BYRON GETS ITS PHIL
WEDNESDAY 3
Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, BENNY WHISKEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM NOY BEN NAMI, 8PM HAYLEY GRACE Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MARK CHAPMAN Q THE STRUMPET SALON, LISMORE, ILLUMINARIUM
THURSDAY 4 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JAHFRO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JASON DELPHIN, 5PM TWO MOONS, 8PM JASON DELPHIN Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM FELIX Q THE STRUMPET SALON, LISMORE, ILLUMINARIUM Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 9PM SIMON MEOLA
FRIDAY 5 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, HARRY NICHOLS BAND Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 3PM TIM STOKES, 6PM SCOTT DAY VEE, 9PM ROGUE ELEMENTS Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM BRETT GANNON Q SUFFOLK PARK COMMUNITY HALL, 6.30PM TJ DASS AND THE MONKEY BUSINESS Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 4.30PM DJ MONSIEUR DIOP Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM MUGHEAD & PRICEY: PLAY THE CARDS YOU’RE DEALT Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6PM DAN CLARK Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 8PM SWEET MIXJAH Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM MICHAEL GEEVES Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM JUSTIN JONES, 10PM LISA HUNT Q LENNOX HOTEL HOTEL STAGE 8PM INO PIO
SATURDAY 6 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, MAJESTIC KNIGHTS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 1PM KARUAH, 4PM JEROME WILLIAMS, 6.30PM ALIVAN BLU, 9PM ANIMAL VENTURA Q BYRON THEATRE 7.30PM GORDI – OUR TWO SKINS Q FOXY LUU’S, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM GROOVE & BAO FEAT. PRISCILA RIOS & RAFAEL GUMA Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM ISSAC FRANKHAM Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 4PM DJ ROBIN SYDNEY, 6.15PM DJ MILK Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM KATIE NOONAN Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6PM SLIM PICKENS Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, 8PM CARLY & ROO, 8PM DJ BRENT Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM SOUTHWALL Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 3PM MANTLEPEACE, 7PM SKYEATER Q SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN, 7.30PM DENISE SCOTT & NATH VALVO Q LENNOX HOTEL HOTEL STAGE THE GIN BUGGS Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM STEVE BLAIK, 9.30PM MARK SHEILS
SUNDAY 7 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, MATTY ROGERS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 1PM OLE FALCO, 5PM RAGGA JUMP, 9PM BROADWATER Q BYRON THEATRE 1PM THE AUTHENTIC YOU – TALK BANK PRESENTED BY MANDY NOLAN & GEORGE CATSI Q BYRON COMMUNITY MARKET 9AM BROADWATER, ARI, TIM STOKES, DEADSET FUN NUGGETS Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM ISSAC FRANKHAM Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 5PM ANIMAL VENTURA Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 2.30PM DAVE CAVANAGH Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 4PM EPIC
MONDAY 8 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, CARLY & ROO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM LUKE YEAMAN, 8PM JOHN CROSBIE
TUESDAY 9
Foxy Luu’s hosts a monthly event, ART & BAO Talks, featuring a new local artist to entice your mind and your mouth. Cozy up to a colourful corner with a cold beverage in one hand – and a home-made bao bun to blow your senses in the other. Kick back and enjoy live painting, and get the chance to win an art piece while meeting exhibiting artist Rafael Guma. Musician Priscila Rios will bust out some summer vibe Brazilian tunes while GUMALAB presents a project with an indigenous background. From the Megalopolis city of Sao Paulo, artist Rafael’s indigenous roots called him after a chaotic professional life as a graphic designer. Inspired by all the ancient knowledge that’s been lost – sometimes to natural disasters or greed – and the connections between ancient cultures, he immersed himself in a journey dedicated to exploring this world of possibilities, through recognition, self-awareness, feminine empowerment, and environmental knowledge. Saturday, at Foxy Luu’s (Byron Bay). Time: 4.30–6pm
TALKING TWATS Every year women from around the community talk about their vaginas to raise money for the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre’s Domestic Violence support program. Directed and curated by our local Citizen of the Year, Zenith Virago, who I fondly also call Vagina of the Year. Zenith started these Vagina Conversations in response to the need in our community to have positive conversations around our gender, our sexuality, our pain and our pleasure. While Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler is a timely piece, it’s American and has dated. So every year Zenith assembles a bunch of women, including yours truly, to talk twats. It’s beautiful, funny, moving, amazing, shocking and reassuring. So I asked Zen – why do we need to keep talking about our vaginas? ‘Some people still find the word “vagina” confronting, or distasteful… we need to reclaim it, embrace it and shout it from the headland… if we can’t even say the word, how are we going to have discussions with our girls and boys about healthy sexuality, bleeding and birthing, and body autonomy? Grace Tame, the 2021 Australian of the Year is sharing her voice, loud and clear, on the issue of criminal grooming, rape and sexual assault. She is doing that on the shoulders of all of us who have worked in this field for years. The elimination of sexual assault and abuse of girls, women, boys and people generally would make for a healthier world.’
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It was a win that was to catapult Grinspoon to national acclaim, making them one of the most loved bands on the circuit. Affection they have earned and maintained. Phil now lives in Port Macquarie and, while he still fronts Grinspoon, he also plays the circuit as a solo musician. ‘I am playing completely on my own. I used to play with a drummer and a bass player and they would only come for the last four songs as I struggled to get a crescendo solo, but I have figured out how to do it now without a band.’ ‘I love being in solo mode – I drive myself to the gig, and since covid I’ve driven to every one. Even though some of the smaller venues had a cap on their numbers, I wanted to play for my own sanity. Playing online, and time at home, gave me a chance to hone a lot of what I do live. And so heading to Summerstage – it’s going to be, like, the largest event I’ve done in a while!’ Playing live is something Phil missed during the covid lockdowns that affected so many musicians. Even though he was playing online and streaming, it was the live gigs that still called him. ‘It’s something I feel I am relatively good at,’ he laughs humbly. ‘I am okay in the studio, but I am impatient. Playing live is where I can get my head around what I do.’ So what’s the trick for a solo act to catch a crowd? ‘There’s a trick I learnt from Tim Rogers; get quieter and quieter – you don’t want to come out like Robbie Williams blasting – on the solo journey it’s you and a guitar and a harmonica. You have to make the audience work and bring them back, no matter how they are – if they’re reverential or super party and want to heckle, I don’t mind. I never scold the crowd’. Phil is pumped to be playing Summerstage. ‘I can’t wait to play. Sophie Ozard, who is supporting, did a massive tour with me recently and Andy is great as well. Can’t wait – I have been playing Byron since I started at The Northern in 1995 supporting Sidewinder!’
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PHIL JAMIESON (GRINSPOON) ANDY JANS BROWN AND COZ*MIC SOPHIE OZARD
BYRON DIVAS OF JAZZ (SHARNY RUSSELL, LEIGH CARRIAGE AND FIONA DELL) THE FERAMONES LISA HUNT’S FOREVER SOUL
06.02 4.30 - 6.00 pm @Foxy Luu’s
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This was a game changer for the lads who weren’t really Lismore boys, they just converged there! ‘When we won Unearthed there were some Lismore bands that weren’t too happy!’
PRISCILA
Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JASON DELPHIN Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM LOKI HOUGH, 8PM GUY KACHEL Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM OOZ
‘I moved to Lismore in 1995 to study, and found Pat and Joe and Kris. I was at SCU and I was just 17, and I went to a Monday night jam session at the Gollan that Kris’s dad was running. I met them there – playing uni-styled funk. We formed a little group and entered Unearthed. It was at the same time Triple J’s competition went national, so when we won Unearthed it meant we could go to Dubbo or Townsville or anywhere and they would have heard us.’
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With much of his work cancelled in 2020, Phil is excited to be returning to the area where his seminal band cut their teeth.
To find out more and get tickets to this awesome outdoor socially distanced gig go to summerstagebyronbay.com.au GUMALAB
Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, OOZ Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM LEIGH JAMES, 8PM ADAM BROWN
WEDNESDAY 10
Grinspoon’s frontman heads up the next Summerstage in Byron.
Catch Phil Jamieson with supporting acts Andy Jans Brown and Coz*mic, and Sophie Ozard, on Saturday 13 February at Summerstage Byron at Red Devils. Sunday 14 Feb sees the incredible Lisa Hunt’s Forever Soul, The Feramones and Byron Divas of Jazz.
Vagina Conversations #6 at the Byron Theatre 15–16 Feb at 7.30pm. Tix at byroncentre.com.au.
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