ENTERTAINMENT
Howl & Moan Records and Bolt Records are joining forces to present the best independent and alternative local bands at the Byron Bay Brewery on Friday and Saturday. Friday night from 8pm is punk and psych rock in the band room featuring Dicklord, The Lonesomes, Perve Endings, Cassowarys, and Float Therapy. Saturday is the Night of the She-Wolf from 6pm on the Garden stage where we will be celebrating femalefronted bands and performers. Featuring local acts Nicole Brophy, Moreton, Demi Casha, Tom’s Daughter, Lou May, and Tilka Fosmale. Both events are free with Wolfman from Howl & Moan Records deejaying on vinyl between bands. It’s happening this Friday and Saturday night at Byron Bay Brewery.
Mapstone play the Brewery this Friday
A MAP FOR MUSIC Steeped in conscious lyrics, thoughtful grooves and an energy that is simply captivating, blending and bending reggae, folk, and world music into a unique fusion, Mapstone are a five-piece powerhouse band. Combining voice, didgeridoo, bass, percussion, guitar, and Hammond organ, Mapstone infuse the dancefloor with an uplifting and enticing sound. The lyrics and music are powerful and take the listeners and dancers on a deep journey: some say transformative; some say awakening. Their music is from the heart, for the heart, and of the heart. Mapstone have been travelling the world for the last three years and sharing stages with the likes of Nahko and MFTP, Dustin Thomas, OKA, The Beautiful Girls, and Murray Kyle. Returning home to begin their Australian tour into the new year, Mapstone will be releasing a double A-side, Tribal Nation, which was recorded with Sunny Coast legends OJ Newcomb and Paulie B at Yama-Nui Studios. Mapstone play this Friday from 7pm at the Byron Brewery with with Yoyo Tuki and Ladi Abundance.
AMERICANA TRADITIONS AT THE BREWERY Fiona Boyes and Gary J Vincent are on their 2019 Tales of the Road tour. Blues artist Fiona Boyes is joined by twotime Grammy nominee Gary J Vincent sharing original songs, exquisite guitar playing, and lots of stories from their experiences of more than a combined 75 years of touring international. Fiona and Gary will have you dancing, laughing, crying, and celebrating the magic of the blues and Americana traditions. See them at the Byron Brewery, Sunday at 2pm.
OLDER AND GOLDEN Miss Amber and Stukulele are back in 2019 with traditional January special guests Ash Bell and Sara Tindley. The theme is an eclectic bag: Golden Oldies… any song recorded before 1999. Bring your uke and happy face. Visit www.ukemullum.com for songbooks and more info. See you Thursday at 6.30pm at Club Mullum.
BUT WAIT… This summer two of Sydney’s most exciting live upand-comers pack into a Kia Carnival of carnage to take on the Pacific and the Hume. Covering more miles than Scomo’s promo bus, Nick Nuisance & The Delinquents and 100 will be running up and down the east coast, giving the people what they really want – a split 7” of two of their fave tracks along with a splitting headache the morning after. The past 12 months saw both bands rise to the top of the pops, quickly gaining a reputation for loud, raucous shows and stealing the spotlight at King St Crawl and the Psyched As 1000. Nick Nuisance & The Delinquents, 100 and Kimono Drag Queens play The Northern on Friday.
Miss Amber and Stukulele are back
PUNK & PSYCH AND THE LOCALS
For many artists, finding someone simpatico whom they can collaborate with is a gift. For singer/songwriter Gyan her creative coupling with Jane Siberry is just that. This year Gyan celebrates 30 years since her debut release Wait, the song that saw her soar to national and even international attention. It’s the same year that her good friend Jane is knee deep on a world tour so the planets have aligned so that both these exceptional artists and dear friends get to be in the same place, on the same stage, at the same time. Gyan recalls first hearing Jane’s music back in 1989. ‘When I did my first deal with Warner Brothers the label gave me an album and said you are going to love this girl – they gave me an album of Jane Siberry… and someone else took me to a Tori Amos show. I thought wow, these chicks are good. I have loved Jane from afar especially the When I was a Boy album she did with KD Laing and Brian Eno. Back in the day of Myspace she put up a post saying, ‘I am backpacking into Byron,’ so I jumped on and said that we were doing the Adelaide Cabaret Festival (she was too) and would she like to meet up. I was so nervous going to meet her that I nearly crashed the car. I had just recorded Billy the Rabbit (the album with Leunig that seeded the project he is now doing with Katie Noonan). ‘We just clicked and from that day on she came and lived with us for four months, and made the preparation for two albums in our studio. We became buddies. In all my years I can’t say I have very many close peers and most of the women I try to befriend often end up being like competitors. Jane just wrapped her big generous arms around me and said: ‘I’ll distribute you through
MISS AMBER & STUKULELE’S
UKE NIGHT
my American website’. She was so generous. I appreciated her mind and her heart and her talent. It was a chance meeting; it’s been over a decade now…’ In the show at the Byron Theatre Gyan and Jane called UnTogether Again both artists will be performing together and they’ll be performing solo sets. ‘I love collaborating,’ says Gyan. ‘When we did that last house concert here we had to turn people away. Jane deserves the theatre – she can play the Steinway – so she is doing a lot more theatres on her world tour. I love collaborating and the fact we can do some songs together – any chance to sing with someone is an honour and a gift!’ Thirty years on since Wait Gyan has decided to put together a retrospective, ‘tracing some of the old records to see how I wasn’t to do them and to give a nod to that anniversary. I have completely remodelled Wait – to some people it’s disrespectful and annoying – I got rid of the middle eight – James Cruickshank helped me bring it back. I don’t really sing the same now as I did when I started; I used to belt it out. Now I am a lot more subtle. I am more in the classical genre. Where I used to be loud, now I am quiet.’ Gyan has the kind of voice that binds you to the spot. It’s mesmerising. Interestingly she tells me that she ‘never thought I was much of singer at all. So I put a lot of importance on the word. I like my lyric to be succinct. I love creating a picture!’ And that she does. Close your eyes when you listen to Gyan and you’ll get to imagine your own movie. And together with Jane Siberry? A double feature. Wednesday 20 Feb at 7pm Byron Theatre – tix at byroncentre.com.au.
WHAT’S ON
GOLDEN OLDIES
THIS WEEK
ASH BELL
WED
OPEN MIC NIGHT
HAPPY HOUR
THUR
JOY RIDE
HAPPY HOUR
WITH
HARRY NICHOLS
WITH
HEAPS GOOD FRIENDS +
APPROACHABLE MEMBERS OF YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY
SARA TINDLEY
FRI
SAT
CLUB MULLUM THU 31 JAN 6.30PM FROM
BYO UKULELE ENTRY: ADULT $15.00 YOUTH (5 – 15 YEARS) $2.50
SONGBOOKS AVAILABLE THROUGH WWW.UKEMULLUM.COM
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SIVE
SUN
DICK LORD
WITH
LONESOMES + PERVE ENDINGS + MORE
MAPSTONE
4-6PM
4-6PM
HAPPY HOUR 4-6PM
NIGHT OF THE SHE WOLF
FREE BREWERY TOUR 2PM
FIONA BOYES
FREE BREWERY TOUR 2PM
NICHOLE BROPHY + MORETON + DEMI CASHA + TOM’S DAUGHTER + LOU MAY + TILKA FOSMALE | 2PM
GARY J VINCENT
WITH
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