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McAlister Kemp have a reputation as Australia’s foremost country-rocking party band, but there’s a certain depth to their music that defies expectations.

It could well be that this aspect of MK’s music is largely thanks to the sensibilities of Drew McAlister – a man who’s not just one half of the duo, but also one of Australian country music’s most prolific songwriters.

In fact, just a few years ago, McAlister had all but given up dreams of being a performer, instead setting his heart on the less glamorous (but arguably just as rewarding) life of the old-school hitmaker, writing catchy tunes for new artists with label support and marketing budgets.

“I’d been doing the solo singer-songwriter thing – and in fact I won the Gympie Muster Talent Search” says Drew, “but I knew how much it was going to take and the financial backing I would need to continue down that road – it seemed to make more sense to write songs for other people”.

To make a living, McAlister joined a covers band, playing regularly in Sydney with charismatic singer Troy Kemp. Despite their close working relationship, the two never really considered working together on an original music project.

“It was actually Michael Carr (another successful Australian songwriter, perhaps best known for his alter-ego - comedy-country act Buddy Goode) that suggested that Troy and I do something. We gave it a try and a record deal soon followed”.

McAlister was around thirty-six when first signed, a fact that he notes is “highly unusual” in an era of disposable teenage pop-country acts. The fact that MK were not only signed to a major, but also a fairly immediate success, is even less common.

I suggest to Drew that perhaps this was due to the fact that the band fill a niche – they write and play the kind of tough, up-tempo but thoughtful music that folks like Steve Earle have

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“No-one else was (or is) doing what we were doing in country music, or rock music for that matter. We have the party songs, of course, but we also have the songs that reach a little bit deeper. Our stuff rocks, but it also always has some element where it’s still heartfelt”.

Amongst the latter category is recent single Fight Me. The song tackles schoolyard bullying and has been a runaway social media success, thanks to a provocative music video and a Twitterhashtag campaign.

“I started that song on the train”, explains McAlister.

“I had the title and the lyric, but didn’t finish it until I went on a Writers Weekend up on Fraser Island. I was determined that the song couldn’t be a ballad – it had to rock – it had to be empowering”.

For McAlister Kemp, the song has kept their profile high and maintained their position on the upper branches of the Australian country music tree. For victims of bullying, it has probably done a lot more.

Such is the power of the song-with-a-message – even today when protest or political songs are out of fashion. It’s great news for McAlister, who continues to write whilst the band tours heavily.

“My first publishing deal was with EMI and with them I travelled to Nashville, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles – all over the place. I’ve now signed with ABC and I’m enjoying the opportunity to keep writing with and for other people. In the first half of this year I’ve written forty songs”.

McAlister Kemp play The Hallam Hotel on Thursday October 9.

LACHLAN BRYAN Lachlan Bryan is primarily a singer/songwriter.

His third album Black Coffee is out now. He also moonlights as a gifted observer and music journalist, writing monthly for PEARL Magazine on all things folk/country/bluegrass. If you’ve got a new release, upcoming show or you’d like to get in touch with Lachlan, drop him a line at countryfolk@pearlmag.com.au

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September, spring, sun, Soundwave, Soultrain,Shaun Kirk, Stereosonic, Santana… Pseudo Echo?(does that work?) All that and so much more as things start to warm up on the local scene this month! We chat to Boy & Bear on the eve of their national theatre tour, Ella Hooper brings us up to speed on the Melbourne Music Bank, and we talk to the mighty men of country McAlister Kemp about catchy tunes and hit making.

Really, you didn’t think I’d skip it? HENDRIX! When we started our little mag two years ago, I would never have imagined interviewing Hendrix for a cover story!

OK, so it’s Jimi’s little brother Leon, but he’s as close as we’ll ever get…and he’s got a killer show coming to town as a treat for true fans. Another late legend in Amy Winehouse comes to life through The Black Sorrows’ magical Atlanta Coogan for a very special show on the harbour at Mornington, and Mrs Doubtfire returns to the big screen as we remember Robin.

BPM switches things back to full tilt as we take five with Will Sparks as he packs his bags for his Bounce Bus Tour across the US with Joel Fletcher and Timmy Trumpet, and PEARL’s new Alternative section is overflowing with all that’s Indy, Emo and Hardcore…and if you’re not sure which is what then we’ll explain that too!

It’s great to see new music concepts popping up each month with kudos to Davey’s Soultrain, The Rocks, Assaggini and Merchant Lane for adding new live music to our local calendar, with special mention to Mornington Library also presenting live local artists this month…. shhhhh…..NOT! SIMON MILLS (Editor)

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INTERVIEW

BOY & BEAR Waiting, waiting, waiting…..that was the start of my Boy & Bear interview. Whilst the guys were smack bang in the centre of the country that has the magic button to have a nuclear war commence – telephone coverage seems to be an amazing non-event! No matter what I did, the call would not connect. 20 minutes passed and finally ‘the call’……My time was spent with a super laid back and chillaxed Dave Symes, the bass player.

During 2011 Boy & Bear’s debut record, Moonfire, established the Sydney group as one of the nation’s most loved indie folk bands. Since the release of their #1 album Harlequin Dream 12 months ago, Boy & Bear have been touring relentlessly around the world, their 86 performances so far this year proving just how high the demand for their live show has become.

Symes comments though “the group dynamic is as solid as it has ever been. We enjoy each others company and this is reflected in our music” He is quite right. After listening to the album on repeat in my office for a number of days; the melodies and sound of the album are quite harmonious. They are very relaxing and make work no longer a chore; but a less effortless task.

Travelling so much they’ve built up a healthy amount of frequent flyer points, having travelled through the US, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Copenhagen, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and France (to mention a few) to play sold out shows. Taking care not to neglect their loyal Australian fans, Boy & Bear have ensured they return to their motherland for not one, but two national tours, with their massive 30-date

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regional tour taking place earlier this year.

Never fear! They are coming home again! Australian fans will once more get their fix of Boy & Bear when the band return for the ‘Get Up & Dance Tour’ in September, before hitting the tarmac again for further US/CAN and UK/EU dates that will keep them in the spotlight from October right through to December.

Boy & Bear recently performed on the Conan O’Brien Talk Show in the States on July 23, which is no surprise given the local love for them. In the US, Southern Sun was the #2 most added track on release, the 5th most added to College Radio and the #1 most added track to non-commercial radio. The single spent 16-weeks in the Top 100 AAA, with five consecutive weeks in the Top 5. The album, Harlequin Dream, spent 11 consecutive weeks in the Billboard Heatseakers chart.

Symes had some parting words after we spoke everything tour related; “to the youth today starting out; enjoy your time, enjoy what you do and do it the way you want to do it. That is exactly what we have done and look at what we are doing now……….Living the Dream!”

Boy & Bear kick off their Get Up & Dance National theatre tour this Friday 5th September at The Palais, Melbourne. For ticket and tour information visit www.boyandbear.com.au and connect with boyandbear on facebook, instagram and twitter.

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on r e m a C Stynes NAME: CAMERON STYNES AGE: 32 LIVE: Mount Martha. Vic SPONSOR(S): Misfit shapes, Electric visual HOBBIES: Freelance Artist Dream Wave: Any right rip bowls JOB: Vans footwear, Sales Executive PEARL: Where was your first session?

STYNES: First session would have been first reef, Point Leo. I was working at Trigger Bros and all my spare time was spent painting and skating until my boss at the time said I’d better start surfing or I may not be welcome back. I had a pink and yellow 6ft Garry Taylor Thruster, which I still own. I don’t really remember the surf, but I haven’t looked back since.

PEARL: Tell us about the family?

STYNES: Amazing wife and two kids. They make every day so special and the support I get from them is amazing.So much love, always and forever. I have a 6yr old boy, Kai, and a 3yr old daughter,Mya. They both started surfing at the age of 3 and love it.

PEARL: Who were your influences, both growing up and now?

STYNES: Growing up I looked up to so many different guys in surfing it was guys like Matt Archbold, the Fletcher brothers, Nick Wallace and Ozzie Wright. Not much has changed.I’m still drawing inspiration from these guys, but now my family and friends that push me daily are my main inspiration. Guys like Otis Carey, Nick Wallace, Mikey Barber, Mitch Hayes, the Scoot man and Nuts.

PEARL: Tell us about your art?

STYNES: A mixed medium of mess and

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destruction;I love painting and drawing with and on anything. The majority of my works are canvases, paper or wood. Personally, I can’t stand white surfboards so all my boards have a touch of my artwork also. Lately I’m loving painting on fine paper with red wine and coffee. The way the liquids bleed with the ink and paper adds another depth and dimension to the pieces. I have a home studio, which means there’s no need to clean up after each session and I can work on pieces whenever I get the time.

PEARL: What is “The Sailor’s Slum?”

STYNES: The Sailor’s Slum is a platform for emerging surfing and a creative releases for my art, but it also incorporates the photographic touch of Hayden O’Neill. It’s an online creative which can be viewed at talesofslum.tumblr.com. I have a small team of riders that bring inspiration to the brand, andfor them it’s a platform to promote their surfing and themselves.

PEARL: Tell us about your 75th birthday party?

STYNES: 50’s style circus with sword swallowers, bearded ladies, knife throwers and creepy clowns all set on an old tugboat floating in the Caribbean Sea!It was family and friends, all indulging in spiced rum, wine, steins of beer and free tattoo’s for all.

PEARL: Final Words?

STYNES: Thanks to my wife Jules, Kai, Mya and all my friends and family for their ongoing love and support. Also like to thank Misfit shapes and Electric visual – it’s a killer group of like-minded fools.

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If you recognise the phrase ‘OH MY GOD. LOOK AT HER BUTT’, then you are one of the tens of millions of individuals to have watched - and I say watched because surely no one’s playing this stuff on the radio - Nicki Minaj’s new track - and I say track, again because I can’t bring myself to give it the usual regulatory label of ‘song’.

Now I don’t want to sound like some elitist music critic who dreams that Simon and Garfunkel were still around, but surely this isn’t what the music industry has come to?

I had the strange experience of watching the video for the new Nicki Minaj track Anaconda at work with the sound off, only to go home and watch it again with the sound on. Now I must admit, I was completely captivated during the first viewing.

Irrespective of what anyone says, the ability it would require to execute that kind of booty jiggle synchronisation is actually exceptional. But on second viewing (the one with the sound on) I realised the song was just pure trip. I started to become genuinely worried that maybe this is what established female artists needed to do to sell songs.

This contemplation of female pop stars in the 21st century is actually something I’ve been considering of late - particularly in relation to Katy Perry. Katy has taken more of a ‘clothes on’ approach shall we say, to the promotion of her most recent album, the follow up to the unbelievably successful album Teenage Dream. I genuinely liked the songs off that album but I always wondered how much of its success was based on the video clips of her ejecting whipped cream out of her bra and spitting fireworks out of her corset. The follow up album, Prism, has been markedly less successful than its predecessor and while I considered how much of it was due to this ‘clothes on’ approach, I came to the conclusion that it was genuinely because the songs weren’t good enough. Just to clear up. Previous album - Teenage Dream, clothes off, songs better, big success. Current album Prism,clothes on, songs poor, less success.

Anyway this disillusionment with the current state of music has been accumulating over the last few months and shouldn’t be laid solely on Nicki Minaj.

It’s been due to a combination of a few things. 1) The realisation that the secret hope I placed in Justin Bieber realising his mammoth audience, some amounts of potential and access to use whatever resources he wanted to work exceptional hard at his craft and become a genuinely great pop star, seems to be a case of squandered opportunity. 2) The shock and horror of watching The Voice Kids and seeing little children either being rejected or actually thinking they might become successful has also been upsetting. 3)The fact that Coldplay made an album that was actually as shit as every one of their critics had been describing them by for the last decade, has been the ultimate downer.

But there has been some hope in the mainstream this year. Ed Sheeran reinventing himself and saving the world and himself from another mopy singersongwriter, a Sam Smith song here and there and Beyonce killing it as per usual.

And while 2014 has been bad, there is still hope. Adele, Frank Ocean, U2, Foo Fighters and Kanye West are all scheduled to release albums before the end of the year.

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I’ve spoken before on these pages about The Melbourne Folk Club, Caravan Music Club, Revolver Bandroom and Baha down in Rye. These are some of my favourite venues, mainly thanks to their great support of the type of music I love (which you should have a pretty good handle on if you’ve either read this column before or taken any notice at all of the title). But I though that this month I might give you a heads up as to the other local (and local-ish) venues that you, my fellow country fan, should be checking out.

Firstly, if we start close to the city, I recommend a visit to The Flying Saucer Club in Elsternwick. In coming months you can see the likes of The Perch Creek Family Jug Band, Tex Don and Charlie and The Black Sorrows. Tickets are available form the club’s website at www.flyingsaucerclub.com.au Head a little east and you can check in on one of two Gippsland pubs that have been supporting country music recently – The Nar Nar Goon Hotel and the Royal Hotel in Koo Wee Rup. Recently the likes of Aleyce Simmonds, Alby Pool and Sandra Humphries have performed

at these establishments, both of which cater to fans of mainstream country music.

Down here on the Peninsula it’s not only Baha waving the flag. Hickinbotham Winery recently hosted country songwriting legend Alan Caswell, whilst T’Gallant regularly host country and folk acts including perennial Pearl favourites The Weeping Willows (who can be seen on at least a couple of weekends per month when they’re not gallivanting overseas).

Of course, if you’re more of an ‘ear to the ground’ music fan, you might like to seek out a house concert. Now I can’t give addresses or phone numbers in this forum, but I strongly suggest you seek out the underground events staged by generous music fans such as Jenny Keck and Nia Robertson. I’ve played at and watched their house concerts – and I’d suggest that they represent the future of gig-going (particularly for those music supporters who are sick of sticky carpets and crowded bars).

Live country music is alive and well on the Peninsula, and in many areas within striking distance. You just have to know where to look. Feel free to email me on the address below if you need more help!

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ELLA HOOPER NOT SPEAKING ‘IN TONGUES’ Ella Hooper got her big break in 1996 when she entered her song “Kettle” into a Triple J song contest and won. Success with Killing Heidi and more recently Versus followed and she is now about to release her first solo album,In Tongues. Currently the Melbourne Music Bank ambassador, she is putting the call out for your original songs about Melbourne. We had a chat to Hooper about this opportunity, her new album and Frankston’s famed op- shops.

PEARL: If you had to write a song specifically about Melbourne, what would you write about?

HOOPER: I think what I would go for is something unique to you about Melbourne, like a particular street that is well known to you rather than the big landmarks. Even though that’s pretty beautiful…no one has done it better than Paul Kelly singing about the MCG or St Kilda Pier or the Nylex clock.

PEARL: Do you think Frankston classifies as part of Melbourne?

HOOPER: Yeah I do - I mean I feel like it does. In my career I’ve gone down to play in Frankston, I go op-shopping there and I live in Brunswick. I don’t mind getting on a train and going to the outer burbs. I still feel like they are a part of Melbourne.

PEARL: If you were at the start of your music career right now, would you audition for X-Factor or The Voice?

HOOPER: Not me particularly because I’m a song writer. Those competitions are more, I think for people with outstanding voices. The Melbourne Music Bank comp is more about the song writing skill and the overall package that you present. Nothing against the Voice or X-Factor but those opportunities are already quite common for outstanding singers. Now we want the artists.

PEARL: I see that you have a new album coming out in October. Is there an overall inspiration for the album?

HOOPER: Yeah, it’s basically about metamorphosis and change. I’m looking at a few

dark things. It was sort of a difficult album but one that I had to do. I felt the only reason I should do a solo album was when I really had something to say. What I had to say turned out to be a little bit dark, but I think a lot of people feel that way at different points in their life.

PEARL: You have been a part of the live music scene for most of your life, what kind of changes have you seen in the industry and touring in that time?

HOOPER: The internet has just made things so incredibly easy. Easy to tour, easy to contact other artists even to communicate with each other, so we are really lucky. We are living in a time where being a musician and recording has become incredibly easily accessed. But that can be a negative as well because there is a lot of noise out there.

There are a lot of people trying to get noticed and do similar things.

PEARL: What would you say to someone thinking about submitting a song to the Melbourne Music Bank contest?

HOOPER: I would absolutely urge them to do it because I think every time you enter something, even if you don’t win, you get so much experience. Even if you get accepted into the final 12 and you don’t take home the whole thing, you are going to get exposed to some serious industry players. Another thing I love about this competition is that it has real people who could actually help you in your career involved. There is no down side.

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Bag O’ Nails (pictured Trevor Murray, John Veltman and John Hampton) are a hard working Texas Blues trio that always deliver an amazing live show. Their latest CD, NAILED LIVE AT ST.ANDREWS is still on high rotation and exemplifies the talent of this high energy band. I recommend Bag O’ Nails as an outfit not to be missed, please check out this recent YouTube clip of one of the original numbers “GET NAILED” http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=1LPsfd90OpY

In its second year, BLUES FOR LOST SOULS has more than tripled the money raised in 2013. This year $17,793 was raised and 10 times last year’s donations were collected which will go directly to those in need. Good people can and always will make a difference and a big shout out to all involved this year in making donations, the musicians, Dave Padroth, Louise Castle, Linda Elridge and the amazing Greg Dodd. The money raised will buy THE BIG UMBRELLA, a van for carrying cooking equipment, food, and clothing.

Congratulations and well done.

SUPPORT LIVE BLUES MUSIC VENUES This month’s special mention goes to the Seaford Hotel who have been featuring an impressive array of live Blues music every Sunday afternoon with their Sunday Sessions in the Clovers bar. Paul Woseen, Geoff Achison, Jimi Hocking and Andy Phillips and the Cadillac Walk have all appeared in recent weeks. It is always good to see another venue supporting the live music scene and supporting our local peninsula bands.

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Congratulations to John McNamara on winning the MBAS Blues Challenge in the Solo/Duo category. John will travel to Memphis in early 2015 to represent the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge. John’s new album ALONE WITH THE BLUES features 8 originals numbers amongst the 12 tracks on this album. You can preview this excellent new album at http://www.youtube.com/ embed/0Xlb1VkUDgw

PENINSULA BLUES CLUB The Peninsula Blues Club has just celebrated its first year of operation and congratulations to all involved in establishing the club and maintaining such a high standard of Blues music on the Peninsula. At the August meeting, the talented guitarist and singer songwriter Shannon Bourne performed a superb acoustic set full of original material and a captivating rendition of THE WIND CRIES MARY. Over the next few months an impressive array of feature artists has been booked, including Ian Collard and Chris Wilson to name a few. It is good to see new and emerging local Blues musicians and vocalists (many from the Blue Note College of Music ) gaining confidence and experience by joining in the JAM sessions later in the night. Don’t miss these special events held on the 2nd Sunday of every month at the Peninsula Blues Club. For more details please check http://peninsulabluesclub.com/.

DON’T MISS The Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society (MBAS) Blues Challenge – BAND category.

The performance entry form deadline is September 16 – please email president@ mbas.org.au Until next month, let’s keep the blues alive and support our local artists.

Greg writes monthly for PEARL on all things Blues and if you’d like Greg to review your release or you know of something happening in the Blues world please drop him a line at: bluesillustrated@gmail. com or https://www.facebook.com/ GregFisherBluesIllustrated. Greg can also be heard every Tuesday between 12-2 pm on 88.3 Southern FM as the host of the all Australian BLUES ILLUSTRATED show.

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might not have enjoyed in another era.

“The 80s was very open-minded. It was all about the big pop stars, the sensationalism of it all. You’re on the screen, in magazines, newspapers etc...the 90s saw the end of it though as it brought about the anti-hero.”

The latter part of the 90s also saw a major stylistic shift in Pseudo Echo’s sound, which can be partly attributed to a change in band members. The line-up has changed a few times over the years, yet Brian Canham has always been at the fore. Now with what he deems as the ultimate Pseudo Echo formation, Canham has penned and produced the band’s first album in 15 years.

Ultraviolet was released in April this year thanks to a successful Pledge Music crowd funding campaign. Both the success of the campaign and the album’s reception has been a testament to the band’s dedicated fan base.

“A lot of fans have said that we’ve stayed true to the old Autumnal Park stuff with our sound, and I think we have done that without being stagnant.”

Touring the album for the past few months has brought both die-hard fans and new fans out of the woodwork, with Canham describing his audience as basically every band’s dream.

“We connect with our audience on such a level that when we release something they nearly always like it. If I put my heart and soul into it, and am not swayed – like we were sometimes in the past by record companies or management - that seems to be the right formula.. When you have that kind of relationship with your audience the pressure doesn’t come from them, it comes from yourself. So I need to ask, is this really me? Is this really the best I can do with this song or album? That’s why it took me so long to release this album to be honest.”

Pseudo Echo will be playing all their old hits and a mix of tracks from Ultraviolet when they take the stage at Chelsea Heights on Friday October 3.

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“The girls would get into it and start dancing and by the end of it everyone would be dancing,” laughs Canham. “It always ended happy and I think it became a lure for guys to go to a Pseudo Echo gig really.”

Pseudo Echo’s biggest break came about after Molly Meldrum saw the new wave youths play live in Melbourne and invited them to appear on Countdown.

“Meeting Molly was incredible. We’d actually met him a few years prior to even having a band and later down the track when he came to see Pseudo Echo he remembered us as the guys that he’d met. He was surprised because I was a sort of shy introverted kid, yet as a young band we were quite professional. So he kind of took us under his wing and did what he could to help us on our way.”

And on their merry way they went, with the band finding a ready-made audience among teenagers who fawned on their every move.

Canham explains the 80s as a bit of a goldenera for musicians, suggesting that many bands found exposure and success that they

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Looking back in to Australia’s musical past, we may not have produced the number of super stars as the US or the UK, but we certainly have our own trailblazers.

Bands like Pseudo Echo, who looked at the popular pub rock scene and challenged it with synths, a crimping iron and a makeup brush. So, was the prospect of wielding a keytar in front of rock-loving pub crowds ever daunting for the lads?

“There were definitely moments where we had to have integrity and stand our ground,” reflects front-man Brian Canham. “Catching our big break meant Pseudo Echo was the opening act for many big pub rock bands of the time. These bands had a brawny, real ‘aussie type’ crowd. So we’d come out with our makeup on, done-up hair and outlandish clothing and it would be quite full on because we’d have these guys eye-balling us thinking ‘what’s going on?’”

Lucky for Pseudo Echo, the opportunity to dance with a dame seemed enough to break down barriers and have even the surliest of men busting a move or two at their live shows.

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Wow have I got some exciting news to tell you all!

The Molly Room and Marshall Amps is bringing out from the U.S of A, the amazing Leon Hendrix. Leon Hendrix born January 13,1948 is the younger brother of the late American rock guitar legend, Jimi Hendrix, and he and his band are coming down under for the very first time to do three gigs solely in Melbourne including the Chelsea Heights Hotel.

Whoop whoop!

Hendrix is bringing the fabulously talented, Micki Free, Grammy award winning guitarist discovered by Gene Simmons of Kiss fame. Free went on to tour the world with Kiss, gigged with The Rolling Stones, Santana, Michael Jackson, Billy Gibson and has been awarded the Native American Music Award five times.

Interestingly, his career kicked off at the age of 12 when he saw his legend Jimi Hendrix perform live in Germany and he just flipped when he heard his music. Meeting Leon years later was a karmic connection for they instantly clicked and have been gigging ever since.

I spoke to the guys for some time and found them delightful, enlightened, alive and full of positive uplifting energy. Definitely my kind of people and it was heartening knowing we shared similar philosophies.

Hendrix, an established singer-songwriter in his own right, mixes his originals with versions of Jimi’s classics and throws in personal stories and insights into the mix. Although inspired by the spirit of the music it certainly vibrates in the Hendrix’s DNA, he couldn’t act on it for a long time due to his parenting demands of raising six beautiful children, in turn who have now produced four grand children and three great grand children. A proud father, grandfather and great grandfather, and no doubt the spirit of music will be coursing through their veins too.

Hendrix is on his own journey right now, and is free to create and imbue his personalised magic into writing originals and doing interpretations of his late famous brother’s music as well.

Keeper Of The Flame and Seattle Rain are his two albums and can still be purchased through iTunes, Panther and the Leon Hendrix website. Currently the guys are putting a new album together called The Hendrix/ Free Experience consisting of their originals as well as covering a couple of Jimi’s too.

We spent some time discussing a favourite documentary of both the guys and mine called Ancient Aliens, and Hendrix states his late brother’s songs portrayed lyrics relating to many mystical things regarding this subject. However, most people don’t hear or ‘get it’, due to the powerful guitar playing/riffs they hear when listening to his music.

Lets face it; the guy was a guitar legend and swept people away with his magical riffs.

In the song Castles Made of Sand, Jimi sang about a little Indian brave who dreamed of growing up to be a fearless warrior. I was surprised to find myself the main character in the second verse,’ says Leon.

Hendrix has had his fair share of life’s experiences and has been clean from drugs for many years now. He has philosophical thoughts of God, and is one of hundreds of thousands of people who believe aliens live and walk amongst us. Like so many people, he too has seen UFO’s and has friends who have experienced close encounters. When you have travelled the world and seen and experienced many wonderful events, you are going to have an open minded, clear and mature outlook on life.

Hendrix believes life is precious and we should pursue all our dreams because when you do they come true. He knows there is an after life, as life, or energy for a better word, can’t be snuffed out. I was honoured and grateful that he and Free opened up to me and shared their thoughts and philosophies. ‘The universe is a rhythm and sometimes people can be blocked from its flow. Our human species has not even touched the surface of what’s really out there, we haven’t gone beyond TV,’ laughs Hendrix.

‘We are all humans right now with a little bit of God in each of us. We are like babies in kindergarten. Remember that our ancestors went through trials and tribulations before us, and their experiences and knowledge is the culmination of our current generation of humans living today. Our Creator can’t reveal itself to us because we don’t have the mental capacity to deal with it he says gently.

Hendrix says music is a spirit and all spirits are bodiless. ‘You got the wind, you got the music, you got love and love has no body. You have emotions of love, anger, hate, and all these emotions are spiritual; so music is one of the most powerful things because you can’t grab onto it, see it, hold onto it, you can only feel and hear it.’ he claims.

Hendrix has been clean for a long time, and says music is more powerful than drugs, because for him, it’s the spirit of love. It is more powerful than addicted behaviour. Humans have a problem with addictive behaviour. ‘Your antennas are blocked if you don’t give up your bad habits. Most people don’t allow themselves the time to tune into and receive their inner wisdom and knowledge because they are so busy working, providing for their families, being distracted that they don’t allow themselves to open up to their own mental capacity and have these experiences. We are not shown or told that it’s a real phenomenon. It’s not their fault as they are lead to believe this from an early age. Its how our current system works.’ He concludes.

I asked the guys if they believed in the power of thoughts creating our own reality.

Both say its either a positive or negative life outlook, if you think positive thoughts then you will attract positive experiences into your life.

Hendrix and Free are very “positive energy people” who spread their love and positive energy through their music.

Although Hendrix is very hopeful for the future, he feels the worlds changes probably wont happen in his lifetime.

Both Hendrix and Free’s mothers are Cherokee Indian and were naturally bought up in a positive spiritual way, which is the native way. ‘Its just the way we believe in. As Carlos Santana said to me, we try and be in the positive energy and light while we work, play our music and go about our everyday lives. We pray and look to the Great Spirit because that’s just the way it is to us,’ says Free. ‘Music is a gift from God.’ In 2012 Hendrix released his biography entitled Jimi Hendrix - A Brother’s Story. He describes his influence on Jimi growing up in Seattle, and being there as he discovered music for the first time.

He writes about Jimi’s early fascination with sound, from his experiments with plucking wires attached to bedposts, to the time he got into trouble for taking apart the new family radio. ‘I was just looking for the music’. Jimi explained.

Leon Hendrix 2014 tour stops in at Chelsea Heights Hotel, Thursday 16th October. Expect to see edgy, blues/ mellow rock with a larger than life ‘living Hendrix’ channelling the music magic along with Free doing his wild thing. For tickets and further details visit www.themollyroom.com.au or call the venue on 9773 4453.

Until next time ……………….Live Well.

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 POOR FORM to all the bad news on TV. Why can’t journalists report on something a little less depressing for a change? They seem obsessed with misery. There are plenty of fun things happening if you know where to look. Our rabbit, Sven, had kittens the other day for instance. We dressed them all up as celebrities and floated them across the pool in a shoebox so the kids could shoot nerf guns at them. The kids were happy as Larry, and you should have seen Larry! He practically jumped out of his skin when the Oprah Winfrey kitten copped one between the eyes.

Eventually he had to be sedated for his own safety.

It was really quite exciting. Not as sensational as a real live human beheading perhaps, but more funny, and far easier on the stomach. Yet no one from the media was “on the ground” as they say, so it went unreported. I guess they were all too busy hanging off the coattails of Vladimir Putin or Clive Palmer or some other desperate attention seeker. Rolf Harris maybe. That was hardly news; I mean you’ve only got to look at the guy. It’s not rocket science. Speaking of rocket science: Mars?

I think not. Seriously, what do they take us for? The moon, maybe, but Mars? And all these constant updates on wars and plagues and race riots in farflung places; how do we know these places even exist? I know Bali exists because I’ve been there, but Burkina Faso?? Come on! This isn’t Star Wars.

Speaking of Bali, when we arrived there my family and I passed through immigration and customs without a hitch. Not one of us was arrested for drug importation. Of course the papers the next day ignored the entire episode. Meanwhile Schapelle continued to hog the limelight. Is this balanced?

Impartial? The Flight home was pleasant enough, and it was not hijacked or shot down by separatist rebels. Upon landing our Prime Minister was predictably tight-lipped. Presumably His Lordship felt the news was not “evil” enough for the public to digest. Well, grow some nuts, that’s what I say.

And I’m not speaking euphemistically but literally.

Why not grow some nuts? Plant a nut tree. It might seem like a boring waste of time but at least it’s not impossible - unlike clearing your name or drinking cheese through a straw. If it’s world-wide coverage you’re after then decapitate away. But I’m getting started on the best damn nut farm on the planet. And someday, Prime Minister, you’ll find my nuts in your breakfast cereal. Maybe then my efforts will be deemed newsworthy.

Quentin Horbath, Mornington From tiffs and turmoil to good blokes and great moments, tell us about the good and bad stuff happening around town in our ‘Good Form / Poor Form’ column! Email Simon at goodformbadform@ pearlmag.com.au with your story!

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Musings, Meanderings & Nonsense

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THINGS MY FRIENDS SAY…

A COLLECTION OF FUNNY AND RIDICULOUS CONVERSATIONS* THIS MONTH …DON’T JUDGE ME BUT I HAVE A QUOTE BOOK *Names have been replaced with initials to save embarrassment and reduce death threats A: Bargains, bargains everywhere, I love a good sale.

MW: Yeah me too.

A: You don’t sound too enthused.

MW: Well it’s just annoying, there’s only a size 6 or 16 left. It’s like they tempt you with the prices, and then screw you with the sizes.

MT: “I was cleaning out my car, vacuuming out the boot you know, and when I looked into the spare wheel compartment I found my watch. That beautiful watch I got for my birthday, I have no idea how it got in there, but it reminded me of the rewards in cleaning.

Plus, I found a half eaten Freddo in the back seat, it was melted but dayum…still tasty.”

C: God I ate so much A: Well that’s what a degustation of 12 courses will do to you C: (gets up and starts a bending-squat with a moan) A: You okay?

C: Yeah just digesting A: I didn’t know that movement helped with digestion C: Well I have a food baby, so if it helps women in labor it should help me with this.

K: How do I look?

TF: (mutual frenemy, aka part time friend, sometimes a real Beotch): Don’t you think it’s a little short?

K: Can’t see my cooker, should be all right.

TF: What about your dignity, don’t you worry about that?

K: No, not really. I have a Bachelor in Biomed and I’m studying a Masters in Medicine, one day I’ll save lives. I have enough dignity to last me two life times.

AM: Well as they say, varietal wine is the spice of life C: I’m pretty sure they say ‘variety is the spice of life’ AM: Well clearly they’ve never tried a Tempranillo L: You know what I’ve just realized about this movie? If you take the f word out, it would be a silent film.

In regards to Game of Thrones…

AM: Excuse me but why do the men always get the swords;she’s standing right there. Women have far more experience with long pointy things.

My friend as I get into her car…

MH: We meet again young Rabi A: I’m sorry, what?

MH: We meet again young Rabi A: You mean Jedi don’t you?

MW: They asked in my Philosophytute today about whether we were a half glass full or half empty kind of person. It was cliché but kind of interesting.

A: What are you? Are you a half empty or half full kind of gal?

MW: I said I didn’t care whether the glass was half full or empty as long as it had wine in it.

L: Do you ever think about going back to England.

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AN APPLE A DAY I watched her picking over the apples.

I could tell that she did not eat much organic food as she was looking for the ‘perfect apple.’

‘Can I help you with anything?’ I asked her “I was looking for an apple for my daughter.”

She said.

“These are organic apples.’ I thought I would tell her straight from the beginning.

“There are some gala’s up there in the bag, happy to open the bag for you if you would prefer one of those.” I continued. “mmm” Was my reply.

I took that as a yes and went to the fridge to break open the bag.

“We tend to have the apples when they are in season,” I started. “Otherwise they can be put in cold storage, sometimes up to 18 months.”

That got her attention, yay. I thought I would get some more in.

“They first wax the apples with their nice oil based chemicals, this is why the wax does not wash off under normal tap water.” I said.

I still had her attention.

“Then the apples get sprayed with chemicals to stop them ripening and they pop them

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into cold storage. Here they get stored for anything up to 18 months and then when they need them they get taken out and sprayed with more chemicals to help them ripen up.” I managed to say my bit.

“Pretty amazing isn’t it?” I asked her.

She picked her perfect apple from the ones I had put into the basket. After my spiel I think she was willing to buy the apple.

“Apples are amazing, they are tonics for the whole body.” I thought I would say something nice.

“Yes my daughter loves them.” She said.

“That’s great,” I told her. “They are one of the best sources of Quercetin, a great antioxidant. As the old saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away” I handed the apple to her daughter.

“You will like this one and you will be able to taste the difference,” I smiled and winked at her.

I knew I had planted the seed and that was a job well done today.

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THE ‘100 TAPS’ STORY Being first and foremost a BEER lover, nothing pleases me more than pouring a ‘tall frothy’ for an eager beer connoisseur at my venues.

Until recently this simple pleasure has always been second nature, but late last year I realised there was something missing. I thought it was time to develop a qualityhand crafted beer that solely benefits all the hard working publicans that pour it.I brought my singular idea to likeminded colleagues to help me with this unique business model. After months of trial and errorwe managed to produce awell-balancedorganic lager.In late 2013 my concept was ready to present to potential owners, 100Taps Brewing Company was conceived.

Unlike anything before, each keg is individually brewed over a natural 18-day process without the use of any chemicals or preservatives. Malt sweetness is in total harmony with gentle hop bitterness while the brewing process produces refreshing fine sparkling bubbles that cleanse the

palate. A crisp ‘session’ beer to enjoy by itself or with a variety of dishes, as its purity will only enhance anything it accompanies.

Publicans and restaurateurs that share the same vision are now currently pouring 100Taps Hand Crafted chemical and preservative free Lager in over 40 venues around Victoria. ‘A brand of beer that we own and pour!’ Our goal is to have our beer pouring in 100 venues in each state, hence the name 100Taps!

The big selling point of any beer is the ‘story’ and there is no better or more interesting story than 100 licensees brewing their own beer and selling it in their own venues, with the end goal of owning their own brewery.

As you take your last sip, ponder for a moment the potential of being 100 venues strong and the powerful benefits of being a part of a quality craft beer pouring co-operative. For more information visit our website www.100taps.com.au Arthur Tsiafogiannis

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NEW OWNERS make the Pig & Whistle…Unmissable!

What a difference new ownership can make! Since taking ownership of the iconic Pig & Whistle Tavern, hosts Rob and Ann Lawson have toiled relentlessly to put their personal stamp on the establishment whist retaining the rustic charm and English pub atmosphere that has always been its hallmark.

Situated on Purves Road at Main Ridge, the Tavern and adjoining Restaurant serve fabulous fair, with hearty dishes and a wide

selection of wines every day of the week.

The 8 famous beers on tap are always popular but for those looking for something different, there is a large selection of bottled beer and spirits also available.

With new chefs, renowned Dado Sienna with his pork belly and other signature dish ably assisted by Jan Davies with her pastry specialties and wide cooking expertise, the Pig and Whistle restaurant is ready to serve a great selection of traditional andcreative,

COMPUTERS CAN NOW GUESS YOUR EMOTIONS

Most of us spend enough time on computers to establish some sort of rapport. Colleague? Companion? Friend?

In an equal-parts exciting and creepy move that takes us closer to making Spike Jonze’s Her a reality, software designed by A.F.M. Nazmul Haque Nahin and colleagues has successfully got a computer to guess user’s emotions with 87% accuracy.

To provide data for the study, researchers asked volunteers to note their emotional state after typing passages of fixed text, as well as at regular intervals during their normal (‘free text’) computer use. Their approach was to detect user emotions by analysing the keyboard typing patterns of the user and the kind of words or sentences typed by them.

So let’s just all admit that we’re guilty of stiff fingered, jab-the-keyboard-in-rage-typing.

Now through the magic of ‘keystroke dynamics and pattern analysis’ your laptop (now officially your new BFF) can guess that you’re feeling, wait for it – angry! Good job, technology.

The software attempts to pick up on several common emotional states – joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, shame and guilt – with joy and anger boasting the highest rates of accuracy.

While we’re pretty sure that the computer won’t be able to celebrate your happiness with a high five or give you a cuddle when you’re down, the software is an important step toward creating adaptable content for a more seamless computing experience.

Still, prepare for mass hysteria over computers stealing our jobs.

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hearty meals for the whole family.

Not only will you be well wined and dined, the tavern also offers a variety of entertainment on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

The Pig & Whistle also operates this fine Bayview Estate Boutique Winery right next door to the Tavern where you can sample and purchase fine local and selected wines to take home or enjoy with your meal at the restaurant.

The combined facilities of Pig & Whistle and

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Bayview Estate allows a complete versatility to cater for everyone, couples, families, small groups, bus tours and for functions up to 100 including weddings.The Pig & Whistle courtesy bus can be made available for small groups and individuals wishing to enjoy the experience safely and driving free.

The Pig & Whistle is located at 365 Purves Road, Main Ridge. Phone (03) 5989 6130 for further information or visit www. thepigandwhistle.com.au

If you’ve ever wondered what a modern European wine bar is like then Fika Weinstuble is the place to be.

Situated in Mornington, this traditional European Winebar is run by some very experienced and very friendly ladies.

Connie from Germany together with Kerstin and Jenny from Sweden, have created an environment that is ideal for a drink and a chat, which is Fika translated into English.

The Fika Ladies will be showcasing this special social atmosphere during Oktoberfest, at the winebar form September 24 to October 5. The event coincides with the world’s largest funfair held annually in Germany with more than six million attending each year.

Fika Weinstuble brings this fabulous, multi-cultural event to Mornington with two weeks of authentic German beer-sipping, bratwurst-munching fun.

If that’s not enough, the entire menu features some great German cuisine, schnapps surprises, Um-Pah-Pah music and Lederhosen and Dirndl dress ups.

This month it’s every 5th drink free so get out for a sip and a chat at Fika Weinstuble, 174 Main Street, Mornington and experience real European wine and cuisine.

SIMON BURKE

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FORESHORE CAFE Perched on the waterfront strip of Point Nepean Road, Foreshore Café in Rosebud offers relaxed seaside dining in the heart of Mornington Peninsula.

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the main strip, Foreshore Café’s open, breezy ambiance – emphasised by open folding French doors, umbrella shaded al fresco tables and cosy leather lounge – provides all the essentials for laidback café crowds.

Chef Margie Sayer presents a compact, well crafted menu and highlights an array of big breakfasts and Greek inspired mains for lunch seven days a week.

Visit Foreshore Café, Shop 1, 1591 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud West. Ph 5986 5904.

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FLOCK specialty coffee Delicious menu prepared in-house daily Mon - Fri: 6:00 am - 4:00 pm Sat - Sun: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Flock cafe *facebook* 2/25 Dava Drive Mornington, 0402 710 281

Business Hours Mon-Fri 6.30am-5.00pm Sat-Sun 8.30am-3.00pm 85-87 Beleura Hill Rd 3931 Mornington Ph: 5975 3269

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Café

Overlooking our beautiful lake and spectacular sculptures, the Café offers seasonal menus in a relaxed atmosphere.

Lunch served from 10am-4.30pm Catering for functions or group bookings from 20 to 40 people.

Open Mon-Sat from 5.30am Ph: 03 5973 6180 180 Main St Mornington

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1591 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud West 3940 Ph: (03) 5986 5904

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LAST CALL FOR PENINSULA’S GOT TALENT Have you got talent? We wanna know! There are only a few positions left in the Top 12 for the 2014 Peninsula’s Got Talent Grand final to be held at The Rosebud Hotel on Friday October 10. Calling all singers, comedians, puppeteers…whatever! If you got talent, then it’s your last chance to enter!

After a hugely successful 2013 series, The Rosebud Hotel is back with another! Complete with all the guest judge antics, voting categories and BIG CASH PRIZES. With a Grand final first prize of $1000 cash, plus $500 for second place, and $200 for third, there is no better way to kick start your career kitty to fund that demo or video you had always dreamed of. All you need is a little talent…and a BYO fan club!

The Peninsula’s Got Talent Grand Final will be held at Rosebud Hotel on Friday October 10. For last minute entry enquiries contact james@rosebudhotel.com.au and audience tickets are on sale now from the venue!

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FLIX FIX

The movie of a generation, Mrs Doubtfire, made hilarious by the late, great Robin Williams is turning 21 and will be on show at the Shirley Burke Theatre on October 4 at 2pm.

Whether you grew up watching this movie or are taking your kids to see it for the first time, it has all the makings of a family classic. Robin Williams excels as the air guitar playing, cross-dressing nanny with a body suit and multiple personalities.

fter a sell-out dinner show featuring jazz siren Hetty Kate as part of the Mornington Winter Jazz Festival, The Rocks Mornington are proud to announce another exciting eventfor lovers of jazz, blues, fine food and sea-side views, as The Rocks pays tribute to the late Amy Winehouse this September.

Celebrate the remarkable sound and style of multiple Grammy Award winner; the late and great soul singer Amy Winehouse, with one of Australia’s finest singers Atlanta Coogan (Black Sorrows) and the Little Big Band when they pay tribute to the one of the greatest singer/songwriters of our generation. Originally put together as a one-off show for the first anniversary of Amy’s tragic demise, Atlanta and the Little Big Band left audiences wanting more, leading to a demand for just that.

With some of Melbourne’s best musicians backing Atlanta, The Little Big band consists of Matt Dwyer (ex Bondi Cigars), Steve Hadley (Black Sorrows, Tex Perkins, Paul Kelly), Stephen Morrison, Peter Mitchell – Bustamento, Melbourne Ska Orchestra and Matt Poynter, who take you on a musical journey of Amy’s life through song, performing all her hits from her critically acclaimed & award winning full length records Frank & Back To Black.

Tickets are limited for this very exclusive show including an exquisite two-course dinner and cocktail on arrival. The Amy Winehouse Show featuring Atlanta Coogan from 7pm on Friday 19th September at The Rocks, 1 Schnapper Point Drive, Mornington. For bookings phone 5973 5599 and visit www.therocksmornington. com.au for details.

Residing in the ‘where are they now’ file, Mara Wilson plays the adorable Nattie along side Sally Field and for the ladies, a young Pierce Brosnan. In keeping with the theme of Mrs Doubtfire, there is prizes for the best crazy dress ups along with laughs tears and a bit of light swearing, which never did anyone any harm.

If you fancy a light hearted afternoon, get down to the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd, Parkdale, on Saturday October 4. Admission $10.

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Andy Phillips and The Cadillac Walk boys rip it up and deliver in a unique way that can only be described as ‘Cadillac Walk style’, their ability to take the audience from mellow bourbon-soaked blues numbers right through to the shake it up and rock it out songs and everything in between.

One of the founding members of The Screaming Jets. Catch Paul in his exciting solo acoustic format, mixing a blend of Jets hits and the songs that influenced him along the way.

The kind of musician who lives, breathes, eats & sh#ts rock’n'roll!

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Dave McIntosh,including “Tree to Sea”, a documentary celebratingthe work of local timber surfboard craftsmen.

Inspired by the prospect of further collaborativeopportunities and driven by a stoic DIY ethos, theband have designed and built their own recordingstudio by the rolling surf of PtLeo beach where they have begun work on album number 2.

Punters can get a sneak peak of material beingcreated for the new album at the ‘JamrootsSessions’, held at the peninsula’s newest hotspotfor live music ‘Soundbar’ in Rosebud West. The‘Jamroots Sessions’ has an original format, withJamroots playing house band, providing a platformfor local muso’s and creatives young and old,professional and amateur, known and unknown, tocome together to share jams, stories and ideasover great food and beers.

Considering howpopular the night has been over the winter months,it’s not going to take much too blow the roof off thissummer!!

‘Jamroots Sessions’ from 8pm every second Thursday at The Sound Bar, 1625 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud West. Visit www. thesoundbar.com.au for details. For all things Jamroots visit Jamroots on Facebook and Bandcamp.

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Jamroots means business. A dynamic powerhouse impelled by four of the most experienced and accomplished musicians from the bay area. Tim Stout lays down phatBohnam style grooves while his plant style tenor soars over crunchy blues riffs and psychedelic fuzz of guitarists Sean Thomas (Kisschasy) and Jesse Lee (Love Outside Andromeda), grounded by the roots bass styles of AgungWicaksana.

Since recording their self-titled debut album in 2012, the band has been very busy on the live circuit. From a tour of Agung’s homeland, Bali, to gigs in support of their favourite NFP’s The ThinGreen Line and Sea Shepherd Foundation and festival appearances at French Fest, MorningtonMain Street Food and Wine Festival and WesternPort Festival.

Jam Roots have also provided the soundtrack to‘Toast’, the winner of the

inaugural MorningtonPeninsula Film Fest in 2012, which lead to furthercollaboration with filmmaker

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ANDREA MARR & THE FUNKY HITMEN

HEIDI’S BUSKFEST FOR ROSEBUD Local girl Heidi Luckhurst has come up with a great concept to get Rosebud on the street music map and its called Buskfest.

The soulful blues singer/song writer came up with the idea when she realised that the area had little or no street performers, compared to Melbourne or other places on the East coast. The objective is to get 30 applicants to showcase their talent in allocated spots along the footpath running from Rosebud Primary School down towards Boneo Rd on November 8 between 10am and 1pm.

Musicians, acrobats and comedians of all ages are welcome to perform in a 45 minute slot with the participants able to collect donations from the audience combined with the added incentive of cash prizes and promotional vouchers. Winners will be chosen by the three main judges, Ian Pav, Michael Moss and Steve Bastoni. All 3 judges are highly experienced in the world of entertainment.

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Heidi herself has lots of experience of musical talent, growing up surrounded by live music. Her father worked as a recording engineer and bass player, brother Ryan is known as local performer Lucky and singer/ song writer guitarist and Uncle Kelvin Blogg is Heidi’s current accompanying guitarist.

Heidi has music in her blood and it is this drive which has led to the creation of Buskfest with a helping hand from Chamber of Commerce and the generous support of free goods and services from all the other sponsors which include our very own PEARL Magazine and Pav music.

There will be plenty to see and do at the Rosebud Buskfest on November 8 whether you’re watching or taking part so make sure you are involved in some way. If you wish to apply go rosebud.org.au and fill in an application form.

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along the way. She has been crowned Female Blues Artist of the year on two occasions in 2002 and 2009 and has represented Australia at the International Blues Festival in the US. In the Funky Hitmen, she is surrounded by some of the finest musicians in the country. The show combines Andrea’s love of soul, funk, blues and gospel with high energy booty shakin’ soul & funk classics. The octo-group also play some strong original material which is sure to get you singing, dancing and begging for more.

Be sure not to miss Andrea Marr and the Funky Hitmen play one of their rare gigs together in this free event at Davey’s Hotel, 510 Nepean Hwy Frankston, October 5 from 2.30pm.

For more info go to daveys.com.au.

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When Andrea Marr and the Funky Hitmen did their first gig in 2013 they decided it was too good not to continue playing together. Now, you will get the chance to see them perform one of those killer shows live at Davey’s Hotel on October 5.

Part of the relaunched Sunday Soultrain, the group is a larger, eight piece version of the Andrea Marr Band, which is more regularly on show. After uniting to record an album, Sass and Brass, in 2012, the explosion of soul and funk was too great to ignore. The result was music reminiscent of the Memphis Sound with the raw energy of James Brown combined with Andrea’s feel-good, high energy original blues and soul.

Andrea has earned her place in the thriving Melbourne blues scene having performed since 1999 in all parts of Australia, winning a bag full of awards

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DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK Wilder than a truckload of tigers on acid, Australian funk-rock mega-giants, Defryme return with a distinctive madness that’ll rip off your ears and put ‘em back on wrong.

After taking an extended break to surf the world, hang out with a yogi and bench press gorillas, The Defryme machine has decided to roll back into public life for no reason in particular, other than to rock the fuck out.

To coincide with their Sydney live return on September 7th at Frankie’s Pizza, Defryme have just released their latest single, “Audrey”. They’ll also be making a Melbourne return on September 13th at the Cherry.

Joining Defrymein Sydney on the night of the 7th, are local Sydney legends Graveyard Rockstars, and in Melbourne on the 13th, Three Time Thrill will release the beast with the Defryme monstrosity!

Defryme will play crowd favourites “Purekiller”, “God Inside a Man”, “Sanity”, “Therapy”, their ridiculously awesome version of “Mama Said Knock You Out!” and will also feature latest additions “The Blackbird” and of course the new single “Audrey”.

Get to one of these shows on the “Don’t Call It A Comeback” mini-tour and get educated.

Did you know?

• Defryme’s “Purekiller” album made its debut in 1994 at #3 on the National ARIA chart.

• Defryme supported Radiohead’s debut Australian tour.

• Defryme have been widely recognised as one of the premier Australian live acts ever.

• Masters Apprentices legendary front man Jim Keays appeared in Defryme’s video for “Mama Said Knock You Out” • Defryme had charting rock singles and rotated play on commercial radio nationwide at a time in history when the aussie charts were dominated by pop and dance music.

• Defryme supported The Angels and The Divinyls reformation tour in 1994 Defryme are awesome, awesome, awesome!

If you missed Defryme’s gig at The Espy then don’t miss this (or call it a comeback) and head to The Cherry Bar, 103 Flinders Lane on September 13th. Tickets at the door!

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Award winning singer, Daniel Thompson and Golden Guitar winning Australian guitar legendStuie French are back, bringing you ALL things CASH with their acclaimed, Johnny Cash The Concert. Featuring songs spanning Cash’s entire career, from Hey Porter to the Highwayman, At Folsom Prison to the American Recordings and including the collaborations with some of his most iconic contemporaries.

This New show focuses on the finest moments of Cash’s stellar career both as a solo artist and as a member of 80’s supergroup, The Highwaymen.

And for the first time, the show will feature The Australian Songbook According to Cash. Australian songs that Cash recorded… as well as some he might have recorded.

Driven as always by their engine room, The Tennessee Studs,

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MAN IN BLACK! Johnny Cash The Concert has taken Australia by storm over the last few years with the infectious sound of The Man in Black. The spirit of Cash is alive and well when these boys take the stage.

Don’t miss this unforgettable event as the Legend that is Johnny Cash comes to life featuring 2 hours of the Finest Moments and Golden Hits of Johnny Cash!

Here comes the Man in Black! Saturday13 September at Frankston Arts Centre.

For tickets visit thefac.com.au or phone9784 1060

Anh Do travelled to Australia in 1980 on an eight-meter fishing boat with 47 other Vietnamese refugees. Sick with dehydration and one person already dead, the journey music  arts  events  entertainment

Today he is one of Australia’s most sought after stand-ups, as well as a talented writer, actor, producer and corporate entertainer.

The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir, charts his journey from starving refugee to one of Australia’s best-loved entertainers, and was described by Russell Crowe as “the most surprising and inspiring read I have had in

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Comedian Anh Do brings his best-selling memoir, The Happiest Refugee, to life in a groundbreaking new stand-up show.

Performing at the F.A.C on October 9, this moving, inspirational and unforgettable theatre experience combines humour, real life stories, photos and filmed pieces to retell Do’s amazing story.

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Do’s struggles as a young refugee – his difficulties with English, divorcing parents, being bullied and broke, are brought to life in this hilarious but moving new stage show, garnering this happy refugee standing ovations across the country.

Ahn Do – The Happiest Refugee appears Thursday 9th October at Frankston Art Centre. For bookings Ph 9784-1060 or visit thefac.com.au

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Shaun Kirk stOMPS into soultrain Shaun Kirk is the wonderkid of the Australian blues scene. Having only picked up a guitar for the first time in 2004 at the age of 16, his four records and well over four hundred shows in the last four years is quite remarkable.

Since his award winning debut album Cruisin, Shaun has charmed audiences throughout Australia, captivating people with his style of boogie blues and soul.

His first full length album Thank You For Giving Me The Blues shot to number one

on the Australian Blues/Roots Airplay Charts in early 2012. This album showed his musical maturity along with his dedication, passion and vigour for the genre, which was highlighted in his instrumentals and energetic grooves on the record.

He’s pretty damn cool too. Shaun is multi-talented and plays individual drums with his feet while he sings, plays guitar and harmonica/harp. You also might have seen him busking in some parts of the country as his profile and recognition as

a talented performer has steadily grown over the past 18 months.

Shaun’s rising popularity was evident at the 2013 St Kilda Festival as he was voted Best New Artist, then his ambition continued with his latest album, Steer The Wheel, released earlier this year. This record shows his bold and creative personality seeing him explore beyond blues influences- to rock and soul. He is gigging all over the country and has just been announced on the bill at Caloundra Music

Festival in Queensland alongside some of the biggest names in Oz music. His career seems to be soaring and gathering lots of momentum and with potential like Shaun has, the possibilities are endless.

If you want to check out Shaun in action, he’s featuring at Davey’s Hotel, 510 Nepean Hwy Frankston as part of their Sunday Soultrain on Sept 21 2.30pm. Free entry.

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IT’S A KINDA MAGIC Hot on the heels of Adam Lambert and Queen comes Queen – It’s A Kinda Magic! Queen – It’s A Kinda Magic will present fans with the opportunity to re-live Queen as the band it was in its classic days. This stunning re-creation of the 1986 ‘We Will Rock You’ tour features Giles Taylor as Freddie Mercury at his charismatic best.

Freddie Mercury’s former personal assistant of 12 years and biographer, Peter Freestone, was so impressed with Queen – It’s A Kinda Magic that he has not only endorsed the show but he now travels with it, acting as a consultant and meeting fans when his schedule allows. Freestone only spent three weeks away from Mer-

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cury in 12 years so there are few people more equipped to help Taylor fine tune and finesse his performance.

Freestone said, “Giles Taylor has got Freddie under his skin now, and is mesmerising the crowd. I know the Australian audiences enjoyed the shows before and I can guarantee they will want more of the lights, sound and costumes of It’s A Kinda Magic.” Taylor will be joined by Richie Baker as Brian May on guitar, James Childs as John Deacon on Bass and Kyle Thompson as Roger Taylor on drums.

Queen – It’s A Kinda Magic perform at Frankston Arts Centre on October 11 from 8pm. For tickets and more info visit thefac.com.au or phone 97841060.

YO MAMA COME PARTY Always a little crazy Beaches is about to get a bit crazier as Melbourne party band Yomama step onto stage Saturday September 12.

Sounding likea familiar pickup line heard once or twice around midnight, Yomama come bred form top inner-city euro party pits like Bridie O Riley’s and the Elephant & Wheelbarrow and will surely be primed to put the serious stuff aside and turn it up a notch or two.Yomama spokesman David Cousins explains, “I think what makes us great is the fact that we love what we do, we love interacting and entertaining the crowd and every show we play is completely different from the last one. The vocals in the band are something that sets us apart from a lot of other groups and we like playing the songs as close to the original as possible.”

Check out the guys from Yomama on Saturday September 12 at Beaches, 55 Barkly Street, Mornington from 9pm. And if you want a sneak peak say g’dayto Yomamaon Facebook at YomomaCoverband.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH 2 Brothers (Moorabbin), David Huxtable.

7:30PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Pierce Brothers. 8:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Funky Bunch Trivia.

7:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), Get Plugged In Comp Wild Card Round + Dawkins.

8:00PM Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston), Oh What A Night. 8:00PM Grand Hotel (Mornington), Grand Trivia.

7:30PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Harmony James & Luke O’Shea plus Peter Denany.

9:00PM Harba (Mornington), This Is Burlesque.

7:00PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Longbeach Trivia. 7:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), Bedrock. 9:00PM Prince Band Room (St Kilda), Rave Of Thrones feat. Kristian Nairn aka Hodor.

8:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Tru Tones. 7:00PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Fridays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), Mick Read. 7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Friday Live Music.

9:00PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), The Friday Fix w Bec Campbell from 5pm then FriBays RnB Room downstairs & Orkestrated, Silversix, Courtney Mills, Fabian Gray, Heath Renata, Holly J + more with JD’s Birthday Bash upstairs. 9:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Single Income.

9:00PM Berettas (Langwarrin), Rob & Tarquin.

9:00PM Brass Razu (Mornington), Stacey Smith.

8:30PM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), Karaoke Kool. 9:00PM Commonfolk (Mornington), Friday Folkers w Josh & Amanda, Chloe Violette. 6:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Surrender Fridays. 9:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Chris Pettigrove & Every Avenue. 9:00PM Flourish Cafe (Frankston), Flourish Friday Sessions. 7:00PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Eastwood Ravine.

9:00PM Harba (Mornington), This is Burlesque.

7:00PM Hastings Club (Hastings), Dennis Rea. 6:30PM Hickinbotham Winery (Dromana), Wine Women & Song. 7:30PM Hotel Sorrento (Sorrento), Conti Fridays.

9:00PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), Hard Rock Garage. 9:00PM Monington Peninsula Brewery (Mornington), Sarah Rzek. 7:00PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fridaze @ Level 1. 8:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc), Our House.

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8:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

9:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), TGI Fridays with Fudge. 9:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Jay Mclean. 7:00PM Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Olly & Scuzzi.

10:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Karaoke Fridays. 9:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Morning Melodies w Robyn Mills. 10:00AM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Rob Foenander.

7:00PM Social (Mornington), Stiletto Ladies Night.

9:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud), Devil Monkey, Siren Sun and Tyto. 8:30PM Trims Restaurant (McCrae), Warrains.

6:30PM Twelve Bar (Frankston), Friday Night Blues.

5:00PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), 2am. 7:30PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Saturdays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), Dons Party. 7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), 23 Past. 9:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), Midori Singles Ball w Fudge downstairs 7:30pm, DC Saturdays w DJ’s Damang & Benny Watt upstairs from 9pm plus Rob & Tarquin live w DJ Chris downstairs. 10:30PM Beaches (Mornington), Eastwood Ravine.

9:00PM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), HQ Over 28s. 9:00PM Continental Hotel (Sorrento), Conti Saturdays. 9:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Almost Famous Saturdays. 8:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Lukas Brock & Guilty Pleasure. 9:00PM Grand Hotel (Mornington), Cruze Saturdays.

9:00PM Hickinbotham Winery (Dromana), Robb Papalado. 1:00PM Hotel Sorrento (Sorrento), Tim Morrison Duo. 8:00PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), The Koffin Rockers , Ezra Lee & Run The Red. 8:30PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Sexy Saturdays. 8:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

9:00PM Pier Live/Daveys Hotel (Frankston), Super Club Saturdays. 9:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Joost.

7:00PM Rose GPO (Rosebud), Chris Swayn and Friends. 8:00PM Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Josh Roydhouse.

7:00PM Royal Hotel (Mornington), Joe Laff. 8:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Cover Up. 7:00PM Sandringham Hotel (Sandringham), BandAoke w Andrew Hosking Duo. 9:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Peter Thackrah.

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Social (Mornington), DJ Matt. 9:00PM Southern Peninsula Arts Centre (Rosebud), Joe Creighton. 8:00PM The Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Sound City Over 28s. 9:00PM Trios (Cranbourne), Two Piece Feed. 8:30PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Country Sundays.

3:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Acoustic Sunday Sessions. 9:00PM Beach 162 (Frankston), Rossco G & Swamp Box. 2:30PM Cove (Patterson Lakes), Matt Bradshaw.

2:00PM Davey’s Hotel (Frankston), Blues Mountain.

2:30PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Sunday Sessions w Dj Scotty G. 4:00PM Harba (Mornington), The Rock Dogs. 5:00PM Heritage Tavern (Balnarring), TRee. 3:00PM Hickinbotham Winery (Dromana), Raw Silk.

1:00PM Leaf & Bean (Mornington), Live Jazz. 2:00PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Sundays Live Acoustic. 2:00PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), Club DiDeddy w Andrea. 3:00PM Mentone Hotel (Mentone), Sunday Sessions.

2:30PM Mentone RSL (Mentone), Let’s Dance Big Band. 1:00PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Live Sunday Sessions. 4:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc), Cheeky Sunday Sessions. 2:00PM Mornington Peninsula Brewery (Mornington), Carus Thompson. 2:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

3:00PM Pier 10 (Shoreham), Live Music. 1:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), The Legend band. 1:30PM Red Hill Bakery (Red Hill), Live Jazz. 1:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Sean Harvey.

2:00PM Seaford Hotel (Seaford), Chris Doheny.

2:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Andrew Rigo.

1:00PM Social (Mornington), John Kendall & King Louie. 3:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), James Cassar Duo. 1:00PM Steeples (Mornington), Jason Dean. 1:00PM The Winey Cow (Mornington), Benn Manie.

1:00PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), Olly & Scuzzi.

3:00PM Westernport Hotel (San Remo), Paulie Bignell & The Thronbury Two. 5:30PM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Taco Tuesdays. 9:00PM Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston), The Magic Flute. 7:30PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fame Trivia. 7:30PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Tuesday Trivia.

7:00PM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH

Baha Taco’s (Rye), Rock Trivia. 7:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Karaoke Kool.

9:00PM Gods Kitchen (Mornington), Gods Trivia.

8:30PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Worlds Least Shit Trivia. 7:00PM The Winey cow (Mornington), Benn Manie.

11:00AM THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH 2 Brothers (Moorabbin), Simon Phillips.

7:30PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Funky Bunch Trivia.

7:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), Get Plugged In Comp Semi Final 1 + Dawkins. 8:00PM Grand Hotel (Mornington), Grand Trivia.

7:30PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Adam Brand. 9:00PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Longbeach Trivia. 7:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), Bedrock. 9:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Silouettes. 6:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Jam Sessions hosted by Jam Roots. 8:30PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12TH 2 Brothers (Moorabbin), David Huxtable.

7:30PM Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Fridays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), Mat Dalrymple.

7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Friday Live Music.

9:00PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), The Friday Fix w Kate McLachlan from 5pm then FriBays RnB Room downstairs & Ryan Riback + guests upstairs. 9:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Yo Mama. 9:00PM Berettas (Langwarrin), Rob & Tarquin.

9:00PM Brass Razu (Mornington), James Marris.

8:30PM Caravan Music Club (Oakleigh), Joe Creighton. 8:30PM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), Karaoke Kool. 9:00PM Continental Hotel (Sorrento), Conti Fridays.

9:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Surrender Fridays. 9:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Chris Pettigrove & Every Avenue. 9:00PM Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston), The Girls From Oz. 10:30AM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Million Dollar Riff.

9:00PM Harba (Mornington), Robbie Williams Tribute.

12:00AM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fridaze @ Level 1. 8:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc), Our House.

8:00PM One fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

9:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), TGI Fridays w Fudge.

9:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Jack Daniel Solo. 7:00PM

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Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Olly & Scuzzi.

10:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Normie Rowe Tribute Show.

7:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Karaoke Fridays. 9:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Steve Warner.

7:00PM Social (Mornington), Stiletto Ladies Night.

9:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Ryan Luckhurst.

8:30PM Trims Restaurant (McCrae), Acoustic Cats.

6:30PM Twelve Bar (Frankston), Friday Night Blues.

5:00PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), 2am. 7:30PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Saturdays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), Yellow. 7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), 23 Past. 9:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), DC Saturdays w DJ’s Code Luke & Benny Watt upstairs plus Rob & Tarquin live w DJ Chris P downstairs. 9:00PM Beaches (Mornington), After Hours. 9:00PM Carrum Downs Recreation Reserve (Carrum Downs), Mayor’s Family Picnic. 11:00AM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), HQ Over 28s. 9:00PM Continental Hotel (Sorrento), Conti Saturdays. 9:00PM Cube 37 (Frankston), The Paris Underground Cabaret. 8:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Almost Famous Saturdays. 8:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Lukas Brock & Guilty Pleasure. 9:00PM Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston), Johnny Cash The Golden Greats Of The Man In Black. 8:00PM Frankston RSL (Frankston), Jay And The Eldorados. 7:30PM Grand Hotel (Mornington), Cruze Saturdays.

9:00PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Sound City Over 28s.

9:00PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), The Hornets.

3:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc), Sexy Saturdays. 8:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

9:00PM Pier Live/Daveys Hotel (Frankston), Super Club saturdays. 7:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), James Vincent. 7:00PM Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Josh Roydhouse.

7:00PM Royal Hotel (Mornington), Ben Song. 8:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Munster Terrace. 6:00PM Sandringham Hotel (Sandringham), BandAoke w Andrew Hosking Duo. 9:00PM Social (Mornington), DJ Matt. 9:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Baron Franco with Diddy Reyes and Electric Larry.

8:30PM Trios (Cranbourne), Two Piece Feed. 8:30PM

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Westernport Hotel (San Remo), Tijuana Cartel. 9:00PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Country Sundays.

8:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Acoustic Sunday Sessions. 4:00PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), ‘Half Way to St Patrick’s Day’ w Shanakee. 3:00PM Beach 162 (Frankston), Geoff Achison.

2:30PM Cove (Patterson Lakes), Piano Man Duo. 2:00PM Davey’s Hotel (Frankston), Blue Eyes Cry. 2:30PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Sunday Session w Dj Scotty G. 4:00PM Harba (Mornington), Sarah Gardner. 5:00PM Heritage Tavern (Balnarring), Andy Phillips & The Cadillac Walk. 3:00PM Hickinbotham Winery (Dromana), Mamma’s Mountain Jug Band. 1:00PM Hotel Sorrento (Sorrento), Tim Morrison Duo. 8:00PM Leaf & Bean (Mornington), Live jazz. 2:00PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Sundays Live Acoustic. 2:00PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), Sunday Session w Cover Crew. 3:00PM Mentone Hotel (Mentone), Sunday Sessions.

2:30PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Live Sunday Sessions. 4:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Cheeky Sunday Sessions. 2:00PM Mornington Peninsula Brewery (Mornington), Live Music. 2:00PM One fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

3:00PM Pier 10 (Shoreham), Live Music. 1:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Kingsley George band. 1:30PM Red Hill Bakery (Red Hill), Live Jazz. 1:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Liz Bradley.

2:00PM Seaford Hotel (Seaford), Jimi Hocking.

2:00PM Social (Mornington), John Kendall & King Louie. 3:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Bloomfield and Roundhouse. 1:00PM Steeples (Mornington), Matt Bradshaw.

1:00PM The Winey Cow (Mornington), Benn Manie.

1:00PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), Olly & Scuzzi.

3:00PM Westernport Hotel (San Remo), Pugsley Buzzard. 5:30PM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Taco Tuesdays. 4:00PM Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston), Crimson Sky. 7:00PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fame Trivia. 7:30PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Tuesday Trivia.

7:00PM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Rock Trivia. 7:00PM

Beaches (Mornington), Karaoke Kool.

9:00PM Gods Kitchen (Mornington), Gods Trivia.

8:30PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc), Worlds Least Shit Trivia. 7:00PM Red Hill Bakery (Red Hill), Jazz at The Gallery. 5:30PM The Winey Cow (Mornington), Benn Manie.

11:00AM THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH 2 Brothers (Moorabbin), David Huxtable.

7:30PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Funky Bunch Trivia.

7:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), Get Plugged In Comp Semi Final 2 + Dawkins. 8:00PM Grand Hotel (Mornington), Grand Trivia.

7:30PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Longbeach Trivia. 7:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), Bedrock. 9:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Chordettes. 6:00PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH 2 Brothers (Moorabbin), Simon Phillips.

7:30PM Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Fridays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), John Cosgrove.

7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Friday Live Music.

9:00PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), The Friday Fix w Robbo 5pm then FriBays RnB Room downstairs & Courtney Mills + guests upstairs. 9:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Single Income.

9:00PM Berettas (Langwarrin), Rob & Tarquin.

12:00AM Brass Razu (Mornington), Jessica-Jade.

8:30PM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), Karaoke Kool. 9:00PM Continental Hotel (Sorrento), Conti Fridays.

9:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Surrender Fridays. 9:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Chris Pettigrove & Every Avenue. 9:00PM Frankston RSL (Frankston), Normie Rowe.

7:00PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Eastwood Ravine.

9:00PM Hastings Club (Hastings), Night Moods.

6:30PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), The Party Animals. 8:30PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fridaze @ Level 1. 8:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc), Our House.

8:00PM Mornington Peninsula Brewery (Mornington), Sarah Rzek. 7:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

9:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), TGI Fridays w Fudge.

9:00PM

Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Jack Daniel.

7:00PM Prince Band Room (St Kilda), Tomorrow Never Comes feat. Butch. 9:00PM Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Olly & Scuzzi.

10:00PM Sandbelt Hotel (Moorabbin), Faze Fridays.

9:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Karaoke Fridays. 9:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Ian White. 7:00PM Social (Mornington), Stiletto Ladies Night.

9:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Wineshank.

8:30PM The Rocks (Mornington), The Amy Winehouse Show. 7:00PM Trims Restaurant (McCrae), Jay McClean.

6:30PM Twelve Bar (Frankston), Friday Night Blues.

5:00PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), 2am. 7:30PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Saturdays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), Allure. 7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), 23 Past. 9:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), DC Saturdays w DJ’s Damang & Benny Watt upstairs plus Rob & Tarquin live w DJ Chris P downstairs. 9:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Shazam. 9:00PM Canadian Bay Hotel (Mt Eliza), Chris Ball.

8:30PM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), HQ Over 28s. 9:00PM Continental Hotel (Sorrento), Conti Saturdays. 9:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Almost Famous Saturdays. 8:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Lukas Brock & Guilty Pleasure. 9:00PM Dingley International (Dingley), Viva Coldplay. 8:30PM Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston), Seventh Wonder The Fleetwood Mac Experience.

8:00PM Frankston RSL (Frankston), Yellow. 7:30PM Grand Hotel (Mornington), Cruze Saturdays.

9:00PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Sound City Over 28s.

9:00PM Hickinbotham Winery (Dromana), Dan Palamara. 1:00PM Hotel Sorrento (Sorrento), Tim Morrison Duo. 8:00PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), Rod Paine & The Fulltime Lovers w Buddy Knox Blues Band. 8:30PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc), Sexy Saturdays. 8:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

9:00PM Pier Live&Daveys Hotel (Frankston), Super Club Saturdays. 9:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), James

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Vincent. 7:00PM Prince Band Room (St Kilda), American Authors w Andy Grammer & Masketta Fall.

7:30PM Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Josh Roydhouse.

7:00PM Royal Hotel (Mornington), Scott Hunter.

8:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), The Original Mustangs.

6:00PM Sandringham Hotel (Sandringham), BandAoke w Andrew Hosking Duo. 9:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Richard Evans.

7:30PM Social (Mornington), DJ Matt. 9:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Fifth Friend.

8:30PM Trios (Cranbourne), Two Piece Feed. 8:30PM Westernport Hotel (San Remo), Jon Stevens.

9:00PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST Arthurs Hotel (Arthurs Seat), Acoustic Live & Local. 1:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Country Sundays.

8:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Acoustic Sunday Sessions. 4:00PM Beach162 (Frankston), Crazy Beats Big. 2:30PM Cove (Patterson Lakes), Matt Bradshaw.

2:00PM Cube 37 (Frankston), Jorge Saade-Scaff & Juan Carlos Escudero. 7:30PM Davey’s Hotel (Frankston), Shaun Kirk.

2:30PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Sunday Session w Dj Scotty G. 4:00PM Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston), Jason Byrne. 7:30PM Harba (Mornington), The Rock Dogs. 5:00PM Heritage Tavern (Balnarring), Pugsley Buzzard. 3:00PM Hickinbotham Winery (Dromana), Doc White. 1:00PM Leaf & Bean (Mornington), Live Jazz. 2:00PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Sundays Live Acoustic. 2:00PM Mentone Hotel (Mentone), Sunday Sessions.

2:30PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Live Sunday Sessions. 4:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Cheeky Sunday Sessions. 2:00PM Mornington Peninsula Brewery (Mornington), Carus Thompson. 2:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

3:00PM Pier 10 (Shoreham), Live Music. 1:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Kingsley George band. 1:30PM Red Hill Bakery (Red Hill), Live Jazz. 1:00PM Rye Hotel (Rye), Shiraz & Jazz. 1:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Sean Harvey.

2:00PM Seaford Hotel (Seaford), Andy Phillips And The Cadillac Walk. 2:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Ian Duchesne.

1:00PM Social (Mornington), John Kendall & King Louie. 3:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Dan Calabro.

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1:00PM Steeples (Mornington), Sarah Rzek. 1:00PM The Winey Cow (Mornington), Benn Manie.

1:00PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), Olly & Scuzzi.

3:00PM Westernport Hotel (San Remo), Safari Motel.

5:30PM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23RD Baha Taco’s (Rye), Taco Tuesdays. 4:00PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fame Trivia. 7:30PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Tuesday Trivia.

7:00PM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Rock Trivia. 7:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Karaoke Kool. 9:00PM Gods Kitchen (Mornington), Gods Trivia.

8:30PM Mentone Hotel (Mentone), Edgy Wednesdays w Mashd N Kutcher, Jesse James, Mitch Coen & BigMac. 9:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Worlds Least Shit Trivia. 7:00PM The Winey Cow (Mornington), Benn Manie.

11:00AM THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH 2 Brothers (Moorabbin), Simon Phillips.

7:30PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Funky Bunch Trivia.

7:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), Get Plugged In Comp Grand Final + Dawkins. 8:00PM Grand Hotel (Mornington), Grand Trivia.

7:30PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Longbeach Trivia. 7:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), Bedrock. 9:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Rainbow. 6:00PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH 2 Brothers (Moorabbin), Jame Forbes.

7:30PM Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Fridays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), Rene Diaz. 7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Friday Live Music.

9:00PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), The Friday Fix w Bec Campbell from 5pm then FriBays Rated R Party RnB Room downstairs & JDG with Benny Mac + Guests upstairs. 9:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Party Animals.

9:00PM Berettas (Langwarrin), Rob & Tarquin.

9:00PM Brass Razu (Mornington), Jessica-Jade.

8:30PM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), Karaoke Kool. 9:00PM Continental Hotel (Sorrento), Conti Fridays.

9:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Surrender Fridays. 9:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Chris Pettigrove & Every Avenue. 9:00PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Million Dollar Riff.

9:00PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fridaze @ Level 1. 8:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Our House.

8:00PM One Fourteen (Mentone), Live Music.

9:00PM Pier Hotel (Frankston), TGI Fridays w Fudge.

9:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Jay Mclean. 7:00PM Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Olly & Scuzzi.

10:00PM Sandbelt Hotel (Moorabbin), Faze Fridays.

9:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Comedy Night.

8:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), John Zammit.

7:00PM Social (Mornington), Stiletto Ladies Night.

9:00PM Somerville Hotel (Somerville), ACCA DACCA. 9:00PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), The Infernos.

8:30PM Trims Restaurant (McCrae), Mojo Pearls.

6:30PM Twelve Bar (Frankston), Friday Night Blues.

5:00PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), 2am. 7:30PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH Backyard Bar (Mornington), Backyard Bar Karaoke. 9:00PM Baha Taco’s (Rye), Live Music Saturdays.

8:00PM Baxter Tavern (Baxter), Diamantina. 7:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), 23 Past. 9:30PM Bay Hotel (Mornington), DC Saturdays w DJ’s Damang & Benny Watt upstairs and Rob & Tarquin live w DJ Chris P downstairs.

9:00PM Beaches (Mornington), Copyrite. 9:00PM Chelsea Heights Hotel (Chelsea Heights), HQ Over 28s. 9:00PM Continental Hotel (Sorrento), Conti Saturdays. 9:00PM Dance Nightclub (Berwick), Almost Famous Saturdays. 8:00PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Dj Lukas Brock & Guilty Pleasure. 9:00PM Hallam Hotel (Hallam), Sound City Over 28s.

9:00PM Hotel Sorrento (Sorrento), Tim Morrison Duo. 8:00PM Lucky 13 Garage (Moorabbin), The Lincolns & The Streamliners. 8:30PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Sexy Saturdays. 8:00PM One fourteen (Mentone), Live Music. 9:00PM Pier Live/Daveys Hotel (Frankston), Super Club Saturdays. 9:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), Joost Solo. 7:00PM Rosebud Hotel (Rosebud), Josh Roydhouse.

7:00PM Royal Hotel (Mornington), Angela Robinson.

8:00PM Rye RSL (Rye), Shanakee. 6:00PM Sandringham Hotel (Sandringham), BandAoke w Andrew Hosking Duo. 9:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Wayne Monger.

7:30PM Sound Bar (Rosebud West), Diddy Reyes & The Blues Maniacs. 8:30PM The Grand Hotel (Mornington), Cruze Saturdays. 9:00PM The Social (Mornington), DJ Matt. 9:00PM Trios (Cranbourne), Two Piece Feed. 8:30PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Country Sundays.

3:00PM Bay Hotel (Mordialloc), Acoustic Sunday Sessions. 4:00PM Cove (Patterson Lakes), Dylan Boyd. 2:00PM Davey’s Hotel (Frankston), Blues Mountain.

2:30PM Deck Bar (Frankston), Sunday Sessions w Dj Scotty G. 4:00PM Harba (Mornington), Sarah Gardner. 12:00AM Heritage Tavern (Balnarring), Wild Turkey.

3:00PM Hickinbotham Winery (Dromana), Left Of Centre. 1:00PM Leaf & Bean (Mornington), Live jazz. 2:00PM Longbeach Hotel (Chelsea), Sundays Live Acoustic. 2:00PM Mentone Hotel (Mentone), Sunday Sessions.

2:30PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Live Sunday Sessions. 4:00PM Mordy Supper Club (Mordialloc) , Cheeky Sunday Sessions. 2:00PM Mornington Peninsula Brewery (Mornington), Backyard Crew. 2:00PM One fourteen (Mentone), Live music. 3:00PM Pier 10 (Shoreham), Live Music. 1:00PM Pig & Whistle Tavern (Main Ridge), James Vincent Trio. 1:30PM Red Hill Bakery (Red Hill), Live Jazz. 1:00PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Liz Bradley.

2:00PM Seaford Hotel (Seaford), Paul Woseen.

2:00PM Seaford RSL (Seaford), Paul Varney. 1:00PM Social (Mornington), John Kendall & King Louie. 3:00PM Steeples (Mornington), Matt Bradshaw.

1:00PM The Winey Cow (Mornington), Benn Manie.

1:00PM Trims Restaurant (McCrae), Jazz & Shiraz.

12:30PM Westernport Hotel (Hastings), Olly & Scuzzi.

3:00PM Westernport Hotel (San Remo), Dream Boogie. 5:30PM MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Morning Melodies w Marcia Rae. 10:00AM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH Baha Taco’s (Rye), Taco Tuesdays. 4:00PM Mordialloc Sporting Club (Mordialloc), Fame Trivia. 7:30PM Sands Hotel (Carrum Downs), Tuesday Trivia.

7:00PM WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1ST Beaches (Mornington), Karaoke Kool. 9:00PM Gods Kitchen (Mornington), Gods Trivia.

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DEAD LOVE Twenty one year old Melbournian Singer/ Songwriter Daniel Vogl, also known as EEO (pronounced E-O) has been producing a unique blend of indie/folk since early 2010. His signature sound spans the dynamics of fast percussive songwriting to slower, smoother and more open melodic numbers. In 2012, with no budget, a DIY attitude and a give anything a go approach EEO wrote, recorded and produced a 9-track album entitled Villain In Methat was well re-ceived.

From this experience EEO refined his craft of connecting to audiences through bold soulful lyrics, catchy chord progressions and sing along harmonies. EEO’s storyteller style is a reflection of his influences of Bob Dylan, Paul Kelly and Mumford and Sons. EEO will launching his latest offering Dead Love at radio now.

EEO - Single Launch Show w/- The Winter Suns Northcote Social Club, High Street Northcote Sunday September 7 2pm (Matinee Show) $12 www.officialeeo.com

COME ONE, COME ALL TO FORESTER’S HALL Forester’s Music and Beer Hall - Melbourne’s newest live music venue offers a unique combination of the biggest range of craft beer on tap in Australia, late hours, great entertainment. excellent customer service, all housed in a historic venue in one of the most vibrant precincts in Melbourne Smith Street, Collingwood. The venues elevated, antique shell-shaped stage has been graced by music, comedy and circus acts over the decades.

Forester’s Hall continues this tradition, with free live performances, two to four nights a week; initially with bands every Friday and Saturday from 9.30pm to 11.30pm followed by a DJ until late. Eventually a second, late shift band may be introduced on weekends, alongside Thursday and Sunday bands. Forester’s Hall is open until 4am on weekends and 2am on weeknights, serving gourmet pizzas to complement the beer on offer and live music.

The Rechords FMH Launch Party Forester’s Music Hall, 64 Smith Street Collingwood Thursday September 11 Doors 9:30pm www.forestershall.com.au

THE BONES OF US Fresh off the back of her support shows with SAFIA & Hayden Calnin, Eliza Hull& band are excited to be showcasing new songs, including her new single Caught for the first time from her upcoming debut album The Bones Of Us. Eliza’s recent EP The Ghosts You Never Catch which included lead track Christopher was met with critical acclaim upon release in late 2013, with songs being added to MTV’S US TV show Awkward, and a European and American tour to support its release. Eliza has spent the past few months writing and recording the intricate songs that are to make up her album. Having collaborated with writers such as UK artist Tim Gordine (Matt Corby), Gossling and Ainslie Wills, with production from Hayden Calnin and mixing from Jono Steer, Eliza’s new music promises to bring that same heartfelt electro-dreaminess back paired with some fresh upbeat synth driven indie-pop melodies to tap your toes to.

Eliza Hull w/- Texture Like Sun & Lanks Saturday September 20, Toff In Town, Swanston St City Doors 8pm $15 www.elizahull.com

FUGITIVE As one of the hottest acts currently 5 piece Castlecomer,hot on the heels of their success with Lone Survivor, the second EP from the Sydney band are hitting up the east coast and Melbourne it’s your turn. Incorporating 5 piece har-monies into their songs and with lyrics that stay with you all day from the first play, these lads have the perfect recipe for success. They’ve played over 500 shows – and destroyed two Taragos in the process. They all sing, they’re related, and they write great songs. Lead single Fugitive is about not being able to be with the people you love, for whatever reason. “I wrote it after watching the Harrison Ford film thinking about how difficult it would be to live a life on the run – which is sort of what we’re going for with the whole touring band thing”, explains Bede.

Castlecomer Shebeen, Manchester Lane Melbourne Saturday September 20 Doors 8:30pm $15 www.castlecomermusic.com

QUIFFING IT UP Hank’s Jalopy Demons are hitting up the new stage at Collingwood’s newest live music venue Forester’s Music Hall next month. The latest line-up has been particularly active in seedy late night bars, where they have assailed unsuspecting victims with their well practiced and expert renditions of unadulterated Rock-a-billy music some-times cut with illicit substances such as late-50s garage Rock‘n’Roll and Hillbilly. After the successful production and launch of Hank’s Jalopy Demons’ CD Going Straight - to the Electric Chair in Melbourne, Hank relocated to Berlin in 2008, where a version of the JDs played some gigs, before returning to Melbourne in 2009. Since then, we’ve played some sporadic gigs - like wowsville man! There is still a very limited supply of CDs if you’re inter-ested, too. The lads have regrouped and are brylcreaming their quiffs and fuelling up the rods and coming at you!

Hank’s Jelopy Demons Forester’s Music and Beer Hall, 64 Smith Street Collingwood Musical Doors 8pm www.hanksjelopydemons.com.au

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EXITS Steve Smyth is a Singer/Songwriter who originally hails from the South Coast of New South Wales, but is best described these days as a world citizen. His live performances have to be experienced to be believed. Every performance is an event, every song a statement. He has a habit of putting a smile on every face in in the room, and encouraging pre-viously unplanned whooping to erupt en masse. Having toured nationally and internationally with the likes of The Kill-ers, Angus and Julia and Lanie Lane, from the smallest hole in the wall to the grandest theatre, Steve Smyth IS the show. With the successfully received Release LP which was of my most played albums of 2011/2012 and with influ-ences from Waits to Sam Cooke and Dylan to the influence that seeps through of his love for gospel, the new album Exits and his launch show will be nothing short of spectacular.

Steve Smyth Shebeen, Manchester Lane Melbourne Saturday October 11 Doors 8:30pm $13 www.stevesmyth.com.au

YOUR WORDS Mercians are a 5 piece band based in Melbourne. They play a fusion of post-rock, uplifting grooves blended with husky yet soulful vocals. A journey unfolds in each song from dark and moody to uplifting soundscapes.

Starting out several years ago as a quartet, four became five in 2012 as Jerome Green took over lead vocals which spurred an overhaul of the band’s sound. Earnest groups like The Maccabees, The Neighbourhood, Radiohead and Foals would become chief influences and song structures became more complex. It means that Mercians feels like a fresh ambition while still sounding like a gang of friends that have been playing together forever.

Mercians are keeping busy sharing their new single Your Words which is also the title track for their debut EP released in June.

Spreading The Seed presents the Lil Ol’ Opry a night of Folk, Americana and Alt-Country Stylings with the Alt-Country Stylist herself Gretta Ziller, having just launched her debut EP Hells Half Acre and with wide spread radio airplay across stations both in Australia and New Zealand this young artist deserves be taken notice of. Joining Ziller is Melbourne’s Folk/Country award winning Nashville recording artist Bill Jackson along with the Sweethearts of Amer-icana, The Weeping Willows, one of their last shows before returning to Nashville for the Americana Music Festival in Tennessee in the Unites States this September.

Mercians w/- Residual/JP Klipspringer/I Know The Chief Saturday September 13 The Workers Club, Gertrude Street Fitzroy www.facebook.com/MerciansMusic

Gretta Ziller/Bill Jackson/The Weeping Willows The Dancing Dog, 42 Albert St, Footscray Friday Sept 5Doors 7pmFully Grow’d $8, Student Concession $5 www.spreadingtheseed.com

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FESTIVALS

A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE? Do you dream of being part of a zombie apocalypse? On October 25 Melbournians it is coming, we just do not know where – or when. An abstract ode to Old Hallows Eve, an abandoned cityscape and haunted house will set the backdrop for this skincrawling event. Patrons must escape unharmed to reap the benefits of the after-math. Confused?

See www.melbournehalloween.com for details.

ART FOR A GOOD CAUSE

...with Heidi Bond

DOCKLANDS BLUES On October 5 Blues’ enthusiasts will unite, as the Docklands Blues festival introduces a bevy of world-class musicians to the relatively youthful harbour.The free event will boast over 10 hours of soulful blues, hosting the likes of Desert Blues Cartel, Safari Motl, Justin Yap Band, Sweet Felicia & The Honeytones and Rod Paine & The Fulltime Lovers. See www. docklandsartsandlaughsfestival.com. au for details.

FALLS FESTIVAL LINE UP ANNOUNCED The long-awaited Lorne Falls Festival line-up is finally here. After much deliberation, organizers have confirmed music heavyweights ALT-J, Cold War Kids, Glass Animals, The Presets, Temper Trap as part of an unbelievable new years bill. Blue Juice are also on board to play, in one of their final festival appearances. From December 28 – January 1, see www.lorne.fallsfestival. com.au for details.

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The Somers Arts Fair is an annual event showcasing local talent and raising money for a very good cause.

On October 26 money raised from the fair will be donated to Somers Primary School, and offer families a fantastic day out with music performances, market stalls, delicious delicacies, local wines and so much more.

See www.somersps.vic.edu.au for more details.

FAITH NO MORE AND MORE FOR SOUNDWAVE Landing perfectly in the Two days, four cities – a legendary assortment of talent. Welcome to Soundwave 2015.

From February 21 – 22 prepare to let Faith No More, Soundgarden, Incubus, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Fall Out Boy, Slipknot and many more overwhelm your senses at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse. Sure to be one of the best, check out www.soundwavefestival. com for ticket details.

INTERNATIONAL STREET FOOD FESTIVAL Melbourne is undoubtedly the food capital of Australia.

What better way to celebrate than to host a two-day homage to our love for eclectic food, culture and lifestyle with the International Street Food Festival.

From January 25, various international and local street food vendors will show off their skills and vie for Melbourne’s best.

All welcome, see www.thatsmelbourne. com.au for details.

FE ST IV AL S CA LE ND aR & EVE NTS

Melbourne Underground Film Festival September 12 - 20, 2014 Southbank (Blacklot Studios) Melbourne Fringe Festival September 17 - October 5, 2014 Melbourne (Various) Guildford Banjo Jamboree September 19 - 21, 2014 Guildford (Town Centre) Frankston Midnight Marathon September 20 - 21, 2014 Frankston (Ballam Park Athletics Track) Hinterland Scarecrow Festival September 20 - October 19, 2014 Mornington Peninsula (Various) Mildura Country Music Festival September 26 - October 5, 2014 Mildura (Various) Listen Out October 4, 2014 Melbourne (Botanic Gardens)

with RACHAEL CAMPBELL

2014Mornington (Racecourse) Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival November 6 - 9, 2014 Bendigo (Various) Beechworth Annual Celtic Festival November 7 - 9, 2014 Beechworth (Various) One Electric Day Festival November 9, 2014 Werribee (Werribee Park) Australasian World Music Expo November 13 - 16, 2014 Melbourne (Various) Melbourne Music Week November 14 - 23, 2014 Melbourne (Various) Face The Music November 15 - 16, 2014 Melbourne (Arts Centre) Scorcher Festival November 16, 2014 Brunswick (Brunswich Hotel)

Doomsday Festival October 4 - 5, 2014 Melbourne (Yah Yah’s& The Tote)

Phillip Island Jazz Festival November 21 - 23, 2014 Phillip Island (Ramada Resort)

Darebin Music Feast October 8 - 19, 2014 Darebin (Various)

Strawberry Fields Festival November 21 - 23, 2014 Koonoomoo (On The NSW Border)

Melbourne Festival October 10 - 26, 2014 Melbourne (Various) TAC Cranbourne Cup Day October 12, 2014 Cranbourne (Cranbourne Turf Club) Oktoberfest October 18, 2014 Portsea (Portsea Hote) Out On The Weekend October 18, 2014 Williamstown (Seaworks)

Earthcore Festival November 27 December 1, 2014 Pyalong Queenscliff Music Festival November 28 - 30, 2014 Queenscliff (Various) Harvest n Graze Festival November 29, 2014 Bright (Howitt Park)

Main Street Festival October 19, 2014 Mornington (Main Street)

The Other’ Film Festival December 3 - 7, 2014 North Melbourne (Arts House, Town Hall)

Soulfest October 19, 2014 Melbourne (Sidney Myer Music Bowl)

Torquay Festival December 6, 2014 Torquay (Various)

Sprung Festival October 19, 2014 Burnley (Recreation Complex)

Stereosonic December 6 - 7, 2014 Melbourne (Showgrounds)

Harvest n Graze Festival October 19, 2014 Elsternwick (Rippon Lea Gardens)

Meredith Music Festival December 12 - 14, 2014 Meredith (Amphitheatre)

Camperdown Cruise October 23 - 26, 2014 Camperdown (Main Street)

Falls Festival December 28, 2014 January 1, 2015 Lorne (Various)

Mt Eliza Art Show October 24 - 26, 2014 Mt Eliza (Mt Eliza North Primary School)

Beyond The Valley December 30, 2014 January 1, 2015 Phillip Island

Cuban Jazz Festival October 26, 2014 Yarra Valley (Rochford Winery)

NYE On The Hill Festival December 30, 2014 - January 1, 2015 Wonthaggi (Loch Village)

JamGrass Festival October 31 - November 2, 2014 Thornbury (Thornbury Theatre) Maldon Folk Festival October 31 November 3, 2014 Maldon (Various) Wangaratta Jazz Festival October 31 November 3, 2014 Wangaratta (Various) Sportingbet Peninsula Cup November 2,

French Fest December 30, 2014 - January 1, 2015 French Island The Hills Are Alive Fesitval December 30, 2014 - January 1, 2015 Loch Village, (The Farm) Let Them Eat Cake Festival January 1, 2015 Werribee (Werribee Park)

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SEPTEMBER 2014 Damien Leith (Bennetts Lane). Sat Sept 6 Kaylens Rain (Revolver Upstairs). Sat Sept 6 Protest The Hero (The Hi-Fi). Sat Sept 6 Alinta& The Jazz Emperors (Paris Cat Jazz Club).

Sat Sept 6 The Kite String Tangle (Corner Hotel). Sat Sept 6 & Sun Sept 7 Dead Letter Circus (Toff In Town). Sat Sept 6 & Sun Sept 7 Wil Wagner (Northcote Social Club). Sat Sept 6 & Tues Sept 9 Pop Will Eat Itself (The Hi-Fi). Sun Sept 7 Devildriver (170 Russell). Sun Sept 7 Biffy Clyro (Palais Theatre). Sun Sept 7 Renee Geyer (Bennetts Lane). Sun Sept 7 Anberlin (Forum Theatre). Tues Sept 9 Kanye West (Rod Laver Arena). Tues Sept 9 & Wed Sept 10 Anberlin (170 Russell). Wed Sept 10 You Me At Six (The Hi-Fi). Wed Sept 10 Steve Clisby (Toff In Town). Wed Sept 10 Com Truise (Corner Hotel). Wed Sept 10 Kilter (Northcote Social Club). Thurs Sept 11 Howling Bells (Howler). Thurs Sept 11 John Garcia (The Espy). Fri Sept 12 Cannibal Corpse (170 Russell). Fri Sept 12 Whitley (Northcote Social Club). Fri Sept 12 360 (Festival Hall). Fri Sept 12 Morgan Evans (Revolver Upstairs). Fri Sept 12 Zeptember (Corner Hotel). Fri Sept 12 Gangsters’ Ball (Forum Theatre). Sat Sept 13 Meg Mac (Northcote Social Club). Sat Sept 13 Fem Belling Quintet (Paris Cat Jazz Club). Sat Sept 13 Spiderbait (Corner Hotel). Sat Sept 13 Tiny Little Houses (ShebeenBandroom). Sat Sept 13 Robbie Williams (Rod Laver Arena). Tues Sept 16 & Wed Sept 17

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Tina Arena (Palais Theatre).

Wed Sept 17 & Thurs Sept 18 Northeast Party House (ShebeenBandroom). Thurs Sept 18 Justin Timberlake (Etihad Stadium). Thurs Sept 18 & Fri Sept 19 I Killed The Prom Queen + Ghost Inside (170 Russell). Fri Sept 19 Area 7 (Corner Hotel). Fri Sept 19 Joe Bonamassa (Palais Theatre). Fri Sept 19 Shannon Noll (The Espy). Fri Sept 19 Tomorrow Never Comes feat Butch (Prince Bandroom). Fri Sept 19 Sara Bareilles (Athenaeum Theatre). Sat Sept 20 Ingrid Michaelson (Corner Hotel). Sat Sept 20 Castle Comer (ShebeenBandroom). Sat Sept 20 American Authors (Prince Bandroom). Sat Sept 20 Highasakite (Howler). Sat Sept 20 Northeast Party House (Northcote Social Club). Sat Sept 20 Andrea Bocelli (Rod Laver Arena). Sun Sept 21 WunderWunder (ShebeenBandroom). Wed Sept 24 Bombay Bicycle Club (Forum Theatre). Thurs Sept 25 Angus & Julia Stone (Palais Theatre). Thurs Sept 25 & Fri Sept 26 Rebel SoulJahz (The Hi-Fi). Fri Sept 26 Cannonball (Bennetts Lane). Fri Sept 26 Miami Horror (170 Russell). Fri Sept 26 Veruca Salt (Corner Corner). Fri Sept 26, Tues Sept 30 & Wed Oct 1 The Furbelows (Bennetts Lane). Sat Sep 27 Raleigh Williams (Paris Cat Jazz Club). Sat Sept 27 Andy Bull (Corner Hotel). Sat Sept 27 & Sun Sept 28 GurdasMaan (The Plenary). Sun Sept 28

OCTOBER 2014 Garry Allan (Palais Theatre). Wed Oct 1 Dead Kennedys (170 Russell). Wed Oct 1 F-Deluxe (Corner Hotel). Thurs Oct 2 Courtney Barnett (Corner Hotel). Thurs Oct 2, Sat Oct 4 & Sun Oct 5 Sepultura (170 Russell). Fri Oct 3 Queen – It’s A Kinda Magic (Palais Theatre). Fri Oct 3 I Am Hardwell (Sidney Myer Music Bowl). Fri Oct 3 T-Pain (Festival Hall). Fri Oct 3 Aly & Fila (Trak Lounge). Fri Oct 3 Bad//Dreems (ShebeenBandroom). Fri Oct 3 Anthony Callea (Palms at Crown). Sat Oct 4 The Cat Empire (Festival Hall). Sat Oct 4 Bonjah (The Hi-Fi). Sat Oct 4 Ball Park Music (Forum Theatre). Sat Oct 4

THE WHO/WHAT/WHERE WITH TRACY COATES Alt-J (Forum Theatre). Mon Oct 6 The Grahams (ShebeenBandroom). Wed Oct 8 Thomas ‘Mukanya’ Mapfumo& Black Unlimited (Melbourne Park). Thurs Oct 9 Miley Cyrus (Rod Laver Arena). Fri Oct 10 Anh Do (Palais Theatre). Fri Oct 10 The Whitlams (Corner Hotel). Fri Oct 10 Sticky Fingers (170 Russell). Fri Oct 10 Linda Gail Lewis (Corner Hotel). Sat Oct 11 The Clouds (Corner Hotel). Sat Oct 11 Steve Smyth (ShebeenBandroom). Sat Oct 11 Rhys Darby (Forum Theatre). Sat Oct 11 DMA’s & The Creases (Northcote Social Club). Sat Oct 11 & Sun Oct 12 The Tea Party (Palais Theatre). Sun Oct 12 Andrew Strong & The Commitments (Corner Hotel).

Sun Oct 12 Say Anything (Corner Hotel). Fri Oct 17 Airling (SheebeenBandroom). Fri Oct 17 Diesel (Northcote Social Club). Sat Oct 18 The Selecter (The Hi-Fi). Sat Oct 18 Torche (Corner Hotel). Sat Oct 18 Jimmy Barnes (Palais Theatre). Sat Oct 18 Allday (Corner Hotel). Fri Oct 24 & Sat Oct 25 Vince Jones Quartet (Bennetts Lane). Fri Oct 24 & Sat Oct 25 Smudge (Northcote Social Club). Sat Oct 25 Rodriguez (Palais Theatre). Sat Oct 25 Elbow (Forum Theatre). Tues Oct 28 & Wed Oct 29 Dream Theatre (Palais Theatre). Wed Oct 29 Missy Higgins (Regent Theatre). Wed Oct 29 & Thurs Oct 30 Augie March (Howler). Wed Oct 29 to Sun Nov 2 [5 shows] The Screaming Jets (Corner Hotel). Thurs Oct 30 & Fri Oct 31 The Madden Brothers (Hisense Arena). Fri Oct 31 Celtic Legends (Palais Theatre). Fri Oct 31 & Sat Nov 1

NOVEMBER 2014 Radio Birdman (Corner Hotel). Sun Nov 2 & Mon Nov 3 Wagons (Northcote Social Club). Mon Nov 3 Rolling Stones (Rod Laver Arena). Wed Nov 5 Hot Dub Time Machine (Forum Theatre). Fri Nov 7 Joe Satriani (Palais Theatre). Sat Nov 8 Holy Holy (Northcote Social Club). Sat Nov 8 Ronn Moss (Palms at Crown). Sun Nov 9 Ronn Moss (Corner Hotel). Wed Nov 12 Flight Facility (Forum Theatre). Thurs Nov 13 Manchester Orchestra (Corner Hotel). Thurs Nov 13 & Fri Nov 14 Gorguts (Northcote Social Club). Fri Nov 14 The Furbelows (Bennetts Lane). Fri Nov 14 John Digweed (Prince Bandroom). Fri Nov 14 Katy Perry (Rod Laver Arena). From Fri Nov 14 to Wed Dec 10 [8 shows] Accept (Corner Hotel). Sat Nov 15 Toris Amos (Palais Theatre). Sat Nov 15 Jimmy Eat World (Forum Theatre). Mon Nov 17 Yes (Palais Theatre). Tues Nov 18 NOFX (Forum Theatre). Thurs Nov 20

Prong (The Hi-Fi). Fri Nov 21 Toxic Holocaust & Iron Reagan (The Hi-Fi). Sun Nov 23 Rick Astley (Palais Theatre). Sat Nov 29 Illy (Forum Theatre). Sat Nov 29

DECEMBER 2014 Elaine Paige (Hamer Hall). Sat Dec 6 Sleep (Corner Hotel). Sat Dec 6 Ice Cube (Forum Theatre). Sat Dec 6 & Tues Dec 9 The Lemonheads (Corner Hotel). Tues Dec 9 James Holden (The Hi-Fi). Wed Dec 10 UB40 (Palais Theatre). Thurs Dec 11 The War On Drugs (The Hi-Fi). Thurs Dec 11 Bjorn Again (Palms at Crown). Thurs Dec 11 & Sat Dec 13 Damon Albarn (Palais Theatre). Fri Dec 12 Thy Art Is Murder (The Hi-Fi). Sat Dec 13 Ty Segall (Corner Hotel). Sun Dec 14 Ian Anderson (Palais Theatre). Mon Dec 15 Nick Cave (The Plenary). Tues Dec 16 & Wed Dec 17 Phil Jamieson & Scott Russo (Corner Hotel). Fri Dec 19 The Beatle Boys (Palms at Crown). Fri Dec 19 Ben Folds (Hamer Hall). Fri Dec 19 & Sat Dec 20

JANUARY 2015 The 1975 (Festival Hall). Thurs Jan 20, 2015 Passenger (Palais Theatre). Sat Jan 17 & Sun Jan 18, 2015 Kenny Rogers (Palais Theatre). Fri Jan 30, 2015 Icehouse (Palms at Crown). Fri Jan 30 & Sat Jan 31, 2015 Chiodos (Corner Hotel). Sat Jan 31, 2015

FEBRUARY 2015 Suzi Quatro (Arts Centre, Playhouse Theatre). Thurs Feb 5, Fri Feb 6 & Sat Feb 7, 2015 Paul Simon & Sting (Rod Laver Arena). Tues Feb 10, 2015 One Direction (Etihad Stadium). Sat Feb 14 & Sun Feb 15, 2015 Roxette& Boom Crash Opera (Rod Laver Arena). Fri Feb 20, 2015 Guy Sebastian (Rod Laver Arena). Saturday Feb 21, 2015 The Eagles (Rod Laver Arena). Sun Feb 22, Tues Feb 24 & Thurs Feb 26, 2015

MARCH 2015 From The Jam (Prince Bandroom). Fri Mar 6, 2015 London Grammer (Festival Hall). Sat Mar 14, 2015 Kylie Minoque (Rod Laver Arena). Wed Mar 18, 2015 Ricky Martin (Rod Laver Arena). Sat May 2, 2015 5 Seconds Of Summer (Rod Laver Arena). Thurs Jun 25, 2015

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FROM THE SONG TO THE SALE - PART 5 tips in the recording business...

with IAN PAV OK so part 5 of the series - into the recording process.

Regardless of where you are recording, what equipment you can/can’t access, to me the goals of every recording session are: 1. To capture the sound of each instrument/voice as close as possible to what you perceive in the end product.

If you have a good idea what you want the end product to sound like– then you have

direction as to the guitar tone you’re after, how much crack should be in the snare, how warm or edgy the vocal, etc.

It may change along the way, that’s fine, but you have direction to the session.

Capturing lots of ‘information’ also allows flexibility later(you can always take something out but if something isn’t there, it can’t always be created in post production).

2. To capture the ‘best’ take (or takes) amusician/singer can achieve. Now the ‘best take’ may not be the one where the vocalist is dead on tune– it may be where they are the most expressive, really ‘telling the story’. It may be the one where the guitarist emotes the lick just right or there is a couple of sections that comp’d together provide the perfect bass understory to the song.

3. To come away from each session with all parties pleased with the result and ready to move on How is all that achieved? -Again we go back to pre-production, but also good communication through the whole process.

- A clear picture of the expected outcome

from the recording sessions known to all.

- Lots of discussion, ensuring everyone is on the same page, is prepared and ready.

Also - The recording environment is a comfortable environment for all,not just physically but the atmosphere/emotionally.

- That there is trust in everyone’s ability to do their job and they are allowed to do it.

And each trusts themselves to get their role accomplished. This extends past the musician/singers - for example...

- if a producer is part of the process, clear definition of roles and authority (eg.who has final call on various aspects) - what the engineer is expected to do – and especially what they not (eg, engaging an engineer to just record, one doesn’t expect any producer-like input) Good communication, mixed with plenty of preparation, everyone competent and ready to do their job = a successful recording outcome.

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With 37 years experience in the industry, Ian Pav is a producer, mentor and owner of PavMusic (studios and production). Now based in Rosebud, the construction of his new production studio is almost finished. Ian is looking to work with clients around the Peninsula at a discounted rate to help locals from his ongoing clientele around Australia & overseas. You can see more or contact Ian via www.pavmusic. comor learn more music industry business info through his wordpress blog pavmusic.wordpress.com.

1970 saw the release of Santanas’ second album Abraxas which followed on the heels of their magnificent self titled debut album the year before.

With the blending of musical styles from rock, jazz, Latin, blues and salsa, they were a band that were totally different to those who had gone before.

Carlos Sanatanas’ sustained distorted guitar work is the key to the credibility of the bands’ unlikely rock appeal.

Keyboardist Gregg Rolie augments this unique sound along with David Browns’ appropriate bass grooves throughout whilst Michael Shrieve provides the busy drum patterns along side of Jose’ Areas and Mike Carabello on percussion congas, bongos and timbales.

Having recently performed to 300,000 people at Woodstock in August 1969, Sanatana were already a recognised force and subsequently Abraxas went to the top of the charts reaching number one on Billboard.

From the opening bars of the first track Singing winds,crying beast the listener is enticed into anticipation with the build up of cymbals as the bass sets the rhythm for some subtle keyboard playing reminiscent of the Doors Riders in the storm.

After nearly five minutes the song breaks into a masterful cover of Fleetwood Macs’ Black magic woman/Gypsy queen.

Oye como va is a faster paced Latin rhythm with a very loose feel which is followed by Incident at Neshabur and has some really cool guitar from Carlos with a mix of jazz rock and blues whilst maintaining

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...with Ray McGrotty (Record City) its’ psychedelic implication.

Se a cabo opens with bongos and congas setting the scene for what becomes an exotic piece of fusion with drifty guitar and organ driven by some amazing percussion.

Mothers daughter is a more rock oriented track as is Hope you’re feeling better, both written by Rolie.

Samba pa ti separates the two Rolie tracks and is a very subtle piece of work with some very laid back soulful guitar.

It’s the most laid back track one the album and it would be very easy to find yourself drifting off to sleep, in fact it can get a little boring after the first minute or so.

The album finishes with El nicoya, a very Latin song both musically and lyrically.

It has lashings of congas and exotic percussion which ends in a bit of an anti climax that leaves you feeling that there should have been a little bit more.

Abraxas is no Sgt. Pepper but it’s a great showcase of fusion between Latin, blues and rock with some really cool guitar improvisation, and certainly worthy of a place in your collection.

If you find you have been converted, the two other notable Santana albums that should not be missed are the self titled 1969 album and Caravanserai from 1972.

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BEST M R AWARDS OF THE YEA OZ Missy Higgins (Eleven)

HAVENS DUMB Augie March (DARK SATANIC)

It is sometimes hard to grasp the concept of why an original, established song-writer, would want to make a cover album.

However, if you are thinking of doing so, I suggest you first check out Oz. Instantaneously, Missy Higgins lets it be known that this is not “just another covers album”.

Higgins’ Oz is both an album and a book.

An album covering 15 great Australian songs as well as a quirky book of related essay’s, of which is essentially an album in its own right.

Featured artists include some of my personal favourites: Kate Miller Heidke, Dan Sultan, and renowned Punk/Cabaret performer Amanda Palmer. Of the 15 brand new Higgins-versions, she has included a diverse range of Australian tracks! From Paul Kelly’s ‘Before too Long’ to Something for Kate’s ‘You only Hide’, there is even a fantastic rendition of the indigenous anthem ‘Blackfella/Whitefella’. The songstress states, “It didn’t matter when or where they were written or whether they were well known. All that mattered was whether I felt I could make them my own.”

Producing an incredible, live - and at times - theatrical performance, Higgins presents an array of unconventional arrangements.

Showcasing heavy vocal layers and harmonies, rhythmically driven piano, and real-life stories written by a variety of people, Oz is real.

Highlight tracks NYE, Back To The Wall, and Curse On You. MADDISON WILSON

THE OCEAN AT THE END The Tea Party (SONY MUSIC) music  arts  events  entertainment

Augie March shouldn’t need an introduction, but it doesn’t hurt to remind people who missed them the first few times around. This little band from Shepparton, most famous for their song “One Crowded Hour”, have been garnering critical acclaim as well as some serious fan love since the start of the century.

The album opens in strength, beautiful harmonies and clever use of sound engineering to create a sense of wonder.

About midway through the album, as of The Faking Boy, things take a turn for the weird, and not in the good way.

Intros to songs become unnecessarily elongated with irritating sounds and frequencies that lead into clashing chords. By the final song, for example, it sounds like a recording during rehearsal, complete with an extraneous voice over introduction, a harmonica that provides shrill feedback throughout, and a relieved sigh with coughing to end the album.

DIFFERENT SHADES OF BLUE Joe Bonamassa (J&R ADVENTURES) One of the best Blues-Rock guitarists of the modern era, check! Great tunes all written by said guitarist check! Killer BV’s, check! Your usual assortment of gun musicians (most notably Anton Fig, from the CBS orchestra, on the drums), check! Award winning producer Kevin Shirley, check! Do I need to say any more? Well, this is a review so I will.

Firstly, I am a fan of Joe’s but please don’t take this as a biased opinion. I’ve always preferred his live releases but “Different Shades of Blue” sees Joe Bonamassa pushing the envelope even further this time with an album chock full of gold that makes you feel like you’re right there in the room and everything is on the fly. It really is a journey to listen to from start to finish. Stand out tracks for me are “Oh! Beautiful”, and of course the pinnacle of the journey, “Different Shades of Blue”. But if you have a spare 45 minutes, give it a blast from front to back. Blues-Rock with Horns, and a pleasure to hear. All is not lost.

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Canadian trio, The Tea Party, have unleashed their brand new album. The Ocean At The End is an album that has had fans waiting for a decade.

For such an elaborate and meticulous set of performers, this album is exactly what you would expect. It’s full of complicated sounds and countless instruments that all come together in such a brilliant and utterly speechless way that you’re left gob-smacked at how they managed to pull it off.

Leading man Jeff Martin and his thick, bold, one-of-akind voice ties everything together. It is in the moment that you first hear his voice on opening track ‘LoC’ and you realise how much you missed this band and their intricacies.

The Tea Party truly do Canadian rock proud.

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From the get-go you’re swept up in a whirlwind of blues and rock. The opening track, ‘Heavy Sea’, really sets the tone. The vocals are powerful and the production is full of spirit. The intro to ‘The River’ is moody and delicate but everything changes when the chorus drops and the song explodes.

The outro is almost on another level. There’s some real adventurism present here.

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August was a month of wild and wonderful surprises across the arts. Anywhere Theatre Festival proved performance could take place anywhere attracting new theatre audiences while showcasing amazing local talents. Topology’s Share House combining musicianship with a wordless visual narrative was one of the more intriguing performances I’ve seen. Rachel Berger had me laughing and crying at Hold the Pickle. Most off the wall performance awards go to Cirque du Bloke’s Weekend Getaway performed at Bayside Climbing Centre and Affinity’s Don’t Look Up in the bowl at the Frankston Skate Park. If you missed out on Anywhere Theatre Festival, it’s still on until September 6. Consider Peninsula Poets’ Soapbox Poetry as September is Poetry Month! Great theatre is coming up in too. The Magic Flute from Opera Australia gets an Indiana Jones revamp and TaikOz brings taiko drumming to a whole new level in Crimson Sun at Frankston Arts Centre. Morality and ethics are pondered in Tom Holloways’s As We Forgive at Shirley Burke Theatre. Squaring the Wheel at Southern Peninsula Arts Centre provides ingenious fun. Don’t forget to see Melbourne International Film Festival’s travelling showcase in Sorrento. Take your pick, but make it quick. Enthusiastically. Your Arts Editor

Creating a portrait of a person you greatly admire is a daunting process. To do justice to the sitter without leaving them feeling overexposed requires great skill and intuition. It’s not an easy ask, but this year’s Archibald Prize winner, Fiona Lowry, captures iconic Australian architect and patron of the arts, Penelope Seidler, with such breathtaking reality it’s haunting.

Lowry stops a moment in time when Seidler is looking back toward the Killara home she co-designed, built and shared with her architect husband, the late Harry Seidler.

I caught up with Lowry in anticipation of the Archibald Prize coming to the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from October 4 to November 16.

She was at home with her three-year old son when the phone rang. The anticipation of this call is legendary amongst Archibald finalists.

If the phone hasn’t rung by 10 am, it’s not going to be the winning call she explained.

Both mother and son were very excited when the phone rang. For some time thereafter her son would inform, “My Mum won the prize!” to all within earshot.

Lowry said there were so many things she admired about Seidler it was hard to know where to begin. “She’s a Creating a portrait of a person you greatly admire is a daunting process. To do justice to the sitter without leaving them feeling overexposed requires great skill and intuition. It’s not an easy ask, but this year’s Archibald Prize winner, Fiona Lowry, captures iconic Australian architect and patron of the arts, Penelope Seidler, with such breathtaking reality it’s haunting. Lowry stops a moment in time when Seidler is looking back toward the Killara home she co-designed, built and shared with her architect husband, the late Harry Seidler.

I caught up with Lowry in anticipation of the Archibald Prize coming to the Mornington

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Peninsula Regional Gallery from October 4 to November 16.

She was at home with her three-year old son when the phone rang. The anticipation of this call is legendary amongst Archibald finalists.

If the phone hasn’t rung by 10 am, it’s not going to be the winning call she explained.

Both mother and son were very excited when the phone rang. For some time thereafter her son would inform, “My Mum won the prize!” to all within earshot.

Lowry said there were so many things she admired about Seidler it was hard to know where to begin. “She’s a great role model for women and a real inspiration,” she related. Of course this made the task even more difficult.

“I found this one (portrait) so confronting because I wasn’t sure how she would feel about revealing that unguarded moment. My work is all about responding to a particular landscape. Taking people to places that really resonate in some way brings out something you wouldn’t otherwise see. Portraits aren’t easy because you’re always walking that fine line of not wanting to be brutal in the approach, but also wanting that telling moment,” she explained.

In discussing the distinctive look she achieves in her paintings, I inquired about the use of airbrush and her subdued colour palette. “I want to make works that are visceral. Airbrush has this ability to drop things in and out of focus causing a vibration in the eye that has a physical effect. It’s about a disoriented kind of viewing experience.

Airbrush lends itself to an evocative kind of space. The way I see things is always a bit ambiguous,” she revealed.

With regard to the restricted palette, “I make decisions in the moment. If that image lends itself to a particular colour, then that’s what happens. It’s not a particular strategy. The figurative works are kind of dreamscapes, not based in any kind of real place or reality.

I think I can do that a bit better with a limited

colour palette. That’s the intuitive part. It’s all very structured up until the point of the actual making of the painting. That’s the really exciting part where the joy of it happens for me,” Lowry explained.

Thinking about winning the Archibald Prize, Lowry shared, “Having that financial support right now is incredible. That’s the sort of thing every artist needs. Sometimes sales are few and far between. To be able to just focus on making work now is a really wonderful thing. It also opens up so much conversation.

You become part of a larger conversation just being in the show. It’s an amazing community. It was lovely to win and a great experience.”

Lowry has always been an artist. As a child she was encouraged and supported by her mother who took her to classes and had artists come to their home to teach her. “I never really thought of doing anything else after school. I went straight to art school at Sydney College of the Arts,” she said.

Art School wasn’t quite what she expected.

“When I got to art school nobody was doing painting even though we were in the painting department so I did sculptural work. I left for a year to study drawing and painting at East Sydney Technical College then went back to finish art school. When I left art school, I went back to painting,” she said. Lowry is currently working toward a Masters of Fine Art degree at College of Fine Arts, University of NSW. Studying and creating work for the upcoming Hong Kong Art Show and another show at Sydney’s Martin Browne Gallery, there is no rest in sight for Lowry, but she’s happy with that. See her winning portrait when the Archibald Prize comes to Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from October 4 to November 16. Book tickets online: www.mprg.mornpen.vic.gov. au.

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SEPTEMBER 2014 The Giver (11TH SEPTEMBER) Alexander Skarsgard, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites Golden Brothers

Saade-Scaff + Escudero Ecuadorian virtuosos, violinist Jorge Saade-Scaff and pianistJuan Carlos Escudero, will delight audiences with a programthat includes well-known European and Ecuadorian composers.

Widely recognised across Latin America, each has adistinguished solo career and has captivated audiences all overthe world with performances from Carnegie Hall, New York, andthe Royal Festival Hall, London, to the Sydney Opera House.

They will travel to Australia following their debut recital as a duoat the prestigious Meet in Beijing 2014 Arts Festival, performingat the National Theatre for the Performing Arts in China.

They will delight audiences with a program that includes worksby Veracini, Mozart, Wieniawski, Lizt-Wagner, Chertman, Lopez-Gavilan and the Ecuadorian composers Claudio Aizaga, Corsino Duran-Carrion, Gerardo Guevara and Enrique EspinYepez.

Don’t miss their only show in Australia Sunday 21 September @ 7.30pm in the presence of HisExcellency the Ambassador of Ecuador to Australia, Mr RaulGangotena, in an intimate setting at Cube 37, Frankston ArtsCentre.Box Office: 9784 1060thefac.com.au

(11TH SEPTEMBER) Bosco Wong, Michael Tse, Stephy Tang

The Immigrant (11TH SEPTEMBER) Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner

Step Up: All In (11TH SEPTEMBER) Briana Evigan, Alyson Stoner, Ryan Guzman

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (11TH SEPTEMBER) Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Johnny Knoxville

Love Punch (18TH SEPTEMBER) Peirce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall

paris underground Enter the Paris Underground and journey through the dark delights of the city of light. With your incomparable comic host Monsieur Marveaux, witness astounding acts of magic and illusion, spectacular tap dancing, brilliant burlesque, breathtaking aerials, quirky circus and song in a classic European cabaret and variety show.

Draw the curtain on a stage that will darkly seduce and intoxicate with a moveable feast of magic, song, dance, burlesque, comedy, circus and cabaret. A blend of surprises and visual attractions of international renown.

Paris Underground perform Saturday 13 September @ 8pm at Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre.

Ticketsphone 0397841060 or visit thefac.com.au

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Planes: Fire And Rescue (18TH SEPTEMBER) Dane Cook, Julie Bowen, Ed Harris

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (18TH SEPTEMBER) Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The Boxtrolls (18TH SEPTEMBER) Elle Fanning, Ben Kingsley, Nick Frost

The House Of Magic (18TH SEPTEMBER) Emily Blunt, Cinda Adams, Edward Asner

The Maze Runner (18TH SEPTEMBER) Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dylan O’Brien, Will Poulter

Wish I Was Here (18TH SEPTEMBER) Zach Braff, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon

The Equalizer (25TH SEPTEMBER) Denzel Washington, Chloe Grace Moretz, Melissa Leo

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Imagine spending 20k on a trip to Europe and not even having a good time. That would be a bummer.

So why not keep the stakes low this month and just see some foreign films? The Lavazza Italian Film Festival is at Palace Cinemas September 17 to October 12. You can make the experience more complete by adding culturally appropriate foods. I watched Those Happy Years with an espresso and a mandarin (loving my inner European sick).

In Those Happy Years, filmmaker Daniele Luchetti tells the story of his childhood and his parents’ turbulent relationship partly through the eyes of a child and partly from an adult’s perspective filling in the blanks. Set in 1970’s Rome and Milan, flared floral jumpsuits are everywhere, but it is an understated Italian take on 70s style and Luchetti uses film for this project enhancing the vintage look and feel.

Furniture and artwork from the Italian Radical design era feature positively, adding excitement – also there are lots of nudes (for the sake of art).

Sometimes I have to tell my partner this to get him to see a foreign film with me, so just putting it out there. This film is an entertaining relationship drama and a visual and cultural snapshot of an exciting time and place.

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Want is a cult hit in Italy Breaking Bad style and I can see why. Pietro has no idea how to tell his girlfriend he has lost his research job. She is already nagging him day and night about money and their mounting bills in the post GFC climate. A chance run-in with overpriced smart drugs in a club turns Pietro and his gang (fellow researchers and professors forced to work menial cash jobs after the crash) into drug dealers. The bonus of watching a ridiculously funny film with subtitles is that you can laugh as much as you want and you don’t have to worry about missing anything. I can read and laugh at the same time it turns out.

The Queer Peninsula crowd will adore Darker than Midnight. It’s a coming of age story about a 14-year-old runaway who finds refuge with a group of homeless gay and trans-gender prostitutes. Based on the true story of successful drag queen, Davida Cordova who rose to fame after a tough life on the streets of Sicily, it is raw and edgy but inclusive.

The Lavazza Italian Film Festival is held across all Palace Cinemas Wednesday, September 17 to Sunday, October 12.

For the full program and session times head to http://www.italianfilmfestival. com.au. We have five double passes to give away to the first people to contact us on our PEARL facebook page.

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INDIANA JONES MEETS THE MAGIC FLUTE

Opera Australia embarks on a two-year odyssey across Regional Victoria engaging audiences with an ingenious rebranding of the classic tale of a hero in search of adventure. They’ve given Mozart’s The Magic Flute an Indiana Jones makeover!

Director, Michael Gow and Designer, Robert Kemp have maintained the music and storyline of the traditional opera, but transposed it into 1930s Egypt with clever references to films like The Mummy and Indiana Jones. This new adaptation is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Even better, each town the tour visits will give local primary-school aged children an opportunity to perform in the show while secondary school students get a chance to audition for a student scholarship with Opera Australia. Conductor and Regional Children’s Chorusmaster, Alex Pringle, will visit towns in advance to select talented young people.

Opera Australia’s Artistic Director, Lyndon Terracini is on a mission to get Australian audiences to love opera. With innovations as original, funny and inventive as this, he’s likely to succeed. See this captivating new production of The Magic Flute at Frankston Arts Centre on Tuesday, September 9 at 7:30 pm. Bookings on 9784 1060 or thefac.com.au.

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If you missed this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, don’t despair because the MIFF travelling film fest is coming to Sorrento with a wild selection of their top Australian films.

Opening the program on Friday, September 19 at 7:30 pm is Cut Snake, a combination gritty psychological thriller and relationship drama. Set in 1974 suburban Australia, Sparra Farrell, a troubled soul, is trying to move on with his life and love while being haunted and hunted by his past.

Saturday, September 20 at 4:30 is The Legend Maker. This engrossing crime thriller involves the dodgy dealings of Alan Figg, a professional forger, based on a real life Russian forger writer/director Ian Pringle met by chance while working in Berlin 20 years ago. “Figg has an element of humanity about him. At heart he’s not an evil man but he’s certainly tough enough to survive in a dangerous world. There are more and more disenfranchised people in our society and many of them have ethnic backgrounds - it can be traumatic and terrifying for them just to survive, and we as a responsible society should be aware of this,” Pringle said.

Saturday at 8 pm, My Mistress, an Australian/French collaboration screens. The story

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HOT TOPIC: YOU CAN’T PAINT IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO DRAW Drawing is a fundamental skill necessary for good artistic composition.

Without knowledge of form, perspective, proportion and tonal value, it would be impossible to create great paintings.

Right? But here’s the thing…one cannot always tell, particularly in a modern composition, whether or not the artist has drawing skills. Painting has its own set of skills that do not rely solely on an ability to draw. Drawing and painting are equally important skills. Even artists who create the most abstract compositions generally have drawing as their foundation, but pure colour on canvas is art too and if you like the work, does it matter? Share your views on PEARL’s facebook page or email: artseditor@pearlmag.com.au.

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centres on a provocative romance between an S&M mistress and a vulnerable romantic teenage boy. Dangerous and unconventional, but compelling too, this is bold and captivating film.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films lights up the screen at 1:30 pm on Sunday, September 21. This Australian/American venture features a couple of film-obsessed cousins who come to America to create a film production company that will give Hollywood a run for its money. They did. Creating films of every genre with a flavour all their own, Cannon films became the stuff of legend.

Rounding out the weekend at 4 pm on Sunday is Kill Me Three Times, an Australian comedy thriller about a ruthless assassin, a wealthy husband, his ‘disposable’ wife, a gambling addict, a corrupt cop and small-town Lady Macbeth in a crazy tale of revenge, blackmail and murder.

Don’t miss this mad mix of films at Athenaeum Theatre, Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento from Friday, September 19 to Sunday, September 21 Bookings: www.peninsulacinemas. com.au.

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Performer/producer/director Jens Altheimer, has imagination and energy to burn. He proves it in his wild and wacky production, Squaring the Wheel. Combining circus skills, puppetry, clowning around, magic and physical theatre, this inventive one-man family show celebrates thinking outside the box.

Lonely Leo Cartouche is a bit of a misfit. He tries to find in, but he’s just different. Add to that a real knack for complicating what ought to be perfectly simple, and you’ve got a comical recipe for hi jinx and calamity. Of course, like many eccentric types, Leo has unusual talents. He likes to invent things…mechanical things, crazy and ingenious complex contraptions that captivate and amuse and sometimes confuse.

See this kooky, quirky, comical production from a master of manual dexterity in Squaring the Wheel at Southern Peninsula Arts Centre on Tuesday, September 30 at 2 pm. Bookings on 5986 8204 or www. southernpeninsulaartscentre.com.

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Empowering children through the arts is what Polyglot Theatre Company’s Kids in Control Residencies are all about. They are site-specific creative collaborations involving children’s ideas and artwork. Polyglot lead the field with innovative, interactive, experiential theatre and art installations for children and families.

In My Skin is a dynamic Kids in Control Residency program involving children at Frankston North’s Mahogany Rise Primary School and Monterey Secondary College. Polyglot has been working with these schools for four years now. The program aims to build resilience and help kids transition from one stage of school life to another by making them partners in a collaborative creative process.

Creating multi-arts and film projects from conception to production, In My Skin explores identity and positive social connection across grade levels through music, dance, live VJing and art production. Kids then film their own performance piece.

When projects are completed, their In My Skin digital exhibition will be showcased at Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, from Friday, September 12 to Sunday, September 28 with a one-off multi-art performance on opening night, September 12 at 7 pm. For further information go to: www.polyglot.org.au/in_my_skin.

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N MY SKIN CRIMSON SKY Inspired by a Japanese haiku poem in which autumn skies are abuzz with red dragonflies comes a performance sure to mesmerize. Australia’s premiere taiko drumming group, TaikOz presents Crimson Sky. From explosive drumming to meditative melodies combining the sights and sounds of Japanese culture, this show makes for a delightfully different night at the theatre.

TaikOz have produced a sound that is all their own creating new taiko music from Australian and international composers and interpreting the music of contemporary Japanese composers. This group of exemplary musicians have played to rave reviews everywhere they have travelled from here in Australia to Taiwan, France, Thailand, Japan and back home again.

Crimson Sky combines the adrenaline pumping beat of taiko drumming with a host of other traditional Japanese instruments, such as, the shakuhachi (bamboo flute), and a rare treat in Australia, the bass koto (a 17 string plucked instrument) to create a truly unique and exciting musical experience that reverberates through the whole body.

Experience the power of TaikOz in Crimson Sky at Frankston Arts Centre on Tuesday,September 16 at 7pm. Bookings on 9784 1060 or www.thefac.com.au.

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AS WE FORGIVE

As We Forgive: Three Morality Plays for an Amoral Age is a compelling examination of contemporary morality. Theatrical tour-deforce Robert Jarman plays three different characters with absorbing passion accompanied on stage by a lone cellist.

The first play focuses on an elderly man’s response to a brutal home invasion. He doesn’t take it lying down. The second story examines the life of a middle-aged man who looks back over the course of his life with surprising response. The third tale shows how an ordinary man grapples with forgiveness.

Tim Holloway is a multi-award winning Tasmanian playwright considered one of the hottest commodities in the writing world. He delves deep into the human condition focusing on what he considers to be the things that really matter. With exceptional Director and Dramaturge, Julian Meyrick at the helm, this series of short plays will have audiences thinking long after the final curtain.

For a thought provoking night at the theatre, see As We Forgive at Shirley Burke Theatre in Parkdale on Thursday, October 2 at 8 pm followed by Q and A with actor, Robert Jarman. Bookings on 9556 4440/ www.kingstonarts.com.au.

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Your guide to Arts & Culture events on the Peninsula & Bayside in September • Send all listings to Andrea (Arts Editor) at artseditor@pearlmag.com.au LITERARY ARTS AND ARTS LECTURES: MORDIALLOC WRITERS’ GROUP Tuesdays at 8pm @ Mordialloc Neighbourhood House (Mordialloc) 9587 8757 mairi@ozemail. com.au SOUTHERN PENS Wednesdays at 1 pm @ Rosebud Library (Rosebud) Kaye 5985 6773 southernpens@live. com.au MORNINGTON WRITERS’ GROUP Fridays at 10 am & 7:30 pm @ Albert Street Community House (Mornington) 5975 4772 www.morningtoncci.com.au PENINSULA POETS First Saturday of the month at 11 am @ Mornington Peninsula Library Meeting Room (Mornington) Contact: Andrea 0435 120 297 or peninsulapoets@gmail.com NOTE: No meeting this month due to performance.

Book to register to read your poems free at: Bookings: www.trybooking.com/89002

September 13 to October 3: Substance@ Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre (Brighton)

VISUAL ARTS:

OAK HILL GALLERY PRESENTS: ANNUAL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION Until Tuesday, September 30 @ Oak Hill Gallery (Mornington) 5973 4299 www.oakhillgallery. com.au

SLOW PHOTOGRAPHY: JOHN STREET, LIFE BEGINS AT 80: BARBARA ALLEN, GWEN JAMES, JOHN NATHAN & BRIAND PLEASANTS Until Thursday, September 4: Slow Photography, Wednesday, September 10 to Thursday, October 9: Life Begins at 80 @ ARTrium Exhibition Space at Bayside City Council Corporate Centre (Sandringham) www.bayside.vic.gov.au CUBE 37 GALLERY PRESENTS: FAC OPEN EXHIBITION 2014 & 4 KIDS, BY KIDS Until Saturday, September 6: FAC Open Exhibition, Thursday, September 11 to Saturday, September 27: 4 Kids, By Kids @ Cube 37 Gallery at Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston) 9784 1896 www.thefac.com.au

WRITER’S BLOCK MEETING Fortnightly on Saturdays at 10 am (September 6 & 20) @ Cube 37 at Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston) Contact: Fran 0438 890 217 or seagull25@optus.com.au

CUBE 37 ART AFTER DARK PRESENTS: ALAN DEERY & IN MY SKIN: POLYGLOT & MAHOGANY RISE Until Sunday, September 7: Alan Deery, Until Sunday, September 28: In My Skin @ Cube 37 at Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston) 9784 1896 www.thefac.com.au

FELLOWSHIP OF AUSTRALIAN WRITERS, PENINSULA BRANCH Third Sunday of the month at 1:45 pm @ Albert Street Community Contact House (Mornington) Contact: peninsulafaw@mail.com

THE PEACH TREE: JOANNE LINSDELL Meet the artist at opening on Friday, September 12 from 6 – 8 pm. Run from Saturday, September 13 until Saturday, October 4 @ G3 Artspace, Shirley Burke Theatre (Parkdale)

READINGS BY THE BAY Last Sunday of the month at 2pm Mordialloc @ Neighbourhood House (Mordialloc) 9587 8757 mairi@ozemail.com.au

‘A’ IS FOR ALCHEMY: LEAH PHILPOTT Opens, Friday, September 12 runs until Tuesday, October 7 @ G2 Gallery Kingston Arts Centre (Moorabin) Meet the artist on Thursday, September 18 from 6 – 8 pm.

MORNINGTON LIBRARY SERVICE LIVE ‘N’ LOCAL READING SERIES Thursday, September 4 at 5:30 @ Mornington Library Meeting Room (Mornington) Bookings: 5950-1820 PENINSULA POETS PRESENT SOAPBOX POETRY Saturday, September 6 11 at 7:30pm @ Cube 37 at Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston) Free, but booking suggested at: www.anywherefest.com AUSTRALIAN DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY TALK: GEMS FROM LIFE Friday, September 12 at 5:30 pm at Peninsula Community Theatre (Mornington) @ Peninsula Community Theatre (Mornington) morningtonpeninsula@adfas.org.au or www. adfas.org.au OPEN POETRY READING WITH HOST BRIAN NANKERVIS Sunday, September 28 from 2 to 3: 30 pm @ Baumaris Library (Baumaris) Book to attend Open Poetry Reading free at: Bookings: http://www.trybooking.com/88997

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MORNINGTON PENINSULA REGIONAL GALLERY PRESENTS: LYNLEY DODD RETROSPECTIVE, STARS IN THE RIVER: PRINTS OF JESSE TRAILL, ACROSS THE WATER: MARCO LUCCIO Until Sunday, September 14 @ Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (Mornington) 5975 4399 www.mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au THE NEW EXISTENCE: MICHAEL JENKINS & A BRUSH WITH PAINT GROUP EXHIBITION Until Tuesday, September 16: The New Existence, Opening Thursday, September 18 at 6 pm: A Brush With Paint runs until Tuesday, October 7 @ G1 Gallery Kingston Arts Centre (Moorabin) 9556 4440 or www.kingstonarts. com.au/visual-arts MORNINGTON LIBRARY FOYER EXHIBITION PRESENTS: GEOFFREY COLLINS Until Friday, September 27 @ Mornington Library (Mornington) Enquires: Andrea Ebsworth 5950 1716 SUBSTANCE: JEREMY KIBEL & POLYESTER & PANTYHOSE: SILHOUETTES OF THE SIXTIES Until September 28: Polyester & Pantyhose,

FAC CURVED WALL PRESENTS: MICKY CADY Until Saturday, October 4: Mick Cady on Curved Wall, Main Foyer @ Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston) 9784 1060 www.thefac.com.au WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: MONTHLY MANDALA WORKSHOPS 10 am to 5 pm on day of client’s choice @ Empowering Creations Healing and Art Centre.

Bookings: Irene 0407 543 186 irenechara@ bigpond.com ART CLASSES WITH MARILYN RICHARDS AT DROMANA COMMUNITY HOUSE Wednesdays and Fridays 10 am to noon @ Dromana Community House (Dromana) www. dromanacommunityhouse.org.au ARTHAVEN SOCIAL PAINTING DAYS Fridays from 10 am to 4 pm @ Sages Cottage (Baxter) Bookings: Lorin 0412 660 495 or lorin@ arthaven.co.au IMPRO CLUB (IMPROVISATION/ACTING WORKSHOP) WITH CAROLE PATULO Saturdays from 1- 4 pm @ Southern Peninsula Arts Centre (Rosebud) Bookings: 5986 8204 www.southernpeninsulaartscentre.com MCCLELLAND GUILD OF ARTISTS DEMONSTRATION: CHRISTINE CAFARELLAPEARCE; “OUTBACK LANDSCAPE” Saturday, September 6 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm @ Studio Park @ McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery (Langwarrin) www. mcclellandguildofartists.com.au DARTS (DIGITAL ARTS) WORKSHOP: T-SHIRT DESIGN (8- 11 years old) Saturday, September 13 from 10:30 to 3:30 pm T-Shirt Design @ Cube 37 (Frankston Arts Centre) Bookings 9784 1060 PENINSULA ARTS SOCIETY DEMONSTRATION WITH SUSAN O’BRIEN: ACRYLICS Monday, September 15 from 1 to 3 pm @ Peninsula Arts Society (Frankston South) 9775 2640 www.peninsulaartssociety.org.au PENINSULA ARTS SOCIETY WORKSHOPS Sunday, September 14 Colin Johnson: Design for Textile & Pamela Pretty: Pastel Contact Ruth for times & bookings on 9787 6103 Sunday, September 28 & Monday, September 29 Catherine Hamilton: Colour Therapy 0419 519 Wednesday, October 1 Cathy Van

Ee: Landscape in Pastel 0413 337 024 @ Peninsula Arts Society (Frankston South) www. peninsulaartssociety.org.au THEATRE: MORDIALLOC THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS: THAT GOOD NIGHT Friday, September 5 to Sunday, September 20 on multiple days and times @ Shirley Burke Theatre (Parkdale) Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com ANYWHERE THEATRE FESTIVAL Until Saturday, September 6 at various times & multiple venues. Bookings: anywherefest.com OPERA AUSTRALIA PRESENTS: THE MAGIC FLUTE Tuesday, September 9 at 7:30 pm @ Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston) Bookings: 9784 1060 www.thefac.com.au TAIKOZ PRESENTS: CRIMSON SKY Tuesday, September 16 at 7 pm @ Frankston Arts Centre (Frankston) Bookings: 9784 1060 www.thefac.com.au SQUARING THE WHEEL Tuesday, September 30 @ 2pm @ Southern Peninsula Arts Centre (Rosebud) Bookings on 5986 8204 or www. southernpeninsulaartscentre.com TASMANIA PERFORMS PRESENTS: AS WE FORGIVE Thursday, October 2 at 8 pm @ Shirley Burke Theatre (Parkdale) Bookings 9556 4440 or www.kingstonarts.com.au FILM: MOVIEHOUSE AT KINGSTON ARTS CENTRE Wednesdays at 10:30 am on September 10 Pursued (1942), September 17 Swing Time (1936), September 24 Hell Is Sold Out (1951), October 1 My Wife’s Lodger (1952) @ Kingston Arts Centre Black Box (Moorabin) Bookings: 9556 4440 or www.kingstonarts.com.au MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TRAVELLING SHOWCASE Friday, September 19 to Sunday, September 21 at multiple times @ Athenaeum Theatre (Sorrento) Bookings: www. peninsulacinemas. com.au Listings are at the discretion of the Arts Editor and based on information available at press time. Listings need to be brief and current. It may not be possible to fit everything in, but we’ll try if we know it’s on. Send information to: artseditor@pearlmag.com.au by the third Monday of each month. Advertisers are considered first for editorials. Ads in Pearl are inexpensive. Call 5906 5775.

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SSUMMER FESTIVAL CALLOUT

Ba Bayside City Council is still seeking young committee members to help plan and promote its annual Beachside Festival. The council is looking for young an event management enthusiasts to help organise and run the 2015 Beachside ev Festival, scheduled to be held on Feburary 14. The organising committee will Fe meet on Mondays from 5pm to 6pm at the Peterson Youth Centre in Highett and m will be monthly to begin with, but more frequently closer to the big day. Bayside w Youth Cervices are looking for young people aged between 12 and 25 years of Yo age to assist in the organising of the event. Participating in the organisation is ag free for all, with snacks provided at the meetings. Think you could help make fre this Beachside Festival one to remember? Register your interest at the Youth th Centres and Programs section at www.bayside.vic.gov.au/youth, or for more C information, contact Adam at Bayside Youth Services on 9599 4622, or email in acarter@bayside.vic.gov.au. ac

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La month, Bayside City Coucil announced Beneath the Lies as the winner for Last its annual Battle of the Bands. The battle was held on August 15, and the posthardcore band were stoked to win, posting on their Facebook page shortly after ha the win, “Thank you guys so much for the amazing opportunity. We look forward th to representing Bayside at the regional finals”. Emily Buttriss, a youth worker at Bayside Youth Services, said “everyone had a great night at the Brighton Town Ba Hall,” and the bands weren’t the only entertainment for the night, with MC Yung Ha Phily Ph also keeping the crowd very entertained. Naomi, a member of Boombox Events and the Event Manager on the night, said “it showcases true talent, for E all to see.” For more information about future events in the Bayside region, contact Emily at Bayside City Councils Youth Services on 9599 4622.

BASIDE-open mic night

After an incredibly successful Open Mic night in June, Boombox Events will host two more Open Mic Nights this year. Register your interest now to perform your magic, comedy, or music. The initially scheduled dates for the Open Mic nights have changed, and they will now be held on September 19 and November 28, between 7pm to 10pm at the Brighton Town Hall. Feel free to come along and enjoy the talent of the Bayside Community at these free, fully supervised, all ages events that are strictly drug, alcohol, and smoke free. Keep an eye out on the Youth Services wepbage and the www. facebook.com/Baysidefreeza for more updates. For more information and to register, contact Emily at Bayside City Councils Youth Services on 9599 4622.

KINGSTON - INTERGENERATIONAL COMMITTEE

The City of Kingston’s Intergenerational Committee, “Talking About Our Generations”, is seeking young people (aged 12 – 25 years) to participate in a series of fun and informal workshops. Diana Nguyen, a local Dandenong comedian who starred in the TV Show, Phi and Me, is running the workshops to “create a lively script for a theatrical performance incorporating music and humour”. The aim of the workshops is to create a performance that celebrates the similarities between us all through captivating and humorous stories. The final performance will held at Parkdale Secondary College on October 2 from 2pm to 4pm. For more information, contact Laura at Kingston Youth Services on 1300 369 436.

CASEY-SCHOOLS ON STAGE The City of Casey will host its annual Schools on Stage musical extravaganza

this September. Schools on Stage showcases the talent of local schools, with more than 200 young performers taking to the stage with the backing of a live orchestra. Each school is given the opportunity to perform two songs, usually putting together the much-loved show tunes, with some modern hits thrown in the mix too. The event will be held on September 11 between 7:30pm and 10pm at 500 Soldiers Road, Clyde North. Entry is $15 for adults, $10 for children, and $40 for a family of two adults and two children. For more information and to book tickets, visit the Schools on Stage webpage on the City of Casey website, or contact the City of Casey on 9705 5200.

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MOODY SPOOKS BATTLE VICTORY On Friday the 15th of August, ImpaktFreeza hosted Push Start’s Annual Battle of the Bands at the Peninsula Community Theatre.

With 7 great battle bands: Learn 2 Fly, The Moody Spooks, Roundhouse, Happy Go Blues, Marigold, Collision in Brackets and Chief Protagonist, and local Peninsula band Brighter at Night headlining, the gig was an awesome night with a turnout of over 200.

Our judges Dan Palarama, Andy Smythe and Brad Hodge declared The Moody Spooks winners of the battle, closely followed in second by Happy Go Blues, then Learn 2 Fly. Watch this space for Impakt’s next gig, the Horror-ball Hardcore Halloween.

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YOUTH SERVICES ‘POP UP’ ON THE PENINSULA Mornington Peninsula Shire is excited to introduce a new mobile outreach service for young people on the peninsula. Mayor Councillor AntonellaCeli said the Shire’s Youth Services team will host ‘pop up’ youth services at different locations across the peninsula during terms 3 and 4.

“The ‘pop up’ services will feature marquees with sound equipment, activities, career and job opportunities and plenty more.

“This program will enable more of our community to interact directly with our Youth Services team, and provides safe spaces for young people to hang out, meet new friends and get access to helpful information,” she said.

‘Pop up’ youth services will run Wednesday 10th September at Rosebud Skate park and Wednesday 17th September at Balnarring Skate Park, each between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm Pictured: Matt Sudomlak and Andrew Joseph from the Shire’s youth services team are joined by James, Matt, and Mayor AntonellaCeli at the Youth Services ‘pop up’ service at the Mount Eliza Skate Park. Visit www.mpys.com.au for future ‘pop-up’ locations or contact Mornington Peninsula Shire Youth Services on: 5950 1666.

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Gigopedia Have children who enjoy the occasional hardcore show? Constantly hear words and think to yourself what the hell are they talking about? Fear no more lovely parents and hardcorehomies, I am here to teach you, prepare for a lesson in concert terminology!

Mosh (verb) A form of self-expression at a show, involves jumping and deliberately running into people, may include but is not limited to; becoming a windmill or fighting enemies only you can see. Moshing also involves taking care of others in “the pit” if someone falls, you help them up, someone’s punched, you make sure they’re ok. If you fail to help those around you, you face the

Hospital should be an addition to your collection for sure. Composing synth pop music with emotional flair, Al Dodds of the duo describes their sounds as “pop music about not pop things” and draws on the feelings of hard times to comprise their lyrics. Jacqueline Green and Al Dodds have worked together on their latest release Living and Dyinga combination of synthesised sound and hard hitting emotional libretto which has definitely been added to my music collection. Being a two pieced band Hospital can definitely face challenge whilst playing live so to remedy this, live performances are paired back and are slightly less complex as the original composition. Dodds says he was drawn to music by “A need to document terrible things” along with

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full deliberate power of the mosh!

Pit (Noun) Where “the mosh” occurs, a large space that seems empty to bystanders but is full of emotion for those who choose to throw down. Generally moshers have their own space and keep to it, this is why they generally look empty, the space is required to prevent injuries and usually succeeds, however those on edge run the risk of being hit of they don’t signal they don’t want to participate with a closed outstretched fist.

Hardcore (Noun, Genre) Hardcore, not to be confused with metalcore (especially on merch swap pages) is an arm of underground music heavily influenced by punk rock, this arm has fast become a stalk of its own branching into many sub genres. Hardcore is considered alternate as it does not require anything pre-recorded and is raw music filled with emotion.

Metalcore (Noun, Genre) Metalcore is a genre that fuses elements of hardcore and metal together, this genre has to be done correctly to be done well. Metalcore is not as heavy as hardcore and not as accepted by those who like hardcore.

Emo (Noun, Genre) A genre hailing from soft core punk, the name was quite popularised in the 00s but the popularisation wasn’t truly what emo is about. Emo is genuinely just emotional music for emotional people.

Merch (noun) What everyone needs to support a band, basically turns you into a walking billboard, which is the opposite of a problem. Merch is a must for anyone who genuinely loves music.

Crowd Surf (Verb) The act of jumping on people you don’t know and hoping to the mosh gods they hold you up, an act generally undertaken by those who launch from the mosh, crowd surfing is for those who like to cause a bit of a ruckus during high energy sets.

So, Hopefully, that educated you a little bit more on what terminology may mean, and what people may be talking about, best thing to do, if you don’t know just ask!

this Doddscomes from a musical family, his mother being a singer and his grandfather in a jazz group.

Hospital set out to have an individual sound from the beginning Dodds says “we set out which sounds wewanted before starting out and which ones we didn’t. For example, I knew we wanted to be an electronics-based band. I knew we wanted to have that lyrical intensity. So we totally set out to have that individual sound. I couldn’t do regular music if I tried” the diversified sound is truly what makes Hospital so intoxicating. Highly encourage everyone to check out their Bandcamp (hospital1.bandcamp. com) and give them a like on their Facebook (www. facebook.com/hospitalsounds) its possibly the most individual sound I’ve heard for a very long time!

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Natures Reign (Flesh Of The Earth) Flesh of the Earth’s release Natures Reign is honestly indescribable in words. Blessed by the metal lords with talent every metal head would kill for Flesh’have put together a hands down incredible release. Mangrove is a personal favourite as well as an awesomely heavy track, as soon as the double kick hits you know what’s about to go down, breaking into what can only be described as controlled mayhem. The front man of this band has vocal cords of gold and hits every note with such precision. If you’re into Armoured Angel, Psycroptic or Alchemist definitely head over to fleshoftheearth.bandcamp.com and get this EP for free!

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SEPTEMBER 6TH- NECK DEEP AND STATE CHAMPS IN STORE SIGNING AND ACOUSTIC SET Already this month is not messing around, kicking it off with 2 huge pop punk acts, State Champs and Neck Deep down at 24 Hundred (17-19 Wangaratta St, Richmond) doing an in store signing and acoustic performance, highly urge you to get down early because these signings always pack out and you cannot miss this chance!

7TH- TAPE DECK FESTIVAL & NUMB SKULL CHARITY Basically the pop punk event of the year, come see internationals State Champs (USA) and Neck Deep (UK) play alongside some of our best oceanic acts. Not into pop punk? Don’t worry PEARL has your back, head on down to Dropout (18/157 Hyde Street, Yarravile) and enjoy a punk/sludge show with a basic entry fee of $5 (plus extra donation) everyone should head down and see our homies in Sheltered play alongside Elevator talk, V-ACT and more!

10TH- ANBERLIN IN STORE SIGNING On the 10th American rockers Anberlin are heading down to 24Hundred (17-19 Wangaratta St, Richmond) for an in store signing again get down as soon as you can because these signings are hectic as hell and pack out before you can say “Sign my poster!”

13TH- MIYAZAKI + GUESTS AT THE TOTE Give a new genre a try today, head down and see Miyazaki! Give punk folk a try fro the night, entry is $5 down at The Tote(71 Johnston Street (Cnr Johnston and Wellington St), Collingwood) trying something new is never harmful and I definitely got a bit of a jam out of their EP.

Singapore isn’t a nation traditionally associated with Heavy music, but after listening to the boys in Villes you are immediately left with a taste of things to come. Just a group of friends who became a band over MSN messenger, Villes provide listeners with a metalcore sound similar to overseas acts such as Secrets and Issues. Fronted by the eager front man Dominic Tan, Villes brought their enthusiastic outlooks to Australia to play a bunch of shows alongside Australia’s own Elegist and Void of Vision.

Off the back of their EP ‘I’ve seen the World’ which was mastered by the famous Joey Sturgis, Asia’s newest exports are currently running off the hype of their newest single City of Gold. This single demonstrates an improvement in overall musicality and maturity in Villes songwriting and is an amazing sneak peak of the future for Villes.

PEARL was extrememly privileged to meet and interview Villes at the OLP, in Ringwood on July 6.

PEARL: Just to kick things off could you please tell us your name and role in the band?

18TH- RISE OF BROTALITY Pepper your angus ladies and gentlemen, some big name acts are heading down to Frankston o give the Mechanics Hall a workout, head down to see The Ghost Inside and I Killed The Prom Queen on their tour, playing alongside out mates in Ocean Grove! Do not miss!

PEARL: What has been the best experience being in a band has given you?

Villes (All)- This.

PEARL: Your songs are primarily about resilience in the face of adversity, do you feel like when faced with hard times your turn to your own music?

Villes (Tan) – For me especially with songs such as ‘The Levy’ because it is about my Ex girlfriend every time I get a bit angry or whatever I usually turn to that song.

Villes (Ulric)- Definitely, especially since growing up in Singapore there are these pre conceived things from your parents that you need to get a stable job and to support your family and it doesn’t give you the opportunity to live for yourself so personally a lot of the songs are from my kind of perspective of the way things are.

PEARL: Can we expect new music at all this year?

Villes (Bryan Ulric): My name is Brian and I sing and play guitar in the band.

Villes (Tan)- A new EP is coming, I cant say when but there is something coming in the works.

Villes (HarithShah): My name is Harith, I play the guitar.

PEARL: How have the reactions been so far in Australia?

Villes (Aimanazhar): I’m Aiman and I am filling in for drums.

Villes (Shah)- Awesome!

Villes (Dominic Tan): I’m Dom and I Scream.

Villes (Ulric)- Everybody is so friendly, like every time after we play people just come up to us and start talking to us, everything happens so naturally.

Villes (AgungAnakagunggde) And my name is Agung and I play bass.

PEARL: How did Villes come to be?

14TH- THIS FIASCO AND THE CITY AT NIGHT + GUESTS Head down to Dropout (18/157 Hyde Street, Yarravile) and check out the mixed bill Jerbromotions has put together, show some support to The City At Night as they’re just back from hiatus and support This Fiasco because they’re so good and worth your up most support.

from the time when we used to go to shows. There is a different vibe coming through and it’s only going to get better.

Villes (Tan) – There was just this one day where I wanted to scream so I used MSN messenger and asked Bryan if he wanted to start something and he just laughed in my face because I was like the clown of the group.

Villes (Ulric)- We were all secondary school mates together so none of us really expected Dom to want to do that and we were all heavy music listeners so we just thought we might try some things out. At first it was just for fun, we just wanted to see Dom scream.

PEARL: How would you guys describe the heavy music scene in Singapore?

Villes (Tan)- Its small, but its growing.

Villes (Ulric)- It has definitely improved since we started playing more shows, we can even see it growing

Villes (Tan) - So fun, the Australian scene is the best man.

Villes (Anakagunggde)- Yeah it’s so much different than South- East Asia.

PEARL: What bands personally would you all like to tour with?

Villes (All shouting) Slipknot, Secrets, Crossfaith, Linkin Park, Northlane.

Viles (Tan)- I’ve actually wanting to do a show with Prepared Like a Bride for the longest time and now today its going to happen. YES! PEARL:Do you guys have any final words you want to say the anybody reading this?

Villes (Anakagunggde)- Yeah check us out.

Villes (Ulric)- Look out for later in the year for a couple of singles and an EP. JESSE LANE

VANNA Void (PURE NOISE RECORDS 17/6/14) Swapping in Catchy clean choruses for in your face punk anthems, Boston Massachusetts own Vanna have made their complete transition from Post-Hardcore to a thrash influenced destructive style of Metalcore.

With only one original member of the band being left the change of style within Vanna’s new album void seems almost inevitable. For fans of their old hits such as Safe to Say and Into Hells Mouth we March this new and improved erratic approach will come as a huge shock, hopefully for the better.

Accompanied by heavy hitting guitars, Front man Davey Muise creates a chaotic atmosphere with provoking hardcore sing alongs such as Piss up a Rope and All American’t. Although we see a new and more explosive Vanna, guitarist and clean vocalist Evan Pharmakisprovides listeners with some hard driven choruses and even very emotive slower heavy ballads as seen in the albums first single Digging.

Vannais definitely not the same band they were when they formed in 2004. With a great amount of line up changes and obvious evolution of influences Void places the Ten year Veterans back on the map with a new revitalised sound.

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t 20 years of age this young DJ/Producer originally from Melbourne has cemented his position as the undisputed KING of the now globally loved Melbourne Sound and is undoubtedly y the fastest rising g star in the current Australian dance music scene. Will was happy to catch-up with Pearl magazine on his short stopover in Melbourne – his hometown.

Since his genre-defining track, ‘Ah Yeah!’ hit #3 on the Beatport overall charts at the tail end of 2012, the Melbourne-bred sensation has been voted #1 DJ in Australia by the public for 2014’s inthemix awards picked up the inthemix Awards gong for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, been head-hunted to remix one of the biggest pop songs of 2013 ‘Blurred Lines’, set off on his debut North American and European tours and scored a spot on the bills of a number of internationally recognised festivals such as Tomorrow World, and Future Music Festival. Will is a headline act for Stereosonic 2014.

Will’s sound makes him a wanted man around the world. Could it be the underground Melbourne beats coming out or him reverting back to his heavy metal, head banging days of young when he was part of a heavy core group? Picking up a guitar in his formative years and thrashing Will mentioned the bands he loved “Killswitch Engage, and my favorite was definitely Trivium….. Oh, and Lamb of God - I was a bit of a shredder as well. As in, old school metal” Will went on to say that “he is still in the head banging music industry, just now its electric, he likes to keep the hard beat there – keeps everyone moving”.

When speaking with Will the feeling is chilled, he speaks like a pro – you would never know the guy is probably jetlagged out of his mind and I am just in the line-up of calls for him to speak with relaxed He is today; somehow he makes me feel comfortable – relaxed. a huge fan of all Australian music; from Sticky Fingers to Aussie

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n he is on the lookout for the Hip Hop. I am certain next remix where he can tweak the beats with his nergetic electro-house beats musical talents and energetic parks sparkle. p to twist to the Will Sparks ovver America – he is about Wanted in clubs all over nexxt US tour. Aptly named to embark on his next the ‘Bounce Bus tour’’ will have Will Sparks, Joel Fletcher (#3 DJJ in Oz) and Timmy travelling around the US on Trumpet (#2) travelling hs, playing at some a bus for three month months, s and festivals in of the biggest venues A the country; starting August 28th. It su ure there is an will be hot…I am sure Australian tour on the the way…Pearl could just not pry it ou out ut of him. ousand fans With now over 230 Tho Thousand ever--increasing on Facebook, an ever-increasing number of sold-out shows sh hows and a debut album in the e making and over 5 million plays on p Sound Cloud – there there are absolutely no signs of o this superstar quieting down d any time soon.

Will Sparks, is in the thick of a very y impressive twelve e months – watch this space for more to come!

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The hills of Phillip Island will be home to a

brand new 3 day ‘distinctive annual music festival with a focus on production, décor and theming’ taking place this year expecting to draw over 10,000 punters over New Years Eve. The camping festival is going to be ‘set up in the lushiest of green fields, with views of rolling hills and the ocean beyond.’

Milkfed Agency – One of Australia’s premier event and club specialists have teamed up with Melbourne’s biggest promoters, the chap’s from Anyway to take you on an illustrious journey, definitely one for the book.

First round lineup dropped last month, we will be left in the hands of acts such as: Action Bronson, AlunaGeorge, Bag Raiders, Bakermat, Ball Park Music, Banoffee, Basenji, Claptone, Collarbones, Cosmo’s Midnight, Dillon Francis, Fractures, Friend Within, Ganz, Golden Features, Goldlink, Husky, HWLS (Ta-ku& Kit Pop), Kant, Kaytranda, Klo, Lurch & Chief, Midnight Juggernaughts, Mø, Motez, Nina Las Vegas, Peking Duk, Pleasurekraft, Pond, Rufus, Sinjin Hawke, Sylvan Esso, The Preatures, Thomas Jack, Vancouver Sleep Clinic, Willow Beats and last but not least: YumiZouma.

Say ‘ello to my little friend – his name is Lux Camp.

The creative geniuses behind Milkfed have taken it to

a whole new level. Step inside our humble abode, the Chief Camp: an exclusive, cliff top area that includes your own offsite private check-in, fully furnished hotel style tents, Chief Camp communal restrooms and showers, complimentary breakfast buffet, room service menu until 1am, onsite concierge, dedicated security and much more, set up, fully furnished and awaiting your arrival. The Market Margarita bar, or how about your own private Jacuzzi for you and six mates? Giant beanbags and hammocks? Fully powered bar fridge/ mini-bar? Feeling a little queasy? The hangover spa will cater to ensure a speedy recovery, and send you back out into the wilderness to resume the exceptional partying festivities. VIP bar and room service menu managed

by Australian Bar of the Year winners ‘The Collection’ – producing only the tip-top award winning cocktails and gourmet food directly to your private headquarters. The list goes on and on…

It may all seem like a dream, but trust me when I say this. This is something you defnitely do not want to miss out on. Witness the magic, that is Beyond The Valley, join us on an adventure from December 30 through to January 1. Visit www.bringthevalley.com. au for tickets and all the information you need, see you knee-deep on the d-floor. Adios.

JIAY MILLS

Juke Club Saturdays

Melbourne’s newest weekly House & Techno party destination The Prince of Wales, one of Melbourne’s most iconic music venues, has announce Juke, a new weekly club night starting from the 23rd of August. With a promise to consistently deliver the best dance music and appeal to a diverse mix of revelers, Jukeare here to challenge Melbourne’s musical status quo and provide a weekly destination for house enthusiasts and techno lovers alike.

Juke is the brainchild of three of Melbourne’s most well known promoters: David Sticca who has a past relationship with Prince of Wales through the highly successful, but now defunct, Super Disco nights; Harry Rowsthorn who is known for his work with Seven nightclub and is also a partner in the newly refurbished Savoy Tavern, and Kyle Hand, who is one half of Loud Entertainment, the brand involved with respected Melbourne club institutions such asLockdown Jail Rave, Tomorrow Never Comes, and also the weekly Fake Tits night (currently running in its third year).

“Melbourne has some great events but no real weekly outlet for the sort of underground house and techno that we like, so we decided to do something about it,” Kyle Hand offers on how the idea started. “We really are just looking forward to bringing back high-calibre house and techno to Melbourne on a weekly basis. To do this at such an iconic venue such as Prince of Wales is even more exciting as it is synonymous with quality music and shows and a real Melbourne institution.”

Pressed on what acts we can expect to see Hand is keeping his cards close to his chest: “At this stage we can’t say who we have secured but stay tuned… what I can say though is that we will feature at least one international a month, so get ready to enjoy acts hailing from labels such as Hot Creations, Crosstown Rebels, Cocoon, Diynamic, Defected, 8 Bit and Cecille. We really can’t wait to share the line up with everyone!” And lets not forget a weekly rotating roster of the most revered local DJs the Melbourne house and techno scene has to offer at the 75 year old Prince Bandroom.

Juke will serve those in pursuit of good music, good people and good vibes on a weekly basis every Saturday night.

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SPACEY SPACE

This month PEARL chatted to one of the men who’s been in the game since before began, literally. Standing two meters tall he isn’t hard to spot behind a set of decks. A man of few words, sporting a powerful moustache and thick black framed glasses, he is a musical Idol to those who flock to see him at many of his weekly residencies, Fake Tits At Tramp, Juke at Prince and gigs at Capital, Wah Wah, XS Disco and Circus, just to name a few. But no other venue could match the welcoming and set you witness at Revolver Upstairs on a Sunday which comprises of standing ovations, rounds of applause and wolf whistles to turn you deaf. The man is Spacey Space. He has played with some of the biggest names in business, Claude Von Stroke and Squarepusher as well as festivals such as Earthcore, Big Day Out Boiler Room (RIP) and Future Entertainment events. Ticking all the boxes on what I would call an awesome Bucket List, he has hosted his own radio show on Kiss FM, had dumplings named after him at Colonel Tan’s restaurant and produced audio content for a demo version of an Xbox game ‘Heroes of the pacific.’ Stay tunes folks, the man has more to come.

and I still love those records.

So we’ve heard you are originally from Drouin - what made you make the move out to the big city of Melbourne?

Drouin is a lovely town and I still get back there every now and then but I knew the city was for me since I started commuting to go to high school in South Yarra.

But I’m not sure why, the city runs deep. Maybe because I was born in Crown Street, Sydney?

How do you power through some of your sets, some go for longer than 5 hours, do you stash Up and Go’s under the decks?

Physically, five hours set are easy... I’ve been doing them since the early days of the Five Hour Challenge at Honkytonks... But more than five hours is tough..

Where did your passion for music come from, what inspired you in the early years?

I suppose my Dad’s record collection (jazz, rock and classical) was an influence. My Grandma gave me some Hanna-Barbera LPs when I was very little

What is the story behind your DJ name?

It was given to me by some American basketballers I played with in my late teens. Then I needed a DJ name and just used it for a laugh and it stuck.

How did you end up playing gigs Revolver - a question many ask themselves only for all the right reasons on a Sunday morning of afternoon?

Haha.. Right place, right time, right records… something like that.

Describe your sound? (Heaven to the ears has already been taken) That’s a tough one. I might leave the answer to that question to other people.

What do you do when you aren’t DJing? A little birdy told me that you are studying Psychology?

Yes, I’m doing an online Grad Dip in Psych. So now, tell me more about this “little birdy” that talks to you..

Are you still producing, if so are any of the tracks going to be released?

Yes I am. I have a few old things on Beatport with more to come.. Stay tuned..

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FLANAGANS THURSDAY

PHOTOS BY ZACHARY DAVIS

DANCE NIGHTCLUB SATURDAYS

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Holi One – Festival of Colours 30 Cities, 6 countries and over 1 million followers on Facebook. The Holi Festival of Colours: the most colourful and epic festival is about to hit Australia. Be a part of this unique experience of electronic music, happiness and the most colourful day in your life.

Originally the festival takes place at the fullmoon day of the Phaluga month and belongs to the most famous celebrations in the northern parts of India. At this Hindu-Festival people celebrate the victory of the good over the bad and the beginning of spring.

The special feature is that the people paint themselves with various colours and are throwing the colourful powder in the air to express the freedom and to colour their everyday life. The most important thing is, that at this day all castes of the Indian caste-system are banned and put out of force. That means that at these celebration days all people are equal.

At this point the idea of bringing that special festival to the whole world arises. As there is a huge level of inequality in the world, people deserve a celebration where the everyday life steps back for a peaceful and harmonic being together. A pleasant and cheerful festival, which creates a sustainable feeling in the minds of the visitors and those who will read and hear about it. This event has the power to directly promote and foster the precious goods of equality and tolerance and bring people together.

Join us on Nov 8 at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl on November 8, for tickets or more information squizz www.holione.com.

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Recovery Collective (Special Edition) www.recoverycollective.com.au

CITY KEYS – Charlie’s Unicorn Never Talks (Original Mix) A new name for the book, ‘City Keys’ will be sure to rise to the top quickly. Here we have one of his debut releases under his new alias; ‘Charlies Unicorn Never Talks’. Lead by a super funky bass melody, which drives the low end equipped with powerful techno super-saws.

HANDSOME – Futurism (Original Mix) Another name you’ll soon be hearing in a multitude of ways. His weird, yet dreamy, portrayal of what some would call House Music, is beginning to make an imprint of pleasure on Melbourne audiences. Priding himself on his quirky synths and dabbling in funky bass riffs, his production is a recipe for good vibrations.

Groove Delight @ Winter Electronic Festival www.soundcloud.com/groove-delight/groovedelight-liveset-160814

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HONKIE – Bribe Girls (Original Mix) Another name Recovery Collective feel the need to bring to the table, all the way from São Paulo, Brazil. The fusion of deep, dark, catchy throbbing baselines and ghetto hip-hop feels.

Meet G-House heavyweight Hønkie, and his little gem Bribe Girls.

PHOTOS BY NATHAN DORAN

YAN OXYGEN FT. SUNHEAT – Microelektronika (EP) Recovery Collective brings you Yan Oxygen, all the way from Ukraine. His first release on Recovery Collective “Microelektronika” features two huge techno tracks with massive driving basslines; “Microelektronika” & “Macroelektronika”. Both these tunes have a thundering lowend, and are a must-have for any Techno collection

PHOTOS BY JOHN FREEMAN

FRIBAYS @ BAY HOTEL

One of the greatest talents of Brazilian e-music, Groove Delight is the project idealized by the young artist from São Paulo, KéFernandes.

With many different influences such as Rock, New Wave, House and Techno, her sound reflects a strong personality, mixing groove and psychedelic synthesis with industrial effects which result in singular and characteristic productions and invariably electrifying performances.

This live performance recording sets the perfect festival atmosphere - sit down, pour yourself a drink, and treat yourself to the delight.

TOM M.C – Concealed (Original Mix) It’s a safe assumption that when Tom M.C hits the age of 18 he will explode into the Melbourne Minimal scene – that’s right, he’s still underage! This crazy hard-hitting tune will blow your mind with a combination of triplets and bouncy 4/4 synths in the one phrase. It’s not often that a track with such a heavy baseline as this is accompanied by a catchy percussive melody; ‘Concealed’ is set to tear dance floors to pieces across the globe.

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