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PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing parenting his young twin daughters and a classroom full of students while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him. From Madman Entertainment, we have five double passes to People, Places, Things to give away. Enter via the X-Press App. People, Places, Things
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EXTINCTION The death of an endangered tiger quoll is the critical backdrop to an Australian story about our very survival. Andy Dixon is a vet who believes strongly in preserving the environment and our natural resources. When his lover, the determined conservation biologist, Dr Piper Ross, agrees to undertake research paid for by the CEO of a mining company, he begins to question her methods and his feelings toward her. Little does she know that Andy has been diagnosed with a rare illness, and his life is in as much danger as the species she is trying to save. From the mind of Helpmann Awardwinning Australian playwright, Hannie Rayson (Hotel Sorrento, Life After George), comes the world premiere of Extinction, a unique drama with a timely and important message of environmental awareness and conservation. We have five double passes to give away for Saturday, September 19, via the X-Press App.
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KEVIN SMITH NATIONAL TOUR Fans of Kevin Smith are in luck, with the writer, director, actor, comedian and all-round awesome guy announcing he’ll be returning to Australia this September with Jason Mewes for a two-part show. An Evening With Kevin Smith: The Jersey Boys Tour will see the return of Jay & Silent Bob Get Old for act one, followed by a Q&A with Silent Bob himself. Anyone familiar with Smith and Mewes live material will know nothing is off-limits, and every show, while often steered in a similar direction, is largely unscripted and always entertaining. We have five double passes to the show at the Riverside Theatre Perth Convention Centre on Saturday, September 26. Enter via the App. An Evening With Kevin Smith 2
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Metric Events, in conjunction with Zaccaria Concerts & Touring and Rotto Live, are excited to announce an early summer edition of their hit music festival on Rotto Island. Castaway 2 will take place on Saturday December 6, following the massive success of the last event in February which attracted more than 4,000 partygoers. The official line-up includes Sticky Fingers, George Maple, Ganz, Bootleg Rascal and a bunch of local DJs. The event will take place on from 12pm to 7pm on Thompsons Bay (exterior of the Rottnest Hotel), where a bar, food, shelter and seating are all provided. Tickets will go on sale this Friday September 4, and it will sell, fast, so head to Ticketmaster.com.au for your chance to attend this awesome event.
Following their impressive sold-out Clowns shows across some classic Australian venues, Scalphunter are ready to launch their next single. Best Of Me could be their most intense single yet, and is available for free from Soundcloud. Catch ‘em this Sunday, September 6, at the Newport Hotel with Super Best Friends and Yokohomos, it’s FREE. Enough said.
BENJAMIN & ME Benjamin & Me is the debut production for Mark Storen’s new company, Whisky & Boots. Storen has taken a new direction with Benjamin & Me as it’s his first show written for children and adventurous adults. The story follows Will, who decides to build the first ever boy-dog operated flying machine for himself and his dog, Benjamin. The work will be performed at the Blue Room Theatre as part of AWESOME International Arts Festival from October 6-24. Book your tickets now from blueroom.org.au or from 08 9227 7005 at a cost of $15.
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TINA SAYS SEPTEMBER HILLS JAZZFEST 2015
DAWN FRENCH’S 30 MILLION MINUTES
The inaugural Hills Jazzfest will be held over the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend at the Kalamunda Hotel and will feature Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys with the Jessie Gordon Quartet, Adam James Trio, Voudou Zazou and Gabriella Duo from Saturday-Monday, September 26-28. The scene is set for a great event, so make sure to attend and be a part of the weekend’s entertainment and great service, amazing food and awesome vibes. Check out the Kalamunda Hotel Facebook closer to the date for more info. Best of all, its free entry!
Award-winning actor, best-selling novelist and all ‘round hilarious woman Dawn French has written a brand new show based around her life and career called 30 Million Minutes, which she has already toured extensively around the UK to much critical acclaim. Now, she’s bringing it to the Riverside Theatre on Tuesday - Wednesday, March 1 - 2, 2016. 30 Million Minutes will take audiences through the various life lessons French has learnt over her time, and the things she knows for sure. Tickets go on sale Friday ,September 4, at 10am through livenation.com.au.
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THE BENNIES ARE BACK Melbourne four-piece The Bennies have been positively everywhere earlier this year with the endurance and enthusiasm of a college freshman on Ritalin, but have now arrived at a place of unprecedented calm. After being dubbed a mustsee at the 2015 Soundwave festival and nailing triple J’s Like A Version they have now announced the recommencement of destruction with an Australian tour. The Bennies will be coming to the Rosemount Hotel on Friday, November 13; Prince Of Wales, Bunbury on Saturday, November 14, and HQ Perth (all-ages) on Sunday, November 15, with the support of The Hard Aches. Get your tickets now from thebennies.com.au. The Bennies
PAT CHOW DEBUT ALBUM Pat Chow have announced the release of their debut full-length album, Are You Okay? on Friday, October 16, via Gun Fever Records. Recorded over the small space of two weeks in January of this year, this 12-track album captures everything that is great about Pat Chow’s aggressive and chaotic live show, with a fantastic production quality. Having shared the stage with emerging rock talents like The Peep Tempel, King Gizzard and Flyying Colours to name a few, Pat Chow are finally set to emerge from the underground and into the Australian indie rock scene. Pre-orders for the album will go on sale Friday, September 25, along with a national tour announcement. Stay tuned.
Following the massive success of her single, Burning Desires, remix of Alison Wonderland’s Run and huge sets at Southbound and Wonderlands festivals, Perth DJ Tina Says has announced a debut solo club tour around popular locations across WA this month. The DJ will play five shows across five weeks, including three headliner shows plus supports for KLP and Terace (Friday, September 11, Mondo @ Ginger Nightclub), and a yet-to-be-announced international support. Tina Says headlines Mondo at Ginger Nightclub this Friday, September 4; Cheek @ Red Sea on Wednesday, September 9, and Jack Rabbit Slim’s on Wednesday, September 23. Tina Says
DROWNING HORSES AUSTRALIAN TOUR Perth heavy metal band Drowning Horse have announced their Sheltering Sky Australian tour this October/November. Channeling the monumental heft of Neurosis and the reflective meditations of Earth, this band are literally the sound of the ground ripping apart, previously described as something so powerful its emotionally demanding and physically exhausting to hear. To hear and see them in the flesh would be an experience of its own, so if you think this is your kind of gig, head to either the Rosemount (with Space Bong, Craig McElhinney and Alzabo) on Friday, October 30, or Mojos (with Space Bong, Foxes and Self Harm) on Saturday, October 31. Tickets available on the door on the night. Drowning Horse
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ARGYLE DIAMONDS ORD VALLEY MUSTER It has been announced that the annual Argyle Diamonds Ord Valley Muster will be held over the 13-22 May in 2016, with the Kimberly Moon Experience to be staged on Saturday, May 21. The event highlights cultural diversity, stunning primeval landscape, friendly folk and warm country hospitality, showcasing some of Australia’s most acclaimed musicians and culinary personalities. Interstate as well as overseas enquiries are already being received from those who are keen to catch tickets to this fantastic event of around 30 spectacular events across 10 days in the East Kimberly area. Head to ordvalleymuster.com.au for full details and get excited! 4
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MONTAIGNE NEW SINGLE AND TOUR Sydney’s avant-pop heroine Montaigne has dropped her much anticipated brand new single, Clip My Wings, together with the official announcement of a massive Australian tour kick starting at our very own Jimmy’s Den on Saturday, October 3, that will move on to the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre on Sunday. October 4. Get your tickets now from ticketbooth. com.au and manpac.com.au. Montaigne
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I mean, we’ve still gotta dig each other’s new songs enough to want to have some input. But the love is there for each other.
THE WAIFS Rockin’ In The Free World The Waifs are back with a new album, Beautiful You, and a nice run of dates around WA this month. BOB GORDON catches up with Donna Simpson. How was your recent run of dates in the US? Amazing! I literally just got off the plane. We toured mainly up and down the West Coast, taking in Canada for a show as well, but mainly California. They seem to really like us there and haven’t forgotten us after all these years. Most shows were either sold-out or close to being sold-out. It’s great to see a new album out... Thanks buddy! Given you’re each in far flung corners of the world now and your lives have changed over the years, was there ever a time when you thought The Waifs would no longer be? Oh yeah, many times I’ve thought that; but when push comes to shove we’re pretty easy to get motivated to tour again. I mean it’s all we know and being creative people out juices always seem to be flowing. Songs keep coming to us and Vikki (Thornton, sister) and Josh (Cunningham) are pretty much the only people I love playing with. We’re now juggling six kids amongst the whole logistics but it still seems to work for us. What was it like coming together for those first run of shows after four years’ break? It was funny how Vik and I both couldn’t wait to dress up, slap on some makeup and get out there and sing. It was exciting and nerve-wrecking, yet at the same time it was wearing your favourite old jacket. It felt smooth, and we knew we still belonged. Do you have to feel each out a bit - musically or otherwise - or is it just an easy, natural flow? It’s a pretty natural flow, hence the reason we’ve been playing together for 23 years or so now.
In writing songs for the new album, you tried a collaborative process for the first time but it apparently stalled and only started once you’d written a song on your own. Is the old approach the best approach? Well if it ain’t broke don’t try and fix it right? Vikki tried to have us collaborate together and write together but I couldn’t see it working from the start. I have trouble sharing and letting go of my own lyrics and melodies. So we stuck to the old way and just wrote on our own and then gave it up to each other to add our own magic. It worked ‘cause I love this collection of songs on the new album. Are you conscious of writing what people will expect to be a ‘Waifs song’ or does it just emerge fully from heart and soul? It just comes to us. I don’t try to sound like anyone or write a Waifs-sounding song. I actually couldn’t describe my style or a Waifs style. What was it like recording all together again in Byron Bay? Ah, good ole Byron Bay does it again. A magic place, an awesome studio, a killer producer and lots of friends stopping in to listen as we worked. It was magic and I’d do it all over again. Are there songs on the album that sum up where The Waifs, or you are at this point? No not really, although there has been a more mature approach to our personal writing. I mean we’re a lot older now and we’re about the things that are happening in our lives. There’s still struggles, there’s still love and longing and there’s still appreciation. What are the plans from here? To tour the heck out of this record and hopefully tour more regional areas of Australia and not just hit the cities. Lots more festivals in North America as well. We’ve never had any solid plans as a band. I think that’s how we’ve stayed together for such a long time and just kept on rocking in the free world. The Waifs’ Beautiful You tour hits the Goldfields Arts Centre, Kalgoorlie, on Thursday, September 10; Esperance Civic Centre on Saturday, September 12; Albany Entertainment Centre, on Sunday, September 13; Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday, September 15; Queens Park Theatre, Geraldton, on Wednesday, September 16; Carnarvon Civic Centre on Thursday, September 17, and the Roebuck Bay Hotel, Broome, on Sunday, September 20. The Waifs | Pic: Jarrad Seng
BREAKFAST WITH PETER GARRETT WAM is excited to team up with Boffins Books as former Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett gets set for a visit to Perth to launch a long-awaited auto-biography Big Blue Sky, to be published by Allen & Unwin in October. WAM and Boffins Books are to host Garrett for a breakfast event, in conversation with a soon to be announced high profile local identity. The breakfast event will take place on Monday, October 19, at the Duxton Hotel Perth, commencing at 7am. Tickets cost $60 that includes a full cooked breakfast with coffee and pastries, or $99 with the book. Tickets now available at trybooking.com/INQZ. Peter Garrett, Big Blue Sky
Bandgroper co-captains Ofa & Pat celebrate the spoils of victory
RECLINK COMMUNITY CUP Perth’s first edition of the RECLINK Community Cup took place at Steele Blue Oval, Bassendean last Sunday, as The Bandgropers (musicians) took on The Newshounds (local media and industry). The skill levels ranged from mad to bad - and there were a lot more things to this game of football than really met the eye - but it was a lot of good fun and all for a great cause. Football and music were the winners. Oh, and so were The Bandgropers, 6
AL MURRAY ‘The Pub Landlord’ British comedian Al Murray brings his Pub Landlord character to the Astor Theatre on Monday, October 26, for the One Man, One Guv’nor stage show. SHANE PINNEGAR says ‘all hail to the ale’, and gets ‘a fruit-based drink for the lady’ and a story. A descendant of Scottish, English and ancient Roman nobility, and boasting a degree in Modern History from Oxford, Al Murray himself couldn’t be more different from his most famous character, The Guv. “No, no, no,” laughs Murray, “he wouldn’t have read history at Oxford. No, he wouldn’t have gotten in! But the thing is... I couldn’t go on and do me on stage - I wouldn’t know where to start. But when you’ve got a character with a firm voice, where to start and where to end up are much more defined, you know?” Surprisingly, despite The Guv’nor being such a strongly drawn character – complete with xenophobic outrage and stubbornly pig-headed views of right and wrong – Murray doesn’t get accosted by too many people in public. “Um… no, actually,” he laughs. “I tend to get left alone, to tell you the truth! You know, here in the UK people certainly know well that there’s me and there’s him. So when they do meet me, they really don’t expect me to be like the character. And that actually is really great because it means I can sort of
surprise people more, you know what I mean?” Being a nation who enjoys a glass of amber fluid, Australia seems to have an affinity for The Guv’nor – even though he’s mostly only known through the Time Gentlemen, Please TV series of 2002-03. I ask Murray why he thinks we get the character so well? “Well I don’t know,” he replies thoughtfully, before laughing once again, “I was married to an Australian for a while - maybe she didn’t find the joke funny anymore? “Yeah, I certainly like Australia,” he continues, “but I haven’t played Down Under in a very long time. So I’m looking forward to it.” Murray is renowned for his quick wit and repartee with his live audiences, which he says he only lightly prepares for with a bit of local flavour. “Well, I talk to the audience every night anyways, and improvise a half hour to the front few rows, so I get a pretty good idea what’s going on in the room. But, I’ll watch the telly and watch the news, figure out what’s going on - I might even do a bit of that in advance. Just a little bit… because what audiences are interested in is very often not what’s in the paper.” Murray goes on to say that his whip-like wit, ability to read a room and fire razor-sharp retorts to hecklers didn’t come straight away – or easily. “No. And it’s a thing that you can’t stop working on, actually. You’re always... I think you’ve always got to figure out what the angles are, and how to deal with different situations. When we first get to Australia, I’m going to be on my toes to figure that stuff out, I think. We’ll see because one of the things that I love about stand-up is that you don’t know what’s going to happen: you can’t be sure. And as a comic, I know that I’m bit of a control freak so it’s quite good fun to put yourself in a situation where you don’t know if you’re in control. You know what I mean?” Finally, I ask if his two daughters – especially his eldest who is about 17 – have taken his Pub Landlord character to heart either way when considering having a drink themselves. “No... not consciously - but I have a suspicion that she thinks drinking is for fucking idiots,” he laughs, before adding, “it could be the best piece of indirect parenting anyone has ever done.”
THE EXPLOITED: PUNK’S NOT DEAD The Exploited is a band spawned from a group of guys who considered the first wave of British punk to be a bust, angry at what they were seeing around them – a country in disarray with greedy politicians treating people like dirt and Johnny Rotten’s prediction of No Future becoming truer every day. Their debut album, Punk’s Not Dead, launched a new breed of politically outspoken anarcho-punk bands and became the number one independent album of 1981. And they’re just as relevant today as they were back then. In 2014 they signed with Nuclear Blast and will release a new studio album in 2016. The band will be coming to Perth’s Capitol on Monday, December 14, as part of their national tour. Tickets now on sale from tombowler.com.au/the-exploited. The Exploited
BOYS REVISITED Following a sold-out show at the Newport Hotel Record Club, former Baby Animals and original THE WITCHES SINGLE Boys drummer Frank Celenza, former Baby Animals LAUNCH bass player Eddie Parise along with guitarists Chris Perth rockers The Witches have been gradually Travaglini and Michael Basham are back due to developing and maturing their sound both in the popular demand after local singer/songwriter studio and on the WA live music scene and are set legend Paul McCarthy fronted Boys Revisited. The much-anticipated gig will take place to launch their debut single, Take Time, at Jimmy’s on Saturday, September 12, with special guests Den on Friday, September 4. The single launch will also feature High The Volcanics, one of McCarthy’s favourite local bands who are about to set off on their second Horse, Flooded Palace and Meraki. European tour. Tickets available from the venue or Oztix.com.au. The Witches
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The Newshounds ponder the scoreboard
actually, who dominated The Newshounds in a manner that will no doubt be threatening airplay and column inches until next year’s rematch. Plaudits go to The Bandgropers - coach Ron Alexander and team co-captains Ofa Fotu and Pat McLaughlin (Sugar Army).The Bandgropers’ Best On Ground medallist was Maisie Glen and Best Dressed medallists Vaughan Davies (Split Seconds) and Adam Livingston (Emperors) will have to saw theirs in half.
Well done also to The Newshounds’ coach Peter Gianoli, team co-captains Caitlin Nienaber and Chris Wheeldon; Best On Ground medallist Michael Biagioni and Best Dressed medallist, Kristie Butler. Naturally the event rock’n’rolled on with the Burn The Waves DJs, Boom! Bap! Pow! and The Ghost Hotel. It was a great day for the great game. BOB GORDON | Photography by Ted Dana
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Front Cover: The Waifs are back with a new album, Beautiful You, and a nice run of dates around WA this month. Scene Cover: Touring in support of his sixth album, Onward & Sideways, Joshua Radin heads to the Rosemount Hotel this Sunday, September 6.
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“It’s very easy to think that music simple drives itself but its quite a different reality when you step on stage and look out at the reaction on peoples faces and the connection and realising every single one of those people have paid for a ticket that allows you to live to create this music.”
PARKWAY DRIVE Raising Ire After smashing Australian ARIA charts with three ground-breaking metalcore albums, Byron Bay’s Parkway Drive are taking a new direction in their musical expansion, pushing the genre to its limit with their new album, Ire. Vocalist Winston McCall speaks with AARON BRYANS in the lead up to their Australian tour-opening show at Red Hill Auditorium on Wednesday, September 23, with support from Thy Art Is Murder, Memphis May Fire and The World Alive. In 2005, five Australian musicians released their debut album, Killing With A Smile, making metalcore history and kicking off an incredible national and international run. Now, 10 years on, Parkway Drive have perfected the genre that made them famous and are looking to re-define and expand it with a bolder and angrier sound. “It’s the first time it doesn’t sound exactly like you think Parkway is going to sound,” vocalist Winston McCall reveals. “It’s the first time since the start of the band we haven’t gone and taken a little influence and put it into this pre-
existing concept of faster-harder every time and started to create completely new concepts of what the band can do. “We spent 10 years doing this band and we really loved what we had done up until this record, but we got to a point where the formula that we were doing it no longer contained the creative outlets that we wanted to hit. Up until that time we felt that the style of music we had done we felt we had poured everything into that we could do. It was basically taking everything we loved about the band, figure out what we want to achieve from it and then learn how to
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The driving force behind Anime is using new forms of music notation, such as colour and light, to shape how music is created. It’s something Hope personally finds more rewarding as a composer than the traditional dots and lines used to transcribe music. “We explore a specific kind of notation called animated notation. It’s not traditional notation, it’s actually video or images or lights, just other forms of notation that aren’t just using the traditional music dots,” she says. “We’ve spent quite a lot of our time, since we started, exploring different ways of notating music that doesn’t rely on traditional notation which is really rooted in melody and harmony and rhythmic pulse. So a lot of the things we do don’t fit into that category, so it’s a lot more exploratory.” Hope explains it actually heralds back to a much earlier form of writing music, popular during the Gregorian era. To her, the advancement of technology has allowed music notation to come full circle, back to pictographic representations of music. “The very first printing presses didn’t facilitate colour very easily but there’s some really beautiful medieval notations that are heart-shaped or all these bizarre things. It’s not a new idea, but I think digital technology is seeing the resurgence of classical notation. “Reading music on computers is so much better than on a page. I mean, you’ve got a threedimensional animated space of reading colour and changing elements. There’s so much potential there that we haven’t really explored. We’re just starting to explore.”
Music In Colour Decibel will be performing a new work, Anime, as part of New Music Network’s Scale Variable concert series at PICA performance space on Saturday, September 5. SHAUN COWE reports. Decibel are an avant-garde compositional powerhouse that focuses on pushing the boundaries of musical shape and form. Their next concert, Anime, will see the group perform commissioned pieces by various local composers, as well as Icelandic composer, Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir and a sound system designed Johannes Mulder. Catching Decibel director, Cat Hope, coming back from a pre-Senate enquiry on George Brandis’s arts cuts, she is keen to describe Decibel’s efforts to combine music and colour. “There’s so much potential in electronic music,” she says. “There’s so many different sounds that we’ve never heard, there’s so many ways to put sounds together. But also one of the things that I’m really interested in is how do you perform electronic music? Do you do it standing behind a laptop? That’s one way. You can play keytar, that was one really daggy attempt, or there’s people who make new electronic instruments.” 8
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go in different directions and create something that didn’t completely disregard what this band stood for but at the same point in time went off into new areas.” With no specific idea of how they wanted to explore and expand their now famous sound, the Parkway boys went back the drawing board when writing their newest album Ire, spending as much time producing and perfecting every layer of each track. “We had no real idea where we wanted to go simply because we had built up a skill set that was specifically designed to write in the one way we knew how to write,” McCall explains. “That was writing riffs that sounded a certain way, had breakdowns and the drumming was fast and intense. “We had to fool around with absolutely everything and take every kind of influence and every input we had and not squeeze that input into something that is always Parkway but trying to create something with that which reflected what the band was in the first place. “The whole process involved so much work. It was re-learning how to be a band. It was learning a whole bunch of new skillsets that we never had. We wrote this over two years and it involved re-writing and re-writing and working on these sounds for so long and learning how to get out of old habits that we would revert back to. I had to learn to not just sound like a screaming maniac the whole time, I’d put in the vocals I’d want to do and make the connection I wanted to make, we had to learn how to play less a whole bunch which is a massive blow to the ego when you’re used trying to put everything into every part to make it as heavy as possible. “Most of this record we had so much fun writing but at the same point in time we didn’t
THE SNOWDROPPERS Down To Business It took writing a play to get The Snowdroppers all fired up to cut their third album, as Jeremy Davidson (aka Johnny Wishbone) tells JONTY CZUCHWICKI ahead of their shows on Friday, October 2, at the Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; Saturday, October 3, at The Boston, and Sunday, October 4, at the Newport Hotel. There’s plenty going on for blues band The Snowdroppers. Their new release, Business, was recorded on the Central Coast north of Sydney, utilising both Grove Studios and Ivory Lane Studios. “It was produced by our friend and long-time live engineer, Ryan Hazel,” begins Snowdroppers frontman Johnny Wishbone — real name Jeremy Davidson. “His studio is the Ivory Lane Studio but he was adamant that he wanted to track some of it at the Grove just because it’s a
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know if it was going to work that way we wanted it to until it was completely done in the studio. Songs like Writing’s On The Wall and Deathless Song had their heads hanging on the chopping block until the last day of recording simply because it was such a big departure and it could come off really cheesy or not carry the emotion and sound we wanted.” Despite being Australian music leaders and a well-known international act, McCall believes the group would be nowhere without its supporting fans and is incredibly thankful the band has come so far. “There’s not a single time when I step on the stage and I’m like ‘fuck yeah this is for me, damn straight you guys better be here’. It’s crazy that people have supported this band to this degree. We are a popular band overseas but that wasn’t created because we went overseas we had a whole bunch of people in Australia support our shows and support our music and create this intensity that pushed us to do that overseas. It would be a lot harder if no one gave a fuck in our own country. I don’t think people will ever understand how much supporting this band has meant to the growth of this band. It’s very easy to think that music simple drives itself but its quite a different reality when you step on stage and look out at the reaction on peoples faces and the connection and realising every single one of those people have paid for a ticket that allows you to live to create this music.” The 12-year journey has been an incredibly tight one, with only two line-up changes, all before their second album. The strength of their relationships however was put to the test as the band shuffled into their new musical positions and introduced new ideas. “We’re family basically. We’ve grown up together for 12 years now. We all know our specific roles in the band and do work we need to do. With writing, we know what our strengths are and when to push each other and when to stand by our decisions or when to compromise, and we have a very good working relationship in that regard. “This was the most testing time because it was one of those things where you had to chop away at habits and egos that had formed simply because when you’ve done four records and every single one does better and the shows get better you get the feeling that you know how to do this, we had the formula that worked and then all of sudden we questioned it. There’s a lot of patience and communication involved.” Ire is released on Friday, September 25.
really nice atmosphere there.” As it turns out there were certainly some benefits in tracking at Grove. “It’s just got this big live room! We had the space to shed up and really spread out, stretch our wings and fly away!” Certain elements were then taken back to Ivory Lane for over-dubbing, but the majority of the record was tracked live. “There’s one track on the album that is a completely live cut.” Davidson explains. “Hold On. It’s actually a Tom Waits cover. That was kinda last minute. We didn’t muck around with it until we went into the studio and sorted floated the idea of doing a cover. We sorted of started jamming that and it worked!” This is typically how The Snowdroppers have worked in the past; capturing the essence of their live sound is an important element. “We were really conscious this time around. This time around we have come the closest to getting that energy than we have before.” It’s about 18 months since The Snowdroppers last toured. “I wish I could say it’s because we have all been windswept and interesting and jet-setting across the globe... but we haven’t,” admits Davidson. In truth Davidson and guitarist, Pauly K, originally took four months off to work on a play for the Sydney Theatre Company. “It kind of made me realise how much I truly love music and love performing music!” admits Davidson with sincerity of the experience. “Music truly is my number one love. It definitely sent us back into the writing process and into the studio with sort of a new vigour.”
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE To Be The Best It’s been 10 years since Bullet For My Valentine explosively debuted in the metal scene with their LP, The Poison, and their quest for global super-stardom. With their fifth album, Venom, recently making waves and an appearance at Soundwave 2016 scheduled, Michael ‘Moose’ Thomas speaks with AARON BRYANS about their continuing rise. Whilst progressively evolving themselves, Bullet For My Valentine have stuck to their goals and their sound throughout their long tenure. Their latest release, Venom, has paid homage to early successes, The Poison and Scream Aim Fire through the enlistment of producer, Colin Richardson, while also embracing a heavier attitude.
“We met all these massive producers” explains Michael ‘Moose’ Thomas, but we decided to go with Colin because we know what he’s going to produce and he’s not going to try and change us. He makes everything sound heavy and natural.” Earlier in the year long-time bassist, Jason James, departed the group, their first line-up change since the release of their debut LP. With Jamie Mathias quick to take up the reigns, Moose believes the group’s writing ability is at an all-time high. “Because we’ve been together for so long, we know what each other’s thinking,” Moose states. “A bunch of us in a room is a natural thing to do, it’s so easy to write and everyone enjoyed writing and recording this album. It was the best time we’d ever had in the studio.” “Jamie’s awesome, especially playing live now. A lot of bands use Pro-Tools and stuff these days but all of our harmonies are all live.” Despite their increasing reach and fan support, the group have no plans on stopping until they become an international headlining act. “We just want to be a top heavy metal band like Iron Maiden and Metallica,” Moose explains. “We want to be respected and be the next big heavy metal band.” Bullet For My Valentine will be back on Australian soil as part of Soundwave 2016 in January, however don’t expect that to be the only time tour the country next year. “We’re going to be playing as much as we possibly can off the new album but we’ll obviously be playing lots of old stuff, but hopefully we can come back so we can play an hour or an hour-and30-minutes.”
Nathaniel Rateliff moved to Denver for missionary work at 18 years of age, and it wasn’t long before he was rubbing shoulders with producer Brian Deck (Iron & Wine) and The Lumineers. The pensive folk artist garnered critical acclaim for his first two records, but on his latest he has morphed into a soulful beast. Having recruited a six-piece band, Rateliff has reinvented himself and in the process discarding his folky whisper for a more confident and expensive tone. His parents’ record collection is evident when working through his first album with The Night Sweats. I Need Never Get Old has punchy brass, prominent keys and a foot stomping melody that doesn’t tire. The urgency of the album is expertly captured by recording the songs live giving them plenty of crackle and soul. Howling At Nothing has a classic feel that borrows its feel from the masterful Sam Cooke without becoming a pastiche. Rateliff had an interesting upbringing with a TV with one channel, no telephone and his father passing in a car accident on the way to church. The gritty singer has taken these experiences, twisted them into song and come out the other end with plenty of sting in the tail. CHRIS HAVERCROFT
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FIDLAR Too Warner T h e s e y o u n g L A h o o d r a t s c o u l d h av e easily replicated 2013’s debut skate-punk opus FIDLAR but instead decided to push their boundaries, heading to Nashville and utilising a producer, Jay Joyce, for the first time. The results are more considered and less vital, but there’s still plenty of energy and a healthy dose of nihilism in tunes like single 40oz On Repeat, Bad Medicine and closer, Bad Habits. Other sonic detours include the creepy Overdose, the poppy West Coast, the classic rock-sounding Punks and the tirade of abuse that’s Sober, making Too an interesting diversion. STEVE BELL
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FKA Twigs has rush-released this five-track EP, the soundtrack to her own sumptuous yet horrifying, weird, self-directed short film. While the state of the art R&B of In Time is currently stealing the radio waves, the muscular, breathlessly sexual funk of Figure 8 is equally commendably intoxicating. If the record fails to shift copies (not a chance in hell), the genuinely unsettling flick suggests Twigs may have a second career as the new David Lynch.
Vo c a l i s t B r u ce D i c k i n s o n ’s c a n ce r scare unfortunately underscored Maiden’s inevitably finite lifespan, and threatened to derail the veterans’ post-reunion perpetual momentum. This double-album defiantly brims with progressive ambition. Bookended by cuts solely penned by Dickinson, the 18-minute, orchestral-laced Empire Of The Clouds sees him making his piano debut. It’s a reputable addition to their canon of epics. Bassist Steve Harris’ The Red And The Black is coherent and offers palpable character. More immediate Speed Of Light and Death Or Glory effectively counterbalance the sprawling affairs. A few a r r a n g e m e n t s a n d t r ac k s could’ve been culled, but metal’s luminaries are evidently running free again.
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TUMBLEWEED Metamorphosis Wollongong’s finest purveyors of tripped out psych rock, Tumbleweed, make their way through space to the Rosemount Hotel on Friday, September 18, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their revered Galactaphonic album, now released with a bonus disc of rarities and re-labelled SuperGalactaphonic. SHANE PINNEGAR takes a trip through history with frontman, Richie Lewis. In the mid-’90s triple j ruled the indie airwaves and Tumbleweed’s psyched-out, turbocharged garagey hard rock was on high rotation, with singles Sundial (Mary Jane), Daddy Long Legs and Gyroscope all shaking heads across the country. Galactaphonic, the band’s third album, dropped with lead single Hang Around, and they put in many miles touring the album from coast to coast. “In some ways it seems like yesterday,” Lewis reminicises, “but in other ways it seems like there has been a lot of water under the bridge but... 20 years, shit yeah. I remember in the ‘90s when The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper was 20 years old and I thought, ‘wow - that’s a record that my Mum and Dad used to listen to, it’s like an olden-days record for the oldies!’ “So, you could say, the ‘90s is like my ‘60s or ‘70s. That is kind of bizarre. That’s the great thing about music. When playing music, everything is sort of timeless. It
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Beginning with the soft crashing of waves against a shore, Secretly Susan is a melancholy journey through the numbing emotions of love and loss, dominated by bass, synth and vocals. Sui Zhen’s lyrics and music take the dull pangs of a relationship’s end and transform them with warm, blissful tones. Standouts include Take It All Back, Going Away and Infinity Street. The indie diva takes a turn away from her ethereal, synth-pop sound on Dear Teri and Walk Without Me and, far from sounding jarring, these diversions manage to give the album just enough colour to sustain interest.
The Weeknd has become one of the biggest urban music names in the two years between last album KissLand and new effort, Beauty Behind The Madness. He’s now a radio staple thanks to one of its singles (Can’t Feel My Face), but the up-tempo of that smash hit isn’t what you should expect to hear throughout this LP. The Weeknd is still dark, just maybe not as mysterious as before. Kanye-produced Tell Your Friends could be a sleeper hit and collaborations with Ed Sheeran (Dark Times) and Lana Del Rey (Prisoner) impress. Another sound effort from the Canadian.
just disappears and you just get up on stage. I don’t feel any different when I am up on stage doing our thing as I did when I was 21 years old. There is that weird space-time continuum shift. It’s like the flux capacitor is there and you sort of think 20 years has passed now. There’s no way that has happened because I still feel exactly the same. “We are looking forward to getting out on tour because we love Galactaphonic. We didn’t really listen to it very much in the past 20 years but now after having the idea to do this, we have been listening to it a lot and doing our homework and practicing a bit getting the songs up to scratch. “One thing that we thought is, ‘geez, what CAMERON COOPER a great record’. We forgot how good it was. It is short, sweet and it’s punchy and it has all this imagery. There are a lot of songs on the record that we never did live OUT OF 5 for some reason or other and now it is like, ‘why didn’t we do that?’ You look back at it and you go, ‘that song didn’t really seem to appeal to me back then, but now it does’. Crammed full of extras such as a triple j ROYAL HEADACHE Live At The Wireless performance, some more live tracks from the Brisbane Livid Festival, demos and High more, Lewis says the reissue tells a story. Distant & Vague “We just wanted to show how some songs, I suppose, change, move, grow from their inception. Despite its reportedly difficult genesis, second I like to see that sort of metamorphosis of ideas. We effort, High, finds Sydney rockers Royal Headache at wanted to get a little bit of that happening as well. their formidable best, stripping back the rock’n’roll “We tried to get a nice cross section of caper to its core essence and in the process making stuff, as well as things that were unreleased, as the creation of timeless, classic-sounding songs seem well as B-sides and covers as well. We just wanted ludicrously straightforward. There’s a ramshackle elegance to High’s to get a cross section of everything from the time that really sort of helped to, I suppose, tell the musical beds, all catchy garage rock featuring story of Tumbleweed 1995 – Galactaphonic, when lazily jubilant guitars, chugging rhythms and an allall eyes were on us and when we were in the eye pervading sense of detached cool. Yet as ever its frontman Shogun’s super-expressive voice and brilliant of the storm.”
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vocal arrangements which layer more hooks over the already beguiling music to give Royal Headache their edge. His vocals sit far higher in the mix than on 2012’s eponymous debut, highlighting the passionate conviction of both his soul-tinged delivery and his cryptic-but-personal lyrics. It’s a lovelorn batch full of longing and desire, songs so rooted in real life that they’re eminently relatable. Opener, My Own Fantasy, reflects on a hedonistic worldview past its use-by-date, Need You and High are stomping love letters to an old flame, Garbage is an acerbic (but kinda funny) affront, while Another World and Carolina seem like enduring hits of yesteryear, familiar from the first spin. All 10 tracks are imperative, and despite inherent immediacy still flourish with repeated exposure. High flies by in a glorious rush and then demands an immediate return to the forefront of your mind, like some wonderful legal drug. Get High, get addicted. STEVE BELL 9
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It’s that time of year again. The Telstra Perth Fashion Festival, one of Australia’s premier fashion events, will take place between Tuesday-Sunday, September, 15-20 Presenting some of the most electrifying and dynamic fashion highlights of the year, TPFF 2015 will celebrate outstanding talent and recognise the innovation and success of WA creatives, both established and emerging. For full details and programme, check out the following pages and head to telstraperthfashionfestival.com.au.
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TELSTRA PERTH FASHION FESTIVAL The Inside Word Festival Director Mariella HarveyHanrahan gives GILLIAN O’MEAGHER the lowdown on the upcoming Telstra Perth Fashion Festival for 2015.
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When the festival first began, did you envision it becoming this large? Never in my wildest dreams, but with a lot of hard work we’ll keep trying to deliver a bigger and better festival every year. The fact that Perth has come of age has also been beneficial
for the festival — we certainly have a much stronger fashion voice than we did 17 years ago. The festival aims to partner with companies who are leaders in their field and have a best practice approach, which has been key to our growth. Engaging a team who can implement my vision year-on-year is also critical. Why do you think the festival has become so popular, both with those who work in the fashion industry and the general public? Fashion is a universal language, and one of my aims is to ensure the festival remains accessible — that there is something for everyone in our program of events. The people of Perth respond positively to the festival and totally embrace it. Festival initiatives such as Windows Of The City, The Sunday Best Markets and 11 free runway events at Fashion Central presented by Alcohol.Think Again. in Forrest Place, continues to offer rich and engaging content that is free to the public. The festival has its own app this year. What exactly does the app offer festival goers, in terms of information? Thanks to our partnership with Telstra we can continue to connect with a wider audience and grow our digital presence. This year we have dialled up the technology even further and worked with Telstra and developers at Alive to create the app for both iOS and Android users, which gives users their one-stop guide to the festival and helps them find out absolutely everything happening over the festival season. The My Planner feature is great to allow fashion lovers to plan out their entire festival experience on their smart device. There is also information on all the participating designers and our many initiatives, including Windows Of The City. There are even maps for every show to help you get to where you need to be!
“Our industry events are designed to provide business networking opportunities and present informative commerce content about the multifaceted fashion industry — as a festival it is important that there is much more to fashion than just runway shows.” What are some of the events on this year’s schedule that you’re really looking forward to personally? All of them! I can’t pick just a few — I love all our shows this year — but you can never go past Opening Night with Dilettante, who will be showcasing the three designers 33 Poets, Maticevski and Yang Li, or Closing Night featuring the iconic WA label Wheels and Dollbaby. I’m honoured to have one of Australia’s most celebrated designers Akira showing in Perth for the first time and being a part of TPFF 2015. Our two WA Designer Runway events are showcasing a collection of our most talented designers together, which is a great way to see some of the best and brightest from WA. Our international designer Phuong My is one for fashion lovers — her designs have been seen at New York Fashion Week, Tokyo Fashion Fuse, ELLE Vietnam’s One Year Anniversary Fashion Show and Harper’s BAZAAR Charity Auction Show in Vietnam. There is just so much that makes this year’s festival our biggest and best yet. The festival program offers industry events as well as community events. Who do you feel these kinds of events will most appeal to this year? Our industry events are designed to provide business networking opportunities and present informative commerce content about the multifaceted fashion industry — as a festival it is important that there is much more to fashion than just runway shows. In today’s online savvy world, are fashion bloggers an important element of the event’s success? Bloggers have certainly become a powerful force in our world. There is a blogger for every market, and we engage with so many who become part of the communication stream that helps showcase our industry to Perth, Australia and the world. Do you have your ensembles for the festival picked out? Who are some of the designers you might be dressed in this year? No, not yet — that is usually the last thing on my never ending to-do-list! What areas do you see the festival expanding into, or expanding on, in the future? Our aim is to continue to use the language of fashion to sell the WA brand and ensure we continue to showcase the best local talent, as well as attracting more national and international designers to be part of the event. 12
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Put Some Spring In Your Step Move over winter, we’re making way for your sexy cousin, spring. She’s got us ditching our woollies in favour of sun dresses, maxis and these 25-degree friendly outfits.
NIGHT OF NIGHTS Going out and want to impress? Coordinates will have you showing off just enough skin to turn heads, without highlighting that cider-bloat you acquired at pre-drinks.
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OUT WITH AUDREY SHORT SKIRT WITH DECORATIVE BUTTONS AT THE FRONT AND A CONCEALED ZIP AT THE BACK.
HOT AND COLD Still feeling the chills? A long-sleeve, ribbed top, high-waisted button up skirt and stockings will help you through this turbulent transition.
SUN DRESS UP As HIMYM’s Barney Stinson once said, ‘I don’t think I can make it another eight months with no sundresses’. It’s the perfect outfit to hail in the fine weather, and a great drop-and-go piece for those last minute coffee dates. Pair with some strappy sandals and a wide-brimmed hat for those extra sunny days.
Out With Audrey is an e-boutique based in Perth, dedicated fashion enthusiastics who love to follow emerging trends and bring these concepts to woman without the designer price tag. They source street-style inspired apparel, accessories, homewares and one-of-a-kind pieces while only carrying a limited inventory to ensure exclusivity. They are inspired by the past, the present and the future. Out With Audrey is constantly seeking out new ways to improve and innovate the shopping experience of the community of OWA shoppers. Check out their Blog for inspirations and a behindthe-scenes look at what is happening in the Out With Audrey world! Check outwithaudrey.com.au. OUT WITH AUDREY
It might be spring but it certainly isn’t summer, so there’s always room for a sneaky Bali getaway pre-December. If you can’t afford the tickets, rock up to your nearest Bikram Yoga studio in your gypsy pants and high-neck crop, and grab yourself coconut water. CROP TOPPIN’ WITH GYPSY PANTS
SAN DIMAS HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES H a n g o u t at Va r s i t y enough and you start thinking you’re American… rock up in a baseball shirt and a cap, then you become one of them. Not that we have a problem with that, or the deep fried pickles you just ordered. THE VARSITY LOOK
GALIBELLE Galibelle WA is a Perth-based company selling Brazilian designed and made shoes with interchangeable straps. They offer everything from flats to wedges to stilettos all with the option to change your strap to suit any occasion or outfit. Galibelle shoes are available via galibelle. com.au, at their pop-up store in Perth or via selected stockists. Prices range between $70-$180 for a complete shoe. Check the website for pop up locations and stockists. GALIBELLE SHOES | PIC: GALIBELLE INTERNATIONAL
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DENIM TO THE MAX
Little Clueless of what to wear this spring? Take a page out of Iggy’s book, with a tartan dress and kneehigh socks. If that’s a little too ‘90s for you, go for a plaid skirt and dress it down with a sloppy tee.
Oh, the things you can do with a maxi dress. From the simple to the glamourous, this shoulder to feet item is a must needed staple. Go black and dress it up with a long gold necklace and pump heels, or casual grey with a denim shirt and sneakers.
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FUTURE RUNWAY The X-Press High 5 TPFF’s Future Runway event will showcase the future of WA fashion via the work of the most promising students from the states leading fashion institutions. These five emerging designers caught X-Press Fashion’s eye and they gave us an insight into their work. Future Runway takes place on Friday, September 18, at the Riverside Forecourt, Perth Concert Hall.
PHOEBE D’ARCY-EVANS, SHOWING AT FUTURE RUNWA | PIC: SOPHIE D’ARCY-EVANS
PHOEBE D’ARCY EVANS How do you describe your design aesthetic? Playful, tactile and full of life. What makes your body of work stand out from others in the market? The print work, fabric manipulation and surface textures; the details put into each garment. Describe the client/customer you have in mind when designing? Bold, daring and ‘knows what she wants’. What inspired your design for the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival? The concept of sportswear and evening wear combined together, particularly the shapes and details found in sports gear and the Japanese sword sport, Kendo.
SHERIDAN JOYCE @SKYLARKTHELABEL, SHOWING AT FUTURE RUNWAY | MODEL: BROOKE COUPER | PHOTOGRAPHY: YONG XIANG PHOTOGRAPHY | HAIR: LISA POLINI AND SARAH PENNO | MAKE-UP ARTISTRY: ALISHA MCFADDEN MAKEUP ARTISTRY
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ASHLEIGH PASSMORE How do you describe your design aesthetic? My design aesthetic is clean, minimal, and sleek. With a neutral to pastel colour palette and intriguing textiles that really tell the story behind the garment. What makes your body of work stand out from others in the market? It’s clever, fresh and subtle. It explores and mixes sports luxe and evening wear in a contemporary and unique way. Describe the client/customer you have in mind when designing? A practical, minimalist woman that is elegant and sleek. A woman that needs something easy and effortless to wear, because she’s always on the go and likes to be comfortable chique What inspired your design for the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival? Fusing sports luxe and evening wear with distortion. I designed an oversized, dropped sleeve t-shirt silhouette with a long A-line ball skirt. Using drawstring toggles to create distortion in the garment. Contrasting a waterproof matte black polyester with a silky, light, mint dyed satin, with a matte distorted grid printed over it like a sports mesh. With matte black foiled and painted jewels stuck and scattered in the sports mesh. The fluid distorted lines in the garment were inspired by artist, Henrietta Harris. 14
MARIANNA KUKLINSKI, SHOWING AT FUTURE RUNWAY | PIC: ADAM KUKLINSKI
How do you describe your design aesthetic? My design aesthetic is very conceptual; there is always a message or issue being explored through my designs. There is also a strong consideration of how silhouettes and voluminous forms work in cohesion with the feminine form. As a result of my honours research into sustainable fashion I have tried to adopt that design approach in my modern work, which has heavily influenced my design aesthetic. What makes your body of work stand out from others in the market? My body of work stands out because I have strongly adopted sustainable design principles in my own practise, ranging from designing highly versatile fashion to hand made slow fashion or zerowaste designs. Describe the client/customer you have in mind when designing? I design for women who are conscious about the impact fashion has on society and the environment. Women who enjoy fashion that flatters a feminine silhouette but who also have an interest in unique details, either in an embroidery detail or versatility of the garment. My ideal client loves fashion that has a meaning behind it. What inspired your design for the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival? I was inspired to design for the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival because it is a local platform that is promoting sustainable fashion design. As a fashion student currently completing my honours in researching the applications of sustainable fashion, I feel that this promotion is helping to make sustainable design practises more relatable and accepted by society. By making sustainable fashion more accessible to a larger audience and promoting young designers who embrace a more ecoconscious approach, Telstra Perth Fashion Festival is helping to encourage sustainable fashion design principles to become a standard part of design criteria for modern designers.
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SAKURA PHAN, SHOWING AT FUTURE RUNWAY | PIC: MEIJI NGUYEN
SAKURA PHAN How do you describe your design aesthetic? My designs are simplistic silhouettes which gives the main focus on the use of textile and colours. What makes your body of work stand out from others in the market? I believe my passion for textile and colour is my identity in regards to how I am different to others. Having a background in art, I like to be hands-on with my work and have an ownership of original work which is applied into my design by weaving from scratch. Describe the client/customer you have in mind when designing? I aim to target clients who are spiritedminded with a big soul for creativity. My design is a mixture of being avant garde and costume which I like to appear on my clients at a media event or in a fashion shoot. What inspired your design for the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival? My design is inspired by the beautiful energy of India. I developed an overview of their culture, understanding of their use of colours and traditional textile manipulation.
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How do you describe your design aesthetic? Textural garments with structure contrasted against soft qualities. What makes your body of work stand out from others in the market? The combination of different textural and three-dimensional elements that complement one another in one garment. I enjoy dissecting the body with pieces that have unique surface manipulations to create a garment that moulds the female form. Transforming what some may see as mundane materials and adding an edge. Describe the client/customer you have in mind when designing? A fresh and young female that is intuitive, carefree, curious, explorative yet grounded. She pushes the boundaries in subtle ways, still making a statement. She is a woman that is down to earth, has a good attitude to life and exploring her cultural curiosity. She loves to travel, read books, drink tea and be immersed in nature. What inspired your design for the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival? The airy, nonchalant feel of winter and the soft textures of woolen jumpers to be transformed into a garment that plays with structure attracting attention. Sustainable fashion is continuously becoming more and more prevalent in today’s modern society. The two-piece design uses recycled knits from second hand stores and reinvents the. The oversized sleeves are boned, maintaining an oriental shape whilst also using the boning to add a three dimensional feature on the bodice and skirt. For more information and ticket details about Future Runway head to www.telstraperthfashionfestival.com.au.
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PHILIPPA BINGHAM AT CHADWICKS | PHOTO: JEREMY CHOH
CATWALK TALK Philippa Bingham One of the faces you’ll see a few times on the runway this Telstra Perth Fashion Festival is Philippa Bingham for Chadwick Models.
There are a lot of exciting events coming up, but I’m particularly excited for the show of Ae’lkemi. Which designers from the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival are most likely to be found in your wardrobe, or you’d like to add to your wardrobe? I’ve worked a lot with, and love the designs of Alvin Fernandez from Ae’lkemi. I’m fortunate to have some of his creations in my wardrobe. What do you think is the most important thing to remember when you first start modelling? To always stay true to yourself. JOMAY CAO CLOTHING
How did you become involved in the modelling industry? I was scouted on the street several times, before meeting the Chadwick’s team and finding a family within them. What’s the most surprising part about runway shows, that you imagine a lot of people don’t realise? For me the most surprising part is how lovely almost everyone is behind the scenes, and how the stereotype of how models are perceived is very far from the truth. Aside from the shows you’re walking in, are there any events on the program in particular that you’d like to attend, or intend to check out?
Which models are your inspiration, and why? I have been lucky enough to meet a lot of beautiful people throughout my career. But I must be honest; I get a lot of my inspiration and passion for what I do from two of my closest friends who are successful models overseas. Helena and Sophie have helped guide and support me throughout my career. Their attitude, drive, and unconditional love toward me and their passion towards their work have been an inspiration for me since the moment I met them. What are your future plans, in terms of modelling? The future holds many possibilities. GILLIAN O’MEAGHER
DESIGNER PROFILE Jomay Cao If Gossip Girl were still in production, it would be no surprise to see West Australian designer Jomay Cao’s designs on Serena, Blair, Lily, or any of Manhattan’s elite.
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Glamorous in a sleek, contemporary way, they exude a certain innovative spirit that implies a designer with a firm grasp on her stylistic vision. When asked if she believes there will always be a market for glamour, and what her understanding is of glamour as a concept, Cao’s reply reflects the same kind of subtle, savvy confidence seen in her designs. “There’s a certain power that putting on a glamourous gown has on you,” says Cao. “Glamour usually has connotations with luxury, which is always alluring. There will always be times of economic downturn during which demand for glamourous gowns will fall, but I do think that glamour as a concept will always be popular because even - or perhaps especially - in times of economic downturn, fashion serves as a form of escapism and self-expression.” The label has two elements to it: readyto-wear evening apparel, and Cao’s custom design service. “My main markets are definitely a) women wanting unique event wear and ball gowns, and b) brides seeking a one-of-a-kind wedding gown without the usual ‘fuss’ associated with traditional bridal wear.” So how did she come to a career in design? Cao cites informal training in design and garment construction at a very young age as the beginning of her journey. “And even when pursuing other areas of study, design has always been an enjoyable way for me to express myself creatively. I had a short career in business psychology and worked as a stylist to pay the bills while at university, so combining my love of design with my consumer psych background was a natural progression.” In terms of inspiration, Cao’s sources are myriad, including a passion for fine art and the history of fashion. “I also love the elegance of the silver screen and its heroines and sirens, so I am always looking to the past as well as what’s presently around me. “Other than that I may be inspired by a book, a conversation, plants, fabrics, music, and even passing strangers. Sometimes the source is completely unexpected. I like to paint in my spare time which occasionally gets the creative juices flowing, and I often design in my sleep!” Cao says she’s been wanting to take the brand to the US market for a while, so that’s where her focus will be for the immediate future. “I’m incredibly excited to be showcasing in New York during the Mercedes Benz NY Fashion Week, then in Los Angeles at LA Fashion Market in September.” Jomay Cao Clothing will appear in the WA Designer Runway #1 group runway show at the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2015.
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A FASHIONABLE DOZEN Whatever your budget, Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2015 is sure to have an event that will appeal. Here are a few fabulous suggestions to get your schedule started.
ENJOY ICONIC WORK Taking over the runway for the first time in WA will be stunningly talented designer Akira Isogawa. His work has inspired many over the years. An opportunity not to be missed.
ATTEND THE OPENING Looking for a beautiful celebration of creative fashion? Try a trio of contemporary Australian designers showcased by Dilettante boutique: 33 Poets, Tony Maticevski, and Yang Li.
APPRECIATE THE UP AND COMERS Your chance for a sneak peak at fashion’s rising stars. Future Runway presents the designs of talented students from unis and fashion institutes here in WA.
(Tuesday, September 15. Fashion Paramount presented by Alcohol. Think Again, Perth Concert Hall. $99+bf).
(Saturday, September 19. Fashion Paramount presented by Alcohol. Think Again, Perth Concert Hall. $69+bf.)
(Friday, September 18. Fashion Paramount presented by Alcohol. Think Again, Perth Concert Hall. $69+bf)
OPENING NIGHT: DILETTANTE
AKIRA ISOGAWA
FUTURE RUNWAY
GO FOR A WALK
LEARN SOME SKILLS
TAKE IN AN EXHIBITION
LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS
Retailers and WA artists have collaborated to produce shop window installations all over Perth. A stroll through the city, transformed by Windows Of The City: Food. Fashion. Art.
Paper. Pattern. Print. This event, presented by Propel Youth Arts WA, is exactly what it sounds like — get top tips on designing and printing patterns from expert, Emily Wills.
David Downton is the International Ambassador for Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2015. Fashion illustration fans will want to see his latest exhibition, Front Row With David Downton.
Learn about the international fashion scene. Forum speakers: Fashion Illustrator David Downton, Designer and Stylist, Phuong My, and Fashion Industry Strategist, Bradley Quinn.
(Currently on until Monday, September 14. Download TPFF App for map.)
(Saturday-Monday, September 5-7. Paper Mountain, Northbridge. $65, $55 for Propel members.)
(Monday, September 14, ‘til Monday, September 28. THERE IS... a gallery, Northbridge. Free entry.)
(Friday, September 18. THERE IS... a gallery, Northbridge. $24+bf.)
WINDOWS OF THE CITY
PAPER. PATTERN. PRINT.
FRONT ROW WITH DAVID DOWNTON
INTERNATIONAL PATHWAYS FORUM
IT’S A WRAP Join in on the closing party fun. Think burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese and celebrated iconic West Australian label Wheels and Dollbaby. Ooh la la! (Sunday, September 20. Ascot Racecourse. $99+bf.) CLOSING NIGHT, WHEELS AND DOLLBABY
CONSIDER DRESSING LOCAL
ENJOY OVERSEAS OUTPUT
BE DAZZLED
Presented by Singapore Airlines, Vietnamese designer Phuong My’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection, The Petals is blooming (excuse the pun) lovely and elegantly striking. ` (Friday, September 18. Fashion Paramount presented by Alcohol. Think Again, Perth Concert Hall. $69+bf.)
Fans of Kate Moss will want to catch the documentary, Looking For Kate, along with some champers and fashion from Carillon City inspired by Kate. (Wednesday, September 2. The Backlot Cinema, West Perth. $48.)
(Thursday, September 17. Fashion Paramount presented by Alcohol. Think Again, Perth Concert Hall. $69+bf.)
PHUONG MY’S SPRING/SUMMER 2015 COLLECTION, THE PETALS
LOOKING FOR KATE
JAMIE LEE, FASHION RUNWAY
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Jaime Lee creates wildly beautiful demi-couture designs. For Spring/Summer 2016, think Japanese theme parks. Includes collaboration with footwear designer, Dira Goody.
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Check out the latest work from some of Western Australia’s fashion talents at The WA Designer Runway #1 and the WA Designer Runway #2 group shows. (#1 Wednesday, September 16; #2 on Saturday, September 19. Fashion Paramount presented by Alcohol. Think Again, Perth Concert Hall. $69+bf for each event.) Make sure you check out the full program at telstraperthfashionfestival.com.au
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KINGS PARK FESTIVAL Park Life Aside from wildflowers galore, The Kings Park Festival boasts well-dressed trees (you read that correctly), a native plant sale, and live music including a Tired Lion set.
they’re holding Meet The Artist sessions with artists in residence Jessica Jubb and Emma Blyth. Make sure you take in the window art, too. And keep an eye out for umbrellas. Those with kids might like the Fantastic Faraway Festival on Saturday, September 12. Gold coin entry per child, with an Aussie outback theme, the event includes games, stalls with food, face painting; the list goes on. Keep in mind some activities have a fee. Green thumbs will get into the Friends of Kings Park Native Plant Sale during the long weekend, a great opportunity to pick up native specimens for your own backyard. (Over 14,000 plants will be on sale, so you won’t be lacking for choice.) If you’ve got questions, the Kings Park Volunteer Master Gardeners can offer advice. Speaking of gardening, Dig It With Coffee is on every Wednesday at 10am during the festival at Zamia Cafe in Synergy Parkland. For an hour you can get the lowdown on water-wise options for your garden and ask questions of the experts. Bookings are required (free event but for the purchase of a cup of coffee). Since this year marks the 50 year anniversary of the WA Botanic Garden, a “50” installation has been placed before the Pioneer Women’s Memorial on Forrest Drive. At nearly three metres high, it’s hard to miss. A heap of walks and talks are scattered throughout September. They’re free, but you have to book, so go to the festival website to save your spot. If you want to take in the wildflowers with someone knowledgeable, this is the way to go. A number of them are delivered in other languages, a great initiative. Go to bgpa.wa.gov.au/kings-park/ events/festival/festival-events or facebook.com/ KingsPark.WA.
On until the end of September, the festival schedule makes for a busy month. You can find out everything that’s happening online, so click on the schedule for specific times and details. To get you inspired, here are some options worth considering. Funky Trunks tree dressing is exactly what it sounds like: trees in the park (Fraser Avenue Precinct WA Botanic Garden) will be styled for the occasion, making for wildly weird visuals you don’t see every day. Speaking of things you don’t see every day, the Adorable Florables, King’s Parks wildflower characters, will be around now and again: expect arguing over who’s the coolest wildflower. Check the schedule for details. For the first two weekends of the festival there are Santos Live music events, including sets from Stratosfunk and Tired Lion (look up times and days online, there are a number of other musicians scheduled to play too). If the weather is fine, a picnic is an idea too. If you love to shop at the creative Mecca that is Aspects of King Park, you’ll be stoked to hear GILLIAN O’MEAGHER
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VISUAL ARTS Foreign Soil: John Curtin Gallery Multidisciplinary artist Thea Constantino takes an oblique look at the centenary of the Great War and the ANZAC cultural myth, examining migrant stories within the framework of Colonial and Imperial conflict. It runs until Sunday, September 6 - go to johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au for further details. They Dreamt Themselves A Garden: Gullotti Galleries This exhibition of paintings by Janine Daddo runs from Thursday, August 27, until Thursday, September 17, Head over to gulottigalleries.com.au for additional info. Sacred Geometry - The Art Of Mandala: Kidogo Art House Visual artist Renee Cappetta presents an exhibition of oil works. Cappetta creates circular, intricately detailed impressionistic patterns that tell an autobiographical tale. It runs from Sunday, September 4, until Friday, September 9. Go to kidogo.com.au for more info. Bloke: Paper Mountain Wade Taylor looks at the rituals and ceremonies associated with Australian masculinity in this exhibition of large oil paintings, small collage and ceramics. It runs from Friday, September 11, until Sunday, September 27. Go to papermountain.org.au for more. Futile Labor: John Curtin Gallery Ionat Zurr, Chris Salter and Oron Catts have created a multi-sensory art installation that explores the growing phenomenon of the manipulation and engineering of life. It’s on display from Friday, October 2, until Sunday, November 8. Go to johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au for more.
THEATRE/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE Ryan Corr in Holding The Man
RYAN CORR Holding The Man Actor Ryan Corr has been working in front of the camera since he was a child. He now brings that wealth of experience to the big screen adaptation of the classic Australian novel Holding The Man. X-Press managed to sit down for a chat about this timely and effecting film. T h e l e a d r o l e i n T i m o t h y C o n i g r av e ’ s autobiography was something Corr actively pursued, with good reason. “By the time it was a film script, I knew the power of this story. Seven years before that, when I first went to drama school (ironically, the same one Tim attended), the play was going on in Sydney. It started conversations with the teachers about HIV in the ‘80s and how different it was from now. It offered an insight into a world I was ignorant to. My sister had recently come out when the script came to be, and I wanted to be part of something that had this prolific impact.” The production went to great length to honour Tim and John’s story, seeking the family’s help in conveying the young men correctly. As word got out, many of those that knew the couple also became involved in the film, appearing in the background of many scenes as well as providing
anecdotes. For director Neil Armfield, writer Tommy Murphy, and both Corr and co-star Craig Stott, it became vital to do the tale justice. “Holding The Man is a story that transcends this individual relationship and speaks to a whole generation of people, and continues to today. It’s a reminder that quite recently AIDS was a very different thing than it is now, and that many young men were lost. It pays homage to that time and those lives.” Corr’s portrayal of Tim had a wealth of information to work with. “The first and foremost source was the book itself. If ever I wanted what was going on in Tim’s head, I would go to the book. I used it as a bible.” Recollections, writings, recordings and film footage, also helped shape the role, allowing Corr to get closer to his spirit. “It was representing someone’s real life force, rather than creating someone from the ground up. It became about honouring their memory.” The release of Holding The Man has had some serendipitous timing, with the debate for marriage equality again rising to prominence in the national consciousness. Corr recently issued a challenge to Tony Abbott to see the film. He has yet to hear anything in response. “The challenge is still out there, man. I think it is shameful. He could have been the Prime Minister to promote equality and allowing people to love who they choose to love, instead he has chosen the opposite way. Hopefully with two thirds of the Australian population in support, it is inevitable. Tim and John lived the debate that we are discussing now. I think it’s a blessing that their story can contribute to that national debate.” DAVID O’CONNELL
Two Bees: The Blue Room Theatre Bastard Theatre Company’s latest offering is an absurd, horror movie-inspired take on the problem of declining global bee populations. It runs from Tuesday, September 15, until Saturdayt, October 3. Hit up blueroom.org.au for tickets and session times. Extinction: State Theatre Centre Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Hannie Rayson’s environmental drama about a conservation biologist’s complicated relationship with the mining CEO funding her work. It runs from Saturday, September 19, until Sunday, October 4. Go to bsstc.com.au for tickets and session times. Back To The Future Live In Concert: Riverside Theatre The Western Australian Symphony Orchestra plays Alan Silvestri’s awesome score for the classic sci-fi comedy as the film plays on the big screen! It happens on Friday, November 14, and Saturday, November 15. Book via Ticketek. Stephen Fry - Telling Tales: Riverside Theatre Ac to r, s c re e nw r i te r, au t h o r, p l ay w r i g h t , journalist, poet, comedian, director and raconteur Stephen Fry does his thing on Tuesday, November 17, and wednesday, November 18. Book via Ticketek.
FESTIVALS Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2015 From Thursday, September 24, until Wednesday, Cinema Paradiso and Luna on SX play host to some of the best cinema that Italy has to offer. Opening night film God Willing, from director Edoardo Falcone, is a raucous comedy that shattered the Italian box office, while the rest of the festival includes such gems as The Dinner, Fracnisco Munzi’s Black Souls and Do You See Me? For tickets and session times, go to lunapalace.com.au.
Cirque Du Soleil - Totem: Belmont Racecourse The latest show from the renowned circus troupe traces the evolution of the human species from our distant amphibian state to our ultimate desire to fly, drawing inspiration from numerous creation myths along the way. It runs until Sunday, September 20. Go to cirquedusoleil.com/totem for full details. Latitudes: The Blue Room Theatre New Perth theatre company The Lost Boys present this weird, allegorical horror/fantasy, wherein three women find themselves stranded on a distant island that is beset by hungry, carnivorous water creatures. Written by Mark Walsh and directed by Mikala Westall, it runs until Saturday, September 5. Go to blueroom.org.au for tickets and session times. Between Solar Systems: The Blue Room Theatre In the depths of space, the last survivor of the human race grapples with his identity and sense of the world, his only companion his spaceship’s artificial intelligence. This allegorical science fiction story, written, produced and directed by Scott McArdle, runs from Tuesday, September 8, until Saturday, September 26. Go to blueroom.org.au for tickets and session times. Coppelia: His Majesty’s Theatre West Australian Ballet and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra come together to present this beloved ballet, originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Leon with music by Leo Delibes, this production shifts the setting of the venerable work to a small, ethnically German settlement in 1800s South Australia, where a young man falls in love with a clockwork girl created by the titular inventor. It runs from Friday, September 11, until Saturday, September 26. Book via Ticketek or waballet.com.au.
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THE GIFT Beware Of Geeks Bearing Gifts Directed by Joel Edgerton Starring Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton. For his feature film directorial debut, Joel Edgerton brings a tightly scripted psychological thriller to the screen. Professional couple Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) move from Chicago to suburban LA to pursue a lucrative career opportunity. When Simon runs into an old school acquaintance, Gordo (Joel Edgerton), a shadow from the past comes back to haunt them. At first they find gifts from Gordo, but when Simon rejects the friendship, the couple soon find themselves feeling besieged in their newly acquired home. As Robyn delves deeper into the past history of the two school friends, she finds that all may not be exactly as it seems. A movie like the architecture of its midcentury designed main location; minimalist, carefully constructed and breathtaking in its beauty. There is little waste about The Gift, everything neatly folds into the plot. Nor does it spoon-feed you information, but plays everything very close to the chest, dripfeeding the audience tantalising titbits as it goes. Our perspectives constantly shift as we find out more about the characters, slowly revealing more of what is going on, making us re-evaluate who is the actual villain of the piece. Strong characterisation,
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tight pacing, a constant sense of tension and a darkly twisted plot all add up to something stronger than merely the sum of its parts. Edgerton makes stunning use of the central location of the couple’s new home. With a careful eye for shot composition he alternatively uses the huge windows of the house to make us feel exposed, or the enclosed confines of the hallways to make our view seem claustrophobic and vulnerable. Although this compositional detail stretches throughout the film, it plays wonderfully where Simon and Robyn should feel at their most secure, but it is where they are besieged. This niggles at a primal fear core to us all of having our refuge torn from us and under threat, but it also touches on our paranoia and over reaction. It is a line Edgerton masterfully plays with, in a script he himself wrote. Yet it runs deeper than that. There is a logic at play here, twisted and demented though it may be. Each of the central characters have secrets. Each hides parts of their personality. All are guilty of something, leading to an awful internal consistency about the nature of revenge. As Gordo himself initially proclaims, he is an “eye for an eye” kind of guy. For the actors this means there is plenty of range to explore, as they reveal different facets of the characters. Bateman displays depth in depicting Simon’s duplicitous nature, Hall brings a brittle strength to Robyn, and Edgerton manages to put audiences on edge with the subtle creepiness of Gordo. Smart, tense, and beautiful to look at, this is definitely a Gift that keeps on giving. DAVID O’CONNELL
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Print The Legend Directed by F Gary Gray Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti Straight Outta Compton follows the growth of Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), Dr Dre (Corey Hawkins), Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr), DJ Yella and MC Ren into NWA. Along the way it explores the associations with gang and drug culture, the harsh attitude and behaviour of the LAPD, and the controversy caused by this early example of gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop. With fame and national exposure, tensions grow in the band, due to clashing personalities and a shady manager, Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti). As the band splinters, not only does this lead to a public (and lyrical) war of words, but also multiple creative endeavours that cement the place of West Coast hip hop in musical history. There is no doubt that Straight Outta Compton is pure myth making. It prints the legend, lionising NWA and missing out a couple of the grittier scandals surrounding the group (noticeably Dr Dre’s publicised assault against a female journalist Dee Barnes is missing – although Dre has since publicly apologised for the omission). It’s just that Straight Outta Compton does it so well. Given the sheer breadth of story here, with the amount that happens over the various decades told, you can’t entirely damn the film for picking and choosing its tale.
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It is easy to forget what a fertile cultural cache NWA grows into. Not just with their memorable capturing of the zeitgeist of communities disaffected by the confrontational stance of the LA police, Fuck The Police (a disaffection that swept the nation with the Rodney King trial, and exploded into rioting). NWA spread a culture of West Coast rap and various record labels, each with their own stable of greats and associated mythos. It is ridiculously rich ground for storytelling, and something we can only assume will be revisited many times over. So even as it starts out as a fairly standard, albeit well shot and acted music biopic, Straight Outta Compton soon outgrows this, becoming something richer. F Gary Gray perfectly captures the atmosphere - from a boarded-up crack house in Compton, to an amphitheatre on the verge of a riot. The cast of young actors also manages to recreate the attitude of the NWA crew. Although it must be said, O’Shea Jackson Jr has a distinct advantage in this regard, having had a lifetime to study his subject - Ice Cube, of course, being his father. Grand scale myth making about a band that was indicative of an age and the culture it grew out of. Straight Outta Compton might be a more traditional take on the music biopic than, say, this year’s imaginative Love And Mercy, but it achieves its goals with aplomb. Entertaining, spectacular, energetic, and with a hell of a soundtrack built into it. DAVID O’CONNELL
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HOLDING THE MAN Stand By Your Man Directed by Neil Armfield Starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Anthony LaPaglia. Based on the 1995 autobiography of actor and writer Timothy Conigrave, Holding The Man recounts the fifteen year relationship between him and his lover, John Caleo. As Tim (Ryan Corr) and John (Craig Stott) lock eyes across a football field, so begins a relationship that will define the rest of their lives. Struggling with attitudes to homosexuality, they must overcome the prejudice of their families and Australian society in the ‘70s in general. With the onset of the ‘80s attitudes and awareness change but a new threat emerges: a disease that is having a devastating effect on the gay community, AIDS. Holding The Man is a film where you spend the first half laughing and the second half in tears. Once you overcome the jarring casting of mid-twenties actors playing high school students, there is actually something sweet, comical, and utterly on point about the courtship of Tim and John. Even when it does explore teenage sexuality it often undercuts with elements of comedy (such as masturbating to the Cleo spread of the Doug Mulray Band), or by showing a loving tenderness to it. It is a gentle introduction to the characters and situation,
serving the film well, as that sense of charm and gentle comedy stays with the characters through the harsher elements of the tale. As the boys grow up and the shadow of AIDS and homophobia encroaches on their life, it could be very easy to be overwhelmed by tragedy. That initial comedic touch allows the audience to appreciate those bonding moments between Tim and John even through the background of clinics, hospital, and palliative care facilities. We are invested, and that balance of shade between the comedic and the dramatic, makes the end events all the more effecting. Ryan Corr and Craig Stott deserve the majority of the credit here. The natural yin and yang combination of the two has an effortless chemistry. Corr is dynamic and flamboyant, full of a manic energy. Stott is gentle and relaxed, but grounded in the real world. Both of them clearly demonstrate the love that the couple must have had for each other, embodying a heartfelt connection. Director Neil Armfield has brought a worthy iteration to the big screen. With a script by playwright Tommy Murphy, himself responsible for the 2007 stage version of the story, it pays appropriate homage to the novel while making it compatible with a film format. A timely movie given the national debate on marriage equality, Holding The Man is a worthy adaptation of what has become a classic Australian novel. Tender, funny, enlightening and tinged with sadness, it pays beautiful homage to the love of two individuals. DAVID O’CONNELL
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Go-Go-Global Global citizens OKA return our way to perform at Mojos on Wednesday, September 9; Indi Bar on Friday, September 11, Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, on Saturday, September 12, and the Railway Hotel on Sunday, September 13. BOB GORDON checks in with Stuart Fergie, AKA, DidgeriSTU. You’ve completed a tour on the US and Europe. What were the highlights of the trip and what stood out as experiences you perhaps hadn’t encountered on tour before? The beauty of North America is always breathtaking and the audiences are so hyped and welcoming, but it was our second time to tour Europe and this year we hit all new countries - Hungary, Austria, Spain, Croatia, Spain and France. The whole reception was crazy but our first gig was in Hungary at the Ozora Festival - one of the biggest electronic festivals in the world - and we had a three-encore performance. That was a major highlight along with playing some sun-drenched beach clubs in Spain right on the sand… it felt very at home. You’re a consummate touring band. Could you imagine it any other way? Music and touring is in our blood, we wouldn’t have it any other way. If you were more home-based, how do you think it would affect the music?
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We are global citizens and we try to have home-bases all round the world to keep and balance our families, who are a big inspiration for OKA music. Tell us about the forthcoming album, The Grassy Knoll. In what circumstances was it written and then recorded? It was written pretty much round the campfire at our home on the sunny coast and it’s heavily inspired by our family and friends and the time we hang together on The Grassy Knoll, which is a secret local point on the dunes of our local beach. It was mainly recorded with our brother Paulie B at The Tanuki Lounge recording studios in Brisbane, keeping the homegrown roots and vibes true. We have also gone back to our roots with some nice chilled tracks that have evolved from our yoga soundtracks we have been developing of late. Are all the songs fully road-tested already? Yeah, pretty much. We’ve been playing them on audiences in North America and Europe with great response, so we’re excited to bring them to WA which will be the true test. What are your hopes for the album and plans going into 2016? Well (takes deep breath) 2016 looks busy. Another radio EP with some cooking new OKA tracks and a lot of touring - India, US, Europe, NZ and here in OZ. We are so keen to continue sharing the new album and OKA vibes worldwide and introducing people to our ‘OKA Campouts’ which are a weekend of OKA concerts, culture and ceremony and yoga to a live OKA soundtrack. The journey continues...
Christmas parties are just around the corner. If you’re racking your brain for something unique and different they we have the answer for you – drinking beers while on a moving walkway in an acrylic tunnel, under three million litres of water , and surrounded by sharks, stingrays, turtles and hundreds of fish! Yes, AQWA can be booked as a functions venue after hours, so now is the time to start reliving those childhood memories with the added bonus of having the place to yourselves; a mouth-watering selection of modern Australian and traditional European cuisine to choose from, and a range of beverage packages that have been created to suit every occasion and offer exceptional value for money. Plus it’s not just sharks – the attached Function Centre is a sophisticated venue that enables you to enjoy spectacular Indian Ocean sunsets, then celebrate in modern, stylish surrounds. You can check it out for yourself at their upcoming functions expo on Wednesday, September 9, 6.30pm – 8pm, or email functions@ aqwa.com.au for more information.
Catch the race that stops the nation in fine seaside style this year. Matisse is pulling out all the stops. Enjoy a three hour canapé and beverage package with stunning views of the Indian Ocean, take in a summer preview fashion parade from some of Perth’s top designers, including Natalie Rolt, Jonte and Little Dove. Or you could indulge in a sumptuous three course sit-down lunch, or really spulrge with a VIP cabana booking for 10, complete with transport to and from Matisse in a Chrysler limo, courtesy of Bellagio Limousines. To peruse all your Melbourne Cup Day options, hit up matissebeachclub.com.au Matisse Beach Club
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OCEAN RIDE FOR MS Squeeze into your lycra and get out on the road for a good cause - The Ocean Ride For MS is back for another run! Over the six years of its existence, the Ocean Ride For MS has raised a staggering $1,224,651.75 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society Of Western Australia, and now you can help. Choose your distance, from the 10km family Scarborough to Hillarys leg, to the rather more daunting inaugural Enervit 90km challenge. More than 450 people have already registered for this year’s ride join them by heading to oceanrideforms.org,au
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SOUNDS IN THE VALLEY It’s Elmar’s In The Valley’s 10th anniversary and to celebrate, Sounds In The Valley is back for one very special night only. on Saturday, November 7. Daryl Braithwaite and Jon Stevens share headlining duties, supported by X-Factor finalist Dean Ray and likely locals The Frames. Braithwaite is reuniting with his old Sherbet sparring partner Tony Mitchell for the event, while Stevens will be revisiting his Noiseworks periods, so the nostalgia-rock will be strong. GA tickets are $73.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Daryl Braithwaite
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NATIONAL CAMPUS BANDS COMPETITION Such luminaries as Eskimo Joe, The Vines, Jebediah, Grinspoon and the Vasco Era all got their start by taking a run at the National Campus Bands competition - what hot new act is going to take out the top slot this year. Running for 24 years, the NCBC sees up to 400 bands from 40 tertiary institutions vie to be crowned the top uni band in the country. The second WA semi final, featuring Mung Dahl, The Drools, The Durongs, Young Robin and Sly Withers, takes place tonight, September 2, at the newly refurbished Bar Four5Nine, while the state final goes down The Rosemount Hotel at on Friday, September 11. For full details, head to aaca.net.au/ncbc Eskimo Joe
ARTY P’ARTY Imagine a combined cocktail party and art/ culture class - that’s the key conceit behind new venture Arty P’arty. It’s fun, flirty, off beat and educational. At the inaugural event, to be held at the Perth Town Hall on Wednesday, September 30, you can learn to draw a caricature with Sketch My Event’s Ricky Adams; pick up some tips on French Etiquette thanks to French Topics & Co; get some tips from Shoot Photography Workshops on mobile photography; learn hair floral design with Flowers Design School; try out Bachata Dance with Kevin & Camila; and see if you can get the knack of juggling with Circus WA. Entry gets you two free drinks, tapas, and unlimited access to all the mini-workshops, so book now via artyparty.com.au.
DEFEAT THE BEAT The City Of Joondalup’s Defeat The Beat competition is on! Taking place at Joondalup’s arcade Nightclub on Wednesday, October 7, the competition is open to groups or solo acts between the ages of 12 and 18, one of whom must reside in or attend an educational institution within the City. there’s a massive prize pool up for grabs, so head to y-lounge.com.au for to enter now. Previous winners Crank
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“I’m not sure if it was the songs that made her fall in love with me, or it was just the effort, you know what I mean? You could write terrible songs, but as long as you’re writing them to someone I think that’s what’s so appreciated, really.”
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Touring in support of his sixth album, Onward & Sideways, Joshua Radin heads to the Rosemount Hotel this Sunday, September 6. SHANE PINNEGAR reports. Most bands write love songs, but very few write songs that are literally love letters to woo someone, and then release them as an album. Meet Joshua Radin. “Well, I became a songwriter initially to express feelings for one particular girl that I was dating for about six years in New York City,” he says. “The relationship had gone awry, and I didn’t really know how to tell her, but somehow picking up the guitar and learning a few chords and using the guitar as a crutch, I guess made it a bit easier to be a bit more honest about my feelings. “Shortly thereafter we split up and I moved to LA. This most recent album Onward
& Sideways, that’s an album that I wrote for one particular woman who I’m with now, to try and get her to fall in love with me.” If that seems like some kind of muso superpower, it is – though Radin is quick to encourage us that anyone can do it. “I’m not sure if it was the songs that made her fall in love with me, or it was just the effort, you know what I mean? You could write terrible songs, but as long as you’re writing them to someone I think that’s what’s so appreciated, really.” The 41-year-old came to his musical career later than most, having worked as a painter and screenwriter for most of his adult life up until 10 years ago. “I always wanted to have some career that was focused on creativity and expression,” he explains, “and I never really saw myself working in an office - I’ve done those kind of jobs as day jobs just to support myself to pay the bills. When I started playing music 10 or 11 years ago, I very quickly found an audience for my music. In doing so, I was able to start paying the bills playing music pretty much right away. It was the first thing I did
creatively where the audience found me rather than the other way around - that’s very lucky. It’s been 10, 11 years since I haven’t had to have a day job, which is… you know, I can’t even express how lucky that feels!” Having released five albums in quick succession, Radin announced a year off, followed the girl of his dreams to Sweden and wooed her. A mere three months later he was back in the studio recording Onward & Sideways – but he adamantly declares he’s not a workaholic. “It’s like if you loved reading books and you end up getting a job that you’re a reader for a publishing house or something like that, then reading all these books really isn’t work. I’ve been in Stockholm all summer: my girlfriend is Swedish and she’s working here for the summer. People have been asking me, ‘what have you been doing, do you work here?’ I’m like ‘no, I haven’t been working’. Truth be told, I have been writing songs, so it is work - but it just doesn’t feel like it. I get up, I walk around, I go get coffee, I come up with lyrics in my head while I walk around. I go back home, I sit on the couch, I pick up the guitar. Just because I want to. Not
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because the feeling is obligation.” Radin explains that having written this series of love letters in song form and won the object of his affection over, it was far from a given that they would form his next album, rather than being kept as a personal, private thing between the two of them. Given his songs have ended up being used on US TV shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill and American Idol, it was likely they’d end up going rather public. “I figured I’d let her decide,” he admits. “They’re very personal. Luckily she said she wouldn’t mind if I recorded them and released them, so I did. “When I was writing them, I wasn’t sure. I felt like if they didn’t work - and I didn’t get the girl - that I don’t know if I’d release them because I’d probably feel insecure about them. And, if she didn’t like them, they weren’t that good. I felt like, ‘how could I make millions of people feel something from these songs if I couldn’t make one girl feel something?’”
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Who are your working with on this one? The lineup has changed quite a bit over the last few years, but I’ve only managed to just find a pretty consistent lineup in the last 6 or so months. We’ve got Ronan Chapple on keys, Royce Mack on drums, and a few lads from The Silent World with Jack McKenzie on bass and Jonathan McKay on guitar. I had worked quite extensively with a close friend of mine, Lukas Murphy (from Tracksuit), with some of the writing process as well, as he was great to bounce ideas off and help with any problems. Tell us about the EP. Well it’s pretty much a selection of tunes I wrote over the last year or so that I really just wanted to put together. I had recorded a few singles before, but decided to dive in and do more of a substantial release. It’s a weird one because each song is quite different to the last, I suppose a big reason for that is because the songs were written over a stretch of time. Because of that reason there’s no real overriding theme to the EP, each song was written with a different frame of mind and I think I prefer it that way. There’s both range of genre influences as well emotions, Normally seen out front of Mandurah asoride I hope it turns out to be an interesting listen. band The Cabarets, Harrison Read has a new project in the form of Where did you record? The EP was recorded at Debaser Studio Casinodreams. their self-titled debut with Andy Lawson apart from the drums, which EP launches at Jimmy’s Den on were recorded at Blackbird Studio, and one track was recorded at Electric City Studios. Andy Saturday, September 12, with support which has been great to work with, he’s a super talented from Indigo, Odlaw, Skygazer and guy with fantastic ideas. He’s the only producer Curtis McEntee, so it’s high time we I have really worked with but we’ve developed a really good relationship, which I find is really had a word. important. The EP was the first project Andy had recorded in his new studio out the back of his place in the hills which was a pretty fun experience, and What prompted a side project like Casinodreams? the location was perfect for being creative. I suppose it was more the realisation that the Cabarets were approaching a bit of a What’s up next for you? standstill as everyone was getting busy with The plan is to pretty much get back into other things. It was a pretty disappointing time as I wanted to keep going with music, so writing some new material and getting back into I just kept writing tunes at home. Essentially the studio ASAP. I’m also hoping we start getting Casinodreams just started as a bedroom project a little busier with the live shows as well, so we can because nothing else musically was really start getting more amongst it and have heaps of happening for me. fun with it.
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Monumental metalheads Tempest Rising unleash their new single, Know My Name, at Amplifier on Friday, September 11, with help from Pyromesh, This Other Eden, Let’s Kill Uncle and Nevsky Prospekt. Singer Vin Trikeriotis fills us in.
all my friends become parents and having those friends and even my own family openly judging me. I wanted people to understand that life isn’t just about following those who came before you but to carve out your own path into the unknown. The song is laden with chunky riffs, groovy patterns and showcases our style exactly, this and because we all love the song is why it became our first single. How would you compare it to your previous work? Our debut album took two years to come to fruition. The songs on ‘Transmutation’ are a testament to where we came from but our new material is more fine tuned and well crafted. The latest member to join Tempest Rising, Daniel [James, guitar] was the missing link and has taken our sound from Level: Garage to Level: Stadium.
How has the year been treating you so far? So far this year we have toured Australia on our debut album, Transmutation, nine shows across the east coast and two shows back home in Western Australia. The album was received extremely well and in its wake we have been hard at work creating album number two. We have just released our newest single, Know My Name, and have filmed a post-apocalyptic Mad Max style music video for it. We like to keep busy and productive so that we remain on top of our game. How did you come to write it? What made it stand out as a single? Know My Name is a song about the constant struggle one faces when chasing a dream that is not within the normal parameters of conventional social acceptance and never giving up that dream no matter how difficult it becomes to hold onto. I came up with the lyrics specific to my own struggle with being in a metal band while
Where did you record? Know My Name was engineered and mixed by Simon Mitchell (Chaos Divine) and mastered by Forrester Savell (Shihad). The recording process was extremely fun, as anyone who has been in a studio will know. Once you’ve played your song 100 plus times, being able to belt it out over and over again can be a smooth process. Simon was excellent, patient and understanding. I personally found his advice when recording my vocals to help me get the most out of what I was trying to achieve. What’s on the cards for the near future? We will be hitting the studio again, very soon! Recording album number two is our main goal, playing some epic shows in the process will also be on the table. Touring overseas is also something we want to do, the US or Europe is our next international destination. We have toured Japan in the past and that was amazing. It’s the touring life for us.
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TEIJ Boy Story Newly-minted Perth pop-rock act Teij launch their debut single, Tell The Boys, at Jimmy’s Den this Friday, September 4, with support from Oakland and These Winter Nights. We chat with lead singer Tahlia Beeson. So, who are Teij? Teij is a pretty new project. We were all sort of working on different things but had been talking about getting together for a long time. I had already been playing with Brett Walsh, who plays drums, then Tim Milroy got on board playing lead guitar. Soon after I started writing
with Matty Cammarano, who is on bass, and it all fell into place from there. Thomas Allison is our latest addition to the team, he plays keys and really completes the sound. What’s your sound? Think vocals that can’t quite shake the classical training that float over dirty bass lines and some pretty impressive lead guitar. We all come from really different musical backgrounds and so our influences hugely vary but somehow we mash all those different influences together and make it work. Where does the name Teij come from? I was playing solo under “Tahlia Jaye” before I teamed up with the boys, I wanted to keep some part of that when we moved into a band. Tahlia Jaye - TJ - Teij. Actually not quite sure how we got to it when it’s spelt out like that but that was the line of thinking. Tell us about Tell The Boys. Tell The Boys is our debut single and we think that it’s the perfect representation of our sound. It’s about unrequited lust and the lyrics are pretty cheeky, we are really proud of it! What’s your writing process like? I wouldn’t call it a “process” as such. Mostly I write the lyrics and take a melody to the boys, then I wave my arms around and try to explain how I want it to sound in gestures and the boys write their parts from there. They are all extremely talented so it works for us! Where did you record? We recorded at RADA studios with Matt Gio. The man is a genius. What’s up next for you? We will be releasing the next few singles over the coming months so stay tuned!
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04/09 The Dead White Males Struggle Video Launch 04/09 Dianas Self Titled Album Launch @ The Rosemount 04/09 The Witches Take Time Single Launch @ Jimmy’s Den 05/09 Puck Take The Day Single Launch @ The Boston 05/09 Teij Tell The Boys Single Launch @ Jimmy’s Den 11/09 Silver Foxes The Lost Cosmonauts EP Launch @ The Rosemount 11/09 Tempest Rising Know My Name Single Launch @ Amplifier 11/09 The Tommyhawks We’re All Meat And We’re Gonna Get Eat EP Launch @ The Velvet Lounge 12/09 Casinodreams Self Titled EP Launch @ Jimmy’s Den 16/09 Edde Self Titled EP Launch @ Jimmy’s Den 18/09 Intrusive Thoughts Self Titled Album Launch @ Babushka 19/09 The Disappointed Find A Rope Single Launch @ The Boston
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ROB SNARSKI Tracey Read The Astor Lounge Saturday, August 29, 2015 It’s a little bit like back to the future for Rob Snarski as he finds himself in Perth doing a set made up of mostly covers. This was, of course, the schtick of The Black Eyed Susans when they first stepped onto stages, but this time around it is as a result of the songs he recorded by request on his iPhone for Low Fidelity Volume 1. Before Snarski worked through some of the classics, Tracey Read made a rare appearance in solo mode. Read has spent the last few years fronting The Wine Dark Sea, but with band members’ travel plans getting in the way, hopefully we will see her solo act more regularly. When stripped back to it bare acoustic bones, Suitcase is a somewhat morbid story of Read’s parents leaving
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a copy of their will on the fridge whenever they go on holidays, only to tear it up on their return. The Border was also pulled out of The Wine Dark Sea catalogue, and had a Mojave 3 feel to it, before Read delved deep into her memory to bring out songs from her solo days. All The Wrong Shoes hit the spot and Read’s childlike innocence and elementary guitar made for a simple and enjoyable start to the night. In the past 18 months, Rob Snarski has been releasing albums outside of The Black Eyed Susans and is in the form of his life. He is touring more than ever and has a bunch of songs that are the best of his many decades in the business. The focus for this night was to show of his skills as an interpreter of song with good help from master guitarist Shane O’Mara. The night kicked off with one of the finest tunes of all, Tiny Dancer that had O’Mara seated with acoustic guitar whilst Snarski let his immaculate tones do their work. It was an eclectic mix of songs that went from the classics to the more obscure. The Fred Neil tune Dolphins that had been a hit for Tim Buckley was given some atmospheric guitar, before Snarski tackled his ‘wordy’ brothers tune The Flood Johanna. Things turned a little awkward during Babies where the 50 year old man was singing about teenage sexual urges, made all the more incongruent with Snarski sporting a handlebar moustache that is somewhere between Chopper Read and Glenn Martin Hughes. Tunes from Wounded Bird were then given a brief airing starting with Lay Of The Land, which Snarski refers to as the most expensive video to only ever be played on Rage once. Tender Like A Bruise and Temperature’s Rising show their pedigree, but it is O’Mara channeling every spaghetti western he has ever seen during his guitar work on The Black Caress that made it a highlight of the evening. Country artists such as Merle Haggard and Glenn Campbell were mined during the latter part of the set, but it was Graciously by Edwyn Collins that was the finest moment of this period. Maybe it was played with more gusto as it is the only tune on Low Fidelity that was requested by a Perth resident, but most likely it is that Snarski is armed with a voice that can do no wrong. The next trip to Perth by Snarski is supposedly with The Black Eyed Susans on the completion of their new album, but the affable singer has set the bar high with his recent solo outings. CHRIS HAVERCROFT
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DATURA4 Maverick/The Volcanics Mojos Bar Saturday, August 29, 2015 While Dom Mariani is rightfully hailed as the paisleyguitar-pop guru at home and indeed around the world, the man has always had many more strings to his numerous guitars. With guitarist, Greg Hitchcock, he played in the pre-Stems band, The Go-Starts, back in 1983, but some three decades later, the pair have teamed to engineer the powerful musical force that is Datura4. Their album, Demon Blues, has been a while coming, but when assured players (also featuring bassist Stu Loasby and drummer, Warren Hall) allow things to simmer for a while, the results are even better than predicted, both on record and on the stage. It was already a packed house when Maverick took the stage. The name implies well, all sort of things, but the band itself was more than worthy of opening this cutting line-up. With a howling Craig Jovanovic on a Gibson Firebird and his foil, Mark De Vattimo on an Ibanez Destroyer, their personal guitar-playing tastes could be misconstrued right there, but what proceeded was tough, blues rock with a rhythm section groove that was both compelling and confronting, and one that would sit very nicely with all sorts of line-ups at all manner of venues. Describing The Volcanics as ‘consummate’ would suggest some kind of polish that they neither
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possess or aspire to achieve. It’s just so damn real and it always has been, but the addition of second guitarist Jesse Kuillotine brings a new edge to the engine room. Vocalist, John Phatorous, loses himself in the material, sometimes in a standstill trance, then in a wail of arms and knees as he conducts not so much the band but the emotional power within. With a new album out soon and a European tour coming up, The Volcanics have only more rock’n’roll to give. When Datura4 hit the stage there’d already been some kerfuffle at the front, between some young blonde surfer dudes and group of middle(ish)-aged ladies. They both wanted to have a good time on their own terms, and each other’s terms didn’t exactly meet in the middle. The band played on, its heavy blues commanding attention but the physicality at the front began to take away from everyone else’s good time, a fact remarked upon by both Mariani and Hitchcock. Fingers were pointed but both the roller derby girls and the surfers were in the wrong and people just have to learn how to go with the flow at the gig they are at. That said Datura4 played brilliantly. Tough stoner riffs, desert highway licks and wonderful guitarmonies by Mariani and Hitchcock spoke of an understanding of music that only a lifetime of playing it - often together - will bring. It was transfixing and it took you into dazed and confused temptations before the drums brought you back to the moment (and your drink). Lots of acclaim has greeted Demon Blues around the world and rightly so. Sometimes the world’s best are playing in your local. And they’re local. BOB GORDON
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HIATUS KAIYOTE JAALA/Koi Child Friday, August 28, 2015 One of the drawbacks of the Perth music scene is the lack of mid-sized venues. Sometimes you get acts that are popular enough to fill a band room but don’t quite have the pull to fill a venue like Metro’s. Hiatus Kaiyote seems to fall into this space. With the Rosemount quickly selling to capacity at their initial Saturday night show, a second show was quickly offered which proceeded to sell out as well. On this night, Koi Child quickly took to the stage to an already half-filled room, the sevenpiece hip hop/nu-jazz collective not wasting any time getting the crowd dancing. MC Shannon Cruz Patterson has a rapid-fire flow, which he delivered with a singer’s knowledge of rhythm and harmony. This is complemented by the rest of the band, which provided a soulful stage for his multisyllabic rhymes. They’re a band that always seems to be having fun and that positive vibe is radiated and amplified by the audience.
Melbourne indie/art-pop four piece JAALA were up next, led by Cosima Jaala, whose vocal range varied from soft and almost child-like to powerful screams. This is a band that made use of dark and shade, soft and loud to paint stories of love, loss and vulnerability. Although they did seem a strange support act for this show playing as they did a much more down-tempo set, it closed with the entire crowd singing Happy Birthday to Cosima and the delivery of a bouquet of balloons. Finally it was the Rosemount Hotel’s turn to host an act that, in the last year, has played shows as varied as South By Southwest, Montreux Jazz Festival and Glastonbury. This is a band on a meteoric rise, having already receiving a Grammy nomination. Despite all these accolades, this reviewer was truly disappointed by the show. This is obviously a talented band; it just seemed that the separate parts didn’t form a cohesive whole. It’s possible the underlying cause was poor mixing or acoustics on the part of the venue. The sound just didn’t have the same impact as their albums promise. This, coupled with a very standoffish performance with little crowd interaction, made for a disappointing headliner. Hopefully this was just an off night and those attending the second show on Saturday evening got a different experience. SEAN DRILL
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TOURS THIS FORTNIGHT THE STORY SO FAR with MAN OVERBOARD 2 Amplifier 3 YMCA HQ ARJ BARKER 3 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 4 Albany Entertainment Centre 5 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre MEG MAC 4 The Odd Fellow 5 Capitol CARAVANA SUN 4 & 5 Diver’s Tavern THE JUNGLE GIANTS 4 Metropolis Fremantle 5 Prince of Wales 6 YMCA HQ JAMES REYNE 5 Astor Theatre SPECTRASOUL 5 Rosemount Hotel PERCH CREEK 5 & 6 Mojos Bar SEPTEMBER 2015 BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS 9 Regal Theatre TYLER OAKLEY 9 Perth Concert Hall TONI BRAXTON 9 HBF Stadium CARAVANA SUN 11 Boston Brewery 12 Northshore Tavern GANG OF YOUTHS 11 Prince of Wales 12 Capitol 13 Newport Hotel SCOTT BRADLEE & POSTMODERN JUKEBOX 11 Astor Theatre JULIA MORRIS 11 Regal Theatre ROY ORBISON & THE EVERLY BROTHERS 12 Crown Theatre THE RUBENS 16 Prince of Wales 17 Settlers Tavern 18 Astor Theatre THE SMITH STREET BAND 18 Metropolis Fremantle OH MERCY 18 Mojos Bar TUMBLEWEED 18 Rosemount Hotel SAFIA 19 & 21 Amplifier 20 Mojos ROTTOFEST 2015 ft. ART VS SCIENCE, JACKIE ONASSIS, COIN BANKS, LILT & more 19 Rottnest Island
TKAY MAIDZA 19 Capitol AS IT IS 22 YMCA HQ XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS 23 Goldfields Arts Centre 24 Esperance Civic Centre 25 Albany Entertainment Centre 26 Belvoir Amphitheatre 27 Three Oceans Winery, Margaret River SLEEPING WITH SIRENS 24 Astor Theatre THE TEN SOPRANOS 25 Astor Theatre CELTIC WOMAN 25 Perth Arena BAHAMAS 25 Mojos 26 Wave Rock Weekender BRITISH INDIA 26 Capitol LISTEN OUT 2015 ft. CHILDISH GAMBINO, JOEY BADA$$, ALISON WONDERLAND, ODESZA, HAYDEN JAMES, CLIENT LIAISON & many more 27 Ozone Reserve BEHEMOTH 29 Capitol JOAN BAEZ 30 Perth Concert Hall CODE ORANGE 30 Amplifier OCTOBER 2015 PENNYWISE with ANTI-FLAG 1 Metropolis Fremantle TIGERLILY 1 HBF Stadium WIZ KHALIFA 2 Red Hill Auditorium BURIED IN VERONA 3 Amplifier KISS 3 Perth Arena TONY MCALPINE 3 John Inverarity Music & Drama Centre NEEL KOLHATKAR 3 Astor Lounge MONTAIGNE 3 Jimmy’s Den 4 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre I KNOW LEOPARD 4 Margaret River Cultural Centre 8 Matt Dann Theatre & Cinema 10 Geraldton Foreshore SICK OF IT ALL 6 Amplifier JOHN MCLAUGHLIN 6 Perth Concert Hall
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ROBBIE WILLIAMS 9 & 10 Perth Arena CONRAD SEWELL 10 & 11 Jimmy’s Den LIFEHOUSE 11 Metro City LEE KERNAGHAN 13 Albany Entertainment Centre 14 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre THY ART IS MURDER 14 Amplifier LAURA MARLING 16 Astor Theatre MEGADETH 16 Red Hill Auditorium THE PAPER KITES 16 Amplifier BEN LEE 17 Astor Theatre RUFUS 17 Fremantle Arts Centre GLENN RICHARDS 18 Fremantle Arts Centre TESSERACT 18 Amplifier HELLOWEEN 20 Capitol SNOT 21 Amplifier EARTHLESS & ELDER 22 Rosemount Hotel TIJUANA CARTEL 22 Mojos 23 Clancy’s Dunsborough 24 Rosemount Hotel ARJ BARKER 27 – 31 Regal Theatre AT THE GATES 28 Amplifier 10CC 28 Astor Theatre HOZIER 28 Belvoir Amphitheatre AT THE GATES 28 Amplifier SAN CISCO 29 ArtBar FLEETWOOD MAC with ANGUS & JULIA STONE 30 Domain Stadium DROWNING HORSE 30 Rosemount Hotel ROCKWIZ LIVE! 31 Riverside Theatre THE RIPTIDE MOVEMENT 31 Astor Theatre BAD DREEMS 31 Amplifier NOVEMBER 2015 ANATHEMA 1 Rosemount Hotel NORTHLANE 4 Metropolis Fremantle NAUGHTY BY NATURE 5 Astor Theatre FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 7 Perth Arena
PETE MURRAY 7 Fremantle Arts Centre RUBBERBANDITS 7 Capitol MARLON WILLIAMS & THE YARRA BENDERS 7 Fly By Night THE RUTS 12 Rosemount Hotel CW STONEKING 12 Settlers Tavern 13 Prince of Wales 14 Fremantle Arts Centre RUSSELL MORRIS 13 Charles Hotel TUKA 13 Amplifier 14 Mojos Bar COLD CHISEL with THE LIVING END 14 Perth Arena TAME IMPALA 14 Belvoir Amphitheatre THIRSTY MERC 14 Charles Hotel 14 Ravenswood Hotel NEIL DIAMOND 14 Sandalford Estate 16 Perth Arena STEPHEN FRY 17 & 18 Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre ODDISEE 20 Mojos Bar DEF LEPPARD with BABY ANIMALS & LIVE 21 Red Hill Auditorium THE BEACH BOYS 21 Kings Park THE GETAWAY PLAN 21 Mojos Bar NILE with UNEARTH, FEED HER TO THE SHARKS & WHORETOPSY 22 Capitol JAMES REYNE 22 Kings Park NERDLINGER 27 Amplifier 28 Camel Bar 29 Four5Nine Bar AC/DC 27 & 29 Domain Stadium UB40 28 Metropolis Fremantle SAM SMITH 28 Perth Arena DECEMBER 2015 RUDIMENTAL 1 Metro City ED SHEERAN 2 NIB Stadium THE SCREAMING JETS 3 Prince of Wales 4 Settlers Tavern 5 Charles Hotel 6 Ravenswood Hotel CHRIS CORNELL 8 & 9 Perth Concert Hall TIM & ERIC 8 Astor Theatre YELAWOLF 11 Villa LUCINDA WILLIAMS with DAN SULTAN 13 Kings Park & Botanic Garden MISFITS 13 Rosemount Hotel THE AMITY AFFLICTION & A DAY TO REMEMBER 14 Perth Arena THE EXPLOITED 14 Capitol JANUARY 2016 ICEHOUSE 8 Castelli Estate, Denmark 10 Hotel Rottnest SOUTHBOUND ft. ALPINE, BIRDS OF TOKYO, BLOC PARTY. GARY CLARK JR., HILLTOP HOODS, JARRYD JAMES, SETH SENTRY, MEG MAC & more 8 – 10 Sir Stewart Bovell Park NIGHTWISH 15 Metropolis Fremantle THE 1975 23 HBF Stadium JAMES BAY 30 Fremantle Arts Centre FEBRUARY 2016 NICK OFFERMAN & MEGAN MULLALLY 2 Astor Theatre SOILWORK 2 Rosemount Hotel KEVIN HART 3 Perth Arena MARCH 2016 DAWN FRENCH 1 & 2 Riverside Theatre APRIL 2016 THE STRANGLERS 23 Metropolis Fremantle
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W E E K LY WEDNESDAY 2/09 AMBAR CACTUS vs. EMAS AMPLIFIER The Story So Far Man Overboard Relentless THE BIRD Shake ft. Jack Dutrac Seventh Son BRASS MONKEY Trump’d ft. DJ Grizzly DJ Lab Rat CHOO CHOO’S SMALL BAR Unamped Sessions CIVIC HOTEL Open Mic Night CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Songwriter’s Night CLANCY’S CITY BEACH Commander Cody’s Seaside Quiz ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB WA Youth Jazz Orchestra with Ed Partyka Night Cap Sessions THE FLYING SCOTSMAN Sound Tracks HULA BULA Island Nite INDI BAR Club Acoustica JIMMY’S DEN Jimmy’s Den Famous House Band LANEWAY LOUNGE Wedding Band METROPOLIS FREMANTLE NextGen — Bass Blowout MOJOS BAR The Klatsch ft. Buzz Aldrin & The Second Best Alvis Kills Blood Groove Emu Xperts Kings of the Travellers THE MOON CAFÉ Simon Bazeley MUSTANG BAR Wild Wednesday ft. Madam Montage DJ Giles NATIONAL HOTEL Comedy Night NEWPORT HOTEL Full Moon Party ft. WILLCO REGAL THEATRE Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL National Campus Band Competition Semi Final #2 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Rock n Roll Karaoke with Magnus Danger Magnus ROSEMOUNT HOTEL (BEER GARDEN) Student Night ft. Anton Maz X-WRAY CAFÉ Pool Boy Sam Atken THURSDAY 3/09 AMPLIFIER Last Night — Arcade Mania ft. Finders West End Riot Moments ARCADE NIGHTCLUB Lowpitch THE BIRD Usurper of Modern Medicine Yokohomos Verge Collection Delay Delay THE BOSTON Joe Mande BRASS MONKEY Open Deck Nights CLANCY’S FREMANTLE The Rupert Guenther Band & guests CONNECTIONS Bingay hosted by Veronica Jean Jones DEFECTORS BAR Songwriters Club ft. Wayward Johnson Greg Dear Dun Durack (Tenderhooks) Nick Sheppard DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Open Mic Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB WA Youth Jazz Orchestra with Ed Partyka Night Cap Sessions FLY TRAP Stage Fright Open Mic HULA BULA Rhum Club INDI BAR Open Mic LLAMA BAR BUMP MOJOS BAR Apollo’s Son Chief Monarchy Late Night Hysterics
Lochlan Lowrie (solo) Timothy Gordon Fuzz Toads Pool Boy Eteana MUSTANG BAR Thumpin’ Thursday ft. Frenzy DJ James Mac NEWPORT HOTEL Newport Record Club – The Rolling Stones ft. The Dead Flowers REGAL THEATRE Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL National Campus Band Competition Semi Final #3 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL 10 Year Anniversary of ‘Commit This To Memory’ ft. Motion City Soundtrack Roswell SAIL & ANCHOR Open Mic Comedy Night SWALLOW BAR Shotdown II UNIVERSAL BAR Off The Record THE VELVET LOUNGE Doctopus Shit Narnia BIG JESUS X-WRAY CAFÉ Same Old Song/No Shit Ones YMCA HQ The Story So Far Man Overboard Relentless FRIDAY 4/09 AMBAR MONARCH ft. Iridescent Tempoment Shock & Awe Jordan Scott Teflon b2b Tim Bates Eighty4 AMPLIFIER Havoc (EP Launch) Cupid Falls This Existence Sanctions Patient Sixty Seven ASTOR LOUNGE Supergrass Album Tribute Night ft. The Mansize Roosters THE AVIARY Paradise Paul Samuel Spencer Rob Homer BABUSHKA Apollo’s Son Kashikoi Psychedelic Porn Crumpets The Chlorines Delay Delay moistoyster Hip Priest A’tuin THE BIRD Rhythm Section ft. Bradley Zero Al Dobson Jr. Prequel THE BOSTON Odlaw Graphic Characters Dead End Brawler Filthy Apes TBC BRASS MONKEY Acoustic on the Balcony ft. Terry Clarke CIVIC HOTEL The Ritual Aura Advents Sorrow DFC Grotesque Suffer in Rot CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE DJ Boogie CLUB KAHUNA GT Fridays THE COURT COSPLAY DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Brayden Sibbald ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Ruby & the Remedy The Villains EVE Candy Fridays THE FLYING SCOTSMAN Nuf Sed ft. Dave Samuel Ryzer DJ Az-T Sander D. THE GAME SPORTS BAR PIXELS Arcade Party GEISHA Carousel ft. Katy P. Chiari Richie G. Nishmann Henton GINGER NIGHTCLUB Mondo Fridays GOLD BAR Fox Fridays THE GOOD SHEPHERD THROWBACK ft. HWY PTRL
Nate Whisky Klean Kicks GOSNELLS HOTEL Bon Jovi & Def Leppard Tribute Night ft. Slippery When Wet Hysteria HERDSMAN LAKE TAVERN The Second Alternation Reapers Riddle DIGITAL ORDER Cloak & Dagger HULA BULA Friday Frendzee Shellac Shack INDI BAR Katie J. White JACK RABBIT SLIM’S CIRCO Sessions ft. Jinja Safari Edie Green Iceage Sugar JIMMY’S DEN The Witches (Single Launch) High Horse Flooded Palace Meraki LLAMA BAR Honey METRO CITY Wilkinson Brookes Brothers Ekko & Sidetrack Eyesdown Spillage & Dealt Fairly Temple METROPOLIS FREMANTLE The Jungle Giants Art of Sleeping Hockey Dad MOJOS BAR Fisherman Style ft. DJ KS BLACKNIGHT Rasta Fyah Killa Elite Earthlink Sound Sheriff Lindo KritiCal Faada Drummie MUSTANG BAR Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys Swing DJ Flash Nat & The Action Men NEWPORT HOTEL Live Band Karaoke NORTH FREMANTLE BOWLING CLUB Mooj Weem Dave Pensabene DJ Basschild THE ODD FELLOW Meg Mac PRINCE OF WALES Super Best Friends Puck RAILWAY HOTEL Spoonbill (Album Launch) Blobbo REGAL THEATRE Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Bass Ingredient ft. KT Kinga Signal Fire B-Jammun Shardz Ignite DJ Jools ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Dianas (LP Launch) Sex Panther HAMJAM HUSSY Catlips SETTLERS TAVERN The High Learys Buddy Phoenix SWAN BASEMENT Ku Kraft & guests SWAN LOUNGE The Dead White Males (Video Launch) Bluntfield The Shallows Iron Cypher UNIVERSAL BAR Nightmoves X-WRAY CAFÉ AJ Wigwams SATURDAY 5/09 AMANI BAR EMBASSY AMBAR Japan 4 ft. signal:noize Invoker Mo’Fly DNGRFLD Blend AMPLIFIER Slouch Dayze Underground Aborted Tortoise Dream Rimmy Southern River Band Jacob Diamond JCALXPHO ASTOR THEATRE James Reyne Ollie Brown THE AVIARY B Fix Samuel Spencer THE BIRD Sight of Sound Zine Launch ft. Mt. Mountain
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DIANAS, FRIDAY 4 The Pissedcolas MUDLARK THE BOSTON Super Best Friends Puck Flowermouth CAPITOL Meg Mac CIVIC HOTEL 5 Hungry Infidels CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Nicky Sandover Band Monroe Chris Ravat Jacquie Spiller CONSERVATORY ROOFTOP BAR Deepsoundz Eric N. KTP David Atkins DIVERS TAVERN Caravana Sun ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Beckon The Flow Cartel Ray Barreto & The Fania All Stars Tribute ft. Orquestra Yambeque FLY BY NIGHT Miss Burlesque Semi-Final FLYRITE Father FRAYED Frayed GEISHA Set Mo Green George Ace Basik SnB GILKISONS DANCE STUDIO VICES — Science ft. Chang Yon Jovi Grecia Del Promo Scott D GOLD BAR Pure Gold THE GOOD SHEPHERD Chocolate Jesus HERDSMAN LAKE TAVERN Fleetwood Rack HULA BULA Sailor Saturdays INDI BAR Matt Gresham JACK RABBIT SLIM’S Mathas (Album Preview) & guests JIMMY’S DEN TEIJ (Single Launch) Oakland These Winter Nights KINGS PARK Stratosfunk 2Che Summer Soul THE LIBRARY Twist ft. Unkempt Dance LLAMA BAR TILT METROPOLIS FREMANTLE Metropolis Saturdays MOJOS BAR Perch Creek CHINA DOLL Teischa THE MONASTERY Remixed MUSTANG BAR Peta Lee & The Deacons DJ Holly Doll Milhouse PRINCE OF WALES The Jungle Giants Art of Sleeping Hockey Dad REGAL THEATRE Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Search for Australia’s Next Slam Champ! Nimrod Lionizer Hope Street Sleepy Jackal ROSEMOUNT HOTEL SpectraSoul (UK) PATCH FINNA SPHERE CMB IGNITE MC S.I. ROSEMOUNT HOTEL (BEER GARDEN) DJ Sandy DJ Johnny Ajax SETTLERS TAVERN The Katie J. White Band SKYE BAR HUGE SWALLOW BAR Razor Jack SWAN BASEMENT Scyatic Renegade Girl Chuck Hombre SWAN LOUNGE You Beauty Tunes ft. Opus Gone By Morning Treestump Almighty The Kramers UNIVERSAL BAR Soul Corporation THE VELVET LOUNGE King Zog Thyrd Pseich The I’s VILLA Ministry of Sound —
Sessions Twelve ft. TENZIN Dave Winnel THE WOODVALE Michael Jackson Tribute ft. JA SUNDAY 6/09 BRASS MONKEY Sunday Sessions CLANCY’S CITY BEACH Limelights Jazz CONSERVATORY ROOFTOP BAR Wankelmut DEFECTORS BAR Open Sesame — Open Mic Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Neil Everett Danny Moss Jr. Trio FLYRITE MVMNT ft. The Shadow Brothers Marks & Oz NishDemeanour Baux Davros HULA BULA Tropical Sundaze INDI BAR Brazilian Independence Day ft. Sambalicious KINGS PARK Cathrine Summers Trisk Junkadelic MOJOS BAR Perch Creek CHINA DOLL Teischa NEWPORT HOTEL Super Best Friends Scalphunter (Single Launch) Yokohomos NORFOLK HOTEL Steamboat Sundays NORTH FREMANTLE BOWLING CLUB Open Mic PERTH CONCERT HALL World Vision presents Naturally 7 REGAL THEATRE Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Death Cab for Comedy ft. Ben Mulvey Colin Ebsworth Nick Maro Tor Snyder Andrew Portelli & more ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Joshua Radin David Lazarus ROSEMOUNT HOTEL (BEER GARDEN) Get Down ft. Aslan Klean Kicks Pawel Good Company DJs Sleepyhead Beni Chill Jo Lettenmaier Tim King SETTLERS TAVERN Sunday Session ft. Crooked Brook SKYE BAR Hailmary SWALLOW BAR Jessie Gordon Duo SWAN LOUNGE The Lucys UNIVERSAL BAR Retriofit THE VELVET LOUNGE The Odd Squad ft. Cash Krzma The Sophists SOMA Bird Brains Nathan J. DJ Silence X-WRAY CAFÉ Waterborne YMCA HQ The Jungle Giants Art of Sleeping Hockey Dad MONDAY 7/09 BRASS MONKEY Monday Madness CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Scotty’s Quiz Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB John Septimus Roe Jazz THE FLYING SCOTSMAN Infinite Jest MOJOS BAR Wide Open Mic ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Comedy Trivia TUESDAY 8/09 BRASS MONKEY Acoustic Open Mic CLANCY’S CITY BEACH From the Sea CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Quiz Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Adrian Kelly HERDSMAN LAKE TAVERN The One Thing Music Quiz MOJOS BAR Mojos Monthly Comedy –
Vulture Culture ft. Michael Bowley Lukey Bolland Craig Quartermaine Mitchell J. Tinley NATIONAL HOTEL Open Mic Night NEWPORT HOTEL Quiz Show PERTH BLUES CLUB Wayne Green’s Ragged Company Siren & Assassin Pig Jam ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Bex & Turin’s Open Mic Night TORCH BAR Quiz Meisters X-WRAY CAFÉ Racoo Charles & the Moke Folk Mai Cinq Puppet WEDNESDAY 9/09 AMBAR CACTUS WEDNESDAYS ASTOR THEATRE 80’s Mania ft. Paul Young Nik Kershaw Go West Cutting Crew THE BIRD Leftover Lovers Vol. 4 ft. Childsaint The Spunloves Moistoyster BRASS MONKEY Trump’d ft. DJ Grizzly DJ Lab Rat CHOO CHOO’S SMALL BAR Unamped Sessions CIVIC HOTEL Open Mic Night CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Songwriter’s Night CLANCY’S CITY BEACH Commander Cody’s Seaside Quiz THE FLYING SCOTSMAN Sound Tracks HBF STADIUM Toni Braxton HULA BULA Island Nite INDI BAR Club Acoustica JIMMY’S DEN Jimmy’s Den World Famous House Band METROPOLIS FREMANTLE NextGen MOJOS BAR OKA & more MUSTANG BAR Wild Wednesday ft. Madam Montage DJ Giles NATIONAL HOTEL Comedy Night NEWPORT HOTEL Newport Wednesdays PERTH CONCERT HALL Tyler Oakley REGAL THEATRE Blood, Sweat & Tears 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL King of the Travellers Buzz Aldrin & The Second Best Nectar & more ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Rock n Roll Karaoke with MC Famous Sharron ROSEMOUNT HOTEL (BEER GARDEN) Student Night ft. DJ Anton Maz UNIVERSAL BAR Mint Jazz Band X-WRAY CAFÉ Wu-Yong the Wizard THURSDAY 10/09 AMPLIFIER Last Night — 1st Birthday Party ft. I, Said The Sparrow Japanese Tongue Sisters At The Space Jam ARCADE NIGHTCLUB Lowpitch THE BIRD Hip Hop Kara”Yo!”Ke BRASS MONKEY Open Deck Nights CLANCY’S FREMANTLE The Milkmen Michael Triscari Ciara Andrea Craig DEFECTORS BAR Songwriters Club ft. Sully Ryan Carson Death & a Cure James Bradbury DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Open Mic Night FLY TRAP Stage Fright Open Mic GOLDFIELDS ARTS CENTRE The Waifs Sal Kimber HULA BULA Rhum Club INDI BAR Open Mic LLAMA BAR
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BUMP MOJOS BAR Love Fest #3 ft. SpaceManAntics The Wheelers of Oz The Spunloves & more MUSTANG BAR Thumpin’ Thursday ft. Frenzy DJ James Mac NEWPORT HOTEL Newport Record Club – AC/DC ft. Custom Royal PRINCE OF WALES Kid Radio 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Lumberjerks Emu Xperts The Insinnerators The I’s Dennis Commetti ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Ash Grunwald (Single Launch) Morgan Bain SAIL & ANCHOR Open Mic Comedy Night SETTLERS TAVERN Comedy at Settlers SWALLOW BAR Jessie Gordon Duo UNIVERSAL BAR Off The Record VELVET LOUNGE Doctopus MUGWUMP The Loose Hounds X-WRAY CAFÉ Ricky Ponting & the Gentleman’s XI FRIDAY 11/09 AMBAR HILINE 004 AMPLIFIER Tempest Rising (Single Launch) Pyromesh This Other Eden Let’s Kill Uncle Nevsky Prospekt ASTOR THEATRE Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox THE BIRD Grace Barbe BRASS MONKEY Acoustic on the Balcony CAPITOL CLIQUE CIVIC HOTEL Into the Darkness Peasant Tears for Atlantis Kripke’s Illusion Souls of Ghouls Enemy Minds CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE DJ Boogie CLUB KAHUNA GT Fridays CONNECTIONS based camp ft. Sherry Bomb Hamjam DJs Andrew Sinclair Ben Taaffe Aslan ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Grace Knight ESPLANADE HOTEL DJ Paul V. EVE Candy Fridays THE GAME SPORTS BAR RVLTN 002 GEISHA Rough Love 2nd Birthday ft. The Shadow Brothers Craig Hollywood b2b Allstate Ace Basik b2b Paul Scott Luke P. b2b Rob Sharp GINGER NIGHTCLUB Mondo Fridays GOLD BAR Fox Fridays HULA BULA Friday Frendzee INDI BAR OKA THE LIBRARY SNEAKY LITTLE WING CORNER GALLERY Photo Bomb Live Exhibition #7 ft. The Weapon is Sound Dougal’s Casino Ludodowwn LLAMA BAR Honey — Harlem Nights LOBBY LOUNGE Decoy Duo METROPOLIS FREMANTE CARTEL Launch Night MOJOS BAR Hussle Jussle ft. S.O.X. (Single Launch) Chu Macshane ft. Beckon & more MUSTANG BAR Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys Swing DJ Flash Nat & The Action Men NEWPORT HOTEL Live Band Karaoke THE ODD FELLOW Kid Radio PADDY MAGUIRE’S
Cargo Beat PERTH URBAN ORCHARD Perth Royal Beer Show Pop-Up Bar PRINCE OF WALES Gang of Youths Grrl Pal Fait QUALITY HOTEL DJ Veeness REGAL THEATRE Julia Morris 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Silver Foxes The Order of the Black Werewolf Suburban & Coke Total Waste Ben Elliott ROSEMOUNT HOTEL National Campus Band Competition WA Final SETTLERS TAVERN The Kill Devil Hills The Floor SWAN BASEMENT Dead Famous Constructs Ascending Fall SexPiss CrossJoint SWAN LOUNGE The Whiskey Pocket & guests VILLA Sensualise WHALE & ALE Rock Candy Trio X-WRAY CAFÉ The Love Junkies YMCA HQ Sweet Oblivion #2 ft. SOMA Metronova Roundabout Midnight No Shortcut Home SATURDAY 12/09 AMANI BAR EMBASSY AMBAR Japan 4 ft. SIKDOPE Meet Mark Pussymittens Tee El Bezwun AMPLIFIER D At Sea Millie Tizzard ASTOR THEATRE Miss Burlesque WA 2015 Final THE BIRD The Map ft. Leon Osborn LOWER SPECTRUM Wilus Bixler CAPITOL Gang of Youths Grrl Pal Fait CHARLES HOTEL Boys Revisited The Volcanics CIVIC HOTEL Zemlja CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Ladywood & guests ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Grace Knight ESPERANCE CIVIC CENTRE The Waifs Sal Kimber FLYRITE Father FRAYED Frayed GEISHA Kinky Malinki Saul Bliss Einstein Tommy B Dekski Dave Robinson Darren Bouthier GILKISONS DANCE STUDIO RINSE OUT 004 ft. DUB FX (live) Darren D Junglebuss Impulsv GOLD BAR Pure Gold THE GOOD SHEPHERD Chocolate Jesus HERDSMAN LAKE TAVERN This is Rapture #4 ft. The X Boyfriends HULA BULA Sailor Saturdays INDI BAR Ash Grunwald JACK RABBIT SLIM’S Columbus Lowlight Dan Cribb & The Isolated JIMMY’S DEN Casinodreams (EP Launch) Indigo Odlaw Skygazer Curtis McEntee THE LIBRARY Twist ft. Unkempt Dance LLAMA BAR TILT MATISSE BEACH CLUB DJ Diz James Curd Brad Cooper Terry Waites
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Drei JMC METRO CITY House Party V ft. Torro Torro METROPOLIS FREMANTLE Metropolis Saturdays MOJOS BAR The Shops Divorce Party Verge Collection Yaqui Yeti moist oyster Jacob Diamond Dream Rimmy Wheelers of Oz The Spunloves FOAM THE MONASTERY Remixed MUSTANG BAR The Roadmasters DJ Holly Doll Milhouse NORTHSHORE TAVERN Caravana Sun The Tommyhawks Nikki Sandover Band PERTH FOLK & ROOTS CLUB David McCleave Aaron Tuckey John McNair PERTH URBAN ORCHARD Perth Royal Beer Show Pop-Up Bar RAILWAY HOTEL Nucleust Owed to Damnation Epileptic Shit Necromancer Patient Sixty Seven REGAL THEATRE Julia Morris 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL CATZILLA The Shakeys The Beehives Go-Go dancers Mr. Kavebeat Razor Jack Claire Moll Daniel Castledine (EP Launch) Mitch Mitty Hall Nyanda J ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Screwtop Detonators The Hills Blues Explosion Petticoat Junkyard Dr. Keith Medicine Man Sharon Ivan Zar SCITECH Scitech After Dark SETTLERS TAVERN OKA SWALLOW BAR Sugar Boy Ash SWAN BASEMENT Wayne Green’s Ragged Company The Wasted Sons Potato Stars SWAN LOUNGE Delilah Rose & the Gunslingers The I’s Kenny Austin Them Jackdaws Johnny Ajax UNIVERSAL BAR Soul Corporation VILLA #RINSELIFE presents Dotcom Spenda C Nemo WHALE & ALE DJ Rony Ronald SUNDAY 13/09 ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE The Waifs Sal Kimber THE BIRD Methyl Ethel US Tour Fundraiser with Mei Saraswati The Spunloves Doctopus Hamjam DJs BRASS MONKEY Sunday Sessions CLANCY’S CITY BEACH
Limelights Jazz DEFECTORS BAR Open Sesame — Open Mic Night FLYRITE MVMNT HULA BULA Tropical Sundaze INDI BAR Shovel Full of Blues ft. Andrew Winton Mike de Velta LAST DROP TAVERN Brett Hardwick MOJOS BAR Ash Grunwald (Single Launch) Morgan Bain NEWPORT HOTEL Gang of Youths NORFOLK HOTEL Steamboat Sundays NORTH FREMANTLE BOWLING CLUB Open Mic RAILWAY HOTEL OKA REGAL THEATRE The Best of Broadway 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Rumble Choking Stanley Discordians Reef & the Riff Raff ROSEMOUNT HOTEL (BEER GARDEN) Get Down ft. Aslan Klean Kicks Pawel Good Company DJs Sleepyhead Beni Chill Jo Lettenmaier Tim King SETTLERS TAVERN Sunday Session ft. Ten Cent Shooters SWALLOW BAR John Bannister UNIVERSAL BAR Retriofit X-WRAY CAFÉ Waterborne MONDAY 14/09 BRASS MONKEY Monday Madness CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Scotty’s Quiz Night THE FLYING SCOTSMAN Infinite Jest MOJOS BAR Wide Open Mic ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Comedy Trivia TUESDAY 15/09 BRASS MONKEY Acoustic Open Mic CLANCY’S CITY BEACH From the Sea CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Quiz Night HERDSMAN LAKE TAVERN The One Thing Music Quiz MOJOS BAR Fuzz Toads Nectar Dylan Gorton NATIONAL HOTEL Open Mic Night NEWPORT HOTEL Quiz Show PERTH BLUES CLUB Bloozology Gospel According to John Pale Blonde Mexicans PERTH CONCERT HALL The Waifs Sal Kimber 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Radio In Motion Patient Little Sister The Limbs Jessica Shanks ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Bex & Turin’s Open Mic Night TORCH BAR Quiz Meisters X-WRAY CAFÉ Dave Johnson Angus Diggs
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BLACKSTAR FLY 3 The Blackstar Fly 3 is a 3-watt mini-amplifier that aims to deliver the unique Blackstar tone in a small package. The features that have been included in this amp are impressive given its size. Blackstar’s patented ISF control (think of it as a kind of presence control that alters the overall ‘character’ of the amp, say from UK to US tonality) enables players to utilise their true tone even at the low volumes unlike other amplifiers that tend to give a dry, flat sound. The Fly 3 also features tape delay effects, allowing guitarists to make the amp output resonate even more. The Fly 3 has a built-in MP3/Line In jack, in order to plug in MP3 players, mobile phones, laptops, tablets and more and jam along to favourite tracks, while the emulated output jack can also be used to record or to play with headphones. Battery or mains powered (the Fly 3 uses 6 AA batteries), the Fly 3 is highly transportable and can be used as a portable speaker for devices in addition to its intended use as a practice amp. The Fly 103 Extension Cabinet can be purchased separately to convert the Fly 3 into a 6-watt stereo set-up. The Blackstar Fly 3 is available at most music stores and retails for $119. The Fly 103 Extension Cabinet retails for $99, or the two can be purchased as a stereo pack for $179.
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WAMPLER DB+ BUFFER/ BOOST PEDAL The greatest guitar tones usually have one thing in common: a solid foundation. Numerous cables to and from a pedal board and amplifier have a tendency to inadvertently rob a guitar of its natural higher frequency tones, resulting in a muddy signal. The concept of a buffer is that those lost high frequencies can be replaced and even clean-boosted, ensuring the guitar always sits appropriately in the mix and providing more tonal clarity. The Wampler dB+ has all the same features as it’s larger counterpart – the Decibel + – but with the added functionality of being able to turn the buffer on and off independently. Pedals of this type are more of an ‘icing on the cake’ situation, replacing that bit of tone loss that players may experience, usually when running a lot of pedals and cable in their rigs. The Wampler dB+ built by hand in the USA and features true bypass, the all-important (to many players) small foot print akin to all minipedals - a first for Wampler - and uses a power draw of 6mA at 9v and 8mA at 18v. A 9v DC power supply is required as due the pedal’s diminutive size there is no internal battery connection. Visit wamplerpedals.com for more details.
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