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Flight Facilities

FUTURE CLASSIC GETS FESTIVE

Uber-hip Sydney collective Future Classic will be showcasing the calibre of rising Australian talent on their label as part of the 2013 Festival Gardens. Headlining the big evening is Aussie electro duo Flight Facilities who will no doubt be dressed in old school flying gear and bust out their hits Crave You, Foreign Language and With You. Fresh signee Panama will be bringing their splashing of yacht rock and ‘80s shimmery beats alongside lazy disco groovers Mitzi and our very own Scenic. The Future Classic DJs will also be getting Fans Of Monsters And Men get an early Christmas present from the organisers of the Laneway Festival this year, the dancefloor groovin’ with classic soul edits, hip hop, disco and house grooves. with the band just added to the already choccas lineup set to take in Perth on Saturday, February 9. Hailing from If you want to hear what we’ll all be listening to shortly - if you’re not already - you’ll need Iceland, the four-piece indie poppers will swap their snow gear in favour of Hawaiian shirts come February when to head on down to this on Saturday, February 16, at 8pm, at Chevron Festival Gardens. Head to they hit the Laneway Festival touring circuit alongside Alpine, Alt-J, Bat For Lashes, Chet Faker, Cloud Nothings, perthfestival.com.au for ticketing deets.

Divine Fits, El-P, Flume, Henry Wagons & The Unwelcome Company, Holy Other, Japandroids, Jessie Ware, Julia Holter, Kings Of Convenience, Ms Mr, Nicolas Jaar, Perfume Genius, Polica, Pond, Real Estate, Shlohmo, Snakadaktal, The Men, The Neighbourhood, The Rubens, Twerps and Yeasayer.

Find out more at lanewayfestival.com.au

Of Monsters And Men

MONSTER MASH

MORE ROOTS

For their 10th anniversary, organisers of the West Coast Blues N’ Roots festival figure the more the merrier, so in addition to acts such as Robert Plant, Iggy & The Stooges, Chris Isaak, Status Quo, Paul Simon, Ben Harper, Santana, Wilco and Rufus Wainwright (among many more), legendary Grammy award-winner Jason Mraz will join the bill. Coming all the way from the land of paella, Spaniard Manu Chao is also jumping on board, as are Melbournites Graveyard Train and local lads Davey Craddock & The Spectacles. The fun and festivities will take place over two days in 2013, on Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, March 24, at Fremantle Park. Tickets are on sale now from westcoastbluesandroots.com.au.

DJ Paul Malone Photo: Stephen Lobo

DON’T LEAVE US MALONE! Barry Morgan, Fringe World

FUN TIMES AT FRINGE

Jason Mraz, West Coast Blues N’ Roots

This Will Destroy You

Roll up, roll up to Fringe World 2013, bigger and ballsier than ever before. Running from January 25 ’til February 24, Fringe World’s program reads like an A to Z of the world’s performing elite, featuring the likes of The Wau Wau Sisters, Barry Morgan, Chicks On Speed and Frisky & Mannish, alongside a plethora of local acts. For the full rundown of what’s on and when, hit up fringeworld.com.au.

After nearly two decades of manning the decks at Perth and Fremantle’s best venues, sharing bills with the likes of Michael Franti, Black Eyed Peas, Ozomatli, Lee Coombs and playing at the Big Day Out, Perth International Arts Festival, Breakfest, Rock-It and the Margaret River Masters, DJ Paul Malone is hanging up the headphones.

He’s not going out quietly, though, Malone’s last stand happens with The Big Finale, this Friday, December 21, at Luxe Bar (free entry, 8–10pm) and Ambar ($15 entry, 10pm – 5am). Good pals Rudy, JMC, Tone, Lee Wilson, Ben Mac and Cooker will join the festivities throughout.

Thanks for the good times, Paul Malone, it’s been a blast.

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Get sonically destroyed at the Rosemount Hotel come Saturday, March 23, when US four-piece This Will Destroy You take to the stage in support of their acclaimed new record, Tunnel Blanket. Promising destructive live sounds and lashings of ambient rock, This Will Destroy You formed in the mid ‘00s in Texas, and since then they’ve toured relentlessly. Catch the lads doing what they do best in March at the Rosie, that is if the Mayan predictions don’t come true… (they won’t). Tickets from Heatseeker, Oztix and the usual outlets.

SOUNDS LIKE A WINNER

Stuff your stocking with Soundwave tickets this Christmas! Extra tickets for the huge festival will go on sale at 10am on Friday, December 21, and are likely to sell out faster than Santa can down a sherry.

Set to take over Claremont Showgrounds on Monday, March 4, Soundwave 2013 features the likes of The Offspring, Paramore, Slayer, Garbage, A Perfect Circle, Cypress Hill, Bullet For My Valentine, Anthrax, Bring Me The Horizon, The Amity Affliction and heaps more. For more info hit up soundwavefestival.com.

Garbage, set for Soundwave

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

From all of us and ours here at X-Press Magazine, to all of you and yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas. It may be a complicated, dark world we live in sometimes, but at least we’ve all got each other and that’s cause to celebrate. Here’s to having fun with your favourite people.

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THE CASTLE ON BLU-RAY

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MAC ATTACK

Pittsburgh rap prodigy, Mac Miller, is set to make his Australia debut next year. The 19-yearold known for his sass, smooth rhymes and penchant for freestyle earned YouTube success this year, propelling his singles Donald Trump and One Last Thing to international attention.

Watching Movies With The Sound Off will be the American’s debut album next year, which Miller will perform during his shows. Miller will touch down at Metropolis Fremantle on Saturday, February 23. Tickets are on sale through Oztix.

Eskimo Joe, Summerset Arts Festival

SIMPLY STIRLING

Mac Miller

PUT A SMILE ON YOUR DIAL

Smiley Clothing Australia will strip down to launch their cheeky range of underwear as they search for the nation’s best male underwear model at Spectrum at The Court Hotel on Saturday, February 2. As finalists battle it out on the catwalk to take home $1500 (among other prizes), Aria award winner Georgi Kay will take to the stage and perform her hit song, In My Mind, with a group of professionally trained dancers choreographed by Paul Maybury who has previously worked with the likes of Ke$ha.

Model search entries can be submitted to event@smileyclothingaustralia.com.au by Wednesday, January 16. Terms and conditions for the model entrants can be found at smileyaustralia.com.au.

Pre-sale tickets to Spectrum are on sale now from smileylaunch.eventbrite.com. All tickets purchased will go into a draw to win door prizes, on the night, worth up to $3000.

Pete Murray

MURRAY ON THE MOVE

Singer/songwriter Pete Murray will pack his bags and hit the road early next year, travelling around this great big land down under on his Byron Sessions tour. Before you catch him live, be sure to download a pre-release of The Byron Sessions project on iTunes, featuring Murray’s musical friends such as Ash Grunwald and Scott Owen. The record gets its official release on February 1, 2013.

Catch him next year at Capitol on Saturday, March 2, or the Fremantle Arts Centre on Sunday, March 3. Tickets on sale now from Oztix.

SHACKING UP

Now in its fifth year, the City of Stirling’s premier cultural celebration the Summerset Arts Festival returns for three weeks in February, 2013. Jam-packed with over 22 free or low cost events, the community can look forward to a mix of art exhibitions, live comedy, kids events, theatrical shows and live music, including a performance by Eskimo Joe who will headline the popular Beach Closing Concert at the Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre on Saturday, February 23.

Keep your eyes on stirling.wa.gov.au for further updates.

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo

BARKER HARK

Bridgetown babe Emily Barker and her band The Red Clay Halo have just wrapped recording on their fourth album (due for release in 2013), and to celebrate they’ll head up to P-town for a few live shows after Christmas. Catch them on Thursday, December 27, at Mojo’s at 8pm; Saturday, December 29, at the Daily Planet at 7pm; on Sunday, December 30, at St Paul’s Church in Bridgetown at 7.30pm; or lastly on Friday, January 4, at the Transmission Lounge in Denmark at 6.30pm. Tickets are available on the door.

Perth’s Comedy Shack is coming to Friday nights at a shiny new venue - the Rydges Hotel - on Friday, December 28, and boasts a stellar line-up of funny people including the always hilarious Joel Creasy, Mike G, Jimmy James Eaton, Tien Tran, Dayne Rathbone, Adam Peter Scott and Ciaran Lyons.

Tickets are $25 via eventfinder.com.au.

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MERRY RICHMAS!

Do you know Richard? We’re sure you do. If not by face, then certainly by reputation. Richard is that hard-dancing, hard-partying, polysexual man of action that brought you the original Richard and Richard The Second parties. Well now he’s back with a very festive edition: Richard The Third.

Featuring tunes courtesy of Sydney beatsmakers Canyons, The Monarchy DJs, Tim Brown, Rex Monsoon, Doepel, Ben Taafe, Mz Jo, Molochi and a performance by Voix De La Ville, Richard The Third will once more go where no man has dared to go, taking Christmas firmly by the hands and giving it a vigorous rub-down it won’t forget.

It’s all happening at Connections Nightclub on Sunday, December 23, from 8pm.

Statues

STANDING TALL

Even those who aren’t overly familiar with the sub-strains of the hardcore genre are sure to be impressed by ferocious displays of playing technique on display from much-loved locals Statues when Once a month the Fremantle Arts Centre goes troppo they headline an epic night at The Den on Saturday, for Tropical Discotheque, an evening of Afrobeat, December 22. Support comes from Sail On! Sail On!, Reggae, Latin and all things tropical (exotic fruit, Water Temple, Off Broadway and The Grim Charles. dancing and music from the world). This Saturday, December 22, sees local dub heavyweights The Sunshine Brothers headlining with Charlie Bucket If you’re a local musician keen to enter the spinning ‘tropical’ music on vinyl. Also appearing lucrative world of music licensing, don’t miss your with be DJ Jumps - best known as the DJ for Cat opportunity to take part in the Sync To Swim – The Empire - who is known for his deep and exotic record World Of Music Licensing panel and showcase at collection, acquired from years of touring the globe Settlers Tavern in Margaret River on Thursday, and digging for heavy tropical sounds.

February 21. By submitting one recorded track Pre-sale tix are $15 on the door and entry you believe is ‘licensing ready’ you will go in the includes a free tropical mixtape by Charlie Bucket and running to get up close and personal with a panel a coconut! of national and international experts, including creative directors, publishers and representatives from leading marketing, syncing, publishing, television and film bodies.

If you’re keen to get involved in this extraordinary networking and pitching o p p o r t u n i t y, m a k e s u r e t o l o d g e yo u r submission by Monday, January 14, via email to wam@wam.asn.au. Submission forms are available from alturl.com/tbhxy.

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DISCO INFERNO

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Damien Dempsey

ALMIGHTY DAMO

Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey is heading down under for a national tour to showcase tunes from his recently released album Almighty Love. Kicking off at The Bakery on Friday, March 15, Dempsey (or Damo as his fans call him) will wow audiences with the soul and the spirit of his legendary live show. Tickets are on sale now from nowbaking.com.au.

SLAM DAY

SLAM Day is a revolutionary campaign aimed at changing the government’s policy that live music is directly linked to violence and after its successful debut this year, it will be back in 2013.

Returning for the largest simultaneous celebration of live music that’s ever been held in Australia, SLAM Day welcomes any genre, any style whether it’s a gig in your backyard, venue or community hall to register. Last year over 150 gigs were held in small venues across the country, from Perth to Port Douglas, Tamworth to Tennant Creek, Katherine to Kensington, and with the support of musicians, venues, music fans and the media, the first ever SLAM Day was a massive success.

Having successfully lobbied to change laws around Australia, SLAM look to come back even bigger in 2013. It’s all happening on Saturday, February 23. Registration is free, easy and open now. www.xpressmag.com.au

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BOYS TO THE YARD

FOLKING FANTASTIC

Promising a ‘powerful line-up; of leading Australian folk, world and roots acts, along with a smattering of hugely talented international folk artists, the first announcement for the 2013 FolkWorld Fairbridge Festival has dropped. Roots/indie outfit Tinpan Orange, Calypso six-piece Bustamento, indigenous guitar aficionado Frank Yamma and American contemporary folk singer-songwriter Kristina Olsen are just four of the 80 acts which will perform across 12 stages during the festival.

The FolkWorld Fairbridge Festival runs from Friday, April 26, ‘til Sunday, April 28. Tickets are available from folkworldfestival.com.au.

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THE WORLD KEEPS SPINNING

Anyone with half a brain knows that the Mayans got it all wrong... didn’t they? Well 44th Sunset, These Winters Nights, Turin Robinson and Tim Gordon are certainly hoping so as they’ve scheduled a massive night of sweet tunes at Clancy’s Fremantle on Saturday, December 22. Doors open at 8pm and it’ll only set you back a lousy five bucks. Take that, end of the world.

Local heavyweights Saviour, Mandalay Victory, Paradise In Exile and Ruthless have joined the lineup for the Perth leg of the highly-anticipated Boys Of Summer tour. Headlined by the notorious Deez Nuts, Canadian hardcore legends Comeback Kid, Michigan’s For The Fallen Dreams and Sydney’s own Hand Of Mercy, this is one line-up that will definitely get moshpits moving and the party started. It all goes down on Wednesday, January 9, at Amplifier, [Saviour and Mandalay Victory appearing] and then again at YMCA HQ on Thursday, January 10, [Paradise In Exile and Ruthless appearing].

Tickets are on sale now from destroyalllines.oztix.com.au and 1300 762 545.

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on this date’. All these really specific goals that I wanted to achieve, like making a certain amount of money on property and to do all this stuff.

I’ve ticked every single one of them off.

Which is really cool. I’m a big advocate of that shit - anything you want, you write it down and you visualise it and believe that you can have it and you manifest it.

360

Rapping Presence 360 is joined by Drapht, Ladyhawke (DJ set), Bluejuice, Hermitude, Urthboy, Deacon Rose, Chance Waters and Smiley for Insert To Play on New Year’s Eve, Monday, December 31, at Supreme Court Gardens.

This time last year you were involved in that infamous battle with Kerser. Given all that’s happened since, does that seem like an eternity ago?

Yeah it feels like ages ago, man. Totally. I was a completely different person back then.

And just recently you performed at the ARIAs, taking two awards as well. You walk in different worlds, is that tricky?

Performing at the ARIAs and things like is always difficult because it’s mainly people seated and there’s only one little moshpit. It’s not like a normal gig where everyone’s there to see It’s a Friday morning and Matthew Cowell, aka you. You feel a lot of judging eyes as soon as you get on the stage (laughs). It’s very much like that.

360, isn’t feeling the best.

It’s been tricky trying to find a moment for an interview in his ever-busying schedule and when we finally nail one down he’s had to go to “I’ve had to stop even the doctor.

Given the year he’s had though, he can reading my Facebook. I certainly be excused for feeling a little worse for wear. The Melbourne rapper has seen his album, go on there and post and Falling & Flying, dominating both mainstream and hip hop charts, eventually landing him an ARIA Award for Best Newcomer. His crossover single, try and leave now, only Boys Like You, featured Gossling and gained fourtimes platinum status. occasionally do I read it, 360 has maintained an Olympian level of touring in 2012, with both headline shows do you know what I mean? and appearances at major festivals increasing his audience reach.

There’s just too much It’s testament to his work ethic that even as work begins on his next album, 360’s touring schedule is busying up during summer and now negativity now; the tall includes US dates in the early part of next year.

A few days after this interview took place it was poppy syndrome. announced that he had severed ties with his booking agency; a new US agency is looking after A lot of them aren’t even his interests there and 360’s own management is doing so here in Australia. artists, they’re just little In the eye of the storm is 360, 26 yearsyoung but old enough to have seen enough of life 15 year-old kids who think to have lived it and astute enough to document it in a way that appeals to more people by the day.

It’s now Friday afternoon and Matthew they’re tough behind a Cowell, aka 360, is feeling much better.

By BOB GORDON How are you? Not feeling the best?

Yeah I’m good, man. I’m good.

keyboard. They go post this stuff thinking they’re being real funny and shit, but I’ve

I believe you’re just back from the doctor’s. It got me thinking about what you do on tour, got to the point where I just when you’re not well but the show must go on?

You’ve got to power through, man. If keep that negative shit out you’ve got a cold and your throat’s bad you’ve just got to follow all those little old wives’ tales of my life.” and grab remedies to coat your throat. You just try everything you can. Get a vaporiser, do heaps of vocal warm-ups... do everything you possibly can. There does seem to be jealousy inherent in any musical scene, but in hip hop it seems that I believe that on the day you did an all- people who haven’t had their own ambitions ages show here at the Astor Theatre you fulfilled seem very vocal against those who were playing Wii and threw your back out? have. How do you deal with that?

Man I cop that every day on Facebook.

There were kids already lined up around the block and there was a desperate search for a Like non-stop, man. I’ve had to stop even reading my Facebook. I go on there and post and try masseuse...

Yeah, we were sitting in the theatre and leave now, only occasionally do I read it, do section. I stood up ‘cause I scored a goal and I was you know what I mean? There’s just too much celebrating. Then I went to sit down and hadn’t negativity now; the tall poppy syndrome.

A lot of them aren’t even artists, they’re realised that the chair had flung back up, so I fell flat on my arse. I broke my coccyx bone a couple just little 15 year-old kids who think they’re of years ago and it re-bruised it. That was pretty tough behind a keyboard. They go post this stuff painful, man. I had to get a masseuse to come in. thinking they’re being real funny and shit, but I’ve He had to realign my coccyx bone, it was fucked. got to the point where I just keep that negative shit out of my life.

Does it amaze you what you can get through on a show day that you would simply find Falling & Flying has gone in excess of platinum at this point. You’d have had high expectations, impossible on a day off?

Yeah, that’s it. Before the ARIAs I broke but probably not necessarily prepared for that my toe. They were like, ‘we’re gonna have to see level...

(Modestly) It’s just about to tick over a doctor straight away.’ I was like, ‘doctor, I don’t know what to do about this’, because it was pretty double platinum, actually. fucking painful, man. I was on painkillers all day.

Well there you go. I imagine you’d be constantly recognised in the street, these days not only How’d you do that one?

I just stubbed it on some concrete stairs. by the hip hop crew but by mainstream folks.

You’ve mentioned how your life is different now, but how much has your everyday reality Well, that’ll do it... changed?

(Laughs) I know!

Oh man, like totally. Like, literally It’s been a hell of a year, hasn’t it? How would everywhere I go I get recognised and asked for photos and autographs and stuff like that. Which you sum it up?

Oh, great man. Insane, really. Life has is not a bad thing.

At the start I didn’t deal with it very changed completely, man. It’s the polar opposite to what it used to be. I used to be on Centrelink well. It didn’t resonate well with me. But now I’ve and shit, living at my parents’ house in the learnt to deal with it and be really calm about it, basement. Trying to make my goal a reality. It took just chill and not be anxious about it. Now I don’t mind man, I love it. years, man, but now this year it’s finally paid off.

Does that make it mean more to you, that you put it all on the line in order to achieve what you have?

Yeah, I put it all out there for sure. Before I made the album I had a list of goals that I wrote down. There were about seven or eight goals and they were really, really specific. Like ‘debut in the Top 5 of the ARIA Charts’ and ‘play this festival 14

What’s been the effect of that on your next album, which I believe you’re working on at present. Are there any themes that are dominating your new work?

Yeah, well I write everything from personal experience, so I will be writing about dealing with being someone who no one gave a fuck about to suddenly being someone who a

360 lot of people gave a fuck about, you know what I mean? It’ll be about dealing with that at the start, how tough that was, then getting used to it and realising that it’s all a big positive thing. There’s nothing negative about it.

You’ve shown support for causes such as Oscar’s Law and suicide prevention, they are close to your heart. Do you find yourself approached for other causes?

I’ve been approached by different causes for sure, but it’s been at times when I’ve Are you constantly writing, or with a busy been really busy like doing tours or something schedule have to make time? like that. If I’m gonna get into something I want I’m always writing. No matter what to be able to give a lot of time and put a lot of I’m doing. Even if I’m really busy on tour I’ll just work into it before I do it. But stuff like suicide be writing on my phone. I’m just having ideas prevention is something I really want to get into constantly, man. It’s good having a phone because you can get your notepad app and just write on and put a lot of work towards. that. It’s really good.

What do you listen to when you don’t listen to So by the time you come to recording, what’s not hip hop?

I don’t really listen to hip hop, to be the balance like of ideas you keep and others honest. I’m totally into it and there’s certain you let go by the wayside?

Oh man, I let a lot go. I definitely let a lot things I listen to, but not a lot. There’s a few of lyrics slide, but a lot of them are put in other things like Wiz Khalifa, Kanye West and Jay-Z and songs. Or I keep them around in case I want to use stuff.

Usually it’s like The Beatles and shit. The them or re-word them in the future. I’ve got heaps Beatles and Rolling Stones... stuff like that. of spare stuff handy at all times.

Who in Australian hip hop have been your goto people; the ones you see as pioneers that have motivated you?

There’s obviously ones like the Hilltop Hoods who have been pioneers. We’ve worked directly with Bliss N’ Eso, when we were touring with them. They really helped us when we were first starting out. They really helped get my and Pez’s [collaborator] names out there a lot. I’m very appreciative and got a lot of time for those dudes.

I really appreciate what they’ve done for us.

Can’t go wrong with the classics?

(Laughs) Yeah, that’s it. Totally.

How’s your Christmas look? It’s the 360th day of the year.

Is it? Yeah, I’ll either be up in Queensland in the hot sun or down in Melbourne where it’ll be unpredictable, so I’m not too sure what I’m gonna do yet.

You’ll be performing on New Year’s Eve here in Perth, peering out from the stage with 2013 in front of you. How’s it look?

I can’t wait, man. I’ve never done a countdown in my life. And I especially didn’t expect to be doing it over Drapht in his hometown. I don’t think I’m deserving of that, to Hunter be honest. It’s good though.

What about from the WA hip hop community?

Well me and Drapht, Seth [Sentry] and Pez are doing a song on Bliss N’ Eso’s album.

The song I did with Hunter was my first official recording.

Have you seen the finished documentary?

No, I haven’t yet, man, but I’m really keen to see it.

And 2013 will definitely bring a new album?

That’s it, man. Game on!

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right from the start in songs such as Savage Earth Heart and Red Army Blues. High levels of romanticism were also pulsating through tracks that just don’t sound of their time such as Don’t Bang The Drum and The Pan Within, setting The Waterboys up as having more in common with a Bronte sister than a Thompson Twin.

“I just grew up in a house full of books and I’ve always loved reading them,” Scott explains.

“I’ve always loved writing as well, so literature was currency in my family.

THE WATERBOYS The Whole Of The Man The Waterboys are touring Australia for the first time, hitting the Perth Concert Hall on Saturday, February 2. GARETH GORMAN speaks with singer/songwriter, Mike Scott.

It’s been a long time, but Mike Scott is finally bringing The Waterboys to Australia. It’s not, however, as he would have planned it.

“Only once before have we ever received a concrete offer to tour Australia or at least one that got as far as me,” explains Scott as to the threedecade gestation period. “That was in 1986. So that tour was pencilled in, but we didn’t have a drummer at the time, so we didn’t do it.

“I then just put it down to some sort of

BAND OF HORSES Giddy Up

Touring in support of their latest album, Mirage Rock, Band Of Horses will appear at the Big Day Out Monday, January 28, at Claremont Showgrounds. BOB GORDON speaks with bass player, Bill Reynolds.

Bill Reynolds is in his element. Band Of Horses have landed in New York and are due to see the Rolling Stones perform that night in New Jersey and the city is still buzzing from the 12.12.12. concert of nights before.

Meanwhile Band Of Horses have found themselves in The Big Apple on their headlining US tour, after a period of support runs in Europe for the likes of Jack White and My Morning Jacket.

“It’s been awesome,” the bassist says.“We haven’t had a chance to play an American tour in a while, so it’s great to plays shows in these cities and real fun to play our own shows because people are there solely to see you, so you get that familiarity.

You’re not trying to win people over. It’s not a bunch of fans who don’t know who you are so you can relax and stretch your legs a little bit.”

Reynolds says that Band Of Horses have especially enjoyed taking their latest album, Mirage Rock, to the stage.

“It’s always different playing a new record,” he says. “Right when it comes out and people don’t know the songs you can’t tell if it’s going okay. This album’s been out for a little while now and it’s been awesome to get to play these songs. We designed this record so that we’d be able to go out and just play it and it wouldn’t take a lot of extra stuff to pull off the songs.

“So it’s been real fun. It’s a rockin’ record.

We wanted it to be a rock’n’roll record. We’ve changed shit around and extended stuff and changed keys of songs just to support how we do it live.”

Part of the more upbeat, looser essence of Mirage Rock that has made it so suited to live performance lies in the production of Glyn Johns, who has worked with everyone from Bob Dylan and The Beatles, to Led Zeppelin, The Who and Midnight Oil. The band clearly catered to his approach.

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“The ‘80s were a terrible, terrible decade for music.

All the idealism and freedom of the ‘60s was gone. The destructive beauty of punk had been tamed. All we had was this fecking, awful stadium rock.

Big fucking, snare sounds, horrible drum machines – synthetic music. The ‘80s were so rubbish I had to invent my own.”

Mike Scott, The Waterboys Photo: Keith Corcoran

karmic retribution for not coming to Australia at that time that we never received an offer again. This time the offer did get as far as me, so we’re coming.”

As it turns out, Scott will actually be performing two differently styled shows while in Australia.

“In Sydney we’ll be doing a special, dedicated An Appointment With Mr Yeats show. The show is longer than the [2011] album that’s been released. It actually began life as a show and the show has about 18 Yeats poems. So the album is a distillation of that show.

“I haven’t decided on a firm set-list for the rest of the tour as Australia and New Zealand have never seen us. There’ll be a lot of opportunities for me to play with stuff from all periods.”

There’s always been a high literary persuasion to The Waterboys, which could be found

“On the music side of things, I was obviously listening to music before I could read, so music came first for me. I’ve never really thought about it – they’re just two facts of my life.

“I remember the first song I ever noticed which was Blowin’ In The Wind. Not sung by Bob Dylan, but sung by an Irish crooner called Val Doonican on TV. “I just remember being particularly struck by the line, ‘The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind’.

So beautiful and poetic to me and I think I would have been five.”

The last 12 months have seen plenty of Mike Scott activity. As well as the aforementioned Mr Yeats project, he’s also released his autobiography.

Add to that plenty of uploads to Soundcloud, readings, tours and plenty of tweets.

“I enjoy the internet – Twitter – and being able to interact with people. And I love being able to work with music with the modern technology. I’m doing stuff on my computer now that I could have only dreamed about 20 years ago.”

Indeed, Scott definitely prefers the 21st century to back in the day when he first formed the

band. It’s a pretty safe bet to say the man does not possess a ‘Back To The ‘80s’ compilation album.

“The ‘80s were just abominable, really,” Scott declares. “The ‘80s were a terrible, terrible decade for music. All the idealism and freedom of the ‘60s was gone. The destructive beauty of punk had been tamed. All we had was this fecking, awful stadium rock. Big fucking, snare sounds, horrible drum machines – synthetic music. The ‘80s were so rubbish I had to invent my own.

“I had some exciting times in the ‘80s, but I consider the ‘80s to be an abomination. The ‘90s were a bit better musically. Grunge and Brit-pop had some swagger to it – but dead ends – both of ‘em. I think the last 10 years have been better. The rise of the internet means all the music and all kinds of music are at your fingertip and that’s great. The magic of the ‘60s, I wouldn’t say it’s returned, it could never do that in the same way, but it’s accessible to us in the amount of archive material that is accessible.”

Talking about archives that are accessible, there’s already been tracks released from the Fisherman’s Blues sessions with Too Close To Heaven plus the 2006 re-release of Fisherman’s Blues with a bonus album. It seems there’s going to be many, many more.

“The one coming out next year is called Fisherman’s Box and it’s seven CDs. Six of them are the sessions in chronological order and this must be round about 100 tracks. Then the seventh CD is the influences: vintage gospel songs, country songs, folk music… all the things that influenced the making of it.”

1988’s Fisherman’s Blues was quite an about-face from the first three Waterboys albums that reached their crescendo in 1985’s This Is The Sea. “I remember people saying, ‘I wish you still had the other sound’. But you can’t listen to those voices, you just have to make what needs to be made.”

The Whole Of The Moon is the most wellknown track off This Is The Sea, indeed, it’s probably the best known Waterboys song.

“The keyboards on it were definitely influenced by Prince,” Scott recalls.“I specifically asked our keyboard player, Karl [Wallinger, who went on to form World Party]... (remembering) I’ll tell you what it was, I loved the keyboard riff on 1999 and I asked him if he could put a riff to The Whole Of The Moon that wasn’t the same as 1999, not wanting to rip Prince off, but to do something that would do the same thing for the song and he came up with one.

“You’ve interviewed him? You’ve probably heard him say rubbish things about me, then. That’s what he usually does in his interviews.

“He didn’t? That’s great to know. I’m glad he does a few interviews now and then where he resists that temptation.”

“This album’s been out for a little while now and it’s been awesome to get to play these songs. We designed this record so that we’d be able to go out and just play it and it wouldn’t take a lot of extra stuff to pull off the songs.

So it’s been real fun. It’s a rockin’ record. We wanted it to be a rock’n’roll record.

We’ve changed shit around and extended stuff and changed keys of songs just to support how we do it live.”

“We wanted to make a record that he liked and wanted to have an influence on,” Reynolds says.

“So we weren’t fighting tooth and nail to make it like some other record, we were basically like, ‘what would he like?’ and going that way. He likes to record fully live, vocals and all. That’s totally different to how we’ve done it in the past and even most people who do that re-do the vocals over.

“That’s a challenge, but then you know after you perform it and record it that you can just show up and play it. It was a lot of fun, getting to do that. It was a different approach.”

Is it one Band Of Horses would try again?

“I think the way it goes with that is that you take each as it comes,” Reynolds contemplates.

“Now that we know we can do that, if there comes a track in the future where it needs it, we know it’s definitely possible. As far as the next record goes, it’s hard to know what style we’ll lay into, but I can’t imagine doing the same record.”

Reynolds is happy to acknowledge there’s several songs from Mirage Rock that really encompass where the band is right now, especially when performed live.

“It’s fun to play Feud,” he says. “It’s fun to play Knock Knock. People really like Undone and Slow Cruel. We’re just having a hoot playing them. One of

Band Of Horses the ones we don’t get to play a lot is Shut-In Tourist, we get kind of giddy, because it’s a little different sounding. It’s always fun to play.”

The all ‘round good feeling surrounding the new songs has had an effect on the their older material, as the band play gently with their familiarity.

“It’s always good to play the older songs, because people know them really well,” Reynolds explains, “but we do change them up quite a bit.

Like we did The Funeral [from 2006’s Everything All The Time] the other night with piano and we do No One’s Gonna Love You [from 2007’s Cease To Begin] sometimes completely acoustic. We try to keep people entertained with different styles.

“And we’re always playing new territories that we’ve never played before. It’s tough, sometimes you go to different countries and you’re not sure which records they have. We went to Brazil this year and they’ve only just released our records, so we were playing stuff from like, 10 years ago. It was like going back in time. It was pretty awesome.”

The last two Band Of Horses albums have seen their line-up settled and consolidated. Needless to say, the band dynamic is better than ever.

“It’s good because you get that welloiled machine thing about it all,” Reynolds says.

“Things get sorted out and you know your place, or something. It’s like a lot of stuff is left unsaid, you’re able to play and communicate musically because we know each other so well. For a musician that’s a real high moment.”

Band Of Horses will be touring well into 2013 on the back of Mirage Rock. First up, however, looms the Big Day Out and a good dose of summer.

“If I could get married in Australia just so I could get citizenship I would do it,” Reynolds laughs. “I love Australia so much. It’s just such an awesome country, plus on the Big Day Out we’re gonna get to see Animal Collective and Alabama Shakes and a lot of killer bands.”

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“The thing about The Tea Party - always has been and always will be - and what we’re going to do with this next record, as a producer and songwriter, if it’s up to me, I know the void that is in rock music right now. There’s no band in rock music now that sounds like The Tea Party. The mixture of the exotic with hard rock doesn’t exist, there’s a big vacuum.

“We’re actually revelling in that; in the fact that there will be relevance in what we’re about to do, because it’s not just getting back together for the sake of the money. It’s about making music that matters and giving it back to people and filling that void.”

So now that the balance is back, the ever-busy Martin has a few things to do before he brings in the New Year and a new Tea Party album, that being a handful of solo appearances here in Jeff Martin performs solo for Sonic his adopted hometown (or one of them, at least).

“With the solo thing, for me, it’s a little Sessions at the Fremantle Arts Centre bit of gluttony to a certain extent because I’ve this Thursday, December 20; at Clancy’s, always loved the intimate shows,” he says. “There’s different connection that I have with an audience Dunsborough, on Friday, December 21; athat when I’ve got 5,000 people in front of me, it’s a Mojos on Saturday, December 22, and different crowd psychology altogether. So for me, I to be the last time for a long time. at the Indi Bar on Sunday, December 23. know it’s going “The three of us are all putting the BOB GORDON reports. commitment in to become The Tea Party again, but with new records, world tours, all that stuff. That’s For a good five or six years it raged; the cold a two-and-a-half-to-three-year campaign. For war between Jeff Martin and his cohorts in The me this is a great opportunity to connect with an Tea Party. audience on this level, because I don’t know when It was a pigs might fly/hell will freezeth I’m going to be able to do that again.” over kind of time, the idea that the twain would meet and the band would mend bridges seemed almost frivolous. In the last 18 months, however, the trio found its way back together, with tours of Canada and Australia successfully completed and a DVD release, The Reformation Tour, released to commemorate the first phase of renewal.

“Well it’s actually past phase three,” singer/guitarist, Jeff Martin, qualifies. “The first thing was the first tour a year-and-a-half ago. Musically that was magic, absolute magic. It was like the band never missed a beat, or maybe we even gained some beats, I don’t know. Friendship-wise, though, it was icy. From the onset...

“But fast-forward to the July tour that we did here in Australia, the friendship between the three of us is right back to where it needs to be. There’s a lot of respect and a lot of love for one another.

“Beyond ourselves, beyond the three of us, there are all those fans around the world who have been missing these sounds in rock’n’roll, so the band is back. So much so that once I get this solo tour wrapped up I’m going to start writing the next Tea Party record in January.”

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Jeff Martin

“Beyond ourselves, beyond the three of us, there are all those fans around the world who have been missing these sounds in rock’n’roll, so the band is back. So much so that once I get this solo tour wrapped up I’m going to start writing the next Tea Party record in January.”

In a move that only two years ago would have been deemed highly unlikely at best, drummer Jeff Burrows will fly to Australia later next month to cut some drum tracks with the singer. Martin will then head to Canada in March, where Stu Chatswood [bass/keys] and he will “put our ones and zeroes on our heads and do the Brian Eno thing.”

He cuts a dark figure, but for this Martin is one excited puppy.

“It’s gonna be amazing because the three of us are in such a positive state of mind about the future,” he enthuses. “All that water under the bridge is very calm and at low tide.”

There was a lot of water though, wasn’t it?

“There was a fucking lot of water,” Martin laughs. “I wouldn’t want anyone going for a swim in that. At all.”

We have of course seen it before. Age, longevity and a bit of wisdom brings perspective to matters and waters down issues that were white hot in the halcyon days. From Martin’s point of view, however, there’s more to it.

“At the same time there’s so many bands we’ve seen like Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins, seminal bands from the ‘90s, that have gotten back together. You kind of look at it and go, ‘yeah, alright, cool’. But it’s not going to change the scope of music or anything like that. www.xpressmag.com.au

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DEFTONES All You Need Is Love Those California metal merchants, Deftones, play Metropolis Fremantle on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Their new album, Koi No Yokan, is out now on Warner Music. TRAVIS JOHNSON has a word with drummer, Abe Cunningham.

JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION Meat And Bone

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Meat And Bone makes no apologies. From the moment the opener, Black Mold sounds, it rams home the message – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are back. No foreplay required; it’s straight to the main event. Meat And Bone grinds, bumps and claws in all the right ways, with raw fuzzy production and pulsating dirty grooves. It seems things are back in order at the JSBX camp.

Following on from the clout of Black Mold, Bag Of Bones propels forward with a more traditional blues-based sound; featuring mouth harp and walking guitar lines, it’s an exemplary display of how Spencer has mastered the art of dynamic alliteration. Boot Cut is a sharp shot of rock’n’roll with minimal effects used to enhance rather than distract while Get Your Pants Off rolls on in unholy hip-swiveling glory. Strange Baby moves slyly between rhythm and blues and punk noise, hollering for your attention while Bottle Baby parades around abreast with attitude and a witty insight into retro obsession.

Danger feels like Jerry Lee Lewis on a serious bender and while Black Thoughts has all the trappings of a sweet doo-wop love ode, it’s lyrically venomous in stark contrast. It seems at times on Meat And Bone that Spencer’s rockabilly leanings as displayed in his other musical project, Heavy Trash, have made their way into the Blues Explosion’s sound, but not to the point where the two projects become interchangeable. Filled with only lean goodness, Meat And Bone delivers in entirety and is sure to rekindle the fiery love affair that may have _ CHRIS HAVERCROFT waned for some JSBX fans. Bring on the romance.

Blur retrospectively won the battle of Britpop by not shitting in their own nest quite as badly as Oasis have since the mid-’90s. Since 2008 the London quartet have played a string of high profile live dates, culminating in a companion concert to the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Hyde Park on August 12. It is this concert that has been released at Parklive.

As would be expected for the occasion, the setlist of Parklive reads like a greatest hits for one of England’s favourite sons. Blur have always been a ludicrously overrated band, but Parklive does offer some insight into their appeal – a couple of warm beers and arms around your mates and they could be a fine night out.

Albarn has the kind of voice that makes you want to punch things at the best of times and a live recording is never going to be his most pristine moment, yet solid performances of Girls & Boys and The Universal make up for moments like Country House. Song 2 may be Weezer-lite but it is hard to resist a chorus of a few hundred thousand people sing ‘woo-hoo’ in unison.

Parklive hints at Blur having a bit more punk spirit than may be expected. Blur are the UK’s equivalent to pub rock and on that level Parklive is harmless (if somewhat turgid sounding) fun.

LINDA OH Initial here

_ KRYSTAL MAYNARD

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Deftones Alternative metal giants Deftones are frequent flyers on the summer festival circuit, but fans and they are legion - have been waiting a long time to catch them headlining their own show.

That changes in 2013, when the masters of aggression embark on a pan-Australian jaunt in support of their latest album, Koi No Yokan.

Drummer Abe Cunningham is looking forward to it. “It’s very nice to be coming back down to do our own shows this time around. It’s always nice to do the festivals, too, whether it’s the Warped Tour, Soundwave or Big Day Out. I think the first time we ever came down it was just us, and we did our own shows, so it’s been a while since we’ve come down and done a little tour on our own. We’re fuckin’ stoked - very thrilled. It should be good, man. Festivals are great, but it’s nice to be inside - a little darkness is good, too. And also, it’s nice just to be able to play a longer set, instead of trying to cram everything into a 45-50 minute set.”

“By the time the Diamond Eyes sessions were done, writing and recording, we decided to go on the road, but we were so psyched by the way it went, we couldn’t wait to do another one. I mean, we maybe took a couple of months off, but then we were right back in. We wanted to pick up on that energy - it was something we hadn’t had in a really long time. And here we are with a new record.”

The album, which followed on fast from 2010’s Diamond Eyes, has received rave reviews, with many pundits drawing favourable comparisons with 2000’s chart-topping, awardcrushing White Pony. Cunningham, though flattered, demurs.

“I think it’s just another record that we made,” he says candidly. “And, in saying that, I don’t mean to belittle it but, at the same time, we can’t seem to shake comparisons to White Pony - which is not a bad thing. Of course it’s got characteristics of it, but it’s like, ‘here’s album number seven’. Of course it sounds like our earlier stuff.”

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The title is a curio, a Japanese phrase that has connotations of love at first sight and romantic prescience, but resists precise translation.

“We were running down some names,” Cunningham recalls. “We had deadlines to meet, and it obviously time to pick a title for the album. I believe Chino [Moreno, vocalist] was just looking around on the internet, and we had some contenders that we were going to place in a hat and then pluck one out, but that was one that kind of caught us off guard. It means ‘premonition of love’, obviously, but it doesn’t have a direct English translation, which kind of makes it more interesting, if you will. Of course, you can Google anything but for that one you have to dig a bit deeper. And, of course, Stephen [Carpenter], our guitarist, is in love right now, and we all want to be loved, man. We all seek love and sometimes you find it. It was just a positive, cool title, man.”

The album itself is easily the band’s most melodic, but achieves that without sacrificing the hard-edged aggression for which they’re renowned. Indeed, what has enabled Deftones to survive the nu-metal bubble of the ‘90s is their ability to combine the basic tenets of traditional metal with more experimental musings, appealing to both the hardcore metalhead and the music fan looking for something more cerebral. “It was a natural progression,” Cunningham says. “We had such a really, really easy time making it.”

Still, one spectre does loom over Koi No Yokan: the absence of bassist Chi Cheng, who remains in semi-conscious state since a 2008 road accident. Cunningham admits that, although Cheng is never far from the band’s thoughts, they have reached a point where they could no longer let his absence define them.

“Chi was not there,” he says. “And that’s still a huge thing, but at the same time, we picked ourselves up and trudged on. We decided to not make things hard on ourselves, to not make things as difficult as we had in the past. We have a new way of working; we were able to get in there and really hunker down and just be quick - not for the sake of rushing things, though. We were just able to get down and not waste time.”

In fact, the two-year gap between Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan marks this as the fastest album turnaround in the band’s career.

“By the time the Diamond Eyes sessions were done, writing and recording, we decided to go on the road, but we were so psyched by the way it went, we couldn’t wait to do another one. I mean, we maybe took a couple of months off, but then we were right back in. We wanted to pick up on that energy - it was something we hadn’t had in a really long time. And here we are with a new record.”

Cunningham also tells us that he’s looking forward to road-testing the new album and seeing how it stands up to live performance.

“We’ve only played a few songs so far. We were actually out touring about a month-and-ahalf prior to the record being released and it didn’t leak until about a week before release. The last record, Diamond Eyes, leaked almost four months out, which is a really, really long time for it to be out when it’s not supposed to be, but at this point, the record’s out, so we’ll start dipping into the new record, which we haven’t really done yet.”

Formerly from Perth, bassist, composer and multiinstrumentalist, Linda Oh moved to New York six years ago to test the waters. Her brilliant musicianship [she was recently selected by the DownBeat Critics Poll as the 2012 Rising Star Winner for Bass] and creative spirit soon began to impress her peers, along with her clarity of thought and endless energy.

Linda’s debut CD Initial Here, featuring Dayna Stephens [tenor sax], Fabian Almazan [piano/Rhodes/ melodica] and Rudy Royston [drums] is filled with goodies, from its first track, Ultimate Persona, followed by a segue from Leonard Bernstein’s, Something’s Coming to Stravinsky’s Les Cing Doigts and Oh’s musical tribute to the illustrious Charlie Mingus, Mr M. There is so much diversity and colour in this recording it’s hard to believe that it is Oh’s debut CD. However, for me, Deeper Than Happy, a racy track filled with verve and cheekiness and the closer, Deeper than Sad - a moving opus that begins with arco bass and tenor saxophone and resolves to a quiet whisper - are standouts.

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The Mark Of Cain have been missing (presumed moody) since their 2001 release, This Is This. Over 10 years later, they’ve crawled out of their foxhole with their fifth LP in tow.

The Adelaide band’s charm springs from their ability to make emotional introspection sound legitimate, while still managing to come off as tough as a pair of King Gees. On Songs Of The Third And Fifth, the result is the grim, seething wall of groove and grunt we’ve come to expect, but their sound has matured in the intervening years. After some trouble filling the drum stool, the permanent inclusion of John Stanier [from math-jam supermen Battles, among other luminaries] has added a metronomic backbone to the harsh rolling groove that the Scott brothers bleed out up front.

As with much of the band’s back catalogue, the military theme is in full flight here: a nervewracked soldier’s narrative is spun in first person over downcast riffs. The low-slung vocals tell the story of the disillusioned man making the journey back from a _ HELEN MATTHEWS wearying war. It’s The Mark Of Cain as you remember them – perhaps with some of the sharper edges ground back, but they’re a heavy implement all the same.

In some ways, The Mark Of Cain are living the album’s story; they’re arriving back to a world they LED ZEPPELIN barely remember. The one thing that hasn’t changed is Celebration Day that Australian rock punters can still smell a rat a mile Atlantic/Warner away – and The Mark Of Cain always have been, and will When Robert Plant, Jimmy continue to be, the real deal.

Page and John Paul Jones agreed in 2007 to reform for a one-off gig to pay tribute to _ ROB WILSON former Atlantic Records boss Ahmut Ertegun, Led Zeppelin THE SEEKERS fans across the globe went into apoplectic fits – could The Golden Jubilee this be the long awaited Led Zeppelin reunion tour? Album Not long after, Robert Plant poured cold water on such speculation when he announced he’d EMI be concentrating on his collaboration with Alyson When traditional jazz singer, Krauss. The collective sense of disappointment Judith Durham, started work reverberated across the world like a plagiarised blues at an advertising agency in chord blasting out of a Marshall stack.

1962, the last thing on her But that hasn’t stopped every effort being mind would have been meeting one of the musical made to exploit the excitement of the night when collaborators that would see her going from singing Plant, Page, Jones and John Bonham’s son Jason came in coffee shops, to #1 singles internationally and a together. In some ways Celebration Day is only going career that now spans 50 years. to be a disappointment –yet almost by definition, any The Golden Jubilee Album collects 50 tunes Led Zeppelin performance must be cherished. from The Seekers including two newly recorded There are the standard classic Zeppelin tracks - their takes on The Springfields’ Silver Threads moments: the lumbering stoner blues fest Dazed And And Golden Needles and The Beatles’ In My Life. The Confused, the clichéd hippie-folk metal of Stairway To Melbourne quartet were ahead of their time being Heaven and the tight denim ball-hugging beauty of too pop to be called folk music and too folk to be Rock’n’Roll, Black Dog and Whole Lotta Love. But there’s thrown in with the other pop stars of the day. It is also plenty of rare Zeppelin excursions into the band’s a formula that would see them rewrite the record back catalogue, including In My Time Of Dying, Nobody’s books for Australian music.

Fault But Mine and Misty Mountain Hop. All of the favourites are here, including I’ll Whereas the Zeppelin of 1976 was Never Find Another You, Morningtown Ride and the immersed in the absolute hedonism of the rock’n’roll unofficial Australian anthem I Am Australian. There are lifestyle, the Zeppelin of the 21st century is mature no shortage of bright points on this Golden Jubilee, to the point of staid. Plant can still shriek like a man but it is Georgy Girl that brings back instant memories under torture in a Cambodian gaol, and what Jimmy of your parents’ record collection and late night radio.

Page can’t do with a twin-necked guitar isn’t worth The Seekers are rightly held up as royalty bothering with, but it’s a pale imitation of the past. in this country. They have been the soundtrack to Maybe that’s why Robert Plant realised Celebration many a boiling hot Christmas or drive home from Day should remain a one-off celebration. the factory for generations. Good knock!

_ PATRICK EMERY

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Upon being offered the chance to lend their lungs to a Disney/Pixar film, particularly one that served as an ode to video games, actors John C.Reilly and Sarah Silverman couldn’t have slammed down the start button any faster or more vehemently.

Truth be told, director Rich Moore was also rather convincing.

“He convinced me it was gonna be a good thing to do and that it was gonna be fun, creative and collaborative - and that he was a man of his word”, recalls Reilly, who voices oversized bad-good guy Ralph, the villain at the centre of the video-game Fix-It Felix Jr. For Silverman, best known for her risqué stand-up comedy, the opportunity to work with a studio she’d grown up with was too good an opportunity to pass on.

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‘’I’m a big Disney fan and I just couldn’t believe they wanted me”, Silverman, who voices pint-sized Vanellope in the squeaky-clean and PC pic, gushes. “I was really excited.”

The actress explains that Reilly - who she had met over a game of table tennis shortly before production began - was already onboard when she agreed to do the movie.

“He had been on from the ground floor”,she says of the Step Brothers and We Need To Talk About Kevin actor.

“Nah, no... not really”, refutes Reilly. “Well, in terms of the actors, I guess... I was the first on board. But they had been developing this for a couple of years before I was on it.

“But in terms of getting deeply involved once I signed for it, yes.”

Seems the extent of an actor’s involvement on an animated movie doesn’t start and end with reading a few lines into a microphone. “ I think if you are playing a leading role in one of these films you are part of the creative process of the character whether

you like it or not”, says Reilly, who had previously lent his voice to the Tim Burton produced animated feature 9.

“Part of the creative process of finding the character is listening to your voice, your take on the character and then even your expressions and stuff. They videotape you while you’re filming so the animator’s actually using you as a creative inspiration for the character.

“But that said, they also brought me in for like kind of story meetings, where they would ask me my thoughts about the story in general or I’d force them to listen to my ideas. “ Reilly became so engrossed in the creative process, contributing anywhere and anyhow he could, that the studio threw him at an extra bone upon wrapping.

“They ended up very generously giving me an additional story credit at the end of the movie, which I was quite shocked about.”

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CINEMA SHENANIGANS

Rooftop Movies continues to deliver something for everyone throughout the festive season, with a unique program including a smattering of recent releases, cheesy holiday favourites and the usual cult classics and B-grade schmaltz flicks the cinema is becoming known and loved for.

A special New Year’s Eve Celebration is also If you like your comedy cutting, melodic, revealing, brutal and unlike anything you have ever seen scheduled to set the rooftop alight, with Melbournebefore, don’t miss your opportunity to see one of based harmonising girl group Clairy Browne And The Rackettes ensuring you bring in 2013 in style. the best comedians Australia has to offer – Jackie Bangin’ Support comes from locals Special Brew, Weapon Is Loeb – at the Fly By Night this Friday, December 21. Sound and DJs Diger Rockwell, Sam Perry and more.

Nominated for Best Comedy at the Hollywood Fringe For more information on the program and Festival and for the 2011 and 2012 Mo Award for to pre-purchase tickets head to rooftopmovies.com.au.

Best Live Comedy Act, Loeb makes her triumphant return to the Australian stage in her brand spanking new comedy show So Much To Celebrate! in which she will chart the trials and tribulations of being 40 in Hollywood. Pre-sale tickets are available from flybynight.org.

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A PLAY ON WORDS

Perth Theatre Company has announced its highly anticipated 2013 season, a collection of three captivating works consisting of A Number, an outrageous UK play about cloning which originally starred Daniel Craig, Alienation, a world premiere inspired by interviews with Australian alien abductees, and Operation Zebra, a series of visual installations which explore the themes of displacement, identity and overcoming the odds. The 2013 season runs through April ‘til July. Memberships are on sale now through perththeatre.com.au or (08) 6212 9399 and general tickets go on sale in January.

FRINGE BINGE

Comedians, dancers, burlesque beauties and fine folks who make a living out of being weird and wonderful will flock to Perth in early 2013 for another fabulous year of the Fringe World Festival.

The beautiful and iconic De Parel Spiegeltent will return in all its vaudevillian glory to play host to performers from near and far, and in 2013 Spiegeltent shows will be complemented by a range of popup venues around the city centre. Performers from every corner of the globe will be making the journey to P-town for the festivities, coming from far flung locations such as Poland, Korea, Nepal and Bermuda, with over 1,500 individual performances on offer during the festival, which runs from January 25 ’til February 24.

Stay tuned for more info on who’s coming and when and where you can catch them. In the meantime check out fringeworld.com.au and sign up for the mailing list to keep abreast of general awesomeness.

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DRINK YOUR MILK

Action To The Word‘s critically acclaimed, all-male theatrical production of Anthony Burgess’s groundbreaking novel, A Clockwork Orange is set to tour Australia in 2013, including a string of Perth shows at the Subiaco Arts Centre from Wednesday, May 8, ‘til Sunday, May 19. An unapologetic, visceral exploration of humanity in a “fictional” world full of violence, corruption and redemption, this production is a testosterone fuelled, electrifying theatrical adaptation of the best-selling novel which mirrors society pastand-present and the human condition through the glorious glass-edged nastiness of Manchester’s underworld. Stay tuned here for ticket details.

Action To The Word‘s A Clockwork Orange

ELEN LEVON Mysterious Girl

Ministry Of Sound tout her as its pop prodigy, she’s impressed industry heavyweights, and even the Beijing Government is a fan. Elen Levon will perform at KidsAid’s concert at the Regal Theatre today, Wednesday, December 19.

With all proceeds from this Wednesday’s KidsAid concert going to the Ronald McDonald House Perth, it was easy to understand why rising pop star Elen Levon signed up.

“I found out about the event through my label and as soon as I did I wanted to jump right on it,” Levon says. “It’s a really amazing cause and I’m really excited. I think everyone should just come out and support the cause and the charity and the Australian artists.”

Levon will join Jessica Mauboy, Sarah De Bono, Josh Brookes, Eden Altham, Jasmine Murray, and Top Impact Crew One on stage. Levon says she doesn’t want to give too much away about her performance but attests the night will be about having fun. She says she’s especially looking forward to seeing Mauboy again; the two have much in common from being in the spotlight from a young age. “She is just so lovely and so sweet. I’ve learned so much from her,” Levon says.

It’s been a staggering two years since Levon was signed to Israel Cruz and Ministry Of Sound’s label NuFirm at the age of 16. Since then, Levon has toured throughout Australia, shared stages with numerous superstars, released three singles, and graduated high school. Last year, Levon supported 50 Cent, G-Unit and Lil’ Kim at Winterbeatz festival. She also played at Supafest, where she met Snoop Dogg and experienced being star struck for the first time. “I got a bit stuck on the spot and stuttered a bit,” Levon giggles.

Levon’s music is slickly produced and radio-friendly. She’s embraced the autotune zeitgeist, producing singles with a danceable club-pop vibe. Levon says the pinnacle of this year was representing Australia at the annual Gala World Music Festival at the bequest of the Beijing Government. Levon performed Sun Burns Out in Mandarin before a televised audience of one billion. It didn’t seem to have fazed her too much – she says she was just flattered to take part. “It was really nice to see how much they loved my music. It was just an incredible time,” Levon says.

Levon has a firm idea of who she is and where she’s going. She describes her career as if it’s a craft

Elen Levon that she’s still learning, admitting she watches footage of herself to critique her performances. Interestingly, she cites her biggest inspirations as Michael Jackson and Madonna, both known for being perfectionists.

“They’re both magicians and legends and everything an artist wants to be, and I love that they get to have creative control of their music,” Levon says. “I am very much a perfectionist and I think that’s why I look up to them, not to be a perfectionist but because I feel like I could relate to them on that level.”

As for next year, Levon’s plans are shrouded in secrecy: “I’m going to LA in mid January for writing with someone really special, TBA, but it’s huge. And then I have a tour coming up with someone huge but I can’t say yet. It’s going to be a big year.” _CORAL HUCKSTEP

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WRECK-IT RALPH Mr Fix-It

Sarah Silverman’s Vanellope and John C. Reilly’s Wreck It-Ralph

WRECK-IT RALPH (Continued From Cover)

seismic shift in the world video games would have been in terms of entertainment. And up until that point, there were no cell phones. We didn’t even have a VCR. I think VCRs had been invented, but most people didn’t have them. No computers. So it was really... Space Invaders was the first time you were able to interact with the television screen, which was huge.”

Wreck-It Ralph has chalked up huge numbers in the states, going on to becoming one of the studio’s biggest releases, and it’s stars are in no doubt cinemagoers will have a chance to revisit the world in the next couple of years. “ T h e y w o u l d n’ t m a k e a l l t h a t merchandising if they didn’t have not big long term plans for the story”, Reilly says. “Some of the bit muckity mucks at the studio who I just saw the other night at the cocktail party were like, ‘We’re talking sequel.’

“The movie made $150 million I think in 11 days in the States and it broke the box office record for a Disney animated movie on opening weekend.

So, if those are any indications that there’s going to be one, I bet we will do some kind of sequel.”

S i l v e r m a n’s t r a d e m a r k h u m o u r, accompanied by a wicked giggle, sweeps in for a quick refutation: “But if enough kids don’t go to see [Wreck-It Ralph] in Australia... Ralph will die.”

Reilly say it’s just as much work doing an animated movie as it is a live-action one - just you can “show up in your pyjamas in the recording studio” to do your fart sounds and goofy noises.

“John’s lying” interrupts Silverman,“He likes to dress up [for his recording sessions]; he wears hats and coats. I wear sweatpants and sneakers. It’s easy just to come dressed in what I wore to sleep - my Red Soxx sweats.”

Silverman won’t refute the claim that she’s the perfect person to play an annoying kid, at heart she still is one. Furthermore, a movie about video games? Perfect material for a one-time ‘ Joust’ whiz.

“We had Atari growing up, which we would play all the time, and we went to Dairy Queen and played the game Joust there - which I mastered - between dipped cones!”, Silverman says.

Reilly, too, was a big video-game aficionado growing up. The actor remembers the fevered excitement when early efforts like Space Invaders and Pong first hit the market.

“I was kind of like the first generation. I was right in the pocket of the people that were hoping those games would be played by when they came out. And yes, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Asteroids, all Wreck-It Ralph hits cinemas on Wednesday, those, I was like immersed with.

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Wreck-It Ralph teaches Ralph a thing or two about himself. While Directed By Rich Moore Starring John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack Sonic The Hedgehog, Pac-Man, and the action-men of the Street-Fighter game look on.

McBrayer, Jane Lynch As important as visuals and a fun libretto is, a Hand over your cash, fix your eyes straight ahead, good Disney/Pixar film is only as good as it’s voice cast and prepare yourself for the next level in family though and thankfully, this one comes equipped with excellent players one and two. John C. Reilly, heavily entertainment.

Like two kids on BMX’s riding towards each involved in the production from concept to bow, is the other down an unmaintained forest track, Disney’s perfect match for the hulkish, loudmouth good-bad Wreck-It Ralph provides an exciting collision between guy, while Sarah Silverman is - as offensive as it may old and new, as director Rich Moore (Family Guy, The sound - an imaginative and brilliant choice for the role Simpsons) rubs together the best bits of the retro of the flawed youngster. The duo, complete with their gaming world with the snazzier, more contemporary atypical brand of humour and larger-than-life personas still intact (though obviously restrained for the family kid-friendly offerings of the Mouse and beyond.

Moore’s feature debut combines the audience), not only have great chemistry, they provide cleverness and cuteness of Toy Story with the visual as many laughs as the script does - sometimes simply excitement of today’s most high-tech arcade offerings, by just.. speaking.

The casting director has also earned his or complete with the same frayed but eternally fun plot device - the ‘jumping into different shows - or, her Christmas bonus in hiring perfect matches for the as is the case here, games - that had the packed out supports - Glee’s Jane Lynch as the gusty Ripley-esque crowd’s watching Freddy’s Dead in 1991 both hollering alien-busting heroine, the criminally underrated Alan in laughter and yelling ‘What the heck!?’ towards the Tudyk [Death At A Funeral, Serenity] as the madcap madman King Candy, and The Office’s Mindy Kaling screen in synchronized chorus.

Ralph [John C.Reilly] is the villain of a as Taffyta Muttonfudge, one of the snotty racers that video-game known as Fix-It Felix Jr. Tired of being comes up against our heroine.

Disney have been trying to get a film set thrown off a building by resident good-guy Felix [the unmistakable vocal stylings of 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer] within the world of video games up for a couple of and his pint-sized tossing team, the gruff giant decides decades now, but it’s a good thing Wreck-It Ralph to pack-up and leave. While the co-stars of his game didn’t happen any earlier; the retro appeal of the game fret over his whereabouts, and consequently, worrying characters adds appetising wistfulness and an extra their game may be put out-of-business if he doesn’t fun element to proceedings, the effects and animation return, Ralph escapes into some other games, where could never have looked so dandy back in the Reaganhe plans to steal a medal and come back to his own era (Dot & The Kangaroo, anyone?), and the storyline’s bring-it home message, that of accepting and loving offering a hero.

After invading a tense, shooter game featuring who you are and what you do, is needed much more marines holding off aliens, Ralph finds his way into a now, with the pressure to be someone or something sweet, female-targeted racing game where he develops else at an all-time high, than it ever was.

Jot Wreck-It Ralph down on your must-see an unlikely friendship with malfunctioning character, list of movies. young race enthusiast Vanellope [Sarah Silverman].

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Alice Taglioni and Patrick Bruel star in Paris Manhattan

PARIS-MANHATTAN The Wisdom of Woody

Directed by Sophie Lellouche Starring Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel, Marine Delterme, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Woody Allen The arch and self-deprecating nature of Woody Allen’s earlier relationship comedies is present in this light but disarming French film from first-time director, Sophie Lallouche.

Alice [Alice Taglioni], a Parisian pharmacist, is obsessed with the films and wisdom of Woody Allen, to the point where she has conversations with the giant portrait of him that dominates her apartment. Her lovelife is a mess, much to the consternation of her family, who worry that, at the age of 30, she will never find a lifemate. None of the men in her orbit can possibly hope to live up to her romantic ideals, tempered as they are by Annie Hall and Manhattan, but a dark horse breaks from the pack in the form of a down-to-earth security specialist, Victor [Patrick Bruel].

On close analysis, it’s a relatively slight story, but Lellouche injects the film with an engaging sense of charm and whimsy, along with a cavalcade of nods and winks to Allen’s oeuvre. Doing so might have easily come across as heavy-handed, but Lellouche’s lightness of touch ensures that it reads as homage, not pastiche; an affectionate tribute, rather than a slavish recreation.

Taglioni makes for an engaging heroine, and her decision to portray Alice as somewhat prickly and defensive answers the question that

dogs the majority of rom-com protagonists: why is this beautiful, successful woman alone? It’s balanced

by Taglioni’s natural charisma and beauty, though, giving our distaff protagonist reason enough to try and penetrate her emotional armour.

French-Algerian actor Patrick Bruel, a familiar face from countless French productions over the past 40 years, is a perfect counterbalance in the central relationship, bringing that peculiarly Gallic rumpled appeal that means men like Gerard Depardieu can be considered sex symbols - on the continent, at least.

The rest of the cast acquit themselves well, essentially providing a textured background upon which the ‘will they/won’t they?’ dynamic can play out. Alice’s sister, Helene [Marine Delterme], and her husband, Pierre [Louis-Do de Lacquesaing], provide an example of the ideal relationship that Alice longs for - although later revelations reveal that their relationship is not as conventional as it appears.

Meawhile, Michel Aumont and Marie-Christine Adam provide a gently amusing double act as Alice’s wellmeaning parents. And then there’s Allen himself, a presence felt throughout the film, both figuratively and literally.

Ultimately, Paris-Manhattan is a delicate confection as sweet as any found in a Paris bakery and about as filling. It’s not a film that lingers long in the memory and the insights into human relationships are about on par with those of any other romantic comedy. While it’s on screen, though, it works a treat. Droll, deft and warm, the romantic at heart will love it. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON

Skylab

SKYLAB

Family Matters Directed by Julie Delpy Starring Julie Delpy, Lou Alvarez, Eric Elmosnino, Bernadette Lafont, Denis Menochet Writer/director Julie Delpy, still perhaps best known for her acting turns in such arthouse fare as Before Sunrise and Killing Zoe, continues to prove she’s comfortable behind the camera as well as in front of it with this breezy, rambling comedy-drama.

A brief - and largely pointless - modern day framing sequence aside, our scene is set in 1979, on the picturesque coast of Brittany, where an extended family is gathering to celebrate the birthday of their matriarch, Mamie Amandine [Bernadette Lafont]. Eleven-year-old Albertine [Lou Alvarez] has been dragged along by her bohemian parents, Anna [Delpy] and Jean [Eric Elmosnino], but she has more on her mind than family dinners and trips to the beach; the space station Skylab is in a deteriorating orbit, and doomsayers in the media predict an impact in Southern France.

So, it’s an exercise in nostalgia for the most part, and a fairly attractive one. Delpy, drawing on her own childhood memories and experiences, delights in sketching out the fashions, trends, politics, and culture of late-’70s France, and shoots the proceedings through a gloriously warm, evocative haze.

In terms of actual plot, though, not much really happens. The film is more a series of vignettes rather than a cohesive story, with the whole defined chronologically, but not narratively. Albertine’s transition from childhood to adolescent provides some sort of thematic through-line, and newcomer 26

Alvarez is excellent as the bespectacled, morbid moppet, but it’s not really enough to sustain the film’s running time, or to justify the truly baffling number of characters the audience has to keep track of. Once the siblings, spouses, and children that comprise the extended family are taken into account, there’s maybe two dozen characters to keep track of and parsing all of their relationships, alliances, and animosities becomes an exercise in futility.

They are a fun bunch to hang out with for a couple of hours, though, endlessly arguing, playing, butting heads, and reconciling. Delpy gets the most mileage out of Denis Menochet (Inglourious Basterds) as the surly Uncle Roger, a traumatised veteran of the Algerian War whose right-wing politics clash with those of Anna and Jean to good, if somewhat overwrought, effect. There’s not a dud performance in the sprawling ensemble, and Delpy’s effortless handling of the cast is perhaps testament to her years spent acting for the camera.

The film kind of dissipates rather than concludes, much like a memory and maybe that’s Delpy’s intent. She’s not so much making a point here as delineating a time and a place and a period of change. Those wanting a compelling plot will surely be disappointed; Skylab is more of a reverie than a story. Still, anyone who has enjoyed - or endured - a long weekend with the extended tribe will find something to latch onto here. _ TRAVIS JOHNSON Skylab screens as part of the Lotterywest Festival Films season at UWA’s Somerville Auditorium until December 23. For full details head to perthfestival.com.au.

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Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough star in Shadow Dancer Sophie Lellouce and Alice Taglioni

SOPHIE LELLOUCHE AND ALICE TAGLIONI Paris-Manhattan

When asked what attracted her to Paris-Manhattan, a dapper, Woody Allen-inspired relationship comedy from a first-time filmmaker, French actress Alice Taglioni doesn’t hesitate for a second before giving her answer.

“Sophie Lellouche,” she says, naming the film’s writer/director. “Because she is a great woman; she is a woman with a big heart. I read the script, which I loved. I loved the character, which I found very nice. And she managed to have Woody Allen in her movie. There are people who are like that; when they want something, they will have it. Sophie Lellouche is like that.”

The evidence to support Taglioni’s claim is all up on the screen. Paris-Manhattan is an assured debut, warm and gently humorous and yes, there is an appearance by Allen himself.

For Lellouche, it was the culmination of a lifelong obsession.

“When I was younger I loved the films of Woody Allen,” she recalls. “And I wanted to make films like them, but I wasn’t very confident. He is so talented, so confident, and every year there is a new Woody Allen movie. I wanted to make movies, but it seemed unattainable. But, one day, I thought, ‘I can’t make films like Woody Allen, but maybe I can make my best’. I’m not a genius director - not a genius at all - but I have courage in my life, just a little bit of courage. I can have courage to make movies.”

Making a film of any stripe requires courage. Predicating the production of your first feature on the participation of your cinematic idol, whom you’ve never met, takes the blind bravery of a kamikaze pilot. Lellouche was determined that Allen would appear in her film.

“It was very important to me that he act in my film,” she explains. “Because if he said no, then I would not make the movie. It was so important to me, I think he understood that. It wasn’t just important to the movie - it was important to me. I think Woody Allen thought to himself, ‘She really wants me!’ And he was a very generous man; he was very, very nice, because he could always so no, as he is very busy, but he didn’t.”

Speaking of actually meeting her hero, Lellouche maintains that her nerves remained steady, although she admits to the occasional ‘pinch yourself’ moment. “I was not nervous, I was very excited. When I was younger, I dreamed to know him. It was the dream of my life, and I never expected that. So, when I met him, I thought, ‘It’s Woody Allen!’ I remember one time, it struck me, and I just thought, ‘He knows I exist!’”

And when the time came for Lellouche to actually direct the man himself, his professionalism and courtesy made even that daunting task a breeze.

“It was very easy,” she says. “Because he is a genius. I just introduced him to Patrick [Bruel, who shares the most scenes with Allen], and gave him the script and he knew exactly what to do. I just worked with Patrick. He did four takes, for the pleasure, and each time he gave me something different for me to use, so I could pick what I want.” _ TRAVIS JOHNSON

My love of illustrating, painting and textures gave me focus through my teen years, and I took all the art classes I could, including Fine Art one day a week at TAFE. When I was 15, there was a brilliant teacher who ran Life Drawing classes and, though I was still underage, I snuck in and fell in love with the human form - how it moved, how it could be extended, stretched and sexualised. When it came to choosing Lured into the world of fashion through her love study after high school, Life Drawing was only available of life drawing, Priera Russell is the mastermind as part of a fashion course. Though I’d never even behind Skankihoo Designs, a local label with sewn, the lure of more figure drawing was enough to dramatic, haute couture flair. Worn on and off- get me to apply for fashion. How could I resist? stage by the likes of Scarlett Stevens from San Cisco and Bex Chilcott from Ruby Boots, Russell’s What was your vision for the label when you oddly named label is designed for women who launched?

There were so many ideas I wanted to try, so “dream of action in high heels and romance in unexpected places,” and want to look fabulous many pathways to follow. I started in a niche market, designing for small women like myself, making one-off doing it. couture pieces for collaborative photographic works Tell me about your background, how did you and red carpet events. It was really important for me to work where my pieces were stocked, because I got come to be a designer?

When I was three years old I climbed my feedback from clients without them realising I was also mother’s cupboard to her beautiful collection of the designer. I realised that many women are willing vintage hats. I took one made of red felt to the floor to spend money on outfits they like, even if they don’t and, with textas, created a beautiful embellishment. quite fit, because there just isn’t another option. But I Though for my mother it was ruined, she didn’t didn’t want my pieces to leave the shop until they fitted punish or yell, but distracted me with a roll of paper the clients perfectly, which changed my idea about the and some new drawing utensils. All my childhood I sizes I was making. I realised that what inspired me was seeing women exude real confidence when they knew drew and drew. a piece fit well, flattered their shape and moved well on their body.

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Skankihoo seems like a bit of a strange name for a fashion label, what’s the story behind it?

Skankihoo started off as a term I used to scream at the fashion industry when it got me down.

Sometimes it’s great, and you meet brilliant people, have amazing collaborative relationships, and you feel on top of the world. Other times, people you think are your close friends will steal your designs, or your work will disappear from events that have ‘borrowed’ your designs. You will get offered amazing opportunities to exhibit with big designers and then, at the last minute, be refused. When you’re ready to throw in the towel and call it quits, you will shout at the top of your lungs, ‘You’re all a bunch of skanky-f*cking-hoooos!’.

At other times, the clouds will part and the sun shine through, and someone will offer you something better and more delicious than you thought possible. Then it’s giving the negative energy the finger. It’s a battle cry: ‘I have beautiful creations too! Even if you think I am nothing important, and not big enough to be recognised!’. It’s what many of us do when we meet a challenge - we hold our heads high and repeat our mantras. Mine is Skankihoo. It’s about finding your own style, sticking to your guns, being a little bit wild, exploring your creativity and developing your own version of beauty.

SHADOW DANCER An Ordinary Terror

Directed by James Marsh Starring Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Gillian Anderson, David Wilmot It’s impossible to interpret a film outside of the cultural context in which it is made and released, but this is especially true of Shadow Dancer, a period ‘90s piece about the Northern Ireland conflict that almost forces the audience to take stock of its views on terrorism, especially as our culture has developed the concept over the last 20 years.

The film begins in Belfast in the 1970s, when the seemingly ordinary McVeigh family is traumatised when the youngest child is accidentally shot and killed during a skirmish between the IRA and (presumably) the British Army. Jump forward to 1993 and all three of the remaining McVeigh children are now active ‘soldiers’ for the IRA, engaging in terrorist actions even as the IRA leadership are seeking a ceasefire and political legitimacy.

Colette McVeigh [Andrea Riseborough] is taken into custody by MI5 agent ‘Mac’ [Clive Owen] after a failed attempt at bombing the London Underground and is given the choice of becoming an informant or spending life in prison and her young son taken into protective care.

But this is where the film raises all kinds of interesting questions; not only because Colette’s terrorist cell is led by her two brothers, Gerry [Aidan

Gillen] and Connor [Domhall Gleeson], but also because these terrorists are just like us. They live in houses like ours, in families like ours and we can understand their motivations without condoning their actions.

However, take away the meta-politics and Shadow Dancer is a little disappointing as a standalone film.

Clive Owen has built a solid and welldeserved career both in and outside Hollywood with a string of near-broken nihilists in bleak situations, and he carries his part of the film pretty well. Riseborough successfully conveys the guilt and inner conflict that drives her character, but there is very little chemistry between the two - so little that an attempt to add some sexual tension is both unexpected and extraordinarily clumsy.

Visually, we’ve got another ‘thousand shades of grey’ that is the British film industry’s palette, jarringly ruined by the conceit of having Colette’s distinctive bright-red raincoat... just the thing for a terrorist-turned-informant running to a rendezvous in fear of her life.

While Shadow Dancer is certainly thoughtprovoking in that it reminds us that terrorism has been with us for much longer than we have been able to paint terrorists as frighteningly different to ourselves, it falls short of entertaining. _ SABIAN WILDE Shadow Dancer screens as part of the Lotterywest Festival Films season at UWA’s Somerville Auditorium from December 24, 26-30, and at Joondalup Pines from January 1-6. For full details head to perthfestival.com.au.

Describe the customer you have in mind when designing...

I design for someone who isn’t afraid to be an individual. One that turns heads in a room - not because she is raucous or underdressed, but because she’s glamorous, subtle and delectable – like a classic Hollywood movie star. She can play with the boys (or girls) and drink them under the table. Maybe appear delicate, fragile, but inside be strong and true to herself. I love a woman with a sense of self, with her own ideas and interests, who understands that facing her fears will help her develop.

You’ve dressed a number of high profile musicians, how did these opportunities come about?

I got the wonderful opportunity to dress people like Scarlett Stevens (San Cisco drummer) and Bex Chilcott (Ruby Boots singer) by what feels like fluke. I was managing bands at the time, and also stocking a small boutique run by Beasts of Bourbon drummer, Tony Pola (that’s another story). Bex walked into the boutique to try my “Tears Dress” from the Alice in Wonderland collection; unfortunately, they’d sold the last of her size. Tony called to say she had been in, that she loved the dress and wanted me to create another for her. The two worlds collided - I was wearing my own creations to a gig that Bex was at that evening. She recognised my outfit, so I introduced myself and offered to make her a “Tears Dress” to fit, leading to the strong creative relationship we have today. I’ve dressed her for gigs and photo/video shoots. She’s such an amazing, energetic person, and there’s always another project on the go.

Scarlett was the girl nex t door – literally! When I moved to Fremantle she became my neighbour. She’s so dainty and beautiful and talented… and it’s just wonderful to see how her career has taken off. She has some great vintage pieces, and she liked some of my outfits, so I offered to make one-offs for her. I created an outfit for her for the Awkward video and a couple of special events. I feel really honoured she was willing to wear my label to the ARIAs - that was such a special moment for me.

Talk us through your latest collection, SkankiBelle Fairy Tales...

I’d been reading the original Grimm fairy tales (very dark) and re-watching some of Terry Gilliam’s amazing movies (Baron Munchausen, The Brothers Grimm). I had some gorgeous vintage lace offcuts that I’d wanted to develop a project around, and I’d met Claire (creator of ‘La Belle by Claire’) who creates lovely feather headpieces, collars and hats.

We decided to collaborate, making pieces that would work together.

The two of us were sitting around her house on martini #4, and I started mentioning how our pieces would work well as a fairy tale

Three Billy Goats Gruff by Skankihoo Designs (Photo: Carlo Fernandes) illustration. Claire’s eyes immediately lit up and the brainstorming started…you know, the Three Billy Goats Gruff and Little Red Riding Hood (both of which ended up in the collection). We believe in independent women who love the theatrical fun of dressing in sensual, textural fabrics and shapes for the sheer delight of it. So there are strong silhouettes, swathes of delicate lace and silk, and these amazing fascinators by the lovely Claire.

Where can fashion lovers go to get their hands on some Skankihoo Designs?

Can I tell you a little bit about my salon?

That’s where the designs are exclusively stocked, as we are serious about our clients having the individual look we all want when we attend a function, and we have a demi-couture service for that. The salon is so trés chic; secluded, but with plenty of parking and in walking distance to the Fremantle cappuccino strip and markets. It’s in a funkily-renovated, gorgeous heritage building that was the Surgeon’s House for the Old Fremantle Prison at 18 The Terrace. There’s a very subtle sign outside, and though I work a lot by appointment, we are open to the public. Finding it is easy if you go to the contact page on our website at skankihoodesigns.com.au. _EMMA BERGMEIER 27

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ALL YOU NEED IS FILM Cinephiles flocked to the opening of the Camelot Outdoor Cinema last week to kick off another wonderful season of fabulous movies under the stars with the screening of Pierce Brosnan’s latest flick Love Is All You Need. Considered Perth’s most intimate and cosy outdoor cinema, Camelot screens a selection of the best films of the season in its picturesque and intimate setting in the limestone walled gardens of the Art Deco Mosman Hall.

Andries, Jeanne, Kristy, Kevin

Photos by Emma Mackenzie

Darren, Laura, Phil

Barbara, Ray, Tony

George, Leonie

Jeorge, Tony

Jade, Felicity

Bev, Claire, Ben

Candice, Leanne

Mandy, Casey, Jo

Michael, Libby, Paul

Sheila, Ken

Sophie, Jake

Tony, Luke

WILL STOKER’S REFINED Sublime Slashie

Will Stoker’s new art exhibition, Refined, is on display at Free Range Gallery from Tuesday, December 18, until Monday December, 24, with a gala opening night on Friday, December 21, featuring live music and spoken word performances.

Acclaimed Perth-based musician Will Stoker is probably best known for his work with his band, The Embers, but the singer and multiinstrumentalist has not limited his artistic explorations to the sonic. Following on from a successful exhibition earlier this year, his new collection focuses on that most difficult of subjects, the self.

“In August I had a show at Free Range called Mentors,” Stoker explains. “And that went so well that I decided to follow it up quickly with another show called Refined; just a larger exploration of my blind contour ink drawings that I’m studying. Just another reflection on the evolution of my craft.”

Refined is a series of self portraits rendered on ink and paper, each a different angle on Stoker the artist, Stoker the musician, Stoker the man. It is at once both ambitious and introspective, and Stoker, to his credit, is well aware of the challenges and potential pitfalls of such an undertaking.

“I guess it’s just the usual rollercoaster of self-diagnosis and dealing with the inferiority complex that most of us are carrying around,” he reflects. “All that kind of baggage that we keep lugging about in our minds and personalities.

When you’re studying a whole bunch of different photos of yourself and looking into the mirror, you tend to be a lot crueller.

“I think, as a young artist, I feel that the most honest work you’d do is a self-portrait. It’s putting a magnifying glass on the human psyche and subconscious - it’s the child hand that I’m drawing with, really, due to the fact that I’m not looking at the page. I’m mainly just doing touchups towards the end of it - blowing the ink across the page, stuff like that.”

Stoker himself sees a strong correlation between his musical and artistic work, maintaining that both fields of endeavour the same core concerns.

Will Stoker’s Refined “The parallels have always been very close for me,” he says. “Between art and music. I was always more serious about being an artist before I was serious about being a musician, but music just sort of took over for the time being.

But now I’m sort of finding enjoyment and time for both.”

However, he does admit that the solo effort of making art is sometimes a relief from the collaborative challenge that is music.

“So much of music is actually relying on other people,” he tells us. “It’s like playing on a football team. With art, it’s purely hand to canvas.

I feel that the art I’m creating now really reflects the kind of music I create, in that it’s very extreme in form, and reflects cathartic, human condition themes - the Freudian subconscious coming into consciousness. I’m a modern male living in the now, in today’s world, but I’m doing sort of caveman-inspired drawings, and the cave wall becomes the gallery wall.” _TRAVIS JOHNSON

JULIANA HATFIELD Smells Like ‘90s Spirit

Long time friends and musical collaborators Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield will join each other on stage for a tour that will see them trawl through their back catalogues as they play acoustic versions of their favourite tunes. The pair play The Rosemount this Saturday, December 22.

Former Blake Babies front woman Juliana Hatfield and Evan Dando met and bonded over the thriving Boston punk scene in the mid-nineties, but Hatfield isn’t sure whether it is insanity or curiosity that continues to draw them back together. The musical bond has lasted over 25 years and in spite of their sometimes rocky past, Hatfield insists that she wants only the best for Dando and is advocating that he continue to write more songs.

“A big reason that I did this touring and getting back together with him after being sort of estranged for a lot of years was that I was hoping that doing these shows together would spur us on to write together and maybe we could make a new album with new songs,” shares a candid Hatfield.

“Unfortunately that hasn’t really worked out. We haven’t been able to focus together on the writing. I keep trying to get onto him about writing songs, but he isn’t really finishing anything and I get frustrated with that. I am writing constantly but I can’t force him to do that, so I am a little disappointed that we weren’t able to make an album as part of doing this new collaboration on stage.”

This time around Hatfield is resigned to the fact that the album she is hoping for won’t happen for the two of them. They have tried to get songs flowing between them, but the experience has been too intense. Hatfield suggest that Dando needs a different kind of personality around him to write. Luckily this may have with Dando choosing to stay in Australia after the tour to spend time with It’s A Shame About Ray co-conspirator Tom Morgan.

The tour may have brought the two together again, and while Hatfield sounds like she is having the time of her life when they hit the stage and engage in their brand of ‘song pong’. They may alternate between each other’s material but there are many differences between the two well-credentialed songwriters on and off the stage.

“Evan is much better with people than I am.

He has a lot of friends all over the world, but I am a bit of a loner, socially awkward and uncomfortable around people so it has been good to see people through him. We are different but we have similarities www.xpressmag.com.au

Evan Dando & Juliana Hatfield

“Evan is much better with people than I am. He has a lot of friends all over the world, but I am a bit of a loner, socially awkward and uncomfortable around people so it has been good to see people through him.

We are different but we have similarities also and we have also had music in common which was always our biggest bond.”

also and we have also had music in common which was always our biggest bond. It was something that we never really had to talk about.”

The music may have always drawn the two together but the friendship has seen its turbulent times. There was a long period of estrangement where Hatfield cut herself off from Dando, effectively kicking him out of her life because she was too frustrated with him. Dando still drives her crazy sometimes and makes her angry because he can be unpredictable and you never know which Evan is going to turn up.

“When I was younger I guess that I thought it was kind of exciting and the drama was exciting to me, but now that I am older I want peace and calm in my life. He is not always dependable and at this time in my life that is too frustrating and I need to know that I can depend on people. He has been great on this tour in the UK. He really came through and has been on his best behaviour and I have high hopes that Australia will be the same.”

“It used to be hard dealing with the anxiety of which Evan is going to turn up on stage. I have to give him a lot of credit for keeping it together on every show this tour. He quit smoking six months ago and he has stuck to that and I hopes he keeps walking that line. After I leave Australia it is out of my hands so Australia will need to look after him.”

The pair have a different approach to the music industry too with Dando being a social butterfly and enjoys the trappings associated with celebrity, while that has been something that Hatfield has consistently shied away from. Now that she self releases all of her music, Hatfield sees herself as being outside of the music business. It is something that sits well with her as she now makes albums solely for her fans and rarely tours.

“Honestly, I love being home and I have a lot of anxiety about leaving to go on tour for so many reasons that some of them I don’t even understand.

After some years of not touring, I was able to get some perspective on my past when I was always miserable on tour. Really miserable and really unhappy and unhealthy on tour and realising that touring was really rough on me and that constitutionally I am not really built for it. I fall apart physically and in other ways.”

“Evan is really great at touring. He is a road guy and could travel for ever. I am not so suited for it.

The only thing that makes it worth doing is the give and take between us and the people in the audience.

It is worth it when people sing along and you can see they are happy with the songs, and that is when I realise why it was I left home to be on the road.” _CHRIS HAVERCROFT 29

VISUAL ARTS

Unravel: Venn Gallery, Perth Unravel features new portraits and video works from prominent WA artist Matt Doust, based on subjects from his new home in Los Angeles. Contemplating ideas of disconnection, both physically and personally, Unravel finds Doust investigating how both spiritual and physical experiences can affect the individual.

Runs ’til Dec 21.

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. Ornaments Of Language: Melody Smith Gallery, Carlisle Between 2 Worlds: Kulcha, Fremantle From an eclectic cross section of contemporary artists Contains works by Amal Al Babeli, Alberdina Plug and comes an exhibition of diverse cultural and artistic Ruth Halbert, using print, painting and photography, influences, informed by universal themes and infused to reflect on the distances, coincidences and with colour and vibrancy. This group exhibition paradoxes of migration. Runs ’til Dec 20. features works by Darryn Ansted, Nathan Beard, Zoe Chong-Seng, Cynthia Ellis, Martin Heine, Matthew The Light Blue Dream: Linton & Kay, Perth Strong colours, heavy textures and concrete shapes Jackson, David Ledger, Woody Mellor, Alan Muller, create a sensuous visual impact in Bruce Earles’ latest Rizzy, Abdul Rahman-Abdullah and Sue Starcken. exhibition which examines the interconnectivity Runs ’til Dec 21. of leisure and industry and the fun of life on the beach which frequently has a backdrop of urban The Nightmare Paintings: Buratti Fine Art, North development . Runs ’til Dec 20.

Fremantle A national touring exhibition featuring the works of With Flowers In Their Hair: 140 William, Perth Aleister Crowley, one of the most vilified and notorious Following Pippa McManus Illustration’s sell-out exhibition A Is For Arizona, the fashion illustrator occult figures of the last century. Runs ‘til Dec 28. returns with her next collection of widely anticipated paintings entitled With Flowers In Their Hair. Inspired Toy Show: Paper Mountain, Northbridge

by London Fashion Week, these girls are created Doomsday is upon us. As the end of the Mayan around one theme, beautiful headpieces, including calendar draws near, Perth based installation artist Rose Skinner reflects upon a post apocalyptic world flowers, crowns, hats and veils. Runs ’til Dec 20. through the eyes of our small beloved friends. The The End Of Arithmetic: Murano And Gullotti, Subiaco friends who sit upon our shelves, under our beds Prominent Australian visual and performance artist or within our boxes marked “childhood”. The mute Anthony Breslin’s latest exhibition is based around secret-keeping creatures of comfort – our adventure his love of the philosophy of maths and the reason companions and accomplices in mischief, the humble yet ever faithful toy. Runs ‘til Dec 23. to justify all that it equals. Runs ’til Dec 21.

Toy Show: Paper Mountain, Northbridge Doomsday is upon us. As the end of the Mayan calendar draws near, Perth based installation artist Rose Skinner reflects upon a post apocalyptic world through the eyes of our small beloved friends. The friends who sit upon our shelves, under our beds or within our boxes marked “childhood”. The mute secret-keeping creatures of comfort – our adventure companions and accomplices in mischief, the humble yet ever faithful toy. Runs ‘til Dec 23.

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.

Monochrome: Gotham Studios Inc, Northbridge This festive season, Gotham’s 13 resident artists have each created two postcard size artworks across a range of media including works on paper, paintings, prints and photographs. Every day through December a new art work will be revealed in Gotham’s window art space: the Peeka-Boo Gallery. Runs ‘til Dec 31.

I Hold A Wolf By The Ears: Linton & Kay, Perth Yvonne Zago masterfully interprets the stories of traditional folklore creating paintings of unrivalled skill and exquisite patterned detail. One cannot help but be drawn into the dazzling world of innocent wonder, her wistful protagonists surrounded by fanciful creatures in landscapes awash with rainbows of glorious colour and comprising a mysterious, fragile beauty. With flora and fauna central to her theme, Zago creates touching narratives of friendship and trust, her imaginative and sensitive portrayals the result of many hours of patient application of paint using the finest of brushes. Runs ‘til Jan 1.

Artwork by Ross Skinner

We Don’t Need A Map: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle This remarkable exhibition includes the work of more than 30 artists and is an exploration of the Martu people – the traditional owners of a vast area of WA’s Western Desert – their way of life, the way they care for country and belong to it. The exhibition features stunning paintings, cutting-edge new media collaborations, finely wrought objects, aerial desert photography and much more. Runs ‘til Jan 20.

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.

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.

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.

Before The Fall By Anya Brock Want Not Need: Gallery 360, Perth A slight departure from her well known sensitive line work and detailed geometric pattern, Anya Brock’s bold and chaotic world is immersed in a mess of colour, complex line work and kaleidoscopic detailed pattern in this new exhibition. Runs ‘til Dec 31.

anniversary of Ballet At The Quarry. Showcasing two Shakespeare In The Park: Kings Park and Botanic world premieres, Yes, I’ll Move For You from Cass Mortimer Eipper and Jubilaté from Daniel Roberts, Garden, Perth Shakespeare WA will give local lovers of the Bard and by the great Glen Tetley the West Australian something to laugh about this summer with the premiere of a modern Everest, Voluntaries, this 2013 season featuring comedy of errors Much special season includes the music of Poulenc, Ado About Nothing. This production will feature Mozart and the American band, Beirut. Runs Feb a local twist with the production set locally in 8-Mar 2. Bookings via perthfestival.com.au.

Western Australia, at the end of the Second World War. Billed as “Shakespeare-meets-Dad’s Army”, this The Mother f**ker With The Hat: Studio hilarious war of the sexes will delight audiences Underground, State Theatre Centre Of WA, Perth with its mixture of star-lit romance, scheming In a bold introduction to their 2013 season, rogues, and the silliness of the home-guard. Runs Black Swan State Theatre Company presents the hysterical, irreverent, foul-mouthed Tony AwardJan 4-Feb 2. Bookings via shakespearewa.com. nominated The Motherf**ker With The Hat. Set Ballet At The Quarry: Quarry Amphitheatre, amongst New York’s Puerto Rican community the play charts the trials and tribulations of Jackie, Floreat Bring a picnic, relax under a starry sky and be a petty drug dealer fresh out of prison, and the immersed in three superbly choreographed users, boozers and losers who complicate his life. works from around the globe as part of the 20th Runs Jan 17-Feb 3. Bookings via ticketek.com.au.

THEATRE/DANCE

FESTIVALS Summer Nights: Blue Room Theatre, Perth Over the last four years The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights has developed as a significant program of eclectic per formance, creative development of new work and contemporary theatre experiences. In 2013 Summer Nights will progress once more and feature the premium theatre and performance offerings of the Fringe World, spread across The Blue Room Theatre and PICA performance spaces. Run Jan 25-Feb 24. Bookings through blueroom.org.au.

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Made To Remember: Art Gallery Of WA, Northbridge Made To Remember is a beautifully considered display of significant Indigenous objects from the State Art Collection. With a diverse selection of works including glass and ceramic objects, textiles and clothing, as well as examples of traditional sculpture, Made To Remember encourages dialogue about the place of an object not only in Indigenous art and culture, but in the broader Australian context. Runs ‘til Jun 30.

Archie Roach: Chevron Festival Gardens, Perth Performance Feb 10. Bookings via Ticketek.

James Reyne: Nannup Amphitheatre, Nannup Performance Jan 26. Bookings via nannup.crc.net.au. Soft Soft Loud: The Antihero Suite: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Yanni: Perth Arena, Perth Performance Feb 14. Bookings via fac.org.au.

Performance Jan 27. Bookings via Ticketek.

Celtic Thunder: Perth Arena, Perth Australian Chamber Orchestra: Perth Concert Hall, Perth Performance Feb 16. Bookings via Ticketek.

Performance Feb 6. Bookings via aco.com.au.

Elvis Costello & The Imposters: Kings Park Botanic Cliff Richards: Sandalford Estate, Swan Valley Performance Feb 23. Bookings via sandalford.com.

Gardens, Perth Performance Feb 6. Bookings via Ticketmaster.

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Perth Concert Hall, Perth Maceo Parker: Chevron Festival Gardens, Perth Performance Feb 7. Bookings via Ticketek.

Performance Feb 27. Bookings via Ticketek.

Perth Festival: numerous locations across Perth Bringing together the best in visual arts, theatre, dance, classic and contemporary music, films, opera and more, the Perth Festival is an all encompassing celebration of art. Runs Feb7-Mar 2.

Fringe World Festival: numerous locations across Perth and surrounding suburbs Perth’s Fringe World Festival is set to massively entertain in 2013. Expanding on the success of the first full Fringe Festival in 2012, Perth will be brought to life over four jam-packed weeks with more than 300 events taking place in more than 50 traditional and nontraditional venues throughout the City of Perth and beyond. Runs Jan 25-Feb 24. Bookings through fringeworld.com.au.

David Lynch Presents Chrysta Bell: Chevron Festival Gardens, Perth Performance Feb 14. Bookings via Ticketek.

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MAGICMOMENTS With another critical smash album out, Steve Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, is riding an unrivalled wave of success right now. RYAN BUTLER speaks to Ellison before his visit for Origin NYE at Fairbridge Village in Pinjarra.

Steven Ellison, more commonly know by his artist name Flying Lotus, has to be the undisputed king of alternative electronica in the recording world at the moment. His latest album, Until The Quiet Comes, has been a huge success with critics and fans, continuing on from the adoration garnered for 2010’s Cosmogramma. Ellison says that despite the success of the album he was actively trying to go in a different direction with his art.

“It was a strange headspace because I felt like I was really trying to make an effort to not repeat myself and not try to make Cosmogramma part two,” he says.“I thought doing something like [that] would have been disastrous to try and catch the same energy. Even though the record was successful I don’t want to try and drink from the same well again and expect the same result, so I want to try and tell a different story and more like a personal journey.

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Flying Lotus “I thought that the thrust of it was different.

I wanted to try and make a record that felt like a dreamy landscape. I want it to feel like you’re being shot out of a cannon, just a totally different sound.”

To reach into that dreamy landscape Ellison says he had to try and tap back into the childish parts of himself that can get lost as we get older and the world makes us grow up. “When we’re young the idea of magic is very possible and we see a lot of magic in this world that really doesn’t exist except in our head, which can be a really powerful thing,” he says.“ I feel like as we get older the magic is pulled from us more and more so through my career I want to play things that feel magical to people.

Remind them that there is still magic left in the world and let people feel like they’re kids again. I really try to remember those moments as a kid where I’d be excited about a record and I try to remember that part of me that wasn’t really affected by the industry

who is just a fan of music. I think that’s a part of me I really try to draw from because when kids get it, they see that thing I’m talking about.”

Complimenting the dream feel of the album is a video for single Tiny Tortures. A surreal dip into the fractured psyche of an amputee portrayed onscreen by Elijah Woods, the clip was directed by David Lewandowski who was responsible for the stunning visual effects on 2010’s TRON: Legacy. Ellison says the video was crucial in getting the message of the album across, something easier said than done.

“That was the biggest, most important bit of that,” he says. “The campaign for me was to make sure all the visual stuff was really, really good and really forward [and] having next level people working on it - like up and coming amazing talent.

“Just trying to get everyone on board at the same time in the same place was kind of a nightmare. I knew Elijah but I don’t have his number so I can’t call him so we had to get it together through email. You can imagine that he’s a really busy person and I am too, and to be fair David is probably just as busy as everybody else because he’s like a one-man visual effects powerhouse. He can do all the stuff and he’s an in demand guy and when he gets a job he is gone in another world for it.”

Speaking of in demand, Ellison himself has become on of the most sought after producers in the world. Woods and Lewandowski join an all-star roster of people who Ellison has worked with in the past few years. Add to that Thom Yorke’s presence on both Until The Quiet Comes and Cosmogramma, Erykah Badu on his latest LP and his collaboration with Earl Sweatshirt on his phenomenal hip hop side project album Duality (finally revealing himself to be the mysterious artist Captain Murphy after months of intense speculation amongst musical tastemakers), you get the sense that Ellison’s schedule is filling up fast with big time players in the industry. “I think maybe for once in my life, yeah, there are a lot of people knocking at my door,” he says. “It’s not fame but there’s a lot more people hitting me up to do stuff than before and I love the idea of doing most of it. I’m like ‘Hell yeah, sign me up. I’m down’.

“At the moment I’m supposed to be working with Kendrick Lamar. It’s really up to him. I just want to be involved because I think he’s the best right now. He’s definitely one of the most forward thinking artists in the world in my opinion.”

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FLYING LOTUS ORIGIN NYE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30 & MONDAY, DECEMBER 31 @ FAIRBRIDGE VILLAGE, PINJARRA

Nathan Fake

FAKING IT

Norfolk born and bred heir to the UK electronica throne Nathan Fake has kept fans of fuzzy-edged synths and pounding acidic techno beats alike guessing every since he released his debut record when he was 19 years old. Now, Fake is coming down under in celebration of his new record Steam Days. “The last two records sound really clean to me now,” Fake says of the record. “This one has the perfect amount of grit in it, I think. I’ve put a lot of time into finding different ways to erode sounds, to make them sound wooden and earthy instead of plastic and metal.” Fake touches down in Perth on Friday, February 1, at The Likes Of You. Stay tuned for venue and ticket deets.

SLAUGHTER IN THE HOUSE

Hip hop super-group Slaughterhouse are celebrating the release of their sophomore record Welcome To: Our House with their first Australian tour.

For those of you not in the know, Slaughterhouse consists of four of the most prolific lyricists in the rap game: Detroit’s Royce da 5’9, New Jersey’s Joe Budden, California’s Crooked I and Brooklyn’s Joell Ortiz. Joining the lads on their tour down under will be Black Hippy Crew’s ScHoolboy Q who is leading the way in a generation of emerging new MCs. Aussie crew Full Tote Odds will also be coming along for the ride. It’s all happening on Saturday, March 2, at Metro City. Snatch up tickets now from Oztix.

Sasha

PIN UP PIONEER

Britain’s biggest pioneer DJ is coming to town. He is the one and only Sasha. He’s been at the front of the pack of dance music since the late ‘90s and has built a reputation that not many will match. He’s pretty much one of the world’s biggest legends in electronic music. He was coined the ‘First DJ Pin-Up’

by Mixmag in 1991 and his triple CD Renaissance: The Mix Collection alongside John Digweed was the first commercial DJ mix CD and remains one of electronic music’s greatest recordings. He’s also remixed tracks from Madonna, Depeche Mode, Seal, UNKLE, The Chemical Brothers, BT, Thom Yorke and more. He plays Villa on Australia Day Eve, Friday, January 25. Tickets are $35 plus booking fee from Moshtix for early birds and they’re on sale tomorrow, Thursday, December 20. This will sell out so get onto it now.

ALL RUBY AND VOGUE

Basically, Vogue Williams is Brian McFadden’s other half. She’s also been a DJ in her native Ireland for the past five years and has played some of the biggest festivals in Ireland in recent years including Oxygen Festival alongside Steve Aoki and has supported the likes of Laidback Luke and Boys Noize. Having already established a bit of a name for herself down under, she’ll be smashing out a set tonight, Wednesday, December 19, at Eve Nightclub. Eve will also see Ruby Rose hit the decks this Saturday, December 22. Get on down!

OVERDOSING ON WOLFGANG

No-one has taken electro-house to the next level like Wolfgang Gartner has. He’s remixed/collaborated with Deadmau5, Britney Spears, Timbaland and The Black Eyed Peas. He’s also played Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival. The American DJ and producer has even been nominated for a Grammy and is signed to the biggest label in the world along with Calvin Harris and Deadmau5 - Ultra Music. Now, he’s returning down under for a huge tour, playing Villa on Friday, February 1. Tickets are $35 plus booking fee from Moshtix for early birds and there are limited VIP tickets for $50 on sale from the Boomtick Shop now. Get on it.

AC SLATER TROUBLE & BASS

He might have named himself after an ‘80s heartthrob from a forgettable ‘80s television show but AC Slater, aka Aaron Clevenger, is not going anywhere soon. FRANK GRECO gets the lowdown ahead of his appearance at Summadayze.

AC Slater’s relaxed attitude mirrors that of West Australians so well; it is no surprise that we are amongst the favourite of his touring destinations.

The friendly Los Angeles dweller has visited Australia four times before and says our festival circuit is one of the best. “It’s seriously one of my favourite places to play,” he says. “The people, the weather, the food, everything is just really good.”

Slater played Villa Nightclub in February this year to promote his Sidewinder / Little Chronic EP, a smooth-house blend with a grungy edge that had Triple J’s Nina Las Vegas screaming “marry me.”

The accolades that he has received from both those within the industry and the general public throughout his more than 10-year career demonstrate what a technically proficient artist he has evolved into, both in the studio and in the live environment.“I work pretty slow though, it takes me about a week to push out a tune,” he says. “The most inspired I am is when I’m touring, especially when I see other DJs playing different types of music,” he says.

But, he says ultimately it is the crowd and their reaction to what he is doing that gets him going. He likes the period of tours that others in his ilk often associate with partying or resting up; travelling between gigs, when he has the audience buzz fresh in his mind. “Usually it happens when I’m on a plane, I whip out my laptop and I’ll just get something down in an hour and take it home and finish it,” he says. “I don’t really have a particular style, sometimes I start with drums, sometimes I start with a sample, sometimes I start with a melody, so it’s what ever I’m feeling that day.”

Slater has enjoyed the spoils of travelling in his time as a DJ. “I love Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and the States,” he says. “I really like being on the road, when I’m home I want to get out there, I get homesick from time to time but I love my job and I love touring so it is not big deal.”

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CHASE & STATUS KEEPING IT UNDERGROUND AC Slater chills out with other creative folk downtown, which also happens to be where he lives. “I spend a lot of time downtown, a lot of people don’t live downtown but artists and some music producers do, I love hanging out there when I’m at home,” he says.

This constant exposure to different ways of looking at electronic music and playing with it perhaps influenced Slater to move away from a more heavy, old-school rave sound around 2007 to a deeper, groovier, head bopping’ house sound. He, like many electronic artists who have been around for a while, choose their collaborators carefully and he says he will only work with someone once he has hit it off on a personal level with and then believes the artistic side will flow organically. “If you’re hanging out with a singer and if you hit it off on a personal level then that’s it, for me it’s as easy as meeting someone when I’m out,” he says.

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UK bass music kings Chase & Status are headed our way for New Year’s as a part of the stellar Origin NYE lineup. RYAN BUTLER speaks to one half of the duo, Will Kennard, about their new record ahead of their trip down under.

“We’re working non-stop,”Will Kennard, the man who puts the Status in Chase & Status, says about the new album the duo are in the middle of recording. “We’re probably about three quarters of the way through it and really excited about putting out some new music. It’s definitely got a slightly different feel from the last one while retaining the energy and hopefully the excitement.”

Aiming to release it in time for the UK festival season next year, that different energy will likely see the band’s sound head in a darker direction, as evident on recent single Big Man. “I think it’s cool to go a little bit against the grain and there’s a lot of quite poppy and light music out there,” Kennard says. “What worked for us is that energy and slightly darker tones to some of our music. We’ve always like darker stuff from the drum’n’bass days but definitely not the whole thing is dark. There’s some uplifting moments and euphoric stuff but we’ll see. It’s a bit of a muddle at the moment and we’ll figure it out when we finish the album.”

Kennard believes that the duo’s sound sits outside of the electronic sounds that have crept up the charts in recent years but is something the band are comfortable with. “We come from a very underground world,”he says.“Anything with a vocal or melody we used to hate and we hated all commercial music growing up. It’s a natural progression as you get older and your taste diversifies you don’t mind hearing a bit of singing or some melody. We try to keep it edgy and a little less obvious hopefully than your average mainstream act now. It’s a fine line. We’re always questioning ourselves - ‘Is this too poppy? Is this too obvious or cheesy? Or is it too underground and weird?’. It’s a difficult thing to get right but there’s two of us so we’re always arguing about it and I think that always helps to keep us on the straight.”

Setting themselves for a monster set at Origin NYE, Kennard says that their electronic sound doesn’t always convert naturally to larger live slots.

“Sometimes a track you make that sounds good in a club to 300 people is not going to sound good to an arena of 20,000 people,” he says. “We played at the Spirit Of London Awards at The O2 which is a big, big venue in London. It’s over sort of 13,000 people and the first song we played was No Problem, the first song off our last album, which is quite a hard drum’n’bass track, and I think it went over people’s heads a little bit.

“That detail in the drums doesn’t work so well in a big arena so it definitely makes you think about the style of music you want to make but hopefully it doesn’t stifle what we’re trying to do and ultimately we’re just trying to write exciting music that we love.”

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LET’S GET SERIOUS SERIOUSLY SOUND SYSTEM Urban Orchard Saturday, December 15, 2012

Mei and Andrew, Savoir After a lot of good years at Hyde Park, RTR FM last weekend changed homeground for its annual dance festival, Seriously Sound System.

And it went down a treat. Saturday’s brilliant sun glowed on the afternoon revellers and as the night came down the atmosphere was balmy and electric, if not outright eclectic. Seasons greetings to RTR FM and all its listeners!

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SUMMADAYZE WARMING UP Mullaloo Beach Hotel Sunday, December 16, 2012 Cecily, Sam

Jaleesa, Stefanie, Olivia

Natalia, Toby

Jessie, Dave

Michael, Steph, Kim

Don, Maree

Summadayze is just around the corner and last weekend saw a bunch of punters ready to get the party started early venture down to the Mullaloo Beach Hotel to boogie to some good tunes smashed out by the likes of Darren J, Craig Hollywood, Black & Blunt and Kenny L. Grand times were had by all as the warm up party tickled everyone’s dancing feet from 3pm way into the night.

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The Gaslamp Killer

THE GASLAMP KILLER

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SLAY BELLS RING

Early in his DJing career William iam Bensussen became renowned for destroying audiences in a particular ular district of San Diego. The legend end evolved to consume LA’s Low End d Theory parties and Flying Lotus’ otus’’ uber-cool Brainfeeder collective e to become the behemoth of beats that is - The Gaslamp Killer. Ahead off his voyage to these parts to take on Aussie audiences, ANDREW NELSON SON chats with the “man of dark and evil”” himself.

Watching The Gaslamp Killer in action brings to mind miind a Tasmanian Devil: wild furious movement accompanied anied by visceral roars. And, speaking to him from his home me in LA, it does seem to come from some primordial origin origin that can’t be contained no matter how down n he’s feeling before the event.“Of course, so bad,” he explains plains when asked about one of these off days. “I always yss tell myself, I don’t get care who’s in the crowd or whatt they want to hear or what they expect from me. I’m m just going to walk in and play some fucking music lilike ike a normal person and then I play a song and get pumped mped up and then I play another song and I get even more more pumped up and I’m just in this zone, the musicc just takes me there.

“Course, I have off days but it’s a rare job, ob, it’s not like an office full of schmucks, it’s a ton of people eople who’ve paid to see you perform and if you’re having aving an off day, they don’t give a shit, they don’t know w that,, to them you’re just not as good as they thoughtt you were.”

Bensussen has been sending audiences ess into a frenzy for a good many years, mainly through hiss Low w End Theory parties – the ground-breaking Wednesday esday night event in Los Angeles that has showcased se ed a whole host of bass artists to a fervent knowledgeable eable crowd. But, his recording output has been limited d to a few EPs and guest appearances until his debut longlo ongplayer Breakthrough, a beat heavy, psychedelic rockk influenced journey to the Middle East and beyond, d,, was released last month. So why the long wait?

“With the album, I felt a lot of pressure from from Brainfeeder and the Low End Theory crew [ like] ‘c’mon c’’mon man, what are you doing? Take some time off and d putt out an album’,” he says. “I don’t get gigs because of of my records, it’s from people who want to hear the shit tthat hat I play out in my shows, they don’t hear that type of m music usic played that way very often and I feel like that’s my p pitch itch and that’s what I do the best.

“The album was searching for my own self. So I went with the idea I want to make this tr trippy rippy ass soundtrack that I can use in my life, this iss the soundtrack to the last 10 years.”

Anyone heading down to Origin NYE YEE will hear elements of that soundtrack coupled with a h huge uge array of musical genres as showcased on his recent ntt BBC Radio One Essential Mix. So you could hear anyone e from from Led Zeppelin and Louis Armstrong through to Mrr Oizo and Roots Manuva, it all depends what he wants ntts to play on the night and he won’t compromise because cause of the night that it is “Fuck New Year’s or not, they h hired ired The Gaslamp Killer to play, I’m not a New Years DJ,, they didn’t hire the Gaslamp Killer to come a play a bu bunch unch of fuckin’ dance hits that everyone knows,” he says..

“They’re coming to the gig, they want to hear me e play what I’m into regardless of what day it is.”

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A STATE OF UKRAINE Spe Speaking from the car after a mo monster gig in Russia, Evgeny Sm Smirnov describes how the ele electronic dance music scene in his native Ukraine is hitting the big time. nat Ind Indeed, the youngster has come fro from virtually nowhere to take the tra trance world by storm. RK talks to him about the experience at playing at ssome of world’s biggest festivals and some trends in the worldwide ED EDM scene.

Dou Doubtless, being involved in dance music today is both harder and easier – depending on whether you’re a glass half full or a glass half empty type of you’ person.“It is really easy to start producing or mixing as pers DJ,” explains Smirnov.“But the point is that in music a DJ - like 10 or even 30 years ago - modern technologies can help all talented guys but it doesn’t stop the trash com coming from young producers. Commercialisation of the sscene means that EDM became really popular in the past few years; the good thing about that is that elec electronic music really unites people - take a look at the crowd c at any big event - happy faces!”

Studio wise - and following on from the success of EPs The Fusion and Halo - Smirnov is focu focusing on original material and, given this, has turned turn down a few remixes lately. “My dream would be to t make a track with legends like Liam Gallagher, Brian Molko or Ian Brown - these guys have really unique uniq voices,” he says, pondering the future. “Until then,” then he adds reflectively, “I’ve released tracks with Ana Criado and Cathy Burton plus done remixes for A Ashley Wallbridge and Cosmic Gate feat. Emma Hewitt.

Hew I’ve also signed my new track to Armada Music Mus and finished a remix with amazing vocals by Carol Caro Lee. Currently I have about 10 other tracks in progress, so I hope 2013 is going to be even more prog exciting for me!” excit Likewise, Smirnov has completed some other othe cool collaborations – those with Blizzard and IRA are a a couple that come to mind. He also explains

Omnia he is completing another one with Ashley Wallbridge.

“I really love what he’s doing at the moment,” he says.

“Also I’m really excited about my collaboration with a great rock band from London called Everything By Electricity - it sounds very unusual!”

Yet more than anything, Smirnov loves the opportunity of getting in front of like-minded crowds at festivals like ASOT and Global Gathering. “I can’t even explain what I feel but it’s really amazing!,” he describes. “I’m always inspired after such big events and my set at ASOT [this year] was definitely a highlight for me!

“Every event is special though and I’m always trying to do my best at every party no matter what it is. Musically, my sets depend on my love of music no matter what genre it is. People seem to love what I’m doing though, too. I’m mostly mixing trance and progressive house but I can sometimes find a place for drum’n’bass and dubstep.”

Finally, the lad is heading down under for Summadayze and is suitably chuffed about it. “This is my first time in Australia and I’m really happy to be [going] there!,” he chimes. “Definitely, I will do some sightseeing too. At the gigs, I will play some wellknown tracks and at the same time I want to present my newer tracks that I have never played before.

But let’s see, because you never know how a set can change. It all depends on my mood and the crowd reaction.”

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EDDIE HALLIWELL

RROAD-TESTING TIMES Fr From his humble beginnings as a bedroom DJ in Lancashire, international trance kingpin in Eddie Halliwell has come a long Ed way. Named Mixmag’s DJ Of w The Year twice, hosting Fire It Up Th Radio, which reaches 13 million Ra listeners worldwide and holding lis residencies in some of the UK’s top re club nights including Goodgreef clu and Gatecrasher, Eddie Halliwell an touches down under shortly for to Summadayze. SHAUN COWE gets Su the lowdown. th Jus back from playing the Superbeat Music Festival Just in Bangkok and straight into interviews, Halliwell exp explains the events behind his recent Twitter posts and why he nearly missed the gig due to flight delays.

“I ju just got back [from Bangkok], had a nightmare with flig ights and scheduling,” he says. “I was connecting thr through Finland… and the flight had been cancelled and it was all going to be rescheduled the following day at eight in the morning.” Luckily, a connecting flig ight to Bangkok and a prodigious amount of dis disgruntled Tweets saw Halliwell to the gig, days bef the release of his single Bullet In The Gun. before With a hectic schedule since his Bangkok gig gig, Halliwell has been gradually obtaining fee feedback from his remix of the classic Bullet In The Gu Gun, released recently. Halliwell has been grateful to he hear it first from fellow DJs. “I’ve not seen too much of it but [I’ve had feedback] on Twitter, messages fro from people enjoying it,” he says. “Most feedback I’ve been getting has been creeping and crawling ou out of the DJs. Getting some good feedback from the DJs that have been playing it.”

Featured alongside Halliwell on the sin single are remixes from fellow DJs Gary Maguire an and Refracture. Though Halliwell had his track listed alo alongside theirs, he admits that the process behind 38

Eddie Halliwell Bullet In The Gun was segregated and he didn’t have contact with the other artists. “Everyone was doing their own sort of thing,” he says. “I mean I was just one of the people asked to do the remix.” But, even though segregation had its downsides, it did allow Halliwell to bring his own interpretation to the tune.

“I tried to just put the sound in of now and from the other productions that I’ve done,” he says. “[I took] the sounds that people seemed to sort of enjoy in the sets that I play and bring it into that remix.”

For Halliwell, road-testing a track is an essential part of finding what works and what doesn’t. “To date, I’ve been fortunate to have the time to road-test things which, to be honest, is very important for me,” he says.“The more and more you get into production you get deadlines and might not have that opportunity to do it but I think by playing stuff out it gives you such a different feel from working on something in the studio.”

Halliwell will be road-testing new material on his upcoming tour as part of Summadayze down under in January and he says, as much as he likes intimate gigs, festivals are big highlights for him too.

“I like both - I like the intimate gigs because people can see what you’re doing [and] you’re very close to your audience,” he says.“But on the flipside to that, if you play a big track on a big stage the reaction can be phenomenal. So they’re two completely different gigs, but I like them both.”

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FRAT HOUSE FRIDAYS

Blvd Tavern – Wub Wub Brass Monkey - DJ Jewel (upstairs) Captain Stirling – Fiveo Clancy’s (Applecross) – Upbeat – DJ Andy Connections – DJs Joby /JJ /Rueben Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays - DJ iPod/ Ben Pettit Eve Nightclub - Vogue Williams/ DJ Crazy Craig Flying Scotsman – UniQue DJs/ DJ Bones/ DJ Moflow Gold Bar–DJ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Leederville Hotel – We Love Wednesdays ft DJ Slick Llama Bar – Jo 19 Matches Bar – Pussymittens Mustang – DJ Giles Sovereign Arms – Lockie Shaw The Deen - DJ Zelimer/ DJ Viper/ DJ Benny/ T– Zone 1 The Grand Central - DJ ANG3L The Queens – Wriggle on YaYa’s – DJ Paul Burgess

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 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 Grand Central – Roger Smart The Queens – Kapitol The Whale & Ale – Josh Tilley The Whistling Kite - DJ Gareth Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Adam Kelly Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin

THURSDAY 20/12

FRIDAY 21/12

Ambar - Dusky Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Wrighteous Claremont Hotel- Institution Thursdays ft DJs Bryn Jones/ James Thorne Club Marakesh – DJ Simon Cottesloe Hotel – DJ Shots/ DJ Andy M Empire Bar – Halo/ DJ Bojan/ DJ Ben Sebastian Eve Nightclub – DJ Tony Allen Flying Scotsman – Cowboys & Indie Kids DJs

Ambar - Paul Malone 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 Brass Monkey DJ Victor (downstairs)/ DJ James Ess (upstairs) Broken Hill Hotel – DJ Nick Alexander Brooklands Tavern - DJ Misschief Mel

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Capitol – Retro Mash Capitol (Upstairs) – I Love ‘90s Carine Tavern – Greg Packer/ MC Assassin Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Boogie Claremont Hotel – DJ Tea King Club Bayview – Amnesia ft Fendi/ Axon/ Fellis Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Eastern Hotel – DJ Munch Empire Bar – Fiveo Eve Nightclub – DJ Don Migi Flawless – DJ Ryan Flying Scotsman – DJs Jo19/ Rok Riley/ Armee Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - Back To Mono DJs Geisha - DJ Hell 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/ The Aston Shuffle DJs Metro Freo - Frat Xmas Party Mint Nightclub – Club Retro ft Chris McPhee Mojos - Mr Grevis 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 Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Rocket Room – Extreme Aggression ft DJ Cain Sail & Anchor - Balcony Beatz/ DJ J-MAC Shape - Terravita Sovereign Arms – ANG3L The Avenue – Little Nicky The Brown Fox – Jon Ee The Carine – Az-T The Causeway – Jus Haus?

The Court - The Mayan ft Benny P vs Genga/ Lionel Hrtz & A10bra/ Get More/ Flex/ Marko Paulo/ The Mayan/ Black & Blunt The East End Bar – Az-T The Generous Squire - DJ Anaru The Shed - Krank/ DJ Glenn 20 The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 The Whale & Ale – DJ Spinback 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 - Stafford Brothers & Hook N Sling Ya-Ya’s – Hero DJs ft Pup

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SATURDAY 22/12 23 Irwin St, Perth - Syrup Midnight Mass ft Kit Pop/ Armin Van Goff/ Dr Space/ Raaghe/ Rekab/ Zeke/ Clunk/ Saxon/ Boy P/ Ben T/ Bolsty and more Ambar - Japan4 ft The Best Of The Ambar Residents Amplifier – Pure Pop ft Eddie Electric Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Boheme Bar – Carte Blanche DJs Brass Monkey - DJ Peta (downstairs)/ DJ Jewel (upstairs) 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 Ruby Rose 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 (Climax) - DJ Francesco/ DJ Don Migi/ DJ Slick Metro City (R&B Lounge) - DJ Soso/ DJ Ruthless/ DJ Brett Costello Metro Freo – Roger Smart/ DJ Wazz/ Ben Carter 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 South St Ale House – DJ Jay Sovereign Arms – Rockwell The Astor - Kendrick Lamar The Avenue – Jon Ee The Boheme – DJ Sneakee The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Dyl/ eSQue The Causeway – Rhys Johnson The Clink –Az-T The Cornerstone – Millie Bro

Ruby Rose The Craftsman – Michael Brittliff The Deen - DJ Birdie/ DJ JJ/ DJ Tony Allen The East End Bar - Fiveo The Generous Squire – On Tap ft DJ James Nutley The Grand Central - Dale Varson The Saint – DJ Anaru The Shed –DJ Andyy/ Huge The Wembley – Lokie Shaw The Whistling Kite – Gavyn Mytchel The Vic – DJ Kristian Tiger Lils – DJ Bojan/ DJ Ben Sebastian Toucan – DJ Hages Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Windsor – DJ Ray Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real McCoy Villa - The Metric Christmas Party ft EGO and more

Stafford Brothers Sovereign Arms – Dylan Hammond The Avenue – Az-T The Causeway – Lukas Wimmler The Cott – Cott Sessions The Kiosk – DJ Cinder The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – James Wilson and more

MONDAY 24/12 Bar Orient - DJ White Label Broken Hill Tavern - DJ Mario Tavelli Eve Nightclub - DJ Don Migi Paddo – DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy Villa - Dorcia Christmas Party

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SUNDAY 23/12

Christmas Day

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 Slick Flying Scotsman – Nathan J/ Nizbet/ Pasha/ Chris Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Eclectic Picnic Mint - Chris McPhee Mustang – DJ Rockin Rhys Paramount – Glo/ DJ Slick/ DJ Benny C/ DJ Matty S Players Bar – Lucky Charm Rocket Room – Coyote Ugly

WEDNESDAY 26/12 Ambar - Breakfest After Party ft Special Guests Belvoir Amphitheatre - Breakfest ft Krafty Kuts/ A.Skillz/ DJ Yoda/ Lady Waks/ The Nextmen/ Jaguar Skills/ Specimen A/ Pyramid/ Marten Hørger/ High Contrast/ Spy/ Camo & Krooked/ MC Wrec/ N’Fa Jones/ Charlie Bucket/ Black & Blunt/ Breakaholics Anonymous/ D-Funk/ N’FA Jones/ Charlie Bucket/ Black & Blunt/ Breakaholics Anonymous ft Ben Mac/ Tone/ Wish/ D-Funk and more

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Dusky Thursday, December 20 @ Ambar Mr Grevis Friday, December 21 @ Mojos Stafford Brothers & Hook N Sling Friday, December 21 @ Villa The Mayan ft Benny P vs Genga/ Lionel Hrtz & A10bra/ Get More/ Flex/ Marko Paulo/ The Mayan/ Black & Blunt Friday, December 21 @ The Court Terravita Friday, December 21 @ Shape Paul Malone Friday, December 21 @ Ambar DJ Hell Friday, December 21 @ Geisha DJ Rubi Rose Saturday, December Nightclub

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Kendrick Lamar Saturday, December 22 @ The Astor

Mobile Beach Party ft ESG Sunday, January 20 @ The Bakery’ Martin Landsky & And.ID Tuesday, January 1 @ Floreat Kiosk, Move 5th Birthday ft Theo Parrish Floreat Beach Heavyweight Soundz ft Andy C & Friday, December 28 @ Ambar MC GQ Friday, January 25 @ Metro City LDV’s A Beach ft Luke Slater John Course/ Saturday, December 29 @ The Bakery Vandalism/ Old Skool Boat Parties ft Miggy and Sneaker Fox and more more Suave Soiree ft DJ Cued Up/ Tuesday, January 1 @ The Friday, January 25 @ Barrack St Jetty Electwins/ Boris Abesit/ DJ Ryan/ Leederville Chris Moro/ DJ Castasia DJ Gusto Cuban Club ft Cuban Brothers/ Saturday, December 29 @ Flawless Yacht Club DJs/ Russ Dewbury/ Friday, January 25 @ Capitol Origin NYE ft Chase & Status (DJ Death Disco DJs and more Riva Starr Set)/ Knife Party/ Gaslamp Killer/ Tuesday, January 1 @ The Flying Saturday, January 26 @ Salt On The ShockOne/ Pearson Sound/ DMZ Squadron Yacht Club, Dalkeith Beach (Coki & Mala)/ Goldie/ Brookes Brothers/ Ed Rush/ Wilkinson/ Club Paradiso ft Friendly Fires Dirtybird Records Tour ft Claude Dillinja/ Marky & Stamina/ (DJ set)/ Kaz James/ Helena/ VonStroke/ Justin Martin/ J Phlip Sigma/ Delta Heavy/ Metrik/ DC Mr Wilson/ Zelimir/ The Halo Sunday, January 27 @ Ambar Breaks/ Skism/ Gemini/ Inspector Effect/ Habitat DJs/ Maiko DJs/ Dubplate/ Jakes/ Mensah/ Dodge Acebasik/ Kno Agents Big Day Out ft The Bloody Beetroots/ & Fuski/ Bar9/ Distance/ Dark Tuesday, January 1 @ Salt On The Crystal Castles/ Kaskade/ Pretty Sky/ Ben Ufo/ New York Transit Beach Lights/ Nicky Romero/ Morgan Page/ Sampology and more Authority/ Pariah/ XXXY/ Om Unit/ Friction/ Bare Noize/ Flying Wonderland ft PNAU (live)/ Bag Monday, January 28 @ Claremont Lotus/ Benga/ Youngman/ Doctor Raiders (DJ set)/ Flume (live)/ Showground Grafton Primary (live)/ Tim & Werewolf/ Hermitude/ Example & DJ Wire/ The Substance/ Deacon Jean (live)/ Alison Wonderland/ The Presets Elizabeth Rose/ What So Not/ Thursday, January 31 @ Metro Freo Rose/ Phetsta and more Sunday, December 30 & Monday, Indian Summers DJs and more Pete Griffiths December 31 @ Fairbridge Village, Tuesday, January 1 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre Friday, February 1 @ The Newport Pinjara

Poption NYE 2012/13 ft Shy The Metric Christmas Party ft EGO Chi Panther/ Rachael Dease vs Ylem/ and more Diger Rokwell vs Mathas/ Kucka/ Saturday, December 22 @ Villa Leure/ Mei Saraswati/ Dani Marsland/ Jo Lettenmaier/ Aarom Syrup Midnight Mass ft Kit Pop/ Wilson vs Craig Hollywood/ Ben Armin Van Goff/ Dr Space/ Raaghe/ Taaffe vs Rok Riley/ Clunk/ PCJ vs Rekab/ Zeke/ Clunk/ Saxon/ Boy P/ Ridik/ Miranda Menzies Ben T/ Bolsty and more Monday, December 31 @ The Bakery Saturday, December 22 @ 23 Irwin St, Perth Samantha Jade Monday, December 31 @ Eve Nightclub Dorcia Christmas Party Monday, December 24 @ Villa Ambar NYE ft Marty McFly/ Tee El/ Breakfest ft Krafty Kuts/ A.Skillz/ bezwun/ Dead Easy/ Philly Blunt/ DJ Yoda/ Lady Waks/ The Nextmen/ Mr eD Marko Paulo Specimen A/ Pyramid/ Marten Monday, December 31 @ Ambar Hørger/ High Contrast/ Spy/ Camo & Krooked/ MC Wrec/ N’Fa Jones/ Insert To Play ft 360/ Urthboy/ Charlie Bucket/ Black & Blunt/ Drapht/ Hermitude and more Breakaholics Anonymous/ D-Funk/ Monday, December 31 @ Supreme N’FA Jones/ Charlie Bucket/ Black Court Gardens & Blunt/ Breakaholics Anonymous Boogie Down NYE ft Boogie ft Ben Mac/ Tone/ Wish/ D-Funk Down/ Charlie Bucket/ Rok Riley vs and more MZJO/ Jade Nobbs Wednesday, December 26 @ Belvoir Monday, December 31 @ Little Amphitheatre Creatures Loft

DJ Gusto Saturday, January 5 @ Metro Freo

Above & Beyond Friday, February 1 @ Metro City

Summadayze ft Chemical Brothers (DJ Set)/ M.I.A/ Fedde Le Grand/ Mark Ronson (DJ Set)/ Andrew Wyatt/ 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/ Sam & The Womp/ TJR/ Junior Jack & Kid Crème/ Omnia/ John 00 Fleming/ Arnej and more Sunday, January 6 @ Patersons Stadium

Wolfgang Gartner Friday, February 1 @ Villa

Kerser Friday, January 11 @ Villa

Slaughterhouse Saturday, March 2 @ Metro City

DJ Gusto Friday, January 11 @ Capitol

Future Music Festival ft The 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

Breakfest After Party ft Special NYE ft Rufus/ Voltaire Twins/ Death Shimon Friday, January 11 @ Geisha Guests Disco DJS/ Tapeheads and more Wednesday, December 26 @ Ambar Monday, December 31 @ Capitol Mark Storie New Year’s Eve Premiere Saturday, January 12 @ Boab Tavern Party Monday, December 31 @ Metro City Jungle Fever ft Aphrodite Saturday, January 12 @ Villa School Disco NYE Monday, December 31 @ Villa Sets On The Beach ft Chali Beach Party NYE ft DJ 2na/ Felix & Al (Hot Chip)/ Bag Reuben/ Morgan/ Pete Francis/ Raiders/ All Good Funk Alliance & Thinktank Wasteland Monday, December 31 @ The Sunday, January 13 @ Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre Leederville

KENDRICK LAMAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 @ THE ASTOR

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Countdown To NYE ft The Cuban Brothers/ N’FA/ Charlie Bucket/ Mr Thing/ The Funk Club House Band and more TBC Monday, December 31 @ Salt On The Beach

Action Bronson Thursday, January 17 @ The Bakery

Felix Cartel Sunday, February 10 @ The Court Future Classic Showcase ft Scenic/ Panama/ Flight Facilities/ Mitzi Saturday, February 16 @ The Chevron Festival Gardens Flosstradamus Saturday, February 16 @ Shape Mac Miller Saturday, February 23 @ Metro Freo Huxley Saturday, February 23 @ Shape

Smokey’s Tour ft Urthboy Friday, March 8 @ Mojos

Smokey’s Tour ft Urthboy Saturday, March 9 @ Amplifier DJ Gusto Friday, January 18 @ Mullaloo Sets On The Beach ft lineup TBC Sunday, March 17 @ Scarborough Beach Hotel Beach Amphitheatre

Spectrasoul (photo by Daniel Craig)

HITTING THE SPOT Spectrasoul/ Audio Villa Nightclub Saturday, December 15, 2012 Villa formed the perfect backdrop as Perth’s drum’n’bass heads came together to see two of the UK’s leading exponents in the genre, Spectrasoul and Audio. As midnight rolled around and the warm up DJs were done building the anticipation for the eclectic mix of punters who gathered together, Spectrasoul hit the decks.

It took a while before the drum’n’bass sweet spot was really hit as Spectrasoul opened up with jams more akin to house music than the rumbling drum’n’bass the crowd were waiting for.

It worked a treat, however, the packed house was starting to move as the tension, speed and energy progressed through the set.

When the handbrake was fully released, the beats morphing into full blown tribal drum’n’bass, the bodies really started flying legs and limbs jangling all over the place, yet all moving like one cohesive unit.

Spectrasoul had locked right in, euphoric peaks and sonorous troughs surrounding a steady

stream of a beat. Showing off their trademark style the set was littered with soulful moments blended through primal, pounding basslines.

If Spectrasoul’s set was a home run, then Audio was bottom of the ninth, two out, bases loaded, World Series, out the fucking ballpark shit.

Not taking any time to build into it since this had been done adequately enough already, Audio came out and hit like a freight train instantly.

This was deeper than any house jam, wobblier than any dubstep banger. This was fullfledged electronic hardness, the light show amplifying the intensity of the driving bass bounding at a canter only the deepest of bass fiends could maintain. Not for the faint of heart or weak of mind, it was primal, ‘get the fuck out of your chair and move’ rhythms and this is exactly what the crowd did. As the hype man out front of the stage started a back and forth between the punters of ‘Can we go harder? Fuck Yeah!’, everywhere you looked was a mess of movement.

Drum’n’bass may not always be the flavour of the moment but this gig showed why it’s a perennial favourite for many. Safe well away from the mainstream spotlight, drum’n’bass will likely always hide in the dark recesses of the electronic psyche, and I don’t think anyone in the venue would change that.

As Audio wrapped up the set to massive roars and raised hands, Perth had shown it’s hunger for the monstrous Inhibit club night and both artists had well and truly fed that spot.

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RÜFÜS Ringing In The Changes Sydney electro-pop three-piece, Rüfüs, are headlining at Capitol on New Year’s Eve, with support from Voltaire Twins, Bastian’s Happy Flight, Death Disco DJs and more. TRAVIS JOHNSON speaks with Jon George.

By any reasonable measure, electronic funsters Rüfüs have had a hell of a good year.

They’ve toured, they’ve travelled internationally and they’ve supported a number of big name acts in their quest to carve out a niche for themselves in the musical landscape.

“It’s been pretty amazing,” Jon George, one-third of the Sydney group, agrees.“Starting with the start of the year and the support we were getting from triple j for our new releases. Playing the Big Day Out was such an amazing experience and opening for Röyksopp on their tour here was such a great start to the year - it just didn’t stop. Getting to America in October as well was so much fun. It’s been pretty surreal in a way, but we’ve been working pretty hard for it and we’re really excited about next year, actually, keeping the journey going.”

The next step is a New Year’s Eve appearance at Capitol. But, while we appreciate their decision to ring in the New Year out here in the Western hinterlands, the question must be asked: why would such a band, currently generating a huge amount of buzz and clearly on the upswing of their career, choose to see out 2012 in Perth?

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Rüfüs “I think the last time we played there we sold out,” George explains. “It was such a good experience - I think it was one of the biggest shows we played on the last tour. We love it there. We love going down to Fremantle the next day, as well. To be honest, we wouldn’t rather be anywhere else for New Year’s. We’ll have some fun at the gig and get up to some mischief the next day, so we’re looking forward to it.”

They’re also looking forward to field-testing some material from their upcoming album.

“We’re going to play at least two new tracks, and a cheeky cover that we’ve been working on. There’s definitely some new stuff to be heard.”

Work on the as-yet-untitled new album has been ongoing for the past several months, with George and his bandmates, Tyrone Lindqvist and James Hunt, sequestering themselves to grapple with the project in peace.

“We went down to the Central Coast of New South Wales to a rural property,” George tells us. “Away from the rest of the world. We wrote 16 tracks when we were down there and now it’s just a process of refining them. We’ve always worked like this from the start, in terms of getting into the studio together and starting with a rough idea of somewhere to go with a track, or a feeling that we’re trying to get out and that’s generally what we’ve been doing for this album a well.

“We’re really proud of it - it’s something that seems to sum up everything we’ve been doing over the past two years and I can’t wait for people to hear it. We’re releasing the first single at the end of January, and the rest of the album hopefully in April sometime next year. We’re pretty pumped.”

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FELICITY GROOM

Snogs And Songs Felicity Groom and her band join with The Love Junkies, Cow Parade Cow, Runner, The Long Lost Brothers, Deep River Collective & Galloping Foxleys for New Year’s Eve at Mojos.

What’s your preferred Armageddon date and, failing the end of the world, how are you spending New Year’s Eve? Well Christmas would be fine I if I had to pick Armageddon. Hopefully everyone will be with their nearest and dearest then... and that means you get to eat lots and drink lots and not suffer the consequences the following day, because it just won’t be there.

Fa i l i n g t h a t, t h e Fe l i c i t y G r o o m experience will be down at Mojos with our buddies. All of the Mojo’s crew and family will be there. We’re going to play earlier in the night.

What was your own performance highlight for 2012?

It’s hard to remember. Every gig has its thing. It’s not anything like football. Nobody’s keeping score - and there’s a winning feeling after every show - if there’s any resemblances then that’s the goal I’m kicking through the big pointy sticks.

What was the best gig you attended this year?

There are heaps of good gigs all the time. Heaps of incredibly talented bands in Perth alone. I hang about at Mojos lots... just watching all these rad people do their own little unique thing.

Choosing the best gig is like choosing what colour is the most vibrant in the rainbow.

It’s just not possible with such strong talent all grouped together in this small town.

Resolutions: Did you make one last year? Did you keep it? Are you planning on making one this time around?

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Felicity Groom I always write down some kind of resolution- but it’s kinda more an action plan for the upcoming months, rather than a self-flagellating, self-deprecating, unachievable list of complaints for me to drown in.

It’s just more a hit list of to-do’s... and the to-do’s for the new year is to release two albums one being my next album- called Hungry Sky and the other being the [Diger] Rokwell and Groom collaboration album called New Parts.

What’s your stance on random snogging at midnight, NYE? Snogging is bloody great - and if you’re free and single... well then grabbing a stranger and using your tongue as a stethoscope is sometimes an interesting experience.

Me? I have my New Year’s kiss very much planned. I’m very good friends with one pair of lips that I’ll be searching out and sticking to when the clock strikes 12. And then when the clock hits one... and two... and so on.

What are you most looking forward to in 2013?

The two albums coming out will be a highlight for next year. I’m spending the Christmas break finishing them off. The first single from each album should drop in March.

Apart from that, I am looking forward to 2013 in general. Doomsday/end of the world style supporters might be sad about the clock ticking on... but to be so vehemently supportive of a catastrophic end must keep you pretty down in general anyway. _ SABIAN WILDE X-Press – First on the street, Wednesdays

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VOODOO LOUNGE

DEC 19

Celebrate Christmas Bond style and head to the Voodoo Lounge dressed as your favourite Bond character. Bond Girl themed performances from all your favourite films including Octopussy. Every paid entry gets to shoot a dart with a chance to win a 40” Plasma TV!

DEC 31

Get your News Year’s Eve kicks at Mojos with Felicity Groom (band), The Love Junkies, Cow Parade Cow, Runner, The Long Lost Brothers, Deep River Collective and Galloping Foxleys.

ADDRESS: 237 Queen Victoria Ave, North Fremantle PRICE: $15 presale from Heatseeker, or $25 on the door

ADDRESS: 174 James Street, Northbridge PRICE: $20 on the door

Contact: (08) 9328 9633, thevoodoolounge.com.au

RAILWAY HOTEL

MOJOS BAR

Contact: mojosbar.com.au

DEC 22

Head to the massive Railway Hotel Beer Garden for the official End Of The World Party!

Dilip N The Davs, Pimps Of Sound, Ngati and The Gypsie Howls will all be on hand for a huge night of grooves and good times. Doors open 7.30pm.

ADDRESS: 44 Tydeman Road, North Fremantle PRICE: $15 on the door

INDI BAR

DEC 31

Vdelli have been part of The Indi Bar’s history for over 15 years and yet still they manage to throw the biggest party every Friday night. New Year’s will see them reuniting with original Power Shift members including Gerard Maunick who will open on the night, and of course, it wouldn’t be an Indi Bar New Year’s party without a fancy dress theme...

There will be prizes for the best dressed so come dressed as your best pirate arrrrr!

ADDRESS: 23-27 Hastings Street, Scarborough PRICE: $20 on the door

Contact: indianoceanhotel.com.au or info@ioh.com.au

Contact: (08) 9335 2732, facebook.com/therailwayhotelfreo

THE COURT

DEC 23

Swap your reindeers for rainbows and come celebrate Christmas in Court style.

Featuring the incredible Ruby Rose and Court legends Tim Bee and P Lilly. There’s giant games to play and heaps of Christmas fun. Plus you get to meet Ruby after her set! Fun, sun, games and tunes – there’s no better way to spend Christmas! Doors open 4pm ADDRESS: 50 Beaufort Street, Perth PRICE: $15 presale via eventbrite.com.au

DEC 31

JumpClimb, Electonic and X-Press Magazine invite you to our exclusive NYE party at Capitol Nightclub on December 31. We’ve got RüFüS coming over from Sydney bringing their unique blend of instrumental electro-pop. The last time these boys were here earlier in the year they sold out Amps. Do not miss! These guys know and love their electro and are going to bust out a dance set of epic proportions.

ADDRESS: 393 Murray Street, Perth PRICE: First release $30, second release $35 via Moshtix

Contact: bookings@jumpclimb.com or Moshtix.com.au

Contact: info@thecourt.com.au, thecourt.com.au

THE PADDO

CAPITOL

DEC 24

AMPLIFIER

DEC 31

Celebrate Christmas Eve at The Paddo with Zenburger live on stage from 9pm. Plus $8 Smirnoff cocktails and $15 jugs of Tiger all night! Dress in your finest Santa outfit and go in the draw to win a massive bar card for The Paddo. Plus hang around long enough and you will get to meet The Paddo Santa!

Get down to Amplifier on New Year’s Eve for a Mexican Fiesta and party with six DJs across two rooms, along with a king sized Amplifier piñata. Prizes for the best dressed Senor and Senorita, face painting in the courtyard, Sangria punch and tequila specials all night.

ADDRESS: 141 Scarborough Beach Road, Mt Hawthorn PRICE: Free entry

ADDRESS: 338 Murray Street, Perth PRICE: $12 entry in 2012, $13 entry in 2013

Contact: paddo.com.au

Contact: facebook.com/amplifier.capitol.fan or amplifiercapitol.com.au

KALAMUNDA HOTEL

DEC 24

METROPOLIS FREMANTLE

DEC 31

The Kalamunda Hotel Christmas Eve Party is going to be huge! There will be live entertainment on both levels, with The Blue Bottles taking to the stage downstairs from 6-9pm, plus, TBS Entertainment have lined up some great DJs to spin the decks upstairs from 8-11pm, and downstairs from 9-11pm. Be sure to head over to the win tab on our Facebook page facebook.com/KalamundaHotel for your chance to win a share of $750 in cash on the night.

After the overwhelming success of the Frat House UV Party it seemed only natural that UV would be the theme for NYE, so all previous plans were cast aside and the team set to work on planning the biggest UV Party Australia has ever seen. Not only will all the guns be double in size, the paint increased and many more exciting extras added but Metropolis will be turning the upstairs room, C5 into a bubble room! That’s right, DTuck and Dr Wazz will be DJing at the ever popular I Love 80s + 90s room that will be filled with bubbles!

ADDRESS: 43 Railway Road, Kalamunda PRICE: Free entry

ADDRESS: 58 South Terrace, Fremantle PRICE: Tickets available from Oztix. First Release sold out. Limited second release for $25 + bf. Third release $30 + bf.

Contact: facebook.com/KalamundaHotel or kalamundahotel.com.au

Contact: facebook.com/MetropolisFreo or metropolisfremantle.com.au

YAYA’S

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THE PRINCIPAL

DEC 31

Boxing Day sees a mammoth illustrious Day of musical proportions courtesy of Tyranocorp and Cool Perth Nights. Headliners are the ever sassy and entertaining Boom! Bap! Pow! supported by Australia’s own masters of the surf rock guitar Day Of The Dead. Also appearing are indie rock juggernauts Axe Girl and back from hiatus Red Engine Caves.

Wizard Whitebeard needs your help to find Wally! Head to The Principal on New Year’s Eve, from 8pm to help find Waldo at the Where’s Wally New Year’s Eve Party! Don your striped red and white cardigan or any Wally themed attire and we’ll shout you a Where’s Wally cocktail. There’ll be games, prizes, giveaways and bulk good times ‘til 2am New Years Day

ADDRESS: 147 James Street, Northbridge PRICE: $12 on the door

ADDRESS: 23 Cale Street, Midland PRICE: Free entry

Contact: ya-yas.com.au

Contact: (08) 9250 2995, facebook.com/ThePrincipalMidland

REGGAE CLUB

DEC 31

Ring in 2013 with The Reggae Club’s New Year’s Eve party featuring two rooms of entertainment! Reggae room featuring live reggae band Ngati (NZ), DJs Ras Mwas (Kenya), General Justice (RTR) and Prez-II (UK). As if that wasn’t already enough, the Dancehall room will feature sets from The Empressions - Australia’s first ladies of dancehall, Mumma Trees and Sista Che, DJ Calvin (Kenya), DJ Ray (Kenya) and Troopaz (Zimbabwe). Free Caribbean cocktail on arrival! Bring in the New Year in a Reggae style one love party! Runs 8pm ’til 2am.

DEC 31

This New Year’s the Mustang will host A Nightmare On Lake Street Party. The Rusty Pinto Combo are starting the night early that will take you back to those old blues haunts and rockabilly honky tonks. The New Year is on its way and Milhouse is holding the late shift with DJ James MacArthur, all is going well until Wil & Chris are being tormented by a clawed killer named Ash Krueger. DJ James Mac must think quickly as Ash tries to choose all the songs for the night. Dress in your scariest to win horrific prizes.

ADDRESS: 46 Lake Street, Northbridge PRICE: Free entry

ADDRESS: Bar Orient: 39 High Street, Fremantle PRICE: $30 pre sales from The Reggae Club (every Friday at Bar Orient)

Contact: (08) 9328 2350, info@mustangbar.com.au or mustangbar.com.au

Contact: 0411229258, 0447397854 or reggaedancehallwa.com

METRO CITY

THE MUSTANG BAR

DEC 31

Enter Metro City’s NYE premiere party on a red carpet complete with paparazzi and become your favourite celebrity or character for one night only in this special event. The NYE Premiere Party is a diverse amalgamation of the best films and genres of the last decade - sure to impress all of Perth’s soon to be A-listers! Picture an incredibly immersive and decadent big room New Year’s Eve experience. Across three levels of interactive entertainment we take you straight into your favourite movie, move from scene to scene, act out your favourite parts and choose where you want to Party into 2013!

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MATCHES LOUNGE

Celebrate the ending of 2012 and beginning of 2013 at Matches Lounge in Northbridge with entertainment from 7pm ’til 2am. Four DJs will get behind the decks and canapes, dips, continental platters and hot party platters will be available for order behind the bar. Drink specials on offer all night.

ADDRESS: 91A James Street, Northbridge PRICE: Free entry

ADDRESS: 146 Roe Street, Northbridge PRICE: $25 + bf, or $40 on the door

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THE SHED

DEC 31

Get down at The Shed’s Tiki Luau Party with live band, Tiki entertainment, games and lots of fun, dress in your grass skirt or Hawaiian shirt and bring in the New Year in the beer garden under the stars.

ADDRESS: 69-71 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge PRICE: $10 on the door

THE BAKERY

DEC 31

Instead of forking out all your holiday pay on a party that might not even be worth it, count down to midnight with life is noise this New Year’s Eve. While we can’t make any midnight pash promises, we can guarantee a party that will be a fun and affordable way to ring in 2013. Two rooms will be open all night, fizzing like an overshook bottle of champagne with a massive local live lineup of electronic treats and beats aplenty.

So get all your auld acquaintances together and let’s say farewell to 2012 and bring on 2013 at one of Perth’s most beloved venues.

ADDRESS: 233 James Street, Northbridge PRICE: $25 + bf presale or $35 on the door on the night (if any spots left) from lifeisnoise.com

Contact: lifeisnoise.com, dave@lifeisnoise.com

Contact: (08) 9228 2200, the-shed.com.au

THE SAINT

DEC 31

Wear your heart on your sleeve this New Year’s at The Saint’s Traffic Light Party. Wear red if you’re taken, green if you’re single and yellow if you’re not sure. Entertainment on the night will come from Crazy Sexy Cool, with prizes, giveaways, DJs and drink specials.

ADDRESS: 2 Morris Road, Innaloo PRICE: Free entry

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

DEC 31

The Rosemount Hotel presents its annual New Year’s Eve Fiesta starring Sugar Army, Emperors, Ruby Boots, Boys Boys Boys!, Rainy Day Women, Timothy Nelson and the Infidels and Dead Owls hitting the main room stage, with DJ Shannon Fox spinning tunes in the Beer Garden. Last New Years Fiesta sold out on the night so buying presale is advised this year!

ADDRESS: 459 Fitzgerald Steet, North Perth PRICE: $29 + bf from heatseeker.com.au, 78 Records, Planet Video, Mills Records and Star Surf outlets, or $35 at the door if available.

Contact: (08) 9327 7062, rosemounthotel.com.au

Contact: (08) 9446 2424, thesaint.com.au

THE BROWN FOX

DEC 31

This New Year’s Eve The Brown Fox will host a night at The Moulin Rouge. With Cheeky floor shows from Sugar Blue Burlesque, a sux course degustation dinner in the bistro ($80 per person) or a three hour canapés package ($50 per person) for a more casual experience. There will also be a martini bar and delicious cocktails to bring in the New Year.

MULLALOO BEACH HOTEL

DEC 31

Featuring DJ Kenny L and GUESTS. Ticket Includes slushie or a pint of Millers on arrival.

ADDRESS: 10 Oceanside Promenade, Mullaloo PRICE: $35 ($30 for MBH Members)

ADDRESS: 72 Outram Street, West Perth PRICE: $80 for degustation dinner or $50 for canapés package

Contact: mullaloobeachhotel.com.au

Contact: (08) 9425 5222, manager@thebrownfox.com.au, thebrownfox.com.au

THE LEEDERVILLE HOTEL

DEC 31

There’s no better way to ring in the New Year than with a beach party and The Leederville Hotel is bringing the sand to the city. Enjoy the New Year’s festivities at the biggest and best inner city beach party as 80 tonnes of sand turn Perth’s iconic party spot into a tropical paradise, complete with beach themed bars and sprinklers.

ADDRESS: 7423 Newcastle Street, Leederville Price: $25 + bf from ticketbooth.com.au

LLAMA BAR

DEC 31

Spend NYE 2013 at Llama. Celebrate in style with resident DJs Morris, Adam Kelly, DJ Cee and Reuben with live visuals from VJzoo. Tickets include a free drink on arrival, free canapés and happy priced drinks from 7pm-9pm. For those looking to live it up a little there are a limited number of VIP tables available - (includes VIP table, premium canapés, magnum of champagne, personal wait service – please enquire at venue - admin@ llamabar.com). Doors from 7pm – dress to impress!

ADDRESS: 1/464 Hay Street, Subiaco PRICE: (08) 9388 0222, llamabar.com

Contact: admin@llamabar.com, (08) 9388 0222, llamabar.com

Contact: (08) 9202 8222, leedervillehotel.com

THE BRASS MONKEY

DEC 31

End 2012 with a bang and go wild at the Brass Monkey’s Tropicana Beach Party. Free entry all night with two levels of Perth’s best beat jockeys spinning the decks from 6pm ’til 2am. Get your picture taken at the Brass Monkey beach with prizes for best dressed on the night.

ADDRESS: corner James and William Streets, Northbridge PRICE: Free entry

DEC 31

For an evening with 360, Drapht, Ladyhawke DJ Set, Bluejuice, Hermitude, Urthboy, Deacon Rose, Chance Waters, Smiley ADDRESS: Supreme Court Gardens, Perth PRICE:$104 available from oztix.com.au, Live Clothing, Bayswater Liquor Barons, 78’s, Mills, Planet Video, Blue 62, Star Surf, The Prince Of Wales

Contact: inserttoplay.com, info@inserttoplay.com

Contact: (08) 9227 9596, thebrassmonkey.com.au

THE GARDEN

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THE NEWPORT

DEC 31

The Garden will be given a Vegas style makeover for a Fabulous Las Garden New Year’s Eve spectacular. Doors open from 7pm ’til 2am and a ticket gets you a glass of Croser on arrival, canapés, exclusive entertainment, blackjack and roulette tables, plus lots more.

Celebrate New Year’s with superheroes! Accessorise with a mask, wear your undies on the outside, bring a cape, behave gallantly. First 100 people through the door from 7.30pm receive a free kryptonite punch and mask.

ADDRESS: 742 Newcastle Street, Leederville PRICE: $60 + bf from ticketbooth.com.au

ADDRESS: 2 South Terrace, Freo PRICE: $10 entry or free entry if you’re dressed up!

Contact: (08) 9202 8292, thegarden.net.au

Contact: (08) 9335 2428, thenewport.com

BEAT NIGHTCLUB

DEC 31

What could be better than reminiscing about your childhood? How about doing it in a nightclub, with friends on New Year’s Eve! The Steez DJs will be spinning all the favourites from the era where gold parachute pants were acceptable.

DEC 31

Samantha Jade from X-Factor fame joins the New Year’s Eve Party! See in the new year, Carnivalé style!

ADDRESS: Crown Perth, Burswood PRICE: $30 Pre-sale, $40 on the door

ADDRESS: 234 William Street, Perth PRICE: Free entry

Contact: eveclub.com.au

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OXFORD HOTEL

EVE NIGHTCLUB

DEC 31

It’s Fiesta time this New Year’s Eve at the Oxford Hotel in Leederville. On arrival you will be greeted with a complimentary margarita and served a stunning array of canapés and cocktail food. The five piece LA Salsa band provide live entertainment with a DJ in support. Plenty of fun competitions and prizes for best outfits. Everyone has a chance to win a trip for two to Bali. Open from 8pm ’til 2am, dress Fiesta.

Broken Hill Hotel

Dec 31

Underwater New Year’s Eve Party . Underwater Theme. Features DJs Manda Power, Ben Mac, Fiveo, Roger Smart, Jon Lee. Mixing it up from 7pm – 2am.

ADDRESS: 314 Albany Highway Vic Park PRICE: $10

ADDRESS: 368 Oxford Street, Leederville PRICE: $30 from the venue

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Two Door Cinema Club

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB After The Storm

Wry Irish indie-pop three-piece will be hitting the stage at Southbound on Saturday, January 5. RACH SENEVIRATNE chats to bassist Kevin Baird.

“One day I’m complaining to our manager, saying, ‘Fuck this, I wanna have a week off, my girlfriend’s gonna kill me’ and shit like that, and then five minutes later I’m looking at the calendar and saying, ‘Well, there’s five days free here – why aren’t we going to Colombia?’”

With Two Door Cinema Club’s bassist Kevin Baird nursing a cough and a strong hangover on a bleary Sunday morning, the effects of being on the road since he was 18 (he’s now 23) are more evident than ever.

After forming in 2007 and earning a legion of fans through the (now archaic, but then groundbreaking) MySpace music platform, the band released Tourist History on the Parisian tastemaking fashion/music label Kitsuné. The album was a halfhour injection of irresistible indie dance that propelled them into the world spotlight, and Two Door toured relentlessly, almost flogging it for all it was worth.

For Baird, it got to a point where he felt the band really needed to move on to the next chapter.

“We felt exhausted. We’d started touring around six

CUBAN CLUB

JAN 1

The luxury revolution returns! Perth’s premier New Year’s Day event returns for its 7th instalment. And in 2013, it’s all about the Garden Party. Think cucumber sandwiches and rolling lawns; croquet while sipping on a Pimms; flowing, colourful dresses and gents in slacks and hats celebrating Mad Men pastiche. Parasols and the fresh scent of flowers in the air; tea parties, flamingos, cupcakes and sunshine. All by the magnificent Swan River.

MOVIES BY BURSWOOD

DEC-APR

Movies By Burswood has something for everyone! Catered and fully licensed, Movies By Burswood screens classics and new releases all summer long. Hire Bean Bag Lounges or BYO rugs, chairs. Monday, Tuesday discounts, check online for pricing.

ADDRESS: Flying Squadron Yacht Club, on the Esplanade in Dalkeith PRICE: $249.90 from Ticketmaster.com.au (136 100)

ADDRESS: Burswood: Burswood Parklands near the Causeway Bassendean: BIC Reserve corner Guildford Road and Wilson Street Curtin: Henderson Court in Curtin University entry off Hayman Road, Bentley PRICE: Tickets available online: Adults $13, Senior/Students $9, Children (5-15) $6, Family ticket $31

Contact: info@lloydevents.com, lloydevents.com

Contact: moviesbyburswood.com

WONDERLAND

JAN 1

Celebrate the arrival of 2013 on New Year’s Day at Belvoir with Wonderland featuring PNAU, Bag Raiders, flume, Tim&Jean, Grafton Primary, Alison Wonderland, Elizabeth Rose, What so not, Indian Summer DJs, Shy Panther, The Rabbit Hole (Silent Disco).

ADDRESS: 1177 Great Northern Highway, Upper Swan PRICE: $85 + bf from Ticketmaster.com.au

SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS WA TOUR

JAN 1-2

ADDRESS: Fremantle Arts Centre: 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle.

Clancy’s Fish Pub: 1710 Caves Road, Dunsborough PRICE: $60 + bf for Fremantle Arts Centre show and $45 +bf for Clancy’s gig via heatseeker.com.au

ASTOR THEATRE

Feb 1

Mick Foley: the hardcore legend, three-time WWE heavyweight champion and multiple New York Times best-seller has finally taken to the stand-up stage. Alongside him, Edinburgh-award-winning comic, Brendon Burns, hardcore legend of the international comedy scene, is finally coming out as a lifelong wrestling obsessive. Expect hilarious real life stories from the man behind the mask, and twenty years worth of repressed, stockpiled wrestling material from comedy’s No1 wrestling fan. Warning! May contain references that some people find utterly baffling.

ADDRESS: 659 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley PRICE: $55 via liveattheastor.com.au

Contact: (08) 9370 1777, liveattheastor.com.au

Contact: sharonjonesandthedapkings.com

JAN 6

The Chemical Brothers performing a rare DJ set, M.I.A. live, Mark Ronson feat. Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow and Spank Rock, Kimbra, Fedde Le Grand, Booka Shade, Eddie Halliwell, Disclosure live, Carl Craig 69 live, Maya Jane Coles, Hudson Mohawke, Araabmuzik, Icona Pop, Sam & The Womp and so much more, all on the hallowed turf of Patersons Stadium!

ADDRESS: Patersons Stadium, Subiaco PRICE: $136.50 from Ticketmaster.com.au (136 100) and the usual outlets

Contact: summadayze.com, info@mellenevents.com

DEC-JAN 20

We Don’t Need A Map brings the desert to the city to celebrate the lively and enduring culture of the Martu – the traditional owners of a vast area of WA’s Western Desert. The remarkable exhibition includes the work of more than 30 artists and is an exploration of the Martu people, their way of life, the way they care for country and belong to it.

Contact: (08) 9432 9555, wedontneedamap.com.au or fac.org.au

Celebrate New Year’s Day at Fremantle Arts Centre with the legendary Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings with support from Los Coronas (Spain), Sunshine Brothers, Cosmo Gets, DJs and more. If you’re down south enjoying the summer sunshine, catch Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings at Clancy’s Fish Pub Dunsborough on January 2.

SUMMADAYZE

FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE

ADDRESS: 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle PRICE: Free entry

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months prior [to Tourist History’s release], and then we toured it for over a year and a half after it came out – so we’d been on the road for a long time. We still loved the album, but we wanted to play something new, and wanted to write something now.”

Given the success of their debut, one would assume that backing it up would be a daunting prospect, but sophomore syndrome didn’t cross Baird’s mind. “We never really said, ‘Oh shit, we’d better do something good now’,” he says. “[In the past] few years we had stopped exercising that muscle of writing a song, and it felt kinda weird – we used to do it all the time. Writing together after so long … we were just really excited. We stopped touring and it became fun again, the whole creative process.”

Beacon was always going to be a different album to Tourist History. Their debut was written with the uncultivated chutzpah and naivety of a band who, at the time, had no success, no touring experience, no scrutiny. Sitting down to write the newer one though, things had changed.“We were a couple years older and we had done a lot, seen a lot,” Baird says,

sounding every bit the tour-weary young man he is.

“The first album was [filled with] the optimism of what we thought or hoped was gonna happen; the excitement of it. Not that we don’t have fun on the road now or anything, but there was a lot that happened between the first and second album…

Suddenly, [touring] took up all of our lives, for the next two and a half years.”

The overarching loneliness that Beacon exudes is reflective not only of their life on the road, but also of the band having worked on it to the beat of their own drum; it’s not another happy-go-lucky party album in the vein of Tourist History. The band felt the need to show a certain vulnerability and sombreness on the record, rather than pandering to the demands of fans and stakeholders. “We didn’t have some horrible, overbearing producer with a creepy moustache or anything like that. We worked independently of labels; independently of everything.

Everyone just let us go off and do our own thing.”

Their ‘own thing’ is a more refined, empathic sound than the What You Knows and Undercover Martyns of their debut. The reason the band was on what seemed like every summer festival line-up around the world was that their music yielded to a live setting; almost as if envisaging the live performance played a key role the writing process. “We thought about things a lot more in that aspect [with the first album] because we would write a song, and then a week later we would play a show in Belfast or something. But with [Beacon] there was no touring while we were writing it, so it was harder to imagine.

We started writing things without thinking about how it would sound live,” Baird says. “You’re [writing] in a basement, you’re freezing and you’re wearing three jumpers, and you’re just sitting there with your instrument. When we’re all piecing the song together like that, it’s hard to imagine playing that to people.”

While this may seem like a risk, Baird claims that playing to your crowds and indulging in their expectations breeds a stagnant creative mindset. “A lot of people talk about bands ‘selling out’, and people attribute that to many different things. In my head, the real definition of selling out is when you’re ripping yourself off because you know that it’s easy. You know that song from your first album got on the radio and people liked it and it was successful, and you just rip yourself off again ‘cos that format works.”

The band has found itself a comfy niche in both camp indie and camp dance, meaning they can fit perfectly on the bill at Glastonbury or Coachella, but also at something much more dance music-oriented, like Sydney’s Field Day. But this hasn’t been some carefully thought-out business manoeuvre; contrarily, Baird sees premeditation as the antithesis to creative progress. “We never really talk about it, y’know? We never said to each other what kinda band we are, like, ‘This is our genre and this is what we stick to’. Trying not to calculate it is the secret, I think.”

CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

FEB 7-MAR 2

It’s back! And if you thought it couldn’t get any better than 2012, just wait until you see what is in store for you at the 2013 Chevron Festival Gardens. And don’t forget your ticket to the Mainstage gives you priority access to the Garden, Perth’s ultimate summer hangout zone. A place to catch up with friends and soak up the atmosphere.

ADDRESS: Western Australian Museum Grounds, Perth Cultural Centre PRICE: $31-$60 from perthfestival.com.au

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TIMOTHY NELSON Exile On Fitzgerald St

DAY OF THE DEAD Reborn

The new line-up of Day Of The Dead heads to the Newport Hotel for Afternoon Tiki with Brow Horn Orchestra, Weapon Is Sound and Dux & Downtown this Timothy Nelson & The Infidels see 2013 in at the Rosemount Hotel’s New Saturday, December 22, from 2-7pm, free entry. BOB GORDON reports.

Year’s Eve Fiesta along with Sugar Army, Emperors, Ruby Boots, Boys Boys It was the end of an era when Day Of The Dead toes,” he says.“Strangely, I am loving the music we are Boys!, Rainy Day Women, Dead Owls and DJ Shannon Fox. supported rockabilly king, Brian Setzer at the making so much more, yet it seems so much easier to Timothy Nelson & The Infidels

What’s your preferred Armageddon date and, failing the end of the world, how are you spending New Year’s Eve? The world will end on Luke Dux’s birthday.

I will be spending New Year’s Eve at the Rosemount with Emperors, Sugar Army, Ruby Boots and Rainy Day Women.

The Infidels are playing early so we can get our drink on sooner. Probably for the best; one too many sherbets and this band turns into jazz-punk.

Resolutions: Did you make one last year? Did you keep it? Are you planning on making one this time around?

I forget... I may make one again this time but will probably forget what that was too. Maybe something boring like spend less money. Or perhaps I will vow to learn some ancient martial art and go into exile as of January. Actually that seems the more likely of the two.

What was your own performance highlight for 2012?

All the shows we just played on tour were great because we got to play mostly new material and the response everywhere was better than we’d imagined, although our gig in Sydney was a particularly awesome night. We had really great crowds who liked to dance and yell things.

What’s your stance on random snogging at midnight, NYE? I’m indifferent. It depends on who you cop, I suppose. It’s all in good fun, let the kids be free I say!

I’m more of a firm handshake kinda man myself. Much more formal and less germs.

What was the best gig you attended this year?

Wilco in Rochester, New York. We took an eight-hour bus ride from New York City up to see them in this beautiful outdoor venue called the Highland Bowl. They’re one of the best live acts I’ve seen. Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth opened and he had half of Wilco on stage with him for a few tunes.

Radiohead at Rod Laver Arena was a close second; amazing stage show and a pretty damn good setlist too - even if they didn’t play anything off The Bends, bar one song.

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What are you most looking forward to in 2013?

We get to make another album which is pretty exciting. My year is looking like mostly band stuff... another single and a tour in April.

Luke and I are joining Steve Parkin and friends at Pure Pop Records, St Kilda, in March to play You Am I’s Hourly Daily in its entirety. If they turn up we’ll be nervous as hell. Also, the Stone Roses are touring... that I can’t wait for. _ SABIAN WILDE

Fremantle Arts Centre last March. With bassist, Brendan Giambazi, leaving the band, the days of DOTD Mark I were over.

The band recently, however, debuted its new incarnation, which now features double bassist Caleb Merrey and nylon-string guitarist, Nick Gallagher. It’s been quite the re-imagining.

“We took this opportunity to really reinvent the band and take it up a notch,” says guitarist, Ben Frichot. “Luke [Fragomeni, drums] and I knew it was going to be a lot of work re-building, so we were determined to make sure we did it right. It had to be an evolution. I was worried about finding the right players but we have been super lucky and in fact surpassed our expectations with the new recruits. We didn’t miss a single rehearsal!

“Both Nick and Caleb bring enormous musical talent to the line up and they are very enthusiastic about our cinematic/retro style so it’s been great fun and the results have really blown me away. As Luke said after our first show in the new line-up, ‘we finally sound like what we’ve been dreaming about’.”

Merrey will also bring vocals to the Day Of The Dead repertoire, though the outfit will still maintain its instrumental orientation. Frichot says the new structure has involved him more in writing songs, not just tunes.

“The two new guys are amazing guitar players so that’s been great and keeps me on my

create the sonic magic. The addition of nylon guitar has expanded the cinematic element to our sound so I can really get my Morricone on. I’m loving it!”

While the new dynamic has energised founding members Frichot and Fragomeni, it has also influenced how Day Of The Dead’s music is played and what it is played on.

“It has been a big sonic change reverting back to double bass, plus adding nylon guitar,” Frichot notes. “A return to acoustic-based instruments. As a result I am off the Strats and back on the Gretsches.

The Gretsch guitars just blend so beautifully with the acoustic instruments and the tones have been really exciting.

“The new guys have brought buckets of energy and excitement to the band so we are all on the same page there! I have known Caleb for years but this is the first music project we have worked on and Nick is one of Luke’s oldest pals so the gang culture has cemented very well. For me a good band is also part ‘gang’ so that’s been awesome.”

It’s a good time to feel great. With a new year ahead, the gang has plans abounding with new management overseeing single, EP and video releases in 2013.

“I haven’t felt this excited about music since my Storytime days so I am looking forward to a lot of playing next year,” Frichot says.

“We shall see what tomorrow brings. I’m very in love with my guitar at the moment.”

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RACHAEL DEASE

THE WISHERS It Feels Right

Shatter And Shake Rachael Dease vs Ylem will head up at Chi Poption, the New Year’s Eve celebration at The Bakery, also featuring Shy Panther, Diger Rokwell vs Mathas, Kucka, Leure, Mei Saraswati, Dani Marsland, Jo Lettenmaier, Aarom Wilson vs Craig Hollywood, Ben Taaffe vs Rok Riley, Clunk, PCJ vs Nik Ridik and Miranda Menzies.

Rachael Dease corny, but it’s really about who I get to work with and who I meet, that makes it for me. I’ve made brilliant new friends and reconnected with old ones through music this year. That’s my performance highlight.

What was the best gig you attended this year?

Grails at Mojos in October. Amazing band and top chaps. Other contenders would be Grizzly Bear, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey and Eleventh What’s your preferred Armageddon date and, He Reaches London slayed it at the Bakery last week. failing the end of the world, how are you spending There was also a stack of great shows last summer New Year’s Eve? but that seems like another life already.

I like to keep my head in the sand.

I’m the kind of person that would be late to the Resolutions: Did you make one last year? Did you Armageddon. So yeah, if we’re all still here I’ll be at keep it? Are you planning on making one this The Bakery playing with YLEM and hanging with time around? good friends.

No. I have zero discipline. I don’t even I’m not usually a fan of NYE, but I think this bother kidding myself anymore. Although I do find one will be pretty ace. that big decisions are made around this time, plans for the coming year and all that. I’m pretty resolute What was your own performance highlight for I’ll get this damn solo record out and travel more. I’d 2012? like to try to be happier more often and spend time I’ve had a lucky year in that regard. It’s with people that count. a tough call because I’ve been doing such diverse projects that bring their own unique joys... and What’s your stance on random snogging at tribulations. City Of Shadows coming to fruition for midnight, NYE? Romantically speaking, I’m into it. But my Fringe World 2012 was almost a miracle, and taking it to New York Fringe in August was amazing. That work germophobic nature has all sorts of issues with it. has taken me on a particularly wild ride. Writing the music for It’s Dark Outside was an honour and pushed What are you most looking forward to in 2013?

Seeing It’s Dark Outside at Sydney Festival; me to write in different ways.

I’m thankful for the stroke of genius from City Of Shadows returns to Fringe World and heads Cut And Paste to pair me up with YLEM this year to Melbourne for a season; working with YLEM as well. We make totally different noises, but we’re on our new project. There will no doubt be more unpredictable events that will shatter and shake. I’m kindred musical spirits where it counts.

Doing the solo thing has been a strange ready for it though. and rewarding thing to do and it’s put me on some _ SABIAN WILDE pretty amazing line-ups as well. It’s going to sound

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The Wishers

The Wishers launch their Live & Naked CD EP at the Indi Bar on Saturday, December 22, with help from The Volcanics and Mama Boots. BOB GORDON catches up with singer/ songwriter, Paul McCarthy.

What originated as an impromptu sound desk recording by engineer Rik Van Der Velde at the Perth Blues Club has become a CD release for The Wishers.

The CD EP, Live & Naked, is something of a calling card for the band’s debut album, due in 2103.

Vocalist, Paul McCarthy, has always been a consistent songwriter, yet there’s Folsom Prison Blues and My Gypsy Heart, a tune by his former band, The Jackals, included on this CD release. As a career songwriter, it seems McCarthy has an overview of things that allows him to be comfortable with showcasing different sides of his work, as opposed to what’s or ‘new’ or ‘now’.

“I hadn’t really thought of it in those terms,” he ponders, “but I think there’s some truth to that.

Previously, I wrote new repertoires for every band I was in, changed musical styles and didn’t play old songs. I’ve always been more interested in the new thing I’m doing rather than anything I did yesterday, but this time around, because there’s been such a long break between The Jackals and The Wishers, I think of myself as starting out again, only this time ‘round I

come with a batch of songs in reserve that I can call on from time to time, so the only criteria for choosing a song is, ‘does it feel right when we play it?’.

“But yes, I probably do feel more comfortable these days showcasing different sides of what I do. For instance, The Wishers have just added an old song to our rep that I wrote for my very first band The Transplants called Why’d Ya Do That? which is probably best known via the version The Boys recorded. I’ve never previously played any of those songs I wrote for The Boys. So yes, I’m comfortable with the past but also comfortable with the future.”

The Wishers also features guitarist Luke Dux, the rhythm section of Kylie and Abby Soanes and harp player, Mark Constable. The diversity of age and character makes for an enjoyable dynamic.

“It’s incredibly relaxed,” McCarthy says, “we’ve been going two years now and there’s never been a cross word or hassle of any kind. Every decision that we’ve needed to make has been a unanimous decision and we’ve all arrived at that decision instantly, no one’s had to try and persuade anyone of their viewpoint. I’ve never had to suggest to anyone what to play or what to not play and though there’s a big age difference between Mark and I and the other three, I’ve never noticed it as an issue.

“We seem to have the same tastes and be the same kind of people. It’s just been so hassle-free and every time we play it’s the best fun ever. I feel very fortunate to be in this band and when we’re not playing music they’re some of my favourite people to hang out with.”

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SAMANTHA JADE

THE VINCENT GALLOWS

Achieving X, Y & Z

Perth’s reigning pop princess Samantha Jade is set to hit the stage at Eve Nightclub on Monday, December 31, to ring in the New Year.

JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD chats to the X Factor winner about finding fame and future plans.

She was the victim of a toxic online hate campaign and was voted in the bottom two for consecutive weeks during the latest season of The X Factor Australia, but local songstress Samantha Jade has more than proven her critics wrong by taking out top honours in the reality TV show, X Factor, signing a lucrative record deal with Sony Music Australia, and releasing a self-titled debut LP - all in less than a month.

“Oh my gosh, my life has changed drastically!”, Jade exclaims. “Obviously in the last three weeks the post-X Factor stuff has been happening and it’s just been crazy. It’s been so exciting for me because I’m getting to work in music, which is what my dream has always been, and I’m just so grateful to be in the position I’m in. It’s everything and more than I thought. It’s the dream. It’s so fun and I get to go out there and meet people and make a record. It’s wonderful, I love it. “[While filming X Factor] I did have some really intense bad comments and death threats and [learnt that] people can be very, very cruel, but it has died down a bit now, which is nice. I also don’t read that at all anymore so that helps,” she continues. “I just need to focus on the good, because those people who write and say lovely things outweigh the bad.”

While Jade says she is appreciative of each and every opportunity winning the reality competition has afforded her, her personal highlight is obvious - making her first ever ARIA Singles Top 50 debut, clocking in at #1 with What You’ve Done.

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Will Rock You Samantha Jade manager was like ‘you’ve gone platinum’ and I was like ‘oh my gosh!’ and I bawled my eyes out,” she says.

“That’s just been such a dream for me for such a long time and it just became real. Now no one can ever take that away from me.”

Despite having kicked some serious career goals in such a short time, Jade says there are still a few major milestones she’d like to achieve. “ I really want to make a great record, that’s really what I want to do. I can’t wait to start writing and getting in the studio with producers and getting great music started,” she says. “And I’d love to do my own tour, that’s always been a big dream of mine.”

Jade will get a taste for the touring lifestyle when she headlines the first official X Factor live tour, which touches down at Challenge Stadium on Wednesday, January 16.

“It’s going to be a great set up, so hopefully that will help,” Jade says, revealing that she’s looking forward to spending more time with her former competitors. “We all text... we all keep in touch. I don’t think we’ll loose that, because we went through such a journey together, it was a life changing experience.”

Local fans can get a taste of Jade’s live show when she rings in the New Year as part of Eve Nightclub’s massive end-of-year celebrations.

“I can’t wait, it’s going to be so fun! I’ll be singing a few songs and getting everyone into the New Year, which will be fun,” she concludes. “ And getting to do it on New Year’s Eve is going to make it even better. I’ve never really done anything for New Year’s Eve which has been really fun, so I can’t wait.”

Having spent the last 12 months building something of a cult following on the local live circuit, The Vincent Gallows will launch their self-titled debut EP at The Rosemount on Saturday, December 29, with support from Elli Schoen, Dirtwater Bloom and Trigger Jackets.

JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD reports.

Despite only having formed little over a year ago, The Vincent Gallows’ unwavering dedication to putting in the hard yards has earned themselves a place in the elusive group of promising upand-comers.

Whilst there are certainly a lot of other bands traversing a similar path these days, The Vincent Gallows’ natural ability to enhance their musical ideas with first-class arrangements marks them as a cut above the majority of their garage rock peers.

Featuring Nicholas Wharton on lead vocals, Nick Martin on lead guitar, Bradley Johns on drums and Fabio Pennisi on bass guitar, the quartet happily summarise their sound as “Rock’n’roll... bearing in mind we’re not trying to be clichéd.”

A year of local performances playing alongside some of Perth’s finest rock acts - including

the likes of The Painkillers, Will Stoker & The Embers and The Volcanics - has provided a brilliant window into what local punters can expect from an outfit bound to be one of 2013’s most hyped local bands.

Finishing the year on a high, the fourpiece have recently put the finishing touches on their highly-anticipated debut EP. “It’s a three-track taste of what The Vincent Gallows are all about,” the band explains.

“It was recorded in a caravan during a rough patch, which comes through kind of emotionally in the sound.”

Sonically and lyrically, the EP trades heavily in nostalgia and was primarily influenced by the period from 1965-75 when Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple ruled the airwaves.

“We believe this to be the most exciting decade of rock’n’roll,” the band explains.“We wanted the record to sound like today, but yesterday.”

While the band says the three tunes on their EP ruminate on the notion “I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger” they hope each and every listener is able to take away something different from the record.

“We like how everyone interprets music differently and becomes emotionally attached to that sound,” they explain.

While a longer album is in the pipeline for 2013, for now the foursome are happily gearing up to launch the EP later this month at the Rosemount and promise an evening of good times and good tunes.

“It’s going to be fun! We’re playing with Triggers who are good mates. There’s also a free CD and quality face time with your choice of Gallow,” they attest. “Come down!”

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ELEVENTH HE REACHES LONDON

A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

Rachael Dease/Foxes/Only Hope

Kim Salmon/The Novocaines/ The Preatures/Jack On Fire/ Apes/Loose Lips/Sully

The Bakery Saturday, December 15, 2012

The Rosemount Hotel Saturday, December 15, 2012 The ability to go hard in the face of a disappointing turnout is an important attribute for a band. Anyone can rock out in front of a packed house, but doing so in front of a handful of punters shows character. It’s a trait the first three bands on the main had in spades; a good thing, seeing as the early audience topped out at maybe a dozen souls.

Relative newcomers Sully got the shortest end of the stick, but still managed to acquit themselves well. Loose Lips came off looking best, dishing up their signature pub-rock noise like they were in front of a stadium rather than a mostly empty pub, while Apes gave us a set of guitar-based indie pop, leavened with a dose of early ‘60s surf rock.

There was a better crowd in the beer garden, but it was clear that they were there for the beer, rather than the entertainment. While it was nice to be able to catch the odd breath of fresh out and listen to a bit of Clancy Jones of Those Wretched Horses, or Scott Tomlinson of Kill Teen Angst, or Jane Azzopardi covering an old Tom Waits standard, it felt very much like background noise rather an actual event.

Inside, mournful Melbourne outfit Jack On Fire finally managed to pull in some decent numbers. Howling, almost ethereal vocals are perfectly supported by the band’s sombre, countrytinged sound, which crosses into territory occupied by the likes of Nick Cave and Mark Lanegan without descending into pastiche.

Yet, by the time The Preatures picked up their instruments, the crowd had dispersed again, and you have to wonder what the story was there.

Still, the band did well. They describe their sound as “Gothic Soul,” but it’s more of a dark, almost operatic,

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Kim Salmon (Photo: Matt Jelonek) rock thing they’ve got going on, drawing on far too many influences to be easily categorised, but with a heavy debt owed to proto-punk art-rockers such as Lou Reed and Patti Smith.

Local favourite The Novocaines tore it up, a veritable maelstrom of noise and energy again, to a fairly limp response. When describing their live act, the phrase “controlled fury” comes to mind; frontman Corey Marriot screams and lurches and smashes his tambourine in hard-rocking style, but underneath it all is a tight, precise discipline that means their raucous energy never devolves into shapeless noise.

Even the legendary Kim Salmon could draw no more than polite response when he finally mounted the stage. He served up a varied set, ranging from old Scientists tracks such as Last Night and Frantic Romantic, to newer material like Destination Heartbreak. It was a solid, entertaining show, as one would expect from a veteran like Salmon,” but the performance is only half of the equation at a live gig; the audience has to be there, too. Sadly, the truly impressive roster of talent on display just didn’t draw the numbers they deserved.

It was a merry Christmas, but also a fairly low-key one. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

Saturday night at The Bakery served up a range of raw, uncompromising music from diverse line-up charged with angst and emotion. Just in time for Christmas.

Foxes grimly took to the stage after Only Hope, setting the tone immediately with the screams of singer Alex echoing through the cavernous Bakery band room. Without once breaking from his anguished screaming he poured everything into the set, backed by no lack of enthusiasm from the rest of the five-piece. After a quick, and impressive, midsong cymbal change drummer Jake proceeded to beat the hell out his kit for rest of the show. While the angst is delivered through Alex’s voice the indie-style melodic guitars differentiate Foxes from the average hardcore act. On stage they pulsated with energy as they thrashed around and indulged themselves in extended instrumental sections, but you could hear a pin drop between songs. In what is an otherwise tight show, the awkward silences detracted from the atmosphere they were building. Red-faced from screaming, Alex finished the set by dropping his microphone and leaving the stage, while the rest of the band built up to their frenetic crescendo.

“We’re kinda the wildcard of the night,” said songstress Rachael Dease after her first song.

“I’m still very angry, I just express it differently.” With that in mind inclusion of her ambient-pop style to the line-up seemed less odd and strangely fitting to the melancholic theme of the night’s music. Armed with omnichord, a drummer and her haunting voice, Dease had little trouble casting her hypnotic spell over the audience. Through her solo work Dease has been picking up a lot of buzz and it’s not hard to see why. The dark, moody, ambient synth tones made a perfect match to her rich voice and somehow worked as an effective counterpoint to the shoutiness of the other acts of the night. She wove through All In All Out and Win The Losing Game with the sort of power

Eleventh He Reaches London (Photo: Denis Radacic) and vocal control any talent show wannabe would sign their soul over for (and probably do).

To celebrate the vinyl reissue of 2006’s The Good Fight For Harmony Perth’s cult favourites Eleventh He Reaches London made their first and only appearance for 2012. To whet their deprived fans’ appetites and to mark the occasion they played the album in its entirety. The band looked instantly comfortable on stage with the slow build of Coronation into Say You See Why, which left Ian Lenton’s vocals a bit drowned out by the three guitar attack. As the sound mix issues were sorted out through the set the intricacies of the mournful post-hardcore really began to shine. In an act befitting of the moody atmosphere Lenton made a quick dash off stage for a bottle of whiskey before launching into the next song. The wall-of-sound the three guitars made were impressive mixing heavy with sombre, and the frenetic timing changes were handled expertly. With little time for banter Eleventh He Reaches London roared through the set with the crowd eating up every bit of it, quenching their appetites until the next show early next year for the upcoming album. _BRENDAN HOLBEN

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Fremantle Arts Centre Saturday, December 15, 2012 The lush green lawn of the picturesque Fremantle Arts Centre welcomed early birds with welcoming place to sit and a pleasantly warm afternoon promised a clear, cool evening for a long awaited gig. Tame Impala have returned home on the back of festivals, but haven’t played a proper gig in their hometown for some time, so it was a proper place to end their sell out Lonerism tour.

Having the lofty job of supporting the giants of psychedelia were local act The Growl. Fronted by Cam Avery, the local lads have been kicking around for a couple of years now, but are starting to gather momentum in a more serious way. A deconstructed blues act that sound like Black Keys, some Mess Hall and the whiskey soaked lyrics of Tom Waits, they managed to entertain the early crowd with some old stuff and some tracks coming on their debut LP next year.

Tame Impala came out to a packed house, surely a welcoming sight, and as the band waved the crowd returned in kind with heavy applause. With a hot new album and set, Kevin Parker kicked straight into the first track on Lonerism - Be Above It. With the same looping drum found on the album, an impressive amount of the sounds, loops and effects that build up in the song were done not only live but damn near CD perfect. Ebbing forward and back, gradually unfurling with the whole band, a fully formed five piece, Impala played a smooth chord and went straight into previous album favourite Solitude Is Bliss. Tight as ever and still delivered with kick ass energy.

Touring the world on the back off such a critically acclaimed album has nothing but bolstered their live show. Pulling off nearly every sound on the album with a fresh, new line-up and configuration of musicians. I was hesitant at the news of drummer Jay Watson stepping over to keys/guitar with French drummer Julien Barbagallo taking his place, but holy jalapenos has it stepped up their sound. Julien definitely has a different style, keeping the crashing psychedelic cymbals but bringing heavier hits and precise timing.

Putting Jay on keys was a definite necessity with the amount of synths crammed into Lonerism, bringing Endors Toi and Music To Walk Home By to life on stage. With Dom Watson switching between guitar and keyboard, and Nick Allbrook heading up bass, a more complete Impala there never has been.

It wasn’t until five songs in, bridged together with kick ass instrumentals, that Parker took a break to thank the crowd for being in their favourite place. “You have no idea how good it is to be home, in this beautiful place,” he remarked.“You’re gonna go crazy for the next song.”

As the drums and fuzzy guitars snapped into the heavy riff of Elephant, the crowd did indeed go crazy. Busting out the smash single with confidence, the song written for festivals and larger stages did its job

Tame Impala (Photo: Guang-Hui Chuan) amazingly, capturing the whole attention and bobbing heads of the massive area that makes up Fremantle Arts Centre.Then, with the swagger of a well toured band, the lads teased the crowd by stopping Elephant right near it’s peak and jamming out a strange, reggae sounding number for a good long while. Without warning all five members said the classic,“Yeah,”and the last few strums to one monster song, laughing into the mics.

And of course you follow up one great radio tune with another, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards. That great bass line held up the bones of the song while Kevin mostly sang along with the mass of the audience, most who knew every word. Taking it back to debut album Innerspeaker, the boys got straight into Lucidity.

Following up with one of my favourite tracks Alter Ego. Drummer Julien brought new energy to the tune and a larger sound was definitely added to each older song with the addition of the fifth member.

Taking a breather to again tell the crowd how glad they were to be back in Fremantle the lads played the groove heavy Mind Mischief and the whirling guitar-scapes of Why Don’t You Make Up Your Mind. A reworked Desire Be Desire Go appeased fans, featuring an instrumental bridge in the middle, finally melding back into that classic guitar riff that made waves out of this port only a few short years ago. Did I mention the crowd going nuts? Because they did. A lot. And why not? It’s not often our small city produces such raw talent that can represent us on a global scale, packing out venues from New York to Paris and taking out so many album of the year awards.

Rounding out a polished and thought out set, Impala played Apocalypse Dreams, a track with shifting rhythms and music breaks that summed up the sounds of the night so well. As the rest of the band walked off, Jay stayed on the stage hammering out synth sounds soaked in echo. Of course they weren’t going to leave it at that, and without much hesitation they came back out for Half Glass Full Of Wine. The early hit was played with new energy and another epic outro jam out, with Cam Avery from The Growl joining the stage on tambourine.

A perfect summer setting to a perfect set by one of Australia’s best musical exports. Welcome home. _TOM VARIAN

SAN CISCO The Bakery Friday, December 14, 2012 Keeping the momentum absolutely charging towards the end of the year, Fremantle breakthrough outfit San Cisco hit The Bakery on Friday evening for the final show of their Wild Things tour. Support came from the equally talented The Preatures and Jack Doepel Jazz Quartet and a good time was had by all!

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drop the rock’n’roll shtick and do what feels natural,”she says. “I want [Kiss My Apocalypse] to be a modern pop Dark Side Of The Moon where you can sit at home and put the headphones on and go off to a different planet every time you listen to it.”

Accordingly, May says her Karmageddon live show is a completely different beast to the Design Desire shows she has been performing the last 12 months..

After a year of touring 2011’s excellent “You can expect to be titillated and surprised hopefully excited. You can expect a far more visual Design Desire, local rock monster Abbe and show than I’ve done before and you can expect a good May is back with a decidedly un-rock hour of epic doom pop,” she concludes, adding that going to be stepping out from behind her guitar single Karmageddon, the first taste she’s to perform in ‘frontwoman mode’.

“I don’t have any problem being naked. I look from her upcoming album Kiss My to it,”she laughs.“It doesn’t bother me revealing Apocalypse. JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD forward myself to people because I know who I am and, as I’ve chatted to May ahead of the final date said before many times, I’m not afraid of failure. I’m also not afraid of success. So for me standing naked - I mean of her Karmageddon tour, on Friday, I won’t actually be naked on the stage - and being open and expressive and not relying on a prop or a costume December 21, at The Bakery. or a guitar, means that I am open and completely “When the shit hits the fan” - that’s the definition vulnerable to praise or criticism. I’d rather do that than of the word Karmageddon according to Urban be frightened and shut off. Dropping the guitar feels natural and I’ve always loved the odd occasion in the Dictionary.

“For me it was a way to write about that rock sets where I would put down the guitar and just experience myself - when everything turns to crap in a sing so it feels like it’s about time to do it.” relationship,” explains Abbe May.“The album itself - Kiss My Apocalypse - is a concept album about the end of love and how you can relate that to this notion of ‘the end of the world’. Each song will cover a different angle of that concept.”

Unleashed to listeners last month, Karmageddon has been gathering force, with consistent rotation on Triple J and more than 40,000 views on YouTube indicators of the positive reception from listeners.

“It’s funny because when I was considering releasing it there was the possibility it was going to be badly received,” May says. “Whenever you release anything there’s a real possibility that nobody will get it, so you have to gear yourself up to a point where you like it and whatever else happens from there you can handle because you believe that. So the response being so positive has been a welcome surprise.

“People have been really getting in to it and I’ve had people singing it out of car windows to me while I’ve been walking down the street. It’s been really interesting and a fun time with this song.”

From her early days fronting Bunbury pub rockers The Fuzz to her moody blues-inspired solo projects, Abbe May has made a name for herself as Perth’s leading ‘rock chick’, but Karmageddon serves to prove she’s just as comfortable in poppier territory.

“I quite naturally fell into a pattern of listening to very different music prior to making the track and then there was a real natural acceptance of the fact that I’ve made a pretty different record each time I’ve release Abbe May something in the past, so maybe I should completely

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MILES AWAY

Having just concluded their Make It A Decade tour with Cruel Hand and The Others, the band are taking advantage of members being in the country by playing an extra special hometown show to celebrate their 10th anniversary as a band at Amplifier this Friday, December 21.

Support comes from Monuments, Mindless and Mild Child.

You’ve been playing together for 10 years now - how does it feel to reach that milestone? I don’t think any of us expected the band to really go anywhere outside of Room 4 at Soundworks Osborne Park, so I guess we’re pretty stoked that we’ve been able to make music, travel around the world and just basically hang out for 10 years together. At the end of the day, 10 years is not such a big thing, but we’ve been able to experience some amazing things because of the band and have a ton of good/bad memories.

In your opinion, has the local music scene changed very much over the last 10 years? Yes and no. I guess when we started doing Miles Away, or even just going to shows for years before, that most shows used to be very diverse in terms of what style of punk/hardcore/whatever bands were playing. Mixed bill shows were the norm, mainly because there just wasn’t so many bands back then.

Of course so many venues have come and gone in our time unfortunately. It’s sad to say bands of this era will never experience playing at The Hydey, Grosvenor Front/Back or The Lookout (Haha).

The scene right now is really healthy, lots of younger people not only doing bands themselves but putting on shows and touring bands that venture west. What hasn’t changed at all and is comforting to know, is that there will always be some loudmouth spouting shit about something or other that is really important.Where were you the day Unzy rode a horse? www.xpressmag.com.au

What has been the biggest highlight of the 10 years? Without a doubt, just the fact that we’ve been able to see and travel the world through doing the band and the people we’ve met along the way. As I said earlier, we never had any real aspiration to get out of the jamroom or Perth but we’ve been really lucky to see the whole of Australia, NZ, South East Asia, Japan, Europe, USA, Mexico and countless other adventures.

When you find yourself hanging out on the North Shore of Hawaii in the middle of a tour, that’s when you realise you’re pretty damn lucky.

You’ve just concluded the Make It A Decade tour - how was that experience? The tour was great fun, it’s been a while since we all crammed in the van and saw the highways of Australia. Being able to share that experience with two other bands full of friends in Cruel Hand & The Others made it even better. Seeing old friends we’ve made over the years across the country and playing some sweaty shows with bands that not only inspire us, but will also shape the future of Australian hardcore for years to come. We couldn’t really have asked for anything more, we even got to stay in a 12man tent in country Victoria for the night on our trek from Melbourne to Brisbane...that was something different.

What does the future hold for Miles Away - are you expecting to still be playing together in 10 more years? Who knows, at the moment we’re just taking it as it comes. As we get older it’s a bit hard to juggle everyone’s schedules but we’ll keep making music and playing shows until it stops being fun.

You’re holding a 10th anniversary show later this month - what can punters expect? I think we already did that a couple weeks ago, we’re just playing another show while all our members are still in the same country. It was really hard to fit all of our friends bands on the bill last time so now we get to play with some more, should be a good night!

We understand this will be your final Perth show for a while - why is that? Crowey, our guitarist, has been living in Berlin for the last couple of years, so getting everyone in the same place to play shows or do tours has been pretty hard. He’s back to see family and enjoy the west coast summer so of course it made sense to try and play a few shows. For a while now Miles Away has been three original members and we just use our friends to fill in on bass and drums wherever we might be in the world. This show will be an all WA lineup with Crowey’s brother on bass and DJ Fendi on drums.

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Custom Royale, Friday at Norfolk Basement ROSEMOUNT The Witches Battle Of The Planets Wormhole Triangle Fight Sons Of Rico 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

FRIDAY 21.12 7th AVENUE Deuce AMPLIFIER Miles Away Monuments Mindless Mild Child BAILEY BAR Mod Squad BAKERY Abbe May Shy Panther Rachael Dease BALLYS BAR Bernardine BALMORAL Mike Nayar BAR ORIENT The Reggae Club General Justice The Empressions Mumma Trees Sista Che BELMONT TAVERN Electrophobia BENTLEY HOTEL Sophie Jane BLACK BETTYS Everlong BRASS MONKEY Simon Kelly BROKEN HILL HOTEL Matt Milford BROOKLANDS TAVERN Better Days CAPTAIN STIRLING Christian Thompson CARINE Pop Candy CARLISLE HOTEL Reload CHASE BAR Chasing Calee CIVIC HOTEL (THE DEN) Black Ink Red Roads Victory! Risk Seer Cya CLANCY’S DUNSBOROUGH Kiress Spectacle COMO HOTEL Trevor Jalla CORNERSTONE Urban X CRAFTMAN 5th Avenue

Adem K, Friday at Velvet Lounge

DEVILLES PAD Funk Club EAST 150 Ali Towers EDZ SPORTZ BAR One Trick Phonies ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Daren Reid And The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jazz For Kids Victoria Newton Quintet Empire EMPIRE Howie Morgan FLY BY NIGHT Jackie Loeb GREENWOOD Greg Carter EASTERN HOTEL Craig Ballantyne HALE ROAD TAVERN Cargo Beat HERDSMAN Sugarfield Brad Wintle HIGH ROAD HOTEL Glen Davies The Damien Cripps Band HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL Dr Bogus HIGHWAY HOTEL Northern Muse HYDE PARK HOTEL Ricky Green INDI BAR Vdelli INDIAN OCEAN BREW Ben Merito KALAMUNDA HOTEL Overload LAKERS DJ Grizzly Slickenside Melee M ON THE POINT James Wilson MARKET CITY TAVERN Jukebox Lady Emily J MERIDIAN ROOM (CROWN) John & Shaun Sandosham MOJOS BAR (ARVO) Captn K Simmo T MOJOS BAR (EVE) Mr Grevis Down South Crew Paulie P Marksman Azmati MOON & SIXPENCE Soul Corporation MUSTANG BAR Oz Big Band Swing DJ Cheeky Monkeys DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT Party Rockers NORFOLK BASEMENT Datura Steve Tallis The Holy Ghosts Custom Royale PADDO Stu Harcourt PADDY MAGUIRES Madam Montage PARAMOUNT Flyte PEEL ALEHOUSE Acoustic License PINK DUCK LOUNGE Jonathan Dempsey

PRINCESS ROAD TAVERN Midnight Rambler ROCKET ROOM LA Xmas Party WASP Tribute Act Skid Row Tribute Act Motely Cure Tribute Act Seal Panther Tribute Act ROSE & CROWN Dean Anderson ROSEMOUNT Xmas Charity Rock Fest Astro Pig The Branson Tramps Delusions Of Grandeur Calectasia Room at the Reservoir Azcoustic Suns Reilly Craig Josh Cammack ROSIE O’GRADY’S (FREMANTLE) Spyce ROSEY O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) Neil Colliss SAIL & ANCHOR Howie Morgan Kick Up A Fuss SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SPRINGS TAVERN Greg Carter Karaoke SWINGING PIG The Bluebottles Greg Carter THE BOAT The Organ Grinders THE BROOK Dean Anderson THE GATE Shawne & Luc THE SAINT Almost Famous THE SHED Krank Mike Nayar THE VIC Jen De Ness TIGER LILS Paul Malone Adam Kelly Alex Koresis UNIVERSAL Nightmoves VELVET LOUNGE Leon Ewing Burgers Of Beef Adem K The Wine-Dark Sea Ten Bit Band Maddest Kings Alive Standard Deviation VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Ivan Ribic WOODVALE TAVERN Lush YA YA’S Room At The Reservoir Tired Lion Nosey Parker

SATURDAY 22.12 AMPLIFIER The Chevelles BAILEY BAR Dr Bogus BALLYS BAR Dove BALMORAL One Trick Phonies BAR 120 Flyte BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Mike Nayar

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All inclusions are at the discretion of X-Press Magazine. The one entry system will update our print edition, website and App

Day Of The Dead, Saturday at The Newport BLACK BETTY’S J Babies BROOKLANDS Carbon Taxi CIVIC HOTEL (THE DEN) Statues Sail On! Sail On! Water Temple Off Broadway The Grim Charles CLANCY’S FREMANTLE 44th Sunset These Winters Nights Turin Robinson Tim Gordon COMO HOTEL Ricky Green DEVILLES PAD Los Hombres Del Diablo Les Sataniques ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Gun Shy Romeos ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Juliana Areias Blowfish Elise Lynelle FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE The Sunshine Brothers Charlie Bucket FDJ Jumps GREENWOOD Pretty Fly GROOVE BAR (CROWN CASINO) Hi NRG HERDSMAN Spritzer HIGH ROAD HOTEL Losing Julia INDIAN OCEAN BREW CO The Blackbirds INDI BAR The Wishers The Volcanics Mama Boots LAKERS Celebrations Karaoke LEOPOLD HOTEL Steve Hepple LOBBY LOUNGE (CROWN CASINO) John & Shaun Sandosham M ON THE POINT Rhythm 22 MERIDIAN ROOM Midnight Rambler MOJOS BAR Jeff Martin Rob Walker MOON & SIXPENCE The Damien Cripps Band MUSTANG The Continentals Rockabilly DJ Milhouse DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT Afternoon Day Of The Dead Brow Horn Orchestra The Weapon Is Sound Dux & Downtown Evening Gravity NORFOLK Seasta Chani Delta Forse Wisdom 2th

Friday Friday Felicity Groom, Saturday at Travis Caudle Travis Caudle Ya Ya’s FlyBy ByNight Night Fly

DJ Jamu Mama Tiger PARAMOUNT Felix PEEL ALEHOUSE Overload RAILWAY HOTEL Dilip N The Davs Pimps Of Sound Ngati Gypsy Howls ROCKET ROOM Kickstart ROSEMOUNT Evan Dando & Juliana Hatfield Bambino Koresh ROSIE O’GRADY’S (FREMANTLE) Flavor ROSIE O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) Blue Gene SAIL & ANCHOR Better Days Childs Play SEAVIEW HOTEL Open Mic Night SWINGING PIG Greg Carter Tandem THE BOAT Everlong THE BROOK The Mojos THE EASTERN Gombo The Georgians Crooked Cats Old Blood THE GATE Dirty Scoundrels THE SAINT Retriofit THE SHED Huge UNIVERSAL Soul Corporation WANNEROO TAVERN Courtney Murphy & Murphy’s Lore WHALE & ALE Urban X WOODVALE TAVERN Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove YAYA’S Felicity Groom The Shallows Zealous Chang

SUNDAY 23.12 7TH AVENUE Reckless Kelly BALMORAL Stu McKay Chasing Calee BELMONT TAVERN Jamie Powers BREAKERS BAR Simon Kelly BRIGHTON Spectacle BROKEN HILL HOTEL Chris Murphy BROOKLANDS TAVERN Brad Wintle CAPTAIN STIRLING Ricky Green CARINE Wesley Goodlet Jamboree Scouts CHASE BAR Chasing Calee CIVIC HOTEL Kate Gilbertson CLAREMONT HOTEL Sunday Driver

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COMO HOTEL Adrian Wilson ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Random Act EMPIRE CB3 HALE ROAD TAVERN Nite Train HIGH WYCOMBE HOTEL The Organ Grinders HIGH ROAD HOTEL Nat Ripepi INDI BAR Jeff Martin Rob Walker INDIAN OCEAN BREW CO Retriofit Dove KALAMUNDA HOTEL Acoustic Aly LAST DROP John Unit M ON THE POINT Rocket Pants Trio MERIDIAN ROOM (CROWN) Local Heroes MOJOS BAR (ARVO) Axe & Ness Ben Waters Tessa Davis Julz Hooley Dooley Jamie Seinmeir Natasha Shanks Emerald Mamba Laith MOJOS BAR (EVE) Frighteners The Crooked Cats Bishi Bashi Shouting At Camels Mt Mountain Zorbas Milk Further Earth The Beers Sickly Sweet MUSTANG BAR Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers Rangers DJ Rockin Rhys Envy DJ James MacArthur NEWPORT Tim Nelson OCEAN VIEW TAVERN Stu Harcourt PADDY MALONE’S Gary Fowlie PEEL ALEHOUSE Matt Williams PINK DUCK LOUNGE BAR Kevin Conway QUEENS TAVERN Belleville Quartet RAILWAY HOTEL Short Of Daybreak Such A Wreck Lionizer Mr Wilson ROSEY O’GRADY’S (NORTHBRIDGE) Damien Cripps SAIL & ANCHOR Mike Nayar SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE Anthony Nieves SPRINGS TAVERN Sophie Jane STIRLING ARMS Stella Donnelly SWINGING PIG Aidan Hargreaves Matt Angel

The Crooked Cats, Sunday at Mojos Bar

THE GATE Greg Carter THE SAINT Howie Morgan Trio THE SHED James Wilson UNIVERSAL Retriofit VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Jonathan Dempsey WANNEROO TAVERN Adam James WOODVALE TAVERN Good Karma XWRAY CAFÉ The Charisma Brothers

YA YA’S Open Mic Night

TUESDAY 25.12 CAVERSHAM HOUSE Adam James Double Take Light Street GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Switch MERIDIAN ROOM (CROWN) John & Shaun Sandosham

WEDNESDAY 26.12

BRASS MONKEY Sugar Blue Burlesque BALLYS BAR DUNSBOROUGH Bernardine TAVERN BRASS MONKEY Andrew Doepel Chris Gibbs Band Amanda VanRoss ELLINGTON JAZZ Stefano CLUB Clint Conner Libby Hammer ELEPHANT & Christmas Show WHEELBARROW ELEPHANT & Daren Reid & The Soul WHEELBARROW City Groove Daren Reid And The GREENWOOD Soul City Groove Bernardine GREENWOOD Carbon Taxi INDIANOCEANBREWCO GROOVE BAR (CROWN Christian Thompson CASINO) LUCKY SHAG Decoy Ben Merito LAKERS MOJOS BAR DJ Grizzly Saritah Slickenside Lucy Peach Melee Claire Hollingsworth KALAMUNDA MUSTANG The Bluebottles Flash Nat & The Action MOJOS BAR Men Wide Open Mic Night PADDO MUSTANG BAR Dove Blue Gene Dave Capper PADDY MALONE’S Oliver Halvorsen Gary Fowlie ROSIE O’GRADY’S ROSEMOUNT (NORTHBRIDGE) The Sure Fire Midnights Billy & The Broke Lines Custom Royal SWINGING PIG Dux ‘n’ Downtown Better Days DJ Anton Maz Big Steve Spouse Band ROSIE O’GRADY’S THE BOAT (NORTHBRIDGE) Mixtape David Fyffe THE DEEN Plastic Max & The Token THE SAINT Howie Morgan Project Gesture YAYA’S THE GATE Boom! Bap! Pow! Greg Carter Day Of The Dead Dirty Scoundrels Axe Girl THE SAINT Threeplay Red Engine Caves

MONDAY 24.12

The Sunshine Brothers

TROPICAL DISCOTHEQUE THE SUNSHINE BROTHERS CHARLIE BUCKET DJ JUMPS

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MUSIC GEAR & TECHNOLOGY GUIDE

FOR HIRE METALLICA TRIBUTE BAND 4horsemen for parties or venues. All enquiries ph Dave 0406 867 661.

FOR SALE AUDIOFLY HEADPHONES Designed in Perth by a small team, unique headphones to capture every detail in your favourite music www.audiofly.com MUSOS WANTED ACCOUSTIC GUITARIST/VOCALIST to complete a working accoustic duo. Gigs waiting 1-2 per week. Must be 25-35 only. Exp’d professional, marketable and have quality guitar and mike. Call Scott 0438 911 898 for an audition.

K E Y B O A R D, V I O L I N & C E L L O players wanted to complete Aus HipHop band. Songs can be heard at www.danielraysound.com. Please contact on 0401 881 880 OPEN MIC NIGHT Every Thursday 8.3012 at Moondyne Joes. Grand 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 PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT PHOTOGRAPHY Promo photography, studio, live, location.

Mike Wylie 0417 975 964 w w w . p r o j e c t p h o t o g r a p h y. c o m When its time to ice the cake...

PRODUCTION SERVICES * LIGHTING * AUDIO* STAGING * www.nightstarlightingaudio.com.au www.nightstarlightingaudio.com.au w w w. i n s t a n d t . c o m . a u w w w. i n s t a n d t . c o m . a u 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 PROMOTION & MARKETING MONO BAND POSTERS On White Bond or Fluoro Stock. A0 posters from $3 same day turnaround. 94899800. www.expogroup.net.au.

RECORDING STUDIOS ALAN DAWSON’sWITZEND 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 Production, mixing, recording and 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. $70 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 RECORDING MIXING MASTERING 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! - UNLOCKYOUR 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 THE SOUND FACTORY 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. XMAS VOUCHERS AVAIL. Begadv, 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 Pascal: 0413 172 817.

G U I TA R & K E Y B OA R D T U I T I O N (Beginners- Professional) One on One lessons. Burswood Ph 6460 6921/ 0415889645. www.gvkschoolofmusic.com.au

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN ROCK?

to receive up to $2000 worth of promotion for their upcoming release, including a radio promotion package, a half-page advertisement in X-Press Magazine, up to $250 for any costs associated with the gig (e.g. venue hire, P.A. hire, payment to support bands, printing of posters and flyers, etc) and heaps more. Applications for launches in February close on Monday, January 4. Application forms can be obtained from rtrfm. com.au/livewire.

DIY Career Development

WANT TO GO ON TOUR?

Got some killer tunes you want to play in every nook and cranny of our fine country? Well a range of funding packages are now open via the Australian Council website. There are a range of grants for local, national, regional and international tours and one-off projects. Applicants may include individuals, groups and organisations. Click over to australiacouncil.gov.au/grant for full details.

You may not have a record deal just yet but that doesn’t mean you can’t further your career. This week Volume investigates some of the options out WANT TO SELL YOUR there to help you promote your music MUSIC ONLINE? on your own terms.

Launched in January of this year, Australian-

WANT MAJOR LABEL ATTENTION?

Want a Sony Music rep at your next gig?

Sony is offering the chance to be a part of Summertainment – its definitive guide to summer with 1001 things to do – by submitting your own event to sit alongside other popular seasonal music festivals. As an additional incentive for Australian artists, Sony Music Australia A&R will be picking gigs from the guide to attend over summer. Not only will artists get the chance to have a Sony Music rep attend their gig, they can also be part of summer’s hottest entertainment guide and pull an even bigger crowd than usual to their shows with Summertainment offering an ideal platform to promote events.

All bands, DJs and solo artists need to do is head to facebook.com/SonyMUSICAU or facebook.com/sonyaustralia, visit the prizes tab and submit their entry. Sony Music Australia will review the submissions and an A&R rep will attend the gigs deemed most interesting and exciting. Events can be submitted from now until the end of February 2013.

WANT TO LAUNCH A RECORD?

Got an awesome release waiting in the wings but no moolah to unleash it into the world with the epic party it deserves? The RTRFM Live Wire Fresh Program gives local performers the chance 62

owned site The Holding Pattern caters to independent musicians; allowing them to digitally sell their work while also collecting licensing revenue and, perhaps most importantly, retaining control over the destiny of their music. Musicians choose at what price to sell their music – and they earn 80 per cent of all their sales – while the online music hub promotes your independent music to the world. For more information, head to holdingpattern.com.

WANT CRITICISM FROM A MUSIC GOD?

It’s all well and good getting showered in praise from your mum, but there comes a point in every musicians career where you’ll no doubt want some feedback you can use to better your work.

Now consider - what if that criticism came from an artist you’ve idolised for years? An impressive group of recording artists and top-level music journalists will be putting on their reviewer’s hats for the 2013 Unsigned Only Music Competition, including Chrissie Hynde [The Pretenders], Cyndi Lauper, Iggy Pop, John Oates [Hall & Oates], Eve, Black Francis [ The Pixies], Robert Smith [The Cure] and more. If you’re an original artists looking for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to directly network with the highest level of record company professionals and get guidance, advice, feedback, and networking opportunities, make sure you lodge your Unsigned Only entry by March 14, 2013, through unsignedonly.com/enter.

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