GANZ ANNOUNCES NEW EP, AUSTRALIAN TOUR Dutch producer, Ganz, has not only just dropped his new EP, Gao, via his own label The Hard Headed, he also announced a massive Australian and New Zealand tour which will see him bouncing across both countries with support act Akouo in tow. Catch him at Perth’s Villa on Friday, July 29. Tickets are available via ganz.com.au. Ganz
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Kiwi musician, sound engineer and producer Tiki Taane has announced his most expansive Australian run to date, a massive 14-date tour that puts his newest single, No Place Like Home, front and centre. The single has been a celebration of his homeland and its people — “because that’s where the true spirit and power of this country lies” — and was released this February in response to the anti-TransPacific Partnership Agreement protests that occurred, with Taane sending off all proceeds from the single to charity Good Neighbour. Catch Tiki Taane on October 20 at Mojos; October 21, at Babushka, October 22 at Settler’s Tavern, Margaret River, and October 23, at the Indi Bar.
Not happy with just releasing four albums in 18 months, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have decided they will be attempting to play their new LP, Nonagon Infinity, to every human being on the continent. To whit, you can catch them at Perth’s Badlands Bar on Friday-Saturday, July 1-2, and Mojos in Fremantle on Sunday, July 3.
LAST FORTNIGHTLY PRINT EDITION You are holding in your increasingly chilly autumnal hands the final fortnightly print edition of X-Press Magazine. It’s a sign of the times and the way of the world that we are moving fully into digital publishing and that our readers will have less ink on those aforementioned hands. From next Wednesday, May 25, the new X-Press App is launched with once-only App Store download, new dynamics, live feeds and social media integration. It’s been a grand 30 years on paper and a pleasure to have served Perth in this wonderful format. We thank you dearly and sincerely for the loyalty and feisty feedback that has come X-Press-in-print’s way and say this with much love indeed. We look forward to your support of the new X-Press App. Until the next goodnight... X Bob Gordon, Managing Editor
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The clip to Usurper of Modern Medicine’s new single, Ego War, is certainly something else – a 360 degree immersive, interactive experience that puts the viewer in control of their own perceptions as the band perform in a kind of virtual Mobius strip. It’s hard to explain, easier to experience – which you can do when they launch the single at Four5Nine on Saturday, May 21, with support from Spaceman, Mayor Dadi and The Body Boys.
RAW TAKES OVER THE ROSEMOUNT WITH TREND Thursday, May 28 will see Trend bring together more than 30 emerging Perth artists across multiple disciplines for the third of four showcases being run by RAW: natural born artists in 2016. Come and see the best new work from young talents in fashion, music, visual arts, film, performing arts, photography and more. Tickets are $20 plus booking fee via RAWartsist.org, or $25 on the door.
GET READY TO BUSTER BLOODBESSEL WITH BAD MANNERS After 40 years of doing their thing, North London Ska royalty Bad Manners are heading our way for their biggest Australasian tour ever. The men behind Lip Up Fatty, My Girl Lollipop and Special Brew will be bringing their anarchic brand of fun to the Rosemount Hotel on Saturday, November 5, and Bunbury’s Prince of Wales on Sunday, November 6. Bad Manners
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Black Veil Brides frontman, Andy Black, aka Andy Biersack, is touring alone in support of his debut solo album, The Shadow Side. Catch him on Thursday, September 1 at the Astor Theatre. Tickets via selecttouring. com.au.
Having already announced The Rubens as the first act on their line-up the Pilbara’s North West Festival has confirmed the You Am I, Xavier Rudd, Sarah Blasko, The Veronicas, ShockOne, Urthboy, Allday, Salmonella Dub, Harts and Methyl Ethel are on board, with more local artists to be announced. A limited allocation of first-release tickets are on sale now via Moshtix.com.au and participating outlets. Keep your eyes on northwestfestival.com.au for all announcements and full programme coming over the next few weeks. The North West Festival happens on Friday-Sunday, August 19-21, at the Port Hedland Turf Club.
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STATE OF THE ART 2016 W.A. To Go... It’s a huge local line-up for the State Of The Art festival on Monday, June 6, at Elizabeth Quay, with Jebediah, San Cisco, Ta-Ku, Koi Child and many more. Check out our special S.O.T.A. Q+As dotted throughout this issue.
JEBEDIAH Chris Daymond, guitar It seems that WA, more than any other state, takes a real pride in the music and musicians who come from here. Do you agree and if so why is it? I’d have to say that it does seem that way most of the time, but I guess my perspective on this subject is relatively biased (laughs). This pride exists because most of us have a tangible connection to the bands and artists in our hometown. It feels good to be proud of the homegrown. For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny of distance’ was applied to the ups-anddowns of being a Perth band trying to give it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a thing of the past? Probably. I’d say ‘the tyranny of commitment’ would be more applicable for most bands. To align all the factors needed for a band to give it a crack over East means putting all your eggs in one basket and this is a risky manoeuvre in any industry, let alone one subject to ever changing trends and
JOEL BARKER It seems that WA, more than any other state, takes a real pride in the music and musicians who come from here. Do you agree and if so why is it? Yeah, I definitely agree. We’ve developed a pretty strong WA identity because of our isolation. Whenever a WA artist is getting good exposure it’s a win for us all, especially within the folk(ish) scene I’m involved in. For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny of distance’ was applied to the ups-and-downs of being a Perth band trying to give it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a thing of the past? Not completely a thing of the past, at least that’s the case for me. But I’m finding the music industry is certainly opening up, on a national and international level, and that certainly makes it easier to keep working on it. But I think the tyranny of distance is an important aspect of being a WA artist. For me, sense of place is a huge part of my songwriting, and I like that our remoteness as a city is reflected in so many songs. It’s a part of our identity. 6
fashion. To make it work I think there really has to be a ‘one in, all in’ mentality present, and if the wheels don’t fall off due to external pressures then there’s no harm in thinking big. What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art? I’m rapt that we’ve been asked to play S.O.T.A this year. We’ve had a blast during the last 12 months, celebrating our 20th anniversary and I see being involved in such a cool - and free! - showcase of WA music as a sweet way to bring closure to this celebration. What acts are you most looking forward to seeing? The Love Junkies, Verge Collection and The Tommyhawks. Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot for you? My plans for Jebediah involve us hitting the road in a bus full of all our families and friends on a never ending Beatlesque type Magical Mystery Tour, all recorded for prosperity on Super 8 and Polaroid. I can’t wait to see what the others think!
What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art? I think the most important thing for me is it means my music is starting to reach a wider audience, and that we’re finding a home within the Perth music community. Plus, we’re on early so hopefully we can get to the rider before the Galloping Foxleys do. What acts are you most looking forward to seeing? Jacob Diamond. Folk/grunge gone right! Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot for you? We’re going to hit the studio to record an EP. It’s the first time I’ll be heading into recording sessions with a band rather than session musicians, so it’s going to be fantastic to share the ownership of the songs with the band and create something special together.
RILEY PEARCE It seems that WA, more than any other state, takes a real pride in the music and musicians who come from here. Do you agree and if so why is it? I think it’s largely due to how separated we are from the rest of Australia and the world - and even though the internet now helps limit the gap. The live scene is still something that’s hard to translate to other places straight away and hence it’s created this amazing culture of proud WA musicians who feel like they’ve helped contribute to such a vibrant and unique scene. For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny of distance’ was applied to the ups-and-downs of being a Perth band trying to give it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a thing of the past? I think it definitely still applies for bands that are touring, but that might be the only way in which it still fully fits. The internet and discoverability of remote bands makes it pretty easy to get on people’s radar if you’re doing great things What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art?
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It’s a great opportunity to represent WA alongside some amazing, talented musicians... very chuffed to be asked to play. What acts are you most looking forward to seeing? Jebediah and Koi Child for sure... and also Mosquito Coast Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot for you? Over the next few months I’ll largely be writing and demoing but I do have some shows coming up in WA and Victoria with Mat McHugh in June/July.
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IMOGEN CLARK Left Of Centre Rising alt-country singer/ songwriter Imogen Clark has released her debut album, Love And Lovely Lies. TIM MAYNE reports. Imogen Clark says the past six months have been some of the craziest of her life so far and she is only 21. Since the age of 15, Clark has produced three successful EPs - most notably 2013’s Stories From A Porcelain City which was nominated for the Vanda And Young Songwriting Competition. The album was also a finalist in one of the world’s most prestigious contests, The International Songwriting Competition in Nashville Tennessee, competing against nearly 20,000 entries. Clark’s story has humble beginnings, listening to her father’s album collection and watching him perform. “I actually started playing around the pubs when I was 13 and unexpectedly my favourite band of all time is Led Zeppelin and my dad used to listen to it a lot,” Clark says. “My dad has been in rock and punk bands all of his life, so I never really listened to country or folk music until I grew up.” When asked the question of why she chose alt-country music as her own personal style, Clark says it was simply a
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matter of being exposed to it. “It is really funny because I had never heard the word ‘alt-country’ or ‘Americana’ before I went to Nashville and I really didn’t know what it was, but when I got over there, everyone was playing it and I really liked it. “I never knew whether I was country, folk or a bit of rock or pop and then when I saw people play Americana/altcountry I knew that was my genre. “I discovered Joni Mitchell and Ryan Adams and all these influences and I guess that led me in a new direction, because that was music that impacted me a lot more than any other style. Clark says the early reception to Love And Lovely Lies has lifted her confidence to new levels and there will be no stopping what could be one of the country’s next upand-coming stars. “I am very excited about this record,” she says. “I know this is going to be a really big step for me putting my first album out and touring for the rest of the year and also a few left of centre plans for touring. “I have already written more songs than can fit on the next album, so I will get into that eventually and want to go over to the US and establish my presence over there.”
thing of the past? It’s probably a lot easier nowadays to get traction everywhere at once via the magic of the World Wide Web - or “Inter-net”, as it has come to be known - but there’s still two very permanent obstacles to surviving as a musician in Perth: (a) population density and (b) plane ticket prices. What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art? It’s pretty cool! It’s a good
the can down the road. It was important to us to make an album that was unique to the time that we made it. Taking the amount of time that we did was key to that process.” During the same period, Parquet Courts also recorded the Monastic Living Performance EP, released late last Enhancement year. Even when the prolific musicians Parquet Courts exploded onto were trying to take the New York rock scene and space and time soon after the took the world between records, they still managed to by storm with their abrasive record two. Monastic guitar shenanigans. CHRIS Living is the sound HAVERCROFT speaks to of Parquet Courts guitarist/vocalist, Austin Brown, about their most ambitious album refiguring out where we are as a group, to date and why this record is so and improvising with important for the whirlwind four- each other, switching piece. instruments and getting back to the Since 2011 Parquet Courts have toured the mode of recording world relentlessly and made five albums and and shaking off the two EPs. Their brand of punk-inspired rock dust and dirt of has seen them work at breakneck speed in touring. the studio to make raw and rough albums “It was us that have struck a chord with punters. being impulsive with New album, Human Performance, is the music that we a different beast by design as Parquet Courts were making and took a year to make the album as they took figuring out how to stock of what they had achieved to date. use the studio as an “When we sat down to write Human instrument again,” Performance we all knew how to write and Brown summarises record a Parquet Courts song as we had done about Monastic Living. “Making improvised it for four records by that point,” suggests or noisy music wasn’t a major leap for us as guitarist/vocalist, Austin Brown, on the it is how we started as a band. In that way, band’s mindset towards the album. “To do Monastic Living was a return to our roots. something different meant understanding The first Parquet Courts shows weren’t too what we had already done. We wanted to dissimilar to Monastic Living as we would take some time to really put something improvise and turn up to play with no songs together that felt like an evolution of the and just did different jams we were doing group that was riskier and wasn’t just kicking 8
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opportunity to hang out with heaps of Perth music buds all day; you definitely feel like you’re part of a solid community. Fringe, PIAF... public arts events like that always do so Tom Kenny, keys much for Perth’s vitality. It’s flattering to be in It seems that WA, more than any other state, large font with the big kids this time around, takes a real pride in the music and musicians but it’s definitely a bit weird getting lumped who come from here. Do you agree and if so with really established and accessible bands. why is it? What acts are you most looking forward to Our relative size to the rest of seeing? the country probably makes us feel like Mathas is one of the most underdogs. Maybe it’s got something to interesting and talented rappers in the do with having more to prove; trying to country, and Jacob Diamond’s a bloody exceed our own cultural cringe and the masterful songwriter and vocalist (with a hot, (imagined?) external impression that we’re hot band). Gotta check out our boy Nathan a bunch of spiritually vapid right-leaning Tempra rocking a perfectly uncharacteristic CUBs. Championing the local arts scene and getting recognition abroad is probably just as suit’n’tie on stage with Mosquito Coast, too. much for our own insecurities as it is to help Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot everyone’s career prospects. I sincerely think for you? we’ve got a pretty fantastic musical output, No gigs for ages, so we’ve finally got per capita, and it’s probably worth rubbing time to start pouring into album number two. that in people’s faces. We’re hoping to do another Australian tour in July I think, then we’re crossing our fingers For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny to head overseas for the first time to New of distance’ was applied to the ups-andYork in October. It’s gonna be a good year, I downs of being a Perth band trying to give reckon. it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a
at rehearsals. At that time, no one would have released that crap, but lucky we have a label that isn’t afraid to put out our different sounding records.” Monastic Living was important for
Parquet Courts as it allowed them to wipe the slate clean and cleanse the palate. Human Performance found the band in the headspace where they shouldn’t be expected to write a certain kind of song or sound a certain type of way. There was a focus on evolving and not just making what was a comfortable album. Human Performance is the first
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Parquet Courts release where all members contribute to the writing. Bass player, Sean Yeaton, is quoted as saying that the band ‘made it through the shit, solved the problem, had the chuckle, took the piss, made up with the other guy, and got home in one piece’ when asked about Human Performance. Brown suggests the band went through a long period of personal development in the making of this, their best album to date. “There is a lot of pressure put on staying ignorant and being just an entertainer and having an ego. I think that when you lose that ego and you lose that immaturity you have a choice to make about how you want to go on. Do you want to be taken seriously or do you want to be an ignorant musician?”
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Austin’s Bayonne, aka Roger Sellers, is well versed in classical piano and studied music theory in college but his childlike passion for drums and beats saw him buying a loop machine and working up a multitude of tiny melodies. On the modestly titled Intro, Sellers builds a tune by layering melodies and musical phrases on top of each other to create music that is greater than the sum of its parts. Sellers’ impishly high voice is at odds with the massive drum sound that recalls his childhood hero, Phil Collins. Appeals is a more traditional affair with a chorus that is impossible to ignore and keyboard lines that weave around the vocals in a manner that would make Fleetwood Mac proud. Steps is intricate and fast-paced with breakneck guitar and affected vocals that ebb and flow throughout the journey. Primitives is anything but unsophisticated, as Bayonne makes music that is built from technology and is the soundtrack for the present and not the past. Bayonne breaks rules and places his feet across genres in a tantalising melody melding display.
It’s been a long road to releasing a debut album for Perth hard rockers Ragdoll. The three-piece have dropped some promising EPs but it’s still taken six years of touring in Australia and the US before hitting us with Back To Zero. The time’s been worth the wait though, as Ragdoll deliver lovely atmospherics on the title-track, while each song shows off some crunchy riffs, quality vocals and ripping guitar lines. It all sometimes gets a little too earnest and the band often sticks with a medium tempo pace. But when they mix things up on the vibrant and playful Kungfoolery, we see a glimpse of how great these guys can be.
It’s been five years between drinks for one of Australian rock’n’roll’s most-loved trios, The Living End. Having spent their 20-plus years shifting from punky upstarts to veritable A-listers, Shift is just that; a change of direction. The problem is, it’s hard to know which direction that is. The record, while featuring a number of solid moments — see the ballad-like Keep On Running and sturdy rock-by-numbers Up The Junction — lacks any consistency in voice. Occasional guitar flourishes keep things interesting, but opener One Step gets the album off to a very poor start and TLE struggle to right the ship from there.
Celia Pavey, aka Vera Blue, has come a long way since only recently appearing as a hopeful on The Voice. Thank goodness the Sydney alternative folkster didn’t stray down that more commercial path because her sultry, haunting EP would never have sounded as good or as interesting. Reining in Gossling, and Thom and Andy Mak (Boy & Bear, Bertie Blackman, Silverchair), the youngster explores the inherent folk lilt in her voice in singles Hold and Settle, then dips it in thick electro sounds in Fingertips and Turn before the more simple Patterns, without compromising the fragility of her unique sound.
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money that your art gets made. It’s made out of a basic need to supply yourself with health and happiness via what you make creatively. Plonk HUSSY in the middle of a desert; we would still make music ‘cause it keeps us happy and healthy together.
What acts are you most looking forward to seeing? Well we all rocked out to Jebediah back in the Supré days of the early ‘00s, so being on the same line-up as them is pretty unreal. We also can’t wait to catch The Tommyhawks, The Love Junkies, San Cisco and Jacob Diamond.
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HUSSY Cass, rhythm guitar It seems that WA, more than any other state, takes a real pride in the music and musicians who come from here. Do you agree and if so why is it? Agree. Perth has a massive surplus of talented musicians; so it’s gotta be something in the water. Even behind the musos, there are people making their life’s work out of putting on gigs: organising and running nights with sound guys and techies working all hours. Every venue we’ve played in this city is run by people who passionately want to see music culture alive and healthy in Perth, so it makes you proud to be on their stage. For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny of distance’ was applied to the ups-anddowns of being a Perth band trying to give it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a thing of the past? It’s never gone, but it’s become a little murmur in the back of our heads. What matters more is having drive to continuously generate new work despite the fact it may 10
never earn you a living, might not even hit 500 likes, might never be played on the radio. Your motive becomes more about ways to enrich yourself, your friends or your community through music. We’re learning that phrases like ‘making it’ and ‘a successful career in music’
Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot for you? During the year we’ll be recording and finessing our debut album. We’ve planned an abundance of collage-crafty-glitterdress-up nights, so we’re organised and very excited. We’ll also continue to play gigs, write new music, go to gigs and hang out every weekend.
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aren’t particularly helpful pressures to keep reminding yourself of, as they tend to cockblock any inspiration and leave you feeling like it’s not worth starting anyway. Part of being an artist is reconciling that it’s not simply out of a whim, wish or the need for
What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art? It’s big ups! Being asked to represent the state in a brand-spanking new location, in the heart of the city: you couldn’t make five girls smile wider if you tried.
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FANCY A BREW? Gage Roads’ Backyard To Bottleshop is a battle of the backyard brews. Amateur brewers submit their recipes via specific arranged drop off points and our brewers choose what they think is the crème de la crème. This year’s winner was Grant Smith, a pipping designer who has been brewing for about one year. He has about 30 brews under his belt and loves English recipes hence his ESB (Extra Special Bitter) submission. This new ESB is currently about to hit bars, pubs and retailers around WA. A recent silent launch held by Gage Roads at Five Bar, Mt Lawley, was a great success, with the general consensus being that it tastes like a hopped up VB soaked in malt.
The Beer... ESB – Classic malt driven English Special Bitter. Solid nutty, toast delivered on the aroma through an enthusiastic 8 malt grist. Hopped to balance with earthy Fuggles and Eat Kent Goldings. A testament to Smith’s homebrew recipe. ABV – 5.0 % IBU – 35 Color - 35 EBC AE – 3.35 Tasting Notes... Earthy and dank English hop aroma, rich toasted malt character, full body, and smooth well-balanced bitterness. About the Beer... Brewed in collaboration with WA amateur brewer, Grant Smith, as part of Gage Roads’ Backyard to Battleship homebrew challenge. our Beer Feature continues on page 18....
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KATE MOIR A True Survivor Every issue we bring you the best in fashion, food, shopping and lifestyle.
TOAST On Friday night head for Grand Lane in the city for a goodbye/hello art event (5.30-9.30pm, May 20), as kinetic artwork TOAST finishes its run, and new work by Ruby Smedley, Sioux Tempestt, The Welcome Collective, Steve Finch and Michelle Wells hit the City of Perth’s Light Locker Art Space. The event includes music from Assembly Line DJs and free toasted sandwiches from Toastface Grillah.
SWAMP CLUBB Swamp Clubb starts at 9.30am on Saturday May 21, and wraps just after lunch. This includes free breakfast in the Urban Orchard and a short distance walking tour reconnecting people with Perth’s wetlands history (drained 1830-1880, great if you’re curious about ecology and history). The event is commissioned by the City of Perth for TRANSART: TRANSITION 2016
TRIMAPOLINE! The Southern Star Trampoline Academy in Fremantle has a free family fun open day (10am-2pm) on Sunday May 22. Expect dazzling demonstrations from extremely skilled athletes, and a whole heap of fun stuff for little kids, and big ones.
REVEALED Haven’t checked out the annual Revealed exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre? Make time this weekend. With the work of dozens of Aboriginal artists on show from all over the state (established and emerging), the work spans both contemporary and traditional mediums, like video, photography, painting, and textiles. 14
Kate Moir knows all too well about survival - she escaped from Perth serial killers David and Catherine Birnie, which eventually led to their capture. The Birnies went on a murderous rampage raping and killing four women in the southern suburb of Willagee in 1986 before the then 17-yearold Moir escaped the deadly couple and told police of her ordeal at the hands of her captors. David Birnie hung himself in his cell in 2005 but Catherine Birnie remains behind bars as WA’s longest serving female prisoner and she recently came up for parole, something Moir wants changed. The 46-year-old mother of three is petitioning WA Attorney General Michael
PERTH VEGAN YOGA PICNIC Outdoor yoga, vegan snacks, and a picnic blanket: what more could you want on a mellow Saturday? Rather than fitness fads that fall by the wayside when the shiny new factor wears off, yoga has become a healthy living mainstay, rejuvenating the mind and the spirit as much as the body. As a workout, yoga goes with the flow: not particular to an age group or fitness level, it can be enjoyed indoors or outdoors, alone or with a group, in a class or a casual environment. Truth is yoga is cool AF because it doesn’t require new fangled toys, has been
VERGE COLLECTION Ben Arnold, vocals/ guitar It seems that WA, more than any other state, takes a real pride in the music and musicians who come from here. Do you agree and if so why is it? Yeah I do. I think a lot of people in Perth are really proud, and so when they are really proud of something they take a lot of pride in it, and really just get behind it and let people know how proud they are.
Mischin to reform parole legislation, including the removal of mandatory parole hearings every three years for self-confessed killers like Birnie. Moir decided to speak out about her ordeal six weeks ago in order to put pressure on WA’s Attorney General and to bring to the public’s attention the issue of Kate Moir, circa 1986 mandatory parole hearings. “It is not just me, it is also for other people who have been murdered and every three years these killers come up for parole,” Moir says. “It you gives you the shits, it is like a constant reminder when you want it to go away - it gives you righteous fury. They murdered four girls, should they be up for parole after 20 years?” Since launching her campaign through social media and other networks, Moir says the support has been amazing.
“I have over 10,500 supporters and 13,000 signatures in five weeks, since the campaign began. “I have been using Facebook so you can join the group through my name Kate Moir and the petition is at change.org. It is called the Attorney General’s Parole Reformation Petition. The group ‘We Support Kate’ is a virtual political rally and we get counted, then the more people we get the more we can show to the Attorney General.” Moir says she has spoken to Mr Mischin, who has put some submissions into the State Solicitor’s Office, but says this isn’t going far enough. “It is not what we are after - he is tip-toeing around the tulips whereas we want no parole for murder with intent. “I have had outpourings of support and people are organising fundraisers to sponsor me. Hou can sponsor the petition and we are about go face-to-face and hand out petitions in person.”
Bring a serve of vegan food to share, and take the opportunity to get a few recipe tips and the lowdown on awesome vegan snacks. A lot of people prefer a vegan diet these days, but you don’t need to be vegan to enjoy vegan eats: shaking up your food habits can lead to unexpected new faves. (Here’s looking at you, raw cacao mint pie). Besides, vegan cuisine is so good Perth Yoga Vegans now that a lot of the time meat eaters are chowing down on vegan menu choices popular for centuries, and offers myriad without the choice really registering. health benefits. If your mellow weekend mornings With winter weather beginning to roll in consist of mostly Netflix, or coffee catch-ups, but not cancelling out the sunny days just maybe consider a yoga session and vegan yet, now is a great time to enjoy yoga in an picnic for a bit of a change of pace. outdoors setting. Those heading down should keep The Perth Vegan Yoga Picnics are one thing in mind: don’t push it. Only do yoga where it’s at, combining a love of vegan eats to the level you’re capable of, and enjoy the with yoga sessions. The idea is anyone can fresh air and company. rock up, regardless of skill level, and enjoy a The next Perth Vegan Yoga Picnic morning of yoga with a group of likeminded is on Saturday, May 21, from 9am at South people. Turn up alone or in a group, in whatever you want to wear, with or without a Beach in Fremantle. The first session is at 9.30am. For full details check out Perth Vegan yoga mat. Everyone’s welcome. Breezy-as. Yoga Picnics on Facebook. First up is a 9.30am yoga session, followed by Acroyoga and onwards from then GILLIAN O’MEAGHER it’s picnic time, so you can lay back and chill. And eat!
nice if it was cheaper and Qantas could make some faster planes. What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art? It means having a great day out in the sun with all ma favourite boys.
For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny of distance’ was applied to the ups-and-downs of being a Perth band trying to give it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a thing of the past? No, I think that it still rings true. Live shows are pretty essential to establishing yourself as a band so it’d be WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
What acts are you most looking forward to seeing? I’m really excited for Koi Child; I haven’t seen those guys play in ages and they’re all good company so it’s all good. Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot for you? We’re gonna play some shows in Perth and then some shows on the East coast and then finally release an EP called Open Plan Living. Then I’m going to go to Bali for a holiday, probably.
JAMES MARSTERS Once More With Feeling Best known for his role as the vampire Spike in Buffy The Vampire Slayer (and its spin-off, Angel), James Marsters has since gone on to appear in numerous genre shows such as Torchwood, Smallville, Caprica, and Warehouse 13. As he will be a guest in Perth for Supanova next month, X-Press scored to have its very own interview with a vampire. “Buffy was kind of everything,” admitted Marsters, ”it was delicious. I couldn’t wait for the call ‘action’ so I could exist in those amazing worlds. It’s also terrifying when you work with Joss Whedon, you have no idea what’s coming up. There were time where there were things I didn’t want to do and didn’t want to experience. In hindsight I’m very proud of it all. It’s not good to be in your comfort zone, as an artist or as a human being.” The relatively small TV budget meant that the cast and crew worked gruelling hours to keep on schedule. “The most challenging thing was the hours we spent working. We would start filming at 4 o’clock in the morning on Monday and get out when the sun came up on Saturday. Joss was trying to get the best he could and was devilishly clever on how to get the most from his budget.” A sci-fi fan, Marsters quickly recognised the appeal of the show. Saying to the cast that if they did this well they could
be the new Star Trek (and if so, he claims Spock) “I’ve been a sci-fi fan since I was 11. Original Star Trek, original Twilight Zone... I loved those. It can speak more directly to social issues than say a cop show can. The Twilight Zone was speaking about the psychological pressures of the Cold War. Trek was talking about the strength of diversity. Buffy was a show talking about how women could defend themselves in the ‘90s! Torchwood was talking about the fact that gay people could be heroes. The list goes on and on. Genre speaks to the subversive in me. Still pisses off all the right people.” Since then, Marsters has gone on to be a staple in the sci-fi and fantasy community, appearing in multiple genre shows, writing comics, voicing computer games, and touring with his band Ghost Of The Robot. It’s certainly been varied. “I’ve got more interesting roles taking life as it comes,” he states. “As Lennon said, ‘life is what happens when you are making other plans’.” The Supanova Pop Culture Expo lands at the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre on Saturday-Sunday, June 25-26. DAVID O’CONNELL
SUGARLAND experiences (the play Want to see theatre that focuses on the lives contains coarse Pic by John Tsaivis of teens in remote Australia? language, Sugarland is definitely your scene.= Presented by Barking Gecko Theatre drug use, and themes that might be challenging), music is one thing that links Company, Sugarland by Australian Theatre them. Not surprising: for most people, for Young People (ATYP), follows a group of regardless of age, music and youth are teenagers and their social worker. indelibly linked in memory. Written by Rachael Coopes and Perhaps the authentic feel of the Wayne Blair in 2011, the play is inspired by their residencies in Katherine in the Northern material is because the playwrights spent months getting to know people during their Territory. residencies, and as a result the narrative Co-director Fraser Corfield says, “I doesn’t condescend, while also promoting love that Sugarland presents characters we conversation; expect to laugh, and maybe cry. simply don’t see on Australia’s professional Corfield believes this is one of theatre stage. These characters are raw, those rare theatre experiences that set a new honest, at times painfully inarticulate and, at direction in our national industry. “In this case others, breathtakingly eloquent.” that direction involves a teenage identity that Rather than the sugar-coated teen is cultural diverse but completely Australian. tales of Hollywood, the narrative addresses contemporary issues, striving to communicate The events in these young people’s lives are with today’s youth in a way that is authentic, unbelievable but common, deeply moving and while realistically representing the experiences profoundly political.” The play runs during National young Aussies can face. Reconciliation Week (May 27-June 3). Two “Sugarland touches on profound current themes like the safety of our children shows are scheduled for Saturday, May 28, and the Barking Gecko Theatre Company and the identity of regional communities in takes over the foyer of Studio Underground modern Australia,” says Corfield. “Ultimately, on this date so young people who catch it’s about finding the universal truths that unite us, whatever your background, whatever the performance can chill with others while enjoying food and music. your problems. Sugarland asks important Sugarland runs May 27-30 at Studio questions about the country we live in.” Underground, State Theatre Centre. Tickets Obviously the production isn’t only available through Ticketek.com.au. Please for a younger audience. The writing aims to note the production is 14+. give all ages an insight into young Australia, a place that might be unfamiliar to older people. While the teenage characters presented onstage have different life
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Live in Concert Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark became PICA Jan-July Program an instant classic upon its release, topping Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts 1981’s box office charts and claiming five Academy Awards. (PICA) has released its guide for the To mark 35 years since the release of Indiana next six months up to July. Exhibitions, performances, resident artists and education Jones, the Stephen Spielberg’s original film will be presented in two very special screenings dominate the scene, providing a landscape – with the West Australian Symphony for wide community to enjoy, including Orchestra (WASO) at Riverside Theatre, Perth pieces such as Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Convention and Exhibition Centre, led by Berg’s The Secret Garden, the always massive conductor Benjamin Northey. It’s all happens Revelation Film Festival, PVI Collective’s at 7.30pm on Wednesday-Thursday, June blackmarket, and more. For the full program, 16-17. Bookings via ticketek.com.au or 1300 head to pica.org.au. 795 012.
VISUAL ARTS
Vincent Fournier + Katie West In conjunction with the Perth Winter Arts Festival 2016, the Perth Centre for Photography welcomes highly acclaimed French artist, Vincent Fournier, to Perth to showcase Post Natural History (Archeology of the Future) and local Perth artist, Katie West for her first solo exhibition in WA. French-born artist Fournier regularly exhibits his work in international galleries and festivals and his work can be found in public and private art collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, permanent collection (New York), LVMH Contemporary Art Collection in Paris, MAST Foundation in Bologna, The SchlumbergerPrimat Collection and The Baccarat Art Collection in New York. Perth-born artist Katie West will be exhibiting a portrait series derived from conversations revolving around the custodial ethic and a de-colonist identity. Through her artworks, Katie explores her own sense of Aboriginality, informed by her family history and that of history and her heritage. Exhibition runs from Friday, June 10, until Saturday, July 9, at Perth Centre For Photography, 18 Colin Street, West Perth.
Remote Identities
Carrion Crow, Bird of Memories © Vincent Fournier
THEATRE/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE Subiaco Theatre Festival Running from Wednesday, June 8, until Saturday, July 2, at the Subiaco Arts Centre, the Subiaco Theatre Festival brings together four independent theatre companies for a season of challenging and entertaining stage productions. Among the works on offer are The Last Great Hunt’s FAG/STAG; Damon Lockwood’s I (honestly) Love You; Moving On Inc. from Lost Boys Theatre, and Second Chance Theatre’s Coincidences At The End Of Time. Tickets are available now via Ticketek.
A Conversation On Making A Murderer Attorneys Dean Strang and Jerry Butling, who defended Steve Avery as seen in the acclaimed Netflix series Making A Murderer, will be shedding more light on the subject in a just-announced speaking tour of Australia. They will address the systemic failures of the US justice system, using the Avery case as a jumping-off point, following up with a Q&A session with the audience. It all takes place at the Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday, November 1. - Head to livenation.com.au for full details and ticketing info. Fawlty Towers - Live On Stage One of the most beloved television series of all time comes to the stage for a strictly limited engagement. Written by series creator John Cleese, Fawlty Towers - Live On Stage sees Stephen Hall as outrageous hotelier Basil Fawlty and Blazey Best as his long-suffering wife Sybil in a show that is sure to have fans of British comedy howling with laughter. Check in at the Regal Theatre from Thursday, November 17, until Sunday, December 18.
FESTIVALS Beats In The Heat With Early Bird VIP tickets sold out, the Pilbara’s two-day Beats In The Heat festival is looking to be one hot ticket. Friday, June 24, features John Williamson, Potbelleez, KLP (Triple J), Some Blonde, Nino Brown, Che Fu + DJ Tiklez, Kid Kenobi, Black & Blunt and Pilbara artists Panda, Genga, Fl3ggless, Saccas, Corey David, Matt M, Lace Em Tight, Hemi, Lachy Mckay, Jackt, DJ Oh, Rhyval, Fred Kettlewell, Brandon Saena, Dpx, Knew and Harry Gray. On Saturday, June 25, catch The Cat Empire, Drapht, Art vs Science, British India, Yolanda Be Cool, Mashd n Kutcher, Savage, Sid Diamond, Kate Foxx and DJ Tiklez. It’s all happening at Karratha Entertainment Complex, Bulgarra. Tickets (including VIP) are available from Moshtix. com.au. Big Sky Readers & Writers Festival From Friday, May 20, until Sunday, May 22, Geraldton is the place to be for lit-lovers and bibliophiles. Headlined by Australian actor and author Steve Bisley, the festival encompasses more than 22 events over three days, including readings, debates, masterclasses and presentations. For more information, go to library.cgg.wa.gov.au.
Fremantle Heritage Festival This year the Fremantle Heritage Festival’s ‘choose your own heritage’ theme explores the colourful history that has shaped Fremantle into one of Lonely Planet’s top cities to visit Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious in 2016. One of Australia’s most critically Veteran comedian Craig Robinson is coming acclaimed pianists, Simon Tedeschi, will play to town with his band, The Nasty Delicious, a selection of piano favourites at St Johns for a special one-off show at The Rosemount Church. Donna Simpson from The Waifs will Hotel on Wednesday, June 15. Having built be taking the stage at Mojos Bar alongside a career on a string of scene-stealing turns Fremantle music legends – Dom Mariani (The Stems) and Greg Hitchcock (You Am I) as part in The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine, This of Patron Saints of Pop. There’ll be a keynote Is The End and more, Robinson is a highly speech from author Robert Drewe, a Vintage tuned laugh machine who is certain to Collectors Fair, Fremantle’s Outback Fusion leave it all on the stage. For info, head to Fundraising Gala, The Ultimate High Tea, wearenice.com.au Fremantle’s Fightin’ Forties Long Table Dinner, A Sailor’s Guide to Fremantle and plenty more.
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ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Absence Of Alice Directed by James Bobins Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anne Hathaway Borrowing the name and characters of Lewis Carroll’s novel (and nothing else), Alice Through The Looking Glass creates an original sequel to her 2010 adventures in Wonderland. After her livelihood is threatened in the real world, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is called to step through the looking glass and to once again return to Wonderland. There she finds all her old friends, but discovers that the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is gravely ill. Having discovered that the family he thought dead may still be alive, he has finally lost complete control of his wits and is on the verge of destruction. Never acknowledging the meaning of the word ‘impossible’ Alice resolves to search for the Hatter’s kin, planning to travel through time to retrieve them. To accomplish this she must steal the means from Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) himself, but as she creeps into his fortress she discovers an old foe waiting. There is something askew about the storytelling in this film. It begins strongly, with a rollicking action sequence demonstrating the strength and cunning of Alice in the real world, but soon looses its momentum and starts to drag. The time travelling nature of the story actually robs the protagonist of much
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of her agency. So despite the first act re-establishing Alice’s credentials as a woman of action and lateral thinker, the main-body of the story locks her into the role of a passive observer who is unable to effect anything. As such it become more of roller-coaster ride of computer effects and needless character back story, without any significant drama. Alice regains some of this momentum in the finale, as she is allowed to be active again and learns from her adventures. However having this strong female character rail-roaded through so much of the plot, lessens the experience. Indeed the script seems full of half-baked machinations and plot conveniences, leaving a lot unexplained. Still, when all is said and done, Alice Through the Looking Glass is a sumptuous film to look at, with wonderful costuming and design. The special effects still bring Wonderland to life with a sense of comic glee, and less of the dark Victorian foreboding expressed in Burton’s iteration. If you are a fan of the first, chances are this will be your cup of imaginary tea. For the rest of us, this probably gets the chop. DAVID O’CONNELL
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familiar and the sudden subject changes become less jarring. There is a wealth of information here, and it is a fascinating world we dive into. It is a world that is being pulled in multiple directions at once, swept along by the market forces of modernity, but steeped in crafts that are centuries old. Then there Gut And String are the diva temperaments that come into play (with an unexpected catastrophe for the ASQ), Directed by Scott Hicks and emotions really reach a Starring The Australian crescendo. String Quartet, The Highly Strung is certainly Carpenters spoiled for choice when it comes to interesting subject This documentary by matter to examine, and that Scott Hicks looks at is also its downfall. Pulled in the world of classical multiple directions there is music and the precious no clear through-line to guide the narrative, instruments that dominate the high-end. It is no natural conclusion to events on screen. As a reality of hand-crafted instruments worth such this often spirals out of control as the millions of dollars, and the patrons that enable documentary disappears down another rabbit these hundreds of years old master works to hole, exploring an interesting fact in detail. find voice in the hands of musicians. There is a lot here, it is a dense subject, richly Hicks roughly divides his focus into examined, with multiple elements at play – three aspects. He looks at the Australian but it is too much. String Quartet with their mix of virtuosi and It’s easy to recognise the skill and rare Guadagnini instruments, the New Yorkthe emotion in the work, but without the based Carpenters with their mix of high-end form to give it structure it is impossible to branding and investment strategy, and the tell where Highly Strung’s heart truly lies. So, actual process behind crafting one of these despite the evocative music, the beautiful rarefied instruments. cinematography, the emotional turmoil on Highly Strung certainly hits the screen, or the intriguing glimpses you get into ground running, bombarding the audience the world of classical music - the whole thing with story and information from the outset. just seems a little hollow. Initially this is rather like being hit by a wall A fascinating, but flawed of noise, fascinating to take in, but leaving documentary. viewers struggling to garner any information from it. Slowly as the film unfolds it is possible DAVID O’CONNELL to relax into the rhythm, as the various threads that Hicks examines become more
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SAM NEILL: HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE
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A Slice Of Heaven
It seems that WA, more than any other state, takes a real pride in the music and musicians who come from here. Do you agree and if so why is it? I definitely agree; I think being in the most isolated city helps quite a bit for being proud... we gotta be. But people from outside WA really notice, the word has definitely spread there’s so many conversations ‘there’s so many good bands that come out of WA’ which is the usual words!
Director Taika Waititi’s (What We Do In Shadows) latest film, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, hits cinemas on Thursday, May 26. DAVID O’CONNELL chats with its star, Sam Neill, who plays the belligerent bushie, Hector ‘Hec’ Faulkner, about filming in the bush, his young co-star, and if there are any roles he still yearns. Based on the popular novel by Barry Crump, the film adaptation of Hunt For The Wilderpeople held numerous attractions for actor, Sam Neill, the most obvious being the director. “I’ve been keeping an eye on him for a while,” he says. “So when the script came I hardly needed to read it, I was flattered to get it.” The role is a New Zealand archetype, the “silent bugger from the bush. I’m not particularly known for comedy,” Neill laughs, “but I realised my job was not to be funny. It’s a bit like erecting a marquee on a windy hill. The funny people are the tent, and I’m the guy hammering the pegs in the ground so it doesn’t blow away. Someone’s got to ground it. I really don’t have a sense of humour. I just find the world mildly amusing in a general sort of way. If I’m not perplexed by it.” Filming saw the crew shooting in some remote locations. “I grew up with a bit of bushcraft, so I’m not a complete neophyte
when it comes to outdoors. We were working fast as it was winter. No sitting around in trailers for something to happen. Just as well, as there’s no trailers to sit in. As long as you have a cup of tea and a place to sit, I’m fine.” As for his young co-star, apparently he wasn’t star-struck in the slightest by the Jurassic Park veteran. “Julian (Dennison) is very funny. He wasn’t in anyway awed by me. Probably because he’s never seen anything I’ve been in. In addition to that I’m pretty juvenile... so I think it was a meeting of like minds.” The film has opened well in New Zealand, breaking box office records. “It’s been received with a lot of warmth. People have been laughing from beginning to end, and breaking out in spontaneous applause. You never get that.” With a varied career, in which he has played everything from the Antichrist to Cardinal Worsley, Neill still had one role he desired. “The only thing I haven’t done is a proper Western, and I’m heading to Austin Texas to be in a 10-part Western for AMC. That’s my last unresolved ambition.” Julian Dennison and Sam Neill in Hunt For The Wilderpeople
For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny of distance’ was applied to the ups-anddowns of being a Perth band trying to give it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a thing of the past? I believe so, a few of my friends who have just started touring from the East Coast complain about the flight length, which is totally understandable when you’re not used to it but I suppose we are so used to it because we have to do that shit all the time us Westies. I love it; it seems like it’s the norm for us. What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art? It means a lot to me because speaking on behalf of all the other local bands and bands in general, - I think this event really showcases WA people who are just passionate about their art and really trying to do the same thing as each other - just write
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something, play something, cool and hope that other people/audiences want to come along for the ride and support at shows like this. When a festival like this comes together it’s a great opportunity for all of the above, which is why we’re all playing music in the first place, really. What acts are you most looking forward to seeing? Quite a few of my buddies of course like, Jacob Diamond, Riley Pearce, Luke Dux and Helen Shanahan. I’m also a huge hip hop fan so I’m gonna be hanging to see all of Mathas and Koi Child. I’m also super excited to see Ta-Ku - I’m a big fan of his work! Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot for you? I’m going to be releasing an EP this year which has been a long time coming but I didn’t want to release anything till I knew exactly what I wanted to do - sonically speaking - which I think I got pretty close. And I’ll let you guys decide what that is. It’s got some cool features on it and I have produced it with one of my best mates and basically mentor, Joel Quartermain. There’s a bonus track on the EP that I recorded and produced myself which is what I’m starting to delve into at the moment ‘home recording’ it’s all very exciting!
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BREW HA-HA The month of April saw two of the best things to known to mankind, beer-tasting and standup comedy brought together at the Dutch Trading Co in Victoria Park. Held over four consecutive Fridays at the craft beer enthusiast’s heaven, The Brewed Laughter shows combined comedy with beer trivia, facts,and games over a one-hour show whilst patrons were treated to six beer tastings over the evening. Some of The beers and ales on offer included: The Nail Red Ale, Mornington Brown, Gage Roads Single fin and Pikes Sparkling Ale to name a few. The comedians who hosted the shows included two fresh from rave reviews at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Luke Heggie and Ben Darsow, plus local laugh-maker, Rory Lowe, and Irish funny man, Darren Mathews. Although all of the comics followed the show’s one-hour format, each brought their unique sense of humour to the proceedings – ranging from Lowe’s brush with the amber ale at countless Freo house parties or Heggie’s bitter stint in bottle shops as a young man. At the conclusion of the Brewed Laughter shows it was difficult to tell if the attendees were drunk from the six quick fire tasters or the countless one liners. Good time had by all, etc!
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Brisbane Hotel General Manager, Ashley Stocker
BRISBANE HOTEL Every Brew Is Like Sunday The Brisbane Hotel’s General Manager, Ashley Stocker, delivers the goods on their Sunday Beer Tastings. What’s unique about The Brisbane’s Sunday Beer Tastings? Free beer tasting, no catch. I work for the pub not a brewery, I love beer and want to share my knowledge and my beer with you. Let’s try something you’ve never heard of or seen before.
Explain your relationship with beer? We’re close friends and have been growing closer over the years. I feel that there is a beer for any occasion whether it is something crisp and cold to slake the thirst of a long hot day or something big, dark and mysterious to be sipped at the end of the night. My fridge generally has a lot of beer in it, but probably a dozen or so different brands and styles. How much does the average beer drinker know about the beer they drink? More than they did 10 years or even five years ago. People are taking a bigger interest in what they are consuming. With such a huge increase in selection from the many new microbreweries around, along with some great offerings from the big players as well.
Jeff McGrath’s homebrew set-up
COLONIAL IIPA TAPPING Jeff McGrath, a well awarded and talented home brewer has teamed up with the gang at Colonial Brewery to make a massive Imperial India Pale Ale for GABS 2016. There will be a multiple venue launch for this hopped up beast on Saturday, June 4. Dainton Family Brewery Tap Takeover. Dan Dainton from Victoria will be over to do a collaborative brew with The Dutch Trading Co and Indian Ocean Brewery, He will also be at The Dutch Trading Co for a Dainton Tap Takeover on Saturday, June 25, with names such as Samurye Lager Keg, Red Eye Rye Keg, Insane Uncle IPA Keg, Das Dusseldorf Draft Keg, Bad Daughter Porter Keg, Samurye Lager Case, Sneaky Son Smoking Stout Case and Bastard Brother Belgian Rye IPA Case. There’ll also be some massive US Tap Takeovers with Founders, Oskar Blues and Heretic.
Should they know more? There’s always more to learn, if anyone is interested they can come down and What kind of beers do you do tastings of talk to me on Sunday... or anytime really. You from week to week? I try and mix it up as much as I can, don’t need to know more but you might be it’s a learning process for me as well. Anything missing out! from Gose to Porter, Spiced Summer Ales Sunday Beer Tastings (with live music) are, to Chocolate Stout, Sour Wheat Beers to well, every Sunday, from 3-5pm. The Brisbane Imperial IPAs. I try to get as many single Hotel also looks the good for half-price pizzas release/one-off items as I can with a trend towards WA brewers over the rest of Australia on Mondays and the regular Wednesday Quiz and Australia over the rest of the world – but Night. I do end up with all sorts of things from all sorts of places.
THE GREAT AUSTRALASIAN BEER SPECTAPULAR The GABS Beer, Cider and Food Fest was created in 2011 by Steve Jeffares and Guy Greenstone, the team behind the renowned Local Taphouse beer bars in Melbourne and Sydney, and soon-to-open Stomping Ground Brewing Co in Collingwood, Melbourne. Sometimes known as the Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular, American magazine, The Beer Connoisseur, listed GABS as one of the top 20 beer festivals in the world
in 2015, GABS is now, in truth, so much more than a beer festival. It showcases the best Australian and New Zealand craft breweries and cider producers and features hundreds of beers and ciders, including WA breweries Cheeky Monkey, Eagle Bay Brewing, Little Creatures, Feral, Colonial, Custard & Co and Australian Homebrewer of the Year Jeff McGrath. Search #GABS2016 for more details.
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James Squires The Swindler is a light crisp pale summer ale, that is bursting with tropical, citrus and melon flavours with a touch of malt sweetness towards the end. A brilliantly refreshing beer for any summer.
Orchard Thieves’ first cider was pressed from the finest variety of apples they could thieve to create their own distinct, refreshingly smooth cider. These days of course, they no longer steal their apples, but still draw on their years of cider heritage to deliver that original, fresh taste of crisp and tart apples.
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BLACK STONE CHERRY Kentucky Derby With their fifth album, Kentucky, now out, and their first visit – supporting Steel Panther at Metro City on Thursday, June 23 – coming up fast, SHANE PINNEGAR chats with Black Stone Cherry singer/lead guitarist Chris Robinson and rhythm guitarist, Ben Wells. Black Stone Cherry’s new album, Kentucky, sounds like nothing more so than ‘home’. After four well-received LPs, relentless touring around America, the UK and Europe, and a split with label Roadrunner, the band went back to their original stomping grounds: home. Kentucky. The result is a kick-arse heavy record that sounds like the changes have really agreed with them. “Man, you know, we had nine great years but it was just time for it,” Robertson declares. “We had taken it as far as we could with Roadrunner, and when it came time do to a new record, man, we said, ‘fuck it, we’re gonna do this record just the four of us. We’re going to self-produce it. We’re going to go back to the studio we recorded our self-titled debut and we’re just going to do it on our own and
make the music that the four of us want’.” Ben Wells adds, “that was our goal: to make an album that not only was heavy and rocking, but had some soul to it, and had definite roots. So going back home, that’s one of the reasons we did that.” The band have focussed the last 10 years on building their fanbase in America and the UK. Is this first trip to Australia the start of a similarly concerted campaign to win us over? “We hope so!” Wells says emphatically. “I’ve always wanted to come to Australia, ever since the band started. Hopefully it can be the first of many times for us to come down there and play to our fans there.” Will they be remembered in 30 years in the same regard as AC/DC, Motorhead and Lynyrd Skynyrd? “What a big honour if we were that’s why we do it,” Wells says humbly. “We don’t do this to make tons and tons of money and to be rich, and drive 15 cars. We want to do this to make an impact, to make people feel something. So if we can be remembered years down the line as a great rock’n’roll band, that would be one of the best honours we could receive.”
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a healthy and supportive scene. Although we had some guidance along the way we really had no idea what we were doing, so we just sorted of flailed about whilst doing as many gigs as we could.
This, at different times in the past, seems something that may not have been destined to happen. Has hell frozen over? This reunion idea has been bandied about over the years, but always shot down. I was down in Bunbury last year and strongarmed Besty (Craig Best, drums) and Jason Cleary (bass, guitar) into the idea seeing that 2016 makes it 20 years since the band started. Word went out to Graeme (Mueller bass ‘96’00) and James (McDonald, guitar) and happily they were into the idea too. We wouldn’t have gotten together again without everyone being on board.
Looking back, how would you sum up the Melbourne years? It was a long and slow death! It was tough to begin with. We missed Perth’s warmth in more ways than one. We clawed our way up to some level of acceptance I suppose, gigging regularly at all the infamous haunts in Melbourne – and Fish Creek. It was a lot of fun though, and two band members met their life partners so it wasn’t all warm VB.
Was it a hard decision to leave Perth for Melbourne? Yes and no. It A Quick One Back felt like we’d sort of In WA Three Orange Whips, circa 1999 peaked in Perth so moving to Melbourne The beery and cheery Three felt like a natural move. It was hard leaving Orange Whips will reform for two special behind such a supportive network of friends shows on Friday, May 28, at the Prince Of and family, but none of us had lived in or even Wales, Bunbury, and Saturday, May 29, at seen Melbourne so it just seemed like we were Amplifier. BOB GORDON goes from Bunbury embracing a fresh adventure, hungry for new to Melbourne and back with vocalist, Daniel experiences. Durack.
The Perth years were good times indeed. The Whips had a loyal following. What are your memories? The memories are of some great pubs, exciting bands and boozy camaraderie in
Why did the band finish? I was 29 and wanted to live and work in England so needed to scram in order to get a working visa which you can’t get once you’re 30. We’d just released an album so the timing wasn’t ideal, but the other blokes would probably agree that we felt a bit played out. Eight years was a good, solid stretch.
BAG RAIDERS With chakras aligned, Bag Raiders have released Checkmate, their third and final installment in a series of premium cuts all leading up to the release of their second full-length album this summer. The Bag Raiders are currently taking the full live band on the road on an extensive North American tour and will return to Australia in late May for a National Tour. Catch them in Perth at Jack Rabbit Slims on Sunday, June 5.
HOT ROD & STREET MACHINE SPECTACULAR The 20th running of Perth’s premier indoor car show, the Hot Rod & Street Machine Spectacular, is coming up fast. Each year the show announces a new theme and this year they’ve chosen Glory Days. Chris Bitmead’s 1976 XB Falcon coupe, dubbed XBOSS, will be making its first appearance on Australian soil after wowing the crowds at the famed Detroit Autorama. This year’s show will be held at Claremont Showground on June 18-19. For more information or to download an entry form, visit wahotrodshow.com.au or find them on Facebook.
WAAPA P&D WAAPA’s Production and Design programs prepare students in a range of interpretive and technical theatre disciplines through SAM SIMMONS teaching methods designed to recognise multi-award winning comedian, Sam and refine the skills and potential of Simmons, is back on Australian soil, but not each individual. Unparalleled in any other for long because after his epic 2015, which Australasian arts training institution, they saw him walk away with the two biggest provide their students with the greatest awards in live comedy, Sam is in high demand diversity of ‘on the job’ theatrical experiences. across the international stage. Western Australian Academy of Performing After completely selling out his Arts offers a variety of courses such as Arts Melbourne Comedy Festival season this year, Management, Costume Design, Lighting, he now heads to Perth for one night only the Props & Scenery, Sound & Stage Management Regal Theatre on Saturday, June 25. Tickets will just to name a few. Online Applications open sell out, so be on your way to ticketek.com.au. July 1, so check out waapa.ecu.edu.au/home.
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RTRFM’S MOMENT IN TIME RTRFM is teaming with the Western Australian Museum for A Moment in Time a celebration of the museum featuring performances of some of WA’s most iconic songs but inspiring contemporary local musicians. David Craft, Rachael Dease, Odette Mercy, Timothy Nelson and Mei Saraswati with the Perth Symphony Orchestra and an all-star band featuring Mal Clarke (Sleepy Jackson, Weapon is Sound) and Jozef Grech (Project Mayhem, Flooded Palace), will pay tribute to classic WA songs from the likes of Abbe May, The Drones, Felicity Groom, The Stems, Tame Impala and more. Picking the songs was by far the hardest part of this whole process,” says Chris Wheeldon. “Renee (Pole, RTRFM’s Development and Community Engagement Manager) who has had a big part in this event, put together a shortlist that was not that short of songs we felt would firstly sound amazing and that would best express the WA music scene. We then got together with the soloists and they made the final selections based on what they wanted to sing and what
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would work with an orchestral arrangement. “Tristan Parr has been taking care of the arrangers as it is a world I know little about. He had a team in mind and allocated based on their style and want to do a particular song.” The collections within the current museum have been moved in preparation for construction of the New Museum for WA. The Perth site will close to the public on Saturday, June 18, until the New Museum opens in 2020. “People can expect something completely different to what RTRFM normally does. This one is a bit fancy but more so it is a great way to say goodbye to the Museum as we know it while eagerly anticipated what is next in its life. What better way to do that then to celebrate with music?” A Moment in Time takes place at the Western Australian Museum, Perth Cultural Centre, on Friday, June 3, from 7pm. Tickets will be available at the door if they haven’t sold out online from museum.wa.gov.au. BOB GORDON
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VIOLENT SOHO The Rainbow Connection Touring in support of their newly released WACO album, Violent Soho play a sold-out show at Metro City on Friday, May 20. TIM MILROY chats with guitarist, James Tidswell, about getting the sound just right when it comes to recording a new album. Tell us about getting off the road and back into the studio to record WACO. Where did you record the album? We recorded at the same place we did Hungry Ghost with our mate called Bryce Moorhead. So it’s called The Shed in Brisbane. It’s like a shed, basically, and our mate, Garrick has just slowly chipped away and turned it more and more into a studio. In terms of the difference in sound, you know, you naturally get better at your instruments and you naturally play a bit tighter and smoother and obviously Bryce has lifted his game because it sounds completely different to Hungry Ghost. Yeah it does! The main thing that I had noticed was the sonic difference in the
guitar parts. It sounds like there’s been a lot of experimentation going on. Where did those influences come from? Look, dude – to be honest, it’s always been pretty natural in terms of we’re always experimenting with new pedals. It can get pretty boring playing guitar so what I’ve been doing to keep myself playing in the off-season, if you will, is just buying a bunch of different pedals and having a go. In So Sentimental, which is my second favourite song I got this new pedal called The Rainbow - and The Rainbow sounds like a unicorn ejaculating! So what’s your favourite track on the album? My favourite track is No Shade. It was the first one that Luke (Boerdam, vocals) sent through and I just love the chorus, especially. It seems like a step further in the right direction and to be honest, I feel like that about the whole album. We’ll only ever be us but it just felt a little bit more, maybe confident I guess. And is it that confidence that you would say is that biggest difference between WACO and Hungry Ghost?
I think so. I just think after the amount of times we’ve been in the studio, we’re so comfortable in there. Before we’d be in and out and really tip toe around producers in there and try to get the job done whereas now we go in there and really make it our own. I don’t think there’s as much anxiety in the playing on the record. Songs like In The Aisle and in the early days like Love is a Heavy Word is a perfect example of that anxiety coming through. We were a little bit unsure of ourselves, a little bit trying to go as fast as possible and trying to get it done. Whereas this time tracks are that played at the same tempo like Evergreen - are sitting so much better back in the groove. Do you think spending so much time touring the Hungry Ghost album and playing live affected the writing and recording process of WACO? Yeah, I think so. We played so much during the Hungry Ghost cycle, I mean it felt like we could have toured that album for years.
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How did you find the time during the past few years to get WACO written? Well it was the first time that we’d got home from tour and no one had to go back to work to on the Monday. It was the very first time everyone had time to do their own thing. No one had to go back to a warehouse folding t-shirts. Everyone came home and had some time off, I had a baby, Luke got married, actually. Mikey (Richards, drums) and Henery (bass) had babies as well so we got a lot done in that time! But when it comes to the song writing, Luke writes all the songs especially for this album. WACO was written by him alone in his bedroom. Mikey and myself were in our own little studio in Brisbane every single day so the songs were played a lot more. Songs like So Sentimental may sound super easy but I’m going to say that I played that song for fourhours-a-day, five-days-a-week while Mikey really worked out that drum pattern. That drum beat was rehearsed like no other song. Continued on page 24...
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Brisbane Broncos, we feel like a football team walking out Violent Soho | Photo by Rachael Barrett there. It’s like You had been together the crowd as a band for almost turn-out is 10 years by the time supporting you released Hungry a team and Ghost and it seemed to us, we’re like everyone in just blown Australia had a Violent away, man. Soho shirt overnight. Honestly, (Laughs) every thing Yeah man it’s that is awesome. We think it happening is so rad. It’s different keeps blowing from the support that us away but to us that’s the most important most bands get where you don’t wear the thing that we have that support. We want band shirt to the gig; but it’s sort of like the
to be a representative of music fans that get to do this. We don’t want to be rock stars or segregated from our audience in any which way, we don’t think we’re any more special and like the people in the crowd we grew up going to every possible show we could in our community and that’s why when people ask us when we’re going to quit or give up, there certainly was no expectations. We just wouldn’t know what else to do, this is the type of people we are, you know? This is our lives, we’re music fanatics and to be lucky enough and put in front of this many people and supported at a show like a football team, it’s an honour.
RANDY HANSEN Hendrix Revolution Randy Hansen brings his Hendrix Revolution show to the Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday, May 24. SHANE PINNEGAR reports. Randy Hansen is one of the few guitar virtuosos interpreting the music of Jimi Hendrix to be recognised by the late guitarist’s family. And although he has released several albums of original music, he maintains that his Hendrix Revolution tour will be “focussing on Jimi, mostly - we may do one or two of my songs.”
Despite performing his Hendrix tributes for decades now, Hansen still insists he constantly finds new magic in the music. “Luckily Jimi wrote a lot of spaces for improvisation; he himself improvised a lot, so I kind of take the same avenue,” he says. “Most of what I do are tricks that I learned from Jimi, how he would inject certain things. Then other things I’ve learned on my own from other guitar players. “I kind of go through all of the eras of Jimi’s music. I don’t really use a set list or anything. There’s certain songs I know to play but then there’s other ones that just hit me at the time, like, ‘hey, maybe we’ll do this’. We do a lot of deep cuts and everything. My show, for a long time, used to be three hours long and even then, we never ran out of songs to play.” Over the years Hansen has had the opportunity to play with Hendrix’s former bandmates Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. As a dedicated fan as well as a professional musician, it must have been interesting to talk to these guys about their experiences too? “Yeah, they clued me in on a few things,” Hansen affirms. “Certain things like, for instance, they never used tuners when they went on stage. They would tune up as they hit the stage. Another things is the fact that they did improvise almost steadily and they never stuck to set lists - if certain songs hit them, they would just launch into it and do whatever they were thinking. A lot of times I don’t think they knew exactly where Jimi was going, but they tried to follow along and run with it. “It’s flying by the seat of your pants, and it’s scary to do that. I just never have wanted to go repeat any show, the same way Jimi didn’t want to repeat his shows. He’d do something different at every show.” 24
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ZERODENT Pex Drive Zerodent launch their self-titled debut album at The Boston this Friday, May 20, with help from Cold Meat, Rinehearts, Nerve Quakes and The White Swallows. ALEX GRIFFIN reports. Predrag Delibasic (better known as Pex) knows a few things about getting a band going. Having had a hand in a bevy of legendary Perth punk acts (Bamodi, SMRTS, Night Signals, it goes on) Zerodent is the latest and brightest. Working with fellow luminaries Louis Hooper, Lee Jenkins and Kenta McGrath, their debut LP, Zerodent, is speedy as hell, no-frills and addictive, full of hooks and elbows, like Royal Headache playing Pink Flag. As Pex puts it, the no-nonsense approach is pretty bottom up for the foursome. “There were no influences at all. We just wanted to start a punk band. We consciously opted for a clean sound, at least when it comes to guitars; we didn’t want to hide behind the distortion and kill the melody.” International attention wasn’t slow in coming; after putting a demo online, Eric Friedl from Goner Records quickly offered a standing invitation for the iconic Gonerfest
THE VOLCANICS Book ‘Em Robbo The Volcanics hit the Bassendean Hotel on Friday, May 20, with The Painkillers and Paul McCarthy & The Wishers. BOB GORDON checks in with guitarist, Tommy Hopkins.
(“It’ll happen if we get a grant,” says Pex), and the revered German label Alien Snatch! picking the record up for vinyl. “After the album was finished we sent it to about 20 labels. Alien Snatch! Records replied right away saying they loved it and want to put it out. No contract, just an internet handshake.” That’s not the only high profile help they’ve had; Jim Diamond from Chicago’s legendary Dirtbombs mastered the record for vinyl, with local hero Gravy Murphy responsible for the digital master (“A top bloke and the Master of the Mastering!” Pex enthuses.) Despite his storied career, this is the first time Pex has turned his hand to writing the lyrics. “I wrote all the lyrics apart from Lucky - kind of a cover of a song by my first band Sokkol - and You, for which I wrote the first verse and Lee did other two. I admit I enjoy this new experience of writing lyrics, but every time I hear Lee’s bits in You I wish he did it instead,” Pex jokes. In this era of renewed vinyl fetishism, it’s not just big bands clogged up by the delays involved with Dave Matthews Band 6-LP sets, as Zerodent already have another record ready to go while waiting for this one. “We recorded the album in July, 2015, and due to the usual delay with pressing plants it only came out in April this year. So in the meantime we have at least another album worth of songs and we hope to start recording them soon. We’re off to Melbourne for two shows in July, then hopefully the US in September.”
You’re supporting The Dubrovniks on June 2 at the Rosemount. It must be great to play shows with bands you’ve been fans of, both as young and older men... Yeah we’re all big fans of all of James Baker’s bands and of him as a person. We’ve also been lucky enough over the past few years to play with a bunch of bands that we all dig which has been a bit of an honour, to be honest.
Speaking of which, you’re playing East Coast shows with Radio Birdman later in June. The connection with Rob Younger and co. just seems to blossom as time goes on. What are You released your latest album, your thoughts? Transmission, last October. Have you been Well, we’re all fans of Birdman and pleased with the reception to we love Rob. He’s it here and overseas? produced our last two The reception to albums which has been the new album has been an excellent experience. great. We’ve had a heap of He’s a top bloke and good reviews, both here and he has a knack for throughout Europe so we feel making everyone feel really lucky. It was great to The Volcanics, Europa ‘15 really comfortable work with Rob Younger and in the studio which Kenny Watt again, and to have Wayne Connolly is very important. He also has some great mix the album was amazing. The whole process ideas for our songs as well as about different of recording was really enjoyable and we were sounds. We all consider Rob a good friend and stoked with the final product. would love to work with him, as well as Wayne Connolly, on our next album. You toured Europe not long after its release. What are your memories of that trek? What’s the rest of 2016 look like for you? Good, bad and ugly (laughs)... but After launching Transmission over seriously, we had an amazing time! Lots of East and playing the shows with Birdman late nights and early starts before long hours we have a show at The Carine on June 25 on the road with a bunch of smelly guys. But but then the big focus for us will on writing there were some great shows, we were lucky and recording for the next album. We’ll likely enough to play at the Rockpalast Crossroads play a few shows down south at some point Festival on German television as well as a gig during 2016 as well but the biggest goal for supporting The Drones in France which was a the band is to have a new album to be able to ripping show! The highlights of the tour were promote for our tour of Europe next year. definitely the shows in Spain. 26
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sing-a-long.. so when you get one, you know that those people resonate with the song’s concepts; it’s not just a bunch of people singing a pop chorus because it gets stuck in their head. These are people with analytical brains who love words somewhere as much as I do. Nothing is cooler than that.
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The Mathas Trolling Australia Tour hits Amplifier this Friday, May 20, with special guest Diger Rokwell. You share some deep stuff in your songs. BOB GORDON Does that get easier over the years or is You’re in the midst of your national tour, how’s it been going? It’s been excellent. People actually turned up! It’s also been a great testing ground for my new band and as a travelling unit we work really well together. There’s been a lot of laughing. It’s also the first time I’ve travelled with more than just a suitcase.. the amount of gear you’re moving around on cheap early flights is immense and an experience in itself. From one bag to two trolleys’ worth. Just for the record too.. Diger Rokwell is a hilarious lunatic. What’s it like being joined on a full national tour by your old friend? Diger gets excited about adventures. I seem to have lost the ability to get excited anymore but when Diger’s excited and in a good mood he’s the trippiest one-man comedy sketch show. So with the amount of time we’ve been in fits of laughter on this tour, I think that’s actually helped me to be more excited, which in turn makes for a better show. Also Diger’s been a good dude to me over the years, he let me use a room in his house, free rent for almost a year while I tried to finish my last album. So it’s nice to feel that i can pay back some small fraction of that dudeness. Going out on tour you must see up close the influence that Armwrestling Atlas has had on your following as well as how it has furthered your musical career. What have you noticed? I’ve noticed a lot of people I don’t know belting out the lyrics at each show and the thing about that is that my lyrics are pretty long-winded and convoluted, so for someone to have learnt them means they’ve probably listened to the songs a lot. When you make music like mine you’re not expecting a
it something you still have to take deep breaths about? I think the hardest part of giving so many of your thoughts and ideas to public forum is that they act as a testament to that period of time.. but then the songs live forever. So if you write something and then your opinion on the subject slowly morphs as the
years pass on, you still have to perform the song with the same conviction, even though you feel less passionate about the argument you presented in the song. So currently I’ve been writing some slightly more light-hearted music (laughs). You’re performing at State Of The Art on June 6. What’s it mean to you to be involved in that showcase? It means I get to share the stage with some of the best acts this state has to offer. It also means Elizabeth Quay will be put to good use, which I think is likely necessary to make Colin Barnett feel a little less fidgety. He’s been a bit shaky in his interviews lately, the poor bugger.
20/05 Zerodent Self-Titled Album Lanch @ The Boston 20/05 Stop The Georgians She’s Anarchy Single Launch @ Four5Nine Bar 21/05 The High Learys Not Gonna Lie Single Launch @ Mojos 28/05 The Vibrolators Feat. Miss Peta Lee EP Launch @ Mustang Bar 03/06 The Limbs Beginner EP Launch @ Babushka 04/06 Stoney Joe Fuel For The Fire Album Launch @ Babushka
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IRON MAIDEN The Raven Age Perth Arena Saturday, May 14, 2016 Open Mic Fright - Bruce Dickinson
From the moment Iron Maiden took to the Perth Arena stage on Saturday night, they owned it, and had the thousands in attendance in the palm of their hands for two hours of heavy metal, 1980’s style. Opening the show was The Raven Age, featuring Maiden bassist/founder Steve Harris’s son George on guitar. Whilst allegations of nepotism are far from unfair for these relatively untested London lads scoring the coveted support slot, they delivered a thoroughly enjoyable set of energetic and catchy modern metal that far exceeded expectations.
The six-band members of Iron Maiden may have dressed like average 50-something blokes down the pub on a Friday night, but the set was incredibly decked out in a theme that riffed on latest album, Book Of Souls, Mayan culture theme. With six tracks featured from the new album, the tour was designed to appeal to dedicated fans – fans who have got the impressive latest record. And appeal it did: tracks If Eternity Should Fail, The Book Of Souls, and especially their tribute to the late actor Robin Williams, Tears Of A Clown, and an immense The Red And The Black really came into their own live, the band’s three lead guitarists weaving an exquisite spell. Bruce Dickinson, not just the band’s singer famous for his exhortations ‘scream for me’, but also the pilot of their hired jet traversing the globe – injects not only stunning vocals (impossibly good for a man of his age who has just won a battle with throat cancer), but a strong element of prog-rock drama to proceedings, donning a robe for the opening track, a uniform and tattered British flag for Crimean War epic, The Trooper, and a Pharaoh’s mask for the Egyptian-themed Powerslave. The image of Harris, one foot perched on a monitor, hair flailing and all four fingers dancing away at his bass strings,
is as iconic as any in metal. As is Maiden’s larger-than-life mascot, Eddie, making a panto appearance, as he does in Book Of Souls, looking every bit the Mayan ghoul, and playfighting with ever-energetic guitarist, Janick Gers, until Dickinson playfully extracts the stilted monster’s heart. Iron Maiden in flight
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proves that it’s not just their singles that are beloved. Hallowed Be Thy Name, enormous crowd-pleaser Fear Of The Dark, and the eponymous Iron Maiden – which is punkishly muscular and features an inflatable Eddie head and shoulders behind the band before spewing pyro. The encore came straight from the heart of the band: The Number Of The Beast - complete with a huge Horned Beast looming ominously over the stage, an epic Blood Brothers following a heartfelt introduction by Dickinson, and a much-loved Wasted Years bringing the show to a triumphant finish.
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TWENTY ONE PILOTS E^ST Astor Theatre Thursday, May 5, 2016 Already touring the nation as part of Groovin The Moo, Twenty One Pilots’ headline sideshows quickly sold out in venues that probably either could have been bigger or had shows added. If they wanted to drum up some excitement, then that they did, certainly at the Astor Theatre on this occasion. E^ST opened to a full-house awaiting the headline act with baited breath, but with a confident and audience-interactive performance, they met with cheers of approval. There’s only two of them onstage (plus a DJ at the mixing desk), but Twenty One Pilots certainly know how to fill and cover a stage, and let their crowd know who’s boss. Drummer Josh Dun and vocalist/
multi-instrumentalist, Tyler Joseph, kept banter to a minimum and saved the fanfare for their performance, from the opener, Heavydirtysoul, to Migraine and Guns For Hands, to a ukulele-led version of Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling In Love With You (well-received by this extremely happy and motivated audience, but it was unclear how many of the assembled actually knew it). The light show was unrelenting (as were the screams). By the end the duo were propped up on boards, floating across the audience and back to the stage to say goodbye. Too soon? Not really, they’ll be back at Perth Arena on Saturday, April 8, on a national arena tour. If you thought they were big already, Twenty One Pilots are about to go off the hook. It’s good to be kings. REMY GORDON
THE TOMMYHAWKS Thea, sax/vocals It seems that WA, more than any other state, takes a real pride in the music and musicians who come from here. Do you agree and if so why is it? It certainly feels that way. As a band you feel pretty supported here and there’s always a really nice camaraderie between bands - I think everyone always wants the best for each other over here and the whole two degrees of separation means that everyone knows or has played with someone who knows someone in another band. Also WAM and RTR FM are incredibly supportive of local bands and I think really help to build that sense of worth in our state’s music. For many years the old phrase ‘the tyranny of distance’ was applied to the ups-and-downs of being a Perth band trying to give it a crack. Is that phrase now completely a thing of the past? No, I think it’s still a huge thing! Obviously the internet has helped bridge gaps but when it comes to getting your music out to the Eastern States if you’re not getting airplay interstate then the only way you can get your name out is to go and gig… like what you have to do in Perth or anywhere when you start out. It’s hugely expensive to fly a band/ hire a van/get accommodation over there and not many venues will pay big bucks for a band they’ve never heard of who doesn’t have anyone likely to come to the venue to see them! We’ve been really lucky in playing a fair few
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festivals over East; and so we can keep ‘ going back’ and attempting to find a fan or two. Our ‘thrifty’ touring methods have luckily made us even closer. If you can share beds in a van for three weeks straight and come home still wanting to hang out then something’s gotta be working! What’s it mean to you that you’re playing at an event such as State Of The Art? We are so stoked. Perth really has so many incredible bands so we’re pretty honoured to be a part of it! What acts are you most looking forward to seeing? That’s a toughie! The Galloping Foxleys we could watch time and time again and never get tired of them. Koi Child and the Love Junkies. Jebs! (laughs). Looking ahead, what musical plans are afoot for you? We’re officially releasing our second EP next month; then back over to the East Coast in September. Then Europe early next year.. and in the meantime; you’ll see us round the Perth traps!
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TO UR S THIS FORTNIGHT ELUVEITIE 17 Capitol A WILHELM SCREAM 19 Rosemount Hotel VIOLENT SOHO with DZ DEATHRAYS & DUNE RATS 20 Metro City SAMPA THE GREAT 21 Jack Rabbit Slim’s APIA GOOD TIMES ft. DARYL BRAITHWAITE, KATE CEBERANO, JOHN PAUL YOUNG & JON STEVENS 21 Perth Concert Hall 22 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre TIRED LION 28 Capitol THE HENDRIX REVOLUTION TOUR 24 Perth Concert Hall O RAPPA 25 Metropolis Fremantle REMI 27 Jack Rabbit Slim’s MATTY T WALL 27 Settlers Tavern, Margaret River 29 Clancy’s Fish Bar Dunsborough BASEMENT 31 Amplifier JUNE 2016 CHERIE CURRIE 1 Rosemount Hotel IAN MOSS 2 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 4 Albany Entertainment Centre 5 Bunbury Entertainment Centre ALEX GOW & DAN KELLY 2 Mojos 3 Jimmy’s Den 30
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DYLAN JOEL 3 Amplifier LEO & LULU 3 Perth Concert Hall KLP 3 The Aviary A MOMENT IN TIME 3 Western Australian Museum STANTON WARRIORS 3 Villa Nightclub THE VANNS 2 Odd Fellow 3 Settlers Tavern 4 Four5Nine BEING AS AN OCEAN 4 Amplifier 5 YMCA HQ Leederville DMA’s 4 Rosemount Hotel 5 Rosemount Hotel ANNA LUNOE 5 Ambar Nightclub BAG RAIDERS 5 Jack Rabbit Slims DEAFHEAVEN 6 Rosemount Hotel SOTA ft. JEBEDIAH, SAN CISCO, KOI CHILD, TA-KU, THE LOVE JUNKIES, MOSQUITO COAST & more 6 Elizabeth Quay FEAR FACTORY 8 Metropolis Fremantle NORTHLANE & IN HEARTS WAKE 10 Metro City THE SMITH STREET BAND 10 Capitol THE ATARIS 12 Amplifier RICHARD MARX 14 Astor Theatre 15 Astor Theatre CRAIG ROBINSON 15 Rosemount Hotel THE LIVING END 16 Astor Theatre MAT MCHUGH 16 Jimmy’s Den 17 Mojo’s Bar 18 Indi Bar 19 Clancy’s Dunsborough DITA VON TEESE
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BAG RAIDERS, SUN, JUNE 5 @ JACK RABBIT SLIMS
STRIP STRIP HORAY! 17 Astor Theatre 18 Astor Theatre 19 Astor Theatre BIG COUNTRY 18 Rosemount Hotel THE RUBENS 18 Metro City FOSTER & ALLEN 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION TOUR 23 Astor Theatre STEEL PANTHER 23 Metro City BEATS IN THE HEAT ft. JOHN WILLIAMSON, POTBELLEZ, THE CAT EMPIRE, DRAPHT, ART VS SCIENCE, BRITISH INDIA & more 24 & 25 Karratha Entertainment Complex Bulgarra OLYMPIA 24 Amplifier 25 Odd Fellow HOT DUB TIME MACHINE 25 Metro City URTHBOY 25 Amplifier SWERVEDRIVER 28 Amplifier BLACK STONE CHERRY 29 Capitol WES CARR 30 Albany Entertainment Centre JULY 2016 THE PAPER KITES 1 Astor Theatre WHAT SO NOT, A-TRAK & ROME FORTUNE 2 Metro City KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD 1 Badlands 2 Badlands 3 Mojo’s PHIL WALLEYSTACK 7 Astor Theatre THELMA PLUM 7 Mojos Bar 8 Jack Rabbit Slims
LDRU 8 Villa Nightclub JUNGLE GIANTS 9 Jack Rabbit Slims RUSSELL HOWARD 15 Riverside Theatre WEEDEATER & CONAN 17 Rosemount Hotel JOE AVATI 16 Astor Theatre WEEDEATER & CONAN 17 Rosemount Hotel SNAKEHIPS 21 Villa Nightclub GANZ 29 Villa JAMES BLAKE 30 HBF Stadium THE CURE 31 Perth Arena AUGUST 2016 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS 11 Perth Arena SETH SENTRY 12 Metro City JIMMY BARNES 13 Crown Theatre TROYE SIVAN 13 HBF Stadium BILLY TALENT 17 Capitol ROLLING THUNDER VIETNAM 17 – 20 Crown Theatre TOMMY EMMANUEL 22 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 23 Bunbury Entertainment Centre 24 Albany Entertainment Centre PIERCE THE VEIL 23 Astor Theatre JAKE BUGG 29 Metro City SEPTEMBER 2016 ANDY BLACK 1 The Astor Theatre CRYPTOPSY 4 The Rosemount Hotel PAM ANN 5 Regal Theatre THE WHITLAMS 8 Rosemount Hotel
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FOY VANCE 10 Mojo’s Bar BRING ME THE HORIZON 14 HBF Stadium FROM THE JAM 17 Capitol LOUIS THEROUX 22 Riverside Theatre MARINA PRIOR & MARK VINCENT 23 Perth Concert Hall HENRY ROLLINS 23 & 24 Regal Theatre 25 Margaret River Cultural Centre COG 24 Metro City JOE BONAMASSA 25 Perth Concert Hall OCTOBER 2016 THE LEVELLERS 12 Capitol ELLIE GOULDING 12 Perth Arena MAYDAY PARADE 13 Astor Theatre BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE & ATREYU 20 Metro City NOVEMBER 2016 BAD MANNERS 5 Rosemount Hotel 6 Prince of Wales Hotel ANDRE RIEU 3 Perth Arena DISTURBED 9 HBF Stadium VENGABOYS 12 Metro City THE MISSION 16 Capitol FLUME 25 Perth Arena BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS 29 Kings Park & Botanic Garden OCTOBER 2016 KAYTRANADA 22 Metro City MONSTER JAM 29 Domain Stadium APRIL 2017 TWENTY ONE PILOTS 8 Perth Arena
THE HIGH LEARYS, SAT 21 @ MOJOS
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BABUSHKA Open Mic Night BIRD Leftover Lovers ft. The Spunloves Wheelers of Oz The Durongs CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Songwriter’s Night ELLINGTON Joyce Mathers & Avenue 6 FLY BY NIGHT The Gaslight Club ft. Seth Lowe Ray Pritchard Jen De Ness Trio LUCKY SHAG WATERFRONT BAR Howie Morgan MOJO’S Electric Bonglords Fuzz Toads Marmalade Mama Butter Pepper The Ohmy Days MOON CAFÉ Going Solo w/ John Martyr & Stella Donnelly ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Rock ‘n’ Roll Karaoke VASITY BAR Bernardine THURSDAY 19/05
AMPLIFIER Last Night ft. The Medic Droid BABUSHKA Marmalade Mama Mung Dahl Sunshine Punch The Crystal Moth BIRD Prince Tribute Night DEFECTORS BAR Songwriter’s Club EL GROTTO Silver Hills Human Buoy Whails FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT Club Zho 127 ft. Aviva Endean ELLINGTON Simon Barker w/ Oehlers, Malet & Jeavons INDI BAR Open Mic Night
THE INSATIABLES, SUN 22 @ ROSEMOUNT
NEWPORT HOTEL Record Club Season Five ft. The B-Tools NORTHSHORE TAVERN Nathan Gaunt LANEWAY LOUNGE Adam Hall & the Velvet Playboys MOON CAFÉ The Fix PRINCE OF WALES The Love Junkies ROSEMOUNT HOTEL A Wilhelm Scream The Decline Alex the Kid Dead End Brawler UNIVERSAL BAR Off The Record FRIDAY 20/05
AMBAR Fresh Produce ft. Sweet93 Kachina FRAGMNT Oli Bamba Keef AMPLIFIER Dune Rats & DZ Deathrays DJ Set BASSENDEAN HOTEL The Volcanics The Painkillers Paul McCarthy The Wishers THE BRASS MONKEY Terry Clarke BIRD Elli Schoen CLANCY’S FREMANTLE The Vibrolators ELLINGTON The Jamie Oehlers Quartet ft. Allira Wilson Ayodele JACK RABBIT SLIMS Jam-Boree #3 ft. Fine Court Palm Soma Casinodreams Bliss in Berlin The Hunting Birds FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT Stop The Georgians LANEWAY LOUNGE Maera Paki Soothe MOJOS Old Blood Ruby May and the Doobie Slayers Monroe
PRINCE OF WALES Julius Lutero ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Sprawl Pat Chow The Government Yard Hip Priest Good Try UNIVERSAL BAR Nightmoves SATURDAY 21/05
BASSMENT P0GMAN BIRD HYLA CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Yaqui Yeti Fuzz Toads Marlinspoke Sealamb FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT Usurper of Modern Medicine JACK RABBIT SLIMS Sampa The Great JIMMY’S DEN Grid Monkeys MOON & SIXPENCE Hi-NGR MOJOS The High Learys Human Buoy Regular Boys PRINCE OF WALES The Dessert Sonns MAJUMBA Broken Sea RAILWAY HOTEL Like A Thief Yin The Ohmy Days Opine ROSEMOUNT The Iconoclast UNIVERSAL BAR Soul Corporation SUNDAY 22/05
CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Junkadelic BRISBANE HOTEL Ben Catley Jake Hoskins BRIGHTON HOTEL Lost Weekend FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT Choking Stanley At the Spacejam Tell the Shaman INDI BAR Moorditj Brothers
RABBITS FOOT, THURS 26 @ BABUSHKA
ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Insatiables MOJO’S Dead Sea The Piscos The Ohmy Days Butter Pepper The Dugongs METRO CITY This is Hip-Hop ft. Bone Thugs-NHarmony Mobb Deep + more MT LAWLEY BOWLING CLUB Perth Folk and Roots club ft. Jook Joint Band Kerry B Ryan THE WINDSOR HOTEL James Wilson MONDAY 23/05
CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Quiz Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Song Lounge May ft. Megan Kate Grant WonderChild Ezereve David Mercy MOJO’S BAR Wide Open Mic ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Comedy Trivia TUESDAY 24/05
BRASS MONKEY Open Mic Night CHARLES HOTEL Perth Blues Club CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Quiz Night ELLINGTON The Hills Big Band FOUR5NINE Jazz Tuesdays ft. The Persuasion LANEWAY LOUNGE Open Mic Night ROSEMOUNT HOTEL (BACKYARD) David Craft ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Lycra-cise Tuesdays WEDNESDAY 25/05
BABUSHKA Open Mic Night BIRD DJs Din Daa Daa
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TIRED LION, SAT 28 @ CAPITOL
CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Songwriter’s Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Rocket Man Elton John Tribute FLY BY NIGHT The Gaslight Club FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT Outlines HACKETT CAFÉ Fair Trade Fashion Fest MOJOS Jodie Tes and the Popular Front MOON CAFÉ Going Solo w/ Sam Atkin & Heathcote Blue PRINCE OF WALES Comedy Night ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Rock’N’Roll Karaoke SETTLERS TAVERN Open Mic Night THURSDAY 26/05
AMPLIFIER Last Night ft. Cloak and Dagger BABUSHKA Rabbits Foot The Encounters Cal’s Spiritual Journey Goongey Ryota Katayama BIRD Drone Zone Drone Zone w/ Furchick Basic Mind A.R. Jones GROOVE BAR AND LOUNGE Jack & Jill DEFECTORS BAR Songwriter’s Club INDI BAR Open Mic Night LEAPFROGS CAFÉ The Comedy Shack MERRIWA TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke MOON CAFÉ Bison Low Legs MOJOS Sons of the East NEWPORT HOTEL Record Club Season Five ft. Sultans Of Shwing PRINCE OF WALES Third Gear
FURCHICK, SUN 29 @ JIMMY'S DEN
ROSEMOUNT Raw Perth FRIDAY 27/05
AMBAR Force Majeure Skope Paul Dluxx AMPLIFIER Black Mass ft. Bolt Gun Dirac Sea Drohtnung Sanzu BIRD Kuzich CLANCY’S FREMANTLE The Zydecats JACK RABBIT SLIMS Remi MOJO’S Fremantle Heritage Festival Show ft. Donna from The Waifs, Datura4 and The Painkillers PRINCE OF WALES Three Orange Whips ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Tomorrow People SETTLERS TAVERN Matty T Wall SATURDAY 28/05
AMPLIFIER Three Orange Whips BABUSHKA PACIFIC Tenielle Neda Life In A Glass House Matthew Garrod BIRD The Drools CAPITOL Tired Lion CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Tom Fish & the Layabouts, King of Travellers FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT Perth Slam Poetry FLY BY NIGHT The Justin Walshe Folk Machine INDI BAR Blue Shaddy JACK RABBIT SLIMS Great Gabel EP Launch THE MONKEY BAR MAJUMBA ft. Palm Soma & The Desert Sonnes
MOJOS Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Red Engine Caves Fuzz Toads Marlinspike VILLA The Animal House: Sport and Rec SUNDAY 29/05
BIRD Oh Gosh pres. Oneman BRISBANE HOTEL Kat Wilson The Hunting Birds CLANCY’S FISH PUB Matty T Wall CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Junkadelic FLY BY NIGHT The Dorkestra JIMMY’S DEN Sonic Furnace ft. Unravel Drain Life Self Harm Ohm Rune Rabid Abbott Damage Wave Dead Root Furchick WitchCliff MOJO’S Caravãna Sun ROSEMOUNT HOTEL One Day Sundays MONDAY 30/05
CLANCY’S CANNING BRIDGE Quiz Night ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Book of Shapes MOJO’S BAR Wide Open Mic ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Comedy Trivia TUESDAY 31/05
AMPLIFIER Basement FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT Jazz Tuesdays ft. Joshua Hatcher Quintet ROSEMOUNT HOTEL (BACKYARD) David Craft ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Lycra-cise 31