LONELY PLTS
A DATE WITH HETTY KATE
WANT A CAREER IN MUSIC?
Fresh from Paris, Hetty Kate is thrilled to return to Australia to perform with guitarist James Sherlock, bassist Thierry Fossemalle, and drummer Dave Sanders at Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club Friday 12 July, performing a swinging selection of classics and curios from her travels and most recent albums. Enjoy songs from the Great American Songbook and French chanson, alongside popular classics that you know and love. Described as having ‘a stage presence, only matched by the clarity in her voice’ by James Morrison, Hetty is often lauded for her ‘natural musicality’, pure tone, and impeccable timing, making her one of the most sought-after jazz artists by audiences and musicians alike. Last year was Hetty’s first time to play in Mullum and she’s pumped about coming back to play with our world-class local musos. In fact she’s tempted to stash them in her luggage and smuggle them back to Paris. Hetty Kate is returning to Mullum Ex-Services Club 12 July. Show starts at 8pm. Tickets are available online for $20 from www.clubmullum.com or $25 on the door. 8pm start.
Telling your parents you want to work in the music industry used to be cause for alarm, with exclamations of ‘What have I done wrong?’, ‘Why can’t I have a lawyer?’ This outdated belief that a career in the music industry is unrealistic or a narrow pathway is just one of the misconceptions about an industry that provides up to nine per cent of Australia’s annual GDP. According to Music Australia live contemporary music industry generates revenues of $1.5–$2 billion annually. So far from being an unrealistic career, working in the music industry, whether onstage, in production, in the studio, in media, or in event creation or music management is a pathway to a dynamic career where hundreds of choices and opportunities are available. Southern Cross University has long been an industry leader, creating and innovating educational pathways that best support careers in music. To facilitate conversation and information around the changes and opportunities presented by the music industry Southern Cross University will be presenting a Music Careers Symposium at the Lismore Campus on Friday 16 August from 9am till 3pm. The symposium is open to everyone and features musicians, creatives, academics, festival and arts directors, and media specialists sharing their knowledge in this one-day think tank that redefines what it means to be a contemporary musician. Southern Cross Uni, Lismore. 9am–3pm. Free session but bookings are essential: eventbrite.com.au/e/63545607623.
M A N D Y N O LA N ’S
SOAPBOX
Byron Bay indie-rockers PLTS (pronounced ‘Pilots’) have just released their long-awaited new EP Lonely Leaves, and to celebrate they are playing a home show at the Byron Brewery this Friday. So what about their new EP? Well, across the seven tracks of Lonely Leaves there is an overarching theme of nostalgia, each song reflecting on growth and loss, bringing closure after a tumultuous year. Anthemic and straddling the realm of mature indie and stadium rock, sheer velocity is the driving force resulting in the band’s most personal, exciting record to date. The sound is raw and less restrained than their previous releases; however, it continues their penchant for soaring vocals and exhilarating riffs, interjected with undiluted southern-rock guitar tones. Friday at the Brewery at 7pm. Free.
actually increased their life expectancy. He says that the high-frequency radiation is just a type of electromagnetic wave that’s unable to disrupt or damage atoms. Well if Dr Karl says it’s okay? He’s on the radio so he must be right. We can trust the media‌ right?
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ATTACK OF THE 5G WOMAN To 5G or not 5G? There is the question.
The other day I asked people on my Facebook what they thought about 5G. It almost melted down. The comments were long and detailed, and the more I read, the more confused I became. After an hour I started fashioning a helmet from foil. After two hours I started wearing it. Whereas 5G offers insanely fast download speeds of one gigabyte per second I was lucky to digest a paragraph in a minute. Human brains just can’t compete. I did establish though that there isn’t any middle ground when it comes to the G war; there are clearly two camps. Those who see 5G as relatively harmless, and those who see it as the end of life as we know it. G-Stinction.
What everyone agrees on is that we need more towers as 5G can’t travel as far as 4G wavelengths and they struggle to move through objects. That means we will need a mini cell tower every 2–8 houses because they transmit data on an entirely different part of the radio spectrum. Basically it will be a small box positioned on lightpoles, tops of buildings, or street lights.
No-one has brought up a key argument against 5G – it sounds really ugly. So if public health isn’t a concern, maybe public art should be. Are we really going to let Telstra whack up an ugly little box in everyone’s line of sight? (If you aren’t in line of sight with your device, it doesn’t work). I guess you’ll know when you’re in line Ironically, all the chatter about 5G is currently of sight because your nose will start bleeding being disseminated on 4G. If it were a little faster or your baby will die. But on the upside your we might be able to do something about it! Like virtual reality porn goggles will be firing. in the vax debate, it seems that both sides have I’m not completely sold on the ‘5G is benign’ team scientists. It’s often difficult to establish belief. We’re still dealing with the effects of the efficacy and identity of scientists when asbestos, so I’m not convinced corporations researching on the internet. It seems scientists really do have public health at the centre of are sluts for funding and they will say anything. their business models. What concerns me, In the ‘5G is dangerous’ corner we have Dr Joel Moskowitz, a public health professor at the University of California who says the higher-frequency millimetre waves used in 5G could cause major skin, eye, and nervous system problems. One person told me that her daughter went to Glastonbury this year where 5G was in use and everyone was getting nose bleeds. This could have been incurred from the digital trauma of vigorous unlubricated picking, or perhaps that is an unfortunate human side effect of superfast internet. We might all have to get used to carrying tissues. You’re downloading so fast, you’re literally streaming. Blood. Are LED street lamps in northern England causing insomnia, nosebleeds, and still births? The transmitters are outside people’s bedroom windows. Some researchers believe EMF (electromagnetic frequency) radiation can cause harm by disrupting the body’s nitrogen monoxide system that keeps cells health and controls gene expression. Back in 2011 the World Health Organisation warned that EMF radiation was possibly carcinogenic to humans. But not everyone agrees. In the ‘5G is good’ corner we have the beloved Dr Karl, who tells us that rats and mice exposed to mobile-phone radiation
and is less in the conversation, is the way 5G can be weaponised. It uses nearly the same frequency as weaponised crowd-control systems‌ and it’s very, very, very fast. With more transmitters there’s also the issue of constant highly accurate monitoring of where you are and what you are doing. Then there’s AI, the beginning of our obsolescence, timed quite neatly with our impending loss of fertility and human extinction. If anything, 5G might just hurry it up. Do we really need to download movies faster than we can now? Are our lives being ruined by buffering? Dr Karl tells us that the only side effect we need to worry about is a bit of heating. I imagine 5G being transmitted in hot spaces through my body. I fall asleep with my headphones on, only to have my metadata transform me into megafauna. I awake, my feet have pushed through the wall, my arms draped out the window. I wrap my long fingers around a 5G box just in sight and I rip it off. I am angry. I’m tipping over self-driving automated vehicles, crushing eBay delivery drones with my teeth. My nose is bleeding, my fertility is ruined, I can’t sleep, and even though I can download a movie in a heartbeat, there’s nothing worth watching. It’s the attack of the 5G woman‌ Why do corporations continue to have more rights than community? Where may I ask is the public consultation?
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WHAT’S ON
THIS WEEK OPEN MIC NIGHT
WED
with harry nichols
THUR
ARTS FACTORY JAM
HAPPY HOUR
HAPPY HOUR
PLTS | BABY
FRI
REGULAR BAND | VICTOR BRAVO
HAPPY HOUR
MIDDLEWING
(BAND ROOM)
(BEER GARDEN)
FREE BREWERY TOUR
SAT
THE SWAMPS
SUN
FREE BREWERY TOUR & tasting | 2pm
COMING
SOON
L D R U | EMMA LOUISE | FRIENDLY JORDIES | EMMA LOUISE | DOSED | THE ANIMALS
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