Sauce - Issue#98, 08-07-09

ISSUE 98

. JULY 8 - JULY 21 2009 . TASMANIA’S STREET PRESS . FREE

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Weekends at Irish Murphy’s Hobart

Every Friday and Saturday night on the waterfront.

entrophy serotonin Amplified@ the greenhouse the smAshers

HOBART | 21 Salamanca Place

July 17 – 19 Amplified workshops

Thursday, Saturday & Sunday

AustrAliAn songwriters AssociAtion hear the newest of the new

1st Tuesday and 2nd Sunday of every month

6223 1119 | www.irishmurphys.com.au

Sgt Slick & Bright White SATURDAY 11TH JULY

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ABC Amplified Awards ABC LOCAL RADIO AND AMPLIFIED GET TOGETHER ON JULY 19 TO HAND OUT THE GONGS TO OUR FABULOUSLY TALENTED PERFORMERS. WHERE

Moorilla Winery, 655 Main Road, Berriedale

WHEN

Sunday 19 July, 5pm

COST

$15 and $10 concession – Return ferry ride included but places are limited so book early. Special Amplified ferry leaves Brooke Street Pier at 4pm sharp, returns 10pm

BOOKINgS www.arts.tas.gov.au/amplified Performances by special guests Mick Thomas and Craig Pilkington, plus Lincoln Le Fevre, Let the Cat Out and All Fires the Fire.

SOUNDS FROM TASMANIA 17—19 JULY 2009

Hosted by 936’s Andy Muirhead and triple j’s Steph Hughes More info at abc.net.au/hobart/competitions With thanks to our friends at MONA FOMA.

AMPLIFIED WORKSHOPS

AMPLIFIED WORKSHOPS

TAKE YOUR MUSIC TO THE NEXT STAgE WITH VROOM

and composer, Francois is also working with Gotye, Lior, Architecture in Helsinki and Bertie Blackman. Francois’ recent work includes the award winning score for Wolf Creek, the choreographic score for Chunky Move’s Tense Dave and the score for artist Patricia Piccinni’s Perhaps the world is fine tonight for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

VROOM is the first national support network of Live Music leading the touring revolution.

WHEN

Thursday 16 July, 6–8pm

WHERE

Irish Murphy’s Hobart–Function Room, 21 Salamanca Place, Hobart

COST

Free

PHIL TRIPP + RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO + SXSW

VROOM Australia is a project of AMIN, the Australian Music Industry Network and has been supported by its principal sponsor APRA and each of the State

Arts Funding Bodies.

DJ TR!P: COMPOSINg FOR PERFORMANCE Workshop/Demonstration Thursday 16 July, 6–7:30pm Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart

COST

$20 Includes workshop and ticket to Construct

DJ TR!P will be joined by construct’s Creative Co-ordinator and Remount Director Solon Ulbrich, in an insightful and engaging workshop and demonstration on the processes of collaboration and composing. Musicians, composers, dancers, choreographers, directors and performers alike will especially enjoy and benefit from this great workshop.

APRA PRESENTS: THE SONgWRITER & THE PRODUCER Featuring Sally Seltmann (New Buffalo) and Francois Tétaz.

Saturday 18 July, 4:10–5:10pm Irish Murphy’s Hobart–Function Room, Salamanca Place, Hobart

COST

Free

Sunday 19 July, 10:30am–1:30pm

WHERE

Irish Murphy’s Hobart–Function Room, Salamanca Place, Hobart

COST

Free

www.immedia.com.au/rip

DJ 41 TR!P is an electronic musician who composes for an eclectic range of projects.

He performs his original music live and also works as a DJ, remix artist, workshop tutor and composer for theatre, dance, film, radio and events. As the composer of Tanya Leidtke’s construct DJ TR!P’s outstanding sound track has been described as ‘A perfect choice by Leidtke in collaborating with TR!P to create new and lateral pathways between sound, movement and human emotion.’

WHERE

WHEN

He’s screening a controversial music business documentary titled ‘RiP: A Remix Manifesto’ which raised great debate in the business when it was shown in major cities. It’s about where art meets commerce in music and how this affects copyright and how enforcement affects artists and consumers.

BOOKINgS Phone 6234 8414 or email events@salarts.org.au Bookings close 30 June

WHEN

Brunch with Phil Tripp featuring a screening of ‘RiP: A Remix Manifesto’, info about SXSW and much more…

Phil Tripp heads up IMMEDIA! in Sydney which produces the biennial AustralAsian Music Business Conference (August 20-22 this year www.immedia.com.au/ambc); he published the twice-yearly AustralAsian Music Industry Directory (www.immedia.com.au/amid) since 1987; runs the music industry news and advice portal TheMusic (www.themusic.com.au) and is also the representative for South by Southwest Music Festival and Conferences (www.sxsw.com and www.themusic.com.au/sxsw local site) as well as selling music business books (www.immedia.com.au/books).

Your free online resource for original music touring is now available in LIVE TEST mode at www.vroom.net.au

WHERE

WHEN

Saturday 18 July, 10am–5pm

WHERE

Mawson’s Waterfront Pavilion, Constitution Dock, Hobart

COST

$20 for the day (no individual session split)

TICKETS

Book online at www.arts.tas.gov.au/amplified until 14 July. Door sales on the day between 9–10am only.

To celebrate the launch of VROOM beta we invite you to explore the future of Australian music touring at our panel discussion event, ‘Roadway to Success’. Join some of Australia’s premier music industry personnel who have been involved in the management and touring of bands both here and internationally and see how VROOM can work for you. Speakers include, Tracy Redhead, Dane Hunnerup with more to be announced.

WHEN

Amplified Conference

APRA is proud to present a session focusing on the collaborative and creative relationship between the songwriter and the producer. Songwriter, Sally Seltmann and producer Francois Tétaz are currently collaborating on the third New Buffalo album. A gifted songwriter, Sally won the 2008 APRA Breakthrough Songwriter Award; her song ‘1,2,3,4’ was nominated for a Grammy and her 2007 album Somewhere, Anywhere won the Myspace Australia award at the Australian Music Prize. An accomplished producer

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With Darren Sanicki Friday 17 July, 2–5pm

WHERE

Arts Tasmania, 146 Elizabeth Street, Hobart

COST

Free

Nuts & Bolts 11:30am–12:50pm

My Local is designed and presented

by Tasmanian musicians, service providers and businesses to give an overview of what is available in our home state. It’s all about the different services you can access and will feature a cross section of Promoters, Publicans, Recording Studios, Radio Stations, Festivals, Web Administrators and DIY Labels.

Ask questions and meet the people who help to keep our music industry rolling.

Nuts & Bolts is about the road to higher success in music from the perspective of playing, managing and other key jobs in the industry.

With a key focus on DIY and roots level knowledge, this session will be an inspiration for those who are getting something rolling.

This session will look at the various legal issues facing musicians. It will take a look at the key ‘industry agreements’ including Management, Recording, Publishing and Producers Agreements and discuss potential pitfalls. It will look at new industry agreements such as 360 deals which are becoming more widespread. It will also look at the key issues concerning Band Partnerships, the various business structures for musicians and issues surrounding the use of a bands name including Trade Mark Registration.

Darren Sanicki has recently opened his own law firm Darren Sanicki Music & Entertainment Lawyers based in Melbourne. As the name suggests, the firm specialises in music, entertainment and the arts.

Darren’s client base includes, musicians, managers, artists, composers, indy labels, and producers to name a few. His areas of specialty include negotiating and advising on all types of music related agreements, copyright, trade-mark and other intellectual property matters as well as business structures for bands and other musical enterprises.

Facilitator: Jaddan Comerford Speakers: Pat Delves, Rae Harvey, Steph Hughes, Dorry Kartabani, Tom Lyngcoln, Nadia Mizner and Bernadette Ryan.

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My Service 1:40–2:20pm

My Product (continued) 2:30–4pm

My Service features 5 minute talks from key music industry businesses and service providers; what they do, how their service works within the industry and with time for a few questions.

Stream 2: Recorded

Speakers: Sebastian Chase, Pat Delves, Paula ‘Jonesy’ Jones, Chris Johnson, Con Kalamaras, Richard Moffat, Phil Tripp and David Vodicka.

AN INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC INDUSTRY LEgALS WHEN

My Local 10–11.20am

Discussion on directions in recording, digital delivery, changing directions in electronic media and the implications for music; and synchronisation with television, film and advertisements.

Speakers: Jess Beston, Steph Hughes, Chris Johnson, Dave Peacock and David Vodicka.

My Product 2:30–4pm

My Story 4:10–5pm

My Product will feature discussions in two consectutive streams.

My Story: Live & Local focuses on Tasmanians who have achieved national and/or international success including The Scientists of Modern Music, The Nation Blue and several others.

Stream 1: Live What directions have live music taken in the last decade? What makes for a great live performance?

What do scouts, agents and managers look for? What are the different ways to approach touring?

Speakers: Pat Delves, Glenn Dickie, Rae Harvey, Dorry Kartabani and Richard Moffat.

They will be discussing their journeys in carving out a niche for their sound and running a successful ensemble in the Australian music market

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Before a life in law, Darren work as a producer at a local recording studio and independent record label and also spent two years as a music producer at Channel 7.

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ABC AMPLIFIED AWARDS – SHORTLISTED PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS Short-listed finalists are listed in random order BEST DJ Patty Duke DJ Grotesque Dameza BEST EXPERIMENTAL / SOUND / NOISE Que Charles Du Cane Paint Your Golden Face BEST HARDCORE / PUNK Ballpoint The No No's Stand Defiant BEST INDIE/ POP All Fires the Fire The Stoics Joe Nuttall and Enola Fall BEST METAL Mephistopheles Psycroptic MSI BEST ROCK Red Rival Cruel Like That The Stoics BEST ROOTS / COUNTRY / BLUES Adam Cousens Lincoln Le Fevre and The Insiders Let the Cat Out BEST URBAN / FUNK / HIPHOP Benjafield Mayfield Mdusu and Dameza

BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL / JAZZ Benjafield Kelly Ottaway Sara Jane Band BEST ELECTRONIC / DANCE Crytearia All Fires the Fire The Scientists of Modern Music MOST POPULAR MUSIC EVENT Mona Foma MSFest Touber Productions 08 Season BEST EMERGING ACT The Native Cats The New Saxons All Fires the Fire BEST SOLO ARTIST Charles Du Cane Adam Cousens Lincoln Le Fevre and The Insiders BEST SONGWRITER Joe Nuttall and Enola Fall Lincoln Le Fevre and The Insiders Anthony Rochester BEST TASMANIAN BAND The Stoics Joe Nuttall and Enola Fall All Fires the Fire BEST WEBSITE / ONLINE The Scientists of Modern Music Ally Mok Ejecter

ABC AMPLIFIED AWARDS – SHORTLISTED INDUSTRY VOTED CATEGORY BEST ALBUM ARTWORK AND DESIGN Que Ally Mok Let the Cat Out ARTIST(S) OF YEAR The Scientists of Modern Music Lincoln Le Fevre and The Insiders Adam Cousens OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO ORIGINAL TAMANIAN MUSIC The Brisbane Hotel The Dwarf and Ruffcut records Mel Page EMERGING ARTIST(S) OF THE YEAR All Fires the Fire The Stoics The New Saxons ENGINEER / PRODUCER OF THE YEAR Anthony Rochester Caleb Doherty Ian Wollstein

MANAGER OF YEAR Helen Ransom/ Perfect Crime /Julian Palmer Hannah (Dario Phillips) Dave Sykes PROMOTER OF THE YEAR The Dwarf and Ruffcut records Clint Pease Charles Touber SUPPORTIVE VENUE OF THE YEAR The Brisbane Hotel Irish Murphys - The Greenhouse The Alley Cat Bar OUTSTANDING TOURING /INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT Psycroptic The Scientists of Modern Music Anthony Rochester

THURSDAY 16 JULY JULY THURSDAY 16 JULY THURSDAY 16 Amplified Amplified HQ HQ

TIME TIME TIME TIME 10:00AM –10:00PM 10:00AM –10:00PM

Southern Exposure Exhibition Southern Exposure Exhibition Directing Videos Workshop Directing MusicMusic Videos Workshop

10:00AM –4:00PM 10:00AM –4:00PM 6:00PM –7.30PM 6:00PM –7.30PM

DJ TR!P: Composing for Performance Workshop DJ TR!P: Composing for Performance Workshop VROOM Workshop VROOM Workshop

6:00PM– 7:30PM 6:00PM– 7:30PM 6:00PM– 8:00PM 6:00PM– 8:00PM

Amplified The Republic Amplified @ The@Republic

9:30PM 9:30PM

FRIDAY 17 JULY FRIDAY 17 JULY Amplified Amplified HQ HQ

10:00AM –10:00PM 10:00AM –10:00PM 10:00AM – 4:00PM 10:00AM – 4:00PM

Southern Exposure Exhibition Southern Exposure Exhibition Amplified Live Amplified Live to Air to Air An Introduction to Music Workshop An Introduction to Music LegalsLegals Workshop Art:APart A SoundSound Art: Part Amplified The Brisbane Amplified @ The@Brisbane Launch: The Steadfast Shepherd AlbumAlbum Launch: The Steadfast Shepherd Launch: Transcription of Organ AlbumAlbum Launch: Transcription of Organ MusicMusic Amplified The Greenhouse Amplified @ The@Greenhouse Cabaret The Cat Alley Cat Cabaret @ The@Alley Amplified The Republic Amplified @ The@Republic

12:00PM –2:00PM 12:00PM –2:00PM 2:00PM –5:00PM 2:00PM –5:00PM 5:00PM 5:00PM 7:00PM – 4:00AM 7:00PM – 4:00AM 7:30PM 7:30PM 7:30PM 7:30PM 8:30PM –2:00AM 8:30PM –2:00AM 8:30PM – 2:00AM 8:30PM – 2:00AM 9:30PM 9:30PM

SATURDAY 18 JULY SATURDAY 18 JULY Southern Exposure Exhibition Southern Exposure Exhibition

10:00AM –4:00PM 10:00AM –4:00PM

Amplified Conference Amplified Conference

10:00AM –4:00PM 10:00AM –4:00PM

Hobart + Music = Yeah!

Hobart + Music = Yeah!

12:00PM –12:00AM 12:00PM –12:00AM

Cottage Mystery – Session 2 hours Cottage MusicMusic Mystery – Session startsstarts every every 2 hours

PM–9:30PM 12:0012:00 PM–9:30PM

The Songwriter & The&Producer Workshop The Songwriter The Producer Workshop

4:10PM – 5:10PM 4:10PM – 5:10PM

Amplified HQ HQ Amplified

5:00PM –10:00PM 5:00PM –10:00PM

SoundSound Art: Soundtrack to a Haunting Art: Soundtrack to a Haunting

6:00PM 6:00PM

Dean Dean and the andArco theset Arco set

7:00PM 7:00PM

Cabaret @ The@Alley Cabaret The Cat Alley Cat

8:30PM –2:00AM 8:30PM –2:00AM

RootsRoots Up! Up! RUN nRUN JUMP n JUMP

9:00PM 9:00PM 9:00PM 9:00PM

SUNDAY 19 JULY SUNDAY 19 JULY Phil Tripp Screening Phil Remix Tripp Remix Screening Amplified HQ HQ Amplified Southern Exposure Exhibition Southern Exposure Exhibition ABC Amplified Awards ABC Amplified Awards

10:30AM –1:30PM 10:30AM –1:30PM 10:00AM – 4:00PM 10:00AM – 4:00PM 10:00AM – 4:00PM 10:00AM – 4:00PM 5:00PM 5:00PM

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FREE TOURING DISCUSSION Brought to you by Vroom, Amplified, Arts Tas, Arts @ Work and the Australia Council, the free touring discussion at Irish Murphy’s in Hobart as part of the Vroom beta launch.

DIGITAL FILM COMP The 2009 DigiSPAA Competition is only three months away from closing, so if you want to get involved with Australia’s premiere digital feature film competition, the time is now.

With special guest panellists Tracy Redhead, Dane Hunnerup and more to be announced will be sharing their experiences and knowledge of touring Australia to help young musicians.

With huge prizes, including $15,000 cash and $20,000 in post-production, a guaranteed svcreening on The Movie Extra Channel as well as a return airfare to attend the CineMart International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Attendees will also learn about the new Vroom Beta service, which provides a place for venues and artists to connect and trade information via the free website. www.vroom.net.au, part of the Australian Music Industry Network.

0 16 July @ Irish Murphy’s, Hobart CLAUDE HAY TO SUPPORT THE FUMES Known as “the one man band,” Claude Hay is a blues and roots artist from the Blue Mountains. Hay is currently on tour in support of The Fumes, alongside the other support act, Sauce favourite The Protectors.

Over his two years of performing, Hay has already made a splash with his original performance style, using live looping with the sitar, baritone guitar, drums, percussion and singing. His first LP Kiss The Sky was released in 2007, which has led to successful tours in both the US and the UK as well as an APRA nomination.

To see what a lot of other artists, including Ash Grunwald, and press all over the world are talking about, head to www.claudehay.com.au, or to the upcoming Fumes gigs.

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The competition has long supported the view of taking artistic risks and making feature films at all budgets.

DigiSPAA was created to support Australian and New Zealand filmmakers through mentorships as well as financial rewards.

0 www.spaa.org.au Applications close 18 September.

GROW UP! Melbourne trio Me and the Grownups are heading to Tasmania to play two big shows this July. Their hauntingly intricate compositions will root your ass to your seat in spellbound wonderment, and your spirit will be jivin’ with the most powerful dose of musical soul-food it’s received all year. Girls and boys young and old will find undreamt of emotional clarity and peace, and lovers of fine music will experience the kind of satisfaction that only a fellow lover – that’s the Grownups – can provide. Formed in 2006, the Grownups have amassed unanimous critical acclaim for the originality of their sound and the prodigious talents of their young members. The trio has released two albums through Planet/MGM and appeared on ABC TV’s Sunday Arts and Triple J’s Live at the Gutless. www.meandthegrownups.com 0 17 July @ the Venue, Wooby’s Lane, Hobart, with Anita George 0 19 July @ The Earl Arts Centre, Launceston, with British Battlegrounds

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BIG MELBOURNE ACTS HEADED TO TASSIE The Brisbane Hotel will soon be host to album launches of two big Melbourne acts, hip hop artist Illy and the funky rock stylings of Mammal.

Illy will be there with his new CD Long Story Short with local supports and Polo Club. Mammal are launching their debut The Majority and will be stopping off in Tassie as part of a huge tour that’s taking them all around Australia and then to the UK. 0 14 & 15 August @ The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart NEW TRIO FOR JOHN BUTLER John Butler is back with a new album, and an all new trio. With Melbourne’s Nicky Bomba as new drummer and percussionist and Byron Luiters from Sydney on bass, the three have been working on a new album since early June.

Butler himself has just departed for his solo overseas tour, which includes the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Rothbury Music Festival. A lot of the tour is sold out and John will return to Australia in early August.

MOORE & COUSENS TOUR AGAIN In case you missed them last time, Melbourne artists Rebecca Moore and Adam Cousens are back in town and are about to wrap up their Tassie tour in style.

With 8 dates all around the state in total, the duo will be performing their final concert at the Empire Hotel in Deloraine on July 11.

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JACKEYS MARSH FOREST FESTIVAL In the first weekend of March 2010, the Jackeys Marsh Forest Festival will be held and organisers are currently on the lookout for acts to play. With some great local and interstate artists already in the pipeline, it’s sure to be a huge revival of the fesitval which was hugely popular in the 80s with performances such as Yothu Yindi.

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Rebecca will be playing with multi-instrumentalist Damien Neil and touring songs from her upcoming album Real Love. Adam is performing with the rousing five piece the Adam Cousens Band.

0 www.myspace.com/rebeccamooresydney 0 www.myspace.com/adamcousens PEATS RIDGE ARTIST APPLICATIONS Applications for artists to the Peats Ridge Festival in the Glenworth Valley are now open. The festival, held over New Years Eve, are opening their door for applicants in the areas of music art and culture from now until September 4.

The music of Peats Ridge is an eclectic mix, as are the anticipated theatrical performances. In keeping with the festivals environmental ethos, all applications will be online at www.peatsridgefestival.com.au There has also recently been a second release of tickets, so now’s your chance to grab tickets before the general release in August.

SNEAKER PARTY 2 On August 8, Syrup will be hosting the second gathering of Hobart’s Sneaker Social League with a huge night planned full of prizes and giveaways from Grip.

On display will be a selection of Tassie’s finest sneakers, with nibbles and plenty of drink specials to get the party started. Local DJs including Mez. Texas and St Nick will be heating up the dancefloor.

So get your sneakers out!

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URBAN - AUS // NINO BROWN

The Chiefrocker

“…What you see at a concert is just a shortened version.

Whereas when we’re doing a party in Launceston or Hobart, it’s straight, two hours of just intense mayhem.

Tasmania gets the unedited full version...”

With his first concert opening for Snoop Dogg, Nino Brown has continued to work steadily and trailblaze as an Urban DJ in Australia, a genre in which he’s been voted the best. He’s been the first hip hop DJ to sign to a major label, and also hosts the Trailblazin’ Radio Show, with over 500,000 listeners a week and the Blazin’ CD mixes which are heard daily around Australia. But there’s no resting on his laurels for Nino Brown, also known as The Chiefrocker for his work with the International DJ crew of the same name. He is determined to keep working hard to keep doing the thing he loves.

What did you get up to over the weekend?

I’ve been touring on the Winter Jam tour, which is Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. And it was Fatman Scoop, Omarion and myself, and a group from Melbourne called Phinesse.

It was pretty good, man, it was crazy.

So what do you take away from being on the bill with people like Omarion?

I find it exciting to see someone do their show, and it was very cool to see Omarion, he’s an incredible dancer, an amazing singer and he really put on a big show, people were going nuts.

Fatman Scoop is who he is, they call him ‘the voice of the club’ and his party records are incredible; his show was amazing as well.

He’s a pretty big guy, weighing at 165kgs and at 5’11” and just running all over the stage, running up and down, going crazy. The crowd were loving everything the guy said.

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How do you engage the crowd, because you’re a bit more static as a DJ? Yeah, but I can use the turntables to express myself, and I’ve got a mic and I use the sampler where I’ve got sound effects and sirens and things of that nature. I’ve got a pretty dynamic DJ show, and that’s part of the reason I’m on the bill as well.

Is that show you do for that bill any different than a couple of gigs in clubs in Tassie?

They’re very similar. What you see at a concert is just a shortened version. There might be just a couple of 20 minute spots in between the groups. Whereas when we’re doing a party in Launceston or Hobart, it’s straight, two hours of just intense mayhem. Tasmania gets the unedited full version.

What sort of feeling do you get in the room? Is it a sexy feeling? Or a frantic feeling?

I’d say more of a frantic, exciting, festival party vibe.

How do you see what’s happening in your genre at the moment? Has it plateaued? Or are there

more people coming over?

I think it’s over music in general, and I think it’s steadily growing. It goes through growth spurts like everything does, a couple of years ago it was really booming, it’s slowed down a little bit but it’s definitely marching forward. Hip hop, R&B, groups like 50 Cent, singers like Akon and Beyonce, it’s huge, their fanbase in Australia is just massive.

What would be the main milestones for you in your career?

Definitely some of the tours. I’ve toured with Jay-Z and Rihanna two years ago and that was definitely a very big thing for me. The first concert I did was in 1997 with Snoop Dogg at The Enmore Theatre, the first time Snoop had toured Australia as well, and that was definitely a career moment.

What do you think it is about Urban music that appeals to people?

I think Urban music is very self-empowering. It makes anyone feel and believe that they can do anything they want and get where they want to be.

What’s next on your plate after this tour?

I’m back in Sydney this week, and then it’s down to see you guys! Launceston first and then off to Hobart.

Later I’ve got Blazin’: The Afterparty Volume 2 coming out at the end of August and I’m already working on Blazin’ 2010 which is the January 2010 release, just working on Exclusive Records for that.

Where do you want to be? What’s your ultimate goal?

Well I’m living my ultimate goal to be honest, I’m releasing successful albums, I get to tour around Australia every week. Making music, and that’s what I enjoy doing, and I’m very happy. In saying that though, I’m continually working extremely hard, because I don’t want to lose that position I’ve got myself into.

sDAVID WILLIAMS

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ROCK - HOBART // HANNAH

The Boys are Back in Town

“…[The tour] was great, I wrote a bunch of new songs we will play on Saturday. When we first got to Melbourne Seth wrote about 15 in a week or something ridiculous...”

After releasing their debut last year, act one, HANNAH have been touring all over Australia, and have the injuries to prove it. Now they’re back in Tassie, not even a case of Swine Flu is gonna stop them play a big gig with Ejecter in Hobart as they settle back in to island life and work on new material. Christopher Coleman (vocals and guitar) tells us all about it.

Is it safe to come to your upcoming show after Alister came down with a case of Swine Flu? He abided the five-day quarantine and is seemingly in good health. It is bizarre though, he is still growing hooves from his elbows.

Do you think you’re being punished for the band spending so much time away from Tassie? How has all the touring been going?

Perhaps. Well yeah, for Seth at least; snapped his tibia straight through. He jumped off a rotunda as a meerkat (sober). He also broke two toes when we first got to Melbourne via an unforgiving encounter in our van with a tram.

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Did the van need a good hose out? Or didn’t it survive the journey?

Well after the tram incident apparently poor old Gavin was “written off”. It was nothing a heavy weight chain, crowbar and seven days of obsessive-compulsive disorder couldn’t fix. It would be plain rude to tell him he needs a wash, we share that homely “I’ve slept with you for five months” kind of vibe.

Are there any tour shenanigan stories that are tame enough to tell us? MySpace photos seem to imply plenty vomit and nudity…

We successfully survived our first real near death experience. In Byron we were sharing a bottle o’ red in a park with some local chaps and it was all cool.

Roachy went off on the phone and then a dispute arose around our gypsy French Canadian friend sitting on the table with bare feet. Disrespectful... She foolishly back chatted and I was then immediately surrounded by fifteen boof heads with this gypsy, who I foolishly tried to defend. Roachy came back jovially after seeing me get punched in the face a few times, but they knew he was with me so they rightly followed to give him a headbutt to the temple. Then we all ran merrily.

Did you write any material on the road worth mentioning?

Yeah, I actually wrote one called ‘I’m The Runner’.

Where the inspiration came from Dod only knows.

But yeah it was great, I wrote a bunch of new songs we will play on Saturday. When we first got to Melbourne Seth wrote about 15 in a week or something ridiculous.

Other than not being on the mainland anymore, what’s the best thing about being home?

Well it hasn’t been any different to tell the truth, we have spent the last week on the roads around Tassie as Adam Cousens backing band thing. And the week before that was at Red Planet. We finished an album with my family who all write singer songwriter type tunes.

Now your back in Tassie, will you start working on “act two”?

Yeah absolutely. We have a lot sitting around in my head, but hoping to do an album in January if we can scam some cash from Art Tas. Whaddaya say Ms Giddings?

How many acts do you think the band have in them?

57 Do you ever regret calling your band HANNAH? No. It is a palindrome.

sMEEGAN MAY

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DANCE - UK // KLAUS HILL

The Aporkalypse of Dance Music

“The art of the warm up DJ is lost, and everyone just wants to play the big tunes and just bang it out. I used to think it was an Australian thing, and I used to slag Australia off for it, and I’ve done it on many websites and press magazines, but it’s a worldwide phenomena now. It’s like the Swine Flu. It’s the Aporkalypse of Dance Music.”

Although a Sydneysider now, Klaus Hill has been smashing the decks for over a decade, beginning in the UK, so we can forgive him a little Aussie prejudice.

But as he assures us, while “in my studio rewiring and being a geek,” Klaus Hill is “very Australian.” He is just sitting in a pair of boxer shorts and a singlet after all.

So his complaint about hit chasing disc jockeys isn’t just him ragging on the Aussie scene, but a product of the modern age.

Spoon, you’ve got modern day production elements and sensibilities with some throwback sounds being used again, right the way across to people like myself.”

But pigeon holing a genre or a sound, isn’t the way Hill likes to play. “I hate tags, because dance music is dance music and if it’s good, it’s good…. If I was to fart down the microphone and release that, they’d call it shit music. [laughs] Everything has to have a tag, it’s just the way music works.”

“They’ve got people coming in and they want instant gratification. In the old days kids used to come in and nights would flow, and people would come in with open ears and want to hear new music and would want the night to build, a united crescendo with your main act who would do his thing... This day and age, clubs around the world don’t really work like that.” As Hill laments, he mentions that he sees a lot of warm up DJs pander to this instant gratification, perhaps as a product of their attempts to grab the glory, or just from being uneducated.

He doesn’t like to fit his sound into a neat tag, and the same can be said for his live performances. When asked what his upcoming Underground tour sets were going to be like, all he could say was “I have no idea.

That’s why I’ll have several CD wallets with me and just see what works.” He recognises that every place and venue can be different, and revels in feeding off the crowd to find just the right tune. “The music that’s going to be played is not going to be everybody’s cup of tea and every town and every city and every country is always different, which is why a good DJ is always going to be prepared and have that stuff…People expect a certain thing from you, but you’ve got to have stuff that people are going to be into across the board.”

Perhaps its seeing audiences and DJs almost obsessed with getting out there and playing what they want to hear, when they want to hear it, that saw Hill become involved with The Underground 2009 from Ministry of Sound. Despite being from such a huge label, the album, which also features discs by artists Justin Martin of Dirty Bird and Style of Eye, Hill assures us that it’s “very underground. My CD starts off with deep techy new rave kind of sound and gets into a bit of warehouse fidgety stuff towards the end. So I’d say it’s quite underground, compared to normal CDs that the Ministry is putting out.”

As far as this “new rave” sound? “It’s another tag journalists love to give to the music, but it’s the only way to describe it. In the UK at the moment, it’s what they’re calling this sound, this warehouse sound. It goes across the board from Wolfgang Gartner and Dave

But, as he adds, for better or worse, “It all depends on the DJ beforehand to be honest.” How they leave off will determine the way the set starts and flows.

“If someone’s banging it out beforehand, I’ll take it back down and start again…hopefully it won’t clear the club.”

And hopefully Tassie audiences will have their ears wide open and ready to hear some sounds of the underground, with The Underground 2009 out 17 July.

There’s still time to stop the Aporkalypse. sDAVID WILLIAMS & MEEGAN MAY Go deep underground with Klaus Hill: 0 18 July @ Hotel New York, Launceston

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METAL - USA // HEAVEN AND HELL

The Devil You Know

“…I just like the heaviness of all, the darkness of it all, the overpowering-ness of it all...”

Melbourne has AC/DC Lane. London has Stones Avenue. And New York has Dio Way, the city’s heartfelt tribute to Ronnie James Dio, the diminutive American rock legend with the booming metal-opera voice and a heart of gold.

“There’s nothing like appreciation, it’s wonderful,” nods a softly-spoken Dio, now based in Los Angeles.

“It’s something I never asked for but I accepted it with open arms. To reward me like that was very special.”

The gong recognises Dio’s contribution in helping put hard rock on the musical map, from his 1970s days in Elf and Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow to replacing Ozzy as Black Sabbath’s frontman on Heaven and Hell (1980) and Mob Rules (1981) to his own group Dio through the 1980s and 90s.

“I’m the only person who really needs to know when I’m good or bad,” he adds. “But it’s certainly wonderful that they’ve praised a long career of trying to be good - all of the time.”

In 2006, Dio reconvened with his former Sabbath band mates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice to perform a 98-date world tour under the moniker Heaven and Hell, their first shows together in 15 years. Such was the positive chemistry on the road they decided to record the project’s debut studio album The Devil You Know, released in May. “At the end of that tour the question came up, ‘does anyone want to do an album?’,” explains Dio. “We enjoyed the touring so much it seemed such a shame that we had to stop.”

With Iommi’s doomy riffs creeping through such tracks as ‘Bible Black’ and ‘Atom & Evil,’ the pundits declared the album to be a lesson in the way metal was and the way it’s supposed to be. A digital recording never sounded so old school.

“It’s so much different than it used to be having to cut tape and tape it back together and splice it here and splice it there,” says Dio of the sessions. “These days it’s done so much easier but of course I miss the old days when it was great to be in studio and puke on the desk and do all that stuff. Ha!” Despite his Alice Cooper-esque grasp on metal’s theatrical absurdities, Dio has been good to the genre over the years and in return it’s been good to him.

“I just like the heaviness of all, the darkness of it all, the overpowering-ness of it all,” he says. “And as a songwriter, to be able to write that way and not have to write tunes that say ‘I love you baby’, it was the perfect medium for me. It sparked my imagination.

“It’s the really the reason why I started to play and it’s certainly the reason why Tony and Geezer and Vinny started to play because we wanted to be a band.

We love making music with other people, people who could play guitar when we couldn’t, people who couldn’t sing when we could.

“Being able to live through your passion and to have the stage to say what you want to say both lyrically and musically, that’s always been the same for me in my desire to want to do that and to be really good at it. And that’s what’ll make me to do it forever.” sSTEVE TAUSCHKE The Devil You Know is out through Roadrunner.

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ROCK - USA // THE THERMALS

Thermal Vision

Rising Portland triumvirate The Thermals talk to Steve Tauschke about going their own way.

On the US west coast nestled between Los Angeles’ star-making machinery and Seattle’s deflated grunge bubble lies Portland, a comparatively insignificant blip on the radar of American rock towns.

Stars, there’s Horse Feathers who’re very acoustic and folky and then there’s Panther who are very experimental and electronic and kind chaotic. So even on that one label there’s variations.”

But that may be about to change as the city known for its microbreweries and DIY youth culture slowly transforms itself from Oregon college community to buzz-worthy musical epicentre.

After three sturdy albums on Seattle’s Sub Pop label, The Thermals joined Kill Rock Stars for this year’s Now We Can See. “We loved working with Sub Pop,” says Foster. “It was the label we grew up with and we were stoked but then the contract wasn’t the one that we wanted. We wanted to be able to own our own masters and licence our recordings to a label and work on one record at a time.”

“…We wanted to challenge ourselves so we experimented more with the arrangements and wrote a song in a number of different ways...”

“It’s just this unique combination of a small town and big city,” says Kathy Foster, bassist with local power pop trio The Thermals. “There’s so much going on and so many bands and so many artists and I think that’s kind of snowballed a little bit. And it’s inexpensive to live here too so that brings in more musicians and creative people.”

Forming The Thermals in Portland in 2002, Foster and singer-guitarist Hutch Harris have witnessed a steady growth in the city’s profile thanks largely to an assortment of rich musical offerings book-ended by major acts Modest Mouse and Everclear and rising indie hopefuls Horse Feathers and Shaky Hands.

“Whereas the Seattle grunge thing was just one sound the whole world jumped on as a trend, I don’t think you can say there’s one Portland sound,” reasons Foster. “There’s funk bands, noise bands, folk bands, even hip hop and bigger bands like Sleater-Kinney and The Decemberists – just so many different kinds of music here.

“I just see it even on (local Portland label) Kill Rock

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Produced by Texan John Congleton (Polyphonic Spree) in Organ City, on Portland’s outskirts, the album found Hutch and Foster spending extra time to hone their songs.

“We wanted to challenge ourselves so we experimented more with the arrangements and wrote a song in a number of different ways just to see which one we liked the best,” says Foster.

It’s typical of The Thermals skewed approach to their craft. A few years ago, they contributed a track to former Fugazi drummer and one-time Thermals producer Brendan Canty’s Burn To Shine DVD series in which independent bands perform live in old houses earmarked for demolition.

“The fire department will actually burn them down for training so the fire fighters can practice putting out fires,” explains Foster. “The Portland one was done outside the city for this ex-golf pro who was tearing down his house to build this big Tuscan villa.

Ha! So they had the bands play in the house, just one song each so it can be filmed and recorded and then afterwards they burned down the house - and filmed that too!” sSTEVE TAUSCHKE

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DANCE - MELBOURNE // SGT SLICK

Slick As! “…Give me a room full of crazy kids losing it compared to a posse of posing ponces any day...”

Sgt. Slick, A.KA. Andy J, has been creating and producing hit tunes for over ten years (with over ten different aliases over that time) and has also managed to pick up ARIA awards, run a record label, all whilst touring and playing some huge clubs and parties. It’s no wonder he’s picked up the name of Sgt Slick, just check out all his slick as answers.

You must be pretty slick to earn the rank of Sergeant…

It’s not an official military ranking, although we are working with the defence department to have it officially recognised and documented.

Do you think it’s what helped you score an ARIA Award? Or was that based on your talent?

I won an ARIA with the first track I ever released, and I barely knew what the hell I was doing in the studio, so you know maybe the Sergeant ranking did help get it over the line.

Was that you career highpoint? Or was it your cameo in Wogboy?

Well my ‘appearancw’ in Wogboy ended up on the

cutting room floor, with only my voice making it into the actual movie, so yes I think the ARIA wins out by a whisker.

How does playing big events like The Logies and Fashion Week compare with a club gig?

Give me a room full of crazy kids losing it compared to a posse of posing ponces any day.

What’s more important to you, the production side of DJing or playing live? Or is it how many followers you can score on Twitter?

Definitely the Twitter followers. This is the only true measure we have today of how technically skilful and talented a DJ / producer actually is. Closely followed by the InTheMix top 50 DJ list, which year after year

pinpoints with unrivalled accuracy which DJs have the most friends on Facebook…

Would you rather collaborate on a track, or have the freedom to do whatever you want?

About half the tracks I release are collaborations and the other half solo efforts. I enjoy both but working by myself allows me to indulge in my retentive tendencies and spend 6 days tweaking the EQ and compression settings of a kick drum that appears only once in the last 3 seconds of the track.

What’s the best time you’ve had while wearing headphones?

Watching 9 episodes of Entourage back to back on my laptop on the Melbourne to Darwin flight.

If you could achieve anything in the next six months, what would it be?

I want to continue being prolific in the studio, I want to release a new tune at least every 2 months, and I want to eat as many durians and pomegranates as I possibly can.

How slick is the set in Tassie going to be?

It’s going to be real slick… super slick, slick and sick.

Sick mate! sMEEGAN MAY

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FOLK - HOBART // THE STEADFAST SHEPARD

The Steadfast Shepard

“…I think everyone who lives in Hobart is influenced in some way by the natural environment and the history. I think our sound is gradually evolving to become more spacious and patient in response to living here...”

After a few years of travelling and living overseas, The Steadfast Shepard, originally from mainland Australia, decided to come back to Australia and settle in Hobart. Not only band mates, this indie folk duo is also husband and wife, which makes for an intimate musical dynamic. The two are now set to release their self-titled debut album, so we asked Nathan (guitars, vocals) a few questions about being (literally) married to the band.

You had a big year last year with the release of your EP The Open Sky and a tour of Japan. What was the Japanese experience like? How was your music received there?

Japan has a really amazing music listening culture.

People listen to music very intently and make a lot of effort as the listener to connect with it. As a result it’s a real pleasure to play to Japanese audiences. Their approach to live music is very reverential, with a focus on the sound rather than the person, and that really appealed to me. It felt like everyone in the room was involved, not just one or two people. The EP was really well received and the experience was well worth the effort of organising the tour.

I imagine playing and writing together as a husband and wife duo has both its good and bad points?

Over the years we’ve found a way of working together on writing music that works for us. I think every band needs to establish where each member fits within the creative process and we’ve gone through that initial process. We have a lot of fun creating music and performing together. Each tour is like a little holiday and music has become something that sits as part of our normal life at home.

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How do you handle music-related disagreements or are you always in sync?

We definitely have had some disagreements over music-related issues, but that is just part of the refining process. I think our foundation ideas for the sounds and tones of The Steadfast Shepherd are very similar. Fairlie (vocals, organs) works really well as a sounding board for all of my ideas and keeps me from straying too far from our vision. She has a great ear for harmony and structure, whereas I tend to write in a far more unstructured style.

Why did you decide to relocate to Tasmania?

We’d been living in a smaller city in England for a couple of years and spent a lot of time travelling around Europe. We’d come to the conclusion that we wanted to live in a city where you weren’t reliant on a car, had close access to mountains and beaches, had good food, and a crisp cold winter. Hobart it is.

Has it made an impact on the music you create?

We’ve found Hobart has a really supportive scene of local bands/musicians as well as a history of some amazing underground music. I think everyone who lives in Hobart is influenced in some way by the natural environment and the history. I think our sound

is gradually evolving to become more spacious and patient in response to living here.

What was the experience like creating your debut LP? We recorded most of the album at HeadGap Studio, which is an indie-focussed purpose built studio in Melbourne. We had a couple of very talented friends join us (Melbourne band Because of Ghosts), which made it a real pleasure. The remaining elements of the tracks were recorded in a church hall, a shack, and at home. We were really ambitious with the orchestration and production we wanted, and it took us quite a while, but the end result is something we’re really happy with.

If ‘Eyes Don’t Lie,’ what can we learn from yours?

That song (‘Eyes Don’t Lie’) fits into a general narrative that flows through the album. During the writing process we took on different characters from the narrative and tried to write from their perspective.

It was a new experience for us to write songs that way and it freed us up to explore themes we usually wouldn’t traverse.

Where does the band name come from?

It took us over a year of writing songs at home to come up with a name we were happy with. We hope it reflects our sound: melodic and pastural, yet quietly resolved.

Its also the name of a poem written in the 17th century.

With the launch in conjunction with Amplified and featuring visual projections, how special will the show be?

We’re launching our album alongside Transcription of Organ Music, a really amazing local songwriter, who is also launching his album on the night. We’ve received a grant from Arts Tasmania as a part of Amplified 09 and that’s given us the resources to make the evening more than just a ‘gig.’ We’re using a more unusual venue at Sirens Upstairs, which was originally a Masonic Temple. There’ll be video projections accompanying each act that have been specifically selected by local artist Damon Bird. We’re working on some cool lighting using candles etc, and, of course, there’ll be the music. sMEEGAN MAY As part of Amplified 2009, The Steadfast Shepard will be launching their album here: 0 17 July @ Sirens Upstairs, Hobart WWW.SAUCE.NET.AU

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The Little Cubas Wed July 8 we bring together Mark Edmunds (Foreign Films), Mick Attard (Kasper, The Embers) and Jason Lucas (My Escapade). Each one of these performers brings his own unique bent- Mark’s natural song writing ability, Mick’s honesty and earthy tones, and Jason’s outstanding voice, a highlight in itself.

Together this promises to be a very special night indeed full of great song, melody and lyric.

On Wed July 15 we present the second in a series of An Evening With... featuring Launceston band, The Stoics. Every time they have graced the Top Shelf stage it has been a memorable event and with the whole night to themselves there is no doubt that this will once again exceed our expectations. If you haven’t already witnessed this incredible act then Wed July 15 should be marked in your calendar as a not to be missed event. The Stoics will start their show at 9:30pm.

The Emma Fair Band make their long awaited return to Top Shelf at Irish on Wed July 22. It’s been six months since we last heard from them and look forward to their new material. Emma’s voice reigns supreme in this five piece outfit, the songs vocally driven with the band providing a solid background on which Emma’s melodies sit. Check it out for yourself at www. myspace.com/emmafairband The past few weeks saw two groups make their Top Shelf debut, The Little Cubas and Halfway To Forth.

Consisting of brothers, Dan and Kyle, Halfway To Forth performed a well polished set of Roots inspired music consisting of fine vocal harmonies and various instrumentation. Opening track, ‘Row Your Boat’, certainly got the attention of the room, and who would have thought that a banjo could work in a ballad! A good solid performance, wont be too long until their next show at Top Shelf.

Joss Thomas and Kylie Souter had an awesome debut with their group, The Little Cubas, on Wed June 24 showcasing their high-energy music with a touch of “pop hook” to a delighted crowd. Having seen Kylie perform in other acts before, it was a real treat to finally see Joss doing his thing. Knowing the talent of his siblings, Beau (drummer The Stoics, The Two Timers) and Bart (Shoe), Joss stood on his own as a singer/guitarist whilst Kylie’s energetic percussion work was what we’ve come to expect from her. The Little Cubas are cool. sCARL FIDLER & GLENN MOOREHOUSE

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games, gadgets, and other digital distractions: zzappped@sauce.net.au CRIME ‘EM UP // NINTENDO DS

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars This down-sized order of Grand Theft Auto is anything but small fries.

along the way including of course, pedestrians. The car chases showcase one of the game’s best technical aspects, the camera. It constantly stays on top of the action no matter how bad your driving is, and rarely suffers from the awkward angles commonly found in other top-down 3D titles.

Showing no signs of buckling on the console front, the Grand Theft Auto phenomenon has now car jacked the Nintendo DS, and it’s the best thing that has happened to Chinatown since Kurt Russell and the Pork Chop Express came rollicking in. Chinatown Wars has all the felonious behaviour you‘ve come to expect in a GTA game rolled up neatly into a pint-size package. Expect mass murders, arson, hit and runs, assaulting cops, bribe payments, car jacking, drug laundering, and of course owning a private jet. However you look at it, Chinatown Wars is a full blown, no holes barred GTA game delivered with all the usual criminal activities but for Nintendo DS, and for that Rockstar we love you.

Similar to its big brothers on the console, the game play centres around a wannabe gangster working his

way up the gangster food chain, trying to become the head honcho gangster. Hardly new territory for the franchise I know, but what is a pleasant surprise is the variety of missions on offer for such a compact version of the series. Of course there’s the stable diet of everyday criminal deeds, such as fire bombing, car jacking, drug dealing and contract killing, but you’ll also need to tackle more complex duties such as transporting a patient traffic suffering a cardiac arrest through heavy all while evading cops, plus periodically needing to kick-start his ticker.

The frenzied pursuits with the law in Chinatown Wars are also a memorable game highlight, requiring a good knowledge of the urban layout and its many side lanes so as to evade capture. In reckless GTA style most obstacles in your vehicle’s path can be mowed down

The gun play and variety of weapons are equally satisfying. For the most part the auto lock-on works a treat on enemies and cops alike, plus it can be disabled adding a greater challenge for GTA vets.

Add to the comprehensive mission mode further distractions including a constant flow of entertaining emails, pimped up paraphernalia to buy, a good smattering of multiplayer options, and you’ll wonder how Rockstar managed to cram so much GTA goodness into the DS’ small cartridge.

Chinatown Wars not only pushes the series forward with fresh innovation and top notch game play, but it’s a wake up call for other DS game developers on what the hardware is capable of. sMIKE WILCOX

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GAMEPLAY: 90% 0 The quick-to-play missions are wide and varied, and together with another captivating storyline, prove the GTA series still have plenty of life left in it.

GRAPHICS: 80% 0 Obviously this doesn’t compare to the look of the console versions, but Rockstar has managed to push the graphics of the DS beyond most current titles.

The cell-shaded style adds a unique touch too.

SOUND: 70% 0 Due to the size restrictions on DS media, none of the usual classy cut scenes have voice acting, however cars still have a variety of radio stations to choose from, plus there’s plenty of city ambience to enjoy.

PLAYABILITY: 90% 0 In usual GTA style, the missions are the main meat of the game, and the open world environment offers plenty of side quests. Multiplayer modes also extend the replay value when playing with buddies.

OVERALL: 85% 0 Chinatown Wars may not have enjoyed the same sales success as it’s big brothers on console, but it is a worthy addition to the series, and the fresh approach to gameplay, thanks to the DS’ unique touch screen make it a must for fans of the series.

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Green Fingers All the freshest produce from The Greenhouse, Irish Murphy’s, Hobart.

‘Ello ‘ello ‘ello, it is the Fert here, calling out to all the people’s of this fair land, roll up. Roll up and attend for ‘tis to be sure that we are hosting at the one, the only, Irish Murphy’s Hobart, the gig of the year for our little Greenhouse. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, you may wish to be seated and epileptics be warned for tis not for the faint hearted that we beseech you to be front and centre, dressed and present for, drum roll please sir, Amplified @ The Greenhouse.

That’s right folks, representing for a hand-picked selection of the Greeny’s finest, Amplified @ The Greenhouse splashes out in style presenting a Friday night’s worth of tunes on the 17th of July to get your fist shaking and your heart palpitating.

mastered song and rhythm brave. And now with a new carvery they’ll encourage boundless maggotry and increasing to a new vector we bring you Hobart’s ……… Ejecter: MySpace.com/ejecter

With the seductive 60s folk tones and raw sweetness to make you all a-quiver, Frankie will lull you into a sense of matronly security before she sweeps and soars away on a cloud of fresh mown hay and leaves a twinkle in the eye that can only be extinguished by a pint of Irish fine. Check her out: MySpace.com/frankieandrewmusic

And with this note I bid you adieu and introduce one of our crew, you’ll see him at doors ‘cross Salamanca, our head of security ……….. Philmander.

And bringing on our own, our fearless lieutenant of wide renown. A man who disappears at will, whose daily bread is cause to make men chill. Only coming out at night and with his axe he carves the air’s delight, closer towards the mountain covered in snow and filled with bluster and blow we have ………… Sam Cole: MySpace.com/samuelcolemusic

Beanie clad and bursting forth this leonine ensemble’s girth will thrash and pound with sweet displays of

As part of the big Tasmanian Amplified music festival, The Brisbane Hotel are packing as music musical mayhem as they can into one night, with the venue so packed it’s spilling on to the on the roof! We asked The Brisbane’s Gibbo exactly what they’ve got in store for us.

How are you going to fit such a huge line-up into just one night?

The show starts at 7pm and finishes at 4am, with the live bands finishing at 1am and DJs kicking off at 1am.

We’re constructing a new stage in the front bar to get 5 of the 16 bands playing in there. The band room out back will be running as normal and we’re opening up a smaller gallery style space upstairs for the noise acts we have on the line up.

“…It’s a killer line up, killer bands and it’s gonna be a killer night!...”

Has it been difficult to organise everything and everyone?

Not really, everyone who is involved in the organising have done these types of shows before. We have a solid crew with some of the states best sound techs and lighting operators. We’re also getting two work experience students in for some on hands experience in sound/lighting and gig management. The artists on the line up have been great from word go. It’s pretty straightforward like a normal Friday/Saturday show, just on a bigger scale.

With a jolly air and a gay old time, bubbling up from the Bruny brine. He skips and twangs and hits the three, the upstroke feeding dancers free. And as from legend Shakespeare’s Puck the merry prankster’s guitar’s chuck and all-in-all they ruck the roof with shiny horns and cloven hoof. And now lest we become too grand, presenting ……….. Dali and the Paper Band: MySpace.com/dalisrhojmusic Once they came with spear and bronze and cleansed the land of pagan throngs. No more did mythic creatures walk where marauding hoards were wont to rawk. And now the rocking chords of pop are on guitar instead of glockenspiel and dulcimer, and Strat winds down the multi-core. And rising as the new faction we introduce . . . . . . New Saxons: MySpace.com/newsaxons

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It’s going to be more than just music, right?

Short films from Hobart Underground Films will be held on the roof top space to create an out door cinema (bring a bean bag!). Maybe the presenter, Andrew Harper, will throw in a few local music clips.

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Where does the event slot in to the Amplified festival?

You just have to look at the line up to see where this event slots into the Amplified Festival, most the bands involved are highly recognised statewide, interstate and some internationally. It also slots smack bang in the middle of Thursday and Saturday, Friday 17th of

July, POW! We’re also holding a Launceston based event on the Saturday with The Dirty Love, Shoe, Cruel Like That and Hobart’s Red Rival.

You’ve got at a few Amplified nominees in the line-up. Do you think this gig will improve their chances of picking up an Amplified Award?

I’d like to think that the acts and individuals who have been nominated for awards have done the leg work in the last few years to be recognised by the community and not have to rely on one single gig to get them their deserved recognition. Then again there’s bands on the line up that go against the grain and will not conform to the guidelines of Amplified, but they are some of the best bands Tasmania has to offer. It’s a killer line up, killer bands and it’s gonna be a killer night!

Any big surprises in store?

I reckon there will be a few things tucked up our sleeves. Get a ticket and find out! sMEEGAN MAY

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Stranger than Micktion Read from the Book of Mick: Chapter V I think I might have almost exorcised the demon that is my attitude towards the Old Testament. Nah. Noah has many descendants and an awful lot of pets and they all end up getting rather ambitious. They build a tower in a city called Babel and God thinks “A tower? That’s a bit uppity” and makes them all speak in different languages, coincidentally inventing mime at the same time. So it’s really God’s fault that everyone at the UN is listening to country music on this little headsets.

So God gets bored for a few pages here and then decides to pick on this poor guy Abram. “Go Abram!”

Says God, but not in a cheerleaderish type way. “Go to a land I will show you” So Abram goes, following God’s instructions, much like having omnipotent GPS. Then after taking several wrong turns and getting stuck going the wrong way down a one way desert, he finally reaches the land that God has promised him. “Where is this? Rwanda?” Asks Abram. “It’s crap. You can keep your silly place with it’s terrible infrastructure and lack of public transport” Says Abram, “I’m going to Egypt, things are really starting to take off there…” God thinks this is a bad idea so starts messing with him even more.

He sends some plagues down, a theme he will develop a bit later on, obviously he hasn’t quite got the plague thing sorted out in the early part of the Bible. “I send a plague of slinkys! Oh wait. No, A plague of fairy floss.

Bugger. A plague of towels! Alright, this will take some ironing out. For now, everyone in Egypt will spill tea on their pants. Ahahhaha!”

Abram gets out of Egypt as he isn’t wearing pants, which was an affront to God, but apparently the aback was the talk of Egypt. Then, God gets his weird on again. First he makes lots of covenants with Abram.

Abram has no idea how to make a covenant and is pretty sure he won’t find the materials in Rwanda. God changes Abram’s name to Abraham. “What?” Says the freshly retitled Abraham. “It just sounds like I’ve got a stutter now.” God then comes up with a genius idea he calls circumcision. “You want me to what?” Asks Abraham “Oh man, this isn’t happening. We’ll be a laughing stock… If we end up not getting Israel…”

God then decides to destroy the naughty city of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone after first

trying with pipe cleaners and paper, spit and twigs, and finally a plague of tea spillage. Experimentation is the key. Finally as a piece de resistance, which three Babel residents understood, God turns some poor lass into a pillar of salt. I mean what practical use does that have?

Did she just end up with loads of cows licking her? All bits of the bible that are never explored…

OK, think I’m over it now. sMICK LOWENSTEIN

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SOUNDCHECK - out and about in the hottest venues SYDNEY CITY TRASH @ The Brisbane Hotel, 27 June

The Revelers converged, judging by the turnout this band had been a crowd-pleaser in these parts before.

Sydney City Trash was back in town and once more the Brisbane Hotel had outdone themselves with an impeccable line-up of punk rock and convict country rock n roll. To kick off the night The Thieves showed us what the best new young-punk act in town, sounds like with raw and rocking set. By the time they remembered to tell the crowd who they were - everyone was asking.

It was good to see Eddo from The No-No’s still rockin’ with his new three piece Sin and Tonic’s. The double bass action was rather nice.

Scurvy presented in true punk colours, thrashing out a mean tight set. It was a pleasure to see these guys back on the stage, Simon sure does have what it takes to front a punk band.

Hairy man was the wild card, barefooted and out of the Huon. If this guy played guitar we’d be comparing him with Hendrix but on straight vocals his big strong traditional and hairy deliver, was iconic.

By the time SCT hit the stage, the alcohol-fueled crowd were merry and ready for some country convict Rock.

It was great to see these guys, I had seen them quite a few times before, but this time was different. Their beer soaked renditions of songs I’d dug for a while now, really did excite. It was great to see the publicans up on stage singing along with their favorite tune.

This was wife-beater-wearing-country-punk, but these guys would never beat their wives. Their touching tribute to recently deceased bandmember “Pig” bought a tear to the eye. We raised our glasses and drank deeply, after all MJ was dead and we were partying like it was 1999. As I staggered home I was wishing I was having a beer with Johnny Cash and hoping like hell that these guys would return to again soon to the Van Diemans Land. Listen to their convict country rock n roll on Triple J Unearthed, Myspace and their website. sZOE ZAC Saturday 27th June @ Lonnies

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I had only heard of Wolf & Cub but not heard any of their music. I prefer to go along without the preconception from a recording. Rarely do the two coincide. A great live band can be crap in the studio and vice versa.

This night proved to be one that confirmed this approach.

The Scare got on stage and after a slightly shaky start, really gave the audience an amazing set. Full of energy and as tight as the fish’s proverbial. Their frontman reminded me a bit of local band The Roobs’ frontman Chonga, out in the crowd and in your face. He kept asking the punters to move forward towards the stage and dance, but I think it was the combination of this wild dude bouncing around the Republic plus the fact that they were hugely entertaining without the front row faux rockers and screamers wanting to be there because it was the place to be that kept everyone entertained.

Wolf & Cub had me interested as an old prog rock fan.

Turning up and finding a dual drum kit set up made it even more interesting. Their music was good, but their soundy struggled with the mix in a smallish room trying to push the rest of the mix over a double kit. I could barely hear the vocals over the first few songs and there were persistent bouts of feedback through the set. Overall I did enjoy their set, which flowed between blues-rock through to spacy synth sounds triggered from the guitar. I’d like to see them in a venue 50% bigger where their sound can be let loose.

Overall, The Scare won the night for me and for quite a few other people I talked to over the next couple of days. They will be back regularly in Tasmania. Keep an eye out for them. sKEVIN GLEESON June @ Hotel New York

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CINECISM CINECISM - ACTION // TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

More than Meets the Eye It would be easy to underestimate Isabel Lucas.

“…There’s nothing wrong with a bit of escapism and a bit of fun, which is what this is...”

Physically, the 24-year-old actress is slender to the point of being skinny. Personality-wise, she’s softspoken to the point of seeming shy.

But one doesn’t crack the competitive entertainment industry – not just in Australia, but also in Hollywood – without some toughness and tenacity.

That attitude was displayed in 2007 when Lucas, a busy environmental activist, was part of an antiwhaling protest in Japan that led to the country’s police issuing a warrant for her arrest.

Still, when it comes to her career, Lucas has benefited from a few lucky breaks.

In 2004, she caught the eye of a Home and Away producer, which led to three years on the Seven soap opera as Tasha Andrews, a character created with her in mind, and a Logie for Best New Talent.

And her appearance in the upcoming WWII miniseries The Pacific attracted the attention of one of its producers, Steven Spielberg, which led to him recommending Lucas to Michael Bay for a role in Bay’s latest big-budget blockbuster, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

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“It was incredibly gratifying and kind of surreal, actually,” said the Melbourne-born Lucas, who was back in her hometown last week to promote the action-packed adventure movie.

“But the audition was unusual in a few different ways. Michael didn’t like the colour of the dress I was wearing – it was black, and he said he was making a summer blockbuster so I’d be wearing something more colourful – so I was sent away to change my clothes!” she laughed.

It was a fitting introduction to the hot-tempered filmmaker (“He’s a madman on the set but he has a lot of pressure to deal with, so I can understand how he would become a bit of a madman”), and the long, tough process of making Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was an equally fitting introduction to the hectic pace of Hollywood.

“Then all the dialogue for the scene will suddenly be changed because Michael is very flexible when it comes to recreating each scene.

So it was very challenging and very intense, but I really appreciated the experience because I learnt so much.”

Lucas’ role as Alice, a dangerously alluring college classmate of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), is a small but eye-catching part of a movie that’s been touted as the one of the year’s biggest box-office hits.

She only saw the film for the first time a few days before embarking on her publicity tour around Australia and admits to being “kind of blown away by the film, by how epic it is”.

“It’s a completely different medium from something like Home and Away,” said Lucas. “You have a lot more time but there’s a lot more to achieve.

And while she agrees with co-star Megan Fox’s recent statement that Bay is not really an actor’s director, and states that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen isn’t exactly deep and meaningful, she also says “there’s nothing wrong with a bit of escapism and a bit of fun, which is what this is”.

“I got on set for the first time and it was immediately like ‘Okay, let’s go! Action!’ and I was like ‘...what?’” she laughed.

Lucas’ upcoming workload is a combination of crowdpleasing fare (such as the vampire movie Daybreakers, co-starring Ethan Hawke and Sam Neill) and arthouse

material like the upcoming India-set drama The Waiting City.

And she’s recently completed filming on Kin, an ensemble comedy-drama described as “an Australian Love Actually” that she calls “my most enjoyable working experience yet”.

If everything works out for Lucas – and it certainly seems to be heading that way – she’ll be able to balance working in Australia on such films while still being part of the American industry.

“I’d love to be based in Melbourne,” she said. “It’s why I came back to be in Kin. But the opportunities are really in the Mecca of the industry, which is L.A. “L.A. is what it is – it’s a vacuous and superficial place in many ways but there are also many real, honest, grounded and creative people there.”

sROBERT ROSSER

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DREADNAUGHT Dreadnaught

HATCHET DAWN Faith In Chaos

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REGULAR JOHN The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb

If you are like me, and you have missed some great bands between all the styles of music that you have listened through life, then Dreadnaught may be on your list. That said I have heard of this five-piece Melbourne band but have never had the chance to be acquainted until now, and let me say the introduction was inviting.

A new gestation is emerging out of the Melbourne metal scene comprising of past and present members of underground bands, Terrorust, White Cell and symbiosist. A slaughter of tales from the graveyard is what’s on offer, as the band delves in to the senses of fear and weakness, brought together with their frightening creation. Opener ‘Demon’ has elements of black metal and death/thrash metal mixed in one, offering a concrete slab of heaviness and brutality to kick-start the EP. Track ‘Consuming Creation’ comes off the first track as if it was part two of one big epic song, the song offers more throat burning screams then the first thanks to vocalist Loki.

Melbourne’s hip-hopping MC, Raph Boogie, has delivered a funky and fresh album with his most recent offering Le Bump. Scored with collaborations from some of Aussie hip hop’s best, Le Bump features the talents of Danielsan (Koolism), BVA, RuCL and Plutonic Lab (one half of the duo extraordinaire, Muph and Plutonic), each of whom assist Raph showcase his rhythmic prowess.

Le Bump is Raph’s first album since his 2002 EP release, The Cusp, and doesn’t disappoint with its positive vibe and outstanding production.

A good ol’ fashion rock album. Not something you see that often anymore, as artists strive to scrape their own niche into the unforgiving and hazardouslynarrow slab of granite that is today’s musical scene, and perhaps an album like this is why.

The band have been doing the hard yards since 1992 and have supported some elite bands along the way including Nevermore, Testament, Strapping Young Lad and Nickelback during Australian tours. Tattooed tears begins the album with an electric guitar build up intro that detonates in to solid slabs of heavy metal goodness which will send oneself into somersaults of erratic mosh. The band has a video to accompany the first single ‘The Push’ that proves a driving anthem for the band, a song with a strong message of pushing forward no matter how hard times get, echoing hard times the band have faced, including the death of their longtime drummer in 2006.

The band delves back into there melodic thrash/metal roots and offer nine solid tracks worthy of being fan favourites. Acoustic instrumental tracks ‘Reflections Part 1, 2, and 3’ make up the rest of the twelve solid tracks, providing the album some needed breathing space. People with the taste for some solid headbanging music, will require a neck brace after listening to this album as its brute force will snap your neck like a frail twig. The band will be heading to Tasmania in September as apart of their Australian tour.

8/10 sDAVID WALKER THE ARMADA The Armada

‘Red Memoirs’ is one track that provides breathing space, with the same repeated lick over ghoulish spoken words and background screams providing the anthem for torture or a scene set for someone stalked.

The following song ‘The Serpent Order’ ignites back to intense gothic/thrash metal, which seems to be the bands trademark sound. My favourite song and rounding off the EP, track ‘Perfect Parasite’ is part progressive rock and part gothic with its howling vocal lines that sound like a command from hell, with the sway and heavy guitar playing driving the song. The EP is a solid effort if you like your music to be thrashy, full of demon growl and gloomy lyrical content. The musicianship seems to be intact with all members giving it their best. The underlying fact is that this album may be a one-week novelty, then disappearing in to forgotten territory. Perhaps a full-length album will change the bands place in metal popularity. Jonas Brothers fans stay clear from this band!

6/10 sDAVID WALKER

The opening track ‘Boogie Bump’ is fun, has definitive bounce factor and an immediate injection of revelry.

In an ode to baking cakes, ‘Tea Cake’ is a sugary stand out track concerned with making and consuming teacakes.

Danielsan’s dexterity in mixing and production shines through on track 4, ‘I Know’, an homage to Raph’s deceased father which steers our journey in a slightly more serious direction, if only briefly.

‘Twister’ is another exceptional piece and is mixed and produced by the Nextmen, a critically acclaimed songwriting/production duo hailing from the UK, who bring their positive home town vibe to the track.

Overall, Le Bump is a marvelously produced album and a wonderfully diverse exhibition of collaborative art and production. Raph’s knack in bringing the party vibe to the fore is apparent and will leave you both bouncing and smiling.

7.5/10 sSAM LING

The first thing that struck me about The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb was a sense of Déjà vu. This is because nothing in the album is particularly original, rather, a well polished case of cryptomnesia, compressing the last fifteen years of rock and grunge into fifty minutes of Queen’s of the Stone Age b-sides.

Regular John’s debut is pretty easy listening and possibly good driving music, but in this album, Regular John are essentially quoting my favourite artists of yester-year back to me and it feels a little uncomfortable, like someone recalling an anecdote from a novel or film as though it happened to them.

Perhaps this is overly critical; I don’t think the group ever claimed to be anything more than a 90s rockband, and the album does have some really great moments. The production is good, the band sound very tight and while to me the album doesn’t achieve any sense of flow or theme, it does have some welldone instances of light and shade that go beyond the obligatory ballad.

If you missed the last decade and a half of rock and grunge, this album could save you a lot of time and money; otherwise, it is alright for a bit of borrowed nostalgia, but might leave you a little dissatisfied.

5/10 sLOCHIE JAMES

BACK ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT

The Amarda’s selftitled debut album is the new project for ex Tea Party member Jeff Martin and Wayne Sheehy on drums and percussion. The first track ‘Going Down Blues’ sees Martin going back to his Tea Party roots (similar to albums Splendor Solis and The Edges of Twilight). The rest of this album features songs of both heavy and slow rock with a variety of instruments. Listening to any album Martin works on is always a treat with his inclusion of unusual guitars and Moroccan sounds. He gives a sound not heard on many albums. While Martin’s previous solo albums saw him strip back to the acoustic sound, The Amarda shows him get back into the rock and roll saddle. This is a truly rock and roll album at its best.

Track three, Broken, is a beautiful love ballad about not being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel and having the feeling of giving up. Martin’s deep lusty vocals with raw emotion with the mixture of various instruments work splendidly on this track.

The only down note to this album is track six black snake reprise, which has been put through voice distorter which I don’t find works on this track. This song defiantly sounds better live, without the voice distorter. This eleven-track album is a real treat to listen to. It is one of those greatly polished albums, which never has a dull moment and leaves you craving more afterwards.

For fans of The Tea Party’s work, Jeff Martin or for anyone looking for rock and roll with a variety of different sounds this album is defiantly worth a listen.

9/10 sSKYE CROSSWELL WWW.SAUCE.NET.AU

July sees some more massive alterations in the everchanging face of Syrup Nightclub in Hobart. After considerable improvements to the main ‘Syrup’ floor in 2007, it is now time for the top floor, or ‘Round Midnight’ to have a well-deserved makeover!

Although new toilets have been installed, the DJ booth has been relocated, and the walls have seen pretty much every colour you can imagine over the years, the reliable old “Round Midnight” bar has been serving the masses, mostly unchanged, since its “Caribbean Room” days 30 or 40 years ago.

A true testament to the construction this bar is the sheer difficulty that the Syrup crew have had removing it! Obviously built to withstand carpet-bombing and nuclear holocaust, the bar itself was nothing short of a construction marvel! The amount of quality hardwood used is a sight to behold, and enough to give any cabinetmaker or wood-turner a stiffy. Some of this amazing old wood will doubtlessly make its way into the construction of the new bar!

Features of the new bar are being kept a secret, but we’re assured that when its firing on all cylinders,

the new bar in ‘Round Midnight’ will be an absolute delight, both for punters and the Syrup bar crew alike.

With the whole “Round Midnight” floor gradually taking on its ‘industrial’ atmosphere, expect slick styling with a rough-but-ready ‘warehouse’ type feel.

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ROCK - USA // THE GUTTER TWINS

Gutter Twins

Quite the collaborator, Mark Lanegan has worked with an enviable list of names from America’s rock scene.

Starting out in the 1980s with Seattle mavericks The Screaming Trees, whose songs he describes as a “fourway deal”, singer-songwriter Lanegan also found time on the side to sustain a credible solo career into the 90s, delivering six albums under his own name with contributions from the cream of US alt-rock; Josh Homme, Duff McKagan, J Mascis and also Kurt Cobain, who played on his 1990 solo debut The Winding Sheet, an album reputed to have hugely influenced Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance.

“He was a wonderful guy and a person whose company I really enjoyed,” says Lanegan of Nirvana’s late front man. “He was an amazing talent, a great singer and songwriter. I was a big fan of what he did musically.”

In recent years, Los Angeles-based Lanegan has spent time in Homme’s Queens of The Stonenage, added his smoke-cured baritone to a Mercury Prize-nominated record with Belle & Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell in 2006 and worked with electronic acts Soulsaver and Bomb The Bass.

“In the last ten years or so I’ve just been blessed with an opportunity to play with people whose music I’m into and people who are friends of mine,” he says. “I guess I’m a magnet for it.”

More recently, he’s teamed up with Greg Dulli, former leader of Cincinnati’s soul-rockers Afghan Whigs, compiling songs they’d written over several years onto last year’s Saturnalia, their excellent debut album as The Gutter Twins.

“I think it started with me singing on (Dulli’s) Twilight Singers record and of course now I’ve been on three of them,” says Lanegan of the project. “We just enjoy each other’s company and making music together so it was just natural that we decided to do something that was not 100% his or my thing.

“I think in our past music separate from each other and also the music we make together, there’s this certain bent that we have in common. I can’t really say what it is but I know there’s an underlying thread, a commonality between what Greg does separate to me and what I do separate to him. And because of that we don’t have a tough time coming together.”

A set of brooding murder ballads, Saturnalia is a lyrical journey into their respective hearts of darkness prompting Dulli to dub the venture the “satanic Everly Brothers”. Lanegan has his own dry interpretation: “I just call it The Gutter Twins, man.”

Whilst the duo employed a full band on recent shows in the US and Europe, they’ll be travelling light to Australia next month, bringing only extra guitarist Dave Rosser.

“This is cool because it gives us a chance to play some stuff we didn’t play with the full band,” says Lanegan, “stuff from our past, some Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers songs and some of my solo and Trees songs.

There’s something about playing the stripped-down show that is sort of more challenging. You’re forced to confront the silence.” sSTEVE TAUSCHKE The Gutter Twins tour Australia’s east coast in July.

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A lot of workplaces these days require you to wear a uniform on the job. This is unfortunate, because uniforms are depressing in so many ways. Not only is there the boredom associated with wearing the same everyday, but to make matters worse, most uniforms are made from the crappiest, cheapest, nastiest material ever created. As well as being butt-ugly, uniforms also tend to be stiff, itchy and guaranteed to make you sweat. This being said, wearing a uniform does take the worry out of deciding what to wear. Picking the right outfit to wear to work can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be!

The key to easy work wear is to buy some classic foundation pieces which can be mix and matched with other items to make great outfits. To make it even easier, here is a list of the “must have” pieces: •

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A comfortable pair of black shoes to wear with pants A pair of black heels A nice white shirt (think Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction)

The main thing to remember when shopping for work clothes is to look for style and comfort. There is no gain in being in pain every time you walk to the water cooler.

Once you have the essentials, it is simply a matter of mix and matching with a nice top, a cute cardigan or some fancy stockings.

And step out of the box a bit. Looking professional doesn’t have to be boring.

Finish off the outfit with some nice jewelry or a scarf and you’re set to go. Better yet, you’ll look great when you head out after work for knock off drinks!

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Name? Miszhotstuff Age? 22 Favourite band/artist?

Nicole Scherzinger, Pussycat Dolls What’s the best excuse you’ve ever used to get out of something?

I can’t, sorry, I’ve been spending too much.

Would you rather find true love or have won the $90 Million lottery?

Can I say both please?

Name? Nathan Age? 19 Favourite band/artist? Killswitch Engage What’s the best excuse you’ve ever used to get out of something? I’ve broken my leg.

Would you rather find true love or have won the $90 Million lottery? Go the money!

Name? Sarit Age? 18 Favourite band/artist? Jimmy Eat World What’s the best excuse you’ve ever used to get out of something? My clavicle hurts Would you rather find true love or have won the $90 Million lottery? $90 Million lottery, then I could buy true love…shoes.

Name? Stu Age? Over 30 Favourite band/artist? Dandy Warhols What’s the best excuse you’ve ever used to get out of something? My shoes are too tight and I’ve forgotten how to dance.

Would you rather find true love or have won the $90 Million lottery? I’d rather find true love with the person who won the $90 Million!

POST-PUNK - HOBART // MANCHESTER MOURNING

Manchester United

When Sam Upton decided to form Manchester Mourning, he couldn’t even play an instrument. After deciding on the bass guitar, it wasn’t long before he was joined by Steve Wright on keys, James Woodberry on guitar and vocals and (eventually) Tim Stoneman on the drums. With their first ever gig at last years Rock Challenge, where they still managed to pick up fourth place on the night, the band are now releasing their debut EP, Duty Free, so the whole band got together to answer a few questions.

So if you’re from Hobart, what’s with the name?

Steve: We’re fans of the whole post-punk scene that was coming out of Manchester in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Bands like the Buzzcocks and Joy Division were the original source of inspiration for us, though I think since then we’ve moved beyond that to a sound of our own.

How was it having your first ever performance at the Rock Challenge last year? Are you bitter you didn’t win?

Steve: Being our first performance (and playing a song we’d written the day before!), we were quite nervous about it. In the end we were really happy with the way we played, and with the reception we got from the crowd. We weren’t expecting to come close to winning in the first place, so the reactions we got from people were the most important thing, and they were really positive, which was a great encouragement to keep playing and to ‘get out there’.

What made you decide to form the band?

Sam: After going to see the recent Joy Division documentary at the State Cinema I was inspired to form a band of my own (even though I didn’t know how to play an instrument at the time). I decided I’d play bass, and asked Steve to play keyboard. After that we found our singer/guitarist James, and our first drummer Alistair (who left the band early this year, replaced by Tim).

How’s the new EP, Duty Free, sounding?

Tim: It sounds really good actually. Originally we were going to record it at Rosny College, but decided in the end to record with Jordy Marson (of local band Paint Your Golden Face) at his home studio. He had a lot of equipment that we would not have had access to otherwise, including an old Hammond organ, and a Melos echo chamber.

What was the process for recording it? Did you stay away from Garageband?

Steve: Yes, we did indeed stay away from Garageband!

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We recorded drums, bass, and guitar live in two semiseparate rooms. We then overdubbed the vocal tracks and then the keyboard. We ended up using about four different keyboards for the five tracks, all of which Jordy had picked up at tip shops or second hand shops.

Why is it Duty Free?

James: Steve and I were in Melbourne, killing time before going to the Australian ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ festival on Mt. Buller. We wandered round the city for an hour or so, taking photos of everything. After we got back we made these into a collage, which we intended to be our EP’s cover. Prominent on this design were the words ‘Duty Free’. In the end we didn’t use that design for the cover, but the name stuck.

“…We try not to be limited by the restrictions of one genre, instead just writing the songs that feel natural to us as a group, be it a pop song, a punk song, or some long thing that makes up half our live set!...”

So, “post-punk with pop sensibilities,” what does that mean exactly?

Sam: I guess our main influences were initially the original movement of post-punk bands. A lot of these bands had darker and/or more ambient material, but also had songs that were more accessible. Excuse the cliché, but I think we try not to be limited by the restrictions (real or otherwise) of one genre, instead just writing the songs that feel natural to us as a group, be it a pop song, a punk song, or some long thing that makes up half our live set!

You have a song called ‘Diversion Therapy.’

What’s Manchester Mourning a diversion from?

Steve: I guess we’re trying to make our own original music, pushing ourselves outside of what we listen to, as well as actively seeking gigs and doing things for ourselves (though we have had lots of help from other bands, which we’re very grateful for). I’m not sure that those things are too common in music anymore. In saying that, before playing in Manchester Mourning I was barely aware of the scene in Hobart, especially the ‘indie’ scene, but now I realise that there are really, really great bands playing regularly less than half an hour away from where I live, which is a real privilege.

Russian Prison System, who are starting to get pretty well known round Hobart, are playing as well. I’ve seen them couple of times before, and they are doing some fantastic stuff. You really have to see them live to truly appreciate it I think. The last act on the bill is the solo project of Sam Cawley (billed as Smutty Sam), and this will be his first gig. He’s going to be one to look out for in the next couple of years in Hobart music I think. In addition to all this, we’ll be debuting at least two (maybe up to five) new songs. I’m really looking forward to it! It should be a great start to a great week of music. sMEEGAN MAY

Your EP launch sounds like a pretty huge show!

Why should punters come along?

Steve: The EP launch is going to be a great gig! It will be myblackson’s last public performance before an indefinite hiatus, so is a pretty big deal for them too.

Manchester Mourning’s EP launch, with myblackson, Russian Prision System and Smutty Sam, will be at: 0 15 July @ The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart WWW.SAUCE.NET.AU

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