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- FREE SHIT THE SMART The Smart live up to their title by putting on a spread of intelligent embellishments at their HiFi show. The audio-visual experience includes performances in 3D and a keytar, inspired by science ﬁction. We have ten double passes to give away to their performance on Saturday September 8. Goggles provided.

NASUM Grind kings Nasum have reunited for a ﬁnal tribute to former vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk, who died in Thailand during the 2004 Tsunami. Celebrate their 20th anniversary and simultaneously bid them a ﬁnal farewell when they play the Hi-Fi on August 19. We have two double passes to give away. Find this free shit at beat.com.au/freeshit. Simple.

THE ANGELS After Doc Neeson set oﬀ in 2011 to pursue some solo endeavors, The Angels, with new front man Dave Gleeson of Screaming Jets fame, have announced a brand new album and a September show to celebrate. At a Rick and John Brewsters performance at a pub in Adelaide, Gleeson found himself invited up on stage to sing a few Angles classics. A few weeks later he found himself in Sydney's Alberts Studios, recording the vocals for the album the Brewster's has been itching to write for years, Take It To The Streets. The Angles' new album Take It To The Streets will be initially packaged as a limited 2CD edition, with a bonus live disc featuring 14 songs, including classic Angels and some of the brand new tracks. It will be available from Friday August 31. The Angels will be playing at the Corner Hotel on Thursday September 20. Tickets are available from the Corner Hotel box oﬃce and website.

NICKELBACK Due to the overwhelming demand of Nickelback’s Melbourne fans, an extra show has been added. The news comes after the ﬁrst show sold out almost instantaneously. Local lads Jackson Firebird will also play the supporting role for this performance. Nickelback played their second Melbourne show at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday November 28. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday August 15 at 9am through Ticketek.

ALEXISONFIRE Alexisonfire fans were left heavy hearted when the band made their split official in 2011. But there's hope yet, with a handful of farewell shows announced including two Australian dates. Alexisonfire frontman Dallas Green has been touring extensively in the solo guise of City And Colour, including a headline slot at this year's Groovin The Moo. This will be the last chance to catch Dallas front the Canadian post-hardcore giants in the live setting. Alexisonfire perform at Festival Hall on Wednesday December 12. Ticket details to follow.

ED SHEERAN There's no stopping the sensation that is the UK's Ed Sheeran. After recently wrapping up a sell-out Australian tour, Ed quickly announced an even bigger tour for early next year. As you would imagine, tickets to the Melbourne show were snapped up pretty bloody quick. As such a second Festival Hall show has been announced. Get in quick, it would be plain unforgivable if you miss out this time around. Ed Sheeran performs at Festival Hall on Tuesday March 5 (sold-out) and Wednesday March 6, tickets for which are on sale now from Ticketmaster.

SOUNDWAVE The behemoth that is Soundwave Festival has announced an absolutely freakin' massive 2013 line-up. Hitting the stage for our biggest hard rock, metal and punk festival will be Metallica, Linkin Park, Blink-182, A Perfect Circle, The Oﬀspring, Paramore, Garbage, Tomahawk, Stone Sour, Kyuss Lives, Anthrax, Sum 41, Dragonforce, All Time Low, Flogging Molly, Ghost, Duﬀ McKagan’s Loaded, Motion City Soundtrack, Lawrence Arms, Kingdom Of Sorrow, Fozzy, Sleeping With Sirens, Cancer Bats, Madball, Vision of Disorder, Pierce The Veil, Periphery, Shai Halud, Of Mice & Men, Miss May I, Danko Jones, Woe Is Me,The Wonder Years, While She Sleeps, Such Gold, Lucero, Six Feet Under, Deaf Havana, Red Fang, Chunk! No Captain Chunk! and Memphis May Fire! Members presale for the Melbourne leg starts 9am Friday August 17. You can register for presale at the Soundwave touring website, while general public tickets go onsale 9am Thursday August 23. The Melbourne leg of Soundwave 2013 takes place Friday March 1.

FAR EAST MOVEMENT Far East Movement are returning Down Under this September. The US electro-hop group rocketed to notoriety with smash hit Like A G6 and show no signs of settling down any time soon, especially now after unleashing their brand new album Dirty Bass. Having already toured alongside some of the biggest, hottest names in the pop business including Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Rihanna and Lil Wayne, Far East Movement can’t wait to take the party from the streets of LA back to the dance ﬂoors of Australia and New Zealand. Far East Movement will be joined by American pop duo Karmin, best known for their massively popular single Brokenhearted. Far East Movement hit Trak Lounge Bar on Friday September 21. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday August 17 through Ticketmaster.

HOODOO GURUS The 12th annual A Day On The Green launches a summer invasion of Australian rock’n’roll. Hoodoo Gurus, The Angels with Dave Gleeson, Baby Animals, James Reyne and Boom Crash Opera are set to join forces for ﬁve mouth-watering hours of irresistible Oz rock classics. The legendary Gurus are by any measure one of Australia's greatest, best loved and most enduring rock bands; the Dave Gleeson-fronted Angels unleash their eagerly-awaited new album this month to feverish Angels fans; the Baby Animals are back in the studio and ready to rock again; James Reyne’s thirteenth album Thirteen has proved to be anything but unlucky with stellar reviews; and openers Boom Crash Opera fronted by charismatic Dale Ryder round oﬀ this incredible bill with panache. A mighty day of rock’n’roll rolls into Victoria on Saturday November 24 at Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley and tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Friday August 17.

LOON LAKE Melbourne's hometown heroes Loon Lake have answered Melbournian fans' prayers by announcing a third and ﬁnal show. Overwhelming demand for their live shows and two sold out sets in Melbourne have been backed up by their current single Cherry Lips hitting the Top 20 Australian singles chart and number ﬁve on the AIR charts. Brisbane locals Cub Scouts and Glass Towers will be supporting Loon Lake on their Thirty Three tour. Loon Lake hit Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday August 30. Tickets available now through Oztix.

JLO Resurgent late-'90s pop sensation JLO, aka Jennifer Lopez, has announced her debut Australian tour. Dominating the globe with massive tracks such as Waiting For Tonight, Jenny From The Block, and more recently, I'm Into You and Dance Again, JLO is a certiﬁed pop superstar. The debut Australian tour celebrates JLO's recently released greatest hits compilation, Dance Again... The Hits. JLO performs at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday December 11. Tickets through Ticketek.

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Girl Interpreted returns in 2012, bringing together Auslan sign language interpreters and incredible musicians from Darebin and further afield. This year's lineup includes Lucie Thorne, Mojo Juju, Georgia Fields and Tracy McNeil. See incredible lyrics come to life before your very eyes (and ears) in the lush Velvet Room at the Thornbury Theatre. The full-time Auslan course at Kangan Batman TAFE is one of several courses at risk of losing its funding this year. Without this course, the already insufficient number of qualified interpreters will continue to dwindle, leaving more people without access to information. In a world where all hearing people have the capacity to learn how to sign and communicate with such a big sector of our community, Girl Interpreted serves up just one of many good reasons to explore this language on a platter! Girl Interpreted is happening at the Thornbury Theatre on September 22, with tickets available from the venue website.

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Sun Rising: The Songs That Made Memphis plays absolute tribute to a unique era of rock’n’roll and presents a passionate and musically spectacular rendition of the Sun hit records we know and love – Elvis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and plenty more. We chatted to David Cosma about his musical project. Tell us about how you got into the unique Memphis era of rock’n’roll. Well, I ﬁrst fell in love with Elvis when I was a kid, became obsessed and naturally as I discovered his work, came across his Sun Record releases and in turn discovered the other great artists from Sun. The music is hard to ignore. What is your favourite song that came from that era and why? Well, the Elvis songs (of course) are close to my heart, in particular That’s Alright Mama, probably the most important song of his career and dare I say one of the most important in regards to the last 60 years in music. It was his debut release (and his version of Bill Munroe’s Blue Moon of Kentucky is a corker too. It was the ﬂip side to That’s Alright Mama. Bill Munroe rerecorded his version once he heard Elvis’. That says something).

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What made you start this project? Well, 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of Sun coming into operation. So that’s a good reason to celebrate but the main reason was to raise a glass to the man who started it all, Sam Phillips. Sam started Memphis Recording Service in 1949 and started the Sun Records label a few years later in 1952. To the band, the most incredible thing about the legacy is the fact that the artists he recorded and produced, “started” their careers at Sun. They weren’t established artists passing through Memphis. They walked through Suns doors virtually unknown and would eventually become household names. Artists including Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Howlin Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins.... What can we expect on the night? We’ve done our best musically to capture the originality of the songs, as they were recorded in the ‘50s. It’s easy to overcomplicated such simple songs with overplaying and performance so we’ve done our best to maintain their original charm. Also, we have some stories and dialogue to go with the music so it’s not just a show of songs. SUN RISING: THE SONGS THAT MADE MEMPHIS play The Toﬀ In Town this Thursday August 16 with Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk.

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ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES All Tomorrow's Parties have revealed that they'll be returning to Australia under the I'll Be Your Mirror banner with a lineup curated by themselves and The Drones. The Saturday February 16 lineup (curated by ATP) features My Bloody Valentine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Swans, The Dead C, HTRK, Thee Oh Sees, Sleepy Sun and Standish Carlyon. The Sunday February 17 lineup (curated by The Drones) features The Drones, Beasts Of Bourbon, Einstürzende Neubauten, Lost Animal, Harmony, and Cam Butler & The Shadows Of Love. More acts to be conﬁrmed for both days! It all goes down on Saturday February 16 and Sunday February 17 at Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star Reception, Altona. Tickets are now on sale through the ATP website.

ROCKER RAFFLE The Rocker Raffle for the rangers is a Thing Green Line Foundation initiative to raise funds for the protection of hi-risk wildlife rangers and their families around the globe. Tickets for the raffles are $20 and prizes include a one-off guitar painted by Indigenous artist Colin Wright and signed by Gotye, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Crosby Stills And Nash, Wolfmother, Earth Wind & Fire,AA Angelique Kidjo, Trombone Shorty, Sublime and Rome, John Butler, Tex Perkins, Bomba and many more, a VIP pass for you and three friends to the upcoming Gotye concert, a Jam Roots home performance at a party or lots of other great prizes. There's only 5,000 tickets and the raffle will be drawn on Friday September 7. Head to thingreenline.org.au for details.

Following the success of last year’s event, Melbourne Music Week returns in November with an even bigger line-up of acts and events. Highlights of the program include a MMW exclusive show from Italian progressive rock band Goblin who will play the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ, Where?House, MMW’s mysterious ﬂagship venue plus the return of the successful Label series, featuring Siberia Records show headlined by Kirin J Callinan, a Teengirl Fantasy and Collarbones show curated by Two Bright Lakes and Cutters Records, and Crayon Fields (in their ﬁrst live performance since 2009) plus Twerps for Chapter Music. Featuring over 90 events including 50 concerts, Melbourne Music Week will run from Friday November 16 to Saturday November 24 at various venues around town. More Melbourne Music Week acts, concerts and events will be announced on Wednesday September 19 when selected tickets go on sale. Full program details will be announced on Wednesday October 3.

The fifth anniversary of the Australasian Worldwide Music Expo’s (AWME) will be marked by one of Melbourne's biggest lineups of global roots music, with 60 world-class artists performing over four days and nights this November. The first line-up includes Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Archie Roach’s Into The Bloodstream, The Abyssinians,The Bamboos, The Bart Willoughby Band, Jordie Lane, Ladi6, Charlie Parr, OKA, Iration Steppas, Hugo Mendez, The Bombay Royale, Kutcha Edwards, Sophie Koh Kingfisha, Watussi, Saskwatch, Electric Empire, House of Shem, Iva Lamkum, Jumps, Sietta, Sue Ray, The Medics, Bachu Khan, The Good Ship, Edou, East Journey, Tek Tek Ensemble and Madre Monte. AWME 2012 takes place at Arts Centre Melbourne, The Hi-Fi, The Toff, Ding Dong Lounge and The Carlton from Thursday November 15 until Sunday November 18. Check out awme.com. au for more info.

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LAURA IMBRUGLIA & COURTNEY BARNETT Local legends Laura Imbruglia and Courtney Barnett will be taking to The Tote stage with their bands, and each other, to present a selection of their favourite country tracks. However, this country revue will oﬀer a twist on the usual format with the girls exclusively singing songs by male country stars and welcoming male guests to the stage to sing the songs of country chanteuses. These male guests include Ash Naylor (Even), Fraser A. Gorman, Bob Harrow (Immigrant Union), Alex Hamilton (Merri Creek Pickers) and Matt Chapman (My Left Boot). The night will be opened with a special set by Weened (Melbourne’s premier Ween tribute band), who will perform selections from Ween’s classic album 12 Golden Country Greats. So get your boots on and bring that broken heart out to The Tote for a darn good night of country. It all goes down on Saturday September 1, tickets are $10 on the door.

THE SMITH STREET BAND With their hometown album launch show at The Tote well and truly sold out, The Smith Street Band have announced a second Melbourne date to their upcoming tour. The upcoming tour is to celebrate the release of the Melbourne band’s second album, Sunshine & Technology due out on Friday August 24. The Smith Street Band will play the new The Reverence Hotel in Footscray on Sunday August 26, joined by good friends Jamie Hay, Maricopa Wells and Sweet Teens. Doors are open at 3pm and tickets available on the door only.

GOTTA HAVE HEART Entertainment Assist, the Australian entertainment industry charitable foundation, are buzzing with excitement with the announcement of the line-up for the 2012 Gotta Have Heart event to be held at The Palms at Crown. The event will feature Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Strings with the Kings Of Soul Grand WaZoo, as well as a line-up of performers such as Jon Stevens, Leo Sayer, Anthony Callea, Rhonda Burchmore, Tim Campbell, Ian Stenlake, Mahalia Barnes and Ross Wilson. With such an outstanding line-up, all with the backing of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Strings and Grand WaZoo this will be a night not to be missed and all money raised will go to Entertainment Assist. Gotta Have Heart is happening at The Palms at Crown on Sunday August 26, with a matinee and evening show. Tickets are available from Ticketek.

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R.L. JONES & THE PHONY MEXICAN DINER R.L. Jones is Rohin Jones; former member of The Middle East and part-time bum. The Phony Mexican Diner is a collection of ramshackle musical friends, some of whom you might have seen perform previously in The Middle East, Joseph Liddy And The Skeleton Horse plus a couple of new faces. With The Middle East parting ways mid-2011, Rohin has shifted focus, writing and recording material for his forthcoming solo album which is due early 2013 on Spunk Records. The time has come for R.L. Jones and his new band to test Jones’ new songs on audiences. R.L. Jones & The Phony Mexican Diner will perform in Melbourne at The Gasometer on Friday September 7 with D.D Dumbo and Bored Nothing.

To celebrate the release of Deep Heat, Alexander from Oh Mercy is performing an all ages solo show and signing copies of the album in the Pure Pop Records courtyard on Saturday August 25 from 5pm. The last time Alexander performed at Pure Pop the place packed out early meaning people missed out, so get there early.

WINTER PEOPLE Sydney’s Winter People are proud to announce the release of their debut album, A Year At Sea – out September 21 – and their national album tour. Helmed by singer, songwriter, multiinstrumentalist and visual artist, Dylan Baskind, Winter People has blossomed into a sprawling six-piece, boasting no fewer than two violin players and ﬁve vocalists. Winter People will be performing at The Toﬀ on Saturday September 28, with an all ages show on September 29 at Pure Pop Records. Tickets are now on sale.

HOLGATE BREWHOUSE Holgate Brewhouse are kicking off a new restaurant menu this week. Head in to try Chef Timbo’s malt smoked eye fillet, black truffle ravioli, roast pork belly or beer marinated roo with one of Holgate’s fine ales. They still have their world famous Dark Ale beef pies, lots of shared platters, and desserts to die for. The chefs make all the bread in house, so suss out the beer bread. Certainly worth the weekend trip to 79 High Street, Woodend. Their contact number is 03 5427 2510.

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CREEPSHOW Attention creatures of the night: Melbourne’s biggest Halloween party Creepshow Halloween Festival returns to The Espy on Saturday October 20. See The Espy as you’ve never seen it before – transformed into a haunted mansion, playing host to seductive burlesque dancers, creepy DJs and a hoarde of spine-tingling bands. Dress to kill – you may just win a prize for your eﬀorts. Tickets just $21+bf on sale Monday August 20 from Oztix, The Espy, Greville Records, Polyester (city and Fitzroy), Fist 2 Face, The Nash (Geelong) and Karova Lounge (Ballarat).

MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE My Friend The Chocolate Cake return to Williamstown Substation for one night only. MFTCC have had a well-earned break after their gruelling 2012 national touring schedule following the release of their 7th album Fiasco. This special show takes place on Friday September 7. Tickets are $30 for seated and $25 for standing, available from trybooking.com.

DICK DIVER One of our most prestiguous jangly collectives have announced a sorta-rare headline show. Dick Diver, who put out one of the records of 2011 in New Start Again, will be taking to The Toﬀ at the end of the month. Also performing on the night will be the very ace supports The Clits and The Stevens. Dick Diver perform at The Toﬀ on Thursday August 23. Beat Magazine Page 16

Sometimes they must think you are an idiot. They play and promise their last show in the year then just as it happens they slip in just one more. So if you missed the triple one-man-band with sharp quiﬀs and broken guitar explosion that was their ‘last’ gig at Cherry Bar, the boys have announced the last donkey out of town, the last triple-bassdrum-boom for the year, what is guaranteed to be a dynamite jalapeño certain enough mariachi rock'n'roll to satisfy you until the new dawn. The amigos will join their spiritual padre, Tuscon’s most famed and disgraced import Bob Log 111 for one night only on Friday August 24 at The Tote. Tickets are on sale now from the Tote website.

THE PAPER KITES After gaining a massive following with their debut EP Woodland, The Paper Kites are set to continue their ascent with the follow-up EP Young North. To celebrate the record’s release, the band are setting oﬀ on a national tour, hitting The Corner Hotel this November. The folk quintet have cut their teeth touring extensively with the likes of Josh Pyke and Boy & Bear. Support on the Young North Tour comes from Art Of Sleeping and Battleships. The Paper Kites hit The Corner Hotel on Friday November 2. Tickets onsale Monday August 13 from The Corner box oﬃce.

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“We told you to grow beards,” warns The Beards’ front man Johann Beardraven. “This will be your last chance.” That’s correct, The Beards are hitting the road to spread the word before the Mayanpredicted apocalypse, and the only way to be saved is get beardy. The 2012 End Of The World (For Beardless People) Tour will see the nation’s most loved novelty rock act hitting the road for a massive run of dates. Get in quick, as fans of beards and pash rash alike will snap up tickets in a jiﬀy. The Beards perform at The Hi-Fi on Saturday November 3. Tickets through The Hi-Fi.

California hardcore/punk band Touche Amore bring to mind the balance of rage and melody that Revolution Summer-era DC bands Rites Of Spring and Ignition once carried. Make Do And Mend’s own brand of post-hardcore is as melodic as it is ﬁerce, perfecting a sound to convince you that aggresive emotion and heartfelt honesty are not dead in punk music. Both touring Australia separately for the ﬁrst time in 2011, both bands will be returning together this November playing The Reverence Hotel on Friday November 9 and the Phoenix Youth Centre on Friday November 10. Tickets on sale from Oztix on Friday August 17.

THE MURLOCS One of Ocean Grove’s ﬁnest musical exports in recent memory have announced their new EP, and they’re hitting The Tote to celebrate. The Murlocs have quickly gained a respected and loyal following around Melbourne. Their debut self titled EP released earlier this year received solid rotation on community radio around the country and saw their passion for classic R&B, doom guitar and fuzzed out harmonica, win fans over both young and old. The Murlocs hit The Tote on Friday August 31.

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KIRIN J. CALLINAN Captivating solo performer and sometimes Lost Animal member Kirin J. Callinan has announced his return to Melbourne. Ahead of the release of his eagerly anticipated solo LP debut, Kirin will perform a rare Melbourne show at Northcote Social Club. Presenting an intriguing mix of charisma and downright creepiness, Kirin J. Callinan puts on a show unlike no other. Supports still to be announced. Kirin J. Callinan performs at Northcote Social Club on Saturday September 15, with tickets on sale from the venue website on Friday August 17.

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INTERNATIONAL KING SALAMI AND THE CUMBERLAND 3 The LuWow August 17, Cherry Bar August 21, The Espy August 22 ZOOBOMBS The Espy August 18 GIN WIGMORE Northcote Social Club August 21 OBITS Northcote Social Club August 24 1927, THE REMBRANDTS The Palms At Crown August 24 BOB LOG III The Tote August 24 HAYES CARLL Northcote Social Club August 25 SLASH Hisense Arena August 26 PENNYWISE The Palace August 26 PITBULL Rod Laver Arena August 27 THE ENGLISH BEAT The Corner Hotel August 30 JOSE FELICIANO Palais Theatre August 31 THE BEACH BOYS Rod Laver Arena August 31 ALL THE YOUNG, KING CANNONS The Corner September 1 APOCALYPTICA The Hi-Fi September 1 MARIA MINERVA The Toﬀ In Town on September 1 AMERICA Hamer Hall September 6 SHIHAD The Hi-Fi September 6 THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES Trak Lounge Bar September 7 PATRICK WOLF Forum Theatre September 11 EARTH The Toﬀ In Town September 12, The Corner Hotel September 16 INGRID MICHAELSON The Corner Hotel September 13 JONATHAN WILSON The Corner Hotel September 14 HANSON The Palace September 14, 18 THE RUBENS The Forum Theatre September 15 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Hamer Hall September 15 NEWTON FAULKNER The Corner Hotel September 18 FUTURE ISLANDS Northcote Social Club September 19 WHEATUS The Corner Hotel September 19 YELLOWCARD The Hi-Fi September 20, 21 GOOD CHARLOTTE Festival Hall September 20 FAR EAST MOVEMENT Trak Lounge Bar September 21 NADA SURF The Corner Hotel September 21 MACY GRAY Hamer Hall September 23 MARIANAS TRENCH Corner Hotel September 24 LADY ANTEBELLUM September 25, 26 EL GRAN COMBO The Palace Theatre September 26 JAMES MORRISON Forum Theatre September 26 MYSTERY JETS The Corner September 26 SCISSOR SISTERS Hamer Hall September 26 MARTIKA Trak Lounge September 28

FEAR FACTORY The Hi-Fi September 28 RUSSIAN CIRCLES, EAGLE TWIN The Corner Hotel September 28 TIM & ERIC The Forum September 29, 30 SNOW PATROL Regent Theatre September 30 KELLY CLARKSON Rod Laver Arena October 1 STEVE MALKMUS & THE JICKS The Corner Hotel October 3 CANNIBAL CORPSE Billboard October 5 PARKLIFE Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 6 NICKI MINAJ, TYGA Rod Laver Arena December 5 STEEL PANTHER Festival Hall October 7 XIU XIU The Gasometer October 9 JOE BONAMASSA Palais Theatre October 11 MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Various Venues October 11 October 27 MAROON 5 Rod Laver Arena October 12 EVERCLEAR The Hi-Fi October 13 TORTOISE, GRAILS The Corner Hotel October 13 GOMEZ The Corner Hotel October 21, 22 MUMFORD & SONS Rod Laver Arena October 25 SMASH MOUTH The Palace October 25 SUNN O))) AND PELICAN The Hi-Fi October 26, The Corner Hotel October 27 WEDNESDAY 13 The Espy October 27 THE BLACK KEYS Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 31, November 1 GREGORY PORTER The Toﬀ In Town November 3, Wangaratta Jazz Festival November 4 THE CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES The Corner Hotel November 5 TOUCHE AMORE The Reverence Hotel November 9, Phoenix Youth Centre November 10. BEN HARPER The Plenary November 10 HARVEST FESTIVAL Werribee Mansion November 11 COLDPLAY Etihad Stadium November 13 AUSTRALASIAN WORLDWIDE MUSIC EXPO Various Venues November 15 - 18 RON POPE Chapel Oﬀ Chapel November 15 RADIOHEAD Rod Laver Arena November 16, 17 GEORGE MICHAEL Rod Laver Arena November 21 VILLAGE PEOPLE The Palais November 24 NICKELBACK Rod Laver Arena November 27, 28 SIMPLE MINDS, DEVO Palais Theatre November 29, A Day On The Green - Rochford Wines December 1 RICK ASTLEY The Palace November 30, Chelsea Heights Hotel December 1

THE SELECTER The Corner Hotel November 30 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 7 - 9 JLO Rod Laver Arena December 11 ALEXISONFIRE Festival Hall December 12 REGINA SPEKTOR The Plenary December 14 FALLS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28, Marion Bay December 29 PEATS RIDGE Glenworth Valley December 28 - January 1 NIGHTWISH Palace Theatre January 14 WEEZER Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 16 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 26 ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES Westgate Entertainment Centre February 16, 17 SOUNDWAVE TBA March 1 ED SHEERAN Festival Hall March 5, 6

NATIONAL KATE MILLER-HEIDKE The Corner Hotel August 15, 16 JORDIE LANE Regal Ballroom August 17 SNAKADAKTAL The Corner Hotel August 17, 18 BLUEJUICE Monash University Gippsland August 16, Deakin University Melbourne August 17, 18 LAURA The Tote August 18 SOMETHING FOR KATE Northcote Social Club August 21 DICK DIVER The Toff Thursday August 23. THE SMITH STREET BAND The Tote August 25 DIE! DIE! DIE! Ding Dong Lounge August 25 HILLTOP HOODS Festival Hall August 25 HUNTING GROUNDS The Toff In Town August 25 SEEKAE The Corner August 29, 31 LOON LAKE Ding Dong Lounge August 30, 31, Northcote Social Club September 1 JULIA STONE The Forum September 7 TIM HART The Workers Club September 7 BOY IN A BOX, KINGSWOOD Ding Dong Lounge September 7 CHET FAKER Revolt Artspace September 7, 8 ILLY The Corner Hotel September 7, 8 ALPINE The Corner Hotel September 8 THE GANGSTERS’ BALL Forum Theatre September 8 THE SMART The Hi-Fi September 8 XAVIER RUDD The Palace September 13 TIM ROGERS The Regal Ballroom September 14 DONNY BENET The Workers Club September 14 THE MEDICS The Toff In Town September 15 KIRIN J CALLINAN Northcote Social Club September 15 THE ANGELS Corner Hotel September 20 KATCHAFIRE Ferntree Gully Hotel September 20, The Forum Theatre September 21 MIA DYSON The Corner Hotel September 22 POND The Corner Hotel September 23

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AUSTRALASIAN WORLDWIDE MUSIC EXPO Various Venues Thursday November 15 Sunday November 18 SIX60 The Forum September 28 SETH SENTRY The Corner September 29 THE AMITY AFFLICTION Palace Theatre October 4, 5 REGURGITATOR The Hi-Fi October 11, 12 ROCKWIZ Festival Hall October 12, 13 CREEPSHOW The Espy October 20. OH MERCY The Hi-Fi October 25 LAST DINOSAURS Ding Dong October 21 (U18), The Corner October 26 CLAIRE BOWDICH The Regal Ballroom October 26 KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON The Regent Theatre October 27 THE BEARDS The Hi-Fi November 3 TZU The Hi-Fi November 5 MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK Various Venues November 16 - 24 ANGUS STONE The Palace November 21 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliﬀ November 23-25 MISSY HIGGINS Palais Theatre December 4 GOTYE Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 8 THE LIVING END The Corner Hotel December 11 - 22 PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL Phillip Island December 29 January 1

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Describe your sound in five words or less: Alternative mystical zebra-less rock. What do you love about making music? The end result when we get to play it live for people to hear. How long have you been gigging and writing? Andrew and myself have been writing music for about four or ﬁve years. We used to be a two-piece band called Jam Sesh because, well, that’s all we’d do is jam, we didn’t have any gigs or anything. It wasn’t until 2010 that we added a bass guitarist and drummer (my brother Michael). Then after a few months the original bassist dropped out and we got Rodger. Our ﬁrst gig was Michael’s birthday in January 2011, although half of our family walked out midway through… Describe the best gig you have ever played. Laundry Bar a few months ago. The place was packed out, people were having a great time, dancing, jumping up on stage with us and it was really good fun.

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Describe the worst gig you have ever played. Funnily enough Laundry Bar just the other week. It was wet, cold, empty and lifeless. Except for the one old guy at the back wearing sunglasses, talking to himself. He seemed to be having a good time. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? We get mixed opinions of what we sound like. I would say we sound like a lot of diﬀerent bands, but mostly we sound like No Zebra. What’s your favourite song, and why? I would have to say Else. I love everything about that song. The bass intro, the pre-chorus crescendo and the lyrics. We play it at pretty much every gig and we never get tired of playing it. Anything else to add? We can be found on Facebook: facebook.com/nozebra. music

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YEASAYER BY ALASDAIR DUNCAN

“Sometimes I feel like I want to walk offstage and kill myself, because no-one knows what the hell any of the songs are.” On hearing these words, I’m stunned into temporary silence; I don’t know what I was expecting, but it sure as hell wasn’t this. It’s around seven in the evening, and I’m all set to interview Ira Wolf Tuton, bass player from New York indie collective Yeasayer. We’ve spoken once before, shortly before the band came to Australia to play the hipster gathering known as Laneway, and he was in incredibly high spirits. He did the interview from behind the wheel of his van, driving to the store on an all-important snack run, and on the look-out for police. It was a colourful chat to say the least, as he waxed poetic about his love of ‘80s music videos, and his excitement at the boundless creativity that being in Yeasayer offers. I’m excited to speak to Ira again, however, at the appointed time of the interview, an operator calls to tell me that he has suddenly become unavailable, but that singer Chris Keating has stepped in to do this round of interviews, beginning in a few minutes. I sit down at my laptop and tweak a few of my questions, tailoring them specifically to Chris, and hoping he will be as talkative as Ira was last year. It turns out pretty quickly, however, that this is not the case. He’s speaking to me from London, where it’s early morning and Yeasayer are doing some press before some small shows later in the day. He sounds tired and a little glum, clearly not loving the pre-release ritual of talking to the press. We still manage to cover a lot of ground, talking about a range of subjects that stretches from ‘90s pop music to zombie Ronald Reagan, but still, he seems down, more so than you would expect from someone who has just written a surreal song about a former president emerging from the grave to dance like M.J. in Thriller. I might have seen this coming, though. Yeasayer’s new album, Fragrant World, is out this week, and is far darker and stranger than anything they’ve released before. Its predecessor, Odd Blood, was filled with buoyant, psychedelic songs that tested the outer limits of electro pop, R&B and indie rock, swirling the sounds all together like finger paints until they were just one bright mess of primary colours. It was difficult to listen to a song like O.N.E., for instance, without feeling stirrings of joy from deep down inside you. Fragrant World is no less rich an album, but it’s a little darker and a little stranger. It’s not an album for dancing with your arms aloft so much as it is one for listening on headphones in quiet, cold contemplation. Recorded in a couple of different studios in Brooklyn, Fragrant World represents the next step

in Yeasayer’s ongoing fascination with merging the old and the new, classic analogue synths with new and strange bits of studio tech. “There’s some classic stuff on the album, like some of the synthesiser that were used on the early Chicago house records, the SH-101 and stuff like that. There’s some early analogue technology, the ARP synthesiser and stuff like that. We combined those things with a lot of new software, new sampling technology and some time-stretching stuff.” On Odd Blood, some of the vocal harmonies were recorded with band members singing through a fan; Fragrant World sees them manipulated through programs like Melodyne to the point where they’re twisted and unrecognisable. While Yeasayer tour with drummer Cale Parks, they still don’t have a full time drummer who records with them, allowing them to draw rhythms from less conventional sources. This certainly accounts for a lot of the arresting, stick-in-your-head rhythms on Fragrant World. “Not having a permanent drummer allows us to work with different drummers on different songs, which is pretty fun and exciting,” Keating says. “I might hear a rhythm in my head walking down the street, or hear a sample of an interesting drumbeat then try to build something around that. I like creating structure, using sequencers and drum machines and things like that, to play around and come up with different rhythms, then seeing if a drummer can actually play those parts.” Inevitably, our conversation leads towards the darker tone of Fragrant World. ‘What were you thinking when you wrote this one?’ is right up there with ‘Where do you get your inspiration?’ in the list of durr-ingly obvious questions to ask musicians, but I’m running out of questions pretty quickly, and curious to know what, exactly, inspired this more sombre turn in Yeasayer’s music. I find some way to couch the question, asking if the relatively sinister vibes on Fragrant World reflect the band’s collective state of mind when they were writing the songs. “Probably, yeah,” Keating say’s after a while. “I noticed after a while that it sounded a little darker, a little more sinister. Perhaps that’s because of the subject matter we were delving into.” I press him for specifics, but again, he hesitates. “Maybe the darker tone was a conscious thing in opposition to the lighter tone of the last album,” he says. “In general, I think we try to

“I NOTICED AFTER A WHILE THAT IT SOUNDED A LITTLE DARKER, A LITTLE MORE SINISTER. PERHAPS THAT’S BECAUSE OF THE SUBJECT MATTER WE WERE DELVING INTO. ”

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be conscious of what’s going on.” Turning to darker subject matter, there are a couple of key tracks I’m particularly curious to ask about, especially the gorgeous Henrietta. “Well basically,” he tells me, “the song was inspired by a report I heard on the radio, about this woman from the 1950s. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, and she was a sort of medical anomaly, because she had a very aggressive form of cancer, and when some cells were removed from her body while she was being treated, they were found to keep multiplying, and keep living. Basically, her genetic material and her cells were used as a basis for a lot of 20th century medical experiments. The polio vaccine that Jonas Salk came up with was the product of her cells. It’s an interesting story.” A chilly, beautiful track, it builds to a moment in which the instrumentation drops away and Keatings sings ‘oh Henrietta, we can live on together’ as a chorus of ghosts harmonise with him. To me, it sounds like a love song sent out beyond the grave, maybe even a love song from the cancer cells to their host, although when I ask Keating how he sees it, those theories don’t seem all that appealing. “It’s really neither,” he says, “it’s just a jumping-off point to use a real-life story as a metaphor. It’s basically using a reference as a way to communicate something larger.” He’s similarly vague on the origins of Reagan’s Skeleton, another of the Fragrant World’s more surreal tracks. “It’s inspired by a dream about the rotting corpse of Ronald Reagan coming out of the grave, along with all of his zombie cabinet, and dancing around like Thriller. It’s just kind of a humorous image, making fun of a deified American icon.” Having seen and really enjoyed Yeasayer’s sets at the Splendour and Laneway festivals, I’m curious to hear just how the songs from Fragrant World fit into their live show. When I bring this up, though, and ask how exactly the new songs are going, things take a bit of a turn. “Yeah, we’ve been touring them for the last few weeks,” Keating sighs. “We’ve been playing mostly new stuff, so it’s kind of a challenge, because no-one knows it. Sometimes I feel like I want to walk offstage and kill myself, because no-one knows what the hell any of the songs are. We play a few old ones, but we’re trying to get the new ones tight, even if people aren’t aware of them yet.” Unsure of what to say, I come up with something about how it’s always a leap of faith playing unfamiliar songs to an audience who want to hear the hits, and I ask which of the new songs have been going down the best. “It’s hard to tell from song to song,” Keating says. “In general it doesn’t matter that much, I guess. We’re having fun playing the new songs, even if it’s nerve-wracking. Older ones feel safe, because we’ve played them so many times. It’s exciting for us to play new material.” Hopefully by the time Yeasayer return to Australia, these feelings will have worn off. I ask Keating if we’ll get the chance to see Fragrant World in the live setting and he assures me it’s on the cards at some point. “It’s a long trip to make so we want to get the most out of it as possible, maybe link it up with some touring in Asia,” he says. “It will most likely be in January. We’ll hit you guys early in the Australian summer, because that’s a good time to get out of the US.” Fragrant World is out this Friday August 17 through Spunk.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN In a world of literature-to-film adaptaions, no novelist has been as cinematically interpreted as Charles Dickens, and from the gamut of Dickens’ stories that have been turned to film, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image have chosen five films for Of Paupers and Gentlemen: Charles Dickens on Film. This includes rare, restored and celebrated 1930s and ‘40s studio pictures from MGM, Universal and Ealing Studios, such as David Lean’s acclaimed 1946 version of Great Expectations and Alfonso Cuaron’s vividly re-imagined contemporary adaptation from 1998. This adventure into Dickens adaptations begins with Jack Conway’s A Tale of Two Cities at ACMI on Monday August 20. Tickets are $15 and avaliable through acmi. net.au, as well as all other film and session information.

ON STAGE With no deﬁned scenes, characters, setting or even narrative, 4.48 Psychosis deﬁes categorisation, representing a blank canvas for both performers and creatives. Working with a cast of seven, it creates something heavily improvised, a movement-based adaptation of the text with Artistic director Matt Ryan intending to do justice to the abstract beauty of 4.48 Psychosis by moving away from traditional, character-driven approaches. Collaborative theatre ensemble She Spat, Playfully will present audiences with a bold re-imagining of Sarah Kane’s last and most experimental play. 4.48 Psychosis will be at Revolt Productions in Kensington from August 15 - August 22. Tickets are $22.50 and available from the Revolt Productions website at revoltproductions.com.

ON DISPLAY Denimism is a collaborative project by Tony Garifalakis and Tully Moore that investigates the cultural symbologies of denim. The series consists of a number of denim ’banners‘ with painted and mixed media elements that examine iconic symbols that have cultural links to denim. The work references and subverts the semantics of motifs associated to trade union badges, trucking patches, rock band and gang paraphernalia and links it to denim’s historical association to the working class, urban style and outlaw cultures. Denimism is currently showing at West Space, Level 1, 225 Bourke Street and ﬁnishes on Saturday August 18, with an artist talk on Thursday August 16. Be sure to head to the West Space website for gallery times, westspace.org.au.

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Ace reporter Hildy Johnson has had enough of the sleaze of the Chicago newspaper game. At midnight, she’s catching the train east where she’ll marry her ﬁancé, a handsome schlub with piles of dough. And if her ex-husband and editor Walter Burns thinks she’s going to change her mind, he’s got another thing coming. But that’s before the fattest, juiciest scoop of the year lands splat in her lap. Hecht and MacArthur’s sly, cynical satire of tabloid journalism The Front Page was never better ﬁlmed than as the 1930s classic His Girl Friday. Merging the original play and the screen version, acclaimed playwright John Guare delivers the best of both wisecracking worlds. His Girl Friday is currently playing and will be at the Arts Centre Playhouse until Saturday September 15. For all ticketing information head to the Melbourne Theatre Company at mtc.com.au.

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THE SAPPHIRES BY DEE JEFFERSON

Getting a film off the ground in Australia is a famously fraught business; funding sources are few and far between, audiences and the media aren’t terribly supportive, and the box office is often impenetrable. Even a comedy like Not Suitable For Children, starring TV stars Ryan Kwanten and Ryan Corr, didn’t make much of a dent when it opened last month, despite positive reviews. But The Sapphires always seemed destined for better feelgood fervour that made the play such a smash things: based on a hit play drawn from true life, success across the country. “The story came from Tony’s starring chart-storming former Australian Idol star mum and his family, and he wanted it to be a story for Jessica Mauboy, lovable irish larrikin Chris O’Dowd (of everyone; he wanted it to be a story that has humour,” Bridesmaids and The IT Crowd) and a slew of irresistibly explains Blair. “And we wanted a film that could travel catchy soul classics, it had all the signs of picking up around the world. Another version of the film might where Rachel Perkins’ hugely successful musical comedy have gone darker and deeper, but there’s always been a Bran Nue Dae left off. sense that The Sapphires was “WE WANTED A FILM THAT a celebration of these four Screen and stage actordirector Wayne Blair had COULD TRAVEL AROUND THE black women. So it wasn’t a an instant reaction to Tony matter of ‘keeping it light’ or Briggs’ play about four girls WORLD. ANOTHER VERSION ignoring [the darker issues] – from a remote Aboriginal OF THE FILM MIGHT HAVE it was about being true to the mission in the ‘60s who mission statement: to GONE DARKER AND DEEPER, original went on to tour Vietnam make a story for everyone.” singing soul for the soldiers. BUT THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN A Consequently, even as difficult He starred in Melbourne such as racism and the SENSE THAT THE SAPPHIRES issues Theatre Company’s premiere Stolen Generations arise in WAS A CELEBRATION OF season in 2004, followed by the film, they’re ultimately a remount at Sydney’s Belvoir THESE FOUR BLACK WOMEN.” transcended by the power of Street in January 2005 good humour and good music; (although not in the 2010 touring revival). and the mission on the Murray river where the girls Around the same time, Blair took his film Djarns Djarns grow up is portrayed as a place of laughter, community to Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Crystal Bear and natty dressing, rather than a place of poverty for best short film. With Briggs acting in his film, and and isolation. Goalpost Pictures producing it, it didn’t take long for Blair cites Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple as a all three to come together around the idea of a screen touchstone for representing the mission – “You know, adaptation of The Sapphires – with the final ingredient what it looked like in the kitchen or in the lounge room of being Logie and AFI Award-winning actress Deborah The Color Purple – because we think of it as a very dismal Mailman, who had played one of the soul sisters in the film, but it’s actually quite beautiful. So it was similar to 2005 stage production and returns in the film to star as this Sapphires story.” ‘mamma bear’ of the group, Gail. For the film’s overall tone, he was inspired by The On the big screen, The Sapphires has lost none of the Commitments and Brassed Off – both period dramedies

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about the transformative power of music within a workingclass community, the former in Northern Ireland, the latter in Northern England. “They’re films that have a sense of team, or a sense of family; and they’ve all got their wants and needs, and they’re fractured – but as a team and a family unit they get through each day.” On set, Blair’s foremost collaborator was director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton, who had his own success story a few years back with Samson & Delilah. “He’s a good friend, so that was cool; we just got on – he’s a Leo I think and I’m a Sagittarian, so it could have been like two roosters in a hen house,” he laughs, “but it was the opposite, we just worked so well together. I think that had an effect on the crew – they just wanted to achieve the day for us.” The biggest challenge on an otherwise blessed production was the hectic shooting schedule, which allowed just six weeks to cover five lead-actors across as many locations, including never-before-filmed parts of Saigon. “We just had to be very, very prepared as a team, to get things right every day,” Blair admits. “And you have to break the film down into [smaller tasks] – everything had its place, and we looked at things in isolation: ‘Okay, we’ve gotta shoot this moment before this moment to get to that moment’ – and that made it easy. You start very slowly at first, and just work your way up.” Having trained in theatre at QUT, and with the bulk of his career thus far spent in the theatre, Blair credits a slew of television gigs with honing his on-set muscles. “I think to be a good filmmaker or just a good storyteller of any sort, it’s important for me to do it again and again – to learn your craft, make mistakes, so you know what to do next time. So [directing TV] has been the biggest thing for me over the last five or six years.” Off the back of a triumphant screening at Cannes in May (where it was announced that king-making distributor Harvey Weinstein had bought the US rights) and on the eve of The Sapphires opening Melbourne International Film Festival, Blair sheepishly admits, “I had a realisation just three weeks ago, on the set of [TV mini-series] Redfern Now, and I actually thought on the second or third day, ‘Yeah, I’m going well. Now I can finally call myself a director,’” he laughs. “It was seriously only three weeks ago.” The Sapphires is out now in cinemas.

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THE COMIC STRIP CHECKPOINT CHARLIE COMEDY

With Tyson Wray. Got news, gossip, reviews, thoughts, tip-oﬀs, complaints, hate mail? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by ESP before Friday.

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TOP GIRLS We love a good political stance, and what better one than expressed through theatre? Top Girls is ground-breaking playwright Caryl Churchill’s response to the rise of Margaret Thatcher, and its subject of female power is as pertinent today as it was in the 1980s. One of twentieth century’s classic plays, Top Girls ﬁnds a perfect match in the uniquely talented Jenny Kemp, who will take it upon herself to direct this all-female cast including Anita Hegh and Nikki Shiels. Questioning history as we know it, Top Girls will open at MTC Theatre from Thursday August 30. Tickets available from the box oﬃce or at mtc.com.au.

SAYONARA: ANDROID-HUMAN THEATRE Featuring an extraordinarily life-like humanoid robot, Japan’s Seinendan Theatre Company will bring their breathtaking and intimate performance Sayonara: Android-Human Theatre to Melbourne. Robot Germinoid F will star alongside Canadian actress Bryerly Long in a performance that asks the question, “What does life and death mean to humans and robots?” An internationally acclaimed short play that tells the story of a young girl facing a terminal illness and her gentle caretaker robot who reads poetry to her, Sayonara is sure to get a few emotions ﬂowing. Headed to the Arts Centre’s Fairfax Studio, Sayonara: Android-Human Theatre will be performed on August 24 - 25. Session details and tickets available from artscentremelbourne.com.au.

TATTOO BIBLE - BIRGIT KROLS ($34.95) Humankind has always tried to enhance their looks: just like jewelry, clothes, accessories, make-up, and haircuts, tattoos have been present since time incarnate. The history of the tattoo began 5,000 years ago and is as diverse as the people who wear them. This book contains more than 300 images of tattoos and tattooed people from all layers of society and all parts of the world, throughout time. As such it can both be used for inspiration as well as entertainment.

BLUFF CITY UNDERGROUND - ERIK MORSE ($24.95) Erik Morse’s vertiginous novella follows West Coast graduate student Everly Loennrot as he lands at the city’s luxurious Peabody Hotel for a mysterious research assignment. Guided by the invisible hand of Dr. Red McGill, professor of Southern history, Loennrot wanders through a postmodern Memphis of plasticine landmarks and leopard-skin tourist traps. There he encounters a troop of eccentric characters - an Elvis conspiracist, a rock musician cum alchemist and a rockabilly femme fatale who may be a prostitute, hired gun or ghost.

THE OFFICIAL HIGH TIMES COOKBOOK - ELISE MCDONOUGH ($22.95) This illustrated cookbook includes 50 recipes for everything from pesto, barbeque sauce, and tamales to refreshing cocktails and loads of new desserts. Throughout, ‘budding chefs will get to know the stony science of cannabis cooking and discover delicious treats courtesy of High Times magazine. Including accessible and informative ideas on creating cannabis bases and butters, effects and dosages, and other aspects of cooking with marijuana, this book caters to beginners and advanced pot cooks alike.

Our good friends at Red Bennies are at it again. Speaking of all things loss, desire, rum, jealousy and true love, Holy Ship is a rollicking fringe arts adventure of epic proportions, and of course set across the high seas. The all-original, spectacular production developed by Danae Vincent, is jam packed with song, dance, circus, burlesque stage shows and sexy drunken sailors. We’ve all dreamt about a life at sea at least once, so what better way to live the dream vicariously than through this magical number? Holy Ship will make its way to Red Bennies from August 30 – September 1. But it won’t be on for long, kids, so best get down there while you can. Tickets on sale now.

AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES Getting ready to bring another season of popular Saturday program Australian Perspectives back to their loving audience, this season at ACMI will tip its hat to music and urban culture. A sound-scape ranging from classical phenomenon Kathleen Ferrier to the Hip Hop of Mongolia, pioneering Australian hip hop artist Robert Hunter and crowd favourite Writers Bench will look at Melbourne’s graﬃti and street art culture. A program for any interested in urban beats and culture, this year’s Australian Perspectives will grace ACMI from September 8 – November 25. Head to acmi.net.au for more information.

50 WORKS THAT MATTER Good news, people. A few seats are still available for the ﬁnal instalments in ACCA’s 50 Works That Matter. Conducted by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg, the exhibition is a popular series of art history lectures, and is a sequel to the sell-out original series of 2011’s 100 Works That Matter. Each of the sessions held will involve a 50-minute lecture and a 30-minute discussion group. If you’re keen to get amongst it, bookings can be made on 9697 9999 or programs@accaonline.org.au. 50 Works That Matter will head to the ACCA Foyer from August 15-22.

LOVE AND FUCK POEMS: THE DELUXE EDITION KORALY DIMITRIADIS ($18.95) Sexually repressed, separated Greek girl on a rampage. There’s no love here, just fucks. But is she fucking him or fucking herself? The sell-out success of the original Love and Fuck Poems zine brings you more love and fuck with this special Deluxe Edition. It’s the same love and fuck, reworked, revamped, plus never-before-seen poems. Love and Fuck Poems is a story told through poetry. No ﬂuff, no birds and trees, just honest, raw, poetry.

HARMONOGRAPH - ANTHONY ASHTON ($19.95) During the nineteenth century, a remarkable scientiﬁc instrument known as a harmonograph revealed the beautiful patterns found in music. Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Anthony Ashton examines the phenomenon of resonance in Chladni patterns, describes how to build a harmonograph of your own, and provides tables of world tuning systems.

TATTOO DELIRIUM - EVA MINGUET ($45) Tattoo Delirium proﬁles top tattoo artists around the world, exploring their inspiration, tools, techniques, strategies and thought processes for creating unique, beautiful, and inspirational tattoo designs. Each artist is introduced with a short biography explaining who they are and why they were drawn to the tattoo design ﬁeld, notes and musings from them on their clientele and favorite tattoo designs are featured, along with full-color photographs and sketches from their extraordinary creations.

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Iggy Pop transcended life in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to become a member of the punk band the Stooges, thereby earning the nickname “the Godfather of Punk.” He is one of the most riveting and reckless performers in music history, with a commitment to his art that is perilously total. But his personal life was often a shambles, as he struggled with drug addiction, mental illness, and the ever-problematic question of commercial success in the music world. That he is even alive today, let alone performing with undiminished energy, is a wonder.

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Charlie has another huge lineup! Dave Thornton (7pm Project, Talkin’ Bout Your Generation), Nick Cody (Nova100, Studio A), Michael Williams, Don Tran, Jason English-Rees and a secret guest popping in! For just $5. You’re welcome. So come ﬁll yourself with cheap piss and put your continence to the ultimate test as some pretty damn rad comedians spit funnies into the business end of a loud stick. Check in 8pm tonight at Eurotrash Bar. Get down early for a seat.

SOFTBELLY COMEDY MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) have unveiled one of their best lineups yet for their lucky 13th year. The lineup lives up to this year’s theme of Mavericks, featuring Charlie Casanova (with director Terry McMahon appearing as a special opening night guest), the disturbing Daddy’s Little Girl, God Bless America, Bellflower, Donkey Love, plus Mavericks double features and plenty more special events. MUFF 13 runs at Revolt, Kensington from August 24 – September 1. Visit muﬀ.com.au for full program details.

48 HOUR FILM PROJECT The world’s biggest international short film competition returns to Melbourne to challenge and inspire Victoria’s filmmaking community. Participants will be battling it out over 48 hours to take home the award for Best Film. With top prize being a ticket and a trip to this year’s Filmapalooza in LA, 48HFP Melbourne is expecting some stiff competition. Over one hectic weekend, filmmakers will shoot, edit and score their film. Sounds easy, right? The competition will be kicking off on Friday October 19 in the BMW Edge, and will finish exactly 48 hours later. For more details and to enter, head to 48melbourne.com.au.

MISS POLE DANCE VICTORIA Now recognized as an art form and a standalone sport, pole dancing is one of the most exciting performances to watch. Pole Divas proudly presents the 8th annual Miss Pole Dance Victoria, Victoria’s Professional Pole Dancing Championship. This state heat is part of Australia’s longest running championship, attracting elite level performers from all over the country. These women compete for the national title, and then the international. MPDV will showcase the best pole dancers in Victoria and Tasmania - the competition will be fierce as they fight for a place in the national final, and includes performances by Australia’s best aerialists. It goes down at the Forum Theatre on Saturday August 25. Visit poledivas.com.au for more information.

This Thursday, UK legend Bob Franklin (Jimeoin, The Librarians) headlining Softbelly Comedy! Plus they’ve got Geraldine Hickey, Steele Saunders, Don Tran and Karl Woodberry! It’s all happening at Softbelly, 367 Little Bourke Street in the city, this Thursday August 16, 8.30pm, for only $13! Get in early for a good seat!

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE This week Commedia Dell’Parte is proud to present Bart Freebairn in Underground Awesome Quest with support from Dilruk Jayasinha, Sonia Di Iorio, Spencer Hodges and the amazing Luke McGregor MCing. The room runs on a ‘pay as you like’ basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. So if you enjoy the show chuck in a few sheckles and show your appreciation. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Spleen are always a full house and a great night! This week looks like another cracker with one of our absolute favorites, Harley Breen hosting! Plus Pete Sharkey, Steele Saunders, Dil Ruk Jayasinah, Mike Nayna, Lisa Fineberg and heaps more! It’s this Monday August 20, 41 Bourke St, in the city, at 8.30pm. It may be free, but we appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door!

LOL COMEDY Last week saw Peter Helliar, Tom Gleeson and Bob Franklin play to sold out rooms. This week it’s Dave O’Neil, Tommy Dassalo, Harley Breen, Bob Franklin and Greg Fleet hitting the stage! Tuesday at The Local, Port Melbourne; Wednesday at The Portland Hotel, CBD; Thursday at The Hawthorn. Shows start 7.30pm. Tickets from $10, dinner and show packages available. To ﬁnd out more email: info@lolcomedy.com.a

SEX, PUNKS AND DEAF MUGGERS The world’s leading disability film festival The Other Film Festival returns in its fifth edition to entertain, challenge and explore the contemporary lived experience of disability. Presented by Arts Access Victoria, this film festival is unlike any other. With 35+ screenings, including features, docos, animations and short films from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland and many more, the festival will also hold events such as masterclasses, an extended Deaf screening program, workshops, Q&A sessions and a range of proactive presentations by international guests. The Other Film Festival will head to North Melbourne Town Hall from September 19-23. For the full program and tickets, head to otherfilmfestival.com.

CONFOUNDING The NGV are getting ready to present Confounding: Contemporary Photography, an exploration of the uncanny worlds created by human imagination, dreams and memories. Drawn from the NGV’s collection, the fourteen works on display transform the strange, uncomfortable and awkward into plausible realities. Visitors will discover the gaze of unnerving children in the hyper-real work of Loretta Lux; be jolted upon realising the hidden reality of Wang Qingsong’s monumental tableaux; and wonder at the strange beauty in the carefully constructed cardboard world of Thomas Demand. So much to see, and all for free. Head to the NGV to check out Confounding: Contemporary Photography from October 5 - March 24.

SWEET ORIANDER Two is more often than not better than one, so it’s fortunate for us that two creative geniuses will be joining forces. Art director and creative director of Sweet Creative, Fiona Sweet, and photographer, Garth Oriander, present Sweet Oriander – an exhibition of their creative collaboration over ﬁve years. Often shot in the early stages of each production’s development and before costumes and sets had been ﬁnalised, these images needed to capture the true essence of each show. Monumental challenge or not, the pair have put together their partnership greatness and will present Sweet Oriander at Malthouse from September 25 – October 6.

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YO ADRIAN! Many of Australia’s funniest comedians are coming together for a gala fundraiser for a comedy superstar you’ve probably never heard of. During the 2012 Melbourne Comedy Festival, Adrian Cherubin,the Festival’s long serving Technical Director suﬀered a stroke. Adrian has lead the production team at the Comedy Festival for 20 years and has been responsible for helping out newcomers as well as the production management, lighting design and stage management of countless productions and tours for many of Australia’s most popular comedians. Adrian’s professional community are rallying to raise funds to assist his on-going care and rehabilitation – and they’re not kidding about raising some serious cash. Wil Anderson, Carl Barron, Kitty Flanagan, Greg Fleet, Tom Gleeson, Judith Lucy, Dave Hughes, Frank Woodley, Justin Hamilton and Brian Nankervis are just a few of the big names lined up to pull out all the stops for Adrian. Yo Adrian! takes place at The Regent Theatre on Wednesday September 26. For bookings and to donate, visit comedyfestival.com.au

MIFF COMEDY NIGHT This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival has been a corker, and there’s still plenty of action left. As well as the many stunning films still left to be shown, there’s the chance for filmgoers to take a respite from the screen and indulge in some IRL laughs. Melbourne’s top comics take turns at the mic, sharing their funniest film tales. Featured on the night will be MC Lee Zachariah, Danny MiGinlay, Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall, Matt Kenneally, Geraldine Quinn, Harley Breen and Bobcat Goldthwait. MIFF Comedy Night takes place 7pm on Wednesday August 15 and MIFF Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre. Free entry.

Game Masters Film Program

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters Follow this group of disparate Tetris players who gather at the Tetris World Championships to compete for the title of Tetris Master and the illusive ‘Max-Out’ score. Film Season > ACMI Cinemas Saturday 1 September – Sunday 9 September

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CHLOE HOOPER

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An extraordinary fusion of music, text and images led by acclaimed Melbourne composer Kynan Robinson, Solo in Red is inspired by the unmistakable writing of Cormac McCarthy and performed by the renowned contemporary music sextet blending brass and strings Collider.

Start your Festival weekend with Friday Night Live in the spectacular BMW Edge. Join Australia’s sharpest siren, Libbi Gorr, for the Festival’s Letterman meets-Jon Stewart late-night talk show, with provocateur Germaine Greer, comedian and author Mark Watson, science writer Margaret Wertheim, comedian Lawrence Leung and musicians Maria Minerva and house band Tek Tek.

On Saturday 1 September, two musical events at The Toff in Town explore storytelling through song, as celebrated songwriters showcase their work in an intimate evening of show and tell. The artists will let us in on the stories behind their songs as they perform them.

Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Collider in association with MWF WHEN FRI 24 AUG 6pm + 8pm, SAT 25 AUG 8pm TICKETS $40/$30 WHERE Melbourne Recital Centre BOOKINGS melbournerecital.com.au or 03 9699 3333

LINER NOTES One of Melbourne’s best-loved spoken word events, Liner Notes is a poetic tribute to a classic album, song by song. This year, we salute David Bowie’s leper Messiah from outer space, Ziggy Stardust, on the album’s 40th anniversary. Tim Flannery, Deborah Conway, Joumana Haddad, Benjamin Law and First Dog on the Moon, Emilie Zoey Baker, Sean M. Whelan, Omar Musa, Yana Alana, Ben Pobjie, Alicia Sometimes, and Michael Nolan WHEN SAT 25 AUG, 8pm WHERE Regal Ballroom TICKETS $25 BOOKINGS mwf.com.au

WHEN FRI 31 AUG, 9pm WHERE BMW Edge TICKETS $25

THE RADIO HOUR Be part of the audience for a unique radio event recorded live for broadcast on ABC Radio National’s 360documentaries. Telling stories on the theme ‘Do You Read Me?’, Pico Iyer, Chloe Hooper, Jon Tjhia and Jessie Borrelle (from audio journal Paper Radio), Natalie Kestecher (ABC Radio National) and Rachel Maher will be accompanied by musicians James Cecil, Shane O’Mara and Dan Marsh. Hosted and produced by Jaye Kranz, this is documentary radio like you’ve never seen before.

LYRICAL: FROM THE GROUND UP With the eclectic David Bridie, the alt-country folk of Kate Fagan and Hello Satellites’ Eva Popov. WHEN SAT 1 SEP, 3pm (Doors open 2.30pm) TICKETS $25

LYRICAL: BREAKING AND ENTERING With gothic electro of Maria Minerva (UK), lounge-pop duo Fox + Sui and the sensual stylings of Lost Animal. WHEN SAT 1 SEP, 8pm (Doors open 7:30pm) TICKETS $25

Proudly supported by APRA and 3RRR

Proudly supported by ABC Radio National WHEN SUN 2 SEP, 6pm TICKETS $25 WHERE Fairfax Theatre BOOKINGS artscentremelbourne.com.au or 1300 182 183

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MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND MUFF NEU NOW

OPENING NIGHT CHARLIE CASANOVA (2010) WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR :

Terry McMahon CAST :

MUFF NEU : A SERIES OF INDIE FILMS CURATED/NOTES :

Richard Wolstencroft

A maverick selection of Indy treats from Oz and OS. Read on free spirits BOBCAT GOLDTHWAITE

GOD BLESS AMERICA 25.08 / Saturday / 9pm / Cinema 1

Emmett Scanlan, Leigh Arnold, Damien Hannaway, Thomas Farrell

24.08 / Friday / 8pm / Cinema 1

This you just HAVE to see! Funny, shocking and controversial, Donkey Love is a documentary that introduces the unknown tradition of Colombians having sex (and falling in love!) with donkeys. Yep you heard right - Donkey Fucking! These backward South American ‘tards in Columbia will leave you rolling in the aisles as their tasteful cultural practices are fully explored by our two cheeky American misanthropes. Colombians believe that having sex with Donkeys makes their penises bigger and also that it prevents them from becoming homosexuals. Yeah, like whatever. This cultural practice is so widely accepted in Colombia that musicians have written songs about it! Enough, yet? Has to be seen to believed.

their murder fantasies. He offered them the chance to stage their fantasies as short films. The only condition was that they had to act in these films themselves, either as victims or perpetrators. More than a decade later, Kosakowski met these people again to ask them about their emotions during their acts of murder or victimization, and interviewed them about current social topics such as revenge, torture, war, terrorism, media, domestic violence, the death penalty, suicide etc. A fascinating film from Germany at MUFF 13.

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JOHNNY GHOST 31.08 / Friday / 11pm / Cinema 2

JAMES BICCKERT

DEAR GOD NO 30.08 /Thursday/9pm /Cinema 1

The titular moustache-wearing character of CHARLIE CASANOVA is played with manic dexterity by one Emmett Scanlan who calmly (about the only time during the films running time that he does something in such a way) introduces us to Charlie with voice-over narration before the opening credits noting that, “If there is a God this may be my last will and testament”. This nicely sets the claustrophobic and doomladen tone for the rest of the film as Charlie’s world loudly implodes. Holed up in a hotel during the course of some sort of conference Charlie is accompanied by his wife and another couple that includes his best friend, and a sycophantic male who seems to physically morph into Charlie by the end of the film. Charlie is a wealthy & successful businessman with a predilection for drink, drugs (especially Viagra) and stand-up comedy. The latter he seems to be in a constant of rehearsal for as every few minutes scenes spiral into another jackhammer rant from Charlie examining or pontificating mainly on the subject of the working classes and their use to him, and his plans for world domination. Worse, Charlie’s 160-plus IQ has led him to believe that the only fair and truthful way to move forward is to subject every major (and minor) life decision to the flip of a playing card. At least this offers the opportunity for the appearance of an interventionist god he reasons. By turns funny, sad, insulting, funny again, and ultimately downbeat and non-redemptive for it’s main protagonist no matter what he tries, CHARLIE CASANOVA is a powerful debut from Irishman Terry McMahon. While obviously conceived as an intellectual response to how the global financial crisis of 2008 affected Ireland politics CHARLIE CASANOVA speaks in a universal voice that should surprise and please all forms of film freakers. EDDIE DIAMANDI / 3:00 / AUS

LUST HIGHWAY STARRING

Kristen Condon and Stu Duffield / A black comedy genre mash up that celebrates and regurgitates the aesthetics of film noir, exploitation and shlock horror. Lust Highway tells the story of Dolly (Kristen Condon) and Johnny (Stu Duffield) as they drive out towards the middle of nowhere to bury a secret.

MUFF YOU

CLOSING NIGHT DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL (2012) WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR :

Chris Sun CAST :

Billi Baker, Michael Thomson, Allira Jaques, Christian Radford

01.09 / Saturday / 8pm / Cinema 1

Bobcat Goldthwaite’s outrageously dark new comedy takes a scalpel to our contemporary culture and decides indeed it is best that some people should die and sets about showing us who that should be. Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank truly has nothing left to live for. But instead of taking his own life, he buys a gun and decides to take out his frustration on the cruelest, stupidest, most intolerant people he can imagine – starting with some particularly odious reality television stars. Frank finds an unusual accomplice along the way. One of my favorite films of the year. MUFF 13 is proud to be playing God Bless America! EVAN GLODELL

BELLFLOWER 26.08 / Sunday / 9pm / Cinema 1

The outlaw biker movie gets a Troma like treatment in Dear Go No. MC gang The Impalers tri-state rape and murder spree ended in a bloody massacre with rival club Satan’s Own. The surviving members sought refuge in a secluded cabin deep in the North Georgia mountains. What ﬁrst must of seemed like easy prey for a home invasion, became a living nightmare of depravity and violence. A young innocent girl being held captive may hold the key to the twisted secrets locked in the basement and the killing machine feasting on human ﬂesh in the forest outside. Completely insane genre mayhem from director Bickert and his team. Sons of Anarchy this aint. But it is a lot of fun.

IVAN MALEKIN

DACE DECKLAN: PRIVATE EYE 29.08/Wednesday/9pm/Cinema 1

JULIA RICHARDS

SHIVER 30.08 / Thursday / 7pm / Cinema 1 Chris Sun, the bad boy filmmaker from Queensland’s “Sunny” Coast, is back with what amounts to his best work yet. Although far removed from the technical primitivism of his debut COME & GET ME (MUFF #12), DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL does continue Sun’s obsession with personal violence and completely upgrades it’s presentation with extra effort from his usual band of Buderim buddies along with a few new pals on both sides of the camera, and also most importantly, expert assistance from Australia’s preeminent make-up FX artist Steve Boyle (DAYBREAKERS, BAIT 3D). DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL trots out the story of Derek, young parent to Georgia who we soon learn is about to turn six. Constantly shuttled between Derek & his ex; Stacey, Georgia seems impervious to the constant bickering of Derek & Stacey, and definitely possessing the ability to survive & thrive despite her parents. A tragedy of the highest order ensues for Derek and six months later after an hour of character development we find Derek at a self-help meeting for people who have lost close family members to murder that has often occurred with extreme violence. When a pretty fellow group member affirms Derek’s question of whether revenge should be visited on perpetrators of such crimes something clicks in his own brain and the last hour is spent with Derek as he meticulously and torturously exacts his own vengeance on the (surprise) killer of DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL. At least Derek doesn’t fail to dispense more than a few funny one-liners amidst the grim and relentless proceedings. Sort of a TV movie of the week on steroids DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL is also like a feature-length version of the worst segment of Today Tonight featuring bogans behaving badly and putting them in your face in such a way that Imax and 3D couldn’t possibly replicate or enhance.

My other favourite film of the year is Bellflower, a post modern post Apocalyptic ode to The End of the World. Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang “Mother Medusa”. They worship the character “Lord Humungous” from Mad Max 2 and have women trouble and other woes in their way. Told in a style that is disjointed and elliptical, Bellflower is aesthetically daring and the subject matter transgressive and challenging. A must see at MUFF 13. DIR: PENNY VOZNIAK

DESPITE THE GODS 25.08 / Saturday / 7pm / Cinema 1

New Aussie/US genre mayhem Premiere’s at MUFF. The plot: Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape, and finally confront the monster of her living nightmare in a nerve shattering climax. The thriller is directed by Julian Richards and written by Robert D. Weinbach, who also produced. It stars Casper Van Dien (STARSHIP TROOPERS), Brad Harris (HERCULES), the great John Jarrett (WOLF CREEK) and Rae Dawn Chong (COMMANDO).

31.08 / Friday / 5pm / Cinema 1 It is the only ﬁlm made about a man from a tiny Caribbean island who reached 80 percent of the planet in a single night. Mas Man (The Complete Work) explores Peter Minshall’s leap from designer in the Trinidad Carnival to an artistic director of the Opening Ceremonies for three Olympic Games, based on his knack for “making what is small seem big in open space”. Minshall’s genius for orchestrating grand spectacles in the Trinidad Carnival, where his themes usually played on good and evil are truly a sight to behold in this great doco. A most interesting addition to MUFF 13.

STUART SIMPSON / 15:00 / AUS

DARYL STONEAGE

30.08 /Thursday/7pm/Cinema 2

ACID SPIDERS

DONKEY LOVE

MICHAL KOSAKOWSKI

26.08 / Sunday / 7pm / Cinema 1

Karli Madden, Nick Kocsis, Kimberly

Opening and Closing Night notes by Michael Helms

ADRIAN GOODMAN

WAKEY WAKEY 25.08/Saturday/5pm/Cinema 1

DALTON NARINE

ZERO KILLED

An 80’s style melting movie horror sci/ ﬁ. A group of girls, rehearsing for their psychedelic rock band, take liquid acid to explore new sounds unobtainable by normal perception. What they didn’t count on was an invasion of evil alien spiders intent on turning their home into a nest of bloody carnage.

Wacky new Australian feature from local director Ivan Malekin. Dace Decklan is a down-on-his-luck Private Eye suddenly struck by the classic opening of every film noir detective film. ‘It was a typical day when she came in ‘ Her name is Lena and she needs Dace to track down her missing father, Rados, the man Dace accidentally crippled in the Civil War of Rambosia. Dace takes the case and quickly learns that Rados has devoted his life to weird sex practices and the hunt is on to find him. Oozing with love, lust and a whole lot of blood, it incorporates animation, absurdity, comic style violence and explosions!

MAS MAN Jennifer Lynch does Bollywood and has a nightmare! In 2008, Hollywood’s prodigal daughter, Jennifer Lynch (daughter of David), travels to India to direct “Hisss” a creature-feature ﬁlm about the vengeful snake Goddess Nagin. But things go wrong very quickly. Perhaps there is a good reason why Hollywood and Bollywood have never blended like this before…The more they plan, the more the Gods laugh. With uncensored candour, Lynch can only cheerlead and watch with part hope, part despair as her beloved Hisss strays further and further away from her original vision. Despite the Gods tells the untold tale of Jennifer Lynch’s Bollywood odyssey.

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Great new Aussie genre directed by a member of the female sex, Donna McRae. Millicent, a professional musician, lectures in music at a university. She is also a recovering alcoholic who has a commemorative tattoo that stretches across her shoulder. When she decides to remove the tattoo, she encounters ghosts of her post-punk past who won’t let her move on so easily. Well worth your attention at this years festival.

GDR/Austria 2011 / 81 min / Col&BW. Since 1996 ﬁlm director Michal Kosakowski has been asking people with diﬀerent backgrounds about

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Josie (Laura Wheelwright, Animal Kingdom) is a teenage girl on the cusp of a new sexuality. Her confusion is heightened by her extreme narcolepsy, which blurs her dreams into waking life. Forbidden from leaving the house, she remains alone but for the supervision of her halfsister Samantha (Fabiana Weiner, Retribution), for whom she yearns. But Samantha resents having to look after Josie for yet another summer. A bizarre and surreal new Australian avant-garde treat from stylish and talented director Adrian Goodman. DAVID PALAMERO

IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER 25.08/Saturday/11pm/Cinema 2 The story of the Los Angeles ‘Kiss or Kill’ music scene (2002-2007). Fed up with the wretched Sunset Strip payfor-play policies, ‘too cool for school’ trendiness of the Silverlake scene and apathetic crowds, the bands that made up Kiss or Kill forged their own scene based on great music, cheap booze, low cover, and a mid-western sense of community and friendship. Fascinating doco on a LA music scene sub genre rounds out MUFF 13’s selection of great new cinema.

24 AUG – 1 SEPT FILM FESTIVAL A SERIES OF SHORT FILMS

MINI MUFF

SESSION 4

CURATED AND NOTES

28.08 / Tuesday / 9pm / Cinema 1

David Leadbetter An incredible range and selection of over 500 short ﬁlms from all over the world were submitted to MUFF 13. MUFF is committed to searching out the best new ﬁlmmakers, based solely on their ability as storytellers and provacteurs.

Stretch / Arturo Cubacub / 3:37 A sensual representation of an internal transformation. Real Meal Deal / Stuart Mannion / 6:25 A woman pulls a machine gun in a suburban burger joint. Tentaklees / Peter Allen / 4:00 An experimental horror ﬁlm that puts a unique spin on the Little Miss Muﬀet tale. Harmony of Twists / Kristin Casey / 11:43 Reality can be darker than nightmares. Gyre / Lindsay Morrison / 17:00 A chilling tale of love, monogamy, sexuality and breaking up.

SESSION 1 27.08 / Monday / 7pm / Cinema 1

Winter Man / Mirae Kim / 3:14 A girl sees a fortune teller to ask about her future husband.

Secret Life of Objects / Nathan Jones / 3:12 An animated story of a cynical, used up, toilet paper roll.

Two Feet Under / Cameron McGrane / 8:46 A girl has to deal with a sleazy funeral director as she tries to bury her mother.

Shorty & Morty / Dave Edison / 12:15 An extraordinary homeless couple wander into a bizarre, yet humorous 12-step meeting in Hollywood.

The Wishful / Daniel Gregg / 11:41 A twisted journey through music, relationships and fairytales.

Picking Up at Auschwitz / Alice Foulcher / 3:37 Lou finds love and much more while on holiday. Honour / Azahn Munas / 7:31 A young woman turns to religion to cope with an extremely overbearing father. Derby Wives / Matt Horne / 7:34 The true story of the Roller Derby Wives. Government Funding Bodies / Sam Eliopoulos / 7:00 A filmmaker documents his attempts at receiving film funding. The Billabong / Jeffory Assalin / 11:11 A young boy is forced to stand up and face his fears head on to save a friend. The Disappearance of Lyle Humphries / Rowan Elliott Hopkins / 5:00 A small town police department investigates the mysterious disappearance of a local man. Skeletons / Ryan Coonan / 12:12 What secrets lie within Rods cupboard in the shed? The housemates hatch a plan to find out but soon realize this was a deadly mistake. Tough / Anna Snoekstra / 6:22 A young female boxer has dreams of killing her sister. 2 Guys in a back Yard / Tez Frost / 5:00 After years of being best mates, is there more to this relationship?

SESSION 5 29.08 / Wednesday / 7pm / Cinema 1 Tilting at Skyscrapers / Frank Stasio / 8:09 When a gamer is overcome by his obsession, things happen. Scenes from the end of the world / Doug Mason / 11:00 A climate change denier plays a game of chess with Gaea. Body Movie / Jordon Prosser / 17:30 Pop Quiz needs help disposing of a dead body. Jackson is that guy. War Proﬁt / Aaron Singﬁeld / 9:45 The promise that a soldier made to his wife of never going on tour again becomes harder for him to keep. Killer Lizards / Blake Borcich / 6:38 A struggling writer has to cope with the success of his nemesis.

NEW IRISH LOW BUDGET CINEMA Richard Wolstencroft Something is happening in Ireland. I visited the country in Jan and Feb 2012 (to shoot my portmanteau style adaptation feature The Second Coming – based on the famous poem and poetry of W.B.Yeats). I loved the place and the people very much. A lot like Australia in ideas of mateship, loyalty to family, Nationalism and a healthy ‘fuck you’ attitude to the Poms. Even more so the latter in Eire -lol. And like in Australia they have a God awful ﬁlm funding system and Film Board dedicated – mainly - to destroying Irish Cinema - and not helping it! All run by Socialist ne’er do wells and their cronies busy feathering their own eﬀete nests. Ring any bells, anyone? But in the margins again, just like in Australia, a new aggressive and intentionally exciting Indy cinema is growing. We’re showing highlights at MUFF 13 of this ground roots cinema movement. Special thanks to my friend and comrade Michael Parle for putting this section together.

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Crumble / Renata Bialkouska / 22:00 A married couple experiment with drugs and swinging. A SERIES OF RETRO FILMS

RETRO MAVERICKS

27.08 / Monday / 9pm / Cinema 1

A metaphorical look at the history of human development.

SESSION 6

The Poet Cursed / Ryan Smith / 5:23 Ryan J-W Smith has written 500 Shakespearean sonnets, and now he can’t stop rhyming - or attracting women.

30.08 / Thursday / 9pm / Cinema 2 01.09 / Saturday / 5pm / Cinema 1

Their Morning / Girard Dorney / 4:24 One morning a man and a woman attempt suicide but neither truly wants to die. Aboriginal Embassy / Nick McLaren / 12:25 Since 1972, the Tent Embassy has stood in Canberra. How and why did this happen? The Smile / Arturo Cubacub / 3:16 Using non-dialogue based narrative; this piece is an exploration of an introspective discourse. Migraine & Michael A Love Story / Adrian Goodman / 5:00 A man is in a long term relationship that may not be good for him. Late One Night Ep 1 / Gregory Pakis / 10:00 After 12am, suburbia isn’t quite what it was. Quinkin / Mick Wannenmacher / 15:00 A twisted riddle...

Its all the rage / Julian constanzo / 10:00 Alex is a man of conﬂict and ambiguity. The Winking Boy / Alan King / 14:00 Martin only communicates via winking. However, a new nurse changes everything. Kitchen Sink Drama / Michael Ciccone / 4:58 Love, relationships, ﬁdelity, vomit. All at the kitchen sink.

Polly / Jennifer & Melissa, Diego Ramirez / 4:31 A sci-ﬁ horror querying notions of gender and identity. 1000 Grams / Tom Bewilogua / 15:00 1000 grams is the average quantity of fat that gets lipoed out...? Monopsters / Brandon deWys / 6:27 The man who doesn’t pay his bills has a nasty surprise.

SESSION 3 28.08 / Tuesday / 7pm / Cinema 1 Dying and other Superpowers / Elias Ribeiro / 13:42 One man’s news aﬀects an entire family. Andrew & Bec’s Skydiving video / Lachlan Ryan / 12:30 Some special found footage of a couple’s most intimate moment. Evie Wants a Baby / Jemma van Loenen / 10:09 A boozy dinner out leads to an unexpected turn amongst friends. Broken Superman / Zev Howley / 9:39 Two sexy girls, a pistol and a soldier with a climax you won’t easily forget.

Double features from some of cinemas greatest Mavericks. Selected and written about by contemporary Mavericks, turn over for more notes. RAY DENNIS STECKLER DOUBLE FEATURE

THE INCREDIBLE STRANGE CREATURE WHO STOPPED LIVING & BECAME MIXED UP ZOMBIES

THE LOOKING GLASS 27.08 / Monday / 9pm / Cinema 2

GARY KENNEALLY

“Tin Can Man is without question the best ﬁlm I’ve seen all year. A ﬁlm so terrifying that I had to keep looking around for the safety of the cinema” Sydney Herald review.

“…one of the most harrowing and disturbing cinema experiences I have seen this decade… Tin Can Man is a masterpiece...” Melbourne Underground Film Fest - oh that’s me.

IVAN KAVANAGH

THE FADING LIGHT 28.08 / Tuesday / 9pm / Cinema 2

Ivan’s follow up to Tin Can Man. A change of pace, but an amazing ﬁlm all the same. To the outside world, Yvonne is a strong, happy and successful woman. But when she returns home to be with her sick mother, she is forced to make life-changing decisions and the facade that she has carefully constructed begins to collapse. A must see at MUFF this year.

27.08 / Monday / 7pm / Cinema 2 The Looking Glass is a surreal thriller from writer-director Colin Downey (also Tin Can Man DOP). The ﬁlm follows Paul, a troubled young man who lives in a rural cottage with his pregnant girlfriend Claire. Paul’s world is turned upside down one night when Claire’s sinister, predatory mother, Agnes arrives at their house to visit.Paul is instinctively afraid of this witch-like woman who seems to know all of his darkest secrets and fears. Agnes begins to exert a malevolent inﬂuence over Paul’s life. One of her patients, a terrifying burn victim, starts to stalk Paul with murderous intent. One night, after a row with Claire, Paul goes on a secret journey to a mysterious castle in the park. Blending reality and fantasy, The Looking Glass interweaves Paul’s adult journey with a parallel story from his childhood as his eight year old self reveals his inner thoughts and his hopes for a future free from fear. The Looking Glass is top notch Indy cinema. Colin Downey is a major cinema force and one to watch in the future. WHAT THE CRITICS SAY

“Colin Downey is a ﬁlmmaker of startling originality.” Film Ireland

JOHN WATERS DOUBLE FEATURE

KEN RUSSELL

PINK FLAMINGOS

SAVAGE MESSIAH

25.08 / Saturday / 9pm/ Cinema 2

31.08 / Friday / 7pm / Cinema 2

John Waters’ excursion into perversion is a sublime exercise in glorious bad taste!

1972 biography ﬁlm of the short life of Modernist sculpture Henri GaudierBrzeska and his partner in love & art.

JOHN WATERS

ANDY MILLIGAN DOUBLE FEATURE

DESPERATE LIVING

NIGHTBIRDS (1970)

25.08 / Saturday / 7pm/ Cinema 2

29.08/Wednesday/9pm/Cinema 2

This is a political fairytale at it’s most revolting!

A tale of a not unfamiliar female predator who happily destroys a simple bloke with a few problems.

31.08 / Friday / 9pm / Cinema 2 This ﬁlm is director Ray Dennis Steckler’s undeniable magnum opus and one of the world’s most unusual ﬁlms.

THE BODY BENEATH (1968) 29.08/Wednesday/7pm/Cinema 2

26.08 / Sunday / 7pm / Cinema 2

A weekend escape to the woods turns nasty for a group of friends.

Thrill Killers may be one of Ray Dennis Steckler’s most accomplished works, as both actor and director.

TWO NEW FEATURES FROM MAVERICK OF ROCK.

KIM FOWLEY

DIR : KIM FOWLEY / RUN TIME 78 MINUTES

Russell’s ﬁnest and most disturbing ﬁlm that exists as a kind of aesthetic statement on humanity and human nature in general.

GOLDEN ROAD TO NOWHERE, is the best, scariest, craziest look at Hollywood, USA… since the Black & White Noir Classic “Big Knife”… which starred Rod (“On The Water Front”/”Illustrated Man”)Steiger…back in 1955. This time, West Coast Based Multi Media Legend, Kim Fowley, takes Steiger’s position as the ruthless, but sympathetic, older man/show biz industry expert. 20 something, Nick Robinson portrays the Fan Boy/Film School Dreamer. Fowley does triple duty as Writer-Director-Producer. Robinson does some camera/some editing. Marie Ilene did the Final Edit. 19 year old, Brianna Garcia, who dazzles in Richard Wolstencroft’s, “The Second Coming”, plays the new girl in town. Christine Blood is the NYC transplant. Dominatrix/Model/Director, Snow Mercy, is the world weary expert of Tinsel Town Survival. Golden Road To Nowhere will make you laugh, cry, try suicide…or even get high. (Flesh-ORama Films, USA) DIR KIM FOWLEY / RUN TIME 94 MINS

ANDY MILLIGAN

RAY DENNIS STECKLER

Tarquin Nertherway / The River / 13:00 2 boys entertain themselves while exposing the towns benevolent side.

JOIN US IN 2012 31.08 / Friday / 7pm / Cinema 1

KEN RUSSELL DOUBLE FEATURE

Torn / Lori Young / 19:00

“The Shaken 3” is the third feature film from writer/director Gary Kenneally. Darren Burns and Nathan Sandison reunite to lead the cast as renegade researchers Eddie Burns and John Baron, who are finally closing in on the one obstacle that has evaded them all this time – the identity of the elusive Creator of The Shaken virus. Joining the cast for the final instalment of The Shaken Trilogy is a performer who is undoubtedly the highlight of the film – the multitalented Irish and International award-winning actor star Mr. Michael Parle. This acclaimed actor is a force to be reckoned with in the world of independent cinema!

GOLDEN ROAD TO NOWHERE

THE DEVILS

RETRO MAVERICK THE THRILL KILLERS YES

A man goes to see a psychologist to explain how an evil creature is responsible for the deaths of his three children. Starring the great Michael Parle from Tin Can Man. Expect Irish Horror chills in this great low budget gem from Eire from a short story by the Master of Horror Mr Stephen King.

THE SHAKEN 3

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY

26.08 / Sunday / 9pm / Cinema 2

Viscosity / Paul von Stoetzel / 7:18 Three men share stories of their early misadventures in masturbation.

Wakey Wakey / Adrian Goodman / 15:00 A narcoleptic teenager on the cusp of her new sexuality.

The MUFF hit Tin Can Man is back! Tin Can Man is a terrifying exercise in cinematic terror. It’s loosely based on a series of bizarre and grisly (seemingly copycat) murders in 1892, 1926 and 1957. This ﬁlm is an imagining of what may have happened to the victims. A truly unique new horror ﬁlm as important as David Lynch’s Eraserhead. A MUFF see at MUFF 13 this year.

Boyd Rice, Lee Gambin, Mark Savage and Richard Wolstencroft

Cryo / Luke Doolan / 8:00 With most of the crew of the Noah-1 dead, what next? Frank Howson: A Portrait / Anthony Gravina / 12:00 Writer/poet/director/producer Frank Howson shares some candid moments in relation to his life, and moments that have contributed to his life’s journey, thus far.

28.08 / Tuesday / 7pm / Cinema 2

NOTES AND PROGRAMMING

Blood on the Game Dice / Ahren Morris 12:00 Things are getting critical... Painted Love / Johnny McPherson / 4:25 Romance and betrayal between a painter and her wooden dummy.

25.08/Saturday/11pm /Cinema 1

COLIN DOWNEY

CURATED/NOTES :

The Show Must go On / BJ Britton / 8:06 Two German soldiers ﬁnd a British Paratrooper that is very hard to kill.

Let there be light / Pete Pauls 27:20

GERARD LOUGH

STEPHEN KING’S THE BOOGEYMAN

THEIR DAY HAS COME

Glare / Anna Snoekstra / 1:30 Two young women stop at a petrol station during a long summer road trip.

SESSION 2

IVAN KAVANAGH

TIN CAN MAN

A vampire ﬁlm without the typical vampire trappings.

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BLACK ROOM DOOM 31.08 / Friday / 11pm / Cinema 1 BLACK ROOM DOOM = All Girl Band, Drag Queen, Fetish Models, & Sex Workers, Both Past & Present. Written-Produced-& Directed by Kim Fowley, BRD is a Female Spinal Tap meeting an All Girl Commitments, pretending to be a 21st Century Runaways. Two of the girls=Snow Mercy & Noizee Noize, contributed Directing & Camera skills to the fracas…which boasts a cast of Female Animals that include, Elmyra, Dianna St. Hilaire, Giddle Partridge, (Who sizzles in Richard Wolstencroft’s “The Second Coming”.), The Fabulous Miss Wendy, Snow Mercy, Krystal D. Thomas, Nicole Rouge & the late Hollie Stevens. Plagued by Death, Disease, Jail & Cast Mutiny…BRD managed to get ﬁnished in spite of itself....thanks to the Super Skills of Ace Editor Marie Ilene=who also edited “Golden Road To Nowhere”. (Flesh-O-Rama Films/ USA)

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RRAMP BY ALASDAIR DUNCAN

Christine Johnston has been a familiar presence in Australian theatres for some time now, not least of all as a member of the surreal performance troupe The Kransky Sisters. But her new show RRAMP – The Collector, The Archivist & The Electrocrat, takes a stranger, darker turn. It tells the story of a lonesome lady who fills her house with her various collections, and then lures two musicians inside to help her live out her dream of being a singer. It’s a bold work that combines music, dance, and even animation, with a bracing electronic soundtrack and a variety or twisted stories. And many of them are from Johnston’s real life – she herself is a collector. “Well, I’ve been a collector all my life – unconsciously at least. When I was young, I used to dream of being a bone specialist, because I was so interested in the human body and how it works,” Johnston tells me. “I grew up in the outer suburbs, in a semi-rural area, and I was always very excited when I came across the skeleton of some animal.” It wasn’t just animals, either – it was fish from the beach, too, and frilly lizards, even birds. Then there were cows and goats she would sometimes find on her adventures. “I was fascinated with them,” she says. “Not in any gruesome way, just with how they pieced together, and the layers. Johnston still has her childhood collection of bones and is still fascinated by them. In many ways, RRAMP represent the natural progression of her love for accumulating things. These days, she says with a laugh, she’s moved on to collecting things of a more exotic nature – other artists. “Lisa O’Neill and Peter Nelson worked with me on this show,” she says. “I’ve known them for a long time, and we’ve worked together on a lot of different things. You could almost say I’ve collected them –that’s the way I’ve

chosen to look at it, anyway! The ﬁrst time I saw them and got to know their work, I knew one day I wanted to work with them, and eventually I was able to.” RRAMP is the result of a lot of intimate collaboration, and the great admiration that Johnston has for her fellow artists. “When you have a connection with another person, creatively, it’s just so exciting,” she says. “Ahmarnya Price did the animations, and I’ve wanted to work with her for a long time. Lisa comes from a dance background, and the ﬁrst time I saw her, she was doing a performance in a warehouse, and I just knew I wanted to do something with her. When we met, we hardly spoke at all, but it was one of those situations where we didn’t need to, because there was a lot of conversation going on in our heads. Dance is a bit like that anyway – expression is based on movement rather than speech. I like to use words sparingly in performance anyway. RRAMP is about telling stories, but I’m still sparing with the words.” Peter Nelson is RRAMP’s resident musician, and Johnston sings his praises rapturously. “Peter’s one of those

multi-talented people who are great with electronic instruments,” she says, “but also trumpet and guitar and all sort of other things. I just love his melodies.” The music for the show moves around from electro to harder-edged sounds, even metal, and I’m curious to know what sources Johnston and her collaborators drew on as inspiration. “It’s hard to think of speciﬁc ones,” she says. “I really enjoy The Prodigy, for instance. The music in the show is quite heavy, although it goes from much quieter music to much more extreme. I don’t like to use the word ballads necessarily, but the songs all tell stories, so in a sense, that’s what they are. How does the media release describe it?” she asks. “Something like an electronica metal rock opera? I think that sums it up.” Living artists aside, I ask Johnston what else makes up her collection these days. “I collect things I like to look at,” she says. “Unusual things, but they’re generally vintage. I like things that have lasted a long time, that have the look of life in them, and some sort of history to them. I just like looking at things, and having lots of stuﬀ around me. Some

might call me a hoarder,” she adds with a laugh. “Also, I collect stories. I really like to reminisce. There are a lot of stories that I’ve collected and found over the years.” “When I ﬁrst worked with Peter, we wandered around the city collecting sounds,” she continues. “I’ve always liked to do things like that, to bring my collection into the shows somehow. We all worked on a children’s show together once, it was a commission we had a few years back, and we built that around my collection of old bed lamps. I have a collection of beautiful ‘60s bed lamps, plastic ones that are shaped like various creatures. I like old things that have had a life, and old hand-made things that get lost. We all love similar music, and I’ve always wanted to have a band, and so we play on that I guess. The collector in the show brings these people in so they can help her have a band.”

wide open,” he says, “a brilliant guy who really believes that somebody has to carry the bodies out of the town square in the dark of night so that everybody else can be safe. Certainly in America, you want to be safe, you want your family to be safe, even if you’re conﬂicted about some of the things you’re tacitly condoning to make that happen. He’s a living expression of that, and it would have been unfortunate to have a character like that and not have the opportunity get into some of those ideas.” Gilroy’s ﬁlms all have a toughness to them, an overriding sense of the masculine, but The Bourne Legacy features that most masculine of all movie set-pieces – a really big car chase. This climactic scene takes place on the streets of Manila, and for Gilroy, shooting it was something of a dream come true. “There’s no incredible secret to how a car chase is done,” he says, when I ask how it came together. “You need to have the right people around you, including a great secondunit director, you have to have enough money, and you have to begin planning it a very long time in advance. I like to go to real places and create a sequence that really uses both the possibilities and the limitations of the environment, and I did this over many, many trips to Manila. A sequence like that may seem overwhelming, but if you take it piece by piece, beat by beat, you can put it together.” That and it’s fun as hell. “You get to be seven years old again and smash little cars

together,” he laughs. “You have to love that.” With The Bourne Legacy set for release this week, I ask Gilroy if he sees the film as the potential beginning of a new series starring Renner. “I don’t know exactly,” he says. “There’s no master plan for what’s going to happen here. I mean, one thing that was very important to us is that we wanted to make a movie that could stand strongly on its own – you don’t necessarily need to know anything about the previous three to get something out of this one. We’ve road-tested it to make sure it works that way. We also wanted something that would preserve the spirit of the past, something that the true fans would be able to dig back into. [And we] wanted to leave ourselves in a place where the mythology we’d created could move in a bunch of different directions.” The audience’s reaction will, of course, play a part in this. Whether filmgoers embrace Renner as Aaron Cross remains to be seen, but Gilroy feels good either way. “I’m not nervous,” he says. “I like my movie, and that’s where you’ve got to be. The rest of it is just very exciting.”

RRAMP – The Collector, The Archivist & The Electrocrat plays at Arts House, from Wednesday September 5 – Saturday September 8.

THE BOURNE LEGACY BY ALASDAIR DUNCAN

A thriller that doesn’t require you to shave several points off from your IQ – that’s how Tony Gilroy describes The Bourne Legacy, but you could apply that description to any number of films on his resume. Gilroy has worked steadily as a screenwriter over the last two decades, and penned the first three entries in the Bourne series, which were the very definition of smart, cerebral action flicks. He stepped behind the camera for 2007’s acclaimed Michael Clayton, and followed that up with the equally lean corporate espionage tale Duplicity. There was never any doubt that the Bourne series was in good hands when Gilroy stepped in to replace Paul Greengrass as director, but with the absence of Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne, the challenge was finding a leading man worthy of the series’ pedigree. That leading man proved to be Jeremy Renner, whose mixture of toughness and vulnerability made him perfect for the role of Aaron Cross. As Gilroy tells it, he tiptoed into the project long after everyone else had initially walked away. Attending a meeting with producers – a “very casual meeting”, he stresses to me – to discuss the future of the series post-Damon and Greengrass, he suggested that perhaps the next film could be about a larger conspiracy involving a project like the one that spawned Jason Bourne. The business people liked the idea, but Gilroy wasn’t sure he was up for the job – he didn’t yet have a character to hang his story on, and for him, this is all that matters. “The character is really where I always start,” he explains. “It’s never about a theme or an overarching story – it’s always about an individual who wants something desperately, who needs something. The place where it got interesting for me, when I decided I might actually be interested in writing and directing, is when the character of Aaron Cross began to emerge.” Cross is a loose end left behind by a failed CIA program; escaping execution at the beginning of the film, he finds himself in a desperate race to escape those who want him dead. Casting the role proved to be an extremely

tricky business. “We conducted a very lengthy, public search for a long time,” Gilroy explains. “We ran around and auditioned a lot of people, spoke to a lot of people, screen tested people, got very interested in some people. The bar was high and the requirements were enormous – we really needed to pick the right person. Late in the process, The Avengers tightened up their schedule, and all of a sudden, Jeremy was available.” He was just the kind of star they were looking for – an actor about to break very big, who didn’t yet have a signature role to his name, or the associations that inevitably come with that. “We were immediately interested,” Gilroy says. “We ran right over to throw a script at him and have a conversation.” Renner gives one of several outstanding performances in the ﬁlm – another comes courtesy of Edward Norton, who plays CIA operative Eric Byer. Byer is ostensibly the bad guy of the piece, leading the hunt for Cross, but part of what makes him so sinister is he plays the role as a normal guy just trying to do his job. Byer simply refers to himself as a patriot, a concept Gilroy ﬁnds fascinating. “This is a guy who really has his eyes

FILM REVIEW: THE CAMPAIGN

THEATRE REVIEW: MADEMOISELLE

BY CHRIS BRIGHT

BY MEGAN HANSON

With Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis leading this comedy, I doubt whatever I say will have much bearing on whether people see it or not. These are two of the most popular comedians working today, and fans of either will not be disappointed with The Campaign. It’s pretty much exactly what you expect from everyone involved: Ferrel swears and yells a whole lot, Galifianakis is awkwardly hilarious, and director Jay Roach sticks to the kind of jokes that worked with Austin Powers and Meet the Parents. And for some reason, the formula still works. Basically, The Campaign is funny but not incredible. It’s definitely worth watching but it doesn’t warrant repeated viewing or constant quoting. In other words, it’s no Anchorman or The Hangover. The premise is very much a reworking of Zoolander, except fashion is replaced with politics, and vanity is replaced with patriotism. At the centre of it all, two stupid men are forced into competition, but they’re really just puppets for big corporations who secretly want to exploit Asian labour laws. Actually, the more I think about it, the plot is almost identical. But luckily most of the jokes are original, which is why it still works. Ferrell and Galifianakis are what make this movie worth watching. They know their strengths and play them accordingly. In the end, it’s probably Ferrell who walks

Michael Dalley’s latest cabaret satire is nothing short of ridiculous. In possibly the most politically incorrect revue of 2012, Mademoiselle has a cast of two bickering manservants and one pianist (John Thorn) who is constantly referred to as ‘penis’ behind stifled giggles. Both Dalley and Paul McCarthy costar as nasty manservants who are left alone for the evening, and warn: “you should all be getting nervous with two pricks like us in service”, which basically sets the tone for the rest of this revue. The hour-long show is packed with musical comedy and interspersed with banter between Dalley and McCarthy. Starting off strong and full of gusto, both men do a remarkable job of being over the top without being overbearing. Mademoiselle explores the idea of ‘being someone’s bitch’ and the resentment that inevitably arises. Songs such as The Table Manners of the Petit Bourgeoisie and scarily familiar portrayal of The Passive Aggressive Filipino Amway Lady were highlights. With outrageous costumes and props like pink trash cans, it’s no surprise that the manservants are at their prime in their most flamboyant moments. Then came Drop Your Jaw and Brett the Nasty Queen From Menswear, the beginning of a lull that arose about two-thirds of the way through.

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away with the most laughs, simply because of the political ﬁgures he’s mocking. The support cast is also really impressive, especially considering that none of them are there for their comedic ability. They simply push the story along and provide fuel for the two leads. Jason Sudeikis is perfect at Ferrell’s side, happily standing back as Ferrell goes over the top, and Dylan McDermott comes back to the big-screen, playing the smooth and conniving political advisor. There are also screen legends John Lithgow, Dan Akroyd and Brian Cox, plus Australian comedian Josh Lawson. All in all, fans of Ferrell and Galiﬁanakis will get exactly what they want, as will anyone who just wants a few cheap laughs. But those who are expecting the smarts of a Zoolander or Anchorman will probably be a little disappointed. The Campaign is open in cinemas nationally.

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Here, it becomes apparent that the show is lacking in narrative structure, before coming to a seemingly abrupt ending. Essentially, Mademoiselle thrives in its mocking on everything from debutant balls, table manners to what they find when rummaging through other people’s rubbish. These manservants are uneducated, but their snooty, superior demeanour rings true. Despite the lack of momentum in the latter half, it presents a witty, gutsy performance that guarantees laughs, provided you’re okay with having them at others’ expense. Mademoiselle is currently showing at fortyfivedownstairs until Sunday August 19. For further information or to make bookings, visit fortyfivedownstairs.com

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Monkey Safari: Posi Vibes Hailing from Halle, the partnership of brothers that is Monkey Safari know how to have a good time. Lovers of nightlife and club culture, owners of the legendary Charles Bronson club and purveyors of labels like What!What! Records and Mambo, their music is the ideal for drunken nights out, falling off heels and losing half of your drink to the dance floor. As a DJ team, they merrily merge different music genres and styles from all over the globe: sometimes soft and melodic, sometimes deep and conscious, at others down and dirty, but one thing is sure - good vibes incoming. Monkey Safari hit the Prince Bandroom, Saturday October 13.

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ONTOUR PERC [UK] Friday August 17, Brown Alley PHIL REYNOLDS [UK], JAMES LAWSON [UK], SKOL [UK], RIKSTA [NZ] Friday August 17, Room680 CHRIS LAKE [UK] Saturday August 18, Seven THE PHARCYDE [USA] Thursday August 23, The Espy LIQUID STRANGER [SWE] Friday August 24, Brown Alley JODY WISTERNOFF [UK] Friday August 24, New Guernica JOCHEN MILLER [NED], RANK 1 [NED], LEON BOLIER [NED] Saturday August 25, Room680 AOKI TAKAMASA [JPN], KAZU KIMURA [JPN] Saturday August 25, Hamer Hall ALEXKID [FRA] Friday August 31, Revolver DAVE SEAMAN [UK] Friday August 31, Onesixone BASS AGENTS [MAS] Friday August 31, Inflation PHOTEK [UK], NITIN SAWHNEY [UK] Saturday September 1, Hamer Hall MARIA MINERVA [EST] Saturday September 1, The Liberty Social RICK ROSS [USA] Thursday September 6, Festival Hall RED RACK ‘EM [UK] Friday September 7, The Croft Institute JOHN ‘00’ FLEMING [UK] Friday September 7, Brown Alley STEFFI [GER] Friday September 7, Liberty Social TIEFSCHWARZ [GER] Friday September 7, New Guernica SASSE [GER] Friday September 7, Mercat Basement OCTAVE ONE [USA] Friday September 14, Mercat Basement SOLA ROSA [NZ] Friday September 14, Northcote Social Club KENNY LARKIN [USA] Friday September 14, New Guernica ROGER SHAH [GER] Saturday September 15, Room680 ZOMBIE DISCO SQUAD [UK] Saturday September 15, Prince Bandroom FERRY CORSTEN [NED] Friday September 21, Palace Theatre HERNAN CATTANEO [ARG], FRITZ KALKBRENNER [GER] Friday September 21, Brown Alley NARI AND MILANI [ITA] Friday September 21, Royal Melbourne Hotel COMMIX [UK] Friday September 21, Roxanne Parlour DOCTOR P [UK], COOKIE MONSTA [UK] + FUNTCASE [UK] Saturday September 22, Roxanne Parlour SCISSOR SISTERS [USA] Wednesday September 26, Hamer Hall RICK WADE [USA] Friday September 28, The Croft Institute DAS EFX [USA] Friday September 28, Prince Bandroom NICK SENTIENCE [UK] Friday September 28, Room680 TONY TOUCH [USA] Friday September 28, The Espy GIGAMESH [USA] Saturday September 29, Seven FUNKAGENDA [UK] Saturday September 29, Pretty Please TOMMIE SUNSHINE [USA] Saturday September 29, Prince Bandroom PAUL OAKENFOLD [UK] Friday October 5, Festival Hall PARKLIFE: JUSTICE [FRA], PASSION PIT [USA], PLAN B [UK] + MORE Saturday October 6, Sidney Myer Music Bowl PUNKS JUMP UP [UK] Saturday October 6, Prince Bandroom TOMMY FOUR SEVEN [GER] Friday October 12, Brown Alley AME [GER] Saturday October 13, Brown Alley MONKEY SAFARI [GER] Saturday October 13, Prince Bandroom BIG FREEDIA [USA], THEE SATISFACTION [USA] Thursday October 18, The Hi-Fi BIG FREEDIA [USA] Saturday October 20, The Tote SIDNEY SAMSON [NED] Monday October 31, Billboard MACEO PLEX [USA], MATTHIAS TANZMANN [GER], MARGARET DYGAS [UK] Saturday November 4, Brown Alley ROBERT HOOD [USA] Friday November 9, TBA MOULLINEX [POR] Saturday November 10, New Guernica ECLIPSE: PERFECT STRANGER, OLIVER LIEB, ADAM FREELAND + MORE Saturday November 12 – Friday November 16, TBA SUBB-AN [UK], MIGUEL CAMPBELL [UK] Sunday November 18, TBA STRAWBERRY FIELDS: JAMES HOLDEN [UK], TYCHO [US] PREFUSE 73 [USA] + MORE Friday November 23 – Sunday November 25, TBA STEREOSONIC: TIESTO [NED], AVICII [SWE], CALVIN HARRIS [UK] + MORE Saturday December 1, Melbourne Showgrounds TERRENCE PARKER [USA] Friday December 21, TBA FALLS FESTIVAL: SBTRKT [UK], COOLIO [USA] + MORE Saturday December 28 – Tuesday January 1, Lorne BIG DAY OUT: THE BLOODY BEETROOTS [ITA], KASKADE [USA], CRYSTAL CASTLES [CAN] + MORE Saturday January 26, Flemington Racecourse

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Bass Agents: Going Hard Combining liberal lashings of hardstyle and hard trance, the Bass Agents have played a major role in bringing the appeal of hard dance music into the consciousness of dance-savvy youth across Malaysia. Formed originally in Melbourne back in 2000, the Bass Agents returned to their home base three years later and pioneered a new era in the underground dance scene with trademarked fierce basslines and energetic live performances - seeing them play alongside The Prophet, Headhunterz, Showtek, Lady Dana, Gizmo, Organ Donors and Alex Kidd, and leaving audiences amazed at festivals including Future Music Asia. Catch

Doctor P & Cookie Monsta: Ringmasters Circus Records is, as the name would suggest, home to a particularly distinctive brand of irreverent and insane dancefloor fodder. The brainchild of dubstep superstars Doctor P, Flux Pavillion, DJ Swan-E and Earl Falconer (of UB40 fame), the label was started three years ago intended as a home for Flux and Doctor P’s productions - who were approached by a number of labels, but decided to join forces instead to form a movement of their own making, leading the label into exciting new territory as one of the leading labels when it comes to eardrum-rupturing bass-driven sounds. With sights set firmly on Australia, the dubstep destroyers are ready and raring for a good time on the dancefloor . Join Circus Records with Doctor P and labelmates Cookie Monsta, Funtcase and Slum Dogz at Roxanne Parlour on Saturday September 22.

Where?House: Where The Party At Where?House will see an iconic Melbourne space transformed into a temporary cultural and multifunction hub, providing the flagship pop-up venue for Melbourne Music Week 2012. In the spirit of the days when the pursuit of electronic music culture in Melbourne resembled a seek and find mission, the actual location of the Where?House venue will not be announced until Friday November 16, the opening day of Melbourne Music Week. Melbourne-based creative producers Marksthespot and Melbourne Music Week are excited to announce that three of the headline live electronic acts will be performing for the first time in Australia at Where?House. San Francisco based PillowTalk, synth rock duo Housse de Racket and multi-genre electronic music producer and live performer Eskmo. Stay tuned for the next announcement for Where?House in mid September. The full event program for Where?House will be announced and put on sale in early October 2012. For more information go to where-house.com.au.

Jody Wisternoff: Blaze Of Glory After a list of recent guests including hot young things Danny Daze, Midland and Nic Fanciulli, The Breakfast Club have done a damn good job serving up the best in fresh dance music, the next instalment set to impress with Jody Wisternoff at the helm. With a musical journey behind him that’s meandered into almost every corner of the art, beginning as a 13-year-old, reaching the finals of the DMC Hip Hop Championships, to pioneering the early UK rave sound as part of breakbeat outfit Sub Love, to his long standing partnership with Nick Warren, as Way Out West - Wisternoff has broken out on his own as a purveyor of sounds through his monthly radio shows, Frisky & Proton Radio, and his solo production work featuring on labels such as Ministry Of Sound, Anjunadeep and Distinctive, including his debut solo album Trails We Blaze - a kaleidoscopic mix of house, nu disco, progressive, techno and bass. Making his solo debut in Australia, catch him at New Guernica on Friday August 24.

From the early roots of his West Midland’s studio, to pioneering releases through reputed major labels, house fiend Funkagenda’s stamp on dance music can be felt on a global scale as a devoted passion for music, alongside an embrace of technology. A key member of the iconic Toolroom Records, Funkagenda is also creative commander of Funk Farm, a prospect that looks set to cultivate him as an artist with a mass of production credentials and no doubt a further slew of awards to go with his already-stellar credentials remixing for Basement Jaxx, Moby, Fatboy Slim and Dirty Vegas and production contributions to the Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. However, it’s in the clubs and on the dancefloor that Funkagenda really shines, with a rep for deeply personal DJ sets and production that has built the dude such a rising international fanbase. Catch him at Pretty Please on Saturday September 29.

Tommy Four Seven: Shooting Star British-born and Berlin-based producer and sound designer Tommy Four Seven began his soon-to-be immense career as a DJ and general connoisseur of electronica at the youthful age of 17 - soon establishing himself as at the forefront of the new generation of techno artists. Learning to DJ at 17, Tommy held a two year residency at Fire Club, London whilst appearing at legendary venues such as Fabric, The End and Turnmills as well as dipping his toes into production and releasing tracks on David Duriez’s, Brique Rouge and Kill Brique label, before launching his own imprint called Shooting Elvis. After studying Music Technology in London, Tommy moved to Berlin and has been steadily building his catalogue of strong, moody and hypnotic tracks such as his 2009 hit, Surma on Speedy J’s Electric Deluxe and more recently, Sor on CLR, not forgetting the before mysterious Bauhaus project with Chris Liebing - and culminating in last year’s debut album Primate. He’s heading to Australia soon for a string of club shows across the country - Melbourne can catch him at Brown Alley on Friday October 12.

Thundamentals: Thunda Struck Nitin Sawhney: Deck The Hall Hamer Hall’s list of upcoming tours is already shaping up to be one of Melbourne’s most memorable two weeks in the year as September approaches, with the likes of Japanese dance music luminaries Aoki Takamasa, Kazu Kimura, the UK’s Photek, and Melbourne’s own Qua already slated for shows at the newly-revamped halls, Nitin Sawhney is the latest to be added. Considered a cultural pioneer in the spheres of music, film, dance, theatre and beyond, his career has seen him flirt with a diverse array of mediums, and all with his trademarked expert touch. With a CV that boasts work alongside Sting, Cirque du Soleil, Shakira, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Taio Cruz, the London Symphony Orchestra, A.R. Rahman, Nelson Mandela, John Hurt, Imogen Heap, and many more, you can trust that you’ll be in good hands - Nitin Sawhney plays Hamer Hall on Saturday September 1.

Sydney three piece hip hop collective Thundamentals’ second LP was released almost a year ago - and in the time since, things have certainly gotten interesting for the rag-tag crew. With four years of respect in the Australian hip hop scene and wider music community, three acclaimed releases and countless shows around the country, it comes as no surprise that the Thundamentals have finally found themselves emerging from the underground into something truly spectacular. The recently-announced Get Busy tour is aptly titled - being the group’s first and only headline shows for 2012, with the band deliberately taking a break from writing their new album to reconnect with fans before hitting the studio. MC Tuka is also balancing the release of his second solo album Feedback Loop and his myriad of associated touring commitments in and around that, alongside Big Village Records, a label Thundamentals members founded themselves. Here’s one last time to catch them live before they disappear into the studio again - catch them at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday November 3.

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Kenny Larkin: Motor City Madness Melbourne has been lucky enough to experience the renaissance in Detroit’s techno movement, with recent visitors such as Rick Wade and Chez Damier dropping by to show the city who’s who in the history of techno’s emergence throughout the eighties and nineties - and to most aficionados of electronic music, fellow Detroit attire Kenny Larkin will need no introduction. Born and raised in the Motor City but missing out on the early years of techno due to serving in the military, Larkin’s return to the USA saw his production career begin, influenced by Juan Atkins and Derrick May, as well as the Chicago house music scene. Richie Hawtin launched his soon-tobe wildly successful label Plus 8 with a Kenny Larkin single as its first release, then worked with other imprints including the likes of Warp and Buzz. Taking a break from music to pursue his dream of being a stand-up comedian into the 2000s, he’s made his way back to dance music and if one thing is clear, it’s that Larkin’s sound still continues to stand the test of time. Catch him at New Guernica on Friday September 14.

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OBESECITY 2

“It shows that hip hop is a force to be reckoned with in this country, the scene has expanded significantly and there are so many good artists out there.”

TEN YEARS STRONG: STILL FATTER THAN YA MAMMA The release of a new Australian hip hop album is not a groundbreaking proposition in 2012. Seeing an entire rack of local albums at JB Hi-Fi or finding out that an Aussie hip hop album has hit the top of the ARIAs is not out of the ordinary. In 2002 however the idea of homegrown hip hop culture becoming a profitable industry was still out of reach. That all changed in large part thanks to one label, Obese Records. The monumental Obesecity compilation, released that very year, brought together the cream of the Aussie crop at the time. The sheer list of talent included on the album is incredible as is the fact that a large part of those involved have gone on to have lasting, successful careers. For those involved however it was never about attention or money, it was about the culture. “Doing it for the love” is a clichéd phrase for a reason. That same love is what has brought together the best and brightest of today’s scene for Obesecity 2. Unlike most sequels, this was not conceived as a profit spinner, it’s a celebration of how far the scene has come in the ten years since the original release. The two-disc album features 33 original tracks and finds a variety of young talents holding their own alongside respected veterans. “I was only 12 years old when it dropped and at the time I was just discovering that hip hop was actually coming out of Australia,” says MC Dialect, now 22 years old. “Prior to that I was really only exposed to hip hop from the US so it was a pivotal release.” The Adelaide native is a prime example of the artists involved on Obesecity 2. The vocal half of duo Dialect & Despair, he appears on the album standout Ghost In A Shell. “It was very humbling to be asked to be a part of Obesecity 2 and for me personally it signifies where I have come from to now.” Like his fellow upstarts Despair has graduated from a fan to making his own contribution to the Obese Records legacy. “It’s crazy to think that another young kid will be potentially having the same experience.” It has been quite a journey for Fluent Form since he first heard Obesecity. “Around that time I dropped out of high school, due to a lot of drug use and random

stupidity. I was very deep into my hip hop journey but hadn’t really heard a lot of local hip hop.” The Melbourne wordsmith is part of the burgeoning Crate Cartel crew and contributes the international collaboration The Code alongside New York MC Has-Lo. Like many of his peers, his idea of Aussie hip hop was still fresh and its potential for rapid growth still unfulfilled. “A friend of mine came over to my place one time and had a copy of Obesecity on him. After a few listens, I realised there were other Australians who shared the same passion as I for hip hop music and culture.” Currently working on his third solo effort, the prospect of being a productive and respected artist did not even enter his mind back in 2002. “It would be many years later before I started writing seriously as I was too busy messing around with my friends.” Hailed by many as the future of the Melbourne scene he is honoured by his chance to make a mark under the Obese banner. “Guess you could kinda say we’re taking the proverbial torch and running with it. To be counted in the next generation of artists is humbling.” A veteran of the hip hop scene Ciecmate has a unique perspective. The Melbourne-based MC and producer is one of only four artists to appear on both Obesecity compilations. “That was soon after I first moved to Melbourne, being on the first one was the beginning of something big.” The arrival of the first Obesecity came at a transitional period for the local scene. For Ciecmate it was the definitive starting point of what he would dedicate his life to. “It was what made my hip hop more than something between mates sitting around in the lounge room. It really cemented a place for me in the scene.” He has since established his rep as an artist and member of respected groups like Hospice Crew and The Hired Goons. “There’s not much I don’t do, the question should be what don’t I do, which is hardly anything,” Ciecmate says with a chuckle. Alongside contributions from longtime counterparts Newsense, Bigfoot and Lazy Grey he showcases his skills on the tongue-in-cheek anthem Bags Not, featuring Maggot Mouf and DJ No Name Nath. As has been proven since the release of Obesecity, a lot

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can happen in a decade. “There are acts that are selling platinum records now and mainstream audiences are open to rap in the charts,” Dialect says of the modern hip hop scene in Australia. While Obese Records has undergone considerable changes Dialect believes they haven’t lost sight of their roots. “Even though so much has changed in the surrounding scene what has remained the same is that the Obesecity release is supporting emerging and independent artists. That is a great thing.” As a prominent part of the current Melbourne scene, Fluent Form sees Obesecity 2 as a true reflection of where local hip hop is. “It really displays the amount of growth and how far hip hop has come in this country.” Emerging at a time when the scene was still finding its place on the Aussie music landscape, Obesecity set the stage for future success. The 2002 compilation showcased now-household names the Hilltop Hoods and Koolism, both ARIA award-winning groups. It also featured the future Muph & Plutonic (on solo tracks), Obese label head and rapper Pegz, the late great Hunter and even criminal showpony Chopper Read. “The first Obesecity compilation paved the way for a lot of the artists on the second one, whether directly or indirectly,” Fluent affirms. “Now local hip hop [artists], for the most part, have got their game on lock from a professional viewpoint.” As a culture that was founded on purity, the Aussie scene has had to learn how to balance art and business over the ensuing years since the release of Obesecity. Aussie hip hop could only remain underground for so long before bubbling over to the surface. Obesecity represents the start of that turning point. As someone who has been active on the hip hop scene for over a decade, Ciecmate is inspired by the evolution of the scene and quality of artists that appear on Obesecity 2. “The few of us who appeared on the first Obesecity have grown and hip hop in Australia has grown through the new artists on this second compilation.” Across the two discs a spectrum of styles and perspectives are represented, from the social commentary of Sydney’s Tommy Illfigga and indigenous MC J Point to the uncompromising passion of Maundz and comedy-laced

style of In Good Company (Whisper, A-Diction and Syntax). “It shows that hip hop is a force to be reckoned with in this country, the scene has expanded significantly and there are so many good artists out there,” Ciecmate says excitedly. The release of Obesecity 2 is a milestone not only for Obese Records, as a record label and music distributor, but also for the artists involved both past and present. “I think that it represents what an independent label with a vision and drive can achieve in an ever changing and tough industry,” Dialect affirms. The emerging MC was all too happy to be involved, aware of the boost the label provides to burgeoning hip hop artists. “They have provided a great amount of support for emerging and independent artists and created avenues for hip hop artists that previously never existed in this country.” Obese’s dedication to up and coming performers and hip hop as a culture is what stands out to Fluent Form. “They help push and distribute a lot of indie artists such as myself, and have been holding it down for a long time now.” Before the dream of having a record label was realised or even conceived, Obese Records began at a humble shop front on Izett Street in Prahran, where it still remains today. Both the store and the label are viewed with great reverence by Fluent and his counterparts. “Even the retail store holds a special place for hip hop fans. It’s great to see the store is still in action in these days and times when retail stores are going under.” For someone like Ciecmate who has been there since more formative days Obese has been a home away from home. “It was just a store, a hang out spot. It was like a writer’s block for MCs, they would go there and kick raps to each other. So for me that’s Obese, it always [has] been about that grass roots hip hop movement.” Andrew Hazard Hickey Obesecity 2 featuring Dialect & Despair, Ciecmate, Fluent Form, Tommy Illfigga, J Point and many more is released this Friday August 17 through Obese Records.

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like what you can expect to find within the confines of Bimbo on a Saturday night. Developing thick and heavy but altogether groovy, enjoy an eclectic mix of fairy floss funk, doom disco and monk movement minimal every week. Free. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

WEDNESDAY15TH COQ ROQ Rocking Wednesdays at Lucky Coq are rotating DJs Lady Noir, Agent 86, Kiti, Mr Thom, Joybot and guests giving you nothing but the best new wave, punk, brit pop, bong rap and hair metal. Coq Roq takes place every Wednesday from 8pm with free pool downstairs from 9pm as well as drink specials. Roq out! Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

HUMPDAY ANIMALS Enter the middle of the week; for some it’s the beginning of the weekend, for others it’s a break from study, for those of us who are travelling, it probably has no real significance (unless you’re wanting to party with the hot European girls from the hostel, because any day is simply another day when you’re travelling). Your midweek stomping ground, featuring DJs Danny Silver, Manchild & Mu-Gen. Free entry. From 10pm. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

SOUL ARMY With more flavour than a chocolate pizza, the Wednesday Soul Army throws down raw, uncut funk next to smooth soul grooves and rare blue jams. Bring that special lady because when the boys lay down the love it could be the difference between ‘we’re just friends’ to ‘let’s get it on’. PBS stalwarts Vince Peach and Miss Goldie accompany Prequel and Black Diamond Kicks weekly. Free. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

WEDNESDAYS AT CO. Don’t have lectures tomorrow? Need a break from writing that last-minute assignment? Or simply just celebrating the end of hump day? Don’t miss Melbourne’s biggest mid-week party night – Wednesdays @ Co.! With free entry and discounted drinks for students all night long! Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

WEDNESDAYS AT THE ORDER Deep, dark, minimal dubstep and drum and bass. Laundry Bar, 50 Johnston Street, Fitzroy

THURSDAY16TH BIMBO THURSDAYS Tigerfunk brings with him his full band of travelling gypsies, hipsters and middle class executives, all of whom are prepared to deliver the most excitement you can have this side of the weekend. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

5pm with DJs Marcus Knight, Mark Pellegrini, Nick Van Wilder & DJ Anferny getting your weekend started right. 5pm til 3am. CQ, 113 Queen St, Melbourne

For the past 15 years though, one brand has been pushing the boundaries of underground hard dance all around the globe, namely Fevah. To celebrate such a milestone, they have decided to have their first party in Melbourne. Artists on the night include, Phil Reynolds, James Lawson, SKOL, Riksta, Eamonn Fevah, Danny Gilligan, Craig Jon and heaps more. Expect a real ‘hands in the air’ affair with awesome lasers and visuals, giveaways and two rooms of banging beats. Room680, 680 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn

A journey of international music from all over the world; past, present and future rhythms incorporating afro, soul, funk, world and deep house elements! First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

FREEDOM PASS Friday’s at Freedom with 2 premier clubs, 5 huge rooms, 10+ local and international DJs blending their unique sets across countless styles of tunes – vocal house, smooth R&B, electro and commercial top 40. Throw in a few sexy podium dancers, a world-class lights show and drink specials, the Freedom Pass is your personal ticket to a night you won’t soon forget! Fusion, Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

FRIDAY NIGHT LOFT PARTY Kitty Schmidt couldn’t find quality dance music in Fitzroy so she’s decided to open up her bedroom doors. Living above Melbourne’s stalwart lesbian/gay Libation Bar, she’s now throwing a monthly party in her boudoir. Come into her renovated upstairs loft, cocktail bar, dance floor and smoking terrace. With quirky house, deep disco and erotic electronica being spun by Marvin Roland, Mr. Pyz and Kitty Schmidt DJs. Libation, 302 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

PANORAMA Start your weekend on a good note with Panorama Fridays at Lucky Coq. DJs Matt Rad, Mr George, Tom Meagher and Phato A Mano transform the upstairs area into one hell of a house party with Hip Hop, Funk, R&B, Disco and House. Meanwhile, downstairs gives you a secluded wind down atmosphere with cult films as background visuals and quality cocktails to sip on. Let the new coqtail list wash away a crappy week! Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

RETRO SEXUAL FRIDAY DJ Grandmaster Vicious spins Fitzroy’s finest mix of ‘80s and ‘90s pop, rock, new wave, hip hop, disco classics and cheese to please plus dance floor anthems from then to now. One Twenty Bar, 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

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Funk up your Thursday nights with Free Range Funk at the Windsor favourite Lucky Coq. Grab a couch early and enjoy one (or more) of their famous $4 pizzas from 7-11pm. Meanwhile DJs Who, Agent 86, Lewis CanCut and special guests tempt you into the night with their eclectic bag of treats. Setting the mood early is delightful jazz, deep soul, and funk. Later it’s fruity disco, choice house, and hipster dance drops. Free entry every Thursday. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

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Celebrate Thursday night at Co. with club classics and dance floor anthems. Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

Smashing it every week at Melbourne’s hottest looking venue! Top 40 dance, house and R&B 9-3am, then electro from 3am - 5am. DJ Ontime, DJ Ryza, Scotty Erdos and Azza M. $15/$20, free entry after 4am. Eden, 163 Russell St, Melbourne

SLOW HOUSE THURSDAYS Slow House Thursdays is just what Brunswick has been missing. Get down to the latest Thursday spot at Noise Bar, find a space with your bros and get into the as DJs Same O, David Bass and James Hurt spin bass laced tunes ‘til the early hours of the morning. Noise Bar, 291 Albert Street, Brunswick

THE BLACK PANCAKE CLUB The Black Pancake Club is where disc-jockeys bring in their treasured record collections to share with yaw’ll. Expect undiscovered nuggets, lost gems, far out there covers, moog inspired themes, and a host of other eclectic delicacies and toppings for your black pancakes! Taste makers on rotation include Shags and Richie 1250.Free entry. From 10pm. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

WONDERLUST Fate, karma, the yin and the yang, the balance between chaos and order or divine intervention? A new spiritual high has emerged from the cosmic energies of the universe and it’s called Wonderlust! As luck would have it you can come and experience the effects of this strange new phenomena every Thursday night at The Carlton! Carlton Club, 193 Bourke Street, Melbourne

FRIDAY17TH BUHLOONE MINDSTAT “It might blow up but it won’t go pop” is the philosophy at Buhloone Mindstate and features Melbourne’s finest bands and DJs playing every Friday night, late. That’s just how we roll. We’re all about the late night boogie. Expect all things funk, hip-hop, soul, reggae, disco, boogie and house. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

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SOUND EMPIRE Get ready for the mega sounds at Sound Empire, Melbourne’s epic new Saturday club night with five places to party! Mega sounds from resident DJs Tate Strauss, Miss Sarah, Nova, Johnny M, Matty G, Dean T, Joe Sofo, Marcus Knight, Dinesh, Chris Ostrom, B-Boogie and Sarah Roberts. Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

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Taking place each and every Saturday night in Melbourne’s CBD on the corner of Lonsdale St and King St, Club Soda plays host to a fresh, new concept – local/national/international DJs weekly, un-paralleled entertainment, performances, and disco tomfoolery. Don’t let the bubbly name fool you, Club Soda is your weekend’s thirst quencher – changing people going out for convenience, whilst not leaving the sour taste of an empty wallet on Sunday morning. Our doors open for you every Saturday at 9.30pm, and stay open until you should go home. Brown Alley, Cnr King & Lonsdale St, CBD

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DJ CKass will take you on a musical journey to the retro sounds of the ‘70s and ‘80s, followed by Top 40. One Twenty Bar, 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

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DUBSTEP THURSDAYS It’s Dubstep, it’s Eurotrash, it’s new, it’s the vibe, it’s Thursdays, it’s weekly and it’s free. So get down to Eurotrash and get your wobble on. Eurotrash Bar, 18 Corrs Lane, Off Chinatown, Melbourne CBD

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EUROTRASH HOUSE PARTY Put your hands in the air with some of Melbourne’s best party DJs, including including Mu-Gen, Lace em’ Tight and more. Eurotrash Bar, 18 Corrs Lane, Off Chinatown, Melbourne CBD

EY:EM EY:EM at Lounge features residents Boogs & Who, who will host Melbourne’s top purveyors of club music, showcasing both local and international DJs playing the most upfront club music. With rotating DJs Dave Pham, Sleep D, Bryce Lawrence, Louis McCoy, Caine Sinclair, Glyn Hill & Toby Mackisack. Expect nothing but excellent house music all night long. And remember, clubbing happens in the EY:EM. $10 from 11pm. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS It’s house, electro, dub, anthems, disco and funk with guest DJs Genetix, B-Two and Oohee rocking til the break of day. Doors open 10pm with $5 basics til midnight! First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

HOMECOMING In the grand tradition of past Saturday nights at the Prince of Wales, it will regain it’s rightful place on the pantheon of Australian dance music playing host to the best and most exciting EDM locally, nationally and internationally. Local residents include Generik, Oskar, Swick, Tranter, M.A.F.I.A., Streetparty DJs and Clip Art, and scheduled guests The Aston Shuffle, Tonite Only, The Swiss, Luke Million, Parachute Youth, Louis La Roche, Alvin Risk and more. In addition, Homecoming has prepared a veritable roster of exciting drinks and cocktails to fuel the fun, including Fresh coconut cocktails, Dr. Pepper, Electric Lemonade, Tecate, Thai-style Buckets and Bubble Cup cocktails. Prince Bandroom, 29 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

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Star Saturdays - smashing it every Saturday! Phil Ross, Scotty Erdos, DJ Ontime, LC, Nick James, Dane Gains, Ryan Hamill, Deja, Phil Isa, Nixon, Azza M, Scotty Nix, DJ Ryza, C Dubb, Alex-J, G-Funk, Dylisco, Achos, Az, Shaggz and guests. Star Bar, 160 Clarendon St, South Melbourne

TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS DJ Marcus Knight & DJ Xander James drop sexy house, dance and drum and bass all night from 8pm. Free entry. Temperance Hotel, 426 Chapel St, South Yarra

TEXTILE Saturdays at Lucky Coq tick all the boxes so start your night early and stay til close! Famous $4 pizzas from 7-9pm (that’s dinner sorted) then from 9pm spread over two levels with DJs playing hip hop, funk, disco, house and electro. Rotating guests on both levels keep the tunes fresh. Free entry. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

FERRY CORSTEN One of the core acts that revolutionised trance, superstar Ferry Corsten, is many things to many people. To provide a bio for the man would take days, given his role as a producer, DJ, innovator, visionary, and whose fingerprints can be found all over the genre and all across the world. With a career that continues to go from highlight to highlight, with this year’s full-length effort WKND eagerly snapped up by thousands of believers and fans across the globe, there appears to be no stopping the legend. Fans of the man have been desperate to see the legendary Full On Ferry experience down under, with sneak peeks on YouTube looking mindblowing. Finally Australians will have the chance to catch it in action this year. Friday September 21, The Palace Theatre, 20-30 Bourke Street, Melbourne

WEEKEND The brain child of the creative kids at 360 Agency and Seven Nightclub. The Weekend is here to put a smile on your dial every Saturday night. We want you to join the family. Dancing from 10pm weekly. Seven, 52 Albert Rd, South Melbourne

SUNDAY19TH SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE The perfect Sunday soundtrack with DJs Askew, Peter Baker, Booshank, Paz, Miss Butt, Junji, Disco Harry and guests. They will be laying down disco, afro beat and deep house til 3am. For lovers of good music - South Side Hustle. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

STAR BAR SUNDAYS The original and still the best Sunday in Melbourne. Star Bar, 160 Clarendon St, South Melbourne

SUNDAE SHAKE Our Signature serve. Each and every Sunday we play host to a self professed vinyl junkie caught between the golden years and boogie wonderland. A mouthful? Perhaps. Phato Amano perfectly sets the mood for an audio-adventure that redefines the dance floor weekly. Our Sunday aficionados Agent 86 and Tigerfunk stir up a full cream shake to the flavour of your liking. Forget everything you thought you knew about losing yourself to the grooves. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

MONDAY20TH IBIMBO Have you always wanted to be a DJ but been cruelly cursed with tone deafness and a general inability to version excursion? Well Bimbo Deluxe saves the day once again.. All you need is an iPhone and you’re set. Just download the free ‘remote’ application from the app store, log into the Bimbo DJ wireless network and you choose which song plays next. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

ALEXKID Here not too long ago and a firm favourite of Melbourne crowds for his ability to whip a dancefloor up into a frenzy (as evidenced by his appearance at last year’s KUBIK Melbourne), Alexkid is a truly masterful musician. With roots in the early nineties Paris rave scene alongside other French house luminaries including St Germain and Mr. Oizo, Alexkid has spent years being one of the most forwardthinking and exciting acts on the revered Laurent Garnier’s label F Communcations as well as on Radio Slave’s own imprint Rekids and Luciano’s Cadenza Split Composition project, defining good music for connoisseurs of French techno and electronica. He’ll be joining Melbourne favourites Safari and Mike Callander to DJ on multiple decks, just as they did last year at the closing party for KUBIK - and trust us, we can be certain Alexkid’s return will be nothing short of immense. Friday August 31, Revolver Upstairs, 229 Chapel Street, Prahran

TUESDAY21ST BIMBO TUESDAYS Bimbo Tuesday’s have long been the discerning DJs midweek breath of fresh air. An opportunity to indulge in, and to each parade their individual takes on music. A night where by the weird and wonderful is not frowned upon but rather celebrated. Resident selectors Matt Radovich, Andras Fox and Henry Who draw from a colorful array of sounds that warm your midweek blues. From 8pm, free. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

COSMIC PIZZA NHJ and friends host every Tuesday night upstairs at Lucky Coq. Playing uneasy listening, freaked out bass jams, romantic comedy disco, tropi-jazz, soundtracks and shit you won’t hear on the other nights. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

UPCOMING TIEFSCHWARZ Tiefschwarz, or deep black in German, have consistently chugged out an array of housey rhythms for more than ten years. Along the way, the duo have hooked up with Hot Natured starlet Jamie Jones, party boys Seth Troxler and Eric D. Clark, as well as Berlin deep house purist Cassy. The pairing have also remixed a major league of pop music sluggers including Madonna, Missy Elliot and Depeche Mode. Tiefschwarz’s much-lauded mixes for European clubbing institutions Fabric and Watergate sought a flurry of recognition from DJs and producers as far-flung as Ivan Smagghe and Danny Howells, to Touché and Sascha. Revel in Tiefschwarz’s deep and dark take on techno, electro and house. Friday September 7, New Guernica, 2/322 Little Collins Street, Melbourne

STEFFI Dabbling in music, art and generalised counterculture for years now, it’s safe to say that German purveyor of all things house, techno and beyond Steffi is a revolutionary in dance music. Her manifold successes in all manner of realms have established her as a true goddess of the dancefloor. A regular resident at Berlin-based Panorama Bar as well as its in-house label Ostgut Ton, her credentials as a producer couldn’t be more well-established, not to mention her role in running successful labels Klakson and Dolly and a long-time party promoter. Friday September 7, The Liberty Social, 279 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

PLAN B ILL MANORS: MUSICIANSHIP Benjamin Ballance-Drew aka Ben Drew aka Plan B is as artistically eclectic and restless as his name changes. A rapper, producer and songwriter with a soaring and smooth soul timbre, Drew stumbled down the R&B lust song path until settling into a more grime-filled rap sound. Similarly, acting evolved into producing, directing, writing and editing his own short films and while his latest album, ill Manors, was released this year it is not a stand-alone album; it is the soundtrack to his first feature film, also ill Manors, that has been dubbed a kind of hip hop musical. Even a boring day in the life of Plan B sounds utterly exhausting. Crammed in before an onslaught of media obligations is a suit fitting, haircut, a trip to the dentist, the gym and French lessons. So has music and film reached an equal footing in Drew’s life as far as passion and attention goes? “I love music equally as much as I love film,” Drew says with boundless enthusiasm and pure Brit charm. “I feel that I’ve mastered the art of music to a degree; I know how to make a good album, how to look at it objectively and know whether or not it is good enough to be released. With film, I feel like I’m still learning. I love the rawness of that expression and inexperience ‘cause that can give your art character. I think the ill Manors film has a lot of character. It may not be as polished but that’s because it was made on a low budget by someone who hadn’t done a feature before but I think that my talent as someone who can direct actors is visible in the film, I think. “For all of the criticisms you can lay on the film I think it has that character – I chose my cast wisely, a lot of them unknown, and I’m allowing them to improvise and to bring their own unique angle to

it. I really love raw talent. I love being a raw talent and I love seeing it. I love film because there is so much to learn and I guess, because I am polished in my music, I feel that I can get across a deeper meaning to people. I am at two different levels with both of my art forms but I still get so much out of both.” While people are focusing on the film and the album as two separate entities, Drew finds it impossible to separate the two when the film and the music are so intrinsically linked. “I don’t want to separate them; I can’t,” he says. “In hindsight I wish the album had’ve come out first and then the film after that over here. A lot of people now want to see the film but they can’t until it comes out on DVD. If it had’ve happened the other way we woulda had a greater level of box office success. It’s not that I’m driven towards making money at all, I’m driven towards people seeing my art and box office success proves how many people went to see it. The whole point behind my art is that I want to convey a message to people and have them experience it.” Given the dilemma posed by the mutual dependence of the film on the music and vice versa, the prospect of preparing a live show for the ill Manors tour has been yet another exhausting labour of love for Drew. Even finishing the album in the first place presented a host of issues. “The album was a headache because once the film had been out in the cinema; I had to finish it,” he explains. “In the film you’ll hear one verse, maybe a chorus, and then it will go back to the dialogue. The film tells part of the story and the songs tell the other half, relying on each other, so I had to make the album work in its own right. I

spent eight weeks living in the studio writing the rest of the parts of the songs and went out of my mind. Kind of like when I finished the editing of the film. I moved the editing suite to my mum’s house over Christmas and sat in there for about a month and a half with only one other editor. I had cabin fever, drinking vodka and Red Bull just trying to stay focused and not go insane.” If the UK shows Drew has been doing are anything to go by, his upcoming shows here are set to be diverse and extensive. Festival sets are usually a greatest hits affair and Drew has managed to appease various audience expectations. “I think I have figured a way to make the songs work on their own,” he said. “We just did a Forest tour. When you headline V Festival in the UK they won’t let you back on the next year so you have

resonates with Adejumo. “As an artist, especially as an artist in my field, a lot of things you can do are gambles,” he says. “I mean, you know that if you cross this barrier or you do this, you could risk your fan base not liking it. But they’re all risks that I’m willing to take; always. Always,” he says. “[As I progress] in my career, and make better music and better songs and keep my life interesting, I take risks, and I certainly have done with this album.” One of the most significant changes he has made for Chapter 2 has been his approach to songwriting. “I have always wanted to make songs, but, I just didn’t have the vocalists around me at the time, my music wasn’t as advanced as it is now, I didn’t know my way around the studio like I do now,” he says. “The production is different, every song is different. I’m not sure if you can even compare any of the songs to [Diary Of An] Afro Warrior; but, then again, on Afro Warrior could you compare any of the songs to each other?” Recording Chapter 2 was a painstaking process for the artist, complicated by moving his studio while it was in the works. “I just have a kind of sound that I want to achieve, and moving studios is always a funny one… Unless the sound in the studio that you’re in is right, then you just, basically, wherever you move to, you move yourself into a bad situation. I had a studio built in my house, and I thought for a long time that the sound was basically correct, and while I was

making this album and writing this album, I went through so many dramas in trying to find the right balance,” Adejumo says. “I would make a song, and I DJ every weekend so I would be out playing it, and [it was] so offputting because I’d play it and it wouldn’t sound right, and I’d have to go back in the studio and try and figure out why it’s not sounding right, and I messed around with mixdowns for so long,” he continues. “Now I understand mixing a lot more, and I’m in another space, and I understand that.” Adejumo has also changed his show to be more live, mixing snippets of his own tracks on the fly with Ableton. He says it makes for a more engaging performance, although there is a downside – he’s not able to crowd surf. “I don’t think, since I’ve done [my] live [sets], I’ve crowd surfed once,” he says. “There’s so much, for me, going on… so I don’t really have time to have my

“The whole point behind my art is that I want to convey a message to people and have them experience it.”

the option to do this forest tour where they erect stages in forests up and down the UK. So we changed the show, we split the stage in two so for the first half we’re wearing suits and we do the Strickland Banks stuff and then for the second half we have a beat boxer going while we get changed into clothes we’re more comfortable in and do the ill Manors stuff.” Krissi Weiss Plan B [UK] will be playing at Parklife with Nero [UK], Justice [FRA] and many more at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Saturday October 6. ill Manors is out now through Warner.

BENGA BREAKING NEW GROUND: THE NEXT CHAPTER London producer and DJ Beni Adejumo, aka Benga, may be one of the pioneering figures of dubstep, but he’s always been about doing his own thing. “A lot of dance music acts inspire me because I try to move away from what everybody else is doing. So, in that aspect, the Skrillex’s of this world inspire me, just to move away,” he says, laughing. Adejumo recently said he had quit dubstep in a light-hearted interview with NME. The comment went viral on the internet, prompting discussion about whether he was serious or taking the piss. “When we first did that interview, it kind of came across as joking, but I did mean what I said. I did mean to say that I’ve quit dubstep,” Adejumo says. “I didn’t mean to shock people as hard as I did but it was definitely time for me to start announcing that I just make Benga music.” And when it comes to making Benga music, he’s been busier than ever lately, wrapping up his new solo album and making plans for another Magnetic Man album in the new year. But in the meantime, he’s taking well-earned breaks wherever he can. “I’ve written a lot of music in the last couple of months, and I’m still trying to add to the Magnetic Man catalogue, but, while I’m doing that, I also want to take a break from it all, so I’m watching Entourage,” Adejumo says, laughing. Incidentally, he’s just started season five, which finds Vinnie Chase and company reeling from the commercial and critical flop of their all-or-nothing project, Medellin. Taking risks is something that

“As I progress in my career, and make better music and better songs and keep my life interesting, I take risks, and I certainly have done with this album.”

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crowd surfing moments. “I have actually spent a lot of time in the studio producing this album, and I’m not scared or anything, I’m not worried, I never regret anything I do,” he says. “Whether or not you like the singles from my album, I think that you’ll be surprised at what I’ve done on my album. For me, I think it compares with nothing else that’s out there at the moment. It’s Benga music, so hopefully I’ve done my fans proud and all the new people that are now entering my music, welcome.” Joshua Hayes Benga [UK] performs alongside The Presets [AUS], Nero [UK] and many more at Parklife at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Saturday October 6.

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THURSDAY16TH MOTOWN THURSDAYS Kick start your weekend with Melbourne’s newest Thursday night! Motown Thursdays caters to all true music lovers. Join us on an eclectic musical journey of soul, funk and disco through to early R&B. A live Soul Band features some of Melbourne’s most talented musicians; Carmen Hendricks, Laurent Soupe, Duncan Kinell and Aaron Mendoza just to name a few. DJs keep the records spinning into the early hours; residents are Reg-e, Lee Davies, Kalepe, Dinesh, Suga, Rubz and Alwin Rafferty. Join us around a big, shiny disco ball or two, for free entry, soulful tunes, drink specials all night and a dance floor full of friends! Fashion Lounge, 121 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

RHYTHM-AL-ISM Start the weekend early with Fusion’s Resident DJs. Music for your funkin’ soul. Special guests every week! Fusion, Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

FRIDAY17TH FAKTORY This is it. Faktory Fridays are open for business at Melbourne’s home of R&B, Khokolat Bar. Where else? Damion De Silva, Ken Walker, Durmy, K Dee, Simon Sez, Yaths and Jacqui Dusk spinning all night long. Khokolat Bar, Basement, 43 Hardware La, Melbourne

LIKE FRIDAYS Like Fridays at La Di Da serves up R&B and electro house across two rooms giving you a fun filled end to your week. DJs Dinesh, Dir-X, Sef, NYD, Shaun D, Shaggz, Broz and more. La Di Da, 577 Little Bourke St, Melbourne

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The buzz is Light at RedLove every Friday. Hitting out that R&B flavour of old, new and everything in between! RedLove Resident DJs Stel, Harvey Yeah, TMC and Ripz on the wheels of steel from 6.30pm. If you don’t know, now you know! Check it! Red Love, Level 1, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne

RedLove Saturdays is all about solid classics from the ‘80s, ‘90s and into the ‘00s! Dropping beats of retro pop, disco classics, old school funk, and certainly some of that old school r&b and house to kick! RedLove Resident DJs Phil, HB Bear and Da Gato bringing down the house every Saturday night. If you’re looking for quality service, music to rock, sumptuous drinks and just a cold hard good time; look no further! Red Love, Level 1, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne

THE LOOSE GOOSE The Loose Goose is focused on providing a wonderful array of cocktails and offers a great CBD location to lounge and relax in while overlooking busy Flinders Lane. A small plates menu is available to graze on whilst trying our delicious cocktails from the classics to contemporary, beer on tap and a wide range of beers, wines and spirits. Every Friday evening DJ Jumps of The Cat Empire will take to the decks at the bar spinning his rare afro Latin funk vinyl collected from around the world from 6.30pm until late. Papa Goose Cocktail Bar, 91-93 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

SWEET NOTHING FRIDAYS DJ Marcus Knight and DJ Xander James spin hip hop, R&B and house tunes all night from 8pm. Free entry and early drink specials. Temperance Hotel, 426 Chapel St, South Yarra

I LOVE DANCEHALL Dress in your finest gold threads, for a night of bass, heavy kinky dancehall, from old school riddims, classic dancehall bangers and up to the time freshness. Blazing up dance floor will be So Fire, Lady Banton vs Shikung, Dizz 1, Sista Sara, Kid Militan, Ezu, Apprentice and Precise Riff on the mic plus more. You know how things go down. Good vibes every time. Portland Hotel, 115/127 Russell Street, Melbourne

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THE NICE UP Tom Showtime presents The Nice Up. All flavours of hip hop, ghetto funk and reggae niceness provided. Sailor Jerry nice up the cocktails, Dos Blockos nice up the $5 beers. Fridays done proper. George Lane Bar, 1 George Lane, St Kilda

SATURDAY18TH KHOKOLAT KOATED All new experience, same great location with a fresh koat of Khokolat. Restless Entertainment reloads your favourite Saturday night party. Damion De Silva, K Dee, Jay Sin and weekly guests playing R&B & ol’ skool sounds strictly for the urban elite. Khokolat Bar, Basement, 43 Hardware La, Melbourne

Los Angeles hip hop outfit The Pharcyde have been kicking it together for two decades, now. Doesn’t feel like it, given their enduring reputation for cutting-edge, forward-thinking beats and rhymes. Go on, have a listen to Bizarre Ride II: The Pharcyde again, 20 years on - its sense of timelessness is a rare thing, with classics such as Oh Shit, Otha Fish, Ya’ Mama, and hit single, Passing Me By guaranteeing the record its rightful place in best-of collections by everyone from Pitchfork to the Source. It isn’t often a group with their cheeky self-deprecating and incisive humour come along - and set to make a return to Australia soon, we can guarantee this is one gig you definitely don’t want to pass you by. Thursday August 23, The Espy, 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda

SUFF DADDY Leading the newest wave of beatmakers emerging from

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Berlin at present, Suff Daddy is one to watch out for. Fuelled by crackling old records, controlled substances and sick MicroKORG licks, the man’s vibes have already been latched onto by the likes of Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat and Sola Rosa, whilst pushing himself to the forefront of cutting-edge music at Splash Festival, Beat BBQ, Hip-Hop Kemp and the Hi-Hat Club. He’s a surefire winner, and one that’s already been picked up for sponsorship deals by San Diego Padres, Tanqueray, Carhartt and Louis Vuitton – damn. And all in two short years. Friday August 24, The Prince Bandroom, 29 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

RICK ROSS After cancelling his planned visit for this year’s Supafest, Rick Ross is set to make do with an Australian tour this September. Rickay Rozay has established himself as one of the biggest titans in modern rap, guesting with the likes of Kanye West and Diddy and building the Maybach Music Group empire in the process. The tour comes after the long-awaited release of God Forgives, I Don’t. Thursday September 6, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley Street, West Melbourne

ILLY Laying relatively low since absolutely smashing it last year with his sophomore LP The Chase, Illy has announced his return to the stage in preparation for his third LP. As well as showcasing his massive hits, none moreso than the ubiquitous It Can Wait, the tour will be the first chance for fans to hear material from the upcoming album. The first taste of the new record comes in the form of Heard It All, a single which is already gaining traction on national radio. Friday September 7, The Corner Hotel, 57 Swan Street, Richmond

BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY Grammy Award winning hip hop legends Krayzie Bone and Wish Bone from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are returning to their “second home” Australia, having already sold out over 20 Australian performances in the past. Having reformed for a upcoming performance at Rock The Bells in August this year, the group have created their fair share of interest regarding the possibilities of a new album, and have been introduced to a new generation of hip hop fans thanks to the likes of Drake and Wiz Khalifa expressing their admiration. Thursday September 20, The Espy, 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda

DAILY MEDS HIP HOP THERAPY: ONE A DAY Seems like Aussie hip hop is flowing relentlessly – it’s a freight train that isn’t going to pull up. By 2012 we can report that the scene has evolved and changed significantly since the days Hilltop Hoods were about the only name that resonated with the Australian public. Nowadays, the landscape is a melting pot of unique artists, each with their own style – and enough quality producers, emcees, musicians and DJs to ensure the world has stood up to take notice. Daily Meds are a case in point. The Sydney collective have released their first LP Happy Daze and producer Roleo is on the line to spruik their wares. “I’m basically the DJ for the crew; I do all the music for the live shows. I sort of hooked up with Daily Meds around the time we were starting Deep Village Records. It was a few of us involved, some of the boys from a crew called Reverse Polarity and some of my boys from Sydney. We were wanting to do something a bit more grimey and that’s kind of where we ended up.”

“We’ve all got different influences which for us is really good. It really comes through in our shows – the male emcees are Aussie hip hop fanatics and they know their music from Obese to Elefant tracks. Myself, I’m listening to a lot more instrumentals and things; grime from the UK as well. Billie Rose might be listening to Fugees and anything else in between.” So Roleo explains from the beginning: “To be honest I actually really started in music before hip hop – I did make beats but I also did a lot of guitar and worked with a lot of live instruments. That’s why the group wanted to go with a live kind of concept so we did a lot of live instrumentals and stuff. I did a track on the album that was a bit more electronic that has a bit of a different direction as well.

I’ve been doing that and making more electronic stuff; I did a track on the album that’s like that and it took a bit of a different direction too which I’m really happy with.” The end result is an eclectic album that feels wholly complete and robust. “We made the whole album over quite a while,” he explains - which must be why it feels original and organic. “We actually wanted to have that live, fresh feel; I’m always making beats. I have about 500 on my computer and things are always being worked on, always ready to go. So it’s good to have been able to bring all of that together. Sometimes some things sound good and other times things don’t – I have tracks that I’ll play and the crew will go off and write a song straight away. They sort of vibe off it, so in the end, it always comes together. I basically show them what I’ve got and we go from there.” Of course then, having the album backed by Triple J didn’t hurt either - and confirms their talent scouts are on their game – because the material that fits squarely in the ‘commercial mediocrity’ column doesn’t get a look in. So underground success for the crew, it seems, is a foregone conclusion - just as their live show is one not to be missed. The energetic party features the entire crew representing Sydney’s Inner West and includes emcees P.Smurf and Mikoen, producer Roleo as well as vocalist Billie Rose. And expect it to be a ripper. “We’ve all got different influences which for us is really good. It really comes through in our shows – the male emcees are Aussie hip hop fanatics and they know their music from Obese to Elefant tracks. Myself, I’m listening to a lot more instrumentals and things; grime from the UK as well. Billie Rose might be listening to Fugees and anything else in between. Finally then, as a token of their goodwill, the posse is getting together this week for a free gig in Melbourne – as well as another at a late date in Phillip Island. And there is no need to explain how pumped they are about delivering some of their earlier EPs as well as material from the new album. Roleo is also playing a set of beats on the night as well. “We’re hyped for the show and the performance we’ve been preparing is pretty intense, so we’re all looking forward to it.” Sounds the goods. RK Daily Meds [AUS] play the Hotel Phillip Island on Friday August 17 and Laundry Bar on Saturday August 18. Happy Daze is out now.

URTHBOY INDIE MC: SINGSONG

While Tim Levinson (aka Urthboy) describes feeling like “a kid in a candy shop” when choosing vocalists to collaborate with on his solo tunes, he admits he never thought he’d get his number one pick into the studio for latest track Naive Bravado. But the stars and rainbows aligned, and he’s so gratified. “Underneath that big Daniel Merriweather hook is the kind of rap tune that I feel personally is one of the more ambitious songs that I’ve written. And I stand behind it fully: I’m so excited about it.” The single is from his forthcoming fourth solo album Smokey’s Haunt, and while the hip hop veteran won’t be specific about the story behind the rhymes, it’s clearly a jarring personal encounter. “I feel like in society people put a lot of attention on the right and wrong. You’ve either socialised, and you’re one of us, or you’ve become the villain. And all of those things are fine because you do need laws to regulate how we behave, but most of the time they don’t take in context. And facts aren’t really truth unless they include the context.” Levinson apologises for the long explanation, as this is one of the first interviews he’s given on the album. But he’s so instinctively expressive, it’s all meaningful. “I guess we don’t really have that much patience for the truth behind someone’s actions. We don’t have room to allow for that explanation, we just need to be able to punish,” he concludes. Levinson has worked with Count Bounce (TZU) and Elgusto (Hermitude) separately before, but it was planned that this album would bring the guys together whilst also giving room for writing and production to breathe. “I’m a fairly frenetic worker and I like being busy and I like being occupied,” Levinson says. “This was just about trying to hit the refresh button and do something that allowed us a little bit more time and a little bit more space.” Of course he’s also been busy talking with the acts on his label Elefant Traks. “Lots of blahs going on, but good blahs,” he laughs. “No blasé. Good blahs.” There’s a rhyme for free, kids. Levinson is super aware of challenging himself and the genre,

particularly in Australia. He believes the “indie” approach (guitar and bass, as opposed to emphasis on sub-bass and synths), “comes quite naturally” to Australians. “We found ourselves going back to really song-based compositions. It’s just about getting the drums sounding really tasty and having a strong piano melody. Those parts of music, they don’t change. So much about music is as simple as that. And that’s also problematic because that’s also really hard to do. You can get really busy, you can fill songs up.” The internal struggle between promoting rhymes over melody is an ongoing theme. “As much as MCing is my thing, that’s all I do well, I think.” (Earlier I suggest he’s got a canorous singing voice and he sputters with mirthful scorn: “Whatever, give me a break! I’m not going to inflict that on the poor listening public. I have, at times, been cruel to ants and insects when I was growing up but I’ve grown past that.”) But some force-feeding of Brit pop and Leonard Cohen from his brother ensured Levinson is always attracted to (albeit sometimes unwillingly), melody. “As much as I want to take a purist hip hop approach to [a particular] song, there’s a certain powerlessness that I have where part of me is hearing these melodies: it’s like the little angel and devil on your shoulder,” he says. “I feel like I’ve grown up absolutely nothing less than a hip hop head. In some ways you’re in control when you’re writing and in other ways your unconscious, or subconscious, takes over. I’ve been working on music for long enough to know that I actually don’t have control of my own creative ideas; some of them just creep from beneath the surface and before you know it, there you are. There’s another bloody sung part in a song.” Zoe Radas Urthboy [AUS] plays The Evelyn on Friday August 31. Smokey’s Haunt is to be released this October.

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The Lounge Pit 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 9415 6142 Love Machine Cnr Lt Chapel & Malvern Rd, Prahran, 9533 8837

Abode 374 St.Kilda Rd, St.Kilda

Lucky Coq 179 Chapel St, Windsor, 9525 1288

Albert Park Hotel Cnr Montague & Dundas Pl, Albert Park, 9690 5459

The LuWOW 62-70 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 5447

Alia Lvl 1, 83-87 Smith St, Fitzroy, 9486 0999

Mercat Cross Lvl 1, 456 Queen St, Melb, 9348 9998

Alumbra Shed 9, Central Pier, 161 Harbour Espl, Docklands, 8623 9666

Mink 2 Acland St, St Kilda, 9536 1199

Back Bar 67 Green St, Windsor, 9529 7899

Miss Libertine 34 Franklin St, Melb, 9663 6855

Bar Oussou 653 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9384 3040

Misty 3-5 Hosier Ln, Melb, 9663 9202

Bar Open 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9415 9601

Mockingbird Bar 129 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9534 0000

Baroq House 9-13 Drewery Ln, Melb, 8080 5680

Musicland 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 9359 0006

Bendigo Hotel 125 Johnston St, Collingwood 9417 3415

Neverland 32-48 Johnson St, South Melb, 9646 5544

Bennetts Jazz Club 25 Bennetts Ln, Melb, 9663 2856

New Guernica Lvl 2, Hub Arcade, 318-322 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9650 4464

Bertha Brown 562 Flinders Street, 9629 1207

Night Cat 141 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 0090

Big Mouth 168 Acland St, St.Kilda, 9534 4611

Night Cat 279 Flinders Ln, Melb, 9654 0444

Billboard 170 Russell St, Melb, 9639 4000

Noise Bar 291 Albert St, Brunswick, 9380 1493

Bimbo Deluxe 376 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 8600

Northcote Social Club 301 High St, Northcote, 9489 3917

Birmingham Hotel Cnr Smith & Johnston St, Fitzroy

Old Bar 74 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 4155

Black Cat 252 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 6230

One Twenty Bar 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

Blue Bar 330 Chapel St, Prahran, 9529 6499

Onesixone 161 High St, Prahran, 9533 8433

Blue Tile Lounge 95 Smith St, Fitzroy

Order Of Melbourne level 2, 401 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 6707

Boutique 134 Greville St, Prahran, 9525 2322

Palace Hotel 893 Burke Rd, Camberwell

Brown Alley King Street, Melb,9670 8599

Palace Theatre 20-30 Bourke St, Melb, 9650 0180

Brunswick Hotel 140 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9387 6637

Palais 111 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs, 5348 4849

Builders Arms 211 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

Palais Theatre Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 9525 3240

Cabinet Bar 11 Rainbow Alley, Melbourne, 9654 0915

Papa Goose 91 Flinders Ln, Melbourne, 9663 2800

Caravan Music Club 95 Drummond St, Oakleigh

Penny Black 420 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9380 8667

Caseys Nightclub 660A Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 9810 0030

Pier Live Hotel 508 Nepean Hwy, Frankston, 9783 9800

Caz Reitops Dirty Secrets 80 Smith St, Collingwood, 9415 8876

Pony 68-70 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9662 1026

CBD Club 12-14 McKillop St, Melb, 9670 3638

Portland Hotel Cnr Lt Collins & Russell St, Melb, 9810 0064

Chaise Lounge Basement, 105 Queen St, Melb, 9670 6120

The Prague Hotel, 911 High St, Northcote, 9495 0000

Chandelier Room 91 Cochranes Rd, Moorabbin, 9532 2288

Pretty Please 61c Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9534 4484

Chelsea Heights Hotel Cnr Springvale & Wells Rd,

Prince Bandroom 29 Fitztory St, St Kilda, 9536 1168

Chelsea Heights, 9773 4453

Prince Of Wales 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9536 1168

Cherry Bar AC/DC Ln, Melb, 9639 8122

Public Bar 238 Victoria St, North Melb, 9329 6522

Chi Lounge 195 Lt Bourke St, Melbourne, 9662 2688

Purple Emerald Lounge Bar 349 High St, Northcote, 9482 7007

Co. Lvl 3, Crown Complex, 9292 5750

Railway Hotel 280 Ferrars St, South Melb, 9690 5092

Colonial Hotel (Brown Alley) Cnr King & Lonsdale St, Melb, 9670 8599

Red Bennies 371 Chapel St, South Yarra, 9826 2689

Commercial Club Hotel 344 Nicholson St, Fitzroy, 9419 1522

RedLove Lvl 1, 401 Swanston St, Melb, 9639 3722

Cookie Lvl 1, 252 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 7660

Retreat Hotel 226 Nicholson St, Abbotsford, 9417 2693

Corner Hotel 57 Swan St, Richmond, 9427 9198

The Retreat Hotel 280 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9380 4090

Cornish Arms 163 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Revolt Elizabeth St, Kensington, 03 9376 2115

CQ 113 Queen St, Melb, 8601 2738

Revolver Upstairs 229 Chapel St, Prahran, 9521 5985

Croft Institute 21 Croft Alley, Melb, 9671 4399

Rochester Castle Hotel 202 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9415 7555

Cruzao Arepa Bar 365 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 7871

Rooftop Cider Bar, Cnr Swanston & Flinders St, Melbourne, 9650 3884

Cushion 99 Fitzroy St, St.Kilda, 9534 7575

Room 680 Level 1, 680 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 9818 0680

Damask 1/347 Burnswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 4578

Roxanne Parlour Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Pl, Melb

The Drunken Poet 65 Peel Street, West Melbourne, 9348 9797

Royal Derby 446 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 2321

Der Raum 438 Church St, Richmond, 9428 0055

Roal Melbourne Hotel 629 Bourke St, 9629 2400

Ding Dong Lounge Lvl 1, 18 Market Ln, Melb, 9662 1020

Ruby’s Lounge 1648 Burwood Hwy, Belgrave, 9754 7445

Dizzy’s Jazz Club 381 Burnley St, Richmond, 9428 1233

Saint Hotel 54 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9593 8333

Double Happiness 21 Liverpool St, Melb, 9650 4488

Sandbelt Live Cnr South & Bignell Rd, Moorabbin, 9555 6899

E:55 55 Elizabeth St, Melb, 9620 3899

Scarlett Lounge 174 Burnley St, Richmond, 9428 0230

East Brunswick Club 280 Lygon St, East Brunswick, 9388 2777

Seven Nightclub 52 Albert Rd, South Melb, 9690 7877

Edinburgh Castle 681 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Spensers Live 419 Spencer St, West Melb, 03 9329 8821

Electric Ladyland Lvl 1, 265 Chapel St, Prahran, 9521 5757

Spot 133 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9388 0222

Elwood Lounge 49-51 Glenhuntly Rd, Elwood, 9525 6788

Standard Hotel 293 Fitzroy St, Fitzroy, 9419 4793

Empress 714 Nicholson St, Nth Fitzroy, 9489 8605

Star Bar 160 Clarendon St, South Melb, 9810 0054

Espy 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda, 9534 0211

Station 59 59 Church St, Richmond, 9427 8797

Eurotrash 18 Corrs Ln, Melb, 9654 4411

Stolberg Beer Café 197 Plenty Rd, Preston, 9495 1444

Eve 334 City Rd, Southbank, 9696 7388

Sub Lounge & Restaurant 168 Elizabeth St Melb, 0411 800 198

Evelyn 351 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 5500

Sugar Bar (Hotel Urban) 35 Fitztroy St, St Kilda, 8530 8888

Ferntree Gully Hotel 1130 Burwood Hwy, Ferntree Gully, 9758 6544

Temperance Hotel 426 Chapel St, South Yarra, 9827 7401

Festival Hall 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 9329 9699

Thornbury Theatre 859 High St, Thornbury, 9484 9813

First Floor 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 6380

Tiki Lounge 327 Swan St, Richmond, 9428 4336

Forum Theatre 154 Flinders St, Melb, 9299 9800

Toff In Town Lvl 2, 252 Swanston St, Melb, 9639 8770

The Fox Hotel 351 Wellington Street, Collingwood, 9416 4957

Tony Starr’s Kitten Club 267 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9650 2448

Fusion Lvl 3, Crown Complex, Southbank, 9292 5750

The Tote Hotel 67 Johnson St, Collingwood, 9419 5320

The Gallery Room 1/510 Flinders St, Melbourne, 9629 1350

Town Hall Hotel 33 Errol St, North Melbourne, 9328 1983

Gem Bar & Dining 289 Wellingston St, Collingwood, 9419 5170

Trak Lounge 445 Toorak Rd, Toorak, 9826 9000

George Basement, 127 Fitzroy St, 9534 8822

Tramp 20 King St, Melb

Gertrude’s Brown Couch 30 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, 9417 6420

Transport Hotel Federation Square, Melb, 9654 8808

Grace Darling Hotel 114 Smith St, Collingwood, 9416 0055

Trunk 275 Exhibition St, Melbourne, 9663 7994

Grandview Hotel Cnr Heidelberg Rd & Station St, Fairfield, 9489 8061

Tyranny Of Distance 147 Union St, Windsor, 9525 1005

Great Britain Hotel 447 Church St, Richmond, 9429 5066

Two of Hearts 149 Commercial Road, Prahran

Grind N Groove 274 Maroondah Hwy, Healesville

Union Hotel Brunswick 109 Union St, Brunswick, 9388 2235

Grumpy’s Green 125 Smith St, Collingwood, 9416 1944

Veludo 175 Acland St, St Kilda, 9534 4456

Gypsy Bar 334 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 0548

Victoria Hotel 380 Victoria St, Brunswick, 9388 0830

HiFi 125 Swanston St, Melb, 1300 843 4434

Wah Wah Lounge Lvl 1, 185 Lonsdale St, Melb

Highlander 11a Highlander Lane, Melb, 9620 2227

Wesley Anne 250 High St, Northcote, 9482 1333

Hoo Haa 105 Chapel St, Windsor, 9529 6900

Westernport Hotel 161 Marine Pde, San Remo, 5678 5205

Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melb, 9670 2329

Willow Bar 222 High Street, Northcote, 9481 1222

Iddy Biddy 47 Blessington St, St Kilda, 9534 4484

Windsor Castle 89 Albert St, Windsor, 9525 0239

Jett Black 177 Greville St, Prahran

Workers Club 51 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9415 8889

John Curtin Hotel 29 Lygon St, Melb, 9663 6350

Workshop Lvl 1, 413 Elizabeth St, Melb, 9326 4365

Khokolat Bar 43 Hardware Lane, Melbourne, 039642 1142

Yah Yah’s 99 Smith St, Fitzroy, 9419 4920

La Di Da 577 Lt Bourke St, Melb, 9670 7680

The Vine 59 Wellington St, Collingwood, 9417 2434

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OBITS BY JOSHUA KLOKE

Rick Froberg is a man of few words. He’s content to let the music of Obits, the bare-bones rock act he fronts, do the talking. It’s an approach Froberg has mastered throughout the last 23 years, playing in bands that attained cult-like appreciation, from Hot Snakes to Pitchfork. Now, with Obits, Froberg manages to cull a variety of influences from rock and roll’s many cousins, inflicting vibes which range from the jangly surf to that of punishing power chords. And though Obits is a veteran of many bands, he insists Obits had no trouble understanding each other as musicians and getting a sense of energy flowing. “It wasn’t difficult at all,” he says from his Brooklyn home. “It was easy for us to find a common energy, because we all like each other. We started playing based on that. Everyone in the band is from New York,” he continues. “I’ve been here for awhile, almost 14 years now.” Despite New York, and Brooklyn more specifically being the epicentre of all things cool, Obits have continued to exist on the fringes of the music industry. Support from the Sub Pop label might be one thing, but Froberg maintains a “Hands off” approach to the music industry as a whole. Froberg’s casual attitude that can be heard in his tempered manner of speaking. “Well at this point, what are they going to do with us?” he says rather dryly. “We’re all 40 year old men, mostly. We just do things the way we’ve always done them. I don’t know any other way of going about things.” It’s a telling statement from a man who operates wholeheartedly by his own rules. Moody, Standard And Poor, their 2011 full-length is an incredibly concise listen; the 12 tracks get to the point with

a sense of immediacy and get out before anyone has a chance to call the cops. Moody, Standard And Poor might not have reinvented the proverbial wheel of rock and roll, but it’s a failsafe that stands up against any meandering and indecisive records from Brooklyn or otherwise. And Froberg insists he’s never been tempted to draw out the sound of Obits. “Personally I like the punchy, direct manner of writing songs instead of layered stuﬀ.” “I love music like that,” he continues. “There’s a voice within these songs that’s really easy to understand and identify with. It’s more interesting and it has a more human quality to me.” When it comes to the most human aspect of rock and roll, that being the live show, Froberg’s straightforward demeanour is even more evident. Keeping things simple, Froberg believes, is the essence of avoiding distractions and confusion. “We’re able to do what we do live very much in the same way we do when we record. We’re all in a room hammering things out without a lot of problems.”

One issue that Froberg hasn’t even let become a problem is that of bootlegging. Obits live shows have become renowned in their intense simplicity that many fans have taken to recording live sets. Some of their performances have even been recorded by WFMU and are available for download through the Free Music Archive. And that’s all well and good for Froberg. Provided of course, it can be done easily enough. “We allow people to record our gigs, be them live shows or radio shows. We’re ﬁne with that. We might not go out of our way to make sure that it gets done, but we’re certainly up for it.” The amount of touring the band does has allowed them to maintain a naturally rotating setlist, which attempts to satisfy fans of each of their releases. Froberg and Obits might not be all that concerned with how they’re perceived in the music industry, but they’re always keen on seeing what’s around the corner for the band.

“I think we just try to keep things fresh naturally,” he says. “It’s maybe not so much of a conscious eﬀort. We’re always trying new things out, and if something works, we’ll stick with it. We’ll talk to each other after the shows, try to compare notes or whatever. But we’re always still thinking about what to do next.” In the meantime, Rick Froberg will continue to do things the only way he knows how. He’s not going to mess with the formula much. It’ll be the second trip to Australia as a member of a touring band, and Froberg appreciates exactly what live music should be. “The chance to get wasted and dance around and have a good time,” he says, with the most enthusiasm heard throughout our conversation. “It’s one of the oldest things in the world, to play some live music for people and have a good time. That’s what it’s all about.” OBITS hit up the Northcote Social Club on Friday August 24. photo by Emmy Etie

JOHNNY CASINO Y LOS SECRETOS BY PATRICK EMERY

About ten years ago Johnny Casino, nee John Spittles, singer, songwriter and guitarist with legendary Australian band Asteroid B-612, was in Spain with his then semi-Australian rock’n’roll supergroup The Egos. Casino forged a friendship with Spanish musician Julian Marco; some years later, when Casino needed a local backing band for a European tour, Marco rounded up a couple more quality Spanish musicians – Isidro Rubio and Aitor Ochoa – and Los Secretos, the Spanish incarnation of Casino’s Australian Secrets, was born. And now Casino is bringing Los Secretos to his homeland. “I hope we even just have half the fun we’ve had when we’ve played together in Spain,” Casino says. “These are just a great bunch of guys to hang out with.” Despite his Iberian backing band’s relatively short gestation period, Casino says the first appearance of Los Secretos in Spain was emphatically impressive. “We had only one rehearsal before the tour started, and they had their shit together well before I did,” Casino laughs. Having had a rotating cast of musicians supporting him over many years, Casino is used to the different interpretations of his compositions. “Each incarnation of the Secrets tends to play the songs in different ways, and these guys are no exception,” Casino says. “And that’s great because it keeps me on the ball – they tend to hijack the songs and taken them in a completely different direction. The guys come from a more punk rock background, so that tends to come through when we’re playing live.” Never idle, Casino will celebrate the appearance of Los Secretos in Australia with the launch of a double 7” gatefold single featuring two new tracks, and covers of Spencer P.

Jones’ Trick Your Boat Wrong and Portugese rock’n’roller Nic Nicotine’s I Let You Down. Casino is a longtime friend and fan of Spencer Jones; in that context, the decision to cover a Jones composition is entirely natural. “When I lived in Melbourne Spencer used to play two or three times a week, and I’d go and see him as much as I could,” Casino says. “Spencer’s a national treasure. He should be making heaps of money and have huge numbers of fans.” Basking in the afterglow of a gig a couple of years ago, producer Loki Lockwood suggested Casino cover one of Jones’ songs. “We’d had a few beers after the show and Loki told me I had to do one of his songs,” Casino says. “I said I’d do any of them, because they’re all good. And someone had an iPod, which had some of Spencer’s songs on it. A couple of the guys in the band knew [Trick Your Boat Wrong], so we ended up doing that one.” Casino has sent a copy of his cover to Jones, but hasn’t yet heard the great man’s reaction. “I’m sure he’ll contact me and tell me what he thinks of it. He’ll probably hell me I owe him a couple of beers,” Casino laughs. While Spencer P. Jones’ abilities are well known, Nic

Nicotine’s name is more likely to draw a blank with local audiences. “Before the last Spanish tour a couple of the guys from Los Chicos invited me to a bar for a drink, and there was a friend of theirs from Portland who was playing,” Casino says. “And within two bars I was hooked on the music. There was this one song that stuck in my head. My wife had bought the CD at the show, so I listened to it and learnt how to play the song – and it’s that song that’s on the 7””. Casino has recently returned to the studio, putting down tracks for a forthcoming solo record and another Secrets record, the latter slated for release early next year. “I bought an old valve tape machine when I was in Spain, I’ve been trying to capture the performance with just me and a microphone,” Casino says. Casino’s studio exploits temper the disappointment with which he and fellow Sydney musicians assess the Sydney live music scene. With the Sandringham Hotel following in the footsteps of the Hopetoun and ceasing operation as a live venue, Sydney musicians have been deprived of yet another venue. “I think

things work in cycles, so I hope it turns around,” Casino says. “And if that’s the case, then it’s a long, two-year cycle. I’d like it to be a ﬂourishing scene with lots of bands, but I’m not completely sure there’s enough really good bands around to justify lots of venues.” In the absence of local live music venues, Spain, and continental Europe generally, provides a regular, and bountiful destination for Casino’s rich rock’n’roll craft. “Musically I have a better chance of success over in Europe than here,” Casino says. “But to be honest I just like to play music anywhere. Give me a powerpoint to plug into, and I’m happy to play.”

times past, touring bands have been compelled to provide a transcript of the lyrics to their songs, lest Chinese audiences be exposed to politically provocative rhetoric. The very notion of Do The Wurst being translated into Cantonese for analysis by Chinese government officials is bizarre in itself; sadly, but fortunately for the band, King Salami And The Cumberland 3 was about to avoid standard Chinese bureaucratic procedure. “I heard that it’s usually what happens, but as we entered China via Japan, and without saying we were a band, we didn’t have to do it,” Baconstrip says. “But there were government agents at most of our gigs, not doing anything special but just keeping an eye on us. Weird.” Government surveillance aside, King Salami And The Cumberland 3 left an indelible impression on the increasingly fertile Chinese rock’n’roll territory. “It was a bit like us being teachers and the audience being at school,” Baconstrip says. “At one show they did a conga! We had an amazing time and met amazing people, each show/city/club was totally different from the previous one, you never knew what to expect, but every gig was a blast!” With the world, and Europe in particular, in the midst of very difficult economic, social and political times, Baconstrip says King Salami And The Cumberland 3 are doing their best to make the world a better place. “We’re being tourists

everywhere – that’s what brings the money in,” he says. While only half of the group are carnivores – suggesting that Do The Wurst may be pushing an ulterior ideological message – Baconstrip prefer “raw donkey, tartare style!” as the standard fare during the band’s tours. “Half the band is vegetarian, but Italy and Spain always deliver great ham or sausages – it’s always a pleasure to play and eat there.” This week King Salami And The Cumberland 3 arrive in Australia for the band’s first Antipodean tour. Armed with its most obscure Australian factoids – “platypus drive on the left hand side of the road, and Rod Laver – King Salami And The Cumberland 3 will continue their current career quest. “In ten years’ time we’ll have evolved into super-beings, communicating our songs telepathically throughout the universe and beyond the boundaries of time itself. How about you guys?” Baconstrip asks rhetorically.

JOHNNY Y LOS SECRETOS play The Espy on Friday August 17, Yah Yah’s on Saturday August 18 and the The Retreat on Sunday August 19. Anora Es Ei Momento/No Is The Time is available through Oﬀ The Hip.

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According to his own self-serving mythology – and contrary to countless other historiographies – Malcolm McLaren handpicked the members of the Sex Pistols on account of each members’ subjective punk rock appeal. In a world obsessed with image, aesthetic merit can be crucial. King Salami And The Cumberland 3 aren’t the Sex Pistols, and the band isn’t on a quasi-ideological quest, but when drummer Eric Baconstrip points out that vocalist King Salami joined the band on account of “having all the best dance moves”, you get the impression King Salami And The Cumberland 3 is more than just a linear sum of its musical parts. “When we play, we want the mood to be fizzy dizzy and busy,” Baconstrip says. Baconstrip and drummer Kamikaze UT Vincent hail from a punk rock background, with Vincent playing in The Chinese Lungs (with Baconstrip) and Black Time. Baconstrip’s previous outfits include the Ulcers, the Parkinsons, UK subs, the Sidekicks and the Nipple Erectors (with The Pogues’ Shane McGowan). Salami had never played in a band – though his dance moves were seen at many a notable gig – and guitarist Pepe Ronnie was apparently the “reserve choirboy” in the Vatican between 1976 and 2005 (a pedigree generally unmatched in the punk rock world). When Chinese Lung’s vocalist left for Berlin to play in Black Jaspers with King Khan, Baconstrip and Kamikaze decided to form “a good time R&B party band”. Pepe Ronnie, Baconstrip’s former band mate, was enlisted; with Salami’s involvement, King Salami And The Cumberland 3 became a reality, after debuting at Wormwood Scrubs Prison in 2006. King Salami And The Cumberland 3 have remained true to the band’s original party band ethos, with its musical style and general rock ’n’ roll aesthetic avowedly focused on good times.

Attention-stealing dance moves dominate the band’s musical repertoire, including Do The Wurst (“come into the corner, and I’ll explain what the wurst is,” Baconstrip teases), The Climb and the Pawnee Stomp. “We get a lot of people trying to do the dances, but not always to the right song,” Baconstrip laughs. It’s not entirely clear if the members of the band have ‘day jobs’ – it’s suggested, possibly tongue in cheek, that Baconstrip balances his rock’n’roll exploits with a career as a cartoon animator, Kamikaze working as a sushi chef, Pepe as a male dancer and Salami, ahem, a tennis coach – though King Salami and the Cumberland have maintained a relentless schedule of touring in Europe, the United States and north-Asia. “The Spanish are very… ‘un-self-conscious’,” Baconstrip says. “So we can always expect a pretty wild show over there. But the gigs in the UK are getting really exciting too now – maybe that’s due to the fact that the audience is entirely Spanish or Italian?” King Salami And The Cumberland 3 recently left their continental Europe comfort zone for a tour of China. In

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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

with Christie Eliezer * Stuﬀ for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm GOTYE SHINES AT ARIA #1 CHART AWARDS Gotye continued to add to his tally of trophies, last week picking up Highest Selling Single for Somebody That I Used To Know (ten times platinum) and Highest Selling Album for Making Mirrors (three times platinum) at the ARIA #1 Chart Awards. These were held at the Ivy Sunroom in Sydney last Friday. It was a(nother) great week for Gotye. Billboard announced that Somebody... set a new chart milestone in America. It topped the Adult Contemporary chart – after previously reaching #1 on the Hot 100, Dance/Club Play and Alternative Songs. It’s the only track to have topped all four charts. Alas, after Somebody... was toppled as longest stay at #1 in the Hot 100, after Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe stayed at top spot for its ninth week, beating its eighth week. At the #1 Chart Awards function, it was revealed that between August 2010 to August 6 2012, Aussie acts spent 64 weeks in #1 position across the ARIA singles, album and music DVD charts. Universal Music (and labels it distributes like Eleven: A Music Company and Liberation) lead with ten toppers and Sony Music followed with seven. Over this same period, 85 singles and 73 albums from Aussies were awarded gold, platinum or multiplatinum status. See the newly launched ariacharts.com. au for full list of winners.

NEW CATEGORY FOR INDIE AWARDS The 7th Jagermeister Independent Music Awards will have a new category this year, Best Independent Label. This will be open only for members of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) and voted for by AIR members. AIR says, “The award recognises that while indie labels march to the beat of their own drum, they are very much part of a community of likeminded, passionate business owners.” The awards are held on Tuesday October 16 at the Revolt Arts Space in Kensington. Virgin Australia also joins as airline partner. Again, their presenting partner is Jagermeister. It’ll be ﬁlmed and broadcast by Channel [V]. Their radio partner is DMG Radio’s Nova network.

MORE OVERSEAS DEALS FOR JACOB BUTLER In tie-ups that could see his songs appear in ads and movies in Europe, Australian singer songwriter Jacob Butler signed a pan-European publishing deal with Hamburg based AMV-Talpa, a licensing deal with EMI for Greece and Cyprus and a Scandinavian deal with Billberg Entertainment. AMV-Talpa, one of the largest independent publishers in Europe, holds the publishing rights to The Voice TV show internationally and is keen to get Butler to write for other singers. The EMI deal sees his debut single Come My Way out in Greece and Cyprus this month with debut album Reason out later in the year. The pact with Stockholm based Billberg sees Reason out in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Butler had earlier signed European deals with VERY US (GSA), and Universal Music (Poland, Bulgaria) and had a crossover hit in Germany, and also pacted a deal with The Gresham Co for South Africa

ALICIA MOREAU JOINS CRUCIAL MUSIC Alicia Moreau joined Crucial Music as Operations Manager, and can be reached at alicia@crucialmusic. com.au. She was Business Manager at White Sky. Crucial also farewelled Anastasia Casagrande after four years, with Lorrae McKenna remaining as contact for all things marketing and publicity. Crucial acts include The Living End, Children Collide and Hunting Grounds.

TWO MORE FOR DAINTY GROUP Dainty Group added two to its executive team. USborn Craig Hartenstine, a promoter in China and Hong Kong since 1993 joins as Managing Director of Touring – Asia/Australia/New Zealand. Ben Shepherd (ex-Sound Alliance) joins as Group Commercial Director. Both will be based in Melbourne.

THINGS WE HEAR * At the #1 ARIA Chart Awards in Sydney, the head of AC/ DC’s record label Alberts said that they will do a world tour to mark their 40th anniversary. * Beefy actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has confirmed one of the rumours surrounding Kylie Minogue: he and she were knocking boots when filming the 1994 stinkaroo Street Fighter. * Rihanna’s wild partying and even wilder dresses have seen her dumped as the “face” of the family-friendly Nivea skin products. * So what will Newcastle’s Fat As Butter do if Flo Rida doesn’t hand over the $400,000 the NSW District Court ordered him to? They’ll take it out of his Australian record royalties which were frozen when the case was launched. * Van Halen have axed plans to tour here in November, promoter When The Lion Roars confirmed. Last September the US band bowed out of the Soundwave Revolution festival citing the need to finish off an album. * Rose Tattoo’s Angry Anderson wants to get into politics, and seeking pre-selection for the federal seat of Gilmore for the National Party. * The Cosmic Psychos’ documentary Blokes You Can Trust will see light of day by ends of the year, Noise 11 reported. Director Matt Weston says they raised the required $28,000 through Pozible in 30 days. * In a podcast for Media Week, Molly Meldrum complained that a fan was so excited at seeing him having a leak in a London toilet that he insisted on shaking his hands, and accidentally pissed over Molly’s shoes. * Former Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri faced 15 years’ jail after a four hour standoff with a S.W.A.T. team last year, after which they found cocaine and a weapon in his house. He’s done a major deal with the prosecutor, offering to do 52 weeks of anger management and 200 hours of community service in return for three years’ probation. * Darryl Cotton’s funeral was held at the Comedy Theatre where he had starred in the musical Joseph And His Amazing Technicolour Dream. Speakers included fellow ‘60s pop stars Jim Keays and Ronnie Burns, music execs Graham McKee and Dennis Smith, former 3XY dj Greg Evans and Cotton’s children, while Normie Rowe and Beeb Birtles sent letters. Richard Rushion read an eulogy transcribed from Cotton’s hospital bedside. The funeral was organized by Cotton’s former manager Jeff Joseph.

Music, Alberts, Ministry Of Sound, Liberation Records, Shock Music, triple j, Spotify, JB Hi Fi and AIR. According to BPI figures, UK artists have a 20%+ share of the market.

SHOCK GETS ITS CHOPPER IN Shock Records signed an album deal with one time crim Mark ‘Chopper’ Read. It will be an album of prison song covers sung by Read. What? Foo Fighters’ This Is A Cell? U2’s Bouncing Oﬀ The Walls? Elvis’ Jailhouse Rock? Edwin Starr’s War(rant), What Is It Good For? Anything by Soft Cell?

TIESTO HIGHEST PAID DJ According to Forbes magazine, the highest paid dj is Tiesto (US$22 million in the past year), then Skrillex ($15m) and Swedish House Maﬁa ($14m). Also in the Top Ten were David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, Avicii and Pauly D.

SONY SIGNS BONNIE ANDERSON Sony Music Australia signed 17-year-old Bonnie Anderson. Winning Australia’s Got Talent in 2007 at the age of 12, she toured with Jimmy Barnes as backup singer two years later. Managed by Ralph Carr, she is writing with DNA and was on Justice Crew’s #1 Gonna Make You Sweat.

HELPMANN FINALISTS ANNOUNCED Future Music, Tasmania’s MONA FOMA, Bluesfest 2012 and Sydney’s Vivid Live 2011 will jostle for Best Contemporary Music Festival at the Helpmann Awards. They are held on September 24 at the Opera House. Kylie Minogue is up for two in Best Australian Contemporary Concert: her spectacular Aphrodite Les Folies and the fans-only Anti Tour of b-sides and rarities are up against Cold Chisel and Keith Urban. Foo Fighters, Prince, Roger Waters and Sade are ﬁnalists in Best International Contemporary Concert.

POLYESTER RECORDS LAUNCHES VINYL ALBUM Indie retailer Polyester Records launched a label, also called Polyester Records, to specialise in issuing vinyl albums by Aussie acts. It is distributed through Inertia. First three releases are New War’s self titled debut, Grand Salvo’s Slay Me In My Sleep and Max Crumbs’ debut Maidenhair.

NEW YORK AGENCY SUES SUPAFEST

CLEAR SPRINGS GIVEAWAY

Adding to the hip hop Supafest’s woes is a US$1.9 million breach of contract lawsuit from New York’s American Talent Agency. It claims it booked acts for this April event. According to the suit, one of these, Diddy, pulled out after only receiving $200,000 of the $1.6 million fee from promoter Paperchase Touring. Others it booked Ludacris and Big Sean were paid in full but Kelly Rowland and T-Pain were not, it claimed. T-Pain cut ties with the agency as a result. Paperchase also dropped Missy Elliott, forcing the agency to lose its $30,000 commission and pay her a $50,000 cancellation fee.

Clear Springs Entertainment has put together a 2CD compilation of indie acts from Australia, America and Europe. It will be given away from October 20 through its webzine Parx-e. The launch takes place the night before at The Penny Black with Go Go Sapien and Steph Hannah.

UMBRELLA SIGNS THE RUBENS Sydney based artist management company Umbrella (Urthboy, Cloud Control, Fishing, Belles Will Ring) signed The Rubens for management in Australia and NZ. The Rubens followed up the triple j success of debut single Lay It Down with sell out shows and festival appearances. Their debut album is out on Ivy League in mid-September, new single My Gun out now.

UK TRADE MISSION COMING Following trade missions to Los Angeles and Tokyo, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is bringing one to Sydney and Melbourne in October (8-12). It gives UK delegates from the indie sector the chance to find out about the Australian scene and meet some of power makers. Keynote speaker is Michael Gudinski, others include manager John Watson, APRA boss Brett Cottle, ARIA’s Dan Rosen and Tim Levinson of Elefant Traks. Companies taking part in the program include Inertia

MEDICS BLITZ INDIGENOUS AWARDS The Medics swept the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) on Saturday night in Darwin. The Queensland band took New Talent Of The Year, Album Of The Year for their debut Foundations and Song Of The Year for Griffin. Medics drummer and singer Jindhu joined his father, Bunna Lawrie, for a rendition of anthemic Black Boy, recorded by Lawrie’s band Coloured Stone in 1984. Gurrumul Yunupingu took Artist Of The Year for the second year. His Bayini duet with Sarah Blasko took Cover Art Of The Year, a second NIMA for artist/designer Carlo Santone from Melbourne’s Blue King Brown.

PSEUDO ECHO CELEBRATE 30TH YEAR Aussie electro-pop pioneers Pseudo Echo celebrate the 30th year since they formed, by releasing their first single since the ‘80s, and a round of national dates this month. Leader Brian Canham told Industrial Strength that new single Suddenly Silently was originally meant for the electro-trance Teleporter album but the new version takes it back to the original Pseudos sound. Canham who’s been a producer and songwriter since the band split, recently finished composing the score to a feature film Charlie Bonnet.

LIFELINES Hospitalised: Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, is in a coma after a drug and drink binge. Apparently out two weeks after a stint in jail, he found an old phone which had some touching messages from Winehouse including one asking to be godmother to his son. In Court: Anuruddha Kotagama, owner of Wollongong’s Hostage X nightclub, is facing charges he raped a woman in its storeroom on December 12, 2010. He says they had sex three times but that it was consensual. The woman reported it 20 minutes after. Arrested: US country star Randy Travis, charged with drink driving after allegedly crashing his car and being found naked at the scene. Suing: Elton John takes action against England’s The Times newspaper which ran a story on avoiding tax written by an accountant, which it claimed worked for Elton. He hadn’t. The singer is angry that being dragged into the story will aﬀect donations to his many charities. Suing: Jennifer Lopez hits her former driver for US$20 million after he tried to extort $2.8 million from her, threatening to tell the media and authorities about secrets he overheard while driving her. Lopez says the man got angry when she turned down his plans to control her security team. Died: Oscar-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, 68, after a brief illness. Died: Take That singer Gary Barlow’s fourth child Poppy delivered stillborn. Died: Marshall Tucker Band guitarist Stuart Swanlund, 54, in his sleep. Died: leading Jamaican reggae name Ranking Trevor, 60, motorbike accident. He was a pioneer of “toasting” which inspired hip hop. Died: US blues guitarist and singer Johnnie Bassett, 76, from cancer. Died: US producer Carl Davis, 77, from lung disease. In the ‘60s he shaped the “Chicago Sound” with hits as Gene Chandler’s Duke Of Earl, Jackie Wilson’s (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher, Major Lance’s Monkey Time and the Chi-Lites’ Oh Girl.

NOMINATIONS FOR ARTS VICTORIA ADVISORY PANELS Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu wants you to play a role in how arts funding is allocated, by nominating to be part of Arts Victoria’s Advisory Panel Register. Arts Victoria advises and funds artists and arts organisations. Arts Advisory Panels assist assesses applications and make recommendations to the Government on which should receive funding. In addition to those from the arts sector, Arts Victoria is seeking panel members with a broad range of skills that are complementary to the arts such as business, education or research, legal or community aﬀairs. For more information, or to apply, visit arts.vic.gov.au/panelregister. Deadline is Monday September 17.

WANNA BE PART OF ST KILDA FESTIVAL 2013? Applications are now open for musicians, performers, traders and community groups including registered charities for St Kilda Festival 2013, held February 2 to 10. Since it launched in 1980 it has grown from a two-day street party to a nine day event which drew 300,000 this year for its finale. “The St Kilda Festival has something for everyone and this is your chance to become a part of the Festival and its amazing audience,” says Festival Producer Adele Denison. Music acts can play at the indigenous showcase Yalukit Willam Ngargee: People Place Gathering, the seven-day Live N Local which also includes visual arts, street performance, film, poetry and comedy. Go to stkildafestival.com.au or contact the Festival office on 03 9209 6490.

TIM CHMIELEWSKI EXHIBITION Music photographer Tim Chmielewski holds his Over The River And Back exhibition at the Caravan Music Club in Oakleigh. Opening night is on tonight from 6-8pm, and the exhibition runs from August 16 to Sept 1, 3-6pm.

Q&A COLLARTS COLLABORATION You’re six months into your degree at Collarts, how are you finding it? DM: As an older student, I found the idea of returning to school somewhat daunting. Now I can’t imagine being anywhere else but Collarts. The industry professionals that we get to learn from and work alongside are some of the best names in the business. Unlike many other institutions, Collarts gives you the chance to form industry connections with a view to securing long term employment in the music industry. BC: I love the course. The course is filled with a range of interesting and diverse subjects that educate our class on multiple different aspects. We have been given the opportunity to listen to skilled industry professionals and put together our own live music event. I’m looking forward to what comes next! HB: Collarts is an institution that caters to the individual

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student. We are able to learn in close proximity to, and alongside, industry professionals with a view to gaining future employment in the increasingly competitive music industry scene. Although a lot of work, all knowledge gained so far has been extensive and of the highest standard. Where do you hope to take this when you’re ﬁnished? DM: Collarts has opened my eyes to the many facets of work available within the music industry. I hope to work in event management running and facilitating music festivals and concerts, with a view to also interviewing and writing about the artists. BC: I hope this course takes me either into event management, band management or tour management. This course is providing us with excellent skills to become professionals in the industry and educating us on the

entertainment world. HB: We hope to have learnt the knowledge expected to be intelligent and competitive industry professionals, with a view to working within an industry that would allow us to follow our dreams. Collarts has been the deciding factor in our chosen career paths – from event management, to artist liaison, we feel that Collarts is easily the best choice to prepare us for our futures. What are you most looking forward to about performing on Tuesday? DM: As one of two event managers running the night, my hope is that the event will run smoothly, our epic auction will raise money for our chosen charity Oscars Law and the performances will be of a reputable industry standard. We have all worked incredibly hard on this event and I’m looking forward to seeing the results of our eﬀorts.

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BC: I am greatly looking forward to our live music event running smoothly and attracting a big crowd. The fact that all of our proﬁts are going to charity makes the event feel even more important and meaningful. HB: As music business students, we look forward to seeing the outcome of all of our combined eﬀorts and hard work. We hope to put on an event of a high industry standard, which focuses on Oscars Law – the charity component of Collaboration. We can’t wait to see the outcome of our auction and the exciting performances from our many talented students!

CANCER BATS BY JOSHUA KLOKE

When Liam Cormier, vocalist of Toronto hardcore act Cancer Bats entered the studio to begin work on Dead Set On Living, their fourth full-length, there was no shortage of inspiration for the four-piece. Taking cues from not only their live set, past records as well as a number of intriguing contemporaries, Cancer Bats have constructed a record that manages to encompass the surprising enormity of the band’s aesthetic. For Cormier, reached on the phone before he attends the Kerrang! Awards in London, the band had to first embrace their roots as a live band. “We had to have that conversation about what we love doing as a band and what we want to do in the future,” says the 31 year old. “We started thinking about why we put certain songs on our setlist and what songs work live. We started to think about a record the way we would a live show, because we are a live band first and foremost. We thought, ‘Why don’t we embrace that?’ Everytime we make a record, there’s a few songs that we all vibe on in the studio and then it doesn’t work so well live. People might like it, but they can be vibe-killers. So we tried to avoid writing those kinds of songs for this record and write a bunch of songs that we can play live. 40 minutes is the norm that we play live, so we thought about building this record as we would a setlist.” While their raging, engrossing live show has quickly become what Cancer Bats is indeed renowned for, as with many bands, the studio can then often appear more constraining than liberating. Cormier admits that entering the studio with the goal of capturing their live sound has presented challenges in the past. However this time around, with a few subtle changes, the band figured out how to wrangle the studio into submission. “If we’re going to be approaching the record as a live set, then we should be approaching the songs as if we’re touring them,” he says with noted confidence. “We’ll record most of it ourselves in our practice space and have it as close to finished as possible. It was just playing it for three weeks over and over; we got everything to memory. And then when we went into the studio, we were able to record together. Sometimes we’d run out of space to record everything at once, but we did our best to keep the energy as high as we could. We tried to learn from our past records.” Cormier continues, noting how listening through some of Cancer Bats past records helped better define the sound they were actually striving for on Dead Set On Living. Cancer Bats’ sound consistently consumed the music around them, be in their past records or the records played on the tour bus. Touring, as Cormier contends, has no strain on the creative process. “I don’t think [touring] holds us back,” he says. “We spend a lot of time on the road just thinking about what we could do better. All of us just hanging out, talking about records just gets us excited about getting back into the studio after a few years of touring. Listening to records and pushing ourselves to be as creative as possible is what we try to do.”

“WE STARTED TO THINK ABOUT A RECORD THE WAY WE WOULD A LIVE SHOW, BECAUSE WE ARE A LIVE BAND FIRST AND FOREMOST.” Cormier names the new Fleet Foxes, Feist and Black Lips records as ones that “continue on being creative and representing the ideals that those bands represent, but not playing it safe. What gets us excited as a band is trying new things.” Now four albums into their career, one could forgive Cancer Bats for resting on their laurels. Yet Cormier contends that by looking to bands around them, they manage to constantly push the envelope. “You get that inspiration from other artists,” he says rather pointedly. “When we go into the studio, we get inspired by new albums. Last album, we listened to Brand New’s Daisy. That was such a heavy record. I loved that they could’ve taken the easy route but wrote songs they were excited about. They pushed their fans as far as what they expect from the band.” “We’re big fans of Tegan And Sara,” he continues. “When we heard The Con, we realised they were doing whatever they wanted. We understood that you can have that kind of freedom while still maintaining interest from true fans. That might be what lead us to explore all kinds of diﬀerent sounds.” As the sonic landscape of Cancer Bats continues to evolve in scope over time, one thing that remains a constant is Cormier’s honest and emotive lyrical approach. It’s what maintains Cancer Bats’ unwavering love from their fans, and Cormier knows it. “For me, I’ve tried to become a better writer. I’m trying to clear up a lot of ideas. I’m not going to be there to explain the idea of the song to… a kid in Idaho. I need to make sure that when he listens to the song that I convey the point in three minutes. I keep that in the back of my mind when I’m writing. I’ve learned the more honest I am, the better feedback I get from fans.”

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THOMAS LANG BY ALEX DEEGAN

Thomas Lang needs no introduction. He is one of the world’s top drummers and he’s heading back to Oz to debut his Drumming Boot Camp to the land down under. And not only that, but Lang is also co-headlining this year’s Drumscene Live National Tour, culminating with his appearance at Australia’s Ultimate Drummers Weekend’s 20th Anniversary Concert. Let’s talk about the Boot Camp: you will be debuting the camp in Melbourne in August this year. What can attendees expect from the camp? Over the last 15 to 20 years drummers from all over the world have often approached me for private lessons while I’ve been on tour. And on days that I have off I would rather do something productive than nothing, so I started doing private lessons in hotel meeting rooms or wherever, and it was always fun and great to meet people and do something productive. And out of this came the idea for the Boot Camps. At one point one of the students said, “Hey, do you mind if I bring a friend and we’ll share the cost?” And another time I had 7 to 8 people sitting in a meeting room in a hotel, and it was a little chaotic and I decided, ok I can organise this. I can plan this properly, get gear for everybody to practice on etc and advertise it, and that’s how the Boot campaign started. I started doing these camps in late 2009 and I have done about 24 to 25 camps around the world so far. What I try to do is create a camp that is very different from other drum camps.

Let’s talk about the Drumscene Live Tour coming up in August, you are co-headlining along with Dave Weckl and Dom Famularo. No doubt you have come across each other at various drumming events over the years? Yes, Dave is a good friend he lives close to me and I see him frequently. I’ve played with Dave many times at different drum events and also I have done drum camps with him over the years, like the Drum Fantasy Camp in Cleveland. We’ve done that twice together, that’s a week long camp. So we’re friends and very close, and with Dom I have done many things over the years including a Drumscene Live Tour in Australia a few years ago, and I’ve performed with Dom at many festivals. I know him well, it will be a lot of fun to hang with those guys and I’ll have a ball. It’s going to be an amazing experience - Dom has such a great sense of humour, he’s so entertaining and fun. I’m looking forward to catching up with them both. To finish up, Thomas, what’s coming up after the Drumscene Live Tour and your performance at Australia’s Ultimate Drummers Weekend AUDW

20th Anniversary? I’m currently working on a new Stork album - we’ve added a singer to the line up now, a female singer, which is very different, and I’m excited about this new direction. I’m also working on Paul Gilbert’s Mr. Big new album. I have also produced and recorded two more albums, an instrumental Fusion record and a World Music record with great guests like Luis Conte, Paul Gilbert etc. I wrote all the music and produced that record also. And I work a lot with my Italian friend Gianna Nannini. I’ve been working with her for 15 years or so, she’s my ‘regular gig’, if you like.

I’ve played on ten albums with her and I’ve done all of her tours and we just released a special DVD live CD and studio CD from the last tour.

time the plane left, I honestly wouldn’t know... I like to enjoy where I am, otherwise it’s just madness.” But the touring won’t be stopping anytime soon. McHugh already has plans to work on another solo album, following his recent release Love Come Save Me. Unlike this one, he won’t be releasing his next material for free although he says taking the commerce out of the equation for Love Come Save Me was his favourite musical experience yet: “I recommend it to anybody who has made music at some stage in their lives. I mean, how can you put a value on music? I wanted to just make music for the sake of making music and just share it for the sake of sharing it,” McHugh says. He’s thinking next about a pre-rder system, where fans can order his record while it’s still in production and receive extras such as free downloads along the way. For now though, McHugh is concentrating on the finale

tour. He says the move to end The Beautiful Girls is more about retiring the band name than splitting. “We’ll all play together in some way. It’s a very fluid situation,” McHugh says. And their secret to longevity? “No-one in this band has ever approached it like a rock star — the main thing we care about is playing music.”

unpredictable at best. Eighteen years later, Zoobombs are still going strong. Matsuo might have dictatorial tendencies, but he’s a benevolent dictator. “I think I do make most of the decisions, but I’m always thinking what other members think about. So I need these guys.” Matsuo claims that “he doesn’t write songs” in the traditional sense. For Matsuo, the composition process is far more intuitive, and maybe even holistic. “It’s always coming or always there,” Matsuo muses. “I just catch and follow as the music wants to go. If the music wants to change the chord, I will change. If the music wants to change rhythm or tempo, I follow. And after that, we find that we have a song that we can play.” For his styling as a frontman, Matsuo looked to the inimitable Keith Richards (though Matsuo’s excited stage persona seems a sharp contrast to the typically enigmatic Richards). A Zoobombs show is an exercise in improvisation, with the concept of a pre-prepared setlist anathema to Matsuo’s organic artistic philosophy. “I haven’t written a setlist since about 2002,” Matsuo says. “It’s very usual thing for us now not to have a setlist. “I don’t decide about what the music want to go. Let the music flow what the music want to do.”

Zoobombs last toured Australia around the turn of the century. Matsuo’s memories of the tour are positive, albeit hazy, focused more on a culinary than musical experience. “I can’t remember too much,” Matsuo says. “I think it must be better now. But to tell you the truth, I remember on the road, I got some really good donuts called ‘Hole in One’ donuts. I hope I can get them again. Last year Pablo from Melbourne-via-Mexico garage band Mesa Cosa contact-ed Matsuo, and suggested Zoobombs return to Australia. “I like [Pablo] and trust him, too,” Matsuo says. “I thank them for leading us back to Australia.” The Zoobombs continue to blend the members’ love of The Rolling Stones, Bo Diddley and Bob Dylan, infused with a dirty ‘70s funk sensibility. Cutting through the various musical influences, Matsuo says there’s a simple description for The Zoobombs’ shtick. “Rock music, possibly touching your heart,” he says.

AUDW takes place at Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre from Friday August 24 until Sunday August 26. Head to drumtek.com.au for more info on AUDW, and facebook.com/OfficalThomasLang for more information on Thomas Lang.

THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS BY CORAL HUCKSTEP

The Beautiful Girls are marking their ten year anniversary with a finale in the form of a massive national tour. Driving to meet his bandmates Paulie Bromley and Bruce Braybrooke on the last day of the band’s rehearsals, the band’s frontman Mat McHugh talks about the highlights and lowlights of the past decade. “I’ve always hated rehearsing,” McHugh says. “It’s a necessity of course but it’s just painful, you know, playing each song 500 times.” McHugh admits it’s been an issue remembering each song from their extensive back catalogue but they want each of their 26 gigs around Australia to be a reminder of the band’s history. Their set will be divided into two parts with a mellow acoustic first half, an electric dub/reggae second half, and a dub DJ playing the intermission. “We’ll try and encompass old and rare songs. We’re just trying to give a full picture of what the band has done,” McHugh says. “We’re just celebrating 10 years, basically!” McHugh says there have been many highlights along the way. Pulling their first big festival crowd at Falls Festival was especially moving. “That festival holds a big place in my heart,” McHugh says. There has also been growth: “When we first started we were just absolutely terrible, we didn’t even know what we were doing! We’d have nine terrible gigs to one good one. It’s been a constant thing of trying to improve.” McHugh also says he hasn’t regretted any choices the band has made: “There’s obviously better and worse songs but I don’t know if you can regret them if they’re an expression. If you’re honest with yourself then there is no right or wrong, good or bad — you just try. I don’t look back and judge it.” McHugh says he’s pleased to have

resisted being bracketed into certain musical categories: “I have songs that are reactions to people’s perceptions of me and the band, where we just sort of turned left. I’m proud of that.” There have been lowlights too, and not just when McHugh tried to hide from the audience in a snow jacket. There was the time when a bottle hit the stage and showered the band with glass. “It’s not a good feeling when you’ve tried to give something to people and you get hit in the head with something,” McHugh says. “It’s a cowardly act. I grew up in a way that it doesn’t matter if someone is on-stage, if someone throws a bottle at your head or shoe at your face, I’m not cool with that. I will turn the lights on and say if you’re tough enough to throw something at someone with their eyes shut, then you’re welcome to come on stage and prove how tough you are, but no one really does!” Then there was adjusting to the constant touring. “It kind of freaked me out,” the free-spirited McHugh says. “You’d be in January and you were already making plans for November. It’s pretty crazy because your whole life gets mapped out... It just takes you out of the existing present, which is not a healthy thing. It’s a bit of a cliche but you kind of just take everyday as it comes. If anyone was to ask me on any random day on tour where I was off to next and what

THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS stop in Melbourne for three nights at The Corner Hotel, Richmond on Friday August 24 (sold out), Saturday August 25 (sold out) and Sunday August 26.

ZOOBOMBS BY PATRICK EMERY

Almost 20 years ago, Don Matsuo was sitting around in a Tokyo apartment with his musical acquaintance Moostop. Plied with alcohol, Matsuo turned to his friend and proposed the artistic direction for the band they’d recently formed. “I said to Moostop ‘I’d make a band and all songs made by one chord’,” Matsuo recalls. Moostop was already in the zone. “He replied ‘the rhythm must be all Bo Diddley’s’, with a very cool face.” Matsuo knew they were onto something, and the basic concept of Zoobombs was born. “I loved that idea so much,” Matsuo says. “I wanted to make a hardcore-Rolling Stones with contemporary rhythm, and playing like foolish, childish, junk, also with abstract lyrics like Bob Dylan.” Matsuo grew up in Tokyo, and came to The Rolling Stones in a somewhat surprising manner, first seeing the Stones’ dubious comeback single One Hit To The Body on a music television show in the ‘80s. Thankfully, Matsuo realised there was more to the Stones than Mick Jagger’s mid-‘80s fashion travesty of pastel shirts and pop star mullet. “I had no interest in any music ‘til I saw a video that The Stones played One Hit To The Body in my friend’s house,” Matsuo says. “I was 18 years old, and I still love them now. I also loved roots old black music, Blues, R&B and something like that. My taste was too old, and too hard to share with anyone at that time, except Matta, Moostop and a few other friends.”Matsuo had known Moostop through a friend with whom Matsuo had played previously. “I liked Moostop becouse we both loved The Rolling Stones, although it wasn’t the normal Rollng Stones’ that the fans fan liked,” Matsuo says. “We loved songs like Jigsaw Puzzle, Can You Hear Me Knockin’ and Fingerprint File. Matsuo, Moostop Beat Magazine Page 44

and the Zoobombs’ original drummer convened in a Tokyo pub, Nishiogikubo, when Matsuo laid out his original plan. “I suddenly decided to make a rock band with these three guys.” Right at the start, Matsuo stipulated that he’d be the creative and executive hub of the band. “We have got to be a rock band, but I’m the boss,” Matsuo says. “I said ‘I don’t embrace democracy. If you guys understand that, let’s do it’, and they said ‘okay’.” At the time Matsuo was living with Matta, later to become Matsuo’s wife. Matsuo knew Matta could play piano, but hadn’t initially contemplated her joining Zoobombs. When Matsuo placed an ad on the fridge in their apartment, Matta applied for the position. “I lived with her, and I know she can play piano, and we had a keyboard, so why did I need to look for another keyboard player? I just wanted to start the band as soon as possible,” Matsuo says. With each of Matsuo’s previous bands ending “in less than 180 days”, and Moostop’s pedigree limited to a Madonna copy band, the tenure of Zoobombs seemed

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ZOOBOMBS perform at The Tote on Friday August 17, then at The Espy on Saturday August 18.

THE ENGLISH BEAT BY PATRICK EMERY

Prior to speaking to Dave Wakeling, founding member of English ska band The English Beat and co-founder (with Rankin’ Roger) of spin-off outfit General Public, I’d been warned that Wakeling ‘likes a chat’. Wakeling, who’s been based in the United States for the past 25 years, proves to be a most amiable, and engaging interviewee. The allotted 20-minute time slot stretches out to 40 minutes, as Wakeling delves into his musical history and political inclinations. I’m tempted to bore further into Wakeling’s time with General Public, but decide against risking the wrath of the accommodating PR person. Wakeling is, I suggest to a friend after the interview concludes eventually, true to his English Beat classic Too Nice To Talk To. Wakeling was born and bred in the industrial city of Birmingham in the north of England. Once a thriving hub of manufacturing, Birmingham was hit hard by the decline in the English economy in the ‘70s; in the ‘80s, Birmingham bore the brunt of Margaret Thatcher’s draconian economic policies. Wakeling has fond memories of the community in which he grew up; his recollections of the Birmingham climate are not so positive. “The people in Birmingham were always big hearted people,” Wakeling says, his deep Birmingham accent still obvious despite the years spent living across the Atlantic. “And there was a great sense of humour, albeit a gallows humour.” The wave of post-war immigration, especially from England’s colonies in the Caribbean, into Birmingham meant that Wakeling’s social group was integrated well beyond London. Perhaps surprisingly, Wakeling suggests the decline in Birmingham’s economic fortunes laid the sociological foundation for the English Beat’s racial mix. “I think it was fortunate that the industrialisation in the city and the collapse of industry meant that people had been forced together,” Wakeling says. “So you had black, white and Asians working together. We didn’t realise how different that was until we played our first gig in London.” In the early ‘70s ska music, the Caribbean musical style brought to England with the wave of post-war migration, was already developing a broad following. “Ska was already around quite a lot in the early to mid 1970s because in the soccer they used to play ska before the games, and after, so they could keep the skinheads quiet,” Wakeling says. “So I grew up with ska as part of our football experience, rather than as a musical movement.” By ‘78 Wakeling had teamed up with Ranking Roger, Everett Morton, Saxa, Dave Cox and Andy Steele to form The English Beat. Punk had already torn the English music scene a series of new orifices over the preceding few years; while ska shared with punk a desire – albeit more subconscious than the tabloid punk attitude cultivated by Malcolm McLaren and Bernie Rhodes – to subvert the dominant social paradigm of the music industry, Wakeling says The English Beat was deliberately trying to instil a sense of fun and enjoyment in music – an attribute sadly lacking in much of the punk rock canon. “We were coming on the tail end of punk, but we wanted a party that was hopeful in spirit,” Wakeling says. “After a few years punk was getting a bit whining.” With England labouring under the weight of Margaret Thatcher’s social and economic policies, and the Soviet Union and the United States shadow boxing for victory in the Cold War, The English Beat judged that the world needed a bit of fun. “That sense of despair turned into a sense that we might as well have a dance and enjoy ourselves before we go,” Wakeling says. “We were very lucky in that respect. And if you could fill a room with people dancing then the record companies loved you, and you could get away with quite a lot, including lyrics about social situations.” By the early ‘80s the English Beat had had a string of hits, including Mirror In The Bathroom, Too Nice To Talk To and Stand Down Margaret. Like fellow ska outfit The Specials, The English Beat had adopted a distinctly political tone in its songwriting, drawing attention to the damage being caused to the fabric of English society. “It was more raising awareness than trying to converting people to a cause,” Wakeling says. “It’s a stage, not a soap box. You can’t make it too obvious. We wanted them to come to their own position of their volition.” Despite The English Beat’s commercial success, by ‘83 the members of the band were gradually losing enthusiasm, and The English Beat began to fracture. Wakeling and Ranking Roger went on to form General Public, while Andy Cox and Dave Steele teamed up with Roland Gift in Fine Young Cannibals. “A couple of the guys said they were on more planes than buses. We were always terrified that we’d start writing songs about being travelling rock’n’roll stars!” Wakeling laughs. After General Public wound up, Wakeling moved to the United States. While both Wakeling and Ranking Roger head up contemporary versions of The English Beat (neither including Cox and Steele), Wakeling says relations within the band are constructive enough to have facilitated the recent release of an English Beat boxset. “We had more trouble arguing the liner notes and the photos than the music!” Wakeling laughs. Wakeling is looking forward to his forthcoming trip to Australia; in addition to meeting members of his loyal English Beat street team, he’s hoping for the odd Wakeling family reunion. “There’s a ton of Wakelings in Australia,” he says. “The clever ones got out of England!”

THE ENGLISH BEAT perform at The Corner Hotel on Thursday August 30. DISCUSS WHAT? BEAT.COM.AU/DISCUSSION

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LOVE LIKE HATE

BY SIMONE UBALDI

Something dark and vital brews in Love Like Hate. The Brisbane two-piece, comprising vocalist/guitarist Heather Cheketri and pianist Sonja Ter Horst, launch their debut EP in Melbourne this week. Called Rabbit Hole, it is a lush, epic mood piece; five tracks of vast and shivering musical scope, unspooling piano and shifting rhythms, with Heather’s anguished croon guiding each song. Although they only started gigging in 2011, the girls have been playing together since 2008, and the extra gestation time has served them well. Love Like Hate is a new band with a rich and mature sound, ripe for discovery. On the verge of something big, they spoke to Beat about their early history, plans and influences. How did you guys meet? Sonja: We have known each other for over ten years, meeting through mutual friends; over those years Heather was an independent singer-songwriter who performed casually around Brisbane. I have always had pianos in varying conditions in the houses I have rented (some have been more in tune than others, some have had more working keys than others), though I had never really thought about writing music for performance. I would write a song on the spot and then forget it five seconds later. About four years ago, we were having drinks with some mutual friends and Heather and I just started writing a very basic song together in their lounge room. A few days later when Heather asked, ‘Remember what you played?’ We went from there. When we put our first pieces together, it was obvious that it was something that we were both going to enjoy. We had a very strong basis for artists that we both respected so it made it easier to discuss what we wanted – putting together my staccato, secretarial-type style with Heather’s ballad style of writing. It took a few more years to find confidence in what we were doing outside a jam room.

What sort of things influence your songwriting? Sonja: As we often write separately, they are the things that are inspire us at the time, though it is usually the big, deep or dark thoughts that inspire, rather than the happy or bright ones. Usually we are both the kind of people that when we are happy there is nothing that needs to be released. Sometimes one of us will come to the other with music or lyrics, and complete the song together, or there is the odd occasion when we will be talking about something and writing goes from there. We have also tended to write each other’s stories, so if one is going through something and talks about it, then the other usually ﬁnds the words around it – like in Porcelain Brothel which is about someone close to Heather, though originally written by me. Which artists do you most identify with? Heather: I’m unsure who we identify with, but there are musicians that we both mutually respect: PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Dresden Dolls, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I’ve always been a fan of Johnette Napolitano’s work with Concrete Blonde and also Pretty And Twisted, whereas Sonja grew up as a

teenager listening to mainly Tori Amos but also Tool and Primus, so it’s quite an eclectic mix of artists that we have been and still are influenced by. Where and how did you record your EP? Heather: We recorded our EP in Sydney in a few different studios: Jungle, Black Wolf and Studio 301. It took a year in the making – as we are based in Brisbane we had to work around everyone’s availability. But I think that was good as it gave us time to really think about the direction where we were going and allowed us time to decide on the different layers and sounds on the EP. Because of the cost of recording (especially not in your hometown), you tend to quickly make decisions in a studio, where we had the luxury of bringing home recordings during each process and really listen to what we were doing. What is the single 21 about? Sonja: Heather wrote the words to 21. One night when she went out and became disillusioned by the scene I was in at the time, where it was just all about being seen rather than anything deeper, where the people you thought you knew to be close friends actually only cared about what they could potentially get out of you. 21 is about an age when you don’t seem to care so much about those things

and are just going along for the ride. What do you hope to achieve with the release of your debut EP? Sonja: We hope to get people’s attention for what we are trying to create, just so they can hear what we are doing and hopefully its pricks up some ears. We are looking at heading back into the studio early next year to record our album and have started talking about touring overseas. Our EP has had some good plays and feedback with American college radio, so would probably look at heading there first. What do you hope to achieve ultimately, as musicians? Heather: We would both love for people to find a connection to our music in the same way that we find with other artist’s music. To be able to inspire others to create and get themselves out of the garage like we did. Oh yeah and hopefully being able to earn enough money to keep making music and touring would be pretty damn good.

LOVE LIKE HATE perform at The Cornish Arms on Friday August 17. Their EP Rabbit Hole is out now via their bandcamp.

RIVER OF SNAKES

BY PATRICK EMERY

It’s about 10 o’clock on a damp August evening and River Of Snakes guitarist and principal songwriter Raul Sanchez is musing about River Of Snakes’ future artistic direction. Formed a couple of years ago by Sanchez (Magic Dirt, Midnight Woolf), bass player Elissa Rose (Loveless) and drummer Dante Gabriele (Midnight Woolf), River Of Snakes has spent its relatively short tenure exploring and exploiting a basic fuzz-and-punk formula. “In the beginning my whole concept was to merge Cosmic Psychos with Rowland S. Howard,” Sanchez says. “They don’t go together, but that’s the aim.” 2012 has been an eventful year for River Of Snakes. Having established a solid reputation in Melbourne on the back of the band’s potent live shows, River Of Snakes has invested time, eﬀort and punk rock energy north of the Barassi Line, with shows in Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong. “We had these great gigs in Newcastle. We have these two fans who absolutely love us. But we’ve had two gigs there, and both times these fans have got so pissed that they got kicked out, and had to watch from outside,” Sanchez says. “And then there were these two guys wrestling each other, who got kicked out as well – this was a genuine ﬁght, headlocks. This is what we do to people!” Earlier in the year, Gabriele left after a particular tumultuous show in Sydney. “We were given this full bottle of vodka on our rider. We didn’t know what to do, so we decided to drink it all before the show,” Sanchez says. “It ended up being a great, messy set, but maybe that was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Dante,”

Rose laughs. “Dante pretty well quit halfway through the last song, and Raul ended up on the drums and we made up our own song, rolled on the ground – it was just mayhem!” Thankfully, the debacle left some punters with a favourable impression. “Last week when we were up in Sydney this guy came up to us and said, ‘Why don’t you just get as pissed as you did last time?’” Sanchez laughs. “But we didn’t even get a rider for that show, so we couldn’t.” This Saturday night at the Northcote Social Club River Of Snakes launch their new 7”, a teaser for the band’s debut album slated for release early next year. The 7” features two tracks, an original, Drink, and a cover of Bikini Kill’s Rebel Girl. A ‘graduate’ of Collingwood’s famed Rock’n’Roll High School, Rose ﬁrst came across Bikini Kill’s feminist-punk anthem as an impressionable teenager. “When I was in Year ten, a girl at school went to study in Seattle, and she came back with all these cool records, and she made this mix tape, and some of it was

Bikini Kill,” Rose says. When Bikini Kill came to Australia in the mid 90’s, Rose snuck into the Corner Hotel to see them, before the security personnel herded her out. “We sat there on the carpet right next to them until we were kicked out,” Rose laughs. Sanchez was similarly immediately impressed when he first heard the song, and made a mental note to return to the track in the future. “I remember hearing it and thinking it’d be a great song to cover – I think I mentioned it to the band when we first started, and then I forgot about it. And then Elissa brought it up, and reminded me that I’d suggested we cover it.” The fact that Sanchez finds himself reciting a feminist anthem doesn’t worry him in the slightest. “It’s kind of cool for a guy to sing those things – I feel that way. The song definitely relates – I admire female musicians, like all musicians,” he says. Rose says having a male voice in the song ensures it’s not a linear interpretation. “I’d only cover it with a guy singing,” she says. “Without that, it’d be just too generic. For me, it

says more with a guy.” Sanchez and Rose agree that the presence of a new drummer (Glenn Evans from Fangs) has had an impact on the band’s music. “It’s hard to say anything too much without it sounding wrong, but it’s definitely more solid in some respects now,” Rose says. “When we changed drummers we had to go right back to basics and then flesh the songs out – so we hope our new drummer sticks around,” Sanchez laughs. “The new music is definitely evolving,” Rose says. For his part, Sanchez is keen to spread the attention from himself to his band mates. “I want to write more dual vocal tracks, so Elissa sings more often. I’d rather not be the front man,” Sanchez says. “But Glenn doesn’t want to sing. In fact, he didn’t even want to do the interview – he’s too enigmatic for that sort of thing,” Sanchez laughs.

more simplified rhythm section, giving room for more guitar,” Dan says, “It’s gone a bit bluesy in parts, for the new songs.” The first release from this new collection of tunes is Time To Wait, a stalking, riff-heavy monster with curt, desensitised vocals: “Are you hanging out, out on the street / Tell me what you smell and see / The longest day, the shortest hour, the price we pay / It’s a long, long time to wait, when nothing’s happening.” Dan says that most of his songs are about Collingwood, where he lives, the every day simple life on the streets. “I don’t write about characters, surreal dreams or politics. Just things I relate to. My house has had some weird events happen over the years, so it gets a lot of shout outs. I write and record alot on my own then I present it to the band, who then put in their input.” Mass Cult are releasing Time To Wait as a 7” this week, ahead of a third album proper. “I’ve written the next album and we’ve recorded five songs…

we’ll save the cash and go back in a couple of months in the studio to ﬁnish ﬁve more tracks for the album release next year. The new album is more dynamic, upbeat, [with] more guitars and more punk,” Dan explains. Mass Cult are part of a very healthy garage/punk scene in Melbourne, with a constant churn of new bands and new records, and a devoted knot of fans to support them. Dan plans to feed the scene as long as he can, and enjoy the spoils of being a gigging musician. “[My aim is to] just to keep releasing material, have a catalogue of releases I’m proud of, and to keeping learning new skills along the way,” he says, “To keep playing gigs and to tour internationally…[we want] more album sales, more exposure, more buzz and to keep playing with bands we dig.”

RIVER OF SNAKES launch their new 7” at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday August 18.

MASS CULT

BY SIGGY JAVOTNIK

Mass Cult came into being in late 2007, in Dan Trolley’s lounge room, when he and his housemates decided to cut a few demos – a rough and ready project befitting the gnarly lo-fi sounds that Dan had created. They laid down five tracks, and then Dan decided to get a proper band together – a five-piece featuring players from Sailors and Swine, TTT and the Dead South called Mass Cult Suicide. “We played a handful of shows in Melbourne. I then wrote the debut album and we recorded it in three different locations. When it was complete I approached Mickster [Mick Baty] from Off The Hip records, who released it in 2009,” Dan explains, “We got a very positive response locally and overseas from Europe and college radio in the States.” Their eponymous record picked up fans in Germany and Spain as well as in their hometown, which inspired Dan to take the whole project a little more seriously. “Having so many members in different bands made it hard to get everyone in the room at one time and we never really built momentum playing gigs. I really wanted to push the album and not treat the band like a side project - I needed members who would give time to the project,” he says. By 2010, Dan had changed the line-up and shortened the name, from Mass Cult Suicide to the pithier Mass Cult. He found a new guitarist in his new girlfriend, Yolanda De Rose, and a drummer in Max Whiteman.

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“[Yolanda] played the songs note to note perfect and she was very enthusiastic,” Dan explains. “I met Max through friend’s bands, on the first rehearsal he was 20 minutes late, so he bought us a bottle of vodka to apologise. He was hired after that.” The new improved Mass Cult “felt like a new start” for Dan, who was now playing bass in addition to singing lead. They recorded the 2011 album This Ain’t No Paradise, which picked up community radio airplay and brought the band a whole new audience. Dan wasn’t happy with it, however, dubbing it a difficult sophomore album a ‘lo-fi pop album’ that drew a lukewarm response compared to the Mass Cult Suicide debut. In the year since This Ain’t No Paradise came out, Mass Cult have returned to a heavier sound, influenced by The Saints, Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers, and The Gun Club. “There is definitely more energy with the three of us; it’s way more stripped-back and there’s a much

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MASS CULT launch their single Time To Wait at Yah Yah’s on Friday August 17, with guests Heavy Beach, Smoke Signal and Cut

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The Smith Street Band have promptly added a new Melbourne launch show after their first Melbourne show in months sold out rather hastily. If you missed tickets to their Tote gig you can now see them at The Reverence on Sunday August 26 with Jamie Hay, Maricopa Wells and Sweet Teens. Gig starts at 3pm. Orchestral art rockers The Red Paintings have announced a run of Aussie shows this September before heading to the UK and Europe this October. They’ll play at Melbourne’s Progfest on September 8 before continuing the Chinese Whispers tour in Geelong at The National on Sunday September 9 and Melbourne’s Ding Dong on Thursday September 13. In another win for crowd funding, local film makers Syndicate Films have successfully raised 100% of the funds required to complete production on an upcoming Cosmic Psychos documentary. Meanwhile Sydney band Gay Paris are trying to raise funds to put out their next album. Their rewards for contributions include ‘individual phone calls from each member on your birthday for the next five years’ and re-enactments of the fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally.

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Coheed And Cambria will release a new album, with two installments to be released over six months. The Afterman: Ascension will drop on October 9 and the second installment, The Descension will arrive in February. Frontman Claudio Sanchez has said of the album, “This is without a doubt the most honest record I’ve ever written.” Bodyjar will be headlining a beneﬁt show this Thursday after their mate's café Miss Succulent burned down a few weeks ago leaving both proprietors hospitalized and an epic adamage bill. Jonesz and Steelbirds will join the ‘Jar at the Northcote Social Club from 7.30pm. Good tunes, good cause. Tassie’s Luca Brasi have also announced the release of a 7” via Poison City Records. Fittingly titled Tassie, it was recorded with labelmate Lincoln le Fevre and it’ll be out on September 24. Soundwave Melbourne is locked in for Friday March 1, and will feature a host of punk and metal legends. Metallica is will headline this year with numetal/old school luminaries Linkin Park, A Perfect Circle, Oﬀspring, Garbage and Stone Sour.

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Okay, so I’m a Geoff Tate fan, right? I liked his solo album, he was one of the best interviews I’ve ever had, I wish him well in whatever he does now that he’s been fired from Queensryche, and I wish none of this happened, but it did and as a geeky QR fan I just have to deal with it. But I squirm a bit when I see the website of his agent Monterey International listing him as “Queensryche Starring Geoff Tate The Original Voice.” Please, no ‘two Queensryches’ situation like LA Guns and Great White, okay?

A reminder: Nasum are here this month as part of their 20th anniversary/final farewell tour. With four full length albums, countless 7”s, MCDs and a plethora of compilation appearances, Nasum were unstoppable and the undisputed kings of the grind scene until their untimely and tragic end, when vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk died in Thailand during the tsunami of 2004. After long deliberation they decided to reunite and do a handful of shows around the world in 2012 to celebrate their 20th anniversary and say a final goodbye to the fans and Mieszko. Rotten Sound vocalist Keijo Niinimaa is at the mic. Supports include Dyscarnate (UK), Captain Cleanoff, and Tasmanian extreme metal horde Psycroptic. It’s Psycroptic’s first Australian tour since the release of their critically acclaimed new album The Inherited Repression. Sunday August 19 at The Hi-Fi.

By now you’ve surely seen the line-up for Soundwave: Metallica, Linkin Park, Anthrax, Tomahawk, Garbage, A Perfect Circle, Paramore, Duﬀ McKagan’s Loaded (who were responsible for one of my favourite albums of 2011, The Taking), Fozzy, Flogging Molly, Sum 41, The Lawrence Arms, Lucero, Six Feet Under, Blink 182, Stone Sour, Cancer Bats, the Oﬀspring, Periphery, Ghost, Kyuss Lives, Dragonforce and many more. It’ll be very interesting to see how it runs this time around, since there will be no dedicated metal stage because nobody wants to go up against Metallica’s two-hour set. There’s already a lot of speculation on the internets about who will be named in the second announcement (Megadeth seems to be very high on the wishlist), and I know a lot of bands I’ve interviewed have expressed an interest and/or asked me to pass along their details to Soundwave. Who do you want to see? Soundwave is in Melbourne on Friday March 1, 2013. General public tickets on sale Thursday August 23 at 9am.

BY JESSICA WILLOUGHBY The legend of seminal Swedish grindcore outﬁt Nasum grew from great tragedy. A band truly ahead of their time, the input this sextet had on the still-developing extreme metal community throughout the ‘90s is undeniable. Fusing elements of death metal and crust with grind, they set the stage for a wave of bands looking to emulate their sound. But the meteoric rise of these Orebro-based musicians was not to last. When the Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand claimed the life of vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk in 2004, naturally the remaining members felt it was time to call it quits. But the abrupt end lacked the closure needed to put Nasum to rest, according to bassist Jesper Liveröd. Now, eight years later, the band feels the time is right

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Adelaide natives Coerce will drop a four track vinyl and digital release titled Genome this coming October. The recording will take place at a pop up studio in Carlton’s Trades Hall.

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Journey guitarist Neal Schon will release a solo instrumental album called The Calling in October via Frontiers Records. Schon plays guitar and bass on the album (as well as producing), while former Journey drummer Steve Smith appears on all twelve tracks. Schon set up shop at Berkeley’s famed Fantasy Studios during a break from Journey’s busy touring schedule, and recorded the album, completely from scratch, in just four days. He handed over the tracks to two keyboard masters, Igor Len and Jan Hammer (Jeﬀ Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra) to ﬂesh out the music.

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Poison City are trying to exhaust us to our very core by adding yet another event to the Weekender Festival. They’ve just announced the Pre-Kender Party which is set to take place the eve before Poison City Weekender at The Gasometer. Thursday September 13 will host several bands (TBA) in the upstairs and downstairs rooms.

THURSDAY AUGUST 16: While The City Sleeps, Broadway at Next Bodyjar, Jonesez, Steel Birds at Northcote Social Club FRIDAY AUGUST 17: House Vs Hurricane, Confession, In Hearts Wake at Pakenham Hall The City Shakeup at Mynt Lounge The Zoobombs, Mesa Cosa, Baptism of Uzi, Bat Piss at The Tote Pandorum, High Side Driver, Disgruntled Bruntle, Written In Ruins at The Evelyn SATURDAY AUGUST 18: Vanity, Surrender, Free World, Term Four, Wonders at The Reverence Deathcage, Iron Worzel, Debacle, Kromosom, Haittajat at The Bendigo River Of Snakes, Damn Terran, Sun God Replica, Dead River at The Northcote Social Club Zoobombs, Empra, The Deep End, Disgruntled Bruntle at The Espy Transit, Anchors, Apart From This at Bang Fireballs at The HiFi Sydonia, Glass Empire, Beggars Orchestra, Alithia at The Evelyn SUNDAY AUGUST 19: Nasum, Psycroptic at The HiFi Transit, Anchors, Like Royalty, The Mimes at Phoenix Youth Center

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Sweden’s death metal titans Hypocrisy are playing at The Hi-Fi on Saturday January 19 – yeah, that’s quite a while a way, but tickets are on sale now so you might as well pick one up with your tax refund money, right? Tickets are available from Oztix, Moshtix and The Hi-Fi. Nice to see that the tour even visits our metal brethren in Perth, who have to miss out on a lot of cool stuﬀ due to their stubborn insistence on being so far away from the east coast.

Alexisonﬁre fans can breathe easy. Australia is on their list of countries to visit for their very brief Farewell Tour this year. Beginning in London and ending in Toronto the tour lands at Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion on Tuesday December 11 and Melbourne’s Festival Hall on Wednesday December 12. There’s a pre-sale for the tour with VIP bundles available including meet and greets. Presale is on RIGHT NOW via Chugg Entertainment.

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Pyramid Rock Festival has taken on a distinctly heavier feel this year with their lineup consisting of some punk and hardcore heavyweights (well at least the ones that Soundwave didn’t nab ﬁrst). Anti-Flag, Closure In Moscow, Dream On Dreamer, Hands Like Houses and House Vs Hurricane will all appear on the lineup for this year’s New Year’s Festival. Tickets available from September 4.

to say goodbye to their friend and will be marking the occasion with a string of shows to celebrate. “We are deﬁnitely not capitalising on death,” Liveröd says. “It’s quite the opposite actually. The shows are not so much a eulogy for Mieszko, but we just wanted to celebrate his life. I guess the hardest part really was when we started rehearsing two years before the farewell tour. We didn’t feel bad, but it does feel a bit strange without him. I remember sitting down and writing these songs with him. But he is ever present and we still talk about him a lot – about past tours we did and things like that. We are all having a good time hanging out, which is something we haven’t done in a long time. All the shows are passing so quickly, so I’m trying to savour the experience.” With the tour also marking the band’s 20th anniversary, Keijo Niinimaa (Rotten Sound) has been given the monumental task of ﬁlling Talarczyk’s shoes. Although Liveröd notes no man could replace the energy of their late-frontman, Niinimaa was Nasum’s only choice. “We wanted someone who had a connection to the band,” he says. “Rotten Sound had been around the same time as Nasum, we had toured a few times together and Mieszko had recorded a few of their albums. When we were discussing possible singers, we just kept coming

THE LEVITATION HEX WILL DESTROY MELBOURNE The Levitation Hex will perform their debut Melbourne show on Friday August 17 at The Bendigo Hotel with A Million Dead Birds Laughing, Abrasion and the newly-formed Hours In Exhile. “But dude,” I hear you ask, “Who or what is The Levitation Hex?” It’s the new band featuring Adam Agius ex-Alchemist), Mark Palfreyman (Alarum) Ben Hocking (Aeon of Horus) and Scott Young (ex-Alarum). They arose from the ashes of Alchemist and were initially conceived by Agius to create a heavy psychedelic prog sound similar to Alchemist but at the same time a completely new beast.

GIG ALERT: BLACK MAJESTY LAUNCH STARGAZER The mighty Black Majesty will launch their new CD Stargazer at The Prague on Saturday August 18. New Stargazer merchandise will be on sale on the night and support will come from Envenomed and Keys To Perdition. Doors open at 8pm. The album is out on July 20 via Limb Music.

back to him. So he was the only one we offered the job to. Thankfully he accepted and now we are playing some of the craziest gigs we’ve ever done. We played Hellfest in France in front of 10,000 people, which was insane. We’ve played festivals before, but never in front of that many. We’ve really put ourselves up for scrutiny and it’s turning out really well.” Signing off on the final chapter for Nasum has brought with it a sense of satisfaction, with Liveröd the first to say returning to the older material brought deep

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COSMIC PSYCHOS FILM REACHES FUNDING TARGET The Cosmic Psychos crowd-funded documentary Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust has reached 100% of its $28,000 goal via Australian crowd funding site pozible.com. Director Matt Weston thought he’d give the crowdfunding model a shot to try and raise half of the funds required to complete the project. With a strong trailer featuring Eddie Vedder, Butch Vig, The Melvins and Mudhoney, the ﬁlm resonated with both old fans and music fans alike, with over 11k hits coming from the US. Pledgers received rewards from a limited edition producer T-shirt and invitation to the launch party in country Victoria for $100, through to the band playing in your shed or cooking you a three-course meal for $5000, and the target was reached in only 30 days! The campaign is still active until Monday 31st August giving fans and supporters the opportunity to contribute. The ﬁlm will complete production by December 2012, and screenings are expected for early 2013.

reflection. But he is happy that Australians will now get to see the band, even if it is only in reformation. “I think finally getting over to you is a dream come true to us and I hope we can live up to your expectations.” NASUM play their 20th anniversary farewell show at The Hi-Fi this Sunday August 19 with special guests Psycroptic in their first Australian shows in 12 months, UK death metal warriors Dyscarnate and Captain Cleanoff. Tickets from Moshtix.

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You know that bit in Step Brothers where the family sings Sweet Child O’ Mine in the car? Well, Josh Ramsay is pretty much that boy in the backseat. “Where most families play, I don’t know, I Spy,” he says, “my mother and father would each sing a note and we would have to guess which chord it was. So that was a sort of game to me, when I was a kid at two or three or four.” As the lead singer and primary songwriter for Canada’s pop punk outfit Marianas Trench, Ramsay is bringing the melodic and meticulously produced sound of third album Ever After live to our shores in September. It’s a style in the vein of dude groups like Blink-182 and Simple Plan (whom Marianas Trench have toured with), and claims the colourful, slapstick, self-deriding videos they’re loved for too. And if you haven’t heard of them now, you’ll be acquainted in a few short weeks. Ramsay credits his afore-mentioned very musical upbringing with his ability to dexterously produce ideas for harmonies and songs. His parents were both singers and his father owned a studio. “I was learning about engineering and producing and stuff when I was eight years old,” he explains. “I thought everyone was a musician until I was about ten... I guess I was a little more suited to [writing music] than some other people. It’s not like I sit down at a piano and write it, it’s more like I just hear it all in my head. I picture the melodies, and what the chords would be to support the melody, and I just write it all internally.” Confessing himself an equipment nut, he now owns his own studio in which he recently co-wrote and produced Carly Rae Jepsen’s current hit Call Me Maybe. “[It has] a full console, and a guitar collection on the back wall and stuff. I’m in there right now actually, working for a really popular artist but I can’t tell you who because they haven’t approved it yet,” he chuckles with the finger-waggling tone of an uncle telling me I can’t eat a Kit Kat before dinner. Recently nominated for a Juno award, the band are blessed with an adoring fanbase in Canada. “We’re very fortunate,” says Ramsay. “Our most recent album went gold in the first week which was really exciting to me. Once we get back from Australia we’re going into an arena tour, like a stadium tour, across Canada. So I guess that’s sort of the level we’re at here.” Performing in venues of such a size affords the four-piece space to jambon up their theatrical side. “You can do a whole bunch of cool stuff: video walls, explosions, or if you want to fly through the air,” Ramsay laughs. “This show we’ve been starting with a jack-in-thebox: it winds itself up, and then I pop out. I think it’s part of my background from acting, too. I don’t want it just to be a concert; I want it to be more like a show, and actually have a beginning, middle and end: like a play.” The plan for the music videos was similar, as the idea was to create a story across several clips. Looking for the right actress for the extended role was laborious but the band eventually scooped Darla Taylor, a Vancouver native who responded marvellously to Ramsay’s “improv acting” in the auditions and who embodied “evil, but who also had a bit of a Snow White quality,” Ramsay explains. “Luckily [we] got along really well, because we had to do a lot of intimate scenes together.”

“I DON’T WANT IT JUST TO BE A CONCERT; I WANT IT TO BE MORE LIKE A SHOW, AND ACTUALLY HAVE A BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND END: LIKE A PLAY.” It looks like there are already several thousand fans who’d like to get intimate with Ramsay, and the band’s Facebook page promotes a system of points and rankings for fans depending on how they spread the word. “You have a lot more access to bands that you might like and you can feel like you know every member of the band,” Ramsay muses on social media. “And that’s cool to me... it’s sort of like you support each other, and if the band does well it’s because the fans contributed. It sort of makes every success the band might have, also their success.” However, he also laments the loss of magic familiarity has fostered. “I wish we could have a way where we could have a relationship with bands where some of that fun mystique and stuﬀ could still exist too, but I don’t know if those things can co-exist together.” If the trick is to embrace, these guys are hitting their straps fast.

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RED INK Armed with a swag of killer new tracks, Melbourne’s Red Ink are hitting the road and will be launching their latest single Euphoria at Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne on Friday August 17 with support from The DieCasts and The Black Alleys. Currently enjoying spins on community radio, Euphoria is the ﬁrst taste of Red Ink’s EP The Colour Age and is available now as a free download via iTunes and Spotify. Produced by Craig Harnath and Jez Giddings of HotHouse Studios (Wilco, Cut Copy, Oasis, Midnight Juggernauts, Franz Ferdinand), Euphoria is a carefully crafted indie pop gem, initially conceived in the band’s early stages and fatefully revived during an introspective moment in 2011. Tickets available via Oztix for $17.50 a head.

PETER BLACK Peter Black, axe wielder of Aussie punk legends Hard Ons and Nunchukka Superfly, drops his second solo LP No Dangerous Gods In Tunnel – an acoustic pop journey everyone needs to take. Earlier this year Black was the victim of a brutal assault whilst at work driving a cab. Hard Ons were forced to cancel their remaining tour dates whilst he recovered in hospital. Melbourne punters came out in droves to support him via two sold out benefit shows at The Tote and The Gasometer (not to mention other benefits across the country and overseas). He is now on the road to recovery and these are some of his first shows back. Come down to the show at The Tote Hotel this Sunday August 19 at 6pm to welcome Peter Black back onto the stage. The show includes guests Laura Imbruglia, BJ Morriszonkle and Link Meanie. $10. He also plays The Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine on Friday August 17 with Laura Imbruglia. $10, 8.30pm.

THE DUB CAPTAINS The Dub Captains are pleased to announce their inaugural reggae party at Fitzroy’s Luwow on Thursday August 16. Performing their inimitable brand of pacific reggae and surf-rock defined by their unique lyrical narrative and exceptional five-part vocal harmonies, The Dub Captains feature a cast of thousands to deliver the uplifting oceanic songs that have seen the band become a real live staple in Fitzroy over the last few months. Joining the guys and girls on the night will be another great supporter of Melbourne’s pocket-sized reggae scene San Salvador, who since forming in 2007 have certainly created an experience of reverb soaked vocal and horn melodies soaring over heavy drum and bass grooves. Opening things up will be a solo set from The Dub Captains own pint-sized, keyboard genius Dru Chen (Dru & The Intentions) getting the party started with his plastic soul hits, so reggae-loving punters are encouraged to get there early. Doors 8pm and tickets available at the door.

MICHAEL MEEKING & THE LOST SOULS What becomes of the broken-hearted? Michael Meeking’s previous album, Where To From Here, was an acclaimed break-up record. Ride On is the story of what happens next – the sound of healing and hope. After six years in London, Michael returned home to Melbourne and re-formed The Lost Souls (Julien Chick on bass, Chris Gates on guitar, and Dave Kleynjans on drums). Their exquisite playing is a highlight of Ride On and soul queen Kylie Auldist (The Bamboos) is a welcome surprise in a stunning duet. It’s called Gentle, but Michael and Kylie whip up a mighty groove. Meeking's new album shows that he’s capable of crafting classic songs that sit comfortably alongside Australian artists such as Neil Murray, Mick Thomas, Dan Warner and The Black Sorrows. The band launches the album on Sunday August 19 at The Penny Black with special guest Dan Warner, $10 entry.

THE SIMON WRIGHT BAND A few of you may remember the good ol' days of Monday nights at The Evelyn with Simon Wright and The Eclective. Well they're back! Only now its Tuesdays. Each week The Simon Wright Band will be joined by some of Melbourne's freshest funk, soul and hip hop acts as well DJ Huw Joseph. So pull your drinking hat out of the closet and dust oﬀ your dancing shoes. Tuesday nights just got awesome. Doors 8.30pm.

KEITH IS DEAD If you love shaking your perfect little tush to impossibly sexy dance-beats then come to The Evelyn on Monday August 20 for Keith is Dead #3. Australasia's spunkiest party posse Keith! Party have curated yet another night of cutting-edge beat-craft and irresistible doof - it's going to be a no-holds-barred ﬂirt-fest. Live showcase from L-Burn Illuminati and hot DJ sets from streetwax and Keith! Party. Keith is Dead will be held every Monday night in August. Doors 8pm, free entry. Beat Magazine Page 50

Direct from Spain, Johnny Casino brings you his Spanish rock'n'roll circus Johnny Casino Y Los Secretos. The 'ramblin gamblin' man has a band just about everywhere on this planet and this time he brings to you a rock'n'roll ﬁesta direct from Spain. On the bateria (drums) Isidro Rubio (The Venereans and Wau Y Los Arrrghs!!!), on bajo (bass) Julian Marco (Los Perros and Monkey Dog), on guitarra (guitar) Aitor Ochoa (Soul Gestapo and Los Tupper). The band was roped together for Johnny's last tour of Spain and had so much fun they decided to make there way down under. The show will be launching the new Johnny Casino double gatefold 7" Ahora Es El Momento/Now Is The Time. The singles were recorded in Australia and Spain featuring two new Casino penned originals and a cover of Spencer P Jones’ Trick My Boat Wrong and Nic Nicotine's I Let You Down. Jive to Johnny Casino and his Spanish band on Friday August 17 at The Espy (with Midnight Woolf), Saturday August 18 at Yah Yah’s (with The Swingin' Nutsacks and The Reprobettes) and Sunday August 19 at The Retreat (with Bratwurst Brats).

TRAPPIST AFTERLAND Trappist Afterland are the songs and music of Adam Cole. The debut, Burrowing To Light In The Land Of Nod is available now through Melbourne record label Spirits' Tongues/The True Vine. This coincides with the split double album (Tales of Lucifer Mosquito, Parts One And Two) with Happily Ever Afterland Band. Trappist Afterland make spirit music for the dispossessed. They explore psychedelia, ritualism and chanting amidst folk songs. Trappist Afterland play two consecutive Sundays at Yah Yah's. The ﬁrst on Sunday Aug 19 features the talented Julitha Rya. Julitha has performed and recorded with Silver Ray, The Dead Salesmen, The Hope Addicts, Hugo Race and Mick Harvey to name a few. Earlier this year Julitha Ryan released her ﬁrst solo album The Lucky Girl. Doors at 5pm with live music starting at 7.30pm. Free entry.

PEARLS Bar Open favourites Pearls return to play a show with Tax, Repairs and Exhaustion. Pearls deliver their songs with a forceful melancholy that captures the contradictions of what if feels like to love and be loved over the top of howl of organ drones and screaming guitars. Second support comes from TAX (featuring members of Lakes, Mum Smokes, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam) with scream-esque, Alan Vega-loving Repairs. Opening the night is the fresh band Exhaustion who make Antipodean-harsh-pub-psyche and boast members of Deaf Wish, Ooga Boogas and Keith Yards. See the show on Thursday August 16. Doors 9pm. Free entry.

THE REPROBETTES Lock up your sons everyone, all-girl garage growlers The Reprobettes are on the loose – and they're out to get every thrill they can beg, buy or steal. Delinquent jailbreakers, divine and deadly. Check them out at Yah Yah's Saturday August 18 with Johnny Casino Y Los Secretos and The Swingin Nutsacks.

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NITRO NITRO Top Fuel Entertainment! at Trak Lounge Bar is excited to provide Melbourne’s latest avenue for the best hard edged, rock’n’roll and alternative classics. Brought to you by Julie Marrington, past promoter of the very legendary and world wide famous Outlaw Hard’n’Fast and her crew. On Friday August 31, opening this night will be Electric Mary who’ll be playing their first gig in five months after returning back from a highly successful Japan tour. DJs Diamond Deb (Hard’n’Fast, Goo & House of Rock) and B On The Rocks (House of Rock) will be spinning your very favourite top classic tracks from Nirvana to Beastie Boys to RHCP starting at 9pm 'til 3am. The first 300 people through the will receive Electric Mary’s latest CD containing two brand new tracks not yet released in Australia. For discounted entry, grab the ad in this week's Beat or in the August 29 edition or grab a flyer from various record shops and you have a $20 entry pass. $25 on the door. If you want to make sure you get in, call 9826 9000 with flyer/ad in hand (also needs to be presented on night) and get yourself a prepaid $20 ticket.

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WILD TURKEY Local Melbourne psychobilly and rockabilly trio Wild Turkey are celebrating 24 years on the road this month. Since forming in 1988, the band has released four CDs locally and also had international distribution through Nervous Records in the UK. Wild Turkey have tracks on numerous compilation CDs and were also featured in several Australian TV show soundtracks including Good Guys Bad Guys and Stingers. Wild Turkey ﬁrst toured the USA in 2006 and have been back annually ever since – they are the ﬁrst and only Aussie band to perform at Bonneville Speedweek on the Salt in Wendover Utah. The bands iconic vehicle, a 1959 Ford Hearse, also shows the strong links the group has with the traditional '50s Hotrod and Kustom car culture scene where they perform at many events throughout Australia and the US. Wild Turkey are performing at Yah Yah's on Saturday August 11 with Dirty Harriet and the Road Ratz and have the huge 24th birthday party at The Retreat Hotel on Saturday August 18 with special guests Doubleblack.

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Mansion, Alaska hit up The Evelyn stage once again with a host of friends for their ﬁrst headline show since signing with youth run record label Decibels. In the process of recording their debut EP the band are set to showcase some new songs, having tiptoed their way past their folk duo beginnings into a ﬁve piece art rock band that seamlessly blend ambient electronics and intricate guitar lines. Support on the night comes from Sleep Decade, Sun Raaaa (who boast members of Scotdrakula and Secretive George), Dark Arts and Sunk Junk. Get down to the Evelyn on Thursday August 16 for all the action.

PANDORUM Since their return from performing at the Music Matters Festival in Singapore, Pandorum is back to Australian shores for an epic night at The Evelyn Hotel on Friday August 17. The show is their ﬁrst hometown gig for some time and they come back armed with a few little surprises. Support on the night comes from High Side Driver, the brilliantly named Disgruntled Bruntle and Written In Ruins.

SYDONIA Sydonia will be touring nationally throughout August and September to promote their latest release: the EP, Words That Don't Exist, featuring their latest single, TL. This Melbourne four piece artfully meld melodic hooks with wall of sound guitars and precise percussive potency and have played enough shows in enough places to startle you with their professional yet grass roots approach to creating and performing. Still without doubt, one of the must see live acts in Australia. Catch them at the Evelyn Hotel on Saturday August 18.

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MASS CULT Time To Wait is the brand new single from Mass Cult and the ﬁrst single oﬀ their third album which is due for release early next year. Mass Cult have a raw heavy guitar driven approach to their own garage punk style, incorporating dynamic shifts, soaring guitar solos and heavy rhythm section. Time To Wait will be launched at Yah Yah's Friday August 17 with special guests Heavy Beach, Smoke Signal and Cut. Doors open at 5pm with bands starting at 9pm. Free Entry.

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Define your genre in five words or less: Hard rock/alternative. What do you love about making music? There’s nothing better than creating something with your best friends, and when we can’t help but dance to a part we have come up with it’s very exciting. What do you hate about the music industry? Not many people care about the music. It’s all about how many tickets you can sell. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Definitely Led Zeppelin. Show them our stuff, become good friends, use their plane. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it be and why? One Direction. Could not contain my rage when they were compared to The Beatles. What can a punter expect from your live show? Lots of energy, lots of spinning, and spilt drinks. All to a hard-rockin’ entertaining soundtrack. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our debut EP All You Can Eat, available now on iTunes. Definitely worth a listen. When’s the gig and with who? Saturday August 18 at The Nash Hotel, Geelong. With fellow Sydney band Dawn of The Ages and Melbourne band Them Bruins! Starts at 9pm and entry is only $5! Describe the worst gig you have ever played. A gig we played a while ago at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney. We used a drum kit supplied by another band. There was no drum key to adjust the toms, and I’m sure these tom drums were from different kits. I did my best to set it up with what I had, but midway through the very first song it began to fall apart. I ended up playing the next 40 minutes with only a kick and snare drum. It wasn’t the best show for us, but I guess the mixture of anger and just letting loose because nothing else could go wrong proved to be very entertaining. The crowd loved it.

Playing Tuesdays this August are The Grand Rapids, who will be hitting up the front bar at The Tote Hotel with guests The Svens. Entry is free and doors open at 8pm.

CHERRY BAR It's another massive week at Cherry Bar with the Vice Grip Pussies continuing their August residency with special new support on Wednesday August 15. The following night is the king Elvis Presley's 35th anniversary with Fraser A. Gorman set to play a couple of a tunes to commemorate the occasion. Thnkr headline proceedings on Friday August 17 while on Saturday August 18 it's the 40th anniversary of David Bowie's classic album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and EVEN will performing the album track-bytrack. Sunday August 19 sees Chris Milson and The Incredible Kicks playing with open mic night on the following Monday. Finally, Patron Saints continue their August residency on Tuesday with two sets from 9pm. It's a huge week at Cherry Bar, as per usual.

LOVE LIKE HATE Brisbane dark pop outﬁt, Love Like Hate, release their debut EP Rabbit Hole; emotional, honest and instinctive rock, blended with hints of early post-punk and delicate melodies that pay tribute to some of music’s most notables – PJ Harvey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pat Benetar, Joan Jett and Patti Smith. Bonding over a mutual love of epic ballads, Love Like Hate recorded the ﬁve track EP Rabbit Hole with Lachlan Mitchell (The Jezabels). Featuring lead single 21, Love Like Hate will be celebrating the new release with a launch at The Cornish Arms on Friday August 17.

RIVER OF SNAKES After what’s turned into a very busy year, including ﬁnding a new drummer and a stack of shows all over the east-coast, it’s a wonder where River Of Snakes found the time to record. Well, somehow they did between rehearsals and soy lattes on High St, and the new 7” which is out now on Thornbury Records. A blend of all things punk, rock, scuzz and noise, the 7" comes out as a limited numbered run of 300 copies, half in black and half in baby pink, with download cards and everything. Catch them at their launch with guests Damn Terran, Sun God Replica and Dead River on Saturday August 18 at the Northcote Social Club.

ARTIST PROOF Artist Proof bring their emotionally charged, cinematic rock music to The Evelyn Hotel on Sunday August 19. With support from the exceptionally talented Dearly Wish, and powerhouse singer-songwriter Mel Calia, the night boasts three equally brilliant yet diverse takes on popular music.

SARAH EiDA Sarah EiDA has been heavily involved in Melbourne's live music scene for over eight years. This August she is ready to explode with her debut album, Lady Wolf, an eclectic collection of dirty blues beats paralleled with a modern burlesque twist. Along with her band The Garden Of Eida, Sarah promises a night of dark fairytale magic that would rival any Brothers Grimm fantasy. Check it all out at the Evelyn Hotel on Sunday August 19.

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SECRET BAR OPEN HEADLINER SHOW Bar Open throws a killer Sunday evening party starring Melbourne’s answer to The Slits: new girls on the block Mangel Wurzel who will cause raucous with their riot babe antics. The night also stars Big Face And The Boogie Woogie Boys who will delight with their Zombie paradise surf tunes, as well as a cheeky guest appearance by Mesa Cosa DJs playing Peruvian garage rock hits and best of all a super-surprise-international-mysteryguest who will say farewell to our great city with an explosive show that's not to be missed. $10 at the door this Sunday August 19 at 6pm.

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SPERMAIDS Spermaids are headlining The Grace Darling band room on Friday August 17. They've been turning confused heads on the Melbourne circuit for just over a year now with their odd version of heavy experimentation, using an array of eﬀects and loops to compensate their small-band syndrome. Playing support are their fellow two-piece heroes Duck Duck Chop and radical hustlers The Shabbab. Both fresh from the studio and ready to sex your face then whip you up a nice sandwich. Doors open at 9pm and it’s $7 per head.

NO ZEBRA No Zebra are an alternative rock band who love playing live shows for the public. They all have different influences and those influences collide when they write music to produce a distinct sound. They’re doing a show at IDGAFF Bar on Hoddle St in Abbotsford this Friday August 17 with their friends Gateway To The Sky, Keep Still and Scuzzlebutt and The Aardvarks. No Zebra are on at 11pm for 45 minutes. Head down for a potential-filled night.

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The Victoria Hotel has heaps of shows coming up in midAugust that are sure to see you through to Spring. On Friday August 17 The Argyles are launching their new EP alongside performances by The TV Set and The Nuff Nuffs. On Saturday August 18 The Red Hot Rhythmakers will jazz up your Saturday night while Fruit Jar will be slapping the double bass on Sunday August 19. Fox Road and guests take up the Saturday August 25 slot while George Hyde and Josh Seymour round out the weekend on Sunday August 26. The Brazillionaires finish off the packed month of August playing a set on the last Friday of the month, August 31.

Having spent the past few months knuckled down in his home studio recording his debut EP City, Hayden Calnin is set to launch its release at Melbourne’s much loved Workers Club in Fitzroy on Friday August 24 with special guests Lowlakes and Tom Milek. With music described as progressive folk, comparable to Bon Iver and James Blake, Calnin’s self-produced, City is a musical documentation of his life experiences after leaving his hometown in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula to live in inner city Melbourne. Showcasing intricate layers of ‘folktronic’ production, honest storytelling and vocals that swing between tip toeing falsettos and warm, husky tones, don't miss what's sure to be an unforgettable show.

HOLOCAUST IN YOUR HEAD 2012 Beerache presents Holocaust In Your Head 2012 at The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday August 18 for its second and biggest night of 2012. The night of madness will be headlined by Sydney's thrash punk legends Deathcage. They are joined by Adelaide’s stoner crust icons Iron Worzel who are returning to Melbourne to annihilate local fans again, and Brisbane's noise punkers Heroin SS who will be launching their ﬁrst attack on Melbourne. To keep the interstate onslaught under control, local d-beat heavyweights Kromosom and Calder Hwy's ﬁnest crusty grind act Debacle will open up the evening. Head down to The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday August 18 for a night of punk craziness.

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CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN' RACKETTES Following on from their Love Letter tour, power diva Clairy Browne and her harmonising girl gang The Bangin’ Rackettes are getting ready to settle in at The Toﬀ for the month of August. Known for their dynamic live shows and their contemporary take on old sounds of soul, r’n’b and doo-wop, the songs tell a story of the hear-and-now and are delivered through Clairy's ballsy voice, the intricate vocal chants and choreography of The Bangin' Rackettes and McNulty's baritone sax leading the big band. Over the course of this residency, Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes will unveil their culty, family-ways with a series of collaborations and special guests. Each night their guests will play on their own as well as joining CBBR on the stage in one big seamless set of revolving musicians, vocalists and special one oﬀ moments. Drop in on this week's session on Tuesday August 21 for special guest Stella Angelico. Tickets $15 though Moshtix or $20 on the door. Doors open 8pm.

OWEN CAMPBELL & MUSTERED COURAGE Owen Campbell has recently gained popular notoriety for his amazing and controversial stint on Channel 7 TV show Australia's Got Talent. The slide guitarist with a 'bad attitude' got off on the wrong foot with the judges in his initial audition which made for some awkward moments and fantastic reality television. He is making his way to The Toff In Town tonight to do what he does best – play some fine roots music. Mustered Courage delivers a new breed of bluegrass; blending traditional elements of the style with a soulful and alternative twist, all sprinkled with a rock'n’roll mentality. Tickets are $20 through Moshtix or $25 on the door from 7.30pm.

THE DARK ALES Vintage grunge rockers The Dark Ales are heading to the Great Britain Hotel to plug their recently launched debut album Edges Of The Day. Purveyors of intense, brooding and frequently explosive music, they play rock the old-school way, with attitude and dirty guitars, layered on thick with stomping drums, growling bass guitar and wailing retro organ sounds. Joined by the raggedly swaggering shoe-gaze trio Tender Bones, The Dark Ales are primed for an evening of revivalist grunge and prog mayhem. Catch it all Thursday August 16, 8pm. Free.

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VHS CLUB Barﬂy Trevor Block wanted to recreate an archetypal '80s shelf of VHS tapes. He’s been sharing his collection at a casual, weekly VHS night at Fitzroy’s Old Bar. There’ll be cult classics like Mad Max, fan favourite sequels like Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, and deﬁantly obscure movies like Syngenor. There's no big projection to watch it on, just sit at the bar and watch it on the big TV. Although Trev might not be there every Monday, they've decided to keep it going. Popcorn, booze and VHS. Every Monday from 6pm, free. Check the website for which movies will be shown. Monday nights at The Old Bar.

POLO CLUB It’s been almost three years since Polo Club dropped their Triple R album of the week The 13. Fast forward to the present, and the former genre-defying electro duo have evolved into a four-piece indie-dance party live-act that have been tearing up the Melbourne live scene with some massive international supports including Roots Manuva, Theophilus London and Das Racist, as well as producing a number of standout festival sets. Tonight will see the release of Polo Club’s long-awaited new EP She’ll Never Know, mixed by renowned producer Tony Espie (Cut Copy, Midnight Juggernauts, Avalanches). With support coming from 8 Bit Love, Deja and DJ Mangohig (from futuristic R&B outﬁt Sietta), this night promises to be one huge party. Saturday August 18, tickets $12 from Moshtix.

ELVIS TRIBUTE NIGHT On Thursday August 16 it will be precisely 35 years since Elvis left the building forever. The star power of the King of rock’n’roll has yet to be unparalleled, loved by almost everyone despite their musical persuasion and where on the hipster scale they sit. It has been said, before Elvis there was nothing. Step in to Yah Yah's on Smith Street for this very special night paying homage to Memphis’ son. In alphabetical order these vocalists will be performing Elvis songs on the night – Alex Gow (Oh Mercy), Alison Ferrier, Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher, Jess McGuire (RRR), Liz Stringer, Loretta Miller, Peter McManus (The Go Set), Quincy McLean, Richie 1250, Rob Snarski (Blackeyed Susans), Rusty Berther (Scared Weird Little Guys), Sarah Carroll, Spencer P. Jones, The Ukeladies, Van Walker and a few more special guests still to be announced.

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What makes a good musician? Inspiration, dedication, perseverance, realistic expectations aimed at a clear goal, humility, and some degree of talent, in no particular order. Hopefully the sum of those parts will result in a musician people can be proud to idolise. How do you stop your pre-gig jitters? I don’t. I spend the whole ﬁve minutes before going on stage telling my band members that I think I’m going to be sick. The band invariably ignores me, because this happens every time, they go on stage before I do, so I’m left alone with my churning stomach. I take a few deep breaths, crack my neck, shake my hands, jump around and away I go.

Define your genre in five words or less: Electro soul. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Money, clearly. And the cars and the babes. But the next best thing is captivating an audience. Occasionally I experience a blissful moment when the room goes quiet, and I am able to lock eyes with individual people, and I see that they are listening. It’s like falling in love at first sight… without the follow through. When are you doing your thing next? I will be doing ma’ thang’ at the Workers Club, this Friday August 17. When, and why did you start writing music? I was what you would call a late bloomer when it comes to writing. I wrote my first song ever only about six years ago, as opposed to ‘when I was six’. The reason I started doing it was because otherwise I would have become

How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? It’s a delicate balance that hangs on a string. Sometimes some things get sacriﬁced. Like eating, sleeping, general cleanliness… and other such time consuming activities. What inspires or has inﬂuenced your music the most? Life, I take from real situations and real people. Stories that relate either directly to me, or to someone I know, or to something I heard or read about. Then it’s all about pen to paper. I do like to take advantage of creative license, so my songs should not be taken literally. Anything else to add? Hmm, nope, you? Hey, if you’re not doing anything this Friday I have this gig…

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World acclaimed composer and master of the flute Terry Oldfield is performing at Kindred Studios on Saturday August 18 promoting his latest album Journey Into Space, due for launch later this year. Featuring his brother Michael Oldfield, the composer says the album contains his “most joyful music to date” and hopes his music helps people experience peace in their lives. Accompanying him are local performers Vinod and Glen Kniebeiss (Tabla). Tickets for the show range from $20 to $25 for pre-sale and can be purchased via ticketbooth.com.au. Doors open at 7pm, Kindred Studios

Brisbane dark pop outﬁt, Love Like Hate, release their debut EP Rabbit Hole; emotional, honest and instinctive rock, blended with hints of early post-punk and delicate melodies that pay tribute to some of music’s most notables – PJ Harvey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pat Benetar, Joan Jett and Patti Smith. Bonding over a mutual love of epic ballads, Love Like Hate recorded the ﬁve track EP Rabbit Hole with Lachlan Mitchell (The Jezabels). Featuring lead single 21, Love Like Hate will be celebrating the new release with a launch at The Cornish Arms on Friday August 17.

DEAR STALKER & THE VAGRANTS It's time to celebrate, rock'n'roll style. This Saturday, House Of Rock will host a double-header featuring Dear Stalker and local legends The Vagrants. Saturday August 18 not only marks exactly one year since Dear Stalker vocalist/guitarist Lisa Maxwell relocated to Melbourne from sleepy country Victoria (Benalla, to be exact), but is also the 20th wedding anniversary of The Vagrants' guitarist Steve and vocalist Renate, and they met at none other than Inﬂation. So show up in your rock'n'roll formal best, shine your dancing shoes and be prepared for the party to end all parties. Doors at 10pm. Entry is $15, but using Danger's List will get you in for $12. Much action and shenanigans are guaranteed. And of course, it will rock. Hard.

ASSEMBLE THE EMPIRE Some musicians strike lucky early playing in the right room at the right time, whilst others work tirelessly paying their dues to the music gods. After completing several east-coast tours and an international tour to Malaysia, Melbourne-based group Assemble The Empire have done their time. They are launching their single Like Teeth, self-produced at Face Studios and mastered by Grammy nominated engineer Emily Lazar (Foo Fighters, Bjork, The Naked & Famous) at the John Curtin Hotel on Friday August 17. Assemble The Empire will be joined by guests My Echo, The Neighbourhood Youth and The Sinking Teeth.

SUN RISING: THE SONGS THAT MADE MEMPHIS Sun Rising: The Songs That Made Memphis pays absolute tribute to a unique era of rock‘n’roll and presents a passionate and musically spectacular rendition of the Sun hit records we know and love, whilst also showcasing other hits from artists produced by Sam Phillips and Jack Clements. For years, original Melbourne music luminaries David Cosma and Damon Smith have dreamed of Sun Records, silently worshiping their idols behind the scenes of their own original music. Now, Sun Rising: The Songs That Made Memphis is proudly being brought to life and promises to transport you back to a golden era of musical brilliance. Along with Chris Russell's Chicken Walk, go back in time at The Toﬀ on Thursday August 16 at 8pm. Tickets $20 on the door or $15 through Moshtix.

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HAUNTING AUGUST Inspired by sadness, grief, remorse and Quentin Tarantino soundtracks, Haunting August launch their debut EP Oscar’s Song on Friday August 24 at Cherry Bar with support from Arcane Saints and Falconio. Entry is $13 and includes a free EP. A hundred limited edition Oscar's Song singles will be on sale for $1 with all proceeds going to Oscar's Law. For more info on Oscar's Law go to oscarslaw.org.

LAURA Fresh back from a west coast tour celebrating the release of their third album Twelve Hundred Times, Laura bring their unique vision of light found in the darkness of the impending apocalypse to The Tote on Saturday August 18. Laura have reﬁned their wall of sound on the road with bands on the more experimental side of heavy music such as Isis, Cult Of Luna, Mono, ...Trail Of Dead and more recently supporting Japanese genre-benders Boris. Supporting Laura will be I, A Man and Sarah Phelan (Tantrums). Laura's controlled chaos will also be complemented by live projections. The ﬁrst 50 people through the door will receive a limited edition single featuring The Slow and two outtakes from the making of album Twelve Hundred Times. Tickets are $14+bf presale. Available online now through Oztix.

SAND PEBBLES Melbourne's very own cosmic pop quintet Sand Pebbles are setting up shop at Richmond's Great Britain Hotel on Saturday August 18. They'll be playing two glorious sets of hypnotic, wigged out, rugged psych. If you don't like them in the ﬂesh, you may get them on black wax with Dean Wareham on a recent split 7". 9pm, free entry.

After a long week of slog in the office or at uni, Friday night is when you need to unwind. And what better way to do it than to be swept away by some of the finest shoegazing, dreampop and post-rockers this town has to offer. Breathe in the hypnotic world of Fire Behaving As Air and float with them into dreams of desire. Come celebrate as Fire Behaving As Air put the finishing touches on their debut EP. They’ll be joined by Slight Of Build, a band in touch with their sense of melody, dynamics and arrangement. It's noisy, it's beautiful and it'll stick in your head. With sweet and measured duo vocals, Flyying Colours will also be there to grind out a reverb laced noise, echoing a compact My Bloody Valentine. And with locals Lunaire rounding out the line-up, it's a night in which to enjoy beautiful noise. All of this happens at Pony on Friday August 17. Doors open at 9pm.

SURPRISE INTERNATIONAL BAND The venue Pony say they’re pretty good at keeping secrets so they’re not gonna let the cat out of the bag on this one, but they can let you know they’ve got a band from overseas playing a special intimate gig to whoever can squish into the band room upstairs. They’re also saying that everyone who wants to see this show won’t be able to ﬁt in the room. They might break the suspense and announce who it is on the night of the show, so stay tuned to their Facebook page. It’s a late show with doors opening at 2am. See this surprise band on Friday August 17. Entry is free.

THE NOMAD After three years inciting Australian dancefloors with his enticing melee of eclectic rhythms, Aotearoa’s own prodigious son The Nomad has barely stopped for breath recently. He has collaborated on an impressive selection of dynamic projects such as mixing 2011’s Tui Award winner Amiria Grenell’s new album; roused the dancefloors of his favourite Kiwi venues; been invited to be Music Director for the 2012 First Contact Wellington International Arts Festival opening night; and worked with designer Michel Tuffery to transform one of the city’s most iconic buildings into a visceral canvas. Next on his list is a show at Bar Open this Saturday August 18, 10pm. Free entry.

THECITYSHAKEUP Unpretentious, energetic and with just a hint of swagger, Brisbane’s TheCityShakeUp have made a name for themselves for their loud, passionate and rough-around-the-edges punk/rock. Born from the bowels of '90s punk, TheCityShakeUp have grown into the snotty-nosed saviors of sweaty and loud live stage shows – kicking down the doors of the 2011 Gold Coast Big Day Out, and turning heads supporting the likes of The Mission In Motion, Guttermouth (USA), Numbers Radio and Tonight Alive. TheCityShakeUp’s drum and bass rock mixed with their obsessive and fanatical commitment to playing every show like it’s their last is a rock-cocktail that’s sure to get you oﬀ your chair, on your game and out for a night that you’ll never forget. See them when they drop in at Pony with good pals The Spinset and My Favourite Accident on Thursday August 16. Doors open 8:30pm.

WACO SOCIAL CLUB Waco Social Club, a cult of music and mayhem, are set to play at Pony this Saturday August 18. Waco Social Club is a haven for several talented misﬁts from the wrong side of the tracks. Due to their diverse backgrounds (Gammarays, Models, Olympic Sideburns, Lustrum) their music is refreshingly their own. Joining them on the night are Angry Mules, Cold Harbour and Dirty Ballroom. Catch what is sure to be a carnival aﬀair on Friday August 17. Doors open at 9pm.

The past nine months has seen Cam Ewart traipsing around Melbourne and its surrounds introducing fans to his new band Ghost Towns Of The Midwest. Catch him in his last show before heading back to the US at Dexter Bar, Clifton Hill on Thursday August 16 with two sets from 8pm.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS Bodies equate to a slurry of wet concrete and whale blood. Clowns, a hair on the tongue of your grandfather. Bad Vision, the moment before you hit the ground. Motherfucking Theresa, an elbow for a knee. Bear witness as these bands pile onto the stage at The Tote and vie for the title of least shittest band on this Thursday August 16. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will buy me a drink? Who's that guy? What are you wearing? Doors 8.30pm, $8.

TEN GALLON HEAD CHERRYWOOD Cherrywood have been busting their arses around Melbourne and interstate for the last year or so with their unique country/punk/folk sound and now they’ve ﬁnally got something out – their debut 7” Head To The Ground/Stand Still. Consisting of a double bass, acoustic guitar, mandolin, a snare drum and a bunch of rowdy vocals, they have an instantly recognisable sound that has lead to full rooms around the country drinking, dancing and generally being silly. Cherrywood perform two sets at The Retreat Hotel's front bar from 4pm, Sunday August 19.

ALBARE iTD ALBARE iTD has just completed a six-date jazz club tour in Europe, playing in France, Italy, Germany, Holland and the UK. His recent Australian tour garnered critical praise. Albare returns to Australia in August for a string of performances at both jazz clubs and festivals, including Bennetts Lane on Sunday August 26 and Monday 27.

TEENAGE MOTHERS Teenage Mothers’ music is about broken love and kicking against the pricks. They’ve recorded their debut album with Jim Sclavunos from The Bad Seeds / Grinderman. The record features a duet between JK from Teenage Mothers and Jack Mannix from Circle Pit. At The Grace Darling on Saturday August 18, Jack Mannix and JK will perform their duet live for the ﬁrst time. With support from noisydelic foursome Hollow Everdaze, intriguing newcomers Mutations and guest DJs from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Geelong Skatepark. Only ten bucks at the door. Starts 9pm.

GUITAR GALLERY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS That's right folks! Every Monday night in every month bring your banjo, mandolin, washboard, fiddle, flatmate and join in the old time bluegrass jam session. Or just come down and watch as The Oldie gets transformed to a scene from an Appalachian mountainside. A band plays first then the jam starts. 8.30pm start and it's always free. Monday nights at The Old Bar. Cheap jugs all night.

THE HARLOTS The Harlots are playing every Sunday in August at The Old Bar, the 'Pryde of Fytzroy Towne', but they aren't doing it alone: On August 19 and 26, you get The Harlots and Saint Jude. They’ll be solving locked-room murder mysteries, creating perpetual motion, stalking your dreams and entering the dragon. Every night, the bill will be opened by another of Melbourne's ﬁnest boutique handcrafted micro-brewed short-batch artists, all for only six of your shiny dollars. Sundays in August at The Old Bar. Yeah!

THE ESPY OPEN MIC Fancy yourself to be the next rock legend? Do you have the moves like Jagger? Come and strut your stuﬀ at the new open mic night at The Espy, happening every Thursday in the front bar. Sign up from 8.30pm in The Espy front bar. Entry is free. Beat Magazine Page 54

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Ten Gallon Head is the musical moniker for guitarist Ben Mellonie (Son Hawk, JJ Symon & The Monochromes) and drummer Lochie Cavigan (Sun God Replica). A guitar foil to other writers for many years, Ben has now stepped up to the mic to sing his own brand of country-psychedelic-popM.O.R-rock'n'roll that runs a mood gamut from creeping dread to sly humour but really just skims the points in between. Throw in the odd cover by the likes of Gene Clark, Mike Nesmith and even The Church and you will get the idea soon enough. Sunday August 19 sees Ten Gallon Head at the hallowed Great Britain Hotel in Richmond. Action kicks oﬀ at 8pm and the gig is free.

RETURN TO YOUTH Melbourne alternative-pop trio, Return To Youth are set to release a taste of their freshly-recorded material with the single Sail Away. Featuring sweet vocal harmonies, plus a sizeably-beefy drum break, the song tears down the walls of what a conventional pop song should be, or is expected to be. Return To Youth combine their characteristically melodic and rhythmic elements to formulate the irrepressibly catchy, vibrant sound on the song Sail Away. To mark this release, Return To Youth will be launching their new single tonight, at The Grace Darling Hotel, with support slots from energetic indie-pop band Daydream Arcade, and indie-rockers Les Garcons. Free copies of the single will be handed out on the night, each inside individually hand-stitched cases. Tickets are $5 on the door.

THE BENNIES Get set for a blinder of a bender at The Old Bar, Fitzroy on Friday August 17 when ska-core sensations The Bennies go head to head with Melbourne's punk juggernaut Wolfpack. Riot-girls Liquor Snatch will be shredding the stage and Surfpunks 12FU open the show in what promises to be a furious night of drinking and dancing, all for the cost of $10. Doors 8.30pm.

PAPA MAUL Formed in 2009, Papa Maul are an original five-piece from Melbourne, Australia. Drawing from influences of rock, pop, reggae, funk and blues, the band have created a unique brand of rock that can only be called their own. Since their first live appearances in 2010, Papa Maul have gone from strength to strength, maturing into a band that are determined to be in the ears and on the minds of everyone that comes their way. From smooth ballads to loud garage rock outs, Papa Maul provide a live show that turns heads and shakes hips. With an EP in the works and plans to release in the near future, see a new sound emerging from the dirty corners of Melbourne's whiskey bars and into your music collection. Catch Papa Maul and The Sweets on Monday August 20 in the front bar at The Espy. Free entry.

THE LEVITATION HEX The Levitation Hex was born in March 2010 by Adam Agius (vocals, guitars, programming) after the collapse of Alchemist. The initial intention of TLH was to create a heavy psychedelic progression sound similar to Alchemist but at the same time a completely new beast. Mark Palfreyman (Alarum) was the ﬁrst to jump on board adding bass and vocal duties followed soon by Ben Hocking (Aeon Of Horus) on drums and Scott Young (ex-Alarum) on guitars. Joined by guests A Million Dead Birds Laughing and Abrasion and the newly formed Hours In Exile, they are playing their debut Melbourne show at The Bendigo Hotel on Friday August 17.

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The Bluejays return after a one year hiatus, to bring their infamous heavy, heavy sound back to The Retreat in Brunswick. With a 7" single in the pipeline of their ‘60s inspired psychedelic-garage-soul, and support from rockers My Left Boot, it's a show not to miss. Friday August 17 from 9pm. Entry is free.

Back again tonight for another installment at Fitzroy's iconic Bar Open, Uncomfortable Beats brings the freshest in both local and outsourced beat music. Whether you’re into hip-hop, dubstep or experimental electronica, everyone can ﬁnd something to appreciate in these diverse mid-week showcases. Acts this week include A Baker’s Dozen, Dubfonik, Psilosimian (NSW), Warpa!nt and DJ Shikung. Doors at 8pm. Free.

LES THOMAS & DAN WATERS Two Melbourne country-folk troubadours Les Thomas and Dan Waters are set to play at The Retreat Hotel in Brunswick tonight for an evening of lyrical storytelling, dry humour and sweet guitar picking. When not playing songs, Les Thomas runs Melbourne's only dedicated country-folk website at unpaved.com.au, while Dan Waters has been described by Henry Wagons as “the soul of an old and twisted southern singer-songwriting shaman.” Entry is free. Starts 8.30pm.

F100s The twangin’ sound of the F100s is catching on fast with fans of roadhouse honky tonk, boogie and rockabilly. Over the past couple of years, the F100s have been burning dance floors and establishing themselves as a fine live act. Influenced by the styling's of Buck Owens, George Jones and Merle Haggard, the F100s also have a sack-full of original toe-tappers spread through their repertoire. Performing an exclusive show on Saturday August 18 in the Retreat Hotel front bar (prime F100s real estate, friends) at 7.30pm. Make it a date.

EL MOTH Melbourne's favourite party perpetrators, El Moth, have burst back onto the scene this year and are showing no signs of slowing down. Armed with their unique blend of funkin', punkin', drunkin' reggae, these hooligans are known for their high energy shows with slick, yet accessible musicianship that is topped oﬀ with a charismatic rock 'n' reggae attitude. The six-piece has been responsible for countless sleepless nights and angry neighbours around the underground Melbourne party scene over the years. Recently, El Moth has wowed audiences at the St Kilda and Apollo Bay music festivals and has been playing to capacity crowds at venues, always creating good vibes and a memorable experience that won’t be forgotten – at least until the hangover. From 10pm every Friday night in August at Bar Open, entry is free.

BURIED HORSES Ride out the end of winter every Saturday evening at The Tote with resident band Buried Horses as they perform by the open ﬁre and warm surrounds of the front bar. At such close quarters, you will be able to count the whiskers on Mark Berry's chin and make yourself acquainted with the R.M Williams boot catalogue. This will be your last chance to catch the band before they ship out to Europe to promote the recent Beast Records release of their debut LP Tempest. For now this limited edition vinyl will only be on sale at shows. The intimate shows are from 5pm 'til 7pm and are free.

EVEN 40 years on from the release of David Bowie's Glam Rock odyssey The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars revered power pop and roll trio Even perform the classic album live track for track at Cherry Bar on Saturday August 18. They’ll be opening the night with a set of original favourites. Featuring guest DJ Gringo. Tickets are $25 and are available at cherrybar. com.au

READABLE GRAFFITI Noise Bar plays host to a smorgasbord of electro on Friday August 17 with Sydney-based Disco Is Dead unleashing their sound upon Melbourne for the first time ever. They will be joined by a diverse slice of Melbourne’s finest indie and electro acts with Readable Graffiti launching their new EP, Male Mood Swings, electro punks Midi Widow, synth-pop duo New Clear Paradise and Maximum Wolf's driving beats rounding out the night.

SWEET TEENS Sweet Teens bring endless dangerous possibilities to The Tote for a month of Wednesdays this August. Hitting up the front bar for the ﬁrst three weeks and followed by two weeks in the band room out back. Sweet Teens recently released a free download only album This Ain't England & The Ominous Horror

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MILES BROWN Miles Brown (The Night Terrors) is performing a solo residency at The Gasometer Hotel every Wednesday throughout August called Science Club. Each week will be themed on a branch of science and features some of the best artists and DJs Melbourne has to oﬀer, handpicked by Brown. Free CD featuring artists to ﬁrst payers through the door. Entry for each show is $8 and doors open at 7.30pm. Tonight's theme is 'chemistry', featuring Young Romantix, Nun, Ice Claw and DJ Kate Fox (Requiem).

THE TERRORBYTE STRIPES The Party is back. The TERRORbyte Stripes, the fastest growing party sensation, is ready again to blow the lid oﬀ Pony. Returning from their Bris-vegas whirlwind tour, the boys guarantee a blowout home party the likes of which Melbourne has only dreamed of. Zipperman's Gothic Grobble Grundge funked lebo-tomy bound jazz vocals roar through the newly mastered fat sounds of Francoius Crouig (Germany's top ten ranked underground producer). Joined for the ﬁrst time by Melbourne's one and only Vennessa Cringe Heart from the Cholesterollers, they plan for a return that will leave the house in anaphylactic shock. The band that makes men want to be them and ladies want to be near them. Witness the madness at 2am Saturday August 18. It’s free.

THE SMART The Smart are heading to the Melbourne Hi-Fi complete with 3D glasses, headsets and a key-tar as they support the upcoming single release Hands Of Shelter. Following the airplay success of City Lights, Electrical and Cold Dark Room, The Smart silent show puts the crowd front and centre, wherever they are, and gives the audience the chance to take control of their own destiny with volume control to create their own personal atmosphere. This visually enticing performance will be an assault on the senses across three dimensions. Supported by Sounds Of Troy, Inc3do, Pludo and Pretty Dulcie, whilst encompassing the next generation of visual and performance artistry, The Smart’s electrifying sound and visuals are a must. See and hear live music your way as the Hi-Fi goes sci-ﬁ for The Smart Saturday September 8. Doors from 7.30pm.

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SPENCER P. JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE Emerging from the primordial soup like some swamp-dwelling, Medusa-esque creation, Spencer P. Jones & The Escape Committee are setting up shop at The Retreat Hotel for the month of August. Spencer and his motley crew will performing every Thursday night, support acts on at 9pm, entry is free.

THE OX AND THE FURY The Ox and The Fury have announced shows at the Laundry Bar on Thursday August 30 and Thursday September 13. They will be playing two sets a night, including the entire new album Peace Love And Music along with all the hits from their previous release Guitars Die In Hot Cars. Tickets are $10, available on the door, and support comes from the wonderfully dexterous Dom Italiano and The Upbeat Maﬁa (yes that Dom Italiano), and Zeke's Mum, is doing the door and merch, it's a family thing.

AGILITY Melbourne psychedelic grunge band Agility are screeching it out at The Evelyn Hotel every Wednesday in August. With support from some of Australia's best young bands Sid Air and The Latonas, August's Wednesdays are sure to be absolute bangers. $5 on the door.

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Lake Air (Hub/Inertia)

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AGILITY

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THURSDAY 16 AUGUST

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PANDORUM

HIGH SIDE DRIVER – SINGLE LAUNCH DISGRUNTLED BRUNTLE WRITTEN IN RUINS ENTRY $15, 8PM

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SYDONIA

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TUESDAY 21 AUGUST

The discography of Dappled Cities has had a steady upward trajectory ever since they dropped the ‘fly’ from their name (though, weirdly, I miss the ‘fly’). Their last album, 2009’s Zounds, was a bulked-up, glossy epic that, while deeply satisfying, was always on the verge of getting lost under its many layers. Wisely, the Sydney quintet’s next step has been to keep the sheen, but boil things down to what they do best: short, sharp pop songs. Once again, the songs alternate between the two lead vocalists, Tim Derricourt and Dave Rennick, and there’s enough difference in their delivery for the songs to really make their mark under their guiding vocal but still form a consistent whole as an album. The two songs previewed before Lake Air’s release, Run With The Wind and Born At The Right Time, are the best examples of the band diving headfirst into slick, forceful pop that hooks you on first listen and then demands constant revisiting. The lyrics point to the past and the present, meshing tales of passionate youth (Run With The Wind, Real Love) with more reflective stories of growing older (The Leopard, Lake Air). But the music is a firm bedding down of their craft to an immediate, uptempo version of what they have delivered previously. With the aid of co-producer Jarrad Kritzstein and mixer Cenzo Townshend, the band strip things back and take another small shuffle away from their art-rock leanings towards radio-friendly, indie-dance territory. While the streamlined sound of Lake Air does away with some of the band’s eccentricities and the end result doesn’t quite have the variation of their other three albums, any of its ten songs would make for a catchy single. Something of a product of the download generation, it’s more about the power of the individual songs than how it hangs together as an

SOMETHING FOR KATE

Survival Expert (EMI) The band sounds invigorated by the hiatus, or maybe inspired by Paul’s success as a solo artist, either way Survival Expert is their most affecting and (dare I say) relevant single in a good long while. It opens with a stuttering synth sound, a slapping beat and Paul singing in an anaesthetised, double-tracked falsetto. There’s a distance to it, as though Paul has absorbed the muted emotional palette of his adopted home of Brooklyn, NY. But then, the chorus, introduced with careful, creeping piano notes, lifts and drops you in that familiar hothouse of earnest, anguished urgency – the place where all Something For Kate fans so desperately love to be. The stuff that is different is the stuff that is most interesting. Any difference at all, after 15 odd years, is impressive.

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Battle Scars (Sony) How awesome was this song when Adam Levine and Kanye West released it in 2005?.

DJ HUW JOSEPH

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD

SIMON WRIGHT BAND MIX METHOD – EP SHOWCASE DONATION ENTRY, 9PM $10 JUGS!

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album – you could happily have it on shuﬄe and get as much out of each listen. The most impressive thing about Dappled Cities is how the usual comparisons to other bands remain elusive – you’ll have to excuse the rather vague ‘If You Like These...’ recommendations below. This is, and can only be, Dappled Cities. And they’ve bounced back with another instant classic of an album. CHRIS GIRDLER

Best Track: Born At The Right Time If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Time and Tide SPLIT ENZ, Post Paradise THE HOLIDAYS, Two Dancers WILD BEASTS In A Word: Airtight

Sixpack (Warner) There is one reason to go to the Big Day Out next year, and this is it – the Nashville duo behind the genius 2011 noise pop album We Are The Champions. Jeﬀ The Brotherhood take the garage rock irony of early Weezer and crank up the fuzz; yearning nerds armed with jaded tales of partying glory and very loud guitars. Sixpack is what Jeﬀ The Brotherhood do best – a perfect blend of grunge and nostalgia, doo wop and feedback, sweetness and snark. Excellent.

GOTYE

Save Me (Eleven/Universal) The third single from Making Mirrors is a dense expanse of orchestral pop that again evokes Peter Gabriel, what, with the sharp counter-rhythmic beats and the vaguely tribal rushes of vocal melody. There’s a huge amount of craft in the song, especially when you consider how he put this album together, but personally I ﬁnd the music overwhelms his voice. When it comes to Gotye, Wally De Backer’s voice is pretty much all I want to hear.

1. Mature Themes ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI 2. Strange Dreams GOOD HEAVENS 3. Poor Moon POOR MOON 4. Beams MATTHEW DEAR 5. Fragrant World YEASAYER 6. Don’t Be Scared DJ VADIM 7. Anastasis DEAD CAN DANCE 8. The Invitation To The Voyage EUGENE MCGUINNESS 9. The Moment MIA DYSON 10. Now Here’s My Plan BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY

SYN SWEET 16 1. Here to Hear SWEARIN’ 2. Must Be Desired MOJO JUJU 3. Steﬀo SARAH MARY CHADWICK 4. For A While BITCH PREFECT 5. Mature Themes ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI 6. Leave It All Behind SASKWATCH 7. Paradise WILD NOTHING 8. The Base PAUL BANKS 9. Haunted Heart LITTLE HURRICANE 10. Fisherman THE PEACH KINGS

WOOLY BULLY

SINGLES BY SIMONE What kind of faux intellectual nerdlinger uses the word ‘profoundly’ to emphasise the word ‘easy’? (A: An anti-Semitic faux intellectual nerdlinger.) P.S. You know what’s hard? Not paying the taxes that pay Tom Ballard’s salary.

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MUMFORD & SONS

I Will Wait (Dew Process/Universal) I confess I sort of missed the rise of Mumford & Sons, but I’m pretty sure they’ve sung this song already. The banjo ramps towards the end in a way that seems unusually robust for these stoic folk pop journeymen, but otherwise this tune sounds like The Cave. Although come to think of it, there’s plenty of ramping banjo action in that song as well. So to sum up, the ﬁrst single from the new Mumford & Sons album is essentially track two from the old Mumford & Sons album. Way to capitalise on your success, hippies.

KINGSWOOD

Medusa (Independent) Melbourne four-piece Kingswood unleash an epic, Kiss-inspired sound with the debut EP, Change Of Heart. Their second single opens with singer Fergus Linacre releasing a formidable glam punk wail, before chugging guitars and hammering drums raise the ghost of Motley Crüe circa Dr Feelgood. Theirs is spot-on nostalgic metal, leagues ahead of Airborne and less camp than The Darkness – sounding far less like a cover band than bands of their ilk.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK TWO GALLANTS

My Love Won’t Wait (Warner) This is less of a single review and more of a campaign launch. Two Gallants, from San Francisco, have never toured Australia and likely won’t unless we all get behind their soonto-be-released fourth album, The Bloom And The Blight. And we want them to tour. Oh boy, does we. Those of you who love The Drones and Grinderman will pee your Levis for this band, if only you have a chance to see them live. Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel have played together since they were 12 and the ferocity of their grimy punk blues is only topped by their psychically entwined sense of timing, and it shakes the roots at a live show. They will blow you away when they play live. The problem is, it seems impossible to capture their live show on record. Even their critically acclaimed 2006 record, What The Toll Tells, falls short of properly representing this band, meandering into ﬂat and bitter folk rock. The Bloom And The Blight is supposed to address the issue, focus on the explosive punk of their performance. Maybe it will. I can’t tell you if My Love Won’t Wait is amazing – I’m too deep in the wood of devoted bias so it’s hard to judge – but it is a bigger, angrier, heavier sound than previous singles and that’s a good start.

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1. Shelley 7” WOOLLEN KITS 2. Playin’ In Time With The Deadbeat LP SLUG GUTS 3. Odditties 2LP THE CLEAN 4. Big Time LP BITCH PREFECT 5. Commercial Music LP FABULOUS DIAMONDS 6. Sleeping Dogs Lie LP THE VICTIMS 7. Heat LP WHITE HEX 8. The Aberrant Years 4LP FEEDTIME 9. Everything Goes Wrong LP CONSTANT MONGREL 10. Hard Head 7” GOLDEN PELICANS

AIRIT NOW 1. Holy Balm Theme HOLY BALM 2. Born At The Right Time DAPPLED CITIES 3. I Believe LEHMANN B. SMITH 4. Hospital Song FRANCOLIN 5. Felusine COGEL 6. Tickle PETER BLACK 7. Elbow KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD 8. Gasoline ALPINE 9. Your Love SASKWATCH 10. Love Is A Devil LANEWAY

OFF THE HIP 1. Cut Sleeves LP BITS OF SHIT 2. Now Is The Time 2x7” JOHNNY CASINO 3. Sleeping Dogs LP THE VICTIMS 4. I’ll Be A Dog CD MIDNIGHT WOOLF 5. Soul Food LP OBLIVIANS 6. Can Your Monkey Do The Wurst? CD KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND 3 7. Ultimate Collection CD ZOOBOMBS 8. Nuggets 2xLP VARIOUS 9. Punk And Poetry LP KING BLUES 10. One Up One Down 10” SWINGIN’ NUTSACKS

COLLECTOR’S CORNER MISSING LINK 1. Linea De Fuego CD BITTER SWEET KICKS 2. Sleeping Dogs Lie CD/LP THE VICTIMS 3. Big Time LP BITCH PREFECT 4. Post-Ending//Pre-Completion LP USELESS CHILDREN 5. Oﬀ! CD/LP OFF! 6. New War CD NEW WAR 7. Commercial Music CD/LP FABULOUS DIAMONDS 8. Heat LP WHITE HEX 9. Sexual Harassment CD TURBONEGRO 10. Dopesmoker CD/LP SLEEP

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1. Yeah Is What We Had GRANDADDY 2. Yo Yeah BLACK STAR 3. Yeah Yeah MATT & KIM 4. I Didn’t Have The Nerve To Say No BLONDIE 5. Yes It Is THE BEATLES 6. Yessir! DOOM 7. Yes Sir, No Sir THE KINKS 8. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song THE FLAMING LIPS 9. Just Say Yes THE CURE 10. Say Yes ELLIOTT SMITH

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A Is For Alpine (Ivy League) Anyone acquainted with the indie-pop prowess of Alpine will note that this, their debut album, is pretty much par for the course. A Is For Alpine offers no real shock to the system, the album perfectly aligned with expectation and the band’s perceived trajectory. It’s a move that ought to prove divisive, simultaneously satisfying die-hard fans and disappointing those that hungered for more from a full LP. There’s a lot to like about A Is For Alpine. Its best songs are utterly infectious, from the see-sawing single Hands to slick indie-rocker Villages. Meanwhile, Gasoline stakes its own claim as a strong, sprightly highlight. Beyond a handful of main attractions, though – and in spite of gorgeous production from start to finish – there’s something coldly clinical about A Is For Alpine. The record too frequently resonates as a one-dimensional affair, its songs struggling to break boundaries imposed from its humble beginnings. Alpine obsess with particular techniques and nuances, an emphasis upon chirpy guitars, tandem vocals and mechanical compositions prevalent. Ultimately, the album serves up everything that’s quintessentially Alpine and, without any deviation from the norm, fascination with A Is For Alpine begins to wear thin. A Is For Alpine is worth a listen for its choice cuts, but it’s fairly predictable, particularly if you’re already up to speed on the band’s expertise. Fingers crossed they embark Best Track: Hands on a radical new direction sometime soon. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Parasite Paradise SUPERHUMANOIDS, By Limbo Lake SEABELLIES NICK MASON In A Word: Serviceable

SMOKE FAIRIES

Blood Speaks (V2 Records) There was a time when a journey meant just that – a geographical progression with a defined purpose. In the hands of the hippies, a journey became allegory for a nebulous personal and spiritual awakening; as the hippies became cashed up professionals, corporations adopted the journey as the discursive term to rationalise internal business transformation – which, stripped of its cute rhetoric, so often means re-structuring and job losses. Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire, the protagonists behind Smoke Fairies, have apparently been on a journey of sorts. And judging by the pair’s latest record, Blood Speaks, it’s been a journey worth taking. Blood Speaks is the acid folk record you want to make when you’re high as a kite, blowing in the candy-coloured breeze, gazing in wonder at the spiritual undulations of the modern world. Let Me Know takes Californian Fleetwood Mac and doses it in Owsley’s finest acid; Awake turns up at a communal sing along with David Crosby, Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny and offers moral support. Daylight is dirty to the aural touch, grinding and thrusting like a flawed man hellbent on redemption. The title track skips around a field full of mushrooms with Kate Bush-like innocence, Feel It Coming Near captures the conflicting paradox of romance (“something dies when you fall in love”), while channelling Fairport Convention’s religious inspiration. On Hideaway Smoke Fairies drag you down to the water’s edge of mystical enlightenment and reveal the world beyond secular understanding. The world in Version Of The Future is pithy, neat and elegant and almost enticing and Film Reel reminds us of a time when Suzanne Vega used to live on the second floor and not play shitty corporate venues like Crown Casino. Best Track: Let Me Know. Smoke Fairies should be your new favourite band. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: FAIRPORT Take the journey and experience the beauty. CONVENTION, JONI MITCHELL, DAVID CROSBY In A Word: Acid PATRICK EMERY

British singer-songwriter Eugene McGuinness might have outdone himself with The Invitation To The Voyage, the record a comprehensive thrill ride. The Invitation... sees McGuinness lace his indie-rock expertise with polished electro-pop intricacies. It’s a mish-mash executed to a tee, thanks to McGuinness’ tendency towards finely-tuned subtleties over fits of rambunctious experimentation. His progress isn’t reckless, nor is it too tentative; McGuinness’ past and present trajectories coexisting harmoniously and complementing one another well. Meanwhile, the record sports an unusually pristine aesthetic within the context of McGuinness’ catalogue, the singer-songwriter’s rough-around-the-edges charm sanded for a smoother result. The outcome, thankfully, remains as thrilling as ever. McGuinness’ playful quirks and eccentricities run as rampant as ever throughout the record. Anxious opener Harlequinade unfolds with an arresting grandeur, while the fuzzed-out swagger of Shotgun serves up another key highlight. Meanwhile, Lion – the scintillating first-taste of The Invitation... – emerges equally as potent, McGuinness reclaiming the role of hysterical, silver-tongued riddler. The record is daring in its diversity, though it’s easy to favour its more electrifying inclusions. The likes of Concrete Moon and the title track are enjoyable and have their place, but they don’t measure up to McGuinness’ more savage, bombastic undertakings. Intense and irresistible, The Invitation... is so much Best Track: Harlequinade fun on so many levels. McGuinness has accomplished If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Here Come The a great deal here, The Invitation... emerging an Bombs GAZ COOMBES, Catnip Dynamite ROGER imaginative and highly entertaining indie rock venture. JOSEPH MANNING JNR In A Word: Exciting NICK MASON

THE FALLS

Hollywood (Independent/MGM) Beneath its cheap and shiny facade, Hollywood is as romantic as a scrap in the back pocket of a suburban footy game. For the better part of a century, Hollywood has constructed a false concept of romance: the rose-coloured meeting of souls, the scented air of mutual attraction, the perennial existence of togetherness. Match that to the bitumen-rendered reality of Hollywood itself: ego-fuelled brawls, pretentious indulgence, and dysfunctional emotional intelligence, and you’ve got yourself a stark contrast. The Falls is a folk duo made up of Melinda Kirwin and Simon Rudston-Brown. According to the press release for the band’s debut mini-album, Hollywood, the duo met, they fell in love, they wrote songs; they fought, they broke up, they wrote songs – and that’s probably about as succinct an observation as you could make about Hollywood’s true behavioural traits. Hollywood is a record that delves into the glittering image and painful reality of romance. With its string backdrop, Please drips with unhappiness, yet leaves you wondering if it could all work out, if only someone got their emotional shit together. Home finds Rudston-Brown torn between individual freedom and domestic stability, with the twain struggling to make ends meet. Girl That I Love is a tale of false expectations, and the fine line between celebration and disdain; like Fleetwood Mac bunkered down in Sausalito – without the lavish helpings of cocaine – sadness evolves into a song of popular beauty. Hey offers an alternative perspective; this isn’t personal, it’s about feelings. Million begins an uphill battle to reclaim what was there, but will never be again; and on the concluding title track, Kirwin and Rudston-Brown’s call-and-response admits that fabled Hollywood beginning has descended into bleak realism. Romance, like life, isn’t always pretty. But it Best Track: Hollywood can lead to great songs. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: JONI MITCHELL, THE CARPENTERS, SONNY AND CHER PATRICK EMERY In A Word: Romance

ELTON JOHN VS PNAU

Good Morning To The Night (Universal)

DIIV

Oshin (Spunk) You know that there aren’t enough band names left to go around when you have to change your band name from Dive. In the case of this Brooklyn four-piece, it results in the clunky DIIV (and, for some reason, my iTunes library offers up ‘div.’). Whatever, a name’s a name. The important thing is the music and Oshin (‘Ocean’ must’ve also been snapped up already) is a mighty fine debut album. DIIV’s lead vocalist is Zachary Cole Smith, who plays guitars for the similarly floaty and jangly Beach Fossils. While this band is the best reference point here, the main point of difference is that Smith consistently puts guitars above vocals, a ploy that works in DIIV’s favour. The lyrics are minimal and vague, as are the reverberating vocals, but this is hardly ever a problem. As an example, How Long Have You Known? asks the question of its title and follows it up with the even less-specific “how long has it shown?’, then answers both with a shrugged-off “forever”. And yet it’s a stellar, full-sounding song that grips you and takes you along for every moment it rises and falls, such is the power of the instrumentation. On the surface, Smith and company may not have Best Track: How Long Have You Known? much to say, but this is music to lose yourself in, not If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Beach Fossils spend endless hours pondering. Allow yourself some BEACH FOSSILS, Gemini WILD NOTHING time to get pulled in by DIIV’s deceptively strong pull. In A Word: Washed-out CHRIS GIRDLER

EVERY MONDAY

POP CULTURE TRIVIA TUES AUG 21ST JIMMY PHOENIX (THIS PUBLIC LIFE) TUES AUG 28TH

SIME NUGENT

(THE WILSON PICKERS/SWEET JEAN) TUES SEPT 4TH

Good Morning To The Night is credited to Elton John vs Pnau, but the ‘vs’ is actually pretty redundant. The English pop star and the Aussie dance duo’s respective styles mesh so easily that this collaboration sounds as if it was always meant to be. The story goes that on a trip to Sydney, Elton John became so enamoured with Pnau’s music that he more or less adopted the pair, taking them back to London and signing them to his management company. Perhaps seeing the potential to reinvent himself as a dance artist, or perhaps just for a bit of a laugh, he set the lads loose on the master tapes of his ‘70s recordings, and told them to make a remix album – any kind that they wanted. Pnau broke the recordings down into numerous instrumental and vocal samples, and then rebuilt the songs from the ground up, fitting elements of dozens of different recordings together into eight all-new tracks. The resulting album is the perfect blend of Pnau’s loved-up dance tracks and Elton John’s melancholy pop. Pnau haven’t worked this freely with samples since their Sambanova days, and they’re seemingly in their element here. The arrangements pulse and shimmer, drawing on disco and Balearic sounds with hands-in-the-air abandon. John’s vocals are rearranged and reconfigured, verses and choruses from various different sources blurring together into all-new shapes. It’s better not to even think about the level of studio skill that went into creating this, as doing so will probably make your head hurt. Better just to Best Track: Sad let songs like Sad and Phoenix wash over you and be If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Soft Universe glad this happened. PNAU, Nightlife PET SHOP BOYS In A Word: Fabulous ALASDAIR DUNCAN

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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 15 AUG ROCK/POP AGILITY + ANDALUCIA + WANDERING SPIRIT Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5. CAPTAIN KID Kent St Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. CHRIS HALE (ALBUM LAUNCH) + HANNAH CAMERON + LUKE MOLLER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20. COLLAGE - FEAT: MYTH + FULL CODE + MUSHROOM GIANT + RED X Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. FEAST OF DAN - FEAT: LOS DOS + DJ CISCO ROSE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm. K-LEE Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MANDEK PENHA + JULES & CHRIS IMPROV + SEX ON TOAST DUO + ZANZIBAR-CHANEL John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. RETURN TO YOUTH (SINGLE LAUNCH) + DAYDREAM ARCADE + LES GARCONS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. SWEET TEENS + SIMON MILLAR Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE FOX PARTY (EP LAUNCH) + BRIGHTLY + YOUNG OYSTER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE SAVAGES + BOMBS ARE FALLING + THE CRUNTBURGERS Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. VICE GRIP PUSSIES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ACOUSTICS ANONYMOUS The 86, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CONRAD WILLIAMS The Resurrection, Brunswick East. 7:30pm. LES THOMAS + DAN WATERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. LETTERBOX MUSIC Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. MAKA KHAN + FROND Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. MATT GLASS + MARY WEBB Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Dancing Dog, Footscray. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm.

PETER ‘BLACKIE’ BLACK

OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Grind N Groove, Healesville. 8:00pm. OWEN CAMPBELL & MUSTERED COURAGE + CONOR FARRELL Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20. SAM COOPER Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. THE GYPSY CURSE Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: MANDY CONNELL + KERRYN FIELDS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Blackie is back...ie! Guitarist for the infamous punk bands The Hard Ons and Nunchukka Peter ‘Blackie’ Black also spends time as a taxi driver in Sydney – an occupation which recently saw him on the receiving end of a vicious beating requiring hospital treatment. Schmucks. In the aftermath of this event, many musicians banded together to raise funds to assist in paying Peter’s medical bills, the absolute legends. Peter Black comes to Melbourne in to perform songs off his new solo album at The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine on Friday August 17 and The Tote on Saturday August 18. Support is from Laura Imbruglia.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC BOHJASS + METER MAID + THE BEN CARR BAND 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. KATE MILLER-HEIDKE (THE NIGHTFLIGHT TOUR) + THE BEARDS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $47. THE JOSH KELLY QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. THE ROB BURKE QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

THURSDAY 16 AUG ROCK/POP 4TRESS + DIANA’S BOW + STYX & STONZ Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $10. ALICE BLU + BUSY KINGDOM + PAPER SKY John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. BODIES + BAD VISION + CLOWNS + MOTHERFCKING TERESA Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8. BODYJAR + JONESEZ + STEEL BIRDS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $22. DOM DI BLASIO Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ELVIS PRESLEY TRIBUTE - FEAT: ALEX GOW + ALISON FERRIER + COURTNEY BARNETT + JEN CLOHER + JESS MCGUIRE + RUSTY BERTHER + LIZ STRINGER + LORETTA MILLER + PETER MCMANUS + QUINCY MCLEAN + RICHIE 1250 + ROB SNARSKI + SARAH CARROLL + SPENCER P JONES + THE UKELADIES + VAN WALKER Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $17. FRASER A GORMAN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. I VALIANCE + DISASTERS + ILLUMINATE + THE APPROACH Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $12.

MANATARMS & LE BELLE + LE BELLE + MANATARMS Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. MANSION ALASKA - FEAT: SLEED DECADE + DARK ARTS + SUN RAAAA + SUNK JUNK Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7. NAKED BODIES + THE STAFFORDS Birmingham Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. NATIONAL AIRLINES + ANQURIUS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. NO ESCAPE FOR THE KING (KAMIKAZE LAUNCH) + BLACK TEA HOUSE + THE LAST FIVE MINUTES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8. ORPHFUNDRAISER - FEAT: PLAGUE DOCTOR + THE BROADSIDE PUSH + WEDGETAIL Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. PEARLS + EXHAUSTION + REPAIRS + TAX Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. PITY SCISSORS + GENTLEMEN + NIGHT ORCHIDS The Liberty Social, Melbourne. 8:00pm. SARAH MCLEOD Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. SHOOT THE SUN + BEGGERMAN + KILL SHOT + LONHHOLIDAY The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. SPENCER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE + MIKEY MADDEN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SUN RISING - FEAT: CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. SUNSET RIOT + BLACK ACES + DROOLING MOUTHS OF MEMPHIS + LUNG Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE CHURCH OF HYSTERIA + LIL LEONIE LIONHEART + MAD NANNA Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. THE DUB CAPTAINS + DRU CHEN + SAN SALVADOR The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. THE HOLLOW HOUNDS + MYAZAKI + SLEEPY DREAMERS + THE PLAINS Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. THE UNIVERSAL THUMP + LITTLE WISE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THECITYSHAKEUP + DJ GEEK PIE + MY FAVOURITE ACCIDENT + THE SPINSET Pony, Melbourne. 8:30pm. WHIPPED CREAM CHARGERS + MANGELWURZEL + THE SHABBAB Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. WOLF VS FIRE + AS A RIVAL + EATER OF THE SKY + WE DISAPPEAR Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $6.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK 8 FOOT FELIX + RAPSCALLION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. ACOUSTIC NIGHT - FEAT: TIM BRAUN 29th Apartment, St Kilda. 9:00pm. CAM EWART Dexter Bar, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. CHAD MASON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CHARLES BABY (A HAPPY AFFAIR LAUNCH) + CARRY NATION + DAVE WYHOON Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. KEVIN BORICH EXPRESS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $15. MIC CLUB Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm.

OPEN MIC Arcadia Hotel, South Yarra. 7:00pm. STEVE PARKIN Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE DARK ALES + TENDER BONES Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. WHO IS MR JONES? Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC ALEISTER JAMES CAMPBELL’S EMBRACEABLE FEW Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. BEAUTIFUL CHANGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. KATE MILLER-HEIDKE (THE NIGHTFLIGHT TOUR) + THE BEARDS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $47. MUNEOMI SENJU + BLARGHSTRAD + STEVE LAW + WIFE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $15. RBS LIVE (MELBOURNE UNCOVERED) Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:00pm. $10. SALSA EXPLOSION - FEAT: DEL BARRIO First Floor, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. SCHRODERINI MEETS BUDDY - FEAT: THE KEN SCHRODER QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. THE AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $20. THE JASON HOLME DECTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. THE KIM KELAART TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. THE MIKE JORDAN TRIO + JULIE O’HARA The Kelvin Club, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $10. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. THE SHANNON BARNETT QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY 17 AUG ROCK/POP 2AM LATE SHOW Pony, Melbourne. 2:00pm. ADDICTION - FEAT: STATE OF SILENCE + SONIA Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. ANARION + MASON + SEWERCIDE + SOULFORGE The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. ASSEMBLE THE EMPIRE (LIKE TEETH LAUNCH) + MY ECHO + THE NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH + THE SINKING TEETH John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. BACK IN THE DAY - FEAT: THE PROPHETS OF ADDICTION + SUNSET RIOT Portland Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. BREATHE LIFE - FEAT: CASTLECOMER + MISS NICHOLLS + PAADMOOSE & THE RIVER MACHINE + SCALAR FIELDS The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $11. CLASSIC COVERS NIGHT - FEAT: EINSTEIN TOYBOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. DEAD KINGS QUARTET 7:30pm. DEPUTY DIPSHIT + BOMBING ANGELS + ORDER 66 + PROPHET MARGIN + STRAWBERRY FIST CAKE + THE WORST Blue Tile Lounge, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

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DISCO IS DEAD + BACK BACK FORWARD PUNCH + MIDI WIDOW + READABLE GRAFFITI Noise Bar, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $5. EL MOTH Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. FANTINE + TEXTURE LIKE SUN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. FIRE BEHAVING AS AIR + FLYYING COLOURS + LUNAIRE + SLIGHT OF BUILD Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm. FREIENGEIST (HEX LAUNCH) + CAM LOPEZ + LUKE WOOD + VOWEL MOVEMENT Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. JOHNNY LOS SECRETOS + MIDNIGHT WOOLF + THE DELICATES Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND THREE + DJ MOHAIR SLIM The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. LA DANSE MACABRE - FEAT: BRUNSWICK MASSIVE DJ COLLECTIVE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LOVE LIKE HATE (RABBIT HOLE LAUNCH) + THE DARK FAIR + THE DIVINE FLUXUS Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. MASS CULT + CUT + HEAVY BEACH + SMOKE SIGNAL Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MICHAEL HICKLING + BARRY STEWART & DAMIAN DIMECH + BRETT FRANKE + HEMY & MARSHALL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. NO ZEBRA + GATEWAY TO THE SKY + KEEP STILL + SCUZZLEBUTT & THE AARDVARKS Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. PANDORUM + DISGRUNTLED BRUNTLE + HIGH SIDE DRIVER + WRITTEN IN RUINS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. PETER BLACK + LAURA IMBRUGLIA Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. RED INK (EP LAUNCH) + THE BLACK ALLEYS + THE DIECASTS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. REVERTIGO + DAWN OF THE AGES The Hammy, Melbourne. 8:00pm. RUFUS + ELIZABETH ROSE + SUPER MAGIC HATS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. SNAKADAKTAL (SINGLE TOUR) + CITY CALM DOWN + SURES Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $18. SPERMAIDS + DUCK DUCK CHOP + THE SHABBAB Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $7. STRAYLOVE + CLIENT LIASONS + THE CORSAIRS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $8. SWIDGEN + MOTH + OL’ MEG + XENOS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE BENNIES + 12FU + DJ CISCO ROSE + LIQUOR SNATCH + WOLFPACK Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. THE BLUEJAYS + MY LEFT BOOT + ROCK N ROLL DJS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. THE ELLIOTS + ALANA WILKONSON Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. THE LEVITATION HEX + A MILLION DEAD BIRDS

Q&A EVEN, BOWIE, ZIGGY

Forty years on from the release of David Bowie’s Glam Rock odyssey The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars revered power pop’n’roll trio EVEN perform the classic album live track for track at Cherry Bar on Saturday August 18. EVEN frontman Ash Naylor tells us what’s what. How important is David Bowie as an artist? As important as Dylan or Lennon/McCartney in our world. Forty years! This album is practically older than you are. Why is the The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars album important to you? It’s one of those records where everything hangs together, the songs and the musicianship are amazing. We are unanimous in our love for the record which made the idea of doing this gig so appealing. Will you be bringing a theatrical glam element to your stage production? Well it’s hard to top anything those fellas wore in the early ‘70s so probably just neat casual for us. Will you be trying to do note for note replicas of the songs or re-interpretations or what? Hopefully we’ll find a balance between homage and attention to detail. There won’t be any unnecessary reLAUGHING + ABRASION + HOURS IN EXILE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. THE SCARECROWS + APES + BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS + CHILIARD Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. THE YARD APES + BEWARE! BLACK HOLES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. THEE ARGYLES + THE NUFF NUFFS + THE TV SET Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THNKR + THE ALLEYS + THE SUNSLEEPERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. TREAD + BAD KARMA + BLIND MUNKEE + HOWLING DOLLHOUSE Pier Live, Frankston. 7:30pm. $10. VIRTUE + KILLING LIARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. ZOOBOMBS + BAPTISM OF UZI + BAT PISS + MESA COSA Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

workings of the songs. We just want to have fun with it. Cherry Bar is recognised as the iconic late night retro rock ‘n roll bar in Australia. Did this make it the logical place to host this special tribute? Yeh, Cherry is one of our favourite venues and we do an annual EVEN Jukebox show there so this show will be an extension of that. Cherry’s James Young and EVEN have a long standing friendship so it’s the perfect place to have this gig. How challenging is it to pay tribute to one of your personal favourite and one of the most influential records of your generation? Very challenging when you see how many friggin’ chords some of these songs have! Bowie is one of those songwriters who has an innate sense of adventure when it comes to song construction. You can’t jam these tunes, you just have to learn em’. What can people expect from this Ziggy 40th celebration with Even? Even playing Bowie songs, with love. Maybe some waterproof mascara if I get to Priceline before the soundcheck. Wally has been growing Trevor Bolder sideburns so look out! Tickets are $25 on the door from 8pm, only at Cherry.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BIG BUG TRIO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. BOOF Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. DAMON SMITH Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. EDWARD GUGLIELMINO 7:30pm. $12. JOHN LILLIS + GABRIEL ATKINSON Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm. JORDIE LANE + FRANCOLIN The Regal Ballroom, Northcote. 8:30pm. $24. RAY BEADLE + COLD SNAP Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $18. ST. ANDREWS OPEN MIC & JAMM NIGHT + OPEN MIC St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 8:00pm. STELLA ANGELICO & THE SWITCH Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

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Wednesday 15th August

SAM COOPER BAND DREAMIN’ WILD, STU MACKENZIE

8:30PM FREE

Thursday 16th August

ORPHFUNDRAISER:

PLAGUE DOCTOR

WEDGETAIL RYAN NICO & THE OVERLANDERS SUNNY THE MAGOSOPHER

8PM $10

Friday 17th August

THE BENNIES WOLFPACK LIQUOR SNATCH 12FU DJ CISCO ROSE

8:30PM $10

Saturday 18th August

GENTLEMEN - CASSETE LAUNCH BITS OF SHIT DEAD BOOMERS, OLD SKIN DJ KEZBOT

8:30PM $10

Sunday 19th August

HARLOTS

SAINT JUDE THE VELVETS DJ OLD HANDS

8PM $6

Monday 20th August

GUITAR GALLERY BLUEGRASS NIGHT JAM SESSION & BAND

8PM FREE

CROTCHETY KNITWITS KNITTING, SEWING, BOOZING

6PM FREE

VHS NIGHT CULT, B-GRADE VIDEO CHEAP JUGS ALL NIGHT

6PM FREE

Tuesday 21st August

BREAKING HART BENTON THE WILD COMFORTS GREEN’S DAIRY ANGEL ENSEMBLE

8PM FREE

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BITCH PREFECT Band name brings to mind Heathers. Mean Girls. Drop Dead Gorgeous. Band name is a good thing. Bitch Prefect ain’t quite about that though. They’re a pop three-group and as far as we can tell, they seem pretty nice. They are the ones with that Bad Decisions song on the radio. I know we can all relate. Their LP is called Big Time and they’re launching it at The Liberty Social this Friday August 17. Tickets are on the door. TENDRILS Brightspace, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $10. THE DAMIAN HOWARD BAND + MUSTERED COURAGE + OWEN CAMPBELL Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $15. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. WAYLON JOES DUO Highway 31, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC CAPTAIN GROOVE + FUNK BUDDIES 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. GIL ASKEY Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. OPEN STUDIO 6TH BIRTHDAY Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. $5. RUTH ROSHAN & TANGO NOIR Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25. TAVARES The Night Cat, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE NORIA LETTS QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. TRIO AGOGO 303, Northcote. 6:00pm. ULTRAVIBRALUX Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. YVETTE JOHANSSON & THE JOE RUBERTO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25.

SATURDAY 18 AUG ROCK/POP

2AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: TERRORBYTE STRIPES + DJ MR SHARP Pony, Melbourne. 2:00am. 35TH ELVIS ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. 80S PARTY - FEAT: THE KILNIKS + ANIMAUX + DAY-

FRASER A. GORMAN Melbourne’s favourite soulful son will strum a few tunes for the 35th anniversary of when Elvis left the building at Cherry Bar’s Soul In The Basement this Thursday August 16 playing a special set of originals and Elvis hits. DJs Vince Peach and Pierre Baroni will be on vinyl duty. It’s always awesome. DREAM ARCADE + THE PRIMARY Noise Bar, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $5. ANGRY MULES + COLD HARBOUR + DIRTY BALLROOM + WACO SOCIAL CLUB Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm. ANTOINNE POLNAREFF III ET LES SAUVAGES The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION + AUDIO VIBE + THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. BAKEHOUSE + ANTHONY REA + BROTHER & SISTER + THE FAQS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. BANG - FEAT: TRANSIT + ANCHORS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. BARRY SAVAGE & CAESARS + SMOKE MACHINE Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne. 6:00pm. BLACK MAJESTY (STARGAZER LAUNCH) + ENVENOMED + KEYS TO PERDITION The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. BURIED HORSES + SUZIE STAPLETON Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. CLAMPDOWN Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. COLD SNAP Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DISCO IS DEAD + LUNAIRE + THE DARK ALES Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. EVEN (ZIGGY STARDUST 40TH ANNIVERSARY) Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25. F100S Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. FIREBALLS The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $30. GIMME SKELTER Palais, Hepburn Springs. 8:30pm. $20. IDIOT FEST - FEAT: STOMP THE DOG + ADMIRAL ACKBAR’S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE + DEPUTY DIPSHIT + DIXON CIDER + PROPHET MARGIN + SCUZZLEBUTT & THE AARDVARKS + SHADOW LEAGUE + STRAWBERRY FISTCAKE + THE BENNIES + THE HALF

PINTS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. IRON WORZEL + DEATHCAGE + DEBACLE + HEROIN SS + KROMOSOM Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12. JOHNNY CASINO Y LOS SECRETOS + THE REPROBETTES + THE SWINGIN’ NUTSACKS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15. LAURA + DRILL FOLLY + I A MAN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $14. LUCIE THORNE + HAMISH STUART + SWEET JEAN Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $12. LUGER BOA + GUESTS OF GHOSTS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. MELODY BLACK + BALLROOM BLITZ: SINGLE LAUNCH + DJ RICK RUIN + THE FIGHTING + THE MERCY KILLS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 9:00pm. $12. NEBRASKATAK (IN A CAGE LAUNCH) + AVANTAIR + STEPH HILL + YOU & YOUR FRIEND John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. NEON & VENOM + THE ANTOINETTES East Brunswick Club Hotel, East Brunswick. 9:00pm. PINK GOES GAGA Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:30pm. $25. POLO CLUB (EP LAUNCH) + 8 BIT LOVE + DEJA + MANGOHIG Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12. REVERTIGO National Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. $5. RIVER OF SNAKES (7” LAUNCH) + DAMN TERRAN + DEAD RIVER + SUN GOD REPLICA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. SLUGG BAND Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. SNAKADAKTAL (SINGLE TOUR) + CITY CALM DOWN + SURES Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $18. SURRENDER + FREE WORLD + TERM FOUR + VANITY + WONDERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. SYDONIA + BEGGARS ORCHESTRA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12. TEENAGE MOTHERS + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + JACK MANNIX + MUTATIONS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. THE BENNIES + DIPROSUS + INEDIA + SUMMER BLOOD Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. THE NOMAD + KRAFTY PIXEL + OAKLEY GRENELL Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE RED HOT RHYTHMAKERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15. THE SLAUGHTERMEN Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $18. THE VENDETTAS + DELUSIONS OF GRANDUER + DREW & THEIR INTENTIONS + PLASTIC SPACEMEN Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE ZOOBOMBS + DISGRUNTLED BRUNTLE + EMPRA + PHIL PARA + THE DEEP END Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. THREEZZACROWD 8:00pm. VAN & CAL WALKER Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. WILD TURKEY + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL + DOUBLE BLACK Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. WOOLLEN KITS (7” LAUNCH) + AUSMUTEANTS + EASTLINK Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BACKWOOD CREATURES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. CONWAY SAVAGE Brightspace, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $10. JAM NIGHT Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. KATHRYN KELLY Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. KEVIN BORICH EXPRESS + PHIL MANNING St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 9:00pm. $20. MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 10:30pm. MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB (BEGGARS & BASTARDS LAUNCH) Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm. PHIL MANNING St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 1:00pm. SATURDAY ACOUSTIC REVUE - FEAT: EALEY & TYERS + ANTHONY YOUNG Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10. SEAN MCMAHON’S WESTERN UNION (ALBUM LAUNCH) + ALYSIA MANCEAU Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. SLUMBER RACE & GEORGE DARVIDIS Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm. SUSY BLUE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE SAND PEBBLES Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. THE SHAMBELLES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. THREE KINGS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. YOLANDA & MUSIC FOR LOVERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC CANNONBALL Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. CARAVELA Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. GYPSY BROWN The Night Cat, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JULIO & THE STEVIES + OMLETTE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. KJ YESUDAS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 5:00pm. $44. MORELAND CITY SOUL REVIEW Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. PAINT THE TOWN Tony Starr’s Kitten Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5. SWING TRAIN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. THE SEVEN UPS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 10:00pm. TRACY BARTRAM Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. VICTORIAN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Melbourne High School, South Yarra. 7:30pm. $20.

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ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BEM BRASIL (CD LAUNCH) + BOEMIA + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. CHERRYWOOD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. FRUIT JAR Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. JAMES MCCANNS’ HEAVY ORCHESTRA Carringbush Hotel, Abbotsford. 5:00pm. JEB CARDWELL + IAN COLLARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND GAP + JOHNNY CASINO & LOS SECRETOS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MICHAEL MEEKING & THE LOST SOULS (ALBUM LAUNCH) + DAN WARNER Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. PETER GAUDION + BOB SEDERGREEN Dogs Bar, St Kilda. 9:00pm. RAISED BY EAGLES Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. SEAN MCMAHON’S WESTERN UNION + SWEET JEAN Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SHANAKEE Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm. SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm. $8. SUNDAY SINGER-SONGWRITER SESSIONS - FEAT: BETH KNIGHTS + RACHAEL BYRNES Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 4:00pm. TEN GALLON HEAD Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. TERESA DIXON Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne. 6:00pm. THE BITTER SWEETHEARTS Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. THE DUKES OF DESPAIR The Hillz Bar, Monbulk. 2:30pm. $5. THE KIERON MCDONALD COMBO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE LARGE NUMBER 12S Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE LISA MILLER EXPERIENCE Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE QUOLLS + THE MELISSA MAIN BAND Noise Bar, Brunswick. 2:30pm. $6. THE REVELATORS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $20.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 7:00pm. ENTROPY QUARTET Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm. NESSA QUINTET Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00pm. OPA! 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. ROSS HANNAFORD & THE CRITTERS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $15. RUMBEROS The Night Cat, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. STEPHEN ROSSITTO (CD LAUNCH) + THE JOHN TUR-

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MONDAY 20 AUG

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WILD TURKEY

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ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BABERHAM LINCOLN Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. MIKE NOGA Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm. SECRET MONDAY ACOUSTIC Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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Define your genre in five words or less: Rockabilly, psychobilly, surf punk rock’n’roll. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Link Wray meets ZZ Top in 1974 in an alley and jams on

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some Charlie Feathers tunes. What do you love about making music? Travelling, drinking band riders and meeting crazy folks. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our first CD was I Drove All Day (1993) then we released Love That Kills (1997), Surfin Hearse (2000) and our current album Devil Riding Shotgun plus we have several DVDs and compilation CDs we are also on. When’s the gig and with who? This Saturday August 18 we have our Wild Turkey 24th birthday party at The Retreat Hotel with very special guests Doubleblack! What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Tequila, American cars, coffee tables from Scarface and goddesses...not in that order. Describe the best gig you have ever played. The biggest buzz for me was playing at Bonneville Speed Week on the Bonneville Salt flats in Utah USA – we brought a generator and set up on the opening night of the event and played as the sun went down over the salt lakes – truly amazing place! What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig. We played at Fairlea Womens Prison which was one of our more unusual shows! What makes a good musician? His band mates – all for one and one for all!

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PAINT ME A PHOENIX

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ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHARLES JENKINS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JACK JOHNSTONE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. MAX SAVAGE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. OPEN MIC Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THE AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC ANNA GILKISON + FRAZZ + MURPHY’S LAW Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6. CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES + STELLA ANGELICO Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. PUGSLEY BUZZARD Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. RUYTON GIRLS’ GRAMMAR Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. THE SHANNON BARNETT TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE SIMON WRIGHT BAND + DJ HUW JOSEPH + MIX METHOD Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Define your genre in five words or less: Alternative blues, dirty dark folk. How long have you been gigging and writing? I have been gigging and writing for 14 years but all together I have been playing music for 21 years. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? Probably July 1 this year at the Brunswick hotel performing with my band the Garden of EiDA. The event was called Sirens which was based on bands with female singers. We supported The Death Of Art. It was a damn good night. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? If it weren’t for discovering The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 15 years ago. I would not be where I am today. What do you think a band has to to do these days to succeed? They must have full belief in themselves. Share the same vision. Be your own boss and be aware of what is best you as an artist or for your band. Do it yourself. Don’t sit and wait for your big break. Broaden your horizon and make your own big break. If you know that you have got it......just keep going. Do you have any record releases to date? Yes. I will be releasing my album Lady Wolf on Sunday August 19 at the Evelyn Hotel. It will be released on iTunes very soon. Why should everyone come and see your band? Whether it is performing solo or with The Garden of EiDA the outcome is always awesomely rockin’. People like to be blown away by something completely diﬀerent and that’s what we do. Even as a three-piece, me and the boys really stomp it out.

Kick winter off your dreary bones and join samurai rock legends Zoobombs, live from Tokyo city as they tear the roof off The Tote with their messy Mexi-party garage rocker friends Mesa Cosa this Friday August 17. Also along for the ride is two of Melbourne’s finest, Batpiss and Baptism Of Uzi. The hottest line-up since, well, goddamn summer. Get amongst it.

When are you playing live? Me and the Boys are getting ready for the Big one at the Evelyn Hotel this Sunday. We have an awesome line-up of performers that will give a wicked flow of alternative blues and burlesque rock. We’ve Got Sydney’s Melody Black’s lead singer Johnathan Devoy opening up the show leading on to Rouge Fonce rocking your socks off and a very special grotesque performance by one of Melbourne’s greatest burlesque ladies, Miss Nic. The Garden of EiDA will be performing as a five-piece with jazz/rock drummer Larry Kean and Zeptepi’s Violnist, Hailey Anderson.

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It’s recently been announced that Sydney’s alternative rockers Sound of Seasons will be touring the country delivering the live version of their debut EP Make Believe, which is due to be released next month. The good news for fans is that they’ll be playing two all ages shows in Victoria on their way through. They’ll be at Fist 2 Face in Ringwood on October 6, and at the National Hotel in Geelong on October 7. For independent musicians, networking is a big part of the business end of your music career. That’s why you should head along to Music Victoria’s latest workshop Plug In: Networking for Musicians and Music Businesses, happening August 21 from 6pm – 8pm at the State Library of Victoria. Tickets are only $20 and for more details contact Music Victoria on (03) 9380 1566 or shoot an email over to workshops@musicvictoria.com.au. Another great opportunity to take advantage of is getting your music placed on major television shows. At the moment Blue Buddha Entertainment is looking for music to place on Showtime’s Californication and Damages. To get the lowdown on how to go about submitting your tunes, check out reverbnation.com before submissions close on Monday. Over the next couple of months, Dandenong Youth Services and the Meltdown FReeZA committee will be presenting a talent competition. While the pre-screening was held last week, there’s still time to take part in the free Skills Development Workshop at The Castle, Hemmings Park on Thursday. Later in the month there will be a free Urban Talent Quest – Vocal and Dance heat on August 30, with the semi finals being held on September 6 and the finals being held on September 15. All the info you need is at missionaustralia.com.au or you can contact Nick Karlas on 9793 2155. Don’t forget if you have any all ages news that you want included in this column, send it to whatson@ thepush.com.au.

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SHOWDOWN AT THE CORNER The Corner Hotel, Friday August 3

MUDHONEY The Corner Hotel, Friday July 27 I’d argue to anyone that’d listen that the journey to the gig is at least a quarter of the fun. Last time I saw Mudhoney, it was during a Spanish general strike; Barcelones were rioting in the streets, setting municipal garbage skips alight and tagging the anarchy sign on women’s underwear shops. I stepped over a million spent cans of Estrella en route. It set the tone nicely. Our local boys The Meanies pumped the crowed of gassed Spaniards better than an EJ Whitten speech at three quarter time, before Mark Arm and his men promptly tore the seaside paradise a new one, twice or three times over. Wandering home in a ear-splitting haze, I had to elbow two lawless teenagers to maintain possession of my wallet and keys. This time around was less colourful – just another Melbourne night of 45-degree angle rain and a safe heated taxi journey. But the inclement conditions didn’t stop a statistically significant sample of Melbourne’s flannelwearing masses heading out for an evening with the Seattle grunge pioneers. Nor did it prevent a rollicking performance that showed turning 50’s got nothing to do with getting square and easing off, not if you’ve got it in your guts to serve the tunes loud and uncompromising, and you feed off the energy of a choked room full of the faithful hanging on each fuzzed-out note. Arriving late, we caught only a glimpse of The Treatment, but enough to encourage a further look. They held it together tightly and made an agreeable racket. The masses built and the vibe was that of friendly backyard barbecue,

post-lunch, pre-sunset and several visits to the bottlo in. When the Corner’s trusty but musty curtains were pulled back, on came Mudhoney with a quick nod, before plugging in and getting down to business, almost banter-free, for an hour and a half of reminding the assembled antipodeans about their supremacy and continuing relevance. The set comprised a mix of old and new, with early recordings Let It Slide, Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More and Touch Me I’m Sick featuring in the opening moments. The latter suitably marked the apex of crowd violence, with my gig-going partner taking it as an opportunity to move outwards and avoid the sort of physical injury sustained last time these folks were in town. From there, Arm downed his axe but didn’t unveil a batch of previously unreleased lounge music on us, working through older numbers with an easy and brutal vocal force. Goaded by the punters to re-gather his guitar, Arm returned for a blistering encore that turfed us onto Swan Street with no hearing and a hankering for potato cakes, safe in the knowledge that we’d spent the night in the company of rock'n'roll greatness. BORIS BICYCLE

I stepped through the door as Hotel On Mayfair were just getting started. The alternative four-piece are fronted by a female vocalist – a very talented one at that. Hannah Shomali’s vocals are vulnerable and fierce all at once, she has great control and her melodies are placed well within music that builds steadily to a punch then drops back to a lullaby. The voiceover announced “round two” to a backing track of Eye Of The Tiger as a rather busty and attractive, corseted young lady acting as Ring Girl sashayed across the stage holding a sign of the same declaration. But don't worry guys, the term 'Showdown' is metaphoric. They’re punching it out musically, not literally. It was surprising how soon the next band, Kettlespider, were on the main stage. And what’s more surprising is the fact that it actually took until their second last song before I snapped out of an awestruck trance long enough to surmise that something was unusual. Oh right, these guys don’t have a vocalist. I only just noticed this? Okay then. They don’t need one! I haven’t been kidnapped by a band in this way in a very long while. A quick scan of the room told me that I wasn’t the only one. Precisely layered music played by proficient musicians with a very tight live sound. The Khyber Belt never fail to put on a seamless performance. This being no exception, despite the fact that vocalist Forbes McKail meekly bounced on to the stage clutching a tea cup, which I later discovered was filled with a mysterious magic herbal tea in order to sooth a sore throat. Sore throat or no, his voice was in fine form and he remains an incredibly gifted vocalist. With a replacement sound guy, their live sound was sitting more high end than it normally would, which grated the ears a little. But all is forgiven as they know how to pump up a crowd and deliver a kick-arse live show. Groovy, retro, prog rock sons, Moroccan Kings funked out with their ultra creative sound. A large portion of the crowd seemed a little unsure of how to take this audio fusion, but the fans up close were rockin' out. "Round eight"

brought the rock goddess vibe with Bellusira and their high energy live show. The combination of their signature hostility and the quieter moments of Crystal’s falsetto, which is the perfect complement to the overall sound, really takes the music to a place you want it to go as a listener. They really have the art of live performance down pat. I suddenly felt the urge to wave glow sticks in the air and dance in circles as I was watching Sub Atari Knives. My rock music state of mind (read: not on LSD) was unprepared for this wall of electro, trip metal that came at me like a tidal wave. If not for the melodic undertones I would have decided this sound was better suited to an underground club ﬁtted with black lights and neon paint. I adjusted my ears and decided that I liked it. But I still wanted glow sticks! The room swelled as "round ten" was announced. The crowd was mellow, standing ready and watching the stage intently. Engine Three Seven brought an incredible ending to the night. Their sound was crisp and refreshing as they shared with us their newest musical enchantment. An unexpectedly gentle and pristine single Watermark that built to a heartfelt pouring of emotion and careful earnestness. An absolute delight! All in all, Showdown made for an excellent bill of live music. A varied line-up of bands that ranged from pop and alt rock, prog, electro, funk and melodic metal.. LESHA PAVLIS

LOVED: Kettlespider. This band of modest young men blew my mind with their phenomenal sound. HATED: The drunk chick who spilled her beer on me. Watch the suede shoes! Thank baby Jeebus for scotch guard. DRANK: Bulmers Pear Cider. Delish.

LOVED: Touch Me I'm Sick. HATED: Destroying a pair of relatively pristine shoes in the pit. DRANK: Various pale ales.

BONNIWELLS The Tote, Saturday July 28 The mighty Murlocs took the stage prior to garage-surfers Bonniwells, and they were the perfect support: hard, heavy rock. The singer was an emaciated Jeﬀ Buckley: excellent voice and legs like toothpicks. He was very charismatic for a man so mild in individual characteristics, but Gestalt reigns supreme with these sorts of guys. Bonniwells bowled out and from the ﬁrst song had me dancing like a tripped out Bettie Page. Their surf rock with galloping, smashy drums didn’t let up at all and when I managed to stop for a breather, I could see the room was full of wild-eyed fans. Vocalist Marck Dean was stupidly pitchy but truly, who gives a damn? He is also a member of the pencil-legged tribe. Considering the height of the Tote stage and your angle of vision when you are up close to it, pencil legs were mostly all you could see up there for the duration of the set, like a pine forest during an earthquake. Things fell into the vibe of excellently written surf music from an Australian ‘80s movie as drummer Zac Olsen

contributed great, sloppy vocals. He’s hyper-adolescent but still commanding, despite the Eraserhead hairdo. Bassist John Waddell has some kind of tattoo on his bicep which made him look like Iron Man, and which I think gave him special strength while he pounded out thick, quick tonic notes to Dean’s huge chords. Things were kind of unclear; I had scant idea which songs they were playing but I assume they were all from their new album Sneeze Weed. I wish I could be more speciﬁc but when I shouted, “What song was that?” Dean shrieked to fuck oﬀ and then they all sicced out another one. I’d have been annoyed except that the whole thing was a big fat pizza of fun. ZOË RADAS

LOVED: Crazy tantrum vibe. HATED: Taryn didn’t come. DRANK: Big ciders.

HOWLIN’ STEAM TRAIN Ding Dong Lounge, Saturday August 4 It was a good turn out and the crowd was in high spirits as the support act Major Tom And The Atoms took to the stage. The six-piece put in an absolutely stunning set of hot-blooded, funky blues that got the celebratory, party atmosphere of the night to a good start. The sound engineer had done a good job of bringing their various elements together, with extra emphasis on the keys and bright and brassy saxophone giving The Atoms a rich and full sound. The band were tight as a gnat’s arse and it’s surprising that only a small pocket of the crowd got up to shake their money makers to the infectious grooves. That said, even the punters sitting in the booths surrounding the dance-ﬂoor were nodding their heads to the beat and they greeted each song with rapturous applause. Major Tom himself injected songs like Wishing Well and Jack The Ripper with a vaudeville-esque, almost comedic sense of drama. These guys don’t just play; they entertain. They had their own reason to celebrate: it was Major Tom’s birthday, and even he is surprised when instead of kicking into Mr Luck The Atoms blasted out Happy Birthday To You and the drummer let oﬀ a few party poppers covering the singer in confetti. If there is a band that has chosen their name perfectly, it’s Howlin’ Steam Train. The four-piece play blues-infused rock’n’roll with the pace and momentum

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of a runaway train. Remember when Kings Of Leon were good? When they played stripped down, raw and refreshing rock music with passion, rather than radio friendly stadium fodder? Well, take that sound and speed it up by more than a few beats per minute and you get Howlin’ Steam Train. The crowd may have been apprehensive to get up and boogie during Major Tom And The Atoms, but the dance floor was full and lively throughout the headliners’ set. The amount of energy, confidence and sheer soul these guys played with was astounding. From start to finish their set was frenzied, frenetic and relentlessly fun and by the end of it both the band and their adoring crowd was satisfied and sweaty. This is a band that you need to witness live if you like to get a good workout on the dance floor. And do it while you can still see them in an intimate venue like Ding Dong Lounge, because chances are big things are on the horizon for these boys. ADAM ROBERTSHAW

LOVED: The energy with which both bands played. HATED: The near-empty dance floor during Major Tom And The Atoms’ set. DRANK: Fat Yak.

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BAND OF SKULLS The Corner Hotel, Thursday July 26 The waterfalls of shiny hair were ﬂowing gorgeously from the get-go on Thursday night, as Band Of Skulls opened with single Sweet Sour to their sold-out audience. This was a particularly hot and fun audience too, except for the chick who couldn’t see over my hair (advice: if you get yourself a ‘good spot’ half an hour before the band is on and stand on that square foot of carpet like a dead robot, chances are people will move around and in front of you, and your spot won’t be so great at show time). Drummer Matt Hayward’s sweeping, killer thrashes stood out straight away and he commanded attention despite his innocuous positioning. Bassist Emma Richardson came into her own during Fires, after slightly disappointing vocals earlier on. She was wonderfully unpretentious in a huge baggy tee with no diva theatrics, and squinted with emotion when she sang. It was gritty and raw without the pitch problems that quality can often produce, and she projected that great feeling of being on a soaring bender but also being somehow completely lucid and able to accurately communicate emotions – a paradox in real life I think, at least when you’re looking from the outside. Hayward was absolutely all over the weird time signature changes in Bruises, his hats chomping down wholly on every beat. He brought his sticks up high but almost caressed the metal, very close and precise. The track was a total ripper and illuminated the great connection between the three musicians. Even though their songs are typically sparse during verses, thumping choruses belie the number of people on stage.

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When guitarist and lead vocalist Russell Marsden came to each solo he had the most benign look on his visage; like a monk in (unwholesome) prayer. Meanwhile Hayward made every pause his own intense little baby, and hit the ride as precisely as a blacksmith (kind of sounded like one too, actually). In between epic mashes the band weren’t afraid to leave space despite the fierce shouts of the crowd – and the crowd truly were desperate for every damn note. Hayward hovered his stick in the air like a gavel, as if it was deciding your enemy’s fate and at the same time signalling the slamming go-ahead to recommence partying. Finishing off with Diamonds And Pearls, the guitar chords were cool and patient, and Marsden’s solo shredded the place up. It was too packed up front for much movement but behind the sound desk fans were dancing around like someone threw a hyena into Meerkat Manor. Band of Skulls really delivered on the promises of their recorded material, managing to recreate and extend the feelings of space, slowed time and the heavy sweaty fire which their fans clearly adore. ZOË RADAS LOVED: Marsden and Hayward’s hair rippling in time. HATED: Afore-mentioned robot woman. DRANK: Beer.