Volume 28#35 © 2014 Echo Publications Pty Ltd
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SO JUST WHO IS THIS CURIOSITY CALLED LOUISAHHH WHO LOVES PLAYING AND MAKING RECORDS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD?
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What was the decision behind having so many aitches and exclamation marks? I’ve got to say it really is a fun time reading your artist name whenever it pops up. Ha, my moniker (or the specific spelling, anyway) is actually a decision I now regret… it was heavily influenced by the amount of cocaine I was ingesting around the time I chose it. I am now clean and sober but the name seems to have stuck. I hope it is perceived as a rallying cry or a shriek of delight, not like someone who just YELLS ON THE INTERNET!!! I know you probably cop this a lot, but congratulations on being the first girl of Bromance; that’s such a huge inspiration for women and artists in general everywhere. Do you ever feel like the music industry can be a bit of a boys’ club sometimes? How do you counteract that? Thanks for the compliment; I hope it is a title I can wear with grace and guts, this ‘first lady of Bromance’. It can definitely feel like a bit of a boys’ club out there. However, there is also a grand tradition of amazing women who make art and music; heroines whose trails I hope to continue to blaze into the future, and contemporaries who are immensely talented and ferocious. It’s something
FIONA O’LOUGHLIN TICKETS
What is ‘fourth-wave feminism’? What happens after ‘riot grrrl’? How do I behave as a role model and support women doing this thing, too?
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It’s Connect 5 when Fiona O’Loughlin, the mother of comedy, performs in Byron at the Brewery with Australia’s only other woman comic with five children. With 10 kids between them and a heap of stories, catch Fiona O’Loughlin with Mandy Nolan on Friday 28 February. Tickets are $20 and $25 at the door. To book a ticket call 6619 0529 or to enter the comp to win a double pass send in an entry with subject header ‘Mother of Comedy’. If you would like to receive this giveaway and a free subscription to Echonetdaily, email your name, phone number and postcode to gigscomp@echo.net.au.
I’ve been thinking a lot about surrounding my current work. What is ‘fourthwave feminism’? What happens after ‘riot grrrl’? How do I behave as a role model and support women doing this thing, too? At the moment, it is mostly asking questions and investigating both my own experience and the history of gender studies. I’m excited to embrace and explore my own femininity and what it means – or doesn’t mean – in this current sonic and social climate of dance music. You had a very musical upbringing, studying piano, guitar and singing. Do you feel this technical background affects your current sound? I feel like my musical background definitely developed my ear and melodic sensibilities but, technically, we are living in an age where one doesn’t really need those things in order to make amazing music. It has been challenging and humbling to throw hard-earned technique out the window and become willing to learn a new skill set for working in DAWs. The learning curve is slow – it’s one of the reasons I appreciate collaboration. I do fall back on technical practices when my creative well feels dry; vocal drills and warm-ups, sharpening ‘chops’; this helps me be ready when the muse does come. Congratulations on your EP Transcend’s being released in 2013! It’s such a powerful record, I love hearing that heavier house music with a feminine drive. How has the response been so far? I am so glad you like it! The response has been tremendous. It has been incredible to play these tracks out. When I started working on what eventually resulted in Transcend, Louis (Brodinski) had given me the direction to make sure that whatever I make is the biggest track of the night when I play. I feel like it has been a success!
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Loving Louisahhh!!!
Who’s heavily influencing your sound at the moment? What are your top five tracks? Of course, Maelstrom, with whom I work closely, is a great influence. I am deeply moved by his latest on Zone. I’m also very excited about the stuff Jubilee is putting out. Her tracks are massive and really fresh, and she is a really lovely human. I’m always regressing my tastes to what I was playing in 2004; Emerge by Fischerspooner might be the best track of all time; I pitch it way down to play it out, though. I’m digging the new Monsieur Monsieur; the Jimmy Edgar remix of Lucid is really jacking. Also, Danny Daze, always. He’s constantly ahead of the curve; the most recent Ultramajik EP is great. You moved from NYC to LA for rehab initially, and have decided to stay. Do you feel that personal journey, and now living in LA, has affected your musical choices? Without that personal journey, I wouldn’t get to be doing this at all. My sobriety is the primary fact of why I get to do what I love for a living; it could be very different. It was very different. All of this is an absurd blessing.
coming soon Wed 12 SCOTT DAY VEE Thu 13 BEN PURNELL Sat 15 MY BYRON RIOT W SHE REX, BONEZ, IVORY GHOST & KAT NIP Sun 16 MATT ARMITAGE & SWAMPY SWAN Mon 17 MATT BUGGY Tue 18 LUKE & SEBASTIAN
Friday 14 Feb The Floating Bridges, Purevelour, Asher Chapman
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BABE RAINBOW THE OWLS GARRETT KATO TIJUANA CARTEL ELEGANT SHIVA JON CLEARY & THE ABSOLUTE MONSTER GENTLEMEN 14 & 15 MAR THE SUNNYBOYS 21 MAR BILLY BRAGG 23 MAR SHAPESHIFTER 30 MAR DUB FX & OPIUO
HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN • thenorthern.com.au • 6685 6454 14 February 11, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo
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