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- FREE SHIT UNKNOWN MOTRAL ORCHESTRA/WAVVES Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Wavves both return to Australia to play July’s Splendour in the Grass festival. They’ve also announced a (fast-selling) double headlie show on Saturday July 27 at the Corner Hotel. We’ve got a double pass to give away.
ROLLING STONE: THE COVERS The first ever exhibition to showcase 150 iconic covers from Rolling Stone is on display at the Yarra Ranges Museum from now until July 2. Displaying famous images of artists like the Beatles, Madonna, Bob Dylan, Bono and many others, the exhibition is also completely free. The kind folk there are also giving away a year’s subscription to Rolling Stone Magazine.
PASSION PIT Already announced on the freakin’ massive Splendour In The Grass lineup, electro-pop maestros Passion Pit have locked in two Melbourne appearances. Last year saw the release of the hugely successfull Gossamer, an album that follows the pristine pop canon established with earlier releases Manners and Chunk Of Change. Passion Pit perform at The Palace on Tuesday July 30 and an under-18s show at The HiFi on Wednesday July 31.
FRENZAL RHOMB After announcing a run of national dates sans any Victorian appearances, the mighty Frenzal Rhomb have finally made good by locking in a Melbourne date. The show comes after the band were forced to pull out of this year’s Descendents tour due to some really fucked up shit involving tapeworm larvae in frontman Jay’s head. Still, the setback has not hampered Frenzal’s ability to put on a sick show. Frenzal Rhomb perform at The Corner on Friday August 2.
MONEY FOR ROPE Money for Rope are known to be one of the few bands who live up to the challenge of unfolding the arms of Melbourne’s typical punters. With an energy that is jaw – dropping yet classy, the six – piece feature two drum kits, two guitars, keys, a bass, and four voices which just about adds up to a sonic and harmonic dream. They relive classics and introduce new songs at the Northcote Social club this May 24. We’ve got a CD and double pass pack to give away.
ONE STEP AHEAD One Step Ahead is a seminal show celebrating part of Australia’s music video pioneers and is features as part of the St Kilda Film Festival which runs from Thursday May 23 to Saturday June 1. This once in a lifetime event features four of Australia’s most successful music video aficionados presenting their favourite clips and arguing the case for their place in a proverbial hall-of-fame. It takes place Saturday May 25 from 8.30 pm onwards and we have three double passes to give away.
SOUNDKILDA Head along and watch music videos as they are rarely ever seen – on the big screen. SoundKilda returns better than ever, on Thursday May 30 at the Astor Theatre. Featuring 18 clips from superb Australian musicians and some incredibly talented filmmakers vying for the grand prize, the evening promises to be an unrivaled music viewing experience, followed by an after party and official awards ceremony. We’ve got three double passes to give away. Feeling lucky, fella? Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to enter.
SLEEPMAKESWAVES Sydney post-rock proponents sleepmakeswaves have revealed a mammoth string of headline dates, hitting Melbourne town this July. The shows follow a massive year in 2012, which saw them tour Australia, the US and Europe; and even an ARIA nomination for their debut album …and so we destroyed everything. sleepmakeswaves perform at The Evelyn on Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
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SEJA Seja is set to release her sweet and synthy new single Like Fireflies, with some accompanying shows announced to celebrate. The single comes in the lead up to her new album All Our Wires, which will be out on Friday June 21. Citing influences from Stereolab to Can, Seja sings of crushes, comfort and consternation. The new track features Regurgitator’s Ben Ely on bass. Seja will be playing at The Grace Darling on Saturday July 6 and tickets will be on the door. Head to the venue website for more information.
THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS After frontman Jared Leto hinted at a huge Australian tour while here for a promotional visit earlier in the month, Thirty Seconds To Mars have locked in dates at our country’s arenas. The tour comes off the back of most recent album Love Lust Faith + Dreams – a continuation of the band’s epic rock vision showcased on their first three LPs. Not ones for subtlety, Thirty Seconds To Mars teamed up with NASA to premiere new single Up In The Air on the International Space Station. Thirty Seconds To Mars perform at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday August 10. Tickets on sale Monday May 27 through Ticketek.
HIGH HIGHS The Sydney born and now Brooklyn-based High Highs have announced a run of Australian headline shows. The duo released their debut LP Open Season earlier this year and brought their dream pop soundscapes to the stage at Laneway. High Highs are currently touring the US as support for Vampire Weekend will be returning to take to the stage later this year for Vivid LIVE. They’ll be playing at The Toff In Town on Thursday June 6. Tickets are on sale now through Moshtix.
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ALPINE Set to head across the seas, Alpine will be playing one last headline show beforehand. Fresh from touring with The Temper Trap and a national tour with Groovin’ The Moo Festival, it will be their first headline show since their two sold out performances at The Corner Hotel last September. Their album A is For Alpine is set for release in the US later this month. After debuting at number one on Australian iTunes last year it garnered critical acclaim both here and internationally. It won iTunes Alternative Album of The Year as well as The Age EG Album of the Year. Alpine has already toured the USA this year with stops in LA, New York and at SXSW 2013. They’ll be hitting The Hi-Fi on Thursday May 30. Tickets are on sale through the venue website.
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A DAY TO REMEMBER After tearing Soundwave apart in 2012, Floridian pop mosh crew A Day To Remember have announced their return to Australia. Armed with their brand new album, Common Courtesy, along with shit-hot new single Violence (Enough is Enough), A Day To Remember are pop infused metalcore at its finest. Joined by a brilliant support team in The Devil Wears Prada and Dream On Dreamer, if you miss out on this, you will feel shit. A Day To Remember play Festival Hall on Sunday July 14. Tickets from Ticketmaster, on sale Friday May 24.
BEN OTTENWELL Ben Ottewell, best known for his work within Gomez, is planning a national solo tour throughout June and July. Ottewell released his first solo album Shapes & Shadows in 2011. He is one of Gomez’s three singers, but is the voice heard on many fan favourites, such as Get Miles, Revolutionary Kind and How We Operate. He’ll be playing songs from his solo album along with classics from the Gomez catalogue. Matt Walker supported Gomez back in 2001 and will be reuniting with Ottewell for his solo shows. Walker recently released a new album, In Echoes Of Dawn. He’ll be playing two shows at The Worker’s Club on Saturday June 29 and Sunday June 30. Tickets are on sale through the venue website.
No stranger to Australian shores, guitar superhero Steve Vai has announced his return in 2013 for a national tour. Vai will command the stage for well over two hours, joined by his band: Dave Weiner on guitar, Jeremy Colson on drums, Philip Bynoe on bass and Michael Arrom on keyboards. Steve Vai performs at The Palais on Saturday July 13.
JELLO BIAFRA DJ GIG This Friday May 24, get yourself to Cherry to catch a Jello Biafra DJ set kicking off at 1am (after Winter Moon, Kashmere CLub and Avantair grace the stage earlier on.
LAURA IMBRUGLIA On Friday June 7, Laura Imbruglia will release her third album What A Treat (Ready Freddie Records/MGM), produced by Melbourne’s legendary Simon Grounds. After whetting the public’s appetite with singles Why’d You Have To Kiss Me So Hard? and the infectious Awoooh!, Laura is finally ready to present the other pieces of the puzzle. Laura and band switch effortlessly from psych-rock to power pop to country, further enforcing Laura’s reputation as a versatile, everchanging musical enigma. She plays The Tote on Saturday July 13 with Melodie Nelson.
LAURA MARLING Already announced for the sold-out Splendour In The Grass, Laura Marling has added a run of intimate church performances to her Australian itinerary. Marling’s fourth studio album Once I Was An Eagle, is set for release on Friday May 24, but has already garnered widespread critical acclaim overseas. Since debuting in 2007 with Alas I Cannot Swim, Marling has won a Brit Award, NME’s Best Solo Artist award alongside two Mercury Music Prize nominations. Marling will play the St Michael’s Uniting Church on Tuesday July 30. Tickets go on sale Tuesday May 28 through Ticketek.
CYNDI LAUPER Iconic singer Cyndi Lauper has announced a second show due to popular demand. Returning to Australia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her groundbreaking album She’s So Unusual, Lauper will again perform the album in full on Friday August 30 at the Palais Theatre.
BEACHES With second album She Beats released earlier this month, sprawling Melbourne psych rock quintet Beaches have now sold out their Melbourne launch at Northcote Social Club on Friday June 1. If you missed out, thank your god as they’ve announced a second NSC show on Sunday June 2. Special guests include Bushwalking and Early Woman for the first show, with supports to be announced for the second.
GYPSY AND THE CAT Fresh off their first US tour, where they showcased at college radio bible CMJ Festival, Gypsy And The Cat return home with a new single It’s A Fine Line from their second album The Late Blue. They are taking the song on the road with a national tour, reaching The Hi-Fi on Friday June 21. Tickets are on sale now from Oztix.
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Katie Noonan possesses one of the most loved, recognisable, and angelic voices in Australia; those who have seen her perform live know the warmth and depth she conveys vocally is mirrored in her onstage storytelling. She plays GPAC Drama Theatre in Geelong on Saturday June 22 as well as The Toff In Town on Sunday June 23 with string quartet and guests Playwrite. Tickets from Moshtix.
Melbourne’s Them Swoops are thrilled to announce the release of their debut EP Glimmers out Friday June 14 through New York’s +1 Records (The Heavy, The Morning Benders). The EP will be a taste of things to come from the band’s forthcoming album and will consist of prior shimmering-indie-pop singles Work Around It and Too Fast For Love plus the release of a brand new single Rollerskate. The crew have also announced a remix of Work Around It by Ben Browning from Cut Copy which will also be included on the EP. To celebrate, they’ll be playing the Northcote Social Club on Saturday June 15 for the official EP Launch, and if Swoops’ last sold out headline show is anything to go by, fans better get in quick. Tickets via the venue website.
MASTERS OF ROCK 2013 Now in its third year, the Masters of Rock was initially started in collaboration with Jim Keays (Masters Apprentices) who has myeloma, a type of blood cancer that affects approximately 10,000 Australians. In past years, Jim has featured in the lineup but this year due to his health, he is unable to perform. His friends however as always are rallying to support him and The Myeloma Foundation by generously donating their time and talent to this worthy cause. All proceeds on the night will go directly to allow The Myeloma Foundation continue their work in research and supporting patients and their families living with myeloma. This year’s lineup includes James Reyne, Daryl Braithwaite, Spectrum, Black Feather, Ashley Naylor (of Even), Deborah Conway and Will Zygier. It’s on at The Hi-Fi on Thursday June 20. Tickets are only $40+bf from The Hi-Fi website.
SPRAY N WIPE Aussie two-piece DZ Deathrays will be headlining the next instalment of Spray N Wipe. Formed in 2008 by Shane Parsons and Simon Ridley, the band originally planned to just play house parties, but that rule was quickly broken. Playing alongside DZ will be World’s End Press, The Griswolds, Gung Ho, Cash For Gold, Tokyo Denmark Sweden, Deja and Hollow Everdaze at Melbourne’s biggest indie party. Spray N Wipe is on at The Espy on Friday June 28. Tickets via The Espy website and all Oztix outlets.
JEN CLOHER The result of a successful crowd-funding campaign, Jen Cloher’s latest album In Blood Memory is out this Friday May 24. The singer-songwriter has announced a Melbourne launch at The Corner Hotel on Friday June 28 with support from Ainslie Wills and Fraser A Gorman. Tickets are available via the venue’s website.
AXOLOTL Hometown heroes AXOLOTL deliver their next single Avalanche. Filled with layered synth and the signature vocals of Ella Thompson, the single shows again why the act has been turning heads, including a support with How To Dress Well at Perth Festival. The band launches the single at The LuWOW on Thursday June 6 with Tulalah.
YOU AM I The juggernaut that is You Am ‘s I Hi Fi Daily Double tour keeps on keepin’ on with the announcement of yet another Forum show, this one on Sunday July 7. The Thursday July 4 and Saturday July 6 dates are sold out, with tickets to the Wednesday July 3 show also moving quickly. The show is a retrospective spanning their 20 year career to coincide with the reissue of their first three albums. Tickets are through Ticketek.
BEACH FOSSILS Brooklyn indie outfit Beach Fossils have rescheduled their postponed tour Down Under. Their sophomore LP Clash The Truth has been setting the blogosphere alight through 2013. They play The Corner on Saturday September 21 and tickets are available via the venue box office and website.
GRINSPOON Seminal Australian rock band Grinspoon have announced new shows on their Black Rabbits album tour, with another stop in to Melbourne at The Corner Hotel on Friday August 8. Tickets are available from Oztix.
PARKWAY DRIVE Undisputed kings of Australian hardcore, Parkway Drive, have announced new shows for Melbourne on their upcoming Ten Years Of Parkway Drive tour. A celebration for both the band and their staunch fanbase, the new dates are at The Palace on Saturday September 21 (under 18s) and Sunday September 22. Tickets are through Oztix.
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Todd Rundgren has announced that his Melbourne shows in Ferntree Gully and Chelsea Heights will now be replaced by three special intimate shows at Bennett’s Lane in the CBD on the Thursday July 18 and the Caravan Music Club in Oakleigh on the Saturday July 20. Limited tickets are also still available for Todd’s originally announced show at The Corner Hotel on the Sunday July 21.
Prepare for a triple threat of blues and roots delights, with Xavier Rudd, Donavon Frankenreiter and Nahko And Medicine For The People hitting the road for an Australian tour. Xavier Rudd’s music has impacted the world for over a decade – spanning back over seven studio albums, multiple ARIA nominations and more high-rotation singles than you’d care to count. Don’t miss Xavier as he teams up with some of the chillest global talent in Donavon Frankenreiter and Nahko And Medicine For The People. Xavier Rudd performs at The Forum on Thursday October 3.
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THE JUNGLE GIANTS Before they hit this year’s massive Splendour In The Grass, rising Brisbane outfit The Jungle Giants will set off around the country to launch their latest single, I Am What You Want Me To Be. The band’s debut EP and its 2012 follow up both received generous praise and saw the band emerge with a solid and ever-growing fan base, further fuelled by a series of choice supports, festival spots and sell-out club shows. The Jungle Giants perform at The Corner on Saturday July 6.
CLARE BOWDITCH Name/Band: Lily from Second Hand Heart Ten bands everyone should know about: Tully On Tully, Kathryn Rollins, Rat & Co, Little Dragon, Hiatus Kaiyote, Brightly, Ainslie Wills, House Of Lawrence, Polica, Autumn Grey. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Someone who can actually cook would be a start, other than just good company and lots of booze. Eight possessions that define you: Roland keyboard, black jeans, Panadol, Voltaren gel, packets of chewy, vodka, Macbook, to do list. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape: American Dad, Mad Men, O Brother Where Art Thou, Melancholia, Black Books, Forgetting Sarah Marshell, True Blood. Six bad habits you can’t escape: Checking my email a million times a day, coffee, stressing over nothing, living in the past (or in the future) avoiding doing laundry until I’m down to torn undies, and when I actually do get around to doing laundry, forgetting to put it out to dry so it goes smelly and I have to wash it again. Beat Magazine Page 20
Five people who inspire you: Michael Jackson, Noam Chomsky, Thom Yorke, Katie Noonan, Clare Bowditch. Four things that turn you on: Women that ‘own it’ on stage, a cointreau on ice, crisp white t-shirts and having Friday’s off work. Three goals for your music: Prolificacy – continue to develop new material for a long time to come. Play to new audiences. Take the band to Europe. Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: Ainslie Wills single launch at the Workers Club in 2012 – I was so transfixed the whole gig that I couldn’t speak for about five minutes after she stopped playing. Radiohead…enough said. One day left before the apocalypse and you… Get a credit card and go nuts. When’s the gig / release? Wednesday May 29 at the Workers Club, we are launching our latest single Hold On. Check out the film clip online.
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Clare Bowditch is celebrating the release of her new single One Little River by heading out on the road with a new band, a band that includes you! That’s right, it’s Winter Secrets time again – an “annual institution” where CB takes one supertalented collaborator (last time it was Lanie Lane, this time it’s new wunderkind Spender), and creates an absolutely mind-blowing show all around Australia where you, the audience, get to be her back-up band (but only if you want to. No pressure dude). Importantly, the night is also a chance for one really talented musician in each state to join Clare on stage for a cover of One Little River and be in the running for $1,000 worth of prizes (more info at clarebowditch.com). Check out this rare occasion at the Corner Hotel on Saturday August 10. Tickets from the venue and box office.
PIKELET Melbourne psych pop wonders Pikelet return with the first evidence from upcoming third album Calluses. Premiered today on Spin, teaser track Pressure Cooker is an eerie, loping marvel, six minutes of dark, dreamy post-apocalyptic shuffle. It’s a sure sign that third album Calluses, due out on Chapter Music on August 16, is going to be worth the wait since 2010’s AMP-shortlisted album Stem. Pikelet will also launch the album in Melbourne at the Tote Hotel on Friday June 7, with support from Gold Tango and Superstar.
TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 OF THE LAST 20 YEARS
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TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 OF THE PAST 20 YEARS It’s been a whole two decades since the first ever Hottest 100, and to celebrate, triple j are asking listeners to reflect on their favourite songs from the past 20 years to compile the ultimate anniversary countdown. Any song released from January 1, 1993 to December 31, 2012 is eligible for nomination, and it doesn’t need to have appeared in its year’s Hottest 100 list. Need some help casting your mind back through to ’93? We know that culling down your top tracks from the past two decades can be a pretty gruelling and emotionally-draining task, so to jog your music memory and get some inspiration we had a chat with three triple j presenters and forced them to spill three of their favourites. TOM BALLARD (TRIPLE J BREAKFAST PRESENTER) Ben Folds Five – Army (1999) Mr. Folds is my most consistent musical touchstone. My adolescence, my relationship with my brother, my (shitty) skills on the piano, my comedy – all of them have been set to the soundtrack of this crazy motherfucker. I still love the sound of The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner; it’s simultaneously bombastic and funny and touching and cheesy. This song has the quality of all great songs; it feels timeless, like it was written centuries ago and Ben was just the conduit to lay it down. It’s about being young, doing stupid shit, fucking up, regretting it and moving on to have another crack. The honky tonk piano solo and that fat, feedbacky bass sound giving way to the huge horn section still gives me chills. When Folds begs God to spare him more rejection, when he admits his ex-wives all despise him, it’s truly raw, truly great, catchy pop. Sufjan Stevens – Chicago (2005) This record changed my life. It hit me in Year 10, at the height of that period where you kind of wake up to the world and have your mind blown by sex and the future and the universe and art and figuring out who you are. I can’t think of a better soundtrack for all that business than the epic, swirling, heartbreaking, delightful music of Sufjan Stevens. I can remember sitting in the car, down
the main street of my little home town of Warrnambool, waiting for my mum to come back from the shops, and triple j played this. This. I thought, “How does someone make something like this?” I missed the name of the artist, researched furiously, bought Illionoise, laid down on my bed with my headphones on and went on that journey. Stevens’ work is endlessly inspiring and this track is no exception. The combination of gorgeous string arrangements, a choir and blistering melancholy kills me every time. Kanye West – Dark Fantasy (2010) “I can in no way call myself a hip hop head. It just ‘ain’t my bag, yo’. Or something. But Yeezy’s masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (and its accompanying short film) did it for me. It's a brutally honest exploration of his stupid ego, everything that he was and is. It just seemed so huge to me, littered with big, brutal ideas, tight rhymes and awesome hooks. I couldn't stop listening to it. Plus the whole thing takes me back to starting triple j breakfast, moving cities, the first time I was in love, making new friends, watching The West Wing in my underpants in my shitty one-bedroom apartment... good times. This opening song sets up MBDTF perfectly and hits you right between the eyes. I think regardless of whether you love or hate Kanye, his pioneering creativity is kind of undeniable, much like his Twitter account.”
LINDA MARIGLIANO (TRIPLE J GOOD NIGHTS PRESENTER) Snoop Dogg – Lodi Dodi (1993) I’ve always been the baby in the family. In the early ‘90s, my cool older brother and Italian cousins all listened to rap music and immersed themselves in this culture. I have specific memories of watching Boyz N The Hood and Poetic Justice as a very small child. Talk about a thug upbringing, right! Anyway, while I was playing with my dolls I was listening to various hip hop cassette tapes my brother used to make. I became obsessed with these and learned every word to my favourite songs. For some reason, the striking storytelling and cruisey nature of the debut album by a young African American hot shot called Snoop Dogg was my ultimate indulgence. The entire Doggystyle record is a supreme classic, and Lodi Dodi is a perfect example of Snoop’s unmistakable flow and melodic hypnotic rhymes. It tells almost a day in the life of the Snoop story. From taking a bubble bath, putting on his (very chic) Cool Water cologne, to running into a messed up girl in trouble on the street. And you’d be right in assuming it took me years to understand the many drug references within this. Phoenix – Too Young (2000) This song never, ever fails to put a stupid smile on my face. Is it possible to be in love with a song? In this case, yes. The striking balance between melancholia and joyfulness makes this a staple in all mixtapes. This song will be played at my wedding, my funeral, my cruise across the countryside and hopefully within the 20yrs of Hottest 100 countdown! Too Young is on Pheonix’s debut LP United, one of my fave albums. Smooth blend of French pop, R&B and those beautiful guitar licks, all weaving you into that euphoric chorus. And the synth lead into explosion in the final chorus? That blows my socks off every time! Genius, and so simple. Phoenix know how to nail a hit without it ever sounding over produced, over hyped, over done. Subtle, sublime songwriting which sounds so effortless and nonchalant. That’s how to do it, guitar bands. Portishead – Roads (1994) The entire Portishead album Dummy breaks my lil heart! I was too young when the record came out in 1994, but years later I discovered this CD that my Malaysian cousin (he was a super cool goth punk at the time) had left on the floor of our lounge room. I popped it in my Discman and the obsession began. Listened to this entire album on repeat, and Roads was always a tear jerking standout. The slow trip hop beats became the soundtrack to my teen years, and those moments where my tiny bubble of a world seemed too much for a gal to handle, this was always the album I came back to. Roads is a slow moving, cinematic gem. Beth Gibbons voice is simultaneously fragile, delicate yet a strong call to arms. Her lyrics are moving and genuine, and
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paired with the massive string sweeps, wow. Just wow. LEWI MCKIRDY (TRIPLE J LUNCH PRESENTER) Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf – My World Premiere (1993) I love rap music more than anything in the world and this is my favourite song ever. It makes me feel tough and I get goosebumps whenever I bump it in The Goose (my car). But it isn’t anything more than the venomous flamethrown fire spittin’ of the unshakable rapper Charizma and a danky boom bap rap beat looped by Peanut Butter Wolf. My mate Dog Meat Dave showed it to me in high school and since then I’ve learned every single punch line, dissected it, studied what it meant and formed a lifestyle based upon it. If Charizma was alive I’d know every line to every rap song he’s never written. Peanut Butter Wolf is still kickin’ – he’s top dog at Stones Throw Records and they churn out my other favourite songs. Thundercat – For Love I Come (2011) This is some freaky future jazz adopted from a freaky jazz man George Duke. Thundercat put the cover out on his debut album from 2011 The Golden Age Of Apocalypse. Thundercat! What a guy. He’s the bassist for Suicidal Tendencies and Erykah Badu then on the side just throws down these scorching sex jams of him making love to his bass. Every night me and my roomy Parksie would play FIFA and listen to this album. So much so we started playing it backwards listening out for secret messages. Thundercat rolls with Flying Lotus who’s produced his next record due June. I’m freaking out about it as I’m about to turn into a sex fury love making bad man. That’s what Thundercat does to you. Tips you over into a freaky sex abyss. The only way to turn back is by listening to Foo Fighters or something. Beastie Boys – Get It Together (1994) I could have grabbed anything from Ill Communication (or anything from Beastie Boys) but this has got it all. Mario C produced it, Tip chimes in with his smoked-out hoarse voice (smooth concrete couldn’t do a better job at being smooth). All I listened to as a kid was rap music (and some Millencolin, maybe some Korn but whatever) and when I was stealing music from Napster it’s all I wanted. Raps and porn. I was a simple boy. ‘90s rap music, particularly from NYC taught me how to live. My brother, Miles, is the same way and has promised to perform this song at my funeral if he makes it longer than me which I think is really nice. Head to triplej.net.au/hottest100 to cast your vote and you could be heading overseas to see your favourite artist from the past 20 years live in action anywhere in the world. Voting ends Sunday June 2.
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CHRIS TUCKER BY ALASDAIR DUNCAN
Chris Tucker makes quite an impression. He has been in far fewer movies than you would think, no more than a dozen, but it feels like more, because each of his roles is so distinctive. The biggest of these roles was as the fast-talking Detective Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy. He made his name in the films, not to mention his fortune – the third instalment made him the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. Thanks to this success, Tucker now works only when he wants to, as in David O. Russell’s eccentric indie flick Silver Linings Playbook. All of this spare time has given him the opportunity to his first love – stand-up comedy. “School was a scary place for me,” he says. “Trying to get my homework done was hard, and I would daydream a lot and get into trouble. I used to host talent shows, and I guess you’d say I had an epiphany when I got my first laugh. I was the last person to figure out that I was funny, but once I knew I could make my friends and teachers laugh, I knew I was in a good place, and that’s what I wanted to do.” At that young age, Tucker idolised comedians like Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. “Those guys took the path from stand-up to acting in movies,” he says, “and I decided I wanted to do that as well, but the path eventually led back to stand-up, back where I started out.” Tucker’s earliest comedy memories involve watching scratchy bootleg recordings of Eddie Murphy standup specials. “When we first got cable down on my street, we didn’t have it, but my good friend up the street did,” he says. “They had to lay down the cables for you to get it in your house, and they hadn’t got to us yet, but my good friend had it and recorded Eddie Murphy’s Delirious from HBO. He brought it down on a VHS tape and let us watch it, which we did, over and over again. When we finally got cable, I used to watch Delirious and Rocky III over and over again. I got into Richard Pryor a bit later in life, but Eddie Murphy was my first comedy love.” In the early stages of his career, Tucker was something of a loose cannon, making his name with profane and hilarious performances on shows like HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. While time hasn’t exactly mellowed him, he is definitely older and wiser these days. “My goal is for everybody at the show to have a good time,” he says. “If I do cross any lines, well, I don’t think it’s going to be too much. I mean, I talk about my own experiences in the show, and I get a bit of stuff off my chest, but it’s not really about that so much. I tell a lot of stories in the show, I do a lot of characters, and I talk about the state of the world. It’s just about jokes and being funny.” Many stand-up comedians say that they are constantly switched on, always looking for new jokes and bits, but Tucker doesn’t concern himself too much with this. “If I’m not on stage, I’m living my life,” he says. “Something might cross my mind and I’ll try to remember it in some kind of way, and when I get to the comedy club that night, I’ll try and bring it up. I’m not on all day long. I mean, I’m observant and quiet most of the time, and I only turn it on when I get on stage.” Beat Magazine Page 24
It’s important, however, to put as many new jokes as possible in each night’s show. “If it’s fresh to me, I deliver it better,” he says. “I don’t like to do the same routine over and over – I want to feel what I’m saying and believe what I’m saying, because if I feel that way, the audience will believe it too. One of Tucker’s earliest and funniest Def Comedy Jam bits was based around the idea that America would never, ever have a black president – I’ll spare you a transcript of the whole thing, but look it up, because it’s funny as hell. I ask Tucker if he still reflects on that joke in the Obama era, and he lights up. “Yeah, I do!” he says. “I have a whole bit about President Obama – it’s really good stuff. Back then, the idea of a black president was really far-fetched, but now we have one. My comedy has evolved in that time, and so have I, and so has the world. It’s cool that I can talk and joke about that now, about how much things have changed.” A few years ago, Chris Tucker travelled to Africa on a humanitarian mission, along with former president Bill Clinton. It was an eye-opening trip, as the pair took in the scope and beauty of the country and its people. All in all, the mission was a wild success … except for the time that Tucker started a riot in Ghana. “We were in a shopping mall, and a guy there gave me a drum,” he says with a nervous laugh. “I didn’t have anything to give him, except for a couple of hundred dollars in my pocket, so I gave him a hundred dollars, and when people saw, it turned ugly. I walked away with the drum, and as I did that, other people started to surround him and a big fight broke out.” At that point, it was clear that everyone had to leave – the Secret Service stepped in and hustled Tucker to the car, where Clinton was waiting. Needless to say, it was awkward. “The Secret Service told him what I’d done, and he turned to me and said: ‘Tucker, why’d you do that? You could’ve asked me for change! You almost started a riot here – I wasn’t done shopping!’” If comedy is pain, then on the basis of experiences like this, Tucker has no shortage of A-grade material for his show. From here, our conversation turns to the subject of Tucker’s film career. He appears in movies only infrequently – Silver Linings Playbook was his first non-Rush Hour role since the ‘90s. It seems that these days, he is in the privileged position of only working when he really wants to. “I always look for something different from what I’ve done,” he says. “When Silver Linings Playbook
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came along, I was really interested, because it was a smaller role, but it was a really fun and important one. Something like that was great, because it showed a different side of me. I’m always looking and searching for roles that are different.” In the film, Tucker plays Danny, Bradley Cooper’s best buddy-slash-sidekick, who has a bad habit of constantly escaping from a mental institution. “I just thought he was a fun character, because he kept popping in and out of the movie, popping up,” Tucker says. “He had a serious side to him as well as a funny side, and I knew I could play both. The timing of the movie was perfect. A lot of people don’t know a lot about mental illness, so it was good to be able to come at that as well.”
“I DON’T LIKE TO DO THE SAME ROUTINE OVER AND OVER – I WANT TO FEEL WHAT I’M SAYING AND BELIEVE WHAT I’M SAYING, BECAUSE IF I FEEL THAT WAY, THE AUDIENCE WILL BELIEVE IT TOO.” When Tucker read the script, he approached director David O. Russell directly and asked for the part, and Russell hired him without so much as an audition. “He’s really creative,” Tucker says of his collaborator. “I love the way he works, because he’s so involved – he knows exactly what he wants. It’s great to work with someone like that.” For many of his fans, Tucker’s most memorable roles is one of his earliest – the affable stoner Smokey in the comedy flick Friday. When fans meet Tucker and talk about the film, though, they are surprised to learn that the two are nothing alike – for one, Tucker does not share Smokey’s preference for herbal refreshments. “Sometimes people are disappointed,” he says. “They want that character that that they’ve seen in the movie. They’ll call me by the character’s name – they scare you! They call out ‘say that line!’ and I’m like ‘I haven’t seen that movie for ages, what line?!’” Some fans are let down by the fact that Tucker doesn’t want to get high with them, but he’s pretty sanguine about the whole thing. “I want people to know the difference,” he says, emphatically. “I was acting – that wasn’t me. I don’t want to influence people in that direction, and make people think that it’s all fun and games. Some people are disappointed, but I guess it’s a compliment, I played that character pretty well if people think that he and I are so much alike.” CHRIS TUCKER performs an all-ages show at The Plenary on Tuesday June 11.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN The St Kilda Film Festival is on this week – and it’s turning 30! There’s seriously so much awesome shit so check out their website for the full program. The red carpet will be rolled out for opening night at the Palaise Theatre on Thursday May 23 as the festival welcomes the best of Australia’s film industry talent. Over 3,000 guests will be there for a tasty selection of short film, including the world premieres of Scratch as well as Ruby, amongst countless other brilliant Victorian premieres. Opening night tickets are $35/$30 concession. Anther highlight of the festival is the SXSW Showcase – bringing the best of Texas to the St Kilda shore. St Kilda Film Festival runs from Thursday May 23 until Saturday June 1. Hit up their website for the full program.
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ON STAGE Backyard Theatre’s latest offering Unconditioned Heart will combine movement, story and shadow puppetry when it premieres at La Mama. The play was co-written by Suze Smith and Michael Carmody. It follows Jack and Jill in an exploration of intimacy and shared history and is set on the driveway of their parents’ suburban house. The siblings look back over their lives, telling stories, to uncover cross generational trauma and the source of the gap between them. The play stars Lily Fish, Rob Gaetano, Paul Roberts and Vanessa Chapple and was directed by Smith. It is Smith’s third production with the company. It will open tonight, Wednesday May 22, at 6.30pm and run until Sunday June 2.
ON DISPLAY Tinning Street Gallery, an exhibition space dedicated to offbeat craftsmanship, is currently hosting Sam Wallman’s exhibition Pen Erases Paper. Pen Erases Paper will showcase the eccentric artistry of Wallman and his surrealistic humour akin to J G Quintel’s (Regular Show). Accompanying the exhibition, Wallman will host a book launch, Pen Erases Paper Drawing Book, that was funded through pozible.com. Sure to be a delightful blend of art and humour, Pen Erases Paper will be on display until Sunday May 26.
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The Heide Museum of Modern Art are currently hosting acclaimed contemporary artist Fiona Hall’s newest exhibition Big Game Hunting. Inspired by endangered species around the world, Big Game Hunting is fusion of consumerism and environmental issues expressed in the form of contemporary three-dimensional imagery of animals. Big Game Hunting will invoke deep thought through Hall’s alluring blend of aesthetics, colour, distorted shape and fragility. Check it out at Heide Museum of Modern Art until Sunday July 21.
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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS BY ALASDAIR DUNCAN
One Man, Two Guvnors, a massive hit when it opened two years ago in London, has all the hallmarks of a great farce – mistaken identity, improbable plot twists, and generous helpings of physical comedy. Set in the ‘60s in the seaside British town of Brighton, it tells the story of a small-time crook named Francis Henshall caught between a pair of ruthless yet incompetent gangsters. The elaborate production includes a four-piece live band, performing skiffle, the energetic musical style popular in Britain at the time. The band, otherwise known as The Craze, play a key part in the show, and as their musical director and double bass player Richie Hart tells me, maintaining the high energy level night after night can be a challenge. “The lead actor Owain Arthur plays Francis, and he’s the driving force behind the play,” Hart tells me. “His energy is really consistent and incredible night after night, and he keeps the whole thing together. In the band, we have a ritual that we call a ‘skiffle-on’ – every night before we go on, we stand around in a circle and shout ‘skiffleon!’ to get our energy up.” Skiffle is an energetic mixture of styles including jazz, folk and bluegrass, and The Craze throw themselves into it wholeheartedly, performing with manic energy and enthusiasm. They introduce the show, and keep the
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audience entertained during the various transitions between scenes. “There’s a lot of engagement between us and the audience,” Hart says. “It’s great fun, and it’s very physical – I play the double bass, so I have to be energetic, as I’m slapping it four times in every bar.” Hart comes from a classical music background, so adapting to the freewheeling skiffle style has been a challenge. “Don’t tell anyone this, but I’m not really a double bass player!” he says with a laugh. “I’m actually a tuba player and a pianist, and then, I don’t know, maybe a singer. I’ve played
Kylián’s work Bella Figura, a physical exploration of dreams and the subconscious. Finishing Vanguard will be Dyad 1929. Choreographed by Wayne McGregor (Paris Opera Ballet, New York Ballet, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Dyad 1929 will challenge traditional ballet with innovation and sharp movement. Vanguard will be performed at the Arts Centre from Thursday June 6 – Monday June 17. We have a few double passes to giveaway. Hit up beat.com.au/freeshit to win.
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bass guitar, but double bass is quite new to me. I’ve played it in shows before, but the slap bass style of skiffle is very new to me.” When he was hired for One Man, Two Guvnors, Hart had about two weeks to get his head around the music – he was thrown in at the deep end, but survived. “I’ve been doing jazz and pop stuff since my teens, and skiffle is really just a precursor to that kind of stuff,” he says. “The main thing to get my head around was being able to slap it twice and then pull up after the second slap on the strings. Once you’ve done it enough, it stays with you.” Performing with The Craze also represents an acting challenge for Hart, as the band are required to interact with the audience and cast at various times throughout the performance. “I’ve certainly never done anything like it before,” he says. Without giving too much away, there are moments when One Man, Two Guvnors breaks the fourth wall – audience members are drawn into the insanity on stage, and it’s in these moments that the band must truly be on their game. “When people are looking for reassurance that stuff is real or not real in the show, they’ll look at the band, and if we’re not right into it, if we’re not engaged, they’ll know,” Hart says. “We can’t stand there with our arms folded, looking bored – we’ll give it all away. We have to buy into everything that’s happening, whether it’s written or improvised.” When things go wrong, Hart and his band mates must use their musical skills to cover. “In our second preview in Sydney, something went wrong with one of the curtains and they wouldn’t work at all,” he tells me. “Our company manager came out and apologised, then looked over to us and asked if we wanted to play something. I looked across at the guys and we knew we had to do something. We had a couple of extra songs in our back pocket, so we went on stage and played those. Our sound guy was really on it, and he turned up our mics straight away, so people could hear our discussion! I think people thought it was pretend, that it was part of the show, but when it got to about 10 minutes in, I think people realised that it was a bit too long for that!” Funnily enough, playing as part of a fictional skiffle band in a stage farce has taught Hart and his band mates a lot about their skills as real musicians. “It’s been a tremendous learning experience,” he says. “My band-mate Phil Murray Warson plays the piano accordion and the harmonica in the show, but he hadn’t played either of those before. I could play the piano, but not a huge amount, and I know Billy Stooker, our drummer, had never played washboard or spoons before, as he’s required to do here. We had to work to get into the skiffle genre. It died out around 1958 – there are still bands around who play it, but it’s not a common genre anymore. I guess that’s a big part of its appeal, though, that it’s so accessible you can hear it and immediately connect with it.”
One Man, Two Guvnors is currently playing at The Arts Centre, Playhouse until Saturday June 22.
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BUTTON SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL The annual Spanish Film Festival will celebrate its sweet 16th with a delicious serving of Latin American, Mexican and Spanish films next month. Opening the festival with Cesc Gay’s mid-life crisis classic A Gun in Each Hand (Una pistola en cada mano), a tale of 40-something men and their gender roles within Hispanic culture. Succeeding this will be a selection of acclaimed films and premières, including 2011 Cannes winner Days of Grace (Dias de Gracia) and eccentric rom-com Don’t Fall in Love With Me (No te enamores de mi). Closing the festival will be ‘70s classic, Tristana by Luis Buñeal. Spanish Film Festival will run across Palace Cinema Como, Palace Westgarth, and Kino Cinema from Wednesday June 12 – Wednesday June 26.
FRIDAY ON MY MIND Friday on my Mind, a panel dedicated to the film and TV industry, will be presenting Friday on My Mind with Alison Nisselle this Friday. Hosted by former MIFF Director, Sandra Sdrualig, Friday on My Mind with Alison Nisselle will showcase some of the best advice for aspiring screenwriters/script editors/script producers. Alison Nisselle is a self-described “old chick” who has “done everything”, and has a folio that spans over three decades, including Australian serials Neighbours, Home & Away and Prisoner, plus production on feature films. Friday on My Mind with Alison Nisselle will be hosted at ACMI on Friday May 24 at 5pm. Admission is free, though bookings are recommended.
CHERRYROCK ART INSTALLATION Cherry Bar is again hosting an art installation following this year’s CherryRock Festival. Installed in Melbourne’s famous AC/DC Lane, CherryRock Art Installation will showcase the photography of Jay Hynes who was responsible for all the music photography on the night, particularly backstage. “As always, I shoot the band members immediately after they’ve come off stage,” explained Hynes of rock festival, “and I never quite know what I’m going to get. It’s a very raw, very real moment.” Some of the artists included in CherryRock 2013 were King Parrot, Barbarion, Drunk Mums and The Murlocs. CherryRock Art Installation is currently on exhibition in AC/DC Lane until Sunday May 26. Admission is free.
La Mama presents Button, an exploration of the universe and human loneliness. Created and performed by Carole Patullo and Jane Bayley, Button tells the story of two lonely women who become friends over a jar of buttons. Peter Farnan’s (Boom Crash Opera) crafted soundtrack will poignantly illustrate the women’s friendship, and the nuances of human healing and universal interconnectivity. Button will be preformed at La Mama Theatre from Wednesday May 29 – Sunday June 16.
THREE SONGS NO FLASH To commemorate some of Australia’s most successful music photographers, Ding Dong Lounge will host an exhibition this month called Three Songs No Flash Present A Live Music Photography Exhibition. The exhibition will feature works from acclaimed music photographers Scott Boelsen, Katie Dutton, Rebecca Houlden, John Raptis, Richard Sharman and many more. These artists’ work have been featured in reputable music publications, nationally and internationally — so expect plenty of images of your favourite artists, including Metallica, Madonna and Garbage. Three Songs No Flash Presents A Live Music Photography Exhibition is currently on display at the Ding Dong Lounge until Thursday May 30.
YOU’RE A WOMAN, I’M A MACHINE Melbourne artists Ross Vaughan and Shaun Thatcher collaborate again in their latest exhibition You’re A Women, I’m A Machine. Hosted at No Vacancy Gallery, You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine combines pop culture, advertising tropes, and modern relationships between street and contemporary art to create an abstract illustration of modern day culture. You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine is Thatcher and Vaughan’s first collaboration since 2010. You’re a Woman, I’m A Machine will be exhibited at No Vacancy Gallery from Thursday June 13–Saturday June 22. Opening drinks will be on Thursday June 13 from 6–9pm. Admission is free.
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LEARNTOLIVE AUSTRALIA LearnToLive, a humanitarian organisation focused on healthcare and education, have collaborated with comedians and Revolt Artspace to present LearnToLive Australia. Hosted by Sammy J & Randy, LearnToLive will feature the witticisms of Frank Woodley, Paul McDermott & Gatesy, Denise Scott, Tina Del Twist and Chewbacca lookalike Dave Callan. Joining the comedians on stage will be deep funk/afro band The Seven Ups. All money raised will be donated to LearnToLive who will use the money to fund healthcare clinics and sustainable water projects in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. LearnToLive Australia will be hosted at Revolt Artspace on Saturday May 25 at 7pm.
THE VARIETY COLLECTIVE
TEN CUBED COLLECTION HOSTS ALASDAIR MCLUCKIE Ten Cubed Collection, a gallery dedicated to ‘falling in love’ with artists’ work, is currently hosting a collection of Alasdair McLuckie’s work. Focused on tribal and modernist aesthetics, McLuckie’s work combines drawing, painting and printmaking to harmoniously create a collection of work inspired by late-night escapism. Built upon the notion that ‘beautiful art should be shared, not hidden away’, Ten Cubed Collection is a philanthropic initiative by Dianne and Jack Gringlas, and Ada Moshinsky dedicated to creating an art collection of contemporary Australian and New Zealand artists. Ten Cubed Collection’s exhibition of Alasdair McLuckie’s work is currently on display at Ten Cubed Collection until Tuesday June 4. Admission is free.
Here’s your chance to relive the fun and excitement of a ‘50s style radio variety show! For one night only The Variety Collective are putting on a huge live variety show and broadcasting it out across the air. They’ll also be filming the show for that new-fangled YouTube-thingy. Come along and see comedy musical double act the Gram-O-Phonie Brothers, comedian Beau Stegmann, harmony group Hannah PelkaCaven and Belinda Dalton singing boogie-woogie hits, circus artist Richard Clement, bluegrass covers from The Von Muzenik Family Singers and The Insert Sponsor Here Radio Show players (comedians Lauren Bok, Bert Maverick and Sam Marzden) unleashing their comedy chaos. Also magic from Nicholas J. Johnson, circus stunts from Miss Ella Bella, ventriloquism from Sarah Jones and much more. MC will be Michael Connell. A special prize for the audience member with the best ‘50s outfit. The fun starts at 8pm star at the Brunswick Green on Wednesday May 22. Tickets are just $10 at the door.
COMMEDIA DELL PARTE Michael Chamberlin hosts a great line up of comics this week at Commedia Dell Parte. Joining Michael will be Trav Nash, Angus Brown, David Boyle, Tess Woodward, Matt Harvey and Tom Saunders. With each week packing out, you will need to get in early to grab a seat. 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. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE COMEDY
THE ABSTRACT LOGIC OF DREAMS
NO VACANCY FIFTH BIRTHDAY No Vacancy Gallery is turning five this month, and to celebrate, the exhibition space will be hosting No Vacancy 5th Birthday Show, an exhibition of epic proportions. Showcasing over 30 artists, Birthday Show will feature the works of past, present and future artists, including Bonsai, Beatsman and Drew Funk. No Vacancy Gallery launched in 2008 as a contemporary, exploratory gallery that quickly garnered a reputation for the innovative. In 2010, it opened its second exhibition space in Federation Square, to much success. No Vacancy 5th Birthday Show will be hosted at No Vacancy Gallery in Federation Square on Thursday May 23 from 6–9pm. Admission is free.
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Fine artist Ezra Kryzwkulski’s newest collection of work, The Abstract Logic of Dreams, will be exhibited at the Artman Gallery next month. Inspired by the mythology of dreams, The Abstract Logic of Dreams delves into the linear progression of dreams through contrasting colours and cubistic geometry. Kryswkulski creates layered depths of reality and illusion, detailing the varying percentiles of dreams. The Abstract Logic of Dreams will be exhibited at Artman Gallery from Saturday June 1 – Saturday June 22. An opening drinks sessions will happen on Saturday June 1 at 2pm – 4pm. Admission is free.
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Checkpoint has hit the ground running since the festival with huge crowds and great acts. Tonight, they do it again with Anne Edmonds, Simon Taylor, John Campbell, a surprise guest and more. It’s Melbourne’s finest spitting funnies into the business end of a mic. For just $5. Plus cheap piss. Show kicks off 8.30pm tonight, upstairs from Eurotrash Bar. Get down early for a seat.
LOL COMEDY It might be getting colder outside but the comedy at LOL is just starting to heat up, with upcoming appearances by Mikey Robbins, Matt Hardy, Lehmo and other top shelf talent. This week they have Melbourne’s own Brad Oakes and Danny McGinlay performing for you, with support spots by festival favourite, Daniel Connell, Liam Ryan and Chris Dewberry. Head on down to the Portland Hotel tonight from 7.30pm. Grab a beer. get a feed and have a laugh. For next week’s lineups visit lolcomedy.com.au
MENAGERIE BY BELLA ARNOTT-HOARE
Tennessee Williams’ writing is heavily branded with ageing beauties and consumption of dangerous volumes of liquor, stories of Southern belles, aspirations of high society and nihilistic desperation. Though A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof are his most commercially successful works, The Glass Menagerie, by all accounts, is the most personal and autobiographical of the lauded playwright. The introspective piece frames the personal demons of the famously troubled writer. In homage to one of the stage’s great works, NEON, the MTC’s mini-season of locally created independent work, has mounted Menagerie by the highly experimental Daniel Schussler Ensemble to open the performances. Though not a literal rendition of the play, the piece creates a world mired in Tennessee’s themes, mirroring The Glass Menagerie in ways but never directly adapting – a creation with a life of its own. “We’ve taken what makes Tennessee Williams a great writer and his imagery, his debauchery, the way he presents women – we’ve taken all the essences of Tennessee and infused them into our characters,” reflects lead actress Jane Badler, an American expat who’s worked her way around stages and screens both in Australia and abroad. While it mines the actors’ own emotional storages, it also explores the life and work of Tennessee himself. Certain aspects of Menagerie mirror The Glass Menagerie – which is in turn semi-autobiographical. Both Tennessee’s schizophrenic younger sister and his faded damsel mother appear in Menagerie, though certainly as caricatures. “I’m the mother and I have two children, and there’s a gentleman caller that comes to visit my slightly crippled daughter. So of course that situation is in here but it’s almost unrecognisable.”
The unique grooming process which bring the piece together is a hallmark of Schussler’s works. The actors have created their own characters and scripts based on Tennessee Williams’ life and his archetype characters, beginning in what the director calls ‘scores’ – starting out with mostly sensory work “about heat, and shanty towns,” says Badler, and trying to scope out the lives of these characters through long improvisations. “I think yesterday was the first day that we became very specific about when we walk on, when we walk off, when we turn the kettle on,” says Badler. “When you have six different people and they’re all working together obviously you have to know when to let other people take over – it’s like a puzzle. It’s a very exciting but very unusual way of working.” The Daniel Schussler Ensemble has established a unique niche for itself, gaining a reputation for their interpretation of classics for the contemporary stage, The Dollhouse and Shakespeare adaption Ophelia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore amongst them. Most of Menagerie’s cast members have worked with Daniel many times before, so each had a head start on the unorthodox Artistic Director’s methods. “It took me a while to get what was going on! It’s been a baptism by fire,” says the veteran actress. “I guess it took me at least a couple of weeks to really start to understand.
NUDE BY JOSH FERGEUS
“I wanted to try and contextualise my burlesque background,” explains Scarlett, Prima Ballerina, burlesque artist and flame-haired producer of Nude. “Why was I so intrigued by naked bodies on stage?” Nude combines burlesque, art, circus, and cabaret to explore what it means to be nude, how society views the nude form, and when and why we are allowed to be nude. “It was a kind of organic process to begin with,” recounts Scarlett. “I launched my own production company last year, and this show was always going to be to do with the female and male nude form. I’m an ex-ballerina so I’ve sort of been around beautiful performance and nudity even through that. “I developed a great love for the Crazy Horse in Paris – high-end cabaret with fully nude ex-ballerina performers which I just think is absolutely beautiful. I realised that if I want to get to that point, I’d be really restricted with the licensing laws which currently exist. (They limit) the kinds of nudity we can show.” When she was undertaking the groundwork for the show, Scarlett was intrigued by the various stipulations of what was and wasn’t allowed. “I just found it interesting that at an art or a theatre venue you can have nude performance but at a venue which I could actually access like Red
Bennies you’re really restricted because of that nude context. That’s how the show got fuelled. Aside from wanting to develop a show that was entertaining and beautiful, I wanted to weave in a whole lot of ideas about nudity and not just have a typical burlesque show. I’ve really been trying to push that point. “(When we were) actually writing the show we wanted to have a lot of pieces which were commenting on some social stigmas. How to produce that in an aesthetically pleasing form, something people wanted to see, was difficult. You can’t start pushing ideas on people too soon. It’s got to be able to be controversial but engaging and interesting so people are asking more questions not just you manipulating something. I really feel happy that we’ve been able to develop pieces in the show that are entertaining but still come across just as strongly.” Each week of the run features a different guest MC throwing their weight behind the show. These guests are many and varied and include Fiona Patten, President of the Australian Sex Party, and singer and burlesque artist
BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME BY PATRICK EMERY
At the heart of the story of Big Star – the Memphis band formed by Chris Bell and Alex Chilton in the early ‘70s now regarded as the progenitor of the power pop and independent rock sound – is a contradiction: how was it that a band that created music regarded now as ‘timeless’ could have been largely ignored in the early ‘70s? It’s a question that Drew DeNicola, director of the documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, has pondered many times. “That’s why [in the documentary] we bring in the rock writers’ convention,” DeNicola says. “That allows us to bring in the ‘glory of rock’ that was around at the time. There was a sense at the time that rock was losing its edge and craft. And in some ways, Big Star was the first real revisionist rock band – they were celebrating the mid-tolate ‘60s rock renaissance.” The rock writers’ convention to which DeNicola refers – and which provides the entry point for Nothing Can Hurt Me – was a gathering of American rock critics, including Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer and Jaan Uhelski, all of whom had been brought to Memphis by Ardent Records. Big Star had formed a couple of years previously by Chris Bell, Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens, before breaking up in the aftermath of the underwhelming reaction to the band’s debut album, the audaciously titled #1 Record. Spurred on by the positive reaction to the band’s live set
at the writers’ convention, Big Star reformed as a threepiece, with Bell declining to return to the fold. A second album, Radio City, followed in 1974, before the band broke-up again in 1975 (a third album, Sister Lovers, was posthumously released in 1978). By the early ‘90s, bands such as The Replacements and REM had rekindled interest in Big Star, providing the catalyst for a reformation (minus Hummel, with Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer from The Posies rounding out the lineup), and even a fourth album, In Space. It was around this time that DeNicola, a college student and DJ, first came across Big Star. “I got into them about the time the third record came out, and that was the first record of theirs that I got into, which is kind of bizarre,” DeNicola says. “At the time I thought the music was completely contemporary – the production was so clean, but there’s also so much noise in it. As you continue to listen to it, the melodies are so great, so melancholy. And the ‘get me out of here’ aspect of the lyrics is so big for teenagers, so it really resonated,” he says.
And I think I still am, everyday, learning and making mistakes, backtracking and trying to learn this kind of technique of acting that’s quite different from what I’ve done.” Badler has appreciated the opportunities afforded by NEON – shining a light into the industrious heart of smaller theatrical institutions around the city. “I find that the best experiences I have are in the independent theatre world because you take risks, and often there’s not a huge expectation of commercial [results].” And as an audience member she is equally excited by the work being produced in this city. “I’m a huge fan of independent theatre, probably in some ways more so than mainstream theatre. If I go out to the theatre I usually like to find something that’s a little cutting edge, that’s going to challenge me.” The “puppeteer” Schussler has brought out the best in the actress, she reflects. “You reveal each day more about how you work together. It’s different in that you have to bring a lot to this, you have to be totally responsible and constantly be bringing ideas and improv, you can’t have any laziness.” Inherent in this director-actor relationship is trust, especially Jessamae St James. “We wanted someone to host the show, to MC,” explains Scarlett. “We realised that having the content of the show being just dance and music was going to be beautiful but there was so much to be said. We wanted the audience to grapple with some of the ideas and keep it really interesting. Because it’s over an eight week period we wanted to keep people coming back too, so each week we have a different guest speaker.” She chose guests for their connection to the issues, as well as their ability to connect with Nude’s audiences. “Fiona Patten is the perfect choice because she’s so vocal about sex industry, nudity and venues and licensing. She has a really big background and knowledge in terms of that but we also have comedians in who have a more light-hearted take on it all as well. There’s a bit of a range there. “Everyone is going to bring their own perspective. It’s awesome to have them come in with their experiences. Primarily we want to produce a show which is entertaining and which people enjoy, under that we have the argument regarding the restriction that we’ve got with licensing laws. It’s a bit of a political, policy driven bent – that’s my background, I’ve got a social science degree so it’s obviously coming through there! “Some audience members have called up for tickets and there’s been surprise or worry about the level of nudity in the show. From my perspective I’d love to go see a show with lovely beautiful women and men nude but you forget that audiences from all sorts of backgrounds are coming and (may be) worried about what they’re going to see delivered or that they’re going to be forced to see
Some years later, Danielle McCarthy from Magnolia Pictures was visiting Memphis, kicking around the idea of a documentary on Big Star. “Danielle started connecting with the right people, and people were saying that a documentary needed to be made,” DeNicola says. DeNicola was approached to direct the documentary, and began the long process of accumulating interview and period footage for the film. While the story of Big Star is often associated directly with the cult of the talented but volatile Alex Chilton, Nothing Can Hurt Me restores the principal role of founding member Chris Bell. Bell, in fact, formed Big Star in 1971, inviting Chilton to join. Bell spent his post Big Star years battling depression and drug abuse, eventually dying in a car crash in 1978. “To be honest, I had thought Chris Bell was a minor figure compared to Alex before I started the film,” DeNicola says. “But when I was listening to the tapes of the band in the studio at the time, I discovered that it was Chris Bell who was actually running the show. He had a very clear vision for the band.” As for Chilton, DeNicola says he was typically indifferent to the Big Star legacy. “He said ‘that’s not the sort of thing I’m inclined to’,” DeNicola says. “He said it with a big grin. I met him a few times for drinks, and he was completely friendly, and charming and friendly. I think the movie leaves it open the degree to which he really enjoyed the revival of interest in Big Star.” Along with original bass player Andy Hummell, who died in 2010, and producer and musician Jim Dickinson who died in 2009, Chilton also died during the making of the film. The deaths of a number of protagonists necessarily affected the tone of the production. “I had had this idea of Jim Dickinson being the informal narrator of the story, but then he died, so we couldn’t do that. Basically, the death of so many people involved in the Big Star story was just very sad,” DeNicola says. Nothing Can Hurt Me is more than just a cinematic portrayal
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on a somewhat unusual piece, which they’ve had to develop while working together. ”He’s definitely in some ways like other directors but I have tremendous respect for him and I trust him completely. And I can’t say that I’ve felt that way about all the directors that I’ve worked with”. The soul-baring emotional frailty of Williams’ work is what, in some instances, drew Badler to perform in the honorific piece, one which it will hopefully replicate. “I’m an American, and Tennessee is one of the most famous American playwrights and I’ve seen a lot of his plays and films. Also, of course, on the wishlist of any actress is to play these characters, which I have never done.” Reflecting on her involvement and the piece itself, she says, “It’s wonderful – I feel really lucky that Daniel had faith in me and asked me to be part of it.” Menagerie is currently running as part of the Melbourne Theatre Company’s NEON Festival of Independent Theatre at Southbank Theatre, The Lawler until Sunday May 26.
something that they’re not going to enjoy. You’ve also got cast performers who are being pushed a bit, circus performers who haven’t appeared nude before and I’ve been working with them a little bit more. In general I’ve been really surprised by everyone’s personal experiences of nudity and the degree to which it’s controlled or contextualised – that’s been really incredible, bringing up things I hadn’t even thought about before.” Nude is currently showing at Red Bennies every Friday and Saturday night until Saturday June 29.
of Big Star’s recording history: it’s about the Memphis sound, and the musicians, production staff and protagonists of the early ‘70s Memphis scene, including John Fry, engineer at the city’s famed Ardent Studios, Jim Dickinson, and even photographer William Egglestone, whose pictures adorned the second Big Star album. “The story of Big Star is also the story of Ardent Studio, and that’s also the story of John Fry,” DeNicola says. “Once I got involved, Danielle had already done a lot of scouting, and I came down and questioned whether this was a band at all – it’d gone from four members, to three, to two. So I started looking at what else was catching attention, and it was Memphis, and all the people who were there at the time. I wanted to talk about how Memphis was operating in a bubble, removed from the rest of the world.” Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me will be screening at ACMI from Sunday May 26 until Thursday June 13. Beat Magazine Page 29
MIGUEL ATWOODFERGUSON BY JOSH FERGEUS
“I’m incredibly excited and very honoured,” says Miguel Atwood-Ferguson of his invitation to play as part of the 2013 Melbourne Jazz Festival. “I definitely plan to be going to Australia for many more years to come but of course there’s nothing like the first time. I have deep admiration for everyone over there. Literally everyone I’ve ever been friends with or met from Australia has the most amazing character. I’ve been very inspired by you guys, always,” he beams. “I still feel pretty young even though I’m turning 33 pretty soon, I still feel like a young person,” enthuses AtwoodFerguson. “I’m still experiencing so many firsts, like my first time in Australia. Many of the times that we travel it’s not like we have one concert and then eight or ten days downtime where we can actually take things in. It’s a little bit surreal at times and then at other times it’s really difficult. This is going to be a little bit more enjoyable because I’ll be there for a couple of days and it’s not like I’ll get in and just be playing the whole time. I don’t have to travel to a bunch of different cities – that’s where it becomes difficult, where you spend each day in a different city.” Asked about the festival experience as opposed to standalone shows, Atwood-Ferguson asserts that every day is different. “I’ve been touring around the world pretty consistently for the last ten years – Asia, Europe, South America,” he says. “It’s interesting, because each festival might have something in common with others but generally
it’s vastly different. It can have to do with the culture, with the size of the festival, and things that people don’t even think about like the physical set-up. Often at a festival there’s hardly any time to set up, it’s one group after another so the simpler and more foolproof the set the better for the crowd to experience. Even though I appreciate simplicity my music is often complex, so it presents challenges for me. There’s only going to be seven of us there in Australia which is a small group for me, and I’m really looking forward to that. “I used to be quiet arrogant when I was younger. I used to think that classical music, European classical music, was the best music. Luckily I was also exposed to Motown music and the Detroit sound, it’s like a whole country in and of itself. Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson – luckily I was exposed to that stuff and pretty soon I started to realise that music can be good no matter what you call it. It’s good when it’s made well. I have deep admiration for anyone who puts a lot of heart into what they do and it kind of drives me
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
BY KRISSI WEISS
Talking to Martha Wainwright is never a case of chatting superficially to a musician going through the motions of selling their latest product. With her music and her public image so intensely personal and incredibly open, an introspective journey is always a guaranteed part of the Wainwright dialogue. Her latest album, Come Home To Mama, was born out of the tragedy and celebration of life and death. Her mother, famed Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle passed away in 2010, not long after Wainwright’s own life was put on the line due to the extreme and unexpectedly complicated birth of her son, Arcangelo. It feels as though Wainwright has been a pivotal part of the folk scene for an eternity – probably due to her family legacy and her enigmatic personality – and it comes as a surprise that this is only her third studio album of original songs. “The songs take me a while to write and then there’s all this other life that happens that I get very distracted by,” Wainwright says as she folds laundry. “I’m a lazy artist in a way, I think, but hopefully when I do make records they show the time and energy; a lot goes into each one.” A lot of her soul and story goes into each one as well and it is as though Wainwright’s audience have been intimately acquainted with her struggles in life. So many artists pour their heart out in their music, insist on only speaking about their music in the media, and then close up when anything personal is asked as though metaphor is the language they speak. Wainwright has never been that way.
“Maybe it comes from an inability to be intelligent about,” she laughs. “Creating a persona would’ve probably made my life a lot easier and certainly more marketable and probably safer with something to hide behind. But I love attention and I’m in a position in my career where there have been a lot of ups and downs and it’s really not a huge success story, it’s just really me doin’ it. “I do get to do things like play the Sydney Opera House but there are nights where it’s really not that great too, I don’t sell a lot of records, there’s not a big label or a lot of money behind me so I guess I don’t have much to hide because I want to talk to people and reveal myself. There’s so little persona in the music that it strikes me as impossible to create one for the sake of speaking. I think it’s also too late.” Her modest view of her own career seems to contradict the view her audience has of her. She has collaborated with
KIM VOLKMAN AND JAMES MCCANN
BY PATRICK EMERY
Kim Volkman and James McCann’s shared history goes back to Sydney’s dirty but fertile rock’n’roll scene at the turn of the century. At the time, Volkman was playing guitar in the late Ian Rilen’s band, the Love Addicts. McCann, a founding member of The Drones in Perth, had moved across from his native Perth to pursue his musical fortunes. “We worked together at Shock later on, but I remember Kim from the Excelsior Hotel, when he and Ian Rilen were playing as a duo in the front bar,” McCann recalls. “That’s when I used to catch the Firefly bus up to Sydney for $50 and stay up there for a week,” Volkman adds. “People didn’t know whether I lived in Sydney or Melbourne.” McCann smiles at the memories of those halcyon days. “You were there every Sunday,” McCann recalls. “Yeah, those were the days!” Volkman laughs. In addition to his tenure with Ian Rilen and the Love Addicts, Volkman had played with a local St Kilda band, Balaclava Joe in the late ‘90s, and a country band by the name of the Merry Hillbillies a few years later. “I was also doing a lot of busking in St Kilda around the time as well – but that’s so long ago I was probably in about six bands, but their names escape me,” Volkman laughs. After Ian Rilen’s death in 2006, Volkman was drafted in by Steve Lucas to take over Rilen’s bass duties in the Beat Magazine Page 30
reconstituted X (Volkman has subsequently performed occasionally with various recalibrated lineups of X, including a brief tour of the US a couple of years ago, with former Cosmic Psychos drummer Bill Walsh on drums). By the time Volkman had formed the two-piece The Patron Saints with former Johnnys drummer Billy Pommer, and his three-piece outfit Kim Volkman and the Whiskey Priests, McCann had moved down to Melbourne, gathering together a succession of supporting outfits, including the Dirty Skirt Band, James McCann’s Other Band and, more recently, the New Vindictives. The New Vindictives also features Volkman on bass, Tim Deane on guitar – who also plays with the Whiskey Priests – and Helen Buckley on drums. “We went through a couple of lineup changes before we settled on this lineup,” McCann explains. “Tim was playing keys initially, and Matt Bailey was on bass and Dan McKay on drums. But then Matt was busy doing his own recording,
nuts if I’m just working in one genre,” he smiles. “I try to work in different genres and I’m refreshed by it over and over. One day I’m working on a concerto, I’m loving the shit out of it and I’m having so much fun, then the next day I’m working with a string quartet and we’re improvising, the next day I’m working with Lana Del Rey – it’s great.” Atwood-Ferguson’s body of work is certainly diverse – he’s even done a couple of sessions for Dexter. “Your talent is not just limited to just one or two or three things,” he says. “You want to get out there and challenge yourself and use all of your talent. For me it’s all the different people I work with. It’s really nice to have different perspectives and to keep learning. I’m a confident person but I still feel like a beginner in that there’s so much to learn.” With so many pots on the boil it’s difficult to know exactly what the future holds for someone like Atwood-Ferguson, but a fork in the road that may be approaching is the decision whether or not to pursue a career more typified by original music.
Pete Townsend, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, Snow Patrol and countless other artists while tracks off her self-titled debut album managed to etch into the cultural psyche of folk music lovers. But to her, she’s just plodding along, doing the best she can. “Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole or Factory, these are songs that had a lot of meaning for me when I first wrote them and now they’ve taken on everyone’s meaning and then all of a sudden you’re doing it for them. That’s great when that happens; that’s when you know you’ve done something. It’s great because then you don’t have to steer the shitty ship, then you’re off to the races and everyone’s having a good time. That’s pop success but I’ve only seen a glimmer of it.” While husband Brad Albetta has been her producer in the past, Wainwright and Albetta felt, for many different reasons, that she needed to break out of that routine. She recorded her album at Sean Lennon’s home studio with artist and producer Yuko C. Honda. Wainwright touches on the ultra-artistic feel of the studio – never knowing when she entered the house whether she would walk into a sea of naked models being painted by a house full of heavily hallucinating artists or a warm lounge room with tea waiting for her – but the latter seems to have been the more important aspect for her. “It was actually Brad’s idea,” she says. “In a sense that after going through my mother’s death – who he was very close to – and having a kid together, buying a house together, playing in a band together, having made records together, it was like, ‘I don’t wanna go through the fighting that comes with all of that’. To simplify things, at least in the moment, it seemed to be a good idea. It was also a way for me to escape, leave the house and enjoy someone else’s company. The other reason that must be said is that I met some other producers – guys, because it’s always guys, men produce records – and they were nice and they all had a similar vision and I had a very strong feeling that I needed to work with a woman and an artist. so I gave Kim a call. It just evolved really – I don’t think I even had a name early on.” When Aaron Cupples was in town, McCann took the opportunity to drag the New Vindictives lineup into the studio to record his latest album. “It was three weeks old, with two rehearsals!” McCann laughs. A couple of years before joining the New Vindictives, Volkman had entered Michelle Dilevski’s Staticattack studio with the Whiskey Priests to record his new album, Setting Sun. After an extended period of gestation, the album has now been released. “I had it recorded, mastered, and had the art work done, but for some reason I stall on the duplicating process – usually because I’ve got no money to do it,” Volkman laughs. While Setting Sun again features Brad Walsh on drums, Volkman continues to play live with an array of different drummers, depending on who’s available for his commitments. Variety, they say, is the spice of life. “It does change the dynamic,” Volkman says. “Usually every drummer is different, and I never find that they detract from anything.” “Good drummers are hard to find,” adds McCann, “which is why you’ve got to be nice to them!” McCann’s latest record with the New Vindictives is released on French label Beast Records, the Brittany label that has long supported Australian musicians. For McCann, releasing a record on an overseas label has both commercial and artistic benefits. “I guess there are a few musicians in Australia, who’re in my situation, creating music here, and selling it overseas,” McCann comments. “But the creative process is interesting in the sense that it gives you the freedom to write music that you think people will like overseas, while having the space here to write it.” McCann has already recorded another new album – with a different supporting band to the New Vindictives – that he hopes to release overseas again in the near future.
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“It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot while I’ve been preparing music for a birthday concert I’m giving myself,” he explains. “It feels very original. I’m putting many hours into the arrangements and highly personalising the whole experience, but most of the music we’re playing on Saturday is actually written by other people. I love to arrange but I actually consider myself mostly a composer and I think about how silly it is that I haven’t been performing more of my work. One of the main reasons I do arranging is that I want to relate to people and I want to celebrate all the types of music. I’m a music nerd like all of us are, but in the future I’m definitely looking forward to having concerts with just original music. It’s a way of establishing who I am in the world so that people can see that I do different things, that I love it all.” MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON plays The Hi-Fi on Saturday June 1 as part of the Melbourne Jazz Festival. Tickets available from the venue or through melbournejazz.com
“I was really spent, I was emotionally spent after writing the songs and I had an infant child and I felt that my work had been done in writing the material and I wanted someone to take hold of it. I knew Yuko could do that and I knew that she’d take care of me. I knew she’d offer me tea and tell me that I look pretty and tell me that my voice was nice and tell me that I was good and all these things I needed to hear.” MARTHA WAINWRIGHT will be at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday June 14 and Saturday June 15 as well as a show at Memorial Hall, Leongatha on Sunday June 16 supported by Tinpan Orange. Come Home Top Mama is out now through Warner Music.
This weekend Volkman and McCann will launch their new albums at the St Kilda Bowling Club. “Kim’s put this night together,” McCann says. “I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, especially with the record being out overseas.” The show will also function as a further fundraiser for Pure Pop Records, the record store-cum-local venue on a quest to raise enough money to meet Port Phillip Council’s sound proofing requirements. “I believe Dave Stevens is getting there, so hopefully this will help out as well.” KIM VOLKMAN AND JAMES MCCANN play St Kilda Bowls Club on Saturday May 25.
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on tour CASHMERE CAT [NOR] Friday May 24, The Liberty Social OCTO OCTA [USA], MAGIC TOUCH [USA], BOBBY BROWSER [USA] Friday May 24, Mercat Basement Saturday May 25, Shebeen KARL HYDE [UK] Saturday May 25, Melbourne Recital Centre AUNTIE FLO [SCO] Saturday May 25, Revolver Upstairs RIFF RAFF [USA] Wednesday May 29, The Liberty Social OMAR-S [USA] Friday May 31, The Liberty Social ROBERT BABICZ [GER], MARC ROMBOY [GER] Friday May 31, Brown Alley VON-D [UK], CASPA [UK] Friday May 31, Brown Alley ELITE FORCE [UK] Friday May 31, RMH The Venue KUTSKI [UK] Friday May 31, Roxanne Parlour CHRIS FORTIER [USA] Friday May 31, New Guernica FLATBUSH ZOMBIES [USA] Saturday June 1, The Toff In Town 6TH BOROUGH PROJECT [SCO] Saturday June 1, New Guernica COSMIN TRG [ROM] Friday June 7, New Guernica DOP [FRA] Friday June 7, The Liberty Social HNQO [BRA] Friday June 7, Brown Alley JAMIE 3:26 [USA] Friday June 7, Mercat Basement TYLER, THE CREATOR [USA], EARL SWEATSHIRT [USA] Friday June 7, Palace Theatre THE REVENGE [SCO] Saturday June 8, The Liberty Social BREACH [UK], ROUTE 94 [UK] Saturday June 8, RMH The Venue GREGOR SALTO [NED] Saturday June 8, Alumbra DASH BERLIN [NED] Saturday June 8, Shed 14 TENSNAKE [GER] Saturday June 8, The Bottom End CHRIS LIEBING [GER], JIMMY EDGAR [USA] Sunday June 9, Brown Alley JOHN DIGWEED [UK] Sunday June 9, Prince Bandroom JEFF MILLS [USA] Sunday June 9, The Bottom End SEPALCURE [USA], DJ RASHAD [USA] + MORE Sunday June 9, TBA ATA [GER] Friday June 21, Mercat Basement MAXMILLION DUNBAR [USA] Saturday June 22, Mercat Basement COOLIO [USA] Thursday June 27, Red Bennies OBIE TRICE [USA] Friday June 28, Trak Lounge A$AP ROCKY [USA] Saturday June 29, Festival Hall TOKIMONSTA [USA] Saturday July 6, The Hi-Fi JUAN ATKINS [USA], FUNK D’VOID [UK] Friday July 12, Brown Alley ALEX KIDD [UK] Friday July 12, Billboard RICK WILHITE [USA] New Guernica on Saturday July 27 JAMES BLAKE [UK] Wednesday July 31, Palais Theatre CHVRCHES [UK] Monday August 5, Corner Hotel RUDIMENTAL [UK] Saturday September 21, Festival Hall EARTHCORE: ANGY KORE [ITA], PERFECT STRANGER [ISR] + MORE Friday November 29 - Sunday December 2, TBA BRUNO MARS [USA], MIGUEL [USA] Tuesday March 4 & Wednesday March 5, Rod Laver Arena
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Earl Sweatshirt returned from two years at a Samoan reform school with a new song called Chum last year, but instead of a howl of triumph celebrating his freedom, we heard him sounding unusually vulnerable. “I’m indecisive, I’m scatter-brained and I’m frightened,” he admitted, finishing the final verse with, “Been back a week and I already feel like calling it quits.” It wasn’t the Earl Sweatshirt we were used to. His first album, Earl, was a parade of monsters: “This is my zombie circus, you better get a fuckin’ ticket.” That line was delivered by frequent guest, collaborator, co-pilot and big-brother figure Tyler, the Creator. Together they pretended to be vampires and devils as well as serial killers and rapists, not seeming to realise or care that there was any difference between fantasising about being John Wayne Gacy or Count Dracula. EarlWolf was another of those monsters, one they formed when combined together, a two-headed angry teenage misfit who hated the world because it was full of homework and parents who were either absent or overbearing. The skit where Earl’s mother tries to wake him up for school by saying she won’t make him breakfast if he doesn’t get out of bed, to which he replies, “I can fix myself breakfast, I’m 16!”, might be the most perfectly self-aware satire of teenage rebellion ever recorded. But Tyler’s last album, Wolf, wasn’t about annoying old people, taking the piss out of himself or playing Halloween dress-up as Satanists and rapists. Reviews called it “deeper” and were surprised to hear him sounding “remorseful”. Tyler found more mature things to rap about, just like Earl, who told the New York Times that after working in a crisis support centre in Samoa as part of his counselling and talking to victims of sexual abuse it wasn’t possible to write songs about the subject any more, “if you have any ounce of humanity”. “I think I speak for me and him both when I say it happened naturally cause it was just like outgrowing it,” he says of the change in his and Tyler’s music. “Like, enough shit had happened to the point where we didn’t have to rely on that or have to go there, because there was other subject matter. There’s other very pertinent, very personal subject matter for us to touch on.”
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named after the main character of Fariña’s book. He’s eager to have the releases ready and a little frustrated by performing with Tyler on his current Wolf tour and getting bigger reactions when he pulls out the old stuff. “I’m having a lot more fun performing now,” he says, “but I just really want this album to come out so the crowds can be familiar with it when I play new stuff cause I’m not sick of the old stuff, it’s just that at this point I’m transitioning out of wanting to play it all the time.”
The EarlWolf shows, which they’re currently touring around the US before they come to Australia, feature Earl and Tyler performing a joint set, with backup from fellow members of Odd Future Jasper Dolphin and Taco as their hypemen. “There’s like a tentative setlist but me and him have a bunch of songs that we’ve done together. Like, I have solo shit, he has solo shit, so it’s just a mixed bag of all that stuff.” If it’s anything like the footage on YouTube of them performing together it’s likely to be chaotic, featuring them changing their mind about which songs they want to do halfway through and Earl having to talk Tyler into doing Tamale, the goofiest, bounciest and least mature song on Wolf. “Yeah, that’s the most fun song in the entire world,” Earl says. “We played that two times last night.” Watching footage like that of the two of them on stage, clowning and goofing off, Earl and Tyler seem so closely connected that it’s weird to hear that they weren’t always so tight. But when they first met, Tyler having tracked down Earl after hearing him rap on MySpace, their meeting was underwhelming. “We didn’t really like each other at first,” Earl says. “I don’t know, we both thought we were annoying.” Plenty would agree with that first impression, but somehow they got past their mutual abrasiveness and Earl became an essential part of Tyler’s posse of skate kids and rap brats. “There was no, like, joining processes,” Earl says of becoming part of Odd Future. “We did songs and then that’s how that happened. We just started doing music together. We did Couch and Asthma first out of anything and then it just happened naturally. It wasn’t like, ‘All right, man. Fucking jump through this hoop and beat this wizard and you can be down with me and my homies’.”
Earl Sweatshirt performs alongside Tyler, The Creator at the Palace Theatre on Friday June 7. facebook.com/earlsweatshirtmusic
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While he was in Samoa Earl had to talk to therapists every day and take educational courses, but he also found time to read Richard Fariña’s novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, (“I fucking love that book, like I read that book like 10 or 11 times”) and learn the basics of playing piano (“I just try and find chords that I think are cool”). Those experiences are part of what’s going into his next two albums, Doris and Gnossos, the second of which is
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Grey Ghost first gained attention as the front man of The Melodics who, with the help of a cult following and some highly rotated triple j singles, became known as innovators in the hip hop and indie scenes. He went on to feature (as Jeremedy) with artists such as 360, Illy, Mantra and Seth Sentry before deciding to go solo with a newly formed moniker and ‘post rap’ ideology, Grey Ghost. Grey Ghost has recently released his Ghost In The Machine mixtape to much acclaim, showing his ability to mess with the form as he flips the music of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Chemist, Lykke Li, The Beach Boys and Battles to name a few. It’s his creativity which comes across strong on these releases and makes you less surprised to learn he is a well respected visual artist and film clip director. The debut album he is currently polishing will drop later this year. Catch Grey Ghost, Citizen Kay, Duvz, Amin Payne and DJ Moonshine on Friday 14 June in the Espy Front Bar. Free entry!
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Melbourne-based rapper Mantra has announced that he’s signed with Ten To Two Records – the team behind records from Xavier Rudd and Seth Sentry this past year – ahead of his new single Loudmouth, released last week. Mantra is standing on solid ground with five years of touring, two fulllength releases and a triple j feature album (2011’s Speaking Volumes) already under his belt. Mantra plays the Northcote Social Club on Thursday June 6. We have some double passes to give away. Hit up beat.com.au/freeshit for your chance to win.
Far East Movement will be bringing beats from the dance floors of LA to our backyard for a secret Melbourne show this July. The US electro-rap superstars have toured alongside some of the biggest in the business including Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Rihanna and Lil Wayne. Their smash hits Like A G6, Live My Life (feat. Justin Bieber) and Turn Up The Love (feat. Cover Drive) shot them to notoriety. The secret show will take place in Melbourne on Friday July 19. The details will be released on their website soon.
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Melbourne five piece Clubfeet have announced a national tour to celebrate the release of their latest single Cape Town. It follows the January release of their sophomore album Heirs & Graces. Aside from Garnering critical acclaim, it spawned the hit singles Heartbreak and Everything You Wanted. The latter now has over 600,000 plays across YouTube and Vimeo. Cape Town is a homage to their quasihomeland South Africa and an ode to desperate nights out on the rebound. Clubfeet are set to fill the dance floor and get feet moving at the Corner Hotel on Thursday July 4. They’ll be joined by special guests Panama.
earthcore
Let’s get this mofukin’ party started! Announced for the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, Earthcore have put on something special, with special guests all the way from Israel. Get ready for two rooms of banging techno prog and trance. Performing will be MoGo, RickySixx, PakMan, Twisted Molecule, Left of Centre, Neshi, Blaumann, Killa, Azrin and more. It’s on at La Di Da on Sunday June 9
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Ben Chijioke, better known as British rapper Ty, is heading to the Espy on Friday 5 July for a free show in the front bar. With a reputation built on his original style and refusal to hop on any industry bandwagon, Ty is best known for his lyrical frankness and honest portrayals of everyday life, setting him aside from many mainstream hip hop acts and allowing him complete artistic independence. This has led to the release of four successful albums and a Mercury Prize nomination, among many high profile plaudits. Ty is also known for his work as a spoken word artist. Earlier this year he was asked to perform and host workshops for the British Council, which culminated in the conclusion of a 35 year halt on international performers in the Sudanese town of Port Sudan. As well as this, his spoken word efforts have seen Ty put in performances at The Big Chill Festival and The Royal Albert Hall. Alongside his work with the British Council Ty is also a member of The HipHop Shakespeare Company, running workshops with young people, showing the influences and works of Shakespeare in today’s music scene.
tokimonsta
TOKiMONSTA is returning after a sold out tour of Australia last year with a brand new album and a brand new show. Half Shadows reflects the multiple faces of TOKiMONSTA. The Los Angelesbased artist and producer, otherwise known as Jennifer Lee, traverses a few different spheres on her new full-length album. Sonically, she alchemically mingles ethereal electronic moods, while adding R&B flavor and the right amount of hip hop bounce. She hits The Hi-Fi on Saturday July 6.
maxmillion dunbar
Maxmillion Dunbar, one half of Beautiful Swimmers and the don behind the Future Times record label is coming to Melbourne. An unrelenting force in America’s rogue dance music renaissance, the DC producer is flying high off the release of his second solo album House Of Woo. A potent mixing bowl of off-kilter house, new age euphoria, cerebral techno and zonked bedroom funk, the LP has showered in unanimous praise. Dunbar is at the peak of the game. Catch this primed artist’s first venture to the Southern Hemisphere when he hits the Mercat Basement on Saturday June 22.
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p.smurf Are you a member of any crews? Daily Meds, Reverse Polarities, Sketch The Rhyme and Big Village Records.
jamie 3:26
Hailing from the legendary Chi Town, Jamie cut his teeth frequenting the notorious local nights spots of the day. As a teen his appetite for DJ’ng grew stronger and he started making mix tapes with his trusty boom box. From there it was onto the dancefloor and behind the decks and the rest has been one steady ride straight to the crates of DJs like Theo Parrish, who champions his basement edits the world over. His original works and releases are guaranteed out of stock items in records stores worldwide. Jamie 3:26 will play the Mercat Basement on Friday June 7.
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Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? Daily Meds have released a self titled EP, plus our debut album Happy Daze. I have recently released my debut solo EP The Story So Far, and have also contributed to the Big Things Vol.1 and 2 compilations. All releases are out through Big Village Records, available in stores and online. How long have you been gigging and writing? I started writing at 16, and played my first show at 17. I am now 25 and still goin’ strong.
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Describe the best gig you have ever played. Half hour freestyle session with Chali 2na at an open mic night in Sydney. I had met him numerous times previously, but never had the chance to spit with him. Damn good! Why should everyone come and see you play? Melbourne has an amazingly strong/vibrant/supportive/ progressive hip hop scene. I have only performed one solo set in Melbourne before, so I’m heaps keen to show them some more good quality Sydney shit. When’s the gig and with who? This Saturday May 25 at The Workers Club in Fitzroy, with Remi, Eloquor and J. Mac.
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Sydney’s battle MC extraordinaire, The Tongue, is back with album number three that will (hopefully) not be his last. After opening for the likes of Public Enemy and Dizzee Rascal, releasing three mixtapes, two albums and one EP as well as being a crucial member of the ever-expanding and fiercely loyal Elefant Tracks family, it has been a while since The Tongue did a tour of his own. He’s finalising support acts for his latest tour while dealing with the great enemy of all artists – the budget – when we begin chatting about the Elefant Tracks ethos. “They’re an independent label so there are not huge budgets but we’re as effected as anyone by the lack of album sales,” he says. “We’re in a strange position because the acts are getting more popular but record sales are going down. When one of my albums sells 5,000 copies it’s strange because you know five years ago it would’ve sold 20,000 copies. Urthboy has never explained to me exactly how he does it but somehow he keeps that ship rolling along.” It’s been a few years since The Tongue released Alternative Energy and he’s brutally honest about his songwriting approach. “Big ups to all the rappers who write rhymes in their spare time but that’s never been me,” he says. “I only write when I’m writing a song and putting out music. I read articles where people are like, ‘I
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recorded 40 songs for this album and cut it down’; I’ve never been that guy either. Basically when it’s album time I switch into that mode and I get tunnel vision and I’m totally focused on seeing it through. It’s a real challenge but it’s so satisfying when you get the end product with a CD in your hand and the artwork’s just right, it feels so good for it to go from thoughts in your head to someone writing to you saying ‘I’m loving track three’.” “When I started out I was determined to do three albums, I was gonna keep pushing until I got to three and I’m a stubborn kinda person.” Queensland producer Cam Bluff proved to be the catalyst The Tongue needed to get rolling on Surrender To Victory and once they started creating together things quickly picked up pace. “It all took about three months which is fast for me,” he says. “The biggest difference was there’s one producer on this album and in the past, shit, I think on one album there were five or six. Basically the guy who produced it, Cam Bluff, had done one beat for me on my last record but when he sent me his new stuff I was just like, ‘Wow this guy has improved to a seriously high level’. He is really impressive and he sent me a batch of beats and they were good enough that I wanted him to do the whole record. Basically what I’m
mantra word s / j o c a m p b e ll
Melbourne emcee Rob Tremlett, aka Mantra, is back with a new autobiographical single and a new record deal with Ten To Two Records of Seth Sentry fame. Beats gets him on the line to shoot the breeze. As you’d expect from most Aussie hip hop dudes, Tremlett is loose on the phone as we discuss the subject of his new single, Loudmouth. The song starts with the words: “My teachers always told me I’d never amount to nothing and they may have been right; so I jump on the mic.” “I was definitely the class clown - I still am actually. I just don’t have a class anymore,” he laughs. “I annoyed the hell out of my teachers. I wasn’t a bad kid, I was just loud and annoying and had a really loud voice and would talk all the time. “So even the teachers that didn’t hate me hated me eventually. I’m just thankful that I’m able to do a job where being a loudmouth and a smart ass is part of the job description.” Produced by One Above, Loudmouth is the lead up to a third LP for Tremlett. He’s been creating in leaps and bounds since making a guest appearance on Chasm’s 2008 Beyond the Beat
Tape and the hip hop soul vibe of his debut album, 2010’s Power Of The Spoken. His second LP, Speaking Volumes, was dedicated to Hani Ghaleb Jaber and featured the powerful eulogy For You. Jaber, who was tragically murdered in 2003, had been Tremlett’s original source of inspiration to take up emceeing. “When I met Hani I was making beats and trying to get my mates to rap on them. None of them were into it, but when Hani heard about it he said, ‘Why don’t you just do it yourself? It’s easy.’ “He was rhyming already, so we started rapping together, and just having someone else there doing it with me gave me heaps more confidence than I would’ve had otherwise. The more I did it, the more I realised I was good at it and it was something I could really pursue.” Although the first single from the expected LP is playful and comedic (Tremlett is featured in the video clip wearing a school boy’s outfit) Tremlett says he’s keeping on with the introspective, personal themes and subject matter. “There are some lighter moments on this record, Loudmouth
saying is that if it wasn’t for him, the album maybe wouldn’t have happened. His input and his energy made the whole process,” he says pausing for a moment before continuing. “I can’t make music without a producer, I’m just rapping, so in that respect I’m always reliant on a producer and I’ve finally found a guy where I know he has enough width of sound and different styles that he can pretty much do anything. I knew that if he kept sending me beats I could stay on the creative roll.” His forthcoming live show is as stripped back as his candid conversation, bringing hip hop back to its roots. “Look it’s not that fancy, it’s me and DJ Skoob who I’ve been touring around with since 2007 and I’m completely unapologetic about our DJ/ MC approach,” he says. “I saw Kendrick Lamar when he came out here recently and he blew me away and it was him and a DJ. I think it’s been really overplayed, the whole rapper with a band thing, and I don’t get it. Why do some rappers work with a producer to get a beat from someone like Timbaland and then get a band to replay it? It makes no sense to me. In that respect it’s just hip hop, that’s how it started, that’s it in the purest form so that’s how I’m gonna rep it … I’m not saying no one should experiment or no one should do hip hop with a band, of course they should or we wouldn’t have The Roots, but I guess what I’m saying is that the DJ/MC set up isn’t lacking. There was nothing lacking from the Kendrick Lamar show. “If you have good songs that people are into then that will translate. Lamar was so inspirational for me because his music is just him. He’s amazing at turning his life into songs and when you get up there with a persona and you’re putting on an act with dancers it’s…I dunno, when it’s an act and not genuine it’s hard to convince people you’re real.” If his plan was to do three albums, and this is the third, will Surrender To Victory mark the end of The Tongue? “If I was gonna do another album it would be with Cam, for sure,” he says. “Basically I’m gonna see how this tour goes, it’s been a while since I went on tour, and if I get to the end of this tour and feel like there are enough people out there that get what I’m doing, then I’ll get straight into doing the next album.”
The Tongue’s Surrender To Victory Tour will stop into The Espy on Saturday June 8. Surrender To Victory is out now through Elefant Tracks. facebook.com/thetongue1
being a good example,” he explains. “But if anything, I think this new record is more personal than the last one. “I kinda deal with a lot of things I’ve never spoken on before, things that maybe I was scared of or didn’t want to share with the world. But it felt great getting some of those things off my chest. “It allowed me to try out a bunch of new things in terms of writing too. I really challenged myself to head in directions I’d never gone in before, just to see where they took me. I think that process led to some of my favourite parts of the album.” The clip for Loudmouth was directed by Tremlett’s good friend, Grey Ghost, who has also produced recent vids for fellow hip hoppers Seth Sentry and Pez. Tremlett’s housemates and school-age brother star in the production. “All the adults in the video are personal friends. One of my housemates plays my father in the clip and my other housemate plays a nurse in the final scene. “My 12-year-old brother is one of the school kids and actually helped us recruit the other kids for the video – what a legend. It was so much fun having him there on the day and being involved in the clip and it’s something I think we’ll both remember for a long time.” Tremlett is setting off on a tour to promote the single. Paper planes are a quirky, recurring theme with his song about a paper plane that goes to war, Flightpath, having encouraged punters at past gigs to start up incendiary behaviour. “Once we did it at a gig in Canberra and there were heaps of paper planes coming at us. After the song finished I could smell something burning and I saw something on fire on the side of the stage! Someone had made a paper plane, set it alight, then thrown it on stage. Shit was real.”
Mantra plays Northcote Social Club on Thursday June 6. His latest single Loudmouth is out now through Ten To Two Records facebook.com/mantrahiphop
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Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? A vineyard. Describe yourself using the title of a song. Get Lucky. What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? That I was Batman. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Having the music cut out at our first festival gig. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj & Flo Rida – Where Them Girls At What’s the most played record in your bag? Pendulum vs Muzzaik & Dave Martin – Tromp Island (Midnite Sleaze Mix)
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What question would you like to ask an omniscient, all-knowing being before you die? Is God a DJ? (For those who know the Faithless track reference.) If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? Life coach. When and where is your next gig? Sound Empire at Crown on Saturday May 25. facebook.com/midnitesleaze soundcloud.com/midnitesleaze
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club guide wednesday may 22
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COQ ROQ - FEAT: AGENT 86 + DJS LADY NOIR + JOYBOT + KITI + MR THOM Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. COSMIC PIZZA - FEAT: NHJ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm DUBSTEP GRIME DRUM & BASS - FEAT: DJ BADDUMS + DJ CARMEX Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HALFWAYS Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. HOODRAPZ - FEAT: WEDNESDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. LOST & FOUND - FEAT: DJ SPIDEY + DJ RUBY FROST Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. MO’ SOUL - FEAT: DJ VINCE PEACH & MISS GOLDIE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA WEDNESDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SOUL ARMY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE DINNER SET Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.
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3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + JAKE JUDD + NIKKI SARAFIAN + HEY SAM + JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + SEAN RAULT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00pm. BANG N MASH Word Events Warehouse & Lounge, Melbourne. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD THURSDAYS - FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10. CHI BEATS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. DJ KRONIC + MS BUTT Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DON’T THINK I’M ALIVE THURSDAYS The Vineyard, St Kilda. 7:00pm. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: AGENT 86 + LEWIS CANCUT + WHO LUCKY COQ, WINDSOR. 6:00PM. GOOD EVENING - FEAT: DJ PEOPLE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. GRAD PARTY THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. LE DISCO TECH Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. LOVE STORY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: DJS PREQUEL & EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. MOOD - FEAT: NUBODY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. NEW GUERNICA THURSDAYS - FEAT: CONDUCTORS + JAMES KANE + NEGATIV MAGICK + NU BALANCE + POST PERCY New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RADIONICA Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE RITZ THURSDAYS - FEAT: NARI & MILANI + CARRICK DALTON & SAM COHEN + CAUC-ASIAN DJ’S + ED WILKS + JOSHUA GILILAND + KEN WALKER + LUCILLE CROFT + MAX KRUSE + TIM LIGHT + ZACK ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20. TIGER FUNK LIVE - FEAT: DJ MOONSHINE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TROCADERO Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
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New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MR VEGAS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO + TOM MEAGHER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REMEMBER ME The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. RETRO SEXUAL One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: DJ SUNSHINE + DJ BUTTERS + DJ HEY SAM Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00am. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm. SVELT + BISCOTTI + MANGELWURZEL 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WEEKENDER! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 11:00pm. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
saturday may 25
VENICE MUSIC - FEAT: DJ ALI E Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD SATURDAYS - FEAT: FRAZER ADNAM SCOTT MCMAHON + JAMIE VLAHOS + MR MAGOO + ZIGGY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. CHI SATURDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm CLUB FICTION - FEAT: KITTY ROCK & THE BAD LADIES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 2:00am. DJ PLAZMA Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. GLITCH THIS - FEAT: SATURDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. HOT STEP Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MOTEL SATURDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NEO SACRILEGE - FEAT: DJ NERO Abode, St Kilda. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ONESIXFIVE - FEAT: DJ COURTNEY MILLS + DJ HOOPS + DJ OLLIE HOLMES + DJ JOSH PAOLA + DJ WILL CUMMINGS Onesixone, Prahran. 3:00am. POISON APPLE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. SATURDAY CONFIDENTIAL Galley Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SATURDAYS @ LEVEL 2 - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ CHESTWIG + DJ LUKE MCD + DJ MIKE HUNT + DJ ROWIE + DJ SPECIAL K Level 2 The Club, Northcote. 9:00pm. SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SOUND EMPIRE - FEAT: DJ TATE STRAUSS + DJ JOE SOFO + DJ MATTY + DJ MISS SARAH + DJ PHIL ROSS Fusion, Southbank. 9:30pm. $25. SOUTH SIDE SHOW - FEAT: EDD FISHER + KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $15. STAR SATURDAYS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: COLLECTIVE + ANDREAS + DANNY
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the upbeats BBA and Whomp are joining forces to present a massive night of diverse electronic music. The Upbeats need no introduction to Melbourne, religiously tearing apart venues for many years for Broken Beat Assault, and this time are touring on the back of their biggest release to date, their new album Primitive Technique. Glitch Hop specialists K+Lab and Analog MC also join a massive line up of home-grown artists spread over two rooms of beats and bass lines. It goes down on Brown Alley on Friday May 24. BADABOOM FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. CANT SAY Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. CHI FRIDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm. CRUCIAL SOCIAL ACADEMY - FEAT: DJ A13 + DJ JELLYFISHWORKSHOP, MELBOURNE. 8:00PM. discotheque - feat: elana musto + greg sara + scott t MATCH BAR & GRILL, MELBOURNE CBD. 7:00PM. FRIDAY NIGHT COMMERCIAL HOUSE DJS - FEAT: HIJACK + LIVNBEYNG + MAGIC HOUSE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10. JUICY - FEAT: CHAIRMAIN MEOW + COBURG MARKET + MR. FOX + TIGERFUNK + WHO Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT
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karl hyde Underworld’s front man Karl Hyde has just released his first solo albumand it’s with great excitement that he returns to Australia. Underworld needs little introduction to electronic music fans, arguably being one of the most formidable acts the scene has ever seen. From their inception in 1980 their prestige has remained unrivalled as they continue to evolve and remain relevant. Karl Hyde’s solo release is undeniably a seminal moment in music history. He states he has drawn his inspiration from the more mundane features of life, “tyre marks, crude graffiti, industrial noise, overheard conversations, epidemics of coffee bars and nights on the back seat being driven through cities by drivers who never sleep”. But it is how a living dance legend takes these moments and turns them into music that is the most fascinating and a chance you shouldn’t miss. Catch Karl Hyde on Saturday May 25 at the Melbourne Recital Centre. MERX + HENRIQUE + JASON SERINI + MARK PELLEGRINI + MC JUNIOR + NICK VAN WILDER Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22. SUNDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY J + DJ KEN WALKER + DJ LIGHTING Co., Southbank. 8:30pm. TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. TEXTILE - FEAT: DJS PACMAN + JEAN PAUL + MOONSHINE + TAH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. THE FOX SATURDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: DJ ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. TOO MUCH 4TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: MOSCA + DAVID BASS + NAISE + SAME O + WOZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. WHAT’S DOING? - FEAT: DJ CITIZEN.COM Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. WHY NOT? - FEAT: SATURDAY Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
sunday may 26
COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. DANGER - FEAT: GEORGE HYSTERIC & ROHAN BELL-TOWERS The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. GUILTY PLEASURES Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. MOTEL SUNDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NO MORE-BANG-FOR-BUCK BURLESQUE SHOW! Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ SPACEY SPACE + DJ RADIATOR + DJ SILVERSIX + DJ T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: ASKEW + BOOSHANK + DISCO HARRY + JUNJI + MISS BUTT + PAZ + PETER BAKER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. SUNDAE SHAKE - FEAT: AGENT 86 + PHATO-A-MANO + TIGERFUNK Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOWDENA ND MAYFIELD + FOUNKSHUI Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 4:30pm. SURRENDER - FEAT: DJ SERGEANT SLICK + DJ ADAM TRACE + DJ ADRIAN CHESSARI + DJ CHRIS OSTROM + DJ SEF Fusion, Southbank. 8:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJS ANDYBLACK + HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.
monday may 27
IBIMBO - FEAT: LADY NOIR & KITI Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. KOOL AID - FEAT: DJ MU-GEN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. STIFF DRINK - FEAT: DJ MICHAEL KUCYK + DJ MICHAEL OZONE + DJ ROMAN WAFERS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. TWERKERS CLUB - FEAT: DJ FLETCH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
tuesday may 28 auntie flo Auntie Flo is coming to town and this time it’s not a euphemism but the real deal. Brian d’Souza, otherwise known as Auntie Flo, hails from Goa in Glasgow where he is currently a resident DJ at Highlife. Recently causing a stir with his debut Goan Highlife EP he has won fans across the musical spectrum. It sold out on pre-order leading to an immediate repress spun during the sets of Ricardo Villalobos, Gilles Peterson, Andrew Weatherall, Caribou, Tensnake amongst others. With a beautiful live show and passion driving him to remix and produce fervently, Aunti Flo is an important figure in electronic music and is bound to make a splash when he heads here at the end of May. Don’t miss all the fun at Revolver on Saturday May 25.
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BIMBO TUESDAYS - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. COSMIC PIZZA Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. DJ JAGUAR E55, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING - FEAT: REPETER FONDA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
SAT 25 MAY THE WORKERS CLUB REMI ELOQUOR J. MAC
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wednesday may 22 Compression Session - Feat: Cassawarrior + Dd + Ricka E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. Soul Ensemble Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
thursday may 23 Pennies Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.
Shaggz + Shaun D La Di Da, Melbourne. 8:00pm. Rnb Superclub - Feat: Young Men Society Rnb Superclub, Southbank. 8:00pm. Studio Chasers, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $20. Sweet Nothing Fridays - Feat: DJ Marcus Knight + DJ Xander James Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 9:00pm.
saturday may 25
friday may 24 Chaise Fridays - Feat: Soulclap + DJ Claz + DJ Dirx + DJ Peril + DJ Sef Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. Crew Love - Feat: DJ Tony Sunshine Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $15. DJ Thaddeus Doe The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. Faktory Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 2:55pm. Faktory - Feat: DJ Damion De Silva + DJ Durmy + DJ K Dee + DJ Yaths Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. Get Lit Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. Like Fridays - Feat: Broz + Dir-X + DJs Dinesh + Nyd + Sef +
Chaise Lounge Saturdays - Feat: DJ Andy Pala + DJ Kah Lua Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Cheap Sober + Maggot Mouf & Gutz + Pete Mc + Planz The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $26. Laundry Saturdays Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. Saturday Nights - Feat: DJ Damion De Silva + Dj Jay Sin + DJ K Dee Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. The Dojo Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. The High Society Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
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rhythm-al-ism at eden
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monday may 27 Freedom Pass - Feat: Phil Ross + B-Boogie + Chris Mac + Dozza Co., Southbank. 10:30pm. Hip Hop Open Mic First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
tuesday may 28 Can I Kick It? Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
with Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm WHO HATES YA BABY! An American poll that surveyed voters for major American parties found that they were united on one thing – Justin Bieber is one of the least favourable artists of today. 54% of Americans hate him – “a majority of Democrats (23-54), Republicans (17-52), and independents (18-56) all reported negative views of the singer,” the study states. Chris Brown, Lady Gaga, Jay-Z and Rihanna weren’t too loved either. When asked which pop star they would prefer to see as the President, Justin Timberlake had the highest with 34%. Following were Adele (19%), Beyonce (14%), Jay-Z and Lady Gaga (9%), Bieber (8%), Chris Brown (5%) and Rihanna (2%).
MILESTONES: DEBONAIRS TURN 10 The monthly Melbourne music industry lunch The Debonairs holds its tenth anniversary in June. It began simply as a gettogether, with the first lunch with 12 people (and lasted until 7pm). Nowadays there are Debonairs lunches in five states with 2,000 on the list, as well as a new one just established in Los Angeles presided by expatriate musician Max Merritt. Over the years it has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Support Act Ltd. $5 from the $45 charged goes to SAL (as do the proceeds of auctions and raffles) with last Christmas’s event raising $3,500 alone.
$55K RAISED FOR PURE POP The Melbourne music community has raised $55,000 for St. Kilda’s record store and music venue Pure Pop Records to sound proof the place. In March, it had to demolish its only gig space due to council noise regulations and the persistent complaints of one neighbour. Paul Kelly, Gotye, Tim Rogers, Ella Hooper and Kate Miller-Heidke were some of the near 700 supporters who invested their own dollars into ‘Buying A Brick’ to help rebuild the venue. Its owner Dave Stevens, son of AC/DC’s Bon, says, “We were in dire straits when it came to funding the rebuild and we needed help. It was really difficult to lay my cards out on the table and admit defeat, but honesty and straight talking were the key to our survival.”
…WHILE MACHINES CUT RAZOR WIRE RAISES $4K FOR REFUGEES This year’s These Machines Cut Razor Wire event (Sunday April 14) was the most successful, with $3,922 raised for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) from ticket sales, raffles and sales of Song For Selva. The song is being sold as an ongoing fundraiser, with plans to release a compilation with songs from supportive artists later in the year. Direct donations can be made to asrc.org.au/make-donation/ donate-now. The musicians who played were Chris Wilson, Jeff Lang, Charles Jenkins, Suzannah Espie, Fraser A. Gorman, Justin Bernasconi and Cat Canteri (of The Stillsons), Alison Ferrier, Mandy Connell, Ruth Lindsey, Kimberley Wheeler, Ashley Davies, Bill Jackson, Jed Rowe and Beautiful Change while speakers were Greg Keane (ASRC) and Trevor Grant (Tamil Refugee Council).
THINGS WE HEAR
* Creed were named worst band of the ‘90s by readers of Rolling Stone US. The Top 10 list included Nickelback, Limp Bizkit, Hanson and Nirvana. * Nick Cave admits he struggles to find young singers to do choral duties at his concerts – because their parents ban their kids from singing his lyrics. * This year’s Festival Of The Sun festival in Port Maquarie in December has a twist. The first night falls on Friday 13 so they’re encouraging attendees to come dressed for a horror/ Day Of The Dead theme. * You couldn’t blame the 4,000 Daft Punk fans who’d journeyed hours to Wee Waa – to become the first in the world to hear the new album – to be pissed off. A day before,
the album was streamed via iTunes and featured as triple j’s album of the week. No beds or campsites were left. * Sydney’s Heroes For Hire are doing a ten-date UK tour from May 21 to 30 with US band Allister taking in cities as London, Leeds, Glasgow and Manchester. Alpine play a final show in Melbourne’s The Hi-Fi on Thursday May 30 before going to America to tour with Crystal Fighters behind the US issue of A Is For Alpine. * Nine Inch Nails bass player Eric Avery quit saying he couldn’t commit to another 18 months on the road “with all the intensity that Nails demands”. In other departures, LAbased Aussie band London Cries (who changed their name from Juke Cartel because radio said it sounded like Jew Cartel) have lost drummer Jaybro. Last month drummer Steve Jocz quit Sum 41. * Too much information: wrinkly old Rod Stewart reveals that using steroids to smooth his vocal chords has shrunk his willie. * Bernard Fanning’s Brisbane and Perth shows sold out in 15 minutes, now so have his Sydney, Melbourne and Gold Coast dates. * San Cisco told triple j that when in Bristol, UK, a thief broke into their tour van, got locked in, cut himself trying to get out, and left his mobile behind. * The NZ Herald reckons Neil Finn’s tweets during X Factor NZ last Monday were as entertaining as the show. He critiqued the host (“one word: wardrobe”), defended the band Steamroller who dissed the show after they got thrown off and wondered if judge Stan Walker wears a buttoned shirt “because he is embarrassed about the writing on his neck”. When drag queen Ashley Tonga asked for a foot massage when she got evicted, Finn recalled, “Kanye once had a foot massage in my studio but the girl, bless her cotton sox, refused to do it under the table as he worked.” * There are problems at the Astor Theatre with long time friends Ralph Taranto and long term operator George Florence going into mediation this week, The Age reported. Issues include who’s responsible for paying insurance, when builders can enter the property to do repairs and Taranto’s right to access his land at the rear of the building. * The Boomtown Rats’ tour has been cancelled due to low ticket sales. * Oh dear, during a Priscilla Queen Of The Desert show in West Palm Beach, Florida, a patron asked the sound guy to “turn down the Australian accents.” * Frontier Touring reckons Taylor Swift will be the first solo female artist in 20 years to undertake a national stadium tour of Australia. The last one was Madonna, whose tour Frontier also promoted.
ENTRIES OPEN FOR JAZZ AWARDS This year’s National Jazz Awards put the spotlight on young pianists. First prize is $10,000, the runner-up $5,000, and the third placegetter $2,500. The winner will record in the ABC studios for ABC Classic FM’s Jazztrack With Mal Stanley and perform in the 2014 Stonnington Jazz Festival. Musos up to the age of 35 can vie for the final ten to compete at this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues on Sunday November 3. Entries close Monday June 10. Judging panel is made up of jazz pianists Mike Nock (chair), NY based Barney McAll and Paul Grabowsky (festival patron). Entry forms at 2013. wangarattajazz.com/national-jazz-awards.
INAUGURAL SINGERS FESTIVAL, HARD KNOCKS DOCO The Melbourne International Singers Festival (singersfestival. org/) presents a range of workshops, masterclasses and concerts with international artists and presenters for choirs and singers, from gospel to cabaret, music theatre to classical and a cappella music. It is the brainchild of Dr Jonathan Welch AM and all proceeds from the Festival will fund the School of Hard Knocks Institute’s arts, cultural and wellbeing
REMASTERD MYTHS
THE PUTBACKS FEATURING MADUP CHOL BY KRISSI WEISS Volume One of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s ReMastered Myths features the funkified soul of The Putbacks paired with the smooth roots and Sudanese style of Madup Chol. With the great cultural divide at breaking point in our multicultural country, events such as these aim to bridge the gap of ignorance and isolation. Justin Marshall, percussionist for The PutBacks, answers a few questions about the upcoming gig. KRISSI WEISS: Was it your choice to pair with Madup or a union brought about through Emerge curators? JUSTIN MARSHALL: I was living in Castlemaine from 2004 to 2010 and first saw Madup performing with his band at an Australia Day naturalization event in the park. I thought his band were cool, 10 or more performers all dressed really well with suits, yellow shirts and pink ties, and they were doing this music, I didn’t know what it was but it was loose and funky and I liked it. There are about 100 people of Sudanese origin living and working in Castlemaine and it was great to hear some of their music. Later, in 2011, I had a chance to work with Madup on the opening of the Castlemaine State Festival and it was there
that I first arranged one of his songs for a big band and played it on the street on the opening night. It sounded great, the public liked it and Madup liked it and so we said that down the track we’ll have to do some more. When the ReMastered Myths thing came up I knew that The Putbacks would be a perfect match to explore further the music Madup plays and also the possibilities of a musical collaboration. KW: How do you go about creating something that essentially has a brief, but while remaining creatively free? Further to that, how was the first session with the band and Madup (awkward, exciting, stilted)? JM: There are definitely big challenges in a collaboration
programs for disadvantaged Australians. The festival hosts the world premiere of the Beyond Hard Knocks documentary on Friday June 7. It is the continuing story of The Choir of Hope and Inspiration, previously known as The Choir of Hard Knocks.
SXSW’S CLAUDETTE GODFREY HERE FOR FILM FESTIVAL South by Southwest Film Conference & Festival’s Short Film Programmer and Film Festival Coordinator, Claudette Godfrey, is in Melbourne this week for the St. Kilda Film Festival (stkildafilmfestival.com.au). It is screening four short films – Best Of SXSW 1, Best Of SXSW 2, Best Of Texas and Best Of SXSW Music Video – over four nights. Godfrey will introduce the SXSW sessions and meet film makers at the Industry Open Day, appear on a film distribution panel discussion (Saturday May 25) and a Q&A discussion after Best Of SXSW 1 (Sunday May 26) before heading to Sydney Sunday June 2 to Saturday 8 for interviews. She urges filmmakers to attend the SXSW Film Fest March 6-15 2014.
POPBOOMERANG SIGNS NICK BATTERHAM
Popboomerang signed Melbourne muso Nick Batterham for his August-due album Closing Time At Yah Yah’s. It is preceded by a double-A side single Your Own Head (The River Is Wide) with Own Worst Enemy which is a duet with Amaya Laucirica,
DING DONG LAUNCHING KING CREOLE The Ding Dong Lounge in Chinatown’s Market Lane is launching the King Creole kitchen serving Creole and Cajun cuisine from Louisiana in late July. Bill Walsh, who owns the venue with his wife Simone and Darve Smith, recalls the cuisine while touring with Cosmic Psychos. He says that the cultures of Melbourne and New Orleans are similar: “Both regions are also in close proximity to the coast, also, rivers and streams (where most Creole and Cajun ingredients come from). Born out of hardship, New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz, and whilst we did not endure a civil war, we have strong Celtic protest music connections best exemplified by the Eureka stockade.” Late last year, Walsh journeyed around Louisiana and came up with a shortlist of 50 chefs. Chris Weysham, and his partner Amy, will relocate from New Orleans to run King Creole for lunch and dinner. Ding Dong will bring back a touch of the continental café with dinner shows with top acts and songwriters.
JESS McAVOY CROWD FUNDING
Australian Jess McAvoy, who’s been based between New York and Toronto for the past two years, is sourcing funds through IndieGoGo for her fourth album The Women. She’s aiming at C$30,000. The top donation of $5,000 gets you free entry to her shows forever, copies of the album in all formats and a signed photo of the cover.
GOOGLE BEATS APPLE TO STREAMING SERVICE Google beat rival Apple to a new music streaming service, which it unveiled last week at its annual developers conference in San Francisco. It operates like existing streaming services but without a free option ($9.99 a month In the US) and also as a discovery and mapping device for new music. Google’s Play Music All Access is also a threat to providers as Spotify, which currently has 24 million global users and all smartphones. Record companies hailed its arrival, as it would allow more consumers to play with millions of tracks.
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LIFELINES Expecting: US reports suggest that Beyonce, who’s currently on a world tour, is showing a baby bump. Ill: Jagwar Ma had to cancel some European festivals and reschedule other dates after Jono was ordered by doctors not to fly for six weeks. Hospitalised: members of The Seekers say that singer Judith Durham is recovering after suffering a brain haemorrhage, her manager Graham Simpson revealed. Durham, 69, fell ill after an acclaimed show in Melbourne which kicked off their extensive national tour. In Court: musician Jay Tyson appeared in Dubbo Local Court after being arrested for swearing and screaming outside an alleged drug dealer’s house after his cousin OD’d. Police say they gave him five chances to move on. They allege he abused them for 40 minutes after and grabbed officers during a scuffle. He faces court again later this month. In Court: US rapper Gucci Mane denied he hit a soldier with a champagne bottle after a nightclub earlier this year after he asked for a photo together. In Court: Adrian Franze, 32, co-owner of Destino Latin Bar in Chapel St was found guilty in the Supreme Court of attempting to possess 14 kgs of cocaine and 133 kgs of crank with a street value of $14 million. He returns to court on Friday May 31. Arrested: Puddle Of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin for assaulting his ex-wife. Cited: Chris Brown by LA City for a mural of brightlycolored, deformed monsters on the walls outside his Hollywood Hills home. Neighbors complain it’s an eyesore and is scaring children. Sued: Alice In Chains by mother of late singer Layne Staley who claims they cut her out of royalties from their hits. The band says Staley’s heirs are only entitled to royalties from songs he helped write. Sued: Usher’s former nanny claims a six figure sum for not paying her overtime although he made her work past her 40 hours per week. Sued: Beyonce’s dad Mathew Knowles for $1.2 million by the US tax office for unpaid taxes in the years 2010 and 2011. Jailed: Allen West, former guitarist for death metal bands Six Feet Under and Obituary in Bushnell, Florida. Police discovered the makings of a methamphetamine lab at his home after he called them to say two men had broken into his house by kicking in the door. Died: Eric Kitteringham, bassist with Rory Gallagher’s ground breaking Irish band Taste, 66. Died: US singer songwriter Alan O’Day, 72, from brain cancer. He had a #1 in 1977 with Undercover Angel but also wrote hits for Cher, Righteous Brothers and Helen Reddy’s Angie Baby. past 20 years. Listeners are asked to cast their vote for any song between January 1993 and December 2012. Voting ends on Sunday June 2.
FAN OF THE WEEK An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York was forced make an emergency landing in Kansas City – to remove a woman who kept serenading the other passengers with Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You. An in-flight marshall cuffed her to her seat but she kept a-singin’.
STREAMING EARNS MORE THAN DOWNLOADS FOR 24% OF INDIES A report by London-based independent global music rights group Merlin shows that 24% of indies around the world report they generated more income from streaming than downloads in 2012. The figure is up to 30% in Europe but only 16% in the US. A third of the indies globally had 100% increase in streaming and subscription revenues. Overall, three quarters of respondents said that their total business revenues increased between 2011 and 2012. Of these, one in five had overall revenue increases over 50%
Triple j is on the search to find the Hottest 100 songs from the like this. Like any collaboration, it takes a fair bit of faith and patience, and things take more time to evolve and settle. For the most part, as a starting point, we are reinterpreting Madup’s songs that he has already played many times with Sudanese musicians who know his particular musical language well, particularly when it comes to the vocal embellishments that are played on the guitar and the rhythms. But everyone and particularly Madup has been really open to hearing the songs in a new way and we’re getting some exciting sounds, and yeah, the potential is really exciting. KW: With The Putbacks already harnessing such a global sound, what habits of your own did you all draw on for this and conversely, how were you forced to stretch yourselves musically? JM: We’re definitely being stretched in terms of structure and form. Songs will change slightly differently every time; arrangements need to be fluid. When you’re new to a song, and it has some strange extra beat here and there and then things change every time you play it and you’re just getting a handle on the melody, it can be a challenge. But that’s also the exciting thing and keeps everyone on their toes. Mostly there has been a real commonality there, big funky riffs and twangy bluesy sounds and so in other ways it’s just been easy and natural. Some of Madup’s ideas reminded us of Hendrix or Ali Farka Toure, so it’s not too much of a stretch. KW: Do you truly think that events like this are able to successfully puncture the psyche of the audience (and any
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cultural biases people have) opening them up to a new way of looking at things? Do you think the cultural experience goes with them when they leave or is left at the door when the last amp is turned off? JM: Well, I can’t get these songs out of my head and I imagine that’s gonna be the same for some of the people who come and hear. There’s a real directness and simplicity to the way Madup sings and performs that is unique, and I think that makes an impression. Collaborations definitely create bridges and new ways of thinking both for the people doing them and the audience that experiences it. Hopefully people can hear this mash of ‘60s funk and Sudanese samba reggae (I promise that is how Madup described his style) and say, ‘Hmm that kinda sounds like something I’ve heard before and nothing I’ve heard before’.” ReMastered Myths Vol. 1 with THE PUTBACKS Feat. Madup Chol takes place at The Toff In Town on Sunday June 2. Beat Magazine Page 41
BABU BURGER BY LIAM PIEPER
INTRODUCTION “My first customer was Megan. She came in for a hamburger with the lot, no meat. ‘Hey that’s a salad roll,’ I said, And we started going out.” Who can’t relate to this gem from The Whitlams’ I Make Hamburgers? In the sense that we all have a romantic burger story. It’s still quite controversial who invented the burger. Many trace it back to Connecticut in the early 20th century. The Greeks, as usual, claim they invented it not long after democracy. In terms of etymology, hamburger comes from the city in Germany – Hamburg. This makes it sort of weird when people order a cheeseburger. Imagine someone in Melbourne invents the best food ever and calls it a melburnian and then some wanker puts cheese on it and then every arsehole in the world is ordering a cheeseburnian. I mean, get fucked! Let’s not forget the centuries old war between two burger giants – McDonald’s and Hungry Jack’s. Hungry Jack’s quite boldly claim that the burgers are better at Hungry Jack’s. Better than where? Grow some balls and admit you are talking about McDonald’s. Put your burger where your mouth is. Furthermore, what does this say about your chips? No confidence whatsoever. Australia is famous for its interpretation on the burger, but what’s even funnier is the world’s interpretation of our burger, which becomes slightly racist. When I was in Japan a few months ago, the big item at McDonald’s was the Aussie Burger. It had pastrami, onions and barbeque sauce – about as Australian as a warm beer. But you see, McDonald’s isn’t the place to go for a true burger. We all know the authentic taste of our local fish ‘n’ chip shop’s burgers, or a specialist place like Huxtaburger. There is so much variety at these amazing burger places that I have to ask the dude at the counter what his favourite is, and then he always tells me to order the shit one because they’re running out of stock of all the good ones, so I order the one he recommends last – usually ‘and this one’s pretty good too I guess’. Screw you dude, you know that last one was the best, I’m a veteran of the burger scene. Ordering a tasty burger is a commitment, because there’s a certain agreement you make with a friend when you order a burger. What you’re saying is, shit is about to get messy, and I don’t care what you think, because I enjoy eating a burger more than I care about you having to watch beef juice dripping off my chin. So there you go, a random collection of useless thoughts on the burger. We hope you enjoy our burger special as much as we’ve enjoyed trying out these delectable treats. And if you can’t enough of the burger, head to Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar in Southgate, Michigan. They sell the world’s largest commercially available hamburger, costing $499 and tipping the scales at 84.3 kg. It is called the “Absolutely Ridiculous Burger” and takes about 12 hours to prepare. Make sure you finish it though, there are kids starving in Africa.
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Babu Burger opened quietly on 156 Chapel Street, just near the corner of High Street, without fanfare or marketing. The location means a sea of foot traffic goes by, and every so often someone wanders in to check out Windsor’s new burger bar. More often than not, they’re back in no time. Ben, one half of the team behind Babu Burger, explained the appeal of his burgers, which, as word has spread, have turned a trickle of walk-ins to packed houses on the weekend. “A burger isn’t about the sauce. A burger is the meat. Sauces, the bun, everything is important, but we try to feature the meat,” Ben said. All the burgers are made from high quality steak which is minced daily, shaped into a patty, and cooked like any other piece of premium meat. “We treat the burger like it’s a steak. You choose a size, and you choose how you like it cooked, and choose whatever you put on top. That’s it,” he said. The burgers are served open, so the customer can see, and taste the meat. It comes unadorned, with a choice of house-made sauces on the side, and you are encouraged to try it before adding sauce. There’s a range of toppings you can choose to add, but the meat in the middle is the main attraction. It’s hard to describe how good this makes the burger, the unadulterated loveliness of the flavours. For a burger fan like myself, the taste is magnificently satisfying. There’s the sense of a great quest ending, of a new world opening before your eyes as your tastebuds scream and your brain moans. My order had strong, salty blue cheese, offset by crispy burnt bacon and just-soft fried egg, all on a palette opened with a gentle kick from chilli butter. And underneath everything, a deeply, deeply satisfying steak buzz. Ben explains that there’s no mystery to his burgers, beyond using the best ingredients he can find, and making them as the customer likes. He started making them this way because it’s how he preferred them, but couldn’t find one anywhere. “I just couldn’t get a burger cooked the way I liked! Nobody ever asked me how I wanted it cooked!” He sounds incredulous.
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Similarly, when Babu Burger couldn’t find a gluten free bun they liked, they started baking their own. They produce their own apple and pear ciders through a contractor, which is 100% fruit and served with crushed ginger to bring out the fruity notes, and better complement the burgers. I humbly recommend you get down and try it, or if you live on the south side, take advantage of the free delivery service, and get burgers and ciders delivered to your couch. Do it. The food speaks for itself, something that Ben is passionate about. “That’s why we make everything fresh, the meat, the vegetables, and the fresh, fruity cider! I look at people who have been eating gluten free their whole life and they have to put up with eating a dry, crumbly bun! I’m not saying ours is the best bun in the world, but they see and appreciate its homemade and delicious! And our customers appreciate that. “We take it one step at a time, letting the food take us by the hand and lead us forward.” Babu Burger is located at 156 Chapel Street, Windsor, 3181. Phone: (03) 9510 6485, Email: chapel@babuburgers.com.au
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LORD OF THE FRIES BY COLLETTE SWINDELLS Originally set-up as a mobile chips-only affair, Lord of the Fries now has seven locations around Melbourne and some of the freshest PETA-friendly burgers around. Listed in the Top 5 Burgers in Melbourne by The Age (2011), amongst other awards, LOTF prides itself on being completely vegetarian, offering vegan, gluten-free and even halal and kosher meals. CEO Mark K says their burgers are the best because they make all their burger patties from their own soy proteinbased recipe and only use the best ingredients available for their fillings. “We offer a burger that’s more sustainable and offers less harm to animals and the environment,” he says. “Our patties have one third of the fat of a beef patty, and taste a whole lot better!” The full range covers all bases and tastes – with the Original, the Spicy, Big Mark (their take on the Big Mac), Chick’n, the Guru and Parma all available in ‘mini’ or ‘big’ size, with either a single or double patty. Taking Mark’s advice, I opted for the mini Original in a meal deal with a sampler fries and drink, and a side serve of the sauce of the month – the Pakistani lime, chilli and mint chutney. The burger was the perfect size for a midday meal, with not a pesky piece of onion or garlic in sight.
I was a little unsure about how the soy patty would go down, after some bad experiences with dry supermarket-bought ones recently sampled at a friend’s place, but I must admit I was pleasantly surprised. While it didn’t quite stay in its place, and kept trying to squeeze itself out of the fresh bun, the New York pickles were a treat, the rennet-free cheese creamy and the combination of Belgian mayo, mustard and ketchup pretty perfect. But as the patty contains virtually no fat, and managed to keep me satisfied hours later with its high protein content, I was happy to accept its slippery ways, and finish it off with the freshly cut and crispy fries and tasty chutney. Definitely a great snack-on-the-go, or larger meal if you opt for the bigger size or double patty, Mark says that possibly the only situation a LOTF burger might not suit would be underwater. “It ruins the texture,” he says, which I would tend to agree on! But if you are looking for a quick and tasty way to do something better for yourself and the environment, then this is the best place to get a quick and healthy bite. And if you have an Apple or Android device, you can skip the lines and order and pay directly from your seat. Head to lordofthefries.com.au to find a location near you.
BROTHER BURGER AND THE MARVELLOUS BREW BY LIAM PIEPER Remember that scene from Pulp Fiction in Jack Rabbit Slim’s Diner where John Travolta can’t believe Uma Thurman just ordered a five dollar milkshake, and tells her “I gotta know what a five dollar milkshake tastes like” then decides “Goddamn, that’s a pretty fucking good milkshake!”? It came to mind when I saw the $17 boozy milkshakes on the menu here. They’re milkshakes, sauced with a couple of shots of liquor to match the flavour of the shake – a fun twist on cocktails. I thought, “I gotta know what a $17 milkshake tastes like”, and yes, it’s a pretty amazing milkshake. It’s typical of Brother Burger and the Marvelous Brew, where the ambiance is upmarket Americana (diner booths and counters, soft lighting, burgers and beer) while the flavours are Australian, (onion rings, Blue Heaven milkshake, South Australian Wagyu beef, posh re-imaginings of Chik-O-Rolls and Dim sims, beer). Marcello Tummino, the restaurateur behind Brother Burger (And The European, Benitos and The Supper Club) had a restaurant space he needed an idea for. After much soul searching, he decided ‘Geez, I like burgers, and I like beer so....’ The burgers are the heroes here, handmade from South Australian Wagyu mince and grilled to a perfect black on the outside but a tender pink inside, although there’s plenty of other items on the menu to keep you coming back week after week.
According to Marcello the beer is as much a part of Brother Burger as the food. The team sources a selection of beer from craft brewers around Australia, constantly introducing new suppliers and beers so that customers are always exposed to new options when they come in. “When we find one we like, we’ll buy two or three kegs and when that’s gone we’ll change into something new. The variety is endless. What we’re trying to do is provide people with a window into a different world other than Carlton. It’s nice not to be chained to the big companies.” Observing that people are happier when they go out for casual meals, the team at Brother Burger strike a balance between fine-dining quality and a relaxed, social place to eat. Marcello explained that he’s trying to fight the perception that burgers are cheap. “We handmake everything here, all our bread, pickles, sauce. We carefully choose ingredients, and do our best with them. Our chefs did three months of development before we opened, and we’ve added new items as we’ve gone along. The variety is there so people will have options every time they come here.” 3 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Phone: (03) 9419 088, Email: stuff@brotherburger.com.au .
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HUXTABURGER BY WINSTON VON TURK Whether they’re serving from a pop-up kitchen at Where?House or spotted at a festival, our demand for Huxtaburger exemplifies the growing burger culture in Melbourne. Daniel Wilson, co-owner of Huxtaburger, spoke to us about the establishment’s origins, product and Bill Cosby. “After opening Huxtable on Smith Street we saw that there was a gap in the market for a good honest, tasty burger that doesn’t cost the world,” Daniel explains. “I did my training in the States so I know my way around a burger pretty well.” Yes that’s right, fucking burger training – like Rocky Balboa – that’s how well designed and crafted Huxtaburgers are. And what should you order? Well, with their extensive range, Huxtaburger decided to add a creative flair to the names of the burgers. “The burgers are named after the characters from The Cosby Show so there is the original Huxtaburger, Theo, Bill’s, Denise (the hot one), Sondra and Rudy (for the kids).” Asked to outline his favourite of the lot, Daniel tempts us with the specificity of the details. “Grass-fed Moondarra Wagyu beef, quality ingredients and heating the bun on the grill with clarified butter so it is soft on the outside but crisp in the middle.” If that’s not exciting enough, Huxtaburger bring the good
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times with a quirky collection of beers. In fact, the tagline on their website reads ‘Hot Beef, Cold Beer’. Emphasising the perfect pairing of beers and burgers, when prompted as to why people should come and have a burger at Huxtaburger, he says, “Because they are delicious and you can have an Australian craft beer with it!” Another benefit of eating at Huxtaburger is the price, as the staple ‘Huxtaburger’ will only set you back $8.50. Furthermore, Huxtaburger go that extra mile for you with a regularly updated iPhone app that gives loyal patrons the ability to redeem in-app coupons, as well as special deals not available to the general public. In conjunction with their daily Twitter use, Huxtaburger are setting the pace for an interactive, friendly burger place. And if you asked them if they could have one celebrity visit the store for a burger, living or dead, who would it be and what burger would they order, you realise there is only one possible answer. “Bill Cosby, and the Bill’s burger of course!!!!” I think it’s fair to say that burgers are the most important thing ever invented, so when asked to describe life without them, Wilson is both pithy and poignant. “Sad.” Huxtaburger is located at 106 Smith Street, Collingwood, 3066. You can also find the CBD store at Fulham Place off Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 3000. Phone: (03) 9417 6328.
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THE BEER AND BURGER BY DENVER MAXX Swan Street, Richmond’s The Beer And Burger is a future classic in the art of the burger. From its unique layout that was inspired by a Japanese sushi bar, to the extensive if not groundbreaking range of burgers that include beef (of course), pulledpork, salmon and sometimes goat, this burger joint combines familiar surroundings with edgy cuisine. The owner of The Beer And Burger, Ryan Kurban, is a youthful and enthusiastic restauranteur whose main credo behind his burger joint, which opened on January 14 this year, is to make people comfortable and offer something new. A prime example (pun intended) of his innovation is the monthly ‘game burger’ that The Beer And Burger offer. “We wanted to do something that is not done by everyone else – putting a spin on something that everyone has but doing in a completely different way. The main drive behind ‘game burger’ was that every month it would change to something different: we’ve had goat, we’ve had duck, we’ve had kangaroo and at the moment we have venison.” This month, May 2013, The Beer And Burger’s game burger
has a venison pattie. In what is a casual culinary masterstroke, the gaminess of the venison is enhanced and then offset by pickled candy apple and prosciutto. Kurban explains that a lot of thought goes into enhancing the flavours of the burger via how it is served in the buns. “One of the hardest decisions with the game burger is how we are going to serve it. Is it going to be a roast? Is it going to be a patty?” Kurban goes on to use two examples that are mainstays on the burger menu. “With the pork and lamb burgers that are on offer, the pork is served as a pulled pork and the lamb is a sliced lamb. The hardest question when conceiving a game burger is how we are going to serve it because game meats can be quite dry.” The brains-trust that makes the tough decisions on how the game burgers, and all other burgers, on the menu are presented will be served is Kurban, his father Gabby and head chef Tom [Uttam Gaire]. Gaire has been working with the Kurban’s for many years and, as Ryan Kurban explains, Chef Tom (as he is better known) has been working on The Beer
And Burger since its inception. “I first met Chef Tom when he worked at the other restaurant in Balwyn called Colombos. Tom and I were trialling a few of the burger ideas there to see what worked. Through that process of trial and error I think we got the perfect mix when we started here.” Kurban’s description of the ‘perfect mix’ can be extended out to The Beer And Burger’s other main experiential element that is beer. “There are six taps in total with two of them Fat Yak and Carlton Draft that we keep on as a continuous thing and the remaining four are rotating with craft and international beers. The two unique beers that we have at the moment are the Kung Fu from the Two Brothers that are in Moorabbin, and we have a Growler that is American brown ale. Finally, and as a very attractive bait to get Beat readers to head down to The Beer And Burger, if you mention this story in Beat you will get a burger, a side of fries and a beer (any beer) for $15 and other specials are Tight Arse Tuesday’s $2.50 pots and happy hour(s) from 3pm to 5pm every day with all burgers $10 and all beers $2.50. The Beer and Burger is located at 112 Swan Street, Richmond. Phone: (03) 9429 5934.
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Why are burgers the best? A burger always seems to hit the spot, especially massive juicy burgers with quality beef – you just want to keep eating. What are the full range of burgers you offer, and which one is your favourite? Beef & Bacon – beef pattie, tasty cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo and onion Beef Inferno – cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, egg, onion and a fiery sauce Chicken – chicken breast, guacamole, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo Veggie – char grilled capsicum and eggplant, tomato, lettuce, sweet chilli sauce and sour cream Fish – grilled fish, lettuce, tomato, tasty cheese and tartare sauce Traditional Beef – beef pattie, tasty cheese, lettuce and tomato sauce My favourite is the Beef & Bacon Burger because I’m addicted to our homemade mayo and caramelised onions! And if I’m feeling up for a challenge, I’ll take on the Beef Inferno! Why should we come and have a burger at your shop? We use the freshest ingredients, which are sourced locally. Our beef is 100% mince steak with no fillers or additives, from the butcher down the road, our chicken is from the chook guy up the road and our vegies are from local markets. Our burgers are made fresh to order, right in front of you, on the char grill which gives them a distinctive burst of flavour. Our burgers are massive – great value for money. What is the strangest request for a burger extra that you have had? Battered deep fried bacon!?! If you could have one celebrity visit your store for a burger, living or dead, who would it be and why (what burger would they have)? Elvis – the most famous burger chomper of them all would definitely go the Beef Inferno burger!
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During what activity should someone not eat a burger? During lent when they can have a fish instead. What does the ‘B’ stand for in burger? BOOM! The Fish Market Burger Bar and Grill is located at 272 Bridge Rd, Richmond. Phone: (03) 9428 8574
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SOMETHING FOR KATE BY SEAN SANDY DEVOTIONAL
Having been such a mainstay for the last two decades, it’s almost hard to believe that it’s been six years in between Something for Kate albums, even as just about every other Australian band born from the alt-rock explosion of the early ‘90s has fallen by the wayside. Despite Paul Dempsey and Stephanie Ashworth upping stumps for New York, and Dempsey’s extensive solo work on the US club circuit, it’s testament to how thoroughly the band is embedded in the popular consciousness that it doesn’t really feel like they’ve been missing. Which is not to say the band’s sixth studio album, last year’s Leave Your Soul To Science, wasn’t a welcome addition to the band’s catalogue. Produced in Dallas by Albini protégé John Congleton, the record showcases a wider, more ornate vocal range on Dempsey’s part, and according to Ashworth, owes a great deal to their time in the States. “Living over there, definitely,” she says. “Particularly lyrically, I feel a lot of the imagery and the characters that are in the songs are from over there, the people from our neighbourhood, could have formed the backdrop for our album. “On This Economy, for example, Paul was thinking about the whole global financial crisis from the perspective of a hedge fund manager, this character he sort of dreamed up, his life and his shtick with the ladies as a high-flying hedge fund kid – and when the economy’s failing dismally, and you’re not popular anymore, how does that person function? What’s their modus operandi then? It’s a funny scenario to assess. In the time that we were there, Wall Street was treated like a poisonous district of New York, you didn’t mention you were in any way associated with it.” Like a lot of the band’s older work, Leave Your Soul To Science showcases an almost anthropological approach to its subject matter. As in other places, Dempsey’s lyrics here seem grim and impenetrable on first listen, before revealing themselves as a foil for someone constantly inquisitive about his surroundings, occasionally perplexed about the customs and the habits of the people around him as if he were a man who suddenly woke up to find himself on a different planet. “I think it’s definitely a recurring theme in our band,” says Ashworth. “I think he’s been questioning things since he first started writing songs. I think he can’t help it, he’s fascinated, he’s desperate to, I guess, sort of peel off the bullshit. At the same time he’s fascinated by what people get distracted by in their daily lives so they don’t have to discuss or think about the realities. “It’s so much his take on reality, every minute of the day he’s questioning everything and he can’t understand how other people aren’t questioning, and he’s always been kind of amused by it.” Perhaps it’s a function of their long personal relationship – Dempsey and Ashworth married in Vegas back in 2006 – but Ashworth paints a very different picture of her bandmate than the image that prevails outside of their fan base. Something For Kate have always seemed like a maudlin band to the casual listener, and Dempsey has by extension always seemed like a particularly morose frontman – a perception at odds with anyone who’s seen Dempsey onstage in an intimate setting or delved into the more sardonic side of his lyrics. “I think the thing about Something For Kate that people have never got is that there’s a lot of humour in these songs,” Ashworth says. “Paul is actually a very funny guy, he’s a very silly Irishman. People always think he’s miserable but he’s very funny, ferociously intelligent... “I think that our fan base have realised that, people who listen to the records repeatedly have picked up on that. I think a lot of the time, people who aren’t fans or media just go, ‘oh too hard, miserable, dark bastard, whatever.’ It’s a pity because there is a lot of humour there, which people who have been listening to us for a long time do recognise.” There’s always been an almost conspiratorial sense that something intimate and elusive is shared between Something For Kate and their audience, whether it’s Dempsey’s textured approach to his subject matter or the secret shows under false names the band has been staging since back in the days of Elsewhere For 8 Minutes. Ashworth believes it’s one of the main reasons why the band have kept it together while so many of their contemporaries have long since called it quits. “I think it’s a number of things,” she says. “Obviously it comes down to a combination of personalities, what the relationship is like and whether it’s really sustainable. There’s that theory that three-pieces stay together longer because there’s only three of you. I think it’s also the nature of the songs, the lyrics that Paul writes. We’re not a first listen band. The people who relate to that voice, once they’re in, they’re in. “I think Paul as a teenager was obsessed with Fugazi, Big Black, those sort of bands. And I think that sort of connection was all he ever wanted. And I feel like Paul is a spokesman in some way for things that [our fans] might be frustrated about. It’s really amazing to have that still, after five years’ break, and it’s my only thought as to why they’re still there.”
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AIRBOURNE BY LACHLAN KANONIUK
It’s been nearly a decade since Airbourne first emerged beer-drenched from the primordial rock‘n’roll ooze of Warrnambool’s pub circuit, with the high-octane outfit going on to establish themselves as one of Australia’s foremost hard rock exports. After taking a miniscule amount of time away from their formidable touring schedule, the four-piece have returned with their third riff-laden full-length offering, Black Dog Barking. As is their wont, the band are back on the road touring the album – with their homecoming timed with an appearance at this year’s Splendour In The Grass. After tracking down the band during a Canadian sojourn, just before they set off to Europe, I spoke to bassist Justin Street about life on the road, the risks of the rock‘n’roll lifestyle, and the recording process that resulted in Black Dog Barking. “We worked on one song at a time during preproduction, where we would take each song apart and look at every single little bit,” Streety recalls. “Then we would record almost everything before we would start the next song. We also had a lot more time to write the songs, but not much time to record them. We had about 40 songs written before we got to the studio.” With the success of previous albums Runnin’ Wild and No Guts. No Glory taking Airbourne across the globe for choice support slots, festival appearances and their own headline tours, the worldly experiences have worked their way into the fabric of Black Dog Barking – whether it be in the form of lyrical content or simply riffs discovered along the way. “The songs are about things that happened on the road and a lot of the riffs come from jamming at sound check. You’re influenced by what you experience in life, and our life has been touring for the last eight years.” Nailing the hard rock formula on Black Dog Barking, the album showcases fist-raised riff action and belter chorus scream-alongs. I put the question to Streety – which is more important, the riff or the chorus? “It’s all about the riff,” he answers. “A good chorus comes from a good riff, and should be sung over a good riff.” In those eight years, the band have performed for countless thousands while spreading the good word of rock‘n’roll. Rising from regional Victoria, the band have realised the rock‘n’roll dream. But is it all that it’s cracked up to be? “We get to play rock‘n’roll to thousands of people all over the world,” Streety grins. “We wanted to play music and travel the world, and that’s what we are doing. There are a lot more boring bits than I thought there would be, but I’m not complaining.” Though every show, whether intimate or grand, showcases the mightiest of rock‘n’roll majesty, Streety recalls his favourite onstage moment. “That would have to be headlining Waken in 2011. It was a massive crowd – about 90,000, I think – and they were all loving it. We had the most lights and amps we have ever had, and we had a big ramp to run around on. It was epic.”
“THE MOST INSANE CROWDS WE HAVE EVER HAD HAVE BEEN IN AUSTRALIA.” As to why rock‘n’roll still resonates with so much power, Streety is philosophical. “It is a powerful thing, it takes people out of their world of work and worries and makes them head bang, raise a fist and scream their lungs out.” Though they’ve clocked up appearances in a multitude of continents, Airbourne still relish the chance to perform in their homeland. “The most insane crowds we have ever had have been in Australia,” Streety proclaims. “They love to get on the stage rock out a bit and stage dive, they just go fuckin’ crazy.” Their impending return to Australia will also mark their first hometown performance in quite a while. As Streety exhibits, you can take the boys out of Warrny but you can’t take the Warrny out of the boys. “[Warrnambool]’s great. It’s good to chill out there, go to the beach, see the parents and hang out with old friends. I can’t wait to play there again its been about five years it’s going to be wild.” Those who have seen Airbourne in the wild know that frontman Joel O’Keefe is partial to a bit of beersmashing, scaffold-climbing action. But don’t expect to see him play it safe any time in the near future. “He hasn’t toned it down a bit, we do get a bit worried for him because if he falls he is dead, that’s it,” Streety rationalises in a typically no-nonsense manner. “No two ways about it.”
AIRBOURNE perform at the sold-out Splendour In The Grass Festival in Byron Bay on Sunday July 28, plus sideshows at Whalers Hotel in Warrnambool on Friday July 19 and The Corner on Saturday July 20. Black Dog Barking is out now through Roadrunner Records. Beat Magazine Page 48
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THE BREAK BY PATRICK EMERY
“It’s an interesting parallel in a way, surf and space,” muses Jim Moginie, founding member and guitarist with Midnight Oil and now guitarist with instrumental psychedelicsurf band The Break. The Break’s first album, Church of the Open Sky, indulged the surf-rock sounds of The Atlantics, Dick Dale and Taman Shud; on its follow-up album, Space Farm, The Break embark on a conceptual journey through space. “The title of the first record is the phrase surfers use to describe the perfect wave, the perfect set of conditions, and in a way the whole thing is manifesting the surfer’s quest,” Moginie says. “I suppose that’s in space exploration as well. It’s about man’s desire to understand who he is, and why we are here. And there’s definitely a spiritual and physical element to space exploration – the astronauts who came back were definitely touched by what they experienced.” The Break formed in the aftermath of the break-up of Midnight Oil, when lead singer Peter Garrett decided to pursue a long promised career in politics. Moginie, drummer Rob Hirst and guitarist Martin Rotsey contemplated briefly recruiting a surrogate singer, before realising the inherent risk in such a career move. “We realised we couldn’t have called ourselves Midnight Oil without Peter,” Moginie says. “We’d have had a future of going around the traps with a new singer who was under the weight of expectation, and we feared we’d become a club act doing agit-prop ‘80s rock,” he laughs. With former Violent Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie rounding out the lineup, The Break took as its initial inspiration the surf sounds of the band members’ youth on the northern Sydney beaches of the ‘60s and ‘70s. On Space Farm, The Break return to another iconic childhood experience, the space race of the ‘60s. “It was a really innocent time,” Moginie says. “You started to be able to see the Earth from space, and people could see what was being done to the planet, so it was the beginning of the environmental movement as well,” he says. And it isn’t just the science of the space era that interests Moginie. “You had pop culture like Barbarella, and I loved watching Lost In Space as well,” he says. “And there was also a sense we could solve all of our problems by going into space!” Moginie laughs. The Break’s lineup now includes former Hunters and Collectors trumpet player (and sometime X auxiliary member) Jack Howard. Howard, a longtime acquaintance of Midnight Oil, had previously joined The Break on stage during its Melbourne shows; an ad hoc decision to bring Howard into the studio to record a few songs turned into a permanent recruitment. “We’d get Jack on stage when we were in Melbourne, and he’d instantly play something great,” Moginie says. “So when we were recording the album, we flew him up, and he was perfect straight away. He’d have these great melodies, which would actually enable Martin and I to play less. And by the end of the day we couldn’t think of the songs being played in any other way.” Howard’s presence on the record, however, isn’t as surprising as that of legendary English crooner, Engelbert Humperdink, who contributes vocals to a cover of 10 Guitars. “That all happened through Brian [Ritchie],” Moginie explains. “Brian’s wife is a huge fan, and they managed to get backstage when Engelbert played in Melbourne, and got to talking with him. I don’t think people always realise just how big a star Engelbert is around the world, and 10 Guitars was a huge hit in New Zealand.” Ritchie took the opportunity of his backstage meeting to float the possibility of a re-make of the track. “Usually backstage promises aren’t followed up – it’s where most of the bullshit goes on,” Moginie laughs. “But within a week we’d thrown down a track and sent it off to him – and it came back almost straight away with a vocal track. And we thought, ‘Wow, what a voice!’” The Break road-tested the songs from the new record earlier this year while touring with Sixto Rodriguez, the enigmatic ‘60s folk-rock singer. Moginie, Hirst and Rotsey had met Rodriguez originally when he toured Australia in the early ‘80s. “We already had a relationship with him from when we shared a stage with him years ago, so when the Oils would tour in the US, we’d always invite him along to our shows when we were playing in Detroit. He’d always come along – he’s a really big fan of Australian music, and would always go and see bands like The Hoodoo Gurus when they were in town,” Moginie says. “So when we heard he was coming out, we said we’d love to play with him. Just before he came out, we learnt the songs back to front. He sings so quietly, so we had to adapt, and continually watch his hand and foot. He’s an amazing musician and a wonderful man.” Moginie laughs when I ask if The Break has got any songs left over from Farm, the surf-rock band from which Midnight Oil evolved originally. “Nothing’s ever ruled out for this band – and even recording is often spontaneous and live.” Having spent the latter years of Midnight Oil boxed in by commercial and popular expectations, The Break has afforded Moginie and his band mates the opportunity to explore, and have fun. “We’re still digging into it, and we’ve only just scratched the surface,” Moginie says. “It’s unimaginably great! We’re just having a lot of fun.” THE BREAK play Caravan Music Club on Thursday May 30 and Thornbury Theatre on Friday May 31. Space Farm is out now through Sony Music.
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BEACHES BY LACHLAN KANONIUK
It was a long, but ultimately worthwhile, wait in between the breakthrough self-titled LP from Melbourne guitar gods Beaches and their just-released triumphant second full-length, She Beats. Needlessly offering a pre-emptive disclaimer of incoherence due to a brain-draining week of solid PhD work, guitarist-vocalist Antonia Sellbach recounts the album’s false start and eventual realisation. “I guess it was a while ago, probably four years now,” Antonia states, recalling She Beats’ initial conception. “I think we basically thought we had enough songs for an album. We initially recorded She Beats at a different studio, with [producer] Neil Thomason at Head Gap [Recording Studio]. That went really well, but it felt like we didn’t have enough songs on there. Plus there were elements on there that sounded a bit ‘fresh’, I guess you’d call it – like we’d written them and taken them straight into the studio, thinking the fresh approach would be the way to go. But it wasn’t really. So we’ve taken two stabs at recording this album. “In between that chunk of time and the time we spent recording with [producer] Jack Farley at his warehouse space, we continued to work on the songs – writing two or three new songs and ditching two or three old ones. That’s pretty much what happened between us deciding to record another album and now.” Though their debut album stands as a vehement success, the pressure of producing a worthy follow-up didn’t define the long gestation of She Beats. “The whole second album thing? Well I guess it is a thing, isn’t it? Often people can ace their first album and not really think about it. She Beats was definitely a longer process, but I don’t think anyone feared the second album thing,” Antonia reasons. She Beats, more so than Beaches, features an intertwining pastiche of varying guitar tones – with each component of the triumvirate of guitarists projecting their own aural signature. “I think it’s more the fact that we have three guitarists and
our guitar sounds are a little different. When you have that many guitars, it can become a thick, enveloping sound – which I think there is more of on She Beats than the first album. Other times we have these disparate guitar sounds, because that’s the reality of the band. We are different people with different sounds, coming together to make a cohesive whole,” she explains. “But you can still hear the individual parts.” Another sonic point of difference between the two Beaches albums is the increased prominence of the vocals in the mix – with the often-indecipherable vocals on the debut elevating into relative clarity on She Beats. “If you compare it to other bands, the vocals are still pretty low in the mix. I heard one of our songs on the radio recently, and the song played afterwards was quite shocking in terms of comparison to how low our vocals were mixed,” Antonia ponders. “I don’t think that we were consciously thinking, ‘Let’s bring them up and make them audible’. I like the idea that vocals can be quite shrouded, that there is that mystery. It is a little louder than the first record, but that might have to do with the vocals having to compete with lots of layers. This record is way more layered than the first album.” Last year saw the Australian return of krautrock icon Michael Rother – a visit that coincided nicely with Beaches’ recording schedule. As Antonia recounts, Rother’s guest appearance on three of She Beats’ dozen tracks was due to more than happenstance. “That was an interesting one, because we played alongside his band Harmonia at ATP a few years back. We met him there and then he stayed in touch with
us, which was lovely. We’re big fans of his music. Then he was in Australia recently playing some gigs on his own, and he got in touch and asked what we were up to. We said we were recording, then he asked if he could come play on the recording. It was kind of amazing, because we would never be forward enough to ask anyone like that to play on the album. “Obviously we were into the idea, and he was into doing this fun thing while on tour. It was basically a jam session because he’d never heard the songs before. He came to Jack’s warehouse and reacted to the songs, played the parts, and we kept the first take of everything we did,” Antonia beams. Discourse surrounding the release of She Beats has struggled to apply a definitive label of genre – ranging from psychedelic rock, stoner/desert rock, krautrock, Melbourne garage, guitar pop, and everything in between. “We definitely never set out to be a psych-rock band and make that type of music, because that’s not how we work. I think we do get called psych-rock quite a lot because we have three guitars. It’s hard to make that sound thin or quiet. But we have so many
other musical loves – garage, post-punk, surf guitar, even ‘60s girl groups to an extent – all these other elements do pop in, which is a good thing,” Antonia reasons. The past couple of years have seen only a handful of Beaches live appearances as they put together She Beats. Now with the album out in the wild, we can look forward to the band returning to their element onstage. “I guess I see us as a live band. There’s a thing that happens when some bands play live where there’s an intensity that’s quite ephemeral, one that’s quite hard to capture on tape. That’s there when we play live, and I don’t think that was quite there as much on the first album. Also I’d say we are more of a live band because you can change things, you can play those wild sets and pull it together for a different feel. I think we’ve done it, but I hope She Beats captures what we like about playing live.”
the background,” he reasons. “It’s been good letting loose in the last 12 months.” As for his harmonica chops, Ambrose via osmosis from his old man, in a roundabout way. “To be honest, I’m not much of a master. I don’t know a single song on the harmonica, I’m just self-taught,” he declares. “I started taking guitar lessons in school, but every man and his dog were playing guitar. My dad was more of a master on the harmonica. Whenever he was home he gave me a tip or two. I eventually started listening to all his blues records, putting them on before bed.” Ambrose’s dad, of course, is Dingoes singer Broderick Smith. But Ambrose hadn’t felt the pressure to follow Brod into a career in music. “Nah, I never really wanted to follow in his footsteps, and he didn’t want that either. I just always had interests outside of school, like skateboarding and music and art. Then I just fell in love with the blues stuff and went on my own sort of path. In some way or another, in the back of my
mind, I wanted to prove myself for some weird reason. I guess dad wasn’t too encouraging, like he wanted me to become a doctor or a lawyer or some bullshit. But I kept doing it to piss him off. But I guess these days he’s somewhat proud. He’s been able to get himself on the new Gizzard record, so it benefits him now,” Ambrose offers. “He doesn’t mind it.” Extracurricular to his musical pursuits, Ambrose has established himself as a noted skateboarding talent. Even with the success of The Murlocs and King Gizzard, he still finds time to balance the time onstage and on the board. “At the moment I’ve been jobless because I fractured my left arm skating about six weeks ago. So since then I’ve had to gaffer tape the harmonica mic to my hand, and become strictly a harmonica player – the whole Drones tour when Gizzard supported, and a few Murlocs shows like that, But since I haven’t had a job I’ve just been skating, pretending like I’m 16 again.”
New single Rattle The Chain follows on from last year’s Tee Pee EP, and provides the first taste of the band’s upcoming debut album. As to when we can expect the album, Ambrose assures us it won’t be too far off. “Lately we’ve been rehearsing as much as we’ve been playing gigs. We’ve had a bit of a lineup change since the last EP, that’s why it’s taken a little bit longer to get it all out. When you have new members you have to practice the set over and over again. But now we’re up to speed and hopefully in the next month or two we can record the album,” he forecasts. “I’m keen to get cracking, and we’re about three quarters of the way there.”
PRUDENCE REES-LEE
and it’s hard finding a stage that’ll fit all of us!” The album is perhaps most notable for its prominent use of harpsichord, an almost forgotten instrument. “Yeah, that came about because I was using the harpsichord setting on my synth so much, I decided that I may as well get the real thing.” Where do you even find a harpsichord, though? “The Early Music Society of Victoria actually loaned me one – I don’t want to give it back!” The conversation eventually turns to Hammocks and Honey, Rees-Lee’s partnership with Alex Nosek. ReesLee is bemused by the attention that they’ve been getting since the Court Music press cycle commenced. Is the band still a live concern? “Hammocks and Honey is still going, just…slowly,” she explains. “It’s funny, Hammocks and Honey has been mentioned more now than when we were actually playing shows – people keep introducing me as ‘one half of Hammocks and Honey’, as if that means anything to anyone. We’re working on an album at the moment, though. We’re taking our time, we want to make sure we get it right.” One gets the sense that Rees-Lee is relieved to have pulled the whole thing off, if only to get started on a new chapter of her burgeoning career. “I’ve started on an orchestral work. I’m trying to get some community orchestras onboard to get that together. It’ll kinda be a prog thing,” she laughs, with a tinge of embarrassment. “With the album, I was building it as I went, but now that the album’s been made, I know what I have to work with, the instruments at my disposal.” Given her background and training, though, Rees-Lee’s foray into classical composition is hardly a Metallica-esque vanity project. “I studied composition and performance at Melbourne Uni”, Rees-Lee explains, “So I know how to
BEACHES perform at Northcote Social Club on Saturday June 1 (sold out) and Sunday June 2. She Beats is out now through Chapter Music.
THE MURLOCS
BY LACHLAN KANONIUK
The phone reception’s a little sketchy when I catch The Murlocs lead singer Ambrose Kenny-Smith as he is cruising out of Echuca with the King Gizzard fam’, who are on their way to perform at a youth festival in Deniliquin. Less than a week after performing harmonica duties with the populace garage prodigies, Ambrose will be fronting his blues outfit The Murlocs as they launch the first single from their upcoming full-length album. As the sound of tyre on bitumen hums in the background, Ambrose looks back on the outfit’s genesis. “We started to play shows around October 2010,” he recalls. “We played Queenscliff Music Festival weekend at the Piping Hot Chicken Shop outside Ocean Grove, just as a three-piece playing mostly covers. I was in a band throughout highschool called Sambrose Automobile. Our drummer was in another band, I used to catch the bus to school with him. Then one day I went to his house to jam, after I had been jamming with the guitarist, Karl Shortal, just at my place.” While The Murlocs still sees Ambrose prone to bust out the ol’ harmonica, the band also provides an outlet for his distinctive blues howl. Despite how it sounds, his vocal style doesn’t put too much of a strain on the trachea. “I try more and more to sing from my gut. I do tend to rasp from my throat and lose my voice after a show now and again. But I haven’t had too many problems yet, I try to concentrate on not overdoing it. I’ve never really sung like I have in the past year or so, I’ve always been in the background playing in
BY EDWARD SHARP-PAUL
Classically trained with a futuristic flavour, Prudence Rees-Lee is known to those in the know for her work with Hammocks and Honey. With the release of her debut solo album, Court Music From The Planet Of Love, she is poised to come to the attention of many more. Ahead of the album’s June launch, she held forth on the album’s slow gestation, and the physical difficulties of getting her sprawling ensemble onto a stage. Court Music From The Planet Of Love is an unusual debut. It is unusual not only for its unique sound – a gauzy mix of chamber pop, synth smears and baroque instrumentation – but for its confidence and its cohesiveness. It is not a stepping stone, but a fully-realised effort by an intriguing artist. The name is rather wonderful as well, conjuring images of extra-terrestrial romance and glamour that bear a strong resemblance to the sound of the album itself. So, is it a concept album? “It’s definitely not a concept album,” ReesLee demurs. “It’s just cohesive, which every album should be, really. The name just came to me. I thought, ‘Oh God, I’m probably going to regret this’, but I liked that it was a bit soapopera-ish, a bit cheesy, a bit Barbarella. It had a lot of things in it that were in the album as well.” Despite the seamless final product, the material that would become Court Music From The Planet Of Love underwent some drastic changes during the album’s long gestation period. Beat Magazine Page 50
“It started as a really cello-based album – the cello was my first instrument,” Rees-Lee explains. “I’d been doing electronic stuff, and then it seemed like everyone was doing electronic stuff, and I thought, ‘You know what? Let’s take it back a notch’. From there it kept morphing. It didn’t feel like cello was quite enough, so I kept adding stuff. Lehmann (B. Smith, KES Band) came onboard, and then some others. It was like I had a vision, and was realising that vision. “Shags (Chamberlain, Lost Animal) was almost the last person to come aboard, which isn’t ideal for a bass player, but I had intended to use cello as the bass instrument, then I slowly realised it needed some real bass as well.” In the end, Rees-Lee enlisted a roll-call of local talent. “It was a bit weird, though,” she says, “No-one knew each other, and they didn’t record together either. I had them all over for dinner when it was all done, though. “The live band is different again, which is also complicated. I’d like to play more, but it’s hard to get everyone together,
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THE MURLOCS launch their single Rattle The Chain at Northcote Social Club on Friday May 25 with Hollow Everdaze and The Kremlings. They also play The Barwon Club in Geelong on Friday June 7.
score parts and how to utilise the different families of the orchestra. It makes total sense to me, to be doing that.” PRUDENCE REES-LEE will be launching her new album at the John Curtin on Saturday June 8. Court Music From The Planet Of Love is out now digitally on Special Award, and the LP will be available from Saturday June 8.
SOUNDKILDA BY PETER HODGSON
Australia has a rich history of great music video creation, and we’re uniquely placed to take advantage of one of the greatest motivators to creativity that there ever was: isolation. With a relatively sparse population and comparatively restrained resources, both financial and practical, Australian filmmakers have always had to think a little bit outside of the proverbial box. As with hi-fi equipment, cars, food and language itself, Australian-made film has a certain ingenuity about it, a kind of creativity-within-the-confines-of-what’s-available character that provokes a different kind of expression. The 2013 St Kilda Film Festival (SKFF) will again celebrate the unique collaborative symbiosis of Australian music and visual arts with the annual SoundKILDA festival, on Thursday May 30. SoundKILDA, the festival’s music video competition, will showcase 19 of the best new music videos from Australian artists as they should be seen – loud and large on the big screen at St Kilda’s Astor Theatre. This year SoundKILDA will award the filmmakers behind some of the country’s most loved songs for Best Music Video, Best Music Video Animation, Best Music Video Independent and the Audience Award: Best Music Video to be voted on the night, with entries from some of the country’s leading young filmmakers, including Natasha Pincus, Darcy Prendergast, Nash Edgerton and Kasimir Burgess. “Stop motion is my passion,” says Prendergast, whose production house Oh Yeah Wow is nominated for Gotye’s stop-motion Easy Way Out as well as the more conventional Don’t Wanna Grow Up Anymore for Bob Evans and I Wish That by Stereolove. “After the success of the Gotye clip, we were inundated with requests from various bands to make videos for them, on a much faster turnaround than we did for Gotye. We were required to do more live action than stop motion. And when it comes to making some sort of living off music videos you need to pump them out fairly quickly to be able to put some cash away.” The Bob Evans clip, for instance, was inspired by Bob/Kevin Mitchell’s appreciation for Smashing Pumpkins’ 1979 video. “He just really loved the vibe of that,” Prendergast says. “I wanted to subvert that, and instead of the teens in a service station or mini mart, it would be geriatrics. I pitched that to him and away we went. I wanted to incite anarchy within the store as well as a sort of heightened realism, I guess!”
“AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE GOTYE CLIP, WE WERE INUNDATED WITH REQUESTS FROM VARIOUS BANDS TO MAKE VIDEOS FOR THEM.” Stop motion has certainly evolved with technology, but it’s still a largely untouched, pure technique despite the impact of digital photography and editing. And it’s a technique that’s close to Prendergast’s heart. “Nothing’s changed,” he says. “It’s still one of those beautifully antiquated mediums, and it dates back to Harryhausen’s era – who just died, sadly – but it’s an antiquated medium, so really nothing’s changed too much apart from the digital revolution. Now we have the ability to see the last frame and where we’re going in the next frame so we can see how far we’re moving it, but the technique is still the same. We just try to use it in different ways. In the Gotye clip we tried to use it in different ways that were amalgamated with live action stuff, again like Harryhausen, but really pushing the visual effects elements of stop motion, and also how things happen within the clip. For example, when Wally walks through a door his entire costume would change. And we just wanted to pepper the clip with a thousand ideas like that which would make it this visual effects spectacular that melted your mind a little bit.” Prendergast works in forms outside of music videos too, but it’s certainly an important part of his psychic makeup. “I’ve always loved music videos,” he says. “I’d always be sitting up at 4am as a 17-year-old watching Rage. It’s a really cool medium to explore short ideas and not get too bogged down in features and series and things like that. It gives you a real ability to just experiment and have fun. But I’ve always been an animator and I’ve always loved cartoons as well. I started out doing music clips with that, just doing animated stuff, and then I in essence got a film degree through music videos too, because I never went to film school and I never got educated in how you use live action equipment to make live action films, but I’ve been lucky that through music videos I’ve been able to ‘fake it til I make it,’ really!”
The SoundKILDA screening will start at 8.30pm at St Kilda’s Astor Theatre, home to the biggest screen in the southern hemisphere, on Thursday May 30 and will be followed by an official after party. The St Kilda Film Festival is produced and presented by The City of Port Phillip and will run from Thursday May 23 to Saturday June 1, 2013. For more info, visit stkildafilmfestival.com.au. DISCUSS WHAT? BEAT.COM.AU/DISCUSSION
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HELL CITY GLAMOURS BY THOMAS BAILEY
Peanut butter and jelly. Harold And Maude. Bondage and discipline. Scurvy and citrus. Some things are just made for each other, but as Melburnians understand, no two things fit together quite as well as rock‘n’roll and beer. Sydney’s glam/punk/heavy-metal four-piece Hell City Glamours will perfectly encapsulate this heavenly pairing when they close out this year’s Good Beer Week with a bang at Cherry Bar. For not only are they going to perform, but in conjunction with Young Henry’s Brewery and Good Beer Week’s Rockstar Brews they’re also going to have their own collaboration brew on tap! Jono Barwick, Hell City Glamours’ bassist and managerial guru, was on hand recently to chat about their forthcoming sophomore album, the difference between the music scenes in Sydney and Melbourne, and how exactly this opportunity to make their own beer came about. As their presser gleefully puts it, “sure, they can’t get an album finished in four years, but when the chance to make their own beer comes up, it only takes a few months!” Barwick smiles laconically when I ask him about their follow-up to their 2008 self-titled debut, a snarling and rather wonderful concoction that posits what might happen if Guns And Roses, The New York Dolls, and Poison had an illicit love child. The new album is coming, he promises. “It just needs to be mastered; we’re still fighting about track listing and stuff. It won’t come out until the end of the year! I’d say at this stage – I haven’t really sat down and thought about it too much – October. But it’s all done, we got the final mixes back about six or eight weeks ago, and it sounds pretty fucking good! “Our new album is going to be a bit different,” he adds with a laugh. “It might surprise a few people!” How so? “There’s a couple of mellower songs,” he says. “I’m not saying they’re
ballads, or anything, but [the album] does have more what you would call ‘chill’ songs. I mean, we’re already kind of an eclectic band, within our own style anyway! But there’s more backing vocals in there, and a couple that are straightup pub rockin’ tracks as well, but yeah! It’s just different! “And I wrote some bass parts that are too hard to play!” he chuckles. “Which is annoying! But I’ll have some practice before the gig!” And now these cheeky blokes from Sydney have their own beer for the Good Beer Week closing party. (The two other bands gracing the Cherry Bar stage, Front End Loader and My Dynamite, will have their own beers as well.) How did the opportunity for their own beer arise? “Well, Oscar (McBlack, vocalist) is actually the brewer,” Barwick explains. “He works for [Young Henry’s Brewery] in Sydney – and the Good Beer Week thing came around. Young Henry’s had a perfect opportunity to open up a market down here [in Melbourne], to expand from Sydney, and so it was finally time for us to get our own little brew together!” So what kinds of beer are we going to be served on this most auspicious evening? Barwick grins. “Well, Oscar knows
how to make beer, and he knows what we like – we’ve got a bourbon barrel-aged red ale going on for us. Front End Loader have a strong pale ale, and My Dynamite’s beer has chipotle in it! This is going to be the opening-up for Young Henry’s here in Melbourne, and as I’m the guy who lives down here, I’ll be helping this work for ‘em!” I mention that I’m looking forward to trying their beer. Barwick smiles and says, “Me too!” Wait, you haven’t tried your beer yet? “Nope,” he beams, “it’s brewing as we speak!” And, he tells me, it doesn’t have any preservatives in it, which will certainly help in preventing (theoretically) any nasty hangovers. When asked about the difference between Sydney’s and Melbourne’s music scenes, Barwick deadpans. “Uh, there is one in Melbourne. That’s about it! Sydney’s been going through a real up-and-down time over the last ten years … venues closing, opening and shutting again – and there’s a distinct lack of small venues; which Melbourne has an abundance of. That’s how [bands] cut their teeth. You
can get a gig here in Melbourne. In Sydney, you can’t. It’s not that there isn’t a lot of live music going on [in Sydney], but it is very, very hard to step it up and get a fan base. “Melbourne’s a lot more vibrant, more people go to shows here – in Sydney, you can’t get people away from their phones! I think Sydney forgets that they have about a million bands right on their doorstep that are a million times better than the crappy bands they see from overseas. Shows sell out in Sydney all the time for those sorts of bands, but you can’t get 50 people through the door on a Saturday night to see something good from your next-door neighbour!” he finishes, with a laugh.
ground in their setlist as far as their back catalogue is concerned, 22 years and no less than ten full length albums makes it rather difficult to cover everything. But ultimately he is confident that everyone, band and crowd, will very much enjoy the show they put on. “We’re at the point in a Kamelot show where there’s a lot of give and take between us and the crowd,” he tells us. “We really try to get close to the people, and make it a massive event/party. My goal is always that they can’t wait for us to come back, that’s what I want when they’re walking out. We try to bring an energy to the show without being cheesy, and maintaining the image that the band has. It’s a concert, and we want make sure people are having fun. At the end of the show, we just want to sit back with a beer and go, ‘Fuck, that was fun!’” he laughs. “It’s basically impossible,” he says, when asked if they do songs from all of their albums during their set. “That’s over a
hundred songs! Honestly, the first two records of Kamelot, even though I’m proud of them, it’s a whole different thing. We hadn’t really found our sound and image. But we play some songs from (their fifth album) Karma, we’ll play some songs from the Epica record, and of course we’ll play four or five songs from the new album. “We try to find a mix where there’s fans who’ve been with us for a while want to hear certain songs, but we want to play new songs too. The new songs work really great live.”
couldn’t do with him that I can do with Jake. It’s cool. We’re feeling pretty good.” Simultaneously with working The Fumes back up as a live entity, Merry and Jake have been in the studio working on album number three. “Our engineer is Ryan Hazell, who has been our live engineer for the last five or six years. He’s also the Drones’ main engineer, and he’s got his own studio down on the central coast of NSW,” Merry says. “I figured another head on the project would be good, and he plays a bit too, so we’ve been working with him. And I’ve been finally turning on these ideas and songs that I’ve been fucking with for years, and finally bringing them to life.
We’re doing everything ourselves too. Apart from ourselves there’s no influence from any marketing angle, which is great. As much as we’ve tried to keep that to zero before, there was always management and a whole bunch of other people trying to steer you in some certain direction.”
Put your beer goggles on and see Good Beer Week off with a bang this Sunday May 26 with HELL CITY GLAMOURS at Cherry Bar with Front End Loader and My Dynamite. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased from Cherry Bar’s website.
KAMELOT BY ROD WHITFIELD
American power metal act Kamelot are another legendary, long-running heavy music act that are, curiously, yet to tour Australia – considering the rabid following that metal and its myriad sub-genres has here. That all changes in mid 2013, however. Twenty-two years and no less than ten epic albums into their illustrious career, the band have finally announced their very first Australian sojourn, with the tour taking in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. Guitarist and founding member Thomas Youngblood, speaking from his home in Tampa, Florida, is at a bit of a loss as to why it’s taken them so long to get here, but is ultimately stoked that it has finally happened. “That’s a good question,” he responds, as to why they have never made it here in over two decades. “The band itself has grown over the years, even if we were around for 30 of 40 years, it takes time for a band to grow. I don’t really know; we’re basically open to tour everywhere, anywhere that there’s a good fan base we’ll be there. It has a lot to do with the promoters stepping up, but over the years there’s never been anything serious going on. With this new record there’s been a lot of new doors open, it’s been really strange. So we’re of course loving it, we love coming to new countries, anywhere and everywhere. “But it’s awesome [that we’re finally coming],” he says. “Everybody’s excited. It almost didn’t happen, but after we put this Japanese tour together, the guys from Metropolis (Touring) stepped it up. Ticket sales have been great, so we’re real excited about it.” Outside the shows, Thomas is keen to experience the true
Australia, beyond what the media in America and around the world portray the country to be. Beyond the clichés and stereotypes. But especially the fans. “I don’t really know,” he admits, regarding his expectations of our country. “There’s all the typical things that everybody knows about Australia, like koala bears and the Outback. I want to explore the ‘real’ Australia, the people, I really wanna meet a lot of the fans. I never really buy into a lot of the stereotypes too much. We’re also going to South Korea, and people are saying ‘don’t go to Korea, it’s crazy!’ It’s not such a great time to go there, but I don’t think there’s a perfect time to go there. We don’t want to be a part of this manufactured fear that’s going on over there. “I have a very open mind, even though I’m American. I try to think that everyone is equal, and basically judge people by who they are, and not where they were born. I’m excited about checking out the culture there.” Thomas promises the Aussie fans a very intense and interactive show, where the band and audience feed off each other’s energy, just as a great heavy music show should. And although they try to cover a fair amount of
KAMELOT bring their symphonic, melodic metal sounds to The Hi-Fi on Friday June 7, with support coming from awesome locals Divine Ascension and Anarion.
THE FUMES BY PETER HODGSON
The Fumes have been a little quiet of late, but that’s about to change. A prime slot at the Lock N’ Load festival at the Espy and an ongoing but soon-to-be-finished album project are both looming on the horizon, and the album in particular represents something of a rebirth for the band - while the Lock N’ Load show is a rare opportunity to catch the band mid-hibernation, before the album is completed and a healthy chunk of time after their last full tour. “The Fumes have been going for – shit – over ten years now,” explains founder Steve Merry. “I was playing with a drummer, Joel Battersby, for all that time, and we toured through the States and Japan. A couple of times in Japan and a bunch in New York. We did two albums, one with Lindsay Gravina at Birdland Studios, and the second one we did with a fella from Detroit called Jim Diamond from a band called The Dirtbombs. And we were pretty much flat out that whole time. And it was on one of those trips to the United States, to work on the Stateside release of the first album, that pressures started to arise. Different viewpoints and philosophies started to become amplified and Joel decided to split. At the same time, Merry was going through some personal upheavals of his own, so he took the opportunity to just stop, after ten years, to regroup. Eventually, after a period of reevaluation, Merry hooked Beat Magazine Page 52
up with new drummer Jacob Mann and started working on some tunes: a time he describes as “a good year and a half fucking around, rehearsing.” And he hasn’t been in a particular rush to release new material just for the sake of getting it out there. When it’s right, it’s right. “I’ve been working on shit that I’d been writing for a long time that never really fit with Joel, so it was a good opportunity to work on that stuff. We spent a bit of last year on a few tours, just working up our live gigging hours with Jake.” It’s always a big thing for a band to switch drummers, but especially when they’re a two-piece. At least in a larger band there are more individual elements that make up the band sound, and therefore more of them that are still intact if somebody leaves. “It’s completely different! It’s like a longterm relationship. I mean, if anything, there’s a side of me that was really suited to Joel but there was a lot more that I
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Guys I hate to be the cynic (I’ve been accused of being one more often than I’d like to admit) but I found this Daft Punk business mildly irritating. The ease with which a bumper marketing spend managed to convince the country that Daft Punk’s album was the second coming was staggering. Especially in light of the reviews which now tend to suggest that the album is – for the most part – wildly disappointing. I am at once impressed and disappointed that 4,000 punters were convinced to pay to attend an ‘album launch’ party in regional NSW that did not offer any level of exclusivity (the album ended up streaming well in advance of the ‘launch’) or even an appearance from the much-lauded robots themselves (there was much optimism that the band might warrant the fuss by actually showing up to the festivities). Don’t get me wrong – getting people this excited about music is no small feat and one that deserves applauding, it’s just staggering that the enthusiasm was centered around what is – in my humble opinion – some mundane music. Then again, I appear to be the only person in the country not happily devouring blow-by-blow breakdowns of The Voice, so maybe I’m massively out of touch. As you were, world.
The Smith Street Band are bringing US bands Joyce Manor and Cheap Girls Down Under for their next lap of Australia. The Melbourne show at The Corner Hotel has already sold out as part of the Poison City Weekender. While you’re waiting for an additional local show to be announced, you can see the Smithies at The Reverence’s First Birthday celebrations next Saturday June 1. The mega metal tour (otherwise known as Thy Art Is Murder/Cattle Decapitation/King Parrot/Aversions Crown tour) has just added some local supports to its already stellar lineup. Internal Nightmare will join the Corner Hotel show on Thursday June 13 and I Valiance will join in on the Arrow On Swanston all ages show on Friday June 14. That’s some value for money. I Exist are about to chuck a European tour, but not before they do one last run of the East Coast on the What’s The Duty Free Booze Allowance tour. These guys KILL live. Catch them at Bang on Saturday June 15.
Parkway Drive had added a Melbourne underage show to their massive string of gigs on their Ten Year anniversary tour. The kidlets can now get their mosh on at The Palace on September 21. Tickets are on sale now.
CRUNCH! MANIFEST AT THE CORNER
Introducing the ugly cousin of Saltar Hype Entertainment’s “At The Corner” events: Manifest At The Corner. On Friday May 24, nine brutal Melbourne acts will thrash it out over The Corner Hotel’s two stages. Prepare to have your face melted as King Parrot, Dreadaught, Elm Street, Bronson, Voltera, Contrive, They, Cold Divide and Diprosus all light it up. Tickets $16+bf on sale now from the Corner Box Office or cornerhotel.com.
ROBIN FINCK REJOINS NIN
Yes! Guitarist Robin Finck has rejoined Nine Inch Nails! Trent Reznor says: “The addition of Robin to the mix of players I’ve assembled makes this band incredibly powerful and versatile. We are deep in the rehearsal process and it feels exciting and great to be back at this.” The new incarnation of Nine Inch Nails includes Alessandro Cortini, Josh Eustis, Ilan Rubin and King Crimson/David Bowie/Frank Zappa guitarist Adrian Belew. Last week, bass player Eric Avery (ex-Jane’s Addiction) announced he was departing the newly-reactivated NIN because he was overwhelmed by the band’s touring commitments, in the wake of a whole bunch of touring with Garbage. Avery explains: “I just got home from a year of heavy travel with Garbage, the idea of leaving town for another year and a half, and with all the intensity that Nails demands...fortunately my friend Trent understands all this and appreciated my pulling the plug now instead of deep into 2013 and ‘14.” As for those NIN touring plans, I ran into Belew in LA at the NAMM Show in January and he mentioned he was expecting to tour Australia some time soon. Hopefully it was a veiled reference to NIN.
SLEEPMAKESWAVES TWO-NIGHT STAND Sydney ambient/melodic post-rockers SLEEPMAKESWAVES have announced a massive national tour for June and July, including two shows at The Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy on Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7. Tickets from Moshtix. The aptly titled ‘…and so we played everything’ tour will also see SLEEPMAKESWAVES premiering a host of fresh new material, following intense writing sessions over the past few months. With alternating sets each night and a brand new light show, this will be the band’s only Australian headline tour of 2013 and comes ahead of further international touring announcements – and then finally, the recording of their much-anticipated second album.
Pop punk isn’t dead! The tours keep rolling in! A Loss For Words are headed our way this winter. They’ll play Barwon Club on July 31 then Next on August 1. They’re taking Monuments (Perth) and Sidelines (Melbourne) along with them so you get bang for your buck. Tickets available from Thursday.
CORE GIG GUIDE Wednesday May 22: And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Sincerely Grizzly at The Corner Hotel Thursday May 23: Born of Osiris, Feed Her To The Sharks, A Breach Of Silence at The Hi-Fi The Reverend Horton Heat, Mojo Juju at Caravan Music, Oakleigh Jello Biafra spoken word show at The Espy Gershwin Room The Migrations, The Fujiyama Mamas, Black Cockatoo at The Reverence ‘Secret Headliner’, The Shoenberg Automation, Kontact, Ire at Band Friday May 24: Eluveitie at Billboards Born Of Osiris, Feed Her To The Sharks, A Breach Of Silence at Phoenix Youth Center Bitch Perfect, Miss Destiny at The Tote King Parrot, Dreadnaught, Elm Street and more at The Corner Hotel One Vital Word, Idle Hands, Up and Atom, Fractures, Altered States at The Reverence Saturday May 25: The Ghost Inside, Emmure, Antagonist AD, Hand Of Mercy at The HiFi Jericco, Dead In A Second at The Espy Foxtrot, Daybreak, Clowns, Maricopa Wells at Bendigo Hotel Aitches, Del Lago, Max Goes To Hollywood, All We Need, Foley, Wonder Lust, Too Soon at The Barley Corn Left For Wolves, Skyways are Highways, The Clavians, While The City Sleeps at Bang The Spinset, The Reprize, Take To The Skies, After The Curfew, Under Vienna Skies at The Sub, Hawthorne Sunday May 26: The Ghost Inside, Emmure, Antagonist AD, Hand Of Mercy at Phoenix Youth Center Hell City Glamours, Front End Loader, My Dynamite at Cherry Bar
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STEVE VAI TO TOUR IN JULY
Guitar god Steve Vai will be back in July for his first full solo show since 2004. Vai has been back here quite a few times since then, with G3, Zappa Plays Zappa and for a Thump Music master class, but this will be a long overdue chance to see the full Vaistravaganza. Steve’s band for the tour is Dave Weiner on guitar, Jeremy Colson on drums, Philip Bynoe on bass and Michael Arrom on keyboards. He’ll be at The Palais Theatre on Saturday July 13. The My Live Nation Members pre-sale is midday Wednesday until 9am Friday, then the ticket agent pre-sale is Friday May 24 until 5pm Monday May 27. General tickets go on sale Tuesday May 28. Once a concert ticket has been purchased, Vai fans are eligible for a unique and special premium package – the EVO Experience – which includes a meet and greet pass, a Q&A session with Steve Vai, access to sound check, an exclusive EVO Experience laminate and other Vai merchandise items. EVO Experience premium tickets will be available for purchase through Vai’s website, Vai.com. A limited number of EVO Experience tickets are available for each show.
A BREACH OF SILENCE HEAD TO MELBOURNE WITH BORN OF OSIRIS
Brisbane’s A Breach Of Silence are hitting the road and heading to Melbourne next week supporting US rockers Born Of Osiris. The band will play two shows – Thursday May 23 at The Hi-Fi and an all-ages show on Friday May 24 at Phoenix Youth Centre. Tickets from Oztix. A Breach of Silence have effectively created their own type of sound, which fans have dubbed ‘Power Core.’ The five-piece recorded their debut album Dead Or Alive with worldrenowned producers Fredrik Nordstrom and Henrik Udd (In Flames, Bring Me The Horizon, At the Gates, I Killed the Prom Queen).
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ROCK ‘N’ LOAD RETURNS TO THE ESPY On Saturday June 1, the second annual Rock ‘N’ Load Festival returns to The Espy in a big way. The venue’s three rooms will feature some of the best live rock acts from Melbourne and interstate, with over 30 acts across three stages. The bands are – are you ready for this? – Dallas Frasca, The Fumes, King Of The North, The Nerve (single launch), My Secret Circus, Ten Thousand, Massive, Don Fernando, Gay Paris, Dead City Ruins, Battle Axe Howlers, Sudden State, Sheriff, Hotel On Mayfair (EP Launch), Riot In Toytown, Vida Cain, Dive Into Ruin, High Side Driver, Virtue, The Dead Love, Pretty Villain, Destroy She Said, Red Sky Burial, The Human Electric, The Caning, Horsehunter, Animal Hands, Elcaset, DJ Esquire and the Phil Para Band. Tickets are on sale now: $21+bffee from Oztix, the Espy bottleshop, Polyester Records, Greville Records, Fist 2 Face, The Nash (Geelong) and Karova Lounge (Ballarat).
GIG ALERT: THE AMENTA
For the past 11 years, the institution known as The Amenta has steadfastly refused to do anything by the book. With a strong desire for experimentation and the avant garde, and a sadistic pre-occupation with all things ugly, decayed and rotten, the band have consistently released challenging and ground breaking material beginning with Occasus, through to nOn, the multimedia landmark that was Vo1D and the digital EP Chokehold finally arriving with this year’s Flesh Is Heir. The Amenta will perform four visually intense and aurally damaging shows in Australia in July. They’ll be at The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday July 13 with Ouroboros, Whoretopsy and Dead River Runs.
DESTROY MUSIC AA VENUE CHANGED
The Destroy Music 2013 underage venue for Sunday May 26 has switched to the Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckly St, Footscray. Doors open at 1pm, and tickets are available from The HiFi. All current tickets are valid. The tour features The Ghost Inside with special guests Emmure, Antagonist AD and Hand of Mercy. The 18+ event is still at The Hi-Fi on Saturday May 25.
OOPS! – VOROS A few weeks ago I mentioned the band Voros and listed an incorrect gig date. The band don’t currently have any Melbourne shows booked, but watch this space for when they do! Voros are a five-piece Australian metal outfit featuring former members of Double Dragon and A Red Dawn.
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THE TAYLOR PROJECT Showcasing traditional folk instrumentation with their shimmering lap steel, banjo, mandolin and fiddle, and a great country backline , The Taylor Project will be headlining a Sunday evening session at Tago Mago this Sunday May 26. The Taylor Project are joined by Dylan from the up-and-coming local grunge band Iowa and his brother Liam who will be folking it up (and grunging it down) together with the delicate and haunting folk sounds of Zinnia Blue.
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FLYYING COLOURS After a sellout single launch for Wavygravy at the Grace Darling, fuzzy shoegazers Flyying Colours will be spending the next few Thursdays at the Espy Basement with good pals Laughing Leaves and a rotating cast of excellent openers – free entry on Thursday May 23, Thursday May 30 and Thursday June 6.
PURE POP’S TRIPLE TREAT Georgia Fields performs Bowie, Duke Batavia (feat 3RRR ex-breakfaster Ben Birchall on vocals) performs Simon and Garfunkel, and The Need Somebodies perform Iggy & The Stooges (bassist Harry Howard from Crime & the City Solution and These Immortal Souls, both also featuring his older brother Rowland S. Howard; published author and performer Edwina Preston, and Cam Butler from Ron S Peno & The Superstitions, Plague Doctor). This triple treat of summer sound goodness is happening on Friday May 24 at Flying Saucer Club.
MARK SEYMOUR & THE UNDERTOW Having released their album Seventh Heaven Club earlier this year, Mark Seymour & The Undertow are about to embark on a national tour. The album comprises of 12 love songs as written and recorded by other artists that Mark has collected and performed live over the past 14 years as a solo artist with his band, The Undertow. It marks his ninth album release since the disbanding of Hunters & Collectors. Mark Seymour & The Undertow performs at The Hawthorn Hotel on Friday May 31 and at The Ferntree Gully Hotel on Saturday June 1.
KIM VOLKMAN Many years in the making, multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Kim Volkman is pleased and somewhat relieved to officially launch his second album Setting Sun at St Kilda Bowls Club on Saturday May 25 from 7.30pm. He is followed by Los Dominados and James McCann and The New Vindictives, who will also present their debut album. Entry is $15.
WINTER MOON This New Zealand quintet utilise a typical array of modern instruments in accordance with cutes from some of the greatest rock and blues bands of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Their sound has been likened to modern greats like The White Stripes and The Black Keys. Catch them when they hit Cherry Bar on Friday May 24 with Kashmere Club and Avantair. Doors at 5pm and door charge $13 from 8pm ‘til 11pm, then $10 ‘til 5am.
AC/DC ANNIVERSARY AT CHERRY BAR Cherry Bar is hosting one of Melbourne’s most respected tough pub bands The Devilrock Four, as they celebrate the 35th anniversary of the 1978 classic AC/DC album Powerage. On Saturday May 25, guest vocalists Dave Larkin (ex -Dallas Crane), Pat Carmody (My Dynamite) and Chappy (My Left Boot) will join the band in a night of pure rock’n’roll. Tickets are $15 from the venue website, and from the door if still available. Doors at 8pm, with $10 entry after 11pm with DJ Mermaid ‘til 5am.
OVERDRIVE It’s Lounge Bar’s garage-rock-punk-swamp-psych night, and if that collection of genres has made you curious, Thursday nights just got a lot more interesting. With loud and live garage bands and DJs, concrete jungle fashionistas and musos can rejoice. There’s cheap booze and entry is free from 10pm. Beat Magazine Page 54
POTATO CAKE MINI FEST It’s a girl infested band night with wildly attractive hedonists The Infants, angst-driven Mangelwurzel, primitive Wet Lips, Bricks Are Heavy, Beloved Elk and Gunk. It’s happening on Saturday May 25 at The Public Bar from 7pm, and it’s only $10. You can party the night away with DJs Blaberunner, Draw 4 and Grace K.
Puns aplenty at The Spotted Mallard, as The Livingstone Daisies play for Good Beer week on Friday May 24 with Saint Jude and The Blown Cones. They’ve toured the country, played festivals such as Gumball and Apollo Bay, but this will be their last appearance before the release of their next full length studio album. Doors at 8.30pm and entry is $20 (which also gets you a free pot of craft beer).
ECHO DRAMA Melbourne nine-piece dub/reggae heavyweights Echo Drama will be shaking The Evelyn floor once more with a scorching Tuesday night residency in May. Built on a rock solid foundation of reggae rhythms and dub aesthetic, Echo Drama manoeuvre intricately through elements of hip hop, dancehall and drum and bass in an untiring commitment to push the boundaries of urban and roots music. Special guests for the opening night of the residency are psychedelic groove rock act Lamarama and funk/soul dudes Up Up Away. 8.30pm, $3.
SHAKY STILLS After taking some time to craft some new songs and work up their latest record Cold Hand Warm Heart, Shaky Stills are back and armed with new members. They've enlisted Jarrod Bayliss, who played the tubs on the outfit's You And Me record, and a new bass player in their old friend Justin Ossher. Now with four singers in the mix, Shaky Stills' harmonies are sounding cleaner than ever and they're ready to tread the boards once again. Shaky Stills are playing a Sunday afternoon residency throughout the month of May at The Edinburgh Castle, bringing their good times alt-country and blues from 4pm 'til 7pm with free entry.
STEVE SEDERGREEN BAND Saxophonist Anton Delecca may be best known as a member of popular funk/R&B outfit The Bamboos, but he is also a masterful jazz player who performs compelling original music with his band. As heard on their new CD, The Ark, their music is contemporary jazz informed by influences from African, Latin and folk music. Pianist Steve Sedergreen has been linked throughout his career with the band Mistaken Identity. For his current CD, Points In Time, the focus shifts to his talents as soloist and composer, supported by an all-star band. The Steve Sedergreen Band and Anton Delecca Quartet perform at Chapel Off Chapel on Wednesday May 22.
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Nth Wheel is Mark Hewitt’s home recording project, hitting The Public Bar for a one-off live show as a fourpiece band to launch a second album on cassette. It fuses cold meditation and analogue warmth, with longer and slower songs than on 2010’s Monochrome Dawn. Joining them will be doused and already championed band The Stevens, along with Kiwi rap punks Encounter Group. It all kicks off on Friday May 24 at 8.30pm for only $8.
SUNSET BLUSH/SLAQUER Sunset Blush will be teaming up with stylin’ punk-kids The Antoinettes and Slaquer. There will be no extra cheese on the menu tonight, for the garage will be critically demolished. With some serious pop-punk action that will leave the Vatican thinking DAAAAAAAAAAMN! Check it before you wreck it, and get ready for some serious slamming! It’s at 9pm on Thursday May 30 at Yah Yah's.
After 20 years together, the Jex Saarelaht Trio (with bassist Philip Rex and drummer Niko Schauble) is one of the premier piano trios in Australian jazz. They combine collective certainty with individual flexibility, while exploring compositions by the leader or other pianist-composers like Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk and Geri Allen. Perhaps the most internationally experienced artist on the Australian jazz scene, Sydney-based pianist Mike Nock is always keen to explore new performance situations. He is especially excited about this opportunity to perform with two of Melbourne’s most imaginative improvisers Julien Wilson (saxophone) and Stephen Magnusson (guitars). They perform at Chapel Off Chapel on Thursday May 23.
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This alternative music project brings original and interesting compositions to a mainstream scene. With electronic and acoustic elements alongside a classic rock showmanship, Duende are revitalising the music scene. Check them out at The Public Bar tonight with Myyth and Wolf from 8.30pm. Entry is $5.
In conjunction with Young Henry’s Brewery and Good Beer Week’s Rockstar Brews series, Hell City Glamours will be gracing Cherry Bar once again on Sunday May 26 to ring in the closing Good Beer Week party, along with the mighty Front End Loader and Melbourne’s My Dynamite. It kicks off at 8pm, so come on down and enjoy the atmosphere, as each band will have their own collaboration brew on tap, specially brewed to each band’s recipe to keep the palate and ears happy all night long.
Two of Australia’s foremost jazz maestros, James Morrison and Joe Chindamo, will return to the stage where they played together for the first time in. James Morrison, the multi-instrumental wizard who excels on trumpet, trombone, saxophone and numerous other instruments, has played with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie to Gene Harris, and has earned worldwide acclaim. Joe has worked with such jazz greats as Ray Brown and Graeme Lyall and has also enjoyed acclaim abroad. As demonstrated on their double CD set from 2006, 2x2, they are a well-matched pair, sharing prodigious technique, imagination and a playful sense of fun and spontaneity. Witness them live at the Malvern Town Hall on Friday May 24.
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THE UNION PACIFIC They describe themselves as “the soundtrack to your summer” (even in autumn), so take a break from this rainy weather, and catch The Union Pacific playing catchy tunes at The Old Bar on Saturday May 25. With support from Ceres, Split Cities (WA), Bear The Mammoth and DJ Dan Lewis, for $10 this sounds like a great way to kick off the weekend. It starts from 8.30pm.
MAGIC HANDS The duo formed in late 2011 in a typically smoky and tiny Berlin bar. Alex (Aleks & The Ramps) and lyrical folk songstress Lucy Roleff make the electro dreampop of Magic Hands; inspired by traditional music cultures, the Twin Peaks soundtrack and 808 clap samples with too much reverb. Their debut EP was recorded earlier this year, with first track Golden Boy a taste of what’s to come. Catch them on Wednesdays in May at The Old Bar, because you never know when they’ll go back to Germany. They’ll be playing with Totally Mild and Yama Boy from 8.30pm tonight. Entry is $6.
REDX Hailing from Perth and now residing in Melbourne, RedX includes core members of the disbanded WAMI Awards winning outfit The Joe Kings. When The Joe Kings imploded in true rock'n'roll fashion in mid 2012, Phill Leggett’s side project – RedX – was given full reign and having recruited bassist Riley Watson Russell (ex-The Joe Kings) they began gigging furiously on the Melbourne scene. They are set to make a significant impact Australia-wide with the release of their debut EP and subsequent national tour in May, including their Melbourne launch at The Workers Club on Thursday May 23.
MOUNTAIN AND SWAMP SESSIONS The Gasometer features Craig Woodward & Friends, live old time, string band and Cajun music every Sunday from 3pm ‘til 5pm for free.
CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS Cash Savage & The Last Drinks take the stage of The Old Bar every Sunday in May, and if you haven’t been to a beer soaked Sunday Session with Cash at the helm, then you don’t know what you’re missing out on – your Mondays will definitely be a write-off.
SECOND HAND HEART Critical acclaim has been simmering for the young Melbourne quintet, who have been compared to Big Scary and Local Natives. Their new single Hold On simmers with an arresting melancholy and hypnotic chorus. It has the unique distinction of feeling like a heavy and hardened affair, yet one deceptively ripe for replay. Written between New York and Melbourne, the single sees Second Hand Heart in fine form, cultivating great expectations. The band plays The Workers Club on Wednesday May 29.
THE DUB CAPTAINS Melbourne’s pseudo-reggae staples The Dub Captains return to Bar Open for their first show in months after taking a short break to focus on other projects and continue work on their sophomore album, set for release later this year. As always, they will be supported by three-piece backing vocalists The Baby Dolphins, and the dynamic four-piece Horns Of Freedom. Their music is everything from surf rock to heavy dub. It starts from 10.30pm and get in before the dance floor gets too crowded with overjoyed patrons.
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KATE KELSEY-SUGG A night of original songs from two outstanding singerpianists. Monique diMattina studied at the VCA in the mid 90s, studied and worked in the USA, and released several albums ranging from meditative solo piano improvisations to the jazz-pop blend of Welcome Stranger. Her latest album, Nola’s Ark, was recorded in New Orleans and the original songs draw inspiration from the Crescent City’s gumbo of traditional jazz, blues and R&B. Kate Kelsey-Sugg won many fans with her performances in the National Jazz Awards last year, taking out second prize. She is an accomplished pianist who has recorded with instrumental groups led by her father, Andy Sugg. She also formed her own jazz-informed indie-pop band, KKS. This concert will put more emphasis on Kate’s skills as a jazz singer and pianist. Monique di Mattina and Kate Kelsey-Sugg perform at Chapel Off Chapel on Friday May 24.
THEM SWOOPS Melbourne’s Them Swoops are thrilled to announce the release of their debut EP Glimmers out June 14. To celebrate they’ll be playing the Northcote Social Club on Saturday June 15 for the official EP Launch, and if Swoops’ last sold out headline show is anything to go by, fans better get in quick. From unknown triple j Unearthed winners plucked from obscurity to selling out their debut headline show, to supporting the likes of The Maccabees, Ball Park Music, Birds of Tokyo, and The Rubens, the EP will be a taste of things to come from their forthcoming album. They’re supported on the night by The Greasers.
SUPER WILD HORSES Super Wild Horses duo Amy Franz and Hayley McKee will launch their new album Crosswords at The Tote on Friday May 31, after spending 2012 with producer Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control) to complete the record. Their famed lo-fi garage style expanded with extra instrumentation, percussion and vocals with the help of friends Liam Kenny (Bitch Prefect, Peak Twins) and Rick Milovanovic (Boomgates, Twerps). Since their 2010 debut album Fifteen, Super Wild Horses have played an array of national festivals, as well as earned invitations to tour with Foo Fighters, The Drones and Thee Oh Sees. Doors are open 9pm and door charge applies.
SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE Cinemaniacs and Fangoria take over The Tote once again on Saturday May 25. It’s a sleepover, but don’t expect to make it home in one piece, with a screening of the rock’n’roll sequel to Amy Holden’s masterpiece Slumber Party Massacre. The Tarantinos play tunes from cult favourites Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. There’ll be drinks and cocktails in this night for gory glory. Doors are at 7pm and door charges apply.
RAISED BY EAGLES Superb alt-country-bluegrass-rock-pop-crossover band led by Luke Sinclair (The Idle Hoes) and featuring Nick O'Mara (Fingerbone Bill), Luke Richardson (The Stetson Family) and Johnny Gibson (Van Walker Band). They play four fat Saturdays of gold at The Union Hotel from 5pm this month.
LIZ STRINGER It’s the 72nd birthday of Bob Dylan this Sunday May 26, and The Drunken Poet is rapt to be hosting two of this town’s finest songwriters to celebrate. Kicking off the day at 4pm are Burnie, Van and Cal Walker, followed by Liz Stringer at 6.30pm. These aren’t names that require much introducing in the songwriting stakes, so don’t miss out.
HEADPHONE PIRACY St Kilda’s Espy Basement is going to become submerged in hip hop as Headphone Piracy makes the journey from Adelaide to play Boom the Base this Saturday May 25. They’re eclectic and ready to make The Espy dizzy, along with Melbourne’s own nine-piece dub core masters The High Society, Kaw Kaw and the Mahasoni, Speech Therapy, Krave Kemistry and more
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BRIDGEWATER Bridgewater have developed an interactive video experience using smart phone technology to involve the audience in their live shows. To celebrate the launch of their new music video for Get Down, check out Bridgewater perform two sets at The Cornish Arms this Friday May 24 from 10pm. Don't forget your smart phone.
TASTE OF INDIE COLLECTIVE The Taste Of Indie Collective is a loosely weaved collective of some of Melbourne’s best established and up-and-coming original indie music artists, from solo singer-songwriter types to bands and everything in between. The Taste Of Indie Collective are working with The Eureka Hotel in Richmond to present a series of shows throughout May, June and July, starting on Saturday May 25, all in the name of supporting great indie artists. The very first lineup of talent sees Bob Crain & Brooke Taylor, trio Acoustic Foxx & The Temple of Tunes and the band Storyhorse taking to the newly refurbished band room. Free entry.
THE ZONKS United in all their rugged beauty; pop and rock, boys and girls, the charming and affronting are to grace the upstairs band-room, for a while one night. Jimmy Tait offers listeners a journey of heartbreak and hope; building from the silence and space of their country past to the bedlam and noise of the city where they now reside. HOY blends folk and rock with three-part harmonies to render new sounds, and they’re giving away their new single Get Some Sleep with each door entry! The gazing tones and savage upholstery of The Zonks will knock yer' cotton socks off. These bands play at The Gasometer on Thursday May 30. Entry is $8.
TULLY ON TULLY Peppered with thoughtful imagery and poetic descriptions Melbourne five-piece Tully On Tully are set to play at The B.East on Thursday May 30, joined by guests Mercians and Halcyon Drive. With glowing live reviews and praise for recent singles Naked and Stay, Tully On Tully’s progressive folk pop, infectious vocals and subtle dark side is infecting fans everywhere.
ON SIERRA On Sierra have been creeping up on everyone’s radars since shocking over 200 people at The Red-Tape Records Launch Party with their acid space break-funk. They’re about to release their new EP, Music To Crack Safes To, and to celebrate they’re throwing a launch party at The Grace Darling Hotel on Saturday June 1. Support comes from Cat Or Pillar, Lopaka and Solaires, doors at 9pm and entry is $10.
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Assembled from the scrap-heap of several prolific Australian metal bands, The Schoenberg Automaton are a mouthful and earful of binding technical death metal. With the early release of their debut LP Vela, the band have created an album of pulsating and devastating original compositions that live up to the hype. They will be joined by House Of Thumbs, who are launching their EP, Ouroboros, and Whoretopsy. This heavy handed crew will play at The Bendigo on Friday May 24.
Rain Factory are playing a free show in The Reverence Hotel band room on Saturday May 25. It's going to be a massive party. Supports come from Mansions of Sorrow and Goatherders. Show starts at 8pm sharp.
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MOTH The four-piece from Melbourne are fuelled by the rage and an animosity of humanity. Imagine an orgy between Kyuss, Bolt Thrower, Down, Clutch, Meshuggah and Napalm Death. Moth will play at The Bendigo this Thursday May 23 with Riff Fist, Child and System Of Venus.
IDLE HANDS Melbourne's Idle Hands will be releasing their new EP this Friday May 24 at The Reverence Hotel. Joining them for the party will be One Vital Word from Newcastle, Up and Atom, Fractures and Altered States. Go and chuck a stage dive.
Melbourne party favourite El Moth have been hard at work the last few months recording and mixing their debut studio effort. The six-track EP showcases the unique rockin' reggae stylings the band is known for, and also ventures into some exciting new songwriting territory. The boys will launch their highly anticipated debut EP on Saturday May 25 at The Evelyn Hotel with support from local favourites Kooyeh and Keshie. The night will also feature special performances from Vicky Blackthorn and Hayley Hoopla. $10 on the door or $20 with the EP, or book your tickets with Moshtix.
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Foxtrot are the friendliest punks in Melbourne. Fact. Ask anyone. And you really can ask anyone because chances are in their two-plus years on the live circuit they've played with your band or your friend's band – they pretty much never turn down a gig. Even though they could probably afford to, having recently played top billings at All Tomorrow's Shoeys, The Public Bar's Easterpalooza and being regular stage-sharers with The Bennies. This Saturday May 25 sees them launch their debut LP Gone Fishin' at The Bendigo Hotel in true Foxtrot style, with an under-the-sea themed party, complete with lovingly crafted homemade decorations (seriously, they've constructed papier-mâché fish piñatas) and discounted merch for the die-hard fans. Supported by good mates and inimitable wildcards, Clowns, Maricopa Wells and Daybreak, it's going to be a riot.
Craig Woodward of Headbelly Buzzard, among other bands, brings his weekly jam session to The Vic Hotel every Saturday afternoon from 4pm. You can join in musically and bring an instrument, or just hang out and take in the atmosphere.
Anna’s go-go classes are great fun, an excellent cardio workout, and have been described as 'inspiring”, “a retro hit parade…everything from Elvis’s Jailhouse Rock to AC/DC’s Jailbreak”, and a “high energy dance party with the hostess with the mostest”. Now with two classes every Thursday night at The Vic Hotel from 6.30pm and 8pm. Entry is $10.
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MUSTERED COURAGE Mustered Courage's new album Powerlines was just released last week. It was produced by ARIA Award winning producer Jimi Maroudas (The Living End, Eskimo Joe, Kimbra and Pete Murray). Last year saw the band play every major folk festival in the nation, gaining a reputation along the way for being one of the hottest, exciting and innovative bluegrass bands in the country. Don’t miss your chance to see them on Sunday May 26 at Prince Public Bar for free at 6pm.
Unity Floors are heading back down from Sydney to play their first Victorian show in a while with friends Full Ugly, new duo See Saw and Working Girls. They’ll be playing some tunes off their upcoming LP out later this year on Popfrenzy. Unity Floor play at The Gasometer, Saturday May 25, 8pm with $8 entry.
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This one’s for all of those collectors out there who love memorabilia, because Rolling Stone Australia are releasing 150 of the greatest covers spanning over four decades. The exhibition is touring the country and can be seen at The Yarra Ranges Regional Museum until Sunday July 7. With an original masthead designed by the late, great psychedelic artist Rick Griffin, stunning photography and illustration by luminaries including Annie Leibovitz and Ralph Steadman, and the work of stellar art directors, Rolling Stone’s covers have become as iconic as the stars that feature on them. This is the only place in Victoria the covers will be on show and the exhibition is also completely free.
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THE CLITS The Clits have a residency in May at The Tote every Wednesday and tonight support comes from The Bonniwells, The Pink Tiles and Seesaw. Doors are from 8pm and door charge applies.
I KNOW THE CHIEF I Know The Chief is the lovechild of former indie band Passport. Describing their euphoric sound as 'jungle disco', these five young men have already undergone a rollercoaster in their music journey. Drawing upon influences such as Two Door Cinema Club, Twinsy and Phoenix, they set out to move the needle on the Australian music culture. They’re playing a Wednesday residency at The Evelyn throughout May.
WIL WAGNER Wil Wagner (The Smith Street Band) will be doing a Sunday residency at The Reverence Hotel for the whole of May. After non-stop touring over the last couple of years, which saw The Smith Street Band winning fans all over the world, somehow Wil Wagner found time to write and record a solo album earlier this year. He has promised to only play bangers at all these shows, and will be supported by Corey Price (NSW), Terror and Tam, and Luke Thomas. Starts at 3pm each week, and is of course totally free.
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ROCK N LOAD RETURNS The second annual Rock N Load Festival returns to The Espy on Saturday June 1 with a massive 30 acts over three stages. The Espy will feature some of the best live rock acts from Melbourne and interstate, including Dallas Frasca, The Fumes, The Nerve (featuring Ezekiel Ox and Lucius Borich), King Of The North, Ten Thousand, My Secret Circus, Massive, Gay Paris, Don Fernando, Dead City Ruins, Vida Cain, Riot In Toytown, Sudden State, The Dead Love, Sheriff, Virtue and heaps more. Tickets are sure to sell fast, so get ‘em now via Oztix and from The Espy. Check out rocknloadfestival. com for the line-up and ticketing details.
They’ve been compared to The Smiths, Radiohead and Jeff Buckley, as well as new talent like Beach House and My Morning Jacket. Aircrafte have worked with producer Malcolm Besley, who has produced the likes of Snakadaktal, Gold Fields, Millions and Northeast Party House. Needless to say, they’re in good company, so watch this space! Their two track demo with songs Like A King and Revelation will tear up the floor at The Retreat on Saturday May 25 from 10pm, with support from Underground Hound and DJ Shamikazi ‘til late.
The mammoth 17-piece afro-beat group are a sight to behold when in full flight! Catch them when they play at The Espy Front Bar on Saturday May 25 from 9.30pm, joined by Papa Chango and Karate Boogalo (rhythm section of The Cactus Channel).
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Mel Wilkinson’s folk artistry takes The Empress Hotel by storm on Friday May 24 with the launch of her debut EP Nightcap Ranges. She will perform original material with a broad range of instrumentation from her EP which is beautifully rich in diversity, as it paints a picture of the NSW Byron Region; a place close to her heart. Support acts for the night are the talented Tim Guy and Andrew Healey.
Musikunst presents a real time investigation of spaciousness through sound and improvised performance with 20-20,000Hz. With some of Melbourne’s most ectoplasmic sound artists including Nat Grant, Vijay Thillaimuthu, Stephen Richards, Todd Anderson-Kunert, Owen Harris, Matt Refund and Richie Cyngler, this will be an innovative evening to explore sound, collaboration and abstraction. It’s at The Great Britain Hotel on Thursday May 25 from 4pm with $5/$10 entry.
Dear Stalker promise to cure your Mondayitis on Monday May 27, as they’re set to blaze Lounge Bar with a special acoustic set, joined by Lesha and Dub Dementia. Following a string of recent rock shows, the group’s sweet guitar driven sounds, and tracks from their forthcoming album, this gig is the perfect way to start your week. It’s free, with $10 parmas and drink specials on offer.
AL DUVALL New York’s greatest talent of the last nine centuries revisits Melbourne with his busted banjo and wrong wit in a show not to be missed! A grandchild of the Great Depression, Duvall was one of many unemployed musicians in 1932, sent via time machine into the future to find work as part of the WPA program. He’s bringing his charm and musicianship to The Old Bar for one show only on Thursday May 23, with support from Gasoline Stew & The Dump, Dane Certificate Magic Show and BJ Morriszonkle. Doors are from 8pm and it’s only $12.
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UNION ROYALE When you combine Shane Reilly on pedal steel and vocals (Tex Perkins, Blue Sun) Simon Burke on keys (Mia Dyson, Something For Kate) and Toby Lang on drums (ex-Audreys, Kate Nash) you get a whole lot of Buck Owens to Bowie. The intimate Sunday sessions at The Retreat start at 4.30pm and are free.
THE VOLCANIKS The Volcaniks are known for their full-tilt, reverb driven surf instrumental tunes, such as their internationally-known Pumpin’ At The Pines and Tiki Hoki. They’ll be playing with Voodoo Swamp Daddies and with their garage swamp and stomp surf sound, expect a lot of trashabilly energy. It’s happening at The Great Britain Hotel on Saturday May 25 from 9pm, free entry.
FREE TIME Free Time launch their debut album this Friday May 24 at the Tote. Free Time formed in New York around Melbourne's Dion Nania, formerly of the much loved Panel Of Judges. It's just Dion briefly back in town so he's drafted an all-star lineup to launch the record: Julian Patterson, Ian Wadley and Jon Michell. Also playing on the night is Bitch Prefect (first show in ages) and Miss Destiny (first show ever). Some Beaches gals will provide tunes between bands. Free Time's self-titled LP is out on Underwater Peoples worldwide on Tuesday May 28. This show will the first chance to get your hands on a copy.
ALEX & THE SHY LASHLIES Alex & The Shy Lashlies will headline at The Great Britain Hotel as part of their May residency. With harmonies to die for, they will explore all things rambling alt-country. ‘The Shy Lashlies’ comprise of individuals who are all very strong solo performers, but together make something truly unique. We have a very special guest performer providing support, so special they don’t even know who they are yet, so keep tuned to The Great Britain Hotel’s website. This free show is on Sunday May 26 at 8pm.
GO GENRE EVERYTHNG They’re eccentric-pop royalty, so don’t miss your chance to see Go Genre Everything at Yah Yah’s on Friday May 24. It’s their tenth anniversary show, and they will no doubt remind us how boring it is when they’re not playing. Joining the tribe will be Bodies and Astral Sunrise. It promises to be an explosion of one of Melbourne’s favourite bludgeoning brigades. Entry is free.
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Q&A DRU CHEN
Define your genre in five words or less: Melbourne R&B/soul singer-songwriter. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? A modern day soul singer who takes his cues from old doo-wop groups (The Temptations), ‘80s funk-pop (Prince, Michael Jackson) and modern visionaries (Kimbra, Miguel). What can a punter expect from your live show? A 21st century high-energy funk show complete with raging guitar solos, beatboxing, on-the-fly vocal sampling, sharp horns, soul-sangin' backgrounds, and a tight rhythm section. When are you doing your thing next? I am launching Intentions EP on Sunday May 26 at The Toff in Town with supporting acts The Bon Scotts and Al Parkinson. This show kicks off my east coast Australian tour that will take me to Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Maroochydore, Byron Bay and Aireys Inlet. Intentions EP is available now on druchen.net, iTunes, and bandcamp. Describe the best gig you have ever played. On the previous tour (Singapore/Malaysia), we performed at Mosaic Music Festival and the audience participation was mind blowing. Everyone was with me and I felt the music connecting on another level, like the Parliament-Funkadelic song One Nation Under A Groove. It was incredible.
Tell us about the last song you wrote. Turnaround shows my experimental hip hop side as I deliberately performed the parts so far behind the beat, it’s almost off, creating a staggering "drunk on your love" groove. Beginning with a bitter breakup lyric asking 'Will you find peace of mind after all we've been through?' the dark tune makes an optimistic turn in the chorus beckoning the ex-lover to 'turn around.' I opened my voice up completely on this track, stretching three octaves from an earthy tenor to a stratospheric falsetto in the final chorus. What's your favourite song, and why? Intentions EP's lead single You Bring Out The Best In Me is my favourite because of its duality: what music and a woman can bring out in me. The music video is a Melburnian homage to James Brown, Motown and Soul Train directed by Edwin Tejoz. We shot it in Northcote and it contains some supremely funky choreography by Aisha Kuryana (Kimbra, All The Colours, Guy Sebastian). I am very lucky to see it getting picked up by radio internationally (Triple R, PBS106.7FM, 4ZZZ, Northern, Southern FM Australia, 93.8fm Singapore, WKCR89.9 New York) and the music video garnering over 15,000 views in one month. If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be? I would love to tour with The Bamboos. Their drummer Graeme Pogson actually performed all over Intentions EP. Anything else to add? After my East Coast Australian Tour, I will be working on the music video for Turnaround, which will be the second single off Intentions EP. I will then be heading over to Asia to tour for the rest of 2013, before returning to Australia for the summer festivals in 2014!
MANSION ALASKA Mansion Alaska cast their musical net wide, combining elements of psych-rock, folk and post-rock. The quintet cite bands such as Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala and Seekae amongst their influences, and teamed up with wunderkind Simon Lam (I’lls) late last year to release their eponymous debut EP. Mansion Alaska will take stage at The Grace Darling on Saturday May 25 with support from Cold Hiker, Geryon and The Townhouses. Entry is $8 and doors from 9pm.
FIREBIRD Firebird are a red hot ‘no holds barred’ blues and rockabilly trio, who take their musical cues from The Rolling Stones, Stray Cats, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Such diverse influences make their high-octane sound distinctly their own. They will be supported by Matt Dwyer & The Magnatones; Dwyer has been wowing audiences locally and overseas for almost 20 years, with their jazz swing and surf in a class of its own. It’s on Friday May 24 at The Retreat, with DJ Sean Simmons on ‘til late.
THE SPINNING ROOMS Before their performance at the upcoming ATP Festival, The Spinning Rooms crank out a close and intimate set at The Gaso this Friday May 24. Brat Farrar has just returned from spending 2012 on tour in Europe and returns to Melbourne stages with a new live band. Also playing on the night will be crazy Tasmaniacs Ivy St and Them Nights. Doors at 8pm, $10 entry.
BRENT MCMULLEN One time guitarist, keys and tambourine player with Melbourne pop/rockers EVEN, Brent McMullen has hardly played his songs live since Voxsound's final tour in the UK in 2004. Many adventures and much songwriting later he is finally back. Continuing in the vein of aforementioned groups, Brent's new material is a Beatles-meets-Oasis sound, yet for his upcoming solo acoustic shows, some gentle, tender ballads will appear. Catch him at The Retreat on Tuesday May 28 from 7.30pm.
THE BLUEBOTTLES They’re all about wild chicks, hot cards, big waves and frantic rock’n’roll, so don’t miss out on seeing The Bluebottles when they play at The Retreat on Sunday May 26 with support from Pink Tiles. These guys haven’t slowed down since forming in the summer of 2011, rising to fantastic heights in the Australian rock scene. Wherever they go kids are shaking their bodies in a crazed, free-wheeling fashion, cutting loose to the unhinged beat.
TEK TEK ENSEMBLE The festive ensemble are a mini-orchestra of three guys and three girls playing trumpet, trombone, violins, percussion, guitars, double bass, piano accordion and vocals. Their strict danceability will have you captivated, so head on down to The Spotted Mallard, where they play every Thursday evening from 9pm.
JUNGLE JUICE It’s an afternoon of funk afro vibes, voodoo rhythms and soulful sounds. Three of Melbourne’s finest emerging acts, Ultravibralux, The Afrobiotics and That Gold Street Sound, will play a Sunday matinee show at The Evelyn on Sunday May 26, with video projections by The Djangonauts. The show starts at 1pm and finishes at 4pm, so don’t miss the chance to see these bands in full swing.
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BRITISH INDIA In addition to a recent sold out performance at the Corner Hotel, and a show at Geelong’s Wool Exchange, Melbourne quartet British India have added ten more dates to their Controller tour, including three more Victorian dates. Controller is the band’s fourth album, featuring triple j Hottest 100 hit I Can Make You Love Me. The band’s extra dates are Friday May 24 at the Pelly Bar in Frankston and Saturday May 25 at the Ferntree Gully Hotel. Tickets for all shows are on sale now via the Oztix website.
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What can a punter expect from your live show? Dancing, booze and good times!
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What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our debut EP will be released through Session Records/MGM in May which we are very exited about. What's the strangest place you've ever played a gig, or made a recording? Strangest in a good way! We played a backyard music festival in Ripponlea called Rippinfest with multiple bands on two stages with a skate ramp and it was off the planet! A week later there was a big write up in the Herald Sun about the neighbours complaining it was "like sitting in row three at a rock concert". RIPPINLIFE!.....I also recorded all the vocals for the EP in Eddie’s toilet.
Define your genre in five words or less: New new wave, garage goth.
What makes a good musician? Someone who is dedicated to their instrument and writing good songs and not wanting to be an egotistical dickhead.
How long have you been gigging and writing? We’re now entering our second year.
How long have you been gigging and writing? We’re all from Perth originally and came to Melbourne in 2012 as part of an established Perth band called The Joe Kings. That band imploded in true rock‘n’roll fashion in mid 2012 which kickstarted RedX, so to actually answer the question – just under a year. When’s the gig and with who? Thursday May 23 at The Workers Club in Fitzroy with support from the Trash Fairys and Matt Glass. That date is part of a national tour kicking off in May. Beat Magazine Page 58
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Why should everyone come and see your band? Because we’re unique in a music scene where this is rare. Our live shows are intense and passionate and we mean what we say.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Horrible personal experiences, revenge. We don’t know how to bottle up our emotions like normal people. What part of making music excites you the most? Creating something of beauty and meaning in the presence of complete strangers. Onstage it’s impossible to hide. When’s the gig and with who? We’re playing at Overdrive at Lounge with P. Bibby on Thursday May 23. Come down!
MIGHTIEST OF GUNS The band will be letting loose a barrage of their noisy and dark western epics at The Retreat on Thursday May 23. The no-frills garage outfit are everything that’s wrong with sweet and innocent country bands. Joining them is Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood, who are a blues army not so sweet themselves. Come and dance to the pounding of his jack boot from 8pm.
MATTEO PRIANTE This Thursday May 23, the surrounds of The Drunken Poet will be ably filled with sound by two impressive and musically varied young local chaps. Recently returning to town after numerous years busking the street corners of the globe, Matteo Priante’s rumbling folk is immediately arresting. A name perhaps more familiar is that of Jules Sheldon. After an impressive debut in 2011, Jules has been concentrating more on working with a band. A rare solo show for a real talent. It kicks off at 8pm.
AKTION UNIT
DANCING HEALS
Rene Schaefer (The Bites, Hand Hell, Map Ends) and ex-pat Aucklander Dan Lewis formed Aktion Unit in 2007. They have since spent the ensuing half-decade in relative obscurity, quietly releasing a stream of CD-Rs into the DIY abyss. Their new CD-R Responsibility features collaborations with members of NZ punk heroes Toy Love and Japanese art-pop group My Pal Foot Foot, among others. They play The Tote on Thursday May 23, with support from Mad Nanna, Von Einem and False Maturity. Doors at 9pm.
After a bumper 2012 that ended on a high, thanks to the news of Arts Victoria funding their second album, Melbourne-based indie rock outfit Dancing Heals have emerged from the studio and are ready to hit the road for an east coast tour in support of their brand new LP, You Will Never Be Younger Than You Are Now, due for release on July 5. A favourite on Melbourne’s live circuit over the past three years, the four-piece will launch the LP at The Workers Club on Saturday July 27.
BRAVE FACE Melbourne's Brave Face have teamed up with First Love Records and are pleased to announce the release of their sophomore single, Any Other Love and its launch show. With its jogging synthlaced paisley guitar-pop, Any Other Love stays true to its DIY aesthetic and delivers as much playful joy as it does devastation. It's the second official release from their self-titled debut album, out now, which stays true to the band’s knack for breezy pop tunes, organic guitars and dreamy percussion. Catch Brave Face’s single launch on Thursday May 23 at The Toff In Town with support from Willow and Jackson McLaren
LLOYD SPIEGEL Australian blues legend Lloyd Spiegel has toured relentlessly for the past 20 years. Quite literally growing up in the music scene and touring the world while most kids were at school has resulted in a unique story and a life-long connection to the blues. A veteran in his early 30s, Lloyd is one of the most influential blues artists and most respected guitarists in the country, recently being named in Australian Guitar Magazine’s list of the top 50 Australian guitarists of all time. He launches his two signature model guitars as part of his guitar line through Cole Clark Guitars at The Velvet Room (Thornbury Theatre) this Friday May 24.
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MANIFEST AT THE CORNER Introducing the ugly cousin of Saltar Hype Entertainment's 'At The Corner' events: Manifest At The Corner. On Friday May 24, nine brutal Melbourne acts will thrash it out over The Corner Hotel's two stages. Prepare to have your face melted as King Parrot, Dreadaught, Elm Street, Bronson, Voltera, Contrive, They, Cold Divide and Diprosus all light up The Corner Hotel. Tickets $16+bf on sale now from the Corner Box Office or website.
ANIMAUX They’re a seven-piece pop-funk machine that have been handpicked to support The Cat Empire twice. With festivals and residencies under their belt, Animaux are returning with their stellar performance on Sunday June 2 at Prince Public Bar. With support from Sportsmen, expect to boogie on down with new tracks, old dance floor fillers (and maybe a cheeky cover or two). The best part is it’s free, so don’t miss out.
LITTLE KILLING With their sonic meltdowns and fuzzed-out riffs, Little Killing return to the scene with a free afternoon show at The Tote on Saturday May 25. Before the evening’s festivities kick off, check out this group who have a reputation for their krautrock inspired rhythms, dreamy keyboards and dizzy harmonies. There’s a free BBQ and it’s free entry. Doors open at 4pm with support from Holy Lotus.
LUNARS Music? Magic? Magical music. Lunars play Dane Certificate's Friday night variety show in Brunswick, on the night will be an assortment of art, music and magicians, all played out in an unpredictable manner within five kooky walls. The scary door opens Friday May 24 at 8pm.
OWEN CAMPBELL He created a buzz with packed showcases in LA, and having recently completed his second album The Pilgrim, singer/songwriter Owen Campbell has announced he will embark on a national tour in May and June. He will perform at The Spotted Mallard with Anabelle Kay on Saturday May 25 from 9.30pm.
DRU CHEN
FARROW
ALI E.
Melbourne R&B/soul singer-songwriter Dru Chen is kicking off his east coast tour for his new EP, Intentions, at The Toff In Town on Sunday May 26. Complete with raging guitar solos, sharp horns, soulsangin' backgrounds, and a tight rhythm section, Dru Chen is bringing his trademark pop-savvy funk show to Melbourne after doing a Singapore/Malaysia tour and releasing the EP’s lead single, You Bring Out The Best In Me. Don't miss this opportunity to catch Dru Chen and band along with support from earthy roots/pop songstress Al Parkinson and partying folkrockers The Bon Scotts. Tickets through Moshtix.
With influences from Bon Iver, The xx and Passion Pit, Farrow were born out of last year’s winter, emerging from late nights spent recording at an inner-city apartment. The six members (seven in live shows) play intimate and epic music that combines guitars, synth, and brass to create a unique blend of folk, electronic and rock. Jeremy Hunter (ex-Inland Sea) and Cider Tree Kids support the band when they play on Friday May 31 at Prince Public Bar.
Ali E. will be supported by M. Antonio and Pink Lips at The Public Bar on Thursday May 23 in a night of moody indie melodies and new wave. Fresh out of the studio, M. Antonio will be playing new material at the show. Doors open at 8.30pm.
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THE SHARDS The Shards hit The Gasometer on Thursday May 23 with killer support from Zone Out and The Townhouses. Bands, bands, bands – loud, soft, slow, fast, chilled and anxious! Doors at 8pm, $5 entry.
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Tom Carlyon and Conrad Standish deviate from their past work in The Devastations and venture into lush, Lynchian territory for their debut album as Standish/Carlyon. It’s more on the level of HTRK, but with a wink and nudge to lighter, retro sounds. HTRK’s Jonnine Standish jumps in for lead vocals on Deleted Scene’s third track and they are notably less bone-crushing than the intonations on her band’s work, but she still sounds more masculine than her husband’s accompanying falsetto. This kind of subtle twisting of the norm is a common trait, and a big part of the appeal, of these ten songs. Deleted Scenes takes the listener on a neon-strip cruise that’s slowed down to a bass-heavy crawl, so you can see all the grime in the alley cracks and the faceless lurkers hiding in the shadows of a lurid fantasyland. It imagines a high-end, glamorous lifestyle which fills a gaping, vacuous void with excess, while dark, disturbing thoughts bubble beneath its meticulously controlled surface. “You don’t want my love” is the key lyric of the excellent Nono/Yoyo, one of a couple of songs where the object of affection is busy talking to someone else on the phone, while being watched by their lover. This lack of engagement and obsession with materialism/objects is all in line with the hollow bigness of the ‘80s, though the unremitting excess is met with a cool, clinical “How do you make it... stop?” in opening song, Critics Multiply. The influence of this dollar-chasing decade is echoed in the music, with its big slaps of funky bass, ice-cold synths and industrial drum machines. Standish and Carylon often work in completely separate cities (Melbourne, London) and you feel the influence of gritty urban life throughout the album, its lurid tales glossed up by an international, high-flying sheen. There are various references to cities and countries in the lyrics, often with a surreal edge: Nono/Yoyo goes from Soho to Kyoto, Gucci Mountain gets jinxed in Jamaica and Moves, Moves grooves to “chocolate Labradors in Tokyo.”
1. Trouble Will Find Me THE NATIONAL 2. Deleted Scenes STANDISH CARLYON 3. Night Faces JESSICA PRATT 4. I’m Glad You’re Still Here LEAKS 5. Spring Street EASTLINK 6. Fakin’ NYC SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING 7. Enough Latitude To Notice SEAPORT & THE AIRPORT 8. Memorium MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS 9. Dreamhouse DEAFHEAVEN The duo are unified in their sound and you can’t detect any disconnect that might result from their long-distance musical relationship, though Carlyon’s instrumentals are more than a match for the songs with vocals. The album’s two sides (to think in vinyl terms), are both closed by nonvocal compositions that recall the moody grandeur of Bowie’s Low. The strength of these two tracks suggests that an album’s worth of instrumentals would be an equally compelling proposition. The title Deleted Scenes is a great match for a collection that feels cinematic, but lurches away from the main action to the murkier sidelines, where more interesting things are happening. It’s a slick, sleazy and very satisfying collaborative work. CHRIS GIRDLER Best Track: Nono/Yoyo If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Marry Me Tonight HTRK, Confess TWIN SHADOW, Ex Tropical LOST ANIMAL In A Word: Deviant
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Disregard what it says down below, single of the week is actually It’s My Life by Cezar. Romania was robbed.
DIZZEE RASCAL FEAT. ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Goin’ Crazy (Liberator) An unlikely collaboration that makes more sense than it should, Goin’ Crazy marks a welcome return to form for Robbie Williams as he commands the bridge and chorus hook – eating up more of the track than the top-billed Dizzee. The man himself performs a few dutiful verses. Not as in-your-face as we’d expect from Mr. Rascal, but a serviceable strain of mainstream British pop.
ALEX CAMERON
She’s Mine (Independent) It’s a little bit surprising to hear Seekae’s Alex Cameron shying away from his full time band’s signature brand pulsating electronica, considering Flume has broken through in a big way to the mainstream with similar sonic characteristics. She’s Mine navigates a stripped-back vintage electro pop backbone, with Cameron’s captivating croon overcoming an at times stunted flow. Reminds me of Twin Shadow (his first album, not the shitty second one).
BAD//DREEMS
Caroline (Mirador) Trying their best to vehemently undo all recent progress in eliminating our country’s tendency for cultural cringe, Adelaide’s Bad//Dreems answer the unasked question – what happens when a mediocre garage band is garnished with a godawful pub-rock vocal style? Infinitely worse than any indie-schlock being pumped out by the national youth broadcaster and not worthy of being muttered in the same breath alongside our noted guitar-pop champions, Caroline is completely irredeemable and beyond unlistenable in every single aspect. This song has left me feeling sick and a little bit depressed. Too depressed to make wordplay about Bad//Dreems being a musical nightmare, even.
SECOND HAND HEART
Hold On (Independent) A soaring display of pop majesty, Hold On backs up its ambitious scope with a broad tapestry of uplifting melancholia. Ornate production twists and turns until lifting us back to ground with a contemplative pianoled coda.
ON SIERRA
Young Heart (Independent) Young Heart sounds a little bit like Tame Impala and a lot like someone left The Temper Trap’s masters in a chemical vat overnight. It would definitely work better as an instrumental, with the vocal bursts exposing a sense Beat Magazine Page 60
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of aimlessness. Eventually it trails off into a fade-out just as things feel like they’re beginning to kick into overdrive. Some promising moments, but more established focus would do a world of good.
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TOTEMS
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4. Aloha LP CUNTZ 5. Boxset 7” CRAMPS
III: Sidpa (Independent) A sample from the upcoming EP Bardo Thodol, III: Sidpa is a tasty and tasteful trap meditation from Totems, aka Kiwi producer Reuben Winter. Nestling somewhere beyond Clams Casino drug haze, HudMo crispness and slight Lex Luger bombast, the track holds up as a swagged out brandishing of compositional talent.
CLOWNS
SEJA
RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN VINYL
Like Fireflies (Rice Is Nice) Lifted from the upcoming full-length All Our Wires, Seja’s Like Fireflies is a delectable slice of organ-pop goodness. Exploring a myriad of deep ocean and deep space keyboard tones, Seja commands us through a lovely psychedelic day dream with a welcome and warm vocal take. Top stuff.
OSCAR KEY SUNG
It’s Coming (Independent) Melbourne duo Oscar + Martin never really did it for me, but the solo output from Oscar Key Sung really ticks my boxes. It’s Coming is all kinds of incredible, a triumphant showcase of vocal chops and resounding production skills – even though it sounds like it samples a honking goose (cannot un-hear). The B-side is a Miguel cover, and inviting the comparison works in Oscar’s favour.
JAGWAR MA
Man I Need (Future Classic) Giving Madchester a ‘Strayan accent, Jagwar Ma is a trippy call to arms that’s quite unlike much else currently happening in the Australian music world at the moment. The track’s themes explore a boyish reaction to an affront to the protagonist’s masculinity, an unreliable narrator’s cathartic cries in the midst of an enticing psychedelic wash.
SINGLE OF THE WEEK PIKELET
Pressure Cooker (Chapter) An eerie, blissfully demented soundscape from the now fully-fleshed out Pikelet outfit, Pressure Cooker features a smorgasbord of an unhinged bassline and hypnotic synth chimes. Centre of the storm is Evelyn Morris’ restrained cries of hope, anchoring the myriad of noodling melodies swirling overhead. The perfect soundtrack to a postnuclear-winter debutant ball and a promising initial beacon from the upcoming full-length Calluses.
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7. Closing Time LP TOM WAITS 8. Sugar Ditch 2xLP TAV FALCO 9. That’s Mighty Childish LP VARIOUS 10. Wet Wax Friday at LUWOW
1. Calendar Days DICK DIVER 2. Trouble Will Find Me THE NATIONAL 3. Head In The Dirt HANNI EL KHATIB 4. Until In Excess Imperceptible UFO BESNARD LAKES 5. The North Borders BONOBO 6. Ooga Boogas OOGA BOOGAS 7. She Beats BEACHES 8. Double Natural BOOMGATES 9. Chelsea Light Moving CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING 10. Push The Sky Away NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT RUSHING 1. You Can’t Hurry Love THE SUPREMES 2. Fools Rush In JOHNNY MERCER 3. Fast Cars THE STEVENS 4. Fast Livin’ SKIP WILEY 5. Wild Things Run Fast JONI MITCHELL 6. Hurry Tomorrow THE TEMPTATIONS 7. Running Out of Time TIMMY THOMAS 8. There Ain’t No Speed Limit LELAND MARTIN 9. Rush to Nothing EMILY HIGGINS 10. ROMANIA WAS ROBBED
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SAVAGES
Silence Yourself (Matador/Remote Control) The period where punk crossed over into post-punk yielded some intense, exciting music and London’s Savages mine that particular vein with gusto. While their sound is a powerful, stark lurch for the jugular, their love of director John Cassavetes helps to place them firmly into the more art-house camp of post-punk. (The fiery single Husbands is named after Cassavetes’ 1970 film and the lines of dialogue that open the album are lifted from 1977’s Opening Night.) Love of indie-film directors aside, Savages mean business. They want their live shows to be an immersive experience, so have laid out some ground rules that include no Instagramming, tweeting or videoing. They probably wouldn’t be too impressed if you updated your Facebook status at one of their gigs either. The album cover art features what looks like song lyrics, but is instead a manifesto of sorts, while the back cover offers the more streamlined slogan, ‘Don’t let the fuckers get you down’. But perhaps the best piece of advice is the inside front cover’s ‘This album is to be played loud in the foreground’. And then there’s the music itself, full of passion and executed with commanding precision. When Savages are on, they are most definitely on, so the band find some quiet spaces at the beginning, middle and end of their album: a protracted opening sample before erupting into Shut Up, a quietly menacing two-minute instrumental as a centrepiece and a disarmingly elegant closer that winds down to, of all things, a clarinet solo. In Best Track: Husbands between all of this, it’s less surprising, though consistently If You Like These, You’ll Like This: The Scream SIOUXSIE vital bloodlust that’s given little adornment. Silence & THE BANSHEES, Primary Colours THE HORRORS, Pink Yourself is certainly nothing new, but that doesn’t make it Flag WIRE any less magnificent. In A Word: Bam! CHRIS GIRDLER
SMALL BLACK
Limits Of Desire (Jagjaguwar) It almost feels ridiculous to be talking about chillwave in 2013, but it’s hard to describe Small Black without dropping the c-bomb. Having arrived in 2009 with their self-titled, bedroom-recorded debut EP, they put out a glossy debut album in 2011, New Chain, that, while solid, sacrificed some of their scruffy charm for hi-fi sonics. It’s now four years since chillwave’s ‘summer of love’, an eternity in the era of microgenres, and it’s hard to forget that fact while listening to Limits Of Desire. The album has all the moves: epic synth wash, tinny drum machines, narcoleptic vocals and endless reverb. I’m sure there are tunes and emotions and stuff in there too, but there’s no guaranteeing that you’ll notice them for all the gauzy waftiness that predominates. Ryan Heyner, the man responsible for said narcoleptic vocals, has a sweet breathy timbre, but he delivers his lines like he’s trying to wake someone up even though he doesn’t really want to: Whenever he threatens to do something really noteworthy, he reflexively pulls back. There are exceptions, mind. Only A Shadow is an immediate standout on the strength of a glorious, soaring falsetto chorus. Likewise, the cheesy, Fleetwood Mac-in-the-eighties feel of Sophie stands out, both for its more organic instrumentation, and for the fact that the band sound like they’re having a little bit of fun with the whole thing. Really, Limits Of Desire’s worth as an album comes down to what you ask of it. If you’re looking for lightweight, syrupy wallpaper jams, Small Black have you covered. Others Best Track: Only A Shadow might be disappointed. It’s a beautiful, beguiling album, If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Gemini WILD but it’s as unaffecting as it is undemanding. That it is both NOTHING, Tango In The Night FLEETWOOD MAC of these things is almost certainly no coincidence. In A Word: Shiny EDWARD SHARP-PAUL
Woe betide the genre named after the worst kind of homework. “Mathcore” elicits as many cringes as it does exaltations from those in the know. An outer layer of maths let alone a core would send most scurrying away as fast as legs can carry them. The Dillinger Escape Plan (DEP) is the band for which the title is “derived” and on this, their fifth record sees DEP’s evolution best served by a step back from total chaos. Prancer draws barrages of rhythmic gatling-gun fire, threatening to send battle hardened moshers diving for foxholes. The title track soothes much like Mike Patton at the height of a Xanax bender. Insofar Dillinger is concerned; they’re uncharacteristically straightforward, lathering up frenzied jazz fusion sparingly. Screamer Greg Puciato allows his reddening larynx the song off, drawing ears in. Paranoia Shields references Patton’s funkier, faith-deprived period riding an unhinged devil’s carousel undulating slap bass and sinister intent. Madness is reflected back in shattered mirrors in Nothing’s Funny, Puciato’s snarling irony snowballed atop rickety percussion and mammoth-sized plunges on guitar. Guitar nerds will sit slack-jawed bearing witness to convoluted bouts of stuttering djent and rhythms in signatures assembled in a TARDIS (or DeLorean, of course.) Weinman and co.’s cerebral scattergun approach has yielded to purity of purpose, supplanting their usual interrupted musical vision. It’s starkly evident in Crossburner, inspiring awe with flashes of explosive, mind-bending guitar, propelling forward without indulgently experimenting for the sake of it. Despite sanding down their burrs, DEP still run their Best Track: One Of Us Is The Killer sweaty metalcore ship into the red, bearing a course If You Like These, You’ll Like This: MR. BUNGLE, straight into disaster. The ride feels uneasy and full of terrors but its one well worth the fare. UNEXPECT, CONVERGE TOM VALCANIS In A Word: Frantic
IGGY AND THE STOOGES Ready To Die (Warner Music)
“It’s not great, but it’s not as bad as The Weirdness,” remarked a friend the other week, when the subject of Iggy And The Stooges’ new album, Ready To Die came up. This was damning with faint praise to Dante’s seventh level of hell. The Weirdness was, at best, a conceded pass, a frustratingly flawed record stripped clean of any lingering artistic merit by Iggy’s ambivalent performance (though, against the grain of the album’s prevailing mediocrity, the late Ron Asheton’s guitar work sizzled like it was 1971). So what of Ready To Die, the first Iggy and the Stooges record since 1973’s Raw Power, and the first full-blown musical collaboration between Iggy and guitarist James Williamson since Kill City in the mid ‘70s? Well, James Williamson remains a fiendishly talented guitarist – Burn is replete with the proto-punk metal riffs Williamson foisted upon the world in those dark, inspiring days of yore, and Job gives everything a simple blues riff should give, and then some. Gun is a post-modern take on the Dead Boys’ rip-off of the Stooges and Dirty Deal packs a tough enough punch to wind, if not completely flatten the Stooges’ would-be plagiarists. And if Iggy was drowning in a pool of his own squalid narcotic lifestyle and narcissistic excess when Raw Power was recorded, in 2013 he’s older, wiser and bathed in the inevitable irony that comes with being a still functioning 60-something punk legend. Iggy’s observations on fatalism, his artistic flaws, the financial politics of sex, specious friendships and the pitfalls of the commercial world are wry, and frequently amusing; on the album’s lighter tracks like Beat That Guy and the subtle self-referential narrative of The Departed (spot the I Wanna Be Your Dog lick late in the song), Iggy adopts the role of punk grandfather, bouncing his many, varied and often impressive imitators on his knee, with hushed stories of a Best Track: Ready To Die lost world as colourful as it was tragic. If You Like These, You’ll Like: The best of IGGY’s solo Ready To Die is not as bad as The Weirdness; in fact, albums between 1982 and 2003, latter period RAMONES, it’s a lot better. It’ll never be a Stooges album of lasting and that really good band you saw in your 20s that played a consequence, but as Nick Carraway remarked to Jay dew Stooges covers Gatsby, you can never recreate the past. In A Word: Impressive PATRICK EMERY
BURIED FEATHER
Buried Feather (Independent)
PHOENIX
Bankrupt! (Liberation) The follow up to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is conspicuously not Phoenix Van Beethoven, or whatever other punny classical composer name gag you care to fill in here. Overall the impression is studiously dated synths, yachts, strings, France mostly, the scent of Eau de Disco permeates the disc, track four Trying To Be Cool, especially. Track one, Entertainment, is the Lisztomania of the album, however it intentionally withholds full-tilt good times until the track is almost over. Having been around for 15 years before becoming indie darlings overnight with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the four Frenchmen are looking to solidify their marque position rather than cheaply entertain with this offering. The sound is still right there, jittery like too many coffees after no sleep. The Real Thing delivers on the sing-along, a head-bopping, jump up and down with arms in the air chorus with relaxed verses. Phoenix peddle perfect pop nonsense, lyrics that sound like they mean something as you hear them individually, line by line, but when you try and reconstruct a theme or even a thread of sense it dissolves like a snowflake with beautiful incoherence. The titular track Bankrupt! is part Daft Punk (think the Tron 2 score), part Air circa Moon Safari and maybe a little bit Justice – although I might just be saying that last one because they start singing “justice is done”. It is a bit of everything and the most interesting song on the album by far. If they are looking to grow, I hope they grow towards this song. The closer, Oblique City, is progressive Euro-pop, promising so much with verse and bridge but again leaving the listener beached. It’s a very listenable album but one that will not stay with me. If Best Track: Bankrupt! only they would embrace earworm popularity rather than If You Like These, You’ll Like This: DAFT PUNK, AIR retreat away. In A Word: Franco JACK FRANKLIN
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The restorative beauty of psychedelic music resides in its sonic elasticity and spiritual qualities. With life increasingly constructed by artificial deadlines, vacuous social media conversations and false political consciousness, psychedelia provides a window into a world where stuff comes in colours, where riffs bend around corners, where the sonic world comes to life in all its textural glory. It’s the counterfactual to bureaucratic repetition, the relief from domestic frustration, the answer to spiritual torpor. And so it is with Buried Feather, and its debut eponymous album. The opening track, Plates, does everything to whisk you out of this world, and into a better place: a solid beat, some space noise, a dash of keyboards, a dirty riff, a kaleidoscopic atmosphere in which to lie down and float away. Roll over, and you’re into the lilting psychedelic wonder of Sink To The Bottom; you’re on that trip you’ll never forget, and everything makes perfect sense. Magnetized plays with your mind – sometimes you need to peer over the edge to realise the perils of over-stimulation. Weekends trudges along looking for a cure from the day after the night before; In The Sun finds the Moon Duo groove, locks it down and exploits it for all its worth. Time It Takes grabs you by the arm and leads you into Golden Gate Park in 1968 and shows you a place where anything is possible, and spiritual enlightenment is only a coloured piece of blotter paper away. Drowning Man might be the entree to the end of awareness; it’s as much the flagging idealism of 1972 as it is the naive hopes and dreams of 1966. And then there’s the closing track, Maybe, and another door is opened – it seems promising, and you might as Best Track: Plates well follow the quietness of its call. And so you should – If You Like These, You’ll Like This: BLACK ANGELS, Buried Feather can take you to places that only the truly MOON DUO, BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE enlightened band know exist. In A Word: Psychedelic PATRICK EMERY
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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY MAY 22 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC LEIGH BACCHETTI + LAZYBONES + SAMARA WILLIAMS Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. B FOR CHICKEN 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:00pm. $14. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. FINDING ISLA & GEMMA TULLY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. MELBOURNE JAZZ CLUB Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. MONSTER JEANS + AURORA + BIG HEAD ELLA + CABBAGES & KINGS Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8. PRINCE ALBERT Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. SWING NIGHT First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE NICK HAYWOOD QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE STEVE SEDERGREEN BAND + THE ANTON DELECCA QUARTET Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8:00pm. VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 8:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ALICE D + CASSIUS CLAY + GEE SEAS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD + SINCERELY GRIZZLY Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $54. BIRDS OF TOKYO + ALL THE COLOURS + ASTA The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $61. BISCOTTI (SINGLE LAUNCH) + OUTERWAVES & BANOFEE + SEX ON TOAST Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.
COLLAGE - FEAT: CHAPTER RAY + DANIEL MARCH + FOSSIL HEAD + GOODBYE MOTEL Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DUENDE + MYYTH + WOLF The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $5. I KNOW THE CHIEF + HARRIS + WE THE PEOPLE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. KYLE TAYLOR + ADRIAN HODGSON + MARCUS HAYDEN + TURTLE & FOX Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. LAZARUS MODE + EXILE + PHOEBE & STEVE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. MAGIC HANDS + TOTALLY MILD + YAMA BOY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6. PRETTY CITY + MEL CALIA + MY PIRANHA Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: BRADLEY GREEN + BERNIE CARSON + SAND DOLLAR Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SEWERCIDE + BLOOD RULE + DOUBLED OVER + TRENCH SISTERS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. TEN THOUSAND + SHADOWS OF HYENAS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. THE BLACK ELK MEDICINE BAND Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15. THE CLITS + SEESAW + THE BONNIWELLS + THE PINK TILES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE REBELLES + DJ ELI SCHOULAL + THE JULITHIA RYAN BAND Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. WONDERCORE WEDNESDAY - FEAT: CLEAVER AUSTIN + MFP John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK CHARLES JENKINS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MANDY CONNELL & THE STRAY HENS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Grind N Groove, Healesville. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:30pm. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm.
MANIFEST AT THE CORNER This Friday May 24, nine brutal Melbourne acts will thrash it out over the Corner Hotel’s two stages at Saltar Hype Entertainment’s newest event: Manifest At The Corner. King Parrot, Dreadaught, Elm Street, Bronson, Voltera, Contrive, They, Cold Divide and Diprosus all will light it up. When I was a forkie loading and unloading the trucks up north, they used to give me a manifest and be like, ‘Oh Johnno put this stuff on the truck’ and I’d be like, ‘Which truck?’ and they’d say, ‘That one’ and point it out to me. Gee whiz we had a riot! Tickets just $16+bf on sale now from the Corner box office or cornerhotel.com or 20 bucks at the door, kicking off at 6pm. VICTORIANA GAYE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: ALYSIA MANCEAU + ELIZABETH BARKER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY MAY 23 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS AKTION UNIT + FALSE MATURITY + MAD NANNA + VON EINEM Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. ALI E + M. ANTONIOU + PINK LIPS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $8. ALICE D + GEE SEAS + THE BRAVES Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $2. BIG WORDS + CANDY + CJAY + NEEQ Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BORN OF OSIRIS + A BREACH OF SILENCE + FEED HER TO THE SHARKS + UPON A BURNING BODY The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $35. BRAVE FACE (ANY OTHER LOVE LAUNCH) - FEAT: BRAVE FACE: + JACKSON MCLAREN + WILLOW Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12. COTANGENT + CHIEF Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. DAZOOK + DUKES VEDA + TRANSISTOR Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FLIGHT FACILTIES - FEAT: FLIGHT FACILITIES + ELIZABETH ROSE + MOVEMENT Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25. FLYYING COLOURS + LAUGHING LEAVES + MINIATURES Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. GASOLINE STEW & THE DUMP + AL DUVALL + BJ MORRISZONKLE + DANE CERTIFICATE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12. HEADLESS DEATH + SOIL & ASH + SPLIT TEETH + THE RIVER OF HEAVEN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. KOVO (SINGLE LAUNCH) + HEARTLESS VENDETTA + SONS OF JERICHO + THE SWEET KICKS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $12. LITA FORD + MASSIVE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $60. LOOSE TOOTH + LACHLAN DUTHIE + WE TIGERS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. MOSE & THE FMLY (EP LAUNCH) + MICHAELA JAYDE & RY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10. MOTH + CHILD + RIFF FIST + SYSTEM OF VENUS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7. NEXT - FEAT: SECRET HEADLINER + KONTACT + THE SCHOENBERG AUTOMATON Brown Alley, Melbourne. 8:00pm. PRETTY CITY + GARDEN PARTY + THE DARK ALES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. RED X + THE MATT GLASS BAND + TRASH FAIRY’S Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. SALT LAKE CITY Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. THE MIGRATIONS + BLACK COCKATOO + THE FUJIYAMA MAMA’S Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5. THE SHARDS + THE TOWNHOUSES + ZONE OUT Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. THE SLEEPY DREAMERS + BUSY KINGDOM Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. BART WILLOUGHBY & DECLINE BRISCOE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. BOB SEDERGREEN’S COME TOGETHER BAND Malvern Town Hall, Malvern. 8:00pm. $28. Beat Magazine Page 62
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DANIEL GASSIN Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. DAZ HAMMOND COMBO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. KLARA ZUBONJA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. LOUNGELICIOUS + NIHILL DUO Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MIETTA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. MOJO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. NOCK WILSON MAGNUSSON + JEX SAARELAHT TRIO Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8:00pm. OUR LATIN LOVE First Floor, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. PRIESTESSA & DASH + LOUIE & PRIDE + PHILEMON Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. THE BULLETTES + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm. THE RE-THINK PROJECT Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT + MOJO JUJU Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $58.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK BABA YAGA ORKESTRA + 8 FOOT FELIX Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. GREYHOUNDS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. HUNTING SEASON + DELVVE INN + JORDAN WALKER Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. JELLO BIAFRA SPOKEN WORD Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $30. JEN CLOHER Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. JOHN FLANAGAN & THE BEGIN AGAINS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:00pm. JUDE JACOBS + BRADY JAMES + THE WALTERS + TOBY DADSON Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. JULES SHELDON + MATTEO PRIANTE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. LACHLAN MITCHELL The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. LIAM GERNER Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 6:00pm. OVERDRIVE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE WEARY + ALCHEMY + BLACK SWAN CROSSING + RAD NAVAJO Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm. THE WEEPING WILLOWS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm.
FRIDAY MAY 24 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS A BREACH OF SILENCE + BORN OF OSIRIS Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray. 8:00pm. ALITHIA + BEGGARMAN + PORT BAYLES + SHORTFALL + TRANSCIENCE Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $12. APART FROM THIS + CERES + TOY BOATS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. BRIDGEWATER + THOMAS CHARLES DOCKRAY Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 10:00pm. BRITISH INDIA Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. COLD IRONS BOUND & THE MINUTE MAKERS
Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. CULZEAN + MIDNIGHT DRIVE + REXKRAMER + VIRTUE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. DURK + BY A THREAD + MATTHIEW HAWKINS Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10. ELUVEITIE Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $59. FIREBIRD + DJ SEAN SIMMONS + MATT DWYER & THE MAGNATONES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. FRASER A. GORMAN & BIG HARVEST + DJ DAN LEWIS + MALLEE SONGS + THE BLURBOTTLES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. FREE TIME (ALBUM LAUNCH) + BITCH PREFECT + MISS DESTINY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. GO GENRE EVERYTHING + ASTRAL SURPRISE + BODIES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. GOSSAMER PRIDE + SPUNK MACHINE + THE PRINCETONS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $5. HOWLIN’ STEAM TRAIN + MAX SAVAGE & THE FALSE IDOLS + NEIL WILKINSON + PAPA PILKO & THE BINRATS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. JUKE BARITONE & THE SWAMP DOGS + CREEP CAKE + MOB QUEENS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. JUKEBOX RACKET Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. KIDS WITHOUT BIKES + FLY YOU FOOLS + THE BLACK ALLEYS Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. LOPAKA + REMZELK + SAMUEL TATE + STORYHORSE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MANIFEST AT THE CORNER - FEAT: DREADNAUGHT + ELM STREET + KING PARROT + BRONSON + COLD DIVIDE + CONTRIVE + DIPROSUS + THEY + VOLTERA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 6:00pm. $19. MEL WILKINSON (CD LAUNCH) + ANDREW HEALEY + TIM GUY Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MONEY FOR ROPE + ATOLLS + THE BOWERS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. MR CAL THOMAS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm. NTH WHEEL + ENCOUNTER GROUP + THE STEVENS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $8. ONE VITAL WORD + ALTERED STATES + FRACTURES + IDLE HANDS + UP AND ATOM Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. RIVER OF SNAKES + HONEY BADGERS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. SHAKERFAKER + PRETTY CITY Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $7. SHERIFF + BREADMAKERS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE BOMBAY ROYALE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE FROWNING CLOUDS + CHOOK RACE + THE TOWELHEADS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. THE SCHOENBERG AUTOMATON + HOUSE OF THUMBS + OUROBOUROS + WHORETOPSY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. THE SPINNING ROOMS + BRAT FARRAR + IVY STREET + THEM NIGHTS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. UNDERGROUND HOUND + AIRCRAFTE + THE GRUNES Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. WHODAFUNKIT + COLD HIKER + JACK JACK JACK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. WINTER MOON + AVANTAIR + DJ JELLO BIAFRA + DJ LUCY ARUNDEL + KASHMERE CLUB Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ANNA GILKISON TRIO Chi Kitchen, Melbourne. 6:00pm. BABA YAGA ORCHESTRA + LUCAS MICHALIDIS Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm.
FREE TIME Free Time formed in New York around Melbourne’s Dion Nania, formerly of the much loved Panel of Judges. Panel of Judges eh? Sounds like me bloody Sundee mornin’! Haha. Dion is (briefly) back in town so he’s drafted an all star lineup to launch the record. Also playing on the night is Bitch Prefect (first show in yonks) and Miss Destiny (first show ever). Free Time’s self-titled LP is out on Underwater Peoples worldwide on Tuesday May 28, and this show will the first chance to get yourr hands on a copy. If you have some free time (haha!), Free Time launch their debut album this Friday May 24 at the Tote. FRANKIE WANTS OUT Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $30. GEORGIA FIELDS + DUKE BATAVIA + THE NEED SOMEBODIES The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $20. GIL ASKEY & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. JAMES MORRISON & JOE CHINDAMO Malvern Town Hall, Malvern. 8:00pm. KOOYEH Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. LETTER B Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. MONIQUE DI MATTINA + KATE KELSEY-SUGG Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8:00pm. OZI + BLAKE HUNTER + DJ NATRAFARAY Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. THE JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE PACIFIC BELLES Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. THE PAUL VAN ROSS QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. THE REBECCA MENDOZA QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25.
CONDENSED MILK The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. CORAL LEE & THE SILVER SCREAM Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. DOCTOR LUCAS + DAN PARSONS Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. FLYBYNIGHT - FEAT: GLASFROSCH + BELOVED ELK + NOTHING HURTS ROBOT + QLAVE FACE + YOSHITORO Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. JELLO BIAFRA SPOKEN WORD Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 6:30pm. $30. KING LUCHO + GREENS DAIRY ANGEL ENSEMBLE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. LIAM GERNER Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. LIVINGSTONE DAISIES + BLOWN CONE + SAINT
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Melbourne party favourite El Moth have been hard at work the last few months recording and mixing their debut studio effort. The six-track EP showcases the unique rockin’ reggae stylings the band is known for, and also ventures into some exciting new songwriting territory. The boys will launch their highly anticipated debut EP on Saturday May 25 at The Evelyn Hotel with support from local favourites Kooyeh and Keshie – I’ll ‘moth’ certainly be there! (haha). The night will also feature special performances from Vicky Blackthorn and Hayley Hoopla. $10 on the door or $20 with EP through Moshtix.
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EVEN The hottest news currently circulating around Melbourne town is that one of Melbourne’s genuine live music treasures, Even, will be showcasing the soon-to-be-released Even First XVIII with an exclusive show at the Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday May 25. Seriously, even me m8 Bricky who doesn’t even like music (unless his missus tells him too eh, sorry Bricky if you’re reading this but c’mon m8) came up to me and said, ‘Fkn, have you heard about this Even band?!’ I was like, ‘Crike me bloody struth, Bricko, what do you reckon, it’s the hottest news goin’ ‘round.’ Don’t miss the opportunity to see and hear Ashley Naylor, Matthew Cotter and Wally Kempton play your favourite Even songs, plus plenty of extras. Special guest for this show will be none other than The Fauves frontman, Andrew Cox, making a rare solo appearance. Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday May 25. Be there. JUDE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $20. LLOYD SPIEGEL + ALEX LEGG & JONNO ZILBER Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. MARGIE LOU DYER + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. OL’ TIMEY JAM SESSION Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. SPENCER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE + ALEX LASHLIE + CHIMPER KIMBLAY + DUKES OF DELICIOUSNESS + THUNDERBOX Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. SUGAR FED LEOPARDS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. THE SIMON WRIGHT BAND Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. VANGUARDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
SATURDAY MAY 25 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
ADAMUS EXUL + AGAVE MAIZE + INTERNAL HARVEST + RAINSHADOW + THRALL Central Club Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm. $15. AIRCRAFTE + DJ SHAMIKAZI + UNDERGROUND HOUND Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. AITCHES + ALL WE NEED + DEL LAGO + FOLEY + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + TOO SOON + WONDER LUST Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $5. ALL AGES METAL NIGHT - FEAT: OCEAN GROVE + EVENT HORIZON + EXPOSURES + HANDS OF HOPE + THIS FIASCO + VALLANCE Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm. $15. BANG - FEAT: LEFT FOR WOLVES + SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS + WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. BEEFWEEK + BABOON REBUS + DAMN THE TORPEDOES + JOHNNY GIBSON AND THE HANGOVERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. BITTER SWEET KICKS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm. BOOM THE BASE - FEAT: THE HIGH SOCIETY + HEADPHONE PIRACY + KAW KAW & MAHASONI + KRAVE KEMISTRY + MOSE & THE FAMILY + SPEECH THERAPY Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $10. BRITISH INDIA (CONTROLLER TOUR) Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm.
CHILDREN OF SKARO Marquis Of Lorne, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DEAD SALESMEN + YARD APES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. DESTROY SHE SAID + THE BALLS + THE TREMBLING The Sound Bar, Hoppers Crossing. 8:00pm. EL MOTH + KESHIE + KOOYEH Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. EQUINOX SESSIONS #1 - FEAT: KIRKIS + CLEVER AUSTIN + DEMAIN + DJ MIKE GURRIERI + OISIMA + WONDERCORE ISLAND DJS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $15. EVEN + ANDREW COX SOLO Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18. FOXTROT + CLOWNS + DAYBREAK + MARICOPA WELLS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. GOATHERDERS + MANSIONS OF SORROW + RAIN FACTORY Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. JERICCO (ALBUM LAUNCH) + AVIAR + DIRT RIVER RADIO + RAINBIRD + THICK LINE THIN LINE Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $12. KIM VOLKMAN & THE WHISKEY PRIESTS (SETTING SUN LAUNCH) + JAMES MCCANN & THE NEW VINDICTIVES + LOS DOMINADOS St Kilda Bowling Club, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $15. LIONESS EYE + HALTEVER + NERVE + YACHTBURNER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. MANSION ALASKA + COLD HIKER + GERYON + THE TOWNHOUSES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $8. MCALPINES FUSILIERS + THE WILD COMFORTS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. MURDEENA + OH PEP Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. POTATO CAKE MINI FEST - FEAT: THE INFANTS + BELOVED ELK + BRICKS ARE HEAVY + GUNK + MANGELWURZEL + WET LIPS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $10. PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA + DJ MANCHILD + KARATE BOOGALOO + PAPA CHANGO + PHIL PARA Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. REMAIN WISE + TAKE TO THE SKY + THE CURSE OF MARY SUE + THE REPRIGE Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. RIVER OF SNAKES + EUPHORIACS + THE DARK FAIR + THE LOVELESS Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. SABRINA & THE RED VANS + ROCKET QUEEN Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. SAN CISCO + CHAOS CHAOS + MILLIONS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $26. SAN CISCO (U18) + CHAOS CHAOS + MILLIONS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 12:30pm. $26. SEXY HEAVY + SUBMARINE VOLCANOES + THE
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Ten bands everyone should know about: Snarky Puppy, Robert Glaser Experiment, Mutemath, Ghost Orkid, King of The North, Kingfisha, Black Seeds, Lewis Mcullum, Kora, Hiatus Kaiyote. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Chilli, salami, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, tequila, hummus, pickles, garlic, olive oil. Eight possessions that define you: My paintings, leather jacket, shined hipster shoes, is hair a possession?, tight black jeans, chilli tequila, Xbox, Hammond organ. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mixtape: Fear And Loathing, Game Of Thrones, The Wire, Whale Wars, Fight Club, Rome, Crossroads (not the Britney Spears version). Six bad habits you can’t escape: I play in a band with four of them...but playing video SUBMIT YOUR GIGS TO GIGGUIDE@BEAT.COM.AU
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BOB VALENTINE & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. FEEL THE MANOUCHE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. JANE RUTTER The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $28. JOHN MORRISON & JACKI COOPER QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. JULIARNA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. KINGSTON CROWN & THE WINTERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. OPEN STUDIOS 7TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: THE TEK TEK ENSEMBLE + MME ZUZU Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND JAZZ PARTY +
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COUNCIL Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SLACQUER + BORN SECRET Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II - FEAT: THE TARANTINOS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. SONS OF LEE MARVIN + LITTLE MURDERS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. THE DEVILROCK FOUR BAND + THE DEVILROCK FOUR Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. THE DUB CAPTAINS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE GHOST INSIDE + ANTAGONIST AD + EMMURE + HAND OF MERCY The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $50. THE GOOD MORROWS + AMANITA + GOING SWIMMING Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. THE KITE MACHINE + ILANACHARNELLE + MEG & PAUL Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10. THE LARGE NUMBER 12S Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE MURLOCS (SINGLE LAUNCH) + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + KREMLINGS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10. THE UNION PACIFIC + BEAR THE MAMMOTH + CERES + DJ DAN LEWIS + SPILT CITIES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. THE VOLCANIKS + VOODOO SWAMP DADDIES Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. THREE QUARTER BEAST + CALADONIA + TANG! + THE UNKIND Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. UNITY FLOORS + FULL UGLY + SEE SAW + WORKING GIRLS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. WAKEFIELD MINI-FEST Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
games, smoking, leaving the toilet seat up, being rude to customers, getting credit cards, farting in bed. Five people who inspire you: Robert Glasper, Nai Palm, Opiuo, Simon Maven, Anthony (singer from Kingfisha). Four things that turn you on: Red heads (this gives my bass player the shudders), yoga pants, cooking in high heels, glitch hop. Three goals for your music: Finish my rock opera, release an album, tour Europe. Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: Hiatus Kayiote at this year’s Apollo Bay Music Festival. Just bullshit good. Black Sabbath. So hilarious watching Ozzie jump and waddle around stage. One day left before the apocalypse and you… Jam. Like the violin dudes on the Titanic but groovier. When’s the gig/release? El Moth will be releasing debut EP Life’s A Ride at The Evelyn Hotel, this coming Saturday May 25.
HETTY KATE Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8:00pm. PAVEMENT SERENADERS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:30pm. SHINY STOCKINGS BALL - FEAT: ANDY SWANN & HIS SAVOY STOMPERS Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $33. SHORT ORDER SCHEFS + DJ MY~T~JAXX Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. SOUL SLAP First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TRIO RIO 57 Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 8:00pm. WENDY RULE 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. WINTERLIGHTS + DASH + NICKY WOLF STYLES Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. WOMEN OF SOUL 3RD BIRTHDAY - FEAT: KYLIE AULDIST + CANDICE MONIQUE + CHELSEA WILSON + CHRISTINA ARNOLD + DJ MISS GOLDIE + SHIRLEY DAVIS Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 9:00pm. $20.
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ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK COUNTRY ROCK & ROOTS - FEAT: THE IAIN ARCHIBALD BAND + THE TEMPLES OF TUNE + VERY HANDSOME MEN Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10. GOYIM KLEZMER KAOS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:00pm. GRIZZLY JIM LAWRIE Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. HOMESICK RAY’S CELEBRATORY ALL-STARS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. INTO THE MYSTIC - FEAT: JOE CREIGHTON Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25. LITTLE KILLING + HOLY LOTUS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. LOW RENT (CD LAUNCH) + THE SAMMY OWENS BLUES BAND Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $15. MATT KATSIS Grind N Groove, Healesville. 8:00pm. OWEN CAMPBELL + ANABELLE KAY Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $20. RAISED BY EAGLES Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. SIME NUGENT BAND Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. TANK DILEMMA Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. THE F100S Gasolina, South Wharf Promenade . 9:00pm. THE SECRET CITY + HUDSON + HUGH MCGINLAY Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 4:00pm. THREE KINGS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. TIM GUY Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. TIM WOODS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:30pm. TULALA + ELLA THOMPSON John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. WIRED Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 9:00pm.
THE CLITS Define your genre in five words or less: Guitar punk noise pop nothing.
shambles that’s done honestly and off the cuff, than a perfectly performed piece of dead soulless music.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? One hand clapping.
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Succeed at what? That’s the question, I’ve ground my heart and soul against that stone for decades, success for its own sake is pretty pointless and stupid. Is making it, making money? Selling lots of records? Getting a gold guitar, groupies…all those clichés? From my small experience with it, fame is hell. I think doing it (making music and playing live) is success enough. Sure having to work on the side is a pain in the arse and I rather not have to do, but that’s life buddy, toughen up.
What do you love about making music? Making music. How long have you been gigging and writing? I started gigging in the late ‘80s, in a band called The Koncrete Nomadz, when I was in high school. Yeah that shows my age, I started writing songs back then, but you know what they say, practice makes perfect! Still learning. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? I‘m inspired by things that move me in some kind of primal way. It’s not an intellectual thing so it’s kinda hard to explain. I know I like a band when I can’t stop smiling. Generally I like brash, noisy, messy stuff that’s played from the heart. Concepts tend to annoy me, I dislike cleverness for its own sake or over-rehearsed performers. I rather see a total
What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Getting together with my band-mates and making a racket, then seeing people dance, get off and have a good time. Being lost in the music is the best. When’s the gig and with who? We are playing with party maniacs The Euphoriacs, grungers The Loveless and dark-popers The Dark Fair on Saturday May 25 at the Cornish Arms Hotel and it’s free!
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JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. CELLAR CATS Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 4:30pm. DAVID BRAMBLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. ESTEE BIG BAND Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. FEEL THE MANOUCHE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. JANE RUTTER The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $28. MARGIE LOU DYER TRIO Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. MOMENTS NOTICE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. NUDIST FUNK ORCHESTRA + BAD BOYS BATUCADA + MS BUTT + THE DALE RYDER BAND Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. THE CHARLIE BROWN BAND 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE DILWORTHS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE FURBELOWS Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. THOMAS HUGH + HUGH MCGINLAY + PUERTO RICO 303, Northcote. 3:00pm. TIM PLEDGER & YURODIVYE + DIANA MAY CLARK & THE SUNNY SET + STEPHEN O’HERN Open Studio, Northcote. 2:00pm.
COBRA - 8.00PM:
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JANTINA AND THE JAGUARS THE MELANOMADS THE DEAD ELECTED
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INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS + DJ DAN LEWIS + EATEN BY DOGS + TIM NEILSON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. BENJAMIN DUNN & THE ANIMAL ORCHESTRA + ALL THREE ABOVE + COBY DEMARIA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. BOB DYLAN TRIBUTE SHOW - FEAT: THE HAPPY LONESOME + JMS HARRISON + MARK DIMARZIO THE TATTERED SAILS + MATT MALONE + MICHAEL PLATTER & THE EXIT KEYS BRENDAN MITCHELL + THE MELANOMADS Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 2:30pm. $5. DRU CHEN (INTENTIONS LAUNCH) + AL PARKINSON + THE BON SCOTTS Toff In Town,
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Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. EXILE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. GOOD BEER WEEK SPECIAL EVENT - FEAT: HELL CITY GLAMOURS + FRONT END LOADER + MY DYNAMITE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. JANITA & THE JAGUARS + LEBELLE + THE MELONOMADS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. JOSH FORNER (ALBUM LAUNCH) + FLYING SAUCER TERROR + JOE FORRESTER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. JUNGLE JUICE + THAT GOLD STREET SOUND + ULTRAVIBRALUX Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10. LEEZ LIDO Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. NAI PALM (MATINEE SHOW) + SPLEEN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $15. PAPA PILKO & THE BINRATS + CHERRYWOOD + MAX SAVAGE & THE FALSE IDOLS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:30pm. SAN CISCO (THE BEACH TOUR) + CHAOS CHAOS + MILLIONS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $23. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: MZ RIZK + BABERAHAM LINCOLN + LOW & BEHOLD + TILLERMAN PETE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 4:30pm. THE BLACKEYED SUSANS TRIO Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. THE BLUEBOTTLES + THE PINK TITLES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE HELLO MORNING Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE MIDNIGHT SOL + MADI DAY + MARC HEENAN Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THE MIGRATIONS + HOWL & CROW + PAPER JANE + THE GALLENT TREES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THRASHER JYNX + DRIFTER + EDITH LANE + THE GENERAL Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. TRAVIS ADDISON + MAN CITY SIRENS + THE STROY MODEL + VALLEY Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. WIL WAGNER + HEATH ANTHONY + TOM LANYON Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ALEX & THE SHY LASHLIE’S Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. BEN KELLY Burringa Cafe, Upwey. 1:00pm. BEN KELLY Burringa Cafe, Upwey. 1:30pm. CARINO SON + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. CHERRY ARVO BLUES - FEAT: CHRIS RUSSEL’S CHICKEN WALK Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5. CHRIS CHAPPLE Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 6:00pm. DAN LETHBRIDGE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. DAN WATKINS & PADDY MONTGOMERY Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm. MOUNTAIN & SWAMP Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. MUSTERED COURAGE Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 6:00pm. PHEASANT PLUCKERS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. RED RIVERS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm. RILEY & DONNA (EP LAUNCH) + VELMA GROVE & OLIVERS ARMY Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $5. SHANAKEE Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm. SONGWRITERS COLLECTIVE - FEAT: JESS HIESER Willow Bar, Northcote. 7:00pm. SUNDAY FUNDAY - FEAT: ROWIE + NACKERS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 6:00pm. THE SHAMBELLS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. THE STETSON FAMILY Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE TAYLOR PROJECT + DYLAN + ZINNIA BLUE Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:00pm. UNCOMFORTABLE SCIENCE The B.east, Brunswick East. 4:00pm. UNION ROYALE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm. $20. VAN & CAL WALKER + LIZ STRINGER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. WAZ E JAMES BAND Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
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TOM WEST
Define your genre in five words or less: Finger-picking songs with bittersweet words.
If you’re a regular devoted reader of this fabulous column, you may notice that my name doesn’t normally appear at the top of it. I’m Claire, and I’ve been lucky enough to secure a super amazing internship opportunity at The Push. I only joined the world of over-agers very late last year, and I remember well the frustration of missing out on gigs at licensed venues. I haven’t forgotten the time Julian Casablancas played at the Palace Theatre in 2010. There were tears. However I have recovered from this devastation and am looking forward to sharing weekly underage event goodness with you! Ever dreamt of playing at Push Over fest? It’s not too late to get involved in this year’s FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands competition. Even if you’ve only ever performed in your parent’s garage and your band’s number one fan is your cat, the competition is open to all local young musicians. Winning a heat will score you a spot at a Regional Final and the chance to win some great prizes. Grand Final winners can expect recording, mastering and publicity opportunities. Not to mention a guarantee you will become a rock star and win heaps of adoring fans who will all want to date you.*
When’s the gig and with who? My single launch is at The Grace Darling basement on Saturday June 8, it’s the last gig of the tour so I’m hoping to make it a big one. I’ll be playing with Whitaker on the night.
And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing? Whilst travelling is fun it’s a lot of hard work in organising everything and it’s very stressful when things don’t go to plan. Describe the best gig you have ever played. My favourite show was opening for Matt Corby at home in Adelaide. It was a massive venue totally sold out, one of the most appreciative and excited crowds I’ve ever played to. What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a
MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: ZOND Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm. PHANTOM HITMEN & HIT THE FAN Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC DARYL MCKENZIE JAZZ ORCHESTRA + JANET ROSS-FAHY The Apartment, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. KRISTEEN WONG TRIO + STANISLAVSKI/ STOCKWELL QUARTET 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $8. PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE ALLAN BROWNE TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE CACTUS CHANNEL + CROOKS & QUEENS + DJ MANCHILD Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE JANE CLIFTON TRIO Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ACOUSTIC SESSION Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. SONGWRITER SESSIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.
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What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Pre-sale tickets to any of the single launch shows will come with a free download of two of my old EP’s, and the single. In August the my album A Spark In The Dark will be available for people to spend their money on.
What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Getting to travel around and play music is great fun. And finishing a record is really satisfying.
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Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 With Claire Barley
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? I get a lot of comparisons for my voice, and they’re often wildly different: Neil Young, Fionn Regan, recently the guy from Alt-J, Kermit the Frog.
How long have you been gigging and writing? I’ve been playing at writing for about six years, in a whole bunch of bands. Recently I’ve been focusing on a band called Traveller and Fortune, this is the first year I’m really having a go at solo performing. So far it’s going great.
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gig, or made a recording? I tracked this single, and my whole upcoming Album A Spark In the Dark in a shed at my folk’s place in the Adelaide Hills. My friend and I would drive up a few times per week after work and start tracking with the birds then as the sun went down with the crickets and then the bats. There’s a lot of ambient noise on the record and I love that. How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? It’s difficult, I tend to tour on the weekends and try to fit on my nine-to-five day job around that. It’s obviously pretty tiring but I’m never at a loss for things to do. Anything else to add? Nope, would just love to catch some of you guys at my Jonathan’s Farm single launch at the Grace Darling basement on Saturday June 8. Have a look at tomwestsongs.com for some further information. BULLS + BONNIE MERCER Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. ECHO DRAMA + JACK JACK JACK + PURPLE TUSKS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. KOOYEH 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. MANIC STREET PREACHERS Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $89. MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $15. THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL DISCOVERY NIGHT Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE PATRON SAINTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BOSSA NOVA JAM Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 8:00pm. LIGHTLY TOASTED (CD LAUNCH) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. NOSTROS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. OPEN MIC Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 4:30pm. ST MICHAELS GRAMMAR Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:00pm. $14. THE PETER PETRUCCI TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. WAZ E JAMES BAND Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK BEN OTTEWELL Substation, Newport. 8:00pm. BRENT MCMULLEN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. LIAM GERNER Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
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The Palais Theatre, Friday May 17
While some musical-comedy acts struggle to maintain audience interest for longer than a single song, Tenacious D are the exception that proves the rule. There’s no question that the appeal is Jack Black, whose elastic vocal histrionics and Hollywood A-List status pull 95% of the focus. Not that Kyle Gass isn’t a great guitarist, with acoustic shredding as good as any of the other acoustic shredders that presumably exist. And so it was on a cold night in St Kilda, Melbourne’s male online gamer community ventured, eek, outdoors to honour their schlubby heroes with relentless requests and heckles. From Kielbasa to Kickapoo, it was everything they could hope for. Rolling through a fair chunk of Rize Of The Fenix early on, the highlight from that album was a segue from Led Zeppelin’s Rock And Roll into their own Rock Is Dead. Each song ended with an elegant bow, after which they’d retire to a table out of mic range to drink water and seemingly critique the preceding song. Following accusations of a substandard performance and Black spitting very nearly in his partner’s face, Kyle quit the band (again). This gave Black the opportunity to tug heartstrings with Dude (I Totally Miss You), so Kyle could then be triumphantly welcomed back with Friendship. In actuality if anyone phoned it in tonight, it was Black. During their two best songs (Tribute and Roadie) he spoke-sung the early verses when everyone just wanted to sing along like it sounds on the record. What’s more, the guitar sound was thin and trebly. Maybe this was part of the joke, but I never laugh at shit guitar tone. And
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while I’m whining, the Brisbane and Sydney shows were treated to two Beatles classics; You Never Give Me Your Money and The End from Abbey Road, which for some inexplicable reason were left off the setlist tonight and at the following night’s show. What; Melbourne doesn’t deserve your very best, D? Nevertheless Black’s comedic timing was spot on. A great moment came when he disciplined a lady for being the only one standing: “We don’t want your pity standing O’s. You’ll know when to stand up. Just like Pavarotti, you’ll be so moved you won’t have a choice but stand up.” As a musical comedy duo, The D aren’t shy of using the age-old trick of stopping the music suddenly to deliver profanity and/or the punch line. You don’t often hear Tim Minchin singing about his chode or imploring his audience to fuck her gently, which is part of the reason why he sucks. Last here in full band mode for a support slot with Foo Fighters, I reckon ‘old school acoustic style’ suits the D best. It allows the audience’s imagination to fill in the blanks and entertain the possibility that they are, in fact, The Greatest Band In The World.
The Bendigo, Saturday May 11
I hate flying. I always end up catatonic with fear, unable to ingest any form of inflight entertainment. I guess it’s the uncertainty that accompanies being trapped in a hurtling tube of metal through the upper reaches of our atmosphere. Earlier on in the year during a nasty bout of turbulence, I turned to Air New Zealand’s media unit for solace – tuning in to the alphabetically-benefited Kiwi outfit Beastwars. An immense calm washed over me as the band’s self-titled debut blasted through the shitty complimentary headset. The uncertainty was obliterated amongst the crying babies, rattling overhead compartments and slightly panicked flight attendants – I knew for sure we were all going to fucking die, there and then. I felt a similar thing tonight at The Bendigo, like we were packed in a burning fuselage, down an open earth into the pits of Hades. The level of power projected by Beastwars, here on their debut Australian tour, was unfathomable. The conclusion of their opening song was greeted with a rapturous roar and thrusting of beer glasses to the ceiling, something you’d expect from an encore-demanding stadium crowd. Crazy. The setlist leaned heavily towards the band’s excellent debut, with a few tracks from the just-
released (and also very excellent) LP Blood Becomes Fire. Their mantra of “obey the riff” was dutifully observed by the perpetually crowdsurfing throng of punters. Damn The Sky was legit scary. The sludge-drenched bass was pant-shittingly good, and the bestial vocals sounded like the heralding of the apocalypse. It’s commonsense to wear earplugs at a gig like this, but perhaps it might be sensible to go all out with a mouthguard. This shit will shatter your molars if you’re not careful. The sooner Beastwars make that flight back here from across the Tasman, the better. Obey the fuckin’ riff. LACHLAN KANONIUK
LOVED: I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a crowd lose their minds in such a manner. HATED: I didn’t have the commonsense to wear earplugs at a gig like this. DRANK: A pint or two.
DALLAS FRASCA VS. KING OF THE NORTH Dallas Frasca
NICK HILTON LOVED: The nerds in the crowd. HATED: The exclusion of the Beatles’ songs. DRANK: Beer, cider and melted Golden Gaytime juice.
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The Hi-Fi, Friday May 10
Here are three phrases from Om’s Wikipedia page which give you a bit of an idea of who they are, and give me a creative way to disguise lazy writing: “similar in structure to Tibetan and Byzantine chant”, “Live at Jerusalem” and “natural vibration of the universe”. Unsurprisingly, also listed on the page is “stoner rock”. Om, consisting of bassist/vocalist Al Cisneros, drummer Emil Amos and complemented by multi-instrumentalist tambourine man Robert A.A. Lowe, opened with the haunting chant from Sinai off the critically-adored new album Advaitic Songs. Patiently waiting for the sampled chant to conclude, Cisneros’ bass finally purrs through The Hi-Fi soundsystem, beginning a dreamlike 75-minute performance. Shadowing Sinai was Meditation Is The Practice Of Death from 2009’s God Is Good. Following this, however, were some awkward tech issues. While it’s normally trivial to comment on such matters, between Om’s religious iconography, droney vocals, entrancing atmosphere and the second-hand weed inhalation, an Om performance feels like meditation — one that was frustratingly interrupted from all the faffing about after several songs. While Amos’ cymbal-centric drum kit was played with perfection during Gethsemane, and Lowe danced as if overdozing on googs throughout the whole set, by far the highlight of the night was State Of No Return. Not
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NICK TARAS LOVED: The busker outside who sets up a telescope pointed at Saturn. So much better than someone hitting plastic bowls. HATED: When I tried to google this band and nek minnit became Buddhist. DRANK: Nothing, I drove that night because I had Rosie’s Mexican-themed party afterwards. It was great fun and we danced and we danced and we danced. Highlight of the night was my friend Tom getting rum poured on him for no reason. Lowlight was the house music! LOVED: Tom’s face after he got drenched! So much fun Dad, you should’ve been there. HATED: Not many chairs to sit on. DRANK: Mate ask anyone who saw me dancing during the Gold Coast Suns’ theme song. Gee whiz I love a beer!
The Forum, Saturday May 18
Although it wasn’t quite a full house at the Forum for Local Natives, it was a certainly a very appreciative crowd. This LA indie-rock band are experts at crafting accessible, hook-laden songs with a real depth to them and they have the potential to be huge. Tonight felt like the sharing of a secret among a crowd who have connected to the group’s strong set of songs on an emotional level and had gathered here to celebrate. I caught Local Natives at Laneway festival a couple of years back, and they are one of those bands who you see as part of a festival and wish you could have also been able to see them as their own sideshow too. The benefit of waiting a couple of years to get this chance is getting two album’s worth of songs in one show. Bowie’s Young Americans serves as an intro, then the first song of the night is the yearning You & I, which is also the opening song on the band’s Beat Magazine Page 70
only did each member shine in their own moment – Amos’ incredible drum rolls, Cisneros’ melodic riff and Lowe’s wild synth – but during the breakdown, there was that awesome sight of a metal crowd headbanging together as one. Buddhist monks spend much of their lives humming ‘om’ to become one with everything. Should’ve just come to The Hi-Fi.
melancholic new album Hummingbird. The fivepiece plough through every song bar one from this album and several of the best from their debut across this 70-minute set. The Gorilla Mansion songs are more jubilant and up-tempo, so the mix of both works makes for a striking balance. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of tonight is the various band-members’ lead vocals and harmonising, which are exemplary in a live setting. You know it’s a great show when the first thing you want to do when you get home is put on their records. CHRIS GIRDLER LOVED: Set highlights were Breakers, Airplanes and Sun Hands. HATED: Support act New Gods were easy listening but, ultimately, easy to talk through. DRANK Pale ale.
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We're big fans of your band, what gives Adelaide the special edge? Cafe' De Villes, Fritz and sauce sangas and the punters. There is a love for all things rock, straight up with no bullshit. It's about the music and good times if you catch my drift.
All jokes aside, we fuckin' love you guys. Are you gonna rock the fuck out of Rock n Load or what motherlickers? Harder than Jeff after his first kiss out the back of the Verrierdale Hall back in '92! Higgsy (King Of The North) questions Dallas Frasca...
What was it like growing up in the 'City of Churches'? Awesome, a great place to grow up. It's a massive country town with killer beaches and a real strong community "everyone knows everyone" sort of vibe. There is a lot of freedom and space to make lots of noise! Do you play with your drummer’s stick on tour? Always, it feels good and it's a great way to stay in shape. How come your guitarist has no beard? Oh, Dal, you've been too busy touring the world and it's clearly been too long between drinks! It's no Jeff Curran but both you and Jeff will love running your hands through it at Rock N Load, bring a milk crate. Was it intentional to buy the same tour van as us? You know you're not us right? Same van? That's a bit rich, last time you were in it, I distinctly remember your boyfriend saying, "This is heaps better than yours", (The van of course). And then you said, "I like you better when you're straight". There is a lot of connection between you and Danny on stage, you stare deep into each others’ eyes romantically and deeply, can you talk about that? Onstage, fuck! You should see it in the van! There is a strong connection, maybe because we're on the
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Is it true Dallas that you were born in Adelaide? Is Adelaide even a city of Australia? We see acts like you as an inspiration and were stoked to hear about your successful European tour. What was the highlight? A highlight for us was after every single show, the promoters of the venues were naming their favourite Aussie rocks bands of all time such as Radio Birdman/ Cosmic Psychos/Midnight Oil/Rose Tattoo/Divinyls/ The Saints/Cold Chisel/Nick Cave/ACDC/ The Angels/Airbourne. Us Aussies are really on the map and the French love it! Also maybe scoring the support for Patti Smith & Earth, Wind & Fire…Let's boogie. Other than King Of The North who is your favourite Aussie band? At the moment: King Parrot and Dead River. Your last album Sound Painter was kick arse! When can we expect the next one? When Saturn aligns with Uranus. If you and Jeff ever had a child, what do you think it would look like? Higgsy's LOOP PEDAL. DALLAS FRASCA and KING OF THE NORTH play Rock N' Load Festival at The Espy on Saturday June 1.
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