all-ages/party band, Bleeding Knees Club have graduated to large festival slots and headlining club shows. They’ve also travelled pretty extensively, touring with DZ Deathrays and Yacht Club DJs and heading overseas to spread their wares. When asked about highlights from 2012, guitarist, Jordan Malane, pauses briefly before diving into tales of two instances. “Going to South By Southwest was pretty awesome,” he says. “I’ve always wanted to play there. We were playing everyday and seeing a ton of awesome bands. And then coming straight back from there and heading into our first headline tour was just the most fun. It might’ve been the best month of my life. Those two things really stick out for me.” South By Southwest is unparalleled in sheer size for both gigs and industry onlookers. Thousands of acts flock to Austin, Texas, every March hoping to catch their big break. The band revelled in the opportunity to showcase their party-ready approach. By all accounts, Bleeding Knees Club impressed many in Austin. The festival also showed Malane how much work the band had to do in the future. “It was cool to see how crazy it was, but also it was good to see how dedicated everyone was. It made us want to work a little bit harder.” With 2012 being the year of Nothing To Do, Malane is setting his sights on the next year. Bleeding Knees Club plan on hunkering down in the studio to write and record their highly anticipated follow up. Malane won’t elaborate extensively on the creative direction their follow-up will take. Though he will admit that technically, the band has benefitted from their time spent on the road. And he’s eager to parlay this technical experience in the studio. “I think we have gotten better. We’ve just been playing so much together that you naturally learn more as you go. We played 60 shows at the beginning of the year and we’ve also been recording a lot more. Whenever you’re in the studio, you’re always getting better.” Bleeding Knees Club will aim to build on the success of the multiple singles Nothing To Do produced with their new record. In closing out 2012, the band has chosen to tour behind Let It Go, one of the more slower and vibey tracks on the album. Sonically, Let It Go is a standout on the album, though it may not necessarily gel with the mood of the rest of Nothing To Do. “Everything else was pretty upbeat” Malane says, “so we needed something to cap off the album. It was cool to slow things down.” 2012 may have taken Bleeding Knees Club around the world and introduced them to what needs to be done to survive in the music industry, but it also taught them something else; while the band featured young, attractive girls in the videos for Have Fun and Teenage Girls, there’s really only one female that the band is concerned with impressing. “This was a song Alex and I wrote while we were mixing and recording the album,” Malane says. “We just felt like we needed one more track to fill things out. “People seemed to like it. My mum really does (laughs).”
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BOB MOULD Silver Age
JOSH RITTER So Runs The World Away
Merge Records
Warner Music
Bob Mould has always been a more than credible figure thanks to his role in punk rock legends Husker Du and the alternate pop of his alltoo-brief ‘90s outfit, Sugar. His solo albums have been more hit and miss with acoustic efforts giving way to a dalliance with electronics and some other less than inspiring songwriting. Silver Age is a return to form for a man who should be delivering this quality on a regular basis. There is no lack of headlines surrounding Mould as he has had regular spats with former Husker Du member, Grant Hart, outed himself during an interview and even turned his back on music for some time to focus on scriptwriting for World Championship Wrestling. Mould is at his best when entrenched in a power trio and Silver Age benefits from the inclusion of Jon Wurster [Superchunk, Mountain Goats] to throw drum fills around at will. The guitars are turned to 11 as Mould sticks to his strengths with his abrasive wall of sound and teasing the listener with somewhat buried melodies (take the frenetic Keep Believing as a prime example) Silver Age is as good a record as you would be entitled to expect from Bob Mould and is destined to sit nicely alongside all of his albums from the golden age of Husker Du and Sugar.
Te n d e r o r a n g r y, J o s h Ritter always dispenses his particular style of folkcountry songs with a sense of poignant beauty. This is his sixth studio album, although he still hasn’t reached the wider audience he deserves, despite featured tracks on TV series such as Six Feet Under and The Good Wife. So Runs The World Away is undoubtedly his most atmospheric album to date and he shows a much stronger sense of self than his earlier works, which occasionally gave a big tip of the hat to heroes like Townes Van Zandt. The track, Another New World, is worth the price of admission alone, seven-and-a-halfminutes of ethereal, nautical storytelling; phrasing worthy of Leonard Cohen delivered with a gentle lilt that Paul Simon might be proud of. In contrast, the buzzy staccato of The Remnant offers the kind of soul food that Moby made his name picking to bits – blues and despair delivered with hypnotic finality. Josh Ritter is a massive talent offering music that takes root in the listener and stays with you like a disease. Spread it. _ SABIAN WILDE
_ CHRIS HAVERCROFT
PARKWAY DRIVE Atlas
CONVERGE All We Love We Leave Behind
Shock/Resist
Epitaph
Boston four-piece Converge have been figureheads of the heavy music scene ever since 2001’s Jane Doe, an album frequently hailed as the greatest heavy release of the noughties. Returning with All We Love We Leave Behind, the band yet again sets the bar implausibly high for everyone swimming in their wake. The album defies labelling, as most Converge releases do, covering territory from punk, hardcore, heavy metal, rock’n’roll and a further list the length of your forearm. Sadness Comes Home recalls Blood Mountain era Mastodon guitar noodling, grooves and galloping drums. The Southern fried swagger of Coral Blue lulls you into a sense of security before Shame In The Way creeps up and tears everything apart again in a two minute smash and grab of a track. Trespasses is a master class in distortion, while short tracks Tender Abuse and Sparrow’s Fall approach power/violence territory with their brutality and punch. Jacob Bannon’s lyrics carry a 10-ton weight of pain and regret, but in typical Converge style are almost indecipherable, lost in the mix of pounding rhythms and punishing guitars. The album was produced without the addition of artificial distortion, triggered drums or autotune and this strengthens its sonic depth, every strummed chord, bass kick and throaty roar landing with visceral savageness. All We Love We Leave Behind absolutely tears shit down. Be prepared to go with it. You’ve been warned.
The boys from Byron Bay have unleashed an absolute monster with fourth album, Atlas, expanding their sound with depth and complexity. Atlas sticks with the fat and heavy sound of 2010’s Deep Blue but challenges expectations of Parkway Drive’s ‘sound’ every step of the way. Ben Gordon on drums is precise and technical as ever, while Luke Kilpatrick and Jeff Ling on guitars boost their trademark melodic guitar parts to new levels. There’s even a hint of Seasons In The Abyss era Slayer thrown in for good measure. The driving focus of the album is an emphasis on dynamic melodies and creating songs on a grander scale than previous outings. The creeping introductory track, Sparks, encapsulates the feel of Atlas with a purposeful, rising soundtrack complete with strings and military style drumming that leads perfectly into Old Ghosts/New Regrets. Wild Eyes is an obvious nod to their phenomenal world-wide success in its blatant construction as a stadium shout-along song. The River stands out with its interplay of soft moments with female vocals and heavy driving guitars backing the ever-growling Winston McCall. The additions of otherwise foreign elements like string sections in the title track and horn sections in Blue And The Grey are handled with finesse and elevate the album to Parkway Drive’s most powerful work so far. _BRENDAN HOLBEN
_ RYAN BUTLER
THE PREATURES Shaking Hands Mercury
A.C. NEWMAN Shut Down The Streets
The Preatures (originally The Preachers) have been Matador/Remote Control traipsing around the traps for a few years now, garnering Anyone that has had even a a bit of attention but never passing interest in Zumpano quite stepping it up a notch. or The New Pornographers Enter second EP, Shaking Hands. Album opener and would be acutely aware that first single, Take A Card, cannot be heaped with enough A.C. Newman writes pop praise; a stunningly seductive duet transported directly songs with a capital ‘P’. Sure, his solo efforts are said from the ‘60s, with just the right balance of sarcasm and to be more personal and intimate affairs, but that glorious pop sensibilities. doesn’t stop Shut Down The Streets from being chock Each track on the EP is deep and dark, full of hooks. some almost sultry in nature, and each song seems Moving out of the big smoke and into to follow a narrative structure. It’s initially difficult to Woodstock, New York, has clearly had an effect on pertain why the group call themselves ‘gothic’ soul, the sound of Shut Down The Streets, as has the birth but when delving into the EP’s depths, the label of Newman’s son Stellan but it is the final quasi begins to make sense. Frontwoman Isabella Manfredi’s title track They Should Shut Down The Streets that vocals are unabashedly sensual, with a decided hint deals with the death of his mother in a delicate and of that Chrissie Hynde quality so many female singers dignified manner that has had the biggest influence. aspire to. It isn’t difficult to deduct that the band as Long time collaborator, Neko Case, adds a whole draw from artists like The Pretenders – third her delicious pipes to the majority of the album and track, Pale Rider, illustrates the comparison perfectly, in doing so, tunes of relationships going sour such brassy undertones throughout and broody riffs to set as Encyclopaedia Of Classic Takedowns and Hostages the mood. Everything about the record is just a little would be right at home in The New Pornographers’ mysterious and dangerous. hands. Newman’s sense of humour is still intact on Shaking Hands proves that The Preatures There’s Money In New Wave, while Strings is nothing offer something different, a desperately needed short of pop perfection. change-up in a landscape of musical offerings that A.C. Newman is an extremely smart cookie is becoming distinctly bland and same-same. This when it comes to things like the simple pop song. It’s could be the EP that will thrust The Preatures into the amazing that someone as average looking as himself spotlight that they deserve. has achieved so much in a shallow industry. Hats off to someone that talented. _ CHLOE PAPAS _ CHRIS HAVERCROFT www.xpressmag.com.au
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Lawrence Mooney Man Of Many Talents
Comedian, actor, social commentator and total dude Lawrence Mooney is coming to town as part of the City Of Wanneroo’s Beach To Bush Festival which runs ‘til Sunday, November 25. For all info on tickets and times, hit up wanneroo.wa.gov.au. “I’m better once I’ve established my bona fides,” Lawrence Mooney begins, speaking of picking up women. “Of course this all in the past tense since I’m a married man now and my hunting days are over, thankfully. God I’d be so depressed if I thought to myself ‘I’m going out Friday night to try and pick up a root’. I would just be very sad if that was my life now.” The topic of seducing a woman is something that Mooney is more than happy to talk about, after all, he recently opened up his thoughts on the ‘issue’ on ABC TV series Agony Uncles, a show where Australia’s funniest and wisest celebrity gents put their reputations on the line to tell you what it’s really like to be single, cohabitate, marry and divorce in this modern day and age. It touches on falling in love, getting your heart broken, losing your house and the dos and don’ts picking up. A stand-out statement which Mooney makes on the show talks of how men have to rid all their female friends when they get married. “Look I’ve still got some close female friends but essentially all female friends have gotta go,” he says. “That’s just the way it is, and people go ‘well that’s not very evolved, can’t a man have women who are just friends?’. Nah, you can’t say ‘I’m just gonna go and have a few drinks with Annie on the weekend and maybe I’ll just stay at her place Friday night so I don’t come home’. Nah that’s never gonna work. You can stay at Mick’s place on the couch; you can’t stay at Annie’s.” Mooney’s appearance in Agony Uncles gave him a lot of exposure with more people coming to check out his Lawrence Of Suburbia show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this year and of course, the opportunity to be part of a second series. Mooney was also cohost of ABC’s exclusive coverage of the Paralympic Games this year and played the insensitive Ernie Kane on ABC2’s Kane And Disabled. And, he says there are a few similarities between himself and good ol’ Ernie Kane. “There are some personality similarities; not knowing when to shut up and not knowing when enough is enough,” he says. “I would say Ernie is a little more ego-driven and self-obsessed than I am and a little more narrow minded and cut off from the world. We wanted to embody that self important, mustachioed ‘80s/’90s sports show host that
thinks they’re just marvelous. I mean there’s a lot of those blokes still around on television, especially in Sydney those Ray Hadley kinda blokes who just love the sound of their own voice.” Mooney is currently the voice of god in Brynne: My Bedazzled Life and says Brynne is “absolutely fabulous” and he’ll be featuring in the remake of Prisoner which will be called Wentworth which will air on Foxtel next year. “I’m playing an English teacher who sells smack to prisoners for sex,” he says. Aside from all of this and his podcast Eye Of The Storm with fellow comedian and partner in crime Adam Rozenbachs, Mooney will be bringing the laughs at the City Of Wanneroo’s Beach To Bush Festival. “I love WA, I’ve always had a great time there,” he says. “There will be some [Lawrence Of] Suburbia there but it’s a family event so they’ve asked me to come some of the language and themes a bit more family friendly so we’ll just see how we go with all of that. I can’t make any promises there for the City Of Wannerroo. I’ll take requests, we’ll see.” _ANNABEL MACLEAN
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Helen Hunt and John Hawkes star in The Sessions Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
THE MASTER
He Blinded Me With Science Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Kevin J. O’Connor When it was first announced that Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) would be making a film loosely based on the formative years of Scientology, the presiding wisdom was that it would be a merciless skewering of everyone’s favourite controversial religion. In retrospect, it was a flawed assumption. Anderson is never that obvious, and his latest work is a hypnotic, elliptical and often maddeningly opaque affair, albeit a fascinating one. Alcoholic World War II veteran Freddie Quell [Joaquin Phoenix] is drifting through a numbing series of dead-end jobs until, on a whim, he stows away on a boat occupied by the self described writer, doctor, theoretical philosopher, and nuclear physicist, Lancaster Dodd [Philip Seymour Hoffman]. Dodd is the founder of The Cause, a quasi-mystical, pseudo-scientific organisation. Quell, flailing for some kind of direction, is naturally drawn into Dodd’s orbit, becoming one of his staunchest supporters. Other members of The Cause, including Dodd’s wife, Peggy [Amy Adams], are distrustful of the unpredictable and often violent interloper, who shows his love of Dodd by mercilessly beating his critics. Anderson’s key point of inquiry here seems to be the conflict between the instinct and
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rationality, with Quell playing the rampaging id to Dodd’s lofty superego. Quell needs order and discipline, and the pedagogic Dodd is keen to teach such values, but the film also takes pains to illustrate how such a transaction is not a one way street. For all his talk about not being controlled by his baser instincts, Dodd bonds with Quell over the latter’s potent homemade rotgut; at another point his wife exerts her control over him with a quick wristie. There are cracks in Dodd’s facade of pompous certainty, and Quell’s influence makes them widen. Yet Anderson remains non-judgemental, and that is perhaps the film’s most interesting aspect. Other characters maintain that Dodd is a sham, and at several points in the film The Cause comes under attack for dubious financial practices, but Dodd’s motives remain hidden, lending the proceedings a tantalising ambiguity. Is he a well-meaning wannabe messiah or a calculating fraud? Either way, if his works benefit his followers, do his goals even matter? All that would be lint-picking, though, if the film were not anchored by two incredible performances. Phoenix’s Quell is a study in conflicting drives, his hedonism and self-destruction at odds with his need to belong to something. Similarly, Hoffman subtly draws out Dodd’s contradictions, his pomposity and charisma limned with selfdoubt and churlish defensiveness. In making his characters whole and human, rather than archetypal mouthpieces, Anderson denies his audience any easy interpretation of the film, making it one of the most thought-provoking releases this year.
THE SESSIONS
Sex And The Single Guy Directed by Ben Lewin Starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Adam Arkin, Moon Bloodgood Character actor, John Hawkes, who has been quietly but consistently excellent in various supporting roles for a number of years now, gives an awardworthy performance as poet and journalist Mark O’Brien in this touching and thoughtful drama from Australian director, Ben Lewin. A victim of polio, the almost completely paralysed O’Brien spends much of his time confined to an iron lung, but has not let that prevent him graduating for university and pursuing a writing career. His condition has hampered other areas of his life, though, and after consulting with his priest, Father Brendan [William H. Macy], O’Brien decides to engage the services of a sex surrogate, Cheryl Greene [Helen Hunt], in order to lose his virginity. Over the course of seven sessions with Cheryl, O’Brien gradually learns to reconcile his sexuality with his disability, although the process is not an easy one. It’s a brave and often confronting film, dealing with the somewhat taboo issue of sexuality among the disabled in a frank, funny and condescension-free manner. There’s a lot of nudity on display from Hawkes and Hunt, but it’s in no way gratuitous, and Lewin imbues the numerous sex scenes with warmth and humanity. While the plot holds few surprises, the film is never less than completely engaging, and
that’s wholly down to the uniformly excellent performances by the cast. The versatile Hawkes, who built his career playing a diverse range of oddballs before coming to greater prominence after his turns in Winter’s Bone and Martha Marcy May Marlene, is nothing less than revelatory, allowing O’Brien’s intelligence, humour, and longing to shine through what must have been an incredibly physically challenging role. Hunt brings empathy and sincerity to the part of Greene, while Macy gets most of the film’s big laughs - and it is, at times, a very funny piece - as the priest who won’t let the technical prohibitions of his religion prevent him from supporting his parishioner and friend. Deadwood fans are also in for a treat, as Hawkes is reunited with fellow series alumni Robin ‘Calamity Jane’ Weigert and W. Earl ‘Dan Dority’ Brown, who turn up in supporting roles. Some may find the deliberate pacing and somewhat repetitive nature of the story a trial, but it’s actually to Lewin’s credit that he eschews histrionics and high drama, instead drawing the audience into O’Brien’s personal struggle with the limitations of his body. The Sessions is a film of quiet moments and small, largely internal triumphs. The need for connection and intimacy is a universal one, and it’d take a particularly hard heart not to be moved by O’Brien’s journey. Come awards season, The Sessions is going to deluged with nominations, and rightfully so. Emotionally astute, disarmingly funny and ultimately uplifting, it’s a rare adult drama that privileges character and compassion over spectacle. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON
_ TRAVIS JOHNSON
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Matthew Fox gives a lean, yet muscular performance in Alex Cross
ALEX CROSS
Defective Detective Directed by Rob Cohen Starring Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Edward Burns, Rachel Nichols, Jean Reno, John C. McGinley, Cicely Tyson This is the second time they’ve tried to wring a film franchise out of James Patterson’s popular series of detective novels - remember Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider, starring Morgan Freeman? - and it’s the second time they’ve failed. Indeed, it seems like they’re barely even trying; instead of Freeman’s world-weary gravitas and piercing intelligence, we’re subjected to Tyler Perry in the central role of police detective/psychiatrist, Dr. Alex Cross. In anyone’s book, that’s quite step down. When a psychotic former Special Forces operative, Picasso [Matthew Fox], starts bumping off people connected to wealthy businessman Leon Mercier [Jean Reno], it’s up to Cross and his team, which includes Edward Burns and Rachel Nichols in underwritten supporting roles, to track him down. Things soon get personal, though, when Picasso strikes at Cross’s family. From there, the film runs through the beats of a fairly standard cat and mouse thriller, only bereft of such key ingredients as tension, mystery, and common sense. It’s a remarkably inept film. Journeyman director Rob Cohen (The Fast And The Furious, xXx) tries hard to amp up the atmosphere, but is illserved by the haphazard pacing and ludicrous leaps of logic required to keep the plot moving forward.
Fans of the source novels will not be happy, as many liberties have been taken in the translation, while newcomers will be bored as the film trots out every tired trope in the serial killer procedural playbook. It does just about work as a comedy though, albeit an unintentional one. The MVP here is Matthew Fox, who looks like he rid himself of every last ounce of body fat in order to play the eehee-vil antagonist, only to commence chewing the scenery with gusto once the hunger pangs kicked in. Apparently a professional assassin of the highest calibre, he’s also a deranged sadist who can’t resist leaving clues for the cops at every crime scene, as you do. He’s not so much Hannibal Lecter as a bad ‘90s Batman villain. Even that might have been forgivable if our hero was someone even vaguely interesting, but that’s not going to happen with Perry on board. The man who made his mark as Madea is never convincing in a part that, as written by Patterson, is a kind of family friendly cross between Sherlock Holmes and Shaft, and his attempts at injecting determination and menace into the role are laughable. The prospect of Perry sticking around for a handful of sequels is troubling one, as is the notion that Perry got the role after the filmmakers passed on The Wire’s Idris Elba. A failure on almost every level, Alex Cross is only of interest if you’re pining for that weird period in the mid ‘90s when it seemed like every second film was a weak Silence Of The Lambs pastiche. Even then, you’d be better off renting Copycat. Only the most undemanding viewer will find anything of worth here. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON
FREO FESTIVITIES Anna, Darryl, Robbie, Anna, Scott
2012 Fremantle Festival Craig Mostyn House, Fremantle Thursday, November 1, 2012 The Fremantle Festival launch went down a treat! Featuring an aerial performance by French company Retouramont, all eyes were on the solo dancer suspended on elastic traversing the vertical plane of a 10 metre high wall. 2012 Fremantle Festival runs ‘til Sunday, November 11. Get on down and join in the fun! Photographs by Emma Mackenzie
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Davey Craddock & The Spectacles (Photo: Guang-Hui Chuan)
DAVEY CRADDOCK & THE SPECTACLES Fremantle Arts Centre Friday, November 2, 2012 Many, for the longest time, may only have known Davey Craddock as a writer, but after his CD launch at the Fremantle Arts Centre one couldn’t help but think, ‘man, that guy can sing’. The lovely, intimate setting of the Freo Arts Centre Courtyard certainly suited the night and the bands. To kick it all off, Ben Witt [The Chemist] strolled on stage and played some of his mesmerising solo tunes, accompanied with some interesting noise guitar it really set the tone for the night. He certainly captured the audience’s attention with his lyrical tales. Next up, The High Leary’s. These guys are relatively new on the scene, however, they all come from previous bands. Their Beatles-esque catchy ‘60s-inspired tunes boosted the energy in the crowd and gave one and all something to bop along to. With a mix of originals and covers they did a great job for a new band however one always worries with this style of music that there’s too much imitating. The more originals the better with these guys. They really were the perfect second band to set the scene though and raise the energy in this intimate outdoor space. After the ‘60s bopping wrapped up it was time for Davey Craddock & The Spectacles to jump up. There were a few technical bits and bobs going www.xpressmag.com.au
on at the start but it wasn’t too noticeable because their first song, Keep On Waiting, jumped out like a steam train on its way to Kalgoorlie. The harmonies were immaculate and the song? Well you’ve just got to hear it, it simply makes you smile. It was one of those moments where you suddenly become aware of your surroundings, the setting, the people, the band and you really just have an ‘I love Perth because of this music’ kind of moment. Their set consisted of some country, some soul and some solo tunes from Craddock. The mix of slide guitar from Luke Dux, animated drumming from Todd Pickett, honky tonk sounds from Tal Cohen, and laid back solid bass from Pete Stone meshed Craddock’s songs together so well. There was a moment when some soul sounds creeped in there, which really showed of Craddock’s voice. His warm, expressive tone made for easy listening and appealed to all. The band obviously have a good rapport and between songs this could be seen with their comical stage banter, involving the audience as well. Everyone was there to support and see Davey Craddock & The Spectacles and they certainly made everyone feel welcome. So much so that members from the audience and some well-known Perth acts such as the Kill Devil Hills and San Cisco jumped up on stage for the last song, I Shall Be Released, [Bob Dylan, The Band]. It capped off the night in a joyous fashion, though I would have loved the last song to be an original, because their original songs are just so damn good. _ LILY DUPREE
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Magabandi Marra: Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle The first solo exhibition by aboriginal artist Krocette showcases his distinctive style and use of “realistic” birds in an abstract interpretation of their environment. Runs ‘til Nov 20.
SoDA12: John Curtin Gallery, Bentley Reflecting the high calibre of emerging contemporary art in WA, SoDA12 is an exhibition of the work by postgraduates from Curtin University’s School of Design and Art. Runs ’til Dec 14.
New Paintings & Touching History: Turner Galleries, Northbridge The first John Cullinane solo exhibition in Perth for seven years and the first ever solo exhibition for Sue Starcken. Both artists are based in Perth and both draw from a personal symbolic language and history to create very contemporary artworks. Runs ‘til Nov 24.
182 Days: Heathcote Museum & Gallery, Melville Eva Fernández reflects on the experience of the individual within the walls of the former Heathcote Hospital in new exhibition 182 Days. Runs ’til Dec 19.
Midway: John Curtin Gallery, Bentley Features work by students who are midway through their undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) degrees. Runs ‘til Nov 25. See-Saw: The Butcher Shop, Northbridge Features a selection of our city’s favourite artists including Fecks, Deathbot, Pawk, Mow Skwoz, Amok Island, Yohyo, Kyle Hughes-Odgers and more. Runs ‘til Nov 25. 2012 Photographic Commissions Exhibition: Council House Foyer, Perth Professionally renowned photographers Toni Wilkinson and Juha Tolonen’s photographs capture the essence of our city at a particular moment in time. Runs ‘til Nov 30.
EPW: Applied Paintings - Project for a Kindergarten I & II: PICA, Perth Best known for his ongoing EPW (Experimental Painting Workshop) series, prolific Australian artists’ John Nixon’s latest solo exhibition presents a connected pair of epic projects made five years apart. Runs ‘til Dec 30. First Among Equals (Part II): PICA, Perth Presents a stellar line-up of Australian and international artists who share an interest in film, kinetics, colour, sound and time. Runs ‘til Dec 30. Deserts And Rivers: FORM Gallery, Perth Explores country through the eyes of Aboriginal artists from the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson deserts and the country around Turkey Creek, Sturt Creek and the Fitzroy River in the east and central Kimberley. Runs ’til Jan 26.
Light Locker Art Space: Grand Lane, Perth Featuring new works by emerging artists Rhiannon Birch, Teelah George, Patrick Miller, Kate Mullen and Kelly Patchett, this youth exhibition space is located within Grand Lane, off Murray Street Mall and is accessible 24/7. Be sure to stop by when the lights turn on at twilight. Runs ’til Dec 3.
Luminous World: Art Gallery Of WA, Northbridge An exhibition from Wesfarmer’s significant corporate art collection, featuring more than 60 paintings, photographs and sculptures by 50 contemporary artists, including Susan Norrie, Rosemary Laing, Howard Taylor, Dale Frank, Bill Henson, Brian Blanchflower, Brook Andrew, Timothy Cook and Barrupu Yunupingu. Runs ’til Feb 11.
Picasso To Warhol: 14 Modern Masters: Art Gallery Of WA, Northbridge Picasso To Warhol: 14 Modern Masters features over 120 works by 14 of modern art’s most iconic artists including Matisse, Picasso, Pollock and Warhol. Runs ’til Dec 3.
Traversing Antarctica: Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle A rare collection of artefacts from the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, famously led by Sir Douglas Mawson. Runs ’til Feb 23.
Dozer by Andy Quilty FIFO: Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth Featuring more than 40 works, Andy Quilty’s third solo show, FIFO, seeks to challenge what the artist considers the misrepresentation of ‘Fly-in Fly-out’ workers as lazy, frivolous, ‘cashed up bogans’. Runs ‘til Nov 22. FAC Print Award: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Regarded as Australia’s most prominent national award for prints and artists’ books, this year’s Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award showcases the best and latest in Australian printmaking. Runs ‘til Nov 8. Big Winners: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Big Winners includes large format and multiple sheet artworks that track the progress of the FAC Print Award and the expansion of digital media and emerging technologies involved in printmaking in Australia. Runs ‘til Nov 8. Performprint: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Developed through a residency at FAC, Melbournebased artists Joel Gailer and Michael Meneghetti work with aspects of masculinity, ego and signifiers of social communication presenting print and multimedia installations. Runs ‘til Nov 8.
Spirit Of The Sea: Elements Art Gallery, Dalkeith Lidija Dombrovska Larsen’s new works refer to the unique plants and creatures of the deep. Her works aspire to capture the beauty that requires love and persistent protection. Runs ‘til Nov 11. Surfacing: Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland A collaborative painting exhibition by 2012 Cossack Art Award category winner Melanie Diss and 2011 Cliftons Art Prize recipient Ben Mitchell exploring random marks and imagery associated with everyday painting processes like wall painting and graffiti. Runs ‘til Nov 11. Myriad: Free Range Gallery, Perth The product of Loren Kronemyer’s extensive research of social insects, Myriad is an artistic exploration of insect communication, framed by relationships of control and exchange. Runs ‘til Nov 14.
2012 Invitation Art Award Exhibiton: Lakeside Urbanise: Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth Joondalup Shopping City, Joondalup How often do we take the time to really observe our Showcasing challenging, Western Australian art at its urban surroundings? For one reason or another we very best, it is this commitment to contemporary art filter, augment and reproduce happenings leaving that elevates the Invitation Art Award as a prestigious only a fraction of what we witness to memory. Paul and recognised exhibition that is a leader in its field. Stojanovic, Ross Wallace and Rebecca Anne Lee take Runs ‘til Nov 16. an observant role in their own unique way. With a focus on street and landscape photography, they Metallic: Spectrum Project Space, Mt Lawley capture global urban surroundings through the lens Metallic presents a group of artists from across Australia who share a preoccupation with the of a camera. Runs ‘til Nov 8. nature and purposes of materials and a concern for questions of transference and attachment. Runs ‘til Make Friend VIII: Norfolk Basement, Fremantle With a history in both the underworld of graffiti and Nov 17. the skin deep art of tattoo, this show represents six Western Australian artists that walk the line between RE-BOOT!: REmida Gallery Space, West Perth these ever evolving creative cultures. Runs ‘til Nov 10. As part of National Recycling Week 2013, REmida Creative Reuse Centre is holding RE-BOOT! to Mine Own Executioner: Mundaring Arts Centre, present the many new lives that have been given by members to its unique reclaimed materials. Runs Mundaring Mundaring Arts Centre’s annual exhibition of ‘til Nov 17. contemporary WA self portraiture. Features work by Thea Costantino, Anna Dunnill, Sarah Elson, Kate Fleeting Embrace: Perth Centre For Photography, Perth Jarman and more. Runs ‘til Nov 11. Melbourne based photographer, Jeremy Blincoe’s photographic series is a reflection of the artists The Dust Off: Moores Gallery, Fremantle A s p a r t o f t h e 2 0 1 2 F r e m a n t l e Fe s t i v a l concerns for the planet’s declining environmental Connect4Creatives present an exhibition of health and its effects on future generations. Runs ‘til Nov 18. Fremantle’s finest, hidden gems. Runs ‘til Nov 11. Real And Surreal: The Kimberley And Beyond: Elements Art Gallery, Dalkeith Established WA artists Kale Miller and Bill Hawthorn’s exhibition reveals some of the breadth and versatility of their explorations of the landscape. Runs ‘til Nov 11. 24
Abstract Expression: Tresillian Community Centre, Nedlands An impressive line-up of both emerging and established artists will have their vibrant acrylic works on display. Runs ‘til Nov 18.
Benny The Jet by Johnny Romeo Bloodsport: Buratti Fine Art, North Fremantle The grit, the bravado, the violence. Bloodsport, the latest series from Johnny Romeo sees the acclaimed artist jump into the ring and deliver a knockout exploration of the world of boxing in all its savage, bombastic glory. Runs ‘til Nov 28.
THEATRE/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE Art In Action: Art Gallery Of WA, Northbridge See the art of the Picasso To Warhol: 14 Modern Masters exhibition brought to life through drama, comedy, music and movement. Season runs Oct 10-Nov 7.
rink on the US east coast and tells the story of forgiveness between a mother and daughter as they try to find a way of letting go of the past to move into the future. Season runs Nov 9-Dec 1. Eve: Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge Fresh from a hit season in Brisbane, this contemporary work is inspired by the experiences of mid-twentieth century Australian writer Eve Langley, chronicling her life as an artist whose journey and creative works challenged gender stereotypes of the day. Season runs Oct 23-Nov 10.
Dwelling Space: 464 Smart Space, Perth Melbourne-based conceptual artist Arie Rain Glorie is holding a three day live art experiment that investigates how people are affected by space Picasso’s Goldfish: B l u e R o o m Th e at re, and explores what it means to be “home”. Runs Northbridge Nov 9-12. Follows the intertwining narrative of Wilson, a onceChange Of Heart: Spare Parts Theatre, Fremantle renowned Australian artists who has lost his creative British born puppeteer Rachel Riggs’ performance spark, and Therese, a journalist hungry for a scoop. combines the very basics of puppetry and object Season runs Oct 25-Nov 17. theatre - creating characters from objects such as suitcases, toys, rusty oil cans and teapots - with One Night Echo: PICA Performance Space, Perth the latest digital technologies using a tiny digital A contemporary theatre production presented by projector displaying films and images she has independent, award winning local theatre company, The Duck House, One Night Echo takes a modern animated and edited herself. Runs Nov 8-9. look at the Greek mythological stories of Narcissus and Echo and takes place at a house party at 3am, The Rink: Hackett Hall, Floreat Written by the team behind Chicago and Cabaret, where those who remain look for love in the dirt. The Rink is set in a rundown ‘70s rollerskating Season runs Nov 7-17.
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Family Matters American comedian Jo Koy brings his latest show, Lights Out, to The Astor Theatre on Tuesday, November 13. Time marches on - that could be the theme of Jo Koy’s new show. But rather than a deadpan, Louis C.K style meditation on mortality, Koy chooses to accentuate the positive. “Everyone’s older now,” Koy says of himself and his perennial favourite subject, his family. “I’m older, my son’s not a little baby any more - he’s nine years old now - so I’m writing about that now, the experiences he’s going through along with me, me being a single dad and dating - that’s the stuff I’m writing about now, and I’m loving it. I’m in a really good place now, and I’m really happy where I’m at, now. There’s not all that negative energy that I used to have; now it’s all just living life, and living vicariously through my son’s eyes. That’s what this act is all about now.” A seasoned stand-up comedian, Koy has performed on Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, and opened for such luminaries as Robin Williams and Dave Chappelle. Yet Koy, who has honed his act over the course of 20 years, feels it’s only in the last six or so that he’s found his sweet spot. “When you first start,” he explains. “You’re always trying to find yourself and your identity, you know what I mean? And you’ll do any topic that it takes to get on stage and just make the crowd laugh. I think, after a certain amount
QUARTER CENTURY WORKS Illegally Talented
Lauree Coci’s Quarter Century Works will be showing for a week at Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, from Saturday, November 10. The exhibition’s opening night will feature live music from indie rocker Reid Maul, and will have drinks and nibbles provided by Moss Wood Wines. Most people working and studying have a hard time balancing their work to life ratio. Not Lauree Coci. A full-time lawyer who is also studying for her Masters, Coci is now showing her first solo art exhibition, Quarter Century Works. Coci says finding the time to paint has been a struggle, but she admits she couldn’t live without it. “It’s something I must make time for,” Coci says.“It’s just part and parcel with me being happy in life and to feel like I’m exploring all of my talents.” The exhibition will portray Coci’s pursuit of her talent over the years. There will be 18 canvases – a culmination of the work Coci has produced since her late teens. The earliest feature realist scenes but
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of time - right around 13 years, 14 years for me - I started to find my voice. That’s when my stand-up started to change, because I wanted to be funny, but I also wanted to have a voice, have an opinion.” What that meant was a move away from ethnocentric humour - being half-Filipino, Koy has often found his experiences with race issues a fertile comedic field - towards more heartfelt material. “I started to steer away from that kind of comedy,” he says. “Because I wanted stuff to get more personal. I wanted to be able to tell stories about my son, because everyone can relate to that. I have parents coming up to me going, ‘Oh my God, my son does that!’ and ‘Oh my God, my little brother did that!’. I get more pleasure out of that. For me, that’s where I want to be in life; that’s what I want to talk about. I didn’t want to do it in a way like, ‘Hey, everybody! I’m Filipino, so if you’re not Filipino, just tune out now, because you’re not gonna get it.’ I wanted to do it in a way where, if I talked about my mum, who has a Filipino accent, but by the end you guys are gonna be relating to it, because your mum does the same shit.” Indeed, for all that his act has changed over the years, Koy’s mother, who greatly encouraged his show business ambitions, has been a constant source of rich material for him. “I want people to relate to the mum jokes; my mum does the same things as your mum, it’s just that my mum has a Filipino accent. If I’m gonna do a Filipino joke, I want to make it relatable, and that’s how I did it - I wrote it through my mum’s character.” _TRAVIS JOHNSON her latest works veer into abstract territory with freeflowing landscapes and forms. Oil paint is applied thick, with the impasto texture also built through the odd fingerprint. “I guess you could say it’s quasiimpressionist. I use very bold, vibrant colours and the paintings are there to make a bit more of an impact and to stand out so that if you were to walk past them on a wall, you’d want to stop and have a look at them,” Coci says, citing Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, and the Impressionists as her major influences.“While not all of my work is Impressionist style, I can certainly say that is has informed [it]. I use a lot of broad brushstrokes and a lot of bashes, and not everything is smooth.” Coci’s grandfather was a self-taught artist, and it was evident from an early age that she had inherited his talent. In primary school she joined a cartooning class lead by a police sketch artist, before going to art school and eventually finding oils. Studying law and economics and then working in the field meant Coci’s art has remained a hobby, and she says it’s something her colleagues were intrigued to hear about. “Some people have remarked that it’s a bit of a secret talent that I kept away from them,” Coci says. “I guess this is really an opportunity to share a part of myself with people at work and other friends who weren’t aware that I’m talented in that area.” It’s
THE DUCK HOUSE Genuine Echo
The Duck House’s latest work, One Night Echo, will be performed at PICA Theatre from Wednesday, November 7, until Saturday, November 17. Contemporary theatre company The Duck House are gearing up to celebrate their fifth birthday with a bang – by premiering new play One Night Echo at PICA theatre. X-Press spoke to Duck House member and play director Kathryn Osborne to get a better understanding of One Night Echo and The Duck House’s aspirations. “The Duck House started with a few graduates from the ECU Contemporary Performance course. At the end of our degree, a group of us decided that we’d like to try to make our own theatre in a professional context,” Osborne explains. “So we formed [The] Duck House and did our first production at the Blue Room theatre… From then we’ve worked together, developed our own style, and worked out what kind of theatre we want to make. We pretty much have a lot of fun and work really hard, and it’s been great!” The Duck House are a uniquely collaborative team of theatre artists – roles are shared, ideas are built upon together, and there’s no real hierarchy or pretence within the company. Osborne explains that most of their plays are written and created as a team, including One Night Echo, which is based around a Greek myth. “We really liked Echo and Narcissus, we’d been fascinated by it for a while. Basically it’s the story of a narcissist who falls in love with his own image, and drowns – with myths there’s always a daunting to reveal a different side of yourself, especially as there is still an idea that being creative is not necessarily linked to being career-driven or businessminded. Coci agrees:“I do get that a lot actually, but I am very fortunate to work in a law firm that tries to make sure all of their employees are well rounded, so in that sense I feel that my talents outside of the law will be embraced. Everyone has been very accepting of that.” Coci’s first show excitement was foreshadowed by the realisation she would have to put a commercial value on her works, which she eventually priced for between $750 and $1,700. “It’s a very subjective thing to do because what I think they might be worth other people might not,” Coci says. Parting with her paintings will be the hardest part.“To be honest, I have struggled to come to terms with it. They’ve very much become a part of me and it’s hard to accept that somebody else would value them as much as I do and that they would mean as much to them as they would to me. But it’s something that I need to do to get my name out there and also just to move on. I’ve accumulated quite a lot of them now and I need to focus on new themes or a new subject matter,” Coci says. She’s happy to steadily build a new catalogue of artworks while also pursuing her law ambitions. “As long as I can juggle the two, I intend to do so,” Coci concludes. _CORAL HUCKSTEP
few different endings to them, but basically the most common one is that he falls into the lake that he’s looking at his own image in,” Osborne says. The group took Echo and Narcissus as a starting point, then spun it, changed it, redeveloped it, and turned it into a new, original work based at a party. Osborne conveys that the contemporising of the play drew in certain similarities between the Y generation and ancient Greek mythology. “We really liked the contemporary parallels about self-obsession, narcissism, and how that is being magnified through technology – so for example, through Facebook pages we have all these pictures of ourselves, we create our own image online for everyone else to look at. And this kind of idea of this narcissism of our generation was basically the starting point for One Night Echo.” Osborne explains that as director of the play, she went in with a few aims – namely, to accurately convey the aforementioned parallels and allow the audience to create their own meaning, as well as to shake things up a little and ensure the performance is as exciting to watch as it was to create. “One of the aims of this work was to integrate some live music in a really interesting and dynamic way. So we’ve got a four-piece band, trumpet, drums, guitar and bass. We’re working with an amazing composer called Elliot Hughes, and he’s a recent graduate from the WAAPA Jazz and Composition course. I really wanted to work with Elliot on this piece, and now we’ve got a great range of different musical styles that support the show and make it really dynamic. Hopefully it’ll be great!” _CHLOE PAPAS
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SLOW AND STEADY
The slow food movement has been gaining popularity over the past few years, and aims to encourage consuming fresh, local, organic produce. Now, for the first time ever in Perth, the Subi Farmers Market will join forces with Slow Food Perth for a Slow Food Market And Long Table Lunch. The market will showcase farmers, growers and producers from around the state, and aims to educate the community about the benefits of slow food. The Long Table Lunch will offer a series of courses, with a talk from celebrity chef Simon Bryant, and MCing duties from much-loved Perth wholefood chef Jude Blereau. The Slow Food Market will run from 8am-12pm on Saturday, November 24, with free entry, and the Long Table Lunch will begin at 2pm with tickets through subifarmersmarket.com.au. The events will be held at Subiaco Primary School.
BON APPETIT! The city’s premier French restaurant, Etro Bistro, has just announced that it will now be opening for dinner from Tuesday to Saturday nights – delicious! Up until now the public had to be satisfied with breakfast and lunch, but after eight years, the owner and head chef Patrick Panier decided it was time to offer up something more. Frenchborn Panier specialises in pate, terrines, duck, and other homegrown delicacies, so the dinner menu is sure to be mouth-watering – if you’re keen, you can even call up a day in advance to try some of his famous steak tartare. Oh, and we’ve just had a sneak peek of the dessert menu – believe us, it’s not to be missed. Etro Bistro is situated on King Street, and open seven days – you can take a look at their full menu here: etro.net.au.
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Breast Cancer Care WA are holding their second annual vintage, retro, designer clothing, and accessory sale – Vanity Fair – at the University Of Notre Dame this month. Breast Cancer Care WA, an independent charity that provides personalised emotional, practical and financial support to people affected by breast cancer, have been receiving donations of quality pre-loved clothing and accessories all year in preparation for the event. Women, men and kids of all ages are sure to find something special, and all funds go directly to the Breast Cancer Care WA charity. The event will be held on Sunday, November 11, with $3 entry.
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RETRO VISION Alannah Hill is now at Harbour Town
NEW IN TOWN The number of high-end labels at Harbour Town continues to accelerate with iconic clothing retailers Diesel and Alannah Hill having opened their doors this week. The stores at the Perth outdoor shopping complex are both of the brands’ first and only outlet spaces in WA. Visit harbourtownperth.com.au for more information and special online discounts.
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The historic B shed on Victoria Quay in Fremantle’s gorgeous waterfront district will come to life on Sunday, November 11, with Vintage Vixens And Vamps Fair V. Featuring 30 stalls jam-packed with one-of-a kind finds - from vintage and retro clothing, accessories, and collectables to upcycled kooky craft - if you take the time to browse, you’ll be sure to uncover a treasure. If you haven’t much moolah to drop, there’ll also be spectacular live retro entertainment courtesy of vinyl DJs and live band Three Bob, and the Fremantle Inner Harbour Yacht Race starts and finishes just outside the venue that very afternoon too. So after you’ve shopped you can stop for a rest, take in the view, breathe in the sea air and soak up the maritime mood. Entry is just $3 from 12pm ‘til 5pm.
LIGHT THE STREETS
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LIKE A HAWK Friday nights in the city are set to get even better with the summer series of Twilight Hawker Markets, smack-bang in the middle of Forrest Place. The annual markets will feature a range of different delectable cuisines, from Chilean pies to Angolan gluten free food, to Korean rice plates and Japanese pancakes – we’re already drooling a little! Whether you just want to grab something on your way home from work, or want to find a spot to sit and have a meal with friends, there’s something for everyone. Plus, there’s free live music and roving entertainment every week! The Twilight Hawker Markets will run every Friday night from 5pm-9pm kicking off Friday, November 16, ‘til Friday, April 26. Get on down there to spice up your Friday night.
The streets of Leederville will come alive and light up this December at the inaugural Light Up Leederville Carnival. The free, all-ages event will provide entertainment and attraction for everyone, and marks the ‘lighting’ of Leederville’s first ever Christmas lights. The carnival will offer up food, fashion, art, music and children’s entertainment, around the streets and hidden nooks and crannies of Leederville. The streets will be closed off during the festival, and there’ll be couches and umbrellas around every corner to ensure you enjoy your day. Head on down to Light Up Leederville on Saturday, December 8, from 1pm to 8pm.
EYES ON PERTH
Back in mid-October, you may have seen a call-out from Propel Youth Arts to capture a moment of your day on camera. Propel asked for young Perth residents to take a photo – on any device – of their day, no matter what the photo depicted. As a result of that project, the 300 plus photos that they received are now going to be showcased as the Mosaic Exhibition at 140 William Street. This is an amazing chance to see Perth through your eyes, and through the eyes of your peers – 24 hours, one city, 300 photos. Awesome. Check it all out from Thursday, November 8, until Friday, November 16. Entry is free.
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FESTIVE SEASON BOUTIQUE SHOPPING GUIDE If you dread packed department stores, stressed shoppers and Carols In The Domain on a permanent loop, check out our pick of independent alternatives in-and-around the Perth CBD. Whether you’re hunting for designer clothing, quirky homewares, gourmet goodies, and fine jewellery, you can be confident you’ll find excellent choices for Christmas and holiday shopping at these distinctive shopping destinations.
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Where: 147 Scarborough Beach Road, Mount Hawthorn Contact: (08) 9444 4826 What they stock: Bursting at the seams with unique, eclectic homewares to suit any and every taste, you’ll find ceramic statues, colourful cushions, Japanese porcelain mugs and bowls, paper goods, recipe books, glass bottles, vases and vessels, decorative birdcages, mosaic mirrors and many other unimaginable delights at this veritable treasure trove.
Where: Shop 5/140 William, Cnr William & Murray St Mall, Perth Contact: 1300 361 519 / genericsaccessories.com What they stock: A dynamic range of ultra-cool handbags, clutches, wallets, belts, earrings, pendants, cuffs, rings hats, eyewear and headwear from around the globe. Inspired by the love of travel, culture, music and fashion icons, the Generics brand is savvy, versatile and above all completely affordable.
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Where: Shop 4, 148 Scarborough Beach Road, Mount Hawthorn Contact: (08) 9322 9905 / codebloom.com.au What they stock: Although they’re best known for their gorgeous floral arrangements, their cute Mt Hawthorn store also stocks kitsch homewares to pretty up your house, unique jewellery, quirky toys, organic body and pamper creams, handbags, purses and just so much more! If you prefer to do your festive shopping from the comfort of the couch, you can even peruse a selection of their products online and even specify your preferred delivery date – too easy!
Where: Shop 1/226 Carr Place, Leederville Contact: (08) 9328 7300 / hunterstore.com.au What they stock: Hunter Store is Leederville’s only shoe boutique, stocking beautiful shoes, bags and jewellery with every piece selected for style, quality and value by their experienced staff. Brands stocked include Marc By Marc Jacobs, Beau Coops, Bloch, Top End, Koxko, Diavolina, Misano and Belle Bijoux.
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CORNER STORE Where: Three locations - Alexander Building, 649 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley; 201-205 Stirling Highway, Claremont; 147 South Tce, Fremantle. Contact: (08) 9228 1222 / cornerstore.net.au What they stock: A collection of unique furnishings, homewares, gifts, clothes and curios thoughtfully sourced from near and far. If it’s frilly, pastel-coloured or adorned with birds, you’re likely to find it at Corner Store.
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MARIPOSA Where: Shop 5, Astor Arcade, 665 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley Contact: (08) 9272 6867 / mariposashop.com What they stock: Sumptous skin and body care, cosmetics, perfumes and candles. Skincare brands include the hugely sought after Aesop and Grecian Apivita, Organic Aeos, as well as Australian cult brand Be Genki. Mariposa’s perfumes range from the iconic houses of L’Artisan, Lubin, Rance and Amouage to the fresh amd inviting Juliette Has A Gun, Keiko Mecheri and Aromantik collections. Gifts are a lesson in sumptuous indulgence, with names like Voluspa, Neom, Linari, Savon de Marseille, Lemon Canary and Glasshouse creating a delicious choice.
FUTURE SHELTER Where: 56 Angove Street, North Perth Contact: (08) 9228 4832 / futureshelter.com What they stock: All sorts of products adorned with designer Jane King and engineer Adam Coffey’s incredible design work. They’ve got functional items like lampshades, serving boards, coaster, cushions and magnets, as well as decorative prints, wall decals and other fun bits to liven up any room.
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Where: 379 Oxford Street, Mt Hawthorn Contact: (08) 9242 4333 / studiobomba.com.au What they stock: All manner of papery pretties dwell in this inspirational space. The Bomba shop peddles artwares, stationery and designer knickknacks made by clever creative folks from far and near, some as near as the studio and letterpress workshop that share the same digs. Their carefully handpicked selection of beautiful bits and pieces are bound to bring out the crafty little devil in you.
Where: Shop 3, 223 Bagot Road, Subiaco Contact: (08) 9381 6362 / mrsparrow.com.au What they stock: From vintage teapots and brass bottle openers, to hanging terrariums and bird feeding houses, Mr Sparrow houses an array of new and pre-loved pieces for the home and garden.
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REMEDY Where: 131 Oxford Street, Leederville Contact: (08) 9444 8818 / remedyonline.net.au What they stock: Productions and creations which embrace their left-of-centre aesthetic – think antique-style stamp sets, leather bound journals, moleskin notebooks, bamboo iphone cases, printed storage boxes and more. Along with products from well-loved brands including Aesop, Sunday Morning Designs and Third Drawn Down, they also stock a number of handcrafted, one-off pieces which are sure to impress any discerning gift-reciever.
VENN SHOP Where: 16 Queen Street, Perth Contact: venn.net What they stock: Dedicated to delivering an extensive range of cutting edge Australian and international contemporary design objects and products, Venn Shop selects the most innovative products from leading designers and brands as well as commissioning exclusive collections by Australian and local designers.
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BEAUFORT STREET Word On The Street
There are always little cafes and bars popping up around Perth and brilliant little coffee joints. We get the lowdown on Northbridge cafe Love Thy Neighbour from owner and general manager of Talmage Andersen who says “With the cultural diversity greater than any other suburb and the bar and restaurant scene becoming very reputable, the future is very promising and it’s a great thing to watch it happen right in front of you.”
With the Beaufort Street Festival just around the corner, this month Urban Central takes a look at one of Perth’s most popular tourist and cafe precincts.
You’re tucked Love Thy Neighbour away near Ezra Pound there. Has it been gradually taking off or have folks been pretty receptive since you guys started out? Just like Ezra Pound, it’s been a gradual growth which has been extremely positive and we are What does your cafe offer customers? Excellent coffee provided by Single Origin Roasters definitely excited about the next six months as we in Sydney, arguably one of the best in the roasting continue to get our name out there. business. You will also find on offer brunch items like bagels, childhood fav jaffles to homemade creamed What was the process like setting up shop? Did you corn, avocado, bacon on toast and also fresh house have to jump through a bunch of council loopholes or anything crazy or was it pretty cruisey? baked cakes. The process was pretty straightforward, almost fun. Council was supportive all the way. What’s your favourite coffee and why? Strong lattes are my choice of coffee can’t explain why its just part of my addiction to coffee.
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When To Go: Although it’s buzzing all year round, if you’ve got a hankering to stroll slowly in the warm mid-afternoon sun, it’s best to visit in the spring and summer months. That being said, there’s plenty of Why: With mix of heritage character buildings plus parking available off adjoining streets, which makes modern new developments, streets adorned with it more than easy to brave the wetter seasons. flourishing flora, soft sea breezes, quirky shops and gracious residents, Beaufort Street has charm Getting there: Beaufort Street is located in the heart of Mt. Lawley, about five minutes bus-ride or in spades. a 15 minute walk north from Perth CBD (Barrack Street turns into Beaufort Street). A number of buses travel up and down Beaufort Street from the Esplanade Busport and Mirrabooka Station. Head to transperth.wa.gov.au or call 13 62 13 to get the latest information. Where: Beaufort Street is a major road in the inner north-eastern suburbs of Perth, linking the Morley area to the CBD.
How long have you guys been up and running for? Why the decision to start up Love Thy Neighbour? We have open since May this year. We started out as a little hole in the wall espresso bar but recently undertook renovations to open as a full café in September. As owner of Ezra Pound, I have always been interested in the site and thought it could work well as a complementary café to the bar and vice versa. I have also shared a passion for great coffee and fresh café foods ever since starting out in hospitality.
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Where To Find Entertainment: From touring international music acts to local comedians, there’s no shortage of entertainment in and around Beaufort Street. The Astor Theatre plays host to some of the world’s best musical and comedy acts on a daily basis, while Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den hosts the best of the best local comedy. Or if you’re looking for a more cultured experience, The Ellington Jazz Club is sure to impress.
It’s a nice little arcade way near you guys. Are you a bit of a community down there with Ezra, Captain Of The Ship, etc? Yes we are a very active community down William Street Arcade. We are all about trying to make a positive difference to Northbridge and all of us work close with the William Street Collective to help revitalise Northbridge. We’re fortunate to have great neighbours and I guess the name of the café is a tip of the hat them and of course our bar Ezra Pound.
Not sure where to begin? Then head to The Beaufort Street Festival on Saturday, November 17, from noon until 9pm. It’s a cavalcade of arts, family Must Winebar activity, music, fashion and food programs, with highlights including the artification of Highgate Where To Eat: Beaufort Street boasts a plethora Drycleaners, the Mary Street Canopy, An Augmented of cuisines for all tastes and budgets. If you’ve got Reality, Food And Wine Micro Festival, Queens money to splurge and you want a meal that really Vintage Village and the STM Fashion Stage. Hit up impresses book a table at P’tite Ardoise Bistro, Must beaufortstreetfestival.com.au for more info. Winebar or Jackson’s Restaurant. If you’re keen to be seen with the trendy set head to Clarences, El Publico or Source Foods. If you’re in the mood to indulge in some foreign delights, try Zambreros (Mexican), Little Saigon (Vietnamese), Tanpopo (Japanese), Sparrow Indonesian, Raah (Middle Eastern), Gurkhas Nepalese Restaurant or Gogo’s Madras Curry House (Indian). If it’s breakfast fare that gets your mouth watering, Cantina 663, The Beaufort Street Merchant and Daily Planet are absolute musts. Where To Party: Beaufort Street’s nightlife is sensational: effortlessly cool, with a young and stylish population that lives for the night and welcomes outsiders. A number of hip mini-bars and traditional pubs populate the street, so whether you’re looking for a place to drop in for a quick afterwork beer or somewhere to indulge in some crafty cocktail concoctions, you’ll find it on Beaufort Street.
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EDIBLE TREATS What do you get the person who has everything? Food of course! Delicious treats are sure to put your friends and family in the festive spirit, but who has time to slave away in the kitchen? Let some of Perth’s most talented culinary craftsmen take the hard work out of gift giving. Jean Pierre Sancho Where: 878 Hay Street, Perth Contact: (08) 9444 1904 / jpsancho.com.au Pick up a gift for: Foodies with a penchant for French cuisine. What they stock: Voted ‘Best Bakery in Australia’ for the last two years, Jean Pierre Sancho offer a range of authentic French patisserie baked fresh in-store, every day, but are best known for their magnificent macaroons which come in a range of different flavors including violet and white chocolate, rosewater, passionfruit, pistachio and chocolate, and Sidney Loves Audrey are available to purchase individually, in gift boxes Where: 307 Fitzgerald Street, West Perth Contact: (08) 9228 9332 / sidneylovesaudrey.com.au and (if you really want to splash out) as artfully Pick up a gift for: Fine food fans who have everything. constructed Macaroon Towers featuring between What they stock: Be inspired as you relax surrounded 30 and 115 of the delicious sweets. by many colourful treasures that you can browse, buy and have gift wrapped while you enjoy a luscious Rochelle Adonis Where: 193 Brisbane cup of Rubra Coffee and some home baked treats. Street, Northbridge Contact: (08) 9227 0007 / rochelleadonis.com Pick up a gift for: Those with a sweet tooth. What they stock: The gifted people at Rochelle Adonis create cakes and confections that close your eyes and widen your smile. While there is a large range Rochelle Adonis’ of freshly baked sweet Star & Bar Gift Pack treats available every day, their signature item is amazing hand crafted nougat which comes in five flavours – Rose Petal Kustom Cupcakes Barberry Pistachio, White Choc Cranberry Pistachio, Wild Blueberry Almond Lemon, Dark Chocolate Kustom Cupcakes Cherry Almond and Dark Choc Orange Macadamia. Where: 4/156 Orrong Road, Lathlain Contact: (08) 9444 1904 / kustomcupcakes.com.au Pick up a gift for: Anyone! Who doesn’t love a cupcake every now and again? What they stock: Now more popular than ever, it’s clear the cupcake boom is more than just a passing fad. Locally, Kustom Cupcakes have been pushing the cupcake boundaries since 2010 with their unique flavors (including Banana Split, Crème Egg and White Choc Cookie Dough) baked to perfection. Rochelle Adonis’ Rose Nougat Chokeby Road Where: 175 Rokeby Road, Subiaco Contact: (08) 9381 1144 / chokebyroad.com Pick up a gift for: Chocolate addicts of all shapes and sizes. What they stock: Gifts of chocolates and truffles are the sweetest way to show your affection over the festive season, and Subiaco’s iconic Chokeby Road have one of the best selections you’ll find in the inner suburbs.
GET PHYSICAL Exercise for Haters For some of us, exercise is akin to some sort of cruel and unusual punishment. However, science and the internet say that we must do it for our health (and so we can take selfies at the beach in summer). So, for your reading pleasure, we’ve come up with a list of exercise-based activities for those who find the thought of gyms horrifying and would rather be watching television in bed: Salsa Classes Yes, really! Here are the pros: pretty dresses, pretty ladies, pretty men and killer music. Don’t worry, we’re not saying you need to do Antonio Banderas-style advanced classes, just check out a beginner’s class - dancing is a helluva lot more fun than sit-ups! We recommend the free salsa party classes at Mustang Bar on Tuesday nights, run by Danza Loca. All you have to do is rock on down there, solo or with a partner, and try out the sexy moves - and hey, there’s wine too (X-Press does not condone drinking and exercising)! Wii Fit This is the best form of exercise for anyone who doesn’t like sunlight or leaving their house. If you’ve got a Wii, get on it immediately. There’s loads of different exercises, you can set up your own account and check your stats, and there’s even games that pretend to be exercise – try the Hula Hoop or Penguin Slide. You can also verse other people at various games, and there are leader boards so you can turn it into a competition – so basically, it’s a video game, but you move more than just your fingers. Hell yeah.
Dog Parks/Beaches If you’ve got a dog, why not do yourself AND your fave little friend a favour and head to a dog park or beach? Walk around the park a few times, walk along the beach, challenge your dog to a running race, challenge the other people there to a running race – they won’t mind, maybe. Or, if you don’t have a dog, go on down and hang out with someone else’s dog (X-Press does not condone dog-napping), or take your cat down there on a leash. Cats love leashes. _CHLOE PAPAS
Roller Skating/Roller Derby Relive your childhood and go buy/hire some roller skates – preferably coloured skates with excessive glitter. Roll on down to the river, around the streets, along beach paths, around uni or school, or head to one of the rinks in Perth – there’s Rollaways in O’Connor, or the Rollerdrome in Morley. Or better yet, if you can already skate and like to get a little violent, why not try out roller derby? Not only is it hardcore exercise, it’s also fun because you get a cool name, and you get to push people over. Head to perthrollerderby.com.au for more info on that one. Jazzercise Yes, yes, it is an exercise class. But say it out loud: jazzercise. It’s fabulous. In fact, YouTube or Google image search ‘jazzercise.’ Find yourself one of those killer fluro leotard-tights combos, and get yourself down to a class. It’s way more fun than aerobics or pilates, and it will burn off the pie you ate for lunch in no time. Many gyms and dance studios will offer some form of jazzercise, but we recommend Jazzercise in the Hills – they offer heaps of classes, not to mention beginner classes for any age, size, or fitness level. Get your leotards out. www.xpressmag.com.au
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Soulwax And Beyond Belgium brother duo 2manydjs are returning down under for a national club tour. Having been tied up in the studio for the last nine months, David and Stephen Dewaele are itchy to release their new material but, they’re not sure if it’ll be as 2manydjs or part of their other project Soulwax. ANNABEL MACLEAN chats with the brilliant and friendly David Dewaele. David and Stephen Dewaele have had quite the high-profile, celebrity type week when this interview takes place. The lads had the premiere of their new film Dave, their latest and most ambitious project to date for their recent venture Radio Soulwax, a radio station with a growing collection of one hour-long mixes with visuals which is available online and as an App which the lads have been hard at work on since its initial beginnings in 2009.
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One of the main reasons 2manydjs started Radio Soulwax was the desire to do something more than just putting together a compilation, to challenge themselves and to give themselves and listeners something more both sonically and visually. “It was 2009 and for a long time we had been only focusing on Soulwax [and] remixes, obviously we DJ but we hadn’t really put that much work into 2manydjs and we had a surprisingly successful first compilation that came out in 2002,” he says. “It lived quite a long life and it sold way much more than anyone ever expected and a lot of people around us had been quite eager to replicate that and had asked us to do another compilation which we didn’t do. We always refused. We think - well we used to think, we still think - that just putting out a CD nowadays in the marketplace - a mixed CD - it’ll have a shelf life of two months at most and then it’s just over. “And at the same time as well, we would go and play in front of 20,000 people and however 2manydjs cool that is and however effective we can be in that Dave is the 23rd hour of a total of 24 themed records guise, we travel all over the world and we go to all by Radio Soulwax which each contain a one hour these little records shops and find all these weird mix of exclusive audio and visual content. The film is records and with all this music that we love, that we a tribute to David Bowie and sees the lads working could never play in front of 20,000 people. So the two alongside director Wim Reygaert again (Reygaert kind of main reasons for Radio Soulwax was to have was involved with Into The Vortex, another Radio this kind of outlet for all this music that we love but Soulwax film too).“When we set out to do this project, can’t really play out in front of the crowd and also to we knew from the beginning what we wanted and do something with 2manydjs. The only outlet that kind of had to do and it took us a while to get it right,” gave us that freedom was to start a virtual online David Dewaele says, speaking of Dave. radio station and obviously we had to be idiots and “We finished the music for it which is just a be difficult and have the visual side of it (chuckles).” mix, we finished it in November 2011, and it took us a As for 2manydjs and Soulwax projects at while then to find someone [actor/s] present, the lads have been working in the studio for because that’s how we work on all of them - we make the last nine months. “We’ve got a bunch of music,” the music first and then we kind of sit around and he says. “There’s meant to be a Soulwax album in decide what the visual entity will be. And in this case, there but obviously we’ve made a lot more than it took us quite a few months to find someone that that but we haven’t really figured out how it’ll all fit... we thought we would be would be happy with. We I guess the main emphasis right now is to find out contacted him [Reygaert] in February and it’s taken what of this music can be the next Soulwax album until now.” and what the rest could be because maybe some of But, the lads are pretty happy that they the others we’ll use as other projects or maybe [we’ll took their time with Dave as, as Dewaele says, “this do] something else with it.” one is quite peculiar in that it’s such an ambitious Aside from studio and project decisions, project”. “It’s got so many more layers and so many the brothers are pretty pumped about their more things happening in the story,” he says.“It’s the forthcoming national tour down under. Although first time we’ve actually worked with a narrative and Dewaele won’t reveal much about tunes they’ll be all the other ones are slight variations on how we dropping, he does have some news for fans.“Yes, you showed the theme of the song - I guess this is the same, it’s just so much more expensive version of can announce now exclusively that my brother and I it.” But, Dewaele says Dave won’t be setting the bar will be playing naked,” he says, rather matter-of-factly. higher for future Radio Soulwax projects. “Well put it this way, if we were to do another 24 hours at this » 2MANYDJS level, they’d be ready in 2038. So no, I don’t think we » FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 @ VILLA can do that,” he chuckles.
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IN THEIR HABITAT
Those peeps from Habitat are celebrating their eighth birthday shortly in total style with the return of their inner-city Garden Parties outside at The Court Hotel. To kick off the summer series, Habitat have put together a super lineup featuring the legendary Nick Warren from duo Way Out West, French DJ and producer Sebastien Leger and American DJ and multi-instrumentalist Chuck Love. It’s all happening on Sunday, December 9, at The Court Hotel. Early bird tickets are on sale now for $45 from facebook.com/ habitatinc. Doors open at 2pm.
XKORING HIGH
18-year-old dubstep/drumstep producer Xkore is coming back by popular demand. The young gun started producing house and progressive trance four years ago and now blends electro, drum’n’bass, dubstep and drumstep into brilliant bass music beats. He’s considered one of the big up-and-comers in the bass music community and is supported by the likes of Skream, Benga, Camo & Krooked, Borgore and more. Catch him on Friday, December 7, at Shape. Tickets are $20 plus booking fee from Moshtix. Get on down to check out some fresh meat!
THE PERFECT 10
It’s been 10 years since Ambar’s original and longest running DJs Micah, Ben Mac and Wish got behind the decks at the Home of Underground. Micah launched the infamous Autuphon nights which resulted in a residency that has stood the test of time, Ben Mac rocked on in with a fresh new love of breakbeat and the hope that he could deliver some of his own house-infused sets and Wish has been the breakbeat king down at Ambar. Now, Ambar are going to be putting on one hell of a party to celebrate the big 10 year milestone for the lads. It’s all happening on Friday, November 30, from 10pm. Be one of the first 100 through for a tasty surprise! Congratulations to Micah, Ben Mac and Wish, fantastic job dudes!
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Born and bred New Yorker Gina Turner had a dream of hitting the radio airwaves. Now, the American DJ and producer hosts numerous radio shows and hears her music played around the world. ANNABEL MACLEAN chats with the friendly yoga enthusiast who recently married Laidback Luke ahead of her debut tour down under.
UK legendary funky soul, disco and house DJs (and now live band) Crazy P (formally Crazy Penis), have been around for 16 years and are still keeping things fresh. ANNABEL MACLEAN chats with main man Jim Baron about Stevie Wonder, British hooligans and their favourite festival The Garden in Croatia.
LOVES A BIT OF YOGA
Gina Turner is in Miami when this interview takes place. “I had to flee from New York which is where I’m from because of the hurricane so I’m lucky enough to be in the sun and dry and with power and then tomorrow I’m off to Texas,” she says. The busy lass splits her time between New York and her now second home in the Netherlands (where new husband Laidback Luke is from) in between her travels and touring. “It was really fun,” she says, speaking of her wedding to Dutch DJ and producer Laidback Luke.“It went too fast but I guess that’s what they all say when it comes to weddings. It was just the best day ever and it was nice to have all these people that we really love all in one room.” Turner and Laidback Luke started Latininfused project Nouveau Yorican back in 2009 and life has been exciting ever since. “We’re just working on a new track at the moment; we don’t have plans for it yet but stay tuned because we’re really excited about this one. It should be in the next few months,” she says. In fact, as Turner reveals, there are a lot of projects currently in the pipeline. “I have a new track with Douster from France and a follow up collab with Style Of Eye, another collab with Emkay, there’s just a lot of things bubbling. “I’m featured on the new Yolanda Be Cool album so I’m really excited about that. It’s a really fun track and there’s plans to make it a single as well. In terms of my own production, I actually have started my own record label... we’re really excited about that. Also I have a single coming out on Nervous records.” Aside from all of this, Turner has been hosting a show on Scion Radio 17 called Below The Baseline, a show on iHeartRadio and France’s Underground FG Radio as well as writing for Diplo’s Mad Decent label too. “I actually was writing for 34
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THE LANGUAGE OF ESKMO
San Francisco based producer Brendan Angelides, aka Eskmo is coming down under. In the past five years, he’s released over a dozen singles and EPs while touring throughout North America and Europe. He’s remixed works by the likes of Spor, STS9, Bear In Heaven, Bar9 and more. He also runs the Ancestor label and Ninja Tune artist and film composer Amon Tobin has hailed his work as “some of the best production I’ve heard in recent times”. So, prepare yourselves Perth, because Eskmo will play Next Hype on Friday, November 23, at Geisha. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee from Eventbrite.com.au. Get on it quick smart.
PARKIN’ UP
Everyone likes free shit. Well, boy have we got news for you. Bristol’s prime purveyor of funky beats Parker is come to town to play a super duper gig at The Scotto for free on Wednesday, December 5, alongside Death Disco’s Anton Maz, the one and only Micah, DNGRFLD, BACK2MONO DJs and the Roulette DJs. Parker’s remixes of James Brown and Bjork both topped the Hype Machine chart whilst Where’s My Monkey? made him a household name. He’s all about the bass, glitch hop, dubstep, garage, house and drum’n’bass and he’s smashed it at Glastonbury, Shambhala and more. Get on down from 7pm. Aw yeah!
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Gina Turner Diplo’s blog just because I’ve been friends with him for a while,” she says. “We do yoga or go to the gym together... I added some female flavour to their blog, I think they needed it. That was really fun to be a part of that.” But, yoga isn’t just a small hobby for Turner, it saved her life and now she’s an instructor. “The last few years when I first started getting into it I was like ‘this is really great because it’s like mentally grounding and it keeps me in shape and no matter where I am in the world, I can always do yoga’,” she says. “What put things really into overdrive was a couple of summers ago I dove into a pool and cracked my head on the bottom of the swimming pool and the one thing that saved my life and stopped me from cracking my neck and not being able to walk was my flexibility and my muscle strength in my neck from dealing with head stands and so yoga basically saved my life... so at Holy Ship I was able to teach yoga classes on the cruise ship. It was cool because when two of my passions can be combined I’m like ‘this is amazing’. I’m doing it again this year; I’m super excited for it.” Turner is also excited to be heading down under for her debut Australian tour as part of Miller Draft Sessions. “I feel so honoured and so blessed because we’ve just been waiting for the right time to go to Australia and this has been it,” she says. Aside from the tour, she’ll be smashing out some surfing too. “I took surfing lessons recently on my honeymoon and I cut my toe on the coral so we ended early so that’s my plan, on my days off, to go surfing in Sydney.”
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“These people walk around with British flags and they’ve been out in the sun far too long and they’ve been getting pissed since they got up and they haven’t got a clue what they’re doing,” Jim Baron says down the line from home in Nottingham, discussing the definition of a British hooligan. The lack of British hooligans present at Croatian music festival The Garden is one of the many reasons why Crazy P put the festival down as their most favourite in the world.“It’s a very, very unique place,” Baron says. “When you look back at international clubbing and you look at places like Ibiza which started off with a very spiritual ethos and have now sort of turned into ‘Brits abroad, holiday makery’, you’ve lost all that sort of vibe. The thing about Croatia is that it’s got everything that Ibiza had all those years ago... so there’s no British hooligans, it’s been unaffected by anything so that makes it quite a spiritual experience... you’re dancing out until the sun comes up, the experiences I’ve had there, I’ve had no experiences like. It’s like 3000 people and it’s really great for a really good community vibe and you get to know everybody by the end of the weekend.” But, Crazy P don’t really have to worry about British hooligans anyway.“Because our music is quite sort of, Danielle [Moore, vocalist] would say ‘womanly’, we don’t really have the hooligan element to us apart from maybe within the band,” he chuckles. Indeed, the band have been labelled in the soul, funk, boogie and disco categories although Baron says disco is “just one bit of a big jigsaw” for the band. “The last album we had was a lot less funky than any other album we’ve done,” he says.“It probably had less disco influences in it; it was a bit more far reaching where we were going
Crazy P with it in terms of the instrumentation. Obviously disco is a massive love of ours and goes right back to when we started buying records in car boot sales. It’s always there but for us... but it’s not the be all and end all for us.” Marvin Gaye, Prince and Stevie Wonder are just some of the many influences for the band and Baron says they’ve even managed to see some of their biggest influences play live in the flesh. “We saw Stevie [Wonder] when he finished off Glastonbury on the Sunday night which was absolutely mind-blowing and some tears were shed during that,” he says.“It was absolutely phenomenal and you get the feeling with these guys, you don’t know how much longer you’re going to have the opportunity to see them. I was really, really, really pleased that I got the opportunity to see him.” The band will be in the country for Harvest Festival shortly and are looking forward to the tour along with their sideshow here in Perth with Santigold. “We haven’t really done many live shows in Australia for a little bit and we’ve been touring the last album When We On for about a year so the set’s going to be essentially what we’ve been doing which is a lot of the new tracks off the album mixed up with some old favourites, that’s sort of the format,” he says. After Harvest and the sideshows, Baron says the band have go to pretty much head straight back to the UK. “We’ve got a big London show just before Christmas and we’re trying to write the new record now for Crazy P so our studio time is at a premium,” he says. “We’re just trying to get in there as much as we can. My girlfriend is actually from Sydney so we’re having a few days off [after Harvest] because it’s quite a tight itinerary that festival so we’re having a few days off after just to decompress.”
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HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER LA based DJ and producer Destructo began building his legacy in the ‘90s when he left his first warehouse rave. He started a night called The Sermon and donning a priest outfit, he’d host the 6am weekly party after the warehouse raves had died down early Sunday morning. He’s the founder of the “metal-techno-disco” HARD Festival and has recently supported Rusko, Diplo, The Bloody Beetroots and Fatboy Slim. ANNABEL MACLEAN chats with the passionate lad. When Gary Richards (Destructo) hosted the 6am weekly party The Sermon, he wasn’t only into Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, he loved Metallica and Black Sabbath so every set he’s played and any festival or event he’s hosted, it’s been aggressive, banging party music. After organising the now legendary Magical Mickey’s Holy Water Adventure and Raveamerica in the early ‘90s, he dove into A&R and launched a bunch of LA hotspots like The Downtown Standard and broke new acts like Basement Jaxx. But, it isn’t only these festivals which Richards is proud of. He produced the original Electric Daisy Carnival in 1991 and 1992, something he holds fond memories of. Richards went on to return to his roots, launching his very first HARD Festival in 2007, a festival which basically merges heavy metal with potent techno and has been smashing it every since, hosting the likes of Knife Party, Kill The Noise, Tommy Trash, Justice, Zeds Dead, Jack Beats and more. “I always tried to be different we did not want to book the same things as all the other promoters,” Richards says, speaking of the aim behind HARD. “I think that’s what makes dance music and DJing so exciting is that it’s always about the new, new stuff. The events keep getting bigger and bigger. We’re just trying to maintain the quality control as we grow.“
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PANAMA TAKING OVER
Sydney quintet Panama have been bubbling at the surface. Having signed to Sydney hip label Future Classic only a few months ago when they released their debut single Magic, the band have just dropped their debut EP It’s Not Over and the online world is going crazy for it. ANNABEL MACLEAN chats with main man Jarrah McCleary about collecting synths and growing up in Darwin. Panama is essentially Jarrah McCleary’s project. The young, classically trained lad put all his energy into Perth-based project The Dirty Secrets before moving to Sydney with the band and then eventually parting ways with the lads and pursuing Panama in his spare time before it became a full time job. Panama’s songs are drenched in glorious synth action, ‘80s summer vibes and poppy hooks, a stark contrast to his The Dirty Secrets’ pop-rock action. “I just wanted to open it up a bit,” McCleary says down the line from Sydney, speaking of the decision to pursue Panama. “I’ve spent a lot of time with synths. I’ve always been involved with electronics as far as synths are concerned and I thought I just wanted to expand upon that. I had a laptop at the time and I was just really getting into recording at home and after a few years I just got more proficient at it and I thought ‘it’d be great to record these ideas’. That’s how it came about I suppose.” www.xpressmag.com.au
Destructo Now, HARD is coming down under, it’ll have its own stage on the Stereosonic national tour. Richards says that punters should expect to hear “something different than main-stream electronic music”.“If you’re looking for something a bit deeper and heavy then come check out the HARD arena,” he says. “You will not hear the same songs over and over in my sets. Hopefully you will find some new sounds that you love that you have not heard before.” Richards is pumped to be returning down under for Stereosonic, having played the festival last year too. “Being on that run was like being a part of a new family for two weekends, it was amazing,” he says. “The whole trip was a fond memory.” This time round, he’s hoping to hit the beach but says he’s open to suggestions too. “[I’m] also going to be a part of the EMC 2012 conference,” he says. “I’m going to have the week off in Sydney so maybe some people can hit me up with some suggestions. Let’s party!” Richards has been hosting the new Boys Noize Out Of The Black tour and is super pumped to be playing Holy Ship!! in the new year. “The Night Slugs guys and being with Justice on a boat is going to be mad,” he says. He’s also working on a new record which will see him venturing down a fresh path sonically. “I’m trying to go a bit deeper with my sound but still keeping it funky and techno,” he says. “Right now, I’m working on some new stuff with Claude Von Stroke and the Oliver cats. I’m also playing a few dates with Knife Party and some crazy thing in Puerto Rico coming up then Mexico City and more. [I’m] trying to put two EPs together for the early part of 2013.”
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‘Proficient’ is an understatement. Although It’s Not Over, Panama’s debut EP, has only just been released, McCleary has already recorded an album too, having just come back from a two month stint in the States putting the final touches on it. “I’m sort of ahead of the curb,” he chuckles. Just like the EP, McCleary worked with producer Eric Broucek (DFA Records) and Jim Orso (Hot Chip, Holy Ghosts) except this time round, he recorded the album in San Francisco unlike LA where It’s Not Over was put together. “I could name drop all day,” McCleary laughs, speaking of all the artists and producers who make an appearance on the EP and album. Since releasing their first single Magic earlier this year, Panama’s home has been on Sydney hip label Future Classic (home to the likes of Mitzi and Flume). “It’s been great,” McCleary says of the journey on Future Classic so far. “We had our first release out and we got some interest by them and they contacted us via Soundcloud I think and my girlfriend actually plays in Convaire. They got signed to Future Classic and they talked of good things and we thought ‘oh it’d be great to have a house just Future Classic artists’. And it happened. My girlfriend and her sister are both in Convaire... we live together so it’s one house full of Future Classic bands (laughs).” Future Classic were also the brains behind Panama’s video for It’s Not Over, a beautiful clip filmed in Berlin which features amongst other things, a baby and a suave gangster car. “The guys over in Berlin, they hooked up with Future Classic,” he says. “Nathan [Future Classic] was away in Europe... he got talking and they came up with a concept with the baby and the two actors and I just said ‘just make sure the clip’s got a great car’,” he laughs. McCleary admits he’s a bit of a car fanatic, something he may have inherited from his dad. “I like the old classic cars, I really do. I’ve always been a collector of things actually. I collect vintage synths and stuff like that. I’ve got a massive collection. I’m always checking out the odd second vintage store out and looking for bargains. I think I might have got it off my dad. My dad is the same, he collects all these different knick knacks like antiques and valves and crazy stuff. He’s got a shed full of shit (laughs).”
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WEDNESDAY 07/11 BLVD Tavern – Wub Wub Captain Stirling – Fiveo Clancy’s (Applecross) – Upbeat – DJ Andy Connections – DJs Joby /JJ /Rueben Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays - DJ iPod/ Ben Pettit Flying Scotsman – UniQue DJs/ DJ Bones/ DJ Moflow Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Beaufort Bop ft DJ Anton Maz Gold Bar – DJ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart L e e d e r v i l l e H o t e l – We L o v e Wednesdays ft DJ Slick Llama Bar – Jo 19 Matches Bar – Pussymittens Metro Freo – Rapture Mustang – DJ Giles Newport – Newport Wednesdays Sovereign Arms – Lockie Shaw The Deen – DJ Zelimer/ DJ Viper/ DJ Benny/ T – Zone 1 The Queens – Wriggle on YaYa’s – DJ Paul Burgess
THURSDAY 08/11 Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) – DJ Wrighteous Claremont Hotel – DJ Fiveo/ Jimmy Thorne
AMPLIFIER
Club Marakesh – DJ Simon Cottesloe Hotel – DJ Shots/ DJ Andy M Empire Bar – Halo/ DJ Bojan/ DJ Ben Sebastian Eve Nightclub – Retro Thursdays ft Tony Allen Flying Scotsman – Cowboys & Indie Kids DJs Leopold Hotel – DJ Riki/ Roger Smart Library – Dorcia Llama Bar – Danni Boi/ Charlie Bucket Mint Nightclub – DJ Simon Barwood Mt Henry Tavern – DJ Matty J Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ John Paul/ DJ Slick Mustang – DJ James Newport – Outbreak ft Child’s Play/ Freqshow/ DJ Scorpius/ MC Gamma Paramount – DJ Johnny Boi/ DJ Jordan Players Bar – MASH South St – DJ Castasia/ Dpad Swinging Pig – DJ Simon The Avenue – Jon Ee The Carine Tavern – Punchy & Juicy/ Little Nicky The Causeway – Jaymie Franchina The Craftsman – Roger Smart The Deen – DJ Flex/ DJ Nano/ DJ Surge/ DJ Don Migi The East End Bar – The Prestige ft Az-T The Queens – Kapitol The Whale & Ale – Josh Tilley The Whistling Kite - DJ Gareth
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Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Adam Kelly Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin
FRIDAY 09/11 Ambar – Get Weirder ft Moullinex Amplifier – DJ Jamie Mac Bar 459 – DJ Smurf Bar Orient – The Reggae Club Blvd Tavern – DJ Andy Boheme Bar – DJ Majiika Boulevard Tavern – DJ Andyy Broken Hill Hotel – DJ Nick Alexander Brooklands Tavern – DJ Misschief Mel Capitol – Retro Mash/ Gavyn Mytchel Capitol (Upstairs) – I Love ‘90s Carine Tavern – Greg Packer/ MC Assassin Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) – DJ Boogie Claremont Hotel – Jon Ee Club Bayview – Amnesia ft Fendi/ Axon/ Fellis Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Eastern Hotel – DJ Munch Empire Bar – Lokie Shaw Eve Nightclub – DJ Don Migi & Guests Flawless – DJ Ryan Flying Scotsman – DJs Jo19/ Rok Riley/ Armee Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Back To Mono DJs Ginger Nightclub – Rondevoo Fridayz Gosnells Club – DJ Now Hipe Club – DJ E-Funk Honey Lounge – DJ Curlee/ Drew Green Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays - DJ Dooey Left Bank – DJ Frankie Button Library – DJ Sneaky Little Creatures Loft – Marine Beats Llama Bar – Jim Pearson/ Jehan/ Ben Edit/ DJ Cee Matches Bar – Fredrick Anderson Merriwa Tavern – DJ Real McCoy Metro City (Solace Bar) – DJ Slick Metro Freo – Frat House Fridays Mint Nightclub – Club Retro ft Chris McPhee Mullaloo Beach Hotel - DJ John Paul Mustang – Swing DJ/ DJ James MacArthur Norma Jean’s – DJ Waz Paddy Hannans – Crazy Craig Paramount – DJ Johnny Boi/ DJ Jordan Players Bar – Miss Football Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Rocket Room – Extreme Aggression ft DJ Cain Sail & Anchor – Balcony Beatz/ DJ J-MAC Sovereign Arms – Lokie Shaw The Avenue – Little Nicky The Bakery – Smoke DZA/ LV/ Jesse Boykins III/ Shigeto/ Melo X/ Raaghe/ Savior/ Zeke/ Rok Riley The Carine – Mind Electric/ Little Nicky/ Az-T The Causeway – Jus Haus?
METRO FREO
The East End Bar – Az-T The Generous Squire – DJ Anaru The Hyde Park Hotel – Outbreak ft Lilt/ Freqshow/ DJ Sani/ MC LZ The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 The Whale & Ale – Josh Tilley Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Adam Kelly The Vic – DJ Giles The Wembley Hotel – Abstar Windsor – DJ Riki and Ray Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Giles Villa – Bass Agenda ft Culture Shock/ Lenzman/ Dose & Rregula Ya-Ya’s – Hero DJs ft Pup
SATURDAY 10/11 Amplifier – Pure Pop ft Eddie Electric Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Boheme Bar – Carte Blanche DJs Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Roger Smart/ Matt Richards/ Ben Dallin Capitol (Upstairs) – Cream Of The ‘80s ft DJ Ryan Capitol – Death Disco Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) – DJ Dood Claremont Hotel – Fiveo/ J.V.R Club Bay View – Fiveo Eastern Hotel – DJ Munch Empire Bar – DJ James Ess Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ Raci Eve Nightclub – DJ Crazy Craig/ DJ Slick Flying Scotsman – Under The Influence DJs Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Fore DJs High Road Hotel – DJ Simon High Wycombe – DJ Matt Hipe Club – DJ E-Funk Honey Lounge – DJ Saxon/ Sardi Library – MKT ft DJ Riki/ DJ Vicktor and more Little Creatures Loft – Marine Beats Liquid Nightclub – DJ Klar55/ DJ Stevie M Llama Bar – DJ Reuben/ DJ Melvin Malt Super Club – Fiveo Matches Bar – Jstokes/ Valerio Metro City – DJ Matty S/ DJ Makka/ DJ Angry Buda/ DJ Kenny L Metro City (Climax) – DJ Francesco/ DJ Don Migi/ DJ Slick Metro City (R&B Lounge) – DJ Soso/ DJ Ruthless/ DJ Brett Costello Metro Freo – Roger Smart/ Ben Carter/ DJ Wazz Mint Nightclub – Pop Life ft DJ Aaron/ AJ Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Danny Mustang – Rockabilly DJ/ DJ James MacArthur Niche – Frankie Button/ Cee/ Jonny Zimber Norma Jeans – DJ Phat Daz Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount – DJ Cornflake / DJ Jordan/ DJ Johnny Boi Queens Tav – Gareth Richardson Rocket Room – DJ Perry
Culture Shock Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Eclectic South St Ale House – DJ Jay Picnic Sovereign Arms – Rockwell Mint – Chris McPhee The Avenue – Jon Ee Mustang – DJ Rockin Rhys The Boheme – DJ Sneakee The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Paramount – Glo/ DJ Slick/ DJ Benny C/ DJ Matty S Dyl/ eSQue The Causeway – Rhys Johnson Players Bar – Lucky Charm The Clink – Az-T Rocket Room – Coyote Ugly The Cornerstone – Jacob Lives Sovereign Arms – Dylan Hammond The Craftsman – DJ Shortz The Avenue – Az-T The Deen – DJ Birdie/ DJ JJ/ DJ Tony The Causeway – Lukas Wimmler Allen The Cott – Cott Sessions The East End Bar – Fiveo The Kiosk – DJ Cinder The Generous Squire – On Tap ft DJ The Saint – DJ Anaru Freeds The Shed – DJ Tony Dee The Saint – DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Wembley – Lokie Shaw The Whistling Kite – Gavyn Mytchel Bar Orient – DJ White Label The Vic – DJ Kristian Tiger Lils – DJ Bojan/ DJ Ben Sebastian Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Mario Tavelli The Deen – Plastic Max/ The Token Toucan – DJ Hages Gesture Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin The Den (Civic Hotel) – MC Lars Windsor – DJ Ray The Paddo – DJ John Paul Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real McCoy The Shed – DJ Andyy
MONDAY 12/11
SUNDAY 11/11 Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Claremont Hotel – DJ Double Dee Clink – DJ Tony Allen Empire Bar – CB3/ DJ Riki/ DJ Vicktor Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve Nightclub – DJ Angry Buda/ DJ Slick Flying Scotsman – Nathan J/ Nizbet/ Pasha/ Chris
TUESDAY 13/11 Bar Orient – DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel – DJ Matty J High Wycombe – DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Players Bar (Norma Jeans Bar) – Stevie M Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin
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VILLA
SNAP
FRAT HOUSE FRIDAYS
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IN THE THIS WEEK:
Floating Points/ Fatima/ Alexander Sets On The Beach ft Mark Farina/ Miami Horror DJs/ The Knocks/ Nut Todd Terje/Last Dinosaurs/ Parker Thursday, November 22 @ Ambar Outbreak ft Child’s Play/ Freqshow/ Sunday, December 2 @ Scarborough DJ Scorpius/ MC Gamma Hopsin/ Dizzy Wright/ Jarren Beach Amphitheatre Thursday, November 8 @ Newport Benton/ DJ Hoppa and more Hotel Thursday, November 22 @ The Civic Perth Dance Music Awards ft Bokchoy vs Flaunt/ Carla/ FTW/ Outbreak ft Lilt/ Freqshow/ DJ Sani/ An Eglo Records Takeover Micah/ Mot3k/ Muller/ Phetsta MC LZ Sunday, December 2 @ The Court Thursday, November 22 @ Ambar Friday, November 9 @ The Hyde Park Hotel The Bass Explosion Tour ft The Kid Kenobi Monday, December 3 @ The Deen Mane Thing & A Tonez and more Smoke DZA/ LV/ Jesse Boykins III/ Friday, November 23 @ Ambar Shigeto/ Melo X/ Raaghe/ Savior/ Parker/ Anton Maz/ Zeke/ Rok Riley Micah/ DNGRFLD/ BACK2MONO/ Next Hype ft Eskmo Friday, November 9 @ The Bakery Roulette DJS Friday, November 23 @ Geisha Wednesday, December 5 @ The Get Weirder ft Moullinex Lucid Dreaming ft Kollektiv Flying Scotsman Friday, November 9 @ Ambar Turmstrasse Xkore/ Zanetic/ Poseidon Friday, November 23 @ The Honey Bass Agenda ft Culture Shock/ Lounge Friday, December 7 @ Shape Lenzman/ Dose & Rregula Friday, November 9 @ Villa Habitat 8th Birthday Garden Syrup ft Kit Pop/ Rekab/ DYP/ Starks/ Hollywood/ Itoje/ Everyteen Party ft Nick Warren/ Sebastien Friday, November 23 @ 23 Irwin Street, Leger/ Chuck Love Sunday, December 9 @ The Court Perth
COMING UP
Nina Las Vegas Friday, November 16 @ Metro Freo
Mr Grevis Brother Ali/ Sean Price Saturday, November 24 @ Metro City Wednesday, December 12 @ Mojos
FreQualizer presents Hedflux Stereosonic ft Tiësto/ Avicii/ Calvin Harris/ Example/ Carl Cox/ Major & Vandal Lazer/ Laidback Luke/ Martin Friday, November 16 @ Geisha Solveig/ Dash Berlin/ Markus Schulz/ Diplo/ Sander van Doorn/ DJ PP Infected Mushroom/ Chuckie/ Saturday, November 17 @ Geisha Flux Pavilion/ Mr Oizo/ Porter Perth City Battles ft Knowledge Robinson/ Loco Dice/ Bassnectar/ Bones Vs Intelekt/ Lethal vs PM/ JFK MSTRKRFT/ Excision/ Adam Azmatik Vs Decoy (ADL)/ Dash vs Beyer/ Aly & Fila/ Caspa/ Datsik/ Donkey/ Phatigue vs Mysc/ Darko Joris Vo orn/ Bingo Players/ vs Double T/ Trance vs Ace/ DJ Jamu Tommy Trash/ Simon Patterson/ Gesaffelstein/ Ørjan Nilsen/ Dillon Saturday, November 17 @ Ya-Ya’s Francis/ Foreign Beggars/ Zedd/ Brodinski/ Krewella/ Nina Kraviz/ Nina Las Vegas Van She/ Strange Talk/ Alvin Saturday, November 17 @ Amplifier Risk/ Destructo/ MaRLo/ Treasure The White Boat Party ft DJ Fingers/ Bart B More and more Sunday, November 25 @ Claremont Boris Abesit Saturday, November 17 @ Barrack Showground (TBC) Street Jetty Trus’me Wednesday, November 28 @ The Bird Ben Sims Friday, November 16 @ Ambar Lucid Dreaming ft Adana Prefuse 73/ Teebs Twins & Dr Dru Saturday, November 17 @ The Bakery Friday, November 30 @ The Honey Lounge Launch Block Party ft Def Wish Cast Sunday, November 18 @ The Aberdeen 2manydjs Friday, November 30 @ Villa
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SMOKE DZA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 @ THE BAKERY
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Ministry Of Sound The Annual 2013 ft Tom Piper/ The Only and more Friday, December 14 @ Villa Kendrick Lamar Saturday, December 22 @ The Astor Breakfest f t Kraf ty Kuts/ A.Skillz/ DJ Yoda/ Lady Waks/ The Nextmen/ Jaguar Skills/ Specimen A/ Pyramid/ Marten Hørger/ High Contrast/ Spy/ Camo & Krooked/ MC Wrec Wednesday, December 26 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre
Origin NYE ft Chase & Status (DJ Set)/ Knife Party/ Gaslamp Killer/ ShockOne/ Pearson Sound/ DMZ (Coki & Mala)/ Goldie/ Brookes Brothers/ Ed Rush/ Wilkinson/ Dillinja/ Marky & Stamina/ Sigma/ Delta Heavy/ Metrik/ DC Breaks/ Skism/ Gemini/ Inspector Dubplate/ Jakes/ Mensah/ Dodge & Fuski/ Bar9/ Distance/ Dark Sky/ Ben Ufo/ New York Transit Authority/ Pariah/ XXXY/ Om Unit/ Friction/ Bare Noize/ Flying Lotus/ Benga/ Youngman/ Doctor Werewolf Drum ‘N’ Breaks ft Invictus/ Sunday, December 30 & Monday, December 31 @ Fairbridge Village, DJ Miss K F r i d a y, N o v e m b e r 3 0 @ T h e Pinjara Rosemount Chi Poption NYE 2012/13 ft Shy 10 Years On ft Micah, Ben Panther/ Rachael Dease vs Ylem/ Diger Rokwell vs Mathas/ Kucka/ Mac & Wish Leure/ Mei Saraswati/ Dani Friday, November 30 @ Ambar Marsland/ Jo Lettenmaier/ Aarom Wilson vs Craig Hollywood/ Ben The Potbelleez Taaffe vs Rok Riley/ Clunk/ PCJ vs Saturday, December 1 @ Metro Freo Ridik/ Miranda Menzies Deadweight!2nd Birthday Bender ft Monday, December 31 @ The Eprom/ Saxon & Boy Prince/ Nebula Bakery & Modo and more TBC Saturday, December 1 @ The Bakery Insert To Play ft 360/ Urthboy/ Drapht/ Hermitude and more Monday, December 31 @ Supreme Japan 4 ft Kid Kenobi Court Gardens Saturday, December 1 @ Ambar
Cuban Club ft Cuban Brothers/ Yacht Club DJs/ Russ Dewbury/ Death Disco DJs and more Tuesday, January 1 @ The Flying Squadron Yacht Club, Dalkeith Club Paradiso ft Friendly Fires (DJ set)/ Kaz James/ Helena/ Mr Wilson/ Zelimir/ The Halo Effect/ Habitat DJs/ Maiko DJs/ Acebasik/ Kno Agents Tuesday, January 1 @ Salt On The Beach Wonderland ft PNAU (live)/ Bag Raiders (DJ set)/ Flume (live)/ Grafton Primary (live)/ Tim & Jean (live)/ Alison Wonderland/ Elizabeth Rose/ What So Not/ Indian Summers DJs and more Tuesday, Januar y 1 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre Summadayze ft Chemical Brothers (DJ Set)/ M.I.A/ Fedde Le Grand/ Mark Ronson (DJ Set)/ Kimbra/ Booka Shade (live)/ Eddie Halliwell/ AN21 & Max Vangeli/ Carl Craig 69 (live)/ Maya Jane Coles/ Disclosure Live/ Adrian Lux/ Erol Alkan/ Breakbot (live)/ Fake Blood/ Hudson Mohawke/ Araabmusik/ Icona Pop/ Scuba/ Aeroplane/ Jesse Rose/ Danny Daze/ AC Slater/ Stafford Brothers & Timmy Trumpet/ Bombs Away and more TBC Sunday, January 6 @ Patersons Stadium Sets On The Beach ft lineup TBC Sunday, January 13 @ Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre ESG Sunday, January 20 @ The Bakery Riva Starr Saturday, January 26 @ Salt On The Beach Big Day Out ft The Bloody Beetroots/ Crystal Castles/ Kaskade/ Pretty Lights/ Nicky Romero/ Morgan Page/ Sampology and more Monday, January 28 @ Claremont Showground Above & Beyond Friday, February 1 @ Metro City Future Music Festival f t Th e Prodigy/ The Stone Roses/ PSY/ Dizzee Rascal/ Bloc Party/ Azealia Banks/ Rita Ora/ Boys Noize (live)/ Hardwell/ The Temper Trap/ Fun./ Madeon/ Rudimental/ Ellie Goulding/ Steve Aoki/ Alesso/ Gypsy & The Cat/ A-Trak (live)/ Feed Me (live)/ Zeds Dead/ Kill The Noise/ DJ Fresh (live)/ Nervo/ Zane Lowe/ Borgore/ Sven Vath/ Richie Hawtin/ Ricardo Villalobos/ Seth Troxler/ Magda/ Cosmic Gate ft Emma Hewitt/ W&W/ tyDi/ Andy Moor/ Super8 & Tab/ Ben Gold/ The Stafford Brothers/ Timmy Trumpet/ Tenzin/ Bombs Away Sunday, March 3 @ Arena Joondalup Sets On The Beach ft lineup TBC Sunday, March 17 @ Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre
Snap! (Photo by Brandon D’Silva)
SNAP! CRACKLE AND POP SNAP! Villa Nightclub Saturday, November 3, 2012 A deluge of biblical proportions greeted the resurrection of ‘90s pop powerhouse SNAP!, but that didn’t prevent their disciples turning up in their throngs to this night of guilty pleasures. The theme was ‘90s dress-up so there were basketball tops, waistcoats, Dr. Martens, backwards baseball caps and trilbies a plenty amongst the up-for-it punters. You could’ve been forgiven for thinking New Kids On The Block were in town but the best effort probably went to the two guys dressed as the Super Mario Brothers complete with hat, tache and chunky white gloves. Early DJ Karl Blue hedged his bets that the crowd would be eager for some old cheesy classics from back in the day and he warmed them up nicely, showcasing some fine turntable skills as well, romping home with the trifecta of Technotronic’s Pump Up The Jam, Show Me Love by Robin S and Ce Ce Peniston’s singalong anthem Finally to a rousing reception. Next up was local hero Charlie Bucket and, free from the confines of cool and hip respectability, he relished digging into his crate to produce a journey through the whole decade from 1990’s Fools Gold by The Stone Roses and the Italo
piano hands in the air of Ride On Time by Black Box through to Armand Van Helden’s You Don’t Know Me and his remix of Tori Amos’ Professional Widow, that were both in their prime before the new millennium arrived. Bucket was in his element, scratching and beat juggling classic rap tracks by EPMD, Stetsasonic, the Beastie Boys and Young MC even finding time to down a quick tequila shot, salt and all, delivered to him at the decks, before ending his stint with the rave-tastic Something Good by Utah Saints. Needless to say the masses had their hands in the air like they just didn’t care. When SNAP! finally arrived, the latest incarnation of performers, lead singer Penny Ford and MC Benjamin Lowe, looked to have got into the spirit of the night dressing like a 2 Unlimited tribute act and they rapidly got the audience on side opening with their breakthrough hit The Power, they quickly powered through their classic backcatalogue, Ooops Up, Cult Of Snap, and Mary Had A Little Boy, in between sharing the love with the crowd and exchanging banter about outfits. Meanwhile, Michael Münzing, aka Benito Benites, aka one of the two shadowy German producers behind the outfit, stood at the back of the stage, nodding his head and occasionally flicking a switch or two. All too soon the end of the set arrived and no surprises in that the group turned to their biggest hit Rhythm Is A Dancer to finish, what was surprising though was the ‘90s garage re-wind of an encore, playing the same track again, but why not, the spectators didn’t seem to mind and it’s better than playing one from the new album. Even Jesus had a second coming.
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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
THE LIVING END
Alison Wonderland / The Brow Horn Orchestra Metro City Saturday, November 3, 2012
The Growl / Gryoscope DJs Rosemount Hotel Sunday, November 4, 2012
Despite the awful weather, The Rosemount was packed out from the get-go on Sunday night, giggoers abuzz with anticipation, huddling near the heaters with a brew before the doors opened. A passer-by would hear snippets of excited conversation: punters sharing their favourite songs, albums, and live moments from one of the bands that defined a generation of rockers. Gryoscope DJs kicked things off and got the crowd’s blood pumping with a set – an odd choice for DJs, but it worked. They pulled out all the Aussie rock classics, from Chisel to ACDC to more Chisel, and the crowd loved it. The Growl fronted up next, taking to the stage with little ado. Though the six-piece have the ability to pull a massive crowd at their headline shows, it wasn’t exactly their kind of crowd on Sunday night, and it took a while to get everyone warmed up. Nonetheless, the group put on a stellar set, showing off their new material as well as the old dirty blues songs that put them on the radar. The main event began a little differently than anticipated, with a short video depicting some of the main events in Australia in the early 2000s, some footage of The Living End recording and performing Roll On, plus the story of Cheney’s car accident in 2001, and their consequent break. It was a perfect opener, a reminder of what we were all there for – an album that, while sometimes overlooked, can hold its own in the back catalogue of The Living End. The band bounded on stage to the roars of what sounded like thousands of people (but in reality, was a few hundred), and launched straight into Roll On, the crowd echoing the chorus, the band in fine form. The trio kicked off their Retrospective Tour in Perth, so this gig was their first time playing the Roll On album live all the way through - and they absolutely smashed it. Each and every song
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The Living End (Photo: Dan Grant) was tight, Chris Cheney killing the solos, Scott Owen making sweet musical love to the bass, and Andy Strachan gettin’ all sweaty behind the kit – they may have aged a little since they first wrote the record, and according to Cheney they “don’t smoke anymore,” but they still rock, hard. Carry Me Home and Silent Victory were particular standouts. The camaraderie amongst those on the ground and onstage was magnificent. It’s tough to find a crowd where every single person is there for the band, no dickheads or haters allowed – but this was it, and the band knew it. Cheney and Owen bantered with the rowdy crowd like they were trading insults at a bar with old mates, and that’s part of The Living End appeal – no wanky-ness allowed. The trio finished on a song that, as Cheney shouted:“We never ever play,” - Uncle Harry - and the crowd completely lost it. It’s quite an experience to be part of a few-hundred-people strong crowd screaming ‘pissing in the bath’ with such fervour. To the guys and gals who dyed their hair red, to the dudes in the flat caps, to those who gelled their hair into Cheney-spikes and mohawks, to the punters dedicated enough to wear the signature studded armband, to those who bought four t-shirts and wore them proudly – you fucking rule. Roll on. _CHLOE PAPAS
Firstly, though, writing about The Brow Horn Orchestra is increasingly an exercise in futility. They’ve endured tectonic line-up shifts, tours along the eastern seaboard and more opening slots than a post office, and nothing has changed; they are still irrepressibly enthusiastic about their own existence. You could say shoehorning the performative logic of early Cat Empire (lots of people, brass, rapper) into something more overtly festival-oriented is cynical, but that word isn’t in their collective vocab. This set was the same, and each shall be always. Whatever. Amen. I would have caught more of Alison Wonderland’s DJ set but I had to eat something and I am never entirely sure what to say about DJs anyway short of ‘they got the people in the room moving in an in/adequate fashion’ so I’m not going to try. Arriving back towards the end of her run, it wasn’t long before someone was out on stage tying coloured flags to each of the microphone stands. Yep, Arrested Development were coming. Though they hardly put shockwaves through the charts these days and are unlikely to do it again, Metros was packed with people who definitely weren’t around when the band was winning Grammys back in the early ‘90s. Nostalgia for an imagined past? Heard People Everyday once on Nova? I don’t know, man. Head honcho MC Speech introduced the band by talking about “two decades of revolutionary hip hop” centered around “life, death, and the struggles of our ancestors,” but they are, and have been for a while now, a travelling party band that only kinda suggests revolution, which at once blunts the seriousness of their message while amplifying the earnestness of it. When singer Montsho Eshe opened the set by coming out in a red tank top doing high kicks, was anyone thinking about equality? About how Speech felt when someone dissed his “black queen”? Hard to say. Were people watching? No doubt, since as a band, they are riveting – utterly and joyfully giving,
in complete command, call and response, clap your hands - but I’ll be danged if I remember a second of the music, which was mostly loud drums and weak samples. Their performances are celebrations (they know how to work a crowd) but I had to turn my brain off whenever I started catching lyrics. Arrested Development came as a reaction to violent rap music - infusing hip hop with some positivity, social awareness and chestout Afrocentrism - and on that brief, they succeed completely. On any other scale, they don’t quite manage to pull off the juggling act, which I guess is why they are much bigger news in Japan than they are America these days. That pretty-propulsive song which somehow managed to clump the entirety of that old proverb about giving a man a fish just about summed up the gig neatly; biting off more than you can chew ain’t so bad if you keep them dancing. _ALEX GRIFFIN
Arrested Development (Photo: Emma Mackenzie)
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THE SIREN TOWER Making It So
In the midst of their national album tour, The Siren Tower make a hometown date at Amplifier this Friday, November 9, with help from The Arsonist, Warning Birds and Jamie Seinemeier. BOB GORDON catches up with songwriter, Grant McCulloch. Any release by a band is a labour of love to various extents, but one very much gets that feeling from The Siren Tower’s A History Of Houses. Since the album’s release in June it has had an amazing critical and popular reaction, one not lost on the band itself. “We’ve been quite humbled by the response, actually,” says singer/guitarist, Grant McCulloch. “We buried ourselves so completely in the album’s creation, we never had time to get a sense of what it was we had built before we gave it to the world. We knew it was the best thing any of us had ever done, but we didn’t expect people to connect with it so deeply, on a colloquial level and on a personal level.” Comedian Dave Hughes may have initially made a name for himself using the phrase ‘uniquely Australian’ in a television commercial a decade ago, but there’s no doubt that the music on A History Of Houses is exactly that. “I think that’s been the most surprising thing,” McCulloch contemplates,“the Australian spirit the band is becoming known for was very much a conscious decision from the start, so we knew that would appeal to people, but it’s the personal reflections people are finding in the music and the stories that was a bit unexpected, for me at least. “When you create these stories, these characters, you forget there are people out there who have been in these situations, people have lived your stories, and when they find this music, they have this
RAILWAY HOTEL
Friday, November 9, catch Blackjack, White Limo, Renzullo Project and Big Chillum. Saturday, November 10, The Railway hosts One Armed Scissor, P Is For Pumpernickel, Big Chillum and Rushton Moore.
HYDE PARK HOTEL
Come down to the Hyde Park Hotel this Friday, November 9, and allow acoustic act Ricky Green get you in the mood for the weekend, followed by DJ Sani, Lilt, Freqshow and MC LZ at 8pm. Saturday, November 10, Meg Mac And The Squeeze perform live on stage from 9pm. Entry is free.
INDI BAR
Blues At Bridgetown act Nat Cole And The Kings make a special appearance this Wednesday, November 7. Come down for a night of rockin’ blues!
MUSTANG BAR
Support original music every Thursday night at The Mustang Bar. This Thursday, November 8, catch The Love Junkies, supported by Dead Owls and Mitch McDonald with DJ James MacArthur.
The Siren Tower connection with it that even you as the songwriter will never have. It’s a really heavy thing, but it’s wonderful to be able to give that to someone.” The album itself is beautifully packaged in a bespoke 64 page vintage style hard cover book. It’s clear that the release has been all about the artistic intent and remaining true to a vision, in the face of what would be a major task that few bands would have the wherewithal to commit to. “We’ve all been in bands before and we’ve seen bands around us climb to the next level, the constant element is always their work ethic,” McCulloch notes. “From the first days of The Siren Tower we agreed that we wouldn’t bullshit ourselves; if we want this to be everything we know it can be, we have to kill ourselves making it so. With that in mind, we try to make every facet of what we do special, from the creation of the music, to production, to the packaging. If we can impress ourselves, then there’s a really good chance it will be received well by others.” It’s a long journey McCulloch’s days fronting ‘90s Perth metal outfit, Heavy Weight Champ. It’s vastly different music in many respects, but with innate similarities. “If I’m speaking from my own perspective I would say that without a shadow of a doubt the one thing that both acts share is a melancholic spirit,” he considers. “As a songwriter I’ve always employed the darker shades and found incredible weight in the soundtracks to despair, uncertainty and the like. “While I’d like to think I’ve expanded the palate quite a bit in The Siren Tower and grown a lot as a songwriter, I think that melancholy is still there, hopefully it’s just being utilised with greater result.”
PLAYERS BAR
Get down to Players Bar this Friday, November 9, to catch Sydney rockers Breaking Orbit on the leg of their The Time Traveler Australian tour. Their captivating live show is an amalgamation of electric soundscapes, tribal grooves, astonishing musicianship and has lead them to the top handful of quality Australian progressive rock acts. This is a show not to be missed so make sure you check it out.
THE PADDO
Get down to Paddo POW tonight, Wednesday, November 7, and see live acts Kate Gilbertson, Helen Shanahan and The Bluebirds take the stage from 8pm. Entry is free.
MOJOS BAR
Wednesday, November 14, Fremantle Blues And Roots Club presents The Beards, The Snowdroppers and Gay Paris at Mojos. There will be fried chicken available on the night. Tickets are $20+BF or $25 at the door. Doors at 8pm. For your chance to win a double pass to this show email mojos@ coolperthnights.com with ‘Beardy’ in the subject line.
ROSEMOUNT HOTEL
This Saturday, November 10, catch local rockers Arts Martial launch their debut album in a massive party with special guests Emperors. Doors open at 8pm and tickets are available from rosemounthotel.com.au. To win a double pass to this show email win@rosemounthotel.com.au with ‘Win’ in the subject line.
HYDE PARK HOTEL
It All Ends Here
THE BEAT
Head down this Friday, November 9, for Beat’s Free Friday. Cheap drinks, live bands, DJs, free entry for you and all your mates, and fun times all night! Then head back downstairs on Saturday Night for Runaways which this week includes a live floor show from It All Ends Here. Drink beer from the Red Cup! Cheap refills from 10pm. 40
Come down to the Hyde Park Hotel this Friday, November 9, and allow acoustic act Ricky Green get you in the mood for the weekend, followed by DJ Sani, Lilt, Freqshow and MC LZ at 8pm. Saturday, November 10, Meg Mac And The Squeeze perform live on stage from 9pm. Entry is free.
YA YA’S
Come join Ya Ya’s on Thursday, November 8, for Unplugged. $5 gets you exposure to four live, local and talented musicians! Saturday, November 10, join Heytesburg as they headline supported by The Disappointed, Starcleaner and Robo Ant. Get down on Sunday, November 11, from 1pm to check out the semi finals of our Jammin’ Band Comp! X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
AXE GIRL
Music That Moves As frontwoman Addison Axe attests, if you’re thinking of heading to Axe Girl’s debut EP launch at the Norfolk Basement this Friday, November 9, expect “a lot of sweat, blood (usually mine), tears (of joy) and beer. All simultaneously if you’re in front of the stage, and more sporadically if you’re a pussy and stay near the bar”.JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD reports. When, in early 2012, London singer/guitarist Addison Axe was packing her bags for summer holiday and to perform at the Perth Fringeworld Festival she wasn’t to know exactly how life-changing the 10,000 mile journey would be. “I came to WA on a short trip to perform at the Fringeworld Festival. I was acting in a show called The Yellow Wallpaper... I had a solo gig booked at The Bird as part of Fringe, but there was a miscommunication between the venue and my UK agent. It became clear that they were expecting a full band. I was about to set them straight, but was seduced by the idea of the challenge,” Axe begins. Having already indulged in some jamming with bassist Vanessa ‘Ness’ Thornton (Jebediah, End Of Fashion, Felicity Groom) after a spontaneous meeting “at the pub”, Axe enlisted her new friends help in recruiting a makeshift band for the performance. “I put the word out, and before long I’d somehow recruited Ness and [guitarist] Nat Ripepi (this bit still baffles me) and we started working on some songs with a drummer pal of Nat’s. Before long we seemed to have a handful of other gigs lined up. All seemed to be falling into place, when the drummer we’d been playing with suddenly pulled out three days before we were supposed to support Felicity Groom at Mojo’s due to a double booking with his other band. We all started getting ready to freak out, when Brett [Mitchell, Jebediah] appeared like a knight in shining armour. Little did he know that one small favour to his longtime-friend Ness would trap him in Axe Girl forever,” Axe explains.
BOWLING FOR CAMBODIA
The Som Bong Chamb Foundation will host the first ever Bowling For Cambodia fundraiser at the North Fremantle Bowls Club on Sunday, November 11. Featuring live music by locals David Craft, Mitch McDonald (The Love Junkies), Duncan Strachan and James Dolin (Deep River Collective), Joe McRobbie, Child’s Play and more, as well as delightful curries from Victus Collective, children’s entertainment courtesy of The Watch This Space crew and markets selling vintage wares, home-made preservatives and more, the afternoon is about celebrating community, family, music, fun, and will raise much needed funds for the small Som Bong Chamb Community of the Siem Reap province Cambodia. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids if purchased online, or $15 and $5 at the door from 3pm. For more details on the projects, the event or to make a donation visit sombongchambfoundation.org.
Axe Girl After only a month of making music together Axe was due to return home to the UK, however the strong connection the bandmembers felt, combined with their increasing presence on the local scene, led her to make the difficult decision to forge a new life down under. “When the time came for me to get on the plane back to London, I couldn’t believe how uneasy I felt. We’d had a totally awesome summer, and I was gutted it was ending. We we’re all feeling a bit weird and sad, and it just hit me that know-one was making me go back… and that was it,” she explains.“I got on my flight back to London, sold a bunch of stuff, packed a bag, stored a stack of cardboard boxes in my grandma’s garage, said bye to my friends and family, and came back. Seems kinda rash but it was definitely the right decision.” While Axe says our beaches, great weather, and laid-back living have made the big move easy, it is her ability to play regularly with her new band - the semi-eponymous Axe Girl - which is the greatest bonus. Having garnered an enthusiastic following on the local scene, the quartet are gearing up to launch their debut EP Ghost Romance, which was recorded with the legendary Dave Parkin at Blackbird Studios. “Musically, I think the sound reflects the fun we have playing together. We we’re keen to capture the feel and energy that we play the songs with live. All the awesome people who’ve been supporting us over the last year (making it possible for us to record in the first place) have been doing so on the basis of our live show, and we didn’t want to disappoint,” Axe says of Ghost Romance. “You can download the EP for free at axegirl.com. It’s our way of thanking everyone for the love we’ve been shown thus far. Learn the words, choreograph a dance routine and come show off your moves at the Norfolk!”
WOMEN OF JAZZ
Sweet distortion will electrify the airwaves in the Rocket Room this Friday November 9, when Extreme Aggression hosts the official Malignant Monster Prelude To Murder EP Launch Party. As a precursor to their 2013 album Yours In Murder, the free downloadable EP features two unreleased original Malignant Monster songs as well as two killer covers. DJ Cain will play tracks from the EP throughout the night as well as some sneak peeks of unheard Yours In Murder tracks. You can also expect to hear songs by bands that have influenced Malignant Monster’s sound and member’s playing styles. Not to mention requests and party favourites.
Showcasing the originality and artistry of three exceptional local female vocalists, the 2012 Fremantle Festival is set to host Jazzdevous at The Fly Trap (next door to the iconic Fly By Night Musician’s Club) on Wednesday, Nicola Milan November 7. Perth jazz singers Juliana Areias, Nicola Milan and Jen de Ness are teaming up for an intimate evening of Brazilian rhythms, sultry original jazz and classy jazz Cabaret as these ladies of song take to the stage accompanied by six of the hottest jazz musicians Perth has to offer. Doors open at 8pm and the show promises to sweep audiences away with the soft tinkling of piano, rhythmic guitar and memoirs of lost love, passion and romance. Presenting a new and exciting exploration of sound, this will be a creative and deliciously entertaining show for music lovers everywhere.
ROCK AIN’T DEAD
SISTER ACT
MURDEROUS AGGRESSION
Whether you like your rock sweet and slow or dirty, fast and rough, The Volcanics, Datura, High Horse, The Wishers and Richard Lane are puttin’ together some old fashioned good times for ya’ll at North Freo’s finest, Mojo’s Bar, this Saturday, November 10. If gut-busting riffs, electrifying guitar solos and monster choruses are right up your alley, don’t miss this be sweaty, loud and out-of-control line-up!
TRIO OF CUPS
Come and see two of Perth’s hottest bands turn up the volume and debut their summer form when musically dexterous dirty gypsy-rockers Joe Black Trio team up with beloved MC The Empty Cup and his super-tight full band for a rare combined gig at The Rosemount on Thursday, November 8. Promising an evening packed to the brim with an array of edgy, quirky and flat-out sassy tunes for audiences to fall in lust with, this is one raucously dynamic line-up you won’t want to miss.
RUB A DUB DUB
Om nom nom nom. Volume I and II of The Weapon Is Sound Bird Dub Residencies were so effin’ tasty they’re doing it all again this November. Round One kicks off this Sunday, November 11, head to The Bird on William Street for a free set by The Weapon Is Sound. Special guests Trinadad & Tabasco [aka Hamish & Tom from HAMJAM Dub Select] and Sibalance [The Community] will be treating punters with their scrumptious sounds.
SALTY YET SWEET
Expect a rock party cranked up to 11 this Friday, November 9, at the Rosemount when stoner-rock outfit SuperSalt tear up the stage to launch a new single, with help from Vida Cain, The Whores and Born On The Bayou. The kick-arse tunes kick-off from 8pm.
The perpetually gorgeous Blanche DuBois returns to the Ellington Jazz Club for a show this Thursday, November 8. Sisters Nadija and Adriana Begovich have been busying themselves over the past few months writing material for their next record [including a track co-written with Josh Pyke]. They will showcase a few new tunes at this intimate show - performing as an acoustic trio with the backing of a string section. Support comes from Michael Paolino [aka Husband] playing solo from 8.30pm. Tickets $10/$15 from ellingtonjazz.com.au
Blanche DuBois
THE YES FACTOR
Already with three successful albums, an army of loyal followers, an appearance on The X Factor and an armful of song-writing awards, 24 -year-old acoustic artist Matt Gresham’s star is definitely on the rise. Catch him as he launches his newest album, See The World, at The Astor Theatre on Saturday, November 10. Supporting on the night are The Empty Cup, Odette Mercy and Bryan Rice Dalton and tickets are selling fast, so head over to showticketing.com.au to make sure you don’t miss out!
COUNTRY FOLK
For the best part of a decade, Benedict Moleta has been seeking out interesting venues to play his quiet and evocative storytelling songs. Looking for a venue away from the noise of the pub circuit, where music could be enjoyed in peace and quiet, and where the natural acoustics of the venue add a beautiful warmth and presence to the songs, last year Moleta brought his band to play a show in the Toodyay CWA hall. This Sunday, November 11, he’ll repeat the experience, joined by singer-songwriters Andrew Ewing and Miranda Pollard, folk band Davey Craddock And The Spectacles, and poet James Quinton. This group of artists will be taking a drive from Perth to Toodyay, to present an afternoon of music and poetry from 1pm ‘til 4pm, with an interval for afternoon tea. Tickets are $10 on the door. www.xpressmag.com.au
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Breaking Orbit, November 11, Newport
THIS WEEK TRIO M 7 The Bakery
JOE LONGTHORNE / MELISSA MANCHESTER 7 Regal Theatre
TOUCHE AMORE/ MAKE DO AND MEND 7 YMCA HQ 8 Amplifier
JOSH PYKE 8 Artbar
CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE BAND 8 Fly By Night
TRIPOD 9 & 10 Quarry Amphitheatre
REFUSED/ BLKOUT/ NUCLEAR SUMMER/ ENDLESS HEIGHTS/ OUTRIGHT/ HIGHTIME 9 Metropolis Fremantle
JOHN WAITE (POSTPONED) 9 Metro City
BLEEDING KNEES CLUB 9 Metro Freo 10 Amplifier
SARITAH 9 Fly By Nightclub 10 Settlers Tavern
ELTON JOHN 10 & 12 Perth Arena
PROGFEST (Ne Obliviscaris, Serial Killer Smile and more TBA) 10 Civic Hotel
DAN SULTAN / LEAH FLANAGAN 10 The Bakery 11 Fly By Night
MATCHBOX TWENTY/ INXS/ EVERMORE 11 Perth Arena
BREAKING ORBIT/ SERIAL KILLER SMILE/ CARTHASEY 11 Newport
SWAMP THING 11 Fremantle Arts Centre
DEXYS 12 Astor Theatre
SCOTTIE MILLER / SHAUN KIRKE 13 Charles Hotel
NOVEMBER DARK FUNERAL 25 Amplifier RUSSIAN VISIONS 14 Perth Concert Hall
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Dexys, November 12, Astor Theatre
Scottie Miller, November 13, Charles Hotel
SHAUN KIRKE LAGWAGON/ THE SMITH Bear, Coolio, The Vaccines, CELTIC THUNDER STREET BAND Bombay Bicycle Club, First 16 Perth Arena 14 Indi Bar 5 Prince Of Wales Aid Kit, Hilltop Hoods, 17 Settlers Tavern DAVID HASSLEHOFF Hot Chip, Maximo Park, SIGUR ROS/ DARK HORSES 6 The Rosemount 17 Capitol SPENCER P JONES/ THE Millions, Totally Enormous RINGO STARR 13 Belvoir Amphitheatre Extinct Dinosaurs, Angus 21 Challenge Stadium SILVERSUN PICKUPS/ THE NOTHING BUTTS 7 The Bakery Stone, Ball Park Music, DANDY WARHOLS ED SHEERAN/ PASSENGER THE BLACKEYED SUSANS Cosmo Jarvis, Django 13 Fremantle Arts Centre 23 Challenge Stadium 7 The Rosemount Django, The Hives, Jinjo BEN FOLDS FIVE CLIFF RICHARDS 8 Mojos Bar Safari, Lisa Mitchell, Matt 23 Sandalford Estate 14 Fremantle Arts Centre MISSY HIGGINS Corby, Sharon Van Etten, GLENN FREY SANTIGOLD/ CRAZY P 8 Fremantle Arts Centre Two Door Cinema Club, 14 Metro City 24 Kings Park & Botanical MITZI Bertie Blackman, DJ Nu- Garden THE BEARDS / THE 8 The Bakery Mark Toy Set, The Jungle NORAH JONES SNOWDROPPERS NICKI MINAJ / TYGA Giants, Loon Lake, Oh 15 Prince Of Wales 24 Riverside Theatre 8 Perth Arena Mercy, Rodrigo Gabriela, 16 Settlers Tavern SHANE NICHOLSON San Cisco & more TBA) 17 Rosemount Hotel 10 Fremantle Arts Centre 4 & 5 Sir Stewart Bovell Park 18 Indi Bar MARCH PRIMAL SCREAM Busselton WASHINGTON FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL 11 Astor Theatre 65 DAYS OF STATIC 16 & 17 Quarry 2013 (The Prodigy, HUSKY 5 The Bakery Amphitheatre The Stone Roses, PSY, 12 Mojos Bar SUMMADAYZE (M.I.A, NICKELBACK / JACKSON 13 The Bakery Dizzee Rascal, Bloc Party, Fedde Le Grand, Mark FIREBIRD MANHATTAN JINX Azealia Banks, Rita Ora, Ronson DJ Set, Kimbra, 17 Perth Arena 12 Prince Of Wales Boys Noize, Hardwell, Booka Shade Live, Eddie The Temper Trap, FUN, PREFUSE 73 & TEEBS 14 Rocket Room Halliwell, AN21 & Max 17 Bakery 15 The Railway Madeon, Rudimental, Vangeli, Carl Craig, 69 SAN CISCO / THE ANGUS STONE Ellie Goulding, Steve Aoki, Live, Maya Jane Coles, PREATURES 17 Perth Zoo Alesso, Gypsy & The Cat, Disclosure Live, Erol Alkan, A-Trak, Feed Me, Zeds 14 The Bakery THE GLEN MILLER Fake Blood, Adrian Lux, BIG JAY MCNEELY ORCHESTRA Dead, Kill The Noise, DJ 14 Fremantle Arts Centre Breakbot Live, Hudson 17 Burswood Theatre Fresh, Nervo, Zane Lowe, TAME IMPALA Mohawke, Araabmuzik, JOHN BUTLER Borgore, Cocoon Heroes ft 15 Fremantle Arts Centre Icona Pop, Scuba, 18 Fly By Night Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, PARKWAY DRIVE Aeroplane, Jesse Rose, JEFF MARTIN Ricardo Villalobos, Seth 19 Challenge Stadium Danny Daze, AC Slater, 22 Friends Restaurant Troxler, Magda, Wake Your DARREN HANLON Stafford Brothers & Timmy Mind ft Cosmic Gate & INDIAN SUMMER DJS 19 Mojos Bar Trumpet, Bombs Away & Emma Hewitt, W&W, tyDi, 22 Villa SUICIDAL TENDENCIES/ More) DEEP SEA ARCADE Andy Moor, Super8 & Tab, UNWRITTEN LAW/ THE 6 Patersons Stadium 23 The Rosemount Ben Gold, The Stafford DUDESONS Subiaco MOVEMBER MAYHEM Brothers, Timmy Trumpet, 19 Metro Freo BOYS OF SUMMER TOUR (Dream On Dreamer, REGINA SPEKTOR Tenzin, Bombs Away & 9 Amplifier Make Them Suffer, In Fear 19 Belvoir Amphitheatre More TBA) 10 YMCA HQ & Faith/ Saviour) 3 Arena Joondalup JEFF MARTIN SANDI THOM 22 Amplifier SOUNDWAVE 2013 20 Fremantle Arts Centre Fly By Night 23 YMCA HQ (Metallica, Linkin Park, 21 Clancy’s Dunsborough 10 NIGHTWISH OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ 22 Mojos Bar Blink-182, A Perfect 20 Metropolis Fremantle 24 The Rosemount 23 Indi Bar Circle, The Offspring, STEREOSONIC (Tiësto, EVAN DANDO / JULIANA ESG Paramore, Garbage, Slayer, 20 The Bakery Avicii, Calvin Harris, HATFIELD Cypress Hill, Bullet For My WEEZER Example, Carl Cox, Major 22 The Rosemount Valentine, and more) 23 Perth Arena Lazer, and more) KENDRICK LAMAR 4 Claremont Showgrounds WOODS 25 Claremont Showgrounds 22 Astor Theatre DEEP PURPLE/JOURNEY 23 The Bakery ORIGIN NYE (Chase & BRITISH INDIA 7 Perth Arena Status (DJ Set), Knife Party, JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD GEORGE CLINTON & 29 Prince Of Wales Gaslamp Killer, ShockOne, 27 Mojos 30 Metro Freo PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC YANNI Pearson Sound, DMZ JOHN WILLIAMSON 7 Metropolis Fremantle 27 Perth Arena (Coki & Mala), Goldie, 30 Quarry Amphitheatre GLENN SHORROCK/ BIG DAY OUT (Red Brookes Brothers, Ed THE SAINTS/ THE WENDY MATTHEWS/ Rush, Wilkinson, Dillinja, Hot Chili Peppers, The VOLCANICS Marky & Stamina, Sigma, Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, DOUG PARKINSON 30 Fly By Nightclub Delta Heavy, Metrik, DC Vampire Weekend, Band 14 & 15 Quarry Amphitheatre Breaks, Skism, Gemini, Of Horses, Kaskade, THE CIVIL WARS Inspector Dubplate, Jakes, Animal Collective, DECEMBER (Cancelled) Mensah, Dodge & Fuski, Against Me!, 360, Foals, BRITISH INDIA 15 St Joseph’s Subiaco Bar9, Distance, Dark Sky, B.O.B, Sleigh Bells, Jeff 1 Amplifier BOB MOULD Ben Ufo, New York Transit The Brotherhood, Off!, JOHN WILLIAMSON 16 The Rosemount Authority, Pariah, XXXY, Grinspoon, Jagwar Ma, 1 Quarry Amphitheatre THE MARK OF CAIN Om Unit and more TBC) Delta Spirit, Everytime I JUSTINE CLARKE 30 & 31 Fairbridge Village, Die, House Vs Hurricane, 17 Capitol 1 Astor Theatre Pinjara WILLIAM ELLIOT Alabama Shakes, and REECE MASTIN/ JUSTICE CHI POPTION (Shy WHITMORE more) CREW/ THE JANOSKIANS Panther, Rachael Dease 28 Claremont Showgrounds 23 Mojos Bar 1 Perth Arena vs Ylem, Diger Rokwell NATURAL NEW ZEALAND vs Mathas, Kucka, Leure, RICHARD HAWLEY 31 Astor Theatre MUSIC FESTIVAL ( Mei Saraswati, Dani APRIL Shapeshifter, Kora, Ladi6, Marsland, Jo Lettenmaier, HITS & PITS 2013 (Mad Trinity Roots, David Dallas, Aarom Wilson vs Craig, Caddies, Good Riddance, A FEBRUARY P-Money & More) Hollywood, Ben Taaffe vs Wilhelm Scream, Voodoo 1 Red Hill Auditorium Rok Riley, Clunk, PCJ vs Nik ELVIS COSTELLO & THE Glow Skulls, The Flatliners, RUSSELL BRAND Ridik, Miranda Menzies) IMPOSTERS/ SUNNYBOYS/ Diesel Boy, One Dollar 2 Perth Arena JO JO ZEP &THE FALCONS/ 31 The Bakery Short, Jamie Hay, Jen THE KNOCKS STEPHEN CUMMINGS INSERT TO PLAY (360, Buxton, Totally Unicorn & 2 Venue TBA 6 Kings Park Botanic Drapht, Hermitude, Paper Arms) SETS ON THE BEACH (Mark Urthboy) Gardens Farina, Miami Horror DJs, 31 Supreme Court Gardens ST. JEROME’S LANEWAY 1 Metro Freo The Knocks, Todd Terje, FESTIVAL 2013 (Alpine, THE SCRIPT Alt-J, Bat For Lashes, Chet 3 Perth Arena Last Dinosaurs, Parker) Faker, Cloud Nothings, 2 Scarborough Beach ROGER HODGSON JANUARY 2013 Divine Fits, El-P, Flume, Amphitheatre 7 Riverside Theatre CUBAN CLUB (Cuban Henry Wagons & The SIMPLE MINDS / DEVO / ZUCCHERO Brothers, Yacht Club DJs, Unwelcome Company, THE CHURCH / MODELS 17 Regal Theatre Russ Dewbury, Still Water High Highs, Holy Other, 4 Kings Park & Botanical Giants, Death Disco DJs & Japandroids, Jessie Ware, Garden El Ginger Mojito) Julia Holter, Kings Of REEL BIG FISH/ MAY GOLDFINGER/ZEBRAHEAD 1 The Flying Squadron Yacht Convenience, The Men, Ms BLACK SABBATH Club, Dalkeith Mr, The Neighbourhood, 5 Metro City 4 Perth Arena CLUB PARADISO 2013 Nicolas Jaar, Nite Jewel, Of PARKER (Friendly Fires, Kaz James, Monsters & Men, Perfume 5 The Flying Scotsman KASEY CHAMBERS/ SHANE Helena, Mr Wilson, Zelimir, Genius, Polica, Pond, JUNE The Halo Effect, Habitat Real Estate, The Rubens, NICHOLSON PINK DJ’s, Maiko DJ’s, Acebasik Shlohmo, Snakadaktal, 5 Albany Entertainment 25, 26 & 28 Perth Arena and Twerps, Yeasayer ) Centre Kno Agents) 9 Venue TBC 6 Civic Centre Esperance GIN BLOSSOMS 1 Salt On the Beach 7 Goldfields Arts Centre SEPTEMBER 10 Capitol SOUTHBOUND (The 8 Mundaring Weir Hotel ONE DIRECTION Flaming Lips, SBTRKT, Best AMANDA PALMER JLO 14 Astor Theatre 6 Perth Arena 28 & 29 Perth Arena Coast, Beach House, Boy &
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Joe Black Trio, Thursday at The Rosemount Hotel
WEDNESDAY 07.11 BAKERY Trio M BAR 120 Felix BIRD Can Avery BRASS MONKEY Sugar Blue Burlesque CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Moondog J Dillip Parekh CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Chet Leonard’s Bingotheque CLAREMONT HOTEL Open Mic Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB TLC Organ Trio FLY BY NIGHT Jazzdezvous GREENWOOD Bernardine GROOVE BAR (CROWN CASINO) 5 Shots HALE ROAD TAVERN Fenton Wilde INDI BAR Nat Cole & The Kings LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan MOJOS BAR Swamp Thing Minnie Marks MUSTANG Envy PADDO Kate Gilbertson Helen Shanahan The Bluebirds REGAL THEATRE Joe Longthorne Melissa Manchester ROSEMOUNT The Living End The Novocaines Gyroscope DJs ROSIE O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) David Fyffe THE BROWN FOX Courtney Murphy THE MOON Timothy Nelson Luke Dux Karin Page
Jessica Morhall, Thursday at Ya Ya’s
UNIVERSAL Strutt YAYA’S The Southwicks Waiting For Bliss Montage For The Blind YMCA HQ Touche Amore Make Do And Mend Foxes
THURSDAY 08.11 AMPLIFIER Touche Amore Make Do And Mend Vanity ARTBAR Josh Pyke BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Chasing Calee BIRD Kara”Yo”Ke BRASS MONKEY Rhythm Bound Karaoke BRIGHTON Open Mic Night BROOKLANDS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke CIVIC HOTEL 1814 Jahmoko DJ Antikz CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Zukhuta COMO HOTEL Courtney Murphy DEVILLES PAD Rock ‘N’ Roll Karaoke DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Open Mic Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Blanche Dubois FLY BY NIGHT Charlie Musselwhite Band GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Switch HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL Chris Murphy INDI BAR Bex’s Open Mic Night
LEEDERVILLE HOTEL Leederville Loungeroom Minky G Rosco Masonik Reid Maul LUCKY SHAG James Wilson MALT SUPPER CLUB Stratosfunk MARKET CITY TAVERN Allison Bell Tamika Brad Wintle Jenia Jon Madd MOJOS BAR Mia Dyson Toby Beard Sam Buckingham MUSTANG BAR The Love Junkies Dead Owls Mitch McDonald NORFOLK BASEMENT The XWray All Stars OXFORD HOTEL Johnny Taylor PADDY HANNAN’S Dr Bogus ROCKET ROOM Maggot Mouf Smiley The Apprentice Dista DJ L-Street ROSEMOUNT Joe Black Trio Empty Cup Boys Boys Boys! DJs ROSIE O’GRADY’S (FREMANTLE) Clayton Bolger ROSIE O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) Neil Colliss SOVEREIGN ARMS David Fyffe THE BOAT Jen De Ness THE BROOK Open Mic Night THE GATE One Trick Phonies UNIVERSAL Off The Record WOODVALE Two Plus One YA YA’S Brendan Taylor Ermine Coat Chris Ravat Jessica Morhall
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The Volcanics
THE VOLCANICS DATURA HIGH HORSE THE WISHERS RICHARD LANE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 MOJOS BAR
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7th AVENUE Tandem ADMIRAL Steve Hepple AMPLIFIER The Siren Tower BAILEY BAR Mod Squad BALLYS BAR Bernardine BALMORAL Mike Nayar BAR ORIENT The Reggae Club BELMONT TAVERN The Bluebottles BENTLEY HOTEL Ryan Dillon BLACK BETTYS Everlong BRASS MONKEY Simon Kelly BROKEN HILL HOTEL Matt Milford
The Floors, Friday at Norfolk Basement
BROOKLANDS TAVERN Better Days CARINE Pop Candy CARLISLE HOTEL Reload CHASE BAR Chasing Calee CIVIC HOTEL Inanimacy One Too Many Camel Bend The Sky Amadeum CLANCY’S CITY BEACH Rhys Smith Trio CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Timothy Nelson & The Infidels COMO HOTEL Trevor Jalla CORNERSTONE Smooth Criminals CRAFTSMAN Nicki Rose DEVILLES PAD Amber Foxx Johnny Law & The Pistol Packin’ Daddies Les Sataniques EAST 150 Adrian Wilson EASTERN HOTEL Neil Colliss ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Allira Wilson & Jamie Oehlers Quintet Jeremy Gregory EMPIRE Howie Morgan FLY BY NIGHT Saritah GREENWOOD Greg Cater HALE ROAD TAVERN Insideout Duo HERDSMAN Ali Towers Duo HIGH ROAD HOTEL Clayton Bolger The Damien Cripps Band HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL Dr Bogus HYDE PARK HOTEL DJ Sani Lilt DJ Sani Freqshow MC LZ DJSani INDI BAR Mike & Knikke Beale INDIAN OCEAN BREW Ben Merito KALAMUNDA HOTEL B.O.B KULCHA Bantus Capoeira LAKERS DJ Grizzly Slickenside Melee LEGENDS BAR The Organ Grinders M ON THE POINT One Trick Phonies MARKET CITY TAVERN Jim Moore Juke Box Lady MERRIWA TAVERN Nasty Dogz METRO FREO Refused MOJOS BAR (ARVO) Captn K Simmo T
MOJOS BAR (EVE) Ensemble Formidable Leure ASAP Empty Simmo T MOON & SIXPENCE Soul Corporation MUSTANG BAR Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys Cheeky Monkeys NEWPORT Party Rockers NORFOLK BASEMENT Axe Girl The Floors The Belle Ends PADDO Stu Harcourt PADDY HANNAN’S J Babies PARAMOUNT Flyte PEEL ALEHOUSE Baby Piranhas PINK DUCK LOUNGE Chris Murphy PRINCESS ROAD TAVERN Local Heroes RAILWAY HOTEL Blackjack BigChillum White Limo Renzullo Project ROCKET ROOM Befallen Empires Laid Waste Blunt Force Trauma Xenobiotic Dawn Of Leviathan ROSEMOUNT Supersalt Born On The Bayou Vida Cain The Whores ROSIE O’GRADY’S (FREMANTLE) Spyce ROSEY O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) Neil Colliss SAIL & ANCHOR Howie Morgan KickUpAFuss SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Greg Carter Karaoke SWINGING PIG Easy Tigers Greg Carter THE BOAT The Organ Grinders THE GATE Smoking Section THE SAINT Huge THE SHED Krank THE VIC Jen De Ness TIGER LILS Paul Malone Adam Kelly Alex Koresis UNIVERSAL Nightmoves VELVET LOUNGE Little City Dream The Warning Birds Nevada Pilot Edie Green VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Ivan Ribic WOODVALE TAVERN Switch
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Friday Friday Serial Killer Smile, Saturday Travis Caudle Travis Caudle at Progfest & Sunday at FlyBy ByNight Night Fly The Newport
M ON THE POINT Rhythm 22 MOJOS BAR The Volcanics Datura High Horse SATURDAY 10.11 The Wishers ADMIRAL Patient Little Sister James Wilson MOON & SIXPENCE Damien Cripps Band AMPLIFIER MUSTANG Bleeding Knees Club Marco & The Rhythm ASTOR THEATRE Kings Matt Gresham Milhouse The Empty Cup NEWPORT Odette Mercy Kizzy Bryan Rice Dalton Trio Gravity BALLYS BAR NORFOLK BASEMENT Dove Prez Juan BALMORAL Jackson Harvey The Recliners Hank Chisolm BAILEY BAR Camo-flage Insideout Destroy BAR 120 Brett Nichols Flyte PADDY HANNANS BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Decoy Mike Nayar PARAMOUNT BLACK BETTY’S Felix J Babies PEEL ALEHOUSE BREAKERS BAR Chris Gibbs Band Flamboyant PERTH ARENA BRIGHTON Elton John Howie Morgan Duo QUARIE BAR CLANCY’S CANNING Electrophobia BRIDGE RAILWAY HOTEL Adam Hall Trio One Armed Scissor CLANCY’S CITY BEACH P Is For Pumpernickel Jonny Taylor Big Chillum CLANCY’S Rushton Moore FREMANTLE ROCKET ROOM Ben Merito Kickstart CIVIC HOTEL ROSEMOUNT Progfest Arts Martial Ne Obliviascaris Emperors Chaos Divine Further Earth Tangled Thoughts of ROSIE O’GRADY’S Leaving (FREMANTLE) Breaking Orbit Flavor Serial Killer Smile ROSIE O’GRADY’S Prescient (NORTHBRIDGE) Foxes Blue Gene Nexus SAIL & ANCHOR The Kickstarts COMO HOTEL Childs Play Helen Shanahan SEAVIEW HOTEL DEVILLES PAD Open Mic Night Stratosfunk STEVES BAR ELLINGTON JAZZ Pat Nicholson CLUB SWAN LOUNGE Jodie Tes Breadbox Mafia Odette Mercy & Her Kings Justice Soul Atomics SWINGING PIG FLY BY NIGHT Greg Carter Bad Girls & Wicked Rock-A-Fellas Women THE BOAT GREENWOOD Infiniti Cargo Beat! GROOVE BAR (CROWN THE GATE Dirty Scoundrels CASINO) THE SAINT Hi NRG A Bit On The Side HIGH ROAD HOTEL THE SHED Losing Julia Huge HYDE PARK HOTEL UNIVERSAL Meg Mac & The Soul Corporation Squeeze WHALE & ALE INDIAN OCEAN BREW Urban X CO WOODVALE TAVERN The Blackbirds Mod Squad INDI BAR YAYA’S (ARVO) Valdaway Lady Velvet Academy KULCHA YAYA’S (EVE) Madjitil Moorna Choir The Disappointed LAKERS Starcleaner Celebrations Karaoke Robo Ant LANGFORD Heytesburg ALEHOUSE Die Hard Karaoke SUNDAY 11.11 LEOPOLD HOTEL 7TH AVENUE Steve Hepple Reckless Kelly LOBBY LOUNGE BALMORAL (CROWN CASINO) Pop Candy Chasing Calee YAYA’S We Move Walls The Painkillers Stunning In Red
BELMONT TAVERN Adam James BIRD The Weapon Is Sound BLVD TAVERN Little Black Book BREAKERS BAR Karin Page BRIGHTON Michael Triscari BROKEN HILL HOTEL Nathan Gaunt BROOKLANDS TAVERN Stu Harcourt CAPTAIN STIRLING Jamie Powers CARINE Wesley Goodlet Jamboree Scouts CLANCY’S DUNSBOROUGH 44th Sunset CLANCY’S FREMANTLE The Zydecats CLAREMONT HOTEL Sunday Driver COMO HOTEL Adrian Wilson ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Random Act EMPIRE CB3 FLY BY NIGHT Dan Sultan FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Swamp Thing HIGH ROAD HOTEL Nat Ripepi HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL The Organ Grinders INDI BAR Afrique Acoustic KULCHA Starlight Hotel Choir The Caravan Club INDIAN OCEAN BREW CO Retrofit KALAMUNDA HOTEL Christian Thompson LAST DROP TAVERN John Unit M ON THE POINT Sophie Jane The Chilly Bin Boys MAHOGANNY INN Stu McKay MOJOS BAR (ARVO) John Stringer Chris Matthews Michael Francas Jason Hayles Stu Orchard MOJOS BAR (EVE) Critica Future Sounds Corby Simmo T MUSTANG BAR Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers NEWPORT Tim Nelson Breaking Orbit Serial Killer Smile Carthasey NORTH FREMANTLE BOWLS CLUB Bowling For Cambodia David Craft Mitch McDonald Duncan Strachan and James Dolin Joe McRobbie
Heytesburg, Saturday at Ya Ya’s
James sherry Tim Sherry Childs Play Sean Thomas Kristy Hulka The Godwins OCEAN VIEW TAVERN Free Radicals PADDY MALONE’S Gary Fowlie PEEL ALEHOUSE Pat Nicholson PERTH ARENA Matchbox Twenty INXS Evermore PIG & WHISTLE Velvet & Stone PINK DUCK LOUNGE BAR Kevin Conway QUEENS TAVERN Mister & Sunbird ROSEY O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) Damien Cripps SAIL & ANCHOR Mike Nayar SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Anthony Nieves SOVEREIGN ARMS Ivan Ribic SPRINGS TAVERN Sophie Jane STIRLING ARMS Ryan Dillon SWAN LOUNGE The Rupert Crook Confusion Roly Skender Ron Holywood SWINGING PIG Darren Gibbs THE GATE Better Days Greg Carter THE SAINT Howie Morgan Trio UNIVERSAL Retriofit VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Jonathan Dempsey WANNEROO TAVERN Eddie McMellow WOODVALE TAVERN Good Karma XWRAY CAFÉ The Charisma Brothers YA YA’S Thee Gold Blooms Rag ‘n’ Bone This Will Stop The Machines Graceful Sun Moths
MONDAY 12.11 ASTOR THEATRE Dexys BRASS MONKEY James Wilson ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Lazy River Jazz Band GROOVE BAR (CROWN CASINO) Courtney Murphy Duo MOJOS BAR Wide Open Mic Night MUSTANG BAR Marco & The Alley Cats PERTH ARENA Elton John THE DEEN Plastic Max & The Token Gesture WOODVALE TAVERN Damien Cripps YA YA’S Open Mic Night
TUESDAY 13.11 AMPLIFIER Between The Buried & Me CHARLES HOTEL Scottie Miller Shaun Kirke ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Nick Di Gregorio LUCKY SHAG Christian Thompson MERRIWA TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke MOJOS BAR Zeke Yarhkob Childs Play Sarah Pellicano Ravs MUSTANG BAR Danza Loca PADDO Simon Kelly PRINCE OF WALES Open Mic Night SETTLERS TAVERN Open Mic Night THE BROOK Greg Carter Karaoke TWO ROCKS TAVERN Jump For Joy Karaoke YAYA’S Battle Of The Planets One Armed Scissor Triangle Fight Mr Wilson
Arts Martial
ARTS MARTIAL EMPERORS FURTHER EARTH
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL
ZAMBRERO THE LOWDOWN: Opening two restaurants in Leederville and Mt Lawley last year, Zambrero has quickly developed a loyal following who enjoy the fresh tasty offering, that also caters for the vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free patron. Local operators, Jamie Shaw and Eli Barlow, also plan to open more restaurants in WA. It’s not traditional Mexican, but if you are after delicious and social food which is truly fresh, Zambrero is your jam. THE WAY IT IS: Every time a customer buys a meal from Zambrero we provide a meal to someone in need. The program is called PLATE4PLATE, and developed in 2011 through a partnership with the humanitarian group Action Against Hunger. In August, Zambrero celebrated the 1 millionth meal provided! Happiness in a soft tortilla.... LOCATION: WEBSITE:
Leederville - 663 Newcastle Street, Leederville, WA 6007 Mt Lawley - 625 Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley, WA 6050 www.zambrero.com
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MUSIC GEAR & TECHNOLOGY GUIDE
FOR SALE AUDIOFLY HEADPHONES Designed in Perth by a small team, unique headphones to capture every detail in your favourite music www.audiofly.com MUSICIANS AVAILABLE PRO BASS GUITAR/VOC funk blues pro gear. Enq Steve 0430 274 728 ausmuso@ virginbroadband.com.au MUSOS WANTED BASS PLAYER & DRUMMER WANTED Exp Guitarist (33) with gd gear looking 4 bass & drums to form Hard Rock band Ph: 0410596418. BASS PLAYER & DRUMMER WANTED To complete original band for WAMI nominee, Rochelle O’Reilly. R&B/Jazz/Groove, tons of room for original flavour. Contact Rochelle: 0438 345 354. METAL BAND SEEKS GUITARIST Inf inc Sepultura, Slayer, Fear Factory, Chimaira, Machine Head, Hate Breed & more. Send txt to 0422 442 368. OPEN MIC NIGHT Every Thursday 8.30-12 at Moondyne Joes. Steinway piano, good sound & friendly atmosphere. Call Mark 0409 137 850. OPEN MIC NIGHT every Thursday night at Indi Bar. Just call Bex on 0404 917 632. OPEN MIC NIGHT Every Tuesday night at the Craigie Tavern 8-11pm. Call Corey for bookings 0431 448 235 PLAYERS WANTED For working coverband. Keys, bass & lead guitar (vocals pref). Contact 0406 633 405. crimsonimk@hotmail.com ROCK SINGER WANTED Influences Queens Of Stone Age. Must have transport & jam weekly. Call or Txt 0434 556 579. SINGER WANTED For Rock/Blues band. Must be reliable, gig pending. No time wasters. Auditions SOR. Call Herb or Cassi 0410 088 596 or 0423 252 970.
SWISS SHEPHERD Seeks Rhythm/Lead Guitarist for expandable project, Contact Cam on 0407 073 729. www.facebook.com/ swissshepherd VOCALIST & BASSIST WANTED Do you like Blur, Weezer, Talking Heads, Bowie, Kate Bush etc? Can you sing or play bass? Dave want you. Call Andy 0422 404 102. Facebook.com/ thebanddave. Girls or guys both welcome. WANTED GUITARIST & PERCUSSIONIST 40+ I’m looking for an exp easy going guitarist & percussionist to put together acoustic driven duo or trio covering music from the 70s to now. I’m looking at doing something a little different than the usual well covered and trod out classics. Ph 0430695287. PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT PHOTOGR APHY Pro m o p h o to g ra p hy, s t u d i o, l i ve, l o c a t i o n . Mike Wylie 0417 975 964 www.projec tphotography.com When its time to ice the cake... PRODUCTION SERVICES * LIGHTING * AUDIO* STAGING * www. nightstarlightingaudio.com.au www. nightstarlightingaudio.com.au www. instandt.com.au www.instandt.com.au 9381 2363/ 9444 6651 CD & DVD MANUFACTURE Check out our latest CD & DVD specials online at www. procopy.com.au 9375 3902 MATRIX PRODUCTIONS AUSTRALIA Lighting, staging, sound systems, smoke machines, night club FX, intelligent lighting, strobes & mirror balls, crowd barriers, video projectors. 9371 1551 PA HIRE, PRO SYSTEM, FULL FOLD BACK Experienced operator. Optional light show. Fidelity sound on 0404 331 320.
RECORDING STUDIOS ALAN DAWSON’s WITZEND RECORDING STUDIO Prof quality albums or demos, large live room, experienced engineer, analog to digital transfers, mastering..Alan 0407 989 128 or Jeremy 0430638178 www. witzendstudios.com ANDY’S STUDIO International multi award winning songwriter / producer. No band required. Broadcast quality. A songwriter’s paradise. Ph 9364 3178 AVALON STUDIOS BIBRA LAKE One of Perths best equipped studio. Record to analog tape or digital, Avalon pre amps, Neumann mics, the latest and best universal audio, plug in’s for digital recordings. All styles of music, $55 per hour call Tony 0411 118304 email - avalonstudios@bigpond.com GOLDDUSTCONSTRUCTION.COM Pr o d u c t i o n , m i x i n g, r e c o r d i n g a n d composition for your music. Unique award winning skills to take songs from ideas to finished mixes or to fulfill the potential in existing ones. Located in Subiaco. $60 p/h. Andrew 0408 097 407 MIDAS TOUCH STUDIOS Recording, Mixing, and Mastering. We get your band heard. Call Anthony 0435 113 654 www. MidasTouchStudios.com.au POONS HEAD MASTERING Analog mastering at its best. Clients include Mink Mussel Creek, Jeff Martin, The Panics, Pond + The Floors. World class facility. World class results. www.poonshead.com 9339 47 91 R E CO R D I N G M I X I N G M A S T E R I N G PRODUCING Fremantle location. Call Pete Kitchen Cooked Records. Ph 0407 363 764 / 9336 3764 REVOLVER SOUND STUDIO Ph 9272 7505. www.revolverstudio.com.au SONGWRITERS! - UNLOCK YOUR SONGS’ POTENTIAL +FREE BAND APPRAISALS. UK
Producer, 40,000+ hours studio experience. 20 yrs in London with bands and songwriters. Kicking arrangements, great studio and the ability to really listen will give your material the edge you need. Call Jerry on 0405 653 338 or visit www.jerichomusic.com.au T H E S O U N D FA C TO R Y 16 & 24 track tape + protools Best of old school & modern technology thesoundfactory@rockstar.org.au REHEARSAL STUDIOS AAA VHS REHEARSAL ROOMS Great facilities, great vibe & great price!!! Unit 5 /16 Peel Road, O’Connor. Phone 9418 5815 or 0413 732 885 BIGBEAT SOUND STUDIO Clean rooms, all new PA systems, air-con and good parking . Willetton Ph: 0425 698 117. PLATINUM SOUND ROOMS Professional rehearsal rooms, airconditioned, quality PAs mob 0418 944 722 TUITION ***GUITAR LESSONS*** The Guitar Specialist. Beg-adv, all styles and levels including bass. Cliff Lynton Guitar Institute. Mt Lawley 9342 3484 / www.clifflynton.com BASS LESSONS Rock, funk & jazz. Tony Gibbs 9470 6131 DJ LESSONS AT FREMANTLE PRISION Death row cell 33. Scratching, cutting & mixing. Come casually or for a term. 0412 334 510. DRUM LESSONS All styles, all ages. WAAPA prep. Modern techniques & rudiments, Beginner to advanced. Ph: 0413 172 817. GUITAR TUITION I have over 30 yrs exp in performing & teaching. No reading required. Hr lessons only. Limited spots avail. Blues/ Rock specialist. Ph 9403 3212. PROFESSIONAL SINGING COACH (Find Your True Voice) All levels, All styles. 0407 260 762.
Inside The DJ Factory
DJ FACTORY Electric Feel
This week Volume profiles The DJ Factory, Western Australia’s multiaward winning DJ and Studio Hardware specialist retail outlet. Is there something in the water in Perth? The DJ Factory thinks so! The DJ Factory are located in Northbridge and have been one of the local scene’s leading electronic music retail stores for 13 years. Originally a record store that sold vinyl, turntables and other DJ accessories, they are now full-fledged electronic music equipment store. They stock everything from DJ decks of vinyl, CD and digital nature, lighting gear, sound systems, studio monitors and high end studio gear including microphones, mixing desks, software and hardware. With the changes in the electronic music industry and the developments in technology the guys at The DJ Factory are continuously developing their beliefs and requirements of the shop to adapt and match the international electronic music industry. The constant expansion of electronic music world wide has seen Perth’s own electronic music artists multiply in numbers and quality and the scene grow healthily over the years. The most isolated capital city in the world has kept up to date with everything awesome that today’s DJs and producers are using with the help of The DJ Factory. 46
This time of the year is when everyone is getting excited for the summer party season, New Year’s Eve celebrations are on their way, and of course the Perth Dance Music Awards are open for voting! The PDMAs are a great way for artists in Perth to be recognised for their achievements throughout the previous year and show how the Perth scene is shaping for the future. “The DJ Factory would like to say good luck to all the people who deserve to be graciously recognised for their work in helping keep the Perth electronic music scene alive,” says The DJ Factory’s Sarah Scott. “Many of the artists and musicians in Perth nominated are dedicated customers to The DJ factory and have supported us for years and in turn have grown with the store. We would like to recognise if it weren’t for the DJs, producers, musicians, punters all which have supported us then we would not have had the chance to support them and the local Perth scene. Again, good luck and thank you to all involved in the Perth Dance Music Awards. Also congratulations to long time advocates of dance music in Perth Colin Bridges and Simon Barwood for receiving the Hall of Fame award. “Many people come and go, some stay on for years and with some the music never dies in their hearts. Some move on and up to bigger and better things internationally and some stay home and grow together and make the Perth electronic music scene what it is today,” Scott continues. “The year past has been another epic moment in time and everyone in Perth whether you are music maker, a creator, a scene shaper or just an ultimate party animal, The DJ Factory would like to wish you a massive party season and to say thank you for the support, business and your store loyalty.” X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays
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