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Recognised for their unique and radical reinvention of pop, Xui Xui have been creating subversive rhythms, growling bass lines and top shelf harmonies for a decade. Their latest album is Dear God, I Hate Myself and it’s seeing the band head to Perth on a rare tour. Joining them is High Places, who have recently come to the fore with their album High Places Vs Mankind. Using countless instruments, and like a supreme cross between Vampire Weekend and Animal Collective, High Places also have a live show not to be missed. They both take in Amplifier on Monday 6 September. Tickets from Moshtix.
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Holy Fuck, Queensland’s state police have been given the power to issue on-the-spot fines of between $100 and $300 for swearing in public. Could that mean Qld artists swearing in stories we run in Drum will be fined? Will these laws spread to WA? Um, of course by saying ‘Holy Fuck’ we were referring about the band, who’s new album Latin is absolutely rad… Playing Capitol on Wednesday 4 August, Midlake have just been confirmed as 2010’s must-see band. Pipping the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian, the American intellirockers took out the Best Live Act at the UK’s MOJO Awards. Golden tickets to the Drumpresented show from Heatseeker, Moshtix and Handsome Tours. LA trendsetters Shwayze and Cisco Adler were due to hit Villa next Friday. Illusive has announced the tour has been postponed, but recommend you hold on to tickets as new dates will be announced shortly. Originally scheduled to play the Perth Convention Centre on Friday 16 July, Dionne Warwick has also cancelled, due to “scheduling difficulties”. Full refunds from Ticketek.
THE PRETENDERS
EVENINGS ON THE GREEN
With two of the biggest bands in the history of rock’n’roll teaming up for a show at Kings Park Pioneer Women’s Memorial grassy knoll, it’s no surprise that Wednesday 24 November’s An Evening On The Green show starring Blondie and The Pretenders has been in high demand since tickets went on sale at the start of this week. In fact, tickets have been snapped up so fast that a second show has already been added for Thursday 25 November. With support from Adalita and Little Red, tickets to the second Evening On The Green go on sale from Ticketmaster this coming Monday, all proudly presented by Drum Media.
MODERN DAY DISCO
She’s created three critically acclaimed albums, picked up an ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and now she’s heading back to WA for one show in trio mode. She is Clare Bowditch and she’s promising to peddle ‘political disco’ on her forthcoming album Modern Day Addictions. You’ve already heard her two new singles Bigger Than The Money and The Start Of War, and you’ll hear these and more in a live setting when she closes the 2010 Artbar season on Thursday 5 August. Tickets to all previous Artbar shows have sold out, so best hit up Bocs early.
WALLOPING LOGIC
Growing up on a musical diet of equal parts guitar rock from bands such as Rage Against The Machine and downtempo from labels like Mo Wax, Logistics has become a household drum’n’bass name. After scooping best album awards for his debut Now More Than Ever, he backed this up with Reality Checkpoint before returning in ‘09 with dancefloor smasher Crash Bang Wallop, his deadliest album yet. The Hospital surgeon returns to serve up some midweek madness at Shape on Wednesday 21 July. Supported by Sardi, Muller and Deflo. $20 presales from www.shapebar.com.au.
ENTIRE NIGHTCAP
Touring nationally for the last time before an extended break due to Tim Freedman’s upcoming solo album, The Whitlams will be playing one special show at the Astor Theatre on Friday 17 September. This isn’t any plain ol’ Whitlams show either, as they’ll open the show by playing their Eternal Nightcap album in its entirety, which was their breakthrough album and found them ARIA Awards and Triple J Hottest 100 wins. Tickets go on sale for this show from Heatseeker in Friday 25 June.
SHANGHAI KNIGHT
One of Perth’s biggest bands of the ‘80s was The Eurogliders, and now frontwoman Grace Knight has just released a solo album in Willow. Co-produced with her long-time musical director Ray Alldridge, the album is a beautifully crafted collection of luscious sexy tracks. You can catch Knight live at Friends Restaurant on Thursday 8 July and at the Swan Yacht Club on Saturday 10. Tickets from venues.
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After initial tickets to the October 22 and 23 Metallica Perth shows sold out in hours, extra tickets have been released via Ticketek to both shows in the Silver-Restricted Viewing area. Package this with the following and you’ve got the ultimate headbanging win: Cinema Paradiso is screening a live satellite broadcast of performances by ‘the big four’ - Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth - from the Sonisphere Festival Concert in Sofia, Bulgaria on July 9 and 10 at 9.15pm. Secure your horns up from lunapalace. com.au.
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Taking in a swag of venues including the Art Gallery, the Blue Room Theatre, PICA, the WA Museum, His Majesty’s Theatre and more, City Of Perth’s Winter Arts Season is in full swing. Now in its sixth year, Perth’s leading creative organizations have joined together to put on dozens of events in and around our great city for your entertainment. With plays like The Myth Of Julian Rose and Shakespeare’s King Lear, free events including WAAPA 30 x 30 and instalments like Patricia Piccinini: Relativity making up only a small part of the fun, we suggest you head to www.perthwinterarts.com.au now to have a look at what’s on offer.
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Myths Of The Near Future now seems like eons ago, but Klaxons will finally release follow-up album Surfing The Void on August 20. First single out in July. Speaking of Modular acts, the label has said a new album for The Avalanches is “gonna be out at the end of the year.” We’ll believe it when we hear it.
TOUCH THE CKY
For 13 years they’ve been making music on the more experimental side of alternative rock and now they’re coming to Australia. Yes, Pennsylvanians CKY are coming to Perth to hit the stage of the Civic Hotel on Wednesday 11 August. You might recognise the name, as it’s the same as the pre-Jackass show that Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn and friends were on. Both the TV show and the band have taken on the Camp Kill Yourself acronym and now you can ask CKY drummer Jess Margera how his folks April and Phil are holding up following the alligator and fireworks incidents. Tickets to this Drum Media-presented show from Moshtix.
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Made up of local legends Kav Temperley from Eskimo Joe, Kevin Mitchell a.k.a Bob Evans from Jebediah and Steve Parkin from Autopilot, plus east coast gem Josh Pyke, the Basement Birds are about to fly with their debut album set for release through Inertia on July 16. Until then, you can download their tracks in bundles from iTunes. They’re heading out on the Good Evening & Good Night Tour in what might be their only tour together. See them with Old Man River in support at the Astor Theatre on Friday 13 August. Tickets from Heatseeker, Oztix and www.basementbirds.com.au. The website offers up album and ticket packages from this Tuesday.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that only one legendary Bay Area thrash metal band was touring in Australia in October, but you’d be wrong. Having inspired the likes of Metallica, Testament, Death Angel and more, Exodus are renowned for their dynamic guitar riffery, adrenalineinducing drum work and bloodied live shows. Heading to Australia for their first headlining tour, catch Exodus at Amplifier on Tuesday 5 October. Tickets from Moshtix and 78 Records.
RED RIDING HOOD
With the single from their second album Rock It on the airwaves and iTunes now, Melbourne melodicists Little Red have inked in a very brief Australian tour before heading to the UK for a series of showcase gigs. The band’s as-yet-untitled sophomore effort was recorded with Scott Horscroft (The Temper Trap, The Presets) and will be out in September through Liberator. Catch Red at Thursday 8 July at Amplifier. Tickets from Moshtix.
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The {Move} family are back with a new monthly night called Rhythmatism at The Bird. Bringing it in with a bang is Ras G & The Afrikan Space Crew. As captain of the Afrikan Space Program and power forward of the Brainfeeder Crew, Ras G will guide you through a deep space exploration of music’s ancient history and rich future, with the live component seeing the subterranean basslines and colossal production come to life. The first 50 people through the door on Thursday 22 July will also pick themselves up a limited edition mixtape.
UNDER CONTROL
Before they head into the studio to work on album number two, Sugar Army will first embark on one last rock pilgrimage; the In Control tour presented by Drum Media. Catch them at Indi Bar on Thursday 1 July with newly announced supports Arts Martial and The Tumblers; Friday 2 at Prince Of Wales with Emperors; Saturday 3 at Amplifier with Young Revelry and Emperors; and Sunday 4 at Mojo’s with Trigger Jackets and Boom! Bap! Pow! Tickets from Heatseeker and the usual outlets.
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A world acclaimed guitar virtuoso, Bruce Mathiske creates a solo guitar orchestra by playing bass, rhythm and melody all at the same time, encompassing a range of genres including Latin, jazz, Africa, folk and flamenco. Oh, and he can play didgeridoo at the same time. He’s heading to WA and he’s bring ukulele dynamo Greg Young with him. With over a century’s worth of experience between the two, see them Thursday 8 July at Fly By Night or Denmark Civic Centre on Saturday 10. Tickets from venues.
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Through countless line-up changes and a relentless touring schedule, Carpathian have smashed out their most impressive collection of songs yet with 7’’ Wanderlust, which was recorded with Drew Parsons at 3 Phase studios in Melbourne. They hit the road with Brisbane’s Ghost Town and take in YMCA HQ on Friday 9 July and Amplifier on Saturday 10.
GO BATTY Previously announced to be appearing at the South Street Ale House a few weeks back, New Zealand indie adventurers now residing in Adelaide Batrider have rethought their attack on Perth. They’ll now be appearing at The Bird on Friday 2 July with Rabbit Island, and at Norfolk Basement on Saturday 3 with Golden Staph. The Beaks Tour brings you their latest album Why Can’t We Be Together, proudly presented by Drum Media.
EX LOCAL PRICKS
Former Perth, now Melbourne-based punk rock institution Sin City are heading back to where it all began. Heading home for the first time in over a year to show off the wares of their latest self-titled EP, Sin will also be showing off their new bass player, Kane of Public Urination infamy. See them destroy the Rocket Room on Friday 9 July, Prince Of Wales on Saturday 10, and Sunday 11 July at The Railway Hotel.
HARDER TO FORGET
East coast punk rockers Forgiven Rival have been busy of late, recording two singles for release in the US and Australia, before inking a deal with Indianola Records (Evergreen Terrace, A Day To Remember). Heading west for a series of shows with Mandalay Victory, they play Black Betty’s on Thursday 24 June also with Still Water Claims and Afraid Of Heights; Players Bar on Saturday 26 with A Shocker On Shock Street and In League; and an ALL-AGES show at YMCA HQ on Sunday 27 June with In League, Only Hope and Statues.
HERO OF THE DAY
With time spent touring with Short Stack on their resume, Melbourne’s For Our Hero are plotting a return trip west to show why they’re one of the most hotly tipped young pop punk bands around. Catch them at Amplifier on Friday 25 June with Colour The Sky, or for an ALL-AGES show at Cockburn Youth Centre on Saturday 26 June with Colour The Sky, Know Your Knot and Rocket Lawn Chair.
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There’s some mighty fine happenings going down right now in WA, and we ain’t just talking about the fact that WA indecent exposure laws are going back to the ’40s either… Abbe May launches her new band next Friday 25 June at Mojo’s with support from The Fags and Hootenanny. This band’s for real, as May is currently recording an album with the mystery bunch as we speak. You can also catch her when The Deen opens its doors to live original music with Abbe howling out some solo acoustic shows every Friday in July from 5pm. Local head-turners Erasers are launching their new 7’’ EP Autumn at The Bird on Friday 9 July. Releasing four tracks on a 7’’ single, the band will play live in three-piece mode with support from Apricot Rail, These Shipwrecks, Rabbit Island and Jane Harris. Following in the footsteps of Karnivool, local rockers The Siren Tower have revealed that they’ll be recording their full-length debut album with Aussie super producer Forrester Savell (Dallas Frasca, Butterfly Effect) in October for release early next year. Alternative rock trio The Bullet Holes come out of hiding to release their first single in over two years (and website to boot) at Rocket Room on Friday 25 June. Support from Wolves, My Mad Flow and One Thousand Years. Now in its 11th year, Rise hosts Perth’s longest running DJ competition From Bedroom To Bigroom. Kicking off on Saturday 26 June, DJs Brin, Drewz and JT Yo battle it out in heat one earlier in the night, while the seasoned pros take over afterwards. From the depths of the Swan River delta emerges garage punks The Good Sons. Set to launch their EP Your Crowd at The Paddo on Sunday 27 June, they’ve recruited Lantana and Oishii in support. It’s been almost a year, but we in Perth haven’t forgotten about the icon that was Michael Jackson. On Friday 2 July, the X-Wray Café hosts a tribute night with K. Ele, Mama Tiger, Adz and more plus an ‘80s theme. Ambar’s hot and heavy mixed bag Force Majuere returns on Friday 25 June with local legend Phetsta heading up the bill for a special feature set, while broken beat king Micah, The Pearly Whites, Sean Morrison and residents Philly Blunt and Mono Lisa all join the party. After selling out the Fly By Night in January, Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys’ Rhythm Spectacular is coming back for a second showing. Also featuring VJ Zoo projecting music/dance images and cabaret sets from Sugar Blue Burlesque, the Rhythm Spectacular takes in the Regal Theatre on Saturday 24 July. Tickets from Ticketek. Tell us all about your upcoming launch, tour or party by emailing music@drumperth.com.au.
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WITH THIS YEAR’S REVELATION FILM FESTIVAL NOW LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY, IT’S TIME TO START BLOCKING IN SOME DATES WITH THE ASTOR. PROGRAM DIRECTOR JACK SARGEANT RECOMMENDS TO MATTHEW HOGAN A FEW OF THE MUST SEES AMONGST THE MANY.
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ast week, the 2010 Revelation Film Festival was launched at its home of The Astor Theatre with Jack Sargeant introducing the program to a small selection of dedicated punters. In his third year as program director, Sargeant watched around 300 films before settling on this year’s selection, which sees another exciting batch of first run features, documentaries, cult films, shorts and more find their way to Perth.
The first flick Sargeant brings up is The Family Jams, a documentary about modern-day folk artists Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver. “It’s great because it looks at when all those people were just starting back in the early 21st century,” Sargeant informs before mentioning other music docos on show. “I’ve got a documentary about the Seattle soul scene call Wheedle’s Groove. That’s really good because nobody really thinks of soul music in Seattle; they go Jimi Hendrix and then a gap of 20 years, [then] Nirvana. But the idea is that there’s a soul music scene that nobody ever knew about. It’s proper soul funk, Sly Stone type of stuff – not what they call funk music now.” Keeping with docos, this year’s Revelation will also see Disco & Atomic War screened, which is about a town called Tallinn in Estonia. “It’s really close to Helsinki and behind the Iron Curtain in the later years of the Cold War. All the people there would make TV aerials so they could get TV from Helsinki,” Sargeant says. “It’s all about somebody
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who grew up there just telling their story and when Nightrider was on, you tell the other people who had pirate TV because all the boys would be talking to cars. The secret police would keep an eye on nine-yearold boys talking to cars because they’d know their parents would have illegal aerials.” Opening night will see the festival screen their first-ever Oprah Winfrey recommended film Good Hair. “It’s a Chris Rock film and it’s about African American women’s hair and the fact that their hair tends to be curly and the fact that they’re getting weaves and straightenings,” says Sargeant. “It’s basically about how hair is sold to African American women and where beauty comes from and so forth. And, because it’s Chris Rock, it’s hilariously funny. It’s also very moving and very poignant, but his sensibility is so sharp that it makes it work. You learn something, but it’s fun.” Keeping with the festival’s love for all things extreme, Sargeant recommends something with a touch of class. “The late night exploitation double bill of Russ Meyer,” he offers. “If you want to see girls
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with big breasts beating up stupid men, this is the place to come. It’ll make a great date movie!” Last year, a packed house was rolling in the aisles to Nazi zombie film Dead Snow and Sargeant promises the same will happen with La Horde from France. “It’s just insane violence and explosions for two hours,” he promises while licking his lips. “It’s about cops who were killed by gangsters and they go to kill the gangsters and for no reason that I can ascertain, they all become zombies and the cops the gangsters join forces. It’s just really fantastic.” As for homegrown bloodbaths, Revelation has the WA premiere to a very big film indeed. “We’re showing The Loved Ones, which is a really big Australian horror film about a prom night date,” Sargeant enthuses. “That’s a fantastic film. That’s going to be the biggest Australian film of the decade probably.” As for WA made films, the program director promises there’s no shortage of gold on offer. “There’s a film called The Sculptor, which is about this couple who retreat to the woods and they hear weird stuff and see weird things and there’s dabbling in the occult,” he says. “It’s great; it’s got that Australian gothic vibe to it, as in horror gothic not kids with white faces. “We also do one called A Day At The Oasis, which also reminds me of Ricky Gervais in the way it was scripted; really observational comedy about people. It’s all these people that are speed dating in rural WA and out of seven people, only two women turn up and one’s pregnant. It’s got this really low-key subtle humour and you don’t even realise you’re laughing.” To top it all off, you can even get to learn about a part of WA’s heritage you didn’t even know existed. “We’ve got a short called Rock N Roll Mud Wrestling about the history of mud wrestling in pubs in WA,” says Sargeant, “which is great because obviously anything that’s a weird or bizarre history always excites me and you can’t go wrong with mud-wrestling!” The Revelation Film Festival takes place from Thursday 8 to Sunday 18 July at the Astor Theatre with workshops and special screening taking place at other venues. Tickets and the full program are available from the Astor Theatre and www.revelationfilmfest.org.
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Those pioneering brothers of dance music The Chemical Brothers have returned with their new album Further. The album features eight tracks, each accompanied by a film made for each track. The album itself has been described as their most melodic and psychedelic yet, but is it their best? There’s one way for you, dear reader, to find out. But what’s better than sitting back at home and taking in the new album by The Chemical Brothers? How about a TCB-emblazoned balloon, glowstick and a rather large lollipop to go with it? Yes, these will surely all be collectors items one day. So to pick up one of FIVE Chemical Brothers prize packs, email giveaways@drumperth.com.au with “GIMME CHEMICALS” in the subjectline and tell us the name of the duo’s first ever album. There’s been much written about the summer of ’71 when the Rolling Stones went into tax exile across the channel and emerged from the substance haze with the triumphant double album Exile On Main Street. New documentary Stones In Exile, unveiled at the recent Cannes Film Festival, shows those sessions at Keith’s villa and shed new light on the excesses of that summer, including the involvement of children. To pick up one of FIVE copies of Stones In Exile, email giveaways@ drumperth.com.au with “STONE ME INTO EXILE” in the subjectline and tell us what country Exile On Main Street was recorded in. Another duo with a live electronic reputation up there with the best is the Bloody Beetroots. With added remixes and tracks on a bonus disc, the Romborama Tour Edition is a must for fans. If you missed their recent Creamfields live set, you simply can’t miss out on the bonus tracks and versions on this double CD pack. To win one of FIVE copies, email giveaways@drumperth. com.au with “BLOODY BLOODY” in the subjectline.
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DRIVING IT HOME BOYS FROM THE BAY Despite everything that’s happened for Parkway Drive in the past years, they all still live in Byron Bay. “Yeah, we do, it’s a very hard place to leave,� enthuses Winston, but how much time do they have at home? “Not as much as we like. It’s catch22. It’s a wonderful place to live, but to be able to live here it does mean that you have to leave the place. At the same time It’s not like touring and travelling to these wonderful places is exactly a chore. We still spend five to six months here a year, I guess.� The band’s tight writing, recording, touring process is interspersed with months at home in Byron Bay surfing, and that upbringing, and lifestyle, really influences Winston’s outlook on the world when he’s away from the waves. “It really, really does. It makes you appreciate this place a hell of a lot more. Luckily, the time we get to spend at home is quality time ‘cause we’re working our asses off during the months beforehand.
FROM BYRON BAY BANGERS TO INTERNATIONAL DOMINATORS, SUCCESS DOESN’T GET MUCH SWEETER IN THE WORLD OF METALCORE. PARKWAY DRIVE FRONTMAN WINSTON MCCALL CHATS TO TRISTAN BROOMHALL AHEAD OF THEIR LATEST VENTURE INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY, INCLUDING CREATING INTIMACY IN THE MIDDLE OF A METAL ORGY. COVER AND FEATURE PICS BY KANE HIBBERD.
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ince Byron Bay’s Parkway Drive released their debut split EP with I Killed The Prom Queen back in 2003, the quintet have ridden a wave of success that’s seen their distinctive metalcore sounds reach an ever-growing worldwide audience. Vocalist Winston McCall and the band are at home after finishing their third full-length, Deep Blue, in Los Angeles, and they’re preparing to head back to the US for the huge Vans Warped Tour. “The album, it was finished mixing and mastering and stuff like that a couple of weeks ago, and the actual recording process finished about a month and a half ago. It’s all in the hands of the label now and what they’re doing with it – this is the time we sit on our hands and let everyone do their thing,� explains Winston. The group only finished recording in April and Winston’s especially pleased with the result, bemoaning the delays that often plague releases. “It’s such a frustrating thing to finish a record and have to go do a bunch more tours of songs that you then consider to be old because you have a bunch of new songs that you want to play. Luckily this time it’s happening quickly. We did want to have it out by Warped Tour at least and it looks like it’s gonna happen, which is nice too.� To follow up their previous two ARIA-charting releases, the band picked Joe Barresi (Kyuss, Melvins, Coheed & Cambria) to oversee the recording process, and it seems they really gelled with the producer, who understood their desire for something that sounded different. “Joe knows music so well, and knows how to create these sounds as opposed to just manipulating the computer stuff that seems to be the go today with everybody else. The thing is, as well, it’s not always about sounding similar – it’s that it’s so the same that it’s mechanical. That’s what we really didn’t like. We were really happy
with the production on Horizon and With A Smile but, in the three years since then, the production’s just gone over the top; it’s gone past being tight to being machine perfect - it just takes away from the human aspect, the musical part, it’s basically just techno,� says Winston.
I THINK VENUE SIZES AND BARRIERS CAN BE OVERCOME WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE; IT DEPENDS ON HOW THE BAND PRESENTS THEMSELVES AND WHERE THEIR EGOS ARE AS TO HOW PEOPLE ACCEPT THEM AND HOW THE SHOW GOES.�
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“We wanted to try and go in the opposite direction and do as much as we could with gear, actual musical instruments, and keep the digital side to a minimum. That’s what Joe really helped us with. We’ve always been a band that writes music for live, as opposed to writing music for record. I think recording this way captures the band’s essence and the live essence a hell of a lot better than anything we’ve done in the past.� Only days after finishing recording they found themselves on tour in Europe. “It was the last time we
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were playing the songs off Horizon without songs from Deep Blue. It’s really weird because, it was the last tour on the Horizon cycle, you’d think that after hearing the same songs for three years there’d be less people coming to shows. It was actually the biggest headlining tour we’ve ever done outside of Australia. I guess it’s a nice sign that things are on the up and up with the record still getting well and truly worn out. Now we’re just excited to see how things go and if people like the new one.� The huge sounds on Deep Blue need some huge venues, and the Australian launch tour sees the band take to some of the biggest venues in Australia. While that’s nothing new for the band, it’s going to be a different experience for local fans. “It’s gonna be great to be able to play some new music, and play some venues that have massive, massive sound systems, and blow some people apart. It seems like we’ve played every possible size of stage these days and, to be honest, we’re more comfortable on a stage without barriers and in a more intimate setting. But at the same time, it’s hard to have an intimate setting when there’s several thousand people at the shows. We’ve luckily had enough time and experience playing shows of that size that I think we have a way of playing that still has the same kind of vibe and atmosphere as we would at a more intimate show. I think venue sizes and barriers can be overcome with the right attitude; it depends on how the band presents themselves and where their egos are as to how people accept them and how the show goes.� As well as being the heaviest release from Parkway to date, Deep Blue is also a new direction for the band in terms of songwriting. “It actually follows a concept the whole way through and the way we’ve structured the lyrics, music and artwork to go along as one constant
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“There’s been a hell of a lot,� he continues, explaining how the world shapes up next to home. “There’s so much of the world that I’ve seen that’s absolutely left a great impression, but there’s very few places that I could say ‘yep, I’d love to live here.’ I would actually like to live in Japan. It’s really bizarre but I really love that place, and some of the places in Europe along the coastline have been wonderful. Other than that, there’s so many places I’ve seen where I said ‘great’, but being a surfer you have to have surf, it’s kind of imperative in that aspect.�
theme. It follows the story of a man trying to find some truth in the world and he wakes up in the city he lives, and realises the whole thing’s shit and his life’s a lie, and tries to find some sort of constant and seeks enlightenment at the bottom of the ocean. The idea was to create something that you could read from start to finish with the lyrics and read through everything and follow the story the whole way through. But, at the same time, if you took the songs out individually, they’re still their own song. It’s just something extra we tried to add to the way we write and work as a band – it’s put in if people felt the need to look for something more. If they didn’t, there’s still the songs that work by themselves. “In the past we tended to write as we went; wrote a song here and there. This time we pretty much took two months off and said we’re gonna write this album in its entirety. We practised together every second day for two months and wrote this entire album, and we’ve actually tried to focus on writing this album as a whole as opposed to just writing a song here and there, and then getting into the studio and figuring out which one will go where, and what sounds like what. It was actually probably the most organic and easiest writing process we’d ever undertaken which was pretty nice. To be honest, out of any albums that we’ve put out I definitely like the songs and music on this one far more than anything we’ve done in the past.� WHO: Parkway Drive WHAT: Deep Blue (Resist Records) Out Jun 25 WHEN & WHERE: Sunday 3 October, Challenge Stadium, Mount Claremont
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PURPLE PEOPLE-SNEAKERS GIGS IN COSTUME M.I.T’s penchant for throwing on a big pink bear costume during Purple Sneakers’ DJ sets might seem a little odd, but it’s a tactic employed by many acts be it DJ or otherwise. Drum Media checks out a few artists in recent times looking too add that little extra to give the punters something to talk about on the way home. THE FLAMING LIPS: In 2004 the quirky psychadelia that is The Flaming Lips brought their live show to the Big Day Out famously involving large fluffy animal costumes. Perhaps even more famous were those inside, including the likes of Drew Barrymore, Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes and Peaches. PNAU: Touring their 2007 self-titled album, the Sydney duo offered fans and industry types the chance to get up on stage with them during sets in giant costumes, which included strawberries (naturally), flowers and dead doves. DEADMAU5: The Canadian producer/DJ likes to work in a giant Mickey Mouse inspired head. Whether or not it’s to hide his ugly face (highlighted last year with those hideous photos of his pre-capped teeth) remains to be seen, but it’s proved to be an incredibly effective marketing tool. YACHT CLUB DJS: Perhaps in homage to their name or perhaps just because they can, the mash-up duo have a penchant for using a blow-up raft to crowd surf during their high-energy party sets. Shirt removal and stage-invasions not compulsory but often encouraged.
WE DON’T KNOW IF IT’S GOINNA GET ANYTHING OR IF PEOPLE THINK IT’S A JOKE BUT THE TRACK LISTING IS BRILLIANT SO ANY INDIE KIDS ARE GONNA DROOL OVER IT.”
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THE PURPLE SNEAKERS DJS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD. ON THE EVE OF THEIR MIX CD RELEASE WE MIX YOU DANCE, AND AN AUSTRALIAN TOUR SUPPORTING IT, TROY MUTTON CHATS WITH M.I.T FROM THE TRIO ABOUT GLOBAL EXPANSION, “DECKTARS” AND PINK BEAR SUITS.
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here’s a club-night in Sydney called Purple Sneakers that is quickly becoming less defined by its NSW location. With similarities made between Perth’s post-midnight Amps and Death Disco, the brand has since exploded to now holding a weekly night in Canberra, along with a newly opened Melbourne night to go along with the Sydney one. It doesn’t end there however. Not only are the trio of Sydney DJs about to release their first ever official mix-compilation entitled We Mix You Dance, when Drum Media catches up with M.I.T (real name Tim Poulton) from the group, he reveals founder Martin Novosel (a.k.a PhDJ) is currently in London scouting locations for a possible UK edition of the night.
Now their name is well and truly out there, it’s clearly the right time to drop their first ever mix compilation upon the masses, and it’s proving to be both a time of great excitement and intense nervousness for the trio. “We’ve been thinking about it for a long time and it was basically finding the right label to get the go ahead ‘cause it’s such an expensive process and we needed to find someone who had vision, who could see this was gonna be something that’s gonna be really good you know – it’s the first ever mixed-indie compilation.” That it certainly it is, with the trio offering a double CD package, the first entitled Booty Shakin’ and the latter Chin Strokin’, each their own beast, offering something for both those more dance-inclined and those erring towards the more indie/rock side. Think Simian Mobile Disco into Friendly Fires then Sia on the first, and Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! into The Mess Hall with a touch of Caribou on the latter and you get the idea.
It’s certainly a far cry from five years ago in the clubnight’s humble beginnings says the fast-talking but fairly chilled Poulton from his home office in Sydney. “[The night] started about five years ago where it wasn’t called Purple Sneakers, it was just literally somewhere to go after a gig to hang out and listen to awesome music. It started evolving into a much more popular club night the following year,” is his brief summary of how they began, before laughing, “It’s literally just an indie club in the city which has blown out of proportion now.”
Through the nervous excitement, Poulton seems quietly confident that the release (the first of a proposed four) will do okay. “We don’t know if it’s gonna get anything or if people think it’s a joke, you know. But as far as compilations go, the track listing is brilliant so any indie kids are gonna drool over it.” That latter confidence stems from the trio making sure they have their finger not only on the indie-pulse, sourcing the Internet and blogs for what is and will be popular, but also recognising the gear their crowds are currently really digging. “The very, very new stuff is a mixed who’s who of Pitchfork and places like that,” he says, before he laughingly adds, “Anything that is hot on Triple J really.”
Out of proportion may be an understatement when you consider where it has taken them since then, a path that Poulton is as surprised about as anyone when asked if he ever imagined it’d get to the stage they’re at now. “It’s unbelievable, we’ve found a really good little niche that fits well on festival bills, and now we’re starting to get considered as proper DJs. It’s taken a while, and to be honest I never thought it’d really get to this.” Their popularity reached fever pitch in 2009 when they toured the country with the Parklife festival, something Poulton looks back on with great fondness. “You know last year we did the whole national Parklife tour and that was just crazy – we never expected that. We were DJing straight after Metric and right before The Rapture which was amazing!”
Getting the songs they wanted was also not without its difficulties, with Poulton noting some licensing conditions did make the process slightly more difficult, although their label was a great help. “Well, the label did all of [the licensing] so that wasn’t too bad but we got given restrictions. So with most of the big major label stuff we weren’t allowed to manipulate the song at all. We found that really difficult once we started the mixing process – like Universal’s and Modular’s tracks we could only mix 10 seconds into it and 10 seconds out of it and we couldn’t adapt it.” Overall thought Poulton admits the trio are confident in the final product. “We missed out on a few songs that we really wanted but the label was great and we got a lot of stuff we really wanted. I’m glad I don’t have
to be involved in that side of things it looked very, very difficult.” The other aspect going in the lads’ favour is they are of the new school of DJs who are putting a big emphasis on creating an exciting environment for punters in a crowded market place where pretty much anyone can get the basics of DJing down in a very short period. “When we do our live shows I’m still humbled that someone has paid money to come watch us DJ, so they’re gonna get the whole lot; we never just stand up there and play and fuck off.” The party doesn’t stop there, however, as Poulton fondly adds, “I’ve got a pink bear suit that comes out on occasion for a bit of fun so you can go there and remember the cool music but also that it was visually stimulating.” He believes that party environment, along with finding a delicate balance between the indie and the dance side are keys to the Purple Sneakers success story. “It’s really hard to judge as we’ve got a really picky crowd... If you’re playing something dancey and its not perceived as indie you can get in trouble,” Poulton says before adding he much prefers it to his sidegigs playing commercial pop at other venues around Sydney. “I have crowds going off to fucking Black Eyed Peas and that sorta stuff. But then we can get crowds going off to,” he trails off before excitedly adding, “Like the most popular song at one stage was Vitriol by Bluejuice and that was the song that just ended the dancefloor you know and that was amazing the whole place would erupt over this three-minute indie track by a local band. That’s why I love Purple Sneakers.” It’s also probably why the rest of the country is digging these guys so much, but Poulton reveals one last secret weapon in the Purple Sneakers arsenal that you may get to experience on their upcoming tour around Australia. “We’ve also developed a CDJ guitar. We put a guitar strap on a CDJ which becomes a showcase piece. So it’s a CDJ with a backplate, neck and guitar-strap and it’s fully functioning.” While Drum Media isn’t 100 per cent sold on the functionality of such an amazingsounding beast, it’s going to be damn interesting to see if it works. WHO: Purple Sneakers DJs WHAT: We Mix You Dance (Boundary Sounds/ Inertia) WHEN: Limelite – Friday 25 June, Metropolis Fremantle
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SMASHING SHOWS IN-BETWEEN A CONSTANT STRING OF CRAZED SHOWS RECENTLY OFF THE BACK OF THEIR NEW ALBUM, CASSETTE KIDS’ LEAD SINGER KATRINA NOORBERGEN TELLS RUEBEN HALE HOW GETTING SMASHED IN THE FACE BY A BASS GUITAR WAS SOMETHING SHE COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT.
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ince signing with Sony and releasing their second album, Nothing On TV, life has become full-on for Cassette Kids. The band has just recently completed a five-week tour and Noorbergen relates a tour story involving bassist Daniel Deitz inadvertently causing some grievous bodily harm to her face with his bass guitar. “I had a black eye for a month,” she recalls hysterically. “He pretty much knocked me out at an all ages show in Sydney and the kids in the front row were like, ‘Oh my god!’ I’ve still got a lump on my head which is just like a war scar.” Yet there doesn’t seem to be any residual hard feelings towards Deitz, Noorbergen accepting these types of things can only help the band grow. “Things go wrong sometimes and you learn more from those shows than when things go amazingly. Nonetheless, it was a very traumatic time,” she recalls. Musically all the band members came from diverse backgrounds, with their only commonality being that a couple of the guys went to the same high school. “When we first got together we were all from out west and we all kinda found out about each other from friends and other bands. In the beginning we had people like our guitarist Daniel Schober listening to a lot of art rock, like Radiohead, and other experimental indie kind of stuff. Our drummer Jake was right into his punk music and our bassist Dan Deitz was into dance. Personally I was listening to strong female front bands like No Doubt and Hole, and I absolutely loved Bjork,” says Noorbergen. However, when they combined talents they were able to make something new and original, which was what they all wanted to achieve. “We just came together with the attitude from the start that we didn’t want to sound like any particular band, so we put our creative forces together and it just seemed to work for some reason.” After the release of their first record and getting signed by a major label, the band noticed a dramatic workload increase and they all realised things were getting serious. Noorbergen says the touring schedule became quite intense, but the guys managed to keep it together. “We’ve been living in each other’s pockets for the last five weeks and I think we are still friends,” laughs Noorbergen. “I think back in late 2008, when we had just released our first record and Sony had picked us up, I guess things just started feeling a bit more real for us; being signed to a label and everything and getting on some pretty awesome tours and things like that. But I guess it was when we got the call and they said we want you guys to start writing an album; and start tomorrow; we were like yeah … sweet! That was when we gave up the day jobs and held ourselves up in studios over the next three months, then went into pre-production and then we went straight into recording. But we were all really, really keen and we got straight down to it,” says Noorbergen.
THEIR TEACHERS AT SCHOOL WERE TELLING THEM THEY’D NEVER GO ANYWHERE IN MUSIC BECAUSE IT’S NOT A VIABLE CAREER OPPORTUNITY.”
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Cassette Kids have a definite can-do attitude, and this is despite people casting doubts over their success in the beginning. Noorbergen says she has always been an assertive person and believes her nature has played part in influencing the other band members to counter their detractors. “If I’m going to do something I’m going to do it 100 per cent for real. I was like that in school, I wanted to be number one and I did well because I fuckin’ worked really hard and I guess that kind of carried over. Even for the guys in the band, their teachers at school were telling them they’d never go anywhere in music because it’s not a viable career opportunity, and I guess it is our way of saying, ‘well guess what? I can fucking do it.’ And for me I’ve never had a singing lesson or studied music or anything.” In fact Noorbergen’s first career choice was not to become a popstar, having completed a fine arts scholarship and working in art galleries before becoming involved in the band. “I’ve been in bands for like nine years and it has always been a really important part of my life, but I never really considered that it would be a career path. I just enjoy creating music and playing shows. I was intending on being involved in art, but in the fine arts, and I worked in a gallery in Dublin for a while,” Noorbergen reflects. “So when I came back to Australia I expected to be chasing similar sort of work, but then the band happened and I was like hang on, this is kinda cool. It’s the sort of opportunity that you don’t really want to let pass by.” And now with the release of their second album, featuring Spin, things are set to get even more hectic for the Cassette Kids. Asked about their immediate plans, Noorbergen seemed to have a clear agenda in mind and was determined to make their success international. “I’ve seen we can make an impact and I have every intention of taking it as far and wide as possible. I’m really keen to get back overseas. We went to London earlier in the year and did some showcases and we have an agent over there, so we’ve got some tentative dates for the second half of the year. We also have some contacts in the US as well now,” says Noorbergen. With the band set to embark on Perth later this month for the Nothing On TV tour, Noorbergen says she has an added incentive for coming, but the guys are all really looking forward to coming. “I’ve got cousins in Perth which is great, but we all love the Amplifier it’s one of our favorite venues to play.” WHO: Cassette Kids WHAT: Nothing On TV (Sony) WHEN & WHERE: Saturday 26 June, Amplifier, Perth 18 • THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010
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THE HOLIDAY IS OVER HAVING BEEN FAIRLY QUIET FOR SOME TIME, THE BANK HOLIDAYS ARE BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM. NAT CARSON FROM THE BAND CHATS WITH SJ FINCH ABOUT FINANCE, NORWEGIAN BEACHHOUSES AND WORLD DOMINATION.
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erth is kind of ephemeral; nothingness of the summers; nights with zilch to do; growing up with all these friends and watching them move west to England or east to Melbourne. Perth’s just here and no one really seems sure what to do with it. But bands like The Bank Holidays just make you glad you’re in Perth. Their latest album Sail Becomes A Kite lyrically tackles the kind of wistfulness for home when you begin to consider living somewhere other than our moderate climes. I ask Nat Carson, guitarist and vocalist for The Bank Holidays, about how the lyrics seem home stricken and nostalgic. “There was kind of a lot of thinking about where we should be. I know that sometimes when I was writing I was thinking about just where I grew up as a kid. Like I moved to Perth when I was eight. I lived in a country town in WA before that. And just thinking about the street where I lived when I was a toddler. Where I was first starting primary school. Where my Nanna lived. So one of the songs reflects on that. Another song reflects on living in a rental house and where you’re actually going to end up. Whether you should actually be living in Perth, or Australia even. Trying to figure all that kind of stuff out. I guess, trying to go out and explore the world.”
I GUESS WE’VE BEEN A COTTAGE INDUSTRY, BOOKING OUR OWN SHOWS AND DOING OUR OWN WEBSITE. I THINK WE KIND OF ENJOY BEING HANDS ON, BUT SOMETIMES IT’S A DOUBLEEDGED SWORD.”
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It’s Perth’s version of a perfect day, those aleatory compromises between winter and summer. We’re sitting in a middle of a cafeteria in UWA where Nat works in admin. Nat’s as affable as an extremely intelligent kitten. Oh, with a beard and who also plays guitar. He muses a little about how the idea of home came about for him as a lyricist: “I guess it happened really incidentally that we ended up with that kind of lyrical theme on the album. I think we were just wondering musically and stylistically whether the songs that James and Bec and I had written were actually all going to fit together as an album. It wasn’t until we had gone through that process that we thought, ‘Oh look at these lyrics, there’s a lot of things sticking out about home.’” The Bank Holidays began on a Norwegian farm. James and Bec were travelling through Europe when they contacted Nat to start a band. Demo tapes and excitement were sent halfway around the world. James and Bec cut The Great Escape, one of The Bank Holidays’ first songs at their grandparents’ house on the coast of Norway. “We did actually play some of the new songs when we were over Norway. The old seaside house where Bec’s grandparents lived. No drum kit or amps or anything like that, just boxes and acoustic guitars. And with the recording we actually went to ABC studios and we did the first few days with all the drums, guitars and bass. That was all done live in that room, with all the grandeur that that offers.” Nat grins sheepishly and scratches his beard. I ask him if the new album means there’s a tour on the near horizon. But he tells me they’re just going to put the album out initially with a launch show, and tour later in the summer. “Organising to tour over east can sometimes be hard. We don’t have a booking agent or anything like that. We did go over Europe at the end of 2008 and that was all basically self-booked. We had a bit of a hand from people in various countries. Like this German guy who was this lawyer by day and massive indie pop fan by night. He organised this show in Hamburg where he lives and then another show in Berlin, and then he travelled to Berlin to meet us. He was amazing.” It may just be residual romanticism from listening to Sail Becomes A Kite, but I can’t help but think of The Bank Holidays as a band in the most indie way possible. Their credits are everywhere and on everything that they do; their video clips, the album cover, the website. “I guess we’ve been a cottage industry, booking our own shows and doing our own website. I think we kind of enjoy being hands on, but sometimes it’s a double-edged sword. James tends to handle a lot of those aesthetic kinds of things. We all kind of dabble in that. For the new album James basically had the idea and he printed out the album cover and all the titles and everything on a massive sheet of paper and then just took a photo of that. We wanted it to have a certain look, and it didn’t look like the text was superimposed on top but integrated as part of a photo. I guess the idea with that was to have something that looks like someone’s working on it. Like with roughness around the edges.” The Bank Holidays sound is anything but rough – vocal melodies are gentle but sure, and brilliantly evocative. Bass and guitar throw down a slow, organic tempo, and flourishes are minimal and magical like ‘60s songs, the way you can hear the excitement and joy of discovering pop in those first songs. But Nat stops me in my nostalgic hippy tracks. “We personally feel as though when we first started there was a lot more of that kind of ‘60s influence. With what we do now we probably try to make it a bit more modern sounding and bring a modern element. We never wanted to do pastiche directly, even though we love those sounds. It’s cool just to say when you look back on it that it’s of its time. Even though historically it’s looking back on the lineage of pop music from the last 40 years. I think even on the new album there’s perhaps more of a ‘70s than a ‘60s influence. There’s a lot more space. A lot slower tempos. A bit more relaxation. I guess we’ve always had that introspective side to our music that has perhaps stepped up on the new record.” WHO: The Bank Holidays WHAT: Sail Becomes A Kite (Lost & Lonesome) WHEN & WHERE: Saturday 19 June, Amplifier Bar, Perth
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LASTING PLEASURE CURRENTLY GEARING UP FOR THEIR FIRST EVER AUSTRALIAN TOUR, KNOX FROM PUNK LEGENDS THE VIBRATORS TELLS MATTHEW HOGAN ABOUT THE SEX PISTOLS, IGGY POP, MALCOLM MCLAREN AND, ER, KATY PERRY.
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ne of the last remaining remnants of the British punk scene of the mid-‘70s are The Vibrators, and they are still as keen as ever to spread their own anarchy throughout the world. With two founding members Ian ‘Knox’ Carnochan and John ‘Eddie’ Edwards still in the band after 34 years, their upcoming Australian tour will be the first time they’ve ever played in this country. “I got a guitar for Christmas when I was 13 because my friend ‘round the corner had one,” Knox begins to tell his story. “There really was almost no rock’n’roll then, it was 1959. My friend played me Duane Eddie’s Rebel Rouser on the guitar and I thought that sounded good. Then some rock’n’roll started, you could hear it on a jukebox in a café in Watford, and gradually you heard more songs and you got to listen to records your friends had - songs by Buddy Holly, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, The Shadows and Elvis. We started a band at school and it sort of carried on from there. Rock’n’roll was this fantastic world that was your own world away from the stupid adult world, and represented a true kind of freedom – very important when you were growing up.” Before he knew it, it was 1976, and the places in London to be at were the 100 Club and The Roxy. “We started The Vibrators in February 1976, six months before The Clash by the way,” Knox states matter of factly. “I thought it might be another ‘go nowhere band’, but due to the efforts of Eddie and Pat Collier the bass player, we got lots of gigs. We played at the 100 Club supporting the Pistols. They were really great, and they sort of arrived fully formed, they had the clothes and the music, though they’d been around for a bit. In fact, their first gig was supporting our friends’ band Bazooka Joe in 1975. I liked the Pistols more than The Clash, but The Clash were great as well. It’s funny as we were all just playing gigs, you didn’t think it was going to be slightly historical.” There were few more historical gigs from the scene than Ron Watt’s International Punk Festival, where The Vibrators played alongside the Sex Pistols, Siouxie & The Banshees, Buzzcocks, The Clash and more, but the band also found themselves supporting the godfather of punk rock when Iggy Pop rolled into town on tour in 1977. “Iggy was great,” Knox gushes. “We only got about five minutes of sound check on the whole six dates we did, but we could handle that, plus not having hardly any room on the stage, but that was the deal and we just got on with it. It was a fantastic tour, Iggy with David Bowie on keyboards. I mean, you can’t really get beyond that. Plus Iggy’s guitar player, David Gardiner, was very good. Both Iggy and David Bowie came and introduced themselves but we didn’t see much of them. I imagine they were busy with interviews, et cetera.” With the recent passing of UK punk stalwart Malcolm McLaren, Knox has some nice things to say about the man who contributed so much to the scene. “McLaren was very influential, charismatic, colourful and clever,” he says. “I only really met him one time when I had a drink with him and some of The Ants, and that evening he really had to be the centre of attention and make pronouncements about things, but that was his way. At least he was passionate about things. Punk in those early days wouldn’t have been as exciting or perhaps such a big movement without him. Although it’s very sad he’s dead, he’d sort of seemingly retired from punk rock years ago.”
IT’S FUNNY AS WE WERE ALL JUST PLAYING GIGS, YOU DIDN’T THINK IT WAS GOING TO BE SLIGHTLY HISTORICAL.”
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More recently, the band has spent much of the last five years continuing to tour as well as bringing out a trilogy of covers albums. Knox says the idea came courtesy of Brian Perera at US label Cleopatra Records. “He has these ideas and we’re pretty accommodating, and only change or suggest a few other covers as he really knows his subject and has thought about it,” he says. “I think we might not do anymore for a while, it depends on whether there’s the right kind of songs to do. They’re easier to make than a normal album as the songs are already there!” Heck, they even covered I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry. “That song was again an idea of Brian’s,” Knox admits, “I think to get the band some interest, maybe, as it’s an interesting idea for a cover.” After 34 years of sticking together, you think there would be secret to their longevity, but the down-to-earth frontman says it’s really quite simple; “If you love it, you just keep on doing it,” Knox says. “It’s partly a job in a way, and that’s what you do, play music. There’s nothing clever about keeping on doing it, millions of people do it. The years go past on their own and that’s it! You have to put up with lots of rubbish sometimes, but you get to stand on the stage and record your songs. It’s quite often great! I think you need to have quite good skills at getting on with people and being totally reliable.” The only question left to ask after all this time is, ‘Do you ever regret choosing the name ‘The Vibrators’ and sticking with the name for over three decades?’ “If we had a different name it might have all been very different, as I think the name kept us off the radio and TV quite a bit,” ponders Knox. “If we’d have had a different name we might have had the additional airplay and such, which would have made a big difference, and we’d all be millionaires now! But it’s a good name and still feels a bit subversive today, and it looks good when it’s written down. Also I sometimes feel the band has a degree of credibility from not being huge, people know we play and record because we love it and not for the money.” WHO: The Vibrators WHEN & WHERE: Sunday 20 June, Rosemount Hotel, North Perth 20 • THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010
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THE BEAUTY MYTH IN THE WAKE OF THEIR NEW ALBUM SPOOKS, THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS’ FRONTMAN AND SONGWRITER MAT MCHUGH TALKS TO BEN SALTER ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING YOURSELF HAPPY.
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he Beautiful Girls have been relatively quiet of late. Sure, there was a recent cheeky tour of Brazil, and last year’s solo album and tour for lead singer/songwriter Mat McHugh, but apart from that, zip. The reason being that for the past year Mat McHugh – singer/songwriter and evil genius behind The Beautiful Girls – has been holed up in his home studio, painstakingly piecing together the brand new Beautiful Girls album, Spooks, their fourth studio release. An atmospheric, effects-laden affair, Spooks sees the band’s previous flirtations with dub and reggae blossom into a full-blown relationship. Now the Girls are embarking on a massive two month tour to promote the album, taking in everywhere from Broome to Townsville to Hobart. After being holed up at home for so long – apart from the aforementioned Brazil jaunt – the band and Mat especially must be excited about hitting the road? “I am looking forward to the tour. But we haven’t had much of a chance to get excited,” McHugh says down the line from his NSW home. “The tour is in the back of our minds but we’re just super busy. The whole process of making the album, and now the process of transferring all those sounds into our live set, has been a lot of work. For this tour we have rehearsed for a couple of weeks straight all day, which is unheard of for us. Normally we just get together and have one rehearsal and then go on tour, so this album and this tour is a pretty big deal. I just want to get to the first day of the tour, you know, where you say, ‘Okay now we’re all in the van, all the preparation is done, all we have to do is turn up and do it!’”
I WAS LIKE, ‘I’M GONNA DO THIS STYLE OF MUSIC AND I’M GONNA CALL THE BAND THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS AND I’M GONNA PISS ALL THE OTHER GUYS IN THE REHEARSAL STUDIO OFF!’”
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Spooks takes the group’s trademark surfer pop/reggae-lite sound and plunges it beneath layers of echo and delay, drums bouncing around all over the mix, horns drifting plaintively above. It’s definitely dub, then; complete with Melbourne-based reggae singer Vida Sunshyne toasting over a number of tracks. “Our mate Ashley or [Sydney based DJ] Katalyst, he knows so much about dub and dancehall, he’s like a mentor to me. He recommended this up-and-coming hip hop act, these girls the KillaQueenz, and we started talking to them, and Vida was a friend of theirs. Her father was a big musician in the reggae scene in Ghana, so she grew up in that world, she has that whole reggae thing down, and she’s a great, great girl. She came in for a day and we just hung out. It was actually the highlight of the whole thing, just listening to her sing, it was amazing.” With so much going on in the mix then, how do The Beautiful Girls plan on reproducing Spooks live? “In the past we’ve had as much of that atmosphere as we can control through our instruments, you know just the three of us and what not; but this time a lot of the sounds and atmospherics and really full on dub stuff is going to be done live,” says McHugh. “Our keyboard player is a big jazz and dub kinda guy and he’ll be triggering and playing a bunch of the woolly, dubby shifts and stuff. Plus, a bunch of stuff is done front of house, so we’re all kind of having a hand in it.” The Beautiful Girls have certainly been pretty much flat out touring and recording for the last five years or so, with four albums and several trips to not only Brazil but the UK, France and the US. “Well really for me it’s been more like 10 years,” McHugh continues. “I mean my whole adult life has pretty much been travelling. As soon as we started the band we immediately started going overseas and playing, and before that for me there was a few years of backpacking around. I lived in India for a year and then New York for a while, and it was there especially that I met a lot of the contacts and started to get more of the idea for doing Beautiful Girls.” Something not many fans would be aware of is that that prior to starting up his current outfit, McHugh performed in a Sydney based stoner rock outfit The Search For Delta 9. Does he ever get the yearning to crank the Marshall up to 11 again, or is that sort of angsty rock’n’roll a young man’s game? “Where we grew up around here on the beaches every guy was in a band like that. Maybe not stoner but either that or punk or metal – all distorted guitars and screaming,” he recalls. “I got to the point where I was just done with that. I mean, I live on the beach, I’m not really that angry... It was a lot of fun, but I knew there was some other side to me than just that... The whole thing was, calling the band The Beautiful Girls and playing really mellow acoustic music – at the time it wasn’t in any way fashionable. This was before the whole surf movement or whatever happened, and I was like, ‘I’m gonna do this style of music and I’m gonna call the band The Beautiful Girls and I’m gonna piss all the other guys in the rehearsal studio off!’ At the time that seemed like the most punk rock thing we could have done, after what we’d come from.” McHugh has clearly thought about the issue of identity and his own band’s place in the scheme of things quite a bit, and come to the conclusion that you can’t make anyone happy unless you please yourself first, as he explains. “Well you know how music is, everyone agrees for a week what is cool and then the next week no-one does and it’s on to something else,” he muses. “There’s no use trying to keep up. At some stage people are going to think what you do is awesome and at some stage people are gonna think it’s shit. But ultimately you’re creating a body of work, and hopefully you put more substance into it than style. You just gotta say, ‘This is what I do, this is what I’m into’; and if no-one likes it and I have to go back to working at a factory well at least I’ll like it, I’ll think it’s cool, and I’ll be able to say, ‘I’m proud of this.’,” WHO: The Beautiful Girls WHAT: Spooks (Die Boredom/MGM) WHERE & WHEN: Wednesday 30 June, Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; Thursday 1 July, Metropolis Fremantle; Friday 2, Settlers Tavern, Margaret River; Saturday 3 July, Divers Tavern, Broome
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THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010 • 21
SINGLES/EPS
WITH TOMAS FORD
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
cd reviews
ON THE RECORD
THE BANK HOLIDAYS Thereabouts/His Majesty’s Voice Lost & Lonesome I need you to imagine a panda. You can name him if you like. Feed him a stick of bamboo. As you hand the stick to him, note the look of thankfulness in his eyes. You see that? The warm, comforting expression that makes you feel as though everything is okay? That’s how this double A-side from The Bank Holidays feels. The production is so elegantly understated it makes the pop perfection of their previous records seem crude by comparison. If this doesn’t expose them to a wider audience, the band is all invited around to my house for a tea party where I will summarily eat my hat. Or a stick of bamboo.
VIA TANIA Fields Love + Mercy We’re back with your friend, Mr. Panda. He’s not hungry, but you don’t know what else to do with a panda so you just keep offering him the same stick of bamboo. He’s not interested but you keep trying. Annoyed, he strikes it from your hands. Transfer the panda’s annoyance to this Via Tania record. She whines generic pastoral lyrics about open fields, sounding as though her only experience of the country may have been shooting the promo for this track. There’s lyrical minimalism and then there’s lazy songwriting. This is the latter.
KATIE NOONAN Page One Sony Music Awww, now look: your panda is sidling up to you. This close, it’s obviously just me dressed in a panda costume. You roll your eyes. “Why?” you say, exasperated. I reply, “I’m trying to entertain you. Isn’t it clever?” “No, it’s too much. It’s annoying, take it off.” Our friend Katie Noonan is wearing her own kind of panda suit. It’s her new band The Captains who make a weirdly folky kind of prog rock that sounds like Augie March covering Muse. The result crowds out Noonan’s vocals and any traces of a vocal melody, making for very dull listening.
AMY MEREDITH
BOOKA SHADE
CIRCA SURVIVE
Sony Music
Get Physical Music/Sony
Atlantic/Warner
That little-bit-raunchy and very much upbeat pop-rock song Pornstar that you’ve no doubt heard on the radio is just the beginning of Sydney boys Amy Meredith. The band has produced their debut album Restless, which is just that; a playful and energetic set of 12 songs that will make it hard to resist dancing to your iPod in public.
Less is sometimes more, and when it comes to latest offering More! from the minimal techno duo Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, it certainly seems to be the case. An amazing array of melodies and textures define this superb album, which lands its style in early ‘90s techno pop. Booka Shade’s 2008 release The Sun And The Neon Light was marketed for the film soundtrack, however the latest LP is a return to the club scene, which really suits these guys. Instruments are few, but the rich tapestry of sounds provides plenty of color. Chelonis R Jones on Bad Love and Dieter Meier (of Yello fame) on Devine are the only two vocal inclusions, and in some ways they are instrumental in giving the album its old school flavor.
American experimental/indie rockers Circa Survive have returned with their major label debut and first album release since 2007’s On Letting Go. Blue Sky Noise represents a significant musical progression in songwriting and sound for the band that have still surprisingly managed to keep hold of their signature style. Circa Survive continue to bring their consistently quality instrumentals, while lead singer Anthony Green strikes back with epically stronger vocals.
Restless
More!
From Pornstars to cheating, anthems of youth and unrequited love, this band sure knows how to make an album of variety. From the very first song of the album, Black Eyes, you find yourself humming along to a song you don’t yet know the words to. This same vibe continues throughout the CD. It’s simply too easy to get right into. Whether you need some tunes for the car ride home from work, your Saturday night drinks or that mundane study session, Restless is just the album you’re looking for. Third track on the album Lying, a slightly sexy yet still vibrant rock song that has been on the airwaves in recent weeks, proves that Amy Meredith are no one hit wonder. Young At Heart slows the pace down a bit with an anthem before Faded White Dress picks up the speed with a raw rock tune. And this isn’t even the half of what Amy Meredith’s Restless has in store for fans.
Blue Sky Noise
The album kicks off with the orgasmic opener Strange Terrain pulling you in through its mesmerisingly quirky rock tune. The track’s oddly cheerful drums and main riff make for a perfect start. Immediately following, both the listener and the album are jolted to life with the hardhitting beat of Get Out showcasing Green’s amazing and aggressive voice. The hauntingly beautiful Frozen Creek is an undeniable highlight with the conceptual melody and lyrics set to transport you to another time and place. A pleasant change of pace comes with the instrumental track Compendium which flows flawlessly into the final number Dyed In Wool. Managing to tie together all the album’s strongest vocal and instrumental points, this makes for a truly satisfying finish.
Needless to say, most albums do have a downfall and Restless is no exception. Their songs sound too repetitive at times, with similar melodies and such distinctive vocals making some grimace in pain. But if you enjoy their stuff, more of the same really isn’t going to be an issue.
The structure here is regimented and precise, which adds to its early German techno style. Havanna Sex Dwarf kicks-off the fun with some warped melodies and a robot singing the chorus, before the infectious highlight Regenerate darkens the mood considerably with some a disturbing and haunting melody, mixed with a Kraftwerk inspired synth. From here the album does get a little predictable with barely a hair-out-of-place for the remaining tracks, except for Teenage Spaceman with its quirky tunes set amongst the four-to-the-floor beats consistent throughout the album. More! is a polished production and a welcome return for Booka Shade to what they do best; minimal tech. On future releases one hopes they stay on the same path, but up-the-ante… just a little bit… More!
AIMEE SOMERVILLE
REUBEN HALE
KRISTY SYMONDS
REFLECTION ETERNAL
SIA
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
Blacksmith/Warner
Inertia
Warner Music
Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek) return after a 10 year hiatus with Revolutions Per Minute, an album that almost qualifies as a thought hop album. There are no bangers, no dancehall specials and only one catchy track in the divine doo-wop throwback Midnight Hour featuring Estelle. The production is laid back, the raps are clear and the album moves from track to track seamlessly but at an hour long, it's questionable whether Hi-Tek and Talib have taken homogenising their sound too far and could have cut some tracks. That said, the pacing they achieve is comfortable and nice to sit back and listen to.
It’s one of the most highly anticipated Australian releases of the year – and it’s unfortunately set to be one of the biggest disappointments. For those who discovered Sia on Some People Have Real Problems, We Are Born still has the soulful vocals, but the music itself has had the life and soul overproduced right out of it. Gone is the underpinning thoughtfulness that made tracks like Little Black Sandals and The Girl You Lost To Cocaine warrant listen after listen. Instead, Sia has delved shamelessly into the pool of bright, glittery, ubiquitous pop to swim around with all the other firstname only pop stars.
One of the biggest bands of the ‘90s returns with this their seventh LP. The California boys, who have sold nearly 40-million records worldwide, got back together in 2008, touring for 75-dates across the States. And after five years away from the game – where lead singer Scott Weiland sung for Velvet Revolver and the other blokes delved into various side projects – the break seems to have done them some good. Stone Temple Pilots’ latest work has that undeniable energy that pumped through their earlier work.
While each track manages to stand alone, there is a definite progression and a certain cohesion not found in any of Circa Survive’s previous albums. The band has succeeded in producing an album that listeners will love from start to finish, something which is so often lacking these days. Their vastly improved sound coupled with the loyalty to their true style means they stand to keep their old fans as well as gain many new ones.
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT Broken White Line Impedance Records Despite your arguments otherwise, I refuse to take off the panda outfit. There’s a little baggie of cocaine in my jacket pocket; I pull it out to share with you. Powder cakes all over the costume’s nostrils. We hop into your massive metallic red truck and drive at 180kmh into the desert, laughing the entire way and high fiving. At some point we black out. When we wake up, somehow we haven’t crashed into anything and we have come to a stop somewhere in Mexico. I leap out of the truck, run around bashing cacti with my fist while shouting “FUCK YEAH! I’m a Kung Fu Panda!!” We scull two cases of Corona together and I tell you I’m never getting out of the costume. You shout through gritted teeth: “THIS CONVERSATION IS AWESOME!!!” I reply, “No, this song is awesome!! This sequence of events is just an allegory for that!!”
FIRE! SANTA ROSA! FIRE! Dogma Don’t Dot Dash/Remote Control The next morning we both wake up with enormous hangovers. We walk to the local chemist and ask for some painkillers. We’re in a Mexican pharmaceutical town near the US border, so we get some “really awesome” painkillers and also some garden variety Panadol. We don’t need “really awesome” anything today. We need something comfortable and familiar. I walk past a mirror and see myself, pathetic in a partied-in panda prosthetic. I crave normality. This tune comes on my iPod and I smile; I guess that’s what this kind of middle-of-the-road indie music is good for. The music reminds me there are simpler pleasures to be had in life. Now, how to drive back to Perth from Los Algodones...? 22 • THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010
Revolutions Per Minute
Midnight Hour is the only option for the first single, and as a throwback it's still in some ways the most innovative track I've heard on a hip hop album in a while. Second single Just Begun featuring Jay Electronica, J. Cole and Mos Def seems like a placeholder for the emcees that asked to be on the album and plays as such. In This World pulls the famous line from Jay-Z's 2003 song Moment Of Clarity – «If skill sold truth be told/I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli» – which seems a little redundant considering Kweli already responded on 2004's Beautiful Struggle with the line «If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z», and the sample itself serves no real musical purpose. All up, Revolutions Per Minute contains some bad decisions as far as the construction of the contemporary vision for what neccessitates an awesome album. However, the production is great and the raps are of a high calibre. For fans of hip hop that you don't need to move around a lot to enjoy. LEWIS RYAN
We Are Born
That Sia does top 40 pop well is undeniable, but what’s disappointing is that she is capable of doing so much else and none of it shows here. When Sia does step it back on tracks like I’m In Here it feels like an overly produced token ballad not sock you in the gut soul pop. Disappointing although it is, We Are Born is not a complete wash. By the second time through this album feels like a familiar party and it’s bound to wear well from what will be the inevitable commercial radio play inundation and ad nauseam remixes of Clap Your Hands and You’ve Changed, this due almost entirely to the ability of Sia’s vocals to put the shadow of soul into otherwise shallow pop. A good commercial pop album, yes, but the world has more than enough of those. MEGAN SMITH
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Stone Temple Pilots
Typically, the groove of the record does not stray away too far from STP’s typical structure. Guns N’ Roses and Janes Addiction-era themed tracks run through the record and if guitar solos were ever out of vogue, no one ever told lead Dean DeLeo. Starting off with Between The Lines and the harmonious Take A Load Off things look promising. Weiland’s vocals are still strong after so many years and the band has an obvious understanding of each other’s strengths and weaknesses. But after the mid-way point of the album, the typical creative stagnation of a band that has been around for 20 years starts to set in. Some of the tracks, such as Hazy Daze and Peacoat, start off strong but wither into uninspired, generic hooks with all-to-obvious directionless pattern. And the album struggles from a lack of purpose in general. For fans there’s is enough going on here to inspire a listen – and STB have by no means “lost it”. But if you want a true representation of the type of band STP are (or were) you’re better off sticking to their mid ‘90s efforts. NICK SAS
CD OF THE WEEK
FABULOUS DIAMONDS THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Wild Hunt Dead Oceans/Inertia Finger-picking folk singers are not, by and large, an acquired taste. The immediacy and simplicity of the music lends itself to an equally quick and emotive response, and this in turn polarises listeners – you either enjoy them or you don’t. Swedish artist Kristian Matsson a.k.a. The Tallest Man On Earth is a perfect example of what effects this dichotomy. His voice, though neither unique nor polished, is earnest and assured. His guitar playing is skilful but imbued with a frantic, anxious edge. On The Wild Hunt, his second full-length release, the ever-present comparisons to Bob Dylan remain valid but the differences are clearer. His words spill over picked and stroked chords that have more in common with the brilliant work on Fionn Regan’s debut than anything Dylan served up, and the lyrics share some of Regan’s whimsical bent. Matsson, however, punctuates his tracks with moments of clarity that swing from heartfelt concern (Troubles Will Be Gone) to simple observations (the brilliant Love Is All) and, though the tones may be dark, the songs themselves are never depressing. The Wild Hunt is a sign of a man who hasn’t really changed since Shallow Grave, but he has certainly grown. On this record, he manages to extract moments of such complexity that it would render the addition of any other instruments completely worthless; it’s an album for purists that won’t sway non-believers, but for lovers of folk will invigorate their hearts. RICK BRYANT
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT The Heart & The Crown
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
Impedance Records
Together
Having garnered considerable acclaim for their trinity of EPs, local four-piece The Devil Rides Out have finally released their debut long-player. And boy, have they brought the noise. The Heart & The Crown is 13 tracks of gritty, bluesy rock’n’roll, jam-packed with grinding riffs and spectacular percussion.
Matador/Remote Control
Vocalist Joey K, with his distinctive part blues-drawl and part metal growl style, is in fine form, having risen well to the challenge of capturing his notorious stage presence in the recording studio. In fact, the album is a testament to the incredibly accomplished musicianship of every band member. The Devil Rides Out don’t parade their talents with showy solos, instead creating musically complex but seamless tracks, thanks to their impressive skill and impeccable production.
Supergroups can often be like sporting sides jam-packed of big names; sometimes the team of champions just isn’t the champion team. With talents like A.C. Newman, Neko Case and Dan Bejar on board, it’s fair to say expectations for a New Pornographers’ album are high. But for all that quality in this Canadian-US collective, Together doesn’t quite live up to the blow-your-mind status that could have been if things had really clicked.
It’s got that filthy, sexy, Deep South truck-stop feel in spades. Just listening to it, you can almost smell whiskey and sex. Grab it, put it on and don’t forget to turn it up to 11 – to listen to The Heart & The Crown any other way is doing it wrong.
That’s not to say there aren’t moments of genius on this album. Midway through the catchy Sweet Talk Sweet Talk, the electric guitar line cuts into the verse with a melody so good it makes your spine tingle. Newman may write the majority of songs but the real star of the show is Case. Her sheer vocal power elevates The Crash Years to first single status before she tones it down a little on the rocky ballad My Shepherd. Case’s real talent lies in being able to tell stories with her voice, adding that little nuance or inflection that turns a good tune into a great one, as she does on Valkyrie & The Roller Disco’s heartbreaking chorus. What Turns Up In The Dark chugs along as a well-crafted piece of pop rock, as does A Bite Out Of My Bed, which includes a quality horn contribution from The Dap Kings. This is an album that grows on repeat listens, but a few fillers towards the start, which are just a little too mid-tempo predictable, means this isn’t quite the classic these guys probably have up their collective sleeves.
ALEKSIA BARRON
PAUL BARBIERI
The slow, dirty beat of Hard Love is an early standout, with the kind of howling sexuality that conjures images of fallen Southern belles getting up to no good in an midAmerican roadhouses. The cleverly named Gentlemen Prefer Bombs is another attention-grabber – a brilliantly foul-mouthed anarchic track, with a shining guitar line that climbs effortlessly over some positively inspired drumming.
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Fabulous Diamonds II Chapter Music
Fabulous Diamonds II is the type of album you would expect to hear a DJ spinning at a secret gig in the desert that you have to trek for two days to find. It draws you in and makes you suffer as you look forward to the next mysterious sequence. The Melbourne duo involved in this little trip – drummer/vocalist Nisa Venerosa and keyboardist Jarrod Zlatic – don’t deal in the general pop music structure. Case-in-point, the 12 minute and 15 seconds opener Untitled (all five tracks are titled Untitled – go figure): The driving percussion takes you on a voyage, while the lo-fi keyboard drones in the background. The track continues for 6m40s of tensionbuilding instrumentation before Venerosa finally breaks the mould with her hypnotic chant. The song builds with a climatic organ drone, Zlatic’s drums pounding in background, and then it stops. The next track sticks to the same general mantra . Starting with Venerossa’s enigmatic chants, you think it could explode into a volcanic eruption of sound at any stage, and after the four minutes of build-up you’re ready for it, but instead the track just withers out and stops. This is by no means an album you give to your mum for her birthday as an example of modern-day pop – unless your mum’s some sort of hippy, peyote taking goddess who dances under the full moon. At times it’s a frustrating experience. And if you like your music straight and to the point, don’t even think about it. But one thing is for sure, this is experimental modern musicianship at its best, and a trip well worth taking. NICK SAS
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NUMBER OF THE BEAST
THE OMEGA MAN
ONE OF METAL’S MOST ENGAGING CHARACTERS, PAUL DI’ANNO IS HEADING BACK DOWN UNDER. MARK HEBBLEWHITE CAUGHT UP WITH THE MAN TO DISCUSS PUNK ROCK AND LIFE AFTER IRON MAIDEN.
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espite the street level grit he bought to the band, Paul Di’Anno never really looked comfortable in Iron Maiden. Maybe it was the short hair, or maybe it was the Johnny Rotten-esque sneer, but most probably it was the fact that he was cut from an entirely different cloth to Harris and co. You see, Paul Di’Anno was, is and forever will be a punk rocker. Something he confirms when asked about his musical preference. “Punk rock all the way,” he says, citing the likes of The Ramones and The UK Subs as huge influences. “I was always a punk and always will be, but I do love my metal too. Especially my boys in Sepultura and Killrazer.” Recently, Di’Anno received praise for his punk spirit from a most unlikely quarter. NOFX penned a ditty entitled Bruce, Eddie And Paul, which detailed Di’Anno’s ignominious exit from Iron Maiden and proclaimed, “Kudos to Paul, fuck you Bruce/ How you supposed to rock and roll without substance abuse?/ Number Of The Beast is in bed with Rob and Judas Priest.” So how does the man himself feel about the support? “I’m fucking flattered,” laughs Di’Anno. “Mate, if Weird Al Yankovic takes the piss out of you, it means you have finally made it. Love it!” Despite his punk rock ethos there’s no doubt that Di’Anno will always live in the shadow of his achievements with Iron Maiden. It’s a legacy that is both a blessing and a curse. “I’ve learnt to deal with always being the Maiden guy, but my solo stuff I think is as good if not better,” says Di’Anno, balancing out the pros and cons of the situation. “It is far more heavy and in your face, but underneath the Maiden shadow it gets missed out on. But I think that if I didn’t play the Maiden stuff live I’d be strung up from the balls by the fans. Ironically though, sometimes when I do play the Maiden stuff, I get shit for living in the past. So who fucking knows?”
FROM MINIMAL NATION TO A MINIMAL GENERATION, DETROIT PIONEER ROBERT HOOD CONTINUES TO INSPIRE WITH HIS LATEST ALBUM OMEGA. TRAVIS COLLINS TAKES A LESSON IN THE ART OF MINIMALISM.
On his upcoming Australian tour, Di’Anno will be most definitely be living in the past. In honour of the 30-year anniversary of the debut Iron Maiden LP, Di’Anno will (for the first time ever) be playing the entire LP live, including the likes of Charlotte The Harlot and Strange World, tracks that the man admits to not playing live for decades. Nostalgia trip or not, Di’Anno remains proud of his early work. “Jesus, it has been that long hasn’t it,” says Di’Anno when asked about the 30-year anniversary. “Yeah I’m still proud of it all. I rarely listen to those songs though as I’m bloody playing them every night, aren’t I? But seriously, if it wasn’t for those albums I’d probably be shovelling shit, in jail, or dead. I’m proud of in that way that they made my life a pretty good one, with all its highs and lows.” Aside from songs from the Iron Maiden LP, Di’Anno plans on injecting a healthy dose of Maiden’s second album Killers and solo material into his Australian set. And on that topic, it is interesting to note that Di’Anno will now have been to Australia twice in two years. Does this suggest the frontman quite likes the place? As it turns out it does. “It was mad. You’re all complete loons,” laughs Di’Anno about the events of last year’s tour. “It was amazing as I’d never actually performed here. I’d been here on holiday, but never played. I fucking loved it, was taken care of well and crowds were great. “This time around I have more time here and will be going to places I missed out on last time, like Perth. Hopefully I get to visit my old mate Bon Scott – he bought me my first ever beer in a pub. Can’t wait to get there and pay my respects.” WHO: Paul Di’Anno WHEN & WHERE: Sunday 27 June, Amplifier, Perth
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inimal techno is easily one of the most influential global music trends of the past decade, but the sound is hardly new. In the early ‘90s, minimalism was an underground movement that originated in Detroit and was championed by two central figures: Jeff Mills and Robert Hood. While Mills dominated the clubs with his stripped-back productions and wooed audiences with his flawless three-deck mixing, Hood paved his own path as a founding member of Underground Resistance and through his countless singles on his own M-Plant Records. Hood’s genre defining albums Internal Empire and the recently reissued Minimal Nation continue to inspire a new generation of minimalist devotees. Detroit may have been the birthplace of techno and minimal, but times have changed and so has the music. Hood shares his criticisms for the minimal explosion. “Not very much of the techno and minimal music coming out is timeless anymore. People have jumped on the bandwagon and jumped on the hype of minimalism, and they’re not in tune with continuing the art form. They don’t understand that it’s an art form and they are pursuing it from the perspective that it’s a product and a commodity.” Robert Hood blames the recent disposable music trend on the lack of artistic vision in modern techno. “If you’re lost and don’t have any direction, it’s easy to let other producers or other DJs influence your direction. If you’re really determined about your path, whether it’s the digital realm, playing records or how you produce and express yourself, if you’re strong and determined you won’t let anything outside influence you.” The 1971 post-apocalyptic sci-fi film The Omega Man is the inspiration for Robert Hood’s latest album Omega. “It’s a great film about a man living in solitary after a biochemical war broke out and destroyed pretty much everyone, and he was forced to fight for his own survival. This is my take on the film. The soundtrack
came from the perspective of having hope in the midst of this black backdrop of hopelessness. The music and the approach for me reflect that.” Robert elaborates further on is own minimalist adaptation of the story. “The track The Worker’s Of Iniquity for example is about the Family workers. A group of demented people who are trying to basically crucify the last hope for mankind and the struggle he has at dealing with not only his loneliness, but also the band of people he was trying to help.” Robert Hood is more than a little excited about his longawaited return to Australia. “It’s been years since I’ve played in Australia… So I’m very much looking forward to coming.” Hood maintains his love for vinyl and, unlike his Detroit counterpart Jeff Mills, is unlikely to convert in the future. “It still is, and always will be, important for me to manipulate an actual record when I DJ. Technology is going to evolve and influence people to a certain degree but it’s up to the individual to take control of their art; take control of their expression and not let the machines and software dictate how we are going to express ourselves. Myself, I still prefer the humanist approach of mixing vinyl.” Hood goes on to describe the Detroit’s influence on his DJ style. “The Detroit attitude and style is imbedded in me. It’s something that will always be there in my music, being educated by people like Derrick May, Juan Atkins and all my contemporaries. I like to educate and take people backwards and forwards and not go for so much of the crowd cheers and all that. I just like to play good, entertaining, forward-thinking music.” WHO: Robert Hood WHAT: Omega (M-Plant) WHAT: Friday 25 June, Ambar, Perth
FIRE WHEN READY ADELAIDE’S RISING PURVEYORS OF TECHPOP FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE! ARE VISITING BRISBANE IN SUPPORT OF THEIR RECENTLY-RELEASED DEBUT ALBUM SEA PRIEST. MITCH KNOX GETS THE LOWDOWN FROM GUITARIST DAVE WILLIAMS.
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ll things considered, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! are a band that are navigating a pretty hectic series of firsts: the Adelaide tech-poppers have recently released their debut full-length Sea Priest, gained a new member in guitarist Nathaniel Morse, and are touring the country in support of Dappled Cities. Although they formed mid-last decade, this tour represents something of a new chapter for the outfit. “It feels like we’ve only started making the concerted effort of becoming a touring band because, before then, we’d make these brief forays,” guitarist Dave Williams explains. “In fact, the single tour which we did a couple of months ago was the first time we’ve ever headlined a tour interstate anywhere. We’ve never done that before, we’ve always just been support – but we’ve been really happy to do that, by the way. We’re all pretty unpretentious people, being salt-of-the-earth Adelaide folk. And we’re pretty close-knit, particularly in big cities where just about everything scares the living daylights out of us, so we’re all clinging to each other like possums. “I’m really looking forward to it. There are elements of being on the road – being in the car for hours on end, being away from home – that can kind of get you down, but to kind of coin a silly analogy, those kind of situations do tend to open up different thought pathways and stuff like that. You tend to see things a bit differently, and then you realise why Leonard Cohen writes the songs he does, or Tom Waits writes the songs he does.” He pauses, before laughing, “I’m not equating ourselves to them or anything!” Speaking of different thought pathways, it is not just in their approach to touring that Fire! have expanded their horizons. Welcoming long-time supporter and friend Morse to their line-up during the album’s recording process ushered in a sonic development for the band. “Maybe halfway into recording the album we were able to get our second guitarist, Nathaniel, in, who moved
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down from Melbourne to Adelaide to be a part of it,” Williams recounts. “With the addition of him in there, and having another very keen songwriter, we were able to nut out a couple of songs quite late in the piece that we thought were still were valid and well constructed enough to go on the album, and they were songs like Ghostress and Test Crowd. Maybe they stick out for me because it’s another particular songwriter’s point of view in the mix where before there hadn’t been, and maybe because they’re the newest as well they tend to be the glossiest.” So, how should one describe the sounds which the band brings to the yard on their debut? What kind of sonic assault will audiences face in the flesh? Myriad terms have been thrown around but perhaps none are more bizarre than their labelling as “doom pop”. Bizarre or not, Williams is on board. “I don’t know how anybody came across that moniker. I happen to be thrilled with that,” he laughs. “I’m a big fan of really dark, melancholic music, so ‘doom pop’ seems a pretty healthy extension. “There are many things that we’ve been likened to, but the doom element? I don’t know, doom, to me, reminds me more of slow, kind of metal-core stuff, which is fucking wicked. I can’t find that comparison myself, but maybe with the next release we’ll try and assume that moniker a bit more, because I’d love to be known as a proponent of the ‘doom pop’ movement. That definitely catches my fancy. But I don’t understand it.” WHO: Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! WHAT: Sea Priest (Dot Dash/Inertia) WHEN & WHERE: Thursday 17 June, Mojo’s, North Fremantle; Friday 18, Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; Saturday 19, Rosemount Hotel, North Perth
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LIFE’S DIALOGUE
HOLDING THE FLAG
WALTER GERVERS OF BRITISH INDIE OUTFIT FOALS TAKES SCOTT FITZSIMONS THROUGH THE JOURNEY, THE DELAYS AND A NEW ALBUM THAT’S GOT SOMETHING TO SAY.
DJ PREMIER IS AMONGST HIP HOP’S MOST INFLUENTIAL AND REVERED PRODUCERS. WIDELY COPIED, HE DOESN’T BEEF WITH ”SWEAT EMULATORS”, HE INFORMS CYCLONE.
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n 2010 Christopher Martin is seeking fresh challenges – and beyond hip hop. He rather fancies producing U2, the DJ purchasing their A Celebration on import back in the ‘80s. And just how might U2 sound with Martin at the boards? “Soulful, but very rock’n’roll,” he responds. Originally studying computer science, the Texan native found fame with the late MC Guru (Keith Elam) as Gang Starr. Though not directly affiliated with New York’s Native Tongues collective, Gang Starr, too, pioneered abstract jazz stylings in hip hop. Still, the duo didn’t clock up spectacular sales, even with their most successful LP, 1998’s Gold Moment Of Truth. What would be their last outing, The Ownerz, fell victim to EMI’s corporate turmoil. In 2004, Gang Starr toured Australia with Good Vibrations. “It was one of the best experiences of my career,” Martin recalls. Soon after, Gang Starr either split or went on hiatus, Martin contradicting himself in interviews. Elam began collaborating with the unknown Solar, who aspired to be a ‘new’ Premier – to the irritation of hip hop fans. Even while in Gang Starr, Premier was cutting beats for elite MCs: Nas, The Notorious BIG and Jay-Z. However, the urban fraternity was surprised when Martin, no purist, worked with the ‘pop’ Christina Aguilera on 2006’s Back To Basics, their neo-soul Ain’t No Other Man scooping a Grammy. Mind, he had liaised with D’Angelo. Martin speaks adoringly of the singer, now a friend. “It was one of the dopest experiences ever. She was fun to work with and we built a true brother/ sister relationship because of it. I went to her private wedding, hung out at her house with her whole crew – [it was] me and Flavor Flav playin’ Mario Kart racing, all kinds of fun shit... I love her to death. Her husband Jordy [Jordan Bratman] is the shit, too. He’s a major part of why she and I worked together since he was a diehard fan of my previous work.” There was talk of Martin contributing to Aguilera’s Bionic, as well as the Burlesque movie soundtrack, but she “passed” on the
tracks. “It’s all good,” he says. They’re already planning to reunite for a later project. Martin has plenty to keep him busy. He’s involved in Kanye West’s upcoming album Good Ass Job, for starters. “Kanye texted me on my phone and asked if I was in NY. I said yeah and he stopped by and hung out with me and Showbiz from DITC [the Diggin’ In The Crates crew]. We had a good time talkin’ about music, politics, life... He came at 8pm and stayed ‘til 3am – [we were] just building and listening to his album’s early stages. Kanye is a good dude. He is cutting-edge and truly does not give a fuck. That’s the type of people I like.” Martin will eventually furnish an ‘artist’ album of his own. The DJ is returning to Australia just weeks after Elam succumbed to cancer. The MC’s passing was sadly overshadowed by a controversial deathbed letter Solar circulated. In it, Elam inexplicably forbids Martin from participating in tributes. Martin has questioned the letter’s authenticity, as with Elam’s family and the global hip hop community. Ask the DJ about Solar – and allegations made by Solar’s ex Tasha Denham that he turned Guru against Martin – and he’s ever the diplomat. “I think it is really unfortunate how all of this back and forth has taken away from Guru’s legacy as an artist and as a man. At this time, I wish to have no part in anything other than celebrating his life.” And he’ll do that by reflecting on the good times. “I will remember that Guru loved Gang Starr more than anything in the world... I love him and miss him so much. He will always be in my top 10 greatest of all time – a pure original.” WHO: DJ Premier WHEN & WHERE: Friday 18 June, Shape, East Perth
To create Total Life Forever the band turned to the Svenska Grammofon Studios, in Sweden’s Gothenburg. “It was awesome, especially [since] the studio has been, over the years, hand built by a few dudes.” You can hear on the album the focused and isolated feel that such an environment would develop. “We always like to get out of our comfort zone whenever we’re doing any kind of recording. Not that we’re that seasoned in it yet having only made a few records, but I think it’s really healthy not to just go to a studio down the road. If you go somewhere with a mission and an intent to make something and you’re in a foreign land, then it makes the whole experience a lot more immersive.” WHO: Foals WHAT: Total Life Forever (Warner)
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hile most people would think of a beard as nothing more than a bunch of hair on a man’s face, for Adelaide folk rockers The Beards, facial hair is their very reason for living. The first thing the bass player asks is “Do you have a beard?”
but we’re trying to convert Australia, one person at a time, to bearded way of life.”
Nathaniel Beard started this conversation by recounting the tail of his first beard that, like any parents wondering whether their kids are on drugs, saw him lose interest in other activities at the age of 20. “I didn’t know that I could grow a beard,” he says. “I just stopped shaving and then a beard came quite quickly. I don’t really have much of a memory of my life before then because I’ve deliberately blocked it out; I’ve burnt every photo and skerrick of information and every piece of evidence of myself pre-beard. I only truly understood what life was about once I grew my first beard.”
While a slow process, The Beards’ quest for a beard revolution is obviously on its way thanks, in part, to their single If Your Dad Doesn’t Have A Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums, which has been sitting on top of the ARIA Bearded Bands Singles Chart since its release. The bass player says he’s starting to get recognised in public as a leader of the movement. “I like when you walk down the street and you see another bearded man and you just nod knowingly at each other,” he says. “You both understand what it’s like to have a beard; the struggles that come with having a beard; and also the glory of having a beard.”
And as for how Nathaniel met his fellow Beards, John Beardman, Johann Beardraven and Facey McStubblington? “We were all in bands together, and we were singing about normal things that bands sing about. You know, thoughts about love and life. We just got disillusioned by that and one day we all looked at each other and we all had beards. We realised it was time to start singing about what we all really believed in, and the only thing any of us truly believe in is having a beard. It’s the only thing any of us have opinions about whatsoever.”
Returning to WA because they promised their followers they would, The Beards encourage anyone with hair to head to their shows. “We had such a great time and it was a great bearded city and there was a bunch of people down the front with beards, and they were on our wavelength and we’ve been waiting to get back ever since, but it’s such a long way obviously and it’s hard to get over there, but we promised them we would be back and that’s what we’re doing.”
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Frontman Yannis Philippakis has become one of the British youth’s ‘cool’ icons since the band’s success (even involving himself in a 2008 backstage scuffle with the Sex Pistols’ John Lydon to complete the rock star persona) and now that lyrics have been given a purpose within the band’s music as opposed to hook fodder, the audience connection is sure to grow. “His main role is that kind of territory,” says Gervers of his bandmate. “Because if you had lots of people pitching in I think it
Now they’ve got something to say, the band hasn’t lost their sense of coherency because of it. “You’re painting pictures all the time and with the last record it was flashes of imagery and putting little ideas in your head. This time around it’s more about encapsulating actual real feelings. Visual stuff has always been very important to us and there’s a lot more of that – scene setting basically. Because we’re so close and between the five of us are like brothers, everything sort of makes sense to us. And even if some lyrics are coming from something that I’ll maybe never fully understand and I don’t think that really matters, because we’re all part of it and we’re all involved. It’s a good feeling.”
ANOTHER SELF-TAUGHT GENIUS, LORN IS PERHAPS THE MOST MELODIC OF THE FUTURE BEAT MOVEMENT. BRAD SWOB DISCOVERS MORE.
WEIRDO FOLKSTERS THE BEARDS ARE HEADING TO PERTH TO SPREAD THE WORD OF FACIAL HAIR, BUT NOT BEFORE TALKING TO THE BEARDADMIRING MATTHEW HOGAN.
Wait a minute there, The Beards’ drummer John Beardman appears to be wearing a fake beard in The Beards’ press snaps. “He is wearing a fake beard but, believe it or not, he has the biggest beard in the band. He just likes to have two beards because they’re better than one,” Nathaniel says before getting back to The Beards’ ongoing mission. “We only intended to do one gig, just to test the water, and people seemed to really like the idea and we realised that that was our calling; to start the beard message and cause a revolution. And that’s what we’ve done. The revolution is obviously nowhere near complete; a revolution is a slow process,
“So I think, perhaps lyrically and stuff, people are picking up on that. Vocals for the last record, and any kind of lyrical themes, were always added on at the end. We were basically four guys who just wanted to thrash around on guitars and play a handful of shows to our friends, and it’s turned into something a lot bigger. It’s like, back then we weren’t really interested in giving people messages or giving anybody anything to sing along to, because we never thought we’d have the chance. So now, especially all the vocals are predominately Yannis’ reign, we’re just a little bit more braver now and a bit more able to inject more soul and feeling and try and connect a little bit better.”
dilutes it. A lot of songs carry a lot more weight and are a lot stronger if they’re coming from one place, from one mind. He was a lot more honest, open about his emotions; it’s all really the product of his head.”
SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING
WHISKERS OF WISDOM
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h tell me about it,” says Walter Gervers. His band, Foals, for which he plays bass, stormed to international recognition in 2008 with the album Antidotes. Hugely popular in their native England, the band’s calculated dance rock even enjoyed a fair bit of support in Australia, despite the lack of any real publicity apart from reviews and radio play. Both excitingly and obviously, the band has recently released a new record, Total Life Forever. A far cry from Antidotes, for the most part they’ve traded the playful and bouncy guitar pulsations for deeper grooves, more experimental structures and, overall, a darker veil. “I think basically this record is a natural progression for us,” says Gervers, “The sound of a band who has had more time and more space and has been able to be braver with their emotions on this album.
And as for advice on how you grow an admirable beard on par with the likes Charles Darwin, Che Guevara and Chuck Norris; is it best to shave a bunch to get your hair thicker? “That’s an old wives tale,” Nathaniel debunks. “The best way to grow a beard is to not shave. Ever.” WHO: The Beards WHAT: Beards, Beards, Beards (Independent) WHEN & WHERE: Friday 18 June, Settlers Tavern, Margaret River; Saturday 19, The Den, Inglewood; Sunday 20, Mojo’s, North Fremantle
aking waves in the bass-heavy beat community are the sounds of relatively unknown 23-yearold producer Marcos Ortega (a.k.a. Lorn). Hailing from the Midwest region of the USA, his distinctly moody productions caught the attention of Flying Lotus who promptly signed him up to the Brainfeeder label for his brand new album Nothing Else. Drum Media caught up with Lorn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the phone, at first quizzing him on the beginnings of his beat-making career. “I’ve lost track to be honest. But I wanna say seven or eight years,” Ortega says. “I got started with scratching and I wasn’t really into hip hop at the time. I was really into drum’n’bass, IDM, electro and what not. So I decided to make my own beats and eventually that just kind of grew into my thing. I was really drawn towards it. I started handing them out back and forth between other DJs and producers, and eventually the loops or scratch beats turned into larger productions.” As it turns out, the partnership of Lorn and Flying Lotus has our very own country to thank. “Flying Lotus actually heard an early version of my tune on an Australian radio station,” Ortega explains. “I think he heard it on [Melbourne’s] RRR. I assume he was touring at the time for his album Los Angeles. He wrote me and said he heard my track Tomorrow in Australia and then he started asking about the music and what I was working on. At the time I was working on Nothing Else – my album – and it wasn’t long after that I met him in Los Angeles for a gig.” Expectations are running very high for the new album, which is actually the first full-length release from Flying Lotus’ label. After the success of Lotus’ own work (including the recent LP Cosmogramma), Ortega seems to feel no pressure about the whole thing. “None that I could describe because I spent so long on this album. There was a lot of searching and trying to make things happen for myself and to see more than anything what could come out. So as far as Brainfeeder, those guys – I
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would say every artist on Brainfeeder has a definite love for music and a love of exploration and what not. So in that regard I think we’re in the same parallel but otherwise I kinda feel like I’m on my own.” While the tunes from the album are definitely geared towards the dancefloor, Ortega’s beats are not throwaway. In fact, the music is very melodic and permeated by a dark moodiness that is unique amongst this new generation of beat makers. This is all the more remarkable considering Ortega never properly learned an instrument. “During this whole process of making beats and making tracks, I sort of taught myself the piano and figured out what notes sound good next to each other and which notes made me feel like shit,” he says. “I guess when I make and listen to music, I’m more drawn to melodic things or powerful things or things that strike something within you. “I listen to a lot of classical music and I listen to a lot of metal – Black Dahlia Murder, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, Misery Signals. A lot of mainstream R&B if I could be so bold. I’m just a sucker for that kind of shit. I’m more influenced by all of that than any hip hop or dubstep scene.” Ortega also brings a range of nonmusical influences to his work as well. “A bit of literature I guess,” he explains. “I don’t really read much – I have a short attention span. But I’ve read John Milton’s Paradise Lost countless times. Generally anything by Stanley Kubrick, Lars von Trier, Fritz Lang, you know. The sort of out-there, provocative sounds I’m kind of drawn to I guess.” WHO: Lorn WHAT: Nothing Else (Brainfeeder/Inertia)
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‡ ALL AROUND THE WORLD ‡ SOME MIGHT SAY ‡ THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE ‡ D’YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? ‡ LET THERE BE LOVE ‡ GO LET IT OUT ‡ WHATEVER ‡
SUPERSONIC ‡ ROLL WITH IT ‡ LIVE FOREVER ‡ WONDERWALL ‡ STOP CRYING YOUR HEART OUT ‡ SONGBIRD
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FEATURE REVIEW
GIG OF THE WEEK :
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS CAPITOL, PERTH 12/06/10
STORY OF THE YEAR @ CAPITOL
In a week with visits from some of our favourite Aussie bands in Dappled Cities, Operator Please, Six Ft Hick, The Beards and more, we’ve decided to look abroad for the biggest show of the week. Known for their anthemic emotional songs and their spectacular live shows, Story Of The Year are always pushing the boundaries. Their fifth album, The Constant, has been exclaimed by many to be their finest to date, and sets a fine scene for their upcoming tour of Australia. Joining them on this jam-packed Australian jaunt is Californian quintet Saosin, who ravished Metro City as a headliner themselves not too long ago. Rounding out the line-up is Bless The Fall from Arizona, famous for their love of llamas amongst other harder things. See them all tonight, Thursday 17 June, at Capitol. Tickets on sale from Moshtix.
FRONTLASH
BACKLASH
C’MON AUSSIE, C’MON
HORNY CUP
Although even the NZ team is causing us sheepishness, the World Cup is still kicking goals for Australia. Yes, there’s now a patriotic excuse to be late for work, and to turn up stinking of beer midweek.
Look here, you incessantly annoying horn blowers, enough is enough. If you want to blow your own trumpet, do it at home.
TWEETEBATE
Wowzers, we didn’t even realise so many neat coffee shops existed here till we jumped on the new perthcoffeescape.com. Now Perth just needs to lower our ridiculously inflated prices on caffeine hits and we can all jump for overactive joy.
We can’t work out whether NSW’s use of Twitter in the next by-election debate is idiocy or genius. On the neg, with answers limited to 140 characters, pollies obviously can’t go into much detail with answers. Yet on the positive side, well, they can’t go into much detail with ‘answers’; pointless political diversionary waffle. Who knows, it might actually result in some ‘real’ answers.
GRRRL POWER
NAUGHTY PERTH
COFFEE CARE
We were worried about missing Leonard Cohen when the Blondie and The Pretenders super double billing appeared but, with a second show announced, now we can do both. Atomic aceness.
Out of Australia’s 20 largest cities, Perth ranked the least sustainable in the new Australian Conservation Foundation index, our high level of water use, ecological footprint per person and high car ownership mostly to blame. Jump on twitter.com/ drummediaperth to debate possible solutions so we can then publish a 140 character report to the govt…
DRUM MEDIA PRESENTS :
OPERATOR PLEASE
GRACE BARBE
ONGOING: GIGNITION: Upcoming band showcases 5-9pm each Sunday at Swan Basement. This week catch Chainsaw Abortion, Thirty3 Victims, In Your Honour and Enfilade. NEXT BIG THING: WA’s biggest band competition has kicked off with heat two taking in The Den this Friday 18 June and heat three at the Rocket Room on Saturday 19. ROCKET ROOM’S LATE NIGHT LIVE: Each Friday. This week catch Project Mayhem and The Floors. REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL JUL 8-18 Astor Theatre CUT & PASTE DVDs: DVD street press. PERTH DANCE MUSIC AWARDS 2010 DEC
SHOWS:
OPERATOR PLEASE, TIM & JEAN, CHAINGANG: JUN 18 Astor Theatre RTRFM’S FREMANTLE WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL: BOOM! BAP! POW!, UMPIRE, BLACKMILK, THE JOE KINGS, DAVEY CRADDOCK, GRACE BARBE, MISTER & SUNBIRD, THE BIG OLD BEARS, EVA MCGOWAN, MITCH BECKER, BRASH & SASSY, THE TRANSIENTS, CARL FOX, MASSIV TRAV, MICAH, HAX0RW4NG & BEN TAAFFE VS. NICK ELLIOTT, ROK RILEY, CAMRYN VS. TRIAIANOS, PEX, TAKU, SIMBA, CLAUDE MONO VS. MICROGROOVE, PAUL GAMBLIN VS. WRIGHTEOUS, GRACEBERG VS. JADE NOBBS: JUN 26 Mojo’s, The Railway, Swan Hotel
& Basement
Rottnest Island
SUGAR ARMY: JUL 1 Indi Bar, JUL 2 Prince Of Wales, JUL 3 Amplifier, JUL 4 Mojo’s
HYPERFEST: AUG 29 Midland Railway Workshops
BATRIDER: JUL 2 The Bird, JUL 3 Norfolk Basement THE SOFT PACK: JUL 10 Rosemount THE LIKES OF YOU: STEPHAN BODZIN, HUGO: JUL 10 Villa SALLY SELTMANN: JUL 17 Rosemount KASABIAN: JUL 30 Metro City MIDLAKE: AUG 4 Capitol LAURA MARLING, BOY & BEAR, JOHNNY FLYNN: AUG 8 Capitol CKY: AUG 11 Civic Hotel MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS: AUG 14 Capitol ROTTOFEST: AUG 27-29
ONE MOVEMENT FOR MUSIC: OCT 6, 7, 8 & 9: Perth Esplanade, Parmelia Hilton Hotel and surrounds SARAH BLASKO, SEJA: NOV 5 & 6 Astor Theatre PARADISE IN BALI: NETSKY, MAKOTO, KRUST, DIE, MATRIX & FUTUREBOUND, SQUIRE, BUNGLE, UTAH JAZZ, SHOCKONE, Q-BIK, KIM DELA HAYE, DJ LOW, JAVABASS CREW, DJ AKI, RAGGA TWINS, MC WREC: NOV 14 & 15 Lotus Pond, GWK, Bali AN EVENING ON THE GREEN: BLONDIE, THE PRETENDERS, LITTLE RED, ADALITA: NOV 24 & 25 Kings Park
Due to the problems getting into Capitol on this night, The Siren Tower were unfortunately missed, but the quantity of merch displayed upon the torso’s of those inside showed they must have done something right. As the ominous red light shone upon Sydonia, the energy of an already full crowd could be felt as far as the kebab shop next door. A band that draw a clear influence from Karnivool, Tool and many more elaborate, beat-driven progressive heavy bands, their idols were unfortunately a little too easy to spot tonight. However the Melbournians still delivered a very entertaining set (despite the capitulating voice of their frontman) that got better as it progressed. The band showed their best during the heavier moments and the multiple-member tribal percussion sections displayed on several occasions throughout the set were of particular goodness. The highlight of the entire night resulting from the on-stage addition of the headlining band for a truly classic six-way drum crescendo.
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Current ARIA chart smashers Dead Letter Circus returned to stage to huge applause and the approval of the crowd was not diminished for the entirety of the set. With the professionalism and catalogue of a band that took their time to deliver their debut fulllength clearly evident and sounding every bit the polished stadium rock band, the fans in attendance were euphoric. But regrettably the boys from Brisbane seem to have lost the edge previously witnessed by this scribe. Unfortunately the song arrangements and saturating application of effects proved to be a weakness tonight, the biggest felony committed on the vocals, at times appearing to be modeled upon early era Phil Collins recordings. However, the performance affirmed the quality of the band to those already convinced, with the number of arms-aroundmate, beer-in-the-air sing-alongs witnessed in the crowd categorising the night a success. LUKE BUTCHER THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010 • 29
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WITNESS THE WITNESS Fresh from a week of hibernation recording their debut EP, The Witness are now exposed to the light of day, are playing a bunch of shows about the place with some of Perth’s finest banditos. After playing at the Norfolk Basement last weekend, tonight Thursday 17 June they take in the Rosemount; and on Saturday 19, they hit the Railway Hotel.
JAMES & THE GIANT TEAGUE Tonight Thursday 17 June, the solo songwriter night continues at Manhattan’s. Heading up this night is James Teague, who is also taking part in the Next Big Thing competition on Friday 18 at The Den. But first, Teague will be joined by Wesley Fuller. Entry is free and this starts at 8pm. MATT GRESHAM
SO GRESH, SO CLEAN Just back from his first east coast tour, local favourite Matt Gresham has a few gigs before heading off for his first European tour. He’s going back to his roots and playing his first gig for nearly a year in his hometown of Rockingham this Friday 18 June at the Rockingham Hotel with support is from Warm & Fuzzy. $10 from 8.30pm. Gresham also plays at The Ellington on Monday 21 with Alex Lewinski and Bianca Jade.
ALL AGES CHAOS Hit YMCA HQ this Saturday 19 June for Balls To The Wall. Mixing up established Perth metal/hardcore act in headliner Arturo Chaos, along with I Am Eternal and newer bands Still Water Claims, Our Fallen Legacy and We Need A Hero. This show kicks off at 6pm and is an ALL-AGES event so get down and support it!
NEVER BREAK THE CHAINSAW Hailing from Mandurah and playing a style that is both heavy and brutal, Chainsaw Abortion aren’t for the faint hearted, as the name suggests. Having already supported the likes of Five Star Prison Cell and Chaos Divine, they check into a very metal Gignition this Sunday 20 July alongside Thirty3 Victims, In Your Honour and Enfilade. $5 from 5pm.
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VOYAGER
VOYAGE INTO THE UNKNOWN Since their inception, Voyager has been the model of metal excellence. Their latest offering I Am The Revolution continues this trend in grand style. This Friday 18 June at Amplifier, Voyager launch their second video Lost from the album. Directed by Ben Berkout and starring rising young Asian actor Keagan Kang, this video clip sets a new standard. Support comes from Eleventh He Reaches London, Lacrymae and Bend The Sky
INSIDE LOOK YUSUF ISLAM Challenge Stadium, Mount Claremont 10/06/10 Due to Drum Media strangely being left off the review ticket list to Yusuf Islam’s sold-out show, welcome to the first ever covert review of a soundcheck ever published in any magazine, ever…well, maybe. Anyway, we digress. Looking for my ‘fellow photographers’ at the multi-purpose Challenge Stadium, Where Do The Children Play? was in full swing as I managed to make my way to the load-in door to enter the premises. Walking past security, roadies and band members without getting stopped once, one wondered whether security was as tight as you would imagine it would have been for a man MP Peter Kavanagh tried in vain to get banned from this country. Sitting against the stands of the empty stadium, I spotted the man who inspired my given name standing in the middle of the ground seats directing the stage and sound before I joined television crews filming this very unique insight to what goes into a stadium show. For 20 minutes a lucky dozen of us were given the finest seats in the house alongside Islam’s wife who watched on the whole time. Playing such hits as Tuesday’s Dead and Sitting, the man formerly known as Cat Stevens carefully arranged the songs with his band on the big stage only hours before the show. A massive screen backed the stage, and a setting of an old English streetscape complete with light post created the most magnificent thing this reviewer has ever seen in the stadium, surpassing even the recent Perth Wildcats championship triumph.
YUSEF ISLAM BY MATTHEW HOGAN Much too soon, Islam asked for the cameras to leave with a heartfelt “thank you” in our direction. Here’s hoping Islam follows the lead of Leonard Cohen and returns to Australia sooner rather than later. MATTHEW HOGAN
VELVET GHOST
KEEP ON GROOVIN’
Hitting the Velvet Lounge this Friday 18 June for the second instalment of Sonic Velvet is The Ghost Hotel. They’ll be supporting The Reserves, who are performing in unplugged mode, and Japanese Tongue Sisters. Doors open at 8pm to this intimate show, and entry is a mere $10.
This Wednesday 23 June the Fremantle Blues & Roots Club presents the return of the one, the only, The Groovesmiths to Mojo’s They’ll be joined by the brilliantly named Free Beer and The Max White Trio. Entry is $10/$5 for members from 8pm.
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FEEDBACK BIRDS OF TOYKO Metro City, Northbridge 11/06/10 A large and excited crowd filled the stands of Metro City to witness a very polished performance from Perth superstars Birds Of Tokyo, supported by Midnight Youth. For many it was the first time they had experienced the rich vocals of Ian Kenny and they were not about to be disappointed. New Zealand band Midnight Youth kicked things off with Calvary and the crowd was drawn into the action immediately. Next they played the very beautiful Dead Flowers with its memorable harmonic chorus, before All On Your Own, which is the first release from their new album The Brave Don’t Run. An unexpected treat came with Tijuana and Benjamin, which were played progressively and featured an awesome display on lead guitar by Simon Oscroft. Using an empty water bottle as a slide Oscroft astonished the audience with a sound reminiscent of Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love. After only a short intermission Birds Of Tokyo came on to a roaring ovation from the packed house. They began with Saddest Thing I Know from their latest, self-titled release, before playing a number of tracks from their 2008 album Universes, such as Armour For Liars, Wild Eyed Boy and Ode To Death with Kenny asking the enthusiastic crowd to join in for the chorus. Dancing like the love-child of Peter Garrett and Michael Stipe, Kenny donned the acoustic guitar to launch into a brilliant set featuring Head In My Hands, Train Wrecks and the spine-tingling new track Circles, before finishing off with crowd favourite Wayside, with the house singing the chorus word-for-word. In fine form, the Birds finished off their show in pounding fashion and under a frenzy of lights with White Witch and then keeping the vibe going with Silhouettic. The guys returned for a much-appreciated encore to play Off Kilter from their debut album and end with the extremely popular Broken Bones. Both bands played an astonishingly good show, which did not let up from start to finish. It was good to see a performance where the support act held their own
This Saturday 19 June at 11.30pm, The Ellington’s Late Night Groove series features Riyaana Harman. Playing a soul, funk and R&B smorgasbord, Harman is one of our finest and most experienced singers and she’ll be joined by Solomon Pitt and Jess McPhail on extra vocals, guitarist Wayne Strong, keys man Graham Wood, bassist Dane Alderson and drummer James Sandon.
and were rewarded with adoration of the crowd almost as much as the main act. However, it was obvious that Kenny and band were enjoying the home vibe as much as much as the crowd were, and those who missed this performance would be well advised to check these guys out the next time they step up top a local stage.
CAPITAL IDEA
RUEBEN HALE WHO WILL BE THE NEXT SNOWMAN
LET THE BIG TIMES CONTINUE! With previous winners Snowman, John Butler Trio, Arts Martial and Project Mayhem quickly finding themselves on similarly successful trajectories, it’s time to see just who’s about to become the Next Big Thing. Heat two takes place at The Den this Friday 18 June and sees James Teague, The Faim Project, The Caballeros, Like Junk, Seams, Minute 36 and Grenade Baby Lemonade battle it out. Heat three is on Saturday 19 June at the Rocket Room with Hostile Little Face, Head Full Of Steam, Ultra Detectives, Homebrewe, The Love Junkies, Serial Killer Smile and Chasing The Ninth all aboard. Keep it locked to the Live section in coming weeks for info on the bands taking part in future heats or head to www.nextbigthing.com.au.
Coming out for their first show since the WAMis, Capital City support their old Brisbane mates Six Ft Hick this Saturday 19 June at Mojo’s. Joining the Crustacean Cup champions and the Hicks will be Mongrel Country, Bible Bashers and Hootenanny. Doors open 8pm and tickets are at the door.
RUSSIAN EMBERS Creating leaps and bounds over the obstacles of the music industry with their critically acclaimed debut album, Will Stoker & The Embers have picked up Triple J airplay and reviews in the Rupert Murdoch rags. The Floors and The Joe Kings join The Embers next Thursday 24 June at the Norfolk Basement for Rock‘n’Russian Roulette with mystery playing times. So be there or be boring!
SUNSHINE ORCHESTRA
BIRDS OF TOHYO @ THE METRO. PIC: BRAD SERLS
Like a match made in heaven, WAMi Award winning brass’n’beats sensation The Brow Horn Orchestra finally team up with The Sunshine Brothers this Sunday 20 June at the Indi Bar. Both bands bring a plethora of good vibes and horns as they combine their unique ska stylings with their own personal twists. $10 from 6pm.
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DILIP ON THE RADAR With over a dozen gigs in June at metro and country venues, the new extended Dilip N The Davs line-up is certainly getting a workout. Tonight Thursday 17 June, they hit up the Norfolk Basement with The Kirbens and Rachel & Henry Climb A Hill, and Saturday 19 they start their winter monthly Saturday residency at the Indi Bar in Scarborough before heading down south the following weekend.
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After a successful string of shows across the city last weekend, Karma Fx head back to the Market City Tavern in Canning Vale tonight Thursday 17 June. Their debut performances gained great support from promoters and punters alike and are now keen to prove their success and strong sound was not a fluke.
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This Tuesday 22 June, Kosmic Sound & Jack Daniels’ Mojo Rising continues at Mojo’s. This heat is the fourth in the first round of heats and will see Auto Suggestion, Georgi Kay, The Moltens and The Love Junkies battle it out for a chance at prizes including recording time and $1,500 Kosmic voucher. Entry is only $5 from 5pm.
SUNDAY NIGHT RAW
DON’T BE A VICTIM A four-piece local metal band, Thirty3 Victims cite influences such as Pantera, Slipknot, Machine Head, Fear Factory and Mudvayne. With a melting-pot of razor sharp riffs, melodic hooks and feet stomping grooves on offer, the band is hell-bent on bringing carnage to stages everywhere with their energetic and enthralling live show. See them at the Swan Basement this Sunday 20 June for Gignition. $5 from 5pm.
BROTHERS IN ARMS After paying tribute to Wilco last week, this Friday 18 June The Jayco Brothers return to Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle. Clancy’s is one of the few venues of it’s kind to regularly support original music, it’s free entry and it’s a also a great place to share a pre-gig meal. Selk & The Bone Singers and German singer-songwriter Alex Olk support.
ALICE IN JAZZLAND Australia’s best young jazz-makers come from WAYJO and their award-winning composer in residence Alice Humphries is heading up a night of cool hip jazz at The Ellington on Thursday 24 June, Now! Humphries will premiere some of her works along with Mace Francis and more. Tickets from the venue.
THE WILDERNESS RELEASING THEIR LATEST SINGLE WHO’S GETTING PAID THIS WEEKEND, THE WILDERNESS’ GUITARIST AND VOCALIST LUKE SCALES GIVES US THE STORY BEHIND THE SINGLE. Who’s Getting Paid was written a couple of months ago after The Wilderness reformed with a new drummer and saxman. The single was recorded with the B-side Hobo Rockabilly in O’Connor with engineer Brian Mitra. The piece is an eerie rock song with good blend of swing and psychedelia, which lets the two newest Wilderness members display their talents. Originally written by bass player Dominik and then worked on with the rest of the band, Who’s Getting Paid has evolved into a commentary on corruption, which occurs not only in big business but also in everyday life and relationships. The single will be launched this Friday 18 June at Mojo’s and will be available for free on entry to the launch. The disc also includes the B-side hoedown tribute to the homeless in Hobo Rockabilly. With support from The Fags, Laced Affair and Sugarpuss, the music will be pumping all night long so get down early for a prime spot on the loosest dancefloor in town this Friday night.
WHAT: Who’s Getting Paid (Independent) WHEN & WHERE: Friday 18 June, Mojo’s, North Fremantle
On Thursday 24 June, The Den gets absorbed by incomparably soothing zen vibes, and the winter cold banished thanks to heady sounds and warming beverages. The brain will be bamboozled by The Wednesday Society’s fierce post-punk explosion, Seams’ freak-pop cosmo-party, Erasers’ crisp meditative songscapes, and the beguiling dark folk of the Felicity Groom duo. Boredom beware!
DATE NIGHT Spending this month recording their debut album at Wasp Studio, three-piece The Date will release the first single M.P.D. To Me in July. A homage to the Miss Pole Dance competition, this song and others will be played at the Swan Hotel on Friday 18 June when The Date play along with Calectasia, The Branson Tramps and Higgs Boson. $5 from 7.30pm.
FULLY JUNK SICK This Friday 18 June, Manhattan’s hosts its first real rock show since their renovations! The Love Junkies are really on their way up and fans of Hendrix, ‘90s grunge and the punchy noughties rock of QOTSA must check them out as they ascend to the top. They’ll be joined by bombastic rockers Hunting Huxley and lo-fi blues band Hootenanny play Manhattans. Entry is $5 from 7pm. The Junkies also play the Rocket Room on Saturday 19 as part of their quest to be the Next Big Thing. 32 • THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010
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Norfolk Basement, Fremantle 11/06/10
Children Collide were in no rush as they strolled on stage building into opener We Live In Fear and within seconds the crowd were moshing like crazy. Not short on catchy bass lines and anthemic choruses, with plenty of distorted tone, Children Collide had this one in the bag. A bunch of new songs got thrown in the set, during one such, Mackay stopped, for an audience member was in distress. Instead of starting the song again, they broke into what the crowd really wanted, Farewell Rocketship. It was during Economy that Mackay sang through his guitar pickups and newbie My Eagle that a fight broke out towards the back, this time the band content on finishing the song. With a final thrashing of Chosen Armies at loud volume, it looked like fans had been craving a rock show like this since Children Collide last came to Perth, and will be begging for more once a new album is released.
The crowd slowly filtered in from the Fremantle cold, greeted by an eclectic mix of tunes courtesy of the intriguingly-named DJ Douche Unit. The live music component of the evening got off to a stellar start courtesy of the Felicity Groom Duo, which featured the pint-sized doyenne of local folk-rock accompanied only by the Black Black Smoke’s guitarist, Andrew Ryan. The stripped-back approach worked brilliantly for this set, allowing Ryan to showcase his considerable talents and letting Groom’s lustrous voice shine on tracks like Paper Strings and Only 2722.99km. The temperature in the room went up a notch when The Scotch Of Saint James kicked off their set, with Mr Simon Roggio delivering that old-school, heavy style of drumming that takes over your body to the point where your heartbeat is no longer your own. What really sets them apart these days is how incredibly tight they’ve become. These guys make rhythm their bitch – they fuck her up, down and sideways, and they make it look so damn easy. It was another terrific set from The Scotch, who are one of those rare bands boasting not only buckets of balls-out attitude, but also the technical mastery that puts them in the top echelons of rock. A sizeable crowd of loyalists had gathered by the time The Silents took to the fairylighted stage. From the outset, they showcased their musical mastery, creating a deliciously experimental wall of sound. Between their skilled songwriting and solid live presence, these four lads seemed to be making something more than music; an ethereal fusion of twisting time signatures, complex layers, haunting effects. While frontman Lloyd Stowe seemed concerned that a dreaded virus was wreaking havoc with his voice, his vocals exuded power, especially when he crooned the title lyrics of the new album, Sun A Buzz. Drummer Michael Jelenik, the newest addition to the band, is an absolute marvel, pounding out everything from crazed tribal beats to dark, thrilling rock. Closing their set with Bruised Sky, the final song off the new album, The Silents solidified their reputation as one of Perth’s most visionary bands.
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To warm up this winter evening’s edition of Gignition, two gentlemen who go by the name of Dapper Dan perched themselves on some bar stools and began to strum their acoustics into some gentle and mellow music. Seemingly shy and pensive at first they wowed the crowd with some beautiful harmonies and soon threw a few jokes around as they enjoyed their music as much as their fans did. Playing together as one Dapper Dan had a great sense of style making them easy to enjoy and appreciate. Following on, a younger Farthing Woods had something different to contribute to tonight’s line-up. Missing a cello player and debuting a new drummer Farthing Woods braved on for their impressive fan base. They had passion and enthusiasm along with a confident and relaxed vocalist and some intricate guitar solos. At times losing certain instruments amongst their music, they could work on individualising and highlighting certain instruments to strengthen their style. Some change of pace and rhythms with strong build-ups gave a bit of variety to their performance and had the crowd wondering what would come next. A more mature sounding four-piece White Lanterns gave Gignition a heavier and more blues-rock atmosphere for the third slot this evening. Beginning with an instrumental piece to show off their musical talent they soon moved to some more upbeat tunes where the vocalist’s deep and husky voice worked will with their style. The type of music you can be slow dancing to one minute and rocking out to the next, these guy were professional and polished. A definite standout for the evening, it was a surprise there wasn’t anyone getting down on the d-floor. Last up at the Swan Basement tonight was the four guys of Shock Octopus. A fairly new band on the block, they gave the crowd a darker and more psychedelic mood to finish off the night. They seemed a bit too tense and serious to start with but were nonetheless sharp, unique sounding and enjoyed by the crowd. The vocalist was strong with passion and the rest of the band engrossed in their performance as Shock Octopus produced a somewhat eerie concoction of sounds with keys and guitar. This band brought a mix of softer melodies and powerful outburst to this week’s Gignition, ending the evening with a tone of energy. AIMEE SOMERVILLE
WHO: The Wilderness
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Think The Easybeats vs. The Lazy Cowgirls’ vs. The Dwarves in a triple threat cage match and you’ve got Raw Nerve. Formed out of the debris if infamous stage burners The Homicides and filth pub rockers Python, the band has scored the support slot for UK punk legends The Vibrators at the Rosemount this Sunday 20 June. Zxpecky and The Creepers also support and tickets are $25 plus BF from Moshtix.
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Rosemount, North Perth 11/06/10 A sold out show saw a fair number of punters get down early for locals Young Revelry as their set of bombarding garage noise, shouts and guitars got a few fans moving behind the beast of a stage barrier. With a crowd that payed more attention talking to each other than listening to the band, Sydney’s Cabins were left underappreciated. The humble blues-folk did lack thrills but was worthy of a listen, with the final two songs bringing the riffs desired.
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PUNK AND HARDCORE WITH STU HARVEY Interesting to hear Strike Anywhere frontman Thomas discuss the band’s move from San Francisco based Fat Wreck to Boston’s Bridge Nine records. He explained to Canadian based magazine Exclaim: “Fat was really generous to us from a business standpoint and from a friendship standpoint. They’re nothing but amazing people. But there was a slight disconnect between the roots of east coast hardcore punk and west coast California punk. Particularly the Fat/Epitaph world is a little bloated with larger-thanlife personalities, and it showcases a strange, weird part of punk. We just don’t relate to it. With Bridge Nine, there’s more of a sense of accessibility and celebration of extraordinary art from ordinary people.” Young cardinals Alexisonfire were awesome at Soundwave this year, but it’s great that they’re coming back in October to play proper club shows. Tickets go on sale June 18 for their only Sydney show which is happening at Metropolis Fremantle on Wednesday 13 October. In addition to fronting the country’s biggest hardcore act Parkway Drive, coverstar Winston McCall has now turned his hand to film making. McCall recently co-directed Parkway Drive’s impressive new video clip for the single Sleepwalker with friend Aaron Brigg of Motion Circus on the epic clip. “After watching the Parkway Drive DVD I knew it was time for me to make them a film clip. I approached Winston and told him I want to make their next music video, he straight away had a ton of crazy ideas. I was thinking this guy is mental, the clip’s gonna cost millions just in VFX! But then he said one thing that made a lot of it possible. He wanted to have a high contrast stylised look (known widely as the Sin City look). With this style you can get away with a lot. It’s not ‘photo real’ so if you can go more arty on your design and animation and it will still read visually.” Tickets are now on sale for the Parkway Drive Deep Blue tour which hits Challenge Stadium on Sunday 3 October with The Devil Wears Prada, The Ghost Inside and 50 Lions.
SHORT FAST REPORT TOP 5 The Amity Affliction: Their eagerly anticipated new album Youngbloods hits stores this Friday. The Brisbane lads teamed up with noted producer Machine and the results are massive. Refused: The latest reissue of The Shape Of Punk To Come is out now and includes a great live CD that captures the album at their best recorded in front of their home crowd in Sweden. Social Distortion: Soon to be Epitaph signings Social Distortion are currently in the studio working on their debut for the label. Mike Ness posted an updated on the process this week: “Going back to finish the album after a month of more writing. I love this record and can’t wait to hit the stage with new songs. This album is a blend of Rolling Stones, Ramones, Hank Williams and Johnny Thunders.” When the album is finally released it will be the first new Social D output since 2004’s Sex, Love & Rock’n’Roll. This Is Hell: Weight Of The World is the awesome new album for the Long Island hardcore crew. It’s in stores now. Did someone say tour? Matt Skiba solo: The Alkaline Trio singer is preparing to release his first solo release since his 2002 split with Kevin Seconds. The album coming in August via Asian Man Records is simply titled Demos. You can hear a track called S.O.S now by heading to www. myspace.com/amanrecords. Don’t forget you can catch Stu every Wednesday night at 10pm presenting Short Fast Loud on Triple J.
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MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS WITH BRYGET CHRISFIELD
HICKFEST Infamous for their dangerous and downright scary live shows, Brisbane’s most feared swamp rock band Six Ft Hick are plotting their way back west. With a documentary on the band soon to be completed, you can catch them at Rocket Room this Friday 18 June with support from The Kill Devil Hills, Cal Peck & The Tramps and The Trevallys or at Mojo’s on Saturday 19 with Mongrel Country, Capital City, Hootenanny and The Bible Bashers. Each show is $20 on the door.
ANNABELLE’S CRUSADE Coming up at Barchetta in North Cottesloe this Sunday 20 June is lead singer of Aron’s Crusade Annabelle Harvey playing a set of cute country folk pop. Joining her on this all female solo night is the country blues of Ruby Boots and the indie pop folk of Lucy Peach. This gig is free entry!
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Regular jazz is looking like a permanent regular fixture at L’Attitude 28 Bar in Geraldton due to the overwhelming success of their first jazz gig in May. The Nightingale Jazz Trio takes the stage this Sunday 20 June, and the in-demand group is truly the definition of unique, with their perfect blend of subtle jazz and modern groove sounds; the trio is fronted by the sultry vocals of awardwinning singer and pianist, Tiaryn Griggs.
THE RIVER BUNBURY Heading down to the Prince Of Wales in Bunbury tonight Thursday 17 June for a joint south-west single launch with Russian Winters is none other than Emperors, fresh from launching their single at a busy Civic Hotel last weekend. The band will be plugging their new single The River and Russian Winters will be peddling She Knows. Entry is free!
THE JADE DIARY
BENEDICTION
Give a brief rundown of the history of your band from day to now: It all began, when lead singer, Cheryl Lim, decided to form a band called Opus Red alongside Renee Sherlock, Jarvis Cochrane and others, covering songs ranging from Summertime to Sweet Home Alabama. Opus Red disintegrated, and several years later she once again enlisted the help of Renee, keyboardist, and together in November 2006, they started The Jade Diary with its bittersweet and dreamy concoction of pop, folk and rock. In 2008 they recorded their debut EP Landscape Of Dreams, and three other band members joined. After a few band member changes, the final three besides Renee and Cheryl comprise of Jarvis Cochrane on the bass guitar, John Reece on drums and Eddie Dale on guitar. In 2010 they found themselves qualifying for the Next Big Thing competition heats.
This Wednesday 23 June sees Going Solo return to The Moon. This week the action is headed up by Benedict Moleta, who recently launched his latest release, and he will be joined by fellow lone wolves Craig McElhinney and Louis Inglis. This week the artists will go on at 8pm. Entry to restaurants is always free!
Tell us about your launch party The single launch is going to be held at the Civic Hotel Backroom on Saturday 19 June, doors open 8pm, and $12 entry with a free CD. The supporting acts are Astro and Sonja D’anne with Toni Italiano. What’s next for your band? We’ll be competing in the Next Big Thing competition heat on Friday 2 July also at the Civic Hotel. And if all goes according to plan (not confirmed by the organisers) we will be travelling to Melbourne to compete in the Soundcheck Final Showcase as part of the top 10 out of thousands of entrants! WHO: The Jade Diary WHAT: Girl With No Name (Independent) WHEN & WHERE: Saturday 19 June, Civic Hotel, Inglewood 34 • THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010
SHOCK RESTRUCTURES MICHE SUITE Give a brief rundown of the history of your band from day to now: After releasing an EP in Dec ’08, we’ve been performing regularly throughout Perth including the ‘09 and ‘10 WAMi Festivals and Southbound this year. Frontwoman Leah Miche is involved in solo shows/projects and promotes a few gigs and residencies around town. We’ve also spent a good part of the last two years touring extensively in WA as far as Broome and Hopetoun. Tell us about your release: We’re All Going To Die is a two track single with bonus DVD of the single video clip. Both songs are about complexities and simplicities of life, death and the unknown. Track one features Luke Dux on slide. How did you go about recording it? We started recording in December ‘09 with Shaun at Studio Couch. We were originally intending to record an EP until our lead singer/guitarist stabbed herself in the thumb and cut a tendon and a nerve. So after two and a half months of downtime we decided to work on only two tracks so we could still take new material on our next tour. We wanted to use less instrumentation than our last album by using only what we play. With the intention of using lots of harmonies and layers we have ended up with a really rich sound. Tell us about your launch party: The launch will be at the Norfolk Basement on Saturday 19 June from 8pm with special guests Ruby Boots, Dux & Downtown and Hootenanny. What’s next for your band? After our launch we head up north on another tour to Broome for the winter. When we get back we’ll start working on a full-length album. WHO: Miche Suite WHAT: We’re All Going To Die (Independent) WHEN & WHERE: Saturday 19 June, Norfolk Basement, Fremantle
Tell us about your release: We will be releasing a single with three tracks. The title track is Girl With No Name, the second track is Closer and the third is Sublime. How did you go about recording it? Girl With No Name is a song that is well-travelled. It was recorded in the lead singer, Cheryl’s living room in Perth by a friend of the band, Peter Gigengack. Eddie, our guitarist who is a student in Perth then took it back to him to his hometown, Oslo, Norway, and added several layers of guitar at his father’s recording studio. Eddie’s father, Ken Ingwersen, who is a well-known producer and rock guitarist in Norway, mixed the track. It then came back home to Perth to be mixed further by Eddie.
INDUSTRY DRUMMINGS
DRAKE DEDICATION THE MORNING NIGHT
GOOD MORNING Very pleased to announce they will be helping The Bank Holidays launch their second album Sail Becomes A Kite this Saturday 19 June at Amplifier is The Morning Night. Support also comes from Goodnight Tiger. The Morning Night’s latest single Ride With Violence was launched a fortnight ago at Amplifier Bar and has already been added to rotation on Sydney’s FBi radio.
It’s been two years since the last local celebration of the beautiful, evocative music of Nick Drake. This Saturday 19 June at the X-Wray Cafe select acts will be performing Drake’s songs and also adding one or two originals with Xave Brown, Khin Myint, Tingley & Turner, Dave Robertson & Marie O’Dwyer, Sian Brown, Sally Robertson, Jessica Wells and Jason Hayles locked in for this gig to celebrate the great songwriters birthday.
VELVET BLUES
While studying at the University Of Miami in Florida, Perth jazz heroes Daniel Susnjar, Troy Roberts & Konrad Paszkudzki put together a tribute to the great alto saxophonist, Cannonball ‘Julian’ Adderley. They will perform the tribute at Charles Hotel on Monday 21 June as part of Perth Jazz Society. It kicks off at 8pm.
Six-piece Perth band dedicated to the performance of exciting live shows, Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys’ music captures a mood reminiscent of the Rat Pack or Louis Prima in Las Vegas in the ‘50s with smooth swinging jazz, rocking blues and good old boogie woogie. See them at the Charles Hotel this Tuesday 22 June as part of the Perth Blues Club with support from Charlie Brown Brass Band and The Smoke House Rangers.
FITS LIKE A GLOVE
MORE ZOUNDS OF ZILENCE
After making their return to Australian stages at the recent Future Music Festival, hyperactive indie kids Operator Please are hitting the road again to introduce you to their sophomore album Gloves. Their first headline tour since September 2008 will kick off with an 18+ show at Astor Theatre on Friday 18 June, proudly presented by Drum Media. Along for the ride are local electro popsters Tim & Jean and Sydney up-and-comers Chaingang. Tickets from Moshtix, Heatseeker and www. posse.com.
Returning from an overseas tour, Australian Youth Week ambassadors Dappled Cities are returning to WA on their massive winter national tour. Fresh from touring their unique brand of art-rock across the USA, UK, Europe and Asia, the band has recruited rather fine supports in The John Steel Singers and Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! for their stops at Mojo’s Bar on Thursday 17 June; the Prince Of Wales on Friday 18; and the Rosemount on Saturday 19 June. Dappled deals from Heatseeker and Moshtix.
LOOSE CANNONS
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The Shock Entertainment Group and One Stop Entertainment Group are restructuring and have decided to close down One Stop Entertainment Pty Ltd, Shock Exports.com Pty Ltd and Shock Music Publishing Pty Ltd. “These three businesses that were closed were completely separate and autonomous entities to Shock Entertainment and they were becoming a strain on Shock,” Tim Janes, General Manager of Shock Entertainment told Finish Line, “so the directors have taken the swift action to close them down. As far as our core business, Shock Entertainment – it’s business as usual and at the moment we’re having a fantastic June with The Drums and Kele [Okereke] and Parkway Drive to [tour here] this month and we’re expecting a top 10 Amity Affliction debut next week.” A statement confirmed that One Stop Entertainment Pty Ltd and Shock Exports.com were placed into voluntary administration and Shock Music Publishing Pty Ltd was placed into voluntary liquidation.
LITTLE HONOURED This year, APRA’s Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music will be awarded to Jimmy Little, AO. Little began his recording career in 1956 and is still making music 45 years on. His biggest hit was Royal Telephone (1963), which achieved gold status and sold more than 75,000 copies. Although mostly recognised for his country musical style, Little celebrated big orchestral sounds in his 1972 album Winterwood. Little is also an ambassador for the Department Of Training, Youth & Education’s literacy and numeracy Indigenous education program and has been teaching and mentoring Indigenous music students at the Eora Centre in Redfern since 1985. In 2004 he released his 34th album, Life’s What You Make It, a set of covers featuring songs by diverse artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Red Hot Chili Peppers. A public vote named Little a ‘National Living Treasure’ that same year.
APRA SCORES WIZ The 2010 APRA Music Awards will be hosted by RockWiz’s Julia Zemiro and resident MC Jonathan Biggins on Monday 21 June at the Sydney Convention Centre. Francois Tetaz has curated the evening’s musical line-up with the following acts scheduled to grace the stage: Basement Birds, Washington, Art Vs Science, Operator Please, Urthboy, Katie Noonan and a performance by members of The Church plus a special guest, who will be revealed on the night. Taking up presenting honours are last year’s APRA Song Of The Year songwriter Chris Cheney (The Living End), Glenn A Baker and Graham ‘Buzz’ Bidstrup. An exclusive television broadcast will air on subscription channel Max (available on Foxtel and Austar) on Sunday 4 July at 8.30pm.
QUICK FIX SHUTS DOWN Following extensive coverage in the Australian music press, the controversial Chartfixer website now greets you with the message: “Chartfixer is closed”. The website claimed to be able to rig the charts via iTunes by paying users to download digital singles. Although an ARIA spokesperson denied the company had anything to do with the website shutting down, ARIA CEO Stephen Peach told Billboard.biz that he thought Chartfixer looked “very much like misleading and deceptive conduct” and seemed to be “in breach of the Trade Practices Act”.
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THE FLOORS
LATE NIGHT JIVE Rocket Room goes gonzo with the greased rock machine of Project Mayhem descending upon the Drum Mediapresented Late Night Live after midnight followed by the retro flavours of self-proclaimed “Bastards Of Blues” The Floors shaking their money makers after headlining The Bird last weekend so hard that they had to turn punters away. Plus DJ Tyranny ties one on and MC Tomas Ford wraps it in a bow. 3am never looked so pretty!
THE BATTLE RAGES
GERMAIN SHEPHERD
CHAIN REACTION Bringing their attitude, swagger and kick arse rock’n’roll all the way from Sydney this month, Chaingang have supported the likes of Cold War Kids, The Streets, Crystal Castles and more. The trend-makers take in The Den on Thursday 17 June with support from Arts Martial and Hayley Beth at their first WA show. Tickets on the door from 8pm. Chaingang also support Operator Please at Astor Theatre on Friday 18 June.
FROM: Sydney.
SIMON PHILLIPS
Having made quite the name for himself in the Melbourne music scene off the back of the album The Simon Phillips Band, Simon Phillips is heading west for a series of shows. Catch him at Bunbury Entertainment Centre as part of the Bunbury Jazz Festival on Saturday 19 June; Albany’s Tanglehead Brewery on Sunday 20; the Norfolk Basement on Friday 25; and Settlers Tavern on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 June.
FLANKING FIRE
GOOD GRACES
Established in mid 2009, Enfilade have recently finished recordings and are now launching themselves into the Perth live music scene. Their songs draw inspiration from such bands as Fall Of Troy and Refused, and the band lend itself to lovers of quick riffs, distortion and melodic pleasantries. Catch them at Gignition at the Swan Basement this Sunday 20 June for $5 from 5pm.
This Saturday 19 June, local alternative-folk act Farthing Woods will venture out of Fremantle to play at the Velvet Lounge. This exciting young band, who blend folk melodies with Sigur Ros-esque electronica and a healthy dose of pathos, recently performed their song Storms on television for WTV’s Friday Night Live. Catch them with band of the moment Seams, plus The Spin Chorus and Ivory Wolf. $6 from 8pm.
CHAINGANG
SIMON SAYS
The second heat of Mandurah pub Slug & Hare’s Battle Of The Bands takes place this Friday 18 June. Battling it out for the prizes is Mr ‘D’, Last In Line, Seer Cya, Naked Vandals and Hand Stands For Ants. Last week’s heat saw Hollie & The Henchmen and Jack Action find their way to the semis. Who will it be this week? Find out from 7pm this Friday.
WALK IN THE WOODS
SINGLE STORY
Playing their last shows before heading off to China for their World Expo Extravaganza, catch Jane Germain & Ian Simpson at Kafei Van in Coolbinia tonight Thursday 17 June. A great place to relax and enjoy a drink, good food and some cool music, Kafei Van used to be a cinema and most recently it was Tombstone Mexican restaurant. The duo also plays at E Shed Harbour Stage on Sunday 20.
Celebrating their second consecutive WAMi Award for Best World Act, Grace Barbé and her band will play a show at Kulcha on Saturday 19 June. The night at will feature hot new dance group Tropical Addiction, with Miss Africa Perth 2010 Lucette Barbier, and guest musicians plus a DJ. Tickets are $18 on the door or cheaper if you pre-book and/or are a member or Kulcha.
FROM DEEP WITHIN
DEEP BLUE SEA
MILK & SERIAL
Progressive punk/metal rockers From Deep Within are releasing their EP Limited Imaginings this weekend. The four track EP was recorded at Bergerk! Studios with engineer Alan Smith. Influenced by the likes of Propagandhi, AFI, Alexisonfire, Karnivool and Dream Theater, see it launched this Friday 18 June at the Rosemount Hotel with support from The Decline, Bat Country and Atfault.
There’s a huge weekend of music lined up for Serial Killer Smile fans. Hot off the back of their tour support with Melbourne heroes Full Scale Revolution, the band will be playing at Players Bar this Friday 18 June night and compete in heat three of the Next Big Thing on Saturday 19 at the Rocket Room. Get on down and show your support.
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Next gigs: Thursday 17 @ The Den; Support Operator Please – Friday 18 @ Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley Your sound: Dark, rumbly pop songs with a deranged girl out the front. Band’s name? The chorus to The Saints’ Memories Are Made Of This. Band’s greatest strength? Our drummer, Chris, is sexy... I guess our songs are okay too. Band’s best gig ever? We got to play Acer Arena in Sydney, that was pretty sweet and super scary. Best achievement? We haven’t broken up yet! Oh, we recorded our debut EP in Nashville, that was pretty rad. We saw real life cowboys! Any gig in history? That one Meanies show that all my friends went to as young teens in the ‘90s that my parents wouldn’t let me go to. Everyone agreed it was an amazing gig and all my friends got to make out with babes. Thanks Mum and Dad. Fave hangover cure? 30 Rock in bed. Fave Perth bands? Snowman, Sugar Army. Fave bands from your state? White Bats, Border Thieves, Chicks Who Love Guns. Biggest bands you’ve supported? George Michael. No, really. Any releases out? Debut self-titled EP! More info: www.myspace.com/chaingangpower
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PRODUCER’S BOOTH TABULARAZA
Daytime name: Adam Tucker and Eric Harrison. From: Perth. How did you get your production name? We were involved in a few other bands with completely different styles so when we decided to start producing we wanted our tracks to represent the idea of a ‘blank slate’ and for people to view us in a completely fresh new way. Your style: People commonly refer to us under the stereotypical banner “disco dance”, but think the soundtrack to Jungle Book meets Saturday Night Fever. What equipment do you use? Our studio set-up includes a variety of hard synths, Korg R3, Roland Juno G, a Korg ESX drum machine and of course Logic Pro 8. Our live set-up varies slightly with a few midi controllers and live drums. Who else do you perform with live? Half of Perth DJ duo Holy Thursday gives our rhythm section some strength. What crews do you belong, or affiliations residencies do you have? Scenic collaborative, thescenicblog.blogspot.com. What successes have you had with your tracks? Interest from various local and overseas labels,
some airtime on local radio. It’s all happening. Any tips for other producers? Find your own style, don’t copy what’s hot right now. How hard have you found it to get your music played out and distributed? We’ve been pretty lucky, MySpace isn’t completely useless after all. Locally we have had support from the guys down at Perthquake, big ups to Will. All time favourite electronic track? Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck Remix by Jackson) – M83, because it’s magic! Fave producers? Soulwax, LCD Soundsystem, Cut Copy, Holy Ghost!, Aeroplane. Best gig by Perth act? The most recent standout gig in our minds
was Tame Impala’s rehearsal show at the Norfolk. The Norfolk is such an intimate venue and Tame Impala really know how to engage and work the crowd. Spend more on music than you earn? Yeah definitely, every pay cheque goes towards a new piece of equipment we probably don’t need. In real life you: Battle through uni. Lilly Bass or Kirsten Cohen? Good question, they’re both knockouts but I’d have to go with Kirsten – she has the undeniable qualities of a real woman. More info? myspace.com/ tabularazaa NEXT GIGS: Maybe Dancing Will Help – Friday 18 June, Norfolk Basement, Fremantle
COMMUNITY CO-LAB @ THE MOON
DEATH DISCO @ CAPITOL
MICAH YOUR STYLE? Music that makes you dance your ass off! WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR BREAKY TODAY? Three egg omelet and a cup of chai. WHAT EQUIPMENT DO YOU USE? I’m rocking with CDJs when I play out and working on Ableton Live and software in the studio. YOUR FIRST OFFICIAL DJ SET? It was at a rave in Gnangara Pine Forest in 1997 that I put on with a few friends. It went well but I was nervous as hell, I remember sweatin’ about it heaps! We had about 600 people rock up including the cops at 7am. BEST DJ IN PERTH: I’m really not trying to be PC but that’s just too damn hard to answer, there are stacks of great DJs in Perth and I like many of them for different reasons. WHAT SCHOOL DID YOU GO TO AND WHO’S THE MOST FAMOUS PERSON TO COME OUT IT? All Saints College in Bull Creek. Probably the most famous person to come out of there was David Dicks, he was at the time the youngest person to sail solo non-stop around
PHOTO BY BRAD SERLS the world. We used to do art class together. IF YOU COULD PICK ANYONE IN THE WORLD TO BE YOUR BESTIE, WHO’D IT BE? Probably Animal from The Muppets. That dude is off the chain, he’d be a complete liability but you’d have some pretty funny nights out on the town with him. THE BEST TRACK THAT NEVER FAILS ON THE DANCEFLOOR? Scram – Plump DJs, still works to this day! MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS? Radiohead - they continually push boundaries and never sell out. Plump DJs because they wrote the book on breakbeat and are stellar lads! Elite Force because he continues to keep the music fresh and is a demon behind the decks. And Prince because I never know what the hell is going on with that guy but he continues to make great music. We need more artists like him in the world! WHAT DO YOUR FOLKS THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU DO: My mum never really understood what it was that I did, then one year I took her to Breakfest when I played on the main
stage and she really got to see what I did. After that she really got it and loves bragging about it to strangers in the supermarket. Hell! She’s allowed to; she’s my mum! WHAT CREWS DO YOU BELONG TO? The Boomtick crew is definitely my family and Ambar is my home, but I play weekly at the Beat Suite upstairs at the Scotto on Friday nights and for heaps of other nights and crews around Perth. ANY RELEASES OUT, OR IN THE PIPELINE? Keep an eye out for a remix Philly and I just did for Q45’s label Yes Yes records. BEST PLACE IN PERTH TO: A) ROCK OUT: Ambar B) CHILL OUT: Andalouz bar in the city, tapas and vino, hell yes! C) PASS OUT: The sofa in my backyard. D) PICK UP AND GET OUT: Flipside Burgers, BBQ bacon and cheese to go please! GIGS YOU HAVE COMING UP? The Beat Suite – every Friday @ Defectors; Force Majeure – Friday 25 & Saturday 26 June @ Ambar; Ministry Of Sound Sessions – Saturday 16 July @ Metro City; Major Break – Saturday 24 July @ Villa.
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HOT LOCAL EVENT C CULTURE CLASH PPRESENT DJ AANDREI MAZ + VJ JERREM LLYNCH W Who’s playing your event and who sshould punters be most excited aabout seeing? DJ Andrei Maz and V VJ Jerrem Lynch. You’ll want to see tthese two play together. Andrei, who yyou would have seen mixing at all tthe major festivals over summer, will ttwist together the tunes while Jerrem w whips the walls into a visual medley. W What gave you the idea for this sshow? We wanted to celebrate
the end of the uni semester with something a little bit different. Not to mention we love Andrei’s sets and froth over any sort of visual element! What does your night offer that others won’t? You’ve got ear candy from Andrei and eye candy from Jerrem, so it’s a more immersive experience than your regular DJ set. It’s going to be hypnotic! What made you pick the venue? This is actually being put on by the team at the Newport! The whole venue is having a bit of a shake-up and this night is just the beginning. What’s next for the venue? There will be loads more musical treats down at The Newport in the coming months so keep an ear out! WHEN & WHERE: Friday 18 June, Newport, Fremantle
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GARETH EMERY BY JACQUELINE JANE
GODSKITCHEN @ METRO CITY Friday 11 June With a mirror ball shining out in all directions like a star from the Godskitchen main stage, trance and house enthusiasts were treated to a cool display of deck-work featuring some of the biggest names in trance today as well as some awesome Perth talent, with some kicking locals in the Rouge Room. By all accounts the lads held their own delivering some solid performances and some diversity for those wanting a break from the main acts, although unfortunately the room closed-off earlier than expected with Nathan Francis’s set being cut short. Perth prog-trance identity Jason Creek kicked off the Godskitchen main stage in fine form, delivering some haunting melodies and awesome beats, before the slightly eccentric Roger Shah took to the stage dressed in full-white to begin the main festivities. Starting with Revolution’s Bass Fly, then Visco’s Live Now, before playing his original and well received composition Rise. Pulling a random from the crowd, Shah did a quirky piano duet, with the packed house following the mood and swaying for Chris Jones’s To The Sky. The first half of Shah’s set was a little slow but by the halfway mark the crowd were interacting and with the remix of This Way by DJ SI, the mood began to elevate as morning fell. Holding his hands in the air like a god, Shah further roused the punters, before returning to frontof-stage with his mini-keyboard for a remix of The London Metropolitan Orchestra’s Buck In Hospital. Next, Markus Schulz came on like a
rocket, with a thundering base for Whispers In The Dark, with the highlight coming only a short-time later with Wippenberg’s Chakalaka, which sent the crowd into hysterics. The moment was held-over with an unbelievably intense build-up to a remix of Tomcraft’s Loneliness from the excellent Ministry Of Sound Annual 2010. Kraftwerk inspired tick was the next on the order with Brighthouse and Rastrick Band’s Music and then he finished off his no-let-up, high-energy set with The New World. Gareth Emery casually took the decks and wasted no time inspiring the crowd with the CS My Linh Bang Kieu’s Dong Song Sao (Chuyen La), before sending them nuts with his anthem classic Metropolis. The mayhem continued with Emery delivering his promise to go ‘banging at the end’, with a wicked building beat on Scooter’s One and not stopping the fury until the last note. Coming to the end of the set the still massive crowd screamed for more and Emery obliged with William Faber’s Mass Hysteria, before leaving the decks to sign autographs for the crowd. RUEBEN HALE
MARKUS SCHULZ BY JACQUELINE JANE
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SOUND DIMENSIONS HIP HOP, SOUL, R&B AND URBAN WITH MARISA AVELING “Fuck this rap shit/I listen to classical,” – Baatin of Slum Village, Fall N Love Slum Village is releasing its first album in five years. Um, what? With two of its founding members deceased, this forthcoming release, titled Villa Manifesto, will be contentious to say the very least. T3, the only original surviving member, has manned this album along with newer member Elzhi and brought together past recordings of both Dilla and Baatin to present what he described to XLR8R as “both a reunion and a memorial album.” Villa Manifesto features cameos by De La Soul, Little Brother and Hi Tek amongst others and is set for release July 27. Seu Jorge is big in Brazil because of his music, and known more widely in the rest of the world due to his roles in films such as Life Aquatic and City Of God. For his latest project he’s reverted back to what we can assume to be his core talent (if there is such a thing), and has embarked on an album of covers with a band called Almaz, under the name Seu Jorge & Almaz. The aforementioned group, comprised of drummer Pupillo and guitarist Lucio Maia from the stalwart Nação Zumbi, along with bassist and composer Antonio Pinto (whose work you can hear on City Of God) along with Jorge are releasing a self-titled album of samba-infused interpretations of Brazilian classics, as well as American and European tunes. Their single Everybody Loves The Sunshine, more clearly recognised as the Roy Ayers gem,
GODSKITCHEN @ METRO CITY
SATURDAY @ METRO CITY
REVOLUTION – KLUTE @ RISE
SIN @ GILKISONS
FLOORED OPTAMUS @ ROSEMOUNT Saturday 12 June With the Rosemount filled with a sizeable crowd from the moment doors opened, Bunbury lad Thorts was the first act up, and performed alongside his regular collaborator and show-stealer MC Kadyelle, whose tough but feminine presence was a welcome addition to the testosterone-charged line-up. The Freekstyles performed a tight set that spoke to their constant improvement, with Delta Forse following with their relaxed vibe and some killer samples. Smiley’s set was a highlight, featuring help from talented young gun The Apprentice, with single Wrong Side Of The Tracks sparking a great reaction from the crowd. The evening’s
master of ceremonies Hunter took the mic for an all-too-brief set, before making way for the main event. From the opening notes, it was clear that this was going to be hip hop with a difference. Optamus has subverted the usual MC/DJ setup in favour of his visionary live show featuring blues vocals from Moondog (the multi-talented MC from Delta Forse) and keys courtesy of the almost unsettlingly skilled Imposta. The set, featuring almost entirely new material, was nothing short of inspired. Absolute standouts included the brilliant, gospel-influenced Look Around (with live trumpet courtesy of Ricki Malet) and Time, which lifted the riff of Toto’s ‘80s crowd-pleaser Hold The Line and took it to a whole new level. With the outstanding instrumentation providing ample backing, Optamus was free to express a more introspective lyrical style. The main set closed with Findaway, before the big O returned to the stage to throw the
is available via Now-Again Records’ website, and is a teaser to the fulllength that is set to drop July 27. If you trust Gilles Peterson’s taste (which you should), one artist to be looking into is London producer/MC Ghostpoet, who recently became the latest signing to Peterson’s Brownswood label. Last week he made his latest release The Sound Of Strangers EP available for free download from his MySpace page, with the four-track featuring three originals (including one produced by Micachu) and a remix of A Tribe Called Quest’s seminal Electric Relaxation. Ghostpoet doesn’t put on any airs and graces and keeps it very British in a non-Queen’s English way, rhyming over the top of what usually is minimally furnished production. This EP is a small taste of what’s to come, with a full-length debut scheduled from Ghostpoet later in the year. On the local tip, Perth’s own beat warrior Ta-ku is embarking on an ambitious project for the month of June. Along with fellow Kiwi producer Haz’, the two are making
a beat every day and uploading it to their Soundcloud account. At the time of writing the pair were only up to June 3, but if that’s any indication of the heat to come, we should all be anticipating having our hair blown back. Go check them out under the username Haz&Taku. Sound Dimes usually doesn’t brave the larger hip hop events due to the fear of high levels of douchery, but the upcoming Winterbeatz is looking appealing, mainly for its Big Boi factor. His album Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Dusty should be out by then, so hopefully you will all know the words to tracks alongside Shutterbug. Also up in the mix is T-Pain, Ne-Yo and Fatman Scoop (for nostalgia’s sake, can someone please request the Faith Evans’ Love Like This Before remix, if only to hear him say, “All the chickenheads/Be quiet,”). Winterbeatz and its ALLAGES shenanigans goes down on Saturday 31 July at the Burswood Dome. Tickets start at $99 plus BF and are available from Ticketek.
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A GUIDE TO RECOGNISING YOUR CELEBRITY RHYMING SLANG
OPTAMUS BY JACQUELINE JANE
Downsyde-loving dogs a bone with an encore off All City. What really made this such a memorable show was the immense amount of respect in the room. Everyone there knew full well that they owe the existence of Perth’s Aussie hip hop scene to Optamus, and the enthusiasm with which they listened to his new, very
different material was a testament to his incredible influence. In turn, Optamus was unfailingly generous in his praise of his collaborators and supporters. It was a special night, and served to remind every hip hop fan in the room just why they love this music so damn much. ALEKSIA BARRON
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Ya gotta love how English rhyming slang holds no prejudices when it comes to inventing rhyming slang (with the slang word usually taking longer to get out than if you just went with the original word… and, in a non-rhyming slang-related matter, what’s with the Poms adding an ‘s’ to later? What’s this ‘laters’ biz taking the place of a good old-fashioned ‘bye’? Wasn’t that taking long enough?). It’s not just frogs and toads making their way into the ‘cockney’ lexicon now, it’s celebs as well. For example: you’re out one night and your Benny Hill’s kicked in hard and you need to find the Gary Glitter to take a Donald Trump – what a James Blunt of a situation… it’s all gone Pete Tong. (Translation: That Tic Tac you necked in the queue must have actually been a pill and now you need to visit the bathroom to relieve
your bowels, it’s a horrid situation in and it really feels like the night’s taken a turn for the worse.) Here’s a few others we’ve heard used… sorry, we mean, heard about being used: Bob Hope – dope Lou (as in Reed) – speed Bob Marley – charley (coke) Patsy Cline – wine Nic Lauda – powder (coke) Britney Spears – beers Gary Ablett – tablet (E) Wesley Snipes – pipes Leo Sayer – all dayer And a few we’d like to take off: Jamiroquai – K (Jay Kay, geddit?) Black Lips – trips Nickelback – smack NeYo – meow JoBeth (Taylor) – meth Or, maybe we’re just not very good at this… THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010 • 37
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DANCEFLOOR OF THE WEEK
HIP HOP KARA’YO’KE @ THE BIRD Brush up on your MC skills with this very fun night at The Bird with over 100 classics to rap along to, including 50 Cent’s Candy Shop. From 8pm.
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DORCIA @ LIBRARY Now that they’ve outgrown Bar Open, Dorcia is moving to the much bigger Library to turn it up a notch. More bars, more chill out areas and less cueing up, it’s time to study the art of partying even closer. The swell electro party sounds remain with Yon Jovi, Time Travel Agent, Pearly Whites, Clomas and Mickey Juice hitting the decks plus Wemetlastnight taking snaps. Same rules apply: no metrosexual attire, no aggression, no deadshit behaviour and no baggage. Launch with them this Friday 18 June from 9.30pm til the lights come on. the Bang Gang DJs are the perfect solution. With Doom and Hoodrat making the trip over, the End Of Exams Basement Party also sees Audageous, Prodje and Lightsteed smashing things from 8pm.
DJ PREMIER @ SHAPE As one half of legendary duo Gang Starr with the late great MC Guru, DJ Premier is hailed as an architect of hardcore east coast hip hop. He plays a rare intimate club show with support from Ta-Ku, Tracksmith and Headayke. Tickets from Highs & Lows, Planet and Mills.
plus a surprise DJ will be drowning out the sounds of the blasted horns! Free before 10pm, $10 thereafter.
LOKAL @ BAR 138 It’s a massive party for Bar 138’s fourth birthday with Devo, Craig Hollywood, Kid Deep, Brett Valentine, Aarin F, Progress Inn and Matt Wright hitting the decks for some tasty tech. Free entry from 6pm.
Ever since Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom teamed up in 2007 their DJ duo Nadastrom has been hot property. The Washington DC natives play club music with the energy of Baltimore and punk music. They‘re joined by special guest Timmy Trumpet from 9.30pm.
OLD SCHOOL JUNGLE @ AMBAR
The Funk Club will be playing host to the lucky 13th edition of Afrodisia. Starring the 11-piece Askari Afrobeat Orchestra, Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics and DJ Charlie Bucket, live the highlife upstairs at the Leederville Hotel.
ANDREI MAZ @ NEWPORT The Newport will be transformed into a room of visual wonders when DJ Andrei Maz drops by to twist together one of his famed indie/ dance/rave sets with VJ Jerrem Lynch. Doof for free! Friday 18 June.
Old school raves seem all the rage at the mo’, with those who waved glowsticks in the ‘90s having just as much fun as newbies. Greg Packer headlines with an early rave and jungle set from Dair b2b Menis, a decade old d’n’b mash-up from Hutcho, and breakbeat jungle circa ‘93/’94 from Rewind and NVS, plus MCs Stylee, Assassin and Sifta. $15/10 from 10pm.
MAYBE DANCING WILL HELP @ NORFOLK BASEMENT
BANG GANG DJS @ BASEMENT ON BROADWAY
Dancehall World Cup fever hits So Fine Friday with all games will be live on the big screen including the England vs. Algeria all the way to 5:30am. Tutomath, The Empressions
The best way to kill off those lessons learned in class this past semester would be to party all night, and
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Blog heroes Perthquake have rallied up some mighty fine performers for their first ever Maybe Dancing Will Help show. With Tabularaza playing their first ever live show, plus Holy Thursday, Hippo Camp and Perthquake DJs lined up, it takes place at the Norfolk Basement from 8pm.
SO FINE FRIDAYS @ IMPACT
SATURDAY ROUSA
OURSTYLE @ RISE Showcasing hardstyle and hardcore in WA, the Ourstyle launch will see Rousa, Daze, Pace, Hutcho, Auscore, Ravix, Techen and Techneeqzz hit the booth for $15/10/5 from 9.30pm.
UNSTOPPABLE GLUE @ MANHATTAN’S This exciting new club night will feature many style of tunes ranging from the dubstep of Burial to the classic pop of Beach House. Unstoppable Glue DJs include head honcho Fkn Midas plus Micky Juice, Lightsteed, Ben Edit, Boy Crazy Stacey and others. Get some Glue for free.
AGNELLI & NELSON
AFRODISIA @ LEEDERVILLE
LIMELITE @ METRO FREO
Special Brew play live plus disc jock Little Franco Berry lays down the platters, and Matty Blade and Les Sataniques. Doors open 6pm, $10 after 8pm.
It’s Steppin’ Up with Skahna, Skittlez, Arien, Johnny Quest and Substance.
Cocktails and beats with DJ Shots and DJ Andy M from 7pm.
Back for its fourth edition, King Tito’s Dirty Disco has recruited live and luscious lasses Brash & Sassy plus DJs TCee, Friend, Fkn Midas, Dan Deelstra, Paul Malone, Cooker, Perthquake DJs, Joe Mac and more to the dancefloor on Friday 18 June.
Lady Penelope live plus ‘80s and ‘90s pop with DJ Matty J. Free entry 9-11pm.
WATTHZ @ BAR OPEN (DOWN)
SLIP @ THE COTT
KING TITO’S @ EAST END BAR
MONDO INFERNO @ DEVILLES
Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics drop by for a late night set of original soul. From 11.30pm.
Alt-rock, electropop and indie DJed by Shannon Fox. Free from 8pm.
BRASH & SASSY
T-Box and Chiari.
RETRO MASH @ CAPITOL
LATE NIGHT GROOVE @ THE ELLINGTON
CULTURE CLASH @ NEWPORT
FRIDAY
the Teagan The Teaser and Les Sataniques. $10 after 8pm.
UK SOUNDZ @ DUSK AGNELLI & NELSON @ RISE Responsible for such hits as El Nino, Everyday and Holding On To Nothing, Irish trance legends Agnelli & Nelson are major players in the dance music game. See them with Jason Creek, Travis Eddy, Simon Barwood and Steven Tranzor for $20/10/5 from 9.30pm.
CLUB RETRO @ MINT Chris McPhee unleashes ‘80s/‘90s party hits and retro classics each Friday at Club Retro. Free before 10pm or $5/10 thereafter.
FRIDAYS @ AMPLIFIER New and retro tunes with DJ Jamie and Shannon Fox. $8 entry after 12.
PLUSH @ GEISHA Deep and funky house with Darren J, James A, Simone A and Chef Gully.
MONDO INFERNO @ DEVILLES Rocket To Memphis play live, plus Barbara Blaze and Razor Jack spinning the hot wax, plus
D’n’b madness with DJs Skinny, Rowdy, Phaze b2b Devious D, Invictus b2b Affiliate, Wiggz b2b Pug, Motion b2b Corona plus MCs Pugz, JK and Moondogg. $10 from 9pm.
DEATH DISCO @ CAPITOL Indie banging from the Death Disco DJs plus DJ Ryan spinning ‘80s indie classics upstairs. $10 entry fee.
FORE @ DEFECTORS Minimal, tech and house DJs start your night in style. Free entry.
HIP HOP @ THE PARKERVILLE Rukus Napalm Syndicate, Original Fortune and Hazchem put on a free hip hop show, so get up the hill and get with it if a new era of hip hop is what you are after.
JAPAN 4 @ AMBAR Banging tunes from Tee El, Ben Mac, Oli, Philly and Wish. $12/8 from 10pm.
MAIKO @ GEISHA Deep and funky house with De Mech, Rob Sharp, Loochy vs. Gukas,
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CHASE FEAT. LARIKEN – Jun 24 @ Mojo’s TOTAL SCIENCE – Jun 25 @ Shape + SHWAYZE, CISCO ADLER, THE KNUX, DJ JASON SMITH – Postponed ROBERT HOOD – Jun 25 @ Ambar PURPLE SNEAKERS – Jun 25 @ Metropolis Fremantle S3RL, HAZE – Jun 25 @ Rise + ALL BLACK: STATE OF MIND, ORGANIKISMNESS – Jun 25 @ Rosemount ALI B – Jun 26 @ Ambar
THE LOFT @ GEISHA
JULY
It’s time to Rock The Casbah because the mighty indie club night The Loft is returning to a new home. A staple of Perth’s nightclubbing scene in the ‘90s, the launch night sees Atroboy, Asciimov, Brad Kruger and Owen Heir playing everything from The Smiths to Sex Pistols, Nirvana to Nine Inch Nails, Madness to Madonna, Chemical Brothers to the Cure, and beyond for your new late night Sunday sesh.
DROP THE LIME – Jul 9 @ Metropolis Fremantle HARVARD BASS – Jul 9 @ Ambar SPIT SYNDICATE – Jul 9 @ Norfolk Basement, Jul 10 @ Rocket Room THE LIKES OF YOU: STEPHAN BODZIN, HUGO – Jul 10 @ Villa NERO – Jul 10 @ Shape KEVIN RUDOLF, SHONTELLE – Jul 15 @ Metro City MINISTRY OF SOUND SESSIONS: THE POTBELLEEZ, BORIS DLUGOSCH, STAFFORD BROTHERS, TOMMY TRASH + more – Jul 16 @ Metro City + TRASHBAGS: GTRONIC, HAEZER – Jul 17 @ Villa + LOGISTICS – Jul 21 @ Shape + RAS G & THE AFRIKAN SPACE PROGRAM – Jul 22 @ The Bird MAJOR BREAK: NAPT, BLACK NOIZE, PEO DE PITTE – Jul 24 @ Villa ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: HOT CHIP plus more – Jul 24 @ Perth Esplanade MISTA SAVONA SOUND SYSTEM, VIDA SUNSHYNE – Jul 29 @ Fly By Night, Jul 30 @ Prince Of Wales, Jul 31 @ Settlers Tavern WINTERBEATZ: NE-YO, T-PAIN, BIG BOI, FATMAN SCOOP, PHINESSE, DJ NINO BROWN – Jul 31 @ Burswood Dome
POP LIFE @ MINT House, dance, retro, R&B and Top 40 from DJ Darren Briais. Free before midnight for Pop Life, $5 before 2am, $10 thereafter.
PURE POP @ AMPLIFIER Eddie Electric spins indie classics and alternative sounds sounds. $10 from midnight.
BACK TO MONO @ DEFECTORS Fine and funky tunes from Anton Maz and guests spinning tunes designed to soothe those hangover blues. Free entry.
REGGAE SESSION @ KULCHA The fruits of DJ Aswon’s top shelf reggae collection. Free entry from 5.30pm.
TUESDAY DANZA @ MUSTANG Danza Loca Salsa night with DJ and live percussionists.
WEDNESDAY BEAT MASH @ BAR OPEN (DOWN) The D’n’b madness continues with a fresh line-up to make you wish the weekends could be as fun as this. Free from 8pm ‘til 10pm, $5 thereafter.
BIG WEDNESDAYS @ NEWPORT DJ Tony Allen spins tunes from 8pm ‘til midnight.
CIRCUS @ MUSTANG Student and backpacker night with DJ Giles from 6pm.
STUDENT NIGHT @ MANHATTAN’S Tasty tech selector Massiv Trav brings the party with guests. Free entry.
AUGUST PVT (FORMERLY PIVOT) – Aug 6 @ Rosemount MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS – Aug 14 @ Capitol + JOHN 00 FLEMING, M.I.K.E., TRITONAL – Aug 14 @ Villa
SEPTEMBER PARKLIFE – Sep 26 @ Wellington Square
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Velvet Lounge
Shawne & Luc Captain Stirling The Jayco Brothers, Selk & The Bone Singers Clancy’s Fish Pub
SAT 19 The Bank Holidays, The Morning Night, Goodnight Tiger Amplifier Bar
Ben Pettit Belgian Beer Cafe
Rocket To Memphis Devilles Pad
Howie Morgan Bennys
Graham Wood Trio, Hip Mo’ Toast, Libby Hammer Trio, Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics Ellington
Chris Murphy Belgian Beer Cafe
Mike Nayar Gate
The Jade Diary, Astro, Sonja D’Anne Civic Htl Khin Mynt, Dave Robertson & Marie O’Dwyer, Sian Brown, Sally Robertson X-Wray
Karin Page Duo Botanica Celebrations Karaoke Brooklands Story Of The Year, Saosin, Blessthefall Capitol Jon Madd’s Rock’n Roll Karaoke Devilles Pad Gun Shy Romeos Elephant & Wheelbarrow Trent White, Freddie Grigson Band Ellington Bex’s Open Mic Night Indi Bar James Wilson Lucky Shag James Teague, Divcraft Manhattan’s KarmaFX Market City Tavern, Canning Vale Dappled Cities, John Steel Singers, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! Mojos Nth Fremantle Boom! Bap! Pow!, Sneaky Weasel Gang, Simon & Girlfunkle Mustang Bar Dilip N The Davs, The Kirbens, Rachel & Henry Climb A Hill Norfolk Basement Emperors, Russian Winters Prince of Wales Bunbury Cat Black, The Witness, TV Nation, Place Of Indigo Rosemount Htl Heddy Fraze Settlers Tavern Margaret River Chaingang, Arts Martial, Hayley Beth The Den Side FX The Foundry Pub Grill Off The Record Universal Bar The Con- X-Wrated Jazz w/ The Jack Doepel Jazz Quartet X-Wray
FRI 18 Voyager, Eleventh He Reaches London, Lacrymae, Bend The Sky Amplifier Bar
Riddum Shack Greenwood Hotel Stillfire, The Sure-Fire Midnights Indi Bar The Love Junkies, Hunting Huxley, Hootenanny Manhattan’s The Wilderness, The Fags, Laced Affair, Sugerpuss Mojos Nth Fremantle
Howie Morgan Project Broken Hill Fit Swimmers Brooklands
The Accumulated Gestures Clancy’s Fish Pub James Wilson Como Htl Special Brew Devilles Pad
Adam Kelly, Charlie Bucket Tiger Lils Soul Corporation Universal Bar Seams, Farthing Woods, The Spin Chorus, Ivory Wolf Velvet Lounge Tod Woodward Wanneroo Nick Drake Tribute w/ Xave Brown, Khin Myint, Tingley and Turner, Dave Robertson, Marie O’Dwyer, Sian Brown, Jessica Wells and Jason Hayles. X-Wray Arturo Chaos, I Am Eternal, Still Water Claims, Our Fallen Legacy, We Need A Hero YMCA HQ
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Sail & Anchor (afternoon) Howie Morgan Project Saint Justin James Salt On The Beach, Fremantle
ALESTORM, CLAIM THE THRONE: JUN 17 Amplifier
Kat Kinley South St Ale House
STORY OF THE YEAR, SAOSIN, BLESSTHEFALL: JUN 17 Capitol
Chainsaw Abortion, Thirty3Victims, In Your Honour, Enfilade Swan Basement 2 Tenors Swinging Pig Rolling Pin The Bird Retrofit Universal Bar
MON 21 Wide Open Mic Mojos Nth Fremantle Marco & The Rhythm Boys Mustang Bar
Andrew Winton Balmoral
Gun Shy Romeos Ess Bar
Melody Whittle Botanica
Members Night Ellington
Brash & Sassy Fly By Night Fremantle
Nathan Gaunt Broken Hill
Open Mic Night Impact Bar
Carmen & Sean Pepper PEEL Alehouse
Baby Piranhas Greenwood Hotel
Chris Gibbs Brooklands
Hostile Little Face, Serial Killer Smile, Mattersville, Trav & Jay Players Bar Mandurah
Dillip N The Davs Indi Bar
Jiminy Kickett, The Zydecats Clancy’s Fish Pub
Auto Suggestion, Georgie Kay, The Moltens, The Love Junkies Mojos Nth Fremantle
Funk Club House Band Court Hotel
Danza Loca Salsa night Mustang Bar
Grace Barbe Kulcha
Masino Miller Trio Ellington
Six Ft Hick, Mongrel Country, Capital City, The Bible Bashers, Hootenanny Mojos Nth Fremantle
Damien Leith Friends Restaurant
The Jamie Oehlers Quartet The Bird
Gun Shy Romeos Paddo Flyte Paramount
Dappled Cities, John Steel Singers, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! Prince of Wales Bunbury The Witches Promise, Lantana, Writhe, Mendallion Knights Railway Htl Agnell & Nelson Rise Sophie Jane Rivervale Htl From Deep Within, The Decline, Bat Country, At Fault Rosemount Htl Bluebottles Saint The Beards Settlers Tavern Margaret River Robbie King Karaoke South St Ale House Know Your Knot, The Scene & Herd, Pictures Of Sarah, A Face For Radio Swan Basement Chameleon Brass Band The Bird
The Other Guys Indian Ocean Brewing Company
Detroit Caskets Damien Cripps Duo Mustang Bar
The Other Guys Gate Loft Geisha Bar Dom Zurzollo Gosnells Hotel
Just Ace Newport Htl
James Wilson High Road Htl Riverton
Miche Suite, Ruby Boots, Luke Dux, Hootenanny Norfolk Basement
The Sunshine Brothers, Jules Lutero Indi Bar
Sophie Jane PEEL Alehouse Moonlight Wranglers Railway Htl Dappled Cities, John Steel Singers, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! Rosemount Htl Kris Arnott Rottnest Hotel Charlie McCarthy Nikki D’Agostino Sail & Anchor (afternoon)
Retrofit Indian Ocean Brewing Company Stella Donnelly Kalamunda Htl
The Recliners Balmoral
Retrofit Universal Bar
Faces Bennys
The Reserves, The Ghost Hotel, Japanese Tongue Sisters
The Beards, Boys Boys Boys, Die Scoundrels The Den
WED 23 Switchback Bentley Hotel Side FX Black Bettys Scope Ellington Gabrielle From Stillfire Indi Bar Trevor Jalla Trio Llama Bar
Groovesmiths, Free Beer, Max White Mojos Nth Fremantle
The Beards, Simon Kelly, Justin Walshe Mojos Nth Fremantle Ad-Hoc Moon Cafe
Deserthead, Blackwater Station, Shrimptone Newport Htl
Hang On St. Christopher, The Parachute Failure The Bird
X-Wray
Jack Doepel Quintet Manhattan’s
Huge Shed
Adrian Wilson The Foundry Pub Grill
Open Piano w’Stu Orchard and J.R.D.Dizzle
Jamie Powers Lakers Tavern
Toby & Band Settlers Tavern Margaret River
James Wilson Balmoral
TUE 22
Howie Morgan Lucky Shag
Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers Mustang Bar
Operator Please, Chaingang Astor Theatre
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The Vibrators, Raw Nerve, Zxspecky, The New Husseins Rosemount Htl Nikki D’Agostino
Benedict Moleta, Craig McElhinney, Louis Inglis Moon Cafe Circus Mustang Bar Boston & Chevy, Goodnight Tiger Paddo All Eyes On Saturn, Carthasy, Trebuchet, Sounds Like Bears Rosemount Htl Acoustic ShowcaseAdam Shero (Syd) X-Wray
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Jamie Oehlers’ Blowfish, Alira Wilson, Riyaana Harman Ellington
Melody & The Quintones, Cheeky Monkeys Mustang Bar
The Faim Project, The Caballeros The Den
Christian Thompson
Three & A Half Men The Foundry Pub Grill
UPCOMING TOURS
CHAINGANG: JUN 17 The Den DAPPLED CITIES, THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS, FIRE! SANT ROSA, FIRE!: JUN 17 Mojo’s, JUN 18 Prince Of Wales, JUN 19 Rosemount Hotel OPERATOR PLEASE, CHAINGANG: JUN 18 Astor Theatre ALLEN VIZZUTTI & WAYJO: JUN 18 John Inverarity Music & Drama Centre SIX FT HICK: JUN 18 Rocket Room, JUN 19 Mojo’s THE BEARDS: JUN 18 Settlers Tavern, JUN 19 Civic Hotel, JUN 20 Mojo’s SIMON PHILLIPS: JUN 19 Bunbury Entertainment Centre, JUN 20 Tanglehead Brewery Albany, JUN 25 Norfolk Basement, JUN 26 & 27 Settlers Tavern THE VIBRATORS: JUN 20 Rosemount Hotel DAMIEN LEITH: JUN 20 Friends Restaurant FOSTER & ALLEN: JUN 20 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, JUN 21 Perth Concert Hall THE DRIFTERS FEAT. BILLY WASHINGTON JR: JUN 24 Friends Restaurant COTTON, KEAYS & MORRIS: JUN 25 Charles Hotel
THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, WASHINGTON: JUN 30 Prince Of Wales, JUL 1 Metropolis Fremantle, JUL 2 Settlers Tavern, JUL 3 Divers Tavern Broome SUGAR ARMY: JUL 1 Indi Bar, JUL 2 Prince Of Wales, JUL 3 Amplifier, JUL 4 Mojo’s SUMI JO & WASO: JUL 2 & 3 Perth Concert Hall BATRIDER: JUL 2 The Bird, JUL 3 Norfolk Basement * PAUL KELLY & DAN KELLY: JUL 3 Roebuck Hotel Broome LEE ROSSER: JUL 3 Settlers Tavern, JUL 4 Redcliffe On The Murray, JUL 9 Shark Bay Hotel, JUL 10 Freemasons Hotel Geraldton, JUL 13 Charles Hotel, JUL 16 Clancys Freo, JUL 17 Indi Bar
CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH: JUL 29 Bunbury Entertainment Centre, JUL 30 Albany Town Hall, AUG 1 Fly By Night
* LITTLE RED: JUL 8 Amplifier * GRACE KNIGHT: JUL 8 Friends Restaurant, JUL 10 Swan Yacht Club East Freo * BRUCE MATHISKE, GREG YOUNG: JUL 8 Fly By Night, JUL 10 Denmark Civic Centre * CARPATHIAN, GHOST TOWN: JUL 9 YMCA HQ, JUL 10 Amplifier DEEZ NUTS: JUL 9 Rosemount, JUL 10 Railway Hotel, JUL 11 YMCA HQ
* MARK LANEGAN, AMAYA LAUCIRICA: JUL 11 Fly By Night
HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, MICK TURNER, DIRT BLUE GENE: JUN 28 Astor Theatre MIKE PINEGUY: JUN 28 Charles Hotel 12 DOG CYCLE, SEAN BAXTER: JUN 28 The Bird JONO MCNEIL: JUN 30 & JUL 1 The Ellington
30 SECONDS TO MARS: JUL 24 Challenge Stadium
LIOR: JUL 8 Artbar
CASSETTE KIDS, KIDS OF 88: JUN 26 Amplifier
* KIDS OF 88: JUN 27 Mojo’s
THE AMITY AFFLICTION: JUL 22 Black Bettys, JUL 23 YMCA HQ, JUL 24 Prince Of Wales, Jul 25 YMCA HQ
SHANE HOWARD: JUL 25 Fly By Night
THE SOFT PACK: JUL 10 Rosemount
JOHN SPILLANE: JUN 27 Rosie O’Grady’s Northbridge
MATT CORBY: JUL 22 Settlers Tavern, JUL 23 The Ellington, JUL 24 Norfolk Basement
GRACE KNIGHT: JUL 8 Friends Restaurant
JEREMY GREGORY: JUN 25 & 26 The Ellington
PAUL DI’ANNO: JUN 27 Amplifier
THE TEMPER TRAP: JUL 22 Metro City
MICHAEL PIGNEGUY: JUL 4 & 8 The Ellington
VALIANT SWART: JUN 25 Fly By Night
BERMUDA, SILENT SCREAMS, BURIED IN VERONA: JUN 26 YMCA HQ (early), Rosemount Hotel (late)
THIRSTY MERC: JUL 21 Prince Of Wales, JUL 22 Fly By Night
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: THE STROKES, MUMFORD & SONS, ANGUS & JULIA STONE, BAND OF HORSES, HOT CHIP, TING TINGS, BLUEJUICE, MIDDLE EAST: JUL 24 Perth Esplanade
* SIN CITY: JUL 9 Rocket Room, JUL 10 Prince Of Wales, JUL 11 Railway Hotel
1927: JUN 26 Astor Theatre
KARNIVOOL, MM9: JUL 21 & 22 Capitol
PUGSLEY BUZZARD: JUL 11 The Ellington, JUL 13 Charles Hotel STRIKE ANYWHERE, PAPER ARMS: JUL 14 Amplifier * DIESEL: JUL 14 Friends Restaurant, JUL 16 Fly By Night, JUL 17 Charles Hotel, JUL 18 Ravenswood Hotel KEVIN RUDOLF, SHONTELLE: JUL 15 Metro City SNFU: JUL 16 Rosemount * DIONNE WARWICK, KATE CEBERANO: JUL 16 Cancelled BECC SANDERSON: JUL 16 & 17 The Ellington SALLY SELTMANN: JUL 17 Rosemount MATT JODRELL: JUL 20, 21 & 22 The Ellington
YOUNG HERETICS: JUL 29 Prince Of Wales, JUL 30 Norfolk Basement, JUL 31 Amplifier, AUG 1 Indi Bar KASABIAN: JUL 30 Metro City THE BLACK SORROWS: JUL 30 Charles Hotel FABULOUS DIAMONDS: JUL 31 The Bird JON STEVENS: JUL 31 Charles Hotel NE-YO, T-PAIN, BIG BOI, FATMAN SCOOP, PHINESSE: JUL 31 Burswood Dome BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB: AUG 3 Metropolis Fremantle RAY BEADLE: AUG 3 Charles Hotel MIDLAKE: AUG 4 Capitol RICHARD ASHCROFT & THE UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND: AUG 4 Metro City * CLARE BOWDITCH: AUG 5 Artbar DEBORAH CONWAY & WILLY ZYGIER: AUG 5 Prince Of Wales, AUG 6 Friends Restaurant, AUG 7 Norfolk Basement, AUG 8 Ravenswood Hotel PVT (PIVOT): AUG 6 Rosemount INGRID JAMES & TRUDY KERR: AUG 6 & 7 The Ellington LAURA MARLING, BOY & BEAR: AUG 8 Capitol FLORENCE & THE MACHINE: AUG 10 Challenge Stadium
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Attention all metal bands! Valleyarm Digital are releasing an Aussie Metal compilation album called “METAL AS F#@K!”. The album will be exclusive to iTunes and will released and promoted worldwide. We want to show the world just how heavy Australia is so submit your track (1 per band) and bio to info@valleyarm.com now to secure a spot. We’ll also be offering a $5000 online marketing and global digital distribution deal to a “Stand Out” act that we think has what it takes...this could be you!!
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ALEY GREENBLO, A CURRENT FINALIST FOR MISS EARTH AUSTRALIA HAS RECENTLY BEEN CHOSEN TO BE THE FACE OF THE “BEAUTY FOR A CAUSE CAMPAIGN”. ALEY HOPES TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT CURRENT ENVIRO PROBLEMS AND HAS SET OUT ON A MISSION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! THIS “DOWN TO EARTH” COMMERCE LAW STUDENT IS EXTREMELY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT & IS DEDICATED TO ENSURING THAT OUR BEAUTIFUL
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BANDS WANTED FOR ITUNES ALBUMS
Black wings need a rock n roll drummer and singer.. We are a sydney hard rock / heavy metal band influenced by Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Judas Priest etc etc...... We have dozens of songs ready to go and we are all serious, dedicated musos. Check out our myspace page and have a listen to our demos, we are serious and need someone serious who loves rock n roll... www. myspace.com/blackwingsaustralia 0415561740 OR 0435554559
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Valleyarm Digital are looking for bands to be included on compilation albums that will be featured on iTunes worldwide, you’ll still own 100% of your recordings & publishing plus make money from the sales!! All genres are welcome and we’ll also be offering a Worldwide Digital Deal to a band or artist that we think we can market on a global scale! This will include $5000 worth of online marketing and a worldwide release on all the major digital stores. Submit your tracks (1 per band/artist) along with bio and contact details to - info@valleyarm. com www.valleyarm.com
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SIMPLY RED VOCALIST REQUIRED
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Professional, experienced singers required for Accappella Group. Looking for 4-5 singers. Bass, Tenor, Alto, soprano. Think accapella songs by Manhatten Transfer, Boyz to Men etc Must be competant harmony singer. The Group will be lead by Award Winning Singer Songwriter Storme. www.storme.com.au. Please email your interest/and for auditions to info@storme.com.au.
MUSICIANS AVAILABLE
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Singer needed for hard rock band. We’re looking for a singer, male or female, for our all original hard rock band. The guitarist and I (bass) have been playing together for over 8 years now and over 3 years with our drummer. We have been writing new songs the last 2 years and continue to work on fresh original material. We have also been playing gigs all over Melbourne for the last year getting some stage experience up but we are really dying to get a frontperson with a voice that works with our music. We’re willing to give anyone a listen, we’re all easy going and in it for the fun above all else, but also been keen to take the next step and make it a serious commitment. Have a listen at our myspace link upon application. http://www. myspace.com/psyecho Please note the myspace recordings are over 2 years old now and we have progressed in style and skill greatly since then.
Attention all Techno, Dance, Electronica bands, DJs and producers! Valleyarm Digital are releasing an Aussie Electronic compilation album called “Technically Australian”. The album will be exclusive to iTunes and will released and promoted worldwide. Submit your track (1 per band) and bio to info@valleyarm. com now to secure a spot. We’ll also be offering a $5000 online marketing and global digital distribution deal to a “Stand Out” act that we think has what it takes...this could be you!!
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Experienced saxophonist based in Sydney is looking for bands and studio sessions. Jazz, funky, afro, reggae,latin, rock, folk. If interested contact me at 0410041979. Cheers. Lorenzo
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Ableton certified trainer and author of Ableton video training for Groove 3 (USA) Craig McCullough is available locally in SE Qld for private Ableton and music technology training. Video training is also availble from www.groove3.com. Mobile: 0431 556 746 email: abletontrainer@ optusnet.com.au
SINGER NEEDED
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Want to become an agent for Valleyarm? Valleyarm are a global digital music supplier and are seeking studios and producers Australia wide to be official agents, you’d be responsible for signing new bands and artists to add to our catalogue and getting paid to do so. If you ever have bands asking how they can get their songs on iTunes then this is the perfect chance to bring in extra revenue with excellent monthly bonuses available! Training and point of sale is available to get you started straight away. Email info@valleyarm.com or Call 03 9525 5589
SINGERS/MUSICIANS WANTED!
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ronment. Ages 18-30 Wollongong/ Sydney based. Influences: Dimmu, Old man’s child, arch enemy, children of bodom, immortal, megadeth, slayer, amon amarth etc. Interest gained nationally and internationally with distribution deals on offer for the band. Great opportunity. www. myspace.com/asmodaiaus or email asmodai_aus@hotmail.com
WITCHES WINTER SOLSTICE
100% devotion to music and the packaging it comes in. Pi (Paul Ikin) has a Complete Design Studio aimed at album cover design, packaging and Band Websites. Based in Melbourne Central Complex its easy to get to. Some of the services include * Art Layout design for CD’s/ Digipack/Gatefolds, * Vinyl Sleeves 12” & 7”, and professional Band Websites. Feel free to visit our site to find out more about our services www.paulikin.com iFlogID: 4626
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WANTED AMPS TOUR STAFF WANTED
ALEY GREENBLO has been selected to represent SYDNEY and attend the NATIONAL FINAL OF MISS BIKINI WORLD AUSTRALIA IN DARWIN. Aley will be competing against 34 other girls and the winner will represent Australia at the international final. Aley is currently MISS GLOBAL AUSTRALIA, MISS SUPRANATIONAL AUSTRALIA and a MISS EARTH finalist and is in search for a sponsor. Diesel Promotions will be filming the 11 day Miss Bikini World competition for a reality TV show which will provide great exposure. Aley will also be photographed during the competition and these photo’s will be circulated through the press and gain major publicity. In return, Aley has allowed her pictures for advertisement purposes for your own business. Additionally your logo and website link will be put on the official MISS BIKINI WORLD AUSTRALIA website as well as on Aley’s blog and other social networking pages. Aley is currently also engaging in Social Media, utilising Facebook as a way to engage with the public, increase my fan base, and raise awareness for local charities to protect the environment. The page will be custom designed, and is offering a sponsor to completely brand her Facebook page. You will also have the opportunity to run competitions on my page, as well as offer discounts, and engage with my audience. Working with a top global marketing company based in Australia, the Facebook fan page will have 10,000 fans by the end of August 2010. These fans are highly targeted towards your demographic, and will be a great way to engage with them. Please see Aley’s blog for more info about her and we look so forward to hearing back from you http://aleygreenblo.blogspot. com/ Facbook: Aley Greenblo Email: aley_greenblo@hotmail.com iFlogID: 5560
A FAIL-SAFE PATH TO SUCCESS A “REALLY, REALLY TERRIBLE” START TO THE YEAR LED TO SAM SIMMONS’ NEW SHOW, FAIL. “IT’S REALLY UPLIFTING... AND I DON’T MEAN THAT IN SOME CHRISTIAN WAY,” HE TELLS GUY DAVIS.
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REVELATION REVEALS FILMS Revelation Perth International Film Festival have announced the roster of films they’ll be showing at their 2010 event, and we’re pretty damn excited by what’s on offer. For starters, the Drum film crew’s pic of 2010 thus far, The House Of The Devil, is screening, a brooding horror film that harks back to the good old days of the 1980s, the lost sci-fi Ozploitation film Sons Of Steel, Bunny And The Bull, starring a hoard of Mighty Boosh actors, Howl, with James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, Oz horror film The Loved Ones, Shane ‘This Is England’ Meadows’ music mocko Le Donk And Scor-zay-zee, and Double Take, a documentary about Alfred Hitchcock around the filming of The Birds. There are a lot more films on the program, so we suggest you head over to revelationfilmfest.org for the details. Revelation runs Thursday 8 July to Sunday 18.
THIS WEEK IN
ARTS
THURSDAY 17
SUNDAY 20
Joking Apart – WAAPA’s big midyear production, involving a blissful couple and their envious friends. Closing night. Geoff Gibbs Theatre, Mt Lawley. Arsenic And Old Lace – The latest production by Blak Yak Theatre, an adaptation of Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic And Old Lace. Midland Junction Arts Centre until 27 June.
Spoken Word – all-star evening of poetry from some of this city’s finest wordsmiths, including Dick Alderson, Kate Wilson, and Kevin Gillam. Four5Nine, 6:30pm.
FRIDAY 18 Perth Artist In Residence – Jacinda Bayne takes over one of the city’s most prestigious shop fronts and tranforms it into an artist studio, where the public can watch the artist at work. Podium Level, enex100. King Lear – Bell Shakespeare comes to Perth with its latest production starring John Bell as the King himself. His Majesty’s Theatre until 26 June.
SATURDAY 19 Ashes Of Time: Redux – restored, dreamlike martial arts masterpiece from Hong Kong filmmaking genius Wong Kar-wai (In The Mood For Love, 2046) starring WKW regulars Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, and Maggie Cheung. World Movies Channel (Foxtel), 8:30pm, as part of their 25 Filmmakers You Must See Before You Die series. The Clean House – Black Swan Theatre’s latest production, The Clean House, starring Brooke Satchwell, which revoles around a woman who moves to the US after her parents both die – literally – of laughter. Closing night. Playhouse Theatre. Future Shorts – Australian premiere of one of the world’s largest short film competitions, featuring a selection of the world’s live shorts and local film It’s Just Gary. Fly By Night. Sprung – new work by choreographers Sue Peacock and Stefan Karlsson. Closing day. PICA. Strictly Murder – a play of doublecrossing in the French countryside pre-World War II from Brian Clemens (The Avengers), and directed by Brenda Stanley. Closing night. Melville Theatre. 44 • THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010
TUESDAY 22 Maj Monologues Competition – first night of the performance showcase of the finalists of this year’s Maj Monologues Competition. His Majesty’s Theatre until Saturday 26 June. Spaghetti And Graceland – New York writer/director Noel O’Neill and his Perth cast of Narelle Belle, Valerie Dragojevic and more transports you to NYC’s Little Italy and follows up the writer’s previous Confetti From Graceland by setting it on the 10th anniversary of Elvis’ death. Subiaco Arts Centre until 3 July.
ONGOING Beauties: An Illustration Of Victorian Printing Techniques – following their Cities Are Like Oceans exhibition during the recent FotoFreo Fringe, picture show present a selection of pictures from print artists made during the Queen Victoria. Wolfe Lane until 29 June. CLIP Award – recognising excellence in landscape photography. Perth Centre For Photography until 27 June. Mamma Mia! – the return of the smash hit musical, now in its 10th year. For ABBA freaks and novices alike. Burswood Theatre until 4 July. The Myth Of Julian Rose – Daniel Kershaw’s debut play The Myth Of Julian Rose. Directed by the awardwinning Marisa Garreffa (Motortown, 2008) the play takes a magic realism approach to suppressed trauma. Blue Room Theatre until 26 June. Patricia Piccinini: Relativity – massive exhibition dedicated to one of Australia’s most talented sculptors, whose work explores the blending of sciences and nature. Art Gallery Of WA until 22 August.
ey there, comedy connoisseur, are you a little bewildered by the stand-up act of one Sam Simmons? Well, that’s part of the fun of it, really. According to fellow comedian Wil Anderson, Simmons – whose surreal musings tend to inspire plaudits like ‘daring’, ‘unconventional’ and ‘huh?’ – has finally figured how to make what he does “so confusing that people can’t not get it.” But running parallel with the absurdity and silliness of Simmons’ comedy is an intricacy that cleverly binds together the topics he discusses in shows like Tales Of The Erotic Cat and Sam Simmons In The Net Starring Sandra Bullock. And in his new show, simply titled Fail, there’s a sense of candour and honesty Simmons believes takes his work in a new direction. “I’ve talked about gumnuts and pug dogs in the past, just stupid stuff, but I’ve never really exposed myself
onstage, although there may have been an undercurrent in my past shows,” says Simmons. “I like to think Fail is evolving into something pretty cool as an idea, you know? Otherwise I would have just done a silly show, which would have been fine but kind of disposable. This show is really dense and really absurd, but there are parts that are pretty damn honest.” That wasn’t always the case regarding Fail, though. In fact, the origin of the show was the online phenomenon of denoting one’s disregard or disapproval of a comment or image with the use of the term in question. Simmons initially was going to construct stories around the array of 35mm slides he’d collected from all over the world – and one imagines that more than a few of those slides would end up defaced by ‘fail’ – but the start of the year, which Simmons describes as “really, really terrible”, promoted
him to move in a different direction. He’s reluctant to state on the record just what went down earlier this year but he says that a combination of events led to “a bit of a ‘dark head’ thing going on when it came time to put a show together.” “Some days you don’t feel like being funny. I had to put this show together – because I’ve got to pay rent – and I just didn’t feel like being funny,” he says. “I spiralled a bit and
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WHAT: Sam Simmons: Fail WHEN & WHERE: Thursday 24 June, Astor Theatre Mt Lawley
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MAJ MONOLOGUES COMP FINALISTS ANNOUNCED The finalists have been announced for the 2010 Maj Monologues Competition, which found writers across Perth tackling the theme ‘A funny thing happened on the way to…’ And the finalists are: Chelsea Anderson-Crowe (A Brush With A Hood), Nicola Bradbury (Don’t Order The Jelly), Judith Bridge (D’You Understand What I Mean?), Therese Edmonds (Shelley Kelly’s Day O’Destiny), Paula L. Kay (What’s The Game, Mister Wolf?), Steven Kuterescz (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Theatre This Evening), Ian Toyne (The Domino Effect), and Heather Wilson (Office Gossip). The eight finalists will have their monologues performed by professional actors across five performances between Tuesday 22 June and Saturday 26 under the direction of Hellie Turner, winner of the inaugural Maj Monologues Competition. At the final performance the winning monologue will be announced. Book tickets through BOCS Ticketing.
wrote around that, and the whole show has become a thing about faith and consequence. What came out is something I love. It’s a joy of a show, it’s not negative in any way, it’s really uplifting... and I don’t mean that in some Christian way.”
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FRASER ANDERSON EXHIBITION An exhibition dedicated to the work of Sydney based artist Fraser Anderson opens tonight (Thursday 17 June) at Free Range Gallery, and remains on display until Monday 21. Frasier collects paintings, sculptures, and installations disregarding formula and laced with humour. More information available from freerange.org.au.
SPOKEN WORD SOIRÉE A wide range of poets will come together for Spoken Word at the Four9Five this Sunday 20 June for a soirée of Perth prose. Wordsmiths include Dick Alderson, Tomás Ford, Kate Wilson, Amanda Joy, Kevin Gillam, Randall Stephens, and Steve Smart – plus open mic. For more information visit proximitypoetry.com.
SEVEN EPONYMOUS FILM CHARACTERS AND THE ACTORS WHO BROUGHT THEM TO LIFE. By Daniel Crichton-Rouse. 1. Malcolm X – Denzel Washington (1992) 2. Johnny Mnemonic – Keanu Reeves (1995) 3. Jerry Maguire – Tom Cruise (1996) 4. Jackie Brown – Pam Grier (1997) 5. Erin Brockovich – Julia Roberts (2000) 6. Michael Clayton – George Clooney (2007) 7. Harry Brown – Michael Caine (2009)
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WITH ALEKSIA BARRON It may be raining, but there’s a rainbow above us, Perth – and that rainbow is a rich cultural calendar filled with exciting local arts events. I know we’re all thoroughly overexcited that the third season of True Blood has finally premiered, but seriously, there are some truly compelling reasons to get out and about this week. If you’re a fan of all things theatrical, this week is nothing short of a bumper crop. Bell Shakespeare is back in town with their production of King Lear, starring John Bell himself. Bell Shakespeare have forged a reputation for putting on the classics while keeping them eminently watchable, and by all accounts, their take on King Lear is an absolute revelation. Teachers, take your students – even if they don’t
appreciate the literature, the idea of parenting will seem so terrifying to them by the end of this play, they’ll swear off sex for life. It’s kicking off at His Majesty’s Theatre tomorrow night (18 June) and runs until Saturday 26. Speaking of The Maj, the finals of the Maj Monologues competition get underway Tuesday 22 June. This annual competition for emerging playwrights has been narrowed down to eight finalists, all of whom have written a comedic monologue. The downside is that this year’s entrants were given the worst theme ever (“A funny thing happened on the way to the…” Seriously? Are they saving “One dark and stormy night…” for a special occasion?). However, the mark of a good writer is the ability to work around difficult subject parameters, so the standard of the
material is bound to be pretty decent. The finalists’ monologues will be performed downstairs at the Maj from Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26. The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, armed with new Artistic Director Kyle Morrison, will make their mark on 2010 with Jack Davis’ play Honey Spot. It’s the story of a young Aboriginal boy and the daughter of a local Forest Ranger who forge an unlikely friendship, causing conflict between their families. If it sounds a bit after-school-special, well, that could be because it’s a familyfriendly piece of theatre, so take the nippers along during the school holidays. It’s happening at the Yirra Yaain Theatre Space from until 17 July. If you prefer the screen over the stage, check out the Future Shorts film festival at the Fly By Night this
Saturday (19 June). There’s going to be a red carpet, pop chanteuses Brash & Sassy, and the new film It’s Just Gary from the team who brought you This Is Perth. Even if that doesn’t float your boat, there’s a host of interesting short films from around the globe. Check it out – it’ll be a good warm-up for Revelation. Finally, two of the best productions of 2010 so far are still running this weekend. Anything Goes, starring them crazy WAAPA kids, is still happening at the Regal until June 19. And over at The Blue Room, The Myth Of Julian Rose is running until 26 June. Whether you’re longing for the escapism of a ’40s musical or craving the catharsis that comes from watching something darker, these two masterpieces have got you covered.
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BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE AS SGT LAVELL “MOTORMOUTH” JONES IN THE POLICE ACADEMY MOVIES, MICHAEL WINSLOW CHATS TO MATTHEW HOGAN AHEAD OF HIS RETURN TO AUSTRALIA.
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orld famous for being the “Man Of 10,000 Sound Effects”, Michael Winslow became famous for his appearances in the Police Academy movies, Gremlins, and Spaceballs. More recently, he’s been lovingly satired on The Simpsons, King Of The Hill, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken, and now he’s heading to Sydney and Perth as part of the Supanova Pop Culture Expo. Last in Australia two years ago for Supanova in Melbourne and Brisbane, the comedian and actor has very fond memories of the expo. “It was pretty cool because I got a chance to reacquaint myself with Melbourne and the weather changing every few minutes,” he says, laughing, after greeting the call with a strong Aussie accent and a “G’day mate.” “Other than that, for me, it reminded me that I need to get down there more often. It was great because working with everybody... I hadn’t seen [The Incredible Hulk] Lou Ferrigno in years. Getting the chance to sit next to him, just to see the folks down there and how things have changed.”
Looking back on his earlier days, Winslow ponders on some of the lessons learned from his talents. “Oh man, I’ve always done this stuff,” he says. “You learn not to disrupt class anymore in school. Like I said, I use my voice for good things now. One of the things I’ve had to promise not to do is no more doing the sound of the flight attendant call button on planes. I can’t do that no more at all. I can’t even think about that! Oh and no more talking to the food in the Chinese restaurant neither! I’ll tell you what, those utensils they use to make the food, those things are real sharp!” Starring in all seven of the Police Academy movies, a particular fond memory Winslow has is his time in Russia for Police Academy 7: Mission To Moscow. “I was wearing one of those wireless mics and somebody brought it from the States and you know that frequencies, like in Australia and Russia or anywhere else, are different from the US frequencies – everybody knows that, right?” he asks. “We were in Gorky Park and I was practising some stuff, riding a
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bicycle and I was doing the sound of a Ducati being ridden by a dog that was cursing in Russian while running over a cat. That was the basic sound the Russian military picked up. Three guys ended up coming up to me in raincoats with one of those transponder units antenna thingies and they were pretty upset. “You know when people try to teach you a foreign language, they teach you the dirty words first. Try doing a dog on a motorcycle cursing in that language. That really bothered them. It turns out they picked us up from six kilometres away. One of the things I did learn is that if you’re going to use wireless microphones, make sure that they’re licensed from that country.” Winslow also shared some news about the future of the Police Academy franchise. “New Line Cinema has announced they’ve acquired Police Academy, so there’s going to be a number eight,” he reveals. “I have no other information yet. There’s no script in place and there’s no director yet, so I would assume that they’re working on it. It obviously means a new staff, which should be fine. I think it’s going to do very well and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes up. It’ll be fun.”
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING BUT THE FUTURE IS NOW IN AUSTRALIA. FUTURE SHORTS ORGANISER AMY BROADFOOT TELLS JASON KENNY ABOUT ALL THE POSSIBILITIES.
One director Winslow is certainly hoping will come aboard to revive the series is the man he worked with on Spaceballs. “One thing I really wish is that I could get Mel Brooks to give me another job,” he reveals before reflecting on working with the comic genius. “That was scary cool. It was really scary, but really cool, so it was like a scary cool sort of thing because you just don’t know whether he’s joking or whether he’s serious. When he gives an order, you’re looking at him going, ‘Okay, is he serious, or am I in trouble?’ Who else would wear a three-piece suit with tennis shoes?
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ince 2003, Future Shorts has been a leading partner of short films around the world. Now there are 60 festival partners around the globe and Australia has found its slot in the program. “I used to live in Prague,” explains organiser Amy Broadfoot, “and Prague was one of the festival partners and I was originally exposed to it there. When I came back to Australia I was really shocked to see that it hadn’t made it to Australia yet. About two years ago I started harassing them with emails and they eventually gave it to me.” After seeing the Future Shorts label around the place each month in the Czech capital, and at festivals while she travelled, Broadfoot was surprised it hadn’t found a foothold in Australia. “I was working in the film industry [in Prague] and they would hold monthly screenings of local arthouse cinema and I was also touring a bit and going to festivals and quite a bit of their content was at the festivals. It was quite a shock that something that was already quite global four years ago wasn’t already in Australia.” On her return, Broadfoot set about bringing Australia into the folds of Future. “When I first expressed interest they said a launch was scheduled for Melbourne,” she explains, “and after a year of looking out for Future Shorts nothing had happened in Melbourne. So I wrote quite a long proposal outlining the Australian film industry and how we are quite strong with filmmakers but the short film industry needs development. Luckily enough FTI gave me a grant to put on the event. Hopefully we’ll be able to
expand it around the state and around Australia.” The launch this month takes in the Fly By Night with live bands also part of the program. After that the monthly screenings will take in different venues around the city. “Each month the headquarters in London send out about an hour or an hour and a half of content to their 60 partnership cities for the festivals,” Broadfoot describes. “So each month we get that content and we’ll couple it with one outstanding local film and we want to be showing films that can compete on the international stage. I think Perth has a lot of great filmmakers but we’re looking for that something really special to show around Australia, hopefully, and they’ll consider it for distribution as well.” As well as bringing the best short films of the world to Perth, Future Shorts can take Perth filmmakers to the world. The benefits are plenty for local talent. “There’s a lot of talent here within Perth that because Australia’s remote and we’re remote, the education or the how to approach to the industry isn’t necessarily there. Future Shorts is really great in that it provides that medium to really launch the film internationally. Every month about 40,000 people watch the films at the festival and then there’s online on YouTube, which gets about a million hits a month. They partner up with Channel 4 in the UK as well. That’s a platform that filmmakers could have access to.”
Broadfoot’s company works as an agent for filmmakers putting them in touch with festivals around the world. The format of Future Shorts, and the sheer size of the global event, provides a great platform and network for filmmakers. “There are 60 film festivals. So Perth will be joining this international film festival in Future Shorts and that’s in 60 cities in 20 countries across the world. So the fact that Perth is the first Australian a pretty big deal. You’re going from the more cultural cities like New York, London, Berlin, and Romania and Bangladesh have partnered up as well. Bangladesh has been a lot more with it than Australia. They joined up a couple of years ago.” The first local short film to be shown with Future Shorts is It’s Just Gary, from the filmmakers behind the award winning This Is Perth. “It’s really exciting to be involved with it,” says the film’s director Dan Osborn. “I think it’s a really important part of screen culture in WA. It’s a great opportunity for local filmmakers and people who just enjoy films to be able to see short films of an international standard and get inspired by that. For filmmakers to be possibly showcased with the international shorts is a great opportunity.” While he says the new film is a different type of film to the virally successful This Is Perth the people who got a kick out of it will probably like this one.
“I sat there and I learned a lot because John Candy was great,” Winslow continues. “And it’s Mel Brooks and Rick Moranis, so I got a chance to sit there and watch the process. I was only supposed to be there a couple of days and I ended up being there two weeks. A lot of stuff ended up on the cutting room floor that no one will ever get to see. I wish I could tell you some of the things because they were genius but they were just outrageous.” Winslow is also credited with being one of the originators of human beatboxing with modern day beatboxers, such as Rahzel, citing him as an influence. “Thing about the whole beatbox industry, is when you’re doing something you never expect it to become what it is; you know what I’m saying?” Winslow reflects. “When I did the thing in Police Academy, it was just part of the way that things had happened because it was me, it was Doug E. Fresh and The Fat Boys and there was so many different people. Before it was just something that people would talk about but now it’s an art form and now it’s an annoyance for Simon Cowell on American Idol when Blake Lewis did it. Basically it’s become an interesting point for hip hop; a very interesting development point. When I was growing up we had musical instruments in music, so seeing things happen from any human like that, it’s good. I like to see it; more please!” WHAT: Supanova Pop Culture Expo WHEN & WHERE: Friday 25 June to Sunday 27 Claremont Showgrounds
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“The film is about an ordinary guy who comes face to face with the cult of celebrity,” Osborn says, “so we were interested in the idea of celebrity. The idea that people can be thrown into the spotlight for doing very little.” Osborn and production partner Vincenzo Perella filmed It’s Just Gary last year and finished postproduction this year. This Is Perth was actually shot while they were on a production break from It’s Just Gary. The film was a collaborative effort between the two, from writing through directing and production. “We take a traditional approach to screenwriting,” Osborn says, “the two of us in a room with one typewriter. One guy on the typewriter, the other guy pacing up and down.” Their main focus at the moment is getting their new film to larger festivals, explaining that the longer length means it won’t be as viral as the last film. “We’re always developing new projects and we spend a lot of time writing and honing our skills as screenwriters. We’ve got a lot of projects in development.” With the future in Perth, the possibilities for filmmakers are just beginning. WHAT: Future Shorts Australian launch WHEN & WHERE: Saturday 19 June. Fly By Night, Fremantle
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Hoax or not, the allusive artist known only as Banksy has served up a big splash with his first foray onto the silver screen. Exit Through The Gift Shop revels in ambiguity befitting one of its central questions: what is art? To get hung up over this and other questions raised is headache inducing and apparently futile, never mind Banksy playing on our own self-importance and compulsive to define. What is certain is the moment art is consumed it becomes something quite different. Exit follows a ‘filmmaker’ (labels are important in this film but also entirely fluid) Thierry Guetta, a Frenchman living in LA who’s kind of a charming conman who lucks into the street art movement. As he carries his camera everywhere and always records he becomes graffiti’s unofficial video historian and accomplice. The Holy Grail is Banksy and either fate of
fortune eventually throws the two together. The fact Banksy allows ‘Terry’ to film him working gives rise to some of the question marks hanging over the film’s authenticity outside of the thematic subversions. While the film loses its cinematic edge in the third act, succumbing to car crash voyeurism and exhibitionism distinctly less interesting than the street art movement it originally focussed on, new meta readings unfold sparking rumours of an even more elaborate rouse at play. One thing is for certain, the ugliest sights in this film are rarely the acts of vandalism but the grotesque displays of materialism. Banksy cements his reputation for humour, craft and insight and reminds us that the art is in the creation rather than the consumption. Screening at Luna Leederville until 23 June SCOTT HENDERSON THE DRUM MEDIA 17 JUNE 2010 • 45
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Performing alongside Ozucelik and Bell (this is Bell’s third time in King Lear, by the way) is Leah Purcell, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Susan Prior, and Peter Carroll, with director Marion Potts the icing on the Shakespeare cake. “It’s also such a great experience to be working with a cast who have a combined years of experience of 400odd; there’s quite a lot of wonderfully experienced people in this cast, who’ve been working in this industry for a long time,” Ozucelik laughs. “It’s great to be a part of it, and such a privilege to be a part of this particular play for Bell Shakespeare. It’s my first for Bell Shakespeare but this is also the 20th anniversary of Bell this year and this is their main production in honour of that.” Like in many of Shakespeare’s plays it’s often the seemingly small
characters that provide the glue for the big names and parts. Think where Macbeth would be without his witches, or Romeo and Juliet with the nurse who kept their secret. For King Lear Ozucelik plays Oswald, a character who may appear on the fringe but who appears at some pretty important plot points. “Oswald is Goneril’s steward, Goneril is King Lear’s oldest daughter, and basically he runs the domestic affairs of her house, but in the play he’s very much a confident or high ranking servant, and very much someone she trusts. He sends messages between her and her sister or her and Edmund, and he’s a really interesting character actually.” WHAT: King Lear WHEN & WHERE: Friday 18 June to Saturday 26, His Majesty’s Theatre
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Ozucelik is a new performer for Bell Shakespeare, poised to inhabit the role of Oswald in the Bard’s play. When your boss is playing the lead in your play you might think you have to say nice things about him, but Ozucelik’s praise is part of the genuine love the whole company has for the production. In a staged rehearsal for the press the actors appear effortless and happy, replaying scenes for the monkeys in the media and saying ‘g’day’ in between set-ups. No big egos or actor carry on; just real love.
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SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR IS ALL ABOUT FAMILY, AND PARTICULARLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PARENT DOESN’T TREAT THEIR CHILDREN EQUALLY. LIZ GIUFFRE SPEAKS TO YALIN OZUCELIK OF BELL SHAKESPEARE. ohn Bell is really fantastic, and there’s a wonderful ease in which he speaks the text,” begins Yalin Ozucelik of one of Australia’s most revered names in theatre. “It’s just so clear; it trips off the tongue and it’s very inspiring. It’s great to be able to watch him.”
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His Majesty’s Theatre A bustling Saturday night crowd descended on the Maj for what is arguably the best comedy show that hits Perth ever year. MCed by Sydney-based Dave Williams, the show kicked off with Williams poking fun of late comers, which always goes down a treat. The first act of the night was rising star Josh Earl. The young comic’s act is based around a piece of literature fondly remembered by ‘generation Y’, the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book. Bringing back memories of infantile birthdays, Earl was a pleasant enough opener, if only one could get over his questionable hairstyle. UK comedienne Zoe Lyons was up next with a very funny set of jokes covering subjects such as the age old Snuggie, while also poking fun of some of the less desirable towns in WA. After the intermission, Brisbane raised comic Matt Okine raised the bar for the night with a very apt set covering his African descent, and proved to be the best Australian comedian this reviewer has seen in quite some time. Headlining the night was New Yorker Christian Finnegan, who had the crowd in hysterics
for the entirety of his half hour set. Poking fun of his own camp voice, his country of origin, and the virtues of video games, Finnegan was on top of his game, and it was certainly a joy to watch him on stage in a marvellous setting. Once again the Roadshow was a success, and this reviewer already highly anticipates the 2011 instalment. Season finished MATTHEW HOGAN
THE MYTH OF JULIAN ROSE The Blue Room Theatre always requires a suspension of disbelief from its audience – a task always made more difficult when the narrative delves into the fantastical. It makes the incredible ease with which The Myth Of Julian Rose immerses its audience in an unsettling otherworld, blurring the lines between reality, fantasy and mythology, all the more impressive. The play follows Julian, who, upon discovering his partner’s new pregnancy, is confronted with the repressed memories of a childhood so traumatic that Freud would have found it disturbing. His fears manifest in the form of a Minotaur, who torments his new family. Director Marisa Garreffa has devoted her attention to every element that appears on stage, right down
to the actors exiting not through a door, but through a wardrobe – that ever-perfect metaphor for everything we strive to keep hidden, out of the light. A beautifully executed musical score, courtesy of Tristan Parr, is atmospheric and never overpowering. Ian Helm and Jo Morris are both brilliant as the couple whose lives begin to fracture under the weight of Julian’s childhood baggage. Even Glenn Hall, in a role that presents initially as comic relief, is given the opportunity to showcase his dramatic talent when he reveals the dark underside of the neighbourhood larrikin. And then, of course, there is the Minotaur – a horned, stilt-walking, sightless beast, who skulks in the shadows. Sarah Nelson’s performance in this challenging role is impeccable, embodying this otherworldly monster whose every movement inspires a fresh wave of fear. As the narrative marches towards its terrifying climax, the confident, nuanced performances keep the spiralling insanity of this world utterly believable. Boasting a perfect harmony of staging, direction and performance, The Myth Of Julian Rose is that engrossing piece of theatre you always hope to see when the curtain opens. Until 26 June ALEKSIA BARRON
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