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TAURUS: Venus joining sun, Mercury and late-week moon in Taurus announces your personal portal for setting goals and aspirations for the year to come. And of course, how to finance them. There’s a lot on offer this week, so make quality not quantity your motto. Select the best, forget the rest.
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GEMINI: April’s been an angsty month for many Geminis, so you’ll probably be relieved to hear that May brings a welcome cycle of closure. Friday night’s new moon forming a grand trine in earth signs with Jupiter and Pluto offers the best potential for making practical decisions and settling material matters.
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ARIES: Planetary emphasis in your house of money,
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income and assets indicate a beneficial boost to Ram finances this week. Plenty of material-world pleasures too, especially if you manage to sidestep aggressive encounters during midweek Aries moon. Because those chances for economic advancement do depend on keeping your cool…
CANCER: Feel like hibernating? Celestial feng shui suggests May is a people month, with communal activities and social groups amenable to fun and profit. So lever the loins from the gravitational pull of the comfort couch. Get out and about. Mix and mingle with those influential new connections panting to make your acquaintance.
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SAGITTARIUS: This week’s hold-steady, tread-water scenario sees you reclaiming something you already knew. Excellent timing, with so many daily details on your plate: domestic, professional, economic and physical. All quite enjoyable though with smart Saturn organising energetic Mars to operate more effectively, both working together in your sign.
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CAPRICORN: Yes, there’ll be itchy and scratchy glitches and irritations this week, but with the coming month’s ball in your court of enjoyment, leadership and creative ventures, you’ll cruise through them in fine persuasive, persevering style, surprising even yourself. Best day for everything? Friday, when new- moon energies gather…
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LEO: With May’s cosmic geometry energising your professional zone, is there a way you could improve on your usual approach to business? New opportunities and helpful contacts could blossom into rewarding outcomes via the following advice: Rein in theatrical reactions. Listen to feedback. Don’t make decisions without consulting people who’ll be affected by them.
VIRGO: The beauty of this week’s ongoing retro review lies in making adjustments: to your world view (Jupiter), what excites you (Mars), effective use of time and energy (Saturn), ideas and clear communication of them (Mercury), the secret shadow stuff weighing you down that you don’t want others to know (Pluto). Good luck. LIBRA: Your ruler Venus moving into a heavily Taurusaccented atmosphere lightens the weight of recent weeks with a less hectic, more measured itinerary of pleasant socialising. So smell the roses, pamper yourself, indulge, shop, take a holiday – or do nothing at all. Your intuition’s heightened right now, so listen to its prompts.
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SCORPIO: With the coming month’s celestial attention on partnerships and business alliances, those based on mutual goals and ideals are favoured. If something feels off, resist committing till you’re satisfied it’s right for you. During heavily retrograde transits, communications, promises and estimates aren’t always reliable. And really, is there a hurry?
AQUARIUS: Stubborn, resistant forces are at work (and play) this week. Try not to be one of them. Remarkable breakthroughs and growth shifts are also available, so if unresolved conflict issues are triggered, use the opportunity to examine exactly what causes you to react. You might be surprised at what you find.
PISCES: This week’s diary looking pretty full of meetings, conferences, discussions and visitors? So far, so fabulous. Just beware, with the present complex and discordant aspects, of drawing premature or ill-informed conclusions. Be willing to listen. Aware of what you say, how you say it and to whom – and especially how it’s being received.
CULTURE
Live Music CONT. FROM p41
FREE THE DRONES Feelin’ Kinda Free is the seventh offering from the Drones. Recorded at Tropical Fuck Storm Studios in Melbourne with Aaron Cupples, who also sat behind the desk to record 2006’s LP Gala Mill. Feelin’ Kinda Free is the first album in more than a decade to feature original Drones drummer Christian Strybosch. He is joined by longtime members Gareth Liddiard, Fiona Kitschin, Dan Luscombe and Steve Hesketh. And a word of warning from someone who’s downloaded the first few tracks: it is not like other music. It is not your stock jock ‘modern’ retro rehash, but rather an avant avalanche of everything coming back to haunt you. Lyrically it steers clear of the same old tropes peddled by anything
SEEING RED: INCREDIBLE ARTISTS AT LONE GOAT GALLERY you’ll hear anywhere today. It explores themes such as Koro syndrome, the fruits of western imperialism, ISIS, celebrity chefs, seaside statecraft, beach-bum race riots, Rupert Murdoch, the new Middle-Eastern/European diaspora, the spectre of neofascism, Hugo Boss, Luftwaffe psychological warfare techniques, girls, sweet revenge, capitalist consumer psychosis, body image dysmorphia/mania, Gertrude Bell, eating people and selling yourself, having great skin, leftist utopianism,
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scientific triumphalism, E.T. and the mindless assumption that alien lifeforms would be nicer than us simply because of their technological superiority. Feelin’ Kinda Free is a bad trip you can dance to. It’s a punch in the brain summed up by the first line of the album’s opener Private Execution: ‘The best songs are like bad dreams’. It has been described by Australia’s premier rightwing tabloid superstar and Richard Wagner fanboy Andrew Bolt as ‘stamping on the ashes of the West’s musical traditions’. The Drones play the Hotel Great Northern on Saturday.
THE HOLE THING Not many bodybuilders front a rock band and swing electric axe expertly.
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Australian guitarist/songwriter Adam Hole lets rip high-energy raunchy slide-guitar-stomping, dirty blues built on rock. Hole is wild on lapsteel guitar, resonator guitar, and electric guitar, all amped up to sound big and fat, backed by bass and drummer’s thump. Loud 70s rock/blues and a touch of hillbilly picking – birthed when live music was the real deal. Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, and Tom Waits join the muscled man’s songbook along with some fine intricate picking originals. So if you come to see Hole, prepare to get involved: ‘Don’t put me in a corner to play soft music because you will be disappointed.’ Adam Hole plays the Rails on Thursday at 7pm.
Last week I mistakenly wrote that the RED Inc artists were having an exhibition at their studio on the Byron Arts & Industry Estate, instead of at Byron’s Lone Goat Gallery. My apologies to anyone who turned up at the wrong place and missed the opening. I don’t know what happened, I think I had a bit of a malfunction. Fortunately while you may have been sent on a goose chase re the opening, you can still view this extraordinary work on show until 11 May. The exhibition features stunning visual artworks, including paintings, drawings, printmaking, sculpture and ceramic works made by artists with a disability who create their works through RED Inc’s creative arts programs. RED Inc is a disability-support organisation based in the northern rivers region that has studios in both Byron Bay and Lismore.
MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS AT BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE Brunswick Heads is in love with their newest venue, the loving restored Brunswick Picture House that offers locals a little something different. This Thursday sees the ‘grownup’ film series with Bran Nue Dae screening at 6pm, and on Sunday enjoy a nostalgic laugh with your family on Mothers Day when they screen Crocodile Dundee at 4pm. Brunswick Picture House, 30 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads. And while you’re there, why not pick up tix for Cheeky Cabaret on Saturday 21 May 7pm, or The Space Cowboy on Friday 27 May at 6pm.
THE HALE STORY
KEEPING COURT WITH SULLY Greg Sullivan is one of the most experienced and accomplished standup comics and entertainment personalities around. Sully worked at Triple M for fourteen years, as a writer for the first seven, and then graduating to co-host of the top-rating breakfast show The Cage. He has been invited to the world-famous Improv Comedy Club in Los Angeles, performed at major festivals such as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Sydney Comedy Festival Gala, and has appeared in a variety of roles on television shows such as Good News Week, Home Delivered Humour, O’Loghlin on Saturday Night, The Today Show and A Current Affair. Through his affable charisma, dedication and entertainment value, Sully has developed an eminent and likeable public profile throughout Australia. He currently spends half his waking life at sea as the talent on the hugely popular Comedy Cruises. Greg is the host of the Open Mic comedy night at the Court House Hotel in Mullumbimby on Thursday. 8pm. Free
Direct from a record sellout five week season at Perth’s FringeWorld Festival, and performances at Brisbane’s Anywhere Festival, international comedy hypnotist Matt Hale is set to amaze Byron audiences with his modern brand of hypnolaughs at Byron Bay Theatre on Friday. Winner of three national comedy awards, Matt Hale is a professional stage hypnotist based in Perth. The globetrotting stage hypnotist performs at public and corporate events across Australia, Asia and the UK. He’s appeared in media as diverse as the UK’s tabloids, BBC, ABC, Today Tonight and has been included in the National Film and Sound Archive and Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The award-winning stage hypnotist has hypnotised people from London to Vegas (where Mike Tyson told him ‘You’re AMAZING!’, turning the traditional hypnosis show on its head. Matt’s mesmerising and hilarious show Hypnolicious uses audience participation to display the incredible abilities of the mind. The show is real hypnosis, real fun, and suitable for all ages. Matt hypnotises volunteers with hilarious (but tasteful!) consequences; no two shows are the same. Hypnolicious is designed to be enjoyed just as much from the stage (for those who choose to participate), or the audience (who are spellbound at what transpires). Byron Community Centre, Friday 8pm. Cost: Full $35, group of 6+ $30 each, concession/child under 16 $25. Bookings: byroncentre.com.au
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