Beat #1377

ISSUE 1377

| 26 JUN 2013 | BEAT.COM.AU

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THE PRICE IS RIGHT ASH GRUNWALD Ash Grunwald and The Living End’s Scott Owen built a friendship around a backyard BBQ and a shared love of soy sausages and surf reports. Their other mutual affection, for all things musical, has led to an unlikely collaboration and a tour kicking off this June. Grunwald and the renowned bass straddler will be joined by Owen’s band mate, drummer Andy Strachan. The somewhat strange, super(ish) group have also hit the studio, recording their own banging version of Gnarl’s Barkley’s Crazy. A single has been released and can be downloaded for free through Grunwald’s website. The unexpected trio will rock out at the Prince Bandroom on Friday June 28 and we have some double passes to giveaway.

FLAP! Gearing up for 1000s of hours of travel-time in planes, trains, boats, buses, cars and bicycles across the world over the next few months, Flap! are Flying High in 2013.

A riot of musical colour and energy, only just off the road from a massive run of dates with mates The Cat Empire, in what will be one of their final Australian shows for 2013, Flap! will hit the The Hi-Fi on Saturday July 13 and we have some double passes to giveaway.

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BASTILLE DAY PARTY 2013 The Alliance Francaise, Cartell Music and Red Bennies unite on Friday July 12 to overthrow the oppressing winter with a Bastille Day celebration that will ensure all royal party guests wind up off with their heads.

Featuring live jazz, swing, blues and boogie legends The Shuffle Club, Miss Strawberry Siren the reigning Miss Burlesque Australia and MC Dirk Von Dagger, one of Melbourne’s hottest cabaret performers. This year the revolution will be costumed so please feel free to dress ‘royal’ or ‘revolution’. Ticket packages are available from afmelbourne.com.au.

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PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS Primitive Calculators play their first (and perhaps only) show for the year on Saturday July 6 at The Tote. They will be previewing material from the debut studio album that they are currently working on. It’s taken them 30+ years to get to this record and it promises to be a classic. Supporting them will be The Spinning Rooms, Strangers From Now On, Faspeedelay and Principal Blackman DJs. It kicks off at 9pm. Tickets are from the venue website.

STANDISH/CARLYON Futurist dub pop duo Standish/Carlyon have announced a Melbourne launch show for their acclaimed debut album Deleted Scenes. Deleted Scenes was recently was crowned our Album of the Week, where our reviewer noted that “it’s a slick, sleazy and very satisfying collaborative work.” The album launch will come after their upcoming dates supporting Kirin J Callinan on his national tour. Standish/Carlyon will hit Shebeen on Saturday July 27. Tickets through Moshtix.

COSMIC PSYCHOS Australian hard rock icons Cosmic Psychos have announced their first full-scale national tour in yonks, hitting Melbourne this August. For near on 30 years Cosmic Psychos have been smashing tinnies and blowing out eardrums, building a reputation as one of our most respected rock exports. The band is the subject of the new documentary Blokes You Can Trust.

Cosmic Psychos perform at The Hi-Fi on Friday August 9 with Ooga Boogas and Dead River Open. Tickets are on sale from the band’s website.

MO SESTO Influenced by Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse and Kimbra. Mo Sesto creates jazzy indie-pop and has already played at a number of Melbourne’s most established live music venues. She plays her next gig at Revolver on Friday July 5 with Nussy, Spencer James and DJ Marshall. Tickets are $10 at the door.

QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL The 17th Queenscliff Music Festival will see the festival host arguably its biggest lineup to date. Headlining the 2013 proceedings will be Australian rock icons The Living End, also joined by the John Butler Trio and The Grates. The full first announcement also includes Spiderbait, Blue King Brown, Saskwatch, The Screaming Jets, Busby Marou, Thelma Plum, Chance Waters, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, The Basics, Underground Lovers, Russell Morris, Northeast Party House, Darren Percival, Eagle and the Worm, Jeff Lang, The Preatures, Jasmine Rae, The Trouble With Templeton, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Mason Rack Band, The Brow Horn Orchestra, The Pigs, Papa Pilko and the Binrats, Stompy and the Heat, EMPRA, The Frowning Clouds, King of the North, Transvaal Diamond Syndicate and Patrick James with many more soon to be announced. The 2013 Queenscliff Music Festival will take place on Friday November 22 to Sunday November 24 at Princess Park, Queenscliff. Tickets through qmf.net.au.

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DEF FX Formed in Sydney in 1990, DEF FX carved out a unique place in Australian music. At the core of the band’s success was their inimitable mix of electronic beats and samples, rock/metal instrumentation and grunge vocals, which drew comparisons to artists as disparate as Pink Floyd, Metallica and The Prodigy. Add to this the charm and charisma of Horne and a killer live show and you have a winning combination that saw DEF FX capture the fascination and intrigue of Australian audiences. DEF FX are finally returning and will hit the Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 19.

Tickets are available from the venue website.

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT Revered metal icon Devin Townsend will once again return to Australia for a national tour, touching down in Melbourne this October. When Devin Townsend Project take to the stage, fans can expect a career defining set featuring songs from across Devin’s expansive back catalogue. Devin Townsend Project perform at The Palace on Sunday October 13.

Tickets are on sale Thursday June 27, 9am, from Oztix and Ticketek.

FRANK OCEAN

BASTILLE

Proving to be the hottest ticket in town, Frank Ocean sold out his Melbourne headline Splendour appearance in mere seconds. But fear not, a second date has just been announced. Taking the world by storm with his breakthrough record Channel Orange, Ocean has gone on to become one of the most in-demand acts on the planet. With Frank Ocean live shows proving to be a rarity, Melbourne audiences are set to be in for something special. Frank Ocean will perform at Festival Hall on Thursday July 25 (onsale noon Friday June 21) and Friday July 26 (sold-out). Tickets through the Live Nation website.

Bastille have announced their Australian tour in promotion of their debut album, Bad Blood. Founded by vocalist/pianist Dan Smith, Bastille are a quartet from the heart of London known for their captivating melodies and vivid storytelling, whether it is the love story illustrated in Pompeii or the sweeping vocals of Laura Palmer, where Smith captures the melancholy of the murdered homecoming queen in David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks. Supporting the band will be Sydney five-piece, Tigertown. Bastille will hit up the Corner Hotel on Friday August 16. Tickets can be purchased from the venue website the box office.

THE CULT UK icons The Cult will hit Melbourne this October. Born out of the ashes of the UK post-punk scene, The Cult are one of the most influential bands of the late 20th century. In 1987, The Cult released Electric, an album of stylistic change that aimed the band straight at the heart of the rock market. Their 2013 Australian tour will see them perform this now legendary album in full. The Cult will hit Festival Hall on Saturday October 5. Tickets go on sale on Thursday July 4 through Ticketmaster.

ALL TIME LOW Pop-punk royalty All Time Low have announced a second and final Melbourne over 18s show after selling out their first in just 11 minutes. This tour comes off the back of their latest album Don’t Panic and will seem them return to Australian shores following their appearance on the 2013 Soundwave lineup. All Time Low hit Billboard for over 18s shows on Saturday August 31 (sold-out) and Monday September 2. Tickets for the second show are on sale now through Oztix.

The Sunday September 1 under 18s show at Billboard is sold out.

BARN OWL Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti aka Barn Owl have always specialised in devotional darkness, pushing desert rock into previously unexplored, murky territories.

They follow in the footsteps of provocative avantgardists like Alice Coltrane and build on the doom metal foundation planted by Black Sabbath. Their latest and fifth record, V, released earlier this year, marks a shift in approach for Barn Owl by augmenting their arsenal of guitars and effects with an array of electronics. Catch them on Saturday August 10 when they hit the Northcote Social Club. Tickets are from the venue website.

ASH Irish pop-punk trio, Ash, will be returning to our shores this later year. Inspired by the success of their debut album, 1977, the tour will feature a live performance of 1977 in its entirety. Released in 1996, 1977 was the band’s debut album that heralded the era of science-fiction, punk, and cinema which influenced the band. Ash will be performing at the Corner Hotel on Thursday August 22. Tickets are available through the venue box office or website.

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Legendary Australian rocker Bon Scott would have been turning 67-years-old next month. To celebrate, The Espy is putting on a corker of a show called Bonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthday Bash on Saturday July 13 to take you down the highway to hell with local bands who are all inspired

by AC/DC. Massive, AC/dSHE, Dead City Ruins and Black Aces will blow the roof oďŹ&#x20AC; The Espy, proving that rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll will never die. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure to leave you thunderstruck.

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The Multicultural Health and Support service is hosting H3, an initiative that hopes to make messages of sexual health more accessible and relative to culturally and linguistically diverse youthful refugees. Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening hip hop crews convey crucial sexual health messages via music, dance and poetic lyrics. People between 15 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 25 years of age from a migrant background, with a passion for hip hop, are encouraged to rally their friends and bring their game to the rink, battling for the hip hop supremacy. Some of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hip hop titans will be joining the H3 cause to judge the competition, the likes of, Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;fa Jones, Mantra and M.C.K. Head down to Deakin Edge at Federation Square this Friday 28 June from 5.30pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8.30pm to check out the free event, and perhaps learn a thing or two.

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One of the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most exciting new bands, rock quartet Peace, is gearing up to tour Australia for the ďŹ rst time.

Being nominated as BBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artist of 2013 and NMEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best New Band is just a start for these four young upstarts from Birmingham. Peace released their debut album In Love earlier this year. The album was produced

by Jim Abiss (of Adele and Arctic Monkeys fame). The recording is a meticulously crafted collection of riďŹ&#x20AC;based pop and heart wrenching ballads that stands in a spectacular lineage of British greats. Catch Peace with support from Millions on Saturday September 15 and Sunday September 16 at the Northcote Social Club.

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SNAKADAKTAL Snakadaktal recently announced the release date for their keenly-awaited debut LP Sleep In The Water â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Friday August 2. Now, fans can rejoice over the news of tour dates shortly after, with the band set to undertake an extensive national tour, which will see Snakadaktal take their new soundscape to major metro and regional locations across the country.

Featuring 13 beguiling tracks, including album teaser Ghost and the new single Hung On Tight, Sleep In The Water is a bit like reuniting with an old friend, a friend whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sailed around the world to come home older and wiser. It is simultaneously ambitious yet tranquil, accomplished and otherworldly but still down-to-Earth. Catch them on Saturday August 24 at The Forum.

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Taking place as part of the impending Leaps & Bounds festival, Even will perform two special stripped-back acoustic performances at Yarra Hotel. The trio will be without Matthew Cotter for these shows (and these shows only). In an attempt to ďŹ ll the void, Ashley and Wal will have some additional instrumentation along for the ride with friends guesting on keys, strings, backing vocals and the like. The night will also debut a special Even-Mountain Goat brew in the form of a Superman Punch porter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with a free sample provided for all ticketholders. Even perform at The Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford on Wednesday July 18 and Thursday July 19. Tickets through trybooking.

Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acclaimed hip hop artist and recent Beat cover star Seth Sentry has announced The Vacation Tour in support of his latest single of the same name. Seth will be joined by special guests, Grey Ghost and Mantra to help bring his standout live show to new audiences around the country, on an extensive run of 24 regional tour dates between August and September. Full tour dates below.

Seth Sentry will hit the Westernport in San Remo on Friday September 6 and the Wool Exchange in Geelong on Saturday September 7. He will also be making a special appearance at Sprung Festival this October.

LOON LAKE AND STRANGE TALK Lake and Strange Talk will perform a double-headline show at The Hi-Fi this week. Loon Lake started putting down scrappy demos with one foot in the garage and the other in the sunshine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tracks which were packed with indelible melodies and slacker-pop wit. Early demos Into The OďŹ&#x192;ce and the wild-eyed Easy Chairs scored props from the local blogosphere and radio tastemakers. OďŹ&#x20AC; the back of killer singles like Climbing Walls, Eskimo Boy and Sexual Lifestyle, Strange Talk have already made their mark, both in Australia and beyond. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve joined the line-ups of festivals Parklife, Stereosonic, Future Music, Soundscape and Falls; opened for the Rapture, Neon Indian, and Marina and The Diamonds; hit the #1 spot on Billboardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Uncharted chart and a whole lot more. It goes down this Thursday June 27.

NGAIIRE Before her debut full length album Lamentations is unleashed, Ngaiire will be launching her current single Around with a Melbourne headline show. The Sydneybased future-soul future star has been making waves with initial single Dirty Hercules, now former Beat single of the week Around has generated palpable buzz leading up to the Friday July 12 release of Lamentations.

Ngaiire performs at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday June 28. Tickets are through Oztix.

KINGSWOOD With the ďŹ rst show sold out and a second now on sale Kingswood have announced Bertie Blackman will be joining them at their Corner Hotel shows in July. Opening the night on Wednesday July 17 is half man, half mule wild-lings Apes and on Wednesday 18 Lurch & Chief will be up ďŹ rst.Â

After a successful run as part of the Self Made series for Melbourne Music Week in 2012, Morning Ritual returns (with a little sleep in) for a series of weekend gigs in July as part of the inaugural Leaps And Bounds Festival, with each afternoon showcasing two bands for $5. UV Race and Early Woman play on Saturday July 6, Super Wild Horses and Terrible Truths perform on Sunday July 7, Beaches and Ausmuteants play on Saturday July 13, Nun and Eastlink perform on Sunday July 14 and ďŹ nally Ooga Boogas and Exhaustion co-headlines on Saturday July 20. A choice cut of support DJs round up the impressive lineups. It all takes places at the unconventional venue, the Copacabana Cafe at 139 Smith St from miiday â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til 4pm.

THE MAN IN BLACK New shows have been added to The Man In Black season at the Athenaeum Theatre this July. The Man In Black has been performing to sold out audiences around Australia and New Zealand since 2009. The show returns for a limited season to The Athenaeum where it all began with Tex Perkins leading The Tennessee Four to bring Johnny Cashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough life and legacy of powerful hit songs to life. Rachel Tidd returns to her role as Cashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife of 35 years June Carter, as do Dave Folley, Shane Reilly, Steve Hadley and Matt Walker as The Tennessee Four. The Man In Black will now run from Tuesday July 16 - Sunday July 21. Tickets through Ticketek.

PREKENDER PARTY With the main Poison City Weekender festival shows selling out in record time this year, the good blokes behind it all have announced the return of the Prekender Party, taking place at The Gasometer Hotel on Thursday September 5. The all killer lineup includes Joyce Manor, Cheap Girls, Grim Fandango, Ride The Tiger, Initials and Freak Wave. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be an art show too. Tickets go on sale Monday July 1. Head to poisoncityrecords.com for details.

ABABCD Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) has collaborated with Poncho TV (an online music TV channel) to produce a new online music show called ABABCd. The second episode will go to air on Monday July 1 and features  Splashh, who will be supporting The Rolling Stones at Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hyde Park Summertime show;  Gold Fields who are local talent from Ballarat and Big Scary , a Melbourne band who will release their new album shortly. This is a new and exciting venture for Collarts with ABABCd bringing an independent online music show to viewers and Collarts music students.  The show is recorded in the performance auditorium at Collarts in South Melbourne and the production oďŹ&#x20AC;ers music and audio students, studying at Australian College of the Arts, the opportunity to expand their studies and gain valuable music industry experience. Visit collarts.edu.au or poncho.tv.

THE AMITY AFFLICTION Rising through the ranks to establish themselves as Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost post-hardcore, The Amity AďŹ&#x201E;iction have announced their biggest tour to date. Currently enduring the marathon event of the US summer, Vans Warped Tour, Amity will return to home shores this October to share the stage with Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s metalcore guns Chelsea Grin, Orange County melodic hardcore gurus Stick To Your Guns, as well as local up-and-comers In Hearts Wake. The Amity AďŹ&#x201E;iction perform at The Palace on Thursday October 22 (under-18s show) and Friday October 23 (18-plus show). Tickets are through Oztix.

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THE PAPER KITES

BY KRISSI WEISS

The indie-folk scene in Australia, while rich in diversity and filled with an overwhelming breadth of talent, seems to be overflowing to the point of being unsustainable. We all know the awesome bands that have risen to the top like cream for a whirlwind ride and then bubbled away by the next festival season, never to be heard of again but Melbourne folkies The Paper Kites seem to have tackled this problem head on.

They’ve gone viral on the internet (okay, so “viral” gets tossed around a lot but nearly 6.5 million YouTube views indicates that’s no overstatement) and generally introduced themselves to the world and Australia simultaneously. For The Paper Kites they seem to think there’s no need to simply tackle one market at a time.

After signing with Wonderlick Recording and Sony Music in a joint venture as well as Nettwerk in North America, The Paper Kites are launching their debut album, States, into the arms of both those regions but as front man Sam Bentley admits, the album was certainly not a walk in the park. Yeah, people got mad, but they still love each other.

“It actually ended up being a pretty difficult record to make I think. It was the first time we didn’t all agree on the styles. It was really unusual for us because we’re always on the same page so, um, yeah…” Bentley trails off, wanting to openly talk about the creative process but also quite clearly not wanting a few arguments to be misconstrued as some monstrous battle. “There were a lot of heated discussions about the songs that ended up on there,” he finally says continuing.

“Even now with the finished product there are still songs that some people are not that stoked with being on there and other people would be upset of they weren’t on there. It’s not that it’s a divided album but I think what happened with this record was that, especially when you’re working with five opinionated people, everyone was in their own musical bubble and had different opinions on what they saw as great music. When you bring an idea into that that doesn’t sit well with their idea then it’s always going to be a recipe for a heated discussion.”

With Bentley the primary songwriter he spent some time holed-up in regional Victoria creating the tracks for States. He laughs at the suggestion that he was able to pull rank as the initial creator of most of the music and assures that the process was democratic, even if slightly hostile. “It’s really difficult because it really is the five of us in the band and everyone’s opinion is respected. But I guess the writer can always say ‘I wrote this song so I get the say’ but we didn’t want to work like that so we discussed it all at length and it really is draining to do it like that,” he says. “Even doing it that way you can never have a result that makes everyone happy.”

Only time will tell whether the choices the band made were the right ones (commercially at least) but when we speak the video for their first single, St. Clarity had hit the internet and the early response looks positive – even if it was mostly the support of friends. “I woke up this morning and I’ve been getting all these text messages from friends about the video so it’s been pretty full on,” he says. “It’s only just beginning to hit really though and it’s going to be a Beat Magazine Page 20

busy few months.”

It’s something the band are used to though, and despite the fact they’ve had a song on Grey’s Anatomy, consistent plays on YouTube and were recently personally invited by Dallas Green to join City & Colour on their US tour, Bentley still feels like their success has been an organic and slow moving journey. “People were just passing around our stuff and telling their friends about it,” he says. “In this era you might think that internet stuff mightn’t translate anymore but I think in our situation, it really did. We have the digital realm to thank for the rooms that

“WE’VE NEVER TRIED TO BE THE BAND THAT WAS THE HOTTEST THING AND WE’RE JUST PUTTING OUT THE STUFF THAT WE’RE WRITING AND IT’S A PROGRESSION OF THE SOUND.” started to fill as we started to play more and more.”

But was this a case of genuine word of mouth taking them offshore or did things like the Grey’s appearance spur on the internet momentum? “I think the views were there first,” he says. “It wasn’t a case of ‘oh yeah that song is on that TV show’ and that’s why we got noticed. Because people were talking about us we made our way to the people that make those decisions and because they noticed people were already paying attention to us that’s we got those opportunities. So yeah, we’ve been pretty lucky.”

While Bentley also agrees that the indie-folk scene in Australia is bursting at the seams, he believes their approach to songwriting manages to set them apart.

“There are definitely a lot of people in the scene and that’s a problem,” he says. “It’s not that we’ve intentionally tried to avoid that but I do think that

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the industry, particularly in Australia, is very stuck in the idea of what’s hot and what’s not. We try to write stuff that’s not really gonna fit into those categories. I think there’s always going to be a place for the singer/ songwriters doing their thing though. And if it’s stuff that people connect with then there’s always going to be a place for you and I guess that’s what’s been the common factor for our music; people really get something out of it.”

Produced by Wayne Connolly (whose production credits are too overwhelming and vast to list), States has taken to group into a new territory with regard to sonic diversity. How these sounds will come to life on this upcoming tour is another concern for Bentley.

“It’s gonna be interesting because we’re dealing with sounds we never have before,” he says. “It’s always a task to translate it live and we’re really going to be working on that. It’s a really exciting process as well.

We want the live shows to be true to the sound of the album but I have no idea how we’re going to do that.”

The next few months (and probably beyond) is looking like a hive of activity for The Paper Kites.

While they’re busy preparing to release their album here, the US is still being introduced to their earlier EPs so States will take a little while longer to reach them.

“We’ve got the label overseas and they’re a really great team and have their own plans to release the album over there eventually,” he says. “We’re doing the City & Colour tour and then a few of our own shows but they’re a little bit behind us over there.”

The connection the band has managed to establish with their audience has never been driven by market concerns or strategy. They might be becoming slowly aware of what works and what doesn’t, but it doesn’t dictate how they create their music. With a debut album there is the obvious concern of broadening your audience but keeping those that have been with you every step of the way is another delicate balance. Enjoying an album is such a ludicrously subjective undertaking that it seems futile to try and quantify it so smiling faces through the stage lights is really a band’s best measure. “We worked with Tim Coghill who’s a young Melbourne composer and he worked with us on five or six songs. He brought in a lot of wacky ideas and a lot of texture to the songs that we wouldn’t have thought of. He was a really great collaborator but again, that was also yet another reason why some people in the band weren’t comfortable. I think it pushed our soundscapes into a territory we have never been before so it has resulted in a much more complex album. I think no matter what, when it’s your debut album it’s really important that you get it right,” he says. “We’ve never tried to be the band that was the hottest thing and we’re just putting out the stuff that we’re writing and it’s a progression of the sound. People are either gonna embrace the sound and really enjoy it or they’re gonna say ‘that’s not the Paper Kites that we know and love’ and they’re gonna hate it. That’s always the risk.”

THE PAPER KITES will be at The Hi-Fi for an U18 matinee on Saturday September 15 and at The Forum for an over-18s show on Saturday September 28. States will be out in August with lead single St. Clarity out now through Wonderlick/Sony.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN Superman is back and flying into IMAX in 3D. From director Zack Snyder comes the latest Superman re-boot, Man of Steel 3D. Clark Kent/ Kal-El (Henry Cavill) is a young 20-something journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond his imagination. Transported years ago to Earth from Krypton, a highly advanced, distant planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question ‘Why am I here?’ Shaped by the values of his adoptive parents Martha and Jonathan Kent, Clark discovers having extraordinary abilities means making difficult decisions. When the world is in dire need of stability, an even greater threat emerges. Clark must become a Man of Steel, to protect the people he loves and shine as the world’s beacon of hope – Superman. It opens at IMAX this Thursday June 27.

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ON STAGE Four Letter Word Theatre will present its debut first original production, Chiamus, at the Collingwood Underground Car Park, this week. Inspired by the definition of Chiamus – ‘a figure of speech in which two or more clauses relate to each other through a reversal of structure in order to make a larger point’ – the play delves into power of words and how it shapes people, our fears, insecurities and primal instincts. Chiamus will be the third production of Four Letter Word Theatre this year, following the success of Equus and Titus Andonicus which earned the theatre company much acclaim. Chiamus will be performed at Collingwood Underground Car Park from Tuesday June 25 – Sunday June 30.

ON DISPLAY Tinning Street Gallery will host Travis John’s newest exhibition, guitar/fan phase, this week. The three-day exhibition, considered ‘a perpetual sound installation’, will feature a sound installation made of fans, guitars and other electrical appliances. Travis John is a sound artist and composer, situation in Melbourne, who explores the interaction and reactions between sounds with an aim to uncover how their expressed. guitar/fan phase will be on exhibition at Tinning Street Gallery from Thursday June 20 – Sunday June 23, with an opening night on Thursday June 20 from 6pm – 9pm.

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Graeme Murphy’s masterpiece adaption of Swan Lake will return to the Arts Centre this week. Inspired by the renowned love-triangle of Princess Diana, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, Swan Lake was adapted by Graeme Murphy to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of The Australian Ballet in 2002. Swan Lake begins after Prince Siegfried’s marriage to Odette, where things soon unravel as Siegfried pursues an affair with Baroness von Rothbart. The betrayal drives Odette to madness, resulting in her psychiatric admission by the royal family. Murphy’s sinister twist of the ballet classic received much acclaim, including four Helpmann Awards and a Best Foreign Dance Company UK Critics’ Circle Award in 2005. During the performance season, Artistic Director David McAllister will host a special discussion panel detailing the fascinating intricacies of Murphy’s adaption. Swan Lake will be performed at the State Theatre until Monday July 1.

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THE CRUCIBLE

BY PATRICK EMERY

In June 1956, playwright Arthur Miller appeared before the United States’ Congress House Un-American Activities Committee. Asked by the Committee for the identities of attendees at a series of meetings in 1947 who, it was alleged, had communist sympathies, Miller stood firm. “I could not use the name of another person and bring trouble on him,” Miller said, to the anger and resentment of his Congressional interrogators. The fact that Miller’s real-life ordeal reflected the plot of one of Miller’s most famous plays, The Crucible, would ensure the currency of Miller’s dramatic observations.

Miller had written The Crucible in the early ‘50s, well in advance of his appearance before the Congressional committee. Set in the town of Salem in Massachusetts the late 17th century, the play tells the story of John Proctor, an apparently good man battling to retain his reputation in the face of accusations of witchcraft and rising community fervor. Like Proctor, Miller had also strayed from his marital vows, embarking on an affair with Marilyn Monroe (whom he would eventually marry) while still married to his first wife. Art imitates life, and life mimics art.

It’s the combination of the personal and political that Sam Strong, director of the new Melbourne Theatre Company production of Miller’s classic play, believes underpins the continuing popularity of The Crucible. “The political side is well known in its exploration of hysteria, fear and persecution, but what’s equally recognisable in The Crucible is that personal moral dilemma that exists for John Proctor, especially in that love triangle that exists between him, Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams,” Strong says.

“It’s Miller’s tapping into the personal dilemma of that experience that makes it such a powerful story.”

Strong had first come across The Crucible when, as a high school student, he saw a production of the play. “Watching that high school production I was in awe of both people I knew transforming into characters, and also what a welltold story could do a room full of people,” Strong says.

Many years after that original encounter, and Strong is still fascinated with Miller’s ability to use historical events to explore aspects of sociological and political behaviour.

“The mastery of what Miller has done in writing about 1600s Salem in 1950s America is that he’s lifted the entire experience beyond the time,” Strong says. “He’s dealing with processes of what humans to do to other people, whether that’s singling people out that you’re afraid of, or how a group will turn on an individual.”

While the Enlightenment may have largely exorcised witchcraft and other religious superstitions from public discourse, The Crucible reminds us that society remains prone to bouts of hysteria and irrationality.

“I think what’s wonderful about what Miller’s done is that they are processes that exist across time – those things happened before Salem, and after Salem, and they’ll continue to happen after Salem. He managed to write about fundamental human things that exist across time,” Strong says.

Perhaps because The Crucible uses historical events to explore contemporary events and sociological dynamics, productions of the play have tended to adhere closely to Miller’s original plot. The MTC production is no exception.

“We are deeply faithful to Miller’s play,” Strong says. “It’s been a very unique experience working on this play compared to other plays that I’ve worked on, in that the best version of The Crucible is one that’s faithful to Miller’s intention. For me, the plot is about as close to perfect as you can get, and I think you mess with that plot at your peril.”

The MTC production features David Wenham in the role of John Proctor. “It was both a very quick process, and a very prolonged process,” Strong says. “With David Wenham, there’s a kind of everyman quality to David and likeability, and a very easy degree of empathy with David that makes him perfect for Proctor. At the same time, he’s very good at playing someone with an inner turmoil, so when he said he was interested, we were thrilled.”

For the part of Elizabeth Proctor, Strong chose Anita Hegh.

“Anita’s very good at dealing with very intense emotions, and suppressing those emotions. So both with them were very logical castings.” The rest of the cast is very diverse, ranging from recent drama graduates through to acclaimed Australian actress Julia Blake, who plays the part of Rebecca Nurse, the elder, reasoned member of the community who, like Proctor, finds herself accused of witchcraft. “It’s delightful as a director to work with such a range of performers, of such a high calibre,” Strong says.

The events of The Crucible continue to be repeated as social perils evolve. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Western nations – including Australia – adopted the same irrational behaviour as the religious zealots in 17th century Salem. Where there is an evil to be uncovered, it seems,

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society has learnt little over the last 300 years.

“The human tendencies that express themselves in witch hunts haven’t gone away, it’s just the manifestations that have changed,” Strong says. “I think the reason why The Crucible is still relevant now is that it speaks to fundamental human processes that happened before The Crucible, that have happened afterwards, and will continue to happen.”

Strong doesn’t have an answer for why social groups remain prone to irrational collective behaviour – especially in an age of so-called reason. “I think that sort of speculation is for people who come to the show, rather than for me to comment,” Strong laughs. “I think the best thing is for people to come to the show and make their own assessment.”

The Crucible is currently playing at the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Southbank Theatre, The Sumner until Saturday August 3.

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FELIX BAR COMEDY This Wednesday, New Zealand’s finest Cal Wilson headlines Felix Bar Comedy. Plus they’ve got Jacques Barrett, Michael Chamberlin, John Cruckshank and more. It’s happening this Wednesday June 26 at 8.30pm for only $12, at Felix Bar, St Kilda.

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ONE MAN LORD OF THE RINGS After smashing it here two years ago, Charles Ross is returning with his acclaimed production, One Man Lord of the Rings. Adapted into a one hour production, One Man Lord of the Rings recreates the magic of J. R. R. Tolkein’s classic trilogy through the harrowing rescue, riveting fights with himself and morphing between 40 characters seamlessly to convey the essential plot of The Lord of the Rings, to destroy Sauron’s ring. Charles Ross is an actor and writer who is also known for his adept portrayal of the Star Wars cast in One Man Star Wars Trilogy. One Man Lord of the Rings will be playing at The Arts Centre’s Playhouse Theatre from Thursdays July 4 – Saturday July 6.

Melbourne Fringe Festival have opened its Expressions of Interest. Filmmakers, animators, video artists are invited to apply to have their work features in this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, with over 300 artists participating in the festival last year. The Melbourne Fringe Festival is a great opportunity for aspiring and budding performers, and artists, to garner attention from the Melbourne public. It’s considered one of Melbourne’s most popular arts festival, and is the longest arts festival in Melbourne. Melbourne Fringe Festival EOI opens on Friday June 28. Melbourne Fringe Festival will run from Wednesday September 18 – Sunday October 6.

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Prepare yourself for some gypsy-times and Polish soup at Ferdydurke this month, with I Left My Heart In Europe, a monthly cultural event. Filled with modern and classic European sounds, from the riveting folk storytelling of the Vardos Trio to the innovative sounds of DJ Kid Militan, I Left My Heart In Europe will be a collision of Eastern Europe culture, including Polish paper cut outs, dancing and genuine gypsies. Of course, most importantly, there will be food and vodka. I Left My Heart In Europe will showcase Ferdydurke’s multiculturalism on Sunday June 30.

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FRIDAY ON MY MIND Friday on My Mind, an interview series dedicated to the film industry professionals, will be hosting a special session this Friday entitled, Black is the new Black. The Rise and Rise of Indigenous Australian Storytelling on the Screen. Delving into this explosive genre will be guest host Sue Maslin, who will be interviewing Gillian Moody, Investment and Development Manager for Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department. Gillian Moody is a project manager and producer with over ten years of experience, including ten years at SBS as a Production Manager with the Indigenous Media Unit which produced programs such as ICAM and Living Black. This prior experience helped Moody assist with the production of Redfern Now, The Sapphires and Bran Nue Dae; helping to identify, nurture and support Indigenous filmmakers. Black is the new Black. The Rise and Rise of Indigenous Australian Storytelling on the Screen will be held at the ACMI on Friday June 28. Admission is free, but bookings are preferred.

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SKIN Gallery ONETHREE, located in Melbourne’s CBD, will be presenting Mark Chu’s latest collection of works, SKIN, this July. Exhibited over seven days, SKIN will feature the artist’s latest collection of oil paintings and photographic prints, including a piano installation. Chu was a pianist for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra when he was 15, and is currently working on improvised, instrumental DJ sets. Throughout SKIN, Chu will juxtapose his musical talent and artistic talent with a piano performance each day. The opening night will also feature a special DJ performance

by Chu, including the sale of all the paintings and photographic prints that night. SKIN will be on exhibition at Gallery ONETHREE from Friday July 19 – Thursday July 25. Admission is free.

BOOZE CITY The Butterfly Club will hit all the right nerves with its latest production, Booze City. Inspired by booze culture, Booze City delves into the violence, pleasures and consequences of alcohol in Australia. Booze City illustrates the tale of ex-alcoholic Tim Balcome who becomes Premier during a alcohol-fueled violent rampant in his city. Simultaneously, Balcome’s own son is off at schoolies, getting smashed, while his wife is being recruited by Reclaim the Streets. Absurd yet poignant, Booze City will be performed at The Butterfly Club from Thursday July 11 – Sunday July 21.

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Beau Stegmann will be hosting as Adam Rozenbachs headlines Commedia Dell Parte at Agent 284 this Thursday. Joining them will Simon Keck, Tony Besselink, Craig McLeod, Kate McLennan and Sam Peterson. Tickets at the door for just $10.

Commedia Dell Parte is still running every Thursday in St Kilda, and this week Sean Ryan hosts a great lineup of comics including Xander Allan, Dilruk Jayasinha, Craig McLeod, Tamara Issa, Danny Stinson and Doug Gordan. 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 at 8.30pm, George Lane Bar, St Kilda.

Hot on the heels of four star reviews in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Impro Melbourne are presenting one of the world’s most popular competitive impro show, Theatresports. Performing every Sunday from May 12 - July 7 in Prahran, join them at The Space in Prahran as the teams battle it out for a place in the Theatresports Grand Final this year held in the historic National Theatre in St Kilda on Saturday July 13. A show for the entire family, Theatresports sees two teams competing in improvised challenges, using audience suggestions as the inspiration for stories, characters and songs. No two shows are the same. Visit impromelbourne.com.au for more information.

St Kilda Village will debut their newest arts festival this August, entitled StripFest – Seven Days of Cake.

Inspired by the theme CAKE, the seven-day festival will be feature an explosion of film, dance, theatre, music, poetry readings, cabaret, burlesque and the loudest, sassiest combination of acts you’ve ever seen. Acland Street, the home of St Kilda, will be transformed into a festival hub for StripFest, including its surround streets and laneways. Currently StripFest are taking theatre and performance expressions of interest. StripFest – Seven Days of Cake will run from Friday August 23 – Saturday August 31.

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Considered the largest exhibition of acclaimed Polish artist Monika Sosnowska in the Southern Hemisphere, Regional Modernities will open at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art this August. Sosnowka is a contemporary artist who is known for creating large-scale works that surprise, perplex and connect. Hosted across all four ACCA galleries, Regional Modernities will offer an architectural perspective into how our reality inhibits us, from her famous narrow ‘institutional corridors’ an vaguely resemble distance, and her twisting urban structures that morph into bunkers and an architectural landscape of Warsaw. Regional Modernities will open on Saturday August 10 and close on Sunday September 29. Admission is free.

FOXFINDER Red Stitch Actors Theatre will be opening their Season Two program with the premiere of Foxfinder his July. Foxfinder is the latest production from acclaimed British playwright Dawn King (The Squatter’s Handbook, Face Value) and illustrates the tale of William Boor, a detective assigned to dystopian farming community to investigate a suspected infestation. Recently nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Foxfinder will feature the talent of David Whiteley, Matthew Whitt, Rosie Lockhart and special guest actor Joanne Trentini.

Foxfinder will premiere at Red Stitch Theatre from Wednesday July 17 – Saturday August 17.

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Mikey Robins hosts Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday. They’ve been having big crowds, so get in early so you don’t miss out. Plus, they’ve got Jacques Barrett, Geraldine Hickey, Michael Chamberlin, Oliver Clark, John Cruckshank and more. This Thursday June 27 at 8.30pm for only $12 at Five Boroughs (upstairs), 68 Hardware Lane, CBD.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN This Monday, it’s yet another cracking lineup down at your old mate Comedy@Spleen. They’ve got Daniel Connell hosting plus Ben Lomas, Steele Saunders, Jacques Barrett, Don Tran, Mark Conway and heaps and heaps more. It’s this Monday July 1, 41 Bourke St, in the city, at 8.30pm.

It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

DAVID QUIRK David Quirk returns with his riveting show, Shaking Hands With Danger, for a one-night-only performance at The Butterfly Club this July. Quirk found his success at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival early this year, winning the Piece of Wood Award, then claiming the a nomination spot for the Best of the Fest at Sydney Comedy Festival earlier this year. Shaking Hands With Danger captures a poignant tale of infidelity, exploring people’s motives to cheat and what would have if the roles were reversed. Intelligent, witty and incredibly philosophical, Shaking Hands With Danger will be performed at The Butterfly Club on Thursday July 10 at 9.30pm.

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THE 2013 MELBOURNE MAGIC FESTIVAL

BY CALLUM FITZPATRICK

Most of us will have been exposed to magic at an early age – a clown pulling a rabbit out of a hat or David Copperfield’s grandiose stage shows on TV. The problem is, even though this is just a small image of the many facets of magic, it seems to stick with us and frame our opinion. The 2013 Melbourne Magic Festival aims to challenge our preconceptions of magic and change the way we perceive the entire art form.

“The whole point of the festival is to let people know that it’s not just their old fashioned idea of what magic might be,” says Festival Director and highly regarded performer, author and lecturer in the world of magic and illusion, Tim Ellis.

“We’re showing that there’s as much variety in magic as there is in music. You wouldn’t just assume that all music is opera or rap, yet people seem to do that with magic.

They seem to pigeonhole it as whatever their own personal experience of it has been. We’ve created a showcase where all styles of magic can be seen; whether it is mentalism, sleight of hand, comedy magic or grand illusions.

“Last year’s festival saw 10,000 people come through the doors and this year is going to be even bigger – a lot of the performers are taking some very big risks.”

This year the festival’s relentless schedule will bring in 175 performances of 40 different shows in just 13 days.

What’s more, one of the biggest names on the international circuit will be in town: Wayne Houchin. Wayne is highly regarded in the magic community through not just his own mind-blowing shows, but because of his work with magic megastar Criss Angel and from co-founding the popular

magic website theory11.

“Wayne’s show is astonishing,” Tim says. “He has invented a whole series of amazing effects that are designed to have the absolute highest possible impact. It’s not just a mental influence; his work seems to create a genuine emotional response. That’s key to the art – magic should never just be just a puzzle that you want to figure out. Wayne is constantly trying to push the boundaries of magic and he injects a lot of his personality into what he does. He doesn’t want to do tricks that have been done before by other people, and if he does, he will put a devastating twist on them.”

As well as being a showcase for Wayne and some of Australia’s leading magic professionals, the festival is also used as an outlet to educate budding magicians with a host of lectures, workshops and classes for both kids and adults.

There are also sessions such as Move Monkeys – a free ‘sessioning’ gathering which allows both professional and hobbyist magicians to swap moves and get tips and techniques, as well as The False Panel which features six experienced magicians taking on difficult questions from the audience.

BODYART TRAINING

BY DENVER MAXX

The Voice ranks very highly amongst Australia’s most-watched television programs.

Appealing to all walks of life, it’s as mainstream as they come. But in the midst of this by-the-numbers format is the tattoo-covered and piercing-riddled Joel Madden. “So what?” I hear you asking, but it’s important to remember that it’s only been 20 years or so since tattoos and piercings have wended their way into the mainstream.

“The street culture has changed dramatically – tattoos were frowned upon back then, but as times changed they became more accepted and now create new employment opportunities for people with great artistic skills,” explains BodyArt Training master trainer, Richard Anthony.

BodyArt Training was founded in Melbourne in 1994 and is the only registered training organisation to provide specialised training; the company also follows strict guidelines from ASQA (Australian Skills Quality Authority), which has helped them ensure they retain they reign. Add to this the fact that all trainers are qualified master piercers with a combined 30 years of industry experience, and you’ve got yourself one serious industry competitor.

It’s important to remember that just like the music industry,

body art was born from cultural tradition – it was never formally structured like other professional pursuits such as medicine and law. However, in such an over governed society where you need an official license to practice anything, BodyArt Training have worked with consistent passion to professionalise the body art industry.

“Initially it was tough, but we have been involved in this arena for a while, and we work closely with the PTAA (Professional Tattooing Association of Australia), BPAA (Body Piercing Association Australia), relevant Health Departments and are also part of the Artsafe Council.”

BodyArt Training provides a wide range of courses from Cosmetic Tattoo, Specialist Body Piercing to Micro Dermal Implanting. The courses have been designed by the likes

NICOLA SCOTT

BY AVRILLE BYLOK-COLLARD

It was recently announced that Australian comic book writer Tom Taylor will be joining Sydney-raised Australian comic book artist, Nicola Scott, for the next series of Earth 2, a DC comic book series that tributes the Legacy characters of the DC Universe.

Taylor will be replacing famed writer James Robinson, who was responsible for such acclaimed works as London’s Dark: A Tale of love & war, life, death (& afterlife) (1989) and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989 – 1992), a follow on from Frank Miller’s celebrated Batman: Year One (1987).

“I’m really excited actually. I’ve been watching Tom rise, not just through the ranks, but [through people’s] big perception of him, [and] the growing aware of him over the last couple of years,” said Scott, a model/actress turned comic book artist. Scott will be attending Melbourne Oz Comic-Con alongside Taylor early next month. “I knew he’d be working through the DC Universe at some point soon, [and I’m] super excited he gets to work on his first big book and its gets to be with me.”

Raised in the suburbs of Sydney on a diet of ‘70s TV shows and art, Nicola Scott has always been a determined individual. Always keen on stability, adventure, and creativity, it wasn’t until Scott’s late 20s that she discovered her desire to become a comic book artist, and her need to draw Wonder Woman.

“It was an absolute epiphany,” stated Scott, illustrating her headspace crisis at the time—she had wanted a career with direction. “I was going through the motions of working and not having any particular direction, and I felt like ‘now’s the time that I actually need some serious direction’. I [concentrated] on the creative things I could do, and what I might be able to do with them. I could sew and I could draw, [but] I decided I wanted to be drawing. After considering all kinds of different options that didn’t right true with me…I thought: ‘If I have to draw the same thing, all-day, everyday, what would I draw?’, and I thought: ‘Gosh, it would be nice Beat Magazine Page 26

if I could draw Wonder Woman everyday’. And as soon as I thought that, I was like, ‘Oh my god, there is a comic book of Wonder Woman and someone gets paid to draw that.

Every day, that’s their job. I want that job.’”

From then on, Scott approached her chosen career path with ferocious vehemence. She immediately drove down to the local comic book store, bought a pile of Wonder Woman comics (and many other comics too), drove home, and begun her career as a comic book artist.

Scott quickly became immersed in the vivid line, colour, shape and panel detail that comic book artist George Pérez incorporated into his Wonder Woman comics, was inspired by “the cleanness of the lines” of Adam Hughes (The Origin of Wonder Woman, X-Men Classic) produced in the early 90s, and fascinated by Kevin Maguire’s array of facial expressions in Justice League International. However, what riveted Scott more was the innovative artistry within the comic book universe.

“When I decided to draw comes, things like Kingdom Come [a DC Universe series with Superman, Wonder Woman and the Justice League] were reasonably fresh, and I bought those and read those,” said Scott, iterating that comics that make her love, or perceive, a character in a different way are the ones that leave the most impression on her; she appreciates pure ingenuity. “I just think seeing what artists could do and seeing what boundaries could be pushed

Although it has grown every year, a constant problem the festival faces is recognition from Government bodies.

“A lot of the Government bodies don’t seem to see it as an art form – it’s just a commercial enterprise. They’re happy to support circus and burlesque, but not magic.

“For the first five years the festival was purely run by the performers themselves, but now it is too big so we got a dedicated festival administrator involved. We had to turn away 21 different shows that we just couldn’t fit in, but we’re still looking to expand.”

It seems strange to think of magic being disregarded as an art form when you look at all the mediums it encompasses: performance, theatre, comedy and occasionally even dance and music.

“Magic draws on all other art forms and combines them to create an illusion of something impossible happening,” Tim says. “It’s strange because that’s what theatre is all about. You go to a play and the actor says ‘I am the Prince of Denmark’ and the audience believes you, but if a magician says ‘watch as this box floats’, people will challenge it. We have to work so much harder. The ultimate is when there is no attempt of Anthony and often simulate real on the job situations to best prepare students to enter the workforce.

“Our number one courses are our Specialist Body Piercing Course and our Maintain Infection Control Courses. These are specifically written for potential body piercers and Tattooists to help them gain the appropriate skills to be able to work safely and efficiently in the skin penetration industry. In addition, BodyArt Training run a range of small courses appropriate to the body art industry.”

Today, tattoos and piercings are almost commonplace, but it doesn’t mean they don’t still have an edge. Anthony recounts his personal experience. “After 13 years working in the industry there has been a lot of challenging times and crazy characters. Some of the most interesting and artistic work we do are corset piercings for photographic purposes.”

And of course, as one would expect, Anthony loves endowing his own body with tattoos and piercings. His favourite piece of body art? “I personally got a new portrait on my leg done by the amazing Tenile Napoli.”

Finally, the master trainer tells us why BodyArt Training should be the first choice for aspiring body artists. “Do what you want to do in life and if that is body art then give us call because this it is passion and has been for the last 19 years!”

Head to bodyarttraining.com.au for a full list of courses and locations.

[was important to me, and] that has continued to make an impression on me.”

It was this appreciation for ingenuity, and Scott’s frank manner—“I was quite direct in my questioning and I think that kind of confidence was that made the editors consider me seriously”— that earned the Australian freelance work throughout major labels such as Dark Horse, Top Cow, IDW before securing her contracted position at DC Comics, illustrating Teen Titans, then Earth 2.

If you didn’t already know, Earth 2 is a DC comic book series dedicated to their Legacy characters like the Crimson Avenger, The Flash, Green Lantern, etc, who are not revamped every generation like Batman and Spiderman.

Every generation, unlike Batman and Spiderman, new characters replace these Legacy characters, but readers are reluctant to let them go. Hence, Earth 2, an alternate universe that these characters can fight evil, and exist in.

Nicola Scott is the current comic book for Earth 2, succeeding her successful work on Birds of Prey, Teen Titans, Secret Six and Blackest Night: Wonder Woman. Her ambition of being able to draw Wonder Woman everyday became her reality after many years of gruelling work.

“You have to really know that you want to do it, and you have to be prepared to work really hard to get there,” said Scott firmly, asserting her advice for anyone wanting to pursue her career path. “Be well aware of what the potential is within [the] particular niches that you’re choosing,” which can range from superhero comics to European and Japanese, “there’s not a lot of people who make a really good living outside of superheroes. From the time I first decided to draw comics to actually getting a monthly book at DC Comics, it took me four and a half years. I didn’t get paid very much. I spent most of my time looking for work, hustling for work; just as much time as I spent doing the work. I didn’t sleep very much [either]. It was a big commitment.”

You can catch Nicola Scott alongside many others at the Melbourne Oz Comic-Con, which will be held at the Royal Exhibition Building from Saturday July 6 – Sunday July 7.

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in the audience’s mind to figure out how something is done because in that moment they are so stunned that there is only one explanation: it must be magic.”

This is obviously no easy feat, so Tim says there was a conscious decision to include shows that will really push the boundaries of illusion.

“We’re slipping in some shows that are really going to challenge people. My show, In Dreams, attempts to tell a story through magic only. As the story unfolds and you listen to the lyrics of the background music and you see what’s going on, you put the pieces together and you start to understand what the story is. It’s got a few different outcomes and some moments that will have people talking afterwards and scratching their heads. Hopefully it will inspire people to carve out new paths, instead of treading on the paths that people have walked on before.”

The 2013 Melbourne Magic Festival runs from Monday July 1 - Saturday July 13 at the Northcote Town Hall. Visit melbournemagicfestival.com for more information.

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2013 MELBOURNE

CABARET FESTIVAL

INTRODUCTION

PORGY & BESS PROJECT

150 performers, 150 performances, 12 nights, 16 venues and 8 international acts. Yep. It’s fair to say that our city is about to be swept up in the whirlwind that is the annual Melbourne Cabaret Festival. Kicking off tonight with the opening night gala, the Melbourne Cabaret Festival will be hosted across town from Wednesday June 26 – Sunday July 7. Come with us as we delve deeper into the festival to seek the most exhilarating, entertaining and downright stunning shows of this almost two-week long extravaganza.

OPRAHFICATION Who is the composer/musical director/writer?

Shanon Whitelock.

What makes cabaret special? The conversation between the audience and the performer is live, organic, unrehearsed, honest and intimate. There’s a spark in the room that allows the audience to connect with the performers in a really special way.

If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Electric.

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? I won tickets to Ursula Yovich’s cabaret at the Brisbane Festival in 2010 and it blew my mind. Ursula owned the stage, her amazing storytelling coupled with a live band. I was hooked and now I’m doing it myself and working with some amazing people.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show?

I once saw a cabaret performer swinging from the rafters, singing upside and all the while taking bits of fruit out of her.

Oprah isn’t doing that. I promise.

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? There are so many different things to see and experience in this festival.

Tell us about your show. What’s it about? ‘Oprahfication’ is a term coined by the Wall St Journal meaning a public confession used as a form therapy. Our one hour show is all about what happens to a big star when they leave their audience behind. Oprah left her life on television behind in 2011 to build her O.W.N. network but she misses her people

A SAUCY LITTLE SECRET Who are the performers? An incredible Perth ensemble cast of Di Shaw, Libby Hammer, Ofa Fotu, Natalie Gillespie and Harry Deluxe – and an incredible band of Perth and Melbourne’s finest! Yes people – we’re travelling 12 people to the Cabaret Festival across the country with no government support… I think that makes us one brave, ballsy (and broke) bunch!

What makes cabaret special? The opportunity to tell stories, sing songs, break new ground and play with people from all walks of life. Fun! If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Brave – always brave!

- her audience. So she’s back for a very special episode and to bring you the ultimate interview. With music written by myself and lyrics by Rachel Dunham we’ve created a show that feels like you’ve entered a real live taping of the Oprah Winfrey show and believe me... the Big O is in the room and she can sing!

Describe your show with five words. Oprah, Oprah, Oprah, Oprah, Oprah!

How are people going to leave your show feeling? Elated!

They’ll be screaming and stamping their feet, it’s like Oprah goes rock and soul. Oprah never sang of course, so musically I wanted to create a sound that could have been her if she did sing. Her personality has always been vibrant, inspiring and in the right moments, poignant, so I wanted to reflect that in the music... we’ve got lullabies, doo-wop, soul, gospel, funk, Mo-town, dreamgirl’s like diva belts - yeah, this show is a musical roller-coaster!

What dates and times can I see your show? Saturday June 29 and Sunday June 30, at 7pm .

And at which venue? Chapel Off Chapel.

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? To be honest – my answer is a little lame (and I suspect I’m not the only one out there… go-on… ‘fess up…). I saw the movie Cabaret as a child, and ever since I’ve wanted to be Liza. Sadly I’m a better writer than performer, but hey – at least I can be the woman behind the Liza’s!

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show?

The strangest, but perhaps most wonderful thing I’ve seen at a cabaret show is Le Gateau Chocolat – he is so decadently rich and chocolatey... I just wanted to go back for another slice! I simply have no willpower!

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? This is our first time at the Festival – so I think we’re yet to find a favourite! It’s a such a diverse programme – I just wish we could see absolutely everything!

Tell us about your show. What’s it about? The ‘Harlem

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Who are the performers? Mama Alto, also featuring Tiffanni Walton, Elise Winterflood and Monique Zucco.

What makes cabaret special? Cabaret is special because it isn’t just performance – cabaret is a relationship between audience and performer and story and song, based on intimate connections, forged with urgency in a transient, temporary space. Cabaret is joyous, titillating, vulnerable, sassy, risqué, quirky and fabulous. In a world of increasing social isolation characterised by technology interfaces rather than face-to-face interaction, and in an artistic field dominated by saccharine popular music lacking the visceral depth and poignancy of live performance, people seek something more. Cabaret answers that need, that desire.

If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Cabaret, if condensed into a feeling, would be a heady mixture of vitality and vulnerability, of intimacy and distance, of bravado and delicacy, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Cabaret is a cocktail of diametrically opposed elements of wonder, crystallised by an alchemist into a precious delicacy that irresistibly tempts you to just have a little taste.

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? I first got hooked on cabaret through recordings: in the womb, when my mother listened to Grace Knight purring and Vince Jones crooning, and in early childhood when my father listened to such sultry and sassy ladies as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Cleo Laine. But I am hooked afresh every time I experience this magnificent art form.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show?

Nothing is strange in cabaret. Cabaret is where strange comes for a good time. But if I had to give an answer, it would be watching cabaret artiste Bridget Everett – what is a delicate word for groping? – my partner Geoffrey onstage at Joe’s Pub in New York.

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? This festival is just such a brilliant

Renaissance’ of the 1920s is where our story begins: a window to the lives of five unstoppable women whose tenacity and passion allowed them to transcend childhoods cut short and marred by rape, abuse and desperate poverty to become black blues queens in a white, well-heeled world, and they all had a ‘saucy little secret’ to share. But if you want to know what it is – you’ll have to come and see the show!

Describe your show with five words. Blues, booze, babes and debauchery!

How are people going to leave your show feeling? They’ll have had their heartstrings royally tugged and their funnybones generously tickled!

What dates and times can I see your show? Wednesday July 3 and Thursday July 4, 8pm until 10pm.

And at which venue? The 86.

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celebration of the art of cabaret, drawing together so many fabulous and diverse artists from around the world and around the country and bringing them here to our incredible city of Melbourne.

Tell us about your show. What’s it about? In Porgy & Bess Project, countertenor diva Mama Alto takes the wonderful songs from the Gershwin opera and interprets them through the jazz idiom to turn what was originally a narrative of difference into a narrative of celebration.

Exploring what it means to be an Other, whether that be through colour, gender or sexuality, this project embraces and rejoices in our humanity. Take this journey with cabaret artiste Mama Alto, who has been described as a voice that transcends gender.

Describe your show with three words. Rise up singing.

How are people going to leave your show feeling? I want them to leave with an understanding in their heart that we are all human and that we are all different, and that that is not only okay, but beautiful!

What dates and times can I see your show? Wednesday July 3 at 8pm, Friday July 5 at 9pm, and Sunday July 7 at 8pm.

And at which venue? The Butterfly Club, Carson Place (off Little Collins St), CBD. And for what price? Full $23, concession $20, groups of 8 or more $18 each.

Where can we go to read more about your show? mamaalto.com or melbournecabaret.com

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And for what price? Cabaret Table $79 (four people and complimentary bottle of French bubbly and VIP table service until the curtain comes down. Only seven tables available), single seat $25, standing/bar $13.

Where can we go to read more about your show? You can visit our Facebook page (HMS PopUp Productions) and check out photos from our sell-out Perth season.

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Who is the performer? Charlie Lane

THE WRONGTOWN BROTHERS Who are the performers? The Shonky Brothers (Loz and Jacko Nanigans).

What makes cabaret special? The fact that there are so many forms of cabaret. People think, “Oh cabaret, is that like musical theatre?”. I mean yes there are dramatic elements and a storyline but cabaret is so broad nowadays. My show is more pop/cabaret with a bigger musical element to it, and my voice is certainly different to what you would hear in an old-school cabaret show.

If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Exhilarating.

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? It’s a hard question, I never really got hooked on cabaret, it seemed to just fit. I did drama and music for years...I think I’ve combined both of them accidentally on a larger scale and now I love it!

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show? Not that strange and I guess more burlesque...but a whole lot of nipple tassles, that I wasn’t ready for!

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? That it is such a big festival and that so many venues get involved to support it. Also, it is really just so big this year with 150 acts. It’s good to know cabaret is expanding.

Tell us about your show. What’s it about? Charlie Lane, a 22-year-old antagonistic, opinionated girl, struggles with adult life and the pressure to be less care free and more ‘responsible’. Her introductory song, I Just Want To Have Fun, tells the story of Charlie, a young adolescent,

What makes cabaret special? Loz: Well, it’s personal, isn’t it? It’s honest. People tell true stories. Plus, you can sing dirty songs and swear a lot. who has ‘realistic’ dreams of having no job and becoming friends with Ellen DeGeneres. Mannequin is the next running theme in which Charlie can’t seem to find any point in growing up as all she sees are pieces of plastic walking past. In the following piece, Robot, Charlie and her doctor have an argument about medication and the need for it. Charlie eventually ends with the rebellious The Girl That Never Grew Up. Charlie Lane’s quirky and mischievous adventures through to adulthood are not to be missed.

Describe your show with five words. A playful mockery of adulthood.

How are people going to leave your show feeling?

Wanting to be more carefree.

What dates and times can I see your show? You can see Charlie Lane in The Girl That Never Grew Up at The Butterfly Club on Sunday June 30 and Sunday July 7 at 9.30pm.

And for what price? $23 adult, $20 concession, $18 Cabaret Festival Members, $18 groups of 8+. Tickets are from melbournecabaret.com or thebutterflyclub.com.

Where can we go to read more about your show? Either head to melbournecabaret.com or thebutterflyclub.com.

If you had to condense cabaret into a piece of furniture, what would it be? Jacko: A chaise lounge – comfortable, but not too comfortable. Stylish yet inappropriate for most rooms; Bold and somewhat vulgar; And a good place for sickos to vent their psychological inadequacies.

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? L: Look, I’m not hooked on Cabaret. I can stop any time I want.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show? J: I think that question will be better answered after our shows!

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? J: There is a terrific vibe around the performers – a supportive and encouraging family who share a love of cabaret. It’s great to hang out at the Butterfly Club each night and listen to the ‘Best Of The Fest’ spots to get a sense of who’s who and get sauced up with a room full of weirdos!

Tell us about your show. What’s it about? L: There’s no need to dress this up too much; we write dirty comedy songs. We are the adopted love-children of Weird Al Yankovic and Kevin Bloody Wilson, who once shared a steamy night of booze-fuelled passion. Our biggest hits thus far have been Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun”and Sweet

TROPICAL PARODIES A COCKTAIL OF COMIC SONG “This team of comic musicians bring the scathing wit, musical ability and physical presence to deliver with style ... One of the standout shows of this years festival.”

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WELCOME TO TROPICAL PARODIES – A HILARIOUS NIGHT OF CABARET COMEDY! Perth’s “local hit factory” (The West Australian) teams up with Trevor Jones to bring you an original and fast-paced comic song sensation, hailed as “one of the stand out shows” of the Perth International Comedy Festival (ArtsHub) and winner of Best Local Act.

July 5 - 7 (Friday - Sunday) 7pm Kew Court House, 188 High Street Tickets: $36 full $33 conc. $30 MCF rate Bookings: tinyurl.com/WeDoParodies

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Jean, the Wanking Machine - an ode to an extraordinarily futuristic sex toy I had the privilege of reviewing as part of my day job.

Everybody has a talent - ours is writing dirty songs.

Seriously, they’re beautiful. Our poor mother hates them but can’t stop humming them. And the worst part is, almost everything in the show is a true story. Like our buddy Alvin, the star of One Little Person - who we’re convinced is going to be even more of a superstar once this tune hits the airwaves. He’s a legend.

Describe your show with five words. L: Dick songs, but with soul.

What dates and times can I see your show? Wednesday July 3 - Friday July 5 at 8.30pm And at which venue? The Kew Courthouse And for what price? $36 Full, $33 Concession and $30 Melbourne Cabaret Festival members.

Where can we go to read more about your show? Check out our videos and songs at facebook.com/ShonkyBrothers and soundcloud.com/wrongtown-brothers.

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I DREAM OF JONI

VOCALTRONICS

Who is the performer? Tara Minton

Who are the performers? Suade.

What makes cabaret special? Cabaret is such a personal and varied art form. As an audience member you never quite know what you’re in for, and as a writer/performer you have total freedom of expression.

Tell us about your show. What’s it about? Suade is a musical comedy act featuring four very versatile vocalists. We use beat-boxing, vocal percussion, live looping, vocal effects and smooth harmony to present a journey of popular songs from the last thirty years. Each song is carefully crafted and choreographed to engage and entertain audiences.

If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Alluring.

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? I wouldn’t say I’m “hooked” on it, but I certainly adore the medium as a holiday away from my normal life as a musician. I wrote my first cabaret for the Butterfly Club in 2008. I’ve loved it since then.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show? Darth Vader burlesque striptease!

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? How can I name a favourite? I’ll feel like Alice in Wonderland consistently for two weeks! I’m pretty stoked about being home to enjoy this festival with my family and friends.

Tell us about your show. What’s it about? My show is an exploration of the artistic life and love through the music of Joni Mitchell and my own original works, reimagined for harp, double bass and drums. It’s cabaret from a musician’s perspective – strictly no sequins or jazz hands! There will be plenty of saucy tales though and we’ll be serving up a musical menu of jazz, folk and rock‘n’roll.

How are people going to leave your show feeling?

Hopefully they’ll leave feeling uplifted, hopeful and a little bit cheeky.

What dates and times can I see your show? Saturday June 29 at 7pm and 9.30pm as well as Sunday June 30 at 7.30pm.

And at which venue? The Paris Cat, 8 Goldie Place, CBD. And for what price? $30 Where can we go to read more about your show? pariscat.com.au or facebook.com/taramintonmusic.

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Describe your show with five words. Scandalous touching.

Honest. Delicious. Groovy.

“Michaela is raw emotion made musical!”

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Who are the performers? Louisa Fitzhardinge, Trevor Jones, Izaak Lim, Nick Maclaine, Andrew Williams.

What makes cabaret special? It’s a conversation between performers and the audience. No other genre or artform generates such an intimate and rewarding connection!

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? Strangely enough, our hook into cabaret was also the first show we ever did together. The best way to share our love of all things Tom Lehrer turned out to be cabaret, and it opened our eyes to the infinite possibilities the artform opens up for performers!

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show? A full house loudly singing along to a comic song we’d written about wartime Germany. Sounds pretty unlikely, right?

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? The fact that it exists – and that we’re in it!

A unique live performance revealing Piaf’s songs as they have never been seen before.

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Tell us about your show. What’s it about? Tropical Parodies is music you’ve heard a thousand times with lyrics you couldn’t possibly have imagined. Audiences will be treated to a funny and fast-paced show performed by an incredibly talented cast. It’s comedy-cabaret with a warm heart and a twisted mind.

Describe your show with five words. Hilarious, rapidfire, smart, fun and surprising.

How are people going to leave your show feeling? Faces sore from laughing, wanting more!

If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Fun. Above all else, cabaret should be fun and inclusive.

What dates and times can I see your show? Thursday July 5 – Saturday July 7 at 7pm.

And at which venue? Kew Court House.

And for what price? $36 full, $33 concession and $30 for Melbourne Cabaret Festival members.

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“She has one of the finest voices this state has produced. Miss her show and it is your funeral.”

- Sunday Mail

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Where can we go to read more about your show?

You can check out our page at melbournecabaret. com/shows/tropical-parodies, like us at facebook.com/ tropicalparodies, buy tickets by visiting tinyurl.com/ WeDoParodies, or follow us on Twitter @WeDoParodies!

What Is VocalTronics? Over the years, Suade has explored the limitless potential of the human voice - from classical and barbershop beginnings, through to the contemporary, upbeat incarnations you hear on Pitch Perfect and the NBC’s The Sing-Off in the USA, Asia and Europe. We’ve also dabbled in looping pedals like Darren Percival, Mal Webb, Tom Thum and DubFX. VocalTronics is a culmination of Suade’s 15 years in a cappella - a fusion of great voices, beatboxing, smooth harmony and vocal effects.

Using some pretty funky hardware, and the amazing Ableton Live software, we’ve managed to create a system whereby all four microphones can loop at any stage during a song, with effects and production profiles on each ‘voice’ within the mix. By the end of a song, you may hear up to sixty voices singing at once - all mixed and produced to sound like a full band. And different to most looping artists we’ve designed a new way for all these things to happen without the need of clunky foot boxes on stage, or synching issues between voices. Sound complicated? Sure is…it has taken us well over twelve months to program the show, and over twelve years to develop it into the exciting stage show it is today.

What’s the deal with A Cappella? A Cappella has been around for as long as humans have. From the very first time two recently evolved apes grunted at each other in pleasing harmony, humans have used the human voice as an instrument to express themselves together. Since then it has always played a part in popular culture - from early music to classical choral works, from barbershop to doo-wop, from jazz to surf-rock and R&B, harmony singing continued to populate the charts throughout the world.

Vocal singing went bananas in the US college scene in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and is a staple for all American universities since.

Lately we have seen a resurgence of a cappella singing with Pitch Perfect hitting the cinemas, reality TV continually promoting group singing. It won’t be long before this culture spreads to Australian shores, in its many diverse formats.

We love a cappella because it’s not a genre of music - just a style of delivery. We love the flexibility of the human voice, and enjoy pushing the sonic boundaries of the amazing sounds we can create with just voices. And as we are all instrumentalists with experience in bands, we love not having to carry drum sets and amps around.

Describe your show with five words. World’s most high

tech vocal show What makes cabaret special? Cabaret distances itself from many other live musical forms by its amazing ability to engage and communicate with its audience. Every song has a story, a deeper context and is part of a larger narrative.

Unlike musical theatre it retains an honesty, sincerity and personal touch. I think that’s why audiences connect so well with it.

If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Contemplation - there’s a nostalgic element to most cabaret that takes you back to other times, places, moments in your life and makes you reflect on the past.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show?

I was on stage at the time, while my brother Loz sang a song from the perspective of a lonely single testicle, missing his recently detached partner in crime due to cancer. He was dressed at the time in a testicle costume fashioned form a pink beanbag that had brown woollen pubic hair sewn on by my mother. A proud day for the whole family.

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? The festival has really blossomed over the years. It now has an immense variety of different acts across many venues - David, Neville and the team have done a mighty job making the festival inclusive and farreaching to Melburnians. I feel we’re very privileged to be presented with such an amazing array of talent. Favourite thing? Probably the communal vibe of the performers, and the after-show gatherings that inevitably take place.

How are people going to leave your show feeling? Sorefaced from smiling, swollen-ankled from toe-tapping, stingyhanded from clapping, sore-throated from singing along.

But it’s not all about injuries, they’ll leave delighted by the whole experience.

What dates and times can I see your show? Saturday July 6. The show is on at 9pm, and we hope you’ll join us for a drink afterwards!

And at which venue? The Village, Ormond Hall at 557 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne.

And for what price? A poultry $39 ($36 for concession) plus booking fees.

Where can we go to read more about your show? Check out the cabaret festival website, or find out a bit more about Suade at suade.net, facebook.com/suade or Google us for our YouTube channel.

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SONGS BY ANNIE LENNOX Who is the performer? Michael Griffiths.

What makes cabaret special? The intimacy, the spontaneity and the storytelling.

If you had to condense cabaret into a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Connection. There’s a connection that happens (when it works!) between audience and performer that I’ve not experienced in any other medium.

When did you first get hooked on cabaret? I did a cabaret at The Stables in Sydney straight out of W.A.A.P.A and have been hooked since then as a performer and audience member.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen at a cabaret show? Seeing Kiki and Herb at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a few years back – their epic and absurd backstory about being present at the birth of Jesus, eating the placenta and thus discovering eternal life. It was a ten minute deranged rant that completely blew my mind. Then they sang Kate Bush.

What’s your favourite thing about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival? This my first year so I’ll have to get back to you!

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Tell us about your show. What’s it about? Sweet Dreams strips back the songs of Eurythmics and her stunning solo work to delve in the psyche of Annie Lennox. Her romantic affair with Dave Stewart (which collapsed as they formed the duo) becomes a metaphor for the wonderful and terrifying things we all experience when we fall in love.

Describe your show with five words. One man pop cabaret spectacular.

How are people going to leave your show feeling? Madly in love with Annie Lennox and reminded of just how damn good those songs are.

What dates and times can I see your show? Wednesday July 3 until Sunday July 7, 7.30pm.

And at which venue? fortyfivedownstairs, CBD. And for what price? $35/$30.

Where can we go to read more about your show? fortyfivedownstairs.com

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VENUE SPOTLIGHT: VILLAGE MELBOURNE Village Melbourne is one of the most spectacular venues involved within the 2013 Melbourne Cabaret Festival.

Formally the Belgian Beer Cafe, the site has changed names to Village Melbourne and includes the beautiful and historic Ormond Hall where all of the shows will take place. While weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already gone in depth with Suade on page 32, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look a little further into the brilliant events that will take place in this stunning venue.

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EVERYBODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE (EXCEPT FOR ME AND MY MONKEY): THE LENNON & MCCARTNEY SONGBOOK Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen Melissa Langton, Libby Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donovan and Mark Jones in such winners as The Fabulous Singlettes, Flat On Your Bacharach and The Beautiful Losers. This time theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re messing about with The Great Liverpudlian Songbook. Brilliant new vocal arrangements of all the classics plus a yodelled version of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, a Weimar Rocky Raccoon and Live And Let Die with a side order of Wagnerian soprano. You can expect highbrow harmony, lowbrow comedy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the occasional joke about onelegged ex models. Warning: This show may contain traces of Mull of Kintyre It takes place on Friday July 5 at 8.30pm.

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For one night only, Adele rolls in the deep down under, spilling intimate details about life on the road, love on the rocks and the prick who took a sledge hammer to her heart. Sassy and stirring, it appears in Melbourne following acclaimed seasons in Brisbane, Sydney and on the Gold Coast. It takes place on Saturday July 6 at 6.30pm. Starring Naomi Price as Adele. Tickets are $39 full, $36 concession and $33 Melbourne Cabaret Festival members.Â

CLOSING GALA A star-studded sampling of acts from across the Festival and beyond, as Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cabaret community comes out to support equal marriage rights. This night is a joint fundraiser for Australian Marriage Equality and Melbourne Cabaret Limited and will feature the likes of Spanky, Jon Jackson, OprahďŹ cation, Jade Leonard, Art Simone and Karin Muiznieks plus more to be announced, and stay on for the after party with Trevor Jones on piano as they close the festival. It takes place on Sunday July 7 at 7.30pm. $35 show only, $32 Melbourne Cabaret Festival Members and $60 for show plus after party. Price includes piano bar and one hour of drinks and bar snacks.

Tickets for all of these wonderful events can be purchased from villagemelbourne.com.au/whatson.

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TIED UP

After a sold out season at 2012 Melbourne Fringe, and receiving a nomination for an Eros Adult Industry Award for the performance, Tied Up returns to challenge your conservatism and evoke the erotica in all of us. Local Melbourne based jazz singer, actor and burlesque artist, Jessie Upton, performs an alluring compilation of monologue, song and spoken word, to explore the psychological struggle experienced by fetishists, and the blurred line between harmless play and real danger. Accompanied by a live jazz quartet, Tied Up proves to entail the perfect formula for a great cabaret performance, whilst providing an insight (for some) into a world otherwise unseen.

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EXPOSING EDITH

Straight from the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe Festival, Exposing Edith is an intimate representation of the vintage French pop music era, depicting the tragic life of legendary French songstress, Edith Piaf. Unique vocalist, Michaela Burger, accompanied by hypnotic instrumental melodies and special eďŹ&#x20AC;ects by Greg Wain, together deliver a performance that combines the authenticity of the musical era with a contemporary spin.

Michaela lived in Europe from 2003 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2010 and worked closely with Paul L Martin, Excess All Areas; she performed in many renowned cabaret events, and featured in highly acclaimed shows To Kill A Mockingbird and All About My Mother.

Join them in what has been described as a breath taking musical powerhouse on Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7 at Kew Court House.

CONFESSIONS OF A CONTROL FREAK

Former ballerina and self-confessed control freak, Belinda Raisin, loses control when she embodies her alter-ego, Frances, in this one woman comedy cabaret about the struggle for balance in a contemporary life. How does a control freak live a balanced life when she is caught between conďŹ&#x201A;icting lifestyles, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want it all - I want it nowâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I need to slow down - go with the ďŹ&#x201A;owâ&#x20AC;?? Feel better about yourself and witness someone way more messed up than you, from Tuesday July 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thursday July 4 at The ButterďŹ&#x201A;y Club.

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on tour OBIE TRICE [USA] Friday June 28, Trak Lounge WINTER BEATS SOUNDSYSTEM: SKAZI [ISR], BEHIND BLUE EYES [DEN] Friday June 28, RMH The Venue BRISK [UK] Friday June 28, Charlton’s Nightclub A$AP ROCKY [USA] Saturday June 29, Festival Hall DEORRO [USA] Friday July 5, Billboard SIMON PATTERSON [UK] Friday July 5, Chasers Nightclub TOKIMONSTA [USA] Saturday July 6, The Hi-Fi NT89 [NED] Saturday July 6, RMH The Venue MARK E [UK] Saturday July 6, New Guernica ARABIAN PRINCE [USA] Saturday July 6, Revolver Upstairs JUAN ATKINS [USA], FUNK D’VOID [UK] Friday July 12, Brown Alley ALEX KIDD [UK] Friday July 12, Billboard ONRA [FRA] Thursday July 18, TBA YUKSEK [FRA] Friday July 19, The Liberty Social FRANK OCEAN [USA] Friday July 26, Festival Hall BROOKE BROTHERS [UK] Friday July 26, Brown Alley RICK WILHITE [USA] Saturday July 27, New Guernica MAURICE FULTON [USA] Saturday July 27, Revolver Upstairs JAMES BLAKE [UK] Wednesday July 31, Palais Theatre CHVRCHES [UK] Monday August 5, Corner Hotel D-BLOCK & S-TE-FAN [NED] Friday August 16, Chaser’s Nightclub GHOSTPOET [UK] Saturday September 14, Corner Hotel HERNAN CATTANEO [ARG] Friday September 20, Brown Alley RUDIMENTAL [UK] Saturday September 21, Festival Hall ROBERT HOOD [USA] Saturday September 21, The Liberty Social LISTEN OUT: DISCLOSURE [UK], TNGHT [UK], AZEALIA BANKS [USA] + MORE Saturday October 5, Observatory Precinct, Royal Botanic Gardens PORTER ROBINSON [USA] Sunday October 20, Billboard 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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Well into the second decade of spreading their musical message, Asher Swisa and Assaf Bibass have made it their life mission to love music. There was plenty that inspired them way back in 1998 when they formed the project too - whether it was watching TV and jingling away to a theme song or a commercial, listening to the radio or family members play music, or even to amassing considerable collections of music proper, the boy’s futures were almost always written.

“Music is the food for the soul,” says Swisa. “It brings and stores from within, moments when you truly celebrate your life or life memories in sync with the whole human sensory experience. It’s the whole idea of the right tune at the right time, so when we have these moments on the dance floor, we know it’s the right place and right time.”

With that, he proudly professes his most recent and perhaps important release. “We just released the album My Way a few months ago - as well as that, there is a new EP coming, probably in the next four months. To be honest, the album was a really big move for me because I was able to mix different styles on this album. I did a lot of collaborations and I played with the guitar player from Guns N’ Roses and another huge rock singer from South Africa – we did a dub step sort of vibe and the track got picked up in places like England and did pretty well.”

Success then, all these years on, hasn’t been particularly elusive, yet the lads still feel like they have come a long way since they met over 15 years ago around the trance scene in their native Israel. It was soon after that they discovered they had been on the same page long before. “We were both in the same scene, inside parties and events and even productions and things like music and sound. Then at an event in Israel, we talked and decided to have a meeting and work out if we could do something together.”

Having been uninspired in recent times by the music scene

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genres into a unique, congruent whole. “I think this year trance and EDM generally – for groups like us, Infected Mushroom and things – are seeing the American market really making a big turn to our style of music,” says Swisa. “There is so much happening and it has helped our careers; there are a lot of opportunities. I see it as a real wake up call; you can go to events and festivals all over the world from Europe to South America and even India; you can feel

the vibe and energy like never before.”

Skazi continues as a duo whose music has its own unique signature. “Over the years, we have taken our music from the biggest rock festivals like Fuji Rock [in] Japan to a bush party in South Africa for a total trance crowd, to clubs in New York like Webster Hall and Club Avalon,” he explains. “We don’t really have the issue of making our music to suit the particular atmosphere we are going to play in. Basically, our agenda is to spread love for music worldwide in the name of the beat.”

Which in turn, translates to Skazi’s studio work. “When writing, I’m still sticking to trance for the most part which is really the style that I believe in; but then the crossover I did with the guitar and things, I see it working in regular places and I feel that overall the Skazi style is doing well. I’m opening my mind up - I’m also still doing my TV Show in Israel too – hosting celebrities and having a few laughs and doing some comedy. I’m still also playing a lot around the world, playing gigs and doing all that sort of thing. I’m doing a lot of producing too, so I’m keeping really busy.”

The duo are excited about being on their way back to Australia.

“We’re bringing the guitar, synths and vocals - it’s going to be a real live performance with some rock elements. The general vibe for me in this tour is to introduce some new music for Australia. I really want us to bring some fresh ideas. We love the country of Australia – there are never any worries, whereas we always have worries in this part of the world. It’s a nice change.”

Skazi will demolish RMH The Venue when they play at the Winter Beats Soundsystem this Friday June 28. facebook.com/skazimusic soundcloud.com/skazi-music

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Can people please start using the term ‘cultural airball’ more often? I want to make this a thing.

Club Fiction is a new night of debauchery, and the brainchild of Melbourne icon Kitty Rock, fearless leader of The Bad Ladies burlesque troupe. Club Fiction promises to be the destination for everything your heart desires. The evening is jam packed with burlesque performances, midnight jelly wrestling, cage dancers, Melbourne’s finest alternative DJs and the sorely missed 2am band slot. No matter where patrons turn at Club Fiction there is no shortage of entertainment. It’s at Red Bennies every Saturday.

tour rumours Skudge, Pantha Du Prince, Pangaea, Tyree Cooper, Roman Flügel, Jam City, Andrew Weatherall, Silicone Soul

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skudge Skudge have developed the innate ability to combine their inspiration and talent through wires and analogue equipment, always presenting something new and always pushing the boundaries of what we understand about electronic music.

Their exceptional sense of loops and unexpected detail in their productions is comparable to but a few and they answer to no one, making their own music on their own terms; wherever their journey takes them they always retain a level of taste and class. Releasing their inimitable sound on Skudge Records and a slew of remixes on a list of other labels, Skudge continue to push the boundaries of techno and keep fans in tow. He’ll be visiting Australian shores this November. Stay tuned for more information.

Some artists like to leave their music to do the talking for them and usually it’s because once you hear it there leaves little need or want for long winded explanations – Maurice Fulton is one of those artists. A man of few words, Maurice Fulton is a production genius, laying his magic on tracks with the Beastie Boys, Ultra Nate and most famously Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters. Maurice is first and foremost a producer however purveyors of house and disco will also know that Fulton is an extremely accomplished DJ. His sets are firmly routed in loft and garage classics that gave New York City its clubbing heritage. These tracks often quietly edited to perfection by his own hand are presented and EQed to maximum effect on the floor. It’s all happening at Revolver Upstairs on Saturday July 27.

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Red Bull Music Academy, the incubator program of workshops and lectures, is spreading it’s series of international club nights to Australia. Curated and hosted at Revolver Upstairs, RBMA’s regular night will feature super special guests that have participated in the Red Bull Music Academy around the world. To kick the series off, they’re going way back with South Central’s Arabian Prince, founding member of the legendary N.W.A. Expect a live DJ/ MC throwdown of not only that original West Coast gangsta rap but also a slew of the ‘80s electro-rap and proto-booty records that the Prince has more recently celebrated for with Stones Throw releasing Innovative Life: The Arabian Prince Anthology, 1984-1989. And best of all, it’s free. It goes down on Saturday July 6 at Revolver.

Come down to the Temple of Live for a night of dark batcave goth and alternative ‘80s beats, DJ Jumpin Josh explores his roots at this one-off night, dancing at places like London’s The Bat Cave, Bastille Club, Kit Kat club and Creation. Expect a set of classics from the likes of The Cult, Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Smiths, Cramps, Idol, Danielle Dax etc. to get you dancing. Jezzabel does her dark burlesque routine and the GoGO Goddesses pump out the moves in the Skull bedecked cages – all this after the Montero show and it’s free entry.

Check it out on Friday June 28 at Temple of Love.

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One of New Zealand’s biggest dubstep exports, Truth are respected across the globe and are now headlining Heavy Innit’s first party at the Mercat Basement. Since their inception several years ago, Andre Fernandez and Tristan Roake have come together as both world-class producers and partyrocking DJs cutting their way through to the epicenter of the dubstep scene. They’ve enjoyed regular DJ support from Youngsta and N-Type on RinseFM with releases on labels like Tempa, Deep Medi, Black Box and Wheel & Deal to name a few. Taking it back to the roots where dubstep was still considered to be underground, Heavy Innit are winding things back with limited capacity, an intimate show in a smokey, dank basement. Head down to Mercat Basement on Saturday July 6.

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One of the biggest events on the Melbourne hip hop calendar, Raise The Roof is once again delivering an Aussie showcase of both high calibre established acts and emerging talent.

Urthboy will be headlining the sixth Raise The Roof party.

From the success of his very first album Distant Sense of Random Menace to his original song The Signal being hailed as “a classic” by Rolling Stone, Urthboy has received much critical acclaim for his work. Joining Urthboy will be Resin Dogs, a loose collective and a sample band who incorporate live drums, live bass and elements of hip hop with turntables and samplers to create all forms of ritual dance sounds.

Support will come from Briggs, Loose Change, Purpose, Onesixth, Dr Flea, Eloji, Dibe, M-Phazes, Slap618 and Reason. It’s all happening at The Espy on Saturday July 20.

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Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a ‘Minister Of Information’ with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks snf Jeff Mills, Robert Hood is in no need of an introduction. His seminal works on Jeff Mill’s Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of strippeddown dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno’s path throughout the late ‘90s. Known best for his minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation, Hood sets himself a part from the giant blur of imitators by shunning flashiness and popularity. Head down to the Liberty Social on Saturday September 21.

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As we recently announced, Parklife promoter Fuzzy decided to put the festival to bed in 2013 in favour of a more boutique ‘IDM’ event. Headlining the inaugural Listen Out festival will be the UK’s Disclosure, currently riding high on the release of their debut album Settle. They’ll be joined by the rarelyoutspoken US rapper Azealia Banks and the UK power-duo of Lunice and Hudson Mohawke that is TNGHT. Rounding out the first announcement is Duke Dumont, AlunaGeorge, Classixx, Miguel Campbell, John Talabot, Just Blaze, RÜFÜS, Touch Sensitive and Laura Jones. Listen Out will take place on Saturday October 5 at the Observatory Precinct, Royal Botanic Gardens.

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For some DJs, music is more than just their passion or occupation – it’s the reason for their existence, and Hernan Cattaneo is from that school of thought. It should come as no surprise then to learn he is one of the most revered DJs with a career spanning over three decades and a discography to match. As a respected label owner and producer, Cattaneo’s creative output remains as plentiful as ever. In just two years his Sudbeat label has risen up as a leading light in melodic electronic music regularly releasing material from Guy J, Henry Saiz, Nick Warren and Danny Howells. Whether he’s taking crowd on a musical journey at festivals like Coachella, Exit and Creamfields or beaming his sounds across the globe through his weekly podcast and radio show on Delta FM 90.3, Buenos Aires he is able to be inspired and inspire in equal measure. It’s all happening on Friday September 20 at Brown Alley.

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audience rather than hearing it back over and over in the studio.

But as to how he thinks it will be received, the internationally known DJ is keeping things humble.

“Music is so fickle,” he said. “The way music is consumed now days, there’s so much to choose from, dance music here is broader so the shelf life is like a month.”

Unfortunately Beni won’t be bringing his stiletto wielding dancers to the stage this tour, but thinks he’s got something different to offer this time. “Maturity. My knowledge base of dance is a lot bigger so there’s a lot of new references in the new album.”

He’s currently listening to a lot of classical, but is digging the new music by Glorious Heaven, B-Port and the Blade Runner soundtrack. “I’d love to get good enough to work with Nicholas Jar, Kashmir, James Blake, Jamie XX,” he said.

He’s staying true to his roots though, and maintaining honesty no matter what the reception will be. “You can copy what is popular now, but that’s not really honest and you can kind of tell,” he said. “You’ve got to do what you do and do it well.”

It will be the first time KIM has toured under this moniker for four years and both are looking forward to playing to Australian crowds.

“We played Coffs Harbour last weekend and they were surprisingly open – usually small towns are pretty closed minded,” Beni said.

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There’s nothing like two affable DJs offering to warm you up to keep it light and fun.” on a cold winters night. That’s exactly what Kimberley Moyes Beni first started playing with the Bang Gang DJs ten years ago (of The Presets variety) and Beni with four friends and his brother.

They played sets at parties every are offering this June and July.

After eight years working together, Friday for five years. “I can’t really “You can copy what is popular now, but the pair have lined up a string remember much of that time,” he of mature-aged play-dates with that’s not really honest and you can kind of said. “But that’s the reason I really Australian audiences to debut a tell,” he said. “You’ve got to do what you do got into DJing.”

“I got into producing after I met bunch of new music they’ve been and do it well.” working on for Beni’s upcoming Kim and then we started Riots album. in Belgium with a friend of mine “There’s a lot of new music that Joel,” he said. “Then I started we’ve been working on,” tells Beni. “It’s house music, there’s a working on my solo stuff.” bit of new stuff and some different twists and turns. We’re going Beni is looking forward to road-testing his new material on a live

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How many times have you been out losing your shit to a DJ and the next day a track has popped up in your head and that you don’t remember hearing? The repetition of say the line ‘Whoa Black Bettie bam a lam’ becomes so consuming the only way to purge it from your subconscious is to listen to it again?

Well Ballarat-cum-Melbourne act Bad News Toilet is not only slamming the beats into your subconscious by mashing up well know songs but the act also ads a visual element by dressing the audience up in theme with the track. The man behind the Toilet is Bryce Spratling and he talks us through the evolution of Bad News Toilet from bedroom project to renowned party starters.

“I had always wanted to do something up on stage at Karova, after attending the venue every weekend for many years. So I started playing around with Traktor and Ableton mixing songs.”

Karova Lounge is in Victorian regional town-centre Ballarat and buoyed by a university campus this venue has become the easily the most successful venue outside of Melbourne. Karova Lounge is also famous for housing the very first shows of Gold Fields, Yacht Club DJs, Hunting Grounds and Twinsy.

Many years ago this correspondent commented in a piece on the

band Hunting Grounds (known as Howl back then) that Ballarat was Victoria’s ‘Manchester’ circa the 1980s – a medium sized rural city with a burgeoning music scene. With this analogy mind, imagine Bad News Toilet as the Happy Mondays of the scene – an act that creates a full on party atmosphere for the entirety of their set. As well as mashing certified bangers the visual element – costume changes – of a Bad News Toilet show are a huge part of the set.

“I had an idea to add costumes to the whole set, once I was ready, I asked Willow [Gray Wilson], the owner of Karova, if I could have a night.” As Spratling completes the retelling of this ‘origins’ tale he confirms the notion that when in a costume people go crazy,”I got everyone I knew down there for a really fun and crazy night. The girl in the strawberry got a nose bleed and a panda pretended to take a poo in a toilet on stage.”

Also, the chaos of organising the costumes and giving them out in a timely manner resulted in Bad News Toilet gaining a second member during this performance. The aptly titled Stagehand Sam (Sam Morely) – who wears a blue onesy and a red-hand mask – is side of stage facilitating punters to get involved in the show by costuming up.

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From this night, the demand for Bad News Toilet has snowballed because of the full on party atmosphere that the act imbues.

Spratling explains how a performance plays out, “Okay, so we try to have a costume change every three songs.” He then cheekily justifies, “it gives Stagehand Sam a chance to get some drunk girls in costume.”

So what are the costumes that make into a standard Bad News Toilet set? “Okay, we have Strawberry costumes which are for Pnau’s Wild Strawberries Vs Black Bettie Spiderbait version.

We have recently added the Beastie Boys’ dress ups and the intergalactic Robot for Intergalactic Vs We Used To Be Friends,” explains Spratling. Within a set there are three or four other costume changes, one of which includes a blow-up doll in an aboriginal t-shirt for a mash of Regurgiator’s The Song Formally Known As and Xavier Rudd’s Energy Song.

The last of the said mash-up costume changes caused Spratling the ire or Nina Las Vegas at one of her shows that Bad News Toilet where supporting. Spratling lets on how he offended the newest princess of the indie-disco, “Yeah, so normally we put Matt Corby’s face on the blow-up doll but we thought it would be funny to put her picture on the blow-up doll. Turns out, she didn’t think it was funny at all,” states Spratling wryly.

Bad News Toilet have two very special shows coming up with a headline performance at Revolver this Saturday June 28 and they are pulling out all stops for the Watt’s On party at The Toff In Town on Wednesday July 10. Finally Spratling discloses a very intellectual mash-up that will be debuted to celebrate the intellectual nature of Watt’s On: “Have done a mash up of LCD Soundsystem Dance Yourself Clean and Chris Franklin’s Bloke to close that show.”

Bad News Toilet play at Revolver Upstairs on Saturday June 29 and Watt’s On Presents: A Fire In The Master’s House is set at The Toff In Town on Wednesday July 10. facebook.com/badnewstoilet

party profile: When is it? Friday 28 June.

Where is it? RMH The Venue, 629 Bourke St. Who’s playing?

Skazi, Behind Blue Eyes, Terrafractyl, Tetrameth, Circuit Bent, Blunt Instrument, Suntribe, Ozzy, Kalus, Kodiak Kid and heaps more.

What sort of shit will they be playing?

Funky tech-house to banging techno, prog trance to psytrance, down tempo glitch to psy breaks.

What’s the crowd going to be like?

All your best friends!

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What will we remember in the AM? Something about alien worlds.

What’s the wallet damage? $55 second round, $65 final release then more on the door.

Give us one final reason why we should party here.

It’s the biggest indoor bash of the winter season.

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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.

HOODRAPZ Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

THE DINNER SET - FEAT: BOOSHANK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00Pm. 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.

ASIAN ENVY + MANIC CITY + SAMMY PAUL Gh Hotel, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $15.

BILLBOARD THURSDAYS - FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.

CHI BEATS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

CQ SESSIONS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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.

RADIONICA Workshop, Melbourne. 3:04pm.

THE RITZ THURSDAYS - FEAT: CAUC-ASIAN DJ’S + JOSHUA GILILAND + KEN WALKER + LUCILLE CROFT + CARRICK DALTON & SAM COHEN + ED WILKS + MAX KRUSE + TIM LIGHT + ZACK ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20.

TROCADERO - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

VARSITY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

friday june 28 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.

DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: ELANA MUSTO + GREG SARA + SCOTT T Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

FUSION FRIDAY Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm.

I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10.

MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm.

POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ LEWIE DAY + DJ MIKE CALLANDER + DJ ALEX THOMAS + DJ KATIE DROVER + DJ WHO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm.

THE FIX - FEAT: SEAN DEANS Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

WEEKENDER! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

CLUB FICTION - FEAT: KITTY ROCK & THE BAD LADIES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm.

FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

HOT STEP Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

POISON APPLE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

SIMPLY BURLESQUE Sandbelt Club Hotel, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10.

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 - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.

STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: COLLECTIVE + ANDREAS + DANNY MERX + HENRIQUE + JASON SERINI + MARK PELLEGRINI + MC JUNIOR + NICK VAN WILDER Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22.

SUPER GRANDE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm.

TEXTILE 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.

THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: MAT CANT + RANSOM + TOO MUCH + BOOGS + CONGO TARDIS #1 + DANIELSAN + MR MOONSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

WHY NOT? Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

SUNDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY J + DJ KEN WALKER + DJ LIGHTING Co., Southbank. 8:30pm.

GOO GOO MUCK Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

LATIN QUARTER Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm.

MASHTAG Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

MOTEL SATURDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 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 Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm.

SUNDAE SHAKE - FEAT: AGENT 86 + PHATO-A-MANO + TIGERFUNK Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJS ANDYBLACK + HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

WE BE QUEENS - FEAT: DJ AYNA + DJ LOTUS + MZ RIZK Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

monday july 1 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 july 2 COSMIC PIZZA Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm.

CURIOUS TALES Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 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.

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BASS CARTEL - FEAT: C:1 + EXCELLE + FA Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm.

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.

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Pennies Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.

Like Fridays - Feat: Broz + Dir-X + DJs Dinesh + Nyd + Sef + 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.

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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.

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.

Compression Session - Feat: Cassawarrior + Dd + Ricka E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Soul Ensemble Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

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monday july 1 Freedom Pass - Feat: Phil Ross + B-Boogie + Chris Mac + Dozza Co., Southbank. 10:30pm.

Hip Hop Open Mic First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

tuesday july 2 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 RECLINK COMMUNITY CUP: RECORD AUDIENCE, RECORD DONATIONS This year’s Reclink Community Cup drew the biggest (official: 10,000) crowd in its 20 years and raised over $10,000 for Reclink Australia – another event record. For the third time in its history, and for the second year running, the game was a tie after Stew Farrell of The Megahertz kicked a goal after the final siren to level the scores with The Rockdogs for a 4.4.28 result. Liam ‘Banjo’ O’Shannessy from The Rockdogs again won the Stephen Connelly Award (Best On Ground) this year. According to a tweet from Dan Sultan’s hashtag, this is the last year for him, Paul Kelly and Jason Evans.

Kicking off the entertainment was kiddies hero Justine Clarke who was joined by The Rebelles band, while Peppa Pig was mobbed by the kids. The crowd was in fine festive form, loudly cheering on Super Wild Horses, as well as Tim Rogers when he was joined by Kat Spazzy to perform Pub

by Cosmic Psychos in lieu of the national anthem before the bounce at 2.30pm. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard played mid-entertainment while a blistering Beasts Of Bourbon finished it off before everyone headed off to the Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford for the after-party.

DO THE RICH AND THE YOUNG DOWNLOAD MORE? Are you more likely to download illegally if you’re wealthier, more educated and younger? That’s the indication of a new study by a group of Australian copyright agencies led by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). 30% earned over $100,000 a year, only 14% earned $40,000 and 27% were in the $60,000-$100,000 bracket. 17% graduated from high school, 21% had a TAFE or trade qualification while 25% had gone to university, well above the national average. Of the 1,000 people questioned, 21% admitted to illegally downloading music, movies and TV shows. Those born in the ‘80s and after tend to assume that they should get content for nothing: 44% of file sharers were aged under 30. Only 11% were in the 50-69 demographic. TV shows were most downloaded.

BEHIND THE APRA AWARDS The APRA awards now have that prominence where artists will fly in just to make an appearance. Franc Tetaz came from his new home in Los Angeles to be its music director, in particular putting together the artists who did wonderful interpretations of the Song Of The Year nominations …

Georgi Kay came from London to deliver a much-talkedabout rendition of The Divinyls’ Boys In Town … Wally De Backer proved again he’s one of the nicest guys in the biz. Everyone wanted to eyeball him, and he stopped and chatted with everyone … During The Seekers acceptance speech Judith Durham listened in from her sick bed via mobile phone … The Hilltop Hoods were bummed because they forgot to thank manager Dylan Liddy during their acceptance speech (he was in New York at the time) … rehearsals for the night went off smoothly except when a publicist crashed into a trolley of glasses and sent everything onto the floor.

EDM FESTIVALS FEUD! Dance festival promoter Fuzzy announced that Parklife has been dumped in favour of an outdoor boutique event called Listen Out, which hits four cities between September 28 and October 6. This went down like a cup of cold sick with Sydney’s Astral People who’re bringing their festival OutsideIn back for a second year. In an angry outburst, they claimed Fuzzy stole their concept and logo. Their statement read, in part, “To see others now blatantly rip off what we’re trying to do is not just an insult to us but more so an insult to the intelligence of patrons and music lovers alike...If you think that copying a logo and rebranding your festival is enough to win over fans then you’re sadly mistaken. Our fans know good music.” Fuzzy’s John Wall responded he was not out to hurt anyone else’s business, that the two festivals were vastly different once Listen Out announced its bill, that the logo was aligned to Parklife’s, and that what Fuzzy are doing with Listen Out is what he’d been doing for 15 years.

THINGS WE HEAR

* America’s Ultra Music looks like it’s coming to Sydney in 2014 … Harvest promoter AJ Maddah confirmed this November’s bill will be announced on Thursday June 27. * Adele and PJ Harvey were among those honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. They were made Members of the British Empire (MBEs). * Macklemore & Ryan Lewis made US chart history by becoming the first duo to have their first two entries to the top of the charts. * Mono had to cancel their NZ dates due to “visa problems” and arrived in Australia straight from Hong Kong. * In between their Australian dates, Ten Thousand are popping over this week for their first ever New Zealand tour, doing five shows until Saturday July 6.

STOP THE WORLD I’M GETTING ON #1: WILL SPARKS HITS GLOBAL CHARTS

EDM buzz name Melbourne-born producer/DJ Will Sparks’ remixes get up to 50,000 Soundcloud plays a day and have been storming the Beatport Top 100 and electro chart. In the latest, his remix of Laidback Luke & Hardwell’s Dynamo hit #12 overall in the Beatport charts and #4 in the electro house charts, while the remix of Robin Thicke feat Pharell & TI’s Blurred Lines will be released on Interscope in three to four weeks. He is also mixing a OneLove compilation alongside Bingo Players. In the wake of a largely sell-out Australian run, Sparks kicks off a two-month America tour in August and a six week 24-date run of Europe.

STOP THE WORLD I’M GETTING ON #2: NE OBLIVISCARIS IN ASIA

Tech-metal band Ne Obliviscaris head to Asia in August for the first time, taking in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Thailand. Their profile grew after the release mid-last year of Portal Of I worldwide through Code 666/Aural Music and Welkin Records in Oz. They recently signed with premier metal label Season Of Mist, home to Morbid Angel, Cynic, Mayhem, Arcturus and Solstafir.

STOP THE WORLD I’M GETTING ON #3: THEM SWOOPS EYING AMERICA After signing a North American deal with Plus One Records and gaining airplay, Melbourne duo Them Swoops head to America for the first time in October to perform at the CMJ Music Marathon. They sold out a headliner in Melbourne on Saturday night behind the release of their new EP Glimmer.

STOP THE WORLD I’M GETTING ON #4: SUZIE STAPLETON TO EUROPE

Suzie Stapleton is doing a run of European dates which includes the Colours of Ostrava in Czech Republic and the Binic Folk Blues Festival in France. French label Beast Records is releasing her EP on vinyl. She’s doing a farewell show (and launch night for her new video Hit) at The Old Bar on Saturday July 6 with Shifting Sands, Plague Doctor and Lara Travis.

CHRISSY AMPHLETT TRIBUTE

The Yarraville Club is hosting a tribute to The Divinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett on Saturday June 29, with all monies going to MS Australia. Performing are Grace Knight, Jane Clifton, Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men, Rebecca Barnard, Kerri Simpson, Los Dominados, Neon & Venom, Pony Girl & The Outsiders plus MC Lucinda Cowden and 3RRR’s Fee B-Squared.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS #1: EXHUMED ABC Radio, TV and Online are back with Exhumed, a nationwide competition for unsigned, unrecorded and unheard musicians. James Valentine, who started the comp for his 702 ABC Sydney local radio show, says it’s not about finding the next big thing. It’s for those aged over 30, who are amateurs and love playing at private parties, fetes and street parties. Last year 250 Sydney acts alone entered.

Deadline to apply is Monday July 15. Local ABC Radio will hold comps through August to find six national finalists.

More info and entry details at abc.net.au/EXHUMED.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS #2: CAPLICE, WARNER’S OPEN AUDITIONS While Sony and Universal have The Voice, The X Factor and Australia’s Got Talent to help find new signings, Warner Music Australia is trying another route. Artist manager David Caplice (Human Nature, Jessica Mauboy, Guy Sebastian) will hold open auditions in capital cities throughout July. Anyone who ticks all the boxes gets a Warner deal. Details on rumblepop.com. It’s part of Caplice and Warner’s joint venture to find acts for the world. He is executive producing the debut from new Warner signings Bobby Fox and Christina Parie.

EARLY SUBMISSION FOR AUSSIES AT SXSW South By Southwest in Austin is allowing Australian acts to start applying on Tuesday July 9 for the 2014 meet, rather than wait for August. Its local rep Phil Tripp explains, “Australian artists need extra time to obtain working visas for the U.S., schedule touring dates before and after our times of March 11-16 as well as apply for funding from Federal and state government contemporary music grant sources well in advance. Plus, applying early puts the smart bands ahead of the queue for critical listening time as compared to those who wait until the last minute to submit when reviewers’ ears are crisped.” SXSW also obtained a special ruling from US Immigration to bypass the expensive visa process if an Aussie artist will not be playing any paid gigs at SXSW, a saving of $2,500 to $5,000. Up to 300 Australian acts are expected to apply online through sonicbids.com. In March this year, 70 of the 250 who applied were invited to do official showcases. 40 financed themselves to do private events and other dates in North America. Registrations for delegates open Thursday August 1. This year 650 Australian and NZ delegates networked with 25,000 agents, managers, publishers, promoters and media. Most are from music, but interactive and film sectors are growing fast.

VALE WENDY SADDINGTON

Wendy Saddington, the woman who opened the door for sassy Australian blues and jazz singers, died on the weekend in her Melbourne home from oesophageal cancer.

She was either 63 or 64. Heavily beaded and with a huge Afro, she came to prominence fronting Chain and then Jeff St. John’s Copperwine (and a Top 30 hit Looking Through A Window, written and produced by Billy Thorpe and Warren Morgan of The Aztecs) as well as a controversial Takes Care Of Business agony aunt column in pop magazine Go Set which tackled teen suicide, pregnancy and alienation. In the early ‘70s she joined the International Society of Krishna Consciousness and adopted the name Gandharvika Dasi.

She continued to front bands under her name and did her last concert last December.

JAMES YOUNG MANAGING DRUNK MUMS

James Young and his music marketing company Cherry Rock have taken over management of Drunk Mums. The ‘70s pub rock-inspired band formed in Cairns but are now based in Melbourne. Young, who owns and books Cherry Bar, said, “I promised myself I’d never manage another band.

No money in it. Babysitting precocious cunts. Fuck that.

Then I saw Drunk Mums at Big Sound in Brisbane last year.

They are the most exciting, twisted art-rock band I’ve seen since Eddie Current Suppression Ring.” Drunk Mums’ Dean Whitby observes, “We think James Young is a very dodgy fucker, but he said he’d let us in for free at Cherry and get us on Meredith this year. And we’ve got an awesome followup album in the works that we think deserves to find a new, bigger audience, so let’s see what happens. We have been let into Cherry, so that’s a good sign...”

CRATE DIGGER RECORD FAIR The Crate Digger Record Fair is back at Yah Yah’s (99 Smith Street, Fitzroy) this Saturday June 29 from midday. There are crates and crates of vinyl long players from private collections or acquired rarities. Entry is free.

LIFELINES Reunited: Sharon Osbourne has moved back in with Ozzy after the singer convinced her he had been drugand alcohol-free for months.

Jailed: a 51-year-old man in England, for 28 days, for ignoring five injunctions against playing loud music.

Neighbours complained each night he’d play, at high volume, the entire Pink Floyd albums The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall and soul ballads by Barry White and Marvin Gaye.

Resolved: Beyonce settled with US video game Gate Five which sued her after she backed away from a deal to create a motion-sensing dance game called Starpower: Beyonce. At the last minute, she demanded more money, causing a financier to withdraw his investment in the game, and forcing them to lay off 70 people. Gate Five had spent $6.7 million to develop the project, and sued for the $100 million it expected in profits. Beyonce argued she had the contractual right to pull out because Gate Five didn’t get $5 million in investment. Gate Five contended that it had been closing a $19.2 million when the singer pulled out, and suggested Beyonce had got a better offer from a rival.

Died: a 24-year-old woman after she fell during a Stone Roses gig in Glasgow. Police are investigating why she fell: it had been a violent gig, with 24 audience members arrested for anti-social (ie bottle throwing) and drug offences.

Died: US country singer Slim Whitman, 90, in a Florida hospital.

Died: legendary US music critic Chet Flippo, 69. He wrote a book on Hank Williams and was editorial director of Country Music Television.

Died: Roger LaVern, a keyboard player for British band Tornadoes (who had a #1 smash with Telstar fame), from cancer aged 74.

LEAPS AND BOUNDS EVENT UPDATE Among events for the Leaps And Bounds Yarra Music Festival (Friday July 5 to Sunday 21) are: On Wednesday July 10, Paul Kelly and footballer Bob Murphy discuss music, football and life at the Corner Hotel, hosted by Francis Leach. Topics included at Presentation Night are similarities between the professional musician and the professional footballer, how friendships are formed, the similarity of discipline, and if there is room for true mavericks in these fields.

The free Muscycle – a pedal powered concert at St Ali North Café (815 Nicholson Street, North Carlton, where the audience pedals to power the generator at a nearby girls’ school. Peddlers will be rewarded for their efforts.

It’s on Sunday July 14 from noon, with Vika and Linda Bull, Brian Ritchie, The Alan Ladds, The Black Jesus Experience, Wang Zheng Ting, Cyclic Sound System DJs and The Broken BMX Jam Bandits. See facebook.com/ muscycle.

Mantooth Music presents The Psychedelic Rock N Roll Surf Party Caftan Hoedown of its roster at The Tote on Sunday July 7 from 3.30 pm. The Toot Toot Toots headline, over Immigrant Union, Ali E and The Once Overs. There’s a gourmet barbie, early arrivals get caftans.

Popboomerang Records curates an eight-act music of pop, rock and jangle bands, artists showcasing their originals and Aussie indie-pop anthems. It’s on Saturday July 13 at the Yarra Hotel Abbotsford, and includes a Popboomerang garage sale. Headlining are The Solicitors, with The Jonesez and The Wellingtons.

Almost 24 years to the day of The Meanies’ first ever show at The Tote, they return to the venue on Friday July 12.

They’re previewing newies, and have on with them Batpiss, Geelong’s The Kremlings and Jan Juc’s The Dipsticks.

The City of Yarra was owned by the Wurundjeri people.

Smith Street Dreaming is an afternoon of Aboriginal music.

It is on Saturday July 20 from 1pm to 5pm at Smith St cnr Stanley St, Collingwood. It is programmed by Jason Tamiru and features Bart Willoughby, Kutcha Edwards and Illana Atkinson and The Deans. The no-alcohol event is promoting awareness of Aboriginal culture and encouraging better relationships amongst the community on and around Smith St. Yarra City Council is working with the Neighbourhood Justice Centre and with groups including the Aboriginal community, justice and outreach workers, Victoria Police, North Yarra Community Health Centre and the Smith St Business Association.

Q&A THE REGIONAL ROULETTE TOUR Name: Phoebe (Heaven The Axe) and Dan (Frankenbok).

Define your genre in five words or less: Phoebe: Beards, hair, flannos, laughs, metal.

What can a punter expect from your live show as part of The Regional Roulette Tour?

Phoebe: Doors are at 8pm! Don’t be late! Yeti Bok the MC will be inviting members of the crowd to randomly select the playing order of the bands on the night. So you won’t know who’s on and when. It adds heaps of fun and suspense for everyone, especially the bands playing.

What have you got to sell CD-wise?

Phoebe: The Frankenbok, Dreadnaught, Heaven The Axe and Abreact Merch table is bigger than Highpoint, so make sure you pick up the goods.

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?

Dan: Hopefully nothing like Falling In Reverse.

So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?

Phoebe: “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” How long have you been gigging and writing?

Phoebe: Since before we had pubic hair.

When, and why did you start writing music?

Phoebe: When I was 13-years-old, I saw a hot guy driving a panel van cranking Napalm Death. I wrote my first song called Hey Mr Bad News I Wanna See The Back of Your Panel Van. Little did I know that guy was actually my guitarist and partner in crime today. We have a station wagon these days. Dreams do come true.

Tell us about the last song you wrote.

Phoebe: Good Things Come To Those Who Hate is our new single. It’s about fake friends. I just deactivated my Facebook ‘cause my real friends are my real friends and know where to find me. Life is much richer for it.

Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with?

Dan: Those jerk-offs from Falling In Reverse.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

Phoebe: Lately it’s about the chemistry we create as humans together, we collaborate with a close knit circle of people who are right in there, wormed into every aspect of our lives. Then the music just explodes, it’s like making love now.

We’re in too deep to not look each other in the eye.

What makes you happiest about what you’re doing?

Phoebe: The band family we’ve created.

And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing?

Phoebe: The lack of real acknowledgment from the

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mainstream for metal in Australia despite the fact Soundwave sold out in a minute.

When are you doing your thing next?

Phoebe: The Regional Roulette tour plays Yahoo Bar Shepparton this Friday June 28, then Melbourne on Friday July 5 at The Bendigo Hotel followed by Wagga Wagga on Saturday July 6.

What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne music scene?

Dan: Do the complete opposite of anything those pretentious ball fondlers from Falling In Reverse do.

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VELUDO BAR & RESTAURANT 175 Acland Street, St Kilda Ph. (03) 9534 4456 info@veludo.com.au veludo.com.au Renowned as one of St Kilda’s favourite live music venues, Veludo offers everything from live acoustic soloists to commercial house DJs with energetic percussion and vocals. From Friday through til Sunday enjoy live tunes as you kick back in the Garden Bar overlooking bustling Acland Street. Veludo is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week. Breakfast and a la carte menus are available in the downstairs restaurant as well as the newly renovated upstairs Garden Bar. Veludo has a bar on both levels offering a large array of cocktails, wines and beers to choose from. Happy hours are Monday-Friday 4pm-7pm and offer $4 wines and Boags, $5 Corona and cider and $10 cocktails. Veludo Bar and Restaurant has been a part of the Acland Street community for over ten years now and continues to see the benefits of being located on such an iconic, vibrant strip. The buzzing atmosphere and unique mix of shops, bars and restaurants keeps both locals and tourists coming back for more! From the Weekly Dinner Specials and Happy Hours to one off music and DJ events, there is always something happening at Veludo. For all the latest information, head to the Veludo Facebook page.

LA ROCHE CAFÉ

185 Acland Street, St kilda Ph. (03) 9534 1472 laroche.net.au La Roche café is one of the many eateries on Acland st that combines a comfortable bar and dining area with awesomely executed modern Australian cuisine. Scoring a formidable 84% on the website Urbanspoon La Roche has an extensive menu from the very popular Mexican Parmigiana to the more subtle Porterhouse Steak. Every day the eatery and bar runs drink and food specials with Wednesday’s $15 parmas very popular, Thursday’s $15 steaks and the value culminates with a full menu special on Mondays with $15 for all mains, pastas and risottos, $16 Porterhouse and Surf’N’Turf at $17.50, this night is a hit with St. Kilda’s backpacker population. Every day the venue’s staff work hard to build ambience through the sound system from carefree vibes on a summer’s day to a late night groove on a Friday or Saturday. La Roche café is the place on Acland st for locals and visitors to enjoy quality food at a great price!

THE VINEYARD

71a Acland Street, St Kilda Ph (03) 9534 2229 rina@thevineyard.com.au facebook.com/thevineyardstkilda

IDDY BIDDY BAR

35-39 Blessington Street, St Kilda Ph. (03) 9525 3320 Iddy@iddybiddy.com.au iddybiddy.com.au Set in the back streets of the St Kilda Village, Iddy Biddy is a funky relaxed bar/cafe with food & drink specials. From Thursday until Sunday the bar offers a brilliant range of live bands and entertainers.

With ample seating outdoor that is shaded by a tree there is no better place to spend an afternoon sipping on a pint of Orchid Crush Cider that from Monday to Thursday goes down to only $7 all day! Thursday night is regularly a party night at Iddy Biddy because the all-day drink specials are enhanced by the infectious grooves of Love Handles. On Friday your end of week party is sound tracked by the likes of King Louie & The Cheeky Monkey as well as many other exciting and funky acts.

This funkadelic time is fuelled by a 4pm to 8pm happy hour(s) with $3 Boags, $4 wine and champagne, $5 basics and $10 cocktails. On Saturday the vibes go reggae with Jahmakin It Funky and Sundays are chilled to the max with Jason heerah, Bradley green, mish & peron. Whether it is summer or winter Iddy Biddy is the perfect place for friends to meet up and enjoy the best of St. Kilda with effortless charm.

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BASE BACKPACKERS ST KILDA: RED EYE BAR 17 Carlisle Street, St Kilda Ph: (03) 8598 6200

Melbourne@stayatbase.com.au facebook.com/BaseMelbourneStkilda Base Backpackers has become an iconic feature of the Acland st & Carlisle st precinct having become the go-to accommodation for St. Kilda’s large backpacker population. Its Red Eye Bar is one of the busiest late night venues in the area with seven nights of entertainment starting with Monday’s Big Willy’s Bingo thenTuesday’s Funky Bunch Trivia & Beer Pong Tournament. The hump day is celebrated with Wednesday’s free BBQ at 6.30pm with Live Music & Karaoke and then there’s the hugely popular Thursdays’ Ladies Night with a wet-t-shirt competition – this night was voted the number one backpacker’s night in the Golden Backpack Awards. The weekend kicks off with ‘$5 Fridays!’ but the main event is Smirnoff Saturdays with DJs from 10pm, $10 Buckets until midnight and if you bring in this article you will receive a free Smirnoff vodka with a mixer. We know there are a lot of Beat mags out there so it’s one per person and can’t be used in conjunction with any other offer!

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The Vineyard is arguably Acland st’s most well known venue with its mix of alfresco dining, eclectic design and varied entertainment from rock bands on Thursday to DJs on Sundays. This week of entertainment begins on Mondays with ‘Industry Night’, this includes half price steaks until 10pm and then Melbourne DJ N’fa Jones formerly of 1200 Techniques spins the winter blues away as punters hydrate themselves with $5 Sailor Jerry Rum and $5 Cricketers Arms – get there early because there is a line from 10pm! On Tuesdays it’s a solid step into the comfort zone as local acoustic artists embrace the venue with 20 min sets of only original tracks – with many songs about Acland street! As mentioned earlier Vineyard’s Graveyard Thursdays is soundtracked by some of the best rock bands in town with the venue having played host to Bittersweet Kicks, Mercy Kills and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, it’s free entry, rockin’ vibe, great crowd, sexy bar staff and a very late close 3am! Friday is packed for the funk soul and groove bands and on Saturdays The Vineyard is sound tracked by DJs playing alternative 90s and 2000s tunes. Sunday is probably Vineyards most famous day of the week as Luke McD and friends turn your ‘recovery’ into a full blown party through playing the most tasteful and funky house in town.

PRIMAL SCREAM

BY CALLUM FITZPATRICK

Now into their third decade of operation, we’ve seen more than a few different contours to the Primal Scream mould. Never afraid to take on new directions, the band has navigated through psychedelia, electronica, punk, krautrock and Americana along their journey, going from the commercial to the startlingly experimental. Their most recent album, More Light, could be their most daring and diverse work to date.

Lead singer and icon Bobby Gillespie attributes this to the band reuniting with DJ and producer David Holmes, whom the group first worked with on parts of XTRMNTR. “David pretty much provoked us into writing songs,” Gillespie explains. “He would play Andrew and I strange, obscure French library psychedelic funk records from the 1960s. This would set an atmosphere up, and then he’d play some drum loops and see if we would start jamming along or write something. If it caught our imaginations we would just start writing a song right off the bat. It was amazing.”

Although this was a new and untested method of composition, Gillespie says the band has always strived to find fresh ways of forming material. “We’re always looking for a different approach to creativity. We never really went in for that ‘acoustic guitar, chord type’ way of writing because it never works. You just come up with the same fucking conventional, boring, rigid, rock song structures. We’ve always been a bit more avant-punk, a bit collage-y and kind of cut out. I can write melodies all day long. If you smash two dustbin lids together I’ll start writing a song because it will inspire something in my head. I like rhythm.”

Although no dustbin lids were harmed in the making of More Light, Bobby says they played a surprisingly pivotal role in Primal Scream’s early beginnings. “When we started Primal Scream we had a very primitive approach to making music,” Bobby recalls. “Before we had guitars and knew what chords were, we were smashing dustbin lids together and screaming in a scout hall. We had one electric guitar, a tiny amp and a fuzz pedal and Jim Beattie, who I started the band with, could only play one chord.

“We’d go to the scout hall, where Jim’s mum was a caretaker and I’d basically play the drum beat you hear on The Jesus and The Mary Chain’s Moe Tucker on the dustbin lids. We’d both just scream, and Jim would play one chord. Then we’d make tape recordings of this stuff and that’s how Primal Scream started.

“For us, making songs has always been about that primitive, simplistic, feral way of doing things.

Although More Light is sophisticated in terms of the songs and the layering of sounds, there’s still that feral spirit we’re looking for.”

Lyrically, the album’s opener, 2013, is the biggest statement of the bunch – a sprawling, epic nine minute number that sees Gillespie nagging at the state of pop culture today. “It’s generally about the lack of dissent and culture and the way everybody just blindly goes along with everything,” Gillespie explains. “There seems to be no questioning of authority and no dissent all across the arts. It’s a critique of that.”

“I CAN WRITE MELODIES ALL DAY LONG. IF YOU SMASH TWO DUSTBIN LIDS TOGETHER I’LL START WRITING A SONG BECAUSE IT WILL INSPIRE SOMETHING IN MY HEAD. I LIKE RHYTHM.” Gillespie believes that it is a deep political shift that been at the root of this. “Over the last 30 years people have been de-politicised and I believe that this has been a deliberate thing encouraged by power structures everywhere,” he says.

“When people are together they have power.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a church group, community group or trade union – when people get together, talk and exchange ideas, that’s when things happen. I think authorities are scared of that and they want people to be atomised so they can just do what they want and there will be no opposition to it.

“Thirty years ago there was a strong trade union movement in the UK and even Margaret Thatcher’s government couldn’t put through the austerity measures that David Cameron’s government are. The trade union movement isn’t as powerful as it was, so there’s no army to fight, whereas 30 years ago there were millions of people. That’s why I think they’ve encouraged the atomisation of society.”

Gillespie believes that it is the duty of an artist to challenge these authorities and inform the public about what is going on. “I think that artists have got a voice that they should use. Ezra Pound said that ‘artists are the antennae of the race.’ The idea is that you’re supposed to see things before everybody else and inform people about the way you think things are going, but what exactly are artists picking up on these days?”

So are Primal Scream carrying out their duty at the moment? “We’re definitely saying something that’s relevant to the time. We’re not a nostalgia act and we don’t just rely on old songs. Unless you’re doing new work, I think you kind of die as an artist. The only way to become a successful artist – and I don’t mean financially – is to be constantly creative. I think we’ve always done that.”

More Light is available now via Ignition Records/ Inertia.

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DARWIN DEEZ

BY KRISSI WEISS

Indie kids and the wider industry went jangly-guitar mad for Darwin Deez’s self-titled debut album particularly the single Radar Detector. There was dancing and terrible singing in falsetto and all around was love for the North Carolina/New York band fronted (and personified) by Darwin Deez the man (Darwin Smith). As everybody rubbed their hands together like a greedy super villain, awaiting the follow-up album, it appeared that no one considered Smith and co. might actually change their sound. They’ve evolved if you will (yep, there it is) and while Songs For Imaginative People is a thoroughly enjoyable and much less saccharine album than the first, it seems to be copping a bit of a battering in reviews.

Smith is finding the experience of being reviewed and deconstructed in the media a humorous one. He’s out on the town when we chat (and sounds rather, um, festive) and he admits that the very notion of a review of his band’s music and him as a person confuses and frustrates him. “I always feel a sense of non-belief whenever I see people dissecting us and I try to never expose myself to it whenever possible,” Smith begins. “I was really excited and felt satisfied about having a teenage milestone fulfilled with Pitchfork acknowledging our existence as a band but I didn’t read the review and will never read it because I heard it was snarky. I can’t stand being in that situation where someone is talking shit about you and you have no appropriate way to respond. There’s never really an appropriate way to respond but especially not through the internet. Then you just look petty.”

The latest album was recorded in North Carolina, as

Smith mentions he needed a break from the city, and is brutally frank when asked about the influence the recording space had on the album. “None really,” he says.

“Music is about the unconscious, you know? I don’t think being there influenced the sound of the album at all. I guess I don’t know though, I’m no expert on my own subconscious. I’m just standing near the gate of Darwin Deez, I see some stuff but I don’t know what the fuck is going on in there.”

So why the choice? “North Carolina seemed like the most relaxing and cheap option. I’d been on the road for a year and a half, I wanted to go home and breathe the air in North Carolina.”

It seems that it was his approach to writing and not recording that was the catalyst for the band’s new sound.

He agrees that you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t with album number two. Repeat your pattern

and you’re accused of being formulaic, change too much the sound (and identity) of your band that has been appropriated in the minds of your fans and you’re accused of some sort of creative betrayal. What can you do but write for yourself in a world where people seem to be more focused on what music they hate than what they like? “Recording is just a different room, with a different microphone and a different amplifier – that never really changes much,” he says dryly. “The writing was different because I wrote the lyrics first. I’ve never done that in all of my years of writing. They ended up shaping the songs in a way that changed the whole sound. It’s one thing to compose a melody and then find the lyrics – you repeat that melody three or four times and then you go to the chorus and that’s that – but it’s another thing to write a

melody dictated by the lyrics. It means that the melody changes constantly in the songs; none of the lines have a melody that ever exactly repeats. Even the four lines within the chorus, the melody is different and that is totally different for me but I think it makes a much more complex time that has taken a lot more time to create and will take much more time to have it come into your heart as a listener. I know these songs are harder for people to respond to but I’m stubborn on that because that’s what I wanted.”

a scope of who to give your music to and stuff like that.

I guess having lots of friends that play in bands is really good in its own way. I live with the guys from Gung Ho and Last Dinosaurs. You can’t help but always keep your eye on what each other’s band is doing and you kinda think ‘Oh why aren’t we doing that?’, so there’s a lot of friendly competiveness. It keeps everyone working hard at least.”

The writing process has been fruitful for Millions but also taken things in a new direction. When asked what the single will be that they plan on releasing in October, Smith admits that he doesn’t feel like they’ve written it yet. “We’ve got a few different tracks coming together but nothing feels like the single yet,” he says. “It’s kinda in the back of your mind to be mindful of the fans you have earned now and what they might want from you but we’re always writing for ourselves at the end of the day. There are some songs that we’ve written that we’re not really fond of so it feels good to start to be really

proud of your music again.”

The recording plans are only just taking shape and ideas are still in an incubation period. So far the UK looks to be an option as it fulfils their strict budget requirements but a decision needs to be made and time is running out. “[What we’re going to do] is a good question,” he laughs. “Things are going back and forth about budget but we’re thinking about going to the UK to record it. It just so happens Louis and Ted’s dad owns a studio over there so given our budget it sounds like a really good option. We can take our time, play some gigs over there and have the space that we might need to get it all right.”

where that we want to go to is possible – we just go for it,” Kaushik says. “Our manager has put the pedal to the metal for us and sent things out in every direction.

The reality is there might be places in the world that appreciate our music more than other places and even more than Australia.”

Their manager is uniquely close to band; Chris de la Hoyde is bassist John and guitarist Joe’s dad. “He is the brains behind our music getting out there,” de la Hoyde says. “He’s not got a background in the industry as such, but he’s got a business-y background and we have him to thank for a lot of things. We all come up with bits and pieces and do various things for the business side but he’s been pivotal for the international work. Still, the success that we’ve had in places like the US has been in increments. It’s such a huge market and to say you’ve played a few shows over there is nothing in comparison to getting close to actually getting there.”

Releasing the album as three volumes – or three EP’s really – seems like another one of those manager-made choices. “We just want to get the most out of it,” de la Hoyde begins. “The idea is we’ve got a whole album there but the issue we had was that we’re still a growing band and we didn’t want to release an entire album

to…” “…well to no one,” Kaushik laughs. “It’s a strategy for a young band – release three songs, do a video, get it out there as much as we can and not have some songs on the album to get lost in the bunch. We wrote the music and finished the music and in essence that was the end for us, that side of things are important but the way it gets released is important but was someone else’s decision.”

The lads know the release plan and resign themselves to the fact their life has become a cycle of recording, releasing and touring. For them, the album has been finished for a long time and they’ve even been in the studio working on their next instalment. “By the end of the year you’ll be getting the whole album basically.

Between now and Christmas it will be a stream of music and videos and some more touring later,” Kaushik finishes.

DARWIN DEEZ appears at Splendour In The Grass on Friday July 26. His sideshow is going down at The Corner Hotel on Wednesday July 31.

MILLIONS

BY KRISSI WEISS

Millions have a secret. They won’t tell me no matter how hard I try but it sounds as though things are about to become pretty hectic for the Brisbane indie rockers. Bassist Campbell Smith is being tight lipped on their plans but does admit they had a pretty huge night to celebrate the evening before we speak. “I’m still in bed,” Smith says sleepily. “Yeah, it was a randomly big night. We confirmed some plans that had been going back and forth for a couple of days; it was pretty stressful actually, so we decided we’d get really drunk.”

What better way to celebrate as a young four-piece on the cusp of “something”? Before that something comes to fruition, Millions are heading down the coast from Brisbane for the Converse ‘Get Loud’ gigs. With some kick arse lineups gracing cities in Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne is set to enjoy Converse’s chaotic spirit in the form of music so literally, get yo dancin’ skate shoes on. For Millions, this will most probably be their last gig before locking the doors and getting to work on their debut album. It’s late and everyone, including them, is getting a little anxious about bringing it to life. The writing has finally found its groove again after a lineup change. “We’re writing for our debut album which we’re hoping to record sometime this year,” Smith says. “We’re hoping to release it, if everything goes to plan, early next year and hopefully have a single out by late October. After the Converse show, we’ve got time off until September when we hope to record it.”

With the recent departure of drummer James Wright

(replaced by newcomer Louis Tilbrook, brother of guitarist Ted Tilbrook) things are moving forward with greater pace. “We’ve had a lot of pressure on us to write the album for a while,” he says. “It probably should’ve come out halfway through this year but we had the lineup change with our new drummer so since then it’s been fun and easy again to play. We’ve been in the rehearsal room almost every day and it’s just been a real breath of fresh air. It feels like starting a new band. There’s just such a different energy when everyone actually wants to be there; it’s kinda hard to be creative when the mood is low and people don’t wanna be there.”

Lucky for Millions, they belong to a tight knit group of friends in Brisbane who mostly happen to be musicians.

They support each other, tour with each other, live together and occasionally steal ideas off each other. In high school it may have been cheating of a friends test paper, now it’s cheating off their Facebook page. “It’s always good to know people,” he says. “That way you have

MILLIONS (along with Scotdrakula) will be playing the Melbourne leg of Converse’s Get Loud gigs, Saturday June 29. Head to facebook.com/ converseaustralia to RSVP and win tickets. Location details will be emailed to winners.

MONKS OF MELLONWAH

BY KRISSI WEISS Sydney’s latest flourishing export, alternative/funk rock four-piece Monks Of Mellonwah, have placed smart business decisions at the forefront of their music plan. Obviously being good at what you do is the key to success, but wise choices go a long way. They have a debut album ready to hit the scene, Turn The People, but instead of risking it being lost to this new era of single song focus, it will be released in three parts with Ghost Stories appearing as the first volume. They have signed to A&R Worldwide (Muse, Coldplay) as well as winning ‘Best International Rock Band’ at the LA Music Awards and AIM Music Awards in 2012. Being chosen to showcase their wares at Singapore’s Music Matters topped everything off so if you don’t know them, maybe now’s the time to pay attention.

Forming out of school, Monks Of Mellonwah have undergone the obligatory series of lineup changes but for them, it has been a case of too many choices rather than a lack of focus. You know you’re dealing with some driven lads when they’re choosing between law degrees and economics degrees (at NYU for the latter) or pursuing a promising music a career. “We had the lineup coming out of school and when we got to the point of recording our EP our singer bailed out because he wanted to focus on his studies and get into law,” bassist John de la Hoyde explains. “So Vikram [Kaushik] stepped up and found out he could sing. After about six or eight months, Vikram decided he was gonna take off too. He got an offer at NYU so he went to the States and our old singer came back. He jumped at the chance to come back but we didn’t really have a big chance to practice and get into writing with him. He left again and Vikram’s back now. Since he’s been back we’ve been writing proBeat Magazine Page 46

lifically. We’ve had a lot of good things move forward for the band so it’s gonna be the four of us now. We’re set on the lineup.”

Both Kaushik and de la Hoyde admit that deciding to gamble on their art over the stable choice of a white collar career was simultaneously nerve-wracking and a no brainer. “It is hard but I decided I wanted to give this 100% because I didn’t want to look back in ten years and regret not giving it everything, it would seem like a waste,” de la Hoyde says and Kaushik chimes in on the band’s work ethic. “We have a background in classical music; I grew up playing violin and playing in orchestras so we’ve all had experience playing in ensembles. I think it even affects the way we rehearse as well as the way we write as well as make decisions.”

Those decisions have seemed global in nature from the very beginning of Monks Of Mellonwah’s journey.

“We just figure anywhere that wants to hear us and any-

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MONKS OF MELLONWAH will be at Revolver Upstairs, Tuesday July 2; Grace Darling, Wednesday July 3; and The Tote, Thursday July 4. Ghost Stories (Vol. 1 of Turn The People) is out now through Gatcome Music/MGM.

BELLUSIRA

BY ROD WHITFIELD

Melbourne band Bellusira have travelled a long, hard road to get where they are today.

A road full of triumph, tragedy and hard times. Of setbacks that have knocked them to the kerb, only for them to get right back up, dust themselves off and start marching back down that highway of hard knocks again. Where they are now is a pretty special place indeed, and now, more than ever they are moving forward relentlessly.

That ‘place’ is a place of excitement, a place where dreams are on the verge of becoming reality. Bellusira are a young but hungry and battle-hardened rock band who have just released their debut album – an album of rare quality, a ‘moment in time’ rock album that only comes along every so often. A rock album where, upon listening to it end to end, you can hear, feel and sense the pain that went into making it. Already, reactions to its quality have been stunning, and there have been major stirrings of interest in the band, nationally and abroad. The hardships they’ve been through will only make the taste of success they are about to savour all that much sweeter.

It’s a heady, and not to mention busy time for these guys, but Crystal Ignite (lead vocals) and Mark Dalbeth (bass) found some time recently to sit down and chat with us about all things Bellusira.

“With Bellusira at the moment, it’s just nonstop, intense, lots of stuff going on,” Crystal states, the enthusiasm flowing out of her. “We’ve had changes that have happened for the good of the band, and we’re getting a lot of interest in the band at the moment. So it’s really exciting, and the album has only just come out!”

The interest is coming from all angles, but it’s too soon to spill on the details. “It’s a bit of everything,” she says.

“I’m sworn to secrecy at the moment. If everything goes through, and everything happens for us, it will be a very productive year for us, and if that happens, honestly, it’s about time!” she says forthrightly. “Mark and I have worked our arses off for ten years on this.”

“It would be nice, nice to get a break,” Mark adds.

“We believe that the hard work should pay off eventually, the energy you put in should come back out,” Crystal concludes.

The album itself, enigmatically titled Connection, is a monumental statement from the band. It’s an album full of passion, positivity, fist pumping rock anthems and much variety in dynamics. It’s a record that should find the band taking their place among the elite of Australian rock, and Crystal and Mark couldn’t possibly be happier with the fruits of their long and often painful labours.

“We feel it’s just a really strong record,” Mark states.

“Every song is one to be proud of. We’ve done EPs and singles, but we thought it was time to do a full length.

We’re very proud of it, it’s a pretty diverse record, and there’s lots of really strong songs on there.”

“I think every song is different, but it all sounds like Bellusira. We’ve shown a diverse range of what we can do, but still that ‘solidity’,” says Crystal.

“MARK AND I HAVE GONE THROUGH HELL IN OUR LIVES. WE’VE HAD A HARD JOURNEY IN THE BAND, AND OUR LIVES BEFORE THAT WERE REALLY TOUGH, BUT I THINK THE TOUGH TIMES REALLY SHOW WHAT WE’RE MADE OF.” The quality inherent on the album is going to extend to the film clips that the band will be releasing to promote the album. The clip to the first single Cachango is apparently just about done, and is set to blow people’s minds.

“Our film clip is coming out soon,” Crystal reveals.

“End of June?” Mark asks.

“Something like that!” she responds. “It’s a really big production, a really big team behind it, lots of special effects. What else can we say?”

“Plenty of surprises!” Mark answers.

“You’ll see me as you haven’t seen me before. And the concept, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done before. It’ll be something that you just haven’t seen before in Australia, a level that you just wouldn’t see from an independent artist. I reckon we’ll do about four film clips for this album,” Crystal says.

As for the band’s hard journey, the emotion that their story brings up in Crystal and Mark really comes out in the tracks on the album. One song in particular, the atmospheric, more electronic driven Made Of is a standout track on a very strong album, with emotion being carried in Crystal’s impassioned vocals.

“I would say it’s the most vulnerable song we’ve ever written,” Crystal says. “That’s what I was feeling at the time, I was completely devastated. My world was just destroyed. I cried the whole time I wrote those lyrics and sang those melodies. It helped me get through that point, and it really shows what you’re made of. Mark and I have gone through hell in our lives. We’ve had a hard journey in the band, and our lives before that were really tough, but I think the tough times really show what we’re made of. It’s about going ‘I’m still here. I might be crying, but that doesn’t mean that I’m weak.’ That’s what it’s all about.”

BELLUSIRA’s debut album Connection is out now on iTunes, in JB Hi Fi and wherever else music is sold.

The album will be launched this coming Saturday June 29 at The Espy with support from Anna Salen, Lung, High Side Driver and Moments Apart.

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LAURA IMBRUGLIA

BY JODY MACGREGOR

Like most musicians in Australia, Laura Imbruglia has a day job; today she’s found time to be interviewed while at the office where she does admin. Earlier in the week she had to squeeze in more interviews by doing a couple of them on the tram, which was less ideal. “At the end of the second one I had to do a radio ID,” she says. “I lost all anonymity so not only was I the idiot having an interview on the tram, I had to say, ‘Hi, you’re listening to blah blah blah FM and I’m Laura Imbruglia.’ Which is really, really embarrassing.” She’s also found time for study, coming close to the end of a graphic design course that’s proven useful in her music career. “I thought I might be good at it, but then I remembered pretty early on that I had no visual arts skills. So it’s just made me more self-sufficient for my music stuff; I don’t have to pay people to make my concert posters and my layouts for CDs anymore.”

It’s also helped her come up with ideas for unusual ways to add value to her albums, putting extras in for people who pick up the physical versions. Her previous release came with a comic book and the new album, What A Treat, comes with a doublesided jigsaw puzzle. “It’s been good getting a graphic designer’s brain on for thinking of new and interesting ways to package stuff.” She’s also had to come up with new and interesting ways to raise money. Although Imbruglia received a grant to help with the cost of the album’s recording, she thought of an inventive way to pay for promoting her tour. “I put a thing on Twitter saying, ‘In desperate need of cash: will perform sexual favours for cash. By sexual favours I mean I will sing Let’s Get It On to you via Skype.’ I was just joking and then I thought maybe I can actually earn money doing

that? I created a Bandcamp product and set a fee for filming myself singing songs for people with a personal dedication. I just put it online to see if anyone would buy them and they sold out really quickly. In fact I probably charged not enough for them for the amount of time it takes me to put them together, but I might make them a permanent merch item and up the price.” You can find these videos on YouTube; watching Laura Imbruglia perform a lively rendition of Blondie’s Call Me as a birthday present for someone named Grzegorz is entirely worth your time. All the hustle and grind is in aid of an album that’s also worth your time, one that contains a lovelorn duet with Ben Salter (Limerence), a psych-rock song about insects (Incest) and a boot-scooting country-rock number about howling at the moon (Awoooh!). That last one

features a video for which Imbruglia spent several hours having makeup applied to make her look like she’d stepped straight out of Teen Wolf.

In spite of completing another album, her third now, Imbruglia doesn’t seem to think much of her achievements. She recently turned 30, the age when many people have the moment where they take stock and wonder why they haven’t travelled the world or finished a novel or had two kids.

“I’ve been having that moment for the past five years,” she says, “so it wasn’t like a sudden thing. I

regularly have that moment where I go, ‘God, what am I doing? This is not an adult’s life. Where’s my house and car?’ But it’s the musician’s life; it’s pretty hard to have those things. I have been achieving things but they’ve just been musical I guess.”

wasn’t in deep mourning. I didn’t have a deep mourning process, because when they died, it was such a relief. And that was interesting! I always imagined that when you lose your parents, you’re devastated. But I was relieved, and I felt a lightness. I was also falling in love as I wrote this album, and a lot of the songs are …” She pauses, trying to find the right word. “Humour. There’s a real sense of humour underneath it all. Also falling in love with someone who’s younger than me!” She laughs, and her eyes shine.

“So I guess I was enjoying things! I was enjoying playing songs again,” she continues. “I felt like I was in a new phase of my life because now I was very much alone in the world, but there’s a lot of freedom. My life just seemed to open up again – I’ve been holding a lot of responsibility taking care of my parents over the last five years, so it was a very different experience being … free, I guess.”

Essentially, then, you were ready to kick your shoes off and have a little bit of fun?

“Exactly!” she agrees. “That’s exactly it – I wanted this album to be fun. I wanted it to be fun to play, fun to record, and fun to listen to! There needed to be a real lightness to this work for me to survive it! Hidden Hands was an intense album, and we played it live for many years, and I had to relive those stories and experiences again and again and again.

“I knew,” she says with triumph, “this time I wanted to write an album and enjoy it – and deliver these songs that are going to be fun played live!”

The result is an album featuring melodies beautiful and twisted, both anchoring and darting around Gourley’s silken voice. A different recording process has also led to an easier transition of the songs to stage.

“Surprisingly enough it was a lot easier than with things we’d done in the past,” Carothers notes. “We always write spontaneously in the studio, we never are all playing it in one big room together at the same time. We just kind of piece it together over weeks. So we’d had that problem in the past where we’d love a song that we’ve tracked but it just doesn’t translate well to the stage or it doesn’t have that live element, it’s lacking some energy or some kind of

love and we have to change it.

“But with this we took our time and thought about what we did very, very carefully and when we started playing these things live they just seemed to translate very well. They’ve got a lot of energy to them, which is something that has lacked in a lot of our recordings. So it’s been a very natural progression to the stage.”

LAURA IMBRUGLIA hits The Tote on Saturday July 13. Her third album What A Treat is out now via Ready Freddie Records/MGM.

JEN CLOHER

BY THOMAS BAILEY

In Blood Memory, the long-awaited third album from local legend Jen Cloher, has finally seen the light of day and let me tell you, it’s worth the wait. Rollicking, heartfelt, and raw, this work is a corker, brimming with light, atmosphere, and warmth. It is certainly not a warm day when I meet up with Ms Cloher at a Thornbury café to chat about this album and the stories that led up to it. In fact, it’s a bitterly cold and wet wintry day that flies directly in the face of Melbourne’s unofficial “four seasons in a day” motto – nary a trace of summer, spring or autumn to be seen.

Written over six months and recorded in six days, In Blood Memory was recorded live, which certainly gives the record its sense of immediacy. She’s aided immeasurably by her fantastic band – Courtney Barnett on guitars, Jen Sholakis from Endless Sea on drums, and the awesomely named Bones Sloane on bass – and Cloher could not be happier about the advantages of recording live.

“Yeah! [Recording live] has its limitations in that you don’t get that perfect vocal sound,” she admits. “But what you do get is wonderful performances! I think Name In Lights is a great example of a band playing really well together. And that’s what we went out to achieve. Bones manages at The Tote, so we would go in on days when it was closed and rehearse.”

Cloher had already amassed an album’s worth of material by the beginning of 2012, but decided to scrap it all following the deaths of both of her parents, who had been suffering from degenerative diseases for years, at the end of 2011.

In fact, Cloher’s second album, 2009’s Hidden Hands, was a harrowing study of loss and her relationship with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s. Was that material she scrapped cutting a little close to the bone, and was she weary of writing about loss?

“To be honest, Hidden Hands had covered that territory,” Cloher says. “Because both of my parents had degenerative diseases it’s a really long process watching someone slowly disappearing. I’d done a lot of grieving, and Hidden Hands was very much about that process.”

Cloher did a lot of soul-searching through the next few years, writing songs, engaging in poetry, doing a series of duets with artists such as Kieran Ryan – “but I just couldn’t seem to find something that truly intrigued me,” Cloher recalls. “It’s a song, usually, a moment when you write a song and it informs the body of work that you’re going to do, based on that song.”

And then Cloher answers my unspoken question regarding the scrapped material. “The songs that I’d written, I definitely will be recording down the track. And I’ve already earmarked a couple of those songs for a different project later this year – they won’t be wasted!” she says with a laugh.

Which brings us back to In Blood Memory. Sick of writing about grief and loss and sorrow, Cloher’s new songs evoke a real feeling of liveliness and vitality. She’d mentioned before that she wanted to focus on what was “alive in her” – so I ask her if she discovered any aspects of herself that were surprising.

“It’s funny,” she says, smiling, “because when I said that, I

JEN CLOHER launches her new album In Blood Memory at The Corner Hotel on Friday June 28. In Blood Memory is out now through Milk! Records/ Remote Control.

PORTUGAL. THE MAN

BY BOB GORDON

The album and the road. You finish one then you’re out on the other. Occasionally, however, a touch of home can make the road a little more welcoming.

“It’s our singer John’s (Gourley) birthday so we have a ton of family out here,” says Portugal. The Man bassist, Zach Carothers, down the line from Buffalo, New York. “Two members of our band have an unbelievable amount of family in Upstate New York. We’ve got about 80 people, so it’s gonna be a family party tonight.

“It’s nice to get a taste of home, for sure. Though it’s been a long time since we’ve been out on a proper tour and it feels really good to get back out on it. It’s been far too long and this is where I really shine. I like being on tour, it’s my favourite thing in the world.”

Given how Carothers describes the intensity of recording albums with the Portland-based band, it’s not entirely surprising that he likes hitting the highway. “It’s a pretty crazy process, to tell you the truth,” he says. “There’s definitely a lot of anxiety and a lot of pressure and we’re constantly questioning every single move that we make. It’s actually a pretty brutal experience. Every time we record it almost kills us. It’s an emotional rollercoaster, some of the best times we’ve had have been in the studio and some of the worst times, for sure.

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to get it done and find that pinpoint of satisfaction that you can’t live without... there’s no better feeling.” Things were a little different, however, on Portugal. The Man’s eighth album, Evil Friends. Already well into self-producing an album at their favourite studio in El Paso, Texas, the notion presented itself to work with the celebrated Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton (Gnarls Barkley, Jack White, Gorillaz, The Black Keys). With busy schedules on both sides perhaps threatening to get in the way, it may not have eventuated, but a musical like-mindedness won through.

“The last thing he needed was to produce a rock’n’roll band,” Carothers laughs. “But it came around to where it was a serious thing and I’m really happy that we went for it.

It was definitely a new experience; I think for him as well.

He doesn’t work with bands a lot; he works with artists. If he works with a band, it’s like The Black Keys and there’s only two of them. I think it was a new thing for everybody.

“The last two weeks of this recording process were the most positive, productive times I’ve ever had in the studio. Ever.

Everybody was so on point, so on their shit, the engineers, everybody in the band; Brian, John... I’m really proud of everybody who had anything to do with this record.”

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Evil Friends is out now through Atlantic US/Warner Music Australia. PORTUGAL. THE MAN are playing the sold-out Splendour In The Grass in Byron Bay between Friday July 26 and Sunday July 28.

SLEEPMAKESWAVES

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

Sydney’s sleepmakeswaves have just embarked on their only planned headline tour for the year, heading to all Australian capital cities as well as a number of regional locations over the next month. Bass player Alex Wilson suggests that for the remainder of the year they’ll either be working on a follow up to 2011’s ...and so we destroyed everything LP or expanding their touring schedule.

“If all of the chips fall in the right place we could be heading back out on the road again and have a really big touring year like we did last year. I suppose in the back of our minds there’s this idea that the last record is almost two years old now. If it pans out that we just had time to write the new record and be in a position to record it in 2014, and maybe release it then as well, that would be absolutely fine.”

Since the release of their first record the band haven’t had much time to step away from the live environment and work on new material. Wilson says that in order to develop the complex textures, which constitute their characteristically emotive soundscapes, they require a dedicated songwriting period.

“We’re not the kind of band that bashes out songs really quickly. When you’re smashing together a big rock band sound with electronic stuff, and the songs can get pretty long, they just take a while. We really need to sit down and get ourselves in the head space and focus through arranging what can be some pretty involved, convoluted sort of music.”

The upcoming ...and so we played everything tour will demonstrate their careful attention to detail and Wilson describes how they’ve sculpted the setlist to have a captivating consistency.

“We’re trying to mix up the set from night to night because previously when we’ve gone out on headline tours it’s just been the same thing each evening.

We’ve put together two sets with a mix of new songs, things that people are used to hearing and some old stuff that we’ve never played before. Getting the right moments to be really full on and violent and the right moments to pare it back and create a vista musically, that’s a big part of what we’re always thinking about, that ebb and flow.”

Sleepmakeswaves benefit from not having a major hit or a string of obvious songs that fans will demand to hear. The sleepmakeswaves live show seeks to be a balanced journey, delivering a holistic experience for the duration of their stage occupation, explains Wilson.

“I think when you don’t have a vocalist and you’re not churning out stuff with verses and choruses, what people latch onto isn’t the lyrics and the individual songs, but the idea that you’re creating a head space.

When we’re planning the stuff that we play on tour, it’s more about the music flowing together in a coherent way so that thing that we do – that hypnotic, trance-like, post-rock crescendo kind of shit – will work without interruption.”

“WHEN YOU’RE SMASHING TOGETHER A BIG ROCK BAND SOUND WITH ELECTRONIC STUFF, AND THE SONGS CAN GET PRETTY LONG, THEY JUST TAKE A WHILE. WE REALLY NEED TO SIT DOWN AND GET OURSELVES IN THE HEAD SPACE AND FOCUS THROUGH ARRANGING WHAT CAN BE SOME PRETTY INVOLVED, CONVOLUTED SORT OF MUSIC.” Indeed, the dynamic structure of live instrumental music contrasts to music that is centred around vocal melodies and Wilson indicates towards sleepmakeswaves’ understanding of what’s required to avoid meandering or playing too many pieces with a very similar sound.

“My favourite bands when I was growing up were ‘90s bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Faith No More.

They always had so much variety in what they did and

I’ve always gravitated to that idea, that you can have really angry fast songs and put them next to really slow optimistic ones and you can make it work. I think that in this whole post-rock thing, that sometimes has a reputation for being samey and repetitive, we have consciously tried to write material that, although it’s instrumental and it references that sound in a big way, has a kind of variety in it where we can take people through a whole series of different emotions during the course of a night.”

The experience sleepmakeswaves have gathered while carefully curating the live show since releasing ...and so we destroyed everything has subsequently impacted upon their creative approach. Wilson reveals they’re now composing material with thoughts of how it will sound onstage.

“When you have that opportunity to tour so much it changes your approach to how you song-write and how you look at your own parts. We want to make sure that all of our stuff is really road tested and worn out live before we head into the studio. We want to know it inside out.”

A huge learning curve for the band was a successful

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international touring stint in 2012, which saw them traverse Europe far and wide as well as a brief US visit. To further the band’s career prospects they’ll probably look at the overseas market a lot more in the future, however, Wilson believes there’s plenty to keep them occupied in Australia as well.

“We definitely want to build a bigger touring career in Europe because there’s a lot of love for our kind of music there. I also think that, even though there’s this really exciting world out there and we want to conquer as much of it as we can, we know there’s still so much for us to do here at home.”

Wilson indicates that despite their busy schedule it doesn’t feel like work and he optimistically surmises the prevalent feeling in the band. “We’re just pretty excited about getting out on the road anywhere!”

SLEEPMAKESWAVES bring their ...and so we played everything tour to The Evelyn Hotel on Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7. ...and so we destroyed everything and ...and then they remixed everything are out now on Bird’s Robe Records.

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FRANKIE AND THE HEARTSTRINGS

BY CHLOE PAPAS

UK indie rock quintet Frankie And The Heartstrings have just released their second record, and are chomping at the bit to show off their shiny new tunes. After hearing the news that the UK’s biggest record store chain, HMV, was shutting down on the same day that they finished up their sophomore record, Frankie And The Heartstrings made the only logical decision – to open up their own record store.

“We’d just spent a year and a half making this record and now there’s nowhere to sell it. So we were like, ‘well, why don’t we make our own record store? Yeah, that sounds like a stupid idea, let’s do that.’ So naively we’ve gone into this, full speed ahead. In a time when record stores are closing down, we’re opening one up. Typical,” laughs frontman Frankie Francis.

But, it seems like that’s just how the Sunderland indie rockers do things: throughout the conversation, Beat learns that they have also booked their upcoming album tour during the opening week of the record store, and that they’ll be somehow running the store themselves – while travelling around the world. “We’re doing this properly, so we’ve only got ourselves to blame if it goes tits-up,” Francis deadpans in his Northern England accent.

Frankie And The Heartstrings released their second album, The Days Run Away, earlier this year. “I’m incredibly proud of this record,” begins Francis. “It’s been a bit of a labour of love because we had a lot of time of to make it and we’ve never had that much time off before.” Listening to the record, it’s difficult not to notice the evident frustration projected throughout.

Francis confirms that aiming for perfection made creating the record a difficult process. “There’s a song on it called Nothing Our Way. It’s kind of an amalgamation of the feelings of frustration at trying to do your best, but at times feeling like you’ve got nothing left. When you’ve got so much time to do something, it’s hard not to overthink it, it’s hard not to throw the kitchen sink at it,” he explains.

The group worked with esteemed producer and ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler on the record, a move that Francis is happy with. “Bernard’s very driven to succeed, and his professionalism is incredible. For the first time ever I was shown singing techniques, so I’m very proud of my voice on the record.” The band traveled between Butler’s studio and their own in different parts of England, visiting pubs along the way.

“It’s really weird you know, when you’re sitting with Bernard Butler in your local pub doing a pub quiz – it’s totally surreal.”

Frankie And The Heartstrings will be juggling touring and running their store over the next few months, but Francis

tells Beat that they’re likely to head our way towards the end of the year. Above all, the band are pumped to get out on the road after a year of knuckling down. “It’s what we do best, I think we’re one of the best live bands you’ll see.

We put everything into it and I think that’s the way bands should be – but a lot of bands aren’t, you know, they’re too concerned about looking down to see if they’ve got the right shoes on.”

opposed to how they built Gold On Gold? Were there any lessons they learned, or was there anything they did differently? Cohen ponders for a moment. “I think the two processes were different right from the onset,” he offers. “[With} Gold On Gold there was no plan – it came from a place of just wanting to write songs with these people and then quickly putting it out without a plan!

“Heirs & Graces, there was a lot of planning and strategy that went into it, because there was a record label involved! So yeah, quite a different process from the onset.

But I think in terms of songwriting, there was definitely a pressure involved, a pressure to write. So we were sort of writing with a motive!”

Motive or not, the result has been a follow-up that improves upon its predecessor; one that maintains what worked in the debut but also adds its own special elements. Case in point is the third single from Heirs & Graces, the delightfully groovy yet subtly wistful Cape Town. Its corresponding video is rather lovely and mysterious, taking place at a party of epic proportions, cut with lovely views from Table

Mountain as Cohen breathes the vocals, “Everybody buy me a drink/It’s my birthday … yeah.” Must have been nice to be in Cape Town for the filming, I mention.

“Yeah, it kind of just happened that way, we never planned it,” Cohen tells me. “I go back to Cape Town at least once a year, and it just so happened that I had planned this trip pretty much close to [the time of filming]. I think the original idea was to shoot some stock footage in Cape Town and then we could use that footage over here.”

But once there, the decision was made to turn the video into a tribute to the city Cohen loves so very much – proving yet again the pull of nostalgia that is the core of this very special band.

The Days Run Away is out through Pop Sex Ltd/Warner.

CLUBFEET

BY THOMAS BAILEY

You know that feeling you get when you’re on your last evening of a brilliant and eventful holiday abroad? Everything is wonderful and colourful, and you’re dancing with a beautiful stranger you bonded with over the course of your adventure. You’re having the time of your life, but every moment that passes is twinged with a distinct melancholic feel – you know that tomorrow must come, and chances are pretty good that you’ll never see this person again. It’s a powerful feeling.

This feeling is reminiscent of the music of local five-piece synth-pop outfit Clubfeet, whose second album, the remarkable Heirs & Graces, was released earlier this year.

I posit my theory about the feeling of Clubfeet’s music to Sebastian Cohen, the lead vocalist and guitarist, and he cheerily agrees.

“Yeah!” he exclaims. “That kind of sums up our style, well done! I guess that rings true to me, and rings true for the other guys as well. A sense of melancholy and nostalgia.

Obviously, some of the songs are about that subject, and others are about being young: the loss of youth, and being nostalgic about that. I guess [they’re about] anyone’s connection to the world – it’s a melancholic, nostalgic weird happy-sad place, you know?”

Cohen knows about nostalgia, having moved here from his beloved Cape Town roughly seven years ago. Luckily for him, though, one of his childhood chums (Clubfeet’s Yves Roberts) was already here waiting for him – and the rest, they say, is history.

“Myself and Yves, we grew up together in a place called Kimberley, which is a small mining town,” Cohen explains.

“And we actually started making music together back then.

We went through school, then he emigrated to Australia – and in a couple of years I followed! And then we met Monty Cooper and, yeah … everything just happened from there.

We started writing songs together and that’s how Gold On Gold came about. We’d written these songs and we thought, ‘Maybe we should put it out!’ And…we did, and everything happened from there!”

After releasing Gold On Gold, something interesting and quite unexpected happened – they got a fan in a certain influential music media site. Their debut had been picked up by boutique label Illusive Sounds, who released the LP in America. “And somehow,” Cohen adds, “it got reviewed on Pitchfork and it saw a lot of blog action – and yes, we were very surprised by all of that!” He laughs at the memory. “And we went over and played a couple of shows at (American festival) CMJ, which were amazing!”

Ah, good old Pitchfork. “Yeah!” he agrees. “It’s amazing how much influence they have! Even if you’re a Pitchfork hater, which there are a lot of these days, you still can’t deny the fact that they do have a lot of sway and influence!”

Pitchfork certainly got it right when they reviewed Gold On Gold, giving it a total score of 7.7. Basically, it was a debut that got it all right: from its rather debonair air of sophistication to its subtle tongue-in-cheek humour (a Heathers-inspired take on Teenage Suicide (Don’t Do It)?) to its simple power of having some inspiring beats that seduced and were fun.

Heirs & Graces takes that jubilant formula and builds on it subtly. So how did Cohen and his mates approach it as

CLUBFEET celebrate the release of their single Cape Town at The Corner Hotel on Thursday July 4, Karova Lounge in Ballarat on Friday July 5 and the Eureka Hotel in Geelong on Saturday July 6. Heirs & Graces is out now through Illusive.

Fiona Lee Maynard

CHRISSY AMPHLETT – A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGEND: FIONA LEE MAYNARD

BY KRISSI WEISS

Chrissy Amphlett paved the way for female rock singers long before Australia was ready to embrace them, although embrace her we did. It was easy to be The Easybeats, AC/DC or Cold Chisel but for Amphlett and the Divinyls, ground was continuously being broken and glass ceilings smashed during their early days at the top. She may have sexualised her presence on stage (which again, is easy if you’re a guy but in the ‘80s, not if you were a woman, and even now…) but it worked for her and her energetic performance style, enigmatic stage presence and exuberant voice earned her adoration and admiration around the world. When she passed away on April 21 this year Australia and the world lost a truly magical frontwoman and bloody nice lady.

Fiona Lee Maynard, herself a beacon of gutsy rock on the Melbourne scene, along with an impressive lineup will be celebrating the music of Amphlett in a tribute gig that will also be an MS fundraiser. “The gig came about because when Chrissy passed away there was so much outpouring of emotion for her from all of the women musicians that I knew – and I was in that boat too,” Maynard says. “A couple of weeks later, [I was sent] a message and asked if I wanted arrange a Chrissy Amphlett tribute gig. So from there I thought how can we involve as many people as possible in the process? I thought a lot about Chrissy and how unique and how strong she was and how she worked with men and women and so I thought it was really important to have female fronted bands as well as a real variety of performers.”

The gig is not one of mimicry or an RSL-style tribute gig; all of the performers are giving their own spin to Amphlett’s music. “I remember reading an interview with Chrissy after she’d done the Paul Kelly album and I remember her saying Beat Magazine Page 50

that if you’re going to do a cover then you need to do it in your own way,” she says. “I thought that was a really important thing with this tribute that it would be absolutely a tribute to the Divinyls and to Chrissy as a performer but with people who are quite original as well.”

One of the pivotal parts of deciding the lineup was to pay tribute not just to music of Amphlett but to her legacy as well. It’s easy to think that sexism in music is something consigned to the history books but it wasn’t that long ago that someone like Amphlett would’ve been unthinkable on the Australian rock landscape. We had Judith Durham and seemed happy with that. Suzi DeMarchi, Sarah McLeod, Adalita, Hayley Mary, Stonefield and many more are standing on the shoulders of Chrissy Amphlett. “The awareness of her contribution was so important and that was such a part of the selection process when we asked other artists,” she says. “There are a lot of young women who may not have realised what happened and how

difficult the process was. We wanted to ask people that were aware of how Chrissy banged her head against that glass ceiling until it exploded and shattered it enough for the rest of us to get through.”

The evening will also be raising much needed funds for MS Australia. Maynard explains that MS is something that has touched a lot of the performers personally, beyond Amphlett’s struggle. Amphlett announced she had MS in 2007 but later admitted she had been battling it since the late ‘80s. Amphlett kept a lot of secrets actually and while it’s usually against the rules of music writing to ever put yourself in the story, I have to admit I know a few. I interviewed Amphlett early on (but not too early) in my writing career and apart from sharing a name (that was always going to be my way in) I was thoroughly intimidated at the thought of speaking to her. She was the tough chick of Oz rock, she turned up to orchestra practice in ripped pyjamas, she sang about touching herself while getting busy with a guitar – she scared me. The reality was vastly different to my distorted fantasy. When that warm and husky voice answered the phone from New York, I met one of the most wonderful and honest women I have ever met in my life. I spoke to her in 2010, a few months before she announced she was battling breast cancer but after she had found out (as I learned in our chat) and while she was a

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magical women, the eventual article was frightfully boring.

The reason it was boring was that while she was so honest it was astonishing; the conversation was almost entirely off the record. I’m not one of those journos, I keep a secret, even from my friends and lovers. I was relieved, however, when she announced her breast cancer as that secret was a hard one to keep to myself – but all the rest are easy.

The rock chick seemed tamed when we spoke, she said she had no regrets about her life (although she still had the occasional rocker vice after all). She was living with two debilitating conditions and converting to an angelic lifestyle was never going to happen. But she was so gentle, so at peace, so thankful for her opportunities and so humbled by the idea that she was a pioneer in her own right. I know I’m just the journo, but I too will miss Chrissy Amphlett in my own distant way and smile with sadness and honour each time I think of what she shared with me.

CHRISSY AMPHLETT – A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGEND (featuring Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men, Kerri Simpson, Grace Knight and many more) will take place at The Yarraville Club on Saturday June 29. All profits raised will go to MS Australia.

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Some turkey paid me out via social media for listening to ridiculous amount of Bon Iver recently (damn you DESCENDENTS Spotify feed, you deceitful wench). Before I protested, I wanted to assure them that I hadn’t always been a Bon Iver fan. That I was a relatively new convert, and that’s why I was exploring their catalogue with such fervour.

I’d always prided myself on being that douchelord that shut down other people’s praise of the Iver by demanding “I don’t get it, what’s the big deal” etc.

When I scored a neat little gig selling merchandise at his Sidney Myer Music Bowl gig last year, I even rolled my eyes at being in the presence of a bunch of hipster kids for an entire evening. Something changed that night, though. It may have been the way Melbourne looked as the sun set over the botanical gardens, or the balmy temperature and the feel of a long-awaiting

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Friday night, but Bon Iver’s performance that night won me over. I couldn’t even see the stage from where I was, but his intricately crafted numbers nuzzled at my ears. Skinny Love (of course) was particularly potent and sent shivers racing down my spine as I sold another enamoured punter a $70 hoodie. I wasn’t scoffing at their adoration (and willingness to part with $70 for a hoodie) as I had earlier. I had been won over entirely by a fantastic performance by a band I hardly knew.

It was reassuring as a music fan that you can deny all the PR, marketing, hype and hoo haa about a band, but if they’re genuinely great, they’ll find a way to seep into your veins and through to your heart.

Lamb Of God’s drummer has revealed the depths of the band’s financial woes after Randy Blyth’s disastrous year. He admitted that while Randy was on trial for manslaughter they “were not able to generate any income” and “ended up having to pay more than half a million dollars in legal fees.” The band will assumedly attempt to recoup their losses when they tour Australia this September. Head along and show them some love.

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I’m not a prayin’ man (unless you count pledging allegiance to Lemmy before taking a swig of Jack Daniels) but won’t you join with me in sending good vibes to Vivian Campbell? Currently with Def Leppard, formerly of Dio and Whitesnake, who is receiving treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He’s halfway through his course of chemo right now and is on the road with Def Leppard in Europe, from where he posted this pic of what he describes as his “new streamlined hairstyle.” Campbell says the prognosis is quite good: “My diagnosis was Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and 6 months of chemotherapy is the prescribed treatment,” Campbell says. “I’m about two months in and feeling rather spiffy, all things considered. Hodgkin’s has an over 80% cure rate, so by my reckoning, if you’re going to have a cancer, Hodgkin’s is the one to have!”

The Amity Affliction are chucking their first headlining tour of the year in October and they’re bringing internationals Chelsea Grin and Stick To Your Guns along for the ride.

Catch this mega lineup along with In Hearts Wake at The Palace on Tuesday October 22. If you’re underage, head along to the October 23 gig instead. Tickets available from Thursday. The band recently made news when drummer Ryan was injured during their set at Portland Warped Tour.

Apparently a piece of his drumstick chipped off and flew into his cornea. Chad from Glass Cloud will be filling in for the rest of the tour.

Skatepartyfuntime punks Murphy’s Law will tour Australian for the first time this September.

Founded in Queens, NYC way back in the ‘80s these guys are overdue for a visit. See them at The Tote on Friday September 20. Tickets are available now via the usual outlets.

The Cosmic Psychos are celebrating the release of new documentary Blokes You Can Trust by chuckin’ a national tour. Release date for the documentary is yet to be revealed but you can see the Psychos in all their glory at The Hi-Fi on August 9 with Ooga Boogas and Dead River. Tinnies for everyone!

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Devin Townsend is returning to our shores this October with the Devin Townsend Project. You can catch this legend at The Palace in Melbourne on Sunday October 13. Tickets are available from Thursday June 27.

The mighty Stratovarius will be touring Australia this October, for the very first time in their distinguished career. Stratovarius are one of the pioneers of the power metal genre; they lead the way and opened doors for the genre with the greater inception of keyboards, atmosphere, soaring vocals and melody.

As such, they are adored by all genders and are a definite genre favourite. They will be here performing tracks off their latest critically acclaimed breathtaking release Nemesis, as well as classic and fan favourite Stratovarius tracks from across their comprehensive discography. And they’ll be supported by Eyefear and Darker Half. There will be strictly limited VIP meet and greet pass available capping off what will be the power metal highlight of 2013. This pass will only be obtainable from Metal Massacre Online, metalmassacre.com. au. Tickets are on sale Wednesday June 26 at Metal Massacre and Monday July 1 from ticketing outlets.

They’re at Billboard The Venue on Wednesday October 23.

ZEBRAHEAD UNVEILS NEW ALBUM

La Habra, California-based punk inspired rock outfit Zebrahead have announced the August 18 release of Call Your Friends, produced by Cameron Webb (Pennywise, Megadeth, Motorhead) via 3Wise/Sony Music. “We were really lucky to work with Cameron Webb again on Call Your Friends,” explains bassist Ben Osmundson. “He has really become part of the Zebrahead family”. Singer/guitarist Matty Lewis seems pretty chuffed too, “We had a great experience working with Cameron Webb, he supplied us with a stocked fridge and drove us to lunch.” Call Your Friends is the band’s tenth studio album since their incarnation and together they have shared highs and lows, sold over two million albums to date, survived label changes, garnered a Grammy nomination with Motorhead for best metal performance and toured the globe nonstop. “I think the fans will really like the new record if they like songs about beer played by really sexy good looking guys” explains drummer Ed Udhus.

TWELVE FOOT NINJA SCORES FEAR FACTORY SUPPORT

Twelve Foot Ninja are kicking all sorts of goals lately.

Their album Silent Machine is one of the best chunks of Australian – nay, human – progressive eclecticism ever, and hey, they score major cred by being one of Periphery’s favourite bands. They’ll be supporting Fear Factory on their Australian Demanufacture tour (during which FF will be playing that landmark album in its entirety), and you can check them out on Sunday July 7 at The Palace. Tickets from Oztix and Ticketek.

THIS WEEK AT THE BENDIGO

Get to the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood this Friday June 28 to catch Agave Maize, Oath of Damnation, Maniaxe, Internal Harvest and Order of Torment!

BELLUSIRA DEBUT ALBUM LAUNCH Melbourne female fronted alternative rock band Bellusira will release their Ricki Rae-produced debut album Connection. From the titanic rock groove of first single Cachango to the lush, wondrous electronic ambience of Made Of and everything in between, this album has it all. They’ll smack it on the arse and send it out into the world on Saturday June 29 at The Espy’s Gershwin Room, supported by Ana Salen, High Side Driver, Lung and Moments Apart.

BABY ANIMALS KICK ASS

Dude. Did you catch The Baby Animals playing to a packed The Hi-Fi last week? If not, you missed out big time. Suze DeMarchi reaffirmed all the reasons for my lifelong crush on her, and Dave Leslie is one of those exceedingly rare guitarists who always plays the most perfect thing at all times (and is also able to tear the heads off all and sundry with speedy shredding when it’s musically or dramatically appropriate). Their new album This Is Not The End is out now, and they promise to be back in October.

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PBS ACID COUNTRY LIVE BROADCAST To celebrate the City of Yarra’s newest live music festival Leaps and Bounds, PBS 106.7FM will be broadcasting live from The Labour In Vain, one of Fitzroy’s most iconic watering holes and live music institutions on Thursday July 11. The live broadcast features PBS’ longest running program, David Heard’s Acid Country in a very special two-hour episode showcasing some of Melbourne’s most treasured country acts playing live from the venue.

Joining David on the show will be ramblin’, swingin’, toetappin’ bands The Idle Hoes, The Alan Ladds and Raised

By Eagles live on air throughout the entire program. The broadcast kicks off at 3pm sharp and goes through until 5pm. Head down to the Labour In Vain and catch the show in person or tune into PBS 106.7FM to hear all of the action on your airwaves. Free entry.

CHRIS RUSSELL Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk is the hottest blues act in Australia and the ‘Boot hit’ of Golden Plains. Their new single is launched this Friday June 28 at Cherry Bar. With support from Firebird, then DJ Max Crawdaddy playing ‘til 5am.

TASH SULTANA Every now and again you walk into a bar, and there is a young player on stage doing things with their instrument that simply do not make sense. How is it possible for one so young to know so much about their instrument? Damn prodigies. Tash Sultana is one who has likely caused this reaction in many a stunned punter. Prodigiously talented and with a swag of songs written from a place well beyond experience, Tash is one of the most exciting young talents in town. She’s playing at The Drunken Poet’s ‘Wine, Whiskey, Women’ tonight at 8pm.

BITTER SWEET KICKS

ATOLLS Melbourne fuzz-pop trio Atolls bring their infectious slacker anthems to The Retreat for a free gig this Friday June 28 from 9pm. After them, catch The Love Junkies and then DJ Shaky Memorial takes the decks ‘til 3am.

CARUS THOMPSON After crisscrossing the world for the past decade folkrock singer-songwriter Carus Thompson has settled back in his beloved music town of Melbourne. In 2011, just before he left to live in Europe he did his first run of Request Shows. Now the concept is back – as people arrive they write their requests at the merch desk and then Thompson will play them. Simple as that.

It’s happening at The Northcote Social Club on Friday June 28.

A STITCH IN TIME Presented by Musikunst A Stitch In Time is timepiece bonanza – a bonsai industrial landscape. Clock movements set up a repetitive rhythmic syndrome that is hypnotic and paranoid.

This sound piece explores pitch perception of different microphone characteristics located in close proximity to the timepieces and the shifting phase relationships between two or more timepieces sharing the same ‘sound stage’. It is performed Shane Fahey, Evan Carr and David Carr with visual imagery by Honi Ryan. Subs, a collaborative project between Tim Farrell and Todd Anderson-Kunert, will also be there on the night. Get down to The Great Britain Hotel in Richmond on Saturday June 29 from 4.30pm to catch these unique performances. Entry is $10.

THE TIMBERS South Australian four-piece The Timbers are heading back to Victoria with a renewed lineup and an arsenal of new songs. The Timbers’ high-energy blend of folk, bluegrass, Celtic and rock will leave you a little worked out, a little in love, and a little excited about the future of Australian music. Consisting of Simon Basey, Tasmanian-born Benjamin Roberts and newbies Kyle and Joe. This band is fast becoming Australia’s next exciting must see live music experience. Catch them with support Nigel Wearne at Richmond’s Great Britain Hotel on Sunday June 30 at 8pm. Free entry.

OF STOLEN MOMENTS This Thursday June 27 will be one of the hardest hitting, brutal nights Bar Open has ever seen. Melodic hardcore band Of Stolen Moments will be joined by Decadence Of Cain, Summer Of Betrayal and Abreact. The riffs will come thick and fast. Free entry.

ALISON FERRIER A familiar face around Melbourne’s roots/country music scene, Alison Ferrier appears on Sunday June 30 at The Retreat Hotel alongside Tim Murphy (Mojo Juju, Western Union, Dead Water City) on upright bass, Cat Canteri (The Stillsons) on drums and harmonies and Jeb Cardwell on guitar. It’s from 5pm to 7pm.

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THE KUJO KINGS Melbourne’s Kujo Kings bring their brand of big band dance punk to The Great Britain on Saturday June 29. Expect two sets of addictive funk, gypsy, rock’n’roll and remember to get down low. All the action kicks off at 9pm and it’s free.

CIRCULAR KEYS Circular Keys are Dennis Santiago and Phillipa Omega.

The Melbourne duo joined forces out of pure creative experimentation three years ago. The foetal bedroom project slowly grew tentacles and morphed into the dynamic live act the Australian public has come to adore. Santiago’s distinctive golden guitar tones wash over and around Omega’s lullaby vocals. Circular Keys’ live show is haunting, moving, and utterly captivating.

Catch one of their unique performances when they launch their new 7” at The Tote this Friday June 28.

Support from Angel Eyes and Footy. Doors 9pm. Door charge applies.

Bitter Sweet Kicks are a band spawned from the dirty sunshine gutter of St. Kilda and have been working hard around Melbourne’s most well known pubs and venues ever since. The Kicks’ energetic live shows are renowned for leaving the stage covered in blood, sweat and broken glass after they bash their way through a solid set of chaotic rock’n’roll. They play The Prince Public Bar on Saturday June 29, free entry.

FINGERBONE BILL Fingerbone Bill like to party like it’s 1939. Bringing the ole timey, bluegrassy, traditional country vibes to crowds near and far, these lads create the necessary conditions for good old fashioned fun. The four members share the various instrumental duties, changing it up regularly to keep both themselves, and the audience, on their toes. This creates a certain dynamism that brings an extra element to the time honoured sounds and themes of country music, it feels vital. Fingerbone Bill will be bringing all this and more to The Drunken Poet this Sunday June 30 from 4pm.

PERICO Brunswick stalwarts Perico return to The Retreat this Sunday June 30 for the launch of their anticipated debut album Four Times A Day. Combining pop hooks with roots riffs, tight harmonies and loose morals, Perico will be showcasing the new record with the assistance of local legends Nick Murphy and Jeff Samin.

ASH GRUNWALD Ash Grunwald and The Living End’s Scott Owen built a friendship around a backyard BBQ and a shared love of soy sausages and surf reports. Their other mutual affection, for all things musical, has led to an unlikely collaboration and a tour this month. Grunwald and the renowned bass straddler will be joined by Owen’s bandmate, drummer Andy Strachan. The somewhat strange, super(ish) group have also hit the studio, recording their own banging version of Gnarl’s Barkley’s Crazy. The unexpected trio will play The Corner Hotel on Thursday June 27, the Prince Bandroom on Friday June 28 and the Westernport Hotel in San Remo on Saturday June 29.

RPG RADIO RPG Radio visits the Reverence Hotel on Thursday June 28 from 8.30pm. They’re bringing with them folk rockers Khristian Mizzi & The Sirens and ‘60s psychedelic rockers The Bleeding Rose. Entry is $5.

CATFISH VOODOO Catfish Voodoo play jumpin’ blues, in the tradition of the great Chicago players such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Little Walter. It’s blues to soundtrack a car chase and assist in keeping the authorities at bay. You might say it’s the blues of those on a mission from God, or not. Perhaps it’s just a killer way to spend Saturday nights. If you like your blues charged and your bars dark and conducive to lowdown boogie, get down to The Drunken Poet this Saturday June 29 at 9pm and let Catfish Voodoo do the talking.

GRUMPY NEIGHBOUR Theirs is a narrative steeped in the blood, sweat and stories of a country and a myth and brought to fruition in a rich soil of finely manured imagination. Neighbour play contemporary old time ‘fauxlk’n’roll’. Just throw in a bit of colonial gothic and an element of cheeky larrikin for good measure and that’s a good starting point. This acoustic-based quartet hails from the Castlemaine, and are coming down to the big smoke of Melbourne to share their sounds with their southern city dwelling kin folk. They are joined by Castlemaine duo Rex Watts and Duncan Graham. Head down for a folkin’ good time this Thursday June 27 at Tago Mago in Thornbury. Free entry.

ECHO DRAMA Fronted by the head-turning voice of Zimbabwean soul singer Thando Sikwila and rising local hip hop talent Sinks (Down For The Count Records), Echo Drama deliver a sound that is at once steeped in traditional Jamaican music but also unafraid to draw on modern manifestations such as ragga, hip hop, dancehall, drum and bass and dubstep.

Though deep in recording of their debut EP, the crew at Echo Drama have decided to take a break from the studio and rock the Bar Open stage for two whopping sets on Saturday June 29. 10pm until late, free entry.

SALAD DAYS Salad Days, a born and bred Melbourne based rock outfit that are coming straight from the garages to you with their massive concussion of rock’n’roll. Featuring Pat Pleash on guitar, Josh Burton on vocals, Rob Clifford on drums and on bass Cal Royle. Bringing to you an eclectic mix of personalities and musical backgrounds. Salad Days are sweet enough for the girls to love and hard enough for the boys to love. Come and get a taste at Richmond’s Great Britain Hotel with the stupendous Henry Brooks providing support. Thursday June 27, 8pm.

PAUL REID Through the admirable songs and words of Josh Pyke, City & Colour and The Tallest Man On Earth, Paul has always aimed tell the truth to his audiences through metaphorical stories and open guitar tunings. Together with his band, Paul’s folk-pop sound brings with it bright bursts of rolling guitar melodies and vocally honest lyrics that are often attention grabbing. For over a year now, Paul has been playing shows in and around Melbourne as well as taking his full live band to towns in regional Victoria. He’s playing this Sunday June 30 at the Edinburgh Castle from 4pm.

THE MORRISONS Free puppies! That’s right, The Morrisons are back with some sweaty, swirly punk rock and free puppies. So get yourselves down to The Gasometer on Friday June 28 to help them launch Claws & Organs’ debut EP Nothing To Learn, along with The Mighty Boys. They can’t guarantee that you won’t learn anything but there’s definitely a good chance. They also can’t guarantee puppies. But they promise that there will be yelling, sweating, drinking and rollicking. Doors open at 8pm. $8.

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PHIL PARAS Melbourne Rock icon Phil Paras performances combine a diverse range of his own rock, blues and Latin fusion music with classic guitar oriented covers to create an exciting stage show that never fails to delight. From authentic Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan versions to his genuine interpretations of the blues Phil’s shows are energetic and renowned for keeping the dance floor filled and not to be missed. He plays The Sandbelt Club on Sunday June 30.

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HOLLOW EVERDAZE Hollow Everdaze combine a sense of ruralism with youthful exuberance to create music which is both idyllic and harsh.

Their soon to be released debut album was recorded at Birdland studios and produced by Lindsay Gravina (Hungry Ghost, Cosmic Psychos and Rowland S. Howard). Come join them at The Tote’s Cobra Room every Wednesday in June. Tonight they will be supported by Contrast. Doors are 8.30pm. Door charge applies.

THE GRAND RAPIDS Wall of drone and fuzz pedal freaks The Grand Rapids have taken delivery of a fully sick HK Monaro and are hitting the road to celebrate. Well, going for a trip down to Geelong and back anyway. Along for the trip with be ex-G’Town shoegaze-fiends Contrast and ‘70s space psych rockists Lioness Eye plus very special guests Black Springs who are making the trip down from Sydney for the first time. These merry pranksters play Fitzroy’s very own Yah Yah’s on Smith Street on Saturday June 29. Free entry.

VICTORIANA GAYE Five years down the track, Victoriana Gaye have performed nationally and internationally. They have released two CDs and are currently recording their third.

They describe their sound as folk/rock meets Mariachi punk, or soft-core-prog. They play two sets at The Retreat tonight for free from 7.30pm.

CHARLES J TAN Charles J Tan is a folk and blues troubadour who has toured internationally through Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Nashville, Los Angeles and France. A proven performer with a soulful voice and an artful body of work, Charles J Tan has won music competitions, received nominations for independent music awards and played at several industry music showcases such as Music Matters 2011 and MIDEM 2013. He plays The Prince Public Bar on Friday June 28, free entry.

SKYSCRAPER STAN COMISSION FLATS.

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This year has had its ups and downs for Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats. Now, with a solidified lineup and a whole gang of tunes, their sound fine tuned through a rigorous gigging schedule in and around Melbourne, they are taking over The Old Bar every Sunday in June. Catch the last show of their residency this Sunday June 30. Featuring Water Music and DJ Juke Joint. Doors open at 8.30pm. Entry is $6.

NEW ESTATE Hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed fourth album Recovery Melbourne’s New Estate are celebrating their tenth year of existence with a Sunday evening residency at the Grace Darling in Collingwood with a host of carefully chosen special guests. All shows will be recorded for the band’s fifth album – their first live release – and punters willing to make stupid noises during the shows may well find themselves immortalised. Every Sunday in July.

STOCKADES

THE MIGRATIONS

Footscray’s heshlords Stockades launch their 10” record at The Reverence Hotel this Friday June 28. Joining them will be Brisbane’s newest pop jazz outfit Seahorse Divorce, also releasing their debut 12” album through Tenzenmen. Also along for the ride is Brisbane’s Quiet Steps, and the return of Melbourne’s Palisades for a one off show, plus Feverteeth. It’s $10 from 8pm.

The Migrations are proud to present their first film-clip for the track If There’s A Heaven, from their upcoming debut EP, this Sunday June 30 at Tago Mago. Filmed by the wonderful Alistair Cook from AvarGO Production, it’s a tragic tale of bravery, romanticism, heroism and tea drinking. Special guest appearance by The Migrations, as ‘the band’. Free entry.

OATH OF DAMNATION Oath Of Damnation (ex-members of Darklord) are unleashing their blasphemous sermon over an onslaught of dark, symphonic death metal destruction on their first Victorian appearance. Supported by Thrash antichrist trio Maniaxe, Agave Maniaxe, Internal Harvest’s unique songs of dark, droning melancholy and Order Of Torment’s first show in over a year to start the night off. It’s at The Bendigo Hotel this Friday June 28.

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60 SECONDS WITH…

KALACOMA

60 SECONDS WITH…

SPLASHH

Name: Tom Beal.

Describe your genre in five words or less: Swinging punk.

VICE GRIP PUSSIES Tonight, Melbourne rockers Vice Grip Pussies are doing their final date in a Wednesday night residency at Cherry Bar. This is not your usual residency because rather than play separate sets, Vice Grip Pussies and their lead support take turns playing songs from two stages. Then for the finale both bands play at the same time. This week Bugdust are the other act contributing to the cacophony of rock’n’roll. Doors at 8.30pm and it’s free.

BURIED HORSES

PETTY INTRIGUE SALON

On Saturday June 29 Buried Horses will play an all too rare show at the reclusive, oft neglected Spotted Mallard. Honoured, they’ll tread the boards with a high calibre lineup of the Nathan Hollywood Band, 100 Acre Woods and Suicide Swans.

Petty Intrigue Salon is a roving amateur lecture series held in licensed Melbourne venues, based upon the French tradition of the Salon where men and women gathered together to passionately share ideas about art, science, culture, politics and philosophy – over a drink. Get down and be inspired, fascinated or influenced by those who are informed or passionate about their chosen subject. Leave feeling a little tipsy, yet informed about a subject that may make you slightly more interesting at dinner parties or perhaps a drunken encounter with an interesting stranger is the order of the day. The debut happens this Saturday June 29 at The Old Bar with lectures on The Beatles and their fans, homosexuality, drinking etiquette and robots. 3pm and it’s a donation entry.

THE EXOTICS For two nights only in June, The Exotics turn Tago Mago into their own primal initiation ground. Midwinter is the time for fire, primitive drums and howling at the moon.

Rock’n’roll is the culture of the Exotics tribe and chicken dancing is a sacred rite. The first night is this Saturday June 29. Featuring a very special guest appearance from the one the only and the constant in the Australian music scene, Spencer P Jones. $5 entry on the door. Music from 8pm.

MAMA RAD AND THE DARK BLUES Soaked in sin, fueled by gin and on their way to high tea with the devil, Mama Red And The Dark Blues bring to the stage a wicked elegance which resurrects the most decadent and dangerous eras of our time.

A demonesque demimonde, Mama Red presides over a mutinous crew of mean musicians who take their influences from the best of the retro and relic.

Conjuring sounds reminiscent of bygone eras, but traversing genres and refusing to be stylistically confined, Mama Red’s eclecticism is part of her charm.

She plays The LuWOW on Saturday June 29 at 9pm with The Breadmakers taking the stage at 11pm.

AUTO DA FE Auto Da Fe are bringing their psychedelic punk sounds to the Cobra Room at The Tote. Join them every Thursday in June for Yakuza murder/love ballads, science fiction love songs, Dostoyevskian redemption tales, submissive sex hymns, heavy riffs and sweet melodies. This Thursday June 27 they will be supported by Midnight Scavengers and Horsemeat. Doors 8pm, door charge applies.

JUNK HORSES Junk Horses smashed together an EP for you wrap your minds around and are celebrating with a great bloody big Old Bar bash. They are being joined by some damn impressive friends: Those legendary notorious depraved drunken pirate convict rock’n’rollers Clinkerfield, golden olden sultry lush 50’s country twangers Jemma &The Wise Young Ambitious Men and no-frills, brooding, sad-bastard growlers and moaners Mightiest Of Guns.

It kicks off at 8.30pm this Saturday June 29 and it’s $10.

KALACOMA Having successfully launched their debut EP Spiral Eyes to a packed house at the Evelyn Hotel, Kalacoma were invited back to the Evelyn to follow up with a Wednesday night residency through June which finishes tonight. Each week the band will be cramming the night full of lo-fi beats, twisted rhythms intertwined with soaring melodies, and a sound that is comparable to none. Joining Kalacoma each week will be local lo-fi Legends Easy Dada, and mixed media martial artist Brett Scheyezer, along with a different and special musical guest each week of the likes include, Matt Kelly, Amanita and the incredibly awesome On Sierra.

Entry is only $5.

MIKE NOGA After what has been a whirlwind few months with The Drones, including shows with Neil Young, a headline at the Sydney Opera House, Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival and playing Spain and Portugal’s esteemed Primavera Festival, Mike Noga will be returning home for a month of special solo gigs at The Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

After relocating to London earlier this year to focus on writing the follow up to The Balladeer Hunter and to tour throughout Europe and the UK, Mike will be back in Melbourne to preview new songs and give the old ones a run every Thursday night in July. Entry is free.

When and why did you start writing music?

Every member in Kalacoma has been playing music most of their life, we all have our own reasons and motives for what we want to achieve as players, but more interestingly, I think, is the ambitions that we have as a collective – to create music that pushes boundaries while retaining a wider accessibility. We’re always looking for new and exciting ideas that can oppose what would normally be expected. A juxtaposition within itself.

What makes a good musician?

Firstly, I think you probably need to be able to play your chosen instrument, but that isn’t always the case is it?

Being good looking can’t hurt, and nobody likes a sad act.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

Tone is one of the key players in what we do. Everything has to have the right harmonic content to add interest and develop the body of the song. I think hearing music that puts emphasis on the importance of tone inspires us. Free flowing composition is also a big inspiration, as I love to hear music, watch movies or read books that have the right pacing for the moment, with peaks and troughs and interesting sections that are not necessarily bound to a strict formula.

How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments?

I don’t really have any other commitments which is probably a good thing. So I guess it’s an easy balance because I don’t have anything else to do.

What makes a good musician?

Clearly talent and practice can make you good at your instrument, but I think a good musician is someone who can hear what the song needs and then utilise their ability to suit that part. A great musician however is someone that cannot only hear what the song needs but understand why it needs it; and then offer solutions that extend beyond the expected result without ruining the integrity of the original part.

What part of making music excites you the most?

Playing live is so much fun, feeding off the energy of the crowd, and I love the challenge of translating what you have put on record into the live realm, where action and reaction play a very large role in shaping the dynamics of the performance. But I think what really excites me is creating new ideas and finding ways to capture and manipulate those ideas. Making records is the bomb!

Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them?

We just released our debut EP Spiral Eyes and you can find it at kalacoma.bandcamp.com.

When are you doing your thing next?

At the moment we are in the middle of our Wednesday night residency at The Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy. Beat hits the street on a Wednesday which means we play tonight!

It’s our final residency show and it will be a blast with the amazing On Sierra. Only $5 on the door and we will have our EP for sale at the show.

If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why?

Turkish Delight – it’s a textual sensation and has a bright pink centre.

Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it?

We sacrifice a small goat before every show.

If someone made a movie about your life, who would play you?

Mark Walberg, he’s a pretty sick cunt.

How do you stop your pre-gig jitters?

Call off the show.

SPLASHH play Black Night Crash at The Rochester Castle Hotel on Friday June 28 and Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday June 29.

THE WIKIMEN Throughout their daily toils and tribulations The Wikimen always find time to sting up the double bass and polish the vibraphone for a new sonic adventure in the realms of early 20th century pop jazz. The Wikimen will set up shop at The Spotted Mallard throughout the months of June and July, these free entry shows will occur every Sunday from 4pm. And to celebrate their return the Mallard kitchen is serving up a succulent Sunday roast with all the trimmings.

SHERIFF Over the last four weeks, if you have ventured down to the Tote on a Saturday afternoon you would have witnessed Sheriff and friends tearing apart the front bar. If you haven’t made it yet then this week is your last chance. Sheriff play their fifth and final residency this Saturday June 29 and it is set to be a very special one indeed. With support from lords of the riff Wicked City it simply shouldn’t be missed.

The fire place will be glowing and the beers icy cold. Doors from 4pm, free entry.

ANDREW SWIFT & THE RATTLESNAKE CHOIR Up With The Anchor is the new EP from Melbourne’s Andrew Swift & The Rattlesnake Choir. To celebrate their new five-track release, Andrew Swift & The Rattlesnake Choir will be joined by Jonesez, Escapegoats and Donnie Dureau (Blueline Medic, Ribbons Patterns) for a diverse and fun night of music at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood on Saturday June 29.

SALT LAKE CITY “A lot more full and textured than your average drum clinic.”

- Rolling Stone Subjects covered in lessons; hand and feet technique, thinking creatively, co-ordination and independence and also VCE tuition available.

Upstairs at Greville Records. Mob: 0415 118 390

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Salt Lake City is an ensemble which has been described as a unique blend of classical and jazz influenced performers who have an alternative approach to their dynamic and unique melodramatic sound. Eclectic and genre-defying are two terms bandied around when describing a band with alarming frequency, but Salt Lake City are genuinely exactly that. Salt Lake City meander through genres, not afraid to explore their musicality whenever so inspired with references to the intricacies of human tendencies and emotions. The instrumental layering gives a depth and warmth that draws in the listener in with an acoustic guitar vein that runs through all their music. Playing this Thursday June 27 at The Sporting Club from 7pm.

THREE KINGS Get your Soul sorted with the Three Kings. The greasiest and most down home juke joint blues your will see this side of the Pacific. Ian Collard (Collard, Greens and Gravy), Benny Peters (Benny & The Flybyniters), and drums maestro Jason Luisoon (Chris Wilson) will take you on a gritty journey of the back streets of the blues to where rock’n’roll began. This Friday June 28 at Tago Mago. Music from 9pm. $5 entry.

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OPIA It’s been a massive few months for Perth based prog rockers Opia. They’ve been working extremely hard spreading themselves around the country, concreting solid support slots and headline shows of their own, whilst also in the process of writing and constructing their debut album due for release in 2014. Check them out at The Tote this Saturday June 29 with Sydonia, The Greeting Method and Transience. Doors 9pm. Door charge applies.

CALYPSO CARNIVAL After the success of last year’s Calypso Carnival, The Reverence Hotel have decided to do it all over again. Grab your coconuts and go party another winter away with the most tropical event in the southern hemisphere. This year is even bigger and better than last year. Luca Brasi, Anchors, The Bennies, Hightime, Cavalcade, The Sinking Teeth, Foxtrot and Tigers will be warming your winter hearts. All this is happening at The Reverence Hotel on Saturday June 29. Doors at 6pm. $15.

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ERAN JAMES Following the successful release of his first album, Eran James attracted the attention of some of the world’s leading producers. Eran moved to New York to record his second album. His voice was later spotted by Elton John, who invited him to the UK in 2008 and helped him out with songwriting and mentoring. December 2011 saw Eran back on tour with friend and mentor Elton John on his Australia tour as the opening act. This Thursday June 27 he plays The Retreat Hotel with Mish Fornito opening. Free entry.

JOHN FLANAGAN AND THE BEGIN AGAINS SUZIE STAPLETON Suzie Stapleton is celebrating a European vinyl release of EP Obladi Diablo through French label Beast Records on Saturday July 6 at Old Bar. It’s a “double-header” with Shifting Sands, featuring Geoff Corbett (6FtHick) and Dylan McCormack, joining the action with supports Midnight Scavengers and Lara Travis. Stapleton then says sayonara, with a tour itinerary that includes Colours of Ostrava festival in Czech Republic, France’s Binic Folk Blues Festival and Foes Festival in Spain. $10 entry.

John Flanagan and the Begin Agains blend Americana stylings with deeply honest Australian storytelling to create their simple and expressive style of bluegrass/folk. With comparisons to artists such as Gillian Welch, James Taylor and Alison Krauss the four-piece Melbourne band has developed a stirring sound characterized by rich melodies and delicate acoustic textures. Thursday June 27 at the Wesley Anne from 6pm.

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APART FROM THIS On Sunday June 30 The Public Bar hosts Apart From This (Poison City skateboarding and moshing legends), Toy Boats (Resist Records ex-hardcore-come-acousticguy), Foxtrot (crusty couch punx), Limits (new grungepop-altcountry offering with members of Fear Like Us, Palisades, Big Smoke and Eli Cash), Kill Taker (the best Fugazi-sounding band in ages). It kicks off at 3pm and you and your Saturday night hangover will be home well before bed-time. Let’s broaden our minds by widening our ear canals.

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Define your genre in five words or less: Indie singer/songwriter.

Ten bands everyone should know about: Link Wray, New York Dolls, The Painkillers, The Cramps, Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs, Fred McDowell, Stooges, MC5, Big Star, The Routes.

Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Nine jars of our mum’s homemade balachaung.

Eight possessions that define you: Celine Dion’s entire ‘80s catalogue. On cassette.

Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mixtape: Big Time, Pulp Fiction, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Where The Buffalo May Roam, You See Me Laughing, The Queen, Last Waltz.

BLACK PEARL STUDIOS Black Pearl Studios is a brand new world-class, state of the art recording facility located in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Providing recording, mixing and production services, Black Pearl is fast becoming the studio musicians and producers around the country are talking about. Comprising of two large, live studio spaces, isolation rooms, post production suites and an experienced team of studio engineers at your disposal you’ll struggle to find a studio who offer all this alongside some extremely competitive rates. Did we tell you they also have one of Australia’s largest instrument collections in Australia including drums, guitars, basses, amps, synths, pedals and microphones? Well, they do and it’s all included in the cost. With a prized 72 channel SSL 4072 Console, Studer A827 Tape machine and one of the most comprehensive outboard selections in the country, you need to visit their website and check it out for yourself at blackpearlstudios. com.au or speak with their friendly staff to discuss rates and availability on (03) 9939 7209.

Six bad habits you can’t escape: First six episodes of 24.

Five people who inspire you: Ian McLagen, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane.

Four things that turn you on: Unlimited bar rider, no noise restrictions, no pokies, no stairs.

Three goals for your music: To start at the same time, finish at the same time and not blow anything up while attempting said feat.

Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Perth Arena. Four guys jamming in a stadium. Tucker B’s – Hydey. Chaos, beauty, chaos, beauty, chaos.

One day left before the apocalypse and you…: Sleep in.

When’s the gig / release?

Friday June 28 at Yah Yah’s. We’ll be releasing our Bones 7”. Bad Vision, The Naysayers and Red Engine Caves will also be making a racket.

How long have you been gigging and writing?

I have been writing since I started high school. I played my first gig at school and we did a Wolfmother cover.

Then I started writing acoustic music for a while and gigging around town at cafes.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

I would say touring and playing music with other people has built my music the most. I know our touring band loves meeting other bands and learning about their music and it inspires you a lot.

What part of making music excites you the most?

I really love recording music and showing other people.

Its one thing when you’ve written the song in your own time and that is great too but then developing a sound for that song is very cool.

Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it?

It’s called a ‘pre gig’ and it involves me just feeling a little nervous and everyone around me paying me out about it.

If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be?

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros.

How do you manage playing and making music with your other commitments?

At the moment I am focused entirely on music. I do a lot of busking when we are not on tour or recording.

Busking has been great in getting my music out there and helping out financially too. I will be doing a bit of busking in Melbourne coming up to promote my show on Saturday June 29.

Describe the best gig you’ve ever played.

Last year I won the Unearthed spot for the Festival Of The Sun in Port Macquarie. We are originally from there so to play to a big home crowd was great. We have all wanted to play that festival for a long time so it was amazing to be on the bill. Even though it was at 10am we still had a ball!

When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/ single/etc?

We are playing an all-ages show in Melbourne on Saturday June 29 at the Sub Lounge. The gig is to promote my new EP All About To Change.

SPLASHH The dreamy distorted grooves of Splashh land in the country this week to play The Rochester Castle on Friday June 28 and Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday June 29. Their album Comfort is out now on Breakaway Recordings and the Brit-based band are on a whirlwind Aussie promo tour before heading back to London to play with the Rolling Stones.

Former frontman of Children Collide, Johnny Mackay joins Splashh in his new psychedelic outfit Fascinator for the Ding Dong show.

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When and why did you start writing music?

I started a little late with the songwriting and guitar playing. I learned drums for four years before picking up a guitar on a school camp, the challenge of a new instrument really appealed to me so I made the change and it was only about nine months later that I played my first gig. Being the little emo teenager I was, writing was a great way for me to express myself.

How long have you been gigging and writing?

Longer than I care to admit. It’s been 12 years this Valentine’s Day just gone. I started out just playing covers in a little Italian restaurant, cliché but true. I was also told by schoolmates that they were starting a band and I was in it, so I played guitar with those guys for a good six or seven years touring on and off and a couple of EP releases before I decided to do some more writing of my own and explore my vocal ability.

Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it?

There are a couple of things we do regularly before shows, one is the right to verbally abuse any band member that didn’t arrive at the venue in the band van. Nate often has a bag or full box of big boss cigars for us to devour and hit a sugar high before performing, but my ritual would be a spiced rum and coke with a slice of lime before we hit the stage.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

My song writing is inspired by my life experiences, often

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by the small town I grew up in, the people in my family and my desire to explore the world and see new places. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t influenced by a range of musicians and bands, but what musician isn’t?

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?

We have a full length album The Way We Were Raised which we recorded in El Paso with Jim Ward (At The DriveIn, Sparta, Sleepercar) and Gabe Gonzalez (Frank Turner, Sparta, The Lusitania) and our new five track EP Up With The Anchor which we recorded in four different studios with three different producers in two different countries.

If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be?

I’d love to hit the road with The Gaslight Anthem, they’ve been a huge inspiration in the more recent years and they also come across as the kind of guys you could have a few drinks with after the show.

When’s the gig and with who?

This Saturday June 29 we will be launching our new EP at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood with an amazing lineup joining us in Jonesez, Escapegoats and Donnie Dureau.

Tickets are available now from andrewswift.bigcartel.com.

Anything else to add?

Just a big thanks to all the people who constantly support us, at gigs and behind the scenes, couldn’t keep kicking along without them.

DRAKE THE FAKE Drake The Fake is back on the road. After the release of their second single Blood and coming off a successful East Coast tour, the boys are ready to do it again. Launching the third and final single in lead up to the release of their long awaited, debut record Rock N Roll. Drake The Fake take the stage at The Grace Darling Hotel with Young Hysteria, Kite Club and The Nanny Bats this Saturday June 29.

ANDREA MARR & THE FUNKY HITMEN This Thursday June 27 is the final week of the June Soul in the Basement Residency at Cherry Bar by Andrea Marr & The Funky Hitmen. They sound like Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings. They are Andrea Marr, Cam Scott, Dave Reynolds, Paul Angas, Steve Temple, Sean Rankin, Dave Palmer, Andy O’Connell and Lee Grey. DJs Vince Peach and Pierre Baroni will be supporting. Open 5pm, Doorcharge $10 from 8pm ‘til 5am.

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THE CHARGE The Charge are one of Melbourne’s hard rock hidden treasures. Although they’ve been around since 2008, they’re slowly but surely making Australia aware of their music. The Charge support The Nerve on their Down There National Tour. The final leg of the tour makes it way to Geelong on Thursday June 27 at The Sporting Globe and then back to Melbourne for the final show on Friday June 28 at The Northcote Social Club.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK KANYE WEST

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Admittinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is the ďŹ rst step/Ay-ay/You know ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nobody perfect.â&#x20AC;? There are plenty of grade-A Yeezy-isms tossed oďŹ&#x20AC; throughout Kanye Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth LP proper, but this oďŹ&#x20AC;hand line resonates as my favourite. I suppose the turn of phrase doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really translate to written word. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dropped during Bound 2, the tenth and ďŹ nal track of Yeezus. The track itself provides a happy ending to the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s id-purging, sickly electro diatribe â&#x20AC;&#x201C; calling back to Yeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breakthrough straight-laced soulsampling production techniques. The sonic digestif caps oďŹ&#x20AC; a bold commandeering of electronic trend, beginning with the cauterising acid house burn of On Sight through to the post-molly-trap within Blood On The Leaves.

After putting forth a mixtape rife with posse cuts (Cruel Summer) and a gilded, self-toasting teamup with a fellow conqueror (Watch The Throne), Kanye paints himself as a deranged loner on Yeezus. The guests are many, but they are edged away from the spotlight. Frank Ocean is relegated to echoing Kanyeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autotune-garbled outgoing verse on New Slaves. On the masculine and dejected Hold My Liquor, Chief Keef and Justin Vernonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s respective vocal takes are twisted into uncanny parity. Behind the scenes, a SWAT team of production talent (Rick Rubin, Daft Punk, Hudson Mohawke, underground producer Arca, and many more) achieve an impossible cohesion of what really should be a ďŹ ery wreck. Like all great leaders, Yeezy takes comfort through delegation.

The ďŹ rst half of the album is deďŹ ned by a mix of selfaggrandising, honest ego inďŹ&#x201A;ation and unfettered societal rage. I Am A God. A vengeful one at that. The ferocious Rock And Roll Part 1/Beautiful People tom rolls on Black Skinhead are garnished with cathartic

1. Xanman POND 2. Pushinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Too Hard BAD DREEMS 3. Dark Eyes FRASER A. GORMAN 4. Fossil Dream MARCH OF THE REAL FLY 5. New Slaves KANYE WEST 6. Overdose ZOMBY 7. Fragments II THESE NEW PURITANS 8. The Railroad ISAAC BROCK shouts that would make Alan Vega shit his pants. The posturing and admonishment of institutionalised racism in modernity reaches a weird conďŹ&#x201A;uence on the Billie Holiday and TNGHT sampling Blood On The Leaves, turning Holidayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil rights anthem Strange Fruit into a soundtrack to Kanyeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pussy woes.

At its core, Yeezus is a hyper-intense, masterful angry wank for the ages. His Beautiful Dark Twisted masterpiece has been followed up with something darker and more twisted. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer a question if Kanye is one of the all-time greats (pejorative or otherwise, I choose otherwise), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now just a matter of where to from here.

LACHLAN KANONIUK Best Track: Bound 2 If You Like These, Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Like This: Plastic Ono Band JOHN LENNON, Human After All DAFT PUNK In A Word: Pressurised

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HEARTLAND RECORDS 1. Devil Put Dinosaurs LP ALICE IN CHAINS 2. 13 LP/CD BLACK SABBATH 3. Tabula Rasa LP/CD DEVILâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BLOOD 4.Super Collider LP MEGADETH 5. This Is Spinal Tap LP SPINAL TAP 6. Kveikur LP/CD SIGUR ROS

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SINGLES BY LACHLAN *Takes a video Instagram of #Skywhaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silhouette against the #supermoon through the Melbourne #fog* â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okay, this has got to get me 11-plus likes.â&#x20AC;?

VANCE JOY

Play With Fire (Liberation) Apparently Melbourne singer-songwriter type Vance Joy has landed himself a ďŹ ve album US deal with Atlantic Records. Which is by all means, a good thing for him. Congratulations, Vance Joy. But what exactly does a ďŹ ve album deal mean in 2013? Does the dude, or record label, actually foresee ďŹ ve albums eventuating in the next 20 years? If anything, it goes to show the perceived bankability of rollicking, postFleet Foxes folk. Play With Fire is pleasant enough, sitting comfortably just underneath Mumford & Sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stadium-scale anthems. World-class, but not exactly breaking any new ground.

SAVAGES

Shut Up (Matador/Remote Control) Okay so I kind of slept on Savages and the hype surrounding their debut LP Silence Yourself, therefore Shut Up is my overdue introduction to the UK outďŹ t. The track broods heavily with a menacing bassline, compounded by guitar licks that threaten to blow it all wide open but only take us right to the very edge. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compelling stuďŹ&#x20AC;, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing the single context is selling the song short. In that sense, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a worthy hook for those (such as myself) who are tardy to the Savages party.

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St Clarity (Wonderlick/Sony) Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give into the compulsion to rip this CD out and jam it down the garbage disposal unit as soon as I heard the opening few bars of banjo action.

Thankfully, it provides but a base for haunting and captivating exercise in folk understatement. St Clarity showcases an eased and unique vocal performance, emphasised by infrequent bass pulses. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an icy ďŹ rst taste of the upcoming debut album States, due late August. And as I disclaimer, I listened to the track on YouTube, not CD, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a garbage disposal unit. I lied. Deal with it.

POND

Xanman (Modular) This song is fucking ridiculous and everything I want from rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll right now. Paying homage to the golden age of pop while employing some big fuck-oďŹ&#x20AC; Sabbath brand riďŹ&#x20AC;s, POND present themselves as the most potent force in Australian rock at this point in time. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what a Xanman is, but I like it.

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Unbelievers (XL/Remote Control) The Modern Vampires Of The City cut most reminiscent of their breakthrough pop-punk, Unbelievers is a hearty triumph of Ezra Koenigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pseudo-biblical lyricisms and confetti-cannon ready chorus action. The clean guitar licks of their debut album are parlayed into a steam train of chugging rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll boogie, destined for a joyous staple of the Vampire Weekend live show.

KIRIN J CALLINAN

Victoria M. (Siberia/Remote Control) Here on the precipice of his debut albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release, Mister Callinan reveals his most accessible single to date in the form of Victoria M. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lush aďŹ&#x20AC;air, with Kirinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial, primal impulses coated in pop opacity, pushing the vocals to a palatable extreme over a bed of orchestral strings. If this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all over the Js then olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mate Kingsmill needs to pull his head out of his arse.

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SINGLE OF THE WEEK KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD

Head On/Pill (Flightless) This 16-minute acid-drenched opus made its live debut at the weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Cup. Even in the relatively sober setting of mid-afternoon, the track went down a treat. The ďŹ rst taste from the proliďŹ c septetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming third LP, Head On/Pill picks up where western-themed Eyes Like The Sky left oďŹ&#x20AC; with a downtempo opening salvo, before giving way to an all-out elongated freakout jam. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to focus on the prevalence of sitar, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s those windmill-ready two-chord bursts that really set the scene. Frontman Stu audibly calls bandmate Joey to the mic to engage in intoxicating harmonic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ah-ooh-oohâ&#x20AC;?s amongst the glorious mess of brain-invading theremin work and delay drenched guitars. So anyway, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m standing there at Elsternwick Oval at half-time thinking to myself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;God damn, this would go down a treat after sundown at the Supernatural Amphitheatre.â&#x20AC;?

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Boards Of Canada came onto the electronic scene as a warmer, more accessible alternative to some of the more abrasive, experimental Warp artists. Their fourth album is unmistakably a Boards Of Canada record, though the nostalgic feel of their debut has been further diminished, despite the continued reliance on warm, analogue sounds from the ‘70s. Where the choice of a human element was once a child gasping “Orange? Yeah, that’s right!”, the first human element on Tomorrow’s Harvest is a sinister vocoder voice counting over and over.

Despite this being their least playful album, its pre-release marketing campaign was a lighthearted treasure hunt for music-lovers, with unmarked vinyl offering cryptic clues to Record Store Day shoppers, an introduction to single Reach For The Dead at a busy Tokyo intersection and a full playback in a desert’s abandoned leisure park. It was as if the Scottish duo were competing with Daft Punk in a ‘biggest tease’ competition, though the style of their campaigns were very different, as was the resulting music. (The introverted Tomorrow’s Harvest is world’s away from Daft Punk’s disco flash.)

The cute fanfare that opens Tomorrow’s Harvest is like a movie studio’s intro jingle for a film, which is apt considering the album’s cinematic feel. This is the end of the world, but not in a flashy, big-budget way. To capture the sobering environmental woes of our planet, Boards Of Canada mark out a subtle yet rewarding soundscape that is moody and submissive to its doomsday setting. There’s a bleakness and inwardness that looms, but the clever interweaving of retro and Best Track: Cold Earth non-electronic elements ensures that we’re not If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Dark Star JOHN left out in the cold, at the end of the world, all on CARPENTER, Bladerunner VANGELIS, Tron WENDY our own. No future? No worries.

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DIRT FARMER

Delilah Lightning EP (Independent) Confronted with yet another example of modern society’s obsession with cleanliness and hygiene, an old bloke once offered his own observations, tinged with a mixture of nostalgia and contemporary critique: “My mum used to say that there were two kinds of dirt: clean dirt, and dirty dirt. And you always knew which was which.” Which, really, doesn’t help much.

Dirt Farmer play a brand of whimsical slacker rock’n’roll that’s endearing, and not really that dirty, at least in the classic sense of that term. Dirt Farmer’s new EP, Delilah Lightning, has everything you want in a band: there’s enough adolescent-lifeand-love pop sensibility in She Shakes to bring Brian Wilson to the beach party; All I Know is all bobby socks, loafers and shrugged shoulders to recreate the best parts of ‘50s rock’n’roll in a contemporary setting. Double Down skips down south of the Antipodean equivalent of the Mason-Dixon line (the Albury-Wodonga line?) jumps on a freight train and rides off into the night. The title track is a vision of beauty, with a guitar hook to die for; this is one of the best pop tracks to appear this year. And then there’s New Mexico, possibly the closest thing to dirt on the entire record, and packed full of southern rock-meets-northern Victorian rock goodness. The EP finishes, and it’s all melodic smiles and rock’n’roll goodness. You don’t get much better than Best Track: New Mexico this.

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Fear Inside Our Bones (Tooth & Nail)

BIG SCARY

Not Art (Pieater/Inertia) Confidently treading through a variety of stylistic settings, the second LP from Melbourne boy/girl duo Big Scary rocks, yearns, reflects and even jests here and there. Although guitars occasionally step forward, the root of the record’s emotionally involved song craft is the piano. Also, jagged rhythms and chopped up drumbeats, along with regular emphatic lyrical repetition, alludes to a hip hop influence.

Tom Iansek showcases the broad reach of his versatile high-seeking register. He doesn’t refrain from allowing cracks to show on plundering opener Hello, My Name Is, which furthers the song’s ambivalent establishment of what defines him. Luck Now’s composed melancholy tone makes the revelation “You say my love is just cold repetition re-done/See that I’m losing more heart every day” vibrate with questioning vulnerability rather than bitterness. One of the record’s few conventional rock songs, the eastern-inflected Belgian Blues, sounds indebted to Jeff Buckley’s Eternal Life – an impression fortified by the fact Iansek’s warbling falsetto sounds effortless. The strongest songs appear on the album’s subtler and reflective second half. On Twin Rivers Iansek’s pleading “Gonna have to wake up, I don’t want to have to wake up again this morning” is supplemented by Jo Syme’s placid “The conversation’s so old, we can’t even muster a fight” thus elaborating on the narrator’s anxious aversion. Invest is an assured piece of sombre neo-soul, while the disarming (and deceivingly titled) Syme-led Why Hip-Hop Sucks In ’13 points in the direction of UK trip-hop acts Frou Frou and Morcheeba. The sprinkling piano and suggestive vocal wandering in concluding track, Final Thoughts With Tom And Jo, is the record’s most experimental moment and evokes images of a new day rising. The songs on Not Art have an interlocution quality that allows listeners to not only become Best Track: Invest acquainted with the record’s search through ideas of If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Sun CAT POWER, identity and the locus of love, but to engage with the High Violet THE NATIONAL, Sketches For My thematic curiosity on a personal level.

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MEGADETH

Super Collider (Tradecraft/Universal) Dave Mustaine is literally the redheaded stepchild of the ‘Big 4’ of American Thrash.

Slayer and Anthrax would rather kick your head off than see it whip back and forth.

Metallica, on the other hand, grin while accountants nod at pie charts. What are Megadeth interested in? Not a whole lot, any more.

Dave’s torrid romance with the music biz has cooled into a loveless marriage. The first half suffers from a metal-by-numbers attitude as a result. For instance, Kingmaker is a re-tread of their previous album’s Sleepwalker. Burn! wearily digs away blues’ coalface as Chris Broderick’s leadwork torches the place. Dave mails Super Collider in, addressed to a greying rock radio station.

Built For War dimly recalls his slashing thrash days. Meat and potato riffs peak into gang choruses: a pre-fab arena hit.

Cello on Dance In The Rain sweeps away urban grime like Queensryche’s Empire. Ultimately, it comes off as Days Of Our Lives more than Les Miserables. Mustaine’s self-obsessed lyrics take root in quiet bedroom sobbing which slivers into confused, pubescent rage. The Blackest Crow chugs from thrash metal’s platform whistling Dixie, chicken-scratch fiddles sliding in and out of breezily plucked banjo. It seeks attention and it rightfully gets it. Delivering a Bon Jovi denim and leather moment in Forget To Remember, his leads and choruses burn bright enough for a Eurovision stage. Why did they cover Thin Lizzy’s Cold Sweat? Hell if I know. Dave’s not chasing Hetfield-sized shadows any more, nor is he angling at MTV stardom. A Mustaine 15 years junior would rightly feel appalled by a want of thrash in this record. We know he can write cracking tracks. It’s a damn shame he’s not aiming Best Track: The Blackest Crow for a rivet-headed target.

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Black Dog Barking (Roadrunner Records) In 1972 a gangly paceman by the name of Bob Massie took 16 wickets in his test debut at Lords; 18 months later, Massie couldn’t get a game in the West Australian state team. In 1985, Bruce Lindner, a talented half-forward from West Adelaide, arrived at Geelong to try his luck in the big league; nicknamed The President on account of his self-confidence, more cynical Geelong fans suggested The Candidate was a more appropriate description of Lindner’s contribution.

In 2005, Airbourne was on the verge of greatness with a five-album deal with Capital Records; within a couple of years, Airbourne was just another band that had almost, but not quite achieved commercial greatness. 2013 brings Airbourne’s third album, Black Dog Barking.

To describe it as a linear progression is to both indulge in euphemism, and damn with faint praise. As a reflection of the band’s influences, it’s on point: more riffs than crushed beer cans at the Bondi Lifesaver in 1979, enough screams to fill a B-grade slasher flick and a fanatical devotion to the pub rock cause that walks the line between passionate and tragic. Ready To Rock is everything its title suggests it’s going to be, and then some, Animalize (not to be confused with the Kiss album) strays ever so slightly for the formula, but not enough to lose the faith and the double entendre of No One Fits Me (Better Than You) might make Bon Scott blush.

And that’s, largely, the track upon which the rest of the album stays: Back In The Game is ‘80s LA power rock, Live It Up (again, a possible Kiss reference point) sniffs at the ground upon which The Who stood in the early ‘70s and Woman Like That is a trip back into the gender politics of rock’n’roll of yore. Hungry has a hint of Morricone in its blood; the title track is a simple, and sufficiently satisfactory end to festivities. For what it’s trying to Best Track: Ready To Rock If You Like These, You’ll Like This: AC/DC, ROSE be, it’s fine; pushing the envelope, it certainly isn’t.

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Having recorded this album live in the fast tracked span of just five days, you would expect The Almost’s latest release to be gritty, raw and covered in sweat and blood.

And it is. Fear Inside Our Bones, The Almost’s third LP is a bunch of fierce confessional tracks, composed by lead vocalist and lyricist Aaron Gillespie. This latest instalment from the post-hardcore outfit is more versatile than its predecessors. Collectively, it contains an underlying echo of blues, with sporadic appearances of rockabilly and folk sensibilities. Opening track Ghost kicks off with a heavy drum and bass guitar prelude, followed by Gillespie’s hoarse vocals as he confesses a manic desperation to escape the past. The gravelly texture of Gillespie’s voice remains consistent throughout the record, reflective of its subtle bluesy undertone. The eponymous Fear Inside Our Bones contains the empowering, yet clichéd idiom of the relationship between fear and nature. “We were made with fear inside our bones.” The instrumental crescendo and Gillespie’s shriek of “this makes us feel alive” involuntarily loses most of its effect due to this slightly corny moment of enlightenment. The rockabilly I’m Down is a favourite, with its aggressive blues overtone and spontaneous cow bell. Sounding more like something off a Gary Clark record, this song is really groovy, a relief from an almost stagnant repertoire. Another unique little moment is The Florida Sun, a love song dedication to Gillespie’s home town. The only track with a keys progression, The Almost lend absolute pathos to this one, evoking images of despair and homesickness. The key pattern is delicate and timid, a nice little touch to the vulnerability of the song. In So What Gillespie flips the bird, challenging fear and the unknown right in the face. As the LP progresses, the instrumentation starts to sound the same: thickly distorted guitar riffs that seem to go nowhere. This third release does do justice to its preceding records, outweighing them in terms Best Track: I’m Down of versatility and experimentation, however it doesn’t If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Phoenix THE raise any of those tiny hairs.

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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY JUN 26 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ATOLLS + FLYYING COLOURS Workers Club, Fitzroy.

7:30pm. $5.

BABA YAGA ORKESTAR Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

BACK ON TRACK CD LAUNCH Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 7:00pm.

BAD FAMILY + ALEX LASHLIE + V SAW Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

CHINESE HANDCUFFS + OPAL GHOST + THE BOY WHO SPOKE CLOUDS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

DAN SULTAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $35.

HOLLOW EVERDAZE + AMANITA + CONTRAST + FRASER A GORMAN + GRANDSTANDS + SLEEP DECADE + TANGRAMS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:29pm.

MARK SULTAN The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.

SUN GOD REPLICA + SEEDY JEEZUS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

THE BLACK CATS + FIREFIGHT + MACANDO BLOWOUT The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THE PINK TILES + DJ MICKEY YOUNG + THE ELECTRIC GUITARS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

VICE GRIP PUSSIES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BELINDA PARSONS BEETET - FEAT: BELNDA PARSONS BEETET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.

DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

8:00pm. $14.

EDELPLASTIK + TRIO AGOGO + TRUMPET 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

GIAN SLATER & FROSTFALL Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

HAMMOND JAZZ CLUB + MR ANDREW SWANN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

MELBOURNE CABARET FESTIVAL GALA Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

SWING NIGHT First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ALEX FRANCIS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill.

8:00pm.

CATCH RELEASE + MATT WICKING Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.

COLLAGE - FEAT: FULL CODE + BURNHABIT + RED ENGINE CAVES Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

COUSIN TONY’S BRAND NEW FIREBIRD + DANIEL JENKIN + OISIN KELLY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm.

GRIZZLY JIM LAWRIE + CANARY + MONEY FOR ROPE DJ’S + TIM LION + YEO Old Bar, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $7.

KIM SALMON Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

OPEN MIC Grind N Groove, Healesville. 6:30pm.

OPEN MIC Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm.

OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

OPEN MIC NITE Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:30pm.

STRUMARAMA - FEAT: THE COMEBACKS + REBECCA BARNARD + ROD RATTLE Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

THE GODDESS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

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VICTORIANA GAYE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: NICOLETTE FORTE + TASH SULTANA Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY JUN 27 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS AFTR DARK - FEAT: GO VIOLETS + JASPER John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.

ASH GRUNWALD + MR CASSIDY Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $30.

AUTO DA FE + HORSEMEAT Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

DAN SULTAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $35.

EVERREST + IN DREAMS LIKE THESE + THE ART OF SUBTELTY + TO THE AIRSHIP Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.

GNOMES OF ZURICH + SUNSHINE HARVESTER + THE ROLLING BLACKOUTS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $6.

GRUMPY NEIGHBOUR + REX WATTS & DUNCAN GRAHAM Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm.

HARDWOOD + ESARGO-GOS + FACE FACE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7.

JOSEPH PAUL + MEL CALIA + PRETTY CITY + TED DEMPSEY Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $6.

KONTACT + BECKON THE DEAD + HEADWOUND THE PONY + I EXALT Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

8:00pm. $10.

LOON LAKE + STRANGE TALK The Hi-fi, Melbourne.

8:00pm. $26.

MARK SULTAN The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

MNTTAB + MAP ENDS + TWO SON + UMBILICAL TENTACLE Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

OF STOLEN MOMENTS + ABREACT + DECADENCE OF CAIN + SUMMER OF BETRAYAL Bar Open, Fitzroy.

8:30pm.

RIDERS OF SIN + KYM CLARK & THE OYSTERS + SAM SCHOFIELD + SWAMP LEGS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

RMIT PHOTO IMAGING BAND NIGHT - FEAT: THE SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS + KNITTING FOR GRAN + VELMA GROVE + YOU YANGS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $10.

RPG RADIO - FEAT: KHRISTIAN MIZZI & THE SIRENS + THE BLEEDING ROSE Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

8:00pm.

SALAD DAYS + HENRY BROOKS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.

THE GREAT WESTERN + BRENT MCMULLEN + ROWAN ROEBIG Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

THE HIDING + SAVING CLEOPATRA + THE KARMENS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

THE NAYSAYERS + THE VELVETS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $5.

THE SLIMS Arcadia Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm.

THE UGLY KINGS + STONE REVIVAL + THE CANING + THE VITRIOLS Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

TOM DICKINS + THOMAS DEVERY Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

VULTURE MAGAZINE 2ND BIRTHDAY - FEAT: THE MESSENGERS + HONEY BADGERS + I A MAN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8.

ZOOPHYTE + DOMINIQUE + KIDS FROM THE MILL + TITCH Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $15.

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GIG OF THE WEEK: CHRISSY AMPHLETT TRIBUTE A nation mourned at the passing of Divinyls front woman Chrissy Amphlett. Now on some of this town’s best female rockers will salute Australia’s first lady of fierce with all monies raised going to MS Australia. Grace Knight, Jane Clifton, Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men, Rebecca Barnard, Kerri Simpson, Los Dominados, Neon & Venom, Pony Girl & The Outsiders plus MC Lucinda Cowden and RRR’s Fee B-Squared as DJ will be burning up the stage with the best of the Divinyls and channelling the woman who wasn’t afraid to show her uncensored self in a world of demure female expression. It all takes place at Saturday June 29 at The Yarraville Club.

A HOLY CABARET - FEAT: YASMIN MOLE & SACHAEL MILLER Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.

ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

ANDREA MARR & THE FUNKY HITMEN + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.

ERAN JAMES + MISH FORNITO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

LYN GILLETT & THE ADAM RUDEGEAIR TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:15pm. $20.

MILESTONES QUINTET Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

7:00pm.

THE BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE + BROADWAY SOUNDS + FANDROIDS + MS BUTT Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $12.

THE JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne.

6:30pm.

THE RE-THINK PROJECT Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

THE TIM NEAL TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

DAN LETHBRIDGE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm.

DEAD RIVER + CHILD + WILLOW DARLING Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.

DIAMOND NIGHTS + MAN CITY SIRENS + STORYHORSE + TEMPLE OF TUNES The Eureka Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.

GREEN DIARY ANGEL ENSEMBLE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.

GUY KABLE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

JOHN FLANAGAN & THE BEGIN AGAINS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

JOHN FRANCIS CARROLL Carino Tapas Bar, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

LOUNGE THURSDAYS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

MELODY MOON Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill.

8:00pm.

OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 6:00pm.

OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm.

SYZYGY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

THE MARK STEVENS TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote.

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8:00pm. $8.

THE WEEPING WILLOWS - FEAT: PAUL CULLEN + THE WEEPING WILLOWS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

VELVET ARCHERS (CD LAUNCH) + DYLAN RAATH + SARAH DE HAAN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $10.

WHEN GIANTS SLEEP + I AM EVEREST Espy, St Kilda.

9:00pm.

FRIDAY JUN 28 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS AGAVE MAIZE + INTERNAL HARVEST + MANIAXE + OATH OF DAMNATION + ORDER OF TORMENT Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.

APES (EP LAUNCH) + THE GOOD MORROWS + THE PEEP TEMPEL Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.

ASH GRUNWALD + SCOTT & ANDY Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $30.

BEN OTTEWELL Substation, Newport. 8:00pm. $27.

CAMPELL TOWN BONDAGE PARTY + HUGE JACKMAN + MUSHY FUCK + SPANIEL DANSON + TRENCH SISTERS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

CIRCULAR KEYS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

CLAWS & ORGANS + THE MIGHTY BOYS + THE MORRISONS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.

EL MOTH Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

ELEPHANT GUN + REKI + SKOLL & HATI First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

GOGARTY + BEAUTIFUL CHANGE + ROSE WINTERGREEN Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

JEN CLOHER + AINSLIE WILLS + FRASER A GORMAN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20.

MANIC STREET PREACHERS Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $89.

MONTERO The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

MY LEFT BOOT + LOW FLY INCLIN Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10.

NGAIIRE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.

PRETTY CITY + DIRT LAND + THE DARK ALES + THE WHORLS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.

SPRAY N WIPE - FEAT: ALPINE + DZ DEATHRAYS + NAYSAYER & GILSUN + WORLD’S END PRESS + CASH FOR GOLD + DEJA + DJ ART FELICIS + DJ JUST LIKE HONEY + DJ MADDIE J + GUNG HO + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + SCOTDRACULA + SLEEPY DREAMERS + SUPER MAGIC HATS + THE GRISWOLDS + THE REPROBETTES + TIGERMOTH + TOKYO DENMARK SWEDEN + WINDSOR THIEVES Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $25.

STOCKADES + FEVERTEETH + PALISADES + QUIET STEPS + SEAHORSE DIVORCE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.

STRAIT SHOOTERS Musicland, Fawkner. 9:00pm. $10.

STRANGE TENNANTS + AUSKAS + SHANTY TOWN John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.

STREETWISE WEEKENDER BENDER - FEAT: TOBY WILKINS + 4TRESS + ANGRY PIRATES + CYCLONE DIABLO + HOOZON + LACE & WHISKEY + STEPH HILL & THE MISSING FUNDAMENTALS Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

THE BLACK SORROW Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.

8:00pm. $30.

THE CRUNCH + HARRY COULSON’S RAINDOGS + PENY BOHAN 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

THE FLOORS + BAD VISION + NAYSAYERS + RED ENGINE CAVES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

THE LOVE JUNKIES + ATOLLS + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

THE NERVE (SINGLE LAUNCH) + GLADSTONE + TERRACOTTA PIGEONS + THE CHARGE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $12.

THE TARANTINOS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

THE WHITLAMS Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THE WILD COMFORTS + DJ KEZBOT + GUY KABLE + RAVENSWOOD + SUICIDE SWANS Old Bar, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $10.

THREE KINGS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. $5.

TULALAH + FARROW + HOUSE OF LAURENCE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.

UGLY KINGS + BLOODY LOVELY AUDREY + RIOT IN TOYTOWN + SHADOW QUEEN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm. $15.

ZOE RYAN Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC A HOLY CABARET - FEAT: YASMIN MOLE & SACHAEL MILLER Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.

AMALI WARD (BACK IN TIME LAUNCH) + AROWE + BELLA & THE MELLOWS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $12.

CRAIG SCHNEIDER Globe Cafe, Prahran. 9:00pm. $30.

DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.

FLAP! + JESS GUILLE The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $20.

GIL ASKEY & THE ROGER CLARK QUARRTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.

HETTY KATE & THE IRWELL STREET BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25.

LA DANSE MACABRE - FEAT: MACHETE BROTHERS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

LIZ TOBIAS QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.

MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

MELBOURNE COMPOSERS BIG BAND Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.

MORELAND CITY SOUL REVUE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

REBECCA MORE Globe Cafe, Prahran. 7:15pm. $30.

THE PETER PETRUCCI TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK 3CR’S BURNING VINYL LIVE BROADCAST - FEAT: HAYLEY COUPER + WILEY RED FOX Old Bar, Fitzroy.

2:00pm.

AMAYA LAUCIRICA Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill.

8:00pm.

BIG HEAD ELLA The Brunswick Hive, 8:00pm.

CARUS THOMPSON + JODIE MORAN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.

CHARLES J TAN Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK (SINGLE LAUNCH) + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY + FIREBIRD Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.

COOL RIDGE + LOST FOR A MOMENT + SILVER WHISKS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.

KING LUCHO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

KRISTA POLVERE Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

LIZ FRENCHMAN Burringa Cafe, Upwey. 6:30pm. $15.

MATT KATSIS Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 9:00pm.

PENNYWIEGHT (ALBUM LAUNCH) Pause Bar, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

ROYAL PARADE (VIDEO CLIP LAUNCH) Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

TEK TEK ENSEMBLE + CAITY FLOWER + VARDOS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

THE DANNY WALSH BAND Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

9:30pm.

THE SAM LINTON-SMITH BAND (CD LAUNCH)

THE FLOORS Fans of Perth’s dirty-blues-rock bastards The Floors will be stoked to hear that they can get ready to drop the needle on a new vinyl-only release of an exclusive new single Built From Bones. The 7” single – a dirgy, threatening, balltearer of a song Built From Bones again showcases Luke Dux’s ferocious howl and dangerous whisper, backed by ominous backing vocals and the mighty rhythm section of Ryan Dux on bass and Ash Doodkorte on drums. To celebrate, the boys are set to hit Yah Yah’s this Friday June 28.

Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

TIM FARREN BAND Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale.

8:00pm. $8.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

TRIO AGOGO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

TWO SHOTS Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick .

9:30pm.

SATURDAY JUN 29 IINDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ABSOLUTELY LIVE + PHIL PARA + THE SLIGHT RETURN + WHOLE LOTTA ZEP Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

AUDIO GRAVY Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford.

8:00pm.

BANG - FEAT: SIENNA SKIES + DECEPTIONS + GOOD WILL HUNTING Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST + AURORA + NIGHT AT THE OPERA + ST JIMMY + THE FECKERS Edwards Place, Reservoir. 8:00pm.

BELLUSIRA + ANNA SALEN + HIGH SIDE DRIVER + LUNG + MOMENTS APART Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $15.

BITTER SWEET KICKS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda.

8:00pm.

BURIED HORSES + 100 ACRE WOODS + NATHAN HOLLYWOOD BAND + SUICIDE SWANS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.

CHRISSY AMPHLETT TRIBUTE - FEAT: FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN + GRACE KNIGHT + JANE CLIFTON + KERRI SIMPSON + LOS DOMINADOS + NEON & VENOM + PONY GIRL & THE OUTSIDERS + REBECCA BARNARD Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 8:00pm. $27.

DRAKE THE FAKE + KITE CLUB + THE NANNY BATS + YOUNG HYSTERIA Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.

DREAM ON DREAMER + GLORIFIED + HALLOWER + OCEAN GROVE + STORM THE SKY Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25.

ECHO DRAMA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.

FLY SOUTH + ELEPHANT EYES Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

JAPANESE WALLPAPER + GREAT EARTHQUAKE + HOLY LOTUS + WINTERPLAN Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

JUNK HORSES + CLINKERFIELD + DJ DRAW 4 + JEMMA & HER WISE YOUNG AMBITIOUS MEN + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

KING OF THE NORTH + FASSBENDER Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10.

LUCA BRASI + ANCHORS + CAVALCADE + FOXTROT & TIGERS + HIGHTIME + THE BENNIES + THE SINKING TEATH Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 6:00pm. $15.

MATTHEW PROCTER + HEATHER & NAT + OLI JACH Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm. $5.

MIDNIGHT RUN - FEAT: DJ KIERAN + DJ BENNIS + DJ DAN WATT + DJ GUPSTAR + DJ PINBALL Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $5.

MUSICFEST - FEAT: BRITISH STEEL + COVERDALE + EYEFEAR + FORTUNATE SONS + KILLSHOT + LA FEMME + MADE IN PURPLE + STRONGER THAN ALL + TWIN LIZZY + BLUE PRINT + GEOFF ACHISON + LITTLE HOUSE GODS + NARVANA + ROSS HANNAFORD Musicland, Fawkner. 12:00pm.

NIHL + ALITHIA + DIVE INTO RUIN + THE MERCURY THEATRE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

OPIA + SYDONIA + THE GREETING METHOD + TRANSIENCE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

PLASTIC SPACEMAN + DJ MERMAID + LA BASTARD + MOTHER + WOLF V FIRE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.

POTATO CAKE - FEAT: ALLY OOP & THE HOOP-

BEN OTTEWELL Familiar to a faithful following as the most recognisable voice in Mercury Prize-winning Gomez, Ben Ottewell is down under to play songs from his 2011 solo album Shapes & Shadows. Supporting Ben is Melbourne multiinstrumentalist Matt Walker. See Ben Ottewell when he plays The Substation this Friday June 28 and The Worker’s Club on Saturday June 29 and Sunday June 30.

STERS + BAD VISION + FACE FACE + TEN BONES The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.

SHERIFF + BATPISS + MY LEFT BOOT + SPERMAIDS + THE BERKSHIRE HUNTING CLUB + WICKED CITY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.

SPLASHH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

STREETWISE WEEKENDER BENDER - FEAT: A DAY OF STORMS + HIDEOUS TOWNS + INFAMOUS 506 + MASS REJECTION + STATE OF SILENCE + AT THE AGE OF 440 + CORNER STONE + HOPES ABANDONED + SHADOW LEAGUE + SINCE WE KISSED + STRAWBERRY FIST CAKE + TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD + THE MURDERBALLS Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

THE ATTICS + ARCHER & BOW + BURNHABIT Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

THE EXOTICS + SPENCER P JONES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $5.

THE GRAND RAPIDS + BLACK SPRINGS + CONTRAST + LIONESS EYE Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

THE KUJO KINGS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond.

9:00pm.

THE SHANE DIIORIO BAND + PENY BOHAN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

YOLKE + TRJAEU + WHERE WERE YOU AT LAUNCH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.

YOUNG & THE COLONIES John Curtin Hotel, Carlton.

8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC CATFISH VOODOO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

9:00pm.

CISCO CEASAR Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne.

2:00pm.

CLEVERHORSE & ANTELODIC Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

GEOFF HUGHES Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm.

JEWETTES - FEAT: TAMARA KULDIN Globe Cafe, Prahran. 8:00pm. $35.

JULIE O’ HARA & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.

KIRKIS + SILENTJAY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

LIKE LOVE - FEAT: REBECCA MORE Globe Cafe, Prahran. 9:30pm. $30.

MATTHEW ROBINSON Globe Cafe, Prahran. 4:00pm. $35.

MATTHEW ROBINSON Globe Cafe, Prahran. 7:00pm. $35.

NICOLETTE FORTE + JOE RANSOM + KURT GENTLE Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10.

STILETTO SISTERS Northcote Town Hall, Northcote.

10:00am.

TARA MINTON (I DREAM OF JONI) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $30.

TARA MINTON (LATE SHOW) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $30.

THE CHOIR Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $35.

THE MISERABLE LITTLE BASTARDS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

TRIBUTE TO NINA SIMONE - FEAT: LAUREN LUCILLE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25.

TRIO RIO 57 Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne.

8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK BARB WATERS & THE MOTHER OF PEARL Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 9:00pm.

BEN OTTEWELL + MATT WALKER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $30.

BLUEGRASS GENTRY + ABOVE MIX Edinburgh Cas-

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BLUES MOUNTAIN Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 9:00pm.

COLLARD GREENS & GRAVY + DJ DAVE THE SCOT + DJ FANTA PANTS + THE F100S Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

HARMANIAX Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

HUGO RACE & TRUE SPIRIT Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

KIERON MCDONALD COMBO + ANDY PHILLIPS & THE CADILLAC WALK Lucky 13 Garage, Moorabbin.

8:00pm. $15.

KILMORE CELTIC FESTIVAL - FEAT: ZEPTEPI Kilmore Celtic Festival Site, 12:00pm.

PATRICK JAMES Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS + DEADLAND + MAX SAVAGE Northcote Social Club, Northcote.

8:30pm. $15.

ROCKAFILLIES + QUEEN BEAVER Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

SAMARA WILLIAMS (EP LAUNCH) 303, Northcote.

8:00pm.

SIB Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

SPOONFUL Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

THE ALEISTER JAMES BLUES ASSEMBLY + THE EAMON & DUDI PROJECT Open Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm.

THE BREADMAKERS + MAMA RED & THE DARK BLUES The Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

THE GROOVETONES Blarney Stone Irish Pub, Yarraville. 8:30pm.

THE HOP! - FEAT: DAN PARSONS + DARLING JAMES Fitzroy Town Hall, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.

THE STORMY MONDAYS Thornbury Local, Thornbury.

9:30pm.

VIKA & LINDA + LIAM GERNER & THE ALAN LADDS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm.

SUNDAY JUN 30

8:00pm.

THE HIRED GUNS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

THE MIGRATIONS (FILM CLIP LAUNCH) Tago Mago, Thornbury. 6:00pm.

WHTSQR + DAVID MILNE 303, Northcote. 3:30pm.

WIKIMEN Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm.

DAVID JAANZ SCHOOL OF SINGING Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $30.

ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm.

IDINA MENZEL Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

JAMES CHALMER’S LITTLE BIG BAND + ADE ISHES TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

JEWETTES - FEAT: TAMARA KULDIN Globe Cafe, Prahran. 4:00pm. $45.

MATT KELLY & THE STRING QUARTET + AUSTIN BUSCH + GENEVIEVE FRY + LAURA & JAMIL Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

MOOGY PRESENTS AMY WINEHOUSE Globe Cafe, Prahran. 6:00pm. $30.

NORTH EAST COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

NUDIST FUNK ORCHESTRA + BAD BOYS BATUCADA + MS BUTT + THE DALE RYDER BAND Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm.

TARA MINTON (I DREAM OF JONI) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

THE ADAM KATZ GROUP (CD LAUNCH) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

THE CHOIR (MATINEE SHOW) Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 1:30pm.

THE ESTEE BIG BAND Penny Black, Brunswick.

5:00pm.

MONDAY JUL 1 + BEAT PRESENT...

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: SPITE HOUSE + MASSES + TANGRAMS + TRADE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm.

RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD + ADAM HYNES + FIVE MILE TOWN Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

WHITAKER + ALEX LASHLIE + GRIZZLY JIM LAURIE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BENNETTS LANE BIG BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

LEBOWSKIS - FEAT: INDUSTRIAL RUINS CURATES 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $8.

ROSS HANNAFORD’S LONG WEEKEND Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

THE JUILLIARD JAZZ SEXTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $25.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ACOUSTIC SESSION Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

JASON MOHI The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 5:00pm.

PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.

UNPAVED PRESENTS SONGWRITER SESSIONS FEAT: PENELOPE SWALES + MARY WEBB Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.

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ACCESS ALL AGES Wednesday June 2nd, 2012 With Claire Barley

As if the upcoming FReeZA Summits weren’t making life around the Push office exciting enough, we’ve also just announced the third round of the Push Songs program. If you haven’t heard of it before, Push Songs is a song writing program that gives young people the chance to develop their skills through 3 workshops.

Each one on one, 90 minute workshop is run at our office in Brunswick. One session will be run by Charles Jenkins, a Melbournian musician and performer who co-ordinates the whole program. Charles has been a published songwriter for 20 years, so if you’re looking for songwriting tips, he’s your man! The other sessions in the program will be run by two of our special guest mentors: Jen Cloher, Ashley Naylor, Sarah Carroll and Producer/Mixer/Engineer Jimi Maroudas, who’s worked with the likes of Kimbra, The Living End and Eskimo Joe. The program is open to Victorians of all ages, so if you’re interested in gaining valuable experience, performance and networking opportunities, jump onto thepush.com.au or email pushsongs@thepush.com.au. Applications close July 19. Who knows where the advice you gain could take you? One minute you’re participating in Push Songs, the next, you’re winning an ARIA. Speaking of smart music career choices, why not register for this year’s Push FReeZA Summits? They offer some great, free music industry training, not only for musicians, but for business minded people too. One minute you’re at a FReeZA summit, the next you’re managing Gotye. Full details, dates and locations are all online.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

ADAM & DUSTY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

APART FROM THIS + FOXTROT + KILLTAKER + LIMITS + TOY BOATS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 4:00pm. $5.

BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS + DJ JUKEJOINT + THE NATHAN HOLLYWOOD BAND + WATER MUSIC Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.

BEN OTTEWELL + MATT WALKER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $30.

BRIAN EL DORADO 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

BROTHER JOHNSTONE (RECORD LAUNCH) + BETH & THE BRACE + CAR PARK CHIOR + MIGHTY SUN John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.

DREAM ON DREAMER (U18) + GLORIFIED + HALLOWER + OCEAN GROVE + STORM THE SKY Corner Hotel, Richmond. 12:30pm. $25.

EXIT CROWD Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm.

FUCKING TEETH + EMILY JOHNSTON + MUDLARK + SAGAMORE + WHIPPED CREAM CHARGERS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 12:30pm.

LEGIONS + APART FROM THIS + BORN FREE + DOWNSIDE + IMPRISONED Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $10.

LIAM GERNER + JAMES FAHY + JMS HARRISON + KELSEY JAMES Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

MOUNTAIN & SWAMP SUNDAYS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

QUIET STEPS + HALT EVER + INFINITE VOID + TRADE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.

RIBBONS PATTERNS + LACHLAN HICKS + NATHAN SEECKTS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.

STEVE LUCAS & THE SMALL FAKERS + THE SUBSTITUTES Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $14.

STEVENSONS ROCKET + GOD CUM + JIMI MORRISTROM + MANNIK Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford.

8:00pm. $5.

STREETWISE WEEKENDER BENDER - FEAT: JOE OPPENHEIMER + AMY GANTER & THE LOVE & SQUALLERS + PANACEA + POETRY ARTISTS + ROB RYLES + STATIC COLOURS + STELS RANGE + STONEAGE ROMEO Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

THE HIGH SUBURBAN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

ALICIA ADKINS + ALEX HAMILTON + LUCY WISE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $15.

ALISON FERRIER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

CHERRY ARVO BLUES - FEAT: CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY + FIREBIRD Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.

CHRIS WILSON + SHANNON BOURNE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

COLLARD GREENS & GRAVY Bay Hotel, Mornington.

3:00pm.

DAVID BRAMBLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm.

FOLK OPEN MIC Dancing Dog, Footscray. 8:00pm.

HARMANIAX Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm.

HOY + EMILY ULMAN Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 6:00pm.

JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm.

JOHN FRANCIS CARROLL Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford. 6:30pm.

LINDSAY FIELD + GLYN MASON + SAM SEE Carringbush Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm.

MATT WALKER Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

NIGEL WEARNE + THE TIMBERS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.

PAUL REID Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

PERICO (ALBUM LAUNCH) + NICK MURPHY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

PHIL PARA Sandbelt Club Hotel, Moorabbin. 8:00pm.

SUNLARK Wesley Anne, Northcote. 4:00pm.

TESS MCKENNA & THE SHAPIROS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

THE ALAN LADDS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

THE BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS + FINGERBONE BILL Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm.

THE RICHARD CLAPTON BAND + LETICIA MAHER Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm.

YOLANDA & THE MOON TONES + MARTY KELLY & THE WEEKENDERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

5:30pm.

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Saturday June 29 Mosh It Up, Bacchus Marsh Town hall, 207 Main st, Bacchus Marsh, 2pm, $10, 5366 7100, AA. Asap Rocky, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 7.30pm, $69.90, ticketmaster.com.au, AA.

FLAUNT IT. Internationally acclaimed producer of profeminist erotica looking for confident, adult women to smash the stereotypes and earn good money ($400 and up). Don’t overlook this til you’ve found out more about it.

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Sunday June 30 Dream on Dreamer w/ Ocean Grove, Hallower, Glorified and Storm The Sky, The Corner Hotel, 57 Swan St, Richmond, 12.30pm, $12+bf, corner.ticketscout.com.au, U18.

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MUSICIANS WANTED ACOUSTIC ACTS WANTED FOR FRIDAY NIGHT SPOTS IN FITZROY. Solo/Duo/Groups send an email with pics or samples to drink@the86.com.au. Bar split is paid, summer dates available.

BANDS/ACTS WANTED for Espy Shows. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic.com.au for more details.

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TUESDAY JUL 2 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $22.

THE BRUNSWICK DISCOVERY - FEAT: FALLEN ENDS + CONSCIOUS CONTROL + PROWLERS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

THE PATRON SAINTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ALCHEMY Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:00pm. $14.

BENJAMIN SKEPPER Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $34.

BOSSA NOVA JAM Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne.

8:00pm.

GAVIN GRAY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

PETER BAYLOR’S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.

THE LUKE HOWARD TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK GARETH ED LINDSAY Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

OPEN MIC Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

THE BOB HARROW BAND + ALANNA EILEEN + KRISTA POLVERE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

THE HENRYS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

If you’re living in the Gippsland area, Bass Coast FReeZA are currently on the lookout for 5 new members. The FReeZA program gives young people the chance to plan and deliver live music events, and Bass Coast still have 3 more events to plan this year. Contact them on 5672 4194.

Finally, here’s a heads up to check out the Leaps and Bounds music festival running in The City of Yarra from July 5-21. One event will be a Hip Hop and Electronic Music Workshop, with pros like M-Phazes and Flagrant, offering practical advice on navigating gigs, sampling, airplay and more. The workshop will be on July 6 from 2pm-5pm, so if you’re interested, jump onto leapsandboundsmusicfestival.com.

ALL AGES TIMETABLE Thursday June 27 The Janoskians, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 7pm, $39.90, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Friday June 28 Manic Street Preachers w/ Hungry Kids of Hungary, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 8pm, $89, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Pulse Underage w/ DJ Alex, DJ DaBull, DJ Billy, DJ Adam and DJ Luke, Epping Memorial Hall, Cnr Hall and High Street, Epping, 6.30pm - 11.30pm, $15, 9404 8800, U18.

Stonnington FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Malvern Town Hall, Cnr Glenferrie Rd and High Sts, Malvern, 6pm, $15, 9529 2600, AA. Whitehorse FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Box Hill Community Arts Centre, 470 Station st, Box Hill, 6pm, $10, 9898 9340, AA. Darebin FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street, Northcote, 6.30pm, $8, 8470 8001, AA.

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WE WANT EVERYONE Promoters, Bands, DJs Revitalised bar, The Barley Corn, has reopened its doors 7 days a week and we want YOU. Call Jesse 0411 803 579

MISCELLANEOUS FLYLEAF (USA) & BELLUSIRA will be playing together Fri Aug 16th @ The Hifi. This will be a huge show! Contact Mark to secure your discounted $40 tickets. mark@gunnmusic. com.au

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Course Name: Diploma of Music Composition

soundtrack composers, producers and recording engineers.

Location: Oakleigh Campus is located at 20 Atherton Road, Oakleigh VIC 3166.

Who are the MWT teachers / mentors?

Not only are our mentors experienced educators, they are also active musicians. This means you get a first-class education coupled with real-life experience.

Tell us the idea behind this course.

Today, a large selection of modern music is being composed by computers with various software, both tracking and recording. It is essential for the modern composer to have up to date knowledge of audio software skills and to be able to freely create musical pieces on a professional level.

What can students gain from the Diploma of Music Composition?

MWT ensures composition students gain a thorough understanding of music theory and the workings of the music industry, while focusing on using audio software to create songs, soundtracks and to record artists. A comprehensive study of song structure across many genres is essential to open up the possibilities for today’s composer, and the MWT graduate will develop a sound knowledge of the elements involved in the song writing process. All students will be trained to a minimum of grade 3 AMEB Music Theory.

What are the main methods for teaching?

We teach on campus and cover song writing, music for screen, music publishing, music theory and we cover the music industry on a whole.

Potential job outcomes?

Students who graduate from this course work or are employed as song writers, film or TV

What facilities are available for students?

Our Oakleigh campus has four classrooms equipped with all the latest technology that our students will need; including 21” mac computers, monitors and Abelton software. We also have private studio rooms which students can book to practice, rehearse, or just read.

MWT Institute’s point of difference?

We don’t promise you the world, we only develop and deliver courses that lead to real jobs. That’s our passion and that is what we are successful in providing.

Course Duration: Our courses are put together in a way that will allow our students to meet the CATs in as little as 6 months, with the option to extend your study duration to 12 months.

This course is also available on a bi-monthly basis;.

Students are required to attend 2 full days in class (9.00am- 4.30pm) for the duration of the course.

Payment options: At MWT, we make sure that our education is within reach. This course is available for adult students (18+) and can also be delivered with Victorian and Commonwealth Government funding. Full and

partial Government funding is available to eligible students. Please contact us to find out more!

Phone: 1300 855 846 Website: www.mwtinstitute.com.au E-mail: training_admin@mwtinstitute.com.au

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LIVE DARK MOFO Thursday June 20 - Sunday June 23, MONA ‘Thou knowest not what evening may bring.’ So reads the description of Satanalia – the flagship music event of Dark Fomo, the Museum of Old and New Art’s tribute to all things dark, disorienting and debaucherous – and the winter solstice weekend in our southernmost capital certainly bought a lot of evening, and a lot of ‘what’. By 5pm each night the sun has set, and by the time it struggles out of bed some 15 hours later, the work of countless performers and festival staff has coloured Hobart and its many visitors a crimson shade of confused and impressed.

Dark Mofo coincided with the opening of the latest exhibition at Mona, The Red Queen, and it features the work of an artist whom it is proving hard to ignore in Australia right now, Ryoji Ikeda. The installation test pattern [No 5] is currently drawing crowds at Carriageworks in Sydney, and reaching 15km into the skies above Hobart, his light sculpture Spectra was inescapable during Dark Mofo. His two video pieces featured in The Red Queen are wondrous, immersive explorations of the human experience in a world of seemingly infinite digital data.

As night descends on Thursday, the culinary arts take centre stage at The Winter Feast, with the huge shed in Salamanca Place hosting an embarrassment of epicurean riches and entertainment. Players inside the shed perform music for baroque dukes and duchesses to dance to, while White Beam, an installation by Robin Fox, shines tunnels of lasers that sweep in time with deep, oscillating sine waves.

Five hours into darkness, and the night is just beginning at festival club Dark Faux Mo, but it wastes no time getting into full swing. A cavernous theatre surrounded by various little warrens, punters are free to stumble around and enjoy little pockets of entertainment, while in the main part of theatre the gothic dance music of Miles Brown warms the crowd, before My Disco take the stage. The PA drops out a handful of times early in the set and – being a shorter festival slot – by the time the band gets back on track they unfortunately need to wrap it up.

Friday night at Dark Faux Mo shows the place heaving with an increased crowd. It makes it a little harder to enjoy the secret pockets of goodness, but the venue handles the masses well, regardless. The night is punctuated by a stunning opera solo, before Zanzibar Chanel separate the gawkers from the real partiers, pumping their house music onto a bouncing dance floor while shouting sass at the overattentive security guards.

Though they are a guitar band of the ‘90s and feature a turntablist, The Stickmen stand above and beyond any band that falls under that genre that starts with the prefix ‘nu-’ and which I will actually refuse, out of

respect to the band, to type out in the same sentence as them. The turntables augment the sharp, discordant songs with understated scratching and dark ambience – and though it’s not worth trying to categorise them further, they rock hard and set things up for a good Saturday night at Satanalia.

The Drones take the stage in an uncharacteristic early slot, and it’s interesting to see them acting more or less as a warm-up band – and there should be no negative connotations there, because that’s exactly what they do. By the time they finish with I Don’t Ever Want To Change, the crowd is energised, the hangovers are starting to dissipate, and the Arctic breeze down at Macquarie Wharf sends a message, “If you want to get through tonight, you better harden up.”

With that challenge issued, the night then slips into a bit of a post-rock lull. Okay, maybe The Drones really should have been on later, but nonetheless, Fourteen Nights At Sea wash waves of reverb and feedback over the crowd from their perch on Stage 2, and it’s a treat to be able to sit down right in front of the stage – even if it means I can’t see a thing. However, with my body temperature falling and eyelids drooping, I head off to a nearby pub for some dinner, some warmth, and some whiskey.

Continuing a respite from the music, it’s a good chance to check out the exhibition Beam In Thine Own Eye. In this collection, says Mona founder David Walsh, “We let the mind’s eye shine”. In the case of Kurt Hentschläger’s Zee, there could hardly be a more accurate, literal description. Guided through a thick haze of fog by a length of rope, strobes flicker and intensify as you get deeper into the room. The indemnity form we had to sign prior to entry warned of hallucinations and seizures – and within a minute of being inside, my eyes start processing the white lights as colours, the ostensibly blank void that surrounded me collapses into dancing geometry; stars and fractals. Walsh has consistently shown with Mona that he has a great taste for sublime spectacle – and there was much of this on display at Dark Mofo – but Zee was a highlight I won’t soon forget, and can I only hope to be lucky enough to experience again sometime in the future.

PATRICK O’BRIEN

LOVED: Dancing in a cupboard discotheque at Faux Mo. HATED: The few hours when Zee was shut down and I thought I would never get to see it.

DRANK: Moo Brew.

WE HATED IT BEFORE YOU DID - GASOMETER LIVE SERIES #3 The Gasometer Hotel, Saturday June 1 The first day of winter bought darkness, and the third instalment of The Gaso’s excellent Live Series. It’s a simple and brilliant concept – excellent bands, live recording, and $15 at the door eventually gets you 12” vinyl with two tracks from each performer from the night. Unsurprisingly, the place was packed.

Worng began with a ritual invocation. Morgan McWaters manned his modular synth rig at the mix position, building an electronic ostinato that grew along with a structure made of bubblewrap as it inflated on stage. A spiralling vector graphic projected to a screen that was slowly obscured by the object as it became a pyramid, growing out of the floor like a malevolent outbuilding from Atlantis or R’lyeh. Worng’s tortured bleeps, squawks and sweeps built to a climax, ended abruptly, and then Morgan stabbed his pyramid with a box cutter.

Hex On The Beach took to a now purified stage in guitar/bass/drums power trio mode. Beccy, Biddy and Maya all contribute vocals, initially lulling the crowd with sweet horror film harmonies over minimal soporific washes before cutting lose and unleashing screaming punk hell. Their dynamic set kept you guessing as they expertly took you from introverted internal spaces to huge emotional outbursts and back again.

ASPS put their dirty Darkwave come-ons right in your face. There’s a perverted sexiness to their organ bass and icy drum machine jams that make you feel warm and exploited at the same time.

Jesse Dymock held dominion over his Arturia Minibrute, tweaking it like a dungeon master with specialised clamps. Goth demon/goddess Andrea Blake cajoled, tempted and frightened us in equal measure from behind the mic, keeping the bass going in a sleazy roll as she did.

Miles Brown was on fire. Thanks to a thumping mix and vibed-up crowd, Miles brought an almost amphetamine-fuelled intensity to his electronics Beat Magazine Page 66

and theremin set. Waves of industrial arpeggiated synth grooves built and built until the crowd actually started moving, some despite themselves.

It was euphoric, in its minor key, robots-have-stolenour-future way.

Nun were a revelation. In the biblical sense. Which is terrifying. Invoking the Dark Lord through recordings alleging the details of satanic sacrifices, Jenny Branagan strode to the front of the stage with the mic and took complete control of every soul in the room. Their Cronenberg-core modular synth-punk moved effortlessly from track to track, animating the crowd like so many undead. Jenny crouched, flailed, screamed and paced, occasionally pausing to tweak her darkly ringmodulated vocals before relaunching her possessed assault at the front row.

Zond were almost a comforting relief. An enveloping sheet of bleached-white noise and canyon-sized vocal reverb cleansed the stage of the evening’s accumulated blood, viscera and salty fluids. Their sonic morphine held sway over a crowd in need of sedation. Then they got right down to it and gave everyone a good solid kick in the head with some brutal rock noise, reminding us never to turn our back on the sea.

The live recording of this night of ritual magik will make its way onto a limited run of vinyl in the coming weeks. If you weren’t there, find someone who was and get them to play it to you at full volume in a dark room with red strobe lighting, then strip you naked and tip a bucket of pigs blood over you about half way through. That should give you some sense of the occasion.

JASON ALLEN LOVED: The abyss staring back at me.

HATED: That dawn still came.

DRANK: Blood.

THE BLACK ANGELS Friday June 14, The Palace Things are just getting started at The Palace when The Murlocs take to the stage. After watching them steal hearts at CherryRock earlier this year, The Murlocs are undoubtedly one of the freshest acts to have emerged from Geelong in recent years.

Influenced by their parents' records collections these lads deal in swampy psychedelic bluesy rock.

Frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith comes to us with a whole lot of personality but projects his charisma in an aloof understated manner. He may not be able to shred but the dude certainly knows how to give us a mean harmonica solo. There is something about The Murlocs that feels like they want to take us back to the '60s. The fluidly move from fierce rock and roll work outs to retro paisley flower powered pop.

Sydney shoegazers The Laurels rock out hard and really, really loud with songs from their debut album Plains. It sounds like there are a million effects on everything and lengthy gaps between the songs sees them scrambling to set themselves up for every song. Kate Wilson provides solid beats while duelling front men Piers Cornelius and Luke O’Farrell provide the reverb drenched riffs. Cornelius and O’Farrell are very different from each other and it is interesting to watch their contrasting approaches.

There is a sense of anticipation as fans patiently wait for The Black Angels who are eventually greeted by loud cheers and a roar of approval when they take to the stage. Without interacting with the crowd too much they launch with Vikings from their second album. Video feedback is crafted into hypnotising kinetic art that is projected behind them. It takes us directly to the psychedelic heart

of The Black Angels that borrows heavily from the sounds and styles of the swinging ‘60s. A crisp and near perfect mix comes to our ears dripping in reverb and completely fuzzed out. Showcasing slightly less mind altered states they soon start treating us to the more pop approach of tunes from their latest album Indigo Meadow. The cascading droning brilliance of I Hear Colors feels like Syd Barrett era Floyd. Later Don’t Play With Guns, which comes with an irresistibly funky Moogy bassline finds frontman Alex Maas channeling the Lizard King. While The Black Angels showcase much of the new album they occasionally drift into a more spaced out state with tunes like Black Grease and Yellow Elevator. References to acts like 13th Floor Elevators and Strawberry Alarm Clock sees The Black Angels drawing in older punters who are only too happy to rub shoulder with younger fans who have probably never heard of these bands.

Returning to encore with the darkly glittering Black Isn’t Black which turns into an epic trip into some pretty wild psychedelic blues riffage is where The Black Angels leave their obviously retro roots behind to give us something amazingly original. It has taken four albums for them to get to this stage but it is great to see The Black Angels reaching a broader spectrum of listeners with every release.

THE SIDEMAN

LOVED: The spaced out jams and psychedelic projections.

HATED: Not much to hate here, it was a total trip.

DRANK: Vodka.

TOY Tuesday June 18, The Corner Hotel The Frowning Clouds sound as though they have been delivered to us through the wonders of time travel, coming at us with a sound that recalls the ‘60s with a kind of Beatles and Stones vibe that focuses on verse and chorus song writing. Amusingly the lads didn’t quite know how to respond to the audience when they remained completely silent and failed to respond to anything they were doing.

There is a certain greenness to their set and the way in which it is delivered that only time and experience will sort out.

Sadly tonight’s gig suffers from being held on a brutally cold Tuesday night so while The Corner fills with TOY fans, it does not completely pack out. It is a shame because TOY’s eponymous debut album was arguably one of the best slices of psych rock to emerge from the UK last year. As they play much of that album the create a fantastically wild swirl of hazy sound that reigns in influences as diverse as shoegaze and Kosmische. TOY’s real achievement is to edit the indulgence typically associated with their musical influences and bring them into a tighter almost pop context. Muscular motorik rhythms underpin layers of fuzzed up

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drones to create a take on psychedelic rock that feels distinctly twenty first century. They kick off with Colours Running Out and greet the audience with a lush haze of dreamy sound. Tom Dougall, looking like a hard living goth rock star. He projects a fairly serious presence, staring darkly into the audience and singing in a deep growly voice. The rest of the band look like hirsute rockers from the seventies who have taken fashion advice from Deep Purple’s stylist. The deep throb of Motoring packs a deliciously heavy punch. TOY bring the night down with Kopter, which offers the group one last opportunity to get down and rock out as hard as they possibly can, to create a wall of tempest tossed noise that escalates into the kind of discordant psychedelic noise that feels so good.

No encores, but most punters heart skipped a beat.

THE SIDEMAN

LOVED: Tom Dougall’s no nonsense attitude.

HATED: Not much.

DRANK: VB.

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