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Dig out your Driza-Bones, it’s Gympie Muster time! Fans of country and/or western stylings are in for a treat again this year with another amazing line-up of musical talent. Some of the biggest names in the game like Kernaghan, Chambers, Williamson, Harvey and Cole will all be present as well as dozens of great bands – it runs Thursday through Sunday at Amamoor Creek State Forest Park near Gympie. Get out there and party rural!
This Saturday the Jubilee Hotel houses UBERfest! Winter 2014, which finds dozens of unsigned local bands converging together to rock the house. Every style and persuasion is represented across two stages – catch some of our hottest rising talent way before your friends! Bands kick off at 2pm and it runs all the way through to midnight – you won’t get many chances to support original live music in this quantity!
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An action-filled instalment of Soundwave will arrive in Australia next year, with a weekend of heavy set to devour us all. Day one features the likes of Faith No More, Soundgarden, Incubus, Lamb Of God, Ministry, Gerard Way, Mayhem, New Found Glory, Fear Factory, Hollywood Undead and Atreyu, while the second day comes at you with Slipknot, Slash, Marilyn Manson, Fall Out Boy, Judas Priest, Godsmack, All Time Low, Papa Roach, Of Mice & Men, Escape The Fate, Lagwagon and oh so many more. Head to theMusic. com.au for the full list of artists, videos, playlists and more. Soundwave 2015 alternates acts across two-days, 21 & 22 Feb, Bonython Park, Adelaide and Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne and 28 Feb & 1 Mar, Olympic Park, Sydney and Brisbane Showgrounds.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Let Hot Dub Time Machine take you on a dance journey through the ages, when Australia’s number one party starter brings the noise on his Biggest. Tour. Ever. Get your groove on 10 Oct, Enmore Theatre, Sydney; 25 Oct, The Tivoli, Brisbane; 7 Nov, Forum Theatre, Melbourne; and 14 Nov, Astor Theatre, Perth.
Continuing his monumental late-career resurgence, Rodriguez is calling on old heads and young fans to come together and join him for a night of divine folk music, 19 Oct, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre; 21 & 23 Oct, Sydney Opera House; 25 Oct, Palais Theatre, Melbourne; and 7 Nov, Kings Park & Botanic Garden.
BIG BUCK
Buck 65 releases his first album in three years, Neverlove, on 3 Oct. The selfdescribed divorce record features Buck’s gravelly vocals, as well as guest spots from female vocalists include Tiger Rosa. The lovelorn Canadian hip hopper plays Melbourne Festival, 22 Oct; The Basement, Sydney, 23 Oct; Black Bear Lodge, 24 Oct; and Mojo’s Bar, Fremantle, 26 Oct.
TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF
Well, not yet anyway – that would be weird. But keep the thought in mind when you go see T-Pain do his thang as part of his massive I Am T-Pain world tour. Get set for a hitriddled set when he plays 1 Oct, Enmore Theatre, Sydney (all ages); 2 Oct, Star Bar, Bendigo; 3 Oct, Festival Hall, Melbourne (all ages); Eatons Hill Hotel, Brisbane, 5 Oct (all ages); and 11 Oct, Roebuck Bay Hotel, Broome – make the journey!
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Melbourne’s Woodlock tour new single The Garden, another gem pulled from their EP Labour Of Love. Catch the one-time busker trio with Brisbane six-piece Fieu at Hyde Park Hotel, Perth, 19 Sep; Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, 27 Sep; Newtown Social Club, Sydney, 10 Oct; and Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane, 9 Oct, with more dates on theMusic. com.au, proud presenting partners of the tour.
CLEAR HAZE
After reforming in 2009, trailblazing doom legends Sleep are back to their glorious best, and the Cali trio have finally answered the calls of fans Down Under with their first ever national tour. Hear its mindexpanding heaviness live when they headline at Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 6 Dec; The Bakery, Perth, 8 Dec; Crowbar, Brisbane, 11 Dec; and Manning Bar, Sydney 13 Dec.
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Stellar news all around for lovers of The Griswolds. Their new album Be Impressive has just landed in stores and now they’ll be taking their sunshine harmonies and tropical rhythms on tour around the country. See the colourful Sydney boys 25 Sep, Corner Hotel, Melbourne; 27 Sep, Zierholz, Canberra; 11 Oct, Metro Theatre, Sydney; 18 Oct, Amplifier Bar, Perth; and 23 Oct, The Brightside, Brisbane, with loads of other dates also announced on The Guide at theMusic.com.au
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National hip hop gem Joelistics will share the intelligent lyrics and emotional vulnerability of new record Blue Volume at Newtown Social Club, Sydney, 17 Oct; Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle, 18 Oct; Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, 24 Oct; Rosemount Hotel, Perth, 1 Nov; Mojo’s Bar, Fremantle, 2 Nov; Solbar, Maroochydore; and Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane, 8 Nov. He’ll be supported by Sietta and Mathas.
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Queensland’s newest festival, Jungle Love, has just announced a few additional names on the bill, with the ever-unpredictable Closure In Moscow set to get their freak on with fellow newcomers The Furrs, Fat Susan and Boss Moxi. The good times go down at Lake Moogerah, 21 & 22 Nov, with the entire weekend presented by The Music.
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The first line-up announcement for Stranded, the first in a four-event series of spring boutique festival sessions, has dropped, with Alison Wonderland, Allday, SAFIA, Client Liaison, Just A Gent, Paces, Promnite, Young Franco, Designated and Fishing all promising to bring the party atmosphere to the lush surrounds of South Stradbroke Island, 21 Sep.
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They might be second class citizens, but Area-7 are first class performers. It’s why they’ve been booked to play Soundwave 2015, and it’s also why their 20th anniversary celebration shows are going to be an absolute riot. Catch the biggest ska band Australia has ever produced when they keep the motor running 24 Oct, The Spotted Cow, Toowoomba and 25 Oct, Prince Of Wales Hotel with fellow Melbourne legends The Resignators.
1975 ARE ALIVE!
Unprecedented demand for UK four-piece The 1975 has seen them upgrade from The Tivoli to The Marquee, with more tickets to their all ages 18 Jan show just released.
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BIGSOUND has stepped up a notch this year, with Cool Party II hosting Anthony Fantano (The Needle Drop) for a DJ set, as well as the likes of Oscar Key Sung, UV Boi, Oisima, I’lls, Tincture, Planete, Kirkis, Hubert Clarke Jnr and Fossils. The event takes place at the Alhambra Lounge, 12 Sep.
NEW DATE, SAME SCREAM
Seminal indie-rockers Screamfeeder have moved their Queensland headline date forward a week, and will now play The Underdog on 13 Nov instead of 22 Nov as previously announced. The date will still feature Roku Music and Freak Wave as supports.
THE WAIT CONTINUES
Damien Jurado, who was set to perform in our midst 21 Sep as part of Brisbane Festival, has had to cancel his inaugural Aussie tour due to injury. An official release states Jurado is “heartbroken” over the decision.
CHIC BEATS
Mysterious Parisian DJ Tchami has been called the future of house music, so if you’re an electronic fancier you probably want to see what all the fuss is about, right? Head to The Met, 13 Sep and see why the likes of A-Trak and Dillon Francis are falling over themselves to connect with the Frenchman.
GET JAZZED FOR SUNDAYS
The program for the 2014 Brisbane Festival has just announced its Jazz On Sunday program, featuring the likes of Vince Jones, Elly Hoyt, Krisitin Berardi and Paul Grabowsky. The program will be presented each Sunday from 3pm, 7 – 21 Sep, with tickets for The Telstra Spiegeltent sessions available now for $26+BF. Proudly presented by The Music.
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Nordic garage sensations Iceage, who will be arriving Down Under for the very first time, playing what will no doubt be a ridiculous show at The Brightside, 19 Sep. We can tell you right now that this is going to be one of those legendary gigs – confirm your place via Oztix now.
BACK WITH A BANG
The Presets’ Kim Moyes is back to doing the solo thing, with a brand-spanking EP that is destined to soundtrack your weekend. Get your explosive techno on and hear tracks off Kloser for the very first time at Oh Hello!, 5 Sep; Nautic Giants, Fisherman’s Wharf, Gold Coast, 14 Sep; and The Factory, Sunshine Coast, 26 Sep.
AMERICANA AUSTRALIANA
After successfully launching in Melbourne, Out Of The Weekend has announced its expansion to Brisbane, with Nikki Lane, Robert Ellis, The Declines, Jonny Fritz, Emma Swift, Halfway, Paddy McHugh and Warren Earl Band all rolling into The Brightside, 26 Oct. Tickets are criminally cheap at $49+BF (via Oztix), and if that wasn’t enough there’ll also be plenty of Deep South flavours with po’ boys, popcorn shrimp and corndogs all on offer.
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MEREDITH SOUNDS NORTH
North London’s Factory Floor bring the beat to GoMA, 5 Dec, as part of Future Beauty Up Late, US legends The Lemonheads will soundtrack a love-in at The Zoo, 12 Dec; Ohio’ sons Cloud Nothings will rip that same venue apart, 14 Dec, then Ty Segall will complete The Zoo triple thrills 19 Dec, before backing up at The Northern, Byron Bay, 20 Dec.
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CHANGING TIDES This year’s Soundwave festival was a completely different beast to the form it will take in 2015. Set to consume two dates in each city, and with Perth being crossed off the list, promoter AJ Maddah revealed the festival’s new format and other information piece by piece via his Twitter (@iamnotshouting), and it’s evident that the main man doesn’t need to raise his voice in order to throw Australian music lovers into chaos. We look at the evolution 2014 brought to Soundwave. By Daniel Cribb. Soundwave cover pic by Josh Groom.
THE SWELLERS
Although Maddah described the loss as “devastating”, it gave way for a new format across the four remaining cities. A logistical nightmare as far as organising goes, but less clashes and a full weekend of rock for the punters.
FIVE ACTS YOU MIGHTN’T KNOW AND DEFINITELY DON’T WANT TO MISS
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ans wasted no time in digging for hints as to who might be on the 2015 line-up. There’s always hundreds of rumoured acts floating around in the months leading up to the announcement, but Maddah mentioned Papa Roach via Twitter only three days after this year’s event wrapped up.
Could this be a Soundwave first?
It was also shortly after this year’s run that the losses from Perth became widely known, and saw it being pulled from the circuit.
When the massive line-up, featuring Faith No More, Soundgarden, Slipknot and more, finally did drop, Maddah proved he’s still got what it takes to put together one of the biggest bills going around, and is still able to throw some surprises into the mix. Everyone was happy. Well, almost everyone...
When Soundwave 2015 rolls into town you’re likely to find yourself among the masses catching Faith No More, Soundgarden, Slipknot, and will probably hear about much-hyped acts such as Antemasque – the new project from Mars Volta’s Omar RodríguezLópez – and US metallers Ministry, who are touring their final ever record. Perhaps hyped for the wrong reasons, Soundwave regular Marilyn Manson’s visit in 2012 was questionable, so he’ll have the attention of punters, while rock lovers will be treated to Judas Priest, Godsmack and Papa Roach. But what about those acts lower down on the bill? There are so many bands playing each year that it’s almost impossible to cover every artist. We trolled through the list and found five must-see acts.
FAITH NO MORE
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THE SWELLERS
THE TREATMENT
THE BENNIES
COLDRAIN
There are so many reasons to check out Michigan-bred punk rockers The Swellers, but the main one is because it’ll likely be your last chance to. They announced via Facebook back in June that after spending 12 years putting the punk back into pop punk and touring the world that they’d be calling it a day after a few final shows. An article by drummer Jonathon Diener on the band’s decision to break-up went somewhat viral, and caught the attention of promoter AJ Maddah, who descried the situation as “heartbreaking”. They first came to the country in 2011, opening Soundwave’s Counter Revolution to a select few able to get through the door in time. You know how you might see a band you don’t know at a festival, then a few months later they become your favourite band and you’re spewing you didn’t know them at the time? That’s these guys, and you don’t want to be feeling that way a few months after their last visit Down Under.
THE TREATMENT Start at the top of the line-up and work your way down... all the way to the bottom, where you’ll find English rockers The Treatment. As recent developments confirm, Gene Simmons is kind of arsehole, but he got something right when Kiss opted for these guys to open their tour with Motley Crue back in 2012. They also toured Europe,
GERARD WAY
opening for Slash last year, and have supported the likes of Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, and dropped their second LP, Running With The Dogs, earlier this year. Perhaps we’ll see Slash side of stage? They’ve got a headline tour of the UK in October before bringing their new material to Australia. Let the good times roll.
THE BENNIES They scored an opening spot on the Melbourne leg of this year’s Soundwave after a few tweets and absolutely packed out the tent at their stage. It’s been a massive year for Melbourne party ska punks The Bennies, and after spending a lot of time abroad promoting their second full-length this year., it seem all their hard work has paid off. When the line-up went live, they were genuinely appreciative of their inclusion, and it seems they’re out to prove they’re worthy. They’ll provide the perfect party vibes, as evident in their tour video
for Hold On. They’re locals too, so if you dig their set, you’ll have plenty of future of opportunities to catch them live.
GERARD WAY Okay, so you might already know Gerard Way, but the Australian live debut of his new project isn’t something you want to miss. The former My Chemical Romance frontman delivered the second taste of his new solo project this week with a music video for the track No Shows off the forthcoming Hesitant Alien record. Its big vocals and overbearing guitar were meant for the festival stage, and Way’s presence on the bill is somewhat of a consolation for punters who were disappointed by MCR withdrawing from the festival in 2010. What we’ve heard of Hesitant Alien so far sounds pretty identical to Way’s past efforts, only a little more poppy. It’s not the most original direction, but that’s not a bad thing, and with a backing band in tow, the charismatic Mr Way will no doubt put on a smashing show.
COLDRAIN They were the first act confirmed for Soundwave 2015, so the name Coldrain might ring a bell. Other than that, the Japanese metalcore band might be an unfamiliar name to many, but they’ve been kicking about for seven years, making their international debut this month with their third record The Revelation. Having supported contemporary titans and Soundwave regulars Bullet For My Valentine, Crossfaith and Miss May I, and after spending some time on the festival circuit in Japan, as well as renowned festivals abroad, they’ll be right at home and in fine form at Soundwave 2015. WHEN & WHERE: 28 Feb & 1 Mar, Soundwave, RNA Showgrounds THE MUSIC • 27TH AUGUST 2014 • 15
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ALMOST FULL CIRCLE
time we’ve come to Australia [for our own tour] there’s only been like three week’s notice. On this trip we’re going to Perth, we’re getting to meet people properly, it’s really exciting. We’ve always had so many sides to our band, and I feel like each side is as important as the next, [so] it’s such a thrill to be able to show people the development of our [music].
It was all sweat and sexual innuendo for Biffy Clyro during Soundwave 2014. On this visit, Simon Neil wants the full experience, and tells Benny Doyle fans should expect the same.
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ouring Israel was “educational”, playing shows in Russia was “eye-opening”, but the best time Simon Neil has had on the road this year was when Biffy Clyro visited us for Soundwave 2014. The Scottish alt-rock trio have done the US Warped Tour before, but Neil jokes it was “almost like a prisoners version” of Soundwave for “people that have been bad in another life”. Australia’s favourite travelling circus of heavy was another level for the group. The frontman admits he pinched himself when he saw the line-up Biffy Clyro were a part of; astounding when you consider this is a band that have headlined Reading/Leeds Festival, one of the most important music events in the world. “It’s the only festival I’ve ever been at that I’ve not been able to see all the bands I wanted to,” Neil remarks. He found new mates in Troy Sanders of Mastodon and Lee Spielman from Trash Talk – “bands that we wouldn’t necessarily tour with” – and calls the entire experience “life affirming”; an event designed for “lifers” where music is everything. “It’s such a special festival – you can feel it from the people,” he smiles. “I was fortunate, [I met] Dave [Brockie] from Gwar before he passed away, and I got a picture of me pretending to suck his warty cock, and it’s things like that, God rest his soul, that make it such a great thing – like, when would I ever get to hang out with the guy from Gwar? Why would he ever want to get his picture taken with me? And just weird things like that, that’s what makes it special.” The 12pm starts saw Neil and his bandmates shed a few kilos, though. “I’m a sweating maniac anyway, but to put three Scottish boys and a pair of Englishmen in that heat – it took us a couple of gigs to get acclimatised,” he chuckles, referencing the five-piece form Biffy tour as these days. “But that’s what makes it feel like a bit more
of a holiday for us – we’re getting a suntan as well as playing a rock’n’roll show.” The downside of the Soundwave beast, however, is time constraints for bands on early in the day. Thirty minutes to work through six records was
“Those [old] songs are still such a [big] part of who we are, even though when we play them, like we play There’s No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake and I can see some people in the crowd having a right fright, like, ‘What the fuck are they doing? I want to hear Many Of Horror!’ “But I think a song like ...Jaggy Snake is the best example of a weird prog metal song that we could ever write, and I’m so proud of it, and that’s why we will play it in September. But it’s nice to play that and then a song like Opposite, which is placid and really soothing almost. And I love that. I’m sure some old-school Biffy fans will think, ‘Oh, they don’t scream anymore,’ but we’ve done that, [and] to me that’s what’s most exciting about our band; that we can do something different and aggressive and then something that’s uber-pop.”
“[I MET] DAVE [BROCKIE] FROM GWAR BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY, AND I GOT A PICTURE OF ME PRETENDING TO SUCK HIS WARTY COCK.” as difficult to navigate for Biffy Clyro as it was for us to accept; that’s why Neil is adamant that on these headline dates they’ll be putting everything they have into their shows, with plans to push the twohour mark and explore as much of their varied catalogue as possible. “It’s a real big deal for us this time, because every other
And even though they mightn’t be as shouty as they once were, Biffy Clyro can’t deny the energy still coursing through their veins, with Neil providing first impressions on a follow-up to last year’s double-album opus, Opposites. “Our next record is going to be back to a heavy rock record; it’s still going to have big tunes but it won’t be as lush,” he reveals. “And it will almost bring us back around – not quite full circle, but back to that intense sound of a guitar, bass and drums. And playing songs like ...Jaggy Snake and Joy.Discovery. Invention and Glitter And Trauma; that’s still in our blood, and that does feed back into the new songs.” WHEN & WHERE: 4 Sep, The Tivoli
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time looking back at anything, but it is a pretty crazy feeling when you do and go, ‘Fuck, 20 years!’”
This year marks 20 years of The Dandy Warhols. Cam Findlay talks to Peter Holstrom about their growth, touring and fucking up on stage.
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or all intents and purposes, working is what The Dandy Warhols do best. This year marks two decades of the band’s existence, and through the kind of high and low points that would make anyone stop and go, ‘Hey, wait a minute…’ they’ve maintained a sincerity and energetic edge that keeps fans flocking to them year after year, album after album, tour after tour.
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“You know, it doesn’t really seem like a huge amount of time,” Holstrom says. “Actually, it does when we do actually look back and see photos of us when we started, and all our friends – so many bad hairstyles. But yeah, it is actually pretty amazing when you think about it. None of us ever really imagined that it would go on for this long. When we started, I always thought like, ‘Yeah, maybe five years, that’ll be fine.’ Because that’s the longest I’ve ever done anything in my whole life. I don’t think I’ve even lived in one location for longer than five years. So I definitely had that mindset at the start. And we don’t really spend that much
Over that time, The Dandy Warhols’ live show has come from support slots in their native Portland to a finely tuned, well oiled machine of garage-rock splendour. Meanwhile, their casual, nonchalant attitude to making music means they could’ve been playing a bar stage back home. “We don’t really think about those kinds of things on stage, and I don’t think we ever have. We’re at the point now I think where we don’t usually notice much on stage between us, unless something goes horribly wrong or the show is perfectly amazing, which both at this point are pretty rare. There always seems to be once or twice on a tour where something happens that has never happened before, and everybody’s just blown away by it. “You know, we’re never really trying to recreate anything live. It’s always the best possible thing we can do with, you know, how our instruments are operating at the time. And there’s always the jam sections, where we can go a little bit crazy. That’s usually when new things happen, and in those moments you’re thankful for the whole thing. And maybe every now and then I’ll blow a riff that sets the whole thing back. But I like to think we’re experienced professionals these days and we thankfully avoid too many mistakes now.” The whole idea of ‘seeing what happens’ pretty much sums up the Dandys manifesto. “We all have really short attention spans,” Holstrom chuckles, “and we tend to get bored easy. So things have to change all the time, here and there. Even if it’s a subtle change, it makes it all more interesting.” WHEN & WHERE: 30 Aug, The Tivoli
LIFELONG LESSONS Vince Jones talks to Benny Doyle about communist cruise ships, horny vocal techniques and the “birthto-death pursuit” that is playing jazz.
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usic surrounded Vince Jones from the day he was born. His mother was a singer and his father – although predominantly a piano player – was across an estimated ten different instruments, providing arrangements for brass bands in the ‘50s. “When I was quite young he taught us all to read music and play an instrument, and I went a bit further,” the 60-year-old recalls. “I practised singing and I studied. I still study to this day. I’m always developing, and I’m trying to develop – it never stops.” It wasn’t until the late ‘70s, however, that Jones realised jazz was going to be a lifelong muse. In 1977 he found himself playing standards on a communist Chinese cruise ship. “I had a political advisor following me around with a little Mao book saying, ‘Don’t talk to them,’” he recalls with a laugh. He put a combo together on board, rehearsed it up, and when back on dry land he secured a two-night weekly residency at Fitzroy’s Tankerville Arms. This became Jones’ permanent fixture for the next ten years, providing him with a steady income while he went about releasing a string of albums. With a formidable back catalogue he’s now recognised as the benchmark for jazz in this country. Such a title hasn’t brought on complacency though. Jones works on his vocals every day, practicing his delivery and
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trying to extend his range. “I want to be a singer that sings like a trumpet – like a jazz trumpeter,” he says, referencing his other main musical talent. “I practice jazz patterns that a horn player would practice, so I’m constantly developing my ideas and improvisation [skills].” Having just retired from teaching students at Canberra’s Australian National University, Jones is now concentrating on getting new music together for his next album. He estimates that he’s played roughly 5000 gigs throughout his career and spent about nine years in hotel rooms; numbers that look set to grow with a little more spare time on his hands.
“It’s too easy to get lazy, and you have to fight the laziness,” he stresses. “To make art is a very difficult thing to do – an artist can spend a whole life [creating] and never make any art. It’s an attitude that makes you better and makes your music more interesting as you get older. “You can’t let it be autopilot, you’ve got to still find passion and still find new things in each one of the songs. If it becomes autopilot then you’ve got to reassess your motives to play. It’s never been about me, it’s been about the music and my involvement in the music; I’m trying to constantly be a better musician. It was never about being a star to me, it was always about being an accomplished musician and improving my craft. It’s a birth-to-death pursuit playing jazz, you’ll never ever stop learning.” WHEN & WHERE: 7 Sep, Noosa Jazz Festival; 21 Sep, Brisbane Festival, The Telstra Spiegeltent (3pm)
RAISE A FIST Local “bovver rock” trio Shandy are packing their bags for a tour of Europe full of late nights and border crossings. Daniel Johnson wishes Viktor Guard and JJ Speedball bon voyage.
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risbane three-piece Shandy have made quite a name for themselves in local circles since forming last year. In addition to attaining a devoted group of supporters, the band have already supported international punk icons The Vibrators and Aussie mainstays Nunchukka Superfly. As Viktor explains, he and long-time friend JJ, who previously played together in Mouthguard, have always had similar musical tastes. “We both like rock‘n’roll and our ’77 punk and our glam, and we just wanted to do something that was a bit fun,” Viktor says. After building on their loyal fanbase with their recent month-long Friday-night residency at The Underdog, the trio – also comprising drummer Adam Cole – are
about to bid farewell to the River City for a few weeks in Europe. According to JJ, The Underdog shows were decent training for Shandy’s impending overseas dates, most of which will take place in the Czech Republic and Germany. “Starting after midnight and playing until 2.30am was very night shift. We had some diehard Shandy fans who made it to most of them. We also won over new fans each time we played, which was a real blast.” “If you’re going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro you’ve got to run up and down Mount Coot-tha a few times, so that was our training,” Viktor adds.
Shandy have a pretty gruelling schedule ahead of them, with only one day off on the tour. They’re even playing two shows in different countries on the same day. “We’ve got a show in the Czech Republic, and then we cross the border into Germany and we’re playing the aftershow at a club,” Viktor says.
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“This kind of stuff is exciting,” JJ offers. “It gets me going. Is it crazy? Yeah, well you have to be a bit nuts to rock and roll for as long as we have. To some people it may appear a lot but to old-school touring bands it’s regular exercise. It does separate the men from the boys.” The band will be playing a farewell show before they head to Europe and they’ve enlisted the services of two of Brisbane’s finest punk bands to help send them off. “The Disables and Spitfireliar are champions for hopping on board,” JJ says. “I first met [Disables singer] Jud [Campbell] when I was playing in Scrumfeeder. He has gone on to do some really great things. Spitfireliar are renowned for their live shows. I’m excited about playing with these guys, it’s all about community.” For those yet to join the Shandy gang, JJ offers the following: “If you like hot, raw, catchy rock’n’roll and want to see something unique and different, then this is your ticket. Not only will you witness a great show but you will be contributing to our working costs for our European tour.” “It’s good, fun music,” Viktor adds. “It’s not too heavy [or] confronting, it’s more shake your hips and dance stuff – rock’n’roll with a bit of a punk edge. I think people will enjoy themselves.” WHEN & WHERE: 30 Aug, The Underdog
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abetted by the gorgeous strings and organs which offset the guitars throughout. “There’s definitely a specific era of music that I wouldn’t personally use their production methods, but I’m a fan of the tape echoes and the reverb tanks and all that stuff – it’s kind of like ‘If it’s not broke then don’t fix it,’” he smiles. “We were trying to go for a Tony Visconti-Bowie-Bolan-glam production – those early ‘70s records are just super-clean and bright, so shiny and pretty. A lot of people I know don’t like clean records – or wouldn’t record one – but I think if you do it the right way they’re like the coolest ones.”
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HOOKED ON CLASSICS On new album Manipulator, psych-rock upstart Ty Segall sought to replicate the sounds and techniques of his ‘70s heroes. He tells Steve Bell that in terms of guitar tones cleanliness is next to godliness.
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hen it comes to creating music some artists prefer quality over quantity, while others favour releasing vast volumes of material as quickly as feasible with little thought given to the relative merits of judicious editing or just taking one’s time. Few, however, have mastered quantity and quality simultaneously, which is why Californian garage-psych maestro Ty Segall recently decided to slow things down a tad. Since dropping his eponymous debut album in 2008, Segall has not only released seven solo albums but contributed extensively to over a dozen more with bands such as Party Fowl and Sic Alps and collaborations with like-minded folks such as White Fence and Mikal Cronin. Many fans will attest that this prolificacy has done little to lower the calibre of his output, but Segall saw enough cause for concern to ease off the pedal for a change when it came time to write and record his new record, Manipulator: “The only idea I had going into the record was that I wanted to take a long time doing it and then the songs just kind of took over. I wanted to give myself a full year of writing, and a month in the studio. I wanted to have the biggest budget that I could possibly have so that I could spend the most time in the studio, because
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I’ve never actually done that before. It was fun. I was just like, ‘Ok, I’ve put out a lot of music so far – which is great – but I’ve never focused on one album in a classic sense, like the way someone would from the ‘70s or whatever.’ So that was the idea... spend a month in the studio and get intense. So I lived above the studio for the whole month and we’d work from one in the afternoon until three or four in the morning, every day.” Segall achieved the classic ‘70s sounds he was chasing on Manipulator, due partly to old school production techniques,
The exhaustive schedule pays handsome dividends when one listens to the strong songs, complex arrangements and rich textures which hold court throughout Manipulator – was the process arduous or enjoyable? “It was both, but it was really, really intense just getting so much stuff done, especially as I played nearly everything on it so it was just constantly me doing takes, instead of in a band where it’s, like, ‘Alright, I play drums in this band so I don’t have to be around when the vocals are being done.’ It’s just how I write most of the time. I write by demoing out all the parts – it is a kind of a specific style, but it’s just how I’ve always done it. I like playing the drums and stuff like that too, but it’s a totally different style to collaborating with someone.”
“I’VE NEVER FOCUSED ON ONE ALBUM IN A CLASSIC SENSE, LIKE THE WAY SOMEONE WOULD FROM THE ‘70S.” Does Segall consider himself to be ambitious in the creative sense? Does he one day hope to construct a guitar-laden masterpiece? “Yeah, I’d totally love to do something like that, but I don’t know – I feel like if you try too hard you can stomp out a good idea or something. This record is my first time dipping my foot into the pool of, like, ‘Ok, I’m spending time real time on a record,’ and doing that, and I’d like to delve even deeper into doing that someday,” he pauses before laughing deeply. “I feel like I really don’t know what I’m doing at all so far!” WHAT: Manipulator (Spunk) WHERE & WHEN: 19 Dec, The Zoo; 20 Dec, The Northern, Byron Bay
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KEEPING IT REAL In the midst of a staggering career renaissance, iconic Aussie performer Russell Morris tells Steve Bell about guidance from the ghosts of our past.
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alk about a second coming. For years Russell Morris’ career seemed to have peaked back in the ‘60s with his smash 1969 number one single The Real Thing – one of our country’s great tracks, since covered by everyone from Kylie to Midnight Oil – and while he still had some success in the following years he’s basically been trying to replicate those early victories ever since. And, as so often happens, success didn’t bite until Morris stopped searching for it. In 2013 he released Skarkmouth
– a blues album based on colourful Australian characters from the 1920s and ‘30s – which unexpectedly reached the ARIA top ten, and he’s just followed it up with companion piece Van Diemen’s Land, which has performed even better (peaking at number four). “It’s been a revelation,” Morris marvels, “it just came out of nowhere. As an artist you’re always proud of what you’ve done before, but you also think, ‘Gee, I wish I could do something new.’ I was always trying to write stuff but no one was really listening, so it’s a fabulous feeling. “I started out playing the blues like most of the people in that
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era – we were all Rolling Stones fans. But then we started to realise that [those songs had] been written by people like Howlin’ Wolf and Leadbelly and John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson, so we started getting their albums and playing their songs live. “Then I was seduced by the pop sirens and was dragged onto those rocks, and followed the pop scene for a long time. That was a lot of fun, but I always had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to do a real basic blues-roots album, and I got to a point in my career where nothing had worked for 30 years so I just felt, ‘Hell, why don’t I just please myself?’.” Van Diemen’s Land covers distinctly Australian topics such as the Eureka Stockade and Breaker Morant, but Morris explains that it wasn’t initially meant to be so parochial. “I was in the middle of writing a blues-roots album, but it sounded a bit pseudo-American and I thought, ‘This doesn’t sound honest, it doesn’t sound right,’ so I dismissed it and figured I’d write some more songs another time,” he recalls. “Then I was in Sydney reading the newspaper and there was a story with a photo of a guy called Thomas Archer from 1916 and the picture just spoke to me – it was almost like he reached out to me from the past and said, ‘If you want to write blues-roots songs, you’re not an American – you’ve got to write about what you know, the blues and roots that we grew up with,’ and that was the catalyst that started everything. I realised that if you’re going to write in this style you’ve got to write about where you grew up.” WHEN & WHERE: 29 & 30 Aug, Gympie Muster; 13 Sep, Kedron Wavell Services Club; 6 Oct, Caloundra Music Festival.
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with quite distinctive political aims,” says Valente, “Most of the time our interpretation has a feminist or queer bent to it. We’re looking at gender and what that means in a contemporary sense.”
Emma Valente and Kate Davis from The Rabble have reprised their adaptation of Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando. Helen Stringer asks Valente about the politics of queer theatre.
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ometimes literature is accidentally revolutionary. What might be frivolous, a means of filling in time between writing a “proper” novel, may turn out to be a masterpiece. Virginia Woolf ’s novel, Orlando, is such an example. Woolf wrote Orlando as a break from “serious” writing: as a love letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, the faux-biographical style a nod to her father, who compiled The Dictionary Of National Biography. The novel’s eponymous protagonist begins life as a male, but wakes up, unfazed, to find herself female. Surprisingly, the novel released in 1928, despite the obvious commentary on the fluidity of sexuality and
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the artificiality of gender construction, became one of Woolf ’s most popular and accessible novels. Melbourne theatre company The Rabble brought Orlando to the stage in 2012, to much acclaim; it’s now making its River City debut at Brisbane Festival. The Rabble’s Orlando was, says co-founder Emma Valente (who runs The Rabble with Kate Davis), a turning point for the company, elevating The Rabble’s status to one of the independent theatre companies to watch. Orlando may have put them on the map, but Davis and Valente have always made boundary-pushing work: “We make work
The Rabble are often described as avant-garde; Valente is comfortable with the label: “To me, avant-garde is something outside of the centre. That sits well with me in terms of how I view our work.” Valente read Orlando in her late teens, and it had an enormous impact on how she felt about gender and identity. “Woolf was ahead of her time. These ideas weren’t articulated until the ‘70s and ‘80s. It had a personal impact on me, but it’s also this glorious story… Orlando is a wondrous protagonist.” Valente and Davis don’t write scripts, but create the piece on the floor; actors and directors build the work from the ground up. Devising Orlando, says Valente, began with the image of a white, milky, set, almost colourless: representative of a blank slate upon which Orlando can write her own identity. In Woolf ’s Orlando the titular character is placidly accepting of his metamorphosis, a comment on the falsity of dichotomous gender roles and identities. “That’s the marked difference of the production,” says Valente. For Valente’s Orlando the theatre-maker says that there’s “something quite violent” about Orlando’s transformation – a rawness and overt sexuality. Despite being an intense, explicit experience, Valente says, “I feel like Orlando is one of our most accessible works; if people come open they might have a really wild ride with us.” WHAT: Orlando WHEN & WHERE: 16 – 20 Sep, Brisbane Festival, QUT, Kelvin Grove
DARK TALES Actor Ben Schostakowski talks to Helen Stringer about Klutz and finding the funny in the macabre.
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y rights you should hate Ben Schostakowski, and not just because it took 15 minutes to correctly spell ‘Schostakowski’. No, we should hate Schostakowski because he’s of those horrible young people who don’t just have ideas, they make ideas happen. These are the horrid abominations who actually do shit. Young Schostakowski has been making theatre since his time as a student at QUT. Schostakowski has since departed our fine shores for Sydney where he’s working both at NIDA and some other top secret TV work. Schostakowski started making his own shows during his QUT degree. “I started to get more and more opportunities to put on shows,” he says, “I guess my first real break with a show was A Tribute Of Sorts.” Which was a macabre, sepia-toned romp inspired by writer Edward Gorey’s dark book about infant death, The Gashlycrumb Tinies. A Tribute Of Sorts was picked up for development by La Boite and the show opened to rave reviews: quirky, original, dark and beautifully weird. Even Schostakowski was surprised: “It was just a pitch of an idea… I didn’t know if I’d be able to pull it off; I was so young, I was a nervous wreck…just freaking out. It was a pretty dark comedy and we wanted to push the boundaries slightly, but that can be dangerous; if you go too far then a whole bunch of people in the industry can just go, ‘You haven’t ticked the boxes.’” 24 • THE MUSIC • 27TH AUGUST 2014
New show Klutz began life as Schostakowski’s NIDA graduation piece. “It’s another tragicomedy I wrote.” The play centres on a young Jewish “chap”, as Schostakowski says, repeatedly contemplating suicide. Over and over again the protagonist reaches the brink and pulls back from the edge. In a semi-chance encounter the protagonist meets a badminton enthusiast who befriends him, rooftop tennis court included. “They strike up a bit of a friendship and together start to get really serious about rehearsing his funeral.” Schostakowski is aesthetically intrigued with the kitsch of the 1970s – the nostalgia and twee. A Tribute Of Sorts was
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like watching Wes Anderson staged. “I’m quite interested in a kind of daggy ‘70s world, rather than something new and shiny. It’s nostalgic, but I guess you think of your grandparents’ house… where all the cool, strange things exist. I’ve always been interested in things that look and feel dusty like that.” The theatre-maker’s tastes always lean on the dark side, whether it be untimely infant death or suicide. His dark humour, he say, stems from what he was interested in while he was growing up, “Tim Burton and Roald Dahl and TV shows like Round The Twist… I guess I find that’s where a lot of true comedy is, in the dark depths, because people try to forget about it or become be serious about it. It’s a strange mix for humour, but the darker you get the funnier it is.” WHAT: Klutz WHEN & WHERE: 9 – 13 Sep, Brisbane Festival, QUT, The Loft
I wanted to make it way tougher and I wanted to make it a super-Ramones-y record, but I just wasn’t writing that way. I guess it’s got a Ramones-y vibe in places, but it got lost along the way a bit.”
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Velociraptor was always meant to be a fluid entity comprising a pool of players more vast than required on any given night, but in the last couple of years a stream of members moved overseas and one even went off-grid, meaning that there have been plenty of line-up changes of late. “It’s kind of like The Mighty Ducks where they’ve all found themselves at college but everything’s changed,” Neale grins. “We’ve still got an internal Facebook group and the communication is still all there, but it will probably be more apparent than ever before on this tour that this is ‘the next generation’, like on Degrassi Junior High. To compound things logistically two of the remaining Raptors – Shane Parsons and Simon Ridley – have been kicking goals as DZ Deathrays, meaning that they had
TRADITION AND CHANGE With Velociraptor’s debut album showing a more restrained side to the riotous behemoth, frontman Jeremy Neale tells Steve Bell that it’s still a party but he’ll cry if he wants to.
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t’s been a long and hedonistic road to the release of Brisbane party-garage collective Velociraptor’s eponymous debut album. A stream of hook-laden singles and 2012’s epic mini-LP The World Warriors introduced them to the music world, but it was on stage where they made the most impact with their wild and unruly live show and propensity to bring more guitarists than there usually were amps in any given city. Velociraptor, on the other hand, shows a new and – dare we say – mature side to the shape-shifting outfit. It’s still clearly Velociraptor – defined by the cruisy vocals and penmanship of frontman and mainstay Jeremy Neale – but it’s a slightly less raucous affair, both musically and lyrically. It’s sure not grown-up, but is heading that way, and this enhances rather than detracts from the facets that make the Raptors such a fabulous proposition. “It was kind of like we couldn’t release the same album again, so we needed to find a way to have enough familiarity while taking it somewhere else. I didn’t really know what the logical conclusion of ‘party-garage’ was, and I was in a pretty sad writing place, so a lot of it’s
got a lot of sad tones. We kept the BPMs at about 150, but it’s a pretty mellow record overall. It’s a dark beast,” Neale laughs heartily. “I think I was just processing a lot of stuff; I was just finding my way in the world post-some disasters. “We tried to go for a more overall ‘80s vibe on this record, so it was like we were focusing the writing in that direction slightly. Just grabbing that Ramones kinda stuff and taking it for a bit of a walk. Initially when I was dreaming about the record and
“I WANTED TO MAKE IT WAY TOUGHER AND I WANTED TO MAKE IT A SUPERRAMONES-Y RECORD, BUT I JUST WASN’T WRITING THAT WAY.” to schedule their input around other band commitments as well. Not that the quality was sacrificed for a second. “I hadn’t been in a studio with Shane for like four years, and I was, like, ‘Shit Shane, you’ve got really good!’ It’s like he’s been playing guitar every week for the last four years, because he has! And then Si hardly ever gets to play guitar, but you put him in the studio and he’s a gun! He’s such a weapon! No one understands how much of a weapon Simon is – he’s a mad drummer but he’s a great guitarist, he can play everything. He’s a genius.”
WHAT: Velociraptor (Dot Dash/Remote Control) WHEN & WHERE: 29 Aug, The Brightside; 30 Aug, Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast
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something funky and Sly & The Family Stone-ish. David [Campbell] Walk On – the opening lines of Walk On talk of finding the Great White Way, ‘David, you’re from Broadway, come here, you’re singin’ it!’”
He’s done the greatest hits, done the duets album, so how was Jimmy Barnes going to celebrate 30 years since going solo? By inviting friends and family to revisit their favourite songs with him, as he explains to Michael Smith.
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o where does someone like Jimmy Barnes start when he’s thinking about putting together something to celebrate the fact that he’s been rattling around the traps as a solo artist for 30 years? Remembering the Standing On The Outside album that Warner had pulled together to celebrate the Cold Chisel legacy by invited various artists and bands in to reinterpret those classic
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songs, Barnes had an idea. “I spoke to Diesel, said, ‘D’you want to do one?’ He said, ‘I wanna do I’d Die To Be With You Tonight.’ I spoke to The Living End, they said, ‘We want to do Lay Down Your Guns.’ I spoke to Shihad, they said, ‘We wanna do Love & Hate.’ There was stuff like When Your Love Is Gone – I just wanted to hear John [Farnham] sing it,” Barnes chuckles. “Still On Your Side was the obvious choice, for me, for Bernard [Fanning]. I sent two songs to Tina [Arena] and she came back, ‘I want to do Stone Cold,’ and the version she’s done is just phenomenal. Then Mahalia [Barnes] picked Stand Up, ‘cause she wanted to do
The process of recording 30:30 Hindsight began with Ride The Night Away, which originally appeared on Barnes’ second solo album, 1985’s For The Working Class Man, co-written by “Little” Stevie Van Zandt from Springsteen’s E Street Band. “Steven sent me the song,” says Barnes, who opened for Springsteen on his Australian tour in March, “yet we hadn’t met, so I went up to him and said, ‘Hi, I’m Jimmy,’ and he said, ‘I know who you are, you got my song,’ and he told me the story of how it came about. [Drummer] Steve Jordan kept coming ‘round and playing drums on his couch until he said, ‘Okay, I’ll write a song with ya,’ and we wrote this song. So I said, ‘Can you get a day off to record it?’ And he said, ‘I’ve gotta fly to Lillehammer and do this film as soon I finish this tour.’ I said, ‘Well fine, I’ll fly there,’ and he said, ‘What are you doin’ tomorrow?’ I said, ‘I’m free.’ So he came over to my house expecting to maybe spend an hour, maybe two – he played lead guitar on the track – and walk away, and he just had such a great time in the house he ended up staying for 15 hours.” Also joining Barnes on 30:30 are Baby Animals, Jon Stevens, Keith Urban and keyboardist Jonathan Cain, as well as Cain’s band, Journey. And yes, Cold Chisel are about three-quarters through recording another album. WHAT: 30:30 Hindsight (Liberation) WHEN & WHERE: 9 Nov, A Day On The Green, Mt Cotton
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RICHARD IN YOUR MIND
KASEY CHAMBERS
Rice Is Nice/Inertia
Warner
Did anyone think it was possible for Richard In Your Mind to become more of a psych band? No? Well you were wrong. Because they have (with added synth!). Ponderosa kicks off with sitar on Karma (Love Grows) and then the bliss-outs escalate from there, with lyrics like opening line, “You receive a highfive when you give a high-five” setting the tone for what will obviously be a deep album.
Kasey Chambers sits in that rare artistic position as a hugely successful commercial songwriter who still retains integrity and respect from the country communities where she first established her talent. Bittersweet is Chambers’ first album since she split from husband Shane Nicholson after they released their 2012 collaborative album Wreck & Ruin. It finds her canvassing a range of styles and moods, often with biblical references, without sacrificing her heart-on-sleeve emotiveness, innate sense of melody and country heart.
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First single Hammered sums up the album easily: “Me and my baby get hammered in the daytime”. It’s an album that continues the oh-so-Australian tradition of not taking itself too seriously. And there’s something very fitting about basing an entire song on another great Australian tradition: day-drinking. Tonguein-cheek songwriting again rears its head for the genuinely funny This Is House Music, with its deck scratching, surprisingly danceable
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synth break (which does bring to mind the flashing strobes of a house club) and lyrics that don’t mean to mean much at all: “Melody ripples across the surface of the moon”. The same synth break is brought back for Good Morning, which thanks to vocal effects and, yes, more deck scratching, is an unlikely grimy highlight. But the obvious highlight is Look You Gave which is catchy, but not in an obvious way; you’ll find yourself murmuring along before long. It and Shooting Star are two tracks that are good song-songs, utilising funky bass lines, harmonies and chilled surf-style lead guitar. Hannah Story
Chambers also recorded the album without brother Nash in the producer chair and that no doubt played a large part in the wider musical framework. Hell Of A Way To Go is positively Stevie Nicks-ish with its sultry, snaking groove; Stalker is contemporary bluegrass rock’n’roll in the vein
PHIL RUDD
THE VINES
Universal
Independent
The biggest surprise you’re going to get here is that the title for Phil Rudd’s first ever solo album has nothing to do with an act of intimacy, but instead relates to a state of mind. And this isn’t meant in a pejorative way. Just as people don’t expect extended reggae jams or prog rock epics from Rudd’s day band, the solo release from AC/DC’s drummer sounds exactly how you’d expect it to sound. Head Job is an exercise in straightforward pub rock.
Ah, Craig Nicholls, you tricky little monkey, you. You always manage to suck us in on the initial pretence of blood boiling rock fury (Get Free, Ride, Gimme Love, etc.), and then when we commit ourselves to listening to an entire Vines record – in this case a double-disc, 22-track monster – you leave us out in the cold with nothing more than a bunch of thin ballads to try and use for kindling.
Head Job
Chords? There aren’t a lot of them, but you can’t deny the swagger and groove of the bluesy rock contained in the album’s ten tracks. While the more high profile numbers including the AC/DC-esque lead single Repo Man and the title track have their charms, it’s the album’s deeper cuts like the slightly funky No Right and the infectiously catchy The Other Side that really hit home. Vocals are handled by Allan Badger and despite a few weak moments 28 • THE MUSIC • 27TH AUGUST 2014
★★★½ of Little Bastard, while House On A Hill is a traditionally heartbreaking country lament using a crumbling house as a metaphor for a fragmenting relationship. The title track, a duet with Bernard Fanning, sways with a Neil Young looseness that works surprisingly well. Chambers does occasionally cross the line into over-earnestness, like the lyrically unconvincing Is God Real?, but those misfires are few and far between. Chambers has again come up with a strong batch of songs that give her the opportunity to rewardingly dig into a few vocal corners rarely heard on previous albums. Chris Familton
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★★★ here and there, they generally fit the stripped-down tunes. Rudd’s drumming is of course rock solid, and the man also does a fine job behind the boards giving Head Job a sound that is sleek but doesn’t remove the raw passion of the band. For those of you into experimentation, Head Job isn’t for you. If on the other hand you listen to AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock and Rose Tattoo’s Scarred For Life on a weekly basis, this record will find an immediate home in your heart. Mark Hebblewhite
Perhaps that’s not entirely true – there are some stomping smash-and-grab cuts scattered about Wicked Nature (Out Of The Loop, Psychomatic, Everything Else, Metal Zone) – the type of songs The Vines moniker has survived on. However, you’ve got to push through some pretty boggy ground to get to these solid patches. Most of the ballads are middling, some are respectable, others are genuinely snore-worthy. Nicholls himself sounds like he’s about
★★½ to nod off during the chorus of Venus Fly Trap, and it’s hard not to do the same. The volatile lynchpin has employed a new rhythm section in the form of The Griswolds pair Tim John (bass) and Lachlan West (drums), and unsurprisingly, the boys also sound at their best when there’s a bit of urgency surrounding them. Even though there’s twice as much Vines to dig into here, the results are still the same as they’ve always been – genius moments are brought undone by some undercooked songs. Nicholls has the chops to make a monumental garage rock album; sadly, it seems like he just doesn’t want to. Benny Doyle
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GODSMACK
TIJUANA CARTEL
BLONDE REDHEAD
1000hp
24 Bit Guitar Orchestra
Barragán
Last Dance
Spinefarm/Caroline
MGM
Kobalt/Inertia
Rice Is Nice
Gold Coast purveyors of exotic electro have conjured up another suave offering. The hardworking lads are never far from a live stage lately; it seems their output is always greatly anticipated. It somewhat augments expectations but luckily there’s enough crunches and drops here with a worldly slant to more than excite the ears and soothe the psyche. Gamelan runs rampant through opener Enkidu, layers build then clip shut in Hectic, and Zuisudra is the first, at the midway point, to offer some lyrics. It’s a crazy, shambolic safari through the Indo-Pacific with trip hop, but it’s just so mesmerising and fun.
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The sixth album from Boston alt-hard rockers Godsmack revs up (literally, it kicks off with beasty car revs to match its cover and moniker) from the get-go, with the title track demanding we “turn that shit up louder”. And turn it up we can. The four-piece have held their esteemed if sometimes overlooked position in the genre for many years and, if they keep cranking out albums like this one, probably will until their demise. A small percentage of tracks are lacking (Something Different, I Don’t Belong) but ball-busters Generation Day, Locked & Loaded, Living In The Gray and more just sweep all that under the rug.
From the birds chirping in London’s Kew Gardens, plaintive acoustic guitar and panpipes of the opening title track to Blonde Redhead’s ninth album proper Barragán, we know that the inimitable trio have taken another turn in their music journey to beguile and perplex. Their predilection to experiment amidst the search for new depths of sonic emotion is evident in the percolating grooves that infuse the haunting Dripping, Kazu Makino’s vocal scales and guitar-in-the-back-room outro to Cat On Tin Roof and the reverberating bent strings on The One I Love. Iconic, mesmeric and masterful.
Bruyant 1929 EP
Carley Hall
SPOD More than a decade has passed since Sydney’s Spod invited Australia to Taste The Radness. He’s now having his Last Dance, a grim indicator of what it’s like to get old.
COMMON The Neighborhood ARTium/Def Jam Chi-town legend Common launches the first track from his tenth album Nobody’s Smiling with a short observational story, arguably what he does best. No ID produces the whole album.
Carley Hall
Brendan Telford
Independent Recorded over a weekend in Mullumbimby, O’Neill sets off to see what can be accomplished with just a few devices and a deadline. The ramshackle nature of playing with the sounds is surprisingly satisfying and very interesting.
LOWER PLENTY
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SHOVELS & ROPE
On The Beach
Swimmin’ Time
Bedroom Suck
Spunk
Acoustic guitars and distant drums enable this track by Lower Plenty to be so subtle it barely exists in the physical realm. The place where it does exist, however, sounds magnificent and I think I might move there for a while.
Shovels & Rope burst through the wall of anonymity with their debut album, and now they’ve backed it up with another rollicking, rough and ready clutch of 13 songs. Their live show gets rave reviews for its rawness and passionate delivery and they’ve bottled some of that here with throat-shredding enthusiasm sidling up next to heavy downtrodden Americana and some six-minute epic workouts. Though there is additional piano and organ on this album they keep the music simple and often skeletal in density which gives focus and weight to the duo’s mighty vocal interplay. This is unabashed celebratory rock’n’roll with a country heart.
LENNY KRAVITZ Sex Roxie Lenny Kravitz’s penis is back and is singing a new song that is bits of I Love Rock N’ Roll, Another One Bites The Dust and any number of ZZ Top songs for the chorus. Chris Yates
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FAT GUYS WEARS MYSTIC WOLF SHIRT VS JXCKXLZ Split Art As Catharsis Two of the most exciting bands in the Australian underground with, coincidentally, two of the most ridiculous band names in the Australian underground have joined forces to blast your face off with a split release, and it’s a real treat listening to where FGWMWS and Jxckxlz will take things next. Over six songs the album goes from frenetic to furious to spaced-out to sludgy without heed for convention. Thinking man’s hardcore that will singe the hair off your balls.
J Mascis – Tied To A Star Frank Iero & The Cellabration – Stomachaches Anti-Flag – A Document Of Dissent: 1993-2013 From Trees – Find Your Feet Sinkane – Mean Love
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live reviews
COURTNEY LOVE
Eatons Hill Hotel 20 Aug Courtney Love has racked up more column inches of late speculating on missing plane MH370 and confessing to blowing the majority of her Nirvana inheritance than for any fresh music, aside from a thrashy pair of new songs. However, the crowd is buzzing early – the venue feels like a place of worship with a split right down the middle of punters – current corporate types, all grown up (perhaps) yet revisiting their youth, and those clearly forever stuck in 1996. Perhaps it’s the artist in question but these aren’t fans,
stride – all potty-mouthed and somewhat shambolic while not abandoning her traditional wardrobe despite being 50, every inch the riot grrrl still. An enthusiastic roadie meets her requests of tequila one minute, an iced-latte the next, and Love sporadically flings roses into the audience, even singling out a 50-something “wood cutter” type at one point who pushes through people to collect his. The set itself is incredible, pulling from all eras of the Hole catalogue – Plump, Honey and Reasons To Be Beautiful follow closely before a defining cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Gold Dust Woman. Malibu, Skinny Little Bitch, Asking For It, Violet and Use Once & Destroy follow and by this stage it’s a celebration, a vibe that’s only raised when the
COURTNEY LOVE @ EATONS HILL HOTEL. PIC: STEPHEN BOOTH
they are worshippers, and it seems what happens in the Temple of Courtney stays in the Temple of Courtney. Briefly acknowledging the adoration before her, Courtney Love and a four-piece band of guitars and drums leap right into Wedding Day, a thrashy tune that not only serves as one of two new songs for the night, but also reveals right away Love’s fine vocal form, far from the train wreck many seemed to have expected. Tonight’s show is a little off-kilter – a no-gimmicks affair with a wobbly Love screaming like a banshee and pulling together a wet-dream of a setlist. And yes, she plays Hole songs. Miss World is the second track of the night and by this early stage, everything seems to fall into place, with Love hitting her 30 • THE MUSIC • 27TH AUGUST 2014
Crowbar 23 Aug
The awesomely dingy confines of Crowbar tonight find local five-piece Seahorse Divorce opening proceedings with a welcoming collection of genuine, heartfelt indie-rock. Their often dreamy soundscapes are intricate but subtle and feature interesting tones and time signatures, and when charismatic singer Josh Coxon’s voice soars during Hessian Transgression it drags the whole thing thrillingly skywards.
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closing Celebrity Skin emerges from nowhere, sending the already-frothing crowd into a frenzy. The encore is largely a stripped-back affair – she throws Dying or Petals to the people; Dying wins and is played with a stunning cover of The Crystals’ He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) and the closing Doll Parts. Love is her own version of impeccable tonight; she’s lovingly self-depreciating in some places, the ultimate rock chick overall. Tonight’s show is so rooted in the ‘90s, it’s hard not to long for the original line-up of Hole on these songs, but for now Love completely owns, sending the couples, the 30-something women holding hands and the downright nostalgic home with a big smile. Ben Preece
KNAPSACK, WE SET SAIL, SEAHORSE DIVORCE
show in these parts, but the forlorn look on frontman Blair Shehan’s face as he takes the mic speaks volumes – sadly his voice is absolutely gone, and he huskily begs the crowd’s forgiveness. Shehan’s soaring vocals are integral to the band’s quiet/loud aesthetic and his lyrics essential to their songs’ inherent power so this is a potentially devastating loss, but as they power into Arrows To The Action and Shehan screams his already hoarse voice into oblivion trying to do the right thing it’s clear that the night’s not wasted – the twin guitars (Shehan alongside Samian’s Sergie Loobkoff ) and mix sound fantastic and the crowd does their best to take up the vocal slack (one committed fan appearing onstage intermittently to add vocals at important
TAKING BACK SUNDAY @ EATONS HILL HOTEL. PIC: MARKUS RAVIK
When We Set Sail kick off roaming the extended Crowbar stage pounding their instruments amidst pre-recorded vocals it’s eerily reminiscent of early From Monument To Masses (no bad thing), but they soon find their own voice as they progress into a set of dense and passionate post-rock. They share vocal duties which adds interesting versatility, the songs meandering at times but possessing innate melody and occasional sharp turns which usher fascinating shifts in mood. Musically the Brissie five-piece mesh perfectly, but the often fractured and yelled vocals offset this unison throughout, creating a unique and ultimately enticing proposition. The crowd is pumped for reformed Californian ‘90s indie legends Knapsack’s first ever
junctures). Just being present as tracks like Simple Favor, The Shape Of The Fear and Steeper Than We Thought are trotted out is special enough, even if they’re usually reliant on Shehan’s vocal timbre and narratives for full impact. Nonetheless the fans up front seemed unperturbed and the four-piece play with a real conviction that somehow makes the whole effort transcend the less-than-ideal circumstances, the deft tones and nuances from the Knapsack repertoire all present and accounted for as they move through Effortless, Courage Was Confused and the inspiring Boxing Gloves. Powerful songs like Katherine The Grateful and Please Shut Off The Lights are instantly recognisable even in this altered state – it’s clearly far better to see an amazing band under the weather than not at all – and when they
live reviews finish with the pummeling and uplifting Decorate The Spine the entire performance is bathed in a pathos that would have been missing where it not for the dire straits. Slightly sad but also admirably affirming. Steve Bell
TAKING BACK SUNDAY, THE USED, CORPUS Eatons Hill Hotel 22 Aug Relentless hard rock duo Corpus get us quickly onside with storming riffage and a drum beat that buries into our collective skull. The young Sydney pair have been championed relentlessly by Bert McCracken since The Used frontman moved to Australia last year, and it’s pretty easy to understand why. They melt faces with closing cut The Real Motherfucker and we’re all left wanting more. A big banner reveals itself soon after to let us know The Used
will be taking on ‘main support’ duties tonight, though with anticipation in the pit tangible, you get a feeling that this is who most punters have come to see. Sure enough, when McCracken appears with his cohorts, opening with Cry, the place turns into a human whirlpool. This fervent energy is then kicked into overdrive with a frantic Take It Away. The quartet sound so much better than they did during their mid-afternoon slot at Warped Tour last year – you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a new band entirely. McCracken is especially on-point, barely missing a note while his crazy eyes dart about maniacally under a mohawk that’s given up – maybe it’s the “better weed up here”? Maybe he’s just reinspired? Either way, he owns it during The Taste Of Ink, All That I’ve Got and Buried Myself Alive, while bassist Jeph Howard takes control of his five-string throughout. A Hero Condoms competition winner (they’re doing great things, look them up) has a full fangirl moment with Bert serenading her during The Best Of Me, then a large circle pit turns
into a full room wall of death for Pretty Handsome Awkward, before A Box Full Of Sharp Objects, complete with snippets of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Killing In The Name, concludes a pretty-much flawless set. You immediately get the sense that tonight’s ‘headliners’ Taking Back Sunday knew they had a tough act to follow, and though songs like Stood A Chance, Liar (It Takes One To Know One) and They Don’t Have Any Friends sound great, despite some minor tech issues, the energy in the room has noticeably dropped from ‘Beatlemania’ to ‘super fun times’ – something like that anyway. Adam Lazarra isn’t as match fit as he once was, but he still gets the microphone swinging around his neck, and it’s always awesome when you see band members passionate enough about the music that they’ll sing along sans mic (Shaun Cooper (bass) – well played). Trading vocals have always been the point of difference for TBS, and they shine on What’s It Feel Like To
Be A Ghost?, Error: Operator, One-Eighty By Summer and Flicker, Fade, before the sixpiece give us a couple of singalong favourites in Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team) and MakeDamnSure to send us home smiling. Benny Doyle
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BOYHOOD
BOYHOOD Film
In cinemas
★★★ For years Richard Linklater’s Boyhood flew under-the-radar, known to his devotees as the ‘12-Year Project’. Beyond the fact that it would star Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and the filmmaker’s daughter Lorelei, little was known about what exactly the director would be doing. For a filmmaker already obsessed with time, it seemed a natural; no questions need be
asked about the project’s raison d’être The results of this decadeplus of episodic filming, Boyhood, charts Ellar Coltrane aging from six to 18, going from pillowfights to boozing to, eventually, the definitive moment of the threshold of adulthood – arriving at college. Time passes in an array of haircuts and pop songs, however, Boyhood hardly measures up to the production’s grandeur. Instead, Boyhood is marked by dud moments. Most galling is Marco Perella’s drunken stepdad, who threatens to drag the film down into sheer soap opera. For a project so associated with patience, there’s no multi-year slowburn in this character – he starts out cursorily written, and soon devolves into villainy, his descent into screeching addiction coming on with the swiftness of Elizabeth Berkley’s caffeine pill meltdown in Saved By The Bell. It’s as if, in depicting childhood, Linklater gets trapped in the realm of the after-school special. Anthony Carew To read more head to theMusic.com.au.
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT Film
In cinemas 28 Aug
★★★ Charm isn’t quite enough to get this film over the line, though Woody Allen’s latest effort is overflowing with aesthetic appeal. Factor in the always-endearing Emma Stone, and you’re amused if nothing else. Set in 1920s southern France, Colin Firth is Stanley, a cynical magician asked to expose Sophie (Stone), who calls herself a medium. She’s living with a wealthy family, the heir of which, Brice (Hamish Linklater), has become enamoured with her, expressing it in frequently hilarious ukulele serenades. Stanley’s investigation of Sophie’s powers turns into enchantment, causing him to question his world-weary atheism. The story does an admirable job of keeping a curious air of uncertainty, like a who-dun-it without the murder. That’s owed
to the subtlety in Stone and Firth’s endlessly shifting dynamic of teacher and student. The stunning landscapes are continued proof that Allen’s escape to European settings in recent years is based on pure visual love. The undoing of the film comes in Allen’s neurotic voice permeating the dialogue, to the point that it dissolves into every person trying to out-clever the next, and the muddled characterisations cancel out any surprises. For all its fast talk of Nietzsche and the afterlife, there’s a disappointing lack of depth. Sevana Ohandjanian
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YAUROUT
Members/roles: We have Daniel Farley on bass duties, Billy McCulloch playing drums and I, James Spencer, on guitar. I also do some yelling and singing, with Billy in support. How long have you been together? Farley and I have been jamming for around a year. We played Yaurout’s first show in April at New Globe Theatre, but Billy joined us in June and we just played our first show last week at the Prince Of Wales. You’re on tour in the van – which band or artist is going to keep the most people happy if we throw them on the stereo? Foo Fighters. Definitely Foo Fighters. Which Brisbane bands before you have been an inspiration (musically or otherwise)? In terms of success, Violent Soho. That said, The Skinnie Finches have given me inspiration, and The Keepaways are really great. If it weren’t for that first Finches show – where people showed up to watch us play – we’d still just be making loud noise inside of a house. What part do you think Brisbane plays in the music you make? Brisbane’s really exploding at the moment. Even though there’s a lot of indie dream pop music, a lot of alternate stuff is coming out of it and we’re loving that. What reality TV show would you enter as a band and why? Family Feud – because it is Billy and Farley’s dream to play on that show. We wouldn’t even be disadvantaged with only three members on one team. What’s in the pipeline for the band in the short term? We just want to play as many shows as we can. We really want to get our name out there so convincing just one person at any show to think, ‘I MUST see these guys play again’... that’s a win for us. Yaurout play UBERfest! Winter, The Jubilee Hotel on Saturday 30 August.
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POP CULTURE COCKTAILS Sick of the same old standard cocktails? Taelor Pelusey takes us through some exciting new ones, taken straight from the zeitgeist (and TV).
THE LUCILLE
DANIEL-SAN
If like Lucille Bluth of Arrested Development you struggle to work breakfast into your morning drinking schedule, here’s what you do: Infuse earl grey tea with gin (1 teaspoon of loose leaves per 100ml) for about an hour or until a golden brown colour develops, then strain. Take 3 shots of earl grey gin, 2 shots of fresh lemon juice, 1 egg white, 1 teaspoon of orange marmalade (smooth, not chunky – you’ll regret that), 3 teaspoons of sugar syrup*, ice and shake until your arm gives way. Strain and serve in chilled cocktail glasses. Serves two: you and you, the way Lucille would want it.
So you’ve heard of sweet, salty, sour and bitter but what about umami? Umami is the fifth taste that mixologists are only recently beginning to appreciate. Japanese sake is one of the only liquors in the world with natural umami flavours so to bring those savoury notes out, try shaking 1 part sake with 1 part Żubrówka Bison Grass Vodka, 2 parts apple juice and ice. Expect a serious crane kick to the taste buds.
TERRA VESPER The Vesper was created by James Bond in the novel Casino Royale and was named after one his many leading ladies, Vesper Lynd. But as the Bond girls become stronger and more exotic, so too shall the drinks that are named after them. To put an Aussie spin on this classic, take 3 parts Four Pillars gin, 1 part
vodka, 1/2 part Maidenii Sweet Vermouth, a dash of Angostura bitters and twisted orange rind to garnish, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. But unlike Bond, this should be stirred – not shaken.
SNAKE JUICE This is the drink Parks And Recreation’s Tom Haverford might have created if he knew what he was doing. Take 1 part Captain Morgan’s Dark Jamaican Rum, 2 parts Mr Black’s Cold Drip Coffee Liqueur, 1/2 part sugar syrup*, a dash of vanilla essence and build over a tall glass of ice. Endorsed by Ron Swanson. *Sugar syrup is a bar essential, so before mastering any of these drinks, you should try your hand at making sugar syrup first. The recipe’s so easy a small, careful child could make it: 1 part sugar, 1 part hot water, mix, let it cool. Boom. Add more or less syrup to the recipes as your taste buds demand.
HOT SPOT EAT STREET @ SOULFEST, THE RIVERSTAGE, 25 OCT Rather appropriately, Soulfest Brisbane 2014 will be serving up soul food to punters attending this year’s inaugural festival. The central food hub, Eat Street, will provide a culinary line up as impressive as the festival’s musical counterpart, giving guests the opportunity to nourish their souls via the range of different cuisines on offer. Brisbane festival-goers can sample gourmet Steamed Bun Burgers from The Bun Mobile as well as the King Of The Wings’ take on soul food classics fried chicken and buffalo wings among many others delicious offerings.
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FRONTLASH
INDIE NEWS
KUDOS CAN-DO
Might be in damage control, but props for state govt’s common sense lifting of moratorium on late-night trading. Let’s get back to building a vibrant night culture in Brisbane.
ROCK OF RAGES Locals Violent Soho programmed Rage on the weekend and it was staggeringly good fun, with tons of cool Brisbane (and Aussie) bands getting a run. So(ho) good!
THEY’RE BACK Melbourne jangle-slackers Twerps are back with an eight-track EP Underlay (precursor to new album in 2015) and have signed to Merge Records in the States.
TERROR TWIST
WRITTEN IN BLOOD
ON TARGET
JACKPOT, BABY
Having already made waves with their radio rotated singles, The Blood Poets bring Waax and Street Pieces with them to New Globe Theatre on 5 Sep where they’ll be launching their new album The Grand Machine.
Brisbane’s Kristy Apps & The Shotgun Shirleys launch their crowdfunded new EP with a couple of rowdy, gun-totin’ shows at Brisbane Powerhouse, 12 Sep and Bohemian Bungalow, Eumundi, 9 Nov.
Go get saved by the rollicking, jerky adult rock stylings of Draw. The boys came together through a common love of the Lotto Jackpot Mega Draw, but now figure they’ll share the wealth with audiences. Catch them 2 Oct, Ric’s Bar.
ROCK CONSCIENCE
TIGHT PUNK LUCK
FOR THE RECHORD
Freedom Seeker Roots Rock Reggae For Refugees, a fundraiser for refugee advocacy and assistance, will take place at New Globe Theatre on 14 Sep, with Big Iron, Rivermouth, Phil Monsour Band, The Molotov, Andy Dub and more.
High energy indie-punks Latham’s Grip head on an east coast launch tour for their new EP Hey Senorita. Catch the madness before they’re gripped by fame – they play Upstairs 199, 11 Oct.
Between sets at Gympie Music Muster, Thursday and Sunday, Melbourne Americana types The Rechords will be swinging through The Rails, Byron Bay, Friday and Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall, Saturday.
INSIDE SCOOP
DEAL WITH IT
CRANK IT UP
If sweet little pop ditties are your jam, then you could do plenty worse than the infectious new single from Sydneysiders The Secret City. They will launch the song and an accompanying animated clip 8 Nov, Ric’s Bar.
You’re going to learn to love the Bitter Taste when you hear the fantastic new folk song from dynamic Brisbane gypsies Miss Elm. They launch the single at New Globe Theatre, 2 Oct and Currumbin Creek Tavern, GC, 25 Oct.
As always, Asa Broomhall is one busy bloke, bringing his distinct roots rock flavour to Hotel Brunswick, 6 Sep; Imperial Hotel, Eumundi, 20 Sep; Queen Street Mall, 26 Sep; and Irish Club Hotel, Toowoomba (1pm).
EMOTIVE DARKNESS
BACK ON TRACK
SET TO BLOW UP
Singer-songwriter Marcus Blacke has a new album out and to celebrate he heads down the east coast, bringing with him his signature guitar noodles and affective crooning. He plays The Round, Wednesday and The Bearded Lady, 7 Sep.
After Trainspotters’ Christmas in July party last month, Off The Rails is back with a vengeance. On Thursday Soviet X-Ray Record Club, Cassette Cathedral, Hypnotic Bedrooms and Makeout Creek will grace the stage. Free entry.
Blues and roots dude Karl S. Williams will set it off when he launches latest single Time Bomb with a headline show Thursday, The Bearded Lady, before supporting Busby Marou at Soundlounge, GC, Friday and Eatons Hill Hotel, Saturday.
BACKLASH JIHADI JOHN?
So the guy who beheaded the US reporter is allegedly a London hip hop artist? It all sounds so Sacha Baron Cohen. Has the world gone mad?
SOGGY FIESTA The weather gods were far from kind to Fiesta (again), but big props to those who braved the conditions and got their party on anyway.
COLD AS ICE So over people tipping ice on themselves. Giving money to charity is awesome, doing the same thing that everyone is doing on the internet to be cool is stupid.
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BRISBANE BOUND
FESTIVAL CAPERS How will you change your set up compared to a normal gig? This year I’ll be playing with the Scream Big Band which is a real treat, so I’ll include songs that have great brass parts.
PHIL JAMIESON Home ground: PMAC Describe your live music/ performance style: A bilious mess of suburban bloodshed with the occasional love song. How many times have you performed in our midst? I have never performed on ma lonesome in Brisbane though I have visited your city many times musically. Please relate your impressions of performing in our fair city: Crash And Burn. 1995. Covering I’m Stranded – The Saints. Playing the 2am slot after Nitocris. Fight breaks out on ‘dancefloor’... Unforgettable!
What can we expect different this time around? I probably won’t cover I’m Stranded.
GRACE KNIGHT
Has anything exciting been happening of late? White Album Concert tour with Tim, Chris and Josh. I caught a spanish mackerel in Broome.
Festival playing at: 2014 Noosa Jazz Festival
What will you be taking home as a souvenir? Yawp. My sanity. And perhaps a tattoo. Where can we come say hi, and buy you a beer? Imma playin’ at The Spiegeltent for Brisbane Festival on Tuesday 9 Sep. I like VB/Coopers/Bighead. Phil Jamieson plays The Telstra Spiegeltent on Tuesday 9 September.
Artist name: Grace Knight
Who are you looking forward to checking out there? Unfortunately I’m arriving up there on Sunday so I’m not going to be able to catch a lot of the other acts… It’s a great line-up this year with Emma Pask and Vince Jones and a host of other fantasti acts. Have you had much experience playing at festivals in the past? Yeah, I do several festivals a year and have done so for pretty much as long as I can remember… at least for the last 25 years anyway.
HAVE YOU HEARD
What five acts (past or present) would comprise your dream festival bill? I listen to a lot of jazz piano players so I guess we’d have to include Keith Jarrett and Oscar Peterson. Peter Gabriel has always been a favourite so let’s put him in. I listen to a bit of opera so maybe Maria Callas and I grew up on Motown, so Marvin Gaye. That’s a very strange line-up! What have you got planned down the road? I have a very full calendar of live work for the next 12 months, and I’m in the middle of recording with my old band, Eurogliders. After that I’ll start work on my next solo album. Grace Knight plays Noosa Jazz Festival on Sunday 7 September.
HAVE YOU HEARD
one album – what would it be? Man Who Died In His Boat – Grouper: to sleep to.
SUBURBAN WOLVES Member answering: David Skitmore How did you get together? We used to meet at parties in high school and hijack the music to drunkenly sing to The Middle East. We met Adela when she was inside a Rubik’s Cube. Sum up your musical sound in four words? Authentic, anthemic alternative rock. If you could support any band in the world – past or present – who would it be? Frightened Rabbit’s beards. You’re being sent into space, no iPod, you can only bring 36 • THE MUSIC • 27TH AUGUST 2014
Greatest rock’n’roll moment of your career to date? Getting shouted over $100 worth of tequila shots at The Zoo after-party was pretty rock’n’roll, I guess. Also, Ric’s had kick-arse vibes. Why should people come and see your band? We’ve all recently bought new pants. Dance to our pants. When and where for your next gig? We’re doing a tour along the east coast of Australia soon, and focusing on recording new material next month. Suburban Wolves play UBERfest! Winter 2014, Jubilee Hotel on Saturday 30 August.
LOCUS Member answering: Pat Harvey How did you get together? Fate. Sum up your musical sound in four words? Rock, rock, rock, rock. If you could support any band in the world – past or present – who would it be? Metallica. You’re being sent into space, no iPod, you can only bring one album – what would it be? Motive – Locus. Greatest rock’n’roll moment of your career to date? Playing at the Mitchell Creek Rock ‘N’ Blues Festival.
Why should people come and see your band? We have a unique sound with great stage presence. Locus play UBERfest Winter 2014, Jubilee Hotel on Saturday 30 August.
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THE MUSIC PRESENTS UBERfest Winter 2014: Jubilee Hotel 30 Aug
Juana Molina: The Telstra Spiegeltent 25 Sep
Noosa Jazz Festival: Noosa 4-7 Sep
Midnight Juggernauts: The Telstra Spiegeltent 26 Sep
Urthboy: The Telstra Spiegeltent 6 Sep
Caravana Sun: Miami Marketta 26 Sep, Solbar 10 Oct
Andy Bull: The Telstra Spiegeltent 7 Sep
DMA’s: The Brightside 2 Oct
Phil Jamieson: The Telstra Spiegeltent 9 Sep Steve Nieve: The Telstra Spiegeltent 10 Sep
Bluejuice: Solbar 1 Oct, The Hi-Fi 2 Oct Woodlock: 8 Oct The Rails, 9 Oct Black Bear Lodge
BIGSOUND 2014: Fortitude Valley 10-12 Sep
Bonjah: The Zoo 10 Oct, Racecourse Hotel 11 Oct, Surfers Paradise Beer Garden 12 Oct
Com Truise: The Telstra Spiegeltent 11 Sep
Courtney Barnett: The Zoo 11 Oct
Ronny Chieng: The Telstra Spiegeltent 12 Sep
The Blurst Of Times Festival: The Brightside, The Zoo 18 Oct
Vancouver Sleep Clinic: The Telstra Spiegeltent 13 Sep
Ball Park Music: The Tivoli 18 Oct, Alhambra Lounge 2 Nov (U18)
Joe Henry: The Telstra Spiegeltent 14 Sep Miami Horror: The Telstra Spiegeltent 16 Sep
Airlie Beach Music Festival: The Whitsundays 7-9 Nov Gorguts: Crowbar 16 Nov
The Dandy Warhols + The Upsidedown + Scared Shrines: The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley Shandy + The Disables + Spitfireliar: The Underdog Pub Co, Fortitude Valley
GIG OF THE WEEK THE RECHORDS: 30 AUG, LEFTY’S OLD TIME MUSIC HALL
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Collarbones + Black Vanilla: Alhambra Lounge, Fortitude Valley In Death + Universe + Azreal + Deraign: Beetle Bar, Brisbane Transvaal Diamond Syndicate + The Royal Artillery + Baltimore Gun Club + Elston Gunn + Chesta Hedron: Coolangatta Hotel, Coolangatta
SAT 30
Mind Over Matter + Prophet Rayza + Ry: Beetle Bar, Brisbane Rolls Bayce: Black Bear Lodge, Fortitude Valley Velociraptor + Bloods + Skegss: Coolangatta Hotel, Coolangatta The Royal Artillery + Deadweight Express + Dead Wolves + Junkyard Diamonds: Crowbar, Fortitude Valley
Pity Sex + Post Blue + Tape/Off + Low Season: Crowbar, Fortitude Valley
The Phoncurves + Lyall Moloney: Eat Street Markets, Hamilton
The Kite String Tangle: The Telstra Spiegeltent 17 & 18 Sep
Jungle Love Festival: Lake Moogerah 21-22 Nov
The Phoncurves + Faleepo Francisco: Eat Street Markets, Hamilton
HTRK: The Telstra Spiegeltent 19 Sep
Mullum Music Festival: Mullum 20-23 Nov
Busby Marou + Darren Middleton + Karl S Williams: Eatons Hill Hotel, Eatons Hill
Timmy Trumpet: Family Nightclub, Fortitude Valley
Dune Rats: The Telstra Spiegeltent 20 Sep
The War On Drugs: The Zoo 10 Dec
Phil Smith: Habitat Restaurant & Bar, South Brisbane
Gareth Liddiard: The Telstra Spiegeltent 23 Sep
Festival Of The Sun: Port Macquarie 12-13 Dec
Rob Snarski: Junk Bar (Skukum Lounge), Ashgrove
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Thy Art Is Murder: Crowbar 20 Dec & 21 Dec (U18)
WED 27
The Buzzbees + The Reversals + Black As Blue + Whitney Kapa Band: New Globe Theatre, Fortitude Valle Release The Hounds + Young Griffo + Meredith: Ric’s Bar, Fortitude Valley
Ayla + Hannah Rosa + Fieu: Black Bear Lodge, Fortitude Valley
Rave of Thrones with Kristian Nairn (Hodor): Secret Location, Brisbane
La Coka Nostra: Coniston Lane, Fortitude Valley
Archdukes + King Colour + The Worriers: Solbar, Maroochydore
Bob Dylan : The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley
Busby Marou + Darren Middleton + Karl S. Williams: Soundlounge, Currumbin
THU 28
Gympie Music Muster + Lee Kernaghan + Kasey Chambers + more: Amamoor State Forest Park, Gympiea Jonathan Boulet + Unity Floors: Black Bear Lodge, Fortitude Valley Wil Wagner + Georgia Maq + Jud Campbell + Hanny J: Crowbar, Fortitude Valley Widow The Sea + Daybreakers + Nightmares + Malice: The Brightside, Fortitude Valley Neem + Matt Scully + Andrea Kaden + Amera Tabet + Steve Wyatt: The Loft, Chevron Island Ronnie Walker: The Plough Inn, Southbank Steve Smyth: The Spotted Cow, Toowoomba Pentatonix: The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley Skadi + Big Bad Echo + Cheers G’day: The Zoo, Fortitude Valley
Michelle Xen & The Neon Wild + Selahphonic + Astrid: The Bearded Lady, West End Velociraptor + Bloods: The Brightside, Fortitude Valley Masked & Mischievous: Masquerade Ball with a Twist feat. Pharmacrunk + Tangled Pixies + Psymon Says + Hades Of Spades: The Hi-Fi, West End Into The Mystic: The Songs Of Van Morrison with Joe Creighton: The Irish Club, Brisbane Calan Mai + The Altais + Rhea Robertson: The Loft, Chevron Island Hope Drone: The Underdog Pub Co, Fortitude Valley The Aston Shuffle + Just A Gent + cln + Jordan Burns + Jordan James: The Zoo, Fortitude Valley Low Fly Incline + Not To Regret + Gumby Foot + Buttermilk + Cash 4 Kaos + Belligerent Goat + Firechild: Wharf Tavern, Mooloolaba
The Rechords: Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall, Brisbane Eddie Gazani Band: Lock ‘n’ Load Bistro, West End Mantra Trio: Logan Diggers Club, Logan Central The Spring Break Beach Party feat. The Potbelleez + DJ Kronic + DJ Krunk: McLarens Landing, South Stradbroke Island Ger Fennelly: Mick O’Malley’s, Brisbane Blg Blues Day feat. Jimi Beavis + Dana Gehrman + Lazy Eye + Nikolaine Martin + Zed Charles + Morningside Fats + Devil’s Kiosk + Henry James + Elston Gunn + more: New Globe Theatre, Fortitude Valley
Megan Washington + Teeth & Tongue: The Zoo, Fortitude Valley Pity Sex + Postblue: Tym Guitars (all ages), Fortitude Valley Michelle Xen & The Neon Wild + Selahphonic: Woombye Pub, Woombye
SUN 31
Between Kings + The Kinetics + Isiis: Black Bear Lodge, Fortitude Valley Sunday Sessions feat. various artists: Blue Pacific Hotel, Woorim Livespark feat. Kellie Lloyd + Tim Steward: Brisbane Powerhouse (Turbine Platform), New Farm Steve Smyth: Broadbeach Tavern, Broadbeach Tyrone Noonan: Chalk Hotel (4pm), Woolloongabba 4zzz Radiothon: Retro-Active Challenge feat. various artists: Club Greenslopes, Greenslopes The Lazy Hyena: Coorparoo Bowls Club (2pm), Coorparoo MKO: Depo, West End Ben Eaton: Habitat Restaurant & Bar, South Brisbane Ger Fennelly: Mick O’Malley’s, Brisbane Luke Morris + Alex Crook: Ric’s Bar, Fortitude Valley The Floating Bridges: Solbar, Maroochydore Fringe Fest Closing Party with Stormchasers + Chocolate Strings: The Bearded Lady, West End Kids In Glass Houses + Guests: The Lab (All Ages), Brisbane
MON 01
Lyall Moloney: Padre Bar, Woolloongabba
Queen + Adam Lambert: Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall
Flannelette + Concrete Lips: Ric’s Bar, Fortitude Valley
The Bachata Social: Chalk Hotel, Woolloongabba
Cheap Fakes + Dillion James: Royal Mail Hotel, Goodna Psych Night feat. The Grand Rapids + The Unofficials + Magenta Voyeur + Hobo Magic + House Of Giants + The Scrapes + Dead Sun: Secret Location (Secret Location in West End), Brisbane The Dawn Chorus + Those Old Soles + Matt Stillert: Solbar, Maroochydore
TUE 02
Kasey Chambers: Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall, Brisbane The Bug feat. Mick McHugh + The Company: New Farm Bowls Club, New Farm Zac Gunthorpe: The End, West End
Los Huevos: The Bearded Lady, West End Kids In Glass Houses + With Confidence: The Brightside, Fortitude Valley
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INTERNATIONAL
Justin Timberlake: BEC 26, 27 Sep
Caravãna Sun: Miami Marketta 26 Sep, Solbar 10 Oct
Bob Dylan: The Tivoli 27 Aug
Bombay Bicycle Club: The Tivoli 27 Sep Maybeshewill: Crowbar 28 Sep
Missy Higgins: Caloundra Events Centre 26 Sep, BCEC 27 Sep, Empire Theatre 28 Sep, GCAC 30 Sep, Lismore City Hall 1 Oct
Dead Kennedys: The Hi-Fi 3 Oct, Coolangatta Hotel 4 Oct
Reece Mastin: Brisbane Powerhouse 30 Sep
Sepultura: The Hi-Fi 4 Oct
DMA’s: The Brightside 2 Oct
La Coka Nostra: Coniston Lane 27 Aug Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: Coolangatta Hotel 27 Aug, Arena 28 Aug Pentatonix: The Tivoli 28 Aug Pity Sex: Crowbar 29 Aug, Tym Guitars 30 Aug The Dandy Warhols: The Tivoli 30 Aug Kids In Glass Houses: The Brightside 30 Aug, The Lab 31 Aug (AA) Boyce Avenue: The Tivoli 3 Sep Biffy Clyro: The Tivoli 4 Sep
Hardwell: Riverstage 5 Oct T-Pain: Eatons Hill Hotel 5 Oct (AA)
Dire Straits Experience: QPAC 8 Oct Slaves: The Brightside 15 Oct Miley Cyrus: BEC 15 Oct Torche: Crowbar 16 Oct The Selecter: The Zoo 16 Oct
Nobunny: Crowbar 5 Sep
Ryan Bingham: Black Bear Lodge 17 Oct
You Me At Six: Eatons Hill Hotel 5 Sep
Lil Jon: Eatons Hill Hotel 18 Oct (day, all ages) Rodriguez: BCEC 19 Oct
Pop Will Eat Itself: The Zoo 5 Sep
Dwarves: Crowbar 19 Oct
Sharon Jones & The DapKings: The Tivoli 5 Sep
Pat Metheny Unity Group: QPAC 20 Oct
Conan: Crowbar 6 Sep
The Tea Party: Coolangatta Hotel 21 Oct, The Tivoli 23 Oct
Anberlin: The Hi-Fi 6 Sep
Say Anything: The Hi-Fi 19 Oct
Katy Perry: BEC 27, 28, 30 Nov, 1, 15 Dec UB40: Riverstage 7 Dec Watsky: Alhambra Lounge 10 Dec The War On Drugs: The Zoo 10 Dec Ice Cube: Eatons Hill Hotel 10 Dec Sleep: Crowbar 11 Dec
Courtney Barnett: The Zoo 11 Oct
Cloud Nothings: The Zoo 14 Dec
Kingswood: Ric’s Big Backyard 12 Sep
Ty Segall: The Zoo 19 Dec, The Northern 20 Dec
Oscar Key Sung: Alhambra Lounge 12 Sep, GoMA 6 Feb Ash Grunwald: Soundlounge 12 Sep, Bramble Bay Bowls Club 26 Sep
Comeback Kid: The Brightside 25 Oct, Byron Bay YAC 26 Oct (AA)
Jonathan Boulet: Black Bear Lodge 28 Aug
Cannibal Corpse: The Hi-Fi 13 Sep
The Madden Brothers: Gold Coast Convention Centre 2 Nov
John Garcia: The Zoo 13 Sep, The Northern 14 Sep
Joe Satriani: The Tivoli 4 Nov
Joe Henry: The Spiegeltent 14 Sep El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico: The Hi-Fi 14 Sep
More Than Life: Snitch 6 Nov, Tall Poppy Studios 7 Nov (AA) Manchester Orchestra: The Hi-Fi 12 Nov Yes: Jupiters 14 Nov
Kanye West: BEC 15 Sep
John Digweed: The Met 15 Nov
Night Beats: The Brightside 18 Sep, Elsewhere 19 Sep
Gorguts: Crowbar 16 Nov
Iceage: The Brightside 19 Sep American Authors: The Hi-Fi 19 Sep Kasra, Enei & Mefjus: Coniston Lane 19 Sep
Wil Wagner: Crowbar 28 Aug Rob Snarski: Junk Bar 29 Aug Miracle: East 29 Aug The Aston Shuffle: The Zoo 29 Aug Collarbones: Alhambra Lounge 29 Aug Michelle Xen & The Neon Wild: The Bearded Lady 29 Aug, Woombye Pub 30 Aug Busby Marou: Soundlounge 29 Aug, Eatons Hill Hotel 30 Aug (AA) Mind Over Matter: Tatts Hotel 29 Aug, Beetle Bar 30 Aug Velociraptor: The Brightside 29 Aug, Coolangatta Hotel 30 Aug
Accept: The Hi-Fi 16 Nov
Megan Washington: The Zoo 30 Aug
The Rolling Stones: Brisbane Entertainment Centre 18 Nov
Cameron Avery: Black Bear Lodge 4 Sep
Prong: The Hi-Fi 20 Nov
Dead Letter Circus: New Globe Theatre 4 Sep
Jimmy Eat World: The Tivoli 20 Nov
Robbie Williams: BEC 22 Sep
Broken Doll: GoMA 21 Nov
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: The Northern 4 Sep, Alhambra Lounge 5 Sep, Soundlounge 6 Sep
Veruca Salt: The Zoo 24 Sep
Rick Astley: The Tivoli 21 Nov, Twin Towns 22 Nov
The Amity Affliction: Riverstage 5 Sep
NOFX: The Tivoli 22 Nov, Coolangatta Hotel 23 Nov
True Vibenation: The Motor Room 5 Sep, Solbar 6 Sep
Agnes Obel: Old Museum 25 Nov
360: Arena 6 Sep (U18 matinee/18+ evening)
Ingrid Michaelson: New Globe Theatre 21 Sep
Sara Bareilles: The Tivoli 24 Sep Juana Molina: The Spiegeltent 25 Sep Swollen Members: Coniston Lane 25 Sep
Tori Amos: QPAC 21 Nov
Boris The Blade: The Brightside 9 Oct, The Lab 10 Oct (AA)
Joan Armatrading: Twin Towns 13 Dec, QPAC 14 Dec
Steve Nieve: The Spiegeltent 10 Sep
Black Voices: Brisbane Town Hall 1 Nov
John Butler Trio: Empire Theatre 5 Oct
The Cat Empire: The Tivoli 10, 11 Oct, Rabbit & Cocoon 12 Oct
NATIONAL
Tchami: The Met 13 Sep
I Killed The Prom Queen: Byron YAC 9 Sep, Kontraband 10 Sep, Coolangatta Hotel 11 Sep
Northeast Party House: Alhambra Lounge 4 Oct
Boy & Bear: The Arts Centre Gold Coast 12 Sep, The Tivoli 13 Sep
Buck 65: Black Bear Lodge 24 Oct
Elbow: The Tivoli 30 Oct
Phil Jamieson: The Spiegeltent 9 Sep
Antiskeptic: The Brightside 4 Oct
Sticky Fingers: The Hi-Fi 12 Sep
The Ghost Inside: Byron YAC 9 Sep, Kontraband 10 Sep, Coolangatta Hotel 11 Sep
Mak & Pasteman: The TBC Club 12 Sep
Andy Bull: The Spiegeltent 7 Sep
Tijuana Cartel: Beetle Bar 4 Oct, Verrierdale Hall 8 Nov, Buddha Bar 31 Dec
Ian Anderson Presents The Best Of Jethro Tull: QPAC 13 Dec
Jillian Michaels: QPAC 24 Oct
Towner, Muthspiel, Grigoryan: Byron Bay Community Centre 26 Oct, Brisbane Powerhouse 27 Oct
Lowtide: Tym Guitars 6 Sep (2pm), The Brightside 6 Sep
Bonjah: The Zoo 10 Oct, Racehorse Hotel 11 Oct, Surfers Paradise Beer Garden 12 Oct
The Lemonheads: The Zoo 12 Dec
Samuel Kerridge: The Underdog 7 Sep
Devilskin: The Bearded Lady 11 Sep
Urthboy: The Spiegeltent 6 Sep
The Bennies: The Spotted Cow 12 Sep, The Lab 13 Sep (AA), Crowbar 13 Sep, The Time Machine 14 Sep
Justin Townes Earle, Linda Ortega: The Tivoli 22 Oct
Com Truise: The Spiegeltent 11 Sep
Bluejuice: Solbar 1 Oct, The Hi-Fi 2 Oct, Coolangatta Hotel 3 Oct, The Northern 4 Oct Allday: The Zoo 3 Oct, The Lab 4 Oct (U18)
Nils Frahm: Old Museum 8 Oct
Protest The Hero: The Hi-Fi 4 Sep
DevilDriver, Whitechapel: The Hi-Fi 5 Sep
GIG OF THE WEEK JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE: 22 OCT, THE TIVOLI
Russell Morris: Kedron Wavell Services Club 13 Sep Vancouver Sleep Clinic: The Spiegeltent 13 Sep Luca Brasi: The Lab 13 Sep (2pm AA), Crowbar 13 Sep Miami Horror: The Spiegeltent 16 Sep The Kite String Tangle: The Spiegeltent 17, 18 Sep Angus & Julia Stone: The Tivoli 18, 19 Sep The Arts Centre Gold Coast 21 Sep HTRK: The Spiegeltent 19 Sep Hands Like Houses: Crowbar 19 Sep Safia: The Factory 19 Sep, Alhambra Lounge 20 Sep, Stranded 21 Sep One Day: The Hi-Fi 20 Sep Dune Rats: The Spiegeltent 20 Sep Icehouse: SEQ Outdoor Concert 20 Sep, Twin Towns 21 Sep Gareth Liddiard: The Spiegeltent 23 Sep The Bombay Royale: The Spiegeltent 24 Sep Rainy Day Women, Meg Mac: Black Bear Lodge 25 Sep Patrick James: Old Museum 26 Sep Midnight Juggernauts: The Spiegeltent 26 Sep
FESTIVALS 4ZZZ Radiothon: Brisbane 27-31 Aug Gympie Music Muster: Gympie 28-31 Aug UBERfest: Jubilee Hotel 30 Aug Noosa Jazz Festival: Lions Park 4-7 Sep Brisbane Festival: Brisbane 6-27 Sep BIGSOUND: Fortitude Valley Entertainment Precinct 10-12 Sep Originals Music Festival: Noosa AFL Grounds 13 Sep Mitchell Creek Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest: Mary Valley 19–21 Sep Stranded: South Stradbroke Island 21 Sep Listen Out: Brisbane Showgrounds 5 Oct Caloundra Music Festival: Kings Beach 3-6 Oct The Blurst Of Times Festival: The Brightside & The Zoo 18 Oct Soulfest: Riverstage 25 Oct Island Vibe: Stradbroke Island 31 Oct-2 Nov Mullum Music Festival: Mullumbimby 20-23 Nov Jungle Love: Lake Moogerah 21-22 Nov Stereosonic: Brisbane Showgrounds 6-7 Dec Falls Festival: North Byron Parklands 30 Dec-3 Jan Soundwave: RNA Showgrounds 28 Feb & 1 Mar CMC Rocks: Willowbank Raceway 13-15 Mar
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